iHtelllfrrttt* b Jfouvnal, ' -fg W, NUTTER, EBITQR, tm presiding ft'MEB BUCHANAN «P PENNSYLVANIA: . [SHft/wf fe the Perwrifton'l Fo* CANAI- Cei|«?gstoNEß, l«s.r»/iFU PAINTED, OF WESTMORELAND COUNT!. Demoeratle Electoral Ticket Senatorial Deleoates. WILLIAM BIGLER, of Clearfield. DAVID D. WAGENER, of Northampton. Representative Electors. Dist. jDist. 1. Henry L. Benner, 13. John C. Kino, 2. Horn R. Kneass, 14. John Weidmah, 3. Isaac Siiunk, 15. Robert J. Fisher, , 4. A. L. Roumfort, 16i Frederick Smith, 5. Jacob S. Yost, 17. John Creswell, 6. Robert E. Wrio&t, 18. Charles A. Black, 7. Wa. W. Downing, 19. %o. W. Bowm an, 8. Henry Hackman, 20. John R. Shannon, 9. Peter Kline, 21. Geo.P. Hamilton, 10.. B. S. Schoonover, 22. William H. Davis, 11. Wm. Swetland, 23. Timothy Ives, 12. Jonah Brewster, 24. Jas. G. Campbell. Lancaster, April 25, 1848. ’ID""VVe are under obligations to Hon. John STRomr, Member of Congrees irom this district, for a copy of Lieut. Howison’s report on Oregon. James Buchanan. In having the honor of being the first to hoist this truly great man's name, in this State—the State which is proud of him as its “-favorite"— we done so, says the Potter Pioneer , conducted by C. B. Cotter, Esq., under the fullest conviction that the position of our country, and the signs of the times, point unmistakingly to him as the choice of the people for the next Presidency. Indeed, it requires no uncommon keen eye, or unusual saga city or penetration to observe this; and as there must be a first move in all things of the kind, we “ took the first responsibility”—and how glorious isithe result! A glance at the political horizon of our country must satisfy, all that the time isoppor tune?—is ripe— for Pennsylvania to press her claim. The jwsition of the government at the close of the present incumbent s administration, to carry out the salutary measures, to maintain the honor and tecure the interests of our government and its citi zens, plainly calls for James as his suc cessor— experience in the highest blanches of public .service, His perfect familiarity with the affairs of the government, its interests ami positions abroad, his'-inteHigence, stability, firmness and peculiar fitness for the time and the station, all —all—all conspire to render him the very nmn whom the country needsfor its next chief executive; and well do other States know this, fact. Well, then, did the State Convention do its in declar ing so favorably for the man it did; and well will its members be repaid in seeing their nominee triumphantly elected. Cheers for Pennsylvania’s Favorite! Nine times nine lor the next President of the United States. “ Evil be to him, who evil thinks/* The suspicions of the editor ot the West Chester Republican, that the course of the State Central Committee in postponing the exaction of the f re quired pledges from the Electors, “ until alter Ithe meeting of the National Convention,’’ was governed by improper motives, are altogether so attenuated and far-fetched, as to seem in our sight scarcely to justiiy an attempt at serious refutation.. Why. bless us. good cotemporary, reasons the very opposite ol those which you impute to them, governed the Committee in the adoption of this resolution. It was the pledges might be nuule so posi tive and emphatic, that no possibility ol mistake could exist in regard to them. Between the time of holding the Baltimoie Convention and the day of the Presidential Election, a peiiQd intervenes of about half n yci r . ami it wag argue*! that this (in a' c e-tce \flui led sufficient filttfr Id fW&Vd Jhu |iit!rigt?tj tinil that assurance would be made doubly sure by committing the Electors to the candidates mr Pireldeut itiiij Vice I'resideui, by iiiif/ifi tiller the nominations This course adopted ttmninumshj. No one present smiflejl ■mi in the tiiniftsplirp', end it demanded soiite such bmy million magnifying rmimiseapfl tU Hspub liian's to discoju it, Far tfifi editorial of am friend the Republican we entertain a innst prulbund respect, and me ghij to hail him—brothei. but T we must be allowed the remark, that it in his judicial sphere he convicts upon this soit of -cir cumstantial evidence,” we pray perpetual deliver auce from hia authority. "Young Mens’ Democratic Asso- elation. At a meeting, of the Democratic Young Men, held pursuant to adjournment, at the Friendship Hose-House, on Wednesday evening, April 12th, IS-18. for/ the purpose of organizing the Young Mens’ Democratic. Association of the city of Lan caster, the committee appointed to draft a Con stitution. made report, which was adopted. The meeting then proceeded to the election of officers for the permanent Organization of the Association, wnp-the following were duly elected -.—President, JOffN W, JACKSON ; 17ce Presidents, Jonas D. Beckman, \\ m. B. \\ ilet; Corresponding Secretary, George F. Me*. set; Recording Secretary, James Wiley: Treasurer , Zuriel Sivope. On motion, a committee of three were appointed to procure a suitable room for holding the meetings of the association. , On motion, adjourned to luwet on Wednesday evening. April 10. Buchanan In Alabama. The Alabama State Gazette, published at Mont gomery, Contains an able communication, signed *Gileg”‘in favor of Mr. Buchanan's nomination for t)ie Presidency. The editor says: “ It cannot be denied that the reasoning of " Giles” is plausible—that he'indeed has made out a very strong case ; and if there is any error in hia statistics, or any defect in his arguments, we should like to see it pointed out. Until this be done, and with the present ‘Mights” before us, we pronounce our choice to be BI'CHANAN and KING agaiiwt the world.’ Re-nomination of Col. Piollet. The President has re-nominated Col. Victor E. Piollet to the Senate, for the place of Paymaster in the Army. It is sincerely to be hoped that the Senate may act upon this nomination in the spirit of justice and impartiality which it deserves. From, the Pennsylvanian of Monday. The President and Mr. Buchanan.