AMERICAN.VOLUNTEER.
JOP-B. DMXTfIN, Editor & Proprietor,
CARLISLE, PA.. MAY 18, Jl
Democratic State Ticket:
GOVERNOR i
WILLIAM BIGLER,
OF OLEAEFIED COUNTY.
JUDGE"OF THE SUPREME COURT.
JEREMIAH S.BLACK,
OF SOMERSET COUNTY.
CANAL COMMISSIONER i
HENRY S. MOTT,
OF PIKE COUNTY,
Supreme Court op Pennsylvania. —The
annual session of the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania, commenced at Harrisburg on the Bth
inst. The cases from Cumberland, Perry, and
Juniata, will come up for argument on Monday
the 22(1 inst., and according to tho new Rule
of Court, one week will bo allowed for their
bearing;
Vandalism. —On Saturday night last, some
infamous miscreant stripped the bark from off
two or three of the beautiful young shade trees
on the Court House square, thus not only injur
ing the'r appearance but also endangering their
lives. The fellow so destitute of good taste as
to bo mean enough to perpetrate so wanton and
silly an outrage, is unfit to dwell among civi
lized men, and deserves to be hooted from their
society. By a handbill which we have Just seen,
our Chief Burgess, Col. Noble, has offered a
reward of $2O for such information as may lead
to the discovery of the guilty perpetrator. We
hope so malicious a scamp may bo discovered
and severely punished.
Bold Theft. —On Thursday evening last, a
young colored girl, named Jonrdon, entered the
Dry Goods store of Messrs. Weise & Campbell,
at the corner of Hanover and Louthcr streets,
and whilst the clerk was absent in the cellar,
she went behind the counter and purloined from
one of the drawers small change to the amount
of about $7. She was pursued and overtaken,
and upon being searched, the money was found
upon her person. She was committed to the
lock-up, but the close confinement proving in
jurious to her health, some of her colored friends
succeeded in having her bailed out. She will
be put upon her trial at the August Sessions.
On Friday last, a stranger, whose name we
have not learned, was arrested in this borough,
charged with stealing boots and shoes, some
where in the lower part of the county. He was
taken to Harrisburg, and committed to jail.
Tub Coming Crops. —lt appears from an ex
amination of items in relation to the crops con
tained in the papers from nearly all the principal
agricultural States, that the prospect of an
abundance is more promising than usual at this
season of the year. The season is backward,
bub the winter grains appear to have wintered
well as a gencraljhing. The accounts from New
York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin and lowa, ore most flattering, and our
exchanges from Virginia and Maryland nearly
all speak of the thriving appearance of the grow
ing crop. In our own State, the crops in nearly
every section, present a very fine and healthy
appearance, and should nothing happen to blight ,
the present prospect, the yield will bo a large I
one and of a most excellent quality. I
Good News. —The Relief Notes, we arc glad
to learn, will now be taken out of circulation
pretty rabidly, an amendment to the appropria
tion bill having been adopted by the House re
quiring the cancellation of all those notes here
after paid into the Treasury, and prohibiting
their bcingagain pud out. A bill for this pur
pose passed the Senate more than a month ago,
bat has been hanging in the riou.se. To secure
its passage at the present session it Ims been
attached to the appropriation bill. The speedy
and permanent disappearance of this greasy,
filthy trash is a consummation devoutly to be
wished, and we doubt not that ere long we will
have an abundant supply of small gold and sil
ver coin to lake its place.
Spbaxbr op the Senate.— The lion. Byron
D. Hamlin, who was elected Speaker of the
Senate of this State on Tuesday the Olh inst.,
is but thirty years of age, and Ims been but two
years in the Senate, or in public life. He is a
lawyer of McKean county, and during bis brief
career in public life has “ won golden opinions
from all parties. He is p staunch Democrat, an
able debater, and well informed in relation to
public affairs.
End OP the Easton Conrpiuact Tare.—
The trial of Daniel Lochaiftufr Dr. C. C. Field,
Aaron O. Dcch, and*James Stevenson, for con
spiracy to extort money from Benjamin Green,
through the instrumentality of a young woman
of loose character, which commenced ul Fusion
nearly three weeks ago, was brought to a close
on Thursday last, by the rendition of a verdict
of guilty against all the defendants. They were
sentenced on Friday, by Judge McCartney, as
follows: Lachenour, a One of $2500, and three
months* Imprisoimlcnt in the County Jail; Field,
a fine of $2,000, and one years’ imprisonment
m the Eastern Penitentiary; Dech, a fine of
$l,OOO, and one years’ imprisonment in the
Penitentiary; and Stevenson, who plead guilty,
a tine of $l, and ones years’ imprisonment in the
Penitentiary.
Connecticut. —lt appears that there is no
lack of candidates in Connecticut for the office
of United States Senator. The Whigs and their
allies, the free sailers and abolitionists, haring
secured power by a base combination, do not
work very lurnnoniously together, each wing of
the coalition wishing the largest share of the
spoils. One branch of the faction desires to
elect Hon. Roger 6. Baldwin, while another is
equally desirous that the lion. James Dixon
should represent them. Francis Gillette is the
candidate of the Free Sellers, and Charles Chap
man will be voted' for by the Maine law men.
Domestic Bliss in New England.—The
New Hampshire Superior Court, at its late term,
held at Concord, heard arguments in eighty
threo divorce suits. Thirty-three of the appli
cations were granted, seven denied, and the de
cision of forty-three reserved. The Superior
Court of Rhode Island, at its last term had
aorenty-threo similar cases before it, of which
forty-two received judgment of divorce, four
were denied, three settled, and the remainder
continued for consideration.
