Intelligmatt filtrnal Or.o-. ' SANDERSON, EDITOR. LANCASTER, APRIL 17, 1855. Repeal of the License Laws The .1)111 abolishing the license laws of this Commonwealth passed the luate on Tuesday last, in pretty much the same shape that it came from the House. The vote in the Sen ate stood 15 to 14. The following are the .1 yeas and nays: Yene;—Messnr. Brown, Crabb, Dania Flenniken, Fraser,tHamlin, Hoge Jamison, Jord an, Lewis, Fi at, Fries, (blink, Taggart and Wherry-15. Hays—Messrs. Backalew, Creswell, Fry, Good win. Heldman, Hendricks, Manger, McClintook, Mellinger. Gager Sellers, . • Shuman, Walton and Hiester; (llpakeri-14. The bill will be found in another column, fromiepernsal of which (if any body can un derstand it},it will be seen that thegranting of licenses to taverns, Ica., is prohibited after the Ist of July next, bat it does not interfere with existing licenses. One of its provisions authorizes the Courts, raider certain restric tions, to license dealers to sell liquors in quan tities of one quart and over. The repeal of the lioense laws will, therefore, not - We the effect to stop drinking and drunkenness—the drink ing will merely be done at some different place from where the liquor is purchased. Every man, disposed to indulge, can buy his bottle and drink at home, or where else he pleases. The difference between the new law and the old will be, simply, that whilst the same amount of liqpOr will be consumed ae hereto fore, the Commonwealth will derive no reve nue from the sales, and - taxation will have to makeup_the deficiency. That the repeill of ,the license laws will lessen drunkenness, even if the law is obeyed, (which we very much doubt) we cannot believe. The bill itself is a crude, undigested mass of contradictions, and it will require the geni us of a "Philadelphia lawyer" to compre hend what was intended, in some of its pro visions, by the astute legislators who enacted the law. The bill has been signed by the Governor? and is t4erefore a law of the land. se- The Lancasterian, in announcing Cor poral Gumph's promotion in the Pennsylva nia line, says :—" The Governor in making this appointment was certainly not actuated by political considerations, as Mr. G. isknonm to be one of the firmest Democrats in this City.' This may d'o for some other latitude, but it wont pass current here in Lancaster, where it is generally believed that the Corporal is a full-blooded Nichtl Wisser, and where it is well known that he voted for Governor Pol lock at the last election. So, we are not sure but that his Excellency was actuated, in ma king the appointment, by "political consider atiohs," and we rather suppose the Col. would be willing to own up to this soft impeachment of his political integrity— , the say so of the Lancasterian to the contrary, notwithstanding. The Cincinnati Election The miserable and outrageous attempt of the Know-Nothings of Cincinnati (out rival ing even the Buckshot and Ball demonstration in Pennsylvania in 1838,) to defeat the popu lar will• by fraud, riot and bloodshed, has re sulted in a complete failure. Tho new City Government, which is thoroughly Democratic, has been organized and is now in unpposed and successful operation. The new Mayor, Mr. Farran, (elected by some 1300 majority) has announced in his Inaugural a determina tion to enforce all the City Ordinances. SAVING FUND.—We take a pleasure in re ferring our readers to the notice of the SAVING FUND of the National Safety Co. in, Walnut st„ South West corner of Third street, Phil adelphia, which appears amongst our adver tisements. The able management of this In stitution since it was first chartered in 1841, has produced its legitimate results, and it has now a reputation fully equal if nut superior to any other moneyed institution in this city or elsewhere. Pedple who have large sums often come from a great distance to put their money in this SAVING trxD, because they feel the strongest conftdenec in it, knowing that it has more than half a million of dollars inves ted in the. most undoubted securities for the benefit of depositors. Five per cent interest is given and the money is always paid back in GOLD whenever it is called for, without notice for it before hand. These liberal arrange ments have given this SAVING FUND a widely extended influence, and we learn that a great .many of our citizens have already put their money in it, which is much better than to let it remain idle in their own hands, subject to loss from fire, robbery and other accidents of daily occurrence. • THE ELECTION IN VIRGINIA—for Con gressmen, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and members of the Legis lature, will take place on the 24th of May, the fourth Thursday. The contest is becoming warm between the Democrats and Know Nothings. Both parties appear to be equally sanguine of success—but we incline to the opinion that somebody will be disappointed! We hope Mr.-WISE may be elected Governor —for in honoring \ him, we think the people of that State would be doubly honoring them selves. M.-Will our clever subscriber, who writes from New Buffalo, Perry county, let us know who he is, so that we may give him credit for the,ss remitted, and also change his paper as desired. In his letter of the 12th inst., the writer forgot to give us his name! consequently we are at a loss to know from whom it came. Ileir In Hartford, Connecticut, the. Know Nothings were badly beaten at the . recent municipal election—the Democrats and anti- Know Nothing Whigs have elected 19 of the 29 Aldermen and Councilmen. Dar The New York Canals aretobe opened for navigation on the Ist of May. EDIICATIONAL.-A Convention of the County Superintendents of Common Schools and other, friends of education throughout the State, was held at Harrisburg last week—Tawas That- OLSON, Esq., of Beaver, presiding. Addresses were delivered by T. H. BURROWES, Esq., and Mr. WICKEESIIA3I, of this county, and also by Professor HART, of Philadelphia, and several other distinguished friends of education. ete— The Democracy of Michigan have swept am board at the township elections on Monday week. Know Nothingism has been completely routed from one end of the State to the other. • gar Mr. Daniel Ebert, of York, paid a visit to Baltimore on the 2d inst., for the purpose of receiving a large sum of money. He left Baltimore next day for the purpose of return ing homo, but has not since been heard of.— Fears aro entertained that he has been foully dealt with. EVIDENCE OF FOLY.—Neglecting to aver tin what you hale got to sell, and wondering why you'do not succeed in business as well as your neighbor whose goods are no better nor cheaper than your own. , THANKS to Professor A. D. Beam, Su perintendent, for a copy of his "Report of the 11. S. Coast Survey for .1853." It is an elabor ate.and highley interesting work. The Maps and Charts accompanying the same are exceed ingly valuable. "The SaMil-Cildiklare" There can never be but two great parties in this country, the Democratic or Republi can party, and the Federal party. The :led end party has often changed its name; as suming the• . cognomen of Federalist, R6Tubli can, National Republican,'Whig, Democrt' Whig, Union Whig and American or Know- Nothing—the latter corresponding fully, in its intolerance, with the .Federalists of Alien and Sedition law memory. • Mr. Jefferson, in &letter toGideon Granger, dated April 10th, 1804, describes the shifting tricks of the party opposed to the Deinocracy. He says : "In our last conversation you mentioned a federal scheme afloat, of forming a coalition between the Federalists and Republicans of what they called the seven Eastern States.