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CHOW NOT TO Do IT..

Mr.. Speaker Orr has completely accomplish
ed what ''Mr. Barnacle of the Circumlocution
Office tried SO hardto do, namely, to find how
not to doit; Eany business for those who had
business with the Office or demands upon the
government
In the appointment of the select committee
ofi15, ordered by the House to investigate and
report all the facts relating to the formation of
tho Lecompton constitution, Mr.. Orr solved
the problem, HOW NOT TO DO 1T. ass
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Burning Of Barn and over Fifty Head of
Imported Cattle.

A shocking conhagation occurred, on Tues
day, on the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turn
pike, about five and a half miles from Phila-
delphia proper, two miles from Hestonville, and
two hundred yards from the line separating
Philadelphia and Montgomery counties. The
building destroyed was very large stone barn
belonging to Thomas ?. Remington, Esq. s
Tho barn contained fifty tons of hay, and
seventy head Of cattle. Four horses are in
cluded in this statement. The cattle was Of
all imported stock and Of the most valuable
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-20

MExIco,-By accounts from the Capital ofthis
Republic to the 9th instant, it does not appear
that affairs there have in any way improved
The Extraordinary" Of the 4th represents the
country to be in a most deplorable condition.
The Zuloaga Government seems to be power
less to establish order. A desperate conflict
was expected to take place about the 9th or
18th instant at Celaya, the government forces
and the opposition being about equal as to
forces, each having some 5000 troops. There
was no hope Of peace for long time.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-20

W-The New York Tribune informs us that a
brisk religious revival is in progress in that
city and in the surrounding country. We
know of no place where an event of the kind
is more needed, except perhaps, Washington or
Boston 81 VS. Ec M Gua &1gi,
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"THE BALANCE,

The vote Of the BALTIMORE delegation was, for
sustaining Mr.. Stirling decision, Alexander, Crow
ley, and Kennard; the balance of the ms-repre-
sentatives Of Baltimore city voted with the Demo.
Gratis, and this defeated the bill Mr.. Harrington,
previous TO taking the vote, took up his hat and
coat, and left the House.-Bat. Clipper.
That is to say. the frO dishes, the scales, the
equipoise, the equilibrium, .voted with the
Democrats" Mercy on us u
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upon the revenue by the foreign importers
which have been reduced 70 regular system,
and which are equally injurious 70 the National
Treasury, to the honest importer, TO
the manufactures of the country, and 10 the
cotton planter 60 &
We say that the frauds committed upon the
revenue under the present laws for valuing
foreign imports, have been reduced to system.
tits a regular practice in France, Spain, Eng
land, and all other foreign countries, for the
seller Of goods to make out two bills for them,
one at the real price paid for them, and another
at about threeffihs Of that price, the latter to
be presented at the custom house, for the du-
ties to be paid upon. A friend Of ours being
in Paris last fall, bought gold watch, the
price of which was, say one hundred dollars !;
1t being for a friend, he had 1t packed with
other purchases he had made, to be sent over
in steamer. Understanding this, the person
ofwnom he purchased the watch, handed him,
after receipting his bill, another bill Of sale,
calling the watch sixty dollars. Not under
standing what this meant the purchaser in
quired, when he was told that it was to enable
him to avoid paying the full duties. Our friend
replied that he was not in the habit Of taking
a false oath for the purpose Of cheating his own
government out of small amount of revenue.
The seller Of the watch felt the rebuke, but
excused himself by saying that it was the Gus
tom TO give such false bills Of sale to those
who purchased goods to be shipped to the Uni
ted States. 3a
We could relate similar case where sugar
was the article purchased, and Havana was
the place of purchase; and indeed several cases,
happening in different foreign countries, have
come to our Knowledge showing that it is a
universal practice in every foreign country to
cheat and defraud the revenue Of the United
States, and that all understand how it is to be
| done. A5a @ Il
| This system Of fraud and cheating can be
broken up and prevented, by laying specific
duties upon all foreign articles, or by establish
| ing home valuation Of all foreign merchan-
disc, requiring duties to be paid upon the actual
wholesale market price Of every article in this
country. If this remedy were applied to the
present crying evil, the honest importer would
stand some chance along side Of the dishonest
one; and without raising duties at all, the en-
forcement Of their full and just payment, would
| afford the American manufacturer some pro-
lection against the fraudulent competition of
the foreign manufacturer, and infuse new life
and activity into our manufacturing establish
ments Until something of this kind is done,
we can scarcely expect restoration of pros
petty and activity in the manufacturing, trad
ing, and commercial departments Of industry.
Without advocating high duties, as Amieri.
cans, we are in favor Of fostering and encourag-
ing our own industry, and Of producing for
ourselves, as far as possible, that which we eat,
drink, wear, and USE When Kansas is gotten
out of the way, we hope members will turn
their attention to those matters which come
home 10 mems business and bosoms.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-20

