■Vom ti ic Baltimore Sun* Steamship JRresUleiit* . The interest felt For the safety of the Steamer President is universal and every item of-intelligence in relation to her is read with' the greatest avidity. From several circumstances which have-become public, a strong belief exists that she is safe and that' she was driven into Madeira. We yester day heard a rumor of a letter having been received by a relative of one of the passen gers, and were about tricing it wnent-we found the following statement in the Patri ot;— ■ “A letter has been received by Mr. How • ell; of Cumberland* Md.,-whose father was onboard the President, from a relation of his who resides at Southampton, England, stating the fact of the arrival of the steam shift at Madeira, and detailing how the news hail’reached him. - ; Mrs. Power, the wife of Mr, TyronePow cr, the actor, who was a passenger, had a gents stationed’at.points where information of the steamship would likely be received, and from one of those.agents she received, by express,-a letter, on the 19th -ult., in which it was stated that a vessel had just arrived there from Madeira, which reported that as she was leaving the latter port the President was going in and spoke her. This letter was received by Mrs. Power on the 19th ult. and being -read by the rela- of Mr. Howell, who was present at the it was received, he immediately sat down'and wrote the letter, referred to above. He despated it by the post, and it reached the steamship Britlania in time to be brought on by the vessel, which left England on the 20th ult.” In connexion with this letter, it may be well'enough .to refer to the news brought by the Brittania. ' In one of the London papers it is mentioned that ‘‘a cruel hoax was play ed olfon Monday, last on .parties deeply, in terested in the fate of the President. It was rumored, on the afternoon of that day, both in London and Liverpool, that intelli gence had been received of the vessel having put into Madeira in a very disabled state.” Whether or not the "Monday last” .'was the day previous to the sailing of the Brit nnia, or a week before we have no means of , telling. At any rate the rumor did not gain .7- '- 5 a mvi .ii..a; amux-i.-Th.-...1 V. 1 iv ihg the letter to Miv Howell. Another item t .. (duelling the probability of her safety, is the the,lsth, five days prioHo tlieaaiiingoftte 'Brittania:—. ' ; ■' The President—lmportant. —Just as'We were going to press, (he following facts were communicated to .us: A- letter this, day „ reached" Dublin," bearing the Havre post mark of the 10th of April, which was post-- ed at Quebec, on the 2d of March, -and di r-. reeled .to be-sent.by.the_Prcsident. :..It bears the Mew York date stamp of the Bth of March, three days prior” to the day fixed fur the sailing of the vessel; therefore it-is in ferred that the letter came by her—that she - ’is safe, or, at all events,jthat her crew and passengers have escaped the fate- to which it'was feared they were doomed.” There-is, however, no confirmation of this intelligence, in any subsequent paper, and although it is quite possible a letter might reach Dublin from Madeira, via Havre, yet it is not probable. This much for the news by the Brittania. ' Another well authenticated fact, we learn from an extra from the New York Herald, dated at S o’clock on Monday. On the 27th ult., a .British bark; called the Recovery, ' Capt. Bowman, arrived at New York, and the following is an extract from her log book: “Sunday, March 28, 2 P. M., sea time— course WSW, wind N-W—steady breezes and clear weather. Set uj> the larboard forerigging. BA. M., course SW by S— made all sail. Midnight, steady breezes and clear weather. 2A. course Sby W. 4A. M. tacked ship, headed to NNW. 10 A. M. course NVV,. Noon, course NNfV lot 41 40, N lon 30 55, PFe'saw the hull of n large ship to the westward, supposed to be a dismastedman of war .” ' ", The captain also reports having seen spars, ' provisions, casks, &c. floating about. There is reason to believe that this hutt was that of the President, and that her passengers may be safe. From the r same. May 13, Tins PBBsiDENTi—The'Kew Ybrk'papers contain an account of the examination of the Captain and crew of the bark Recovery, relative to the wreck seen by them. Noth* ing new was elicited. The hull was. seen, but a moment, and there is but one circuin - stance. says the Commercial, which would induce the belief that it was that of the Pres ident,' and