Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1858 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1858.

THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Congress, , SCHUYLER COLFAX, Of St. Joseph. Attorney General, WILLIAM T. OTTO, of Floyd. Treasurer of State, JOHN H. HARPER, of St. Joseph. Auditor of State, ALBERT LANGE, of Vigo. Secretary of State, WILLIAM PEELE, , of Randolph. Superintendent of Public Instruction, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion. For Supreme Judges. FIRST DISTRICT, HORACE P. BIDDLE, of Cass. SECOND DISTRICT, ' ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, of Jefferson. THIRD DISTRICT. SIMON YANDEB, of Marion. FOURTH DISTRICT, , WM. D. GRISWOLD, ®f Vigo.

SLAVE AND FREE STATES.

Modern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to make a Slave State, but it takes NINETY-THREE THOUSAND to make a Free State; ergo, one Pro-slavery man is as good as two FreeState men a id one third! (£7"So long as God allows the vital Current to flow through my veins, I will never, never, NEVER, by word or thought, by mind or will, aid in admitting one rood of free territory to the everlasting curse of human bondage.—Henry Clay.

SENATORIAL CONVENTION.

The Repub icans of the counties of Lake, Porteitand Jasper will hold a Convention at t Valparaiso, on Thursday, July 15, To nominate a candidate for the State Senate. Every Republican of Jasper county who is able tp attend will consider a delegate. < -j ’ (£>"The Democrats have postponed their Congressional Convention to the 20th inst. (K!7”The New Orleans Grand Jury did not find indictment against the Vigilants, though charged by Judge'Hunt to do so. (/(/'The Republican Central Committee will meet at the Treasurer’s office next Friday afternoon, at five o’clock. By order of the Chairman. (/(/“Pigeons are quite plenty in this reJ gion now. Messrs. W. D. Lee and J. McCarthy were out yesterday and bagged one hundred and sixteen. •(/(/"The Vermont Republican State Convention nominated Hyland Hill for Governor, B. M-artin for Lieutenant Governor, and Henry B. Bates for State Treasurer. (/(T'Private dispatches from New Orleans furnish the intelligence that a duel took place last Wednesday between Mr. Hanlon, of the Trite Della, and Mr. Gibson, of.the Crescent, in which the latter was killed. k was anticipated, Hon Schuyler Colfax was nominated at Plymouth’, last week. His nomination is equivalent to election, and we think by a greatly increased -majority. •* ' -, .-/■ (/(/“Mr. W. Van .Nostrand, Ambrotypist, has opened a room for a couple of weeks in Laßue’s building. He takes excellent pictures, and we recommend’those in want of miniatures to call on him. (/(/"A slight shock of an earthquake was experienced on the night of the 29th ult. in the vicinity of New Haven, and at Woodbridge, Westville and Waterbury. There have been but two shocks of earthquake in that region for two hundred years. (/(/“The Concert on Saturday night was a safe.inveetment, the singing was sweet, the music melodious, the ice-cream and lemonade refreshing, the ladies beautiful, the gentlemen gallant, and all were as happy and contented as they could be. The amount collected for the benefit of the grave-yard was $36,34 clear of all expenses. (/(/"The Republicans of the Sf. Louis Congressional District, in convention on the 29th ult.f nominated Francis P. Blair, jr., for re-election to Congress by acclamation. Resolutions were passed re-affirming the doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, denouncing the Administration, opposing negro equality, advocating the extinction of slavery in Missouri, and the removal of negroes from the State. Three full tickets are now in the Democratic and Repub* Mean.

THE FOURTH

Passed off as well as could be expected. The day was fine. A slight storm came down just as the forenoon exercises were about to commence, which set the ladies to scampering, and during the stampede many white dresses were soiled; but the shower cooled the atmosphere, and made the balance of the day more comfortable. The programme, as advertised, was carried out in every respect, except in the reading of toasts. The singing was good, and the reading and speaking was good. Every one did his and her part admirably, and the people left the ground apparently satisfied. These was too much wind to put up the balloon at the time advertised, and; that part of the programme was postponed until about six o’clock, when she sailed out of sight beautifully. Another was put up after the close of the concert at night, but after going up a short time, the balloon took fire. The number of people present is variously estimated. We think it would be safe to put it down at two thousand.

A BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.

We take the following beautiful extract from the speech of Dr. Wm. H. Martin before the Sabbath-schools last Saturday, It I is a tribute to the memory of the lamented i Benjamin Henkle: | “ Children of the Sabbath-schools, Parents \and Friends-. Permit me to admonish you ' that ‘the night cometh ilr which no man can work.’ The old, the middle-aged and 1 the young are alike smitten in death. I ‘Leaves have their .time to fall, I And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set; but all. Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O, Death!' I “Yes, my friends, death regards not the . season, but claims all seasons as his own. I The spring-time of youth—the blossoming ol summer—even the- bright promises of gladsome hopes of.the bridal party are invaded and ruthlessly sundered. Disease enters our dwellings—our loved ones languish on the bed of sickness and distress—our homes are made desolate—the pallid cheek, the faltering tongue, the ematiated form, too surely tell that the Angel of Death is hovering around our dwellings. He that gave, and He that taketh away, demandeth the spirit, and ‘the places on earth, that : once knew us, shall know us no more.’ ! Here a dearly-lovied mother is claimed for i the grave—there a father is touched by the ! icy hand of death; or it may be, that youth and beauty, who had the promise of many long years of worldly happiness, are called to lie down in the dark and silent tomb. Even now, as I throw my gye around this assembly, I miss the manly form of one whose presence always greeted us in gatherings like this. You well remember him, who, upon this day, one short year ago, stood in yonder pulpit and told us the story of the early settlement of this county. You well recollect the instruction, and deep interest, of that discourse. His well-timed wit and > wholesome humor find yet an echo in your j minds and hearts. How often have you been instructed by his wisdom! how frequently bendfitted by his advice! He was .not only among us, but he was of us; his heart dwelt in the midst of this people. Where now are his sage counsels! where now his ready wit? Alas! the Angel of Death has claimed all for his own! and he that we loved so well for his warm, social qualities, ifiis kindness, his benevoleftce, his wisdom and his integrity, ‘sleeps the sleep that knows no waking’—we shall behold him on earth no more. Who of us will be the next to follow! Ah! my friends, it is not for us to know, neither the day nor the. hour, when we shall be-'called to throw off our mortality; for as a thief in the night cometh the dead avenger. Let us work, then, while it is day. Lot us live, not only for this world, but let us live also for a glorious immortality, in another world, where sin, sorrow and death never come.”

The Forty Thieves in Florida.

The Tampa (Florida) Peninsular publishes the constitution and by-laws of a secret band, whose object is supposed to be mur* der, robbery and thpft, that is said to exist in Hillsborough county, in that State: After a careful reading o’s the constitution and by-laws, we do noj. see any such principles set forth, though We doubt not its ulterior object is spme scheme of rascality, though it proposes to be’nothing more than a mutual aid society. It is said to be composed of some of the most respectable portion of the citizens of the county, among whom are Government officers. The order is styled the “Mystic Circle of Alchemy,” and is presided over by ona W. M. Volkenstein, who is styled the Grand Magi, and one A. Moriarty is Secretary. One of the members of the band, by the name of Wm. Wilson, hiss been arrested in Cincinnati as a counterfeiter, upon whose person was found a lot of bogus and unfinished coin, and a certificate of membership in the order, and also the password for 1857, which was “union.” The signs of recognition are—raise the left hand to the chin, the thumb beneath and the forefinger resting on the chin. If the person questioned is a member, he returns the sign by raising his left hand tp his breast. The first party dien presents Kis right hand, which is taken by the second party with the two last fingers of the right hand cljosed. The strongest evidence of the rascality of the order, found |in their constitution, is the following: “The vast accumulation of wealth at different points with incredible rapidjjy; all of this ito be done by the use of articles and means thati are now considered of little,or no value. Also artificial and artistic means of creating wealth; the mixtures I metals; and artistic means of creating wealth which every person can use with profit to himself and his circle.” Perry, of Florida, got into a controversy with a stageadriver last week, and as the driver seemed to think himself a better man with his fists than the Governor of the State, the latter, desirous of correcting the erroneous impression, pulled off his coat, and after a few minutes’ sharp practice, the driver to his heart’s content.