Riot IN New YoRK--Neo York, March Is.
This morning man was run over and killed
by the Hudson river railroad train on 11th
avenue. This caused riot among the Irish
laborers. The police were sent to the spot
but were beaten off with stones. The rioters
were five hundred strong. Another passing
train was attacked by shower of s.ones, but
no serious injury was done At two o'clock
quiet had been restored. s aCfaE la3
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W- A bill has been passed by the Senate
Of Massachusetts, instructing the Senators and
requesting the Representatives in Congress
from that State to aid in securing indemnity to
citizens of Massachusetts for French spolations
prior to the year 1900.
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=
Most of The doings Of both BRANCHES of Con-
eress during the last week win befound in the
speeches Of which the week has been prolific
on the Kansas question. The majority in the
Senats being determined to get the minority
to agree to take the vote on this question this
week, continued the session of Monday until
Tuesday morning at quarter
past six oclock.A NJ, but WITHOUT forcing the
anti-Lecompton Senators into the agreement
demanded. The latter however, agreed that
the vote should be taken on Monday next
The debate on this subject has been an unusu-
ally able one and has attracted crowded galleries
the whole time.
The same subject has occupied most Of the
time of the House. Mr. Montgomery, of Pa, {
douglas Dem.) introduced bill on Monday
last which provides for an extra session Of the
State legislature at Lecompton within twenty
days after its passage, for the purpose of d.
viding the State into districts for the election
Of delegates to convention, to which the Lee
compton constitution shall be submitted for
amendments, the amendments to be subse-
quen,ly submitted to the people for adoption
or rejection.
Mr. Montgomery moved that the bill be re-
fcrred to the select committee of fifteen; PEN
ding which, @ IA
Mr.. Stephens, of Ga, moved that it be re-
ferrcd to the Committee on Territories which
motion was not agreed to--yeas "a, rays l05.
The bill was. then retired to the select COM
mittee Of fifteen, 4
The House has a portion Of the time had
under consideration an army bill reported by
Mr.. Quitman, from the committee on Military
Affairs. stAi@ sra4 AZ
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(" AND IF.n-AND "IFi' SAID THE
1851 FARMER. s

The Baltimore Clipper copies paragraph
from the speech Of Mr.. Nelson, who presided
at the Baltimore Lecompton meeting, which
was full of ys, and thus remarks upon it:
"These several its are very well put by Mr.
Nelson. If every thing has been fairly and
legally conducted in Kansas--and If the con-
stitution framed at Lecompton, and now sub
mitted for the sanction Of Congress, was legal
ly enacted; If the the elections were fairly
and legally conducted-why then, we should
say that Kansas should be admitted into the
Union with the Lecompton constitution. But
the very mattersin dispute are embraced with
in these IT, and those matters should be final
y settled before voting upon the admission of
Kansas with that Constitution. To ascertain
the truth of these things, and to place nothing
but facts before Congress, a committee of fif-
teen was raised in the House Of Representa-
tives, empowered to send for persons and pa
pers and directed to make athorough exami-
nation into the wholem But the selection
of the members of the committee being given
to the Speaker, he took care to place upon it a
majority of persons who were resolved that
there should be no investigation, and there has
been none Now, il, as is supposed by Mr..
Nelson, the proceedings in Kansas were legal,
honest and above board, why should this trick
be practised to prevent investigation"
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"In his speech in the Senate, March IL, after
quoting that part Of the ccnstifution Of Minncso-
In which gives the right Of suffrage TO unnatura-
lssd fbregner, Mr.. Kennedy said, az officially re-
portsd in the Globe; ss., -. ssgs -.
40 IL is in direct contaventou Of every notion
Of mine n regard 10 the doctrines Of our Govern.
ment lido cay, that the Minnesota Constitutions IN
DIRECT CONFLICT WITH BOTH THE LET
TER AND THE SPIRIT OF THE CONSTITU-
ton OF TIE UNITED STATES IN THIS
RESPECT. -.l.,....
ave think that Mr.. Kennedy Is entirely In or
ror In his views Of the Constitution Of the United
States, and that the qucsfiop Of suffrage Is e1clu-
avely State question, not controlled By the natu-
rarxss;on lavsn ser y fe1 "a .fit
Then we would recommend our ncighbor to
read Mr.. Madison's reasons FOR putting this
subject in the Constitution, and Mr.. Calboun's
and Mr.. Clsyton's unanswsra5ls arguments
against the right of the States 10 allow aliens
to vote. @ - . iss'H 800 80
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Jones, was taken before the President and
Cabinet, and the fines were takeA off 1t is
said, at Memphis, that the Governor received
fee Of. fifteen or tsoenty Thousand for his SER
vices. The principle upon which the admins
tration is said to have acted, is this: Jones had
served the party-wsnted a foreign Mission
the administration had none to confer, as the
Democrats were demandily the offices--andto
gice the Governor a chance for a fee, these
just and lawful fines were set aside These are
substantially the facts in the case, which we
publish upon unquestionable authority, Let
them be controyerted, and we promise still fur
ther developments, touching these same dark
transactions. =. X aorpiHe RAia.A 1ANNI
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-20

