AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JODSiJIi BhiTTOS,.- Ediidr' 6 Proprietor. CARLISLE, PA.. DEO. 6, 1855. , CoBnKSPONDKNCB.—In our paper of to-day \ye pftfelieli l the first letter of •"Cuinbtrland,'* our able Washington cotres * pofadent. He Win correspond with the Fbftiii teer daring the entire session of Congress, and, os be is an experienced writer, and, possesses many advantages, at Washington ,wc doubt not his letters will afford much information to our readers. •>; /ufxlß Slags. —X correspondent of the Ohio Statesman, brings forward the nnme ol Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, as « candidate for the Presidency. Health or Jupos Douglas.— The Hon. Mr. Xlkn, of Illinois, now in Washington, states that bo was In the sick chamber of Judge Doug las, et Terre Haute, Indiana, and found him convalescent. The Judge expressed the opin ion that bo would be able to bo in Washington by the first of January. Postjsob to nx Pbkpaid bt Skamps. —The Post Office Department notifies the public that from the first day of January next, all letters (not freo) must b'o"prepald bystamps r and Post masters aro required to have stamps on bond, so that all who desire may obtain them. The evidence of prepayment of postage will then bo the stamp only, and where not affixed by the parties sending letters, the Postmaster must put them on. Auditor General.—The York Gazette re commends the nomination of the Hon. Joel B. Darker, of Adams county, os the Democratic candidate for Auditor General. Oy- A State Cohvestior of military men, will bo held at Harrisburg, on the third Monday of January, for the purpose of adopting mea sures for the improvement of our Volunteer system. Clerk or tub House. —Col. W illiatn Jack, of Hollldaysburg, and Jacob Ziegler, Esq., late publisher of tbo Harrisburg Union , arc named as the most prominent candidates for Clerk of tbo next Boose of Representatives. Col. Jack has already served with much acceptance in that position., and Mr. Ziegler w&s formerly a Clerk in the Senate. Either has the requisite ability tc fill the office well. Winter. —Autumn, with its changes up on the beauties of Nature, is fast passing away, and winter with its biting cold, its heavy frosts, and dark clouds will soon bo upon us, and as (bo keen blasts upon Nature’s trumpet break upon the car, it produces varied feelings and reflections upon the mind of those whose lot is cast in regions where the Storm King reigns through the tempest months of the year. To the young and gay, who are blessed with a sufficiency of this world’s wealth to meet his coming, prepared for the reception, he brings vision of joy and happiness. To the wealthy, Stem winter presents no unpleasant aspect, ns they gather around the old hearth-stone where the warm fire and bright lights, make every one cheerful and happy. But there is another class, and we fear they number many, in our community, to whom the coming of winter brings reflections and feelings of a different character. Those who through sickness, mis fortune, or a want of employment have not the means to prepare for the lung months of cold And storm, and'have but indifferent shelter, ter, and whoso abode is unfurnished with the comforts that make a happy home, as they cluster around the ere hers of afow expiring fag gots that have been gathered, the howling of the storm makes sad music to their cars. How often are they compelled by stem necessity to bravo the sharp wind, or driving snow, thinly clad, with but little protection from the ex treme cold. Foreign Seeds and Roots. —Mr. Browne, who was sent out to Europe some three months since, for the purpose of rprocuring seeds and agricultural information for the use of the Ag ricultural Department at Washington, has re turned. Hh has travelled during his absence through portions of England, France, Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Hamburg, and Denmark, baring made arrangements for the purchase of various seeds, roots, and cuttings suitable lor the several climates and seasons of United States, some of which have already "been ship* ed, and will soon arrive. The seeds, is un derstood, arc principally to be distributed among members of Congress and the different agricultural and horticultural socict s of the Union. 1 n in of the Pilgrims is lo bo ap propriately celebrated at Plymouth, Mass., on the 21st ot December. Great preparations arc being made for the occasion. The oration will bo delivered by Senator Seward ol New York. N. N. National Convention.