Fr IffiE2 0 ID &It • ~.. - na• i tsisinrll6l6 _ 1 ? Ctatattitilan "Wham the GoilN for.lr to destroy t ihey .first marl." I - The-mountain.has been mouse. The thipieut mmtrolhsrs bribe sheCti which °intim+ to be the organ of the Conunis ail:driers:labor through two columns of ver,.lift' _ ago and falsehood, low slang and childish - abuse, to attract public attention from the real.iastierAlid; if possible, °semi° from the disgrace which their conduct has invoked., Theical facts ire—that the majority. of the litiow-Nothinizeodidinissioners did not act in good faith al men, it lieu they violated the usage of theirothee. They showed a reckless disregard of the public money, when they squandered it to support fwvorites-rlanilthey showed! P meannisas congenial With their poli tics. when they aZicepted proposals made in 4m:11 a manner as to defeat every other bid-. der. We-appeal to the public, and leave it, to the good sense Of*holitat,ltiettr tehttliet hid of "a hundred dollars, or one dollar loss than am nther,".,is the spirit of fairness. ,Was not !Melton offer made and conaidered ? We answer yes—and in order to satisfy these I - plunderers - , this' bid for the printing were postponed. We Made an hobest bid. We knew what we were'cieing—and before mak ing it we consulted only .our ability and our interest. The aliiirge that .any iletteieliey would be made up, is so, maliciously false', i and se totally feettleee alid:etTlOW that lit scarcely deserves a notice—yet we !Mc( the falsehood back into theirieeth, and defy their to the. proof. Not a single Man among these I oath : bound. wretches knows a particle of the printing business —uT are praetscal printersd and possess an office atuplo . in all, respects ti? t fuliil all that we ' promised in our bid. Itut, argue ijese'cormuranis—beretofore it wax customary to pay a large price, tend ill is too late to, talk of extraviganee whewiie have the example of former Commissioners tajaislify us. We only imitate the ‘.loeofo- 1 cos." But; let us ask, ulted were the "loco- cod:es" that equitidered the public money 9' They were the very men Who Jam' com Pole linow-Nothingisin. They were the men who are now clamoring for launder akd power, until the treasury has been 'drained. Is Cen tre county a pauper ? l'eso and the' fact is humiliating. Hu not her 'ollle;a1 aekruits l edged that the treasury' '- ‘l2llk empty, and are they not lagging for money I But, a Know- Nothing 'Board of l'orninissioucts must ho liberal. They must maintain their pimps at the.expense of the taxpayers of the county. They must devise means to support them in - their . aly - mg agonies--- , .but wo aremiistaken if even by falsehood, Cy dartes blackguard ism, oaths and abuse. they wilLhe.able long er to deceive the people. el ' axe ttACT JllSttli i TlY ALL acme n aPON it ea difi Corl*ppndent Ecgixi..o.-=';' - ifierr; not ,the expenscy of thr Lcvishauns dorm.: (jot , . 124-acr's adolints teßtiv4 airy r'--goormous. It in *voted, ,thrre .. to the :giterrettotm • amount . of strB,ooo.oo. 'The followmg table will prorr sntercststar: • 1834-6 , $108.122.33 134,000.31 " 18264 ' 142,388.61 1837-8 - - 11)6,079.10 1838-9 • - 261;1144.85 • = 1830-40 • 195,472.28 , .11 will be'seen by the above that '3B and - ' '3O, the years of the Buckshot war, the ea , „ pulsed were 51981,044,85. The same party Wad suppoited "Miler in his extravagance had only changed its name, and delights - Ih' hein7 called Ilack-Republicans. srsacttroen.WO hare no faith, in the plan, " you propose. nor can we Consent to its adop tion. Personal ohse rarely rano,neee a . trader—and It is an evidence of a low na lareterstaop to ecuril ay. 411fC11,—/n Murray's Grammar, And rdi -iien you ton - So enlightened. Tile subject hair; for some reason, been omitted vial! af ter fition.i. Had ue the book, we would -publish the rule. • ]'OAT MATILDA.- Vre 711 , 111 yaw- purer re/m.4,7.- Iy. tf there is any delay, the fault is in thy post-office. 14 peak to the poit-Marter. J. L.—lle will consider your4reoposi boa, and of feasible, will adopt it. In the incantiaw yob go to nark. DaouNtr.- A review of the Jug Law. It is entirely too long, and the orgunients arc steal*. Ws Would rather hate a personal interview with a Friend, before u•E - Tcumpry with his ._ repent, WE did net reel re a letter from 'Philadel phia. —The •Cambria Iron Company, at their killing mill tatdrumaces, in Johnstown, hare about fifteen hundred Men at work. • —Jodihrston Darts has been elected U. S. spat it k ora by a Democratic uric ; with- f •alitrify 'of Aty-eight *ace, * —46eliffie:tillies with the Indians on the pleb* leading to Utirti and California...still (mistime. The► are the cause of great em barrassment to emigrants. —Petitions S3r the repeal of the liquor law are daily pouring into thelegiilafure. Barka conney hes already tent in papers containing ,nearly tines tbousarel signers. -L-f.her one hundred returns were made by the doestediss of Lancaster county, of per sons who had triolatiot the liquor law. True %inshore both found against forty-seven. 