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—Judge Jeremiah S. Black is no longer a
candidate for,the Presidency. The Democ
racy of his own county, Somerset, in County
Convention assembled, a few days since, vo
ted down a resolution recommending him for
that high office, and one endorsing Judge
Douglas was adopted. Wm. J. Bear, Esq.,
was elected delegate to the Democratic State
Convention.
- —The Post Office Bill, having received the
signature of the President, has become a law.
The bill, as passed, appropriates $4,296,000
to supply the deficiency, and $4,000,000 for
the support of the department for the year
ending June nest, and the further sum of
$2,400,000 was appropriated for the payment
of the salaries of officers, clerks, etc., and for
the transportation of the mails, etc.
—The official returns of the Assessors ap
pointed to ascertain the population of Kan
sas, have returned 69,095 inhabitants.
—The Democracy of Bedford county, have
selected the [lon. W. P. Schell, Senatorial,
and Hon. John Cesna, Representative dele
gates to the Reading Convention, without in
structions.
—The Opposition State Convention will
assemble in Harrisburg to-day. Curtin of
Centre, will be the nominee for Governor, if
the Convention does not blow up on the Pres
idential question, which will be settled be
fore a choice for Governor is made.
—The Democratic State Convention will
meet at Reading on Wednesday next. We
expect to be a looker on with the view of re
porting correctly the action of the Conven
tion.
—Edward Bates, of Missouri, is becoming
quite prominent in the Opposition party for
the nomination for the Presidency. Cameron
must have a solid PennsylvanitiPdelegation to
give him any strength in the National Con
vention. The Sectional wing of the Repub
lican party will defeat him, if possible.
—The Slate Sentinel, published at Har
risburg by C. D. Hineline, is one of the Dem
ocratic papers, and the Douglas paper of the
State and Union. Single Subscriptions, $2
in advance.
—A Committee, appointed by a Caucus of
United States Senators, are now fixing up a
platform for the nominee of the Charleston
Convention. If the Convention should be
governed by dictation coming from a slave
code caucus, but little hope can be enter
tained of the success of the nominee, no mat
ter who he may be. The less office-holders, at
Washington, interfere with delegates in the
performance of their duties, the more har
monious and satisfactory will be the action of
the" Convention.
—The Kansas Territorial Legislature pas
sed the bill prohibiting slavery in Kansas on
the 3d of this month.
—The members of the two Houses of the
Legislature visited, on invitation, the State
Normal School at Mooresville, near Lancas
ter, on Friday.
—Hazlett and Stephens, two of Brown's
associates, recently convicted at Charleston,
have been sentenced to be hung on the 16th
of March.
—A bill is before the Legislature to remove
the State Government to Philadelphia.—
Members must have something to talk about
to kill time.
PRESIDE'S TIAL DAGUERREOTYPES.-" J. P.
P.," a correspondent of the Memphis (Ten
nessee) Appeal, has been daguerreotyping the
various aspirants for the Presidential nomi
nation. After drawing a graphic picture of
Messrs. Seward, Bell, Houston, Buchanan,
Johnson, Stephens, Everett, Crittenden, Lane,
Wise, Fillmore, Davis, Hunter, Scott, and
Breckenridge, he concludes with the "Little
Giant," thus :
STEPHEN A. DoucLAS.—The greatest Amer
ican of all ! Hero of a hundred victories
over the Abolitionists ; truest expounder of
the Democratic creed; ablest living expoun
der of the Constitution ; wise in council ; vig
orous in action ; invincible on all the ground ;
in the very prime and summer glow of all his
remarkable powers of mind and body—he is
the mighty, many sided prototype of a young
giant of a nation like our own, and deserves
to be its chief officer, because he has shown
himself to he, intellectually, practically and
to all intents and purposes, its chief, living,
representative man.
sZy. The Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Times writes as follows:
A letter from Hon. Miles Taylor, of Louisi
arm, declaring for Douglas, and pronouncing
his nomination at Charrieston called for by
the exigency of the times, is much commen
ted upon here, and is regarded as an index to
the result of the Convention.
