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GEO. fOATIDERSON, EDITOR.
LANCASTER, MAY 29, 1855.
TO THE DEMOCRATIC FREEMEN OF
THE CITY AND COUNTY OF LAN-
CASTER
Ia accoßanee with the rettolation.r.of_the
Committee adopted on -Wednesday lad, you
are requested to assemble in the several Wards
of the City, and Boroughs anti!r_ownehipe of
the County, - - -
.ON SATURDAY, the ad of JUNE next,
then and there to elect not less than three nor
mom than five .delegates to represent each
District in a general County Convention, to be
held on Wednesday the 6th day of June fol
lowing, at 11 o'clock, A, M., at the public
house of Emanriel Shober, in the City of Lan
caster, for the purpose of electing six delegates
to represent the Democracy of the County of
Lancaster in the annual State Convention, to
be held at Harrisburg on Wednesday the 4th
day of July next, for the nomination of a can
didate for Canal Commissioner.
The several Ward, Borough and • Township
Committees, are requested to give early notice
in their respective Districts of the time and
place of meeting for the election of Delegates.
The several Districts will each• nominate
one person to serve on the County Committee
fOr tue ensuing political year, and also nomi
nate their Ward, Borough and Township
Committees, and hand them to the Chairman
of the ensuing County Convention. _
By order of the County Committee.
H. B. SWARR, Chairman.
Lancaster, May 15, 1855.
Delegate Elections
The Democrats of the City are requested to meet
at the places named below, on Saturday evening
next, the 2d of June, at 7i o'clock, for the purpose
of electing delegates (five in each ward) to the ensu
ing County Convention :
11. W. Ward, at Adam Trout's, W. Orange at.
B. W. do. P. Fitzpatrick's, S. Queen et.
N. E. do. 4 4 J. Miller's, E. Chesnut at.
B. E. do. 4 , Wm. tiormley's, S. Duke et.
BY ORDER OF THE WARi)_COMMITTEES.
The Delegate Elections
We hope our Democratic friends through
out the county will bear in mind the Dele
gate elections on Saturday next, the 2d of
June. These primary elections are of vast
importance to the party and to the people,
and whenever they are properly attended to
there will be but little, if any cause for dis
satisfaction with the action of County Con
ventions. We would, therefore, respectfully,
but earnestly urge upon the Democrats of
the County the duty of attending the elec
tions on Saturday, so that delegates may ho
selected who will faithfully and honestly
carry out their wishes when assernbldd.' in
Convention. •
It would be well also for the primary meet
higs to pay particular attention to the selec
tion of suitable persons for Cuunty and Town
ship Committees, so that their names may be
handed in to the President of the County Con
vention. This duty is sometimes neglected,
in consequence of which additional labor and
trouble are imposed upon the Chairman of the
County Committee.
premine there will be no attempt on
the part of the Know-Nothings—we mean
those who still adhere to that political„organ
ization—to interfere in these delegate elec
tions. They have joined another political
party with whom they sympathize and act,
and of course are no longer members of the
Democratic party; for they cannot be in full
communion with two opposing parties at one
and the same time. A man cannot bee Demo
crat and a Know-Nothing; if he votes and acts
with the one, he should not be permitted to vote
and act - with the party in direct opposition
—and so vice versa. No Democrat has any
business to interfere with the Know-Nothings
in their primary movements—neither has a
Know-Nothing any business .to interfere with
the, Democrats.
We hope,. therefore, that no' ono still at
tached to the Know-Nothing party,,,will have
the hardihood to attempt an interference with
the Democrats, on Saturday, at their primary
elections.
ALL HAIL VIRGINIA!
THE << MOTHER OF STATES AND OF STATES
MEN" SAVED FROM THE BLIGHTING CURSE
OF KNOW-NOTHING RULE
Democracy Gloriously Triumphant I
By 8,000 Majority:
On Thursday last, the 24th inst., the great
contest took place in Virginia, and resulted
in an overwhelming victory for the Democrat
io party over the combiaed hosts of Whiggery
and Know-Nothingism.
HENRY A. WISE (the gifted and elo
quent champion of Democracy) is elected Gov
ernor by a majority of nearly B,ooo' over
FLOIIIINEY, his Know-Nothing Whig competi
tor—and this, too, after one of the fiercest and
hardest contested campaigns ever witnessed in
the Old Dominion.
His Democratic colleagues on the State
Ticket are also electe'd by a majority fully
equal to that given for Mr. Wise, and every
Congressional district in the State has been
carried by the Democracy) So also an in
creased majority in the Legislature!
' Proudly—gloriously has good old l24nocrat
lc Virginia borne the republican flag aloft.
State after State had been captured by the
i KnOw-Nothings, and they fondly, nay, confi
laently believed, and so • boasted, that they
'would carry her too, by an overwhelming
majority, and with and through her every
Southern State. • But they "counted without
(their host." The home of Washington and
IJefferson and Madison and Monroe, was not
'the soil where treason to the Constitution
could flourish. True as the needle to the
pole is old Virginia to the Democratic creed.—
and her potential. voice at this crisis has
sounded the death knell to Know-Nothingism
throughout the length and breadth of the Re
public.
I Speaking of the result, the Pennsylvanian
lof Saturday says:
I While examining the returns from our pre
eminent midland Sister, the band of music
which tho would-be Know-Nothing Organ in
our viciiiit3l has kept in mutiun fur an hour ur
two, suddenly ceased its joyous notes, and was
' silent fur the remainder of the night. What
silenced its premature melody ? Did the more
'pwriotic sound from Rockingham and Shen
andoah, together with the whole of South East
ern Virg inia, drown the voice of their instru
ments? Or did ROLAND'S horn, as its echoes
reverberated through the gorges of the Alleg
-1 hanies, and floated in warlike accents over the
I vallies of our State frighten, the "foul birds of
I night" from their croaking chorus? While we
are penning this article, the members of the
Secret Order are fleeing to their Lodge Rooms,
to seek consolation from each other's folly.—
Degraded miscreants,—had they not read that
Mount Vernon holds the ashes of WASHINGTON,
and that the Author of the Declaration sleeps
beneath the tomb at Monticello ? Blinded by
1 their ignorance, and debased by their prejudi-
I ces, had they never learned that PATRICK HEN
' RY'S voice had penetrated into every tenement
1 in
I Virginia, and rendered loyal to the Consti
! tution all her Democratic sons? Aye—sneak
away to your coverts at the voice of Virginia's
chivalrous children, ye spotted lepers, for that
voice carries a dagger to your prospects ; but
it humanizing sound to agonizing liberty.—
Immortal Virginia—the Vestal Virgins were
not purer in their lives, in the days of their
greatest purity, than you in your political
creed. Who dare now say, that Treason can
sever this noble Union, whether it comes from
the mad fanaticism of Abolitionism, or the
lawless violence cif a misguided mob 1 To Vir
ginia, her Sisters can appeal with safety, be
cause Justice, Valor, and Magnanimity, are
the jewels which adorn her coronet. Her pr,
sition is indeed to be envied—but it is P: ; „h
nvy - ris the good of every clime and tree d
lone can feel. Virginia has stricken ti - Ae Mons ._
ter of Know-Nothingiim to the ear: a,
now wreathing in its agonies.
tars farther South emulate her
in g, and aid in consigning
beast to the grave of its - ' • •
safe vtirtet every erort oftheand it is
Let our. Sis
virtuous bear
g' carcase-of the
~ putridity. Virginia
uniioly corn
' .ination.
