El IrOM waireilinita; R. M. 868 LT AND J. 8. BARNIIART, ROITORM BELLE FON TE. PENN 'A TEXIIIMIDAW, APRIL lb, I SSS DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET SCPREUS J PGs, WILLIAM A. PORTER rtNAI. COM M 15.110NER, IVES'PLEY FROST The Liquor bill was taken up for consul' oration in the Senate on the 10th ipst. There nits an amendment made in Committee to the eighth section ; making the granting of licenses discretionary with the Judges, Com missioners, or Board of Licensers. The sixth Rectum was amended so that. brewe ries are to be rated an eating houses. The Ind was passed in cotmnztt<c of 114. with Other slight amendments, and then laid over. An ahstraet of the bill will be found in another column. In ttie State Legislature, the Senate eon. sidered the appropriation bill on second read ing. A motion to restore the additional pay of 1200 to members of the Legislature was very 'properly negatived A motion to in crease the salaries of judges was defeated.— The salaries ought to'be double what the are. Mr. Ilodgson's bank bill was consid ered, and on being put to vote the first sec tion was lost—yeas 35, nays 43. The fol io% ing bills were passed : One prohibiting the sale of tiSh out of season, and one extend ing the term of uffive of the Guardians of the Poor to three years (The people think one year's lease of official honors on the part of the present incumbents quite long enough. Late Foreign News Four days later news. by the strainer In dia, which left Liverpool on the 24th nit , I and arrived at Portland on Monday, have been received. From England the news has little interest. Parliament was to adjourn on the 30th, over the Easter holidays Gimeral Pelissier ( Duke of Malakoff) was named as French Ambassador to England.. The condition of the working classes in Par ts was so bail that " public improvements' . employment was about being given to the operatives. The Empress is again reported as being in an interesting condition. It was rumored that the Count de Chambord,grand son of Charles X, was about resigning Mn claims to the throne of France. in favor of the /Donut de Paris. Portugal has refused to expel political refugees, on the demand of France. lii Austria and Italy popular discontent was increasing. From India there u. no later news The Intelligence from China is important. Vein iniasioner Yeh was to be conveyed a prisoner to Calcutta. The blockade of Canton had been raised, and the Americans and Res istant are said to lIIIN p•iued OM ?rel.:lk and English in the demands made oir the Empe ror of Chino. France n. mending additional naval force to China. The new Party and its new Partners When a great piktical orgabization like !halo! . the Republicans, hick Iron under them the foundation which has sastained them, we have a right to look abroad for the causes which impelled them so to act, and ror the objects they propose to accom plish. It is manifest, says the editor of the Washington Union, and we fully agree with him, that a partnership has been ar ranged hetween the defunct Repubhcans on the on'e side and the rump of the deceased Americans on the other Mr Crittenden's substitute twice KIWIS hitt proposes the recognition of the legality of the Lecomp ton Constitution, and the admission of the State thereunder, Well, that is a pro-sla• very instrument. We speak of it thus his. torically. Mr. Crittenden, coming limn a shive State, might surely recognise it.— Tfiere was nothing strange in the fact that Crittenden moved the substance, and nothing atrange in the fart that Humphrey Marshall, and others of the rump, voted fur it. But the Republicans, who had denoun ced itc also Caine to its su pport. Giddings ausfitined it. The republicans have moved to the *Oh. They have got tired and sick of an exciusive northern life. They gone over into Lientucky, into Tennessee and North Carolina. Ho they thinkl".gung still further South I What has been the arrange- Mont I Why did the Republicans surren der I Who made !Am first advance ' Who, indeed—for that is the question- has been seduced I We • want to know. We find Mr. Crittenden in frightful collittion with the petticoat old women of the Republican family. 111 ow did this happen I Was it the offspring of a necessity arising at the moment. I Was it to oppose admission ? -- We think not. Lot us see. Let us look back a yam or two.' Where was Mr. (lilt tstAleuin 1858 1 Whore has ho been since Has be bad any aspirations for Ike presiden cy I. Have the Republicans made up their minds that a more sectional oFganization is so disloyal and disrerfutable that they must have a oeutheim alliance I The terms pro posed now by Mr. Crittenden upon the Re , publicans are very.hard—rumor say more r alters than were imposed two yews sea— (might to add that Gov. Chaso repucti stag the eoppaet. Ger. Chase mast" wed to hicpew ditties : Prayers must be written. IVO will )11"Sigt°1/3P6rizing' ' / 5 10 1 -414 144 Pastled, oar the bridge. 4 1 . 0 1 1 10 (Obis Capital Rail Road, at Pau. Pkid.