THE VOLUNTEER. John B. Bratton, Editor andProprletor CARLISLE, MAY 10, 1853.1 DEMOCRATIC ROMINATXONB. FOR CANAL COfIHISSIONBR , THOMAS fI.FORSYTH, OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY, ■“' l >OR AUDITOR GENERAL. E’PHRATM BANKS, QF IIiFFLIN COUNTY •- ■ BOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, J, P 0 R T E R B R A W L E Y . OF CRAWPORD COUNTY, lisle, for 1853. Ooorlff at Carl Sessions anß Over and I Orphan’s. Terminer. Tuesday, August 30. Monday, August 23. Tuesday, November 1. Monday, November 14. \ Tuesday, December 27. fi'j* Qo pur outsidb will bo found a very good yarn, in which our old friend Purser Ramsey figures as the hero. It Is just like him, and knowing him as wo do, can readily imagine the scone. The idea of a set of "bucks," however buckieh, attempting to Victimize an old stranger like Stereet Ramsey, brought from us an involuntary hal ha 1 ha 1 JftVf OBIS9.—TEH Jtmencrm zmwjcrav wppuai ju lasi week in a suit of new type, and looked decidedly neat. Wo intend, as soon as wo con make arrange menlß, to give Uio Foiunieer a now sail also. Carlisle Gas and Water Company.— Saturday next, May 21, let il bo remembered, is tho day op • pointed for tho moeling of the Commissioners author ized by law to lake subscriptions to the capital slock , of the "CarlWo Gas and Water Company.” Tbo book* will be opened for lira I purpose at 9 o’clock, A. M„ at tho office of tho County Commissioners. We hope to see our citizens give their attention to this laudible movement, and contribute as faros they aro able, by subscribing for stock. Tho me-' chanics and business men of our town, of all others, are deeply interested in this enterprise. Property holders, 100, if for nothing else than to provide for their own safely and convcninco, should feel partin' ulery interested in the movement. And heavy cap italists, also, whoso only object (generally speaking,) is to make money, can make a safe and profitable investment by subscribing for this slock. for, beyond all question, it will pay profitable dividends. Lot our citizens, therefore, give a helping hand to Ibis enterprise. Poitraaiteti Appointed. Tho Philadelphia papers of Monday, announce the following Post Office appointments, in Pcnnsyl- Benfamin Parke, Harrisburg. J. B. Bratton, Carlisle. B. F. Sloan, Erie. J. Anderson, Pittsburg. Charles F. Little, Northumberland Thomas Farley, Alleghany. John Noel. Chatnborsburg. W. J. Murray, Holliduysburg. John E. M’Farland, Moodville. John G. Sherwood, Honcedule. Lorenzo Wundor, Reading. Simon Truby, Killanning. TUB MAGAZINES Graham's Magazine.—This popular periodical for illustrated with a splendid stool engraving of the • Separation of Che Apostles,’ and a number of other very fine plates representing the • Scenery of the Rhine,’ and the ' Pilgrims of the groat St. Bernard,’ which of themselves are wotrh the subscription price, lo say nothing of the variety of the choicest literary reading matter which il contains. Tho July num bor will commence the second volume for 1853. Godkt’b Ladt’b Book.— Godcy—alwoys original, piquant and readable —is even more thin usually at tractive Id the June number of his invaluable ‘ Book which close* Iho twenty-third year of its The number before os conlakna an attractive Bill of Fare— 2s Engravings, among which are prominent fur their beauly of design,* Christ and the Woman of Samaria,' ' Feeling (ho Bumbs’ and a handsomely colored Fashion plate—47 contributions occupying one hundred well filled pages. Godoy knows how to eater for the public taste, and particularly the ladles. The Faem Journal.— The May number fully comes op In Interest to any of the previous numbers, containing wballa uaeVul \o Oio agriculturist. Tab lishod at West Chester, bp I)-*r/ing<o« & Spangler, at 61 per annum. Military Asruuir—The Military Board have lo cated the military asylum at finrrodsburg 9pringa | Kentucky. The site is said to bo highly solubrlous and beautiful. This is the first wo have hoard of Ibo Blue Lick Asylum, since a short lime before the late Presidential election. Revenues from Customs. —The rovonoo receipts from Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Orleans, for the month of March, wore five millions seven hundred and sixty si* thousand dollars; for April, four millions four hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars; total for two months, ton millions one hundred end fifty-eight thousand dollars, making an increase, from Iho year 1852, of two millions four hundred and ninety thousand dol lars, which is at the rale of thirty-throe per cent.— The revenues oftheyoar, from all sources, will roach sixty millions of dollars. M’Cr*abt not to be Given up. — It was last week staled that Governor Bigler had withdrawn the re quisition for M'Croary upon the Governor of Mary land. This was not true. Early last week, the Deputy Sheriff of Chester county preceded to An napolis lo obtain from Governor Lowe a warrant for (bo arrest of Thomas M’Croary, of Elklon, on the charge of kidnapping Rachael Parker, and on Tues day had an interview with the Governor of Mary land, when Gov. Lowe refused lo surrender M’Croary lo the authorities of Pennsylvania. Gov. Lowe staled that this determination was (ho result of the compromise effected between the counsel of the Parker girls and the counsel for the claimants, on their trial for freedom, In January last. A Toxin or UcutMßßAHct.