— The idea was new to me, and after time for reflection, I had no opportunity of con versing with you again. The Federalists know that; eo nomine, they are gone forever. Their object, therefore, is, how to return into power under some other form. Undoubtedly they have but one means, which is, to divide the Republicans, join theminority, and barter with them for the cloak of their name. The mi nority, haling no other means of ruling the majority, will give a price for auxiliaries, and that price must be principle," &c. Again, in November 4th, 1823, Mr. Jeffer son thus writes to Gen. Lafayette: "The ,Hartford Convention, the victory of Orleans, and the peace of Ghent, prostrated Federalism. Its votaries abandoned it thro' shame and mortification, and now call them selves Republicans. But the name alone is changed—the principles are the same." Since the days of Jefferson, the opponents of Democracy have regularly assumed different names, as occasion seemed to require. They have at present adoird the name of "Ameri cans," commonly called Know-Nothings.— With this specious name, the Federal leaders hope to move on their cohorts to victory. But, in the language of the Louisville Times, "the trick has become too common to win. The people have got to understand perfectly well that names may and do change, while the principles, as Mr. Jefferson says, 'are the save.' The Democrats are now to meet and overcome their old opponents with a new name, and under a far different organization from any that has heretofore been seen in this country—an organization essentially anti-Re publican, jacotinical and factious. The mass of this new party of Know-Nothings, we would fain believe, are honest in their intentions; but not so with their leaders. They are a set of political gamblers and demagogues, whose object is to get into power to subserve their own selfish ends. A capital idea with them is to dub themselves—'the sons of the sires of seventy-six'—the disciples and 'exclusive ad mirers of 'the venerated Washington.' As to political principles or policy, their only stock in trade is to wage war against foreigners and Rohian Catholics, with the ulterior view of defeating the Democratic party and appropri ating the loaves and fishes. The quilt of Know-Nothingism is broad enough to cover anything and everything in the shape of a politician, except a National Democrat. Under it are being huddled together, in common biotherhood, disbanded Whigs and renegade Democrats; fOes of Catholics and Native Americans ; Union men and sectionalists; free soilers, abolitionists, and all kinds of pro slavery men. In short, it is a motley coalition of factions, whose prime object is to oppose and overcome the National Democracy. But our reliance is in the intelligence and patriot ism of the great American masses, who love our glorious Union, and who cherish feelings of patriotism and republican fraternity. 'The cheriShment of the people,' said Jefferson, 'is our principle, the fear and distrust of thein, that of the opposite party.' Which party is it that now shows a fear and distrust of the people? Which party is skulking and hiding, and conthicting its deliberations in secret, and under terrible oaths with penalties? The Democrats? Nay:verily ; but the anti Dem ocrats, the Know-Nothings, the 'Americans,' forsooth. Well, if there is not virtue, intelli gence. republicanism enough in the country to give a quietus to this new and worst edi tion of old Federalism, our great experiment of self-government must result in a magnifi cent abortion. But it will not fail ! God forbid it ever should! The new party have fallen upon the old federal trick of claiming to be the disciples of Washington. The pure name of that great man didn't save the Hart ford Convention Federalists, and it won't save the Know-Nothings." The Louisville Times is correct in the main. There can be but two great parties in this country—Democrats and Federalists, the lat ter changing its name as often as the chame lion does its color. It has dropped the name of Whig, and will henceforth be known as the Know-Nothirfg or American party. But there are many good and,true men, heretofore known as Whigs, who cannot gulp down thc,intoler ant dogmas of this new party, and they will be found for the future acting with the Dem ocratic party. The Free Soil Abolition wing of the old Whig party (constituting perhaps a majority of it) is now merged in Know-Noth ingism, and there it will abide, whilst the Democracy will rise with renewed strength and effort and again triumph over all its foes. The New Comities On Wednesday last, the project Of dis membering Lancaster county, received its quietus in the House. The following are the proceedings of that body on the subject : The bill to erect the county - of Jackson out of parts of Lancaster, was take❑ up, when Mr. Gross moved a substitute changing the name to Conestoga, but leaving the boundaries substantially the same, and providing for a submission of the question of the erection of the new county to a vote of the people of the proposed county. The amendment was agreed to. - Mr. Franklin then moved that the further consideration of the bill be indefinitely post poned, which was debated by Messrs. Gross, Franklin, Herr, and Witmer, and agreed to— yeas 36, nays 33. The bill "to erect the new county of Conewa go out of parts of Lancaster, Lebanon, and Dauphin, was taken up and debated by Messrs. Donaldson, Witmer, Stehley, Christ, and others, and the first section negatived— yeas 25, nays 42. So the bill fell., M. The Know-Nothings have been defea ed in Trenton and Paterson, N. J. ABDUCTION. —A young man, giving the name of Fisher, was held to bail in Philadel phia: on Tuesday afternoon, on the charge of abducting a young female from her home at Columbia, in this county. It is stated that he placed her in a house of doubtful.reputation in that city. So says the North American DEO. We direct attention to the c: d of .ur friends, BARDWF.M. & BRENEMAN, n • .'..they eolumit It will be seen that the have taken the "Bellevue House," in Columbia, and have fitted it up in handsome style. They are both active, energetic young men, and will 'dohal in their power to merit a full share of public patronage. HIGH WATER.—We learn from the Colum bia Spy, that the Susquehanna is now in fine rafting order, and that lumber is ooming in rapidly. GEN. Jolts . WELD ex.—This gentleman has been.muned in several papers in connection with the gubermttorial chair. Gen. Weidman is n citizen of Lebanon county, a prominent lawyer, and a radical and reliable Democrat. He is extensively acquainted throughout the State, and all who know him accord him fix edness of-purpose and intelligence of a high order.—Caslisle Democrat. ~,...,., ~e - ~~ie: gas Know-Nothingism seems to be rapidly de clining in Ohio. The following cities and htige tairns gone against the Knowl- Nothings and Wavelbf the Democrats, at the recent Spring elections, by large majori ties: - , , Cincinnati, Chillicothe, Akron, (inyahoga Falls, Dayton, New Richmond, Medina, Tole "do, Sandusky, Hamilton and Fremont.. These places all gave large Know-Nothing mojorities last fall. In Columbus and Cleve land, the bigoted and proscriptive Order on ly succeeded by meagre majorities. The Cincinnati Enquirer gives the follow ing truthful account of the Know-Nothing outrages in that City, at the election on the 2d inhtant : An effort is being medlar the Know-Noth ing organization to shif m itself the great responsibility of the criminal outrages which, on election day and since, have disgraced the city. Telegraphic reports, containing scarcely a single grain of truth, have been sent abroad to manufacture public opinion: But the most audacious falsehoods we have seen any where, are contained in the following resolu tions, which we take from the Gazette. The individual who framed them must have had great hardihood: "Resolved, That the American Deform par ty of the city of Cincinnati has heard with pain and regret of the destruction of the bal lot-box and poll-books of the Eleventh and Twelfth Wards of this city. They disclaim all knowledge and agency in these" acts of violence, and condemn them in the must un qualified terms. The frauds which charac terized the election in these Wards, and the brutal personal assaults which were perpe trated on our American and Protestant fellow citizens, by lawless foreigners