— That in dustrious calumniator, who furnishes daily a column of concentrated malice for the Norik American in the shape of a letter from Washington, stated, in a paragraph scandalously coarse, a few days ago, that there was a misunderstanding, of coolness be tween the President and the Secretary of State a story which we perceive has been duplicated in various quarters, and amplified even by the impar tial correspondent of the N. 0. Picayune alias “Ob server*' of the Ledger. We now state, upon the best authority, that it is a fabrication, manufactured out of the whole cloth—a sheer, naked, aud un* blushing fabrication. The President and Mr. Buch ana# never were on more cordial terms than at present, nor has the whole cabinet been more unb .ted til (my previous’period or the present- admin la* trulioii, . Q 7 On Monday, on motion of Henry Itap, Mr. Pahihi. G, Baker wai admitted to the practice ef the Law, ae an Attorney, in *he MvtntJ eeurtfl of this e&uut;, 1 . HiOl« la Wiublugtou till. We ere pained ta ehraniele, ifi eiuittief ualimm, llie prevalence ef miieli saeial dikaider in ille Me 1 wpalis @f (he Nalien=the plaee, wliielt ef fill ethere Simula lie mesl eenseeratea la Law, and Peace, and Order: Far same pWleatiaai, abridged impraper by the papulae#, the effiee ef the Mhimsl Sf a, an ahalitian newspaper, has been assailed, pelted with stone., and threatened with demalitinn! Papular mubreahs ef this description have re cently become of too frequent repetition, not to pnt the safety and permanency of our social institm tionß in imminent jeopardy, They never .fail to reflect infinite disgrace upon the city in w’nidh they transpire, and have a direct tendency to bring into disrepute the very forms and spirit of the institu tions, of which we, as Americans, are so prone to boast. Of all human despotisms, that of the mob is most calamitous and deplorable. Its decrees, like those of Draco, are forever recorded in characters of blood, and fall with indiscriminate vengeance upon the innocent and guilty. “Whatever the wrongs that serve to lash the elements iijto a sea of raging turbulence—and they are mostly imagi nary—the Wrongg inflicted by the lawless acts of the mob are always infinitely greater. Mob law, then, has not a solitary trait to lessen its hideous nesp. Its order is frightful disorder. Anarchy and madness march with triumphant tread in its train. Its juitirc is a blind' and unsparing sacrifice of all that comes within its reach, without even the mock forms, far less the humane spirit, of a constitutional trial. It wreaks its benightened vengeance not only upon persons—not alone upon the flesh and bones of guiltless men, women, and children—but it even seeks in inanimate nature objects upon which to spend , its fury—and, amid summary displays of semi-barbarism, levels to the earth Churches, Print, ing Offices, and private dwellings! What single fact can be more painfully illustrative of the worse than heathenish blindness of an incensed j>opulace r t What have the brick and mortar done to merit such a fate f “A mobocracy,” in the language once employed by the eloquent Fisher A-nes. “is usurped by the. worst men, in the most corrupt times—in-a period of violence, by the most violent. It is a Briareus, with a thousand hands, each bearing a dagger—a Cerberus, gasping with ten thousand throats, each parched, and thirsting for blood. A mob govern ment, like a West India hurricane, strews the fruit ful earth with promiscuous ruins, and turns the sky yellow with pestilence. Men inhale a vapour like the sirocco, and die in the open air for want of respi ration. kis an earthquake that loosens the foun dations ot society, burying in au hour the accumu lated wealth and wisdom of ages. They, who, alter the calamity, would re-construct the edifice of public liberty, would ..scarcely he able to find the mode), perhaps not even the ruins.” Mobites, however, are notorious for their coward ice, despite their acts of cruelty and desperation., A distinguished American, writing from London, in 1819, relates the following incident, in .confirma tion of our remark : “ In that year, a mob of thous ands had gathered together in Smithfield market. The universal distress was extreme—the public mind was. exasperated—deaths by starvation Were said not to be rare—ruin, by stagnation of business, was general—and some were brooding over the dark project of assassination of the ministers, which was not long afterward matured by Thistlewood and his associates, some of whom, on that day, bar augued this excited, desperate, starving assemblage. Considering this state of leeling (the writer con tinues.) prevailing in the multitude—their lowering faces—their deep, indignant exclamations—their physical force concentrated, probably that of 30 or 40,000 able-bodied men—no one could have deemed it possible'that any small number of troops >hould attempt to interrupt them, without being immolntttl on the spot. A trumpet U heard to shund! An uncertain, but a harsh and clamorous blast! It was to be suppo>eil. that the surrounding stalls in the market should hate furnished the unarmed multitude at least with that weapon, with which Virginia sacrificed his daughter to thp liberty of Rome. Sepctators expected that the flying pave metu Would begin to darken the air. Another blast is beard I A cry of the ‘Aowe guards' ran through •the assembled multitude, The ofators bn thepUt* form were struck initf*=Bnfl the whole of that mighty host el denigrate men ineominemly took T 0 TfffciH Hfcsfcsl They had run through die Old Bailey, and reached Ludgate Hill, helhre thfiydis= covered that they had been put to flight by a single mischievous ton! ol jv.weV, wPlmd emneUimnphing down the opposite street on horse-back, blowing a ' slat i*- loarluuau's horn ~ !l Monroe County, | An enthusiastic meeting of the-Democracy of Monroe county vvu a held at Stroudsburg, on the evening c.f Monday, the JOth instant, at which James Turpeiimng, Esq., presided, and which was ably and eloquently addressed by M. M. Dimmick, and S. S. Dreher, Esquires. Among the series of excellent resolutions adopted on the occasion are the following: . ’ Resolved, That we heartily respond to the nomi nation of JAMES BUCHANAN bv the recent State* Convention, for the Presidency. His upright, firm and unwavering advocacy of Democratic measures for the last twenty years, in which he has displayed , the greatest intellectual qualities,and most'devoted uprightness of purpose, and sterling patriotism, has ; endeared him to the hearts of the Democracy of i Pennsylvania, as well as the whole Union, and so • identified' him with the well being of our beloved i country that we “can read his history in the nation’s j eye.” ' j Resolved, That in our opinion every consideration of justice, expediency, and feopriety, should urge the Democratic National Convention to make him our aiamlard-bearer in the coming campaign. That we infinitely prefer him to any other candidate, and we look forward with pride and confidence to the flattering promise of the acknowledgment of his claims and