trEn 66 LANCASTERIAN. GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. A. SANDERSON, Associate. LANCASTER, PA., JANUARY 26, 1858 01110IILATION, 2000 COPIES I 6171330:11IPTION Pam, $2,00 per annum. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE• The Democratic County Qommlttee of Lancaster county, Will meet at Shobev's Hotel, North Queen street, in this City, on THURSDAY, the 4th of FEBRUARY, 1858, at 11 o'clock, A. lif„ for the purpose of Axing the time for the anietubllng of a County Convention to elect delegates to the corning State Convention. H. B. SWARR, Chairman. DRiii The following named gentlemen compose the County Committee, viz : H. B. Swerr, City-Chairman. S. W. W. Tames Peoples. Adamstown -Henry Stauffer. S. E. W.—J. 13. Kauffman. Brecknock—Reuben.Shober. N. E. W.—Ool. C. Carmany. Emt—Horatio S. Kenni. Loner twp.—P. E. Lightner. Caernarvon—E. D. White. Lampeter E.-Joel L. Lightner. Clay—John Demmy. Lampeter W.—Samuel Long. Coleraine—Robert Jackson. Leacock--John L. Lightner. Columbia N. W.-J. M. Watts. Leacock U.—Dr. A. S. Bare. S. W.—M. Clapper. Little Britain—B.S.Patterson. °maw E.—Cyrus Ream. hianheim bor.—J. E. Cross. Oorcalice W.—Joseph Landis. bianhelm twp.—ELSchreiner. Coneitoga---John Martin. Manor—George G. Brush. Coney-.John H. Smith. Marne—William Wentz. Donegal E.—Jacob Spiese. Marietta—Nelson Maloney. Donegal W.—Henry Funk. Mt. Joy bor.-J.li.Brenneman. Drumore—S. B. Moore. Mt. Joy twp.—J. Iliestoud. Earl—Dr. Samuel Ringwalt. Paradise—Dr. J. J. Strewn. Earl East—M. E. Stouffer. Penn—Hiram ft. Hell. • Earl West—Henry Kafroth. Pequa—Henry Herr. Ephrata—Gen. J. L. Gross. Providence—John Tweed. Elizabethtown—J. A. Grose. Rapho—Thomas Masterson. Elizabeth—J. S. Keener. Strasburg bor.-W. T.3lePhal I. Eden—Henry H. Breneman. Strasburg twp.—Jamee Clark. Fulton—Samuel Wicks. Salisbury—T. W. Henderson. Hemptield E.—Dr. S. Parker. Sadsbury—Wm. F. Bolter. Hempfield W.—J.M.Weller. Warwick—Dr. Levi Hull. City,N.W.W.-Capt.J. EL Duchman. Washington-J. Charles. THANKS—To Hon. NIMROD STRICKLAND for • copy of the Canal Commissioners' Report. Also to Hon. Wm. MONTGOMERY, of Congress, for • copy of his speech in opposition to the Fillibusters. THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS On our first page will be found the Inaugu ral Address of Governor PACKER. It is, in every respect, in matter and style, a highly creditable production, and we earnestly corn. mend it to the careful attention of the public. The Governor's views are sound, patriotic and statesmanlike, and hie various suggestions in reference to a reform of the Banking System, the suppression of small notes, a separation otthe Treasury from Banks, on the subject of Incorporations, the Sinking Fund, &c. &c, are eminently wise and judicious, and particularly opportune at the present time. We have not the room, nor do we think it necessary, to analyze this able and interesting document— for such we consider it in all its parts--but submit it with the heartiest satisfaction to the consideration of our readers. THE STATE REDEEMED The inauguration of Governor PACKER, on Tuesday last, puts the finishing stroke to Know Nothing and Black Republican rule in Pennsylvania. The Democrats are now in the ascendeney in all the departments of govern ment—executive, legislative and judicial ; and we doubt not they will so administer the high trusts committed to their charge by the people, as that the interests of our noble old Common wealth will be protected, and her progress in wealth and power accelerated. The three years misrale from 1855 to 1858 will long be remembered in the history of our State, and the feeble and inglorious administration of a Know-Nothing Executive will serve as a beacon light to warn the people against entrusting the reins of power a second time in the hands of men who are mere automatons managed and controlled by designing and unscrupulous leaders. That the new administration will have arduous and irksome duties to perform in bringing back the government to what it was prior to the advent of Know-Nothingism, we freely admit ; but it is equal to the task. The great experience and undoubted ability of the new Executive, aided as he will be by sound, reliable and talented men, as his cabinet counsellors, leaves no room to doubt the com plete success of the administration. The policy laid down in the inaugural address of Governor PACKER will, doubtless, be rigidly adhered to, and we are safe in predicting that, in pursuing such a course, he will be abun dantly sustained by the people of Pennsyl- The following appointments were made by Governor PACKER, after the inauguration ceremonies were over, -viz: Secretary of the Commonwealth—WlLLlAM M. HIESTER, of Berks. Assistant Secretary of Commonwealth—ll. L. DIFFENS&CH, of Clinton. Attorney General—Joan C. KNox, of Tioga. JOHN A. INNis, of Northampton county, has been appointed Confidential Clerk in the State Department. GOVERNOR PACKER ON THE KAN SAS ,3,UESTION. Some anxiety has been manifested by the public in regard to Governor Packer's views on the Kansas question. The inaugural, we think, is explicit upon that issue. It holds that " when elections are so frequent, and the right of suffrage so liberal, as in this country, it is peculiarly the duty of a good citizen to obey existing authorities, and even oNeetion able laws, knowing that the former can be changed, and the latter modified and repealed, within a very brief period." And in alluding to the difficulties attending this peculiar case, the Governor says that "it is to be hoped, that Congress will make such provision for other Territories that the present difficulty will have no repetition in the . future." If we are not mistaken in our construction' of the above extracts from the inaugural ad dress, then it is clear that Governor Packer takes precisely the same view of the case, as that taken by President Buchanan . in his annual message. They both enjoin the neces sity of obeying "existing authorities, and even objectionable laws," and, further, they both recommend that, in fUture, such provision will be made by Congress, for other Territo ries, as that the present difficulties may be avoided; in other words, that, hereafter, con stitutions formed by conventions in a Terri tory, shall be submitted to the people prior to their transmission to Congress. This is the doctrine of the annual message, and of the inaugural—and it is also sound Democratic doctrine. But, so far as Kansas is concerned, both President and Governor are evidently in favor of its admission into the Union as it soy. ()reign State under existing laws, and this, too, is the wish of ts,large majority of the pan pl. of Pennsylvania, * Tho Governor has appointed lion, WILLIAM A. PORTER, of Philadelphia, to he ono of the Justices of the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of, Judge Knox. TIN appointment will hold good until the first Monday in December—the people in the mean time will elect on the eeoond Tuesday of October. Judge Puna. is n jurist of distinguished ability, and will do oreditlo the high station for which he has been selected. APPOINTS:IIG NTS BY THE GOVERNOR. 0. BARRETT, Esq., of the Harrisburg Key stone, to be Superintenderit of Printing. CHARLES BARRETT, Esq., to he Sealer of Weights and Measures for Alleglf any County. JOHN MECKLIN, Esq., to be Flour Impactor at Pittsburg. .The following gentlemen have been appoint. ed to Clerkships in the State Department, viz: John A. Innis, Northhampton Co; B. F. Chandler, Harrisburg ; Richard Hogeland, Harieburg ; B. F. Irwin, Franklin Co. wilr A petition has been presented to the Legislature, by T. Washington Smith, (the murderer of Oarter,) praying for a divorde from hie wife. THE LIQUOR LAW. The State Treasurer, in his Annual Report," makes some important suggestions relative to the Liquor Law. The present law appears ; to be considerably defective in several particulars, and modifications and amendments 'mignt be made to much advantage. In one particOar especially it operates very unequally and an justly, inasmuch as it has been found that nearly as much liquor is sold without Remise as with license. This should be remedied , in some way. Then, again, we have always con sidered the section apportioning the public houses in a certain ratio as unjust, because it did not put the people on an equal footing,— . This matter had much better be left to the discretion of the Courts. We give an extract from the Treasurer's report, and it will he seen the argument in favor of a change is qUite forcible. The Treasurer remarks, that "large amounts of revenue are lost to the Treasury by the-re fusal of persons to apply fur tavern licenses, who prefer to sell without a license rather than pay a tax which does not fully prot!ect them against competition from those who dis regard the law. It has been estimated that there are three unlicensed taverns and eating houses in Philadelphia to one which is licensed, and the same may be said of some of the other cities of the Commonwealth.— Justice to those who are willing and do pay the tax assessed by the law upon their busi ness requires that something should be done to protect them in the enjoyment of their pur chased privilege, or to put them on an equality with those who are allowed to pursue the same business without a tax. I would suggest, as a matter of revenue, if not as a matter of right and justice, that (in the cities at least,) the law should be' so changed as to allow any person of good moral chara ter to have a license for a tavern, res. turant or beer house, upon paying the amohnt which may be assessed upon the house. A law of this kind, with severe penalties guard ing the good management and conduct of 'the house, and also against those who violate : its provisions by a sale of liquor without license, would not in my judgment, increase the num ber of houses of the kind, or the number of persons who now frequent them. It would put all on an equality, and the licensed would take care that the revenue should not he de frauded by the unlicensed who would come into competition with their business. In this way, all engaged in the traffic..would be under the law and subject to its penalties." THE PRESII'ENT'S MESSAGE IN PARIS. i The President's Message yens published' in full by all the Parisian Journals. It was telegraphed through from Liverpool to Paris in five hours and a half—the same time as was required to telegraph it to London. But the two copies came over the different wires, and while the copy sent to London was in English, that to Paris was in French. This fact shows the importance given to the mes sage. The comments of the press upon this document are -various. The Debats sayc that it approaches, more than any previous Mes sage, the style of an address from a throne in Europe. But the Debats is alone in this The Charivari pretends to have been informed by its correspondent it Washington, that Mr. Buchanan was present in the House during the reading, with his pockets full of revolvers ; and that, not satified with the reception given to the document, he shot at the clerk, the speaker, and several members of the opposition : and then, on his way home through Pennsylvania Avenue, emptied the rest of the barrels on the passers by.