AMERICAN VOLUNTEER JOHN 1). BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor. 'rARLtSLKPA.. APRIL 0. 1854. Democratic State Ticket: - ■ GOVERNOR i WILLIAM BIGLER, OP CLEABPIED COUNTY. JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT. JEREMIAH S,BLACK, OF SOMERSET COUNTY. C\XAL COMMISSIONER : HENRY S.MOTT, 07 PIKE COUNTY. have been informed that the metn here of the acw German Lutheran congregation of Carlisle, have purchased tho lot belonging to Mrs. Kerb, on the north-west corner of Potnfret and Bedford streets. In this borough. They will proceed to the erection of a, church edifice as soon as the necessary amount of money is subscribed. CVmheiu.axo Cousrr Vauatiok.— Thcyal ualionof taxable property in Cumberland coun ty, as fixed by the Board of Revenue Commis sioners, at their recent session in Harrisburg, is $10,940,860. This is an increase on the valua tion of three years since, of 5351,048. The Burs Warrior Affair.— Thelsabd, at Charleston, from Havana, brings intelligence that the steamship Black Warrior had been given op to Capt. Bulloch. The Cuban author -IUCS offered ro give up the vessel on condition that a tine of 50.000 be paid, which proposition was accepted and the tine paid under a solemn protest. I 'apt. B. look possession of the vessel on Wednesday, the 22d nit., and sailed imme diately fur New loth. Ocr.ts Postiub. —We are gratified to ob serve that Postmaster General Campbell, with the advice and consent nf the President, as pro vidisl in a section of the Postage I-a\v of March lc.il, lias reduced the ocean postage rate to two cents, on the only regular hue or route upon winch the opportumly has offered since the enactment of the law. lie, at the same time, givts notice that whenever he can in future ob tain the oecan-wise transportation of United Stales mails lo foreign countries at two cents per letter, llie Department will charge no more than that rale for such transportation, in ad dition to the inland postage required lo be ex acted under the existing law ; both to bo pro paid, of course. North-westerv Railroad. —The locating Engineers are now at work on the line of this road westward from Butler, and we arc told that it is the intention, to pul the road under contract between New Castle and Butler in July, 1 and from the energy manifested on the part of 1 the fnends of this improvmcnt east of Butler, we arc inclined to think the whole line will be ready to be put under contract at that tunc. Important to Merchants.— The U. S. At torney General. in disposing of a question sub* milled to him by the Secretary of the Trcasury, decides that a vessel built in the Lnitcd Slates, and voluntarily sold by the owner to a foreigner, and then bought back again by the original owner, cannot be registered anew os an Ameri can ship. America Citizenship —The Secretary ol Slate in onawur to au interrogatory propound ed to bun on a point of American citizenship gives his opinion “ that every p-.uon born in the United States must be considered a citizen considered a natural-boro citizen of the United in the language of the constitution, so as to make him eligible to the presidency.” Tin; Ex plomon of the Steamer Kate Kear ney.—Captain Bruner and the engineer of this steamer, which recently exploded at St. I-/Ouis, causing great loss of life, have been, after a pro tracted umstigalion, held for trial before the U. Slates Court in that city. The explosion is at tributed to a leak at the bottom of the boiler, which it w alleged, was known to tho officers of the boat the day before the accident occurred, without any attempt to stop it. it being intend ed to have it mended not until the following Saturday. Wheat Contracts. —Flour contracts, and 1 purchases of Com. weeks and months since, during the inflation, arc lieginning, says the St. Louis News, to mature and some to fall through, as they usually do when there is a sudden depression or inflation in prices. If the buyer finds he has been deceived in his calcula tions of an advance, or the seller thinks he has made a bad bargain. thcrtfJs no lack of con ditions and contingencies which are brought to bear in annulling the contract. Sloop of War John Adams for Cuba.— The Boston Chronicle of Saturday week, says that during the present week nearly one hun dred men have been received into the Charles town Navy Yard, their services being required to finish repairing the sloop-of-war John Adams. It will require only a week longer to get her ready for sea. It is rumored that her destina tion is Cuba, though nothing is yet known on ibis point with certainty. There ore now three hundred men in the various departments of la bor employed in the yard, although there is no other work than repairing the John Adams. The Vermont, which is in ordinary, and the re ceiving ship Ohio, are the only vessels now at the Navy Yard. U is generally believed that business there will bo more brisk in the course of a month. Fnou Sai.t Lake Citv.— lntelligence from Salt'Lakc City to tho Ist of December bus been received. The Saints are progressing with tho wall around tbo city. The Indians are hostile, and have burned several houses. Tho Lcgisla .—tupowas to meet on the second Monday of Do* comber. Captain Homer, in charge of twenty wagons, and more than seven hundred head of cattle, reached Salt Lake on tbo 6th November. This herd of cattle is destined for California.— They met with no particular obstruction to their crossing tho plains at this lata period, either from heavy snow or scarcity of gnus ■ Some snow, however, had to bo encountered at the last two mountains. RESPONSE OF THE PEESS.