Plymouth Weekly Banner, Volume 5, Number 21, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 August 1856 — Page 2

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Republican Nominations. For President JOHN C. FIKE3XOXT, OF CALIrORXU. For Vice President.

WILLIAM L.DAYTON, of New Jersey. ELECTORAL TICKET. For the State at Large, Samuel W. Parker, of Fayette. Jobs A. Hendricks, of Jefferson. District Electors, 1st Dial. J. C. Veach. of Soencer. 3d 4 th 5 th 6ih 7th 8th 9th J. Y. Allison, of Jefferson. J. D. Howland, of Franklin. D. Kilgore, of Delaware, H. C. NeTTcomb, of Maiion,' W. G. Coffin, of Park p. H $ W. C. Wilson, of Tippecanoe, XJ. u. I'xatt. of Cass, J. H. Mather, of Elkhart, M. S. Robinson, of Madisou. 10th 11th State Ticket. For Governor, OLIVER P. MORTON, of Wayne. For Lieut. Governor, CONRAD BAKER, of Vanderburg. For Secretary of State, JOHN W. DAWSON, of Allen. For Auditor of Stale, E. W. H. ELLIS, of Marion. For Treasurer of State, WM. R. NOFFSINGER. of Parke. For Attorney General, JfcMESH. CRAVENS, of Ripley. For Superintendent of Pullie Instruction, CHARLES BARNES, of Flojd. For Clerk of Supreme Court, JOHN A. BEAL, of Miami. For Reporter for Supreme Court, JOHN A. STEIN, of Tippecanoe. For Congress SCHUYLER COLFAX. Senator KLINE G. SHRYOCK. Circuit Prosecutor M. L. DE MOTTE. Judge Common Pleas E. EGBERT, C. r. Prosecutor A. ANDERSON, Jr. Platform of the National Repnblican Party. tabszd at rmuiDCLrniA, Jc.ne 16, 156. This Convention of Dole gates, assembled in pnrsnnncevfa call addressed to tbe people cl tbe U. S. without regard to p tst political iißer- ' ences or divisions, who are opposed to the re p-al ot the Missoari compr.ame; to the policy of the preseut administration; to the extension rf Slavery int free Territory, in favor i f the admission of Kinsnsaa a Free State; restoring the action of tbe Federal Government to the principles of Washington and Jefferson, and for the pnrpose cf presenting candidates for the tffi'ea of President and Vice Presidenr, do, "1. Resoled, Tliat the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration cf Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution are essential to tbe preservation of our Republican institutions, and that the Federal Constitution, the rights of the States, and the union of the States, snail be nrpienrpJ 2. Resetted. That with our Republican fa thers We hold it to be a self-evident truth that alt men are endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty.and the pursuit of haopiaes., audi

that the pnrnary object and ulterior derin cf slightest-influence to stay the wild and diction; that as our Republican fathers, when , administration to subdue the territory of SÄÄWÄI K"n"s 10 ä ' " deprived of life, liberty, or property, without J baa in despite of the constitution, in deslam Ulis provision ottne Constitution against all ' i o t attempts to violate it for the pnrpose of estab- elected and inaugurated, in despite of the

i . .5.- rr :M uniieu oiaies oy positive j legislation, proiiibiting its existence or cztcnsion therein. That we deny tbe authority of Curigress, of a Territorial Legislature, or any individnal or association of Individuals, to give legal assistance to Slavery in any Territory cf the United States, while the present Constitution shall t maintained. "3. Rttohtl, That the Constitution confers apon Congress sovereign power over the Territories of the C. S. for their government, ami that in the exercice of thi j.own H Is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit iu the Territories those twin relics oi barbarism Pui l ?i '4 Resolted. That while the Constitution of the United States was ordained and estab- ' lished by the people in order to ' form a more peifect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common dtfense, and secure tbe blessings of liberty and contains ample provisions for the protection of life liberty, and property of every citizen, the dearest constitutional rights of the people of Kansas have been fraudulently and violently taken from them; Their Territory has been invaded by an armed force; Spurious and pretended Legislative, Judicial, and Executive officers have been set over a v a. a ..tL:i ,a by the military powe rof the Government, tyrannical and unconstitutional laws have been enacted and a forced; The rights of the people to keep and bear aims have been infringed; Test oaths of an extraordinary and entangling nature have been imposed as a condition of exercising the right of suffrage and holding office; The right of an accused person to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury has Leen denied. The right of the people to he