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FOR PRESIDENT, STEPIT:IiN , DO„:"LAS, [Subject to the decision of the Charleston Convention.] DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATION. FOR GOVERNOR, F IT"D IY- 1 41 1S r l i Fil OF WESTMORELAND. W REA D THE -VE TV ADVER TISE.IIENTS. Douglas at Washington If there were any doubts of the nomination of Douglas by the Charleston Convention, says the Chicago Times, those doubts have been removed by .the open and avowed hos tility of the Washington Constitution. That paper reiterates, for the benefit of its six hun dred subscriber, that Judge Douglas is un sound and that he can not be trusted when vital principles are at stake. The same paper thinks there is not a word of truth in the " rumors " that Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minne sota, Connecticut, and other States, have ap pointed delegates to Charleston favorable to the nomination of Judge Douglas. This is very much after the style of the old sinner who told Noah that he did not think there was any truth in the rumor that there was a " flood " to come ; that he did not think there would be anything, more than a shower after all. The editor of the Constitution—who was born a gentleman—will in all probability find that Douglas will have more Southern votes at Charleston than any other gentleman whose name will go before that Convention. There will very soon be heard a " rumor " from the Pacific, which may or may not be indictive that the Democracy of California are as " un sound " as their brethren of lowa, Ohio, In diana, Illinois, Michigan, and. Wisconsin. The recent attempt at Washington to patch up a platform fur the Convention is a farce too broad'to excite anything but a laugh.— The delegates elected by the Democracy will, when they meet at Charleston, adopt a plat form for themselves. .Messrs. Bright and Fitch arc U. S. Senators; but.. the Democracy of Indiana did nut select them to make a plat form ; the Democracy of that State selected other representatives for that purpose. The Democracy hold conventions for the purpose of nominating candidates, and making plat forms, and it will not do for Senators repudi ated by their people'to undertake that busi ness. The Tide Becoming irresistible The editor of the Harrisburg State Senti net, in his paper of Saturday last says : " During the last ten days we paid a visit to the Federal capital and mixed considerably with the people as \fel I as with the politi cians from all parts of the Union, and, never before, during an active political life of over twenty years, did we witness so overwhelm ing a sentiment in favor of one »tan for a high position as has everywhere manifested itself in behalf of Stephen A. Douglas for the Pres idency. The most happy augury, however, in this connection, was to find so intense a feeling in his favor among Southern men. During our short stay in Washington we met with many intelligent Southern gentlemen, from the lips of whom we heard the declaration over and over again that " Judge Douglas is the choice of the People of the South, and, were it not for a few noisy fire-eaters, who through the boiling of the political cauldron have, unfortunately, been thrown to the sur face, the South would be represented at Charleston as a unit for him." Indeed, so de_ votedly are the Southern people wedded to the great Illinois Senator, and so thoroughly are they imbued with the belief that his nomina tion alone can prevent the election of a, Black Republican, that many of them hail the re sult of the Pennsylvania, State Convention as a providential event, and were °static over its deliberations. Pennsylvania is regarded as the battle-field in November nest. Within her borders the great struggle is to be decided. With Doug las and Foster a victory thrice-glorious will electrify the heart of the nation ; with any other man than the Senator from Illinois all is darkness and doubt ! This is the truth and now is the time to speak it boldly. Who will longer dare strive to_ dash the brimming cup of victory from the Democracy of Penn sylvania, and the Union ? sEg'. The Union Party Convention meets in Baltimore on the 9th of May. It will dictate who shall be nominated at Chicago. ATTACIPT EXECUTIONS, EXECUTIONS, DEEDS, —J. Simpson Africa, Esq., addressed a Democratic ratification meeting at Harris burg, on Monday evening of last week. —John Scott, Esq., addressed a Democratic ratification meeting at Ebensburg, on Tues day evening of last week. —The remains of Wm. B. Foster passed through this place on Tuesday night of last week, and were taken to Pittsburg, accom panied by the President and Directors of the P. R. R. Co., and other friends of the de ceased. —The plans and specifications for the new machine shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at llarrisburg, have been prepared, and their construction will shortly be com menced. One of the buildings will be three hundred feet in circumference, and calcula