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INTERESTING FROM KANSAS. © Faleffication of Kansas Histary. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Lawrence, K. T., Feb. 1, 1858. Official Orders of Gov. Denver to the Troops on the Ath ult.—His Letter to the Judges of Election at Kickapoo—The Troops, on the Day of Election, under the Control of the Free State Party—Who is Responsible for the Frauds?—Not the Federal and Territorial Executive, The system of falsification in regard to the affaixs ef this Territory, which was begun Jong ago by cer- tain partisan journals in the States, is being carried on with unabating persistency. No administration 80 pure but that the most damning crimes and out- wages are attributed to it. No Governor so disinte- rested, so impartial, but that there is a most unscru- pulous perversion of facts to represent him as a cor- rupt creature of a vilely partisan general. govern- ment. Such has been the prostitution of trath upon Kansas history by some of the partisan writers of abolition journals, that the more respectable element ‘m the free State party utterly contemn and despise them. It was not enough for the fanatics in the East and North to bring every possible extraneous influence to bear upon the Ter- ritory to increase its difficulties, but they must go such lengths by their writers that even their followers here rebel against such iniquity and misrepresentation. Those abolitionists and black republicans have pursued this course, and still pursue it, merely and solely for the purpose of political capital. They have generally said their say without being corrected. But, in justice to the federal ad- ministration and to the Governor of the Territory, I present a correction of a false statement of the New York Tribune, which paper in its issue of the 19th ult., in its correspondence from Kansas, holds this language in regard to the State election, under the Lecompton constitution, on the 4th ult.:— At the recent election the orders given to the troops were to hold themselves in readiness at the call of the Judges of Election, (Calhoun’s creatures,) and t» act only at their request. In fact, they were to protect the fraud— not the people and not the purity of the polis. Now, the fact is the troops at the different pre- cincts were subjected to the command of the United States Marshal, or Deputy United States Marshal, or Sheriff, and in the absence of all those officers they had to obey the call of the Judges of Election, then the only civil authority at the pre- cinct. Indeed, it will appear from facts herewith presented that the troops on the 4th ultimo were r the control of the United States Mar- Dennis, and his deputies. Now, Dennis is a free State man, and his A gover are the game; so the ti were under the control of free State men; and if either of the Vsiaaasi parties had any cause of complaint it was the pro-slavery party, because their opponents had the entire command of the troo, That General Denver, Acting Governor of the Territory, earnestly desired and earnestly la- bored for a pure and fair election will appear from the following official correspondence and instrac- tions, which, if they had the use of influence in favor of either party, it was the free State party. GBN. DENVER’S LETTER TO THE JUDGES OF ELECTION AT KIOKAPOO. Exacutive Orrick, K. T., Dec. 30, 1857. To the Jvnces of the Election for State officers to be , K. T., Jan. 4, 1858:— y complaints have been mado weet frauds have been jommitted = elections ‘apo, order to satisfy all per- sons that such charges were incorrect, I bave given assurances that challengers woul be allowed to stand by and question the voters as to their right to vote during the time the polls are kept open. This is a right accorded to every American citizen, and no one should be deprived of ft by violence or intimidation. Neither should it be al- Jowed by the Judges of the Election to be conducted in Such a manner as unnecessarily to interrupt or obstruct the voting. It is the right of every person to see that no one shall exercise the elective francuise ht those who are entitled to it, and it is the duty of the ju:izes to decide on all questions which may be raised at the time. I trust that such measures will be adopted by you as will secure the free exercise of all these righte on the firet Mouday in January next, and, if required, the United States troops will be at your orders for that purpose. I have the honor to be, gentlemen, very Lcaaetin: Yom Secretary and Acting Governor. THE GOVERNOR'S DIRECTIONS TO GENERAL HARNEY, COMMANDING THE TROOPS IN KANSAS. Executive Orrick, Lecompton, K. T., Dec. 30, 1857. Brev. Brig. Gen. W. 5. Haney, commanding troops Kaneas:— Sin—Before leaving Leavenworth City I gave assurances that those persons who might be selected by either party to challenge voters at the polls in Kickapoo di the election to be hel! on Monday next should be from violence. | desire that you should inform the officer sent in command of the troops of this. It may be as well to send a few troops down to the town of Delaware. You will a the accompanying letter by the officer sent to to be by him delivered to the Ju ot the | in Election there on Monday next. Very respectfully your obedient servant, JAMES W. DENVER, Secretary and Acting Governor. SRCOND LETTER TO GENERAL HARNEY. Executive Orrick, Lecomrroy, K. T., Dec. 31, 1857. Brev. Brig. Gen. W.'S. Haney, commanding’ United troops in Kansas: — to you this morning [ have been in- of the Territory, or one of his deputies, will be at Kickapoo on the day of election, and if Be the troops should be placed subject to his orders. The fame course should be pareeee at gee st wed Leaven- worth City. Very respectfully, your o! servant, : “6 J. W. DENVER, Secretary and Acting Governor THE GOVERNOR'S ORDERS TO THE TROOPS AT TOPEKA. Execotryy Oreck, Leoomrros, K.T., Dec. 30, 1857, Rrevet Major J. C. Pewnueton, 4th Artillery, command ing United Stites troops at Topeka, K. f.:— Sim—You will report to Mr. E. 8. Dennis, United States Marebal of the Territory, for such instructions as may be necessary to _— out the objects for which you were sent to Topeka, which inetructions you will see executed. ‘Mr. Dennis will band you this in person. Very respect % J. W. DENVER, Secretary and Acting Governor. An order exactly similar to this was given to the troops in Lawrence. THE GOVERNOR'S ORDERS TO THE TROOPS AT SHA WNRE. Exxcvrtve Orrick, Lecomprox, K. T., Dec. 31, 186 Fo the Orvicen in command of the United States troops at ‘Sbawnee, Johnson county, K. T.:— Sm—This will be handea to you by E.8 Dennis, Fsq., United States Marshal for this Territory, whose instruc dons you will follow on the day of election, Moaday next, January 4, 1858. Very respectfully, &o. J. W. DPNVER, Secretary and Acting Governor. THE GOVERNOR'S ORDERS TO THE TROOPS AT OXFORD. Exeevrive Orrick, Lecomrrox, K. f., Dac. 31, 1857 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1858, ty had command of the troops where the ille; pa A was on; they could not the Doms) This ought to establish the well known fact that the troops, under whatever command, mor. the Territorial executive, nor the Federal administra- tion can prevent illegal voting, or fraudulent returns, from either party long as the Judges of Etection will it men to vote fraudulently, or to vote several times, so long they will make fraudulent re turns, or permit them to be made. So long as either party can secure all the Judges of Election, their clerks and attendant minions, so long will there be false and fraudulent votes and returns. The Federal troops and the Territorial executive can never pre- vent it, not even if the latter should have the ap- pointment of the J ee of Election, for he could not appoint men in their precincts who would not be partisans. The condition of the command of the troops at Kickapoo has been told by a previous letter, aud is fully expreased by the above instructions of the Go- vernor. That Marshal Dennis is a free State man is beyond doubt. He calls himself one—the free State party re- cognize and claim him as one. The pro-slavery party declare him such. Lawrence, K. T., Feb. 