secure in their persons house, papers and effects against unreasonablu searches & seizures has been violated; - They have been deprived of lire, liberty and property without due process of law; That the freedom of speech and the press has been abridged; . Murders, robberies, and arsons have been ' instigated and encouraged, and the offenders have been allowed to go unpunished; That all these things have been done with the knowledge, sanction, and procurement of the present Administration, and that for this high crime against the Constitution, the Union, and humanity, we arraijrn that Administration, the President, his advisers.agents, supporters, apologists and accessories either before or after the facts be fore .he country and before the world; and that it is our fixed purpose to ' brine; the actual perpetrators of these atrocious outrages, and their accomplices, to sure and condign punishment hereafter. ; ' " "5. Resolved, That Kansas should be immediately admitted as a State of the Union, with . her present Free Constitution as at once tbe most effectual way of securing to her citizens the enjoyment of the right and privileges to which they are entitled and of ending , the rivtl atrifannw nrinr in her Territorv. 6. "Remolded. That the highwayman's plea. " that "might makes right," embodied in the Ostend Circular, was in every respect unworthy of American diplomacy and. would bring aharae and dishonor tpon any Government of - people that gave it their sanction. 7. "RemfeW, That a Railroad to the Pacific " Ocean by the most central and practical route is imperatively demanded by the interests of the whole country, and that the federal uovernroest ought to render immediate and ef fic'ent aid in its construction, and as an auxil iary thereto, the immediate construction of an emigrant route on lhe une oi me rauroaa. . e, "llesotved, mar, appropriations oj v,ongreis for the improvement of ri vers and harbors, of a national character, required for the acg ccmmodation and. security of our existincomnerce, are authorized by the Constitution, end justified by the obligation of Government to i-roteet the Uvea and property of its citi9. "Retohtd That we invite the affiliation and co-operation ot the men of all parties, however differing from us in other raspecta in support cf the principles herein declared, and believic that the spirit of our institutions as well s tLe Constitatioo of oar country gnarantces liberty cf conscience and equality of rights axacr ci:izecs. we oppose all legislation impsiris titir aecurity .

Pumoutl) Saimer. Thnrsday Morning Aug. 28, 1856. 13? Advertisements to insure inser tion, must he handed in by Tuesday preced ing me aay 01 publication. Adjournment and RMlSStmbling of Conjrcss. gresa adjourned on Monday the 18th. hav- ! L-J 1 1 a I - . mg nuisucu up ai ine important .ousiuc uc.u.o , nuu exception 01 u,c Army Appropriation Bill. This bill cans lor eleven minions oi uouars tor me support of the Army for the current year, ; Lfv .ng m.i tor tue isi nine montns, every a a a a a i euorimey navemaue oy way ot legisiation to correct the high handed abuses of ms wuvcmmcui in Mum, u.a ceen celiberately au.l systematically defeated by ' 1 1 a pro-svery majomy in me oenaie, aew ana unuouotea privilege oi vmaaoiaxng t 1 a L i" r l 1 appuc3, wuen xuey were s.5uea tnai Ihose supplies were to be appropriated io. unconsuiut.onai anu oPrre55ive purposes. This they did, not arbitrarily, but in directly, appending to the Army Bill a proviso that the appropriation authorized thereby should not U used in support ef -::.-j-aT. ...... T- v . the pretended Legislature of Kan?as,which Legislature this same Congress a few weeks before had declared to be cpurioua and illegal that nono of the money voted should ba drawn from the Treasury for any purpose, until the persons now ille e.llr held in arrest in that Territory, under charge of treason, were discharged from custody by the President, and all prosecutions for political offences commenced under the authority of the Border Ruffian Legislature, were abandoned. The call for this stand on the part of the House was imperative, and its effect con clusive. It in a beautiful illustration of hat provision of the Constitution which makes the Representatives of the people the guardians of the public money; and thereby always supplies to their hand an available check on a headstrong President and a corrupt Senate, No array of facts, no arguments, no appeals of reason, no Pl'dngs 0f patriotism have had tbe boasted nrintinlta unnn which bia own r party pretends to be founded, in df spite of every genius of true Democracy, per silted in withholding from aeoverign mc jority