XXXIVTH CONGRESS.
SECOND SESSION*.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.
In the HOUSE the Coinage Bill was post
poned for two weeks.
Mr. RICF. introduced a hill authorizing the
people of Minesota to form a Constitution
and State Government.
The SENATE was not in session.
WASHINGTON. Dee 26.
grsATF.—On motion of Mr. Thompson, of
New Jersey, a resolution was adopted calling
on the Secretary of the Treasury to report j
whether a more efficient means cannot be de
vised for the preservation of the lives of sea
men and passengers, wrecked on the coast of
New Jersey and Long I-lund. and nl-o wither
relief should not be granted to the families of
persons who lose their lives in the endeavor to
rescue individuals from shipwreck.
The Senate, without further business, ail
jourucd until Tuesday.
HOUSE— The House proceeded to the con
sideration of hills upon the private calendar. :
Several private bills passed, and also the
Senate bill providing for the compulsory pre
payment of postage on ail transient printed
matter.
The House then adjourned until Tuesday.
Latest from Kansas.
The news of Whitfield's rejection by the j
House having been received at Lawrence, and
no intelligence of his subsequent admission, the
people tired a salute of thirty-two guns in
honor of the event. A man who had just ar
rived at Lawrence from Ossawatomie reports j
all quiet in the southern part ot the territory.
The great land sale at Leaven worth continued ,
to pass oft* quietly. The rivers Missouri and
Kansas were frozen over, and navigation closed.
A special messenger had arrived at Leaven
worth from Washington, with despatches Irom |
the President. Tiiey contained, among other
things, the ofticiui information to George W. ;
Clark, the notorious Indian agent tor the Pot
tawattauiies, that he had been removed, and ,
Isaac Winster, of Culpepper county, Va.. ap- j
pointed in his stead. This blow was quite j
unexpected to Clark, who has got much ex-;
cited about it, and swears revenge on all who j
were instrumental in his removal. Col. Titus,
while at Kansas city on his way east, was ;
served by the Sheriff with a capias, issued in a ;
suit against him for an unpaid board bill at
West port. The Colonel cursed the whole ,
town as composed of abolitionists, refused to ;
obey the writ, and the Sheriff did nut arrest j
him" He ai d his men were out of money.— j
The road from Kansas city to Jefferson, Mo.,
is now so much traveled by persons going Last ;
and South, that it is lined with broken down
stages and other vehicles. At the land sale
on the 3d inst., 125 claims had been purchased
by squatters, covering 24,320 acres, and 124
claims by speculators, embracing 19,794 acres.
Governor Geary has refused to allow the iree
State prisoners to be disgraced by the ball and
chain. A formal demand on ltiiu by Sheriff
Jones was declined in writing. Through all
the trials suffered by the people of Ossawa
tomie, the two faithful clergymen of their only
church have remained with them, laboring
amid perils and hardships, and though their
church and school buildings and library were
destroyed by the Missourians at the time the
town was burned, religions services are still
held there regularly every Suudav. Of the
six free State prisoners captured in that neigh
borhood lately by the U. S. officials, three
have escaped. Nine-tenths of all the settlers
within ten miles of that place are said to be
free State people, numbering in all about five
hundred souls. There has been much suffer
ing there. One benevolent Quaker living near,
gave to the sufferers liberally as long as his
own stores lasted, but at last he got sick him
self, and was then destitute, and was obliged
to depend upon relief from others. An old
man. 70 years of age, who hud migrated from
"Wisconsin with $4,000, has lost everything in
the course of the war, had one son killed in
the attack on Ossawatomie, and is now about
to return, desponding, to his old home. Hie
new railway project from Keokuk, lowa, to
Kansas city, Mo., has given a great impulse to
the latter and the towns in Kansas near it.—
A project of another railway to connect with
this has been started in Kansas, to proceed
from Kansas city along the Kaw river to
Lawrence. $30,000 have been subscribed to
it. Governor Geary has, it is said, sent a let
ter to Gov. King, of New York, in which he
is understood to take ground satisfactory to
the North. The trial of Partridge, one of
the free State prisoners from Ossawatomie,
had been postponed at Tecnniseh, owing to
the absence of the free State witnesses. They
nil refused to attend, believimr it merely a trap
to arrest them. Partridge had found means
to convey to them accounts of the inhumanity
with which he is treated. Very few, except
residents are now remaining in the territory.—
The land sale has produce ! an excellent effect
in exciting a spirit of enterprise and friendly
feeling between the two parties before un
known. Judge Klmore and some other con
servative pro-slavery men have visited Law
rence, and made overtures for peuee and union
upon the basis of true popular sovereignty.—
They talked with Governor Robinson. It was
conceded that the bogus laws ought to be re
pealed, and that the dispute between the two
parties ought to be referred to a genuine elec
tion, when none but voters of three mouths
residence should vote, aud every possible pro
tection against fraud should be given. It is
said that a plan was agreed upon by which
both parties of genuine residents should unite
in an appeal to Congress to pass a bill drawn
up on this plan. Persons recently from the
territory say that pro-slavery is worn out by
the long contest, and that the free soilers pre
ponderate in the ratio of ten to one. A large
northern emigration to the territory is looked
for in the spring. The Kansas Committee at
Chicago puts forth a statement to this effect.