ATTACIPT EXECUTIONS,
EXECUTIONS,
The "Little Giant."
We copy from that reliable Democratic
paper, the Harrisburg Slate Sentinel:
`,` TIIE WORK GOES BRAVELY Os."—Never
before, in the whole history of American poli
tics, have we witnessed so complete a revolu
tion in public sentiment as has been mani
fested within a few months in regard to Sen
ator Douglas. Six months ago his personal
enemies were bold to declare that his politi
cal fortune was on the wane, and prophesied
that he would not receive the vote of a sin
gle State in the Charleston Convention.—
Since that time, however, the people of the
different States have taken the matter in
hand; State after State has chosen its dele
gates, and already a majority of the whole
number comprising the Charleston Conven
tion, have been instructed to vote for the pro
scribed Senator from Illinois! But this is
not all. Every where throughout this broad
land are the masses clamoring—nay, loudly
and persistently demanding his nomination.
The Democratic press, too, has caught up the
inspiration, and are running up the glorious
Douglas and Popular Sovereignty Flag !
This Douglas sentiment is not confined to
any particular section of our country nor .to
any peculiar class of Democrats; it reaches
from the bleak hills of New England to the
Golden Shores of the Pacific. Indeed it is
confined to neither the East nor 'West, North
or South, but is co-extensive with our bles
sed Union !
TUE REst - ia or Ir.—The nomination of
Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston will in
sure the 27 electoral votes of Pennsylvania to
the Democracy.
It will insure a majority of Democratic
Congressmen from this State.
It will not only make certain a Democratic
Legislature for 1861, but it will enable our
Democratic brethern in all the doubtful Coun
ties throughout the Commonwealth, to elect
their local ticket.
The nomination of Mr. Douglas will also
secure a Democratic Governor, beyond any
and every contingency.
It will re-unite, consolidate and harmonize
the party, not only in Pennsylvania, but
throughout the Union.
Stephen A. Douglas is the only man whose
nomination is feared by the Republicans.—
While his nomination would strike terror to
the hearts of the Abolition leaders, demoral
ize their organization and destroy their well
matured plans of the great battle next fall,
it would thrill the hearts of the Democratic
masses, restore confidence, produce harmony
and bring to the Democratic ranks thousands
upon thousands of the young and vigorous
National men in every State in the Union.—
In short, while we, are bold to declare it as
our opinion that Douglas is by every fair and
honorable consideration entitled to the nomi
nation, we believe that all who feel an inter
est in the success of our party can no longer
remain oblivious of the fact that it has now
become a "matter of necessity 1"
The Mobile I?egisler, owned and edi
ted by Mr. John Forsyth, our late Minister
to Mexico, has declared in favor of Mr. Doug
las, as the most available candidate for the
next Presidency. John Forsyth is one of the
ablest and most influential men in the South.
At present be is a member of the Alabama
Legislature from the Mobile District, and he
asserts that his County will give 1000 majori
ty for Douglas, if nominated. The County
alluded to is a doubtful one, and rotes as of
ten against as for the Democratic party.
.I" . .Lk telegraphic dispatch from Wash
ington contradicts the report, started by the
enemies of Judge Douglas, to the effect that
the friends of the " Little Giant" had raised
the sum of sixty thousand dollars to influ
ence tha Charleston Convention. The report
is a fabrication. The cause'of Judge Doug
las requires no such aid. All his friends de
mand is fair play, and this they will take
good care to have. His nominalion is as cer
tain as that the sun will rise on. the day fixed
fur the Convention ! MARK OUR PRE
DICTION.
The New York Herald has at length
dropped llr. Buchanan, and declares that the
contest for the Charleston nomination has
narrowed down between Messrs. Douglas, and
Pierce of New Hampshire. This is a woeful
backing down for Bennett.