— The Presi sldonl of Iho Know-Nothing National Connell has Issued a call for (ho election ol delegates by Congressional districts to the National Conven tion of that party, which Is lo assemble in Phil adelphia on tho 22d of February next, to nomi nate candidates for President and Vico Presi dent. [£7”Qor. Pollock has pardoned Henry Busha, a young roan convicted last Spring, in Pitts burg, of assault and battery with intent to kill. Gat Times for Sportsmen.-— The Susque haana is said lo be full of ducks at tbo present time, aud tho sportsmen have a pleasant time of it Largo numbers ol tho feathered tribe are being shot daily. Dkuochatio State Convention.— Tho Dem ocratic State Central Committee of Pcnnsyl . vania bavo issued a call for a State Convention, ‘ to beheld at Harrisburg on the 4th of March, 1856, to elect delegates to the Democratic Na tional Convention to nominate a candidate for the Presidency. Tho same Slate Convention Will also nominate candidates for Canal Com missioner, Auditor General and Surveyor Gen era!. ' 1 To* Weather at tub North.—ln tho vlcliu ■ fty of Utica,,N. T., (ho sleighing ia good, and tho stag© coaches departed from that clly on Friday morning on Timbers. At PHtaflold, Mass., on Wednesday last, (hero was good sleighing, and at Albany Ico formed an inch thick on tho canal on Thursday night. Tho Jltonfaf Pilot, of tho 10th, says i “tho bolls are jjngllng merrily through our streets, and wo suppose that winter may be considered os fairly inaugurated in his ico-mantled dominions. Tho thermometer is only sis degrees above zero, NKMBjea- Walker* the filibuster, seems to bo off Che high road 'o renown as the fbundcrbf a new State. Hiscontrol of Nicaragua ia rcpreseDted' by the latest intelligence as more solid nnflse euro than' ever. Corral, the last ; man 'who might have headed a movement against his au thority, has been convicted of treasonable cor respondence with'some relics of the opposite party and shot. By. every arrival from Cali fornia, reinforcements swell tbo army of the chieftain, and if be continues to manage his af fairs with the same discretion which he has hitherto cxhibit&J, no power can expel him from his position. The New York Tribune remarks, that the: moment chosen by Walker fbr the invasion of i Nicaragua was the best conceivable. Thocoun-1 try was exhausted by a prolonged civil war.— Everybody desired peace, and any commander who could secure it would have been welcomed by what remained of the people. The leaders of the contest on both sides were dead, remov ed either by battle or by pestilence, and their followers had also been decimated by the same causes. In fact tbertf was no longer oven the semblance of a native army to conquer, when Walker moved upon the capital. The plaza of that town, where for months Chamorro had held Castellan at bay, had not now a defender, and the only military man of any prominence remaining to the country—Corral—made haste to submit and mako a treaty with (he invader, to break it, however, very soon, and to pay the penalty with his life. A more facile conquest is not recorded ftr history. Tbo acquisition of Texas by the Americans was nothing to it. Wc must admit that since his triumph the conqueror has exhibited |a great degree of pol itical sagacity. The Presidency was in his grasp, but he preferred that Don Patricio Ri | vas, a prominent native Nicaraguan, should be put into that office at least for the present.— By this means Walker saved the Government from that revolutionary and alien air, which in his own hand it would have worn. The Nica raguans would certainly bo very ungrateful to refuse their allegiance to an Administration with one of their own number at Us head. Be sides, had he become President, foreign gov ernments would have been slow to form rela tions with the new regime; but there could be no reason why they shoold not recognize Rivas, who had been in high office before, and had borne a decent character as the world goes.— The shrewdness of this plan is justified by the result. The Minister of the United States has already exchanged congratulations with the new chief magistrate, and thp others pro likely to follow. When the revolution is thoroughly legitimated by the recognition of several pow ers, Walker will bo ready to make himself nominally dictator, as ho already is in reality, and to carry his great project another step to ward its consummation. That project is brief ly to fill the country with Americans, and to procure the annexation of Nicaragua to the North American Union as a State, with a pro spect of a similar result for the adjoining coun tries. 