and emissaries of the Pope, throughout the day of the elec tion : the attempts that were made by men ignorant of the genius and spirit of our re publican institutions, to prevent native-born and other Protestant citizens from voting, de serve the most unqualified condemnation of all good citizens. But we cannot consent in this country of law that such excesses shall be redressed by such retaliatory measures. While the ballot-box shall be kept pure, its abuse, by whatever fraddulent means, must not be redressed by"violenco, but rather by a peaceable resort to the courts and to the laws. "Resolved, That the American Reform par ty of the city of Cincinnati have heard with gratification the determination of the candi dates on their ticket to decline any and every advantage which may have been given to them by the loss to their opponents of the votes of said Wards." Now, we unhesitatingly assert, that no elections in the city were ever conducted wi • greater legality or less fraud than those in the Eleventh and Twelfth Wards. The pull books of the former are preserved, and we venture to say that there are not a dozen names upon them which are not well known citizens of the wards. It is absolutely false that any attempts were made to prevent Know, Nothings from voting at either of the polls. It was different there from what it was in the Fourth Ward, where Democrats were brutal ly driven from the ground by the Know- Nothing organization, and some of them severely maimed and injured by Know-Noth ing bullies. The judges of election in the Twelfth Ward were Know-Nothings, and it is not very likely they allowed any "frauds" to be perpetrated against that party. The talk about foreigners and emissaries of the Pope is sheer nonsense, of which sensible men should be ashamed. The simple truth is beeause it was known that those wards had given large Democratic majoritits, they were destroyed by the Know Nothing bullies. It was also a preconcerted scheme, and in tithations to that effect were, given to prom inent Democrats hours before it occurred,. In order to accomplish it, a fight was provok ed between some Know Nothing rowdies living out of the ward, and some Germans. The former were beaten They then imme diately started the lying rumor all over the city that Americans could not vote in the Eleventh, when in fact, they had about all voted. The Know Nothings then poured in to that ward in a riotous manner, seized the ballot-box, the object of their attack, and destroyed it. They endeavored to do the same thing in oche:. Dcruocartic wards, but luck ily were foiled. Supposing that without the Eleventh Ward the Democratic candidates were in- the minority, the mob dispersed. But to their astonishment it was discovered next day that without it most of the Democratic ticket was elected. It was then the idea was broached of destroying the Twelfth Ward polls. Another lying rumor was circulated that there was an excess of ballots, when in fact, they agreed exactly with the names upon the poll-books. But Know Nothing rowdies from the Times o ice rushed into the Ward before the votes were entirely counted, and burned that poll also. This is a true statement of the case, and. our friends abroad can rely on its correctness. Our Know -Nothing op ponents could not submit quietly to their de teat, and resorted to these desperate and out rageous acts iriorder to prevent it. We trust that the last resolution is true, when it dis claims for the candidates on the Know Noth ing ticket any disposition to profit by the destruction of the Eleventh and TWelfth Ward polls. ➢lost certainly, if one of them does so, he will be lost to all sense of decency and propriety,- and excite a suspicion of his complicity in the outrage. They know they are badly beaten. The township boxes in the Eleventh and Twelfth Wards were pre served, and the result shows a majority there for the Democratic ticket of eight hundred and eighty-seven in the former, and six hun dred and forty-seven in the latter. On the ' general ticket the majority was equally as great. We shall see if, in the face of more than a thousand majority in the city, any Know Nothing candidate will endeavor to usurp a public position. Book Notices, &c METHODIST QUARTERLY REVIEW.—TDIS' is decidedly the Re view of this Country—conducted with consummate abil ity by Rev. Dr. JOHN M'Clayrocs, one of the ablest and most learned writers of the age. and published by Carl ton & Philips, 200 Mulberry Street, N. Y., at the very low rate of $2 per annum, , payable in advance—so cheap as to place it within the reach °calmest every body . Each number contains 160 pages octavo, thus making a volume of 640 pages at the end of the year. The range of topics in the Quarterly embraces Biblical Literature, Theology, and General Literature. Each number also contains a Summary of Religious and Literary Intelli gence, for the preceding quarter. Graphic Illustrations, in the form of Maps, Pans and Engravings, on wood or steel, are likewise given with such articles as require them. • The METHODIST QUARTERLY is beyond all question, at the head of the Magazines whether published in this coun try or Europe, and, being cheaper than any, Is pecu liarly worthy of an enlarged and liberal support, not only from the Methodist Church, but from all other Protestant Denominations. Persons in this virinity wishing to subscribe for the work, can do so by calling on the ROY. D. W. B4RTINE, Pastor of the first Methodist Episcopal Church of this City „,• or, if they prefer 14, on the Editor of this paper, whet - will cheerfully remit their money to the Publishers and ob. Min for them the work. Dernes OF SHE CRIMEA.—G. S. Wells, Publisher, 140 Nes mu street, N. Y., has just issued from the press the fifth edition of a work with the above title. It Includes a Historical Summary of the Turko-Russian War, from its commencement to the'present time; giving a graphic picture of the bloody encounters, thrilling incidents, hair-breadth escapes, Berm enthusiasm, individual da ring, etc., etc., in this great Drama of War. The book also contains a new plan of Sehestopol,lits Fortifications, Batteries, Position of Contending Forces, Siege Works, &c., with a superb Map of the Seat of War. The book is gotten up in flee taste, and will doubtless have an extensive circulation, as every body is anxious to obtain correct information of all that pertains to the bloody war in the Crimea. The book Is for sale, we pre sume, in all our Bookstores in this city. LADISJ3' NATIONAL MAGAZINE.—The May number of this poptter periodical is already issued. The embellishments are unusually line. "II Penserosa," and "Lea Modes Parisiennes" are beautiful colored engravings which would be hard to excel. The National Magazine is edited by Charles J. Peterson and Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. It is published monthly, and contains from Sun to 1000 pages yearly, about 80 Steel Plates, and over 400 Illustrations engraved on wood. And all these, with the valuable and interesting reading matter with which its pages abound, for $2. " Tot INS AND OOPS OP PAR= ; on PAIL Do DAY AND NIOIIT," by the Baroneu do Marguarrittes. This is a volume of about 400 pages, which is now being published by Wm. White Smith, 195 Chesnut et, Philadelphia. We have bun furnished by the Publisher with several advance sheets, and, from a hasty glance at them, are satisfied that the work will bo well worthy the patronage of the public. It is spoken of very highly by the Londod and Paris press, as well as by several of the loading Journals of this country. The , London Literary Gazette thus speaks of the work : We are quite Jealous at fleeing so much of our English literary talen finding en outlet in the trans•atlantla re• nubile ; it is a kind of emigration which wo can ill afford. The Authoress of the "Ins and Outs of Paris,"—certain lyione of the most delightful books of the day, has no im peder among our best writero, and eventhe admirable Al phonse Karr himself, might be proud to have written so