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In accordance era! desire *u«geH press, publii chi Indii Bean party, •:ni.r^gned,C»airni«ortlie8t»u Re Vermont, Maasa- a, Ohio, Michigan, invite the Repub- licans of the Union to meet in informal Conven- tion at Pittsburgh, on fee 13d of February, 1846, for the purpose of perfecting the National Organ- ization, and providing for a National Delegate Convention of the Eepublican party, at some sub- sequent day, to nominate candidates for the Pres- ldcncylhdT Vice Presidency, to be supported at uie election in November, 1856. A. P. STOXE, of Ohio. '••«'' I J. K.-GOODMCH, of Muss. DAVID -WIMfOT, of Pa. LAWRENCE BRAINABD, of Vt WILLIAM A. WHITE, of Wis. REPUBLICAN TRUlMPiil! KnowNothingism & Democracy Sebnked. At the Tosm Meeting held in this place yesterday, the Republican ticket was all elected except Town Clerk and one consta- ble. The majority on Wm. VOKCK, repub- licnn candidate for Supervisor over JARED R. B ABCOCK, Enow Nothing and Democrat was 30; on JOHN COUCH Republican candi- date for Justice overZ. C. YOUNG, Know Nothing and Democrat 33. The majorities ©n the-other candidates ranged from'ten up to thirty three. This when we consider the want df organization on the part of the Re- publicans, is a decided triumph. It is only last spring that Knownothingism was in the ascendancy. But this is not the only fea- ture k the case. A great stir was made by the Hindoos about open caucus nominations, and for weeks it was heralded that the American party of this town had thrown off its mask of secresy, and were at thi s Town Meeting to act openly. Well, their call for a caucus went forth; inviting all tvho were opposed to Black Republicanism and the principles of the Republican Party, to join them. They held their caucus; but already the hand writing must have been visible on the wall, for they had not the courage to put up a ticket of their own, dwt endorsed the Democratic nomination for the principle offices. Thus yoked with the dem- ocrats they took the field and the result is as above stated. Usury Laws. We have thought proper to call the at- tention of our citizens again to the efforts that arc being made on the part of the monicd aristocracy, to repeal the usury laws, or so far to abolish the penalties for taking more than the legal rate af interest, as to rcr.der the law a dead letter. These efforts have been made at every session of the Legisla- ture for several years past. The men who petition the Legislature on this subject, are men, (generally,) wiio get their living, or expect to do so, out of the profits of money-lending, without en -gaging in any useful or productive employ- ment Money is property, they say, and like all other property, should be allowed to go in- to the market free from all restrictive laws. In answer to this it would be enough to say that money is totally unlike anv other property. In fact there is no propriety in calling it property. It is the measure and representation of property, while its value is entirely fictitious and arbitrary, and it has none of the useful qualities of other commodities, yet, in an- other sense, it is the representation of all other commodities, so that the man who has enough of it, may bo said to carry in his pocket all the provisions, comforts and conveniences for a life time, for ho has then the ready means of procuring whatever he wants. The snail carries his house upon his back; the monied man carries his house and pro- visions, and all in his pocket, or upon a lit- tle bank scrip; and the latter is often quite as useless in the community as the former, if ho is not positively injurious. Money is made by law a legal tender for a'l debts; and even when a man has contracted to pay ftr furnish other commodities, ho can exhoncrate himself by paying an equivalent in money. The entire want of analogy between mo- ney and other property therefore destroys the force of the agreement Destroy the fictitious value of money, take away its char- acter as money, and as a legal tender; re- duce it to the condition of other property, then you may with impunity repeal your usury laws. Will our usurers consent to do this f When they ask us to allow them to take whatever they can get for the use of their money, as they are permitted to do for other property, why will they not go a little farther and ask us to take from mo- ney its power as a representative of value, as a legal tender, and make it a commodity in the market like all other commodities ? Money is a standard of value, the meas- ure of property, or the weight in the scales •with which you weigh property. This meas- ure or these weights, should be uniform, not subject to fluctuation. Repeal the law firing the rate of interest or the penalties against taking a greater per ccntage, and yen destroy its quality as a standard of value. That can not be called a standard wMeh is liable to constant fluctuation. A dollar at ten per cent is worth two dollars at fire per cent As a measure of property •then, it would have the same effect a3 it Would to allow every man to fix