-110/Wattis. ou Monday. Trains wilt Ito* run regularly to Trey ertun, to winds the road is tiroshed. d Answers n two parties in this Mon of the Govern. Falk (Vt.) Argus been the party of ending for the ,grest 7 , number—the other ,pposition to the Un ion party, and always factious in its opposi tion. This stato of thing!, leads us to ask a feW questions, and give a few answers found ed upon the facts, as we view them. WI 17 ivit Tabu its eirOrtli to pro teErthis peace of the nation, and to extend its glori ous influence by great schemes of bench retire and sound policy, the Democratic par ty must always he lundered,'and often fet tered by the oppnsitimr? - Why is it that all the disalfeked elements of the opposition to the progress of the Un , and the enemies and traitors to our gov ernment, are everto be, found in the ranks of the adverse party, ever waging war with the Democracy and the power of the na tion ? , Why is itiliat we never hear and •never have heard from the opposing party eulogies of the rmon, no bursts of patriotic lardor,no vows of undying devotion to the cause of our cduntry, and see no zealous. eflorts to furtlwr its interests I Why /8 it, Oat in the long course of our htstoiy, the Democratic party has preserved its name and'ehnravicr, and ejr maintained rta po,ilion as standard bearer of the Union and champion of the Constitution ? it 14 because tI e Peanoci &tie party is plan ted on the principles on which our govern ment is founded: and it feels that its success ran only he adoeved by sustaining the Irnion and ~opportim,r the Con.titution ? It i, the 1 Mon party There are always two parties in a government—the support- erg and opposers of the policy of the nation, the (newts and foes of its prosperity. Eng lantkbeFrance. Italy. Spain. Austria. and eve ry natidn that-lino flourished in ancient or modern times, have each been cursed with on the premises. the dead weight of an opposition, which I See. 9. Licenses may be granted to keep would rend tire vitals of thegoverrinutintTirusai"4l,idlac,e,,s)to,,fitahmmuasnedminegnttsi,ele,' totherwisel had it lint an opportunity for the sake of i proviso of 2nd section of art of 1856, but plunder and the ',pods. , spintnous liquors shall riot be sold under 1 such ii 115 .0 114e. k ii i r And is this cantedrensonable oppo.sition ev r to exist here and cumber the growth of need ec n9t 111e ' litr e t a ili i i tl ate ' o 'r f Cl:l s i t C i l l :S g , 1 1 , o .r u e s t t o 's our young and free Republic ? Arc we al-, fore required by section eight, act of 1836, 1 ways to have a Black Republican party ! nor need such applicants lie published -- 1 which, under the pretence of attacking the 1 TheY shall be Ricci with the clerk of the court,granted by the Treasurer, except Democracy, is ever inflicting stabs upon the ith and the coanty of Allegheiir on the proper ,integrity of the nation and retarding its ! bond being approved by the District Atter I prowperityi We trtrvt not! But the' evil I ney -nd Treasurer. spirits of demagoguism and treason are a. I s..c. 11. Illegal sales of liquors punkin ! tile for first Alone° by tine of SIO to 8100, mong us andothey must lane a vent and costs : subsequent c invictions $25 to Whatsoever form the opposition has huh- SlOO, with not more than three months' 'in ert° taken ii has always been battered dewy) ! prisonment, at the discret-on of the court ; and destroyed by the Democratic party: and I forfeiture of license, and not capable of re, ceiv "'g hee " se for trio ""' Repeals see whatsoever name and form it may take now, ) pred _____ . 1 Lion 28 a Act of 1856, tint no other act or it will share the same fate as its '''''. e cLon. The history of the Democratic party is the history of the country, an'd whosoecer shall oppose the one, must and will incur the enmity of the other. Together they march on the road to empire, and perform the dupes they owe to Clod and. mankind Yore litre Pay. Some years ago, ',apt the tlerinantow; Telegraph, the Legislature thought that three dollars a ilay - for their services was not pay enough, and forthwith voted to do away with the per diem pay, and substitute a sal ary of fi've' hundred dollars a 3 ear for each 'icemen. long or shot', -s Inch was about Gf ty per cent., ad./211(V open their Ginner pay But last year, not even satistlid with this. they voted themselves out of- the public treasury into their own pockets, two Us dred dollml more npt , r, This session the house has inir,tw , l a similar roorse, and has, again voted the additional $2OO, making 8700 each foi every member of the Legis i (attire, and tho, fraud is now before the Sen ate for its saiwtam A more barefaced rob ' bery of the public I ands we never saw. - Just an legit* 'Muhl the mornbeis vote themselves #..100110r 9 ,5000 apiece as 9200. Remember th's salary is not to regulate fu ture Legislatures, in whith there would. be sonic show of propriety, but for themselves --to go directly into Their own pockets. This is a lamentable exhibitiOin of the char acter or want of iliaracter lu those compo sing our general assembliek'and is enough to make no favor, by constitutional provis ion, the abohtton of all remuneration. We should then pmbaldv stand a chance to have men to make laws for nis . who have some reputation to sustain and some stake lathe community. To cover, their more than ques tionable course, the yeas and nays on the final votwon the appropriation bill con taining this plunder, is nos here recoi ded. Negro Suffrage in Kansas. --l'he Free State Constitutional Convention of Kenai's, which has been in session for some two or three weel., 1 nit, adjourned on the night of the 3d ploposition was adopted to allow negroes to vote on the Constitution, and providing that at the first general election thereafter, a vote shall lie had on the question of universal suffrage.