piquant a description of his native city. We freely ac• knowledge our obligations to Mr. Wm. White Smith, the Philadelphia Publisher, for the advance sheets of the Ins and Outs of Parbr" ADELAIDE Watmonav4 oa Tax Ttuais Ov J. GOVERNESS. We ate indebted to William H. Spangler, North Queen at., fir a copy of this new and, exceedingly interesting Novel', from the pen of T. F. Smith, author of " Stanfield HaU,".The Brea Mason's Daughter," and other works of merit, and from the publication of H. Long A Bro., 121 Nassau street, N. Y. It is emtaillabed with several wood engravings, and. as a worrtf Action, so far as we have been able to judge from* hasty gleam:tat its contents, it is superior to moat of the publications of a similar.kind with which the country is flooded. It is a volume of 227 pages, and the price only 60 cents. For tale at Span. glee's Bookstore. . - - A' ACT To restrain the tide of Into:rt.:Wing Liquors idsorros L Be it enacted, 4r. That from and * after the first day of October next, it shall be . unlawful to keep or maintain any house, room or place where vinous, spirituous, _malt, or brewed liquors, or any admixtures thereof, are addend drank except as hereinafter provided; and all laws or parts of lava inconsistent with the provisions of this set, be and the same are hereby repealed. • Sam.- 2. That if anyperson personswith in this Commonwealth, shall keep for sale and sell, or in connection with any other butfiness orprofitable employment give, receiving there for any price, profit or advantage, by any measure whatever, and at the same time vol untarily afford a place or any other conveni ence or inducement, by which the same may be used as a beverage, any vinons,spirituons, malt, or brewed liquor, or any admixture thereof, he, she or they, and any one aiding, abetting or assisting therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic tion shall be sentenced to pay .a fine not ex ceeding"fifty dollars and undergo' imprison ment not exceeding one month ; and for a second or any subsequent offence, shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and undergo imprisonment not exceeding three months. Saar. 3. That if any two or more personi conspire or act together, by which one may sell and the other provide a place or other - convenience for drinking with intent to evade the provisions of this act, each one so offend ing, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in the second section of this act. SECT. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, or keep for sale, any vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or any ad mixtures thereof, in cases not herehibefore prohibited, in a less quantity than one quart, nor without license granted by the court of quarter sessions of the proper county on pe tition presented for that purpose, to be adver t tised according to the first section of the act of the 29th of March, 1841, supplementary to the various acts relating to tavern licenses ; but no such license shall be gr anted , to other than citizens of the United States of temperate habits and good repute for honesty : Provi ded, That no certificate shall be required or published as mentioned in the act herein re ferred to : Provided, That no license for the sale of liquors as aforesaid, shall be granted to the keeper of any hotel, inn, tavern, res taurant, eating-house, oyster-house or cellar, theatre or other places of entertainment, amusement or refreshment. SECT. 5. That the said court, by their rules, shall fix a time at which applications for said licenses shall be heard, at which time all persons making objections shall be heard. SECT. 6. That it shall not be lawful for the clerk of said court to issue any license as aforesaid, until the applicant shall have filed the bond hereinafter required, and the cer tificate of the city receiver, or county treasu rer, that the license fee has been paid to him. —SECT. 7. That the appraisers of licenses un der this act shall be appointed as provided by existing laws, except in the city of Phila delphia, where on the passage of this act, and thereafter at the beginning of every year, three reputable and temperate persons shall be appointed by the court of quarter sessions to appraise dealers in spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors aforesaid, and of dis tillers and brewers, and to do and perform all the duties now enjoined by law not inconsis tent herewith; and said appraisers shall be citizens of the United States; in no manner connected with, or interested in the liquor business, and shall be compensated as now' provided by law. SECT. 8. That no license shall be granted without the payment to the receiver of taxes of the city of Philadelphia, or to the treasu rers of the other counties of the State for the use of the Commonwealth, three times the amount now fixed by law to be paid by vendors of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or brewers and distillers . Provided, That no license shall be granted for a less sum than thirty dollars. SECT. 9. That the bond required to be taken of all persons who shall receive a license to sell spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admixtures thereof, shall be in one thousand dollars, conditioned, for the faith ful observance of all the laws of this Com monwealth relating to the business of vend ing such liquors, with two sufficient sureties, and warrant of attorney to confess judg ment ; which bond shall be approved by one of the judges of the court of 'quarter sessions of the peace of the proper county, and to be filed in said court ; and whenever a judgment for any forfeiture or fine shall have been re covered against the principal therein, it shall be lawful for the district attorney, of the proper county, to enter judgment against the obligors in the said bond, and proceed to col lect the same off the said principal or sure ties. SECT. 10. That every person licensed to sell spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors as afore• said, shall frame his license under glass and place the , same so that it may at all times be conspicuous in his chief place of making sales; and no license shall authorize sales by any person who shall neglect this require ment, nor shall any license authorize the sale of any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors on. Sunday. SECT. 11. That any sale made of any spirit uous, vinous or malt liquor contrary to this act, shall be taken to be a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of the offence in • the court of quarter sessions of the proper coun ty, shall be punished in the manner prescri bed by the second section of this act. SECT. 12. That the provisions of this act as to appraisement and license shall not ex tend to importers who shall vend or dispose of said liquors in the original cases or pack ages as imported, nor to duly commissioned auctioneers selling at public vendue or gut cry, nor to brewers or distillers selling in quantities not less than give gallons, nor shall anything herein contained prohibit the sale by druggists of any admixturesof intoxicating liquors as medicines. SECT. 13. That it shall be the duty of every constable of every town, borough, township or ward within this Commonwealth, at every term. of the court of qizarter sessions of each respective county, to make return on oath or affirmation, whether within his knowledge there is any place within his bailiwick, kept and maintained in violation of this act ; and it shall be the especial duty of the judges of the said courts to see that this return is faith fully made ; and if any person shall make known to such constable the name or names of any one who shall have violated this act, with the names of witness who can prove the fact, it shall be his duty to make return thereof on oath or affirmation to the court, and upon his wilful failure so to do, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and up on conviction, shall be sentenced to impris onment in the jail of the county for