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Wednesday Morning, December 12, 1955.
WILLIAM IMEWSTER, EDITORS,
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State and Waterloo Long Shawls. Call and
ace them.
Z The Russian army in Finland, accord
ing to accounts, amounts to 50,000 men, be
side 120,000 in reserve at St. Petersburg. It
will thus be seen that Russia is in no danger
from a Swedish invasion.
HUNTED'S MCDICAL SPECIALIST.—Tbis is an
invaluable work, and should be in the posses
sion of every medical man, and every individ
ual troubled with any of the diseases of the
chest. One dollar a year. Sherman & Co.,
Publishers, N. Y.
GODET'S LADY'S Boon.—Godey is always a
head. The January number of this splendid
magazine is before us—it's a glorious number.
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PENNSYLVANIA TELEGRAPIL—We invite our
readers' attention to the prospectus of the a•
bove named paper, in another column. The
incoming proprietors have expended a large
amount of money, for the purpose of render.
ing the Telegraph a paper worthy the import
of every citizen of the State. We bespeak
for it the patronage of our good citizens.
The Whig Party.
The Whig Party does not seem to be dead
yet in Missouri, though it is very dead in most
other States. In Missouri, the Americans have
not swallowed ❑p the Whigs. On the contrary
the Whigs still maintain their identity, and
their members of the State Legislature have
held a caucus at Jefferson city, and adopted a
very patriotic series of resolutions proposing to
hold a Whig national Convention. They ear
nestly exhort the Whigs of Missouri to preierve
their old organization, and call upon the Whigs
of all parts of the Union to rally with them.—
They aver, with a distinctness which implies
belief that the Natiorml Whig party is not dead
but still lives. They reiterate the former prin.
ciples of the party, and express their regret at
the general defection. They propose holding a
Whig State Convention of Missouri, in St. Lou
is, on the second Monday of April, 1856, for
the purpose of appointing delegates to a Whig
National Convention, to nominate candidates
for President and Vice President of the United
States, and also to nominate candidates for
State officers. This is the first movement we
have yet seen for a Whig National Convention,
and in elm present confused state of our poll.
tics it is of some importance. Whig organiza
tions, composed of persons not members& the
American pasty, exist in Maine and Massachu
setts, and, as they have the advantages of some
names of high repute, may elect delegates to a
Whig National Convection. There is also a
Whig organization in Pennsylvania, and in
noose localities the party is kept up with deter.
mined spirit.
The Kanzae Difficulty.
We publish all the information received by
telegraph concerning the difficulties in Kansas
and some extracts front papers. It seems that
President Pierce has taken no positive steps as
to the requisition of Gov. Shannon for United
States troops. When Shannon's despatch was
first received in Washington, its authenticity
was doubted by the President and his Cabinet
but when the fact that the thing was not a ho
ax appeared to be satisfactorily established, the
President telegmphed Shannon to employ nll
the authority at his command, to suppress the
outbreak, and when a full and formal statement
of the facts in the case should reach Washing
ton, the Government would act as the exigen
cy of the case should seem to demand. It is
regarded by the President as a question requi
ring in every aspect very delicate treatment,
particularly na the County Sheriff and not the
United States Marshal appears to have been
the executive officer. In this state of the case
a summon by him to the Government troops at
Fort Leavenworth would hardly tenet with a fa
vorable response, as such troops are entirely
beyond his jurisdiction, and not subject to the
posse commitalus call. If the President fin al
ly concludes in accordance with the require
mettle of Gov. Shannon, he must first issue his
Proclamation of Warning, unless there be in
deed open positive rebellion. So the imminent
danger of grave consequences at present is not
seemingly impending, as far as the armed in•
terference of the Government is concerned.
The Washington correspondent rf the Balti
more Sun, says Gov. Shannon may have acted
upon false or exaggerated complaints, and
there is also reason to believe that it was inter
dud to create a row just at the moment of the
organisation of Congress. GuveruerShannon
being armed by the United States, may so use
his authority as to quiet the agitation, if any
prevails, or to increase and aggravate it. It is
not stated iu the despatch of Governer Shan
non what particular laws have been resisted by
the inhabitants, but it is known flint a portion
of them regulate all the laws of the Territorial
Goverment, though they do not resist their ex.
ceution by violence. They do not sue fur cer
tain before the Justices, nor resort to the Courts
of Probate. But it is understood that tVlby in
twilled to resist the actual execution of the
twelfth section of the addition law, which Pro- I
vides for the punishment of any person with
fine and imprisonment who ntay, in words spo
ken, deny that Slavery exists legally in Kansas.
A person was convicted under this act, and the
Free State people have determined not to re
sist the law until sentence should be pawed,
when they would interfere to prevent its execu
tion. So it is pessible that this is the cause of
the present disturbance.
THE NEWS.
Beyond a doubtful rumor of the Prussian
Envoy having atnined the Czar's consent to
inform the Western powers of his willingness
to negotiate for ponce, the telegraphic despatch
which announces the arrival of the America,
contains little or nothing of interest. The in
tolligence, howci•ce, though consisting of mere
surmises, reveals the important and auspicious
fact, that Amid the rune of cannon, and in the
very height of the excitement of war, a feeling
is favor of peace has grown up silently and
quietly among the nations of Europe, which
has gathered strength with every victory or de.
feat, with every disa3ter or success, until it has
become strong enough to find expression from
the very lips which pronounced the declaration
of war. The Emperor Napoleon ire his speech
delivered at the closing sceneof the Paris exhi
bition, declared, with as much frankness as
truth, that a final victory in list be achieved by
public opinion. lie expressed himself as
strongly in favor of peace, as, under the cir
cumstances it was consistent in hint, the guar
clian of the national honor of Prance, to do.—
He gave a bold and unreserved utterance to his
sentiments, because he was fully aware that
they were those of the people of Europe, and
that they would be responded to, notwithstan
ding the warlike harangue of Lord Palmcston,
by an influential, if not at the present junction
of affairs, a numerous class in England.
