AMERICAN Y OU'NTEER. JOHN B. BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor . CARLISLE, PA., NOV. 11, 1858. ■ We are. requested to state that our two .banking institutions— the Carlisle' Deposit Bank, and the Cumberland Valley Bank—will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, (Thursday, the 18ihinst.) Thosehaying business to transact will not forget this.' , ■Dedication.— The now Methodist Chinch, corner of West and Pomlrot streets, in this bor ough, will bo dedicated to the service of Al mighty God on Sunday next. The Rev. Dr. MoOmstoou of New York, will preach at 101, o’clock, A. M.; the Rev. H. B. Ridowat of Baltimore,'at 3 o’clock, P; M., and the Rev. Dr. Rilev of Pittsburg, in the evening. Mr. Editor —Will yon please inform mo through Iho medium of your paper, why it is that the patrol who are summoned to keep peace in the streets and arrest all disorderly charac ters, are themselves the very first to disturb the peace, by intcrlering with’peaceful and quiet persons who are (fn their way. homo ? They are the first to raise a disturbance instead of quell ing one. ' Justice; Remabks.— Wo know nothing concerning the conduct of those'-who have been detailed to servo as a patrol. If men who servo in this ca pacity So far forget themselves as to disturb the quiet of the town or.offer insult to well-dispo sed citizens, they should bo informed on and exposed. A patrol should bo composed of men who have the welfare of our citizens and the peace ol the town at heart. C?* The present, of all seasons of tho year, Is thotimo when people should make thorough examinations of their stove pipes, chimneys and flues, to guard against accidents by fire, Stove pipes that have been standing in disuse during the summer,.months, should ho carefully exam ined, as it is frequently tho case, in some, unoc cupied room, or in a garret, an elbow may ho knocked put ot place, or a joint worked loose; abrick may have, been knocked out ot a stove pipe hole in the garret, or there may-bo 'a crack 5n the ohimndy itself, through which sparks may fltid ogress. Look to it in time, ns by exorcis ing a little caution now, thousands of dollars wdrih of property may be saved. •- Loxo Evenings.— The summer work is done; the harvest has been gathered; the busy days of. toil are to bo succeeded by the season which a beneficent creator seem to have designed for the roinvigoration of the prolific earth, and the men tal improvement ot his creatures. From the autumnal tp the vernal equinox, the long even ings suggest and afford tho proper opportunity for rest, recreation and instruction. And the family newspaper, tho school, teacher, and, the ■ popular .lecturer'are, perhaps, equally import ant In subserving these varied purposes. The newspaper will keep the reader in practical re lations with the progress of the world, aud the doings of ids follow-beings around him, the school-teacher will make him better acquainted with the books of the present and the lore of the past ; while the lecturer will introduce him Id: the more ; intricate problems of art ahd sci . otjcb, and the more lamiliar details of the ad. vanning' philosophies, in their, numerous appli cations to the varied purposes of human life. : BoTs iN the Streets.— The revelries of our .town boys through our streets at night are be ginning to be regarded as a nuisance by the greater portion of our community, and merit the speedy attention of our public officers.—' Not only do they block up the pavement, but frequently annoy passers by with their course vulgarities. So it is at many of the corners of our main'thoroughfares. Night running is ru inous to the'morals of the. boVs-in all instances. They acquire, under cover of night, an unheal thy.state of mind, bad, vulgar and profane lan guage. obscene, practices,,criminal sentiments, and a lawless and riotous bearing. Indeed, it is in the street,.after nightfall, the hoys princi pally acquire the education of the bad, and ca pacity for becoming rowdy, dissolute men.— "We hope our public officers will give them their attention, and receive that co-oporalion from pa rents and guardians in tllte respect, which the -merits of the case deserve. A Woed to Apprentices. —A journal devot ’’ e d to the interests o( labor, addresses the fol-. lowing advice to apprentices : “In what way do you spend your leisure evenings 7 ■ In idlo . neis—in frivolous amusements—or in the com pany of those who will corrupt your morals 7 Remember, if you would prepare yourself for future usefulness, you must devote early spare moments to study. First be industrious in your several, employments during the hours ot busi ness j never-complain that it is your lot to woilc; I count it an honor; go about it with cheerfulness . and alacrity; it will become a habit, and by be-1 coming so, .will bo a pleasure and delight.— Make it your business’ tp,promote theinterest of your employer; by taking care of his, you will learn to take.care of your-own. Tub Nedeo Vote in New Yore.— ln Now York, owing to the ascendency pf the Aboli tion-Republican party in that State, negroes are allowed to vote. The negro population is sufli cientlv numerous to bold the balance of power and the politicians Vie with each other in bid. ding- for .their votes. At the election which came off on Tuesday week, there were four candidates for Governor; Smith, Abolitionist and Temperance ; Morgan, Black Republican; .Burrows, American; and Parker, Democrat.— It is said that the negro vote was cast almost exclusively for Morgan, the Black Republican candidate. From this it would seem that the negroes prefer the Black Republicans even to ' the radical Abolitionists. [jy* Tho Democratic majority in the city of IT&t Tork is, in round numbers, about 19,000. Tile rest of the State, however, played tho very deuce with the Democratic party. Tho Repub. Ucan majority in tho State will bo some 15,000 over the Democratic candidate for Governor. The SuNmmv and Euie Railroad Case I Wo learn from the Pittsburg Post, that the Supreme Court have filed an opinion in favor of the plaintiff in the case of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company va. Cooper, deciding that tho act of Assembly for the sale of the canals is- constitutional, and that a decree will be entered accordingly at the next Nisi Prius Court, subject to an appeal to tho Court in' Banc.