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Wednesday Morning, May 28, 1858,
WILLIAM BREWSTER, EDITORS,
SAM. G. WIIITTAKER.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
WZORMAS M. COCHRAN,
OF YORK COUNTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
DARWIN PRELIM,
OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY.
FOR SUR VEYOR GENERAL.
BILIITSZOLOMMW LAPOLLTZ,
To the People of the U. States
The People of the United States, without re
gard to past political differences or divisions,
who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri
Comorotnise, to the policy of the present Ad
ministration, to the extension of Slavery into
the Territories, in favor of the admission of
Kansas as a Free State, and of restoring the
action of the Federal Government to the prin
ciples of Washington and Jefferson, are invited
by the National Committee, appointed by the
Pittsburg Convention of the 22d of February,
1856, to send from each State three Delegates
from each Congressional district, and six Dele
gates at large, to meet in Philadelphia, 071 the
seventeenth day of June next, for the purpose of
recommending candidates to he supported for
offices of President and Via President of the
United States.
NATIONAL C,
;OMMITTEE,
Fran. P. Blair, Mar.,
D. Wilmot, Penn'n.,
W. M. Chace, R. 1.,
E. D. Morgan, N. York,
J. M. Nile, Connecticut,
A. P. Stone, Ohio,
GPO. Rye, Virginia.
E. S. Leland, Illinois,
G. G. Fogg, N. H.,
A. J. Stevens, lowa,
J. Z. Goodiich, Massa.,
A. R. Hallowell, Maine,
C. Dickey, Michigan,
Cor. Cole, California,
Wm. Grose, Indiana
L. Brainerd, Vermont,
,
. .
C. K. Paulison, N. J., W. Spooner, Wis.,
E. D. Williams, Del., J. G. Fee, Kentucky,
J. Redpnth, Missouri, Lew. Clephane, D. C.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 26, 1866.
Our Platform and Principles.
We do declare to the people of these United
States the objects for which we contend is po•
ham! action, are
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Ist. That we demand and shall attempt to ae•
cure the repeal of all laws which allow the in•
troduction of Slavery into Territories once con
secrated to freedom ; and will resist by every
constitutional means the existence of Slavery
in any of the Territories of the United States.
n: We will support by every lawfu! means
our brethren in Kanza.s in their consitutional
and manly resistance to the usurped authority
of their lawless invaders, and will give the full
weight of our political power in favor of imme•
diate admission of Koons to the Union as a
free, sovereign and independent State.
3d. Believing that the present National Ad•
ministration has shown itself to be weak and
faithless, and that its continuance in power is
identified with the progress of the slave power.
to national supremacy, with the exclusion of
freedom from its territories and with unceasing
civil discord—it is a leading purpose of the
"Journal" to oppose and overthrow it.
Doings at Washington.
We lately published the account of the
shooting and killing of one Keating, an
Irish waiter at a hotel in Washington, by
Herbert, a Democratic member of Con
gress from California ; because the Irish•
man refused to give the Democrat break
fast after the breakfast hours were over in
the hotel. The Democrat demanding his
breakfast at half past eleven in the morn
ing.
We have not heard of any complaints
being made by the Irish 011 al subject of
this murder. The Democrats have voted
down a resolution to inquire into the cir
cumstances of the murder, in the House,
and so the matter stands. We presume
from this, that the Irish in America regard
it as a high honor to the whole Brother
hood for one of their number to be Inur
dered by a Fteruticrat,—more especia Ily if
the murderer be a member of Congress.
Col. Fremont.
Colonel Fremont being in New York
city, one of tho Republican Ward Clubs
waited on him with an address. thanking
him for his exertions to make. California a
free State, and for his sympathy for the
oppressed people of Kansas. In his reply
Col Fremont expressed a thorough and
cordial sysn i athy with the cause in which
Governor Robinson is engaged, as he felt
a deep interest in seeing the Territory
thrown open o free labor. He added that
he was happy to see the young men of the
country engaged in a cause like tha• of the
Republican party, and that it needs but
their energy and enthusiasm to carry it
successfully through.
A Good Move.
The committee on the discipline in the
General Conference of the Methodist Epis•
copal Church, have reported on the subject
of dress. They rec. tnmend a strict ndhe
rence to the injunction of Peter against
"outward adorning." and to that article of
the discipline which forbids the giving of
tickets "to any that wear high bends, enor
mous bonnets, ruffles or rings " If the
wearing enormous bonnets were the only
disqualification for membership, few could
now be excluded from the church.
Coaches.—We invite attention to the
card of Owen Boat, Esq., in another col.
umn. Mr Boat is an excellent mechanic,
and his vehicles cannot be excelled for (fu
sibility or beauty of finish, by any other
stanulictorf in awl State. Jet eeLktol
Attack on Senator Sumner l
The assassination of Senator Sumner
was attempted last week. in the Chamber
of the Senate of the United States, by a
imember of Congress from South Carolina.
