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R. RIBRI , T AND D. BARNHART, BOTTOMS
isECLEFONTE, PENN'A
rjIIIIIIIIIDAV, InAw frr. IS3S.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
BUPRIMII JUIX/K,
WILLIAM A. PORTER
CAN %I, commis:4lomm,
WESTLI 4 IY ktOST.
Utah Inte l ligence
The Washington Ste of the 22nd inst.,
eayA : The news front flab in our telegraphic
columns confirms what we stated yesterday
as being the current belief lit the War ;De
partment. That is, that no partial mai-na
tion of !•isill.Lake City has taken place. The
telegraphic dispatches, however, go on to
State that Col Kane, " tr/10 was sent out a 5
a peace compniagtont r,'' 11118 hail sevei al con
ferences a ith the Mormons, and reports them
generally disposed to maintain pence, ikc.-
-Ntnityfront-thebtationfricinntnm -aro can ob=
tam to•day, this Col. Kane, it seems, is not
a re•retgnvod agent of the Governortnt in any
position, but there is good reason to believe
him a Mormon emoisary and an arrant chest.
Founded 11111011 such information, our opin
ion is that al) such telegraphic news origi
nated mitt& the Mormons themselves in or-
in en ems, an. cause d nunpension of hos
. them......T.lan is the num , 4 0,t1-
m ble when we remember that 'ongress has
not yet passed the bill making the appropri
ation n,Feessary for the three new regiments;
and ati the probability is thart'ungreqs may
adjourn on the ith of June. the intention
ham, no doubt, been to delay and prevent the
appropriation being made. Thin in certain
ly a sensible view to take of the natter and
it is to be hoped the scheme, il L it be such,
may not succeed.
Death of (}en. Smith,
The death of this brave man his cast a
gloom over the couritry. lie died on the
16th inst., at Leavenworth, Kansas. Nearly
ever since his service in the Mexican war,
General Smith has suffered with chronic diar
rhea, and it is probable that this was the
cause of his death. Ile leaves a widow and
an only son—Dr Howard Smith, of:New
Orleans —the child of his first marriage Gls
brother Will other relatives reside in Phila
delphia. in his demise the country loses an
able and gal'ant officer and a large circle of
re,latives and acquaintances will mourn the I
lOU of a valued and excellent friend and
most worthy gentleman.
Gen S. was born in Philad I Iphia, in No
vembet‘ I 798. and was in the 61)th year of
his age. Ile was the ton 9f Jonathan Smith.
fpruier cashier of the Bank of Pennsylvania,
and afterward 3 of the Bank of the United
States.
After graduating at Prnteetnn, hl studted
law under the late Charles Chauncey, Esq.,
of Philadelphia, and op his admission to
practice, removed to New Orleans, where he
resided until the period of the Flom% war,
when he volunteered and nerved gallantly
timing two campaigns under t :elle' al tlaines
It was there that his military talent attract
ed the notice of Gen Taylor, and oil his re
commendation the Governor of Imniniaria
gave Smith the command of the Imisianw
volunteers for services in elm war with Mex
ico. Ile served u 'der General Taylor in the
eampatgn ut the Itio Grande. Ile wax twice
brevetted fur m-ritori ins onudnct, and wore
his laurels VI ith the unitlesty Of a true gen
tleman. Nu man of hitt'rank in the army
better deserved the cmtlidtmce of the Liov
enument and country than Smith
Important intelligence has been received
from Cuba. by the %teamship Iflack Warrior,
arrived yesterday at New York A party of
marines from an English cituser had labded
at one of the Cuban outposts, and had taken
the unparalleled lilsrty of searching the
neighboring plantations for negroes The
Spanish commandant of the point attacked
was ordered to trial at Havana, for his dere
liction of duty in not retooling the Insult
offered to the Sphrusli flag Trouble toeing
to he brewing, and it would not occasion
surprise at any moment to hear of a conflict
of arms in that quarter.
• The Secretary of State has opened a.corres
pondence with the British envoy, Lord Na
pier, about the searching and firing into our
vessels, and his lordship will at once remon
strate with the commander or the British
wuadron in the (lull. It in' believed that
our own government also hay issued orders
to the V. 8. quadron on the subject.
The investigation of tho wholesale slaugh
ter on the New York Central Railroad, re
cently—so far—leaves no doubt upon the
minds of impartial and intelligent engi
neers, ‘hat the slaughter was the result of
t'he most criminal carelessness on the part
of the management of the road•
In the United State Senate, a number of
private bins were - passe& --Ttle--femidos,-ro
fused to take up Mr. Uwin's Pacific Ilb„ilroad
bill. The homestead, bill, which was Ole
speOial order, was considered. Mr. Johnson.
of Tennessee, ably advocated the measure.
lie action was had on the bill.
The transfer of the public work to the
.Sunbury & Erie railroad, took place on the
19th. Jas Dieffenbauch lopabeon appoint
ed SUpervisor, in place of Wm. Elliott, on
'the Susquehanna division.
Mr. Hackney, Doorkeeper of the jj o of R.
In Congress, has been turned out fur fraud
end speculation. and one of hi , : assistants,
Mr. 11:t iglit of N J ,Olects4 in Ina place,
land Donation Claufee of the Three Bills,
Compared.
Silly charges, says the Washington Un
ion, scarcely ever deserve the comididient of
serious notice ; but as there are various and
sundry silly charges, urged by the defeated
coalition,against the act which has just pas
! sed for the admission of Kansas into the
Onion, which are leveled at the land ordb ,
nance which it submits to popular vote in
Kansan—we may as well expose the stupidi
ty of these charges, and the stultifiCation
which those whq, - urge them commit, by
simply comparing the land clause embodied
in this act, Wlffolliat wliThlinfas incorpora
ted in the Crittenden amendment, a n d re•
ceived the sanction of the whole opposition
vote in the Senate, and with thin Anse
which was incorporated in the Montgomery
substitute, for which every opposition morn
ber in the House is recorded as VOtill4e.
