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PRETTY WELL FOR MARYLAND I
Notwithstanding the infamous outrages
committed by the Plug Uglies and their Know
Nothing sympathisers and abettors, in Balti
more, through which thousands of quiet and
peaceable citizens were kept away from the
polls, the Democrats in other portions of the
State did remarkably well, and have elected a
majority in both branches of the Legislature,
and three of the six members of Congress. The
City of Baltimore has become a plague spot
in that ancient Commonwealth, and unless
some plan is speedily devised to suppress the
rioting and disorder, there iB no telling what
it may lead to. No man’s life is any longer
safe in its streets after night fall. The muni
cipal and police authorities either wink at the
outrages of the ruffian mobs, or are powerless
in the way of suppressing the evil. The city
is in terror, and is now as completely under
the oontrol of rowdies and cut-throat villains
as was Paris during the darkest period of the
French Revolution, when Robespierre and his
blood-thirsty colleagues kept the gullotine in
motion day and night without intermission. —
(rile election riots in Baltimore for the last
four or five years form the darkest page in
our country’s history. Fortunately for the
character of the old State whose history is
graced with the name of Charles Carroll, of
Carrolton, the people outside of Baltimore
appear to have very little sympathy with the
ruffianism that prevails there.
CONVICTION OF BROWN,
Ossawattumie Brown, the leader of the
Abolition mob at Harper’s Ferry, has been
convicted on all the counts of the indictment
preferred against him, viz : riot, treason and
murder. His counsel made an effort to set
aside the verdict, on the ground that, because
he was not a citizen of Virginia, he could not
commit treason against the State. But the
Court over ruled the objection, and sentenced
the prisoner to be hanged on Friday the 2nd
of December. Brown made a short address
before the sentence, and when the Judge
pronounced his doom he received it with com
posure.
Copi’EE and Green, his companions, have
also been convicted on all the counts in the
indictment, and will likewise be sentenced to
death. The others under arrest will all be
tried, and. doubtless, share the same fate.
BEECHER, PHILLIPS AND CORWIN,
The Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, (Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher's.) presented ah
extraordinary scene on Tuesday night last.
Wendell Phillips, of Boston, was announced
to deliver the fourth lecture of the “Plymouth
Course,” his subject being “ Lessons for the
Hour,” but without at all addressing himself
to that subject, he launched iDto a glowing
eulogy of John Brown, the condemned traitor
who headed the recent insurrection at Har
per’s Ferry, and for an hour, amid the
applause of such audiences as drink in the
teachings of Ward Beecher, portrayed Brown
as the Saviour'of his Country, a greater than
Washington, and himself and his associates
patriots and martyrs. He justified every act
of John Brown’s life, whether in Kansas or
at Harper’s Ferry, and no matter how bloody ;
declared the plot developed at Harper’s Ferry
a God sanctioned effort against tyranny, and a
' legitimate fruit of anti-slavery doctrine and
teachings. He was proud of the effort Brown
had made, and exclaimed, “ God be thanked
for John Brown. This is a great country to
live in now. I expected and do expect insurrec
tion. IT IS THE RESULT OF ANTI
SLAVERY TEACHING.” So much of the
harangue as was not eulogistic of Brown was
devoted to violent denunciation of the Govern
ment and the boldest proclamation of the
most treasonable sentiments. Thomas Cor
win of Ohio, now on a missionary tour to aid
the New York Republians, was upon the
platform with Phillips. It is mournful to
reflect that the temples of God are thus made
forums from which to fulminate open treason
and praise of bloodshed.
Will our neighbor of the ' Lancaster Union
be so kind as to inform the public that Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips
and Thomas Corwin, above spoken of, have
been for years, and still are, “ burning and
shining lights ” in the great Black Republi
can household, and will he publish Phillips’
lecture justifying the murders and outrages
committed by old Brown and his party, at
Harper’s Ferry ?
PLUGCGLYISM I
One branch of the Opposition party—the
Abolitionists —committed the triple crimes of
murder, robbery and treason, at Harper’s
Ferry;—the other branch—the Know Noth
ings,—have placed the city of Baltimore
completely at the mercy of cut throats,
ruffians and desperadoes of the most abandon
ed oharaoter. The State election in Maryland
took place on Wednesday last, and as was to
have been expected, although we had faint
hopes of better things, another bloody riot,
provoked and carried out by the rowdies and
bullies, the Plug Uglies, and others of, that
ilk calling themselveß Native Americans , took
place. Several persons were killed, and
many wounded, and the Reformers, finding
that a protracted struggle was useless, and
that any attempt to vote only imperilled their
lives, retired from the contest at an early
hour, leaving the polls and the election
entirely in the hands of a mob who disgrace
the name of American freemen. The police,
who are under the control of that ruffian
party, made no attempt to preserve order,
and no arrests were made. William P.
Preston, Democratic candidate for Congress,
was badly beaten on the head by the rowdies,
and is confined to his bed from the injuries
he received. Such is the opposition to the
Democratic party in the city of Baltimore !
What is to be the end of these things no
mortal oan tell. It will soon be a query, if
such conduct is tolerated, whether we live in
a civilieed or barbarous age of the world.
THE SHOE FINCHES I
Our neighbor of the Union is entirely too
sensitive. We had no idea last week that our
articles on the Harper’s Ferry Insurrection,
the origin of which we justly charged to the
teachings of the Republican leaders, would
stir up his bile to the extent they have done.
However, we do not recognize in the Union
articles, in which we are attacked with such
bitterness and savage ferocity, the writing of
our amiable friend, Cochran, who does up
the fancy localizing and sentimentalism for
the Abolition organ, par excellence, of the
“Old Guard.” On the contrary, we think
our optics can trace in them the slovenly
abuse of an ill natured, lubberly, over-
grown specimen of humanity, who hails not
a hundred miles from Duke Street. Be that
as it may, however, the abuse we refer to is
not argument, nor has the Union attempted
to answer any of our articles. In fact the
writer does not pretend to do so, and could
not, if he did, deny the truthfulness of them.
We can substantiate, by proofs strong as
Holy Writ, the damning evidence of what
we have alleged against the Republican lead-
ers, and shall continue to hold them up in
their true colors to the public gaze. The
abuse of the Union haß no terrors for us. We
shall continue to “ pursue the even tenor of
our way,” and Bhow who are the really re
sponsible parties for the murder, treason, and
robbery practised at Harper 7 s Ferry; and if,
in so doing, the shoe pinches our neighbor or
the Black Republican scribblers for his paper
and leaders of his party, we cannot help it,
however much we may regret the irascible
and ill-natured temper they exhibit.