a period not less than one, nor more than three months, and pay a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. SECT. 14. That this act shall not interfere with any persons holding a license heretofore granted, until the time for which the same was granted shall have expired; nor shall any license which may be granted before the first day of July next, authorize the sale of said liquors or admixtures thereof, after the first day of October next, contrary to the pro visions of this act. Approved April 13, 1855: JAS. POLLOCK. CAPT. SAI 4 :DERSON :—Upon looking over the proceedings of Councils, I find that the first story is to be used for the Mayor's and Post Offices, the second for the Councils; but fur the life of me, cannot ascertain, by what, or whose, authority the third story of the newly dubbed "City Hall" has been devoted to the purposes of a Balloon Manufactory. Can any wise-acre tell? U. S. Another Spanish Outrage I The Washington Union says- - that the American brig P. R. Hichborn, Stephen El= lie, Jr., master, bound, from Boston to Matan zas, and but a few miles from the coast, was fired at by a Spanish man-of-war, the ball frum.which passed about half a cable's length astern of the brig, when she showed her colors. Shortly after another ball wall fired from the man-of-war, which passed directly ahead of the brig ; and soon after, the posi tion of the ships being relatively changed, another was fired, which fell just behind the brig, evidently thrown - withl,he intention of hitting the American vessel. In a few me , manta after, the officer of the Spanish man-of war came on board the brig, and, after ex amining her papers, allowed her to go her way. • MoaE Berms.—On Saturday the Governor signed two more Bank Billa—the Look Haven Bank, and the Consolidated Bank of Philadel phia. So we go! I *ft. The new Suarruiicm Bridge, erected' across the Mississippi at St. Anthony, Minne. seta, was destroyed by a storm on the 25th ult. It is supposed it can be rebuilt for $5OOO. Comtalttlfition Law." the f ollowingl sections of an act recently pa ed by the Legislature and approved of by the I overnor, wnsolidating the different debts of e City of Lancaster, will be read within-te • by our town - subs.cribers: CTION 1. Be A enacted by the Senate and H of Rep.resentatives of the Commonwealth of LI nnsylvania iaGeneral Assembly met, and it is hereby 'enacted by the authority of the .• de, That from and after the passage of this act the debts and liabilities of the city of Lan e. , r, known as the "city and water debts," be and the same are hereby declared to be co ' lidated ; and that all bonds, certificates, or O her evidences of debt, given by the said cit' to secure payment of any sum or sums of mul ey, to any person or persons whomsoever, aft Ibe paid,uut of the city treasury, without re. rd to what particblar fund the said moneys, be re thb paisinge of this act belonged. 8' CTION 3. That in lien of the present exist mg), ity and water taxes of the city of Lancas ter; the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the cit' of Lancaster, in select andcommon councils itss Ailed, shall have full power and authority to I y, assess, levy, and collect 'a tax, to be call..ii d the city tax, which tax shall be laid and t , RS. ssed upon, and levied and collected in the mat ner that other taxes are laid, atAssed, led, and' collected, front all the property wh ch is now subject, to the present existing city tax, Provided, That the said tax shall nut' exceed one hundred cents on each one 1 huidred dollars of the assessment valuation of • sai property. lECTION 4. That the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the pity of Lancaster, in select and comon councils assembled, shall not, in any eas , authorize the burrowing of any money, for any purpose whatsoever, whereby the ac ii tui indebtedness of the city will be increased, unless it is authorized by ordinance, regularly eitiesented and passed. Provided, That the said ordinance shall not pass the final reading within two weeks holt' the meeting of councils at which the same was presented. BECTION 5. That the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city of Lancaster, in select and coMmon councils asserdbled, shall not have poWer or authority to erect, construct, or make any public improvement for the benefit of the said city! where the expenditure thereof will ex eed the sum of three hundred dollars, unless th ' erection, construction, or making of said pblic improvements is first authorized by an or , finance, passed for that purpose, agreeably to the provisidns of the fourth section of this 1., act. Provided, That this section shall not be cobstrued so as to apply to the erecting, con stucting, and making of such public improve mi nts as are paid out of the regular annual a iropri a duns. Bank Legislation. 1.1 iIcRISBURG, April 12. he bill supplenientary to the act incorpora _ the Miner's Bank of Pottsville, was taken in the House. A motion to increase the al t 05200,000 was debated, and negatived yeas 33, nays 36; but was subsequently i • , ,a-idered and adapted—yeas 47, nays 27. :Ih. Cummings moved an amendment, re the'hank,l.efore its new 111 , p0Se of thrve-fotirth: , ,:f the real esiate three-fourths of the bonds acid triortga.4e; Id hy it. • The amendment WM - nays 57—after which the sectimi r and the bill then p:sed flats 24. The 101 l . to incorphato the Donegal Bank :=1 which W 3,1 , 10bateCI by Messrs. .os,t, North, Witmer and others, and disit e,l to—yeas 25. nays 51. The first section the bill was then agreed to—yeas 39, nays The rules were then suspended—yeas 51 ys 24—and the bill passed finally ; yeas 41 ya 30. For the lute1111;1411,er. la. Eerrou 7am not by nature cruelly disposed—calf rto see suffering—never could. But there are cases, o , . iv tich the most ,timpas.ilonate may at thong be forced to lebk, in the way of duty. Takth for instance, the case of a niun with a bad grinder. It grumbles, and ashes, and jumps. until the Dentist is called In. Ho conies, approaches Ile sufferer with a bland air,—coolly takes off his gloves, 4inakos a remark, or us, about the weather—requests his. Patient to place himself in a proper position, and displays all set of horrible looking pincers and affairs of that sort. Ills chat goes on, and before you know what you are about, fish! oh! urn! and the whole matter Drover. So in the body politic, there are bad grinders that must some out; 4 rts which must be cauterized; fungous excrescences, that r quire the knife; and entomeological specimens for which t t e thum b-nail is the only remedy. If itstiould seem cruel t pull grinders, burn the warts, cut off fungi, and executa s mmariiy parasitic intruders, we must reflect that unit. Addable necessity calls for this kind of action In their re ktard Eels are not skinned, without some little incon- VOienee to themselves, and their . wriggling excites pity lii' but comparatively few cases. Entomologists In the pre rvntion of those little bugs with hard names, and some t es harder characters , are forced, by stress of circumstan. 