INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN. CEO. SANDERSON, EDITOI A. SANDERSON, Associate. LANCASTER, PA., FEBRUARY 10, 1857. CIRCULATION, lilOO COPIES I Subscription Price, $2,00 peraunnm. The Municipal Election. The municipal election, which came off in this city, on Tuesday last, resulted in a glori ous Democratic triumph, over all opposition. The official returns in another column, Bhow that Mayor Zimmerman leads the combined vote of all his competitors by a handsome ma jority. We also carried the three members of Select Council and thirteen of the fifteen mem bers of Common Council, on the regular settled ticket, except one Alderman and two Consta bles, who where elected by the aid of Demo cratic votes. It was truly a great victory, all the circum stances attending the election considered, and shows conclusively that, no matter by what combinations the Democracy may be assailed, the old city is still as true as steel to principle. The vote polled, although several hundred short of the Presidential election, is larger than usual at a municipal election. Had there been a full vote polled, it is fair to presume that the Democratic majority would have been much larger? Mr. Buchanan and Senator Bigler. Some of the opposition paper? are laboring hard to create an impression on the public mind that the President elect and Senator' Bigler are not on the must friendly terms, and that, therefore, the funner was anxious for Col. Forney’s election so that he might have one reliable friend from Pennsylvania in the' Senate. This vile insinuation or falsehood is elaborated upon by the Harrisburg Telegraph, of the 2d inst., and it is dished up with the vilest and most reckless asseverations against the course of Senator Bigler whilst Governor of the Commonwealth. Now, we do not like to spoil the calculations of our political opponents, especially as, with them, in this case, the “ wish is father to the . thought/' but yet, we consider it our duty to say that there is not a word of truth in the entire allegation of the Telegraph and other Black Republican journals. The President : elect and Senator Bigler are on friendly terms, socially and politically, and we know that the former has entire confidence in the latter, and relies implicitly upon him for a warm and able support of his administration. The construction of the opposition press is based upon the assumption that if Mr. Buchanan had.one friend in the Senate, ho should not have sought to have another—that because he was anxious for the election ot a good man, therefore he concluded that there are no good men in the Senate now. This ridiculous twad dle will disturb no one. The object is to sow discord in the Democratic ranks—but they will fail in this. .Sir. Buchanan lias-the ful lest confidence in Senator Bigler, and this feeling is fully reciprocated by the latter. We are willing that time shall test the truth or falsity of our prediction. The Lancaster Bank. The Directors of the Lancaster Bank made an assignment on the 2d inst., preparatory to the institution going into liquidation. Hor ace Rathvon, Esq., (Cashier) is the Assignee. The manner of the assignment is found fault with by many, for the reason that the stock holders were not consulted, and also because an officer of the Bank was made the Assignee. The following article which we clip from the Examiner of Wednesday last, is explicit as to the nature of the assignment made : “The assignment, we understand, is made under the act of 1836, which is the law gov erning assignments by individuals. The Stockholders, under this assignment, will have no voice in the selection of the assignee, as they'would have had if the assignment had been made under the act of 1542. “Under this assignment the assets will be first applied to the redemption of the circula tion, and after that shall have been all re deemed the funds remaining will go to the payment of the depositors. If the assets should not be sufficient to pay note holders and depositors, the latter will of course lose a portion of their claims corresponding to the amount of the deficiency. The checks of de positors will not be received in payment of debts due the bank, except in cases where the debtor was the owner of the check nr deposit at the date of the assignment. “If the assignment had been made under the act of 1842, checks of depositors would have been received in payment of 'all debts due the bank, the practical effect of which would have been to absorb all the deposits in ~ the .payment of debts, and to cause a portion * of the circulation to fall upon the stockholders for redemption under the individual liability provisions of the charter. The Bank would have been wound up, and all its debts would have been paid. We have no doubt that if the stockholders had been consulted, a large ma- jority would have preferred an assignment under the act of 1842. They are abundantly .f able to pay all their debts, and would doubt • less prefer to do so. They could then walk the streets with heads erect, in the honest pride that no one had lost through the fraud or folly of their agents, and that they had not resorted to any legal shifts or evasions to avoid responsibilities morally, if not legally incurred. Wo most sincerely regret, for the general credit of the county, whose reputation is 60 intimately connected with that of the bank hearing its name, that a policy should have have been determined upon which may pos sibly leavojan enduring stigma upon her fair fame. ' * The directors doubtless acted from good motives, and were influenced by an honest desire to shield the stockholders from any fur ther.loss; but it is to be regretted that they did not ascertain the views of the stockholders on this point. The failure of the hank ren ders it necessary that losses should be borne by Bomebody.