3MCAN yoLUNTEER. Mtor & Proprietor. / Democratic State Tlolcet GOVERNOR: WILLIAM BIGLER, OT CLEAUFIED COUNTY. JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT. J EKE MI AHS.BLACK, OF SOMERSET COUNTY* CANAL COMMISSIONER : HENRI S, MOTT, nr pike COUNTY. CARLISLE, PA., APRIL 37, 1854. K7- Our Collector, Mr. Joa. C. Thompson, will visit our country subscribers in afew days, for the purpose of affording them an Opportu nity of paying their respective accounts. We have a large amount of money on our duo ub for subscription, advertising and job*' work, some of wliich has been standing for many years. -The amount of each one’s in debtedness is small. but when so many small accounts are added together they arc of some ; importance. Wo have been at considerable ex pense lately in enlarging and improving our paper, and wc use*our best exertions to make the Volunteer an instructive as well as an interesting paper, and therefore expect that our patrons will toe the mark and discharge our claims when the Collector calls on them. £y~VTe are requested to state that Charles Hahvet has been appointed Post Master, at Kersville, this county, in place of Conrad Ecn- ninger resigned. Editorial Change.—Joun M. Cooper, Esq. late editor of the “ Pennsylvanian," Philadel phia, having retired from that establishment, has again assumed the editorial control of the Chambersburg “Volley Spirit.” Wc think this change a judicious one, and heartily welcome Mr. Cooper back to “ the country” again.— Ho Is an able political writer, and under his control, the “ Spirit” uill occupy a high posi tion amoug tin: Democratic journals of the State. \Vc trust the •' Spirit" will continue to increase and prosper. DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. The Chairman of the State Central Committee has given usacorrectlistof the committee,as for warded to him by the President of the late Democratic State Convention. Some few mis takes have occurred in the publications of the Committee in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, one name being omitted and one set down for the wrong county. Nine members will constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, after usual notice of time and place for the first meet ing and until otherwise ordered. Notice will be given by letters to thejnem a map of reference it probably lias no superior, bers, besides the usual notice by publication, and we venture to say that none of our readers with regard to the first mcetingof the CoHjrnittec, who subscribed will be sorry they did so. The * n order t 0 secure a full attendance. Agent requests us u* nay that lie can furnish , „ „ . n pock', maps of the Wes,en, SUUes. sk.ing the 1 onr F “ lnre land sections, and late rmlmitj imprlvenunls ) The present perplexed condition of European also a large U. S. Gazetteer, compiled since the , nations, says the Washington Sentinel, may be last census, describing every State, County made eminently conducive to the pecuniary in anff nearly all the towns, in the U. States, giv- tercstsof our country, if weshall be wise enough jng.tliG popuhltions, and a grcat ( ausjnnt ufutll- to keep cui.-v,-lyv3 free from their Ivors and CIO erstalistical information. ' ‘ ' langlcmcnts. A false step, a rash move, may i involve us in the melee. It then liecomcs us to be prudent, wary, circumspect. With the lights of neutrals acknowledged, our produce will command ready and high prices: for it will be n<*ede<l to feed the mouths of thousands. We mav also become the common carriers of the world. In addition to this, while the nations of Europe are weakening themselves by their wars, we shall advance steadily in growth, de lelopment. and power. The only two dangers in guard against arc the extension of any Euro pean alliance to this continent, so as to control, and let I or us, and the unjust enforcement against us on the high seas of what is called the right of search. Should either or both of these things occur, then it does not require a prophet, or the son of a prophet, to foretell that war will be ineMlable; nor will it be difficult to name the powers with which wc would be embroiled. Sealer or Wku.ht* imi Meascrf.s. — Gov. Bigler has appoint'*'! Col. Wit. M. Mateer, of Lower Allen township, Sealer of "Weights and Measures for this ouimty, to supply the vacancy occasioned h> the resignation ul Mr. Brooks. — This is a vciy jn<lin.,ns appointment, and we doubt not Mr Muteer "ill discharge the duties of his office w ith impartiality and fidelity. Moke’s Mai* of North America.—We have just received a copy of this valuable work, for which we subscrilxxl several months since. As Associate Judges Salaries. —The bill re gulating the salaries of Associate Judges has passed both branches of the Legislature, and l>een signed by the Governor Those Associate | Judges whose attendance at (,’uurl does not ex- ’ coed six weeks in the year, are to receive Sl2o per annum ; those not aver twelve, 30: tlm.se not over twenty, $lSj; those not over thirty. 2nU: those over thirty, s>2fu). These prices do not, of course, appl\ to Philadelphia. Doo Mk\t ' We huu- Ih.*ou informed that on Saturday last, one i>f our German citizens killed a dog. some cfilie meat of ulmdi he in a public manner oflen-d to dispose of as an article to be used by families as food Tin* dog had been 1 regularly fattened for that purpose, and was slaughtered and dress,-d , n ft manner that would have done ■ redil to a pram ieal lieef butcher.