MfOAN TOMTEER.: JOM fl. ’BWTTOJf,; Editor fc Proprietor. ; 1; PA.. Nfo- 0,.1854i ; V Cooper,, the/talented, editor .of the -.■Chamhersbiirg Valley Spirit, has gone on ft lout /’ rcc'niit his health. /Salt Biyeris his rout at all/ . He wilU write home to - Jhls papcr.gmng his observations on men and •‘‘things.",', r> 'Dbath pj" an Ewtob.—‘Wit. R. M’Cat, Esq, ’//pr inany ycara one of.the editors and propric -thrtof theLejvistownTn/e Democrat, died at hisresidence at on Monday of last /• week:-:Bged 43 years. . It was our pleasure .to • :bo long and intimately acquainted with Mr. : M)CAY,nndit is with sorrow we chronicle his t. early death. "Wfe always found him, a man of '. sterling integrity, and a faithful kind-hearted / V * . , ' / President Pierce's Health. — The Wash ington correspondent of the New York Times, •siys;— -. ■ • • The President’s - health. I regret to say, has • hcch qlijte bad of late, having suffered from rc * mittent fever. Although not entirely confined "to the house, he looks poorly. ■. K/* Anderson G. Haevet has been ap pointed by. the Canal Commissioners Collector of Tolls af Lewislown, in place of War. R. M’Cat,' deceased. ' JCT* A trotting match for 52.000, mile heats best three in five,under the saddle,catch weights came off at last Friday afternoon, between the celebrated horses 3Lac and Tacohy, on the Long Island race course. Mac won the race, making .thoiaslcst heat, that has been made during the year 185-1—2:27. DC?*. The Cleveland Plaindealer states that • various sums of money having been lost through ' the mails between that place and Wheeling, Bhallcross of Wheeling, Special Mail -Agent, undertook to ferret out the jobber. Suspicion finally rested on the’Wellsvillo office. Eighty 'dollars, recently mailed Et that plsce, was ab ’ stractodi and the robber)* traced to son of the postmaster,, who was arrested and taken to Co lumbus. . -Filial Affection — A singular exhibition of filial affection is related to have transpired recently in Detroit. Michigan. A mother and son were convicted of stealing, and sentenced to five years each in the State Prison. When the mother had received her sentence, the son arose begged that the court would release his pa rent and allow him to serve out both terms of punishment. The Court of course could not grant his request. State Treasuree.— The Daily News, of Philadelphia, “trots oat" its friends Henry 8. Evans, of Chester, and George 11. Hart and Dr. Dillee Luthee, of Philadelphia, in con nection with the office of State Treasurer. . Geeat Sale of Cattle— The sale of cattle, &c., recently imported by the “Kentucky Im porting Company/' took place in Fayette coun ty, in that Slate, on the oih ult. Fifteen cows and heifers sold at prices ranging from $650 to £215, including one at $6OO and tire at over $5OO each. Six bulls wen; also sold, one at $3,500, End the nest highest at $6OO. Ahorse, Berea years old. brought §1,050. A number of sheep were disposed of, at from §5O to $287 for bocks, and from $2O to $OO for ewca ; and ten.pore Liverpool while and seven improved Yorkshire bogs, at from $2O to $7O each. £7* The people continue to nish in great numbers to tbe landofficcsof the West, to pur* chase lands under-the late act of Congress.— At Fayette, in Missouri, there were some 800 persons present, and no little excitement pro railed, At Palmyra, the town was literally crowded by the thousands seeking lands and homes. Dcatu Bed Coxfessios <>r Mukdkr.— About ten days ago, a woman aged about 80 years, (ottaonol given) died in the neighborhood of the Water Works, Lebanon county, who, a short time before her death, confessed that many rears since she poisoned a man named Deitz, of North Annville township, with whom shelir* «d ft# house-keeper, a id also murdered throe of her own children This, if true is horrible. 1 Girls Eloping with Indians.— Recently a band of Indians gave a performance in So'merset. Ohio, and two girU. sisters, were so captivated with the “dance and the whoop of the sons of nature,” that they asked permission to accom pany.them, which was gallantly granted. The mother of tho girls subsequently not only con sented to their being squaws, but joined the sage party herself! There’s no accounting for tastes. Ho.t. S. A. Dodoiab.— -Tho personal and po litical friends of Judge Douglas have tendered him a public dinner at Chicago, on tho filh of November, which ho has accepted. K 7" John Hodgson, Esq., Editor of tho West Chester Jeffersonian, has been appointed by Gov. Bigler a N otary Public of Chester county. Ed itors ought to learn to bo “llianklul for small favors/*'as these are pretty much the only sort they receive In payment ot political services. A Last Home yon the Printer. —The Sa vannah News says that previous to tho death of.tho late Samuel Chapman, editor of theSa vanhah Journal and Courier, a few weeks since, that gentleman purchased a lot in Laurel Grove Cemetery, to bo appropriated especially as a place of burial for printers. The purchase was hardly completed when ho himself was called to the mansion of the blessed, and bis-body be came the first occupant of tho tomb. Slate Catcher Mobbed —Asa 0. Butman, Who had arrested the fugitive slaves in Boston, Thomas Sims and Anthony Burns, wns In Worcester, Maas., on Sunday. Ik was mobbed by tho Abolitionists and negroes, and narrowly escaped with his life. He was compelled to IcaVo Worcester and promise never to visit it again. (Cs* A’frightful explosion took place at Ear le’s Hotel, New York city, on Saturday after-' noon. A keg of powder winch had been placed near tho book-keeper's desk in a valise, explo ded, doing great damage, but fortunately injur ing no person, though many were in tho imme diate vicinity. (C7* Amo.stdeslructivcfirc occurred at Cleve land, Ohio, at 2 o’clock on Saturday morning lofit, by which three squares of tho city were laid in ruins, including a custom-house and two largo hotels. Tho loss is estimated at half n million pf dollars. TOTO MBTHIM.” The people don’t rise up in their might and pitch a man out as they have done Bigler, or thrust* back a grtat would-be leader 'nn they have Bonham, without. meaning something by it. Every body else thmks they meant to con- , demn the Ncbrnska'iniquity but thb-Folimferr, - and it may ns well be left in ' wilful blindness —Carlisle Herald, ; ; /The Herald is not at all emnrt.or it would not attempt to prove that the laic Know-Noth ing victory in this Congressional district and in the State, is an endorsement of Whig princi ples. Opposition to tho “Nebraska iniquity,” as our neighbor calls it, was, wo grant, about tho only principle tho Whigs avowed in tho lato content. ' Wheri they nominated Pollock, Dar sie, and Smyscr % they adopted a resolution con deming the Ncbraska-Kansas bill, thus making it an issue, $0 far as they were concerned.