the size of Ins own yard stick. Increasing the value Of money is like adding to your pound weight It takes more property to weigh fldjlhv. If the people of the State of N. York fully understood this subject, instead of removing the penalties against taking an excessive rate of interest, they would reduce ike raft of interest, and retain the penal- It is no part of the object of money to Of what use to the community is the mere money lender or usurer f He certainly adds nothing to its productive wealth, He pro^ duces nothing. He is like iEsop's file. He takes from every one he comes in contact with, and imparts nothing. It is not the true policy of legislation, then, to encourage the Jewish trade of mo- ney lending, but rather to make it the in- terest of the wealthy, to invest their proper- ty in useful business, agricultural manufac- turing or mechanical. It is labor that constitutes real wealth, productive labor. It would be interesting to pursue this subject and contract the effect upon a com- munity, of wealth employed in manufactur- ing and mechanical operations, with its ef- fect when employed in the same commu- nity by the money lender, but we have not time. -, — • • . — Lierary Lecture—Ho. 4. The Rev. D. CHICHESTER, of the Presby- terian church in this place, will deliver the fourth lecture of the series, on Tuesday eve- nfhg, the 26th inst, at Hinckley Hall. The subject will be Physical Education. It is a lamentable fact that to this day, in general, elementary education in this country the most important the really in- dispensible element a vigorous discipline of the vital powers, to sustain the action of the mind, ha r ; bqcn left out In the common schools of this and other States, the teacher and his employers, generally know as little about the bodily functions and their healthy state, as the Esquimaux Indians do about Sir John Franklin. Health is the condi- tion of any continued and useful success in life. And yet four hundred muscles and half as many bones, the stomach and the vital organs, whose healthy action all de- pends upon the proportionate adaptations of temperature, food and exercise, are left in our children to the care of their own whims or to those as little prepared to deal with them properly. The boy is killed off in youth, unless nature has uncommon means of resistance, by overheated and then over- eooled temperatures, by hot breads, baked greese and rich cakes, by violent exercise and subsequent exposure, scoldings, dis- couragement and ill adapted occupation. We need light on the subject of Physic- al Education—for old and young. Mr. C. we doubt not has somo valuable facts and considerations on the subject Wo bespeak for him a full attendence. Admission one shilling to pay the necessary expenees of the occasion. The lecture is free except for the fee for room, lights and fuel. r Anti-Division Meeting at Panaraa. At a meeting of the People of the town of Harmony, held at Smith's Hotel, in Pa- nama, for the purpose of considering the question of dividing Chautauqua County, on motion of Col. D. Knapp, Ebcnezer G. Cook was appointed Chairman, i nd P. II. Stewart and P. Steadman Secretaries, Remarks were made on the subject of a division by the Chirman, W* L. Sessions, II. 0. Lakin, H, Pringle, D. Williams and Clias. A. Brightman of Clvmer. and after a f:ee interchange of views it appeared tla' all were opposed to any change of the pres- ent organization of our county, and there- upon tho following resolutions were adop- ted: Resolved. That in the opinion of the People of the town of Harmony, the pres- ent location of our County seat, our valuable and conveniently arranged County Buildings the facilities of doing business at the same, which the people in all parts of the county enjov. are such, that any division of our country, involving a change oft^p county scat or any change of our present organize- ation. would do great injuries to the Peo- ple of all sections of the county. Resolved. That inasmuch as a ridge di- vision of our county would create the neces- sity of erecting entire new County Build- ings, in both the newly organized counties, and result in a total loss, of the present county buildings, thus throwing aburden- som and oppressive tax upon the people, it is inexpedient unwise and unjust an d that we will use all proper means to prevent S'ieh a calamity. On motion the Chairman appointed the following committee to aid in carrying said resolutions into effect and to call future meetings; W. L. Sessions, II, O. Lakin, D;Sius Knapi, Homer Pringle, T. S. Bly and J)aniel Williams. Resolved. That the proceeding of the meeting be published in the papers of the county. E. G. COOK, Chairman, P. IT. STEWART, ) Secretaries. P. SEADMAN, f sj • • w Life and Sermons of Rev. Reuben Tinker. This is a volume of some 400 pages, in- cluding selection? from Mr. TINKER'S ser- mons and a biography by tho Rev. Dr. TOMPSOX of Buffalo. The biography con- tains a faithful outline of the prominent events of Mr. TINKER'S life and a full anal- ysis of his character. Dr. T. seems to have baen imbued with a love of his subject; and it is rarely that we find so much so truly said, in so short a space. Though some sermons have been ommittod which many might have wished published, still we do not see how a better selection could have possibly been made. The subject of the last sermon in the book, is The Gospel, hope of our Salvation.