— The (remian himself pronounced the dog meat " ren ht said it was much better than a great portion of the meal sold in this market, and manifested much surprise that our people were so fastidious as to refuse to purchase Ins dog meat I We can assure mir readers Hint there is no joke in this statement It is an absolute fact, and can easily l>c .substantiated. The German ( himself, not being able to elVect any Hales, used i the dog meal in Ins own family and upon his \ tAtu table. If this German persist*} in indulg-1 mg hia fondness for canine Jlesh, we hope he will soon free* oar streets of the presence of hundreils of useless, yelping, barking, idle, ami ill-condi tioned curs. A Mindiuty Govbhkou. — Will those Whig journals, says tho York (Ptt.) Gazette, which have shouted so loudly over n victory in Con nccticut, look at the following Mr. DnUon, tho Whig candidate for Governor, has more ma jority against him than he rceeti ed voles ! The majority against him is ‘22.2-15 ! lie received 19,405 voles. All other candidates, 41,710. Yet this man will be elected Governor by the Connecticut Legislature. IC7* A negro was recently executed by order of the Chiefs of the Creek Nation, for the mur- dtr of two Creeks. He was executed according y to the forms of Creek low—the culprit being seated on a log, his head covered with n blanket, and the nearest rclalises of the deceased shoot ing him with rilles. Maine Law in Indiana. — A citizen of Win- 1 Chester, Randolph county, died a few days * since, of delirium tremens. An hour or two after his death, about fifty ladies collected to gether, placed'tho widow at their head, and proceeded to all the groggmesinlown. and pre sented tho owners with a paper, agreeing to sell no more liquor, wliich they requested them to sign. If they refused to sign, they broke Ids bottles-and spilt all his liquor- Counteupeit Nationalitv. —It appears by n, communication in tho New York Courier, ■* that ships arc leaving that port with American registers, and under tho American flflg» hut ■'really owned and commanded by Englishmen, all tho stops taken towards citizenship being the declaration of intention of becoming a citl ' gft l made by the Captain. As this is un abuse of our privileges, which is likely to involve our Government in trouble, tho practice will no doubt bQ speedily put a stop to. SALE OP THE PUBLIC WORKS, The bill providing for the sale of the main line of the Public' Works, lias passed both, branches of our State Legislature, and only awaits the signature of Gov. Bigler to become a law. Whether the Governor tvill sign or veto the bill, even his most intimate friends do not pretend to say. We hlivfe, purposely, refrained from a discussion of this question in our col umns, knowing, as wc did, that the Democratic party of Cumberland was divided in sentiment in regard to it—a large portion being decidedly in favor of the sale, and the other portion as de cidedly opposed to it. Indeed, it is a subject of State policy altogether, ind should he calmly considered, irrespective of party. Gov. Bigler, wo doubt not, will carefully consider and ex amine the subject in all its bearings before he decides in regard to it. If he should decide to veto the bill, it will bo because ho believes the interests of the people of the State require it — he will exercise his best judgment in the mat ter. The bill as it Hus passed, provides, in sub stance, that the Governor shall receive proposals until the 3d of July, 1854, for the purchase of the main line of the public works of the Stale, to wit: the Philadelphia and Columbia Rail road, the Canal from Columbia to the junction at Duncan’s Island, the Juniata Canal from thence to ITollidaysburg, the Allegheny Portage Railroad, including the new road to avoid the inclined planes, and the Canal from Johnstown to Pittsburgh, with all tho property belonging to the same. The Secretary of the Common wealth, within the ten days from the passage of of this act, to advertise tho same. The propo sals to state the maximum priceofiercd for said main line. The terms are to be 30 per cent, on the amount bid, to be paid in cash or bonds of tho Commonwealth, and the balance in ten equal annual payments, the interest at tho rate of six per cent., to be paid semi-annually. The first instalment to be paitTat the expiration of three years from the date of the purchase : Pro vided, that no bid for a less amount than ten millions of dollars shall be entertained. The bill is very long, and points out pretty fully the nature of tho arrangements which will exist be tween the purchasers and the Slate, in case a sale is effected!. Whig Nominations in Diiiudelphin. | As was to hmV been exported, the* Whigs of | Philadelphia Imvc nominated Lite Hon. Roiikrt \T. ('ll vR ai) as their candidate for Mayor of that .city Mr *' is also the candidate of the Native American party, of the Temperance l men, ami indeed of (he fag end of every clique and ism i which can he mustered together to defeat the ' Democratic ticket. It will, however, be a use* | less etVort. The government of the Fasten! me ! tropohs of our State, with its enlarged limits, I is about passing from Whig hands into the care 1 and control of the democracy; and Mr. Conrad, 1 with his Native American proclivities, will Vie as good n victim perhaps ns the Whigs could select, lion. Richard Vacx is the Democratic candidate for the same station, and his election is almost certain. We hope and expect Phila delphia, as now constituted, will prove to be a Democratic city. (TT’Thc Cuban Emancipation Scheme appears (o be steadily progressing in its development. The Captain General has now under considera tion a plan of sending a Special Commissioner to the plantations on the island, to report upon the number of negroes held to servitude, for which there is no legal bill of sale; that is, il licitly imported Africans, with a view to their ultimate emancipation. Sou them Commercial Convention has adjourned to meet at New Orleans on the 2d Monday in January next, before adjourn ment, it adopted, after a warm debate, the (hand Southern Pacitlc Railroad project. It wet with opposition from