The Breach Widens.

Not in Illinois alone are the Democracy d'vided and discordant. In almost every free State, and in some of the slave States, the Administration policy has operated as a dividing wedge, apparently accompanied with less animosity than the division in this State, only because of the efforts of the parties concerned to cover up the schism from public view, and to smother the boiling elements that are ripe sot. explosion. In New England there is no Anti-Admin-istration taction known among the Democracy. Those who are not for the Administration, are with the Republicans. In New York, the same is fact. In Pennsylvania, John W. Forney, the architect of Buchanan’s political fortunes, and those who think as he does, have formed a strong AntiAdministration party right out of the soundest portion of the Democratic body of the State, who are now co-operating heartily with the Republicans in opposition to the slavery party, and will, from all we can learn, probably succeed in overthrowing Buchanan’s party ip that State effectually and finally. In the Western States, there is a wide .and irreconcilable division on this issue. In Ohio, the Administration faction is the, stronger of the two Democratic divisions In Indiana, the Arties are predominant, if our advices from there are anything like correct. Hoosierdom, we are‘told, cannot tolerate Lecomptonism even in its Democracy, which, hitherto, has, without a murmur, swallowed the dirtiest prescriptions of! modern political quacks. In lowa, as was seen at the late Democratic State Convention, the President’s friends are in the minority in the party, and very ill-humored withal; and the Anti-Le-compton portion of the party is powerless, only because it is too cowardly to drop the hypocritical nomenclature of “Democracy.” In Wisconsin the postmasters appear to be the only Administration men, and even some of them can’t swallow the dose. In Minnesota there is a wide and angry division between the friends of the Administration Senator Rice and the Anti-Administration Senator Shields. We rather think that the Anties have the odds in that new State, but that the Republicans, in a fair election, will beat the combined factions any day. In Illinois we all know how the division stands. Heqt as in other States, the Anti! Administratis Democrats pretend to be “almost persuaded” to be Republicans, only to deceive a few simple Republicans into voting them into office. Pretending and claiming to be still Democrats, which in this day is synonymous with pro-slavery men, they at the same time would have us believe that they are as good Republicans in principle as the most sincerely professing Republican in the State. Of course this double-faced polidy will be the death of them. When a creature is neither man nor beast, and yet claims to be both, we may set him down as a monster without much liability to mistake. By abandoning outright the Democracy, the lead of whose President they refuse to follow, and by cordially joining hands with the-opposition, they might accomplish something; but by trying to palm themselves off on both parties, bv claiming the name of the one, and partially adopting the creed of the other, they are but adjusting the rope for their own hanging. In the slave State of Virginia, (where Governor Wise to his Anti-Lncomp-ton position,/Kentucky, Missouri and Delaware, a formidable Anti-Administration faction has sprung up in the Democracy. This may extend and increase before the next Presidential election, to be a strong element in the opposition—t-much depends on events and circumstances. “ Whom the gods intend to destroy, they first make mad.” It is evident that the gods have doomed Democracy; they have afflicted them with raving madness.— Cfilicago Journal. I

Easy With Defaulters.

I received information.to-day that a disbursing officer in the Quartormaster’s, De-i partment, in California, has proved to be al defaulter to the Government, to the amount' of over twenty-three thousand dollars! This fact, is kown to the Presidant and Secretary of War,, and yet the defaulting officer has never been arraigned for the defense nor discharged from the,service! It is true that the Secretary of War ordered him called to Washington, but there it was discovered that the blood of the “first families” flowed through his gallant veins, and without subjecting him to the just punishment which await all Northern delinquents, he was permitted to return to California, under the promise that he would sell certain property in his possession (purchased with the money of the Government, my informant says,) which would enable him to pay back to the Government the money he had stolen. Singular to say, upon his arrival in California, the Department received a request, backed, undoubtedly, by a long list of the F. F. V.’s, that he be reinstated as an agent to disburse the money of the Government!— Cor. of Evening Post.

