= Ft o El IE.II. lipiills, IBillior sod Proprietor. GETTYSBURG, P 1 *Ow Morning, mapab 22, Isbs, 011OCRATIC STATE TICIVT. Koss or irrltlntE COCIIT, WILLIAM A. rORTER, of Philadelphl3, CAILL COYMISSIONII, WTALEY FROST, of Fayette county, stir Senators BarwEß Ong BucKm,zw, And Mows. WILL, TURNER and JACK NA N, of tho House, have our acknowl *dotage fur Legislative favors. The Washington Union. --Cornelius Wendell, Esq , has become the proprie tor of this journal, in the place of the hoe. W. A. Hama. It will ;cm none of its high charsctor in the hands a its new proprietor. Gay's Lady's Book, for April, is apowour table—its varied contents rich in interest as usual, if not n little more so. The " Book " is an old favorite, and well deserves the place it holds intim/Wet:dons of its thousand readers. Peterson's Magazine, fur April, is al io ostotoul does credit to its enterprising publisher. Its Utmry matter, engrav ings, ke., are of the first water. Tilw Pire iJitjiop Loan.—The propo sals reeeived,fo g i the issue for - any por tion, or the whole, of the fire million dollars in Treasury notes, in exchange for tisegokl coin of the United States, trereopened at Washington on -Ifonday. The total amount bid was $7,447,000, as Mows : $7,000 at 31; $lO,OOO at 31; sB4BAost 4; $500,000 at 4} ; 11314 at 41;14,887,000 at 5; $50,000 al s} ; and •81,100 at 0 per cent. It will thus be observed that much of the wholo amouut was taken at less than 5 per cent. 'Erne Topeka Constitution seems likely to dio a natural death. An ad -dremi of a joint commii tee of the Tope ka Legislature says, for want of a quor um the Legislatare has adjourned, and the members refer back to the people the question whether the Constitution is Ent The decision will probably be —very dead. allirThe United States• Steam frigate Niagara sailed On Saturday for _Eng land, there to take on board one-half of do Mitotic Telegraph cable. She is to•taks ose-half the cable on board, and an English ship, (probably the Age menition,) will take the other half. The two ships will then proceed to mid-ocean, where they will unite two ends of the cable, and then one steam ing for England and tee other fur Amer ica, will occupy but half the time in Crying the whole which would be re -quired in the attempt to commence at the English coast and proceed continu ously to this. The chances of fair weather during the process will thus be doabkd. Tho time occupied, after the vessels part from the startmgpoint, wilt, if no accident occurs, be about 16V1P0 or eight days in reaching the two shore.. The Niagara will probably return to this country in August. iirThe Santa Fe Gazette says that the chief of the Salt Lake and Utah In diens bad visited the Dapetre Indians in Mexico, with a view to induce them to join tho Mormons, stating that the Mormons could poison the air, so that their enemies would die, and that all tho troops of the government would be destroyed. The mission was unsuccess ful. • Kit Carson had concluded a treaty between the Matadi e 13 tabs, Arapahoes and Pt/whines. They agree to take side with the United States in the event of an . issue between them and the peo ple of any Territory, and to render all the aid they can towards suppressing rebellion. /fall doubt as to the election of the Free Stafe ticket in Kansas has boon removed by recent information from ;hat Territory, and. therefore Mr. _4..4lisout has declared his intention to give ixortificates accordingly. 11111rEdward P. Weston, of Provi dent*, R. 1 rwas skating on Jamaica Por.d, when he broke through the ire and fall ktiO t e water beyond his duptla. .1143 had rionutined in this situ istioraosue Ivo minutes clinging to the edged? the ioe for support, when his perilous petition was observed by Miss Ailunbur o iaYeang lady residing in Rox bury, who immediately hastened to his apipligiosi and *Weeded in rescuing Airis itkoss .. a, watery grave. Of coarbe -irstil heirs 44 imam the girl. .4,,Arspia* Killed.—Rev. Jacob =raider, well known .throughout the ja s Mienno‘kit preacher, WAS 1 1404,4eretator tcrty, on Monday, atagiiiMMODlre a. linat a uee Ws moo was 4111111514 in cutting down. :i! • lama yot:baliethiper. 