—Should it be by the stockhold ers, who have been getting their 10 and 12 per cent, from the bank, or by the depositors, from the use of whose money those large divi dends have been made? "NVe hope measures will yet he taken to test thS views of the Stockholders on this question.” The President Elect at Home. Mr. Buciianak returned home on Tuesday afternoon last, from his visit to Washington City. lie is now busily engaged making his arrangements preparatory to entering upon the discharge of the important duties of the high office to which h'e has been elevated by the American people. Indiana U. S. Senators. The Democrats of the Indiana Legislature, (having a clear majority on joint ballot,) on Wednesday last met in convention, at Indian opolis, and elected Hon. Jesse D. Bright for the long term, and Hon. Gorham S. Fitch for the short term, in the U. S. Senate. The Black Republicans refused to go into Conven tion. Submarine Telegraph. The appropriating a certain aum of money, $70,000 annually, we believe, to the construction and maintenance of a submarine telegraph between some point on the North American coast and Great Britain, received a favorable vote in the House of Rep resentatives on Tuesday. Mr. Campbell reported the bill to the House, and a motion of Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, to lay it on the table, was negatived by a vote of 57 to 134. B@»It is stated by Havana correspondents of the New York and New Orleans papers that the Captain General of Cuba will proba bly at once reduce the present almost prohib . itOry duties on American flour, in compliance with the petition oi a very large number of Spanish merchants and bakers. Report of the Canal CommtMloner». From the recent report of the Canal Com-: raissioners, we find that during the year, the : tolls on the public works were $2,009,466 44, ■ being an increase of $96,344 84 over the pre- ; vious year. The excess of receipts over ex* j penses was $932,781 30. The tonnage tax on the railroads amounted to $222,227 68, of which $197,298 95 was derived from the 1 Pennsylvania Railroad, $1,925 82 from the j Northern Central Railroad, and $23,002 91 ; from the Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroad. | The expenses counted in the above, are exclu- | sive of $171,084 41 expended on the Colum bia and Portage railways, for new locomotives, machinery, etc. The repair expenses during ; the year, were $444,620 which was $45,567 less than the appropriations. The motive power expenses for the year, were $632,- ■ 722 25. On the Columbia Railroad, the excess of re ceipts over all expenditures, was $344,894 73. In the year 1855, the cost of transporting a ton of freight the whole length of the road was seventy-seven and one-tenth cents, and in 1856, it was sixty-nine and eighty-two hundredths cents, being a decrease as com pared with 1855, of seven and three tenths cents per ton. This is attributed to the improved condition of the track and the superior capacity of the new locomotives. It is recommended that six new first class loco motive engines be purchased for this road, two for the passenger and four for the freight business. The depot at West Philadelphia has been materially improved, and arrange ments made with the city government for a full supply of water from the corporation works. A brick carpenter shop for the road purposes has been erected at Columbia. The Superintendent recommends the building of a depot at Dillerville and Columbia, which will be done, if the weather will permit, before the opening of the spring. When that is effected, the whole road will be new and substantial, and the distance between tracks six feet. The new railroad over the Alleghany Por tage has been in use dnring the year, but some interruption was experienced in the early part of the season from the falling of the slopes at the deep cuts. The road had other wise proved equal in stability to any in the country. It is npw completed, with the ex ception of a portion of the filling over the arch of the tunnel, which will be finished in a few weeks- The report of the Canal Board gives an ac count of a fraud on this Alleghany Portage Railroad, by which, in the item of fuel, there is an amount of $21,999 74 unaccounted for. In fact, the charges for the same wood and coal seem to have been made and paid twice over. Spicy Correspondence Up! Washington, Feb. 4.— A correspondence : between General Scott and Secretary Davis of; a spicy character, is published. Davis, in his ! letter dated July 25th, '55, charges Scott with an exhibition of peevish temper. Scott, in his of July 30th, says, Davis’ letter is flippant, and that he has done enough to warrant more than suspicion, and that he (Davis) considered it his special mission by repeated aggressions on his (Scott’s) rights to goad him into some perilous attitude of official opposition. If he was to be crushed, He preferred to be 60 at the hands of Military Peers. Davis, in an unof ficial note of August 2nd, says: “Your accu sation, which Charges me with usurpation for most unworthy ends, and imputes motives in consistent with official integrity, is considered basely malevolent and pronounced utterly false.” Scott in August 6th, says : “ I shall treat all your (Davis) communications as equally official. There are beauties in them which ought not to be lost, and it shall not be my fault if I do not render your part ip this correspondence a memorable example to be shunned by your successors.” Davis, on Sep tember 7th, says: “ Scott's threats are the merest bravado in one who affords the most memorable example on the records of this (the War) Department of a vain controversialist, and false accuser not yet exposed. Scott, is next represented to have granted leave of ab sence to Col. Hitchcock, under circumstances not approved by the Department, and refuses to comply with the order of the Department to revoke said leave of absence. The Presi dent endorsed this reason as unsatisfactory.— Davis recommended the removal of the head quarters of the army to Washington. Then follows a lengthy tirade of abusive epithets from Scott. Davis, on December 20th, rakes up some of Scott’s money dealings, and charges him with meanness in taking what the law did not allow while he was in Mexico. Scott replies on J an. 31st, charging Davis with continued recklessness of character. Davis, on Feb. 29th, says he has no intention to force Scott.into a duel, and no disability of age or plea of conscientious scruples can be admitted to shield a slander from rebuke. Scott again retorted on March 20th. Davis replied at length, and Scott again retorted in compas sionate terms. : The last letter was from Da vis, on May tfyri 27th, wherein he says he has ceased to regard Scott’s abuse, and gratified to be relieved from further exposing his ma lignity and depravity. Sftle|of the Main Line. Mr. Penrose has read a bill in the Senate for the sale of The Main Line of the Public Improvements.; It is the worst kind of an omnibus bill, fixing $9,000,000 as the price of the work proposed to be sold, authorizing a subscription of $5,000,000 to the Sunbury and Erie Railroad,: and repealing the Tonnage Tax. This is a bill of abominations similar to the one supported by Penrose in 1836, the