INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTRIAN.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
A. SANDERSON, Associate..
LANCASTER, PA., APRIL 28, 1857.
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SUBSCBirnolf PBXOX, $2,00 per annum:
DEMOCRATIC STATS TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR.
WILLIAM F. PACKER, Lyeoming County.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
NIMROD STRICKLAND, Chester County.
Democratic State Committee.
The Democratic State Committee met on
Tuesday last at the Merchant's Hotel, in
Philadelphia, and unanimously passed ( a reso
lution re-oonvening the State Convention of
the 2d of March, at Harrisburg, on the 9th
day of June next, at 10 o'clock, for the pur
pose of nominating candidates to fill the va
cancies on th 6 Supreme Bench, occasioned by
the retiring of Chief Justice Lewis, and. the
appointment of Judge Black to the Attorney
Generalship of the United States. I
Sale of the Main Line. |
The most exciting topic now before the
Legislature is the bill for the sale of the Main
Line. Various amendments have been pro
posed and advocated, and still the discussion
goes on. The probability is that it will pass
both branches and become a law.
The correspondent of the Pittsburg Lnion
says The bill is so formed that no Company
but the Pennsylvania Central can purchase
the Main Line, and that company is to have
it on terms which are ruinous to the Common
wealth. The price at which that Company
are to have the works is $9,000,000, none of
which is to be paid until 1890, but to bear
interest at 5 per centum per annum. This
interest will amount to $450,000 per annum,
while the revenues which the State relinquishes
by the passage of the bill are as follows :
Profits of the main line as exhib
ited last year,
Tonnage Tax,
Tax on Stock,
Making a total of
This.simple statement shows a clear yearly
loss to the. State Treasury of $291,017,84, to
be brought about by the passage of this bill.
This annual loss would in thirty-three years,
the time which must elapse before any pay
ment is made to the State under it, amount
to $9,623,388,72, a sum greater than the works
are to be sold for!
The same writer 6&ys, that never, within
his experience at Harrisburg, has a bill been
forced through the House by such open and
disgraceful “ boring” as has characterized
this one. It is in the hands of such men as
Gen. Cameron, James Burns, John P. Ander
son and others, and they have been and are
exerting every nerve and using all conceivable
means to effect its passage. It is disgusting
to witness this tampering with the represen
tatives of the people, and it is sincerely to be
hoped that the evil attempted will not be con
summated.
The Weather—Comef*
The unusual and singularly cold and stormy
weather that has characterized the present
month, up until the last two or three days, is.
elioiting very general attention. The heavy
storm commencing on Sunday week, and
continuing through Monday and Tuesday,
was in many respects remarkable, snow hav
ing fallen in various sections of the country
to a great depth—in the southern section of
this county about two feet on a level—causing
much damage and greatly endangering the
fruit from the cold. We have scarcely had
one really pleasaht spring day since the month
of April set in, and the cold and stormy
weather has been unprecedented. Some at
tribute it to the approach of comets, and a
writer in t.he St. Louis Republican, falling
into this view, cites the rapid approach of the
comet, now visible in the evening sky, whose
movements have been calculated by the most
celebrated astronomers of Europe, and which
it is predicted by some of the German mathe
maticians will come in direct collision with
the earth on the 16th of June proximo. The
writer says:—“This opinion has been made
light of by American astronomers, but whether
probable or' not, there is no questioning the
faot that the comet has entered the limits of
the solar system, and is now approaching the
earth with fearful rapidity, ats may be seen by
the most casual observer, by noticing its daily
increase in size.”
The same writer avers that “similar changes
of the climate have been observed before,
during the passage of comets near the earth.
The comet of 1826 was accompanied by heavy
rains and consequent inundations-, and every
one must remember the unusually cold and
severe weather prevalent at the time of the
appearanoe of the brilliant comet of March,
1843. The comet now approaching the earth
is that of Charles V., which first appeared in
perehelion, in 1264. It may be 6een in a clear
evening near B. Sagittari, and is evidently
nearing the earth with great rapidity.”
This writer, says the Philadelphia Argus,
partially coincides with the very erroneous
opinion that the comet referred to, in passing
across our orbit, may come in contact with,
the earth. Enough has been demonstrated
by astronomers to show the entire fallacy of
such an idea. Whatever meterological or
atmospheric effect a comet may have—and it
Ib doubtful if any—becomes another question.
A communication from Professor Maury, in
the National Intelligencer, announces the dis
covery and approach of another comet, making
two now visible by means ot the telescope..
The Deed Accomplished,
The bill defrauding the tax-payers of the
Commonwealth, by giving the Main Line of
the Public Works to the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, has passed the House of Rep
resentatives finally, by the following vote :
Yeas—Mnssra. Augustine, Backus, Ball, Bisbfp, Brown,
Campbell, Chase. Cleaver, Cruwfurd, Dickey. D ick, Kyster,
Gibboney, Hamilton, Hancock, Iliot-tand, Hint), Hoffman,
(Lebanon.) Housekeeper, Imbrie, Jacobs, Johnson, Kauff
man, Kerr, Lebo, Maaear, Alrtugle, M’Calmont, Moorehead,
Mumma, Musselraan, Nichols, Penrose, Pownall, l’urcell,
Pearson. Reedj>SUaw, Sloan, Struthers, Thorn, Tolan, Vail,
Vanvoorhifl. Vickers, Wagonseller t Warner, Williston,
Wintrode, Witherson and Wright—sl.
fjxis'—Messrs. Abrams, Anderson. Arthur, Backhouse,
Beck, Bower, Calhoun, Carty, Eut, Fausold, Foster, Gildea,
Hamel, Harper, Heins, Hill, Hoffman, (of Berks,) Jones,
Johns, Knight, Leisenring, Longaker, Mcllvaine, Nichol
son, Nunnemacher, Pearson, Peters, Petriken. Ramsey, (of
Philadelphia.) Ramsey, (of York.) Reamer, Roberts. Rupp,
Smith, (ot Cambria,) Smith, (of Centro.) Stevenson, Voeght
ly, Walter, Westbrook, Wharton, and Getz, Speaker—ll.
We suppose, it will also pass the Senate,
and thus the Commonwealth will be virtually
sold to a mammoth railroad corporation, and
and .that too without a consideration —for the
tax-payers will find, when it is too late to apply
the remedy, that they must reach their hands
deeper down than ever in their pockets to pay
even the interest on the State debt. As to
the principal, or any portion of it, being liqui
dated by thiß sale, it is all gammon, as will
be abundantly seen by the people before a
twelve-month Bhall have elapsed.
State Elections. — The next election in
Virginia will be for members of Congress and
the State Legislature, and will take place on
Tuesday the 26th of May. There will then
be no other until August, when elections wil
take place in the following States :
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Kentuoky,
Missouri,
Texas,
jNorth Carolina,
Tennessee,
Tlio Apportionment Bill-
The following in a copy of the Apportion
ment Bill as it passed the Senate finally on
Tuesday last. Should it pass the House and
become a law in its present Bhape, there will
be a slim chance for obtaining a Democratic
majority, on joint ballot at least, for the next
Beven years. If we really have a Democratic
House, it is to be hoped that body will prevent
any such unfair bill from passing the present
session.
Dist’s.
1. Philadelphia city
2. Chester and Delaware
3. Montgomery...
4. Bucks
5. Leblzh and Northampton
0. Schuylkill
7. Berks.
8. Lancaster and Lebanon
9. Dauphin and Cumberland
10. York
11. Adams and Franklin
12. Bedford, Fulton, Blair and Huntingdon
13. Somerset, Fayette and Greene
14. Washington and Bearer
16. Allegheny
16. Indiana and Westmoreland
17. Lawrence, Bntler and Venango
18. Crawford and Mercer
19. Erie, Warren and M’Kean
20. Armstrong, Clarion and Forrest
21. Jefferson, Elk, Clearfield and Cambria
22. Tioga, Potter, Clinton and Centre
23. Perry, Juniata, Mifflin, Snyder and^Union.
24. Northumberland, Montour and Columbia...
25. Bradford, Sullivan and Lycoming
20. Susquehanna, Wyoming and Wayne
27. Luzerne
28. Carbon, Monroe and Pike
REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS.