In order that there may be no possible
mistake on the subject, we shall place all
three of these ordinances side by shit in the
same column. The public will see that the
difference between tweolledum against
which the opposition are now making so load
and stentorian a noise, and The two tweedie•
deer; which they themselves voted' fur AO
supported only a fortnight ago, 3 precisely
the same as that old proverbial ditlimence
supposed to exist between six and
dozen.
Ilere follow the three ordinances If CI
(her one of them contains a bribe of Omen 'Or
four millions of acres to the pet.pla of Kau.
Ray, so do the,other two. I f either one of
them embodies Mr. W int( r t►avts' fright
ful bugaboo of an assault upon State Aiv•
eretgoty, ao do the other two , ; for all three
of them cmillidy that gin nt Huh of a chins
MA runs the work '•ln nu e.IS(• qh
non-resident proprietors tie to xed Inght r
than the residents "
ThrTniFhililf There,7i,,Tirn - The 17;w1 4 ,,iee
Be tt•,,teleel, A ..,Itotry ~..Ztdr,iltear
, • • • • Ner h :4:• v A
l'hot the follow- it la, ens- le f , rther es
tog propintillong n, leJ,Tilliii ill() gortrd,Tont the
he and the Paton following prop- follow log prop
lire bereby,Offer• 111111.1131115 11/111 01 , 1110111 , 1 he, and
eat to the people the mune n ro the 1.1111.•
of K 11119114 f or no- hereby, iitTiireil hereby, offered
eironni 0 or rOilTl- ill the Mud TOO- to line said
limns, which, if lie-file of k otectit file of Klll/91V1
cc ted shall be for their free ne- tor their free
United Stales jeet innorbielt r i I rejarellon,wlt orb
and upon the accepted, "Moll t f /see led
said Flatcar Kan- ho obligatory "hull be obliga
tion*, wit First. on the United tory oh the
7'h tt. sections States slot upon I orbit Staten
number sixteen the Saul Stole of and utom the
and thirty•Sil 111 E Nile. to nil raid State of
et cry township That sec Kann, to wit
puhitz hinds lit hone nu inherol ,f 'l' hot
noel State, or sixteen and sections aunt
where either of thirty-its in cc bored nirteen
said SOetione orery town,!, p tat n.: I thirly,six
any parts thereof public lambi in in es cry
tinn
has been mold or said State, and glop of miloltre
otherwise tiler where either or land" in said
sett of, other said section., Or State, nit
lands equivalent any parr !herr• where either of
therek t and as of, has been BOW Pdd se,tiens,
contiguous as or otherwise dim- or any part
may be, shall posed of, other thereofhas berm
be granted to lands equii a mold or othxr
said Stale for lent thereto and Wire been olis•
t h e u no of asconliguons as poso,l of, other
schools Seo'aid, way be, shall lairds 0,1 11 1a-
That seventy- be grouted to lent thereto,nrol
Iwo sections of said State for no emit nouns en
land shall be the use 0 f may ire Shall
set apart and Schmitt Nee. grunt tad to n u,/
reserved for the and That awe- State for the urns
support of n enty• Iwo so, or soloods
st a t e t• a t eer a i - lion, of land trod, That Ser.
ty. to be,,selselo shall he net enty-t 0 gee
oi l by th e g o , part and Muer lions of land
error of nal4 ed for the use nhall be not n-r
late, rephjettt and Rapport of part and reser,
to to nppmt al a State Um- oil for the use
of the Commis verso y to Ire and so pp rr of
Mettler of the ,elected by the sod 1011,
general Land ()mentor of to he PlOlOOll,l
Oman, and lobo nail Slate nub by the gover
apropr a-t e d icet to the ap• nor of nod I 'Mtn to
and applied In meal of the aultirot to the
such Manilla r °Minim; nor to( apprto of or Ili.,
the 'Legislature the 11 . e tteral Comm; rsioner of
of said State Loot Offhw and the it enera i
May preseribe to be appropri Land Office and
for the ;AM.., Sled and up- to be at,propri
a y orea , L ht, b u t idled In"
ut•ti sited and nit
Pie tiouther pur- manner as the plied 111
pose Third, I..ord:store of manner an the
net ten entire Field Stole tiny legislature of
seet to os o f land, pre...Hint for said State may
In be selected the purpose n prenoribe for
by th e (doe., foresaid, Intl for the purist,
nor of amid State no other pur forermid .but
in legal nubdi.pone Thrr,l, for norther pur j
onion, ,hall be Th.t ten eotire rse
ranted I. said seamen ',flood, fit it ten entire
State f o r ..tba t t , in lel protein, of Intel
entree or vim- the I;o, or to Ito solieettol
Dieting the pub nor of nail state Iry the governor I
Iw b a lui tega , or in legal 51111th- of sail State, in
f„, t h e e ,„.t ion viouun , elicit tin leg 11 eliVolls le
of others at thegranted to sold ions, "boll tor
neat of tiorern State for the granted to bud
meet under lhe patinae ef 1114.141 Stale fir tho
dir,„,iein of th e pleting the 1101, prirl.lle ofry
Legio I store Ito buildings or plelingthe pal
thereof Fourth, for the eretAl to he troubling", or
That all salt of otlwro at the for gm creetlon
springs within neat of govern- of I,lliora at the
Raid State, not ment,undor the neat of got ero
iteeetting dimetinnof the !tient nude, t
t we l ve i t , nu m. I egi slature direei ~,,, of the
h er , with $1.4 ther'of , rho leglrlot II re
section" of land, That all null there , rf Po'ref,
, o li on - ong , or as springs within That all ntlt
contiguous as sold State, not spring,. outdo
mo y ho to each, o see c I hg sail State, nut
shall be grant- twelve in num, esceed tog
edlii„eel State her, with min f we!, ein nuto -
for its one, the sections of hunt her, widi nit
enure t o b e ne- adjoining, or ad sections of laud
leered by the nontletiosie as adjoining, or on
governor there. may be 10 sash cool tguous s j s
of, within one nhnll be grant may he en ~ b
year after the ed to staid Stale shall be metal
a d ni t w i en of for its WWI Ihe to IMO Stati• for
ne m State, an d some to be se- its tine, the Slone
when so select. heeled by the to be selonoted
eti, to Ito used governor there try the got error
or d two r ro d of of within ono thereof withui
on such terms, year after the . yen after
oondltionn, amt adult...don of the admi soon
regulations as 8,161 little and of laid. Stec,
the legislature when so orb •t. and wh en anon
inlay direct Oil to be toned or !octet!, ho
l'rewtdfd. That dispolied of on wont and di,
no salt spring or suAkjyrins 4.01, posed of on /11,h
land, the right !Whirls ansVreg- I nrin ,, ,oondi
WhereOf now illation. ILA tint 111,11,4 NM 1,111-
veseted in any legislature shall lotion. as the
Individual, or direct Pror/ • logislatilre shall
individuals. or derl,..(hati no dtrret • r,„,,i.