1110, ji tt i lt oar , b 4 " - 40101" • WAVING ITB EIWINTine. The Chambersburg " — "rr` r 4PY st —We don't think the ben: wonis ad r dressed by the Philadelphia Prue, on last Tuesday, to 3lessi-1. DEWAR? and Riaw..r, will induce those sterlingDem ccrats to en-operate with the freedom shriekers in Congress. Wo don't think Mr. REILLY will blur his political record, whivli lie has always kept bright, by voting with the bitter and vindicative enemies of the Democratic party, just to please Dr. ELnza and the other Abe. litionisia who write for the Press. On the contrary, we think the prediction we ventured to make two or three weal; ago, that Mr. REILLY would not separate from his party friends in Con gress, will be fulfilled. Mr. REILLY'S position on the Kansas question is mis understood in some quartors. We are confident his course will be such as to heighten the esteem in which he is held by the Democracy of his District. We cuution our friends everywhere against giving the slightest credence to any statement concerning him that may be made in Foaxwr's Press. That journal is worse than the New York Tribune, whose place as the organ of the Repub lican party, and whose subscribers too, it is fast taking. The Press speaks of " the feeling of the counties" Mr. IifILLY represents.— We know more on that subject than the Press is able to tell as. Let the editors of that paper come up here on a recruit ing expedition. Let CoL FOICCEY beat his Anti-Locompton drum and lot Dr. ELDZIt blow his Abolition fife all over Franklin csodnty and let all the anti-nd ministration Democrat's fall in behind, and we will see whether the colonel will have two dozen followers at the end of his march. Even the few Anti-Le compton Democrats we had at tho out set are thoroughly disgusted with the Press. We have every reason to be lieve that the other counties of Mr. REILLY'S district are as sound as Frank lin. WRITHING OF A CHANGE! "Misfortune makes strange bel•fel lows." Lug than two years ago, Stephen A. Douglas, (" Aruoll,") R. J. Walker, John W. Forney and others in their new "craft," were denounc ed in the coarsest terms by the whole Know Nothing Black Republican press, from the Now York Tribune down .(or up,)—including, of course, somewhere in the scale, the Sentinel and Star of this place. Douglas and Forney were especially odious in the eight of the Opposition. Every term expressive of the low and vile wore heaped upon their heads. But now, what a change ! The mon so lately and severely denounced, are held up by the same journals as politi cal saints and oracles !—as head and shoulders above all the other statesmen and patriot s of the land ! To the careful surveyor of the field of politics, the picture now presented is an en h aging and instreetivo one. Whilst it may amuse (or disgust,) it teaches with unerring force the lesson that the landmarks of the National Democracy are the-only safe guides to follow. The Opposition are welcome to all the caviled they can make out of a few disaffected Democrats on the Kansas question. It may prologg the life of their party a trifle, but its diseased and rheumatic bones cannot hold together much longer. It has had tdo much doctoring. already. A MIR= MUSK OF A POLITI CAL ataaurnuN. The Rev. Dr. Bethune, of Brooklyn, in the Christain Ititelligencer, adminis ters a very just and merited rebuke to the Rev. Mr. Cnylcr, pastor or the Market street Reformed Dutch church, for a reference made by him to the late Judge Kano of Pennsylvania. Mr. Cuyler, in a contribution to the Intelli ncer referring to the death of Dr. Kane and that of his father, said in ef fect that the former " would bo remem bered for having vexed the Polar Bea, and the latter execrated for having skut up Paasmore Williamson." Dr. Bethune denounces very warmly this " striving for epigramatic point by two puns, so poor that italics are necessary to bring them out," and earnestly de fends Judge Kane from the assaults up on his fair fame, and , asks Is the fresh death of any man a fit subject for clerical wit? and whatever might be expected from a political newspaper, or, what is worse, a religio political sheet, should a paper like ours, devoted, I am happy to say, under your auspices, to the best interests of our people, bo made the vehicle of tortur ing, by levity of party rancor, Hearts bleeding from deep sorrow over one greatly beloved while living, and not less dear when dead ? The generous of all ages, heathen as well as Christian, have considered a nest tilled grave as deinanding a truce, at least, from the most virulent antagonist toward him who sleeps silently within its solemn bed. * * * * Judge Kano was for years ono of my most intincato friends. Some (they were many) of tho most delightful and' profitable hours of my life were spent ►n his society. Their memory is very dear and fragrant to my heart. His death is one of the long shadows which makes this world less bright to me, and warns me of the darkness through which I must pass to reach, I trust, a better land, where I have now far more friends than I have here. I know him in the bosom of his family, the most tender and most devoted husband, the kindest and most faithful of fathers, trusted and reVered by a large circle of