IS 'number—for the Sthith to withdravi and leave them ,subjeet to a dothination as intolerable to them as it could be offensive to us. But this is an etremo statement, responsive to a' still mo r re.extrpme suggestion. The hiatpr,y - of iolitietl:paities in thiti country yenspriet:is no t - creditable to us ; and their ; — `prnsankpostare is such tbatim one can fore—, tell what iv singio . year may bring ,fOrtlh. the .whdlo.north could act in concert pernia neatly, they must have the permanent C . 6M trot of the federtsl goyerninent; and the widk • ctiaviction : of the, adrib,. tind the-whole policy; 'of the genetid government, has been some years. dittated'by the 'SlaVe States, and thit'' whole policy of the slave. States dictated by the cotton States, has come very near io easti6g the majority of everY northern, State 'temporarily into the republican ranks.' It would he au abuse of the',federal posve'r,ilot less atrocious' certainly, to extend than to : '66'systeinatic or it ; ~.end the arth has believed that this was done • and the rise and extension °Nilo republican, potty is the •fruit . of this conviction. Disa buse the north of this delitsiottlo it fairly, 'truly—and the republican party. will shrink 'at thee' en the einaparatively insignificant faction of radical abolitionists upon whom it '• was originally based.—On the. other hand, the united south' 'never could fail to carry With it in all its just demands, au in all its temperate utterances, a sufficient number. of the States of the north, to make the rights and interests of the slave 'States - perfectly se cure in the' Union This is all the control any minority tan justly.claim under a free constitution ;,and this is never lust under such it constitution, except bygross misman agement.' It; therefore, there is a foregone conclusion to break up.the confederacy, the ' tenor of the republican party will answer as a pretext; but Kentucky dreads no party— and will use no such pretext—but will make any party iii power respect her rights;. If on the other hand,_ there is 'ft tine desire to perpetuate the Union—no one is. warranted in saying that the republican party cannot be prevented from coming into power, or that even-if it should come into power, the: nation would not be both competent and re. _solved to keep , it in proper }meads, or arm and suppress it. I grant that hardly a grea ter evil can fasten on the politics of the cowl-. try than to treat theM by geographical line's or array parties • upon' questions touching which the interests or convictions of differ ent sections of the country' arc supposed to be entirely' antagonistic. The present pod-. turo of the country is the fruit of this politi -cal treatment of slavery; and the present con dition of the representatives of the pCople'in the leder house of Congress is a most One. tive symptom of the public health Mid& thirst . treatment. . The question of slavery in the • territories, practically developed as that question was in the case of2Ktinsas, has probably had greater influence than any other, both on the present condition of• political parties and -in - bringing the public mind to its present agi tated state. The issue to - which the question in its abstract form and in- the democratic, party has been biOnglit is tlds . :—that on one' side the people.of the south very generally believe and - claim that the Supreme Court has decided that every slaveholder has the constitutional right to taku-slavds into every . territory, and neither Congress nor the peo ple of the territory haveeny power to prevent this ; in other t, .words, tha every territory is,, by the Constitution of the •ITffited slave territory. °tulle other side, the demo . - erotic party Of the north very generally and_ decidedly repudiate these stidements ns int . . _true, mid these claims as moiddrous, and as• serf., fed:Alm-people-of Rach-territory-eonstifil— tional polimii to determine and 'regulate for themselves the ,question of slavery. • In the meantime the republican party, perhaps unanimously, assert that Congress bus com• :•plete power to exclude shivery ffom all the territories, 'and desire thiS power* to be exer• ' ciiiekinßverY case' as it has-been in Several. - Almost the entire corps is therefore diriditly arrayed against...both the fact and the right _of what the greater part of the 'south asserts is the law of the land under the decision of -the Supreme Court. •In the south itself, however, there is a farther and singular do .velopment of opinion. It has beer ittempt ed in Kentucky and oilier southern States to make it a pert of the political creed of the Opposition to deinand of Congress, a slave code for the territories while in the same region nonintervention by Congress, except in