.&I£BRXO4JT volunteer. MONDAY, Jan. 25, 181). Temperance Department. Notices. The Executive Committee of the Cum berland County Temperance. Society have meetings appointed as follows: Jan. 20. Evening— M’Allistcr ? s School < House. 1 din. SO, son township Feb. 6. “ Hogesfown Feb. 22. " Pine-School House, in Dickinson township.' N. B.—A delegation from the Committee will visit the Society at Mcchanicsburg, on Feb 7th, if informed that a meeting can be bad on that day. • ' - -- - ■ “ tog Chui ch in Dickin • , M. Caldwell, Chairman Jan. 22, 1841. J The Executive Committee of the Cum berland County Temperance. Society have obtained a’maouscript copy of the Mdress of the late State Temperance Convention assembled at. Harrisburg, to the‘people of this Commonwealth, which, with the ap probation of the publishing Committee, we hasten to lay before your readers. Wpe.it will be published in every pa l pfer in the State. It refers to matters of great public interest. ‘ M. Caldwell, Chairman. *inniex:ss OF'XIIE Etato Temperance Convention To the People oj Pennsylvania, Fellow Citizens: Assembled from vari ous parts of pur commonwealth, for tlie pur pose of deliberating op the best means of a bating the evils of intemperance, this, con vention is unwilling, to adjourn until it has prepared a frank and earnest address to you, asking your immediate and ; aotive co . operation. It is our wish, if possible, not to address ourselves exclusively, or specially to the avowed and enrolled friends of tem perance, but to each citizen-in our state.— We do this with the more confidence, be- cause we are convinced that there is not a single family in the commonwealth that has - person, reputational-property, by this colu inon evil. It is nut our intention to press upon your notice the magnitude of the evil considered aggregately;, nor the amount:of private misery and infamy which it produ ces. These.have bedh-the, burden of former • appeals, and their existence has been so clearly demonstrated that no one doubts any *9P.S elv The individual and public mind is .. satisfied of the "great magnitude and univer sal diffusion of the evil. The question now is; can any thing further be done to suppress _ .or arrest it?. And if so: What is it? We have Strong hope, thatif it can.be clearly shown, what further is, necessary, the com munity will be brought to general action. ■ ''The unanimity of opinion as to what fur ther measures are'requisite, is very remark able and very encouraging. The friends of Temperance, throughout the State are satis fied that the time has come to invoke legis lative , action. This clear conclusion, has followed from patient investigation, and warm protracted discussion, in temperance meetings, in public prints, and in'successive . conventions. Two principal -difficulties were at first supposed, to be in the way. An impression, perhaps an opinion, was abroad that’the Legislature had no power over the question. This ground is now abandoned even by the opposition. Wherever the ques tion has come before the judicial tribunals of the country, the constitutionality of the prohibitoryjaws has been affirmed. It is now well understood, that the license laws were established for the purpose of regulat ing what was acknowledged to be a danger ous traffic. But if the Legislature mav pass laws restraining, By the intervention of the courts the retail of intoxicating liquors to.a feyr, say ten or twenty in a borough orcoun typit may. restrict to one, or prohibit alto-, gether. We do not advise legislative action inconsistent in'principle with what has ex isted, from Hie first. This is how so. well understood that’ the opposition has ceased from this direction. , Put another difficulty was in the way; and is not entirely removed yet. There was an apprehension abroad, fin some instances real, but in most feigned,) that the friends of temperance desired the Legislature’to extend the prohibition into the family circle, and thus invade the sanctity of domestic society.. The friends, of temperance-never desired such legislative actiop. The habits and wishes of each family within its bvvh private circle are to be held sacred, and not - to be forcibly entered, even under coyer of law. ’ What has been asked, and is again prayed for by this convention, Will not in terfere with the internal arrangements or private habits of anyfamily. . l . - ; What, then, ia the legislative measure up on which there is such unanimity of opinion aroongthefriends of temperance? It is this: the immediate passage of a ,Iftty "that shall, put it in the power of a majority of the qual ified voters in .each .ward, borough or town