Perhaps the editor of the Union has not
yet seen in print the lecture of Wendell
Phillips, a noted leader of the Republican
party, delivered in the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher’s (another Republican light) Church,
at Brooklyn, last week. We feel disposed tu
enlighten him with the subjoined extract from
that infamously treasonable speech. After
Borne general remarks about education, Mr.
Phillips went on to say as follows:
He proceeded to affirm that education would
not secure freedom, and' then spoke of the
late outbreak at Harper’s Ferry in the follow
ing strain: It seems as if Virginia asked
leave to be of John Brown at Harper s Ferry.
Connecticut has sent out schoolmasters to
other States of the Union, bt* she has never
sent out one before to write in lines of light
on the Natural Bridge, and on the nation’s
copybook, “ Resistance to tyrants is obedience
to God.” I said the lesson of the hour was
insurrection. I want to apply that word to
John Brown, of Ossawatomie. There was
no insurrection in his case., It is a great
mistake to call him an insurgent.
What is the Commonwealth of Virginia?
She is only a chronic insurrection. I mean
exactly what I say ; I am weighing my words
now. She is a pirate ship, and John Brown
sails the sea, the Lord High Admiral of the
Almighty, with letters of mark and reprisal
against every pirate that he meets on board
the ocean of the Nineteenth Century. [Ap
plause.] I mean literally and exactly what
I say. In God’s world for a moment there
are no majority and no minority : one is
majority.
You have often heard, doubtless, and I need
not teach you that the rights of one man
(Browu) are as sacred as thoße of the Cora
monwealth of Virginia. He has as much
right to hang Gov. Wise as Gov. Wise has to
hang him. [Great Applause.] You see that
I am talking of that absolute conscience and
essence of things that lives in the sight of the
Etornal and Infinite. In reference to the
trial of Brown, Virginia, true to herself, has
shown exactly the same haste that the pirate
dues when he meant to take a man on deck
aud run him on the yard-arm unconsciously.
John Brown began his active life in Kansas
aud south of that scene he reaped the first
fruits. The South planted the seeds of vio
lence in Kansas; it taught peaceful Northern
men familiarity with the bowie knife and the
revolver.
They planted 999 Reeds, and this is the
first one that flowered, the first drops of the
coming shower. People do me the honor to
say, in some of the Western papers, that it is
traceable to some teachings of mine. It is too
much honor to such as me. Gladly, if it
were a fulsome vanity, would I acknowledge
the laurel in having any share in the great
resolute daring of that man that flung himself
against the Emperor in behalf of justice and
liberty. Up to this moment Brown’s life has
he -n one of unmixed success. lie had pru
dance, skill, courage, thrift, knowledge of
time and knowledge of his opponents, and
undaunted daring in the face of the nation.
This is the man who went down to Harper’s
Ferry to follow up hie work. He has done
a great deal already, and now Virginia is a
decent country to live in.
Actually in this Sodom of ours seventeen
men have been found ready to die for an idea.
God be thanked for John Brown. [Applause.]
We have redeemed the long infamy of twentj
years of subservience. There is nothing new
"about this. It is the natural results of anti
slavery teaching. For one I accept it, whether
that man succeeded in a worldly sense or not,
that he stood as the representative of law,
government, right, justice and religion, lhere
were parties that gathered about him and en
deavored to reap vengeance by taking his life
on the banks of the Potomac. History will
visit it more kindly because he (Brown) has
hallowed it with the eternal brightness of his
glorious deeds, rather than because the dust of
Washington rests upon one side of the river.
If Virginia pirates dare to hang him after
this mockery of a trial, it will take two
Washingtons at least to make the river any
thing but abominable for ages to come.—
[Great applause and some hissing.] Well, I
say what I really think. [Laughter.].
John Brown has given us something to
think of. Brown’s act is the lesson of the
age. He was not thrifty ; he did not calou?
late closely enough, and he was' defeated.—
Hundreds of well armed troops, continued
the speaker, never dared to pull a trigger.—
You shot Brown (meaning his hearers) : six
teen marines, to whom you pay $8 a month,
went to the disturbed State when it could not
stand on her own legs for trembling, and
strengthened the feeble knees; sixteen men,
with the vulture of the Union above them,
covenanted with death, and took the old man
by the throat with a pirate hand, and it will
be a disgrace to our civilization if a gallows
is ever erected in Virginia that bears him
upon it.
Mr. Phillips then denounced what he called
the summary manner in which Brown was
disposed of, observing that if one single bone
of Jeffries remained it w> uld knock against
the sides of the coffin against any judge that
debased even the infamy of Jeffries by trying
John Brown. [Applause.] He knew that
many would deem him a fanatic for uttering
this wholesale vituperation, as it would be
called, upon a State, and for this indorsement
of a madman. They met with the indications
of the changes which had been effected in the
Northern States for the last few years. When
the first news of the Harper’s Ferry affair,
said the speaker, came to Massachusetts, if
you were riding in the cars, or walking in
the street, the first impulsive expression was,
“ What a pity he (Brown) did Dot succeed !
what a fool he was for not going off on Mon
day night when he had ali he wanted, 1”
Every man voluntarily seemed to give vent
to his indignation at the farce of a trial. In
conclusion Mr. Phillips alluded to the self
sacrificing Mrs. Childs, who volunteered to
look after Brown's temporal and Spiritual
condition, remarking that Gov. Wise had to
open the door and announce to the world that
she might go in. John Brown has conquered
the tyrant. There is hope everywhere ; it is
only the universal history—right on the
scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne, but that
scaffold sways the future. Behind the dim
unknown standeth God within the shadow,
keeping watch above bis own.
The Hon. Mr. Corwin, of Ohio, who was
present, was loudly called for, and in obedi
ence to the demand very properly said that
he preferred to refleot upon what he had heard
before he gave his vote. This was an allusion
to Mr. Phillips’ introductory remarks.
KANSAS OFFICIAL VOTE.
At the recent election held, in Kansas, on
the adoption or rejection of the Constitution,
the following is the official result:
For the Constitution 10419
Against the Constitution 5,530
For the Homestead Law 8,753
Against the Homestead Law 4,772
THIS DAUNIS6 HECOED,
Tbo Black Republicans are ashamed to ac
knowledge the Harper's Ferry Insurgents as
their brothers; and s ime of them denounce
Old Brown and hia dupes in good set terms.