- O* William Sander, who murdered Peter Shork at Hamplonburg, N.Y., in August last, in a fit of jealousy, has been sentenced to be bung at Goshen, on Friday, Dec. 3. fc/“ThePresident baa commuted the sen* tenca of death against Charles Barret for the murder of Reeve Lewis, into imprisonment for lira in the penitentiary of Washington. The recent elections have decided the com ■plexion Cff the next House of Congress, says the Reading Gazette. The opponents of the, ! Democratic party will have a majority of some twenty votes, as near as can be ascertained at i present. The, defection upon the Kansas ques tion, the scarcity of work and money, prostfa- 1 tion of business, and general “ hard times” for all which the party now in power has been, j most unjustly, held responsible—and' various I causes of a local nature, have conspired to bring ! about this result, which every good Democrat i and lover olios country must deeply implore.— But, although it is far from agreeable to con template. in this transfer of power in the popu lar branch of Congress, an apparent condemna tion by Uievpcople of the present Democratic Administration, just as its policy is about to be fairly developed, a reference to the past will show that there is nothing in this circumstance, to discourage us for the future. The State elec tions of 1854, two years after the national can vass which made Franklin Pierce President, re sulted more disastrously than those of the pres ent year. The Thirty-Fourth Congress was or ganized —but a hard time it had before H did organize—with a combined Opposition majori ty of eig/ify against the Democratic party in the House of Representatives. This was a mudh 1 worse condition of aflairs than we now find. 1 But the healthy reaction of popular sentiment — which had been, for the time, misled by the violence of sectional feeling; growing out of'the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act, and the politico-religious crusade of Know-Nothingism —came sooner than the most sanguine ■ Demo crats dared to hope, and much sooner than the least confident of their opponents deemed possi ble. In 1856, two short years .after, this revo lution, the National Democracy triumphed in the election of James Buchanan, and carried a sufficient number in the sev eral States to give them a majority of kbchUj in the House when the Thirty-Fifth Congress as sembled. It is true, we! have again lost what we achieved so gloriously, in .1856 ; but if wo may judge of the future by the past—and there is no safer standard—our defeat is but tempo rary, and the prccusbr pf a .triumphant restora tion to popular favor in 1860. , Notwithstand ing the reverses which now stare us in the face, the Democratic party is better organized and possessed of a larger share of recuperative ener gy than it was after the blow it received in 1854, and the Opposition are not a bit better, if as well, prepared to take advantage of their success, than they were at that time. The de feat of the Democracy is the only bond of union among them. That they have accomplished, and therefore they wilt soon as they have re. pcaledly done under similar separate into their original discordant elements, and contend among themselves for supremacy over each other. And besides, it is no desira ble thing for any party—even the most com pactly united and harmonious—iii times of gen eral business prostration like these, to shoulder the responsibility of administering the revenues of the Government, as the Opposition inevita bly must, when the new Congress assembles.— For our part, we are by no means dissatisfied that they have undertaken Co. relieve the Demo cratie party of this heavy burden ; although we are confident that the present Administration is equal to-the'-task, aVd tbat-fits policy, bad the people suffered it to be tried, would have been vindicated by lime and experience. But a change lias been decreed, a lid we shall soon see whether, they who were so ready to charge in capacity,extravagance, and a disregard of the public welfare upon the parly in power, and to volunteer to set all things to rights, are any belter housekeepers than those they have dis placed. If it should happen that their practice I come3uplolheirprofession.it wiil.be for the! first time in the history of the opponents of the 1 Democratic party ; who, under whatever name | they have occasionally crept into power, have i invariably proved themselves totally unfilled for the responsibilities that were cast upon them., - . For the Volunteer. Wc are mot alone in the opinion that the pres ent success of the Opposition will by no means innure to their advantage in the future. Men, of experience and foresight, among their own number, who have seen too" much of. the muta tions of modern politics to bo carried away by a passing triumph, achieved upon issues essen tially transient, lake the same view of the mat ter, and loolc forward to 1800 in no . sanguine mood. For example,, the Washington corres pondent of the North American, a political wri ter of extensive information, and ordinarily ac curate judgment, expresses his apprehensions I for the future of his party, in the following de sponding strain, which, considering that he wrote in the midst pf the rejoicings of his co-la borers. over the “ glorious news” from New York, Mas; achusetls, New Jersey, and else where, is significant, to say the least: ' >• Whether this result will be an advantage] or not, in a party sense, to those whose horizon is circumscribed by that narrow measurement, remains to be decided by the future. My own impression is that