First Ward, Philadelphia city !...
Second Ward do
3d, 4th and sth Wardß do
6th, 12th. and 13th Wards, do
7th. Bth, 9th k 10th Wards, do
11th 10th and 18th Wards, do
14th, 15th k 20th Wards, do
17th and 19th Wards, do
21st and 24th Wards do
22d and 23d Wards, do
City ofPhiladelphia
Delaware county
Chester do
Montgomery do
Bucks do
Northampton do
Carbou and Lehigh counties
Berks county
Schuylkill do
Lebanon ....do
Lancaster do
York do
Dauphin ... do
Cuuil>erland county
Adams do
Franklin and Fulton counties
, Huntingdon
\ Bedfordand Somerset
; Fayette
Greene *
i Washington
! Allegheny ;....
Westmoreland
Armstrong and Jefferson
Butler
Beaver and Lawrence
Mercer and Venango
Erie
Warren and M’Kean
Forrest, Elk and Clearfield
Clarion
Indiana
Cambria
Centre
Potter and Clinton
Mifflin ;
Juniata and Snyder
Union and LycomlDg
Northumberland
Montour and Columbia
Tioga
Bradford
Wayne
Luzerne
Susquehanna. Wyoming and Sullivan.
Monroe »Dd Pike
Perry
Blair
Crawford
$392,596 42
249,021 42
100,000 00
$741,617 84
The Postmaster General.
We hear on all sides that the now Postmas
ter General, Governor Brown, is discharging
the onerous and vexatious duties of his office
to the great satisfaction of all who have bus
iness with the Department. Ilis immediate
predecessor, Judge Campbell, was an admir
rable officer in every respect, and it is praise
enough to know that the new incumbent will
fully come up to the standard of the distin
guished gentleman who filled the office during
the entire term of the late administration.—
We predict that Governor Brown, aided as he
is by that admirable officer, Mr. King, and
the other Assistants, will prove to be one of
the most popular and efficient Postmaster
Generals who ever filled the difficult post.
Death seems to attach itself in some
form—near or remote —to the White House at
Washington. Jackson entered it a few weeks
after the decease of a beloved wife. Harrison
and Taylor themselves died in it. Tyler be
came a widower after he reached it. Polk
left it only to return home and die. Fillmore
buried his wife and daughter soon after his
term expired. Pierce had- his only son and
child snatched from him a short
entering upon his duties as Chief Magistrate
—and now Mr. Buchanan mourns a beloved
nephew, who was called away in the prime of
his early manhood.
Verily, the grim monster is “ no respecter
of persons.”
Another Legislative Outrage.
This morning the House reconsidered the
supplement to the Charter of the Sunbury
and Erie Railroad, which I referred to yester
day as being defeated, and after some discus
sion passed it. The bill, as passed, compels
the State to guarantee $3,000,000 of the bonds
oi that company—the guarantee to consist of
the same amount of the bonds received for the
sale of the ’Main Line. The vote upon the
section containing this guarantee was 44 to
43—three Democrats being present who did
not vote.
This will be another exceedingly unpopular
measure, and following so closely on the heels
of the bill for the sale of the Main Line, will
cap the climax of outrages perpetrated on the
tax-payers of the State by the corrupt major
ity of the present Legislature.
llon. John G. Montgomery, the Democratic
member of Congress elect from the Columbia
and Montour district in this State, died in
Danville, on Friday morning last. He is an
other victim of the National Hotel epidemic,
having stopped there during his visit to Wash
ington at the time of the Inauguration, and
contracted the disease, or poison, of which he
died.
Mr. Montgomery’s decease will create a
vacancy in the Congressional delegation from
this State, which we hope to Bee filled by the
nomination and election of the gifted and elo
quent Buckalew, than whom a better man
could not be found any where throughout the
broad limits of the Commonwealth.
A Good Appointment. — We learn that the
President has appointed Lieut.. William Rey
nolds, formerly of this city, a retired officer of
the U. S. Navy, to the lucrative post of Naval
Storekeeper at Honolula. Lieut. R. has re
sided for several years at Honolula.
The present Legislature to earn for
themselves an infamous notoriety. Not con
tent with giving away the public works of the
Commonwealth to a soulless and overgrown
monopoly, they are also taking the initiative
for flooding the Commonwealth with innumer
able “ promises to pay.” Look at the Bank
bills which have already passed the House of
Representatives:
Bank of Lewisburg, capital, $200,000;
Pittstoh Bank, 200,000; Corn-Exchange,
500,000 ; Kittanning Bank, 150,000 ; Octora
ro,*lso,ooo ; Coatesville, 150,000; 'Allegheny
City, 500,000 ; Commonwealth, Philadelphia,
500,000; Doylestown, 150,000, Shamokin,
150,000; Farmers’ and Drovers’, Waynesburg,
100,000; Catasaqua, 400,000 ; Citizens’ De
posit Bank, Pittsburg, 500,000; Easton Bank,
200,000 ; Union Bank, Philadelphia, 500,000;
Central Bank, Hollidaysburg, 300,000; Potts
town, 200,000; Union Bank, Reading, 300,-
000; York County Bank, 200,000 —Total,
$6,350,000.
The Post Office Department has invited
proposals till the first of June, for carrying
the entire letter mail overland, from the Mis
sissippi-to San Francisco, in four horse coaches
Bemi-monthly, weekly, and semi-weekly. The
Department of the Interior has nearly com
pleted the for the construction
of the contemplated wagon road to the Pacific.
August 3
August 3
August 3
August 3
August 3
August 6
August 6
SENATORIAL DISTRICTS.
Harrisburg, April 23,1857,
Another Victim.
More Rag Mills
The California Malls.
Judge Story's Opinion.
The Black Republican papers have made a
great outcry about that part of the decision in
the Dred Scott case which decides that a slave
is not made free by being carried temporarily ,
into a free State. They declare that this is a
new doctrine, and contrary tb the whole .
course of judicial decisions since the founda
tion of the Government. Yet a letter is now
produced from the late Judge Story, fully sus
taining the doctrine. A case arose in the
English Court, (of which Lord Stowell was
Chief- Justice,) where an Antigua Blave was
carried by his master to England for tempo-!
rary residence, and was subsequently taken 1
back to Antigua. He brought suit for his
freedom, and the Inferior Court decided
against his right to freedom. Id the Appel
late Court, Lord Stowell, in behalf of the
majority of the Court, affirmed the judgment
below. Lord Stowell sent his decision to Judge
Story, with whom he was in the habit of cor
responding. In reply, Judge Story wrote as
follows: — ;
“ Salem, near Boston, Sept. 22, 1838.
To Rt. Hon. Wm. Lord Stowell:
My Lord —l have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your letters of Jan. and ,
May last, the former of which reached me in
the latter part of the spring, and the latter
quite recently. ***** I have read,
with great attention, your judgment in the !
slave case from the vice Admiralty Court in =
Antigua. Upon the fullest consideration which
I have been able to give the subject, I entirely
concur in your views. If I had been called up -.
on to pronounce a judgment in a like case, J )
should certainly have arrived at the same result, :
though I might not have been able to present j
the reasons which led to it in such a striking !
and convincing manner. It appears to me i
that the decision is impregnable.
