tit tancastct 3ntelligenter GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR A. SANDERSON, Associate. LANCASTER, FA., JUNE 15, 1858 CIRCULATION, 5000 COPIES! littatacallmox Pam, sl6oD.per &ma'am. DEMOCRATIC. STATE NOMINATIONS. MOS OP THE SUPREME °OMIT WILLIAM A. PORTER, Philadelphia CANAL COMMISSIONER: WESTLEY FROST, Fayette. . . A WORD TO DELINQUENTS There are hundreds of persons indebted to us for sub -soripticrn, advertising, or job work—varying in stuns of from one dollar up to twenty dollars—which ought to be paid, and mutt be paid without much longer delay. We hake commenced making out bills for town and country—neat and remote—and shall expect settlements to be . miide, either by cash or due bills, between this and the let of July next—so that then, at the commencement of the tenth year since the Irrrstmeneen pulled into our hands, we may be enabled to open new books. After that peilod those who refuse to liquidate their indebtedness in one of the ways specified., will be stricken from our lint of opktrons," amid their accounts placed in the hands of proper officers for collection. We have become tired of " working for other people and finding ourselves," and we give this timely warning so that all may be prepared. We cannot live and keep the estab lishment in operation on mere "promises to pay," and as we have no notion of starving when every thing is in abund • mice all around ne e we have concluded to adopt the course above intimated. To such of our patrons as have been prompt in their pay ments, we return our sincere thanks ; and we shall also feel grateful to those who may repent of their past delin quency, and either call at the office and settle their bills, Or remit by mail the amount of their indebtedness. But We wish it to be distinctly understood, and therefore we re peat it, that we take the step because our necessities require it, and shall expect all accounts of more than one year's standing, to be settled between this and the first of July If not, they will be settled in another way. JOINING JIBLETS Hon. LEMUEL TODD, Chairman of the "American Republican State Committee," has withdrawn his call for a State Convention on the Bth of July—and has united with H. Bucher Swope, William B. Thomas, J. R. Walker and Leonard R. Fletcher, represent ing every hue and color of the opposition to the Democracy, in a call for a piebald State Convention, to assemble at Harrisburg on the 14th of July, to nominate candidates for Su preme Judge and Canal Commissioner. From the above it would seem that the " blaok spirits and white, blue spirits and grey" of the opposition are about fraterniz ing—at least this is the purpose of the leaders. How far they will succeed, and to what extent they may be able to whip in the rank and file, time alone can determine. In the meantime. however, the Democratic hosts will marshal in solid array for , the contest, having their time-honored principles emblazoned on their banner, and be prepared to rout the common enemy " horse, foot and dragoons," no matter by what name the nondescript party may be designated. The following excellent remarks in refer ence to this attempted fusion of the opposi tion elements, we clip from the Pittsburg Union. In alluding to their frequent altera tions and changes of front, that paper re marks : These continual changes—this being only the fourth programme for the fall campaign— sufficiently show what are the real motives of this hybrid opposition, and to what shifts they are prepared to resort in order to secure suc cess. It is manifest that these constant unions that are being patched up, are not based upon principle, but upon the spoils! What hope can the country, or our noble old Common wealth, have of a successful and honorable administration of its affairs, in the incumbency of a set of awn, who have no system of State or National policy to propose, but who seek simply to obtain office at any sacrifice of principle ? The success of such men, whose sole aim is not the benefit of the people, but private interest, must necessarily result in the Introduction into our State administration of the same terrible corruption which has disgraced those of other States. Are the good people of the Commonwealth prepared to introduce here the Wisconsin system, as developed under Republican misrule? We think they will - naturally prefer the honest, straight forward Democratic mode they have been long accustomed to, and which has so honored and dignified the Commonwealth abroad. GLORIOUS DEMOCRATIC VICTORY The municipal election in Washington City, on the 7th inst., resulted in the complete triumph of the Democratic party, and the utter prostration of the opposition. The elec tion-of Col. BERRET by 571 majority, and the Councilmen in \ six of the seven wards, is a glorious result, and will be gratifying to our friends all over the Union. The opposition were certain of success, and had imported a' number of the Plug Uglies of Baltimore to assist them in carrying the election ; but it all would not answer the purpose. Had they succeeded, the result would have been trumpeted forth as an anti- Administration and anti•Lecompton triumph, and we should not have heard the last of it for months to come in the Republican and Know-Nothing journals. a ILLINOIS STATIC CONVENTION The State Convention of the Administration Democracy of Illinois, met at Springfield on Wednesday last, and nominated Hon. JOHN DOUGHERTY for State Treasurer, and Ex- Governor REYNOLDS for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Resolutions were adopted affirming adherence to the Cincinnati plat form ; re-affirming the principle of non-inter vention in the Territories ; opposing the con centration of power in the hands of the central government ; deprecating the slavery agitation ; condemning Senator Douglas, and character izing his course in opposition to the Adminis tration as overweening conceit; denouncing the principles of the " Republican " party as tending to a dissolution of the Union, and denouncing the late outrages by the British *misers on American vessels in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere. All the Philadelphia appointments made in March, 1857, were confirmed by the United States Senate last week—fifteen months after the incumbents were commissioned. THE CLOSE OF THE SESSION Congrese'did not adjourn on Thursday, the day fixed upon by both branches. They could not get through the important business pres sing upon their attention, and therefore (on motion of Senator BIGLER) extended the period for adjournment until yesterday, the 14th inst. A movement is on foot in Black Republican circles, headed by the New York Herald, looking to the nomination of Hon. SIMON CAMERON as their Presidential candidate in 1860. There is evidently something in this. The old stagers of the Republican party, such as Seward, Giddings, Hale, Fremont, et. al., are ° no longer considered available, hence Simon is at work to secure the prize for himself.