w ie brig y 11aIC riug or d.. 1, 'flint no
Lereacisis La land. e right salt wring or
narniesllll. ad- whereof in now land. rho right
iudged lo any vested in any whereat' 61 DOW
nilividual or 111,1iVii111111 or vested in any
Indlvirtuall indiiidnnls, or individual orin
shall by this Kr- which may lie 111 vulunlA, or
(Idle be granted aercarlet con- which may Ira
to said Plato limed or ad- hereafter eon-
Fifth, That ere judged to any finned adjuilic
per centum of Ilndivida, l or oil to nil nob
the not pro. hid la. ritual or initi
coed, of melon of Mall by Linn or. s !dual, by
all Ibe publio llele be ranted till, Article be
lands lng to said ,State, granted sold
within s aid Fifth, Chat State hip/,
State which tee per emitter% That firif . ,per
obeli be sold by of the net pro- centum of the
Congreas after coeds of eater of not proceed, of
the admission all public land, sales of all pub
of said State in- lying within lic lands lying
to the Union a 6 said Stale which within sal d
ter deducting shalt be Sold by State, widish
all the expenses' Congress after shall be sold by
ineldept to the the admission of Congress after
same, lhall be said' State into the admlssionor
_ the115i1en,...“.—.44-iiiut. in •
Rate for the deduoting all the Union, seer
purpose of ma- the expense In- deducting all
king public cident to the the expenses in
roads and In. same shall be, °Went to Able
t ,„ . rnal improve- paid to said same, shall Ile
menu" as the State, for the paid to said
t iii iod i d,,,:ye skill purpose of ma- State, for the
direct Fr.'s's- king 4 .. public purpose of ma
, The furs - roads and In- king public
going )nrnal m prove - roads and In.
Lions herein of. mon: as the termsi ire rove
faredare on the legistawrs shall meats, as the le
condition that direct • e'revi- &Ware shall
said State of de,/, The fort- direct • Prom.-
Kamm shell going propos!. dor, The fore
never-Interfere hens herein of. Irolilf SP OII-
With the prima- fered ere on the Wine h be.
ry disposal of condition that, fore eta Imo
the land of the the people of on 'the eendi.
United States, Kansas shall lion that the
or with auy provide, by an people of Miu
ra gulat i on ordlnanee, ir- sas shall pro
which Congress j no t ablil with. Aide, by an or-
flail neeentary out the consent d lemma, irrevo•
for securing the or the United cable without
title in said States, that said
t the consent of
soil to bona fair Step sholl nev- he Uni
pu r alias r into rfo ro States, that said
therm, f; nntl with the poi- State Oh.:1 PO% -
that' no taxes leery dispoenl of or i nteoferewlth
shall be impoo- the soil within the primary dle
eil on hinds be- the name, by PODOI of the sell
longing to tho the United within thereinto
United States, States, or with by the United
and that in no any regulations Stelae, or with
page shall no n- Congress may any rogutatlitne
resident pro- _find necessary Congress may
prieters be tax- for securing tho
for
necessary
ed higher • than title le said soil for encoring the
reeideuts Sixth to bonoffrir pun- title In ink' soil
And that said chasers thoroof, In bonafide toe-
Stnto shall nor- ,en d that no tax chimers thereof,
or tab' the lands Anti be impero and that On toe
or p ro p er ty o r oil on lands be• shall be imps
tit° u o t to i t long ing to the ad on lands be-
Stolen in un ited States, lonFing to the
State nod that in no United States,
oboe shall non- and that In no
resident prepri- ease shall non
, eloro be hired resident proprb
higher than roe- Mors be taxed
ideals. higher than res
idents Su r/,
And . that the
said State shalt
never tax the
lands or the
property of the
United States in
thilf Stale Pro
1' riled, hole.tpw,
That nothing in
this act of ad
mission shall be
no construed US
to ratify or so
rapt the °rill
natute ,attaelcial
to said toilet Wit
tion ; hot soul
ordiOnneo Ie
hereby rejootod
by the 111,1oro
,moot of, the
1 ,teed SIAN,
IME
Moiv British Insults
144.-fitt4l..Ntlr }<frit ['Alin ti , ,
Captnur IlOrtle., of the soltoone: M•Mile, just
nnived floor llotile, reports the roil. nig
nttnck made upon her by tt Ilrittsh vessel of
(hi the 29(1t ult., when In clay tire miles
south of Key West, saw a htesniship to
in besting flown for us : hove to, to
speak her, and n hen within vino shot (ha-
balls of which passed the nierPon deck and
lodged in the Imile:irks ; then hauled down
the jibs, s hen they fir Gil two more shots ;
their then sent - a boat on hoard' the Mobile
and overhanled the vessel's papers, and de.
(dared their intention to si,we the i essel,she
not having si foreign register on board, but
afters and left without (tiring so They gave
no reason for acting as they did, nor did they
- deny plainly seeing the American ensign set
on our vessel. The vessel itas the British
tsar steatitic! St) 5.
Another of a similar character is thus
stilted and COMlnented upon by the Pluladel
phis Press
By reference to the sh:pping news, it will
Ibe noticed that the ship Tropic Bird.''