— But Daesie. who was supported-by Whigs alone, was defeated by the astounding majority of over 190,000 votes, and Sityseu was deflated by overdG,ooo votes. These gentlemen were tho Whig candidates proper; Mott and Black arc both Nebraska men. «If the result of the elec tion “means something,” will our neighbor solve the meaning of tho Waterloo defeat of his Whig-anti-Ncbraska candidates ? Hickman, a Nebraska man, is elected to Congress over Bno mall, anti-Nebraska, in tho strong-Whig dis trict of Chester and Delaware: Drum, (Demo crat,) who voted, against the Nebraska bill in the last Congress, is defeated in the Westmore land district.. Will tho Herald inform us of the “meaning”of,these results? -And, while his hand is in, will he tell us/why it happened that in;this county Snoop was defeated by 1092 votes Snyder by 1156, and Sktles by 1939 ? These gentlemen, We arc sure, always sustained good characters, and they arc all good Whigs and opposed to the “Nebraska iniquity.” We cannot agree with the Herald, therefore, when it asserts that the lato election was a con demnation of the Nebraska bill. It was no 'such thing. It was a Know-Nothing victory, and nothing else, and there is not much mean ing in it. The Know-Nothings have no nation al principles; they vole for a wan without re gard to his opinions on any question, so that ho is willing to swear opposition tp tho Irish and Dutch. We repeat, then, tho Herald , by attempting to claim the recent victory as an en dorsement of the principles of. tho late Whig party, is digging its own political grave. Tho editor’snew masters,the Know-Nothings, claim the victory, and they have a right to do so. : They were willing, during the contest, to receive the services of the Herald , but they are not willing that the result shall be claimed as.a triumph of Whig doctrines, and it is because of the course of the editor of Herald, since the election, that his new masters are talking of establishing a new Know-Nothing paper in this place, in op- to the Herald. Our neighbor should be more careful. Uo should not attempt to appropriate the trophies of the late election to Whig purposes—the Know-Nothings will not submit to any such presumption. In support of our assertion that the result of tho recent election is an unmeaning Know- Nothing triumph, and that the Know-Nothings do not support or oppose men because of their political opinions, we quote the following short but pithy article from the Lancaster Examiner, the organ of the old line Whigs of the “old guard “The Know-Nothings do not know to-day, what they will be compelled to support to-mor row. They may be required to vole forNe braskaitesorahti-Nebr^skaites—Mainclawmcu or anti-3laine law men—Whigs. Democrats or Abolitionists—for or against the sale of the I public works—or for a general mixture of all these issues, as was the ease with the late*"in dependent ticket,” in Lancaster county.” OfiOlVS. Tho Know-Nothing ami Whig papers all over the Slate, are very abusive of Mr. Baker, the Superintendent of the Columbia rail-road, be cause, Immediately after the election, he dis charged every man from the road who had voted against Gov. Bigler. These men had joined the Know-Nothing Order at Columbia, and of course voted against Gov. Bigler, not because they were opposed to him, but because they considered that the oath they hud taken re quired them to do so! Mr. Baker, not knott ing what else their oath might require them to do, considered them dangerous men in the pub lic service, and discharged them. Was he not right ? Men who will take a solemn oath to do an act contrary to their own judgement, and thus bind themselves to be the mere slaves of a set of political sharpers, arc not to be trust ed in a public capacity. A man who can be induced to swear away his privileges as a free nmn, and forced to vote contrary to his judge ment, is not to bo trusted in any public capa city, and Mr. Baker but performed Ids duty, os a faithful public servant, when he discharg ed these men. The Register and Citizen, a Know-Nothing paper published at Lancaster, contains a long article against Mr. Baker for discharging these men. From it we take tho'following extract; “And now, we ask. why were they dischnrg cd ? Hearken! we will answer— dkoausetiiky wkrr Americans, and dared to exercise the right of an American, to vote as they pleased —to exercise the right of independent suffrage —that most precious boon bequeathed to ns by our Revolutionary sires who shed their blood and offered up their lives that we might bo Freemen. One word more: This is proscrip tion—’tis the vilest persecution.” The Examiner, tho able organ of the old line Whigs of Lancaster county, copies the above extract, and then replies to it in this fashion: Not being in tho habit of blaming others for doing what we do ourselves, ami knowing, fur ther, that Gov. Pollock will remove every man who voted for Bigler he can lay hands on, ns custom requires that ho should do, we have not made mucu of an outcry at Sir. Baker's dis charging workmen who voted for X’ollock. But the Rcg-Mcr’a talk about right of independent suffrage," recalls to mind thefnet, that tho Know-NoihingJodges of this city arc farpc//ing all their members who were indepen dent enough to vote for the Whig candidate for Congress at tho late election. * That most (precious boon, bequeathed to us by our revohw tionary sires, who shed their blood and offered up their lives that wo might be freemen/' (Reg ister) is alike denied to the hands in the Parks- Imrg shops and tho members of the Know-Noth ing lodges of Lancaster city I Truly, our sires , fought and died in vain ! Sinoolau,.