— ' The General is a capital hand at wire-pulling, and we should not be surprised if he turns out to be a prominent candidate for the Black Republican nomination. But as to an elec tion, that is an entirely different matter. He will be able to bear a defeat with as much philosophy as any other man of his party. ELECTION IN NEW ORLEANS The election in New Orleans, for Mayor, on the 7th instant, resulted in the success of the Know-Nothings by a small and reduced ma jority. The Vigilance Committee have dis banded, and order again reigns in the Crescent City. THE Plitmeroz3r;l aiz6iAGE—PiaoE IN UTAH. We lay.before our readers this morning a very important message from the President of the United States. It will be read with great interest and satisfaction by the people of the whole country, for it announces the tri umph of the Utah policy pursued by the ad ministration. The troublesome problem of Mormonism has been solved by the prompt ness, decision, and resolute firmness of Mr. Buchanan. The festering sore, the cancerous ulcer of fanatical licentiousness, has been subjected to the knife and actual cautery. The experiment has proved perfectly success• ful. The disease is cured. The country will hail with intense satisfaction the news of the Mormon submission to the laws and officers of the United States. So long as the forces sent to Utah were inadequate to overawe the Mormons, they did not scruple to commit any act of rebellion and war. Indeed, by a unanimous vote of their legislature, these deluded people adopted an address to Congress, so treasonable and disre spectful that it was treated with the greatest in dignity by that body. Whilst Gen. Johnston's little command seemed to be beyond the reach of succor or support, nothing but vengeance was breathed from the tabernacle of the Mor mon Prophet ; but no sooner had the ample preparations been made to march a crushing and overwhelming force to the City of the Saints than a change was obvious in the de meanor of the Mormons. Day by day their resolution grew fainter and fainter, until the banners of our advancing columns had scarcely been fairly unfurled to the winds of the prairies, before Brigham Young and his dupes fairly " cut and run." The sixty thousand saints snugly ensconsed in the centre of inac cessible mountains, and an almost trackless desert, with their ten thousand disciplined troops, have succumbed to the majesty of the law, backed by the army, and enforced by the firm resolution of the President. The wisdom of this policy is fully vindicated, and the thorough preparation for enforcing submission has :proved a most judicious plan of wise economy :— Washington Union of Friday. To the Senate and House of Representatives : I transmit the copy of a dispatch from Gov. Cumming to the -ecretary of State, dated at Great Salt Lake City, on the second of May, and received at the Department of State on yesterday. From this there is reason to be lievo that our difficulties with the Territory of Utah have terminated, and the reign of the constitution and the laws has been restored. I congratulate you un this auspicious event. I lose no time in communicating this infor mation, and in expressing the opinion that there will be no occasion to make any appru• priations for the purpose of calling into ser vice the two regiments of volunteers author- ized by the act of Congress approved on the 7th April last " for the purpose of quelling disturbances in the Territory of Utah, for the protection of supply and emigrant trains, and the suppression of Indian hostilities on the frontier." lam the more gratified at this sat isfactory intelligence from Utah because it will afford some relief to the treasury at a time demanding the strictest economy, and when the question which now arises upon every appropriation is, whether it be of a character so important and urgent as to brook no delay, and to justify and require a loan, and most probably a tax moon the people to raise the money necessary for its payment. In regard to the regiment of volunteers authorized by the same act of Congress to he called into service for the defence of the fron tier of Texas against Indian hostilities, I de sire to leave this question to Congress, obser ving at the same time that, in my opinion, this State can be defended for the present by the regular troops, which have not yet been withdrawn from its limits. JAMES BUCHANAN. WASHINGTON CITY, June 10, 1858. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE STATE. The sale of the State Canals to the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company, was urged and adVocatect on the ground that it was for the benefit of, the State, although the bill for the sale was and is, on its face, a palpable swindle, gotten up- for the purpose of obtaining the Canals for the sole benefit of the Sunbury and Erie Company ; and it appears from what has taken place since the transfer, that the benefit of the State is now wholly and openly repu diated. One provision of the bill reads as follows: That if the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company shall sell said Canals for a greater sum in the aggregate than three and a half million of dollars, seventy-five per , -entum of said excess shall be paid to the Commonwealth, by a transfer of so much of the bonds and securities as said Railroad Company shall receive for the same, and payable in like man ner." How this P' rovision,ostensibly for the benefit of the State, is being complied with, may be gathered from the following from the Harris burg Union and Patriot: "It is stated that the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company have sold the North Branch Canal fora million and a half of dollars, the entire sum to be secured upon the Works and paid in twenty years; that the consent of the Governor has been obtained to this re-sale, and the bonds of the purchasers substituted for those of the Company ; that this transfer has been effected in the face of another offer of two millions of dollars from a company fully as responsible as the purchasers, and that they have applied to the Court for an injunction to prevent the consummation of the sale to the company offering the least money. "It is intimated that this contract was made by collusion between the company and the purchasers, for the purpose of avoiding the payment of the surplus to the Common wealth." The same Journal adds : "The company will pay nothing to the State, but will, in all probability, sell portions of the Canals until they realize three and a half millions, after which it will be more profitable for them to retain the balance in their posses sion, at least nominally, rather than sell it and pay the State seventy-five per cent. of the sum realized." Thus works the sale of the Canals for the benefit of the State I SAM HOUSTON AND MEXICO The most practicable field for annexation is unquestionably Northern Mexico, and of all men General Houston is the best man for leader of such an enterprise. Our Young Americans have confidence in him ; the world is familiar with the history of his experience and success in filibustering. The Mexicans know him, and would as soon jump head first into perdition as to encounter him on the battle field. The very cry of San Jacinto would transfix them with terror. He might without difficulty get peaceable control of the country, and then Mexico would be very willing to sell her title to the United States. Most of the Northern Mexican States have a population sufficient to entitle them to admission as States on becom ing annexed to our Union. "Old Sam" might therefore reasonably calculate - that a period of two to five years would suffice to restore him to the United States Senate. Ater William B. AnderSon, Esq., formerly for a number of years a representative in the State Legislature from Perry county, and afterwards a State Senator from Perry and Cumberland counties, died at his residence in Aaronsburg, Perry county, on Wednesday last, aged 58 years. SUSQUEHANNA CANAL.—Quite a serious break occurred in the Susquehanna and Tide Water Canal, at McCall's Ferry, about 18 miles below Wrightsville, Pa., on Monday last, whieh may possibly suspend navigation for a week or ten days. The breach, the Star says, is, seventy feet wide, and has washed out seven feet below the bed of the canal. TEM TAMPS AND HANK PAPZIL. li t'he late Legislature of Massashusetta, says the Ledger, in its proceedings, gave evidence of having grown more rational in its notions than was her wont in years past. and even more radical than some making louder pre tensions to tariff and bank reform. One of the committees in, that body recently came out in favor of abolishing all laws for the col lection of debts, and advanced much sound reasoning in favor of the project. Another committee, in the same body, about the same time, brought forward an argument of much force growing oat of the connection of the currency with the tariff. The General Gov ernment has established a system of protection more or less stringent and effective ; but the States have undone all the benefits of such legislation by the extravagance of their infla tions of currency. The web of protection that has been woven by the law makers at Wash ington in the day, has been unravelled in the night by the law makers in the States. On this point the report says : " The national government has established the system or policy of a low tariff of foreign