to come with her, but she looked pleadingly
up in Cressy's face.
" If you only would come ilp stairs with me,
oH hear me say " Our Father,'" she whisper'
cd, half afraid that her request would be detoi-
H, but Cressy took the proffered band, and
followed the nurse to Nellie's quiet little room.
Speedily the little one was dressed for her slum
bers, and then her tiny feet patted over the
carpet to Cre.-sy's side, where she knelt and
with clasped hands, lisped her evening pray
er. Cressy felt her eyes fill with tears, as
the low breathed words from those pure, young
lips, fell upon her car. Oh, the weary, weary
days that had passed since she knelt at her fa
ther's knee and whispered " Our Father." —
Sot'tlv she laid her hand on the bowed head of
the child, and felt that if a life lik- 1 hers lay
lK'fore her. how much better it would be. could
she be taken now from the world, while the
dew of innocence and love were still fresh in
her young spirit, then in a low tremulous voice,
she began to sing, A filic held het hand fast,
and "in her face with an expression of j
deep affection.
'• Do yon love ine ?" she asked after awhile, j
" Very mudC said Cressy.
" Will you take care of me while I stay
here ?"
" How long will that be ?" enquired Cressy.
'"Not very—l don't know just how long—
then I'm going to Heaven. T will try and be
very patient, if you wiit only hear my prayers
and sing when Igo to sleep. Ido love you so
much," and then laying her soft cheek on Cres
sy's hand, she soon feli into a troubled slumber
—and as Cressy noted the-feverish flush on her
pale cheek, the short and apparantly drawn !
breath, and the hot, dry hand that even in j
sleep clasped lurs, she felt that Nellie was in-'
deed a fading lloWer, and would soon bloom in i
the heavenly gardens.
Days passed away, and the child was almost
always with Mrs. Carrol and Cressy. It was
impossible not to love her, she was so affec
tionate and gentle, and winning in her way-, j
Cressy would permit no engagement to inter
fere with the hour given to Nellie v. lien she re
tired to rest; for she was learning from those
childish lips to put her faith in the Heavenly
Father.—and how sweet seemed such a faith
to her restless heart. The little one loved to
talk of Jesus Christ, and often Cressy would
read to her the sweet story of his life on earth,
while the words came like a balm to her own
spirit.
Oh, those quiet hours passed at the bed-side
of that child, whose footsteps were even then
pressing the threshold of Heaven, and whose
pure brow was lighted by its ineffable glory,
were worth her whole life time.
Mr. Leicester thrown much into the soeiety
of Cressy acknowledged her rare loveliness, aud
the new charm that now lit up her face, soon
won his heart. Helen had been to him like a
l>eautiful toy that amused him in his leisure
hours, aud he deeply mourned her loss, but he
felt that she had never been to him what Crcs
sada Carrol might be —a sharer of his inmost
lite, aspiring like himself towards everything
good and true, and beautiful. Helen had been
n petted child, bending her head in time of
trouble, and leaning on him for support. Cres
sada would be a true, firm friend alike in the '
sunshine of prosperity, and the storms of ad-1
versity, and so lie told her the story of his true !
and earnest love, and wailed for her reply. In
low, fine tones it came, and Fred Leicester,
weut forth from her presence, uuder the solemu
stars, and threw himself down on the damp
ground, his love rejected, while Cressy sought
her room and wept bitter tears of anguish.
It was past midnight, yet. still she sat by her
open window, when a hasty knock at the door,
was followed by the agitated voice of Nellie's 1
nurse.
"Will you come to Nellie's room. Miss," she
said, " I think she is dying." In an instant
Cressy was at the bedside. The child looked
intently on her face—" lam so glad that you
ure here," she whispered. Tiie father, almost
heart broken, knelt with his face buried in the
pillow, but Cressy heeded not, though she
knelt beside him, and wound her arm arouud
the child's little figure.
"Will you read to me, " The Lord is my
Shepherd ?" papa can't," she whispered again.
Cressy opened the Bible, but when she came
to the words "When I walk through the Val
ley and Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil,"
her voice faltered. She paused and hid her
face, —but. Nellie's weak, sweet voice went on
" for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff
they comfort me."
