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THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
THE GLOBE.
CS , Tulation.-- , the largest in the county,
InJAIVLIEBDOE 2 PLL
Weduesdayp November 11, 1857.
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Teachers' Institute will be held at
reen Tree on Thursday evening, Friday
c.r.;. -- 1 Saturday, the 19th, 20th and 21st inst.—
i'.2 teachers of Jackson, Barree, Oneida and
We districts are requested to attend. Emi
nent teachers will be present to lecture. La
dies and Gentlemen are respectfully invited
to aL tend.
THE COSMOPOLITAN ART JOURNAL, pub
lished quarterly, is one of the neatest and
:2 - ict popular publications in the country.—
The number before us, for the present guar
tor is well filled with interesting reading and
illustrations. See advertisement of the as
:Lc,eiation in another column.
:FORRESTER'S PLAYMATE, a monthly
Magazine for Youth, for November
as been received. Its contents are interest
-3g to youth, and parents. Published by
Guild & Co., 156 Washington st., Boston,
.21 per year, or 10 cts. single number.
WILMOT'S DISTRICT.—Among the gratifying
of the election just past is that of the
•:a in Wilniot's District which has largely
off from the Fremont vote last fall. In
*:.l , 7luebanna county, his majority is only
CDS, while last fall Fremont had over 1300.
ane of the county ticket runs as low as 536.
7.-ould thus seem that the people there are
, 3:12.-..ning to their reason and probably falling
zao.k. to their ancient party fidelity. It will
.):: ;Jut a little while before a white man will
tJe as good as a negro in the Wilmot District.
:7a..WHITE 3IAN ELECTED BY BLACK MEN'S
7 0rEs.---The Democratic Tapers produce sta
ti6tics to show that the Ohio Governor (Chase)
3,; es his election to the negro votes. The
D:noinnati Enquired' says:
" At Oberlin over one hundred such votes
- -ere cast for Chase & Co. In Ashtabula
.any such votes were also cast, as also in
rambull. There has been polled a sufficient
;:Leber of - negro votes throughout the State
more than make tip Chase's majority. His
of the social and political equality
the nero with the white race has been of
service to him. They have saved his
- ,), - ..con for him this time, sure.
The Democratic Victory in Minnesota.
The St. Paul Pioneer is of opinion that
21. m. Alexander Ramsay "is probably elect
ed Governor by a hundred votes," and then
- ocsts the books'as follows as to what the De-
D. - 2ocracy of Minnesota have secured at the
election : A Democratic State Senate ;
a Democratic House of Representatives; two
Democratic United States Senators ; three
Democratic members of the United States
House of Representatives; a Democratic Lieu
tenant Governor ; a Democratic Secretary of
State; a Democratic State Auditor; a Demo
:;.zatic State Treasurer ; a Democratic Chief
justice of the Supreme Court; two Demo
cratic Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court; a Democratic Attorney General; a
Democratic Delegate in Congress; a Demo
cratic Clerk of the Supreme Court. This is
certainly a most cheering and satisfactory
7ictory to the Democracy of Minnesota, as it
places that incoming State safely and perma
nently on the Democratic platform. There
is no mistaking the political sentiment of
Minnesota. It is with the national, Union
loving men of the Republic, and opposed to
the treason of Black Republicanism, no mat
ter in what shape it is presented.
THE APPROACHING WINTER.—The winter
now fast approaching creates in the minds of
the thoughtful and humane as well as the
poor and destitute, anxious solicitude and
gloomy forebodings. Business is at a stand
still. Coal mines, furnaces, forges, factories,
rolling mills, and manufactories of every de
scription, throughout the country, have either
failed or temporarily suspended, thus throw
ing out of employ thousands of willing, in
dustrious laborers, with families dependent
upon them for their daily bread. Should this
state of things continue during the long and
dreary winter, there is nb calculating the ex
tent of the distress and suffering that must
inevitably ensue. God help the poor ! Many
of you who read this, are rich—you have com
fortable homes—are well supplied with cloth
ing, food and fuel,—you "have enough and
to spare," and seemingly challenge " hard
times," if you think of them at all, while the
poor man thinks of his family through long
and restless days and nights, for he is out of
employ,aout of money, and has no bread I
0, ye wealthy readers of the HUNTINGDON
GLOBE, pity the poor ! wherever they may be,
whoever they are. Relieve their suffering,
divide what you can among them, and you
will never miss it. This is the winter we
must all use self-denial, or never again lay
claim to humanity. Our fellow-creatures
want;and it is at once our privilege and duty
to assist them.