PENNSYLVANL COMMON Scsoora.—We have
received from Harrisburg a supplement to the
new Coinmon This . viai passed at
the last session of the Legislature, and asmuch"
interest is felton the subject, we copythe mar
ginal synopsis of the details of the act. Inde
perulent schciol districts'are continued until
June Ist, 1856. Courts of Comnunr Pleas are
authorized to continue existing 'independent
districte..permarkently, ifdesired, to determine
the rights off ` - Teri - days'notice of
the.ipplication and time and place of hearing,
.In.auch cases, must_be given to' the Scheel Di
rectors of the district. When independent
districts are continued, the assessors are to
designate the taxables therein, for theinform-a
tion of tax collectors and county commissioners.
Provision is made for the election of new di
rectors in districts where none has taken place ,
and the old directors are continued until the
expiration of their term. If twenty taxables
petition for the formation of a new independent
district, the COurt of Quarter Sessions must ap_
point commissioners to view and make report
as in the case of new townships, the costa in
such cases to be paid by the new district, if
it be erected, or if not, by the petitioners.—
Courts of Quarter Sessions are to determine
the rights of property, and to decree the pay
ment of money in the nature of a judgment.—
.County Commissioners are to cause separate
assessments fqr school tax in new districts, and
send to the Superintendent of Common Schools
a list of the taxables therein. In any county
where a majority of the school districts shall
apply to have the salary of their local Super
intendent increased, the. State Superinten
dent shall call a convention of the direc
tors of the whole county to decide thereon.—
The Pennsylvania School Journal is designa
ted as the official organ of the State Superin
tendant, to contain current decisions, circulars,
explanations, &c. One copy of it is to be sent
to each board of School Directors in the State-
All boroughs and townships now connected in
the assessment of county rates and levies are
hereafter to be separate. The school tax is
limited to subjects certified by county commis
sioners. School directors and treasurers are
exempted from serving as tax collectors. The
State appropriation to the respective school
districts is to he paid for less than four months'
schooling in districtw where bona fide efforts
have been made to comply with the provisions
of the law requiring the schools to he kept
open four months in the year, but have failed,
from want of teachers, or timely knowledge of
the late law, or other causes, which may be
just and satisfactory to the Superintendent.—
Many of these provisions are very important
to the school districts of the interior, and will
be found useful in practice.
THE DISHONESTY OF KNOW - NOTHINGISH.-
The dishonesty of Know-NuthingiSm and the
varying phases it presents, are well illustrated
by the following item of news, which is goirig
the rounds of the press:
" The California Know-Nothing State Coun
cil has rejected from its platform the Catholic
test. In Louisiana the same thing has been
done."
Iu alPthe , other States proscription and per
secution of that Christian sect is retained in
the Know-Nothing creed. In Louisiana Cath
olics are numerous, and if there is, as the se
cret conspirators pretend to believe, any dan
ger from that religious denomination, it is in
that State that proscription of them should be
retained. But it is precisely in those sections
of the country where the Catholic population
is the largest that the Know-Nothings are
liberal to them. Where* there are but few, on
the contrary, the intolerance and proscription
of the: conspirators is the most strikingly
evinced. The reason of this is, that the
Know-Nothing, managers, having no princi
ples, adapt their creed to suit what they sup
pose tobe popular sentiment in different local
ties. In the South they are for slavery, and
in the North they are for abolition. In New
England they proscribe and persecute Catho
lics, but in California and Louisiana, where
that denomination control a great many votes,
they favor and admit them into the order.
There the "anti-foreign" phase of the "move
ment" is brought into strong relief, and the
changes are rung upon it. The whole order
is but a machine constructed by artful and
unscrupulous men to gain polilical
To this end are employed tho varying appeals
to sectional, national and religious prejudices.
ThilikE.ctitor , a Book Table
NIECES PAIILINA, OR THE DEYOTIO , ;S OF THE APOS
TLE PAUL. New York, 1855, Robert Carter Er, Brothers,
mo. pp. 338.
The history of t. Paul furnishes a strong proof of
the Divine origin of Christianity, and his example,
one of the brightest exhibitions of its ennobling and
sanctifying power. The study of such a character,
in its various phases, must ever be a source of inter
est and profit. The Christian, especially, will love
to contemplate a life which he knows to be at once a
model and a motive to excellence in its highest form.
The volume before us happily illustrates the devo
tional spirit of the " Chiefest of the Apostles " by a
reference to the appropriate points of his history, un
der the two general heads of " Historic Notices "
and " Epistolary Records," which embrace 37 dis
tinct chapters. The unknown Author has, we think,
executed his work very creditably, and its rapid sale,
we hope, will indicate that such is the judgment of
the public also. For sale by Murmur & STORK, of
this city.
EMILY 'VERNON, OR FILIAL PIETY EXEMPLIFIED
By Mrs. Drummond. New York, 1851., Robert Carter fi
Brothers.
A well told tale—pervaded by a religious tone.—
The virtue it aims to inculcate, and which is by far
too rare in our day, is skilfully presented by exam
ples of a positive and negative kind. The book is a
good one for young girls whose taste for reading is
in a formative state, and whose character must be
moulded in a great degree by what they read. For
sale by Manner & STOOL
THE MISSING BRIDE; OR 'MIRIAM, THE AVENGE R.—
By grs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth, Author of the
" Lost Heiress," etc., etc.
To name the work as emanating from the peia of
Mrs. Southworth, is sufficient to ensure for it an en•
thusiastio reception by the reading public. The
4, Missing Bride " is pronounced by those who have
examined it, to be an engrossing, thrilling, and
deeply interesting work—the scenes being all foiand
ed on facts, and pourtrayed in the graphic etyLo of
the authoress.
For Bale by William IleSpangler, in this city-
FIFTEENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT.--- . .rhe
Senatorial Conference of the Fifteenth district,
in this State, to select a delegate to' the n eat
State Convention, at their mesting in Holli
daysburg, chose Col. THOVAS A. Mecum , of
Cambria, said delegate, with instructions. to
support Wu. S. CAMPBELL, Esq., of Pittsburg,
for Canal Commissioner. Resolutions were
passed endorsing the National Administra
tion; condemning the course of the "powers
that be" in Pennsylvania; denouncing the
Know-Nothings, and speaking strongly
against the proposed salt of the public works,
and the "Jug Law," The prgeedings were
very harmonious.
BREAM" O P11.03115E.-111 the Court last
week, the case cif Catharine Withers vs. Isaac
Coover, for breach of promise of marriage
elicited an unusual degree Of interest, and
was finall3 disposed.of by the Jury finding a
verdict 'ior the Plantiff of $lBOO damages.
The Lan - Caster Locomotive Works have
contracted with the City Councils for the con
struction of a hundred horse power stationary
Engine at the Water Works, for the sum of
$6,740.