7=4:ktiifiti W. Can has been elected Presi dent/of ttsrehio and Peonaylvania Railroad. The triage over the Allegheny river is be immediately finished, thus securing the con nection with the Pennsylvania Central Rail- —The work otilha N'orthero Central Rail road, the contract lately mode (or jig dienav--iermerovervs -arta tilfbele, 4 111 - Option of the Company, so far as the time te coneerad, to Sunbury, Pennsylvania; turn been commenced at two points. —The Independent Press of Filliainsport is pronbuneed to liedcad. After a protracted ihness of many months , tt has drawn its fist breath r and like the party whose cause it advented-(the ,ate Know-Nothing party,) its existence is identified with the past. - Peace to its ashes. —The steamship Golden Gate left San hasidoos oa the sth Mat. for Panama, with 111,d00,000 is treamre, and 500 passengers. • -.There an marinfiAired amnally in klasaisehasetta 21,540,004 , Tairs cf boots and tirefithine, the value of which is 312.180,810. The masher 'of persons unnleiyed is It 3 1,- 500, of whiahls,lCs are males and 11,395 —The body of IL Jersey. Winer, tamed Banina adman, re -tiling near thu White Minn, below Philadelphia, was found on Sunday morning last. imbedded. in tho ice, epposits Delaware avenue, wi,it his had sod" shoulders below the we the feet sod body above. De is supposed to have fallen into the dock head - formost, and breaking through the ice, was held, in that position. —ln a circular, addnemed by Baron 8teir .....-serld...lhte Swedish-Minister of Foreign Id tonars,to an Or Swedish Envoys, distinctly states that the terms„,of the treatynnly binds ,Sweden to a defensive alliance with the IVetitern powers.' "It wt.ll depend. upon sayer the circular, " to. prirent its application; as this would not occ ( ur unless caned 11' an swession on her, part. Let Raab respectlur rights--let ,her cease to Inspire jinn cause of alarm (or the Mainten ance of the balance of power in Europe—: and this treaty will not be of any prejudice to . her. The treaty dont - not imply any In our Aetna' wy:ition our declare !ion etfneutfiliku-(41-subsists..and.will cow. 'tinge to be adhered to, as has hitherto been the esse." IT a AINUELVG CO look over ow eschangtee and see the contradictory positions which the opponents of the• adininistration assi k • to it in 'regard to the long-delayed mace, for Speaker. The New. York Evening • • tuella! its ingenuity to prove that the ad ministration does not desini ac organization of the Reuse, but tititild prefer to see the_ present state of things continue until after the Presidential election. Orr the othCr hind. HomoeGreelyTin his paper; contra *tits the position of the Post in the most sophistic' tonna. Woareumier ohligations to Al . Geary, Esq . . ; .4'ci.../owttrintors, Woad Allison, Jr., George Grata.„24loolcpsolds,. Asstd. Frattl4- Jno. .04 / 4 Jesse.L. test, W. L. Musser, .ThntWallabakyr B. Sohnueltaer; John Doak wooll Oro for ball Lists of subviribont : and, indeed, to the entire Demochtcy of Cadre coati for tbo stheering evidence that they have aikven its, sod that - we have met their AUFPC94 O4 6 I , to aping, then) in red•eming . C i ento/ . Peatkiljlvanta frog the thwaldown of 1401113401whag wnintle and Black-Republi• butiihnOtion, ENZEID WY 30, 1336 Tint NEW/ • The allegation, that no man is able to set as Clerk for $BO, is simply a falsehood. We know Mr. Kealsh—knew him heroic we came here as bearing the reputation of ono of the best bookkeepers in the state ; and therefore it is net reasonaLle - to 'suppose that he would make a proposal to do work at • loosing price. He, of course, made his calculations . —and like an, honest man, - ho niade thinking that they would be honest re ' coined. 'fAlliest clerk ran able to att nd to of tk nainets. attend IQ That of others Lot yet we never heard him of being accused...of pee. seising more than ordinary 'ability. Why, then, could not Mr. Kealsh db the same 1. Howes willmg and fully competent—but the grevious fault of being a sound 'Democrat stuck in the throats of these Know,Nothibg Commissioners, and With a liberality prac tised only by those who use other people's money, they-generously give 400 for doing that which was offered to be done for $BO. They first ask for proposals—and when they have them in their possessiop,_they endea vor by every dishonorable mans, to abuse the conildenCcOf the Bive7st-biabi7iii-d -courage him in his honm'able effOrts to make a heel:hood. Mr. Kealsh is charged wi.h ig noranoo because he d.el not happen to knew how many meetings were held ,by the cem misaioners during the year. 413, To: the county, that. there ale not more as ignorant, and then it would not bare been necessary to advertise an empty treasury. The corrup tion w i liich has flowed through that office, since in the baud:: ef-finew -Nothingisatinusl. be kept secret. They are firful cf as Dcm ocraie contact—becadse the exposure that would necessarily arise from the supervision of a Democratic Clerk, would amide the peo ple to an - examination of the frauds-hy s lithich they.havesed upon. Those who doubt this, will be convincsd of its truth, by examining the conduct of the Commissioner at their last meetiok. We have the record in our favor, Tho'bid for the clerkship, was reasonable and honorable—backed by suffi cient security, and made -by otinwhose abili ties are admitted by all who kiibw him. We stand by Put bid—and demand that the Com missioners hold the Hundred dollar, or a dollar less" mauls to their proposal. They, are bound by every sense of honer, every usage and 'principle, to do the work for Thirteen Dollars—and even at that price, if they eetatoese• to earn- their-bread - by-the 'sweat of their hands, they will learn. what it is to make an honest living. - —A few words regarding the personalities of the organ which snakes music to charm the cars of its-tripids and supporters. Our connection unit the Democratic press of ' nnsylviuda commenced with our youth,' and we trust, will only end with our . ,,deatill:. The mart_who has been rearedjuirtured, supported and sustained, by honest patrons —who was educated, and who drew his first Weeds beneath the pi osperity which charity created, should at least evince an emotion of gratitude, or the evidence of s principle of honor. Ilia nothe who viihkes the loudest profession, 'that is always au!