imports, with a currency consisting wholly of the precious metals. The different State Governments have no _control over the tariff of duties, but they have generally exercised the power of creating a currency of paper money, by chartering nearly fifteen hundred banks, with authority to issue notes to circu late as money, practically to an unlimited extent. The tariff and currency are kindred subjects, which act and re-act upon each other; and no financial system, in any country, can be suocessful, which does not combine them and cause them to work in harmony. " A low tariff, with an expanded currency of paper money, increases the cost of manu facturing and exposes the manufacturers to an unequal competition with the products of foreign labor under a more restricted and sounder currency. An excessive paper cur rency is at all times unsound and unsafe ; in connection with a low tariff of duties, it is exceedingly detrimental to the success of manufacturing and producing classes. It is at war with our various industrial pursuits and vocations ; it opposer their prosperity by generating fictitious values of property ; and in spite of the skill and application so credit able to our manufacturers, it secures the advantage, even in our own markets, to much of the competing labor and product of Europe. "In time of peace and uninterrupted com merce, the benefits of the high prices arising from an expanded paper currency cannot be secured to the industry of our own community without the protection of a high tariff of duties ; and, as such a tariff cannot now be had, it is obviously for the interest of New England with so large a proportion of her population dependent on industrial and manufacturing pursuits, that the currency should be regulated by restricting it, so as to bring it nearer in value to the currencies of those countries which are now our great corns petitors for the supply of what is consumed by our own people. What do we gain by the additions to the currency in the form of bank notes, when California is furnishing an ample supply of the precious metals for currency, if the country will not make use of it? Why should the people of New England encourage the use of bank notes for currency and force the precious metal to be sent abroad, to be exchanged for foreign merchandize, at the very time when they need protection for their free labor engaged in manufacturing employments, against the immense imports of the products of foreign labor received in exchange for the exports of cotton, tobacco and breadstuffs produced by the servile labor of more genial climates and more fertile soils ?" There is much truth in these views of the Massachusetts Comittee, and wears pleased to see that in that manufacturing State, the people are becoming awake to the disastrous influence of the Paper Banking System upon the labor and industry of our country. Poli ticians may talk about Tariffs for the protec tion of American interests, but all Tariff Legislation is vain, so long as Banks are permitted to fill to overflowing all the channels of trade, with paper promises to pay, and thus drive out of circulation and out of the country, the only true and reliable currency, that of the Constitution, for which Jackson contended, and which the interests of our people and the prosperity of our country require should be greatly enlarged—gold and silver. ItICOMPTION OF 4310 V. OIIMAIING The letter from Gov. Cuniming accompany• ing the President's message is dated on the 2d of May, and states that he left the camp for Salt Lake City in company of Col. Kane. On reaching the dividing lines between Salt Lake and Davis counties, he was met by the mayor of Salt Lake City and the municipal officers, who escorted him to lodgings in the city which had been prepared for his recep tion. He was received with every demon stration of respect by the people, and as soon as he had sufficiently recovered from fatigue to admit visitors, Brigham Young called and delivered up the seals of office. Gov. Cum. ming addressed an assembly of over three thousand Mormons in the Temple, telling them that he came among them to uphold the constitution and maintain their rights, which gave general satisfaction. The Mormons, adds the Governor, are leaving the city in large numbers in carriages, wagons, and on foot, Brigham Young and Kimball being of the number, and it is rumored that their des tination is Sonora. A painful rumor is also prevalent that the Mormons will set fire to the city the moment it is occupied by the United States troops. SUNBITRIC AND ERIE RAILROAD LETTING. Tho allotment of work on this road from Williamsport to Farrandsville, embracing a distance of thirty three miles, was made yes terday, at the company's office, in Walnut street. There were upwards of six hundred proposals, and the allotment was consequently at low figures ; but the successful bidders are men of reputation in their line, which insures a sure compliance with their contracts. The following are the sections, with the names of the successful parties : Section No. 41 Riddle & Blackwell. Bridge Sup. No. 41 Shiftier. Griffy & Co. Section No. 42.... .......... .Fields, Bubb & Co. Section No. 43 'Boland & Lane. Section No. 44 Joseph Nicely. Section No. 45. ~...Chaa. Dougherty. Bridge No. 5, at Lin den Marr Griffy & Co. Section No. 46 Ira C. Gibson. Section No. 47 Davis & Bennett. Section No. 51 Henry Shire. Section No. 55 Porter & Glasgow. Seetion No. 66 Porter & Glasgow. Section No. 67 Wm. M. Wiley & Co. Section No. 58 Not allotted. Section No. 59 Barstow & Ettele. Section No. 60 51. Malone & Co. Seetion No. 61 Wm. Parsons & Co. Section No. 62 T. Mackey. Section No. 63 R. R. Bridgene & Co. Section No. 63 Tob n Fleming. Seetion No. 65 (Niggle & Co. Section 68, Bridge at Queen's Run Dull. Criswell & Dull. We learn it is the intention of the company to prosecute their enterprise with vigor, so that a train of cars may pass from Philadelphia to Lake Erie, via the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, before the close of Gov. PACKER'S term of office.—Phalad'a Press of Wednesday. EDITORIAL CHANGE.—Mai. John Hodgson, who has been, for sixteen years, the editor and proprietor of the West• Chester Jeffersonian a well-conducted and faithful Democratic jour nal, has retired from the toile and cares of editorial life, and disposed of the paper to his sons and step-son, William H. and Charles Henry Hodgson, and Charles Stow. These young gentlemen were reared in the Jeffersonian office, and are practically acquainted with all the duties of their profession. They had charge of the paper during Maj. Hodgson's absence at Harrisburg last winter, as a member of the Legislature, and conducted it in such a manner as to assure its readers that the late proprie for has transferred it to capable hands. tar Hon. JoHN P. HALE has been re elected to the United States Senate, by the Legislature of New Ihmpshire, for six years from the 4th of March next. 'IMPORTANT INTRIALIORNOE. WASHINGTON, June 10.