THE NEBRASKA BILL AND SBAIERIf.
Our neighbor of the Herald has told his read
ers, over and over again, that Iho passage of
Judge Douglas* Nebraska Bill, would bo add
ing slave territory to om* country. Forthclifeof
us wo could not see why our neighbor came to
that conclusion. Nebraska, under Mr. Doug
las* Bill may become a slavo State, or it may
no?. The pcoplcof Nebraska will have thoright to
scttlo that question themselves, and the strong
probability is—if wc may judge from the char,
acter of the men who are now emigrating to that
country—that slavery will ho prohibited. Ac
cording to Judge Douglas’ Bill the people of
Nebraska and Kansas arc at liberty to do ns
they please upon the subject of slavery? And
who will dare deny them this right ? If the people
who inhabit a State arc not the proper'persons
to form their own Government, wo would like
to know who are? Deny them this right, and
you deny them their liberty and sovereignty.
Then why should this tornado bo raised by
abolitionists and those who sympathize with
them in their fanatical course. Slavery was
abolished in Pennsylvania by her own people—
why not then give the people of Nebraska the
same to decide the question for them
selves ? But the Herald says that slavery will
be introduced into the new territory, as a mat
ter of course. The editor has no authority for
making this assertion. Thomas H. Benton, in
his late speech on the Nebraska Bill, used this
language: v
“The question of alavcryin these territories,
if thrown open lo territorial action, will bo a
question of numbers—a qtiestion of the majority
for or against slavery 5 and what chance would
the slaveholders have in such a contest? No
chance at all. The slave emigrants will bo out
numbered, and compelled to play at a most un
equal game, not only in point of numbers, but
also in point of States. The slaveholdcr^takcs
his property, and has to nfh it off or lose it if
out voted at the polls. I see nothing which
slaveholders are to gain xmdor this bill, nothing
but an unequal and vexatious contest, in which
they arc to be losers.”
Such are the views of Mr. Benton, whose
knowledge in such,mattcrs is, wo tliink, almost
equal to that of our neighbor. The Herald pub
lished Jlr. Benton's speech, in its issue of last
week, merely because of its low and vulgar abuse
of President Pierce and his Cabinet; but the
above extract from the speech must have es
caped the eye of the editor, or ho certainly would
have drawn his pen over it, for it triumphantly
denies and answers his own assertion that the
piftsage of the Nebraska Bill will be an increase
of slave territory. . Thomas 11. Benton and
the editor of the Herald are therefore at issue,
and, we doubt not, that when “old Bullion”
again speaks he will quote from the columns of
the Herald those learned articles which go to
provelhatNcbraskatri// be slave territory. This
he should do as a matter of courtesy to the
Herald for publishing his late speech, in which
he says ns distinctly that Nebraska trill not he
a slave Stale under Mr. Douglas’ Bill. We
shall look for Mr. Benton’s next speech with
much anxiety.
lo the sale of the Public Works, and supports
its position by articles from several “staunch
and reliable” Locofoco papers. The first arti
cle is from the Carlisle Volunteer, edited by an
office holder ; the second is from the Ilollidays
barg, S/andanl, edited by an cx-canal officer,
and the third is from the Johnstown EJio, also
edited by a small fry officer, or an ex-officer,
wc forget which, under the Canal IJoard. The
Democat very forcibly adds that the extracts
just referred to, “arc sufficient to show every
Democrat in the county .Ahat the Legislature
did not consult the' intercuts of-the Sta'to-by
passing this bill.” The Democrat probably
' meant to say that the wishesjof the office-hold
ers had not been consultcd*by the Legislature.
—Chamhersburg H’hig.
The above is an editorial from the Chambers-
burg Whip, of a couple weeks since. We had
intended to notice it immediately after its ap
pearance in that paper, but a press of more im
portant business pievcntcd us. We regret to
sec a paper that pretends to respectability ex
hibit so mean a spirit as is indicated in the short
article we quote above. Because, forsooth, we
hold a small office under the United States Gov
ernment, our independence as an editor is ne
cessarily compromised, and our expressed opin
ions, even on Slate affairs, are merely the ebul
litions of an “office holder,” and not our un
biased convictions! We can tell the great dc
fcatal of the H r /rig that he is mistaken in his
conclusions, when he presumes to say that our
course as a journalist is dictated because of the
few hundred dollars we receive ns a public offi
cer. We always have, and we think we always
shall continue to speak our convictions fearless
ly and without reserve, and the emoluments of
office cannot bios our course, nor alter our judg
ment.
It is 100 much the habit of editors of a cor
uin class to speak disparagingly of those who
linppen to hold public positions. It is a spccicsof
meanness to which wo have never resorted, and
we arc sure we never shall. If a public officer
is dishonest or dcrclcct in duly, we nrcready to
speak of him as he deserves, and to hold up his
delinquencies to the public. But we are not of
those who Ixlicve every public officer a servile tool
and eat’s pajv, who is compelled to speak for others
and not forhimself. Those who arc constantly as
sailing public officers, are, nine limes outof ten,
disappointed office-seekers themselves, who
have been repudiated by the people,’ because of
a want of confidence iu their characters. But.
enough. The following brief article from the
Perry County Democrat, is to the point, and
speaks our sentiments:
The Chamberaburg Whig, in upeaklng of
our opposition to the sato of the Public Works,
seems to think that the articles we published from
(lie Carlisle Volunteer, Hollldaysburg Standard
and Johnstown Echo, in support of our posi
tion, arc not to bo relied upon, because the ed
itors of these papers arc or have been office-hol
ders. We do not believe that every public officer
Is a rascal, lot him belong to what party lie may,
though wo have heard _pf Couwins and Craw
fords and Ewings, men who hold higher po
sitions than Post-master or “small fry** offices
on the canal; nor do wo holiovo that had Epii
nuii Banks boon defeated by thlrty-flvo thou
sand majority that that would have disqualified
Col. M’Cu’re from making an honest and com
petent Auditor General. •
The Wands —The people of Kentucky arc
determined to (lx the seal of their condemnation
upon the Wards, and nil who aided in their es
cape from justice. Purpose of violence arc dis
claimed. Mr. Crittenden hasgonotoSt. Louis;
Mat. Ward met no welcome at New Albany,
and (led on to Connclton, Illinois. Uo will
probably skulk the rest of his life.