main object of which was the re-charter of the 0. S. Bank by the Legislature of Pennsylva nia. Whether the present move of the Buck shot hero will be as profitable to himself as the former, remains to be seen—but, we hes itate not to Bay, [that the bill for the sale of the Main Line, itc., is a monster of evil and should bo slaughtered without benefit of clergy. Rev. Isaac S. Kallocli. This pious political preacher, who rivalled even Ward Beecher in the violence of his po litical harangues during the Presidential elec tion, and who,.subsequently, at a Fremont supper at Rockland, Maine, declared that they —the Black Republicans—had “compelled Buchanan to go into the Presidency under a protest from the Christianity , the intelligence and the decency of the North,” has recently been charged, on the oaths of two respectable, disinterested men, with unlawful intimacy with a married woman of Boston, the friend and companion of his wife ! If he is a sam ple of the Christianity and decency that pro tested against Mr. Buchanan’s election, Mr. B. will not suffer much from the protest. Kansas. A convention of pro-slavery men assembled at Lecompton, on the 16th January, and, after three days session, resolved to drop their pro slavery cognomen, and adopt the national Democratic Platform as announced at Cincin nati. That is, they abandon all idea of mak ing Kansas a slave State by any but fair means. They consent to refer the question to the free will of the actual residents of the ter ritory, and as they decide at a fair and peace able election, so be it. That is the sum and substance of the Cincinnati platform so far as that subject is concerned ; and the southern portion of the settlers at length give in their adhesion to it. The Tonnage Tax. For several years past a persistent effort , has been made by the Central Railroad Com pany to accomplish the repeal of the Tonnage Tax, and every session of the Legislature, more or less of the time that should be devoted to other purposes, is taken up with the attempt to rob the State Treasury annually of nearly a quarter of a million of dollars for the pur pose of putting it into the pockets of an‘over grown corporation. We subjoin an article from the Armstrong Democrat, which fully comes up to our ideas of the subject, and should be carefully read and pondered- upon by every tax-payer in Lancaster county and throughout the Commonwealth. That paper says Amongst the important questions demand- ! ing action from the present Legislature is that j one, which has been agitated for several j and received more or less attention from our | law makers—we mean, the tonnage tax, im posed upon the freight transported on the Pennsylvania, Northern Central and Harris burg and Lancaster Railroads. These roads run parallel or nearly so with the main line arid Lower Susquehanna Division of our pub lic works, and come in competition with them for the trade that seeks tbeir routes, hence the Legislature in granting them this privilege has imposed upon them this tonnage tax or percentage. The amount paid into the State Treasury, by these several companies, during the last fiscal year was $222,227 68. In May t 1855, the Legislature, then in session, repeal ed the acts imposing this tax, so far as it was put on lumber and coal, reserving the right* at any future time, to again establish it.— This repeal was brought about through the efficacy of incessant boring , and the granting of free tickets to members to pass over the roads of those interested corporations. “ Give an ell, and take a yard,” is well exemplified in the efforts now making by those companies and their especial friends to have the tonnage tax entirely repealed. Philadelphia and Allegheny counties are heavy stockholders in the Pennsylvania Rail road. Through improvident legislation, coun ties, cities and boroughs, and such like cor* porations— quasi and real—have been permit ted to subscribe to the stock of Railroads, and involve the tax-payers within their limit 9 and make their property responsible for the re demption of ‘bonds issued for the security of this folly. The argument used by those in : terested parties for the repeal of the tonnage : tax is, that it would leave in their own trea | suries the sum paid to the Commonwealth, and j that in proportion to their subscription, they j would receive greater dividends, correspond ! ing to the amount of the tax they have to pay. ; Now would it be right or just that the ton i riage tax should be repealed in ioto ; or . ought i not the present Legislature to re-enact that : part of the law, which the Legislature of | 1855, revoked ? This is a question, in which 1 every county in the State is interested, as well ! as Alleghany and Philadelphia and their pet | Railroad corporations. ! Our State has public improvements-r-Rail | roads and Canals—running parallel or inter sected by the Railroads of the companies re ferred to, and others now in process of con struction. The State “works” have been made at an expense of about twenty millions of dollars, either paid or to be paid by all the tax-payers of the Commonwealth. Our State debt is forty millions, and upwards, of dollars. This tonnage tax was imposed as a means of revenue to aid in the payment of that debt.— All these Railroads, subject to this tax, are more or less rival routes to the State Works— they come in competition with them for the trade and travel seeking markets and terfnini, East and West. This fact was known and well considered, when these Railroad com panies made application for their charters and hence it was, that the Legislatures, grant ing them the privilege to make rival routes and roads to those belonging to the State, im posed this tax upon their tonnage, and it was part and parcel of their acts of incorporation. Here was a fair contract made and perfect un. derstanding had at the time. For the privil eges granted these companies then agreed to pay, and they accepted, their “ letters pateDt ” With that condition attached. What justice is there, in their demand for the repeal of this tax ? Has our overburthened debt oppressed old State so suddenly grown rich, that she shall surrender her revenues for the benefit of overgrown, and mammoth corporations?