Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1859 — Pennsylvania Politics. [ARTICLE]

Pennsylvania Politics.

Harrisburg, April 14. The Democratic States Rights , Convention adopted resolutions to the following effect: “That we are here to-day to resist every attempt to weaken or overthrow the creed of the Democratic party; to unite, tor the purpose of restoring in all their vigor and purity, truths that have heretofore m ule the Democracy the conquering organization which has contributed to the enduring welfare of the Union; that this Convention most solemnly declares its warm attachment to the Union of States, to maintain which it pledges all its powers, and for this c-nd it is our duty to oppose every infraction of those principles which constitute the only basis of that Union, because a faithful ob ervance of them can only secure its existence and the public happiness; that we are bound to regard the Administration as having forfeited the confidence oi the people, and to denounce it as unworthy of the support of the Democratic party: that the attempt of the Admini. tration to disregard the covenant of 1859, and in iis stead exact a despotic test to compel obedience to doctrines subversive to republican liberty, was the work, not of the Democratic party, but of men who had resolved upon ambitious purposes’ that we indorse the principles of popular executive with the franchises of the people of the States; that we repudiate tiie platform of the Convention of March, ami that no matter what the decision of the Supteme Court may be on that abstract question, still the right of the people to make a slave territory or a free territory, is per eet and complete under the Nebraska Bill.' QiJ”There has just died, at the age of 107 years, in the Isle of Antig >ne (sea of Marmora,) a retired patriarch of Constantinople, named KonsUmties. He was born in 1752, and was the son of a gold-smith in the Linar, educated at the cost of Catharine 11 of Russa, at Kiev, subsequently head of the convent, on Mount Sinai, where he harbored Gen. Bonaparte, next me'ropolitan of Alexandria, and on the murder of the Byzantine patriarch at the Greek insurrection, elected head of the Greek Church. He has left many learned works on Byzant'ne arc hamlogy. The Rush of Travel t > -Tiem appears ’<> be r gener.il ru-ii , Un; and steam packets for Europe. T: -v all go lull of passengers. and births are tikmi, m some cases, weeks in advance of the d ij’ of departure. The Passport Office in the State Department receives numerous applications for passports by mail every day, in addition to personal applications.