2, 1858. The Free State Party of Kansas Territory—Its Hostile Factions—Its Re-construction—What its Leaders have Sought and now Seek — Their Deception—Outbidding Each Other—Very Novel Grounds for Making Political Capital—The Con- servative Men of the Free State Party—Their Policy--Their Falsification by the Correspondents of Abolition Journals—A New York Paper in an Unenviable Light—Eating Dirt. ‘There is a sort of tacit truce existing between the two hostile political factions of Kansas at present, which will probably continue until the fate of the Lecompton constitution is decided, or John Calhoun, Esq., has declared the result of the election for State officers on the 4th ultimo. The free State party, thus relieved to some extent from extraneous pressure, begins to foment within itself. The whole party is, as it were, thrown into the crucible, and each of its sub-factions is scheming, throwing, plotting, mining and undermining for the lead and rule in the party, which, if obtained, would subsequently give it the spoils. Each of said sub-factions has also another mo- tive for striving to get the lead of the party into its hands, which is to subordinate the other elements of the party to its political color and will. The great struggle is between the two principal divisions of the party which, from want of better names, may be called the conservative element, composed of men who were democrats and whigs in the States, and the radical or fanatical element, composed of men who were abolitionists in the States, and of men who have here fingered abolition gold, perhaps grown rich upon it. An ac- tive cross fight in the meantime is carried on be- tween all the sub-factions, cliques and coteries in each of these two divisions. Probably there is no other political party in the world in which, in proportion to the nu of men composing it, there are so many political aspirants. Almost Sat man, from the bottom of the political ladder to the top: most round, earnestly aspires to do patriotic service for his country in some office or another. The con- sequence is, that each aspirant gathers around him ittle band, clique or coterie, composed of men whom he thinks will serve him and labor for his advancement, while he, with his followers, form part of a larger coterie engaged in the service of some other would-be demagogue, who promises the heads of the sub-cliques to use his influence for their political elevation, those sub-leaders also promising the aspirants among their followers their influence to elevate them to any position they may desire to achieve. The sub-cliques are merely the representatives of individuals; so it is only the two grand divisions of the party that are interesting to New York readers. The fanatical faction may be known as the one which endeavored to get the ferritorial Legislature to ad- journ, and then to throw us into rebellion by the institution of a false and illegal government, It was the conservative democratic element that stood firm against that demand and triumphed. It 1s the abolition faction that has always opposed ac- tion or voting, and disgusted quiet, peaceable men by the loudness of their ranting and shrieking. It was the conservative element which, by overriding that noisy faction, led the free State party into the election on the 4th of October last, through which they have obtained the present free State Territo- rial Legislature: also into the election on the 4th ultimo, in which they obtained the control of the rg go constitutional State government—at least if the majority of the legal votes polled will obtain it. The fanatical faction have always cried loudest tor war with the United States, and quickest | will of course, 10 extent, modifi ran from danger. Within a month passed heaven and earth to place rebellion to the United States. Even now they seek to put the Topeka State government into opera- tion, whether the Lecompton constitution is admitted or rejected by Congress. It is the conservative ele- ment which says, “We have never yet seen the time when we would have been justified in rebellin; against the United States.”’ It is that element whic! t how A com- in seeks to kill the Lecompton constitution le- gally, through its own provisions. It is that element which just now, au- thorized a new Constitutional Convention to pro- cure a constitution which, after being fairly sub- mitted to and approved of by the people, will be sent to Congress; and they can have no objection to admitting us under it, if t shall not previously have been adopted. From this it will be seen that the comparatively conservative element in the free State party is larger than the rabid fanatical faction, though the latter has ever been noisiest and loudest in the press and before the people; though it has commanded the pens of the correspondents of such “bleeding Kan- sas” sg gemma as the Tribune, which cor- respondents have pursued a regular oye of de- nunciation against the more respectable, quiet and peace loving men in the free State party. The servative element predominates in the Territos Legislature; yet when some of its acts are co sidered.many Eastern pee will say it is by no means aconservative element. That, perhaps, is very true; yet it is respectably conservative when compared with the fanatical faction. Compared to that, it ma even be considered as diznitied, for its doctrine is Jess shrieking and more action. Indeed, some of the conservatives have become so disgusted with yelling fanatics, that they hate and despise them almost as much as they do the blustering, fraudulent voting border raffians. They also so contemn the base lies written by the correspondents of those Eastern journals that are attempting to make political capi- tal out of Kansas, and which are read as law and ‘Fo the Orricen in command of the United States troops at Oxford, Johnson co., K. T.:— Six—This will be handed to you by E. 8. Dennis, Fsq., United States Marshal of this Territory, whose instruc tions you will follow on the day of election, Moaday next, January 4, 1868. Very respectfully, your obedient ser- vant, J. W. DENVER, Secretary and Acting Governor. BAEK GOVERNOR'S DIRECTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES MARSHAL. Executive Orvice, Lacowrtos, K. T., Jan. 1, 1858. &. 8. Dewyis, Esq, United States Marshal for Kansas Terrivory — Sin—Being informed that you are laboring under the fmpression that you are to confine yourself on the ‘of election to the precineta of Oxford and Shawnee, in Johnaon county , { desire to correct you on that andject. You are aware of my anxiety to have the election a fair eoe, and you are expected to exert ail voor authority everywhere to accomplish that object. Your attention is not necessarily 10 be confined to any one place, but to all Vory respectfully, your obedient servant J. W. DENVER, Secretary and Acting Governor. A BRCOND LETTER OF INSTROOTIQN TO THE MARSHAL. Exrcrrive Orrick, Lacomprox, K. T., Jan. 2, 1958. £8 Deewm, Fsq, United Stated Marshal for’ Kansas Sm—I have been informed that you have given onlers to depation, which if carried out will authorize them to Joage the legality or illegality of the votes oiferet at the polls. The determination of all such questions belongs to the Judges of the Election, and one of the objects of having ‘the troops posted near the election prociacis is to protect them in the exercize of that right. Another is ty secure to every person an opportunity to vote, and the other to preserve peace. fo p'ace the troops under the control of violent partisans, aud giving them unlimited powosre, may involve you in very serious troubles and defeat the end we have in view fair election. You canast be too fareful. Very roepectfully, your obedient servant, J. W. DENVER, Secretary and Acting Governor. ‘These letters and orders will show how y Acting Governor Denver desired and lator cure a free and fair election on the 4th ult.: th show what great powers he placed in the hands of free State men, and how unjust and false is such lan e as that quoted . It should be especially noted that the troops Kickapoo awnee and Ox ford were under the commanc ee State men. These three places and Delawage Crossing are the only, or at least the pvincipal, precincts at which frauds are charged. At the three first, the fre ate ree, had the command of the troops: at the fourt! hey have proved that but forty or fifty votes were cast before the polls closed. 