kindred and connections; and oh! how beloved and elteriabed by them all no words of mine 61 tell you! Most sincerely do I hope that your paper onsuit week may never coma ander their eye; yet, as very pos sibly it will, I cannot with my name, as one of your simcialeentribu tons, printed esti &bead al low, the flippant aloe (which ohs I should ears little for), to pass sianoticod. NO? IVO PUBES AMOUR ON Y" ITN PARAZOIin i ricalnar. , There are, and c(ii be,vit the present, itilfl3o before the oosetry, bat two greet parties . le (sir Union; the one national, the other sectional; tho ono aiming at political power by consolidating the in terests and harmouizing the sentiments of sectionq ; the other seeking power by organizing the stronger section against the weaker, inflaming their mu• tual prejudices, and keeping the fires of sectional strife forever in a blaze. Formerly, parties were arrayed with reference to economical measures of , policy; but that day has passed away,' and the slavery question, like Aaron's rod, has swallowed up all others. So long as this remains the paramount is sue in the politics of the country, and so long as the Union may survive such ! an issue, parties in it aiming at the pos-1 session of the powers of the federal gov ernment can be but two in numbor—a national ono, seeking to bind North and South together on the broad principles , of mutual good faith and good will, and a sectional ono seeking to organize, the majority against the minority section upon principles of hate and strife, and thus seizing the government by force of sectional preponderance. True, there may he, at the same time, in the minority section, a party aiming at the severance of the Union and sep aration from the domineering majority section; nevertheless, while the Union lasts, and while it continues to be de-; sirable to hold possession of the powers of the federal government, this party is-obliged, for expediency sake, - to co operate with the national party, in' order to swell its numbers to the pro portions of a majority in the Union. That there can be but two parties on this question is not only logically true, but is historically tree. All parties that have over attempted to wear two! faces and tolerate two sets of opinions on this question, hare gone to pieces' and been swallowed up by the prtdoin-! inant all-absorbing powers. The old Whig party, the American party, all parties that have attempted to occupy both sides of this question, have shared this fate. It is Impossible, that, with reference to the great sectional question / now paramount in the country, there can be more than two political parties in the Union organized for obtain. ' ing the control 'of the federal govern ment. Whosoever, therefore, is not for the national Democracy in its present struggle for the preservation of the Union upon the basis of good faith and good will betwoc n sections, in against it. There is no half-wey house between the Democracy and its enemies. There are but two sides to the question which separates the two political organiza tions of the country—the sectional side and the national side. It is in vain for malcontents who stand aloof fro:n the Democracy; who assail its measures, denounce its policy, and libel its lead ' ers, to complain of being "/ read out " of the party communion by indignant party organs. The organs of a party can arrogate to themselves no power to " bind and loose," and their bulls of ex ' communication would effect nothing of their own energy if they were premul ipted. Membership and. dism:Riber ship in our political dispensation are acts of the individual will and choice of I the - novitiate himself; the secession is his own iridividtial act as the heresy is his own individual sin. Apostacy is the act of the apostate alone. For an apos tate to acknowledge that be has been "read out" of a political organization, 's simply to acknowledge that he is out by his own act and choice. When there its but one paramount issue and but two parties, the mac who separates from one party on that issue necessarily falls into the other. The drop of ruin flows to one side or the other of the comb of the roof. Our American Union—our republican consti tution—has its Rubicon no less than Rome. On one side, the ci tizen is defender of the constitution and of the integrity of the republic; on the other, ho is the assailant of both as the agent of sectional usurpation, and tool of a sectional majority.-- M ixgtou Unies • efirlt is perhaps not generally known that Washington drew his last breath in the last hour of the last day of the last week in the last month of the last year of the century—Saturday night, 12 o'- clock, Dec. 31, 1799.