—A numaege was received by Congress to-day from tffii Presi dent, enclosing a copy of the despatch from Governor Cumming, dated May 2d, received at the State Department yesterday: From the tenor of this despatch the Presi dent says he has reason to believe that our difficulties with Utah have terminated, and the laws been restored. He congratulates Congress on thiststispicious event, and he expresses the opinion that there is no occasion to make an appropriation for the three regiments of volunteers authorized for the purpose of quelling the disturbances in Utah, and for the protection of emigrant trains and supplies. Texas can be defended by the regular troops now within her limits. The President is more gratified, because the events in Utah will afford some relief to the Treasury, and not require a loan and an additional taxation on the people. In the letter to Secretary Cass, Gov. Cum ming says he left the camp on the sth of April, en route, to Salt Lake City, accompanied by', Colonel Kane, as his guide, and two servants. In passing through the settlements, he was greeted with such respectful attentions as were due to the representative of the Executive authority of the United States in a Territory. Near the Warm Springs, at a line dividing the Great Salt Lake from Davis county, he was honored with a formal and respectful reception by many gentlemen, including the Mayor and municipal officers of the city, and by them escorted to lodgings previously provided—the Mayor occupying a seat at his side in the carriage. Ex-Governor Young paid him a visit of ceremony as soon as he was sufficiently relieved from the fatigue of his journey to receive company. In a subsequent interview Ex- Governor Young evinced a willingness to afford him every facility he might require for the efficient performance of his administrative duties. Brigham Young's course in this respct Governor Cumming perceived met with the approval of a majority of the Salt Lake com munity. The Territorial seal with other public pro perty was tendered to Governor Cumming by Wm. H. Hooper, the late acting Secretary of the Territory. The records and library remain unimpaired. Governor Cumming entered upon the performance of his official duty. With feelings of profound regret he learned that the agent, Wm. Hurt, was charged with having incited to acts of hostility the Indians in the Vinta vallv. The information came from Mr. Hooper. He hoped that Mr Hurt could vindicate himself from the charges, yet they demand an investigation. Governor Cumming had informed Gen. Johnston that he should probably be compelled to make a requisition for a sufficient force to chastise the Indians. At every point'he was recognized as the Governor of Utah, and received with a military salute, the houses being illuminated to his honor. Having heard numerous complaints, Gov. Cumming caused public notice to be posted signifying his readiness to relieve those who deemed themselves aggrieved by beingillegally restrained of their liberty, and assuring the protection of all persons. He kept his office open at all hours, day and night and respited fifty six men, thirty three women, and seventy one children, as desirous of his protection and evincing their disposition of proceeding to the United States. A large majority of these people were of English birth, and were promised assistance to be removed. Governor Cumming says that his visit to the Tabernacle will never be forgotton. There were between three and four thousand persons assembled for the purpose of public worship. There was the usual profound silence when he appeared. Brigham Young introduced him as the Governor of Utah, and Governor Cum ming addressed them for half an hour, telling them that it was his purpose to uphold the Constitution, and that he would expect their obedience to all lawful authority, assur ing then; of his determir atioti to administer equal and esnetjivticie, etc. He was listened to respectfully. He invited responses, and several spoke, referring in excited tones to the murder of Joseph Smith, to the services rendered by the Mormon battalion in the Mexican war, and recapitulated a long chapter of their wrongs. The tumult fearfully increased hut an appeal from Brigham Young restored calmness. Several afterward expressed regret at their behavior. Governor Cumming proceeds to describe the exodus of the Mormons. The people, including the inhabitants of Salt Lake, in the northern part of the Territory, are leaving; the roads are everywhere filled with wagons loaded with provisions and household furniture the women and children following after, without shoes or hats, and driving their flocks they know not where. They seemed not only content, but cheerful. It is the will of the Lord, they say, and they rejoice to change the comforts of home fur the trials of the wilderness. Their ultimate destination was not fixed upon. Going South seemed to be sufficient to desig nate the place, but from the private remarks of Young in the Tabernacle, Governor Cum ming thinks that they are going to Sonora. Brigham Yonng, Kimball, and most of the influential men, had left their commodious mansions to swell the ranks of the emigrants.- The masses everywhere announced to Governor Cumming that the torch will be applied to every house indicriminately throughout the country as soon as the troops attempt to cross the mountains. The people, though scattered, every means would be taken to rally them. Some of the Mormons are yet in arms, and the Governor speaks of the mischief they are capable of rendering as guerillas. The way for the emigrants to the Pacific is open. Governor Cumming says that he would leave for the South on the 3d of May; He says that he will restrain all the proceedings of the military for the present, and until he shall receive additional instructions from the President. TROUBLE AHEAD I The process of political party-making is just now engrossing the attention of quite a num ber of Abolition and Know-Nothing journals. The Buffalo papers contain the proceedings of a " union" or "mulatto" meeting, recently held there, with a view to the more effective organization of the "opposition" forces, upon some change of platform, at which resolutions favoring the reconstruction were adopted. On the other side, we have an extract from the Ohio State Journal, the leading Black Repub lican or " opposition" paper of that State, which is significant—as follows: ' Some people seem to imagine that parties can be made, dissolved, and reconstructed with as much facility as a lithe and active boy can turn a somerset. This is a great mistake. Parties are not made, but grow. They cannot be unmade: they may die, or, by folly or perversity, be killed. We speak, of course, of parties having vital principles—not of ephemeral organizations." The Journal is quite right. There can be no vitality or soul in an organization gotten up by resolutions ; a party must have a regular conception, growth and manhood. We are therefore to infer that the Ohio Republicans repudiate the Buffalo movement. The picture of the proposed new party, as drawn by the Pennsylvanian, is life-like. We give The Mulatto Party.—The opposition press have been speaking recently of a .project looking towards the formation of a new party, to be made up of men of all parties opposed to the policy of the Adminstration. It would, of course, include the wool speculators, the followers of Sam and Sambo, Abolitionists and strong minded women, and would be torn to tatters by internal dissensions in less than six months. Like the battle of the "Killkenny cats," only a bit of hair would be found on the scene of conflict. This " People's" party would present a picture similar to that of Otway's old woman, whose gown of many colors spoke -variety of wretchedness GOLD AND SILVER We learn from the New York Post, that there is complaint that one of the Banks of that city refused to pay gold for its own bills, when it was required for use at the Custom House. Silver was proffered, which was de clined. The law allows of silver, as legal tender, fur sums not over five dollars, but beyond that it requires gold. The Post says, " there is no scarcity of gold in any of the Banks," which may be true, but there has always been difficulty in New York of getting it from them. Overrun as that city and State is, with a small nuts currency, the issuers of whioh are all the time struggling to keep it out, it is not sur prising that gold is so firmly held. CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS. THE HEAVY R I NS. —Th e heavy rains during tb. Is, ter part of the past week have woollen the Conestoga and other streams In this county to a great extent, causing a vast deal of Injury to the Lumbermen, to. Much damage his also been done to the Wheat, earn and Potato crops. Tai Fcricinzare Pic Nic.—The Second Annual Pic MC of the Lancaster A:tables will take plats on Thursday nail, at Rocky Spring. The axial gatherings of this employ are always of the most agraable nature, and, 'per sanseqnsies, largely attended by the dem& Thursday will also be SW anniversary of the Battl• of Bunker Hill. Two Max Daownito.—We 'were informed yesterday that two men and a horse were drowned in the Beaver creek, in Strasburg township on eunday morning. They were in a carriage, and attempted to cross, but the swollen condition of the stream would not permit, and in the effort to extricate themselves the men and horse found watery graves. The men were natives of Ireland, but we did not learn their names. Tin MILITARY SPIRIT.