The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1858, Page 2

2 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1858. Higetioa to strike it for “justice, even to my own burt." L saw what would be the effect upoa me personally; thst misrepreseutation and abuse woule follow, aud macy of My deet trieuds woult coudem the apparent rasharss Of the act Ib i this Lbave not Deen disappointed But Bow thatthe thunaers bave rolled over my head, and Leee the full citect, even beyond wy autcipanons— the effect of the specie! worsage of the lresident— bis autoriny wielded inst the position which T devotedly aneuived for defeoes—I calmly sarvey he subject again, and, \stead of retreating advances on be top i bave aerutoed In November I suid thet if be Venton bas prociaum-d the Lecomota courtituuon sithout submittiog 1 ali to the people, ] would ao Be leg tinate aud Ce facto instrument But now 83 been submitted in the ma:.ner and form of thy eloweath ne fourteenth sections of its sohoau fou of my Tammazs letter Jet to a fair and toga! vote of the poor | Prescribed by their Lerriorial Legisisture—not oy Uon- reek, . In review ing the message, | pass over all that is said re- ting w+ revel ion aud usurpat’on of the Topekaites, wr Course bas been v ot and unisw ful in the extreme, Tovaim, on the ober hand, that taeir oopopen's to Kansas have acted wnavr lawful authority; taat they have pro ceeded und. r the act of Congress and of Territorial organi- zavOD , xnW up te the pomt of the acharule of satmis gion of the I.c: mpton constitution w the people thetr acts were de jure un? de fret rightiul im the ‘egitimate son76. But whai bas toast to de, legeily or logioaliy with the issue’ Is toe Lecom ptan constimatio peo leP—Is its ecbedule rejn blican’ i wees » aud reosition were arraying them- selves auaib-t inw aoe order ina Territory, ail Lean say is tha: wy ovght to have béer arrested and punished te federal executive ot the United ~tates. key insurrection broke out in Peonsylva- Bis, would 1 jawfal convention .n thar have AubMiUted & ConattULON to the people in ea allowed men €) vote for it, but not ar-tit— allowed one man to yote dows 1,000 mon, ali baviug «quai rights, as preteadted, to subant one qués- tion acd yet submited it im such a way that in oer (0 VOt" tor oF against that the peopie were obliged vote for and Lot agerust vemerling elke whieh migut be obnoxious or odicUs to thetn—as insulted and oppressed them with a tert oath the most ocious tasteument of tyrec Dy, WED; pert & Constitution, if anopted, before it ‘Was acopted, and then, aiter vcing forced to gol the oar in Order to vote ut all, to have toe vot pot counted, be- cause tt was agrinet ot for what ho was sworn to support, if asiopten against his willt No. Geveral Washington pat down the insurrection ani he wonia bave made it no excrse for fraud, tjustice, ine- quality or oppression op the part of others who were acting under the color of lawful avthority. So the Topekaites ought 10 bave been mace to subinit to lawful autcorny, but © ope can contend that they forfeit 6 weir decu ® francois or their freedom of choice to isapprove or approve, (0 Tat'ry OF reject Aa organic law when eubmittes to them But were Topeitaite. 4 tO the Lecom ton constitution? Nd. Some pro- Blavery men were opposed to 4; aud this gchedule de ived them of their suvere ge right, as well aa the Tope ates Law ating crizens, &s well Pebel:, were compelled to vote fur sau mot sgunet (his constitution, or Rot te vote at ail. The wrong of the Topekaites will not ja tify the wrong of the Lecomptoa Convention, aor cure the defects of the Lecompton schedule, that reheoule? Its 11h section reads: — Kefore this consiiiution shal! mission into the U the whie male inbebi "an Terriiory for approval or disapprovel, as follows:- The Presitent of this Conven- tion sbull, ‘by declare that on the 21a day of bec 'm the different election pre 7, at the di cincts pow established by law, or which may be estab Hishe the Terriiory ot Kanass, aa elec reo presided. | ball be held, over = hiet shal tio: 1 preside three judges. or & majorivy of ‘bree to be ary vintes se tollowe @ Presitent of this Convention shall «po at three Comm ssioners in each | county ip the T-rrite bet) apport judges of ine’s pL ther res ve counties ony + of sy ton or re Now it must eure! sion ot the W:ole con The eubmistion of tue ae Cote in toe clause, a Way not lo be mictaken = And y not straoge thot Mr. Bichanan should bave mad take of saying in bis meesage, that the whole of th that is a pla awe! by the ¢ tis it mis Le i COMPLOD COVeNHULOD Was Dot and that a par, the very Clause xbon ited io the people? Wil 1 be said in reply 0 bow was Bub nitted only sub medo, Abs wep Gtiee manner avd form Well, let us look attoe | man er ae Phe manner an’ ioe i no siavery,"” dc There is no orber form touching this point bat thi, aud fs it uct pare still that the wuo'e constitution was ‘sub milled by the form as Weil ee by the preceding clause em Dooying the priveiple ot entire submission Wae submitted it form us well as eubstance, bot the form of eobmisein wae made to coma ict ue privet le ef sub: Mission The priveipie was sutminnan of the whole tor “approval or cisapproval,”’ tor *rati tation or r jection,” Dut the form wae for “approval” aud “ratification” alone, anc there was no form fur “dwapproval” or * Md Th The judges of said election { cause to be poll book jerks by them int.d th- shall be en | dorset, “Consiitution with siavery, oastivution wi. | { Blob of & part, for tbere w form approving of disap provwe. ratify ine oF rejecting slavery ? T beg pardon, and ‘Won't repeat that it Was aD O1i008 ciacriMiDAtiON Lo me Lo glow elavery alove to be dapproved and rejected, and Dotning clue Bot, g that by, is it uot piain, I re ply, that po one was allowed to vote for or aguinst #la Very, apart, vuless be would soo vote for the constitu tion, the whore of it without exception? Auy ove might vow to reject or to alopt siavery, provided he wouid vote to adort the constitution and uo one was allowed to vote for or againet siavery who did not vote for the whole con stitution «1. it pot piawn, then, that the object #as not to submit a yart ouly, but to force the adoption of the whoie? ‘The whole was not fi submitted. One thousand voters woot to be polls, pine bupered and ninety-nine might desire to vote ageivst the constitation, and one for it; the one would be counted and the nine hundred and BIDE HIDE Would Not be coated. The part as to slavery, which was «mitted for alter Baie voling, for aud against, was pot {oly submitted. he act aud deed of the | What ts | | | i} | | | | : | Bat che President offere an inducement tothe auti-slave yn is repeated twice | | | ountr aanct agree with the President, therefore, Ca gage ee impseeible that any prope could have proceeded with ore regularity 1 the formation of acc atitution thas the people Of Kansas have dove" The Penpic of Kansas have not Deen allowed to bold a fair, free, and fm | eleeuin stall, thongh the whole coustitution was pretendod to be submitted tothem — No, not uoon the part which the Ivesident says was alone subuilted to them You sce, gentlemen, that Larrive at these facts from the face of the record—trom the schedule itself. I den'¢ ys fase Kansas for evidences of fraud or aay other fret. 1 don t go bebind the schedule Wiich 18 abuexe) to the ¢ comp on constitution Weelf. “It shows on its face a fact stronger than avy proof, that the people dia not vata— ivenows that 1 Was imposaibie for them te vote thoir soveregn Wilin a fei, free and full election. Such an election CabHOL porsibly De held under such a sehe ale ‘This Congress is boun 1 to louk at. Tam bound io certain cases bo c&uge the soa) of thi State to be aifixe 1 to papers for the purpose of authentication. I have nv election. If ‘be paper is proper to be certified, I must adix the real. Lut seppose that 1 the act of authentication, by affixing the seal, Wappears to Me that there is.a doubt even whether the paper is the act and ceed of the party whose act hd deed it purporta to be. Mast Tnot inqnire whether it be what is not bis, Imay d) him irreparable damage. But suppose Chat it appears on the face of the paper | iteelt that it coulda’t be his act and deed—that he was not Ie tren agent. am 1 bound to cer- tufy that to be tis wet aud deed, which not oniy is not bat | could pot be his act and deed? Now, as I said im No | ber, ifthe Cozvention hed prociaimed ths constitution | ond’sent 2 to