•
, • from Se COWIN ssestswas
Dred Scott in the Legislature.
The Republicans of our State Senate
got; up a string of bunkum resoluttonli
in reference to this casa, which were
referred to a committm. the majority of
whom male a report at once demolish
ing the Supreme Court, the Democratic;
party,- the whole South, and waking!
JEITERSON an abolitionist and the lk
daration of Independence an abolition
document. The Democratic portion of,
the committee, however, made a minori
ty report, exceedingly able and over-
wheliningly conclusive against the abo-
lition eg,itators. It is from the pen of
Senator Virittsti, one se' the ablest young
Democrats in the latute. We quote
front the report : .
0
It is clear and conclusive that - ours
was designed to be a government of
white men.' It was not intended by its
founders that any other class, or race,
..shoald ever be permitted to control its
destinies." The report is eloquent
while referring to the past history of
the country, and the evils which a de r
parture from the piinciple stated above,
would entail upon our national fat ,
and says that " to protect ourselves
oar posterity from such -alarming re
salts, we must carefully guard against
the causes which certainly would pro•
doce them. This can only be done I),N
placing a barrier, wide and impassable,
between the two races now in conflict,
and such we hold to be the true merit of
the recent des on of the Court , which
in its future nplication and develop
ment will amply shield us from.the 414-
gers to which we have adverted. How
ever much we may regret the unfortu
nate condition of the colored race, we
cannot, in oar examination of a ques
tion fraqgtit with so much interest,
lose sight of the great truth that self
preservation is the first law of nature.'
To, admit the citizenship of the negro,
is to plebe him, without limitation, upon
the same equality with the white man.
Its ultimate effect would be to see the
African and his descendants blustering
• around the polls in the exercise of the
same laestimablepririleges now enjoyed
by the great Caucasian race, and per
haps a few years, would - exhibit .the
startling spectacle of colored represen
tives occupying the same seats now so
respectably filled by a majority of yi r
committee."
Near the conclusion of the report,the
author thus disposes of the attempt to
drag Thome Tefferson in as authority
for opposing the Dred Scott decision:
4 The majority of the Committee have
insulted the memory of Thomas Jeffer
soirby invoking his great name, and
quoting his Commanding authority, in
favor of the treasonable sentiments con
tained in the resolutions as reported.—
In this, they have only imitated the
gross want of candor; which has so re.
oentlTpermitted the opposition to justi
fy 'their feeble attacks upon the Consti
tution and the Union, under the sanc
tion of the great men of the Revolution
who labored so successfully to establish
both. The majority have quoted the
language but not the meaning of Jeffer
son • for upon reference to the letters
&nal which their garbled extracts hiive
been taken, it appears that the illustri
ous founder of Democracy was inveigh
ing in eloquent and forcible terms against
that growing spirit'of centralisathin, of
Federal assumption of power, which,
from the days of the Virginia and Ken
tucky resolutions of 1798 to the present
time, the Democratic party has strenn
oasly resisted, and never so successful
ly as in the recent Presidential contest.,
when the disregard of State rights and
strict constitutional construction was
carried by the Republican party to the
most dangerous and treasonable ex
tremes. The opinions of the Supregie
Court which Thomas Jefferson then de
precated, seemed to lend the sanction of
that high tribunal to Federal interfer
enee in purely State affairs. But
el• Imp
for the perpetuity of this Union,
dooms forebodings have not been
justified by the result. For not only
the Supreme Court itself, controlled by
wiser and more mature counsels, but
the Federal Government, with aft its
power and influence, has recognized and
sustained to the fullest extent the doc
trine of State rights, and placed upon
safe and unassailable grounds the great
principle of popular sovereignty in the
Territories—in itself only an extension
and ieceasary application of the former.
And if the immortal sage of Monticello
were now alive and in our midst—if he
could witness and dwell upon the proud
triumphs of the Democratic party, - so
true, so constant, and so faithful to the
COnatitution as it came from its framers
—his dark presages as to Federal en
croachments would give place to pro
phetic visions of the permanency and
grandeur of this Confederated Re
public."
The report concludes with the fol
lowing eloquent paragraph :
"The minority of your committee
have no fears that the recent decision
of the Supreme Court of the United
States will not be sustained and upheld
by the eaha good sense of the American
people. In the outburst of defeated
sectionalism, tones of denunciation may
be hurled against it by the party whose
hopes it destroys, and whose principles
it overwhelms. But in the future, as
in the past, the great mass of the peo
esenewill be true to it, as they have ever
to the Union and the Constitution.
And if ever the broken fragments of
Constitutional liberty strew our path
way, it will be in that fatal hour when the
strength and binding force of the judici
ary shall be forever lost on the treason
able resistance of degenerate factions."
Riot at Bing Sing.—The details of an
extensive conspiracy and attempted es
cape of the convicts at Sing Sing prison
are given in the New York papers. At
breeMst time on Sunday morning,
about sixty of the prisoners, having
kaookod down the guard, formed in
two parties, one of which made for the
river and the other for the village.
They were pursued, and after a shot
chase every one of them was captured.