— Charicari asserts that Gen. Walker himself wrote that part of the Message which refers to his own movements, and insists on treating the President as a confirmed fillibus ter. On Tuesday last, the Senate met the ihiuse in joint convention at Harrisburg, to count the votes cast last fall upon the adoption of the proposed Amendments to the Constitution. Mr. Speaker Welsh took the chair and an• nounced the object of the convention, Mr. Cresswell acting as teller on the part of the Senate, and Mr. Jenkins on the part of the house: For. First Amendment. 122.657 Second Amendment. 117,143 Third Amendment. _114,666 Fourth Amendment. 113,605 RE TURN OF MR. ALLIRONE Tuom.&s ALmsoNE, Esq., late President of the Bank of Pennsylvania, has returned to Philadelphia, and issued an address to the public. He denies in toto the charges of fraud and mismanagement charged against him by the Directors and Stockholders of the Institution, and more than hints that these attacks upon him were made for the purpose of screening others—the really guilty parties. Some rich developments may be expected before a great while. THE SOUND DUES QUESTION.—The President publishes his proclamation, declaring the agreement entered into with Denmark to discontinue the Sound Dues, has gone into effect. By this Convention, the free and unincumbered navigation of American vessele through the Sound and Belts is forever secured. The United States agree to pay to the govern ment of Denmark, once and for all, the sum of three hundred and ninety-three thousand and eleven dollars in United States currency, at London, on the day when the said conven tion-shall go into full effect. The consumma tion of this great measure is due to the United States. GUBERNATORIAL MANSION.—The liouse on Monday week reconsidered a second time the bill for the purchase of a Governor's Mansion ; when it finally passed by a vote of 40 to 3B. In accordance with its provisions, a joint Com mittee of the Legislature, in connection with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, State Treasurer and Auditor General have made a eon tract with Thomas J. orrol, Esq., for the purchase of the dwelling now occupied by Jilin on Front street, in consideration of the sum of $lO,lOO, TRIAL. OF T. W. SMITH. 'Plat Philadelphia Ledver, in outninontin k t upon this trial and its extraordinary result, say " There is ono point which should he 'Arne in mind in regard to Mr. Carter, as the best mitigation that can be suggested in regard to the memory of the dead. He had evidently nothing to do with promoting that unhappy marriage. He clearly wished it put oft-and seems to have anticipated the consequence. He wrote to the girl herself to ask, " how she could think of marriage in her situation ?" That marriage was probably the thoughtless, reckless expedient and deception of one who felt on the verge of open ruin, and who thus leaped in madness into a depth of calamity and of crime, the termination of which she little dreamed of. But Mr. Carter perhaps did, as he said, regard the whole of what she proposed as a joke. While saying, as he 'did, that he had objection to the young man, he yet seemed, by one excuse or another, to have wished the marriage put off until it would been too late to be thought CONSULAR APPOISTMENTS.—On WedueSday the President sent to the Senate the Considar appointments. It is understood that only .per sons were selected who could speak the lan guage of the country to which they were ac credited. Stoaes L. Roberts, of Bucks county and:Mr Sarmiento, of Philadelphia, were the unly ; ap pointments from Pennsylvania. CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS Court Proceedings JANUARY TERM. QUARTER SESSIONS The January Term of the Quarter Sessions' Court was held last week. The two important triale of the week were the Pennsylvania Railroad Robbery and the Manhelm Tragedy. which will be found below, from the Express' report, in full. Catherine Showber, alias Jones, who "rested surh a eon lotion by her bold robberies in this city, plead guilty to three indictments for severally robbing John S. Dougherty. Esq., Dr. Henry Carpenter and Hrs. Catharine Pinkerton, on each of which she was sentenced to five months' im• prisonment, making fifteen months in all. at hard labor. in the County Prison. John Trumpy, who turned State'. evidence in the Peoo• sylvenia Railroad Robbery, was sentenced to only three months In the County Prison : THE RAI LR , Lt D ROBBERY The case of the Comer,, wealth et. 11,11 i, Levan. one or parties indicted for robbing the frei ht ears on the Penn sylvania Railroad. was next railed. Didrlct Attorney Dickey appearing for the CommonweasltLi, and .11esors. Ford ney and Kline for the defendant. Nathaniel Louginyer, of Philadelphia testified that on the 14th of August last, he sold and shipped a bale of `• small good'." by the P,unsyl. conic Railroad Company to a Pittsburg firm, end that the next he east of them was at the Mayor's office hi - this city. He enumerated the goods and their value, among whi.ll suspenders, sewing silk and twist, ,•revels, buttons and venous other articles. fie was present at the Stay.,.c office„when a smell pedlar's pack WAY examined. and iden tified' some of the articles no those whiell he sold to tnt; Pittsburg firm, some of them still containing the marks of the Philadelphia firm. At this stage of the proceedings there was a general commotion in the court room, followed by a gedera I rush to the doors and windows, in copse {melee of which the further examination of the witness had to be temporarily suspended. It was caused by the murderers being taken into a privald room to consult with their counsel, but the crowd supposed they were taken up to prison. in which they were for the nonce, dimppoint .d./ .The cream-examination of Mr. Long,mire elicited nothing new. Charles Honch, salesman in the house of Atwood Com pany testified to the shipping of a bale of gods to Evans Holloway, Henderson, Kentucky, by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and subsequently identified a portion of them in the Mayors office. James M. Riley. shipping clerk far the Penn'a Railroad Company, testified to shipping these boxes of goods in Car 1240, on the :24 , h of August last; the one box' was directed to Fry, Ogle A: Giimer, Pittsburg, and the other to Evans A - Holloway, Ky. Mrs. Sarah Trumpy, (mother of one of the parties in prison to answer this charge) was the next witness called. She resides in Bothelstown, and testified that early in the morning of the 25th of August they were wakened by lit tle Herzog (Leaven, hr being Jacob Herzog's h &brother) and her two is), who had settle g.Cri., they wished to Lave there for seine time. Big Herzog later In the morning and purchased the goods, packing up a hand kerchief full of them himself, which he carried away.— Later in the day the remainder of the goods were taken away in a wit goo ; cross-examination she could nut say k li-ther lire goods were taken away in the same wagon in which they were brought or not. Levan and John Trumpy and his brother locked the door of the room containing timgoods slid took the key with then,. John Trumpy came back in c supany with Jacob Ilergog when the latter carried a portion of the goods away. John 'frumpy. also one of the parties indicted for this larceny, testified that ru the _Yd August last. John Giniple, Henry Levan Jacob Ilergog and himself had a conversation together at Shoetsb trgor's, at which the rob bety was arranged, and that Jacob Ilerz•ee gave them order,: to go out to the Little llonnestoge Bridge end fetch the goods which t &nide was to throw orf the night freight express cars. This was on Saturday evening and the rut, bery was to be effected on Sunday night, Trtunpv's brother being here fr . ..m Pittsburg on a visit no his mother. went oohing. Ile said his brother and [mean went cot the pike and he walked out the railroad; they suet at the bridge and waited untll the cars passed; the signal by which they were is khow that I lie goads were or would be thrown out WWI the ear door open, but they saw (Ample throw the boxes out just before the train reached the bridgc. 