—The beneficial ef fects of the new militia law are already beginning to be seen in this region. Some two or three companies are being formed In this city, and as many more in the county. We are glad of it. Our military ardor has risen consider ably within the past fortnight, ar.d the readers of The Intelligencer should not be surprised to hear of us some day throwing down the pen, and taking up the sword and wielding it in defence of our country's rights. It don't make a bit of difference whether wa fight the Mormons or the "Britishers." Writing about military matters reminds us that the Fentthief' are rapidly increasing in point of numbers. They intend, we understand, taking part in the Encampment at Williamsport, in September, sad will muster sixty men rank and file. Of one thing we are sure: the Fencibles will be superior to any company on the ground, both in appearance and drill. They are now considered, by the most competent judges in such matters, the crack military corps of the State. The fine Band of the Feucibles will accompany them, and take part in the camp duties. The people of "the everlasting State" may rest assured that they are a gallant set of fellows, and they will be favored with most delicious music during the Fencibles' sojourn in their midst. THE MozAfiT•CONCERT.—The concert of the Mozart Choral Society on Tuesday evening, at Fulton Hail, was attended by a select and fashionable audience. The performances were all rendered in the most effective and captivating style, so that it would not be altogether fair to particularize. This Society, numbering some sixty members, is a lasting credit to the mush-al taste of our city, and it must be gratifying indeed to the yiozarte that their efforts to raise the musical standard hare bees so successful. Professor Sclimied presided at the Piano, and pleased all by his complete mastership of that instrument. Mr:lleffer performed an exquisitely delightful solo on his magical Violin. SUICIDE. —On Wednesday afternoon last, Christopher Williams, of Salisbury twp., this county, com mitted suicide, by cutting his throat with a new razor, in the second story of the White Hall House, in Market street, above Seventh, Philadelphia. Ile obtained a glass of lemonade, throw down a quarter of a dollar—then pro ceeded to the yard, came back inn few minutes anti received his change. He seemed to be somewhat excited. Ile wrote a letter on the bar, and then rushed up stairs, where he committed the work of self-destruction. Coroner Fenner, of Philadelphia, held an inquest the same afternoon. The following is a verbatim copy of the letter found at his skis : Juno 9th 1898 I Bid you all edue--the rearing—l have sufered for a lona time and now to be respected at last, and suf rou may as usual DEATH IN THE PRISON.—On Wednesday last Joel Fero, who was committed to prison, on Tuesday, fur drunkenness, for thirty days, by Mayor Burrow., died in his cell at that place. Fern was a man about twenty-three years of age; slight frame, brown hair, and large light blue eyes. He had traveled with another ynan from Philadel phia to this city, for the purpose of procuring work in a boiler shop, but on arriving here was seized with a fit of delirium tremens. His companion, (a hard-hearted crea ture, not to call him by a harsher name.) went to officer Baker, and had him arrested and committed. The man Fern, not having any relatives or friends in this city, was buried in a decent manner in the Alms House burial ground. The Keeper of the Prison, Mr. Cadwell, did all in his power to alleviate the poor fellow's intense sufferings. A NEW BIRD AND GAME LAW generally known that a new law for the better preservation of game and insectivorous birds was enacted at the last session of the Legislature. It is one of importance every farmer and lover of nature, and we hope the good sense of our citizens will make it generally observed. The penalties are quite stringent—enough so to make the law a terror to evil doers in that respect. We publish the law in full, as a matter of interest to all. and particularly to the sporti, g community: SEC. 1. Be it enacted, dc., That. from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for any person within this Commonwealth to shoot. kill, or in any way trap or destroy any blue-bird, swallow, martin. or other insectivorous bird, at any season of the year. under the penalty of two dollars. Sze. 2 That, from. and after the passage of this act. no person shall shoot r ikill, or otherwise destroy any pheasant between the first day of January and the first day of 5,,,p -tetriber, or any woodcock between the first day of and the first day of October. in the present year, and in each and every year thereafter, under the penalty of five dollars for oach and every offence. SEC 3. That no person shall buy or cause to be bought, or carry out of this State, for the purpose of supplying any private house or market, any pheasant, partridge. wood cock or rabbit, unless the same shall have been shot or taken in the proper season, as provided for in this net, under a penalty of five dollars for each and every offence. Sec. 4. That no person shall, at any time, wilfully de stroy the eggs or nests of any birds, mentioned in the dlB terent sections of this act, within this Commonwealth, under a penalty of two dollars for each and every rlll'ence. SEC. 6. That the possession of any person, io this COM monwealth, of any of the game and birds mentioned in the different sections of this act, shot, killed, or otherwise destroyed out of season as aforesaid, shall be prima facia evldunce to convict under this act. Sec. 6. That any person olfending•a¢ainst any of the pro visions of this art. and being thereof convicted bef“re any alderman or justice of the peace aforesaid, or by the oath or affirmation of one or more witnesses, shall, for every offence, forfeit the fine or fines attached to the same. one half to the use of the county in which the complaint is made, and the other half to the informer; and if the of fender shall refuse to pay said forfeiture, he shall be com mitted to the jail of the proper county. for every such of fence. for the space of two days, without bgi or mainprise: Provided, however, That such conviction be made within 60 days after the committing of the offence. SEC. 7. That aoy act or acts conflicting with this act be apd the same are hereby repealed. Otrr ON BAIL.—On Friday last "To iker" Waltz, committed for a violent assault on Mr. Wolf, on Whitsuntide Monday, was brought before Judge Hayes, on a writ of habeas corpus, and released on one thousand dollars bail to appear at the August Court. Mrs. Hannah Purdy was accepted as his surety in the required amount. COLUMBIA AFFAIRS.—WO glean the fuliovi , iug "items" from Saturday's Spy: Fain.—On Wednesday. Thursday and Friday of next week the Ladles, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. will hold a Fair and Festival, for the sale of Fancy Articles, Refreshments, Ac., in the Odd Fellows' Hail. We under stand that the display of articles will be unusually large and beautiful, and from the reputation of past fe-tiraie we anticipate a liberal consumption of the delicacies of the refreshment tables. The Fair is to be conducted upon just and equitable principles, and the objectionable roulette, lottery and gift-hook features wil, be omitted. ELECTION OF OFFICERS.—At a stated meeting of the Vigi• lent Engine and Huse Company. held in their Hall, June 4, 1858, the following officers were elected to serve tar the ensuing year: President, John D. Wright; Vice President, G. W. Erwin; Secretary, G. W. Miles; Treasurer, ir M. North; Chief Director, Joseph Hogentogler ; Assistant Di rectors, J. B. Wolf, D. A. Golan. G. F. Gobs. John J. Long, J. C. Fullerton, Harry Boyer; Custodies, Michael Collins, J. B. Zeigler, E. W. W. Fraley, D. K. Aurand, E. M. Shreiner. Richard Strawbridge A FISHY TuaxsAcrion.