The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1858, Page 3

_ NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1858. mi = Onr Nebraikn Correspondences, | ° f ee lanl ‘him? Wookt the weak, ‘oo! yd men of back window. Capt. Dickson said no one: alarmed, that he came not te moles: or touch gave notice to ny and every Missourian pre- fae ete town in twenty minates or he would defora this; a: poey had bat Deputy United Seaton a ite to Fort Leavenworth and induced General Hacney to one hundred United States troops 1 gpm The woops arrived at half past 4, ptain Marchant. Twent; Log were ‘ately in front of the window ie Balance were stationed, rst the corner of the ckgon, ag soon aa he heard the United States marched his Smpeny immediately in the United States bet oe three ive ison. soldiery. in Marchant tiie that” he di come down. mete agsres — = men. It a ettlod fact that i overnment etre sar och ah State ero they wouk: They are almost, all Be ade Calhoun mad at the fort, and —, ‘hi ac wong 28 flock fg te . M. eyiave, just arataed crushes out the distinctive vrei — tien. violates and jont Pas rai it clear" je have not deen left free to form and regu: jp their own way,’ bi stage pen the anomalous pr' prevented from eocbinyeaio ts Reselved, by the Governor and Tegislative pen Ad That the people of Kansag boing ution, cngros | has no righ ‘They were very scarce Jeft the'city, but wore “ho late their dou, etic sasiitutions the Lig Al at evel PS meat immedi- To Vallote were taken, Kansas Territory pored to said cont under it to admit said Spe apen hone and the Tepegecnionives of said ‘their behalf, solemnly protest Resolved, That such action on the pa: a. A the Folin ren of the: Seca ite rh - abandonmen’ non. a, be ap in inte affairs of the msapent stitntion 7 ite stead of Heteat the the will mil and 0 ¥ ora = the wkd and fair ropes See EA the Rovecom, of ible Ferriory ‘ward d copy of the foregoime ‘oom to the President of ther Gi ident of ek Senate, the | aetna hod House of and to the delegate in’ we oun gir bis had arnved front of them, when nope were, of were ee] with drum and ife, from witnessing the burn- {igy of Jotm Calhoun. It was burnt in front re De son and daughter—a tae of the eilgy r Had ere Tat! emit ex rn” ig a atmosphere, the guns Ben, nase eer pointed a every window in the TP weit one shot had been fred from tho “Planters”? the ‘war would have commenced, and in tess than three days here would no have boen a'single one of these lawlees ‘Be excitement is immense. Asingle tight os a pas State map itizens are unadle te TRE NEW FLECTION LAW, JAN. owing statute raeme S Goacgane of the Teale 4a procios nee act of “An act to provide for cepsur and election of Delegates to a Convention,” paas- ed February 19, A D. 1867. aa clection on the submission u Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assombly of the Territory of Kansas, a8 follows — Sec. 1.—That an election shall be held on the first D. 1858, betwegn the hou Bix o’¢lock P, M., at which all 5 ie male inhabitants of the Territory of Kansas. over rears of age, Who are citizens of the United 0 have declared (on oath) their invention to become such, and who shall have resided in said Terri- days next preceding said election, and ten @ county wherein aid persons offer to vote the ratification or rejection of tha Canstitot om, a a d by tho late Constitutional Convontion, nized under the act of the 19h. entitled “ An act to provide for tho pita. and election of delegates to The voting shal) be b; voting for said constituti “‘glavery,’’ shall cast a ballot with the words, “ Ferthe | constitution framed at Tecornpton, with slavery; those voting for the constitution mad against the artidie entitled. “ slavery,” shall cast a ballot with she wor, “For the constitution framed at Lecompton, with slavery,’ and those voting against the constitution shal) jot with the words, “Against the constit, tion = at Lecompton.”? 2. It sball be the duty of the Governor af Kansas rennony to appoint three comm! whose duty it oy be to establish voting preciticta in e counties, and appoint three judges of 1, atthe hour of opening the ‘willing, Jeft. ee ae Act to Teetidp for for ith. that the Missourians who have been thousand dollars bail ie LecompwWa consti- been released Tree aie ee troops were marched back to the fort dt is said two hundred wd Sone voles were ar all for the “constitution id We fe have not heard a word from Kickapoo, but pec have polled two or three thousand votes, population of about one hundred and Sa PO Sepure ow fret West ee en some ros returns from Bibed atin ifn peadence ey ae of 0 30 have but little from the election in Kansas, Tho joining ws, is sxid to be heavy— 1,300 votes being cast at Oxford, |, and over 700 at ee. There are live other hich we have not heard. ualification for voters, except bei day of eloction; hence there wi ‘Suticradiones outaiders, and all who “Offared themselves were permitied to yote, The vote at the two precincts ‘above were nearly all for the corstitution with slavery. hundred and eighty-six votes were cast at Wyandotie pe nal -six for slavery and one hundred against oven, states that a bloody coaflict ped enacted Pa Leavenworth. The free soil gion of the polls, whieh United States troops were cabled out w quell the Sepurbance, when they were fired upon by some of ‘reo men and woundi ‘was then suppressed. and bloodshed near 86 P. M., when the polls Monday in Januazy, A. svete in Johnson county, a recincts in tbat county 9 Convention required in the Tarritory @ pretty heavy baliot, a8 follows with tho article ¢ Ted © a aittenty? The returned the others. The asturbance also heard of Fort Scott a few days ‘the election, between the two. parties,in consequence “wr gome arrests of free State men. An attempt to rescue ‘them was made by their friends, and one of the guard It is said Lane was hastening An xpress was sent to Fort Lea were sent imme- . We have not been ‘ae origin of the diffenities ioners in each count, election in each preeinet. polle, the duly appointed judges are not Shall fail or refuse to act, then the youre asacmbled bave power to elect judges tw fill the vacancies thus to the scene of Sec. 3, The commissioners provided for in thiz act shall, by