1 OronJ Railroad Project. A grand Railway from New York to New Orleans is a project, says the Dally News, which has lately been mooted a good deal in some quarters. The project is to connect the links of roads already built, and form a great chain from New York City, via Easton, Harrisburg, Car lisle, Hagerstown, ’Winchester, Abingdon,Knox ville, Tennessee* TuscalDasa. AfDhilAxnA3i*«- Orlcans, and also branching from Knoxville to Charleston and Savannah, and from Hagerstowb to Cincinnatti and to St. Lonis. In favor of this route it is urged, (bat the Cumberland Val ley extends (Vow the Delaware at Easton with out a crossing ridge, through Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, down into the regions of south Alabama, presenting a direct and favor able route for a railroad fVom New Orleans to Philadelphia and New York. Through its whole extent it is fertile and populous. Eas ton, Harrisburg, Carlisle, Chamborsborg, Ha gerstown, Winchester, Lexington, Fincastlo, Abingdon, Knoxville, Tuscaloosa, ond many other (owns and villages are situated in It.— Wore a road constructed through it, balween the great cities of the North and South West, it would become one of tho most crowded thoroughfares in (ho country. It is already tra versed to some extent, by detached roads in the several States through which it pastes. Tho distance from New York to Easton is 72 miles i and Irom Easton to Harrisburg 00. By this route (ho distance would be shortened from New York to Harrisburg some thirty miles; there would ho a saving of some 50 from Now York to Hagerstown, with transhipment or ter ries to cross. A road is already in operation sixteen miles beyond Easton, and trom (hence to Harrisburg, two oompanlosaro organized and have commenced tho work. In less than two years, therefore, the route will be complete Irom Chamberaburg to New York. Birds of a Feather flock together.— The following extract from the Express, the K. N. organ at Cleveland, Ohio, which rejoices over the assistance rendered by the negroes to the dark order at the late election in that city : “The colored population generally voted for the American ticket day before yesterday.— In this they showed their good Judgement, and they will have no occasion to regret their action. They rejoice with us in Sam's tri umph over a weak, corrupt Nebraska admiuis tration. The colored people are Natives, and much better citizens than tho hordes of Cath olic Irish whoarcycarly floating to our shores." Tho free negro of Ohio is “much better" than the alictvbom citizen ! This is “Amer ican doctrine" in Cleveland. It goes oven flip thcr than tho doctrine of tho Know-Nothing Massachusetts House of Representatives, which passed a bill asserting the equality of negro children with tho children of poor white persons, whether native or foreign-bom. Divorces in Rrope Islam*.— I Tho Supreme Court of Rhode Island, during tlie present term, has granted thirty-six petitions for divorce.— One of tho eases presented some novel features. A lady was married when about sixteen years of ago to a man who soon aftor left her. Some (eight years after, as neither she nor his brothers had,hoard from him, they supposed him dead, and she married again. About a year afterward her Brat husband appeared, and tho Court now granted her a divorce from him, legalizing her i marrlagtf'wllh the second. Sums and Toxins.— The Frederick (Va.,) Herald says:—“Some people believe that a heavy persimmon crop Is a sure sign of a ‘dread ful cold winter.' If this ho true, then look out (his coming winter—got ready a plentiful supply of wood and coal, os well as bed clothes, forvro I are assured by a friend that (he 'ifmmon crop In this region is unusually largo. So far, wo have had quite a mild fall." * •rBESIDENTUt. The Reading Gazette, the organ of mocracy-of Berks 'county, has an able article on the subject of the Presidency* .in which 1 its' prcftrtrtCC for Mr. Buchanan ft clearly made manifest. . ' 1 ;]: . ‘ The Norristown Register, the organ of tfce Democracy of Montgomery, county, indicates its preference for Mr. Buchanan for the Presi dency. The Star of the North, a sound democratic paper published at Bloomsburg, Columbia county, indicates a preference ibr Mr. Bucha nan for the Presidency. Several other newspapers, in varidus parts of the State, have put up the name of Mr. Bucha nan, for the Presidency, and several counties have instructed their delegates to thq next State Convention to support him. , . Meetings have been held in. Philadelphia, re commending Mr. Dallas, for the Presidency.. The Doylcstown Democrat, the organ of ilio Bucks county