INTELLIGENCER lto LANCASTERIAN,
GE. SANDERSON, EDITOR
A. SANDERSON, Assoclate.
LANCASTER, PA., MARCEL 9, 1858.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
JUDGE OP THE • SUPREME COURT.:
WILLIAM A. PORTER, Philadelphia
CANAL COMMISSIONER:
WESLEY PROST, Payette.
THE NOdIINEES
We raise to our mast-bead the nominees of
the State Convention, Messrs. PORTER and
nor. They are both excellent men, in the
prime of life, and full maturity of vigorous in
telleot. Of unexceptionable moral and politi
cal character, they deserve and, we trust, will
receivo the vote of every Democrat in the
State.
We shall speak more at length, hereafter, of
the undoubted talents and brilliant qualifica
tions of these gentlemen.
TEE STATE CONVENTION
The Democratic State Convention met in the
Hall of the House of Representatives, at Har
risburg, on Thursday last, and was organized
by the appointment of Col. V. E. PIOLETT, of
Bradford, temporary Chairman. A commit
tee consisting of 33 delegates was appointed
to report permanent officers for the Convention.
Messrs. H. 11. BRENEMAN and JOSEPH Bo
cliaNAN were on the committee from this
county. The Committee reported the follow
ing officers, viz : •
President—Hon. JOHN L. DAWSON, of Fay
ette—and thirty-three Vice Presidents.—
Among the latter were Messrs. J. E. Caoss and
A. Z. RonIVALT, from this county.
There were nine Secretaries—CHAßLES J.
RHODES, from this county, heading the list.
The Committee on Resolutions consisted of
Messrs. H. B. Wright, Charles R. Buckalew,
F. W. Hughes, Alfred Day, Arnold Plumer,
William Hopkins, J. C. Dunn, GEORGE M.
STEINMAN, George W. Brewer, B. F. Sloan,
R. J. Haldeman, Thomas Cunningham, N.
B. Eldred.
Hon. WILLIAM A. PORTER was nominated
for Judge of the Supreme Court on the first
ballot—the vote being as follows:
Porter,
Sharswood,
Elwell,
Bell, .
Hamilton,
The delegates from this county all voted for
Mr. Sharswood, in accordance with their in
structions.
WESLEY FROST, Esq., of Fayette county, was
nominated for Canal Commissioner, on the 3d
ballot—he having received 94 votes.
The following resolutions, reported by the
Committee, through their Chairman, lion. H.
B. Wright, were adopted by 111 to I—the
Anti-Lecompton men (20 in
. number) declin-
ing to vote :
Resolved, That the principle involved in the repeal °film
Missouri Compromise, and asset ted in the Kansas-Nebraska
Act, that the people bf the Territories shall have the exclu
sive control over their domestic institutions, is the only
sure guarantee against the agitation of the nation iu regard
to the local institutions o 5 particular States and Terri
tories.
Resolved, That by the uniform application of this
Democratic principle to the organization of Territories,
'and in the admission of new States, with or without do
mestic slavery, no they may elect. the equal rights of all
the States will he preserved, the original compacts of the
Constitution maintained inviolate, and the harmony and
perpetuity of the Union of the American States be ensured.
Resolved, That it is the right of the people of any State
or Territory to exercise their sovereign power, through
duly chosen representatives, and through them to enact
such Constitution and Government as they may delegate
to such representatives; the mere limited power to prepare
their form of government, reserving to themselves the right
of ratification, and that either mode of giving existence to
State institutions is consistent with the doctrine of popular
sovereignty and the established practice of the States of
this Union.
Resolved, That the Kansas-Nebraska bill having asserted
and recognized the right of the people of the Territories to
form their own institutions in their own way; and the
duly organized Government in Kansas having, by regular
process, provided for a Convention of the delegates of the
people, with instructions and power to form a Constitution ;
and such delegates having assembled- In Convention and
enacted a Constitution under such instruction and power ;
such Constitution being republican. in favor of the Terri
tory having the number of inhabitants to justify It, Kansas
should be promptly admitted into the Union.
Resolved, That the people of Kansas, under the Constitu
tion enacted by their Convention, may, "at all times, alter,
reform or abolish their government in such manner as they
may think proper ;" that the provision contained therein
as to a particular mode of alteration after the year 156-1,
does not forbid any other mode the people, by regular pro
qess, may choose to adopt, either before or after that time ;
and this construction is warranted by the practice of Penn
sylvania and other States, and may be regarded as based
upon a settled principle of constitutional law.
Resolved, That it Is the opinion of this Convention that
the time has come when the difficulties and troubles in
Kansas should cease, and to determine whether the schemes
of bad men are still to agitate that Territory; that the
question should be local, not national : and that dangers
are to be apprehended to the Union, and the cause of tree
government, by the further delay of her admission as a
State.
Resolved, That if the Constitution of Kansas is not ac
ceptable in some provisions to the majority of the free
State men of that Territory, their own obstinate conduct
has produced the result; they have no cause to complain,
and their mouths should be forever closed.
Resolved, That we have evident reason to believe that
the Abolitionists in Kansas and out of it have a much
greater desire to overthrow the Democratic party of the
nation, than to ameliorate the condition of the slave; and
while they are bold in their protestations against what
they call the slave power, they 'conceal a thirst and desire
for political place, which they would grasp, at the cost of
the broken and shattered bonds of the Union.
Resolved, Therefore. that we unhesitatingly do approve
of the measures of Mr. BUCHANAN in his Kansas policy;
and are ready and willing to sustain him in all other
measures of his administration thus far disclosed. We
entertain the belief that he will not abandon an article in
the Democratic creed.
Resolved, That the Democracy of Pennsylvania acknowl
edge with pride and commendation the able and timely
support which the lion. Wltuatt BIGLER has given. in the
U. S. Senate, to the policy of the National Administration
His wisdom In council, his logical skill and talent in de
bate, his industry and integrity, constitute him a represen
tative to whom the interests of his constituents may be
safely confided.
Resolved, That in electing WILLIAM F. PACKER, as Gov
ernor of the State, the Democratic party have secured the
services of one in every way well qualified to administer
the affairs of the State for its best interests. With an en
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larged experience he combines administratiVe ability of no
ordinary character, and we have every confidence that he
will, by his advocacy of the true Democratic policy, secure
the prosperity of the people and the honor of the Common
wealth.
Resolved, That we recommend to the Legislature of this
State such measures of reform and economy as will lesson,
no much as possible, the heavy burthens imposed upon the
people by taxation; and we particularly recommend such
a revision of the system of banking as may prevent, in the
future, thetroubles and difficulties that the people of the
State ave lately encountered.
The Convention adjourned in peace and
harmony, on Friday evening about 10 o'clock,
THE 'KANSAS QUESTION
The bill for the admission of Kansas under
the Lecompton Constitution, was discussed
during the last week, in the U. S. Senate, by
Messrs. Green, of Missouri ; Collamer, of Ver.
mont ; Seward, of N. York ; Thompson, of N.
Jersey ; Hammond, of S. Carolina ; and Doo-
little, of Wisconsin. The Senate adjourned
over from Thursday until yesterday, when the
discussion would be resumed.
THE EVENING AAGUS.—This sterling Demo
cratic organ has been enlarged and oth - erwise
considerably improved in appearance, being
printed with new type on an excellent quality
of paper. There is no paper on our exchange
list conducted with more ability. Its editorials
are characterized by great force, originality
and sprightliness, and are, morever, soundly
and radically Democratic. We are pleased
at this evidence of the prosperity of the Argus,
and trust that it may long continue to occupy
its useful and responsible position on the
watch-tower of liberty.
DIRECTORS.—The annual election for
Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany took place on Tuesday, at the office of
the Company, on Walnut street; above Third,
Philadelphia. The following is the ticket voted
for without opposition, and elected : J. Edgar
Thompson, Washington Butcher, Wm. R.