No one was seriously hurt In the me
lee.- The conspiracy, however, was not
twined to the above mentioned gangs.
The remaining prisoners, at the conclu-
Akre of their breakfiust, and upon a pre
eoseorted signal give n, rushed upon the
keriser eirtwere beating him, when the
avert of the prison came to the rescue
diesdisim.od his pistols among the
eswAte. This had the Effect . quell.
lag the revolt. Quiet was • •
and panidunent indicted. e of
folvdere. . .
6.11. Son : nut the Know
evindidate for' Governor of
he Compirtr.
Z
H. J. STAIILE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
GETTYSBURG, PA
Monday Morning, May 25, 1867.
ffiltellTlC STITI 1111.11LNITIOU.
FOR 00111123014
WILLIAM F. PACKER, of Lyeoming
CANAL 0011.11111110 X 11,
NIMROD STRICKLAND, of Cheater
air President, BCrCHANAN . B health is
entirely ratored, and he feels now quite
confident that he lust completely over
come the National Hotel disease, which
caused him so muck physical pcpstrit
tion. He has abundant endurance for
the duties imposed on him by the peo
ple, for his full term - of office.
MiirAdviees from Lecompton, .Kan
sas, inform us that a nolle prosequi has
been entered In the case of Goy. Rain
son, indicted for treason.- This looks as
if the Kansas troubles were coming to
an end.
liirThe Legislature of this State ad
journed on 'Friday last. Good —but
an adjournment a month ago would
have been much better.
seN.lt is estimated that the amount
if money expended about the Capitol
at Harrisburg, to secure the passage of
the Main Liuu hill;exceeticd half a mil
lion of dollars 1 This furuishes the key
to the passage of this measure of rubbery.
-In the Senate, on Wednesday,
Mr. WALtOY read in place a bill to re-
Peal the act for the sale of the Main
Line; but a motion to take it up
was refused. The matter will now be
taken to the Supreme Court, and the
consummation of this gross wrong may
still be prevented.
The Legislature hai pitsexl a bill
for the establishment of Normal Schools
throughout the State. We have not
seen theeet.
.The Presitkint , contemplates a
country reffidenee during the extreme
best of the summer. Arrangements are
nearly compleV, we learn, for his tem
porary reside e, in the vicinity of
"The Soldier's Home," four miles from
the City of Washington. lie will go out
each evening, and return in the morn
ing to the White House, where he
will attend to business through the day.
iiirJORN W. BACOEIMAN, Esq., of thO
Frederick Citizen, has been appointed Ap
praiser General of Merchandise, at Bal
timore, Md., vioe Wm. P. Ponder, re
signed. Mr. Baughman i 9 a sterling,
hard-working, Democrat, and deserves
the appointment. lie is, besides, ad
mirably fitted for the post.
PORTIR, Esq., has become
editor and publisher of the Carlisle
Herald. He is a ready writer, and will
doubtless print an interesting paper.
Sudden Death.—Ms. Wm. Noble, an
old citizen of Carlisle, whilst in conver
sation with a friend, on Monday even
ing last, was suddenly seized with ap
oleXy and instanly expired.
The Kansas Aid Fiend.—Vermont
having utterly refused to pay over her
$20,000 to the sufferers of bleeding
Kansas, the New York Legislature fol
lowed suit, turning the cold shoulder
upon the recommendation of Governor
King, to appropriate $lOO,OOO for the
same object, and now the old Bay State
pauses. Massachusetts, during the first
days of the session of her august Leg
islature, went zealously to work on an
other 8100,000 appropriation, but her
Solons have halted and higgled, adopt
ed and re-considered, played possum
during the whole Winter and Spring,
and have at last fallen back on a 850,-
000 fund to be raised for the shriekers.
But doubts and innendoes are interposed
in reference to this sum, and the whole
thing is likely to fizzle oat.
Dred Scott.—This " cullud individual"
was expected to raise considerable ex-
citement in the political world. Mc-
Gregor, of the Beaver Star, thinks, and
8o do we, that he " won't do to tie to."
The Democracy have gained largely at
every election that has been held since
the Supreme Court decided his• case.
Our opponents will Dread• Scott morn
yet before the next elections are over.
They misled a ljrge body of the people
upon the Kansai - matter, bat the ques
tion has become too plain for farther
profitable use to the Know Nothings
and Black Republicans. The masses
know that the Democracy are right
upon that issue.
"There's no more work for poor old" Dun!
IThe Democrats of Ifichigan have
reduced the sham Republiasn majority
more than ten thousand votes. Fre
mont's majority in that State was 19,-
628. In Wisconsin, also, the Demo
crats have made largo gains In the judi
cial election.
se-Now is the time to clean the gut
ten and the Mimi.