shiptesay, in a manner thatshall nofinter ferei with the strifes of party politics, wheth er there shall he any person or . persons li censedjin such ward, borough or township, to sell intoxicating drinks, or not.” Such a -legislative disposition of the question'would most obvjolisly be in strict accordance with the pn.nciplesof'our Government., , The passafee of such a law would place the issue fairly before the people in every township and ward. Its provisions would keep this issue apart from ,ail other ques tions, so that the public judgment Would be fuirly pronounced. ' If this can be obtained we do not fear the result. If the friends of temperance are found--in the minority on this issue in any township or ward, they Wiirs.ubraU tiie will of the major ity- ‘But it is firmly believed this; would 'rarely be the case.- There arc but few town ships where the people would not protiddnco . against the evil if they were called upOtiVto decide this siipple qutstion.'by ballot." ,'Tjug. theft.'is. the grand measure to. 'be carried; ami. to thjs end the friends of the best and - holiest cause of humanity must be active anil place,if ■■ votei- in be cairecl onim . mediately to .jijgn a petition to . the' legisla ,. '& la-.y, at their present 'session:'Telall Females-who have attained" to a suitable age send up their earnest petitions; and let there be no cessa tion until our prayer is granted. In the language of. the last -convention, “we want a law which shall bring the'issue fairly and fully before every qualified voter in the commonwealth. We want to have the op-1 ponuriity of pressing his conscience with all the responsibility to his family, his country ahd his God, which will, rest upon .him in giving a vote that may determine such an issue. And we fear not the result. ' Truth is mighty and will prevail.” In pursuance of this great measure, and for the preservation of the lawywhen-once Obtained, we wish strongly to urge the friends of temperance to attend the primary meetings of their several political parties, and use their influence to have temperance men put in nomination for the Legislature. We do not advisb or desire to make a polit ical temperance party: but simply urge you to use your influence with the political par ty with which you severally act,' to have temperance men pul in nomination for the Legislature. The convention deem this an important measure. " ■ - ' . Another, (ahd in the present'state of tlie temperance reformation,). very important measure is to obtain access to the.columns of the Various political papers, for the pur pose of placing valuable and correct infor mation before the people. These arc the only channels through which the whole peo ple can be reached. If thedifierent politi cal papers in your respective counties will not establish a Temperance Department of a column or two a week for. their, love of the cause, and'the interest it. would impart to their papers, then let the'friends of tem perance purchase the privilege and use it discreetly and diligently, and it will bo an elfectuajyycapon. By this means light will be poured into the dark places - where it- is niost needed, and the entire public mind -will'be put in motion. This convention is gratified to learn that there are various po litical papers in this commonwealth which have a Temperance Department at the ser-, vice of judicious committees,and ask no oth er reward than, the conscious pleasure of doing good. .' The only remaining topic which the con yention wish to press upon your attention is, the petition to the legislature to pass a tionmg to the courts for licenses to retail in- toxicating drinks, to give notice of said in tention in' at least one paper published in the county-where the applicant may reside, for six weeks previous to such application, accompanied with the names of those who recommend said applicant.” The. conven tion ennsider a law embodying the above provisions >of vast iniportance to the commu nity and the cause bf.temperance. How of ten are ive startled upon the adjournment of court, to find our neighborhood infested with many grog shops of-winch no one dreamed till the mischief was done. There was- no •opportunity for the community to examine the applications fur license, nor the charac- ters and circumstancesmf the recommends tions. A dozen men may jviah licenses to sell and they may recommend each other: or, other interested parties, as the manufacturers or owners of the property, may recommend them. We know how easy it is to procure signatures when the parties are not to be publicly known, as is the practice under the present law. The parties are very rarely