80 troops there would have made no difference. Tt is a very amall place. No ap plication was made for troops, and probably the Bx ecutive, likesthe most of the free State party, did aot know there was a precinct there, ‘That there were illegal votes cast on the 4th ult és only too true; but that the administration of the United States and Gen. Denver, Acting Governor in Kansas, could not prevent it, is equally trne, Marshal Dennis was tt Oxford: there was. illegal voting in that precinct at the time; he could not swear ty it; ho could not prevent it The free State gospel hy unsuspecting countrymen, that they have refused the privileges of the House to one of them, though it was in violation of previously adopted rules. Another of them, who furnishes Kansas his tory for the philosophers of a certain New York jour , Was compelled a few day oe, even in aboli- ion Lawrence, by free State men, to eat his words, acknowledge them false, and beg like a schoolboy not to be whipped for designedly telling fibs, and like the same schoolboy promise never to do so again, if they would only let him go unwhipped that time. But to return to the two divisions of the free State party. Charles Robinson was considered the ieader the fanatical faction; but he was too shrewd a clan not to perceive the reaction of popular which is that he has fallen from the good graces of | that faction, and must now be considered a conser vative. James H. Lane, who has little political sa. gacity, is now the recognized leader of the fanatics; | though some of them are not willing to acknowled, him as such, and le will only serve,them antil he is able to see that the majority of the people are on the other side. He aspires to be a United States Benator, and jeve that end he would be will vthing, change sides in the y change parties. He ) the rabble: bat the ing to sacri same party, a has very great influence w majority of the conservative men are down upon him, if not openly, at least « . T have heard many of them say that he has done more to create and continue the difficulties in the Territory than any other free State man, if not as much as any man in the Territory. It has not been his desire to fight, but to k np the war fe < ntly worked ap to bat then he never led them on—pot te lacks physical courage at all, bat becaus The people here have been { fighting heat th wi if there was a civil t his prospects for Congress were gone if could keép up the war feeling among the people till upon it he secured saffi-fent elevation and influence, then when the troubles were quietly settied he could ride into the national Coa- gress upon this inf and p wition. T is the has played here: and he has been far in it. That, too, is the key that wi v other, atant struggle between them here to ou other for political capital with the pe | into conventions and. political mase me strong speeches on one side, then come out and laugh with their friends how they were personally opposed to all t they advocated, but did it to outbid some polities! aspirant who they thoaght was in their way, and get the inside track of him in popular favor. This is done with x8 in Kansas that is probatly nnequalled in any other plice in Americn. The highest State office i# considered nothing when compared to a seat in the Ufiited States Senate, and there are | at least twenty-five men now in thie little vil lage who aspire to that position, aud the mining aad Lecompton constitution — ainst his policy reatly to fight: be knew that | against the fanatics: the consequence of | P' | there will be a | referred to. undermining, plotting and count r plotting between them is very curious, A few nights since Gen. Line gave a so-called oys- ter supper ; most.of the members of the Territorial Legislature were invited, bit few of them were present. During the evening Lane made a speech, in Which he suid that rather than divide the free State party he would give bonds never to ask that party for any office. Butthat the object of the sup- per was to secure a seat in the United States Senate was as evident as that its foundation was based upon sold Property, at Topeks. 1! most applaud- ed and the speeches best received were those which took for granted or referred to the loose character of Lane. So far as his name haa reached in Kansas, ‘60 far has he been celebrated, for, to use the politest word, his gallantries with the female sex, but that litical capital should be based upon such grounds is something entirely novel. he proceedi after the dishes were removed were exceedingly noisy and turbulent, but merit neither description nor criticism. _ The next evening after this supper, a supper was given by a member of the onpoeiie faction, com- mencing at 5 P. M., instead of 10, and having ladies present, instead of liquor and igs 9 In the conservative element of the free State the following preminent men of Kausas ma; named :—Philip Schuyler, Judge Smith, W. Y. Roberta, Chas. Robinson, Judge Wakefield, A. J. Mead, Marcus J. Parrott, M. F. Conway, J. K. Good- win, H. Miles Moore, Mr. Babcock, President of the Council ; Mr. Deitzler, Speaker of the House ; also, amajority of themembers of botn branches. The German element is on the conservative side. Judge Conway has been called a fanatic, but is truly and sincerely a conservative. He is of Southern birth, and was of pro-slavery principles on entering the Territory, but the course of events here was snch as to throw him into the anti-slavery party, and his ability and ardent energy have won for him the title of “the young man eloquent of the free State party.” Since the bytes Yes Falls Conven- tion he has considered the Topeka State government dead, and though sincerely conservative, he exer- cises great influence over the fanatical faction. In the fanatical faction the princi or leading men, besides Lane, are chiefly the writers for rabid Hevepeuere, These men are fanatics, not only to please the partisan desires of those who pay them their price, but from personal interests. They have always struggled to keep the excitement and war feeling Si they have always oe voting and everything that wonld tend to settle the difficulties; they have used such journals as the Tyibune, through which to hurl their denunciation of voting or acting policies and men. All this has been done, say con- servative free State men, so that the Kansas diffical- ties might not be settled, for if they were the East- ern journals would discontinue the services and pay of the correspondents, and thus they would find their occupation gone. The lines between the two factions of the free State party are not et fully or perhaps even clear’y drawn, yet the numbers of the conservatives, and the strong reaction against the ranting radicals, are such, that comparatively conservative element must precuningte and rule. "It is now actively organizing. it is negotiating for the purchase of one of the pro- slavery papers and the establishment of it as a new and semi.independent journal in Leavenworth. A smart, active, pungent writer, who has never been in Kansas, or at least never been at all mixed up with Kansas politics, is sought after to edit it. With what party in the States our comparatively new conservative party, composed of the majority of the free State faction, of quiet citizens who have not yet taken part with either party, and probably of the best men in the pro-slavery party, will affili- ate cannot now be stated wi h aor If the de- mocratic party, through the present administration, or in any other way, becomes rejuvenated and re- sumes its sway over the North and Northwes‘ern States, the same course of events which will have caused this will give our new party the name of de- Ee eg and make it affiliate with that party in the Fast. If the course of national politics is snch as to give all the free States to the republicans and make the democracy a Sonthern party, the same events which