ted to hold eighty-five locomotives. The shops, when completed, will give constant employment to about one thousand work men. —Andrew G. Curtin had a warm recep tion on his return home last week. He de livered himself of a speech in which he ad vised his friends to avoid personalities in the discussion of the claims of candidates. —II. L. Dieffenbach, Esq., editor of the Clinton, Democrat, whose name has been prominently mentioned in connection with the position of State Superintendent of Com mon Schools, in place of Mr. Hickok, whose term will soon expire, positively declines be ing considered a candidate for the office. —The following is the shorest bill that has been presented to the present Legislature : SEC. I. Be it enacted, &c., That the Presi dents and Professors of Colleges and teach ers in Academies and common schools in this Commonwealth shall not be subject to taxa tion. Why not . include Clergymen, Printers, Judges, Justices of the Peace, and Consta bles? —Wm. W. Stewart, Esq., of Barree, now Under Sheriff in Placer county, California, has our thanks for a copy of Gov. Weller's annual message. —The Commissoners appointed to audit and settle the expenses of the Harper's Perry, or John Brown affair, has reported to the Virginia Legislature that they have paid $137,180:: that $31,103 more has been audit ed and reported, and that $17,383 has been ex pended by the Governor out of the civil con tingent fund—aggregate $185,568. —The following named gentlemen were, on the s.th inst., re-elected Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company without op position : J. Edgar Thompson, Washington Butcher, William R. Thompson, Josiah Ba con, Thomas Mellon, John llulme, G. D. Ito sengarten, Wistar Morris, G. W. Cass, (Pitts burg,) William 11. Smith, ( Pittsburg.) —A well-known and opulent merchant of of Boston, Mr. George B. Richardson, com mitted suicide on Monday last by throwing himself into Spy Pond, at Cambridge. He seems to have been driven to the act by the fear of a sudden death from heart disease, to which he thought himself subject. His af fairs were left in a flourishing condition, and it is asserted that his domestic relations were of the happiest nature. —Mr. Beardslee on the 6th inst., read in place, in the House, "an act relating to the publication of the laws of this Common wealth." The bill contains two separate ideas, viz : 1. To require notice in each county, of all in tended applications for local legislation, to be published only in such counties as may be concerned. 2. To advertise all general laws in two papers in each county under a certain number of taxables; over a certain number, as in Philadelphia, Lancaster, Allegheny, &c., four papers. Also, to publish all local laws in two papers published in the county. The papers in which laws are published to be selected by the people, each voter voting for one "Public Printer," and the persons in each county having the highest and next higheSt number of votes are elected, (same as the election of inspectors of elections,) the object being to give each party one, and thus keep it out of politics. This is a good bill and we hope it may become a law. —The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writes : "The blacklegs are reaping a rich harvest since the members have drawn their pay. They have cleaned out several already of every dollar received from the Treasury. Night before last a mem ber from a Western State visited one of the fashionable hells. Before morning he was stripped of $1,860, being the entire salary and mileage duo him, which he had drawn the same day. lie was carried home towards daylight in an oblivious state of intoxication. In other words, dead drunk and clean plucked. --The Board of Revenue Commissioners of this State, completed their labors at Har risburg and adjourned sine die, on Saturday. the 3d inst. They have fixed the aggregate valuation of taxable property in the State at $569,049,995. Of this amount, $563,577,795 is subject to a tax of mills on the dollar ; $5,290,336 to a tax of one per cent., and $181,864 to a tax of two per cent. The fol lowing is the valuation of the city of Phila delphia : Property subject to a tax of 2 1 1. mills, $164,556,282; to a tax of one per cent., $2,- 780,793 ; to a tax of two per cent., $59,650. The aggregate increase of the valuation of taxable property in Philadelphia, since the assessment of the last Board, three years ago, is $4,417,072. It will appear that Philadel phia pays nearly one-third of the 2i- mill tax, more than one-half of the one per cent. tax, and one-third of the two per cent. tax. —The Governor has nominated to the Sen ate, Thos. H. Burrowes, Esq., of Lancaster, Superintendent of Public Schools. —The Republican Convention of Massa chusetts has elected delegates to Chicago fa vorable to Seward. This puts Banks orj_the shelf. —The planting in Texas is said to be either rapidly progressing or finished, as far as re gards corn and vegetables. In the lower and western counties corn is already up. In Mid dle and Eastern Texas, the ground has been in fine condition, and has been broken up easier and deeper than has been usual. —Thomas Scott, late Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has been appointed to the Vice Presidency of the Company, made vacant by the decease of Wm. B. Foster.