A Goon CALF.—A steer two years and sev
en months old, fed by Daniel Shirk, of Man
helm township, was killed by John Evans one
day last week, weighing 880 pounds when
dressed, besides 193 lbs., of rough fat,
A Slane in the Calteasize,
A new paper published at . Tifilis, the Caw
casus, contains S:communicatkit respecting a
recent exchange of prisoners between the Rus
sians and the. chief of the Oircassians. On
this occasion..SCELLifirL received back' one of
his sons, who, having beemteken swayin his
boyhood, had been educated in Russia, and
even served in the army. The Caucasus says :
Last summer the Princess Tchattchavadse
and the Princess Orbelian, with her children,
were 'Captured by - some of Sawn-es bands.
Their captivity lasted eight months, notwith
standing the utmost efforts of the government
and of. their relatives. They at length suc
ceeded, however, in . inducing SCHAMYL to ac
cept. ransom for them to the amoLnt of 4.0,000
silver roubles, together with the surrender of
his son. - On the 23d of March both parties
met for effecting this exchange, SCHAMYL, who
to the last moment was exceedingly distrust
ful, being accompanied by a body of six or
seven thousand men, who brought with them
some field pieces. s soon as he had taken up
his position on the right bank of the frontier
river, the Mitschik, and the Russians on the
left, he sent his other son,-Kasi Muhammed,
with thirty Murids as an escort to the carriage
containing the prisoners to meet the Russians.
On the Russian side, a party of riflemen cross
ed the river, accompanied by Major General
Baron Nikolia, Prince Tchattchavades, and
Jamal Eddin, Schamyl's son, who was to be
exchanged. They were followed by a carriage,
containing the stipulated sum. When Jamel
Eddin approached the ford of the river. thou
sands of voices repeated, in a monotonous
chaunt, the words Estaphir Alla, which is
thanksgiving, when any enterprise has come
to a prosperous end. While the son was cros
sing the river, a dress was bronght to him as
a present from his father, which he immedi
ately put on. As soon as he had assumed his
new attire, being accompanied by the Russian
officers and his brother Kasi Mohammed, he
climbed the mountain where his father was
sitting, surrounded by. the Murids, while a
mountaineer held over the chieftan's head a
large dark parasol. SCHAMYL is a remarsably
handsome man, 47 years of age, with a very
expressive face and prepossessing manners.--
When his son approached him he stretched out
his hand. for him to kiss, then embraced him
and wept. After that he bowed in a very
friendly manner to the Russian officers, and re
quested them to thank Baron Nikolai for the
kindness with which he had treated his son.
After this he added, as if replying to his own
thoughts, "I believe now in the honor of the
Russians," The story runs that he was not a
little afraid lest the Russians, after the ex
change was over, should surprise him and
oarry back again the money, perhaps his son
into the bargain. The report concludes with
the remark that this interview is memorable,
inasmuch as no Russian, since the year 1839,
had ever seen SCHAMYL.
ES. The following act was passed by the
Legislature.
An Act to protect keepers of hotels, inns, and
boarding houses.
SECTION 1. Provides that whenever the keep
er of an inn or boarding house shall provide a
safe fur keeping money or other valuables,
and shall notify his guests thereof by notices
on the walls of chambers, &c., he shall nu be.
liable for the loss of money, &c., by theft or oth
erwise, of these guests who negltct to deposit
the same in the safe—provided this section
shall not apply to such sums of money or oth
er valuables (watches, &c.) as are ordinarily
and necessarily carried about the persons.
SEC. 2. Provides that where a guest neglects
to \ lock his door and leave the keys with the
landlord or his clerk, he (the landlord) shall
not be responsible for anything which may be
stolen from the room of said guest.
SEC. 3. That if any person or persons with
the intent to cheat and defraud designedly by
any false or fraudulent representations, or by
any false show of baggage, goods or chattles,
which are calculated to deceive any hotel, inn,
or boarding house-keeper, shall obtain lodg
ings and credit in any hotel, inn, or boarding
house within this Commonwealth, and subse
quently thereto refuse to pay for their said
board and lodging, such person or persons so
offending, shall upon conviction of such offence
in any Court of Quarter Sessions of this Com
monwealth, be{ punishable by imprisonment in
the county jail of said county for any period
not more than three months, at the discretion
of said court, and be liable to a fine not ex
ceedino•' one hundred dollars.
SEC. 4. That any proprietor or proprietors
of i,otels, inns and boardinhouses within
this Commonwealth shall ha a lien upon the
goods and baggage belongin any sojourn
er, boarder or boarders, for any amount of in
debtedness contracted for hoarding, lodging,
or entertainment, for any period of time nut
exceeding two weeks, and shall have the right
to_detain said goods and baggage until the
amount of indebtedness is paid, and at the ex
piration of three months the said proprietor
or prlprietors may make applications to any
alderman or justice of the peace of the proper
city, borough or county, who is hereby author
ized to issue his warrant to any constable
within said city, borough or county, and cause
him to expose the said goods and baggage to
public sale, after giving at least ten dpy's no
tice, by public written or printed notices, put
up in three or more public places in the ward
of the city or borough, or in the township
ahete said inn, hotel or boarding house is lo
cated, and after he shall have sold the same
he shall make return thereof to the said jus
tice or alderman, who shall, after payment of
all costs, and the said amount of indebtedness,
pay over the balance if any there be, to the
owner or owners of said goods and baggage ;
provided, that the owner or owners of said
goods and baggage shall have the right to re
deem said goods and baggage at any time
within the said three months, upon paying the
amount of said indebtedness and at any time
previous to the sale as aforesaid, upon paying
also the additional cost established by law for
the like service. Approved May 7, 1855.
The Two Speakers
The Harrisburg correspondent of the _North
American, makes the following notice of the
two gentlemen—the one a Democrat, and the
other a Know-Nothing—who filled the Speak
er's Chairs in the late Legislature. The hand
some tribute paid to Mr. Heister, by a politi
cal opponent, is an indirect compliment to the
party which numbers him among its most
trusted members ; and the unqualified censure
of Mr. Strong, by a political friend, who had
considerations of interest to induce him to
overlook venal faults, is another instance of
the palpable fact that the Know-Nothing lead
ers are the worst of men :
"Mr. Speaker Heister, of the Senate, re
ceived, on a call of the yeas and nays, a
unanimous vote of thanks for his courtesy
and impartiality—a vote he fully deserved.
He filled the office well, and threw the weight
of his influence in favor of men of integrity.
In the appointment of committees, and in
various other methods, he showed his own
honesty by entrusting delicate and important
duties to men of the right stamp—in which
particular there was a striking contrast be
tween him and other Speakers in other
bodies.
"Mr. Strong received nominally a vote of
thanks from the House, but his friends pre
vented a call of the yeas and nays upon the
resolution or a very formidable opposition
would have dgiveloped itself. As it was,
there was an implied compromise that the
resolution, would be permitted to pass, if
members were not required to record their
votes in favor of it. Mr. Strong is not aware
of the estimate all impartial persons placed
upon him as a Speaker, and had even the bad
- taste, inthe few remarks he made before dismis
sing the House, to refer exultingly to the re
solution of thanks which had been adopted,
he mistakenly said, without a single dissent
ting voice. In truth, he made the most un
pleasant, unsuccessful and unpopular Speaker
who ever filled that Chair. He is r man of
great irritability of temper, and la,ked very
much of being reasonably familiar with the
rules. He wag- arbitrary in the proportion
that he was ignorant of his duties, and
kept the . House and himself in a perpetual
annoyance. Every visitor observed, and I
have heard numbers remark it. But he
thinks he did bravely, and it is, perhaps,
not fair to undeceive him, as he naturally
desires his last impressions of legislative life
to be agreeable. Still, it is notorious that
he could not this day receive six votes for an
.election to the post he has filled for the last
four months. That is the beat commentary
on the success with which he filled it.