Whether the Prussian envoy has really been
entrusted with the misson of declaring the Czar
ready to trent for peace or not, it cannot be
doubted that that monarch, in view of the
wholesale destruction of life and property al
ready accomplished, and the uncertain chances
of an indefinitely prolonged and bloody contest
feels it incumbent upon him as a solemn and
sacred duty, at least to try whether it be not
possible to devise a settlement of the vexed and
intricate question by other means than those of
steel and iron bullets. The inclemency of the
Crimean sky will gain a triumph over the pas
sions of the combatants, it will compel them to
pause, and, for a time, at least, to sheath their
weapons. The blasts of winter will do that
what hutuan reasoning, perhaps, could not have
accomplished as promptly and effectually, it
will hold the belligerents face to face on the
bleak hills and snow covered valleys of the Cri
mea, inactive and motionless, and thus give
their governments time to collect on the hazer.
dons and, perchance, ruinous game they are
playing—ruinous, perhaps, to both parties, and
of doubtful profit even to him who might be
fortunate enough to grasp the laurels of victo
ry on the field of battle at the expense of a de
feat elsewhere—at the expense of suffering and
famine at home. Such, at least, history teach
es us are the sad consequences of theglory and
pomp of war—the dark side of the brilliant pie•
tore.
It may be objected against a renewed attempt
to arrange the difference by negotiation that as
yet no definite advantage has been obtained by
either party, such as would prove decisive or
ponderous enough to incline the scales to ono
side; that though Russia has been compelled
to destroy by the hands of her own sons, the
forts and houses of Sebastopol, and to sink her
cherished fleet to the bottom of the Enxine ;
though she has been forced to gaze upon the
smouldering ruins of Kertch and Taman and
Fanag,oria, and to surrender Kinburn, she has
still a national vitality exuberant enough torn
able her to resist any claims derogatory to her
honor or detrimental to her interests. It may
be said that her armies yet hold the heights of
the Crimea from Perekop to Simpherpool and
the northern strongholds of Sebastopol, and
that the Allies, though in superior force, re
coil from the attempt of attacking their formi
dable position—a position whirls offers a com
mentary upon the relative condition of the con
testants, more accurate than diplomatic skill
and eloquence could define it. It portends that
after fourteen months of terrible slaughter, and
iu spite of the heavy losses incurred, and the
unexampled difficulties of providing for ammu
nition, subsistence and succors, the soldiers of
the Czar are still a match for their enemy—
that they aro yet unconquered. But this is
exactly the point upon which the prospects Of
of the rumored negotiations may be based, with
some hope or chance of a successful termina
tion. As matters stand, both parties have in
curred immense losses both have exhibited
their bravery and skill of leadership ; boils have
upheld their military prestige; both have found
the exact limits of their strength and their
weakness, and each has learned to respect the
prowess of the other. Had ono of them pined
a complete and decided victory, the national
pride of the vanquished wonld have revolted
against the very idea of negotiation. The co.
flict must have been carried to a total exhaus
tion of the weaker power. And it would seem
that the alternative of the Eastern question, is
either peace by negotiation or war to exhaus
tion. But would a cessation of hostilities in
consequence of exhaustion form any solid gua
rantee of a durable peace 7 We think not.—
With returning strength, the war would break
out with renewed fury, unless extermination of
one of the parties were a possibility. The four
points am obsolete. They are lost with the
fleet of tile Black Sea, and have been consign
ed to oblivion. But surely it cannot be entirely
impossible to revise and reconsider the status
quo before the war, with a view of discovering
lts weak points and its discrepancies, and of
devising such measures as might be consistent
ly adopted by both belligerents, without injury
to their national honor. It cannot be imprac
ticable to subsitute reason and argument for
the edge of the sword, in order to bring to a
satisfactory conclusion a question of political
import. We hope that the impending confer
ences influenced by public opinion, which evi
dently evinces most decided inclinations to
wards peace, may succeed iu solving the prob
lem.
The capture of the Crimea—as yet far from
its final consuininatiou—should it ho actually
accomplished at the expense of eimrinuuti sac
rifices, coal riot force Russia to terms Moon.
sistent with her honor. Such a victory would
ho as incunipkto as the partial destruction of
Sebastopol is in reference to the acquisition of
thu Crimea. Sevastopol is not the Crimea, nor
would the possession of the hater render the in
vasion of Russia proper in airy may loss
hazar
dons, or ruinous, or impossible. The conquest
of Moscow could not pinkly.) the power of re.
sistanco of the Czar. Of this fact Europe has
hail ample, ample proof, What, thee, is the
use of carrying on a contest whose consumma
tion is beyond the capacities of the aggressive
powers. The mere destruction of life and pro
perty, however skilfully it may be conducted,
•however gloriously accomplished, is, after all,
but a means to the end. Before engaging in
the terrible and demoralizing work, the fact
should have been well ascertained whether
there was actually a chance of the means lead
ing to the proposed end. This simple but all
important question was overlooked completely
at the outset, and the expression that the Al
lieedrifted into the war' retnnins as true as the
fact is deplorable. That a settlement of the
differences between the Western Powers and
Russia is surrounded by immense difficulties
and perplexities, every one lIIIISL 101111 t, but
that those difficulties are, at the present juue
ture of affairs, insurmountable, or less capable
of being regulated by treaty than before the
outbreak of hostilities, we arc inclined to doubt.