proclamation, at least five dags before the day of the election hereim provided for: in their respertive counties, 39. and the judges who are to bold the elections in the si Sec. 4. Before opening the pol! Judges of elections shall be duly aworn to a fwthfal They hall provide Bu. table ‘trouble with 500 men. Yenworth, and two com) aanely down, to ea pote the ge and only give the current rumors. Since the above was in type we have receive! a Lea- blished after the election, which speaks Xcitement, but no difficalty occurred be ‘tween the United States troops and citizens. geurians were arrested for illegal voting, and by A city watchman was kill ica place election shall be hé'd. for recsiving votes the Bra good deat afex formance of their duties. lot Doxes for the receptionol the dallots, ‘P- t two clerks, who shail also be sworn io keop each a ithfal record of all the names of persons doporiting At the closing of the polls the reserve the Daliots, and certify ab voters the number of votes cast, ip each of the forms prescribed in the second section of cate shall be attested by the clerks. One of the lists of voters thus certified shall be deposited with one of the commissioners provided for in this and the other shall be ummediate'y transmitted to th: Governor, of in his absence, from any cause, to the dent of the Council, or the § sentatives of the lgislative Assembly. See. 6 Tt shall be the duty of the Governor of the Territory, the President of thee Couns! and the Fpooer, a House of Representatives, or any two of thea, im- mediately upon reeviving the returns, to examine them and certify to the result of the yo im the sum of $500. d@ay night by some person unknown. On qmict in the city. SLAVERY IN KANSAS. {Correspondence of the 81. Lous Republic W A few more tems of election news -—The St at jo0d 86“ Constitution with slavery,’ and 100 @ majority of fourteen Northern persons from daro, thoroughly disgusted with abolitionism, voted "At Davia, K. T., the vote was thi “a ‘slavery clause. for publication in Weetport the following” Yotes with said judges. dudges shall count and this act, which certif * Constitution without slavery,” ‘@gainst slavery. ker of the House of paved tyr for and two Nor order of the Probate Court of las cout to the highest bidder, ay the ony yi x pon the constit — led, ee 9 communicated to be made known by preclam to the President end Con} See. 6, Any offiger of an st br nur BORTO WORDED, of one. wee Ni ler may and’ the the 35th Denamers ix a hem ewton Corey, the deceased, was killed last abolitionists, because he owned a it was correo, by the higher law Tencjose herewith the last proc’ rarastion of Stanton (al: The Commissioners of Election he dress of thane election here.n provided for, or of apy other general or Special election, which may here: rong Bs opon aby question, or for Person or persons, who ol know- the or permit to be inscribed ‘on the or lst of votes. the name of auy voter hotavt) and toting, or the name of any person not entitied to vote, to a false list of yotore, or shill to apy false poN know Dg after be held in this weady published). appointed are al! abolition’ste. GIVLL WAR IN BOURDON COUNTY—EXCITING DEBATES IN CONV EEEOR. . {Correspondence ie | svat mocrat. Dowuttan, Dec. 44—9 A. M. By express messenger from Lawrence we have just re- eeived the following A civil war Py? raging in Bourbon county. The pro- last week commenced a series of persecn. fons and prosecutions of the free State men. Bouses wore burnt down. The free State mén organized & Vigilance committee and arrested several of the maray- In no case, however, did they inflict other or more ‘than the usual penalties of a Enid at of law—no personal panisbments mesist the [hag tA men The Bang and imprisoned in Fort ‘prott. The free State men Asecout party of fifteen came upon a body of Msourians near Barpsville, a town near Fort Aeott, eighty gaye them chase. Five froo State men were captured, maribg in all eight prisone ional ‘State men assembled. The United States pa came down on them with a force gioeny: men, demanded their unconditional surrend ‘The free plied to this demand, as the part bya volley of musket all. Ths bre wes retaraek. The conftict lax ‘The posse retreated to a distance, one man on their side was Killed, two mortally wounded; the United States Marshal dangerously injured, The free Suute men received no ips, of the militin, was sent by rede this force, with orders to avoid the troops. advanced on Fort ‘Kestt, ‘but found that before he give batue to the (nvadars he would bave to encounter several companies of dragoons, He retreated and en- Lane went down, entrenched at ‘Tho troops were — twelve miles of hit advancing to drive him from his he ago or shall knowingly otherwise make or the same to be false, sha: conviction thereof, shall be punished b in the penitentiary tor not less In all offences ae J under visions of this several counties eeme power in hs ayven’ trial, convietion and punishment of such offenders as are now by law vested in the D: Conrts in cases of felony: Provided, That if any TP Judge shall refuse to sue writs, ‘or in any manner to \d under this act, the prosecution may a instituted the Probate Court of ap: Sec, 8. Al} acts and parts provisions of this act, shail be, and the eame are hereby 0 of this act shall be taken and deem- the holding of said election. Missourians came over to arrested three of them way th 4 adjoming county. conficting with the repealed. Sec _9, The paaaay ed sufficient notice Bec, 10. Any person not legally Dy th: going provisions of this act, who sha!| cast his vote at the election herein provided for, shal felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding dive hundred doWars, or shal! suffer im than one year, or both, at the dis See, 11, Allofiicers provided by the provisions of this pensation as may hereafter be pro- ‘This act to take effect ard be tn force from and Ke. Approved Pec. 17, 1687. prisonment pot more ‘and finally tied in disorder. Gretiog of the Court. act recetve Kuch com} NEWS FROM KA AS VIA WASHINGTO Wastnorow, Jan. 1, 1868, The following are extracts Of letters rece vod in this city this eveviny, direet from Kansas:— Leavaxwonm Crry, Dee. ‘Yesterday wae the day for voting upon the | About 250 votes were cast, more > Missouri. The challenging ueetion: “Are you an \ohabs, Most cases the answer was In some instances fae enact d militia, and is therefore protected by law. bo 4 1 will sena more minute news by an- messenger. Lawronce boys went ep to demanded of Denver the arins sei frem the emigrant train which ‘constitution. pa from ot thin Terrhory? “Yer,” and the vote was received. the answers would be. for ily elicited the answer, “In Missouri.’ Went on in this way wa beat toe o’elook M. number crossing the rive, from Misso restore them, but seeing that they ‘would be fore! taken if he did not ‘up. The boys returned sabres and 176 muskets and carbines, in friendly manger. The troops, finding that there was no need for their services, the free State men being amply able to protect the town, returned to the fort. In the evening the fres State men burnt Calo 4 io effigy in front of th iv) Feige Ur, Vargas eaves by Mi Yd is in favor of votin; Planters’ Hotel, Yearing at they might barn him also, ‘he man contrived to eseape from the house and fly to t. Two men were wounded. Seow fe ustate ticket, the very sight of which would kl wall compton inl iniquity’ where ik wan ved—at W: ‘wattomnie, fe and ¥ } mt oT pha men we wtber minor offices.” eawally potaioa made to lay, and received with great applause. votouanary sar @ awakenod—events may soon make it ects that will astonish the ‘tem giek th hss | by plausible sophistries they can enal y God defend the right ! LEGISLATIVE: REMONSTRANCR AGAINGT THR LECOMP- TON CONSTITUTION, The following is a copy of the concurrent resolutions i nae pena Legislature of hor, remonsirating against And thos ended the just heard ‘ren Kickapoo, and the vote ie over one thonsand, and the vote at Delaware and Wy: about double that thrown in ¢ in favor of slavery. votes are from Missouri. Another writer, quder date of Alatho, December 22, ye: “At the Shawnee precinct in this county, where the actual voters do not exceed fifty there were Ove hundred votes cust for the constitution. Here they wore pot quite £0 bold, and only polled fifty-seven, which is only about twice As MANY ae there are pro alavery voters.” Appearaner indicate an attempt at a wholesale {neasion on the ovcasion of the ele ler the Leeompton constitntion, ond war We are nll looking with inwow i Uen of Congress with regard to the Lecomp- ton swindle, a8 upon it our cours must depend. Another corresponient writes under date uf Lawroues, Jaat, al) or hoarly all, fourths of all these mnantmonely adopted by Kansas, on the 2d of = acceptance by Congress "oe the Lecompton consti'® on the 4th of Januar, PRRAMALE (ND JON WROLETION IN RELATION TO THR Cone TCTION FRAMED AT LECOMETON, RARSAS TERRATORY, ON Tine Tm PAY ov NovEMMER, 1857, small minority of the people living ia nine. toon of the thirty-eight counties of this Territory, availin themerives of a law which enabled them to obstruct and defeat a fair expression of the papular will, aid, by the odious and oppressive application « Partisan machinery of smd law, wholes number of the deleratos o! vention recently assembled at Locompton. And whoreas, by reason of the dofective proyisions of said law, in con ection WA tis noglect and p charged with the execation of the same, Kving within the remaining nineteen counties of the Territory were not permitted to return delegatee t said Convention, were not ‘A body of (ree Stato men, numbering aban one died meme have gone up to Lacompton to-day,‘ and eatipped as the law directs,” to retake the 8 arms bs } Fidridgo's party last .. They will take them “pe r The movement has boon freoly the Conauitational Con. | talked of for'a day or two past. There are po trogps at Lecompton; bat Denver may resist the Lawrence boys He had better not. We are awating intelligence from the soufhern part of went from here to Fort Scott orning has not ze been heard trom, The tty well authenticated cope om Baty 7 as f- bad ies in ® com: ity where re are acompte, aad juttice ia , ha wonld have dled ‘aa thin ssattort Jong since, for murdering poot Barber, We hear of wo Gen. Land is thera.” ‘Our people are ¢ivided as to the polioy ef voting for inet, but will decide before the fon from Missouri 4 ompten yalnnteers, conduct of the authorities the Territory. A party that ized in its organiza. other genee beard or felt in ste do: whereas, it is an axiom in polftical ethics that the people cannot be deprived of their rights by the Bealigen 30 OF miteondwet of public Wit, twenty eight only oft contrivance to impes and generally believed ogally dealt ont, battiow at Fort Scott upow the whole peopl of this Terr} tory & constito¥on without consulting their wishes and against their will: ane where: vention have refused te a ymit their action for the ay Lor disapproval of the voters of the Territory: m iho noting haye dodo: the knewa wil! of mine lemths the members of cai? Denver gave them ap, upon the pledge ber the preeont diff cation are fettied. There is no elect’ to i, we havo arms enovgh for all practical purposes. mgt apn coryeapandent, pader day of “Sgsveamonth, Nyminating vention aagere ied tapes coy orday oie oorete ara bo whe Blecte wammer pnd Ng i ate ne FeaeuReae a tae Salat ‘Henry since did of hig wounds, He leaves @ ee Apel fo venagenesting vp the méeriar of Oe, Our Boston Correspondence. Bago, Jam. 2.4858, Meeting Se, Maseechuselis A, tepid ard State @ Par- ties in at Bows The Ymige ng Case— Congres: wgteal, Nominations. The Legisiavare of Maesachuretts wil) mart on Wodness doy next, Jans 6, the datest day on which ib ean meet al coming ‘o, adjoursment. The, sessin is )ookedsorward 40 a8 one that cannot/all to be interesting, ag now party. formations are expegted to follow from ‘ts aotion, and some bubjects of general account will be brocgit up in ius cotired, ‘Tho Banks party; or American republicans, bave ontize contro} of. bot, chambers, aad with 9, margin Proad enongh, to, aliow of connideranle ices, and yet remain powerful, The House of Representatives mecta for the fir timo aa baked on districts, the wwn system, after Inking more tian 220 years, ceasing with tha amistence of the | Lewiature’ that was chosen in 1866, when the Fre: mont tornado, went over iw State. The whole numberof representatives