— Enoch Lewis, late Superintendent of the Western Division, has received the appoint ment to the place made vacant by the promo tion of Mr. Scott. These gentlemen have proved themselves faithful and efficient offt cers, and will discharge the duties of their new appointments with a fidelity and zeal which cannot but redound to the credit of the Company. —The Boston papers are filled with ac-' counts of the alarming and fatal distemper which has broken out among the cattle in Massachusetts. —A resolution in the School Board of San dusky, Ohio, to separate white and black pu pils has been negatived by a vote of six to four. —A little boy, returning from a school the other day, discovered a large rock on the Pennsylvania Railroad track, near Cone maugh station, Cambria county. Judging rightly, that if the train, then nearly due, ran into it, the consequences would be terri ble, the little fellow took a red cap from his sister's head, and hurrying up the track, commenced waving it as the train approached. The engineer saw him, and judging that something was wrong, pulled up just in time to prevent that collision which the child so much dreaded. The engineer was astonish ed at the foresight of the boy, and had him suitably rewarded by the company. —The Baltimore Dispatch•, a first-class journal, states its belief that " a large major ity of all classes in Baltimore are in favor of Douglas for President." It says, " this feel ing is especially strong among the merchants, who look to 'his election as the harbinger of restored confidence, trade and prosperity of the country, and the utter eradication of sec tional, fanatical agitations." —Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Minneso ta have instructed their Delegates to the Chicago Convention to vote for Senator Sew ard as their choice for the Presidency. —The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have presented a claim of eighteen thousand dol lars fur transporting troops to Harper's Ferry during the Brown raid. The entire expenses of Virginia were two hundred thousand dol lars. —A man named Tinker, of Syracuse, N. Y., poisoned himself, his two children, and a valuable horse belonging to a Dr. Searles, on the Bth inst., on account of the faithlessness of his wife. It appears that some time last fall Mrs. Tinker was ailing, and Dr. Searles prescribed for her, and the result is, she aban dons her husband and goes to reside under the same roof with the Doctor and his wife. The only cause assigned is jealousy. —Corporael Keefer, proprietor of the Lo gan House, Hollidaysburg, and who served with honor in the Mexican War, died of ma nia a potu one day last week. —The Maryland Legislature adjourned on the 11th inst., at midnight. During the even ing a difficulty occurred in the rotunda of the capitol, between two Baltimoreans, when one of the parties drew a pistol and shot his antagonist. —The Missouri Republican State Conven tion met at St. Louis on the 10th inst., and adopted resolutions strongly in favor of Bates for President. DoucLAs ! Dountas !—The cry is, every where, Douglas ! So manfully does he bear himself in the U. S. Senate against foes in the Democratic party and foes outside of it— with such statesman-like ability does he han dle every subject which he touches—so firm ly has he planted himself on Democratic truth and the avowed principles of the party—so fearless is he in his uprightness of purpose, that he has taken by storm the public heart of the nation, and with one accord, East, West, North and South, the PEOPLE proclaim him to be their choice for the Presidency. It mat ters little now what the politicians may do— what schemes they may resort to, what reso lutions they adopt at Washington or else where, the nomination is already, in effect, made, and, as we said some time ago, the Charleston Convention will have to ratify it, or place the success of the party in jeopardy. The people—like truth—are mighty and will prevail. GOOD FOR OLD BERKs!—One of the most intelligent and influential Democrats of Berks county, the Old Gibralter of the Pennsylva nia Democracy, writes the Harrisburg State Sentinel an enthusiastic letter, in the course, of which he says : " The nomination of Gen. Foster was a God-send to us here. We are all united again. Now, for God's sake, give us Douglas! With Douglas and Foster we can make Old Berke stronger than ever. The Opposition know this; one-half of the whole of whom are fully comnutted to the Illinois Statesman and his platform. You know they never were Abo litionized, but the remnant of the Glorious Old-line Whig party. With such a ticket as Douglas and Foster you can rely upon Berks for over 7000 majority. Do all you can to bring about this result." General Poster's Nomination at His Home. Grand Democratic Ratcation Meeting— Speech of General Foster. The Greensburg Democrat brings us the proceedings of the Democratic ratification mooting held there—the home of Gen. Henry D. Foster-43n the evening of his nomination by the Reading Convention for Governor.