that was its size. The captain under the circumstances'ls not. blamed for not proceeding to the wreck. It was about ten miles fromhim, dead windward ' with a high sen, while his vessel was a slow sailer and heavily laden. ■ There has been an idea, that the Presi dent, if,caught in the gale of March 13 and 14, might have put into.some port in New Foundland for repairs. Hope in that quar ■ ter is at an end—an arrival °at Boston from Harbor Grace and Sidney, reports having heard nothing of the ship. ■' _ The New York Herald of Tuesday, pub lishes the following singular statement: A man named Anthony Ryan, called at, the oflice of the New York Herald on Mon day evening, and shewed .the editor a letter . which he received.last Saturday from En niacorthy, Ireland.by the Brittannia at Bos ton.. He says it is an answer tU a letter which he sent out by the President; This is somewhat remarkable., Mr. Ryan says that he-wrote a loiter to John Ryan, who resides in Ireland, on Sunday, the 38th' of .’ February, and put it into the hands of Can *■ tain Roberts himself, on board the steamship on Monday. The letter reached Ireland in safety, and was answered. The answer ■ was dated ’Enniscorthy, March 2rth, 1841,’ post marked at that place on lhe 28th, and '■'aa-dated April 4. This is ■ certainly very Wbgular. • . . '• ' SloNSv—There is a cobbler in London, •vet whosedoor is the following notice: “Sbkws Maid, and Men-I)ead Hebe.” . ■ An pldEnglish lady gave- in her sign the following interesting'intelligence to those who might desire to nave their children ed ucated?. - *JSixpenae for them that learns toVead,& •ixpense more for them that learns manners.” ~Exfract front the Joiifnvdi qf the Home of Representative >, Tuesday, May 4, 1841. Having voted in thfe affirmative on the fi nal passage of the act entitled **an act to provide revenue to meet demands on the Treasury, and for other purposes,” we res pectfully ask leave to enter on the Journals of the. House the reasons for having' so vo ted. 1 It has been our anxious desire throughout the session, to obtain-the passage of such a bill to. meettne public exigencies,. as would accord with the views of our immediate constituents, and carry out the policy which has for many years been contended for by the party to which We belong.* 1 TheJoUrn als of the House will bear evidence : that, such has been .our course of conduct on ev ery bill which has been presented this ses sion to provide the wnysandmeans to main tain the honor and credit of Pennsylvania. But being in aminority.our views and wish es have been frustrated by the power of a majority, entertaining different opinions of pnblic policy from those which we have al ways cherished. In this emergency no oth er alternative was presented to us, than to permit the legislature to adjourn Without the passage of any measure to sustain the plight ed faith of the commonwealth, and to pre vents portion of her citizens, to whom she is indebted from being reduced to a state of beggary, or to vote for the bill which has just become a law. In adopting this latter alternative, we have not abandoned any of the principlesupbn which'we were elected. We b#ve been governed solely by our sol emn convictions of - public duty. We have been willing'iri a patriotic spirit ofconcilia tien to make , such a compromise, with our opponents on this floor ns were justified by the deplorable state of the public Treasury, The executive with whom it is our pride to net, had pointed out iti his most excellent veto message, the ground upon which he was willing to meet the majority of thejcgislq ture. But that majority having the power in their own hands, were unwilling to relin quish it, and exhibited their determination to reject any modification of the bill which would give it even the coloring of a com promise; and. the evidence was too deaf to be-resisted, that the-question was narrowed portion of. our meritorious'fellow-citizens, who Had relied upon, her solemp faith for "IheViqUidationoftheirdEmandsitoutterfUri in. In tills' emergency ..without the numer ical. strength to adapt the.bill to. ilia vjiews of those whom we more immediately repre sent, we felt it to be our duty as represen tatives of theipeople who have felt proud' of the character which they have hitherto borne for private and'public integrityrto make a temporary sacrifice of many-of our precon ceived opinions. From the commencement of the present session, we have, been stren