questioned; and there can be no doubt, but if their names were required to be publish ed, and thus an opportunity were given to subject their statement to the test of an. ex amination, or themselves to an oath, there would be much more care and circumspec tion in recommending individuals to retail intoxicating drinks. Thus, fellow citizens, have we suggested to you what ought to bo done, and dTone quickly. We have not endeavored to stir your blood by pourtraying the enormity of the evil. This you lung since have seen & felt._ But we have desired to produce im mediate action' for the purpose of abating and suppressing the evil. If all the friends of the cause will qUickly exert themselves in procuring. and forwarding petitions to the legislature, as this convention has earnestly recommended, our prayer will, be granted this, winter, and then the contest will be in every ward and township between temper ance and intemperance, between vice and virtue, poverty, and prosperity, and none can doubt the issue. There are elements in the community which will arrange themselves on the side of . temperance and virtue.,-of which we now little dream* ’ The victory will be triumphant -and glorious; antT the fruits of it will be wide spread contentment, prosperity and peace. [Signed] ' J. H. EWING. President. S.-Elliott, > 0 , : W. C. PooisoN, 5 Secretaries. 1 • ‘ From the Pennaylvflmari. Eleven days later from Eng- Uiiid. ' ~ • 'The sfeam packet Columbia, Capt, Jud kins, arrived at Boston, on Thursday morn ing at 8 o’clock, in 15i days from Liver pool, with. Liverpool papers to the sth, Lon don to the .4th, and Paris to the 2d January. We extract the follosvingsummary of the news brought.by her, from the Boston Ad,- vertiser. Extra, and the New York Journal of Commerce. The news of the greatest interest is from Turkey arid Egypt. Admiral Stopford re fused to ratify the convention with Mehe met Ali, made by Commodore Napier, but he immediately proposed other terms, not. very materially different, which the Pacha immediately acceded to, and the pacification \Vas likely to be consummated. The Pacha agreed to make his submission to the Porte— to give up the. Turkish-fleet—and to. evacu-; ale Syria.;.' , , , , It appears from - the Paris - accounts that the recall of Marshal Vallee from Algiers .was.determined on, and Re was to be suc ceeded J>y Gen., Bugeaudv The charge, a tlco- Valiee is that lie has extended t - ■ Pfwt>°nytoo far, occupying distant ci of Finance, presented the budget for the yeac. He.went into a very full* statement i)f the comhtmnpf the finance—the debt— the:expemlitures—arid the resources mMlm country, The amount cf the buds-et rif es‘ i pchseh Tor"theensuirigyenr is 1,316,000,000 francs. ' That of revenue is 1,162,000,000, presenting a deficiency of 154;000,000. On the Ist of January, King Louis Phil lippe received a great numberof complimen tary addresses from the Corps Diplomatique, Presidents of the Chambers and the public bodies, the answers to which gave general satisfaction. ’ , The between Spain and Portugal has so far subsided, that.tlie'Spanish Regen cy has consented to wait’until the Portu guese Government could lay the. treaty of 1835. before the Cortes, for its sanction or. rejection, in the course of-January. The Portuguese Government offered to submit the question between the. two countries to the mediation of. Great Britain. It is said that Espurtcro is raising ari'army of -50 or 60,000 infantry and 4 in 1 5,000 cavalry-to enforce the' pretension of Spain to the' free navigation of the-Douro. It is said that Espartero has expressed, his readiness to ac cept the mediation of England. There was a very violent, thunder storm in London,'Greenwich, and tlier'vicinity, on the morning of January 3. Spital field church was struck by lightning and the spire and roof were considerably injured. Strca tham church was also struck and set on fire, and the'wholc of t|ie steeple was destroyed. The storm was quite extensive along the , shores, from-Windsor downward. It was felt also at Brighton. •There Was no later nows from China or ■lndia., There, had been a report said to have been received'overland by way of St. Petersburg!!, that the British troops in Chi na had adianccd to Pekin, but it does not appear to have been entitled to the least credit. Further plots against jife are again spoken of ns having beefi-found in the pocket of the driver of a Paris omni bus, who committed suicide; a paper is said to haVe been found, setting forth that being n member of a secret society, his turn had come by lot to kill' the King; but, finding himselt unable to commit the crime, he had. determined Whang himself. The King has remitted that part of Mad ame Laffhrge’s sentence which condemns her. to txpositionpubleque. During three days ending Dec. 28th, there were 22 fires in London, some of which oc casioned considerable destruction of prop- The chartists lin'd monstrations iii Wales, but were effectually held in check by the military, - General Bugeaud has been appointed Go vernor of Algeria, in place, of Marshal Val- Ice. f ' , Letters by the Columbia confirm the news of loans negotiated by the agents of the U.’ S. Bank, with various parties, j:o the extent .in all of one million and sixty thousand pounds sterling, or fully five millions of dol lars. ... •. - - ' Money was rather scarce, but getting ea sier, the rates in market for prime mercan tile paper were 5 or 6 per cent, per annum. The money letters from London report sales of Indiana stefling-fives-at 76 and N. York State fives at 86. Mexican dollars are quoted at 58 5-Bd. per. oz. Bills bn Paris 25, 52 1-2 a 55. Amsterdam, 12,2 14a 1-2. Hamburg, 13.6 3-4 a 7 t l-4. The import of Cotton into Liverpool in the year 1840, was 1,416,163 bJil.es —which, is an increase of 411,296 bales over the import of i 839; and 85,194 over that of 1838. The Cotton market was animated; sales of Uplands 5j a 7 —Orleans sj‘a Ti—Mo bile 5| a 7k —Alabama 6-i —Sea Islartd 13d a 22d. ‘ ' Liverpool, January 4. —American flour in bond, is 25s 6d a 225, but these prices could not be relied upon in the face of large importations. Turpentine has rather im- Tproyed, last, sale was 12s. 6d. cwt. stock in this-port is 10,000. bales. Ameri can Wheat in bond ss. 3d. a ss. 6d. per 70 lbs. Tobacco continues in steady demand. Jan. 2., —The price of company’s tea to day was firm, at !sa. l£d. to 2s. 2d* per lb. From the Harrisburg Reporter. Hostility of the Federalists to Foreigners. MESSRS. BUCHANAN, CLAY AND CRITTENDEN. The hostility of the federal party against foreigners, who have fled from oppression at home, to seek an asylum in this land of freedom, is so deeply rooted that it breaks out upon all occasions. ■ The same spirit which gave birth to the Mien Law, during the reign of terror, in the days of the elder Adams, has recently manifested itself in a striking manner in the Seriate of the United States. Whilst-the pre-emption land bill was before that body, oh the sth of Janua ry—arid the recent transactions in the State House here, brings the inconsistency of thht party more forcibly to view in our minds. Mr, Mangiim, Senator from North Carolina, and a federalist, made a-motion to exclude from its benefit all persons who were not cil izerts of the United Stales. On this ques tion a debate arose of great interest, Messrs. Clay of Kentucky, and Mr. Crittenden in favor, and Mr. Buchanan, our Senator,, a gninst it—the latter contending, that it would be Unjust and against the settled pol icy of our government to make’ such an odi ous distinction against foreigners. ■ ■ 'We give our readers some extracts .from his remarks,, not only to show, the true na ture ofthe v pre-emption bill, but to’convince them'of the injustice am\ consibfericy of the federal party in relalionto their, conduct towards foreigners. , l ln reply to. Mr. Clay, Mr. Buchanan re marked: ■ , What, after all, was this privilege of pre emption, about which he had Heard so much? Wasita gift, of the land? No.' Was it' ai sale of the land below the ordinary price fixed upon it by the Government?. . Certain ly riot. . What tbch-'was it? . ~ ; We had .ascertained 855 long- experience that the public, lands,; fronfevgopio icansc or other. doiridt commapd at puhlicsaletman average more than two i,oc three cents per acre themimirtbm-price.; :’yiio :this,>we these* sOleSi icpmliirie, ■fori c eepipg; down the price to the inimmunrstandard.— They are thus enabled to obtain the choice tracts at bat one or two centsibove one dol lar and twenty-five cents per acre. Now. what is the great privilege .which we confer by this bill? It is nothing more than this;—» that the man who goes into the wiUlerness— selects a quarter section of.land—erects his log cabin upon it, and brings it into a'state of cultivation, shall not be turned out of house.anti home by any greedy speculator Who miy have cast his longing eyes upon'it. This spot : of land is, not offered at public sale.diutis reserved, for the actual settler, provided he. pays for it in cash at the rate of oneflollar arid Iwpnty-five cents per acre.