all tho leading men in the Convention. The clause authorizing the corporation to negotiate with Mexico, wos very strongly opposed; and the resolutions in Ihvor ! of the Gadsden Tr“aly, and asking a grant of alternate sections of the public lands for Rail road purposes also caused bitter opposition. A resolution was withdrawn on account of the Virginians declaring that if the Convention re commended the squandering of lands on rail road projects, their State would never again countenance Southern Commercial Conventions. (£7* The Chinese in San Francisco, composing tho Secret Society of Triads, have all been ar rested for their systematic depredations upon their fiilW Chinese, by means of a system of terrorism. Tho Society appears to be little else than an organized band of robbers, who conspire together to levy black mail upon the weak, de fenceless, and superstitious. The Growing Crop. Considerable anxiety is manifested, says tho Pittsburgh Morning Post, to ascertain the pros- < pccts of tho growing wheat crop in this coun try, this spring. Tho prospects of the new crop , Will affect materially tho ruling rates of wheat and Hour, between this time and the gathering of the next harve^jf; and wo have carefully compared the reports from various quarters, for two weeks past. Pennsylvania is tho largest wheat-growing State in the Union. In some places, the wheat fields arc represented as being materially damaged during the winter j/hutl from all reports, we may reasonably expect a fair average crop at the next harvest; and that tho wheat product of the State, in bushels, tins' season, will exceed sixteen millions ok bushels. In this State, ns in most of the nortb-wßstern wheat-growing States, the deficiency ujf the European crop last year, and the high prices’ have stimulated production, and far more acres have been sown. From some counties of Ohio, the reports of the appearance of the fields are unfavorable; but comparing all tho reports, particularly from those parts of the State most engaged in the growth of wheat, it may be safely inferred that the next crop will bo larger and better this year than lost. From Michigan and Illinois the re ports are generally quite favorable. And from some parts of Indiana we obtain similar infor mation; from other parts less favorable accounts arc received. On the whole, it may be pretty safely estimated that the prospects are as favor-, able for a good crop this year, as they were at this date last year. We have seen and conversed recently with many of the most intelligent farmers of this (Cumberland) county, ami they all unitcin rep resenting the wheal crop throughout the entire extent of the Cumberland Valley as presenting a very favorable appearance. Should nothing occur hereafter to blight the wheat crop, the yield, it is expected, will bo heavy, and the prospects .of the husbandman never were more flattering than they are at present. Extent of the Public Domain. — A report made by the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior, and sub mitted to the House of Representatives on the 21st ult., by President Pierce, in response to q resolution of that body, explains a very material error which has crept into previous official esti mates of the extent of the national domain. By the former statements made by the land office, the whole surface of the public domain is made to cover 1,012,181,01!) acres, but by the state ment now furnished it is reduced to 1,391,180,- 820 acres, making a difference of 220,701,*>99 acres. This discrepancy is explained by the fact that Oregon, the proposed Nebraska and the Indian territories were set down in the for. mer statement as containing 764,197,700 acres , which was in accordance with an estimate of the public domain west oftlie Mississippi river,made many years since on the most correct maps then in existence, reduced from time to time by de ducting the estimated surface of the organized territories. But by re-estimating Ihe surface ac cording to Ihe improved maps of the day, and the now divisions thereof by the recent legisla tion of Congress, and the bills now pending be fore that body, U is found as now stated, to cov er only 643,498,120 acres. Tub York, Dillsiicuc and (Jreekcastlk 'Rajlroad. —Not having heard anything for a length of time in relation to Uiis contemplated Railroad, we concluded that the project had been abandoned. This appears, however, not to be tlicca.se. The (.'hninbersburg Repository Jilup says, “ Whatever diversity of opinion may exist in regard to the construction of this road, we feel assured that (he project is not a visionary one. ” 'The York Republican says that engineers are now engaged in surveying a route, and the citizens of the upper end of the county are deeply interested in the construction of the road, and arc exerting themselves to present it in a favorable light to the community at large. It is proposed to run this road through the Southern part of Cumberland county, and if it will prove a benefit to any portion of uuy coun ty, we hope it may bo successful. Cuktrai. Amkuu'A —The Costa Rica (la zette, stales that the government of that repub lic has ascertained that the chief managers of the Nicaragua Transit Company have made a purchase of a considerable portion of the Mo squitto territory of the pretended King of that country. It denounces the proceeding in severe terms, ami says that the Costa Rican Goutii ment hits protested before the Government of the United Stales and the world against it, and has asked, and will no doubt receive, our co operation in suppressing an_j attempt to take possession of the land. Biui.ks Piioh iiutkii. —The Archbishop of Mexico has addressed to all the clergy ft circu lar. in which be recommends to them the great est vigilance in preventing the circxilation and 1 reading