'frum py's brother then went to town and got Alright's horse hd wagon, which was kept at Kircher's tavern in West King street: the boxes were broken by the fall from the cars, 41111 We tied the goods iu bundles and carried them over to the turnpike. throwing, the pieces ”r b roes iu .110 creek under the bridge. The goods were leaded in the wagon and taken to Trumpy's mother in Bethelstown about Mur o'clock its the morning, Where Levin made a It& of the value of the goals, which he (John Trumpy) took to Jacob Herzog. who made a copy of the bill and paid him tllo—slo3 for the goods and five on an old account— and took his receipt for $5 . -1 77. Herzog, he said, carried some of the goods sway himself. is a . handkerchief, and directed him to get a en eon at :letter's and 11..11 tire re• tnaiuder to his store, which he did. :rho bill and receipt for 55J4 77 was here shown and identified by witness. Levan took a portion of the goods, 1111,11.4 . Whiell witness specified various articles which wore subsequently found in Levan's pdler's pack. Ou cross examination by Col. Fordney. Trumpy said his trade was that of a chandler and candle 1110111 d maker: that he got Into 44 the dry goods business" since lost Feb• runry ; that he sold various other lot, or go : 01, Fir oh u pt, wilieh the latter had sent hint by Ad Express, seine front Philadelphia and others front Harrisburg: sold the first lot to Herzog on the :24 of March: another on the 24th: a third on the 31st of July; a fourth on the 19th of August; he bought these nt llising Sun tav ern, where tlimple met him: the goods were all bought by Jacob Herzog; Cimple said he would come to Lancaster in three or four days after the lust robbery nail bring more goods to Herzog, but after the robbery woo discovered wit het, ihinX. Ilerxog gone Idol not itaonot to art. back: at nll events he did si It e• , 111^ lie is en American. hot speaks both languages. and is about 23 years of age: had foimerly been an 14,nt. of the Central C`thlsilnYt but does not know wh.dher he was an agent when this rohbery IV3S committed. The witness. being re-exatruned iu chief by ids. Dickey. gave an interesting illuitrat ion of ilarnb Ilidedett wanner IT buying theinii.tolen gundi. Fur nue loe he paid 'frumpy $llO fur genii, valued at ainduut he re reipted ; her $.ll, leceilited :=47; Ofloti, receilded for h, aunt her :Ph ;nweititeil fur $2OO, and SO 0, Ile Was subjected In cresisexamination. but his story was COOSiStSilt tilSOUffhollt, and his veracity re maiurd Henry Brown, gate keeper on the Harrisburg turnpike, testified to se e ing th e waged gn out and return, in a man ner which excited his suspicion, and caused hint to put Iluftnagle on the track of it—the particulars nt which were published in the F sg at the time. Mary Kuhns. n sister of Trumpy, living with her mother, corroborated her brother's statement in regard to the reception of the goods at their house, and further stated that Herzog came in the back way, and went Into the man where the goods were, subsequently asking them for sonic. thing to pack the goods in; they gave him bed ticking fir that purpose. and he packed them himself; a boy hauled them assay to his store. utticer Baker assisted in the arrest of Levan, and took Ids pack of goods to the Mayor's office, where many of the tirtirles were identified by Mr. Lontsmire ns those stolen from the car,. He said there are three holes of goods at the Mayor's office. all of which were obtained ,tt. Herzog's on n search warrant. Officer lfulina;:le testified to the tracking of the wagon and the Eliding of the broken hose, under the bridge. fiainuel Young. of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, testified that they had on them the names of the Pittsburg and Kentucky liens to whom the g had bean chipped. The Commonwealth having made out a clear case, defen dant's eininsel, after a few moments consultation with each other and their client, concluded to wake no defense, and the case was submitted to the jury, who lu a nhort time returned a verdict of yoilly. During the examination of Trumpy, the pm:ceilings were somewhat interrupted, by a general moving flir the doors and lie eastern side of the court room. which was canoed by the faking of Anderson and Richards Lab to prison. kaain,t. 13,653 21;412 20,196 14 `,2 itu Wednesday the District Attorney stated that henry Levan and John Trumpy were in the dock for sentence: but at the request of Trumpy's counsel, who stated that Col. :IntelTer. solicitor for the Penusylrania Railroad C. pally. desired to make a statement to the Court in his Li lian, his sentence woo deferred for the present. Leaven being called up desired to make a statement to the court. and 50115 heard : lie briefly stated that he could roily say that he had nothing to do with ths robbery, but they had sore against hint he had already been out in prison six t h months, and hoped the Court would be kind enough. when they sentenced him, to let him stay in t ili • prison, as he had some friends here who would sometimes come and set, him, and as be had a good traile which he would work at industriously. the Is a shoemaker , Judge. Hayes stated that the offence of which ho had been i',onvicted was one of the highet of that grade which could he perpetratetdand sentenced him to two years and six months at hard labor iu the Eastern Penitentiary. We understand that Levan was deeply atTscted when im formed yesterday of the suicide of his stepdirother and wept bitterly. As the sentence was pronounced the big tears rolled down bis cheeks. TRIAL oF ALEXANDER ANDERS,IN FoR THE MLA: THURSDAT, Jammry 21. At the opening of the Court this morning the large hall began to fill up rapidly, and ins few minutes was filled to its utmost capacity, many being unable to obtain seats.— In a abort time It was found necessary to station tipstaves nt the dams and only allow one person to enter for each Otto that went out. Incusequence of this arranzemant the vestibule .d stairways became more densely and un comfortably crowded than the court room. The prisoners. Anderson and Richards, were brought into court by the Sheriff, a short time before the opening. and placed in the prisoners' dock, where they were '•the obselied of all observers, - and appeared to be the least in. te,sted of any present in the solemn scene about to be courted. the District Attorney stated that as there might be some difficulty about obtaining a jury, rendering it necessary to o SPreild Venire. lie would now take up the ease of Alexan der. Anderson, and while a venire was issuing they could take up some other business. The Sheriff was then directed to bring in Alexander An derson, which was the signal for a gerkeral rising of the spectators to get a glance at the prisoner an he entered the Intr. Anderson walked Into the liar in his usual sullen and dogged manner, and heing directed to stand up. District Attorney Dickey rend to him the bill of indictment. which contained two counts. The first count charges Anderson Willa the murder of Ann Garber, by cutting her throat with a knits, and the second with committing the act with a club SA hatchet, the wounds being described with the usual minuteness of such documents. The prisoner during the reading of the Indictment stood unmoved. and answered the questions put to him by the cleric in a firm, 0111000111e81 voice. Cloth—To this indictment. Alexander Anderson, what In your plea, guilty or not guilty? Prisoner—Not Guilty. Clerk—Bow do you wish to he Wadi Pt Isoner—ily (bud and my roontry. prison I , r linvng lawn duly PITaIVIPII 101,11 LIM cent hot wr e n Ille 1144 i. MIPI4I'I4. llntria 61111 Pyfrr, and ttlu IP. dieuwllElll.4al9 uitivtitiliolliiK ri Jury POI 1,1,111,q1.1 with, th4olol4llll' being Inforniutl by him ha hull the right In tnriity petritiptory end ns ninny mire Jul In, mold aliow muaa for, right of poreitiptory 011111101 p, 'HIP nat.' gneationa WWI. 4 put to 04144 Juror as he vain. up- Uy tih, Commonwealth—Hare you any ron.lantl , ,ita arrupleE nue!, 111 would prevent you from rendering a car. diet in a Now whore the penalty Is death, provided the law and the evidonco jtuditiod euell verdict I Hy the Prisoner—lfave yon at any time rornhel or ex hreased an opinion, such na may lulluenee yo•r conduct at a Juror Have you any bins or prejudice, against the prisoner at thu bur? Do you, thou, in evtry respect, according to the Lost of your knowledge and belief, stand perfectly indifferent be. tween the prisoner nod the Commonwealth. --- • • . During the progress of empanneling a jury, It was found that thd plan allotting in one person so another went out would not work, the "outside pressure" being so great an to overpower the tipstaves. After two or three general rashes, in which a number gained admittance, the doors were kept locked. After eight jurors were sworn the regular panel was ex hausted, and the Sheriff directed to i:48110 a special venire. Of Arty-three jurors rolled of the regular panel, coven were peremptorily challenged for canoe. One juror. in roply to the Commonwealth's interrogatory, said that he had some conscientious Scruples, hut would have less in sitting upon this case than in any other. This reply of course was not satisfactory , to the prisoner's counsel, and he wis chal lenged for cause. At eleven o'clock the special venire of twenty five jurors, summoned from the court room, was announced, and after the defence had exhausted eighteen out of their twenty peremptory challenges, the following persons had been duly qualified ae the jury to try the cause: 1. David C. Swartz; 2. Abraham Erisman ; 3. Alexander Shultz; 4. Henry Kurtz; 5. Abraham Peters; f. John S. Mellinger: 7. Joel L Lightner; S. William Kunkel; U. William Weigh is 10. Alexander Danner; 11. Martin Nunemacher ; 12. Eman uel Cassel. District Attorney Dickey then read the bill of Indictment to the jury, and proceeded to define the crime of murder all laid .down in the authorities, land briefly narrated the di leang facts by which the Commonwealth expected to prove their case and fasten the guilt of the horrid tragedy of the 18th of December. Although there was no new fact in the history of the crime enunciated, further than already published, Mr. Dickey's opening was a clear and concise narration of the train of claeumstances which pointed tel the guilt of the prisoner at the bar and his companlos-in the dock_ Fie said it was unnecessary to commsritton the brutality and enorinity of thin offence. but wonlii con , tent himself by laying the usit.el Rein before them. which would leave no doubt in the mind •.f .t reasonable man Of the prisoner's guilt. Dr. John I. Atl..jr . wine the first witness railed: be assisted at the ;lost modem examination. and accurately ; described the wounds: the skull was broken in, showing en-h a circular hole ,ta inischt have been inflicted with the pole of a hatchet driven limn., with great force; this alone would have been sufficient to produce death. the throat was also literally cut from ear to ear down to the isme: had been done with a.m. sharp clean-rutting instrument: his opinion was that their throats had been cut after they were knocked down, and that they had evidently been dragged into the room where he ear them after all woe over, a hatchet 9113 produced which the dote said would produce