ts 240, or 198 legs than it was under the ancient systers. vf these the Banks party have 160, or } exactly two thirds, ‘The demovrats claim 42, which would Wave 38 for the pure Americans, or débris af tha on09 | powerful Know Nothing jiarty; butas that party is broken ‘Up; fome of its, members, among the repmesentatives may, quietly range themacives among the Benka men, andl, so evel) thoir strength in tho Gouse, There ie no induce. of ning |, ment for thera to continue their organitation, and the vic- | tore kre ready to receive them well. The democrats may | get few of Whe Americane, but not many, as there iy no | poeaible motive for politicians in this State vo join them | while things continue in their present confused condition | adout paifonal aifwire. Until someting defte is Keown ), About Wr. Nouplas’s purgoee, men are not likely to enist under the democratic standard, Mr. Charles Hale, editor of ths Boston Daily 4d- vertiser, ‘9 wamei for the Speasersiip. He is coe of the Boston members of the House, and ag tha ‘feman who was Speaker ju 7850 “acd 1857 # now |) 2 member of the Senate, perhaps his prop may Se | Pronotaiced good; but then Boston hag bad the Soenker- | ship for two yearn, and tha cocuiry may ack for it, The ) most prominent members of the naw “tate government are from the visinity of the capital. Attorney General, and the Tre: 8 prov nces may not be content with Deing fooded off wi Places ofsmal! politica] comsec nencs, auchjas the “ledvenant Governorship, that of Secretary of State, and soar of Auditor, The Speakership given to thera wo Jd do woma- thing to restore the balance, now comilerabiy dsi.cbol. They are the more entitle) to ‘t be t is expected that the Presidency of the Sonate will be claimed foreems one living bara dy Boston, if mot by s Boston an. Poot basa capacious swallow where oftioes are comcurnet. Sewera) gectiomen, but nowe of any waghs ag poii ticiage, haye been named for che Clerkship of the Hovse, Mr. Wendell T. Davis, of Greenfel, ¢o noted fr bis evo port of' that sublime project, the boring of the How's Mountain, has deen announced a candidate for the off oof Sergeant at-Arma; but be too will flod 2 Bosten!an.o bis patb—Mr. Stevens, the present commen’ wid was chosen trany yeare ago, and who hae been « office through all changes of parties, a sort of ne’ ag it ire and whois really & Moet meritorious oft iai. The House contains a nomber of experienced public men. The democrats will baye the advantage of bax led by General Canbing, who, having at lastabandoned ofomoe the ‘ational adm‘sietrat’on, septcn to law and Jora! poly a. Webster being bie partner ‘n the ose, but net. in the other. Judge Morton will bead the Ameri. cama sbould ane te te ain their iat orpanization @, be meas el: aad wil Peake bis bis frat ‘appearance in the Howe as cide fourscore, in opposition 0 the party. that he vo long ‘ed. The republicans have for leaders Wr. Rockwell, Mr. Dan can, and Mr, Anarew; Dat dr, Rockwell is a litte ds- conted, ag be honed to'be Governcr, and it would soom, aster hs defeat, in 1855, to have had a fair claua t the otiice. Mr. Andrew, also, is scarcely reiad.e a8 a party jonder, as he A man ef Ndeperdent thovett, and wt ob 2 3mit to dictation. His fes.inys take him to she mule of the straight republicans, and i. 9 barnes Aways Sound on the anti-slavery side of any casa that comes before oor courts involving the rejations of master and slave. He is, in Drief, ae near to being a Carr4oniamas a laws or ond a moa of sense well can ve. Jt was mM contempintiun, at one Ume, to rus him for Attormeyianeral op the Lanka the project was bate (ny for the reason, it was this nitraigun would be likely to « endanger the of contridute .to make Vine, for though he © avery sivance sorbet @ for the Speakership, the opject bet ae only ove of them can ¢ be able to dogo, nat mugh wi of taking them from the flocr t Mr. Kock well was speaker think—and would but retu Started ag a yonth. At be which is as remote from Rost as 9 % the west can well be, his elec: achieved, and Tay, be ariged, al rate, with pool eftes! as someth.ng caleulated to soothe the e2 asperated re stim. Mr. Andrew has had no experiences ae o prowid’ng oTeer, and being capable of roaking a good fgvre on Lh hoor, canpot w.sh for che éley a whch bs pase bag Deen associate. Mr. it i9 2 marked indication of the us, that the ablest radical repud! de from Boston Mr. Duncaa ig from Maverbill, and of Congrers in whig times, He whl hw tinence in the House, thoagh among its u many superiors, who, however, have pot waccended a mak ng themselves known tothe pub!!>. ‘Thm Senate i¢ Panksey in the proportion of more than foar to one, and perbaps ail but three or f208 of sla f ‘ cogeuliahon,;’ ant perk aps ovithar como froin tae plan ago—in 1600 and maar, 2 place whence hi aol to bea mowher oneitoraole ip membere ought to We pet ddwn an among ofthe Governor elect, though sev bis o but all save the t itlemen from cork, and Limerick, © their election to the “broths of boyr’ vo here—w!l! probably fal! into ina with the Panks ty, and keep step to ite music. Mr. Upham, who was Presidont of the Senate last year, » el ind han himee.f expectations © pre-onts, Jem distr'ct, vo that ha boler geo the “Fwsex¥yunto ’,as % the ‘Boston clave.” hi not guceesd Well at a presiding officer, hw talents beng rather suited to scholastic than to,praciicnl te, Ee wrote & very agroeadie life of Colone! Fremont, in 1898, by which a pny few thousands. yey of the Sanate, Wil) have to retire; for, though last your he was made ve i to eet Me Up to effoct %h election, he i not $9 ‘mportart a periouage now as bo was ricaniarn was then & we ics at Rpols BLS Spuis¢.v be copcern, ody ‘an fostitnta of vitality 28 a skeleton that baa gis syeree 2 3 dinsecting room for hall @ best com: ed by burying ita pat ral pottore fetd, Sonia good oe ay tort have the Clerkeaip, tious the praseat oo- cupant shou)! have greater interest at oot rt than appears Ob the sarface. My, Banke wil} enter upon offfee onder eirewmetanose of a peculiar eniracter, on the #bole fevorad's to him, and bis future must be manly of bis own mek DE. <ijseslnc: Vion is partly duo to nis baa CAL gave to b's sup. ng eyor ny ‘rece veld from them; but mors, a -- rake roa dee at wun ” *S t.