At a meeting in New York, the other night,
a Mr. Briggs even went so far as to say that
he would hang anybody as high as Hamau
who should go South and deliberately attempt
to incite insurrection. But the Black KepuS
licans cannot blot out the damning record of
their treasonable utterances— utterances
which, in other times and in other lands,
would have brought their authors to the gib
bet and tbe dungeon. Below, we subjoin a
few of the sayings of the many-bued Repub
lican Party, omitting those of the crazy men
and women who rank ap distinctive Aboli
tionists —the Garrisons, the Douglasses, and
the Abby Kellys. Read the record :
Gen.' James Watson Webb—A Republican
leader, said in the Philadelphia Convention :
“If we (meaning the Abolitionists) fail
there, (at the ballot box) what then! We
will drive it (slavery) back sword in hand,
and. so help me God ! believing that to be
right, I am with them."
Horace Greeley, a Republican: —
“I have no doubt but the free and slave
States ought to be separated. The Union is
not worth supporting in connection with the
South."
Josiah Quincy, Republican, of Boston :
“ The obligation incumbent on the free
States to deliver up fugitive slaves is that
burden, and it must be obliterated from the
Constitution at every hazard ."
Mr. Banks, present Republican Governor
of Massachusetts:
“ I am not one of those men who cry for
the perpetuation of the Union, though I am
willing , in a certain state of circumstances, to
let it slide.”
Mr. Burlingame, a Republican Congress-
“ When we shall have elected a President,
as we will, who will nut b 6 tbe President of a
parry, nor of a section, but the Tribune of the
people, and after we have exterminated a few
more miserable doughfaces from the North,
then, if the Slave Senate will not give way, we
will grind it. between the upper and nether
millstone of our power” .
Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois—a leading
Republican of the West:
“ I believe this government cannot endure
permanently half slave and half free. I do
not expect the house to fall, but I do expect
it will cease to be divided. It will become
all one thing or the other. Either tbe oppo
nents of slavery will arrest the further spread
of ic, and place it where the public mind shall
rest hi the belief that the course of ultimate
extinction, or its advocates will push forward
till it shall become alike lawful in all the
States—old as well as new, North as well as
South.”
Senator Wilson, Republican, of Massa-
chusetts
“ Let us remember that more than three
millions of bondmen, groaningunder nameless
woes, demand that we shall cease to reprove
each other, and that we labor for their deliv-
erance.
“ I tell you here, to night, that theagitation
of this question of human slavery will con
tinue while the foot of a slave presses the soil
of the American Republic.
“ We shall change the Supreme Court of
the United States, and place men in that
Court who believe with its pure and immacu
late Chief Justice, John Jay, that our prayers
will be impious to Heaven, while we sustain
and support human slavery."
Benjamin F. Wade, U. S. Senator from
Ohio, Republican leader:
“ There is really no union now between the
Xorth and the South, and he believed that no I
two nations upon the earth entertained feel
ings nf m<ire bitter rancor towards each other
; than these two nations of the Repuhlic. The
only salvation of the Union, therefore , was to
be found in divesting it entirely oj all taint of
Slavery.”
Senator Sumner. November, 1855 :
“Not that I love ths Union less, but free
dom more, do I now, in:pleading this great
l cause, insist that freedom, at all hazards,
i shall be preserved. God forbid that for the
| 9ake of the Union," &c.
John P. Hale, a Delegate to the Republican
Convention, June 17th, 1856:
Congratulated the Convention upon the
spirit of unanimity with which it had done
its work. “ I believe this is not so much a
Convention to change the administration oi
the Government, as to say whether there shall
be any government to be administered. ** *
Some men pretend to be astonished at the
events which are occurring around us; but
I am not more surprised than I shall be
this autumn to see the fruits following the
buds and blossoms."
Dennison, Governor elect of Ohio, said the
following on the canvass:
“ If I am elected Governor of Ohio—and I
expect to be—l will not let any slaves be re
turned to Kentucky or any other slave State;
and if I cannot prevent it in any other way,
as commander in chief of the military of the
State. I will employ the bayonet —so help me
Godr
IleDry Ward Beecher, in a lecture on the
subject of disunion, delivered in New York,
January 16th, 1855, said :
“Two great powers that will not live
together, are in our midst, and tugging at
each other’s throats. They will search each
other out though you separate them a hun
dred times: and if by an insane blindness
you shall contrive to put off the issue, and
send this unsettled dispute down to your
children, it will go down gathering volume
and strength at every step, to waste and deso
late their heritage. Let it be settled now.—
Clear the place. Bring in the champions. Let
them put their lances in rest for the charge.
Sound the trumpet, and God save the right!”
Rev. Andrew F. Foss, of New Hampshire,
at a meeting of the American Anti-Slavery
Society, New York, May 13th, 1857:
“ * * * * It would have been no more
wrong for George the Third to put chains on
George Washington, than it was for George
Washington to put chains on the limbs of his
slaves. *******
Where Slavery and Freedom are put in the
one natioD there must be a fight—there must
be an explosinn. just as if fire and powder
were brought together. There never was an
hour when this blasphemous and infamous
government should be made, and now the hour
was to be prayed for when that disgrace to
humanity should be dashed to pieces forever .”
Senator W H. >eward, Republican, in his
Rochester speech, said:
“ These antagonistic systems are continu
ally coming into closer contact, and collision
results. Shall I tell you what this collision
means ? They who think that it is accidental,
unnecessary, the work of interested or fanati
cal agjtators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake
the case altogether. It is an irrepressible
conflict between opposing and enduring forces,
and it means that the United States must
and will, sooner or later, become entirely a
slaveholding nation, or entirely a free labor
nation. Either the cotton and rice fields of
South Carolina and the sugar plantations of
L"uisiana will ultimately be tilled by free
labor, and Charleston and New Orleans be 1
come marts for legitimate merchandize alone, ;
or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Mas
sachusetts and New York must again be i
surrendered by their farmers to slave culture
and to the production of slaves, and Boston |
and New York become once more markets
for trade in the bodies and sonls of men. It
is the failure to apprehend this great truth
that induces so many unsuccessful attempts
at final compromise between the slave and
free States, and it is the existence of this
great fact that renders all such pretended
compromise, when made, vain and ephemeral.
Startling as this saying may appear to you,
fellow citizens, it is by no means an original
or even a modern one.”
Joshua R. Giddings, a Republican Con
gressman, in a speech, said:
“I look forward to the day when there
shall be a servile insurrection in the
South —when the torch of the incendiary
shall light up the towns and cities of the South
and blot out the last vestige of Slavery. And
though I may not mock at their .calamity—
nor when their fear cometh, yet I will
hail it as the of a political millenium.”
jjgy We commend the above sayings, of
acknowledged Black Republican leaders, to
the careful Consideration of the Republican
press, and especially to our somewhat excited
neighbor of the Lancaster Union. We are
sorry to disturb the equanimity of his temper,
but the truth must be told, no matter whose
toes may be tramped by the caustic operation.
A POLITICAL MANIFESTO.