uously opposing the objectionable -features bill—we have used all bur energies to obtain one more in consonance with our own opinions'—we have entreated the ma jority to meet us upon terms of a fair com promise—but our opposition and our entrea ties have been of no avail. Our opponents, knowing their strength, seemed determined to exercise it. We thus within a few hours of the final adjournment, saw that the pub lic credit of the state must be dishonored— the public creditors, both foreign and do mestic,, deprived of eveiy prospect of recei ving their just claims, unless this objection able bill should become a law. Under these circumstances, the path of public duty was plain to us. Sooner than see our Treasury bankrupt—sooner than see the credit of our beloved Pennsylvania dishonoted—sooner tnan witness the utter ruin which would in fevitably visit the firesides of so many of our domestic creditors—sooner than permit the war-worn veterans of the revolution to beg their daily bread for the want of .the pen sions which had been granted them as a small recompense for their glorious deeds—sooner than see Our enlightened common school system crippled for the want of funds— sooner than hear the waijings Of the widows and orphans who look either to the justice or the bounty of the state for their subsist ence—sooner, in short, than behold the com monwealth become a by-word and reproach among the nations of the earth; we reluct antly waived our objections to the bill and voted- for it. Having done so,- we have only . to look to the rectitude of our intentions, to the immediate, nay, the permanent conse quences of. the act, arid to the, as yet, unsul lied honor of Pennsylvania, as justification ‘ to those whom we had the honor to repre sent. '. ... . I H. B. WRIGHT, JAMES L. GILLIS, JAMES GAMBLE, JOHN WEAVER, JOHN MAY, ALEX. HOLEMAN, J. C. HORTON, GEORGE BOAL, - - '. JOSEPH DOUGLASS, ANDREW CORTRIGHT. DANIEL SNYDER, F LUSK GAYLORD CHURCH. Harrisburg, May 4, 1841. THE NvYORK TOWN ELECTIONS. Tile Town elections in,this state are held, with a few exceptions, in the months of March ami April. The present spring con tests have been unusually animatedvaml, we are enabled to assure our democratic friends, with the most auspicious results. The re sults are all in. They show a democratic majority in the State of twenty-eight towns, anua democratic nett gain since last fall of one hundred and eight towns? And a hand some increase of majorities in the counties. They show also, with what irrepressible energies the democracy renew a contest for principle. Although defeatedin the aggre gate of the state at the fall election,.and de feated throughout the Union—with the pow er and means of office every where seized uponrwith the‘ utmost avidity by their oppo nents, and applied ' without scruple—they - have renewed the battle with equal vigor and success. : While the possession of power by the federal whigs has served only to produce division among them, and to exhibit their true character, to the people, the demoeracy are united, true to theirprincipleg. and v’gi lant in their maintenance. The gains anti victories of the Spring, are the prelude to the reanltp'or the Aotqmnr*4ftany wfrgiis. ■ DESTRUCTIVE FlftE IN N; YORK. A fire was discovered at twelve o’clock 'on Friday night, in the rear ofthe.building No. 158 Pearl street, occupied in the lower part by Richards, Bassett & Aborn, add in the upper part,; by S. Cochran, dealer in la ces, which extended to several of the neigh boring buildings on Pearl and Water streets. On-Pearl i street, the houses consumed were NoM46, H. B.‘ Howard, dry goods; 144, N. W. Sand ford, shoe dealer, and Adshead & Co.,'dry goods; 150,: Booth & Tuttle', dry goods; 150, T. Sheldon & Co., French Im porters; and on Water street, 16 No. 114; Rufus Clark & Co., wholesale boot and shoe dealers, and Foster & Easton; 110, Widow Miller & C0.,-tobaccp dealers, and 112, u sed as a drug store by Mr. William Rust. The private watchman reports the fire to have commenced in the rear of store No. 112 Water street. ■ ' The journal of Commerce says:;—The following is as~correct a-statement-as- we have been able to obtain, of the amount of loss, and the insurance by which it Is cov ered.- Estimated loss. Insurance* Richards, Bassett & Co., $35,000- $25,000 Samuel Cochran, lace, 90,000 65,000 Lewis W'iley, 5,000 5,000 F. Cottinet, dry goods, . 40,000 40,000 Booth & Tuttle,dry goods, 25,000 25,000 N. W. Sanford, shoes, . 