AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JOHN B. BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor. CARLISLE, PA., APRIL 12,1860. DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS. For Governor, HENRY D. FOSTER, OP 'WESTMORELAND COUNTY, FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, ELECTORS AT LARGE. Keiu, of Berks county. Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia. DISTRICT ELECTORS. 14. J; Keckhow. 15. Geo. D. Jackson. 16. J. A. Ahl. 17. J. B. Dannor. 18. J. K. Crawford. 19. 11. N. Lee. 20. J- B. Howell. 21. N. P. Fottorman. 22! Samuel Marshall 23. IVm. Book. 24. B. D. Hamlin. 25. Gajlord Church. 1. Fred’k. A. Server. 2. Wm/C, Patterson. 3. Jos. Crockott, Jr. 4. J. G. Brenner. 5. J. W. Jacoby. 6. Charles Kelly. 7.0. P.. James. 8, David Schall. 0. J. L. Lightuor,- 10. S. S. Barber. 11. T. H. Walker. 12. S. S. Winchester. 13. Joseph Laubach. Codrt.— The April Sessions of our Court commenced, on Monday. The Free Banking Bill will ho found on our first page. Capitalists who intend to com mence the hanking business under the pro visions of this act, should road it carefully. Admitted to Practice.— On motion of A. B. Sharp, Esq:, on Tuesday last, Mr. Lewis J. W. Fodlk, was admitted to practice law in tho several Courts of Cumberland county. Oiitop Debt. —Tho Doyiestown Democrat announces thocheering news that Bucks coun ty has cancelled' all her obligations, and is now out of debt. Wish wo could say as much for Cumberland. . First Thunder Storm. —Tho-first thunder and lightning storm, accompanied - with tor rents of rain, took place about 3 o’clock on Sunday morning. The ground having been parched—plowing not able to bo done tho' grain almost dried up I ,..this rain is invaluable to our farmers. ', l ' ■ The Codn.tv School Superintendence. An advertisement appears in our columns to day notifying tho School Directors of the i ari7 ous. districts to meet in ■ Convention at tho Court Houso .in this borough, on tho 7th of. May next, to,-.elect a’ County* Superintendent JJjr the throe'succeeding years; liECTunEs by Dk.- Cox. —This gentleman, Liquor Inspector of Ohio, delivered two lec tures in-this place last ■week—the tirsfc in the M. E. Church, on Wednesday evening, aud-thc second in the English-Lutheran Church on Thursday evening,-onthe subject of tho'adul teration of liquors. : His lectures were quite intoresting r and at the close of each he exam ined samples of various liquors. ■’ With the 1 single exception of some whisky sent him; hej pronounced a\\ tho.varietiesbaso ahd poisonr ous, and containing such ingredients aa sul phuric acid, nitric acid, caustic potassa, hru dihe, and otherdeadly. poisons. A sampled the" very best” Wine was analixed,-aud no( one drop of the juice of the grapefound !• Pr, C. is earnest in hiaoflbrto’to expose’andbreak up. the business of poisoning liquors,-and we feel sure all will wish him , God’ speed in' his efforts. “ Doings of’ our* Members.” —-Under this caption, in our last, wc unintentionally mis represented tho votes of the members off the House from this district. On an examination of the yeas and nays, we find that Mr. Power voted Jar the Sunbury and Erie Rail-Road Bill, on its final passage, and dodged tho Free-Banking Bill, Mr- M'Curdy, also, wo notice, voted against tho Sunbury and Erie Bill, and dodged tho vote ontbo Free Bank ing Hill. We make these conceptions with much pleasure, for wo would not, intentional ly, misrepresent any public man. Mr. M’ Cu a dy, wo believe, voted conscientiously in all matters, and, generally speaking, wo approv ed the course ho pursued as a member of the House. Wo predicated our article last week on a letter we received from Harrisburg, a • short time before goiligi-to press, and embrace this, the first opportunity, to correct the errors, we were led into.. Joseph Baily, Esq.— Wenoticeo with plea sure,-that our valued friend, Joseph Baii.v, Esq., has been admitted to tho bar, and, will hereafter practice in tho several Courts of Perry County. General Bally is a gentleman of solid talent and possessed of a well-balanc ed, analytical mind, and will prove an orna ment to the bar of that county. Ho is a sound, National Democrat, too, whoso heavy blows have often fallen with terrible-effect upon tho Opposition. . A Great Mistake.— Tho Reading Times says'it is a very great mistake for a citizen do ing business in that city to suppose that be cause ho can, apparently, save a dollar in pur- chasing a given article in Philadelphia Or New . York, that he is a gainer to the amount of that ' dollar. The same remark ■will apply witli ‘ equal force in Carlisle. When rightly viewed 4 it is just the reverse, ho. is n loser. For. his ! money, which should been kept in circulation hero, is how gone from among us, the commu nity impoverished to just the amount he has unnecessarily sent abroad, the ability of his customers to pay him that much lessened, and ■his prospects of business also to that extent curtailed. It is undoubtedly a. suicidal course to pursue, and the man of liberal and enlarg ed views will.be careful never to spend a dol lar abroad which can bo retained at homo.— For oven to pay a trifle more for any .given ar ticle here, is better for all concerned than to send away the money out of our circulation. If all would only look, at this thing in the proper manner, wo would npvor experience “■hard times.',’ The Constitutional and Union party held a State Convention in Massachusetts on the 29th ult. -Strong resolutions were adopt ed calling upon the, 1 conservative men of all parties to unite to' put down the slavery agi tation.. 