— The last line ever sot by Kir. Chart ton, a Pittsburg printer, whose death oc curred lately, was this— ‘And even at lost the solemn hour ahall conic.’ Having done this ho (daggered IVom his case, under n sudden attack of disease, and in a few days died and was buried. Tho solemn hour had come. PROHIBITION Tho complete returns of tho vote upon a Pro*, hibitory Liquor Law, in this State, show that the friends o£.tho measure have been defeated' by E majority of 5168 votes.' Eor this .result, we arc indebted tothe German VOte in Berks, Lehigh, Northampton, and the foreign‘vote of the Schuylkill miners.* It is deplorable that tho humane desirfcs .of the largo boay:of intelligent citizens should- be seaside hy so small a ma jority. ThVtruth Is, the foreign vote in the City of Philadelphia defeated the measure t and this but adds one more reason to the long cata logue which has induced the American party to assert its supremacy.— JPhifa. Saturday Mail, Wo clip the above extract from tho Saturday Mail, a Know-Nothing and tenipcranco paper published in Philadelphia. It is another evi dence of the.intolerant spirit that characterizes Know-Nothingism. ■ Because, forsooth, thepco pleof this State have declared against a prohibi tory liquor law, -the Germans of Berks, Lehigh,: Schuylkill • and. Northampton counties must bear the abuse of a.city scribbler. Nay more,' this self-constituted censor thinks that‘the “foreign vote” assisted to defeat the measure, and, for the purpose of making,a little 'capital for his Know-Nothing cause, ho concludes that this circumstance “addsone more reason tothe long catalogue which has induced the American party to assert its supremacy:” Oh, dear I Now, wc don't know, nor do, wc care, how tho “foreign vote” was cast, oh - the question of prohibition. Wc suppose our naturalized citi-' zens, like alb other, citizens, were divided in sentiment in regard to this question. But, sup pose, for the sake of argument, that the foreign vote had been unanimously given in favor of prohibition, our Know-Nothing city, censor might then, with equal propriety, have charged our adopted citizens with having controlcd the question at, the polls. Thus wc sec, Know- Nothing intolerance is determined to find fault with adopted citizens and even with our own German citizens. No difference how they vote,' they musU be subjected to abuse. This goes to show that Know-Nolhingism would deprive our German and naturalized citizens from voting at all on any question. . That the editor of the Saturday il jail wrote the extract quoted above, with a political object in view, must be manifest to all. If he, os a tem perance champion, desired to chido the people of the, counties wjio had voted against prohibi tion, why did lie not mention some others than the three heavy Democratic counties of Berks, Northampton and Schuylkill? Why did he not also empty the vials of his rath upon the Germans of Lancaster, a county that gave Pol lock a majority of over 6000, and also gave a majority against prohibition of over 3000 ? And why semnDanphin, Franklin, Lebanon, Union, and other heavy Whig counties ? Is he not aware that there are a great number of Ger mans in all those counties, who were equally entitled to his’censure? He might have men tioned the fact, too, that Pollock’s own county (Northumberland,) gave over 700 Against pro hibition, and that Bigler’s county (Clear field) gave nearly AOO for prohibition.' To have mentioned these‘things, hqwevtr, would not havcsuiicd his purpose. Our-ypponenis desire to keep the temperance question still open, in the hope that they can again uselt as a political hobby. In the late contest Bigler was dtnoun ccd by every scribbler as “the rum candidate,” and Pollock was repre-' sentcd ns tbo,’great champion of temperance, and'yet vy? find Pollock’s friends at home voting agaiqsl the .measure, and Bigler’s voting for it. The fact is, our opponents did notairfl' Uo~nnt now want a majority of the people to vote for th£ Maine Law. Those who were its loudest advocates voted against it, and how, after they defeated the measure, they attempt to throw the blame from themselves, and would hold the Democratic counties of the State and the Ger man Democrats responsible] Their hypocricy is too plain. True temperance men cannot, we think, bo much longer deceived by the profes sions of these political tricksters. KNowiNoTinsos in Court— ln a ease tried last week before the Court of Common Pleas.nl Lowell, (Mass.,) Justice Bishop presiding, Mr B.F. Butler asked U, C. Snow, a witness on the stand, if lie belonged to the secret' society ol : Know-Nothings 1 At first Snow r dcimd that he did, but finally, after consulting counsel, answered in the affirmative; and along cross examination elicited further answers. Ho had beenamemberof thesneiety fouror five months. Upon joining it he took an oath, “so help me God.” There aro two degrees in the society.— Had seen at the meetings Dr. Norman Smith and Deacon John Pingree, two other witnesses tn the ease. Refused to tell the form of initia tion, because it might criminate him pud expose him to punishment from the society. Judge Bishop said it was a startling revolution that men took secret oaths which they regarded ns above the oaths administered in the courts. — A. M. Gage, another witness, testified that he had belonged to the secret order, but left it three months since. i»r. Smith,above mention ed, admitted that he belonged to the Know- Nothing society, and that it exercises’ a politi co! and religious influence: a Hogan Catholic cannot be admitted, although lusbc an Ameri can-born citizen. Could not tell tho form of initiation because it would expose him to pun ishment ; and for the same reason could not tell what office ho held in tho lodge at Groton. A Sad Disappointment. —Theßoston(Mass.) Journal, of the Ist Inst., says: Last evening, at 7 o’clock, that being the appointed time for the ending of nil sublunary things, according to the Milleritc belief, some forty of thy believers in that doctrine assembled at tho corner of Fourth and C streets. South Boston, arrayed in white roltcs, and anxiously awaited tho mo ment when they should make their grand as cension. . Whether they arc still waiting we know not, bu t they were certainly disappoint ed In their expectations of “going up” last evening. (£7*“ It is rumored that Ross Winnns, pro prietor of the extensive Locomotive Works at Baltimore, has dismissed two-thlrdaofliis work men, not being able to obtain prices for work sufficiently high to warrant him in paying tho present rale of wages. K7* A white squirrel was shot on Monday in the woods near Cornwall, Lebanon county, by Mr. Charles Brothcrlinc. The Advertiser says its coat is almost pure white, and that it in tho first of the kind ever seen in tho neigh borhood. IfosTi.RU RonnED.