“In my native State (Mass.) the state of
slavery is not recognized as legal; and yet, if.
l a slave should come hither and afterwards re - !
turn to his own home, we should certainly think 1
, that the local law would re-attach upon him, \
; and that his servile character would be reinte
grated. I have had occasion to know that
i your judgment has been extensively read in
| America, (where questions of this nature are
‘ not of unfrequent discussion,) and I have
; never heard any other opinion but that of
| approbation of it expressed among the profes
j sion of the law. I cannot but think that, upon
; questions of this sort, as well as general mar
atime law, it were well if the common lawyers
had studied a little more extensively the prin
ciples of public and civil law, and had looked
beyond their own Municipal jurisprudence.
I remain with the highest respect.
Your most obedient servant,
JOSEPH STORY.”
This is precisely the doctrine upon which the
Dred Scott decision is based; and coming
from so eminent a jurist, and one who was
known to be-strongly opposed to slavery,
ought to remove all doubt as to the justice of
the decision.
What Modesty I
An abolition paper up in “ Wilmot’s Dis-
trict,” says
“ David Wilmot received the news of his ;
nomination, sitting quietly at home, in the j
midst of his family. Neither he nor his friends, j
kept “open house” at Harrisburg or else- j
where. He did not find it necessary to attend \
as an outside delegate, even.” !
What a retiring, modest, unambitious man
Mr. Wilmot is! When the Convention that
nominated him was in session, he was “sitting
quietly at home, in the midst of his family,”
not thinking of such thing as his selection !
Some men can’t help having honors thrust
upon them, no matter how much they run
from them or try to avoid them. lie was
“sitting quietly at home, in the midst of his
family.” It is a downright shame to disturb
such a quietly inclined maD, and force him to
be a candidate for Governor—especially when
there is not the least chance on earth for him
’to be elected. But the chronicler of David's
virtues might have added, that he has spent
the last six months in pettifoging, pipe-laying,
wire pulling and such little modest trickery
to blindfold and humbug the Know Nothings
and get the same unlooked-for nomination ;
and that by resorting to every kind of leger
demain, which he understands to a modest
extent, he had everything cut, laid up, and
! dried long ago, so that there was no more need
j for him at Harrisburg during the Convention,
j than there was for stone dressers in the city
of Jerusalem at the building of Solomon’s
temple. The most innocent looking creature
to be found is a fox, the morning after a visit
to the farmyard ; and of course Mr. Wilmot
would be “ sitting quietly at home in the
midst of his family.” Modesty will injure
that man in some way yet. He even had too
much of it to resign his judgeship last fall
before stumping the State fur Fremont, for
fear he should trouble the people to elect an
another. Modest David Wilmot. —Lycoming
Gazette.
The News from Europe.
The advices from Europe by the City of
Washington possess but little interest. The
elections throughout Great Britain, now nearly
terminated, are largely in favor of Lord Pal
merston. According to the London Globe, a
ministerial print, there were returned, up to
the Bth of April, 366 liberals against 249 con
servatives. As ft is uncertain how many of
the new members will votowith ministers, we
shall not know precisely the majority that the
Premier will command until Parliament
meets. The first test question will bo the
election of a Speaker by the House. There is
scarcely any news from the Continent of Eu
rope. The telegraph from Madrid announces
the recognition of the Spanish claims by Mex
ico, but the correctness of the despatch may
very well be doubted. The Austro Sardinian
rupture is complete, and the dispute grows se.
rious. Austria has issued a circular, in which
Piedmont is covertly threated with ulterior
measures if the meditation of France and Eng
land Bhould prove unsuccessful. European
journals seem greatly befogged in regard to
the Neufchatel question. Some assert that the
conferences have adjourned sine die without
being able to arrive at any satisfactory con--
elusion. Others, again, contradict the state
ment.
Sensible. —The National Era, the leading
anti-slavery paper in the country, (published
at Washington,) came out last week with a
long article against the course of the free state
party of Kansas, in refusing not to take part
in the election of delegates to the constitutional
convention. The Era advises the party to
“reconsider” their plan, and make immediate
efforts to show their strength at the polls.—
The Era says that no test oaths are required
of every inhabitant can vote, and
if the free state men do not vote they will
prejudice themselves in the eyes of the people
and be placed at a disadvantage with the dem
ocratic party.
The Pennsylvania Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb.— The annual report of the
Board of Directors of this Institution for 1856,
is exceedingly interesting, and gives a graphic
picture of its operations. At the close of the
year it 173 pupils, ninety three of
whom were boys and eighty girls. Of these,
126 were supported by the State of Pennsyl
vania, 13 by Maryland, 9 by New Jersey, 4
by Delaware, and 21 by the Institution, or
their friends. ~""’
fi©* The bill for separating the office of
Superintendent of Common Schools from that
of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, has
finally passed both houses and been signed by
the Governor.
jggf Two hundred persons are said to have
been frozen to death in the United States dur
ing the present winter.
The National Hotel Disease.
The death of another distinguished victim
of the late National Hotel d.seuse, Hon. John
G. Montgomery, of tfiis State, and the contin
ued illness of the new Collector of this Port from ;
the same complaint, re directs public attention !
to the origin of this terrible epidemic.
There are certain coincidences connected
with this subject whioh are suggestive of the
most horrible suspicions, bufc for the honor of
human nature, we hope they may be unfund
ed. Mr. Buchanan arrived at the National
Hotel on the 25th of January. On the 26th
Dr. Hall was sent for to see the first case. A
few days afterwards be had thirty-five cases,
and quite a arge number took sick, many of
them after leaving Washington. Mr. Buchan
an was among the latter. The symptoms in
all the cases were the same—violent, copious
purging, inflammation of the large intestines,
with a constant disposition to relapse.
During an interval of several weeks previous
to the second of March, do new case occurred.
On the evening of that day, Mr. Buchanan
returned to Washington, and about that peri
od the hotel was crowded with visitors. On
the 4th of March the disease broke out with
increased violence and many hundreds were
affected. The symptoms uniformly indicated
poison, which some physicians considered of
a miasmatic, and others of a mineral nature—
probably copper. No satisfactory elucidation
of the mystery has yet been made.— Peiuisyl-
Restraints upon Matrimony.
The New York press is greatly excited
about the case of an interesting young widow,
of that city, whose late husband left her an
income of $15,000 a year on condition that
she did not marry again. If she married the
income is lost. Well, she has found a young
gentleman whom she wishes to marry, and he
is willing. But the loss of the income is the
trouble. She has offered the heir at law as a
compromise, two thirds of the income, and she
to retain one third and marry, but he cruelly
refuses.
The newspapers are discussing the law and
justice of the case, and the following judg- i
ment made by Chancellor Walworth some ;
years ago in a case somewhat similar is re- |
published: I
The other objection, that the annuity was j
limited to the widowhood of the infant, and i
has not been accepted by her since the remo- j
val of her disability to control or assent, I
must consider-fatal to the complainant’s claim
of an equitable bar. In ordinary marriages
such a limitation might not be considered as
unreasonable. ■* The chances of a wile’s out
; living her husband are about equal, and if,she
' survives, she will probably have arrived at an
j age when it may not be considered a very
' great hardship, if she is compelled to live sin
gle to preserve her jointure; but when an
old man of seventy-five marries a young lady,
too young even to make a valid contract to bar
! her dower; when the first of January weds
; the bloom of May, such a condition as this is
i inequitable and unjust. After she had sacri
i ficed her youth to him, to share his frozen
! couch for a few years a: the farthest, it is un
! reasonable to impose on her the obligation of
living single the remainder of her life, as the
condition upon which alone she is permitted
to retain an equitable equivalent for the dower
upon his large estate.