produce that effect in the States will cange the Kansas party to call itself republican and affiliate with the party bearing that name in the States. If, however, there should be a split in the democratic party, North and South, and the politi- cal elements in the free States, represented by such men as Douglas, Walker, Forney, Banks and Se- ward, should be united into a Northern democratic or otherwise named party, then the Kansas party will be of the same name and doctrine as the ralin; party in the other free States, and then, too, woul our party find itself in the most agreeable position, because, if it were part of a national democratic party, it would be a long time before it would get over its bitter hostility and animosity to pro-slave democrats, nor would it be pleased to bear the name of black republi- can 'y, since all its past affiliations are demo- cratic. A Northern democratic party ix what would most please the party which is to hereafter rule Kan- sas. The course of politics in the East, and. the name and doctrine of the yin the free States, with which the ruling y in Kansas will affiliate, the materials this Kansas party. For instance, if it be called republican there will be more of the abolition and fanatical element in it than if it be called democratic; and if it be called democratic, number of the present pro- slavery men in it t if it were called republican. The philosophers of a black ublican journal in New York have represented the Territorial Legisla- ture as largely tinctured with the pro-slavery element. The trath is, there are but two pro- slavery men in the entire body, and they are quiet and unobtrusive men. Lawrence, K.T., Feb. 9, 1858. which com} | Another Protest to Congress Against the Lecompton Constitution—An Act Making any Attempt to Put it in Force a Penal Offence, Punishable by Death—Minneola Tracks—Efforts to get up an Excitement Again, ‘The Territorial Legislature are passing bills with great energy and activity. They have but four days longer to act, and are doing their best to legislate enough as to quantity, if not judiciously aa to quali- ty. Sixty, seventy, and even eighty bills have been cleared from the calendar in one evening session and become laws. The Council has adopted a reso- lution staying all further legislation on local sub- jects. The Honse has excluded the lobby or “third house” from the privilege of entering “inside the bar,” so the members can vote or work without hav- inga lobby agent sitting by their side engaging their time and attention, or nailing them to their pledged vote on certain projects. It, migift not have been a bad policy to have done this before. The Governor has vetoed quite a number of bills, among them the act legalizing the city charter and government of this little village of Lawrence, which charter and government are protested against by a number of influential members of the free State party, and which did not receive a much larger pro- portion of the votes of the citizens of the town than the Lecompton constitution did of the votes of the people on the 21st of December The Governor also vetoed the act entitled “An act to repeal an act to punish offences against slave property.” Both of these vetoes have been overridden by a two thirds vote. An act was introduced into and passed the lower house last night, making a penal offence, punishable with death, for any one to attempt to ut in force the Lecompton constitution. The act. after setting forth in a preamble the manner of the formation of the Lecowpton oougtitution, enacts as follows:- individual claiming to have authority from the Conveation which assembled at Lecompton in No vember last to make a constitution for the State of Kan sas, shall publich, fn the shape of an official proclamation, any declaration to the effect that the cons de by said Conventicn is the constitation of the of shall call on any person or persons t under said constitution, of shall offer as pretence to or in fact commission any person of persons officers under the eame: or if avy person claiming to be the Lieutenant Governor, Secreta: Awtitor or Tr State under said constitation, or by claiming to be elected to either House of the Legislative Assembly or a member to Congress ander said constitution: of if any person or persons shall attempt in any manner whatever to give effect to the government under said constitution withia this Territory, said person or persone, officer or offlests shal! be deemed guilty of felony, and upoa conviction thereof ia avy court of competent jurisdiction shi'l sulf death onder this act, to be in force from mvt afte paecage This is a strange law to come froma party who | enand earth to secur: th nder the constitution abhor have had agents ever sine? the 4th ult. prowling about have been moving he: election of their office They the election ou the Territory, taking the censas of towas where | frands were alleged, arresting Judges of Election ! the wholesale, taking volumns of evidence, and « this to secure the triumph of their State ti Now the introdaction of euch a law as this almost unanimous passage through one house, exceedingly ridiculous to ‘outsiders. plain it by saying the free State party ha given up the hope of having elected their State ticket, or having any power or control ovér the lature. But that isin direct violation of all thelr plans and designs, No: the law means thie First, bancombe: second, to cover up Minnesla tracks—nothing leas, nothing more. So persons out side of the Territory need fear nothing from this in ciplent attempt to legalize rebellion. It is merely for politica! capital and to cover ap corruption For the same reason and apon the same grounds an act originating in the Council has passed both houses, authorizing the people to bear arms against the Lecompton constitution, and protesting to Com | | to have met yesterda ey against its admitting Kansas as a State under at constitution. The act is as follows:— Whereas, it is & well estadlished principle that govern- ments derive their just au nority from the consent of the joverned, and that under the confederate ee of - of the emerine Vain Pe mena of a Terri necessary, ag well as that o ge government, to fix and establish a State government over sucb Terri. vory; and that both the general government and the peo- ple of such Territory, either virestly or through the an- therities elected by them, should be fully agreed upon the terms of admission of such Territory ag a State ifto the Union, t make such admission of legal and binding effect; 0, be it Reeolved, by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, ‘as the representatives of the people of the Territory of Kansas, and retiecting their knowa and expressed wish upon the subject of a government, we most: ly and sulemnly protest againet tne justice and the right of the Congress of the United States to force ‘apon the people of this Territory a constitution, in the making of which they had no fair voice; wnica does not embedy their wishes, but is in direct contravention thereto; which establishes in thoir midst @ oondtitution which they can neither sanction or tolerate, while it is opposed to the known wishes of a large majority of their number, and which, in its inception and general charac- ter, is in opppsition to their interests and abhorrent to their princip! Resolved, That we ask aud demand, in behalf of the people of this Territory, the rejection of the so called “La. compton constitution,” now pending betore Congress, and the recognition of the rights and wishes of euch peo2le, in any action by Congress lookivg toward the formation or cons mation of a State government for this Territory. Resolved, That a contravention of the rights and wishes of the peuple of this Territory, as herein expressed, would De & goot and suflicieut canse for armed resistance, which they would greatly deprecato, but which every considera- tion of honor and patriotism wou!d prompt, as ia main- tenance of and defence of their just and legal righta, Resolved, That the Secretary of the Council be and is hereby instructed to forward s copy of this preambie and resolutions, properly atteste1, to the President