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Ngw yoaK, July 29.-Cotton is quiet-sales of 400
bales Flour is irm-sales Of l6, 900 barrels State
"a 05 "a 10 Ohio has advanced 8 cents, 81 rs
81 90 southern, "a IS S. Wheat il quietsales OF
80 600 bushels southern red, 81 80 southern white
81 80 81 As western white, 81 08 a 81 TO- Corn is
steady sales Of $4,000 bushels: white, 81 81 05 !
yellow SO a 81 OF sound mixed 80 cents. Pork is
quiet-mess, SIT 60 q SIT rs; prime, sl4 sl4 rs.
Beef is quiet Chicago repacked $12 rs SIS ST. Lard
is quiet at III III cents Whskey is quiet at 24A
rs cents Sugar has advanced cent-sales Of g. 900
hogsheads Orleans a64 cents Muscorado 81
cents Porto Rico 81 cents. Coffee is steady at IL
cents Spirits of turpentine closed firm at A AL cents
Rosn is quiet at 81 so. Rice is firm at 8 81 cents
BALTIMORE, July 29--Flour closed quiet and firm
Ohio and Howard street. 81 SO City Mills, new, IS,
and mers are asking an advance. Wheel ia active
red, ST 20 81 so; white, 81 rs 81 A. Corn is bet
ter-yellow, IS 81 cents white, 80 % cents Pro-
visions firm. Whiskey is frmer closing ut 26t 27A
cents
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SAD INCIDENT OF LATE OVERFLOW. During the high
waters of the Mississippi and s tributaries few weeks
since vast extent of country between the mississippi and
Red river was overlooked. In many places the waters
deep TO destroy nearly NIL the improvements
and animals. One morning early gentleman who hnd
passed most Of the night Mt hard labor striving to
his cabins and stocks from being swept away, while pass
ing in skf to the house. heard the sound of human
voice at distance apparently in distress
He fastened in the direction of the sound, and after
rowing about quarter Of mile, he, as he drew near,
espied little child about seven years old floating upon
log He drew up to it and caught it by the arm but
before she fully secured from danger in the sk tho
little thing raised her piful cry, go get and sis
Do get pa out there in the water " Search made,
but il wsa too late TO them. The father and
mother and three children after clmgng to their cabin
and struggling for life for several days amid the increasing
waters at length perished leaving this little child alone
tell the tale Of This Is instance probably H.
Of many Of similar character.
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The sagacity and military experience OF other eounts,
have long taught them the Importance of securing
by generous competition the very best talent for ls
army Cadets in many countries OF Europe selected
from a number Of canddatcsthc selection always FAN
Ing ON the most talented and promising youths In
France for instance where the first military schools
the world exist there is hvortsn exercised in IL,
appointment OF cadets to the military schools In ON
OF the States Of this Union, normal school modelled
after West Point the superintendent and professors 4
which are graduates Of Vest Point has been iot hea
twenty years in successful exlstence wherca board Of W.
itors annually select from several hundred applicants b.
admission those best qualified To repay the State for io
money expended ON their education
The result Of this course if pursued at West Point
would be the selection of the ablcs youths of the land
for the army without regard TO their social rank pot
cal influence OF condition in life, and the graduation
nearly all those who are annually admitted as cadets
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We are indebted to Messrs Taylor Maury for copy
of the 0yeed Of Commerce and Commercial Navigation re-
Gently published by Harper Brothers, of New York.
well bound and clearly printed work Of two thou
sand royal octave pages. 1t is edited by T. Smith
Romans, esq., formerly resident of this metropolis, and
Of late years well Known the able secretary of the New
York Chamber Of Commerce. and the editor OF the Bank
ers Magazine and Statistical Register 7" aided by T.
Smith Romans, jr. esd, author Of IAN Historical and
Statistical Sketch OF the Foreign Commerce Of the United
States. This afing, however has been in part
full remodcng rewriting of the youminous labors Of
McCuoch and other foreign writers, to adapt them to
this country with the addition of the latest information
each topic up to the present time Especial attention
has been paid to the commercial law and commercial
trade of foreign countries and the exposition Of the
dton and Of these countries is also clear and
full.
But the editors have not contened themselves with
writing the foreign dictionaries Of and naviga-
tion which VIGOROUSLY deficient the commercial
statistics of this country. They have judciously
densed the various official reports Of the different depart
ment of our and of the States and thus give
from reliable historical and statistical details in
reference to the great staples of the country those i'm
potant products whose export has contributed largely
to national prosperity. The finances public works
and internal of each State also carefully
gwen, ana tcio 10 IA ooi, VI '''o io"s
of Chancellor Kent Judge Story and other eminent jul
rjsts upon the Laws of Shipping insurance, Maritime
Iaw seanen &C. Charts Of the principal harbors Of
~ ,;,h ,,ovi,os 81 Ifehoats Hcbt hoses
wig i ov'y, 80 1',,,. - -ss,
&c Illustrate 'his fuy sauapc compendium VI usoia'
knowledge.
The ''curlosities of commerce. given in this work.
have attracted the attention of contemporary and it is
d,tbl 70 tho editors TO see that thew have not omit
49,, 49, I'LL. ,,,;nuta .rt;o,os For oxomn,a
eu ''.0 i'o's 'A''.us' "'s's'.' ~
Under the head Of pin, we find that the manufac-
ture Of this indispensable little instrument was COM
menccd in the United States between 1917 and 1870
since which time the business has extended greatly and
several patents for the manufacture OF pins have been
taken out. The manufacture in England and other
parts of Europe is condaccd upon improvements made
in the United States Notwithstanding the extent OF our
productions, the United States imported in 1866
pins to the value OF $4O,Z ZOO
Still keeping attention directed to small things
find that tie imports of needles into this country
or looo announce s'1 s Inv h,aSS
Me-, ~, nsg from snan hut ba 1vonld nat ;mpart
ba secret Il was lost al his death and not recovered
again till 1866 in the reign Of Queen Elizabeth when
a German taught the art to the English, who have
since brought 1t TO the greatest perfection L. u stated
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LEAvESwoan July 24-yia Bonneville, July 28--[Pcr
u. S Express John b. Scroggns notorious as the
leader of band OF horse thieves and robbers in the
South has been arrested In this city Messengers have
murders are charged TO have been committed by the prs
oner both in Fort Scott county and the Big Blue.
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The President At Bedford springs.