BgL,lf we mistake not the same principle,
—we mean that enunciated by Chancellor Wal
worth—was previously decided in the Com
mon Pleasof this county by Judge Lewis, the
present Chief Justice of the State. The do
cision however was subsequently overruled by
the then Chief Justice Gibson.
From Washington.
April 24.—The charges, against Governor
Izard, of Nebraska, having been withdrawn,
he will be removed on the ground of public
expediency. It is probable that a successor
will be chosen from one of the Northern
States.
The President was serenaded by the Ma
rine Band, last night, on the. occasion of the
sixty-sixth anniversary of his birth day.
The Governorship of Utah Territory has
been tendered to Maj. Benj. McCulloh, of
Texas, who it is believed will accept the
appointment.
The Postmaster General has. concluded a
contract with the Panama Railroad Company,
to convey the mails until the expiration of the
present contracts with the steamship compa
nies, two years hence, at the rate of $lOO,OOO
per annum.
Indian Murders in Minnesota and Ne
braska. —The Chicago Press learns that a
a band of 600 Sioux Indians have been com
mitting depredations at South Bend, Minne
sota river. It is rumored that Mankato had
been attacked and burned, and the inhabitants
murdered by the Indians. This is the same
band which committed the murders at Spirit
Lake. The farmers were flocking to St. Paul’s
for safety. Several companies of troop s from
Fort Ridgely have gone in pursuit of the In
dians, and the cavalry at Fort Snelling have
been sent for. The greatest panic existed in
the settlements, and all the farmers were
arming and preparing to join in the pursuit.
St. Louis, April 22. —The officers of the
steamer Minnehaha, from Upper Missouri, ro
port a great excitement at Plattsmouth, Ne
braska, in consequence of the Pawnee Indians
being drive in by a number of settlers of Salt
Creek. A fight occurred, resulting in the kill
ing of several Indians and one white man, and
the capturing of thirteen Indians. Gen.
Thayer, of Omaha city, has raised a party of
volunteers to protect the settlers.
Lord Clarendon and Mr. Buchanan,
The following extract which we take from
a late speech of Lord Clarendon, the British
Minister of Foreign Affairs*, affords a most
refreshing contrast, in its high appreciation of
Mr. Buchanan, to the course and vile abuse
which has been heaped upon him in the Times
and other English papers. Lord Clarendon,
who, by virtue of his office, had the best oppor
tunities for knowing Mr. Buchanan, with
whom he was in direct intercourse when the
latter was in England, took occasion to say
from his place in Parliament:
“ I will not venture further to trespass on
your patience, but I should like to add that I
believe at no time of late years has there ex
isted eo thoroughly sound and wholesome a
state of feeling as that which exists at present
between the people of this country and the
United States. I believe that this feeling is
shared by the present Government of the
United States with the same sincerity as by
that of Her Majesty, and we have the advan
tage that the eminent man, who ha 9 been
called by the voice of his countrymen to pre
side over the destinies of the United States,
has recently left our shores. He is one who has
lived among us, who has mixed among all
classes of people, and who has been able to
ascertain for himself the feelings of respect
felt toward his country by all classes of people
in the United Kingdom.”
“ The States.”
This is a new daily paper just Btarted in
Washington City, published by that veteran
in the newspaper line, Maj. John P. Heiss.—
“ The States ” is about the Bize of the Star,
and exceedingly neat in appearance—thor
oughly Democratic in tone, but promisee to be
fearless and independent in the discussion of
principles, measures and men. Maj. Heiss
has had much experience in the management
of a daily press, and judging from the .well
filled columns of the few numbers of “The
States” that have been received, we look for
a capable, well conducted and highly popular
journal in the new Washington Dailyi The
Major has our best wishes for abundant success
in his new enterprise.
Church Difficulties. —The Legislature of |
New York have been humbugged into attempt- j
ing to -ettle disputes iu the Episcopal Church ;
by legislation. In the debate Senator Wads- .
worth in the course of his defence of Trinity ,
Church, the other day, set forth that the doors
•if that temple were always open—and never j
shut on Sundays or week days, in the face of!
the po r—and went on to say :
“ W iuld the Senator invite U 9 to a compar
ison, or X should rather say contrast, with her
up-town sister churches, or with Grace Church, :
who stands so conspicuously foremost in the i
present contest as the assailant of Trinity ? j
Behold her, then, standing in her pride ; the ;
ricli carriages with their velvet cushions, driv- I
ing in a long line to her doors ; the coachmun !
with his gloved hands reining in the valuable
steeds; the footman in his gaudy livery swing- |
ing back the door upon its silver hinges ; the |
Christian lady, the humble Communicant of I
Grace Church, with all the * wealth of Ormus ;
and the farther Ind ’ upon her person,
sweeping along the carpeted aisle, the rustling
of her silk chiming in with the operatic strains
j that burst upon the ear.
“ See her sleek and pious pastor, os with
, complacent smile he receives the golden cup.
in return for the infant baptism before that
altar, at which all mankind are invited to
I worship ' without money and without price/
i Mark the rich contributions that are realized
; at her communion service. See how wealth
pours into her treasury, even at the last min
| istrations over the perfumed corpse that lies
' before her altar.
“Oh, Grace Church is glorious in her riches
beyond compare ; and she looks with contempt
on Trinity and her humble'congregation. She
can close her doors six or eight weeks in the
year, that pastor and people may go forth into
the country, and recruit themselves after the
most exhausting and self sacrificing spiritual
labors. Sir, Trinity never closes her doors.
She has her ministers at her altar, and her
stated service every day in the year. She
does not set aside the duties of religion that
she may gratify luxurious ease.”
Sharp, severe and very persona 1 , that.
The Poisoning Case.
The Cleveland Plaindealer, whose editor has
recently returned from a visit of some weeks to
Washington, in referring to the late poison
sickness in that city, and the concurrent tes
timony of numerous physicians in all parts of
the country that the symptoms could only
have been produced by poison, refers to the
fact that the malady originally broke out du
ring Mr. Buchanan’s first visit to the hotel;
it ceased when he left for Wheatland, and
upon his return, after a fortnight’s absence,
became again more violent than ever. The
President elect was warned by anony
mous letters, not to eat or drink in that house ;
and under the advice of friends, although he
returned to the hotel from a feeling of regard
for its worthy proprietors, he never broke
bread or emptied a glass there, until he took up
his residence in the Presidential Mansion.—
Occasional visitors who did not board there,
but used the bar, were not afflicted, while
nearly all the occupants of the dining room
were’more or less prostrated. The Plaindeal
er adds:—
In France, an infernal machine is used to
dispose of objectionable personages ; in Spain
the stiletto ; in the United States, the ballot
box has heretofore been considered potent
enough. But since preachers have turned
politicians and pulpits belch forth their an
themas upon political parties, calling on God
to destroy, as with the besom of destruction,
what they are pleased to term the political
heretics of the day, it is no wonder that the
followers of such infatuated leaders should
become themselves infatuated, and-do literallv
what God prayerfully had so often been called
upon to do. This they could do under a sense
of religious duty and justify themselves, as
obeying the behests of those who claim to be
the Oracles of God “ speaking by his author
ity.” Saul persecuted the Saints “ even unto
death” and verily thought in his heart that
he was doing God’s service. The New Eng
land Puritans hung Witches, killed Quakers,
and banished Baptists, all for the glory of
God. The same infatuation exists to-day, and
has ho doubt exhibited itself in the attempt
to destroy the life of an American President.
The design might not have been limited to
the President alone, for it is well known that
the Vice President and leading men of the
party would naturally congregate where the
President was advertised to stop ; and true
enough, J. Glancy Jones, Samuel Medary,
and other friends of the President, partook of
the poison and narrowly escaped death, while
several others less distinguished stopping at
the hotel paid the forfeit of their lives.