Otu, ofthelMiett
Appealing alone to prejudice, and
conducting its operation* in sworn so
creoy, the /Know Nothing petty, as, it
rose. t hree years ago, threatened to nu- •
derma.. an,l crush out all c::.c.;.lng p.).
litieal organizations, and , ilcutly worm
its v.sy also into the c‘oci.ll body. for the
pnrprKe of deranging even that. In
nearly all the States, and counties, and
cities, and towns, they succeeded by
overwhelming majorities. They secret
tynomtnated, and secretly elected their
condi& tes,the opposition frequently not
even knowing who the K. N. candidates
were until after the close of the polls,
and the counting of the ballota had com
menced. Then they not only overbear
ingly boasted of their triumph; bid even
of tAe iSpiner in which it was tiecont
plished,4i-tAtough that species of low
canning was a comumnxiable trait in
the order.
This course, with their affected con
tempt for all opposition, no doubt, had
the desired effect upon the bigoted and
unsuspecting.
But there were exceptions—a not-to
be-forpttel few—to the list of Know
Nothing triumphs. The hand of jus
tice was still, here and there, successful
ly raised against the unholy pretensions
of this midnight conclave—and to the
eternal credit of Adams county be It
said, she constituted one of the bright
exceptions. Here, although contend
ing with a foe in ambush, and that foe
bound together by OATHS, and led on
by most unprincipled , partisans, whose
ardor was doubly kindled by the hope
of obtaining office, the Democracy suc
ceeded in electing a good share of their
ticket, and would have carried the
whole, bat for the vehement and plausi
ble denials on the part of Know Noth
ing candidates s that they had anything
to do with, or were in any way connect
ed with, or responsible for the doings of,
di+ order. Having been looked upon as
men of veracity before, many vo
ters, themselves honest and unsuspect
ing, gave them* their suffrages who
would have scorned them with con
tempt had they known the whole truth.
This noble struggle against intolerance
has been kept uv, by the right-thinking
of the county ever since, with increased
success. Know N?thingism, as a dis-
tinot organization, and under tha,
may not attempt a contest wl
Democracy again—for the reasol
UNTICZB cannot be secured to the
of the order by such a course,--b
may expect the self-same men to oppose
us under some other name—now under
that of "union of Americans and Re
publicans," and when this shall be found
to be utterly at fault, as was sworn Dark
Lanternism, they will naturally as
sume some other equally plausible, but
equally; deceptive, disguise.
That axy change in their costume will
avail them in their purposes, is not
probable. They are known, and will
continue to be remembered. That these
would-be "crushers-out" of civil and
religious rights may most assn redly re
ly upon--and they may as well take the
fact into all their calculations when
figuring out some new political dodge.
Apportionment Bill.
Both Houses of the Legislature pass
ed the following Apportionment Bill,
(as reported from the Committee of Con
forence,) on Wednesday last., By it,
Adams, Franklin and Faltoni make a
Senatorial district. Adams elects one
member of the House, as heretofore :
SENATORIAL. DISTRICTS.
The City of Philadelphia, 4 1 Dsophie sad Labium, I
Cleertet sad Delaware, I! Leaoseese, S
Illestgessery, PiAda ms ne*, 1
Sash.. I I , leashlle sad Pal.
Lehigh sod litarthempiess, I, too, .
1 Berta. I Seseeneet,Badfned sad Rut
Paheylkill. 1, tisedes. 1
Osehes. Meese*, Pike mid ,Illids. Cembeis sad Clear- •
lkes .ll e=terebsooklat. V
lerla sod enstereele. 1
Uses sod yeadeg, I lirestaierMaad lute Fayette I
italleell, i,llllrelmeba sal Aims% 1
liege, Pellet, Magma sad lailegbeey, .. 2
Mae 1 ipeatee sal letior, I
Ciletos.n i peilooke. Coale*tor...., Metope sod Tie.
sad Colas, I sew. I
st=orlleethosideeMsoil e Ms sod Crawford, 1
and Clessabia. I Clarion, James, lone
Cosolseised. Pen 7, Jul- i end Elk,L
ste old MW.. I
Moho emembetat liewatore, - le
RZFRESILIITATICE DISTRICTS.
Plell~ladEety, 1 Torte. . I
Delaware, Cs whetting sad Peery. 2
Cheeter. - Mato. I
Meolgomeey, irrashea sod FOWL I
leseetp, lloilierd aid Sairmart, 2
Iteettlasoptem. lisedisigisie,
Lehigh slid Cases% Male. 1
Maros aid 11k.% Doubt* 3
Wayne. lotbas, 1
Lemma, Berton .ad Ireotmot•-
•=B.ll leak
Fayette, II
I
Weasling. belliess,Ceiloos tireem. 1
sad .{allots, Wasdelsigtopi, 2
Loomis, sod Clishee, allambeay.
Costae, bearer sal Isetesee, 2
11111 Mis, Ilia Mer, I
Voles, bleat ma Jul. Manor sod Fess. ~ 2
ata. Marino sail Fames. 1
Northes •
I Jellil~e. Cleareetd, Ilk,
Moly WM, sad Mar" 2
Osepeeis, VCra.fs.d sad Keene, II
Latomem, Iltrie, 2
Deets, I Pother sad Tklwk, I
Laaaudorr. 4
labels dembee et lepreepetethee, 10$
iairlmmediately preceding the final
adjournment of the Leils!attire, D. A.