— Some wag of a Whig Postmaster in the interior of Now York, hoe eonl (o Ibo Poet pfiico Department a lock of hie hair, sealed In (be wax with"*which hie bundle of relume for llio lael quarter wee secured. It looked like an intlma. tioa that hie (oflaoial) eoalp woe ready for the victors, whenever jjfcy .ejmig. to lake it. Those who ejuroln-. •d the look, say that the fellow was no 1 Silver Grey/ but whether » 1 Woolly Head,' or not, they don't mention. SraurXD Envxlofks. —The Post Office Depart, ment will have'lho new stamped envelopes ready by the let of Jane; but we do not expect to eee them distributed before the Ist of July. They are lo bo ■old at #3.20 per for the stamps, and 90 coot* for the envelopes. About 600 emigrants, mostly from Pennsylvania, bound to Illinois and lows, many of them in wagons, passed through Wheeling lest week. THE LAST LEQISLATDBE. We were aware that the last session of the Le gislature was principally spent in the passage of private bills, but we did not know the extant of the evil until a list of the acts were published. t Il now appears that there were five hundred and six bills passed, and many of these being what are called “Omnibus” bills, embracing almost all kinds of subjects, there were no less than eleven hundred and Sixty-seven distihet acts of legisla tion ! Of this number ibirty-ono were acts incorporat ing new railroad companies, seventy-eight referred to companies already in existence, ninety were acts incorporating new plank road companies or supplementary to old ones, and the great mass re ferred to every sort of subject from providing for the expenses of government down to digging a well. Wo are indebted to the Reading Gazelle for this enumeration and classification, as we con fess we had not the patience to go over them. We have no doubt ills a correct statement of the char* acler of the bills passed. The Gazette remarks: “Many of the matters that consumed the lime of the Legislature, were of the most trivial char acter, ancf might all have been comprehended in a few general laws.” Again it says, (and there is great power in the remark “When will this growing evil of special law making, which has already entirely destroyed every thing like system and uniformity in our civil code be checked 1 If the people are awake to their own welfare, they will demand a radical re , Cluuti in this refined in terms not in h« Aiarpgard i ed. So manifest had this evil become, that Gov. , Bigler, m the winter of 1052, in a special message to the Legislature on the financial condition of the I Commonwealth, took occasion to refer to the evils , of special legislation, and recommended the adop tion of general laws, by which it might be avoid ed. In accordance with that recommendation an aclwas passed, authorizing the Governor to ap pdfyl three Commissioners to prepare general laws on a number of subjects therein specified. Those Commissioners, Messrs. Porter, Penniman and Bonham, after great labor, submitted their report ' lo the Legislature, including a revision of the tax : laws of the Commonwealth, but the bills drawn j wore scarcely thought of in the more engrossing j pursuits of special and private legislation, wherein , the interests of individuals and corporations wore 1 attended to, lo the great neglect of the interests of; I the masses of the people. One or two of (ho bills i reported by iho Commissioners were perhaps pass | ed in an abridged and mangled form, but the great mailers, such as the revision and equalization of J j the lax laws, the provision for'the payment of| I claims against the State by the adjudication of. {courts of justice, the granting of divorces, &c., 1 ’ were left untouched and unheeded. This is sincerely lo bo lamented, not so much on account of tho mere fact that such general laws were not passed, as tho apathy that is thus roani -1 Tested by the representatives of the people to great public interests, which had been specially called to their attention, and which from passing occurrences were calculated lo arrest that attention in a mark ed degree. But so il is—and we would hero remark that the practical workings of the rule in relation to the private calendar are in effect a violation ol the constitution of the State. By the constitution the House of Representatives shall consist of one there are representative districts in the Stale.— The member or members from a county propose a private or local bill, and il ts considered discour teous and unfriendly for any other member to make any objection lo it, and If such objection be made, the person making it places himself Under the die pleasure of those who are in favor of legislation of (hie character, ami all his own bills are liable to be defeated if ho objects to even one from anoth er county or district. The House is thus cut up into many representative districts, the members from which legislate for (heir own immediate lo calities, and this system gives form and character 10, in fact pervtules, the whole legislation, even that which is not merely local in its nature. It is time that this should cease, for if it do not, the legislation of the State will become a mere jar gon of contradictions, without form or consistency —what will bo the law in one portion of the Com- ImonwoaUU. will not ho the l»w in anolttxr, ami we had belter let the people of each neighborhood make their own laws in town meeting at once, and | change thorn again with every whim and eapiiee las often as they please without any regard lo the common weal. Yet as long as wo have a form of government bequeathed to us by the sages of the revolution, we had perhaps belter adhere lo it than lo bring it into disrepute by such scandalous proceedings.