such wounds as were found upon the skulls of both the murdered women. Th- cross-examination elicited nothing new; he mad, no examination of the premises or the sppearauce of the rooms, : amtenting himself with the dis.hsr.4e of hie duties for the c , rmsrt he was of opinion that t c th h e e w hod a l s er w il h e e d n the h e e r stc 'y them were laying, in the post thin whichwhi, they were left by ths tuurdsrera Dr. C. D. li,wman called; ns•lited In the tiret examine. he found the hallos lying iu a very ll:abdicate position; the wound in the neck combined lies mortal wounds, either of which would have produced death: he also described the wounds ou the head referred to by Dr. Ado°. one of which had evidently been made with a blow from some blunt in strument. and the others, in his opinion, with a club. On cross-examination he said the wound in the throat had been mode with a clean -cutting instrument; the con dition of the cosgulated blood on the door indicated that . the murder had been recent, the blood on the trails and i reilin., , 9 we. evidently from the blow oa the crown of the heed, which most have been inflicted by a blow trom hind; he was of opinion that Mrs. Gerber te.l-4 then in the act of trying to open the window to give an not-try: ehe was afterwards dragged out of this room into the room where the bodies were the bodies were found. The body of Mrs. Ream was found Icing in the same Indelicate post Lion, and had similar wounds upon the nook end heed. evi dently inflicted with the same Instruments. Conrad Farber, the husband of Anna Garber, deceased. I was next exiled, and gave his testimony amid n profound and Impressive silence in the e dirt room. Ile left his wife at home In gond health at six o'clock in the morning, and returned about three; flood her murdered; [the witness here beratue so much affected that he had great difficulty in proceeding] the bodies were in the same position when the doctors examined theta as when he came home and first saw them; he then described the position of the house, the furnitua, and marks of blood, in answer to the District Attorney. substantially the flame as detailed by our reporter at the time; the chest in which his wife kept her money ; was broken open and contents scattered on the Hoer, money gone: he could not say exacly how much she had, but some time before she was murdered she told hire she lacked $1.2 of .{.10o; all the money was In gold and silver American I coin; she kept it wrapped up in a newspaper in a bowl set in the chest: this b owl was found on the tieor; a pair of old shoes loud under under the cupboard was here shown, which wioloss said did not belong to any member of his family; the money was here exhibited and identified; his wife witness deeply affected.] had eased it, by marketing, to p.tv i q..•re.t on 1.1/10 land he had be.ight; she lead paid tit, lot, rt. , ho year hetorc nod w saving money for the sano. pa , p 1.4 this year; she 'nothing but specie , and rt-sr ,oin spot fur this purpose: there were pieces of I;erulaa newspapers in the chest where th.. money wan. Mr. Garber here tdeutifisd several articles which bed been in the prisoner's possession, such so cravats, handkerchief, some as his own. othdrs as his wife's end dau,, , hter's: the shoes his wife used to wear to market he idea tided. At this stage of the tsaministion an unusually impressive ; and atto..IIGU incident occurred. When shown a black barred neckerchief, he said it wan his, and proceeded to I take the one ..11 his own neck. remal king that would show it; the-two were laid together and proved to have been cut apart, the bars matching: he said his wife had cut them apart and hentmed them for him; this one was taken out of his house and the next he saw of it was in the Mayor's office. This witness was not cross examined. and when ho took his seat all the efforts of his will to suppress his feelings were nna,ailing Susannah tlarbor, d.ta4hter of Ole deceased, was next examined; she identified A number of articles, among oth ers a mantilla, which she bad laid away on the bureau about a week Wore the murder: the nest time she saw it was in the Mayor's office; it had morn [of blond] on then which were not on it when she laid it away; shwalso idan tilied a wra st, which had been laying on the mantilla. This witness was cross-examined as to tho marks of blood, etc., in the refine; she ca - me borne at three o'clock in the afternoon: was not the brat to discover the murder: we omit those descriptions as they will be. more fully given by another wit sees this 1111-enloC.ll. . . Tire court then adjourned to half poet two o'clock. Fur no hour berme the adjournment Duke street. around the prison van, woo filled with on excited crowd, noXiOnri to get a sight of the prisoners. The spectatorn lingered in the court room until the prisoners were taken out of the private door. which was the signal torn rush out the front Mors, and runny persons got severely jimmed in the pres sure, to I heir anxiety to get out to 050 the prisoners got the -Mark Maria. - They were quickly put into the van, and driven cdt amid the jcersand hooting Mau excited popular, Sn great was the excitement. that, at one time daring the trial. thu janitor was freely offered fifty coats a hand for admission into the court room. A rr,:l,OON SEISION: Long before the hour for opening the court was again crowded. many perSOIIS being unable to obtain seats. A large crowd had also rollleeted on the outside of the court house, to see the prisoners brought down. Levi Sununy, Coroner. tiistitied that the hatchet ; exhib. itedl was found On the premises of Conrad Garber about ten o'clock; there was blood on the handle and on the pole; witness handed it over to Mr. Dickey S,01:1 after it came into his possession; the stains of blood still appeared on the handle. J. L. Sharp called: lived on the Lille pike; on the morn ing of the 15th of December. Anderson and Richards came to his house snd wont on in the direction of Garbor's; it was half peed nine riche-lc. hence Landis sate them be tween nine and Ili and a half delnetu met them on the road leadinu from the Litix pike to the Manheim road: about halt' way between. them ; they; we going towards m H er the Manheint ut: the Hark fellow had a club about three feet lon.;; they had no bundle; the yellow fellow bad a chimney scraper: on cross examination witness said h; , was 111,Si Hee tlds was the Timm Richards had the club.— A map of the comity was here produced showing the position ot the batik referred to.. Henry Buck coal tar [ldled: saw them on that moralt , on the old Manheim road, going out in the diction of Garber's; a little more than half-way from the city to Gar ber: that was about or lu ,'[back: 1 i.sesed Mr. Kel ler on the roml. Etunto,l Keller. called: saw them about three miles out, going in the name direction, near 10 o'clock: witness was wGrking along the site of the road, neither of them had a bundle an h., SAW; hw i•alltideat the prisoner was one of them; he had on a cop and the other ; had in a white hat ; were going in the direction of ilarber'.:; sew them that evening in the Mayor's utile, Wtti. Mollhenny caul-d: I saw them beyond Mr. Kellerg quarry ; they. were going out towards Ilirlier's; am confi dent this is one of the men, though he had other clothes l then: had a scraper but no handle; tie called at my door: the other stood back. Jacob Lawrence, called: Saw them at the same place Mr. Ilhermy did: they were together. that was about lo o'clock Jarh s v The prisoner and Richards at Fruit vine. on the old It inhelm road. about of a mile from Garber', goin.4 in that direction: this was about 10 or 11 o'clock. Edward rube,' : lives aliont tI) yards from Bar ber's: thay were at his hum,. about it o'clock; when they left, they went in the direction of Mr. Kauffman's: is con tident that Andorson is one "1 the men who wits at his house. Isaac Kauffman. called : on the morning of the 15th of December. Andersen and Richards come to his house, near Garber's about lul o'clock; saw them going away; straight In the direction of Garber's house; saw them go within eight feet of the kitchen door; when the corner of the house hid them from his view; was standing in a position from which he could see them cross the meadow and pass the corner of the house: about one o'clock, two hours atter they left, he first heard of the murder, went over and found them murdered. and the house iu confusion; saW a club standing by the door of the kitchen, where the women were king. B. H. tuber, called: ',Diagram of the ground plan of the premises published iu The Daily Evening Express" of December 17th. pr.duced witness made this diagram from all examination of the premises ou the evening of the murder; the explanations attached are correct. Examination of Mr. Kauffman was resumed: he describ ed the position of the club, bodies, he . front the diagram before him, which was then handed to the court and jury. Mrs. Mary Ann Henn, (daughter-in-law of one of the murdered women) called lives About 300 yards front Gar mother.in law left home between 0 and 10 o'clock; witness left home shwa one o'clock, and found the two WOlll,l murdered nod give the alarm. r. Harris examined witness as to whether the. WAN much confusion in the kitchen furniture when•. the bodies were found: and whether the chairs were knocked over, indicating that there had been a stru,:gle; witness did not notice that particularly: there was a clock in one of the rooms: it had stopped at ten minutes before twelve: there was blood in the ibeirs and bed clothes, and other things whir.li had beenthrown out of the closet and draws: knows the money was kept in the chest because her mother had often showed it to her [described itj every time when we rams house from market Mrs. Garber counted it over, and put none but Ameaican coin away. Witness here identified a number of the articles taken from the house; among the articles was a pair of ear rings with the name of Susan Garber written inside the box con tai nice them.] Mary Meese, called, lives about 500 yards from Garber on the road leading out towards the Litiz pike from the Manhehn road; saw Anderson and annthi, black man pass her house between 1 and '2 o'clock; Anderson