" Can you sing to me a little ?" she asked,
after a pause, and Cressy sung, but her voice
faltered no longer. When she ceased, Nellie
thauLul her, and taking her Laud -he pat it
in her father's, and clasped them in both her
own. Then silence reigned in the room for
hours, until the little one whispered very faint
ly, " I love you." There was a fluttering of
the young heart, a slight gasping for breath,
and Nellie Leicester was with the angels in
Heaven. Gentle fingers shut the waxen lids
ovr the blue eyes, and laid pale blossoms in
the small hands; and in after years, as in that
hour of deep anguish, Cressy thanked God
that the little one had lived and been known
to her.
But under this new tried the poor father
sutnc, and for many days lay in a delirious fe
ver. Mrs. Carrol and Cress? watched with
Bessy by his side, for Creasy had forgotten ev
erything now, save that Leicester was the first
one who was a friend to her. when she was
friendless—that he had taught her first to
know herself, and that after all tier lonely life
he loved her still, and now perhaps might die.
Day aud uight she was beside him, holding to
his lips the cooling draught,or fanning his burn
ing brow,—watching every change that passed
over the face of the physician, for a ray of hope.
At length the fever reached its crisis, and Lei
cester would recover. Then Cressy stole away
to her room, and thanked God, while soft, re
freshing tears rained down her pale cheeks.
" Cressy!" said Leicester, one morning, as
she laid down a book from which she had been
reading aloud. !>he started and trembled.—
The tone as he spoke her name brought back
the olden memories to her heart.
" Did you think I did not know you all this
time?" he continued, fixing his eyes full on her
face. "The evening that little Nellie brought
me to you—the first time I saw yon I knew
you; and oh, Cressy I thought I could teach
you to love me." lie paused, and now Cressy
came and knelt down beside liiiu. She took
his hands in hers, and bowed her face upon
them, and again he felt the hot tears fall as
they did years since, when Cre.ssv stood beside
him by the red school house. Cressy was a
true woman after all and Fred Leicester tifts
happy once more.
la Philadelphia, over $-18,000 have
be en contributed for the relief of the suffering
poor
SraWorVilcportcr.
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
T O WANDA:
Satnrimn Rloruing, .fcbriirtrn 17, 1855.
WNWfiB STATES SENATOR.
Tuesday last was the day fixed by law for
the election of U. S. Senator by the Legisla
ture of this State. The first preliminary cau
cus was held by the American party on Friday
evening, 02 members being present-. On the
sixth ballot Cameron 46 votes, Curtin 38, scat
tering 7; when about 30 of the members retir
ed. protesting against the irregular and unfair
proceedings. On the seventh ballot Cameron
was declared the nominee, and the caucus ad
journed.
On Monday evening the Democrats of the
Legislature, 20 in number, met in caucus, aud
nominated C. R. BLOKALEW as their candidate
for Senator.
The Whigs abo met in caucus, numbering
eight, and nominated THOMAS WILLIAMS, of
Allegheny, as their candidate for Senator.
The feeling at Ilarrisburg has been very in
tense, excitement running higher and higher as
the day of election approached.
On Tuesday the Legislature met in Conven
tion for the purpose of proceeding to an elec
tion. A ballot was had, resulting as follows :
CAMZK IS'. ... .AS votes. ]J. I*. JONES 11 votes.
IJLI AALKW 28 " I SCATTKIUN'G U "
On the second ballot, CAMERIX had ">9 votes,
the re.-; remaining the same, when a motion to
postpone the election two weeks prevailed by
67 yeas to 64 nays.
A resolution passed both Houses on Monday
morning directing the appointment of a select
I committee to investigate whether corruption or
bribery lias been re-sorted to for effecting the
i election of a 17. S. Senator. There was only
! one negative vote in both Houses.
A POLITICAL LESSON.
Hon Jinx C. BRECKIXRIDGE, some time since
nominated to Spain, has declined and General
ALGI'STLS C-ESAR DODGE has been honored with
the place, the Senate having confirmed his ap
pointment. At the same time, we are inform
ed, that the nomination of Mr. JOHN B. MILLER
as Secretary of Legation, at Lima. Peru, has
i been withdrawn, and his place filled by an
other.