' wl.icluAurived yesterday front Port au Prince,
consigned to the old established house of
Thomas Watson & Sons, of this city, was
fired into by the British gindsrat " Jasper,"
MT Magna, upon suspicion of being a sins er
Not content it 101 this belligerent demonstra
tion, the HI itkh °Hirer in charge of the Jas.
net . , took the liberty of sending a boat to
tlre • Tropic hied" and examine the
ship's piters
There to but one remark to make upon
state of f ac ts scch as arc here presented,
and that Is. that 11 will he the wi.teht policy
for British ennsers lot to push this search.
question ally.farlher 511C11 I% thing
its '• rlipgylfnj OM) much sail. and the 'Jel
in-wee perpetrators of these •tnt.nrr.inledl
0111111 g, VI 111 4111 , ,0W41% if t4wy do trot I Rill
in tit - en-canvas that they run a strong like
'Moist of a decided i apsue. helped by !11 ,
pia eau! aid of an iron lo ...kid, 140111 .141
AlllllOlll Inigste There is ft point ir In r e
r01111111r1l1111,0(1}14,i ltl be is virtue and this
point iIII 004,11 111.1 a'c'hed, If III( sr 114 Ifor-
Mane, are to lie repeat, I in/ Ilha UM It
the duty of the Blotch tiovernment to dea
-1
VOW at our Ihe C 011111144 et officer., stir
bait. acted 1114 if aetuatist by a 11,11, 141 pro
oke OK : 1 L1N.1141411C of a 11111.14/11111 4'4411111d of
arms
11(1171 TI,ITI I NOT PIII041111.1.: ' WM/
nOl 1.11 It it F: SI 1 . 1 . 11 , 4.1 , t One lessie
Daily was tncd on Thin clay last, before
Esquire Sullivan, of linlianapolis' far illegal
voting nt the late &tatter election in that
admitted the charge, and was
fluid $lll - and coals Ire soled a straight
Republican ticket in the First, Second, Third,
Filth and Sixth Wards That aas inulti•
plying onesell very rapidly, and accounts
very satisfactorily for the great increase nl
the Iteputilitran vote of that eit) The fel
low had the night trefore attended a Itepub
hear' meeting and was made indignant at
the recital of the Delaware Crossing, kieka
poo, Mer; r e ‘and Oxford fraud-4 In Kansan,
anti thought it was tithe for the itrimithc•ins
to catch tip, and aas determined to do Ins
share, amide! it. His co-atrrkers have not
yet been taken. —Cr/Untied(' Pe17111,,r.
W Ill) A\TS TO 111.011' Tlf otP. m tN
sts 0 -The St I,OIIIS Dr/tlti , ,rt, one of the
tine,t. vehement Illitek Itopubloan impels in
the Paton, lIVICIEICR the people of Kansas to
reject the Lecomplon lamil ordinance, as a.
mended by Congress, for the leason that. if
they wait they u 11l get twenty millions
more acres of land than iq proposed by the
Isle adjustment from the next Con
gress, t+lki-Ir it predicts will 'be Black Re
puliltesm In other worit.v, that peculiarly
honest part), through its organs, offer !Can.
4aB four times 6.4 touch lend AS is usually,
15iven to new Steles, if she 'will reject the
LUemmpton Llesuititution. This ought to shut
ip the mouths or the Bleck Ite_publicnnß
about .‘ bribery.",--CUIC4IIIIIIiI I.:411111er.
A Pima —" Seoul." the Philadelphia
cetrespondent of the Trenton 7'hir• dirroT
lean, says that Colonel Forney voted the en
tire Desnooratic ticket at the recent election
in Philadelphia. yet lie has daily asserted
in the Pr, ss, since the election,)hat the only
isNoe involved in ths, contest , WAS the Kiva-
Aft% policy of the Preeidcnt, end "Seosit"
'pertinently aske " Now. if theiitizenm of
Philadelphia wet? called upon to give their
verdict-for us against the 1.-conipton Con
stitution, how came John W. Forney to re
cord hie vote in favor of becompton I" -
El'ashingion
We have received a copy of the Lecomp
ton (K. T.) Democrat, printed since hearing
4f-the -Fauna
the course of s long article says'?
"There is nothing kilhe pseposition made
by Congress, but what any afid every man
In Kansas, desirous of securing its peace and
prosperity, may honorably accept; and we
venture to predict, that a large majority .0
our settlers will do so, by a vote of accep
tance, when the proposition is placed before
them." This opinion is a significant one,
coining as it does from a paper that bitterly
opposed the Locompton Constitution.
ANOTITIM RIIPMILICAN VICTORY.-
Tho state , treasury of lowa is said to be in
in unsatisfactory oondition, a check of a cer
tain banking firm occupying the place where
there should be 0/60,000, and $30,000, more
being mysteriously missing.
PEN, PASTE. & scresoßks.
r-
r 7 Deal—n:l'4NT F. Sill 01.
tit:7 - Fine Officer- T flygon Treziyni ny.
(O•tiagreasing—Our aubsoyiption I igt.
(C- Tainted regularly—Tbd Watchman
[l3 Arrived—Another large lot of strych
nine.
fr -- Knocked under- -Brigham You.ng and
hi, followers.
Good Sermons—Those preached by
Rev. Snyder Ira Sunday,
in- Doctrine is nothing but the, skin of
Truth sot up and stuffed.
Ife who linos only to lienclit itirnstlf;
byes the world n benefit When he dig.
[0 - Delighted —The old maids and wid•
ows at toe return of Pappy Pottsgrove,
Any feeling that takes a man away
from his home, is a traitor to the household.
tr - / - GeOrge F. Miller, Esq.; has bought
tho farm of Airy Moore, near Lewisburg, for
$21,000. •
T 7 The llarrisburg Herald contradicts
the report that Ilaman the insane poet is
recovering.
G-7- Messed are they who do not ativer
lige, for airi , will rarely be troubled with
customers. -
Cry - (lov. Pollock is spoken of by the op
position as a candiditte for Judge of the Su.
prtme Court.
Cry' Stirred rp—Someof the old IlachelorA
town----two of them %%ere after one lady
last evening.
Li WomAN— The last and best of all the
series. If we:may have lie, for a toast, we
uon't ask for any led her.