it will not be. With a Dem ocratic President in the While House, and a large Democratic preponderance in the Senate, no policy that the House may originate, can be carried out without their assent and co opera tion. This is one point. Another, and more important consideration, is the division of re sponsibility before the country, when the Pres idential canvass shall begin. • “ We have already seen that the popular branch of the last Congress was charged with the onus of all the appropriations then made. # ■ * * *■ And it is ycry certain now, even if there should bo an opposition majority, that no such dogmas ns have recently been asserted by' Mr. Seward, can command/or will deserve to command, a united vote. Whenever he and his peculiar followers attempt to impose that sort of test, they will be left in ns beggarly a minority as their-worthy co-laborers in the i south, who audaciously advocate disunion as a universal panacea for all real or imaginary 1 grievances.” This is the opinion of one whose opportuni ties of reading the political horizon make, him an Oracle worth listening to. If he sees little or no encouragement for the future, in the re cent successes of his party, how much less I should Democrats find in them anything to be disheartened about 1 We have only to keep up our courage, maintain our organization in tact, stand by our principles even more closely 1 than ever, and' trust to the returning good sense and sound judgment of the people. None but] an united and a national party can ever suc cessfully administer the government of the Uni ted States ; and that party is rkt the combina tiqpof heterogeneous and discordant factions which has just secured a majority in the House of Congress. j£y=- (3ov. J. W. Denver, of Kansas, lias reached Wasliinglon. President Buchanan, Fillibusters. When the redoubtable “ man of destiny,” Walker, was last lugged out of Nicaragua by the head and shoulders, Captain per forming that national police duty in the most prompt and determined manner, it was scarcely to be expected that the hero of so many defeats would have the audacity „to make, the third , at tempt to invade Nicaragua. Wc had set, down the recent manifesto of Walker, announcing his departure for that country as a “ peaceful emi grant,” to the bravado, which is so conspicuous in his public efforts, and not to any serious in tention of inveighling American youths into en terprises which must end with putting their hocks in the halter.' It appears, however, that our government is satisfied .that the. announce ment springs from another Concocted movement against Nicaragua, and President Buchanan lias thought it necessary to give timely warning of the illegality of such an enterprise, and to in struct the public.authorities to use vigilance in preventing it from leaving the United States.— Wo hope, for the character of our government, that the public officers will have a better sense of their duty than they have yet evinced in re-1 lation to Hllibuster expeditions, and not only break up the expedition but seize the fillibus tcra themselves in the act of transgressing against the laws. If President-Fillmoro had al lowed who were taken at Cuba to bo shot, without his interfcrece,from human ity, to save their, lives, wo should never have hoard of a second (filibuster expedition. Pres ident Fillmore's interference, then, and Prosi dent Pierce’s interference’ since, to save Wal ker from the punishment he deserved when lie invaded Sonora and Nicaragua, no doubt have served as a stimulus to other-attempts upon the national integrity and, independence of- the Southern Republics. Walker calculates upon the impunity which has hitherto attended his i froobooting designs to escape again if ho gets into difficulty. But if he bo caught in the at tempt tocarry out his illegal purpose, he should be taken to some part of the country where fill ibn storing is-regarded as a crime, and see whether he can bo convicted for his offences.— If ho falls into any other hands while engaged in his piratical foray, lie should he left to thoii tender mercies to be dealt with' as he deserves, without any interference from the government whose allegiance ho has voluntarily thrown off', and whose laws ho has so frequently violated. The Depression of Business. The Board of Trade of Philadelphia, have ad dressed circulars to all the prominent manufac* Hirers and business men of the State, for the purpose of obtaining the most exlcnsive'and ac curate information possible, with regard to the present condition.of the induslnal.nnd manufac turing interests of Pennsylvania ; as well as. to elicit their opinion upon the causes which-haye produced tfns 'deprcssion arid the proper remedy therefor. They say : “ We would be glad to learn to such extent ns you may bo willing tcTcomhiunicate for so desirable an end, the general condition within the last fifteen, years, of manufacturing orjn dustrial interests with which you are most fa miliar ; the period of their highest prosperity, and the progress and extent of its decline ; to gether with your view of the immediate causes of such depression, if any exist, and your opin ion of the proper measures to be taken for the restoration of their former prosperity arid vigor. )•• Wo shall be glad,also to receive uuy.collat eral information bearing on this subject, within the r.an#e nfjyeiir (ihe.,reALiein..-,iieru y.i|>ooml!e in regard to the necessary participation of the agricultural.interests yf your neighborhood, in this depression of the industrial and producing communities.” • The inquiries are important ones, as out of the various answers returned,, probably Some practical suggestions may be made which may help the ,industrial interest of the State. The principal cause of the depression of business is I the undue expansion of credit, and unless there ] is some check put to This, recurrence of panic 1 and depression will happen regularly with The 1 oyer expansion. Rule in Baltimore.: —The recent disorders in' Baltimore furnisli a terrible picture of the state ot society in that city.