— TlieGovcrninent may thus, by possibility, Jose one, two or three cents, on each acre, in to this poor man his selected home. . This is the sum total of the benefit to hiin andthc loss to the Treasury; without bringing into the account .the advantage which the country, derives frbm ' having its vacant lands settled anil cultivated by a brave and hardy population... Now, in regard to- aliens. The Senator has admitted that,.fromthe origin of the Go vernment until the present day, they have been permitted to purchase the public lands of the West, either, at public sale or by pri vate entry. This fact is incontrovertible. Then why make an odious distinction against foreigners in this particular? If you permit them to purchase in every other form, why deny them the privilege of purchasing ns pre-emptioners. The alienwho- flies from oppression at home, and makes his way into the West, and there fixes his habitation, at the .same time places his body ,as ; a barrier against the attacks of the savage foe which your poUcy has collected on that frontier. Sucli aliens thus fu'rnish stronger evidence of their fidelity to the country, and of their intention to become citizens,than they could: do by a mere decimation to this effect, un der the naturalization laws,.though, he pre sumed, such a declaration was made by them in almost every instance. A man who merely does this, may change, his intention before he bccomcs a citizen; but the man who makes a settlement on.the public land, and purchases it from the Goyernment. tlrus identifies his own fate and that of his fami ly, for weal or for wo, without Government. From such men we have nothing to appfe | bend.. Ami shall we sutler even the alien cOmihg a citizen," td'purcluse the humble dwelling of this'poor man, and drive him out of possession? ■ Such might often be the case, if it-were-not for your pre-emption laws. . For my own part, I shall always most cheerfully, ns long as I shall be hon ored with a seat in the Senate, grant this trifling privilege to the actual settler, whe ther he has emigrated from-the old to the new States, to improve his condition, or has fled from oppression in the old world, to jive under the protection of oiir Republics institutions. ' Mr. Crittenden op the next day, January 6th, came to the assistance of his colleague: and he’and ■ Mr. Buchanan, occupied the greater part of the day, in the discussion.— We have only room for a few extracts. He (Mr. B.) could hot understand’the op position which had been manifested. in eer- tain quarters to foreigners, who had sought a refuge and. a home in our country. Had they not materially assisted in achieving our independence? In the days of the Itevolu tion na such jealousy was”felt towards the brave Irishmen, Frenchmen and Germans, who side by side with -our native citizens, had fought the battles of liberty. On the contrary, he had no doubt, it was from a grateful sense of these services, that it had ever been the settled policy of the Govern ment to allow them to purchase our vacant lands upon the same terms with American citizens. And again Mr. Buchanan, in reply to Mr. Crittenden—speaking of the privilege of pre-emption, asked 'To what does it amount? ” What is its in trinsic value? It is merely a contest be-, tween the speculator and thc-nctuaj settler, as to whether the former shall be permitted to purchase the spot of land improved and rendered valuable by- the toil of the latter. Our experience has demonstrated -that the average excess of life price 'of the public lands advertised and sold at public sale, in pursuance of the President’s proclamation, is not more than two or three cents per st ore above the fixed price of the Government at private sale. , Why, then, is the privilege granted to the settler tvho goes in to the'wilderness, clearer away the forest, and there establishes his home? Docs this bill offer such a man a donation?- Not at all. Does it'give him the land as a bounty? No such thing. The privilege it confers is that he shall not be driven from his humble home by the specu lator. This mighty privilege is that he shall pay for his lahifTthe price fixed by- law, which may be less, by two or three cents per acre, than it would command at public sale; and that after he has paid for it," he shall hold it. ' And why, at this late day, for the first time in your history, should you make an odious distinction, in this small matter, between the settler, who has drawn his first breath on the other side of the At lantic, and the American citizens? No.such distinction has ever existed heretofore, and no complaint had ever been uttered by those directly interested, that this trifling' privi lege has been, conferred upon foreigners. If Senator had carefully read the history of his country—l mean on this particular point—l myself have hot, but the fact has