extremity, if at all, has appeared to be the doctrine of the democratic party.. The result • is that the entire North remeliates,, and, un• 'der existing circumstances, will continue to repudiate,. the idea that the Federal Constitti- , Linen or the Supreme Court makes all the na tional territories slave. while almost the en• tire'south believes and claims that all the nn- tional territories are slave by that Constitm tion. The dispute'is enlarged; not settled, not even transferred. This is n most calami• tons result of attempting to turn over ques tions 'pre-eminently political to tribunals wholly judicial as if public men were war ranted in supposing. that great nations in the highest state of political excitement believed any more in the infalibility of judges than they did in the infalibility oh Senators ' Kings or Popos.-4Even.irllnT decision of the Su• • preme Court had been so clear that no could doubt wasdecided and -so cogent that no man could gainsay its justice us between the parties to the particular cause theineard it would have been- a miracle if the decision had settled any political question. Its main effect was obliged to be--let the question he what it might—to exasperate all parties,and to d sender any peaceful adjustment of any 'as peat of the slave question far more 'difficult' than before. In truth, the constitutional right which the south supposes 'she has se cured, can be of no practical value, even if it were - universally conceded. For if she re mains in the Union, dm cannot curry on the -foreign slave trade; itnd unless she can do that she cannot profitably. send slaves into any territory we possess—nor Piasters enough :with those she may send -to prevent their • emancipation as soon as the territory he• ,comes a State. The experiment in . Kanstis .is surely.decisive., :um the other hand,' -any portion OTthe south will deem it cient reason to secede, that more-slaves may be imported from Africa, and new slave ter ritories formed, either . half the slave States will not secede for that reason—or, if all so 'teed, and a-confederiacy of all the slave Stateii— is formed,' that confederacy cannot be expec ' ted to allow - African slave trade to be renew• .ed. With regard to slavery in the territories and the power of the general government over the subject, there never could be any subject concerning which wise,just, moderato and forebearing conduct was !pore impera tively commanded—none with regard to which the opposing interests of the two great divisions of the.riation ought to be 'treated .with more serupulons 'fairnesSs. if ever' :such a temper and such a spirit'sball return to the counsels of the Republic, the - tempo ,rary and disputed Tower of -Congress over the subject cannot fail to be exerted in some manner Satisfactory to opposing claimants. But so long:as parties on -one side or , the • ,other, seek by every means to assort extreme clanna, irrespective of equally extreme claims in others, nothing remains' but tff fight the question out in each territory, or, • what is -worse, to fight it out over the ritino of the Republic, or, what is worst of all, breek up the Union and fight . 'it afterwards. 'As a • southern-man I deplore, and still deplore,thd repeal of the-Misiouri compromise as a great erroty,pre•eminently injurious to the 'south. AS an Attierican citizen I deplore , - the fearfully' undue importance -which the ,control by,Cotigress over slavery in the xitories'has-beßn Made toasstimeln our na• itional • • ItAriust be bottle - in Mind that the present attrieet of partiee'ii_this 'Ceutitry hi 'very far . from irevenling the'renVstate of public opin ion uP . On any new and exciting qtiestiOrlwhleh may suddenly arise: 'WO have 'Seen two.. ' great national parties—the'eld . iviig and the • American---completely discirganized.nrithin y The enormolui mass of voters who acted with 'one . Or'othor of theseparties —arid the greeter part of .whom, are poinc ting4ith'thei republican or the denimeratie, party 7 =are'fai'fronii being committed So manentlyito 'eltherithat it can be predicted , . with tertaitit l Y ilditCaurini they 'will taliff if • ' matters come to the worst. Moreover?there are,very few States 'in the Union to which. , there' is such unity of:sentiment al to insure: :even a daeided'end - bOnstant anijOrity upon ' either side' of ' albst :impokant qqe'stions j, and hothing-ia moth! , coin mon' id many Of the Staten 'than sodden and gnat reVolutioasin ~Eon feqt-cnrtaintY.that every ablie,Statch, will re sist.7ivith - nruts any, interfereneb with itti'jtett entity as connected ‘yith its slaves, there are. topics connected, with the time and ,:niant, or' of that resistance which - Might' termi•' hate-very fatallY, an topics • eon fleeted with shOerY 4tsclf (the :slave code for example) on Which the 'most determined' difference of opinfoa has manifested itself. While such considerations. Ought to warn the most apt" right and sagacious public men of the go at danger they are in of heingtleceivedity patty clamor. and 'ought th-Jdrrify - such as are im serupultins, they teach us -that, after all ? , he heart of the nation may be'sound, and that -- it only needs tole ebnyiticed•-cif its pet it, hat'it may, by one mighty qatburst of put ri• uric enthusiasm; crush every party, that has trifled with its 'coavictions an overwhahn every public man that hasl d- ietrayedit. 