the claims of Pennsylvania by the De mocracy of the Union. Resolved, That with him as our candidate we will go into the coming contest with renewed vigor and redoubled energy, —but while a deep feeling of disappointment and regret will he felt in case he shouldnot .be nominated, we will still use every hfruorable exertion to promote the success of the nominee of the Democratic National Convention, and while with JAMES BUCHANAN we would expect that the Electoral vote of Pennsylvania would be carried by an old-fashioned JACKSON majority, we confidently anticipate -that the Demo cratic nominee, whoever he may be, will be enabled to defeat with ease any man that the- whigs may nominate in this State, as well as in the Union. The French Revolution. Great curiosity has been expressed to hear xvhat a writer of so much celebrity as the historian Alison, would say of the revolution. Accordingly, Blackivood has been published in advance, contain ing a paper from that eminent politician, which has been read with interest. Belonging to the high tory party, it was expected that ML Alison would be strong in his denunciations of the result of that great movement. Neverthless, lie is far from ap prehending that anarchy which many predict on this side of the Atlantic. He speaks of the subject as follows: “ The melancholy progress of the first Revolu tion has naturally made numbers of persons, not intimately acquainted with its events, apprehensive of the immediate return of the Reign of .Terror and the restoration of the guillotine into its terrible and irresistible sovereignty in France. Without disputing that there is much danger in the present excited and disjointed state of the population of that country, there are several reasous which in duce us to believe that such an bvent is not very probable, at least iu the first imtanct t and that it is from a different quarter that the reil danger that now threatens Krauce is,.in the outset at leaßt,to be apprehended.” Tub Mail Lettinos.— The postmaster has just completed the letting to contract the entire mail service throughout New Jeffrey, Pennsylvania, Del aware, Maryland, and Ohio, The contracts have been taken at such a reduction In the prices as In give,* swing of mete than #lOO,OOO perfcnmmi. Besides this saving in the rest of the transportation for the Metitm, important improvements have been made j and In Okie considerable additional railroad terWee will be brought into operation, AflaiM lU VUfUtHH. The Efota publishes despateltes fram earn, Fit Rfi tvliiuh' pieseitt e distressing aeeuunt ui the present eouditien ef Vutafsßi The greater psriiqn ef the letter ef Cam, F:, liatt'ever. it taken up with a statement sf tfansaetinns in Yucatan with wiiieh etiF leaflets ate already familiar: The fuilewinp eatraets from the gnmnindore's letter, and the ap= pHpation of the Ywatanew Government (hr aid: wbieh we publish below, will repay a perusal. ..... PaXfSAPHT, -March 13, 15-»8, l have it direct from the French Can. sul here, that the Government of Yucatan baa mnre than twice within a few years bask applied to France for permission to hoist the French flag, and to become a French colony 5 but their proffers have as often been declined. The French Consul expresses the opinion, that England may, in view of obtaining an increase of territory in the Bay of Honduras, and possession of the harbors of Ascension and Espiritu Santo, on the coast of Yucatan, be induced to furnish aid, in troops and munitions, from the settlement of Belize; and a person is now in the city, professing to be an agent sent expressly from Jamaica, to enter into some arrangemenf with the Yucatan Government. This information is given for what it is worth ; in my own mind, it has little weight. Gov. Mendez has declared to me, that, failing to obtain aid from the United States, he should apply to other powers; and, as a last resort, the people of Yucatan would offer up the sovereignty of the State to whatever power would consent to’ take it under protection. I sail this day on my return to Vera Cruz, via Laguna and the Tabasco. The-bomb brig Vesuvius, Lieutenant Commandant M.,Mason, will be left at anchor oft* this city, to look after American inter ests, and to render whatever aid she can in the pro tection of the lives and property of the citizens. I propose to. employ another small vessel of the squadron on the same fluty, and hope to be able to add a third. With great respect, I have the honor to be, your dbedient servant, M. C. PERRY, Commanding Home Squadron. Hon. J. Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy. From the Washington Union , April 15, FreucU Demonstration. The houses of all the Secretaries were illumina ted on the occasion of the French celebration. Many private houses in different parts of the city were also beautifully illuminated, as was Governor McDowell's, a member of Congress from Virginia, who temporarily resides in Georgetown. The quarters of Col. S. C. Stambacoh, -on the avenue, opposite Willard's Hotel, were brilliantly illuminated. In the centre window was a large transparency, representing the coat-of-arms of Penn sylvania. It contained the following inscription: PENNSYLVANIA, THE OLD RKT-BTOXE STATE: She goes it with a RUSH. 1 In favor of the French -Republic. A flag-staff appeared from under the wings of the American eagle, with the flag of our country and the tri-color of France. Among other colors which were exhibited on the platform where the orators sat, was the stand of colors which was presented by Monsieur Adet, the French minister, on the 9th of January, 1790, to Gen. Washington, which drew from him the eloquent address which we lately published. They were presented in the name of the National Con vention to the Congress of the United States. Texas and tlte United States. The Legislature of Texas .lias passed a series of resolutions, which have been approved, declaring that the State has never parted with jurisdiction over any ol her territory, that Santa Ft is an inte gral part .of the State of Texas, that the attempt to establish a separate government in Santa Fe, is a violation of the rights of Texas. The following resolutions ’accompany the preamble: .Sec. 1. Be it res.ojved by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That our Senators be instructed and our Representatives requested to lav this sub ject before the proper authorities of the" United States, and to use their utmost endeavors to have such measures.taken by the Government of the United Slates as will secure Texas from any