of the United States, and to the presiding offizers of both branches of Congress, reepectively. Why, if the Legislature designed to take auch a course as js marked out in these acts, they should have delayed it until this late day, would pe hard to explain by any one who believed in their sincerity. But as it is, the whole thing is explained by the two words—Buncombe, Minneola tracks. A banking law has passed which authorizes the establishment of three banks in the Territory—one at Leavenworth, another at Lawrence, and tbe third at Wyandott. The capital stock of each bank is to be $100,000, to be secured by interest paying State stocks at New York minimum prices; when $25,000 of said State stocks shall have been deposited with the Comptrol- ler of the Territory, and $2,500 in specie are in the vaults of each or either of the banks, then the Comptroller is authorized to countersign notes of the bank to the amount of $25,000. It is a penal offence for the bank officers to issue notes without thecountersign of the Comptroller. When the se- curities depreciate, the Comptroller is authorized to require more securities, or call in the cir:ntation till it does not exceed the amount of the securities as then depreciated. Charles Mayo, Esq, was appointed, at an early part of this session, to take the census of Oxford and waAWNeL cts. He re- ports that there are, at present, forty-two white male inhabitants over the age of 21 at Oxford, and were before the 5th of April, 1857, but 14. This precinct has cast 1,628 votes at one election. Shawnee has at present 115 white male inhabitants over the age of 21, and had 48 prior to April 5, 1857. In the January election this precinct polled 894 votes, The act making it a penal offence to attempt to i in force the Lecompton constitution has been illed in the Council by a vote of 7 to 3. An effort is being made to get up a new excite- ment. The words revolution and rebellion are used very frequently. But more of this in my next. Lawrence, K. T., Feb. 11, 1858. Character of the Territorial Legislature— Personal Appearance of the Members—Their Habits and Social Qualities— The Passage of the Lecompton Constitution Declared to be the Declaration of a “War of Extermination”"—Kansas Accepts that Issue—Buncombe and Folly. The members of the Territorial Legislature will compare favorably in physical appearance and men- tal endowments with similar bodies in the old States. Rarely, if ever before, has there been in the United States a Territorial Legislature containing so large a number of what, in common popular parlance, are called “‘smart men”—that is, men that are ready to speak at any time, on any subject, either for or against—men quick to turn a point, sharp to retort, and always disposed to raise a laugh or point a joke. There is a large sprinkling of emigrant lawyers in it, a large number of speculators and traders, several journalists, and but a few farmers. They are gene- rally large, well built, hardy looking men, ready “to hoe their own row” and more too; they are no sickly college sprouts, no aspiring sentimentalists, but laughing, hearty, “hale fellows well met,” and politi- cians, or rather political aspirants, to the soles o their boots. They dress well, because they buy good articles, but they pay little or no attention to th toilet, and never seem to know what they have on they wear one dress unremittingly till it is “aed up,” and then go in for another. they debate, they do it as though not as though they to. Socially, they are bed agreeable, brimfull’ of fun; with marvellous frank- ness, some of them will tell you, laughing heartily at the time, how they talk rebellion as a game, and act fanaticism as Forest does Hamlet—for the gain, the excitement and the fun of the thing. They pass reso- lutions and acts declaring war ‘ane the United States—war to the dagger and the dagger to the hilt, and if any “outside barbarians” are so foolish as to be frightened at their mock tragedy, they—the actors—are the more amused. I do not mean to say that we may not yet have civil war or especially assassinations here, or that these men will not fight in case of a civil war, but I do mean to way that they are now merely playing the part chosen by themselves, without any idea that their mock tragedy will ever become areal one. That it may turn to be real is possible, at least, and then, per- haps, these same men will psy the real tragedy as well as they now do the mock one; and though they might lose in the struggle, still they would rant, shriek, laugh and be merry. There are many men in the free State party who are fearfully in earnest, but the leaders are merely playing to ‘make game.” People have become sated with hearing about “bleeding Kansas.” Were I to dub her with | a title, from the social qu of her co’ script fathers, it should be ‘laughing Kansas. The political squabbles among said fathers have been previously noticed. Their personal habits are generally commendable; there is but very fittle drinking among them. ‘It is stated that daring the | entire ©p session of this Legislature at Lecomp- | ton last fall, the hotels in that place sold them but three bottles of wine, while they averaged a sale of | fifteen bottles a day during the session of the Le- | compton Constitutional Convention. Bat if they | don't equal the pro-slavery men in drinking they ew tirely surpass them in buncombe! bancormbe! bun- combe! KANSAS THROWS DOWN THE GAUNTLET OF WAR TO THE UNITRD STATES ! O. KE. Learnard, in the Council: offered the following preamble and resolutions in that body yesterday; they were immediately passed, and sent to the House, where they were referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. Read and laugh, or sigh, as your humor and their contents inspire: — Whereas, James Buchanan, President of the United States, in a late message to Congress, aecompanying the Lecomptton constitation, urging upon that body the a» ceptance of that instrument by them, as the ergavic law for the State of Kansas: whereas, that instramert was conceived in the brains of desperation, born in ovr ruption aod maintained by the hand of official particu phretzy. and whereas, the attempt of the cliief official of a great natiog toforce upon an uneffending perple an inquisitorial engine like this is withont parallel in the his tory of executive infamy; and ite acceptance by Cong most be in opposi ion to and in defiance of the mathe tive will, repeatedly expressed by the people of tho Ter ritory, and in opposition to and in defence of the intelll- gence and toaoly senee of the world: thorefore, be it Reaolved by the Legislative Assemly of the Ter of Kansas, That the consammatiyn of this eum of riliaios the admission of Kansas under the Loecompt yn coavtiaing by Congress, succeeding the Previfeat's mesmge a'reaty promulgated, would be virtual declaration of against tie free re 16 aud froe rentiment of That io the event of such behalf of phe perpie of the Territory, as reflecting thew 1 unalterable determination upon the subject, w.l! he same asa declaration of war, aot relying retice aa holiness of our cvat d the allied hove who are boand to us b: will go into the figh our porition and «tren rth, for A persevering attempt is being mode to getup excitement. t body of men calling themselves the Topeka Legislature of the State of Kansas were per adje They hal no meeting: but several avers came trudging into town on foot, and I sup we will have another exhibition of a contemptible, undign fied, illegal. factions assembly claiming to be the highest authority of the land, and presuming ty legislate rebellion into existence and legality The Kansas Question In Texas MESSAGE OF GOV. RUNNSELS To THE LeGrsL at: ae Exeerrien Orrrce, J , 1888, GEN TURES OF Tie SeNATE AND House of REPRERST ATIVE The position of affairs growing out of the adfogtion and | resentation of the constitution of Kansas, prelimimry to | et admission into the Union, together with the alarming | course of action indicated by somns of those high ia position | fu the national councils, and who have hitherte posse the almost unbounded coufidence of the Southern people, are Velieved to pot only