_ possessor of the purest principles—and - 1i is this grand truth which has always guided our.editorial career, that the assertion of a fact is more honorable, than the vindication .of fraud', falsehood, aid pious hypocrisy. We came to Centre oounty.,to print . / Tternocnitic pa per—we woo to issue a journal independent of all secular.control—and thus far the col umns 'of the Democratic Witclmsan, have been road and app,rociated by a Reople who were deceived tieretofoA by.tbe meolt•faced miles of rotten-hes:telt lirpperites: Men, whir; while they are bthaterona in prayer "1! 0 ,e0 the windi4 sheet of aoule.and lay them in -the ur eternitl detih." 'When, t we ask these _ if the Democratic WatrienugdeP y t 4 ' itahonomble our ti strict.coneteous coorati 'I 'We aro 'proud to write that the Dennocratic press - of the State have, given us a unite 4 commendation—and ,we are prouder to record the fact, that the only man who hits- thi; control of a paper, and who uttered a wo4l verbally or orally againatens, is one whcLimeloaks himself of 1 hix holy profession', and aho stoops from the mild atinospheie of the pulpit, to gather , the Mils grown 'in the political field. We camp to Centre county - as strangers- emulous 13. do our duty 'to the . people - a hie Idk‘c so nobly sustained us —and more anxious now to unmask those who have, lived, and who i have grown fat upon -Dismocratie lsanity. While we have avoided all personal allusion and attacked-no man—we,will, to thy nit our ability permit, resist the hypocrisy of man. Win:hired gospel pedlers and shallow-paled pettifogors. This is not to lie it mete die , cession' of words ; 'but the•-examinakittli of the great - principle, a holliA. the people of 1 Centre count' aro M he robbed and deceived by a set of , men who hide their own sins un der the specious charges which they trump iup against their' neighbin .4. We (ll.', rest ! under the accusation of being the " rum or- Itette ;.'',' Aea 04 n um trAt, pay, nor fear.the cf ; feet of the falsehoods whal these innately bad politiCians and worse igen eirzulate re-' 'larding the Watchman eXurrei — tte mean ! t inn., we lay, "Lay.-on- Macilair,!! __: . -- A Patristic Letter. , The ( ! glowing noble and patriotic letter, Was written byJohn W. Forney, k the De mocracy or Niqr York, in reply to an invita: tion to participate in tlie, celebration of the Eighth , or Jaiimuy• It breathes the true spirt of Deinomney, andther evideneo of him devotion to h caure in the advocacy of which he has almotlt gmwn grey. Few men in this country herb lab Area more zealously in the Democratic party, than John W. For ney.. Ile commenced his editorial career when lie was sem:teen yeprs Old, and trom that time until the prevent ``\ he has written unfalteringly against all the phases which the opposition bare assumellgainst Dcmoc... racy. Ills zeal has made him many enemies —hut is warm hiart and enthusiastic char neter, have drawn around hint a host of ad miring friends. . Long may—ho ho-preserred to the country . spd the party, as the defend er of both their interests andtheirprinciples Sexcanr 6 ,15tt, I. B. 517E1 , 1111111, EEC/. — Go'l[lool.9 —My pubito duties will prevent me fi om ne icrit g yotir iuritation to pet tkipste with yin In It n tolii.of in of the an niversary of the victory of New OTlOard, on Tuesday next. May tho'memory ul Lilo illustrlles paw you bonnet, eel the irepirnii , n of future dada, terrier yon meeting worthy of 13t1 Melt,: and lbnr.prin ciplus. we ate already en:ha:Led In he Eris gle whieh Is to be docldet in Novumber next Oar first obligation is to rrtnolple. Let us be trun to that, nod leave the ooilliNuoticea to 031 Lot us immolate our opiniuto upon theigratt isCies of the dOT. mama , reserration . and thee fat our ebecniel2s but the assumption that ho made s Single is go forth if to the bil:t n , a !he valleys mit etiretio our rrincipiti without heiltatlon, and tf no ere not elle during the cal:kraal of hie tlection, is oiumpha.et. we shill et 'emit hare dons our hest to b u , T y fi o _ _ so . lie was all things to all men defend a be'eugwi Coistf.tf , ien furfd emu . ; hen R . . btflored Union. If the frwmeell here ' , bean rem' —prom i s i ng every thing and performing inilitaty sohleventenis you will newreblo In C ,n - nothing. In no single tontine° did he make ;numerate, were now info.; I ;1 -reel I he the vddlo that would arm], the Verpst, that would reininfits all issue of the Nebras4a question. Ile had the doubfing. and that iroild t.oK tflongltite l i no of 4_ et • u 0 1 0 . law. a.. brad, jictatlakni rw rio-,„;,-.....-mireca 44 -...."a, - „ -- eombl net oe ar- V dbireii lES - Trier 0 1T ',ye I again,: us At.l whether he sit)ha i diestion of flow whose isthens end whesehre l d 'i f . e i rf l. . tiiirtrEd w ith WM' Mils" In'itu Pr 4 1e' ,. . 4 fought by hit .ide en the rot baffle:b.:ld—of the, ; that he wits ;,: telty of eclelehood - Democrats n6o were the "InrMnial ILL aons 11l DArL7 a,tl ,aOOA3 --of tho fellow .2,1111 , 11,1e:1 , Pr 19 I fOl, or. nr of the flronn , lnr-t1 of tho Ormolu fiTr.rncN anti the VreWhom. Ltr.tyr.rTr whether i.e turned Li ni4 , 1171.:4 ,yo , upon the tnlntoned tire's of the enure frnetieley uluzh thrnu thir'y roe re of WI thus: Arse career. bed lo Lunt him inn wlPilo he diviluxed hi! I.4th 10 that Ur,' •1 whlth he unwed' miter be preserved." hl p erunple would elle:mote the Democracy relTulo thee who et,: usPrp hie mune amt Coln Lit mentor,. Ity 9notlt a him in evmnathy with their d . lngerousrlo,t.. urea. Be but faithful to the JA , KVIN ir 1 and vol wilt ineu;ur V* rt. cmvarr In 'ho Stott, of Willy ' York thni bile; 'be eenorved wino of roar party into enth hanumnioni u‘r AA -, the b "LININS of apposilas-44114:1 uow tight in roar di rhinos Very tau y aL.3. rNe) f'l7y J. W. ronnr. Tus BassEss: 3140szt.Na fior the cur:cnt year contains the latest l•gal d(cisions re ' pecting La tics, raalciig. B,lls cf Ez Merge. - Proinlsory Notes, I.74tery, I.c. 2d. Ea Statistics of the sevcrtl S.r.fcs 34. Finan- CCR of tic Sta.en 4ti Ilia ere rf franking Yof4 Jlarlland, &.1 s'h. New Banktrg Laws of the GIL Account of New Banks in Europe.