been furnished to me by one \vho has—what would- hp_ have found in relation to these now despised foreigners?. [Here Mr. Crittenden denied that he had spoken of them as "despised foreigners.i’J j Mr. Buchanan said I know he has not; but ifhe-had understood .the honorable Sen- atpr:correctly he had spokeri with indigria tibn. against using the bodies of foreigriersas a barrier on our frontiers against the incur sions of the savage-foe,; arid considered it a degradations our; own citi'/.ens to invoke the aid of such defenders. If the'Senator hail read thehistury of his country, he would have fqunddhat the Revolutionary Congress, that tried men’s souls,”; had Invited those foreigners to enlist Under our banners,' and had offered them 'not a, mere pre-emption right, bds .Htbounty in lands; Ayith lhe privilege of aM'oncc beconiing A-’ 'meHcan^citiyens;^JWerejMr.^B. ; read the gust 27, 1776, from the -first volume .and first page of the land laws. 'These acts manifested the estimation in which .foreign ers, who are willing to fight in the cause of independence, were at that day held by the Revolutionary Congress. He could not be mistaken in believing that it was far differ ent from the estimate now placed upon them by the Senator from Kentucky. Now,.said Mr. B. I desire to make no political capital out of any question of this nature. I wish •only to act towards these foreigners who may have settled or shall settle upon pur public lands, upon the principles of eternal and. immutable Justice. Nothing'more.— ; From the' beginning it has' been our policy to permit foreigners to purchase and. settle upon the public lands, and I shall not now, for the first time, establish an odious distinc tion against them, in a pre-emption bill. I will not how, at this late day,repeal the es tablished policy of the country, but in this particular shall pursue the system adopted by the wisdom of our predecessors. Bu t the Senator has asked me why I am so willing to accord, these privileges, and yet am “so jealous of foreigners holding a little stock in a petty little bank.” This question I shall endeavor to answer. Sir, said Mr. B.'this is the class of foreigners who produce alarm in my mind,—they ex cite my terror. (Mr. Benton: ‘ “Yes, the" millionarics.”) These are not the men who fly from poverty and oppression abroad, and settle in our country to share lints toils as well as its advantages;' They arc riot the poor pre-emptioners of the West, who have Indissolubly.fixed their fate With ours, and have no otherhuman hope but to , live and die upon our soil. No ,air, no. Very far from it. The foreign stdckholdcrs in oirr banks haVe no intention of becoming Amer ican citizens. Their object, is to increase their own fortune by the spoils of our land, to suck our yoUng; life blood for of.strenglliening and invigorating the decay-, ing institutions of other countries. ■ They seek to acquire a political influence over us, that they may turn it to their own advantage and our destruction. Of such a foreign in fluence I confess that lam jealous, f firm • ly believe that the day on which you shall Establish a new National Bank in this coun try; with a capital of one hundred millions (if dollars; and with the power p{ spreading Ltslbranches over every portion of the Union, ynri • permit for; cigriers to hold the stock, will lie the dark est and most portentous which has ever shone uptin the Republic. From that day we shall most probably'forfeit not only our liberty but our independence. You will then concentrate and fortify a central mon ey power, foreign and domestic,'in this co in try, which will exercise a controlling, ari o yerwhelming influence over its destinies.— Senators thiMiiselves may live' to rue the day whcnjhey call such, a v.ist, such an irre" sponsible power, into existence. It is sucl a foreign'influence that I dread; and no that of the "log cabin men” of the far wes whose for (otic-and whose fate arc necessai ily 1 identified with that of the country. Ii is the foreign millionaire, who seeks to con trol the politics of the country fur the pur pose of promoting hie own interest and in creasing his own fortune, of'whom Republi cans here and every where ought to be jeal ous. From the Vnlontown Genius of Liberty. MORE OF THE-MAIL ROBBERY. The four person's committed to our coun > ty prison, last wcelj,..charged with robbing ; the mails, failed in “their efforts to obtain ; Bail, and .were delivered over to the custody 1 of, William Crawford, Esq. one of the as sistants of the Marshal-of the United Slates for the Western District of Pennsylvania. ; On Tuesday morning, Mr. Crawford, with Sheriff Meason, and