An elaborate political pamphlet by Reverdy
Johnson, of Baltimore, has recently been
published, entitled “Remarks on Popular
Sovereignty," as maintained, and denied
respectively by Judge Douglas and Attorney
General Black. He maintains the following
propositions :
First—That Congress has no power to pro
hibit slavery in unorganized Territories.
Second—That Congress has no power to
prohibit slavery in the Territories after they
have been organized under Territorial Govern
ments.
Third- That Congress has no power to
establish slavery in a Territory ; that slavery
is the creature of positive law, and may exist
either by statute or custom.
Fourth—That if Congress can neither pro
hibit nor establish slavery in a Territory, it
cannot legislate to protect or regulate it.
Fifth—Territorial government can admit,
protect or exclude slavery, at any time during
its existence.
|gy* By the way, is there to be no end to
this controversy among these prominent
gentlemen about Popular Sovereignty? First
we had an elaborate essay from Senator
Douglas, next a reply from Attorney General
Black, then a rejoinder from Senator Doug
las, then a surrejoinder from the Attorney
General, and now an elaborate argument from
ex-Attorney General Johnson to prove the
truth of the above propositions. We think it
is about time to quit this useless warfare, as
not one person in a thousand will ever think
of wading through the apparently intermin
able controversy. The following remarks
from the Harrisburg Patriot & Union are to
the point exactly, and we hope the wholesome
advice proffered will be heeded in high
quarters:
The Fencing Match of the GlantSi
Senator Douglas, Attorney General Black
and ex-Attorney General Johnson are exhibit
ing their skill in dialectic fence. They wield
heavy and trenchant weapons, which have
been kept bright and sharp by long and
constant use, and they are masters in their
art. They deal and receive telling blows.
They display infinite resources and agility.
The spectacle which they afford is viowed
with great gratification by a certain number
of politicians throughout the land, who enjoy
an exhibition of-science and skill upon any
important subject; and the stage of the per
formers is so - high that the individuals
scattered here and there, who take interest
in the drama, have had an opportunity to
watch the progress of the set to. But the
number of spectators is much smaller than
might be supposed. We do not know of more
than oil individual in Harrisburg, a city of
fifteen thousand inhabitants, who has followed
the controversy through all the lengthy
arguments on either side, and he has done so
because, holding peculiar opinions, he has
been anxious to teßt them by every new fact
and argument. Now, if there is only one
person in Harrisburg who follows this long,
althoug giant, debate, it is fair to presume
that the number of general spectators is
exceedingly limited. Indeed, the nation is
excited upon more important issues, upon
questions whieh involve the very existence of
the Republic and the Union. The mob has
gained possesssion of a city ; the irrepressible
conflict has been inaugurated between the
sections.
There are matters for thought and action
by men and parties which involve our domes
tic happiness and our national existence.
Treason and lawlessness are rearing their
heads, and it seems antiquated and unseason
able to be now splitting hairs about the
theory of territorial government. Territorial
government is anomalous and abstract, and
does nut come home to the interest and feeling
of the people at this moment. We suggest to
these honorable men that they turn their skill,
their strength and their formidable blades
against the common enemy. They remind
us of the venerable senators of Rome, who
were engaged in the discussion of who should
command the legions in a distant province,
when the Gauls were about seizing the cap
ital. We hope these present dignitaries will
not have their beards pulled while similarly
erigagedin a very grave but useless discussion.
REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE
The Black Republicans of Vermont, at a
recent Convention, adopted the following
resolution, the perusal nf which we strongly
recommend to ou rgood natured neighbor, the
Editor of the Lancaster Union. The resolu
tion reads as follows:
Resolved, That every true Anti Slavery
American is imperatively bound to labor
“might and main” for the total and imme
diate abolition of American slavery, either
through the instrumentality, or over the ruins,
of the United States Constitution.
This is about a faithful translation, into
plain language, of Mr. Seward’s “irrepressi
ble conflict” doctrine, upon which the Republi
cans generally are required to stand. Fight
to the death for the negro is their motto ; they
doD’t care a tig for the poor white man—not
they. Fight for the degraded negro, if it
should be over the ruins of the Constitution!
IN FULL COMMUNION,
The Chicago Democrat, a staunch Republi
can paper, in defending Brown and his com
panions, exhibits the most perfect contempt
for that portion of the Black Republican press
that dow back out of the difficulty, in which
they find themselves. It says :
“ This cry of hunting the party used to
alarm us. We used to see its ghosts at nights,
but now we care only for principles ; and we
are going wherever those principles lead us ;
and there is nothing that Old Ossawattomie
Brown can do will throw the least spot or
blemish upon those principles. * *
“ Thanks to Old Ossawattomie Brown for
teaching the slavery propagandists, the nulli
fiers, the disunionists, the secessionists, the
kidnappers, the stealers of negroes from the
coast of Africa, the Cuban patriots, and the
Walker filibusters,, that ‘ what is sauce for
the goose is sauce for the gander.' ”
LATE FOREIGN NEWS
The America, at Halifax, brings Liverpool
dates to Saturday, the 22nd ult. The news
is interesting, though not specially impor
tant. The departure of the Great Eastern
for America bad been postponed indefinitely,
and would probably not take place this year.
The details of the peace treaty of Zurich
show it to be but a mere amplification of the
Villafranca agreement. By it the rights of
the Grand Dukes are reserved. Spain is dis
satisfied with the terms offered by Morocco,
and war between those powers is considered
imminent. The Sardinian Government had
issued a decree for a loan of one hundred
million francs. Some interesting experiments
have been made with the Atlantic cable.—
Affairs upon the Continent are still much dis
turbed, and many of the Governments are
much embarrassed financially. The price of
cotton had advanced an eighth at Liverpool.
Breadstuff’s show a declining tendency. The
money market was a trifle more stringent.
THE EUROPEAN CRISIS
The London correspondent of the New
York Commercial Advertiser writes that there
is a general expectation that some important
political annooncements will come out in the
course of a few days, although no conjectures
are stated as to their probable purport. The
Emperor Napoleon presided at a Cabinet
Council held at St. Cloud, on the 14th ult., to
which much importance is said to be attached,
and the Emperor of Russia is reported to have
summoned his ambassadors from Paris, Lon
don and Berlin to meet him at Warsaw, on
the 15th. At the same time there is intense
activity among the diplomatists at Vienna and
Turin, and the Pope has started to Castle Gar
dolfo to have an interview with the King of
Naples. This movement of the Holy Father
bodes ill for the Italian cause, and the activity
amoDg the various despotic monarchy is also,
perhaps, fatally significant. (
CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS.