On Monday and Tuesday, the 19th and
20th of May. (last week) Senator Sumner
of Massachusetts delivered a speech in the
Senate of the United States, on the sub
ject of the past, present and prospective
condition of Kansas. In this speech Mr.
Sumner exposed, with the ability of n
greet master, the wrongs whjch have been
inflicted on Kansas, by l'ierce, Douglas.
and the slave power. He dwelt upon the
invasion of Kansas by the Missourians
and their infamous and successful attempt
to force upon the people of Kansas, a
sham Legislature, elected entirely by votes
of Missourians, after they had' driven the
people of Kansas from the election grounds
by armed force. He showed that the pre•
tended laws, which the people of Kansaa
are now called upon to obey, were not en
acted by themselves, but by these lawless
Barbarians from Missouri. He touched
upon the murders of the people of Kansas
by the Missourians ; of the house busi
ness ; robberries ; and tarring and feath
ering of the people of Kansas by the Mis•
sou rians; and showed conclusively th.a all
these horrible crimes, per, etrated in that
remote territory, have been committed by
the order and under the authority of slave
power. backed, and sustained by fierce,
and the whole power of the execative arm
of the Government of the United States
The speech was one of the most classic.
eloquent and powerful ever delivered in
the Senate of the United States. And so
strong was the desire of the public to hear
it, that not only all the galleries of the
Chamber, but all the avenues of entrance
thereto, were continually filled by ladies,
listening with fixed attention to the Speak
er. Even the rotunda of the Capitol. was
all the time of the delivery of the speech,
crowded by ladies and gentlemen, waiting
an opportunity to get within hearing of the
Speaker. No such mass of people have
collected together in and around the Senate
chamber to hear any Senator, for the last
ten years, before.
When Mr. Sumner had concluded his
argument, and appeal to the Country—for
such it was, he was at once set upon by
the whole powerof the slaveocracy. in the
Senate. Butler of Soul) Carolina, railed
at him ; Mason of Virginia. swelled and
fumed; Douglass of Illinois who disgrac
es New England, as his birthplace, assail
ed His in tke.coarsest and foulest language
even old General Cass came lumbering up
with his basket of complaints awl grievan
ces. These attacks moved not the proud
and self poised New Englander.
Unable to answer the truth of his ergo
memo, and having no hope of equaling his
eloquence, the slaveotracy resolved to as
sassinate Mr. Sunnier, even in the Senate
Chamber.
Accordingly in the afternoon of Thurs
day, the 22d inst., alter the adjournment
of the Senate. and after, as it ni.pears the
whole of the Senators had left the chain
her except about 12 or 15 of the members
from the Southern States, Mr. Sumner still
remaining in his arm chair, at his desk,
an obscure and ruffian member of the
House of Representatives, named Brooks.
came into the Senate Chamber. with a hen.
vy bludgeon in his hand, and walking up
to tie. Sumner, as he sat, told him he had
insulted South Carolina and Senator Butler
and with the words struck %fr. Sumner
down with a blow of his bludgeon, and con
tinued to beat him as he lay on the floor,
until he lost all consciousness and appear.
ed to be dead. Brooks it is said struck
h in as much as fifty times—the Southern
Senators composed of Democrats and South
Americans, standing by and refusing to in
terfere, Although :%11-. Sumner—who is a
delicate, feeble man, in body—called for
help, it , long as_ lie was able to speak.—
Some of the Southern Senators present.
were Crittenden of Kentucky, Toombs of
Georgia, and others whose names We have
learned. Having the evidence before us,
we think there can be little doubt that the
vagabond in the garb nf a Vlusher of Con
grass, who thus insulted the dignity of the
nation, and exposed us to the contempt of
the various nations of the civilized world,
whose representatives at Washington, are
always seeking for something to render us
odious every where, and amongst every
people, whose morals are not at as low an
ebb, as those of our southern negrosd rivers,
was instigated to this base act, by members
of the very senate of which Mr. Sumner
is a member. At all events, Crittenden,
Toombs and others who were present, and
did not attempt to prevent the intended as
sassination, are scarcely less guilty in the
eye of humanity, than is the assassin hint
self.
icrThe editor of the Baltimore Patriot,
which paper has been among the strong' st
and most confident advocates for Mr. Fill.
more since his nomination, save in a letter
from the 1% est, where he is at present so
journing;
' , We are compelled to admit. that Mr.
Fillmore stands not the slightest chance in
the Western State.; in not one of which
is there any reasonable prospect of his cer.
'Ting, if he it oeminete4l."