10,000 partly ins. F.Sheldon&Co.drygoods, .15,000 15,000 Adshead & Co. dry. goods, 40,000 40,000 H. B. Howard.ilry goods; 40,000 40,000 Wm. Rust, drugs, 5,000 3,000 Durand & Co., 15,000 . Five stores, say, Some not ascertained, but not to a large amount, are nut included in the above schedule. The Insurance Companies upon Whom this calamity chiefly falls; are the better a ble to bear it, from having, lor more'than a year past, been receiving good premiums, with comparatively small losses. The valuable- account books of Messrs. Robbins & Painter, were destroyed; also of Mr. H. B. Howard. The iron chest of Baily, Keeler & Rem sen, in which were deposited their.mostyal /Mxnihe.ceJlariflf-Jtae!:^^ wrekcpt',randffiea in a legible condition. They are steamed -and injured, but not destroyed. • ■ Messrs. Foster & Easton; who haih occu pied one of the stores in part; removed their gpodsf&c; on the day previous to the fire.' The battle was admirably wejj fought;' but the fire had’made such progress' before’ it Was discovered, that nothing but i the tho rough manner in which the stores were builtr in addition to the efforts of the firemen, pre vented an extensive conflagration. We need not inform our city readers, that the ground where this fire occurred, was burnt over' by the memorable conflagration of 1835; which was token as a sufficient hint to build in fu ture-with some little regard to safety. Con sequently, the main walls of-all the stores burnt, are still standing.— Evening Post. GOV. BAGBY AND THE I.EGISLAt TURE OF ALABAMA. We find in the Flag: of the Union the de bate in the House of the motion to print Gov. Bagby’s message/Mr. Clemens was the only friend of the Gover nor who replied. He could not have been more ably vindicated in a volume than in the few and sensible remarks of Mr. Clem ens. We make some extracts to show how easily a plain tale put dawn this humbug at tempt to excite—not sympathy for the dead —but political rancor and fury, against those who, it is falsely alleged, have violated the sanctity of the tomb. Mr.'Young next rose, and took particular pains to endorse the “hyena” passage of Mr. Hutchinsnn.ahd launched forth into an ex travagant eulogy upon Daniel Webster. We have no doubt that when Mr. Clem ens finished, Mr. Young thought that his eulogy upon Daniel Webster’s purity and patriotism had beep'as Well let- alone for the interests of his-party, and left' for the tongues of Massachusetts Federalists. Mr. Clemens’s speech is -unusually able, elo quent, and to the point.— Globe. Extract from Mr. Clemens’s speech. I have said that when Gen. Harrison di- . ed,- my opposition-died with him. - The mo ment he was called from this, as I honestly hope, to a purer and a holier sphere, I laid aside the feelings of the partizan, and -re membered him only as the commander of an American army, and the Chief'Magistrate of the _American llepublic; but there JB_anp ther individual whose name has been drag ged'into this discussion,-of whom I have .the right to speak. He is still living, is still an actor on the political arena, and open to whatever censure his political conduct may have merited. . I speak of Daniel Webster, the man who the gentleman from .Greene says.has shed an imperishable halo of glory around the American- tiame. The gentle man may ' have peculiar notions of glory, and Daniel Webster’s career may have caught his fancy; but fur the sake of my country, I hope those notions have not as yet been widely spread. When and where has Mr. Webster added anything to our stock of national glory? -Was it as the plot ter ofHartford Convention treason, as. the author of'the Rockingham circular, as the reporter of resolutions at Bu'ntwopd, justi fying the public enemv, and denouncing his own Government? or if this constitutes no part of that wreath of national glory he has woven for his'country, is it to be found in the memorable speech in which he rejoiced over the defeat and massacre of the Ameri can troops, and with the malignant exulta tion of a fiend exclaimed, “This is not i the entertainment to.which We were invited.” No, the gentleman will not look here; en amoured.ns he is to the character of Web ster, even he will, pause as his eye rests up on . this portion of his history!' and" drop a tear upoftthe record of his treason'. Per haps then we must look to his votes in the National Legislature for the evidence of that exalted'patriotism which has added-so much to the