their guaranteed rights rights guaranteed by the same authority by which he holds his office, and due to the same men who gave their votes to place him in the Presidential chair. His prerogative as lhe chief magistrate, and commander in chief of the army, have enabled him to do this. And with an arm thus made strong, he has unscrupulously used his power to uphold anarchy end revolution. The Representatives of the people, in their sovereign tight which lies back of, and is anterior, to all the delegated r'ghts of the Pres;dent,have properly interposed. , They have touched that armtaken from it its sinewg, aud deprived it of strength. This they clearly had a right to do, and it has been nobly done. But the President, prostrate, defeated of his prey, chafed and desperate; on the rery day that Cougress adjourned, issued his proclamation calling an extra session, to convene in three days (Thursday the 2lst) with a kind of implied censure of the House for adjourning before they had performed their duty, and demanding that they return it once to their work. What does he expect to gain by this? Does he suppose that the House will be frightened into submission, and with a cowardly spirit proceed humbly to undo what they have so righteously done? He cannot be deluded by such a verdant expectation. On the other band, has ha wisely concluded to terminate his hostili ty to the rights of the people by acquies cing in some wholesome provision for the relief of Kansas? All his antecedents and his inherent obstinacy forbid this sup position. There is to our mind but one explanation to this movement; and that is, that his money-loving satellites mny have another opportunity of pocketing a few thousand extra dollars by way of constructive mileage. ; 'That the House will be firmer than ever in maintaining its ground, we Lave no doubt; for its dignity, as well as its honest convictions of the public good, is now put in issue. Let them still be true to their oaths and to the people. Let them still withhold the public money from purposes of public corruption. Let them again say to the slave-holding and slaveridden Senate, "You may persist in clogging the operation of a legitimate and wholesome legislation, but you must do it henceforth at your private expense; for we have locked up the treasury and put the key in our pocket, determined that Xht hard earnings of freemen ahall not be lavished in support of an army marshaled to abed their own blood, io order that ilare-breederi may run liot over ths land." '

Jefferson on Slavery, The Old Line papers all over the land are industriously republishing Thomas j Jefferson's opinions expressed in his pri Tate letters in 1820, in which hs very strongly condemns the enactment of the Missouri Compromise Line. These letters ara now quoted for the purpose of conveying the idea that JefferI son was advocating the cause of slavery, and complaining of the nronosad reatric. tion. when lhe trmh lh , I jn lbeir s riril Rnd jntenl were f . uiartry, out andont, in strict accordance with the oft expressed opinion of that great lover of freedom. He w wtrm,T opposed to that enactment, as every en ugntened patriot of the time was, whose Qe8lt wa8 not crustf d 0?ef wilh lhe i of ..African" eold-ormnosed to it. nr,i because i m up , bf f.?r Q lhe progrfgg of slaverr norlhward( but for exacU lhe ih.nnnnt!!."..- i v me opposite reason namelv, because it set Up a barrier to the progress of free dom southward. He was opposed to it beeause it drew a geographical line be I or hilld whicbf by the mistaken assent ofth free StaleS( lhe ßlaTft power wouM aflci claim a fighlful entrenchment, and an exemption from all check or interference. He looked upon it as a great and momentous mistake in legislation, that a 7 7 . 7 freedom, should be drawn by law. and Bnri fi n nmi rw! a r Kai &1 i thus check the natural tendency of free principles to eat out and overcome slave ry, besides affording a definite point for the birth and growth of sectional animos ities. He blamed the south for urging 4U,a -, "a wag eevera on the v: . . .. i . norlh for """ting to it. What! Thornns JelIr8n, the author of the Declaration of Independence, containing that senti ment which lies at the foundation of our Republicanism, and which from the time it was uttered has not ceased to vibrate with talismmic power'through the hearts of the great brotherhood of freemen the world over "All men are created free and equal. ' Thomas Jefferson en advocate of slavery! Never! the very idea is s slander on the dead an evidence of the desperate depravity of the party that asserts it, and one of the fruits of the blast ing power of slavery, which he himself