— George Rltz, hostler at Bechtel's lintel, in Allentown, was recently robbed of 8275 which ho hod locked up in a cVy«Unlh»»l«U». ' , . USITED STATES SEPi’ATOB, :..Theopposltioh journals of the-State hare quite a time of it milling up acondiato for United .States. 'Senator/ A great number of gentlemen hiavo been trotted .'out—one or two in nearly evciy cbuntyi Several very good men have been named,' and a great many, that arc not so good. • The J/iftonmn; the homo organ of Judgo PoixocK, is out flat-footed, for cx- Govcrnor Johnston. This is indicative of tho feelings of (be Governor-elect, and is what wo expected. ; It is but the carrying out of a bar gain, sealed, signed and delivered between Johnston and Pollock during the sittings of the Whig-Statq Convention, that nominated tho. latter for Governor. Johnston was theruling spirit iii that Convention, and had been appoint ed as the friend of Gen. Lauimerb, for Gover nor. But,', although ho was tho ostensible friend of tiARiHEKE, he, by trick and'manage*, ment, succeedcd.in having Pollock nominated, with the’ understanding that ho (Johnston) should receive the support of Pollock for Unit ed States Senator.,. Such was the bargain be tween the high contracting parties, and it ap pears that Po’llook is determined to adhere to the understanding then lmd. find that ho has been deceived —ho will And (hat hianew friends care nothing more for Imp. They used him in tho late cam paign, and dragged him from the bench to oc cupy the, stump to deliver political speeches against Qbv. Bigler —but they are now done with him, and laugh at his presumption in ask ing them, to support him for United States Sen ator. . They were willing to recognize his trea son to his professed principles/and to flatter him with promises, so long as they required his services on tho stump, but they nevertheless despise the traitor. . But, can William F. Johnston bo elected to the. U. S. Senate ? Will tho Legislature be so strongly tinctured with Abolitionism as to elect a rank, Abolitionist to this exalted posi tion ? Wo hope not—we hope that, notwith standing tire influence Gov. Pollock will at tempt to exercise in the matter, that there will be enough of National Democrats and Whigs to thwart his purposes. The course for the Democratic members of Assembly to pursue is plain. If t.i\ey find, on the meeting of the Leg islature, that they are in a hopeless minority, it should then be their object to make the best of a bad bargain. They should join the old line National Whigs—such Whigs as are not ready to sell themselves, body and breeches, to a con temptible ftciion ofproscriptionists—and elect a good, substantial, old-line Whig—a Henry Clay if you choose; one who respects the Constitution of his country, and who has no sympathy with Abolitionists or any other dangerous faction. Senator Cooper is such a man, and if‘w(Tcannot have a Democratic Sen ator, wc would rejoice to see Cooper rc-elcctcd. lie is a'most decided Whig in politics, but yet he is a high-toned honorable man, who has sustained ah enviable position since he has oc cupied a seat in tho Senate. He is too much of a statesman, too high-minded and manly, and Ims too much respect for the laws and constitu tion, to be a favorite with such tricksters and factionista as Johnston and Pollock ; but we trust, ns we said before, that a majority of the Legislature yyll not be composed of men who are wniin£.yq_do the bidding of these two gen tlemen. .We hope to see their plans and bar gains recciVv a rebuke at the hands of tho peo ple’s roj\ml(2nativts—^a rebuke that will here after serve ytfrning ‘ to-'poiifar gomWero {O* A conflagration took place on the night of the I2lh ult., at the adjoining towns of Newcastle and Gateshead, England, commenc ing in the worsted Fucloiy of- Mr! Wilson, in Gateshead, and extending to the adjoining fac tory of Mr. Bertram, in which lat ter were stored salpctrc, sulphur, nitre, naptha, and other com bustibles. Tntho midst of the tumult these combujjiiblcs exploded, with a terrific report, which shook both towns to their foundations, caused the bridge across the stream to vibrate like a thiiVM'ire. brought down the whole mass of burning buildings, buried many of the crowd in the* ruins, shook down several adjacent houses and scattered the flames ove’r various parts of Newcastle, ®n the opposite sidy of the river, 1 where a great destruction of property ensued.— Forty persona were killed and over one hundred wounded, r Tub Wab op 1812— National Convention in Washington Citt.—We arc requested hy the President of the Military Convention, held in Philadelphia, Oth of January, 1851, to pub lish the following notice: “The defenders of the country in the second war of indppqpdcnco who still survive, and the children of such ns dead, arc requested to send delegates to the city of Washington, to at tend a Convclition. to be held there on the Bth of January,'Ticxt, 1855, to adopt such measures as will induce Congress not only to do justice to them, hilt also to the widows of those who have gone to their last account. 