Mr. Webster's Estate. —According to an
advertisement in a Concord, (N. II.) paper,
George W. Newsmith, Esq., of Franldin, (Old
Salisbury,) is appointed a “Commissioner to al
low the claims of creditors against the estate of
Hon. Daniel Webster,” which is decreed to be
.administered as an insolvent estate.
JUST AND TUBE SENTIMENTS.
The following appropriate and candid article,
which we copy from the last number of that «
staunch and consistent Democratic journal, the ,
Reading Gazette, contains so much truth and
good sense, and speaks our own sentiments so
fully and trully, that wo cannot refrain from
trasferring it to the columns of -the Volunteer .
Whilst wc do so, we at tho same time respond
to the sentiments contained in it, every one of
which wo cheerfully and heartily endorse. Wo
commend it to the serious attention of such faint
hearted and timid Democrats ns are liable to be
carried away by every false and heretical wind
of political doctrine:
Tho Bradford County Democracy, opposed to
the Nebraska bill, held a Convention at Tow
anda last week, at which Hon. Gordon F. Ma
son, formerly of the State Senate, presided.—
Judge Wilmot addressed the meeting, and read
an address to the Democracy of tho State, which
was unanimously adopted, declaring Nebraska
a political issue, and predicting that it would
destroy every party that supported it in the free
States. It proposed also a State Convention to
take necessary action on tho subject.
The Dcmocracy of Bradford, although sound
enough on general principles, have always been
tainted with frec-soilism, and on tho. slavery
question, have occupied a position directly an
tagonistic to that of nine-tenths of their politi
cal brethren in tho United States. Tho persis
tency with which they adhere to it, leaves no
doubt as to their sincerity; and we are perfect
ly willing that they should enjoy their peculiar
opinions without rebuke, provided they confine
them to tho region of Bradford. ‘But when they
attempt to speak for tho whole Democratic par
ty, and to make it answerable for sentiments
which it has, both in State and National Con
ventions, repudiated in the most positive terms,
wo think they arc going a little bit too far, and
should bo required to “ hold up.” Nebraska
is a political issue—an issue between national
feeling and sectional fanaticism—an issue be
tween Democrats who stand pledged to maintain
the principle of the Compromise of 1850, and
Whigs, Free and kindred
spirits, who have consistently opposed every
Compromise between North and South, and
every effort to exclude slavcpy agitation from the
Halls of Cohgrcss. This is tho issue now be
fore' the people, and if the voice of tho great Na
tional Democratic party, which triumphed so
gloriously in 1852, upon the platform of non
interference with tho question of slavery in the
Territories,could be hoard to-morrow, it would
speak trumpet-toned in favor o( the same just
principle. Let Bradford bear in mind the fate
of her famous “ Wilmot Proviso,” and abstain
from the quixotism of attempting to dictate a
creed for the political organization of which she
is, numerically, almost a clphwv^^
A Veto Message.
President Pierce has vetoed the bill granting
ten millions of acres of land to the several States
of the Union, for the benefit of the indigent in
sane. Although this grant commends itself to
the sympathies of all hearts, yet wc think, says
the West Chester Republican, the President has
done right in refusing it his assent. It is a part
of a system to absorb the entire national do
main, which, if not broken into at some point,
would bo the fruitful source of a most unexam
pled corruption. Half the time of Congress is
taken up with applications to appropriate the
Public Lands to the use of corporations for a
vast variety of purposes. Legislators become
reckless, and they appropriate that which docs
not cost them anything with ft lavish bounty.
The veto power under such circumstances is a
most important constitutional provision. Its
exercise calls men to their senses, and affords
them an opportunity of re-examining their po
sition, and retracing their stcys. This Mes
sage, to our mind, is the most statesman-like
paper that has emanated from the President. It
is exceedingly well written, and his arguments
against (he constitutionality of the bill, arc un
answerable. We think the country will sustain
him cordially in the position he has so boldly
taken.
(£7* The General Appropriation bill, just pass
ed, contains a section appointing N. Strickland,
of Chester, JohnStrohm, of Lancaster, and John
N. Purviancc, of Butler, Commissioners to ex
amine into the correctness of the claims against
the Commonwealth for debts alleged to be due
on the Portage Railroad.
The aggregate amount of money appropriated
by the bill, is about $5,500,000, to which must
he added a claim bill, of not less than $50,000.
It increases the salaries of the Judges of the
Supreme Court $2OO each, but makes no altera
tion inthcsalariesof the District Judges through
out the Slate. The Governor’s salary, after the
expiration of the term of the present Executive,
is to he $3500. The appropriation of $l5OO to
the Scott Legion of Philadelphia, for the erection
of a monument, was retained in the bill, as in
sisted upon by the llon.se.
The section, added in the Senate, requiring
the immediate cancellation of the relief notes,
was disagreed to by' the House, and stricken
from the bill by the Committee of conference,
except so far ns it repeals the proviso‘to the
98th Section of the Appropriation bill of last
year. The operation of this will bo to apply
the whole sinking fund to the cancellation of
the relief notes, instead of permitting any por
tion to be invested in State slocks, as author-
ized by this proviso to tl\c 08th Section.