en croachment upon her rights by the people of Santa Fe. Sec. 2d. Be it further resolved, That our Sena tors he further.instructed to oppose anv treaty with Mexico which may proude for lessening the’bomi daries of Texas, as established by an act to define the boundaries of the State of’Tuxns, approved December 19, 1830. sSen. 3d. He it further resolved, That the Gover nor of the State is hereby authorized am! required to issue his pruetainatinn to the people ofSatila Fe to urgmiize their eouutv under the laws of the Stalej and that lie also requests the President of the united States to issue orders to the military officers stationed in Manta Fe, to aid the officers of Texas in organising the county of Nanta Fe and the eleventh judicial district of the Niale 0! Teias.ahd ift enlhrring the laws uf the Htate, if it should he necessary to cull u|mu the officers of the Foiled Ntafrs to put dmvu ony icsißianue hi the Inns iff T#4a«, Texas in 1 ends (o tnainioin htq oluiin /■) the Rin OrMidv, and oil the way »»/>• Another Fire In I'ittNliuiu. I'ITTSMI'HO, Aplil, ai. I The Jiubli.i mind has become so exgi’cd from j the recent manitestations of an incendiary spirit | among us, that the greatest poniternation was man ifested last night whet, a fire broke out. in Virgin Alley, running out of Wood street, between Fifth and Sixth streets. The location is a central one, and occupied by a large number of frame houses, stables, &c.. of no great value, hut composed of the most inflammable materials. Some ten or twelve of these buildings were burned before the tire was checked. There is no doubt the disaster was caused by incendiaries. Utin from Captain E. C. Williams, of the '■Cameroi Guar,lC' to Mr. Mam Delict. of this ,-ily, dated Sax Anoel, Mexico. March fi, 18-18. I encloM.* yon the certificates of enlistment of William Glatz, James Shaw, ant! George Win nower, ulm) their accounts up to their deaths. Will you have the kindness to hand them to their friends, which will enable them to recover their pay and bounty lands. The Hon. Simon Cameron will obtain them, on application, with very little difficulty. Aou wilt plea.->c say to the families of the de ceased, that during their illness all the care and attention possible was extended to them. No pains were spared to make their: situations com fortable, for which much credit is due to Lieut. Hambright. as also their messmates from the city 01 Lancaster. Their frieiids at home cannot la ment their death more sincerely than do their* companions in arms in Mexico. Democratic Taiomi in St. Louis. The complete success of our friends in the municipal election of the -Ith is a cheering event, aud we copy the Democratic. Flag's comments : “We have the pleasure to announce to the peo ple of this State and to the Union, that the Demo craey of St. Louis have gained a glorious triumph over all the combined elements of whiggery nativ ism and Taylorism. They have struck the first blow at this unholy alliance, and have put an end to the pretensions of General Taylor. Where now is the popularity of this chieftain, that was to carry him triumphantly into the Presidential chair ? The Democracy of St. Louis have set a glorious exam ple to their brethren throughout the Union They have shown that they will not surrender their prin ciples, and cannot be carried away-by the clamors and outcries of an unprincipled combination of ‘no party men.’ We call upon the Democracy of the Union to follow the example of their brethren of St. Louis. Wc have struck the first blow, and we have gained a glorious victory: let the Democrats elsewhere follow our example, and whiggery and Taylorism will be annihilated. The average ma jority for the Democratic ticket is five hundred and fifty —the largest ever thrown in this city for our ticket. Who will now’doubt that St. Louis is Dem ocratic ! Look out for a majority for King and Price in St. Louis in August next." Mm Buchanan s Letter on tue War.—Cupt. Lewis Carr, of the nth Regiment, now quarter ed at Lerma, forty miles from the city of Mexico, in Cauwaladbii'b Division, says of the letter of the Hon, James Bccuaivah, to the great war meet ing held in Philadelphia in January last: " 1 never felt more proud of Mr. Buchanan thau after reading that letter, there is but one opinion here in regard to it tmd its author, and that l« one of plane and adiAlntiou. Let him only remain 1 true to the view* ro beautifttUy foreshadowed in “ tl hl * will be a rich one United, 11 Betueecauc llaruieugri The iuipertanie af the earning Presidential elee= tioii|ieijuiresaf the Ueniaeratie jiaFty the mast runn jilete hirtuetiYi ta seeure the eeptry against the sneeeHaf its.eppanents, Tite jßeslfin flat gives the fellewing sennd advieeW i » Sitreme opinion. inn«t ha ahandaned: There ,mnst heMmprannee and wrifiee an the part af all, .The pnhlie welfare demands it: The late af times •great measures whmh have been established tinder rresment fMa, nn less than tmr snppesß in vw nod ur viance that the bill abolishing militia trainings! af ter passing the Senate, was lost iu the House, i’he Brigade Inspector adds the following comments':— “From the experience I have had for some years past, I um perfectly satisfied of the utter folly and absurdity of these ‘militia trainings,'and am equal ly well satisfied ithat nine-tenths'of the whole com munity are decidedly averse to them. They ought to be ' abolished, and could he, i£ the public papers would take the matter in hand during the session of our legislature, and I sincerely hope they will ; do so during the next session.” ' Takixo his Time run it.