Tho ladies of New York have organi
zed a " hearthstone club" for discugsin,g do
mestic matters, and bringing about necessary
reforms in house keeping. They meet once
a month, and at the last meeting, among
other important discussions, an argument on
dolls took place. One thought a rag baby
as good as a doll ;
• and another, that as the
doll was the child's idea of the human, it
should be beautiful so as not to vitiate the
child's taste ; while the President suggested
that it should be artistic in form, and denoun
ced the shapeless commodities found in the
market. After these important decisions, the
ladies adjourned. As advocates of the rights
of our own sex, we insist that they devote
some attention to masculine as well as femi
nine toys, and at the next meeting we hope
to hear what they have got to say on hobby
horses, tin-whistles and pop-guns.
zy&-The New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier,.in a recent letter, says:
A rumor obtains very generally here, that
Hon. Daniel E. Sickles has experienced a
change of heart, and that he contemplates
connecting himself with some church. His
former friends say that they have noticed a
marked difference in his conduct recently.—
At Washington, he leads a very different life
from what he once did in this city. Before
he leaves the Capitol, it is thought he will
make a public profession of Christianity.—
After that, I doubt if he will longer follow
the vagaries of public, political life.
The South Carolina Disunion Movement.
'From the Phila. Daily News, (America n.) I
It is gratifying to perceive that the reck
less and unpatriotic effort of the disunion pol
ticians of South Carolina to induce the States
of the South to unite with them in an effort
to destroy our national government, meets
with no sympathy even in Virginia—a State
which has more reason to complain of the
unfriendly conduct of Northern organizations
than any other in the Union. The refusal of
the General Assembly of Virginia to take part
in so desperate an enterprise is particularly
significant, for it shows that political leaders
are unwilling to commit themselves to such a
movement. The disunionists of South Caro
lina, who have longwished for an opportune=
ty to draw other States into their treasonable
enterprise, took advantage of a time of great
excitement, to influence the action of neigh
boring States, but the effort has resulted in a
mortifying failure, and even its projectors
seem now so much ashamed of it, that they
would like to deny that it meant disunion.
When a violent fever rages in the human
system it is apt to increase in intensity until
it reaches a crisis, when it either begins to
abate or it destroys the life of the sufferer;
and the case is similar with regard to great
political excitements ; when they have fully
vented-their power, if destruction do not fol
low. they become exhausted. Such it is to be
hoped is the condition of our country at the
present time. The fever reached its crisis in
the recent struggle in the National House of
Representatives for the control of that body ;
and since that contest ended in the defeat of
both extremes, the inflammation has been
rapidly subsiding. There are many eviden
ces of a gradual return to cool reason, and a
judicious management of our public affairs.
Had either of the two extreme parties tri
umphed in their efforts to elect a Speaker,
the defeated one would have nursed and
brooded over its fancied or real wrongs, and
malignant feelings would have continued to
rankle in its bosom. But both are forced to
yield '
• first the Democoatic members aban
doned their candidate, and that movement
compelled the Republicans to give up theirs;
and a man of moderation and prudence was
elected to preside over the House. Malig
nant enmity has been disarmed ,• the fuel for
sectional excitement has been taken from the
incendiaries, and if we do not mistake the
signs of the times, the leaders of parties al
ready perceive that to adhere to extreme
measures will insure their defeat in the Pres
idential contest of the present year.
Southern politicians of the Democratic par
ty, begin to show a disposition to yield their
interpretation of the principle of popular
sovereignty, and to adopt as their candidate
one whom they have labored for two years
past to show was sympathizing with their
Northern opponents. It every day becomes
more probable that Senator Douglas will be
the candidate of the Charleston Convention.
On the other hand, the more sagacious lead
ers of the Republican party perceive that it
would be hopeless to attempt to elect any one
who has been committed to the extreme meas
ures of that party, and that to succeed they
must take a candidate who is not tainted with
sectionalism, and who has not been connec
ted with incendiary movements or publica
tions. It is true, that the particular friends
of the man who has heretofore been regarded
as the acknowledged leader of that parZ
cling to "the hope of electing 'him with the
utmost tenacity, but they will most probably
be overruled by those who care more for a
victory with a moderate man, and the practi
cal advantages to result from it, than they do
for party pride, and that kind of political
glory which prefers defeat to any concession.