— The town was brilliantly illuminated, and the Court House, where the meeting was held, was thronged to suffocation by the neighbors and friends of General Foster, anxious to tes tify their gratification at the very unexpected news. James C. Clarke, Esq., presided, and a motion being made to invite General Foster to address the assemblage, the chair, in put ting the motion, said : In rising to put the motion just made, I do not know that I am called upon to make any remarks of the meeting; every one present is aware of its object. We have, but a few hours since, learned that the Democratic State Con vention, assembled in Reading, has most un expectedly, and by acclamation, placed in nomination, as the Democratic candidate for Governor of the great State of Pennsylvania, our distinguished fellow-townsman, General Henry D. Foster ; [cheers] and we have met here, spontaneously, as it were, to rejoice and congratulate each other upon that nomina tion, and to ratify by our united voices to night the action of the Convention—a Tatifi cation, which, although at the right time and place, coming as it does from the grateful hearts of the immediate friends and neigh bors and personal acquaintances of General Foster, is but the prelude to the greater rati fication which will be given by the people of Pennsylvania at the ballot-box - On the second Tuesday of October next. [Renewed cheers.] Fellow-citizens of Westmoreland county, I. most heartily congratulate you ; I congratu late the people of Pennsylvania on this au spicious nomination. The manner in which it was - made, unsolicited as it was—and even against the wishes of the recipient—assures us that the Democratic party of the State is again returning to the good old times of its purity and integrity when the office sought the man, and not the man the office ; [great applause ;] when the only questions asked were, is he honest ? Is he capable? The unprecedented unanimity with which the nomination was made, and the unbounded enthusiasm which followed its announcement, augers that we have but to do our duty in the coming political contest and a, glorious victory will follow. But I will not detain you longer from the pleasure I know you all anticipate, of listening to the voice of accep tance of this highly honorable nomination from the generous and noble hearted son and favorite of Old Westmoreland—Gen. Foster —himself. [Loud cheers.] The Chairman then put the motion. It was answered with a deafening shout for Fos ter, and his appearing in the meeting was the signal for long continued, and boisterous cheering. Gen Foster spoke as follows: Mr. President and Fellow- Citizens :—I con fess, that a few hours ago, no man in Penn sylvania less anticipated the action of the Democratic State Convention, and of my fel low-citizens here present, than myself. I had no expectations that I would be selected for the high and honorable position that has been assigned me. Upon every proper and convenient occasion, I had discouraged the use of my name as a candidate. But the nomination has been made and tendered to me ina manner and with a unanimity that precludes a declination. While I had no per sonal desire for the nomination, it is not now a question whether it is to my advantage and my gain, or my disadvantage and my loss.— I cannot but accept it, and thus accede to what appears to be the urgent desire of my party. That such a nomination, tendered in such a manner, is gratifying, it would be idle and foolish in me to deny. But while I ap preciate the honor done me, I cannot but feel that it is rather a compliment paid to me out of respect for, and on account of, the noble Democracy of Old Westmoreland. All that I have, and all that I am, I have had from the hands of its Democracy ; and this nomi nation has been given to them, rather than to me. It •is not expected of me that upon this oc casion I should undertake to discuss any of the issues of the campaign. It will be a long and an arduous contest. There will be no child's play in the battle which is to be fought in the fall of 1860; but to deserve as well as to secure success, there will he required not only the untiring energy of your candidate, but of every individual Democrat in the State. That Democratic principles ought to prevail, should never for a moment be doubted. By the principles of that party—by its measures —measures that have made this country what it is—l shall stand firmly. Its measures and its principles are dear to every Democratic heart, and upon its platform I shall surely stand. Great questions of public policy and of vi tal