-- Foreigners who have deelsred theiNtiten tions to become citizens, N iii also be allow ed to vote. The question 01 negro suffrage caused a great deal of exclternent in the Con vention, and angry discussions were partic ipated in. Several counties signed the Con stitution under protest. ti hat, do- the Atutl.Lecoutptou Ilcmoc.rolts think of this sort of " popular strvcreigittyl" Are they to join hands with the Black Republicans in a,lmitting Kansas with a Constitution adopted by negro. rotes?— Would not the Lecempton '' swindle," ILI4 they delight to call it, be a Moore l k ,alatable OMB than this 9 'l'be deposits in the New York banks are about two millions larger than. ever bofbrc kterwo. The amount ofspeeic $31,530,- 9 00 . r -* • .l hard Vitus has been re-nosimated as ttio Democratic candidate fur Mayor of Phil• &del ibis , ELStaaidleut Placa and lady are at Ma • i dens• lie id said to ha looku, c cll. hut Ina lady Is very poorly Now License BfiL The following i 4 an abstract - of a license Bill reported by the special committee to the House of Representativen on Thursday,ll3th March. • Sec. 1 reduces minimum licenses of brew• qr,s and distillers from $5O to 525—thus ;11.. tering proviso of 3d section act March, 31, 1856 ; distillers selling under $l,OOO to pay 515. • Sec. 2 reduces minimum of merchants' li cense (ran 550 to $?5, and reduces rates 20 per centum—thus . altetink the provisiun of the 12th section ulna oligarch 12, 1850 _...S&Q--3...retras.-1041,4..-114ougeri.cm-yearly.llll, of liquor, instead of rental, as follows Class 1, sales SlO,OlO or more, s4oo' li- Chu.; 2, sales 9i.8,000 or more, 1250 cense. Clads 3 sales $63X)13 - or more, $l5O li cerise.. Class 4, sales $4,000' or more, $lOO Ii • cense. Class 5, sales $2,004) or more, Iso li eence. Clngs 6, sales $l,OOO or more, $3O li IMMO Class. 7-, sales $5OO or more, $2 license. Class 8, sales under $5OO, Sliii . ticense. Provided, in Philadelphia and Pittsburg none less than $5OO ; nor m any other city or incorporated borough for less than $25. Sac T.-Eating houses to pay accordi ng to the act of April 10. Is49,ceepon 25 and 23, hut tintless than $2O in Philadelphia and Pitisbdrg, or,slo elsewhere. This reduces the license in many cases to one-half, as the act of I!4J imposed double this amount, "Vilth the provision that, DOM in Philadelphia and Pittsburg should be less than $25. Six Nterehants may sell by ths, quart, brewers non distillers by the gallon ; the brewerk may take out a retail license. • Sac G. License shall be granted to citi• Lena of good moral character and temperate habits, wherever the provisions of the law are c . implied with by them SKO 7 License not transferable, but by the authority granting them : nn charge, save the fees when transferred. New been- SCS inay be granted for part of a year, for houses pi es liatgly lioenacti , eu pay tog In pro- portion. lire. 8. Manufacturers of cider do• meatic a fines may sell the Ramo by the gal lon, and bottlers may sell cider, perry, ale, porter, or beer by the bottle, not to be drums Nice. 12 No prosecutor to receive part of floc, if • witness, but constables slain re- beive too dollars on the conviction of any person returned by them. Nice. 13, No grover or wholesale dcaler xhallhave a retail license to tiell spirituous ht4uori Sac a 14 to 20 relate exclusively to Mille delplini, and Allegheny count ies. FßEl, 2.1 F. The 1411,26th : 27th,t0 1 32d MCC- Lion:, of the act of 1850 are repealed ; the remainder sea granted under this net The penalty for drunkenness, under the 29th section, is 11xed at S'2, to go to the school fund, and none of it to the prosecutor. Sky 22. Licenses may the granted at the tiist or ivy adjourned or special courts* the passage of phi. ai t. There are petitions for a more stringent law read daily, as well SS 0060 for a less stringent one th in the act of I WAS Plain Talk. Tht Greensburg Democrat, of Westmore land' county, in this !state, which has been open and decided ag.nnst Lecomptcn, utters the following plain talk to those anti-Lc compton democrat, who, by word and ac tion, show a disposition In distract and de feat the democratic party " IVe learn that several propcirs are on foot, in some Democratic Anti-Lecompton circles to call a SLato Convoutuvi •` to nom inate candidates for Judge and Canal Com• um:sinner, who are opposed to Iho tidal's sion of lilansivi under the Leconitton Consti tution " We ale as firm in our view. upon the he compton Constitution as e , ,er , but an at tempt to make the local question and local in- Hues which enter into the political campaign iu this State, and which really do affect our inttrest as a people. matter of secondary concern, and to ovemde them u ith this infernal question of the situation of a few naggers in Kansas, meets IN ith our delibera tion and unqualified opposition A Democratic State Convention called to gether by the proper authority, has placed in nomination Democratic candidates. Fail - II nominated, and capable, in every essen tial for the positiots fmr which they have been selected, they deserve the support of the whole party The unity or political or ganizationi, tho success olAhe 11113118UreS and principlealbf our party, and the general in terests of our ,peoplo, demand that they ie ceive the n arm and earliest support of every Democrat to the , State. • • * Let its ad 1u lc to our organization : and if we go down in the storm, we shall fall still true to our party, and still strong in our faith. IIE WHO IS NOT FOR US IS AGAINST US, AND lIE Wilt) IS AGAINST US IS NOTH ING SHORT OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN. 