It would seem, on the contrary, that the know
ledge and experience derived from the test of
each other's military and financial capacities,
might form an important element in adjusting
and regulating the claims.of the two opposite
parties. They catered upon the war because
they were as ignorant of their own ability as
that of their antagonist. The Vienna confer
ences failed partly because the relative resew ,
cos of the contending powers had not been ac
curately ascertained. ,
From the moment the unequal strength of
two combatants is positively known, a struggle
for physical or military supremacy becomes an
absurdity. The difference may be arranged
by negotiation and diplomacy should take place
of armies. Viewing the matter in this aspect,
and considering at the same time, the menu•
cing political, social and financial complications
which a continuation of the war might aggra•
veto and develops, most likely, into insurrec•
tion, rebellion and anarchy, it does not seem
wholly impossible, nor even improbable, that
the endeavor to convoke another conference,
and to arrange the difficulties by diplomatic
action, may be followed by results satisfactory
to the principal parties.
sEr The receipts at the Stnte Treasury du.
ring the year ending on the let of December,
were 55,390,474 11, and the expenditures $5,.
305,705 52.
015. A tremendous lire broke out in Sing
Sing prison, last week, by which $BO,OOO worth
of property was destroyed.
POE-TRY.—Tho following extraordinary jan
gle of trochee•tudes occurs in Longfellow's now
poem, Hiawatha :
"Seized his grandmother and throw her,
Up into the sky at midnight;
Right against the moon lie threw her,
'Tie her body that you see there 1"
Now is it not incredible that the author of
"Hearts like muffled drums are boating
Funeral marches to the tomb."
could have written such ineffable trash as this?
Perhaps the professor would tell us why this
unfortunate grandmother was thus pitched
"right against the moon?" We confess we do
wish to know
Netvs b)1 ci;tlc,(3rapil.
European News.
Terrible Explosion at liilicrman
Rumori of Peace—Fire in France
—The Position of Sweden—Prus
sia for the Czar—lllenchikolf Dis
missed—Critical Aspect of Affairs
between the United States and
England, &e., &c.. 84c.
PARIS, Monday, Nov. 19-8 30 A. M.—The
Moniteur announces that the Minister of war
received yesterday the following telegraphic
dispatch from Marshal Pelissier, dated Sebes
topol, Nov. IG, G I'. l'tf :
Our park of artillery (called Park of the
Mill,) near Inkerman, WU partly destroyed yes
terday at 4 o'clock in the after noon by an ex
plosion of three magazines, containing altogeth
er 30,000 kilogrammes of powder, 600,000 cat
riges, 300 charged shells, and other projec.
The ignited materials, hurled to a distance,
canoed a violent conflagration in the English
park next ours, and there also partial explosi
ons took place.
At 6 o'clock the English and French work•
men were masters of the lire.
Our loss consists of 30 killed, including two
officers, and some hundred wounded among
whom ore ten officers.
However sad such on event is, wo must still
congratulate ourselves that the consequences
,have not been more serious and disaster...
I um not able to state the losses of our al
lies. I believe they aro about the same as uur
own.
As nearly always happens in similar cases,
it is difficult to ascertain the cause of the first
ex pl onion.
This is certainly a very lamentable accident
but our stores are so considerable that the re
sources of the army aro not in the slightest de
gree affected by it.
Lord Paiimure has received the following
telegraphic despatch from General Sir W. Cod.
rington dated Nov. 16 :
"A. heavy ex plosion of a store of powder at
the French siege train took place about 3 P. M.
yesterday ; ikcommunicated fire to our siege
train close to it, where there was no powder,
but some naval live shells, most of which were
removed; but the loss of life and damage done
is considerable.
"The great explosion threw shells over the
camp of our siege train, the huts of the first
Brigade being entirely damaged, but not by
fire.
"All officers and men were on the spot at
once, and worked with good will and energy,
and I saw all safe when T quitted at 7 P. M.
PRA. 111:3101M—Rumors of a disposition
on the part of the Russian government to make
the first advances to negotiate for peace con
tinue to prevail, but excepting reliable infor
mation that the mercantile classes in Russia
are weary of war, there is no apparent ground
for the rumors. It is, however, confidently re•
ported that Mr. De Munster, military envoy of
of Prussia at St. Petersburg, had visited the
Czar at Nicolaieff, with it view of inducing
him to recognize certain conditions of peace
such us would be laid before the French and
English Cabinets. The Czar listeted fawn.
bly to M. De Munster's propositions.
Tho Prussian cabinet is now in possession
of the views of the Emperor Alexander, and
is empowered to make them known to the Wes•
tern Powers, whu on their part have nut refu
sed to listen to them, though at the same time
they have declared dein to be inanfficient. The
grout fact is that negotiations between Russia
and Prussia are dill proceeding.
A terribly destrnctive fire occurred in Paris,
by which the Government bakery was commie
ed. It contained 28,000 quirtails of corn and
equal quantity of flour and buiseuits were litir•
ned.
The ship America, wrecked near Cabrito,
which was sold by the underwriters, has been
got off by the purchasers.
A large amount ofnussian grain on the coast
near Gheerskeinan, had been destroyed by an
Allied flotilla, sent for the purpose. The grain
was intended for an army in the Crimea, and
was packed in six tiers, which extended along
the coast for two miles.
The Czar bas dismissed Prince Menchioif as
chief of his outland appointed General Galen
burg in his stead.
