■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, ,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.