ASSASSINATION OF CHARLES 111. ' orrfnpon noke to mo in English with remarkable tr-ency. Ho was very fond of England, •• here he had passed much time, and in q-dred interestedly about the U. S. His chief minister and friend, Baron Ward, is (he son of nn English ostler, was l ; mself borrt in England, and actually sor ted the Duke’s father ns the chief equcc wof his stables. He is, in truth, an ex ceedingly clever Englishman,and deserves too promotion ho has won, with a consid erable fortune, though decidedly illiterate. This foul taking off of his confiding chief v ill doubtless bring a change in his rclu t' lnsi for the fair regent is under the i-'lverso influenceof his brother’s cliquo. The princes of Italy live in peril, of which t'ds event will make them more painfully conscious. Important Decision. —Wo find in the New York Journal of Commerce tho re port of a case of importance to business p:en generally: The action was ngninst the endorser of I note, dated Feb. 7. 1651, for St 500, pay able on demand with interest. Tho ma ker failed in November, 1851, and a month beforo that was known by the plain tiffs to be in failing circumstances; and fatween two and four months before they had spoken to him about paying the note, r nd he told them he could not pay it thon hut it was perfectly good, and that they ► hould not be uneasy about it. Their £gent, who acted for them, said on his tes timony—“l had no uneasiness about tho pole at nil, because 1 was satisfied the en dorser. was good, and therefore ii was not >< matter of much importance, and it lay : wo could not get the money from Davis.” )t was decided that, after the note was six months old, and the holders was satisfied ihat.they could not collect it from tho ma ker, they were guilty of neglect in not ma king a formal demand of payment, and notifying the endorser of non-payment. It ifas held that they had no right, after that io delay, “because they were satisfied the endorser was good.” This was not good ( 'nitb to the endorser, and tho plaintiffs must bear the consequances of it. They delayed making a demand until January 15 185?. It was further decided that the reason of this rule applies ns much to a pote payable on demand, with interest, and on which the endorser puts his name for llje accomodation of the maker, as to an ordinary note payable on demand. It can not be ioferred, in either case, that a de lay is intended to bo allowed under such pircumplances as are stated above. Con sequently, judgment wqs given for the (Jefepdeßt, Terrible Conflagration. —The town of Dovor, Kjr., in ruins—Loss $lOO,OOO. VVe le4rn from passengers who cnmo down the river yesterday, on the Pittsburgh pack et, that oajhe boat neared the town of Do ver, Ky„ about twelve miles below Mays jrille, a tremendous conflagration was seen to be in progress. The boat was landed, when it was discovered that two of the prin cipal business squares of the town had been consumed and thedevouringclement wos still making.terrific progress. There were no fire engines in the place, and wa ter being scarce, the citizens despaired of saving any portion of the town. Several tobacco warehouses were con surped with their content's, besides stores, gtjoceries, and private residences, the oc cupants of ,which had lost all their goods, &c. The boat loft when two thirds.of tho.town was burnt down, and the.fire .was still raging. The loss is es timated at being over $lOO,OOO. The particulars of thi s conflagration will prob oWy.rench us to-morrow. S *~? in ? e ' vr ' lin ß ‘he above, we learn l°, f ‘r he M , aysville Packet,that m#|)over Hotel, four large tpbacco ware* Bouses filled with tobacco, seven stores jnri'lWegfocetfes' were destroyed. The fire Wp? arrested about 4 o’ejoek yesterday whMijng. Only a fow dwellings’ word sa- T^d.