-TIIE PROSPECT. file cheering tone of confidence that pervades all 1 the ticmocratic journals of Pennsylvania, is gratifying to tho friends of the Constitution throughout the Union. Tho harmony that prevailed in tho recent Democratic State Con vention, is tho best evidence that the people arc alive to the importance of the contest. Demo cracy is rousing itself, and as tho struggle ap proaches, its tremendous power will dismay the hearts of tho Federalists, and their counterfeit enthusiasm will vanish into thin air. The “signs of the times” indicate a glorious triumph for BIGLER, BLACK, MOTT and Democra cy, at the October election. But, Democrats of Cumberland county and of Pennsylvania at large, do not rely on your own strength too much. To be successful and gain a brilliant victory, we most be watchftxl, vigilant, active. Tho Democratic party, when properly organized, never sustained a defeat, and in all probability never will. The party ought now be awakened to a proper sense of duty ; and all that is necessary to lay Federa lism in tho dust, is activitt and vigilance. The Federalists anticipated a “split" in the Democratic ranks, but how sadly were they disappointed? Wo conjecture that Governor Bioleb’s unanimous re-nomination occasioned' feelings of sadness and despair, and that of an unspeakable character, throughout the whole 1 Federal party. Rejoicing would have been a | cardinal circumstance, and the success of the opposition candidate certain, had a division in our ranks taken place. But instead of such an occurrence, there were only one or two objecting voices. They must “ get out of the way” and clear the road for Democracy. Wo arc united, and by proper vigilance, can whip oureoppo- nents and scatter their forces; wo will meet them like Jackson met Pockenham at the bat tle of New Orleans. Conquer we can and con- quer wc will, with such an efficient General at the head as Gov. Bigler, and Federalism, with all its wealth and trickery, cannot prevent us. VVe will buckle on the armor of BiOLErt and Democracy, and through the instrumen tality of his good measures, we will be able to conduct the ship safely through the foaming wrath and cannonade of our enemy, to VIC TORY ! A National Foundry. The Secretary of War, it is said, has appoint ed a commission, consisting of scientific officers connected withlTßTordinance bureau, to examine certain districts of the country and report upon the location of a site for a National Foundry. Now is the time for the citizens of Carlisle to take measures to endeavor to have this Foundry located here. We observe that the citizens of several towns in this and adjoining States, arc about to hold meetings to collate information for the purpose of showing the important ad vantages of their respective places for the loca- tion of such an establishment. While wc ad mit the right of all to contend for the prize, we feel we speak but the simple truth when we say,' that Carlisle possesses advantages for the loca lion of this Foundry, which no other town can boast- Situated, as it is, in the heart of a beau- tiful and populous valley, with a healthy and genial climate, and with water power equalled by few and surpassed by no other town; —with mountains on cither side of us, filled with the best and richest iron ore, and with the means of easy and rapid communication with the great cities on the seaboard; with the means of living as cheap if not cheaper than in roost towns in this section, wo think the advantages possessed by Carlisle should powerfully recommend it to the Government as the site for the proposed Foundry. In addition to rtifly add, that here arcJ.W Carlisle Barracks, where the {iz-rcr-mncnl could very readily and cheaply erect the Foundry upon ground owned by itself. Wo trust our citizens will at once move in this matter, and endeavor by every means to have the Foundry here. The location of such an establishment among us would be of immense benefit to Carlisle and its citizens. The cm- indiDg one jir * nfleffut the I formity with \\f is generally \nd a person icd would be ployccs in the works will bo wholly consumers, thereby giving the farmers a better market for their produce. It would put in circulation Vast sums of money ; afford employment for mapy of our working men ; increase rapidly the pop ulation, and enhance also the value of property in the borough. With the claims which we liave, and the benefits to be derived from its lo cation here, we hope ere a great while to see the National Foundry in full blast in Carlisle. I£7*A petition is circulating and has been al ready signed by a majority of the leading mer chants of Boston, for presentation to the Legisla ture of Maineprayingthattheapplication foran [ act incorporating the Atlantic Telegraph Com pany in opposition to the Halifax monoply bo granted. By an arbitrary rule of the present line, no merchant can receive his despatches on the arrival of an European steamer at Halifax, until twelve hours after the news is IransmiHcd to certain parties in New York. This has aroused the indignation of our merchants, and a strong effort, backed up with the necessary capital, will be made to establish an indepen dent line. The Southern Commercial Convention— The delegates to this Convention, which assem bles in Charleston on the 10th of April, will no doubt bo handsomely entertained by the citi zens of that city, os we notice they are making extensive preparations with that view. A mag nificent ball is to be given at the Military Hall on the night of tho 12th, in honor of the dele gates. On the 13th, a grand excursion round the hajbor will take place, the festivities of the day to close with a fine display of fireworks on tho Battery; and on the following day the members of tho Convention arc to partake of a public dinner. UoantßLX Puacticb. —Two clerk last week were publicly whipped in tho market place at Charleston, 8. C-, for stealing from their em ployees. They were sentenced to receive thirty nine lashes, which were to be inflicted at tlirccdif ferent times, and at such intervals that the wounds caused by the first should bo healed be fore tho second punishment, and so of tho third. At tho first whipping, these unhappy victimsof the barbarism of the middle ages, after suffering twenty strokes, fell bleeding and fainting, and were carried back to jail. Tea thousand per sons beheld this horrible spectacle 1 Qy Count Thibaudcau, member of tho Sen ate, died on tho 9th ult., in Paris at an advan ced age. He was the last surviving member of the convention who voted for the death of Louis XVI. disagreeable weather. Tho weather for tho Inst two weeks has been ns coquettish,as a miss in her teens—one day wo havo the warn rays of tho sun, tho next a chilling northern blast, the next snow, sleet, rain, &o. Generally speaking, however, tho weather has been very cold and disagreeable for the season of the year, reminding us more of tho dreary month of December, when all is gloomy and cheerless, than the month of April, when