AMERIC AN VOLUNTEER. WHNB. BMTTON, Editor & Proprietor. CARLISLE, PA., MAY 27, 1858. Democratic State Nominations, Supreme Judob, WM. A. PORTER, Of Philadelphia Canal Commissioner, WESTLEY FROST, of Fayette Co, Assault.— Two young men of our borough named John A. Mine, and John Lknnert, bbtl Germans, were arrested nnd taken before Jus tice Smith, on Monday last; on the charge 01 Brutally beating a man named Jacob F. Brown, alio a German. The accused were sent to jail, but soon after Mink procured bail for his ap pearance at the August Court. . And Still it Rains !—“ls it never going , to atop raining ?” is the anxious inquiry of all. Nearly every twenty-four hours for the last •month, there has -been more or less rain. The weather makes most people denatured and pee* ' visit, and it is not much wonder. Still, there is no use of getting in a bad humor about it, for that will not mend the matter. It rains, nnd rains, and. tains, and still it rains, nnd God ' knotya when it will stop. The Corn. —A ride into the pounlry a few . days since convinced us that the fears of the farmers in regard to the corn crop arc well . founded: The corn planted before the wet weath er set in, is up and growing, but looks languid, yellow, nnd sickly, We fear >t will never come to much. Much of the corn planted was put ■. into the ground when in a very wet state, and of coarse the plants present a miserable appear ance. Anumber.offarmers have.not yet got ; through with their corn-planting, and are be-. . ginning to despair of accomplishing their object. Infanticide.—iOn Wednesday of last week, r at the request of persons residingin the vicini ty. Coroner McClellan held an inquest upon the body of a male child, seven weeks o’.d, found dead in Us cradle, belonging to John Rider and Sarah, his wife, residing at Boxbury. six m’les cast of this place. From the appearance fifths child, and its very sudden death, a strong suspicion was entertained that foul play had i been resorted to, and that the parents were the perpetrators of the dark deed. An exami nation of the body of the infant was made by ■ Drs..KiEPPER and Dale of this place, who tes tified before the Coroner’s jury that the child’s death was caused by violence. Other testimony corroborated,this belief, and the jury rendered their verdict accordingly. The day following Prosecuting Attorney Shearer issued a warrant for the arrest of Ri der and his wife, who were brought to town, and lodged in prison. On Saturday morning last the prisoners had a hearing before Judge Graham, on a writ of habeas corpus, when a J number of persons were examined as witnesses. ( The testimony was about the same as had been ; given,before the Coroner's jury—the child had I been found dead, with a string around tls neck, ’ blue marks were visible, on the neck, the , blood-vessels much swollen, &c. After the ~ hearing had been got through with, Judge Gra- : , HAM agreed to admit the prisoners to bail inthe sum bt §l5OO. each, for their appearance at the ■ next criminal court. Mrs; Rider procured the bail, ahd was. permitted to depart. Her hus- . < bapd .was remanded to prison in default of bail, , , Collectobs Appointed.— The Commissioners Of tills county on Thursday last, appointed the following gentlemen. Collectors of State and County taxes for 1858, viz: Mifflin—Robert Middleton. . Kfankford—Thomas J. Haokett. Hopewell—John Slevick. Newton—Elias Diehl. , ■ Westpennshorough—John Whaler. Southampton—Win. 6. Duncan. ■ - Hampden—John Searer. ' Dickinson—James L. Henryk ' Lower Allen—Wm. Stephen. , Eastpennsborough—John Wolf. North Middleton—Elias Light. Upper Allen—Lewis Hyer. Silver Ducy. Monroe—Peter Baker. . South Middleton—George Otto. Shippensburg—Jeremiah Allen. Shippengburg Boro’—John Bender. Newvillo—John Crawford. Carlisle—James Spottswood. Mechan|cshurg—D. 11. Swiler. JfTew Cumberland—Joseph Fecman. Conviction of a Muhdkeess.— The trial of Mrs. Abigail Gardner, for poisoning her hus band, the late postmaster at Ilingham, which has occupied the Supremo Court here during the week, ended on the - 22d inst., by a verdict ot murder in the second degree. Goal Inspector Appointed. —The President has appointed Dr. C. H. Hunter, ot Reading, agent for the purchase of anthracite coal for the use of the United States Government. The office is one of the most valuable in the gift of the Executive, the agent receiving a copunission on his purchases. ■. . tty The President has not only demanded explanations from England and. Spain with re gard to the search of American vessels, hut has despatched the frigate Colorado with specia orders to the homo squadron to stop any fur intorforenoea from any quarter whatever. Tub Mentions Moving —Later news has been received from Utah. Salt Lake city was almost deserted, the Mormons being reported as leaving ilk Jorge -bodies. ' Dismissed.— Mr. R. B. Hackney, Doorkeep er of the U. S. House of Representatives, was dismissed from his office on Monday last, (or official misconduct. The resolution of dismis sal'ms adopted by a vote of 141 yeas, to 34 nays.. Important from Havana.—By the arrival of the steamship Black Warrior ot New Orleans from Havana, we learn that a few days before her departure an English cruiser had landed, at otietOf the ohlposls. and ransacked the planta tions in search of Bosal negroes. The captain • of the outpost had been ordered to Havana for ■trial for not having resisted the invasion andin suit of the Spanish flag. -Transfer op the State Oanai.s. —Under tht)'provisions of tho "‘Act for Iho sale of the State Canals.” recently passed, the Canals of the Commonwealth were surrendered into the possession of tho.Sunbury and Eric Railroad Company, on the 19th inst. „ Bishop learn that Bishop 'll- U. Onderdonk has preached no less than one . hundred, and ten sermons since his restoration, tipi mind is &s vigorous as of yore, and his powers ot argument persuasion have not been lessened by his increasing yearn. ANNIVERSARY .WEEK OF THE iIBOLITM- An Abolition, or,' ns some