'runt ISLEGR A —We learn from Wash ington that a proposition is }Alm e the Com• mittee on Military Affairs in the Senate, to lay a telegraph wire under the ground from some point of existang telegraphic communi cation in Missouri to the head quartets of the•-army in Utah, and to be continued to Salt Lake City as speedily as the army, moves in that direction. They propote to by such wires in one hundred days-for the sum of five hundred thousand dollars.' Thi work can be executevl, with the aid of a ma chine, it is said, m fast as a common ox lead] can travel. The committee of the Sen ate arc divided—three for it and three against it.“-hut have agreed to report the facts to the Senate, and allow that body to take such action in the matter as they plisse. Dr. J. K. Mitchell, Grand Master of the Grant: I.odge of Free aeons in Ponnaylta nia,dieki in Philadelphia on Sunday night h o st. vo was born in Shepherdetown, Va., oh the 12th of May, 1798. Ile waaoducated in Sootland. Ilia acientillo, pterary, poeti cal and miscellaneous prduotiona ate of • high ordeyof excellence, many of them rare getpa of beauty and sweetness. Ao a inhy. , mini, 60 stolid among the mast eminent of the prOfinution ; as a writer, he was brilliant and profound le a citizen, •WiiB justly honored and admired. MN; PAM & BODB3OIO. 93 Never insult poverty. Cj.' Never take a nyeontl nap, ID- Never eat ititearty supper 37 - Never speak, of your father is the old inau." .., 1 Never Ettestputemptuounly of wo man-kind. pj Never blowtour nom: between your thumb and fingtrtt.t%' I.7l*Teier grop - irtalk after service is over. einse--or. Xo religion or your le. 7' Never reply the epithet of a drunk er a fool, or a Ittaw ir7Never tasteiai atom is lien you are not hungry ; it ill litliachla. 1177116 Vet atingullfiewho wws none-year bosom friend, howeter bilker now. ir7 The man Wit& was filled with emotion hadn't room for hit; dinner% r 7 Sealed propoials—na the chap said when he kisahrt his sweetheart. 9:7 - Beauty is Only skin deep. Vel, i t looks Icrst rate:al Var as it goes. tr7:Aitrolus, Ahe golden clasp that binds together the rola*, of the week. [13 -The strongesli-minfle - d Vrornan shrinks om being caught in her night-nap. r:l7 Loet—a Veit—The tinder will he re warded three I,siestry - returning it. Thy ion dpg's tail like the heart of it tree ? Because it fartheit from the bark. 1 17' A ne , ,y play le ilinnrogneed in lineton, tooter the title of "rAn rolltnr with $5000." r2: - •* Ht.; in ral3to sto.:k your floor' in trater, and alter pulling it out, look for the lode Ii J'.\ womtn way laugh t,» It is only a comb that can always &fiord to show its tenth. R,h.bie intelligence horn Wa.liing ton contradicts the report of a recoistittcr t on of the eatnnety ri" Why is a 7 .eitlinw on a (ewe like cent 8. , m90 e has aload on one hole and a tail do tht. her. 7 -- A critic, vllloslignant onough to tell the truth, says that t. to frost awk34ard thing in fla u nt; is a worn in trying to run. Cr. 7" A Yankee gccently married a wife, ate live pumpkin pied. licked a negro, told a he, went to church, tore his trow mr+ -all in one da3 ' G 7-11.14 said to be the intention or the adininiitration, it the Territory of Arizona organized, t e roppoint Gen. tines. Ilon%ton. i overnot. fr A thrifty wok' wundors st he men r do aumi•thing uw NI mightn't they ag well am use th e m4elses smoking hams as Regars 1 (Mess they migialt. Then why don't they ? rf7' Moving Ryir a new trial • courting a ace ond v. % And the heqt line In lead Ft woman with, is a Maactillac• .1 7" Ile is properly a good" man nho speaks well of hie' neighbors I 'yen tits wife apd pays for his newspaper; particularly the latter-6i_ Vito preceitng hrimi• only mecondary virtues- Q=7 - 't'he ?innocent* bill as it pe,,ed the Senate on Wednesday, continua lens than throe hundred Words, comoi.ting of a pre amble and two ereileini. admitting it a% a State, and altos in; it tn.° repreqentat ken. C Miry it moil Noir% 11,t Ira, no out a brandy bottle. They think that if they "goof!" lint 4/Itwooke,d there is no ilmigrer. lint ea pitrient.llllNlaq plow.' the re ver.e - There to suicide In a n band as s ell rev a insloi•barrel. • T7' Gamblers do not. seem to be appr'eelal ed in South Carolina, A bill to punish pro tensional gamblers by toluppe ft flagged titc-tintititfilt-rMintt-Lev ., tisto-re , - It peoy4l-04 that, in addition to the iiimidiment already prodded by law, tlee pail% shall re ceb, !pit more firm thirty nine I.vdres Department of 11.mill:rid Statistics Ibe bill introduced iii the Senate lit week . by )li Buckalew, to oigaliae pertinent of Railroad Statist" .ts, In C.11 , 1t,- 1.1011 unit the State Government, has been reported favorably from the Committee to vlhoin it was referred, and will pro cotirw Taw ""netnpowtrq the tiovernor to appoint a Secretary of Railroad Statistics.-- The duty of the officer thus created• shall be to classify, tabulate and present:all such statistics as properly i belong to railroad coin: panics in the StAto. Ili. 14 not only to col tect ‘lllll as ref, r to the general and leading roads, but to collect such as refer to the min ing loads. Ile is to report annually to the Legislature. Ilts salary is to oe $3,000 a year Ile is to have one clerk at a 4,Alary of 81,f100. The salaries are to ho levied lion '..he.companies in proportion to their gross earnings. The roads are not only to pay lege salaries, but all the expenses of the of ,e at llarriqburg, and all the official ex penses or the Seeret.iry whilst traveling up on the business pertaining to his Alice. LOCK IIAI r.. BAN'E.