Editor's Convention.—The Pittsburg edi
tors propose a Convention of Democratic edi
tors of the State to be held at Harrisburg
about the day of Gov. Packer's inauguration.
We hope there will be a full turn out of
'Democratic editors.
tite Eledtiori in Baltimore,
The scenes of disorder, riot and bloodshed
-which occur with startling certainty at each
election in Baltimore, are pregnantwith warn.;
ing to these who are not blinded by political
prejudice or religious bigotry. The whole
superstructure of a free government rests upon
a fair and full expression of Public opinion
at the polls. This is the mode pointed out
for freemen, not only to choose proper per
sons to administer the laws, but also to select
those by whom they are to be framed. This
is the much prized and inalienable right which
gives force and beauty to the Republican form
of government, and without which it would
soon crumble to pieces, or be shattered by in
testine violence. If men cannot go to the
polls in a proper manner and deposit their
ballots; if each voter must exercise his guar
anteed rights at the risk of his life, the elec
tion from necessity will soon be confined to
the bully, the ruffian, and those who are op
posed to all laws that will interfere with their
wild and turbulent passions.
The advent of the Know-Nothing party
has been followed by repeated and organized
attacks upon the right of suffrage and the
sanctity of the elective franchise. In Louis
ville peaceable, unoffending citizens have been
murdered for daring to present themselves
at the polls on election day; New Orleans
has been disgraced by Know-Nothing attacks
upon those who differed with that political
party, and. each succeeding election in Balti
more is memorable by most disgraceful and
outrageous violation of law, order and decen
cy. In the later city the election has been
turned into a gala day for unconvicted rogues,
political desperadoes, and bold, bad, desper
ate men of all classes and descriptions, who
are members of the secret political order by
which it is governed. There is no pretense
of a fair, honest election such as the Consti
tution guarantees, and the law shotild be po
tent enough to see carried out. The candi
dates of one political party have bee& - driven
from the polls; old, respectable citizens men
aced with violence and death if they did not
leave the vicinity where the mock election
was going on; election officers ejected from
the room where the ballot boxes were placed.
and the whole affair given into the hands of
thc,, r - .Teribers of the Know Nothing order.—
The effects of this monstrous perversion of
all the principles that should govern an elec
tion in a free land can be seen in the wide
difference in the vote for GROOME, the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor in 1857, and
that for Mr. BUCHANAN, in 1856. Then the
vote for Mr. BUCHANAN was 9,871. At the
recent election Mr. GROOME had only 6,338
votes, showing most conclusively that more
than three thousand of the Democracy had
been deterred from casting their votes in con
sequence of the acts of the Know Nothing
party and its ruffianly adherents. But more
than this. While the Democratic votes was
forced below that of 1856, the Know Noth
ing candidate for Governor; in 1837, received
fire thousand more votes than were cast for
Mr. FuLatORE the preceding year. These
are facts which show the effects of Know
Nothing violence upon the elective franchise
in Baltimore, and they should arouse public
attention to the necessity of putting a stop
to this system of political brigandis.m 'which
is sapping the foundation that supports the
whole political fabric of this Republic.
As to the paternity of these attacks upon
the freedom of voting in Baltimore, we pre
sent the following article from the New York
Times, the political proclivities of which are
all towards the "American Order ":
It must be very discouraging to the sincere
friends of the "American Order" to read the
report of the violent proceedings of their
party at the election in Baltimore yesterday.