\ This is one of Mr. TINKERS Thanksgiving Sern ions and is well worthy of permanent preservation in this form. It displays all the care which usually marked his productions. Tho book can be procured of Messrs. JOHNSTON and CAI^ IP *\•*\ mttij speculating and sharing upon their > LISLE.. Price $1,00:. ».euectationa of hia on nartv, A more humiliating document has never been tent, ant by the AdminMWttion. As long as the border ruffians were successful in their efforts to crush out the spirit of liberty it matterd not how great was their barbarity or flagrant were their violations of law and order the President looked eooly on, and proclaimed to the world that noth- ing had \occured under circumstances to justify the interposition of the Federal exe- cutive,,, But now that tho. Free State men after enduring outrages unparalleled, in the history of this or any other civilized na- tion are likely to protect themselves; and maintian their rights against tho-deprcda- tions of border invasions, the President sudenly discovers that circumstance have occurred to justify federal interposition. A friend writes us from Harmony saying that E . O. COOK Republican candidate for supervisor in that town is elected by 128 majority; and that tho entire republican ticket is elected, We have also just re- ceived a note from a friend in Mina saying that the entire Republican ticket is elected in that town by 16 majority. £3T The Democratic and Republican candidate for Supervisor in Clymer has been elected by a small majority. The Democratic and K. N. candidate for Supervisor in Ripley, Mr. COLLINS, i3 elec- ted. We also leam that tho Hindoos elec- ted their Supervisor in Pomfret Full re- turns have not been received. -— i^ i II^ HARBOR ENCROACHMENTS.—A bill we notice has been introduced into the Legis- lati for paying the expense of the Harbor commissioners, and for repealing the law under which they acted. The commission- ers have made their report It is an able document; imparting a vast amount of commercial information. £3T Mr. RUSK who assaulted HORACE GREELEY at Washington ha? been arrested on a criminal charge and held to to appear at the criminal court under bonds of $500, to answer for his assault upon Mr. G. He was arrested at the instance of F. C. TREAD- WELL of New York, and as we learn without the solicitation of Mr. GREELEY. the Know Nothing tsj> m ih fmmrtm ham now, at least in some places, thrown open their doom and allowed u» to hear the : undisguised aenti- of their hearts. The Know Nothings have been suspect- ed of designs, motives and plans other than those set forth outside their Council rooms; let us now see die inside workings of the Order: and perhaps we may account for some of their outside doings which have not appeared to accord well with their pub- lic professions. I would however in the first place state mat I know of no individual however ardent in his opposition to Know Nothingism that would include all its members in sweeping expressions of condemnation, and for my- self I know those among them who have been misled by the specious pretexts and profes- sions of its leaders and have stated to me their firm conviction that the order has no feelings or plans against foreigners as such, but only against Roman Catholics; and that the Order is pure and true in favor of Free- dom and Temperance; and I have every reason to believe they were sincere. To these and to all the candid and conscien- tious among their fellow-mcmbers,T would isk a careful, and, if religious professors, P prayerful consideration of the few observa- tion I may be able to present to their no- tice. We have been constantly told that th- Know Nothings have simply in view to stop the political evil of priestly control of the .'atholic vote, by which the balance of pow- er at our election is in the hands of the Cath- olics. If this is true, I would enquire how men of integrity can join them until they have expunged from tht ir writings the word For- eigners so often repeated aud inserted in its place the w;>rd Catholics. I would es- pecially ask the professed christian how he can unite with them until su?h alteration is made? He could then indulge his politi- cal inclinations and if he should deem it christian policy, unit? w'th his infidel lead- Read it again my brother and let him read h! who says well I oV not belong to the cirder hut still basyotod with it This is the party yon have voted for, but heaven forbid that you should do the like again.— Rather say with good old Jacob \ 0 my soul come not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honor be thou not uni- ted.