M.. The members of the Lancaster Bar
gave the Judges of the Supreme Court of this
Btate a dinner at Wabank, on F.n.lturday.
Diebtion by the State Suiterinteadeat.
_
We are obliged to Mr. Hrcxox for his:'l •BANX acra..
.
kindness in forwarding' to us- a copy &the, Authorizing the incorporation of the Allen
_-•
Journal, containing the following re- 1 town Bank. - • .
To extend the - charter of the Bank of Penn
cent decisions from the State Su ".
tendentj
sylVania.
Non-Residents not to be Di: ectors.=--No
.4 , To incorporatethe Mechanics ' Bank of Pitts
person-can serve as Director ,
_ who does not bar& -
reside in the District forwhich he was elected.
Vacancies by Removal from the District to To incorporate the City Bank of Philadelphia.
For the partial restoration of the capital of
be filled by .appointment.—When a Director,
has removed from the District, it is the duty.the Bank of Penn Township.
To authorize the incorporation of the Mauch
of the Board to fill the vacancy -by appoint
ment, until the next regular election. Chunk Bank.
TO incorporate the Anthsacite Bank of Tam-
Last adjusted valuation not to be modified, ar „ m.
or enlarged.—ln levying school tax, Directors -- "To incorporate the Bank of Neiv Castle.
are limited,: in their assessment under the To extend the charter of the Farmers' Bank
twenty-ninth section of the school law to the
of Reading.
"last adjusted valuation," furnished by the Authorizing the - incorporation of the Con-
County Commissioners, and cannot modify it
solidation Bank of Phila.
to make up for either real or supposed onus- Incorporating the Lock Haven Bank.
sions and mistakes on the part of assessors. i To incorporate - the Pittsburg Dollar Savings
Ordinary -school tax not to be applied to
building.—The tax levied under the thirtieth' Institution.
To extend the charter of the Baok of North
section of the school law should be appropri- A mer i ca.
ated solely to the support and maintainnace of To renew and extend the charter of the
the schools, and to defray their ordinary ex-,
Southwark Bank.
pauses, including repairs, and Directors can- •
Po extend the charter of the'tVestern Bauk
not legally use any proportion of it as a buil- of Philadelphia.
ding fund.
To extend the charter of the Bank of Cum-
Building tax limited and to be kept sepa
rate.—The special tax for building purposes, merce.
To extend the charter of the Tradesmen's
under the thirty-third section of the law, can- Bank of Philadelphia.
not exceed the "amount of the regular annual Bank of Philadelphia.
To incorporate the Dimes Savings Bank of
tax" for the current school year, levied un-
Easton.
der the thirtieth section. A careful account
Supplement to the act to incorporate the
should be kept of each fund separately. Bank of Honesdale. (Passed over Governor
Treasurer. not to get any per tentage on Bigler's veto.)
balance.—An out-going School Treasurer, is
not entitled to per tentage on the unexpended LAWS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
balance in the District Treasury, handed To close finally the trust of the late Bank of
over to his successor iu office. the United. States.
Number of days in a Teacher's month.—To Tu incorporate the Farmers' High School of
ascertain the exact numbeirof days in a teach- Pennsylvania.
er's month, first' deduA all the Sabbaths from To prevent the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors
each calendar month taught, then deduct on the first day of the week, commonly called
every alternate Saturday, or the latter half of Sunday.
every Saturday, and the remaining time, but For the erection of a new County out of
no more should be exacted of the teacher. a part of Union, to be called Snyder, and rel.
The better policy would, be to have no school ative to the seat of justice of Union co.
on Saturday ; and whenever this is done, the An act extending the jurisdiction of the
days thus vacated should not be charged to courts of this Commonwealth in case of divorce.
the teacher. Appropriating $BO,OOO for the continuation
Teacher's 'certificate not in force out of the of the new work on the Allegheny Portage
County.—County Superintendents' certifi- Railroad.
cotes to teache , s, are of no authority out of A supplement to the act to define and pun
the county for which they were issued. A ish the offence of bribery, passed 3d March,
change of location to another county would 1847 .
require a re-examination by the Superinteu- A further supplement to several acts rela
dent of the proper county, and a fresh certi- tive to the Union Canal Co. of Pennsylvania.
ficate. Relative to the purchase of certain books for
the use of the legislature.
To repeal the Registration Act. '
Supplement to an act to establish and
change the places fur holding the General
Elections throughout this Commonwealth.
A further supplement to the act relating to
county rates and levies, and to the act relating
to counties and townships, and county and'
township officers.
Supplement to the act relative tc the com
mencement of actions.
Regulating Bridge companies.
Relative to the erection of bridges over ca
nals and railroads.
Supplement to the act for the publication of
the Colunia !Records and other original papers.
Restricting the sale of Intoxicating Liquors.
For the preservation of insectiverous birds
and pruteetiun of fruit and fruit trees in eel--
Lain. counties.
Supplement to the act relating to the hen
of mechanics and others upon buildings:
Supplement to the set graduating the duties
upon wholesale dealers and retailers of mer
chandize, and prescribing the mode of issuing
licenses and collecting said duties.
To repeal the supplement to the act author
izing sales of unseated lands.
To establish fees fur commitments to houses
of refuge.
Supplement to the act relating to the liens
of mechanics and others, and sales to enforce
the payment of liens.
Supplement to an act to amend an act for
the recovery of debts not exceeding 8100, &c.
To change the time for holding-the terms of
the Supreme Court.
Relative to the survey of streets and alleys.
Supplement to the act providing for the elec
tion of district attorneys.
Supplement to the act for the prevention of
frauds and perjuries.
Relating to damages for injuries producing
death.
Relating to inquisitions on real estate.
Relating to corporations and to -estates held
for corporate, religious and charitable uses.'
Relative to the payment of Surveyors in lay
ing out Roads in this Commonwealth.
Supplement to the act to prevent the destruc
tion of trout.
To extend the right of trial by jury to cer-
OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER
PHILADELPHIA, May 26, 1855
The parties with whom our City authorities
have contracted for the erection of a Police
and Fire Alarm Telegraph, have commenced
operations, and will soon have it in complete
working order. From the Mayor's Office ut
the corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets, lines
will diverge into every section of the City.
The advantages of this arrangement in a City
like this, extending over a large spare of
ground, will be very great. If a riot breaks
out in a distant region, information at once
can be conveyed to the central office, and the
whole police force immediately ordered to the
scene of conflict, and by prompt action thus
be enabled to speedily quell what with a lit
tle delay would have become a very formidable
outbreak.
