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J3Y JOSEPH OLISBY. tKBMS—3®re*fter tho price of this Paper will ■.TWO DOLLARS per annum, if paid in advance, ' ... .J Sa At** /*n tiApAiiA 4 Via arniMiiAn aP flit polisher ^vlr^harKM and commissions, reorders for the Tkleorafk to new subscribers be aocompanied with Ccuk. '.jrrcspondcnts should bo particular to direct in . Xofftoryia Telegraph.” Persons writing to tho Telegraph” in Macon, should so write. ' ,Vu way, onty, will the letters designed for tho J^pectire offices, go directly to their place of des- . in ,iion. VOL. XXXII. MACON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1858. I It is impossible that nny people could have pro ceeded with more regularity in the formation of a Constitution than the people of Kansaa have done. “ w “ necessary, first to ascertain whether it was the desire ot the people to be relieved from their Ter ritorial dependence and establish a State Govern- “«*•„ bor this purpose tho Territorial legislature, in 1855, passed a law for “taking the sense of the people of this Territory upon the expediency of calling a convention to form a State Constitution” at the general election to be held In October, 1856. the people" was accordingly taken, and they decided in favor of a convention. It is true that at this election the enemies of the Territo rial government did not vote, because they were then engaged at Topeka, withont the slightest pre text of lawful authority, in framing a Constitution of their own for the purpose of subverting the Territo rial government. In pursuance of thia decision of the people in favor of a convention, the territorial legislature, on the U7th day of February, 1857, passed an act for the election of delegates on tho third Monday ofJnne, 1857, to framo a State Constitution. This law is as fair in its provisions as any that over passed a legia • latlve body for a similar purpose. The right of suf frage at this election is clearly andjustiy defined.— •Every bona fide inhabitant of the Territory of Kan sas” on the third Monday of June, the day of the election, who was a citizen of tho United States a- bore the age of twenty-one, and had resided therein for three months previous to that date, was eutitled to vote. In order to avoid all interference from neighboring States or Territories with the freedom and fairness of the election, provision was made for the registry of the qualified voters; and, in pursu ance thereof, nine thousand two hundred ana fifty- one voters wore registered. Governor Walker did his whole dnty in urging all the qualified citizens of Kansas to vote at this election. In his Inaugural Address, on the 27th May last, he informed them that “nnder cur practice the preliminary act of fram ing a State Constitution.is uniformly prepared thro’ the instrumentality cf a convention of delegates cho sen by the peoplo themselves. That convention is now abont to be elected by yon nnder the call of the Territorial legislature, created and still recognized by the authority of Congress, and clothed by it, in tho comprehensive language of the organic law, with full power to make such an enactment. The Terri torial legislature, then, in assembling the Conven tion, were fully sustained by the act of Congress, and the authority of the convention is distinctly re- From the Washington Union, Feb. 3. 1 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. U (he Senate and Haute of Kcprcscntatire* of the d Stales : ! h»ve received from J. Calhoun, •Esq., President i iiic lit® constitutional convention of Kansas, a pr, duly certified, by himself, of the Constitntion by that body, with tho expressiomof a hope j would submit the same to the consideration of . ■ tisf. "with » view to the admission of Kansas In-., the I’nion as an independent State.” In com- Lfe with this request, I herewith transmit to |„.-rcss, for their action, the Constitntion of Kansas, Aj, the ordinance respecting the public lands,] as , ,n as the letter of Mr. Calhoun, dated at Lecgmp- , „ „n the nth ultimo, by which they were accom- Having received but a single copy of tho jvi dilution and ordinance, I send this to the Senate. A great delusion seems to pervade tho pnbiic ;„j lo relation to the condition of parties in Kan- . This arises from the difficulty of inducing the tmeriean people to realize the fact that any portion ,i them should be in a state of rebellion against the , eminent under which they live. When we speak , I the Affairs of Kansas, we are apt to refer merely i. llii'existence of two violent political parties in ,i Territory, divided on the question of slavery, ss we speak of inch parties in the States. This . ..ms no adequate idea of the true state of the ; ... The dividing line there is not between two j. ilifiral parties, both acknowledging the lawful ex- ,;mccot the government j but between those who .... i„ysl to this government and those who have '.id,*vortd to destroy its existence by force and by .urpation—between those who sustain and those t bo have done all in their power to overthrow the trtritorirJ government established by Congress.— Hi* government they would long since havesubver- vJ boil it not been protected from their assaults by tta troop* of the United States. Such has been the rendition of affairs since my inauguration. Ever that period a large portion of tho people of Ktrias have been in a state of rebellion against the vrrmnem, with a military leader at their bead of [ B „,t turbulent and dangerons character. They b,Trnever acknowledged, but have constantly re- liiu-rd and defied the government to which they allegiance, and have been ail the time in a state I rriiftanee against its authority. They have all be time I>eon endeavoring to subvert it and to es tablish a revolutionary government, under the so- , :,1 Topeka Constitution, in its stead. Even at I cognised in my'instructions from the President of ibis very moment the Topeka legislature is in ses- I the United States.” , a . whoever has read the correspondence of Gov. The Governor also clearly and distinctly warns Walker with the Statu Department, recently com- I them what would be the consequences if they should ninicated to the Senate, will be convinced that this I not participate in the election. “The people of Kan future is not overdrawn. He always protested Isas, then, (he says.) are invited by the highest au ciiust the withdrawal of any portion of tho milita- I thority known to the Constitution, to participate, . force of the United States from the Territory, I freely and fairly, in the election of delegates to frame r uling its presence absolutely necessary tor the a Constitution nnd State government. Tho law has .. rvution of the regular government and the exe- I performed its entire appropriate function when it iou of the laws. In his very first dispatch to the I extends to the people tho right of suffrage, but it .v. rotary of State, dated June 2d, 1857, he says:—I cannot compel the performance of thnt duty.