— Must the Legislature yield nearly a quarter of million dollars annually from the public trea sury in order that the pockets of the stock holders of the Pennsylvania, Northern Cen tral, and- Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroads may be filled with larger dividends ? In other words, are the tax-payers of this Common wealth to be called upon to make up for the State Treasury the sum, in which the repeal of this tonnage tar would leave it deficient ? We trust not. If private companies ask for special privileges that come in contact with -the usefulness and profitableness of the public works, we say, make them pay commensurate ly. The interests of the people require it— their agreements bind them to it, and they Bhould be held to the letter of their bargains. The tax-payers of Armstrong county, we are sure, are not willing that they shall be more severely taxed for the advantage of any indi viduals or corporations who invest their money , in certain Railroad stocks; and they will expect their representatives in the State Leg islature to oppose, by every means in their power, any further repeal of the tonnage tax, and to use their influence to re-establish the law as it existed before the innovation of 1855, to which we have referred. Black Republican Convention.— A letter from Harrisburg in the Philadelphia Inquirer says’: —“A good deal of discussion, and in fact excitement has been produced here among the American and Republican members of both houses, relative to the call put forth by Mr. Gibbons, Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee, for a Convention on the ,25th of March. It is understood that there will be a caucus of the members relative to this matter in a day or two. What course they will take I do not pretend to say. But I can say that the prevailing sentiment is in favor of the call being replaced by one for a Union Convention, to be composed of all the elements of opposition to Buchanan. I be lieve that active measures designed to have this effect, will be taken within a week. Gen eral Cameron, the newly elected Senator, is understood to favor this course decidedly.” The New State of Superior. —The Mich igan Legislature has appointed a special com mittee, and iristructed it to report a bill setting off the Upper Peninsula, or that portion of Michigan around Lake Superior, “into a State by itself.” The area of the Upper Peninsula covers about one-third as much territory as is included in the Lower Peninsula. The Legislature of Wisconsin has heretofore con sented to cede the northern portion of that State to Superior ; thus, by taking a portion of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan, a large State—the mineral State of the Union eould be formed. JJ@“ Ex-Governor John Bigler having re turned to California, had a public reception at Sacramento on the 22d of December. He reached there about midnight, and was es corted through several streetß by a large torchlight procession. Pennsylvania Legislature. Harrisburg, Feb. 6. Senate. —A number of bill* were reported back from the standing committees, and among them a bill authorizing the payment of certain coupons represented to be lost; to return to George Etsel a sum of money over paid by him to the Treasury; a supplement to the Act relative to Bridge Companies; a supplement to the Act incorporating the Ta coney and Pequessin Plank Road Company: a bill to repeal the seventh section of the Act incorporatfng the Roxborourgh Lyceum. Mr. Crabb read in place a bill to incorpo rate the Central Insurance Company of Phil adelphia. Mr. Wilkins, a bill to incorporate the Citi zens’ Bank of Pittsburgh. • Mr. Henneker, a supplement to the act re lating to counties and townships and county and township offices. ! Chambers C. Muller has been re.appointed ! Superintendent of the Public Buildings and I Grounds. The following bills were severally consid ered and passed: To incorporate Ashland in Schuylkill county into a borough ; a resolu tion for the appointment of three additional offices of the House; a supplement to the act to incorporate the West Ward Water Company of Easton. The supplement to the act inporporatiDgthe Hempfield and Chartiers Valley Railroad Company passed second reading. The bill relative to contempts of Court, was taken up and further postponed. The bill to incorporate the Chestnut Hill Agricultural Association was considered apd postponed. The Senate then adjourned till noon. House. —The bill relative to the service of process on Insurance Companies was taken up, and passed finally. The House theu proceeded to the consider ation of the special order of the day, being the joint resolutions relative to the admission of Kansas into the Union as a Freee State. Messrs- Chase, Stevenson, and Van Voor his, each argued at some length in favor of the passage of the resolutions, the latter hav ing the floor at the hour of adjournment. The consideration of the resolutions will be resumed on Friday next-. Adjourned. Afternoon Session. —The following bills passed finally : A supplement to the act in corporating the Chartier’s Valley Railroad Company; to authorize the payment of certain coupon bonds represented to have been lost; to repeal the seventh section of the act incor porating the Roxbury Lyceum; to authorise the Plymouth and Upper Dublin Plank Road Company to borrow money ; a bill relative to the road laws of Franklin township, Chester county ; to change the name and increase the privileges of the Lewisburg Savings Institu tion ; a supplement to the act incorporating the Tacony and Pequessing Plank Road Com pany. The supplement to the act incorporating the Reading and Lehigh Railroad Company, passed second reading, and was then laid over. The bill to incorporate the Carbon Iron Company, was negatived—yeas 14, nays 12. - A number of other unimportant bills passed. The Senate then adjourned. Letter from Harrisburg. Harrisburg, Feb. 5, 1857. The Legislature has now fairly began bus* iness, and as a consequence, correspondents can find snbjects upon which to treat without being force to speculate on anticipated legis lation. In the House yesterday, Mr. Johns, of Fay ette, introduced a bill regulating applications for charters of corporations, &c., which, in my judgment, is entitled to serious considera tion. It provides that whenever any citizen or association of citizens, intend making ap plication to the Legislature for the creation, renewal, alteration or extension of any corpo rate body, a notice of such intended applica tion shall be advertised in two newspapers printed in the county in which such corporate body is or is intended to be located, at least once a week in each paper, for three months before the meeting of the next Legislature. The City passenger Railway project appears to be the all-absorbing topic with the Phila delphia delegation. The friends of the bill appear sanguine of success, and indeed, judg ing from the great number of petitions pre sented in its favor, I see no good reason why they should not be. The select committee on the contested seat will report to-morrow, unanimously, in favor of Mr. Ramsey. Whilst upon this subject, I must here be permitted to say that no man in the city or county delegation is more attentive to the interests of his constituents than is John Ramsey. The bill introduced some days ago b} T Mr. Hancock, relative to the election of Presidents of Banks, will become a law without doubt.