MR. WAGONSELLER'S SPEECH. Mr. WAGONSKLLKR. from tbe Com mittee on Lands, asked and obtained to make a statement, after which he made the following remarks. Mr. SPEAKER :—Not being accountable to tbe members of tbe House for my Legis lative career, I did not intend to say a word bete in reference to tbe position I assumed in the election of the United States Senator, but to bold myself answerable alone to my constituents. My mind, however, has undergone a chaDge since the discussion, which was sprung upon the House, on tbe request of Mr. Backus to be discharged or relieved from serving on the Committee on Lands- I therefore ask the indulgence of tbe House for a few moments to give tbe reasons that influenced me, as well as my colleague, in tbe course we took ou tbe Senatorial question. I came here as a Democrat with a view ot carrying out, in good faith, the rules and regulations of the party, so long as tbey It was remarked by every Penusylvaniau visiting Washington during his term of of fice, that they had a representative at the seat of the Natioual Government in whom they couli justly feel a pride. lie was dignified, courteous, and able to attend t* the high and responsihl e duties of his office. Not ally this, and which is of much im portance to me, he can point to a Democrat ic recora, while there, that cannot be im peached, however far the maliguity and en vy of his tradueers may carry them in oth er respects. It was this that had great weight ia de termining my choice. He is known to have been on terms of the closest intim.ey with President Polk, and the President elect gave evidence of great confidence in him. Certain it is, the people of the State had an abiding confidence in the man, on ac count of his watchful care of their inter ests. And I may say this is especially true of my constituents, who are so largely inter ested ia the chaogcs constantly attempted to bo tnade in the revenue and protective policy of *he government. General Cameron upheld with so much ability aud constancy, while in the Senate, the doctrine of protection, that all parties in Scluylkill applauded his course. Aud I have no doubt, were an examina tion made, I couid produce the highest en comiums upon him from the vety men who are now denouncing mo for supporting him. But this change is easily accounted for.— They are expectants under Mr. Ruchauan, and hope, by their hypocritical course, to bask under the smiles of official patronage. Without any authority to speak for Geo. eral Cameron, as to bis coarse in the Sen. ate, I feel satisfied he will not disappoint the high expectations of his friends. Elected, as be has been, by members of the several parties, he is wise and experi enced enough to avoid all extremes. He will, no doubt, on the great questions coming before that body, be, in a rnea.su: e, guided by the expressed will of the people through the State Legislatuie. Wbile this is the basis of Democratic priueiples, it is so manifestly right that no party can take exception to it. CONGRATULATING BUCHANAN. The following dispatch was scut from Ilarrisburg to the HON. JAMES BUCHAN AK, HON. JAS. BUCHANAN, Lancaster Pa: CAMERON IS ELECTED' RICHARD BRODHEAD. The point of the above may be better ap preciated when it ia known that Baoi>- HEAl'hasbeen on unfriendly terms with! BUCHANAN, for years, and that ho was in ! H-irriabnrg working indefatigably against 1 FORNEY. As a specimen of bitter and refined malice, the fact of his thus exulting ly telegraphing to BUCHANAN tho defeat of his pet and consequently of himself, j cannot he excelled. It has been suggested that henceforth the Democratic p;mv of Pennsylvania drop the r-ame Democrat, and assume the name of Forney- cators. j limit! k (Mil: BEDFORD, Pa. Friday ItSuriiiiig Feb. 6. iar>7- "Fearless and Free." DAVID OVER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR ' Bowman, some time after a visit of George M. Dallas, to the Bedford Springs in 1847, deserted Buchanan, and hoisted the name of Dallas. A little meeting of seven persons met in a candy shop in town, ; and passed Resolutions against his course, and called a County meeting in the Court House. Bowman refused to publish the call. These Democrats then had it publish ed by the former editor of this paper, who they also employed to strike them handbills for that purpose. The meeting, pursuant to this notice, so advertised, met, and it was one of the largest meetings over held in this place. The leading men of the County were there—his course was con demned in strong terms by the speakers* and in the Resolutions which passed unani mously. And it was determined to start a new press here immediately, to advocate the nomination of Buchanan. Bowman got up and tried to speak, and Judge Schcll, the President, adjourned the meeting over his head. Cries were raised for Bowman, by the Whigs, who were there in great num bers, and expected to see some fun, and Bowman, contrary to their expectations, (who, on account of his late decided course in