News from Kansas.
is said there were fifteen hundred
at Lawrence, armed with Slprpe's ri-
with a strongly fortified hreastwnrk,
two pieces of artillery, who declare
they will resist all attempts at their
men
and
that
arrest.
About one thonsand men have respondeo
to the marshal's proclamation, and are en
camped in the vicinity of Lawrence and
Lecompion, the avowed purpose being to
compel the peop'e of Li wrence to acknowl
edge the territorial lowa.
Another dispatch, dated yesterday, says:
Later advices from !Caves have been re
ceived. The people are responding to
Governor Shannon's proclamation in large
numbers. six hundred had assembled at
Lecotnpton, four hundred at Franklin, and
a large company would leave. Kickapoo on
Saturday for Lecotnpt en, with two can
non, and all otherwise well armed and pro
visioned. Great excitement existed. and
a battle was anticipated. It was reported
that ex-Governor Reeder had aucceeded
n 'salting his escape. The vigilance
committee of Kansas city on Saturday took
from the steamer Arabian a large field
piece, consigned for Lawrence.
A dispatch front Chicago, dated Wed
nesday, states that dates from Leavenworth
Kansas, to Saturday, have been received.
It is stated that Wednesday had been fixed
for the attack contemplated on Lawr ace.
A complete '•reign of terror" existed thro'-
out the Territory. Two cannon had been
taken across the river of l hisen. destined
for Lawrence. The Benuford company
of militia has been furnished by Governor
Shannon with United States arms. The
free State men are in want of arms and
ammunition. Marshal Donaldson proclaim
ed his intention to make clean work this
time,
Governor Robinson is still at Lexington.
The correspondent of the Jefferson (Mo )
Inquirer states that a petition was circula
ting in the border connties praying for the
immediate removal of Colonel Numner.
Mr. Brown, editor of the H raid of Free
dom, writes that "•a mob entered the hotel
at Kansas city, and dragged one man
supposed to have been himself, but discov
ertng their mistake they returned and de
manded him of the proprietor. This was
refused, and a company of Michigan emi
grants entered the hotel to protect the oc
cupants. The mob still surrounded the
hotel at the close of the letter."
There is nothing authentic concerning
Brown's fate since his capture.
The :`t. Louis Democrat s correspondent
under date of the IGth, states :
twelve hundred men are encamped near
Lecompton. The people of Lawrence
had sent a note to Co one! Sumner, asking
him to station a body of troops in the vici•
nity to prevent the mob pr needing to san
guinary extremities. He declined, saying
that he had no power to move in this mat
ter without orders. In answer to an inqui
ry. Marshal Donaldson said— , The demand
of the Government must be complied with
Every man against whom a process has
been issued should be surrendered ; all the
munitions of war in possession of the free
State men at Lawrence were to be deliv
ered up. sad the citizens of La rence
should pledge themselves to obey implicit
ly the present enactments of Kansas under
oath.' On the receipt of this reply the
citizens held a meeting, and drew op a
letter to the marshal, stating that any per
son acting under him would be permitted
to execute a letter at process against any
inhabitant of Lawrence. If called upon
they would serve us a rase in aiding the
making of the acres , . They would not
now, nor at any future time, be any resis.
lance to In N.
They only tvnited an opportunity of tes
tifying their fidelity to the Union and con
stiitnion, The chinned to be law abiding
and trder loving, and asked protection
from the constituted authorities of the Go
vernment•
The purport of the marshal's answer
war. that he did not believe the proinhes
of the people sincere. Ile renartled them
as rebels and traitors. and said that they
should know his d.anands when he came
A Fal:nre.
We take the fulloveing from the Wash
ington C,rnmonwealth :
The American State Council met at
Harrisburg, on the 111th net. 'the whole
concern was en entire failure. But 55 de.
legates were in attendance, principally fr
Philadelphia, and only 17 out of the US
counties were represented Republicanism
has swallowed the party, except a few cot
ton, lords of Philadelphia, who hold on to
Fillmore and Donelson.
The endorsement of Fillmore and Don
elson, by the K. N, State Council at Her
risburg. is a farce of the most laughable
kind. Only 17 out of the 04 counties of
the State were represented, by 55 delegates
we believe, 11 of whom were from Dau•
phin and 19 trom Philadelphia, Those
two dirtricts sending all the delegates ex
cept three, who voted for the endorsement
of the Presidential nominees. They were
repudiated by all those present from cther
parts of the State. Greene, Washington
and Fayette were among the counties tin.
represented.
LICENCES.
The Tavern, Eating House, &e. Licenses
were granted on Monday the 19th inst. As
the number applied fur did not exceed the a
mount to which this county is entitled accor
ding to the ratio adopted by tho rime license
law, the Judges had no alternative but to torn
ply with the prayer of the petitioners. We
subjoin the list :
HUNTINGDON BOROUGH,
W. B. Zeigler, Inn or Tavern.
Andrew .11ohnawn t da.