Criminals who are pursued by the police
will also have their chances of escape greatly.
reduced and after effectually baffling Policeman
No. I in one section, will find unexpectedly
Policeman No. 2 in another locality, prepared
to give them a cordial reception, and to sup
ply for their hospitable entertainment every,
attraction the poli.e stations can possibly of-'
ford. In cases of fire, too, the almost instan- 1
taneous concentration of the Department up
on any one given point which it will facilitate
will doubless result in the preservation of
much valuable property that would otherwise
be inevitably destroyed.
Our public squares are now in a blooming
condition and are the favorite play grounds of
our children. Few sightsare more pleasing than
to see these minature men and women pur
suing in all the merry glee of innocent child-.
hood, their favorite sports. Not unfrequeut
ly three or four hundred of them congregate
together at one time in these places, and make
the very echoes ring with their joyous laughter.
The ship Chimborazo arrived here a few
days since, with a cargo of about 500 Mormon
emigrants of both sexes on board, from Liver
pool,. who intend proceeding as soon as possi
ble to Utah. This is the second arrival of the
kind we have recently had at this port,= and
from present appearances, Mormonism is des
tined to speedily receive a law accession of
members from foreign emigration.
The stockholders of the Sunbury and Erie
Railroad, recently held h meeting at which
Gov. Pollock presided and ex-Governor Bigler,
the President of the Road, read a lengthy
orcbtomor=t, s hin s s defunct" accotuut Or au is
affairs and prospects. 'lt has had many dif
ficulties and tribulations to encounter, but is
destined to yet become one of the must useful
and important railroads in the country.
The liquor dealers of this city are industri
ously at work in organizing their forces nut
only here, but_ throughout the State, to secure
the repeal of the license law at the next Le
gislature. Although little is said by them
publicly upon the subject, they are firmly re
solved to disregard all past political distine
buns in their efforts to acemiplish this result.
The English press appear to think the Rus
sians du nut desire a cessation of hostilities,
and that Austria and Prussia intend pre
serving a strict neutrality throughout the
whole contest. It is believed the recent at
tempt to assassinate Louis Napoleon was but
one feature of a vast revolutionary plot extend.
nig in its ramifications throughout. Europe—
. the day the attempt was made, it was free
ly stated throughout Italy, Spain and G. rmii
ny, that Napoleon was dead, and Paris in a
stare of insurrection.
Col. Kinney recently had a hearing before
Judge Kane on his application either for a
very speedy trial or a reduction of the amount
of his bail, now fixed at $4500, but failed in
getting either object. His counsel stoutly
contended that there was nothing in his expe
dition militating in the slightest degree against
the United States Neutrality Laws, and that
the men under his command were but exer
cising the inalienable right of peaceful emi
gration to a new country. On the part of the
prosecution, however, it was alleged that a
ship was to be sent out with a large amount
of ammunition to meet the alleged 'emigrants'
upon their arrival, that military commissions
had already been granted to many of them,
and that it the government was allowed but a
reasonable time to procure testimony, the
wtlrlike nature of the expedition would be
fully shown.
The parties arrested some time ago for hav
ing also violated the neutrality laws, by en
listing soldiers for the British service in' the
Crimea, have had a hearing on an application
for their discharge from further prosecution.
The two principal parties, failed in accomplish
ing that object, although one of their accom
plices, but slightly connected with the trans
action was discharged.
The Odd Fellows of the city turned out in
large numbers to participate in the dedication
of the new hall at Frankford, and made a ve
ry handsome display. The Order is in a high
ly flourishing condition here, and numbers
many thousand members.
Our Catholic Churches have recently been
celebrating in the most magnificent style the
adoption of the new dogma of the immaculate
Conception of the Virgin Mary. The share
were adorned in the richest and most brilliant
manner imaginable, and the churches were
crowded during the 'entire services, not only
by members of their own, but of the various
Protestant denominations, who were anxious to
witness the extraordinary display.
Parkinson's Garden has recently been open
ed for the reception of visitors during the sum
mer season, and during three evening of each
week a fine martial band discourses sweet mu
sic. It is the favorite summer resort in Phil
adelphia, and since its recent enlargement is
capable of accomodating , a great many people.
What with the beautiful shrubbery, the spark
ling fountains, the brilliant lamps, the excel
lent music, the elegant refreshments, 'and the
crowd of fair houri's who resort there, this is
aei near an approach to a Mahommedan para
dise as we expect to witness in this sublunary
sphere.
Our markets have not recentl undergone
any important change. , Beef cattle sell at the
exhorbitant rate of from $ll to 03. Flour
commands $10,50 to $ll per barrel; Rye
Flour, $7,25 ; Corn Meal, .$5,00, Wheat sells
for from $2,60 to $2,68 ; Rye, $1,60 ;Corn, 111
all2o ; Oats, 6046 c. Truly Yeurs.
Titles of Act5...4855.
i
tain cases.
To amend certain defects of the law for the
more just and safe nsmission and secure en
joyment of real anof - personal estate.
Supplement to the act relating to assignees
for the benefit of creditors and other trustees.
Relative to the publication of the final report
on the Geological Survey of the State.
Supplement to the several acts relating to
the Tax upon Collateral Inheritances.
_ To reuista—und continue in force the law
graduating Lands upon which purchase money
Is due the Commonwealth.
To exempt Coal and Lumber from the ton-
nage tax.
To protect Burial Grounds.
To prohibit the sale of unwholesome meat.
To repeal part of the proviso to the sixth
section of the supplement to the act to revise
the Militia System, and provide for the train
ing of such only as shall be uniformed.
Supplement to the act relative to the hours
of labor in manufacturing establishments.
Supplemsnt to the act to authorize courts to
alter charters in certain cases.
To protect keepers of Hotels, Inns and
Boarding Houies.
To provide for the ordinary expense of gov
ernment, the repairs of the public canals and
railroads and other general official appoint-
ments.
Supplement to the Common School Law.
To punish and prevent frauds in the use of
False Stumps, Labels and Trade Marks.
Relative to investments by Building Assnci
.
ations.
To provide for the sale of the Main Line of
the Public Works.
Relating to electrical telegraphs and messa
ges sent thereby.
Relating to judgments and executions in for
eign attachments.
RESOLUTIONS APPROVED
In favor of au expedition to rescue Dr. Kan(
and the crew of the Advance.
Relative to the State Cabinet of Ceol.igical
Specimens..
Relative to the Geological Specimens.
For the payment of the expenses of publish
ing the Legislative Record.
Relative to the Regimental Flag of the Sec_
and Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; sere_
ing in the war with Mexico.
For paying expenses incurred by investigat
ing the charges against the Bank of Northern
Liberties.
Relative to the distribution of the Colonial
Records and Pennsylvania Archives.
Resolution for the payment of expenses in
curred in investigating whether any corrupt
or improper influence had been used to effect
the election of United States Senator.
CROPS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.—The
Pittsburg Journal, as regards the pro. ect for
cerials, hears only cheering words feum the
farmers. In those portions of, West reland
and Fayette counties, through which the edi
tor rode a few days since, he made it a point
to mark the appearance of grain fields. Oats
and wheat wave in the passing wind, and the
fields of corn seemed fit for hoeing. The
drought of last year seems to have brought a
blessing behind it, for many of the Most inju
rious insects and grubs appear to have been
almost entirely exterminated, or, as we may
say, burnt out.