foresaw, and acknowledged as embittering tbe last days of his lifa. Jest ice to whom Justi ii Dae. That "honesty is tbe best policy" is a correct as well as an old adage, no honest man, at least, will deny. We have navar yet known the instance where a falsehood, a prevarication, a misrepresentation, or an unfounded charge against the good name of a man, ever resulted in substantial benefit to the perpetrators thereof. It is one of the wholesome laws of morals that a dishonorable act ahall, sooner or later, return with a sharp recoil upon the agent. It is a pity that men engaged in the advocacy of a good cause sometimes forget this truth. When Right and Wrong are pitted against each other in mortal combat, the latter has the choice of all weapons and may draw from the quiver of Truth aa well as from the armory of Lies. But not so the former. A righteous cause can nev. er be promoted by unrighteous means, and every such attempt is sure to weaken its strength and endanger its success.In the heated strife of politics, where the questions at issue concentre, and are embodied as it were, in the individual candidatea for office, there is a strong temptation to leave the high and legitimate grouud of discussion the discussion of principle, and descend to the disparagement of men.' And whenever this is yielded to, the contest, made virulent by mutual provocation, sometimes becomes so purely personal as to be odious and disgusting. - We will not draw illustrations from the practices of the party to which we are opposed, though they are abundant as the leaves on the trees; but prefer at present Io administer a fraternal reproof to our Republican brethren. Some months ago it was whispered that Wm. C. Larrabee, while acting as Superintendent of Public Instruction had fraudulently enriched himself out of the public funds; or had in some way, by the advantages of his office secured during his two years service the nice little fortune of twenty thousand dollars. From the very beginning of this rumor we doubted its truth. But when his sue. cessor, Prof. Mills, with the instincts of a generous heart, and like a true gentleman, rolunteered a public statement that it was impossible from the very nature of his office and the limitation of his powers, for Mr. Larrnbee to make any speculation of the kind; we were satisfied that tha charge was groundless and malicious. We are opposed to Mr. Larrabae's election, because we believe there are a hundred men in the State more comptteni for the office; but .more especially because he has turned politician by trade; and by his red-hot partyism ha tendered himself undeserving of an office, the interests of which'chould be kept1 scrupulously frae from the poisonous influences of demagogueism. Nevertheless this does not justify an ungrounded assault upon his moral character, and we hope tho Republican press will not descend to imi

tate the example of a fewepparently unscrupulous Editors, who are still reiterating the charge under a new form that of receiving a bonus from the house of Harper & Biothers. No, let such recourses be left to those, rather, whose cause is better sebserved by darkness than by light; and whose tactics are more familiar with trickery than with truth. Aside from the justice of tha thing, we can sfford to be charitable to a man whom the people have once tried and re jected, and whose renewed petition for the same office they are about to deny again. In addition to the testimony of Prof. Mills, we notice the following note from the Harpers to the 'same point. Few York, June 2d, 1856. To Hon. J. A. Wright, Governor or Inoiana Dear Sir: Our attention has just been callsd to an article in one of the papers of your State, charcine Prof. Larrabee with having, in the purchase of hooka lor the township libraries, given the preference to our house in considera tion of receiving a bonus of some twen ty thousand dollars. The charee is utter ly false. No bonus was ever asked by rror. Larrabee, or offered by us. We have also heard that it has been stated that the books purchased of us in 1854, for the Indiana libraries, were charged higher than the cost of the same books to the State of Ohio, that year, or to tha Slate of Indiana this year. This is also false. We sold to the State of Indi ana the books ordered from our catalogue, by the Board of Education, through Professor Larrabee, at our lowest wholesale prices. Respectfully yours. HARPER & UROTHERS. 