a posse, left town with three of them (Braddce, Pirnell and Sfray ■ er) for Pittsburg. They travelled to Browns -7 ville in coaches, and there took a steamboat for the city. Corman, the Stage Driver, is still in oUr s county, jail. On Tuesday, an excavation jvaa made of a few feet ofgpound, on a new street, which was forinerly a privy and part of the lot on which Dr. Braddee’s dwelling house is situated, when another • mail bag was found, containing letters da ted January, 1840. Crucibles and a bac of metal were also found an the same place. The Democrat of .Tuesday contains the subjoined accu.unt of the arrest and confes sion of Corman. . It corresponds with the facts as we have gathered them before put ting our last paper to press, but which we did not then feel authorized to publish.;^ . “For good reasons, the agent of the tie-' partment suspected wrong at this place, and accordingly plied themselves towards de tecting the robbers. It was farther suspect ed that whoever had a hand in the business, they could not well effect their purpose without the aid or connivance of,the driver, and toavoicWhe danger of giving his accom plices time’anil notice to escape, a warrant was procured from Judge Ewing and placed in the hands of Mr. William Freaner, a po lice officer of Hagerstown who with the war rant in his pocket, mounted the stage box, and rode side by side of the suspected dri ver to Washington, where Mr. F, procured his arrest on Thursday morning. The name of this driver is William Corman. He was taken before a. justice, and acknowledged his guilt, implicating as his accomplices. Dr. John F, Braddee, William Pirnell; (Brad dee’s clerk.) and P.'Al. Slraer, all of this place. Corman was brought .here on Thurs day evening, and before Judg;e Ewing gave a detailed account of the. whole affair. “Gorman states that the plan to rob' the mail was entered into as far back as Novem ber 18S9,at which lime, per-preconcerted arrangement, Sfraer, one of the companv, followed him.in a sleigh several miles into the mountain, where he, (Corman) handed. Straer admail bag,-which he brought or was to bring-back to Brnddee’s. From some cause, not explained -by Corman, dr if ex plained, nb't in possession of the public, the further coßbery; of the not repeat ed until about the firstof. November, 1840, from which time, extending to the first Week in December, no less than eight or. nine of the New York bags were successively ab stracted i by Braddec and-his men, with the aid and connivance of Corman. He states that his: practice was to hand over all the bags to the next coach exedpt the one they l , n * en ! le<lt< * * *D e » which was left in the coach, driven to the yard, which adjoins Braddee’s dwelling* and there taken, out by:one of the others. He' denies havin'g’shaiedto any extent in the booty thus fesses to -be ignorantof. the amount of money .taken. If his statement be thus true,. ; ;it would seem that Braddee kept him thus ig norant to prevent him from getting a full share of the spoil. They still held out the idea to Cortnan, that they got but littlei un til towards the close, when they encouraged him with the information that the mails were getting better. The number of mails miss ing, the time they were taken, as detailed by Corman, corresponds with the informa tion of the facts iri possession of the agent of the Department; Horrible Suicides of a Husband and his Wife, — r Yesterday afternoon between one and two o’clock, two frightful suicides were perpetrated in the rear attic of the’ house No, 193 Mulberry street, the parallels of which we have happily, seldom or ever had to record. In that place resided an Irish man named Thomas Hogan, aged about SO, a master pavior by trade, with his wife. Ho nors, aged about 35, both.sober and indus trious people; Mrs. Hogan was a widow named Hays, when she married Hogan, who was also a widower. He having two sons by his first wife, one grown to manhood, and the other a boy of about 14 years of age,— the female having no children, either by her former or latter husband. As is top often the case, the demon of jealousy entered to mar their happiness, and frequent disputes and serious quarrels occurred to poison ( their cupof.lifc. Thcywere bothpersons of'ex citable temperament, and the woman was rather fond of irritating and.