1 ’ It is important that parlies interested in all the Slates sljould take immediate steps to dc pule their quota of delegates to Washington on the Bth ot January next; It is deemed impor tant that th» Convention should meet in the immediate vicinity of the two Houses of Con gress, ho thkt the men of 1812 may be seen as well as heird by the Representatives of the people. K 77 The value of the dimoncl which has been found lately in Manchester,-Virginia. is said to he worth three or four thousand dollars. A scientific examination shown that it refracts, and if rubbed on dry cloth or leather, acquires positive electricity, ana on being suddenly re moved iit)m the sun’s rays into tho dark, it sends forth sparks of light resembling fairy like blazing stars. K 7" John C. Cox, a telegraph operator nt Jeffersonville, Ind., was shot and wounded a tew days ago. by a desperado named Alhy, who came near being lynched. DtT'Many years ago, drunkards in England wore punished by being obliged to carry thro* the public streets what was called tho drunk ard’s cloak, which was a largo barrel, with ono end out, and a hole in the other, through which (uput the head, while tho hands were drawn through small holes on tho side. (C 7" Judson, alias Ned Buntime, tho father of Know-Noihingism, Imsbeen arrested at Bow doinham,)Maino, for shooting a negro man in a row, and wounding him badly in the leg. (£7* The lost society spoken off is t|ip “Pay Nothing.” It is said to be alarmingly prosper ous. Tho password Ja “Lend mo a dollar,” — the responsebroke.” homs. • If we were to tell a number of our friends that they don’t .know what a ‘‘home’ 1 is, they would grow somewhat: indignant—perhaps-use hard words, And yet it. may be remarked that tho' number p! persons who know;njhat a genuine honio jsj by experience.’ ; few.—' One-man iii good circumstances Will tell us that ho has a flue house of his own, in'which every comfort and convenience aro provided. He has a wife and children - there, also, and they giro’ life to the place* Very true. But does ho pre fer that home, thus furnished and thus enliven ed, to every other place in tho world ? Does ho sigh,, wheq tho honor of leaving comes, and smile when he is permitted to return ? Docs he love to sit byAho cheerful fire and fondle tho chib dreii, entering into all their little disputes with acuriohs liitcrcst? - Dow ho take particular note of tlie bird in the cage, and the cat, near the fire ? If not, ho has no homo, in the dear est sense of that dearest of words.' If his mind is altogether absorbed-in the dusty ways of business—rif he hurries from the house in- the morning, and is loth ;to return, at night—if, while he is at homo, ho continues to .think of -tlie journal and ledger, and repulses the advance of the prattling children, he has no home; ho only has a place where he lodges and takes his meals.", - • Ah I happy is ho who knows and appreciates the full bliss of home; whose heart is warmed and, hunianized by its cheerful influences, and who feds how superior in purity of pleasure are allits enjoymcms.tb the turmoil delights of out door life.' Thrice happy, is such a man. Ho has discovered the only Paradise tills world can now aflbrd.- ,It is only such a man who can have a deep and sincere pity for the unfortunate creatures who arc homeless. lie regards them as being cut offfrom the best influences of the earth, and exposed to the action of tho darker waves of life. He feels keenly for him who has no fircsilSe—no dear ones to welcome him with smiles, and prattle oyer the little history of tho day—no tohdnc to soothe when heavy cares have troubled the mind and rendered the heart sore; and the sympathy of such a man -is not slow to overflow in acts of benevolence. A good home is the source of the fountain of chari ty in the heart, • Qur advice to those who have no homes, such ns wc have described above, is to get them as soon as possible.' They can never be contented and substantial citizens, nor thoroughly happy men, until they follow this counsel. Get homes! Fill them with the objects of love and endear ment, and seek there for the pure delights which the world besides cannot .aflord. AGRICULTURAL. ADDRESS. Below will bo found a beautiful extract from an address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Somerset county by tile Hon. J. S. Black, the present Chief Justice. It is from these occasional literary dibits that most men form their estimate of the ability of our loading minds. Few have cither the faster orir.clination to read the reports of decisions in tbo Supreme Court, amt consequently few become acquainted with the forcilileflfyle,thooriginalityof thought and the happy power of illustration, which have made the subject of the present notice the ad miration and pride of bis profession. The ad dress is marked throughout with ninnfy and no ble sentiments, ami abounds In classic beauties. To say of It all that its merits deserve, without producing a specimen, would subject us to a charge of writing from*p;irtlsan prejudice# Wo prefer tl> let tlurextraot-spcokforilself.' In onr humble opinion. It is hard to find a more vivid picture of human progress in' the works of any Jiving writer or speaker than is contained In the following passage. In eloquence, terseness, sublimity, and simplicity, it will bear a compar ison with any of tho productions of modern lit erature that wo have been taught to regard as models of power and beauty s' “Without Science, man the ruler of this world, would bo the most helpless ot all anima ted beings. His Creator made him the monarch pi tho earth, and gave him dominion over it, to govern and control it; to levy unlimited contri butions upon it, ami convert everything in it to bis own use. But be found himself at the head of a revolted empire. All its physical forces were in a state of insurrection against hlslawiul authority. The inferior animals were bis ene mies. Tim storms poured their fury on bis un. sheltered head, lie was terrified by tho roar of tho thunder, and the lighting seared his eye halls, lie was parched under the hot sun of summer, and in winter he was pierced by the cold. Tho soil, cursed for his sake, produced thorns and thistles. Tho food that might sus tain his life grow beside the poison that would destroy It, and ho knew not how to distinguish the one from tho other. The earth hid liermjn crala deep hi her bosom, and guarded them with a rampart of tUck-riudcd rocks. The rivers obstructed his