— -Tlic most alarming movement, however, proceeds I Throughout our whole Union, however, and wlierev- :n the assembling on the 9th of Jane of the so- I er free government prevails, those who abstain from !leiI Topeka legislature with a view to the enact- I tho exercise of the right of suffrage, authorize those Lot of an entire code of laws. Of course, it will I who do vote to act for them in that contingency; ■ mv endeavor to prevent such • result, as it would I and the absentees areas much bound, under the i iio inevitable and disastrous collision, and, in I law and Constitntion, where there is no fraud or vio- fi t renew the civil war in Kansaa.” This was with I lence, by the act of the majority of those who do iliUi-nltv prevented by tho efforts of Governor Wal- I vote, as if all had participated in the election. Oth er: but soon thereafter, on the 14th of July, we erwise, as voting must be voluntary, self-govern- titnl him requesting Gen. Harney to furnish him a I ment would be impracticable, and monaroby or des ■ inment of dragoons to proceed to the city of Law- potism remain as the only alternative.” ■are, nnd this for the reason that he had received I It may also be observed, that at this period any :!itntic intelligence, verified by his own actual ob I hope, if such had existed, that the Topeka Consti- > nation, that a dangerous rebellion had occurred, I tution would ever be recognised by Congress, must involving an open defiance of the laws and the have been abandoned. Congress had adjourned on ..ubli.ihmentof an insurgent government in that! the 3d March previous, haviog recognized the legal itv." I existence of tho Territorial legislature in a variety of in the Governor’s dispatch of July 15th he informs I forms, which I need not enumerate. Indeed, the Secretary of State “that this movement at Law- I delegate elected to the Honse of Representat ives, un- . was the beginning of a plan, originating in der a Territorial law, had been admitted to his seat, t.ity, to organize insurrection throughout the I and had just completed his term of service on the day rFr-rrihiry; and especially in all towns, cities, or conn-I previous to my inauguration. n lie: e tho Republican party have a majority.— Thia was the propitious moment for **^**“5 ILnrrei.cn is the hot-bed of allthe Abolition move- dfficnlties m Kansas. This wasthetime forabandon- -nts in ibis Territory. It in the town esUblished ipgthe revolutionary Topeka organization, and for t!.e Abolition societies or the East, and whilst the enemies of the existing government to conform to r -nre respectable people there.it is filled by a the laws, and to unite with its friends in fraimng a mi.lerablo number of mercenaries who are paid I state Constitution. But this they refused to do, and :v Abolition societies to perpetuate and diffuse agi- the consequences of their refusal to submit to lawful :uion throughout Kansns, and prevent a peaceful I authority and vote at the election of delegates, may Ulrraeut of this question. Having failed in indu- yet Pjoyil to be of a most deploroblechareeter ; their own so-called Topeka State legislature to I Would that the respect for the laws of the land which :..itiize thia insurrection, Lawrence has commenced I «o eminently distinguished the men of the past gen- : herself, and, if not resisted, the rebellion will ex- oration could bo revived! It is a disregard and vio- ,i throughout the Territory.” lotion of law which have for years kept the Temto- ... , . • « . , I rv of Kansas in a state ot almost open rebellion At,d again : “In order to send this commumca its government. It is the same spirit which : -u immediately by mail, I must dose by assunug llion in Uu v r 0ur on ] y a*«fety consists in obedience and conformity to law* !;jtt-d, l »f/^entertain 1 no f <?ouht^hoy^are!{)y''esuBt. |y^jjU^i ■ • ™tl^'fo vM-n m en t *a nd ^to til fLUnioiJ 1 -°an d^ tbat'the knowledge no master but the law; and should wo cut »the (*o\ eminent and_to the Union, ana that the |j 00#6 ^ re8 traints, and every one do what yiinued presence of Gen. Harney here Uindi^pen- ■ owmeyes, our £ase will indeed uhie, as originally stipulated by me, i>H.'v of dragoons and several batteries.” On the20th July, 1857, Gen. Lane, under the au ' n.-ity of tlie Topeka Convention, undertook, as b< The > enmm:es of the Territorial government deter mined still to resist the authority of Congress. They ’. object 18 to protect the polls, at tho election in I K ftnsas j n *ho early spring of 1857, but because Ao*u*t, of the new insurgent Topeka State legisla- predetermined at all hazards to adliere to ' ' ilie object of taking tho names of all who refuse n^^SSc^°mi“thin SS uSmC Sf J2£?£h££F!Sl I qnVifi.^1 elector who refiiMd to r.M, can .overjutljr n . b *" e r i “ “ necessary. The Lawrence insur- C0 SPj“ n * hto ev - ew 5t i3 TO , n ifestthat the Lecomp- M tiSuw'olinlz^Zn’“Ac Ac ton convention acco’rdingto every principle ot con- ■ 'Y- organization, Ac.,Ac.. . itimtional Uw, was legally constituted aad was in- • * j a Constitution. popular sovereignty has , .i i hA.n invoKca m uvur ui ilie enemies of law and or- 'Vuhout°mak1ng e foiSer , quot.tlons of a similar Ur Kansas. ZToLtj^nol .-under from oilier despatches of Gov. Walker, I ?£ Vere !5?& :‘°. f !!l P n^itrof^UbliXd l^ In gagBagi , «ia«a8j8tt • election ordered by the convention on the 81st I feetlyimpoSMbie. ii the ballot-box ■ and if the ■>*»' could not be conducted without collision and erc.