1 111 Tic Eitra Session The first dey of the Extia Session of Congress was spent in int (Tactual attempts on the part of the Senate to induce the House to racede rom their stand on the Army Bill pro viso; and by the House firmly resistng theieattempts. The Senate is sheding crocodile tears over what it deems the 'icvolutionsrv itubborneps of tbe House n not yielding to the dictation of Toombs Douglts & Co.; while the Reprcsentativrs of the people are quietly and complacently maintaining their own rights and dignity, and waiting to what the Senate is going to do about it. Such is a summary of the latest news. CGfThe Democratic party formerly plumed itself on its bravery, and assumed the title of the "tiuterrified." But the rial "braves' having all deserted it, it has become aa timid aa a rabbit, startled at every passing breeze, and nervous at 4 the rustling of every straw. An act, a word, nay, even a wink oi disapprobaalien of slavery now alarms it to a spasmodic degree. If an honest Republican happens to sneeze with his nose toward the South, tha Democratic ear is' filled with dismal echoes, all reverberating, "Abolition." Treason." DUunion!" Tbe body Democratic is fallen into a critical state of health, most evidently a nervous irritability of that peculiar type which indicates a speedy dissolution. These thoughts have been suggested by reading tha following paragraph in the New Albany Ledger; "The London Times is out in another long article in favor of the election of Fremont. If Fremont is elected a darling object of England'6 will have been accomplished the initiation of a quarrel between the different sections of the Union, which will probably end in its dis ruption. to be succeeded by exhaustion and weakness, leaving the disunited fragments an easy prey to any enemy." We remember very well when the London Times iu 1852 warmly advocated the election of Franklin Pierce, the Democratic press of this country universally voted the editor of tha Times to be a man of sense, and a good judge of President flesh. Now Pierce's administration hps brought this Union to the very verge of dissolution, and according to the reasoning of the Ledger, the Times, if it is watching for this, should advocate the election of Buchanan, who has pledged himself to carry out Pierce's disruption policy; instead of urging tha election of Fremont, whom the people in their alarm are calling upon to prevent this very evil. But, in a. word, thete never was a more stupendous piece of humbuggery ever, practiced upon an intelligent people than this outcry of fircfionaltSTn," and "disunion9 made against the Republican part;. ' Patriotism is at a very low ebb when such charges are made the rallying cry of demagogues. - m a ' The Free soil plowshare which is now 'in to the beam," and is drawn by a team which no stumps nor stumpers can check, turns up occasionally some curious specimens of. subterranean things. It has disturbed in his bed that fossil old Whig, Rufus Choate of Boston and thrown him out into sunlight, cold and glittering as a Uzzard, and evidently as uneasy. ' But to speak seriously, Rufus Choate has declared himself for Buchanan. Whyl Because, ho -Says, the nomination of Fremont by the Republican party evidently depending on the free' Stales for hiaelecttou, will "appear" to the south "sectional" and 'disorganizing. Therefore, he might have added, "I go for Buchanan, nominated by the slaveholders, and deptndsaton the slave States forhii election because that "appears" to me to J

be national and patriotic." But we are glad t0 6ehim come out and take his stand. . The great conflict is.approaching the armies of Slavery and Freedom are forming in rank and nearly all the old fogies, whom slavery is putting in the van, will fall in the first attack. Well Said. It is not often not once in an age that the State Sentinel utters a perfectly candid sentiment. But truth is so elastic, and is such a self-vindicator, that it will sometimes burst forth, though

sunk in an ocean of lies, or buried beneath mountains of stupidity. Witness the following honest expression of the Sentinel of the 20th, in allusion to the Extra session which was called in consequence of the slave-holding faction in the Senate refusing to pass the Army Bill of the House. It may be th.it the Sentinel did not mean to apply its censure in this way, but it certainly cannot be justly interpreted otherwise lhan as a rebuke to the intriguing majority of the Senate; The expense of this extra session. which " ill be no inconsiderable item, is to be incurred to gratify the capricos, and further the electioneering intrigues of a ßel of fanatical demagogues nnd knaves, who do not conceive that they have any higher duty to perform than to work the parly machinery and pull the party wires to secure the election of n particular candidate for the Presidency Littleness. Senator Bigler of Pennsylvania, the confidential