xelation io the getters up of the meeting, they expected to see defend himself,) backed right square out of it, and craven tike, as he always is, said if the Democracy would now forgive him, he would take down Dal las' name aud put up Buchanan's —and he did so the next week! To the Whigs, for calliug on him, after ho had been refused to be heard, and the meeting adjourned over his head, does he now owe his bread aud butter, and yet, notwithstanding, he always, even afterwards, blackguarded them, as ou- ! ly a blackguard can! We publish this week tbe speech of Mr- Wogonseller, in the House of Representa tives in defence of his" course in voting for Gen. Cameron. He sites the letter of Mr. Buchanan in favor of Forney, and proves conclusively from it, the interference of the President elect. There is a nice little squabble going on in the ranks of the De mocracy in relation to tue recent Senatorial ; election, iu Westmoreland, Cambria, York ; and other counties, which bids fair to rend | the party, and insure an easy American Re- I j publican victory next fall. ; The course pursued by Messrs. Wagon- J j seller and Lebo, in refusing to support Mr i I Forney, and voting for Gen. Cameron, has ! set the Democracy of Schuylkill, into a regular foment. One portion of tbe party denounces their conduct in unmeasured terms, and another sustains it as deoidedly and unqualifiedly. Meetings are being held on both sides all over the couutrv, and | the indications are that, if the election of : Gen. Cameron will fail to produce any oth er result, it has effectually set the Locofo os of Schuylkill county by the ears, and caused a most interesting breach in the har mony of the party in that oounly. The fight, as it now stands, is a highly interest ing one and we are not without hope that the political combatants will so effectually use each other up, as to rid Schuylkill coun ty of a set of ruling demagogues with which it has been afflicted. Absalom, still charges lion. Fr Jordan with writing our editorials. Mr. Jordan must certainly be an extraordinary man, for even when lie is at his labors in the Senate, be writes our editorials and copies extracts from old Bedford Gazettes! We suppose, however, that he took several trunks full along wiih him, and in his leasure hours, amuses himself, by perusing their precious and inconsistent columns! As to our edi torials, we are very modest and do not I claim for them any very great degree of merit,but judging from the persons to whom they liuve heretofore been attributed, we still must be considerable of a p*rson! In the days of Clay and Webstei, they were reputed by the Locofooos, to be the auth ors of our editorials, but since their death, judging from the abuse heaped upon him, by Absalom Gordon, tbe slanderer of the living and the dead, Mr. Jordan must be the next best man after them, consequently, it charges him with now being their author! We almost begin to beliove wo arc a great man— we do' The Gazette makes • fling at the leaders of the Westmoreland Democracy on account of the reduced majority of that Oountv for the past few years. When Bowman took charge of the Gazette, Bedford County gave a Jackson majority of some nioe hundred. Now Bedford County, as it waa then, gener ally gives an opposition majority. What caused that, Qeneral* Wc call attention to the advertisement in another column ef The Saturday Evening Post. It is an excelleut literary paper. Thy following H in extrsj t the let-j ter of (tec. f h; E q., t.> fci? consul- j ucnts: j "I will coti>t" Ul - to * Doßfcicfat ami vote thy ft< k when' Mr. Bow- ; and gillie * ' the villains to wham he is ; trallying in inv reprerciititig me and my 1 friends, will he W■••'ubeied with detesta- ! tioo and 14 • fit, and vlliers vl them have gone down iu infamy to oJ)lik>tl. I think j'e people of Cumbria will show Mr. Bowies i -what kind of slufi' they are made of, am what manner of men Ihey are. If lam not xt< icli u istuken there will ha deuKiualiatic 1* in Westmoreland, and all the eoutuiert which the friends of Mr. Fos ter represent {specially in Cambria, which will teach ML . Bowman that they are men of et.-rnor u L The voice of the fearless mid gallant st i,n of Cambria will fall in tones of thuii" 1 r on the ears of .Mr. Bow man and nil she corrupt and unprincipled trickateis wh< • save misreprcsemed me. They w ill let Mr. Bowman know they have not for, often that * few years since, when they ice e struggling to place Mr. Buchanan in nomination far the Presidency he was the firs t editor of a Democartic paper in his region of the State to denounce the movement, am I who raised the name of Geo. Al. Dallas as his favorite candidate , and 1 persevered in -it until the real friends of Air. Buchanan in Bedford county compelled his coward heart to yield and give Air. Bu chanan a reluctant support. Having said -a much concerning myself, I will say to Mr. Bowman for the balance of the gentlemen who have acted with me in the matter, that all and each of