®ed ,efo*so t^xercise it in thU manner, m «kl>ed." So intense was the disloyal feeling People‘ wiU^refusei to^exercise it in ims manner^ m "*k ibe enemies of the government theyhave doDe^in KmMa.y ttieclemmn oi aeie^xe^ fcusresi. that an election which afforded them it U not for them to complain that their rights nave ‘ ipportuiiity.ifinthe minority, of making Kan- be ^ 0 V Kan S a S convention, thus lawfully constituted :* * *rw state, according to their own professed de- I c , ronstitntion and. having w;ulii notbe conducted without collision and I SJJJSSEtod their work, finally adjonn’ied on the 7th * * a i t.^s rri.nw ilirl not fliinl.* nraTiPP tn in the Territory. We may now reasonably hope that the revolutionary Topeka organization will be speed ily and finally abandoned, and this will go far to wards the final settlement of the unhappy differences in Kansas.. If frauds have been committed at this election, either by one or both parties, the legisla ture and people of Kansas, under their Constitution, will know how to redress themselves and punish these detestable but too common crimes without any outside interference. The people of Kansas have then, “in their own way,” ana in strict accordance with the organic act, framed a Constitution and State Government; have submitted tho all-important question of slavery to the people, nnd have elected a Governor, a member to represent them in Congress, members of the State I legislature, and other State officers. They nowssk admission into the Union under this Constitution, which is republican in its form. It is for Congress to decide whether they will admit or reject the State which has thus been created. For my own part, I am decidedly in favor of its admission, and thus ter minating the Kansas question, This will carry out tha great principle of non-intervention recognised and sanctioned by tho organic act, which declares in express language iu favor of “non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States or Territories,” leaving “tho peoplo thereof perfectly free to form I and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.” In this manner, by localizing the question of slavery, and confining it to the people whom it I immediately concerned, every patriot anxiously ex pected that thia question would be banished from | the balls of Congress, where it has always exerted a baleful influence throughout the whole country. It is proper that I should briefly referto tho election held under an act of the territorial legislature, on | the first Monday ot January last, on the Lecompton constitution. Thia election was held after the fer- i ritory had been prepared for admission into the Union as a sovereign State, and when no authority | existed in the territorial legislature which could pos sibly destroy its existence or change its character. The election, which was peaceably conducted under my instructions, involved a strange inconsistency. A large majority of tho persons who voted against the Lecompton Constitution, were at the very same | time and place recognising its valid existence in tha most solem and authentic manner, by voting under its provisions. I have not yet received any official information of the result of this election. As a question of expediency, after the right has I been maintained, it may be wise to reflect npon tho benefits to Kansas and to the whole country, which would result from its immediate admission into the Union, as well as the disasters which may follow its rejection. Domestic peace will-bo the happy conse quence of its admission, nnd tliat fine Territory, | which has hitherto been torn by dissension, will rapidly increase in population and wealth, and speed ily realise the blessingS' and tho Comforts which fol low in the train of agricultural and mechanical in dustry. The people will then be sovereign, and can regulate their own affairs in their own way. If a majority of them desire to abolish domestic slavery within the State, there is no other possible mode by I From the New Orleans Picayune. * Lines, COMPOSED A BOARD OT A CALIFORNY MALE STEAMER, BT A PAR31NGEK. Wal of all the kussed kinveyances, Ef this is’Bt about the wnat! Nothin but rockin and rollin An pitchin from the verry fust— The ingiue a groanin, and the biler Lyable enny minnit to bust. Fust wun side, dum it, and then tuthcr! Till Ime dogged ef I know what to du— Rock away yu darned old kradle: I tea* a baby wen I got inter you. which this can be effected so speedily as by prompt admission. The will of the majority is supreme and [ irresistible when expressed in an orderly and law ful manner. They can make and unmake Constitu tions at pleasuro. It would be absurd to tay that tiiey can impose fetters npon their own power which None on em seems to keer 6J cents How bad a feller may feel. Nur talk to him—not even the saler Foolin away his time at the wheel. Tbars the capting! ain’t it prorokiu To see that critter all threw tho trip. Continually drinkin and smokin. Wen be orter be mindin on his ship. Its euuf to aggeravit a body. An it aiDt manners, I think, To set thar takin down his tody, And never askin nary passinger to drink. And the pusser—all he keers fur, Is fu? to hev a time with his pals, I sav dam sich a pusser! jest heer him Flurtin and carrin on among the gals! And wen he is tired of that, wot follers ? In bis little cabin thar he sets Like a spyder. among berrils of dollers— Enuf to pay a feller’s dels. That’s all they keer for passingers, Is to get tlie two hunder And fifty dollers out of his pocket into tlieira, And then he may go to thunder. Ef a feller’s driv to distraxion ) In a bio and axes what to du, He can’t git no sort o satisfaxion Out o none of em—caping, malt, nor crew. Wun day I clim inter thar blamed riggin, Jest to see wot thar was, and in hopes- To kepe shet of em wun spell, but dog it! I see 2 on em conun up the ropes. Wun on em ketcht me and hilt hold on me, While the tother miserable cuss Tied me up with a nasty, sticky close lino, Smellin o tar or something wuss. Thar they kep me—darn their picture ! And nobody done nothin but larf, Till I’d forkt out for a bottle of brandy— It come to That’s the last 82J They’ll ever git out o me, Fur I'll travvil in a durned