Mormon Rebellion,
The Deseret News of Jan. 18, has a long
article on the relations of Utah to the Federal
Government, and, speaking officially, is defi
ant. It says:
“So far. as the free,“untrammeled consent
and expressed wishes of the Government are
concerned, should a majority of the citizens
in a Territory, choose to waive their constitu
tional rights and prefer a state of vassalage, a
state of being ruled by officers thrust upon
them, and legislated for by usurped authority,
we see no reason why their choice should not
be complied with, at least upon the principle
of the voluntary consent of the governed.—
But when said majority, even to the extent of
an entire community, are known to most per
sistently prefer officers of their own election
to those foisted upon them by arbitrary pow
er, and pass republican laws of their own en
actment, to laws carved, dictated and forced
upon them by a power to whichihe Constitution
gives no such authority , we are constrained to
say that most truly are men prone to oppress
their fellows. How long,.think ye, can such
oppression be quietly endured/ How long,
think ye, will any people submit to the dic
tates, slanders, corruptions and abuse of offi
cers whom they have no voice in electing, and
whose efforts are constantly put forth to their
utmost for the destruction of the people among
whom they are sent? Suppose ye, that the
few dollars parsimoniously doled out by Con
gress can buy freemen to overlook such glar
ing inconsistencies ?
Horrible Cruelty
A sea captain named Hugh Orr, has lately
been oh trial at Exeter, England, for the
murder of Edward Devee. An English paper
A case of such fearful cruelty and atrocity,
as detailed in the opening of the case, was,
perhaps, never heard. The prisoner, a fine
looking man, was the captain of a vessel called
the Hannah Jane, of about 120 tons burthen.
The deceased was a black man, a native of
Boston, about 32years of age, and was engaged
as cook in the ship. The crew of the ship
consisted of the captain, six men and a boy.—
In February, 1856, the vessel sailed from
London to Newcastle, for a cargo of coals, and
then proceeded to Senegal, then to Cape Verde
Islands, to Rio Grande and then back to Eng
land. "While they were in the Senegal river
they commenced a series of cruelties—beating
and flogging the cook day by day for four
weeks, until, becoming weaker weaker
from these cruelties, death, more merciful
than his persecutor, relieved him from his
sufferings on the 3d of July. He was beaten
by the captain with ropes, with broom han
dles, and with a '‘cat,” and when bis back
was raw he was scrubbed with a brush. The
poor fellow used to cry for mercy, and called
upon the crew to come and help him, but the
crew dared not interfere. When the vessel
reached Rio Grande the crew took occasion to
inform" the Consul there of the treatment the
cook had received, and of his death, but he
said he could not do anything in the matter.
The ship arrived at Plymouth in December,
and an inquiry was instituted, which ended
in the captain being sent to prison for trial.
One seaman testified—
I scrubbed the cook’s back with the sea wa
ter and a brush by order of the captain.—
Once I saw the captain and mate flog him,
and counted the lashes. The captain gave
him 48 and the mate 366. The captain beat
him with a cat and the mate with a plaited
rope with knots in it. When he was dead the
body was cut every where. The mate saw
him lying on the deck the night before he
died, and him on the breast with his
heavy sea' boots, and h© struck him with a
large heavy 1 block. I heard him moaning af
ter this, but I never heard him speak after
that.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty of
manslaughter, and the prisoner was sentenced
to be transported for life.'
CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS.
Proceedings of Court. — The April term
of ibe Quarter Sessions’ Court was held last week before
Judges Long and Below will be found a synopsis
of the proceedings, curtailed from the report of the Daily
Evening Express
The Court met at 10 o’clock A. M. The attendance of
jurors and witnesses was not large, on account of the se
verity of the storm. Sixteen grand jurors ouswered to their
names, and were respectively sworn and affirmed. Samuel
Allison, of ilartic, was appointed f'reman.
Judge Long briefly charged the jury, defining their
duties and adverting to the manner In which they were
to discharge them.
Alexander Harris, of Juniata county, on presentation of
his certificate, was admitted to practice in the several
courts of Lancaster county.
The application of Earl Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., for incorpora
tion, was granted by the Court. -
Proclamation was made that the Sheriff, on Saturday
next, would bring into Court a number of deeds for con
firmation. Mr. Uiester gave notice that the confirmation
. of the deed of No. 1 Cotton Mill would be opposed at the
proper time.
After depositions w«ro read, proclamation was made
: divorcing Eliza E. White, from the bonds of matrimony,
I which she had contracted with Thompson White, on the
I ground of desertion.
Mrs. Anna Jeffries, of this city, was also divorced from
| her husband, James H. Jeffries, on the ground of harsh
i and cruel treatment. o
Octavian Foinler, of the borough of Colombia, a retailer
of lager beer, plead guilty to a charge of selling on Sunday.
He was ordered to pay a floe of $lO and costs, and undergo
an imprisonment of ten days, at hard labor, in the county
prison.
The constables’ returns were then received; the lately
elected constables sworn in. and their bonds approved.
Lawrence Knapp, of the firm ot Spreuger A Knapp, beer
brewers, of this city, indicted at the January Sessions for
selling beer without a license, plead guilty to the charge,
and was sentenced to pay a fine of sso and costs. Proceeds
to go into the city school fund.
Henry Frank, of this city, plead guilty to the some
charge, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $5O and costs.
Proceeds to go into the city school fund.
Augustus Sbcenberger, of this city, ludicted for the same
offence, pleaded guilty by bis counsel, and was sentenced
to pay a fine of SSU and costs. Proceeds to go into the city
school fund.
Com. vs. Samuel Overly. Indictment, assault and battery
on Robert Lambert, on the 16th of I>ecember last. The
defendant was a member of the city night watch. Verdict
guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of twenty-five cents and
costs of prosecution.
. John Witlinger, of this city, indicted for selling beer
without license, plead guilty, and was seutoßced to pay a
fine of $5O and costs. Proceeds to go into the city school
fund.
In the caso of Georg* IL.uk, indicted for larceny, the
grand jury ignored the bill.
Com. vs. John Tabn. Indictmeut, assault and battery
on James Ward, on the 16th of March bust. The occurrence
took place in front of Trout’s Hotel, West Oraage street.—
Verdict not guilty, aud prosecutor, James Ward, to pay
the costs.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sprenger. of this city, indicted for selling
beer without license, plead guilty, and was sentenced to
pay a fine of $25 and costs. Proceeds to go into the city
school fund.
Com. vs. Tilghman R. Clemson. Defendant is one of the
Gap outlaws, and was charged io the indictment with
stealiug, on the night of the 6th of April, a dark brown
horse, the property of Jacob Brarkhill, of Salisbury twp.,
this county. The horse was recovered from him at Pine
Grove, Schuylkill county. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to
undergo aa imprisonment of three years, at solitary con
finement in the Eastern Penitentiary.
The same defendant plead guilty to an indictment for
stealing a horse, the property of Oscar lthea, on the night
of the sth of April, and was sentenced to undergo an im
prisonment ot three years in the Eastern Penitentiary, to
be computed from the expiration of the former sentence.
Henry Myers, of Elizabethtown, plead guilty to a charge
of stealing coats, the property ot Mr. .1. E. lIR-ster and Mr.
J. Brown, and was sentenced to an imprisonment of ten
months in the county prison.
Mr. Dickey presented a petition signed by more than one
third of the voters of Sadsbury twp., praying for an order
of Court to h<-ld an election, with a view of changing the
election poll of that district from the public house of Sam')
D. Smoker to that of Miranda Roland, on the ground that
the locati-m of the latter is more central. Petition granted.
Mr. l>i‘-key aNo presented a petition for the appointment
of viewers to view and report upon tbeerection ofacounty
bridge on the site of Binkley's Bridge.