Lecompton Division in Iowa—“We are all Democrats.”

At the late State Democratic Convention in lowa, there was a split and a row on the Lecompton question. A resolution expressing confidence in President Buchanan and approving his Lecompton policy, was defeated by a vote of 105 for, to 163 against. A series of resolutions in which the President and Lecompton are not mentioned, were then adopted. A motion to admit General George Washington Jones, the Doughface United States Senator, to a seat in the Convention, was defeated by a vote of 2 to 8. After the adjournment of the Convention, the defeated Lecomptonites organized a convention of their own, and a resolution endorsing General Jones, the President and Lecompton Constitution, waa adopted. This done, they sadly and sullenly dispersed. The feel ing of the two factions was anything but brotherly. The papers say that about one-half of the candidates on the State Ticket nominated at this Convention are thorough Lecoimptonites. CO~Every vote in the United Str, tes Sen ate to increase the rates of postage came from pro-slavery members. Every Republican present voted in the negative.

Republican Congressional Convention.

The Republican Congressional Convention at Plymouth, on Tuesday last, was well attended. The delegation from the counties of Laporte, Porter and Lake, with part of the delegation of St. Joseph county, went down from Laporte on t l >e C. P. &C. R. R., filling six coaches. They were accompanied by the Laporte Band, who on every appropriate occasion throughout the day, discoursed most excellent music. On arriving at Plymouth, Hon. Schuyler Colfax was received with enthusiasm. A welcome speech was delivered from the balcony of the Edw'ards House, to which Mr. Colfax replied in his usual happy strain. The_Convention organized in a grove on the west side of town at eleven A. M. After appointing a committee on resolutions, a letter was read from the Republican County Convention of Jasper, declaring that Schuyler Colfax was their first and only choice for Congress; which sentiment was received with cheers. Mr. Shryock, of Fulton, rose and said, th’it gs it appeared to be the unanimous sentiment of the Convention, and not of the Convention only, but of the Republican party throughout the District, to nominate Colfax, therefore, he could see no use in delaying time in useless forms, but would move that Hon. Schuyler Colfax be declared the unanimous nominee of the Convention for- Congress. A gentleman from Laporte moved tflie vote be taken by three cheers, which was consented to. The President put the motion, which was responded to by three deafening cheers. There was not a voice or vote in the negative. The Convention then adjourned until after dinner. In the afternoon it was found that there were three hundred delegates present who were not on the ground in the morning, who were dissatisfied that they had not had an opportunity of voting for Colfax. The vote of the morning was therefore recinded, and the motion again offered that Hon. Schuyler Colfax be declared the unanimous nominee of the Convention, which was again carried without a dissenting voice. After the adoption of the platform, the committee appointed to wait upon Mr. Colfax and inform him of his nomination, conducted him to the stand where he spoke for some forty minutes. He thanked the Convention—he thanked the people, for the honors conferred upon him, and for so hearty an indorsement of his political course. He reviewed the course of the Administration in its attempt to spread slavery, contrary to law, and in defiance of the will of the people. “Kansas,” say the Democracy, “is getting to be a bore.” “Yes,” says the .speaker, “it has bored a hole in James Buchanan so that the people can see through him.” We cannot attempt to give our readers even an idea of the castigation the GreenEnglish swindle received. After Colfax's speech, a Centra! Committee was appointed, and the Convention adjourned.—Fa/parazso Republican. (/j"Here is a fine sample of the manner, in which the peculiar favorites of the Administration manifest their regard for Douglas. The extract is from the National Union-. “But the saddest and mbst repulsive feature in Judge Douglas’ character is his utter want of truth. He will pledge,his word of honor with thefervor of a Roman patriot, and break it with the calmness of a French philosopher. Truth for the good that is in itself as truth he never knew. When truth will serve him better than a lie, he will tell it, when it won’t, he won't. “His bravery of denial, his daring of assertion, when knowing both are false, are admirable as specimens o's mendacious courage though melancholy as of an American Senator. He is audacious, arrogant, haughty and triumphant in his manner of telling lies. He does it with the air of a monarch. ”

Hard Times in Kansas.