— 1 Some lime since Police Officer Benton was kill- ed by some of the rowdies who infest that city, Last week Henry Gambrill was convicted 01 this murder. Shortly alter his conviction the telegraph informed us that an attempt was made to rescue him, and an attack upon the jail was, threatened, so that:U had to be carefully guard ed. Meanwhile, George W. Kigdon,ono of the most faithful and exemplary officers of the po- Jice, whoso testimony had formed an important portion of the evidence upon which Gambrill was convicted, was shot and instantly killed while, quietly standing in his own house. A man named Peter Carre was seen running from the neighborhood ol Higdon's house immediately after the murder. lie was pursued by a police man, and on tbo way running pistol shots were exchanged between the pursuer and the pur sued. When ho was finally captured ho con fessed that ho was standing by Marion Crop when the latter sbot Higdon. , There was a strong disposition to lynch Carre when ho was first captured, but the officers succeded in lock ing him up before this project was fully arrang. od. If wo are to judge from the violence which prevails at Baltimore on election days and such terrible.occurrences as wo have briefly narrated above, rowdyism is rampant and supreme, and a reign of terror of the worst description is es :abiished in that unfortunate city. Tub American Agriculturalist.— This valuable journal is once inoro in our possession. If grows in interest to the farmer and mechan ic. Much attenlion is being paid to this peri odical to make it one of the most useful in the ranks of agricultural journals. Its pages are illuatrabAb-with engravings of an agricultural character—and the subjects written upon are of that nature which cannot fair to, instruct the most practical tiller of the soil. The gardener, the builder, the stock raiser, and the out-door worker in general, can find valuable informa tion in the pages of this journal.. As it is de signed to improve all classes engaged in the culture of the soil, it cannot fail to he apprecia ted in the rural homes of our happy country.— A work like this will find its way into the most benighted regions, and greatly enlighten the in habitants of that wild wilderness, and Animate them with energy and zeal so as to han out a comfortable existence among the sturdy oaks. The work is published by Orange Judd, New York, at $l,OO per annum, in advance. Tns Wheat Midqe. —Geo. S. Woodhull, 01 Fenton, Mich., asserts that tho midge does nol leave tho wheat until'it is thrashed, and then 1 goes to tho chaff and' straw, and probably lies dormant till Spring, when it hatches into a fly and deposits its eggs. Ho thinks thistrouble some post might bo destroyed- by burning tho straw and chaff of nflboted wheat for a few years. A Hundred Years Ago. proach of the one hundredth anniversary of Old Fort Du Qiicsno, says: “ One hundred years ago there was not a single white man an Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois Territories.- Then, what is hour the most flourishing part o America, was as little known as the country round the mountains of the moon. It was not until 17G9, that the ■Hunter of Kentucky,, the gallant and adventurous Boone, left his homem North Carolina,To become the first settler n Kentucky. The first pioneers in Ohio'did not settle until twenty years after this tune. A hundred'years age Canada belonged to France, and the whole population of the United States did not exceed a million and a half of people, A hundred years ago the great Frederick of Prus sia was performing those great exploits which have made him immortal in military annals, an i with his little monarchy was sustaining a sing c handed conteslwilh Russia, Austria and France i —the three great powers of Europe, combine . i A hundred years ago Napoleon was not born, and Washingtoiuwas a young and modest \ n ginia Colonel, and the great events in the histo ry of two worlds, in which these great but dis similar men' look leading parts, were then scarcely foreshadowed. A hundred years ago the United States were the most loyal part of the British Empire, and on the political horizon no speck indicated the struggle which, within a score ot years thwtafior, established the greatest republic of the world. A hundred years ago there wore but four newspapers in America - slcam engines had not been imagined, and rai • roads and telegraphs hail not entered the remo-. test conception of man. UTicn we come to look back at it through, the vista of history, we find that to the century which litis passed has been allotted more important events in their bearing upon the happiness of the world than almost any other which has elapsed since the creation. Late News j'kom Eguopb — By the arrival of the steamship America from Liverpool, we have three daytaler news from Europe- A few intelligible words have been received at Va lentia, over the Atlantic cable, and the selling price of the shafts immediately advanced from £350 to £4OO. French and Portuguese question is as yet unsettled, though a favorable solution was expected,' notwithstanding that two French vessels of war, in qddition to the two previously stationed there, had arrived at the Tagus. Thereare vague rumors mentioned that the Englislvchannel fleet had been ordered to the Tagiis. the London Times of the ‘2olh ult., contains a severe attack upon the Ameri can policy in China, (md the course of Minister Reed., charges our = Philadelphia diplomat with making a bad Bargain for his own coun fry, and endeavoring. to- prevent the English Ambassador from making a better one for Great Britain; and also accuses him of being a tool of Russia throughout the whole period of the ne gotiation, The Atlantic Company had notified their employees at Volentia, that, unless some fav(trable turn occurred in reference to the.cable,niieirTservices would' be dispensed with on the 30th. of November. The London money continued very easy, two per cent, being the maximum rate of discount.