call it, a “ Repub lican”. Convention, was recently held in New York, which was well attended by the “big guns” of that traitor faction. We ihakc some extracts of the second day’s proceedings, as wd find them in the New York Herald. The busi ness of the Convention being slated by (he. President— ‘ - “Mr. May then rend n letter from Rev. Mr. Mayo, of Albany, regretting his inability to ho present, and taking occasion to call the Ameri can church the corner-stone rff all the tyrannies in the land.” - ‘ The assault upon the church was so far en dorsed as to bo ordered to bo printed. Afior that a resolution-was offered, denouncing two of the churches of.the city, hy a gentleman who seemed to have conceived a new idea of the Trin ity: “ Rev. Mr. Johnson said he [md a resolution to offer with great pain ; but.lie felt bound by his duty to his God, the Church of Christ, and the slave.” The next speaker, in a rambling and discon-' neofed set of remarks, declared, by way of epi sode, that he could not forgive Senator Doug las’s past course: “ The Tribune had gravely discussed the question whether. Stephen A. Douglas should be made the leader of the republican party —• lie knew of no greater evidence of demoraliza tion than this. Dougins had lamely seen Charles Sumner beaten, and until he acknowl edged his inhumanity nnd border ruffianism ’ he was not to be taken by the hand. [Applause.] “ A voice. I say so. too. “ For himself, he did noflike to see northern senators eulogizing a southern senator’s death.: for himself, he would say, let the dead bury the dead.” • Mr. Parker Piilsbury followed this speaker in an assault upon the religious revival. We give a specimen sentence or two. of his.dis-. course: “He wondered what peculiar diabolism was intended by this late revival. John Brown had said that he always.knew'when Daniel Webster was going to do some peculiarly mean act by the peculiar religions unction which he exhibi ted. [Applause.] It was just so with the country, and these remarkable revivals always preceded some great national villany. “ He had said that some deed of damning I darkness was to follow the revival of 1838.” Dr Chcever hadjjnid the revival was worth I nothing unless it could do something for the slave. But the South would tremble at this anniversary, when they. would greet with re joicing the rumbling of the revival The revi vals added strength and length and power to the chains that bound the slave.” The next speaker, one Mr. Wright; defined his position as an anti-slaVery man without any of the customary unreserve: “He was for the single idea of anti-slavery wherever it might be developed. He would ac cept an atheist, a Mormon, a Mohammedan,'if he had the spirit of freedom. His radical point was expressed in the resolution, that the rights of man did not depend upon any form of relig ion, or any book :■ that all men were emitted to freedom and the pursuit of happiness. What ever is opposed to self-evident truth is a self evident lie, and that is a self-evident proposi tion, and whoever opposes it 'is a self evident, self-convicted liar. Prom the outset of this en terprise various obstacles were,thrown in its way t among others was the Bible. This was the most important obstacle twenty years ago. If any one could get a text to show that it was right to'buy and sell human beings, that was supposed to settle the matter. Now we do.not I recognize that book as authority bn the sub ject A Mr. BufEum followed and Came down heavily on revivals : “ These revivals had done nothing. .They had not only kept silent about the sins of sla very, gambling, or internperence: they never cried out against any sin ' • “ A voice- You’re out of order. “Mr. Buffin. No, lam not; lam only fel ling my experience. The revivals were all non sense and tomfoolery. [Applause,] I ‘set’ .three nights in one of ’em, and that’s all I heard in any of 'cm. lie had been called to account for saying -louder’ in one of these meelings.and it appearcd-he was guilty of a great infraction of etiquette. Mr. Buffin claimed that the revi vals did no one any good.” . Mr. BufDn stirred up a Mr. Gross, who was big with it speech: . ■ “ Mi-. Cross. T will not give up the floor.— I know my rights : I’ve got a speech in me, and it must come out.. [Applause and laughter.] Mr. Cross proceeded to argue that all religion that was not-anti-slavery was good for nothing, and was of the devil. He told a. story of a young lady in a revival meeting who asketl wlnit they meant by ‘.coming to Jesus.’ One of the breihcrn told her -Get thee behind me. Satan.’. And.the person who said that he preferred to work out hisoWn salvation, instead - of talking it out. was arrested and fined.” “ Old Gentleman in the audience I’object to all this abuse of religion. It is wffiSjij,— [Applause-] What has it to do with slavm- ? •• The Chair, The gentleman is not in order unless Mr. Cross givesway." [Not in order to object to the abuse of relig icm!] “Mr. Cross, r don’t give way. These peo ple are afraid their religion will ho sent to the devil. They say the gales of hell shall not pro vail against it, and yet they are wared at Cross What will they do with the gales of hell ? I say that this religion is not only pro-slaveiv for the black mao tint puts the while man.in bon dage—whips Quakers and pen-emitesinfidoK '■ “Mr. Cross proceeded to assail tire pilgrim fathers in I lie most approved style. Some of I 'he sisters from New England could not stand it. and retired front the premises. Mr Cross lashed himself into an .awful passion, particle larly about the northern Methodists. All’ their' talk about anti slavery was a lie. They were a. k bloody ns Rome. and so were the baptists [ and the Presbyterians.” ' . At another session of the conclave the spent • ing scented to have been pre-arranged and more studied. A. Mr. Higginson, of Massachusetts, whom we take to bo a gentleman ofep’or. eulo gized the negro, and preached the lawfulness of. assassination.