— It is no more than reasonable to suppose so from the fact that it is based upon the same principle of the law relative to the election of sheriffs—that is, compelling them to settle up and square accounts every three years. If it is right and just in one instance, it must un doubtedly be so in the other It seems to be generally conceded that Hon. Ellis Lewis will be unanimously re-nominated for Supreme Judge by the Democratic State Convention which will meet here on the sec ond of March. This is right. Chief Justice Lewis is one of the brightest lights of the Su preme Bench, and his place could scarcely be supplied. He would adorn any Court in the Union. J A. The Dallas—Clarendon Treaty. Washington, Feb. 4, 1857. The Senate debated for nearly three hours the Dallas and Clarendon Treaty. Mr. Mo. son sustained the policy in an elaborate speech, vindicating the considerations upon which it had been recommended by the ad ministration. Objections were urged that the British protectorate was more distinctly re,- cognized than under the Clayton Convention, that while the sovereignty of the Bay Islands was nominally relinquished to Honduras the British possession confirmed their practical authority there, and finally that Ilonduras-by her treaty with England after a virtual re nunciation of power over these islands, enact ed the Wilmot proviso by the exclusion of slavery. After these points had been urged from various quarters, Mr. Douglas who had held back opened in a fierce assault upon the whule arrangement, and by a vote of thirty-three to eight the treaty was recommit ted with a view to modificationsconforming to the sentiment after chamber. It may be there fore regarded as killed in the House of its friends. The opinion was expressed that the final rejection would lead to collision with England by reopening former complications. But this complication does not follow. Foreign News. The steamship Baltic arrived at New York on Thursday, from Liverpool, bringing four days later news from Europe. On the night of the 17th the Neufchatel prisoners were es corted to the Swiss frontier by a detachment of Swiss troops, and expelled. The Swiss Fed eral Council had given orders for thedisband ing of the troops. Lord Palmerston has issued a circular to the members of the British House of Commons, stating that business of great importance would be laid before the coming session of Parliament, and expressing an ear nest hope that all the members will be in their places. Lord Napier, the new British Envoy, was to leave London for the United States in about three weeks. A mutiny had occurred on board the American steamship J. L. Bogart, at Liverpool. The crew, nearly all colored men, were shipped as for New York, but on finding that the vessel was bound for Mobile they mutinied under fear of being kidnapped there and retained in Sla very. Advices from China say that the Eng lish at Canton were strengthing their position, but showed a disposition to remain on the defensive until they receive advices from Eng land. Verges, the assassin of the Archbishop of Paris, has been tried and condemned. The New Coins.— Orders have been given at several Post Offices of the United States, to take no more sixpences, shillings, or Spanish quarters, in accordance with the law recently passed by Congress, and which goes into im mediate effect. It reduces the value, at the United States Public Offices, of Spanish- quar ters, shillings and sixpences, respectively, to 20,10 and 5 oents. From the North American. Horrible Murder—-Astounding Develope- ments ! One *:f the mo;t atrocious murders on record came to light mi Saturday week, in New York city. Dr. Harvey Burdell, au eminent Den tist and Surgeon, residing in Bond street, was iound, about eight o'clock in the morning, lying dead on the floor of his office, in the second story of his house. He was last seen alive late on Friday afternoon. When the death was first ascertained, it was announced . in the afternoon papers that he had died sud denly from the bursting of a blood vessel.— But a Coroner's inquest revealed a shocking •condition of affairs. It seems from the evi- ; denee, that Dr. Burdell was very wealthy, 1 being worth about $lOO,OOO. He was a bank ’• director, and an active man among the medi- 1 cal fraternity. He owned the house he lived in, which was a large and handsome four < storied brick building, with marble steps, ; doorway, window frames, ect. The interior was superbly furnished. He had been di vorced from his wife. The basement was oc cupied as a kitchen and dining room. The < first floor bad two reception rooms, and the second floor had the doctor’s office and bed room. The house was kept ostensibly as a boarding house by Mrs. Cunningham, with whom boarded the doctor, her two daughters, | and two single gentlemen. The doctor only ‘ slept and breakfasted there, taking his meals at the Metropolitan Hotel. It being proved in evidence, that the Doctor and Mrs. Cun ningham maintained a suspicious connection, ; and that they had quarrelled and talked about parting. Mrs. C. produced before the jury a certificate of marriage with Dr. Burdell, which was attested to by the officiating clergyman. • When the body of the doctor was found it was perfectly saturated with blood, as was also the carpet of the room, the doors, walls, chairs, ect., being covered with blood, showing evi dently that a desperate struggle had occurred. The body contained fifteen deep wounds, made with a knife eight inches long in the blade; one of these wounds severed the caro- : tid artery, and must have completed the murder. The others were stabs in various parts of the body and cuts upon the hands, face, &c., as though the murderers had cut him as he warded off the blows or siezed the door knob. Around his throat was the mark of a cord, whichmust have been drawn tightly, and the lungs were found to be full of air; so that it is clear the attempt was first made to strangle'him with a rope thrown over his head from behind, after the manner of the street garotte. From the appearance of the room, lie seems to have been sitting in his chair, looking over h-is papers, when some one came from behind, evidently from the closet door. The design probably was originally to strangle him, and then carry out the body, : and leave it somewhere in the street, as though done by the garotte banditte. From the room, the marks of blood were traced up along the entry and stairs into the fourth story, into a room where lay a man’s bloody shirt and night shirt, and a bloody sheet.