BEDFORD, pa } July 29.The President and company,
consisting Of Miss Lane Miss Bright Sir William Gore
0useley and daughter arrived here last night good
health.
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Resixnation Of Che Canadian Ministrx.

Toaosxo, July 29-Ine government has been defeated
on the question Of removing the seat Of government 10
OTTAWA in the House. and the ministry have resigned
consequence.
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
Main Features of the New constitu-

We are unable to publish the new Con-
stitution this week, but hope TO do SO next.
Meanwhile we will state few of the prom
inent points of interest to be found IN the
instrument.
The Ordinance provides for the appli
cation of the public lands to be received
from Congress for railroad purposes to the
construction of four lines of railroads :
one acsross north Kanzas, westwaEdly ;
one across central Kanzas, westwardly /;
one across south Kanzas, 8estwardly /;
and one across the State from north to
south. The termini of these roads is left
to be determined in the future.
A liberal portion of the public lands is
applied to the creation of Common School
fund.
The Bill of Rights is fully up to high
water mark, being copied in many parts
from the old Virginia Bill of Rights of
1776. Slavery is stricken down at sim
gle blow The right of trial by jury is
rendered inviolate in all cases whatsoever.
No man can be deprived of his liberty or
property without the Judgment of his peers.
Women are afforded equal rights with men
in regard to property, and in the control and
protection of their children. A homestead
of $50 acres is provided for each family
Schools are to be free to every child in the
State. The single district system is to be
adopted for members of the General As
sembly. The first Legislature is to sub
nit the question of the location of the Cap
ital to the people, and is also to provide by
law for the submission of the question of
universal suffrage to vote of the people ;
meanwhile the right of suffrage, as provid-
ed by the laws of the Territory, is to be
exercised by the male citizens of the Uni
States over the age of twenty y-one years.
Laurence Republican.
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
rhe summer Court Martial.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, of Tuesday, says, "the
Secretary of War to-day examined the find
ing of the court martial in the Sumner and
Harvey case. The court acquits Colonel
Sumner, holding that no challenge was sent.
The Secretary dissents from the finding OF
the court, on the ground that the note sent
was clearly, in his opinion, challenge"
The New York Times, of Tuesday, says:
eve learn from a reliable quarter that
the result of the recent court martial upon
Col. Sumner, at Carlisle Barracks, was the
acquittal of Col. S. upon both the charges
preferred against him by General Harney.
This result will be eminently gratifying to
the country, as it certainly is to the army.
Gen. Harney's conduct throughout the
whole affair has been utterly unworthy OF
his position, and eminently unbecoming an
officer and gentleman His remarks at
the Fort Leavenworth court martial were
gratuitously personal and offensive, and the
violation of courtesy was greatly aggravated
by his obstinate refusal to afford Col Sum
ner any explanation.
The court deliberated less than fifteen
minutes before agreeing upon their verdict.
Col. Sumner leaves Carlisle this morning
for Watertown, N. Y, where he will meet
his family. He is under orders for Utah,
and will leave Fort Leavenworth with his
regiment on the 10th of May.
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
!. c.;.onntrIina Bin