—On May 29th complaint was made, before Justice Welsh, by John P. Stamen, of West Hempfield township, near the Borough, against Jackson Clingier and an unknown partner, fish pedlers, for fraud• ulently obtaining money from his family. The complainant stated that the fishmen, on the morning of the '29th, ap peared at his farm house, with shad for sale. They informed the housekeeper that Mr. Staman had directed them to leave eighteen fish and roiled the price, $4.50. The story was credited by the woman, who received the shad and paid the money, but upon Mr. Staman's return, discovered that she had been swindled. The fish turned out decidedly below par. Upon the complaint being entered, the Magistrate placed a warrant in the hands of Constable Baker, of Lancaster, who arrested Clingier. Ball was given for the defendant's appearance for tnal at the August Sessions. The partner has not been discovered. Wren CHERISEIEII.—On Tuesday, Bth inst., Sire. Bridget B. Quinn appeared before Esquire Welsh with a complaint against her husband, Stephen Quinn, for drunken and disorderly conduct, and brutal treatment of herself and children. The parties are from Henry Clay Furnace, and the husband had, previously to the late increase of accom modations for strangers and travelers, borne the character of an orderly and industrious man, but recently he has taken advantage of the abundance and low price of whiskey to make an exceeding brute of himself, endangering the , lives of his family iu his drunken sprees. He was sentenced to 30 days at hard labor in the County Prison. AILBITBATION.—On Wednesday an important case was arbitrated at the Washington House, Chief Justice Hunter, Associate Justice Welsh and Joseph M. Watts. Esq., being the Referees. The parties were Mary Fisher and Charles Clarke, both colored, Col. Fisher appearing for the plaintiff, , (the lady,) and H. M. North, Esq., defending Charles. The court was crowded both with spectators and witnesses, the ' latter of a complexion in keeping with the principals in the case. The little difference arose from the alleged appro priation by Clarke of bedding and wearing apparel belong ing to plaintiff. In December, 1851, Isaiah Fisher and Mary, his wife, deposited in care of defendant, of Tow Hill, a trunk containing a quantity of clothing, Ac., the property of Mary. On New Year's eve Isaiah was happily drowned in the canal at Wrightsville, while attempting to escape from an officer, sent to arrest him for robbing Diffenbach's Store iu Marietta. Mrs. Fisher demanded the surrender of her property by Clarke—which was refused—hence tee action and claim of $f5.75. Plaintiff produced a strong array of witnesses. to wit: , Charlotte Shedd, Martha Brown, Stephen Miller,Levi Tay lor, George Morris and John Thomas, all of the ill, whose evidence was to the effect that the trunk had been placed in care of Clarke, by Mary and her husband. Mrs. C. Shedd was positive as to the identity of the trunk, "'case it had Edwrei Sprigg's name on it. I seed de name. Seed W. 8. on de trunk, and knowed dat meant Edwnd Sprigg, or some oder Sprigg,' ease it did; ebry ' body knows dat 8 stands fo' Sprigg. 'Spore W doesn't stand fo' Edwud, data no reasou de trunk wasn't his'n ! Slake a mighty fuss 'tont one letter! But go on !go on! I isn't mimlin' you. Huh! think dis nigga's a tool? Shedd was informed that her season was about over, and was permitted to retire into privacy without the expression of the opinion of the Court regarding her mental integrity. John Thomas was sworn, and commenced a recital of his knowledge of the transaction, which dated back as re motely and ramified so extensively that it was deemed expedient, by the Court, to limit his testimony to a general sketch of Tow Hill life, and the antecedents of the parties concerned in the case under consideration. In no wise pleased with this curtailment of his narrative the witness, who had evidently set out to unbosom himself of all he knew on every topic of Interest, proceeded doggedly, throwing not the least light upon the transaction between Fisher and Clarke, and finally went down, after a little cross-questioning by the attorney for defence, which he lnoked upon as a special 'indignity, and resented it by a frigidity of demeanor totally at varianci, with his ordinary free and easy, not to say jovial bearing. The defendant offered no evidence, but mated his case on the soundness of his law and the eloquence of big counsel. The case was ably argued by the attorribm of the parties, who cited many authorities both foreign and domestic, with so effectually complicating a result that the Court held it under advisement until Thursday morning, when a verdict was returned for plaintiff, for $88.67 and costa, Justice Hunter dissenting. AmavalcasarDnurzn.—The Lanaßater Law Library Association will partake of an Anniversary Dinner at Wabank, at 3 o'clock, p. m, to-morrow. Hasten to the feast, ye hungry dfsdplea of filackstono EDITORS , BOOK TABLE. DR 80163 REVIEW. Published monthly at Washington City, and edited by J. D. B. Ds Bow. The June number of this very able periodical completes the twenty fourth volume, and it is seldom that more pro foundly interesting matter is spread before the public than is dcata,by the current number. The contents are "Report on the Slave Trade to the Southern Convention, by L W. Sprott "—" English Negro Apprentice Trade "—`Washington City, by Geo. Fitzhugh, Eaq., of Virginia "—" Thomas Jefferson "—" Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal"—"Proceedings of the Southern Cob vettilon at Montgomery," Ac., &ec- UNTTED STATES DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. , Published monthly In New York, by C. BRACERS/Us, at $3 per annum. The June number is very handsomely embellished with a steel engraving of Eton. G. W. Hopkins, M. C. from The following constitutes the table of contents The Treaty with Nicaragua; Democracy and the Consti tutinu; Republican Inconsistency; Hao.e coogressioual Record; British Interference with our Commerce: trildino; Jennie June's Letter; The Song of the Skeleton; Secrete of the Past ; Hon. George W. Hopkins ; A Fearful Watch. TABLE OF ITEMS A number of counterfeit ss's on the Trades men'eßank, of Philadelphia,are in eircu,ation Gen Scott was 72 years of age on yesterday —having been born June 14, 1786. Garrett's snuff mill,in Christiana Hundred, Delaware, was destroyed by fire, a few days since, with 50 hhds. of tobacco. LOBB $20,000; insurance $B,OOO. A catfish weighing 124 pounds was caught recently in Kansas River, Kansas. Its length was 5 feet 2 inches, and circumference 40 inches. Emigrants are pouring into Kansas by thousands. Six steamboats per day, it is said, leave St. Louis, Mo., with an average of 200 passengers for Kansas and Nebraska,' In some towns in Wisconsin butter is selling at 10 cents a pound, and eggs 5 cents a dozen. Money is so scarce that it commands 20 to 40 per cent. per annum interest. An affray took place at Lawrence, Kansas, last week, between Gen. Lane and Mr. Jen kins, a prominent citizen of that place, result ing in the death of Mr. Jenkins. An animosity existed between the parties grog ing but of a disputed land claim. New counterfeit ss's on the State Bank of New Jersey are in circulation. The notes re well executed and calculated to deceive those not well posted. The note, it is stated, is printed on the plate used by the Morgan Bank of Georgia. The word "five" in the counterfeit, is printed in red iuk. The month of May in Europe seems to have been as unpleasant as it was in America.— Snow had fallen in some parts of France.