nature usually decks herself in her richest and most delicate attire. On Saturday night it was so cold, that ice was formed in this neighbor hood half an inch thick, and there arc some who havo expressed a fear that tho fruit trees have suffered. We will not venture to predict what kind of weather wo are to havo daring tho month which has commenced, ns, owing to tho variableness of the seasons of late years, no cor rect calculations can bo made. We will, how ever, again caution those of our renders who wish to preserve their health, (and who is there that don’t ?) not to throw aside their winter clothing, even should we be visited by a warm day or two, until they are fully satisfied that the weather has become perfectly settled, and tho cold winds of the NoHh have given way to the balmy breath of spring. Education in Cumberland County, In our advertising columns will be found the notices of no less than five Select and Classical Schools and Seminaries, located at different points in this county. A “ Young Ladies’ Se lect School,” in this borough, Mrs. J. F. Down ing, Principal. The “ Cumberland Valley In stitute,” in Mechanicsburg, Rev. J. A. Loose, A. M., and Rev. W. H. Scran, A. M., Princi pals ; " Shippensburg Institute,” D. A. L. La vbbtt and O. U. Hahn & Co., Principals ; tho “White Hall Academy,” in the lower end of the county. D. Denlingeb, Principal, and the “ Plainfield Classical Academy,” near Carlisle, under the direction of Professor R. K. Burns. There may probably be other Seminaries in this county, but wc cannot just now think of them. Tlie Seminaries which wo have enumerated are all under the control of competent and judi cious persons; the teachers employed in them are thoroughly educated gentlemen, and possess the ability of imparting to the youths intrusted to their care, the elements of a first rate English and classical education. Some of these Insti tutions have been in existence for years, and the great encouragement which they have heretofore 1 received, and tho success attending the labors 5 of their Principals and Professors, arc the best 1 testimonials which can he adduced in their fa- Parcnts and guardians, in this and adjoining counties, desirous of sending their sons and wards to a first rate Academy, may rest assur ed that in either of the Institutions we have named they will receive a thorough education, fitting them to enter any of the learned profes sions, and enabling them in the great world to fight the “battleoflife” with success and honor. British Doctrine op Citizenship. —ln the Vice Chancellor’s Court, England, Sir John | Stewart recently decided that an infant, born in New York, whoso mother was an American, and her father a naturalized citizen of the United States, born in England, is a subject of the Crown of England! Naturalization,although it conferred the right of an American citizen upon the drtt-mrt absolve him from his duties, or deprive him “of his rights as a Brit ish subject. ” This fscarrying the arrogant and absurd English doctrine of citizenship and alle giance to a most ridiculous extreme. Such a doctrine would make British subjects of every native born American of British extraction, for if it in applicable to one generation born here, it is applicable id all succeeding generations.— Those, therefore, who have been priding them selves on being true blue “natives,” will be amused to hear, that by this decision they are subjects of Great Britian, and nothing but “foreigners” after all. Destructive Inventions — The war immi- j nent between the powers of Europe, rays the , Ledger, will doubtless be of the most destine- | live character. Invention has been busy during the long peace Europe has enjoyed, in devising means for bringing hostilities to a rapid termi nation, by making the catastrophe terrible and complete at tho beginning. Steam will be in troduced for tho first time as an element of war fare, and its gigantic energies will effect as great a revolution in the science of war, os gunpowder produced on its first introduction into the bat tle-field. The arsenals of England, it is said, have been closed for a long time, even to mem bers of Parliament, while experiments have been making in new and terrible machines, which are now to be brought into use. One of these is (called tho “ Wagner Floating Gun,” which glides along on tho water in a straight line till it strikes tho vessel at which it is directed, when it thrusts into its sides its iron head, con taining two pounds of fulminating powder of mercury, which, by exploding, blows aholo in the vessel ten or twelve feet in diameter, which 1 it is impossible to close as the round holes made by cannon balls. Sub-marine boats are so per fected that they can reach and attach a burner to an enemy’s ship without running the .least danger. Experiments arc also made with an asphyxiating ball, to paralyze crews, and in explosive balls, to set fire to ships os soon as they strike, with other engines of destruction equally as terrible and annihilating. Arkansas.— On tho first Monday of August next, the sense of tho people of Arkansas will be taken upon tho propriety of calling a Con vention to amend and reform the Constitution of that State. The LiltloKoek Gazette mentions, os among tho great objects of tho Convention, tho extension of tho elective franchise, and tho election of tho Judges of tho Supremo Court, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and all other public officers, by the people. Southward tho star of progress takes its way. Let the power be with the people from forming a State or Territorial Government to the choice of the officers. Those who deny tills doctrine are op posed to tho fundamental principle on which tho Union is based. OCT* Uis said that it was at tho solicitation of the Hon. James Buchanan, Iho U. S. Minis ter, that Smith O’Brien wan pardoned, Mr. B. having previously urged tho measure at on in terview with Lord Clarendon. Difficulty Settled.