Advices from Kars state that Gen. Mourn.
vial', overcome by his defeat before Kars, had
become insane and Gen. Bahasa!' had been
summoned to assume the corfitnand.
SW ED KN.—Respecting Canroberes mission to
Sweden, we have only a Paris rumor—but the
rimier is important, and is as follawa :—The
terms of military convention are agreed to;
that Sweden will furnish a contingent, to act
with the allies next spring, if peace be not pre
viously restored, and that an army of French,
English and Swedes, will be sent to Courland
to force Prussia and Austria to declare tit mu
, selves ; and in return for her alliance, the al
lies will guarantee Finland to her.
Canrobcrt has been overwhelmed with honor.
His mission to Denmark is now the great point
of interest. Want of mittens there might neu
tralize the advantage gained in Sweden, as it
is not believed that these two pawers could a
dopt different lines of policy.
The London Morning Post, however; contra
dicts the Times with regard to the allied Ewe.
dish alliance, and says that the Times' details
of a military Convention, and its assertion of
the adhesion of Denmark aro without founda
tion.
TURKEY.—Constantinople correspondence
' describes a bad state of affairs there. Mur
ders and robberies wore taking place in the o
pen streets, with a great and increasing fanati
cism against the French. -
The allied commandauts have called on the
Turkish government to prevent farther outra
ges, under a threat of the allies taking imme
diately the police of the city into their own
hand.
Several of the Tunisian mutineers have been
condemned to death ; and the rest of them will
be sent to Ilatotun and Souchum Kale.
The number of French killed in the recent
riot was more considerable than at first repor
ted.
Construstineple, Nov. 12,
1855.—According
to last accounts Omar Pasha was expecting
battle. General Mouravia had detached a di
vision front his army, which was advancing by
forced march.: on I.utars by Akaispa road.—
About Poo Turks, under Mucha Psalm, had
left Batoum to try and cut oil this detachment.
Early in the month they had reached Osurgethi
and the emumander-in-Chief bade them meet
him at Kutars, which will become the theatre
of some important engagement, unless the Rus
sians intend entrenching themselves in the de
files which protect the advance on Tiflis.
THE 14:Emso ix Bcor.tx.—The political cir
cles here, especially the "Krew Zeitung," a Ras.
Sian party, are triumphant. While the Wes
tern people dreamed German treason, they are
loudly declaring for peace, or an adhesion with
Russia as the alternative.
FINANCIAL DIATTEML—The Times' city arti
cle, dated Friday evening, November 24, saSs :
The English funds opened will firmness this
morning, at the final quotations of yesterday,
and for a short.time exhibited a tendency to
further improvement, but uutimely a gradual
decline took place, the market closing with a
general appearance of dullness. The occur
ranee of sales in the absence of any announce
ment, tended to confirm the sports eircula,d
during the past day or two of new.and impor
tant political arrangements, and that these
arrangements, were the principal cause of the
reaction, coupled with a less favorable appear-
Race of the Continental exchanges.
The morcantile advises loom 'Paris continue
austalbe,gr* steactineS3,
At Hamburg the preisure for money appears
to have slightly dismissed, but the rate is still
six and three-quarters per cent.
St. Petersburg letters aro to the 13th and
quote the exchange at 39.
NISCELLANEOUB.—Since the departure of the
advanced portion of the allied fleets a number
of small vessels had been in communication
with the coast of Finland, and the lot destined
to convoy munitions of war, &e., to Swoaborg
was understood to be waiting its opportunity.
Time death of Lady Emeline Stuart Wortley
is antioenced. She died at. Beyrout on the
night of the 29th ult.
At the expitation of his well.carned leave of
absence, Str Colin Campbell will return to
the Crimea, to resume the command of the
Highland division.
Our Relation with Great Britain—Oriti-
cal Aspect of Affairs.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6th.
It has just been ascertained, beyond the pos.
ibility of cavil, and a despatch has been receiv
ed from Mr. Buchanan relative to the Cramp.
ton difficulty, the tenor of which is that the
British government, in a courteous but positive
manner, decline giving such explanations as
were demanded by our government regarding
the alleged violation of our neutrality laws by
British agents. This aspect of affairs imps
see on the American government very delicate
obligations, and it will require all its wisdom
to extricate itself from the present dilemma.
AFFAIRS IN KANZAS.
Civil War in kanzas—Murder %Ind
Rapine . the Order of the Day—
Application for U. S. Troops—A
Moody Time Expected—Terrible
Excitement.
Sr. Louts, Dec. s.—The Kansas free State
papers give the Mowing account of the diffi
culties in the Territory t—A young man named
Dow, twenty.tyo years of ore, while at a black
smith's shop where several bordor ruffians' had
congregated, was deliberately shot by one Cole.
man. An attempt was made to arrest the mut..
derer, but through the assistance of abet
tors he escaped to Missouri. A meeting of the
citizens, held on the spot where the affair oc
curred, to inquire into the case, pronounced
the act a cold-blooded murder on the part of
Coleman, and charged four men, named Hague,
Burkley, Moody and \Vaguer, with being ac
cessories. A scales of resolutions were passed,
and a committee appointed to investigate still
further, to search out the offenders, and to de
vise menus to bring them to justice. Sheriff
Jones arrested Jacob Bronson, ut whose house
Dew lived, for the purpose of having him give
security to keep the peace but while proceeding
to Lecompton, Bronson was rescued by a par
ty of his neighbors. Jones sent to Pawnee,
Missouri, for aid, declaring that the . Governor
of Missouri had assured his the assistance of
ten thousand men, if required.