—; Consols are quoted at 984 a for money, and 98 for ln the Liverpool market cotton closed quiet, quotations being barely maintained; was a slight decline in all descriptions, of goods at Manchester. Sei-eue Pjiougiit— lUin Pbayed Fob.—The Norfolk (Va.,) Day Book says that the drought in that section'of the. Slate is so great that the citizens of Suffolk.-arc forced to send three miles to the Canal for water to drink ; an event that was -never before known by the oldest inhabi-. tant of that town.. 'Whilst this is the case in Suffolk; Norfolk is debarred such an opportu nity for obtaining supplies of water. Nearly ali the cisterns have been exhausted, and rich I and poor arc now beginning lo suffer for want of this great lift-giving element. An alarm o f lire is now looked upon by the thoughtful as a terrible thing, for if a conflagration should break out two or three hundred yards from the river, it must result in immense destruction.- - ias been suggested that the Clergy of the va- rious denominations should oiler up the prayers of the people to Almighty God for relief in fresh and abundant showers of.water to slake their thirst. ' . ~■, Tub Gbeat Russian Railhoad.— Much has been said in tliii papers recently about the al leged swindling oi the'Russian Government, by American Engineers in the construction of a Railway. This railway is described in one of the letters of. Bayard/ Taylor. Ho says that it |s aafttbyght as a,sunbeam, and that the Empe ror Nicholas had it built upon the shortest pos. sible distance between the two cities, by carry- ing it four hundred versts through swamps, where an artificial foundation of piles -was ne cessary. Mr. Taylor considers it the finest rail, way in the world, and adds ; There are thirty-throe stations between Mos cow and St. Petersburg. At the most of thost the station houses and palaces', ail built exactly alike, are on a scale 'of magnificence which , scorns expense. . A great deal ol needless lux ury has been wasted' upon them. The bridges, also, are model* of solidity and durability.— Ever5 r thing is -on the grandest scale, and the j punctuality and exactness of the running ar ran;ements are worthy of all praise. But at what a cost has ail this been accomplished.— This road, 400 miles in length, over.a level coun try, with very few cuts, embankments and bridges, except between Moscow and Tyer, about, one-fourth of the distance, has been built at an expense ol 120,000,000 of rubles, ($90,000,000) or $225,000 per mile. When one takes into consideration the cheapness of labor in Russia, the sum becomes still more enormous. A Singular Surgical Operation. A man named Berry, residing in Petersburg, was su • fering intense paib from a felon on bis hnnd.- On the 7th ult., he seated himself by the track of the Petersburg Railroad, and when the train appicached, coolly laid ins hand on the rad, the cars passing over and severing it from the wrist. The consequence was that hti had to undergo a second operation by tho surgeon. Hon. J. Glancy Jones has resigned his seat in Congress, to enter upon the official du ties of the high .position to which he has been appointed by the President. His letter ef re signation to the. Governor is dated the Ist in stant. ■ SuiOJDE.-James Hope, of Upper St. Clair, Allegheny co., Pa., having been convicted and fined ®5OO and costs in a slander suit, hung himself to a tree-neap his residence, on on ay morning, He was near fifty years of- ago, and tho lather of twelve children. A Picture Well Drawn. ...-.An-nfiil-iaJn .theJSew Orleans Oo.urler on the ,< atump tail press” contains ancJ applicable truths. It is a patent tjict that thus preis has suffered Severely from association with ignorant who, are bettor litted for miy othet occupation than that of con ducting public Journals. This class is admira bly sketched in the subjoined extract from tho article alluded to : ■‘tflio stump-tail press is an institution in this country. It is in tho hands of men whoso ava rice is bouhllless' but whoso knowledge is limit ed, whoso caprices take tho place of prudence and judgment, who know no other stimulus to industry than gold and who recognize no other token of success. Its lending object is to get its issues sold, to accomplish which it knows no tricks too low to employ. Excitement and agi tation are its moat and drink. Its writers are scnSutionistswho measure the value of their out pourings by the quantity rather than the quali ty. It eschews consistoncy'as a relic of the old logy ago and finds it easy to ride on either or both sides of any question. It is ready at any hour to bolster up any swindle for a largo pot centago of the profits, and is always prepared to laud folly or whitewash rascality ‘lor a consid eration,’ It is eloquent in its praise of all oth er, shams, chiefly delighting in puffs of quacks’ wares and praises of showmen, actors, circus riders and wandering lecturers. Presents ol cheap books will buy its flattering notices of the most vapid trash. Journals of the ‘swill-milk and stump tail’ order are continually boasting of their circulation and trying to Swindle their honest neighbors out of the patronage which is their just due. They will often go so far as to publish advertisements at half price, relying upon future extortions to make tip their losses. They never dream that the public are not inter ested in their private and personal piques, en. initios and partialities: honed they will continue a contest with cotera'poraries for weeks togeth er. . Tho indecent personalities which men of brains and breeding shun supply to ngitationists their chief ammunition for their piratical way. faro upon all that is sound, manly, and honora ble. Strangers to tho instincts of true courtesy and ignoring the proprieties of civilized life, they make their journals tho vehicles of low abuse.’’ Hoors Under the Ban. —The resolutions of the Miami Conference of the Church of the United Brethren, declaring the wearing,of Cri noline incompatible with a true Christian’s pro fession, seem to be rigidly enforced by the an. thofitiea of that denomination. At a camp meeting of'the United Brethren church recently held near West Baltimore, Montgomery county; Ohio, Bishop Bussell forbade any one with hoops on to partake of. the sacrament; affirming that they would not be welcome to the table of the Lord. Russian Emancipation. —The Gzar Alexander has recently, given proof ol his determination to carry out his plans for the emancipation of- the serfs. In different parts of the empire, the no hies and proprietors have shown' the utmost re luctance in seconding the Emperor’s views, and the Emperor has taken occasion to rebuke their conduct and to signify to them that he will not he thwarted in his aims. Various Russian Em-, porors have desired to abolish serldom, but they shrank from encountering the formidable oppo sition of the nobles.' .Nicholas, the present Emperor’s father, made a movement, in the earlier part of his reign, to emancipate the serfs, but ho found the accomplishment of the task inconsistent with: the realization of his ambi tious schemes. Alexander, however, finds him self in a position to devote his attention to raoa i'sureS of internal reform, and he prosecutes the work with an energy winch it was supposed, before he ascended the throne, ho did not pos sess. As illustrating the state of things which tj lo Emperor has undertaken to porrect, an En glish paperstatos : “aMoscow is a very wealthy commercial city, the seat of groat manufacturing as well as trad ing.industry. iTow the bulk of the rich, beard ed merchants are serfs having no legal property in their wealth, or at least, no absolute liberty aa to its disposal; and in Spite ol that wealth, or at least no absolute libeity as toils disposal; and in spite of their wealth, their social status is ! infinitely below that ol the most unmitigated scoundrel and bankrupt who wears ni civil uni lionn. To enfranchise these men will bo to-re verse the positions- The ichinovnik or employe., with a lower salary than a merchant’s clerk, will at once sink to his,proper level; for he is often more ignorant, generally more dishonest, than the thriving shop keeper whom ho now looks down;upon and bullies.” . The minds ol the serfs have been, thoroughly aroused on the subject of emancipation, and in their determination to bo freemen, the emperor finds the strongest support for his just and en lightened policy. ' A Hint to the Ladies.— lt is-very, rarely, in deed, that a confirmed flirt gets married. Nine ty-nine out of every hundred old mai's may at- tribute tlioir'ancient loveliness to juyonilo levi fy. It is very certain that few men make a se lection from ball rooms or any other place of gaiety, and-as few are influenced by what may ho called-showing off in the streets, or other al lurements of dross ; our opinion is, ninety-nine thundreths of all the' Unory which women deco rate and load their persons with go for nothing, so far as husband catching is concerned. Where and how, then, do men, find their wives? In the quiet homes of their parents and guardians, at .the fireside, whore the domestic graces and feelings aro alone demonstrated. These are charms which surely attract the high as well as the bumble. Against these all the finery and airs"in the world sink into insignificancy;' “ The funeral of police officer Rigdon, murdered on Friday night, in Baltimore, took place on Sunday afternoon, and was attended by an immense concourse. The mayor, and a large I body of police, with a large number of citizens, took part in the funeral. The streets were densely crowded, hut no disturbance occurred. The murderers have been indicted and will bo brought to trial during the present week. Cotton and Sugar Crops. —The Point Coupee (La.,) Democrat, says :—“ Our planters are still being favored with lino weather. Most of the cotton crop is now safe. Nearly all our sugar planters are now rolling; and, from information obtained from the best sources, wo learn that so far tho yield of tho cane is good. Tho cane- is generally lino, and ns trio season advances will of course yield.” Q2P” A terrible catastrophe happened in the New York harbor on Saturday. Tho propeller Petrol, built for n pleasure yacht, but lately em ployed as a tug on tho North river, when off the foot of Jny street suddenly burst her boiler.— There were on board at tho time four persons, one of whom escaped with only a severe wound in tho head, but the others were killed instan taneously. The New York Tragedy.—The Gouldy family, an account of the murderous attack upon whom wo published last week, were still living at the last accounts, with some prospect of their ultimate recovery. Their restoration would-seem to bo next thing to miraculous. [Er*«Wife,” said a man, looking for his boot-jack, “ I have places where I- keep my things and you onghr- to know it.” “ Yes,” said she, «1 ought to know where you- keep -your late hours—but I don’t.” Tlie Noyemtier Elections. - The same influences that operated against the of "Kn^ylrattinrin'October; were brought to bear, With similar effect, in most, of the StAlcs in Wldfth elections wete held last week. , ■_ New York has gbfae largely Republican. The SeWarditcs have elected their Governor, and other State officers, a majority in both branch es of the Legislature, and some twenty-five of the thirty-three members of Congress, being a gain of four on the present Congressional dele gation.. ” ' ■ ■ ‘ - Massachusetts, as usual, is Republican all through, although by a reduced majority on the popular vote. .1 In New Jersey, the Republicans have a majority of the Legislature, and three of the five members of CongteSS. 