-St at men', of the Lock Unveil Bank on the flint'ihacoont day in A pnl, 1858, 1,104141E41 in accordance quit the rcipmetnenta of the Act of October I:tth, I H 57. Loans and Disenunt4 i;old and 'Sill er Cum - Due from City Banks DL retronl other Banks CCM= Circulation - - t. ' $176,1180 ,00 Duo Depositors - 4.1.750100 Due Commonwealth 1,788 50 Duo other Banks 2,053_10 Chitlins Cottu-Igt-.n • Philip Krell., Uskhier of the Lock Unroll Pauk, being duly sworn accdrding to law, deposes and hays, that the above statement is correct, to the best of his knowledge and PUMP Kuwue, ( 'ashler. Sworn and subscribed before me, April 2, 1858. a 11 mu, J. P. IL is rumored that Gov. Powell and Maj. McCo!lough will be sent out as commission ers with the Hort reinforeement to 'Ptah, 'with instructions to aflame the Mormons that the President does not desire to make war with them, but to secure the enforce ment of the lawsf in Which they will ho .ad vised to participate. The commissioners will also info= them that some troops will 'be retained in the Territory to protect emi grants to the Pacific from the attacks of hos tile tribes. The New (Means Delta ■unouiteea that the alarm trade li►s already been re•eitab liAhed between the Africau coast and the United Statea, that it is carried on under the French flag, that depots have been establish ed on Pearl •river, in the State of Mississippi, and that cergocspf slaves have been lsnded, sold, and aro now at work on plantations. MONgraa BANIC.-4t is proposed by some body NlNew Yutic to (u$ into ono institii• 4011.4 tiso cortiotsto banks Niw York city. Theflai r o llfts4vur.of ',burn, 'is ith au &Wept.dapita& of siotptivis The ideals to contralto° in Nealrerik ell the ti• nautilil sod businorre; movements of the ronu• try, by ioeaio of pile one great engine. .. ~:~~. The net spaper , publishers of - Lehigh coun ty have held a Meeting -recently, says an igehan,,,And unanimously resolved all re quire payment in advance from all sob scribers to their several papers, 041 and after the 4th of August beet. This is a reform in the right direction, and one which we must all adopt s sooner or later, if we ever expect to make the printing Wishing 'decently remonenttire.- To subscribers who pay for their news- atligasiarr•ori-40.-14ivtlutet—exer.y.. two years, it may seem unreasonable to de mand payment strictly in advance. But if they knew the heavy losses that publishers sustain from the loose practice of allowing the_crstlit to every - body which in their par ticular cassis may he safely liked; Uniy would readily acknowledge the— . • necessity of the rule, end Make no complaint against its enforcement upon theui. It ought to, and doubtless would illgike little or no difference to subscribers who intend to, and do pay for their papers, whether they pay nt the commencement of the year or at its close. But if all were obliged to do so, publishers would be effectually protect ed against the large number of negligent end dishonest men, who take theta papers with out ever caring fvhethen they pay for them or not ;•and- a hose default eats up More than all the rots that ar c made upon fiaying subset inet s. • Prom Via Daily tikhe lesterday morning, as the lion Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the interior, was about entering his room in the Department, he was accosted by Mr Peter Besancon, foi mrtly a clerk in the Pension (like After some einiversation in I Cgled to the removal ul Ite.a.icon, he questioned the accuracy of some mpoi t alluded to by the Secretary . to 1‘ 11101 the Secretary replied that ho wished to lc troubled writhe 110 further communica• torn nn tne nunjee.e. Ikr , sosso th••• the Secretary with his flat on the shoulder, and %ens in the act of drawing a revolver, when the Secretary turning nuddenly , sprung open 11110 1/101011ell his arms, and threw him to the floor till, such force no to dislocate bts shoulder By du colon of the Secreta ry, he w as then remosed to the Infirmary, (or surgical treatment Mr. Besancon has since tt eaten the following letter to the edi tor, of the Intelligeneer A difficulty having eocurred between the lion Thompson and me , •elf, it is mobable that moon; may be circulated not sustained by facts I therefore ask the use of your columns to say that Mr Thompson and myself have for years been on friendly term-, fruit the period I published a idady Journal in Mississippi and Louisiana to the time of this occurrence ; that onr meeting then was of a friendly natare, the altar un premeditated, and the result of misunder standing tidertaming these views, no one ?egret the dilliceilty more flan myself. It may be proper to say thnt I often visit• ed the Department. and eta., only alined for self iletence in anticipation of an nitro k from another quarter. Sant that you Till i ..ete nd the courtesy asked to (h.-abuse the unlike mind if wrung 00,111111 are disseminate if P •ANLON. Queer-looking Soldierg. A.•••, , rding to die rho asst nnML•nt of the Laird Starts Army, it till In• a iris !mons dress, unlike anything art 0 among in stern soblitri in other parts of the tt rnl.l The hat th to he a f e lt hat, six and -a-quarter inches' high. and a brim three inches and a riunrijr wide, something like the soft Kos s uths, which are extensive ly 1%1/111 by inrsons %%jio are not evtensive- It This hal hi to have the same brow ornami nis a.. at present nom. Is ith e. I (Is. the 'Min looped up at the left side and a black ()shrill ti miller being 011 the 1 4 1 . 