-' pdvor had d population of about Mrbn hiiddred. Cincinnati Gazelle, April 16th. l 1?!?. P'tssfid lf i° State Senate toltingthe power of gfantingdivorce9 from Bpil yetting it jn llieCpurls p|; yppipiop Pteas. , iV .; M . ;.....) Arguments for Uiepeoplc ‘onllic Ncbrnsk/l)in, I said in my latter to Mr. Nicholson, nnd I repeat it hero, that “by going back to our true principles wc’go back Ip tho road j of peaco and safety. Leave to tho people] who are nflected by this question, to ndjust j it upon their own responsibility nnd in their own manner, nud wo shall render another tribute to tho original principles of our government, nnd furnish another gunrni/- toe lor its permanency and prosperity”-#- Luwis Cass. / You canot fix bounds to tho onward march oLthis grcnl and growing courtlry. You cannot fetter the lirqbs of tho young giant. He will burst nil your/dininsv He ’ \vi|J expand, and grow, and-ijic reuse, and extend eivi!ization r> chrisilnniiy, nnd liber al principles. Then, sir, if you cannot check flic growth of the country in that di rection, is it not the part of wisdom to look the danger in thq face, nnd provide for nn event which you cannot avoid ? I tell you, ' sir, you must provide lor continuous lines of settlement from the Mississippi valley to tho Pacific ocean. And in making this provision, you must decide upon what prin pies the Territories shall be organized ; in other words whether tho people shall bn allowed to regulato their domestic, institu tions in their own wav, according to the provisions of this bill, or whether tho op -'posito doctrine of Congressional interfe rence is to prevail. Postpone it if you will ; hut whenever you do net, this question must be met and decided. —S. A.Do,uglas. I snv nothing of tho constitutional view of tho question. When I hnv?s been ask ed if Congress does not possess the pow er to impose restrictions or to pass the ‘Wilmot Proviso,’ I have waived tho issue; I never discuss it. On that point I hnve told mv constituents, nnd I tell you, I treat' it as Chatham treated it in the British Par liament when the question of power Jo tax 1 the colonies without representation was rai sed there. That was a question which Chatham would not discuss; but he told ' those who were so unjustly exercising it,; that if ho were nn American lie would re- 1 sist it. The question of power is not the question : the question is, is it right thus to exercise it ? Is it consistent with repre sentative republican government to do it ? That is the question. Where do you lut ter-duy Whigs from the North stand on this question! Will you take the side of Lord North and; the British tories, nnd maintain that it is the duty of this great government, with its superior wisdom, to legislate for the freemen of this country, 1 as free-born ns yourselves, who quit the j Stale jurisdictions and seek new homes in the West?—A. H. Stephens, of Georgia; —Whig. ; Sir, 1 enro nothing about refined distinc tions or.tlie subtleties of verbal criticism. ; I repeat the plain and broad proposition, 1 that if Congress may intervene on this sub-' jeet, it mny intervene on any other ; and j having thus surrendered the principle and broken away from constitutional limita tions, you are driven into tho very Inp of arbitrary power. By this doctrine you mny erect a despotism under the Ameri- j can system. The whole theory is n libel on our institutions. It carries us bnck to the abhorrent principles of British colloni nl authority, against which we made the! issue of independence. I have never ac-1 quiesced in this odious claim, and will not] believe that it con abide the test of public scrutiny. The bill onjnir tabic repudiates! it, and only wants fearless advocates to make it thoroughly odious. The political abolitionists think they can ride the storm ofanti-slavcry fanaticism, but i tell them they have encountered here an element more powerful still. They must obliterate the memory'bf the principles on which tho structure oyjour government was foun ded ; they must undo the very texture of the American mind ; the)' roust substitute in the popular heart the dogmas of despo tism for the doctrines of American liberty, before they can triumph over the principle of this bill. The South insists on it as embodying tho doctrine of State equality, on which her very existence depends; but it should commend itself equally to nil sections, be cause tile underlying principle is not north ern or southern, but Awerican. It is true that tho question of slavery happens to be the one in issue ; but it is there ns the rep resentative of overy other social and po litical right. The freedom of these new countries to establish their own instiftnions ought, therefore, to "be ns dear to the man from Maine ns to the man from Florida. — Hon. John C. Breckenkidok. The Flags Captured by Washinoto'n. The venerable George Washington Parko Custis has