nation’s glory. Here again the record is Mack—black', with treason. He voted against a. bill to collect and assess taxes to sustain the war, against The bill to detect and punish spies and traitors, against furnishing the troops with clothing and pro visions; .against rebuilding the Capitol when it was burnt down by the enemy, and against (bmbitrto defray the expenses of the navy. MoreTecentlyhc-declaredupon-the-floorof the‘Senate, that he would not vote fora certain" appropriation, if were battering down the walls of the Capitol;” and am 1 to be now told that this man, this traitor in the worst of times and for the worst ofpurposes, hastthrown a haloof glo rv ardunu the American name, -and is enti tfed to the gratitude of the American peo ple? Good God, sir, before I would sub scribe to such a sentiment, 1 would abjure my country, and seek among the savages of the wilderness, a more just, appreciation of the character and conduct of public men. THE ACCOMMODATED CONGRESS- PresidentTytEß had tlle lists of the mem bers of Congress, among whom more than a nrillion and a half of the bank’s money was distributed. These lists would make a mas sive argunTentappended to a bank veto, -Wedstbr does for a United States Bank.— I Thejbllowing facts may serve to enlighten the people why he does: The advocates of a re-charter of.the Uni ted States-rßank should; bear in mind not only the it bought up men a ltd presses like cattle In the market, but anoth er very important fact that, during the strug gle for a redeWal of its charter, it made the; following loans to members of Congress: 1830, it loaned to 52 Congressmen sl‘§2|T'ol 1831, “ 59 .• “ 322,100 1832, " 44 “ 478,069 1833, " 58 364,766 1834, *' 52 " 238,586 Making the sum of ONE MILLION, SIX HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUS AND AND SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELGHTY-ONB DOLLARS, loaned by the late Bank of the United States to 265 mem bers of Congress, within the space of five years; being more than six thousanddollars to each member. . Thcs? facts appear from a, report of a committce-of the House of Re presentatives. • What would-tl»fi=people of this country say, if an individual should re sort to the same corrupt appliances to ob tain the passage of a law granting to him Important privileges? Would he not re ceive tlie just cdhdemnatiori cif nir, and be consigned to everlasting infamy and dis grace?—Globe. ■' 35,000 not kn’n. 8355,000 8258,000 We are indebted to the Hon. Wm. Slade, ,<fie recordset 1 the-Btate Department of the number of Dis tilleries in each of - the States, and gallons distilled, ns exhibited in the returns of the last census. ' r Slates, Maine,: New Harnpshire,' 5 Vermont, : • 2 Mas’sachusettss, 37 Connecticut, . .71 Rhode Island, - 4' New York, . 38 New Jersey, 219 Pennsylvania, 707 Delaware, _rB Maryland, A /3 Virginia, 1450 North Carolina, 2798 South Carolina,, 251 Georgia, 350 Alabama, 185 Mississippi* 15 Louisiana, Tennessee, . 1381 Arkansas, '47 Kentucky, Missouri, 215 Illinois, 156; Indiana, 333 Ohio, 373 1 Michigan, 59 - lowa, 3 District of Columbia, I If tke pnpulatian of the United States be correctly estimated at 17 millions, the above quantity of distilled spirits, will furnish each man, woman, and child, with 2 14-00 gal lons nearly.— Journal of the American Tem* ■perance Union. -Since the . formation, of the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1840, the Society have-circulated 9,851,792 copies of the-Bible and Testament. In 1835, the Society em braced in the United Kingdom, in the,Colo nics, and other Dependencies, and in-con nexion with the Hibernian Bible Society, 30,63 Auxiliaries—besides the Europeand Asiatic, and American Associations, with all.theirAuxiliariea.—TlieAmericahSocie ty, which is next in importance to-the Brit- 1 ish and Foreign, has now about ode thousand Auxiliaries. The American National Bible Society, New York, was founded in . 1816, and, has distributed .2,363,968 copies of Biblps and Testaments. .■'..'. The British and .Foreign Bible Society have placed at the disposal of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, 10,000 copies of the New Testament in the New Zealand lan guage. (• 100,000 Bibles'printed in Spanish, have been circulated.in Spain by English Agents since September last. • The “backward Spring” .is a popular theme just now., “What extraordinary weather!” is the exclamation of all who pay attention to such ordinary topics. We have no lilachs in bloom as yet, while the juven iles. have day after day been disappointed in relation totheir-long louked-for. Maying ex cursion. But still the season is not without a precedent, The following extracts are from a Note Book of the weather, which has been kept fur many years by an old and re spected friend. It will be seen thatin 1834 we had snow storms in some sections of the country in the middle of May.