— Formerly the laws enacted were few and well di-i goslcd, now they are many and "confusion worse confounded”—acts passed to meet particular cases, I oven lo'tho gaining an advantage in a law suit, in’ which perhaps the interests of a single suitor is I the real cause of the improper change of a well I Bottled and well understood rule of law. While wo protend to adhere to our present form of gov ernment, let us do so in good faith; if wo see pro-' per lo change it and establish another policy lot us change the constitution at once,and go ba k to! the enlightened liberty of Athena and SpartaJ uhoro the mob virtually decided every thing, and 1 upturned the Stale or ostracized a citizen with equal facility and equal prudence. Shade of Franklin hover over and protect us from the onward march of a practical Vandalism! Give us‘‘liberty with law and not law without uniformity or liberty.— Let us have guides and landmarks, if wo pretend lo have any thing worth possessing in governmen*. Wo may perhaps refer to this sujeot again. Nrw Dank.— -The corporators of the Mechanics' Saving Dank of Harrisburg, mol pursuant to notice last week. After consultation, it was concluded that |25 should bo paid cash on each share subscribed. The books wore then publicly opened, and the slock, subscribed in a very short time. The following named gentlemen were unanimous ly elected Directors, to wit i Philip Dougherty, Richard Fox, Abner Rutherford, Felix Nlsily,Bioph. en Miller, Henry Gingrich, and John Ninningor.— Subsequently the Directors unanimously elected 'Philip Dougherty, President, and J. C. Domborgor, Cashier. Col. James W. CoUVolh, a native of Franklin co., Pa. formerly connected with the Spirit of Timet in Philadelphia, and lately a member of the California Senate, has been appointed Secretary of that State. The Westminister Carroltonlan says "A load of stone drawn by a six mule team of Mr. Julio Or ondoriT, was weighed on the town hay scales a f«w days ago, which drew five tons one hundred and thirty one pounds." Pretty heavy load that, ws ' should think ! 1 Hon. John C. Knox. Governor Bigler has commissioned Ibo Hon. John C. Knox, formerly of Tioga county, to fill the vacan cy dn (ho Supremo Bench occasioned by Iho.uoceaso of Judge Gibson. -- . Judge Knox was formerly President Judge'of Uio Westmoreland district, and more of -the Clarion district, to which latter post ho walt'oldcicd by the people, and is universally conceded Id’havo a I high order of talents. Speaking of his ! the Philadelphia Newt (Whig) says: . ;>yii . . Judge Knox is a young man to bo clevalfldto ibp | Sopromo Bench, but ho is a well road lawyer, end | wo believe possesses all the qualifications fo row , him an eminent and popular Judge. j great suavity of manners, and the most' unspqilod personal character, united with high legal attain-_ menls, we cannot doubt that ho will not only acquire a high reputation as a jurist, but bficomo a fevorilo with the members of tho bar, as well as others who may have official business to transact before him. Tiik Tenth Legion Dissatisfied.— Gov. Bigler has appointed George R. Barrett, Esq., of Gloat field, President Judge of the Monroo and Wayne District, in place of Judge Eldred* who has been appointed Navel Officer in tho Customs, Philadel phia. The appointment seems to have created i considerable dissatisfaction, and the Democratic papers of the Tenth Legion are down on the Gov ernor “hko a thousand of brick,” but not frdm any | personal objections to tho new Judge, on account of: his having been appointed by the Governor outside of the district. Tho Monroe Democrat and the Pike County Herald both speak against the appoint ment in decided terms. Tho Herald says: Murdkr in Clbaufibud County.—Wo loam from (Ae Cloarfiold Republican of the 6lh inal., that a I brutal murder wits oommillod in Burnside tw'p., that | count/, on Tooedmj morning of Ud we«lc. Il «p i peart that two Irishman had been employed and living at the Messrs. Palchins’, having a woman, the wife of another Irishman named Jerry Whalon keeping house for them. About 2 or 3 o'clock on the morning above named, as one of the two men just referred to was at the door, a pistol was Bred, ~ • n Q <•«.!«,*? nrinu 1 Uielball of which enlotcd the back part of his hood OovKnvon s Pauhos.—Some ol the federal prints »" * ... , . . . ~ Causing Ins death instantly. The woman, aroused ore trying to create a noise against u ovcrtJor Big- , , 3 b . . , , . wir , from sleep by the report of the pistol, asked “ wliul s I. r became he rccenlly pardoned M argarol M Cor-, whWi wt , nn . wcrc(l fro , n „ il | llJlll , in , mock mick, who was imprisoned for throwing iilrlol in , o „ 0 of vaicc> .. Whefa that I”—end lhi. voice therfhcoof John M'Cann, which burned out both in. roc „ e „i lo d , B ah»t of her huahand, who eyes. The pardon was granted in view of the fact; , utpcclßd a , lho perpetrator ol the deed. The that she was supposed to bo in the last elage of con- mur( j c rer has not yet been arrested. If Judge Barrett comes among us to fill the va | — un ui Uia time appointed for tha pebplp *0 j decide who shall bo Judge, we otlend to him °ur support, because he is our Judge, but if ho c*mes I for the purpose of being a candidate, wo say il-em-1 phatically and fearlessly, that wo shall oppose him, ; ond wo believe the voters will do tho sumo. We have men hero fit and deserving ol the office,and of these, no difference to us which, one musl and ivill be elected Judge. sumption, it was therefore suggested by ovftry-prin ciple of .humanity, and so far from ol icitin^cdnsuic should command commendation. Virginia Colonization Board.