them is his peer in bomssty, honor, integriy, and every attribute which constitutes a gentle man and a Democrat, and their course in the lute Senatorial difficulty will be regard ed as an act of moral courage, which will be applauded by every honest, patriotic heart, long after he and the last of their maligoers are forgotten." We copy the following admirable reply of the Hollidaysbcrg Register to the Standard of the same place. The Register takes the right position on the recent elsetioD, and one which nearly all the American papers of the State now occupy. Hit b';iu again, Judge : [£^ = ""The Standard quotes an article from our pen a year ago against Simon Cameiou, and preteuds that he thereby ha? us in an awkward dilemma—entirely overlooking the fall that our article then was about Si mon as against a betlea man , and that we now go for Simon as against Forney —the embodiment of political trickery and corrup tion and moral baseness. Circumstances alter cases. Just so we are for (Tesswell I as agaiDst the Irish leeion and the Standard clique, but in opposition to him as against American Republicanism. Just so we are for Pluuier, Briuen & Co. as against the Portage Road Plunderers and their organ the Standard as tbeir organ, but in opposi tion to them as members of the mis-cailed , 'Democratic' porty. Our neighbor bus on ly 'a mare's nest' as regard? our course.— He mu?t try again, before he crows about making a point with the 'Register.' " AMERICANS TRIUMPHANT.—At a recent municipal election held in Raleigh N. (J. tbe whole American ticket was elected by a large majority. Thus at almost every election held since the Presidential con test the decision has been in favor of the great American patty of the Country. AMERICAN VICTORY".—At the muuicipaj election, held at Wheeling, Va, on Mon day last, tbe Americans elected their whole ticket, with one exception—the City Sergeant, who is only beaten by ten votes. Not a single Democratic nomi nee was elected, except in case of the City Treasurer, against whom the Ameri cans, had no opposition. Two months ago the Democrats were triumphant. BARLEY WITHOUT BEARDS.—We have been forwarded, by Mr. J. W. Briggs of West Macedon, N. Y., three heads of a new kind of Barley, without beards, lie pro cured seven grains, three years ago, from the gulches of the Himalayan mountains, which has so iucreased that he will send any person a head of it on the receipt of a stamped envelope, free of charge, and for 25 cents, he will send a quantity. We will take pleasure in showing this barley, to any of our friends wishing to see it. We copy the following from the proceed ings in the Senate, on the 26th alt: Mr. MYER submitted the following, which was unanimously adopted "Resolved, That we tender to the Hon. FRANCIS JORDAN our thanks for the prompt, dignified and impartial manner in which he presided over Ibe deliberations of tho Senate during the late unavoidable and temporary absence of the Speaker from tbe chair." Wonder whether the man that spends his "time and ta/enft /" serving as Associate Judge, to which office the Americans elect ed him, takes to himself tbe Gazelle's late remarks on trattors! They must be intended for him, and his companions, the new Court Crier, Wood Chopper and Commissioner's Clerk. We notice by Mondays Philadelphia Daily j News, that a man by the name of David j M'Kinnoy, has been taken np there on 1 suspicion of being the murderer of Norcross. i AN ADMISSION. The Washington correspondent of the New Orleaus Delta, who seems to bo the organ of the moat ultra Southern politicians, in the course of a defence of J'resident Pierce observes: "A law or political policy opposed to the universal sentiment of a free people cannot be executed or enforcod without using the means and applianoes of a strong central power. We have seen this illustrated in the Fugitive Slave Law— iu the matter of Kansas—in Cuba— and now in Nicaragua! The South has lost everything, while the North passed ns with a giant's stride, en larging in all the gram! proportions of materfdl power, addition of pop-uiatiou, and actual territorial acquisition. The President bae given us all he could control—his veto power and his messages. The President has accomplished nothing practically in out favor, simply because he cannot, in a fret country, establish a policy in opposition to the will of the people. The will of the people is against the Stouth, ami a longer continuance in the Union is madness." Correspondence of Inquirer ai.d Chronic;, Baeeisbcru, Feb. S, 1557. Mr. EDlTOß: —Legislation is now pro gressing about as fast as usual at tiiif of the session. Among other important bills introduced are an unusually lur~ number for the incorporation of new bank,, j I should think there are not less than fifty j applications for new charters, and for in t crease of capital under old one Sums charters for new banks were got tLrwujh the House last winter, when the deaiocrutio majority was more than twenty; and now Br ibe majoiity