— Phila. 1834, smo. :12.—Variable weather' since last date (4m0;26) tliuugh'generally cool for the season, with frequent showers. This morning cool;, wind norlli-west- —about-10 o’clock, A. M. a shower came up, and blew off very cold. Continued blustering, with clouds'much like 3d month-(March) all day and night. IS; Very cold this morning; Continued so all day— Cloaks and overcoalsquite com fortable. iFires as necessary as in winter. 1 14th. Morning cold. Ice of considerable thickness formed laUt night; 1 Day tolerably MEN. iyb* ’ Dislilleriest Gals . Distilled, 3 - . ' 890 9657 CIRCULATION OF BIBLES THE WEATHER. Westantbfresh.—Clouded over in .tie evening, and the wind .shifted to North West with, a shower of rain about 11 o’clock, ?. M. Blew hard all night, and,cold. 15th., This morning.very cold. Froze Hard last i inch thick—continued cold all day; though entirely clear of clouds, wind North West,-“-It is feared all the re maining fruit will be killed; It looks like frost again this tiigbb—very singular and al most unprecedented weather. 16th. Cool this morning, though not so cold as yesterday—some frost again. . 18th. Fine pleasant day. Wind West.. • 19th. ‘ do. do. do. Accounts from the North and East inform of'heavy falls of snow, and seVere frost, which it is feared“has killed all theTruit in New York and the Eastern Stalest Bmo. sth. Notwithstanding the great fears entertained of a scarcity of fruit,' we have plenty of fine Peaches,T , enrß,,nnd Pluins in abundance, very fine; also. Melons in plenty.; Apples are scarce. 1837, smo. 2d. Very cold this morning. Ice * inch in thickness, continued cold and blustering all day. ’ 1638, smo'. 10th. The weather during the last month was remarkably cool, very few pleasant .days. By observations made at Salem, Massachnsetfs, it appears the weath er was on the average, 5 degrees cooler than anyflth month (April) for the Inst 12 years. Frequent frosts, which kept back vegetation. So'far, this month has been milch likq,the last, few, if any, pleasant days, mostly cloudy, with frequent showers. Vegetation is very backward, the early Peach Trees are just going out of blossom, and the Apple Trees not generally is hoped the fruit is not much injured by the frequent frosts, having been "kept back by the cool weather. From the St. Louis Jlepublican. Saturday, May 1,1841. The Tragedy of the night of the X7th. 85,000 REWARD. For some days past, the city authorities have been engaged in investigating some re cent'tlevclopments connected with the .mur der of burning of the store of Messrs* Collier tihd Pettus, and we have refrained from giving anf^rilie-^ of secrecy benig over,.ttiTlie opinion ot the officers, vvc-fecl at liberty to state the'par ticulars so (av W'thcy have, been developed. A negro man’named Ed ward H. - Entiisv Who has' been for some months past hi (he employ of tt barber named Johnson, on Mar-, ket street, opposite the National Hotel, made the -disclosure, ,Tlic-. cumiuuiiicalions it seenis. were made to,Ennis, .by one of (he parties, tjiat Ennis-being uneasy about it and yet hit-aid, because of the excitement, and also of the murderers, to tell what he knew, went on Friday last to Butcher, a yellow man,"wlio resides in" Brooklyn, on the opposite side of the river, and told him what he knew and asked his advice. Butch er refused to .give any advice; on Sunday'he went over again and went to Alton, when Butcher communicated the facts to two Constables tvho arrested Ennis, and after taking his statement, came here with the. expectation of catching one ,of the parties, (Warrick,) but he had left before their arri val. 31,244 -5,500 5,1/7,910 215,892 - 855,000 4,008,616 356,417 -8,784,138 39,500 342,813 . 