Thompson, Josiah Bacon, Thomas Mellon,
John Hulme, G. D. Rosengarten, Wistar
Morris.
A GREAT DEMONSTRATION
. An immense mass meeting of the Democra
cy of New York was held at Tammany Hall,
on Thursday evening last, over which Hon.
JOHN A. Dm presided. The meeting was
addressed by Jam VAN BUREN, Hon. R. M.
Melissa, of Maryland, and others. Strong
resolutions were unanimously adopted sustain
ing to I!resident in his -Kansas policy. The
meeting is represented as having been a pow
erful demonstration.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE TIMES.
Great events have made men great, and they
have also swept great men away, as witlthe
bosom of destruction. Our own country is full
of such -examples. Upon them, says the Louis
ville Courier, the wise and prudent "have floated
over storm-lashed political seas, and beneath
them the foolish have sunk to rise no more.
They have proved mightier than men and
empires, and those hai , e been the favored sons
of fortune who have eompreheiadedthe world's
great events, and followed their lead to sub
limer results than could otherwise have been
attained, instead of attempting to direct them.
The poet has well said :
"There tee tide in the strain] of men."
Those who float upon it, ride proudly over
shoals and quicksands, and those who dare to
stem it, sink to rise no more. All who float
upon this tide move not with the same velocity.
Some are borne along with more speed than
others, like vessels of different capacities upon
the ocean ; but all who float are nevertheless
borne along by a force which engulphs those
who presume to resist its might. That tide is
the great thought which - ever and anon oocu
pies the popular mind, and it is as irresistible
as the great current of the sea or the move
ment of the spheres.
We are now in the midst of times pregnant
with events capable of making great men or
crushing them. In the popular mind there are
great leading thoughts, which it were success
to adopt and defeat to resist. He will be the
wisest statesman who attempts not to lead the
great events of these times, but rides upon
them ; who presumes not to direct the great
popular thought, but, on the contrary, adopts
it as his own.
President Buchanan has found himself
in power in the midst of these event
ful times. The causes which have produced
the effects now at work upon the popular
mind must be looked for in previous years.
The financial crisis that has come upon the
, country is the work of past years. The
difficulties in Utah arose not this year, nor
last. The Kansas embroglio dates back to
other times. The Nicaraguan troubles are
not of this year's creation. Each and all of
thee disasters are the effects of causes that
have long been at work. They are the dis
emboguement of the volcano which has been
for years gathering the elements of a terrible
eruption.
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James Buchanan has had less to do with the
causes that have produced these effects than
others of the great statesmen of his times. Yet
he finds himself in a position in which he
becomes the principal actor. He must rise or
fall with the events that are transpiring
around him. Other men may hold their tongues
and remain at rest ; but the President must
both speak and act. He cannot escape the
crisis even if he would. He must speak and
act,.and upon the wisdom of his voice and the
justness of his action are suspended his glory
or his shame.
So far the President has rightly compre
hended events, and grasped the great popular '
thought. He is riding upon the one, and
thinking with the other. His views of the
Kansas question find a responsive beat in the
nation's great heart. He thinks of Utah as
the people think. He has dealt with the
Nicaraguan hero as a lawful people should
have him deal. He has viewed the finances
of the country in the only way in which he
could rightly look upon them.
We know that he has enemies in the land.
He would have them if he were an angel of
lightand spoke nothing but heavenly truth, and
did nothing but what celestial justice ordered.
But the people are yet with the President.
They think as he thinks and they approve of •
his actions. The President is moving upon
the mighty events of the times ; he is borne
along by their irresistible power ; he is think -
ing the great popular thought. Those who
arc with him in/thought, and principle, and
action, will be rue across the storm-lashed
political gulf into which the country i 4 thrown, '
and will be landed safely at the haven of !
right : but those who do not coincide with him
will lie borne down and submerged by the
events which are now sweeping over that sea
with a power more irresistible than wind and
sail and steam and tide.
We know not what the future may bring
forth, but the conduct of the President so far,
augurs well. He has been thrown upon dan
gerous times, but he has shown himself equal
to the danger that surrounds him. He stands,
as it were, in the midst of a financial sea, over
which the accumulated storms of twenty years
have gathered to drive every thing to wreck
and ruin. Into this boisterous ocean of
finance Utah is pouring from the North a tur- -
bulent stream of heresy, while Kansas disem•
bogues another of fanaticism. Again, from
the South, Nicaragua rolls a restless flood,
boiling with the hot blood of the filibuster.
Into this turbulent deep, so full of storms,
more unkind waters could not have poured
than the three streams named. But the Exe
cutive of the nation is in the midst of this
commotion, and he cannot give up the com
mand of his vessel to another mariner. He
must continue to navigatefor himself. If, how
ever, he continues to think and act as he has
done so far, he will think the nation's thought
and act the nation's act, and all will be well.
That he will continue so to think and so to act
we have not a shadow of doubt.
BANK INVESTIGATION
Col. PRICE, of the House of Representatives,
has had a bill passed in that body, authoriz
ing the Governor to appoint thr4p Commis-
sioners to investigate the affairs of the defunct
Lancaster Savings Institution.
ger The following was the vote, by which
the bill to remove the disability of witnesses
on account of their religious belief, was finally
defeated in the State Senate:
Yeas—Messrs. Bell, Brewer, Ely, Finney,
Marselies, Myer, Randall, Scofield, Souther,
Steele, Wilkins, Wright, Welsh—Speaker, 13.
Nays—Messrs. Coffey, Craig, Cresswell,
Evans, Fetter, Gregg, Harris, Ingram, Knox,
Laubach, Miller. Schell, Shaeffer, and Turney
—l4.
The design of the bill was to make all persons
competent witnesses in judicial proceedings,
without requiring of them the test which has
been established almost from time immemo
rial, of a belief in God and a future state
of rewards and punishments ; and leaving the
disbelief of a witness to affect credibility only.
IMPORTANT LEGISLATION IN TEXAS- The Pal)
lie Domain.—An important bill has been pass
ed by the Texas Legislature, and has been
signed by the Governor. It is an act opening
the almost entire public domain of the State
to sale at fixed prices. The Commissioner of
the Land Office is authorized to sell land scrips
in quantities of 160, 320, 640, and 1280 acre
tracts. The land in the Pacific Reserve to be
sold at $2 per acre; the alternate sections in
vades railroad and Galveston canal grants and
lands on all the islands at $1 25 per acre, and
all other public lands at $l.
MRB. CUNNINGHAM STILL LivEs.—The world
has fur some time lost track of Mrs. Cunning•
ham of Burdell murder and bogus baby noto
riety. The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger ranks her to the surface
in the-following paragraph :
On Friday last she hired a house in Thirty
first street, near the Third Avenue, and was
moving into it—when the landlord, for the
first time, discovered who was that had become
his tenant. Mre. Cunningham thereupon
received notice to quit, but she vigorously
remonstrated and threatened to appeal to the
law for protection. Nevertheless, neat day
she found other quarters, and this morning
evacuated the premises in Thirty-first street,
REPORT ON KANSAS AFFAIRS.
The majority of the committee of the House
of Representatives, to whom was referred the
Kansas diffieulty, have prepared their report
through their chairman, the Hon. A.. S. Ste
phens, of Georgia. It is spoken of as being
exceedingly able, elaborate, and conclusive .
It embodies all the laws, facts, and proceed I
ings in relation to the,Leeompten Constitution,
bearing upon the question of admitting Kan.
sas as a State. They embrace the following
points :
First—The law taking a sense of the people
upon the expediency of calling a .Cuni , ention.
Second—The law providing fur the call of a
Convention in pursuance of the popular will
expressed.
Third—The regi,•[ration of voters, and the
apportionment of delegates made by Secretary
Stanton.
Fourth—The assembling of the Convention
at Lecomptonp.nd their action in submitting
the slavery question, the only one in contro
versy, to the people.