interest are agitating the country to its very centre. Those questions must be set tled, and Settled upon sound, national, con stitutional grounds. They must be settled not for the benefit of the North—not for the benefit of the South—not for the exclusive benefit of any section, but for the best inter est and the common good of- the whole coun try. The flattering manner in which this nomi nation was made, compels me to accept it. I should be false to my principles, false to my party, false to my friends here and elsewhere, by and through and for whom it has been given, if I failed to accept it. I take it from the Democratic party, and if that party goes down, standing as it does upon principles of justice and of right, I am content to go down with it. To you, my neighbors and my friends, I can hardly find words to express my grati tude for this spontaneous exhibition of your friendship for me. Here, of all other places, it falls most flatteringly upon me. You have known me for many years, and to you I owe all that I am. Wherever situated, and where ever my lot may be cast in the future, my heart shall always be turned to my present home, where my imperfections have always been overlooked, and a meed of praise awar ded me far greater than my deserts. I thank you, again, for this warm mani festation of your kind regard, and, believe me, I shall cherish it through all the years of my life. During the delivery of these remarks he was frequently interrupted by the wildest applause, and when he sat down the Court House fairly shook under the cheers of the multitude. The. Commissioners of Allegheny county were fined $l,OOO each on Tuesday, by the Supreme Court, for refusing to collect the tax to pay the interest due on the railroad bonds guaranteed, by the county. Horrible Barbarities Committed in Cal ifornia. °' Tho San Francisco correspendent of the New York Herald writes : THE PITT RIVER INDIAN WAR—HORRIBLE BARBARITY.—The correspondence and papers in connection with the hostilities carried on against several tribes of Indians in the North ern part of the State by a party of volunteers under General Kibbe have been laid before the Legislature. A claim for $BO,OOO has been presented as the cost of the service.— The conduct of the whites was most barbar ous. Hundreds of Indians—men, women and children—were slaughtered in cold blood by one party, called the Pitt River Rangers.— They attacked a rancheria at night, and nev er paused until about five hundred Indians, of all ages and both sexes, lay dead on the ground. The statements of United States officers and some stock owners, who had their cattle stations in the neighborhood of the Indians, go to show that the Indians were peaceable and well-disposed up to the advent of the vol unteers and border-men, and had treated the few whites among them well, although they had the power, if they were so disposed, to destroy them and appropriate their stock.— One statement is made, on the authority of an officer of the United States Army, which should be forthwith investigated. Lieuten ant Dillon reports that Thomas lienly, accom panied by some of his people, in August last, proceeded to Eel River and captured a few Indians that resided there in huts. Mr. lienly, it seems, did not charge these people with any thing. Ile only considered they were too near him, and might steal. One of the Indians was unable to walk. Henly shot him, or ordered him to be shot. He excuses himself on the ground that the man looked like a bad Indian. The public indignation is very great against these villain volunteers, not one of whom was killed during the so-called campaign. It is high time that the United States should do something to protect from wholesale slaughter the unfortunate Indians of California. The wars against them invariably got up for spec ulative purposes. Stephen A. Douglas The American Democrat, published at Car lisle, says : "The indications are that the Little Gi ant' will receive the nomination for Presi dent at Charleston. Of the instructed dele gates, Judge Douglas has a greater number than all others combined, and it is well un derstood that a large number of those who are uninstructed will support him. The ac tion of the recent Convention at'Reading will go very far towards bringing about this re sult. Whilst the delegates from this State will go to Charleston without instructions, and whilst it is well known that a majority of them are opposed to Mr. Douglas, it is equally well known that a portion of the del egates will support him. This was not an ticipated, as it was generally conceded that Pennsylvania would instruct for some one of the other candidates. We can cheerfully support either of the gentlemen who have been named for the Presidency, by the De mocracy of the various sections of the coun try, but we are free to confess that we look upon Stephen A. Douglas, as the most avail able, and the man eminently fitted to lead the Democratic hosts against the Black Re publican column." The Reaction at the South " Cleveland," the far-famed Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, writing to that paper under date of Tuesday last, says: " The reaction in favor of Douglas is stead ily going on all over the South. Every day brings in some fresh and powerful allies.