It appears that Governor Ligon better under
stood the spirit of the Baltimoreans than did
the Mayor of the city. The frightful scenes
which were enacted there yesterday have
fully justified the Governor's conduct in pla
cing the city under martial law. Baltimore
has always been noted for its lawless mobs,
and it earned the title of "Mob-town" nearly
half a century ago. It is, too, the very cen
tre and head quarters of "Americanism,"
and it appears it was this spirit which caused
the murderous conflict at the polls yesterday.
Americanism has not manifested any such
violence here, nor in any other part of the
country, except Louisville, where it has once
had the dominant power. The violence of
its manifestations in Baltimore is probably
owing to the circumstances that so large a
portion of the inhabitants of that city are
Roman Catholics, who are so obnoxious to the
"American" sentiment. But it stands the
party in hand if they expect to maintain their
organization, to adopt measures which will
prevent the recurrence of such acts of vio
lence as were perpetrated in Baltimore yes
terday, or they will bring a reproach upon
their name which will make all patriotic, or
even decent men, ashamed to own them
selves members of their organization.
This acknowledgement of the lawlessness .
of "Americanism" is fall of meaning, com
ing as it does from a journal whose oppor
tunities for obtaining information with regard
to the secret workings of the American Or
der, are most ample and complete. It now
remains to be seen whether the Order will
continue to excite its members to deeds of
violence and murder, or restrain them within
the limits of law and order.—.Phila. Penn
sylvanian.
Da'Every married man should let his wife
have the management of the home depart
ment, and give her, as Secretary, the control
of the different bureaus- Don't let her have
anything. to do with the War department.—
Exchange.
Then how is• she- to bring the " Infantry"
up to the "breast works," we sholud like to
-know, in case of an " attack of the measles ?"
It is evident that the writer of the 'above has
never been in many engagements.
istew 'York
The result of the election in this State is
most gratifying to every Democrat through
out the 'Union. Not only has it restored New
York to its former proud position in the list
of Democratic States, but it has been an over
whelming and most signal triumph for the
present national administration. In both as
pects we view
, the result as justifying snipe
little exultation. The N. Y. News speaks of
the success as follows :
" The people have condemned Black 'Re
publicanism,' corruption and centralization;
and the cunning manceuver of these apostates
was unsuccessful.
"The State has at last been wrested from
them. Their principles and their policy have
been rebuked. Thousands of their own par
ty on whom they depended have refused to
further countenance the rule of the sectional
ists, and the State stands to-day relieved from
Black Republicanism,' which has brought
ruin and disgrace alike upon her fair fame.
Our triumph is complete.
" We congratulate the Democrats of New
York and those of the Union on this auspi
cious event. It was hardly to have been an
ticipated—a year ago we feared that for years
we might have been compelled to labor for
the extinction of sectionalism in New York ;
now she stands disenchanted, disenthralled
and redeemed, and is ready to take her stand
as a liberal and intelligent community in the
proud circle of Democratic States. To-day
we can point to the proud motto of the State
unsullied and undimmed by the black fires
of disunion, and with pride repeat—ExcEL
non."
The result figures up thus : Our party has
elected its entire State ticket by some 10,000
majority—has obtained a clear working ma
jority in the Canal Board, and will be enabled
to carry out all the reform measures for which
they have contended, and to stop the various
leaks through which the public money has
passed in that department, and has a large
majority in the Legislature on joint ballot.—
The Senate and Assembly, as compared with
its corrupt predecessor, stands as follows:
New Senate
Democrats 15
Republicans 14
Americans 2
Independent 1 ...
Democratic gain 9
Republican loss 1
American loss 9
New Assembly. Old Assembly.
Democrats 72 45
Republicans 47 75
Americans, 6 8
Democratic gain Q.'
I
Republican loss 28
American loss 2
Total opposition loss 30
Three districts to hear from.
Surely we hale a right to exult in suck a
triumph!