Fifth—The Constitution formed by the Con
vention so assembled.
Sixth—The action of the people on the ques
tions submitted to vote on the 21st of De
cember.
These are all the essential facts embraced
in the call. Perfect legality and regularity
mark every step of the proceedings. Why
should not the State he admitted? asks :the
report.
The report then takes up and answers the
objections which do not arise on the face of the
record. No Constitution can be valid which
is nut first ratified by a popular vote. This
position of Gov. Walker is shown to be unten
able, both on principle and authority. None
of the Constitutions of the old States were
thus ratified, and many of the new have not
been. The second objection—the want of an
enabling act—is shown to be untenable by
numerous precedents, the case of California in
particular. Another objection is as to the
fairness of the registry and apportionment.
This is fully answered. There are thirty-eight
counties in Kansas, twenty-one of which were
represented. Thirteen of the others have little
or no population. In these thirteen, on the
4th of January election, there was less than
one hundred votes cast against the Constitu
tion. The four others had no registry, because
the officers were not permitted to make it.
They were driven away by force and threats.
The report ignores the votes of the 4th of
January, although arguing that a fair inter
pretation of that vote, upon the basis of appro.
tionment made by Secretary Stanton, would
show that the Constitution had not been
defeated even then.
The report is very elaborate, and covers all
the points, and closes with an able argument
for the admission of Kansas as recommended
by the President. This is urged .as best fur
Kansas, as well as the peace and harmony of
the whole Union.
The report and resolution were carried by
a vote of eight to seven.
The Committee adjourned sine die, with the
understanding that Mr. Stephens would not
present his report to the House for a few days,
allowing the minority time to prepare theirs.
It is understood there will be two minority
reports, as in the Senate—one from the Doug.
las Republicans, and the other fr•,m the Black
Republicans. The House will probably
await the action of the Senate.
BANK REFORM BILL
The supplement to the General Banking
Law of 1850, introduced into the Senate a few
days since, by Senator Wilkins, of Allegheny
county, is substantially as follows:
The, first section of the bill proposes to limit
the dividends of the banks to eight per cent.
per annum, clear of State tax, un the capital.
The second section provides that the reserved
I,r• contingent fund shall be published semi
annually, and within three months alter pub
lication shall lie investsl in the loans of this.
State. or those of the federal government, and
deposited with the Auditor General, who shall
collect the interest and pay it respectively to
the banks entitled to receive it. The securi
ties so deposited with the Auditor General to
be sold by public sale whenever the banks
suspend—or so much as any bank suspend
ing deposited—to be applied to the redemp
dun of said bank's bills. The third section
prOhibits the purchaseMirectly or indirectly,
by any bank, savings fund, insurance or trust
company, of any of the notes of the incorpora
ted banks of this State at less than par, under
a penalty of $5OO to $lOOO. The fourth sec
tion makes it unlawful for a bank to acquire
its own stock, except in payment of debts to
itself, in which case such stock shall be sold
within ninety days. Banks holding their own
stock at the time of the passage of this act
shall dispose of the same within one year, or
as soon as par can be obtained therefor. Sec.
fifth prohibits discounting whenever the circu
lation exceeds by three to one the coin. Sec.
sixth prohibits the banks from receiving bank
notes of less denomination than ten dollars.
See: eighth makes perpetual the provisions of
the law of October last, requiring the banks to
make and publish weekly and monthly state
ments. Sc.l ninth confines the discounting of
bills of exchange to the votes of the directors
of the banks at stated or special meetings, and
to bills not having more than ninety days to
run. Sec. tenth, to obviate the complaint that
the banks discount too largely in foreign bills
of exchange, proposes to limit the amount to
a fixed percentage. Sec. twelfth makes it a
misdemeanor in the officers of any bank to
allow any overdrawing by checks or drafts.
DEATH OF FREEMAN HUNT.—Freeman Hunt ,
editor of Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. died at
his residence, in Brooklyn, on Thursday last.
Mr. Hunt, says The Brooklyn Eagle, was horn
in Quincy, Mass., March 21, 1804, and was
consequently fifty-four years of age. He served
as apprentice to the printing business in
Worcester, Mass., and afterward worked as a
journeyman. He was careful of his income,
and saved the surplus of his earnings. IliEv
afterward went to Boston and there followed
his profession. He obtained employment in
a newspaper office, and his contributions
appeared in the paper as communications ad
dressed to the editor, who was ignorant of their
authorship. He finally became the acting edi
tor. Ho was chiefly instrumental in starting
the first Ladies' Magazine ever published in
the country, and was one of the proprietors of
The Child's Paper, published in Boston. He
was financial manager of the Penny Magazine,
published by a number of engravers. In July,
1839, he started The Merchants' Magazine,
which has been a successful pr?ject from the
first. He edited and published, within the
past two years, two volumes of the Lives of
American Merchants and a volume entitled
Worth and Wealth. He has for many years
been a resident of Brooklyn. He had been
confined to his house for many weeks, gradually
failing, and finally died of congestion of the
liver.
How TO PROMOTE llEALTH.—Ameriaan moth
ers are doomed to early graves, in consequence
of their sedentary in-door employment. Every
consideration of affectation, duty, and the pre
servation of a healthy posterity, should prompt
the heads of families, and others, to assist in
averting results so disastrous to the well-being
of society at large. Thousands of house-wives
have recently found ample leisure for healthy,
out door exercise, by purchasing and using
one of GROVER & BAKER'S Family Sewing
Machines, by which they have been enabled
to do all their sewing, in a stronger and more
beautiful style than they could have done by
hand. The transition from the slavery of the
needle to the joyous exercise of the largest
liberty, has had the happiest effect upon the
health and tempers of the fair possessors of the
GROVER & BARER machine, and every woman
who is practically familiar with their value,
regards them with great favor, as the only
Missionary Agent that is at all likely to
emancipate the sisterhood from the slavery of
the -needle.
THE NEW YORK MERCURY.-Our readers
will observe, in our advertising columns, the
prospectus of this popular weekly paper,
which for the past ten years has held a lead
ing position in the Metropolis of the Union.
It will be seen that its corps of writers embrace
the most celebrated and popular of romancists,
and it is got up in the very best style for a
respectable family newspaper. The proprie
tors of the MERCURY are men of ability and
character, and the public can rely implicitly
upon their making good their munificent
promises. Read the announcemelkt.
AN ELOQUENT PASSAGE
Amongst the ablest men of the U. S. Senate
ie lion. Be , W.S, of Mississippi. His Lite
!peel* on the Kansas question was a masterly
enrt, and ho concluded it with the following
eloquent appeal to Senator DOUGLAS
Lm: me say. Mr. President, to the S'enatiii.
from Illinois, that on him rests a fearful re
Sponsibility. He is the author of this measure.
He ti,tus stood by it until he has bretigoz IL, to
its present condition —He sees a'whole united
South arrayed on the one side and he has
thrown himself into the nothern scale; Does'
he mean to array a whole united North
against the whole united South? If this result
shall ever be accomplished, it will be done; in
my opinion, over laws violated, constitutions
tr±mpled under foot, and e.smpacts flagrantly
outraged. I will not be responsible for the
consequences when this state of things shall
be brought ohmic. Let net the Senator from
Illinois suppose that I have meant to assail
him; that I have meant to join in any cry
against him. Let him not suppose that lam
pursuing him with , hrly of the instincts of a
bloodhound. HeaVen knows I would to day
much rather embrace him as a friend than
regard him for a solitary instant as an enemy.
He knows how much I have loved him in the
past. He knows with what fidelity I have
followed his flag, and with what joy I have
witnessed the rising star of his glory. But it
is not in the name of these that f would appeal
to the honorable Senator. We have a country.
a common country, a country dear to him and
to me; to you, sir; to one and to all of us.
That country is in peril. The hearts of stout
men begin to quail. Thousands and hundreds
of thousands our people believe that the
Union is even now rocking beneath our feet.