The Folt'im Institute Exhibition. —From
what we can learn. thl« will be one of the finest and most
interesting exhP'iMon* ever held in this State. The Insti-
tute, in its awards, will in all cases discriminate Id favor
of real merit, that the Judges shall deem justly doe; and
the Judges are gentlemen selected from the whole county
—some forty or fifty, three for each Class—who are per
fectly disinterested, and have a practical knowledge of the
articles of which they are appointed to judge.
The grades of award are highly creditable to the Mana
gers of the Institute. There Is a Grand Premium of Honor
offered to the best and most useful article: For a Lady a
fine Gold Watch; for a Gentleman an elegant Silver Pitcher.
Also, premiums of Silver and Bronze Medals and Certifi-
cates of Merit. Lady Exhibitors will receive articles of
utility or ornament agreeably to the several grades of value.
All Exhibitors have the privilege of depositing their
articles free of any entrance fee.
The Judges are to meet on Saturday, the 19th inst., at
Fulton Hall, to make their awards.
The Exhibition will open on Monday, the 21st inst..
The plan of the interior of the building will be most
tasteful and convenient. The whole of Fulton Hall Is
engaged and will be fitted up. The Gallery of Fine Arts,
for which one of the upper saloons Is appropriated, will be so
arranged as to exhibit the Paintings in their proper light.
The Fencibles’ large Armory will be filled with the finer
articles.
Every Exhibitor who deposits a fine or novel article
should attach a full description of its merit and purpose,
to enable the Judges to make a fair decision.
President Buchanan, Governor Packer, and a number of
the most learned and scientific geentlemen in the country
have been honored with Fpecfc! complimentary invitations,
and the mrgt of them have already accepted and signified
their intention of being present.
The Address before the Institute will be delivered by one
of the ablest lecturers in the country. It will be a rare
treat to the citizens of this city and county.
Articles of extreme value and novelty have already been
Entered from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The Managers are all very active, and making every
exertion to complete a worthy and creditable exhibition,
and we are pleased to learn that at their meeting, the ot her
evening, they were compelled to elect an Assistant Secre
tary to make the entries of the various articles already
crowding in.
Inventors, Manufacturers, ProdQcers, etc., should make
their entries as early as possible, so that the rooms can be
arranged accordingly, and to the best advantage for ExbP G
itors and Depositors, who are allowed to make sales of their
articles during the Exhibition, the articles to be delivered
to the purchasers at the close thereof. This arrangement
is of such a character a« to iuduco every one to exhibit
specimens of their and materially add to the
credit of the workman. The advantage should therefore
not be neglected by iny who desire to show their enter
prising spirit in work and business for the benefit of the
whole community.
This being the First Exhibition of the Fulton Institute,
gotten up by men of energy and spirit, aDd on the right
principle, it promises to be a grand affair; and as all the
net pr coeds are to be distributed in premiums, it is of too
much importance to be slighted, but the duty of every good
citizen to support and encourage it, whilst the name of the
distinguished Fulton should be honored with some contri
bution from every citizen of Lancaster County.
The admission fees are snch as to create no confasion or
impediment. Single tickets, 25 cents. Children, half
price. An Exhibitor by paying one dollar is admitted
during the entire Exhibition.
The Committee of Superintendence are Messrs. Charles
M. Howell, .1. Franklin Heigart, S. S. Rathvon, John Herr,
J. Augustus Beck Vnd.John F. Heioitsh. Robert H Long,
President: William E. Ilcinitsh, Secretary.
Letter from Col. Stambaugh. —A letter
from Col. Stambauoh, dated Salt Lake. Sept. 30th, 1859, wa6
received last week by his family. Through the kindness
of his estimable lady, we are permitted to make the-follow
ing extracts, which will be read with much interest. It
is a source of great gratification to the Col.’s legion of
friends to know that he has arrived wife and sound after
his long and perilous journey :
“I reached this renowned city, about ]/> past 3 o’clock,
ou Monday. 26th instant. Thank God! Oh! how feiwentiy i
did I return my thanks to Him for bringing roesafiffy and
triumphantly through my long and periloas journey. Our
party is all well. Messrs. Wentz, Miller and Green over
took us in Mail Stage 'he day after we left Fort Laramie
(the 7th inst.) Mr. W. has entirely recovered of his wound.
‘•I have been busy day and night since my arrival to get
the office organized. Everything onnnoeted with it was in
great confusion—but I bad’ reason to expect nothing else.
Gov. Cumuiing has beeu engaged since the day after my
arrival in turning over the property bulouging to the office.
He has acted with great promptness, and evinces every
disposition to aid me in getting under way as speedily as
possible.
‘•I am staying for the present with Dr. Forney, superin
tendent of Indian Affairs. He bad part of the house he
occupies intended for roy use, and sunt for me soon after I
reached the centre of the city. The house may be large
enough for bis office and mine, and will save considerable
rent to tbe Government SB party is at a public house
somewhere in the city boarding, but sleep in the bouse .
with me. I still occupy my toot bed. and sleep on the j
floor in a little room, without nre—but hope to be more j
comfortable soon Dr. Foruey has offered me a bed in his
own room, but I decline ib
“1 must stop; am told the stage is about starting, and
I must take this to the agent or driver myself. I forgot
to 6ay, 1 have left Major Paul and hie escort far behind—
they have not yet appeared within hailing distance. When
I lett home, you recollect, I said I could roach Salt Lake
by 25th September; arrived one day later. If I had not
Deen delayed by the accident to Charley, and had not
been tacked to the military escort, I would have gained 5
or C days, and would have been here on the 20th. In the
47 days I was out, I had only 38 traveling days. In that
time I brought a party who had never been on the Plains,
with three wagons, two of them heavily loaded, six-mule
teams, over a wilderness of eleven hundred and sixty five
miles! After separating from Maj. P.’s commaud I had uo
guide, or help of any kind—but I deter
mined to succeed, and I did succeed ! Every body seems
surprised. I was not expected for ten days.
•‘Cannot describe this great city or its people fora few
days—have been out but little. Several Mormons
have called—all expressing the kindest feelings. Things
look well.”
The Colonel adds a postscript that he will commence his
promised letters for The Intelligencer as 60on a< he gets
settled. These will prove deeply interesting and valuable
to our readers.
To Get their Arms at Last. —Gen. Shaef
per received bu order last week, whilst in Philadelphia,
from Adjutant General Wilson, for seventy-five long range
rifles for the Jackson Rifles. The order is directed to Capt.
llambrigiit, and is on the Ordnance Department at Wash
ington. Thus, after a long and shameful delay, this gal
lant corps are about getting their stand of arms. It is,
without doubt, the best-drilled and disciplined rifle com
pany iu the State, and with their new arras and new uni
forms, which we understand they intend providing them
selves with shortly, will make an appearance second to
noue in the country. We congratulate the gentlemanly,
*%od indefatigable officers of the Jackson Rifles that their
unflagging perseverance has at last received its just re
ward. All honor to such men as Captain Hajibrioiit,
and Lieutenants Cox, Rees and Nagle.