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN WlSCONSlN.—Po
liticians will be nearly as much surprised to
hear of a Democratic victory in the Republi
can State of Wisconsin, as in the State of
New York. That such is the case, however,
is almost within the limit of certainty. The
Milwaukee News of the 6th publishes partial
returns from twenty-five counties, which
show • a Democratic gain of 1,391 votes.—
That paper claims the election of °Ross, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, by pro
bably 3,000 votes. It says :
"The Wisconsin Democracy send greeting
to the Democracy of the Union ! They have
met and vanquished the enemy ! The North
west is sound to the core ! Against great
odds the party went into the contest—an odds
of 14,000. But our gallant Democracy never
tire. The Bred Scott decision and popular
sovereignty are endorsed. Buchanan's Ad
ministration is approved by the people of
Wisconsin.
These results are trophies—let them stand.
for monuments!"
THE CURRENCY QHESTION.-A writer in
Hunt's Merchants' Magazine makes the fol
lowing assertion with reference to a mixed
currency, and supports it by facts and argu
ments which are worthy attentive considera
tion at this time, when all men are looking
to a reform in our currency. The writer
says:
A mixed Currency can never be retied upon
by the business community.
In vindication of this position he puts the
argument in this wise:—"Mixed currency
banks always owe a larger sum payable on
demand then they have money on hand to
pay with. They always promise to pay spe
cie for all claims made upon them, when it
is generally true of them that, if one-half
their debts were demanded at once, they
would be obliged to suspend payment. Take
for an example, the banks of Massachu
setts:—
These, in October last, by official
returns had in circulation, $26,544,315 50
They owed their depositors, 23,437,256 49
Total immediately liabilities,s49,9Bl,s72 99
To meet these, they had only, 4,555,571 41.
—four millions and a half to pay fifty mil
lions with !
Now, that they were legally liable to be
called on for the whole of the fifty millions
is certain; that they might actually be called
on for a large part of this is equally true.—
The amount deposited in banks is a more im
mediate liability than their bills in circula
tion for the latter are scattered over the coun
try, while the former is generally due to
to those near the banks, and may be drawn
by checks at any moment, and to a greater
extent will be, in case of an extraordinary
demand for money.
The individual, who should owe $50;000 of
borrowed money, for which he was liable to
be called upon at any moment, and had only
$4,500 to pay with, would not be thought in
a - very eligible or safe condition; yet such is
the position of most of the banks in this
country.
Relief for Industrial Females:
The following circular bas been sent to
Editors, Clergymen and benevolent individu
als in all parts of the West, in order to enlist
them in support of the Christian and humane
objects contemplated by the founders and
friends of the " Industrial Women's Associa
tion" :
You are, sir, a resident of the country, or
of the West, and have it in your power great
ly to aid the humane object of our Society.—
You are aware of the want of female help in
the country, and will sympathise with us in
our efforts to relieve the suffering class of in
dustrious women, who will gladly embrace
the opportunity to make themselves useful in
your families, and who have been thrown out
of employment by the dreadful revulsions
which have visited the business of the coun
try. In their behalf, and for the cause of
suffering humanity, we implore your aid and
co-operation. Hunger, cold, suffering and
death will soon be in our midst, and we ask
your assistance to aid us to alleviate and
avert these direful calamities from those who
deserve our kindest sympathy. We ask you,
therefore, either to organize a Society for this
purpose, or to furnish us, in any way you
may think best, the number of persons you
will find employment for, in the capacity of
house servants, sewing girls, nurses, or any
other capacity, and the price of wages per
week, with board included. . .
We need scarcely inform you of the great
difficulty of obtaining funds in the embar
rassed condition of the country, even for hu
mane objects. And while those who seek
our aid will do all in their power to help
themselves, we would beg leave to suggest
that if those who desire their labor would
either send us five dollars, to help defray
their expenses, or advance that amount, on
their arrival, on their wages, it would greatly
facilitate our enterprise. Have the goodness
to act as promptly in the matter as you can,
and to address the Secretary of our Society.
Office, No. 116 South Seventh street, Phila
delphia.
MRS. SARAH J. HALL, President.
J. M. CntFact", Corresponding Secretary.
We commend the objects of the Industrial
Women's Association to the Humane and
Philanthropic.