— At one of our city hotels, a bill of fare was handed to a respectable looking old gentleman from the country, as.he was taking his seat at the dinner table. He deliberately put on his spectacles, and glancing his eyes over its contents, folded it up and put it in his pocket, at the same time apologetically remarked to the waiter, that he hadp't time to read it then, but would look over it after dinner. ID' The Trenton Slate Gazette, the leading Fed eral paper in New Jersey, on the appearance of Mr. Clay's letter, took down the name of General Taylor, and put that of Henry Clay in its place.' The editor says he considers Mr. Clays letter equi valent to a nomination. > B-'” Th e -f O. Evening Mercury states that the Hon. Mr. Sevier publicly declared, in ai reply to inquiries by citizens ol New Orleans as to the ne gotiations with Mexico, that “he would - write no long letters, nor endure prolonged negotiations, and if he could not secure a peace speedily, he would at once resume a hostile position:’ Nohth Cauolixa. —The North Carolina Demo cratic State Convention met on the 12th iinst., and nominated David S. Reid for Governor, i IVstuox N. Edwahds and Rodent SrttAXot were appoint ed delegates at Urge, t 0 attend the Baltimore Con vention (.Asiumas) W, Vixadu and Tuovii 8, Asue/alternativei, tIT“ Wiilny IHiip, who wait tried at Poughlteep. «le,(N, Vi) for the murder of Mm, Ilutwll, hai been found guilty of murder, and aenteneedito he banged on the Sfljli of May neat. The plea of 1 hereditary Imanlty waa lit up, but net iiiitalned. Taii NifiusAti perceive that several ef ih« itemeeratie jaumals tliffitf as ty the ef lading the Nataal eauveimun— The iiishuieth names tiiei?th ef May, aetl ethers theJ4tli.' The iteried desipated hy the Pemeeratie £m-. pesiena! £mm } was the ftmnh Monday ef May: That that menth: ; Ksmawabi Esq., ha* hew eho&w the Delegate from Baltimore Pity to the Democratic National Convention. Mr. K. is a native of Adams county in this State, and was the delegate in the last Convention who claimed the honor of having first nominated James K. Polk. D3r The Postmaster General has succeeded this year in letting the mail routes of the middle states at one hundred thousand dollar* less than j the last year. This is a saving of- one out of seven hun dred thousand dollars, or equal to above 1 per cent. Several railroad companies, that have stood out, have come in on the terms proposed by Mr. Cave Johnson, and the department will go on perfectly smooth in a short time. Langford. the murderer, who was to be ex ecuted on Friday last, at Towanda, has been res pited by Governor Shiuik for “some months.” The reason given is that the jail is unfinished, and it is impossible’ to comply with the law requiring exe cutions to take place in private. * Swonn to Gkn. Scott.— The sword to be pre sented to Gen. Scott by the state of Louisiana has been finished by Hyde £c Goodrich, of New Orleans. It is said to be very richly and beautifully orna mented. and bears the follov “ Presented by the people of the state of Louis ana to Gen. Winfield Scott, for his gallantry and generalship exhibited at the siege of* Vera Cruz, in the battles of Cero Gorda, Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chepultepec, aud his final entry into the City of Mexico;” A Good Hit.— The seamstresses of Baltimore, (Md.,) who have suffered in common with that class of deserving operatives, from the pitiful wages to which they have been compelled to sub mit, passed the. following resolution at a recent meeting in that city: Resolved , That modern Charity carries a high head, and is far-sighted—keenly perceptive of mis ery afar off; but unable to discern near home.. A little like the patriotism of modern Whiggery, which goes off' to Mexico to sympathise with a hostile people, and refuses its support to its own A Difficult Case.— The Quakers in Virginia, seem to be placed in a peculiar relation to the laws ol Virginia. The Yearly Meeting at Baltimore, to which they belong, has charged all its members to. educate the free colored people. The laws of Virginia forbid it; and the Friends have addressed a memorial to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, asking liberty to pursue the advice ol their 1 early Meeting. If liberty is not given, we do not know what course the friends will take. LD~ During the discussion in the U. S. Senate on the Mission to Rome, one of the Senators, not very active in debate, amused himself by perpe trating.the following epigrammatic effusion: Pope's Essay on Man" Was a wonderful plan, With which but few writers can cope; But here, I’m afraid, It is thrown in the shade, By the essays of man on the Pope." DU - * It is said that in the midst of the rush of the people into the palace of the Tnileries, when they were all so much excited, that on entering the saloon of the Queen, they found a piano, and that they forced a young man to sit down and play lor them, and they all went to dancing the polka. ID* '‘l say, Pat,’’ said a Yankee to an Irishman, who was digging in his garden, “ are you digging out a hole in that onion bed ’I" “No,'’says Pat, “ I am digging out the earth and leuving the hole." DJ* The Ormati Revolutionary Committee or New York) have purchased a thousand stand of arms to be used by emigrant volunteers who have been enrolled in battalions, and will shenly leave this emmtry for the theatre of war in their native land, As Oi,n Mi*#,=Jnhn Mann, upward* ol one hundred years old, died in the Germantown aim*)' house, a few days ago. Great Mobtautt.— letter from Mexico, written in February, says that the Third Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers has lost one hundred men by disease, thirty or forty have been discharged, and one hundred and eight were on the sick list. ID* -Mr. Pageot, late French Minister at Wash ington, it is said will settle in Tennessee instead of returning to France. DT* The profits on the line of Telegraph, be tween Baltimore and New York, are said to exceed $lOOO per month, or about 3(J percent.per annum on the investment. CD" Whittaker, Buck & Co., have recently erect ed Iron Works at Bridgeton, West Jersey, which will furnish employment to hundreds of hands. ID* Judge Patton. of Pittsburg, has decided that when a mart becomes an habitual drunkard after receiving an apprentice, it is sufficient cause for the apprentice to claim a discharge from his indenture. lowa Democratic.—Thomas H. Benton, Jr., (Democrat.) has been elected State Superintendent over his Federal competitor. This was an excit ing contest, and a victory was confidently expected by the opposition. Conscientious Office Holder. —The Pike county (III.) Free Press states that a Justice of that county voted against the new Constitution on the ground that he had taken an oath to support the old one! Baltimore, April lU.— The City Whig Con vention which assembled here to select Delegates to the State Convention, was fully attended. Res olutions were passed affirming Hexrt Clat as the first choice of the Whigs of Baltimore. Fate of Kings.— The history of the late Kings of Franee shows a remarkable succession of mis fortunes : Louis XVI. guillotined. Louis XVII. died of want. Louis XVIII. twice exiled. Napoleon exiled. JJis son died in a foreign land. Charles X. deth roned. Henry V. proscribed. Louis Philippe put to flight. The count of Paris rejected. 