\ Come out from among them and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing. Aid not by one vote to put in pow- er such a party however plausible the pro- tensions of its leaders. Can upright citizens, can christian men fearing God and working righteousness knowingly remain in such a party or vote with it If they can they may well wish for oath-bound secresy. Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in Askelon lest Zion mourn and the infidel rejoice.— Heaven grant that such christians may be few and far between. Give us christians that desire whatever they do to do it for the Glory of God. We are as much bound to bo true and honest and to act for his glory in politics as in any thing else; and he who is dishonest or false in polities will be the same behind the counter and in his ordinary dealings with his neighbor when ho gets the chance. Falsehood and Trick- ery may do for the mere mercenary politi- cian but the good citizen—the true chris- tian is a man of integrity and truth at the Ballot-box and all tho world over. Ho may not escape tho tongue of slander, nor the back-biter's venom nor the detractors spite; but conscious innocence of wrong towards his fellow roan will enable him, though it may be mournfully and in silence, to b? a- his trials with christian fortitude; and trials they are when they come from the quarters where we ought to look for sympathy and kindness. Psalm 55. Let the christian act out his Christianity and I have no fears for the future of the nation. Let christians be united and free- doom, temperance and truth shall yet pre- vail. Let a portion of them still act with the Know Nothings and farewell, to broth- erlv affection in our churches and farewell Cornier to direct and control its political 4o Av Jbjt,for< nations have' to: ers to proscribe and persecute to his heart's , to j^^ ]lbertv and p^gp^^ ; n t ] lis m j gn _ | the first he was anxious for .spiritual adric content without touching one hair of his ty nation, unless secured at th; pr.nt of th n had assembled in the street in front of the jail, all fssssji jssssj a Jjj ah at, tha pnaotK er. As soon as the cortege started the afreet was thronged with people, who, on foot, accompanied it to the place of execu- tion, and everywhere along the route hun- dreds of persons were stationed to see the condemned as he paased along. Arriving at the place of execution a larger concourse of people were found al- ready assembled, consisting of men,-woman and children, to the number of nearly five thousand. At the sight of tho carriage containing tho prisoner, the greatest excite- ment prevaded tho crowd for a few mo- ments, but it soon quieted down as he got out and mounted thj scaffold. He was firm, calm, and collected, exhibiting no tre- mor or anxiety Rev. Mr. Adams arose and addres-o 1 the people recommendiug order and decorum on this solemn occasion.— Bennett then stepped forth and in a firm voice said that he was not guilty of the crime of murder. AV ADDRESS FROM THE PRISONER Prayer was offered up to God by the Rev. Mr. Adams, after which the prisoner de- sired him to tell the people that he died in tho full hope of Heaven. Capt Megowan, the Sheriff adjusted the fatal noose, after covering the victim's h\ad with a cap. He then bade farewell to the minister and of- ficers around him, and just a moment be- fore being launched into eternity he earnest- ly asked if there was any one who \ believ- ed he innocent P The response, \ I do,\ was heard, and just then the drop fell and all was over. His neck, it was thought was broken on the instant, a* but one spasmod- ic contraction of the body was seen, and no more. He hung about fifteen minutes, when the Sheriff cut the cord and the body was placed in a eoffin for interment. AX INCIDENT. Just at that moment a woman, almo-j wild with excitement, forced her way to the I foot of the scaffold, begging for the Sheriff: faction or f^iticism, inflamed into disregard to send the body to his unfortunate wife, ofthe great pr'muples of popular sororeignw who was almost crazy with grief and dos- j tv wn ; cnj UIU i„ r tne Constitution, are fun- pair. The wish was complied with and the ; -Omental j n tne whole stractBre of oar la- body sent to her for burial. I stitution, is to bring on the country the dW The murderers real name was George : c ilnmitv of an arbitrament of arms in that Huffner, and he was tarn in Germany.-— ; Territory, it shall be between lawless vio- He came to this country when a small child : i >nc e on ' the one side and conservative force and his parents located at St. Louis. | on the other, wielded by legal authority of Rev. Mr. Adam* took a deep interest in lun Gcner.il Go. eminent, his case and mated him frc-q lei.tly. an I j I eaU on th\> citi ens both of adjoining had long c< nvesations witoh him. From ' an ,l 0 f distant States, to abstain from un- authoMzed intenneddling in tho local con- cerns of the Territory, admonishing them the execution of tho Tenftarial lawsj aaA , thus, in effect, subvert by iWenoealV«*- sent constitutional and legal authority: It also appearing that persons residing without the Territory, but near its borders, • plate armed intervention in the i e#] It also appearing that other 4 inhabitt^Jof«yeffjF money, ongagirg men, i for the samo prober \—-.