~~ ~'~'~~Z~~ a ~r~ CARLISLE, PA. • Friday, Febuary 8,-1861. Twola.-LWe tender oin• acknowledgements to Messrs...it:atilt and McPuunsou of the ,llouse of Representatives at Washington, and Inwrx and MAnsuALL of the Legislature for dooumants 'it , ° ArtnivAt, or TROOPS detachment of eighty drago s, actindaulight, Artillery from West Point, arrived at Wash ington on Stiturdny evening.' Li'eut. Piper, Ron of Mr. A. N. Piper, orthis place,ls with this detachment. • 'KANSAS All,11111"Jr.ED Kansas is , at last a State of the Union, the House having concurre&tin the Senate amend ment. As this "appleV discord" has been removed, perhaps a general settlement or our difficulties may follow. THENATIDtiAL is the title of a spirited gaily, pow published at Washing ton, which reaches this place regularly in the afternoon of the day on which it is published. Thosc'who'wish the latest Washington news should send Air it. It is published by L. CLEOILINE S Co., at $3.50 per annum:. ,S'Lructutsa..We hove bad nine consecutive veelts of excellent sleighing. Can any one complain of sleighing?-IL . chanys. They are "centlnininf4 at Charleston, because the accession troops are , not allowed to gun .7/at/a/mat Fort•Sunitcr.—llar,Td. , If that slaying party shestM' eonr off, who trill be most likely to furnish the TUMICI'S • learn that nur'young fiiend,ltoratio C. Ring, of Washington 1). C., 'whose aliijities as avaiter are known to many of our-readers, is expected to deliver a poem here, duiing the College Commencement in July. Now Tiwlt U. I.s3lSewator The Repuidi s can members of the New York Legislation Diet in caucus on the 21 inst., to nominate a candidate for the U. S. Senptc, to succeed Mr. Seward, Tho cr.ndidates • were Win, 91 Evarts, Horace Greely,:andlra Harris. Oa the tenth ballot, the votes stood, Harris 60, Oreely 40, Ilver!s 2, Smith 3—the nomiu ution of Mr Harris ions then !node unanimous. '.On the 6th inst. Mr. Ilar‘ris was elected for six years from the 4th of March next. Mr., Harris is a resident of Albany, and has,neve; been in either branch of Congress..` Nuzzling the ,Press A Tdv, , days ago, n subscriber in the lower„ , end of this county.discontinued the Thranl.l), because we hare expressed opinions in favor olany honorable compromise that would pre serve the Union and give pence to the coed• try. This man probably, belongs to that . small class Of narrow minded politicians, who have just capacity enough' for one idaa at a time, and when they get astride. of it, they. ride pelbmell to petal'. ion. They clamour for the Th iiO. of tree-speech, as Mug as it. squares I' with their opinions ; but Van editor dares to exercise the right of thinhina-for Limsehf, in opposition -to their pet-idea, they apply the gag, by withdatawing their patronage, alumni t. i ng , i n this i n stance, --t-n the extraordinary suer of three cents is -wrel•. We shall regret to differ with any of our readers; but as the editor of a public journal, weare actuated by stern convictions of duty ; we are neither a time•server, nor a tide•wait cr, and shall continue to express our opin ions on all proper subjects, ffering the free use of our cohnnns,taliiny who mar chonsC to coMravort them. MEE= I= The joint committee of Tple Legislature are making extensive arraigements for cele brating the ...f2d of Felrtinity, by hoisting the American nag of thirly•limr stars, on ,the dome of the Capital. There will be a grand military and civic procession, and a general invitation will ho given. to all military and civic organizations in the State. The procession will march to the ; CApitol, when the flag will be raised by old sch t iViers of the war of 1812, Washington's Farewell ad dress will be read, and an oratkn delivered by the Speaker of the Senate. • It has been suggested that the old Oaths& Artillery, should participate in. that celebra tion, who seconds the• motion? SEWARI O g , OPINION. The remarks made by Mr. Seward, in the• United States Senate, on presenting the memo rial of 38,000 citizens of New York, in favor of the Border State'S Compromise, carry with _ theta deep significance.. The position of the Senator, in favor of comproiniae and conciliar lion, cannot be-Mistaken, and should meet the approval of overy man, who desires to see our national iliiii s Oulties settled, before they aro forced to the point of national ruin. If Mr, Seward would achieve a greatness far more enduring than the triumph of party, let him' ,throw the weight of. his influence into this measure, and enrrylt forward to completion, In presenting the petition, Mr. Seward, said:— • ' , TIM, although the Senate Chamber was the largest legislative 'chamber ever, erected . since the beginning of the world, except the House of Representatives, this memorial would cover a space thirty•eight limes as large as thitO chamber. He had already presented a similar memorial with 25,000 mimes, all urg ing conciliation. The committee who brought this memorial were the representatives of the largest commerce in the world—a commerce which in any other country would be pare , . mount to all other interests. Ilappily, here ityas not so. lie had been