had a bundle; came frmt the direction of Garber's house. Never saw prisoner before that day and on Tuesday last; 111,1 a kind of a green coat and a cap on when he passed their house; the big man, Anderson, carried the bundle. George Doerm called ; was working about a quarter of a mile this side the "Green;' close to where the road comes in from the Man helm road; saw the prisoner and another pass, in the direction of Lancaster, Anderson was holding some thing under his coat: this was about one o'clock. ;e1 Had a dark cap on. and had very lightish mat add dark pante. [To the Court]—Saw them in the Mayor's office when they were dressed in the same way when he saw them on the road coming to Lancaster, evilness was breaking stones on the road when they passed. Famuel Longenecker, called 7 wan passing along the Lille pike that afternoon and passed Anderson and Richards a short distance this side of where the Manheim road conies in; passed them twice on the road [witness having stopped once on business.] Anderson had something under Ills coat: and had also a small bundle under his arm; they were walking very font; I Paw them that evening in the Mayor's office, in the same dress; saw the cap and examined it; there was blood on also some blood on their clothes; am confident prisoner Is one of them. David Ford, called: saw Anderson aid itichurds on the tills pike ut the first gate. about one o'clock: Anderson's cent was "potted out." Y, They were walking that and looking back; they were going In the direction of Lnncak• leg slid not coo Anderson hone fi shall bundle tinder his 'von be 'night have had. Lewis Stone. On ; was working on the linllrentl, holt the lovoinotiVe Works dint linartiooll; COS Anderson and Ihehnrds mate arenas the fields front the III:Tuthill of the New Ilttllntol Olt! when twenty or thirty path' off front um Alidoss"ss Irish out n Milt° rag sir Itittollterohlar and the other tank oat n long Iltntelterl knife a n d cut the rug In Iwo; Illehortltt linen pool, .I'll wrap my :wool in this!" the other said, onttne In sung okoligk." wlnm lung gist eta tier Ih. laklgu 4 e a. , a.; Ihoy took not n kottie and took dritdri they then wont hr the tilreetlott of the "spook bonito" or cult:lgo, John Pointer, smiled wee weriiing with Slime iiti the ittillruall nod earrulieritteil the teetioiony of the latter nese. Samuel tl untlaker, . called: la watchman at tic 'Cones. toga bridge; about two t,'clock oaths day of the murder, saw them come down the railroad, towards the " shanty ;" Anderson asked witness whether Jbhn "Wang was at home; I sold he was not; he then naked was bin-wife at home, she will do as well; I replied I do not know,'lm should go and see; they then went in that direction Is'; Sly first acquain tance with Andersen was when holived In the room in the Cottage last spring; he had lived thersr.ibout two months; then moved to Lebanon; had not aeanAhAlfrom the day he moved until that afternoon, the4aLetlthe murder; Anderson had a bundle with him. , S , lt 'Tddlinot know he followed chimney sweeping. Mary Delang, .1101: Anderson and kithards came to her house (Cottage) on the day of the murder between one end two o'clurk ; Anderson bed some clothing under hie coat or shirt; he had also a bag of money` [sstlt-sack con taining Gerber's money shown and identified by the wit ness] he threw it on the 'bed and said they had earned that much; that they had settled off with the man they worked for in Lebanon; witness remarked they most have worked bard to earn so much money: they said, yes, they had word,' rrra hard fur ; gave Witness the ear-rtugs saltl his (Anderson's) wife bad bought them and sent them to her for a present; said they got clothing to pay for work at places where they could get no money; Richards had a big knife in his coat pocket bat he took it with him—[the articles were here shown to witness who identified them as the same they laid on the lied in the Cottage.] Ander son Clad the clothes In this red handkerchief and left the boodle in her house. I.: They left the clothing there be cause Anderson had lived in their house two months last summer; be wanted to rent again; they told her they were eying into town to buy some new clothes; Anderson told her that when they were going round the country and the people rented to give them food they took it. [To Mr. Dickey]— 1 gave thesetto officer Baker. Margaret Snyder, [a little girl] called: Lives at the same house Mr. Delang does, and corroborated the testimony of the last witness, relative to Anderson andlticharde coming there on the afternoon of the murder, throwing the money on the bed, tying up the clothes, cot; she also Identified the mak in which they hnd the mono , . and said the money was the same kind as she new ROPS in court; thee trick the money with thorn; she also R‘V, the butcher knife in Rich ards' iyemei.hn. S it ,ailed: it. and nffl-or Tltiffoszln nr. rooted A3eler.,,n and Richard., about four o'clock in the nfternn+net the murder, found this cravat on prisoner'. neek..und thla •handarerch'ef In hia packet: these sheen Nhoiahl war. nn ilirhard's feet, (the same Mn.s Garber wore to market.; Anderson had th money in this bag under his cluthei neat t, th 3 akin; the elothltiv, witness got at the Spark [louse." Fu k, called: Identified the reair as one he left at the house of his sister (Mrs. Garb, I r Fled .hayed freiu , ltly wltb'lt and was positive It we. hi.. Cu.n •ad Garber, re .called: Two butahar knives were c.rri- , 1 away from the prenakea th., hatchet did not belong t , Snsan garher. identitied the as hors: .ither she nr Nir. Zshm wrot. her num, in the box; h td loft them wish him once to get repaired. stalled: Saw several blomi-spots on.ths pa pers in and seatt,ed around tit^ chest on the evening of the murder. called the attention of the District Attorney to It. The District Attorney here stated that they had more witnesses. but as their testimony would be only cumula• tive, it was hardly necessary to COniUMO further time In hearing them. He would therefore closo the case so far as the Commonwealth was concerned. Mr. Harris. for the defense. said they hod no evidence to utter the prisoners were poor men, and without the means of preparing a defence: still in view of his positlon as one of the counsel assigned by the Court to defend the cause of these unfortunate and friendless men, he felt it to he hi= duty to say something to the jury. lie admitted that the array of circumstantial evidence against the prisoner looked formidable, and he knew the feeling of the commu nity was strongly egeinst his client. Idir in view of the fact that a great multitude of the peep:- of Pennsylvania are averse to capital punishment and believe that it should be abrogated; and In view of the uncertainty of rircum. stantial evidence. it was his duty to show to thejury, that there was a possibility of even this man being innocent. Mr. Harris then gave some bist "ices in point of where the wrong men had been c and the death-penalty had been imposed upon thetu. In one instance, a mau stole a pony. and finding the' he was pursued along, the public highway, asked a strung, whom he met to hold his horse a moment, while he s*. , ipped by the wayside. fir which he gave a reasonable excuse. The borne was tbubd in the stranger's p :seessim, who had n means to prove his itinii , -encs, and he n-se convicted. He related another ease where a man was missing. and two men were accused of his murder, arrested, tried and convicted of murder in the second degree—upon their own confession— and yet they were the wrong men, the person supposed to have been - murdered having subsequently re-appeared.— This he regarded as a stronger case of circumstantial evi dence than even the one they are DOW trying. For al though the prisoners have been traced to that house, and back to the city, no mortal creature knows what transpired there between the hours of 11 and 1 o'clock. Thera is a possibility—he would not say a probability—that this horrible crime was not committed by these men; and there is a possibility that even these clothes may net be Garber's. The community was iu a fever of excitement over the de, tails of the outrage ; the newspapers hurled it forth with turious runt all over the land. that these men were the guilty parties: they we, tried unit convicted in ad•aO, in the public mind and :ruler ,•ir, itio,tatr, wit nesses may become so asset: esiate.l no to be even mistaken In the identity of persons s- things. lie would not say this seas so in this case. but he r:islied the jury, iu an issue involving the live of a nllOl/111 being. to act cautiously upon the presumption of guilt . Mr. Harris then went On to tit.tino mord,. showing that there must tin premeditation to constitute the clime of murder in the first degree. There might not have been prente'litation in this case. By any of illustration. suppose, midi he, that these men hod gene there without any spe cific intention to take life. and while there a I . lal'aS was raised between the parties. and in the heat or blood the prisoners killed the women, this would not be murder— Mr. Harris lean here interrupted by a startling volley of hisses and groans from the spectators, which cut his sen tence short off—the excited crowd misapprehendlug his mearibig. and taking this disgraceful moans of expressing their feeling against the prisoner. The Court rebuked the die ed.., :mil ordered any sue ropeeting it to be hr,tight before Court, when they would at once be emit to prison. Mr. thuds then continued —in the first degree. Its repeated. that guocking down the womeu in such a fracas would only be murder In the second degree, the premeditatiou, deliberation, and inten tion. necessary to ceustitute murder of the first degree, in law, being wanting. Ile concluded by stating that he was not a volunteer in this case, but was performing his sworn duty as assigned by the Court. and that he would do this fearlessly, without regard to what the papers might say, or what an excited populace might think or express. Mr. hickey concluded for the Commonwealth, in a brief but clear and powerful speech, referring to the painful duty of prosecuting cases where the pen.alty following con viction is death: but painful as this