Andrew Mcebuti, do.
Henry Mc:Manly/ill,
do.
Henry Cornprubst, do.
Henry Africa, Eating 1101130,
Gen. Thomas, do.
E. O. Sommers, do.
PETERSBURG BOROUGH.
Edwin J. Neff,
Miry Helfriidlt,
Rudolph N.
Inn or Tavern,
do.
Eating House,
ALEXAkiIIiA BOROUGH,
Nathaniel Hopkins,
Eating Home.
BARREE TOWNSHIP.
Geo. Randolph, Inn or Tavern.
Jag. Fleming,
BRADY TOWNSHIP.
Jas. H. Hampton,
Inn or Tavern,
MT. UNION,
Abraham Lewis,
Inn or Tavern.
WEST TOWNSHIP.
Jos. A. Bell, Inn or Tavern.
Martha McMurtrie, do
JACKSON TOWNSHIP.
Robert Stewart, Inn or Tavern,
Samuel Stetfey, do.
WARRIORSMARK TOWNSHIP.
James Chamberlin, Inn or Tavern,
DUIILIN TOWNSHIP.
John Jamison, Inn or Tavern.
HENDERSON TOWNSHIP.
Danie! Prot' gh, Inn or Tavern,
MORRIS TOWNSHIP.
Samuel Beagle, Inn or Taveim
TOD TOWNSHIP,
Michael McCabe,
Inn or Tavern,
James Dunn,
'rhos. McGillam,
Eating House,
The Kansas Investigation.
The Congressional Coin;lure is per
forming its labors at Lawrence. Already
a sufficient number of witness have been
sworn and examined. to prove beyond the
shadow of a doubt, that all is true that haS
been alleged against Atchison, ,itringfellow
and the rest of the border crew : that they
did organize in ‘iissouri, and starch into
Kansas tor the purpose of forcing slavery
upon the settlers.
The committee will hardly make a re•
port to Congress before the 4th of July.
It Will Be So.
We suppose that when the Democrats
shall elect a slave holding President, and
the South Americans, shall elect Donehmn
and his hundredplaves to preside over the
Senate, that no Meni, of Congress from
the free States, will dire say mything in
debate, without first obtaining permission
of the slave holding uuthority—just as in
France the primers are obliged to submit
everything to an agent of the government
before they put it in press.
Fic-Mc.—We attended a pic wc party
of the t•Huntingdon select School." on
Friday of lust week, and are free to ray
never enjoved ourself better. The day
was fine, and the little ones enjoyed them
selves to their hearts' content. We laity
here say, without the least flattery, that
more orderly and well.conducted school.
and a better trainer of the "young idea"
cannot be found in Pemmylvania than the
Huntingdon Select School, and its able
Principal, Mr. J. A. Hall.
The ladies of the Huntingdon Female
I Seminary had a tine plc nic party on Fri
day last.
From Librria.--We hare in our pos
session a couple of letters from two colored
men who went from this section to Liheria
some two years ago. These letters were
sent a gentleman in this plies. who h
kindly placed them in our hands. We
may give sortie extracts from them next
week.
Fir Mr. Mace, who before the
committee of Congress in KanSas, in rela
tion to some of the outrages perpetrated,
was shot at by unknown persons and nar
rowly escaped with his life. He was bad•
ly wounded.
car The communication of friend .F.'
is laid on the table for a more convenient
season.
sour We are obli g ed to a friend for hit
list of new subscribers at Stover's I'lace.
Excitement in Boston.
liosTus . May 23.
The brutal assault upon Senator Sumner
has created much feeling in this Community
and throughout the State, and the indignation
universe, irrespective of political sympa
thies.
The first acconnt was read in the Muse of
Representatives ye.terday allernooth causing
much excitement, and it is ant improbable
that some public nu ion will be taken in the
matter. The most intense anxiety previtil.4l
thi, taring iu consequence of a rumor that
he was dead.
In the House or Representatives, this mot ,
ning (dr. Temple . (Ausericau) offered a a rest).
lutiou that Joint special coattnittee he op.
pointed to consider what action should be la•
ken in reference to the assault upon Senator
Sumner.
It was unanimously adopted. and a commit
tee appointed on the port of the House. and
the resolution was sent to the Senate for con
currence.
A public meeting of citizens has been cal•
led for this evening to consider the mutter.
sore Fillibsters.
New Outusta, May 16.—The recognition
of Vij gi
il has ven an 'lapetus to tho Nicara
gua fever. The Webster nails en the 224 with
pt. , .,tv of remits,
Vmcit Botts.