The Senator has it in his power to put a stop
to all this agitation. It he will but say to the
angry waves, " Peace, be still," calmness will
settle 011 the great deep of public sentiment.—
Whether lie thinks so or not, he is the very life
and soul of this agitation. If he stood now
where he stood at the passage of this bill, with
hie Democratic, friends, supporting the strong
arm a President who dares to do his duty
in the Mee of every danger, there would not
have been a ripple on the surface; or if there
had been, it would have subsided and died
away in the great ocean of oblivion where other
ripples have gone, and we should almost with
out an effort introduce Kansas into the Union.
Sir, the Senator from Illinois gives life, he
gives vitality, he gives energy, he lends the aid
of his mighiy genius aid his powerful will to
the Opposition on this question. If ruin come
upon the country, he more than any other and
all other men, will be to blame for it If free
dom shall he lost—if the Union shall fail—if
the rights of man shall perish on earth—if
desolation shall spread her mantle over this
our glorious country—let not the Senator ask
who is the author of all this, lest expiring
Liberty, with a death rattle in her throat, shall
answer, to him as Nathan answered David,
"Thou art the man."
DEATH OF COMMODORE H. C. PERRY
Commodore Matthew C. Perry, a gallant and
accomplished officer of the United States Navy,
died on Thursday morning, at his residence in
New York, after a severe illness. He represen
ted the third generation of the name of Perry
in the American Navy, his uncle having been
the distinguished Oliver H. Perry, whose father
was Raymond Perry, first a merchant captain,
and afterwards a Captain in the Navy of the
young American Republic.
Commodore Perry entered the Navy March
let 1809, as a midshipman, and served through
the war of 1812, being promoted to lieutenancy
in 1813. His commission as a captain dates
from Feb. 9th 1837. His first important ser
♦ice, in that rank, was in the Gulf of Mexico,
in 1846, when he successfully led the expedi
tions against the tow: s of Tobasco and Laguna,
and afterwards as the successor of Commodore
Conner in the command of the Gulf squadron,
conducted the bombardment of the city of Vera
Cruz, rendering efficient service in the landing
of the American Army at that point.
In the year 1852, Commodore Perry was
appointed to the command of the East India
squadron, and in this post it became his duty
to conduct the expedition to Japan. The abili
ty with which he discharged this peculiarly
delicate and important trust, and the complete
success with which it was rewarded, are yet
fresh in the recollection of the American peo
ple. His success opened the way for the
English and Russian expeditions, and he has
lived just long enough to hear that Japan has
determined to send an, envoy to the great
States of America and Europe—the crowning
triumph of his admirably managed mission.
Commodore Perry was nearly seventy years
of age.
THE DEATH PENALTY.—The following is the
bill to commute the Death Penalty, reported
in the House of Representatives from the
Judiciary Committee:—
SECTION L Be it enacted, &c., That when in
any case of conviction and sentence for murder
in the first degree, facts shall come to the
knowledge of the Governor which raise a rea
sonable doubt as to the guilt of the person
convicted, but not sufficient in his judgment
to justify an absolute pardon, it shall be law
ful for him to commute the penalty of death
for that of imprisonment in the State peniten
tiary of the proper district, there to be kept in
solitary confinement at labor during the nat
ural life of said convict, and fed, clothed and
treated, as provided in the act entitled "A
further supplement to an act entitled 'An Act
to reform the penal laws of this Commonwealth,
approved the twenty-third day of April,
Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-nine.'"
THE EDITORS' BOOK TABLE
THE LOST DAUGHTER, by the late distinguished Ameri
can Authoress, Mrs. Caroline Lee Rentz. Published by
T. B. Peterson d Brothers, 306 Chesnut street, Philalda.
Price $1 25, bound in cloth, or $1 in paper cover
We have received from the Publishers an advance copy
of the above work, and after having given a cursory glance
at its contents, are fully prepared to endorse tile following
notice of it from Godeyls Lady's Book
THE Loss DAUGHTER ; AND OTHER STORIES Or THE HEART.
—By Mrs. Caroline Lee Heritz, author of "Linda,'
"Love after Marriage." ect„ ect. The lamented anther of
the charming story that gives its title to this attractive
volume has left behind her many lasting and beau
tiful souvenirs of her literary triumphs. But
among them all, there is not one, perhaps, more wor
thy of her reputation than the affecting story of " The Lost
Daughter." We are not called upon, we are aware, to re
peat hero all that able critics have so often and truthfully
amid in praise of the dramatic powers displayed in the
writings of the late Mrs. Hentz—of the ease, correctness,
and gracefulness of her style—of the purity or the strength
of her moral principles—or of the applicability of her les
sons and examples to the prudent regulation of the affairs
of every-day life. Like her works, those high opinions of
the critics hare become household words among American
readers. But there is still room for the spread of the au
thoress' reputation, and for the extended influence of her
writings, which are so well calculated to elevate and en
lighten the minds of those who may not yet have had the
pleasure to peruse them. It is due also to the 'Worthy pub
lisher, who keeps these works before the public that he
should be remunerated for his labor and enterprise. Ex•
elusive of "The Lost Daughter." this volume contains no
less than nine of the authoress' most delightful stories.
UNITED STATES DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. Conrad
Swackhamer. Editor and Proprietor. 335, Broadway, N.
Y. Terme, $3 per annum.
The March number is embellished with engraved like
nesses of no less than! three distinguished men, viz : Don.
JOHN A. QUITMAN, member of Congress from Mississippi,
CHARLES JAMES Fetuaussn,member of Congress from Virginia,
and ITHAMAR W. BEARS, Assistant Treasurer of the United
States at Boston, accompanied with biographical sketches
of each. :There is a very able article in favor of the admis
sion of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution, and a
number of other able and interesting productions in prose
and poetry, all of which go to make the March numbs: one
of peculiar power and attraction.
A prospectus of the Review will be found in our advertia .
ing column.
THE NEW YORK EXCELSIOR. By Albert Palmer, 385
Broadway, N. Y. Subscription price $2 per annum.
The Excelsior, just started in Nev York, Is a first-class
family journal, beautifully Illustrated, and devoted to Lit
erature, News, Morals, and general MOcellany.
The inducements held out to subscril , ers are very great,
and we cheerfully recommend the paper to the public.—
For prospectus see advertising columns. •
ZODIACAL LIGHT—From this time until the
close of March, a beautiful exhibition of the
Zodiacal light may be seen in the heavens.
The Washington _National Intelligencer states
that as soon as the night has fairly set in, (at
present about seven o'clock,) this light may
be seen in the shape of a sharp pyramid, pass
ing upward from the western horizon, by
Jupiter, and thence by the Pleiades, beyond
which it is lost in the Milky .Way. On the
eastern side of the Milky Way it can again be
traced, but it is faint, appearing like a thin
white gauze along the sky, and can be detected
only by a careful comparison of that portion of
the heavens OD either side. In the West it is a
beautiful yellow light, looking as if the sun
were about to rise.
CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS
Trig MIR' tin E vENINGS —Rnt. MEL KRO
TIMIs Lv.,r.r.r. no • tee Powr.e PP TIE PIZEPB."—.t full and
ns..i.finwiag house zreetal the Rov. G. P. the
delivery of his ',turn nn `lThe Power of the Prete." at .