1 of the brim Fu•ld otficei , roar wear III.: satire 1111 k, ma ro , •ked 6uttl of the prest.tit sole, at option, but they must in Whet ease hate tun black ostrich fenth eti. officers may n ear either the cocked or looped hal, with three ostrich feather - Rand gold cords. The uniform pan taloons are to lA' of dark blue cloth, and, in stead of coats and rackets, blue flannel sacks are to he not n The uniform will be unique anti doulitlOss couifixtable The soft felt hat is a great linpmecment on the hard, still' compositions of pasteboard and leather, which for many years hate giteill-mtr sot diem hAladaches. ' 11 . April lU - homas Hart Benton. expu oil calmly this morning at half past 7 o'clock. lie had been gradually ing for set el al days lie was extremely weak yesterday morning In tho forenoon he dictated set era! private loners, and one addressed to Senator I louston and lion t: AA Jones, of Tennes.iee, requteding that Congress should take no official notice of his delta' as It. 111 los judgement, it as not In ac cordance N 101 the rides governing that body In the afternoon he 14 Rs tranquil, and ott the night he appenred sass Ile was attended dm tug Its illut as by his daugh ter, Airs Carer Jones A notl.ct daughter rs..incolis, of Kentucky, limited here yes• teiday 1 s tNo other daughters are not hero - Airs. ease' Fremont haeup ' gone to Califs MA, MA Mine. Boileau being in eat eutta, the wife of the French Consul 4 at. At this time, the'youngest grandchild lies at the point of death in the room over that in n Web llTEllenton expired. Among the last persons who were admitted. to ace the departed statesman wan Mr. Appleton; his publisher, who came to hear his wishes in regard to the work he has left uncom plete. The Jeath of Mr. Benton has created a deep sensation in all circles hero. :5261'152 95 39:2.59 IK. 88.332 75 2,917 92 1.:1113.962 17 $220,972 20 Execution of Anderson and Richer& The two negroes, Anderson and Jhelum's, convicted of the murder of Mts. Garber and Mrs. Ream, were hung in the prison-yard at Lancaster, yesterday morning at twenty-five minutes before 12. Both of the convicts, when on the gallon's, appeared. calm, coin posed and'penitent. Anderson died without a struggle. Ile prayed on the gallows for himself and Richards, hut neither of them matte apFcclies. Moth confessed the mur ders during their imprisonment, and Ander. bon busied himself for sonic weeks in his cell, in preparing a long confession. lie says that they murdered Mrs. Garber and Mrs. ..g.o; for twelve and a hal fceuts, which they w ed to procure a pint of whiSky, and that. both were drunk when they committed the deed.. Imeonurix eitox MCLIoo.-- A NNW 1 ) 11.EM• DNNT.ANNW ONI.NANN.ApriI, 10.—The Nlxam ship nniessee, from Vera Otitk.',lias anima With important intelligence. Gen. Wino, after a victory, over the Glow. eminent. reap approaching tMo city of Mexi co, and would probably "be declared Presi dent. It la Maim) that 1,000 perwm have been ',hopefully converted _in tleveland, vrlthin a few was iatto 600 fit No* BM j tall; 300 or 400 in Newbury port : :1,000 or 3,000 in Newark land virinity. The Oath System, Da - ►th of Col Benton from QMtr Counties. 6 17 . Harrisburg, Pa., has burst oult into a bbildingfeter. One hundred ntiw buildings Are to be put up the present season. [Et Wm. J. Clark, convicted of murder at'Diniville, has had a writ of err or granted to the Supremo Court. "Me CAHJ will be ar gued at Harrisburg 7th May. Q 3 011 Saturday morning last, at Boyles- town, Pa,, whilo Samuel rhowman wig a bout-rkiing_a colt mit— tit_ tha flald fur _tko.., purpose of goarinif it to a plough,it reared uti anal full back on him, almost killing him. J. B. Sto,l, tax-'•arrr — Nf Weal r 7 ~.1-- C BTIVM77SI Pittsburg, Pa., has decamped. The papers of that city say he is a defaulter to the a mount of 61;500. f ry- Robert Stinson, of Big Beaver town ship, Benyr County, Pa., has on his limit a cow that ta_thirty-two ears chi, and has produced tweuty-eight calves. _ She hi — tit favored it - 7 We arc sorry to learn from the Ebens burg (Pa.) Mountaineer, that the large build ing pt the Summit, recently used for a col lege, was entirely destroyed by fire on Mon day night. The family iesiding in it nar rowly escaped. (rj' Fine AT IVILLIAM , PORI. --A lire oc curred at Williamsport on IVednesday Morn ing last, n hick destroyed the tarp store of Fulmer & Co., the store and dwelling of E. V. Biggins, and the dwelling (Wimple(' 'by 11. Coryeil. Fulmer &Co . lust all their goods. The total loss• was about 137,000, insurance about $lB It"? Wodiavti Won litortzied that Lhe hue shop orJulin Dougherty, at Northumber land, was entered on fruit Iliesilay Hight, and the proprietor iris relieved of eight paint of 'midi. and fifteen pair:, ofladtev shoes.