The Presbyterian, The Episcopal Recorder,
Pennsylvania Inquirer, Philadelphia ; Phila
delphia Daily Sun, P hila. Evening Journal,
North American, Daily _News, Godey's Lady's
Book, American Law _Register, Ladies' Chris
tian Annual, Pennsylvanian, The Press, Na
tional Argus, Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, Rev.
Henry A. Boardman, D.D. ; Revs. J. P. Dur
bin, Chas. Wadsworth, John Chambers, Wm.
Suddards, E. W. Rutter.
There have always been •complaints of a
want of female help in every part of this coun
-ty. Here is an opportunity offering, and we
have no doubt good help could be obtained,
by addressing as above.
Old Senate
For the following interesting information
in regard to this little understood kind of
food, we are indebted to _Hunt's Merchant
Magazine:
"By those who do not know, or who are
too scientific to profit by the experience of
nations of men and herds of fat cattle, In
dian corn, rice, buckwheat, ke., are only
considered 'good fodder.' Liebig states that
if we were to go naked as the Indians, or if
we were subject to the same degree of cold
as the Samoiedes, we should be able to con
sume the half of a calf and a dozen candles
at a single meal! During excessive fatigue
in low temperature, wheat flour fails to sus
tain the system. This is owing to a defi
ciency in the elements necessary to supply
animal heat, and the strong desire for oleag
inous substances, under these circumstances
has led to the belief that animal food is ne
cessary for human support. But late scierF•
tific experiments, and a better acquaintance
with the habits of the North American In
dians, have shown that a vegetable oil an
swers the same purpose as animal food; that
one pound of parched Indian corn, or an
equal quantity of cornmeal, made into bread,
is more than equivalent to two pounds of fat
meat.
"Meal from Indian corn contains more
than four times as much oleaginous matter
as wheat flour; more starch, and consequen
tly capable of producing more sugar, and
though less gluten, in other important com
pounds it contains nearly as much nitroge
nous masterial. The combination of ali
mentary compounds in Indian corn, renders
it alone the mixed diet capable of sustaining
man under the most extraordinary circum
stances. In it, there is a natural coalscence
of elementary principles which constitute the
basis of organic life, that exists in no other
vegetable production. In ultimate composi
tion, in nutritious properties, in digestibility
and in its adaption to the varied 'necessities
of animal life in the different climates of the
earth, corn meal is capable of supplying
more of the absolute wants of the adult hu
man system than any other single substance
in nature."
"REIGN OF TERROR" IN BALTIMORE, MD.--
The Baltimore Sun gives the following ac
count of the proceedings of some of the row
dies who are fast destroying the character
and business of that city. .
On Wednesday evening last a gang of men
went to the house of a colored man, named
Alexander Johnson, who kept a sailor board
ing house, in Caroline street, in that city,
smashed in the door, stole everything they
could lay hands on, including eighty-two dol
lars in cash, then demolished the furniture.
The loss is about five hundred dollars in all.
On friday evening, a man, named Thomas
Pierce, while playing cards at the house of
Catharine Shriver, in Caroline street, was
instantly killed, by some person unknown,
who fired from outside the door putting three
balls through his head. On the same even
ing, as Mrs. Margaret Wehing was assisting
her husband to close his store, at the corner
of Bond and Shakspeare streets, three men,
who were passing, fired at her and her hus
band, inflicting a dangerous 'wound upon
Mrs. Wehing. In none of these cases of
outrage and murder have any arrests been
made.
'The following resolutions were passed
by the board of Councilmen in Linwood,
Benton county, Iowa:
I. Resolved by this council that we build
a new jail.
2. Resolved that the new jail be built out
of the materials of the old jail.
3. Resolved that the old jail be used until
the new jail is finished.
Could Dublin or•Coik boat that:
The Value of Indian Corn
From the Baltimore Sun of Thursday last
Election Riots in Baltimore.
About half past 10 o'clock yesterday, a
bloody affair transpired at the DeKalb House,
the place of holding the polls of the 17th
Ward, which resulted in the stabbing of two
men—one seriously—and the shooting of
their assailant by some friends of the former.