An inquiry into the nnteccdentsof these two
men, will demonstrate to what use the power
conferred by the Democratic party is now pros
tituted. Gen. DODGE, who was Senator from
lowa, has always been distinguished for his ser
vility to the Slave Power. In the consumma
tion of the recent outrage upon the rights of
the North, he was a willing tool, always ready
at the beck and nod of his masters. We be
lieve that lie has earned, by his course in the
Senate, the right to the title of the
Chief of Doughfaces. Repudiated at home, by
the iudiguant voice of a free constituency, he
has Lis reward at the hands of the Adminis
tration.
Mr. MILLER is the editor of ■> democratic pa
per in New-York. It was repi sented that he
j had denounced the Repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, and for that reason, as the appoint
ment was condemned by the Slaveholders, his
name was withdrawn.
That General ACGCSTCS C.ESAR DODGE, con
tributed more to the success of the Democratic
party in the election of FKAXKLIX PIERCE, than
did Mr. MILLER, there is no reason to presume;
and yet, one now finds himself proscribed by
the Administration towards whose elevation in
goo.l faith he contributed, while the other re
ceives a signal mark of favor and consideration.
| In alluding to this, it is not to complain of the
| distribution of the offices, any further than the
I o"t demonstrates the uses which are made of
| the patronage of a democratic administration
; whose boast once was, that it " knew no North,
no South, no East, no "West." If the influence
aud patronage of the General Government is
used to favor one section at the expense of the
other—if it is used to press through Congress
measures repugnant to the great majority of
the nation—if a large portion of those whose
efforts have made the Administration are pro
scribed and repudiated—then, the lesson should
not be without its uses in the future.
The action of the Baltimore Convention, in
passing by those who had fawned and truckled
to procure a nomination, and selecting a man
I comparatively unknown, fresh from the people,
i identified with no cliques, and unpledged to
| sections, was hailed with the utmost enthusiasm
by all those who love the name and revere the'
principles of Democracy. Under the time-hon
| ored standard of the party, upon a broad and
j national platform, the great and liberal party
; of the country was once more united—anduni
j ted, is ever victorious. By a majority unpara
! lelled. FRAXKLIX PIERCE was elevated to the
Presidential chair, and assumed his high office,
I under prospects as favorable as ever greeted an
I incoming Administration. The rock on which
i previous Administrations had foundered, was
| the slavery question. That was now set at rest
| by the action of Congress, and by the delilier
ate resolves of the National Conventions of
both parties. Gen. PIERCE hastened to de
clare that the public quiet should suffer no
shock during his administration.
Elected by nil united Democracy, Gen. PIERCE
set out, we have no doubt in good faith, with
the intentiou of dealing impartially with the
members of that party, in the distribution of
his favors. But this course interfered with the
schemes of personal aggrandizement formed by
a portion of the party who consider sycophan
cy to slavery as the only qualification, Their
ire was aroused, when they saw Northern Free
men now and then, preferred. The aid of such
was all well enough, to elect a President, but
when inaugurated, they Were to be proscribed
and outlawed. The murmurs of disappointed
applicants begau to arise. The sectional jeal
ousy of the South was appealed to—and not in
vain. The arrogant and dictatorial spirit of
the elaveocracy demanded that the best men of
the North should give way to doughfaces and
servile tools, or its whole power and influence
would be arrayed against his Administration.
The struggle was a feeble one, between grati
tude and honesty on the one hand, and the ex
acting requirements of a powerful oligarchy on
the other. The introduction of the proposition
to repeal the Missouri Compromise, by a Whig
from Kentucky, decided the matter, and FRANK
UN PIERCE outdid his predecessors in the depth
of servility.
The disgraceful uses which have since been
made of the influence aud patronage of the Go
vernment, are yet fresh in themefnoryof every
oue. For disreputable, open, unblushing pros
titution of the power lodged in its liaud.s by a
coufiding people, this Administration takes pre
cedence. Its members have gone in person in
to the hails of Congress, by their presence to
urge the passage of measures obnoxious to the
country, and repugnant to every principle of
public integrity and fair dealing. Its organ
has boldly proclaimed, that traitors to North
cm sentiment if rebuked at home, would re
ceive their rewards at the hands of the Admin
istration. And in pursuance of that declara
tion, the moral sentiment of the country is out
raged by the appointment of such men as Ai ucs-
TI\S CJCSAR DODGE. Forgetful of its pledges,
faithless to popular sentiment, disregarding the
plighted faith of the nation, this Administra
tion has sunk to the lowest depth of public exe
cration and derision —despised by those who
profess to be friendly—and become the mere
adjunct and tool of the slavery interests of the
Nation.