Democracy, has the nambof Mr. Dallas at its mast-head for the next Presidency. The Harrisburg Keystone, has also put up the name of Mr. Dallas.' Delegates to the State Convention, from sev eral counties have been instructed for Mr. Dal las. Tbt Ttnlb Admitted. It will bo remembered that immediately .af ter the enactment of the bloody scenes which characterized the Louisville election, the Know- Nothings everywhere attempted to fasten the responsibility of these sanguinary outrages up on the Democratic party and its friends. Pious editors labored ardently to convince the public that Know-Nothingism was not to blame for these outrages—that the. supporters ’of that party were beyond censure—that Democracy and Democracy alone, was to shoulder the aw ful responsibility. Conscious of Its innocence, the organs of (bo Democratic party remained calm, and quietly awaited-fora time to clear the record. The National Intelligenceri & pa per which stands confessedly at the head of the opposition to Democracy in the Union, thus speaks on this subject. We ask the candid of all parlies to read : “After a careful examination of all that we have seen bearing on the pomt, after an un prejudiced study of the articles that have ap peared on the subject in the Louisville jour nals, wc believe that the blood of tbo slain is on the bands of the Know-Nothings. The proof ore many and convincing.” tCT" Employing any person to make fictitious bids at an auction, or getting the auctioneer to “run the property up,” renders the sale void, In Reading, Pa., lose week, a suit was brought on a promissory note, given by a widow for the first payment on a property which she bid in, for 81,601, at a public sale held by plain tiff. The defence was that the sale was illegal, the plaintiff baring employ what tho law terms “puffers” at the sale—that is; individuals to make fictitious bids for the purpose of running up the property, and that in this way ho got the property up to $1,600, and then told de fendant that if sho would bid one dollar more she should have the property. She did so, and it was struck of! to her and tho note given.— An efiort was made on the other side to contra dict all this, and show that tho property was not sold above its real value. The Court charg ed that the value of ito property was of no consequence, ihat the law doe*not. allow .ficti tious, bids*, and ihat employ ed, the sale was absolutely void. Verdict for defendant. A Grand jury In Now York have indict ed the directors of a mining company for fraud, In declaring dividends not earned. Such swin dles are often resorted to, to keep up appear ances until largo stockholders can soli out their stock. In this State wo believe such a course renders the directors individually liable for all debts of tho coloration, should it Bill—but a resort to the criminal law seems to us a better way of stopping such frauds. Declaring a round dividend, and borrowing money at two per cent a month to pay it, is a kind of financiering which should consign the perpetrators to tho peniton tlary—although too often resorted to, all over tho country. Fugitive Slaves.— The Now Bcdlord(Moas.) Standard of Friday, says sixteen passengers ar rived thereon (bo Underground Railroad on tho previous day, and that tho roadftdolnga “largo and safe business.” The Lt Roy (Now York) QaseiU says fonr runaway slaves, from Mary land, passed through that town last Wednesday, on tbolr way to Canada. Murder at Elizabethtown, N. J.—On Friday evening a man, named Coleman, who has been for several years engaged in tho stage stable of Carter & Thomas, at Elizabethtown, N. J., had a difficulty with John Thomas, a son of S. B. Thomas. Young Thomas struck Coleman, when the latter immediately drew a pistol and shot him, instantly killing him. “Wo Unto You, Lawyers." —Tho New York Herald insists that this conutry shall no longer bo governed by lawyers. It protests against electing a lawyer for President next lime. That means, of course, that none but George Law should come in. If the Herald can prevail, tho lawyers are how to be pro scribed along with the Catholics and foreigners. How will the lawyers like that 7 [£7" Tho Democracy of roost of tho New Eng land States have declared for Gen. Pierce as the Democratic candidate for President in 1856. The Cleveland Plaindealer thinks ho will bo the nominee of tho Convention. The two-UHrds vote will render a nomination difficult, but Gen. Pierce may be the man. ; A Munchausen Snake Story— The Romu lus (New Pork) Ettffle says that Mr. J. Mild, man, of Cato Four Corners, while returning flrom a visit to Romulus In his carriage, recent ly, encountered a pair of Immense rattle-snakes, engoged in fighting a boo's nest. The snakes used their tails to beat off tho bees, and in & short time woro In possession ot |tbo honey of their antagonists. Mr. M. attacked and killed one of tho snakes, which measured 85 feet, and had 07 rattles In hla tail. The skin and rattles may bo soon at his residence at Cato. Proha. bly Mr. Mitdman wears multiplying spectacles. Falsjtt.