■ Ho was for carrying the war into the heart of the s’ave States, and was op posed to lingering in Kansas and the Territo ries, on on the outskirts of the real battle ground: ••When all these side issues were disposed of there remained the great Gibraltar itself, the in stitution of slavery to be stormed. And who who was to settle the last great question ? ft was men like themselves, like Lane and the Re publicans, who were to furnish the material of the great battle yet to he fought. Then there was that great black force which was to help: ‘who would befreo.'and ‘themselves must strike the blow.’ There was not an instance in the history of a people being set free-by others. He wondered at the negro shaving the white man for so many years and keeping his razor on the outside. [Laughter.] But endurance required a higher courage than assassination But be hind all those years of shrinking, as behind the long fr-ovility of the French nation, there might lie a dagger and' the power to use if when, the time comes. (Sensation.] They forget the he roes ol St. Domingo and Surinam , and .the ma roons of Jamaica, whom all the powers of Eng land and Spain had to compromise with. While Anglo-Saxons had to yield (he palm of individual heroism to the negro. The courage of the negro would put to shame that of'those whites who called themselves brave. There was no heroic act in history which bo could not • ists; In 1856, he was ordered.to. Kansas, where he has remained ns chief, until quilo recently, when ho was appointed to. the command of the expe dition to Utah, .fits.death took place when lie was eh route for the Mormon settlement to as sume the head of the troops operating in that section of the Union. Gen. Smith was a chiv. alrifc soldier, a good citizen, and a warm and devoted friend. His loss is a National calamity. ' Mn. Tuckerman in the State Prison.—Wm. S. Tuckerman the forger and mail robber has arrived at the State Prison at Weathorsfleld, Connecticut, there to spend his twenty-one years of sentence, unless ,ho should lie fortunate enough to obtain n pardon for a portion of the time. Ho is now in his thirty-eighth year, and will therefore bo on' tho verge of sixty, when his term shall have, expired. The Hartford Times says that since ho has been In New Ha ven jail, bo has gained twenty-two pounds in flesh,,, JVhen ho reached the prison, he request ed the fVarden to supply his sleeping room with a carpet, but ns no carpets were used there, the request was not complied with. >,! . I Election op Doorkeeper. —On Tuesday last Mr. Joseph L. Wright, (Lecompton Democrat) of New Jersey, was elected Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives to fill the vacancy created by the dismissal of Mr. Hackney. Mr. W fight received 117 votes', against 77 lor Ar thur W. Fletcher, of Washington city, Repub lican, arid 22 for Americans and scattering. Mrs. Cunningi[am has not Adopted the Boon's Badv.—TlieHewTork -Vl’n-'j contradicts the report that Mrs. Cunningham has adopted the bogus baby as herchild. The Aews says that Mrs. Cunningham is now living in a very, quiet and unobtrusive manner in the upper part of the city, surrounded by her family of chil dren, one of whom, tfie youngest daughter, was married a few weeks since to a very respectable young man, and.there is no good-or sound rea son that we can understand-why she, in lier do mestic retirement, should.not bo ioltto hcr-ow-n enjoyment, without further molestation, from’ impertinent gossip-mongers-. The Connelly Trial. —On Saturday ihe trial' of Win. M. Connelly, in Cinncinnati, for har boring, .fugitive MaveSj was interrupted, and some sensation produced, by the disappearance of one of. the jurors, Mr. Hartshorne. It was explained, however-, that a. dispatch from Dav enport, Iowa; informed him that his daughter residing there was at the point of death, and he 'immediately hastened to her. The Court sus pended the- trial until Thursday next, and one of the 1 Deputy' Marshalls was sent witli an at- ichmcnt'after Mr,-H. The Gazette says that the Court room was Crowded by ladies rind gen lUon n, who had come to, bear Ex- Gov, Cor win’s speech lor the defence. A Cnuucn Burner-— A man in. Holmes co., Ohio, named VTollick. who for some yearsjias been insane on religious subjiotsptnok itihto bis head a few weeks ago, that he was cominis ioned to burn down all the churches. Accor dingly on Thursday last ho irocccded to set Rrc to the Lutheran and Methodist churches, bnt before much damage was done ho found himself in jail; He is said to lie still of the be lief that the only solvation for the people is in his gelling out and bipriing the churches. (C 7” Queen Victoria has hem presented with a dug born in Pennsylvania, ami named Prince. The Queen has, it, is said, taken an especial fancy to the happy animal, whose monied value is estimated at $1 250. This favored individu al of the canine species is but a year old Height. 47 inches : length. 5 ft. 9 inches: girth uf body, 41 inches: girth of fore leg, 13 inches: girth of neck, 25 inches : weight, over 200 lbs. Such is the strength, that a man weighing over 200 pounds may spring on his back without causing him to flinch He has been accustom ed tb carry a boy on his back, Consequently he requires but little practice to make him a first rate saddle horse. K?” The specie reserve of the Philadelphia bankiMs slightly rising seven millions; that of the New. York Banks exceeds Ihhly.flvo mill, ions. Ex-Gov. Pollock is spoken of by the Opposition as a candidate for tho Supremo Bench at the next fall eloctiop. 