of Protestant Bibles, winch arc being introduced from the U. Slates in Tatnauhpas, across the Texan frontier. The Archbishop says that he has fcceivcd personal information from the Minister of Justice that measures have already been taken by the government to pre vent the introduction of Bibles and oilier books, and the operation of the agents alluded to, by whom the Bible Society is said to work. Nebraska, about wliich we hear so much earnest discussion just now, is an imperial ter ritory in extent. It embraces all tho territory ceded by France to the United States, which yet remains unorganized under Slate or Territo rial government. It lies between Missouri, lo wa, and Minnesota on the cast, and the Rocky Mountains on tho west. lls boundary is three thousand miles in Irngth: its area live hundred thousand square miles; and it will form, it is Stated, twelve States, each as large as Ohio. j£7»The New York Courier says: “We have it in our power to state that Mr. Buchanan has received official assurances from England, that no attempt will be made to enforce any claim to the services of such of her subjects as have become naturalized citizens of the United States.” Columbia County (Wisconsin) -Re porter nominates Gen. Sam Houston for the Presidency in 1850—-and the fFVscoiisi'n, one of the ablest Democratic papers published in that State, says that the Reporter gives utterance to the voice of lens of thousands of Democrats in the “ Badger Slate.” ITT" The Irish Exiles In tho U. States, Mit chell, Meagher, and Doheny, arc violently ridi culed and abused by a Dublin newspaper balled tho 'JfeUgraph, which doubts their pretence to .the championship of Irish nationality. Privateering - fftcr since the war of 1812, the United States Government has been incessant in its endeavors to suppress thi§ Species of legalized piracy. It 1 so happens that, in this particular juncture, says the Philadelphia Argus, the decision of the 1 United-Slates about privateering is-of peculiar importance ; and there is no little solicitude on the part* of some of the most prominent mari time powers, lhat we should repudiate the prac tice. This, it is believed, Congress is prepared to do, provided the thretf'propositkms go to gether; that is -to right of search is abandoned, and the doclnnc that neutral ships mrtko hcutral goods* then it Js proposed that wo join leading mar itime powers in abolishingpractice of pri vateering. But so long as the cruisers ligercnts shall be invested by their governments with the authority of arresting our merchant vessels at sea, when engaged in a lawful trade, of searching them, and of sitting in judgment over their cargoes, and of confiscating vessel and cargo when it suite their purposes—all of which is nn acknowledged depreciation on pri vate property—it is not to he supposed that I Congress will sanction any conventional ar rangement, the effect of which will be to prevent our people, in case of war, from making repri sals on the commerce of their spoilers. They will not consent to expose to spoliation the pri vate property of our own merchants, and, at the same time, protect the property of the despoil . ers from the most efficient means we have of retorting upon them this kind of aggression.— I The indications are, that Congress, like Parlia ment, will consider the three propositions “kin dred subjects,” and insist upon their standing or falling together. M Using Post Office Stamts Twice.—We see by our exchanges, that the petty attempt to swindle the Post Office Department, by using stamps which have been imperfectly marked, is frequently resorted to bymean spirited persons, who hope by this means to save a few pennies. The same game has boon attempted at the post office in this place. Those who do so, should remember that there is n penalty attached to this offence, and, if detected, which is easily done, the law will be enfomd. The editor of the Chambcrsburg Rejmdoni if Whig says he has been shown by the postmaster of that place a letter dropped in the Utter-box, on winch was a P. 0. stamp that had been used on a letter before, but had been imperfectly marked by the Post Master that mailed it. In such cases, the Postmaster takes the stamp off’and charges the letter as unpaid. It is loudly possible that these stamps are used innocently by persons, for they must be taken with gnat care from a letter received, and used nidi a full knowledge that they arc violating the law. Perhaps they are not aware that, if deleetid, they arc liable to a fine of $5O. (137* Kossuth, Mazziai. and I.tdru Rollin. the European revolutionary leaders, now in exile in London, have addressed a letter to Mr. George Sanders, late United States (’on.sul at London, which seems but an echo of the recent letter of Kossuth to the Germans in the United States. They compliment Mr. Sanders very highly on his conduct in office, and regard his rejection by the Senate as a hard and miscliicvous blow at European They regard the in telligence ns astounding and unexpected,” and say they received it with “deep regret and mortification.” Nkw York Ca.vai. Navigation*.