—A man that bleaks hia word bids pthcra bo false to him. Advetuhtt. —Adversity successfully over come is the highest glory, (CT'A bachelor advertised for a'helpmate,* ono who would prove *a companion for his 1 heart, liia band, and hia lot.*. A fair one reply ling, asked very earnestly j “How big is . your j; Corrwpcmdwi of thgjUmtrican rofonteer;.] , ’v WASUINOTON, , , WAamNOTON, 8c0.,1.1855. I doppt know whether a correspondence,like a convcrsatlon,oughtto begin with an allusion to tho weather, .but I feel that such weather as vfo have at Washington at present ought to be encouraged,- arojl know no better way of en couraging a thing than to givo U a favorable notice it> the newspapers.. Allow’me, then, to say that I have rarely experienced 'more delight ful weather t]mn wo are enjoying hero just now. The city, of strangers—members of. Congress', pfllce-huntcrs, quripsityrscckcra, and all manner' of ihf*n .and women—and the hotel keepers are reaping. a , golden harvest. And right hungry they arc to®, after their long fast since the 4th r ofMiirclv when tho late Congress ended; ahd right.well do they know ’ how to charge., Fifteeivdollars per week is the lowest price for a little room, with board, at a Urst class house. • vA.tiicrobcr of Congress endeavor ing to make; arrangements (or the entertain ment of his family at one of these hotels; was informed that .the accommodations ho required would cost hiiin ninety-five dollars per wCek'-p -about double his pay* Gnu would think that amourit oughtjo ‘provide’, for a man and his wife and as- many children as followed. John Rodgers to the stake, not forgctiing the “one at the breast " there* is any man in your neighborhood “100 poor to take a newspaper,” I advise him ,not to think of spending the win ter at Washington. Congressional affairs are in a very tangled condition just. iiOw/at least so far as-conccrns the opposition to,the Democracy. An attempt at an opposition caucus was made on Thurs day, but it failed, less than a dozen attending. It was tried again on Friday night, put. things still didn’t, work, right, and an adjournment till 10 o’clock this forenoon was agreed upon. . It is the general impression that Gen. Cul lom, K. -N., of Tennessee. will be the opposition candidate for'Clerk of the House. Sargeant, it is said.'is.to bo "bought oil with the Printing. Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, (set down os Repub lican,) of Ohio, 1 and lion. Henry M. Fuller, |sel down as old line Whig,) of Pennsylvania,stood out somewhdl prominently for the Speakership; and yet both may go overboard. The DcmqcraMo caucus will meet to-night. All tho’prcscnt incumbents of House offices will be re-nominated, and it will keep the loose lointcd opposition busy to'bcat some of them, lion. Howell Cobb of Georgia, and Gen. Rich ardson of Illinois, arc named for Speaker. Gen. Whitfield, of Kansas, has been at tlw National Hotel for some days, and Gov. Reed er arrived at the same place yesterday. They arc both large, fine-looking men, and men of talent too, • Whitfield will bo admitted, to a scat at the opening of the session, after which Reeder will endeavor to oust him, with- what success remains to be seen. ' A painful actuation wns created yesterday by a report of tho'death of Senator Douglas, who hasoccn lylng Ul at Terre Haute, Indiana, for some weeks past. * The report was incorrect. Mr. Allen of Illinois, who arrived. yesterday, states that Mr. Dooglas is stil mending, but, docs not expect to be able to start for ({ft# city before tho latter, part of December. • ' It was supposed tho President's Message would bo put mi typo, to-day, - but there is n 6 telling when it will be delivered to'Congress, for tho simple reason that there is no> telling when Congress will be ready to receive.it. You are aware it is a Know-Nothing maxim that “the office should seek tho man, but it would Astonish you to see how many men the offices at tho disposal of the opposi tion (provided the opposition can harmonize till-they get them disposed of) are seeking.