friend of Mr. Bu. chanan in the Senate, has introduced a resolution of inquiry concerning Col. Fremont's accounts with the Government. The object, ol" course is, to attempt to get hold of something by which a cbsrge of dishonesty or defalcation can be got up and put into a thousand greedy mouths to be exaggerated and trumpeted through the land for political effect. Upon the introduction of the resolution. Senator Wilson in a short speech expos ed the base trickery, and the source whence it sprung. By reference to publie records he showed thit the accounts of Col. Fremont, who has had no connection wiih the government employ for the list six or eight years, were all duly audited and approved by the proper officers, and a large balance teas found due him from the Government for means advanc ed, which was officially alloned two years ago, and authorized to be paid by President Pierce. Nevertheless we must be prepared in a few weeks to hear, from every pro slavery stumper in the Union, charges of gross public fraud brought against the Republican candidate. ssbbb1ss s -sss as sjisbh The EanniS War. Variouä telegraphic items for several dsys past hava indicated that hostilities have been renewed in in Kansas, but that this time the shooting is all on the Other id Thi ic no doubt that Col. Lana is making some flut tering among the Ruffians, but to what extent time will show, aa it is unsafe to rely on the evidently high colored, and excited pro-slavery account of his proceedings which we give below. If it be true that Gov. Robinson and his fellow mm prisoners have been rescued by Lane, we rejoice at it, for four months Imprisonment for "constructive" treason with a denial of the right of habeas corpus, is long enough for any innocent mnn to suffer. The 'sad and dreadful tale" of Atchison and his crew is indeed a pitiful howl, aud sounds as though the trap they have set for good men was pinching where it waa not intended to. We suppose the truth is that the free Stale men by the aid of Lane are rising to recover their wrested rlghta and property, and that Atchison and his cubs are alarmed and are shrieking again for Border Ruffian aid. Let the right prevail. From the Western Dispatch, Extra. THE VEKY LATEST. United States Troops Whipped. From an extia of the Leavenworth Herald, of last night, we have received confirmation of our worst fears. We have not time for comment, but give the extract entire. Col. Titus Company held Prisoners' Mr- Sheriff Jones house Threatened by the Outlaws Appeal for Assistance Murder and Butchery. An express has just arrived here, bringing intelligence that Lecompton had been taken by Lane's myrmidons, and that our friends are at the mercy of the armed ruffians. The attack was made this morning about the dawn of day. Our friends resisted as long as they could, but were finally overpowered by Lane's .men, who numbered 800 all armed to the teeth. TThey attacked the guard of the United States troop?, who had in charge Robinson and the other prisoners, who surrendered not firing a gun, and are now in the hands of Lane's men. It is impossible to state in a letter all the outrages committed by these marauders X.The following dispatch, addressed to Colonel Payne, of the 8th Regiment tells a sad and dreadful tale. Is there a heart in the breast of any Law and Order man in Kansas that will not respond to the following earnest appeal? Let the cry of our friends be; To a'rms! To arms' Near Lecomptoh. August 16, 1856Feichds ot Law And Obdee, the Abolitionists have come on us this morning about daylight, whipped and taken prisoners our men. Lecompton is taken, and deserted by the women and children. Lane's men are about 800 strong. The U. S. troops have also been whipped. Will you come to our rescue before we are all murdered. We are out of powder and lead and eviry kind of ammunition. Our friends are now stationed to Sheriff

Jones' house, as many as Can, and will hght to the last, mil you. help us? If so, come at once. Unlets we get nep we will all be murdered. The foregoing is reliable. D. R: ATCHISON. W. H. RUSSELL. JOS. C. ANDERSON, A. G. BOONE. Still Later. Monday morning, 18ih, 10 o'clock. W. H. Russell. T. Hinkle and Jos. C. Anderson, have just arrived from Kansas, to urge our citizens to go immediately to the rescue of our friends in Kansas. They confirm the above, and say that things are worse than represented, and that three hundred men must go up on Wednesday, August 20th From Kansas. St. Louis, Aug. 22. Letters from Kansas in the Republic

ean, dated the 17th. 18;h and 19th, add j Ftemont. and what Maryland Whig, bevery little to the information received j I,evll,5 1 do, can hesitate?'