(ri The name of Y.nma "is proposed
for a new territory, to be formed ft•oun the
at.dern division of Utah. •
The edito rs of the Lelthinult,Chron,
a Look bindery with
Mem printing establishment.
rf All a man MIA to do in these days to
pay.' for a genius, iv to button lit coat be
hind, and wear his list wrong side•ont.
trr The meanest man in the country is
decided to he John ,%gustos Washington,
the huckster of the tomb of Washington
a":::p One of our on tors asks what animals
never etc - MR of (heir beds till they are
pulled out.
tr - • Don't forget to remember nor remem
ber to forget to buy your goods from those
ho can (dim! in advertise Jr you want
rAro)i good,
[l7" Will nor lloiough Fathers ua.s anor
dmance prohibiting the tearing down and
rlefAirmg hand-lolls I We would like to see
•" regulum hog law put in force.
117 Mr. .11bett Smith %cro:,e e n 6,,
Lel visitor's book. his initials A. "
ti"tne Wag rate underneath, •• Two-thmtg
of the truth "
ir - 7- It is said that the free negmes of Tex-
RN are availing themselves of a reeenr law
of that State enabling them to choose mas
s anti becomes slaves.
cry- " Figgers vont he, viii they ?" mut
tered a seedy genius, holding on to a lamp
post. Veld lamps they vont ; but rse a
figger vot vont stand, anyhow.'!
ri A rha r out West • Who had been a(-
Haled with palpitation of the heart, says be
found instant rehrf by 14 application ~1
another palpitating heart to the part all•rted
Ili' Dreadful , Ittint Inn A man hetn ren
Inn brfts4-1001.41 ladle% iVe 'OIWIII tont;
the other ;Inv %An) had 1„,,r, hi, bruit leg.;
lipprd to !tient% in going throligli the ex per
'meta.
Imo ran tell whether hr 14 rich or
poor 11 ttlevisig to los lell,2;rr It is the
heart that pod.," tt than rollt IL! II rieh or
'won. :terordolg; to Mist lie IN, mot areonhtig
to «•hat lM• has
kr; excliarPg.• , rt‘m - Put rrrnut
41,1 , , , in,ttlt• and plan. it 1.1 nil nl,l liael•-
fru ft will frenix." %Vim! would it
do if I,l4f:till in nil 01,1 wail. 1,0-ififf Turn
~liar %, e
r;" - / - An Irishman being asked a certif
icate of his marriage, hared 1114 head, and
exhibited a loge sear, which looked as
though it might have been Jwide wilhn lire
shot el The evidence teas satisfactory.
Will those of our coteMpOraneS to
this Congressional District, opposed to the
adIIIISSIJII of Kansas under the English bill,
publish the three land ordinanees "
Inched to •Ite Crittenden amendment, the,
Montgomery-Crittenden amendment, and
the English Conference Kansas Bill, it hidi
will be lurid 111 another column 1
Robbers Arrested
During the lest few months says 411 ex
change, nn extensive and well organized
avid, in of tlieiving has been carried on in
the A iminty of McGregor, Plaine du Chien,
Lit Crosse, etc , unit large amounts of prop.
crty of various kinds, have from time to time
disappeared, baffling all search for it. Re
cent developments. made through the reve
lations of a dissatisfied member of the gang,
alio hail carried on these operations, led to
the conchnsion that the pearl punters of the
theives were on Big Island, about live miles
below McGregor. A party from McGregor
att. nut to inspect this Island, and after a
careful search disonvered a camp in which
were (leo. Scoville, a butcher of Nlcilregor,
a Mall named Ilc well, and a boy nine y, iirs
old. These persona were taken into custo
dy, and from them it was ascertained that a
man calling himself Dr Bell had collimate]
of a boat loaded with stolen good:, The
next morning this beat was discovered', and
*conflict enstoxl, in which Bell was shot in
the head, but not foolly injured. Ile made
his eascpe, hilt the boat And tuo other bar
ges loaded with plorder were taken to Me
(rcgor. Thu property thus taken amounts
in value to oboe', $4,000. TheAlekireg-or
Times says:
'.• The porsons arrested, are begihning to
confess and expose their accomplices. Bell
is badly hurt and not far distant, the officers
are on the alert and it is hoped that this is
to result in breaking up one of the most for
midable hand of r&Lers ever organized in
the West. The name 01 John C. Bishop,
the Osage land robber, is connected with
this party, and it is believed by the prison
ers that a boat containing $10,001) worth of
gobde (coin LaCrosse and other towns, left
the depot first spoken on the 15 of last
month for the benehlt of said-110)!bp ; said
boat was seen near Muscatine t weeks
ago bound for St. laiiiii.
Bishop ,was undougffir bound- up the
Missoun River, either to Kansas or Nebras
ka. We learn that officers front Chicago
and other places are on his track, and will
"triton bI m it poseibbr — ----- ---- - ----
P. .4.--we learn that the Vigilance Coin
mitten at Psairie du Chitin have already ar
rested 14, and as the rope is applied to the
necks of some as a persuader, they are tell
ing all they know with great liberality.
I ) AN lia. WIND THAT BLOWN NOVODY
GlOOD.''—The crevasses on the 'ltliSsisalppi,
that have paused so great destrietion, to
plantations and other 'property, have [icon
the means ot redeeming , much Arn-out and
waste lanchl. Many plantations, it is said,
that hive been abandoned fin years, will be
greatly enhanded in value and rendered cul
tivable by the deposits of alluvium and veg
otabto matterleft by the muddy water of the
river which bas overflowed them. So. what
is ore man's loss, is another's gain.
ttorrespo6entt.
For the Detnooratie Watehtikan
roNTJAc KaY. nth, 1&8
Massns BIKLY tt BARNHART :
GHNTIAMMN should have written to
you long before this, but owing to cirenre :
stances unalohlable, on my part, I Ire been
compelled to defer any and everything in
the hllOl.O of a newspaper correspondence.
Much as I value your paper—much is I
prize your editorial and local matter in that
;taper, allow me to say, (although I have
ken negligent and to a great degree care
leas in giving it that attention which it so
well merits,) 1 do most sincerely appreciate
its presence, and that day upon which it ar
rives 1 hail it with the proudest and most de
leted welcome. Oh !no one can know how
dearly the heart can cherish the weekly visit
of a far-off newspaper friend. It itia link
of iOly remembrance which connects the
happy past in a favorite and,loved county of
a native State, with that of the stirring pres
ent in an,adopted county of a growing, 3,9 t
wild Western State. I hail the Watchman
as a very near and dear friend—one that
posts me witli!all the - various news of partic
ular moment current in the much loved
County of Centre, CollBOfillently its weekly
preseiiee is of infinite value, whilst 'its ab
setirc would be an tnfinite loss.