882,516 1,038,741 102,288 528,393 127,261 3,150 The circumstances of this horrible a (lair, as detailed by Ennis, arc as follows: About 10 o’clock on Saturday night, Ennis went from the barber shop to his'boarding house, kept by Leah, a free yellow woman, and Peter Charleville, a free man, on Third be tween Market and Walnut streets. Shortly after he had gone to bed, a negro slave na med Madison; came to the door, knocked and was admitted. Soon after being admit ted, Madison exclaimed, “G—d d—n the luck,” and on an inquiry why, he stated “I have done more murder to night than I ever did before and have not been paid for it;” and after remarking, would be an ■ alarm of lire shortly, he stated in substance, that he and three yellow men, vi-/.: James Seward, alias Sewell, Warrick and Brawn, had gone on that night to Mr, Petlus’ count ing room, that the dour was unlocked; Mad ison entered alone, Mr. Baker was sitting down with l)is boots oft", reading a newspa per, Matlison walked op and presented a bank bill to him, and-asked him if it was' -good, and as Baker turned- fo look at the bill, he struck him over the head with a short bar of iron which he had concealed under his arm; the others then came in; and they repeated the blows until he was cj.uite dead, his skull and one side of the head complete ly mashed. After searching the body “for the keys;they rolled i t u p in the hed clothcs mid placed it in the bed. - They secured the door and went to work on the vault to open it. Whilst at this work, Mr. Weaver caine to.thexloor and knocked, and. called to Jesse, (Mr. Baker) to let him in. Some dispute ensued between Brown anil.Madison, -which- should _ kill Weaver;, and it was insisted that Madison should, as he had krlled Baker, but he refused, saying that he had done his shpre and would do fto more. Brown opened”the door and placed -Himself behind it, and as Weaver passed in to .the room, struck him over.the head with the bar of iron; on the second blow he Tell and attempting to.rise Brown thrusts sharp iron bar through his head. Ennis in his statement, does not confirm the-report of the firing of the pistols, but says, that hav ing heard that. Weaver was shot, he asked Madison about it, and he told him that no pistol had been fired and that they had :no weapons but the .bar of iron mentioned.— From the statement it would seem that all of (hem had beaten Weaver. 291,520 1,080,693 ° 17,215 1,700,705 328,898 1,429,119 1,716,964 466,357 544,066 , 4,310 6,030 36,343,236 , After someTurthcr effort af the vault, finding they, could not get into it Madison left. Warrifck, Sewell and Brown remained a short time, then fired the house in'five dif ferent places, came out, locked the door and went up the alley north fiom the house, and threw the key away. Brown took with him a gold watch and a blue cloak-, which he said he had thrown away for fear of detection. It seems from the statements, that Ennis, on the morning-following, was in company, with all of them and many - of the facts he got from, others besides Madison. Warrick and Sewell said but little about it, Madi son had with him on the morning, following the bar of iron with which the treed Was ex ecuted, anil Ennis having learned the .office it had .performed, took,it and threw it into, a privy in lhe rear of Leah’s house. Thevault was yesterday searched andlhe-bar found. AVdiUnderstandiLproves' to-be. afl-ihstru mdnt used in opening dry goods boies; a chisel bn one end and claws on the other, one of the claws partly broken, agreeing ful ly with Ennis’s' description. There are many other minor statements, but the above is the substance. The com munication of Madison'appears to have been made without solicitation and without any injunction to secrecy. Leah and her husband confirm Ennis’s statement as to tlie.time he came home, and the time Madison .came in. They heard, the conversation, but not sufficiently distinct to understand it. It jnay be welli' however, to remark, as a further confirmatinn-of En nis’s statement, that yesterday Madison’s coat was found'in the loft of tcah’s 'house besmeared with blood. From all that we can gather.it dues not appear that the scheme had been long cvncocted/or that they had very WCll-inaturcd their plan of bperations. Fatal Mistakes. —lsaac Rick of Clinton Co. Ohio, came to his death on the 6fh inst. under the following painful circumstances: A short time before sunrise, Mr.R. went out on a hunt of wild turkeys, and while in the Woods secreted himself behind a pile of brush and commenced calling turkeys. He slow ly but gradually rose from his position, when a neighbor who was on the like excursion, took him fur a turkey* and fired, shooting him through the heart. Another casualty .from ff"preciscly similar mistake,occurred a