— ith: On the and Nies of a Cash. i , r : and the reponsi4ili:it_s• of Banks as Agents. lith. Sogg,r at ions r f o Young Cash iers on the Dutics of their Profession. 9th. Currency—or ---rreaner—lbsprr, - L.<l ,ai ^ r^s,.- Messrs. rarryA McMillan are the"l'llitu:idullia agents fur this work. We learn that the current volume nil! eon. min II series of designs for country banking houses, for the best plan for irhich a pro. mium of ono hundred and fifty dollars has boen.offeretl. Exotxtinuxo AND vtxascrClUNG.—ln ah investigation .recently held by a committee of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Conulanyilt was ascertained - thatotie of the aasiatant enginegcs, in certain instances, made his pay-roll atone sum, and paid wine of his attlxorditiates • ;miller and 'different 'BUM. To what extent this has been prac tised. ja not known. 'the same' engineer al .o proved to boa partner of the contractors, and their work, as measured under his direction, exceeds the amount, as computed by the present engineer, lieu v 9,0 0 .9 in • whole sum of ices than 150000. rDRAM orllflt. Base.—The father of Hon. John. Banks, of Reading, and William Banks, &al., of, Indian;, 'died recently in 31i0lin county, at the advanced" ago of 80 years. rho Juniata Regirter 'kites that he voted for every Presidentfroin Washington to Pierce ; Ho .regarded thereeinocratic par ty as the "the vent conservative /party of the 'Union," and made it,.a matter of con. scions° to attend all 'electictiss, and vote for I ta. its candidatee. ' , His first vo was given in 1788, at - whish time hews e eirog to take the oath of allegiance, g cordB to of which oath ho carried in his pocket book till the day of hid death. Mr. Banks was elected a commissioner of Mifflin conunty in 1800. THE CONTRACTORS IN TIIE ENGLISII Aaaev have a prot,itabiel business. Some of - them ga \ s i clear 0300,000 a y ... • Oue man who fur nished fodder for bo es made the emu of 823J,000 the Drat ye of hie coed/wt.' ,_ J.k. l. Pealrc lI : &T , V, lrll Yrluclpla, noll . lll, ALPioi•4l* During tilt stormy reiga.,of the veteran soldier-and-statesman , Oliver Cromwell,. 1m ivas in-the of Saying tti hitionfldential friends : " Religion is a glAtions cause to ihr-l-but a parson, in Parlitunent, brings ho Ii disgra4o onial religion and confusion to iris constituents." Cromwell was a stern advocate ofiviiiihr-e-yot he carefully rein ded from the lirisfitnretf )ii domain, all who had espoused a holy cause, and frowned I upon that map, who tor the purpose of polit ical elevation Mal profit, sacrificed his clerical calling to the beli(:sts of cliques and parties. -Thera are men who imitate Cromwell, even at thirtate day—anti they are the men V.llO are now most active in denouncing the deep duplicity of the Veverend John J. Pearce. lie was elected to ,Ccmgress to represent the. interestii -of his COstituants, and not the prejudiced of a ellque. Mit his whole Petit.. iced career has trio *achy as to prove_all we have heretoforetblished in regard to fan; and it is corrob rated by the.teeming" uning - tif the organsof his own party.- When John J. Pearce/ first otkretl- Iltmself w, a! candidateilio. did so as a Democrat—when ho discovered that the honest Democracy of the Thirteenth Congressional District would repudiate him,„ he 'was ready to violate his promise, and bey:moan indepetidenteandi dste-sand team then Cs chanceanTsuccess were so prmarious, tbiat he was compelled i l to allow himself to be dragged from the ss cred products of the pulpit, to becoMe associate of a band of midnight conspira-1 tors. Conspirators alike miairist the politi cal and religious opinions of all who-differed with them—sworn' to use every dishonorable them-nil° ithbrert the constitutional rights of the adopted citizen. and his descendants. With this iTitrobaction t we will attempt n review of the Reverend John J, Pearce's IlliolOgy to his comeituents for aria late die graceful conduct teethe Howe of Represen tatives. Ile avows in every paragraph (badly as they arc ~,eritten) the real &large W. 1 ,1 have male agyinst him, and in his at tempts to clear himmlf of the odium attach ed to his name, he ileitis our contempt, and exposes his deceit. -The real charge against 4014 J. Pearce, was, that.he engaged is the liminess of ‘litteltAining Ibr/efri Honks. We proved, from the record, and by the admis sion he' made on the floor of, the House of Roarcientatives, that he offered a bribe to a colleague ; that ho was employed to buy TOtti,ml thid_ho Was guilty_ of taischOod. When interrogated upon these charges—he declared on his honor that the/ werikfalse—, 1 but when pressed to the wall, he admitted that he did offer a bribe, but it was done" in a playful manner. Pity that he conld not be recalled, to do his playing at home. We have no disposition to wade through the fallacies of the "Ftisllys" and "Second /vs" of this lame and al-tempered letter— no e thlt he protn,s, d to &bait: by tilt (lec,4ion of a Donocraitc conference—Whi aro witness that he oMied to sell lam.v.if and crery intelligent man in the distri6t krona that he was elected by the oaths, the machinations and the falatteods of r Know. Nothingism Cocultftwd with Black-Republi canism: It is usEless for John .1. Pearce to attempt to Extract himself limn the daigractfel tit) klicolt ti wayless by lALLIA.aIk us V.