require an early and prompt ex bang yg it, and were in earnest, | preseion of opinion in-tbeir regard, but imperatively de- mavy some suggestion of the course of policy which ia to be pursued, in hapnening of contingencies which seem to be foreshadowed. Taatthe domestic aa seourity of the Southern States, a# weil as the integrity of the Union, may be compromised by their sotution,* | appre- bend there wil! be found but few witling to doubt. Tn the year 1864 the act organizing the Territorial go- verpment of Kansas paseed the Congress of the United States. Of the principles embodied in toe’ provisions of that act T deem unnecessary to offer comment at this time, as they ara believed to be made suflicieotly clear by {te terms to the compre: hension of every mind gifted with the ordinary capacity of understancing. Even before the passage of the act, and during is pendency, threats of civil war, rebdeliion aod treagon, were eshoed and re-echoed from the Secate Bowes, nd vans forth on CP wings of the wind, wo arouse and exasperate to stil! greater fury and madness the frenzied fanaticisin of the misguided zealots of New England, whose credulity had already been imposed upon ‘the cunning and artifice of highor law demagogues, Al fh the unmitigate! falsehood and prevariwation of the ents of the bil! were again and again denounced ‘on thef floors of Congroas, it waa fouad impossible to cor- rect wide spreading disaffection which had been ex- cited in the minds of @ large portion of the Northeen poo- ple. the excitement thus begotten continued without any abatement to pervaie tho Union as late as the Presiden tial clection. But io Kansas, down to the nt time, there has deen no quiet to agitation, nor either peace or security for that portion of her citizens who have yielded obetience to and sustained the laws, while engsgerl ia the ordinary avocations ot life. The vilest effusions from the great hot bed of Northern fanaticism have been exhumed and sown broadcast over the Territory, carrying with them confu gion and anarchy, and not unfrequently spreading wite waste and desolation over the land. The incendiary apirita who sent them for these very purposes, have since con- trolled and counselled the revolutionary course events have taken; for, notwithstanding there has been a regn- larly organized government for four years in the Terri tory—tt at governors, judges and other officers have been sent out by the federal nead, clothed witn legal power and the strong arm of the mifitary to sustain them in the en-orcement of all needful rules and regulations for the ee and impartial adminietration of justice—rebeltion stalked abroad throughout the land, and the guilty ere. their way unwhipped of justive. It has been found possible to awe or reconcile a very considerable por: tion of the population, and induce’ their acquiescence and submission to the legally constituted authorities, be- cause of the constant treasonable incitements of those whore scheme it has been to break down and annihilate the institution of slavery at every hazard. All law has becn disregarded and set at defiance from the commence- ment of the controversy—which inay be dated from the first settlement after the passage of the bill—by the anti slavery revolutionists who have swarmed into the Terri- tory. This has been done in every conceivable manner. ‘They have retused to register their names preparatory to entitling themselvee to the rights of citizenship, as pro- vided by law, They bave refused the payment of their proportiopable part of the revenue, assessed for the gene- elfare of the Territory. Ita collectors have been re- , to the shedding of blood, in tho discharge of their official duties. They have atuempted tho mockery of an independent government, to supersede that estab lished by Congress, and endeavored to sustain it by force of arms, and thus openly assumed a revolutionary attitude. Aside from the notoriety which the history of the timas bas given of snc transactions, no better evidence need be desired of the incendiary and rebellions spirit wh has prevailed, than is to be found in the atoptioa and presentation of the Topeka constitution, which is known to buve been the work of the lawless and discontented It is urged, however, as a reason for the non admission of Kansas under the constitution tramed dy her Cooven ton, that it hes not been submitted to the people for Fatification. If the objection was eves well founded, then it might be arke:, what people? Surely no. to those who are found in open rebeltion to the laws. For the grave question wonld then #rise as to how far a population at initted by all to be in a state of opan ontlawry, who have refused to take the first steps to entitle themselves to the rights of citizenship, should be permitted to exercise its privileges im the political sepse Certainly, it is unreasoa- able to expect that under the cirenmstances, such men would be invested with the power of making and unmuk - ing the law, or subverting all goverameat according to their own revolutionary caprices. The facts, howeve-, go far to prove the presumption un founded, that the Lecompton constitution is not the will of the al bona fide citizeus. For it seems that the ques- tion of a convention was submitted to the peopio by teais lative evactmeat—endorsed by them at the ballot box apd that a succeeding Legislature only carried out their expressed will, in directing the election of delegates to frame that instru: it. The act conferred full and det nite powers on the convention for that object. They were not special or limited in their nature, Tbe whole subjet was placed under the control aad at the discretion of the Conventicn, and consequently invested that body with all of the attributes of sovereignty more fully thaa if the submission of the entire or any portion of the instrumsat bad been provided for by the act authorizing it. The terms of the act evince most clearly that the action of the Convent on was intended to be foal in fits nature, end de- terminate of the question without appeal. From'the well knowa disturoed state of public sentiment, the dictates of prudence alone should have + the adoption of that course. -y ta the election the act provided for takirg the census, the equal apportionment of the members of the convention, and defining every necessary step to secure and protect the legal voter in the exercise of bis right of suffrage. Chosen under and by virtue of the act of the only politi- cal authority of the Territory, the Convention framed and adopted the constitution, and it is not for Congress to apply any other test in the admission of the State, than that prescribed by the federal constitution—that its con- stitution be republican. The Kansaa-Nebraska bill coa- ferred on the people of the Territ , in this particular only, a right which already bel to them, of framing their institusions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States. This they have done; they bave made them in their own way, and thers oan be no authority for questioning their right #0 to do. Any in- termeddling of Congress, , outside of the one single test laid = by the federal constitution, is a direct attack upon recognized principle of non intervention, which should be viewed with apprehension and alarm and must be at consequences. imission under the present ap |, there can and will really exist no other reason that refusal than because the, institution of slavery is tolerated therein. The North and the South have plight- ted their faith on the doctrine of non-interven tion. If the North breaks that faith, let it not be supposed that the South will sequiesce in or abide by it. In 1820 the constitution was disregarded, and the treaty with France acquiring Louisiana violated, by the odious which the Missouri compromise imposed upon this slavery question. The North and South shook hands upon that proposition, and agreed to q hesa settlement of all further difoulty. ile the South was willing to abide by it, the North, on al! occasions, refused to reapoct the obligation. Afver the comprise of 1850 was adopte:! astan adjustment there was ‘an altempt to evade it, as evidended by the action