1 ' Wisconsin has also gone for the Republicans by about the same majority as last year, but the Democrats have gained one member of Con-1 Michigan has elected a Republican Governor; a majority of the Legislature, and (wo of the three members of Congress are of the same stripe—a gain of one, we believe, to iheDemo crats. . • Illinois, a State that never wavers in the good cause, has been carried by tbo friends el Judge DougTas. They will have a majority of live in each branch of the Legislature thus se curing his return to the 11., S. Senate, over Lincoln, his Black Republican opponent. Iho Congressional delegation will stand five Demo crats, all friends of Douglas, to four Repubh cans, being the saijie as in fhepresent Congress. In little Delaware the Democrats have elec ted their Governor, member of Congress, and a majority of the Legislature, The Democracy, therefore have been been defeated in Now York, New Jersey, Massachu setts, Wisconsin and Michigan ; and are victori ous in Illinois and Delaware. The Next Congress. The Washington States of Saturday contains the following speculations on the political com- I plex on of the next Congress: . ■ •; The next Congress will be Democratic to ] a certainty. Our readers may rely on this as a fixed fact. . . . . ■.« In the elections which have already taken place for members of Congreas the position of parlies stands: Democrats 49, Republicans States yet to elect are Alabama, Con necticut, California. Georgia, Kentucky, Loui siana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi. New Hampshire. North Carolina, Rhode Island Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, which elect Bb members. In the present House they stand as follows bcm. Rep: Amor. 07 7 12 Add already elected . 49 'lO2 _ “ In tlio States yet to elect the Republicans niav gain two members in Connecticut, and the Democrats will, in all probability, gam six members from the South Americans in Ken tucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and. Maryland. Such a result will .make the next Congress stand: Democrats 120, Republicans 111, South Americans 6. which will give ihe Democrats a majority of three, over all : and,if the fourth district in Michigan has. gone Demo cratic,;as reported, the Democratic strength in the House will bo 121, and a majority over all of five.” llloclung Death—S Man Smothered in a Chimney. - , On Monday evening last, the neighborhood of Fourth and Shippen street. Philadelphia,,was thrown into a state of great excitement, by the news that a man was lodged in the chimney flue of a house in Shippen Street, below Fourth, oc cupied by Jane Bell. From all the facts to be gleaned by us it appears that Richard Dillon, a young man of about twenty-two years of age, has, for a long lime, been keeping company with a female named -Lizzie Hackcrt, who resi ded at the above house. Latterly', some es trangement between the parlies took place, and Dillon- was deserted for another man. Ihis caused;him to entertain hitter feeling toward her but no violence was apprehended from him un til Monday, when, after indulging pretty freely in liquor, he entered the house about >7. o’clock, and inquired for his former companion. He was informed by the inmates that she was out— which was the truth. Not believing this, he became excited, and made his way to the third story room, which is appropriatcd.to the use, of. Miss Hackert. Finding the door locked, and receiving no.answer to his repeated demands for admission, he clambered up the ladder leading to the loft, and from thence to the roof; He then managed to work his body into the flue of the chimney, evidently with the intention of thus: effecting an entrance into the third story room. But, as might be .expected in a small three-story house, the flue was too contracted to allow of a free passage, and ho soon became fast. His cries soon attracted the attention of the inmates, as well ns of passers by, and every means were then used to extricate the unfortu nate man from his disagreeable position. Ropes were lowered from the lop, but his body being ip such posture, he was unable to take advan tage of the assistance tjihs at hand. Finally a hole was cut in the wall of the stairway, and Dillon was dragged out in .an insensible condi tion. Every exertion was made to resuscitate him, but to n d purpose, and after drawing one or two breaths, he expired. A young man, who was in the company of the deceased during the afternoon, stated that he then made threats to settle his difficulties with Miss Hackcrt, and purchased a black-jack, but whether to use on the girl in question ho did not say. The de ceased was a plasterer by trade, but of late has been engaged in peddling oysters. He resided with his mother,-in Carpenter street below Fifth. [Cy’’ Utah correspondence slates that the leading men sanguinely expect the admission of the territory in;o the Union as a State during the next session of Congress for 1858-59. They claim a population of 100,000, and that the United Slates has no right to withhold a State government. O* The statement of the Philadelphia banks for the week just ended shows a sound -condi tion. There is an increase of $238,417 in loans, $219,461 in and $149,654 in deposits, and a decrease of $86,504 in circulation. The aggregate of loans and specie are both higher than at any preceding period this year. [£7= Thanksgiving day will be observed this year as follows;— By Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,' Rhode Island; Connecticut. Mississippi, Maryland, Michigan, and Illinois, on the 25th of November, and by New York, 1 New Jersey and Pennsylvania; on the 18th. • The llog Trade at Cincinnati. The CinciluVtiti LricoCurrcnt of Wednesday; Imslthe.foVlQmßEjlLrp!