— Madrid was similarly visited on the 4th. In the provinces the mountains were covered with snow. A fortnight previous the heat was so intense that it drove the Queen and Court from Madrid to Aranjuez. An Inspection of Bridges on the New York Central Railroad has been ordered, and an extra train has left Syracuse on the Ist inst , with the proper inspectors for that purpose. This is a wise precaution. The New York Cen tral road has 323 bridges, only two are of iron and one of stone ; the Erie road has 196 bridges, none of iron, and 3 of stone ; the Baltimore and Ohio has 280 bridges, 18 of iron, and 78 of stone; the Panama Railroad has 170 bridges, from 12 to 625 feet long all iron. TRUTH IN A NUTSHELL—The Washington Union, of the 3d inst., says: " What we have quarrelled about since the organization of the government, in point of fact, has been the disposition of slavery in the public torritories. This too stioll line been fiercely discussed in congress anti tilrongh,,nt the north on uric Bide, and the south on the other: and yet the north had nn interest in it, no power to decide it„ no right to interf , re with it. The south had no more just claim over it and authority to control it than the north. Congress had no business with it, could not shape it, dislodge it, or prohibit it. The pe plc t tlts territories were its govern ors. They could create or abolish it, when they came up to min's estate. Thus thin fright abstraction--this miserable bone olcontention —this lifeless and inanimate spectre—has been permitted to overshadow all the great interests of the Union, and embroil the industry of one section against the other " —lt is not A Duel in Prospect WASHINGTON, June 11.- - Mr. Gwin has challenged Mr. IVilonn, in consequence of the colloquy between the two Senators lastevening, i❑ the Chamber. • In The Brooks affair, it will be rememberod that Mr. Wilson said he would not fight a duel, but would protect himself if attacked. This is his position now. Senators Seward and Wade are endeavoring to effect an adjustment. The Despatches from England--The Out rages on our Vessels in the Gulf--Re ported Changes in the British and American Legations. WASHINGTON, June 11, 1858. The mails by the Asia were received here this morning, and so far as the advices concern the British outrages they are satisfac tory. Lord Derby is disposed to make ample reparation fur the course pursued by the English cruisers, and peremptory orders have been sent out by his government to stop the I proceedings immediately. It is not impossible that a final settlement of the right of search I question will be made at an early day if, certain anticipated changes are effected. These changes are in the missions of both countries. The Derby Cabinet are firm in h power, and it is stated that not only Sir %Vm. Gore Ouseley has directions to come home from his secret and mischief making mission, but that Lord Napier will be recalled at an early day. Mr. Dallas is also expected, on the other side of the water, to be reealled, as it is suspected that he sympathized all along during the recent struggle in Parliament with Palmerstod ; and, indeed, his private letters to parties here indicate as much. It is further stated that as soon as these changes are made the whole of the British policy in relation to Central America and the Spanish American questions generally will be revised, and put in reality upon that footing of good understanding with us which they only seemingly occupied under the Palmer stonian policy. In a word, the tenor of all the communica tions from England is of the most friendly ' character. PENSIONS AND LAND WARRANTS The following, clipped from recent Wash ington items, may be of interest to some of our readers : The President has signed the bill extending the provisions of the first section of the act of 3d February, 1853, so as to continue for life to the widows the half—pay allowed by said act, and, where there are no widows, to the children under sixteen years of age. Widows receiving pensions under special acts are also included in this beneficent measure. He has also signed the bill delaring the title to land warrants to vest in the widow, heirs or legatees in all cases where proof was filed, but the warrants not issued during the lifetime of the claimant, and makes them per sonal chattles. The warrants issued .under the act of March, 1855, are assignable. TRIAL OF MRS. TWIGGS.—The trial of Mrs. Twiggs for the murder Mrs. Clark, at Danville, was commenced on Tuesday morning last, On Wednesday evening the Jury retired, and on Thursday at 2 o'clock, P. M., returned a verdict of guilty. After a solemn pause in which no sound was heard save only the subdued sobs of the prisoner, her counsel, E. H. Baldy, Esq., moved for a new trial, on the ground that one of the Jurors had expressed his opinion of guilt before entering the jury box. Witnesses were summoned who testified that they bad heard one of the Jurors, to wit: John Cormly, declare his belief of the guilt of Mary Twiggs, previous to the trial. Mr. Cromley was sworn, and denied the charge. Upon which the Caurt was adjorned for a couple of days, when the Judge refused the new trial, and passed judgment on the prison er, concluding as follows: "The sentence of the Court is, that you, Mary Twiggs, be taken hence to the place from whence you came, within the jail of the county of Montour, and from thence to the place of execution, within the walls or yard of said jail, that you there be hanged by the neck till you are dead, and may God in his infinite 1" love have mercy on your sou . LCIIIIS CORRESPONDENCE. Later from Mah—Rumored Expulsion of Gor. Cumming from Salt Lake City—From Jtesico—Krautar—Wars and Runs-re of Wars—The 7?coolidion in New Orleans—Vigi lance ammitiro—Ekrtian, sit.—The Floods—The Coun try La undated—The Weather au t Rains—Another Murder ' —.nu , Ward--rapt. Luce, late of the Arctic—Ftslitiea do., dr. We have still latortritelikence from Utah—the accounts, however. ere very conflicting. One of whichilkas it that Gov. Cumming has heed driven out of the city of Salt Lake, and that the Mormons intend to tight to the end—that they will never abandon the field, but will defend their th, it property and their homes to the last. Another of these reports state that GOT. Cumming had returned to Camp,SLott, according to promise, and we think the rumor that Gov. Cumming had been driven from the city U a mere report, without having the ellghtent coloring of truth. The Republican. of this city, says In regard to this report " The letters from Camp Scott. of the latest date, make no mention of any such event. Nothiuk. indeed, was known there of what was going on in Great Salt Lake City, there being. unfortunately, no official Intercourse between Gov. Cumming and Gen. Johnston. "Tt is certain that dispatches from Gov. Cumming to the Secretary of State have gone forward to Washington . These dispatches were not put in the mail from Camp Scott. They were received there subsequent to the Bth of May with instructions to put them through with all speed, and it was the Two Mormons, who were the bearers of these dispatches, that circulated the report that Gov. C. had been driven out of Salt Lake City. This looks improbable., and we incline to think that the dispatch. from Gov. C. —still in Groat Salt Lake City—are the result of consulta tions betwen Gov. C. and Brigham Young. We shall noon see how this is, and In the meanwhile all the movements from our frontier will go on as if nothing had happened, looking to a settlement of this qiiestion. The following dispatch was received in this city on Sat urday • LlArmicoatu. Juno 3, via BOONVILLS, Juno 6 , . Wm. Crosaman, who arrived here last night from Fort Laramie, states that Capt. Marcv'e train had been cut off by the Mormons. The particulars will be transmitted by mail. Capt. Marcy had been to New Mexico for a supply of mules for Government, and was on Ma return, within a few days march of Fort Laramie, where this attack is said to have been made This dispatch also u.Mdo confirmation. Government troops arc still being sent forward, and also supplies for the army, and we have a t the least doubt but that In a few months peace will he restored, and Gov. Cumming will take the reins of gorernme.,t in his own hauds—all of which v. ill be ac,otilphsh.,l ....tthout the shedding of blood. Accounts Gum Mexico announce the retreat of Vldaurri from Monterey before the Government troops. This, and Garza's defeat a few days since by the troops at Tampico, do not promiie well fur the Western Mexican Republic. It is also stated that some four thousand muskets nr.. now on their rosy from New York to Mexico. dispatch received owl published here this morning, fretn lom, worth, states that the notorious Larlo and a man by the name (4 . .1,1:111P got Into a quarrel. and that the latter was killed by a pistol shut In the Mtn& of Lane• This your readers can take as another Kansas rtawback.