top-waggin, Afore I’ll be ketshed agin to see. Cliat with the Condiictcr. “It is not often a tnan loses anything by kindness. I know a little matter of this sort saved my life, and perhaps the lives of many others at the same time.” “ How was that 7” asked we of our model conductor. “Why we had an Irishman on this road, to watch the tunnel. It was warm weather, so he used to go into tho tunnel to keep cool, rather think he used to take a little liquor when he was lonesome; any way, he lay down on the track, one day, to listen for the cars. He fell asleep, and very imprudently got his head cut off by the express train. Well, there was an end of that Irishman. There was the devil’s own row iu that shanty, when we took the poor fellow up; we got away as fast as we decently could, for you know it is not agreeable to be surounded with a distracted family, when you are neither a doctor, nor a nurse, nor a preach er. Somehow I was always sorry_when I pas sed that place; of course, I felt as if—not ex actly the same.thing—but something just as bad, might happen to me some day, and then there’d be another row in the family. I told my wife about it, and she sent the family some little things. The widow of the deacl Irishman was a Catholic, and as I was then on a very fast train, I would sometimes take up the old wo man, on Sunday, carry her to church, at M I somehow thought it was a satisfaction to her to go to church, for she had but little chance anyhow. I did not expect to get anything for it in this world, and I expected they had so much scored against me in the other, that it wouldn’t amount to anything there. “That was during the summer. One n'ght the next winter—it was very cold, and the mountains were covered with snow—we were running to make time, when on turning a curve, the engineer saw a waving light on the track, and we soon heard some one ahead shouting. I was then on the platform. The engineer stopped the engine, and slacked up. We got out, and-went ahead in the dark to see what was the matter. There it was ; a large land-slide had fallen across the track, near the shanty of that old Irish woman. She had built up a fire, and watched for the train, for the curves were so sharp, that we might have been upon the slide before we could see it. So when we ran up, there was the old lady with her cal ico cap, swinging the chunks of fire, like a re volving light-house, and there was the little Irish, carrying brush, like so many little bea vers. She had watched all night in the cold The Launch of the Leviathan. [From the London Times, Jan. 7.] I Ea fata. I. «sr.to they cannot afterwards remove. If they could do I commenced tor tho sixth time, with the same san- I run into a pile of dirt and stones as big as Bar- this they might tie their own hands for a hundred as I guine and confidont hopes which have distinguished I num’s hotel. I should have got a pit ticket, well aa ten years. all other attemps during the last months. It was in- certa ; U) f or I was on the platform. What would These are fundamental principles of American free- tended tohavegoneto work soon after daybreak, , i e .i rnsspnirprq and the train dom, and are recognized; I believe, in some form or but the severe frost of the previous night bad frozen “ ave become or the passengers ana tlie train other, by every State Constitntion; and if Congress, **> the water in the ram pumps and feed pipes, and yon can guess as well as 1 cau. in the act of admission, sbonld ihink proper to re- I even the pistons,into tho cylinders of the rams them- I We expressed a hope that the poor widow cognize them, I can see no objection to such a selves. This of course occasioned a delay, since 1...1 u een nr0Der ] v rewarded, courso. This bos been done emphatically in tho I fire* had to be lighted, and the pipes and pumps I mi * i. i a i.i„ j i Constitution of Kansas. It declares in the bill of ‘hawed before anything could be foie, so tbatlt was “The passengers made up about eighty dol- rights that “all political power is inherent in the near It o’clock before all was in readiness for anoth- lars, and the company afterwards gave her the people, and oil free governments are founded on I er start. The fires which woro lit hadjto he kept up shanty rent free, and braketron and engineers their authority and instituted for their benefit, and throughout the day, and some 25 or 30 were burning bought her a cow, and she inaae out very well, therefore they have at all times an inalienable and I iu the fore and aft cradles in huge iron braziers, when L, , , , ,, , - , , indefeasible right to alter, reform, or abolish their ‘key were used in heating the water before it was But when I gave the money to her that night, form of government in such manner as they may pumped into the rams. Great care had to be taken she said : ‘Gintlemen and ladies, I’m thankful, think proper.” Tho great State of New York is at I thatthiswasJproperlydoneJorthestrongesthydrauHo I an( j may ye niver know the want of what ye this moment governed under a Constitution framed machines in the world would be burst instantly if the | J Rl]f . and established in direct opposition to the mode | water commenced freezing in the cylinders. By ” ly the I S lve me ’ ® ut w hat I did was mostly on ac- prescribedby the previous c/onstitutFon. If,There- I arrangement, by which all the hydraulic ma- countof him there. He was kind and thought fore, the provision changing the Kansas Coustitu- chines are joined withsupplypipesin groups ofthree, ful to thepoor and afflicted, and I’d a watched tion, after the year one thousand eight hundred and 1 J® pressure was got upon the cradles so easily that I jjij j froze, before harm should have come sixty-four, could by possibility be construed into a I Leviathan, after a rest of nearly three weeks, ,. -p j ., t.„ v „ t,p| npc l it ” prohibition to make such a change previous to that slipped at once for two or three inches, and in short “ 1 coma nat e neipea I. period, this prohibition wobld be wholly unavailing. I ®1>P® the same kind she continued to progress p-, , r . p The legislature already elected may, at its very first I throughout the day. At 5 o’clock, when work was A Good Match.