addressed a letter to General. Piprce, informing him of his desires, thro’ his excellency, to deposit in the national archives tho Hags captured by the illustri ous Washington in Abe days of tho revolu tion. These invaluable trophies were pre sented to Gen. Washington as the highest mark of respect which could be bestowed on him by Congress. The ceremonies of presentation will take place shortly. Which is Right? —The law now in force authorizing a single magistrate to take acknowledgments of deeds, allows a fee of but twenty-five cents to ilie magis trate for the service, while tho law regu lating magistrate’s fees, which will go in do effect, in-Juno next, allows twenty-five' cents for each person making an acknowl edgement in the deed to the magistrate.— Under which law will the magistrate act in this particular.—/fageMtoart Herald. Altered Bills. —-A great many bills' on different banks are in circulation iq! New York,nltered from one’s to five’s,arid' also.from one’s to ten’s. The alterations 1 are said to be very ingeniously done and unless the figures and the words “ten dob •n’li ° T ° ver y curclully scrutinized, they will deceive evep those who are consider-! ed pretty good judges. » .. . . you desiro to be released from a ; rash promise of marriage, breathe vows qr. lov© continually after eatingonioris. republican. FIELD, APRIL 26,1854. GLEA . l Foil Governor, WILLIAM BIGLER. . For Supreme Judge, JEREMIAHS. BLACK. For Canai. Commissioner, HENRY S. MOTT. a \vord)to our friends. The exertions which have of Into been making in this section to procuro subscri bers for different newspapers, has induced us to afford the friends of tho Republican an opportunity to extend its circulation. — Prospectuses havo been issued and forwnrd ed to different portions of the it is hoped that a goodly {lumber of the samo will bo returned ere long, with n res pectable number of names attached to each. We havo had no great cause to complain of late ; for within the Inst six month not less than one hundred names hnvo been added to our list. Being en couraged thereby, nnd relying upon still further encouragement from the exertions of our friends, we have ordered on n sup ply of new type, which, when received, w ; ll enable us to improve both the appear nnco nnd usefulness of our paper. Our readers may rely upon it, that the Rcjnib lican is not to be surpassed as a county paper, by any thing which may he started up in this ‘neck of woods.’ Advertisers Read Persons having ndvcriiscments in our paper who mny wish to renew them will please send ns orders to that effect, ns wc will be compelled next week nnd the week ’following uxflcnr down all the advertise ments now standing, and replace the same in now type. It will therefore be as con venient for us to Bet up nn entire new ad vertisement ns to replace the old one. No additional clinrgc will be mado Tor the change. Two Men Drowned We rogrek'excccdingly to learn, that a Mr. William Wntson, of Bradford town ship, this county, was drowned at Bircli Point, a short distnneo nbovo the foot of of Buttermilk falls, on Friday last. Mr. Wutson it appears hud been assist ing in running a raft, nnd having passed the most dangerous-and difficult portion of the river, he nnd two other hands attempt ed to jump off the raft that was afloat on to another that was tied' to shore, for the purposeof returning home. The two first it appears jumped snfe, but Mr. W. being a little too late, or from some cause or other, in attempting to jump merely reach cd tho edge of the raft with his foot, and fell back into the water, nnd was drowned. Tho deceased wc understand lenyes a wife nnd six small children to mouiTT-his untimely death. \ j We also learn that a young man by il4e name of Peter Bartlett, or Peter Bnrtau/a Frenchman, and miller by profession, cn. gaged in the service of J. P. Hoyt, in the upper end of this county, was drowned at or near Lutnberville, some twelve or four teen miles above-this place, on Snturdnv last. It appears that Mr. B. had been assisting in rnnning a raft, and in assisting in run ning a raft, and in attempting to jump on to one tied to shore for the purpose of land ing, jumped too far, not farenough, or miss ed bis calculation in foroo way or other, and got into the water immediately behind the raft, when the current carried him un derneath the