yesterday from Kansas Territory. Shannon nnd nearly all the citizens of Lecompton had left that town. Secretary Woodson was takrn prisoner and his house burnt. Sheriff Jones was nlso in the hands of the assailants, who threatened to hang him. Tbe house of General Clarke, Indian Agent, was burnt, himself and family escaped. Leavenworth couriers are riding thr'o the river and bolder counties enlisting forces and raising supplies. Everywhere speedy preparations are being made for war. A desperate conflict is anticipated. General Richardson had gone to Fort Leavenworth to ascertain if General Smith acts by authority. If not, he, j Richardson, will call his militia into the field at once. Still Later. St. Louis, Aug. 25. The steamer David Tatum, from Missouri river, brings information that four hundred volunteers from Jackson county, Mo,, went into Kansas on Thursday last, and that 200 have been raised iu Lafayette county, and a large force is being raissd in Clay county. Lane's regiment is said to be fortifying on Wakarusa. Robinson, Brown and other prisoners are still iu the custody of the U. S. troops. 120 recruits from the Carlisle barracks arrived here ye.tf rday. and were immetliately forwarded to Fort Leavenworth, also seventy from JrfTerson barracks. Gn. Smith having mads requisition for all disposable force at that place. Orders have been issued to the commanding officer at Fort Riley to have his troops in position. By a recent act of Congress the pay of members is changod from the old per diem rate of 68,00, to a year'y stlary of $G000, with the 6ame milage allowance its formerly. Voluntary absence from his seat by any member will cut off his pay for tho time lost, and members are to pay for their own books. An economical measure; ns it will keep on aet of claws out of thj public treasury. Mr. Sherwood has been diiven from the Texas Lrgialature for having expressed in debate sentiments opposed to the extension of slaverv into free territorv. and the people of Galveston refused to let him vindicate himself in a public speech in that city. The Abolition party denounce the election of Col. Fremcnt, on the ground that if elected he Jwill be the President of the South as well as the North, and pledge himself to support lhe Constitution. So says the organ of that party, the Anti-Slavery Standard. The reason why the Abolitionist? will nof vote for Fremont is the very reason why the Republicans will vote for him. Signs of the Times. The following is the vote taken on the cars from Chicago to Laporte on Tuesday last. Fremont, 80 Fillmore, 8 Also, from Buchanan, 51 Lpotte to Plymouth on - Buchanan, 17. Wednesday, Fremont, 30 Help, Cassius, ok 1 Sisrit! We sea that the Democratic State committee hive invited all Michigan to meet the Democracy of Indiana at the Tippecanoe Battle Ground in September, to help make up a crowd. The sixty thousand freemen in Indianapolis, the 15th of July, were fellow-citizens of Indiana. Cd" Joseph O. Jones, Postmaster at Terre Haute, acting cut the feelings of a free and honest man. expressed sometime ago his disapprobation of the policy of the Government in 'Kansas maneuvers, and his sympathy with the Free State cause. Although an excellent officer and St universally popular with all parties, President Pierce has promptly removed him from office, and put in a notorious doughface. Opinions of Hon. Humphrey Marshall, of KenIncky, and Senator i'earce of Maryland, Mr. Marshall has written a letter to the Editor of the Frankfort Commonwealth, in which he gives the following opinion against Buchanan's chances. The people of the Slaveholdmg States can elect Mr. Fillmore without sending the election to the House, if they will unite on him. A- union upon Mr. Buchanan will not, cannot, now accomplish that result. He is too weak in the Free States to do any good therewith him. I declare that do not believe he can carry a single Free State; if Mr. Fillmore were dropped to day. ' 1 feel certain he could not.' I make no appeal for sectional support, because I abhor all sectionalism apart from principlesbut le.t the meq who haje been crying out for auoi-

ted South consider it, and ro for Fit.