1 Vice Presidency of the United States. The Journal -of] Commerce says it is understood that Gov. Seward will refuse to allow’ his name to be used in connection with the proposed nomination by the Whigs for the Vice Presidency, and that his determination in that regard will shortly be published over his own signature in the Albany Evening Journal. Peteh T. Hoxeh, Esq., of Boston, went out in the steamer Washington as a bearer'of despatches to Paris, and carries the joint resolutions of Con gress sympathising with the people of France. lost TIME. 1 threw a bauble to the sea, A billow caught it hastily : Another billow quickly came Sueeessfully the priie to claim : - From wafttj to wave, unchecked It passed, 'l ill loised upon the strand at last, Thus glide unto the unknown shore, rheii golden moments we deplore: These moments which, net thrown away, Might win fer ui eternal day, _ ’ FeifJhitHMligmef, foramen gehwli a&d bdueatloii. [ * e . aeh6fß ts iaitFuet tlu? ehildFen el }■l l ®ff JK/IJk nithe pFiiifiplPß ufNfc ttiFftland RemlPdSfdjgjgnj I This question would not have ts me* if ? had nut heard it asserted that religimia instnietien U eontF&fy to the fate and to the PflwWHfwt of out State; Now, if there is any law prnhihmhg such ifinmetion, the people ought to know it, | n many plapes they are employing teachers who pad the Scriptures and offer prayer in the schools.; If the laws of the commomvealth/or&id.religiousknstruc tion in common schools, these Christian teachers, and the honest parents who employ them, have been violating the laws. As one of the people, I may say, we wish for light on tliis subject. If wc have transgressed a law, we have sinned through ignorance , and need instruction ourselves. If there is such a law, we wish to know all about it. Let us see it-j—let us readit. You will certainly, Mr. Editor, be kind enough to print it, if any one will furnish you a copy. Then we unlearned folks, fathers and mo thers, too, can read for ourselves, and learn what it requires. We hope it is so plain a law jthat we common people can understand it; for uje don’t like those laws that are so obscure that we are obliged to call in the aid of two or three lawyers to explain their meaning—or so ambiguous jthat the lawyers themselves cannot agree as to their inter pretation. Such laws remind us of those enacted by the tyrant m olden time, who hung them! so high in the air that the people could not see,, to read them, and then put to death all whom he adjudged guilty of their violation.- We elect our legislators—we pay them for legis lation. Have we not a right, then, to knbw what sort of laws they have made for us, respecting our selves and our children? ’ing inscription: We intend to be peaceable and orderly citizens, and to obey those that rule over us. The jirecepts of the religion which we, in our simplicity believe, teach this. We wish our children to learn tlje same'. Who will forbid them to learn these precepts iu the common schools? Does the law forbid them? Then let us know more about it. We do hot be lieve that there is any law to come between us and our children,and prevent us from instructing them, by the help of the teacher, in the common schools. But if there be such, we would look at it, and ob serve its features. We would inquire : who made it ? Christians or unbelievers ? When did they make it ? Is k a new thing ? Or has it lain long “buried, a dead letter, among the old statutes, becau?e there has been heretofore no use for it? Above all, the inquiry arises: why do we need such, a law? Is it not safe to leave such jmatters with the parents and the teachers? If we 1 are al lowed to think, for ourselves, (as.we claim a Tight to do,) we must, many of us, consider it intolerant and oppressive, to shut out our for so large a portion of their study hours, from -all the light of religious instruction. A CITIZEN. Mr. Editor: —The notice you have taken of my last communication, renders a brief reply necessary. You remark “ the editor takes the liberty to de clare his dissent from the opinions and views ad vanced by Sigma.” Perhaps a slight examination of the subject will discover, that the supposed di versity of sentiment that exists between us, is but trifling. In common with those who have advocated addi tional religious instruction in the public schools, you have drawn the inference, that those who'have objected to this measure are opposed to the “ es sential and undisputed truths of Christianity.;” and are consequently unfriendly to religion, or, in other words, the concealed advocates of infidelity. Against this charge I utter a disclaimer. The larger portion of those who have pursued a conservative course on this subject, and who have considered it better to leave the present religious teaching un touched, free from sectarian blight, hay* made no attempt, nor has a desire existed on tlftm part, to disturb the harmony hitherto existing inShe schools, and the discussion that has been ongemJbred on this subject, is solely owing to the attempt to intro duce prayers and confessions of faith. Inlaccor dance with the rules of the schools, they have en deavored to inculcate the great truths of the Gospel by impressing upon the pupils, “to venerate mid hallow the name of God,” “ abhorrence rtf idle ness ami profanity*” of l * teaching them to love each other, M ami “fo do unto others as they would wish In be done by, 1 ’ Those great ami Ihmlmnem lal truths have always been avowed* and can it fbr a moment he supposed that any virtuous member of society would he opposed to the inculcation of them upon the rising generation t Dm cannot those principles he ineulnated through the medium of the Ultde ) is it neeesNgry to resort to sectarian ibriu of creeds and prayers to effect this purpose / It is tfiip, the advocates m'this partieulaF ilqm of insiFuefion contend it is not sectarian, Inn eer? tftinly they must ho of that character, otherwise they would receive the sanction of Christiana of all denominations, You remark that you " yield to no one in depro oating ami opposing the* inculcation of sectarian.- iam. n Then there does not exist a shade of dil terence between us, and so far as the public may be concerned, I have no doubt the sentiment will be re-echoed. They are sensitive, and justly so, upon this subject, and I have been pleased tp learn that the directors of tins city have met the first at tempt and placed their veto on the same. In a country like ours, boasting of free institu tions and it 3 disenthralment from the old dynasties of Kurope, it is painful to hear a voice raised, or a measure pursued, having the slightest tendency to fetter conscience. The * object of our common schools in their instruction should be, to teacli the truths of Christianity in a form which all Christians can recognize—but to beware of forcing or; com pelling any portion of the community to be taught sectarian forms of belief, to which they may have an invincible repugnance. SIGMA. Col. Victor E. Piollet.