It seems that a man named Patrick Kelley,
a native of Washington city, on passing the
polls, was accosted by Parker White, a ticket
holder, who offered him a ticket, which Kel
ley refused to take. Some blows were struck,
and Kelley drew a sword-cane and plunged
the blade into the right side of White, and
also wounded. John White, his brother, in
the arm. Almost immediately Kelley was
fired upon by some parties standing near;
one shot penetrating the jaw and ranging
upward into the head, and another entering
the back of his head to the brain. Both the
wounded parties fell to the pavement after
receiving their wounds, and were carried off.
White was taken into the DeKalb House,
and a physician summoned, and Kelley re
moved to the Southern police station, where
Dr. Benson attended him. At two o'clock
he was removed to the Lombard Street In
firmary. Last evening he was rapidly ap
proaching delirium, an the physicians there
thought he could not survive over the
night. White, who is a son of the well
known engineer of the steamer General Mc-
Donald, was subsequently removed to his
home on Henrietta street. Great excitement
and much indignation followed this occur
rence, and it was afterwards difficult for a
Democrat or naturalized foreigner to ap
proach the polls. Knock-downs and bloody
noses were frequent, and not far between.
Shortly after the opening of the polls, two
opposing crowds collected on Eutaw street—
one at the Lexington market and the other
near Franklin street—some four squares in
tervening between the belligerent parties.—
The threatened space was, speedily cleared
of pedestrians and vehicles, and the two for
ces stood on the defensive, menacing each
other. Frequently the crowd on one side
would drop away, but a feint of attack by
the other would rally the strength of both
parties and array them in hostile attitudes.
Muskets and pistols were displayed and an
occasional shot would be fired by one party
as a taunt to the other. At about 11 o'clock,
it became inevitable that a conflict would be
the result, and the storekeepers of the vi
cinity began to close their establishments.
All the stores on both sides of Eutaw
street, between Fayette and Franklin streets,
were soon closed. At a safe distance from
the scene citizens gathered upon the corners,.
and the more timid from the windows viewed
this unlawful usurpation of law and-order.
A number of the police were upon this
ground, and by their energy and prompt
ness prevented a collision.
At one o'clock the unlawful gatherings
had well nigh dispersed, but the excitement
continued, to a greater or less degree, through
out the day, and the stores remained closed
in anticipation of a renewal of the disturb
ance.
Yesterday afternoon, when the express
train upon the Northern Central Railroad,
bound for Baltimore, arrived at.Cockeysville,
some twenty-five disorderly persons took pas
sage in one of the cars for this city. They
were all armed with revolvers, and when the
train arrived at
.Texaq, the rowdies com
menced firing through the car windows upon
the citizens and others.
The fire was returned and a number of
shots were exchanged. The firing created
the greatest excitement among the passen
gers on the train, many ofwhom were ladies.
Some of them hid beneath the seats, and the
lives of all were placed iu jeopardy. Mr. Ad
reon, the superintendent of the road, was on
the train, and exerted himself with some suc
cess to restore order, but the number of the
rowdies prevented any- arrests being then
made.
k izirf-T Li, 'WESTERN HOG TRADE is very dull
at pre.,ont. At Louisville, Ky., the last con
tracts were at. 6.1 to 6.3, but buyers refuse to
contract now, even at 5 cents. The Courier
says : "At Madison, Indiana, early in the
season, some 25,000 hogs were contracted for
at $6 30 net, for which, together with the
lots engaged at the market price when the
season commences, the business men of Mad
ison have advanced about $230,000. At Evans
ville, Ind., and along the 'Wabash, there is
an utter indifference among buyers to oper
ate at the decline in prices." The St. Louis
(Mo.) Republican of the 26th ult., states that
" farmers would offer freely if there was a
prospect that s4®s4 25 could be obtained ;
but packers will name no price whatever,
not even a figure materially under those quo
tations. Recently . 200 head, averaging 200
lbs. gross, sold at $4 net, but they were for
shipment." The Chicago (Ill.) Ribuite, re
ferring to the hog market in that, and other
sections, says: "for present delivery $4 75®
$5 25 gross, is paid for hogs in this market,
though no contracts for November delivery
have been made recently, and should money
matters grow no better, not over $5 net is
likely to be paid during the packing season.