-- ---.--*- pearing that cu^M<totlow j wiihni: mvTm-* A ritory are. endeavoring by die agency of emmissaries and otherwise, to induce indi- vidual States of the Union to intervene in the aflairs thereof, in violation of the Con- * • stitution of the United States: And whereas all such plans for the de- termination ofthe future institutions ot the . Territory, if carried into action from within the same, will constitute flie fact of insur- rection, and if from without, that of inva- sive aggressions, and will in either cass jus- tify anil require the forcible interposkioB of tho General Government as well to main- tain the laws of tho Territory aa thoae of the Union: Now therefore t, Franklin Pierce, Pres- ident of the United States, do issue this my proclamation to command all persons en- gaged in unlawful combinations against the constituted authority of the United/States to disperse and retire peaceably to their »e- spectivc abodes, and to warn all such per- - sons that any attempted insurrection in said Territ rv, er ajgres. ive .n'rt's'on into the same, will be resisted not only by the em- ployment of the local militia but also by ; that of any available forces of the United State: to the end of insuring immunity from violence and full protection to the pei^ sons, oroperty, and civil rights of all peace-. _ ful and law-abiding inhabitants of the Ter- ritory. If. in any part of the Union, the fury of 0W Mr. ELAM C. BUSS, of this town, j ( loors to all of every clime and nation, and has been awarded $41 in premiums on j consist of foreign tarn as well as native cit- Field Crops and Irrigation, by the State I j zon3) the man who joins that party, as at brother church member's head, or giving, i sworJ ftni , ,, v tho rirte; f)J . „ thatcaso tl , 0 him the remotest reason to complain. But: stru?slo now commenced in Kansas may now as our churches have opened tVir Agricultural Society. His first premium on Carrots was for 1,280 bushels per acre < Jp3T\ A notice of a presentation of a me- morial from the Western Anti-Slavery So- ciety, to the Ohio Legislature, praying for the peaceful separation of the State of Ohio from the Union, will be found on our fir-t page. The memorial was referred to a committee composed mostly of Republicans, and in their report they use tho following language: \ Your committee take pleasure in savin? that there are no considerable portion of the people of Ohio, who directly or indi- rectly sympathize with the purposes of the memorialists. Loyalty to the confrderr.ev of these states, and unfaltering adherence to the obligations of the Federal Constitu- tion, are predominating characterUtics of our people. That though they are not in- different to the great question of human liberty, they believe it is the part of wisdom to retain in its purity the political, religious, educational and social privileges which we now enjoy, and extend those privileges to the whole human family as fast as a due regard to the rights of all parts of tho con- federacy will permit. \ For these and a variety of reasons that might be stated, your committee, in the most decided and emphatic manner, con- demn the treasonable objects of the memo- rialists, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject.\ * M I • i i m — Marriage with a Bear Woman. —A Mexican, who has been exhibiting through the country the \ Bear Woman,\ an Indi- an of the Digger tribe, and one of the low- est of the human species, recently went with his\ show\ to Baltimore. Thi3 crea- ture described as being about four feet high, her face, neck and anus covered with a luxuriant growth of hair, her forehead low, and the lower part of her face protru- ding like unto a monkey, her mouth awful to behold, and in fact beyond description. She speaks tho English language. With tho Mexican and this woman were two young men who attended to the dcreils of tho exhibition, They all stopped at the Susquehanna House in Baltimore. One morning about two weeks ago, she was missing, and was traced to the Western Ho- tel, where she was found in company with one of these ycung men. The Mexican, thinking she was about being taken out of his charge, procured warrants for their ar- rest when after being biought before a mag- istrate, the young man exhibited a certifi- cate of marriage with the hideous monster! They had procured a,hack, and come out in the country early in the morning to have the knot tied! She refused to raise her veil during the ceremony; when over she gave tho clergyman a sight of her visage at which, it is said, the reverend gentleman was so terrified that ho shouted \ Abomi- nation! and made a straight coat-tail into tho street. am • ' • * •— The Miners Tenth Commandment. — From an illustrated editou of Ten Com- mandments, given to the miners of Califor- nia by a man who saw the elephant from the key of his trunk to the end of his tail, wc copy the following. The man spake thus: 'Thou shalt not commit unsuitable mat- rimony, nor covet 'single bless °dness;' nor forget absent maidens; nor