0“ lion, ilowoli Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, has written a letter peremptorily declining being considered a candidate for the Presidency before, the Charleston Conven tion.. ‘ Republican Protest Against Investigation— CoTode Alarming his Friends. Wo have been promised some very startling disclosures of Democratic corruption from Mr. Covodo’s Investigating Committee. Horoto fore the Republicans have exhibited .groatghw at the rich placet* of fraud which the commit tee promised to turn up to the indignant gaze of the public. Judge, then, of our astonish ment when just at the time that tho committee reached tho case of Pennsylvania, and sum moned before it Augustus Scholl, of Aow York, to produce a list of the contributors m New York to tho fund raised in 1856 to assist the Democracy in carrying Pennsylvania, the Tribune changes its tone, and protests against the further pursuit of tho inquiry into this branch of tho subject. For once tho Tribune takes a sound view of the case, and we canno refrain from re-publishing its article. It says: * • ’“Bronx Against Prerooative.— The House Committee of Investigation, 'whereof Mr. to vodo, of Pennsylvania,, is Chairman, insists, wo learn, that Mr. Augustus Scholl, of this city, shall produce and deliver a list m his possession of contributors in tins city to tho fund raised hero to carry Pennsylvania for Buchanan at the October election in 1850. Tho Committee, it is understood, propose to invoke the power of the House to coerce Wr. Scholl to produce the paper demanded. It they do this, we trust tho House will .pause and consider well before taking the action re quired. Mr. Schell, though now Collector of this Port, was a private citizen in 1856; those who contributed tho money he raised lor the Pennsylvania canvass were likewise mainly private citizens. It is not oven in evidence that the money was used improperly, though we presume a good part of it was; there is ot course no shadow of proof that it was contrib uted by public officers, or that it came, howev er circuitously, out of tlio Federal Treasury. By what right, then, under what color of rea son, do the Committee undertake to constrain Mr. Schell to give up this private paper and blazon to the world tho names of private citi zens under circumstances calculated to expose them to odium ? If they have been guilty ot conspiracy or corruption, why not indict ami try them ? If the object is to fish out evidence on which to base a prosecution, wo object that . the mbdo is illegal, unconstitutional, and the whole procedure fraught with danger to tho rights of every citizen. “We speak thus freely,.because.-tho suh- ■ jeet is' of tho gravest importance, while bur re lation to tlio parties in conflict enables us to do so without exposure to misapprehension.— Mr. Schell, and his contributors aro onr polit ical adversaries; tho Committee who are pres sing them to .tho wall lire our political friends. But right is right, and this procedure seems to its quite another thing. It is an attempt to ! make party capital by an abuse of power—a dangerous, stretch of a doubtful prerogative.. ‘ “ The fact may as well bo'stated, that this whole business of developing political scandal by legislative investigations has already been about run into the ground. Intelligent, fair minded men are growing sick of it. .Insofar as public functionaries and other recipients of public money aro required to give an account of their dealings with the Treasury, wo up hold the claim to the fullest extent.; Even this may be abused; but it is a salutary., con servative power, and wo rejoice in seeing it fearlessly, searchingly exorcised. But drag ging private citizens, or those who were pri-* vato citizens when tho acts as to which in quest is made were committed, hefovo-Inycsti ligating Committees, to he catechised in secret, I under circumstances which secure them no j 1 protection against insult, nor against the] \ most Inquisitorial and ■ Impertinent peerlna •land prying Into their private concerns, will f 1 not answer. It mnstho cither strictly limited' , or utterly Stopped.” But why this sudden return to reason ?—, Why is the Tribune opposed to pursuing the investigation ? Does the shoe begin to pinch already? The fact is just this: the Tribune clan are alarmed lest the investigation may he extended to; the Republican aide of the House, and result in disclosing to the world how much money was contributed in Now York for the purpose of carrying Pennsylvania for Fre mont —hpw much was disbursed under the direction of Tom Ford, lately elected printer of the House, to buy up venal Fillmore pres ses . Here is the rub. Mr. John Covode has got into deep water, and is likely to pliingo his friends into very hot wa ter. The possible consequences of this bush ness begin to make their hearts palpitate with apprehension, and the committee is implored not to pursue this private matter any further. Democratio Meeting in Perry.