-- The Hotel of Henry Haas o lig entered the same night and a quantity of liquor and eat aides taken from the cellar. q? IlKarriKi.n RAII nom, The Wak.li -1140.011, , Review Sari that expo... , of the management ul the 11,1111111,H road IS soon 10 lie made public, and that it n ill be an exhibit of exhausted credo., sytati,L•red stock , hypothecated Lunde, &e., ttle i tut parallel. [l7 lAA; CI T Orr -11'e mentioned last week the shooting or no In.luuan, named Farly, by l'a' er Sowers. w Ito charged Far. ly with an attempt to rob lion Ft' toss af terwards found necessary to amputate the leg of Fath.,which (melanin' was performed by Doctors Strawbtidge and Monde]. Farly has become a charge on the Borough lie denies the charge ... id - atumplt,l rohltoiy. -- SunLui War' 'Lan. ' file deputy I S. mai for the %Westin n District of the State and n Mr. Stump, of Virginia, visited Blairsville, Pa., nu Thorsday, for the purpose of v.emiing a , fugitive slave who had takin up hot abode in that village. The luau was found and ta ken into custody. hut a large crowd collect od around his captors and risened the fug,. live. Ile was hurried quickl3 to a place of concealment, and Stump and the deputy marshal were assailed by the crowd nuilli•[ driven old of town. ' rile mine of the rap-' (1,0 is Richard SVIII11:111, 4111 , 1 lie bad resident of Blairevilla iur nearly ass years. j - A few days since, :in uulragsous 11/4• moult %%HS emnuuriled by a man named Ali chisel Lehr, iiptin a fierpeari, named Leib, at Viii k. (Pa ) L. hr was ploughing a be ;tinging to Mr iloNliita F l tf Utt . tt hen it seems that Leib, 111 jr,t, called horses In the plough Lehr immediately it ithoot further firtlVl/C3LIOII. :WIZCII a pitch lira. acid i 'rack r.edi upon phi ht ad, 1,1111,1,11:; ii coal it e wounds, Wish oven Ilia 1101 rert•te 1111 Inutal ; conduct after lie hail iiiiis , raied hen Lehr aas immediately arrested and liekl to bail in the 1411111 of 71,5%0110 On Thursday roorniiir,. - the Istlust the quiet little butotigh of l...nietnangli county, , Was 111111 W II 11110 a ?Italy of nt lense eitement, by the perpetration of most :puede:nos ass.iult The p r iculars are as lolloss • A mare 11.imiii Ilan er, resit log in t'on(uutug6, n a house Is longing to Plederick I(atitio.olo r til ilitesllinrludt nna, l'a shout t i Li loot e, :in , ' Lang In ai rears for rent. Karnrnachu relit d upon him for hi, moie t y Angry wards between them and Ih.uLer seizing a gun Mailed math Luau:but, ffiltheratelv shot lianunaeher 'the wounded Mall fell in stantly -the shot hating penetrated the cav ity it the chest, to the regidu of the heart. - Amid the «instt:lna t ion is Inch lotion (l, Ba ker managed Itf make ;;nod his escape, At last arcounis Kainniachet etas still living although lass little hope was entertained for his recovery. Ile was a titan of slime hilly cur sixty 3 cars of age, EseArlE ntltarilali. -Michael Bloom and James IleckAth 'lwo of the inmates of our ptil. escaped on Sat tday night last, the latter having dt xteronaly managed to Slip the bolls and liars of his rill and ffittn aid ect the for mer ui Trim of his. From the -on illor they 'lr . & the 'y Ara; and there with the ol d n ais owliar prized open the float-Tung of the lock. We have a good jail Jiut it is evident that the Sheriff must intiothice more vigor into Inc tnaiingement and lay aside those feelings us Inch prompt him to mitigate confintinent to prisopeis for AO long as they are suffered the use of 1 iii es, and t o l ie visi t e d h% friends and fot•iner associates escapes will be main. l'aillocAs ought also to be nightly pl.iced at the bars, ohudi alone would rclider evcape from a cell extremely difficult In the above case t here is no doubt that oulsiders aided in the es cape of the prisoners — Learn/ems Gazette. 1-1-7- A correspondent of the Deafer; Dem ocrat, wilting from lt , ichy Mount, Franklin t'bunty, Va., states That a shocking murder was committed near i bat place about three weeks Lego under the following cireumstan ces : A man named Samuel Furgimon, resi ding six miles front this place, rose from his bed one night, and getting it razor walked to the bed where los wife ass lying, and made a terrible gash from her car to her mouth, cutting of a piece of her ear, and cut ting out twn of her teeth. She cried out and awakened one of Ferguson's brothers. who was sleeping in another room, who im mediately came in, when the murderer went out at the door. The other Furguson fol lowed him, when the husband went back in to the house wi th a hoe in his band, and beat the head of his a t he into a perfect jelly, with the weapon. The murderer was ar rested and is in jail &wilting his trial, Ile pretends to be perfectif deranged since the COMMISSIONERS TO.LITAIL—TI. is now con fidentially asserted that Covsruor Powell and Major McCullough, the Peace Commis sioners to Utah, wlll be instructed to assure the Mormons that it is not the desire of the President and the United States authorities to make war upon them, but to secure the enforcement of the laws, to which end they will be counselled to participate. The Com- Initisioners will also inform them that some tionits will be retained in the Territory to protect emigrants to the Pa•itic frogs the attacks of hostile inttiana , The Commissioners will go with the next reinforcements despatched to Utah. Ng% COUNTY.