Or One hundred and ninetpsia negroes
were sold in Crawford enmity, Ga., last week
for $145.9115. They belonged to the estate of '
Wm. Zeigler.
Mir A Republican Convention is to assem
ble in Campbell county, Ky., on the 24th inst.,
to appoint delegates to the Philadelphia Con•
vention. C. M. City is to speak.
lir Hooped skirts are advertised for sole in
Philadelphia at 75 cents. Cheap enough for
the quantity of material which west be used in
building them.
tar Gond Advice :
Boys. when you court, you 'should deport
Yourselves with circumspection;
It is a sin to seek to win
A nd trifle with affection.
lisr One thousand and ninety eight persons
were suffering imprisonment for debt, in Au.
gust last, it? Great Britain. It will probably
soon be abolished.
le' A fellow named Leland married a beau
tiful and necotnplished woman nt Franklin. N.
Y., recently, and kept ingloriously drunk there•
after until he died—about two weeks.
Or. Thirtyf wo negroes who had been eman•
eipated by their masters, in Virginia, arrived in
Jeffers. courtly. Pa.. on Monday last. in charge
of a white man, who is to colonize them in the
vicinity of Mt. Pleasant.
Be- A giant poplar tree was lately felled on
the farm of Gen. .fulin S. floe, Fayette county,
Pa., from which has hoes hewed one hundred
and twelve lineal• feet of timber.
. An Indiana paper announcing the death
of a gentleman out West; says that, "The de.
ceased, though a bank director, it is generally
believed, died n christittn. and universally re
spected." Bankers in Indiana must be
pery kind of customers.
There is a physician in Tray who starts
business up, when it gets dull, by giiiiag a "ju
venile party," and so crams the rising genera
tion with pns•ry and warm lemonade, that in
twenty.fitur hours a cholera morbus gets among
them that keeps him employed 14,the next
three months.
qiiir The Desert Views (Mormon) is "down
on" the practice of the young ince to have a
piece of looking glass fixed in the inside of
their hot, and while pretending to be praying,
with their face in their lint, are quietly and sly
ly looking at the facet ur the girls behind them
reflected in the glass.
gee Books have been opened at Pittsburg,
fur subscription to the stock of a bridge to be
erected over the Monongahela at the "Point"
ton point in West Pittsburg, at or near La
rime's Glass [louse. The estimates of ecst va
ry (non $150,000 to $175,000.
Starr We accosted a little fellow tether day.
fle was about the size and build of a plug of
Wog leg' tobacco, and his face was sort ore
landscape. done up in free.soil mid apple-but.
ter. "Who are you ?'' we asked rather sternly.
"Me r said Young America, trying to look
brave ; "fin woof — one !—don't you know me?"
air A Western paper having stated that
bilge Douglass was a inau of "louse habits,"
Prentice, replies on the contrary, he is often
very "tight."
Va. A magistrate ached an Irishman whom
he was questioning—.l.lave you ever semi the
sea ?' 'Ever seeu the sea? Dues you , worship
suppose I trundelled all the way over the salt
ocean in a wheelbarrow?'
Wby tiro kisses like creation ? Because
they are made out of nothing and are very
good.
The perpetrator of the above won sentenced
to kiss firteen young ladies, as a punishment fur
his offence. Be took the mutter very coolly,
say lag that he considered kissing capital pulp
ish meat.
iger A showman exhibiting a picture. said :
"Ladies and gentlemea, there is Daniel in
the den of 1101111. These are the lions and that
is Daniel whom you will easily distinguish I row
the lions by his 'loving a blue cotton umbrella
under his arm."
Wunied no Heir fo• sloo,ooo.—The
nog curious advertisement appears in the New
Orleans Picayune of a late date.
Wanted, by a person who has One Hun.
Bred Thousand Dollars and no heir, to adopt
from birth a child. It must be of American
parents, and from ore hour to tea days old, sex
immaterial. Any person having a child they
wish to dispose of, can thus secure it a wt.!
home and a fortune ; or nay lady about to be
come in mother and willing to purl with her
child, can have a respectable physician to at
mid her and no questions asked or answer
ed. Applications must be made within ten
days. Address "A," through the Post Office,
or the Picayune office.
The Crampton Dikelly.
ASHINGTON, May 21,
The President communicated to the Senate
to day additional documents, relative to the
British recruitments, and wholly involving the
ueAtiou ot•eraeity between Mr. Buchanan and
Lord Palmerston.
Mt. Buchanau charges that Lord Palmerston
while refusing to lay mt the table of the Holum
of Commons the correspondence mt thnt sub•
ject, stated each facts only as favored his own
hide, mid entirely suppressed the reasons on
which our demand for the recall of Mr. Crimp.
ton and the British 0011.6 were founded. Mr.