It is stated, IN the Lawrence Republieon,
that the bill altering the names of certain
counties and locating county seats, which
was supposed TO have been lost in the pock-
ct of the Governor, became q. Law IN the
same manner that the Convention bill did,
namely, by being retained by the Governor
more than three days. Sec. IA of the bill
is as follows: "That the name of the
county of Breckenridge is hereby changed
to Cahola, and shall embrace the following
district of land, to-wit Townships Is,
IL, l8 and 10. in ranges 10, II. I2 and 13;
and the seat of justice is hereby temporarily
located at Americus.'' Thus it viii be seen
that our county remains the same size as
before-the lines being changed to cores
pond with township lines. This gives US
the whole of township 1e, which embraces
the Cottonwood settlement. while we lose
three miles on the north. We gain two
miles on the east, and lose the same amount
on the west.
This arrangement makes Cahola the best
county in the Territory. 1t is the center OF
the future State, the best timbered and best
watered portion, and is already settled by
an enterprising and intelligent population.
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
Man Stabbed.

On Wednesday night, at GrasshoppeI
creek, about forty-two miles from here, g
man by the name of John Smith stabbed
another named Patrick Driscoll. The cir
cumstances are substantially as follows from
the evidence of John Sullivan:
The parties belonged to government
train, and after camping at the point named
above, Smith and Driscon got into dis
pute about the native and foreign born citi-
zens, whereupon Smith said he was as good
a man as Driscoll, and Driscoll remarked
that he was as good a man as Smith. This
conversation was repeated between them
several times, when Driscoll advanced to-
wards Smith with his hand in the direction
of his bowie knife, when Smith ierked the
knife from DriscolPs side and stabbed him
twice in the right side.
The facts of the case coming to the knowl-
edge of Jackson. the wagon master, Smith
was secured, and sent here for trial.
The preliminary examination was held
before Chief Justice Leeompte, who, after
hearing the testimony, committed Smith to
prison to await the result of the wounds
Driscoll had received. Smith stated that it
was all whisky serape, and that he thought
he was acting in self-defence.
Driscoll is in very critical condition,
there being no physicians near to dress the
wounds. Smith will have final examina
ton on Friday nexi.-LeaUenworth Ledger,
March 2Otk.
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
State Convention.