The Kansas Herald of Freedom gives a discouraging view of the times in Kansas. It says: “We pity the man who is compelled to raise money now iniKansas. We were told by a money-lender, the other day, that he was receiving from ten to tweqty per cent, per month for the use of money; and had been paid at the rate of twenty, twenty-five and thirty per cent, per mon'h to discount notes. The lowest rates, on gdod security, for the use of money, seem to range between three and five per cent, per month. Business in all our Kansas towns is nearly suspended. Men with twenty or thirty-five thousand dollars cannot sell property at any price to realize even a few hundred dollars. Real estate can be bought at ruinous rates, [Persons feeling compelled to sell to realize ready money, perhaps, to save their credit. Hardly any branch of business is sustaining itself.” “

Commodore Vanderbilt and the Isthmus Transit.

The New York Times publishes a letter from the Secretary of the American Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Company, which seems to explode the pretentions of Commodore Vanderbilt to the honors and the profits of the charter he is said to have obtained. From this statement it appears that in 1849 the Government of Nicaragua granted to this company the exclusive right of constructing a canal across the Isthmus; and the only condition imposed was, that it should be completed within twelve years—that is, before 1861. The work is now in progress, and it is confidently asserted will be completed long before the specified time. The charter which Vanderbilt is said to have obtained, according to this statement, is purely conditional, and does not pretend to interfere with the charter of 1849. Il merely authorizes the new company to construct the canal in case the old one fails to comply with the condition required. A Curious Growth.—The Adrian (Michigan) Watchtower says a curious instance of vegetable growth w'as exhibited a few days ago, in that the bandage, with which a broken and lacerated leg was dressed. In the morning when'; the attendant came t<* examine the dressing, two mushrooms, perfect in form, were found growing out from the leg. There were carefully removed and preserved in spirits by the family

Steamboats over the Rapids of the St. Lawrence.

Thei fine steamers Canada and America j have been brought safely down the rapids ■ of the St. Lawrence to the ocean. They cost half a million of dollars, and were found i to be worth nothing above the rapids. In passing down these, they made some leaps' seven or eight feet deep. For vessels three I hundred feet long and six or eight feet deep, this was regarded as a neck-or-nothing experiment. The first rapids, the Long South, are seven miles long, and extremely rough, the boiling water heaving up from eight to twelve feet high, and dashing about the rocks like the ocean in a violent storm, the passage was made in fifteen minutes. The rapids of Split Rock were next in the way. Here it was necessary to make a curve almost at right angles, within a space only two thirds the length of the same. The skillful pilot, John Rankin, in the Long Sault Rapids, with the dexterity of a skillful i player at billiards making his carom, let the bow of the boat strike the rock forcibly on . her . starboard side, thereby throwing her' stern into the center of the channel by the ! only practicable method and permitting her to pass through in safety. Next “the Cedar Rapids were reached. They were passed at the same rate, the boat striking alike aft and forward, but no mate*; rial injury was sustained. The Lachine Rapids, near Montreal, were j the next. Here the Canada again struck. | The rocks here are exceedingly bold, and present a rough and ragged surface, but were passed in safety, and in a short space of time j the vessel and her bold mariners glided plac- i idly and exultingly through the abutments i of the Victoria Bridge.

“That Man will Steal.”