— The Dem ocrats of daughter Perry held a very largo and enthusiastic Ratification Meeting at Bloomfield on the evening of tho fid inst;. Gen. Joseph Baily presided, and was assisted by. a large, number of Vice Presidents and Secretaries. From all wo can learn, Perry county will give one Of her old fashioned Democratic majori ties this fall. The Perry County Democrat, in speaking of this first Democratic rally in Perry, says: “The Ratification- Meeting in tho Court House on Monday evening was tho largest County Mooting held in this borough for many years. The speeches of Gen. Miller, Gen. Russell, C. J. T. MTntiro, Esq., and Colonel Kacy, awakened an enthusiasm which will spread throughout the. county, and have the effect of infusing new life and vigor in the Democracy of Little Perry. The signs of the times are auspicious, and should there bo nothing doiib at Charleston to mar tho har mony now existing in our ranks, a-glorious victory awaits the Democracy. The, opposi tion are as much discouraged as tho Democrats are- hopeful, and with a sound, national plat form,’, pud a sound, national nominee for President, there is nothing surer than a Dem ocratic triumph next fall. Lot the work necessary to effect a thorough organization bo commenced at oneo. Lot eve ry Democrat put on his harness without de lay, lay his shoulder to the wheel, and push on tho-column.” Amendments of the Tariff.— After all the boastings of the Carlisle Herald' and other Black Republican prints, that their party is the only one that can bo relied •on to favor a a modification of the Tariff,' it is coming out that the most serious opposition 40 this mens' uro will.be encountered from the Republican side of the House. A late dispatch to the Philadelphia Press, says: “The friends of Morrill’s tariff bill will" be compelled to amend the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th sections of that bill, or they may lose the votes of the woollen manufacturers. This can not be too quickly attended to. I learn that great exertions will bo made to pass it in the House this week, but, ns a largo number of speeches will bo made on the subject, it is doubtful jf any result is produced in the House at so early a period; as some of the sanguine friends of the bill expect. The Republicans from New England are not as favorable to the measure as their friends in the middle States might wish, and it is feared that action upon it will bo delayed Tuntil so late a period in the session that the Senate will not have time for its consideration.” Will the Hirald please make a note of this, for the benefit of its readers, .who are studi ously kept ignorant of the fact that there are free-traders among tho Black Republicans, as well as among tho “rascally Looofpcos,” who come in for so largo a share of the Herald s denunciations. MORE ENOW-NOTHINGM. —TKo-self-3tylod-“Peoplc's Party”-hod a mass mooting in Philadelphia on tho 17th ult., to ratify tho nomination of Andrew O. Curtin for Governor, which was mado nearly a month before. This mobting was not like the spontaneous expression of popular satis faction and joy that greeted the nomination of Henry D. Foster, immediately upon its an nouncement, in Philadelphia, and olaowhere throughout the State. It was an afterthought, prompted by tho immense and enthusiastic Ratification Meeting held by the Democracy, two weeks previous; and called upon tho spur of necessity, in the hope of counteracting the evident effect which that Meeting had loft upon the public mind. By, dint of great puf fing and blowing, and tho promised presence of “Andy Curtin”, himself, “Tom Corwin,” and other great guns of the Opposition, a crowd was gathered. Tho first speaker was tho Hon. David Taggart, or “Dave Taggart,” as his party friends familiarly call him, one of the defeated competitors of Col. Curtin for tho nomination of the Harrisburg Convention. Now, Davo is on inveterate joker—-ho prides himself upon the faculty he possesses for mak ing a jest of every thing and any thing; and would rather say; a funmj thing than & wise thing! at any time. The indulgence of this propensity often leads him into downright vulgarity, and even to cast ridicule upon sa cred things; hut, no matter—Dave will have his joke, cost what it may. Well, when, Mr. Taggart stood up to speak, something funny was expected of him, of cou'rse; 80, after a few preliminary apologetic remarks, he cast about him for a subject. Suddenly remembering that the It.th of March was St. Patrick’s day, he bethought him, that it would .bo “a happy coincidence”—as the reporters say—to level one of his pointed shafts, at the Irish citizens. So, after briefly ’ eulogizing Henry OJay, and asserting , that “ho never would have been de feated had it not been, for tho ill-advised and 'deceived hordes that wore precipitated upon us from across the ocean,” ho undertook to bo funny after tho following fashion. Wo quote from the report of his speech, in the In- purer: “I only allude to that portion of them that do not eat meat on Fridays, (laughter and ap plause,) and have not been long enough in tho country to know that .the modern Democracy of these United States of America meant only freedom for trade, and not for men. I sup pose some of you have heard of the mistake ■the Democrats of Indiana mado two or three years ago,. when" they fixed a barhacue for a Friday. “What do you mane?” says a big Democrat from Ireland, “by roasting beef on a day when two-thirds of tho Democrats daren’t* eat,moat?” However, two-thirds were wil ling to lose their share of tho meal for the sake of the* loaves and fishes." This vulgar attempt to make fun of the Irish, and to cast ridicule. upon the Roman Catholic’s c’onscienlloua observance Of the dis cipline which his church enjoins in regard to I food,-was received —so the papers inform us— with “laughter and applause.” "Wo copy merely to show that the harrow, ‘bigoted, and intolerant spirit of Know-Nothingism, would degrade, the foreign-horn citizen below the level of the negro, and,proscribe men on account of their peculiar ncligioua faith and practice] is still alive in the so-called Repub lican or People’s party, which has taken the place of the Dark Lantern organization. They have