0“ A colt, only eighteen hours old, was sold in Ilarrisbufg on Monday for $lOO. If the value of the animal should increase with its age, it will be a wonderful horse ! snatch with an equal act done by a negro. The heir of Andrew Jackson had gone back to Ten- Ttesseo with' his gold box; and could not find a ’While man in’New"York, or perhaps in the Uni ted Slates, worthy.'to receive it. [Hisses nnd applause long prolonged.] Ho spoke for him self ns well as for others ; but Mr. Jackson had not come among the Abolitionists, or perhaps ho could have found ihem. [Laughter.] Per haps in that army there might have been some burly, brawny black man, Who performed some deed of valor such as was tcqiiircd to travel by the underground railroad. They had proved in Canada the possibility of African colonization. They all had,communication with their friends in the North, and lie thought there was an un derground telegraph as well as an underground railroad. There was one black woman who had gone back again, again, nnd again, into slavery, to help to free others. She circulated freer than the Bible, and the negroes called her Moses. There was another so ,whilc that she travelled all the way from the South, dressed as a disconsolate widow, and before she get to New York an enthusiastic Irish gentleman of fered her his hand and heart. [Laughter.]- - There vvas power enough in any slave popula tion to assert freedom for themselves, with a little education. Was thcre-a man hero who would light to put down a slave insurrection ? We might extend these extracts, but it is needless. They are sufficient to show the real spirit of the men who lead this anti-slave-y ag itatipn. Dralh of Gen. Persifer F. Smith. This bravo and accomplished officer, died at , Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on Sunday the IGfti . inst. Gen. Smith was born in Philadelphia,'' in ! November, 1798, and after having graduated at I Princeton, and studied law with Charles Chattn cey, Esq., entered the army during..the Florida , war, and served two Campaigns under General Gaines. On the breaking out of the Mexican war, the Governor oi Louisiana tendered to Goh. Smith the command of the volunteers from that State, which post, he accepted, nnd served on the Rio Grande with credit and distinction. For ids gallant services at the battle of Monte rey ho was brovetted Brigadier-General. After tflis battle, Gon. Smith joined the column under tho lead of Lieut. Gen. Scott, and participated in all those actions which took place between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico. At Centre, ras, Chepultepec, and the gates of Mexico, Gen; Smith was present, and displayed all those no. I ble, daring qualities for which he was so distin guished. -At’.fho close of tho war with Mexico,' I Gen.; Smith was ordered to California in com. mand of that Mditary Department. Subse quently lie licit! a similar command in' Texas i-Stilish Audacity. The British government, with, a view to pre vent the landing ofslavei in Cuba, and Hie sup pression of the slave trade, have'stationed a number of thdfr arinod vessels about the West Indies, who seem to be carrying out tbeir in structions with a vengeance,. Several Ameri can trading vessels have lately been overhauled and searched, and others fired into, by the En glish cruisers, on suspicion of being slavers,and the tiling is becoming a nuisance, which Johny Bull will most likely have tojibaio, as he did his “right of search” for British seamen, winch caused the war of 1812, wherein ho was consid erably worsted by Brother Jonathan. The last case of interference was the firing of the ‘Tropic Binlj’. a Philadelphia merchant vessel, by a British gunboat, the captain’ of which also took the liberty of sending a boat to hoard fho ‘Trop ic Bird” and examine the ship’s papers. If these acts of tbeir emissaries are. authoriz ed and endorsed by the government of England, they will be likely to find they aro.“crowding too much sail,” and bring about a retaliation. Our neighbors across the water ought to know by the (to them) sad experience of the past, that the United States cannot be insulted with impunity, and adopt, as a matter of policy, a different lino of conduct. Uncle Sam is good natured, but the point at which forbearance censes to bo a virtue win rouse up his ire in a manner that wilt put a stop to this business.’ We perceive that already our government has taken initiatory steps towards inquiring into ’the matter, by the unanimous passage of a reso lution by the Senate, on Friday last, calling for information from the President in reference to the seizure and search of our vessels by the British. Wo hope the Unitod States will act fearlessly ,in this matter, and giro Johny Bull an example of promptness that will compel him to haul in his canvass—such ah example, for instance, as Pierce’s administration gave him in the sending homo of his minister, Mr. Cramp ton. ' . . Operating against the Swindlers.—The Mayor i>f New York is determined to break up the lottery policy business in that city. To do so more effectually, he has proceeded against the owners in Georgia, whose agencies are in New York. Examining the laws of Georgia, he dis-. covered that oncof these concerns, professing to be genuincand authorized, had really no legal authority. The Governor of Georgia was sur prised to find that the Hiatute which had crea ted the lottery had long since expired, and that the thing was a fraud upon the Start. He look the necesssary measuren to arrest all the par- ties concerned, and he says ho. will do what he can to brfialt'Wp the business. A Curious fea ture of the Mayor’s operations is, that he has induced the Postmaeter,General of the United States to issue an order to Postmaster Fowler to have all letters addressed to parties in New York, in answer to advertisements, which upOn their face are shown to be swindling schemes, forwarded to the dead letter office in Washing? ton, wheie they will be opened, and any money which may be found in them returned to the writers thereof, with a circular cautioning them to be on their guard against gift enterprises, lotteries, and other bogus schemes, as they are intended only to defraud the unwary. Ji ■A Man Cut *in two.