—A writer in the Home session, submit the question to a vote of the peoplo discontinued, she had made tWenty-six slips in all, in Journal describes a couple who were “not un il... :n - 1 :ii a l. —I lflntrth varvincr ftu—*—* A * c — ! — 1 —*- 1 1 — - - - whether they will or will not have a conveution to I length varying from two to five inches each, accord-1 equally yoked together amend their Constitution, and adopt all necessary mg “stkepressue was great and the elasticity of the I ^ J J means for giving effect to the popular will. timber throw her off with more or leas force. Her ■““f “?■*-»•*■;*«■ fra-.**-** I in Kansu nf this great difference between the progress of tho Sintra y stem and stem is, because thefore part of the vessel « d m uch A o«or f " re ’ is already so much in advance as to have twisted tho ■ .Sf cradles on the ways. Yesterday therefore, almost the . Without this ‘iy\®<l“‘>7, the sovereign State, whole of the pressure was applied on the aft cradle, I composmg the Union woiddbe violated and tho me aud the difference 0 f position between that and the I and enjoyment of atemtory squired by the com- f onvar d one in a great measure removed. There mon treasure of all the States, would be closed se ems no reason to doubt that if the tackle which against the people and the property °f i^ly»^f haub her towards the Thames could have been used, the members of the confederacy. Slavery can there- I t j, e resu it 0 f yesterday’s work wonld have been some loro never be prohibited m Kansas except by means I thirty or forty feet, as it is tbe strain applied upon of a constitutional provision, and in no other man-1 t j ie i ramens0 chains across the river which keeps ner can this be obtained so promptly, if a majority j-, er j n motion for three or four feet when once the of the people desire it, as by admitting it into •h’-’ raras have started her. As it was, however, in non union under its present Constitution. 1 — “ In short the man was very poor— And what was worse, supremely lazy; A kind of trouble hard to core, But such as rarely drives one crazy. His wife was just his proper match, An idle gossip, and a slattern, Whose frock, with time and frequent patch, Knew nevermore its native pattern. They lived, as ’twere from hand to moutii— She dauddling over pots and kettles, He in a constant state of drought. And both in freqnent want of victuals.” - er ? firat paragraph of the message LSs was the question which bad convulsed the . T; J < : ' ,n80 , D ’. lU,0d °“ tEe i ! h i P r? mb ”: m uLion and shaken itjto its very centre. This.wastbe i^Sfsagggaauggal^.ai!? , wiginated wUL tho peoplo ot Kansas Ter to rivet the anxious attention of the They have adopted and ratified the same tonvettne anxious auenuian me "I a direct vote, ind also indirectly through 5^'® “ 1 ft*' TgHf w c$er questio ” For my v ilti lmne of State officers and members of tho I No person thoughX , ctnvomor Walker in •*> the existing government prescribed and Jvisfo ns of our rece nt State *Con- -^tt?r^T^Id^ U for U rffio n n of iho .titutons.Mtcry « g rienc ? “ Saar Btu,e pr “ u,,t day ta “ ° new suto government. Such apnnciple, I ? mT >ortant question of slavery to the »>»«? execution, would destroy ill lawful ®uW th {* ^“^howover?my opi Jon*that in- Senendently of this act, they would have been bound become, 3tt^a=t5^J!CTSaaE 5Sfatt&«3S» rSH* a- L-KBS*! ■i; and ]>roduce universal anarchy. Ikl C °’* re “ baveriFfused tS vote for delegates j * u ‘p’’“ oidmon. this would ha've been in opposition i, Kansas Constitutional Convention, and also I nrprpdonts in our history, commencing in hoards «„ UiequesUon of slavery submitted by It woSld have ’ J*SSKSSSS» Con.illulion been ..b-1 .^ctsbfB 1 they would thus have removed an ob- [’“"“reng that these*should bo subjected to their iiSttS ” f «b® way of their own revolutionary ^b^S^VpS^Son. It would be a most incon- k,.,Ihey would have done this, not upon I of their own power, imposed by ^ mentJ , 0 ^ ^ ,e 0 , r ¥* y I tho people upon themselves, to exclude them from Riv, U ' COm P ton • Co ^ B !L tUt, °^^-, t vn?,^ov' I exer^-li.'gthefr aoverei^ty in anv lawful manner *« "T nnroH.nU.eondlllnn of ^|”°bot Ibi li’ey bivo not’Sen”' Tbe only feme- " wu the Y/jh* “ ? Te11 “ th® dat ? dy therefore, in this case, is that which exists in all : iU, M 7*'*hi<Ung people t Wers they silently and I >|llri[tr c(lses _ if tho delegates who framed -, vll ^ *nbwit to tho Topeka usurpation, or ^ Kansas Constitution have in any manner viola- &,«R5BssiJ:sBftiSBS) j-j;c t^raarstfioiars “P-'ilIll a Stat ® Uonstitution, is too clear (or th , e P?lt°/r!tn 0 I Here a””ainVa'f.ur opportunity was presented to the audregulato t w »y. aut.joct only to tho Constitution of < U .I' ■ *te£and tlien tossy thnt they shall 4<t .iil»h? eSi, ^ ,,0 P 0Wert0 P ,lSSSUC * ianena ^ 1,n K lU3 5, 0n * i tn flt if tflCV t/ili Oil that 4iul° 2*** lhat ,h0 People of a TenttsSy I Monday of out of the Union for an indefinite pe- da>'t v0 ‘ e under tlu I*yamptoP of Con- tkn^® 11 ® It might please Congress to permit I Governor and otlna’State WliceirB, a -Tn,- L _ •ojjj, ^f^foisethe riglit of self government. This gress, nod for members of the b V' . *Wh fejPsdopt not "their own way,” hut the way election was warmly coiitestodby tJ10M.11 , ®w»gre»» might proscribe, | larger vote was polled than at any previous election From Salt Lake. The latest advices from tlie Mormon terri mon unaer us present uonsitiuuon. 1 gequ ence of the accident which happened the day I tor t 7 0X0 to the . . 10 i ^ t “ ” P ° rt *. th ? T “*° S j On tbe other hand, should Congress reject^ the beiore, when the steam barge, with all the gear for active preparations lor resistance to the United Constitution, under the idea of affording the disaf- J hauling in the chains was sunk by a bark, nothing I States. iected in Kansas a third opportunity of prohibiting could bo done with tho river tackle. This portion of The yield of the crop in Utah has been slavery in the State, which they might have done the launching apparatus is under the chaigo of Cap- RO that the Mormons will ho wpll twice before if in tho majority, no man can foretell tain HarrisoB, who has exerted himself so indefati- enor F. ous ’. 