—The Virginia log ib la lure, at its late session, passed a law appro priating thirty thousand dollars per annum fur five years, and placing under iho control of *b« board, I in addition, the amount raised by the Ia S upon free colored persons, and the sum received for issuing their registers, both of which sums, it is .comput ed, will equal ten thousand dollars anrtOafly.— And the board is authorized to receive donations. The money at tho disposal of the board jh lo bo employed to aid the colonization society in trans porting free persons of color lo Africa, and subsist* incr them there for a limited time. The Supreme Court of the Slate of New York, at its late term ai Oswego, have afT.rmed the un constitutionally of an appeal lo the people, in any legislative matter. The subject in question was a vole by tho people of that State on the Free School Caw. They decide that a bill otherwise constitutional can be rendered unconstitutional by requiring its validity to depend upon a vote of the people. They argue that the Stale Constitutions have confined tho law-making power to the Legie o'- * * •• same decision on giving the liquor law lo the de cision of the people. Speed or thk Train.—U is a disputed point how fast the train was going over the bridge ai Norwalk when the late disaster occurred. Some staling the number at fifteen miles an hour, others ai fifiy. One account says the locomotive leaped a distance of sixty feet and struck the abalmenlon Hie other side, sixteen feet below (ho bridge. If this be true, the speed of the engine must have been about forty miles ptr hour, as a body falls sixteen feel in the first second of lime. The fact is determined by the width of the draw and the dis tance the engine fell before striking. If theee dis tances can bo accurately dele/urined there can be no difficulty in finding tho rate of speftiL If the train wore going at uvoniy-fivo miles an hour, which is the most probable rale of speed, the ver tical distance which the locomotive fell, befpre it nttucU mu«t boon forty feet.— Ledger. Too Good to Keep. —A Whig Postmaster In Now York, being extremely anxious to reinin' his office, addressed a letter to the Department asking what strings lie should pull to retain it. Tho following letter was sent in reply. Tho Postmaster to whom it was addressed, thought it too good (o keep t Post Device Department, / Appoinimonl Office, Fob. 12, 1853. To a New York Postmaster: —In reply to your inquiry, dated February 12. asking what string you can ''pull most successfully" in order to retain your office, the Department docs not know what bettor advice to give, than to recommend that you faithful |y discharge your duties ond maintain n alifT upper Up. s. d, Jacobs. Mr. Soule’s Flight rnoM Francs —Tho Louis ville Times of the 29th ultimo, has a lianslalion from tho Memoirs of Alexander Dumas, which gives the circumstances to which the United Stales are indebted for Mr. Soule’s emigration and set tlement among U 9. They were the following : In the intimacy of Mery* and Darlhelemy* liv ed at tliis time one of the principal editors of a journal called the Yellow Dwarf. This editor was named Soule. He had been two months in prison for an article on San Domingo. He did not relish his experience of prison lile. Ho happened io ' bear a strong resemblance to Barthoiemy, which of his using his passport. 1 lent it to him. Soule (led to London, ond thence 1 to the United States, whore ho is now the fusi lawyer of New Orleans, and makes by his prac tice one hundred thousand francos a year. ♦Two distinguished Fropcb authors. A Charier woe grantee), by our Legislature at its late session, fur the establishment of Col. logo at Hamburg. It is lo be know under the name, style am) title of the' Pennsylvania and ia lo bo under lha direction of the ooi?rnor of the Commonwealth, the Superintendent of Common Schools of this Commonwealth, LotheV Roily, A. O. tltester, Simon Comoron, William Dock, John Md* gtaughlin, Benjamin Parke, Josoph^J.Clyd s (?, Robert J. Ross, Stephen Miller, Daniel W. Gross, Hamilton Alricks, Robert A. Lamberlon, John I]. Briggs, of Daupin county i Otis 11. TitTany, ChaPles D.-Blum enthal, of Cumbertondcounly : Jamba Bucliattbri and George Ford, of Lancaster county s iTohn Levi Kline, of Lebanon county, Wiliam |J, Allen, Job R. Tyson and George W. Wharton, of Philad’a, and their auebessors, together with sucli other per-1 suns as shall bo made trustees. It is contemplated to organize the College In a few Weoks.so os (oopen the lower classes for the reception of pupils in tho month of September. ' j Santa Ann's address commences with these words : l On placing my foot on tho shores of my native country.' Ho has tost one leg. Last Moments of Vice President Kina* * Tho Southern Republic has received from Mr. F. K. Beck—a kinsman of tho Vico President—a brief account of the last moments of Mr. King. It says : “Ho waa quiet and resigned to his fate which he had seen for some time awaited him. Shortly before 6 1 o'clock on Monday evening, while a few friends 'were silting around hia bedside, tho only ones that 'he WOuU allow in his sick-room, he suddenly re- I marked that ho was dying. The watchers arose to iheir feet, under some excitement, when tho Colo- I nel said—‘Bo still—make no noise—lot me die Ha refused to give the balance of his | household notice of his dying condition. His phy [sician came in and examined