—Sentinel. The above article is again going its yearly rounds, and the first clause of it is true, viz : that the fact stated is not generally known. It is generally known, however, that Washington died on the 14th of December, instead of the 31st. Singular Delusion.—The New York Sun states that Victor Mix, a resident of Hume, Allegheny county, New York, has boon seated for tho last four weeks upon two dozen eggs, for the pirposo of hatching them, by the di rection of the spirits! An Uwenviable Diatiaction.—lt is sta ted, on what appears to be undoubted authority, that the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, contains more groggeries than any other city in tho United States, except New York. . llir A friend aska—" Whist are filmy doing in Congress r' Talking on that new and interesting question, Kansas— that's all. lirSubscribers changing their reel &noes this spring are requistod to give as timely notise of the feet ' s° that their papers may be- roperly diroeted. On-Thursday week, in the Mom, Mr. Will presented three petitions from citizens of Adams county, In favor of abolishing the office & County Superin tendent. Also, three remonstrances from citi zens of Mums county, against the pas sage of an act for the removal of dam age' cases from one court to an ad- joining court, either by special or gen eral act: Also, a petition from citizens of Ad ams county, praying for a change in the Law classifying distilleries. Also, a remonstrance from citizens of Adams county, against the law for appointing county superintendents of common schools. On Friday week, in the Senate, Mr. Brewer presented a petition from citi zens of Adams county, for the abolition of the &Hoe of county school zuperin tencient. Mr. Shaeffer, one from Lancaster county, for the repeal of the ;Let in creasing the tees of district attorneys, so far as relates to Lancaster county. Mr. Straub read in pia* a bill pro viding that after the passage of:the act there shall be no stay of execution on judgments hereafter recovered - fortbe wages of labor; and the amount nam ed in tho act of 2d - April, 1849, Untitled "An Act for the protection of miners, mechanics and laborers In certain cowl? ties," having preference, shall hereaf ter be one hundred dollars, which shall have preference over rents. Mr. Bell, one to prohibit podlers from earning intoxicating drinks for delivery to others. The Senate, on Monday, passed a bill to erect a now county oat of parts of Erie, Crawford and Warren, to be called Marion. The License question has been referr ed to a select committee in the House. There seems to be very little harmony of opinion on the subject in that body, and it is a matter of doubt whether a really beneficial change can be made in the law this session. DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE. In - pursuance of the resolution passed by the State Convention, authorizing mo to appoint a State Committee, to consist of not lose than one from each Senatorial District, I have appointed the following gentlemen : R. BIDDLX ROBERTS, Chairman. Senatoriiit Districts : Ist.—Philadelphia—John Munition, Jr., Lewis C. Cassiday, J. L. Campbell, N. B. Browne, Hugh Clark, John 11. Dohnert. 24.—Chesteri—John B. Rhodes. Bd.—liontgumery—Florenee SOH. van. 4th.—Bucks—Robert Tyler, Esq. sth,Northampton—C. A. Cooper. 6111.—Berks—Sainuel L. Young. 7111.--Selthylkill—F. B. Euercher. t.li.—Munroe,lce.—Asa Packer. Dth.-11radlord, bze.—Wi Ilia ni El well. 1 Ot h .—Luzerne—Steuben Jen keno. 11 t h.—Ly cam ng, •Sr.e.—Goo. W bite. 12th.—Northumberland, dr x.—Maj. J. Cummings. lath.—Tioga, &c.—F. W. Knox. 14th.--Cumberletid, &c.--John B. Bratton. 1501.—Danpliin and Lebanon—Gen. W. H. Miller, Cyrus Gloainger. 16th.—Laneastet—Dr. Juo. K. Raub, 11. M. North. 1701.—York—W. A. Stable. 18th.—Franklin,3 e.—.Suriuel Robin eon. 19th.---Somerset&c.—A. 11. Coffroth. 20th.—Cambria, &c.—J. G. Craw ford. 21/IL—Armstrong, &c.—J. K. Cal houn. 22d.—Payette, &c.—T. B. Smtright. 28d.—Washington, &c.—W. Work man. 24th.—Allegheny—.T. P. Barr, David Lynch, Jaa. A. Gibson. 25th —Beaver and Butler.—H. o. Kee. 20th.—Mercer, &c.—R. P. Cochran. 27th.--Clarion, 41.43.