- goo! and ¥ adynasty of which many cf the peor / pasha: fA Fives and lac were heart ly Ure?) and not av med, to his support al! 4 waiters on Providenc tou was po sire a thing, from the day be that it is wexpleavie ‘Sat Govermer 6 fund men eo mad ae to delere in bi tent of spending we pa behal’. He never had s chance, and oug sean ft, > lear sqhiel enough in all the riinary affairs of fe, But Se weamade blind as a hat by arent sucosRS actay On egotian of Bo commoa character. If love be tke @ pair 0” spectacles, "1 a pair of apectnc'rs, with the thick of wood submtituted for gin. Tho vérnor thought be waa the most popu'ar mao in the State, and pitied Mr. Banks for the reason that be was ron. bing his go. cart against tho rok of Americsnem; ut the poorast sort of sand, and the ‘go chet a ov ernor, who had come .p tameimour- Hor tivo same fashion. on, and had a 4 ferent mode of expreewng sae", The question tha: most threaten ir} the Banke? y is that of Judge Loring’ removad from the Pro- pate Court of this coumy. The Judge ® a United Commnuselonar, and catches runaway ayes (a an ve: monly skilful manner. He ean y be commented Wo,any Sovthera gontleman who thinks of yi us intesarch of that kind of progerty whith take: wings of its feet, and fies aay. One of hie warrania hae nover been Known t6 fai) The oltra repuDl! cane ha for yoars arcued that if be will boil bh Comaaiagionerahip, vg nd net ¥ held hs Judgesbip, and war if should ‘so trate u t Tunes they hace eucowedad in pate atare to hass resol a8! og Gardner to remove hitn (ram the Stato oftiea eb tejon the Covertor was 4 ungic ! os to A The conser vatice repub'wane, aud wore that aupportag Mr. Rawk at ps wad Wee bo Ie beng ftor the Jo ige as wo wolves go ‘ hey shall, see hire party. nad eb Pores It fb ahiow f ‘ slaruia oak be removal, then Mr, Ranks #1. be vor catoly placed yaply, ha world the whig porte be si. ho would equatig otfind th vo of fh The tres wore f " portion “pected ibe Legie‘aturewiil ret topemar® the Delis, ahd co excel oot chording bets on wh on the ae leworing ilctlbeni ob” tin’ bipn ‘arty? Fee. rele a Meloy, Ey abeenting thewselvon whey we ¢ msel ve ie ie ig he ety would com) — fee ey members sortoolere virtually thas been persecuting the sue; my Poorer iy way ay could best annoy Gov. Gard one ere rs of excitement ara denirous that some mem. bers of the (ang ehould ¢ out thelr threat of bringing before the Leyislaturo charge, correnty: zie everywhere edo, that a distinguished publie man 816000 by way of bribe, while’ a member 9° Con- for getting the tariff This $10,000 is sup- Posed to have been taken ont of the large sum , $30,000, of wi Mention is made in the report of the committed to.examine into the atlairy of the Middlesex Company as having been expended among the politicians. A great deadig said on the abject im conversation, and two or three of our papers are constantly alluding to tin sly ways, which ere really moro injarious than are the mort Hehehe, The (ates ‘and most injurious calamnies are thoee which are insinated and which the catnmniatod cannot grasp, nor crush the caluronia‘ors, Tho repadlicans of No 7 havo nounnage Daniel W. 6 to gneceed Mr. Banks In Oo1 He is a lawyer 402 @ young man. The demoorats shave put tip George Affairs in Porto Rico, OUK PONCE CORRBSYONDENCE, Poxcn, Porto Rico, Nov. 27, 1857. City Improvements amd Sugar Profits—Statietios of the Crop of Last Seaton Prospects of This Year's Vield— ‘the, First Canes Cut—Mtate of the Slave Population Buy- tng Freedom and How the Pree Negroes Live, de. ‘The district of whieh Ponce |s the centre, in common wih the surrounding segar raising islands, has very materially been intuenced by the high prizes and speci- iative moyenient that this article has enjoyed during th past season. in a city not containing mapy thousand in- habitants upwards of @ hundred houses have been either | remodeled or Dullt entirely new. Maxy a rough shanty 3 | now repiaced by a long, low, s’one structure, which is covered by an attic, second story. Last season produced im tho districtof Pouce 24,000 hogeheads of sugar. The summer previous furnisted 9,000 bogsheads more than this, or 33,000, and yot the profits of the former far surpassed those of the latter. ‘The sudden fall in the price of sugara im the United States did not come very heavily upon the planters, who gen- erally wel) the crop on the spot, and rarely ship on their ‘ani in eome instances even by a ownaccount. The merohacts in the harbor guiferea in some cases severely, Dut generally speai at the time of the panic ava the sudden and heaviest fall we stock on Dand was smal). ‘The present crop ie abundant, and promises very well. A\reaty somo smal! patehes aro ready to be cut, but the ter partis atl) young, and uot) within s week suffering ‘omn a'want of rain. The last tew days, however, bas furnished an 4Dcndaace of water, and the crop looks very well. The cane tops, which seven or eight days ago neemed to be, on the higher |ands of 2lmost every pianta- tuon, of a slight tinge of yellow, have resumed their moet eetsinmed color. On the 24th inst, the first canes of the season were car- ried to the mi for crushing. Others will soon follow, and the harbor, which at present (8 very doll, will be crowded wich American sb'pping. At presen! there is but one American vessel :0 port. . The district of Ponce contains between nine and ten thoueant inhabtanve, a witle upwards of qe handred Dlantationy, and fareshes one-third of the svigar shipped from the island of Porto Rico, Cage land is worth about three hurdrei dollars o ere, and has been se om } parcels as nigh ae tive handred dol.ars, The soit, in places, 8 Verg Fick, vated yeaterday @ small plasta- tion having Owe hundred avd tifteen acres under cultiva- tuon. ‘Sino® the bayoo roads by the cholera ‘n 1856 siave labor hae become both vcarce ant high. Five years ago an ‘active, wel) built fellow could de purchased Tor three hnp- dred dollars. He would: sow command eight hundred dollars, and find 8 very ready sale, No slaves aro offered for sai3, and only vy exciting the Gupidity of the master or op the breaking op or partition of an ostate can they de obtained. Negroes bave always commanded a better price > Coda than in this