requested to sup port the view's of this memorial, and regretted that he had seen no disposition on the pelt of • the adhering States. He, however, held him self open to such propositions, and was re• joiced at the fraternal feeling manifested by the people of his State in these memorials. Ile did not fear for the Union, nor did he believe these difficulties would certainly be settled in thirty, sixty or ninety days; butt nevertheless he believed they would behottled. All plat forms or men that. stood in the way of the preservation of the Union. would be swept away. The question.of slavery or freedom in the Territories had been greatest in 1850. The admission of KOnsas, California and Ore• gun had reduced the question to a very mar: row compass. In that part which remained, all: being slave territory, over which a slave code extended, there were but twenty•four slaves—but one for evkry 44,001) square miles. ',411e did not. fear slave aggression which had only carried twenty .: feur slaves to ail that' territory. Why then should ire despair of the Hellen? Why could he believe that 30,000,000 of people would reduce themselves to the scorn of mankind by the dissolution of this Union for !Alit question? This was a confederation, not an Imperiffil government. Submit the question to a Convention to he Milled accord ing, to the forms of the Constitution, end the world would Bee how thirty-four States could peaceably adjust this difficulty. Ho urged,, as a last. resor,t, if ether means failed, the call ing oftiu , National Convention 'according to the Constitutional forms. He concluded by say ing Abet he had advised the gentlemen eon'. positig the committee Wltniind brought on the memorial to go home and speak for the Union, vote for the Unietf; to contribute their nioney to•proservo the Union, and when all other• ex pellients f tiled, to fight for the Union:" ' THE ISSUE It is 'certainly discreditable to' . .thi!?. in.this'enlightened age; that men shoit" for their passions 'and predjudicas to t earri l l I,hean 011ie verge of civil war, with all its at tendant: horrors, for a more, abstyaotien—a principal of no practical value. . The great bone of contention between the North and the South, is the settlement of the Territories; and - yet the qucstioa, muoh as intereWpoliticians may endeabor to magni fy its ',importance, is just as capable of air easy, peaceful solution as any, other, if men would rise abovoz the paltry, predjudices of party, and in asptrit of conciliation, give quiet to*the country, by an honorable settlement. It is a delusion on 'the part of the South to suppose that the North can be intimidated into concessions, and it is equhtly false for Nor-. theme men to imagine, that 'an himest recog nition of the rights of the - youth, and an ear nest desire to preserve the 'Union by a com promise, is an evidence bf that intimidation. By the Chicago platform this itepublicans declared; "Vhat the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that' of ; that as our republican • fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national. territory, ordained that "no ,person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due procesS of law,", it bebomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legisla tion is necessary, to maintain this provision of. the Constitution against all at tempts to vio• late it ; and we denit he authority olCongress, Of a Territorial Legislature, or of any hull ',ideals, to give .legtol existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States."'- . Here, the broad principle is laid down of free labor for the territories, to the exclusion of slava labor, and yet practically cotisid ered, it is a mere abstraction. Every 'intolli gent man ; knows that:the itatus of the Terri tories, is fixed by a law which no human power can revoke, Congressional intervention, how ever invoked, cannot legislate slavery, -where • NatUfe'never intended it should go; and this .l is evident from the fact, that although the territories have been open to slavery!, since the decision of the Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott case, but to:Too-Aar slaves are. to be ifmand in all the territories of the United States. What avails a law of Congress, against the " higher law" of soil and anode? The South has neither the noes or the slaves to .sTftlio new (erritory, noo:"would they be silly enough to take their property into a territory, with the fact Staring them in the face, thin within a few years that territory must become a free State, and theirproperly of do value. Why then, should 'we fear slavery aggression ? Why should we, as .Rvpublicans, stake aloe Union, upon au adhereace Brun 'abstract principle of right" The whole North did acquieseeitithe Missouri Compromise line; and its' re:&linbllAment in• voices. no sacrifice of principle, but merely limits it, by stipulating that scull' of that line slavery shall not be prohibited. Certainly tho fruits of a lung contest should not be given .up, but if any one can'tatte pleasure in refits lug to do, what no^principle forbids to be done,' merely to humiliate n beaten adver