— And what is very strange, some of these men have not yet discovered what particular office it islhatseeks them. Theyhavo,,! presume, received a sort of “spiritual" communication that there is an. office on tho look-out for them, and they are waiting anxiously, for t the spirit to rap again. I- met one gentleman the other day, who thought It was the Postmastership of tho House that S?as after him, but ho wasn't sure,. •••']; ‘ . , • . It may 'interest some of your readers loleam- Ihat Land .VZfrintatiOutaa AocUnodin_pnoe uv tlila city, week. They range from,94, cents to.one dollar per acre. Cumberland. 1 . . ’ Washington, Dec. 3, 1855., Tbc Dcmocratib Caucus was held on Satur day night. Messrs. Cobb and Orr withdrew as candidates, and Col. Ricbainison was nomi nated, bached by a glorious resolve' of princi ples. Mr. Banksi of Va.» was nominated for Clerk in this wise': Col. Forney declined in fa vor'bf his Assistant, Mr. McKean. Mr. Q. W. Jones explained t|ie matter to the caucus, but os a Northern man had been nominated for Speaker, Mr. Letcher, of. Va., demanded a Southern roan for Clerk. This was at once Matters arc, however, considerably mixed up. On the side of tho Know-Nothings, Camp- chances are Ho counts 90 votes. Fuller's prospects arc, of course, de clining. There will be a worm contest for tho public printing. ■ The Balloting lor Speaker—No Election, Washington, Dee. 3. Senate.— At 12 o’clock the Senate was call ed to order, and the members elect sworn in. The daily hour of meeting was, on motion, fixed for noon. 1 Adjourned. •• House.—At noon the House was called to order by Mr. Forney, the Clerk of. tho last ses sion, and the'scene of confusion which had up to that time prevailed, suddenly terminated. The roll was called when 225 members an swered to their names. On motion of G. W. Jones, of Tennessee, the House proceeded to tho election of speaker, by a viva voce vote. - • . After the nOmiitaiions of tho various candid ates, tho first ballot was taken, with tho fol lowing result: IV. A. Richardson, (Dcm.) Of Illinois, 74 Henry M. Fuller, (IL N.) of Penna. 17 Lewis D. Campbell, (Republican) of 0., 53 A. 0. M. Pennington, of N. J., 7 11. Marshal, (K. N.) of Kentucky, 30 N. P. Banks, of Mass., - 21 A number of other candidates were voted for, 1 and much', excitement prevailed.. There was InO. election—ll 3 votes being necessary to a I choice. SECOND DESPATCH, "Washington, Deo. B:—The House adjourn ed about 3 o’clock, after four ineffectual ballots for Speaker. The lost ballot stood: Richardson, 72 Campbell, 57 Banks, 22 Pennington, ’ ' 8 Marshal, 30 Fuller, • ; ; 10 scattering,. . . 10 Democratic SlMC.Coriycation oJIBSC, At a mooting of the Democratic State Central Committee, NtWomber let, 1865, at Uio Merchants* Hotel, PliHadblptilii, llio folloning resolution was adopted i' ‘ , Ihiolveit, That the Democratic Stale Conven tion of 1860,-ho .hold on the dth clay of March neat,,in llarisl.org, at 10 o’clock, A. M. In pursuance of the nbOvo Resolution', the. Convention will assolhblo at Harrisburg, for the purpose of selecting Delegates to the .Democra tic Ilatlonn) Convention, and nominating acan-' dldato for Canal Commissioner, Auditor Gone. rat.and Surveyor General. i ' JAMES V. JOHNSTON, ' Chairman Stale OentraJ Committee. Jacob gaienEn, |Bocrotayl6»-, ' KT Tho Germantown Telegraph (neutral) 1® strongly in favor of Col. Jofls W. FonnitTfor United Statca'Senator, and pay® rt liajiilsome tribute to 1)1® talent® and aorTjcV* In tho Dpuio* cratlo parly, i letter from Danville. Ground occupied by the' Montour Works — Amount.of Coal Consumed Annuatly-pThree Furnaces-Mineral Jioitr sesr-Numbcr 1 of vjfands- JSjnployed—The Managers. ■"> e !; . ■ Deen’s HoTEt j Danville, Noy. 28,1855. Mr, Editor; The reader my form some; conception of (he magnitude pf;.the v Monto\ir Iron Works, when I plate that they cover up wards of fifty acres of ground. This, of course, includes the Rolling Mill, Furnaces, Machine Shop, Sheds, Goal Yards, &c. v The amount of cool consumed annually by these works, I am reliably informed, reaches the enormous amount ofwcar 100,000 tons. It is almost exclusively Anthracite, and from tho uOal fields near by. The great mountains of coal now piled around the mill, to serve tho worksduring the close of navigation, will ex citctho iniud of the stronger with astonish ment. 