—Owen McNulty, on employee of the Pennsylvania Kailroad Compa ity, met with a fata! accident on Tuesday of i last week. He was walking along on the Hail-, road, trails syay home, arid wbeo/near Chand ler’s 'Station, in Sadsbury township, about 3 miieswcst of Goatesyille, he was run again by the night train down, which threw him across the track, and the wheels of the train passed over his body, cutting it literally in two, the upper part of which was carried a number of yards on tjie.cow catcher,' filhe deceased leaves a wife and.two children. Mokmon sobjiission. —lt is reported upon the faith of the telegraph, that the Saints in Utah are preparing to submit to the authorities of. the United States, that Brigham Young has laid down hjs arms, and fpven Gov. Gumming free admission to Salt Lake City without an es cort, —that ihe Mormons, with their wives and children, were preparing to leave for the south ern’part of the Territory. ’ All this may be' true, though we have no faith whatever in' any such report. Young has too wido a reputation for duplicity and- crafti ness-to-merit confidence in his sincerity, if the report were true. In view of the many threats he Has heretofore made, and his various breach es of faith. Government officers should be care ful strong force should-be kept within the city, to keep him under constant check, and command obedience to the laws of the country: CownmiNO ArPAta. —The Now York papers of Saturday publish long accounts of an encoun ter between Mr. A. H. Davenport and Mr. Chas. Mathews, iniwhich the latter gentleman,'it is stated, received a cowhidihg from the -former. The cause of. the trouble was an assertion, pub licly made by Mathews', that he bad-paid Daven port three hundred dollars (or tbo latter’s wife. It will be remembered that after the divorco.be.-. tween Mr. Davenport and bis lady. (Miss Lizzie Weston) the latter married Mr. Matbews. Inspecting -mem Biudges —lt is staled that the Diremora of the N. Y. Central Railroad have ordered, an immediate and iliorough in spection of all the bridge* on Ihe road and its several, brunches. In view of the recent dreadful accident on the New York Central Railroad, the Sii(jcrinlenp-nl of the New Jersey road has issued a circular to the engineers and others'in the employment of the company, enjoining ex tra care upon approaching bridges on the route, and directing that the preference in crossing them should be given to the Philadelpliiatrains Death of an old Philadelphian.—On Tuesday morning last Mr. Richard Willing one of ilio most wealthy and worlhy represen a'ives of by gone days, died at his residence in Phila delphia at the advanced age of 83 years. Mr. Willing having inherited great wealth never engaged actively in business. 110 was connect ed with many distinguished families in 'Europe, and in this country, and leaves five children, one of whom is married to John Ridgway Esq., who. for same years past has resided in Paris. * ————i— Death op Du. Hare,—Dr. Robert Hare, of -Philadelphia, the well known. • spiritualist,” died in.that city outlie Isth inst., in his 77th yean CCF* The bar of Leavenworth, Kansas, now numbers over ,100 members, and it is saidt o possess much legal talent. (C7* Col. John 0. Fremont with his family arrived in San Francisco on the'l2th of April. He was then about proceeding to the mining re gion, and intended to remain several months in California. ' Suicide of Iffcnry Win. Herbert. ' Mr. W. 11. Herbert, belter known as a wri ter for the N. Y. Spirit of the Times, a sport ing paper, and other writings on horses, dogs, Ashes and all kinds of sporting, under the name deplume of “ PnANK*FQKBESTEn,” committed suicide at his" room' in the Stevens' House, Broadway, New York, on the 17th instant, by shooting himself in the brest. He was an En glishman by birth, and a gentleman of lino ed ucation and rare literary acquirements, and his writings have earned for him an enviable fame. The New York Commercial gives the follow ing account of the cause and circumstances of bis death: “ He had', it appears, for some weeks been very depressed in spirits, owing to his separa tion fronrhis wife, to whom he ha"d but a short time been married. What caused the separa tion is not known, further than that some wo man had made mischief between them, as is al leged in a letter from the deceased. “ Yesterday Mr. Herbert sent for his friend, Mr. Anthon, and requested him to remain with him as long as possible, as ho, was lonely and depressed. He told Mr. Anthon that he inten ded to commit suicide, and had the matter all arranged.- He.first thought of committing the act over the grave of his first wife, in the ceme tery at Newark, but altered his intention iu that respect. . “ Mr. Anthon remained with him, sitting up with him till 2 A. M., trying to prevail upon him not to commit the rash net, but he seemed determined. While they were in Mr. Heibert’s parlor, together; at the above mentioned hour, Mr. Herbert retired (apparently for a moment) to the bed room adjoining, when Mr. Anthon heard the discharge of a pistol. • “ In another moment Mr. Herbert came reel ing out of the room, exclaiming, •! told you I would do it,’ and fell upon the; floor. The charge having entered his breast and passed through his lungs, he died in a few minutes of hemorrhage. He left letters addressed to the press, to the Coroner, and to Mr. Anthon.” Novel Balloon Ascension. —A reckless dare devil named Sellers made a balloon ascen sion from Dayton, Ohio, tho other day. In stead of a silk balloon; properly rigged and ar ranged for the srip, he had provided a huge muslin concern, coated with glue and ‘• white washed” with yellow baore, in size and shape very much resembling the canvas under which the small showmen on the outskirts of the cir cus exhibit fat women and. big snakes. It was to be set afloat by building a fife' under it and inflating it with rarified air. While being in flated it caught Are, but he finally went off, ri sing at least a mile high. After being at this height for a brief period, the rent in the balloon allowing the rarified air to escape rapidly, he began his perilous descent; which was nearly as rapid as he had travelled upward. At one i time he was in danger of a cold bath in the well