JEFFERSON CITY, Friday, Nov. 30, 1855.
The inquirer this morning publishes despatches
of a, menacing character, regarding Kansas.—
The substance is as follows:
Imizemniexcx, Thursday, Nov. 29, 1855.
Last night and this morning many persons
from this city and county started to Lecompton
for the purpose of placing their services at the
disposal of the Governor. A letter from one of
the editors of the Western Dispatch, dated at
Shawnee Mission today, states that the writer
has learned that a number of citizens are mis
sing at Hickory Point, and that eixteen or inure
houses have been burnt. The Governor calls
on law-abiding citizens to suppress the out
break. Despatches from Weston, and St. Jo
seph last night state that largo meetings of the
citizens have been hold mid companies formed
to go to Kansas.
A despatch from Independence states that
Jones, the Sheriff of Douglass county, Kansas,
and acting United States Deputy Marshall, in
still at Lecomptou, with fifty-two mon, organi•
zed and equipped to aid in enforcing the laws
and suppressing the insurrectionary movements
of the awrence people. The latter are orga
nized also, and drilling for action. They have
live pieces of cannon and are reported to be well
prepared to resist cud duly the law,
Tho "Law and order people of the Territo
, ry," which means the Pro• Slavery men, are ral.
lying to the aid of Jones, who was sent to Shaw.
nee Mission for n wagon load of ammunition,
and for cannon. Jones has a warrant for the
arrest of forty.two teen at Lawrence, and will
proceed to execute it, we presume, as soon as
' he is satisfied of the sufficiency of his force be
the task. Then the conflict will come unless
moderate counsels and reason prevail, and we
may have to chronicle the slaughter of Amer.
icau citizens by those who should be theM
tilers. The people of Lawrence refuse to deli.
vor up-the offenders, defy the law and declare
that they will hang Jolter and Coleman.
As wo said yesterday, the Free State men of
Leavenworth and other towns me going to
Lawrence to side with the people of that place
on the fight. The sky of the West looks lurid
and we tremble every moment lest wo may
hear the clash of reeounding arms and see the
amok() of civil strife curling over the fecal' fields
of Kansas.—it. Lout, Evening Nov; tat.
Sr. Loris, Tuesday, Dec ~ I , lBss.—Accounts
from Kansas gate that an officer belonging to
the military organization of Free State men
had been capture? at Atchison, and carillon or•
deco found upon loin person to burn down the
town and murder Mr. Laughlin.
As the male population had gone to Lacomp
ten under orders of the Governor, a request was
sent to Weston for assistance, and a party loft
there lust night for Atchison to defend the
place,
[Prom the St. .I,:tis Intelligencer.]
SECRET SLAVERY SOCIETY to Missomtr.—lt
has long .been known that a secret League is
in existence in Missouri, the sworn purpose of
which is to plant Slavery in Kansas. It was
formed long before any ono ever hoard of the
b'ree•Stato League, which was lately exposed
in the West, and resulted in the death of Laugh
lin, one of the lenders of the Free State League
Both these Leagues were wrong in spirit, but
the Missouri League the loss defensible, because
it was formed to operate in territory foreign to
our own soil.
A despatch from St. Louis to the Louisville
Courier, in regard to the Kansas "Civil War,"
lets out a little more than has been allowed to
come out here, It reads thus in tho Courier :
Thu VERY LATEST. The Excitement Inerea
sing—Missourians going to Kansas b 2, Map
dre , lB. Weston, Mo., Nev. 30, M.—The grea
test excitement continues to exist in Kansas.
The officers have been resisted by the mobocrats
and the interposition of the militia has been
called for.
A secret letter from Secretary Woodson to
General Eaton has been written, is which the
writer requests Gen. E. to call for the Hide Co.
of Platte City, Mo., so as not to compromise
Gov. Shannon.
Four hundred men front Jackson county,
Mo., are now en route for Douglass county,
Kansas, St. Joseph and Weston, in Missouri,
are requested each to furnish the same number
of men. The people of Kansas are lobe sub
jugatcd at all hazards.
INDEPENDENCF; Mo., Dee., 3.
We have just received reliable intelligence
from Kansas Territory, which increased the
high excitement already existing hero. Yon
have been apprised of the origin of the
ditlicnl
ty—that of the arrest of a prisoner in the hands
of the sheriff by a party of fifteen to twenty of
the citizens of Lawrence and its vicinity, and
their refusal to deliver any of the parties con
ecrnecl in the mob and outrages up to coy of
the ollicers dale territory unless it both() Gov
ernor, or to those of the General Government.
This- determination is strengthened by the
course pursued by Get,. Lane, and, also, by the
editor of the paper at Lawrence, and a few
other men of a similar stripe, who are conti.•
ally . making harangues to the populace, and
u,prng thpm in make preparations for a fight.
• On Saturday night • Gen. Lane delivered a
speech of this character, which was received
with the greatest demonstrations of enthusiasm.
Governor Shannon, seeing such a state of things
existing, very properly ordered Oct the militia
of the Territory, who did not respond very cor
dially to his wishes. Many of the citizens of
the Western border counties of Missouri, wil
ling to aid in quelling the disturbance, offered
their ussistance, .d are now in readiness to go
to the scene of difficulty at a moment's warning.
Many have already gone. from Lafayette and
the adjoining counties, well pretaruil fur the
mi Tl e l c Y' .
s -
The Governor's parry were from 250 to 300
men, they are at Franklin, a few miles distant
awaiting a greater roue.