Besides the public odium which is incurred
j by such a course, the party which was victori
ous and united in 1852, is now shattered into
a thousand fragments, its banners trailing in
j the dust, and with no probability of immediate
re-uniou. Such a prospect is a gloomy one, in
deed,, but we are confident it*will eventually
result in permanent good. The Democratic
party is not the natural ally of Slavery, what
ever may be the opinions of those who seek to
make it so. Whenever the dark flag of hu
man bondage has beeu raised—whenever the
Shibboleth of slavery has sought to be estab
lished, the party has been sundered and over
thrown. Justly and righteously it has met
! with defeat and disaster. We trust that it will
| ever be so, in all future time. Error may snf-
J fer by it—but the principles of Democracy are
| eternal and immutable. Its name may be used
! for the basest puqmscs, but amidst the wreck
i of parties the pure principles of Democracy will
shine as the polar-star to guide the storm-tost
mariner to a haven of safety. If bad men use
the cloak of Democracy for corrupt purposes,
it is the duty of every honest lover of his party,
|to labor for their overthrow. Those who call
loudest upon its name, are not always the most
sincere. We have no fear for its principles.—
Founded upon Truth and Justice, and Morality,
they will survive the overthrow of a dozen rot
ten and corrupt party organizations.
NEBRASKA TERRITORY. —The first legislative
assembly of Nebraska Territory convened at
Omaha City on the 16th ultimo. On the 17th
ult. both branches of the Legislature were per
manently organized, after a desperate struggle
between the delegates from the northern and
southern section of the Territory upou the choice
of officers, which involved also to some extent
the question of the location of the capitol.—
The Platte river is the sectional line, aud in
the struggle to secure a preponderance of in
fluence to the section north or south of this
division, and from the crude and loosely arrang
ed method of conducting elections, unavoidable
in a newly settled country, double delegations
were returned from some of the couuties, and
in fact the seats of half the members were eon
tested. The congregation of these aspirants
to legislative honors and their partizaus, all
fully armed and determined to maintain their
claims at every hazard, created an intense ex
citement, and at one time it was feared that
serious trouble might arise, to the extent even
of defeating the organization of the Legislature,
and of a general aud bloody fight. Happily,
however, better counsels prevailed, and good
order was preserved. When the question re
lative to the contested seats should be brought
up a renewal of the excitement was apprehend
ed. But the expected arrival of Governor
Izard, in the meantime, would without doubt
put a different and a more peaceable aspect
upon these feuds, and lead to an adjustment
mutually satisfactory.
Later accounts state that both Houses of
the Assembly have passed a bill locating the
capital of Nebraska at Omaha city, opposite
Connsal Bluff and that the Governor has signed
the bill.
Coi.. KIXXEY. —The Norfolk Herald of Sat
urday says that instuetions have been received
by the agent in that city from Col. Kinney,
! authorising the stopping of enrolling men for
the Central American expedition. It is said
unfortunate circumstances and difficulties have
caused the Colonel to come to this determina
tion.
9G&" A Society has been formed in William
sport, which pledges its members " not to pur
chase for use any foreign goods when domestic
can be procured in their stead." Charles Kalb
fus is President, and J. A. Montgomery, Sec
retary.
OANFIELD & WARD'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
"MONSIEUR TONSON COME AGAIN!"
On Tuesday of the first week of Court, a
handbill, of which the following is a copy, was
posted up in several conspicuous places: —
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.—A meeting of the Democracy
will be held at the Court House, thin (Tuesday) evening,
to elect Delegates to the next State Cunvfentiou, and to
transact such other business as may be deemed necessary.
Towauda, February fi, 1855.
We regret to say, that we were unable to be
present at the organization of the meeting. "YV e
understand, however, that F. SMITH, Esq., was
I appointed President, and other officers elected,
i and the meeting adjourned to the Grand Jury
| room.
When we entered the Grand Jury room, we
! found some twelve or fifteen solemn looking
j gentlemen seated around the room, which was
: dimly lighted by a single tallow candle, and wc
i took our scat, awc-struck by the sepulchral
character of the scene. As we looked around
upon the assemblage, we thought of the "hard
! case," who was arraigned before a justire in
the morning for drunkenness, after having been
fined for the same offence the night before.—
As the justice proceeded to inflict the fine pro
vided by the statute, the victim of intemierancc
stopped him—" No you don't, Squire," said he,
" This is the same old drunk!" It was so with
this meeting. It was the same old Pro-Slaverv,
j Nebraska, National (!) Democratic concern,
! composed of those, who for years have been in
• an attitude of opposition to the sentiment of
I the Democracy of the County, and have cither
openly or secretly endeavored to destroy its
organization and to defeat its candidates. We
saw but a now phase to that persistent and fac
tions uneasiness, which has on former occasions
sought to give shape and consistency to all the
discordant elements in the party of the Coun
ty, and whose efforts have heretofore been dis
regarded by the Democracy, and so impotent
in its malignancy.
Presently the deep and painful silence was
broken by the entrance of C. L. WARD, Esq.
and \V. 11. PECK, Esq., who, we suppose, were
a Committee on Resolutions, because the latter
proceeded to read a portion of the resolutions
recently adopted at a Democratic meeting in
Susquehanna county. Our Susquehanna friends,
to " head off," the Republican party in that
County, went the " entire animal," free-soil, and
all—but the Committee struck out the pith of
the resolutions, and left only an unmeaning as
semblage of words, very prettily put together,
to be sure, but signifying nothing.
The resolutions being before the meeting,
several gentlemen proceeded to deliver them
selves of sj>eechcs, in which there appeared no
thing remarkable, the burthen of each speech
being the failure ou the part of the Standing
Committee to call a Convention at February
Court. Each speaker predicted the most as
tonishing results from the small meeting there
convened- -
" Large oaks from little acorns grow,"
—that a democratic party was there inaugura
ted, pure and undefiled, which was to annihi
late all other parties. Finally, each one en
deavored satisfactorily to account for the small
ness of the meeting, and sat down, apparently
much relieved.
Mr. WARD, in the course of his remarks, as
serted that the majority of the party in this
county, had been subservient to the behests of
one man, and that the present Standing Com
mittee had placed their consciences in his keep
ing, (meaning, as near as we could infer from
his insinuations, Judge WTI.MOT.) —Which re
mark struck us as particularly cool, coming
from such a source, ami led us to congratulate
ourselves, as member of that Committee, that
we had a conscience to place iu anybody's keep
ing.
Mr. CAXFIELD offered a preamble and reso
lutions which developed the whole object of the
meeting, to the effect that that the Democratic
party of the County was disorganized, and that
in order to re-organize a new Democratic party
in conjunction with the Democracy of the State
and Nation, a Standing Committee be appoin
ted with the usual powers. This gave rise to
considerable debate—in fact, the discussion
was allowed a very wide latitude. It was urg
ed, firstly, that the fact that the Standing Com
mittee had not called a • Wiruary Convention,
was a virtual disorganization of the party; and
secondly, that as most, if not all, (so says Mr.
CAN-FIELD) of that committee opposed Gov.
BIGLER'S re-election, by that deed they become
incompetent to act. So it became the duty of
the immaculate gentlemen present to re-organ
ize the Democratic party, to purge it of all im
purities.
It puzzled the debaters to pet their pream
ble in the right shape. Some of them seemed
to realize the ludicrous position they were in,
and feared that possibly the Standing Commit
tee though defunct, might not stay dead, but
would still call a Convention, and particularly
at September, and claim that they were " regu
lar,'' after all. But finally, the resolutions were
passed as offered.
Col. JOHN F. MEAXS and F. SMITH were
elected delegates to the Fourth of July State
Convention.
Mr. CAXFIELD then offered another resolu
tion, for the appointment of a Committee to in
quire into the expediency of establishing a "De
mocratic organ" in the County, which was
adopted, and the meeting adjourned.