same, and nothing furihcr was seen of him. Mr. 8., we understand, was a highly es- timable young man. ! Neither tho bodies of Mr. Watscn or l Mr. B. have yet been found, nnd search lis deemed almost useless in the present 'and rapid stage of the water. j OirThc papors throughout different por-j lions of the Stale aro corriing to the con clusion, that an advance in the price ofi newspapers must eventually take place if■ I material change or decline docs not take j place in other necessary articles of. life,! : which is not at likely, under existing cir-l cumstances. We shall however endeavor to continue the Republican as heretofore,! ( for a time at least, und only ask that our j •patrons may ndhero strictly to our terms,' and pay us a dollar in and those! who neglect to do so must oxpect to pay j i the additional price occasioned by delay. I story, or rather the true and .authentic narrative which wo commence] , this week, and which wjll be concluded in' ■ our next issue, tho reader will find woll I j worth a perusal. Interesting and thrillingns | j the portioq this we ck may prove, it may j ! bo relied upon that the host is yet to come.! ! The PnQiiiiiiTOßY Liquor Lawl— ln' ! the Pennsylvania Legislature on the 21st [ inst., the Committee qf, Gppference of the] two Houses on ilie Prohibitory Liquor bill 1 met, ond, it is snid, havd agreed upop the plan proposed at the last session for sub mitting the question to a Vote of the peo- 1 pie—the provisions, of the bill not to be enforced until approved by the people, Nohow. Escape. On Thursday Inst ns Mr. Wm Barr of, Propositions of Pence by the Czar Rejected, j thisplncc,wnsnssistingto run a raft through j New York, April 20, —Tho, Ciinard, Bigler & Co.’s schulo;some twelvo or rouN ;Si r.<- t...n.i.m rnn<«, I7ih. exchanges from diflbrent poriions of the Despatches were received to day nt the o. . i r l • i r i ■ Turkish limtmssv from Vienna#confirm- State sneak of having been favored in a . . , 1 ! mg what was said yesterday about the de like manner. ; feat of the Russian General UscliakolT, and . ip i • . o i • ; • r ! the retreat'of his corps on Bessarabia. It (CrThe Washington Sentinel, in refer-;. . .... 1 . • i ■ iii i ■ is also stated that the forts said to have! ring to the victories claimed to be acme-;, . , . , 1 ?. / • . ... •. .... • been enptured are still in the hands of the ved by a party ca'ling itself he VVMng par- p m , , , , tv savs • D | Turks ; that the Turks have crossed the, 'V, ' '• • ii . ■ • .i Danube nt a point between Niconolis and How, it is well to inquire, were these n . , . ■ . ‘ ' ,* victories accomplished? The answer is ; that 20,000 Turks are on plain. All the odds, ends, and fragments ! ‘ h r P ' r n „ H f y to Trajan's-wall or Rnssovn and , —nil the isms, all the abolitionists, free- 20,000 for the same direction from Shorn-, sellers, and fanatics, all the women’s rights >• A 1 ‘heso movements were spoken of men, all the free thinkers,all the disappoin- yesterday and the day before and they ted, all the disaffected-voted in opposition n , rn ”r n ' n “"nounerd to-day. Reports are to the honest, sterling Democracy, who ? s0 rife ■ ndvantages near K.'h.fht.— scorned to make bargains and coalitions J‘ u ' "IL 11 ’” 0 havo ,0 bc confirmed official; and resort to tricks and dishonest means/^-^ 110 Pa, \ '** that the account of These victories, thus achieved, are called ™ having been gained by the Whig victories, when in truth there never' * urks ? n lh ® Lm ' cr Danube appeared to was a bund of more variant and antngo- 1 . P con , rm , * ** positive, s:iys that nistic elements. Men of every hue and .l' >l,rna » 1 ,at Genernl-in-Chief ol Mio stripe, without anv fixed principles in pol- R,)ss,an after ,t he passage of his itics, morals, or religion—the flouting scum lrno f ls ' " ,l0 >''? Dobrudscha considered his iff the nation-acted together. T nß " ,on 80 crhwfnl lliat he demanded rein \ If the victories to which we refer nra Torcemrnts from Bessarabia, Odessa and. Whig victories, they were achieved bvsuch oven *-e lastnpol. 