him. The Colonel Jatld to him—“ Doctor, I am dying. It seems as though I shall never get through with it. lom dy ing very hard- Take the pillows from under my head.” Ths pillows were accordingly taken from under his head ; bu t affording no relief, the Doctor turned him from his back on his side, when ho died in a moment.” Studb^Rx- —A man in Lancaster county refused to pay his school tax, $l.OO, when the Constable sold nis horse for $ll2, took out the lax and costs, and tendered him the balance. Ho would not lake I it, and laid it must bo paid to Esq. Miller, his agent* ' residing some miles distant. The constable refused !to do so; the man prosecuted, went to Court, lost his tase, and paid the costs. Satisfaction, with a vengeance. The American Tract Society held their SBth anniversary celebration on Wednesday, in N. York. Tho annual report shows that they 'issue regularly 200,000 copies of tho American Messenger; 25,000 of the Gorman Messenger; 250,000 of the Child’s Paper, besides an immense quantity of other works. During (ho past year they have circulated 9,162,- C4O publications. Their receipts for the year were 8365,286 68; expenditures 8385,065 07. Tho So ciety employs 642 colporteurs 104 being in the mid die Slates, cry Santa Anna’s first step as President of the Republic of Mexico, is lo assume tho purple stylo ol the third Napoleon, and establish a censorship of tho proas. Ho requires all the papers lo be licensed by Government, and (ho proprietors lo deposit large sums as securities, and copies of every article to Government officers before publication ; to abstain entirely from discussing political matters. Severe penalties attend the infringement of those rules, and also as lo publishing matter denominated subvc rsivr, seditious, libclliuus, immoral and calumnious. In consequence of this law, several of (he most promi nent Mexican journals, including the Monitor, have been discontinued. ‘ A Mistake,’ —Under this head, the Philadelphia Its marriage notices, that ‘ Miss Loiclla Corddu R is not married as reported.’ Perhaps Mis* Loretta wants lo be, and ‘ lakes (his method' of »d ventsing her desire. Prcttj name anyhow. Who’ll lake her, and correct Ihe Printer's first miss take ? Roston, May 7. —'Phis afternoon, nt half-past A o’clock, as Ihe New Red ford and Taunton train was near Taunton, Mass., the axle tree of the ten. der broke, and, with the baggage and passenger car, containing twenty-five passengers, was preci pitated down an embankment thirty feet. Dut two persons were seriously, though not fatally in jured, while fifteen received slight bruises. The cars were broken to pieces. Calvin Jones, a colored waiter in Pittsburg, was arrested on Friday, on the charge of befng a fugitive slave from Memphis, Tcnn , bat was subsequently discharged. Charles L., nun of Levi Woodbury, is appointed Fu*lm«»l»» «» R"»i■>" Tho 'lnland Daily' is the title of a neat little daily paper just started, as an experiment, in the city of Lancaster, by Edward McPherson, Esq., editor ot the Independent Whig. Ii ought to suc ceed. (fj* Anoliicr of Boston's good, rich men has de parted. His name was Ruborl G. Show. Ho leaves nearly a half million of properly, and is said to have given nearly a half million away daring his life, fur various charitable objects. If rich men would leave a name and fame pleasant for (heir posterity to contemplate, let them go and do likewise. Experience is the knowledge of everything in ho natural world, that is capable of being received hrough the medium of the senses. If men would follow the advice they gratuitous ly bestow upon others, what a reformation would bo effected in the world. Define terms before you begin discussion. Do ing this thoroughly, will often end tho controversy before it has begun. Colored mVn are not allowed to be in the streets of Washington, after 10 o’clock at night. Arislo craoy is progressing. He that blows the ooals in quarrels he has noth ing to do with, has no right to complain if the spaiks fly in his face. Praise is bo pleasing to tho mind of man, that it is the original motive of almost all our actions. The best and most important part of every man's education, is that which he gives himself. Complaint is the best tribute heaven receives, and tho sincoreat pan of our devotion. He who truly desires a blessing on his afflic tions, is always the bolter for them. Extravagant Sweeping.— When the ladies swoeP the streets with the tails of their satin drosses. Shocking Affair at the Tohos.—7’Aree men found dead in their Cello —A most singular and horrible occurrence took place at the Toombs on Monday lasi, which would unnerve the strongest man. About 6 o’clock A. M., when one of the keepers oi tho prison opened a coll in wluoh were incarcerated , five men for being intoxicated on Sunday, ho found throe of thorn dead, and a fourth writhing in fils.— He promptly gave tho alarm, and a physician was | sent fur, who examined tho men and pronounced J them dead. The fourth mao, who was found in fits, is very weak, and will probably die during (ho* | course of a day. Tho Curonor is now investigating this melancholy affair. Tho cause of the aslastro. phy is not yet known j but It is supposed (hat foul air, together with tho number of men in the coll, occasioned the fatal occurrence.—iV. Y, Herald. ‘Wedded In Death* Among those who were murdered by the Ruilrond Company at Norwalk, lost week, was a young cou pto who wore only married tho night before. They had just vowed before the holy oiler of Hymen to cling to each other in weal or woo, till Death them should separate. And kindly, *'our Father” above, decreed that even death should not soparaln them.