forgt t thy 'first love'—but thou shalt consider hew faithful ly she awaiteth thy return; yeayi'-nd cover- eat each epistle that thou sendost with kis- ses of kindly welcome—until she lath thy- self neither shalt thou covet thy neigh- bor's wife, nor trifle with the affections of his daughter; yet, if thy heart be free, and thou dost love and covet each other, thou shalt 'pop the question' like a man, lent an- other, more manly than thou ait, should a in before thee, and thou lovo her in and in the anguish of thy hearts dis- intment thou thou shalt quote the je of the great and say, 'Sich is 1 fe: thy future lot be that of a poor lonely, * an* comfortless bachelor,\ present constituted, either with his eyes open or unintentionally, I ut not the less sure- ly, breaks the unity of spirit and tan! of peace that must exi>t in the true church of Christ and wounds without cause a brother for whom Christdied. He may lay the flatter- ing unction to h:s soul that his foreign tarn brothers and sisters have no cause of e m- plnint. If they speak of their troubles they r.re looked upon as dissatisfied and treated with contempt and the breach is widened. If ihey bear their trials in silence the arro- gance of their native brother does not di- minish, and true religion in the soul of both the one and the other can never prosper. The christian brother may tell me it is all surmise—he does not proscribe his for- prove but the beginning of another war as holy as the one of independence but far more dreadful beoauw in truth a civil war. Pause then Christian, do not be deceived weigh well the position ofthe various parties In our nation and give not your influence to further slavery and; wr >ng but with christ- ian frankness clear yourself from the unholy league and let vour stranger brother—let ant! the Bible and hvmr;,hook wrre given him,wl.ieh were taar evident marks of having been weB stndk d. A day or two sinee he remarked that he had no evidence in baa mind that he would receive mercy from tits Savior of mankind, but yesterday morninir he remarked that bis mind was at that it- o-ganic law is to be executed with impartial justice; that all individual acts of illegal interference will incur condign punishment; and that any endeavor to in- ter vene by organized force will be firmly withstood. I invoke all good citizen^ to promote re.>t ana he folt that he would dii happy-1 Whenever prayers were offered up for order Iy rendering obedience to the law; to him he always wept bitterly, and he sai 1 cc^k n-medy for temporary evils by peace- vesterday whcBerrr he thought of Christ I f.d means; to discountenance and repulse dying to save sinn«rs like him, his h 'art fh> counsels ani the instigations of agita- swelk'd, and he could not restrain his t n ars. tors and of disorganize, s ; and to testify He seems to have been peculiarly solicit-. their attachment to their country, their o'is to have his memory relieved from the ; pride in its greatness, their appreciation of the friends of freedom see and feel that you j charge of murder, and almost his tot words; the blessings they enjoy, anil their deter- Hold i after the cap had been drawn over his face, i initiation that Republican institutions shall are true to vour holv rfessio politics aud every worldly matter in subser- vience to your higher calling and let the world take knowledge of us not for our in- con<istencies and sins but for our resem- blance to him who taught that we cannot love God unless we also love our brother. If we acknowledge the fact that the Cat'.i- The interview with Ins wife aud child ta- o ics do m general act unitculy in their po- » _ . +, , ! fore gosrg to the place ot ex-oution was d >ej ly affecting. His wife is left entirely destitute, and.with a child of twenty months in her arms, is again on th? eve of confine- lit ical relations and that when the parties in our nation are nearly equal their united votes mav turn tho scale. Even then th\ eign brother or wrong him in the church. ^^ ha , ^en in aeeordanea with the To him I would say, it is possible you sin- ] wishes of about on , fca i f i t noi „ ma :,, ritv cerely think) you do not. So the beadles.- foot that treads upon the worm may be in sensible of the injury it has done; the tor- tured reptile knows the fact for certain— vour stranger brother brought up in a coun- try quite as refined as this, and in society quite as polished as yours, has sensibil- ities quite as tender and feelings quite as keen, and thinks he is quite able to teli whether your foot is on his nock or not . But admitting him to be mistaken as to your treatment of him in church matters and that his instances of wrong are the fan- cied suppositions of weak-mindedness, let me ask where you learned from Bible teach- ing that it is right endanger the peace and prosperity of the church of Christ for any worldly cause. Paul had not so learned his duty when ho said that even if his use of certain kinds of food and drink shoul! g -ievc his christian brother he would all his life avoid their use. Again' has not your foreign-bom brother tie sime