—W. T. Alex ander. JOHN L. DAWSON. Propident of the Convention. :• 4 j T, ) S!h J 1: Mormon MeisorictL—We have receiv ed, by way of California, tiles of the Desert News to the 17th of January in clusive, notes late, however, as already received direct. • It is reported that Brigham' Young has been instigating the Oregon In dians to rebel. He has offered to pay them a certain sum per head for every horse or mule they may capture and bring to him. A regular express is continually running between Salt Lake City and Oregon Territory. The San Diego Herald gives currency to a report that the Mormons had ac tually commenced moving towards Northern Mexico. The tone of the Mormon sermons de livered in the Tabernacle is nearly the same as before, except that Brigham Young seems to use less violent len gnage. The other preachers continue to preach against the United States just as they did four months ago. Tho Extra News, of the 7th of Jan nary, contains a copy of a memorial addressed by the Territorial Legisla ture of Utah to the Congress of the United States. This document recites the alleged wrongs of the Saints ; and palls upon the President to restore to the Mormons their lost property in Missouri, and punish the murderers of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the as gamins of Parley P. Pratt. They say if the government will restore their oonstitational rights, Withdraw their invading army, and permit them to make their own official appointments, all will be nght ; but intimate that anie s ed this be done trouble will come of it. liiiirConsamption, the great scourge by which so many are doomed to a pre mature grate, maid in many oases tie effoetaally ennui by simple remedies, if taken in season. Wistar's CAerr# Bal sam has eared' haadreds within a few you*. " WNW Mr, WasnrscnAl4 arch 18, 1858. DEAR COMPILER :—lloth Houses of. Congress are still discussing the Kan sas question. I could write you a lengthy letter, sketching speeches; but supposing your numerous readers to be, as tired of the subject as I am myself, I &rev the thread-bare task The Senate will vote on tho bill for the admission of Kansas udder the Lo oompton Constitution, on Monday even ing next. That the bill will pass that body, notwithstanding the illness, and necessary absence. of five or six of its friends, is not doubted. In the House, it wilicause several weeks' debate—not that that will make the 'measure any more clear, or do the country an iota of good, but buncombe must be talked for. .The struggle is between the Na tional Democracy on the one side, and all the factions and fag-ends of factions on the other, and has little to do with slavery or the Lecompton constitution. The point is, whether the Republican Know Nothing party 'hail now have a breath or two of new life breathed into its feeble nostrils, or die out forever. In any event, its teunre-will be a short one. On the main trial, Locompton will carry in the House, and thus peace be restored to the country. Z. T. Z. A Substitute for the Kansas Gilmer, of North Carolids, has given notice:to the House of Representatives of a substitute for the Kansas bill, which'propoees to admit, tho Territory into tbo Unto!: without recognizing or mentioning any constitution whatever, ezeopi to dechire that in thus admit ting said Territory the act shall not "be so construod as to recognise or reject or td determine the validity of any consti tution wifich has been presented to Congress; the true intent and meaning of thit; act being to leave the people of Kansas perfectly free to form and regu late their domestlo institutions and of fairs In their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States." —Baltimore Sun of Wednesday. FAILURES AT YOU. 'rile York Democratic Press, of Tues day last, says : The failure of Alexander Demuth, which we announced two weeks ago, has probably caused more distress, in a pecuniary point of view, than has been experienctxt among us for at least a half century. Major George Hay, Dr. Thomas' Stevens and Charles Nes, Esq., of this place, and Mr. George Smyser, of Manchester township, are security for Mr. Demuth for large sums of money, and, it is said, are the heavi est sufferers. Major fla y and Mr. Smy ser have become so involved by this means that, the property.of the former gentleman • has already been passed through the hands of the,slieritf, and the latter, who was a wealthy man, has ap pointed assignees for the benefit of his creditors. Many other persons, sonic of whom are in mrxlerate circumstances, who rutve loaned Mr. Demuth money in various sums, will alio buffer to the extent of their loans. This crash, epidemic like, was follow. ed by tho.failure of William Goodridge, dealer in jewelry, confectionery, &.c., in Centre square, where liechas curried on businee for many years.. On Thursday last another cicitement was produced by the 'Announcement that the hardware and forwarding es tablishment of ilantz, Frick & Co. had also been dosed and all business sus pended. This firm have always stood high in public estimation as judicious, reliable and industrious men, and great sympathy is manifested for them by the entire eommunityln their misfortunes. We understand that assignees have been appointed to make a final settlement of their affairs, and it is hoped that some arrangements will be made so that they may bo allowed to open and go ou with their business again. Before too excitement, produced by the above announcement , had subsided, it was.ascertained that , the dry goods store of Mr. Wm. F. Smith bad also been closed, and the sheriff had taken possession of the goods.j We have not learned what the ammo( of his liabili ties are. . . TW Press also contradicts rumors which are said to be in circulation pre judicial to the Banks in York, in conse quence of the above failores.