Ifirltnn Mall. on Friday M. that we. in . cota ,
term with the noet of the out andi-nee. were pleased Is not
at all expressive enough. :We were, rtinnletelv enraptured
with the subject and the highly-gifted lecturer. The high
reputation of the reverend gentleman as a pulpit
orator hal, nn doubt, much to do with the immense sawn- I
"P prPPPEll..Weexpe , tkt umetl;lrr, good. but listened to
one of the beet lectures it hiLs ever been oar pleasure to hear,
and were most agreeably snrprised at the gentleman's inti
mate knowledge of the Press from its earliest history. His
defence of the "Art Preservative oral] Arts" was able, elo
quent and masterly. and the only fault to be found with
the lecture was that It was entirely too short. The Press
of this city owe the reverend gentleman a deep debt of
gratitude for his manly and eloquent vindication of "The
Power of the Press." We are sorry that we have not the
time nor room to notice the lecture farther. We trust that
Mr. Hamm, will be requested to lecture again on this or
some other subject, and that a longer time may be allotted
to him in the delivery. A. half hour Is too short a space
of time for the sound logic, good sense and eloquence of a
man of Mr. ligorst's abilities to be limited to.
A discussion on the subject of the lecture then ensued,
which was participated in by Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Maj. A. D.
Ditmars. John Wise. Esq., Capt. Gee,. Sanderson, Rev.
Fiarbangh, 0.. T. Dickey, Esq.. Dr. John L. Atlee. Rev. Prof.
Gerhart, Rev. D. P. Rosonmiller and Rev. Dr. Bowman.—
The discussion was very interesting, and the attention of
the audience during the whole of it was unabated.
The next lecture of the course will be delivered, on Fri
day evening, by lion. A. L. Harts. We have not learned
hie subject. but it will, we hesitate not to say. be a good
one. and treated In au able manner.
EDWARD EVERETT.—The distingui9hed
ear...-n anti scholar, EDWARD EVERETT, has consented to
deliver a lecture in this city some time during the present
week. One of the largest audiences which hoe over as
sembled within the walk of Fulton Hall will, we predict,
be present to listen and do honor to one of the greatest
men of our own or any other country.
A BONFIRE.—On Saturday last, the Mayor
and a committee of Councils, under the authority vested
in them by resolution, consigned to the flames, at the
Mayor's Office, City Hall. a large number of cancelled cou
pon and other bonds. and also a ro nslderallle quantity of
blink shinplasters. iu ..1 the denomination of Si)
cents, 25 vents. and 1.2". cei.ts. The, shinplasters, dated
June IS. 1541. were a p..rti , n of the batch iseord at that
time by the City out h .rili• s. payable one year after date
with one per cent. interest. They w-re placed is the vault
of the Lan , aster Batik f)r. ,fe-keeping. and have remained
there ever since.
011 R COTTON MlLLS.—Cotton Mill No. 2 re
commenced operations on yesterday morning with a full
complement of hands, and will, we understand, run on
"full lime.'' Ni.:3 Mill will also re-commence operations
on Monday next. This is cheering; news. indeed, to the
vast number of employees who hare been Idle during the
winter months. Daylight is just beginning to break in
financial affairs in our goodly city.
W ATEIt WORKS' ENGINEER.—Mr. JOHN
FRANCISCUS has been re-elected, by the Water Committee,
Engineer at the City Water Works. A first rate moo, and
a glorious, hard-working Democrat
THE \I EATHER.—The weather was intensely
cold during the past week. On yesterday, however, it be
gan to moderate, and also to snow, and it was still contin
uing in that state at the hour of going to press (3 o'clock,
p. m.)
A FIRE ORDINANCE,—The accompanying
Ordinance, having reference to a proper regulation at fires,
was presented to the City Councils, at theirstated meeting,
on Tuesday evening last, signed by Messrs. Jesse Landis,
Lewis llaldy, Jacob S. Duchman, Frederick Nixdorf, John
Lorentz, Daniel 11. Heitshu and Wm. Aug. Atlee, a rem
mittee appointed, at a late convention of the Fire Depart
ment, to draft such an ordinance. In the Select Branch
the rules were suspended, the ordinance put upon its sev
eral readings and paseed. In the Common brunch it was
laid over until next stated meeting:
An Ordimity, regldating
e the Fire Department /the City
EM=l9
Sc.E I. That the Mayor of said city he. and is hereby an
thorized and required to procure and furnish. at the ex
pense of the said city, to each fire company, a rope of suf
ficient length and strength, with a hook attached to each
end, to be stretched across the streets in the vicinity and
at the times of fires, so that all persons, not members of
the fire department, may be prevented from intruding
upon the firemen while engaged. esetilt 4, 3 0 1 ac m a y 11,
holders of property in the vicinity thereof.
64,2. That the Mayor be and is hereby anti orianl nu l
required to appoint three special poti:•emen from each
Coln pauy in the city. to he uominatrd by the odd diffreent
fire companies, whew duties it shall be aid the city police
in stretching the ropes lu times of fire—prevent intruders
from crossing them—and in all other respects keep order
during the times that the work at the fires is progressing.
boo. d. That the Mayor Or said city be end is hereby an-
- -
thorized and required to furnish, at the expense of the raid
rity, each apecial policeman with a distinctive bath, or
medal to be worn when Cu duty.
TIIE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The Horti
cultural Society held its stated monthly meeting At Cooper's
Hotel, West King street, on the let inst.
Prof. Wm. G. Waring. of Centro county. and Dr. Ely
Parry, S. S. Itathvon and John F. lleinittdi. of this city,
were elected honorary members. George T. tl raider, Cyrus
Hollinger and David Pancoast were elected regular mem
bers of the Society.
Prof. Thomas C. Porter. of this city, was electedlnbit,
and Jacob Stauffer, Esq., of Mount Joy, Botanist.
On motion of Messrs. henry M. Engle and C. 11. Lefevre
the following preamble and resolution were adopted :
Wastes, A communication from Dr. Lee, to the Journal
Of Commerce, appeared in one of the Lancaster papers, week
before last, on the use of the Chinese Sugar Cane as a fortmt
plant, for which purpose it is not commended in said clm
municatiou. Justice to said plant, however, demands of us
to ask the publication of a communication from the hewn
source. on said Chinese Cane as a sugar plant, viz: a com
munication which appears in the Genesee Farmer. from the
pen of said Dr. Lee. Said last named communication being
based on actual successful experiment and close observa
tion, which makes it altogether more reliable than any
vague opinions, unaccompanied with any scientific scru
tiny therefore
Resolved, That the Lancaster papers be requested to pub•
Ilsh, and be furnished with a copy of said communication
from Dr. Lee to the Genesee Farmer, on the subject of
making sugar and syrup from the juice of the Chinese
Sugar Caine; and that Oil , editors of said papers are hereby
requested to call the attention of inventors and machinists
to the urgent importance of furnishing suitable mills for
grinding said Sugar Cane.
On motion of Dr. Shelly. it WWI
Resolved, Tnat the members of this Society are hereby
recommended to take notes of their Horticultural experi
ence, and observations during the ensuin,,, ,, season, and
communicate the same to the Society, at ouch times as they
may deem proper.
The Committees appointed at the last meeting, who were
to makes report at this meeting. were excused from doing
so until the next meeting on the first Monday in April.
Levi S. Heist, Esq., delivered an interesting address on
Horticulture and Agriculture, the views and sentiments
of which were highly approved of by the members of the
Society, and a vote of th..riks unanimously adopted.
Mr. Henry M. Engle spoke of the importance of forming
Horticultural Clubs in different parts of the county, as one
of the most successful means of diffusing the benefits of
Horticultural science.
On motion of Mr. C. IL Lefer re, the President, lion. John
Zimmerman, was authorized to art as Chairman of the
Fruit Committee, for the purpose of concluding the unfin
ished business thereof.
:Messrs. J. H. Hershey, Henry M. Engle and Levi S. Ralst
wore appointed a committee to audit the Treasurer's ae-
On motion of Meswa. C. H. I.ofevore and Cooper Hiller It
was
Resolved, That the Fruit Committee of the late Lancaster
County Agricultural Society, so far as it existed independ
ently of said Society, be merged into the Lancaster City
and County Horticultural Society, and that, the Treasurer
of said Fruit Committee is hereby ordered' to-pay the funds,
remaining in his hands, to the Treasurer of said Horticul
tural Society, reserving an amount equal to the legal claims
due from said committee: said funds having been raised
independently of the Society of which it was a branch.