—The lb Chester American, of tbo 15th inst., says that “ no day for the opening of the canals how yet been announced, although we have reached the middle of April—a fact which is remarkable, and, we believe, unprecedented. Doubtless the delay is in part, at least, to be attributed to the severe wintry temperature of the latter half of March. ” The canals o have been in operation for about a month, and the amount of business doing upon them is iimnen.se. Is'nrsTßiAi. Fair. —TJ r e invite attention to the advertisement in another column of the In dustrial Fair, to Ik; held at Newville, in this county, commencing on Tuesday, the 13th of June next, to continue two weeks, under the supervision of the Big Spring Literary Institute. The enterprise is certainly ch'serving of the at tention ami patronage of nil classes, and we trust it may be eminently successful. There is a talk in Delaware of a project for increasing the size of the Slate, by adding to it that purl of Maryland and Virginia lying cast of the Chesapeake Bay, known ns the " Moslem Shore.” If the “ Blue Hen’s chick ens” succeed in their annexation aspirations— instead of being next to the smallest, Delaware will be a State as large os Maryland. [PT" The Legislature of Tennessee passed, at its last session, a law to regulate the emancipa tion of slaves. It provides for the transporta tion to the w estern coast of Africa, of all slaves heretofore or hereafter liberated, ond all free persons of color who fail to give bonds for good behavior. [£/*■ Luto advices from Col. Fremont, slate that seven of his men had died from starvation and exposure, and the party had been compel led to cat eighteen of their mules. They were indeed in a truly frightful condition, but the Colonel was still determined to persevere.— There was a foot of snow on the ground, and they had just got out of snow six feet deep. Colonization. —Charles Henderson, Esq., of Danville, Kentucky, has emancipated twen ty-two of his slaves to go to Liberia, under the direction of tho Kentucky Colonization Hncieh . in the May expedition from that State. He bus also purchased tho husband of one of his wo men servants, at the price of $ 1,000. He gi vch to them all a full outfit, and to the Kentucky Colonization Society, SSOO. Idol Worship in New York.—A gentleman in this city, says the New .York Timex, while visiting in Cherry street, for an industrial school, went into a room where were a little company of Chinese oflcring sacrifices to an Idol. A Chinaman was kneeling in front of an idol, burning some sweet-smelling substance in a little cup floating in water. Tho gentleman apologized for tho intrusion, but they did not seem much troubled about it. A bruto In tbo shape of a man, was sent to tho workhouse, in Louisville, Kentucky, for whipping an infant child, a few weeks old. His wife testified, on tho trial, that he caused tho death of a former child; having actually whip ped it only three days before its death. Such an unnatural wretch should bo driven to herd with savage beasts. For Me American Volunteer. PRICKLY PEARS. Aye, Prickly Pears, they arc well enough to look at, hut rather awkward things to handle. Nevertheless, let us try a few ; we mil touch them carefully. PRICKLY PEAR—NO. 1. Fashion! well, wha,t of it? 0, nothing in particular. My attention was only drawn to it, while seeing Mrs. Highrow. How proud she is of being the happy owner of the article. She is the acknowledged interpreter of the Goddess, at least as far as oiir town is concerned. She declares that Mrs. Plainfield, our newcomer, shall not beadmitted to the set. And why not? I am sure far good reasons. Mrs. 11. has made it known that she will not’call upon her, be cause Mr. Plainfield is not a professional man. Mrs. P. does not keep an establishment which costs more than her husband can earn, and more particularly because Mrs. Plainfield’s fa ther was a mechanic. Some malicious tongues whisper.even that Mrs. Highrow’s grand-father was a hod-carrier! But, Mrs. H. is now our leader of the ton; I wonder whether that is the reason that our young men have imbibed a love of strong drink ! A party she declares is dull without some wine or punch on the side-board, because it is fashionable and necessary. And she is right. How could the people she collects enjoy themselves without it? The flimsy talk of the fashionable circle is so soon exhausted, and without the stimulant supplied by her de canters, the poor people would soon look like a parcel of wooden puppets, with springs in then legs for dancing, or in their fingers for card playing. But, why bother concerning such things the head of one who is just about de ciding upon weighty matters? Mrs. 11. lias re ceived a note informing her that Mrs. Trim feather is having her spring opening. What a beautiful bonnet that is of Mrs. Trim feather’s ! I should think it would suit exactly my complexion ! Could you trim it a Htll6 less gay ? No, gay trimmings are all the fashion. But a woman of my age ! Well, if Mrs. Rush has one just like it, I wdll take it; what is the price ? Fifteen dollars. And fifteen dollars are paid, or rather charged —the Ixird knows when they will be paid. It is just what her husband earns in half a week. But she must outshine Mrs. Fryete. who envies her leader ship and is her rival for it. Well, Mrs. Cresson, the leader of circle No. 2, must now have one like it, and Mrs. Trimfeatherknows that, though , it will take Mr- Cresson a week's hard labor to pay for it : he cannot have it charged. The dresses to match must now he bought, and with the same result. “ .lust as well be out of the world ns out of fashion.” And why ? Does fashionable life make you any happier? docs it give you more domestic joys, more true refinement? Will it raise your family more respectably? Will it make your sons better men, your daughters better mothers ? The one who first made that proverb, must have lived in a world from which it would have been worth a great deal to escape. It must have been a world of mustaches and goalees, a world made up by tailors and mil liners, a world of fops and padded women, a world of vcat-pnlcms and flounces. U37* Tanmqua, a town in the coni region of this Slate, appears to be on the high road to prosperity and importance. Last summer a large number of new houses were erected there, from which fact it was supposed that there would bo ample accommodation for all the pop ulation that might oiler. But now. os we learn from the Gazelle, published at that place, the town is