— Erom there the blood was traced into the front room of the same story, where, upon the door, the stains had been carefully covered with spermaceti. A grate in that room had con tained a fire during the night, which had evi dently been extinguished suddenly by pouring water upon it, as the coal was only partially consumed, and the mantle, «fcc., were covered with ashes; in this story the murderers must have cleansed themselves. It appeared in evidence that the Doctor was jealous of one of the male boarders, a Mr. John Eckel, whom he seems to have detected in secret with Mrs. Cunningham. On Tuesday night Mrs. Cun ningham went with this man down into the i basement, and told the servant girl to go to 1 bed. She went. The next morning Mr. Eckel i did not appear at breakfast, though he usually , did so. The knife found in the mom where the murder was committed, is said to have belonged to him. Mrs. Cunningham confessed, in her evidence, the sending of the servant t*» bed, and also admitted that Eckel was with her. The minister who married her could not identify Burdell as the man to whom she was married, and said that he supposed at the time that the person wore false whiskers.— Burdell’s name was wrongly spelt in the cer tificate. It has been ascertained that on the morn ing when the murder was discovered, Mr. Eckel left the house at an early and unusual hour and proceeded to his place of business.— Mrs. Cunningham followed in a carriage, and he stood talking with her half an hour ur more at the carriage door, opposite his factory. lie was seen to give her a roll of bills. This transpired before breakfast. The Deputy Coroner, in the course of his investigation, found Mr. and Mrs. Stevens re residing at No. ST Mercer street, who were intimate friends of Mr. Burdell. Mrs. Stevens had been in the habit of visiting Dr. Burdell for the purpose of having her teeth fixed, and for medical relief for two years or more. Dr. Burdell had frequently spoken to her of his affairs, and remarked that Mrs. Cunningham desired to force him into a marriage. She also referred to Eckel, calling him Van Dolan, as having been frequently spoken of by the Doctor. Dr. B. bad frequently ex pressed himself as being afraid to remain in the house at night. The Doctor told Mr. Stevens that he feared for his (BurdeH's) life, and had also spoken of Mr. Eckel, alias, Van Dolan. George V. Snodgrass, one of the two male boarders in the house, testified that the bloody shirt found in the store room, belonged to a friend of his in the country, whose name it bore —that he had borrowed it while visiting at his friend’s residence. It had been thrown into the store room to be washed.' lie swore that he went down stairs that night about eleven o'clock. From Washington. Washington, Feb. 7. —The Secretary of War has determined to send a new regiment to California early in the spring, a part to go across the Plains for the protection of emi- The Decatur has been ordered by the Secre tary of the Navy from San Francisco to Panama, and her officers are to be relieved. They will return by the Isthmus route. Judge Morton, counsel for the fillibusters, who is now here, has notified the administra tion that if bills of indictment are found against Messrs. Fabens, Lawrence and others, by the District Court now in session, that President Pierce, his private Secretary and other officers will be called to the stand by the defence, and the expedition to Central America justified by their consent. The Corruption Committee are making out their report, and are in hopes to present it to the House on Monday next. Mr. Greely is expected here to-night, having been subpoe naed to appear before the Committee. Judge Striker, of New York, testified before the Committee that Greely received a draft for a thousand dollars, and Reverdy Johnson one for fifteen hundred, for services in the Des moines Railroad affair. The National Theatre was again burned down to-day. It was burnt down on the 15th of March, 1845, and rebuilt for Jenny Lind. The calmness of the atmosphere alone prevent ed the destruction of the whole square. The engines were on the ground, but had no water. Congress persists in refusing to supply the national capital with a sufficiency of water, and when a fire occurs the property, public and private, is at the mercy of the flames. It is understood that the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means will call up the Submarine Telegraph bill in the House again on Tuesday next. Spain and Mexico—Prospect op War.— There is every reason to believe that Spain will immediately proceed to invade Mexico, in consequence of the inhuman treatment of Spaniards there. Several atrocious murders have been committed on the Spanish residents. In one large sugar estate every Spaniard has been murdered in cold blood, and the murder ers ai4 said to have been the most ardent supporters of President Comonfort. There is no prospect of their being brought to justice. The whole diplomatic corps of Mexico* includ ing our own Minister, Mr. Forsyth, has pro tested against this foul act. The lives and property of Spaniards throughout the country are now believed unsafe, and the Spanish squadron at Havana has beeg ordered to Vera Cruz and to distribute themselves along the Gulf. CITY AND COUNTY AFF4IRS. Citt Election Returns. —Below we give \ the glorious result of the election held In this city on i Tuesday last It will be seen that all the Democratic can- ; didates are elected, with the exception of Messrs. Sprenger, ! Carpenter and Dougherty in the North East. Amweg in j the Sonth East, and Gondaker in the North West Wards: : ? ? ® * S? , 3 K =* “ £ | 3 Mayor. John Zimmerman, (Dem.) 3T6 282 203 276 1113 Thos. H. Bnrrowea. (Citixen.) 139 204 61 88 408 Henry M. White, (Amer.) 191 69 8S 45 341 Jacob Huber, (Ind.) 39 47 110 39 237 High Constable. John Myer, (Dem.) John G. Martin, (Amer.) Joseph Brintnal), (Iqj}.; Dem. - voato wmt ward— Select Council. Christian Zeeher, 400 Gotleib Sener, Common Council. 