4 „. COneerning the political relations of slaye• ry under the Federal Constitution, and the . , righhi and duties of Ble a t -Lye States of the Union, it is perfectly ininititerial whether the institution ,of negro slavery-, as it exists in tins-mitts try,, is good or • bad j‘_and all Con ''grAssional discusition. of that point,' is as ir reyelant as it is ordinarily empty. We live . under a written . cunstitution,' and basic, Ibr More than seventy years, been expounding it, commenting - on, it, and applying it con stantly todhe busines of life. There may he topics, and their unimportant, open which one generation has differed from another?: one party from another, one class of states men, judges and lawyers, from another, as to • thd true sense of the Constitution, and the' true weight to which the interpretations of it 'are entitled, whether these interpretations are made By one or other department of the government. No doubt, of late yeatts, the tendency of opinion had been toattdbute Tar less sacredness to judicial interpr - Nutions than the founders of,the republic allowed Hz and therefore we witness such fierce debates' the true- sense of the Dred Scott deci sion. With all possible veneration for the Federal Constitution, we are not toc'f - ffpd that it was made for us, not-we for it ; and With all loyality both towards the- national and our State governments; let us remelt]• ber that the highest of all loyality is to EO• ciety itself,'which is above every form it can possibly put on. - Under all firms of society the all pervading questions . are pnlitieal 'questions ; questions which cad never he permanently settled in free government except ; through representative bodies, and then in aceordan tie with the public conscience The question of slavery as it relates to - the' nation, falls under these general considera tions nrit remarkable manner.--Thus, in the first place, slavery was almost universal, a qd the slave States the immense majority, at the formation of the Federal Consti ution ; tit w the slave States are inn minority, their whole population is a miltority, 'and that, minority' both of States and. people. is steadily becom ing relatively weaker. In the second place, there has oceurred a • prodigious change in the value. of slaves and of the product ol• -their labor, as well as in the state of public or in ion, on the subject-of slavery itself: . At the formation of the Federal Cqnstitm, tine awn was no particular hostility to As very in One section above another, and no • particular zeal for its extension and perpet Ity in any section. But at present the great -majority-itrinest-sla.ye'States—ztalouSly—dH sire both the extension and the perpetuity of slavery, and the almost unanimous popu lation of them all - reard it as so compleyy involved in the very fabric of society that no interference front without can be endured ; while the dreat mass of . the people ef.the consider the institution positively evil, and an immense party amongst them is or ganized on the conviction that the interests of the free States and, of the white race are jeoparded by the claims of the States, and the alleged - control of thefederal governmeet in the interests of shivery—the repressiOnOf not the total extinction of whicrillie 'south understands them as seeking,. Now looking at the matter in this light and rejec ting all pretexts, the solitary condition Whit h can satisfy the north is that the south should claim nothing, under the constitution, fairly interpreted; vhich it did not always sectire,th her. And the solitary condition which can sat • isfy the vital necessities of every slave State is, that the constitution shall be so interpreted, and the government so administered, that it shall enjoy the suite peat., eseenrity, and quality of tights in tho , Union; which it would' enjoy.if it were a free State. ~What seems to me clear at present is: that 110 such violation of either of these conditions has - as yet oc curred to justify either party in proceeding to such extremeties as would be justifiable if - it had occurred. • And it is equally clear that the apprehensions of