— They passed from earth together. TMs reminds us of on old poem, we don’t know who wrote it* but it “suits tho occasion I mark’d two falling flakes of snow, Together to (he cold earth stray ; Tho Sun beam’d forth with fervent glow, They mcltrd in one drop away. Thus two young hearts whoso pulses boat, With feelings all in unison ; When warmed by love’s congonijl hoot, Commingle and unite in one. There were two vines so closely wound, To sever one would kill the other; And thus two hearts that Love has bound, Can only live with one another. Down yonder valo two ilrcnmlcls meet, And in one river ghdo along ; Blending their waves in murmurs sweet, As dying cadences of song. And sweetly thus, two hearts that love lias made in sympathies agree, Together liko those streams will move, And mingle to eternity. Horrible Tragedy In Washington, Washington, May 1 5.—This community has been shocked by an awful affair that occurred about 10 o’clock last night. Robert A. Hawke, Messenger of the General Post Office, cut his wife’s throat, about an hour after they had retired, completely severing the windpipe and arteries, lie then made two cuts Ol fils own throat, but was, oa ho soys, prevented from killing himself by his wife knocking the razor out of his hand. Their daughter, thirteen years old, occupying on adjoining room, was awakened by the [screams of her mother, wkmjumped out of bed and Iran down stairs. In the nfflan while Ilawko raised I tho front window, loudly cxc!jtming—“ I havo cut 1 my wife’s throat and my own, ond intend to cut my 1 child’s.” Tho wife succeeded in reaching tho front 1 door, but was unable to speak. The neighbors on 1 entering found her on the floor in a dying condition, land her husband standing over her with extended 1 arms exclaiming ’• Oh !my wife ! my wife! II) ivc [cut her throat!” Their child was screaming from the steps. Tho wifo expired in about twenty min- I utes. An inquest was hold this morning, nnd o verdict returned of “ Death by Iho b inds of her husband, ho being in a deranged stale of mind.” Iluwko has been arrested nnd committed. lie was honest nnd generally inoffensive, but for some time past, was extremely depressed in his mind. Intending suieidc, ho hud Written a letter, saying that all tho world w,is ogainsl him, and as he could not live happy here, he wanted uII his family lo go lo heaven with him. Another Dreadful Calamity - Fall of a BullU lug and great Lose of Life* Buffalo. May 14.—A loniblo calamity occurred in tins city yesterday. Tiio buildings on Main street, occupied «s a baking house by Moors, Robin son & Co., and Robert, Codd, while undergoing re pairs, suddenly caved in, tbo roof nnd every story being curried through to the ground. 1 It is feared that 15 or 90 workmen, and some persons occupying the upper stories are beneath the ruins. The utmost excitement prevails, nnd llio Fire De partment and a largo number of citizens are clearing the ruins. The front of the shipi hid been taken out for repairs, and the building was left without proper support. The building was five stories high, nnd the entire inside and hack wall fall into the collar, carrying the men who were at work on each story down witli it. An immense pile of lumber has been got out, and five men have been rescued alive—one with his leg badly crushed nnd the others seriously injured. Three dead bodies have boon recovered one that of John llutTord, master carpenter, whoso head was completely crushed. vVmio uij: K i n tho rcor, • man foil his hand lightly grasped by one beneath the ruin*, «„d clear mg away, a boy was discovered who had been join, med in between (ho timbers for upwards of on hour. The men worked hard to rescue him, the little ft*l low bearing up bravely, though much crushed and exhausted, ilo was at length restored to' (ho arms of his father, who stood by in speechless agony, watching I tie efforts of the men. The boy's name i ii George Kinskey ; lie is much injured internally, but hopes are entertained of his recovery The fire department is now oig.mizcd to wurk during the night. It is supposed that 15 persons nr still beneath the ruins, all of whom ore doubtless dead, os (ho ruins nro piled up in a thick solid mass from the collar to lho second stury. 1 Much excitement prevails throughout the city. No more bodies are yet in sight. How True. — Is this not life like. Tho writer of it was sick once or the ideas could not have been eo naturally conceived ‘•lf you wish to know how beautiful Nature can ; nppeor, get over a fit of sickness in May. The hills I will look tftv llirjr never looked Tl.« Hllto brooks will have mure silver in their gurgle than when you last lialoncd lo thoir pralilo. Even llm birds, making love under apple blossoms, will wiggle with a joy th.it you never noticed when chasing chip monks with a shot gun, and give a freshness to your feelings such as you have not experienced since you cut loose from (ho careless pleasures of boyhood and gave up to ’Rollin’o Ancient History’ tho sunny af ternonnn w hich were once sacred lo bob.o links and huckleberry tramps. Every person should be sick unco in his life, if fur nothing else than (hat ho may experience tho fun of getting well ago in. Returning health has charms such os you would look for in vain in prosperity. Catch the measles, and liy it once. Feather and Shell Work — Nf.d Buntlink, the racy and popular editor of the Empire City , (Now York,) has