duty may be to him self. to the court and jury, it is none the less their solemn duty to [nuke a true deliverance between the prisoner at the her and the Commonwealth, without regard to whether the law be right or wrong or whether the people are fur or against it. The jury have nothing to do with the cause queuees; Gist rests Wilh the court who will will pass sen tence. and the GOVernOr who will sign the death warrant. Mr. Dickey then briefly and clearly reviewed the testi mony, showing the complete connection of all the links in the chain of circumstances which pointed to tire guilt of the prisoner tit the bar. Ito showed that such wounds could not have been inflicted in a squabble cr self.defioneet the blow on the crown of the head ruuq have been struck, as one of the witnesses stated,. rant behind. IC was just such a crime as must have been done in cold like" It did not require a long time for that deliberation which is the element murder of the first degree. The human mind acts with the quickness of thought itself—the electric flesh cannot be compared to it—the intl intention rosy be con ceived in a minute. a mrtment, a point of time, there could be no doubt they designed to do the deed, and here 'hold ing up the bag of money[ is the motive fur the double crime. The prisoners were traced to within eight paces of Gar ber's door, then back to the "spook house," avoiding enter ing the city by a public thoroughfare; the gods felted In their possession are identified: these old :Aloes ltich thurel under the cupboard, with this blotch of blodd ; allowir to the jury; and these . 0100 shown[ whichGar b s Wore to market On the fe-t of the prisoner's c , Inpanl , 43, which had taken the plitce of his ewe: could the jury have any doubt of his guilt with rush evidence? They told Mrs. Delang this'muney WM hoed earned! Yes, it was hard-earned: well might this man say sayfor it 0,10 earned with the pries of his life and the peril of his immortal soul. Mr. Dickey concluded by saying it 111l:S DO pleasure Ga the Commonwealth to take the lives of her el:ix-ens, black or white: but when such fiendish crimes were perpetrated in open day, the laws must lie vindicated and society pro tected. Judge Hayes, in his charge, alluded to the grave import ance of the case, the solemn duty before thew. and the enormity of the circumstances attending the murder of two innocent women. Ile differed with Mr. Harris. who ad vanced the idea that a majority ol the people of Penney-- vomits were opposed to capital punishment: the continued existence of the law on the statute book disproves it: but with that they had nothing to de: no matter what the community may think the law must he executed. His Ilenor referred to the posit of Mr. Harris, counsel (or the prisoner, and said hit we entitled to much credit for the faithful matinee in which be had discharged the duty assigned him by the court. It would have been a scandal to have :Wowed these men to go to trial for their lives without counsel, they not having the means of preparing for defence. The counsel in this 1,11 had riot eolunle red their services, but merely acted nt the requect of the court, who felt it to be their duty to assign The Judge theta laid down the law and reviewed the timidly, after which the jury retired. They were on, only a few minutes. when they returned a verdict of dGielity i f f Meriter in ihcfirct During the remarks of couneel awl theidling, tho court, the prisoner seemed to realize hie position, and sev eral times we noticed tears rolling down his cheeks, though he evidently !nude strong efforts to appear composed. ll= This morning the trial of Henry Richards for the murder of Mrs. ()arbor was called up. Mr. Pyft, taking . the case in charge as counsel-i u-chief for the prisoner. The indictment is substantiatly the some as in the case of Anderson. The prisoner on being arraigned appeared to be quite un concerned, and several times during the morning ha laughed at occurrences which took place in the Court. Nearly the entire 111,ffillg was consumed in empantiol hag a jury, two special ,nin, being Issued. After 16 per emptory challenges and no: muse, the following persona were duly qualified to fry Old case: 1. Henry Martin: 2. Aaron IL rnuninny, Lewis Haldv; 4. 11. E. Slaymaker; 5. Time. W. slityhes, 0. Benjamin Lichly; 7. Jacob Axes: S. Wm. tilling: 9. Barnes Broom: lit Edward Wiley; 11..iohn 12. Philip T. blheaff. The testimony Iti the rase is substantially the same as that given in the trial of Anderson yesterday. Up to the hour of adjournment. at .0 o'clock, the examination of Mr. Kauffman had been concluded. This witness, on cross examination. stated that the reason lie stood and watched the prisoners when they went across to Garber's WAS, not that he suspected them, but because he wished to see if they got a job, and wanted to show them to his little boys as they came out of the chimney: he stood there ten minutes, but seeing smoke still ascending from the chimney, he concluded thin family were going to hare the chimney cleaned, but wished to get the cooking of the dinner out of the way first: the witness then walked towards his barn and thought no more of the circumstance until he heard of the murder. Adjourned to half-past two o'clock. AFTNIINOON SESSION: The pantaloons worn by Richards when arrested were produced, and the half of a circular blot -h of blood shown, which corresponded with the other half on his old shoes found under the cupboard in Garber's house; this was the only new point brought out io this case, but it was a very strong one against the prisoner, and enough to convict him without any further testimony. The testimony fur the C.,mmonwealth closed about four o'clock. and the defence set up by Mr. Ilarris was insanity, and two witnesses were called fur this purpose, but the theory wouldn't bring the answer, as the principal witness for defence said Richards was easily led, slow to calculate the consequence., but knew right and wrong. Jacob B. Amwake was called as to the "mentality' . of Richards; had lived with witues from the time that he was six years old until he was fifteen: the prisoner knows the ditfer'ence between right and wrong, but has that pa- culiar rust of mind which is easily persuaded and led tutu anything; he was not one of those who could calculate the consequences of an act. ;.s. He a - as rational enough: wit ness knew his state of mind es well as that of hisowu chil dren; could not say be was simple-minded; can only say he was easily led; when six or seven years old be would butt his head against the wall: his father said this was in con sequence of Henry being a seven-month child: he did not do this because he was a simpleton, but on account of some disease in his head; he got over it as he grew up. At times he was very violent; at one time he wanted to kill his own father, who had teach trouble with hint after ho loft the house of witness: he was a bud boy afterwards; I once de fended hint for larceny, and he was sentenced to two years; had hint pardoned nut, but it seems It didn't do him much gond. Margaret Butler called: UNTO known Richards seven years (except when he was in jail) his was very simple at times; often thought he wasn't ;tulle right; thought he hadn't toneh settee, tin truss-exatninallon this Witness said she didn't know whether lie had mind enough to know whether it seas wrong to dash ad( Is Vroman'e brains stint cart her throat. Mr' HAMM Ilion proceeded I.s argue the rase to the Jury and set up a mold extrtiowilluary defence, giving to tho Jury Itioli n ntes men efet e m es o to his Imunsel of t h e history of the murder, which wee enbstantially this; 110 end Ander. Noll Wrist to tillrher'p a ir and A sk e d !t n . denied, they Own ached for ro o d, cold the WOlllllll have them tweed Awl hutter-hillth Ilkhanle them atarled to go away, but whets tome dist anee Off he found Anderson Wire not ~ 0 11111114, And went back; lin stet hint In front of the house, when Alidef , oll said he lint done something that Wee not right; ttl , harde sahl. "In the name of Hod what Is that ?" Anderson then sold, if you promise to be a true partner I will tell. Ile did tad, and Itlchardi watialatit to shout - liirirder," when Anderson caught him by the throat and torn his shirt and blooded 11 In the manner you tee It [shirt hold up] and threatbned to murder him too if ho did not promise to say nothing about it. Anderson then made him take off his shoes and put the others on. Mr. Dickey —How did the blood get on the old ones'f] Mr. Harris— Richards says Anderson took the shoe in end dabbed it In the blood. He Bald this this afternoon. [Mr. Dickey—he never attempted to explain that bet Ore; he only formed it since the trial commenced.] On their way home Anderson forced the $1.50 of money upon Richards, which was found in his possession when arrested. This line of defence was received by the bar with considerable merriment, and by the audience with evident marks of uneasiness. Mr. Harris went on to argue that this man was more probably innocent than Anderson, and be believed Rich ards was the victim of the other. Mr. Pyfer, In addressing the Court, said that when he was assigned as counsel in this case, he felt it to be his duty to do all in his power for the unfortunate prisoner. Ile felt that he had done so—in the selection of a jury and in the examination of witnesses—and ho was perfectly satis fied to leave the case with the Court: and he was fully satisfied that he had discharged his duty to the best of his ability, and that be cannot be censured for not making a speech to the jury. Mr. Dickey then summed up fur the Commonwealth in brief speech of great power, in which the statement of Richards as detailed by his counsel was knocked into very small pieces. Ile contended and showed that this was a much stronger and clearer case than the other, tho spots of blood, one-half on the prisoner's pants and the other half on the shoes left iu the house when the deed was commit ted,-was an inevitable circumstance of guilt If, as Rich ards says, Anderson put the blood upon hiaahoe how did the shoes get under the cupboard in the house }. ' ilia whole story, so far from Indicating Richards:to:U*7r itnsotmci mind, shows him to be a cunning nigger,eabilmOdfitastori" to put all the guilt upon his equal partner; M crime. It was in testimony this afternoon that the prisoners said at the "spook house" that the money was to be lquallydi. . .. —.. .... _ .... - .. . ...., .