upoo the Kansas Nebraska bill in 1854, and now again on the queetion of admission of Kansas into the Union, because ber constitution does not trample on the right of property ip slaves. Confidence ceases to exist when all moral obligations are disregarded. The North will have no claim t the confidence of the South, if she again refuse compliance, since she has sooften heretotore failed to respect her obli gation. The history of the action of our Northern bre- thern presents bad faith in unbroken continuation. The time for compromise bas now passed away, and better for the republic bad it neter been. The past and present prove that we are not even to expect the observance of « truce under them. Under every concession the South has made, her enemies have gained new acces sicns to their strength. Kansas is the last out post, and is there any one willing to believe, if now tamely surren- dered, the next attack will not be upon the institutions of jates, without organization and concerted movements on their part for defence, What is to be expected of the representatives of States, such as Vermont and Massa chusetts, on a question involving the domestic {nstitations of the South’—states which, while they are receiving all the advantages and participating in all the blessings of the Union, stand out right in open nullification of the consti tution and laws @ States have a voice in deciting every quest to the most loyal of the Cain. ‘Their representatives occupy positions in the Senate's foram. Unhke the Roman conspirator, they meet not the withering condemnation cf their asseeiates, but are re ceived in full fellowship; and with am insolance and con tumacy equal to bis, thay contiage to sit as law givers and jadges by authority ot the instrament they have sworn ia their hearts to pervert and violate. Well may |! be be lieved that evil times bave come upon the repablic, and that ber cays are numbered, when such men possess suitl cient strength to render doubtful the result of questions involving the peace and perhaps the existence of the go: vernment. Justice and fair Cenling are not to be expected of those whoee conscience n> compact can bind with cords strong enongh not to be breken. It ie to their behests that crouching sycophancy and unprincipled demagoguiem bead the enppliant will, and before the sirocco blasts of whore opin.ons the timid are faltering and the weak giv ing Way throughout the free States, Congress, under the predominating jniluence of these opinions, has aifet and | abetted, and is, the deplorabiie stave House of Repr: 4 proviso to one appropriation bills tof the money propriated shail be expended for prove it Any persons charged with treason offence in the Territory of Kansas, he release of all such persons from mendments were proposed, voted for Neted in Kansas i" he united “free soil strength, yet the accusation uas beea unbiuebingly made and repeate 1. that <outhern mon were the authors of the many outrages committed. if thie bad why not have let them meet the panish igh crime’ No Southera member rotet hese amendirents. A Southern maw 0 thanks to norey; he waute the law iy to be let aloue in er them. joath has left but the ova she should resiet every for return for such forbearance a and the constitution, and denmn the enjoy ment of bis rights w To a hopelete minority, the stitotion for her prote stion infraction of its guaranti he disraption of every tie which binds her to the Union. Georgi: declared in Yes through her Convention, amongst many other causes they enumerated. that she would resist to the disruption of every tle the refusal to admit ae a State any Ferrite: hereafter applying, Yecause of the existence of slavery That declaration haa met with universal acqulesence in th South. Texas Mould not. she will not occupy a porition | str avge to that of her Southern sisters, on @ question ft! der Hes the whole basis of her present andl future dev ment, and upon which, in an eminent degree, the ture of society rests, There should be loit no doubt rest ng mM the public midd, eitner im the event of so threateving an emerge: comes your duty, a» the representatives of her dicate that peeition It is ty own deliberate jaigmen* fuses to arimit Kansas a2 & State, with the ation NOW presetite, for any other cange than that salt constit tion i¢ not repnblican in (te characte, the time wilt hace come when ths © nthorn Sates should [ook to themes Fox for the means of maintaising their futare security. | therefore recommend the adoption of resolutions to that effect, and that power and artherity be given to this partment to co operate fully in whatever movement be determined upon by the ether Southern States, ane copies of those resolutions be forwardet to one dolomat | at Washingt on H.R, RUSNELS that if Congress | State of Louisiana. The affair it ret | aa Inst October. but the course of justice is so tardy in thie 3 CO Gar Beri, Jan. 27, 1859, Rejoicing at the Roya! Marrvage—Vestivities, Fireworks, Hluminations, Bais, Suppers, &e —Preparations for the Reception of the Royat Couple—The Gifts to be Presented fo Them—Proceedings in the National Legislatwre—M- nancial Affairs—An Earthquake in Upper Silesia. On Menday, at 27. M.,@ salute of thirty six guna, dred from a battery of guard artil'ery which had been sta- tioned for that purpose in the Lustgarten, announced to the inhabitants of Berlin the interesting fact that tne mar- riage bless ng was pronoun ed over Prince Frederick Wil- liam of Prussia and the Princeas Victoria, at the Chapel Royal, St. James. According to London time the happy event must b@ ocurred at about half past 12, for the Bri- tish metropolis g situated nearly fifteen degrees west of this capital, we are of course almost a full hour earlier in our calculations. The intelligence was received with the utmost eatiafaction by all classes, Ligh and jow, and ap attempt was made to get up an illumination in the evening, but the good folks here being of an economical disposition, and rightly considering that they would have to light up their windows any how on tho Sth of Febraary (the day on which the young couple make their public entry), they prudently determined to restrain their loyalty and save their yas for the present, in order to display them both in full aptendor @ fortnight tater, Only tho botol of the British ambassador was bril- Jiaptly iMunsinated with an array of lamps presenting the insignia of Foglish and Prossian royalty, and the ini- als of the newly married pair, wreatbed with laurel@ and adorned with stars and garters, and crowds of peo- ple were arsembied before it till iate at night to enjoy the rhow, while festive music resounded from the interior, where Lord and Lady Bloomfield were yiving a grand supper and ball to the corps diplomasiqus and the digni- tariev of the Prussian court, in honor of the auspicious event that Las #9 closely connected the two royal fumilier. Meanwhile preparations are actually going on for the great day of reception, or rinholurg—hauling in—as it is called im German. The guilds have ordured their new uniforms, in which the worthy burghers will strut along with the import ity 6f beaw i Flags and banoer 4, and othor ju nalia, are being got ready toadorn the strec digh wi the happy couple are to pass, and the highest ‘ offered for the temporary occupation of windows from which there js a chance of overivoking the procession, Man is naturelly a sightseeing and sight-loving an nal, and the Berliners have their ful! share of this untyereal weakness. As ugual in such cases, greatoutery vr. se agaipst the arrangements made for the ace mmm fal + the public, which cortainty partake very largely of te " ( orretpondence, are official exclusiveness so characteriste of tala cue try. All the public buildings situated betwera Brandenburg gute and the palace are reserved government and monie'pal functionaries ot one fort or ctker—the Universi y for the proteswore and their familes, tho Arsenat for the officers of the army, the ecademy for lonngera of toe court; ard even on the svatlolding or estrate ube! has beea eres et at the expense of toe city (i ¢. of the %) m the open sqvare—and itis to coutmn at 300s