Whatever may be the result of the coming
contest, therefore, it is not probable that it
will tend to increase the unfriendly excite
ment which has so long distracted the people
of our common country. The good sense of
the people will rebuke sectionalism, and the
unpatriotic efforts of ambitious leaders to get
into high office, by inflaming the prejudices
of ignorant men, and creating feelings of hos
tility between different sections, when the in
terests of all parts of the Union require peace
and harmony.
It is pleasing to know, that even under cir
cumstances of great excitement, there is still
left enough of prudence and good sense to
prevent any violent efforts to destroy our na
tional institutions; and the exhibition of such
wisdom on the part of the people, will tend
hereafter to cheek the efforts of over-ambi
tious aspirants for official honors to embroil
the citizens of different sections, in order to
gain a selfish advantage from their quarrels.
A Southern Count
The editor of the Dispatch, published at
Baltimore, Maryland, speculates upon the re
sult of the labors of the Charleston Conven
tion, as follows:
" Statement of the vote in the Charleston
Convention for the various candidates, as in
dicated by the late State Conventions and
other reliable evidences:
Douglas. Guthrie. Cobb. Davis. Johnson
Maine 8 ... ... ... ...
N. Hampshire 5 ... ... ...
Vermont 5 ... ... ... ...
Massachusetts 13 ... ... ... ...
Rhode Island 4 ... ... ...
Connecticut 6 ... ... ... ...
New York 35 ... ...
New Jersey 7 ... ... ... ...
Delaware 3 ... ... ... ...
Georgia ... ... 10 ... ...
Mississippi ... ... ... 7 ...
Kentucky... .......... ... 12 ... ...
Tennessee ... ... ... 12
Ohio 23 ... ... ... ...
Indiana 13 ... ... ...
Illinois. 11 ... ... ... ...
Michigan 6 ... ... ... ...
lowa 4 ... ... ...
Wisconsin 5 ... ...
Minnesota 3 ... ... ... ...
Oregon 3 ... ... ... ...
" Douglas is the undoubted second choice
of Tennessee, and is said to be of Kentucky.
The support of these States will add 24 to the
154 enumerated above, and the vote of Penn
sylvania (27) which must be given him, or
the party be inevitably destroyed in that good
old Democratic State, will swell the number
to 205. We regard his nomination as certain,
if he should not get a vote among the dele
gates, from the other twelve States. But he
will get many, and we believe lie will be nom
inated by a two-third vole on the first ballot.—
Hear what the New York Herald, the most
malignant anti-Douglas paper in the United
.States, now says of his chances:
" 'Mr. Douglas occupies a position similar
to that of the children of Israel when they
stood on Pisgah's height and viewed the
sweet fields of Canaan, on the other side of
Jordan.
" Mr. Douglas' views on the state of the
Union, the position of parties, the irrepressi
ble conflict of Mr. Seward and the raid of
Mr. Seward's pioneer, John Brown, are sound
and truthful, and will be endorsed by the
conservative sentiment of the country.' "
mEr- Where is our Nebraska correspondent ?
A Pen Portrait of Douglas
A Washington correspondent, who heard
the recent speech of Mr. Douglas in the Uni
ted States Senate, thus writes of him :
The Little Giant, as he has well been styled,
is seen to advantage on the floor. Looking
down on him, his want of height is not ob
served, while the easy dignity of his manner
stamps him as the natural lord of any scene
through which he moves. Short, thick set,
and built with great muscularity of body, his
massive and leonine head rivets undivided
attention. It is a head of the antique, with
something of the infinite in its expression of
power; a head most difficult to describe—
but one better worth description, in a phre
nological aspect, than any other in the coun
tr Douglas has a brain of unusual size, cov
ered with heavy and lengthy masses of dark
brown hair, rather inclined to curl, thickly
sprinkled with silver. His forehead is high,
open, and splendidly developed—based on
dark, shaggy eyebrows and of enormous
width. His eyes, large and deeply set, are
of the darkest and m)st piercing blue. His
nose is short, the eyebrows lapping down over
it where it joins the forehead; while the nos
trils—broad, muscular and full of power—
are framed in two deeply-cut channels, which
slope down, and off on either side, until they
strike the corners of the mouth. The mouth
itself is full, strong and finely arched, but
with something of bitter and sad experience
in its.general expression. The chin is square
and vigorous, and together with the lower
part of the face, is full of eddying dimples—
the muscles and nerves showing great nobil
ity, and every thought having some external
reflection in the sensitive and expressive fea
tures. Add to these a rich brown complex
ion, very clear and healthful ; shaved cheeks;
a handsome and massive throat ; small white
ears, almost hidden under the tangle of brown
gray hair; eyes which ray out electric viva
city whenever the eyebrows are lifted; small
white hands; small feet; a full chest and
broad shoulders; a prominent and full under
lip, which, in repose, is frequently lapped
over the upper one; and with these points
duly blended together, you will have a pic
ture of the Little Giant as good as can be
given under the hurry and excitement of this
letter.