Congrosa, wotront submitting tt at all to the | People, thes Congress would Dave had simply the evi dence of the Convention the representative and agent, that this Was the authorized instrument of their principals ne people Ewidepee fo he coutrary wevld not have ppeared iu the recerd aud on the return itself, Aud we would Lot have yuthorizec, if you please, to go bo Jone the reture Convention or to bave taken evi dence aliunde or admitted a plea to matter dobara the record. vention cubtaited their constivution to popular approval or disapproval, ratifica tion or rey ction — It purports to be the act of the people— Lotof the envention oaly, but of the people aso. Tha Convention did net fully and firally adopt it, and this scbedule shows that the people did rot, because thoy could not, 85 iL Was proposed. It ts, then, neither the act of the Convention nor of the peoplo. It is,” in fact, adopt- ed by neither, and could not be Sy Ube latter. If Cougress received and adopts it as a State constitu: tion for Kansas, under these circumstances, will not Con gress be intervening to impore a cousticution upon a peo- pie which is not theirs? Will they not arbitrarily tater vene to decide a question which nelongs to the peooie of Kansas alone—to all and all allke allowed by law t> vote? Wero those who did vote allowed to vole against (ue con- stitution as well as for it? ‘We are told that we are to shut our eyes to the record What evidence have we, then, that it is @ con+ti ution at all’ We are toi1, then, that this is pot the time to raike the question, de facto, whether it is the act aod deed of the people of Kansas. When would be the tine—when was the time, if it be not the time now, to inquire whe- ther this is @ genuine constitution of the peuple of Kausas and whetber it is or is not republican, when these, ani these onty, are the questions before Congress? Why, it is asked, the issue of fact boen delayed so loogy 1 answer, bow could the issue be made up before: the returns were made ano the evidence appeared on the record submitted to Congress f Ab! but we ave told that it is inexpedient to raise this question at ail; that expedieucy requires Congress to de- cide the question. Wen was it mora ly determined that the nolicy 0: this nation sbould be govtrned by expe liency rather teap by justice or ngbty Rut what right has Sou- gress 16 Ret UD ite decrees Of expediency over and above | the sovereign rights of a peovle to free and fair elections’ Is expediency to be carr ed so far as to alow Congress to alervens so us to set its wil over the will of tha people of Kavsas, or to substitute ill for theirs, and to give a minority Constituticn «@ a majority? This would ba tuter vention with @ vengeance, in tbe teeth of uon-interver uot, +0 much exclaimed for by those who advocate this constitution. ‘ | the net and dead of tbe party? If Taflix autheotication w | \ Ty par'y ip Kansas by saying: “If a majority of them” Che péonie of Kansas) “desired to abolish domesiic Savery wilh the State, there is Do other possible mode by whir admission.” this cap be effectad so speedily as by prompt This bint is somewbat dangerous point of policy. It cats both ways. wheiber Uns commends itselt to pro-siavery gentle men Who are advoeating the “prompt admustun.”” Some Cl them once revealed iawa protecting and establishing slavery in Kansar, Dbey hac better not make it too ap parent the South that “prompt admission” would most y © the slavery there whick was restored by Bat this was pot the President's in It might be asked Seo fair meaving. He meant to say only that it was in his ecision. cpimien the speedies: way to Obtain @ fair vote by the peopie In other words, Congress ts to do a thing in order that t may be immediately undone, Why doit to be un- dove! is Congress to give the Territory a c sustication ob ous to & majority in order that that majority may have State rovereiguty to put it to the tortures of its imaiguanion: Why not rather ailow the sovereiga people directly aod @t once to select for themselves the form of government they preter, instead of submitting to their Passions a0 lustrument whch the argutnent aamits they abhor! Would it be less troudle, or take tess time, to reter the matter back to their decision, and to avoid the issues which might ani would arise wader an adopted sud gimitied constiiuioa which under takes to bind the vovereiguiy of tho ple not to charge ther form of Government before anno Domini 1864? By authonticating this in- vtrument by the arbitrary intervention of Congress, every sort of question of vested mgnt and of bounden sove- reignty wouic arise. Ky leaving the people perfectly free to elect their own form of govercment in their own way, witheut fear, force, frauc, or intervention, thoee issues Aud worse would be avoided. The agitation in Kansas would be intense, to adopt this Lecompton inctrument, and the excrement there would be roused ina new more fearful form than ever, aud remain still in Congress, Cabinet, and the country universally. the contrary, in my Tammany letter, tbat Congress ahould not deciie the question of fact, but refer it back to the Territorial Leg@iature for submis.ion under Territorial jaw, to che whole of the legal voters under a fair, freo, aud full election. Thi was done doth in the case of Wis- One thouran pro. iavery men might go to ts polls, de siring to vote for slavery, but agaist th ther votes could not be cuunted, and one free » Voted for the © patitution and againat slavery countec, ané overcome the mae hundred and a+ 4 pime Ii le wile to euy that this war ae fair for tne « side as the otber, for, tbough thie be eyuglly trae as the wine rd abd nwety nice free Soil roters agaist the one prosinvery voter, yet this would only | prove the care w be one of @ double insiead of a ingle Injustice Tt proves oniy it was & wrong, tnjarwus fecting beth sides and the whole peop'e, aud vo only ve (roth ie, there was obviously a sinister and anti repubtioan pury iving an unfair electioe as & part, coup ed & to che whole te forde the eopie to p constitution fra the Convert on jowed t) vote for » who did b copstitudon, ant oy man | was wllowed 10 your avery Who Wid Hot vote for the constitution He might reject slavery oF adopt it, pro vided be would vote for the constitution; and if be vou against We onstitution, bie Vote for or Mwnst slavery ae DOL Allow {to be © ted Thie wea votall Toe 14cb section is worse than the in iquity of the 11th — Breton 4 Every person Jofforing to vote nt the nforesald | election, upor the ® t nell if challenged take en ow be nt + United Sa ate thie f r the peo Just come out of a severe and doubtlus ent b ive Know Nothing reeret society, the mont Coos Jeature of #biD war a test oath.” Now Debola an Pours peacefu), iaw abiding citizen approach: lag the poll w Ka ue er ‘be scueduie. I imagine myself ab 0 1/4 SOuliM’® SB avebolder put to the ordeal of Chale g inder the cause of the schesule; | ata | to recor) my vote for my right to the Hitle property Lown: T am twit ght, by the grant of the a gb Lecompt ep. tovitef ror ugewat ocoperty to elaves; appre th th be the fight, !am challenged tie Bebe i bec out ro me W ewear fleet to “ support the comeututon of wwe Unite. site: task why impme oo me that oath) forge Chat the obligation is bindiag oa me that Five ant obey the coustitation consin and ot Michigan, under esses involving the princi plc of this case ot reference and submission Thisimposes: ho conaition Of aimiaeon, but receives the State igto the \ mon provisiupaily—provided only that the constitution is the will of he people fairly and legally polled. And why impore this constitution of a minori- on @ majority? Cut temo!’ Doom any Southern j cher imagine that this is a pri le ‘or suffers. b \ OT making @ slave State? Who believes now that | Kenta wil be made A slave state, or kept one for any | tame. by th admuesion of this constiivuon? Who will | carry a tluve (nere now to become a bone of coatention | ww a@ border war, the sport of violence and fraud and | force like that which has £0 long endangered persva aud pooperty and poutical iranchige in that unhappy battlo- | groune Cf sectional feadet To what ond is thee thing to | be done, if speedily it is to be wadeue with State antho Pity, crested 10 drive slave property from tho Territory? We have proucly, heretofore, contended only | for equality but if this be wantonly dope, with ¢ ke—the power of & slave State thereby it Wil be wore? than vain. It wi! be snatching power | per fos aut nefos, w be lost “speedily” with the ios of | Prmething of fur more worth than polities! vote:—our mural prestige. If weare pot willing to Go justice we can't aek for justice; if we can't agree to equality we must expect to be denied it. It is our bull goring toe aptislavery ox. Suppose we bad lad @ ma- | jority of elavebolders im that Territory; suppose | & minority of abolitionists bed gotten the census | and registry into their hands aod bad kept fifteen out of thirty four counties ont of the Convention ; suppose they bad formed & constiution with @ clause prom bitiag slavery, ao. bad sept it to Congress without sab mitung it to & majority of the legal voters; or suppore they had sub mitted al! parts of the constitution to the popalar vote, ex. cep! the one clause prohibiting slavery, knowing it wouid be voted duwn (f submitted to the majority of tae people: suppose such a boot om the other leg’ bad been submit ted to Congres® aod eo had then heard the abeoluteness of neonventen contended for by bisck republicans, de. | mending of Congress t) sustain the doctrine of « legiti- tmoacy: 1 tel you that every Southera maa would bare been in arms, and would be roused w the shedding of bicod, rather than submit to Congress fastening upen a majority of proriavery people an arbitrary rex rim of it ts cate the supreme law but being willing to 8 ipport SX was UO Vote for my property, 5 | & support it, but Fam told f ruast, io the Ve support the Lecompton oD F the pepaities of perjury under 40 oath ton pOs—to support a constitution, | eiopuvn I depounce the onetacle sop. It ie im vain, | must take it oF etected. I suppose-—the saypo je—I take the oath; Iam then, and then «my, erante! the privilege of votiog. I vote for ‘against the constitution. Iam then told that counted. yet tam sworn to gainet Stung by iasurt, and ay maddened to violenes by Injustion, inequality and iuswit aided to mnjury Is that my ectand deed? Is tat reyublioan’ [Kt Calirula wan a | tyrant fur posting ‘aw. too high to be reat by the Be People, What doer thir deverve to be callad, whieh puts the whole and a part iether, #0 that the minority for uf adopt to my freedom of leave my prowart OO be eh eket 1 go toe Whole msy prevail over @ majority for oF against ie it 1 and ieger A heeying the ear of the peo ple and brenkug it w no proud tree ike this, and # ful aud good ertzene t grievance. Bot the question is vot whether the Levonp top constitution bas bern oppomed an awfully, but ie it the act and deed of the sovereign people, whose it purports to Demand i it repubhesD ip ie subw'ssiou by the we’ Aod mark. too, that this sion i¢ to be sent to al. After tuking this determine whether he could, if the ole ew 4, oppewe it vefore Oougress, though senior it mt the porn. Hut ie urged in th: meauge that the people, if ope! tow constitunog’ may very tegbt bare vowed it out of the cometitetion on the Zl of Geormber. I deny that they conid have voted for oF aeaw y¥ under thie schedule, yoless they Fored ave for th svinvgo Ae Thave sail, nine bua- dred and owrty cine might have the pals aod Voted for oF ns vst invery, abd yet have been out-eoted by ove mao, i they voted agsinet the constitation and the our vores for it. Ibe word wh) Voted agatsrst the o could wots at How unfair, then, to urge thet these who w vd to the ‘covets Cation, thougt for or nmsion cinvery, stad away from the poila on the Zlat of Tcwaber, and lot the elec tion qo by default, Cuuld they have roted at all if they wore agninat ihe ovnrtivution ? Could they be counted fur | on nguinet elavery, unie-s they voter for (ue coustitution * | penple Feapormibie for not attending the | were no | theatre own way, and the minority of ome was given th yurand > They yee cali this ele has which of the two ‘‘at least to chose. ‘But bere ther @as 00 aliervative but in rexpect toslavery, ani that wae not aiiowed unlers you voted the one way on Abe COBrLto8 Hoch moumtrone 1 and lneqaality mover clipes the more! geuse Of freemen befor’ io thig » State wil | Kapese. What ie the Kansas question? mere covvention, auauthorized to prociaim its constite ion withoutan exprere grant. This is the same principie, accompanied by trickery and fraud. “ We are willing ¢o unto others az we won'd have them do unto us The Southern peon'e ask for BO injuatco— Lo inequality. We are te d that the “promot admission’ of Kaneasasa 1 the agitation ip Congress, aod localize it in Is it Ioeal to Kan. tur? No it oever can be local again. It has prevaied oll places and all clasees ig our country. Let Congrose on. dotee thie schedule of -gerdemmain, let the South indist oa tthe Northern democracy be required to comeent to (he injustice, and the precedent becomes of universal «p. Pication vod citation agaivet as forall time. Not only ‘will the example plead, but it will be a plea im contnons casce of wimtlar (maort and danger, rising successively as long me our vast territories tothe Pacide shal bo be filing op. Tt comer up again aod every year, from territories extending trom Mesilla Vatiey to Pacotah. er not ourselves, then, that any modo of adjustinent «tho “apeodiest” for Kansan Tt j= all 4! tbat the sttleny ot shall be just and right apd Tf not, it @ sure to be mischievous to thst part; wich hak snatched power without right, and doi wrong that good may come of t. To do justice is always the beet policy. If all would “demand only what ie right aod submit pething that is wrong’ injwtce aed Oppre sion could never be perpetrated 4. The ulterior effeeta of adopting the [n- back the questimn to tae Territorial Tt will arraign this edministeation and tho Cemocracy and the South for cemanding more thao is ght, aud for forcing resistance to wrong; wil be jagerre the lion of @ majority, whilst the hacd of @ nenerity 6 ip ite mouth, i will return the chalice to oar oro hy: when the Kansas qnestion again and again aries im North Jeane, fo New Mexico», in Meriila Valley, and in a] our bouediess doreon of unsettled and fan settling tor- roory, it wil drove from as thoasant+ of honest demo. crate (n the North. whoa willingly stand by us ‘or justicn end equality, Bot who must leave us when we demand “a And refuse Jastie and equality to others. It will rae the black republican flag over the Capitol in the nort etrugele for and that, then, will race the last dren ioe of union of diganion. Are not some aiming (9 drive WF \O Such extremities as will raise that isuo yaat being lad? For my part, gentlemen, I af. ens you aa the friend of \r Bochepan and iis administration. They hare my bert wishes and warmest friendship, and | would ave oth from danger and dereat 1 trust io their pure and patrootic motives, bot | regard mach more the demooracy, the South and the Union, and 1am anxious for thetr fata, As Sor myseil, [fear nothing when firmly standing on the right, in spite of friends and foes. 1 recerwed your letwer yerterday morning, and have written this in great haste, to be in time for tue mail this evening. Ya will foe that it is correctly pub lished. I have not time to revise and condense it HENRY A. WISk. To Jobn W Porney, David Webster, Daniel Dougheriy, @. Webb, , Committee. LETTER FROM SENATOR DOUGLAS. Waansorow Orr, Fob. 6, 14! Cprpamnr—| regres Wee) wy publg puuee bere wi I propsaed, on | | not permit me to be ‘osent end to participate with the democracy of Philadel ia in their demonstration against the : roporition to impose & constitution upon the pc opie of | | Karsoe againet their «il! | “Svar the Leccmpton constitution is pot the act of the people o’ Kansas, and that it coos pot embody the popular | Wi'l of that Terniiory, is pow covclusively and undeniably | | established by # vote of the people taken at a fair election, | held on the 4th day of sommes? 