an article in his last paper descriptive of his visit lo the United Slates Store Ship, of which our valued friend, Mnj. Sterrett Ramsey Is Purser, Ho soys ; By the especial invitation nf my old friend, purser Ramsey of tho U. S. Navy, who has lately returned from South America, wo visited his lio-id.quarters and wo sow ' a pile 1 of the mast beautiful feather and shell work that over wusozhibited. Wreaths, boquots, necklaces, bracelets, of every hue, perfectly resembling (lowers, &c., and all made of feathers Little sprays, or branches of trees, made of the wings of bugs—tho breasts of humming birds fixed like pin cushions, in fact everything look, ing like nature and all made as I said above from shells and feathers. A pearl wreath, or si least a wreath which looked like pearl, was made of fish scales and fish-eyes. Really, (hero is not in any museum in America, such a sol of curiosities as those to which 1 have alluded. They were manu factured by nuns in tho convent St. Catharine's. A Nativx Genius— Tho Washington correspon dent writes lo tho Norfolk (Va.) Argus : Clark Mills is a genius! His last conception is to make a proud 6f statuary (o preserve the stalwart Indian, lha monstrous buffjlo, (ho graceful elk, and (he (loot wild horse of the prairie, as typos of what are fust passing away from our Western country, before (ho resistless advance of tho while man and the school house. Ho brought those animals from the Rooky Mountains, end will study ilium until ho gets their counterpart in bronze. It will bo'cminonOy proper lo embellish some of our squares with tills novo) beautiful, and national group. Mills has given such unmistakable evidence of skill, energy, and high ge nius, in (ho production of the Jackson Equestrian Statue, that wo know ho can perfect his last, best idea. Ho will work, at (ho same time, upon the groat Statue of Washington, for which Congress lias placed at his disposal $50,000. (Ej* The Grand Jury of Lancaster county, have returned the boor shops os a nuisance, and reoom* mend the same process of Hccning (or thorn as ap plied lo taverns. They also think the "number of taverns might bo reduced without permanent injury to the community,” regarding many ofthoroos ‘but little bettor than nurseries of Crime, and places of tofuge for offenders against Law.’ Another Awful Disaster* TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST! LOSS Of THE srflP WItLIAM k MAfctfi New York, May 16.—The DKig Reuben Caf* ver, arrived ibis morning, from Sagna La Granddi reports Tailing in on the l3ih ins!., in lai.fi7,lon£j 79, with a boat belonging to the ship William and Mary, Capl. Stetson, of Bath) Me., bound from Liverpool to New Orleans, and took from heMhe captain, male and six of the crew of the William and Mary. * . The ship, which had n cargo of railroad iron* and 208 passengers, on the 3d of May, when off the Isaacs, (Bermuda,) struck on aledge of sunken rocks, and shortly afterwards drifted and went down, carrying with her over two hundred passen gers. v Three of the crew and a few of the paesenpefs got into the life-boat, and Were afterwards lakeri on board a barque. . The names of the unfortunate passengers are all unknown—the list having been left behind, or lost in the general consternation. The Captain (Slenson) of the ilhfdled vessel, the mate, second mate, and six of the crew, it is thought, are all that were saved. They came passengers in the Reuben Carver—which picked them up in a boat, at sea, on the 3d insl. TERRIDLK DISASTER. From (iio Sju Frsncisco Times of (bo I Till tilt., wo lukc the following detailed account of the explo sion of l!io steamer Jenny Lind, which occurred in that harbor on the previous day, and lito heart rend, ing circumstances attending it: YcMcrday morning the stoamer Jenny Lind took about one hundred and twenty 6vo passengers on board at Alviso, and started on a trip for this oily. ! At nbouf half past Iweltc o'clock, when nearly op posite Pulgus Rancho, and tho cumpory on board being just about scaled at tho dinner table in (ho after cabin, I ho steamer proceeding at a moderate speed, tho buck portion of tho connecting pipe wos blown asunder and the steam swept into (ho crowd ed cabin, dealing dcnth and destruction around, crc olfhg the most terrible agony. Tho scene was of Mich o character as to bafile all efforts at descript ion. The screams of tho wourded were painful, while the groans of those in the last agonies of death were heart rending. Those in the forward pari of the boat, wit), tho exception o( the fireman, who wan standing In Trout ' of the furnace dnof, fortunately escaped. The fire j man, who was a powerful man, struck his head against tho door of the furnace in consequence of I its (lying open. Ilia skull was broken and the brain horribly exposed. A number of persons came to his assistance, but ho motioned to them to leave him, saying, in the most emphatic manner—“No, 1 sin not n dead man ! Go and help others." In tho niter part of tho boat but few escaped un liuri. Many who were standing near the guards were cither blown overboard or leaped into thn wnter in their sudden alarm. Of these, btft one Was pick ed up, the balance meeting a watery grave, linmn dinlcly upon the occurrence of the ( disaster, tho anchor was let* go, and Pctcf Smith, who swam ashore in tho marsh, gave information of the calom. ily. Shortly afterward*, o schooner end one or twd small crafl cumo oul from Pulg-ns-Ranch but before nny use could bo made of them, the steamer Union, Captain Maslcrn, cume oul from Almeda Creek, and observing llio steamer anchored with a signal of dis tress, made for her, ond look off ihe passengers. Upon receiving intelligence of thu disaster, Mayor Drcnlmm immediately sot about making preparations fur (lie relief of the sufferers. The Jenny f/ind was on her tony from Alvlso to this city, and had on board about 15V passengers.