isavel; benoe tiais to hel ged to depopoiate the cocntry, as they wore purchared here and sold in Cubs by American vpeculators. This practice bas, Rowever, beau effec‘ally ps. a stop to by stringent laws restraining the tratile. It's mpoasible toimportiabor directly fram the Affio.n const. “Not @singio cargo, it is said, has doen lanted on the ‘etard for many a Jong year, and the sauive siaves do not increase. The “pavish law ase bs hberty. The mode of ry favorable t the «lave. He jored man f he chooses, apd If those two d/sagree they them: ind, Any lave, if anmons to do «0, daring his idle hourg can make money are to free bimse?. They profor, however, to bay the fraedom of some Woman, whom whey mak? the wi and all her children are free: or, | thay auread, free oie they buy the freedom of any for hfdren, and when this resource (ans they progire two or three of the #malh native hoyses, and op a Sunday trumph over the “ com- oon niggers’? Somet rods the ome “ree through other causes, and getting on afew of upland ground live im abundance and the tlsery of Mlenees. 1 hare been ontdensially sesured idat the whole alan | @oesnot con- ta'n fifty thousao aad the population .s greater tnap that of Connectiont The free blacks are very numerous, ro fonerally too idle t> labor, and are sontented to live on plantains, and ad, by their inactivity, io sustaining tho Lich prica of fiers work, while thore who are ndastrions dewaot what price they "saneo ‘or their services, As an ‘natan extravagant pri the stevelores of the harbor demand two dollars a day for discharging, anc they cefso work afier two o'lo, vo in the alterzoun. The Empires sud ite Partica~A Plea for Liber= ty tn Frawee. (From the Courrier Je Paria, astriboted o— Tras “d for the New Uptor Present empire, which stands wpan the foundatioa of ua.yersal suilrage, and is crowned with he hope of promined !verty, the existence of parties each severauy contending, fur power of things © 2 mater of have now no er 00 sa maatior of Tegret thetaseives, bu of nope: they are amyns: the things that were, and are no ! ger to be reckoned among owe that will be. There is, in fact, no goo! reasca whatever why such political parties shyald exist in the pfoeent day. ‘Tae only caper hey have of ever Lm y w We aram ison tbe eapposthion that the liherty which has been promiand to the pation ahould be too long Tawrned and the rift be wo long delayed, Tho watans thas tho liberty promised to tho nation anal! conse w bo longer & promis, and stad do an Asured reality, what plea will political partion then nave for ther existence’ What wili they have to give? What wi) they have to promiaa? Bot when par- ties bave nothing % give, and uleo when they —— thing 20 uromée, they can bave no axistence, the; po yrmednnan fi teres’ an power; they become mere dee Ans] endow. Therefore thd reat interest of the empire ie to act with reenect to the ‘berty which bas been pro. mised, with the saige confidence a4 was done with mt to celverral sa ‘The Emperor onght to be to lean bold and valiant in giving Wert? than he was in casting ditmself apon universal euffr The same success will follow the mame boldnens. bere With whieh he wuccamefelly resorted to cr'ver Pe or nme gard to Nhert ‘fs coal nh sent the dangers of i Perty—name- Yes ¢ Be: te made Ww 904 tool anda it che Saath then Sone asee! wrteeatems hoon whe said contin saliy from and whic ved 2m 1960 agaupat outrage ? Woon go: vane! prea | have SS Ape aride and the hd oiectorai set vp again J all this Shaker bad ieee Te Deeded and the cunsel 4 | cowardice had peen followed? Margins op Spb eg esta” ishment feneweat suftrage would be Deginning of tie eetring Up of partes bit A. other for power? Hut, on the 5 sntitage hes prowed w> pe tomb of parties. ‘It has indead beea oan tome; bet He tomb i atl! left o whereas it ky De chemo upon thesn forever, they ought to mit dowa in the tomb by a heavy stone. Regine hob ong ht to clase tha moth of the tun’ #1 Y. The enenuien of live ty are wolt aware of @ltha. They are frail, and have one epecia! fear. This, their fear, @ sary to D9 dissor “dase who ara able to veep bee bind che mach with which Wey clamedy d * Their few « the, vic —thay are afraid lest iberty, of eye ae promas!, should complete the work on. voran’ wiffrage, and ioad 1) the estabiisiment of a new prince in politics, This new principle, if once #e oud (a Bho Dew Gage: of Priavia conCennem) dts the of wincioke of Tegtuma: 7 hewould 6 place a pene ‘Jon and laws of modern nations Now, this very four of there is ver Lope, and i what piven th ore andfyr hope. The o, Bpeete Tr wll oortaniy not »o willing to leave to te ng for po wor ao’ aiming to ave'n i a . $e oh ast chaare, the ae % The common ‘aetic f) ne parties whic ova) ishing a Jynasty—amely, whe leg! Qrieans party an) the fusions: party— They ai) grr }t ont and say has the Pimp are Reompatitio with each other—-thez nevor can go to- getuer. But, we would ask, in what respect can | beriy bo mere Sncgma patible with Ure dynasty of the Pinp're, snJer aniversg © 9, tha wiih @ royal dynasty, oa- Jer the old Sectoral cenans, whore: 3M) franca toate a vows, of with b d7basty Under An electoral cenrus wore 230 francs amd cuber qua Acmtions Ware required to make © veer? There 9 Yul one alvernauiye, Auher woerty is possibio n France, ar alge itis imposible. Now, Sita paeidle biog in France a: ad, Ne follows thas it'i® powwinlo un tor toe binpre. If ivertz waver blo in France, 4 poets for when will power ever be 9) euron oad.epul ‘rane as new? Why, torn, neoe a herky, wi possible in kag whic . Helgtam, whick w oe ble n Piedmont, not oe ‘ahooe, aly peanble in Franca? Wher» woakl bo the denger or tin france? Is Fran S respect to her civdluatve, to her sentiments and (9 her iden, at al. béebind any ame wf the * shose mondmel counties Ania, 4 toe Epant Naps eon TI). leek Ar-uly soated upon bis throne by mears ef bis egy untious of vores than Qasen Victoria is coo her throne, oy wneace of Ler legit pold ia oyon Hie throne, or wan 4 ? Hoes the Hxoparat Napoleon Ti DUNSE Te Yn 2 SBhy nw eondition o tao (ood us 10000 a any ow ie Ab f M4atimMel Powom: on We piher hand, what wanit NSerty gan, if, hang given dy tim, it shouid fee up agains: him? Not only two soth ng w gain by euch an