an impending violation of the rights of either party cannot pistily any irregular, much less any extreme pro• ceeding, any fnrther than may be neeessmy and effectual to prevent that impending vio lation. Moreover,- the highest and most en during interests, of all parties conspire with their sacred obligations, binding them to act with mutual justice, good, faith and forlicar• anee. But suppose the dominant 'party at the north to -haw already violated beyond endurance"the solitary condition with which the safety 'of the south allqws her to be satis• tied ; even then, it is the ,furthest possible from being true that a secession of a portion of the slave States, or the disrtiplion of the Union on the slave line, ia a necessary, a wise, or even an allowable alternative. It true tile States are sovereign States. But it is equally true that the nation is a nation,, the American people a people.—Great .lions cannot suddenly disappear, like a cloud of insects; nor •do powerful nationalities fade in'a day, like the flower orthe'grass. It took the Roman Empire a thousand years to die ; and the Hebrew nationality has stir• vived through all the possible fortune offuur thousand years, TO rend a nation in twain. is a far more terrible - proceedure than for a nation to re: cover itself by an internal struggle Nothing canle4nore certain than that slavery can - - not be perpetuated on • this continent --411-by 'means tif the: rending - of thiS nation. itli - a" Single nationality like ours, internal strug. glee, no matter how often they may occur, can never bo greatly protracted, and can never, fatally arrest. the progress Jot socitity. But in precisely such a. case as ours, the per manent rending of the nation is a catastrophe .t.lie progress of which promises nothing as assuredlras the mutual dissolution of both the parts—and the end of which can produce nothing more certainly than the total defeat of tho avowed object of its perpetuation. The firm determination of evory portion of the Unien t to Maintain its rights within the Union under every extremity, would soon 'put an end.to all necessity for any portion of it to elect between•terrible means of doing so. It is - the holding in reserve of this idea of rend ing the nation, .it is the weakening. of the idea of our glorious nationality, that gives vigor if not existence' to -say many ideas which can escape being traitotaus_only by denying that we are a people or liave any nationality. In the restoration of that great idea there is amoral force competent to pave the country injPordinary means, even in such a crisis as Lida.. Or, if there i) not, there is a practical force in it comp rent to save the country by armsrwhetMver t law is silent and arms are the only remedy. It is•horrible to reflect that the children of the Itevolutitm Mighthe objiged to shed each other's blood. flow much Apre horrible to shed it in such a manner that:oceans of it could - never re- store what we had destroyed-;. while every drop of it would be an eternal testimony against our folly! ' - For my part Lam not ashrunedtci confess the Ileptli of my love, for my whole country, and the mingled sorrow and indignation with which I witness every attempt. to weakest a monist the peoplethe sense of wliat.wti owe to the rritlierof.us all. , ,,Nopeoplo ever-dill anything glorious, who did not believe in God, The suers not fitithfulto oaths, and who did not bye their, ,;country., When. Ireflect ;on what God:has already done for tis, and al. reafly.slone by us for his, own glory and for .the advancement of the -human. race; when I consider what our position and influence a. mongst the nations of the earth must bc,..wliCn :',iiidllecomo a hundrsd millions; when I try .to appreciate the necessity of just such a poW .bibn earth, and the majesty of its beneficent 'andlirresistible exercise; my very heart thrpfti. withS overpowering joy and exaltittine,tha n t suck detail il-s,served for my papp,l,6,,that,,! such are ge•Ml inhcritancejs !rept in store •for Man*. I thank God coniintiolly=thiftAlfti dust Of mY•aacestorS MingleS,;WW that the lftid , i3Of my lighted have labored On these sublime mnnumentS; that the valor my friends was a part of the cost by which all has been seemed ; and that the lot of, `the inheritAnce of nty posterity appertains to Michm land and such a people. As fbr the . southi, talreft ividedt sense; * has, cast my lorhere,•,and'l have beemloyal her ; all the more loyal, that I have neither. been blitid , to her orrOrs,uorignorant,to.perili. As for Kentucky, if I have left undone ally. thing I•could • done.for,lter hoirpr, :her interest, er . hergiory:sho knowS hose jcrYful ly l wou4d redeem Matlack of service. But .stilll-love my country; still .I•am an A mai— CJIII 