Finney was elected Speaker of the Son
ate. Mr. Finney 15, W. H. Welsh 13.
ter The Chapberebtirg Spirit propos
es Hon. JAMILB Niu., of that place, as a
candidate for a seat on the Supreme
Bench. Judge Nill is a sound lawyer, a
sterling deux)crat, and every inch a
gentleman.
miiir-On the 14th inst., a terrible hail
storm passed over Richmond, Indiana.
About 8,000 panes of window glass
were broken.
Mir The Merchants a n d business men
of Washington City are taking up a sub
scription of $lO,OOO, which will be paid
to any person or persons ascertaining
the cause of the National Hotel disease.
mi-The Delaware peach crop promi
ses to be more abundant than it has
been for many years. .
or The .Problem of a " Conaway
Farmer" will appear in our next.
ea-Answer to last week's Enigma—
ompiler."
lriPti . 16i -fro
The Harrisburg correspondent of the
Pkiladelplda Ledger—whose comments
apes the doings of our - State Lrgislatere
are distitiguithed Ibr their strict impar
tiahty--givcs us the following informa
tion st- , to the meow, by which the
pas
%age of the bill for the sale of the Main
Line of the Public Works, was secured.
If all that is so strongly hinted at, be ,
true--and there is scarcely any reason
to doubt it—this may be set down as
the most disreputableact of legislation,
in magnitude at least, which has ever
disgraced our Commonwealth.
Ihenussento, May l2th, 1857.
The amendments made by the Senate to
the bill fur the sale of the Main Line, were
idopaed by the/ Mouse, this morning. so that
1$ only tssedt the steetlon ofthe Execttive to
become a law. The most powerful lobby in
testate win Weight to bier upon the Lets
latare to leisure the passage of this bill, with
the sweeping eressyniin of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company boils all manner of taxa
tion, and it bail hem me weed with •
The inquiry will naturally miss, what pecu
liar interest eel the lobby have in the
of a bill which seems to be adapted entirely
to thirPenneylvania Railroad Company ? The
precise nature of this interest, or upon what
terms the contra* has been taken, is perhaps
only a matter of eciajestare. h k confident
1y inserted that the Male Line will be sold
first tr-em amoelatioe efiedirideals, who will
transfer it to the Pennsylvania Railroad Coen
panyiat a headmen advance, by erbielt means
they are to be mespeemated fur their exer
tions in procuring he passage through - the
Legislature. This soma= las some sober
of probability from the faci-tifill the third
section of the bill provides that in ease an as
seciadon of individuals parebase, they may
transfer their right to any Relieved or Canal
Company in the Commonwealth. If this is
not the precise way in which the powerful
lobby induenee is to receive a return for the
anxious solicitude with which they have
watched and guarded the passage of this
measure, it is eertain that-they are to derive
some compensation for their servioesJ No one
will pretend that disinterested patriotism, and
a regard for the financial prosperity of the
State, was the motive that controlled this
powerful lobby organisatiun. Outside influ
ences are rarely used on that side.
Sir •Gvv. Pollock, of course, signed the
bill, and has already advertised the
Line for sale, to take place at the Mer
chant's Exehango, in Philadelphia, on
the 25th of Juno next.
Wo are glad to perceive, hoirever,
that it is not likely this gross wrong
upon the Commonwealth will'be allow
ed as easy a consummation as its pro
jectors supposed. The Harrisburx--Pa
triot and Union, of Wednesday, says:
-e can do nothing to ar
will probably be made,
Avania Railroad CoMpa
ly be the purchaser—but
' right will undoubtedly
_- .0- 4e next Legislature, and
the question of legality may finally be
decided by the Supreme Court."
the Great Swindle.
, Th
1. /
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
are o f only to get the Main Line of
t Public Works, ibr $9,000,000, (which
,• not all to be paid for 40 years!) but,
/ by the provisions of the seventh section
of the bill, they also get "all the reser
voirs, machinery, Toconiotives, cars,
trucks, stationary engines, workshops,
tools, water-stations; OH-Itowee, offices,
stocks and materials whatsoever and
s -
wheresoever belonging or held for the
use of the same; together with all - the
right, title, interest, claims and demands
of the Commonwealth, to all 'property,
real, personal and mixed, belonging to
or used in connection with the same,
by the Commonwealth," into the bar
gain 1 In_addition to all this, they are
to be exonerated forever, from the
payment of tonnage tax, and their pro
perty from all other taxes for State T 1 nr
poses I finch wholesale robbery is with
out a parallel in history.
Frau tie didledelphis Breaks' Jour.id of Tuesday
Case of Judge Vonderamith--DeatA of
His Wife—A Seem of Great Distress.—
It, was reported yesterday that Judge
Vondersauth had been released on
$7,000 bail, having been originally com
mitted by Judge Kane, in default of
$B4OOO. Upon inquiry we ibund the
rumor untrue, that. there are efforts
being mad* by his ends to have the
bail reduced, with a prospect of success.
The Judge is still a prisoner in the
Debtor's Aiet Moyaniensing.