If the section had heed adopted by the House
as it passed the Senate, it would have prohibit
ed the paying out of relief notes from the Trea
sury, and required their immediate cancellation
at the expense of a temporary loan : but the
House thought it would look better to have a
portion of the State’s indebtedness in the shape
of ragged notes, than to appear to increase the
debt by providing for their immediate canccllo
tion, although they are none the less a debt, be
cause scattered over the Commonwealth.
Rascally Defalcation. —Ono of the busi
ness men of Sandusky, Ohio, has decamped
eastward, on his way to Europe, leaving credi
tors behind him to the amount of over 20,000
dollars. We learn from the Sandusky Register
that his credit having been previously unim
peachable, ho had, before leaving, borrowed
much monney, in sums of ono hundred dollars
and upwards, from all classes of persons, includ
ing many operatives, whoso dollars were corn
cd by wearisome toil. He had also collected
his general merchandise accounts to a largo
amount, and being besides a contractor in dock
improvements, ho held notes to a considerable
amount, nil of which he negotiated and convert
ed inis funds. His flight, the Register says, is
a severe blow to many a hard working man,
who has lost his all.
Tub State Fair. —The people of Philadelphia
having subscribed a sufficient amount of funds
to secure the holding of the Agricultural State
Pair in that city, it will commence on the 20th
of September, and continue four days. It will
no doubt far exceed in interest any exhibition
of the kind over licld in this State.
THE LEQISLUTOE^
The State legislature'.adjourned finally on
Tuesday the 9th, after n/.pptraotcd session of
eighteen weeks. A numbei) of important ques
tions enmeheforo it, and tlicif consideration con
sumed much time that might otherwise have
been spared. Some good ( lhat should have been
done, was left undone,-and all that uas done,
cannot ho commended.. .Butin view’ of the cor
rupting outside influences that were brought to
bear against the Legislative (never, perhaps,
equalled during any previous session) in favor
of various schemes 6f 'private interest, and
against tho reformatory measures that the peo
ple demanded, there is causcjfor thankfulncssin
the fact, that although those influences some
times succeeded, they 'did hot prevail to any
thing like the cxterittliftH’as at first feared.—
The business of the'session has been, in-.the
main, of a beneficial character; and does credit
to\ho,honesty, industry,"jind faithful vigilance
of those intelligent mcmUfcrs of both Houses,
and of each political party, who took a leading
part in the Icgislaivo proceedings, with a sin
cere desire to devote their lest efforts to the pub
lic good.
Among the measures of greatest importance,
that succeeded during the session, we may enu
merate the following:
Tho abolition of Omibus bills.
The Consolidntiorf’of Philadelphia.
The passage of a bill for the sale of the Main
Line.
The settlement of the Lake Shore Railroad
difficulties.
The passage of a stringent law to prevent
abuses m tho liquor traffic.
Tho passage of several important general laws,
having a tendency to supersede much special
legislation.
Decision op Judge Kane in the'Wilkes*
barue Slave Case. —Judge Kane on Tuesday
week, delivered a long opinion of the U. States
Circuit Court, now sitting in Philadelphia, in
the case of the United Statctf-JJarshal and Dep
uties, versus the SherifT'of Philadelphia. The
hearing was on a habeas corpus taken out to
prevent the relators being taken to Wilkcsbarrc
for" trial, under- an indictment found against
them for an assault while executing a writ in
Wilkcsbarrc issued by-thc Circuit Court. The
Judge decides that the Marshals cannot be tried
by Jury, if acting in obedience to a Federal pro
cess, but they may be punished for abusing it,
by the Court that issued the process, which is
bound to punish or protect its ministerial offi
cers. The Court will therefore proceed to hear
the ease on its merits, under theact of Congress,
and will receive the evidence of the relators.
Iron Works in the United States. —Tt is
stated tliat 16 iron works are in operation—9
in Pennsylvania, 3 in yirginia, 1 in New Jer
sey, 1 in Ohio, 1 in Massachusetts, and 1 in
Maryland; and are prepared to turn out 160,-
000 tons of railroad bars this season. For this
produce the following raw materials will be re
quired:—2l3,332 tons pig iron, 840,000 tons
coal, 500,000 tons iron ore, and 213,333 tons
of limestone. The capital of these 16 compan
ies is 910,000,000 ; they support a population
of 92,500 persons, and consume 94,625.000 in
breadstufik, besides, affording a profit to all the
various branches of business in and around the
mills.
Railroad across Sorrp America.— The Al
bany Evening Journal f?a£g, tliat Allen Camp
bell, Esq., who surveyed tnd superintended the
construction of several railroads in South Amer
ica, Ims hern engaged fc-t-eepunoissance
of a projected route from Mendoza, On the east
ern base of the Andes, to Montevideo, on the
Atlantic. The disfifbee is about 600 miles,
and with the roads already built west of the
Andes, will create a railroad communication
across the South American continent, broken
only by that chain of mountains. He has com
menced the survey.
Report op Attorney General Cram no.
—Hon. Caleb Cushing. Attorney General of Iho
United States, has issued a very able report,
suggesting modifications in the manner of con
ducting the legal business of the government.
This report must add to the already distinguish
ed reputation of General Cushing. It shows
the grasp of a bold and clear intellect, and a
mind for business details rarely embodied in the
same person. The changes suggested by Gen.
Cushing arc so manifestly proper that the only
inarvoi is that they have not been sooner made.