swollen Miami, but a current, of wind struck I him, and he came down safely in a marsh about I a mile from the starting point. Altogether, it I being his first attempt to got heavenward, and in such a frail vessel, it was the most foolish and reckless adventure that we have heard of for many a day. The Southern Convention—Treasona ble Sentiments A few hot-headed fire-eat ers—pretending to represent the Southern Slates, and Southern sentiment—have been holding a so-called Commercial Convention somewhere down South. The delegates were self-constitu ted, and of course left free to “ spread them selves,” and deliver nonsensical and treasonable speeches. Should they persist much lodger in this kind of foolery; forbearance must cease to be a virtue,.and “old Buck. : ’ ‘dike old Hicko ry, ” may be induced to put a stop to it in a very summary manner. Our government and Constitution tolerate free speech, but when men attempt to take advantage of this privilege to preach sedition and recommend a dissolution of the Union, it is time they were given toUndcr stand that'their conduct will not be tolerated. If the»fire-eaters of the South and the rabid Ab olitionists of the North don’t like the Union, let them get out of it—-the sooner the belter.— As a specimen of the speeches delivered aflhis Southern Contmercial Convention, we give the following extract from the remarks of-Hon. ,AVin. L. Ttasdr, its presiding officer ; “ I welcome you, as the foreshadowing mf that other more important convention which, ifinjuslice and wrong continue, to,rule the hour a-id councils of the dominant section of our divided and estranged land. must, ere long, as semble (or the noble purpose of putting the po litical and industrial relations of the South upon the safe basis of an. independent sovereignty, whose climate and soil, production and social institutions, will have that unity which experi ence seems to have demonstrated lo be the on ly permanent basis of successful government." Hon. 0. R, Buckalew.-- -It is stated by a Washington correspondent that this distin guished gentleman has received an appoint ment to one of the South American govern ments, as Minister Resident, at a salary of 357,- 500. Remarkable -Escape— Mrs. Hickey was in the third story of a binning house in Bos ton, with.every way of escape cut oft. except by the window. She was very poor and lingered 100 long to save her lit tic goods. The firemen below, ns many ns could join, formed a circle, each man extending his arms horizontally; and grasping with his right hand the right hand, and with Ins left the left hand of the man oppo site, their arms crossing. -They then told her to kneel upon the windowsill and to incline her body in such a way ns to free her head from the Wail, and to full sideways. All being ready, she threw herself from that third story window ! (Not a man'drew back from the im- minent peril to which each one was exposed. All s-ood firm, and this poor woman was re ceived in safety on chat platform of human 1-. and arms Billy Bowlecs.—Billy Bowlegs, the re nowned Seminole chief, accompanied by one hundred and sixty.five other chiefs and follow ers. and Col; Rector, arrived in New Orleans on the 14ih inst. A further representation from the war grdtinds of Florida is shortly expired. A Compromise Woman —The Richmond South says: Our pen recoils from the duty— yet it is our province to record the revolting fact that a white woman in Mecklenburg coun ty, Va., became the mother, a few days ago, of four children, two of whom were of her own color and the other two black. Very True.—Dr. Franklin used to say that rich widows were the only pieces of second hand goods that sold at prime cost. The Shakers opened their church for the sea son yesterday. Not having any means of warm ing the building, it is closed in Winter and their worship is, during that season, conducted ip private —Albany Express. A cold church, we should think, the most proper place for Shaker worship, Slang Terms. Tho usd of slang, so prevalent among the half ' educated and fast portions of the community,is ■pretty well hit off in the following paragraph;:— If you wish ,to he an 'A Ho. 1’ woman, you have got to‘ too the mark, 5 and be less‘hifalu tin.’ tr'Ou may bet your head on that.’ You may sing ‘slightoally’ ‘like a martingale j’ you may ‘spin street yarn’ at tho fate of ten knots an hour; you tuoy ‘talklike a book;’ you may dance ns if yon were on a ‘regular break down;’ and play the piano ‘mighty fine,’, hut I toll you you ‘cnn’fcomo to tea.’, ‘You may bo hand some, but you can’t in.’ You might Just as well ‘cave in,’ first as last, and ‘absquatulate,’ for you can’t pnt it thro’ ‘any way you can fix it.’ If you imagine that you may ‘go it, while you are young, for when you get old you can’t,’ you ‘don’t come it by along chalk.’ ‘Own up now, and do tho straight thing,’ and I'll ‘set you down’as‘one of tho women we road of.’ ‘lf you come up to tho scratch,’ why I must ‘let yon slide.’ But if yon have a ‘sneaking notion’ for being a ‘regular brick’ there is no other way —‘not as you knows on,’ —‘no sirreo, boss I’ If a young man should ‘kind ’o shine up to yon,’ and you should ‘cotton to him,’ and ho should hear you say ‘by the jumpihg Moses,’ or ‘by the living jingo,’ or -‘my goodness,’ or ‘I vow,’ or ‘go it Betsy, I’ll hold your bonnet,’ or ‘mind your eye,? or ‘hit Mm again,’or ‘fake mo away,’ or ‘dry up, now,’ or ‘draw your sled,’ or ‘out stick,’ ‘or give him particular fits,’ ho would ceitain’y ‘evaporate.’ ” ■ Late from The steamship ‘•City of Washington” arrived at New York on' Sunday evening. May 23, with Liverpool dates to the 12th fast. The intelligence is important. Resolutions of c.’nsure against the Government were introduced into both Houses of Parliment, but had not been acted upon. Lord Ellenbor ougli had resigned from the Ministry, and a ministerial'crisis was imminent when the steam er “City of Washington” sailed. Xattr intel ligence has been received from India. The 4th Bengal Artillery had been tried by court-mar tial, and sixty were sentenced to'be hung.. A hot weather campaign was deemed inevitable. Theoppositiph in Paris had succeeded in elect ing another member of the Corps Leglslatif. The Hon. Edward Erskine has been appointed Secretary of Legation to the United States. All the cable fot the Atlantic telegraph had been put on board-the steam frigates Niagara and Agamemnon, and an experimental trial to test the machinery was to be made to-morrow. The English Qovernment.had demanded compensa tion from Naples, for the imprisonment of Eng glish engineers. The prospects were good for an abundant harvest in England. The money, market was depressed on account of the threat l encd ministerial crisis. , Cotton had advanced, and consols were sold tfaeday before the steam er left at 97$ to 97®, Senator, Summer.—The Hon. Charles Sum ner, Senator of Massachusetts, sailed for Europe in the steamship “Vanderbilt,” which left New York on' Saturday.. He publishes a valedictory letter to his constituents. MeeanCdolt- Suicide.—Henry' William Herbert, a novelist of some celebrity and a con tributor of theN. Y. Spirit of the Times bettor known in' this country by the nom de plums of “ Frank Forrester,” committed suicide at the Stevens House, on 'Yorkrbh Monday morning of last week, by shooting himself .with a ; pistpl. He was an Englishman, by birth. . _ “ Our Daughters Leave us: ”r—Longfel low’s pen pioture.of the over-prevalent and nat ural inclination of the fair flower-to leave father and mother, and cleave unto a husband, is beau liful and truthful: ‘• Thus it is our daughters leave us, Those we love, and those Who love us! Just when they have learned to help us, Comes a youth with flaunting feathers, With his flute of reeds, a stranger Wanders pipihg through the village, Beckons to the fairest maiden, And she follows where he leads her. Leaving all things for the stranger!” Salt Lake City to be made a Military Db **ot. It is reported that the Government in tends keeping a large military force-in Salt Lake Valley, and will make Salt Lake City a depot of stores, equipments, etc. ; Even if the late Utah intelligence prove true, thcsupplytrainswill.be pushed on, and', com munication es:ablished and maintained between Fort Leavenworth and Salt Lake City. K7* Billy Bowlegs, the. Indian Chief from Florida* is quite a- “lion” at New Orleans; and attracts thousands of spectators. In response to a speech made by Mr. Maginnis.'he regretted that he had-not. sooner made peace with-the whites. - Tub Philadelphia, Tragf,dy.— The body of George F. Goodwin, who shot his Mispress and then killed' hiitiself in Franklin" Square, in Phil adelphia, on Thursday of'last week. was. taken to Boston in the early part of the week. Lizzie Marshal], ihejcause of ihejtragedy has .suffic iently recovered to be removed to the residence of her parents, at Lynn. Maas, Wonderful Discovery op Gold.— The Richmond Whig learns from a reliable gentle man, recently arrived from the South,-that in the last few weeks there has been opened at whit is known as Puokcrson’s Gold Mine, about four and a half miles from Altona, Geor gia, a vein of gold of richness equal, if not su perior to any ever discovered in this country.— The vein has been penetrated at three different points, and exhibits the most astonishing rich ness. A Fight with feiiAssnoppmia.— The Gonzales (Texas) Inquirer, has an amusing account of Iho invasion ut that city hy grasshoppers, and the attempt of the citizens, to repel tho intrn-' lers: Everybody turned out—men. women, and children, white and Muck, little niggers and chickens, editors and devils —everybody, with ‘•tiro and brushes and brooms, blankets and buckets, carried on the deadly conflict, but to no avail; the hoppers hopped on,anclthode fending forces were obliged to boat tin inglori ous retreat, leaving the barbarians in possession ot the conquered city. . tCT" The damage to the sugar crop of Louiai ana. by the Beil crevasse alone; is estimated at not less than 53,000.000.' ■ CuAWroBD County Bank.— The Mcadville Democrat admonishes the public to be on their guard against tho notes of the Crawford Coun. ty Bank. K 7" Minnesota papers state that' Decotah Territory ip receiving a full share of immigra .tion.. Numbers are pouring in by way of (he Missouri, bound for the valley of ilia BigSipux river. . ■■ ■:.. TO THE PBESIDESTPjISD DIBECTOBS OF THE CARLISLE' DEPOSIT BANK. Gentlemen!— l tender you,my resignation Cashier of this Bank. In communicating tn you ray. intention to sever tho. connection exist ing between us/ words Will not express thedccn and kindly feelings I have towards each and every member of tho Board. From ail! ham received evidences of kindness which shall evof bo remembered. r In giving, effect to my determination to mats this cofhmunication to you, I llnd it the severest trial of my life. ' My health and my duty tomv family require it. y You will permit me to say that these reasons anil no other, induce mo to take this step it affords mo unalloyed pleasure to .'express mv ■Arm conviction that the Bank.ls innhealthy and prosperous condition, and with the earnest bone that it may so continue. The Institution has my best wishes and shall always havo my efforts in its behalf. ■ I remain, very truly, )V. M. BEETEM. Clu-lialo, May 12,1858; ‘ Carlisle Deposit Bank I May 12, 1868. ’ f Tho resignation of W. M. Bbeteh, Esq. as Cashier pi this Bank was this day accepted by tho Board, and the following resolutions nnanfr 4 - mousiy adopted : ■ , Resolved, That in accepting the resignation of W. M. Beeteii, Esq., late ©ashler of this Bank the Bpard express sincere fegtef that his impair ed health requires him to give up apositionthat he has for sojong a time occupied to the great advantage ofdliis Institution and the satisfaction of the community, and that Die Board liav6 en tire confidence in the assurance thattho Instil tutioh is in a healthy and prosperous condition! in parting with our late worthy Cashier, 'the Board tender' him their cordial thanks for thecourtesy and kindness which has marked his intercourse with the Board, and for his faithful superintendence of the interests of the Bank, and tlmt the Board entertain for him the kindliest feelings of esteem nnd confidence. It was further ordered tlmt fhefollowing slate! ment nnd abstract of the minutes of tho’Board bo published : .