—‘We ore glad to loam that tho difficulty of Messrs. Brecjueniu dob and Cottino (members of Congress,) between whom a challenge hod passed, have, by tho interfer ence of friends, settled their quarrel to the satis faction of both parties. The Wat against Santa 'Anna. When the California steamship John I). Sto phena left Acapulco, on her late trip; General Alvarez, Governor of tho provencc, who recent- j ly “ declared” against tho administration, of 1 Santa Anna, had 'six..thousandj troops, well armed and organized, under his control. Santa Anna had sent a large force to subdue Alvarez, j three thousand five hundred of whom had al- > ready arrived in tho province of Acapulco, and • it was daily expected that a collision Would ( take place between the opposing forces, the Ac apulco people feeling quite confident that Santa Anna's troops would be easily routed. No ac tual collision betw-een revolutionists and govern ment troops had as-yet token place. Wo see, by advices from tho city of Mexico, to the 9th of March, that the Mexican presses condemn Alvarez as a traitor,, acting in concert with the filibusters of California. They predict his speedy downfall and punishment. The ‘ ‘ pernicious principles” which he sustains arc, according to El Universal, federative and State sovereignty ; preponderance of tho people over the “cloth coat class;” absolute submission of ecclesiastical to the civil power freedom of con science and of worship; suppression of the ar my, and tho supremacy of parliamentary rule; re-organization of tho school system, &c. As these are all fatal to the absolute authority which Santa Anna wishes to centre in his own person, the friends of that chief bitterly revile Alvarez. The old and worn out theories of re-1 striction which Santa Anna bos imposed, have caused much dissatisfaction among the people, and his proposition to sell a portion of the ter ritory of the republic docs not help to allay the bad feeling already existing. With the money which the sale would place in his hands, Santa Anna and \yould probably be able to secure his hold on power. The Law of Libel. The Judiciary Committee of our State Legis lature is now engaged in maturing a bill on the subject of Libels, with a view of reporting it to the House at an early day. The bill provides i that when an editor, proprietor, or publisher is I sued for libel, he may offer in defence evidence to show that the facts, when published with good motives, were jqptifiable, and necessary for public information. Another section pro vides, that no editor, proprietor, or publisher shall be indictable forfany measure or act of any [person in his employment, unless said act is | committed with his or their consent. The sub ject is one that demands thought and reflection before the Committee acts, as much of the use fulness of the press as a means of exposing the vicious and correcting the depraved, depends upon the law with reference to suits for libel. On the one hand, the press should be responsi ble for a malicious and wanton attack upon private reputation or personal standing; but on the other, it should be carefully protected from j annoying and vexatious prosecutions when ex-, posing the thousand arts hy which bad and do- i signing men attack the peace of society or the i propert}’ of their fellows. This is the line of distinction which is to be kept in view in fram ing a wise and just law with regard to suits for libel. The real interest? of the people and the press arc identical and mutual. What will protect the one, must act beneficially upon the other. Oun Relations with SpaiK.—Tho Washing ton (fnioh seems to coiiiffder our Wlatro'na,; with Spain to bo in fc critical condition. An editorial in that paper of a lato date says : “The indications are daily multiplying that wo ore not long to enjoy' uninterrupted *ncacc with Spain. We feared A* much when w 5 saw Pczuola appointed Captain-General of Cuba, un der what wo believed at the time to bo British dictation. Lord John Russell- has since admit ted that the selection of this functionary was In accordance with the wishes of the Aberdeen min istry. And for what did Victories government desire him 7 Because of his known inveterate hostility to the United States and their institu tions, as m&ifcsted during his residence at Porto Rico, os Captain General, and afterwards at Madrid.” It then proceeds to declare that if England and Franco think proper to endorse this wrong—if they send their vessels to the coast ol Cuba to protect the authorities there In the wanton out rage which has occurred in the instance ol the Black Warrior —our duty will bo too clear to ad mit of a doubt upon the subject. And in con clusion, it thus admonishes us to prepare to de fend ourselves : “It is evidently oar <fnty to begin to prepare for the worst. Wo must demonstrate to the good of every land—those entertaining senti ments kindred to our own—in an unmistakable manner, that wo have not only a good cause, hut that wo are so prepared that, with God’s bless tng, we shall bo enabled to maintain it. Wo should thus contract an alliance more formidable to our enemies than any ever contracted between crowned heads for the auppression of political liberty.” Tub New York Prohibitory Liquor Law. —Governor Seymour of New York, intends to , veto the Prohibitory Liquor Law Bill, passed Iby the Legislature of that State. Ue has in -1 formed Mr. Delavon, tho Temperance advocate, that he means to do so, Tho reasons arc, that tho bill is unconstitutional in several of its fea tures, and Us tendency mischievous on account of its unjust and oppressive character. Tho • bill will go back to the Legislature, and an at , tempt bo made to pass it by the constitutional ! majority. The veto is creating much excite i raent among the Temperance men. Another Ilian Treason Case.—There is another instance of high treason in Missouri, rather worse, though not producing so much excitement as tho Lancaster fugitive slave ease a year or two ago, which our courts pronounced to be no treason at all. Some citizens of Miss ouri drove off tho United States Marshal, while attempting to servo writs of ejectment against trespassers on public lands. Since then some of tho offenders have been arrested and commit ted to answer for high treason. A trial for high treason will bo rather a novelty to the present generation. A LboalStrixb.—The legal gentlemen of Co vington, Ohio, arc on a strike. They recently met in solemn conclave, and agreed to demand five dollars for counsel; lifly dollars for divorce, and one hundred dollars for ejectment. Strikes having tho sanction of .tho lawyers, they must now bo considered legal. The Steam Frigate Bill.