At Burlington, lowa, we learn that $3 50,
gross, only is now paid, which is some $4 25
net, and at this rate could be delivered here
at about $5 net."
"MURDER WILL OUT."—The following il
lustration of the foregoing captain is con
densed from the Delaware State Register of
the Gth inst. In 1552 Joseph Downham, re
siding near Berrystown, in Murderkill hun
dred, Kent county, Del., went security for a
negro's appearance at Court, but the. negro
never appeared. In the meantime, Down
ham appeared in Court, and stated that he
had gone after the negro, who had fired at
him. and made his escape. Soon after Down
ham left Delaware, and has since been living,
near Perkinsville, Indiana, where, on a cer
tain occasion, when drunk, he said he had
been obliged to leave Delaware for killing a
negro. This remark was repeated to a Mr.
Carter, from Delaware, who was then in In
diana, and, on his return home, he told the
story to several persons. A white man,
named Andrews, was summoned before the
Grand Jury, and testified that, in 1852, he
and a negro named Pompey Tribbett worked
for Downham, and, one night, were taken by
him to a piece of woods, where they found
the dead body of a ne g ro , which Downham
by threats; compelled them to bury. The
body has been exhumed, and officers sent to
Indiana, to effect the capture of Downham,
which was done on Tuesday lost at Perkins
vine, and the officers, with their. prisoner,
arrived at Dover last Friday evening and he
was forthwith lodged in the county jail.
,Orders are to he issued, in accordance
with the request of Governor Walker, for the
continuance of the United States military for
ces in Kansas during the winter.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin, Nov. 5
Tragedy at the St. Lawrence Hotel.
A shocking murder was committed between
Live and six o'clock; yesterday afternoon, at
the St. Lawrence Hotel, in Chestnut street,
above Tenth. The victim was Richard Cart
er, Esq., President of the" Anthracite Bank,
at Tamaqua, Schuylkill county.. The mur
derer was a man of some twenty-eight years
of age, named Thomas IVishington Smith,
who came from Cecil county, Maryland, and
was agent for De Bow's Review and other pe
riodicals. Mr. Carter arrived here yesterday
at 12 o'clock, from Tamaqua, and took lodg
ings at the St. Lawrence Hotel. Smith came
lately from the South, and lodged at the Mad
ison House.
Smith visited the hotel yesterday afternoon
and had an interview of about half an hour'
with Mr. Carter in the front parlor. The
persons who were present did not notice any
thing unusual in the deportment of the two•
men until, after some conversation, Smith
drew a revolver and fired four out of the five
barrels which were loaded. All the balls
took effect and Mr. Carter fell dead. Smith
put his pistol in hiS pocket, and drawing a
large bowie-knife, walked out of the house
with the latter in his hand. At Ninth street
he was taken in charge by officer Albright,
to whom, without any hesitation, he gave up
his weapons. The prisoner was taken before
Alderman Eneu, who gave him a hearing
about seven o'clock and committed him to
answer.
The intelligence of the affair had spread
far and wide in the meantime, and the office
was crowded with spectators. Smith was
much excited during the examination, and
declared that he had committed the deed.—
He also expressed a desire to make a state
ment, but Alderman Eneu cautioned him to
be silent, and he was committed to answer.—
Coroner Fenner held an inquest at the hotel,
last evening,
and a verdict to the effect that
the death of Mr. Carter was caused by the
shots fired by Smith was rendered.
The prisoner seems perfectly cool, this
morning, at Moyamensing Prison, and his
demeanor is that of a man who feels that he
has done a praiseworthy action.