But, to my letter, I left the pleasant and
fertile valley of Nittany on the 29th day of
Match, and landed safely in Pontiac, ',iv ,
mgsdon etninty, Illinois, on the Ist day of
Apra.— arua, 1 -had-once emery--agreeably
spent nine months in, this same town, but at
WAS RI a time when it WRS yet in its infan
cy -a town beginning—now three yeins
have eloped since then Pontiac at that
{lulu coniamed a population of about 3lal ;
no churches, no respectable dwelling houses
-andbut a very poor apology for a Court
llouse—New, it contains a population of
over 11100, a Targetind splendld Court House,
with ',hailed and ornamented grounds, two
large churches, an academy, and several
splendid dwelling holism
Pontiac is Mimed after the celebrated
chit fof the tribe Illinois huh asis, noted
hi•tory fur his undaunted bravery and
his unlimited kindness It is the county
-wet of the largest and most fertile countries
nn the State of Illinois Livingston county,
occupies an east-central position. Most of
its prairie la I,ls are high and rolling —in a
word table 11111 , 14. The, County is wit tim
bered aid will nil its western vicinity are
fiMnd immense lied; of coal—known as the
Reading Coal mows -A mineral not much
inferior to the reklorated coal manes of Snow
Shoe The county is principally settled by
New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians, and Indian-
Hs, the former and latter of which are the
urniq numerous.
'The Farming community are remarkable
for their tnduvtry, energy and unparalleled
'literality. A fart here to support this
as
s I (ion may not be out of place. 1 will note
it --Three years ago there wan scarcely e
iningdi of proilum , raised within the comity
to ensure a safe bunmens forgram purchasers,
consequently, all the produce of the :trimly
as brut:Wit to Pontine, and purchased by
one man at. very low Irwin s, and be for
-IYIII (111 , tgo, via l'hicago, Alton, St
Louis ltail Road, (which passes through the
eentie r f the county. realized a very
inilsorne Income lherrfrom. Now we liar e
or a Vial giant LI) ers, and there in great coin
petition the Jesuit of w Inch is, it Iran in
duced unruly funnel 10 eq/11 , and plant more,
NIA inthkeed mazy others who hare left their
I lands herr tof Ire lay idle and ummproved to
go to work and cultivate those lands, and
now Instead of the hundreds of bushels of
Horn aud,wheat that was brought to Pontine
then . 4 .we have now the thousand, thus in
creasing in three yearn in a tenfold propor
tion.
These ate facts indisputable. Not ith•
standing the hard tames." Corn sells for
cash nt this place delivered at 38c per bu.,
wheat 514 e, with a fair prospect of increas
ing ra has. Considering tie great abundance
of such grain, this is eslooned a big price in
the present financial embarrassment. A great.
quantity if it iTiter %heat is raised in this
colony, and the present indicates a very
abundant harvest this season. I know of
sevei al fame's, who have each put out
200 acres of N inter and spring wheat, and
from 2to 300 acres of corn. It requires so
little labor to raise grain here, and 114 most
of Llie seeding, harvesting, nod dirt:slung is
d e me by improved machines, but a small a
mount of manual labor is required. /knee
great profits arise from the different produce
raised by farms rs— even at the Lois prices
when comppied with Pennsylvania rates.
There arc plenty of good tillable lands in
this county, with and near timber, which
can be baght from 8 to 12 dollars per acre,
ao : lknow of some few well improved farms
t tsanlalitanglit for Itriier ecru. There
is'rnbdoubledly, a great opening hero for
those who wish fo settle as' farmers, and
have a capital oflfrom two to four thousand
dollars. 11'41 confident that beftlfe two
years pass they will double the amount of
money invested.
The present crisis has materially affected
sonic of the large land.owncrs, and they aro
now forced to sell at'.low figures--or else
sidierthoir lands to be sold at Sheriff's sale
or for
Tho general health of the Couti,ty is good
No lours need be entertained on that score
There. is a great opening in Pontiac for all
kinds of business and professional men.—
rep\
[-TheigreatestAtutt litrt; is a - well -
shrewd and
. msetil lawyer i e We h
tit:nil e eight pettifoggers hero, but not on
them can be safely trusted. You are over
stocked in Bellefonte. Send us a Bush and
a Mitchell, and I will guarantee them a
handsome fortune before three years. Thcro
is no mistake about this—it is as-Nfrao iter
truth can bo written. The raison why this
portion of the West oilers such inducements,
is plain, for years back Iowa! IMera! has
been the great hue and Dry. The result has
been that Eastern men have flocked to that
State in overabundance, and have entiroTy
overlooked this portion of Illinois. Now
that 'heir fondest anticipations Jaae not
been realized they are relmning to mooto
among us, an ere many years we, will be a I
J greater nation" than lowa
•
CLINTi)N COrNT.Y. — Taa Luc k
Butt have written beyond the afotted, ft-14 . Ilon a
• - ^ - '• WSW imairsnyn.
that we chronicle the death of %mitt
wit sincere roo t
space (I column.) Forgive me, I nave not
pet haltetanmenced, but hope by your in- firiclgens, only son of Mr. M. 8
• JIM 01
dillgeaCo to continue the subject, hereafter. this place, Who met an Untimely death Ly
with
a oho knew him. 11% line been incised but
cir wll - Liwni ab n r g ig i i i: i th li e tt c lo an b r o il y on wi l d a s
a t
r t n i vr i o d r a i i: ,..,
In the meantime, accept my thanks for your Itt
unparalleled kindness, whilst I renrain
Yours in all t i ruth, a few moments, when his hat was 30011 float.
ing iipon the wateriand lie was immoi late l y
rescued, bat not before the vital "spark had
fled. The afflicted parents have the heart
felt sympathy of the whole community.. .