- mait ious appEat ' The country and his con• cituents point Whim with ahem. The pto- Flu of his Elia:riot (1) not aAnowledge him as their representative. The arc 4%;;;Qua tazat. rid of him, and ntriatkut for the opportunity to Imrl him fr.ut pciticr. ; • illE FOLLOWING cx!rs:t from the Lantas• Ptr-u.al wt! fcma• 11:ation by the myny fritnd.s of the collie man to whom it etkr3. Ittlaes hint no incrt then ju3tice, becatise he is kndirn to be ft rLaly writer, a fluent slitaktr, and one of the-twat promising young lawycni in t 1 State : The Lec'ure bet a° the "P.tra.i'ec Union Lpcmn," of tri.ikh yr.sykave ho.i.ro in our I.a: tatut,..auttue...cog evonlog las . A vor: .''.11;o a.l L.• audie..oe arsorub'e.ll., tho %Now Hall id:IA WWI Ul/011 reom.tly fitted up LAWS nhu . y, unl c.a.• roniontly by our entermun... , :i tram A K. A. A. - L Witmer. Samuel 11. itey,lls, Esqh of favored the uudion,a *La n boaatitui, elder lug and iustruotive !restore upon "Our National .ifor• alum." The impression whioh Mr. K. baa mull. upon the °WSW:4ot that scram of our county us a gentleman of talent and mos: captivating orotatioal poser, In enviablo, and having but reoently sums amorpt us we one - and all wish Llen scoots. in his ,prefeistea. lows.—A letter from Dubuque, lowa, ,da ted Aimary Jet, says that ,thirOovernment lands of that district aro now nearly all dis posed of. fa w..scatterfil tricht of 0)- AINC lands retuabsiog. Oa the 19 - th of No vember two raugesof townahips were thrown into market from - Die Des Moines, at the re construction of the lowa land district, and on the first day thereafter 200,QU0 a rca were applied for.. Notwithstanding the severity of winter, emigranti Continue to arrive daily et Dubuque. , GOOD riurioss446x.--Rev. Warren Burton, of Boston, his re-irued a circular to• the Press, urging di& _to recommend a more meat he staztod•somet two years since, in his own State, that them be meetings of parents in every school district, during the more H alve searion, to disduss questions of Family Dielphne, and the Relations of the Home to the'School. The calsells, a good one ; and, if carried - oat in the spirit pt its author, will remit to th,e mutual adrintage of scholar, teacher. warmest. ' , , r" At Weapon thellet t tfiost., the thger. tnometer stood at 24 degrees- below zero; sit Cleveland 17 degrees, and at Springfield, Ohio, 24 degrees: At Detroit on.the same day, it ranged from 46 to 2$ degrees below zero. At Pittiburg it, was considered that the 9th inst. *aa the coldest day ever ex• pads/Iced in that city. Everything froze, even gas, one half of the pipes in ,that city iMpartiog PO :.liitt'fwhataver aftS 024, whilst the othevg dispensed- very sick rays. Ell .lEtateas wAtasarttpTfert. JAstraitY 26, 1856. •Theiondition of the contending pa rties-in . 1 the NatiMull Capitol is po.,betterltr than When I last Wrote to you, nor is - thelf any ' likelihood that a change Will ijon occur. , The in the Howie have, from the commencement of the organization, presented a litern - liOnt, although they havelost no op portunity either to propose or a cept any 'honorable concession. 'The last of RICO of' - forts to accomplish an organization his been , the withdrawal of Col. Richardson. Ho did not desert his friends, nordid - his friends de , . „ sert him ; but he was willing to sacrificehm. Tim ASIATIC COOLIE TRADE.—The uniteu States and Great B ritain spend a great deal ce valuable lives every bifion and the prospects of place to harmo- I of looney and niso the friends of .the Constitution. While i sac announcing his withdrawal,-he entpludleilly year on the African roast,,for,the prevention declared that he " never desired in election: of .the African Slave Trade ; but the have Still, it is with pleasure and pride' that with done nothing to interfere with the Ce.die oht hope I balm' stood at the head bf my Trade from China.— -The. fearful story of the • friends iri the face of a sweeping fire. It is. American ship Waetindy, in whicliabout three said to be the exhibition of the 'highest he laindred pdor wretches were suifocated,,has raisin to lead troops etp-to . a fire which they opened the eyrie bf the world to a ..blistness cannot return, and who know while-fighting that equals In serOeity and cruelly the were": that the 0 iiffno hope 'of victory'. Bit, wo horrors of the' slave Annie. These uoforta have presentett the eitiden; to our politic - hi creatures were shipped from Amoy for friendithat there is no hope for success, and Callao or Havana, and slavery was lobe their we have marched one hundredhinl. twenty fate ; for although other terms are given to • two tunes up to the fire of a foeTtwo to our the condit*. they were destined to, the fact . , and while we )nave not won the field, is slavery of the worst kind. A tragedy , ° they have not been victorious: 4 like,this of the Waiorly, lamentable as Ras, The Washington Unioh ape in the higlo- I was perhaps, needed to bring the enormity lof this Coolie trade home_ to the.est - .terms of the Hon. James r, . Orr, of minds , of I south Carolina,-who wait nominated in place, ,civilized nations. It will most probably be ' of Col. Richardson. lie is admitted to be brotight Mite Potit,C , ther-United- S ttlitcs - - LT ghly rtiffilified - fclrthe4taLiefi... Ire is dig government, :es the mate and crew of the---,. 