1858, in pursuance of ‘uw passed by the Territoriai Legisiature established by Cony that the Leeompton Convention, clothed with no other authority than that which it derived frm be | Territorial Legitlaiure, could ortain a constitution « d put | it ip force without the consent of Congress, and in | defiance and subversion of the authority of ‘the Ter- ritoria Legislature established by Congress, ts too prepos- terons to amit of argument. Under our political system + requires sovereisn power to ordain and establish consti intiops and govespmepts. While a Territory may aad sbould enjoy all the rights of velf goverament, in obed: ence to Ke organic law, it is net a sovereign power. ‘the sovereignty of a Territory remains in abey- . euepeated in the United States, in trust for the people when they become a State; and cannot « withdrawn from the hands of the trustee, ard vested in the people of a Territory, without the consent of Congress. The last 36 having withheld this assent by refusing to the bili recom. mended by President Pierce to anthorize the peuple of Kansas to form a constitution and State government when they ehould desira itand have the requisite population, the sovereignty of Kansas still remaing in abeyance, without any authority of the Territorial Legislature to transfer it from the United States and vest it in the people of the Territory, without the consent of cer bog Hence, I repeat, Lecompton Convent possesse 1 just euch autbority a the Territorial Legislature was com- pelent to confer, and, by the terms of the act, did confer upon it. and no more. The Territorial Le; ware did pot endow the Conven- tion with rovercignty; for ithac none to impart. It did ned even bestow the power of legislation; for by the or- garic act it wae vested with the egislative power of t! Territory, without the right to delegate it to a Couventi ofits own creation, Herce the Teeempton Convention wily pessereed the anther ty, derived from tae Tagisla- ture, to collect, ascertain and embady the will of (ae peo- ple of the Tey ritory upon the eubjec or admission inte the ion, aed to cend the same nk a momorial to Conzrees, under the clavse of the constitution of the Unived States whieh secures the right porcoably to assemble and peti- tion for a redress of grievances Such memorial, oven if it embodied the form of a State copatitution, Congress would be at liberiy to accept or re ject, according as it fairly repretenta, or mierepresents, the will of the people of the proposed State. The Territorial Legislature just elected by the voice aad votes of the scople of Kansai, believing this Lesomoton memorial or conatitution to bea frand upon the wishes and rights of the people of Kansas, assembiod and passe! & ‘ew submitting the inetrument to a fair vote of the people onthe 4th of Janvary last, at which election a majority of more than ten thoueand votes was recorded against it. With what show of justice or fairness can it be contend- ed, in the face of this vore, that the people cf Kansas do vot, and have not, in the most solemn manner known to “be laws, repudiated the Lecompton constitution as a wicked fraud upor their righte and wishee ? The enormity of this Leermpton scheme should not be concealed under the plea that the Convention declared the constitution to be in force, as the funcamental Jaw of Kan. . wi hout eubmission to the people (except the slavery article), and that, consequently , the authority of the Terri- torial Legislature waa superseded on the Zlet of Decem- her iaat. The Convention had no lawful aathority to su pervede the organic act of the Territory, by establishing 9 State constitution, withont the consent of Nongress. The attempt was not only uplawfnl, but if successful, woul amount to rebellion against the lawful authority of the United ‘tates, The power of the Territorial Legislature was ae complete op the 17th day of December last, when it passed the law submitting the Lecompton const: te the vote of the people, as it was on the 19th of Fobrua ry, 1857, when it passed’ the act calling the Lecompton Convent As the Convention possereed no power, except wh received from the Legistatare, it could do no act subvert: «ng or impairing the antbority of tue Legis.oture. Hence the actof the Legisiature submitting the whole constitution to the vote of the people, was just as valid anc binding upon the subject matter as the act of the same Legislature calling the Convention into exi 0. ‘The conc'usion is inevitable that the Lesotapt tution roes not, and never » POssees any Vitality or authority, for two reasona: First, the Convention not being vested with sovereign power, could not put it in opera tien; acd, second. that the same legislative autnority which called the Convention into existence passed a iaw, hefore the constitution was to have takes eflect by its own tering, for its submission to the people, and provided that if a majority of the votes should be cast azainat it at that election, it was to be null and void, not ouly as a constitution, but even as 4 memorial to Congress, We are therefore forced irresistibly to the conclusion that the Lecompton constitution, whether viewed in a jegal and technical sense, or as @ memorial professing to ‘en body the popular will of Kansas, should be repudiated by every democrat who cherishes the time honored prin ciple of his party, and is determined, in good faith, to carry out the doctrine of elf govercment and popilar sovereignty, ag guaranteed in the Kansas.Nebraska act by the Cincinnat: form. S& A. DOUGLAS. LETTER FROM HON. THOS. L. HARRIS, OF ILLINOIS, Hovex Or Revioxentatives, Feb. 5, 1858. GestiemeN—Your letter of invitation to attend and ad- drees ® grapd democratic mass meeting, to be held in Thvladel) on Monday evening next, ‘to protest against the attempt to force upon the of Kansas a constitu. ti jous to them, and to give force and volume to the judiie feeling around ue, which that no democra- tic representative in Congress shali vote for this giaring fraud,” ie received. 1 assure you, gentlemen, that no thing would give me greater pleasure than to im your meeting, called, as T am sure it is, from the most pati ictic motives, But my post of duty is here, and what- ever wy bumble efforts may be able to lish, to in~ | sure a full and just expression of the popular will in Kan- ag upon their organic law, will be done. I shail pursne © path of duty which lies plain before me, careless alike of depupeiations and blandishments, from whatever quar- ter they may ceme. LT hold it to be sound democratic doctrine that no Ne | possessed of an equa'ity of rights can yield up thore rights | or their Liberties, either to inoividuals or society, by mere | impheation. To constitete government, s grant of power is in | diapersable, and to obtain it in a manner consovant with our | democratic theory there must be # surrender made by the people; bot such surrender can go not one hair's brea ith beyond what is specifically stated. When citi- zens vote “yes” oF “no” oma proposition to call a Con- vention, i# it to be amid that they thereby sanction in ad- vance whaterer such Convention may see fit to do? When the people vote for delegates to such conventions, do they thereby ratify and confirm irrevocably the action of sbody not yet constituted, which can, if it choose, dis. franchiae nine tenths of them, and destroy system and institutions which are universally cherishes. or fasten wpoa them such as are abborred? Does avy democrat claim for conventions such powers as these? Is thers @ citizen of apy State who wou d concede such powers to any lelegate boty on earth? If not, why permit a boly i men io a Territory, just on the point of emergence iniosovereignty—and a bedy, too, aaid not to have been elected from the whole body of the people, but to have a consti- aod heen spawned into being from corructed ballte—to fasten or attempt to fasten upon an outraged and protess ing pubbe an organic law against their will? Feteralism in it* rankest form never enunciated a doctrine more Lest'le to republican Iherty. Tt is often said that there are numerous precedents where constitetions have been formed and put in opera ton without submierion to the people: buat before euch fe etances can be citeu to justife the admiseion of Kansas ander the Lecompton compound, it mast be “hown that (p these cases, 1140 aa in Kansas, three fourths of the people were opposed to such constitutions. But a such exam ples caw be found The citation of a preced: where a cousttntion bas been framed and enforced open a people, three fourths of whom were utterly hostile to its provi sions, may be aafely defied; and if snch examples ena'd be found, they would be more honored in the breach than ip the obrervance. 