As a speaker, Mr. Douglas seems to disdain
ornament, and marches right on against the
body of his subject with irresistable power
and directness. His rhetorical assault has
nothing of the cavalry slash in its impres
siveness, rather resembling a charge of heavy
infantry with fixed bayonet and calling forci
bly to mind the attack of those "six thous
and English veterans" immortalized by Thom
as Davis :
"Steady they step adown the slope,
Steady they climb the hill;
Steady they load—steady they fire—
Marching right onward still."
Ills voice is a rich and musical baritone,
rather monotonous in its passages of state
ment, but swelling into occasional clarion
blasts towards the close of each important
period. He is hoard with breathless atten
tion, except when now and again the galler
ies feel tempted to applaud—these demon
strations appearing to give particular uneasi
ness to the Secession and Republican Sena
tors, and drawing upon us, once or twice,
angry threats that " the galleries shall be
cleared if these unseemly disturbancesarere
peated."
Just in the middle of his speech, the Con
gressmen on the• floor—about one hundred
and fifty—received notice that a vote was
about being taken in the House ; and this at
once produced a stampede which caused Mr.
Douglas to suspend for the space of a few
minutes. As fast as they had answered their
names they returned—the B's first, the C's
following and so on through the alphabet.—
Mr. Seward against whom a great part of
the Little Giant's speech is directed, sits unea
sily in his chair, stroking his long face with his
hands, smiling and appearing to pay close
attention. It is to he hoped that he will re
ply when the Illinois Senator has concluded.
The speech of Mr. Douglas is apparently re
ceived by all sides with great favor—even
the ladies suspending the fluttering of their
fans lest that might prei'ent their hearing.—
It is a triumph, such as has seldom been wit
nessed in the Senate ; and when he takes his
seat there is a long deep sigh all through the
Chamber, as if those present had been afraid
to breathe deeply while the address was in
progress.
The Ultimatum of Sewardism
The N, Y. Courier and Enquirer indignant
ly denies the recent story from Washington,
that there is an arrangement for Mr. Seward to
retire from the contest and leave the course free
to Mr. Bates, to run as the Republican nom
inee. On the contrary, it very distinctly
states, that while Mr. Seward's friends will
acquiesce, if he is beat at the Chicago Con
vention, by a genuine Republican of 1856,
they will not submit to have him overslaughed
by Bell, Crittenden. Bates, or any other can
didate who was not a Republican, and did not
support Fremont in 1856, but in the event of
such a nomination with bolt. We quote :
" But if on the contrary, the Republican
Convention should so far forget what is due
to their constituents, as to place in nomina
tion for the Presidency, and proclaim as our
standard bearer in 1860, Mr. Bates, or any
other person who labored successfully to de
feat us in 1856, and thus secured the election
of James Buchanan, we repeat what we have
heretofore said, no earthly consideration will
induce us to support such a nominee.
" When either of them asks to become our
standard bearer, and modestly requires us to
fall into their ranks, in the name of the Re
publican party, we most respectfully, but de
cidedly, decline the honor intended to be con
ferred upon us, in other words, we boll in ad
vance."
The Courier further announces that it is
" neck or nothing" with Mr. Seward now.—
If not nominated he will retire from public
life :
" We will say, for the information of Mr.