The Clinton Demoorat says, a partially me.
cessful attempt to cut the Boom at thiit place,
was made on Thursday night last, by it p ar .
ty of Men hailing from Williamsport, soma
of Whom we should have thought incapabei
of such a skulking act. Twelve or OM tee n
of the reties concerned have been arrested,
.bit Sheriff McGhee and his Deputies, and
' held to bail to answer for their conduct and
damages at the September Court. • 'rh o
Saw and Plaining Mill owned by' Marcu4 M.
Wheelock, in Lock Haven, was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday morning laid. .
dire wan not discovered until it was too late
to ettinguish it. The loss to the owner is
probably between $2,000 and 113,001, Iv,
hay& not heard whether thin nrimerty was
insured. •
[For the Demoeratle Watchman.)
Luck in Firming.
There aro but Jew words oftner upon the
lips of certain class of farmers than "luck."
nailer is a " lucky dog," because his corn
never rots, his wheat never winter-kills, his
sheep never get l into his rye, and his cows
never invade his orchar, and meadows.—
His crops are better than his neighbor's,
his butter br 4 Ogs more in the market, and
even his wife and children have a more, con
tented look than other people. Every thing
Inq touches thrives. . 4 1Vhat a lucky Man
Fisher is !
Now the fact m, " lurk" has nothing to
do . with i'isherki snccess in life. If you will
watch the man, you will find that every re
sult he reaches, is anticipated a nd planned
for, and comes from his own wit and work.
It im the legitimate reward of Ms lalxirs, and
it would have been pmnatinced bad luck, if
it had turned out otherwise. His cern al
rirlys comes up, becau ,c he always selects
the seed himself and hang. it up in the
hunks in the garret, where it iv thonnaghly
vied.— Ike liars- riot plant; - milk the mni-torg
warmed the sod enough to give the germ nn
immediate start. lie drains his wheat fields
with tile, and the water that:used to foie*
and thaw upon the surface mid throw the
roots of the wheat out and kills them, now
passes down into drains and runs off. Ilse
fields are green and beautiful in the spring,
when his neighbors are russet brews and
desolate. Ills fences are in good repair, and
his animals are not made breachy by the
continual temptation of dilapidated walls,—
Ilis wife and children arc couifortabte cloth
ed and fed, and arc not kept in a continual
fret and worry by a husband and father who
has no system or energy in his busineis.—
A limo and place for everything," is his
motto carefully camel out The shoema
ker is always called in when hi!, services are
needed, and none of his household get wet
feet, catch cdld, have the lung lever. and
run up a doctor's bill to twenty dollars, for
a cents worth of leather at the right time,
and in the right place. Fisher, in fact, does
not believe in luck. Ile knows lbat health
in the family, and thrift upon the farm, de
pend upon a thousand little things that
many of his neighbors arc too lazy or care
less to look after. So while they are at the
tavern or lon fing in the village, or pethaps
running a muck in palthrs, he is looking af
ter these little things, and laying his plans
for the next week, or next year. lle has
good coin even in the poorest year, because
the extra manure it needs to bring good,
long, plump, w ell capped cars, has been ap...
plied properly and It the right time. Ile
calculated to have - eiglity;bushels to the acre,
and has it, good measure, and running vier
Talk to him about luck, and he will sty to
von • It's all nonsense. Bail luck is mini
ply a Tall with his hand, ui his pockets,
and a pipe in his month, took, at; to see how
it will come out. Good luck is ft man of,
pluck to meet difficulties with his sleeves
roiled up, and tent-king to make it come out I
right. lle rarely fads- At I:ast he never
did,"
Fisher IR exult right after all. Attend to
your business right, and at the right. time,
if you "would hare good luck. YF.
Howard, May 17th, 1858.
TMYORT4NT FROM UTAIL-ST LOIN, May
17.—An express agent from Camp Scott
with advmes to the 10th of April, arrived at
Fort Leavenworth on Thursday last. 11e
firings the important intelligence that the
Mormons of Utah had laid down then arms,
and that Governor Cummings had entered
Salt Lake City on invitation of . Brigham
Young, and without the protection of a mil
itary escort.
, 1s a further proof of the peaceful inten :
lions of the people, large numbers hail al
ready taken their departure for the Sierra
Nevada, and others a cre preparing to fol•
low.
Col. Kane, the Peace Commissioner from
the 11. S., arrived , at Salt Lake City, via
California on the 25th of February.
111 demolishing the walls of the old Gosh
eilhoppen Church near Norristown, Pa.,
week before last, the corner stone was found
in tke north-cast corner of the building. It
is a sandstone, about one and a half feet
long and fifteen inches in breadth. It con
tamed two small coins, one dated 1625 and
the other 1652. The one is supposed to be
an English and the other a German coin. A
small flask, containing some tasteless liquor
supposed to have been wine, and a quantity
of black moulolered parchment, were also
found in it. This was one of the oldest
Churches in the country, having been erect
ed in the year 1744,
On Psiday night hot a furious storm pass
ed over Columbus, Ohio. Van Amburgh's
huge menagerie teat was blown down. The
women screamed, the children cried, the
lions roared, the aniffials made all the noise
they could,and there was a general rush to
swaps out of the show into the wind and
rain. They all received a good dreching,
and went home perfectly satbilikid.with a sight
of the elephant.
SKICTISNON COALMLITED. —Goy. Allston, of
South Carolina, has commuted the sentence
of death passed on Thomas McAndrew. in
lieu thoreof,the prisoner is to receive 69 lash
es, to be inflicted in the jail yard. as follows:
25 bathes on the 10th ipstant: 25 on the 17th
and-14-er" the-- ihltit.-- . -Teri--dsys—sfter the
28th he is hanishod — Trom the State Forever.
RAILROAD Larrtivo.—A lotting of the con-
tracts for building the Sunbury dr, Erie Rail
Road, including graduation, Masonry and
bridging, between Williamsport and Far
randsville, will be held at Lock Haven on
the Ist of June next. This embraces a dis
tance of about 33 miles, including two large
bridges over the river.