anxiety as you for civil as well as religious liberty. He has left father and mother, and home and friends, and braved untold dangers to obtain them. Our for- eign born as well as native heroes bled and died to secure the one as well as the other. With what feelings then can your stran- ger brother regard you when he knows that while with your lips and in your pay- ers and perhaps with tears you say you love God and love his people, in your acts and by your party you are seeking to deprive him and AM of that which, next to religion, lies nearest to his heart — civil liberty and social and political advantages and rights. Here again you meet me with a fiat deni- al—ouriparty seeks no such thing. Come my brother, if you have been misled to tho present time, leam at last the true facts of die case before it is too late, and the great future of our beloved nation is given by vour vote into the hands of the reckless party whose fascination binds vou. I will not now refer to acts and speeches, here and all over the country, by certain members of your order—no party is respon- sible for the personal indiscretions of its members. But let roe say that we are now allowed to look inside your council cham- bers. Behold ono speech — a leaders speech—an official act a specimen of others and which well accords with the true prin- ciples of the order. \General Dearborn of Tennesse in tak- ing the cBalras President of a Know No- thing convention gave utterance to tho fol- lowing infamous sentiment: \ Unles* wc stop emigration we can't of the native voters, and has never been I such as to warrant one word of strife among politicians, still less to justify the disregard of christian obligation and brotherly affec- tion among and towards all the members of the christian church. The Catholics put. up no candidate. The foreigners put up none. Our native citizens only can be candidates for our highest office; and none have wished it otherwise. In al- most everv cavi we have had good men to rule us, and if in the Catholic has some- times turned the scale in favor of a bad one —a Fillmore or a Pierce, wo have only to regret that our native brethren proposed tuch men for office. Wo cannot prevent the united action of th? catholics—we may drive them and have driven them by the Know Nothing move- ment to greater union; allow mo to suggest a rem?dy for this evil instead of the vile anti-American and anti-Christiau one o' Know-Nothingism.— In all cases put good men in nomination and none but good men will be elected, and especially let our next nominees for President and Vice-President be men who will not play the doughface part and sell the rights of 20 millions of freemen for the courtly smile of about a quarter of a million of southern planters, who would drive us as their slaves. To conclude I would add that as all are liable to err I hope ever to be open to con- viction and wishing to be right and true in my principles and conduct if any christian brother now acting with the Know Noth- ing sees or thinks he sees a fallacy or error in what I have writen here or in a former letter connected with this subject*, I shall feel thankful to have him point it out If he cannot do this and will not cease to act with them, let him not wonder that we should think that having been deceived he loves to have it so and is willing for less than a mess of pottage to sell the cause of freedom—his country's weal—his christian eliaracter and tho peace of Zion. In my next I may notice more partic- ularly the bearing of Know Nothingism on question of Slavery and Freedom. I am &c., J. F. Westfield, Feb. 18th 1856. • See Westlield Republican Xo. 34 of 1855. From a statement in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, we team that there are in the United States 665,563 slaves owned by ministers of the gospel and members of the different churches, viz: 216,563 by tho Methodists, 77,000 by the' Presbyterians, 125,000 by tho Baptists, 88,Q0O_ by tho EpiacopaliajB»,.»li000 by tbe^ Campbell- ites, and 50,000 by other denominations. not fail in th ir hands, by co-operating to inno-1 uphold the majesty of the laws and to vin- i dicat .• the sancity of the Constitution. In Ae eommu- j testimony whereof, I have hereunto sH my n to himself; band and caused the seal of tho United wnich he did not wish made public, as it; States to ta affixed to these present might imnre the living a;id do no »rood. Don • at the city of Washington, on the THE I.NT::I!VIK\V WITH in s FAMILY. eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight [SEAL.] hundred and fifty-six, and of the in- were: \ r>«ees any one here believe m cent:\ He was about 25 years old, nie.ated some facts in relati i ment. A MOTHEir? LOVE. In the following linrs left by !