—The House of Representatives‘has at length entered upon the consideration of tho bill authorizing tho con struction of six first Cffaea steam frigates, with screw propellers, properly armed and equipped; and for altering, completing anllannching the frigates Santee and Silnno.’and appropriating 88,000,000 for those purpji&es. .^e'earnestly hope no obstacle may be" thrown in iho way of | tho speedy passage of tho bill. 4. The Appropriation Bill.- Mr. Roberta, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, lb a communication to tho Harrisburg Union, gives tho following exhibit of tho various items of the General Approbation bill, recently reported to the House of Represen tatives. Ho says that exaggerated statements of tho amount of appropriations embraced in the bill, have found their way into the papers, which are calculated to mislead and. do harm. Ho therefore asks Cor tho publication of an ac curate statemont: Expenses of government, $259,000 Ordinary repairs on public works, 801,889 Do. to be expended after Doc. 1, 1854, 225,000 Motive-power expenses, 657,275 Do.- to bd expended after Dec. 1,1864, 100,000 Farm bridges, 16,000 To pay collectors, toll gatherers, &c., 90,021 Common schools, 200,000 Pensions and gratuities, 16,000 Interest on public debt, 2,000,000 Interest on North Branch debt, 41,000 Guaranties, 25,600 Penitentiaries, 14,000 Charitable Institutions, 40,000 Militia expenses, 1,250 State library, 1,866 A contingent appropriotlon to repair damages that the works may sustain, 60,000 Amount for old debts on the public works, Ordinary expense#, ircluding old ■ debts, $4,282,941 This amount, together with certain other per manent appropriations, it Is bellered the treas ury can meet during the current year, and also repay the temporary loans now out-standing. But it is proposed in the bill, in order to ena ble the treasury to meet a balance of $142,000, necessary to complete the North Branch canal, and to apply $220,000 towards re-laying the south track of the Philadelphia and Columbia railroad, to authorize the extension of the temporary loan I now outstanding. | If tho policy of completing the new work on the Allegheny Portage railroad should bo adopt ed by the Legislature, this would require a fur ther anticipation of revenues to tho amount of $005,000. The aggregate of ordinary expenses, including $BBB,OOO of old debts amounts to $4,282,94'* New work on the North Branch and Columbia railroad, Total, Thus, It will appear that, even including an appropriation for the completion of the new Por tage, as above, the appropriations asked fall far short of six millions of dollars, as stated. The Whig Candidates, The following well-timed remarks from the Pennsylvanian Patriot, published at Harrisburg, breathe a spirit of unflinching devotion to the Democratic nominations which command our ad miration, and is a sample of the tone of our De mocratic exchanges throughout the State: The Whig Candidates. —Well “ the child is born, and his names is”— Pollock . The Hon. James Pollock, of Northnmberland county, ex meraber of Congress, is the Whig candidate for Governor. What exulting proans will ascend from Whigs in different parts of the State I The big, hoarse voice of the mammouth city dally will lead in the hymn, and the shrill small notes of the modest country weekly will bo heard in echoing tho chorus. How the types will rattle and the heavy presses groan—to tell tho people all tho virtues of this now champion. It Is not unlikely that lltograph likenesses of him will be hung in every bar-room, in every mill and smith shop, and upon the most conspicuous tree at 1 every cross-road in the State. Ho is not a mill * tary hero —Indeed, his vote in Congress in favor . of tho expediency of ordering our troops to re treat —proves him to he far from bravo. In a lato campaign tho Whigs learned that military 3 heroes are not acceptable to tho people—with their characteristic shifting, they have gone to the other extreme —In the selection of their can didate for Governor. Mr. Pollock’s rc/rea/i»g vote would give tho lie to any one who would claim him as a hero, or even a bold man. Mr. Pollock is reported to bo a gpntloman of more than -■ • and so cially very agreeable. But did rq, possess each of those qualities In a much more eminent de gree, ho could not bo made tho Governor of Pennsylvania. Tho Democratic candidate, Col. Bigler, has been tried, and unfortunately for his opponent, has given general satisfaction to the pooplo of the State. His popularity was attest ed by the unprecedented unanimity with which ho was rc-nominatod. Whig editors aro wel come to all the consolation they can derive from tho fact, that one delegate voted against dcclar. ing Gov. Bigler the unanimous nominee of the Convention. If they cannot provide their rank and (Ho with better amunition, wo doubt much whether they will be willing to go Into tho con- I test. Mr. Darsxe tho Whig Senator from Allegheny, received tho nomination for tho office ol Canal Commissioner. Poor Gen. Larimer was thrown aside—and his aspirations for tho Gubernatorial nomination blighted, In order that his fellow citizen might bo honored. Mr. Parslo has the reputation of being a cunning politician—but he would not have It supposed that his wily propen sions were so strong—as to make him supplant a political brother of his own city, who had spent many months and as many hundred dollars, to obtain a distinction for which ho was constantly longing, and about which ho has boon for a long time—either thinking or dreaming. On tho 2d Tuesday of October next—tho peo ple of tho State will convince Mr. Daralc —if he does not sooner become conscious of the fhet, that ho'camo before tho people of Pennsylvania at a very inauspicious time. Of Judge Smyser, tho Whig nominee for the Supremo Bench, little is known out of bis dis trict. Our information is, that ho la a good Common Pleas Judge. No one, wo presume, will pretend to claim for him qualifications that will bear comparison with those of Judge Black. There is ns great a difference in tho Intellectual abilities and legal attainments of tho latter and former Judges, as between Hyperion and Stayr. Should both candidates live until tho day of elec- tion, Judge Smyser will most certainly Und