fed- days since in Hopkins county,Kentucky'. Two young men, one named Bell, the other Kendrick, proceeded at lin early hour in the morning on a turkey hunt, when the former coming across the latter behind a log imita ting (he yelping of a turkey, fired and shot him through the head. This made the third occurrence of the kind in that neighborhood within two years. Kidderminster Factory. THE subscribers return their thanks tc tTielr customers tor the libelai puli briage they re* ceived from them the past >ear, and would in* form them and the public generally, that they have again rented the above Factdiy near Ha pertuwn, 6 miles south of (Carlisle, where they intend inatmiacttiring from the fleece— L_-_ tLOTHS Suflinclls, Flannels , Blanketing,JStocking TVTjSOjfJa nh ei7>VnprJ“T t^• y btfjff very best manht ; r atidbit life Work vdl.l be Ihlten In at v tlie f Jlbw mg places , and returned as, din bledf'\iz: VVjm IWurn's 'invent, 3 xiftt|e« from C ; «r lis^; 3 |'eteryVjii >fore, ChurCliiovKit bamuel Harris, Mount Unck ; John P«.ul, 5 nnles.above Carlisle on the turnpike; Htirlet’s . tavern on the IVihimore turnpike, and at Bee- ’ tent's Hotel, Carlisle.' ‘ 'MATSON f/MOOKE. May 1,3; 1841,-^-Sj ■TAEa NOTICE, WHEREAS the ynhscriber gave a chip hill, about the Ist of Jannar) last, to Wii.i.i am W itiikhow, lor the sum ol twelve dollars and some cents; and whereas said VVitlu row' hart since lelt my employment leaving me hound as his security for $20., This is, therefore'to 1< re* wafn all persons from purchasing said due hill, as 1 am (U terminal not to pay tile saute unless compelled by law SXMUIiL BEETKM, Jr Miv 13. 1841 —3i» Estate of Sarah Leidiq, dec’ll. • ’ NOTICE. Letters of administration on. the estate of Sa ra)) Lei(!ig, late of Monroe township, dereastri, have “been issued to the suhscriln r nsidnj' in Allen township: Alt persons imhhted to said estate will mike payment immediately, and th se ha\ mg claims will present i*«r sell men! to JOHN HOUSKK, A* in'r. May 15, 1841. &OCS AT TKXSI JACOB DUN DOR 23, Respectfully informs the citizens of Carlisle am) its vicinity, that lie has (-ma nicured the Saddlery &’, Harness •Waking' MBnsiness , t in all its various.branches, in Main street, one door e.<st of'the store ot Messrs. Angne\ & An' derson, and a few doors west of Mr. \Vundef•- lich*s-taveVn, wheft* he will keep constantly oh hand, and manufacture to Order at the shorust notice and on the most reasonable terms. Saddles', jftri(lics,-Col/ars t Harness, franks+ 6fc. ts*c. He hopes by strict attention to busi ness,.and an anxious desire to. please, to merit and receive a liberal share of ){iihlir patronage* "H*civlni;T'Se J besl oF’wo'rknich employed, his cus tomers may expect their work to be done in the neatest and most substantial manner. Carlisle, May 13, 1841. 3m FRESH PRUNES, Very fine, for sale by Stevenson Ei Dinkle.- rp B. SMI I H'S. assorted PICKLES for sale JL by Stevenson & Dinkle. JUST received a supply of very superior To# mato Ketchup, fur sale by Stevenson and Dinkle.. FRESH Silad Oil of vi ry fine quality, fust received and for sale by Stevcftsun & Dih- SAND & OKNKHAI, AGENCY. TIIIE undersigned hereby tenders Ids servi-. ces to those having business of the kind, that he will attend to the purchase and aale.of land or other-property In Cumhefland cmmty, and that he Will attend to other business in the coun ty fur persona residing cut of the same. Fees moderate. ■ Carlisle, April 29,1841. N. B. Two farms for sale, a description rf which * and their location, can be had by apply ing as above. NEW GOODS' JUST received some ’desirable GOODS sdrta* ble for the season, ai (he store of ’ ~ f r ; • A. RICHARDS, : April 22, 18-11, CHARLES M’CLURE, Attorney at Latv. in'Main street, a few doers west of aVihe Post Office.- ■ ; 2s, 1841. $lO REWAftDe RUNAWAY from the subscriber,fn Dick inson township, on suhdav last, an indent ed apprentice, to the FARMING business, named JOHN HENWOOD.' Said boy is a. bout 15 or 18 years of - age, of rather slender make—and had un 1 when he went away an in. visible green coat, neatly new, corded Velvet pantaloons, a new for hat, and some other arti cles of clothing not recollected.‘-Whoever lakes up sald runaway, and secures him so that I can get him again- will' be paid theabove re . ward. AH persons are likewise iortraimed a gainst harboring him on anv nC.rnnnt. i SAMUEL WOODS. ' M.iy 6. 1841. W. FUULK.
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