In connectio n pr with the present condi
tion of this alleged criminal, we might
here state that Mrs. Vondersmith died
at 'Lancaster, en Sunday afternoon, af
ter a painful and protracted illness.
She had been very ill for some time
previous to the arrest of her husband,
and when arrested he bade her a final
farewell, she was scarcely conscious of I
what was transpiring. She was gener
ally in delicate health, and recent do
medic troubles, no doubt, hastened her
death. The death scene, which occur
rod under peculiar circumstances, was
rendered still more painful by the dying
wife and mother giving premature birth
to a child a few moments before her
dissolution. Her brother, Dr. John
Leonard, had been committed to prison
for thirty days, the day previous, for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct,
but was released through the interven
tion of friends, in time to see his sister
die. Her husband and the father of
her three children, all old enough to
realise their situation , l y ing in prison
in Philadelphia, ch argedwith a high
crime, and the cries of the children
for parents both lost to them, altogether
presented a scone of sorrow and dis
tress rarely witnessed by human eye.
The house in which the family resid
ed is subject to a lien of $7,000, with
three years interest, which the govern
ment holds as an indemnification of the
forfeited bail, and the children are
therefore left not only orphans but
homeless.
When the information of his wife's
death was communicated to him yester
day, by a gentleman from Lancaster, a
Mr. Shrzeider, he appeared deeply af
fected, and shed tears. During the
whole of last night he constantly walk
ed his oell, and was frequently heard to
mesa. The decease of Ire. Vonder
smith appears to have been a powerful
blow upon his spirits. There are no
less than fifteen bills of indictment pend
ing against the Jude for hand and fbi
gory upon the United States Govern
ment, and if tried and oonvicted upon
all, his term of imprisonment could
be made to reach one hundred and fifty
years!
0 . •
When the House resolutions upon the
death of Mr. B. M. Prreaelte,
member front Liaoning county, ; , were
received in the Senate, on Satairday'
week,),lr. BREWER, the talented Senator
from this district, prononneed Use fol
lowing eloquent it`nd impressive eulogy
upon the'deceas'ed. Mr. B. said :' •
Ms. Sri cci bad not intended to
opso my lips upon the sorrows of this nlO 6lO- •
choly occurrence—and, therelbei, no temerity
of urine can clothe with grime er ortnlineo
the thronging emotions Inspired by theted
events of this day. Bat yet, whatever 1 may
say will be none the leas sincere, and shall
oome in the simplicity of feeling from the re
cesses of a stricken wart.—lndeed, I would
that 11 1 , mouth oould speak at this moment
from e fullness of the heart; but, sir,
mine i too full for utterance.. But a few
months ago this 'body was gilld . qpon to
plate in the stir sad 'bustle of deaf duty,
to mingle in the imposing rites which
the sorrow and the citilisaticin of the whole
world were perfonnitig at thetopening grave
of the young hero cif tits Islooliern Seas!
We were again in a aoll than summoned to
honored tomb of him whose counsel was
wisttiit-mul; whose 'voice wss eloquence—
him, whose grnius Illumined debate, and
whose smile inspired friendship—him whose
shrouded chile renewl day atter day the un
affected sentiments of sorrow and regret which
mourned the death and the loss of a loved
and distinguished ineMber of this brotherhood
of Senators. And now once more the angel
of deat6 - hrtstretelied the dark shadow of his
unwearying Whig oveCthe hopes and aspira
tions of these Halls. !loather of our breth
ren, in the mohring of life,• in the spring
time of 'nature as of hope, young, ardent and
generous. has gone down to the tranquil rest
of the narrow house of all earthly power and
all .human nmbition.-=-But still the world
lives on as if the earth contained no tomb ;
and yet, what spot upon its broad bosom,
beautiful ur barren, which is lot filled with
there sad and touohing memorials of buried
love and crushed affections? The chilly
snows of winter are at one time shoveled
away from some sterile place to make room
fur the little coffin of the dead—and then
1 1 again the tenderest violets of Spring which
decorate the sweetest- 'turf, and perfume the
evening winds, are torn aside to admit into
' its cold and silent hotne all that was once
gay. joyous and full of hope.
The hour at death is, the hour of all seasons
and of all clime.—
"Leaves hare their Um* In fall.
Mellower' to ',Ober at tie *orth what's breath ;
Led sten to eat—bet 411.0,
Theo haat all meow fur Odes ma, Oh ! death."