passage; tho mountains frowned their defiance upon him } mid the forest spread Its gloom around him, breathing a browner hor ror upon tho dangers that head his way. If bo left the dry land and trusted himself to the ocean, the waters yawned to engulph him, and tbo tempest came howling on his track. lie seemed an exile and an outcast In the world of which he was made to ho tho sovereign. But Science comes to rescue tho powerless king from his misery and degradation. Gradually he learns from her the laws of his empire, and tho thonns hy which his rebel subjects may bo con quered. From ago to ngo bo accumulates the knowledge, that clothes him with power, and fills his heart with courage. Step alter step ho mounts upward to the throno which God com missioned him to fill. Ho bolds a barren seep, ter In his hand no longer. Creation bonds to do him homage. Tho subjugated elements own him for their lord, yield him thoir fealty, and become tho servants of his will, . Tho mine sur renders ,lts treasures i tho wilderness blooms around him like a now Eden \ tho rivers and tho sea boar his wealth upon thoir bosonq tho winds waft his navies round the globe ; steam, the joint product of tiro and water, becomes his obedient and powerful slave} tbo sunbeams are trained to do his paintings} the lightening leaps away to carry his messages j and tho earth works with ccosloss activity to bring forth whatever can minister to his gratification.” Own Tnnuubiuiilk ULKssisns.—Tho season foi special thanksgiving'ls nt bond, ami several of tlio States have appointed a day for its obser vance. GovemorPowolK of Kentucky, bnsglv cn nu example of expressive brevity worthy of special approbation i “I, Lazarus W . Powell, Governor of IhoOom- IV on «n' a °f Kentucky, doset apartTlmrsdny. the ftOlli part of November, 1801, as a day of Thanksgiving, and request that tho people of Kentucky on that day suspend tholr,ordinary pursuits, In order that all may attend on assem blages for prayer, thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God for tho Innumerable blessings ho l.as bestowed upon ns as a People, State, and Na tion, “Awful Ficumua I”—A brother editor,after scanning tho' returns of tho late election, ex claims’‘These are awful figures—may wo never look upon their like again!” So mote it be. (£7* The rumor that Col. J. W. Forney in tends to resign the Clerkship of tho House of Representatives this winter, Is contradicted. Visitoos.:— During tho month upwards of ton thousand persons have visited tho gallery ol (ho Notional Institute and Patent. Office, Washing ton. 'n Inter from Europe, - The steamship Pacific, at New-York, from Liverpool, brings Liverpool dates to the 18th, There is no netys of Interest from the Crimca.—f On tho'4th a cannorindc took place at Odessa, bctwctn-theEngisli steamers and.'the'quaran tine fort,.The Russian troops continue to con centrate on the Austrian frontier.' ;30,000 Rus sian troops are at Bahchescral, and by the mid-: die of October their array will amount to COjOdo. besides the garrison of Sebastopol, 30,000 men,' making in all 00,000. . The allies have the same number of troops there, and a Turkish force ot 8000 men is to be added, as also the Egyptian contingent of 7000 men. It is again said that the Turkish General, Omer Pacha, was prepar ing to assume the offensive in Bessarabia, com mencing his operations on the .Pruth, the Do brudscha-, and the sea. The whole of the French .fleet in the Baltic is said'to be on.its way back to France, and the smaller English vessels have plfio left for England. The re-establishment of Poland as a kingdom is said to be contempla ted by. Franco and- England. In England, a national subscription has been opened for the wounded, and ,sick of,the army of the East.—- Some great mercantile failures have occurred in Ireland. In Spain, the foreign refugees have received orders to quit Madrifl’ witlnh. eight days. At Lisbon, Portugal, numerous failures of both native and French houses had occurred. In Denmark, the House of,Representatives has voted to draw; Up articles of impeachment against the ministry. Mr. Upton, son of the English Engineer who constructed the fortifica tions of.Sebastopol has been captured by the British,’and will be used by Lord Knglan to furnish information to be used in the siege. In China, Canton had hot been taken,.though the insurgents bad made three attempts. Tliniitagtving rmtoiMlion, Pennsylvania as. In the Name and by the Authority of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania. Wim.um Big lkb, Governor of said Commonwealth. • |P|| PROCLAMATION. h'clloxa Citizens ':—A sincere belief in che ex istence of a God, and a just conception of Ilia attributes lie at the foundation of true religion and civilized society. -The free declaration of this belief becomes a Christian people. This Almighty and Beneficent God has great ly blessed the Commonwealth and her inhabi tants during the year that lias just closed. An humble acknowledgment of Ills goodness and mercy, and an open manifestation ' * lude to Ilhn, is an act of homage end coming a people so highly favored. The blessing of peace lie has bestowed upon' us. Our relations with all other States are most amicable, and the tumult of Internal strife has not been heard in our midst. All the great interests of the people have been eminently pros perous except only the Agricultural, which in parts of the State, has suffered from the drought. \Viih the exception of a few communities which claim our sympathies, the blessings of health have prevailed. 