—The Ga zette, too, remarks that the Banks are secured on their claims bY good endors ers, and will meet with very trifling if any losses by these failures. DestryetireFire.—Loss,y Blooded Hor ses and CattIe.—PIIILADELPRIA, March 16.—This morning about two o'clock, the extensive barn on the Lancaster pike, near this city, belonging to Thos. P. Remington, Esq., was totally de stroyed by are, together with - a large number of horses and sixty-four head of the best blooded cattle in the coun ty. They had been collected by Mr. Remington at great, expense, and the loss will not only be severely felt, by Mr. R., bet by the farmers generally. The 101:111 is estimated at about $25,000, upon which there is no insurance, his policies having expired about one month since. The tire is attributed to an in cendiarv, many of whom. are prowling about the country. The farmers are in great alarm. Collision on the Ohio.—Sis Lives Lost. —Om:thew; March lb.—Thesteamers Great Western and Princess came in collision at throe o'clock on Saturday morniag, opposite Raleigh, Kentucky. The noeas sank in ten minutes to the harriesne deck. The cabin passengers on the Princess were saved, together with the books and baggage. One wo man and two children, dealt passengers, and three of the deck hands were drowned. Sdlifgrder.—Wm. Caen hung him self last Friday, a Fabius, Onondaga county,' N. T. He had a mortgage coming due, and wanting about $2OO of the amqunt neoestaary to Meet it, rashly concluded to satisfy it Oh an execu tion. FACT AND F. urn wow) Dr Ar terrible accident occurred on Saturday In the Democratic party man is rein only so Jong as be is true. 1 afternoon week, at the maidaooe of —.Joins W. Noel has been nominated for t George M. Barnard, Esq., on SIMONS Congress by the Democrats of the ith district street, Boston, by which bin °Mil**. of Missouri, in place of Mr. Caruthers. i ser, Miss Sarah Barnard, lost her life. Grasshoppers have lately appeared in t The Boston Gazette; of Saturday, g i ves thick swarms upon the farm of a man living short distance west of Oxford, Ohio. the following particulars of the sad at Goy. Denver has isseed a proclamaticrel fair : cautioning the people of Kansas not to renew Mtge Barnard and hermother the troubles in that Territory by en li sting i n were the only members of il tV family the milli:launder Oen. Lane. j who were at home, Mr. Barnard being , absent, and his wife at the Musical Teeth are phosphate otlinue and cavil- absent, where she was waiting to bejoits ed by her daughter, by agreement. The grandmother, a short time miriose to the calamity, had loft Miss Barnard sitting by a cannel coal fire reading, in the back drawing-room, and had gone into another room to sit, when she was attracted by the screams of her grand daughter, and, rushing in, found her standing on the floor with her dress in dames. Her outer dress wits of wool en, and the fire had taken hold of the linen composing ber under garments. The old lady endeavored to smother the flames with a rug which she threw around her, but, b/ing very much alarmed, Miss Barnard broke from her and rushed out of the room, and down the stairway in to the kitchen, which was immediately below. The draught of air quickened the flames, and on opening the kitchen door she was en. ' tirely enveloped in thorn. Sloe mere ly uttered a word, and fell upon the Moor. The servants rushed from the house screaming for help. The first who reached the spot was the coach man of 11. G..Boardman, Req., who found her upon the floor, and her clothes still burning. Dr. R. W. Hooper, who resides_ next door but ono, was imme diately sent for, but his aid was enli vening, she having probably inhaled the Eames, and died where she fell. She was a beautiful and accomplished' - young lady, and bad jest completed her twenty-first year. She bad alarge cir cf friends and admirers, and a gloom was east upon the fair this evening in consequence of the calamity, hundreds of those present havilig, hese acquainteJ ' with her, who were anticipating her presence nt the close. At the time or the catastrophe. she was awaiting the company of aydhuig man to escort her to the fiiir, who ariived five minutes after her death. I= ....