Reading and Columbia Railroad. —At the
election for President and Directors of the above road, held
at Ephrata, od Wednesday last, the following gentlemen
were chosen:
President —Hon. Joseph Konigmacher, Ephrata.
Directors—M. E. Lyons, F. Lauer, Reading; E. Billings
felt. Sebastian Miller, Adamstown; Adam Konigmacher,
Ephrata; Nathan Worley, John Hostetter, Manheim;
Samuel Shoch, Amos S. Green. C. 8. Kauffman, Colombia ;
S. Llchtenthaler, Dr. Levi Hull, Litiz.
These gentlemen are all good men, and influential in
their respective neighborhoods, and we believe their selec
tion will give general satisfaction.
We understand there will be a meeting of the President
and Directors, in this city, on the 21st Inst., to perfect the
organization, and take the preliminary steps to commence
the work of building the road.
I. 0. G. T.—The following list of officers
for Conestoga Lodge, No. 426, I. 0. 0. T„ of Earlrille, has
been sent us for publication:
W. C. T., Samuel G. Behmor; W. V. T . Sue Reemsny
der; W. S., Martin K. Weidner; W. T.. Wra. J. Kafroth:
W. I. G., Wm. Diffenderfer ; W. 0. G., Lewis Sprecher; W.
C.,*E. Reemsnyder; WtM., Joseph Shearly ; D. M., Eliza
beth Shearly : W-A. S., John C. Cowen ;W. F. S., ED.
Usner; W. R. 11. S., David Kiel; W. L. 11. 8., Mrs. Kiel;
; P. W. C. T., John F. Leib; Lodge Deputy, Mark Connell.
The Howard Association. —At a meeting
of the Howard Association of Uie City of Lancaster, held
on Monday evening, 31st ult.. the following officers for the
ensuing year were elected :
President —Hon. Thomas H. Burrowes.
Vice Presidents —Peter McConomy, C. W't Jmyr-i.
Treasurer —Horace Rathvon.
Corresponding Secretary—John Wise.
Recording Secretary—James K. Alexander.
Executive Committee —N. E. Ward, G. M. Zahm; S. E.
Ward, G. M. Kline; N. W. Ward, Samuel W. Taylor; S.
W. Ward, Col. D. W. Patterson.
Toothache. —Thiß disease can be cured by
Dr. Keysets Toothache Remedy, prepared by him in Pitts
burgh, Pa., which is put up iu bottles and sold at 25 cents
each. It is an excellent medicine, when dilated, for spongy
and tender gums, and is worth ten times its price to all
who need it. Sold here by C. A. Heinitsh and ail Druggists.
A Medical Examination.— Onee when a
physician is called in to examine a patient’s condition, he
finds that the lungs are half gone, or that destructive
lesions have occurred, so as to render a cure, in many
cases, impossible. The patient will find that the litile cough,
which he thonght bad merely annoyed him betimes, has
laid waste a large portion of an organ, whose functions are
necessary to human life: we mean the longs. If tho incip
ient cough is heeded, and a timely resort is had to medicine,
such as Dr. Keyser’s Pectoral Syrup, a real scientific com
pound, prepared by a careful physician, known to most of.
our readers, the cough will never end in an Inflammatory
condition of the lungs and bronchia; but obstruction will
be removed; free breathing, health, In the placeot disease,
and consumption, for want of a nidus, will never take hold
of the constitution. Sold hero by 0. A. Heinitsh and all
Druggists.
A dreadful case of suicide took place
on Thursday in Washington. A young man
named Lewis H. Jones, son of the late George
Jones, a clerk in the Land Office, shot himself
at the house of bis mother, on New York
avenue. His course of life was characterized
by considerable irregularity, which was a
cause of great grief to an excellent mother,
who frequently remonstrated with him. On
Thursday morning she had again been in
conversation him in relation to his
irregularities, ‘ and concluded her maternal
counsels by embracing and kissing him, when
he stepped back a few feet, and drawing out
a Derringer pistol from his pocket, and
pointing it to his head, exolaimed, “ I’ll kill
myself,” and discharged the weapon into his
forehead, blowing his brains out, and causing
instant death.
The Delaware Enquirer , at Wilming.
ton, is out in favor of Vice President Breckin
ridge for President.
The Presidency for a Pardon. —The ex
travagant offer made for a horse at the battle
of Boswortb, has been moee than overdone in
the effort for the pardon of Brown. The
Presidency is the offer now made to the
Executive of Virginia for an unjustifiable
exercise of Executive clemency.
The effort is not confined to the Black Re
publican journals. but, we regret to see, even
the New York Journal of Commerce joins the
mistaken cry- fur. clemency, and its reasons
imply that a living martyr, at “hard work for
life ” is less dangerous than a dead martyr —
that the penitentiary makes a man more of a
felon than the gallows—and that “misguided
people ” sympathize more with the forgotten
dead than wiih the suffering, hardworking,
confined living.
To us it appears that John Brown, at hard
labor, would be a continual source-of supply
for Abolition fanaticism; that his groans
would resound from Richmond to Eastport,
and from the James river to the St. L iwrence;
that every meeting of the Black Republican
and Abolition parties would herald forth
resolutions for his liberation ; that the stump,
in every election, from a Constable to the
Presidency, would be redolent with praises of
his heroism and curses upon hie imprison
ment. Not so with John Brown executed.
He has forfeited his life, and though pos
sessed of many traits of character that were
worthy of a better fate, pity and commisera
tion are closed against the murderer of Tur
ner and Beckham.
Virginia will execute Brown and his asso
ciates, and feels herself able to meet all the
consequences that may arise from that act.—
Richmond Enquirer. +
Another Indian Massacre. —fhe latest
Salt Liike mail brings the details of another
Indian massacre, which occurred 25 miles
west of Fort Hill, on Lander’s Cutoff, on the
night of the 2d of September, on a party
consisting of six men, three women, and ten
children, part from Michigan, and part from
Buchanan county, lowa. The emigrants
were surrounded just as they were about
camping, and shot down before they bad
time for defence. Some who escaped fell in
soon after with a company of dragoons, under
command of Lieut. Livingston, who sent a
detachment to the massacre. On their arri
val they found the dead bodies of five persons
on the ground, out of the eight that were
musing. The dead were horribly mangled
and scalped. One little girl five years old,
had both her leg** cut off at the knees ; -her
ears were also cut off, and her eyes were dug
out from their sockets; and to all appearances
the girl, after having her legs cut off, had
been compelled to walk on the stumps, for the
sole purpose of gratifying the hellish pr. pensi
ties of savage barbarity.