Buchattati also says that Lord Palmerston was
notjustified in stating, on that occasion, that
he (Buchan.) had expressed himself satisfied
with Lord Clarend.'s explanation, contained
in his note of the Ifith of July last, and that Mr.
Buchan said he telt confident that our Coveru•
meet would maertain similar feelings with re•
Kurd to it. Mr. Much.un denies that he ever
so intimated. Ile had merely intimated to
Lord Palmerston that he would have much on
tiothetion in transmitting that note to the Sec
retary of State. Lord Puluterst ~, replying
through Lord Clarendon, fails to be convinced,
Baying that it seemed to him there was no es
scutial differetice between the substance and
the effect of what was !Mid in the blouse of
Cotnmons and Mr. Buchallall'a statement.
Filially Mr. Buchanan, under date of March
7th. says to 'Mr. Marcy ;--You must believe
with me that the last effort of Lord ,Palmerston
to extricate himself thee the dilemma has tier
red to make the awkwardness of his position
still eve conavienouv.
Attack upon Senator Sumner In the
Senate Chamber.
WASHINGTON, May 22.
Immediately after the adjournment of Con•
grew today, while Mr. Sinntt, was still in the
Senile Chamber, Mr. Brooks, of South Candi.
ne, Mitered and approached Mr. Stunner, accu
sing him at libelling South Carolina and his
grey-headed relative, Mr. Boiler He then
struck Mr. Stunner with his cane, and Mr. Sum.
uer fell. Mr. Brooks then continued to repeat
his blows till Mr. Sumner was deprived of the
power of speech. Mr. Sumner was taken up
and carried to him room. It has not been as.
cemented whether his injuries are severe or not.
When the attack was made, Mr. Sumner cal.
led for help, hut no one interfered until Mr.
Brooks ceased the assault.
Some who were eye witnesses of tLe occur.
rence say that Mr. Brook, struck Mr. Sumner
as molly no fifteen or twenty . times over the
head. Mr. Sumner was-sitting man arm chair
when the assault was..made, and had nu upper ,
tummy to defend himself. Opinions. the sub.
ject are contradictory, mammy applauding the
act, and others denouncing it as a cowardly at
tempt to heat down freedoms of speech. It will
undoubtedly give rise to an excited debate in
the. Senate tomorrow. Brooks has been
arrested.
WASIIINGTON, Mny 22.
. _
When the attack was made upon Mi. Sum
ner there were probably from fifteen to twenty
persists present, including Messrs. Crittenden,
roster, Fitlipatriek, Tuamlid, Murray, Morgan,
mid other members of Congress, Our. Gorman
and several office'. of the Senate and strangers
The litta-k was so sudden and unexpected that
Mr. Sumner had no opportunity to place him
self in a defensive attitude. The first blow
stunned him, and the stick, which was gotta
percha, was broken into many pieces by the
time the assault terminated.
Messrs. Crittenden, Toombs, Murray, ruid
others interlered as soon as they could, and
probably prevented further injury. Great ex.
eitemeut was caused by the occurrence. Mr.
Sumner -sank to the floor, where he lay till he
was raised by his friends.
Mr. Stun(ior's wounds hied profusely,
physicians say they are the must serious flesh
wounds they ever saw on a man's head, and
deny his friends admission to him.
The manilmit, Preston S. Brooks, ia a Rep.
reseutntive in the Home., frmn the Fourth
Coligrehnional District of South Carolina, eta.
braving Orangeburg., Barnwell, Beaufort tend
Colleter diatriets.
The complaint- against. Mr. Brooks wan made
on the oath of William Y. Leader. Mr Brooks
appeared before Justice Hollingsheap, and wan
held to bail in $.lOO fur Lis appearance teeter.
row afternoon.
Mr. Sumner has two severe but not danger•
one wounds on the hend. Mr. Brooks' cane
was shattered into a number or pieces.
The Veto of the River Improvement
Bills,
WAsumuTox, 'May 19.
The President in his veto of the St. Clair
Plot bill. sent to the Senate to-day, says in cot•
sidering it tinder the Constitution, that the
lower of Congress to conStrnet works of Mier.
nal improvement. is limited to cases, in which
the work is manifestly needful nod proper fiir
the execuiton or some one or more or the po•
went expressly delegated to the general goy.
eminent, I have not been able to lied tar the
proposed expenditure itily such relative power,
unless it be the powe✓to provide for the cum•
num defence, and to maintain the Army and
Navy.