— She was passed ol 12 o'clock precisely off Pulgas Handle, by tho steamer Kxprens going the other way. At 10 minutes fiasl 12, Ihe boat being then about four miles from the west shore of the bay, a violent tremor was felt throughout tho boat, like Ihe concussion produced by the Bring of a cannon, and tn a second after a tremendous report was heard, and the whole vessel enveloped m a dense cloud of scalding steam. The plate on ihe otter head of the boiler had been blown oul, and the steam and boiling water rushed oul with fonrfnl violence. Tho bulk head, separating Iho boiler from tho cabin, which was aft, was shivered into a thousand fragments by tho force of (ho shock. The cabin was a closely confined room, 15 by 9 feel, with very small windows looking oul upon A sort of a gangway that intervened between it and the ratlings. It was just about dinner lime, the la* bio was spread, and a few minutes before (ho ladies and children, and gentlemen in charge of ladies, had been introduced into the cabin, so that they might not bo incommoded by the rush lu tho dinner table when the boll should ring, and were about seating themselves when tho explosion tnok place, and a dense volume of steam rushed into the cabin. All in (he room were sore stricken as if wilted by heat. They were scalded frightfully externally, and all inhaled the fearful steam. Not one escaped- All were ciilier killed instantly, or have sincedled Many of thorn hid their clothes torn from and tho akin entirely burned n(T their faces and bodies. Tho sight presented was horrible beyond doacrip lion, not simply the scalded, but all weru more nr less mangled by (ho fragments of tho boiler ond bulkhead, mid streams of blood flowed from tho mu ! dialed bodies. Some (ow of tho gentlemen managed 1 to grope their way oul of the cabin, crying pUiously •«» »bu*» la mo ilictr wive* and children*— When sorne of the passengers who wore unhurt, rustled below,a sight presented itself winch stoggered ilirm, nnd some became f.itnl. They found the dead and dying lying in a confused mass upon (lie floor, covered tfrilh fragments of choir's tables, (orniturc, and timber; and horrible to refute. were writhing in the scalding water six indies deep on (lie floor. Poor little children were crying pii iously for their mothers, who could hear, but blinded could not see. Mothers shrieking in agony and cal. ling upon sumo one to save their children. Tho picture even in our recollection, is heart rending.— Such was tho scene in llio cabin The violence of tho steam struck, ns wo have said, against the bulkhead in the roar of tho boiler, and (he greater portion burst ihrough tho cabin on its mission of death; while another portion recoiled and rushed to tho forward part, killing Instantly one of (ho firemen Iwho was standing In front of tho turn, aco doors, niortully scalding another on the forward deck, and killing several of the passengers who were standing on the forward part of tho lower deck. Those of the passengers standing on the forward part of tho upper deck were nearly all sated > n few only were scalded, and those not dangerously. Those about mid ship, right over tho boiler, were entirely uninjured. Hut (ho most terrible destruction was on ihfy after purl of dm deck, just over the cabin. Hero a Jargo number of passengers were congregolcd. After tho steam had done its work of destruction In the Cabin it burst up the Companion way, and in an Instant swept those in its path to (liq deck, like grass before tho sickle. Not a man around Blood. Fifty lay prostrate, scalded and wounded, shrlddnj* in agony and moaning out their last moments of life. As soon as tho consternation hod subsided, Chose who hud escaped rushed to tho assistance of tho sufibrors, who were brought upon doch and laid out, BOIUO of them on mattrassos, and others on barq planks, with Iho carcasses of a number of hogs ranged on (ho dcok as pillows. Tho cries of pain wore fearful. Some lost their senses and raved madly; others were soon staggering blindly about, their skin hanging in threads from (heir bodies, and from their hands like gloves turned inside out. Many had their clothes literally torn off them, and shivered in (ho cold, while burning internally and crying for water. Many wore literally scalded, their hair malted off, os it wore, by tho steam. “Ruins," writes a travelling correspondent of the London Morning Post, “are tho groat features of Ireland—ruins of all kinds—ruins old and ruins now—ruins of lordly castles—ruins of venerable churches—ruins of woolly monasteries and npblcf, abbeys—ruins of lowly cottages—ruins of time* of power, of wealth, long matters of history, and .tains of lime of rashness, extravagance and poverty—'of undertakings commenced improvidcnly and thrown aside despondingly without completion. All is ruin wherever you go; from (ho crumbling walls and faintly charactered tombs that tell of greatness, and absorb and delight the antiquary, to tho unroofled cottages that tell of present misery, death, and omi* gratiuu; dial shook Iho man of feeling, and sol the political economist theorising. Merit Is rarely acknowledged by tho fault find ing world.
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