's, to trans fi x the objects of their interest, with savage °king pins and needles. Crawfish, In order to tit them fir good company, must be boiled. So, in order to bring the objects of my present case before the public, it becomes ili some cases a duty to skin, perforate, or boil, as the case ditty be. My course must be excused, it not commended, Son the ground of necessity. [The Thugs, are beings differing as much in character as her objects df scientific research, and must be treated in icordance with that difference. "SlipporYtElm, Esq." must treated as an eel—a lively twisting fellow—fitted for all ads of sewer work, under ground railroads, plying Into usehold mysteries, and other objects requiring treachery i it cunning. "peter Sheepskin," Is a fair specimen of the Beetle—the g eat blundering, horned fellow, who sometimes at tivi hght hour comes droning In at the window, driving a f l ay at the lights,' and frightening the children. lie oks as though he might pitch • as you pass him you in. S Inctively feel it, and keep a sharp link out. Ile will, too, ly, give hint a wide berth. In the "Author of the La. utentatious," we find the" Tumble bug:" I don't know the I ielentific name of this bug, but every body knows what a tact it has for accumulation. It rolls its 'ball' with great a :fly ity, playing the "possum" with superior, and "skunk" tt ithinferiorpowers, crossing Its path.. It can appear as mild its milk, but yountay depend upon it that in a fight for Its tall,' it Is not to be despised. The frisky "Daniel," who le in judgment upon every thing but his own business, . ust be viewed es a kind of spoiled monkey. To appreciate ins properly, he must be seen in oneof his spasmodic eft , rtg to glue vent to anidua making a speech. Re is full of ite, but his face bears in its public exposition a smile—a 4 ['tinned smile. They eat, lam told, in some countries, . root whose power produces 'such a contortion of counts , ...ca. And then the wiggle of his head—the dancing _ ais, and all that, taken In conjunction with that smile! I can't he described! It must be seen to be enjoyed! "Hercules. - is a crab. He came into the world crabbedly ispomd. llggoes crab-like at every thing hn undertakes; d in the end succeeds about as well as a crab, in effecting lireat results. Ile is like an Ishmaolite,—his hand against 1 hauds.—seems to have been sent into the world for the urposo of scattering broken bottles and setting man-traps i the pathway of human life. Ills pleasure is in opposition his felicity in obstinacy, and should he have his own 4 ay for it, he will go out of life as he came—a crab. And now for - another dash with a free pencil, at a few , °straits yet , uutluished. Thu "Hairy Tailor" is still a tierce looking fellow in that foxy beard, and with eye brows to match, is, s hen he frowns, a perfect hurricane. once, in adjoining county, saw an old Goat, in n beard of recisely similar appearance, but if I may be allow*to raw a comparison as to respectability, old Fogo cerCaliily had the advantage. :Ile did not make a fool of himself, by illy Indecent gabble; his gravity was admirable, his dig , • ity unquestionable; and his general conduct had more 10 commend it for Imitation than that of,the Tailor. They e say that , the Council has appointed the Tailor, prime i•asso, for the next campaign, his voice having in it some. ling inimitably sweet and interesting, especially whoa card in the t pen air. It Is understood that he has taken eSSOTIS of one -Signor Asian," from the isle of Malta—a . . _ . ear relation to "Jerry;' and a great basso in his line. Be that as it may, we may look forward to-a great musical reat one of these days. "Slippery EIM Esq.," Is hereafter to take a more ener oh, part in the doings of the Council. His deep legal nowledge fits him In a great degree fora kind of Chatty or . he ' for the conspiracy. He is to take care that the merc ers limn suffer salvation, body and soul," and his con table, Master Eracoar, who is to "comprehend all vagrom tea,"—being also a "Thug," naturally. and by induction, s to be his aid, in administering the law to all belligerent nd obstinate outsiders. The man "who was not elected" s, paorfellow—slit in pursuit of Honor, but His now doubt. d whether he will ever get it. He has quite a passion for bld guns, drums, and flags—displaying -upon every fitting bocision some five hundred or a thousand square yards of canting from his windows--besides : quite a number of pe-' ite banners, all of which goes a considerable way, towards n-oving him to be a rather plucky fellow. It is said, that ae intends raising at once a volunteer corps, to proceed Cincinnati, and tlx. that! matter about the ballot braes. IA very remote ancestor of this 'Thug,' was noted for his ilitary talent--especially in the Indian Wars of 181'2 overtaking to a if. 1138. So you Fee there is discretion in the blood as well courage.courage.Arta a very laudable thing is discretion. A fool hardy fellow like 'Old Hickory' would have gone on, .re d fe h r i ri s tu, h t ,i s w b e ia r c e k r, ed on ,,, o to ne ha ny v i e ng a' p c a u ri p y o f of tea,'red :'right through the - mud paying no more attention to his For the Intelligencof. . . belly or boots than a savage. I have always looked upon It, as highly commendatory in a man, that he should have rneat regard fur personal appearances, but am sorry to say 'Old Hickory' was generally reckoned rather carless In such matters. There, he fell behind when compared with the Immortal ancestor,of our 'Thug, ' and what Is odd, posterity idon't seem to care much about it. I have not yet dono iith the leading spirits of Thug. om In our town, and wince as they may, they must come out of their holes. Little "Benjamin" is as bravo as terrier, and ready to tight openly which I father like n the little fellow. •tSllppory /61m," "Daniel," "Jerry,' •"Sheepskin," with some',others, prefer the guerilla mode, nd of course I intend to fight them on their own plan. No meetings of Council now-a4inys, and consequently vsrythlng dull in the movements of tare assassin tribe., ANON. Cui.u3litin, April 14, 1855 A liaiivr CONTRACT.-Mr. Richard Mc 3rann' of this county, one of the Contractors f the North Lebanon Railroad, in company with sumo other gentlemen, has entered into a contract, we learn from the Delaware County Republicon,' with the North Pennsyl vania Railroad Company, to' complete the grading, masonry, bridging, and ballasting of some thirty-three miles of their great improve-. meat. This contract embraces some very extensive works including a .tunnel two thousand feet long, and a deep cut in Gwynedd, Montgomery county—nearly four thousand feet long and sixty feet deep i with a very extensive embankment, sufficiently' large to swallow up this enormous pile of materials. The mit is of solid rock, from top to bottom, end the cost will exceed $230,000. We understand that the prices etre of., a nature to *witify so large an Undertakipg c arni be quite remunerative. We wish them all success in their extensive undertaking. CITY 4EDEOUSITY ITEMS. AM. If any of our readers wish to examine the block of pun) American-Marble intended for the WashingMli. - Sforiunient, and executed by 'order of . the American Medical Society, _ - they can- have an cfrorttunty of doing so by 'calling at our frier': HALDY ' S bfarble Yard, in N.. Queen at. It represents HYPOCRATES re fusing the-bribe of ,AnTexsaxas, King of Persia. There is altogether a group of eleven figures. The execution of this work of statuary reflects the. highest credit upon the Artist, J. AUGUSTUS BEex, a native of this county, and now in Rome, perfecting himself in his Art. blf. Beck, we think, is yet destined to rank among the greatest of American Sculptors.— The block is to be forwarded in'a short time to Washington, and those of our cititens who haCe not yet seen it, should embrace the present opportunity. Mr. Ilaldy will take the greatest pleasure in showing it to visitors. I. 0. R. M.—The Great Council of Penna., Improved Order of Red Men, will hold a quarterly session at the Odd Fellows Hall, in this citz, this evening. Frm—Large quantities of fresh shad and herring are now brought to our market, but, like every thing else in the eating line, com mand enormous prices. ',fear The salesof the stalls in thy new Market Houses, a few days ago, amounted to $1778,75. A. few yet remain unsold. CHUMS ELECTION.—The following persons have been elected Elders and Wardens of the Trinity Lutheran ChurCh, in this City, viz: • ELDERS—DE. F. A Muhlenberg, John Eshleman and William Gable. WARDENS—WiIIiam Frick, J. Peter Storm feltz and William Buekius. ver The splendid Gas Fixtures in the new Court House were manufactured by Messrs. Cornelius & Baker, of Philadelphia. They con sist of one sixteen light chandelier, twenty feet in heighth, and having a spread of 6 feet; two twelve light chandeliers, twenty feet long, and spreading five feet ; eighteen smaller chan deliers two tour light pillars, and sixteen large brackets to match. The fixtures are of bronze and of an entirely new pattern, manu_ factut ed in the richest and most artistic style• Ati—Tho barn 'of Mr Abraham Peters, in Millerstown, destroped by fire on the 31st kilt, was insured lors `2400 in the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co. The amount wiiich Mr. Peters receives on his insurance is $ 1853- POSTMASTER APPOINTED.