— Jim Lane is too gloat a coward to attack any man face to faeo. If Lane has taken the life of Jenkins he waylaid and assassinated him! Wars and runtirs of wars reach us front all quarters.— War In Utah—war in Kansas—(Montgomery's band of robbers and it.eouisins)—war on the Gulf—war with Eng land. and war in New Orleans. During the last week the city of New firleans has been in a awe of revolution. tt appears that the city administration Is insufficient to main tale the law and order of that place—murders. robberies and inistiosinationii are of doily and almost hourly occur rence. and that, too, in the (see of open daylight, and all attempts I arrest and bring to justice the perpetrators have proved of nn wail. The people believing It a duty they noe to thcm.elyee. on well as to the common good, heve !hewed theinvelv”,etii a V izilenee Counnltteo—num boring several thousand of the most prominent eiti:cone— who are now at work ankles nrrrots. Th. Mover, after a 11,perate at tempt to maimlain his authority an the Chief Magistrate hod tinnily to succumb, nod the police were disbanded, and the rel.- s of the city govern meat pieced In the hands of this Vigilance C nonotoe, nod we hope they may meet with I,etter s occeve in node Inkling low and order, then the Knnw-Nothi re Iln, or, who was compelled to re. Brood-di all claim to the position he nrcnoied. We do not exactly understand the position of parties in rogird to tale revolution, but we are inclined to Oie f that the pres. out Know-Nothing administration .1 (lint rite has heroin., distasteful to the citizens, as It did ,her, in L Min elite, In Baltimore and other places. The election in New Orleans comes oil' to-day, and we seo that the Know Nothing can didate in loirranguing the people to resist the Vigilance Committee. A great many of the K. NAl—who have be come disgusted with the dark lantern order, have taken sides with the Vigilance Committee, and riot and bloodshed are expected at the polls to-morrow. One or two persons have been wounded, but we have heard of none boing killed. We hove Crean,' l'y ern, s:inS iiorgell opposed to mob law. ant when jogs°. is -verroled. law and good order ouirage,rly violated. the lives and property of the citizens pigged is jeopardy, this authorities defied by worthless men, we ore then Served to approve and support such persona or parting who will uphold its majesty and bring Its violators to speedy punishment. There is no abatement in the lined. Tim recent heavy ruins have greatly contributed to the further overflow atomt all the principal rivers, and the streams tributary. The Illinois river iv higher now than it hen been since the flood of 1844 In nosy of tie' towns along its banks, the People are f.'reed into the second stories of their houses to escape the water. The while country along that stream is inundated, and the crops are completely ruined. The Missouri river is also pouring out an immense flood, and, the same may be said of the towns and property along that river, ae in Illinois. The Upper Mississippi is bank full, :tad sweeping everything before it, as are also the Des Moine. Osage and other small streams emptying into the stain chaunel—All making n volume of water fearful to look upon. Al this point there are two foot of water in the cellars on the levee, and it is expected that the rise in the upper streams will overflow the entire levee in a row days. The lower country is Inundated for hundreds of miles, and the loss of property in beyond calculation at present—the sugar interests bare altkady sustained a loss not less than $U.000,000. All attempts to arrest or stop the crevasse have been fruitless, and further labor on them hoe been abandoned, and everything is now left at the mercy of the flood. The weather here has been unsettled In the past week— nearly every day a heavy shower. A constant heavy rain set in on Saturday morning and continued throughout the day and night, and should this rain have prevailed in the upper country, there is no telling to what extent the pres ent flood may obtain. The rains, the unsettled state Of the weather, the high waters and the inundation of hundreds of miles of country, have all con tributed to the general dullness in every branch of trade. Our produce market is extremely dull and depressed; re ceipts are light, and prices of all articles about as last reported. About 100 bags of new wheat—the first of the season—was received here on Saturday from Tennessee and Mississippi, and sold at $2 23 per bushel—this, of course, in not the market price—good choice wheat com manding from SO to file. Capt. J. N. Lure, of the ill-fated steamship Arctic, which was lost at sea, a year or two since, Is now In our city, en rode for Jefferson City to visit a son who is lying danger ously itl at that place. Capt. Luce Is accompanied by his There Is scarcely a week passes but that we are called upon to rec rd a murder Innur midst. On Friday night last an unknown man was murdered In the vicinity of the work house. No arrest. A splendid opening for a Vigl.. lance Committee, a /a. California and New o,Heana. The Know Nothings met in Convention a few days since, and nominated Mr. 11. R. Gamble for Congress, who has wisely concluded that the Convention were only joking In placing his name before the people, and Saturday sent the President his letter declining the honor ! Our opinion at the time of his nomination was, that the party only in tended to paw a complimentary vote—which wipes out forever the great American party of Missouri. All the other candidates put in nomination by the Convention have declined running—ao there is virtually no such party in our city or State. Peace to its ashes. The National Democratic party met in ward and town ship meetings on Saturday night, and elected delegates to the County Convention, which meets In this c Ity today, when a full ticket will be placed before the people. The Black Republicans will probably defer making nom inations until after the adjournment of Congress, when Mr. Blair will ho up matters for them. IMUMMAM= Geo. Weidler left our city on Saturday evening last for litall—he goes out as clerk for an established house in Great Salt Lake City. ANWEIIER TRAGEDY 15 low•.—At Des Moines, ,in Sunday evening, 23d ult., about 9 o'clock, people were startled by four succes sive shots from a revolver, and the screams of a female, near the house of Mr. Scott. On repairing to the spot, Miss King, a youn g lady well known in the neighborhood, was found badly wounded, a young .man by the name of Chantler lying dead on the round, and another,, the murderer, named Charles Rosseter, lying wounded and bleeding, baying shot himself after firing upon his companions. Both Rosseter and Chantler were English. men, and boarded with the father of Miss King. Both were suitors fur the young lady, and Chantler had been favored by her.— Rosseter had threatened them, and been practising with a revolver for some days, not withstanding which they did not anticipate any danger from him, and on Sunday evening, at his suggestion, all three went gut to walk together. It was returning from this walk, when without warning or quarrel he perpe trated this crime. Rosseter died of his wound. on Monday morning. Chantler was shot first, and fell instantly, never moving from the spot on which his body was found. Miss King tried to escape, but was arrested by the murderer. She pite , usly begged him not to shoot her; and while his pistol was elevated to fire, she caught it, but too late. The ball passed directly through the palm of her uplifted hand, and lodged in her cheek. Again she tried to get away, but the next ball fired by the murderer to.k effect in her shoulder and she fell. Supposing that the foul deed of murder had been fully accomplished, Rosseter placed the muzzle of his revolver at the right side of his head, pulled the trigger, and fell a short distance from the body of Chantler. The young lady is still living• hut her, recovery is considered very doubtful. Chant. ler came about three years since from Canan daigua, N. Y. He bore an excellent reputa tion, and his tragical death is deeply deplored by all who knew him. Si. Loma, June 7;1858 OLD GUARD
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