— The latest accession is Judge Thomas W. Thomas, of Georgia, the right-hand man, in days past, of Howell Cobb, and one of the first men in that State. " He declared the other day in a public speech that Douglas was his choice over all other men for President, for three reasons : First, he is honest, bold and consistent; sec ondly, he is sound, capable and experienced; thirdly, he is the only man that could be elec ted. " Delegates to the Charleston Convention are pouring into the city from different sec tions of the country, evidently for the pur pose of taking soundings and ascertaining the chances of the various Presidential can didates. The irresistible conclusion the most of them arrive at is, that with no other man than Douglas is victory at all certain. Many of them go away well satisfied that it is Doug las or defeat." DOUGLAS IN CALIFORNIA.—Recent informa tion of a reliable nature from California is most gratifying to the friends of Senator Douglas. The very best assurances have been given that California will be represented in the Charleston Convention by a full Douglas Delegation. The Democracy of the Golden State are unitedly and enthusiastically in fa vor of the Illinois Giant. Senator Latham, the young and gifted suc cessor of the lamented Broderick, has just arrived at Washington, and now occupies his sent in the Senate. He is bitterly opposed to Gwinn ; and while he will give his support to the Administration, in an interview with Mr. Buchanan, he is reported to have told him frankly that he was the personal and po litical friend of Judge Douglas. So we go. PARACIDE IN JACKSON COUNTY, OIIIO.—The Jackson, Ohio, Standard, furnishes the par ticulars of a shocking murder committed in that county on the night of the 13th instant. The victim was Daniel Winchell, an old resi dent of Jackson township, and the assassins were one of his sons, his son-in-law and nephew. As he was about entering his door, one of the above parties knocked him down, one of the accomplices seized him, and car ried him a short distance from the house, cut his throat with a knife, and then held him over a hole already dug in the ground for the reception of his blood. His body was then tied up in a sheet and thrown into a neigh boring creek, where it was found by some of the neighbors. A little son of the decased, gave the information which led to the discov ery of the above facts. The murderers are now in jail. A WOMAN - VOTER.—Much amusement was created at the polls of the 3d Ward yester day, by an attempt to carry "Woman's rights" into active exercise. The wife of a voter, who was confined to bed by illness, appeared and demanded to cast her husband's vote.— Upon a refusal, she became quite irrate, and in reply to the jeers of some of the crowd, seized a brickbat and for a while cleared the front of the polls. She was at length quieted and conducted away.—Alex. Gaz. Extraordinary Affair at a Lunatic Asy- luna in Ohio A Lunatic Cuts a Hole in the Floor with False Teeth, Picks a Lock with a Pin, Cuts Out a Window-sash and Shutter with a Ring, and Escapes. [From the Cleveland (Ohio,) Herald, March fi.] Among the inmates of the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum is a person named Wheedon, once a highly respectable citizen in good cir cumstances, and said to have been a member of the former coal firm_ of I. C. Pendleton & Co. He has been in the asylum for some time. For some time past he has manifested a a strong disposition to escape, and the utmost care and vigilance has been exercised to frus trate his designs, but not always with suc cess. Before being placed in his sleeping room at night, he has been always stripped and carefully examined to prevent the se creting of any instrument, and all his clothes but his shirt, pantaloons and stockings taken away. In spite of these precautions, he has succeeded three times within a few days in escaping from his room. About two weeks since he took a set of false teeth out of his mouth, and by constant work contrived with them to saw a hole through the floor of his chamber, making a hole suf ficient to admit of his dropping through into another part of the house, and thus escaping, He was traced and caught at the house of Mr. Pendleton, on Euclid street. A few days since he secreted a pin, and with that exceedingly unlikely instrument he managed to pick the lock of his dam., and es caped into the hall, where he was fortunate ly arrested. He then stated that a pin was of more value than ten thousand dollars when he wished to escape from a room. Last Saturday night he was carefully ex amined, as usual, before being placed in his room, but succeeded in secreting a small brass ring, split at