- The P. M..lien eral has appointed Thos• J. Ringwalt P. M. a New Milltown, in this county, in place o Levi H,:over resigned. SALE OF STOCKS.—The following exhibits the amount of Stocks sold by Juhn K. Reed Sc Cu., on ‘ihe 9th inst. per share. 10 Shares ClZmeaoga Steam Mill stuck at $9 75 10 do do do do 10 94 10 do Lancaster Bank Stock 80 12, $5OO city 5 per cent Loan 81 00 8500 do do do 80 00 MOO- - M Mortgage bond C. S. Mills 98 18; 55 shares Lancaster Gas Co. Stock 17 75 h)S,.. 'Clic Keystone Market, in the rear of the Keystone House, North Queen street, was opened'on Tuesday last with a fair attendance of sellers and buyers. It will be held regu larly on T4esday and Friday mornings, and wilhbe a great convenience to the residents of the northern part of this city. 1169..'11ie regular term of the Quarter Sessions fur this county, commenced yesterday. Quite a large number of country people are in attendance. We shall give an abstract of the proceedings next week. M c ., The Anniversary of the Gcethean Literary Society of Franklin & Marshall College, on Tuesday evening, at Fulton Hall, was largely attended by our citizens of both sexes. The music, under the direction of Mr. Keifer, was excellent, and the addresses in every respect creditable to the younggeu dolmen who delivered them. • KILLED ON THE RAILROAD.-A man named John Goodman, from this City, was killed near the Bird in Hand, on Wednesday afternoon.— He was walking_ along the track, in comprny with Mr. John Williams, also of this city, when the Lightning Train came along, striking him down and crushing him so bildly as to cause his death in a few minutes. He was s: man of family, and about 60 years of age. A SIUSII-UP.—The locomotive "Jez.:,t.." ler," on Wednsday last, ran into a tMof six or seven burthen cars, at Dillervil'w , .d completely demolished them. ger Wednesday last was another blustery day—quite cold and unpleasant towards eve ning. "Winter still lingers in the lap of Spring. xter The Mayor's office has been removed to the west room in the City Hall—entrance from West King st. The room is conveniently and handsomely fitted up.. tom. George Diller, Esq., has been elected a Clerk in the Lancaster County Bank, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the promotion of B. Champneys, Jr. FIRE IN TED MOUNTAINS.-OR Sunday week, during the high wind that prevailed, a fire broke out in a coaling in the mountains in Elizabeth township, about two miles north of Elizabeth Furnace. ,The fire spread rapidly, and destroyed in its course, and before it was arrested, between 2 and 3000 cords of wood belonging to the Messrs. Coleman, and a sta ble belonging to a Mr. Bender. Philadelphia Correspondence. 0 PHILADELPHIA, April 14,1858. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania have re cently issued an Address recommending the es tablishment of a new National Holiday, on the 17th of September, the day upon wnich the Con stitution of the United States was finally ratified. The suggestion is a good ono, and should be gen• erally adopted. The National Constitution is the great link which binds, our separate sovereignties together, and thus constitute us-a powerful nation, and this tact should be thoroughly and Ifilly im pressed upon the public mind. One of our physicians recently visited a family 'where a lady and her;sun,;who was about IS months old, were both ill. He wrote a prescription for each, and the apothecary negligently reversed the endorsement, so that the mother took the medi- Citie intended for the child, and the child that intended for the mother. The tatter died aeon alter, it was believed from the effects of the med ii-ine thus erroneously administered, and the apothecary was arrested ; but a postmortem en kmination satisfied the physician that the child was caused off by a disease uninfluenced-by the medicine, and the apothecary is thus relieved from a very unpleasant but deserved predicament. The Board of Controllers of our Public Schools has adopted a resolution recommending the Di rectors to set apart an hour in each week - for instruction in the science of music. Quakerdion was horrified at the innovation and protested lustily against it, but all to no purpose. This is a •Quaker City" now in nothing but the mere mere. The sway. and glorj of the sect has de parted forever. No proselytes have been made to it for years, and the "vanities of the world" are entirely too atuactive to the great mass of young Quakers to permit them to walk in the simple paths of their forefathers, and to wear plain coats or plain bonnets. Quite a large portion of the descendants of firmer Quaker families have - connected themselves with the Episcopal and other churches. It is only occasionally that the prim old dress of the society is met with, and were William Penn to return to his beloved "city of brotherly love" he would find but a small portion of its inhabitants true to the creed and practices he was 110 much attached to. The workmen at our Navy Yard have completed all the necessary repairs to the U. S. steamer San Jacinto, which 'is about to start lor tire Gull of Mexico, under command of Commodore M'Cauley, and take her place as the flag ship of the squadron, ordered to cruise there for the protection of our commerce loom the attacks of the Spanish memor war,.and to be prepared for whatever emergencies may arise. Workmen are also constantly '.employ ed in repairing a ship which is to be sent out with the expedition to the Arctic region, in search of Dr. Kane. One of his brother. Is to accompany it. lei. to be hoped that on more lives may be risked hereafter In that bleak and dreary region. In removing the bodies from an old grave-yard, in Race 'treat, a corps interred about 16 years since was found to be completely petrified. Sew eral of our physicians examined it, and wore amis. fled of the Ikct. It had been placed in a moist part of the ground. The Spiritullats continue their, experiments with great seal. Maiden ladles , of an uncertain age, some old women of the male sex, Ind quizzical young then who are fond of sight and seeing, make up the lictreles ,, generally, and some very queer developments take place at them. To those suffi ciently credulous to believe the raving,' of the me diums actual eomniunications from the spirit world, it may well .be imagined the invearigations are highly interesting, but if the spirits' have nothing better to tell us than we hear from many of them, the world will be but very little wilier or better for this new system of intercourse. Our markets have not recently undergone any important change.. - Beef cattle sell - at the ahorbi tont rate of from $l,l toll& Flour comands 810, 25 to $ll per barrel, Rye Flour, 86,75 Corn Meal, $4,150,- Wheatlsells for %mai 82,53 to 412,55,l sl,37lCorn, Iffilelo3s; Oats; 110a611.*- 4' Truly. Yours. , . , All %arts 'of Patagraphs. ura t THE EXTENT OF THE DNS OF 'THE INDI ANS WEST or.. •ine._ Misse - Tr' 4.k.e.—Under the treaties made by . the IQ issioner of Indian Affairs with vartomi trif?es in the last year or so, the United States have dbtained lands from the Indians located weet of the Missouri and Missouri State line,las folldws: ,rO5 From the Omaha., shim 600,000,000 acres. Ottoes andr.Misso!urias, ' 000,000 acres. Shawnees, 1,600030 au . Delawares, 275,000 acre • Sacs and Foxes, 455,000 tcres. Bickapoos, 786,000 acres. 