ati—no less than 2.706 places are monopolizat by the tribe of Cfliceboldere, se that exly 600 tek ts can be ised to the public in general, who have to paz tor all these fine doings. Among the wedding gifts thatare w b> offered royal couple, a goldeu table, presented by tne city rhiv, i ike most costly, being valued at 30,000 6 Theeity of Brandenburg will present aa enor- moux silver tankard, the city of Votsdam a massive ser- late, and other offerings, too oumerons t> men= tion, will be showered in (row every part of the kingtom, ¢ Chambers have been siituyy now for Whe last their operations have been contued to ihe election of Cbairman and secretaries, and to the voting of an address to King, conloling with himon he i disposition, xpreesing their wishes and hopes fo~ bi speedy recevery. The first debates of any interest will be on the ‘Budget, which ministers have just publisbed, sad from which it apgoara that the receipts in the different branches of reven the course of last year bave been considerably than the estimates, In conseqnenes of this it is prop to apply a sui of 640,000 thalers t improve the salaries of the 6 of otticials, (excluding clerks i govorn- ment ¢ flices t which, it will ve recoliectad seworal financial m were submitted to the mere inet version, when, ever, they were thrown out by large Teajorities. The grors receipts for this year are esumated At 126,409,778 thalers. To thistnust be added a raving of £5,860 thalers on the inter¢st of the national debt. Of this income a few items may be noticed, viz.:—Direct taxes, amounting to 24,409,916 thalers, incluling the income tax; indirect taxes, 28,125,000 thalers. net revenue. The grosa amount of the Post Office revenue is extim wed 11,375,800 thalere, being an increase against last year of 931,708 tha- lere. From this department the State derives a netincome of 1,929 426 thalers, the rates of postage being stil ver high, even for newspapers, which have to be ordered of, and ‘ent by, the Post Office. The goveramen; moa poly of salt is @ considerable source of revenue, The recsipts this year are expected to present a grows amount of 9,037, 600 thalere, from which 25,512 thalers are to be de- ducted for the expenses of oigging. boiling and co'lec*iag, leaving a net revenue of 6,786,958 thalers, or 126,255 tha- lers more than in 1867, The State lottery admicistration (issuing 90,000 lottery tickets in four drawings) is likely to yield ® surplus of 1,204,000 thalers, against last year of 42,000. The receipts from the £ verLmint mines and salt pits are estimated at 15,846,796 thalers: the expenditure, at 10,570,608, leaving a surping of 2,691,888 thaiers, Kc.” Amoug the dibursemegts, he expenses for the army occupy tbe mozt promient place; they are estimated at 30,347,467 thalers, or 1,376,480 more than toe ing year, which is chefy cecasioned by the e: of the term of military ser- vice from two years to three. Some indepsndent woald sot be i rates the malltary establian ment ins increasing it, cons: other great cont 1 monarchies, 5 mip Austris, nave ordinary expenditure to 614, thalere, to which, ‘ever, mast be adied 711,000 thalers’ for extraordinary expenses arising {rom the construction of a naval arsenal on the river Jode. Tae blic debt of Prussia in 1857 was 227 999,286 thalere, and estimated in 185% et 276,224,719 thalers. This inciudes six millions for new railways in course of constraction, viz, Kunz Custin Frankfort and Ssarbrack Treves-i.ux- emborg. A further grant of ten millions will be required for extending the lines t the Russian and Palish tron- Here, In parsvance of a convention entered into with the tno Tn 1847 the debt did not exceed 140,000,000 thalers, so that it has increased by nearly sixty five per cent in ten years. By accounts from Breslan we find that a phenomenom very unusual in this latitude has been observed in Unper Silesia— nothing leas than an earthquaks—of which re- porta bave been sent in from several towns in that pro- vince. From Gleinitz they write:—-““On the 15th the mo- tion of the earth was from southeast to northwest Atten- tive ceceredte. cauaee — twelve to fifteen one! undulations, which were pleinly perceived ou objects ly ina borizental position, It was particularly felt oy pee sone psn pkg’ egg oe who jamped up and hurried into the open air. of giaes in the windows jingled, and utensils clashed against each cther. The whole lasted from ten to fifteen seconds, and was far more perceptible in the mountains than ia the town. [oe vibration of mont of the buildings was 80 excessive that the furniture shook and the floors heaved.’ From Mati. ton they t—The shaking of the earth continued about twenty seconds. If it had 1 as long again some boures might bave been thrown down, as the mortar wag talling from some buildings, and even cradies were recked isible hands." At | eobechutz \wo shocks were felt ed, and the watebman in the tower hastened to leave it, along with b.« wife, for tear of its tumbling about bie ears. In reveral villages of the viewity a trembling of the earth was felt. Soom after — another quake fol owed The barometer sbowed 27m. Ia. 18, the attached thermome. ter stood at Mapby Y p in the open air the tem» perature was «: the freezing At Neiase, too, a eget den shock was noticed. At the castle of Pless, an edidcq of immense strength, the earthquake is stated to bhav¢ been felt by persoos sitting on a sofa, who were throwd towards the walland back again. It was accompanied by a flerce rushing of the wind, and lasted three se- conds. In the city of Breslau the motion was jainly perceived, exactly at the same hour, in t porte of the town, chiefly near ‘the Ohien and (Oder. Similar acoounts have been received from Cracow, in Poland, an from Moravia, and the consternation of the inhab tanta is repre- sented to have been extreme—old Mother Barth pot hav - | ing acenstomed them to euch freaks as she is in the bant Naples or Mexico. ‘as tried the other day in the Criminal Court of th city in which a young American was involved ~« law student by the name of Sprigg, who baile from the to occurred as erty country ae the trial has say jem cone on. Oa the evening of the 10th of October, Mr. Sprigg was standing with rome of his fellow students at the corner of the riget Strasse Prussian officer, Lienten wnt Von i in full uniform, engaged, as it is stated, in performanes of his military duties. In pase- ing the group of students, bis ears were saluted with som and he approached th to io juire whether this sibilant sound was intended for h The tone in which Pruse an llevtenants are apt to address civilians ig pot exactly what Americans, and especially Southern gentiemen, are uset to. Instead of answering the inquiry, therefore, Mr. Sprigg asked him, in rerurn, what he meant by such a question, and proceeded incon tinently t seize Von Holleben by the collar, where spon the latter drew his «word and intheted a severe rut upon his antegovist's arm, end another =~ hia foreheat You will imagine, perhape. that twas Mr. Holleben who wae tried for thie assaait, but things are differentiy bere, and it f# the unlocky Mr. cores who been pr -e- itea for attacking an officer in the performance of olg duty. The pabhe accuser was of opinion tha! three reeks imprisonment was the very least he could be sentenced to for ef% mm offence; but, in consideration that, as a foreigner, be was ‘not sufficiently aware of tho high and mighty character of the personage he had to deal with, aud, finally, that the tiew- tenant himself Lad consented to drop the prose- cation, the Court seqaitted the defendant. | It shonli be mentioned, by the way, that a Prussiaa offer, w: Ways goes armed capa pic, is justified by law in drawin bis eword on an anarmed adversary, if personally iaadited by the latter, aud that be is not answerable even for fatal conse quepees that may enene sows, Ry Pears, however, that Mr, Sprige’s wounds were nots ferious nature, and he is now quite recovered, Lomitted to stete jo my st, that two American +. C. T. Jackron, of Boston, (the inventor of chtov and Dr. E. Meynard, deotiet, of Waahington, Rave hy ler of the Ked Ragle, third claw, best ywed ow the the King of Prassa