1 think Mr. Rando!ph was right when, in the Convention of Virginia, in 1439, speaving of the voters who eleated the delegates to the © aventiun, rad If they shall ageent to this const tution—if they shall choone is an end of the mater ir, 1) Patty it well and good, ther thew’s in the power, though cheir's will not be the glor; i119 8 plain ka any proposition of Raclid; sir, it ts plain iaept tha’ no pewer om earth save that f Aion derives all ite authority to propose hem faily pronounce on the ralidity of our or decide upon the acceptanee oF rejection of such con fon as we shall make Thove of bo think Ot to differ with the administra. tion upon this question, are etigmatized and abused by ite hireling and plemd preseea as renegades and demagogues. We shall not be detrred from our course bf ary suchelanders. We shall act up to our feasts democracy, and abide by the doctrines of the Kansas Nebraska act and the Cineinnsti platform. I have not yet come to the belief of imfal!iibitity in those high in state, and whenever | cannot agree with them, I prefer to follow my own senve of right rather Uban play the hypocrite w enjoy the sinitee of power. Ido not believe there aro half adoven members of Covgrees from the North who wonld yo {vr the ac mission of Kanses, under th « Lecomp ton constitution, were it Rot that tho President desires chem to do 80 Firmnes? in an executive is acommendable quality General Jackson porsesaet it in an emioent degree, but there was one peculiarity in al! hie positions—he aiwara went with the marses of the p= ple, never ngainet them— hence he always triumphed. The marres of the peopla— the quiet, reading, reflecting, unfanatical masses of the democracy-—are, with all their soul, their min’, and strensth, anytelding!y set againet this monstrous injustice ecompton movement anid no oxora- popular. ny politician, no statesman, how live, however ever exalted, can satiefy them to cadure of tolerate the outrage. They will bold to a fearfol responsibility all such as sanction and vorove thie revival of ancieat ted eraliem, as applied to the government of Kansas. ‘The struggie in which we are engaged has a more ox tonai¢e appheation then tothe Territory of Kanens. The principles for whicd we contend are to be applied in all pinser and through alltime. It isnot, in any strife betwern North and So7th—between slavery and ita enemies—althongh the array of pari in Congress would, at firat view, seem so to indicate, It it a question which involves the whole do-trine of popalar fag etd yy 4 white men. In that vense pm mn Your views correspond with those Ihave #0 bartl'y and ronghly expressed, 1 bid God epeed in your efforts, THOS. 1. HARRIS Grrard, THe, Lrow-Kitten, Prorarny Krinurp ny a Lion. 1 correspondent of the Courrier des tats Unis, writing on the 14th ult, says A = piece of rews ham Teeelved to day by several of the garrison. It was brought from Marseilles by the Al steamer. Gerard, the bold chaseewr, known Mr. Booby Brooks at Home. J. G. Besnerr, BQ. Sim:—You would really be doing a service to the public by inverting the following. T eaciove the parageaoh there- in reterred to. W. A. COLLINS, 25 Naseau street. 70 THE KDIVOR OF THR HERALD. Sin—My attention was sccidentally calied to a para- graph in the Morning Express of Tuesday, entitled “A Sanctimonious Rogue." [From the Express.) A BaNCTIMONIOUS KOGUE. Furope cfiex vomits upeu us rogues, but it seldom ‘womita upon Us 70 sauCUMontoUS A rogue as the one we hava now to describe. ‘A Welshman, whose name is Jobn F. Foulkes, and who signe bimeelt Joo. T. Foulkes, came to this city about ear age, as be eays, last from Parta—probdably true—as e bad deen, Apparently some gentleman's valet there, or elsewhere. ‘He spoke Weisb fluently , English almost per- fectly, az} ui dersteod a ttle Freoch. He rrotve English remarkably well, and got up a very exellent letter, which would tke ip almost acybory. He tried to live ia Brook- lpn, but tailirg im the hard times of the past autumn of securing @ living anywhere, be opgaged himself, in on apswer to ap advertisement, as @ house servant on the Fifth avenue. He worked himself in by very well written recommencation:, especially from - Tish aud Welsh ciergymen, which were doubtless all forges; but, as even these were not to be trasted without some veritabie person in the city to vouch for him, he either got or feigsed to get, a city recommendation, which carried his point, bad presiously rey himself to the Welsh Methoawt church i thie city, Muiberey street, to the worthy pastor of which he broaght an appa rent! proper cocument and voucher from the other side, Which, too, was probably forged, and tbis secured him & moderate standing ip the church — This ‘pisty,’? and this chureh-standing won for bim confidence ir bis Fifth ave- nue place, and if bia brains bad been proportioned to his “piety,” weuld bave given bim confidence almost un Hipited, As it wae, however, though he had the usual deheiercies of recucs im the upper story, tbat is, common acbre, he nevertheless was taken into Digh favor, and lis place was mace for hin as easy as possible in every way. On Thur-dey vight be was allowed inva’ ably to go to Schavel,” e great point: with “the rogue,” and ‘the Sab- bath’ was made so holy" for him as to leave bim but very Hilue to de but Sto worship!—the de il, Indeed, young Foulkes 0: came 80 good, so useful, and was ec “genteel,” Uhat the ladies of the house took him at tin ce as an eFccrt to places of amusement, in the necessa- ry absence, op business, of husband of father, His ‘con. pivoee” wasratber hort at hetng takes to the Ooera two or e times, but, for the sake of :he ladies, he hoped that, as “obeying Sour masters’ was in the Scriptures, he would be forgiven. Such a servant, of course, was @ “treasure on easth'—servant, ercort, beau, &e , &c.—the mere bumbis the more exaluxt, But he soon illustrated apcther text about earthly) treasures. When be wan'od to go out, and have a Jog stay out, the postman brought Dim a letter, te:lirg bim some piteous tale of cuty, neces- sity or m'sery, which, upon being shown to the mistress of the houre, relieved him from all sorts of work. It is hardly necessary to say the worthy John wrote to the worthy Joho hinseif —and the postman only brought the worthy Jobn John’s own letter. The rogue was great on forging letters, aud kept the whole bousehoid ia com motion by bia skuful peomanship or caligraohy. The tricke upon bis servant associater would haif fill a news- paper. To doall this, however, and to keep up character atcbopel, ¥as difficult, but Job did It all by such ietters the following to bis minister Firta Avesva. Drar MR ——:—I was very sorry io be noable to atiend chapel as L promised Gn Thursday I was obliged. to escort Mr. ——— and lady to ‘he tkeatre, wed wait until they came Out, and 1 Wee utierly impossible tor me to come. On Sun Oy, ae usus] unneceRsmry Work Was givin, w Lieb T will ex- plaib when Tse you. Please not te d-ub for s moment that it Dy of my feult or carelessness on . Vdor itend to slay here longer thas Toon get avother aitusion TE will endeavor 10 come on Thursday evening —( am very glad when | think thai God iv everywhere and that be is ready to Learken (o ® prayer from & ch-mber as from & church, aud although Kept {rom gotvg to the house of ved, there 1 something im my ba: ri that nobody ear take ore lace. Please to remember in your prayers, Tm, iv great we, Your obedier t servent, SNOT POULAES, Well, Jobn went on with bie piety ane bis trieke. but ended them all a few days since~ by unsuecessfiliy at tempting to break irto hie mistress’s wardrobe, to steal ber j2welry—tailing in which, bext morning he decarped with 8 conisderable sum of movey intrusted him to pay & bu'cher’s bill, and so sold binself thus cheap. Ho is ® sweet, soft spoken, slick, slippery regae, in wise wouth but‘er would ‘scarcely melt, and be seléom, “when ov duty,” speaks above a whisper; but when off duty, he can ing like the biggest bull frog. He is re- ported to bave a genius for circus riding, or tumbling and may turn up as clown. His complexion is fair, formalight, and bis air and mapper quite gentee). It may be necessary | to add that the church with which be reported himself to | he connected, be never bad anything to do with, beyond promising to appear there, but never appearing after the fire’. exe of the church’s credit and honored nawe. Now, as I happen to bave been the “city reference” of the ‘‘sanctimonious rogue” therein mentioned, and to have known him for nearly a year past, I claim the pri Vilege of stating & few facte in my own defence, ax well ‘3 on bebaif of, I am convinced, an injured young man Ifiret knew young Foulkes in Brooklyn. He was then in partnerebip with a Frenchman, whose arquaintaore he had made cn board the ship that brought him to this coungry a short time previous, Having seme spare cash when be landed, be and the Frenchman started a grocery in the basement of the house where I resided; but this co