„. . vlded between them, anditichsrds'was seen witha butcher I Till INAUGURATION.—The Inauguration of . knife In his pocket and a parasol In his bosom, which was , taken from a drawer in the house where the murder was . GOTorDOr PACELR, on Tuesday last, wee it brilliant affair.— committed. Mr. Dickey theatraced the murders from Lan- . In company with the Vencibles, a Jovial sot of fellows, we caster to °arbor's and bll4l, connecting every link of the : left Lancaster In the Lightning Train. at 4 o'clock, on testimony which so clearkt pointed to the guilt of these companions In crime. : Monday afternoon, and arrived at Harrisburg at 514. The After the charge of the Court, in which the law was Panethins were received at the Depot by the National again : laid do/a and the facts reviewed, the case was given to the jury about sic o'clock. and were out twenty-five , , they Guards, of Harrisburg, and an immense concourse of pee minutes, whenreturned a verdict of “Guilty of m u ,. pie, and were escorted to their quarters at the magnificent der in the first degree " Jones House, accompanied by a great crowd anxious to see The Jury, at the request of prisoner's counsel, were called the movements of this crack company. On Monday eve and each one answered as above, oing the Fennlbles' Band serenaded Governors Pollock and THE PRISONERS SENTENCED . ..TO BE ; HUNG—THEY Packer, and Senator Shaeffer, and we hays copied the fol. MAHE SPEECHES AND SOLEMNLY ASSERT THEIR lowing from notice of it from Tuesday's Harrisburg Tele- IN'ICCENCE, BLAMING EACH OTHER WITH THE CRIME. graph, preferring to give the opinion of no impartial ob • Henry Richards was then called up for sentence, and be- server rather than our own: ing asked by the Court whether he had any thing to say ; thisriNnUtsiteti Hosea —Thu band of the Lancaster Fans why sentence of death should not ho passed upon him, pro- cibles called upon Gov. Pollock at his lodgings at the needed to make a long statement strongly declaring his In- Jones House, last evening, and complimented him with a nocence of the crime of which he had been convicted. delightful serenade, to which His Excellency responded in His statement, stripped of its verbosity, was substanti• a very happy manner, thanking theta for the compliment, ally this: I will toll you the whole truth and nothing but and expressing a lively recollection of the kindness he had the truth, Co help me God We were In Lebanon at Ander- ever received from the "Old Guard." The Band then son's house. On a Monday morning Anderson asked me passed round Into Market street, beneath the rooms coot, to go with him: I asked him where ho was going, he would pied by lion. B. A. Shaeffer and his accomplished lady, not give me any satisfaction. where they paid their respects to their able and popular Alec's wife said we hadbetter stay at home: I thought so Senator, in strains of delicious music. Col. Sheaffer too and stepped back and said I would not go; ho Insisted being loudly called for, appeared on the balcony and I should: I asked him whether there was anything so par- made an eloquent And feeling reply. The occasion was Ocular that made him so anxions to get rue along, he said a happy one, and Col. Shaeffer did It ample justice.— that was his businesa: he never would tell any business he went away on. ean who t The band Is a very One our—lndeed one of the finest eve have ever seen. The company to which they are attached We came over to Mr. Binkloy'a and got there on Mon- . attracted general attention by their perfection of drill and day evening about 6 or 7 o'clock: got a drink at the pump; their noble, manly appearance: and Capt. Hochman and got the man's consent (with seine reluctance) to lay in his ' Lieut. Franklin have won great credit by the company horn; Alec got up several Heave In the night and walked up f which they command. After leaving the Jones House, the and down the floor in en excited manner, asked him what • Band also called upon the Governor elect, and were received was the matter; he said it was noneof my business: coaxed with the cordiality and kindness which distinguish and him to come and lie down—what would the man think if render hint Fll popular. lac should sae him acting in that muffler; he replied -d—n. the man!" he was thinking about his own business. In tin Tuesday morning the Fencibles made *street parade, the morning we got breakfast at tha house, mid the ' and, it Is needless to say, we felt proud of them and glori woman gave us three apples: were well treated. ous old Lancaster. They nobly susefined the reputation On the way to Roseville Alec got a chimney to'rlean, for which had preceded them to the seat of government. which he got a levy; al Roseville he got a flask of liquor: In Alec drank nearly all of it and did not give any of it; he the general military display they were assigned the right poured out what was left and gave the empty Beak to car- post of honor. The two finest companies on parade, In our ry. We then went across in [he direction of the Wiz pike, opinion, were the Lancaster Fencibles nod flooding Rifles. Alec asking for chimneys to sweep and I for work. When we got to Mr. Kauffman's, Alec asked his wife or The Fencibles left for home in the 7 o'clock Train on daughter for bread and meat: she gave us bread. Alec Tuesday evening At the Depot, Col. Shaeffer, Col. Wells said something in Dutch, at which I laughed—it sounded Coverly. proprietor of the Jones House, and several other so funny. We than went to Garber's. Alec went ahead and I fol. lowed. :Alec, after bidding Mrs. Garber the time of day, asked her for a chimney to sweep; she said they had none they wanted swept: he thou asked fur something to eat: she then gave us bread and apple butter, and asked us if we liked buttermilk: she gave us some. Mrs. Garber knew Alec and talked with him; else said he had been there before with another man, but she had never seen me (Richards) before. Alec said he had been round that neighborhood often. There was another old lady in the room; both said they had seen Alec before; I went out and left Alec talking to them; went across in the direo tien of another house to get something to eat !what him . 1 . 55 :hey [mist have b..eu:'l lint when •ome distan re off I wondered what kept Alec so long lit the hours; I went back, when he met me in front of the door with his hands he held a butcher knife by the blade between his teeth. I asked him what in the name at' God ha bad been he maid he had killed the woman wan alemt to cry •murder.' he said d-in you and any other s-u of a b—h that conies with me And theft help we; I will murder you too if you toil on rue I said 1 had no malice against the women. :it'd would tell. Ile dragged me down Jo sip knees, and his bloody hand stained the wrist-band of sty shirt: that was the way the blood got there. Ile again said if I told he would kill me; and made me promise be. litre he would let ma up. Ile said d—n the old Dutch far mers have got money enough. but they won't give any of it to the poor; 1 ailivated their old -e and I've got then money. Ile offered me half the money not to tell—so help God this is the truth and nothing but the truth. While he had me choked he put the-shoos on my feet and then started .tr. The miserable wretch having got to the end of Ills ram bling plea, which was delivered with great gusto, the Court raid there was nothing In hln statement to invalidate the strong testimony which had been elicited In a fair trial by a jury of their own selection, and proceeded to pass sentence as follows: Henry Richards. for the offence of which you have been convict,' by a jury of your country, the sentence of the Court is that you be taken from there to the Lancaster County Prison, whence you came. end there be hung by the neck until you he dead—this sentence to be carried into effect within the yard or prison walls, agreeably to the nut of April 10, 1844. Anderson being called up and asked If ha hail anything to say, replied: That he had plead innocent before the Mayor and would plead innocent now. Ile said he had been acquainted with Mrs. Garber, and when he went in that day, she says to hlw, Alec., you have been drinking. you had better go and lay down. I started out and opened a gate by the hog pen. and was passing through when Henry came to me and blinded me H bag of money and I put it in my pocket; on the way out lie banded me the other things, and as ho did not ask me for them again I kept them. I had occasion to go to Delang's—so help me God, gentlemen, I au) innocent of the murder of them poor women. They swore ',limit my cup being bloody; but there was no blood on it; they ought to have brought It here to be shown to the jury. There Was blood on my W.Miess, kilt II got there from my nose which hail been bleeding,. I ant innocent, gentlemen. but an the sentenee of death must be passed I am willing to go and suffer; but, gentle men of the Court, I am innocent of the murder. Anderson as he finished. began to shed tears, and ap peared much more affected than Richards. He was then sentenced in due form, and the prisoners were then remanded to jail. DEMOCRATIC CITY CONVENTION.—The Dem ocratic City Convention. far thy purpose of rtTOl•ing the real., of the 11 , 111 1,1 for Mayor na,l High Coi.table, mot at Messenkop':, Hotel. Ea,.t King ,treat, at on Saturday evening. DAVID REF,IE, Eau., or - th u N. W. Ward. was appointed Chairman, and Jesus C. CSAPIINTER, Esq. officiated as Secretary. The following returns were rucelved and read: John Zunmernutn. 1). C. 51. Caine, 17S 121 122 Si N W. Vt a 1 N. F \Turd, 9 W. ar 1 r 1 A unanimous vote wmi coat in all the" watits for .Too] MYERS, for high Constnble The Chairman their 1 leclark,l .lonN ZIMMERMAN and JOHN Msans the Denrsorntir nominees for Mayor and High Con stable, after whieh the C.,nrention adjourned. DZIWCRATIC CITY NtiMISTATIONS.—The fol lug are the Democratic nominations for City and Ward Officers. made at ihn oil Saturday evening `l.l TOR. .11)11N ZIMMERMAN CONSTI.III.E. JUUN MYERS. NORTHWEST WARD Seed Counrii.