WASHINGTON AND MARYLAND LINE RAIL
ROAD —At an election held on the Ist toot., the following
named gentlemen were elected officers: President—J. B.
Hedtme, Fulton twp. ; Directors—J..l. Eckart, Port Deposit,
bid., Joseph Ballance, Fulton, Jeremiah Brown, Jr.;Fulton,
James McSparran, Fulton, S. W. P. Boyd. Fulton, John
Long, Drumore, William Idal, Martin, J. K. Manning,
Washington Bor.. John A. Sheaff, Lancaster city, Thomas
Baumgardner, do., John Black, do., John •C. Walton, do.—
Jeremiah Brown. Jr.. was duly elected Secretary. and Jos.
Ballance, Treasurer.
THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION.—The Executive
Committee held its regular weekly meeting on Thursday
evening, in the Common Council Chamber, City Hall, when
the following report of operations up to Wednesday, March
3d, was made
For N. E. Ward-26 families, 104 perBons, amount, $22.30
"N. W. Ward-64 " 231 " 40.12
"
"S. E. Ward-77 " 316 " 61.70
`. 0. W. Ward-17 -
" 182 •• 36.70
The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That the Block Committees be instructed to
limit their orders of corn meal and fuel, and that they ran
again Issue orders from tnis date.
Resolved. That the donation of Five Dollars from a poor
man, in the N. E. Ward, by the hands of C. M. Howell, be
acknowledged thr ugh the Press, with the thanks of the
Committee to the generous donor.
FIRE IN LAMPETER TOWNSHIP—BARN, CORN
SHED AND CARRIAGE House SURNT—INCENDIARIEM, Ac.—On
Friday morning, at a few minutes after 6 o'clock, the barn
of ME, Abraham Dieffenbach, near Greenland Mills, in East
Lampeter township, was discovered to be on fire. Mr. D.
had just got up, and was going out to toed his cattle, when
he saw the flames bursting out of the roof with great
rapidity and fierceness. The alarm was immediately given,
and the neighbors soon assembled to assisf him, but as the
wind was blowing very hard at the time, all their efforts
to save the building were fruitless. The cattle and horses
were saved with great difficulty; all the grain and bay
was destroyed. The corn shed and carriage house next
caught, and although the most strenuous exertions were
made to save their contents, still they were unsuccessful.
A new rockaway, which bad just been placed In the carri.
age house on the preceding day, was burnt. A new
threshing machine was also destroyed.
This property formerly belonged to Mr. Henry Donor,
who moved away last fall. Mr.Diffenbach purcpased it,
and, since it has come into his hands, has made Numerous
Improvements. The carriage house and corn shed were
but lately built. Ws learn that the barn, which was a large
one, was insured, but we cannot learn the amount. This
lass will fall heavily upon Mr. Dieffenbach. No muse can
,e assigned for the fire, unless it be ascribed to incendiar
ism. No person of Mr. D.'s family had been about the barn
with any light or fire of any kind ; It seems that it must
have been Bet on fire at above 4 o'clock, as the whole of the
upper part of the barn warburning, when it was diseov
erett—Sefurday's T iesu.
TRAVEL WESTWARD.—Daring the months
of January and Feb-usry, this year, there has been a
grrater ant out of travel. ov;.r. the Pennsylvania Railroad,
than dunu•_ the come menthe list year. -. From the begin
ning of th.• year. 1858, 1005 emigrants have passed over
the road whirle is 271 more than during the same time In
185 T. The folioWingligures ahoy the number for January
and February. 18.55: For Januei3i. 841.34. having with them
12,615 pounds of extra baggage. Of this untuber. 414 were
way passengers, 201:went to Pittsburg, and 606% to points
west of Pittsburg. The number in February was 76.3 . .
having with thedi 48.861 pounds of extra baggage; 556
were deetined for points west of Pittsburg, and the re
mainder for Pittsburg and places east of that point. Of the
whole number, during . the past two mouths, 82604 were
from New York.
TURNPIKE ELECTION.—The following gen
tlemen were, on Weanesday last. re-elected officers of the
Manor Turnpike Company President—Daniel Harman; I
Managers-Jacob M. Frantz, Jacob Bausman, Abraham
Peters, Jacob K. Shank, John Lintner, Samuel Bailsman;
Treasurer--George F. Breneman.
•
COLUMBIA. AFFAIRS.—We glean the follow
ing "items" from Saturday's Spy:
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OP 'THE BOROUGH.—A statement of
the financial condition of the Borough, to which we call
attention'. shows our indebtedness a light one. We trust
that a wise and careful expenditure of the public funds
will keep it. within a reasonable limit. We advocate neces
sary improvement, such as the thorough repairs of the
streets now In progress, but deprecate any recklessness in
Incurring a heavy borough debt.
COLUMBIA BASE STATEMENT.—Prom the statement of the
Columbia Bank, which we publish to-day, It will be seen
that that Instituthni steadily improves in position. It
shows an increase in Specie, and a decrease of $107,140 of
notes iu circulation. since last month's statement, leaving
but $1.55,140 of Columbia Bank notes now out.
THE STRIKE ON THE PENNSYLVANIA R. IL—On Tuesday
morning there was considerable excitement in our borough,
owing to a reported strike by all the employees on the
entire line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. A stoppage of
trains was anticipated, and as the mail train became due
same anxiety was expressed as to the chances of en inter
ruption of oar communication with Philadelphia, hut the
arrival of the omit. "on time." pat an end to the specula
tions of the terrorists By noon it was generally understood
that no strike had taken place on the Philadelphia Divis
ion, and that the difficulties on the Middle and Western
Divisions of the road were satlsfacirily arranged.
.•
A correspondence from this place, published in the in
land Doily Tim., of Thursday, reports a meeting of the
engineers and firemen, presided over by Oliver 11. Paxson,
held at the Green (Tree ?) Hotel, Columbia. at which reso
lutions of co-operation with the striking operatives of the
other Divisions of the Pennsylvania K. It. were adopted
A coriespondent in to-day's Spy puts another face on the
action of the meeting, which would seem to he corroborated
by the appearance of an advertisement of the engineers of
the Western Division of the P. It. It , in the Tim✓F. con
deuinio, rs. C. NI v.•rs niel .1 IV Ste ers.
employee, of the Philadelphia Division of the roe 31 , 1 i
Will, all performed their duties premptiy nod reirulsrly
wt thew any watt n towards a strike.
We understand that there Lino CA11.“3 of collision between
the compaay and the employees on the ithilatlellthil
inn. and tract that none may totem'. Fr..m our knowledge
of the Superintendent. Mr. Francis .‘l,. we anticipate no
difficulty which cannot be amieubly settled without the
intervention of the enforcing argument of '1 Rtrike.
SENSIBLE REStiLLTTIONS.-t
Resolved, That we heartily approve of Dr. Keyser's Per
toral Syrup. prepared a: 110 Woo.' etreet. Pittsburg. Pa..
and that we have used it iu our families P.I . rott,h, nod
colds with great benefit.
Resolved, That we hail It no one of the most salutary
medicines kuowo for the eurn of Asthma mud Bronchitis.
Resolved. Thai we will encourage its use among the peo
ple for the r“,.,0 that it cures Co Speedily, and costa so
little.
Resohyd, That one dose of Keyser's Pectoral Syrup will
often cure a slight c tld, which if neglected might terminate
In Consumption.
Resolved, That we will go to Heinitsh's Drug store. 13
East King street, and buy a bottle.
From the Shippensburg, (Pa.) News, F-.. 9
F.n• some days past considerable rsritement
has been felt in some circles in this community,
in reference to an affair in humble life, the
particulars of which we cannot permit to pass
by unnoticed. So far as we have been able to
gather the forts of the case, they appear to he
as follows:
About three years ago, George Fry. of this
vicinity, became enamored 'of a beautiful Gip
sey girl, who, in company with a number of '
her people, had encamped in a wood near this
place. Mr. Fry's love was fondly reciprocated
by the fair Gipsey, and she consented to marry
him. But " true love never did run smooth,"
and so it happened in this case. The consent
of the father of the lady could not be obtained
to her marriage with `' a man not accustomed !
to gentility!"