— We were pained to see - in the Times of Wednesday, a harsh attack upon this gentleman, well known as an influential citizen of Bradford county, and as one of the most • intelligent and intrepid Democrats in this StateJ The allegations o r the Times have been so often \ made in the Federal papers, and so often refuted, j that we cannot refrain from the expression Qf our amazement, that our cotemporary should deem a , repetition of them necessary to defeat the re-nomi nation of Col. Piolett, to die position of Paymas- j ter in the arpiy. Of his rejection by the .Senate, | when nominated by the President to the same :place! I we are not now disposed to speak. Effected in his j absence, and at a time when his friends did not ! expect it, the causes that operated against him, in ' the minds of Senators, were left to do their mis- ' chief uncorrected; and he fell a victim to misrep- ' resentations and enmities of the most extraordinary • character. Our respected friends of the Tinies will ! not, we trust, deny to Col. Piollet the opportunity of vindicating his good name before'the Senate and I the country, especially when it is well known that ! there are Senators who voted against him under gross misapprehension of the facts. > The part Col. Pjollet took in the McCook af fair, bitterly and industriously as it was misrepre sented, was warmly sanctioned by the Democrats of Bradlord county, who re-elected him to the Legislature by a triumphant majority, in the midst of the clamors of the opposition. To this day. we believe him to be a great favorite with the sterling Democracy of that county. No man has warmer friends, or more sterling qualities, than Colonel Piollet. — Pennsylvanian. The Texan Navt and its Brave Officers.— that the Legislature of the State of Texas, concurring with the suggestions, of Gov. Wood, in his special message of the 18th of Janu ary last, passed by a nearly unanimous vote, on the 20th of the same month, a joint resolution in structing their Senators and requesting theiri Rep resentatives “to use tHeir influence to procure the passage of r law by the Congress of the United States, incorporating the officers of the late Navy of Texas into the Navy of the United States, in the rank which they severally held in the late Navy of Texas.” This Ret of justice to those brave men has long been delayed by Congress, and it is now demanded as a part of the obligation entered into between Texas and the United States in the articles of annexation—as well because* of the high character, personal and professional, of the officers of the Texan Navy, as for “ the zeal, fidelity patriotism, and valor, with which they sustained the cause of their country.” We are glad to perceive, in this connection, the signal vindication of the gallant Commodore Moore, of the Texan Navy, by the Legislature of his State, against the aspersions which declared him to be to his Government. By the report of the proceedings of the Legislature of lex**, and its proper committees, it appeanCthot .. the State of Texas acknowledges itself to be in* dented to that gallant officer, In the mm of gll,> i (104 cents, and alio provides forth® payment 1 of all aebti Incurred by mm while a Port Captain 1 of the Texan Navy, acting In the service or the I Republic. "Time at last mekei all thing < ftnniy/vam'an. , A mil la ftmat Ssiita Aim at Antim—ffu Air mm,iff mil Jimum of aw. tj§am=&ma Ami==lt(f Ammmrn ami Manure Mm nf hj Mia eu the Fmih liwifofwii la Hfii, Suite Wnife The t Yw (him* Mia the 18th, lies wmi? eerreependenee fTßin Vern Phi?,end the pspital, from whhdt rye timke the following egtreete: on n • » Cw *> April 3, ISIS. Hi 6 Propeller Massachusetts arrived yesterday morning from your cityTbringing dgtes of tffe 27th ult., and Nathan Clifford, (Attorney General) Min ister Plenipotentiary from the United States Gov ernment to Mexico. Mr. C. leaves this evening, accompanied by Major Stewart, Paymaster, and escorted to the city of Mexico by a company of the Louisiana Mounted Volunteers, under Captain Fairchild. Information was received here on Sat urday, the Ist inst., that Geri.' Santa Anna h*ail ar rived that day, with his lady and daughter, at his hacienda at Antigua, 20 miles from here, escorted' by (of the Light Artillery, Dis trict ot Columbia and Maryland. Regiment,) with .i 0 men, and Santa Anna's Lancers, numbering 100. At ten o clock yesterday, your humble ser umt, with three others, proceeded to pay our re spects, &c. After riding at a fast pace for two hours, we arrived at the river Antigua, at which place we entered a narrow path and continued our pace through the chapparrel until we arrived at a small village,; and wore informed the one opposite was Antigua.. Wc then swam our horses over the river, and rode to the only brick house in the place, and lound, on our entrance, the Senora Santa Anna smoking a cigarito. We were introduced by Capt. Tilghman. Senora Santa Anna was very plainly and simply dressed in figured muslin, with very' short sleeves. She wore no ornaments of any kind, except a very small watch and a costly chain. She is very handsome, of alight complexion, and-evi dently not more than twenty years of age. The General, being at the time in bed, could not be dis turbed. So we had to remain until 4 o’clock, the hour appointed for his appearance. As we had to wait an hour, we enjoyed the inte rim by walking through the village. Not a house but was filled with guerillas, and all armed with swords, shaped like a carving knife. On our re* turn the Genural was up aud dressed; he received us with much courtesy, and said he received more kindness and attention from the Americans in ad versity, than from his own countrymen.