'owes, 125,000 acres. • Kkskaskias and Others; 04,000, And from the Mihmes, 30,000. Individual reservations itre provided for in these treaties, ands, also Elmo portions of the lands above mentioned ato be sold for the benefit of the Indians cedplg them. This is 1 the case with the: Delawhre'l lands. Such tracts are nut subjlet tubelsquatted on, as this Government cannot, by act of Congress, assign lands held in true; to Disposed of for the benefit of others, tc squatters. FIGHT BETWEEN A.MERICINS AND SPANIARDS. . . _ —A few days ago Major beauregard, of the U• S. army, and a dozen other gentlemen from New Orleans, visited PrictorviLe, (La,) un Lake Borgne, where a large number of Span ish fishermen gene4ally assemble. The par, ty had not been there long before they were, it is alleged, insulted by the fishermen assem bled in gangs, sliduting !•hurry fur General Concha," and singing Spanish songs, and ma king other demonstrationS of defiance. The Spaniards then made an effort to take" posses sion of the buggy , of Major B. and Mr. It. Procthr, and meeting with resistance from those gentlemen, they attacked: them with bowie knives• This ted to a general fight. All the Americans assembled and fired revolvers sev eral times, when the Spaniards retreated but soon appeared with glins, l and fired as much from ambush as pdssible. 1 The result was that five or six Spaniards were shot and badly wounded, while on the American.side only one person, an Irishman, who took sides with the Americans, was injured• TROI:BLE .9.310N0 THE 0. S. 'TROOPS.—We learn from private correipundence, that the steamer Yuba, which left here in February with a number of U, States soldiers, recruits from Newport Barracks,] for Arkansas river, is in a tight place Beth e reaching Napole on, the mouth of the Ark nsas, the small pox broke out among Ithe soh iers, and the boat was not permitted to land fit that port. When last heard from, kite was lipid up somewhere up the Arkansas., Tho troopi. , were suffering dis ease and want of .food ,'-and it requisition had - been made upon Capt. Metlelland, of the New World, for goveriiment stores. The Captain declined delivering the stbrii until freight and charges on the same were paid, and at last accounts, the United States officers un the Yu ba were about marchino. With a body of men to take possession of the government rations on the New World. Theiwater,is too low for the boat to ascend'Arkansits river•—eincinna ti Commercial of Monday, • , HORRIBLE ACCIDENT .--,,:e warn that on Monday, the ffil instant, a man about fifty years of age, named .Burnetson, a mechanic from Baltimore, came todiis death at the steam saw-mill of John 11. Esq., in Chaptico district in the fulh.ving singular and horrible manner: lie was regularly employed at the mill, and while engaged ion that morning in his usual avocations one of the rotary saws ac cidentally burst, the pieces being scattered in every direction. One of the fragments struck the man directlrOn the fop of his head with such force as notamly to l cleave his skull, but also to cut through his neck-bone, down into the breast, that portion of his body from the top of his head to the breast being com pletely divided. His death of course followed instantly.—Leonardlozall'(Md„)Bmcon. GREAT SNOW STORK zvf APRIL'—The Rome (N. Y.,) Sentinel gives an account of a great snow storm that visited that region on Mon day the 2d lust. The editor, who travelled in the cars from Watertown to Rome, says : "In many places the snow was higher than the tops of the cars, a channel:laving been cut through just wide enough fur their passage.— In many places the shelving drifts had extend ed half over this canal, +lle in the bottom an accumulation of two or; three feet of snow, with no room for depositing it front the scra pers, soon formed a barrier to the progress of the train, and the shovellers were again in de mand." A ~ DEATH OF MARTIN t'AN DUREN, Ja.—The Baltic brings intelligence of the death uf Mar tin Van Buren, Jr., son yyf the ex-president.-- He died in Paris on the 2( ,th ult. A large num ber of Americans accompanied his remains to their temporary resting place in the cemetary of Mountmartre. The deceased had tor a long time been wasting under the blight of con sumption, but hie death . i 'was so sudden as to surprise even those friends who had despaired of his recovery. He had seated himself at the dinner table when his head fell forward-on his breast, and be expired without a groan. An eloquent allocution was! pronounced at the tomb by the by the distinguished Protestant divine, M. Coquerel, further representative of the people under the Republic. The deceased was about forty years (Wage, and was next-to the youngest r f Mr. Varl Buren's four eons.— .His remains will be brought to the United States in July. Ssrow I—Snow fell to tile depth of 14 inches, at Burlington, Vermont,l on Wednesday lest. A violent snow storm occurred at Eaton, in this State, on the same 11€1.1.. The whole numb6r of applications un der the Bounty Lan& act of March 3 1855, re ceived at the Pension dllice up to April 7, was fifty-thousand five hundred. Number of applications received for - the week ending April 7, nineteen thousaid seven hundred. M. The President Odic United States, on Saturday week, accepted and ratified a treaty concluded with the Rogue River tribe of In dians on the 15th of Notember, 1854; also, a treaty concluded with the Cherokee tribe of Indians on the 22d day !of February, 1854. A 'Abell Suit In the District Court, let Philadelphia, week before last, a verdict was rendered against the proprietors of the Public Ledger tOr $2OOO damages for an alleged libel upon Mr. Owens, a bridge tender, in the employ of the 9amden and Amboy Railroad Company, at the time of the accident at Raucocal Creek, in April, 1853. The Ledger of Tuesday ;last, republishes the article complained of; and; after reading it, we confess we are really amazed . that any twelve men could hitve been fund to agree upon such a verdict. It is' a plain, unprejudiced state ment of faots,.sueh a l they had been reported by parties employed 'to investigate them, with nu comment beyond what .the.cireunistances made inevitable and entirely free from any appearance of a disbositiou to injure anybody. We have no Wish that , puWishers of newspa pers should be; screened from puniShment, when, as is sometimes ithe case, they abuse their opportunities to assail private character;- on the contrary; we would have them in all such instances, dealt with in such a way as would be likely to deter them from future sim ilar outrages; but when they present facts which it is indispensable for their own securi ty thatthe public shotikE know, and express opinions upon public events which are obvi ously free from any design of personal wrong, they must be protected plim penal inflictions, or the value anii! independence of the press will soon cease to exist. Upon the showing of the Ledger, which We have no reason to doubt, the verdict against its proOietore in this case of l i Mr. Owens, was! a mon thous perversion of the trial by jury, which, we are sure, no intelligent Court before whom it ay come for revision, will venture to eustai&-.N. - American. ' , WA lIINGTON, April 12. CUBAN RUMORS.—Th re ate rumors preva lent today, that imp taut despatches from Havana havejuld been ivoeived at Charleston or Savannah, en route for Washington. The contents • have but trahapired here, and • the public curiosity' will not bo allayed quail' the arrival of the mail. I 1• • GEN. JOHN IYEIDEA ', ov LEDANON.--,The Lancaster Intelligender of a recent date, pays a high and not Unmerit3d tribute to this hon est and fearless bemoorlt, and names hint as eminently worthy to 1 1 the Gubernatorial j ail chair of this Common alth. Gen Weidman is no ffice seeker, nor dtt*a knoW that he . wohld be • ' gto accept mom ination for any office ; in the gift of the people; but that he is qmalified, a every respOt fdithis responsiblrpublie positio n to which'the infe r ligencer points 4o one. ho kn.. : his sterling worth, as a man, and unp ~:if. . .: bleiatif l ir' i 4 as a Demooratloanlikilit4iriking Ocialik. 1 - I .-..• '...:..„, .. , ,‘,.
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