H Thewhole amount appropriated for the
State expenses Of Pennsylvania for the ensuing
year, is 1904, 400, Of which $4,000, 900 is for
interest on the State debt and 1884, 9sO for the
maintenance Of the canals
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rB- The spleen exhibited by the Union
within a few days past, may be accounted Tor
by the fact that the administration sec that
Lecompton is dead. and they are defeated.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-20

KASsAs.--The Leavenworth correspondent
of the St Louis Leader says that the Free-State
vote for delegates to the Constitutional Con-
vention in that city amounted to 600, against
1876 poled for State officers on january the
4th ..a LEI. nau #snFrH egt~ tstlg.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-20
From the Atalanta, Georgia, American
Hitfing the Nail ON the Head.

Referring to the everlasting "nigger" ques-
ton in Congress, the Tuscumbia North Ala
6a nian hits the nail on the head in the follow
ing laconic and common sense manner:
"But, seriously, Il Is full time that southern men
were looking about them, and coming to some de-
termination as 70 the beet method Of putting stop
TO this everlasting, ncvereniing Niger agitation
men In Congress- Railways requires two partiesto a
quarrel, and IL southern members would ignore the
subject entireyin that body, asa matter with vi ich
Congress has no concern, it would be very difficult
for the other side 10 keep up the agitation. Bot
90 long as the subject Of slavery is a Legitimate
matter of debate in Congress, there will be plenty
Of demagogues, South as well a. North, In that
body, always ready 70 mount the hobby, and ride,
with whip and spur, without regard TO consc-
quences.p r h
To this, the New Orleans Bulletin says
"Let the southern people hereafter send such
70 Congress as will devote their time to matters
OF practical interest and let the demsgogues stay
at home. II is time all this buffoonery, trickery
bumcombe, rant, and fustian we're puta stop TO-
The public stomach has become Dauseated with
IL"
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-20

icy Michigan papers say that during the
year ending on the Goth Of February, neither
life nor limb has been sacrificed on the Michi-
gan Southern Railroad
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-20

H- unexpectedly announce to our friends
in Congress that we are prepared to print
Speechs, and win do SO upon the usual terms;
that is, for an eight page speech, 30 cents per
hundred. In l6 pages 81.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-03-20

R Brother Editors, will you Gus the favor
to let your readers know that there is an Amor
dean paper published at the Federal City,
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SOUND DOCTRINE.