^ “Bather a brisk business Has been done in hogs during the past* week, and about 12.000 head have been sold for future delivery, embra cing this and next month,,at $5,62 a 5,75, and at the close there was a brisk' demand, and all offered were taken at the .latter price, with more disposition to contract for, December ihan No* vcrtiber delivery, at the quotation. • We cannot say that life market has been, strong, however as large offerings and a desire to sell, on the' part of holders, would have caused buyers' to withdraw, aa wasihfe Oast about the middle of the week, when there were more sellers than Imye'ro at $5.62. There are jtbout 2000 head in the pens, and 240 head ,wtr6 cut by one house, Friday, hut the weather is too wafiii anrf unsettled to slaughter with safety; but all the houses are ready.andnre waiting for the weathcr : to settle down to a Safe temperature. There is quite a large number bf hogs now in the vicinity of the city, so that operations will open gener ally within the coming ten days, in all pvbbst bility. ■ ; The feeling as regards the future is in favor bf comparatively high prices, and the impression' is pretty generally entertained that, owing to' the abundance of money, a speculative feeling will keep prices up to a high average, notwith standing there should be an increase in the' number packed, theft! is also quite a large number of short crop men, chioffy, however, in Kentucky. We understand that the Louis-' ville packers are, with few exceptions, “short' croppers;” and are straining every point 16 se cure as large a number of hogs as possible. In the meantime, the farmers.have discovered that it will pay well to feed their corn, or cvcri, their wheal to swine, and are doing so. exteri'- sivelv, in order to meet the demand. Our let* lets from Tennessee represent the ■finest’ hogSf and the ‘finest’ corn in that Stale known for many years.. Harbisdcbo Bank Statement.— On the. 2d instant, the Harrisburg Bank—one of the sound est institutions in the State—made the iollowing statement of its assets and liabilities: Assess. Loans and Discounts, Stock of-the Commonwealth, Specie,. - United States Treasury notes,. Due by other banks, $148,768 82 Notes ot other banks, 18,265 167,018 'SZ Stocks, (at present market value,) 31,000 Bonds, “ “ “ . Real Estate, . \ . 11 » 60P Liabilities. Circulation, Deposits, Due to other banksj WhaX shall-be done.with Mexico?— The Ntw Orleans Delta, in the course of a sensible article on Mexican affairs, says: •• What shall we do with Mexico ? Shallwe stand by arid see one of the fairest regions in jhe World wrenched from civilization and devoted to waste arid savagery ■? Shall we. see wealth bv the hundred'million doily sacrificed to glut ■military brigands ? Shall we see league after, leatiguo of cultivated ground, once rivalling the garden of Khubla Khan in beauty and luxuri ance, abandoned’,and fruitless? And shall we see American citizens daily plundered and in sulted, and often worse abused, in that coun try, by every pelting.pelty officer, -who may choose to exalt or enrich himself by abusing the privileges pi national weakness 1 “ These, and similar, considerations, are be ginning to aflect public opinion, not more in this country than in Europe, Indeed, the Lon don Times has already said that we of the Uni ted S’ atc-8 ought instantly to put a gtop. to ,({|B stale of things described : anifsome of life tnoA conservative journals in .this country do not hesitate to recommend an protccto inte over Mexico—some Suggesting one mode and some another, but all agreeing m the con viction that something ,must be done. The Ai.libone Case.— Tn the Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions,, on Monday, the cose of Allibonc and Newhall (Pennsylvania Bank) came up for trial. District Attorney Longhead furnished the defence with a bill of particulars ordered by the Court, but it was so long that the defence asked a postponement of the tnalin order to examine it, and be prepared. Judge Thompson therefore poslponcd the trial of the case until Monday four weeks hence. 0= Mrs. Mary Thompson, mother of Hw-, James Thompson, of the Supremo C°«rt, at Middlesex, Butler county, on the • aged 88. Her family settled in Butler county in 1798. ‘ Gov. Packer has issued his P™ o '"®, lion announcing the election of John M. as Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylva* for fifteen years from the first Monday of ue cember next. . O” The Union Bank, of Philadelphia; has been fully organised; by the election of James Dunlap, Esq., as Presiflent; JohnM. Esq.. Vico President, and. James Lesley, bsq-. Cashier.- , jy= post Master General Brown, it is stated, has matured a plan, to be recommended to Congress, by which money orders may he trans mitted from place to place through the post of flee Such an arrangement .would he of greatest possible benefit to the business of It* country. . Dismissed.- Lieut. Payne, a Tonnesse i the United States Marino Corps, rt ? ent -* . by Court Martial, at Norfolk, Vn., or » tag to shoot himself, b “ n^"“ ro m !llo’sor• the Department has dismisso vice. . Boons Gold DowABS.-Lo°i ou‘ for » gotten up gold dollar, of 0 orew 0 f the result of. the labors of an mg■ Noth rascally counterfeiters in Massachu t^ ing but strong acid will B ' lOW IC7* In Wisconsin, it is s "?P° sca *’Egress- Larrabce, Dem.. has been c ec entir( , aolega-' This is a Democratic gam, as . , r 8 don of the State in the present Congress Republican. .OP- The Louisville J° urn “' “^as > be | crop has never been so largo alfttc3 that' present crop promises to o. cstinifl there are fields in the blue grass ted at 176 bushels to the acre, while flew‘ * raising 76 to 80 bushels are quite com — ZT~ ’ n f 05- Stephen S. Bemak, Esq.*, ‘ Ptc! iM phla, has boon appointed, by the Consul at Trieste, this is a good soled The Tonnage Tax.—An exchange fcrring to the incoming"Legislature,* w • questions of importance which' are > come before it. refers to the peal the tax on tonnage passing over . ,jj the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, » f 0( that schemes arc already being conco and against that measure. , General Wm. Walker, the ibustor, arrived at Washington on Sator *3 $525f.389 74' . 50,506 .107,418 13 20,000 $918,931 19 $870,060 181,425 67 41,640 47 $693,126 14
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