been latterly endeavoring to gain the. favor of adopted citizens, by hypocritical pro fessions of regard for their interests; but they must be blind, indeed; if they cannot see un der the Black Republican cloak, the cloven foot of Know-Nothingism, in all the hideous deformity that it displayed a few years ago. The Pottsyillo Journal considered the Phil adelphia Ratification Meeting of sufficient im portance to demand the. publication of its pro ceedings in an, extra sheet. ■ But, the editor, very discreetly, omitted Mr. Taggart’s speech entirely. It was not suited to the neighbor hood of Pottsvillo, where there happen to be a good many .voters “who do nOt eat meat on Fridays.” , The Blow Recoiling —A book-binder at Washington, named Petiibone, in his eager ness to. sully the character of the President, and Attorney General, has got in a scrape which ho may find it difficult to get out ,of. — Ho swore before the Senate Committee that he had placed in tho hands of tho President a proposal for tho Executive binding; that this proposal had been referred to the Attorney General by tho President, with certain en dorsement on tho back thereof, which he had seen; and that afterward tho Attorney Gen eral had carried the proposal to the President and induced him to make another and differ ent endorsement thereon, &c. Tho document itself, which was produced before the committee, proved that Pettibone had lied as to tho alleged alteration of the en dorsement, and the Attorney General and others who were examined ns witnesses proved other falsehoods upon tho malignant rascal. Tho Constitution charges Pdlihone with per jury, and he. seems likely to bo handed over to the Criminal Court for trial for that offence. Senators Retiring. —The term of the fol lowing Senators expired with the close of the last session:—Messrs. Shaeffer and Baldwin from Lancaster county; Mr. Keller' of the Snyder district; Mr. Bell of fihesterand Del aware ; Mr. Rutherford of Dauphin and'’Leb ,anon; Mr. Marsellis Philadelphia city; Mr. Tdrney of the Westmoreland district; Mr. Millert of the Washington district; Mr. Fran cis of the Lawrence district; Mr. Craig of the Carbon district'; Mr. Shell of the Bedford district. Of those retiring seven are Demo crats, which we have marked by setting their names in small 1 caps; and'four Republicans, Messrs. Shaeffer, Baldwin, Rutherford and Francis. Political. —The State Convention of the so-called National Union party, will meet at Lancaster, on the 25th of April, for the-pur pose of appointing delegates to the National Convention, which meets in Baltimore on the 9th of May next. The friends of the move ment say iliat every State in the Union, except California and Oregon, will bo represented in the latter Convention. Wo have not heard of any delegates being elected from this county. DSf Gen.' Thomas Ford, lately elected prin ter of the House by the Republicans, has an nounced himself in favor of Douglas. Democratic Victory in Bhofle Island, The bond of New. England fanaticism, Cays the Pennsylvanian, is brokem [ThO smallcst of tho sisterhood of Shßes. “Little Bhoda, recorded her verdict on Wednesday m fdvor of tho Union and the Constitution with all its greatness, by electing a Democratic Cover nor and Democratic Legislature tho or- : mer by nearly 2000 majority I Never was a more signal rebuke administered to sectional ism; and tho whole Black,Republican camp stand abashed and terror-stricken by’it. ir tually defeated in Connecticut, they had look ed to Rhode Island with intense anxiety, but entire confidence j and tho result, so disap pointing and disastrous, has produced an al most universal feeling of tripidation and alarm'. - New England no longer presents an unbroken front of Sectionalism. Connecticut and Rhode Island have entered their solemn and indignant protest.- They are for the Union and against Sectionalism, .with all its mad, heretical, and most iniquitous designs. Tho result, not more In Rhode Island than in Connecticut, proves the awakening of the bu siness interest of oven Now England to the dangofOUs and destructive tendencies of Aboli tionism, and the vigorous growth of on active, ardent and controling Union sentiment among all classes of the people. This is the purport of tho victory. It was a hand to hand en counter. The gallant Democracy and conser vative men of Rhode Island made no conceal ments. It was a fight against odds; but there was no temporizing, no shrinking. The issues wore distinctly and broadly presented, and the sacredness of the Constitution in all its parts defended with a zeal and energy-which admit ted of no misconception. - The contest was for tho entire redemption' of the State from the bondage of Sectionalism, and the result has been a triumph of the roost marked political significance. ■ Noble Rhode Island; gallant Rhode Island; all hail! The Black Republican presses and orators will attempt to frame excuses and apologies for these results; but it will be unavailing. The fiat has gone forth. Not only the patri otism and the sense of justice of the North, but her business interests, utterly repudiate the aims of Abolition-sectionalism, and refuse to recognize the pretended distinction between Republicanism, People's Partyism and John Brownism. They are held to bo one and iden tical. They are bound together in Congress. They battle together against the rights of the States!