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GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANCASTER, FA., JUNE 15, 1858
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DEMOCRATIC. STATE NOMINATIONS.
MOS OP THE SUPREME °OMIT
WILLIAM A. PORTER, Philadelphia
CANAL COMMISSIONER:
WESTLEY FROST, Fayette.
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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has withdrawn his call for a State Convention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.
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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