more and Doselso.n. either of whom would be safe for the South." Yours, H. Maeshall, Senator Pearco n a recent letter thus tlks nbout Fillmore's chances. "The contest, it seems to mc. lies between l.tr. Ei :chanin and Mr. V Mr. FiLLMonEs friends indeed claim areaction in his faVor. but I have taken much pains to asctttain what his strength is in the tree Statt. nd so far Ihbavt not been alle to atiy wiyecZfAat At can carry a tingle one of them. Mr. Fillmore s strength lies in the Whi Stales of the South. If all the Southern States should give him their votes, ha would fail in the election without such assistance from the Free States as it xcould he in tain to hole for. The choice then, is between Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Both of those gentlemen aro laU-ticg for the defeat of Col. Fromout, and ara both shrewd politicians; and the conclusions of both, wiih regard to the chances of the two Candida trs running in opposition to the Peofle's candidate, will no doubt prove correct. Three Da)s Later from England. ARllIVAL. Or THE AFRICA. New Yonic, Aug. 20. The Cunnrd steamship from Liverpool, with three days later intelligence from? Europe has arrived. The most important feature of the newy is that a fresh misunderstanding had taken place between Russia and the Allies, and an English lleet had been sent to the Black Sea to enforce an observance br Russia of the Tre'aty stipulations. The Africa brings nothing of interest from Spain. "av em - .. For the Banner. All Inquiry. Mr. Editor Would it be doing injustice to the voters of Marshall countyr to inquire if it is true, that the present Democratic nominee for County Treasurer was the author of the srticles published in the Democrat last winter or spring, over the signature "D." sustaining the County Poor Farm Sichidle? The people desire to guard egninst similar troubles. UNO. Henry S. Lane's tyferli, Col. Lane addressed the lhrgt crowd on Friday lasi, ever convened in ' Old Knux," all of whom listened attentively and with interest to his sterling eloquence. He spoke of Fillmore and his friends in terms of the highest respect; but expressed his prefereuce for Jhn C. Fremont, for President. We werepleated to sen this, which, coming from a Fremont elector, should be appreciated by men of each favorite. His unanswerable exnosurea of the present administration its frauds upon the people told wilh thrilling effect upon his heaters. The Colonel ehowed conclusively, that so far from being a disunion parly, the Republican or Proj's pmtj wue for preferring this glorious Union at all baaards. He quoted from Fj rechcs of distinguished Southern Democrats, thereby fixing the disunion sentiments upon them and them alone. The following are a few specimens; By Senator Yulee of Florida, "For my part, I am rradj to proceed to extreme meaaures. even to the dissolution of the Union." By Senator Brown, oj Mississippi. If th Witmot Troviso is adopted, it will raise a storm that will sweep away this Union, aud 1 prny God it will do SO." By Mr. Morse, cf Louisiana "The Southern man who stands up, end says he is fur the Union, 'now and forever,' is more dangerous to the people horepresents than thoso who are in opm hostility. If Calirornia be trammeled with a preamble declaring the Territory now free, I am willing to dissolve tha Union. By Mr, Stanton, of T-cnncsue. When the WilmotjPrcvieo is adopted, I and the South are ready to walk out ' the Union." By Senator Butler of South Caroli; z. 'I do not make the salvation of t'. e Union the paramount question." Ba Senator Mason of Virginia. It is time tho yoke was thrown oil, and the question settled.' By Mr. Colcook, f Gtorgia. U the Wilmot Proviso should pass in any form, I will introduce a bill fur the dissolution of the Union. By Mr. Mead, of Virginia. "If you exclude us, I am not willing to submit. We intend to have to have the land peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." His answer (o the charge the old liners make, that the opposition ar all Aboli tionists, was one of the best and most convincing refutations ever made, and no one who heard him but an unprincipled political trickster, should ever again give utlerence to the false assertion. We cannot do justice to Col. Lane'e ef. fort at this place, those who heard him will remember its beauty, and power. Those who were so unfortunate aa not to be present must learn from their friends who heard it. Vincennes Gaz. The Troubles is Spain. A well informed gentleman writing from London recently save: Depend upon it, if the troubles in Spain are not speedily settled, not many montha or weeks may pass before events may transpire which will rekindle the flames of (evolution over Europe, and bring the despots into 4 league to crush out every vestige of liberalism and constitutional government on the continent. If such should happen, England will ba placed in a difficult position, aa her people will not permit the Government to make common-cause again with the despots, nor will they be satisfied thai England should stand neutral "wbilt France and Austria are dividing between them the control of continental Europe. Joseph Hiss, of Mr. Patterson notoriety, is out for Fillmore, So sajs Ik? Boston Atlas.