is much smaller, it is coaSdcot ly expected a great number will be passrj,. and especially is this looked for became j; i? known that some of the strongest anti bank democrats of last sessicu came cutkn time with bills for new Lank charters n their pockets. The people will ibercfr have to look iu this event to the American, and Republicans of the Seuatc, ami to tU Governor, to prevent, a must unusual au.l extravagant increase of banking oar itai. The demociats are now willing to pass 4 [ uew law and go into the eleoiiua of State | Treasurer sometime before the close of the i session, tncy baring discovered that tL } present incumbent cannot hold over iu ea-e jno electiou he had. They prefer takin- J their chances of success, to leaving the of 1 See vacant altogether - Whether their course in this matter has been dictated by ■ patriotism by u regard for the requirements of the constitution and Jaws, or by a mere love of the apoils, the public wilUietermine The lojal authorities iu several of the counties have leeu very slow in n.aking their return of the census as required lv law. The return from the last county (Lu zerne,) was only received yesterday Thin will greatly retard the desired progress 01: the apportionment biil. So committee Las yet been appointed by the Speaker of tie House ou this important subject. The Scarlet fever is prevailing bcre with unusual malignity. I see b/the Daily Tel egraph of yesterday evening that there weie one dozen children lying dead in town if this disease alone; and a great inanv cthei? are seriously ill. lr has been prevailing here more or less all winter, and appears now to Lc worse thau at any time hereto fore _ j fc'oine has been created here in I political circles, by the re-appointment o: Dr. Dcwitt as State Librarian. It is con ceded that the doctor is a most excellent of j ticer, but be in a democrat, and a nuiuler of Americans and Republicans arc of thenpio inn that the interests of the State would l u t equally sale in tbe hands of some good man _ . belonging to their party. The Governor it I is said, justifies his course on the ground ' that the office is not, a ltd ought Dot to ben i political one. That hcretofoie, when made the subject of' change at every lorn of the > political wheel the office was scandalously mismanaged, und the Lest interests of the State shrtnelessly disregarded. That I>r. Dewitt during the last three years ba-t brought order out of confusion, and put the Library in a much better condition than it r | has ever heretofore hern. That even tLo 1 - j at the prest-nt time an American or Kopub j i lieao coulu It ive becu appointed who would . | have kept things up to their present statid- | ard in this department, yet a precedent of ' | this kind would be seized upon as sufficient ' j pretext for again making the offi'c of Stale i ' Librarian a mere political office, and iuavi. | tably throw things back to the old channel Iu the Senate there appears to be some dif ference of opinion, but the indications are . that tne views of the Governor will be sus tained and the nomination confirmed. Yours. &c., SPECTATOR. Mr. Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina died at Washington at 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening last. His disease was an inflam mation of the throat, resulting in croup; and he was attacked with it only on Saturday last. He leaves behind hiiu, with the world in general,a most unenviable reputation, on j which we need not here enlarge. I 11 is perhaps proper now to say with i regard to the act which will be connected with the memory of this person os long as it shall live, that we do not suppose it to have been undertaken by him spontaneously, and of bis own mere motion. We have the impression that it was determined upon at a meeting of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and that Brooks was but the tool to execute tho will of his colleagues. To that infamous office he leut himself VOlUD tarily, it is true, but not till it had been decided that some one of the Congressional Representatives of that State must perform it. Brooks canto forward then, as tho member fioin the District in which Mr. Butler resided, to discharge tbe function of a ruffian, and in case of need, of an assassin. ; lie has bis reward iu the judgment which ; meu of honor and unprejudiced intelligence | pass upon his act, but it can never be for i gotten by the impartial historian that bo , undertook it in compliance with tie nearly | unanimous decisiou of the whole South I Carolina delegation in Congress, ami that after it was done lie was saluted by the enthusiastic applause of the people of that State as their noblest champion, whom they could not enough admire aud honor. As for Brooks himself, then, now that he has gone to tlrn grave, we imagine that- the world's condemnation will be somewhat lifted from him, hut it will only be to res l with a heavy aud ineffaceable blot upon tha escutcheon of his State.— .Yew York T'f Initu.