We understand the proprietors of one of
'the saw mills at Wrightsville; Pa., have pur
chased during this spring, up to this time,
about eighty rafts ,of timber, nearly all pine,
with a small proportion,of oak, at leas than
one-third the price paid 4for the article last
season.
front 0 itti.tomiiits,
Itt.uirt CorNer. --Altoona Affairs AV,,
aro indebted to the Tribune for the folio s
ing local ileum; ---On Friday lamt,,
Harbinger, the qld moldier whom we notw e d
last week'as haring era a frw dido,s
front of the Logan House, Oil the
previous, was arrested, in conneci ion sail
Itartie Fisher, on oath of eel Eli is 'Ha, r
nod brought tip before Esquire 600,1, ,
cd with stealing two horse:. frobi,Alie,
- of - frtr: - H,ke )0114. A flix
hearing,' Harbinger was discharged s,
prrmume on account of mental derang , mvin
and Fisher committed in default of hul
On Thursday laNt. Charles Picison aa, ri
rested on oath of C It Szliik, and broil Ai
np before Faquve Cleat, on a charge
lirenhing open a chest in (leo.
and stealing therefrom over ono hundred del
lays. herein" dented tho charge end said
that he could prove that the money he huh
in lilts posaession did not belong to Ito k
Iliii case was continued for a fUrther hear
ing, which will be hail this week la
Tuesday night last, ac (Just lIIWkeRWOIth,
an engineer on the Fast Line, was erocsini;
the Branch Railroad, on his way horns, he
tween the hours of ten end eleven o'clock
he was attacked by two torn, one of %horn
caught hold of loin, and attempted t t kook
down. Finding that the Itirst one
' Wicked Gust, was not able to eabet Ins pur
-1 pnse, the second earn° to his imsritanee
After a scuffle, Gust broke loose fmm tint.
and raised the alarm, when the watelmeo.
in the !Coati:taut shop. and cur young friend
Ickes r came to his assistance • whereo f
on the villains made tracks down (11e flat,
road. On examination, Irawkeswortli
that his vest lied been cut in two place„,
I evidently with a knife. Thai; certamit „
bold attempt at highway robbery, and et
lime that something be done to protga
citizens frorirsuch midnight niisaitlh
MIFFLIN; Cui NO - Y.—The Learnt,
retie says, by the breaking of a
the Lafayette and loilianapolis It'ad Rua I
tram was precipitated down an embank
meta, kit hog the conductor,firetnan and in
ginei r The name of 11w COWlllanl rc g
en as Janiem Irvin. A. young man of
name from Oliver township, in this coon:.
has been connected with ri railroad row', .
from Lafayette, and we fear the comb'
• referred to above is him
Ido.sru :a Cia,STT. --The base of
('slugs, tried at Danville, as at/ Ret.totill
of Clark, for murder of his wife, n r•
nutted to the jury on Welioi-Muy
dal ufitirniton, the jury (.rota Ser.i4 I
Giditty of o n erous iii the hie
of fritiville
Alton , of Pittston, are faveratly
ken of for the Oppo , otton nomination for
Congress in that Itistri.:t. at the a; ;rr t •
ing election.
.hcri•vasost Corszv. - ..Sgt I.
(Me of the most terrific wind , oirrie , -
compained by hail and rani, ain rid.,
hien, ii for many ytara pa 4, d o..er lin I
and Oliver townships in thi,coutity on .•
day la.st. Trees, fen , ..s and everythia;,.
which Caine in the way was tool thivt•l, ' the
roof of the house belonging to Isaac Palltnan
in Ringgold ~township was torn oil and &
barn on the some farm, a short distance fioni
the house, was completely demolished \\
have been unable to obtain the portw.tlari
relative to the storm but we hear of n , , trees
being lust (In Saturday morninpr, last
the dwelling house of l'eral Hutchins, al,mt
two miles from our borough was conszieed
by fire.
INCO'itiNG COUNTY.— Mr Da
vui Clark, of Porter township, brought into
row office last Friday, a handful of earth lit
erajly alive with weevil.. The held from
which it was picked up, was last year in
wheat which was destroyed by weevil. It
was then plowed last fall and re•plonglied
this spring with the intention to plant it io
corn. On entering the &al last week Mr
Clark found the whole surface of the ground
to he alive with weevil, the identical insert
found last tear in the wheat. —JerAry ‘Oisre
Rrrittlrean.
Nuariii MUILILLAND NUNTI .--On Friday
week, the large weight attached to Ito town
clock, in (ho steeple of the Presbyterian
Chureli, in Milton, fell to the floor of the
basement, It made a square hole through
the floo- above, and carried with it one juice
and a quantity of plastering. It was about
1100 1114 111 weight, audits full watt ()erasion
ed by the rope breaking.
A Oita Yankee.
A corrolsponderd of one of the Boston pa
pers, tells the following good story :
" Early one morning, - the - scholars of one
of our district schools wore agreeably sur
prised to find written upon thy outside door.
"No Settle ; ' and the most of them imme
diately made preparation to enjoy the holh
day—not dreaming but that it was a genii
ine order. ft appeared, however, that s ro
guish youth-, a lover of mischief more.tha"
his books„ had written in large letters the
joyful news. No 'Settle , was the nottes post
ed up ; the idea wo understand, but the
spelling was bad. Tho after noon brought
all together, and in the stern visage of the
master enAugh"was seen to convince us that
all was not right—ho had been outwitted.
and now came the tug of war.
" Ile soon ordered the baya-to appear - Ir
fore his presence, and ono by one, pritielied
our spelling, as far of the wertechool,wo6
cioriT6-ried7They stood the test until the he
ro, with
,his comic phizonade his appearance.
who wit t 1 confidence distinctly said S-c-u -/-g
school.' The master took him by OS cul
ler, and with a joyful expression at the suc
cess of his ruse, laid on the birth right rner
ily."
. Mr. John Parton, an old Californian, 4 13
found aNgold mine on land owned by Judgo
Ripley, a Flood Creek, Floyd county lowa.
and has obtained an exclusive right to work
it. TherSt. Charles ' , diggings" continue to
be wadited,'withridonite
COUNTRIUMITR f : 2 -4 flew batch Oriritcr
felts on the York County,Bank, it'
has been put in circulation in the tighter"
feet of-the Rhile. Our readers Avid, look
mil for t Item— " •