* They go together to Chicago. manufactories of Connecticut have condemned them 1 The trades-pooplo and merchants of Rhode Island have condemned them! Gardening. —Some of those ■who are blessed with gardens in town have already commenc ed to prepare them for planting. Some one • Douglas Jerrold, if wo mistake not —has said that “ a garden is a very beautiftil. book, writ ten by the ; firiger of God. Every flower and every loaf is .a letter. You, have only to learn them—and he is a poor dunce that.camjot, if ho will, do that-i-to learn them; and join them, and, then go oir reading and reading, and you will find’yourself carried ayfay from I the earth to the skies bytho beautiful story \ you MB, going through/ -Sou do- not know 1 what beahtiVwV nothing short—for thdy grow hut of the ground, find seem to talk-to a man; and then there are , some flowers—they always seem to he like over dutiful children—tend them ever so lit- tie, and they do come up and flourish, and show, as we may say, their bright and happy faces to you." ; flgg- James Kirk Paulding, the distinguish ed American .author, died at his residence, near Tarrytown, New York, at 12 o’clock, on Wednesday night, in the 81st year of ItretifiS 3 Mr. Paulding was associated with Washington Irving in tho publication of "Salmagundi,” He lived on the estate given to tho Paulding family by the . Government, in recognition of the patriotic conduct of his ancestor, Mr. Paulding, of Revolutionary fume, who assisted in the capture of Major Andre. He hod re cently erected a Gothic residence of white marble, one of the most attractive on the banks of the Hudson. The deceased hold several important and honorable public posi tions during his long and useful life, the last of which was the office of Secretary of the Na vy under the administration of President Polk. jj@y“ F. B. Sanborn, who refused to obey the summons of the Harper’s ■ Perry Investi gating Committee, was arrested in Concord, N. H., on Tuesday night, by United States officers, noting by authority of the Senate Committee. The arrest caused the greatest excitement. The town balls were rung, and a largo crowd, immediately gathered; and took Sanborn from the officers, and retained hi® until a writ of habeas corpus was obtained from Judge Hood, of the Supreme Court. Ah unsuccessful attempt was made in the Legis lature to employ the State Attorney General for the defence. Sanborn was discharged on the hearing of the writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that the Seargeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate could not depute Ins au thority to another. Tub Great Breach op Promise Case. —The glorious uncertainty of the law was never more strikingly exhibited than in the result of the second trial of the-case of Miss Effio C. Carstang against Henry Shaw, Esq., of St. Louis,. ft>r breach'of promise of’inarriago. On the first trial? about ay ear ago, it will be re membered; damages to-the amount of $lOO,- 000 were awarded to the 1 plaintiff.- A new trial was obtained? which ended with a ver dict in' favor of Mr. Sha-w, the defendant. The cause of tKisgrcat difference in the verdicts of the two juries, was the production of testi mony, on the second trial, damaging to Miss Effie’s good name and character. But the end is not yet, for the plaintiff has already moved for a now trial, which, if not granted,’the case will go to the Supremo Court. • More Democratic Victories f —Wo have numerous and gratifying evidences, from all sections of the country, of the growth of an active • National public sentiment. In Mil waukie, on Tuesday a »week, the Democrats elected their Mayor and other city officers by 1,000 minority. In Elmira, N. Y., the entire Democratic ticket was elected. Another Centenarian. —Mrs. Katy Bran non, residing in Shalor township, Allegheny county, died a day or two since at the advanc ed ago of one hundred and four years. She 1 was born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1756, DEMOCRATIC VICTOR!! WILLIAM SPRAGUE, Democratic Candidate, Elected Governor, THE IBBEPBESSIBIB CONFLICT ABBESTED! The State Election in Rhode Island took place on -Tuesday a week, .and after oneplthe most exciting contests ever known. Col. Wil liam Sprague, the Candidate of tho Democracy and the Union men, has boon elected Governor by a majority of 1,500. This splendid victory shows an astonishing revolution in sentiment, when the consider that the Republicans car ried tho State last -year by 5,392 majority. Following immediately after the groat Demo cratic gains in Connecticut, nothing could bo more cheering to the Democracy of the Union. Connecticut shook tho solid phalanx of Repub lican States in Now England, but Rhode Is land has broken it. Glorious Rhode Island. Thus, on the very threshold of the Presidents contest, have tho Republicans sustained a sm rious repulse in two States heretofore counted as certain for the Republican candidate for President. Their majority in Connecticut, dwindled down from thousands to a few hun dred, carries alarm instead of encouragement into the Republican camp. And now Rhode Island has deserted thom-has defeated the Republican candidate for Governor, and ut terly routed the irrepressibles. The Ropiibli: can party may as well close business- and make an assignment, when it is defeated in New England, - a LOUD GUN FBOM OHIO. The Democracy of Ohio are determined to redeem their State. At the municipal elec tion held in the City of Cincinnati on IVednea day a week, the Democracy made a clean sweep of it, electing their entire City ticket by over 700 majority! ; Of the Councilman chosen the Democrats got nine, and the Republicans eight. The latter retain their majority in: that body Jjy the Oounoilmen holding over from last year. The Republican majority in the city at the spring