“May 12, ’sB.—On motion, Richard Parker Thomas Paxton, IV. B, Mullen, A. Rosier and’ K. C. Woodward, were appointed a committee to investigate tho affairs of (he Bank. May 19, ’sB.—The committee, after a moat thorough and careful'examination in detail of tho condition of the Bank, report—“ That they are pleased to give their testimony to Die aecti. racy nnd admirahlo manner in which the bnsi. ness was conducted, and that they have no hesi tation in declaring the Bank not only sblvcnt, but in a healthy and prosperous condition.” It is With pleasure, therefore, that the Board avail themselves of this opportunity.to assure the Stockholders, that the solvency of-(he Bank has not been in tho least impaired'by the exist ing commercial crisis fhrough whioh it has -just passed,»and that no efforts on the part of the Board shall , ho spared to maintain, tho,integrity of the Institution, nnd continue ifs usefulness to the community. Signed, R. pAitlfEiv, Prts’f, N. C. , Mussulman, Cashier, Opposition State Convention. /We observe that Mr.- Lemuel Todd, of Car lisle, the Chairman Of the : Bogus Republican Siate Committee.- of-ns they themselves denom inate it—UnionState Committee—has issued a call for a State Convention of all the “oppo nents of Lecompton’.’ to meet ip this place, on the Bth of July next. This Convention is de signed to be composed of all the odds and ends, ipms and dogmatisms, organizations and par ties arrayed agairtst-the Democracy, and a ter rible effort will bo made. to. mortar the wholp discordant mass into one solid 1 body—the soli-, dilioation, as a matter of course, to bo under the .Captaincy, Generalship and Superintended, cy of Mr. Lemuel Todd, and the remaining Re publican leaders. We observe that fhe Phila delphia News:, tho principal American paper of this Slate,' takes strong ground .against the Convention, and we have no doubt that like the thousand,and one previous efforts made to effect the same object in this Commonwealth’. the present effort will/be found disastrously- futile’ and impotent.— Herald. - Execution of lfillium Williamsv Hahrisbuik}. May 21.—William Williams',- convicted of the niucder of John Hendricks, at the upper end of this county in May lasl, Wes’ executed to day in the prison yard. The occa sion drew a lai'ge crowd of people Id, town, end* about seventy obtained admission into the jail to witness the melancholy spectacle, among whom was William A. Crabb, of Philadelphia” who occupied a position close to the scaffold. A large crowd were outside, and the roofs of the houses overlooking the prison yard were’ filled with people anxious to witness the exccuf tion. Some of these positions wire ' rented at 50 cents and a dollar, each. The prisoner was attended by the Eev. Mess rs. Bartino, Martz and Marquart. ' 1 . The wife, three ohildrcn and sisterof the con demned visited the prisoner yesterday, and this' morning he exhibited but little leeling, evincing a stolid jndiflerence. The prisoner was brought out of his cell and placed on the scaffold at ten minutes of twelve o’cldck, dressed : m a,shroud, of while flannel, and wearing-a cap. He uttered, not a word 1 , except simply to reply •yes;’ when-asked whelh-. er the ministers should pray lor him. , . A brief excitation andprayer waS’ thfcn made by : Dh. Bitrtiue, after . which' an' appropriate hymn was sting. , \ The drop then fill'and 1 the prisoner wltk launched-into eternity. From Malt, WAsniSOrON, May 23.—The ITnioii pub lishes a letter frdm Fort Bridger, dated Aprif 10th, stating on authority of Mr. Qilbert,-for merly a, merchant ,of Salt Lake City, that Gov; Gumming'and Col. Kane wefe met by him ,in Echo Canon, forty-five miles this.'side of. Salt Lake, on the 7th of April. About 20 Mormons accompanied, them. On his way to Salt Lake City., from Califor nia, Mr. Gilbert met with' a-large number of b'eavilyloaded, on the way,as was supposed, to! the While-Mountains, near the borders of New. Mexico. Nearly npe hundred wagons were leaving the citylrtWTty/and so far as women and children were concerned, the city was nearly depopula ted. , ' Ii is supposed that a large portion of. then are secreted on the City creek, above Salt Lake,, in the mountain's, where it is known that they' have large caches of provisions. , In conversation with Brigham he waS.Md that if the army would give him lime ho woo/a leave, but otherwise he would ‘send them.tone 11 across lots.’ ' . . : . , • The corrcspodQcnt adds: . We.are awaiting news from Gov. 1 Gumming with much interest, and anxiety. His early return to camp B P looked for by many, as be took with him larg supplies. ’ c, The Wool Clip.—The Ohio Cu 1 livtitor. fol -1, thus speaks of tho prices of. tho coming wool, clip: , “The wool buyers approach. their work very cautiously, and wo presume prices., will op eight or ion cents lower than the waning n , of last year. Many of tho manufacturers n to buy on time, on account of the difficulty negotiating their paper in banks for cash,as to • merly.” ' ■ ■ The Pennsylvania Railroad is doing remar - ably will, and the receipts for April last wer 560.707 in excess of those of Aptil,TBs7- DT7" A very gen llemanly individual,' who h been'deprived of. ah umbrella, posted up tn following notice: . . . “Who was the gentleman whpexehang umbrellas with me the other day, and foigot t leave his 'I” So perfect- were , the Egyptians in th manufacture of perfumes, that some of tnei ancient ointment, preserved in an ftiabaste vase in the museum at Alynwick, sidrroiam a very powerful pdor.'.though it must be I™“*' two to throe thousand years old. ;, EEO
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