0 tt gulahed for • the courtesy and amenity of Waverly have been imprisoned by the Span- I his manners. He possesses that cool ish authorities at Manilla. ~Copgress shou l d possession and dignified firinneas which are in" ho ' limb in innir4ing t4ils 'East' I n dia I essential in an efficient presiding officer. As squadron to prevent all American iessels a statesman, Mr. Orr belongs to the school from efiportiug Coolies from China. of national men to whom the rights end in. tercets of•every section as guaranteed. by t the en mtitutlon are alike dear. Ile deserved richly the'complimont bestowed upon him, and the public interests would be sigettily Promoted if lie should be elected. The Central, America question still drags Its long lenith airing, without a prospect of , efen arriving at any satisfactory settlement. The confect:urea that it will give rise to a war between the United States and g t rigituid, are abundant, and ifibrd prolific theme politic gossips. It is understood Bass and Clayton are prepar' which will have a great int! , ate and the country. 1 1 110 W RAIRIBISBUOCI, - I • JANUARY, 28, 1856. Ot . U - : - advie - e - s,which the mails transmits, laeklhiptratre. , -- Th6lllll for the repeal of I the '' Jug Law" his is pagecd ic second read: fug in the' gouse—but, this pa,ingeronly commences the discussion -of ns different clamics. There is no doubt that the Jug I.sw" will be repealed—but there-is some tioubt s sts to Thrprovisioes of the law which is 'acres aslkanbstitutc. LegishitiOn I this subject, is becoming stale—And the movements of the people show de ( they are it -eery-of its delay. EraorEAN KMITMATION.—The emigration at several important ports in tile United States during the last year is shout by the toilet - lug staterneni:• New „York - Boston Philadelphia - - - - 162,148 Arrived at quebec - - - • 21,2.74 Total • ...... • 183,422 This 1010Wi a remarkable diminution in the amount of emigration compared with the two or three previous years. The aggregate number who arrived at the four porta mimed is less by - nearly - 36;000 - than in trib — year 1854 at the port of New York ; and, in cat necticikwitb this - Net; it - muat be considered that the number of emigrants returning 'dur ing the last year waa Vey large, and ialike ty. to be Continued. Parstroarr Pilot= recently sent tato Con gress a special measage. relative - to the con dition of saairs in Kansas. The Philadel phia Natrona! Argue speaks of this docu ment, as calenlateri to attract attention, from the interest generally attachingtto Kamm affairs, and the ability and clearness with which the existing atate of things in that ,TLrritorytta' itrcsented. The Presirtt, dii-. clans I:tits _iliii,er4tiioat , iow _to .-tatteeise _the pPitiers with *Mel] he is clothed ]tire Con stitution, In preserving or..Kr.' and in enter tittg respect for the laws throughout the trrt'n:y. He rteointnends Congress to past in as to protect aw people of the Ttr ntory in the exercise .of their legal rights, and prepana the way for their early admix sion into the Union: lle finally closes by asking an appropriation, to 'mat; e him to take such no_sesur.a as will semi a as oh• strvance of the laws antl„promptl rspris3 say further disturbance. —rAn tflirtyill be made dur the present acasion of our Sta'o Legiala turc, to r.•pcal, or very cal - en:la:ly mo , lify the lax ; rda'.ing :to usury. Far several • s:mlar attempts have teen male, Which have heretofore bun unsucecsaul. To the rn dealers in large cities, thole laws are said to he onerou.;, and from them. apr;n3s the agitatnan of the sub :Act, The people or the country, who are opp•a,,d to-!aiing usu - Kous interest, arc sat. isifc•d with the laws tiT they now s'ani. Tlnirr,:preseu'atives iiPthe Legislature will snr ;.,„1,y..1444•1nkl playing into the hands of stoL: jobbers an•l money brokers, by voting fora law witi•th -will oppress thq poor WhiLL:G-P,t,44-40crnifil-44-141k-Wilathy bor.• dories. that a bill has been introduced into the ilia to .of Representative', fur the abolition of Olt office of County Suptrintend tilt of Common Scheols. ..We do moat sin cerely hope that the attempt may.miseartY, aimed as it is at the heart of the system, We should be pleased to see the office con tinued, and a law enacted requiring as apre requisite to eligibility to the office of School Director, d knowledge of at list the ikuli mentid an Engliith education. ' A CoXPLsSiole,7Ahe CilMinnontt Enquirer - hays that the Amerit.atr Organ 11:411A of its 'arty, that " not a sinzle Northern State stands upon the Philadelphia Platt - elm, and that "to ins - ISt upon an adherence by the party to a platform which three-fourths of the American party - hail rejected, in to insist upon dividing and destroying the party." If this confessioh of the metropolitan Organ of the Know-Nothings be true, then South ern Know-No - things have come to the jump ing off place." KNOW.NOVIIINO OBITLYART.—Min MCDOW. ell, the beautiful editor of the Woman's Ad vocate, in a very feW lactate, writes the obit uaryl;t, of the greet, eftakeeWhig party. We republish it as a s amen rot her womanly kindness. She ha :—"We always liked the Whigs and are sorry for their downfall. —They worn such good clOthes, booked so . . Llama*. and bore so good-naturedly their every defeat, that realty we hope they may hen' the luol attending Jonah under !plainer circus !! ~ i, - • flan DURINCI TUB LAST rtes.—The total" number of tires wilt& occurred in the United states, during the year 1 . 