Access to the territory is uow perfectly unim
peded.
NEGRO TRDUBI.ES IN THE SOUTH.— Baltimore,
Monday, Dec. 29, 1856—New-Orleans papers
of Tuesd y last are received. They contain
dispatches from Mississippi and Northern Ala
bama, giving reports of slave excitements at
Jackson and Canton, Mississippi. Great alarm
prevailed, and a number of negroes had been
arrested.
B®- A child of Mr. J. 11. Snydam, of Gran
by, Ohio, fell into a well IS feet deep. There
was no help at hand, and after a moment's hesi
tation, Mrs. S., clinilied down and caught the
child, and then climbed up the side until with n
a few feet of the top. Another child, five '
years old, lay down on the platform, and reach- ■
ing down, took the child by the arm, and the '
little feHew was saved i
[From the Owego Times.]
Soon Repented.
On the bank of the Susquehanna river is
-ituated the village of Towanda. Some fif
teen veurs since there was a saloon kept in
this village, for drinking aud gambliug, and
in any other vices. Tiie gambling room was a
higlilv finished bed-room, down cellar at the
enTl of the building. The gamblers, or a part
of titeui, would enter this building by the hatch
way or back door. Here they might hold a
night of revelry and not be heard in the street,
or up in the saloon.
On a cold, stormy night in De> ember, there
entered this gambling-room, Col. Wells and
Esquire Keeler with two friends, to take a sett
at the gambling-table. This table was always
supplied with a bottle of Cogniac brandy, to
keep up the betting spirit In the back-yard
and about thirty feet from the entrance to
this gambling-room was an old well, ten feet
deep'/with four or five feet of water tlirein.—
The day previous to the night on which these
men went in to gamble, the proprietor of the
saloon rolled off the old hogshead that cover
ed the well to use for an ash-house, and left
the weil uncovered. About eleven o'clock on
the night above mentioned, the Colonel and
Squire had a dispute about the game. Soon,
high words ensued, and a proposition for a
"free fight" was proposed. The Colonel and ;
Squire stripped for the purpose, aud repaired j
to the back yard full of venom, for they had i
been takiug a little of the fighting "critter." '
The proprietor and two friends followed out
to see the end of the bloody conflict. The
Colonel, having once been a military man, was
foremost in battle, gnashing bis teeth, and
with clenched fists he rushed at the Squire in |
great furv. The Squire being more of a j
moderate man, deliberately stepped back two '
steps to give the Colonel a "sockdolager" on I
the nose, but before the blow got "home," the 1
Squire went down the well feet foremost and |
disappeared from the Colonel's view.
Here was a dilemma. No one knew how
deep the well was, and Jihe Colonel soou be
came badly frightened. He crawled up to
the hole and thrust in his arm the whole length,
and cried out
"Squire ! where are you ?"
There being no answer returned it was sup
posed the Squire was dead. This guilty party
of four now started in hot haste for a light.—
At this part of the crisis, there was but one j
light burning about the premises, and this was
a large globe lamp hung over the centre of the ■
gaining table. The Colonel found his way !
back to the room and made a wild grab at
the lamp ; lie broke the suspending chain, arid
down came the whole apparatus in a mass of
ruin. Here was a frightful piece of work, for
by some means the oil aud brandy got united j
and caught fire. The proprietor of the saloon
by this time had found a candle and matches, •
but seeing the prospect of the fire he was de- •
termiued to save his property in preference to
the Squire's life. With a little careful man
agement on the part of the proprietor, the lire
was soou put out, the caudle and matches
were again found, and the party went again j
to look for the Squire, but on approaching the
old well, nothing was to be seen of him. The
company now returned to the gambling room
and held a sort of council. Many plans were
proposed to conceal the murder. The proprie
tor's plan was to fill up the well with stones
forthwith, and then deny all knowledge of the
Squire's whereabouts ; but the remainder of
the company objected to this course after the
proprietor had thrown down the well two or
three heavy stones. They thought best, finally,
to let the matter rest until morning, and then
assemble and decide what would be best to
do. But when the morning came the first
uian to be seen in the streets was the Squire.