'Our inslitulionsof gov ernment have been perpetuated, and civil and religious liberty enjoyed by the people. The cause of Education and Christianity has been advanced—the arts and sciences have progress (4* and ihc moral and physical condition of the country been improved. ’The devastations of war which arc now so SOreJy afflicting the people of Europe—the des olations of famine and the ravage’s of pestilence, have not been permitted to invade our favored Commonwealth. These manifold blessings ore the gift of God. and to liim our'most devout thanks should be offered. Under the solemn conviction of duty, therefore, and in the conformity with tho wishes of many good citizens, I.'William Bigler, Gov crnor.olUheCommonweainujf Pennsylvania, do hereby appoint TmmabXV, tub 23d” day or Nqvbmbbu nkxt, as a day ‘of general thanks* giving and praise throughout the State, and earnestly implore the people, that setting aside all worldly pursuits on that day, they unite in ollering thanks to Almighty God for his past goodness ami mercy, and beseech him for a con* linuance of his blessings. Given under'my hand, and the Great Seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-four, and of the Commonwealth, the seventy-ninth. Bv tub Goveukoh: C. A. Black, Secretary,of the Commomcculth, Oct.-28th, 1854. 1 Its Public Works. Wo suggested a low days since, that the op position party would change their time in rcla (ion to the sale of public works. The last num ber of tho Telegraph) the central organ at Har risburg, of the ICnow-Nothluga, has justuuulc the discovery,“thutthu trickery of (he present Canal Hoard, hy a reduction of tho tolls at mi unproplllyus time, contributed largely to the defeat of the sales of the Main Line, Inst July,” and therefore, «‘wo recommend that the Board he abolished immediately, and that the Govern or he authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a General Superintendent.” All tills is just as wb expected It would bo, and no one will feel disappointed. But truth compels ns to say, that, tho Telegraph knows very well that there is not one word of truth in tho charge against tho Canal Board. Tho re duction of tolls referred to had no effect upon (ho sale ol’tho Main Lino, as was demonstrated by tho Pennsylvania Kailroad Company. Be sides this, tho Cana] Commissioners, in n com. municathm to the House of llcprosontallvos, when tho transaction was a topic of converse, limit explained their action to (ho satisfaction of every member. And tho Telegraph knows ns well as wo do, or should know It, that the bill for tho sale of tho Main Lino Was signed by (he Governor before tno reduction in question took place. But tho 2'elcgraph wants an excuse for not selling tho works \ ami wo predict (hat If the Board bo abolished, that will bo (he cud ol all attempts to soil them.— Pennsylvanian* MAnnuaß Licences.—Eighty-eight marriage licenses have been Issued from tho clerk’s office, Washington, this month. Oy Tho vote upon tho question of a . Prohl. bltory Liquor Law fell abort of that for Govern or-10,257, Oy Then. Chester, a colored man, and ft lawyer In Liberia, la on a visit to UartUlmrg, where he formerly lived. tt7“ Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, ft catho lic signer of tho Declaration of Independence, contributed one million'of dollars lo tho Amer ican cause. 05“ Tljo sales of Hie public limits U'ls year will ejccoil 0,000,000 ocios | a liirgor quantity Ilian lias boon sold any ono year fur .llfteon or eighteen years. CCT' Acsonllng to the latest retains, (hoavor ago of the salaries of elementary school was ter® In Groat .Britain, doe® not uzaued S26U or $BOO a year. .Differends iiktween two Suits.—There j® tills diUerence between a law and a lovo-ault— that with a law-ault our fears are generally for the worst, whereas with a lovo-sult our hopes oro ulwaysfor the heat. DjTTwo Passengers by the steamship Wash ington, at New York, were arrested for suing- On one was found a large buckskin belt led around his body, in which ttiuro were Iwo rows of watches tightly sowed Into a bolt, varying In value from sloo to $2OO each. An Unbeasonaiuk Fashion,— A day or two aliico a man was soon entering the city ofßrldgo. qort, Conn., from tho direction of Fairfield, In n state ot entire nudity. Ho anld lie was bound for Missouri, ami wnuaSwodo, but tho author!- tics proamnlng that lio did not know whore ho was going, nor who ho was, took him un aud had lUm carod for. ; THE;WAR.IN THE fiRIJIEITT~ miiiiATio.vs nßroiife- subasiopoj.. The correspondent of the London ChronirtE. As yet, not a gun him been fired against R.- hastdpol; mid although tho enemy baa throfcß a few shells at onr advanced divisions, not n S 3 has.been.lost,/ .This, however, is.bnl theolaiu preceding the storm. ■ Since tho hostile ft w have been face to face, no time has been wise I oh either side, Doyond night have tho Haft sions labored to strengthen the neglected In,!! fortifications of tholown.-; Fresh rcdbhbtsK been' thrown op, breostwbrks cohslructcd' ijl tho stone towers most exposed toohrTafiaiS nearly disappeared in thb earth thrown against them., On tho east of the totvn Lll cber. And consequently immediately Jn tho-Bntish lines,, a btfphg horsc-shoc ;rolo U u hashed) .constructed, which ws do hot marked in any of.thc maps now before-ovS this will be the point, againsb/which our’attar? must first he directed/ The cm my deserves th, greatest credit for the energy ho has shown in the lost few days; bqt-it'qow-yemams to be proved if (heir activity bo inspired by dolerroi nation or by despair.,; A spiritof dissimulation anti falsciiood Bcenisjolurk in eveiything Rus sian ; and in tho harbor of Sebastopol, With her guns elevated to,command the plain above,lies a 74-gun ship, painted to resemble A three-doc it er. This paltry art jflee, however laudable in a 'Chinese mandarin, is certainly unworthy of A Russian admiral, On oursidbi at Boiakiava the greatest activity his never ceased to re!™' Tile stupendous task of tending the heavy siege puns has been concluded without accident,— Forty-two 8-inch guns and morfars'arc already a’ mile within the positions they with occupy?— Sixteen others, with sixty SSt-pounders landed from the ships, follow up to-day.- This night ground will bo broken, and. probably -to-mor vow, or.,the day after, 120 guns will open their fire upon Sebastopol. Much will, of eburae depend upon (he nature of tho ground where the parallel lines will he drawn, and' Our engi neer officers describellicsnmeosmost’unfnvore bio, being rocky, with tilde earth. ' Ground will be broken at 540 yards from tho town.