855, was 193; the amount at property destroxed_ has been esti. , mated at $13,04V,Q00. , Tbs somber or lives lost by gm during the par was 171. - • 136,i.'33 - • 18,313• ME .Lti or t both ' speeches in nce in the Ben 'he ref iracl men) *a _of the Nary-are here in great nuinbefi. They arc loud in their protestation( and it is more than likely-that a great many will be re-instated: In the Senate memorials from Thomas Ap Catesby Junes and othesi, was discussed by Messrs. Mason, Benjamin, Clayton, Mallory, Seward, and others. It may not perhaps I . .ii . genrrally known that, during the present unorganized condi. Lion of the Ilornie of Representatives, no money can be drawn from the United States Treasury, for the paymerit of members of that branch of Congress. In this condition of af fairs, A. J. lilocsbrenni•r, Esq., the Sergeant" at arms of the late Uouae, and who is still acing in that : capacity, hating :tars applied to by diem bers 'of Congress foripouty to meet their pressing neer.tsitics, procured ninth from some of tkc Pelinaylvanisi bank.% on hi, own roponsibility; paying it out to than awl taking their receipts fur the same. The banktrs of Washivolwasnle from the bank.; the.nt..ely(a, have not loaned to Mr. Glass• brumer one dollar ; but the banleshave lib el-ally. This course of the S'2rgtant-at-army Las had the fffeet of di:prising tome of the brokers on the iventio of many a good, fat !'.arc, and causes much cJmi•laint among them. , Tlmao-ia-new duo to naetobfl, on tocount of per diem and miltagc, atour 290,00 D, of which, it is ba..l, Mr. tilossbr.ruit.r has la:(1 to them about ,so,ooa. f ' //4.0 :prop:4c; as union of the Ihmo. eras 4:11 Atrikri:ana upon the purdos atTe - Jting an or ganization of the. Muse. The Democrats to return Mr. Qrr u their candidate for Spta ker, upon their ylatfoim, and the .11m.ricarta. ali) to um: Lime 4r: Orr a..; their candidate, at the sarn , 4 time to r‘ :Winn tluirown plat form . with the, mitclAs&Aathag ntittar make a iy . conmaJtiotava prineiplta , u hile co • ting for the candidate, Liur.L.—A libel suit waslate ly tried in Phila lelph'ia, and tcrininat t d in a mintier which cannot Let otherwise highly solisraetery to newsi,aper publishe'rs throughout the country. •Iu this suit, a Mr. Donnelly was the plaintiff, and the Yluladel- Phi& led/ffer the tielkndant. .Tha-jury-ria: seised ihe damages to Mr. D.'s character. from the publication of the alleged libel, at eat dollar. We allude to the case solely with the view of bringing prominently before the public the principles laid dtrwn in the judge's charge to the jury. His honor said : Ths ptaintiff is charged with haring driven was I ills l_wife whir viol:mare from - his Immo, While abe n an advanced mate of pregnancy, and *Obeid even the poor excuse which might arise from Intoxieation The only real question under them circumstances Is, sat whether thin charge, nnexplalned and justified, is 'a libel, but %bother there hi- enough to explain and Itisfify it. One thing which meets neat the threshold ad, Inquiry Is the posithm of the delendatife as editors of a newspaper. One rule, wicaloh may be stated without fuer of tiontradnitiou ts, that the editor of a public:lr Journal limy tell the truth In all eases without fear of the ocutsfivammes, and that, while ho does s,, he cannot be made an- I swerable Ina civil proceeding, nor, indeed, any where, unless on the gmund of moliee, or a wanton IVerference with (tie comfort and happinom of oth.. " Au assertion that another hies modes statement true, if ho ben made it; anti yet; If that state. anent be falee'and libellowl, the truth will not pro. tout those who repeat it. This holds good of tlie editor of a newspaper, is Welt a. of all - Mhor parsons, WO% law lola look to the substance, which is untrue, and-not merely to the form, and will consider the origfaal wrong its aggravated and repeated by him who gives It currency. Hence a newspaper cannot juetify the repetition of &misstatement, on the ground that ft was derived from another person, whose name to or to not miird.loncid, however true it may be that he extetlly made It . , v , " bloradsmatr=r, Deniecntiie ..tiams.tzia ups IT :— The Barnwell (South t he of - ftlo4l, MIA. at' Carolina) Sentinel of Saturday says: the 21/t inst., and affehetettllthote. 10 "An &Tray 4kccurred a few to ahie the 4th of March Coaventiow •1141.1***5 plate, on Monday evening 114, between'Sarn. were passed instructing' the Delegates is Op uel Jorcoat 4 and Thomas Gray, Tho former rof llon..Zinitga Buchausis, for the Bonit o; was severely subbed, and the latter, it is dewy, and non. Jacob Fryar., kr Auditor said, horribly Mangled. Wo hive not bee Cleua ral • , .•Also approvinrci.nt.pe copesse_ist able to lcarzytho • partiouJars connected wil l , r ' John , Claiwalegier, .:ii • 001 11Poia,./0 the Ciab i!,edgfoiit t4l:ftaxitori soli iyiyi , ' 10;0104,140411g lip*. • *V&A ; liiight e ppen. ...a liiittor wia the itiatigitOr." • ' • ; hie eleetiolt.to • the Vhitedlilteteathim.,.:., *IOW 0 Ilk G 111141114 AL Now& • it r A good dray horso•iirt alt(ornia, costs 11411. - -• .• . . , „,07There aro 40,000 fugitive " niggeran in Canaria. rr.ffie popuLd- , —;ostag 'Kansas in estimated at 70,000. • f&The taxable inhabitants of Ponnsylvvk , nia, in 11355, 4rure1i65;1•66. • -..