RepoTas have reaehed ns dint there are 1000
men m Lawrence, organized and ready fur re.
sistance, all armed with Sharpe's titles, and
thnt they are entrenching ;hearse' ens as rapid
ly an they possibly can.
From another source we learn that the better
men in Lawrence say that they are willing to
give us nil concerned in the affair, if the legal
ly authorized persons seek it; otherwise they
will resist to desperation. Governor Shannon
in response said. "Why not deliver them to the
Sheriff or the U. S. Marshal, who have already
demanded them?" Trouble will no doubt're
suit from it, as much excitement exists on both
sides.
A meeting is now being held in Kansas, to
see if some measure cannot ho adopted to ter
maw. t he matter peaceably, if possible, bat for
cibly, if necessary.
On Saturday, Governor Shannon applied to
President Pierce, by telegraph, for assistance
from U. S. troops ut Fort Holley and Leaven
worth and until such aid is granted, nothing
will be done unless the excitement of the par
tics concerned will bring on the cries before.
Hilo, many valuable lives will be lost.
Of all that transpires further 1 will endeavour
to keep you promptly advised.
INDEPENDIMPI, Dee. 3, I'. M.—There is
great excitement all through thii, upper coon.
try and overwhelming numbers mu pouring
from every direction in the territory to sustain
the laws.
Gen Lane is entrenching himself and
throwing op breast works. lie is also burning
beacon lights, which can be seen twenty-five
miles Crum Lawrence, and bids defiance.
From the Wask ioyfoo Union of Dec G.
Threatened Hostilities in Kansas.
Rumors have passed into circulation to the
effect that the President has authorized, the
employment of the troops of the United States
in the Territory of Kansas to aid the local au
thorities in the execution of the laws. No
such authority has been gives. Iu order to
show exactly what has transpired, wo have ob.
tained permission to publish the following des.
patches: _ _ _
WESTPORT, Mo., Dec. 1, 1855.
I desire authority to call on the United
States forces at Leavenworth to preserve the
peace of this Territory, to protect the Sheriff
of Douglas county, and to enable hitu to exe-
cute the legal process in his hands. If the laws
are not executed civil war is inevitable.
Au armed force of one thousand moo, with
all the implements of war, it is said, are at
Lawrence. They have rescued a prisoner from
the sherill, burnt houses, and threatened the
lives of citizens. Immediate assistance is des.
ired. This is only means to save bloodshed.—
Particulars by mail.
WILSON SHANNON.
To hie Excollonoy FRANKLIN PIERCE.
WAsnixoTox, Dec. 3. 1855.
Your despacth received. All the
_power yes•
ted in the ltxacutivo bo exerted to pros.
ervo order nod enforce the laws. On the
oeipt of your letter the preliminary measure,
necessary to be taken before calling out troop,
will be promptly executed, and you will he fully
advised.
FRANKLIN Plums.
To Wii.sos SHANNON, Governor of the Terri.
tory of Kansas.
It is to be obourved that the present is the
trot occasion on which the interposition of the
President has been invoked in refigenee to any
difficulty arising under the law for the r . r,tuti•
mlion of the territories of Nebraska lioness.
In fact there hue been great, ntissapprelionsion
in the public mind as to the powers of the 19x•
ecutive in this relation. 'nese powers are
strictly defined by law anti very Moiled.
Under the Constitution. it is true, the fresh
dent is to trace ease that the laws be faithfully
executed but his authority in the subject is to
be constructed in subordination to the provis
ion of the Constitution, which deolnres that
Congress shall have power to provide for
fOrtli the militia to execute the laws of
the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel
invasions. Accordingly, Congross has enact•
ed laws applicable in terms to the contingency
of insurrection in any State ugainst the guy
eminent thereof.
But here, the law to.be executed being one
of Territory, and the ministerial officer the
Sheriff of a county, nothing regarding, it can
bp done by. the President until his interposi
tion bo invoked fur the emergency of in
surrection, and at the call either of the legisla
tura or the govenor of the Territory. In the
former case the President might give direction,
but in the latter ho cannot.
Thirty-Fourth Congress —First Session.
No Speaker wet—Probable Election
of Mr., Banks—The British Minis
ter Dismissed, &c.
WASIIINUTON, Dee. 8.
SENATE..—On motion of Mr. Pratt, Mr. ilia -
key was appointed Chief Clerk, and J. 11. Nie
olson, Reading Clerk.
Mr. Sumner presented a petition from Com
modore Jetieph Smith, remonstrating against
the action Of the Naval Board in placing him
on the retired list.
The Senate then adjourned.
Mr. Hole, sone wee, looking at the Clerk :
We have ;nude over a dollar a minute today,
the session having lasted only seven minutes.
[Laughter.]
Morse.—The roll having been called, the
ballotting for Speaker was resumed ; resulting
as follows;
28th 29th 30th 31st 32d 33d
Richardson, 73 73 73 72 72 73
Banks, 86 97 98 99 100 100
Pennington, 8 6 4 4 2 2
26 18 28 29 30 30
Thurston.
Zollickoffer, 8 5 5 5 5 3
Wheeler,
Scattering, 9 14 12 12 12 14
Whole number of votes polled, '223—acces•
sary to a choice 112.
-WAsirtvcrox, Dee. 10.