act, Salon the yotrar n would be danger of jing ov ry Such @ course woubl be playing ® game wh andvor «play Biv en 7 some ‘hat the pears ald adnate the verty given in revenge tor uy v Oscemp ver, lenen Sy the Wier be hain hist power =. Leas Heian | woul! dave Who, howe vor wh Ch) yOant on, at a reproned Pepraary, 1848, have any Lamartiae, Canssidiere, Aedru Boilie. ‘A pe ort) ved re e dynasty of Augwt dynasty of Lonis Vhilippe and eal SW oleh red Fostored family of July, 1815, have any, elder branch of the Rourbor 8, Omans Orry, Nebraska Tor., A New Glovernar and Seretary for Nebrciakene! Offietinis islature and its Progress in Bueiness—Uiah and detiotpated War—Generak News. Since my last letter to toe Hexan of day before yerter- day, news has reached here of the appointment of Mryigtoyens, of Kentucky, as Governor of Nebraska. This 1 five ed coumon roport; and aiso that Mr. Weleb, of Midhts fan, succeeds T. B, Cnmipg, ae Secretary. My Welch iaxt pregont bere, and if appointed tHOMURRS of his post ant! his ‘appointment = contirmea, ond not untit ourflegisiamire, now in resaion, adjoarma LMPSwelch is a pleasant, agrecadle young man, wey taly ‘cutntedt tee @ new country, and géems quail imongst'those who kriow’ him, The.rest of the offidiais off Nebgaska, it is expected and hoped, will follow in the rank ofropjasion, particularly the old appointunents. ‘The Uaited States Marshal—the most decidedly unpopuiar of the whole body—ia; absent, probably in Washiagton, and & Vole Samuel can find any buemess for bic it mitversally hoped be witl: The Logtilature is still in session and progressing slowly with: business. A few cormit{eea of minor comme quence have reported, yet but fev of Hie leading ‘chemes of more than looal importance have bean breached... 1b seems now generally understood that: the Capivol quemion \ WL be agitated here with almost @ certainty of sugcens, of; Wdthor words, timt 9 dill removing fhe Capitol of Net baaska from Omaha City to some inland pont will pase WOU Houses and be kine by the acting Governor, To. this event, will Congress sanction the move, # Yon T ath convince? tha’ it iy the Wish of a larté ma- jority of tho actual residents of Nebraska to remove tha \ but the conflicting imercetg t make it ais cult rele mk goue conversation thr Led tiga pa Tere Awkiey ant oppowitar Again, it J maid nn Morty, fee ee. abuses © people, frie foo" . lution would again de ovened, oll ad oR would again be jet loose. oe itl But under what pretext and i» Wot v vi revohution be Drovgnt — when th would bave nothing tw liberty * For it would certainly hive nai to promise whon it had not universal ened promise. . Would suit, gegvoleiins, De atte: the pretext of progres of progress which in ev identy and triiy? ried out underthe fo sats pou tho new rtpatnntny Empire. There is uot a sing! is not compatible with thet Sane with it. » probably will net aseume Letus hear re ana ‘Tho Empire bas nothing to feat vag ey Berty would be the strength of the kinptes a6 ubiversal suarage bas beon hitherto oe sbeedr dale We defy contradiction tA re whee defy any one to prey: ‘this is so true Lay ity ube ened laws of banishment and* of recall all the banished and ishment, without incurring. any dange' any risk—without having any trouble tr ‘Then it wonld be a death blow given to pay to last day of a criminal condemned by univeegal geet to hide hia head forever, ‘Whe Case of Roigersi( :” TO THE BPITOR OFTHE LBBA 1.2K! It appears that an earnest endeavor is being madate obtain a commutation of the sentence of jag. ayyrdangr , Rodgers, to imprisonment for life, I trugt the head of the’ executive will not permiy ay itty should he possibly entertain one, to bé 89. 9, Mh suffor his sympathies fo be so wrought aon ‘by ments and persuasions of a tow hindred® feasing to represent tho opinions of the WhO prents to oppose the execution of a wise law. ‘The death penalty is not a crude idea, norte law under which this map was convicted a new invention ie! of"imax practicable principles.and requiring a tlonapeanl qiiieatignat and improvements. It has been the subject of long and diligent banish see by able men, and should not be = dt was framed by jurists Sponling fectly competent to value Condingenctes, and wotgh ihe aii rere of cages of 80 im in our most lenient moods, f conclude that ita provisions are not eae ay This man has had an ivpartial trial, pelgs by able counsel. could be pe eae in aad mubject of a war with is. the principal topic itary, excepting * bara times.” ritory, and amongst us here lowa, and in the upper country, there are very formons, and amongst them ard mem of late sence, We alth and good social standing teemed and efiicent heal of the War. ment should know that throughout this Wertarn word, int ty, there are many Mermous whoo friends andtelatives a Wales, Switzer!and and clea. whergaro expected here carly jp tbe wring w migrate to the valley un¢ der orders of thoir supreme head, Brighac i there must be wer, it will be war to the ante death; and under tho present guidance of the , the time must and will come, sooner or later, when war will and must come. In a pecaniary and eternal point of view for many, the sooner it comes the betier for the y : It may be considered a politic move to It will be to some extent an unpopular move to make war on te Mormons nt present; but if one halt of 1s be true (aad here we have a good judging), the sooner it comas the bower if westward of here, in the new cocmy there is a Mormon settlement where Beaver Creek empties into the Loupe Fork of the Platte. Word waa sent me about a week since, that the Mormons there w committing depredations, Termination agalnet # little specutatite town in the same county, and a petition would be forwarded to gove: esenuing the cage, kc. allowanice should be made for rivalry between any tw | rival towns “away ont West. My own impression tims ers are now at the rivol setlemeah Monroo—are far more almost every commun’ ‘Thousands from England, art | © Qi gpportanlty of oh is favor = ha’ “apparent pcre ma design were all his guilt was eo undepiably nanifest thatho at tortion proot or of the law could prevent bis comy convicted and’sentenced to death by one law of mercy as well as that of justi No new proof has been