399 H. K. Muhlenberg, 390 John Trissler, 405 Dan'l Ehrisman, 419 Darid Hartman. 403 George Yeialoy, George L. Boyle, Lewis llaldy, Charles R. Frailey, Adam Trout, John Reese, Alderman. Sebastian G-. Musser, 4Q3 John F. Huber, City Constable. Jacob Gundaker, 3 George Huffnagle, A Judge. Hobdrt J. King, 421* Frederick Albright, Inspector. 415 William Buckius. Assessor. 431 James Wiley, James S. Jones, John F. Sehner, north £ast ward —Select Council. Daxid 0. Esblemun, 203 Kobert H. Long. Common Council. 301 Daniel Heitshu. •20'.* John Brandt, jr. Jacob R. Smeltz, 203 Benjamin If. Cox, Alderuien. 33S 'Williain Frick, 2f>4 William B. Wiley, City Constable. Philip S. Baker, John Llppinoott, John WeidUri J. J. Springer, Benjamin Lichty, William Carpenter, James C. Carpenter, Ilngh Dougherty, Judge. 308 William Hensel, Charles E. Wentz, Inspector. 303 Robert A. Evans, Assessor. Daniel Okeson. 300 George B. Mowrey, Garrett Everts, B:cth bast ward—Select Counnl. Dr. 11. Carpenter, -SO John C. Walt .ti. Common Council. 327 John 1.. Benedict, 205 M. Steie^rwalt. .1119 George F Ju-te. City Constable. 345 William Lambert, jr. Judge. 32s Jacob Light. William P. Brouh«, Willinm S. Amw??, Michael McGonigle, William M. Gormlr, S. J. Morrison, Inspector. 319 Jacob Weitzol, jr. Assessor. John Hensler, 323 John Rock, Eugene Harkins, south west ward—Select Council. Dr. 11. Carpenter, 270 John C. Walton. Common Council. 252 Samuel Cormeny, 2M Thomas Silvius. 278 John H. Retnley, City Constable. 2r»l John Beckal. Judge. 24S II Benedict, Inspector. 2tio William Wright, Assessor. lleitzelberger, 274 John E. Carpenter. Philip Fitzpatrick, John Steigt-rwalt, sr. Henry P. Carson, John Kuhns, James Peoples. Samuel Huber, Organization' of the New City Councils. —The new Councils met at their Chambers, in the City II&ll, on Friday morning last, at 10 o'clock, for the purpose of organization. We giro the proceedings as-furnished by the Reporters: Pr.i.E.-T Council Chamuek. I February fi. 1857.- j Councils met for the purpose of organization. On motion of Mr. Barnes, Uodfried Zubin, Fsq., was appointed temporary chairman. The returns of the late election were presented and read, when it appeared that T>r. Henry Carpenter was elected a member of Select Council from the South Hast and South West Wards, D. G. Kshleman, Esq , from the North Lu*d Ward, and Christian Zecher, Raq., from the N. W. Ward. Messrs. Carpenter and EshVmau app, ared, were dn'.y qualified by the Mayor, and took their seat*:. The roll being called, the foil..wing g.-ntb-nnni answered to their names : Messrs. Barnes, Carpenter, Cox. Eshleman. Jack. Leman, Young and Zabm. On motion of Mr. Barnes. Council proceeded to elect n President. Mr. Barne? nominated H. K. Leman. Kel.: City, A’. H 7 Wjrd— D»ntel ITartman, J. D. Bachman, Janies Chambers, Thomas C Wil ,-y. Andrew Rees'*. N IK. Him/—Capt. Geo. Sanderson, Emanuel Kirk, 11. P. Carson. C. F. Voigt. Jaeoh F. Kautz. -Y. £. Ward —Rlchanl McOrann. Col. Cyrus Cannany, Thomas Cox, James C. Carpeuter, John Lippincott. S. E. W“rd —Junius B. Kaufmsa. William P. Brooks, James It. Marion. William K. Leonard. Wm. H. Warner. L/»n»vur«r iwp. — Peter E. Lightner, Philip A. Fishor, Joseph Pillow. Columbia, iVorfA IKani—Thomas Groom, Charles Grove, J. M. Strickler, J. K. Cberlein. J. H. Arms? S>uth JFon/—Cyrus S. ILil l"iinn. Michael Cleppor, Lowls Tredenlok, Adam Maxtoti, Jami-s Standlov. HrmpMd Eds! —Henry Hoffman, Henry Myers,"Jacob Sener. Dr. stsmuul Parker. Benjamin Lutz. Earl —W. Sevier Harrow, Dr Samu-l Ringwalt, A. D. Smoker. Adam Z. Ringwalt. Jac b P. ILdl. 428 320 275 241 ,1304 260 ISS 95 105 1 054 49 70 39 9 107 Cwsstoga —John Kolp. John Martin, A. It. Hess, John Hess Daniel Hess. Hon. George W. Baker.—This gentleman, formerly of this city, but for the List seven years, a resident of San Francisco, California, is now on a visit to his rela tives and friends fn this county. lie looks weW and hearty i and, if possible, younger than when ho left hero. 348 324 331 325 322 The Ice Gone.—The mild weather of last we*k. ending with the heavy rain of Saturday night, and the consequent tl-vd In the Conestoga, caused the ico (which In many pi -es wh-- about 1< inches thick) to break up earlv eu Sunday m-ruing. and by evening the water was entirely clear -T id*. The ti »'d swept away fences, and other property on the batiks of the stream, ami one of the piers nt the Old Factory Bridge was so much injured ns to make crossing dangerous. Snaxely’s bridge was entirely swept away, anil part of the first le>ck, below the laudiug with the L"ck Keeper'd House. The ice also commenced un-ving on the Susquehanna at Co'umbit, hi yesterday murniug. No damage is appro headed. New IdQi'Oß Store.—l 3 y reference to uur advertising olutmis it will b«- seen that our friend, Gttottos Bkuukbu. Esq., has opened a new Liquor St.iru, at No 59 East King street, win-re he is fully prepuied to accommo- date all who in,i v bn or him with their custom. Lancaster L-iG'-motive Works.—Wo have often referred to lb«> c -mpleto workmanship and superior engines turned i lit at the-o works ; and we areglad to find that their fame is not confined to the O muiouwealth of Pennsylvania, but has extended into regions where me chanical skill is conside,-, j as having advanced to its high •'•st point in this country. W«- a!lud» h- Boston, the man ufacturing capital of New England— hi! in l Puly. The Boston A'Ji/tcoy Tin.-.- ioi:tains n notice of these works, from whi h w e take tile t'-Mowing extract LvNcisTr.it I.ocoM''Ttvi: W'oKK-i.—The above works aro situated in th- city of I^m,-aster, sixty eight miles west of Philadelphia, on the lineof road loading from Philadelphia to PitUbu-g Tit** C'lmpanv was orgnuized .May 3lst, 1553, and th-lr property compii.-'S a largo tr*et of land with buildings and timchui- 1 v. Tlu* two main buildings ary 318 and : - 5> tee* lon-; resp'-c iv- !y. and are counei-ted by a c-roSS section of s.'i feet. and f nit in shape the letter II They are .all 50 feet itv w idt h. and tHe ground tl >or contains 3'..5:>0 square fe-t. The portion of the buddings fronting till* Railroad is two M'-ries high:—Uu* upper stones being u ibio, Indiana, Tennessee and Virginia. The p"boy of tlti« company h:i« ii'ivavs been to make the character of their work sneak for it»-if. All the engines built Lv them are adapted .f ,r burning wood or coal, and withnu' exception, wherever they are running, they are given the fulk-st sati-faction. We were surprised on a recent trip i>vt* r the (Ylutubin and Philadelphia Rail road, to know that all th-dr make < I engines on that road have been burning coal exclusively, and some u, thorn regularly for two years. \\ * have already to.lic.