80 ln A at tne “ orm “» ™ De weH the consequences. gably since the accident happened that the damage provisioned. _ A number 01 Mormons are If Congress, for the sake of those men who refused wil1 be almost entirely repaired by to-day, when 80 known to be in the camp of the army, and ac to vote for delegates to the convention when they I ‘ons strain will be ready at the stern, and 120 at the I curate information of the movements of the might have excluded slavery from the Constitution, bows. In addition to the admirable arrangement of f—q— was (jaily received at Salt Lake City, and who afterwards refused to vote on the 2lst De- tommg the rams in threes, each machine is now fitted , , P . ,, Indians are on trood terms with cemher last, when they might, as they claim, hava with a pressure gauge.which records the exact weight Many ot the Indians are on gooa terms with stricken slavery from tbe Constitution, should now P® r circular inch on each ram Each ram also— the Mormons. reiect theStatobecauseslavery remains in the Con- through nearlyaU arecapabloof bearing a pressure The people believe in the entire destruction station, it is manifest that the agitation npon this | ^^toe^scIpo vMveVo weighted as tolet out^the’ of - he troops now at the foot of the mountains, water at a pressure of 30 cwt. to tho inch. With I and as many more as may join them in the these precautions it is next to impossible that they | spring; not by the superior human force that The Mormons see no possibility of the troop: ever getting in, though tlie valley should bi dangerons subject will be renewed in a more alarm ing form than it has ever yet assumed. . Kv ^.?hi r! K»nsli l and 0 Xebniska ll act < would nut I can n “ w be bur s b Tho " nited pr<»fUreof all the I ^ay be brought to oppose their entrance into gre**, wbieh had for ” lor ® SJ”* I tons, which as tho resistance of tho Leviathan has I ty’s power, vulsed the country and endangered tho Union. This neve r yet been known to exceed 1,900 tons, is of The Mori aft involved great and fundamentiU I’^ncipies, and conrsei m0 ro than donble tho force they are likely if fairly carried into effect will settle the (juwtion.— ever to t, 0 wa nted to exert. From a record kept Shonld ‘be Wtation be again revivea.Jiould the yesterday of tho pressuro npon the rams when each people of the sister States be apain estranged from 8 i;p was made it seems that the average strain re-, — — e*cn other with more than their ronner bitterness, q U j,ed to move her was 1,300 tons. The variations awfully harrassed by guerrilla parties, and this will arise from a cause, so tar as tho interests of I k t,ove and below this standard, however, were con- r nr *i ia * business thev seemed ready and well Kansas are concerned, more tnflmg and ins.gnifi- sUllt> and occurred in a most unaccountable man- u-nf Dusmess lnCy setmea reaa J ana Weu cant than haa ever stirred tho elements °fagreat| nen Sometimes she slipped when the register bare- skilled, people into commotion. jy showed 1,000 tons pressure, and then, probably, at An open light is not counted upon» but every To tbe people of Kansas, tbe only practical dif-1 tlie next movement, a force of 1.700 tons was exer- other means of crippling the army will be re ference between admission or rejection, depends | ted before they could get her to move an inch, 'rho | gor t cc l to, if once it becomes a matter of life death. There is, however, a hope pre vailing among the Mormons that the sidminis- frame"a'second Constitntion to be snbmitte'd to'Con-1 which would, of course, occasion much delay before I tration will yet call off the army, gress hereafter. Even if this were a question of | tlia work to-day could be resumed, mere expediency, and not of right, the small differ ence of time, one way or the other, is of not the least importance, when contrasted with tbe evils which must necessarily result to the whole country from a revival of the slavery agitation. In considering this question,'it should never bo Brigham told them that “he would exercise I faith that the troops should be kept away, and lie wished all to do the same, instead of wish ing them to advance His orders were imperative not to shed blood, so that if another course should be a- Colonizing Nicarauga. The recent profound speeches of Messrs. Thayer of Mass., and Blair, of Mo., upon ^ Central American affairs, have excited the l tu „, OD , UUU1U u . forgotten,that,Tn proportion tofts' insignificance, let I poetical sensibilities of our very kind friend I them ■!»*--» I .»0lc»=. r ib U tor a,.Btobl». to .^,.Jcg™ JwW that he came rushing into the office this morn-1 1 - -- - ° for this very reason the rejection of the Constitution I i n S in a great state of excitement with the fol- witl bo so much more keenly felt by the people of lowing epigramatic effusion. We hasten to lay fourteen of the States ofjhis Union, where slavery is | jt before our readers : I recognised under the Con ratution of tho United States. Again; tho speedy admission of Kansas into the Union would restore peace and qniet to the whole country. Already tho affairs of this Territory have engrossed an undne proportion of public attention. They have sadly affected the friendly relations of the leoplo of the States with each other and alarmed the ears of patriots for the safety of the Union. Kansas once admitted into the Union, the excitementbecomes localized, and will soon die away for want of outside aliment Then every difficulty will be settled at the ballot-box. Besides—and this is no trifling consideration—I shall then be enabled to withdraw tbe troops of the United States from Kansas, and employ thc-m on branches of service where they are much needed.