election of 1858 and 1859 was over 2,- 000. Republican loss, 2,600. An Abolition City Redeemed. —The elec tion in Portland, Maine, on Tuesday a week, was. a signal rebuke to. Abolitionism. Port land has for .several years been an Abolition stronghold. . The,rote for Mayor on Tuesday was, (for Joseph Howard, Democrat, 2,4X8, for Jcdiah Jewett, Republican, 2,370 ; Democrat ic majority 48. The vote last year stood Holden, Democrat, 1,812; Jewett, Republic lean, 2,017. ' The Democrats carried four \ Wards completely, giving them four out of \ seven Aldermen, and twelve out of twentyrone Couuoiltuen. ■ B@f The State'legislature adjourned final ly on the 3d inst.,- for which let the people bo thankful. The chief merit of the past session 'was its limited, duration. Nearly the whole time was spent upon measures of private in terest and gain, to tho total disregard of the public interests. Tho only important bills passed, were the “.Revised Penal Code,” which was prepared beforehand, by a commission of learned lawyers,- and Which was not at all im proved.by the amendments, of the Senate; the “Free Banking Law,” and the “Sunbury and Erie Railroad billboth of which should, never have passed. The. General Appropria tion bill was hurried; through, with less con sideration than is usually given to the most trifling local bill, on the last day of tho sess ion, and within an hour of the adjournment. No comment that, a Democratic paper might make, on the acts of the late session, could equal in severity, the following from the Phil adelphia Inquirer, whoso editor, being of the same politics as the majority of the Legisla ture, may be supposed to know his men, and to speak tho truth of them: . “Never in tho history of Pennsylvania has a session been marked by more corrupt, wick ed intriguing than the present. Every good citizen feels the blush of honest indignation tingling his cheeks when. he thinks of their proceedings. No measure, however bene ficial, could stand tho slightest chance of pas sing, unless by the profuse expenditure of money. Almost every man, with some noble exceptions, bad his price, and, if common ru mor be true, it was an enormous price. If it could not bo paid in the hard cash, secure prospective profits were just ns good.” Petor Cartwright, the venerable Meth odist clergyman who lectured here; and in va rious other towns and cities, last winter, writes the following account of his lecturing tour, which will be read with interest, especially by our Methodist friends. Tho veteran “ Soldier of the Cross" is determined to die at his post with all, his armor on-: “I was gone about forty-fivedays and have landed safe at home again. In the forty five days that I was on this Eastern tour, I traveled about three thousand miles, -delivered thirty lectures,preached thirteen times, called about fifty mourners to the penitent’s altar, heard the triumphant shout ot about twenty newborn souls, shook hands for tho-first and last time in this world with- thousands, and feel nothing yet the worse of- Wear; and tear; and if the Lord permit, shall,-fnTt‘ few days, enter upon my second regular .round of quarterly meet ings, to wage another war with the’powers of darkness. The friends that engaged me to de liver those lectures, I presume, realized fully §7,000, clear of all expenses. They gave me a satisfactory compensation also. The Spring Bonnets. —An observer of New York fashions says the most graceful Spring hat worn is the simple straw (void of the silk or lace crown,), trimmed with budding green, or violet tints,-and clusters of spring flowers. One of the very prettiest was a pure white straw, encircled by a heavy, clinging wreath of glassy ivy, and't(mt was all; the inside, of course, crowded with lUiishing buds, buried in blonde. Speaker op the Senate. —Previous W'lts final adjournment; Hr. Palmer, of Schuyl kill, was elected Speaker of the Senate during the recess. fi©” Bryant says that “ the groves were God s first temples.” Prentice says—A good many romantic young lovers unquestionably find them delightful meeting-houses. • CONNECTICUT ELECTION. The State Election in Connecticut was hold last Monday tv week, and the Eepnbhcans carried it by the pitifully smaU major.ty M 500 votes, after one'of the hottest pivmpaig over known in thot State.' A few more such ■■ victories" in Now England, and the section al Abolition party is undone. The-vote of Connecticut shows the gradual decline of Black Republicanism in its stronghold. At the Presidential election of 1856, Fremont carried the State by a majority of 7,705 over Buchanan, and 5,000 over Buchanan and Fillmore combined. Last year the Republi can majority in the State was 1,870 and this year after the most strenuous exertions, and although the vote polled shows a large im crease, the Republicans havonnly in saving the State by some 500 votes. If the reaction goes on at this rate, Connecticut is sure to cast her vote for the nominee of the Charleston Convention; The Hartford Tit . in rejoicing at the decline of the Black Repub licans, which this election exhibits, has the following: Boosting Lowerand Lower.—Four years ago the Democratic party had over 7,000 ma jority against them in Connecticut; , Two years ago, they had about 3,900 ogainst them. , • . “Last year the Abolition figures were cut year (on a poll of 68,000 votes !) they are reduced to 500. , , . They arc now roosting on the lowest branen, and the next descent must be to the ground! ICTION. The Slanderers at Work.