1t is refreshing in these days of new-fangled
constitutional notions, political absurdities, in
sane vagaries, and modern monstrosities, when
men who have been pegging away at old shoes,
tinkering WORKOUT brass kettles and tin-pans,
or hammering horse-shoes all their lives, as
sumo the province of well-read statesmen and
profound jurists, to tell US, with oracular wis
dom, what is, and what is not constitutional,
and to deal out the law and the gospel "like
one having authority, and not as the Scribes;"
to meet with such sentiments and doctrines
as are put forth in the following article which
zoe copy from the Frankfort Kentucky, Com
monwealth, not being favored with an exchange
with the Memphis Eagle and. Enquirer, in
which the article originally appeared:
ain all the discussions which may arise upon
the political questions of the day, says the
Memphis Eagle and Enquirer, we shall stead
lily keep in view that which appears to us the
greatest interest of every true American-the
consolidation of our Union, in which is involv-
ed our prosperity, felicity, safety, and, we
firmly believe our national existence. With
out union of the States there can be Meth
er prosperity nor safety in the States. Here is
the law propounded by Americas greatest
statesman, which we fully recognize and en-
dorse:
81. That the Constitution of the United
States is not a league, Confederacy, compact
between the people Of the several States in their
sovereign capacities but Government proper,
founded on the adoption Of the people, and
creating direct relations between itself and in
dividuals.
az. That no State has power to dissolve
these relations; that nothing can dissolve them
but revolution, and that consequently there
can be no such thing as secession without rev.
olution.
49, That there is supreme law, consisting
of the Constitution Of the United States, and
acts Of Congress passed in pursuance oft, and
treaties; and that, in cases not capable of as
suming the character Of suit in law or equity,
Congress must judge Of and finally interpret
this supreme law so often as Il has occasion to
pass acts Of Legislation !; and in cases capable
OF assuming, and actually assuming, the char
acter of q suit the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States is the final interpreter.
"a. That an attempt bya State to abrogate,
annul, or nuify an act OF Congress, or to arrest
its operation within her limits, on the ground
that, in her opinion, such law is unconstitu-
tional, is direct usurpation on the equal rights
Of the General Government, and on the equal
rights Of the States; plain violation Of the
Constitution, and a proceeding eminently revo-
lutionary in its character and tendency.
"The opponents of these principles are the
enemies Of all free government for upon them
hinge our State and national Illustrations. These
are the principles Of Unionists North and South,
and to depart from them is to weaken the bonds
which hold us together
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MALiCE.


The following compound of impudence, in
science, audacity, blackguardism and malice,
appeared in the Union. the government organ,
yesterday morning. NJ. Buchanan finding that
decorous and gentlemanly language failed to
persuade men to support the Lecompton fraud,
is trying an experiment to see whether the
barking and snarling of an editorial cur, train
ed in the famous kennel, the N. " Herald
office, will not effect his purpose.
"Mr. Bell, of Tennessee, fearful, perhaps, lest
the speech Of Mr.. Crittenden would give that
gentleman an advantage over him with the
blacl-republicans, proceeded on yesterday to
counterfeit its effects by the delivery Of still
more furious TRADE against the Lecompton
constitution. What is very unusal with Mr..
Bell, he indicated pretty clearly in the first
hour of his speech on which side of the ques-
ton he stood; but this may be accounted for
on the ground that he felt it necessary to be
very decided in order TO head off Mr.. Critten-
den. whom he doubtless regards as his rival
for the black republican presidential nomination
for 1860 The Senate went into night session
for the purpose Of allowing Mr.. Bell to pro-
coed with his speech" M m gH
The speech Of Mr.. Bell was one Of the most
able, unanswerablc, and statesmanlike that we
ever listened to from him. The yelping of the
administration, shows that his blows are felt
az Mr., ~ :, ~, x< gvs e, q a ~ ruu n
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CHEAP FAMILY GROCERIES,

THE Subscriber is now receiving and opening
i VERY CHOICE STOCK of well selected
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To which he begs leave to invite the attention of
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Ladies' Dress Goods,
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DANAWAY from the Subscribers mother,
IL about the lst April last, his likely Mulatto
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5 feet or inches high. His color is tolcrable
bright and lis hair pretty straight, and wore
when he left a moustachc. lie is intelligent and
tolcrably quick spoken. He has been raised in
the house, and is valuable dining-room servant
and good ostler.
1t is supposed he is lurking about some Of the
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Charleston or Columbia. The above reward will
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June % If "a
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
EDGEFIELD DISTRICT.
IN ORDINARY

DYw.F. .DURIsOE, Esquire, ordinury of Edge.
- field District.
Whereas, A. Simkins, GEE n hath applied to me for
Letters of Administration, on all and singular the
goods and chattlss rights and credits Of John Randall
late of the District aforesaid decd
These are, therefore, 10 cite and admonisl all and
singular The kindred and creditors Of the said deceas
cd 10 be and appear before me, al our next Ornarys
Court for the said District, to be holden at Edgeeld
Court House, on the llh day Of September next, to
show cause, if any, why The said administration should
not be granted
Given unler my hand and SEAL this 2nd day u
August in the yeur Of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and f,yeight and in tile eighiy.lhird Year
Of American independence.
W.F DURISOE, o.E n.
Aug. 4, 1858 Ct ~