But after a careful examination of the sub•
jest, with the aid of habilitation officially re
emved shoe my last Annual Message wascom
meek:toed to Congress. has convinced me that
the expenditure would serve no valuable purr
pose, on contributing to the COIIIIIIOII defence,
because all which could he effected by it would
he, it would afford a channel of but 12 feet
depth, nod of a temporary charaeter• that un
less the work was dune immediately, the
sity fur it• use should rise, it would not be re
lied oil for vessels of even the small craft, the
passage of which it. would permit.
In relative to the Mississippi improvement,
the President repents his Constitutional übjec•
Bons to Internal Improvements as applicable
to the whole system, whether they consist of
works on land or in the navigable waters, either
of the seacoast or interior lakes or rivers.
The Dutch Minister.
Foreign ministers in Washington lead a
very quiet and untileriNive life. as a general
thing, and it is very rare that they ore ever
heard of again after their credentials have
been delivered: but Mr. Hobos, the Ambassa
dor of his Majesty of the Netherlands, has
scarcely set his flint upon oar shores when he
has become famous. It must shock the nerves
of even no very phlegnititie a gentleman as
the Dutch Ambassador, to find himself a no•
toriety so suddenly without any effort on his
own part. 111. Dubois, it will be remembered
came passenger in the "Arago," in company
with Mr. Buchanan, and he was eating his
first breakfast in Washington at Willard's Ho.
tel, when the terrible affray occurred in which
one of the waiters of the house was killed by
a member of Congress. The newly arrived
Ambassador looked quietly on, with character.
ivile waludance, and made no attempt to ho
tertere, for the whole scene was so perfectly in
accordance with the travelers' stories he had
rend a lire is America, that lie regarded it as
on ordinary occurrence. He finished his cud
fee. and ascertaining that the man who
had been shot was dead, walked out of
the breakfast parlor, and, meeting a gentleman
whom he knew, the Minister exclaimed,
"What a peoples 1 If they do such things at
breakfast, what wou't they du at diauer?"—X.
Fayette Co. Polities
For some time there has been am attempt
in Fayette county, to weld together the politi•
cal factious that oppose the Democratic party.
this purpose, committees have been termed to
make arrangements or a marriage between
the Americans and Republicans.— Wash. Re
view.
air Our neighbor of the Review, and the
public generally, are respectfully informed,
that the bans fir the 'marriage' alluded to, are
already published ; the guests invited, nod,
that the ceremonies will come off' at Union.
town on the 14th of June next; to be follow.
ed, say shout the 2nd Tuesday of October,
with a highly interesting and exciting pub
lic Entertainment; consisting of a Grand and
Imposing Entree of Repoblicatis, Americans,
and friends of freedom generally, two and two
abreast ; and ground and lofty tumbling by
the 'Nebraska Squatters. A largo number of
performers, also, culled Siringhliows, will
'deuce Spanish' on the light rope, to too tune
of 'Old Grimes is dead!' 'Tom. Grayson,
will net as ring master on the ocean's,, ; 'Bill
Swan,' as whip bearer; 'Tom Searights,' as e•
questrian, riding two horses at once, with a foot
on the tail of each , and "tutu I ' auley,' as
clown, who will walk around the ring on hie
Buchanan,' door keeper. Admit.
Lance, 'Ten cents.'
N. B. The performances wilt be for one
Knight only —Brownsville Clipper.
N. Y. JOURSAL.—Frank Leslie's N. York
Journal for June has been ree.ivsti. ft is as
numl very interesting.
THE AMERICAN STATE COUNCIL
Convened in Harrisburg. on the lath inslW
The attendance was so small and the Councils
of the State so meagerly represented, that It
large minority of those present, deomed it theii
only course of duty to retire from its semiotic
when they undertook to decide the Presidential
question. In this we endorse them heartily,
and were gratified to find the Franklin County
delegation, to a man, retire with them. Quirn
tions far too grave in themselves and mighty
in their consequences, are involved in the coat.
iitg contest to tie entrusted to the bands of any
one, without distinct, unequivocal and positive
assurance, that they will be faithfully and most
religiously settled in favor of the right, No li
ving man can command the Northern vote, who
is not endorsed by its fixed and deathless mild
meat of hostility to the further and unlimited
extension of human bondage. Millard Fill.
more, however dear to the hearts of many aide
fellow citizens, and cherished by his more im.
mediate friends, cannot concentrate the vote of
one Northern State, without first placing hint
self right upon the great issue at present join.
ed between the North and South, upon the ad
mission of Kansas as a free State.
The Anti•Nebmska elementsare fast settling
down, and will soon, we hope, agree upon one
men, one ticket and one platform—to realize
and reap a common and most glorious triumph.
—Chambersbury Reposito,v.