so full that two and three families are obliged to crowd into buildings scarcely large enough for one, and business stands are equally in demand. A large number of houses is deemed indispensable, and the Gazelle culls the atten tion of capitalists to the fact. Matt. Rouiiku Arrested. —We learn from the Niiskvtlle Hanner that Major J. J. Burnell recently arrested Hubert Hutcherson, mail car rier from (‘arlhagc to (iaineshoro’, having sus pected him of robbing the mail. When arrest ed, he had in his possession some twenty letters, seven dollars in money, and a draft for 5203,50. He was examined before two magistrates and committed for further trial. It appeared he was m the habit of inserting his hand into the mail bags through appertures made for the straps, and would subtract letters, break them open, tear them up, and throw them away. ■Supposed Murder. —The last Huntingdon (Pa.) (inzrUc, sa\s that on Thursday the 13th instant, a man was found dead, on the top of Sidelmg-ilill, between (Jeorge Hudson’s, Esq., and the widow Rlumbaugh's, in that county, in a very mutilated manner. He had on the Sat urday morning previous taken a horse to his brother, who lives in (irouml-Hog Valley, and on the same morning started home with the bridle. But not returning in the evening, his wife becoming uneasy, went to a neighbor and got help to search for him, but were unable to find him. Mr. Chilcott’s boys were out hunt ing on Thursday, the 13th, when the dogs be gan barking at a great rate, when the boys came up to them they found James Stumbaugh hanging by the neck, with the throat-latch of the bridle. Ills teeth were broken out, one eye cut, and the skull very much fractured, the sinews of the wrist pretty much cut off, and his hands very much bruised, a great many marks on his back, as if he liad been severely beat. It is said he hud a quarrel that morning with a neighbor. A New State Froposkd. —Mr. Lane, the Delegate from Oregon, has introduced into Con gress a bill to authorize the people of the Ter ritory of Oregon to form a Constitution and State Government, preparatory to admission into the Union as a State. The bill was referred to the Committee on Territories. It is staled that Oregon is increasing in population and re sources with great rapidity. Tub Garrison at Fort Belknap. —Late dates from Texas rempve all anxiety about the fate of Major Merrill and his small band of six teen men. Tho two scouting paries sent out by him after the Indian murderers of Col. Stem had returned. We learn also that Lieut. Tree, with 20 men, had been successful in his scout, lie followed tho signs of a small marauding party of Kickapos near three hundred miles north, to where their tribe live, on the Cana dian river, and two of these were found to bo tho murderers. Hu made a demand on the Iribo to deliver up the murderers, whereupon one of them was caught; but in bringing him into Fort Arbuckle Tic tried to kill his guard and es cape, when bo was shot dead by an Indian chief. The chief promised to bring iu the other murderer. PROHIBITORY LIQUOR BILL. Tho Prohibitory Liquor bill, wo informed our readers last week, had been referred to commit tee of conference of the two Houses. The com mittee met, and adopted the following, which it said will bo agreed to by both branches of tho Legislature. It is tho same bill that was sub mitted to the Legislature last session, and \vhich the intemperate temperance men of both Houses rejected. We said then as we say now, that a bill of this character is what tho people want. We hope to sec it pass without opposition. “ Whereas, In a free Commonwealth, all laws to be efficient should have the approbation and sanction of tho people, and no law should be passed repugnant to their wishes, and none constitutional in its provisions bo wlthold which a majority of thorn may desire. And whereas, It is impossible to obtain a certain indication of popular sentiment in rela tion to a Prohibitory Liquor Law hy petitions and remonstrances. Therefore , Section 1. Bo it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted hy the authority of the same : That the qualified voters of tliis Com monwealth are hereby authorized at tho place for holding the General Elections, in their re spective boroughs and townships, on the second j Tuesday of October next, to vote for and against a law which shall entirely prohibit, by proper and constitutional regulation and penalties, tho manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, ex cept for Medicinal, Sacramental, Mechanical and Artistical purposes. Sec. 2. That the officers authorized by law to hold elections in each ward, borough, and town ship of this Commonwealth, are herchy directed and required at the places fixed by law in the several districts for the holding of tho General Elections in said districts, on the second Tues day of October next, where they shall bo organ ized us on election board, to receive from each qualified voter of the said district a ticket writ ten or printed on the outside, “Prohibitory Li quor Law,” and the ticket in favor of the pin posed law shall contain in the inside the words “For a Prohibitory Liquor Law,” and those op posed tb (he proposed law shall contain in the inside the words “Against a Prohibitory Liquor Law,” which vote shall be counted and returned to tho* Court House of the county or city in which the said election shall he held, on the fol lowing Friday hy the return judges, who shall cast up and certify all the votes polled in said county or city, to the office of the Secretary of tho Commonwealth, at Harrisburg, directed and transmitted in the same manner as tho votes for Governor arc required to he directed and trans mitted, anti the said Secretary shall on tho third Friday In January next ensuing, communicate the said returns to