1 monns ns will effectually and forever sep-j Pnrlitment Proceedings. j nrnte the Whigs of the South from the Wlfgs of the North. There is from this time forth no sympathy, no affinity, no bond of union between them. They will henceforth bo as strangers nnd ns uliens. If the-Whig parly of the North has coal esced with abolitionists, freolsoilcrs and fanntics—if it has abandoned tho broad platform on which n national organization can only exist—if it has mado itself exclu sively n local party, a 6ec'.ionnl party, nnd arrayed in company with all the senseless and unprincipled isms of tho day against the Constitution and its sacred guaranties —against tho rights of the Slates and in opposition totheSouth—then, indeed, must there bo a wall of complete separation be tween the whigs of the north and the whigs of the south. And party that stands upon a sectional platform, deserves to he precipitated to tho earth. It is tho boast of the democratic party that there is noth ing sectional in its creed; that it does not look to loctrhties, sections, or clusses ; that it does not clqim for one portion or ono class of tho country what it denies another. It extends to all the same benefits and tho same privileges, and it subjects all to tjio same restraints. It asserts equal rights lor men nnd for States. Any and every pptv ideal creed without these elements js cor rupt and dangerous. Nor can any such crectl have more than ephemeral exist ence. Tobacco Prohibition.—A' petition has been presented to the Legislature asking that a section prohibiting the sale and usn of tobacco may bo incorporated into tho prohibitory liquor law. are so von.persons in Cincinr nati awaiting trial for murder, ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. Rumored Turkish Victories. Operations of the Fleet in the Black Sea. In llie House of Lords on the night of , the 7th, the Earl of Mulmesbury wished to | know whether there wns any truth in the : reporj that the Russian fleet had left Se , bastnpol, and landed a number of troops at the mouth ol the Danube! Nothing could be more mollifying than the inac tivity of our fleet in Beicos Bay under such circumstances, when it might easily hove intercepted the Russian reinforcements. | The Earl of Clurendon replied that ho j hnd reason to believe that tho Russian fleet i hod not quitted Sebastopol at nil. j Tho Earl of Ellenborough deprecated jail criticism on tho conducet of our naval 'and military commanders. Tho House I might depend upon it necessary conso j qucnco of failure, was sufficient to detor i thoso commanders from doing wrong, j Lord John Russell said ho, thought the : Sultan had reason to complain of the con duct of the Government of Greoce with | the. insurrection in the Turkish j Provinces on the borders of Greek terri j tory. Hor Majesty’s Government in con | cert with that of Franco lind Austria, had given such directions ns they had thought [proper to the Minister at Athens, and ho j thought the Court qf Greece wns answer able liqr this unfortunate occurrence, j House of Commons, on' Friday j night, Lord John Russell confirmed | that Austria was concentrating tropps on j the Servian frontier, but ns negotians wore j still in progress, he could not state what course Austria would pursue. Fran ce. Departure of Prince Napoleon for Turkey , Tho departure of-Prince Napoleon for : Turkey is nowfixed for the 9lh. Marsal iSt. Arnaud expects to leave next day. The following “order of 4he s duy” litis been ad. dressed by tha -Marshal to the soldiers of Africa;- .i'l .1 : ‘‘Soldiers—ln a few days you ure to leave for the East. You 'are going to de. fend allies unjustly attacked, and to tals up tho defiance flunky the Cznr at the nations of the West. From the Baltic to the Mediterranean, Europe will applaud your efforts and your success. You will combat side bv sido with tho English, tho Turhs, and the Egyptians. You know whnt'is due to comrades, union and cordi. aliiv in the intercourse of tho.camp, de. votcdncs9 to the cause on the field of battlo, Franco and England, rivals in other times, aro now friends and ulties. The Lwocoun tries havo learned to cfefeem each other while combatting. \ “United, they commandv the seas, and their fleets will feed the army whilst famirio is in the camp of the cnemyl The Turks and Egyptians have held oilt against tho enemymneo the commencement of the war. \lone and unnided they have beaten them in several actions. What will they notdo when seconded by your battalions? [ “Soldiers I The englesof the Empiro re. Lsumo their flight—not to menace Europe, I but" to defend it! Bear them on onca more, ns your