REPORTED DISMISSAL OF TllB BILITISII
MITS.-it was reported here yesterday alter.
noon that, hi consequence of the British Flnv
eminent having refused to make' the required
explanations in regard to the alleged violation
of our neutrality laws, the British Minister at
Washington, Mr. Crampton, bus been dismissed
by the Prwti,lent.
le-11w Steam. r Ariel arrived this air,
ing, but brings nothing later front Europe.
onmeurammmlummessezcarrwrzowsreuicassegss
gttt.l Di tidc
JUVENII. THAVELERS.—Funr children the
oldest but 1.1 yenta of age, arrived at Provi
dence, It. 1., on t3aturility morning from Ireland
having made iho voyago alone, for the purpose
of mooting their mother, who was at work in a
factory in that vicinity. .
A NATIONAL. IJOLIDAY.—Tho N. Y. Com
mercial is in favor of having Congress declare
the twenty-second day of ( Wauhing
ton's Birthtlity,) to be a national holiday, '"as
a national memorial that would ho as perpetu
al as the country to which his patriotism gavo
birth noel continuity,"
LOANS OP 10:111S
negotiated by the ltothsehilds since the begin
ning of the European war are enormous. They
reach .$010,000,000, viz :—To Englund, $90,-
000,000 ; to Turkey, $40,000,000 ; to Austria,
$120,000,000 ; a first leen to Russia, $130,-
000,000; to Sardinia $10,000,000; to Eng
land, in exchequer bills, $35,000,000 ; and a
second loon just being perfected, of - $100,000;
000. •
REM' COM, JOIIN I.3TILL he Washington
Union, in the course of an article on the pre
sent condition of affairs between Dial:nal and
the United States, says : "God turbid that an
other war should ever occur between the Unit
ed States and Great Britain, but we confident
ly believe that if such a war should occur, wo
could raise three hundred thousand men forth°
invasion of England with less trouble than she
raises thirty thousand for the invasion of
Russia I"
against the Camden .4 Amboy
Railroad CO, says the Newark Advertiser, was
brought before the U. S. Circuit Court en Sat
urday, by William Taylor, who was a prosenger
in the train, in which there was so much de.
struction last summer. Both of his arms were
broken, and lie was otherwke hurt. Suit is
brought by a Mr. Ferguson in his behalf—dam
ages laid at $50,000. The Company has offer
ed to pay $5,000, and give a free ticket for life,
but the offer has been declined.
TITS CIIINI,SE DEAO.-I, ; roin the Christian
Recorder we learn that the Chinese in Califor
nia have a regular system of collecting their
dead and sending them Lack to the Celestial
land. They forward to all the principal mining
districts two inch pine planks for the purpose
of making Loxes for the dead. Those boxes
are forwarded to San Francisco, where they aro
shipped for China. This useless practice is the
result of two causes—first, a oupercillions no
tion reipecting the Celestial Empire i the see
ond is in common with all who have either no
religion or a religion based upon mere theolog
ical crudities of an unspiritual nature, they re
gard the body us all that to of 111011,
A NATURAL AnriZAti VELL.--Mr. F. A.
Beek informs the California American, that up
on his South Fork river claim, where the bed
of the rider had previously been kept compara
tively dry by pumping, that on his removing a
large boulder that appeared before removal to
be a portion of the bed ruck, a stream of water
beret forth from a hole in the rock, directly in
the bed of the boulder, nearly six inches in dia.
meter, and continues to flow to the present time,
discharging a large quantity of water, render.
ing it difficult to work this portion of the claim.
But a singular fact connected with this discove
ry is this that on the first flow of the water,
it was as cold as that from numerous springs
in the vicinity, but after u few hours' flow, it
was baud lo be warns water, and so continues.
From experiments made, it seems to be bot
tomless, or of great depth.
o}} Tne Cause
correspondent
correspondent
of the Fredericksburg News, in Culpepper co.,
gives a melancholy picture of the lust res
ting place of the illustrious Madison. Ito lies
with his fatally, in a grave yard a short distance
from his house, upon his estate of Montpelier ;
the family cemetery is surrounded by a brick
wall, and the gate so untisely down. The car
respondent nays that not a stone marks the
gre'tt man's resting place ; dark, running green
hex wraps it with vordtsre, and the tracery of
branches from an old, leafless chesnut tree, re
!loving itself against tho warns assure sky, stud
and wave over the dark mountain. "fin a sol
emn, coins and peaceful spot. The correspon
dmst adds, that Mrs. Madisou's remains are in
the vault of the Congressimsal burial ground
its Washington ; her direction wus lu be inter
red by the side of her husband, but her sun }I3S
never fulfilled Ler rcquestt.
THE E,1:171 - OUTHAUES.—
The St. Itot.is otelligoneer, Nov. it), says that
a distinguished clergymen of that city has re•
eeived a letter from n friend in Baltimore, front
which the following is nn extract
"I believe I told you we had a nonresident's
interest in your Statics. In Balls county too
own about 1010 acres of Intel. I have had sc
rim, thoughts ant:thing it my home, but your
people have behaved so mach like savages that
ant fwaretl out or it. 1 itin n slaveholder, but
How is it
ay Twilling
have no idea of such r
that your reopl ,a, F , l
of what is right.
some tew at lewd, who could hu induced to gii;c;
utterance to a rebuke oC the "borderer," who
make such wanton war on liberty, and even an
decency," .te.,
IPIAII2IMI[PihII2 11121ili1121Q.i.
