■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 slԤ2|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.