the Legislature to be opened anti counted in the same manner as the votes fot Governor are opened and counted, ami shall be considered ns the prayer of the voters ol tin- Commonwealth, relative ton Prohibitory Liquor , I.aw. Sec. 3. Tliut all election laws of the State prescribing the lionrof opening ami closing the polls, the reception ot votes, Hu* punishment of illegal voting, Hu* di'fr.u ing the expenses o| publication ami holding the General Election and returns of tlio some, and all other matter* IncidtMit thereto, he and the same are declared applicable to the election above authorized. Sec. 4, That it shall he tin* duty of the Sheriif of the several counties of this Commonwealth, to insert a ropy of this net in the Proclamation for the general election to he held on the second Tuesday of next Oetoher. DEMOCRATIC STATE CL.VTRIL COMMITTEE Tile President ol the late Democratic Slate Convention has appointed the following gentle men members of the Democratic Slate Central Committee. Mne members will constitute a i|iioniin foi tin* transaction ol business, alter usual notice ol the lime ami place lor the lint meeting, and until otherwise ordered hy the Committee : J. Ennis Bonham, of Cumberland, Chairman. William L. Hirst, Philadelphia. K. G. Webb, do George Williams, do Jas. P. Johnston, do Daniel Barr, do '• Ceo. H. Martin, do Edward Wartman, do H. 11. Lambcrton, Dauphin. John Beck, do Hamilton Alricks, do John C. McAlister, do • Jacob Amwig, do E. M. Coiner, Berks. Benj. Tyson, do James Li Ueynohls, Lancaster. George W. Brewer, Franklin. John Weidman, Lebanon. Jmlgo Strickland. Chester. Stokes L. Roberts, Bucks. John.N. Hutchinson, Northampton. George Scott. Columbia. S. D. Patterson, Schuylkill. John C. Smith, Montgomery. Gen. Jacob Stable, York. F. N . Crane, Waj m*. Joel B. Danner, Adams. George C. Welkar. Northumhci laud. E. B. Cliu.se, Susquehanna. John Cessna, Bedford. Hon. James Thompson, line. H. While, do ( Arnold Plurner, Venango. I>. L. Shcrwo(»d, Tioga. James (’. ('lurkc, Westmorelaml. Alex. McKinney, do Chester Thomas, Bradford. John P. Anderson, Huntingdon. W. T. 11. Pauly, Greene. Oliver Watson, Lycoming. John T. Hoover, Centre. Win. A. Wallace, Clearfield. James Hailly, Indiana. David Barclay, Jefferson, A. J. Bhey, Cambria. A. 11. Cotl'roth, Sombisel. Thoa. Umbslatter, Pittsburg. John C. Dunn, do George F. Gilmore, do Thomas J. Keenan. do John S. Hamilton, Allegheny. Mikbral ÜBSOunoiiS op this South.—The Knoxville Register has an interesting article on some Into discoveries, which show Hint there is one continuous vein of rich copper ore between the Polk county mine in East Tennessee, and the mine recently discovered In Carroll county, Virginia. These Virginia and Tennessee veins have the same direction North East and South West thesnniedip, the same surface indications, and are in the same chain of mountains. In the Tennessee vein the miners have recently reached the yellow sulplmretof copper, which is regard ed ns an infallible indication of lhoinc.\haustible extent uf the mines, and also their incompara ble richness. A new impetus has consequent ly been given to mining operations ; and two weeks since there sales of three quarter-sections of land at u limit &l ,250,000. About ilvc thou sand tons of rich copper ore are taken from the* mines monthly, netting in all at least half a million of dollars. This amount will doubtless be much increased, when the shafts that are being sunk shall penetrate the rich sulphuret. Tloppuam Dead.— William O. Hoffman die last evening about half past eight o'clock, at tli Sisters’ Hospital, from tlio ©fleets of the pish shot received a few days since.— Si. Louis Hi publican, l-llh. Now that Iloifinan is dead, we trust that (li Bakers will receive very speedily the just rewar of their horrible crimes. It seems to us passing strange that Mrs. Baker was allowed to enter a store in open day, and permitted by the men present (and there wore several of them,) to shout down a man who, by tho rthen) recent brutality of her husband, was so physically enfeebled ns to render him wholly Incapable of making any resistance. Whatever may have been the faults or crimes ot Hoffman, all will agree in saying that his end was a truly lamentable one. —Baltimore Clipper. OT7' Procrastination is the thief of lime- ]M\ 'dhu' ' Wheat Cnop.—Tho Village Record says tlid recent cold weather materially damaged thd prospect of a good crop. * Not a bit of it in this region. No Respbotor op Persons.—Gov. Bigler 6f California, has boon robbed of $4OO. WWt bus incus has a Governor with that much money ? ' 03 s * The English aro running “Uncle Torn** into the ground. They have Uncle ijom dram as, Uncle Tom songs, nftd Uncle Tom dinner sots. Tho last notion rather “takes us o/Tat thd knoesj” viz: Undo Tom doughnutsf Thctf arc made of rye flour, varnished with stov/ blacking. K?" Tho young and pretty wife of a Broad street trader in N. Y., has eloped Witß ah Eh glishman, a magazine and nowspabe*- leaving her two young children. ** CT7- “What’s whiakey.bringlng 7” inquired a dealer In that article. “ Bringing men to the poor-house, to tho penitentiary,and the gallows ” was tho Instant reply. , * ’ The San Francisco Homld spooks of thd Republic of Lower; Oalllornla as a failure, an ft says that the expedition cannot be abandoned too soon. [T7~ A Now York Judge has decided that d man cannot be sued for assault or damages foi* kissing a pretty girl. C 7” There are about sixty divorce cases pend ing before the Supreme Court of tho liitld Shall of Rhode Island. CC7” Five slaves crossed tho river below Citf einnati on Tuesday night Inst, and escaped to wards Canada. DT* While in America the pt'dportkm of per sons who go to school of some hind is one In five, in Russia it is one in two hundred and twenty I CC7” The contributions to the Washington Na tion,d Monument Fund, during March, amount ed to $738.