Seward's friends, that we have the best rea
son for believing that if not elected to thd .
Presidency nest November, his public life
may be considered as terminated, as he would
not even consent to a re-election to the Sen
ate."
EXECUTION OF 8 FIEND.-A man named
Francisco Javier Lazo, only twenty-three
years of age, was recently executed at Ha
vanna, and before his death confessed to hav
ing committed twenty-three murders, besides
innumerable robberies. He made the con
fession after taking laudanum with the view
of perpetrating suicide, but having recovered,
was executed.
The Gold of Nebraska.
[From tho Philadelphia Argus.]
From information derived from the West,
of the most reliable character, we feel our
selves warranted in saying that we have not
a doubt but that the gold fields on the eastern
slope of the Rocky Mountains will prove as
rich, if not richer, than those of California.
The conviction that the whole region near
the head of the Sweet Water River, the North
Fork, Lawrence River, Horse Creek, Crow
Creek, Thompson's Creek, South Fork, and
every stream on the eastern slope of the moun
tains from the head of the Missouri River to
the Southern line of Kansas, abounds in gold,
has deepened into a reality.
Notwithstanding the ill-timed, injudicious,
senseless, and disastrous expeditions of last
year, (which should be a warning for the fu
ture) the value of this mining district is now
established.
We are informed by Mr. Schoonover, the In
dian agent, who spent eighteen months in Up
per and Western Nebraska,that the goldwealth
of the region in the neighborhood of Sweet
Water River is inexhaustible, and that it only
requires time and labor to develope that min
eral region, before which the gold fields of
California will eventually sink into compara
tive insignificance.
The great valley of the Missouri proper is
the finest agricultural country in the world,
and must eventually become the Egypt of the
United States, while the Western borders of
Nebraska and Kansas possess a mineral
wealth that it is absolutely astounding to
contemplate.
In relation to this matter, we copy the fol
lowing from the Nebraslcian published at
Omaha:
" Mining this season will be reduced to a
business. Men of capial and enterprise can,
and will, now employ their means in devel
oping the canons and gulches of the Eastern
slope of the Rocky Mountain ranges upon
such systems and such improvements as will
make it eminently profitable to themselves
and of incalculable advantage to the country.
The pioneer difficulties have disappeared, and
a trip from Omaha to Denver is no longer re
garded as a journey of hardships or duration.
WTe have positive intelligence that with the
opening of spring and the spring trade the
enterprising and responsible Western Stage
Company, the most certain and responsible
of all transportation companies in the West,
will stock the road and transport passengers
and their baggage from the Omaha to Denver
in five days. The wayfarer will make the
journey in good comfortable coaches, enjoy
ing the best of fare as he goes, and certain of
mood accommodations when he reaches his
journey's end.
" In addition to this, the United States Ex
press Company have already despatched an
agent from this city to Denver and interme
diate points, with a view to perfecting ar
rangements for connecting Omaha and Den
ver with that copy of speedy and safe trans
portation of valuables so indispensible to com
mercial intercourse."
A Voice from New York!
The indications are that Judge Douglas
will lead all other candidates in the Conven
tion who have been named for the Presiden
cy. The New York Sun, an independent
Democratic paper, thus speculates upon the
chances of Mr. Douglas
The results of the State Conventions which
have been held in the Northern, Western, and
North-western 'States, make it almost certain
that a majority of the Delegates to the Charles
ton Convention will be in favor of the nomi
nation of Senator Douglas for the Presidency.
Maine and New Hampshire have instructed
their Delegates to vote for Douglas. The
Massachusetts Delegates, though not instruc
ted, are nearly all Douglas men. Vermont
will, undoubtedly, give her support to her
own son, and Connecticut and Rhode Island
will send Douglas Delegates to the National
Convention.