In the case of the Com. vs. Tbos. A. Wiley, indicted for
assault and battery mi complaint of Emanuel J. Erisnmn.
the defendant plead guilty through his counsel, Mr. Keillev,
who made a statement to tile Court in mitigation of tin*
sentence. Sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs of
prosecution, which was promptly complied with.
Com. vs. John Carle. Tills defendant, an accomplice of
Clemson, was also indicted tor horse stealing The indict
ment charged him with stealing a horse the property of
Jacob 1 .rackbill, of Salisbury twp.. on the night of the sth
inst. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to three years’imprison
ment in the Eastern Penitentiary. 'fc
Com. vs. J. Bradley. This was a case of •‘constructive lar
ceny.” The defendant, residing in Marietta, hired a horse
and wagon, and instead of returning at the time agreed
upon, took a trip to York, via Columbia and Lancaster, was
pursued and arrested at the former place, and the property
recovered from him. When arraigned he insisted upon
pleading guilty, offering in mi tig ition the fact that he was
drunk when he committed the offence. Sentenced to two
years, at hard labor, in the Eastern Pentitentiary. This
is paying rather dear for a single ”spree,” and should be a
lesson to all others fond of that pastime.
Com. vs. Wesley Firth. Indictment, assault and battery
with intent to commit a rape on Bridget Casey, a buxom,
good-looking Irish girl of twenty summers. Verdict guilty.
Sentenced to eighteen months in the county prison.
Com. vs. Amos Rinehart. This defendant plead guilty
to a charge ot fornication and bastardy preferred by Eliza
beth Kreider, the issue being a male child. The usual fine
iu such cases was imposed on Amos.
Com. vs. John Derrick. This defendant was charged with J
stealing two shoulders of Pork, the property of Ootleib >.
Sener, of Washington borough. Verdict guilty. Sentenced
.to twelve months in the county prison.
Com. vs. John Reynolds. Defendant halls from the
classic region of “Tow Hill," Columbia, and was charged
with stealing a lot of hams, sugar, coffee, tea. together with
a variety of go-ids sufficient to establish a Tow Hill grocery
stoty. Verdict guilty as to the hams, not guilty as to'the
other articles laid in the indictment. Sentenced to two
months in the county prison.
The next case called was one in which another '‘darkle.”
hailing from the same classic region with Reynolds, named ■
George Brooks, was indicted for stealing hams, bacou. soap,
Ac., the property of divers citizens of Columbia. Verdict
guilty. Sentenced to fifteen mouths in the county prison.
Com. vs. John Draper. The defend-mt is a small colored
boy, apparently about 10 or 11 years of age, and one of a
gang who. for a long time, have been committing petty
thefts in the neighborhood of the railroad depot. In the
present case lie was indicted lor stealing copper from the
warehouse of Albright A Co. Verdict guilty. Sentenced
to the House of Refuge during his minority.
Com. vs. Cllarkson Laird. Indictment, manslaughter
in shooting George Haines, of Safe Harbor. The defendant
resides In Martic twp. The circurustaueeS attending the
shooting of Haiues are briefly these: On last New Year's
eve the defendant on returning from Mount Xebo to his
home iu Martic, overheard two men talking, and proceeded
towards the barn of Mr. Dout, with whom he resided. The
substance of what subsequently occurred is given in his
own language, as follows :
I went directly to the house and alarmed the family;
told them there were some persons about; I did not know
what for; thought they were highway robbers or perhaps
some of the Gap gang; I got my got my gun aa soon aa I
could, and being loaded with powder I put in a load of shot.
As I was going down the steps at the end of the porch, I
heard a chicken make a noise in the barn nr stable. 1 went
in the direction of the barn yard, when about twelve
or fitteen steps from the barn, 1 saw that the door of the
horse stable was open. 1 heard chickeus fluttering and
chains rattling in the stable, and at that time two men
came out of the stable door. I called to them to stop. The
first one that came out had something in hiß hands which
1 took to be chickens. They went four or live steps after
I told them to stop. I had my gun in my hands about
breast high; did not take aim, but fired at random in tbo
direction in which they were running. After the flash of
the gun I could see nothing of them except a glimpse of
the hindmost one as he rnu away.
I got up Dext morning about daylight and went to the
barn, and. after attending to the cattle and horses, William
Dout and mysell went to see if we could find any trnco of
the men. I weut out towards the road where I was the
evening before when I first beard them coming, and as I
got to the road I found George Haines lying upon the
ground, with hia head against the bauk at the side of the
road, with bis feet toward the middle of the road: I sup
posed him to be dead. I then rau back and told William
Dout, jr., that I had found a man lying dead by the road.
1 then ran back past the body, intending to go to Thomas
Parker’B, and on my way met Thomas Parker, George
Campbell and James McCue, and told them what 1 had
seen, and that I supposed bo was tho person at whom I
shot on last evening near'the barn. I then in company
with Thomas Patkcr agreed to go before a magistrate and
confess the whole matter and give myself up to the custody
of tho law. Ihe grand jury iguored the bill in this case.
Com. vs. Lydia Bear. The defendant resides in East Co
calico twp. She was indicted for three .diHliDct offences —
first, for selliug liquor without license; second, for selling
liquor on Suuday; and third, ior keeping a disorderly
house. Verdict guilty of selling without a license, and on
Sunday, but not guilty as to the disorderly house. Sen
tenced to pay a fine of $3O and costs, and undergo an im
prisonment of twenty days in the county prison.
Com. vs. Henry Bowers. Indictment for stealing a barrel
of mackerel from the store of John D. Skites, and cutting
skirts from the saddles of Mr. Phillips and others. Verdict
guilty. Sentenced to six months in tho county prison.
The Grand Jury having returned a true bill against
Beniamiu C. Bachman, late President of the Lancaster
Bank, for Embezzlement, bis counsel moved for a continu
ance of the cose on the ground that the indictment con
tained matter different from that of the complaint. Judge
llayeB, who presided in place of Long, president, thought
the application a reasonable one, and ordered the cose to
be continued. Messrs. Stevens. Fordney, Kline and James
L. Reynolds, appeared for defendant, and District Attorney
Dickey, Brown and J. B. Amwake, for the Commonwealth.
Com. vs. Joseph Dickier. Defendant is a German resident
of this city, and was charged with beating his wife In a
cruel manner. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to thirty days’
imprisonment.
Com. vs. Martha Loney. Defendant resides at Columbia,
and was charged with receiving stolen goods. Verdict
guilty. Sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
Com. vs Samuel Overholzer. The defendant resides in
Fairville, East Earl twp., and is a licensed inkeeper. The
indictment charged him with selling liquor on Sunday,
contrary to the Ar t of Assembly. Verdict guilty. Sentenced
to pay a fine of $lO and costs, and undergo an imprisoDmet
often days in tbe county prison.
Com. vs. Oliver T. Carter. Defendant is the perron who
took off the counter of Murray, Young A Co., a pocket hook
coQtaiuing forty dollars in money, the property of C. B Herr,
on Saturday, the Gth day of March last. Verdict guilty.—
Sentenced to eight months in tbo county prison.
The case of Amos Clemson. indicted for receiving stolen
goods, knowing them to be such, was continued until tho
August term. Clemson was ordered to give bail in the sum
of $OOO for his appearanco.
Corn. vs. William Jndy. Tbe defendant was charged with
robbing John 11. Burgett of about $l-40 in money and
promissory notes, about the Ist of December last, on the
highway, between Marietta and Columbia. Verdict guilty.
Sentenced to three years in tbe Eastern Penitentiary.
There beiog no other cases ready for trial the jurors were
dismissed for the term, and tbe Court adjourned to 2 o'clock
P. M., to receive the report of the Grand Jury.
Afternoon Session. —The Court re-assembled at 2 o'clock.