'i :■, \ ]' . In addition to their, other works, the .Com pany, now owns an extensive Machine Shop, a few,yards from the Rolling Mill, where they hre prepared-to do aU, their own costing ond fitting up of rolls, as well as manufacturing ond repairing steam engines. This is a very important acquisition to the works. . A few yards in the rear of tho Bolling Mill is located three Anthracite Furnaces, employed constmitly. in making iron .for the mill. ; They arc propelled by three ninety horse power en gines, aud turn out on an -average about GOO tonsbf pig,iron per.week* Being located, at the base of a high bill, tho ore, limestone, ishcd ,tho snot lyhere he had ,lain his master. lie was still alive. The negro then continued, to strike him with his hoc, till life was extinct) V ,That night ho took one of the horses from tho stable and carried body at lcast ja'mile and a half from the Ifoupc, lie then dragged, the ‘ body along the grOupd several hurdnid yards, for the purpose, as, ho stated,'of conveying tho impression that. Jiad-btcn thrown from his homo,, dragged by lho stijrup and thereby killed. Ou Wednesday n>onijng,tbo family became alarmed .at JudgCjPlcmmonVnbsepco. , ,Tlio negro'bclpg a.v|lo'scpuhdicl, thp.foct ofbavjug t beeiV’whipped by Judgelflemmohs on tho morn ing previous; and as he was seen going out )n the field with his negpo tho lost limp ho Was s&n—all these facts aroused suspicion in tjio minds of tho family that tho negro know some thing about him,. -■ i, w l : i i lie was called up .and interrogated, but del nied being, in the field with 'fate, master., This rather confirmed their suspicions. Ho was so- • verely thrashed. ,Uo then stated thocoso pret ty much as wo hare, and showed the spot whom ho lad, parried the. body. After ho had made • full confession* many of his neighbors in tho meantime having come in* bo was taken out and bung on a tree. '.BcciwAbat Oakes.-— This' la tlio season 1 to buckfflicatcakcsand SatislngcfS. : • j!- . i i ■■ WM 'f l ' A correspondent .of-the" Washing “/■ writingftotfgnli'Juiin aa'lfraf.'wiiL* < tho 16th ofNoVcihhcri fijir I.fr*"®**.on “Ibis town is.notfaing;ihpro than . ... a place, fop steamers, dependent cptbclVr Pl>in l upon .tho passtngerscomWK Md raS swfiasf Ja-lt ss^saet£sixsss^£ii quered a pcaco; and from the tenor of it. Wo spapors.’onoiwonld suppose that a newSi 11 ** - dawning bn Nicaragua. Mr. **• mcrioan Minister, has recognised tho-’n ° AI gortrrinient, nnd made his official adibl?'” 1 Costa Rica.op .thosonth,' and Hondo™.' r 1 nbrtheast, have pronoimccd^agaiiut^fet and tho papers from; Costa' fcca ! re«iSt?! night cry—•'Death to the Aihcricar.it " ■ W ; "Mony men are expected from San - m tho next steamer torjoin Walker, andi?? bo not shot, poisoned or. killed j n son,. “•» there is but littlo doubt that ho will ,H over ail that can be brought against hto?T, should ho die. anarchy and confusion' w’oSI again reign, for there is not union in hise.* competent, or with brains enough to lit. i” place. Walker made a ' treaty ‘of, peace Je? Gen. Corral about tho 20th of. October wh 'i by ils terms was to have.been binding nnd e.? manent; but shortly afterwards some -of AT rat’s correspondence, was, intercepted, showing treachery nnd treason on hjs part. Walker hS him tried by a court martini, nnd had him si™ according to his sentence.. Corral President of the Republic. Walker Was ofe ed the Presidency,but deelincd.it; and is called Commander-in-chief of the army, but he is i* fact the ruler Of the country, lie j 8 , man in stature, with light hair nnd complexity and glittering grey eyes ■ that seem to piet« you through. One would take him', at Out view, to bo a piero country lad, without digai ty or talent,,hut ho, is absolutely worehinmi by his men.,Tho opposite, party look upon ,11 Americans as (illibustcrs. upou.tlic. Nicarag n . Transit Coippnny as a tlllibustcr, and upontho United States ns the greatest flllibnstcr of ail. 1 ' Fillmore nnd. Crittenden. Tho Louisville Courier, (bid. line Whig,) | a 1 referring to the’reception “Kentucky’s favorite son" met with in Philadelphia, baa tho lohow. ing ou the popularity of the two big guns of Know-Nothingism r “Mr. Crittenden has many strong friends • and the contest for the Knotv-Noming nomine alien for the Presidency will lay. between him and cx-Prcsidcnt Fillmore- In one mpeci, least, there is a great similarity between these two rival aspirants. • Both nre more popular the farther, they ge{ from,home /.Mr..Fillmore. - a Northern man. has no strength whatever in ' the North. In New. York, his own State, al most any man that could be started would beat him easily.. In tho South be, is held, in the highest esteem, is deservedly popular, arid would make a stronger race than ant umh the Know-Nbihings could run. • Mr. Crittenden, a Southern man, Js, notoriously wenkatthb South'. He could not carry Kentucky with any respectable opponent