If any set of men see fit to assemble togeth
er and form themselves into a new party, lay
ing down their platform of principles, we shall
be the last to censure them, provided their mo
tives are not flagrantly and manifestly impro
per, or their pretences false, and their profes
sions hypocritical. If men cannot conscientious
ly support the principles put forth by the De
mocratic party of this County, it is their privi
lege—uay, it is their duty, to seek other means
by which to carry out their views. But for
those who seek to disorganize the party by false
pretences, we have no respect.
The excuses made for holding this meeting
arc so flimsy and transparent, that we do not
believe the gentlemen interested have any hope
of deceiving anybody by them. It they do,
they pay a poor compliment to the intelligence
of our Democracy. They have seized ujon pre
texts which arc without a shadow of reason or
truth. The complaint that a Democratic Con- j
vention was not called at February term, to ;
elect Delegates to the State Convention, is
i pointless and absurd. The editor of the Re- j
|; ■porter , (now Chairman of the Democratic Stand- j
I ing Committee) to settle a mooted question, j
| about which there was considerable diversity |
of sentiment, offered a resolution in tile Sep- j
tember Convention of 1852, that the delegates
to the State Convention be elected in Scptem
j her, to obviate the necessity of holding two
| Conventions, This resolution was negatived by
j a decided majority, and the opinion which pre
| railed tvas, that the County Convention should
! be holden as near the time of the meeting of
the State Convention as practicable, to afford
| a better opportunity for the formation and ox
i prcssion of popular opinion as regards candi
' dates.
The usual time for holding State Conven
tions is March, but the State Central Commit
-1 tee have postponed that for this year until the
j Fourth day of July. May term of our Court
is still some two months previous to the State
i Convention.
In 1852, the State Convention was held at
Reading, on the Fourth day of July, and the
j County Convention was held and delegates
. elected for Bradford, May term.
Another reason is, that there is great proba
i bility that the Legislature will abolish the Ca
nal Board, and so there will exist no necessity
! for holding a State Convention.
! [Nut having yot procured the proceedings of this ineet
! ing, of course we arc not aide to " do justice to the occa
sion."]
PASSACE OF THF. TEXAS CREDITOR'S BIRR.—
The House of Representatives at Washington.
| on Tucsdav last, passed a bill from the Senate
for the payment of the creditors of Texas, by a
vote of 154 to 43, after reducing the amount
j to be appropriated, from eight millions and a
half to six millions live hundred and fifty thou
! sand dollars. The bill provides that in lieu of
; the five millions of dollars, payable to Texas in
I live per cent. United States stock, the issue of
; which was restricted by the law of September
9th, 1850, $0,550,000 be appropriated, to be
apportioned among the holders, pro rata , the
! interest to be determined by the existing laws
of Texas; the holders and Texas to release all
| claims agains the United States for and on ac
i count of the securities—the act not to take ef
; feet until assented to by the Legislature of Tex
j as, nor until said Legislature pass a law with
! drawing and abandoning all claims and do
! mands against the United States, growing out
; of Indian depredations or otherwise.
FENNSI.YAXIA EX-GOVERNORS. —There are
( but four ex-Governors of Pcunselvania now
j living:—Joseph Ritner, D. R. Porter, Win. F.
j Johnston, and Win. Bigler. The three last
\ named were on the platform at the recent in-
I auguraticm of Gov. Pollock, and Gov. Ritner
had been at the eapitol but a few days before
! on his return from the Convention of Old Sol
diers. Three of the four —Porter being the
exception—were beaten in contests for re
election, and Ritner was twice defeated before
I lie was chosen.
MODIFICATION OF THE TARIFF. —Tn the lower
House of Congress Monday, Mr. Houston
moved to go into Committee, with a view of
taking up the bill modifying the Tariff, and
j desired the question considered a test. The
! motion was agreed to—yeas 104; nays 97
but after going into Committee, the Civil and
Diplomatic Appropriation bill was taken up
instead of the Tariff bill, by a vote of 95 to 89.
i ~
DECEIVE FV THE UNITED STATES REVENUE.—
The decline in the amount of revenue from
customs, &e., collected during the mouth of
January, is said to be less by two millions three
hundred thousand dollars than was received
during January, 1854. The aggregate falling
off since the end of October, when the reaction
in the import trade began is $6,000,000. —
During the first seven months of the current
fiscal year the decrease is $6,351,000.