- He was dressed in a brown linen frock coat, white pants, vest, and neck-cloth, and a pair of polished boots —the one on the cork leg was a tight fit. Captain Tilghman read the article in the Delta,) which 1 carried along) of the revolution in Paris, which was immediately translated by a Lieutenant pres ent. The General merely shook his head, and made no comments. He is very anxious to leave the country, and inquired if we had observed a brig at the mouth of the river, which is to lake him to Jamaica. Being answered in the negative, he pre-. senteil his gold snuff-box. We helped ourselves, shook hands with him and his lady, at the same time presented her a boquet, wishing them a pleas ant passage. & c., we mounted Jo return home. Capt. Tilghman had. written to Col. Watson, asking advice'relative to the manner in which he should act towards the. large force of guerillas at Capt. T. has received a note from Maj. La Motte, A. A. A. G., treating the matter in a very light and indifferent manner. Vxiu. Cnus, April 3, 18-18. Eds. Delta —Gen. Santa Anna arrived yesterday at Antigua, escorted by some Mexican Lancers and Capt. Tilghman's Company of Maryland Volun teers. A great number of persons left the city to see him, and were very well received. He has chartered the brig Pepita, and will probably leave to-morrow for Jamaica. For the Intelligencer Eds. Delta —l have little to communicate since my letter of the 2Sth. “Mustang” and his corps of reporters will no doubt keep you fully posted up to the latest moments with the interesting proceed ings of the Court of Inquiry. The elections come off in this city in a few days, when, according to the terms of the armistice, the army will have to march out. This provision of the armistice is not the most popular’one, either with the Americans or Mexicans. Some of the Mexicans, particularly the wealthy portion of them, who have most to fear from the unbridled licen tiousness of the mob, dread an outbreak of the Lepros, when the army shall have been withdrawn. It is impossible at this moment to tell when the Court of Inquiry will adjourn sine die. The Presi dent of that body stated a few days ago that it would adjourn to the United States, when all the witnesses now in Mexico should have been exam ined. The Commauder-irnChief, Maj. Clen. Butler, who was in the Court at the time the President nmde the übove declaration, stated, informally,” that he would serul down ah escort to Vera Giue in five " or si* days Rom that time. Mould such bn sent, it is more thmi probable that Gen, Knott attd Don Nicholas Trial, (these individuals having recently buried the the fmnuhawli) will accompany ii, Atth-un, Tub li'bbi.inh i* llip Dtlla t eniTM|ißiiili>m, willing IVnin iln> r|iy nl Mbklmi, nn lh« -jSth, says; I h fl pwm government i* certainty acting with more energy and determination than has ever been known in the country since the conquest by tile Spaniards. Every revolutionary spirit that has thus far, either by his own designs,'or the prompt ings of others, stood tip, exciting rebellion against the powers that be, has been taken by the collar and placed in sale keeping. All the official newspapers coming from the interior for the past week, manifest a decided de termination to support the present government, and all agree that the only salvation of Mexico depends upon an immediate peace. Some of them are dashing the revolutionists m good round terms, and contending that their only object in producing new dissensions is either lor personal aggrandizement, or for the object of selling the country to a foreign power. The Star of the 2Sth of March contains the fol lowing items of news from the city of Mexico: The city was full of rumors yesterday about the arrival of an extraordinary express. After a long time we caught the thread of it, and by steadily and gently unravelling the hank, learned that something (our informant thought relative to the treaty of peace) had arrived, and was despatched by Mora y Villamil, as soon as a change of horses could be expected, to Queretaro. We are disposed to doubt that any thii g what ever, relative to the treaty, has been received from Washington in this city later than March, the Gth. It may possibly be that a steamer came in on the evening of the .2,‘ld, and a messenger despatched that night, but we must have more substantial proof than the fact of Mora's sending off suddenly the express which comes from below, ere-we believe it. Merited Retribution.— On Thursday last, the 3Uth ult. a train of Mexican merchandize was attacked and plundered by an armed band of Mex ican robbers nehr the Paso del Bobo. Intelligence of this fact was shortly after received by that vigil ant and energetic gentlemen, John W. Smith, Inter preter. and communicated by him to Gov. Hughes, who with his usual promptitude, ordered out a detachment of Col. Hays’ Rangers in pursuit of the robbers. The detachment, which was commanded by Capt. Daggett, followed on the trail of the vii lains unerringly, under the direction of Chrisman, the Mexican guide, and came up with them as they were entering the village Of Despoblade. Only one of the banditti escaped. Of the fourteen scoundrels who had plundered, the train, thirteen were made prisoners and shot, with the warm concurrence of the Alcalde and the well-disposed inhabitants of the town. We learn that Chrisman, the guide, made the first capture. Part of the plundered property was recovered. Indeed, the whole affair was admirably planned and as admirably executed. Another case of Htdropoiibta — Stroudsburg. Pa } April 20.—A young lad about nine or ten years of age,yarned William Stamer, residing with Geo. V. Bush, in Lower Smithfield township,,Monroe county, died on Tuesday night last, of hydrophobia. On the 7th of March he was attacked by a dog belonging to a neighbor, and mutilated in the most horrible manner. He was bit at, seventeen places on his left arm, and the flesh tom from the left side of his face. The dog, known to be a cross one, was killed soon after, without any one suppos ing him to be mad. On Sunday last, the boy be gan to show symptoms of disease, and on Monday Drs. J. V. Mattison and M. G. Grattan!were profes sionally called upon. They soon discovered that his disease was hydrophobia. He first gave signs of it by frequently emitting a sound resembling the barking or howling of a dog,—and his left arm became bluck. When water was offered to him it threw him into convulsions. He became at limes, perfectly frantic, would roll upon the fldor .pring from one {tide of the room to knottier,-and then egaln would partially recover his Jensen ' Mnally, as he became disposed to bite evefythlmi wear him, It wait deemed ntceoiary to narllnllv ra,? line him, He discharged ,E,S Urge amount or saliva, which run flromihl"AratS to »continual stream, This fatal and unfcrtunsta'' ocemrenee should serve to put the publlo en thelr (turd against the eantne raei,—flftnre* dhrnorraf, ! I'i‘eiH Mexico, [Correspondence of the Delta.] City of Mexico, March 30, 10 P. M. TUc Treaty.