— There can be little doubt that our guns once placed in position, n breach will soon be cfie-ct cd, and then' British, bayonets",w II clear tho Russian batteries and entrenchments ’: hut 1 fear th.it before they can be brought efficiently to hear, we shall have a heavy loss oflifo to de plore- That Sebastopol will fall before six’dayg nave passed is certain. The ship guns’will bo worked by sailors; and about 600 biud jackets landed from the Agamemnon and Sates partif' encamped last night on shore, , ■ ’ Owing to the lire opened hy a Russian'bnf. ‘TO.'??'? 1 ? crMlcd for the .especial purpose, the British second and fourth divisions retired a few hundred ynrda to the rear of the position they occupied. Not a shell told, but it' was properly denned unadvisablc to risk the men's lives with no advantage to gain. This battery might be easily- silenced, had three-op four of our siege guns been brought to bear upon it but not a shot will he tired until all the cahnoft arc in position. The practice of the Russians was not had, and most of the shells hurst' in S small quarry about fifty yards in front of the fourth division. The range was about 1800 yards. A few round shot passed over' the di vision, and one fell in the midst of the -CSif, regiment, hut no one was hurt. The men look ed upon the whole firing ns a spectacle got up for their especial nmnsiracnt, and expressed their approbation or disapproval, according to the merits of the case. If a shill burst within twenty yards of the group, it was hailed with a universal 'Bono Johnny, hut if; on the - con trary, the projectile chanced 10 hnrst in the air. (os often occurred.) the men appeared-even disappointed. Yesterday afternoon, the fourth division changed places with the third; who look the l ap, the regiments composing it being aij armed with the Minio ride, whilst the fourth siell shouldered the old musket. It iaoxpecled that the honor of the assault will fall-to the fourth division, supported by the third. The Duke'of Cnmhj-edgc’s iiiviaion, consisting of the Guards nnd Highland Brigade, remained ,ho "” r of the army noarUalaklava until the 2d of October, in order to cover the base of operations from the possibility of an attack,— Meanwhile, the roads and tracks through tho hi !y eountry south of Khutor Mnokcniie, by winch the alhed armies made tlicirflank fnareh on flair klava , have been broken lift and put in vo a slate of defence by tho British forces.— flic pghl flank of (1.0 enemy is effectually cov ered by the defile leading into the valley of Hie Tehernnyn, by that stream, and by thomiershy ground about it; and so satisfied was Lord Koglnn on the Ist of October of the strength of tins position, that he caused the', First Division to advance to the right of (ho army; anil lb take up the posil'cm it will occupy during the siege. The Valley of Inkerpinn is a deep ravine about one mile in breadth, formed hy the stream of fchernaya before it falls into the western ex tremity of Sebastopol harbor: (bis volley,is, in faol .the cent,mint ion of (be deep inlet by which the harbor itself is formed'. On the eastern side of tins valley the ruins of Inkcrman still retain traces of the fortifications erected by tho Greeks or Genoese on this position ; nnd fortho defence of Sebastopol against an attack hy land, these heights ought,to have been crowned with strong batteries, which wn’nld have rendered he place almost impregnable, since they woulef have; enfiladed the whole position now occupied 1 by the besieging armies. This precaution ap pears, however, to have been ncglcrted. Along the course Of the valley, and parallel with the hl vvam of tho Tchcrnnya. runs the aqueduct; which hnpphcf? the (.locks and paH of thtftown with from water: and &o abruptly do tho rooks rise over the ravine on the western Bide, that on turning towards the harbor,'this aqpc duct is earned through (v timnelm the free* Stone rock 300ynrds in length. ' r Rather more than a mile to the south of this tunnel, and upon a height .which rises rcrpcU-. dicularly above the vnllcv. tho First Division of the British army has taken tip Ha position. It forms, therefore, the extreme right of the whole allied forces, and It is profeclca byaslccp wall of rock, whlcbis inaccessible td the enrnrg. Wo presume that the ground finite occupied Is beyond Hie range of any guns which the .Bus-,’ sinus might be able to mount on ,‘tbo opposite side of the valley, which la still for the present! In their possession. 1 The French army occu-. pies the left of our posltloru.find extends to thb'. const Immediately south of wherO; the deep and navigable bays offer the greatest. fliciliticß for‘landing the siege-train and tho, stores' of our allies : some delay has.ncvcrlhe less taken place in this operation. On tho 3d, no regular attack bad begun ph bny part of tbo place, but the booming of heaVy puna from tho forts Of Sebastopol sounded like the prelude to tho tremendous struggle which was about to commence, and showed that tho enemy was re solved and prepared to offer a strenuous defence of the place on every side. . ' Thoro was a rcconnoisnncc of tho enemy's position yesterday, October 2d, by Lord Ra glan nnd staff. Sir John Burgoyno also made an engineering rcconnoisnncc. The enemy fired on them, but without effect. Ttmust be understood (hat Sebastopol Is by uonunhs “invested.” It is only threatened on the. south and southeast side by tho army, while the fleet attacks itqn thecastsido/ There is an enormous boom across tho entrance,' afid ninny ships have been suplc also closq to tho batteries. We have already found -by experi ence that, heavy ns our snips’ guns arc; tho Russians, by giving their heavy, metal great, elevation, nro able (o-throw further"‘from their batteries than wo can from our decks. Their allot went over ps tho other day, when oura were falling 500 yards short. . ’ ■ lIonjOIDE or A MEMBER OF CONGRESS.—TJIO Alabama papers fitato that (ho lion* James Ab crcromblu, a Kcproscnlatlvo In Congress from that State, recently killed a man In tho State of Florida. Tho particulars att> not given, but It appears that Mr. Abercrombie was discharged altar a judicial investigation, thus Implying that tho homicide was justifiable;- 1 , Ctyßlchard Crandcll, an active farmer of Anno Arundel to., Md., la IpQ years old t ; -t;
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers