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A. SANDEIttION, Associate.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR:
lliiiNltlrll. - -FOSTER, of Westmoreland.
ELECTORS:
George M. Kelm, of Basks county.
Richard Varix, of Philadelphia.
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14. J. Beckhow,
16. George D. Jackson,
16. J. A. Abl;
17: J.B. Danner.
18. J. IL Crawford,
19. H. N. Lee,
20. J. B. Howell,
21. N. P. Fetterman,
22. Samuel Marshall,
23. William Book,
24. B. D. Hamlin,
25. Gaylord Church.
L Broderick Parser,
2. William O. Patterson,
&.
Joseph Crockett, Jr.,
4. T. Brenimi,
5. J. W. Jacoby,
a. Charles Kelly,
7. 0. P. James,
8. David Scholl
9, Joel L. Lightner,
10. .8.8. Barber,
IL T. H. Walker,
12. 8.8, Winchester,
18. Joseph Lanbach,
Tnengs.—To Gen. B. A. &arm; the
attentive and obliging State Senator from
this district, for a copy of the " Revised Penal
Laws of Pennsylvania," passed at the recent
session of the Legislature.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE'!
What is to be done by the Democratic
National Convention, when it reassembles
at Baltimore on the 18th of June? This is
a question which is in everybody's mouth ;
but we have seen no one as yet who could give
a satisfactory answer. Unless all the delegates
go there in a spirit of conciliation and compro
miff(); and resolve to commence their work
de novo, we are very much afraid the Conven
tion will find itself in the same predicament
it was in when the adjournment took place at
Charleston. The best thing, we think, the
Convention could do, under the circumstances,
would be to knock all platforms in the head,
acknowledge the Constitution of the United
States as supreme authority, then nominate
some sound conservative Democrat, not iden
tified with the extremists from either section
of the Union, and, after having done so,
adjourn nine die, and the people will take care
of the rest.
These quadrennial platforms have been a
constant source of injury to the Democratic
party, and never once a benefiyhat we could
perceive. Before platforms were thought of
the Democratic party was always united, and
triumphantly elected JEFFERSON, and MADI—
SON, and MONROE, and JACKSON and VAN
BUREN, to the Presidential office. Then com
menced the platform business, and we were
defeated in 1840, again in 1848, and may lose
a third election in 1860, from the same cause,
unless the ensuing Baltimore Convention is
more than usually carefuL The discus.
gone about slavery are becoming perfectly
nauseating. The question is worn threadbare,
and.has lost all interest with the people. The
Masses care nothing about a platform ; they
want a candidate of good genuine Democratic
stook, who, when he is elected, will administer
the Government as it was administered by
TIIO3I - AS JEFFERSON and ANDREW JACKSON.-
Let the Convention give us for our standard
bearer such a man, and we desire nothing
more. He can be triumphantly elected with
out standing on any platform other than the
Constitution and laws of the country ; but
fetter him with a platform which may be
,objectionable to any portion of the party, and
the chances are that the Government will fall
into, the hands of the Black Republicans at
the close of the present Administration.
These are our views of the subject, and we
throw them before the public for what they
are worth. We are not wedded to the plan
suggested, and shall cheerfully adopt any
better one, should such be proposed, only so
that the great Democratic party of the Union
maybe brouglatsafely through the perils which
surround it, and the Union itself be preserved,
intact and inviolate, as it has been handed
down to us from our fathers. We are in the
midst of a crisis. Not only is the Democratic
party in danger, but the Union itself is im
periled by the infernal slavery question. We
must carry Pennsylvania in October and
November, or (ten chances to one) a Republi.
can will be elected to the Presidency, and with
that result good qe to our beloved Union
which has existed for more than seventy years.
The great Democratic party cannot be beaten,
when united; but it may become dissevered,
discordant, and even belligerent in a short
time, unless calm, dispassionate and wise
councils prevail. In that event we would
soon fall an easy prey to the common enemy
of our faith and our principles, and would
have to regret our folly when too late to be
of any avail. -May we not indulge the san
guine hope, therefore, that our friends eveil ,
where—north, south, east and west—will see
the propriety, nay, the vast importance to the
Union itself, of coming together at Baltimore
in a spirit of union and harmony, conciliation
and compromise, so as to present an unbroken
front to the cohorts of the Opposition, and
thus defeat the dark designs of Sectionalism
and Abolitionism.
We hope our brethren of the Democratic
press all over the Commonwealth will speak
out at this important crisis, but let it not be
done in a spirit of crimination or recrimina
tion. Let the potential voice of the press be
heard advocating concession and harmony—
in favor of letting by-gones be by-gone—and
let its rallying cry, from this day forward, be
"Liberty and Union, one and indivisible, now
and forever "—and that other significant
motto, with which the Democratic legions of
the Old Keystone have so often been inspirited
to noble action, "Every thing for the Cause,
and nothing for Men.",
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The Democratic State Executive Committee
met, for organization, at the Merchants'
Hotel, Philadelpha, on Thursday last, at the
call of the Chairman, Hon. Wu. H. WELSH.
The following gentlemen were elected Secre
taries, viz: Charles W. Carrigan, F. W. Hut..
chinson, J. Lawrence Getz, Wm. H. Miller,
H. B. Linderman and H. B. Burnham.
The Chairman was authorized to appoint a
Finance Committee of nine, a Treasurer and
Messenger—and the Committee then adjourn.
ed to meet at the call of the Chairman.
'THE JAPANESE EMBASSY.
The Japanese Embassy was expected to
reach Washington on yesterday evening. The
President has determined upon receiving
them' at the Navy Yard instead of at the
White House. In the centre of the extensive
Navy Yard there is a large building, occupied
as officers' quarters, and between it and the
wharf where the steamer will land, there is an
open siace, in which the reception is proposed
to be given on the part of the President, mem
bers of the Cabinet, officers of the navy and
ariny,And representatives of foreign nations
to the United States. The building referred
to is surrounded by a balcony, which will be
devoted to: ladies and members of , the press.
The various , pictorial papers are making, pre.
parations for full illustrations of the interest•
ing sone.
The Presidential reception will take place
tolnorrijw,:ticoortlini to a notice pnbished in
die Vtaidtin' gton Constitution.
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SUGHiESTION
The nomination ofJourt BELL, of Tennessee,
for the Presidency, by the National Conven
tion of the Constitutional Union party; may
change the aspect of things very materially"
in the Democratic National Convention - when
Are-assembles on the 11410 f June. it Will,.
more than anything else,cin our opinion render
it, necessary to select :Om ;fan for our;
standard bearer who nen . ralty the entire
strengtkof the party, North and Soca. We
care not who may be nominated by the Re.
-publicans at Chicago, whether it . be &wean,
or Mclatex, or Lonois, or anybody else, the
nomination, of Ms. Bras, will give en easy
victory to the Democrats, if our leaders are
only wise enough to give up their dissensions,
about political abstractions, and unite heart
and hand in support of the Constitution and
the Union. The decision of the mooted ques
tion, one way or the other„ about platforms,
will not heal the difficulty in the Convention.