--- • When once infidelity tin, men, that they is like WM," •., -• soda he b c ‘0.400/ illtsaitsishi j cs i d. " 7 ---051wAn ' nisea - band of hbrso thieves „introbeen discovered and broiren.up in West tnotaand county . ' V—The Cambria , Iron Company employs fifteen hundred men. to-Petitions arc pouring into the Legis lature for an increase of the ply of Jurors. [l:7ln Pickens' data; Christmas and New Year's story, "The pony Trte Tim," be RC knowledges that the-Americans are alind, generous, large hearted Mid great people. !I:7'Th° enemies of the Democratic party, 'kind souls, are very much alarmed lost that party should pursius a course that may lead to - its defsatt - (I(7'Tho Lena Nears tells a good story of two boys' one of whom was boasting of the beau ties of his father's house. "It s got a cupo, la," said he, "and it's going to have some- thing else." "What is it?' asked his in - Waited ooMpanion. "Why, I heard father" tell mother this morning, that it's going' to have it mortgage on it !' - • g7"An effort to breath life into the defunct carcass of Know-Nothingisin, woe _recently, made in Harrisburg. Messrs. Casey and Kunkel were the operators. Ip was, how ever, too late, the animal belngtiyond retinal tation. (17'A good housekeeper will keep the house bright, the family cheerful And the larder full. jy The Post Boy who carried the mall on the .Coffee Run route, was frozen to death, week before last- It appears ho had become loSt,and being 'unable to extricate himself from the drifted snow, perished. 11:77 "Sonny, what are wages here?" i•Don't know." "What does your father get on Saturday night ?" "Tight as a brick." (j7During the past year, 72 persons over 70 years of itge - diediii Proridefico DPI letter front Argati,ln - the ,Suisse of Berne, says—" The prison in Baden; in this canton, has just been destroyed by tire. Out of 73 prisoners, 15 are mitarng, most of whom, it is supposed, •have perished ;,ti the flames." (r7Senatof Bigler, baying been solicited by the Kockholders of the Sunbury and Erie B road company, to continue in office tab President, has consented to do so, and to devote to the company all the thin .can spare from his new duties at Washington. little one, after undergoing the disa• greeable operation of vaccination, exclaimed: " Now L won't have to be baptised, ?" Ir7Dttrjng a late rise in the Allegheny river, tUre came down on a raft to Pitt.- burg, from Warren county, one Mich/elide -Kinney, aged ninety-seven years. lie says ho piloted the first log raft from Warren to Pittsburg, sixty-eight years ago. - - .71 4 ,The Ohio I,l%i:dawn) have rejected a bill abolishing_eapitaL punishment. Motlcy lett. of Potter county, is named as the Democratic candidate for Surveyor General. 7 : The Tee in the Lehigh river is thlelser than it has been fur fifty years: 8o says the oldest inhabitant.. fooPennvyirania now priMaces u much' iron as was manufactured' n Great Britian thirty yearn ago, and of a quality that tun parry very favorably. g 7. My wife," gays a eiltic , Nis one of the most rtfff-tt unierLd m oinou in the world: She is alwa) '4 mad." ry"Mrs. Mary Diller died at Gardiner. Ile., on the klt,h -jnat., asect-sof buldrai ycara auarsi x months. trrA State Itlii;Lary C.Uventioo-avaalitdd in Ifsr..isburg on :%I.rndsy last, and adopted resolutions rt rummy nding n Dell to be Tamed by the Legisimure for n bettir regulation of nolhury Hrs . ( m in tins State. - '1,411( . .1a Mt s hi longing lo' the Catholic Chur:li, in Pittsburg. lat. ly held a fair, real• Izing-oeir $5OO. which amount was applied to chari. able purposes. - -, ‘ - "Stiward /blillir, Ilsq,, the Chief Erigi. nccr, has be en ilected President of the North Pt imaylvaide Railroad, in place of -Thomas Ft inoi_ t t Esq. The cont cat was II watna„sine• fr_TeCsual Roapp. the !eat survivor of Washington's Life Guard, died at Newburg, N. Y. on the IQ;h inst., aged, 89,yeani. 71 .".7 : A farmer, in Grecubu i N.Y., keeps: w 1 Shangliae chickens in his o .. tinira for the pur po of frightening away, fogs and Know- No'hings. • . / :17'The linoyv -Nothing organs. like the party, ere gradually sinking into oblivion. The Will ainsport l'resa, "Ur a 'sickly *xis term; has given tip the ghott. Peaattille ashes. f177 - The Bliffiin county Teachers' Institute wttl hold a County. Copv,ettipn. iP l,fwia to on the 31st of January and War Fete. miry- nut. . . - I.ollc Hand (11l ) Armts, ht ro joicing nier the &Ad of a candidate for a Juilgtahip Michigan, says " Marl- who will to a newspaper four or flvo_years and rrfoar - to r for ft.ls - CsWiors - & - norter had it. th serves &Gat." .food sit:flirty degreta *low zero at S. Paul's, Slinneseta, on the '2l.h fi . thic of the Presbyterian Churches in New Orleans oilers the Rev. Dr. Rice. of $l. !7000 per annum, if.lia will boom their pastor."' (1,-The Rearing Adierjut week entitell upon its sixtieth year. This is a greet 'age for a newspaper to attain, but not too neat for such an excellent paper ail the Ea lii. May it long continuo to teach the dootrines of the good old Democratic. party to the poo• pie of .' old lkrk,." •117' In case the next Presidency should be thrown into Congress, and the States should role as they stand at resent gieff Amid. in, 11 t i tinadtatic 4 7 ll- Repablican. Know' Nothing and two tie. (I:7°A. bill to establish s new bank In Hat risburg, to be • called sorbs State Capitol Bank, has been otlized in the Legislature. Thu capital gook,* Ozed at $150,000, with the firlyiloge of increasing the same to $500,10). oubordinate <Aeon of Congreso hare received no l pay since the beginning of the scsairap. They amount to About ono hundred in'tiurnbei. I,l3•The citizens of Lancaster have raiiid 161,000 for the relief' of the poor of that city : the money has been pissed in the handl of the Union Dorcas Society for dis tribution. ITY.Tho Whitt de cided that-Mr - Alrbrney Je not by taw Cie* of the Houso, and thiee he canrith draw money thin the. Treasury for say other pur pose-thiui is'essential to the conducting ' I of the business of the House pentUrig MN* zation. • -
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