WS. Commodore Henry E. Ballard, the fifth
on the list of Captains in the Navy of the
United States. died at his residence, near An
napolis, on Wednesday night last. He was
over 70 years of age, and had been in a deli
cate state of health for some time past. Re
cently he recovered from a severe attack of
pneumonia, but suffered a relapse, which
caused his death. Com. Ballard was a native
of Maryland, and entered the service on the
2d of April, 1804, over 51 years ago.
Stir Cu!. St. Vluin, with three companies
of U. S. troops, in pursuit of the Utahe, fell
fell in with a party of Apaches in the Ratoon
mountains, and in a fight with them, killed
six men and took ilia women prisoners. '
CITY AND COMITY /TIMMS.
.The P. M. at "Nine Points" writes as
follows: ' • '
'•Your - 'paper never gets here for one week
after it is printed. The Examinerarrives the
same day it is published; and if you would
would put yours in the Offi.CQ on Wednesday
Morning, it would reach - here the same day."
Such complaints as the above—and they are
by no means unfrequentare very annoying,
especially as we feel conscious that the fault
is not with us. Our packets are all made up
and placed in the. P. 0. in this City every
Monday evening-; and we cannot conceive why
it is (unless there is gross negligence amongst
some of the P. 0. officials) that. they are not
received at the "Nine Points" fur a week af
terwards, when the Examiner, published a
day later, is received . at the same office, six
days in advance of the Intelligencer !
DENTISTRY.—The attention of our readers
is called to the advertisement of Mr. Gaul
lagher, who comes amongst us with a good
reputation as an operator in his profession.—
The plan he has for making and setting arti
ficial teeth is worthy the attention of those
who need such aid.
Air The New York Board of Councilmen
have adopted a resolution appropriating $5OOO
to *id in celebrating the fourth of July.
By the way, how is this glorious day to be
celebrated in Lancaster ? We hear of no pre
parations yet b6ing made to honor the birth
day of American Independence. This should
not he. 0: for the spirit of our Revolutionary
sires to animate us upon this occasion.
WY- The sentence of death passed by Judge
Haves on the colored man Johnston, at the
last term of the Criminal Court, has been re
voked by the Supreme Court, and the Court
below directed to sentence him for Murder in
the Second Degree. This trill be imprison
ment at hard labor for a term of years. The
error was, that the Jury in their verdict, al
though there were twocounts inthe indictment,
(one for murder in the first, and the other fine
murder in the second degree,) did not state
upon which they found him guilty ; amid there
fore the Judge was in error in passing sen
t,nice of death upon him.
COTTON Mtm.s.—The Conestoga Steam Mills
of this city, have lately undergone a change
in their organization. Ni. 1 and 3 are now
under the management of separate companies,
while No. 2 as before mentioned is solely un
der the, control of D. Longenecker, Esq.
Francis Shruder is President: 1.4.
bill, Treasurer; and E. W. Arnold, Superin
tendent of Mill No. 1.
A. W. Russell is President; Win. 0. Gilbert,
Treasurer; and J. W. Parke, Superintendent
of Mill No. 3.
Seth S. Spencer is Superintendent of Mill
No. 2.
Under this new arrangement, it' is expected,
that the Milk can be more judiciously and
economically managed than under the old one.
Heretofore, the investment has proved an un
profitable one to the stockholders, and the
Mills have been kept at no inconsiderable loss.
We hope, however, that under the present or
ganization, the stockholders will realize the
reward their enterprise merits.
RESIGNATION ,%:ci) APPOINTMENT.—At
mee ing of the Stdckholders of the Lancaster
Locomotive Works, held on Monday evening
last, David Cockley, Esq., tendered his resig
nation as President of the Company, and
James Black, Esq., was elected in his place:.
The cause of the resignation we did niA
learn : but we believe that Mr. Cockley has
been an efficient as well as a laborious officer,
devoted to the welfare of the Company : and
Mr. Black possesses in an eminent degree the
qualifications necessary for the discharge of
the duties of such a position.
re,...Testerday—Whitsuntide Monday--
was a busy day in this city. Immense num
bers of country folks were in town, and our
merchants, hotel and shopkeepers did a rush
ing business. The Theatre, Circus, &c., &c.,
wore also liberally patronized—not forgetting
the "razor powder man," and the no less cel
ebrated "Hugh Lindsay." humbug and buf
foonery were the order of the day.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE DIAGNOTHIAS LITER
ARY SOCIETY OF FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL
COLLEGE.—This Spciety's Twentieth Anniver
sary took place on Friday evening last, at
Fulton Hall, and the exercises were listened
to by a very large audience—a large majority
of which were ladies. The exercises were in
terspersed with seine excellent‘musie by tip
Rifles' Band.
The addresses were highly creditable to the
young gentlemen who delivered tltem, and es
pecially those of Mr. Keces, of Winchester,
Va., and Mr. BONERAKE, of Franklin county,
iu this State, and the numerous buquets
showered upon them, showed how highly they
were appreciated by thiraudienee. These two
young gentlemen reflected the highest honor
upon themselves, and the College of which
they are inmates.
NV.iIV YORE: CORRESPONDENCE.
SATURDAY, May 2i, 1655.
Great news was expected by the steuni-snip Amer
ica, but her budget of inteltigence, as transmitted
by telegraph yesterday from hatitax, is meager
and inevue/USIVe• 'The must important item retina
to Austria. It now seems certain that she will not
assume an offensive attitude toward Russia, and
that she is endeavoring to bring about a neutral
league among all the tJertnan States On the other
hand it is not tlou:bted that should Prance and En
glund attempt to tamper with the revolutiuLary
elements on the Continent, Austria would at' Once
join the Muscovite. Ano.her 'Duly Alliance"
would unquestionably be the result ot such a move
ment. A stinting desire:exists, both in trance and
England. In trance, M. Limp' de Lltuys, the
minister of war, has advocated the expediency of
accepting the terms of Russia, and as Louis Napo-
Leon refused to listen to such a proposition, has re
eigutd. The general tone' of the English press is
rather lugubrious on the war -question, and it is
evident that the Government anticipates a protract.
ed and expensive struggle. The whole story may
be told in a sentence—. ranco and Englund must
light or succumb. The Czar will not modify his
propositiori one jut or title. He does not want peace.
He thinks he has his enemies on the hip, and is prob
ably nut tar wrong.
'inc trench pollee have discovered a "terrible con
spiracy ; it is their/one to discover mare's nests
of this class. Louis ...N;apolcon's death was to be the
signal of a general popular insurrection in Germany,
Duly, and Heaven knows where besides. Most like
ly this is all "bosh"—mere clap-trap. Pianora is
of course to be guillotined, but the interesting cere
mony is postponed until the plot alleged to have
depended for its success on his had aim, has been
unraveled.
Sevastopol still •Jangle a siege to scorn.' It is
amazing that the Allies should persist in expend
ing their energies upon its, apparently impregnable
fortifications. Their cannon have made no more
impression upon its defenses than so many pop-guns.