'Citizen. And I deny, with upli fled hands the tight of any court, ,any President,', any' Congress any State, any combination of State Any comftlnatioh of States under heaven ; to abolish (rota amongst men that highest of all human"titles. , I have worn it as a drown all my days on earth.' And I Implore you by our common blood and common eame,by all the love 'sb many noble . hearts hear for you, and all the hopes they cherish concerti , ing you. so to quit yourself in this day of' trial and • rebuke, that you shall' hear that title proudly, long after my gray hairs are under the sod.. • • • 12,9: J. BaarmNainon 'Breadalhanc,Ky., Jan. D I 1860 • Zhq 4eratd. CARLISLE,: , PA. Wednes(ay, Feb:; i B, Isoo • q"A press of platter bus occluded several artialef3 preparo - for thiS paper; if ocl/should be any of thorn that won't.spoil, they will np pear next 4re.ek. BRIC.CKENILIOGIO'S Llk7`t4R; To the exclusion of other .matter, we pub lish this week, the admirabledetter of the Ten (Table Robert J. Breckenridge, to his nephew, the Vibe President of the United States, The author is a distinguished clergyman 'of the Old-Sehool Presbyterian Chitrelt, and_ the let+ ter iu in reply to the speeoh delivezd by,Vice _President Breckenridge before the Legislature of Ketuclty; in Which Itenibraced the sea• tine'nts of the disunion ists of the South, and endorsed the principle alleged to he Velma; gated by ,the,snpremo court, that slavery is national Hind free institutions sectional. , The pat riotic.viewa of this_ venerable cler gyman, are worthy the calm r COnA(191 . 11 Of I . of every one, who can soar above .the groveling instinctsof demagogneM Let all-read and• ponder on the truths contained in it.. _ STAIIk:NT AND SCIIOOATE.—We linvesre ceived a member of this 'Nfoittlici- Nlagazine, for Boys and-flirlsonAlished by:Robinson, Green & Co., Boston; et one dollar a year. It is an admirable little worh, profusely ilhieirat ed, and filled with choke articles, welfhilapt ed to the ifistels:and . ,comprt;beivie - n of the youthful mind. ' In point of letter press, em belibilterients, and paper, it is certainly sups 'flier to any juvenile Airtgazinb we have seen. • "I wn.i, Toy,"—a:ho February number. of Allis popular little work, 'Tor Boys and Girls going to School," is now out. It is :Mimed Monthly, nt thirty cents n year, by J. S. Hos totter, Mechanicsburg, nud should be placed in theitunds °revery scholar in the county. tle,,,The Opposition in lowa have had their State Conventurn, and appOinted delegates to the Chicago Convention. The majority of them lean towards'Cntheron; of Pennsylvania, but they pledge the'Sfate for the nulled Op position notailiee, whoever be may be, by ten, thousand majority. ttM,,An Opposition Ccinvention has been called in New Jersey, to meet on the Bth of March, to choose delegates to the Chicago' Convention. The call for the Republican Na tional Convention is said 6' have been per fectly satisfactory to the Opposition Executive Committed of New Jersey,'which 'comPrised . several gentlemen who voted for Ilr.•Tillmor'e in 1850, and has thus resulted in placing ;at gallant State in the best Possible position tier the great campaign o 800 .; . THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION BILL.--The Exenation Bill juj brought forward in the Si ate' Legi&lnttu•e provides that, in addition to the property now'exempt .by law front sale under execution, there bind' be exempt by law, from levy and forced sale, under any execu tion for debts hereafter collimated, The lot and buildings thereon, occupied as n residence by the debtor, (being a householder and hav ing'( family,) to the value of $l,OOO. ' Such 'exemption shall continue, after the death of such householder, for the benefit of the fami ly. some, or ono of them continuing to occupy such homestead until the youngest child shall become 21 years of age, and until the death of the widow ;• and no release or waiver of such exemptio - nsball be valid. LIPORTANT 13nOuuns.—An. net relative to brokers has been reported upon,favorahly in the Senate, compelling all brokers • to pays 'tax of four• per cent. upon 01l their profits.— TWey aro to 'make it sworn statement'showing the amount of their annual profits for the year ending will(the 30th November, to the city or county treasurer.' B inks have now to pa heavy per °outage on their profits, in 11to shape of if bonus and taxes, but brokers, *ex cept a nominal license, escape comparatively free. This bill is intended to remedy such. unjugt discrimination, and, beSides, it Will bo a source of revenue to the State, and it will most likely hecome a law. • A deduction is to be made of the amount, of the license paid.