The circumstances of the past history of
the parties, as we have learned them from
one well acquainted with them, are as follows :
Mr. Carter was an Englishman by birth,
and when he first came to Schuylkill county,
some years ago, began to work as a miner.—
He saved money, and gradually rose from his
humble position and became at last a large
property holder and a man of influence. His
wife, who is also English, is some ten years
older than he was, and they have never had
any children. A few years ago he became
acquainted with a Mr. John McCauley, resi
ding in Luzerne county, whom he assisted in
business. Mr. McCauley had a yoting, intel
ligent and handsome daughter, in whom Car
ter became interested, and he had her placed
in a seminary at Wilmington. He used to
accompany her to and from Wilmington,
stopping frequently in Philadelphia, dais wife
not being informed of his movements. At
the school, Miss McCauley was understood
to be his niece. It is presumed that a guilty
intercourse between them was going on all
this dine. Mr. Carter was about 45 years of
age.
About a year ago, and while Miss McCau
ley was still at Washington, she . becatne ac
quainted with Mr. Smith, through a sister of
the latter, who was a.teacher at the school.—
Mr. Smith was fascinated by her and pro
posed marriage, which she, being rather of
the fast order of character, accepted'. The
marriage took place at Wilmington. Those
best acquainted with Carter believe that, in
stead of wishing her to marry Smith, he was
opposed to it; that he was himself sincerely
attached to her; that he wished to have her
to himself, and that he would have married
her if it had been possible. Soon after the
marriage Smith discovered that his wife was
far advanced in pregnancy, and he refused
to live with her. A separation took place,
and Mrs. Smith was provided for by Carter.
She gave birth to a child some eight or nine
months since, and is living with it in a town
near this city, where she has been well taken
care of by Carter.
Mr. Carter bore the reputation of being
loose in his moral -principles in his younger
days, and his conduct towards Miss McCau
ley, more recently, gave rise to considerable
scandal. He was in the habit of having her
to meet him on Saturday, at a hotel in this
city, and after remaining there over Sunday,
she would return on Monday to school.—
They also travelled together to Niagara and
other places. Smith alleges that this inti
macy was kept up after their marriage, and
he also informed Lieut. Dickhart, while on
the road to prison, last night, that in the
conversation at the hotel, yesterday afternoon
Mr. Carter had told him that he intended to
visit his (Smith's) sister at the school at Wil
mington.
Smith was at one time engaged as a clerk
in the store of his victim at Tamaqua. He
was doubtless underlie impression that Miss
McCauley was an adopted daughter of Mr.
Carter. The acquaintance was formed
through the agency of Miss Smith, at the
school. Miss Smith bears a most excellent
reputation, and she had not the slightest sus
mown of the real character.,of Miss McCau
ley. The latter is now with.her relatives in
Chester county. Her father resides in Lu
zerne county.
Smith, the prisoner, has consulted several
attorneys in this city with a view to procur
ing a divorce from his wife and proceedings
were about being commenced when the tra
gical occurrence took place at the St: Law- ,
rence Hotel.
The body of Mr. Carter was last nighty
handed over to Mr. Atwood, the undertaker,
by whom it will be sent to Tamaqua this af
ternoon.
Smith has always borne an excellent char
acter, although he was at times very eccen
tric in his conduct. His father went away
from his home while insane, and was• never
heard of again,.and those who knew young
Smith, and who were aware of this fact,-
fancied that the eccentricities of the son
were evidences of his having inherited the•
mental infirmities of his father. He was of
a restless, wandering disposition, never• con
tented long in any one place or at any ono
business, and ho was very excitable..
The Maryland Election.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 9.—Complete returns of
the recent election have at length been recei
ved. They present the following figures for
Governor : Hicks, American, 44,764;•Gr00rini.
Democrat, 36,197 ; American majority, 8,-
560. The political complexion of the
. next
Legislature will be : Senate—Americans, 15 ;
Democrats, 7. House--Americans, 44 ; Dem
ocrats, 29. Mr. Bartol, Democrat, has. been
elected Judge of the Court of Appeals from•
the first Judicial District. For Congress.
three Americans and three Democrats=:hav©•
been elected. . . ,•