The platform adopted at Charleston gives
offence to a portion of .the South—the adop
tion of the other would be distasteful in the
North. The better plan, , in our humble
judgment, would be to set them both
aside—nominate a man whose antecedents
and general political course have been unexcep
tionable, and then go before the people with
the Constitution and the Union emblazoned
on our banners. We have such a statesman
in our mind's eye, as we have had for the
last three years—one, we believe, who
would unite the party and carry its time
honored flag forward to a glorious victory—
we mean the gifted and eloquent gentleman
who presides over the Senate of the United
States with such distinguished ability. There
may be others who would be equally available
in the present crisis of affairs, but we are
satisfied, from what we know of his history,
that Joart C. BRECEINRIDGE has all the requi
sites in his personal and political character to
make him the man for the crisis. With him
the South would be a unit in the contest ;
without him, Mr. BELL may carry off two dt
three, or even more of the slaveholding States.
With him, owing to the division in the Oppo
sition ranks which will be, created by the
nomination of Mr. BELL, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Indiana, California and Oregon would
be sure, and we should also have a fair pros
pect of carrying Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Ohio and Illinois.
These are our views as to the candidate,
and we give them for what they are worth,
and without any desire to intrude them upon
others who may think differently. At the
same time we pledge ourselves to give a hearty
and zealous support to whoever may be nomi
nated—should Major BRECKINRIDGE not be
the man—let him hail from where he may,
North, South, East, or West ; and this spirit
we would inculcate upon every Democrat
throughout the broad limits of the Confederacy.
Are we right, or are we wrong? Let our
readers furnish the answer, after mature
reflection and deliberation. If any of them
can suggest a better plan or a better candidate,
our columns are operrfor their suggestions.
BELL AND EVERETT
The National Convention of the " Constitu-
tional Union Party," which met at Baltimore
last week, nominated JonN BELL, of Tennessee,
on the second ballot, for President, and
EDWARD EVERETT, of MaSSaChUPOtS, by accla
mation, for Vice President. The principal
competitor of Mr. BELL, for the Presidential
nomination, was Gen. SAM HOUSTON, of Texas.
The vote stood as follows on the Ist ballot:
Bell
Houston
Crittenden
Everett
McLean .
Graham
Scattering
Whole number of votes 254—necessary to a
choice 128. On the 2d ballot Mr. BELL had a
majority, (141 votes) and was declared the
unanimous nominee of the Convention.
A GREAT CASE DECIDED
On Friday week, in the Supreme Court of
the United States, Judge Catron delivered the
opinion of the Court in the celebrated Santil
lan Land Case, which Dad been so voluminously
argued by some of the ablest counsel in the
nation. The decision is in favor of the United
States Government, representing the squatter
titles, and against the title claimed by the San
Francisco Land Association, through the
Santillan grant. This is a final settlement of
the title to an extensive and valuable tract of
land in and adjoining the city of San Francisco,
California, which had been purchased, at a
large price, by a stock company from a half.
breed Mexican and Indian, named SANTILLAN,
who claimed to hold it under a Mexican grant.
It now turns out that this title was a forgery,
but so cleverly executed as to deceive some of
the, shrewdest lawyers in the country. The
original par value of the stock was $3OO per
share, but it speedily rose until it reached
from $4OOO to $5OOO per share, and had the
title been established in favor of the Company,
it would have been worth at least $lO,OOO per
share. Before the trial, shares had, however,
receded to about $5OO ; but during its pro
gress, so favorable did the facts and arguments
appear, it rose to $6OO. Since the trial they
dropped to $75, and from that figure down,to
$5O, $25, $l5 and $5 !
A very large portion of the stock was held
in Philadelphia—some parties, we learn,
holding as many as one hundred shares—and
the total loss there will not be :less than one
million of dollars ! The Germantown Tele
graph says :—"One of our friends held twenty
shares, for which he was offered $3OOO per
share. We urged him to sell, and realize his
$60,000 which cost only $6OOO, and let others
assume the responsibility and make whatever
else there was to make. He declined to
follow our suggestion, on the ground, that as
soon as the title was confirmed—of which he
said there was no earthly doubt—shares would
be worth at least $lO,OOO, with a chance of
their going up from $15,000 to $30,000. We
rejoined, and said that the fact that there was
a hitch in the title proved there was a doubt
of its validity , ; and we . urged him again to
follow the dictates of prudence, and make
$54,000 at once, without future risk—adding
that if the opportunity was lost he might lose
all. And he has lost."
TEE TARIFF IN CONGRESS
The vote on the new Tariff bill in the House
of Representatives stood 105 in favor to 64
against. All the members from Pennsylvania
voted in favoriof the bill. The bill is the one
known as Morrill's bill. The value of wool
allowed to be imported free of duty was re
duced from 20 to 18 cents per pound. It pro
vides for specific duties on iron, to wit: On
bar iron, $l5 per ton ; plate $2O ; rail $l2 ;
scrap $6, and pig s6—against the present
duty of 24 per cent. ad valorem.
CAUTION I=ln our changeable climate,
coughs, colds, and lung diseases, will always
prevail. 'Consumption will claim its victims.
These diseases, if taken in time, can be
arrested and, cured.- The remedy is Dr.
Wistar'd Balsam of Wild Cherry.
ger There's a vile counterfeit of this
Balsam, therefore be sure and buy only that
prepared by S. W. Fowx.n & Co., Boston,
which has the 'written signature of I. BUTTS
on the outside wrapper.
I
,Ohn Rolm:Tu.—lt is said there are 165
soldiers of the Revolution still living in the
IT.,..Ptatety tin:youpgest of whom is now 89
yearid age;
lhaNk
It is stated that the House' committee on
Territories have agreed upon bills for organ
izingfive new Territories, which will include.
the entire unorganized region between the
idissieriPpi valley end the Pacific elope.—
Their; ;
_=names are to -be Arizona, - Nevada,
Idaho Daeotah and_ Chippewa. The first
includes all that portion of territory
from Mar:lop east of the Colorado and its
northerly affluent; (Virgin rfier) arid west of
the 108th meridian. Its southern boundary
will-be the Mexican border, and its northein
the parallel of 37° 30', separating it from
Utah. Arizona will thus form a block nearly
square, including most of New Mexico west
of the Rocky Mountains, and containing
nearly 200,000 square miles, and a white
population of 6000 or 8000.
Nevada will comprise all that part of Utah
west of the 114th meridian, besides a small
triangle between Virgin river and the Cali
fornia State line, and a narrow strip of. what
was formerly Oregon Territory (now Washing
, ton) between the eastern border of that State_
and Green river. It will thus contain about
175,000 square miles, and include the now
famous Washoe mineral region. It is supposed
to have a white population of about 10,000.
Idaho, signifying " Gem of the Mountains,"
is the name proposed for the Pike's Peak
territory. Its eastern boundary will be the
102 d meridian; its western Green river; its
southern the 37th, and its northern the 43d
parallel of latitude. The Rocky Mountains
will form a sort of backbone, passing nearly
along its cfintre. Its extent will be about
150,000 square mile miles. By thus clipping
the wings of Utah on both the east and west
sides, the latter will be left with scarcely one
fourth of its present extent. A narrow strip
east of Green river will be added to Nebraska.
The white populatioil of this territory is stated
at about 20,000.
Dacotah will include all the territory west
of Minnesota, lying between the 46th parallel
on the north, and the Missouri river on the
south, with its tributary, the Niobrarah, and
thence the 43d parallel to the 102 d meridian,
which will be its western limit. The Missouri
river will thus divide it into two sections,
nearly equal in. extent. The territory will
contain 135,000 square miles, and a white
population of about 8000.
The - remaining country lying between
Nebraska, Dacotah, the Rocky Mountains and
the British possessions, is to be called Chippe
wa, making an area of 130,000 square miles.
It has a white population of 8000 or 10,000.
As there is some probability that the choice
of the next President of the United States may
devolve upon the present House of Represen
tatives, we subjoin a statement of its political
cast by States. It will be borne in mind that
in choosing a President, each State casts one
vote. The present House is divided politically
as follows :
Democratic.—Alabama, Arkansas, Califor
nia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oregon,
South Carolina, Texas, Virginia.-14.
Republican.—Connecticut, Indiana, lowa
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
Wisconsin.-15.
Equally Divided.—Kentucky, Maryland
and North Carolina.-3.
American.—Tennessee.-1.
It requires seventeen votes to effect a choice,
and as neither the Democrats nor the Repub
licans have a sufficient number, the four last
named States will, of course, hold " the
balance of power." Should the House fail to
elect a President before the 4th of March,
that duty will then in effect devolve upon the
Senate, which has the election of a Vice
President, who, under the provisions of the
Constitution, becomes President of the United
States. The Senate is composed of a majority
of Democrats.
Five or six hundred working girls have
been compelled in Lynn, Mass., to strike for
an advance of pay. The facts connected with
this movement present further conclusive
evidence that there are free laborers in the
North in a condition of abject want unknown
among the slaves of the South. The New
England factory girls are well worthy the
sympathy manifested for them at the meeting
of working girls held in New York on Monday
week. Developements were presented which
should reflect scorn upon those who professed
ly compassionate the condition of Southern
slaves, while white girls toil under their very
eyes for forty cents a week, the price of binding
sixty pairs of shoes. The former legitimate
rate of shoe binding was six shillings a dozen.
Much indignation was expressed in the New
York meeting, and a subscription collected
for the aid of the sufferers. The false doctrine
of Abolitionism is entertained merely as a
convenient garb to clothe the nakedness of the
oppressive conditions in philanthropic Aboli•
tionized New England, and exaggerated evils
of black slavery are held up to screen the
really existent horrors of New England white
slavery.
WISCONSIN ELECTION
The following are the official results of the
late Judicial State election in Wisconsin. It
will be seen that the Democrats haie carried
everything:
BUPREDIE JUDGE.
58,149
58,006
Dixon (Ind.)
Sloan (Rep.)
Dixon's majority
THIRD CIRCUIT
J. E. Mann (Derr.)
A. M. Blair (Rep.).
Mann's majority,
G. W. Cate (Ind. Dom.)
J. S. Alban (Rep.)
Cate's majority
EIGHTH CIRCUIT
L. P. Wentherbee (Derr.) ..........
J. C. Spencer (Rep.)
Weatherbee's majority
. _ NINTH CISCUIT
H. S. Orton (Whig)
Scattering
Orton's majority
The Republicans have not elected a single
nominee. This is pretty good for a State
which gave Fremont thirteen thousand major
ity in 1856 !
.DROIIGHT AT THE WEST
Our Western exchanges for the last week or
two are complaining of excessively dry
weather in Wisconsin and elsewhere. No
rain has fallen since the first of April, and
farmers are getting anxious about their spring
crops. Letters from Milwaukie of date of 2d
inst., say : " It has not rained in this city but
three times since August 15, 1859. The
country is suffering, and water to drink is
scarce in the city."
There are also complaints about dry weather
in several of the New England States.
We are inclined to think if our friends from
the West and the East would take a jaunt in
this direction they would not be much troubled
with dust. We have had, since the first of
April, rain enough in this region to satisfy
the most fastidious hydropathist in the land—
almost a second edition of the rainy season
spoken of at the time Noah's Ark was prepar
ing to take a sail over the mountain tops and
vallies of Asia.
A LARGE TREE.
An exchange says:—" The largest tree in
the world issaid to be in Africa, where several
,
negro families reside in the trunk 1" A
friend at our elbow suggests that it would be
a _capital place for an .A.bOlition hotel, or for
the head. quarters,of thninauk,,Roßublicaus
iiiret449od I.:
GEN. HENRY Di'VOSTIAR.
The following just tribute to Gen. - Henry
D. Foster, Democratic candidate for Governor
of-this State, we find in a speech recently
_made by Hon. Wm. A. Porter, at a Demo
cratic ma s s meeting in Philadelphia: --
And now, perhaps, as my-band-is in, you
will expect to hear something' of General
'Foster. Very well. Little need be said of his
public career, for that is as: well knOwn to
you as to me. He has been It Member 'of
,the
Stabil legislature, and thaVational.Legisla
tare, and he has measured his strength with
that of the great men of the country. At all
times he has preserved his escutcheon free
from spot, and in these times, let me tell you,
that is something. I never heard an act
imputed to General Foster unworthy of a high
toned gentleman. As 'a member of the party,
his conduct has been especially prudent.—
Where he has differed from other party lead
ers. he has refrained from striking the party
itself for the errors committed by them, and
awaited the time when the good sense of the
people should work the correction. But :I am
best able to speak of him as a lawyer. There
is one thing true of every lawyer, and that
is that his reputation is always genuine.
The poor ass who should venture in a Court
of justice with any other skin on him than
his own, would be very likely' to come out
without any skin at all. Where a man, like
General Foster, has, for more than twenty
years, maintained a • supremacy at the bar
over a large district of country such as that
which lies south of the Allegheny river,
between the borders of Virginia and the
Allegheny Mountains, and where he has been,
employed in all the most important controver
sies which have arisen there respecting the
private rights of men, I think yon may take
it for granted, without much doubt, that he
is just what he seems to be. Indeed, if I have
read him - aright, the combination of his
mental qualities is a rare one, that of the
very coolest judgment and the very greatest
quickness. I do not 'know any man out of
the City of Philadelphia who can more rapid
ly concentrate all the energies of his mind on
any one point. In this, by the way, he
resembles the present Governor Packer, whose
name I cannot :mention, even in passing,
without expressing for him my unaltered
attachme'nt and respect, and whose force in
debate arose mainly from the quality I have
been describing. These are among the very
highest attributes of mind, and our present
candidate possesses them in an eminent
degree. In his social relations, his character
is full of interest. Ido not believe there is a
man here who could talk with General Foster
half an hour without feeling for him a senti
ment of friendship. There is no coldness, no
assumption, no fawning, no double-dealing ;
there is no selfishness, no grasping, no cupid
ity. In other words, my_ fellow citizens, I
believe we have gotten hold of a genuine man
for our candidate, and if he were not so, you
never would have heard that vast shout which
waked its echoes in the valley of the Schuyl
kill, when his name was suggested to the late
Convention, thus sweeping away all party
precedents, and upturning all former exam
ples. For the present, let us give our help to
those gentlemen, who are on the municipal
ticket, and who are so soon to be brought to
the popular test. After that, let us aid in the
election of a Governor who, I predict, will
impart. a lustre to the office which be is to
- occupy. Thus let us avert from a great' and
mighty State the vast evils which Republican
misrule would bring upon it.
A MODEL BLACIK REPUBLICAN
" Amen " communicated the following item'
theon 2oth ult., from St. Louis, to the Boston
Post. It portrays a Black Republican element
in characters of light, and darkness, too :
There is a boot and shoe store in this city
composed entirely of Eastern men, who are so
notoriously " rotten on the goose," that the
house is known as the " Black Republican Boot
and Shoe Establishment." The head of this
concern is engaged in a separate business in
Boston, is at the present time a Senator in the
Massachusetts General Assembly, and a dele
gate to the Chicago Convention, and it is
generally understood that he advocates strong
ly the nomination of Seward for the Presiden
cy. Well, the firm has a customer residing
in the State of Missouri, who lately passed
through here on his way South with negroes,
and not calling on the members of the house,
they became suspicious that he was abscond.
ing and intended to defraud them out of h
small debt. They accordingly despatched an
agent after the debtor in all haSte, and with
the proverbial fleetness of a Yankee after
money, he overhauled him at Memphis, and
without asking for payment of the debt before•
hand, immediately took possession of the
slaves by virtue of a writ of attachment. The
owner having no funds to discharge the debt,
one of the negroes was put up at auction, and
knocked down to a trader for the round sum
of $1,300. This amount satisfied the claim,
and the agent returned home with his money'
' and no doubt received the commendations of
his employers for his energy, &c.
That is the developed character of a large
number of the freedom shriekers of Yankee
dom. If they are not going to lose anything,
they will steal a negro ; if they are in that
danger, they will sell him I
THE FOREIGN NEWS
The steamer Fulton, which reached New
York on Saturday evening, brings highly
important and interesting intelligence. Her
advices are two days later than those previous
ly received. The Pope has evidently become
indignant at the triumphant reception given
to Victor Emmanuel in the territories recently
annexed to Sardinia, and has instructed the
priesthood of the Romagna to avoid taking
any part in the popular demonstrations. The
insurrection in Sicily seems to have been of a
more formidable character than the tyrannical
government of Naples would have the world
believe. A desperate and destructive battle
raged for three days at Cavini, in which 300
of the royal troops and 250 of the insurgents
were slain. Finally, the insurgent forces'
were compelled to retreat, and the town of
Cavini was sacked and set on fire. The
"Kingdom of the Two Sioilies" is in a terribly
distracted condition, and the interference of
the Great Powers may become necessary to
rescue the people from the horrors of civil
war. A more detestable government than
that of Naples never existed.. The latest
advices from China represent that the celes—
tials had determined to make a resolute stand
against the allied forces of France and Eng—
land. The conflict may be a bloody one, but
the end is easy to predict. France proposes
to buy off the Swiss• from claiming the
neutrality of certain districts of Savoy. The
Swiss, however mercenary when abroad, are
rigidly and obstinately pa£i•iotio at home.—
Tom Sayers hid been received at Liverpool
with all the honors of a great warrior fresh
from victory. It strikes us that John Bull is
making a perfect ninny of himself in trying
to gloss over the defeat of his pet prize fighter.
Altogether, the foreign intelligence is the
most important that has been received for a
long time.
.CONSUL HARRIS DEAD.—We sincerely regret
to say that private advices have been received
from Japan, which confirm a former report, of
the death of the Hon. Townsend Harris, 11. S.
Consul General at Yedo. In View of Mr. Har
ries invaluable services in securing the open •
ing of the empire of Japan to commercial and
diplomatic intercourse with the United States,
it is proposed that our Government shall take
proper notice of his untimely death.
THE. EDITORS , BOOK TABI,E.
DE BOW'S BKFTEW. J. D. B. Deßow, Editor And Pro-
prietor. Published monthly at New Orleans and Wash
ington City, at $5 per annum.
The May number cornea freighted with a large and varied
amount of solid and interesting reading matter. Its table
of contents is as follows, viz :
L Effect of Climate on Human Developement; 2. Oliver
Goldsmith .and Dr. Johnson ; 3. The Conservative Men,
and the Union Meetings of the North ; 4. Popular Insti
tutions; 5. The Irrepressible Conflict and. Impending
Crisis; 6. Calms of Aristocracy; 7. Worcester's and Web.
star's Dictionaries; 8. Free Negroes in the Northern Uni
ted States;
. 9. The Old African and Ms Prayer; 10. De
partment of Commerce; U. Department of Internal Im
provements; 12. Departduait of Miscellany; 13. Editorial
Miscellany.
11. S. So NATeii.—The Legislature of Con.
neetiout have re eleoted Mr. !omit (Rep.). to
the U.S. Senate, fer six yean ;he foyirtli
of March neat.
'II3IVT' AMD- 0017'3.1F1r- A:VFAIRS:
ASSISTANT MARSHALS TO TAKE THE CENSUS
Is Lasers:Ea Couarrr.—We learn from Philadelphia that
Hon. JACOB S. YOST, 11. 8. Marshal for the Eastern District
of. Peransylrania, has made the following appaintments of
Assistant Marshals to take the Census in Lancaster county:
Olty-N W. Wardeapt. Henry. Blickenderfei:
Ward. B.E. Ward and West Lampetai Twp.
—William Lowry.
LW. Ward—Henry P. Charm.
Adam:int:4n Bor., Brecknock and Ewa Ooeslico—Cyras
Ream.
Tart and Salsbury—John/L Rea.
Cerim= and Mud Earl—George Dueliman
Clay and Ellzabeth—John Elsar, Eaq.
CoLsrain—D. EL Cochran
Columbia Bor.—Samuel K Murton
Weet Bechtel
Conestoga and Pequea—M. E. Sonrbeer
Conoy—Emanuel Nagle.
East Donegal, Marietta Bar, and Maytown—P. J. Al
bright.
Weet Donegal, and Elizabethtown Bor.-:-Henry Bank.
Drnmore and Fulton—John S. Jordan. -
Earl (loanding New Holland)—Jamea Darrow
Weet Earl-Jacob Buser.
Ephrata—W. Harvey Spent.
Eden—William Dungan.
East Hempfleld—Christian Hoffman.
West Hemptleld—John M. Weller.
East Lampeter—
Lancaster Twp.—BenJamin Huber.
Leacock—John L. Lightner.
Upper Leacock—John B. Raft
Little Britain—Joseph Helton, Jr.
Rapho and Manbeim Bor.—Bebjamin Donavan.
Manheim Twp.—lsrael B. Shreiner.
Manor and Washington Bor.—Cot Joseph Schoch
Martin and Providence—John Tweed.
Mount Joy Bor. and Twp.—John H. Brenneman.
Paradise—
Penn—David M. Eberly.
Strasburg Bor. and Twp.—William T. McPhail.
Salisbury—lsaac W. Butter.
Warwick—Charles R. Kreider.
Gamma DEDICATION.—The new German
Reformed Church in the village of Maytown will be dedi
cated on Sunday, the 27th inst. Rev. Prof. Porter, of
Franklin and Marshall College, and Rev. Mr. Lane, of
Donegal, will conduct the services, assisted by Othera.—
Services to commence at 10 o'clock, A. M.
GREAT FLOODS AND LOSS OF PROPERTY.—The
heavy rains of last week caused immense freshets in the
Susquehanna and its tributaries. The river, it is said, was
higher than it has been for thirty years. The booms at
Williamsport, Lock Haven, and other points, were partially
swept away, and, with them, an immense amount of lum
ber. It is estimated that not lea than $1,000,000 worth
was carried down the river by the flood, moat of which will
be lost to the owners. Among the sufferers, it is feared,
are our townsmen, Messrs. Long, Shenk, Christ & Co. They
had some $20,000 worth of lumber at Lock Haven, a portion
of which was probably swept away. The Pennsylvania
Railroad and Canal also received considerable damage, but
not sufficient to delay to any great extent travel and trans
portation. The Conestoga was higher than it has been for
years, but we have not heard of any serious damage
resulting therefrom.
VENDERS OF MERCHANDIZE.—The Mercan
tile Appraiser of this county has returned 1328 Venders of
Merchandise for the county, of iwhich 330 are in the city.
Heretofore the list was always published in The Intent
gencer, brit the present Appraiser, who is a regular Black
Republican, does not deem it necessary to give the Demo
crats of the county any information on the subject.
REJOICING.—The " Constitutional Union "
Club, of this city, testified their approbation of the nomi
nation of Hon. JOHN BELL, of Tennessee, for the Presidency,
by ringing a large number of bells, for an hour or two, at
their Club room, in East King etreet, on Thursday evening
last. In good old "Log Cabin and Hard Cider times" Gen.
HARRISON was sung into the Presidency, and, judging from
this somewhat novel idea, Mr. BELL is to be rung in. If so,
we wish the "Bell Ringers" a happy time of it.
THE CITY HOTEL.—As will be seen by ref
erence to a card in the advertising columns of to-day's
latelllgencer, the business of this popular Hotel, and the
extensive Livery and Omnibus business connected there
with, will be conducted by the surviving partner, Mr. J.
Rxes.r... The Hotel, Fm., will remain under the supervision
of Mr. Hmem KENDIG, who for several years has been the
gentlemanly and efficient Supecintendent.
ELECTION OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTB.
The School Directors of the several counties of the State
met on Monday, the 7th inst., for the election of School
Superintendents. In Lancaster county David Evans was
elected, and the salary reduced from $l5OO to $1250; in
Allegheny, A. T. Donthett, salary $1000; in Westmoreland,"
S. 8. Jack, salary $800; in Blair, John Mitchell, salary
$600; in Bucks, Simeon 8. Overholt, salary $750 ; In Lehigh ,
Tilghman Good, salary $500; in Cumberland, D. K. Noell,
salary $500; in Franklin, Philip M. Shoemaker, salary
$600; in Lebanon, Henry Houck, salary $780; in York, A .
R. Blair, salary $1000; in Barks, John S. Ermentrout, sal
ary $1000; in Montgomery, R. Crnikshank, salary $950;
in Northampthit D. C. Rothtock, salary $700; in Dauphin,
Samuel D. Ingram, salary $550; in Huntingdon, K. M'Div
itt, salary $600; in Perry, Lewis B. Kerr, salary $400; in
Somerset, Joseph L. Stutzman, salary $500; in Miillin,
Azarlah Smith, salary $600; in Columbia, L. L. Appleman,
salary $100; in Luzerne, Abel Marcy, salary $BOO.
In several of the counties the salaries were reduced, and
a pretty strong feeling developed itself in favor of abolish
ing the office of County Superintendent, and in Dauphin
county the Directors passed the following preamble and
resolution by a nearly unanimous vote :
WHEREAS, The citizens of Dauphin county have thor
oughly tried the operations of tho office of County Superb..
torment of Common Schools, and regret to say that it has
not had the effect claimed for it by the warm friends of
popular education ; therefore be it
Resolved, By the Convention of School Directors now as
sembled, That our Senators and members of Assembly be
instructed to urge the abolishment of said office by the
next Legislature, so far as relates to this county.
THE READING AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD.—A
meeting of the Board of Directors of the Reading and
Columbia Railroad was held in this city, at Michael's Hotel)
on Tuesday last. Mr. Lyons, the engineer of the road ,
presented his plans and a report, which were considered of
a very satisfactory character. The length of the surveyed
line, through Adamstown, Ephrata, Litiz, Manheim and
Columbia, is 43 340 miles, and the estimated cost, embrac
ing grading, masonry, water stations, track, and all the
appurtenances of a first class single track railroad, and
five miles of siding track, is only $1,166,152.85. The grades
over the South Mountain, which previous to making the
survey were adjudged to be of a formidable character, are
52 feet to the mile on the south slope, and 66 feet to the
mile on the north elope, descending to Reading. The
engineer's report recommends that the approach to Reading
should, for the last two miles, run alongside the Lebanon
Valley Railroad, so as to connect with all the roads center
ing at Reading, where the Reading Railroad Company is
about to construct a large and commodious depot The
Express has the following comments on the great benefit
that would result from the construction of this iced
The road from Reading, running through the heart of
Lancaster. county, is a much•needed improvement, and
would be of Incalculable benefit to this portion of the
county. The saving in the cost of coal alone is an item of
considerable imporfance. Every farmer, owning a hundred
acres of land, would save from present rates sixty dollars
per annum for lime manure. This is the Interest of nearly
athonsand dollars. The revenue of the road is based upon
the receipts of the Lebanon Valley Railroad for the year
1859, which netted $2lOO per mile. No person can doubt
that a railroad through the populous County of Lancaster
would do as large a business as the Lebanon road in the
second year after it has been opened, and yet the moderate
receipts would pay more than eight per cent. dividends on
the cost of the Reading and Columbia road.
The people of the county want this road; it has almost
become a necessity and must be built. The road opens a
direct communication between the heart of our county and
New. York, and also opens a through line from Washington
and Baltimore to New York, having neither change of
gauge, draw bridges, pile bridges, ferries or other causes of
delay and danger to travelers, and this would doubtless
attract a great deal of passenger travel from all the Eastern
cities to the South, more particularly in the winter season.
The communication with the nearest coal field would be
very direct. The reciprocal trade that would spring up
between the agricultural County of Lancaster and the coal
mining districts would be great and mutually beneficial.—
We believe it is the intention to form a conhection be-
tween this road and the Downingtown and Waynesburg
road, so as to supply coal to the central portion of the
county. We estimate the quantity of coal that will be
transported over this road at 250,000 tone to supply the
City of Lancaster, the towns of Adamstown, Reamstown,
old and new Ephrata, Litiz, Manheim, Churchtown, New
Holland, Rink'atom], Waynesburg, Downingtown, and
the surrounding country, embracing more than half of
Lancaster county, and a population of about 60,000 to
70,000; and the saving per ton will exceed on an average
$1.25 or $312,500 per annum. - The whole of this tonnage
would come from Schuylkill county, which Is the nearest
coal field, and, upon the building of the road, will be the
most accessible to the greater portion of our county. From
the character of the directors who have taken charge of
the road, their known energy of character and probity, the
absence all speculation, and the great necessity that
exists for railroad comtaunicatlon, must certainly have the
effect of pushing it to a speedy completion.
Another meeting of the Directors will be hold at Ephrata
on the 17th inst.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY—ESCAPE OF THE THIEF
—LONG PUBSOIT AND FINAL ABGEST.—Mesars. Konigmacher
& Bauman, extensive curriers and dealers in leather belt
ing, hose, ln., of this city, on the let of April last were
robbed, at their branch store at Mapleton Depot, Hunting
don county, Pa., of $215 in money and checks, four new
silver watches, and a large quantity of clothing, shoes, &c.
The thief was a young man, shout 28 years of age, named
John L. Rippel, who was in the employ of the firm. A re
ward of one hundred dollars was immediately offered for
his arrest, but the fellow had got too good a start to be
easily taken. After a week or ten day's delay his tracks
were discovered westward, and a man connected _with the
firm immediately started in pursuit. Fbßowing the trail
through many tortuous windings, he finally reached Leav
enworth, Kansas, just a day after Ripple bad left that
place and gone to St. Louis. The pursuer immediately re
traced his steps to that city, and, calling to his aid a detec
tive officer, the fellow was caught by a decoy letter through
the post office. When confronted by - his pursuer, he was
no less confused than astonished at his rapid pursuit and
arrest. He made a clean breast of the matter, and was
toiaing to suffer for hie misdeeds.
When caught he had squandered all the money and
property with the exception of $7, for which he had
pawned a watch at St. Louis, and which wee redeemed.—
On his way westward Ripple stopped at Cincinnati, where
he became exceedingly literary and purchased books to the
amount of $205, and was appointed an agent to canvass
severer counties in Kansas. At Leavenworth be set up a
book auction. and after trying the experiment a. few days
be became disgusted, and sold. out the remainder of his
stock for $lO and started for St. Louis. By the time he
reached that city his money, as before stated, was all gone,
and he is supposed to have lost It by .gambling, as several
entries are made in his journal like this: "Lost by ch..
On Wednesday last the party ieached Huntingdon, when
Ripple was placed in jail to await trial. The prisoner no
doubt enjoyed a brilliant but brief career on his ill-gotten
gaina,ror which he may have to suffer several years '
con
finement within the walls of a prison. The moral is obsd
ous.—Wednesday's Express.
KEEP. OUT OF HARM'S WAY.—This is good
advice to all persons at any time, but especially at a season
of the year when coughs and colds barrens the system, and
which frequently lay the foundation of permanent disease
of the lunge or some of the organs connected with respira
tion. To all afflicted in that way, an early .resort to the
proper medicine will at once arrest the malady and binder
the development of an incurable diseade. Dr. Keyser's
Pectoral Cough Syrup, made by him at his Medicine store,
140 Wood street, Rittabtugh, Pa., is such a medicine, and
If it were resorted to at the commencement of a cough or
Lindens'', there would be fewer deatha . from' pulinoniq
consumption. You can buy it from fa:h.lieltiltalieind all"
Druggists
Tas Hossz Ethrarnow - PorrPeiilD.—The
Annual Horse Exhibition of the Lancaster County Agri
cultural and Mechanical Society has been postponed, on
amount of the inclemency of the weather. It will be held
on the 24th and 25tit
Tax Cmcsursas.—At the annual meeting
of the Keystone Cricket Club, bald on the evening of the
Bth inst., the following atoms were elected to serve for
the ensuing year : - -
PriaridentEdvrard McGovern, Esq.
Vice President—Dr. Geo. H. Markley.
Secretery;—ffieejamin F, Bear; Eeq.
Treeworef,4lmanuel IL Gast.
Ground Committee...Ed:Vied McGovern, - W. E. Helniteh,
William Lowry, R. M. Dysart, 0. Branner.
THE Covssrooa.—This Club, we believe, has not yet held
its annual election for officers. It fa however, in a highly
flourishing condition.
NORMAL SCHOOL ELECTION.--Tho following
gentlemen were, on the Bth hint , elected the Board of True
tees of the State Normal School :
Abraham Peters. Dr. P. W. He'stand, B. B. Martin, Ab.
raham Bansman, Benjamin Land* Jacob M. Frantz, C. B.
Herr, David Hartman, Jacob Frantz, D. G. Swartz, John
Lintner, B. H. Hershey, Gym N. Herr.
After the election of Trustees, the Board organized by
appointing Abraham Peters, Esq., President; B. H. Hersh
ey, Secretary; and Jacob M. Frantz, Treasurer. Mr. Frantz .
having resigned his position as Trustee, accepted the office
of Treasurer.
SKYLARICB.-4 writer in the Philadelphia
Ledger, who is making inquiries about some Skylarks he
liberated in the Spring of 1853, writes .as ibllows upon the
subject. If any of them have taken up their residence in
our county, within the knowledge of any of our farmers or
others, we hope they will make known the fact:
The writer having imported from England a number of
skylarks, seventy-five in all, liberated about one-third of
them in March, 1853, in New Castle county, Delaware, and
the remainder of them some monthei afterwards, in the
hop, of naturalizing and perpetuating in the United States
this celebrated minstrel, so long the theme of poets in the
world; but soon lost eight of them, until the summer of
1854, when he found that a portion of them, having passed
a summer and winter of average temperature, had colo
nized upon a farm near Centreville, in that county, where
they continued to soar and sing for more than three
months, and where they were visited by many persons
from Wilmington. Since that time he has heard but little,
with certainty, from his enfranchised captives, though he
believes, from occasional accounts, not perhaps entitled to
full confidence, that they have now spread over , a large
extent of territory, and probably also largely increased in
number. It is the purpose of this communication to elicit
reliable intelligence, from any farmers it may reach, either
of their presence now, or of their ever having been in their
neighborhood, with an account of any.nesta, to be sought
only on the ground, that may have been found, or any
other information respecting them, the more minute the
better, of which they may be in possession. A letter ad
dressed to Post Office, Box No. 231, Wilmington, De2aware,
will reach the writer, and be gladly received.
The bird is about the size of the reed.bird of our marshes,
or the cedar-bird, so well known to most farmers as a dep
redator on their early cherry trees, and not very unlike
the former in its plain plumage, except that the breast is
more spotted and less yellow. It never alights upon a tree,
the foot being so formed as not to allow it to clasp a branch,
but will be best known during the singing season—April
to August, inclusive—by the manner of Its song, differing,
as it does in this respect, from all our birds. It springs
from the ground, often soon. after daylight, commencing
its song at once. and continuing It as it mounts spirally
upwards, sometimes until quite out of sight, moving
slowly in a more contracted circle, and only visible when,
in its turnings, the wing occasionally reflects the light,
but still singing, from five to fifteen minutes; when it
commences its downward movement, still apparently _fol
lowing the spiral line by which it had ascended, and with
but little dimUzution in the grishings of its melody, until
within twenty to one hundred feet of the ground, when,'
with wings closely clasped, it shoots, from some impulse
probably gathered in this somewhat rapid descent, in a line
often but little inclined from a perpendicular, though
sometimes, when it comes low before commencing this
movement, in a direction nearly horizontal, and with the
directness, and seemingly almost the celerity, of a bullet,
until within a few feet of the ground, when Its motion is
suddenly arrested and, spreading its wings, it alights.
TOOTHACHE.—This disease can be cured by
Dr. Geyser's Toothache Remedy, prepared by him In Pitts•
burgh, Pa., which is put up in bottles and sold at 25 cents
each. It is an excellent medicine, when diluted, for
spongy and tender gums, and is worth ten times its price
to all who need it. Sold here by c. A. Heinitsh and all
Druggists.
MR. YANCEY'S DISUNION LETTER
Two years ago Mr. Yancey, of Alabama,
leader of the seceders from the Charleston
Convention, addressed a letter to James S.
Slaughter, Esq., in favor of a Southern organ
ization for the purpose of precipitating dis—
union. The letter has been revived in the
Washington States, and will be read with
interest at this time, as throwing some light
upon the object of Mr. Yancey in retiring
from the Charleston Convention, after it refused
to adopt the Southern Platform. We do not
suppose that any considerable portion of the
seceding delegates participate in the views of
Mr. Yancey, or that they can be held respon
sible for his individual opinions. He may
not entertain the same opinions now that he
expressed in June, 1858—but it is certainly
calculated to throw some suspicion upon a
movement led by a man capable of suggesting
the project contained in the following letter:
" MONTGOMERY, June 13, 1858.
" DEAR SIR: Your kind favor of the 15th
is received.
" khardly agree with you that a general
movement can be made-that will clear out the
Augean stable. If the Democracy were over
thrown, it would result in giving place to a
greater and hungrier swarm of flies.
" The remedy of the South is not in such a
process. It is in a diligent organization of
her true men for prompt resistance to the
next aggression. It must come in the nature
of things. No National party can save us ;
no sectional party can ever do it. But if we
could do as our fathers did—organize com
mittees of safety' all over the cotton States,
(and it is only in them that we can hope for
any effective movement)—we shall fire- the
Southern heart, instruct the Southern mind,
give courage to each other, and at the PROPER
MOMENT, by one organized, concerted action,
we can precipitate the cotton States into a revo
lution.
" The idea has been shadowed forth in the
South by Mr. Ruffin ; has been taken up and
recommended in the Advertiser, [the Mont—
gomery organ of Mr. Yancey, J under the
name of 'League of United Southerners,'
who, keeping up their old party relations on
all other questions, will hold the Southern
issue paramount, and will influence parties,
Legislatures, and statesmen. I have no time
to enlarge, but to suggest merely.
"In haste, yours, &0.,
" W. L. - Y . /agony.
" To JAMES S. SLAUGHTER, Esq."
THE GRAIN TRADE.
The late advices from Europe have given a
much firmer tone to the American breadstuffs
market and we may now rely upon a better
demand in England for our surplus product
of grain. The Western States will derive a
material benefit from this enlarged market,
and be enabled to discharge in part their
accumulated debt. The railroads will reap
material advantages in the large receipts
from freights, and ship owners will share in
the beneficial results from more active trade
and better prices. This new phase of the
trade in Breadstuffs is highly important to
the whole country. Under ordinary circum•
stances any very material advance in the
market values of Breadstuffs induces a depres
sion in the prices of cotton ; but in the present
case this depression will be of much less
consequence to the producers than ordinarily.
The great bulk of the cotton crop has already
gone forward, the shipments since the Ist of
September last, now amounting to 3,279,000
bales, being 816,000 bales in excess of last
year to the same date, and 1,339,000 in excess
of 1857-8.
A VOICE FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
The North Carolina Standard, the central
organ of the Democracy of that State, in
speaking of the Charleston Convention, says:
The disruption of the Convention will be
everywhere regarded by considerate and
patriotic men as a national calamity. It is a
sad thing to witness the severance of any great
national tie. The last link *that bound the
States together has been temporarily or appar
ently broken ; but we indulge the hope—and
in this hope we are joined by millions of our
countrymen—that a re union will be effected
at Baltimore—that all the States will be there
again, as they were at Charleston at the
commencement of the proceedings, and that
a ticket will be presented which will prevail
in the contest over the Black Republicans.—
Democrats of North Carolina, let us stand
firm and maintain our organization and integ
rity. Let us commit ourselves to no platform
and no. ticket until the Baltimore Convention
of the-18th of June shall have spoken. We
know this is a.time of trial, but let us go
through it like men. Looking neither to the
right nor the left, let us go steadily forward.
as National Democrats, prepared", when the .
Baltimore COnvention gives'the word, to rally
to its nominee and do our full share in secur
ing his election.
WY' A most destructive fire occurred on
the Island of Cuba on the 18th of April. The
sugar cane in the valley of Trinidad was con.
slimed for the distance of eighteen miles.—
The loss is stated at . .a million and a half of
dollars, and will 'reduce the production of
sugar on the - Island of Cuba more than.eig4
thousand hogeheida: ' t • - • -
7Warrrs are HEAD BROKEN Anenc•—The
Pottsville Record thinks that Senator Sumner,
of Massachusetts, who achieved the only fame
he ever enjoyed by having his head broken in
the -Senate Chamber at Washington with a
cane in the hands of Mr. 'Brooks, of South
Carolina, is anxious to have the operation
repeated. Since he has recodered from his
wound his notoriety has left him, and he has
sunk into his natural condition of insignifi—
cance. With this he is not satisfied, and he
is longing to become a martyr a second time.