SUSPENSION. —The Banking House of 7S. B.
RIDKER located at Geneva, suspended payment
on Tuesday week. The liabilities are about
$200,000. Mr. K. was sole or joint owner of
the Bank of Horncllsvillc and the Bainbridge
Bank, both of which are discredited at the
Geneva Bank. The former Bank still con
tinues to do business, and both are well secured
by stocks so that bill holders would suffer no
loss by their suspension.
ERECTION IN PHIRADEPIIIA. —An election took
i place in Philadelphia on Tuesday last to sup
j ply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr.
: FOI RKROD, in the State Senate. The candidates
were J. MURRAY RUSH, democrat, and HENRY
C. PRATT. American. The result is the elec
tion <>t the latter, by about 2000 majority.
PRETTY CORD. —On Tuesday, at Gotham, on
j the U hite mountains, the mercury in the ther
mometer was within one degree of the point at
which it becomes congealed. This is consider
ably colder than we have had it, but not near
so cold as the polar regions, where according
to Dr. Kane, sweet oil had to be sawed and
brandy split with a hatchet.
tfg" 1 It is ulmost certain that the President
will veto the French Spoliation Bill, lately pass
ed by Congress.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
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—The Committee on Banks in the Senate
have reported billn to charter the Anthracite Bank at Tj.
tnaqua, and the Allen town Bank. The House have ap
j pointed a committee to investigate the charges prefer,,.,}
against the Bank of Northern Liberties for violating th, :
usury laws.
—A report is in circulation at ITarrisbur'
I t'lat Col. Brandt has been politely requested to resign q,,,
| I'ost Mastership in favor of Andrew Hopkins, Esq., editor
! of the Patriot.
j —There is an application before the Legis
lature to erect a new county out of parts of Dauphin I*.
i Union and Schuylkill counties, to be named " Pollock
! county /*'
—A Prohibitory Liquor Law State Conven
: tion is called to meet at Atalanta, Georgia, February 22
! to nominate a candidate for Governor.
—A bill has been introduced into the lower
House of the Legislature of Illinois to allow a certain ne
; gfo. therein named, to testify in courts of justice.
: —Strang, the Mormon, who is a member of
the present Michigan legislature, is said to have tlirs e
wives, lie i- siiid to be a good speaker.
I —Recent letters from Europe report the
health of the Rev. Dr. DutT, of the Free Church of Scot
land, as hopefully improving.
—A late Collector at Columbia, in this;
State, is reported to IK; quitea heavy defaulter. He wone
of Mr. Buchanan's pets, and was induced to purchase quite
j largely of certain kinds of Corporation Stock.
—On Monday last, I>r. Kimball, of Lowell,
Mass., removed from the abdomen of a lady in Lenox, a :i
| ovarian tumor, weighing forty-live pounds! She is now
in a comfortable condition with a fair proopect of recovery.
- The State Agricultural Society announces
tiiat its next exliibition.will commence on the 20tb ofSep
tenilier nexti and the Society say that they wili receive
proposals till the first of April next, from the many town,
and cities of the State, relative to the location of the ex
! hibitiori. Harrisburg wants the exhibition held there,and
efforts will be mud" to present such inducements that t!,-;
[ Society wili choose that place.
I —The New York Herald makes thcfollow
-1 ing political c*assificaliou of the vote by wMcli Mr. Si-w
-ard was re-elected to the Senate. In the .Senate he re .
'ed IS votes—thirteen Whig and live Know Nothings. In
| the House the House he rceived 09 votes—fifty-five Whig,,
seven Know Nothings, anil three Democrats.
—The level of Lake Eric, at Cleveland, is
Bevcnty-sTX feet below the surface of low water in the Ohio
river, at Well*viF{f. The level of the lake and river a;
' Gallipolis is about equal. This sets at rest forever the
.j idea of feeding the river from the lake.
—Tiie Russian Losses in the Crimea, by of
ficial accounts, have been 2G.7G3, of which 7,300 were kili
ed or died from wounds, and 4.019 from disea-e. There
were 18.82G wounded if the various I Kittles.