— Theyhave been kept there, on tho earnest importu nity of Governor Walker, to maintain tho existence of the territorial government and secure the execu tion of tho laws. Ho considered that at least two thousand regular troops, under tho command of General Harney, were necessary for this purpose. Acting upon his reliable information, _I have been obliged, in some degree, to interfere with tbe expe dition to Utah, in order to keep down rebellion in Kansas. This has involved a very heavy expense to tbe government. Kansas once admitted, it is be lieved there will im longer ho any occasion thero for troops of the United States. I have thus performed my duty on this important questior, under a deep sense of responsibility to God nnd my country- Mr public life will terminate with in a brief period ; I b: Old Aunty Blair and Granny Thayer Held late, a cogitation O'er sundry cups of old bohea. On matters of the nation; And Billy Walker they discussed. Anil "cussed” each fillibuster, And drank and gabbled, sweat, and fu3scd. Till both were m a fluster. II Says Granny Thayer to Aunty Blair, ’’ I’ll settle this ere tussle— I'll tell that fillibuster gang They haint the kind of inusclo To squat in Nicarauger land; It takes tho Ynnkeo critters. With bass wood hams and cow-horn Hints Backed up with Phoenix Bitttera.” III • Git eont!” said Granny Blair, “Yer wrong in all yer figures; I know a better plan than that. I’d stuff the place with niggers— Free niggers, too!—'twould give tho world A mighty strong sensation; They’d see our colored race perspire In one grand fizzieation.”—A’. V,Day Book. | establishment of peace. Is the Sun Inhabited Sir John Herschel concludes that the sen is a planet abundantly stored with inhabitants, Lynch Law In Indiana. , . . Indianapolis, January 28.—A mob at Lig- I much impeded :iave no other object of earthly | on ; er arreste ,i t h ree counterfeiters ou Tues- that the solar focus of the iargest lens thrown his inference being drawn from the following arguments. On the tops of mountains of suf ficient height, at an altitude where clouds very seldom reach to shelter them from the direct rays of the sun, are always found regions of ice and snow. Now, if the solar rays them selves conveyed all the heat on this globe, it ought to be hottest where their course is least interrupted. Again, mronants all confirm the coldness of the upper regions of the atmos phere. Since, therefore, even on our earth, the heat situation depends upon tbe_ aptness of the medium to yield to the impression of the solar rays, we have only to admit that, on the sun itself, the elastic fluids composng its at mosphere, and the matter on its surface, are of such a nature as not to be capable of any excessive reflection from its own rays. In deed, this seems to be proved from the copi ous emission of them; for if tbe elastic fluids of tbe atmsophere, or the matter contained on the surface of the sun were of such a na ture as to admit of any easy chemical combi nation with its rays, tlieir emission would be Another well-known fact is, and I day. and d^bberatdy hin^ one of the'm.-1 into the" dr,“wilToccassion no°sensible beat in respect of my countrymen. Hie dark aud ominous They were proceeding to execute a second in the place it has been kept tor a considerable clouds which now appearto be impending over the the same manner, when it was agreed by the time, although its power of exciting combus- Union, I conscientiously believe may be dissipated I majority to let the law take its course. The tion, when proper bodies are exposed, should one, who is guilty of making bogus coin, be sufficient to fuse the most refractory sub- hereas, if she shonld be rejected. I greatly fear was delivered into tbe bands of the United tances. Ihus from arguments based solely u se clouds will become darker and more ominous States Marshal, and was brought here to day I on the supposed-physical constitution of that tlum any which have ( \ er yet threatened tho Consti f or trial. The Court placed his bail at $4,000 luminary, he deduces the somewhat astonish- '"IvaVhington, February 2, it:**'**'' 11 A A " J in default of which he was committed to jail. | ing idea that the sun is inhabited. NO. 20. Spcecli of Mr. Garfrell ol Georgia We are indebted to Mr. Gartrell, of this State, for a pamphlet copy of his speech on Slavery, delivered in the House of Represen tatives on the 25th ult. Not having room for so lengthy a document, we take the following synopsis of his remarks from the Washington Union of the 26th ult: Mr. Gartrell, of Georgia, said he should have presented some views upon the important questions growing out of tlie illegal arrest of Gen. William Walker and his men upon the soil of Nicaragua, hut that question had been temporarily suspended, and he should proceed to the consideration of a subject of graver im portance to his immediate constituents, and of the most serious consequence to the Union at large. He alluded to the subject of do mestic slavery at tt:c South-*—thi necessity for its expansion and perpetuation. 116 had been driven to this course by the extraordin ary Speech pronounced upon this floor by the gentleman from Missouri, [Mr. Blair.] The ostensible object which that gentleman had in view was the acquisition of teritory in Central America, whereon to colonize the free blacks of the country, and those who may hereafter become free, and there to maintain them in the enjoyment of freedom as a dependency of the government. That gentleman had denounced the institution of slavery as a cancer, which, unless removed, would eat into the vitals of the body politic. Mr. G. denied emphatically the position as sumed by the gentleman, and would, in the presence of the House, maintain the reverse of it. He held that the institution of domestic slavery in the South was right both in princi pie and practice; that it had ever been, • and still is a blessing to the African race, had de veloped the resources of this great country to an unlimited extent, and had elevated the country in the scale of wealth, enterprise, and intelligence. As a southern man, as the owner of slaves, and as conscientious of moral obli gations as any gentleman, be Mid not hesitate, here or elsewhere, to defend the institution as being strictly in accordance to the principles of right and the high sanction of law, both human and divine; and he rejoiced that the public mind of the South was being awakened to this view of the question. The time for the abolishment of slavery had passed. He stood there-, and the people of the South were a unit with him, in defiantly defending and justify ing it in its whole extent. The false prophecies of Randolph and others, of the evil consequences of this institution up on the interest of the Southern people were fast being obliterated