>nn?t, a tender and eloquent address is made to a mother's love j \ I am in hopes that th^ people of Lou- isvile and the world will find :\t som--> day that I am innocent of th^ murder of Thom- as Mullen. I thank God I am innocent of his death. My real name is not Bennet.but George Huffhnr. I was born in Germany, and brought to this country bv mv parents when verv small, and they settled in Mis- souri. My father died first, and I can not remember my motner's appearance, yet I have some recollections of her dca'h. I have one s : ster and two brother*. My sis- ter is the oldest and I am next to her. I forgive all my enemies, and am sorrv for all my crimes. I think if I had had the tnflueneo of a mother's love I would not have bern here, I hope that any whom I have harmed will forgive me. Jan. 31st 1856. GEOKOE HrFFNER.\ The following lines, which he stated were his own composition, were handed by him to Mr. Adams. They are written in a poor but plain hand: llan in hi* foolish prir> proposes Ofthe future as the ]ias=r. But God in his wfrdoa still dispones. Confounding all hia aims at h»st OEOKOE HUFFSER. Valuation of Real and Personal Prop- erly in the Stffte of Xew York. —Tho rec- ords on file in the office of the Secretary of State, containing the valuation of the real and personal property in the State, as re- ported by the Assessors, give the following figures: Real Estate $1,107,272,715 Fersonal Estate 294,012 564 Total SM01,285,279 The following is the taxtion ofthe above valuation: Ftate tax of 1 3 t mills dependence of the United States the eightieth. - FRAXKMN PIERCE. By the President: W. L. MABCT, Sec'y. of State. - si m i * From the London ffitette, Jan. JZ. - The Arctic Expeditions. The Lords Commissioners of the Admi- : rality having, by a proclamation of the 7th i of March, 1850, offerexl— 1. A reward of £20,000 to any party or : parties who, in tho judgement of the : Board of Admire lity, should discover and j etfoctually relieve the crews of her Majesty's j ships Erebus and Terror; and 2. The sum of £10,000 to any party or I parties who^in the judgement of the Board j of Admirably, should discover and effectu- ally relieve any of the crews of her Majes- ty's ships Erebus and Terror, or should con- vev such inteligence as should lead to the relief of such crews, or any of them; And 3. The sum of £10,000 to any par- tv or parties who, in the judgement of the Board of Adroirality, should, by virtue of his or their efforts first succeed in ascertain- ing their fate— Hereby give notice that Dr. Itae, have- ing claimed to be entitled to the reward of £10,000 under the terms ofthe third para- graph of such proclamation, they will pro- eeede three months from tho date hereof to adjudicate on such claim, and that all persons who, by virtue of such proclama- tion, deem themselves entitled to the whole or any part of the reward in question, must prefer their claims within such time, alter the expiration of which no claim will be entertained. County taxes - Town taxes - - $1,753,5<U - - 7.947,503 - 1,976,951 Total $11,078,015 This makes the rate of tax 8 3-10 mills upon every §1 valuation. Florida Indians to be removed. —We are pleseed to learn from Gov. Broorao the acceptable inteligenee that Gen. Davis, who presides over the War Department at Washington, has sent instructions to Col. Monroe t > adopt coercive measures for the removal of the remrmnt of savages occupy- ing the extreme Southern portion of thi; State. Removal is now the declared pur- pose, and, to accomplish it the Executive of this State has been authorised by the War Department to receive and tender to Col. Monroe for immediate service, five companies of volunteers: and, should the five be insufficient, as many more as Col. Monroe may desire. In accordance with tho tenor of the dispatches received from Washington, Gov. Broome has promptly received and tendered for immediate ser- vice, four volunteer companies, commanded by Messrs. Kenril.rick, Durrance, Spark- man and Hooker rcspectivlv.— Tafyhati i FJoridtan. . • . , • 1 Selling Slaves to extend Slavery. — We cut the following from the Montgomery, (Ala„) Advertiser: Sale of Valuable Negroes.— We saw Maj. Jeff. Buford in our city yesterday. We understand he has with him the negroes proposed to bo 'sold for the patriotic pur- pose of carrying emigran s o Kansas. The negroes will be sold Monday, and the pro- coeds will be religiously applied to the. plan of carrying a company\ of people to the ter- ritory. Had we a few more such deter- mined, liberal men to step forward in th cause, the friends of the South, of Fsaai and the bordering counties of Missoui would soon be relieved of'.all anxiety ft the noble cause in which they are laborin; SECRET or WKAiim.—Amos and Abot Liwrencc began life poor; they determino< that the strictest integrity should nervad« -very business transaction until their dying. hour—and it was so. Among the results arc the accumulation of millions of money. the possession of a name for mercantile in tegrity, worth more, to them, their children, to' their age and nation, than a title to a dukedom; while they did, during hfe, and at death, institute charities, which will heap sweet blessings on their name and for ages yet to eoroc. Let every clerk on this broad earth make ' experiment, and take encourage: the assurance, founded in the very titan of things that similar resuHs wiB «)*» to . him. • • — * ••skUirw...