In accordance with authority ves,ad :.
them, the Union State Central Comm;,.."ui ~
hereby authorize State Delegate Conras
ton, to nominate ticket under the Ia.vou
worth Constitution. to be holden at ToPvv,
On wednesday, a priI as, 1855, at 10 AN
The officers to be nominated at said con
vention. are as follows:
Two United States Senator'S to be vo,os
for, as indicative of the choice of the non.
pie for that position: Governor; Lieutepant
Governor; Secretary of State; State Treas.
urer; Auditor; Attorney General; one Ren.
resentstiye to Congress; three Supreme
Judges-one for six years, one for four
years, and one for two years; State Super.
intendent of School Fund; Reporter of the
Supreme Court; Clerk of the Supreme Court
Also. to be nominated as the people of the
several Districts and Counties may deter.
mine: Five Circuit Judges-one in each
Judicial District, as provided in said Con,
stitution; one County Judge; one County
Attorney; one County Clerk; and 25 Sena-
tors and rs Representatives, as apportion.
ed in the schedule of said Constitution.
The Convention shall be composed of one
hundred members, and the State shall Be
divided into Districts, and Delegates ap-
portioned to them as follows: Leavenworth
County, 13; Douglas and johnson, IS;
Donipnan, 8; Atchison. 5; Brown, 5; Ne,
maha, 2; Marshall, /; Riley, 3: Potawato,
ME, 2; Calhoun, g; Jefferson, 4; Lykins,
4; Linn, 4; Bourbon and Allen, 5; Frank.
lin, 2; Anderson, 8; Shawnee. 6; Coffey,
8; Woodson, /; Richardson, e; Breckin.
ridge. 8; Madison, 1: Davis, 1: Wilson and
Godfrey, /; Greenwood, 1; Wise, 1: Dorm,
1; MCGEE, 1; Weller. 1; Butler and Hun,
ter, 1; Clay and Washington, 1; Dickin.
son, 1.
The same Commissioners selected by the
Governor to serve in the election of Dele
gales to the Constitutional Convention, are
authorized to act in the election of officers
under the Leavenworth Constitution, to be
holden on the Sd Tuesday-being the 18th
day of May.
In this election Kanzas expects EVERY
MAN TO Do HIS DUTY Peace, prosperity
and happiness may be secured to our people,
by giving full expression in this election
G. w. SMITH, Pres't.
WIN. HUTCHINSON. Vice Pres't.
Attest: D. II. WEIR, Sec'y.
Lawrence. April 5, 1858.
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
~Lecompton is Dead"

Friends of Freedom, rejoice the infa-
NOUS svindle which has dsrkened the pa
yes of our American history with its black
and bloody record of fraud and violence, has
at last been killed aad almost buried. The
sIst of March witnessed It's defeat, and viii
be memorable in the history of our country
as one on which the blaekening waves of
Slavery was rolled back from our fair soil,
and the Congressional floor which 50 oft had
been disgraeed with its triumph.
It came from the Senate with anajority of
eight in its favor; yet in spite Of all the
power of an Administration that has ex-
hsusted its machinery and resources in pur-
chasing white -livered and venal Represen-
tatives, it was virtually defeated by major
ity of eight. On motion of Montgomery,
of Penn. the substitute offered by the no.
bic Crittenden, of KY, in the Senate. was
adopted by vote of 100 to lie. All our
friends stood frm-the Republicans were at
their posts-the Douglas Democrats in the
front ranks, while the latest, yet gallent al
risked Office, place and influence, to aid a
struggling people, nobly vindicated the prin
ciples of Republican Freedom. Critten-
den's amendment sends the swindle back to
the people of Kanzas. This of course de-
cides its fate, but it will be killed by the
Senate, and the original bill reported back
to the House, when its foul ife-blood will
be trampled out.
Freemen of Kanzas this glorious tri-
umph. The second great American revolu-
ton has terminated in victory so glorious
that the human mind can but dimly grasp
the results with which the future teens so
imagnifcently. Brothers you who have
fought our bataes-soldiers who have seen
our cabins in flames, that made the mid
night all ruddy-you who have suffered and
borne the brunl of this confiict-rejoice with
us Let the welkin ring till the blue arches
of Heaven echo with the swelling harmony,
and from every land and Ger every sea the
nations send back the welcoming peans of
Joy and triumph. ''THE PEOPLE ALWAYS
CoseuER.'' God is ever with the right and
the Truth will prevail.
Brothers, let US not forget. in our hour of
triumph, the oppressed whom this news will
cheer-let US not forget the darkening shad-
ows of our own sunny South, and the gloom
of the Old World, which the light from the
plains of Kanzas will illumine. Let our
d
triumph but strengthen our hearts in all
coming humanitarian struggles, and may
our hearts be as true TO the resounding an
them of Liberty and Progress which on
ward ringing through the world, viii carry
Joy and peace to the downtrodden, until the
sun shines nowhere upon slave all over the
broad earth, and freedom, and harmony, and
justice prevails in all the nations of the
world
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
-Four Years Ago To-Dav.