— After the nom ination of Curtin for Governor, by the. mon grel opposition, the papers of that faction as well as Col. Curtin himself, expressed a do sire that the campaign might he conducted without resorting to personalities. 1 Wo knew at the time those professions were made that those who, made them would he the first to give the lie to their o.wn professions. We have not been disappointed, os the- following article from the Grccnsburg Republican will show : ■ “ A ■ correspondent of the ,c Pennsylvania State Journal," published in Philadelphia, has a letter written from Grcensburg, on Sunday of last week, containing a viJo. attack upon Gen. Foster. If thatfis the game of the oppo sition—or .'if it is on these grounds they intend conducting the campaign, be it so. We had fondly hoped that the whole argument would have been on Nationall and . State policy and hot with vile vituperation—it is easy to con coct stories and pry into the privacy of any, man’s family or history or act and'misrepre sent and distort them. But this scribbler of the “ Journal” manufactures his letter Of the whole cloth—scarcely a acntohco contained in it, lias the least authority or susceptible of proof. If the opposition tolerate things of this sort, be it so, we do not envy them. If fairness candor, and gentlemanly conduct can not .be followed by them, then all we have to say is, let them pursue the course they arc now at—it is a hard .game that two cannot work at.. As the word “ contempt" cannot express the feelings of a man, wo lot the grovelling wretch, wallow in his own fifth and slime."- Pat or .Census Marshals— Tho pay of Marshals will be onb dollar per thousand in die district if the; population exceeds one mil lion—-if. loss, then §1.25 for each thousand. — The pay of the assistant is 2 cents per head of the population, 10, cents 1 for tho statistics of .'each farm, 15 cents for each establishment of '.productive industry, and 2 cents for each death ‘reported. Tho Marshalis prohibited from re ceiving any part of the fees of the assistant under a penalty of $l,OOO for each offence.— The assistants have five months' in Which to perform their duties, in place of six weblcs; as is stated in a paragraph going tho rounds of [the papers. Clear as Mud. —-A‘ writer in a. 'medical journal thus furnishes the reason why young ladies blush when spoken to about their, lov ers.- “The mind commhnioates with the cen tral ganglion; the latter, by reflex aotiori through the brain and facial nerve, to the or ganic nerves in. the face which its branches rosoulato.’’ There is nothing bettor than to have everything understood. Hereafter when you see a young lady blush you’ll know all about it. , Bogs Killed with Alum. —Make a solution of. alum aa strong as -water will dissolve, and apply it hot to places infested with bugs'of any sort, in bedsteads, closets, or trees and plants, taking cate not to apply it so as to kill tender plants, and the hugs will take a strong dislike to the locality. You may brush it in cracks and crevices in floors, ceilings, or walls of a room, or in holes and nesting places of these small vermin in plants and trees. The “ Boy Preacher." —The Boy Preach er, Eev. Crahond Kennedy, preached in the Baptist Church of Harrisburg, on Sunday last. He is said tO be a master orator, and a power ful ambassador of the Court of Heaven, who comes to us with “tidings of great joy" upon his lips. ~ Hd'is about 17 years of ago; was bofu in Scotland; came to with his mother, in 1^55; connected himself with the Baptist ohutdh in Now York, in 1857; his fa ther is dead; and his mother resides in Cana da ; he has never taken a degree in any insti tution of learning," and says he never will; ho is a modest boy, of prepossessing appearance. South Carolina Abusing Virginia.— IThe 1 The Charleston (S. C.) Merettry- haVa very abu sive article of Virginia; bcSause' she has de clined the South Carolina ptuposiil' to enter into a Southern eonforon'6o to dissolve the Union. The Mercury says Virginia vi\\\ follow the South out of the Union, bbt'wiil not' lead' it out.- The Virginians will not' relish this compliment of “ following." If the good Old Domipion should ever /allow the South Caro lina traitors, it would be to catch and hang them for their treason. Vegetation.— The recent rain, followed by the bright sunlight of the past few days, pro duced n magical effect upon vegetation.. In almost every untrodden spot, where there is room for grass to grow, it may be seen sprou ting up moat-heautifully. Broke Jail.—On Wednesday evening of last week, a fellow named Humelshine, who was imprisoned fpr‘ forfeiting bail, made his escape fromtho Franklin county jail. When the jailor was locking up in the evening, Hum elshino kjiotfked him down and escaped.- The School .Committee have forbidden the assignment of lessons for study, out of school in the Boston schools for girls. The city physician had become' convinced of the alarming evils resulting from such studies; 'M&“ Wisconsin has abolished the system of collecting debts by execution. : Later from Mexico. JIIRAMON RETREATING. Pensacola, April s.—The United States r sloop-of-war Savannah has amved from Ycrj Cruz, with dates to tho 26th ult. ■ ! .General Miramon was retreating towards ! the capital. i The United States steamer Brooklyn, with f Mr. MoLane, tho United States minister, had ! not arrived at, Vera Cruz When tho Savannah sailed. [SECOND DESPATCH.] j The Withdrawal of Miramon from Vera Crut k Another Capture made by the U. Stale j ! Steamer Indittnohj. _ | Pensacoi.a, Florida, April C.