I The names of the murdered are: Edward
Miltimore, Sr., James Miltimore, Jr., Wm.
Miltiraore, Mary Ellen Miltimore, and
Myron Cline.
Brutal Murder in Chester County. —A
youDg man, sixteen years of age, was brought
to the prison of Chester County, on
Thursday last, charged with the murder of a
young girl aged nine years, named Susau
Emma Kimble, daughter of Larew Kimble,
of Lower Oxford, Chester county. On
Tuesday afternoon, the little girl was sent
on an errand a field, where a boy
ot sixteen years, named Reyburn, was plowing.
She did not return that night. Early next
morning diligent search was instituted, and
soon her lifeless body was found in a dam of
the Octorarn creek, near by, with her head
crushed and mutiliuted with a stone. From
the dam, tracks were found leading across
the plowed field to the place where young
Reyburn had been plowing, where marks of
a struggle were plain, and where also a
stone was picked up having marks of blood
upon it. The foot tracks represented those
of Reyburn. He was immediately arrested,
but denied all knowledge of the deed, and
suggested that it might have been done by
two negroes who had crossed the field. But
an examination of the ground did not tend to
confirm his story, as there were no foot marks
found except those leading to the dam from
; the spot where the struggle took place. A
| track was made from the field to the dam by
■ the dragging of the body. Considerable
excitement prevailed in the neighborhood,
but no violence was attempted. It is supposed
that he first ravished his victim and then
murdered her to conceal his guilt.
Threatening and Appealing Letters to
Governor Wise.— The Governor of Virginia,
whose energetic, patriotic and prudent con
duct in regard to the Harper’s Ferry out
rage commands universal approval, is in
daily receipt of a large number of letters
from Abolitionists in various States, threat
ening his life, threatening an attempt to
rescue Old Brown, and threatening the
renewal of like attempts to those of Brown if
Gov. Wise does not pardon the miscreant who
has just been convicted of his crimes, and
who will be put to the death he deserves, as
surely as to morrow’s sun rises in heaven.
These letters speak of the increasing number
of the Abolitionists, of 1 their ability to per
form what they threaten, and of the “ mur
derous eye” to use the language of one of
them, with which they watch the progress of
Brown’s trial. They wind up generally with
holding out to the Governor great popularity
at the North if he will deal leniently with the
criminals. From all quarters in the Northern
and Western States these letters come,
written in every style and penmanship ; but
all breathing threats ofrescueorof vengeance,
in case Brown and his followers are executed.
►
PROCEEDINGS AT CHARLESTOWN.
Charlestown, Ya., Nov. 4.
There has been a marked abatement in the
excitement here to day. The town is, howev
er, as full of people as when the excitement
was at its height, and strangers are continual
ly coming and going. Judge Russell and
lady, and Mr. Hoyt who first took up Brown's
defence, left here this morning for Boston.
Coppee, who was found guilty yesterday, has
not yet received his sentence.
Shields Green one of the negro prisoners,
was put on trial to day. He is defended by
Mi*. Sennell. The evidence is closed, and the
case will be submitted to morrow to the jury.
Copeland is next for trial, and on Monday it
is expected that the wounded man Stevens
will be brought up. It almost certain that
Cook will plead guilty, first submitting a
written confession or statement of his connec
tion with Brown. His brother in law, Gov.
Willard, of Indiana, is still here.
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON
Washington, November 5
The Treasury receipts the past week were
$1,309,000. The drafts paid amounted to
$1,071,000, and the drafts issued to $931,000.
The amount subject to draft is $4,865,000.
The increase over the amount on hand last
week is $358,000.
Ex-Governor Lowe is at the National Hotel
here. He and other distinguished Maryland
ers express confidence that the Legislature v of
that State will promptly enact such measures
as will hereafter ensure peaceable elections in
Baltimore.
Reliable letters from Richmond state that
under no possible circumstances will Governor
Wise commute Brown’s sentence.
The President is still undecided about
pardoning Captain Holmes, though much
pressed by Mr. Evans and a delegation of
Maine men.
the EDITORS’ BOOK TABLE.
BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE FOR OCTOBER. Re-publish
ed by L. Scott, 54 Gold street, New York. Price. $3 per
annum. J. M. Westhaeffer, Agent, 44 North Queen st.
It would not be an easy matter to put one’s fioger on a
dull number of this famous periodical, and when we an- .
Dounce, as we do now, the publication of a new number,
the reader may look for at least one paper the perusal of
which will be well worth bis while. We have no intention
to canvass the different articles in the present issue, which
offer the usual variety; but we cannot refrain from calling
attention to, and soliciting a careful perusal of, the abstract
from Capt. Speke’s Journal in this and the number for
September, giving the details of a journey in Central
Africa, made by him In conjunction with Lieut. Burton.—
Traversing districts before untrodden by the white man,
that officer, having entered Africa on the oast coast,
worked up to the northward and westward, to the Moun
tains of the Moon, and in their vicinity has discovered a
vast lake or inland sea, to which he has given the name of
Victoria Nyanza, and which there is every reason to believe
is the long-songht Fountain of toe Nile. This lake is
situated exactly on the Equator; and its position and the
formation of the conntry lend mneh probability to the
suggestion. We cannot reproduce in this brief notice Capt.
Speke’s argument on the subject, bat we mast refer for the
details to the number itself.
Price of the four Reviews, $8 & year; ‘‘Blackwood” and
the four Reviews, $lO.
DE BOW’S REVIEW, for November, is on our table.
Its contents are as follows, viz:
American Agriculture.
Life and Liberty in America.
Free Negroes In Hayti.
Central American Question.
State, Federal and Territorial Authority.
Liberia and the Colonization Boclety.
Union North and Sbuth.
Bouth Carolina College.
Department of Oommeree.
Education, Ac., Ac.
NATURALIZED CITIZENS
The Black Republicans, truly remarks the
Boston Post, continually, misrepresent the
Democratic 'seutiment toward naturalized
citizens, in order to hide their own intolerant
conduct. To show the doctrine upon this
point maintained by Mr. Bnohanan’a admin
istration. we quote again from the offioial
letter of Mr. Cass, our Secretary of State, to
our minister at Berlin, Prussia. It reads
thus :
The moment a foreigner becomes natural
ized, his allegiance to his native country is
Revered forever. He experiences a new po
litical birth. A broad and impassible line
separates him from his native oountry. He
is no more responsible for any thing he may
say or do, or omit to say or do, after assuming
his new character, than if he had been born
in the United States. Should he return to ,
his native country, he returns as an American
citizen, and in no other character. In order
to entitle his original government to punish
him for an offence, this must have been com
mitted whilst he was a subject, and owed
allegiance to that government. The offence
must have been complete before his expatria
tion. It must have been of such a oharaoter
that he might have beeu tried and punished
for it at the moment of bis departure. A
future liability to servp in the army will not
be sufficient; bocause before the time oan
arrive for such service, he has changed his
allegiance, and has become a citizen of the
United States.