Joshua Glover was rescued from the kidnap-
pers in this city, and set at liberty. At
that time the State Government was in the
hands of the Hunkers-the Executive, the
Legislative and the Congressional offices
being all filed by National Democrats
Now, Governor and Legislature, Senator's
and Congressman. and the Judges of the
Supreme Court. are all Republicans. Wha.
change in four short years And what
changes will four years more effect? But
slavery wakes worse and worse, and so does
Hunker Democracy. We have passed from
a slave Republic to monarchy, of which
James Buchanan is the nominal, bnt the
Slave Power the real king. Slavery viii
not always triumph. True men win not
always be prescribed. Liberty wiz yet be
national, and slavery punished as crime.
There viii be no more open kidnapping in
this State. No more Garlands will invade
the sovereignty of Wisconsin, and no Judge
Miller will ever re-enact the diseraceful
despotisms of three years ago. and sleep on
peaceful pillow If no statute law can
reach judicial tyrants, the people win make
one suited to their case Wis. Free Dem..
March II.
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
State Nominating Convention.

The joint Executive Committee have call
ed nominating convention to be held at
Topeka on the 28th inst. The duty of that
convention is to nominate State officers un-
der the recently framed Leavenworth Con-
stitution. To do so properly is no common
task. On these preliminary steps the peo-
pie are liable to be too careless. Combina-
tions are formed between politicians; votes
are bartered for votes, and instead of meet
ing to select the man possessed of the great
est ability or integrity. these conventions
are but too often a mart in which modesty
and integrity are sacrificed for the dealers
in unscrupulous bargains.
In selecting men in whose hands the in
terests of the new government are to be
placed, no common qualifications are re-
quired. They should be men of principle,
and unbending men of iron-men who viii
not shrink from any responsibility that may
come upon them-men who will not say
they are ready to act when the people are
ready to act, but who win be true leaders to
unite and strengthen the popular wishes for
a great purpose.
There are men who seem to be endowed
with the requisite qualities for leadership,
who yet appear to have fallen from their
high estate. and who are willing to sacrifice
their convictions of right for unhallowed
ambition. Men who would like to do right
if right was popular. but who, before they
determine any point, must measure its pop
ularity. We want no such hesitating, vas
cilating men now. Neither is it the inter-
est Of the people 10 put on the State ticket a
single questionable man merely to keep him
from boiling. Hmay be the interest of some
politicians to do this, but the people cannot
afford it, and they should see that no trading
politicians compelled them to do so. Let
those who want q successful future ponder
on this. Let them rise above common pre-
JUDGES or sel6shness to accomplish it. Let
no clap-trap about .sharmonizing all inter-
ests" mislead the people into a miserable
bargain. Let Us take the men We can trust.
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10

Much dissatisfaction is expressed in Ark
ansas and Texas on account of the with
drawal of the troops from the western from
tiers of those States. The Fort Smith Times
remarks:
s'The whole line west of Arkansas and
Texas is to be left unprotected. The forts
are all to be vacated, and distance of one
thousand miles of the frontier of these two
States, with the largest Indian population
on the borders in the United States, is left
entirely defenceless.'
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10

There has been no religious revival in
Lawrence, or elsewhere in the Territory, that
1 am aware of. The people here are too
much taken up with the taso to think of the
gospel. The fact is. as a people we are Civ
en- up to land and political speculation, tenn
perance lectures and whisky drinking, sin
and money making generally. Well. never
mind; it will be time enough, suppose,
to think of Heaven when we get into the
Union. FELIX.
The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10


The recent Inauguration of Crawford's
equestrian statue at Richmond, Va, was
made, by the cavaliers of that State, the Oc-
casion for the expression of sentiments OF
the most disgraeeful character. 1t was
claimed that Washington was first, last and
always, especially Virginian. That be
was, in one view of the case, ''nationd
man, was reluctantly confessed, but it was
held that his character was essentially Viz
ginian, that he looked to Virginia always as
his country, that what he accomplished for
the nation and the world was particularly
behalf of Virginia. When he passed the
boundaries of that State in her service
The glory which enlightened mankind bas
assumed when it has cherished the name
and example of Washington, belonged to
Virginia. The memory of the Father Of
his Country was the peculiar inheritance Of
Virginians. Even in the address to Mr.
Everett presenting the cane of Washington
was instructed that he was expected to give
it to some Virginian And an agitation IS
now being fostered by Virginian demagogueS
in favor Of removing the remains of Wash
ington to Richmond. Mt. Vernon is TO Be
robbed of the sacred dust that has maze
that spot classic and halIowed, that the van
ity of the Capital of Virginia may be grsa
fed. The degenerate sons of the illustrIou'
Virginians of Colonial and ReyolutioHay
times might as well claim the Atlantic, De-
cause Its tide swells her rivers.