But, sir, what a' Ow contrast does this
mournful scene oC:bereavement and of anguish
present to the livlngzloty and brightness,
aye the gorgeous Edo of tin, sunny day of
full and luxuriant Spr rig. Nature stands in
perpetual loveliness , r ied in the trailing gar
mentauf pereuial you and beauteous smiles
—her cheek iadiant, and her eye all lustre
—her fair brow encizteled with the opening
blosounns and the soft tendert. of genial May,
and from her 'rosy lips, murmuring in har
monious music, the saver voice of gladdened
brook and whispering , winds. But upon her
go y , and iympathisingw, lean,in silence
l oso
and in sorrow, the de cate form of the lone
ly widow and the hear broken mother. The
weeds of deep mourni g are upon her. No
smile illumines her wain cheek—nn hope kin
dles her tearful eye—tides garland of springing
flowers decorates her pale forehead—no ear
ly row) blooms on her youthful breast. Her
yoke is the unstrung harp, and her heart is
thisilent ruins of desolated lore and bl.tated
hope. But even in thie bitter hour of dark
ness and of trial, the! young and bereaved
widow has one entailing source of comlhrt in
the children who withidr around her and nes
tle in her bosom--thei bright and endeared
images of her tarried husband, wok the fond
pledges of his uudyingi affection. Time may,
indeed, mellow the pangs of such a sore
affliction, but the !opic of years will only
brighten the cherished memory of his vir-,
tuffs and _ hip worth. May she, in this sea
'on of gloom and catemity, lean upon the
strung right arm of Him: who soothes the
weary and gives the troubled rest. May she
look to Him for consobition, in faith and in
oonfideneP, who is the lather of the fatherless
and the God of all the wiirld. Ido not come
to pronounce a sou cling eulugium upon
Joey B. M. Prrittxxx, but in the simplicity
of unaffected grief, to ',ear my humble testi
mony to his manly virtues, his high talents,
and his stainless name. And I would in
dulge the pleasing lu4pe that he has gone
from this scene of cares and of trial—this pil
grimage of tail and of sorrow -10 the calm
rest of a brighter, a beer, and a haler world
--a world of unfading beauty and perpetual
joy. where loaves never fall, flowers never
w+, and stars never
4
The, N. mons.
aho state of . s , • - iti Utah is worthy
o more than m , • passing thought,
and we doubt not, &fit the President
and Cabinet are giving it their most se
rious consideration. 1 _
There seems to be but ono opinion en
tertained in referenee to the disgraceful
polygamy pnichied by that deluded peo
ple under the guise, of professed obedi
ence to piety_ and' religion. Against
this debasement of human nature, it . is
assumed the general government should
s i t
interfere its strong rub, and compel a
surrender to the • I laws recognized'
by all ehristendom. But how shall the
object be accompliiihed r. We are not
surprised when wel look at the diffi
culties to be surmounted, that the gov
merit his been cautious in the matter.
We hear that the Mormons are strong
and defiant ; that they have enlisted in
their cause large and powerful bands of
Indians, with the expectation of being
confronted by the general government.
We find them strongly entrenched hun- 1
dreds of miles away from their frontier
settlements.
That there exists a necessity for de
cisive measures,we presume is not ques
tioned. Brigham Young has doubtless
been acting with a high hand. Bat it
would not do, remarks the West Ches
ter Jeffersonian, under the circumstan
ces, for the government to move in the
matter without being largely prepared.
The approach to Utah, by an efficient
army, would cover a period of months,
and months again would intervene be
fore supplies could roach them. And
what, in the event of subjection !
Would the tide of emigration set, it suffi
ciently stnong to overwhelm and secure
by a preponderating influence an obedi
ence to the civil and social arrangements
we venerate? or would it be necessary to
keep a large and powerful force in con
stant active service, hundreds of miles
distant, to compel the obedience of an in
fatuated people to laws which they
religiously defy? These are some of
the points involved.
However, the country may rest con
fident in the wisdom and patriottsm of
the great man who guides the helm of
State. He will be seen to move at the
right time, and in the right way.
-The Democrats gai ne d a g l or i ous
victory in Quincy, 111., on the 4th inst.,
by electing their mayor, and the whole
of tho other ticket by two hundred and
fifty majority.
stir Dr. Hays, in his lecture, mention
ed of having seen an iceberg which con
tained 435,006,000 pond of lco--more
than is used in ono year by the civilised
world.
IMEI2I
ocal
The Rd` lrosd.
;We;have the . oratification of inform
rig our readeS that eare-
Von of the pe r
ttysburg the
Railroadly com ,
(copin
uertirtuthis pittee-witit Hanover, via
New Oxford,) may now be looked for.
Weikru assured that responsible capi
have made propositions to the
Board AT Directors' to tale all the Bonds
of the Company at a stipulated price ; but
/ before definitely arranging with theee ,
igeemen, it is the wish of the Board
our citizens an opportunity . to
secure Bonds, and thus realize the ad
vance which the Bonds will most &sour
edly..comnuind upon the completion of
the Toga, if not before. That the La
, vestment will proinfs safe and profitable
one, we do not, entertain a doubt; and,
to try our faith, if anybody has a thou
sand dollars to trust a Printer with the
loan of, at six per centum, let it be for
t warded to thitiestablishment, and it will
I be risked in Gettysburg Railroad Bonds
' instanter.
In the meantine, the Board of Di
iectors have oali s N succeeded in their
arrangements for the disposal of the
Bonds, as to warrant them to contract
for Iron, and they are accordingly ne
gotiating fora sufficient quantity to lay
the entire track. This is good newel
An article from . the Philadelphia
North American, given in another col
umn, is just' now specially interesting,
in this locality. Read it.
Chinese Sugar Cane.