- V. J. ERAMPIL Common POUliCi . JOHN REES, GEORGE L. BOYLE, BARNES BROOM, JOHN DITLOW, WILLIAM F. MILLER. City Cotziltzbb-. JACOB GUN DA K Assessor. JACOB FOLTZ. Assistant ASSCSAOT JOHN NIXIMIF, HIRAM YOUNG. Judge. MAIILON E. MERCER Iwpectur. DANIEL TREWIT'/. El= &! c 6 Council. JOHN S. DOUGHERTY. mnwn Giunn l. J. J. SPRENGER, BENJAMIN LICIITV, CHARLES E. WENTZ. JACOB HUBER. Althrrman. JAMES C. CARPENTER,. Cily anzslable WILLIAM COX. Awss,,r UARRET EVERTS. Judge. WILLIAM ELLMAKEII Inspector. STRICKLER EVRIITS Councii. JUNIUS B. KAUFMAN Common Councit. GEO. SANDERSON, PHILIP FITZPATRICK, I/EOM - 1E M. STEINMAN A/den/tan. CHARLES F. VOIGT Cily anistalle JOHN RCfi SS. Assistant Assessors . CHARLES MOYER, HENRY GIBBS. =EI SOUTH-EAST WARD Soled Co, nci/. JUNIUS B. KAUFMAN. Common round/. WILLIAM OCIMPF, MICHAEL McGONIOLE, City Constable. WILLIAM M. 0011MLY Assessor. EUGENE LIARKINS. - - AMAMI'S. HENRY nEoNtit, BIRINARD FITZPATRICK Judge. BAMUJIL .7. MORRISON. Imprdnr, JOAN If ENELER. Out,. Folttgillf tI tacTUlllS.—Tho loam.° of Col, Mt+ W. Yeatter, on Wednesday eve& mg, .tt aid of t he Howard Association, wail largely attlended—lttilton 11.11 using well filled with ladles and gentlemen, The t twine statotholii of A iti@rlen"—wav handled with the sillily and eloquence for while the distinguished lecturer Is noted, end during Ito provoke he received frequent marks of approbation from the audianda, Ile vividly and truthfully contrasted the statesmen of our own country with those of Yugland, and liblllV.Li that whilst the low intim-it'll their distinction, and were trained and educated for the position. they °coupled, the former were, as a gen eral thing, of obscure . and humble parentage, having had vary little advantages of education or training, and were therefore thrown upon their own energies and resources and the hold which they could obtain and keep on the popular mind. ilia eulogies of Washington, Franklin, Jefferaon, Jackson, Webster, Clay and Calhoun, were just and appropriate, and his reference to President Buchanan, Judge Douglas. and the atatesmen now upon the stage of action, was well-timed and felicitous. The lecture wee well-written, chaste and concise in style, and creditable alike to the head and heart of its author, and we were gratified at the warm and enthuslasticregeption with which it was received by the audience. NEW MAIL ARRANGEMENT.--A new mail arrangement between Lancaster and Philadelphia com menced on Tuseaay last. The Way Train now leaving here at 1.40 p. in (instead of 3.40 as heretofore) will carry an extra mail, the mail closing at 1 p. m. By this arrange ment persons writing to Philadelyhia, can receive answers by the mall which arrives hero at '2 o'clock in the morning. A GOOD SELECTION.—THOMAS D. CARSON, Rag., formerly of the Lancs.Ster Bank of this city, bee been ch o s e n r or tho riot tysburg Bank, in place of J. B. Wel.6• .••• ....• • ..scullent selection, Mr . H., t,ry on .. se triad, having had much expert nice In the Banking business. He te a son of the late Rob' t D. Carson, for many year. Cashier of the Lanceeter County Bank. gentlemen. were cheered most lustily as a parting blessing. The inauguration ceremonies at the Capitol grounds were witnessed bye vast number of people. Many prominent gentlemen of the State occupied places on the temporary plat f“rut erected In front of the Copilot grounds. A great number of ladies also graced the windows, halls and por tico—among, tile number we observed the two handsome and accomplished daughters of Governor PACKER. We pre sumo these young ladies will do the honors of the Execu tive Mansion. Whilst hilin, we cullcil on sevoral old acqualn tauces—unning others, BEN. \\ IBTAIEN. the sprightly and good-looking editor of the Harrisburg Herald. We ae -1,,v ledge the many kind lucre of our friend whilst at tin. Capital. THE EDITORS' BOOK TABLE I=l Dr. Eider's life of Dr. Kerte has just been published by Mewrv. Childs and Petersen. ii!ed Arch Ptr vet, Philadelphia. It is a neatly bound vidoine of 311L110 400 pages. printed with oxvolleni typo on a fiat, quality of paper, and cannot fail to ho highly inleriAting to all who have admired the heroic and soils:writhing cot lust of the diviinguishod Aretit• Mr. lhoo. of thin rite io the solo agoot f.r the nal. of the work in Lancaster and Vert( onunties. The price bi $1 50, and we eheerfully recommend the I/001, WI Worthy tho mokt exfroded palrotk...ge PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. HARRISBURG, Jan. 10 Sk:NATE.-Mr. Ingrain presented a petition from the stockholderd of the Bank of Penn sylvania, in favor of the Senate hill in relation to the Bank. Also, one front the holders of meadow lands iu the Twenty-fourth Ward of Philadelphia, praying for an alleviation on die rate of taxes. Mr. Limbach presented a petition from Las• tun, asking.a modification of the auction laws. Mr. Wilkins read a bill to extend the char ter of the Merchants, and Manufacturers' Bank of Pittsburg. On motion, the vote on the act incorporating the Grand Council of the Independent Sons of Malta was reconsidered, and the bill then pas sed finally. The Senate then took n recess to attend the Inauguration ceremonies. Nauss.—Mr. Arthur read in place a bill for the better regulation of the State militia. Mr. Atkins read in place a bill to incoepor ate the Gray's Lane Plank-road Company. Mr, Owcii road a further supplement to the act consolidating the city of Philadelphia. The House took a recess, and after attend ing the Inauguration re assembled, aid, On motion, ordered 10,000 copies of the Inaugu ral Address of Governor Packer's to be printed. Adjourned till to-morrow. The Inauguration of Governor Packer. IhRRISLIURG, January 10.—Both Houses assembled at the usual hour this morning, but took a recess to be present at the Inaugura tion ceremonies and on the arrival of the pro cession proceeded to the platform erected in front of the Capitol. The Governor and Governor elect, with the Committee of the two carriages, drawn by four beautiful grays. The heads of departments and numerous members of Congress were also in the line in carriages The appearance of the Governor elect in the Capitol grounds was hailed with the most en thusiastic cheers. The band stationed on the platform struck up Hail Columbia. The oath to the Governor elect was adminis tered by the Speaker of the Senate, and the delivery of the Inaugural address was proceed ed with. After the reading of the Address was con cluded, the members of the Senate and House of Representatives repaired to their chambers, and formally adjourned. The Governor and Ex-Governor were escorted back to their lodgings. The weather is delightful, with a bright sun and balmy air. The assemblage was immense in numbers and enthusiastic in spirit, and the scene presented during the inaugural proceed ings was animated and exciting. The military display of the procession was grand and imposing. The companies were arranged in the following order GUARD OF DONOR Brigadier General Keim and staff ; the Penn sylvania Dragoons; the Lancaster Feneibles ; the Norris City Rifle ; the National Guards ; the Lebanon Artillery ; the Altoona Guards. A BODY GUARD Gen. Williams and staff—The Black Huzzare. Men followed the carriages containing the Goveonor, Governor elect, Special Committees of the Legislature, Heads of Departments, etc. Preceeded by General Sailor, Marshal and Aids ; and the Newport Artillery, Fieherville Guards, Reading Riles, and Valley Infantry. Among the many bands of martial music in the line, were the Beck's Baud, of Philadelphia; Barracks Band, of Carlisle; Hazard's Har mony Band, of Philadelphia ; the Fenciblee' Band, of Lancaster ; and the City Band, of Reading. Despatches from the Utah Expedition WASHINGTON, January 23.—Despatches have been received at the War Department from Col. Johnston, dated November 30th, which confirm the previous reports of exces sive suffering and great loss of the draught animals by snow storms, cold and starvation. A sufficient number of oxen, though poor, have been saved to supply the proportion of the rations for six days in the week, and there is on hand bacon sufficient for one day in each week, for seven months. There is also flour and small rations for the same period. The storms deal roughly with Col. Cook's command. He lost half of hie horses besides a number drunks. A further advance towards Salt Lake City cannot be made without a new supply of such animals, to procure which, Capt. Marcy has been despatched to Now Mexico, f u r use in the early spring when the army, with a volunteer force of 2000 men, will resume the starch as Soon us as supplied with horses and mules, and the grass on the moon. mine Is suffloiont to support them. 'lwo volunteer companies have been muster. ed into service for nine months, and it Ic ox. pouted that in a few days two more eumpan• ice will bo mustered in. The troops have borne tie dangers and privations of the march with patience and cheerfulness, and are in fine health, though some of the regiments are still suffering from frosted limbs. Another letter from au officer of the army says that the Mormons are afraid of the moun ted men. They are a set of cowards, like all assassins and robbers, and he fears that their leaders, and those who have no dame in the valley, will run away, requiring their delu ded followers to destroy their property, leaf it may benefit the army. DE Bow's WEEKLY PRESS.—Such is the title of a journal just established in Washington, D. C., under the auspices of the able and popular editor of the Southern /?eview--whosei. reputation is sufficient guarrantee of its excel lence. We quote an extract from his intro. duction: "As the Press is to be regularly sent to all of the present list of subscribers of the Review, it will begin with a circulation exceeded by no other sheet in the Southern States, and especially in the States of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisana, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas, a circulation we are inclined M hope which will rapidly increase, not only in that quarter, but in other quarters of the Union"
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