'the Kinney Expedition has not yet sailed, and
the rank and file quartered here are getting short
of funds and patience. Report says that the ve eel
which is to bear "Ctesar and his fortunes' (for
Ciesar read ,Siezer,) will leave this port on Sunday
next. The fate of the enterprise depends mainly
upon the light ill which the Niearaguans may china
tit to regard it. If the idea of "peaceable coloni
zation by an armed force" does not strike them fa
vorably, Einney Jr Co. may find their speculation
a bloody and profitless atair.
California is a trump, after all. She is rolling in
the gold again after the old fashion. The George
Law “cLuiped" nearly a million and a half of the
dust at her wharf yesterday, and the mines are
. ported to be unprecedentedly prolific.
A most brutal exhibition came off yesterday on the
Centreville Race Course, 1.. I. The famous mare
Flora Temple, had been matched ageinst time, to
trot 20 miles in 60 minutes. While trotting the
eighth mile she cast a shoe, and her foot was so
much damaged that after running the twelfth mile
she was withdrawn. Throughout the last four miles,
blood spirted from the lacerated hoof at every jump,
marking the track and staining the front of the
wagon to which the mare was harnessed She made
10 miles in 20,41, but could not, it is believed, have
won the match, even if she had not met'with an
accident. The stakes were ten thousand dialers.
The present fashion for ladies' dresses is just as
many flounces as can be tacked on between the waist
and the bottom of the skirt. In-fact a fashionably
dressed lady in the street is nearly all flounce. Tho
short mantilla looks like flounce number one; and
from its lower edge downward the dress resembles a
series of pyramidal steps—a silken staircase up which
a cat or a Cupid might readily climb. Of coarse the
lower circumference of this mass of furbelows is enor
mous, and the Lilliputian hat scarcely vis.ble at the
apex of the cone gives one an idea that the figure has
no head—a notion that in some instances is not far
from the fact.
The high price of "human fodder" is said to have
a very damaging effect on the interests of the doctors.
A physician in large practice being asked by a
stranger
_yesterday, if New York was Healthy, re
plied—" Unusually so ; the extravagant cost of pro
visions has checked the disposition - lbr overfeeding,
from which, ordinarily, we derive most of our prac
tice !"
The late line weather hisspurred up kitchen gar
den vegetation in the neighborhood, amazingly.—
Asparagus is abundant, peas in flower, and all sorts
of "garden sane" ahead of time. Meantime, beef,
mutton, lamb. and veal, are as dear as ever in our
markets, although they bac slightly dealt/led in
price a 4 the /314 u il ROW.
?
ST. LOUIS CO ' ESPONDENCE.
The Weather and Crops te,amer Helen Burnt—
Judge - Dale—.t'aisti —Birch vs. Bentin—
Western Property —ht rt. Mackay' a 'True Amer
ican'—City Ikfortalit Kansas—Gov. Reeder--
-Col. Forney, 4.0., - a. •
I r. Louis, May gj, 1855.
We have had some verb cold weather since my
last date, and fires and ovetr-ooats were again brought
sj
into requi Wolf: ''Severai copious showers have also
fallen, and on Wednesd night .a terrific thunder
storm passed Over our el y. It is feared that the
growing crops are badlyi njured by the late frosts.
The rivers are all low, p malady the Missouri, and
very little produce is Cu '.g out of that stream. The
health on the river , has greatly improved, and we
hear of but few deaths S ecuring on the numerous
boats touching this poi. and we can in truth'say
that the cholera has out •ly disappeared from this
city. 1 .
..
I burnt to the water's edge
111obile Bay. rho had on
. 1 which wa.s entirely con
ated at sdo,oeo, on which
o lives ware 'lost by the
The st,atner Helen w
on Friday night last, i.
qoard SOU bates of cotto'
sawed. The loss is es
there was no insurance.
burning of this boat:
since that Judge M. (1.
t e Madison County (111.)
w days since the Alton
authority, that the Judge
Diu furor of Judge Breeze,
I and fac'orably- known to
annex the following pare-
I mentioned 'some time
Dale was a candidate of
Judicial 'Circua; but a
.Courier announced, by
had withdrawn his nem,
and as Judge Dale is NS,
many of your readers, 1.
graphs Irons the Courser
-In making this anno
Judge Dale, to state thu I
date it was done at the e.'
ery member of the bar 0,
our most prominent citi
against his own will, asi ,
ily refused to accede to t
time there was nut the re
Judge Breeze would becol
:cement, it is but just to
he became a oandi
rpest request et nearly or
rtins county, and many of
6s, and then, vary much
:Iliad for a long time stead
. solicitations. At that
test idea entertained that
ffii a candidate.
t.lge , Dale a feet days ago.
l only yielded to the or-
Members of the bar, and
in
in h g er s ow ine L e ur a e u ,
. a j dg
uuunee u ti his e,
u
- uowg the general sat-,
lbe highly serviceable to
i
I /he benefit of Isis extensive
l i .iiig experience as a judge,
. iithdrawn from the list of
: done. in the high corn
e minent ability. in Judge
i
ithout intending it, paid a
generosity."
lie Louisville (Ky.) Dis
purey .klarsitall, 1.14.13 COW
I dir Ctsidllddte for COUgre,9B,
• Minx:rats have nominated
, I ,.'_ county, as-their email-
We had a call from Jd
Ho thou stated that he li,
gent solicitations lit the
others; but Judge Breeze
urine us a. candidate, an
islaction whiah he had gi
and thinkiug that it. wo
the district to - have agai
legal attainments, and 1
he desired his name to b
candidates, which we ha
pliment thus paid to th
Breeze, Judge Dale has, i
high compliment to his u
Lae hitow-Zlothingsut
trict, have nominated Liu
miasauner to Cilium, as t
.n that district. The .0
Joshua Jewett, of Dal
date for Congress in t
line 11 hips have also ce
lion to tee huoir-..Nutub
that the Democrats and W
out that mate tigallig•ki
out doubt will prove t
"Jordan is a hard road t
hour readers probably
Benton brought against
some two years sinue—w
euure Democrat as an e
Cul. Benton, us the supH,
at slander, and on the 1 1
Circuit Court, after a a Qil
of J,1.101.1 damages was ob
taken to the 6upreine Cot
present.
..