Is it necessary to say that while the gam
blers were looking for a light the Squire
came out of the well and ran for home, minus
his hat aud coat, with no other damage done
to him except a little skiu knocked off from
each elbow ; and while the wretched men
: were holding a council in contemplating how
to secrete his murder, the Squire was snugly
liu bed with Mrs. Keeler. Soon after this,
Col. Perrin Wells became a member of the
M. E. Church and died near Montrose ; the
Squire yet survives and lives near Standing
Stone. DAVID.
The person who wrote the above letter to
the Oirrgo Times, has been taking unwarran
table liberties with our local traditions. The
occurrence represented did take place many
years ago, but the persons named were not the
actors iu it. *
If the Col. WELLS mentioned is intended for
Col. PERRIN WELLS, formerly of this place, we
are pleased to say that he " still lives" near
Montrose, than whom no uian is more respec
ted by his neighbors, as evinced by his elec
tion last fall to the office of Commissioner of
I Susquehanna County by some 1200 majority.
The saloon mentioned was a dismal cellar,
part of a hat manufactory, where the myste
ries of " poke," or " bluff," aud kindred games
were indulged in by sundry persons. It was
some years since purified by fire, and the site
is now occupied by HALL A RUSSELL'S Store.
It docs not require the " memory of the oldest
inhabitant" to go back to the time when it
was in full blast, and there are those yet living
here who could have " posted up" the Times'
correspondent more correctly iu regard to the
incident in questiou.
We might add, that we believe that this
place is more free from gambling (for which it
was formerly somewhat celebrated) than any
place of its size in the State. The votaries of
this seductive, yet dangerous practice, have I
either removed, or ha\e learned the folly of
their course, and are content to earn their mo
ney in a more lawful and honest manner.
A HEAVY SHAVE. —It is testified to in the i
trial of Huntingdon, by a bookkeeper of a '
firm who was in the practice of aceoramodat-!
ing him with loans for the purpose of shaving j
notes, that to one of these firms lie paid some-!
times, for sums of five or ten thousand dollars, i
one per cent, a day , saying that it was half;
what he made. It is no wonder that so many
failures occur in New-York. Men who bor-,
row at such rates certainly never intend to pay
their debts.
B&tf A young lady at the female Seminar}*, I
Klinira, N. Y.,oame near dying on Friday from :
the effects of chloroform. She found a bottle
of it, and being pleased with the flavor, inhaled
too much. Prompt medical treatment restor
ed her.
ilrabforti llcpoiltr.
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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House, in the hormurh of Towuilda,
on MONDAY, the 12th day of JANUARY, 1857, at one
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requested. U. MERCt'R, Chairman.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.— The Tribune gives
the following as the latest gossip in the know
ing circles at Washington : According to the
last reports from Wheatland, the Cabinet pro
gramme is partially changed from the original
cast. It now reads as follows : . Gen. Cass,
Secretary of State ; Howell Cobb, Secretary
of the Treasury ; Jesse D. Bright, Secretary
of the Interior. Gov. Floyd, Senators Rusk
and Benjamin and Mr. Clifford arc not specifi
cally designated. About Mr. Rusk's occupa
tion of any place, but particularly that for
which he is indicated, being Chairman of the
Post-Office Committee of the Senate, there is
much doubt. It will be observed that Mr.
Benjamin is now indicated as the representative
man of the Old-Line Whigs, instead of Mr.
Preston of Kentucky, at first designated for
that capacity. Mr."Touccy is discarded, and
Mr. Clifford is adopted for want of better ma
terial.
Mr. Buchanan may be hero about the 15th
; of January, or he my postpone the time of
coming to a fortnight after. Both contingen
cies are probable, from his recent declarations,
: and either may happen, according to the de
! velopment of circumstances,
Glancy Jones, of Pennsylvania, is killed off
for the Cabinet, but as Mr. Buchanan rccoin
, mended him by letter for his own successor in
the British Mission, he may provide him official
quarters.
No confidence is entertained that this last
cast can stand after Mr. Buchanan confers in
Washington, and the present publicity will add
! to the demonstrations of hostility already in
; tended. In fact, lie is just beginuing to real
ize the difficulties of his position, and they
; have beeu seriously augmented at the outset
by the interference in the Pennsylvania Sena
j torial question.
MUSICAL CONVENTION. —By an advertisement
in another column, it will be seen that arrange
ments have been made for holding the third
annua] Convention of the Bradford County
Musical Convention at this place, commencing
on Tuesday the 27th day of January iustant,
to continue three days and to close with a
Concert, at which it is expected that a new
Oratorio will be performed. The Convention
will be under the direction of Mr. GF.ORGE F.