tho honor of a nomination swallowed up In an inglo rious defeat. Another Extraordinary Divorce Case, In tho New York Supremo Court, on Satur day week, application was made by Jeremiah W. Dimick, for annulment of his marriage to his wife Frances N. Dimick, under somewhat extraordinary circumstances; • « Plaintiff and defendant,'* tho Court said, << had been married more than twelve years. It is now alleged that tho marriage was void by reason of pro-contract. The defendant, it is ad mitted, was married when a school-girl, to u young man, who soon afterwards wont off to tho West, and was not heard of, except it was said ho was dead, for many years. She accordingly, in good faith, married* her present husband, sup posing herself at liberty to do so. It now turns out that tho first husband has been living till a- bout live years ago, when ho died, ami of course left her in a condition to legalize her second marriage. No further ceremony, however, took place, but the plaintiff and defendant for said five years continued to llvo together as man and wife. Tho plaintiff says ho did so in ignorance of tho actual state of the case, and there is every reason to believe tho truth of this averment.— Of course, no marriage by Implication could bo inferred,’and tho original marriage between tho parties was clearly' void, tho prior husband being then still alive and undivorcod. There Is noth ing to deprive the plaintiff of tho right which the law gives him to have It so declared. Sentence nullifying tho marriage of plaintiff and defendant must therefore bo entered.” Fire.—On Friday last, says tho Liverpool American, a dwelling bouse, about two miles from this place, in Wild Cat Volley, occupied by Daniel Shcaflfcr and David Wagoner, wan burned to tho ground, the occupants being un able to save a single article of furniture, ondhad barely time to secure their clothing. Both families lost their all. Thedr loss, wo arc pleased to state, has been In a groat measure made up bV tho benevolent citizens of the neighborhood, 'fho house belonged to Mr. 8, Shuler, of this place. stti anb snmm. *‘Thb Old Barlcttarecent work, 44 The Pilgrim Father*,” on page 204, is given an engraving of Elder Brewsters chair, now in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, which was one of the two brought over in tho Mayflower in 1620. Beneath the engraving are tho following lines in reference to tho Pilgrims, which the au thor says were 44 tho words of a quaint old poem: ” Full humble were their meals, Their dainties very few, ’Twos only ground-nuts, clams, or cels, When this old chair was new. Their greeting very soft, Good morrow, very kind, How sweet it sounded oft Before wo were refined, Humility their caro, Their, failings very few, My heart! how kind their manners were When this old chair was new. [£?* Thcrounicipal election in Eric, last week, resulted in the triumph of the ticket in oppo sition to the railroad ticket. Mayor King was re-elected, receiving 696 votes, while Fleming, the railroad candidate, received only 10. Three Bovs Drowned. —Three boys—Ed ward Cullen, of Liverpool, Thomas Vail, of New York, and Thomas McCoy, of Mount Carbon — tore drowned on Tuesday , in tho Delaware, above Port Richmond. They were employed ns team-drivers on the canal. They were in a yawl, in tow of tho steamer Hcnlopon.' The yawl was upset, and all were drowned before assistance could reach them. O" There is talk that Santa Anna will di vorce his present wife if ho can negotiate a mar riage with one of tho daughters of the Queen Dowager of Spain. His present wife was born in Wcstcrlo, Albany county, N. Y., and her maiden name was Lapaugh. (TT'Mr. Scoville, Editor the New York Pick, is the legal heir to some $15,000 to $200,000. in moneyratocks, &c., left by lion. Nathan Pres ton, recently deceased. 888,041 [C?I*TheMaysvillo 1 *TheMaysvillo fKy.) EagU says:—There were 1,223 wild cats Rilled in Kentucky, and their scalps paid for by the Commonwealth, in 1853. 867.000 OCT" James Raymond, the well known man agerof circuses and menageries, did at Carmel, Putnam county, New York, on the 23d ult.— Among his property, which is valued at $1 .SGO.- 000, are the Broadway Theatre and Washing ton Hotel, in the city of New York, and the Walnut street Circus and Menagerie in Phila delphia. $4,049,94: CC7* We learn from the Raleigh (N. C.,) Star that an extensive bed of porcelain clay has been discovered on the North Carolina Central Rail road, a few miles below Ncase river. While it is a serious obstacle to laying the rails, being so soft that timbers laid upon it soon sink out of sight, it may prove to bo n valuable discovery. O-A provincial paper concludes a long obituary with the following strange notillca tioni “Scleral deaths arc unavoidably defer ed.” Ice. —The canal at Northumberland, Pa., was frozen over on Monday. and the ice was two inches thick. At Harrisburg, on the same day, there was floating ice in the Susquehanna. Going to Europe. —Lieut. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, U. S. Rifles, was in New Orleans on the 20th ult. The Ftcat/une says he is about resorting to the theatre of war in Europe. (£7* Mr. Christy, agent of the Colonization Society has been offered a group of slaves in one of the Southern States, valued at 815,000. — The owner cannot emancipate them where he lives, and must remove them to some other State to effect hi? purpose. [£7* There arc 807 churches in New Jersey, valued at 83,540,436. A Handsome Reward. —The Government bryq presented the owners of the ship Anthracite (which took off a portion of the on /ifaw.San Francisco) the sum of 825,000 as a to ken of gratitude for the service rendered. It was a voluntary gift, os the oweners of the ship made no charge whatever. Col. Maorudbr. —George Magruder, Com mander U. S. Navy, writes to the Washington Star , to contradict the statement that his bro ther, Lieut. Col. Magruder, had entered the military service of the Emperor of the French, lie says it is Col. M.’s intention to proceed to the Danube, for the purpose of witnessing the military operations of contending armies in that country, with the view of ocouinng information in the art of war, for the solo purpose of bene fitting our own country, and tne service to which ho belongs. Rentes to Indio, Ancient and Modern, The intelligence that tho Darien Canal is Im practicable is too disheartening to believe, with out further confirmation. If true, however, it will leave trade with India to go on through the old channels, at least for another generation.