No Tavern Licenses in Crawford Covn
tt. —The Court of Quarter Sessions of Crawford
county, lately announced that it would not
grant any tavern license for the present, but
would try the experiment for one year, whether
“public houses” cannot get along just as well
without disposing of spirituous liquors. The
tavern keepers, on this announcement being
mode, threatened to close their doors at once;
and ns it was “court time,” it might put some
to inconvenience; but it being ascertained that
private houses would bo at once thrown open to
meet the emergency, the threat was not carried
into effect.
Latb-and Highly Important prom Hayti.
—The schooner King Fisher, Captain Hooper,
arrived ut New York on Tuesday, from Portau
Prince, bringing advices to the 14th nit. Her
news is of considerable importance. The Emper
or (Soldquo) was enlisting men for the army,
and was making great preparations with his
fleet and army in the invasion of Dominica, both
by sea and land. Operations would commence
immediately after the holydays were over, winch
would bo about the Ist of May.
The Six New Steam Faigates.—Wo learn
from the Washington Star, that it is understood
that the Secretary of the Navy lias determined
to build one of these shlpsin the Boston yard ;
another in the New York yard; a third in the
Pliiladclphia yard ; A fourth in the Washington
yard; and two in thc;Norfolk yard. There arc
two ships already under construction in the
Portsmouth (N. II.) yard—the Santeo and the
Franklin.
Advantages or Paying pon a Newspaper
in Advance. —Tlio Franklin Democrat says—
Ono of the facts put in evidence at the trial in
tho Supremo Court to sustain the will of the late
William Russel, was, that only a few days be*
fore ho made the will, ho galled at the office of
tho Democrat and paid fo{ his paper a year in
advance, thereby saving Qfty cents. This fact
was dwelt upon at length,Jby counsel, and com
mented upon by tho Judge) in his charge, as one
of great importance. Tho verdict of tho jury
would seem to sustain the position, that a man
who has mind and memory enough to pay for
his newspaper in advance, ip competent to make
his will. j
Tho Mew School low.
Important to School Directors. —The
School Law which has recently passed the Le
gislature, and received tho sanction of tho Ex
ecutive, makes it the duty of tho School Direc
tors of thcsevcrolcounties of the Commonwealth
to meet in Convention at the scat of justice of
the proper county, on tho first Monday of June
next,-and on the first Monday of May in each
third year, thereafter, and select viva voce by a
majority of the whole number of directors pre
sent, one person of literary and scientific ac
qurcments nnd of skill and experience in the art
of teaching, as County Superintendent for tho
three succeeding school years, and the School
Directors, or a majority of them in such Con
vention, shall determine the amount of compen
sation for tho County Superintendent, w’hich
said compensation shall be paid by the Super
intendent of Common Schools by his warrant
drawn upon tho State Treasurer in half yearly
instalments, if desired, and shall he deducted
from the amount of the State appropriation to
be paid the several School Districts for the said
county.
In another part of to day’s paper will be seen
an advertisement in relation to tho appointment
of a Superintendent for Cumberland county. —
The new law,'however, docs not apply to this
borough, Carlisle bring excluded from the ope
ration of its provisions.
ICT* Tho attention of Assessors, as well as of
School Directors, is invited to the following sec
tion of tho new School Law. It takes effect im
mediately.
Section 35. That it shall be the duty of the
several assessors to assess such persons ns may
remove into their respective districts between
the last assessment and the first of May in each
year, or who may have been omitted from the
last assessment, and to return their names.with
the amount of Slate and County tax payable
by each, to tho Board of* Scflbol Directors, who
shall thereupon assess the amount of school tax
payable by such persons, which tax shall be
collected ns in other cases.
Tho Question Must lie Settled.
The Washington Union of Thursday last, in
alluding to the factious conduct of the minority
in Congress, says:—“ Upon one ground, at all
events, the friends and foes of the Nebraska bill
(excluding the abolitionists) may he said to be
united. The fact appears not so much in the
proceedings of Congress as in the sentiment of
the country at large. The hope that Congress
should terminate the discussion on the Nebraska
; bill, and bring the question to a vote, is almost
universally avowed or entertained. The Demo
crats ask it, that that the slavery dispute may,
so far as it is possible, bo removed from the
halls of Congress—a result sure to bo attained
by the operation of the bill now before the
House.
The Democrats who arc not in favor of the
bill have discovered that to protract the contest
upon its merits, in view of its increased and in
creasing strength, is .sure to affect them seri
ously; while the Northern whigs, with all their
proclivities to unite with the various isms of
the day, daily more fully realize the danger of
concentrating themselves into a merely section
al organization. This state of things, whatever
the various motives that have produced it, is
significant of coming tranquility and unanimity.
Singular Case of Poisoning. —A very re
spectable young lady, residing In Carrolton,
Oliio, while temporarily in the employ of a
physician of that place, visited his office, and
wfelc there, out of curiosity, tasted some pow
dered stydminc which she found in a bottle.—
Soon - afterwards she returned to the bouse, took
a drink of water, and wentabout her duties, but
in a short time complained of feeling unwell. —
The wife of the physician, having seen the
young lady go to the office, questioned her as
to whether she had taken anything while there,
when she admitted that she had merely tasted
the contents of a bottle. Measures, to counter
act the effect of the poison, were then employed,
but to no effect. She was seized with violent
spasms, and half an hour from the time she left
the office, she expired.
Bad Df.uts.— Hunt’s Merchants Magazine
advocates the passage of an act, abolishing all
laws for the collection of debt, except where
property is transform! for its security ; the
property so transferred to be the only legal se
curity on such debt. The writer says, that
should this become a law, it would prevent sev
enty-five per cent, of the bod debts now made,
besides promoting integrity and upright mer
cantile character.