-Botanists record fifty-six thousand spe cies of various plants, and thirty-eight tbovr sand are to be found In the catalogues. ....-The muscles of the human jaw mit a force of four hundred and thirty-two pounds, and those of mestiflh, wolves, etc., far more: Mario, the singer, gets three thousied dollars& swath at the Paris opera. ......The European governments are said to be about to adopt measures to check the emigra tion to America. The Kuropeen journals announce that in a duel at Konigsberg Gen. de Plewha find first; the hall entered Lieut. Jackman 's mouth, broke his lower jaw and passed out at the neck, but, after staggering a moment, Jackman fired and tkt shot the rum! through * heart. The London pap6n say that Allsop, ac cused of conspiring to Louis Napoleon, has not sailed for New York, but for California. Steam Wit.—At a recent railway festival at Cleveland, in honor of Mr. Jahn Durand, the following striking sentiment was given: Our Mothers—The only faithful TI,XDILLII who never misplaced a mires. The Louisville Courier says of the spire of Bishop Spaulding'i new cathedral in that city, that it is the tallest In America, being twelve and a half feet higher than the celebrated Trinity of Sew York. No less than six of the United States Senators from the South favorable to the ad mission of Kansas with the Lecompton organi zation, are now sick, viz :—Messrs. Reid, Hen derson, Thompson, Fitzpotrick.Davis and Bates, representing North Caroline, Texas, Missisippi, Missouri, Alabama and New Jersey. The editors of Kentucky, recently in convention at Frankfort, agreed to adopt the exclusive cash system after the lit of July next. During the past year twenty-six revolu tionary soldiers have died, as have also twen ty-five persons of one hundred years ()rage and over. There is iron enough in• the Wood of forty-two men, to make s ploughihear weigh ing twenty-four pounds. .......A ear-building firm, of Springfield, Massachusetts, 11,1'14 'concluded a contract with the Viceroy of Egypt, for forty first class cars, to run upon an Egyptian railroad. "I say, sonny, where does that right hand road go to ?" "It ain't been anywhere since we've lived here," was the boy's reply. Henry Todd has been convicted of mur der in Sullivan county, Indiana, and has been sentenced to be hung on the 2d of April. Barclay Pennock, the friend and fel low-tsveler of Bayard Taylor, died of con sumption on the 9th instant, at Kennett Square, The Detroit 'Advertiser says that Mrs. Thomas, a washerwoman of that city, has re cently become Veit. to a fortune of a million of dullais in Europe. • ''lt is mentioned in the English papers that Queen Victoria bore petoonally all the expenses of her. daughter's wedding, and presented to the young couple intact the 140,000 voted by Parliament for the expenses. The "Police Gazette " publishes a list of sixty murders which hare been committed in the city of New York since January Ist, 18:7. ...,„There are Ore hundred and fifty-six light house. on our Atlantic and lake coasts, each of whi,ch consumbs about one thousand gallons of oil per annum. The artesian well of the Sutherland'', at Paris, Illinois, ha; been bored to a depth of over seven hundred feet, and as yet no water has been found. A restaurant is to be fitted up in the lower story of the Southern extension of the Capitol at Washington, for the use of the mem bers and officers of theilonse of Representa tives.. An epidemic supposed to be the cholera Is said to be killing off the hogs at a rapid rate In the southwestern portion of Montgomery county, Vs. One gentleman lost twenty-two in Ave or six days, and in one neighborhood some 130 or 200 hogs bare died. Thirty-tiro seats in the Canadian Parlia ment are contested. Th. Harrison Flag, published at Mar shall, Texas, bad at the head of ha columns the name of Millszd Fillmore for President in 1860. It appears the eity railroads in New York are very profitable. The Righth Avenue Railroad is said to bare made 40 per cent. per annual. _ The boarders at the United States Hotel, in Augusta, Ga., were regaled with lamb and green peas at dinner on Monday week. ......Three of the principal cotton mills - in Allegheny, Pa., the "Penn," "Anchor," and "Eagle," commenced running three-quarter* time en Monday. -The highest water-fall in the world is in the Sandwich Islands, and is stated•to be between four and five thousand feet high. Tho stream on which the fall occurs, runs along the peaks of one of the highest mountains, so high that the water actually never reaches the bottom, so great is the dis tance, and it ascends to the clouds in vapor. This must be a sight !to see a cataract literally suspended in the air. Largely-attended revivals of re ligion have for some wooks been, and are now, in progress, in the large cities —New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, &c. It is said that the distinguished traoodian, Edwin Forest, was convert ed in Philadelphia a few evenings since. Bad Speculation.