— No license for: , Philitdelphia shall be graMcd fora less sum than $100; for Pittsburgh sf;o, and in any other county $3O. ANDT111:1 BROWN.7-A Northern business man was lately in Colunabus, - 11Iiss. Having left, the town for a day or.two, a certain man, named Blair, proceeded to his room, broke open t his.trunit, and read' W 0,19401.8 aloud to • the cempany around; Suddenly ho came to tho ominous words, It is all riglit-betwoon' mo and the Brown family." Judge of the excitement. Fortunately some person, more cold-bloodid than the polite and irasoible Mr. Blair, read on a few sontonoonn the letter, and discprarod that there was a Miss 'Brown in the case, 'none ofyour Elhe • Browne; but a genuine Mississippi;BroWn,ail thattheyoung merchant had fluttlly overcome all the oppe-• sitiOn,of,the family to his establiehitg'eloser and' , tenderer relations with the 'fair ioung lady. Millis staged the, proooodingii;:thero entered a , Dr. Shepherd, • & • v:aliant honor litilo•7,nutn, who straightway called,this prying, intotrntakO anU lovo-letter&. by its.true name: Consequently, a few days tifteri aldreet took , pine° betweor,lll6,ir 04'Shopii6id; and the Lattei•whil' shot dead: • ' . THE ELECTION i ON A. SPEAKER We congratulate our readers that the long agony is over, and Congress at last organized by the eleetiou Cf.. Gov. Pennington of New Jersey 'ae,Speaker of the !louse. GuY.,Penn inglon: ietsgeutleman of broad Nat ionidviews ii oui6eilfatiiii. in fuelinx and action and is and rospOnsible 'dtitie`o;'llc itifj . v.etilL'U'xibinpld, or fairnCBB to seeliontlintlyis,Couictiy,' . from 'which demn-' gogneti in'9 , Any t o,ndively'.;.examplo, 1n the lust } -[lennr.o, the proceedings of the lionse,were brought up to ; Tuesday, Jan. ' ill. On Tuesday,. Ittr..Smillt withdrew his name; and an attempt was 113Od0 to rally the deino erotic foroeli on'. - liii;Clerlihild of Illinois, and oh o;haliiiiheine . litid 7 T"Otiningion had 116 ; 7 eb I ei'n tidd and 'theitst seaitering. When the House adjourned. • •.. . . Clerk;- upon. the opoping, said tho question pending wits thebriit4od of Mi‘. , Sherman Or the elm* fion'orßpeaker::-; An attempt '4vits made to provent or delny . a volp, RopoOlt, Smith,,of Virgbild,'Mri& ifithUe4, making. dilatory mo tions, Me, • .After cennidernble time anent in parleying, • Mr,' Cochran, demOcrat, of Now Pork, said if it was. not the general , Under- Standing:there was to be•no debato 16 day, it was at leftist eh on the 'Republican side; for consenting to an adjournment, 'and ought to be respected.. The Ilimse then' decided. to proceed to vote but Smith; of Virginia, said lie meant to go on' with MS' remarks, as all these proceedings were founded on a mistake. After considerable confusion, .Bthith was dis posed'of, std the House proceeded to ballot ing, explaining , interrogating and nusweriog Wheni•Mr. "Penningt on had • received 116 votes, arid lacked but one of on election, Mr. `Briggs,' of NMY • York, changed hie vote from M'Clennnd toPonnington, upon which the fi nal ballot wasluinounced, as follows: Whole number of voles, - Neeefon:ry to n (Amino, - Mr: Pennington, - - - Mr. MeClernand, • - - Mr. Oihneri. - -•- - Scattering, , • '• —This'result was received with manifeva lions of applause. The 'Clerk, declared Mr. Pennington elected Speaker., Sir. flil3lllllBll, of Arkansas, . attempted to call the attention el the country to certain facts in relation to •Ibmelection of Speaker, but was- interrupted with Ion& eries of order from, ihn Republican side.' Mr. Grow said, a Speaker having been elected, nothing was in order until he had been Conducted• to the ehnir. The Clerk sus— •tained Mr. G's suggestion, and, appointed Mr. Bocock and. Mr. _Sherman to conduct . Mr. Pennington to the chair, who et once entered upon the performance of that duty. •The Speaker, atnid a quiet Gist strongly and de lightfully contrasted with the efeited intd dis orderly proceedings which 'previously _pre vailed..elloke as follows:, • Genth , men of (lie Maier, at Repot-mita tiKeR I return to you my grateful-acknowledge: Hotta for the distinguished honor . you have been pleased to confer upon toe in - electing the the Speaker of this . Mouse.—Cueing here for the first time, at the •present session, to be asso ciated with you A . : 1 _111119131ber, its emit, could have been more unlooked for than that I should be callettpxon to preside' over your delibera tions, and nty Mends will der me the justice _to soy that I have not sought the position, FIB I certainly never desired it. I am, neverthe .l less, as conseiotis of the 'dignity and impor tance of this high- office ns any - gentleman can" he, but should have.been • far better. pleased had its duties 'been entrusted to abler 'and more experienced hands. - After witnessing the, almost ineurmountable- nbstacks in the way -of the - organizoticin oftbis llouse,_Letune to thd conclusion that any • gentleman, tinny party, who could command amajaity of the votes for Speaker, was bound, in deference to the public exigencies, to accept the - respon sibility as an act,of patriotic duly, whether egiveenble tp Ilia personal feelings or not. As .that. choice lies unexpectedly 'fallen on the,-1 have not hesitated to accept it. .1n the exe cution of this high. rust, my object will be to do my-duty with impartiality to till. I Anil Love great necessity, gentlemen, for your. in.' 