At 3 o’clock the Grand Jury came into Court and presented
their report, which is of considerable length. The tallowing
is the substance of it;
That they being the Qrand Inquest, inquiring into and
for the County of Lancaster, had examined the several bills
of indictment presented to them, of which a full and correct
report had appeared in the public press, andrfiad returned
the same; that having concluded their duty, they were
now auxious to return to their homes, but, that before
leaving, they were desirous of making some remarks on
the matters that had come under their cognizance. First
—they were happy to report that no offence of a very
heinous character had been presented for their action, if
they excepted a case of attempted rape, and the one for
homicide, but in the latter case they bad little trouble
disposing of it, it being clearly a case of accidental shooting;
they were pained to havo had to find true bills against two
mere children for larceny, and recommended In the final
disposition of these cases a more mild system of punish
ment for the first offence; that they were astonished at the
great number of complaints against persons for selling
liquor coutrary to law, to minors and on Sundays—ln tbe
examination of which the evidence was that tbe accused
had said he would sell In spite of all the judges, and even
if Jesus Christ was judge;’they were happy, however, that
this person was not a resident of this city. The report then
made a general review on the rest of the calendar, and
concluded with a remark on the happy termination of the
“reign of terror,” by the dispersion of the Gap gang, and
the recent arrest of three of its members.
In Iheir remarks on the public buildings, they said that
they had been greatly annoyed by the want of a place ol
safety in tbe Grand Jury Boom wherein to pnt their papers,
and the dropping of the rain upom them, from a defect in
the roofing; that having examined the roof they found It
defective in many parts, causing considerable damage to
the ceiling of the Court and other rooms; that they hoped
this would be early rectified, that such a beautiful' and
costly building might not suffer from such a cause; that
they had visited the several public buildings, and found
them in a cleanly condition, and the inmates evidently
proporly cared for, the report of the prevalenceof the small
pox at thn Poor Uouse waa not true, there being but a few
case* thorp, and those removed to an isolated part of the
building; that they would recommend a separate building
to bo -rected in the Inner yard of the County Prison for
the confinement of inmates who might be seized with any
contagious disease; that they had visited the American
Engine House and found everything in pertcct order. In
conclusion they thauked the Court, District Attorney, and
the other officers, for their aid and courtesy towards them
durlog their investigations.
At the conclusion of the reading of the report, the Grand
Jury were discharged, and the Coart adjourned to 9 o’clock
on Batnrday morning.
Mondat, April 21
Satobdat, April 25.
The Court opened at 9 o'clock. Judges Long, Hayes and
Brlnton on the bench.
The Court announced that this being the day set apart
for bearing applications for licenses, the role they would
adopt would be to call over all the applications for renewal
first, and, unless objections were made, the licenses to such
old stands would be granted. The list waa then called over
and the following licenses granted:
Adamstown Borough—Benjamin Shirk.
Bart—Robert A. Ferguson, Adam Rutter.
Brecknock —John Frecht, Peter Good.
Carnarvon —Silas Weller, Ann Albright, Martin Leber.
Cocalico West—o. M. Mentzer, Henry Kegerlse, Richard
Flirklnger.
Cocalico East—Henry Rhodes, Andrew Ream.
Colendn—Joseph B. Baldwin, Jeremiah Swisher.
Columbia Borough—Catharine A. Howard, John List,
Cornelius Tyson, Joseph H. Black, J.J. Gault, Jemima
Brown, Abner S. Bear, Bents A Huffnagle.
Conestoga—A. T. Metzger, John G. Pries, A. S. Gillott,
G. H. Hess.
Conoy—Abraham Collins. Jacob Brenoman, John Filbort.
Donegal West—Martin Kling.
Donegal East—J. A. Uouseal, George Murray, Alice
Harkins.
Drumoro—Folix Sweiger, Edmund Swelger, Edwin
Garret.
Earl—John*Myers, John Slyer, Price Knight.
Karl West—Jacob Gochley, Henry Fritz, Jacob Busser,
Amok Weidler. G. B. Forney.
Karl East—William Coleman, John K. Keihl.
Eden—James C. Evriug.
Elizabethtown Borough—George W. Boyer, A. Greens
wait, Jamas Laird.
Elizabeth—L. R. Hibshman, George Bents.
Ephrata—Samuel Ammons, John W. Gross, Christian
Herchelrothe, Joseph Knnigmacher.
Fulton—W. Whitaker, Hyronemus Ecknuin, Samuol
McLenegan.
Hempfield West—Henry E.JWolf, Martin Kendig, Jacob
Klugh, John Kendig, Joseph Mosser.
Hempfield East—John Davis, II.G. Imhoff, Daniel Hess,
Simon Minlcb, IL M. Bear.
Laiupeter West—Henry Miller, Henry Gaull, John IL
Miller.
IjArapoter East—Henry Kuneagy, John Rowe, James C.
Dunlap.
Ijuunster city—Not heard.
Lancaster twp —Walter G. Evaua, Joseph Ditlow.
Leacock—l,. R. Rhodes, Johii Sheftffer, Samuel M. Knox.
Leacock Upper—Jacob Bard, D M. Weidler, Michael
Bender.
Maaheim Borough—Michael White, L. R. Doeg.
Mauheim twp.—J. R. Watkins, Daniel Hoffman, Shreiner
A Groff. ,
Manor—J. S. Mann. Edward Hess, John Dally, George
Hornlverger, John Brady, Thomas Fisher.
Marietta Borough—S. G. Miller, Lewis Housoel, David
Castle, George Peters, Sarah Flury. William Appold.
Martic—John Wilson, Jubu Fisher.
Mount Joy Borough—Leonard K. Seltzer, John F. Pyle,
Henry Sherluhn.
Mount Joy twp.—Jacob Hiestand, Charles W. Murray.
Paradise—Kdwiu Hoptou, John Keneagy, lleury Cloud.
Penn—Benjamin White. Christian Hershey.
Pequea—Michael Zercber, Benjamin Rowe.
Rapho—S. 11. Fry. Jacob Suuituy, Henry B. Stone.
Salisbury—S. D. Smoker, Miranda Roland, R. A. Marsh-
Tcesdat, April 21
Salisbury—John Ammon, Jacob Stambaugh. Jacob D.
Warfol, Samuel Leanioti, Martin Bear, James W. Dkkiuson.
Strasburg Borough—Henry Bvttr, Martin Herr, William
Echternacht.
Strasburg twp—Martin Ilorr, Michael k Isaac Groff,
B. B. Myers.
Warwick—J. UollachoJ-, Peter Kafrotb. S. Lichtenthaler.
Washington Borough—Gotleib Souer, Benjamin Kauff
man, C. D. Martin.
Isaac Coldron's, of Adamstown, John Dunkle's, of Man
heim, and Jesse Engle’s, of Martic, application's were op
posed. After hearing the arguments of counsel, licensee
wore granted to Messrs. Coldron and Dunklo. In the case
of Mr. Engle the Court decided that for the purpose of
giving the application a fair consideration, they would not
give a derision until the sth of May next, and directed that
a rule to take depositions, with live davs’ notice to the
opposing parties, be taken, and remonstrance filed.
After the disposal > { the tavern licenses, the Court took
up the applications for Eating Houses in tbo same ordor,
reserving the new applications until a future date, aud
renewing the Uet-u«eH to (he following old steudtf :
Cocalico West—Jacob Kveling.*
Columbia Borough—Rebecca Kberlein, J. W. Shuman,
Joseph Ulmer.
Conestoga—Jacob Warfel.
Drumore—Thomas Auderson.
Earl—John Wenger.
Elizabethtown Borough—Benjamin Sheaffer.
Kphruta—.Martin Gross.