■ —The friends of Senator Seward, in New
York, exult at his re-election in a most extravagant inar
- ner. At Albany, Rochester, Syracuse and other places
i they had bonfires and fired guns for every vote he received.
—Gen. Houston, it is said, is now actually
going to Boston to deliver OIK; of the course, of lectures up
,on slavery. A corres|K>ndent of the Detroit Aavcni-er
, says that he will take the ground that the South is not
aggrcsiv e, and that all -lie requires is a faithful observ
; anec of her rights under the constitution.
—Major Isaae Means, of Taylor county, Ya,
a native of Hampshire,has fourteen children,one hundred
and seven grand children, and forty-four great grand chil
dren. He is now in his eighty-first year.
-—lt is understood that J. N. T. Tucker, for
merly editor of a Brooklyn paper, who was recently found
guilty of the murder of his child, will be- committed tothe
' Lunatic Asylum on tic ground of insanity.
j —The Uticti (N. Y.) Herald says, a mooso
i was killed in the wilderness, one day last week. Thisaa
j imal is now very rare in this part of the State.
| —An American Hotel, a third large? than
j the St. Nicholas, in New York, is in progress of erection
: at l'aris.
—The Lavaca (Texas) Commercial of the
i 29th nit., reports delightful weather,and vegetation be o'iii
| ning to spring up. an indication of an early spring.
j —The Adjutant General of Pennsylvania
! estimates flie militia force of this State at 300.000.
—Elder Knapp, the celebrated Baptist Di
j vine, baptised between 40 anu .70 people at Perm Yan,
j Yates county, N. V., last week, the fruits of his preacUin;
there.
—Tlie New York Board of Emigration esti
mates that $20,090,000 in money has been brought intothe
country in the last year by German emigrants.
—Henry A. Wise is battling very determin
edly in \ irginia for his election as Governor. He expros
j ses himself its sanguine of an electron, but the Know No
| things are just as sanguine.-
J —The Act for the rejieal of the law rcquir
j ing the Registration of Births. Marriages and Deaths of
I Pennsylvania, has JKUWCII both branches of the Legislature.
—A bill is pending in the Legislature to in
crease the salary of members from $3 JKT day to s7oi) for
the session, and 10 cents a mile traveled to and from the
seat of government. I'mler the old per diem
| (even a four^month's session) the pay of each member did
• not reach $400.-
—Ex-Mayor Maury and John If. Pleasan
i ton, Esq., Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, l>oth died during
1 the last week, at Washington. The latter had U-en an
[ employee of the Government for over fifty years.
—Gov. Pollock has nominated A. K. Me
\ Clure. of Chambersburg, as Superintendent of the PuUr
J Printing.
—-The Senate of Michigan which contain- a
: majority ot " ("unionist-," has instructed the Senator- n
j Congress from state, to vote for tin- repeal of the Fugitiv
i Slave Law. and for a law to prohibit Slavery in anv of the
Territories, and especially Kansas and Nebraska.
THE KINNEY EXPEDITION. — The Secretary of
State at IV ashington, has replied to Col. Kin
ney's communication of the 28th, stating the
purposes and objects of his Central American
enterprise, and asking if the government ptir
posed to arrest it by public proclamation. Mr
MARUY says:—" If the enterprise of which von
: speak in your letter of the 28th ultimo is a
mere peaeelul emigration—if vou and those wh '
purpose to go with you prefer to leave the Uni
ted States and seek a permanent home iu a for
eign country, renounce your citizenship here,
and the rights and privileges belonging to i ; .
ami to submit yourselves to the laws of anode"
jurisdiction, it is neither the duty nor tho !e
-sire of this government to interfere with your
, proceedings. By such a course you cease to l*e
citizens ot the I uited States, and can hav\
I after such a change of allegiance, no claim to
protection as such citizens from this govern
ment.
The Secretary of State, however, donie> that
! the Mosquito Indians have any sovereignty or
i political authority in Central America, ami
1 concludes :
, 'lf the emigrants should be formed in' 0
I companies, commanded bv officers, anil furnish
ed with arms, such organization would assume
the character of a military expedition, ami be*
ing hardly consistent with professions of peace
ful objects, would devolve on this Government
t the duty of inquiring whether it be not iu vio*
! lation our neutrality act.''