'diligence in tkc -nevi position in whiphl pan placed; tina, feel entire i confidence tbf I shall receive hat your - vil'atids. Ad a repre sentative from the State df'New Jersey, upon whose soil isa' many distinguished—acheive ments were necomi - imbed in the revolutionary •werr, Old pie have aver been distill guitilted for hitir de anion to the Constitution and the Union. I p , the Great Arbiter of our destinies - that I may do no net to impair the integrity of either, but that, by wise and prudent counsels, .peace and order may yet reign in our midst, and our free institutions be perpetuated to our descendants. I feel that I have a national heart, embracing parts of our blessed ,Union. Again thanking you for your lqindness„l now enter upon the discharge of the Arduous and complicated du ties of my station. • • [Applausel • The Speaker and members then•took the prescribed oath, and, after various proceed ings of no'genertil interest, Sir. Phelps en deavored to introduce n bill to supply the de• ficiency in the Post - Offieu department.-Mr. Stevens objected, and the Speaker said that no legislative business could be transacted until a Clerk of the 111)1180 was elected. The ;]louse then, by a majority of 18,, adjourned until friday.. Friday.'Feb. B.—Senate not in session.— Ilouse.—A message was ‘ serit to the Senate, informing that body that the House was ready to proceed to business. •411 resolutiOn was a. &pied appointing a committee ,to act in con: ,junction with a similar committee frets the. &Mate, to wait upon the President. and inform Mtn that both Houses were ready, to receive •coarmunicationa•-from, him. Mr. Groiv gave notice of - his intention to introduce a home stead bill; Mr. .Washburne, of Illinois, one amendatory of the steamboat 111 w; also a river and harbor bill. Upon the motion of Mr. Sherman, the House proceeded to the election of a Clerk, John W. Forney was elein• .ed.on the first ballot, receiving 112 votes, one , more than necessary to a choice Mr. Allen,. bite received 77 Votes; Sir. Taylor 23. Mt Roffinap, of Maryland, was-elected Ser geantnt Arms, by is vote of HA . , over Mr. Glossbrenner, who'receired 92 votes. 011 mo tion of Mr. Winslow, the Speaker was author ized to appoint ilia Standing committees of the' House. Mr. Sherman, in reply to a question, staled that the committees would.not be an nouticed before Wednesday. Mr. Phelps ob tained kayo to' introduce a hill making appro,- priations for the Post Office Department, pending-which the Houseadjourned. • t, Fouta.—About two weeks since, a gold pencil, which Ihe , ownor can Wave by call ing at Miss Egoll's boarding hoinio, proving property, and paying adyertisoment. LIST OF SAGES. WM. DEVINNET.--Auctioneer: ,Fob. 11, John llosler,.Silver Spring. 44. 11,'Wtn." Waggoner,' N.-Middleton. 44 16; John L'ecity, ; Dickinson. • 44 18, Wm-Trestle, Monroe. '44 20; Peter Ddrr, •S. Middleton. . 44 21, Patrick McGuire, N. Middleton:l '44 22, John Greaaon, W. Pennsboro'. " 23, Abrut. Trout; N 'Middleton. 44 24, The& Haycock, Dickinson. 25, John Plank, Monroe. 27;01artin Wonders, York Co 28, Samuel Allen, N. ,Middletou. 44 20, John Denten), Dickinson. March, I, John Handshu, .44 44 24'Jitcol.) Grogar, Monroe. O 8, Geo. W. Ringwalt. Monroe, 5, Henry Funk, N. Middleton. ' " Jacoby, W. Pennsboro'. • 44 8, John:C. Dunlap, Silver Spring. 44 9, Henry Wn, Monroe 14 . 10, Geo. Garver, 8. Middletop.---- " 14, John.-Shoemaker,Silve - r' - Spying. " is; David - Nialiey, S. Middleton • " 18, Henry Sheibly, Silver. Spring. 20, 4Jatnos,.luestou, Noy/ Kingston. • • ' LIST OF SALES« Fob. 15, Jabob Stover, .Fraultford. • tt 187Saluatil.P. Bloeer. - •tt • " 21, Joseph;sly,eze, • .tt - I' '2B, Jaeoli-gneirtinger, " tt 28, , Levi'junies., Plainfield. .•• litych 1, gamuel.Sotider, Dickinson: 2, 'Johii 01lei, Executor of Wm,. . • Ileilletittgeri_Dioliineon., , et, 13; ','Pear,...lr. Walter Nrankford . . 9,'Tholtieon Konnody, - " , . Iliairy 1401, , PEOPIFS: CONNT.P,NTIOT. OF CUMBERLA.ND 'COUNTY. Agreeably totho cnlLof tho Standing:lgnm 7 . mitten PartY%, thei)elegates 11 1 bni the ceyaral boroughs atllowttchipc;rnet in - County .doilvenl T nOsday, Fehtithey 7, 1860. The ; Convent ion tvna organiztd . by the election of the following otricers: IlitY801.4; orllampilen ' • sm.:nun n I ne, ,• WILMA:4' C. Kooss. of Newton. , . • 'Gkonni: ZINN, "of Carßslo. , •. The folltiwing Mutant - Delegates appeared and took their seats: ' • • • Carlhde,—.Easi Ward—Robert - MdCartn George ',inn. Wert Ward.