-rousing the an gry passions of her husband. Yesterday morning they.had a serious quarrel, when ,he ‘walked out with a friend to avoid"the furtbeFstrife of tongues, and 'when he re turned, she taunted him- afresh. Stung al most to. madness by the tartness--of- her tongue,'he instantly ran into the front room of the attic, snatched his musket,, loaded with ball, from a closet, cocked it, placed the breach oh the floor, and the muzzle a gainst his left side, near the eighth rib, and pulling the trigger, ns was supposed, with his toe, discharged the contents of the piece into his side. The ball, in its entrance, passed through the left vcntricleof the heart, which was torn to pieces, and coursing o hliquely upwards, greatly lacerated the lungs,—and passed out at the right sbould wirylow aiid pThe sf ; the glass thereof. He fell on the floor and pour ed^ forth a torrent of blood and expired. ■ The-wife, who was. in the adjoining bed room, hearing the report of the musket, ran in and seeing her husband-weltering in his - goreand drawing his.last.gasp, rushed back - to her chamber, snatched up a bottle of cor-. rosiye sublimate, and amid the frenzy of her feelings, drank the most of it down. - She was almost instantly seized with, torturing P a '.P s ,ilh'lJ]Jh‘d the apartment with her cribs, which with the noise of the gun’s discharge brought the_ neighbors* to the chamber, and in half an hour or more she died, amidst the most frightful agonies,—her longue burnt and swollen to thrice ils wonted size, pro vided largely from her iinouth at .derth.— Crowds soon assembled to gaze upon the horrid spectacles presented to their view, aipl to lament over the victims Of ungovern able passions. The Coroner was called, a jury assembled and a post mortem examin ation was executed by I)rs. J. B. Kissam, Stephenson, and J, Si Houston, who confir med by tlicir investigations the facts above slated, —and (lie jury found verdicts of sui cide in the cases of both the husband and the wife,—the former by shooting himself, and the latter by poison, by taking corro sive sublimate.—['iV. ¥, Express. Correspondence tf the Baltimore Clipper. Washington, Jan 83, In the House of Representatives to-day, the Treasury Note Bill was again taken up in committee of ihc.wholc, the question be ing on the motion of-Mr, Barnard to strike out the enacting clause. Mi-.Tliompsoli,of Miss., made a speech of some length in favor ol the bill. He re plied to the constitutional objections raised against the issue of Treasury notes by the previous speakers, amf maintained that nei- ther a loan nor a new tariff was requisite. ' Mr. Lane, of Indiana, followed, and jh a speech which kept- the house in continued laughter, condemned the bill as a mere pre text to ‘hide the emptiness of a bankrupt treasury. ; taking any question. Hie com mittee then ruse and. the House adjourned. The Senate has been engaged the whole day on the everlasting pre-emption bill. The question pending being on the motion of Mr. Crittenden to recommit the bill with instructions to report an amendment-embu- " byirig the distribution principle. Mr. Calhoun made a vigorous attack , that systent/and contended that it was im politic and unconstitutional. . Mr. Webster'denied that such was the fact, and entered into a long argument to show that a distribution of the proceeds from the public lands, Was in strict conformity With the provisions of the constitution., ” Without taking the question-, the Senate ' ‘adjourned. - The 'debate will probably be extended throughout the whole of next week. The remains of the late lamented Com modore Stevens were this morning interred at the Congressional burying ground. Up-. wards of two thousand persons followed the‘ body to the grave,. The Marines, the Light Infantry, and the various officers of the Ar my and Navy in die city joined the proces- S l° n ’ i wus an imposing sight. It is said • that the widow of the Commodore has been ' deranged ever since his death. * _ IW The following arc the . yeas and naysuin . ' the Honseof Representatives, on the final passage ’. ; of the Distribution resolution: , Yeas—Messrs. Banks, Bard, Bell, Brunner, Christiaan, Church,; Clark, Coney, Cox, Cum mins, .Darsie, Dilworth, Dunlap,- Eyre, Fauss, ’ Foreman, Funk;Futhey, Grata, Hanna, Higgins, ; Hinchman, Holeman, Johnson, (Armstrong) Ken- 1 nedy, Kerr, Law, Lothpnrian, Lightner, Livings ton,-, M’Clnre, M’Curdy, Middleswarth, Miles, Montgomery, Mnsser, Myer,,Pearson, Fennell, Pumroy, BuSh,Jskinner; Smith, Smyser, Snivel*. ' Sprott, Steele, Titus, Von Ncida, Washahaugh, Crabb, Speaker—sl. , ” ’ Anderson. Apple; Barr, Bean, B , Brodhead. Cortright, Crousillat, Douglass, Ebaugh, Felton, Fenton, fA Flen Fiick.Togel, Fuller. Gam s'?’ Gatretson, Gtlhs, Haas,Hahn, Hill, Horton, few 11 1! 5 '' Busk, May, nlii v 'c. Kinney, Moore, Painter,. Penniman,; Pollock, Snyder,Trach,Vanbonh.VVoaver,r, Wilkinson, Wright— 44. v ■ ■
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