—A bill has been introduced into the Legislature prtuntilig for the for pn Minn of a new rounty to be 0.1104 “-Ma from portion.; nr,tint eointieß of grie. rrnuforl and Wait ui iii46 - I,!iiitil minALsworript, tit . , 16 119111 P iiiCAL AND PERSONAL• _ - WM, iiARRIS, BEKIT—It is with pleasure that 'we refer to the entire Humes of this gentleman, as Chief Engineer Of hip '.Allo ghohy and Bald Eagle Rail Road. Through his untiring energy and perse ‘ Yermace, the company is deeply indebted for fayorable .Road,_whichin_ a_ matter of dollars and cents, an estimate of has tier. • :" s i eilibe eyerrated. The location of a Rail Road over the 'montane; in the dig ection of the Snow Shoe coal fields, Aves nu enterprise, presenting many obstacles to be overcome imp its sneeeedut aocomplisll. an went, and we congratulate Mr. larris on , surmounting-even / didiuuity, is wettlii the Asa citizen ihtereated in the local attains of Bellefonte, he wea fully aware of the im pel lance which the Completion •of such a project would be to the people, - and" with tlini view, it is but reasonable to suppose he 'Elected every energy to the final success of " the Road.' But we do not allude to this fact, with any idea t..) convey the impression that ho is actuated by motives of a selfish exclusiveness in matters bf so gi;'eat iniport, mice, for in • community numbering ao many estimable and worthy citizens, there is perhaps none who would, be willing to soc ride° greater interests for general' public good. In giving publicity to these remarks, we have b een , induced to them neither from solicitation or prospect of emolument, but from what we consider should be the public acknoe ledgment crP — sirobligation which the people of our neighborhood arc owing Us a worthy man and very useful citizen. AN Esser oN Lire AND 11Lat111.- -Thera +ire few things more essential to the enjoy ot of life. end a hlll'Ot ~sful result proa een'ting every buiinesa relation with which we may come in contact, than genuine good health, and yet how few, who are in full possession of it, learn to properly appreci ate so great a blessing. We have often thought that could the evil consequences arising from a disordered state of the Duman organization, the horrible pictures df lifu %%Mali the imagination sometimes config ures, and the despondency incident to the disarrangement of the nervous system, be laid properly before the mind of the individ cal trio is in full possession of all his (acid ties, and the greatest of all tarthly blessings, health— how soon, indeed, would he learn to appectate such a priceless boon, - and put forth every - possible etTort,do Preserve it un impared. Yet thousands e( people a re ut. telly regardless of the many blesitmo which they enjoy. They hv”, and move, And have their being, apparently unconscious that very, violation of nature's laws must reap eventually a feaiful retrituithtn. Let this important truth he borne upon the mind or every out that if the) are d, giroat to en joy lire, if they a kit to reglas the niysterns of the works of nature, itstirr‘ tent to enni prohend more fully its sublienuat attribute., let them licaiken to Ole VOICO of reas o n ape parentl) e, heed Ilpun alinhst every paaring zephyr, that this entire imperstructUre 14 eiected upon the foundation of 'good health without which a e are miserable indeed let those who enjoy it, guard it with a fog tering earl., end ally who may be already the victuals of incipient &unite, remember the , the ligetteronte Dispensary of .1 h J Ilarris contains the alternative in Drugs and Medicities to eradicate every disease that 111. 1 . 1,l the human body Who indeed liatinot experienced Cue lively Interest that calls forth all the depth of In mite bell iibility. while all around in nature's woks Otero burst upon our nsion the trans cendent 'melimbs which a gradually Ap proaching spring unbosom*. Oh' how de lightful, was i he exclamation of all s nil whom wo came in contact. The glorious sun ; an etheriai sky : the balmy breezes as they ' mingle in the train of Joint co-partnership", - , were mused upon by thousands of eurintlialo- But at length they weaned of the prospect Vol eboyling of unneoeasary fuar usurped Poa ers of Imagination and the evils of 4,- drouth and famine dissipated all the glories of the coming seiStont But lo! a change has come upon the " sprit of' their cfrOims," as dr, nry clouds hang ominously in the Heavens, and drizzling rain came patterin4 ' down 111)011 the mud and cheerless streets, they sigh and rant a lingering look upon depai ted glories, and again they wonder at ihe met iivenienee of continued rains Oh murmuring Israelites ! A little while ago and you expaciated the beauties ofa genial sky. Was ever mystery more inaimpre hrnsible W 0 dollilt the fret, but '• all's well that end, well," and any of our sub scribers can hare sufficient evidence of the fact by purchasing at the Leather, Boot and shoe Store of Mr. Thomas Burnside. The Lewistosai anzettt, says : li. N. Me- AlTster, of Bellefinde, oiled' the Trus tees of the Farmers' High School, addressed the Mifflin cgunty Agamittiral Society and a number of citizens in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening on the objects and pros pects of the institution. About $3OO were subscribed at the close of the meeting, $2OO of which were in four $3O subscriptions.— One half is payable Noy.' Ist, next, the oth er half May let, 1259. Fotngn.— We re ..ealttaipietter hot° Centre Hull a few days agp; tirming' ua t h at I small carpal. bag, supposed to belog4 to lady, was found in that locality. ft tggatio ed many valuable articles, together with a pocket book And some money, all of Whlcat can be obtained if identified byeanialguPou Mr. Peter Ruble of that vicinity. REVIVAL.—A protracted meet:H= 4 los in progress in tho Presbyterian 44 this phi zo for some time, and many - 11011.411 have united themselves' ndth the ohurch , e4 Much interest la manifested in - th;tiiiiuse of religion. The Rev. Mr. hfoLlsin ? of Hunt ingdon, besides other , ministers whose names wo have not learned have taelni likitAtendatlcf to aid the pastor's( the-Chunch; the venom ftthrr lion, OUnditctint the atercion 13 11=111
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