11 .wever, • I, .vs I.‘utths 1001:smiths l"
When Mr. Fry I,,utei that he'' wit
the liter of rho old fdllts," lie set about plan-
ning ways soil means to steal the object of his
affections. In this he was not unsuccessful.
One night, when the hard hearted old man was
wrapped in the arms of Morpheus, and all
around was lonely and drear, Mr. Fry approach
ed the camp of the wanderers, and was met
by her fur whom his heart had long in agony
sighed ! After fondly embracing her, he so
licited her to accompany him, without delay,
to a village a few miles distant. Without hes
itation she complied with his request, and on
the following day they were married. * *
The rage of the old alipreY when he found that
his daughter had " sloped." can better be
imagined than deserilesl. Nothing coli!d
soothe his temper site !he return of his child.
In vain he sought for her. Nothing could be
heard from her.
Finally, win - , fund that he himself
could find no traces of her, he offered a heavy
reward to the person* who would discover her
whereabouts, and in presence of several "kid
sappers,'' he exhibited large quantities of gold
and silver, which induced them to make the
! effort, and a few evenings after in a most in
human manner, they accomplished their object.
In the absence of Mr. Fry, they wrested her
away and delivered her over to the hands of a
father unsusceptible of the divine feelings of
love. Immediately the entire groupe of Gipsies
I fled from the country. Rumor said that they
had returned to England, from whence they
hailed.
* * * * * * *
'Two years noiselessly glided by and nothing
was heard by Mr. Fry from his absent wife,
although he long cherished the hope that she
would escape from her " tyrannical parent,"
and return to him whom she loved. Time how
ever, gradually rusted Mr. Fry's love for his
Gipsey wife. He felt that it was " not good
to be alone" so long, and at the end of two
years he again united his destinies with another
of Eve's fair daughters. Suffice it to say, with
the latter he experienced no visible difficulty.
Things moved smilingly along—Mr Fry lived
happily with his wife and the rest of mankind.
But alas! how short-lived are some connubial
combinations ! Last week Mr. Fry's first wife
—his Gipsey wife—in company with "George
Fry the second," arrived in this place, in search
of him ! By the assistance of Officer Shade,
she was successful in finding him.
Limited space forbids us from entering into
details, at this time, of the excruciating suffer.
ing Mrs. Fry has undergone since her depart
ure from this place. The intelligence of her hus
band's second marriage was a severe shock to
her, but she emphatically declares her exclusive
right to him. It appears, by the way, that
Mr. Fry's second wife was "a widow," that
her husband went to California some years
ago, and soon after his arrival there, it was
rumored that he was murdered. A few weeks
since a letter was received from him by her, we
have been informed, in whichlie states that he
will return in the next steamer, &c. What the
finale of this romance will be is beyond the
power of human ken.
A MARRIAGE AS IS A MARRIAGE.—There
were married at Durham, Canada, on the 30th
January, an elderly gentleman and lady, in-
Tolying the following connection :
The old gentleman is married to his daugh
ter's husband's mother-in-law, and his daugh
ter's husband's wife's mother. And yet she
is not his daughter's mother, bnt she is his
grand children's grandmother, and his wife's
grand-children are his daughter's step- children.
Consequently, the old lady is united in the
bonds of holy matrimony and conjugal affec
tion to her daughter's brother in-law's father
in-law, and her great grand children's grand
mother's step father, so that her son in-law
may say to his children: Your grandmother
is married to my father in law, and yet he is
not your grandfather. hut he is your g*an.l
mother's son in-law's wife's father. This gen
tleman married his son-in-law's father-in lbw's
wife, and he is bound to support and protect
tier for life. His wife is his own son-in-law's
children's grandmother, and his eon in law's
sister-in-law's grand children's great-grand
mother.
COURT MARTIAL OF COL. SUMNER
WAsisisaroN March 6.—A General Court
Martial is ordered to assemble at Carliste Bar
racks,Am the 10th inst., to investigate the
charge - brought against Col. Sumner, under
the 25th article of war, which provides for the
cashiering of any commissioned officer, who
sends a challenge to duel to another one.
The New York Timm' correspondent says :
It is surmised in the army circles, that the
prosecution will fail, because Col. Sumner's
was not strictly a challenge, although
it was inferred , one, if Gen. Harney would
have followed him out of the District ; and also
because Cul. Sumner was at the time under a
sentence of Court Martial, suspending him
from his command, rsnk and pay, which it is
or,:,ed that it takes his condu , 3t from under the
articles of war. This is the first case in the his.
tory of the Government, where a charge has
been brought against an officer for duelling.
ST. LOUIS CORRESPONDENCE.
The IPother—Nampation—Astounding Deverapemerds—Ar
md of the .apposed Murderer and Incendiary—The Pa
cif,: Hotel Tragedy the. Wori of an Incendiary—Taylor
and three or four others Arrested on a Charge of Ckaapir
acy. Murder . and Arena—Their Eiantinatimt—Great Ex
citement— The Funeral Cortege—Disposition of the Bodies,
dr--SleantiNat Fire at New Orleans—Two more Boats
Sunk, dr
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• Sr. mine, March 1, 1858.
The weather continued cold up to Thursday last, when
It moderated, and is now quite mlld. For two or three
days we bad most excellent sleighing, and those who were
for frolic and inn; enjoyed It. Heavy to has been running
in the Mississippi opposite our city, and navigation in tits
upper rivers remains suspended. Several boats have ar•
rived Irom the South, and to day or to-morrow navigation
in that trade will be resumed. Boldness In the city la
extremely dull—the wheels of commerce seem to have be
come clogged; but this state of affairs cannot last long;
the upper country is a perfect warehouse of grin and
provisions, awaiting the opening of the spring trads,
which will be upon us in a few weeks.
Very little business doing on 'Change, and no material
difference Is apparent in prices since our last report. There
have been about 100,000 hogs cut In this city during the
packing season.
The city is eajoylag its usual good health.
We stated in our last, that St. Louis was the scene of a
most frightful conflagration and terrible toes of life ; sines
which time horrors have accumulated, and our city has
been suddenly thrown into unusual commotion aide - wild
excitement, caused by the arrest, on Thursday last, of a
man named Charles Taylor aliat Sanders, on a charge of
murder and arson—which caused the destruction of so
many Hoes and the burning of the Pacific Hotel.
The circumstances are about as follows: It appears that'
a man by the name of Ephraim Donne, of Chicago, whose
romaine were exhumed from the ruins of the fire, had In
his possession on the night previous to the fire, some
04.000. Doane had been stopping at another hotel, and
in some way or other Taylor made his acquaintance-(who
was a boarder at the Pacific ttotet)—sad persuaded Doane
to leave his quarters and go with him to the Pacific, which
he consented to do. This, we believe, was a day or two
before the Ore. lu the night previous to the fire, Taylor,
sharp. (the watchman at the hotel,) and another person,
were seen is company with Dame—all had been drinking
pretty freely. At 10 o'clock Taylor was seen to go to bed
In 3 ro.un aljoining that of Deane, with only a wood
partition separating the two, and the partition not extend
ing to the ceiling, but leaving some 2 or 3 feet between
the top of the partition and the ceiling. At ono o'clock of
the same night, Taylor was seen in the street In company
with sharp. nod a man by the name of Torr..m.,•, and at a
.1‘1:u ler p r.