discovered sineg, wd fn the evidence, no inforiality shown duo haste or Yack of judgment in the dee! earthly reasou bas been given since the se sek °° WANG nouncad why it should be revoked that vWiauy9eh, patent to everyboty before © Task why this man should not eh oO Jearned in ihe science of moralityrer she law a6. » to say why the half dozea felons now | ‘0 aiting their doom deserve to live? Jaw of their country and its by the foulest erimes, and these wretches ask the dear Kind. Just this once and overlook thef amorous or ferocious spirits. tice must sometimes be done jotwx to be 2 Jaw cannot be rie for ironies man and making threats of head quarters re] iets what meagre few | of the Mormons th: khowthem, the Mormon ‘settlement at Beaver Creek it ap industrious apd “mind your own busi bewe very Met.” Nine-tonths of our people owe. ine bad mai ipenatiate way of pay. Everything m the The merckauts bere, what fo Ti for caah, and tho tr Provisions of all id jog yet thoi riolaaed it Pine storm thus far, se very little in tho country. poet hold ‘up comparatively high, Thus far tbe witiy s been quite open and pleasant. Gambling w @ con- pM extent ts carried on hora, ns shal. plaster bits entitled “Omaha City Serip,”? are worth bog ot tana and fun in earnest! Tn caves Itke thie, when a the prerogativ: baters of f wrong should make - ouster do what lies in their power to uphold the to vioe and erime their due. somo time after » agaimeteyen the most wanton outrages hi away or been succeedet by some dom wanung here, and all the et most revolting are lorgotten; and terested, felon eas'ly perenade week and timid pet oe ‘uy plausible representations, indace woe. unthinkingly to ask the remission of a they hat once deemed too merciful. Army Intelligence. The sotactment, consisting of four troop of cavalry sod two companies of infantry, under the command of Laeules nant Colonel Johnston, and whieg spring a8 an escort to the party detailed to survey tha squthorp boundary of Kansas, have returned to Fort Lea- venworth, where thoy will remain for the winter. trgoyy have performed a-moxt trying and persevering Journey, baving travelled, inside of seven months, over five thousand miles of country. The only casualty during, tills my march was tho loss of one man, who happened to lqter. behind the command, when he was immadately at- tated by aemall party of the Cheyenne tribe of indiang ft’ kitled ; his body was recovered a few days afterwards, it of the expedition bas Deeg highiy.eatisfactory {6 the War Department, NePorts have recently been received at the War Depart+ ment, from Colonel Rogers and Captain Stephens, of the 4 yOhuntéers serving in Florida. Those yous: have been recently called into requisition ¥: Gevertinr of Florida, oceasioned by the many doid and deripg acts of treachery committe! by the seum.nole tmb@ aps, have been icossantly on the ecout. . SUiphens reports the lows of fort ‘kfMed tne-night Dy ‘the Indians whi troops pow atone at Port Leavenworth, and yee consista of the SOTOe troep of ae docnca aragocte, and tve po concede ah four companies anda econ regiment of artiilery, third regiment of artillery, ono tf ptoat Fh ‘of the «he er General . commanding: ignation of Capt. Albert J, Magihon, fourth Fog, Panillery, has been accepted Uy’ tho ‘Pros lens of States, to take etioct Pec. 31, 1867. ¥. rrdnanee sentence, when popular. mm had been ordered lan’ malofacts cast them out, not only by aan b crimes, Tt} ceabaliae bre tome woey could poseivly do in allowing rier Nin, the executive can eeareety eff Heth taenced, His sympathics natarally «dn mney siwaye” diMeult to deny to agonized rare and supplicating friet the distorted modidm of o hears but ope side _—_ 3 capnot but regret, he too frequently p Jf Kod gers i# not made to suffer the ‘te it haa been decreed he must, then let laws, let us despise tho-e we have, and t that statutes were unprofitable riddles, obeolete, and criminal jurieprudence puzzio which mankind teased thempet ves with trying to solve, bat at last threw awa Ay ai Soevety dove not thirst for tivipe law which exacted an rr for clamors for justice. not is this: instance io extending an r priveniaton; ipley been designated the Secretary of War to aspect ane ition of the armorios and arsenaa of ‘within Une United Seutae This is in ascord- anee with paragraph 1,246 army rewulations, which rox GMifen Ab uspection lo be made Wieopil!y, ee WEBKAY MALL. PROM FORD LEAVENWORTI. HigADAt Arg OF 8 New Youn, Dec. po ee 6. 4 ae the Post Oba by Abscess, lumbar... .. Aldurinaria, and Bright of Kuda ve foie oe Bib ices ve fs: we Sad eunE ade The cumber of deaths, ba woeks of 1856 and 1867, APOADTULATIOS-—DIRRARRH CLAS, Bones, oir te, ke. «+ 3 Stillborn “so Brain and norves. commanding ag experience shall show them to be such modifications in these details at and aate transmission of Within hig Oommand and as far as the frst miltary station’ in UtaB, and will eneure a strict accountad' ty, vthe geveral officers concerned, of a!i ma! mattera through their hands. commaniing officers of forts Kearny an! Ta- Tafegoay not have now at their posts, nor he aol@, s® , to obtain there, the necessary means to eua~ Fdiecharye the duties herein {aid athe garrison of Fort Kearny ts weak inp umbere, arr ae the services of Delaware, Shawnee, thas been represeuted 16 mall Ber vice, Mot on yond the iauer, "he sorenanting the troops _in Kansas will, inte fp fhe following mearutee:— or sbee eivilaed, * Tutted Sune? 4 Unknown. g the commanding to the commanding officer of Fort Laram 24. To firocure fodr covered spring wagens, 1bt onhgo ted dratu with ense by two mules—two for Fort Kear- by onl peo Jor Fort, Laramie. niet furnieh fifty good mules tn good Srdor—twenty- om the route between Fort Learn: aor Laramie, amd twenty five betwoen the lather ant As some of the mules may have to be packed, tvs pack saddle wil! he cont to Fort awe, mules and .wagous (0 be faity equipped canee tobe mate a saffiei@ht nember nf stoet bage far Wie roms, waterprout ( posmbyy, and to Cwminh, “te can, a cUpAY OC Wrapping PUpeL, Soo Og Wks yith the comimanders of Pore and Larauie ruber jm hig matter, and wild the b Ghor assistahoe therein as Bay ba va Nines, Hol. & elo Et correspond yg ae o, &~ by Bower Sheet Cees!