-c] th** sin-cess of the locomotive Jrhn H Done." rn'inufactitrcd at these works for tho Northern Central Rath" id, exq resslv for tb.*C"al os fuel, without uoy wood. This cn.-iti". says Mr Davi's. tho mas- ter ’.necliantc, ran from R im -i.. to l!r idg« pui t. opposite n.arrisbuig ami back, tb-di.-tanco of 17u miles, without the use of a Kt'u k • f wo., i, wi:!i a train of-in cars fully 1 v.ded. It perform'd eqnsiily w H with a passenger train, an'l did nfd coiiin"!" more than three-fourths cd a t.-nder l-.ad ..f coal, the whole trip. C"l. Halter, Superintendent of the ,Bta.e road, ?[ie:iks in tile highest terms of tho engine! manulnotured at th. se works, and says *• tliey are worth from one tlioit-und to thr.-“ tiiousand dollars inora than any tin-same class and finish made In the ?tat.< of Penns, Hama. II- also says l * We have thirteen engines nt this buibl. and if we can not di> nmre w -rk, it mu't*-rs not of what kind, eitfier oF speed or tonnage, or hot h. w i'll less cost for repair and fuel, than any other thirteen engines in th<> I'nited Etates.of tin* same cylinder and Hiihc-ivu power, I will fi.rfeit my ropututi. n i)f any kt.owli-dge of the working or huild of a lncornc.tiva engine. No make of t ngines with which lam a cot.tinted, will t tin at a gi eater «p--cd. with more safety to lh-:r machinery, or will draw a heavier train of treiglit cars." Tin- Timi'S also says: Tim engines of tho Lancaster Company, have always cotintattdi d a well deserved repu tation for strength, durability, economy of working, and tho general stylo of their engines is highly approved of.— Jobu Brandt, Sr., has not now t> earn a hotter reputation Ilia mechanical experience dated witli the introduction of railroads in 1533,l s 33, since which time ho has hud eight years’ experience in the management of engines on the Columbia and Philadelphia Kuilroul, ten years on the New York and Erie Railroad, two years' superintendence of tho New Jersey Locomotive Machine Works, and three year- at tho i Lancaster Works. Tito character of his work is universally known. Day of Appeal. — The day of appeal fur Little Britain town-hip. has been fixed on tho 9th day of March, instead of the 25th day of February as advertised A Pleasant Cure.— One of the most re markable medicines, and very pleasant to the palate, is tho I’octoral Syrup, prepared by I)r. Geo. 11. Keyser, Wholtsalti Druggist, of Pittsburgh. I’a. Dr. K. was formerly a prac tising physician in Bedford county, where ha used tho Pectoral for four years in a practice of considerable extent, and with great success. Tho Pittsburgh papers speak of him and his medicine in high terms. If you have a Cough or Cold, or a Consumptive habit, go to C. A. Heinitah, 13 East King street, and buy a botllo. There is some haste among shop-keepers and others to be rid of the old Spanish quar ters before the bill before Congress becomes a law. The New York Times says that on enquiring of Messrs. Bebee, the bullion bro kers, we find 24 cents is paid for them for tho Havana market. At the assay offi’o sums over $lOO in Spanish quarters can be depos ited, to net full 23 cents. The Post also says: —“Holders of Spanish quarters need not the large discount of 20 per cent, created by the news of Congress, for the bullion brokers will give from 23 to 25 cents for them which they are worth commercially, according to weight of silver." Director of the U. S. Mint, at Philadelphia, announces, that in consequence of the pressure upon the Mint, in small sums, of the Spanish and Mexican quarters, eighths and sixteenths of a dollar, and to facilitate the exchange thereof, he has mads an ar rangement by which deposits of such coi will be received, in sums not less than five dollars, and paid for at the premium mint rate without the usual delay, so that deposi tors will not be obliged to call again. Tho mint rate is $1,221 per ounce. American coin will be paid for them. Value of Spanish Coin.—lt has been ascertained, by one curious in such matters, that one hundred dollars in Spanish quarters contain seventy-nine ounces and seven penny weights, which, at mint valuation of $1,22£ cents per ounce, would be worth $07,20, or about two and seven eights per cent, less than its value. Now how do we account for the twenty per cent, shave off these? The sum of $5OO on all sorts of Spanish quarters, old and smooth, only showed at the mint a losb of four per cent, in the value. On the twelve and a halt cent bits the depreciation is about ten to twelve per cent., and on the little six and a quarter pieces, tho loss is about twenty to thirty per cent., but there are very few of this fractional part of the Spanish coin about, compared with the quarters and shillings. . PUTNAM’S MONTHLY —A Migazin.* of Literature, Sci ence and Art. Published by Dix, Edwards k Co., New York, at $3 per annum, and for sale at all the Book Stores in Lancaster. The February number has tho following interesting ta ble of contents, viz : 1. New England Military Worthies of the Olden Times— Myles Standish. 2. A Ls/.zia. 3. A National Drama. 4. TheUhioe Castle. 5. The Boston Ladies’ Reception of Washington. 6. Bio Old Adobe: A Romance Perhaps. 7. Memoirs of George Sand. 8. Witching Timeß. 9. Southern Literature. 10. Editorial Notes. American Literature and Reprints. CommeQtson Current Matters. HARPERS' NEW MONTHLY- MAOAZINE. Published by Harper & Brothers, N. York, at $3 per annnm, and for sale by Murray Yocno k Co., Lancaster. The contents of the February number are &s follows : 1. Behemoth and bis Friends at Home. 2. Livenoorts. 3. Sketches of Old Thebes. 4. The Siege of the Mack Cottage. 5. The Discovery of tho N. W. Passage, fi. Pursuit of a Wife. 7. The Wits of the Pulpit. 8. Autobiography of a Single Woman. 9. Dora Dee. 10. I/ive Struck by Lightning. 11. Celebrated Wiues. 12. Little Dorrit. 13. Two Days on the Erie Railroad. 14. Pas Encore. 15. Monthly Record of Current Event*. 16. Literary Notices. 17. Editor’s Table. 18. Editor’s Easy Chair. 19. Editor’s Drawer. 20. Fashions for February. THE LADY’S nOME MAGAZINE. Edited by T. S. Ar thur and Virginia F. Townsend, and published by T. 8. Arthur & Co., No. 103. Walnut St. Philadelphia, at $2 per annum. The February number is handsomely embellished, and filled with Interesting and Instructive leading matter. The SpanivH Ctuarters. The Editor’s Book Table,