Partnership did not Inst long—the Paris gentleman pos- ‘sessed more brain’ than the young Welsh lad of nineteen, and the consequence was the Frenchman manage to tora, him out, and now, ! believe, carries on the business on his own account Foulkes subsequently soon became destitnte, and haying known his circumstances, and forming a pretty high opi nion of his character, | offered him casual employment in | my office anda home in my own house til! be should find something better, both of which he glatly accepted. Things went on thus for several weeks, but being a young man of independent spirit, he determined to accept of any situation, however menial, whers he could earn hie own livelihood Seeing an advertisemect in the Brenirg Exprest some time last fall for a man servant in « house in the Fifth avenue, he applied for it,in waut of anything bettor. [He was desired to call oa Mr Brooks, | the editor, and was there given to understand that the “house in Fifth avenu as Mr. Brooks’ own. Mr. Brooks was well pleased with bis appearance and certifi cater of character, and I being his referce, stated how long I bad known him, my opinion of him, &e., which were per fectly satisfectory to Mr, Brooks. Ho immediately entered upon his duties with that bonorable gentleman, but eoon fourd the situation would not at all suit. Mr. Brooks says that his (John's) ‘conscience’ was much hurt at being “oblized to escort the young Indies to the Opera,” but “Job” told me a different tale. Instead of his “con science” his stomach was much hurt; and if be was obliged ‘against his will to go to the Opera’’ he was also | obliged “against his will” to go without the necessaries of ‘ife, Mr. Brooks talks ironically of hi “genteel.” “gentee!”’ after going to Mr. Brooks’—e0 “gentesi"’ as to ‘be the mere shadow of bis former sell. He bas assured me be aod the rest of the servants have been obliged to | steal bread of meat, when they had @ hance, to assuage the pange of hunger; but they hadn't often a chance as the Hon. Mrs. Brooks took good care to have all the refuse of the family ‘dle under lock and key, #0 a not to be ex. travegantly wasted. Jobn didp'tat all like this sort of economy, ro looked sharply around for another situation, and to enable him to get out of doors of the “house in Fifth avenue’ to see whether there were replies to his letters of application, be was reluctantly compelled to invent stories of having to go to chapel. which war the only excuse Mr. Brooks would listen to in such a case, Tam, therefore, not at all curpriged at the denouement. Such treatment as John received at the ‘house in Fifth avenge" would drive most young men of epirit to deepe ration, What with cleaning stairs, helping to cook, brushing beote, scting as porter, scrubbing the floors, want of food, &c.—all for the purpose, no doubt, of eco: omy and to make him still more “gentee!""—Jobn’s life ‘ecame unbearable. 1 know thathe was mush in want of clothing. His boots were just about dropping off bis feet; yet be could put get money to buy a new pa In conclusion, | would ask Mr. Brovke the amount of the “considerable sum’ Jobe is stated to have mate away with Re sary war to pay bis bateher’s bill Job happened to rail upor me one day he was sent out w pay the usval teonttuy butcher's bill, It was for De cember of Janvary. and the ameont #at about $7: four Pd of meat was tbe bighest item I could vee, As Mr. oke #, Tam informed, in the custom of retaining in bia hands “as security” comridersble part of the wages of hit servants, Tbave reason to believe that John merely took thie method of paying bimselfand taking French leave L have trespa much on your valuabe space, bat T felt very indiguant at the abuse gratuitous'y heaped on the head of a poor youth, who, T am convinced, ie more finned ngainet than “ipning—ae T Ormly believed, antdo believe, all that young Foutkes has stated W. A. COLLINS, 26 Nassau street, Tor Locrers—A Prorurey. of the Warhington /nteltigencer writes aa follo in regard to t! ¢ locust ip 1658:—As many persons are inquiring of me where the locu-t# will appear this year (1868) please permit me to inform them through your columns that they will appear in the State of Missinaippi, and wil! oc cupy the whole western portion of the State, from the Missisipp: river eastward to the ridge land that divides the State, running north and souttr, averaging about forty tive miles from the river: they will extend ne aod south the boundaries of the State, and will most probably north warily into ® sinail portion of southwestern will also appear ina 100 of the # \iheast ssetion of Louisiana, articntaety in the pariaber of Vast and Wet Felictana. They will no doubt extend ivi» «ner parishes information the Souivers tribe vada velng ro very | No wouder, poor fellow, he got particularly | Encreachments on the Battery. BUILDING PIKES WITHOUT AUTH KITY—STATEN ISLAND FERRY NO SOUKCE OF KKVENUE TO THE CITY—TESTIMONY OF GEOKGK LAW ON THK SU! JKCT, KTC., ETC. ‘The Aldermanic Committee on Ferries held a moeting yesterday morpving Alderman Adams called upon the Clerk to read the resolution in regard to the Mega! com- struction of @ pier on the public ground at the foot of Whitebali street, and on the Battery ground, by tae Staten Isiand Ferry Compaoy, and also the communication from A.C. Flagg, the Comptroiier, on the subject of deriving bo benefit from the occupation of the piers and grounds cccupied by the company. When the resolution and communication had been read Alderman Adams ssid to Jacob Smith, lessee of the Ferry Company that ho was going to take his testimuny reiating to the illegal building of a slip on the pubiic ground near the Battery, or on what was and sbould be a portion of the Battery. Mr. Smith—It is no use for you to swear me, because I know nothing in relation to the matter, good or bad, Q. Do younot remember the time that boats commenced to run to Staten Island? A. No; it might be ten years ago. 3 Do you not remember the time that this pier of which we are speaking was built? A. | don’t remember when it was built. Q Can you have been a jersseo of the Ferry Company and yet not remember when the encroachment was made on the Battery? A. I don’t know when the pier was wade. (Iaughter.) Alderman Adams pow turned round to George Law, who by this time bad also come into the presence of the comm tee, ang sad—Mr Law you must know something about the doings of the Staten Island Ferry Company, ‘George Law— Yee; Lam President of the company. Aicermen Adams—You have no objection to be sworn, 1 suppose? George Law—No, sir, Mr. Law was then sworn by Alderman Adams, after which the investigation went on as follows:— Alderman Aéams— Mr Law, you say you are President of the company that runs the boats to Staten leland ¥ Geo. Law—Yee, sir. Alderman Adam:—There bas been a pier built on the public ground, which was formerly # ion of the Bat- tery: did you build that per? George Law—No; I dl build that’ pier. Alderman Adams—Ras there ever been stone landed on that pier? George Law—No, sir. Aldefman Adams—Did not a boat ccntiaxe Janding there from the time it was finished t the present time? George Law— No, tir. Aldermen Adame— Were you not aware that it was a violation of the law to establisn a ferry there at ally Geo. Jaw—No; | was not aware that it was a violation of the Jaw to establish the terry Alderman Atam — Who was President of the Ferry Com pany at the time of its beivg established? George Law— lbave been l resident ever since the company was organ- ized Alderman Adams—And do yeu not know who built that pier, or the t me it was built’ Georpe Law— Nenber, 'r. Alcerioan Adams—And yet you are President of tho company that rons the boats there, and have been since the ccmpar y was establishes t George Law— Yes, tir. Aleerman Adamwe—Was that pier built vy your au- thority # Gere Lew —No, cir. Alderman Acams—Were you not the contractor for the Patiery evls.gemert? George Law—I bad rothing to do with the Battery en. Jargement vit ater it was done, and Tam not the prim- ¢ pal contractor for the Battery enlargement. Alderrrtn Adoma—W 1) you not tel us, Mr. Law, what you know alout he builcing of this pier? George Lew—I will answer any questions Aldermar Adoms—The committee was cown thers at | the Battery and roti thea feery, and thought that it was a crrect viclation © the iaws that regulate the city to have a ferry boat inpeipg at that pier, aod they determined to introduce a resciuuep to the Board of Alcermen op the sunject. Is