Fulton—K. K. Woodward.
Lampeter We6t—Jacob Neher, J. B. Baldwin.
Lampi-ter East—Samuel McOallistor, Michael S. Metzgnr.
Lancaster city—Not heard.
Leacock Upper—3. It. Myers.
Manheiui twp. —George W. Coulson. Peter Albert, Dan’l
Sutnmy.
Manor twp.—Barnard Stoner.
Paradise—John Gorman.
Pequea—Sotnuel Charles.
Salisnury—John Hess.
Warwick—Jacob Weitzel.
•Jacob Eveling was a new applicant, but recuiv«d license
on account of his being the only one, legally before the
Court, from that township.
City School Meeting.—A public meeting,
of tho citizens of the City of Lancaster, will bo held In tho
City llall, on Friday evening noxt, at 1% o’clock, to nom
inate a ticket for 12 School Directors to be supported at
the election, on Tuesday, May sth. All who feel interested
in the welfare of the Public Schools should attend.
Wednesday; April 22. a i
The Register & Citizen.—Tho new editor,
Walter G. Evans, Esq., commences his labors with a brief
salutatory address, iff which hb avows his intensified Know
Nothing prorlivities, and his opposition to the Democratic
party, by promising his support to the Union alias Black
Republican County Tickot which may be formed. Ofcourso,
ho will go bia death for the Black Republican State Ticket.
Lectures. —Dr. Willess, of Philadelphia,
will deliver lectures, with illustrations, on Astronomy,
Scriptural History, Ac., jin the "St. Paul’s M. E. Church, S.
Queen st., this evening ; on Thursday evouing In tho Duke
Street M. E. Church ; and on Friday evening In the Church
of the United Brethren, EastCbesnut street. His lectures
are said to bo highly entertaining and instructive.
Assignment.— The Directors of the Lan
caster Savings Institution made an assignment on Friday
last of all tbe assets of tho concern for the benefit of ita
creditors, to T. L. Roberts, Esq., of this city. The assign
ment was entered on Saturday in the Recorder’s Offlco.
Firemen's Parade. —Several of the com
panies of tho Fire Department will parade on Friday next/
Tho Sun, with their new Engine, will be escorted to the'
company’s house in Vino stroet. It will be & gala day
with our noble Firemen.
Shad! Siiad!!—On yesterday morning.wa
counted, at tho Fish Market in this city, no less than
rinfJ'tn wagons loaded with shad!
Pleasant Grove Lyceum. —A correspon
dent sends us a list of tbe officers of Pleasant Grove Ly
ceum, and ways that the Lyceum is rapidly increasingrin
membership. Tho following is a list of tho officers from,
its organization to tbe present time:
Ist President-, William King—Vice President, Frederick
W. Lewis—Secretary, Isaac H. Haines —Treasurer, Jere
miah B. Cook.
2d President, John A. Blake—Vico President, Joseph L.
G. Carroll—Seoretary, Merritt S. Haines—Treasurer, Rou
bou Alexander, jr.
3d President, Joseph C. Roman—Vico President, William
Grubb—Secretary, Robert McCullough—Treasurer, Fred.
W. Lewis.
4th President, Andrew Lowia—Vico President, John Q.
Smith—Secretary, Frederick W. Lewis —Troasuror, Wm.
Cook.
HARPER’S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZlNE.—Published
by Harper A Brothers, New York.
Tbe May Number is peculiarly interesting and varied in
its reading matter and embellishments. “Pictures in
Switzerland," and ‘‘The Moravians and their Leader," are
peculiarly attractive.
This anmber completes the rovonth volume, and the
Publishers now iisue tho of 170,000
copies.
PUTNAM’S MONTHLY. Published by Dix, Edward* A
Co., New York.
The May number is on our table. Wo have never seen a
more attractive number of the work than the one now be
fore us. “The Trail, The Trace, and Tho Wagon Road,”
handsomely illustrated as it is with life like pictures, con
taining graphic skerchesjof wild life west of the Missouri,
is alone worth the price of tho number.
Thursday. April 23.
THE LADY’S HOME MAGAZINE of Literature, Art and
Farbion. Published by T. S. Arthur A Co., 103 Walnut
St, Phila., at $2 per annum.
The May No. of this ever welcome periodical is on our
table, well filled with the choicest kind of reading matter.
The Illustrations areas follows :
1. Steel Plate.—The Merry Thought.
2. Colored Fashions for May.
3. Children’s Fashions. 2 Figs.
4. Comer for Pocket Handkerchief.
5. Insertion.
0. Band.
7. Insertion.
8. Braiding Patterns.
0. Muslin Set.
10. Embroidery for End of Cravat.
11. Cup.
12. Embroidery tor Flannel Skirts.
13. Crochet Table Cover.
14. Crochet Lace, Ac., for Umler-sleeves.
15. Singular Head Dresses. 5 Figs.
VIVIA; OR, THE SECRET OF POWER—by Mrs. Emma
D. E. F. Southworth, Author of “The Lost Heiress/’
“ Deserted Wife/’ etc., etc. Published by T. B. Peterson,
102 Chestnut Street, Phila. Complete in one large duo
decimo volume, bound In Cloth, for $1,25; or in two
Tolumea, paper cover, for $l,OO.
Fridat, April 24.
The Publisher has been kind enough to send us a copy of
this work, and we caunot do better than give the following
notice, by a celebrated critic who has read it. Ho says :
“ Vivia, tho heroine, is a beautiful, giffod and inspiring
maiden, whom prtsenco is a Nfe giving power to all within
her sphere; whose influence like magic or rather like
grace, develops tbe better nature of all with whom she
is brought In contact —so redeeming, elevating and inspir
ing is her bonignant influence npon the dreaming girl-artist
Theodora, and the poor, but gifted and Inspiring peasant
boy Wakefield. Her ‘Secret of power* consist* in her real •
izlng faith in the goodness, wisdom and efficiency, latent
in every human creature, made in the likeness of the Cre
ator; lu her sympathetic charity that leads her to seek and
draw forth those hidden treasures in all souls; and in her
animating hope that assures her of victory. With these
spiritual agencies of Faith, Charity and Hope, she over
come In herself and in others, the fearful powers of tho
World, tbe Flesh and the Devil. Like her Divine Master,
she comes to bring light to the darkened, hope to tbe de
spairing and strength to tbe weak. Whenever in the nar
rative she appears, it is as if a sun-burst lighted up the
scene. In the first chapter the interest of the reader is
powerfully aroused, and it is kept keenly alive to the close
of the volume. Tbe story opens with the description of a
snow storm on the Alleghnnies, through which the bright
and beautiful orphan, ulone or attended only by her dog,
wanders down the fearful passes towards the valley, en
deavoring to reach the mansion where her grandfather,
Colonel Maimaison, (who ten years before, discarded her
father,) lies dying and penitent, and prayiog to see his or
phaned grand-daughter. But in the two fold darkness of
night and storm, the wandering chi d loses her way, and
chances to reach a lone convent, where she seeks refuge
and is kindly received and comforted hy tbe nuns.
“ The description of the winter evenings In the convent,
the pale, beautiful Abbess Agatha, the sweet Novice Ange
la, and the gentle sisterhood, is highly interesting aod
unique. In the delineations of convent life, in this work,
the authoress draws from a life long acquaintance with
retreats, and her fidelity and impartiality of description,
may be relied on with more safety than that of any secta
rian writer for, or against these institutions. The scone of
Colonel Maimaison on the night of the storm, where the
late repentance of thb father Is rendered futile by the drugs
of the fell watcher—the remorseless Ada Maimaison, is re-,
plete with thrilling Interest, as indeed is the whole work*
which we heartily cosuaeiw to the favor of the reader."
The Editor’s Book Table.