by iime and experience. Other nations were beginning to see the error of their course. French and English misguid ed philanthropy was beginning to see the error of their way, and ready to adopt a slavery proposition more barbarous than our own. Mr. G. then eloquently discussed the moral aspect of the institution, quoting, from the Bible and statistics of the country to sustain his position. Mr. G. subsequently said be bad but two objects in addressing the House—to preserve the Union of our fathers and to secure to bis people their constitutional rights. They might force him to abandon the Union, they nevercould drive him from the maintainance of Southern rights and Southern equality in the Union of States. In order that those rights might be pre served they must admit Kansas into this Union with the Lecompton constitution. The whole Kansas question was in a nutshell, and de pended upon the great principle of non-inter vention sustained by the national democrat ic party in the last contest throughout this great Union, Advertisements at the regular charge will be On Dollar per square of 10 lines or less, for the first in sertion, arid Fifty Cents for each subsequent inser tion. All advertisements n*.t specified as to time will be published until forbid and charged accord ingty - Obituary Notices not exceeding ten lines, wil be published gratis ; bat cash at tbe rate of One Dol lar for every ten manuscript ines exceeding that number, must accompany all longer notices, or they will be cut short. r^The Telegraph goes to press at 3 o’clock, Monday Evenings. Advertisers will oblige by hand ing in their favors, as early as Saturday, if possible WOSTENHOLM POCKET CUTLERY! Manufactured Expressly for IB. .A.. WISE. 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Bran alone at 75 cents per hundred. SPWheat cleanings for stock feed, also, at 50 cent; per hur dred, and broken wheat 75 cents per hnndred. All orders promptly attended to at the mill, jan 5 JAS. A. KNIGHT, Agt. Jolist Anderson, My Jfo, Amended. This exquisite ballad, constructed by Robt. Burns out of a different and somewhat excep tionable lyric, has always left something to be wished for and regretted ; it is not complete. But who would venture to aa‘d to a song of Burns ? As Bums left it it runs thus : John Anderson, my Jo, John, When we were I first acqnent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent; But now your brow is bald, John, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson, my Jo. John Anderson, my Jo, John, We clamb tbe hill thegither; And mony a canty day, John, We’ve had wi’ ane anither; Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we’ll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, * John Anderson, my Jo, Fine as this is, it does not quite satisfy contempative mind ; when one has gone so far, be looks and longs for something more—some thing beyond the foot of the hill. Many reader of Burns must have felt this ; and it is ’quite probable that many have attempted to supply the deficiency; but we know of only one success in so hazardous an experiment.— This is the added verse: , John Anderson, mv Jo, John, When we have slept thegither. The sleep that a' maun sleep, John, We ll wake wi’ ane anither ; And in that better world, John, Nae sorrow shall we know; Nor feor we e’er shall part again, John Anderson, my Jo. Simple, touching, true—nothing" wanting and nothing to spare; precisely harmonizing with the original stanzas, and improving them by tbe fact of completing them. This poetical achievement is attributed to Mr. Charles Gould a gentleman of our town, whose life lias been chiefly devoted to the successful combination of figures—but not figures of rhetoric.' The yerse was written some years ago, but it has not hitherto found its way into print; yet it well deserves to be incorporated with the orig inal song in any future edition of Burns’s poems, and we hope some publisher will act on this suggestion.—Home Journal. CHRISTMAS GIFTS, A T Boardman’s Book Store, a large assortment of seasonable articles selected for the Holidays, such as Illustrated Editions of tlie Poets Byron, Moore, Shakespeare, Thompson, Campbell, Goldsmith, Burns, Bryant, Longfellow, Herbert,Gray and Kebles’ Christian year. 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Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kan sas, That slavery and involuntary servitude in the said Territory is hereby forever abol ished and prohibited, except for the punish ment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Sec. 2. All persons now held in slavery or involuntary servitude in said Territory, or who have heretofore, or shall hereafter be brought into the said Territory for the purpose of being so. held, are hereby declared to be free. Sec. 3. Any person who shaU now hold, or ho shall hereafter attempt to hold, any per son in slavery or involuntary servitude iu said Territory, except for the punishment of crimes .-hereof tbe party shall have been duly con- icted, shall, upon conviction thereof, be de clared guilty of a misdemeanor, and be pun ished by confinement at bard labor in the peni tentiary for any term not less than two years nor more than live. Sec. -i. That all laws and parts of laws es tablishing, recognizing or regulating the insti tution of slavery in the Territory of Kansas, heretofore passed by the Legislative Assem bly, be and the same are hereby repealed. The remaining sections only provide fertile mode of trial and punishment ot those who vi olate the provisions of the law as given above. Job Printing Oilice iu Florida For Sale, A N opportunity offers to a good Printer to purchase . a perfectly new JOB PRINTING OFFICE, lo cated at Jacksonville, Florida. Tho field for busi ness is a fine one; the Office is in good working or der, being just located and prepared for work. The advertiser desires to dispose of the establishment on account of the recent death ofhis partner in the busi ness. Value of the stablishmcnt S1HOO, on the most of which, time will be allowed, with paper satisfacto - ry to parties at tho North. Refer to J. Clisby, Esq., Macon, Ga., or address C. DREW, dec 22 Jacksonville, Fla. 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