— Tho fluctuations of this trade, in ancient and modem times, is a history in itself. Tho oldest, if not tho wealthiest country on the globe, India, has been valuable for its com merce over since the dawn at the historic period. In tho puisant ago of Rome, this trade was car ried on through Persia, and a lino of opulent, cities, illuminating the desert with civilization, gradually sprung up along tho route of tho car avans. During tho earlier and more brilliant days of tho Roman empire, when tho aristocracy of Italy disbursed tho plunder of half a world, (his traffic grew to bo Immensely valuables and it was through this commerce that Palmyra, sit uated midway between tho Roman and Parthian ftontcra, rose to splendor,w)dch, even in ruins, is still the wonder of tho world. But tho wars that waged between Persia and Rome, after tho Christian ora began, eventually turned this commerce into a different channel. | Merchants could no longer safely cross from tho 1 Euphrates to tho Mediterranean with their car avans, and wore compelled accordingly to take shipping Lp India, ana. ascending tho Rod Sea, io mdko Alexandria tbqlr depot; By tho close of tho .sixth century, Arabia, Egypt, gffd oven Ethiopia, had become opulent with (ho profits of this vast trade, while Mesopotamia had sunk Into a comparative desert, and tho cities of Sy ria wore falling to decay. This was the golden era of Alexandria. Tho ruin of Greece had attracted to that me tropolis the loading philosophers, and learning lifted its proud head side by ildo with commerce. A Christian See hod been established there which rivalled those of Constantinople and Romo in power, and fora longtime exceeded them in in fluence. Until tho Saracens conquered Egypt, Alexandria was tho London, the Oxford, and al i moat tho Vatican of tho ancient worldj. Us harbor was crowded with fleets, Us schools were throng- I cd with students, its pulpits resounded with harangues enforcing tho orthodox creeds. Tho | trade with India had made it tho metropolis of tho Mediterranean; and thoro, accordingly, commerce, science and religion culminated, Tho ascendancy of Islomlsm destroyed, almost entirely for awhile, tho commerce between tho East and tho West} what llltlo remained was now conducted through Constantinople. But, in tho middle ages, Venice became, to somo extent, what Alexandria had been centuries before. Her merchants engrossed tho trade with Indio, and though this was loss valuable than in former times, because ■Western Europe was poorer and more barbarous, yet it sufficed to build a city of palaces whore once had boon only a few fisher men's huts, and to render Dandalo, Titian, and the Doges of St. Mark Immortal. Tho discovery of tho route around tho Capo of Good Hope un dermined tho prosperity of Venice, and built up | Lisbon, Amsterdam, Antwerp and London. A now cycle would appear if a Darien onnal cquld bo built, and the trade with India bo again I revolutionised. For tho flrattimo since tho keel I of Columbus turnod hopelessly homoword on his last vovago, tho droam of that mighty navigator would bo realised, and a western passage opened .iotho Orient. The groat highway to India, ,ovon from Europe, would henceforward bo towards tho sotting bud. Tho principal distributing mart for East India products would eventually settle itself on this side of the Atlantic. Most sincere ly do wo hope, therefore, that tho canal may yet b? pronounced practicable.— Ltdstr. s From tho Washington Union. Franknltt Pierce, tie Friend of a Frugal hi ministration—tie Fee of Peculation and Fraud. , • Almost simultaneous with tho judicial exunm... of tho groat, Gardiner fraud, tho people startled by tho discovery of on extensive comhf nation of shatpers, who had nourished for venri by a system of unprecedented peijnry and fn. gory under tho pension laws. Wo saw, Brel th melancholy sequel of tho first of those crimes-! tho sequel, at least, so (hr as tho principal of « gang, of respectable peculators was concerned and wo wore next called upon to witness tho it suo of tho second outrage referred to. The t» loading participants in the pension Hands hotn mon in high social position In Pennsylvania have •. Ood the, country," leaving money e„oSlh to indemnify their sureties, who were held l largo sums to produce them at trial. Them V” mon aro now wandering upon tho earth a hne 1 aftaid to meet a human being, and pnisned to tho unsleeping IhriQS of remorse. One of them has loft behind him Si lovely wife nod chlldraT the ’other Is a member of one of tho oldest faml lies In the State, and has for years been a most eloquent ond popular leader of tho opposition n° r,J 'e .? ni L 0f i “ m ’ 04 4,10 time of the dclec. tmn of tho fraud w wnleh ho became so Inexlri cahly involved, and upon the fruits of which ho had lived so long unsuspected, wns n Judge on tno bench, and wo perceive that, by a nniuiimon j vote of tho legislature of Pennsylvania, a few days ago, tho governor is called upon formally to remove him from office. What a tessou tor the young men of America! In both these cases, It Is not doubted that the tote of tho principals la only tho beginning of the end. Tho Gardiner conspiracy is known to' involve others In tho wide sweep of Us astound ing details. It was a monstrous plot; and it stands out upon history na a warning to future times and future men, and at the same time as a poisonous blot upon our national escutcheon— There is, moreover, much reason to believe that this stupendous crime is not the only one com. mitted by high and influential politicians since (ho defeat of tho democratic party in 1848. Success, hi too many instances, covers a multi, tude of sins; and when wo recall tho events of our recent experience, and remember bow vainly and how long the attempt wns made to bring one set o( combinations to justice, wo can readily imagine bow the temptation of being able to commit groat offences with impunity has induced men, heretofore respected and confided in, to sink themselves to the most criminal associations. In regard to the' frauds under tho pension