one part, in his hair. On being locked up for the night, he set to work, and with the ring he cut through the window sash and shutter, so as to enable - Mtn to remove them from the window. He then took the coverlid of the bed, and tore it into strips, with which he made a rope reaching nearly to the ground, a distance of some twenty-five or thirty feet. Some of the cotton batting with which the coverlid was wadded, he placed in his stockings to protect his feet, as he had no shoes. Then dressing himself in shirt, trowsers and stockings, he slid down the rope and escaped. Striking across the country to the Eight mile Lock, he then took the tow-path of the ca nal, and walked down to University Heights, vi here he arrived yesterday -afternoon. The officers of the asylum on his track came on him yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. He was very quiet when arrested, and spoke freely of his escape, and made no resistance to being taken Lack to the asylum. We question whether this series of extraordinary escapes can be well matched. Dreadful Affair in Arkansas---Two Men, and a Woman Hung by Lynch Law [From the Memphis Appeal, March 3(1.] In Crittenden county, Arkansas, not far• from Marion, and eight or ten miles from this city, lived a man named Robinson and his wife. On last Tuesday night but one, Feb ruary 21, no one being in the dwelling but Robinson and his wife, just as he was re tiring for the night, a shot fired by some per son outside came crashing through the win dow—it was well aimed, and the unfortunate man fell before his wife a corpse. Who could have done so hellish a deed was a mystery.. Strong excitement arose in the neighborhood, and Robinson being a favorite with his neigh bors, a determination was expressed that jus tice should be done. Investigation led to the discovery of suspicious conduct- on the part of the wife of the murdered man. So dark and damning were the indications of her guilt, that she was arrested and placed in jail on Friday of last week. The wretched woman, overcome with horror and fear, sought to save herself by denouncing others, and made a full confession. She stated that she had formed an intima cy with a man whose name our correspon dent has omitted to give us, and wished to marry him, and for one hundred dollars she hired his brother to do the deed of death by which she might be set free from her hus band. Ile performed his fatal task only too well. On Wednesday the two men implica ted were arrested and placed in custody.— Day before yesterday, the exasperated people dragged the criminals from the jail to the woods, and there hung them until they were dead. The woman was reserved, but was to be hung yesterday, as the populace were de termined that all who were concerned in the assassination of Robinson should cumber earth no longer. NEW POST OFFICE STAMP.-A new post of fice stamp has been invented by a gentleman in the city of Philadelphia, which is calcula ted to meet a public want that has long been felt. The peculiarity of the new patent stamp is this: It leaves its impression not only on the envelope enclosing a letter, but upon every fold of the letter itself. This is effected by means of a steel die, the letters and figures upon which are formed by a se ries of fine points, which pierce the envelope and its contents in such a manner as to im part, ineffaceably, the name of the post office and date upon which the letter is mailed.— Since the general introduction of envelopes, much inconvenience has been suffered from the want of such an invention. In numerous instances, as every business man knows, letters containing orders are re ceived in which the name of the post-town and the date are entirely omitted, and upon which the post-mark has been so imperfectly impressed as to be unintelligible. For this reason post dates on envelopes are not re ceived in court evidence, and very properly so, from the fact that wrong envelopes could be easily substituted to make out a ease..-,- With the steel-pointed stamp, however, all these disadvantages are effectively obviated. UNITED STATES AND Mexico.—lf the signs of the times are not deceptive, we are on the eve of another rupture with Mexico—which, if it should occur, would result in the subju gation and retention of that splendid coun try. The condition of things as they at pres ent exist in Mexico cannot long be endured even by the citizens of that unhappy State. War even now exists on the Rio Grande be tween the United States troops and the wan dering bands of Cortinas—and Gov. Houston of Texas, has distinctly informed the Federal Government that unless it will put forth its strong arm to suppress disturbances there, he will take the field himself at the head of the Texas militia, and fight it out on his own hook, This is, at present, decidedly the most inter esting feature in our federal relations, and we await the result with anxiety.—Harris! burg State Sentinel. '
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