the ferry not regy arly establisbed for the Last two years without pay ing any revenue to the city f George Law—1 dou t know. T had nothing to do with it Ubti) atver che Haturry was enlarged. Aicerman Adams—Who lad the ‘erry at first? Jlaw—Mr. Vanderbilt owned everything that ut the Pattery in that place at first, and his Dots landed st that pier, but certain paries bought Mr. Vanderbilt out, aud the ‘present ferry compsay bought them out, and their boats are rupping sull. J beiieve Mr. Vancerbiit brit @ pier tor laudicg bis boats there, which were brizg ing #tope for the bu kdipg of a wall. he retused to bave the wall built for which the stones were landed Alcermen Adums—Was there pot an iron gate and a £00 Gea Of stone work there that bave been removed by the ferry ecmpany? George Law—I do pot know. Alcernar Adams—I thipk, Mr Smitb, you could tell us @cmetbirg ubout thia ferry and pier if you felt melined. Jacob Smith—I don’t know anything at all about it. George Law-You will find, I thipk , some account of the wall and iron gate in the report of the Street Commis- tiover, for i they were removed it must have been by hie directions Alderman Adame—Well, if we cannot hear anything more abeut the matter we mnust make out our report to the Board with the knowleage we have, I think we had better adjourn the committee till another time, when we cen have more winesses. We must try to have Mr, Furey, and Mr. Fwen, the surveyor, present, as he bad a todo hye the maiter At this stage of the proceedings an adjournment took place til this morn'ng at 11 o'clock Hartferd County barbs ng Association Defal- cation £5,000 KEWARD FOR J. W. SREYMOUR—THE ASSIGN- MENT. From the Bartford Times, Feb. 9.) ‘The Boar? of Directors of this aseeciation mot tact (Mon day) evening pursuant to adjournment The Committee of Invesnget op reported that they bad made an examina tion ™ the securities and condition of the company, and that the reeu't of their labors way be stated as follows: — Asrets sense . $430,553 20 Stock notes. {000 00 DB isis crssscsseresoaens cee oe +1 408,553 20 Loses Notes and bondestolep............979,110 98 Note collected and not celivered. 86,000 CO 96 sheres Mercantile Bank stock erred by Seymour—morey etoled .. 66. 46e * Depreciation of securities 50 shares company’s stock. Asrets OD HANG. ees eee es vvevseees " ‘Of thene pasts tho commiliee are ‘of the opin $56,042 may not be collected in full. They are that sme part of this dovbtfal sum may be co Hut ruppowe it im all ioet, the account will sand Atrets op band,.... $295 804 83 Not good .... 56,642 00 Collretedia fends ow band $239,222 83 Add vowie of Mr. Seymour | Ade property attached, about Available Mnde.,....ee. secescsecees. 9250224 33 The amovut of deposite ix $589,000, or very near that | sum, Dot IDciuding interst due yn them. The low, then, supposing the entre eum of “doubtful” assete (856.642) is lost, ‘within a fraction of 33), per cent, or one- there of th its. Enough should be coliected of the “doubtful * to yay the expences of settling the af. | faire of the institution, and tt will be borne in mind thet | the collectabie areets of $239,000 are now crawing interest. The depreciation on the investments of the company ($47,- | C00) ie precicatedtupen be present prices in market, com. | pared with the price paid for the seouriies purebaasd. | The tendency i prices on some of tuese securities i up re as tomnetbing more than the prevent value may be i ae The actual smovnt rtolen by Mr be $143,610 #3, Tp this ie inchided value of nine ty five ebares of Mercentiie Rank stock, waich be tranr- ferred as Wensurer of the sxecation, and appro; the money to he own use, withowt making any record of the transaction upon the becks of the company He kinaly permittee Ove shares of the 100 owned by the company to remain jo the name of the Corporation. Mr. Feymour war Preedent of the Mercantile Bank, and it te claimed by the directors of that tnetituben they joe nothing by bim did he manage to come out #0 clean th hie trapractions with the bank? We received the foliowing telegraphic despatch yester- day, (Modes) — Avovera Geo., Feb. 7, 1868, ALF. Bewn—Met J. W. Seymour at Columbus, Georgia, 3d inet., em rewle South. J. BURT. ‘Mr. Burt # one of our citizens, and knew Mr. Seymour well. When he met bim, be probably did not know that be was a defauiler, running away from justice. But when Mr. Burt arrived at Augusta, be probab.y read the vews: Bever enouent of the detalcation, aud at vace telegraphed oe nbove ‘The board leet ever ing, unacimourly resolved to offer a reward of five thousand dollare for tbe delivery of Mr. Sey mour tt Hartford. hey also resolved to assign all of the assets of the in stiotion to W. N. Matson, Eeq. The alfhirs of the corpora. ton will of courre be legally rettled, and the inatitation Wound Up, under the tirection of ibe Court of Probate ‘This is the pubstance and the result of one of the most celiberate been expore that peng the stupendour (raude and crimes @ recently cursed the country Axornen Murpern ny A Boptist Pasacnen.— We briefly notices the dlecovery of th» body of Mrs. Wary # Torley, in Coal river, Kavavba county, Va, with ® beqyy stone etiached th rope. An ioqueet waa subeequentiy beid murdered by ber bu: bend, P&T who hae heen ar- rested immediately after the bovy was found. The Kana. Reputicon Turniebee the wi joined detaile of thie shocking sifair—He had made no attempt to eecape. no doubt resting guite eatiefied that he had placed the body ih too secure & place to be found: indeed, he bad pat ont ap advertisement offering a rewerd of $50 Tor any one who would find hie wile, dead oF alive. She ighiy e8- twemed by ber neighbors, and waa of an excellent far im Furnas county, by the name of West. From the time phe was missing. great excite ment prevailed in the neigh- borhood, and expecially during the inquest of the jury— Any decided Movement towards lynebing of the hasbaad in Custody Would probably have been carried by the inrge crowd present. Suepicion had from the beginning attached vo Torley, for murcering be wife, He w in our jal, and will Deve bie examination at the County Court on the 15th inet. Free S Turvey had for eevera! years been a proach. er in the Baytiet choreb enjoyed the confitence of bis ACquaAbtene:s but abut two years 5 church, commenced a grocery, and gel it to exceer, gambling and ‘bad our Wile was in the wa ‘his was | at the time that Mr. Furey was Street Commissioner, and — Seymour appears to | d (he mort wicked robberies that hae yet | verdict pondered that ehe wag | i | Execution tn §t. Lawrence County To-Day. | AMES B. ELDRIDGE TO BK HUNG Yow 1HS MUR \ O¥ 84RAH J. GOULD. James E. Eldridge, a young echoolmaster, in accordance with the sentence of the Court will be hung to-day, im the Jail yard st Cantou, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., for the murder by poison of a young widow to woom he waa engaged to be married, bamed Sarah J. Gould, Fldridge isa vative of Canton and is but twenty-one years of age. Ais victim, Mrs. Gould, whose maiden pame was Surah Jace Lougherz, was twenty four years old at the time of ber death. She was a respectable asd worthy young woman, of considerable personal attraa- tious apd a lively and cheerful temperament, residing, after the death of ber husband, with ber uncle at Lous ville Landing, N.Y. Upon his return from Iowa, Eldridge weut to Louisville, whore he obtained employment as the teacher of @ district school, a suspicious circumstanes being thathe assumed the alias of Fdwia Aldrich, Be mado the scquuintence of Mra. Gould, and she svom be- came the object of bis particular attention. In March he became a boerder in the family of Mr Bris- ton, the uncle with whom Mrs. Gould resided, aed be made in April following a formal proposition of marriage, and asked for the svuction of her relative and protecter, which was accorded. In answor to tho Seapiries oe Mr. Brittor respecting his pecuniary condit‘on, he stated that he ownet «ix hundred acres of land in lows, father owed to bim $1,500, and that be was remaiuing im Tovtaviile for the purpose of receiving $1,000 or mene from his fatber avd brother, with which to purchase Dorses to be taken to the West on speculation, Up to this time the genoral health of Mrs. Gould ba@ Deen good. She had, however, for a few weeks past been affecto! by # Flight congh, for which ahe bat takem medicine, She had never complained of any injurious éffects from the use of this medicine; her