(17 ; the expenditures for same time to $2,1)80.72. C-." When has a man a right to scold his wifd iboui his codec ? When he lias abundant ground** DT7” Shad have boon selling at A 'ashington. 1). C.) nt from S 7,. r )0 and $8 per hundred, and ■vere expected to he still cheaper. CC7*Thn distinguished individual, known d mong the ancients as Cupid, has recently chang ed his name to Cupidity, anrf wffl ftiefefore de vote his attention to money as well as matri money. [U 5 " Napoleon’s hod-chmrtl'cr at St. Helena, is said, is uoav a horse stable, and the room i winch he died, a glanery. One nf the London rumors is, that Sir ‘limlc.s Napier recently declared that In three > eeks he would either be at St. Petersburg or n the other world. Doubtful. i‘~’ A monument Is to be erected nt Easton, ’a., in honor of Geo. Taylor, one of Iho sign r- '•( the Declaration of Independence. i./’The town agency of Rutland, VI., sold hree thousand dollars wortliof liquor in tea muitlis, nil fm •medicine.’ What an unhealthy il.icc Rutland must Ik* ! i. The stoamship City of Glasgow, which pill s n-gnhuly In-tween Philadelphia and Liver pool, Ims now boon out filly days, arid fears are entertained that some serious calamity has be. fallen tier. She had over three hundred passen gers on hoard. The Richmond Enquirer says that the ria -/ 11 ig weather of last week destroyed all •opes of even a partial crop of fruit in that sec ion of Virginia, and it is to be feared that its ■Meets have been equally blighting throughout lie Stale. C E' The ceremony of blessing the lambs, froth whose wool are made the Pallia, conferred hy the See of Rome on archbishops and patriarchs, took place lately at Romo, with PpntiflClal High Mass, attracting a large audience. The ceremo ny of blessing nil the horses and mules was also performed recently, on the Sabbath, in presence of an immense multitude. C 7“ Tho y «rk county papers publish tho fact nf two cases, famished by County Blblo Society, '*f the burning of Mm Protestant Bible In two In riuiuo.s, by a priest who found them in posses ■unn of inembrr s .if his i ongregufioft. The priest is mi Austrian, who recently came to this conn- (t To make one of the finest Cashmere 'hauls requires the work of h family lor a life, time. They m*U, in Cashmere itself, for $5OOO. [j A doot and window tux bus been pro •l.umed throughout .Mexico. Q r The New York Courier and Enquirer, one u( the leading Whig journals of the country, in an article referring to the manifold sins and blunders of its puity, says ; “The Whig party, as a national party, lias nothing in its late history upon which it can dwell with satisfaction.and nothing in its future to which it cun look forward with hope.” D7~The funded debt of nil the European Stales is, in the aggregate, about $9,500,000,000, or $4O for each inhabitant. Switzerland 1h tho only European country out of debt. As a war is imminent, all these countries are In the mar ket ns borrowers, some with and some without i reiiit. so that the people have the prospect of a ••onsiderubh- addition to their already burthen some taxes. n'7~ A young lady belonging to a very resjwc table family, was soun staggering through Chest, nut street, Philadelphia, lust week, and when she fell down she was picked up and carried home. Except her fondness for liquor, she bears an unexceptionable character. HT" The Richmond IPTiig details a robbery committed in a hotel in that city, by means ol e.holoroform, infused through tho keyhole of the room. . tty*Hendrickson, for the murdpr'of hie,with, will he executed at Albany, N. Y., onlbofith of May. [ET’ Henry Clay’s birth day was celebrated on Wednesday evening, In Now York, with considerable spirit. Speeches were made by lion. D. S. Dickinson, N. B. Blunt, and other distinguished gentlemen. John L. Norrla been arrested In St. Mary’s county, iMd., charged with killing one of his slaves. ° Qy*Tho dags captured by Washington In tho Revolution arc to he deposited in tho Capitol by George W. Parke Curtis. Those trophies were presented to General Washington as tho highest mark of respect which could bo bestowed on him by Congress. D~/~ In H iissla, if a carriage is driven over any person and injures him, whatever may be tlm merits of the ease, tho horses are forfolfod'io’ the crown, and the driver, if a Hussion peasant, sentenced to be a soldier. KF" Tho most stupendous canal In the world’ Is one in China, which passes oveftwo thousand miles, and to forly-one cities, wns Commenced* In the tenth century. A monster work Of than. In Europe people take off their hats to” great monj In America great men take off their hats to tho people, t/uiversal suffrage causes tho difference. tty - Hen. Cass Is now in Detroit, whore ho wont in consequence of the death of his son-in law, Major Campbell. 117“ A patent lias just been taken outin Franco for making sugar from pumpkins. The quantity produced will bo at least as great as could bo obtained from an equal quantity of beet-root. 07" Tims. Bragg, a brother of Capt. Bmgg,of “a little more grape" memory, has boon nomi nated by tho Democratic State Convention ot North Carolina for tho gubernatorial chair. Benin? in Eppiov.—The grand jury In Alle gheny county, Md., having failed to find an In dictment against Cornelius Johnston, charged , with tho murder of Dr. Conn, tho disgraceful, ceremony of burning the jury in cfllgy was per-’ formed at Oakland, u low nights ginco. 1 07“ Some provincial natural historian stater#* that it Is now ascertained beyond doubt that,• swan sings bofoyo It dies. Quorry : la tho yd* of tho egg to bo considered as tho burden <y v* lay 1 CK7* April showers brings May flowers* ■ y
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