--The follow- | ine advices from Mexico have been received | by the arrival Of the sloop-of-war Savannah. | Miramon commenced Withdrawing his forces | from before Vera Cruz on the morning c f r March 21st.. ■ - I'- Tho Juarez forces were so near out of pow.; der that it vVhs believed, had Miramon te . i mained longer, he would have succeeded in,: capturing the pity. ’ '[■ Oh the evening of the 23d, the United if States steamer Indiahdia brought to an an- f" chorago off the city a bark which it had cop. [■ tured, southward, in'the neighborhood of Ad yarado. . „ , The bark boro the Spanish colors, and pro. i ; fessed to bo bound to Galveston, Texas. The K captain gave as an excuse, for being found n [. near tho Mexican coast, that his compass tom disordered. . . . e There was a strong suspicion entertains! i that she was tho third vessel mentioned in fop' intercepted despatches, of Miramon. The steamer Indianola had been purchase! by Juarez, and .placed in the service of thi Government. Death of the Last Survivor of theWto mind Massacre.— We have intelligence of fluj donth of Mrs. P. Wooden, tin) Inst survivor olj the ever-to-be-rcmemhorcd Wyoming ninsw-t ere. Wo need scarcely remind our readers ol the horrors attending this frightful event. In a single night the entire spttlchiont was laid: waste, and most of the inhabitants were ,mur-„ dorod in cold blood by Indians and the Bril-i ish. The historians'have told the frightful tale, and all are familiar with it.- The poet Campbell hois also told it in snpefb verso. -A few of the inhabitants escaped, among'whom werotho family ofWilliam.Murtin, Mrs. Wee den’s father. Mrs, AVeedon was twelve yean, old at the time, and she retained a vivid rec ollection of the massacre until her death.— She was a prisoner with her sister in the fori, where every male was put to death by the tomahawk. Thq sisters left the' Valley with j their father and mother, and traveled with a 1 flag of truce, through the then dense forest, j till within miles pf the Connecticut riv-f or. There they wore mot by two of Mr. Mar-f -tin’s sons and taken to Colchester. Mr. Mu | tin and his family loft Rhode Island for raing, Pennsylvania, a few days before the| massacre, performing the arduous journey pif foot. That was the day of iron hands, brief hearts, and wills that never .faltered. Jh.| W. died on Friday last, and had one ofllslj largest funerals over seen in the jicighlxil hood. .■ p An Indian Brave— The Austin (Teiu)f,;; Intelligencer gives a description of the gua 1-: how and arrows, trappings, &c., of an India);’ recently killed in Burnet county—a wild IV . mariche—and adds;—Mr; Hunter, of Barm', describes his-conduct and death .as Lein;; brave in 'the highest’ degree. Anatty if - about ton had pursued and dians, about the same.number, and at livit in-|; fercoptod ■ them. The Spdians took to' the[{ timber. The whites attempted to pureutjV when this Indian turned on foot and faced Hi jv' whole party. With his giiu to his shouMutv'; he rushed at, one and another, although firalK at all the , time .with six-shooters, arid succcc4-ft| ed in keeping them at bay. He did riot iire;B and at last when. shot several times, slr.|| Hunter says: he . got down on bis knees u|| quietly as a man going to prayer, and mnlin£|| an effort to draw bis toMT/ fell .dead, picrodMl wUh’a'dbzferi brillotsk The party join in Ml bfclief thill hd’m&i his death to enable thokal-hj; * - . • , . . • Mu aiico of his band to escape. Only one of others was killed, lie was not tall, but wssj.’i' a iriodel of symmefty, and displayed great’y power of muscle. 565“ Richard Taylor, son Of Ptesidw/- Taylor,, is one of the delegates to Chntlcsloi" from Louisiana. Ho is wealthy, looks wy, much like his father, and is favorable to tit nomination of Jefferson Davis fir Prtsi dent. A son of Henry Clay is also a DelcgaitJ) the Charleston Convention. .He is in fuvoril Mr. Guthrie for President. . ■ Webster's son is also a Democrat; _ 0“ Governor Stewart has vetoed flio Frtt;u. Negro bill passed by the Legislature of sk| ; souri. The bill proposed to enslave all '■" free negroes; i K7”R. J. Haldoman, Esq., has retired frC||||; the editorship of tho Harrlsburg jPafi A. J . ? Union. S®*The,BOstph Courier (Old’ Line W $ has comeout in favor of the nominee of IS 1 ~.j Charleston Convention. , O' Geo. A. Whitney, a Boston mercW who died a few days ago, had hls lifo insi" for §30,000. , , „ 3®qYfok ■ Philadelphia, JpriU'j: Flour and Meal.—Thb Flour nmrkot i» *V- : There ia very little demand, and the sales . a few hundred bbls, common and,extra at?-> • j $6, and $6 25@7 25 for extra family and brands. Eye Flour and Corn Meal are dull* former id Bolling in lota at $4,12i@d,25, 0®“ latter at $3,60p0r bbl. for Ponna. •. t ' Q rain.—Tboro is more flrmneao for Whoat- ~, quoto good and prime, red at $1,44@X,46 P orD and small sales of White at $1,05@1>70. wanted at 860 for Ponna. and but little offonjft Corn of prime quality is scarce and firm at 7*l. and prime white‘at the samo figure. Oidr’jjJ fairroquest at 44J0. for Delaware ftr* eylvania. ; . * • ; Clovebsbed continues very* qaidf. * Bpm ll of common and good qqality atsi@d,60 per ° Timothy is steady at FlatkoedioUs o® val at $l6O per bushel. ~ .*,1., : l Whisky is firm. Small sales of Ohio w ■ . 22Joj Ponna. do, afc 21otd; hbds.at 10J@20) . Drudge at 20 cents, CARLISLE, MARKET.—ApriI' 4 Corrected WeeMy by Woodtcard & y Floi)R,'Superfine, por bbl., I do.'; Extra, 1 • do., | do., Family, do., jyv do.,' Rye, do., | 'i,, WniTß" Wußat, por bushel, j Red , do., • . do., Isi;-- Rye, . do., . ■ Ooiiir,' do., k Oats, ~ do., [j; Fail Baulky, de., I Spring Barley, do., CIGVERSEED, do., IIMOTOTSEED, if)., m I'sS 5
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