slster had par taken of it twice; and Kidrdge himself once. But upem tbe morning of the 26th of May she complained to her aunt that her medicine diengreed with her, She after- wards yorted matter of a dark green color, She them | rested upon a lonpge in the sitting rooto, her betrothed attending upon her. She had several fits of vomiting, Purging, with symptome of great thirst aud a burn Bg Sensation in the stomach. A physician was called, whe attributed ber ircieposition to vitiated bile. Dering the day E'dridge bad been almost constantig with her, administering to hor most of the medicines or drinks which she took, On Saturday afgernoon, May 30, the patient died, wholly unconscious of the cause of her death, and, mthe last effort of. expiring nature, em’ anc affectionately kirstog the autbor of her ruln and the covutriver of her death, Sbo was buried on the next Mea- dav, Eldridge following ber remains aschief mourner, amd aprearing to be in a disconsoiate state of mind. Rut the avenicions of the Britton family were ah excited, On the Sunday subsequent to the burial of acoroner’s inquert war beid upon the remains, the maim resnit of which was the di-covery of the pregnency of the victim. On the eame evening, baving been cl with having bad arsenic in bis possession, ho repeled the accusétiop with an oath. He then left the house, pre- ‘cce'ed to the reaidence of a Mr. Lough'y, about two miles Gistant, asked for a lodging, went to his room with a tam. bler of water, and was found the next morning hep | in great distress. He was charged by the pb sictan call with hewing taken arsenic, of which, indeed, thers wad unmistakable evidence, and be afterwards admitted that be had taken a teaspoonful. He wat,a few cays after, arrested, and upon being taken into custody behaved with great levity. A subsequent examination of the remans of Sareh—of a more scieotific nature than the firat —absolntely demonstrated the pretence of arsenic im the body. nes The Texos Legisiature on the Admisston of Kansas and Slavery Agitation, We have received in document frm a report of a com mitteo of the Texes Legislatare on the “Admission of Kaneae,’ and a report and treatise, presen same body, op “Slevery and Slavery Agitation.’* The report onthe adm/ssion of Kansas pitches tate | Gov rnor Walker asa traitor to the South, for unwar- ractably promulgating the idea that, from the nature of the soil and climate, slavery col! pot exist tn Kanwaae— deterring Southern mém from taking slaves there, amd for other unorthodex statements in bis speeches, concluding witn the asseriicn that the resignation of Walker rendered unnecessary any farther acti than @ full and dectted condemnation of bis conduct, After giving a hictory of the eventa in Kaneas, & series of resolutions was presemt- ed favoring the admission of Kansas with the Lecomptoa constitution, binting at disuniop, and providing for the appointment and payment of the expenses of delegates te aSombers Convention “to preserve equal rights and pro- feet the de ‘tie institutions of the Southern States,” im cave the admission of F. nsas under the [ecompton consti- tution is denied The report on “Slavery and Slavery Agitation” is ac- compavied by a scries of rerolutioas introduced by Mr. Kirowp, of Galyeston, cefending the system of slavery from e're Biblics! arguments, and resolving that the represen atives of the State in be instructed te urge the repeal of all laws and the abrogation of ail trea- PaaS gheny sin the importation of African slaves into the Southern States, and providing for the hamanc conducting of the slave trace, 6 o mmittee to who n this was re- | ferred reported against taking any action, accompanying their report with a review of the slavery agitation. bow frem statistics, that of the importation of slaves nto Southern States from 1804 to 18(8, over ten to one were imported by Northern and transatlantic owners, and that, with the exception of the accessions of Texas. Lovisiana and Florida, since 1808, the only increase has | heen the natural jacroaso of the slaves themselves, Tha | Committee defend the system of Southern slavery, as of by benefit tothe negro, They review the assaults made by Norther) abolitiovists upon the justituton from 1787 to the prevent time, and attribute tho growth of the agitator to the cupidity of Great Britain concaiy- ing the Idea of nlant ng the United States in the growth: ‘of cotton by the «coed labor in her possessions in the | Fast, and believing ‘et to that end it wax necessary to | certroy save labor his country. They reprasent | slavery 9s eesential to Soath and benoiteial to the negro. Accempacy ing the r | ex Governor (now Senator) Nes one of the leaders of West Ind the system of African slavery tn (he ‘ight of nature, mo: rality, politien! economy and the demrat= of eivilizetion. He sondemrs the measures to suppress tho slave trade as increaritg te horrors of the middle pas-.ee; wastaims the system from biblical argumepts: shows the rocialt effects of slavery to be for stability and peace and the exclusion of the many isms that aiflict the North; pro- nounces free Iabor cheaper than paid labor; denies the } allged crnelty to the slaves declares that Southern slaves are in a more promising physical and moral condd- Pneliah laborers; asserts the entire fiilure of the of West India emancipation, and exprowes the ation of the South to defend their slavery to the several letters from ravn to Mr. Clarkson, vancipation, defending . v Crov—-Frrvct oF Tre —The Terento Glebe aaye:—The extraer- y neldnert ef the winter. thos far, has deprived the I fields of their neual covering of now and exposed the plant to grent danger from the alternate freezing nad thewirg of the surface We noticed yeatercay that the sof the previews right, which was more severe tham venal. bad gtven to the fields a color quits different from tbat of afew Cnye neo. Winter wheat in Canada ie siwaye a surer and 9 better crop when it basa good covering of snow. Wo fear, from present appearances, that next year's crop will prove ashert one, Mion Wearver diner * Nawes or Some ov tae Loet on ree Steam Cononns. Croseman, =The folle ‘ Known to have been lort—Capt. Converse, one fireman. | Alexander Martin, barkeeper; Mrs, Green: Mra. Durki of Chicage; Mrs. Taylor and ebild, ; .. Cheever, St Louis; Richard Johnson, clerk; Wilson Ferris, Net; Mr. Lowe, mate; Jobn B. Canada, steward, of Pitts- rg; Mre. Walia and child, St Louis; Mrs. Daniel, aad seven deck paxeengere. From Noernenn Mexico.—The Brownsville, Tex- ae, Flag, of the OT nitimo, eays —From the Mexican site we bave intelligence that Gov. Garza and Gov. Vidaurrt, | of Nuevo Leon and Cosholla, bave mutually settied all their differences, The States Hinae and Nueve Leon and Coabulls will pow uct in unison with all other ‘States ip raising forces for the coming conL.ct. Scancer Paven.—The scarlet fever has broken ont in New Bedford, and the crinotine of the youog india show to What extent the contagion rages POLITICAL. TTENTION, RPOULARS!~A SPECIAL WTETING OF hin eoeiety will be beld at headquarters, No. It Mowery, On Thorsday evening, Febrosry 1 at 7s o'clock The officers of the eactoue ward organizations wil bring with them their roll of members. with residences for entry into the hook of the secretary. Prinetnal attendance is requested, as business of importance will be tranasted. Ry order of JNO MCLEOD MURPHY, President, Attest, Warren L. Casstx, Seorelary. TA REGULAR MEETING OF THE GERMAN DR- morratic Central Club, held on Wednewtay evening, Feb 10, at the Union Arsembly Reor wt 28 Grand atreet, the following preaint)e and resolutions weee unauimously adopt- 4 e4;= } The Central Clnh of the citizens of ibe city to time, when impor tion, by a on of tia views fig position ’ Wierean, (x speedy solution of tha, Kansas ques. Hon cannot bat appear to every well meaning eit reo of the Upien @. conantrmation much to | derived, and wherens, Demoeritic Central Chao igkes pride ip tte on if the election o Chet Magic rate, demen wand derives great 4 faction from the course ed by the genorad vanitite her tore. a oe rg Oy Ht Sanan 1 entitled to our up mited confidence and ou. ¢*ret tots support fn the stand be a taken reapecting (he Above oacsttom. Beco alhet wi took unin the admiasion of Kanana ae a into pe Coie Sen ‘| ow —— tution Se hich patriotiem art starr sananship at once nngent - rs DR. MER, Prosidont. demand WM. SCHITR “Pn Harwen, Secretory. 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