Decisions in the Methodist (.’mrncii Case.
The opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court, in the
case involving a partition of the Methodist Book
Concern interests in Cincinnati, between the
Methodist Episcopal Church and Iho Methodist
Episcopal Church South, was given on Tues
day, upon all the points in favor of the Church
South, thus reversing the decision of the Cir
cuit Court of Ohio. Tho National Intelligencer
says that this decision not only establishes the
right of tho Church South to a proportionate
share of the funds and property, but also de
clares a division of tho church to be a valid act,
and that the two divisions South and North arc
equally legitimate. Judge McLean did not sit
in this ease.
Rescue op Dr. Steiner. —Tho New Orleans
Picayune lias advices from Texas to the 3d inst.
They contain tho following paragraph:
Dr. Steiner who is charged with killing a
superior officer, for whose trial a Court Martial
is sitting at Austin, was rescued by the citizens
of Waco from Lieut. Anderson, who had him in
custody, and was taking hfm to Fort Graham.
Dr. Steiner, who, by tho way, is a Pennsylva
nian, was tried for shooting his superior officer
and was acquitted in the civil courts of Texas.
He was afterwards arrested, to bo court-mar
tiallcd. It is from this arrest that ho Ims been
rescued.
Movements of Matt. WAim.i—We have al
ready noticed tho arrival of Matt. Ward and his
brother at Cannclton, Indiana. They had been
in the town hut a short time before, as we learn
from tho Ilcwcsvillo Eagle, a committee of citi
zens waited upon them and desired them to
leave tho place. Thereupon they went to Judge
Huntingdon's, somo distance in tho country,
and afterwards took passage on tho Eclipso for
Arkansas. When tho steamer reached Hender
son, a largo crowd collected on tho wharf, and
ordered tho captain to bo off with his boat and
cargo.
Acquittal op Mns. Hays. —Tho trial of Mrs.
Hays for the murder of Dr. Leutner, was con
cluded in tho Court of Oyer and Terminer at
New York on Thursday, and the prisoner was
discharged. Tho jury rendered a verdict of
“not guilty."
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Tho Canada arrived at Halifax on "Wednes
day the 10th, with European news to tho 29th
ult. At tho time of her sailing, nothing had
been heard on tho other side of the ill-fated
“City of Glasgow,”, and there remains scarcely
a shadow of hope that she has escaped. The
intelligence from tho scat of war is unimportant.
Sillstria had not yet been taken by the Rus
sians, nor had the allied fleets made any demon
stration against Odessa. Increased vigor was,
however, displayed by the allies. Twenty thou
sand French troops and eight thousand British
liad arrived at Gallipollis. A sanguinary en
gagement had taken place near Kalafat, but
without any decided result. It wap reported
that the Russians had evacuated Lesser Walla
chia. The commercial news shows a further
fluctuation in the market. Flour and Wheat
and Corn had declined. Cotton was irregular.
Consols had slightly fallen, though money is
said to be easy. In United States Securities
the transactions were small, but prices were
unchanged.
THE VERY LATEST.
By the arrival at New York on Monday af
ternoon of the American steamship Atlantic, we
have late and important intelligence from the
seat of war.
Authentic intelligence has been received that,
on the 29th of April, tho port of Odessa, ou the
Black Sea, was bombarded for ten hours by the
allied fleets, and part of the city laid.in ruins.
Four of the gqn forts by which it was defended
were dismantled. Eight Russian and one Aus
trian merchant ships were burned in the harbor.
Three of the British bombarding steamers
were tyadly damaged by the fire from the forts.
Ah attempt of thfc British to land 1800 men
failed.
The Russian-fleet came out from Sebastapol
during the tight and threatened the allied fleet,
but without oflering to give battle, retired. The
details of the bombardment have not been re
ceived. v
The Russians have completely evacuated Lil
lie Wallachia.
The Russian right wing now rests on Alula,
with their head headquarters at Bucharest, on
the Danube. Therefore the interest of the cam
paign again concentrates on the operations be
low Nicopoli. The Turks have come out of
Kalulht, and are occupying all the towns on
the track of the Russians.
The Russians are besciging Silistfia, and
would assault it about the Ist of .May.
The allied troops are still idle.
The Greek insurrection was unchanged.
From Asia we have nothing of imporuincc.
Admiral Napier’s fleet was awaiting the
French vessels. He was blockading the Gulfs
of Finland and Bothnia.
Spain orU Cuba.
The Washington Union of Wednesday con
tains a highly important ariical upon our rela
tions with Spain, from which we make the fol
lowing extract:
“11 the rumors which were current at Madrid
at our latest dates be reliable, the Spanish cab
inet had'declined to afford prompt reparation for
the wrongs committed against the Hag o( the
United Slates in the instance of the Black War
rior. The intelligence, fiomthe belief that il
is true, is justly producing a mighty seusuiion
throughout the Uuluu. The period* for diplo
matizing ut n distrncc of four thousand miles lor
redress for unprovoked; Ilugran, insults and in
juries .sustained by our country at the hands of
the insolent, and, so far as we are concerned, ir
responsible uuhurities at Havannu, has utleiigth
passed by. Duty to ourselves requires that we
should prepare lor settling upon the spot where
they are perpetrated the olfenccs to our honor
ami rights. We are quite free to slate—and in
terms so emphatic and unequivocal as to admit
of no misinterpretation—that if ample satisfac
tion is nut allowed for the piratical seizure of the
Black Warrior, we*shall advocate an immediate
blockade ol the island. The justice which wo
seporatcly appealed government
ol her Catholic impcriUiv<Tiipqu its
now to exact. Ofllrogd upon 'affec
ting even its hotfofc ore of
tion in Cuba; is'*{>ulpubly."dist!iict that
there Is but a solitarynuqmer loft to us for reme
dying them. That manner la the energetic and
judicious employment of such resources as hap
pily are ut our disposal. The situation has be
come too grave to longer admit of temporizing
negotiation. Our complaining voice has been
heard sulHeently long ;we must now make its
expressions felt.’’ •
lluMrnulsY Mausiiall on China. —Tho Louis
ville Journal contains a letter from the lion.