Democrats—read the above—cu]t it out—
preserve it—and whenever you hear your op
ponents fibbing about the course of the
Government in relation to naturalized citizens,
repeat it to them.
—The Republican papers contin
ue to excuse Old Brown's Harper’s Ferry
“Kansas work" on the ground that he is
“ crazy." They say that he was made so by
the murder of his son by the border ruffians in
Kansas. But it is well known that Brown
was a thief, a robber and a murderer before
his son was killed and that he was supported
and aided in his murdering and robbing in
Kansas by the Black Republicans of New
England. The Providence Post speaks from
the record when it describes the old villian :
“ Crazy."
“ The simple truth is, that Brown com
menced his career as a villain lung before hia
son was killed, and that most of his villainous
exploits preceded this event. No man in
Kansas doubts or has ever doubted that he is
a murderer; and that he is a horse thief
might be proved, we think, without seeking
fur witnesses now outside the city of Provi
dence. He was a notorious highway robber
in almost the very beginning of the Kansas
difficulties, and never felt under any obliga
tion to cunfine his rascalities to that Territo
ry. lie made Irequent incursions into
Missouri ; and befbwTThe Missourians had
dune any thing more than interfere with the
Kansas elections, was known throughout his
neighborhood as a robber and cutthroat. It
was in May, 1855, if we mistake not, that he
dragged Allen Wilkinson, a very peacablo
pro slavery man, from the sick bed of his wife,
and murdered him ; and on the same night,
we think, he murdered William Sherman,
Jiiines P. Doyle, and a son of the latter, who
was a mere boy. It was long after this that
he made his electioneering speeches for the
Republican party in the States. Did the
Republicans get an insane man to electioneer
for them ? But, more than this. The mur
ders charged against old Brown and his eon
were committed seven months before R. P.
Brown tens murdered l
“ But we are not disappointed. The same
organs which applauded and honored this old
villian, after he had stained his hands with
the blood of Wilkinson, Sherman and the
Doyles, will of course find some excuse for
his conduct at Harper’s Ferry. Wo are
thankful that we do not belong to a party
which demands so much of its supporters.”
A Female Horse Thief. —The Conneaut
ville Courier states that two men were in that
village a short time since in pursuit of an
Irish woman who had stolen a horse and bug
gy from the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y , a
week previous. Once they overtook and
arrested her, but the same night she escaped
t • • r her chamber window, by means of the
bed cord, obtained the same horse and buggy
trorn the stable, and continued her flight
without bonnet, shawl or dress, they having
been taken from her room by direction of hor
captors. She, however, supplied herself with
these articles by borrowing them from a house
on her way, while the family were absent.—
On Tuesday she lodged near Seagertown, but
on Friday no further trace of her had been
discovered.
The Pittsburg papers .since state that elud
ing all pursuit, this female Jack Sheppard,
made her way to Mercer county, where she
traded the stolen nag for another, and then
continued her journey, arriving in Alleghany
city in the early part of last week, and put
up at Neely's tavern on Federal street, just
as any other traveler. She stopped there for
some time, representing herself as a resident
of Oneida county, N. Y., whose husband had
recently died, and that the purport of her
visit there was to discover the whereabouts of
some relatives, wljjso acquaintance she desired
making. After some few days had passed,
she consented, at the suggestion of a friend,
to sell the horse and buggy, and both were
disposed of to Mr. Gerber, a tavern keeper
on Ohio street, f.r one hundred dollars, which,
of course, was handed over to “ Mrs. Killen,”
the name under which our heroine passed.—
Shortly after parting with the horse she dis
appeared, and while speculation was rife as
to what had become of hoi', the Rochester
gentleman reached the city in pursuit of the
fair widow, accompanied by the party from
Mercer county, with whom she had traded
his nag f The latter’s horse was hunted up
and found in the possession of Mr. Faas, to
whom Gerber had sold him, but no traces
whatever of the thief could be discovered, and
thus far all efforts to ascertain oither her
identity or hiding place have proved abortive.
This whole adventure is a most singular
one, and displays an amount of tact and
nerve rarely exhibited by a woman.
Murder in Montgomery County. —The
Norristown papers give an account of an
atrocious and horrible murder that occurred
at Bridgeport, on the 25th ult. A boy
named John H. Famous, only about eight
or nine years of age, went to the house
of Benjamin Hagens, a near neighbor of his
father's, while the older members of the
family were absent. He hero found a loaded
gun in one of the rooms with which he -»
deliberately Rhot Mr. Engens’ daughter, Mary
Elizabeth, aged about eleven years, killing
her instantly. The boy upon beingquestioned,
said the gun had fallen accidentally and shot
her. He subsequently stated that he was mad
at her, and had killed her. They had attended
school together and had quarreled. The boy
had threatened to shoot the girl, and took this
occasion to carry out his threat. The coroner's
jury charge the death of the girl upon the
boy. The young offender been committed
to Norristown jail for trial.
American Rifled Cannon.—A trial of a
rifled six pounder was made on Monday of
last week, at Flushing, L. 1., before several
military officers of the Mexican Constitutional
Government. The firing was extraordinary,
and rivals that of the most complex English
and Frenob pieces. The gun is a common
bronze cannon, five feet long, weighing 580
pounds, and rifled with eight grooves. The
target, five bv seven feet, moored ■'at a.mile
distance, received six out of eight shots fired
after the gun was brought to upon it,
five of which were within twenty inches of the
bull's eye. This success is attributed to a
new construction of projectile, invented by
Andrew Hotchkiss, of Connecticut, and said
to have been recently much improved. After
the target practice, the muzzle of the gun
was elevated, and several shots thrown to
distances variously estimated between three
and four miles. The projections are oblong,
weighing nine and three quarter pounds each,
and were fired on the long range with fourteen
ounces of Dupont's powder.— N. T. Tribune.
Richmond, Nov. 4.—Governor Wise has
issued a proclamation offering a reward of
$5OO each for the arrest of the following
named fugitive insurgents :—Owen, Brown,
Barclay, Coppee, Merriam and Tidd.
I®-The St. John (N. B.) papers notice
the earthquake at the eastward. The Globe
says it occurred about half-past two o'clock
on the morning of the 26th. The rumbling
noise was quite distinct, and the honses shook
with the vibration. The shook continued
about one minute.