1 kith District. The old
~,s
L ered upon him in upposi
-1.1 oanualate. it appears
i igs• ale uniting t 11.1.110-
0-,Noutiugism, and: with
, them conclusively that
ravel !"
eniewber the charge Col.
cialgo Birch, of this &ate,
ieu appeared in the Ails
noriat. Birch 'prosecuted
itt al hiin
author,
th o e u
ii th e e ziry charge u
rial of lour days, a verdict
) aimed. The case will be
nt. Col. Bunton was not
i .
rots in the town of Keokuk,
ipVernor Seymour, of New
al; which, tour ur live years
t .
ght for j'25U or VIA. J it
)rty is going up in that
a Minnesota. At St. Paul
tin the last twelve mouths.
ers that the notorious Burt
,g, New York. Burt was
i in the West and South as
Ho has been in our Cal
almost as often as he had
.11 his shrewdness and skill,
;' invariably managed to
ho most inveterate tuieves
nttit and West, and was at
A, as a vagrant, fits the
e history of Burt Mackay
Ist interesting volumes, in
could possibly be centered
, icountry. It is said that
: I ,
uable plantations in some
and that he has 'a
g, who will fall heirs
:in the West, are not a
sr-Nothings, in permitting
4 a member of the orguni-
Leave scenes of life to —that
tMveler returns," without
lay, as is customary with
etc rites and ceremonies to
cur Burt is dead, and with
tidings have reached us of
wound around—(as in the
' list, Bill Pool)—though he
A few days since, three
lowa, belonging to ii.v.-ii,
York, were sold fur $lO,tlUl
ago, might have been bo
is astonishing how pro p
State, Northern Illinois a
lots have doubled in valiJ
1. see by the Eastern pa
Mackay died in Sing Si,
well and generally knowii
a genteel thief and rascal
aboose and Prison cells 1
hairs on his head, and wi,
iu "general jail delivery,
escape. lie was one of 1
that ever infested the SO
uue time Sold so this ci
pitiful sum of 56,65 ! '
would form ono of the nit
the annuls of crime, that
upon any one man in th
he owns several very val
.1 the Southern StateE
.rother and sister livi
to his estate. We here
little surprised at the lint
so amiable and protein°
nation, to pass from the
bourne from whence no i i
the usual pomp and dis
them, in performing the
a ..true American ."' Pi
out doubt buried, but no
the American flag being
case of the renowned pug
died a •qrue American l'
The abstract of deaths or the past week, exhibit a
great decrease in number as compared with the pre
vious week, when therel i were 181 interments—the
present week but 119, 6' Owing a falling off in the
mortality of thii city, foitseven days, of 02. There
is no city in the Union, with the population of St.
Louis, that can boast of better health. But few fatal
cases of cholera occur in this city. Accounts still
report the cholera in the tipper river towns, and in
some, prevailing to a conaiderable extent.
The latest accounts !loin Kansas represent an
abatement in the excitethent which has been run
ning wild for the past feel months. Everything has
become quiet, and the MiSsouri ruffians have very
wisely come to the conclukbn to let the law take its
course in the case of McOrea ' who shot Clark a few
weeks since, during a deblibs in the town-of Leaven
worth. The settlers of Kansas have published a
proclamation to the authkties at Washington, set
tii3g forth the true state of affairs which have recent
ly taken place in .hat Testory. In this report they
pay Gov. Reeder a high 4mplimont, for the manly
and impartial manner i *lnch he discharged his
i t
official duties, and the Kansas Herald of breedoni
speaks in this wise of Gov. Reeder :
"Be has shown himselftto be true steel during the '
exciting times of the lett ; week. The Missourians
waited on him in person end threatened to hang
him unless ho would give the pro-slavery candidates
person end
of the electio .: llisrreply was : "Gen
tlemen, two or three of y ti can assassinate me, but
a legion cannot compel e!to do that which my con
science does not approv ." Such a man deserves
well of the country, and the
, people of Kansas will
not bo slow to do him jus ide.
The St. Louis Republ can has been very severe
upon Gov. Reeder; but e -arybody who knowil any
thing about the editor of hat paper, knows full well
the sentiments ho entertained a few years ago, and
consequently form theit ,own opinions as to the
course that "wishy-washy'', blanket sheet is now pur
suing towards Gov. iteedbi, and the defence of At
chison and his gang of ruffians who infest, and have
already disgraced the State of Missobri. The Wash
ington City correspondent of the Republican'w rites
that :—"Governor Reedei meets with more favor at
the hands of the Administration than was anticipa
ted—Col. J. W. Forney thaving espoused his cause;
and you know that Col. F.:is the power here, behind
the throne, greater than thb throne itself,"
There was a great sale allots last week in the town
of Peoria, El:, each lot measuring 50 by 150 feet—
und averaged over $l7O Per lot, some sold as high, as
$4OO. The whole amounk Of sales reached $20,713
embracing thirty acres of ground !
The St. Louis Republicn, which has been in ex
istence forty-seven years, ' and during which period
changed hands but three; times, and for the last
eighteen years owned and conducted by Messrs.
Chambers & Knapp—th 4 former partner died about
a year since, and his widoW assumed his interest, and
on Saturday last, Mr. ;Knapp purchased all her
right, title and interest iii the establishment, who is
now the sole owner of tae Republican. Mr. Knapp
has been connected with the paper since 1027, in va
rious capacities—Devil, Foreman and Proprietor.
Mr. George W. Crane is now in our city, bn his
way to Pennsylvania. lie has been residing in
lowa for thb last eight Yeam, and owned a magnifi
cent farm upon which heLresided, but ii.viug - a good
offer ' route for Lycoming
sold out, and is now:;
county. air. christopher IChampneys was in our
city a few days since ' as was also Mr. Josiah Cross.
Miss ihlia (Bayne) Nab commences an engage
ment at the St. Louis Theatre to-night. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Reward and performing at the Peoples.'
Francois Ravel and Trupe are at the Verities.—
Gabriel Ravel and the Martinetti Family have just
concluded an engagement it the St. Louis. Several
"Stars" will make theirlaPpearancc at the different
Theatres (luring the present week.
The Printers "strike"i at New Orleans is said to
be adjusted, by the propkiktors acceding to the de
mands of the New Orleahs Printers—the "importa
tions from New York" notified to return !
Yours • I( 1 OLD GUARD.
FROM Mt:um—Wel have full details of
Mexican news to the Bth inst. Santa Anna,
as already announced, had left the capital for
Michoacan. A repo4 obtained circulation in
the city of Mexico, ithat a body of troops in
Seamora had revolted! and that a pronouncia
mento had been issued.l The Mexican govern
ment has ordered the Isuspension of all pay
ments, except those Under treaties, respecting
the foreign debt. SiOrhess continued to pre
vail in the city of Mexico, particularly the
small pox, which hatl made great ravages.
On the 28th of April,thle Supreme government
had 4000 troops concentrated on the capital of
Michoacan. Letters from Pumandrio give
accounts of great horHrs committed by the
Indians. The place as attacked,by a band
of one thousard savam, and all the houses
in the town were saclietl. The military com
mandant, Valendenda,i and the Postmaster,
were shot. ' Some of fhb principal inhabitants
were beheaded, and! Many wotnan violated
and carried off.
REVENUE LOPPED OFF.—The receipts into
the Treasury last ye4.,for Licenses, which the
new anti-License Law abolishes, amounted to
two hundred and eleven thousand eight hundred
and three dollars and rfOrty-four cents. This,
of course, is a dead los& to the state, and will
have to be estortedd IN TAXES, from the
sweat of the poor man'S brow l—and this, too,
without doing anything to:promote the cause
of temperance—for the title of this, anti-License
ill should truly be leaded thus:—" A Tem
perance Law to make DrUnkards." But this is
Know-NOthing Reforms!
WHEAT CROP OP MICIIIGAN.—The 'Detroit
Democrot states that the sight of the wheat
fields in the northernlpart of the State is per
fectly glorious. The breadth • sown is
unusually great, and the staple is a derip.green,
.almost to blackness--Tank. strong,
.thick and
high. With all alldwance for casualities, it
may be most confidently predicted that the
wheat crop•will be ..ost unusually abundant
and excellent.