bent halt ham - before the lire broke
out, i , is said list Taylor went to the Townsley hotel, and
engaged a rtHan for the balance of the night, and la repre
sented as haying gone there in his stocking foot, which Is
,1110 twelve or fifteen blocks from the Pacific. After be
left the Tewnsley Hotel. !Moat was found on the sheets of
the bed with h he had occupid, and upon examining his
pers.m. no cut or bruise could be found frmn which blood
could have issued. Early In the morning, and almost be
fore the lire was xtingukhed, Taylor left the city for
Belleville. Illinois. and returned the same evening. All
these,proceedings were rather suspielous. When the body
of liOnie Nr:o , f •und. it was in bed, where he had laid down
the evening before, rand appeared as though be had met
his death without a struggle. His body was not burnt a
great deal—the clothing nut even having been all urut
off. whilst his head was nearly severed from the main trunk,
and so badly burned and disfigured. that he was not at the
'time revognig. d. The hod upon which he lay was also
saturated with blood. With all these circumstances star
ing Taylor in the fame, it caused such strong suspicions
against Idol, that a warrant was issued for his arrest.—
You may well imagine the excitement among our citizens,
and the thousand and one rumors that spread like itrlid
fire throu,hout the length and breadth of the city. Alf'
kinds of [natives were in preparation for Taylor, but we
are happy to have it to say, law and justice sere allowed
to stand Met ween the suppose") murderer and ''Judge
Lynch."
it was also deemed advisible to arrest all who were seen
In company with Taylor the night previous to the fire, and
cntixetmently one of the lessees of the hotel, Dr Daniel W.
Strutter, Charles Waldrup, Sharp ant&Turrence were taken.
Rumor also hat+ it that Strader has been desinms of selling
out his interest, but could find no purchaser, and that 0
(rad has for collie time existed between him and his part
Taylor is represented as a bud, reckless nine, having
been once before arrested in this city fm . robbh,,,, estranger
at the Missouri lintel. but was released owing to the
absence of the stranger from the city, and not appearing
against him. Report likewise says, and with some show
of truth, that he served a term of years in the San Fran
cisco penitentiary. nil after his release was run out of the
State by the Vigilance Connuittee Ilia general character,
as kllOirn here. is bdt, being that of a _Ambler, rake and
Inebriate. We, it possible Srb any led) to escape through
the eutrante s from Ile, hotel—of which there weVe a great
many—floatie's rout was so situated, that he could—(lnd
hr been alive) been among hie first to get out. There is
not a doubt but that foul ploy was the cause of this terri
ble disaster. Taylor has been undergoing an examination
before It magistrate ou Friday and Saturday, which, in all
probability will not be concluded inside of another week.
The Justice's office and the streets in the vicinity on both
days were crowded with people, all anxious to learn some
thing of the affair; whilst all manner of wild and excit
ing rumors were put afloat.
Wednesday - last was a solemn day in St. Louis. a day
set apart for the burial of the remains of the victims of
the Pacific Hotel catastrophe. After the funeral services
at the Church, by the Rev. Mr. Schuyler, which were im
pressive and touching, the procession was formed. Thous
ands had congregated from all parts of the city to the
streets along which the funeral procession was to pass,
occupying the street, sidewalk, doors and windows, and
every available spot from which a view could he had.
First in line came cieren hearses, bearing the dead, then
the friends of the deceased, in carriages, followed by the
City Authorities, the Committee of Arrangenents, the
different Fire Companies and all the Benevolent Societies
of the city. The engines, lingo and banners wars draped
in lib:timing, as true every one who joined the line - of pro
cession. The funeral cortege, was one of great length—
probably or 3 miles.
Subscriptions were solicited by a committee appointed
for the purpose, who, before the day of the funeral, had
collected about $3OOO for the purpose of obtaining a suita
ble lot in the Bellefon tail. Cemetery, defraying the ex
penses of the funeral and I elieving the sufferers, who lost
all earthly possessions and were rendered destitute. In
this sad and melancholy affair, our citizens displayed their
usual generosity and liberality, and showed every mark of
respect to the memory and remains of the dead. At some
future day a monument will no doubt be erected.
If Taylor Is guilty of this awful affair, how could he
look upon the solemn scene of Wednesday last without
showing signs of guilt ?
There were eleven bodies burled on Wednesday, and
nine more remain unreclaimed and unrecognized, and two
others have been added to the list of dead—that of Mrs.
Hubbard, who, with her husband leaped from the window.
She died at the hospital. The other Is Mr. Francis W.
Geary, Local Reporter of the St. Louis Leader ; he is an
Englishman by birth, but has been in this country some
twelve years, and the last two years, a resident of this city.
His remains were placed in a metalic coffin, and await the
arrival of his brother from Pottsville, Pa. The cemalnu of
Mrs. Hubbard will be taken to Boston for interment. The
child of Mr. Jones was burled in the Cemetery. The re
mains of Bruce McNett will be sent to Pennsylvania.—
Those of E. J. Watkins have been shipped to Columbus,
Ohio. He was a member of the Odd Follows' Society, and
his remains were taken in charge by the Order and sent
as above stated. Mr. Aram' Lord was transported to Cin
cinnati. The son of the deceased arrived a few hours
before the public funeral. The remains of Mr. Doane Is
now at the rooms of the undertaker, and will continue
there until the arrival of some one to take charge of them.
The bodies of Messrs. Strong and Rochester hero been sent
to their friends In New York. Several others are still In
charge of the undertakers swathe.; the arrival of their
friends.
Thus for It is known that twenty Iwo fell victims to the
Pacific Hotel disaster, whilst some fifteen or twenty others
are suffering from injurlea received—three or four will
probably din. of the twenty-two whose bonier have been
recovered, only the following have been recognized:
T. Hart Strong, sou of Judge Strong, eituchester, New
York.
James F. Geary, Reporter of the "St. louis Leader,"
Clifton, England.
H. M. Greg:..
Miss 11. Hunter.
Charles Davis
William Cunningham.
Little Johnny Jones.
George Crane.
llonry 11. Rochester, New York.
11..1. Watkins, Columbus, Ohio.
Bruce McNutt, St. Louis.
Amml Lord,-of Cincinnati.
Ephraim Doane, of Chicago.
Mr. Hubbard, Boston.
Elihu Hayes, Boston.
There are also some live or six missing whose name., are
not mentioned.
The heart-broken and distracted wife of Mr. Hayes, one
of the victims, arrived whilst the body was on Its way to
its last resting place. The scene which followed, can bet
ter be imagined than described, when she was told it would
be impossible for her to Vol; again upon the remains of
tier husband and the partner of her fortunes.
Since the arrest of Taylor for the supposed murder and
arson, the greatest excitement hae prevailed, and large
crowds are in daily attendance at the examination. Cir
cumstantial evidence to very strong against the prisoner ,
and whether he can be convicted upon this, is for, time to
determine.
Miss Sallie Babcock was severely burned a few days nines
by her clothes taking fire from a grate, and has mince died
from her injuries.
A large steamboat fire occurred at New Orleans in the
early part of lost week, destroying some five or six boats.
Wo have heard of no lives being lost..
The Steamer Nettie Miller rank a few days since in the
Cumberland river. and the boat and cargo are reported a
total loss. The taut was valued at 0,000, and the loan on
cargo about $15.000. No lives were lost, bat come of the
passengers became frightened, jumped overboard and swam
ashore.
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The Steamer ✓. E. Woodruff sunk in the Mississippi be
low this city, on Friday last. She first grounded upon a
sand-bar, broke in two and filled with water. She was on
her way from Now Orleans to this city, with a heavy
freight, most of which will bo recovered In a damaged
condition. The Woodruff wall a new boat and cost $65,000.
She Is reported as being a total wreck.
Alexander M. Robinson, of this State, has been appointed
Chief Superintendent of Indian affairs, In this quarter,
vice - Governor Cummings, of Utah.
A rather singular and dangerons shooting match Is to
come off at Louisville, Ky., on the lath of June next, to
tween John Tfavla and Samuel A. Sydam of New lark,
and the following is the programme :