Ilumphcry Marshall, dated Washington, April
19. Ho laid remarked a paragraph in the Journ
al, which stated that he was accused with hav
ing sided with the imperialists while Minister to
China. Hu state? that his position while Min*
ister was rigidly and faithfully neutral, lie
had very little communication of ai»y kind with
the rebels. His correspondence with the De
partment of State, he is certain, will be aulll
cient testimony that while abroad he pursued
the path of public duty with an eye single to
his country’s good. lie says:
“My judgment refused to receive us true the
crude conceptions of many in China in regard
to the causes of the revolutionary movement,
and my sense of obligation to truth revolted at
the erroneous views which were spread before
the Western World as to the philosophy and
progress of the Chinese revolution. This, no
doubt, gave olfeuce to some who were interest
ed to propogate these views. For such, and for
their good opinion, 1 have neither respect nor
care.”
Ex-Puksidbnt Fh.i.mohu.—Some of the pa
pers at the South arc denying the correctness
of Mr. Fillmore’s speech, at Vicsburg, where he
declared ins belief that Canada and Cuba were
both destined to bu annexed to the U. States.
The Charleston Courier, however, asserts that,
at the banquet in that city, Mr. F. used similar
language, saying, substantially, that ho “ be
lieved in the expansive growth of our republic,
and was thoroughly persuaded that she is des
tined to cover the whole American continent
with her starry banner and free institutions.”
Increase or Silver.— Wo learn that J. D.
Cosmcil, Esq., of the Treasury Department, de
livered a few days since at the mint in Philadel
phia, fifty-two tons of ingots of silver, the value
of which is one aiyl’ a quarter millions of dol
lars. The government purchased Mexican in
gots of silver amounting to two millions of dol
lars, at three per cent, premium, three quarters
of a million of which were left at tho mint in
Now Orleans. Tho object of tho purchase of this
amount of silver is to increase the supply of sil
ver change.
Tub Wmo Candidate for Govkunor.—
Tho Washington (Pa.) Commonwealth has re
ceived a letter from (ho Hon. James Pollock, tho
Whig candidate for Governor, in which ho states
that tho rumors of his contemplated withdrawal
aro without the slightest foundation in fact, and
that ho is prepared to meet tho responsibilities
of his position, and to sustain the issues made
by tho nominating Convention. A bold man is
that Mr. Pollock, to thus coolly and courage
ously meet his fato.
DC7* The New York Courier fy Enquirer, one
of the leading Whig journals of the country, in
an article referring to the manifold sins and
blunders of its party, says: “ Tho Whig party,
ns a national party, has nothing in its late his
tory upon which it can dwell with satisfaction,
and nothing in its future to which we can look
[forward with hope.”
VETO MESSAGE OF 00V. BIGLER,
Tho following is tho message of Governor
Bigler oh returning tho bills incorporating the
Donegal, Catasauquo, and Moufit Pleasant De
posit Danlts to tho Senate, without his cancur
reno. Tho Governor very properly objects to
tho loose charters attempted to be given to fhess
institutions, and insists on tho individual liabil
ity clause being inserted to tho fullest extent!
Tho message is sound in principle, and will
meet tho hearty concrruenco of all who wish
to see thobuisness of this Commonwealth baaed
on a pcrmiucnt footing:
Executive CirA«nE& k
UAKBisnuna, May 4, 1854 * f a
To the Senate and House of
Gentlemen: Thofollowing'biUshav?! been Vr
sonted for my consideration and opnroval n»!i»
herewith return tho same without mv
to the Senate, in which body they originate ll '
Bill No- 159, entitled an Act to incomora’.
tho Donegal Deposit Bank, to be located at At
rietta, Lancaster county; No. 215, entitled
act to incorporate tho CatosnuquoDcposlt flunk
at Catasauquo, Lehigh county; bill No. 218 ~
titled un net to incorporate tho Farmer’s Dcnnii.
Bank of Lehigh county; and bill No. 990 can
tied an act to incorporate tho Mount Pleasant
Savings Bank. 1
The principal objection to the bill under con
sideration is, that no adequate liability is
posed upon the stokholdors, for the protection
of those who may bo creditors of tho institutions.
It lias become a settled principle, that lu gran
ting corporate privileges, where large private
gaincs are expected, and the public deeply in
tercstcd in the operations ofan institution and
its ability to meet its engagements, that the in.
dividuals thus associating, shall bo severally li
able, in their private estates, for tho debts of
such corporation.
This principle has boon applied, very properly,
it is believed, to Banka of Issue, and to Mining
and Manufacturing Companies, and the public
are certainly quite as much interested in the
safety and solvency ofo Bank, of Deposit, as hi
those corporations. Inviting deposits by the of
fer of liberal terms, the entire community sur
rounding such an insitution may become credit
ors, and especially those classes least able to
bear a loss; anbbcnco the propriety of furnishing
an efficient protection. The application of the
principle is not more salutory upon the public
mind, hy inspiring confidence ami trust, than
upon the corporators themselves; and the greater
vigilance resulting from a proper sense of respon
sibility, would more than compensate for this
increased liability.