--A sharp and wealthy farmer of Macoupin county, Th., not many miles from Brighton and Miles' Station, has on hand, it instated, 1,500 bushels of choice wheat, the crop of 1858. Last year he refused $1 75 per bushel for it. Its held on for 112. He has now contracted to deliver it at the railroad at 78 coats per bushel. French Spoliatioxs.—lt is stated that Mr. Clingman, chairman of the commit tee on foreign affairs, intends shortly to, report from that committee the wims French spoliation bill which pre passed Congress *Owns vetoect by Mr. Fiore*: ____,..._____. NrYSTERIODS NTIRDU 01 A YOUNG LADY IN irw YOU. The ~ e w York Herald of the 17th has the fu owing: The mysterious deatls of a loung lady, which was noticed its the herald of last week, has been un dergoing &rigid examination before the proper authorities in Poughkeepsie, and has resulted in exposing one of the, most diabolical outrages ever commit tal of the like in this city. The unfortunate young girl who has been the victim of her seducer, is Jenti ma &newsy, of moot reopectuble par ents,residing in Pouglikeepsie,Dutehess coun - t,i tii , New Nork, ai,d m highly estee. ed by large circa° of friends. Thu. facts at nding the case, as disclosed by her rola one, are as follows; Within the past twelve months Miss Beneway has been the suitor of a young man. named John Olmstead, also a resident. of Poughkeepsie. About three or four months ago Olm stead offered himself to .1114 s Beneway, who accepted his offer, and it was agreed that they should be married shout the ltit . of February. During this time Olmstead was a constant visitor of ..miss. Beneway. and about the above time be proposed that as his folks, who resided in Norwalk, Conn., could not come on to Poughkeepsie, that they go on there and be married. This was agreed to by Miss Beneway'sparonts, and on the 4tii of February the couple left home in the half-past nine o'clock train fur New York, wishing all a good-bye, and with many wishes of happiness by all her friends and fond and doting parents. On their arrival in this city they put up-at Florence's Hotel, and that sight I remained *ith a cousin of hers in Brook lyn. On her return to the city the next day, it appears she was takes sud denly ill, and was carried into theollioe of an alleged abortionist named Milton W. Gray, No. 480 Broadway. From the evidence before the coroner, it is shown that all things were prepared for her reception, and after a short tiraw she was conveyed by her-loner and Dr. Gray to No 218 Grand street, where a most nefarious and brutal abortion was produced, resulting in her death one week from the time she entered this den. An inquest has been going on at Poughkeepsie for some days, which has resulted in the following verdict: "That the deceased, Jemima &new:9-, came to hor death, on the 13th of February i from the effects of an abortion; Ned that the jury bolieve said abortion was produced by Milton W. Gray, and that John Olmstead was an accessory before the fact." Dr. Gray was then ordered to field bail in the sum offive thousand dollars, or be remanded to the county jail, A reward of five hundred dollars will be offered for the arrest of Olmstead, who is still at large. Sr. Louis, March 16th.—Mr. Hart. well, Secretary of the Territory oftlta has arrived here. He left the camp January 26th, when the troops *ere in a comfortable condition and in excellent health, there being only four deaths since the arrival of the command. It was thought the entrance to the valley would be made by another mate, WO miles longer, bat offering no °beteg& tions of any magnitude. The inincipel Utah Indians had been to the and gave assurance of the peaces intentions of the Indians toward the Americans. Hr. Hartwell met withal, snow, and the appearance of gram expected at an unusually early Fratood Clain is Ghat • • Worthington, F i l l . 4bg r at 5. moat, has cam aeita ment in Mariposa, Vet •mNr persons residing on t Ire The plaintiff does not-inteett Sato the snit vigorously 14 • 4 ' 04 . • it was necessary that tom, •• brought now or eerie; fierthe tore years, axed by the State law as s Mob within which cattiermetejeotassest eriff be breughtafteelhemmum ale= g ocenrred,,have nearly weed pamt for the 104 wee inged heft Washington. i t 1111•Morbty times these. no MA E.
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