New York may not at first cast her vote
for Douglas, but her representatives know the
popular feeling too well to take a decided
anti-Douglas stand. New Jersey will sup
port the " Little Giant," and Pennsylvania,
if her people could have a fair representation
in State Convention, would send to Charles
ton a delegation committed to the popular
sovereignty platform. Looking West, we find
that the Democracy of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Wisconsin, lowa, and Michigan, are almost
unanimous for Douglas. And the young
State of Minnesota has instructed her first
delegates to a National Convention to vote
for Stephen A. Douglas, while there is a pos
sibility of securing his nomination.
ROBBING THE GRAVE- The Robbery Dis
closed by cc Dream.—A child of Mr. Levi Fry,
of Cherry-hill township, a little girl, aged
about five years, died on the 7th of December
last, and was buried on the following clay in
a grave yard on the farm of Mr. Adam Hei
man, in White township. The little sufferer
had been confined to her bed for several
months previous to her death, and the disease
with which she was afflicted, and of which
she died, baffled the skill and , knowledge of
the physician who attended her. After the
child had been buried, the mother, it is said,
dreamed for several nights in succession, that
its body ~,had been removed from the grave
and conveyed to the borough of Indiana. So
deeply was she impressed with the truth of
said dream, that she gave her husband no
rest neither day or night, until he, in compa
ny with others, opened the grave, and found
to their astonishment, that there was too much
truth in the mother's dream. The shroud
and broken fragments of the coffin were found
in their proper place, but the body of the
child was not there.
Mr. Fry came to town last week, after the
above disclosures, and made information be
fore Esq. Reed, against Dr. St. Clair, of this
borough, remarking at the same time that he
would be better satisfied if he could obtain
the body of the child to take home to the dis
tressed mother, than to prosecute and convict
any man or set of men, of the crime. Mr.
F. we understand, recovered the body of the
child, which ' was but slightly mutilated ; it
having been simply opened for the purpose of
ascertaining the disease of which it died.—
The body it is said, was again conveyed to
its proper resting place one evening during
the latter part of last week. The proceedings
entered against Dr. St Clair have been stayed,
and the case is not to be further prosecuted
against any man.—Dena. Messenger, Feb.l.
RECORD YOUR DEEDS.-All deeds executed
in the State of Pennsylvania, must be recor
ded within six months, otherwise to be deemed
fraudulent and void against purchasers or
mortgage for value, unless recorded before
the deed under which the purchaser claims.
At least, so says Purdon's Digest, and that is
regarded as the best authority. Persons can
not be too careful in properly securing the
title to their property.
Attempt to Lynch a Pennsylvanian in
Virginia.
Great excitement was occasioned in the
western part of Washington county, Pa., a
few days ago, by an attempt on the part of a
number of citizens of Marshall county, Va.,
to hang a young man named Albert Patter
son, of West Finley township, Washington
county, for giving too free an expression of
his sentiments upon John Brown and Gov.
Wise. It appears that Patterson had been
invited to a wood-chopping in the village of
West Union, in Marshall county, Va., just
over the Pennsylvania line. In the course
of the evening, among other topics of conver
sation, the Harper's Ferry raid was intro
duced, Mr. Patterson remarking in that con
nection, that he considered " Old Brown a
fool and Gov. Wise no better."
At this the young Virginians present be
came greatly enraged, declaring vengeance
against him for his treasonable declaration,
and calling out " let's hang him," &c. Ac
cordingly three of them seized hold of him
and throwing a rope around his neck, were
to all appearances about to put their threats
into execution : but fortunately for Mr. Pat
terson, just at this momenta couple of young
men from the Pennsylvania side of the line
were passing, on their way to singing school
in the immediate vicinity, and hearing the
struggle, rushed into the house and relieved
him. Had this timely assistance not been af
forded, there is no telling what might have
been the result, as Mr. P., when released from
his assailants, had already been choked until
he was black in the face.
When the occurrence was mentioned at the
singing school, which was only at the other
end of the village, it gave rise to considerable
excitement, and a number of West Finley
boys—neighbors of Mr. Patterson who is a
peaceable and inoffensive young man—being
present, it was with some difficulty they were
prevented from taking summary vengeance
upon the perpetrators of the outrage. Fortu
nately, however, prurient counsels prevailed,
and in all probability a sanguinary conflict
prevented.