fuihers borolhem beforoyou; and, like'them let us all, before wo quit France, repent the cry which so often led them to victory— ‘ Vivel P Empercur I” “A.De St.Abnaiid, Marshal of France, Commandcr-m-Chicf of the Army of j tho EnSt.” Address to the Baltic Squadron . Vice-Admiral Parseval-Deschcnos, on taking the command of the Baltic squad ron, addressed the fallowing order of the dav to the commander, officers and snilors: “Called on by the Emperor to the honor of commanding you at n moment when vour courage may he useful to the country, I feel the most lively satisfaction nt_ find ing myself once more in the midstol you.' As ! have so frequently done in niy long career, 1 nm about once more to opprcci ale that discipline —that devotion to their duly—nnd that self-sacrifice of French seamen which led to success, nnd which render me proud to be nt your hpnd. Let your confidence in me be ns in times past; mine is assured to you. Let us unite all our efforts nt the outset of a laborious cam pnign; nnd let us know, in tho accom plishment of our task, how to inspiro our selves with the sentiments of patriotism which must he caused by the cry of‘Vivo I'Empercur !’’ llow will Germany Act ? Since despatches of March 5, no fur ther advnnces of any sort have,been mado to tho Western Powers in any official form, but, on the other hand, Austria, in sending Baron Von Mess to Berlin, shows a determination to strnin every nerve to bring about n cordial nnd spirited co-opc ration of the German Powers, of course, hien oitcndu, in the interest of Austria.— While Prussia will he called upon to enter into what will virtually he an alliance of fensive and defensive with Austria, by which the lotter-wUI gain the assistunco of the former in case of being attacked or disquieted in Lombardy " nnd Hungary, Prussia will receive tho same security ot assistance from Austria in case of Posen or the Rhine provinces being attacked of disquieted. If the two powers decide on asserting and maintaining u strict neutrality, they can produce, with the help of the Bund, which lor such purpose would be immedi ately given, a force of nearly 600,000 men for the protection of their common fntherlnnd. If they adopt the view that German interests are injured by the stop ping up of the mouths of the Danube, or may be extremely improved by weakening the power of Russia in the Baltic, nnd per haps abolishing the Sound duties, they would though losing the assistance of the i Bund, still be able to bring from Coo,oooi to 700,000 men into the field for simu ta. neous action in the South and tho North. Spain. Revolution in Barcelona The advices from Spain are important. A revolution had broken out in Barce lona, and several lives had been lost in q conflict between the insurgents and the gov crnmenl troops. , Greece. Progress of the lnsurscction. j • Accounts from Athens states that the- Minister of Finance nnd Justice have re signed. v The port of Prevesa, has been declared in a state of blockado. Spli, a strong fortress in Epirus, is re ported to have been taken by. tho Turks, wns expected that the Greek Govern 1 ment had bought three Russian fillips o war, with all the materials on board. Washington, April 20.—The Senatt to-day confirmed two Indian treaties—on< with the confederated bands olf v Ottoesan( Missouris, nnd one with tho Omahas an.< Nebraska Indians. They sell all theii lands except a reservation for their,futub homes. The Government pays to the Ot toes nnd Missouris $352,000, and to.thi Omahas $040,000. It is expected thatthi Indians wul be civilized on the same lands ! Tien Cholera. —Tho cholera begins tc moke its appearance on the Mississippi river, By the last foreign news it wns al L so beginning to make its appenrence in va [rious places in Great Britain, apd in vari ous places on the continent.' It is state! that thero were,fifteon cases of cholera ot board tho steamer Bell Kay, onher rccen. pnssngo.lrom New Orleans to Cairo. : • 03" Gen. Edwin Polk,of Tennessee, diet very, suddenly on tho oth inst., aged abou 30 years. He was.tho son of. Col. Ezokia Polk, nnd uncle of the Into President.— His deaihfis greatly deplored by bisfriendt in Tennessee. ; OCTAn Albany editor says that the only reason why his house was not blown a way by a gale that passed over that city, wot becouso then; was a heavy mortgage on tti