A friend has told us a good one upon old Lish, the father of Bill English. Bill, at a heavy outlay it is presumed, managed to get his picture in Harper's Magazine With a i flaming puff of himself; (so we are told, we I haven’t seen it) and franked a cart load of i the issue containing it home for his father I for distribution. The old man presented a I copy to an illiterate, hard-headed old Democrat, remarking that there was the picture | of the President." The old fellow scanned the picture carefully for several minutes, and then, with his eyes still riveted upon it, and vvitli an energy of utterance that showed conclusively that his remarks were the re- ; suit of thorough conviction, iio said—“l, don’t like that countenance. Mr. English, as sure as there's a God n heaven that man . will steal!" Of course the hopeful lathar fainted away.— Times.

Liabilities of Railroad Conipanies.

Threq Railroad cases have just been tried in the Circuit Court at Bull'alo. Two were brought by the widows of two men who were killed at the Elk street crossing, in Buffalo; and the third, by a man who was injured at the same time. They were run into by pi locomotive. The defense-set up was, that the injuries were sustained by the negligence of the parties. A 1 :rge number of witnesses were examined, ar.d eminent legal counsel were employed on both sides. The jury returned a verdict in the two former cases of $4,500 each; and in the latter of SI,OOO fur the plaintiffs. In-the two former cases„thp amount awarded was withii SSOO of the ®mit allowed by the statute for the destruction of human life.

A Singular Mistake.

A man named Swane who was sentenced to the Connecticut State prison for ten years for aggravated assault, of which he had served some three or four years, lately petitioned the Legislature for a pardon. This the Legislature refused to do. The resolution rejecting the prayer of the petitioner went to the Governor, who approved it, but in the office of the Secretary of State a singular error occured. A certified copy of! the resolution was made out by a clerk, re- ! leasing Swane, and he was discharged on | Monday last. Whether this mistake can be j corrected, and the man sent back to State I prison, is, in the opinion of the New Haven papers,' a question. United States can boast of the j largest powder mill in the world, owned by the Hazard Powder Company of Connecticut. Another mammoth concern, which has been in successful operation about seventy years, belongs to Du Pont & Co., Delaware. These establishments now supply and govern almost the entire market on this continent, which was controlled by English manufacturers. Their resources are very great. They import saltpetre from India, and keep their own vessels at sea. They have agents located in every town throughout the United States. They supply Mexico, South America, and much of the African trade, besides the United States government. The superior quality of the powder is uni- i versally acknowledged. (gy*Secretary Floyd,, of the War Department, is a great man for backing his friends. An Alabama man by the name of Gordon, has been prosecuting a claim for a number of years for injuries done to a plantation by the Indians. Congress paid him twentyseven thousand dollars, and the treasury department said that was sufficient. Gorden had a bill! smuggled through Congress, referring his claim to Floyd for settlenienty The Secretary awarded him a hundred and forty-six thousand dollars for his loss! An. Galphinism about! 0O”An ingenious novelty has just been brought out on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, in the shape of a station indicator, which inforns the passengers of the name of the station or place which the train may be approaching. A cylonder, placed in a conspicuous part of each car, contains the names ol all the stopping places along the line of the road. As the train reaches or leaves one station the breakeman turns out and exposes •to view the name of the next. It is a great boon to travelers. O/yllon. Thaddeus Stevens, a prominent Republican politician, and a leading lawyer of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, (the home of President Buchanan,) will probably be the sAnti-Adininistration candidate for Congress hi that District. It is stated as a eolemn fact that Mr. Buchanan has scarcely a hundred political friends left in hie own county of Lancaster