Prices of Wheat are fully 10e. per bushel
lower, the week's sales only reaching about
nmon imoiek, nt from 200a220e. far
and 210a2:13e. fur white of inferior and prime
quality, mostly within the range of 207a213c.
fur the former, stud 215a220e. for the latter, of
good quality; the closing soles were ut our
lowest figures far fair lots. Ilya—Sales a
bout 30,000 bushelsi principally Western, at
123 ets. Corn is also nearly stmly, at 70 3
80e. 110 new, yel‘ow, as to condition, and 100 a
102 for old. Oats are l'alher lower and about
23 On° back El Ad at .I:3H-I,te. far Dolaware, and
-I le. fur Penna., closing at ear lowest
ere%
Rlarrieb',
On the 2 , 1 inst., by ,- , ;nieenlit, Es q.,
Mr. Char W. Steel to Sarah A. Smith,
nll of Union towndiiir,
b
~j c ~'~,
In this borough on the 9th inst.. Calvin A •
It son of A. A. and C. C. Aeolis, aged 3 years
3 months and 5 clys.
NEW ADVEnTISEMENTS.
Penn ,41 van 'irelegra ph,
Enlarged Foiiu educed Terms,
On and alter the first of January, 185 G, tho
Penn lrnnia ',telegraph, pubb , hi..l nt Harris
burg, Pa., will be owned rail conducted by the
undersigned, who will give their best energies
to make it worthy of its cause and its friend,
It will commence the new year printed on en
tirely new type, and the Weekly greatly enlarg
ed in term, while th, price will he than
that a/0 Ohre rape t•/ass seer lats/0.4
aat th, C.Tifa/ ff di, State, and pep:tons will he
roinir,l strictly in advance. No ~ner will he
Mt Mali it is pail fee, and all will ha diosceu
tinned as,the sabseri ptions expire, utiless lief
are renewed.
Thu Te legraph will be Issued Sonri-\Vcrlth•,
on a slicer tif twenty-Mar rot:inns, o
sessions of thu Legirl.irta , and Weedy an
a double sheet o rmty-eight columns the re
a I the year. It will present a compre
hensive sammary ottlie Legislative proceilia,.;
all imporfantgencral laws as they aro passed,
and aim to glen the current political intelligence
of the times, in the fullest tool most reliable
manner. lit short, the proprietors hope to make
it a complete Family and Political Journal, tool
they confidently appeal to dm people ol• Penn
sylvania to sustain their enterpriac.
Thu Telegraph will advocate a liberal poi::ical
policy, and aim to unite all flio:e who, though
:militated by tl:o name C0111:11,1 purposes, nml
IJOLIIg to till, 001110 diti•
tracted by the conflict of diatinctive organi,tions
It will sustain' tho highest standard a Anoxic',
Natimplity ; n 1, labile yielding a sacred rim
to the mlopromise•. :fi* the Constioam,
will determinedly resist flit:enteral,' of littalall
litVer.r. It Will give a cordial, earnest but tit
dependent support to tho wiailstiatiatiun of (for.
TERMS—STRICTIN li ADVANCL7.
Tile Teleg . npl, will be furnished Scud-Week
ly during the sessions of the Legislature, 01111
Weekly, 011 0 double sheet, the rcindhAer of tlio
year, at the billowing low rates—the money in
variably to tiecompany the order :
Single Subseriptions, $2 UO
Five copies ($1 80 per coil)) 9 00
Ten copies (51 70 per copy) 17 Ills
Twenty copies ($1 50 per copy) 30 oti
And• at the SUM price ($1 50 per copy) on any
number over twenty.
Clubs should he made up at once, end sub
scriptions forwarded before the first or January,
so that they can common,. e with the session of
the Legislature. :Flame:ll.oone will be Ow:yard
ed from this attire. All orders lutist be addres
sed to & SELLERS,
Harrisburg, Pd.
Grßusiness men will find the Telegraph tie ve
ry best Adver.ising Aledium in Penns;
out of the cities.
December 12,1355.—V.
A MAP OF
NISAVIS.IIII If OWKO;tur
The undersigned propos:, to construct from
actual survey, end publish, it 1 sufficient number
of subscribers can be obtained,
A MAP OP PRANK La 1 . 011',WillI1'„
Huntingdon County, on whirl, will he represen
ted all the Villages, Streit!. of Water, Public
, Iloads, Poet Offices, Churches, Sehoul Houses,
Furnaces, Forges, Grist and Saw Mills, lonoula
ries of the school Districts, and other objects
worthy of note in said township. Then position
of most of ilia dwellings will,. given with Quo
name of the of or occupiers.
VIEWS 04 FARM. RESIDENCES, (house
and barn) plain, will he inserted on the margin
of the map fur live dollars ouch view ; for more
than two buildings, or if ornamental, ten dollars.
The boundaries of farms or tenets of land, toge
ther with the area of the same, will be shown
for ono dollar each, in case a draft is furnished
by the owner.
The mule Will be about eighty perches to one
inch, and the size of the Slap, including the mar
ginal representations; Ores feet wide nod four
and-a-half long. Price three dollars.
It will bo liagilsomely engraved, colored, var
nished, and tilt - Muted on rollers, and will form it
desirable and reliable relltrenee worthy a place
in the office or dwelling of every citi,.vo of the
township.—To be completed and to
Subscribers within six mouths from thi, date
Specimen
Specimen loops can be seen at my office.
J. SIMPSON A .e.711CL..
Iluntingdon, December 711, 105. :it.
Teackers/ Institute.
Notice id hmoby given to the Teachers, Schis:l
Directors, mad other friends of education, that
the IluuLine., County Teachers' Instittito will
meet at the Court nous° lu the borough of Hun
tingdon, on Monday the 24th of December, nt
10 o'clock A. 111., to continue in session tor two
days. Several important reports will be rend be.
fore the institute. All aro respectlully invited
to attend. By ordor of Board of Mau:a:ars,
R. iauDIVITT, 14.:( .
Butuen Forges, Dec. 12, 1855. 2t
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