Whilst it is true that mere Banks of Deposit
not having the power to increase the oggregaic
of paper circulation, are not liable to the objec
tions generally urged against nn increase of ban
king capital, us a basis forpaper Issues, and can
not inflate prices by an expanded currency, they
should nevertheless be guarded by every proper
limitation and restriction, for the security of the
public. Nor should such institutions bo estab
lished at random, and without duo regard to ac
tual business wants ; but only in such localities
ns manifestly require them. In plates where »
large amount of buisticsa is transacted - , 1 cun
see no well founded objection to such an agen
cy—thus from thodflfc. and importance of the
place, an institutWWT the kind at Allentown
might ho eminently proper, and bo of great hen
. ofit to its business inhabitants—and perhaps at
other points indicated in Die bills before me; but
in this, as in all other allowable measures, the
utmost discretion and judgement must bo exor
cised, and the (rue interest and safety of the
public ever held in view.
Misapprehension seems to'havo existed as to
the extent of the liability imposed by the gener
al Banking Law of 1850, under which the pro
posed institutions arc to be organized. It tons
certainly such erroneous impressions that se
cured the approval of the bill to incorporate
the Citizens’ Deposit Bank of Pittsburgh, for in
all othor'similar cases, the principle of individ
ual liability seems to be rigidly adhered to.
Even in this case, howovtfr, there is an express
reservation in the a'ct of incorporation, that the
Legislature may impose nsw conditions, if neces
sary, which, to some degree, at least, supplies
the omission of an express individual liability.
As there seems, therefore, to bo a defect in the
general law in this particular, I respectfully re
commend that it bo so amended as to opply to
the principle of individual liability to Deposit
Banks hereafter incorporated, as well ns to those
already established, in whose charters the right
Is reserved to Impose newkcondUlgns If -neces
sary. r ",•" ~ / •- ’ ’.r
Four Years of Fraud vs, one of Integrity,
Under the whig administration which came
into power in 1819, mid gave way to its succes
sors in 18551, a scries of monsferfraudswerecon
sumuted, involving an cx-pendituro of vast sums
of the people’s money, mid implicating some of
tho most distinguished whigs in the country!
Under tho adminsiratiou of General Pierce,
which has been in power a little more than <
year, we have had frauds punished, extravagance
of (ho worst discription arrested, and cconom
enforced in tho various departments of tho gov
ernment I How do the reckless calumniators of
the democratic party attempt to answer tills for
cible and admonitory contrast ? By hulling Mr.
Fiimoro aud his councollors, and those who sur
vive of the Taylor dynasty, ns so many examples
of political purity and integrity, and by assailing
General Pierce and ids cabinet os corrupt ami
extravagant! Tho historian when ho conics to
write of tho lust five years, will bo appalled nl\
tiio'complacent audacity with which tho truth
lias been sacrificed by au unscrupulous party.—
Washington Union.
£U7“ Melancholy OcounaiixcE— Fivn People
Dimiwnkd We copy from tho Blnghamplon
Daily Republican, tho following paragraph;
Deacon Joul) Hathaway and wife, Charles Hath
away and wile, G. Hathaway and his two sis
ters, mid two grand children of Samuel Hath
away, of Windsor, Jlroomo Co., on Sunday last
entered n skiff and proceeded as usual, on (heir
way to church across tho Susquehanna river.
Having reached tho opposit side, the bow of
the skitl’struck against some bushes which over
cluing the bank) a strong north wind and a violent
urrent carried round tho stern of tho skiD)
which struck against a log, upsetting it and
througbing tho whole party, except G. Hath
away, who jumped ashore, Into tho river. Tim
latter saved Deacon Hathaway and wife, and Ills
own sister. Charles Hathaway and his wife
were seated in tho stern of tho boat when tLo
accident occurcd.
He would have effected thccscono of himself
and wife, but for tho children, who clung to
William Hathaway. But notwithstanding tho
efforts of G., Charles Hathaway and Ills wife,and
tho two children above mentioned, as well as a
sister of G. Hathaway drowned.
The Russian Expedition to Japan.— A letter
from Malta, speaking of tlio report that the Rus
sians have signed a commercial treaty with Ja
pan, says: , ' . ,
“The Americans, It would appear, have not
been very honorably treated by tho Russian squa
dron In those sons, who rather cleverly succeed
ed In getting the treaty which in all justice, l»
duo to tho. Americans! and this, after they M
been 1 tillt coals, &0., bv tho Americans In China.
If It had not been for tho kindness on tho Amcrl.
cans* part, it is doubtful If tho Russians could
have got so early to Japan.”
For the Volunteer .
Military Election.
Mr. Bratton —Please insert tho following
note 5
Whereas, Tho now organization of tho Uni
formed Militia of Ponnsyjvanla, will commence
on Monday tho 6th day ol Juno next, agreeably
to tho present Brigade Inspector’s Order. Cap
tain David Wherry, of llopowoll, will bo sup
ported far Brigadier General for tho Ist B. IMI'
Division, In room of Brigadier General Edward
Armor ; Major Samuel Crop, tho present Bri
gade Inspector, will bo supported for Brigade
Inspector. Gon. Edward Armor will bo a can
didate for Major General, 15th Division, compos
ed of tho counties of Cumberland, Franklin ana
Perry, os Ids long service entitles him to pro
motion. A Volwubm.
Death.—All that nature baa prescribed mu*
bo good j and ns death is natural to us, It Is
surdity to fear It, Font loses Its purpose wnc
wo nro sure It cannot preserve us, and wo aboui
draw a resolution to moot It, from the imp° s "
blllty to escape it. — Steeh\