The Democratic Record

Plain Truths in Short Speeches. L [From the Kansas Nebraska Bill.} ! “It being the intent and meaning of this ■ bill not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State nor exclude it therefrom, but I to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject to the Constitution of the United States.” [Resolution of the Gin. Dem.-Convention.] 11 Resolved, That we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kansas ai d Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domes- . tic slavery, and be admitted into the Union ' upon terms of perfect equality with the | other States.” [From President Buchanan's Inaugural.! “What a conception, then, was it for Congress to apply this simple rule— that the will ‘of the major ty shall govern— to the settle- | merit of the question of domestic slavery in the Territories! ” “But be this ns it may, it is the impera- , tive and indispensable duty of the government of the UniteffStates to socure to every i resident inhabitant the free and independent I expression of his opinion by his vote. This sacred right of each individual must be preiserved!” i ■"' r j [From Governor Walker's Letter to the President accepting his Appointment,] “I understand that you and your cabinet ) concur in the opinion expressed" by me, that the actual bona fide residents of the Territory I of Kansas, by a fair and Tegular vote, unat- ; fected by fraud or violence, must be permit- ! ted, Tn adopting their State Constitution, to • decide for themselves what shall be their social institutions. This is the great funda- ■ mental principle of the act of Congress organizing that Territory, affirmed by the Su ! preme Court of the United States, and is in accordance with the views uniformly expressed by me throughout my public carehr. I contemplate a peaceful solution of this, question by an appeal to the intelligence i-iind patrotism of the people of Kansas, who ‘should all participate freely aifll fully it this decision, and by a majority of whose votes I the-deersion must be made, as the only and Constitutional mode of adjustment. i “I will go and endeavor to adjust these I difficulties, in the full confidence, as strongly jexpressed by you, that I will be sustained by | all your own high authority, with the cordi- ; al co-operation of your cabinet.’’ [lnstructions to Governor “There are two great objects connected I with the present excitement, growing out ! of the affairs of Kansas, and the attainment I of which will bring it to a speedy teimina- • lion. These were clearly and succinctly stated in the President’s inaugural address, land I embody the paragraphs in the com- • munication, asking your special attention to them. It is declared in that instjaij ment to be imperative and indispensable I duty of the government of the United States Ito secure to every resident inhabitant the ; free and independent expression ot his opini ion by his vote. > This sacred light of each j' individual must be preserved; and that being I accomplished, nothing can lie fairer than to leave the people of a Territory free from all foreign interference, to decide their own destiny for themselves, subject only to the United States’. “Upon these great rights of individual action and of public decision rests the foundation of American institutions; and if they are faithfully secured to the people of Kansas, the political condition ot the coun rv will soon become quiet-and satisfactory. The institutions ol Kansas should be established by the vote of the people of Kansas, unawed and uninterrupted by force nr fraud. And foreign votes must be excluded, come whence they may, and every attempt to overawe or interrupt the free exercise of the right of voting, must be promptly repelled and punished. Freedom aiid safety for the legal voter, and excision and punishment for the illegal one—these should be the great principles of your administration.” [From Walker’s Inaugural Address, approved by the whole Cabmet ] “Unless the Convention submit the Co nstition to a vote of all the actual resident settlers of Kansas, and the election be fairly and justly conducted, the Constitution will be and ought to be rejected by Congress.” [From Gov. Walker’s Topeka Speech.] “I will say then to you. gentlemen, that if they do not appoint a fair and impartial mode by which the majority of the actual bona fide resilient settlers of Kansas shall vote, through the instrumentalities of imparitial judges, I will join you in all lawful opposition to their doings, and the President and Congress will reject the Constitution. “I say to you, that unless a full opportunity is given to the people of Kansas to decide for themselves what shall be their form of government, including the sectional question which has so long divided you—unless, I repeat, they grant you such an opportunity, I have one power of which no man or set of men can deprive me, and to which I i shall unhesitatingly resort, and that is, to join you in lawful opposition to their acts.” [From the Washington Unfon, July 7,’57.] “There can be no such a thing as ascertaining clearly and without doubt the will of the people of Kansas in any way, except by their own expression of it at the polls. A Constitution not subjected to that test, no matter what it contains, will never be acknowledged by its opponents to be anything but. a fraud.” [From the St. Louis Rep., June 16,’57.] “It would be the greatest politics Kjibsurdity ever enacted for Congress to be called upon to receive into the Union a State with a Constitution which, beforehand, it is proclaimed both North and South, the people of that State do not approve.” Macomb County Bank, Michigan, which resumed payment a few davs since, has failed again