To illustrate his anxiety in tiffs — respect, we
quote his remarks in the Senate on Monday
week. Alluding to the course of Senator
Mason, of Virginia, on the Sanborn affair,
Sumner said : " It was related in antiquity,
of one oT the judges of hell, that he punished
first and heard afterwards, Itnd the Senator
from Virginia seems to have taken that course
as a preOedent." Mr. Mason, remembering
the Scriptural injunction, answered not the
fool according to his folly, and Mr. Sumner
was compelled to remain in obscurity.
ANOTHER PLATFORM.
In the Charleston Convention, after the
secession of the delegates from the Cotton
States, Mr. HOWARD, of Tennessee, offered the
following resolutions, as the ultimatum of the
South :
Resolved, That all the citizens of the United
States have an equal right to settle with their
property in the Territories of the United
States, and that under the decision of the
Supreme Court, Which we recognise as a
correct exposition of the Constitution, neither
their rights of person or property can be
destroyed or impaired by Congressional or
Territorial legislation.
Resolved, That two•thirds of all the eleotor
al votes of the United States shall be required
for the nominations.
THE FLOOD
TYRONE, Pa.,May 10.
FLOOD IN THE JUNIATA AND BALD EAGLE
CREEK. —There is now the heaviest flood in the
Bald Eagle Creek and Juniata river, that has
occurred for many years. Half of Tyrone is
under water, and the bridges over the Bald
Eagle are swept away. • The stages for Belle
fonte and Clearfield had to return. The travel
on the Pennsylvania Railroad will, not be
interrupted.
NORTHUMBERLAND, May 11.
The West Branch and Pine Creek are very
high, and still on the rise. The North Branch
is not so high yet, but a heavy flood is antici
pated. The Susquehanna at this point is
rising rapidly.
TYRONE, Pa., May 11
The Bald Eagle Creek is still overflowing,
and the flood in the Juniata is on the increase.
Tyrone City continues partly under water,
And great damage has been done to property
along both streams.
WILLIAMBPORT, May 11
There is a heavy food in the West Branch.
The boom at this place broke at one o'clock
this morning, and there is about eighty million
feet of lumber afloat. Men who will attend
to picking up all the logs that reach Harris
burg will be suitably compensated by the
Boom Company.
WILLIAISSPORT, May 12
The-West Branch is higher than for several
years past. At the present time, no one can
tell what the loss sustained will amount to
among the lumber operators in Williamsport
and vicinity, by the breaking of the boom
above this place, but it is supposed to be very
heavy. That portion of our town situated
between Mill street and the river is mostly
under water. Boats are in great demand
among the residents whose houses are sur
rounded with water from two to four feet
deep.
POTTSVILLE, May 12
The Schuylkill river is higher than it has
been before for seine years. No damage to
the works of the Navigation Company is
reported.
WASIIINGTO . N, May 11
The President has recognized Henry John
Murray, as British Consul, at Portland,
Colonel Raasloff, Charge d'Affairs from Den
mark, has returned home on leave, and there
is some doubt of his return. He has proved
highly acceptable to our government.
The Homestead Bill, as it passed the Senate,
was so changed as to give the actual settler
lands for a quarter of a dollar per acre, after
two years settlement.
The steamer Philadelphia, under Captain S.
F. Dupont, will leave the navy yard about
two o'clock. She will go direct to Hampton
Roads to meet the Roanoke with the Japanese
Embassy. The Embassy will probably not
arrive at the Roads, before to-morrow morning
and will be brought into this city to morrow
night without any demonstration.
The arrangements at Willard's are nearly
perfected. They are admirable. The Eastern
wing of the Hotel, extending from Pennsylva
nia Avenue to F. street, and embracing a suite
of sixty rooms, wilt,be given up to them.
Many of the apartments are newly furnished
and elegantly adorned.
The places in the house will be assigned on
board the Philadelphia. The Japanese will
be spared all intrusion. They will have their
own private entrance, their own dining room,
and a kitchen has been contrived. expressly
for their use. They will enjoy ample bathing.
Bathing facilities, and a new balcony, has
been erected for them overlooking the area
with its fountain playing. Everything is in
excellent taste. Nothing is known of the
programme of hospitalities. They will prob
ably not begin before Monday.
SAD PICTURE OF MATTERS IN lOWA.—The
Lexington (Ky.) Observer prints the following
as an extract of a letter from a gentleman of
high standing in lowa. It gives a melancholy
view of the condition of affairs in that
State. The writer may be inclined to look
too much on the dark side :
" Do not trade for anything in the' way of
real estate within the limits of the State of
lowa, with the view of selling it at any price
within the next five years. The value of the
land is nominal ; you may count it at $1,25 or
$10; neither price would bring cash. I have
just sold lands, bought in the county north of
your county, for which I paid $lO in 1857,
good lands, at $1 per acre, and that in trade.
I consider lands anywhere within the limits
of this State, unimproved, dear, at over $1,25
per acre, except in counties bordering on the
river.
"No man living in this State can have any-'
thing like a correct idea of the utter hopeless
ness of the state of things in lowa. The
river towns are so flat that they can never 'get
up again until there is an entire change of
population. This place, containing a popu
lation in 1857, of 40,000, is now reduced to
18,000, and people leaving just as fast as they
can get money to get away upon. The place
is in debt one million and a quarter ! and she
as well as Dubuque et al along the river, are
talking of repudiating ! So do not own lands
in lowa, if you can avoid it. It will make
you,that much poorer."
FALL OF METEORIC STONES IN EASTERN
Ouio.—On Tuesday last, four large stones,
weighing from 40 to 60 pounds each, fell on
or near the track of the Central Ohio Railroad
in Concord, burying themselves in the ground
about two feet, while at Qlay . sville, southeast
of Cambridge, and other portions of the coun
try, stones of the same quality, but in greater
quantities, fell to the earth.' The Cambridge
Jeffersonian, of Friday, makes the following
mention of the matter No little excitement
has arisen from the report that the rumbling
sound which alarmed the delicate nerves of so
many of our fair sex, on Tuesday last, waa
caused by the falling of a shower•of stones,
coming in an oblique direction toward the
southeast. The specimens that we hay - 6 seen
are angular, of light gray color interruilly o
and of dark metallic on the outside. They
are very compact and heavy. The noise,
produced by the shower was taken by solve of
the inhabitants for the rumbling of an earth-
quake.
DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES.
In Greensburg, the home of Gen. FosTER,,
our nominee for Governor, the Democracy, on
Monday of last week, elected their entire ticket
for Borough Officers. Andin Chamberiburg,
heretofore strongly Opposition 2 the entire'
Democratic ticket was elected by about 50
majoriti.. , ,
ELECTION AT ATCHISON;KANSAS.-ThC
tion at Atohhion, on the 7th last, was • a
complete Democratic triumph. Mr. Fairchild
was 'eleoted Mayor, and the other figiderp,
elected' aro' ali Democrats. '