We learn from the Valley Spirit that
the Chinese Sugar Cane is likely to re:
ceive a fair trial in. Franklin county.-
A good many farmers have planted the
seed, in. small quantities, with a vie* of
testing itaj 'merits. 'Mr. piekey, near
Mercersburg, who cultivated a patch
last season, is putting in twenty-five
acres.
We suppose that there is a considera
ble, quantkty of the seed in, our owp
county, received from various sources,
in small parcels, (don't. think D. F.
Robison, M. C., should have much credit
in the premises,) and we trust• a fair
trial will lAs.mado of it. The present
high prices of " sweetanin's" indicate a
stern necessity for the cultivation of
more cane,aud it is highly probable that
the Chinese variety is the very thing
dempndod by the times--suitable, as it
seems to be, to a more northern soil and
climate.
A small patch of the Sugar Cane may
be seen in the garden connected with
the Cemetery grounds, during the sea•
son, 111:1148 theseed should entirely &U.
Now Cents for Old Ones,
The Director of the Phikulelphia Mint
is authorized to exchange new cents for
old ones, and has arranged with the
I Express Companies to forward the new
coin of the cost of tho Mint, to all con
venient points on or near the Atlantic
coast. We hope our business men will
rake up their old coppers and have a
lot of "nickels" forwarded to Gettys
burg in exchange.
The editor of " Graham," speaking o
the new cents, which are composed
chiefly of nickel, says: That as the old
soldiers wore called "coppers," the now
recruits should be known as nickels,
which in time would no doubt be Con
tracted to " nicks." If a second batch
were issued, we should then have old
nicks and young nicks, and if a fellow had
tb dive very deep into the corner of his
pocket to get tie, he might say "Nix
come arouse." r
Fires in .11.41cdning Counties.
The oisich-nuiker's shop of Wu.uus
Snazzvs, in Westminster, Md., was de
stroyed by 'Bre, about four o'clock on
Sunday morning, the 17th inst., Ogee's.;
er With several carriages,. and a lot of
tools. Ilia dwelling was also damaged.
toss 112,000—n0 insurance. Supposed
incendiarism.
On Monday night, about .midnight,
the barn of Mr. JOHN AiLIWAT, near
Rocky Spring, in Franklin county, was
consumed. Nine homes and a colt per.
ished in the flames, together with all his
(*vs, wagons and whatever else the
barn. oontain h. Origin of tiro not
Stated.
One of the stables at Carlisle B a rracks
was burnt on last Monday evening, to
gether with a quantity of hay and straw.
Loss $5OO. A soldier has been arrest
ed, suspected of setting the building on
fire. '•
Hog Cholera.
The Chambersburg Spirit says tho
hog cholera is prevailing in some sec
tions of Franklin county. At all events,
considerable loss has been experienced
from a disease among tho swine in the
sonth-western part of that county.
Several ho o have died in this vicinity
from a disease Veared to be something
like the cholera; but it should be borne
in mind that swine have from time iTn-
Inemorial died from other diseases, and
may die from oth r diseases still. -
Ile .The York '•_ le says that the
complimentary cotillion party, given by
the "York Quadrille Association," to
Mr. Lyn L. MILD, at Washington
Hall, on Thursda, t everning week, came
off in handsomcritYle- Notwithstand
ing the incliniener of the weather, a
goodly number of les and gentlemen
were present, who • I lit on the light
e wee small hoias
themselves heurti-
I • is doubtless de.
fantastic toe until
of morning, enjoyii i
ly. The complitad
stirred by Mr. Arn
" • . • : . •
DORM
afters.
It is mentioned as a noteworthy
fact, (and we print it for the bene.
itt. of 'sick, persons in this quarter as
may still - be weak in Railroad fkith,)
that the eight counties in Virginia im
mediately penetrated and influenced by
the ,Kiminia and Tennessee Railroad,
viz: Bedford, Roanoke, Montgomery,
Pulaski, Wythe, Smyth, Waahington
and Scott, show . an increase in val , i• • -
of $9,376,669, their aggregate land val
ued in 1850 having been $14,446,059, and
Wing $23,822,728. The adjoining,
counties, which have been more remote
ly influenced by the road, show a like in
crease, and give with those named, a to
tal increase of $30,000,000. The WM
also is true with almost every other
prominent line of railroad in the oven.
try. h
Prom the ?Madelphts Noe* Anodes.
ROM from Philadelphia to Par
k ersbur g.
When, OD a \- floctent .occasion, we took the
opportanitf to .peak of the progress made by
the railroad connection through southern.
Pennsylvania, our information was neesesari
ly imperfect, as the existiug . maps af f ord IHN
stifficient intelligence respecting the location,
purposes, or developments of the variant mil
-1 wa y lines. A communication from an intelli
gent {puree, to which we have already given
I p u blicity, adds something to our knowledge
of the eubject, and we have no doubt that the
artiotelwino read with interest by all concerns.
ed in the 'settlement of the district referred
to. That stio s wed the new through line to the
Ohio river to be, sa we guessed, along the
Itouling,Lebaapn Valley; Cumberland Val
ley. and Pittsburg and Connell' T i Ile Railroad*,
which !brings it much nearer to outuidetion
than attybody has imagined.