Ca.useroft COMPLICATION.—It is very
difficult to get at the truth of this business.—
The Wirshington corrrespondent of the 7ri•
bane now says, there is some doubt and liesita
tign as to the particular mode of meeting the
ingenious answer of Lord Clarendon. The
disavowal of the British Government to out
rage our laws or sovereignty necessary requires
to be net with corresponding convideration.—
Hence much delicticy is involved in the dismis•
sal of Mr. Crampton without embarrassment
as there is a compromise in receding, after
what has occurred. The Sduth, always eensf•
tire about war, is particularly nervous DOW at
the liiirtvpossibility of such a contingency, and
appeals from that quaver have been heard by
the President with marked deference and ul•
twist litvor. The opinion on this subject in
high quartets is not 80 confirmed as it was a
fortnight ago. M. Sartigcs, who Intuited ear
nestly on Saturday, by personal representations
to Mr. Marcy, to bring about an accommtla
tion, considers that he has fulfilled his duty
and will take no additional steps.
THE KANSAS COMM MION.-WASIMIGTON,
May l9.—The KRIISRS Congressional Commis•
shin forwarded by Gov. Robinson large quasi.
tity of testimony taken by them, enclosing it in
a sealed package, addressed to the Speaker of
the House. OH Gov. Robieson's detention at
Lexington, Mo., his wife, at his request, con•
filmed her journey. At Columbus, Ohio. she
handed the package to the Host. C. K. Wntson,
one of the Committee on Elections. who to sissy
delivered it to the Speaker, privately. The
Commissioners request that it nosy remain with
the seal unbroken until their return. This is
the testimony which it is said the Missourians
threatened to destroy.
NARROW EseAen.--On Wednesday, an ac.
cident occurred an Pe nnsylvanin Railroad. by
which our esteemed friend, J. Porter Brow
ley , Esq., Surveyor Uencral of this State cacao
within no inch and a huff or two inches of
having his hrnius crushed out. lie escitlied,
however with the loss of four inches of 114
coat tail, and a serious rent in his nu speaks.,
bless
Greedsburg
We feel like congratulating Gen. Brawley
upon his fortunate eseape.hut must confess
that we were not aware that bis brains lay is
that particular locality.
Bloom - I,lv Arn.
EXTRAORDINARY HAIL 5T0R,31.--AII tiIitIRIIRI
hnil morn: occurred at Auburn, Ala., on the
I , llh inst. A writer in the Montgomery Mail
siva:
liar size of the stones varied from roman
no a pea to 7 s large as a lemon. The large
ones were mostly of the shape of nu Akio
spvriod. I measured one of ordinary size rind
found it eight inches latitudinally, and seven
inches longitudinally. The prevailing size was
that of a guinea egg, while the shape varied
greatly. I found plenty that would weigh four
ounces:,
JUDGE :GLEAN'S OPINION.--IS a brief letter
to Gen. Cass, in the National Intelligeuccr,
Judge McLean, of the U. S. Supreme Court
talc. the ground that Congress has the power
to prohibit but rot to establish Slavery in a
territory. Thin is the true doctrine, always
held and enliirced by Jefferson, Madison, mid
the early statesmen of the country.
St The Paducah (Ky.) Sentinel says that
there will be fire eclipses this year. Two of
the sun, two of the moon, and one of Franklin
Pierce. The latter will be vinible over the
United Staten in Novetnber next.
CIIAMD UM:R(3.-ne citizens or Chun.
bershurg have subscribed $20,000 for theeroc.
Civil or Gas Works in that borough.
,irtirThe New Orleans Crescent watt sued for
a little. The jury gave the plaintiff cite cent.
He only claimed $20,000.
Rhode Island Republican Convention.
PROVIDENCE May 22.
The Republican Convention of Rhode le.
land today nominated a full delegation to the
Philadelphia Convention, headed by Gov. Hop.
pin.
TERRIBLE NEWS,
A despatch by way of Brownsville, Mo.,
states that the town of Lawrence had been
destroyed—the Free State Hotel and the prin.
titig office in Kansas had also been saelictl.—
The Leavenworth correspondent of the St.
Louis Democrat states that the people of Lae•.
recce bad determined to evacuate the town.—
The Free State forces were gathering at To.
Puri*
On the 25th inst., by David Snare, EN., Mr.
Benjamin Shade to Suisun West, both of thiu
borough.
BROAD FOP HOUSE.
ANDREW MOEBUS
Would reneettully inform the public
V V that he has fitted up the Broad Top gi
House, no Allegheny Street, and is now
prepared to entertain all who may favor Linn
with their patronage, in an unobjectionable
style.
- The house has been furnished hi a style not
surpassed by any establishment in the Borough.
His table will always be supplied with the sub•
Manuals and delicacies ot• the season, Is a
word, no pains will be spared to make thin
house a first class lintel, and nothing left un.
done to render its guests comfortable and hap•
Pr.
His Bar is furnished with the choicest liquors
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