against him. But at. tho North, where he is hot known-os well os lift is here, he has troops of friends.” .' Extraordinary Fight between. Eleven Kin dred Horses," 1 1 • . Soullify, in In’s History of the Peninsular War, relates the following: ; “Two of the Spanish regiments which had been quartered iu Funen, were cavalry; mount ed on fine black long tailed Andalusian horse*. ■ It was impracticable to bring oil these hortes, about 1,100 in number—and Rotnnno was hot a man who could order them to be destroyed; he was fond of horses himself, and knew that 1 every man was attached to the beast which had earned him so far-and so faithfully. Their bridles were, therefore,, taken oil,-and they were turned loose upon the beach. A scene ensued such as probably.never, before was “ They were scnsiblo that they, were no longer ; under any restraint.of human power. A gen eral conflict ensued, in which retaining the dis cipline they had learned, they ohorged each other in squadrons of ten or twelve, together, then closely engaged, striking with their fore feet, and biting and tearing each other wflli the most ferocious rage, and trampling, over those who were beaten down, till tlic shore, in tho course of an hour, was strewn, with .the.dead and disabled. , Part of' them had been net fne on rising ground at a distance; they no sooner• heard the roar of ,battle, than they enmo/huo dering down over the intermediate hedges, and catching the contagious madness, plunged into the fight with equal fury. Sublime;: as .(ho scene wan, it was too horrible to bo long con templated, nud Romano, in mercy, gave orders totlestroy them : but it was found too danger ous to attempt this, and after the last boat had quitted the beach, the few horses that rnnairi* Cd were neen still engaged in the dreadful work of mutual destruction.” Fropi the Richmond (Vo.) Despatch. Terrible Explosion In a Coal lUnc-StlnatkolT 1 loss of life. We regret (6 learn that' another explosion of firc-domp occurred in tho. Engl jab Company's Pits at ,the Black Heath. Mines, on, Monday night at half-past 11 o'clock, ,Of ilK>ao : who were in the pit nt the time three were instantly killed and tiirec’sevcrcly wounded. They are as follows; John Morahal, killed. 110 had his head dreadfully crushed ; he leaves a wife and sev eral children, all very young. Charles Thomp son, killed; leaves a wife. Nicholas Lake, killed: leaves a wife'- and one child. Joseph Burton, badly’ burned, not .expected, to live.— George Colton, aged 20, badly, injured. A colored boy, named Wm» Wright, bruised ,and burned seriously. • ' ‘ , fourteen other persons, vrho were below at the timndf tho explosion, were nob injured,and came out safe. , . . FoninEn Pahticdlahs. We learned from tho pits last night that Jo seph Burton died ycstciday morning, at 1 half* post 10 o’clock—hq leaves a yrifo and, childrcp. George Cotton had his teg broken and so crushed that it was (bought amputation would bo necessary—it wa® believed he would recover. ,Wm, Wright, tho colored boy* is very seriously injured, and it was thought bt would die. Tlio fourteen who escaped vrete not in the up-set* as it is called, where thfl «*' plosion occurred. ‘.i • How the explosion took plaio is not known. It occurred in an did upset, where a redd 1 had been made through an old working, which had some time sinCo been on fire. ■ Mr. Job Atkins, the superintendent, bad left the. pit at ; a tfW*' ter past B,' everything being in onkr nnd |M greatest possible caution, as fnr as bo rould en force, it, having been taken. 1 110 had even 1 pl»‘ ccd two extra gog-rocn on giiard' ThcJfduty l^'tb'see'that tho ventilation is kept upi and that gas docs not accumulate eft as to. endanger too lives’ of (no men. Each man WASBUpnJied wUh a Davy Safely Lamp,. . lamp! Wt* the top off, He must have unscrew* ed it; and jt’is (oVS'l* pipe. It Jaia^mos^rcmarkablo spite of tho jvcJl-knowu dangers of mining.. JP® miners will ; neglect-thoso precautions whW*J have been .adopted- ton their protection* ajjj which* with Ordinary care, will most cfledluauy •ward ofl daiigcr. .1 -TluSro can bo-no blame at tached to (ho officers of tho Company—the reg ulations'being of the most systcinatio andper fefafCharacter. 11 ‘ n f !,i :v ' n f ' n Tho seem? at the' pit, yesterday, was mJJ* distressing,’. Tho ‘sight of tho bodies ‘of tj|® 'dead, and tho sufferings of tbo'woUndca , of tho most painful nature. Tho mdanehW/ scene was heightened by tho lamentations « thp families of the dead, all . which were c Cttdingly helpless. ' SLANDenEB.—Avoid a slanderer •'m 7® 1 * ttbiild a acorpiou. ' *• ( v