The Elwood Free Press from Elwood, Kansas • 2

Position of Hon. Edward gm )ress. Aid to Railroads. During the past winter Railroad Corporations have been sanguine ia their expectations of aid- from Federal and State authorities. Kansas and Nebraska looked to Congress for land Campaign Document.

I. The Irrepressible Conflict Gov. Seward's fatuous Rochester Speech 1858: bound up with O'Conor Union Meeting Spteoch Dee. 19, '59 arguing that Negro Slavery is essentially, radically just and humane: To which are added brief Opinions of many eminent men on ths subject thnr It. The Democratic Leaders for DiiUtlion Speech of Henry Wilson of Mass.

in SenaWtfan. 25, 1860 showing by copious Citations that the. Importailt Territorial Changes. The organization of tho nev Territories of Pike's and Dacotah, which has been agt-ced npon by the Senate Committee on Territories, will result not only in a general slicing np ot the Tarions important Territories of the United States, but in entirely wiping out from the map the namo of Utah, and destroying the organization, thus unseatin2 Mr. Hooper, the The Slave Trade In Full Itlast.

The New York Timen publishes letters from the Coast of Africa, giving details of the style in which the slave trade ia now being carried on. A correspondent writing from the United States Ship Portsmouth, St. Paul de Loando, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 1859 The few months experience We have had on the coast has not altogether been thrown away. It has thoroughly convinced us that the whole slave coast is, we may sag, lined with slavers, who ate generally from New York, cleared The Elwood 'and -Mabysvilljs Railroad is progressing finely.

The track has been laid through our town and is going on. The St. Joseph Gazette says: "Stipulations for the completion and equipment of some twenty-five miles have been entered into by parties in the city, the mention of whose nanis would utterly preclude the possibility of a failure. It is known thai the city has subscribed oh3 hundred thou-sand dollars towards buying iron, this condition of which subscription is. that lhe bonds can only be issued when five consecutive miles of road are graded and the ties for the same upon the ground.

Under this condition this aid will do much toward advancing the work, inasmuch as every dollar will be faithfully applied in actual work upon the road. "This is the first railroad iron ever laid down upon Kansas soil. The first road leading west from the Missouri river. It is a direct extension of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad.

It is a continuation of a direct line from the Atlantic sea board. It is the commencement of the great Pacific liailroad. Thus is the problem of a Pacific Railroad to the accomplishment of which Congress, with the treasury of the nation at its command, has Virtually confessed itself inadequate, being surely solved." ELWQOD, KANSAS: Saturday March 31, 1360. Xtepnblican State Convention. A Republican State Convention -will be held at the city of Lawrn WEDNESDAY, THE 11TII DAY Or AruiLnest, at ,11 o'clock x.

to choose six. Dolegates Jo the National Republican-Convention to be held at Chicago, 'for the purpose of nominatins candidate to be supported for President and ice President, and for the transac tiott of such other business as may come butore the Convention The following shall be tho basis of isepresentation Doniphan County, 5 Atchin 6 Brown Nemaha 1 Marshall i Washington Clay I Riley "2 Pottawatomie" 1 Dickinson 1 Davis 1 Wanbonsee 1 Shawnee 4 Jackson 2 JeffeMon 8 Leavenworth 9 Douglas 7 Johnson 14 3 Wyandot County, Lykins 8 Linn 8 Bourbon Allen 3 Anderson 3 Franklin 3 Woodsott 44 1 Madison 1 Coffey 8 Osage 44 1 Breckenridge'4 8 Morris 44 1 1 Greenwood 44 1 Hunter 44 1 Arapahoe 44 1 Latest News by Telegraph. Louisville, March 29. A dispatch from New Orleans states that Gov. Houston, of Texas, not receiving Government military aid expected, his ordered Col.

ohnson to insftediaVely raise a large force of Hangers to drive Indians from the Northern frontier. He takes no steps against Me'xioo pending the ratification of the Ir'eaty. New -York, March 29. A Baltimore paper states that the organization of the brattch- of the Knights of the Golden Circle now cumber nearly 1,000 men, mostly young, and many from some very respectable families. They have an armory where they meet for daily drill under the instruction of United States Officers.

The aim of this association is the invasion of Mexico, and they expect to leave in a few weeks unmolested by government, as they will not arm themselves until beyond the jurisdiction of the United States. Washington, March The special Committee Oil the Fa cific Railroad, substantially decided that they could fix the route by rejecting the resolutiou offered by Miles Taylor, which proposed to leave that question open to be determined by capital and enterprise. They then discussed the position of Mr. Curtis, for a road on the 41st parallel, starting from two points opposite the Western boundary of Missouri and Iowa, with two converging lines westward and united within two hundred miles of the Missouri River and then proceeding by a single trunk line to the bay of San Francisco or the navigable waters of the Sacramento, and that of Mr. Phelps for a road by the 15th parallel.

Adjourned till Thursday, Mr. Gwin's bill for a telegraph line to the Pacific, was referred to the Post Office Committee of the House and will be thoroughly scrutinized before being reported back. The dispatches of Capt. Jarvis do not materially differ from the public statement, concerning the collision with, and capture of, the Mexican steamers. They stated that one American marine was killed and two wounded that the Saratoga was towed down to Anton Ligardo by the Indi-anolia and Wave, which are in the service of Juarez and were sent to ascertain the character of Miramon's steamers which had passed the Castle of San Juan, and the U.

S. ship Savannah, without showing their colors. The Secretary of the Navy submitted these dispatches to the President today and Mr. Hale's resolution of inquiry will be immediately answered. The Harper's Ferry investigation committeee had another meeting yesterday.

The Sergeant-at-Arms, who has been in Eearch of John Brown, has returned and informed the Committee, that he is in Ohio, bnt refused to be taken. He defies the Committee of Congress, and says his friends will not permit him to leave the State. The committee meets again bn Friday, when the matter will prcbabl.y be reported to the Senate. Certain parties here are making a movement to have the Democratic National Convention transferred from Charleston to New Orleans. The Committee on Ways and Means have concurred with the Post Office Committee in restoring the inland mail service to the condition it was in when the last Congress ajourned, and report such a provision in the Post Office appropriation bill.

Lexington, March 27. A man named Hanson, recently expelled from Bera, Madison county, with John G. Fee, returned, and the Committee again ordered him from the county. Hanson, with twenty-five or thirty associates, armed with rifles, fired upon the Committee. Nobody wounded.

Hanson's party retired and barricaded themselves in a house. The Bates. Hon. Edward Bates has addressed a letter to the Missouri delegates to the Chicago Convention, in reply to the interrogatories propounded by them. The mam points ot it are as fol lows He has no new opinions upon tho subject of the extension of slavery, and has formed none with reference to the array of parties, he is coeval with the Missouri question of 1820.

He formed his opinions then, and has not changed them since. At the time of the revolution, and long after, slavery was regarded as an evil, but temporary in its nature and likely to, disappear in the course of time. Yet, while it continued, it was a mis fortune to the country, socially and politically, oiavery ia a social relation, a domestic institution, and it exists by local law. The federal gov ernment has no control over it in the States but the Territories are subject and subordinate to the government, they not beiftg supreme, like the States. The na'tion is supreme over them.

He- is eioosed to tfe'e extension of sla very, and in his opinion the policy and spirit of the government ought to be against its extension. The constitu tion does not carry slavery into the territories. It only acts upon it where it is established by local law. The Dred Scott decision only decides that Dred Scott was not a citizen, and the opinions of the Judges beyond this are extra-judicial and of no authority. The questions thus discussed by them were political, and not within their cognizance, and belong and could be disposed of only by the political de partments.

The discussion was most unfortunate, as it produced a danger ous conflict between the co-ordinate branches of the government. He fa vors the colonization of the free blacks in the American tropics, the homestead bill, the immediate admission of ivan- sas, a perfect equality of rights among citizens, and the construction of the Pacific Railroad under the auspicies of the government. He is gratified that his name has only been used in a spirit of harmony and peace, and to prevent disunion and controversy among those who ought to be united. He has neither sought nor held any political office for 25years, and is satisfied with the honors already paid him by the public. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Traveller writes that the case of Hyatt is exciting much attention.

Senators and members of the House are among his numerous visitors. Tho jailer has relaxed the rules, which are vigorously enforced against the other prisoners, whether rich or poor, which are, that they shall receive no visitors except members of their immediate family and their physician. Mr. Hyatt's room is quite large, with a high ceiling, a very large window grated with iron bars, from which all view of the city is excluded by heavy woden blinds, which can neither be opened nor removed. When Mr.

H. was placed in the room, it was bare of all furniture. Government has supplied him with nothing. The room now contains a bed, three chairs, a walnut table, a few tin and earthen dishes, a washstand and fix tures. The brick floor is covered with cement, except in large spots where this is broken away.

The walls and ceiling are whitewashed, and the room is scrupulously clean. All the furniture of the room has been supplied at the cost of the prisoner) as will be all the addition made to his accom modations. Mr. Hyatt appears not at all down cast by his imprisonment. He declares his determination to mantain the position he has assumed, because he believes it to be right, and because he believes it would be wrong to accede to the demands of the Senate.

Not that he desires to conceal anything, for he has assertad that, whenever the Senate will recede from the compul sory processs, he will volunteer to answer any questions which they may ask. His petition is this: He denies the right of the Senate to coerce witnesses, either as to attendance or as to testimony. lie has nothing which he desires to conceal, but he declares it is his intention to test the power of the Senate. lie can suffer as long as they can inflict punishment. It has resolved itself into a question of endurance.

Mr. Hyatt has sent for his library and his maps, has made arrangements for furnishing his rooms comfortably, and will make himself as contented as possible, with a view to a stay of years. He bas written to his brother to conduct his affairs as though he were dead. New Hampshire Election. Full returns give Goodwin, 38,009 Cate, ,33,410 Goodwin's majority, 4,599 Wadsworth, the republican candidate for Senator in the 6th District is elected, making 10 of the 12 Senators for the republicans.

The republican majority in the Housa is 85. --1 tin Our readers will remember that the 3d day of April is the day set for the day set for the starting of the Pony Express fronv this city. The Republicans Washington correspondent, writing under date of the 21st instant, says "Major Russell left yesterday, for New York, from which point he goes westward to St. Joseph, to be present at the starting of his Pony Express for California, on the 3d proximo. The success of this enterprise is regarded here as a fixed fact, and great praise is awarded to Maj.

Russell for his boldness and energy in putting it St. Jo. Gazette. See agjn what a single vote will do. By a single vote the election of Speaker was determined.

Had this election been otherwise had it been of another man Mr. Forney would never have been elected Clerk Mars-ton, Doorkeeper, Lucas, Postmaster; nor Hoffman, Sergeant-at-Arms. A single vote, too, determined the election of Mr. Ford as Printer, though his election was by a majority of two. For it is said that had not the Hon.

Mr. Davis of Maryland given him his vote, thd votes of others would have been with-held. Mr. Douglas has not attended a meeting of the Territorial Committee sinecJie wasJromovcd from its head. grants which should render immediately possible the construction and operation of their scheme of roads.

Missouri, or her railroad men, looked to their own Legislature for a grant of State Bonds which should enable her unfinished roads to approach im mediate completion. All parties have been disappointed. In Congress the bill of Land Grants has been tabled by so decisive a vote as to render its resurrection almost impossible. The Homestead bill, giving farms to actual settlers, has usurped the place of heavy donations to corporations and railroads, for this year at least, must rest en Ueir own basis. In Missouri the Governor has vetoed the bill granting State Aid to their own roads, and railroad extension in that State is for the present checked.

So far as the interests of this local ity are immediately concerned, it is, perhaps, better that this state of things should exist. Unaided b.V out side generosities, the Elwood and Marysvxlle Railroad will undoubtedly be the first of the Kansas roads which will be in active operation. No other road has commenced any actual work on its line. No other road has gone further than surveys and enthusiastic meetings. Our own road has been by private enterprise graded for a distance of twelve miles: the grade is rapidly progressing, and track is now being laid.

This summer we shall have in operation thirty miles of road west of us. No other point in Kansas will have a mile. On the whole, we are not particularly sorry that Congress has denied us aid. Alone we can build our road, and the failure of the Land Grant removes all chances of competition. Kansas and St.

Joseph. One would think to read some of the St. Jo. papers that there was no such place as Kansas. They avoid all allusion to the subject as if it were pol- ution.

The Gazette is particularly aristocratic in this particular. Kansas is an "abolition hole," and their Democratic Excellencies don't dare to mention us for fear they will lose sub scribers. Everybody knows that St. Jo. was only a village when Kansas was first settled, and that it has been our trade and our money that have built her up.

More corn and wheat are carried to St. Joseph from Kansas than she gets from her own State. Yet we are ignored by this peert young town as if we were a pauper settlement. We are fortunately beyond the reach of her censures or her praises, but this studied silence and misrepresentation we cannot forbear alluding to. If you enjoy it we hope you will continue to damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and without sneering teach the rest to sneer.

Buying and Selling. As the hopes for our admission again revive there comes again the Senatorial ques tion and the contest of unscrupulous partisans. All sorts of stories are afloat; yet other candidates are trotttd out and money, money and more mowev is already offered. We are not a member elect. No visions of riches float through our brain; no early retirement from business 00 a choice timber quarter; no hopss of premature renown; nothing but hard work is visible in our future.

The terms these Senators will draw are very short ones, and to a common man, would not seem to be worth the fabulous figures at whicb they are now quoted. But they know best, and if a couple of years in the gilded halls of Washington are worth $50,000 each to these aspirants, why, we have no fault to find. Bribery and corruption are universal, are popular and are sure to win. James Buchanan will tell you so. We will only hint at a possibility that may arise, namely: premature riches sometimes lead to permanent disgrace sometimes.

1 Southern Kansas is once more threatened with lawless invasion by pro-slavery hordes. The enemies of freo institutions have again begun their system of extermination. Their plea is the old one of horse-stealing, ut their real purpose is political. A large number of Freo State men have been warned to leave the amoneihem Capt. Jenningsen.

The disturbance is in the Ossge Valley, in the vicinity of Mapleton. Unless the pro-slavery men immediately desist Capt. Montgomery will be again in the field. Gov. Robinson has come out with two letters, one in reply to Phillips and Lane, and the other to Redpath.

They would fill five of our columns, and being merely personal, we do not consider them sufficiently important for publication. Charles Ilobinson, the "rebel" of '55. takes conserva tive and constitutional position which really edifying. As far as Wm. A Phillips is concerned be proves noth ing.

Redpath is an avowed msurrec tionist, and it amounts to nothing to prove that fact. the whole we think the letter a poof apology for the uncalled for statements joaade be fore the Harper's Ferry leading democratic orators ana polity cians are fully resolved to destroy the Union when they can no longer rule it. III. The AdmiSsion, tif Kansas-Gov. Seward's great Speech in Senate Feb.

29, 18C0 sumfuibg up the political issues of the day. IV. National Politics Sptech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois at the Cooper Institute, New-York, Feb. 2lt 18G0 explaining and defending the position and views of the Republican party on the subject of Slavery; To which is added, lion. James R.

Doo-littlc's vindication of the Republicans of Wisconsin from the charge of Nul lifieation. V. Land for the Landless lion. Ga-Ittsha A. Grow's Speech in the Ilouse, Feb.

29, 1800 ia exposition and advocacy of the Republican policy cf granting the Public Lands in litnited tracts to Actual Settlers for the bare cost of survey and sale. Each of the above is printed on fair type and good paper, forming a large octavo dotible'Colttmn tract of sixteen pages. They are sold in quantities of One Thousand or over for one cent per copy; and the Thousand may be mad tip frotn tho list above given in such quantities of each as the buyer msy desire. In smaller quantities, $1 25 per hundred; 25c. per doien 4 cents.

5 Will not our Republican friends aid us to circulate the documents?" Now is the time when thousands of winds can be reached and influenced which, three months hence, will be hardened like flint sgainst eonvi'ction. Terms cash; remit by Mail or Amer ican Express Company at our risk. Address Horace reeley 1 noun Building, Nassau N. Y. Not So.

The stories about th approaching marriage of the Print ct 83 Alice ot England seem to bd finally and completely contradicted by tho London Court Journal, which 8a vs that 'tliere is not tho slightest foundation fr the an. hoimci ment. copied from tho Dutch ft the approaching mar-: riage of the Prince of Orange with an illustrious princess' A Loco-Foco organ at liar-rodaburg sayS that the curses sent forth against President Dnchanaa vfill, like yotiftg chickens, go horn to ro.Bt." Wo guess that on the 4th of next March old Buck him self, who is no but a will go home to roost." PreuticeV, ot course. Among tho illegitimate births in Massachusetts in tho year 1858, there wasono case worthy of espec-, ial notice, in consequence of tha extreme youth of the mother. Elizabeth wisborn of natirc parents, in the almshouse ftt Taun ton, May 24, 1817, and at the same place she became the tndthcr of A healthy boy.

on the first day of 1S5S, being only ten. years eight months and seven days' old. This appears to bo a rare case in this climate, but is well attested by the physician (Dr. A. Baylies,) of the almshouse at who officiated professionally both at tho birth of tho young mother, and at thnt of he" child.

This boy weiglfi ed eights pounds nt birth, and at tho ngc ot eighteen months weighed 37 pounds, and was in tho enjoy, ment of robust health. Fuee Colored Persons itt Char, i.kston. A recent letter frotn Char Upton says: The most notable featrtreis the tax on projerty paid by 'fK'e persons of color." The nnmltcf of colored persons taxed is 355, And of theso 304 aro owners of real estate, whilo 226 of them own real estate to tho amount of $1,000 or more soma ot them nearly $50,000 worth the entire amount owned the 326 reterrcd to, amounts to About fifty years ago there was a papef published in Load called the Mirror. A letter to tho publisher from a subscriber, dated February 15, 1700, contains tho fol lowihg (passage: "Mm. Kimley likes your paper tho best of any, because yon often insert accounts of shocking acci dents, murders, aDd other terrible destructions, which so lamentably happen to mankind.

As such your, newspaper is a Wattling voice, and hu admonition for people to watch their own wellaro, ana to beware." Mrs. Ivimlcy was more honest than the ladies of to-day, who sup on newspaper1 scandal and horrors, and then wonder "why the papers will publish such tuffi''' Dayton Empire. fi ANOTiikh Royal Marriage. Ik seems to Bottled that tho second daughter of Queen Victoria, tho Princess Alice, is to have ns hut band the young Prifice of Orange. Thd man iage to tako place on tho anniversary of tho Qnecn'a birth day, on the 24th of May neit.

This intelligence comes trom Hrns-sels, to which city the young conpW are to pay visit nttcr their nniotr. King Leopold, tho great nncle ol the bride, ia making" prcpirrationw to receivo thern in fhV cap ital. The Princess will enter on her 18th year in April, and tho Prince will have attained tho tern of manhood in September. Tho marriage is likely to bo popular In England, whrre tbo twrnory of William the Dutchman is still beld in high regard. It i ascertained that there were two hundred and five persons on the Hungarian, which wss wreckcdalCafO ne was saved delegate from that Territory.

The agreement of the oenate uommit-toe to report bills organizing Pike's Peak and Nevada Territories, did not include definitely the fixing of the lines, but I learn that a general understanding prevails in the Committee that the lino dividing the two Territories will be at about the One'handred and eighth degree of wctt longitude, and that all of Utah east ot that line shall be included in the Pike's Peak Territory, and all westof that line shall be incltt- ded in the Territory of Ifevada. The chaiituen of the two Territorial Committees, Mr. Green of the Senate, and Mr. Grow of the House, are authorized to confer together and frame such a bill as, in their opinion, will receive the sanction of their several committees and the two Ilonses. If this plan is adopted the capital of tho new Territory of Nevada will be removed Irom Salt Lake City.

Pike's Peak Territory will be t-nlarged not only with a portion of Utah, as indicated, but will also embrace a portion ot Nebraska, and probably that portion of New Mexico which projects into Kansas, at the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude, the eastern line ot the Territory being limited by tho boundary of the propesed new State of Kansas, as laid down in the Wyandotte Constitution. The bill organizing Dacotah will not be reported at present, as there prevails a general desire to dispose ot the two hew Territories which are to absorb Utah and the Mormons. An attetifpt will be n.ade on the part ot the Deriioofats to eX elude Irom tho different Territories all reference to th question of slavery, but the Republicans will undoubtedly insist upon inserting a proviso torbiddirig slavery to enter into or exist therein. Cor. Cin.

Gazette. 2ith. I'he Bocndabiesof Kansas. An attempt will be made in the Senate to change the line of the proposed State ot Kansas Irotn that denned id the Wyattdwtte Constitution. the refliflt of which will he tu enlarge the area of the new btate so as to include settled portions Nebrns ka as far north as the Platte Iliv er.

The House will resist this alteration, and adhere to tho boundaries Selected by the people of Kansas. If the Senate insist upon enlarging tho boundaries against the will of the people, at the same time depriving Nebraska of a por tion of her best territory and peo ple, the bill for the admission of Kansas will be killed, and the res ponsibility will rest with the Senate. Efforts will be mado by the Government friends of Kansas and Nebraska to prevent the Senate from taking such action, especially as a large slice ot Nebraska will be given to Pike Peak Territory. Bcrnino Slaves at tub Stake. Mr.

Van Wyck, of New York, in a iato speech in Congress, stated that in the slave States negroes were burned at tho stake. He was abruptly contradicted by Southern members, and his assertion pronounced "false," the St. Lonis News noticing the denial vindicates history hj relating an occurrence that took place in Mis sonri, last sttinmer, where a negro committed an infamous outrage, and Was seized by a mob composed of the best citizens of Saline conn' ty. The Neves says The slave was tied to a 6take. Tho faggots were piled high around him, and lighted.

And there in the broad day light, in land of law, courts and civilization, in presence ot a christian communi ty, the inluriated throng pressed around the fh-ry circle, and looked with approving emotion, perhaps not with savagn joy, npon th shrieking victim, who leaped at the stake and yelled in horrible pain as licked his quiv ering thews and tnusch s. and final ly swept his charred body to the eurth, and si nt his guilty soul fresh Irom its base and luttnl feast, to the tribunal of Ilim who in tho en I will judge the criminal, and his swiit, and for anght we know, his most christian executions ut the fiery stake. Mr IIchter's Prospects. White the Georgia delegates go to Cliftr leeton uncommitted, the tact is well ascertained that they are for Air. Hunter.

South Carolina will Bend asimilat delegation, and Delaware, Arkansas, Alabama, Calitornia, and Oregon are confidently conn ted on the same side. Tho signs are now clear that the South will unite on Mr. Hunter, which is nearly tantamount to a nomination, and that the teal contest will natrowed down between him and Mr. Douglas. If Mr.

Hunter be selected, the Cincinnati platform, piire and simple will be adopted, tho South being content with that and her candidate ''Occasional'' writes from Washington to tho Philadelphia Press that a largo 6um of money was sent from that city to New Hampshire tor the purpose of furthering the success of the democratic ticket, and that a number of the departments went home to vote. -We hope our democratic friends will help in the lamo way in NoTcm-beraud with equal effect. from the Custom, Ilouse, bringing all the appliances of the trade with them, and maneuvering about on the coast, under various pretenses and disguises of legal traffic; particularly under that most specious blind the obtaining palm oil until the favorable moment having arrived, the cargo is shipped, and a few hours finds them out of danger, on the way to (lie West Indies. Much ignorance prevails at home, in relation to the true state of affair on the coast. The palm oil trade i susposcd to be in a highly flourishing condition.

We are told that the fcbhi-petition between English and Aniericah merchants, to obtain posessiOn of this trade, is so great that they are almost ready to cut each other's throats, in their eager desire run to one another off the coast and that it is the policy of England, through her navy, to annoy American vessels so much that they will not fcbme for oil. This opinion is wholU false. In the first plaee, threare few or no English vessels fehgaged in this oil trade. During eight months, we have seed flit one while, in the same period, we have encountered, dozens of pretended American dilHraders. The English officers know of but three legal tradors on the slave coast.

Again, the vessels we have examined have generally been cleared from New York, for a period of seven to nine months, while, under favorable circumstances, nearly two years, or more, would be required, to fill the large Casks they have, as the oil is obtained slowly, and in small quantities at a time. At the present time, too, oil is scarce, and at Ambriz to which point these vessels clear, anchor for a few hours and then leave there is none to be had, as we are informed by merchants there. Moreover, these vessels leave New York with the holds filled with water casks, filled with fresh water, under tho pretense of carrying the water for ballast, and on the coast, putbping out the water and filling them with oih Now, MJrafeHcasks and oil-casks are two different things, and the legal traders have tr Us that the oil2 casks come out in s-aves, ar put to gether here, and previous to being filled with oil, are white-trashed itfriide and outside! This being the case, and the modes of disguising the real objects of vessels coming to Africa being so various and easy of attainment, the only way to carry out the full intent and spirit of the treaty, and really to suppress the slave trade (and something must be done, things having arrived at such a pitch,) is the declaration, on the part of the United States, that any vessel found on the western coast of Africa, under American colors, carrying any water-casks over a certain number, say eight, buckets over five or six, rice and farina, salt, or salt fish, beyond a certain fixed quantity, spoons, galleys, planking or lumber, shall be captured as a lawful prize, and so considered to any United States vessel of war so capturing, without any mock trial, at some port in the United States where the immense moneyed influence and interest of these worst of pirates can clear any vessel not found with the slaves absolutely aboard of her, and can often do it even then. The FatKd Twenty-Third It has already been stated that the twenty -ihird of April, the day fixed for lhe Charleston Convention, is the birth-day of Senator Douglas, and of Mr. Buchanan.

It appears also that upon that day Cervantes and Shakspeare died, to which a New York paper adds that the day will be remembered in future as the occasion on which the Little Giant gave up the ghost politically. Garibaldi's Marriagb. We cannot recollect tho precise number of reports of Garibaldi's marriage and of subsequo'tt denials, but the the balance was finally struck, we bflicvo, in favor ot" tho trntli ot the first story, that he had married a lady much younger than himsvif, and that some inexplicable oVi-uts had occurred after the marriage re suiting in a separation. Tho London comspondent of the Manchester Guardian, now says that on the morning ot the weddinsr, Garibaldi received information as to the previous history of his bridi, which led to a long and stormy interview with her lather, and to hss subsequent departure. lie has not since rrjoined his wife, and an Austrian report says that he has applied to the lope lof a dispensation from his marrage vows.

It is ulso reported on the authority ot a Lucerne journal, that the wilo of Garibaldi has arrived a Lucerne, in company with an adjutant of her husband who being challenged by the General, replied to it by flight. Barry, the artist, while on a late visit to Boston, came into possession of a white linen table-cloth, woven fifty years ago, by the Robert Burns, and spread on the oaken table in the pout's cottage, on those great occasions when the ling-burgh gentry deigned to honor their protege's homo with their patronizing visits. Late ia the evening Mr. B. produced the sacred relic, which, of coarse, underwent the eager and rever.ntial insjn-'Ction of the company.

Then, At the suggestion of a lady present, it was spread ill nn tipper room lemons and highland whiskey were sent for; a Scotch pnnch was brewed, and over the table-cloth, hallowed by its associations with the peasant bard, the memory of Burns was drank by all, and Anld Lang Syne I sung in doe ancient style, -v- Polygamy in Utah has been up for discussion in the House of Representatives this week. The Committee on Judiciary reported a bill suppressing polygamy in all the Territories of the United States. Mr. Branch, a Democrat from North Carolina, was very much alarmed at this blow aimed at polygamy, lie feared that slavery would be the next victim, and we suppose, had some fears lest Congress might even undertake to abolish cannibalism should that Christian method of eating ever become a Territorial institution. He proposed to strike out all declaring polygamy to be criminal and retaining only so much as declares null and void all the laws of Utah sanctioning and permitting it.

He suggested to his Democratic friends that if they could render polygamy criminal, then they could render that other twin relic of barbarism, slavery, as it is called in the Black Republican platform of 1856, criminal. He repeated that he could not vote for the provision to make penal laws applicable to all the Territories of the United States. Mr. Branch is right. If slavery is a thing that ought to be protected by Congress so is polygamy, so is cannibalism, so is murder and so is horse stealing.

We hope that Congress will be careful not to admit that any of these things are crimes. The Wicked Colin. The translator of this Roelkerite will please accept our thanks. We had nearly forgotten the bad boy and the "Justice Hautmartin" and his monstrous great nose. We can say truly that a want was long felt for this transaction.

If the Statesman has subscribers in Hol-worthy the question will be less frequent, "Who's got his German today?" Alas where is that crowd of greedy interliners who hung on the lips of Robert Edward and his little dictionary? The Republicans of Buchanan County, Missouri, have organized a County Association for the coming campaign. The following officers have been elected Capt. Wm. Fowler, President. Dr.

F. Wenzel, Vice President. F. M. Tracy, Recording Secretary.

Col. II. B. Branch, Cor. Sec'y.

Dr. G. W. II. Landon, Treasurer.

There is a rumor about town to the effect that Carey Whitehead has sold his negroes. Carey voted for slavery, and has always done all he could to make Kansas a Slave State. But now that slavery is abolished over Medary's veto he thinks it best to taka care of his niggers. We are sorry for Carey. The Missouri delegation for Chi cago is instructed to cast the vote of the State-for Edward Bates, but it contains six delegates whose first choice is for Wm.

H. Seward. Hon. M. F.

Conway has retured from Washington. He brings favorable news in regard to our admission. It is his impression that Kansas will become a State within two months. "Occasional" writes to Forney's Press: Gov. Corwin's great speech appears in the Globe of the 12th, and covers an area of twenty-two columns of that paper.

Differing from him in many things, I do not go too far when I say that it is one of the most remarkable productions of his life. As a literary production it is surpassingly brilliant, and although delivered in a somewhat rambling style, it is singularly logical and well connected. It is said that the Republicans have ordered an edi- tion of five millions of this speech for circulation. 1 The election for delegate to Chi cago, on the 21st, was hotly contested by the citizens of Lawrence. Two tickets were in the field both were for Seward and nearly five hun dred votes were polled.

The ticket which prevailed was thus filled up: For President of the United States, William li. Seward. For Delegate to the Chicago Con vention William A. Phillips. For Delegates to the County Con vention, William A.

Phillips, II. W. Baker, Dr. Alonzo Fuller, B. Swift, Wm.

Zimmerman, Benjamin Johnson, W.0: Hobbcl, il Z. Pricks rC Each Delegate attending the Convention must bring credentials. S. O. POMEROY, vt Ch'n Eep.

Cen. Com. "Wildse, Sec'y. Delegate Republican Conven-, tion. 4 A Republican Convention will bo held at Troy, 011 Saturday.

April 7th, at 1 o'clock p. to elect Delegates to the State Convention to be held at Lawrence, April 11th. At the same time iicli other business as may be of interest to the party will be discussed and disposed of. The following will be the basis of representation Washington township, 9 delegates; Wayne, Wolf River, Marion, Iown, Centre, Burr Oak, 6. I Each delegate attending the Contention must bring credentials.

JOS.F. IIAMPSON, -j Ch'n Cent. Com. Natiiax Price, Sec'y. The Democratic IVonilnee.

The winning cards at present are Hunter and Breckinridge, and the adoption of -the Cincinnati Platform. The star of Douglas is waning. To the supporters of -Free Labor and Free Speech it matters very little who is the candidate. No man can get the nomination unless pledged to do the Lidding of the South, and we have seen that Northern men, like Pierce and Buchanan, can be used as completely as Southern men. If Douglas is the successful man he will owe his success to truckling and sycophancy, and can no more be trusted by men who prize free institutions than Arnold could be trusted by Washington.

Tho position of the Democratic party was never more clearly shown than at the present moment. It has abandoned its cry of Popular Sovereignty. Four years ago the words "Popular Sovereignty" met a sympathetic response in the popular heart. Men were told that the wctaal settlers of a Territory were to make its laws, and that Congress and the Administration were to stand aloof and leave the people "perfectly free." That was four years ago. During this present year, of 18C0, the people of Nebraska and of Kansas hare abolished Slavery in their limits, but two Democratic Governors, Black and Medary, have vetoed the law.

It is thus that we are left "perfectly free." It is the freedom of the Galley Slave, bound hand and foot, which has been so generously accorded us. The lying subterfuge of Popular Sovereignty" is no lon ger believed in by a single intelligent man. The real platform of the Demo cratic party is the extension of Slavery and lhe African Slave Trade. It also aims, as declared by all its leading men in Congress, at a dissolution of the Union. These purposes are not con cealed.

They are affirmed over and over again. In the halls of Congress, by prominent Southern men, and by the entire Slaveholding press, these purposes are daily avowed. Slavery has become the corner stone of the Republic; it is the leading principle of the Constitution, and if aay man is'legally elected President by those who believe in Freedom, then' the fnion is to be severed. Therefore it matters not who is nomina ted at Charleston. Tho successful candidate will be an enemy to fre institutions, and all true men will fight for liis defeat as they would fight to defend Liberty and ustice.

--Gov. Stewart on Thursday, the 29th, Vetoed the liailroad Bill of the Missouri Legislature. This is the bill for granting State aid to the road from Jefferson to Kansas City, the passage of which recently gave rise to great rejoicings in the latter city The reason the bill was vetoed was that the Platte Country Eoad, in which Governor Stewart is interested. was not included in the list of bene lioiarles. Robinson and Lane difficulty Kas led to nothing but terriffic leaders i Democratic newspapers.

They have Mowed about it as if the world had come to an end. Their motives are excellent, but we think they will hard- Iy Succeed in making any political capital out of tin personal Committee, composed of twenty-five or thirty, are armed with revolvers. A military force has been ordered from Lexington. It is thought the disturbance will soon be quelled. Washington, March 25.

Tho following call has been furnished here for publication to-morrow. The members of the Democratic National Convention are requested to meet in Washington, on Thursday, April 5th, for consultation upon important business. A full and prompt attendance is desired. Signed. D.

E. SMALLY, Ch'm. J. R. C.

L. Valandigham, Secretaries. Julius Hesse, Six or eight members of the Convention are already in the city. It is understood that no change will probably be made as to the place of 1 11- 1 1 1. A A.

noiaing me onvenuon, out it is thought important that the Convention should be called together to satisfy public opinion, and in the hope that the grievances complained of at Charleston may be abated. The clamor for a change still continues from different sections, and there is some talk from individual Delegates now here, of an uuiform call upon the several State Delegates to confer at the same time with the National Conven tion on the subject. Washington, March 23. The Cabinet had a protracted sitting to-day, at which the capture ot the Mexican steamers and prisoners before Vera Cruz, was much discussed. The Administration is still greatly perplexed how to extricate itself from this difficulty.

If a charge of piracy be sustained, two hundred prisoners must be hung. If not, then our om cers committed a wanton act of war. In all statements of this affair, made on our side, for the Mexican version has not yet been received, it is alleged that the reason why Capt. Turner fired a shot ahead of Marin's steamers was because he refused to show his colors. The collision occurred by moonlight, and it is well known that no man-of-war hoists his flag after night, thus destroying the only pre text upon which this belligerent act was professedly justified.

both of Marin 3 steamers were at an chor when attacked. "The Republican Clobst of Chica go are taking steps to erect a public hall capable of holding from seven to ten thousand persons. k''.