But we have received another ceremonies
tion, Irom a friend in Gettysburg, Adam*
olont , which places what we termed the
1 Eastern Division of the line through the
southdrn counties in alt entirely . new light,
and
teed
it to be of unexpected importance.
We o we
the connection from Philadelphia
as fair (west as Hanover, and said that a-rail
' road WM projected from Hanover to fiettyri...
I burg. I We now learn from the' letter referred
to dui this latter road is nearly all graded, .
and 11, during the summer now near at
hand. are the track laid and he in running
order. West of Gettysburg the connection
exten , not to Chanibersburg, as we sup
posed,' ut in a southwesterly direction to the
Mary 41 Staieliae, the Gettysburg Railroad
1
Company having a charter to esteud their •
road to that point, and tor that purpose to
take, Use and occupy forever the unfinished '
State yailroad, which was projected and grad
ed about the years 1536-7. This privilege
wag oanted to the company, by an act pass
el the Legislature at the session of 1556. All
the engiueers who have traversed end ex
amined this section of country, say chit this
old railroad was really the most practicable
route i mew the Smith Mountain to connect
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. So
far fn deserving its reputation of being in
,toler4ly crooked snit impracticable, it is
likely to come into gresit and important ser
vice as part of the through route west from
Philadelphia, to and over the Parkersburg
line. Upon this abandoned road the, State
expended about ' ,000 nits% of Gettysburg,
and his Meat to the Maryland line, and '
r ,
graded for abou ten miles of the route. It
posses' near tho town of Waynesboro'. By"
the Stiite of Maryland a charter Was granted
to continue the railway across the territory or
that Commonwealth to the town of Hancock,`
on reaching which point it will only tie impe
nded from the Italtinlore and Ohio Railroad
by the Potomac river. The connection here
by a bridge will be easily mat's.
This is the line by why of York and Hand
over. But there is an objection to that, P.
ing from the fact that a portion of is 4
the Northern Central Railroad, a Dila ire
work lending northward, and which holdran
awicoard position in an arrangement fors
through business. But a much shorter, and
indeed the shortest line fur a railway,eia
Columbia. York and Getty sburg, to the moutlis
west, would be furnished by a direct road.
from York to GoUroburg. • From • York to
Oxford, Aduma county, a distance of eighteen
miles, la route for a railway has bees iins ley
engineers, over a very favorablecountry, trod
the osstilf grading estimated at 55,500 . per
mile. At Oxford it would meet the Getty,-
burg Railroad, which rutyth rough that place.
So that the building of this, link of eightem
miles i elope to be provided for. This could
complete an air line road from Colombia to
the Maryland line.' .
A connection with the Baltimore and Ohio -
Railroad, by this route, would give Philadel
phia a large interest in the trade coming aver
that, great avenue. It would afford me a'.
thorough route to Wheeling, and thence along
the Central Ohio roam many points not now
reached by oar line. It would open the new .
road to Pittsburg and the Connellsrille route,
and give us access to the trade of the Youghio
gen, valley. The Cumberland coal and iron
region, now solely tributary to Baltimore,
would then be accessible to us. The North
western Virginia,"or Parkersburg Railroad, '
would then be ores much interest to as as to
Baltimore, affording us an approach to the
trade of Western Virginia, which we do not '
now enjoy. Tho progress of this undertaking
will develope other advantages not now so ap
parent; but these we have named are suflielent- '
' ly important to direct attention to the enter
prise, and secure fur it the good wishes and
substantial aid of Philadelphia.
riirßev. D. WILSON is about to return
to Liberia, to continue his - missionary
labors. Mrs. Wilson, who has accom
panied him heretofore in his labqrs of f
love, remains with her friends. Many
kind Wishes attend him.
W® -The new equipments of thcio •
dependent Blum" are quite da iatscrve
meni, adding greatly to the erppsaraneip
of the turn-out. The Company- has 14
solved to spend the next 4th of July KT:
Chninbersburg.
Area PASTON will offer a SUM •
of valuable Timber Lots at public sale •
on Aittnrday next.. Positive sale. gbe
advertisement.
sel..T. P. Bridegam' , who recently
created a sonatina in Beadings•Pt‘p . iff
making arrangements to establish a
daily paper there, and then vanish
t'
hs had run up some pretty i=
sive bills, has been arrested in Model
phis, and taken to the Berks eonntyjall.
He has, it is said, been galltY
rascally aeta of nearly a simflir khid;ln
Erie and in Pottsville, as well as in'
Lebanon and in Daiiphin enmities.
itirThe census states, that , iirlinies, s
one out of every, fburteen free coiseed
persons VCRS insane. In Vlcginfo,thiS't
wee at the time but one inianeshrilnift:
of every thirteen hundred. i
MO - Somebody says if “Winballiegoo
in the lap of Spring," itrunatr 14ft AO!
a wet seat daring the Tge
Yes, and cold toes into the,
aei.:The, editora 7 of #lO
Pally Times announce
feT 55,000 reward for 'Worm**
will lead to the detection
of the Barden Viordaili Off
Fl/1