lavs, they are not of recent origin. It has been here tofore difficult to punish tho guilty, hut tho ex islenco of spurious papers lias frequently been the cause of earnest solicitude among honest le gislators and conscientious officers. Theie is something about a fraud upon tho pension laws so revolting and so debasing, that wc are almost led to doubt the existoncoof manly integrity and republican sincerity, when wo read tho shameless details of these attempts to mutilate statutes in tended for the protection of the brave men whoso valor has defended our flag, or of their poverty. stricken widows or children, In the last annual message of President Pierce ho referred to this subject In the following em phatic language : “ Numerous and flagrant frauds upon the Peiv sion Bureau have been brought to light within the last year, and. In some instances, merited punishments Inflicted; but, unfortunately, in others guilty parties have escaped, not through the want of sufficient evidence to warrant a con viction, but In consequence of the provisions «{ limitation in the existing laws. “ From the nature of these claims, the remote, ness of the tribunals to pass upon them, and the mode in which the proof is, of necessity, fur. niahed, temptations to crime have been greatly stimulated by tho obvious difficulties of detec. tlon. The defects In the law upon this subject are so apparent, and so fatal to tho ends of jus tice. that your early action relating to it is most desirable.” Since this well-timed appeal tho great fraud in Pennsylvania has been discovered, hope that Congress will no longer delay in car. tying out the wholesome and judicious sugges tions of the Executive. Wo are enabled, from daily observation and experience, fully to appreciate the unsleeping activity of tho President and his cabinet—and, indeed, of all the officers of bis administration — in ferreting out tho authors of the' repeated and various frauds npoo tho treasury, and In enforc ing tho rigid practices of economy, according!© the example and the counsel of the fathers of tho republic. One year has elapsed since Franklin Pierce was inaugurated President of tho United Status. In a single department of tho govern ment alone ho has, in that short time, nobly proved his title to the confidence and the sup port of his countrymen. .Taught In tho stem school of constitutional principles, and deeply Imbued with tho Idea that ours, to be a free must also be a frugal government, ho resolved, from tho first, to change entirely the loose and venal practices that had been almost sublimated into n science of fraud under another administration, and to initiate tho rule of strict accountability and Impartial economy in the public expendi tures. Tho abolition of a horde of useless of fices, created to reward political fhvorltcs; tho abandonment of tho system of delay in the set tlement of public aooouta; tbo vigilant collection of millions of outstanding debts; tho gradual extinction of the public debt; tho prosecution of defaulters; the punishment, by tho sevens* judgment of tho law, of all peculators and for gers upon tho public treasury and tho public laws —these ore a few of tho trophies of the ad ministration of Franklin Fierce, connected with a single department of tho federal government- Tho men who aided to build up this grand and sublime structure of republicanism would hit. In such a President, tho faithful follower of their sacred precepts —tho fearless disciple of their ! pure ana simple creed. l Before such a spectacle as this tho calumniei ■ of tho corrupt, tho slanders of tho disappointed, and tho brutalities of personal foes, foil hurtles* ' to tho ground. In our country It is one of the . highest attributes of executive ability and dcief. i vlng successfully to keep tho money-changer* out of the people's treasury. This Is a first duly and tho statesman who is woll-polsed In this ns i giml, and who is not afraid of tho howhngi cf I tho b«ffl?d crow of peculators, will take hit pb» . by tho side of tli* greatest and tho beat, and win j become an example and ari taalug to I> ofller '* Latest from Europe. By tho arrival of the Franklin at New York on Wednesday, and the Canada a * Jlalafaxlhowini# evening/ wo are put in pb'sscsflloft t>i odtloc. ft®o Europe to tho iBtli up., fl week lator than wo Mrt previously received. The first dovlslon of 1M British fleet Intended to operolo In In the Dame, sailed from Portsmouth under Sir Charles jva. plot on tho lllli ult. The Qucon visited arjuadron In her yacht, and escorted th ® 6 *P sea. Tho remaining division was t° 'h . days, under Admiral Chads. The whole (!« - when united in tho Baltic, will consist of sols, with 2,200 guns, 22,000 men, and WJ* aggregate horso power of steam force, r , scat of war on tho Danube there Is n ° ftht Importance, beyond the partial rot *^f I n ic Russian, from before Kalatat. Tho auxlW Propell and English armies w II not rc«J J key and bo ready to act much boforo Ap ■ Tho OrooU (nwirrootlOns, I" „ st, Czar has published In tho oßlclat Joursi Petersburg a' reply to tho recent, invo Lord John Bussell In llpo House °f Comw" • Ho accuses tho British Ministry of havlngkn jjj and partially approved beforehand all 11,0 f'rj whose execution they now hold up «• crime. Tho Ministers repel the P[ ,ar f o .' .j. promise to ruftito It by documents. Ausm Lores to the declaration of neutrality! he* she approves tho course of the Western to . ’ states that her future course .prill bo decide regard for her own Interests. Prussia ai « fuses to join tho league against tho wj- Franco there Is nothing of moment oxc p fact that tho budget makes up an excess million ftanos revenue over tho expense J» Government. Nothing new from °P ’ England wo hoar of tho sudden death by *poP t of Sergeant Talfourd, tho distinguish® * uO . and Jurist. Tho prices of cotton romjJiw s changed j flour hadlUllon from 76 con . barrel at Liverpool. acv Tho representatives of Prance, rfl . trla and Prussia have decided that the® An posals of peace, from Russia, do' not c tho requisitions of tho last protocol to w i hod set their names, and that they cannon - fore, bo entertained. , ■ . \P~A party of Apache Indians t Refirly destroyed a company of bn thdr way to Sonora. ■ Let us
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