Louisiana and Douglas.
The New Orleans True Delta of the 28th
ult., in a long and able article on " the next
President," says :
In Louisiana nine of ten men unconnected
with Federal and State office are in favor of
Stephen A. Douglas for President of these
United States ; and they are so from no mere
personal feeling or prepossession, but solely
because they are more satisfied with his past
record and present position than of that or
any other public man whose name could with
propriety be associated with the distinguished
place. His great intellect, his intrepid moral
courage, his past never-to-be-forgotten servi
ces to the South and the Union ; the fact that
above all others he is the first and sole choice
of every Northern and 'Western loyalist in the
Union ; that in the South itself no single man
can be named in opposition to him, or is pre
sented as worthy to compete single-handed
against him for popular preference; all con
spire to root in the enlightened mind of Loui
siana what it becomes its people to do upon
this national occasion, and they will not dis
appoint the expectations their past history
inspires. Already in this city the needful
preparations for sending true men to Charles
ton are completed, and if the people of the
country parishes will only be half as active
and zealous as their brethren here are sure
to be, an undivided expression of opinion in
favor of the great statesman of the West will
be sent booming over the land in March next.
The Chicago Journal of the 13th tells
the following extraordinary story
This morning, a case was examined before
Justice Akin, which has an air of romance
around it, and exhibits a revelation of real
life from which a mist thrilling tale of fic
tion could be wrought. A woman named
Ellen Welch was found last night by one of
the policemen roving about the street, slight
ly intoxicated. She was arrested upon the
charge of vagrancy. Parties who are know
ing to her history inform us that some five or
six years ago Ellen ran away from Ireland in
company with a dashing young Irishman
whom her parents had forbidden her to mar
ry. ller father lived at Castle Kearney, and
was a man of opulence and influence, and
Ellen had been well brought up. But with
that perverseness which is always character
istic of lore, was bent on marrying the
young officer. She accordingly eloped with
him, and came to Philadelphia, where she
was married.
She lived with her husband about a year,
at the expiration of which timehe died.—
She then came to Chicago and married again,
but again she was doomed to in6fortune.—
Her husband, who had the reputation of be
ing an excellent man, was drowned in the
river by falling from a schooner. Ellen
maintained herself by sewing for a time, but
finally fell in with disreputable characters,
who fleeced her out of her clothing, and an
allowance of thirty dollars which she re
ceived every three months from her father,
through the priest. She took to drinking,
and by gradual descents soon fell to a low
depth. We know from indubitable sources
that this woman, this morning arraigned be
fore the Police Court for being a common va
grant, is an own niece to Daniel O'Connell,
the great Irish orator and reformer, her
mother, Mary O'Connell, being his sister.—
Her parents, as we said before, occupy Cas
tle Kearney, in Ireland, and are known
through the length and breadth of Ireland as
a family. of opulence,. and widely esteemed
for their many acts of kindess.
STRANGE TASTE.—It is not generally known
that at Copper on the lake of Geneva, the
residence of the late Madame de Stael, and
her father and mother, the celebrated Mon
sieur and Madame Necker, the latter are not
there buried, but are preserved in a huge vat
of spirits of wine. The curious—and they
are . not few—rush there to see this most pain
ful as well as disagreeable of sights. It was
much the desire of Monsieur Necker that he
and his wife should be pickled in this strange
manner, but fearing his own family might
not carry out his wishes, he left a certain
sum to be paid out yearly to the town for
the supply of a certain quantity of spirits of
wine for that purpose. The vat is placed in
the ground, close to the house, and partially
hid by trees, which his grandson, Monsieur i
le Baron de Steel had planted around t,
_London Court fount.
LYNCH LA.W ON THE MISSISSIPPI.-A young
man who had taken passage on a Mississippi
steamboat from Memphis last week, was de
tected with the captain's watch and a valua
ble Masonic emblem in his possession. The
passengers at once appointed a Judge Lynch
court, which tried and convicted the offender,
and sentenced him to receive thirty lashes
upon his bare back. The punishment was
duly inflicted, and the thief set ashore to plod
his weary way alone.