--.)acoh Rheeni, ; Georgellonda7 Upper '.2.llP2n—Jac;ob' L. Zook, W. 11 ; Irwin. Lower. Allen,-Amos Shelly; C. Ebet'ly. • , .ilfech4iesbniy —R. IL Thomas, A. Bale. E 'Penwbord—A. Erb,,D. Hampden—T. B Bryson, M. C. Stnyinanl ' Silver,C/,ii,j. Sahli - dr, M. Mumma; .11firldloirx—J..Iloerner, T. U. Chambers. North. Afiddleten=B., B. Kielrer. South .31fddleton-'-• M Griffith: W. B. Mullin. Dickinson—George L. Lino, Chas LlVatts' Peiinsbore—.l3. McKeehan, Josep‘h Mc- Culgingh. • Newril le—A. Bricker, T. B. !hash. •. .:Vewton—Wm. C. Koons, - S. M. Sharp. • Shippenaburg Borovh—W.D, E. Hays, Peter S. Arta.' Sout/irrtrfon.—Samuel 11yler, W. M. Allen.' • ../1/o4p4 3 .Wbge Iluil; George Morrett.'" , WilHan; 13. Irwin, of Allen, A. B. Sharp, of Carlisle, and It. P. McClure, of. Silippens burg, were nominated as Bepresetilative Del-, egate to the State Convention; and on a ballot being taken, William B. Injin had a'inajority *of all the votes, and, on inotion, , ,ltis election was made unanimous. On tnotion, Wm 13, Mullin, George -Zinn, W. D. E. Hays, Jacob Rheem, hnd Chas. N. Watte ivere appointed a committee to draft.re lutions•Forthe consideration "of the enliven • / tion. The Convs3Ltion then took a recess, and on assembling, the felltiwing reselmions'were reported by the'Committee, and adopted by —the-Conventiod: ' , . . . Rcsolved, That we are Unfalteringly devoted to the,preservat ion of the Unioth`the Consti lotion, and its. Compromises—that we view with alum and horror the sacraligious eqrls now being.made by Southern democrats slid disnolorthAs to disrupt the Confederacy of the ' . States, and destroy the glorious fabric which - our fathers erected at the expense of so much suffering„thil and blood—and, that. we ear . nestly laVOlte Dll true patriots to'unite with us in thwarting their efforts, andpunithing 1 the traitors engaged in them. . I - Bewohfyil,"lllat we indignantly rtpudiale all 834ffithy and co operation with those' own in - the North, who, in their fanatical hostility to Slavery, renounce their obligatios to the Constithilen n and Lows—tench insurreetion and treason, 'and applaud - and sanctimt illeglil -invasions into ,slave Steles, for the purpose.of forcibly freeing the slaves, and, that we liiAtid 1 . no an infamous _falsehood and slander.' the charge 'of simplicity with the raid of John ' Brown and II lii confederates. - Jecsared, That the Federal Government has DO rOWOT -th-intCrfere with slavery in the !WV era' States— , thnt it is it local, municipal' in stitution, subject alone to the control of the _people of the several States wherein it eXigra,. and. that every attempt to interfere-with or ' .control such power, or to deprive them of the Weth t to rcel flifil — their - fug' I ivirillaVeSTimder the law, would be an infraction of I he -coast i .. tulioned should be condemned and resisted by till good citizens. . Reso/tri, :Tina - we utterly: deny that the Constitution carries slnyery into ' the'Territo ries, and prof ect a it there; in defiance of the . -will of the people. or that Congress . has any , - - pourer to pass a slave code . :forth° Territories: that we regard these. doctrines as most dant ' mous heregies, and stigmitize them ris infn, mous schemes to.extend a hurtful and odious . system in an uncomititutionnl wny, and as subversive of the rights of 0 free people.. - Resqvql, That we will cheerfully." recognise find submit to the elesdon of any public offi cer, fromilte President down to the humblest official, when constitutionally - rondo, and, that we regard as treasonable, the declarations nud conduct of all those who threaten to dis- salve the Union in the event of the election of P a rxesident, opposed to their own peculiar Re.?o/ved, That we deplore and condemn the factious conduct and treasonable combination . of the democratiomembers of Congress in re sisting the election of a Speaker, and rejoice, that in the election of Gov Pennington to that high position, the Collservalice element of the country line achieved a signal . triumph, • and administered a just rebuke to demagogues, fire-eaters and traitors. Rem/vcd, That we heartily approve of the course pursued by our Representative in CUR , geese; flit: lion. BEN.WII . .N P. JUNE IN, and especially, of Gib withdrawal of his vote fitom 111 r. Smith, whoSe equivocal position in rota Goo to the greet questions of a Tariff and freedomin the Territories, rendered him un worthy of the supptrt of ono who represented