ROOT, of New-York city, whose reputation is
well known as an able and popular leader of
such Musical assemblages. The holding of a
musical convention is no longer a matter of
question or of doubt since the experience of
the last winters. The ones already holdeu
here have demonstrated to our musical popula
tion, aud to all others, in fact, their immense
utility as a means of disseminating a correct
musical taste, and imparting information in
this highly pleasing and very nccessa y art.—
We shall expect to see in attendance on this
occasion, all the musical celebrities of the
County, as well as all those who wish to cor
rect their style of singing or learn what may
be new in the art. The necessary arrangements
will be made, both for the meetings of the Con
vention, and for the comfort of those who may
attend.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. —The Scranton Herald
says : We are informed by Slieritf Stark that
Mr. Smith, murdered his wife near this place
a few weeks since, attempted to commit suicide
in the jail at Wilkes-barre a short time since.
He opened both arms with a piece of glass ob
tained from breaking the window of his cell.
When found he was pretty well gone, having
j bled till the blood had ran through the bed
and dripped through the floor into the cell be
low.
What is most singular is the fact that since
this loss of blood he has been perfectly sane.
OSr The Supreme Court of this State re
cently decided that the widow of a decedent is
entitled to S3OO out of the proceeds of the sale
! of his real estate in preference to a judgment
creditor in whose favor the husband had wav
ed the benefits of the Exemption Act of 1849.
BSr A bill is to be reported in Congress,
endorsed by the P. O. Department, taxing
Lottery circulars aud such class of mail mat
ter with letter postage. This is as it should
be.
8&~ The Legislature of this State will meet
on Tuesday next. We shall probably receive
the Governor's message in time for our next
paper.
Bap* The Sheriff ©f Bucks county, last week,
took eight prisoners to the Penitentiary from
that count v.
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA. —The steamer Illi
liuois arrived ut New-York on Monday, with
over a million and a half in gold and the Cali
fornia mails of Dec. 5. The news of Buchan
an's election, which was carried by the steamer
Sierra Nevada, was received with jubilation
by the Democratic party, and since its an
nouncement there has been a general lull in
political affairs. The total vote of the State
for President was 107.377, of which Buchanan
had 51,925, Fillmore 35,113, and Fremont
20,339, giving a plurality of Fillmore and
Fremont over Buchanan of 3,527. The State
Legislature comprises 58 Democrats, 12 Re
publicans and 10 Americans in the House ;
and in the Senate, 18 Democrats, 3 Republi
cans and 12 Americans, making a Democratic
majority of 39 on joint ballot. The mining
prospects for the season are represented as ex
cellent. Great improvements are in progress,
involving a large expenditure of money and
labor.
SINGULAR MURDER.—A man named Corne
lius Cannon, employed as a farm servant by
James Mattison, near New-Utrecht, L. 1.,
was murdered in Third avenue, Brooklyn, Sun
day noon, while returning from meeting in the
citv. He invited the murderer, named John
Wesley Layman, to take a ride with him in
his wagon, and when about half a mile from
the Dutch Reformed Church, where he got in,
lie was shot through the head with a pistol,
and his body thrown into the road. The mur
derer is about 21 years of age and resided with
his parents, No. si Charleton street, New-
York. He was arrested and is now confined
in the Third District Station-House, Brooklyn.
SOLON 11. TK.VNY, Warden of the State
Prison, at Boston, Mass., was stabbed by a
convict named Decatur, on Monday evening
and has died. It is only two weeks ago that
a Deputy Warden was murdered in the same
way. Teuny was a native of Lebanon, X. 11.,
a powerfully-built man, six feet in height, and
was thirtv-two vears of age.
lie was married three weeks since, and was
absent on a bridal tour, when Walker the De
puty Warden, was murdered. Charles L. De
catur, the murderer, was serving out three
years' imprisonment for aggravated assault on
a policeman. lie is 20 years old and a native
of Maine. lie killed Mr. Tenny with one blow
by a knife, in the neck. There is no known
cause for the act. The affair causes great ex
citement in the community.
JfcSy" A young lady, a daughter of Hon. 15.
I'. Bailey, of Corning, died a few days since,
from a singular accident. She was passing
along the sidewalk when a man brushed pass
ed her, hitting her a sharp blow on the temple,
probably with his elbow. The young lady
fell, and the man went on without so much as
looking back. Miss Bailey soon recovered
sufficiently to walk home, and was apparently
as well as usual for a day or two, but an at
tack of fever, said bv the physicians to be con
sequent upon the blow, supervened, aud the
patient died.
A MAN KILLED.—AN Irishman, whose name
was not known, was killed near Watkins, N.
Y , on the 23d inst, under the following cir
cumstances : Three men, laborers on the Rail
road, all drunk, started for another station on
the time of a train. They were ou a hand
car, and had only gone three miles when they
were met by a freight train running at the rate
of twenty-five miles an hour, whereupon two
not quite so drunk as the other, jumped off,
leaving their comrade to his fate. He was
struck and instantly killed. He leaves a wife
and one child.
NIPPED IN THE BUD.—A Washington corre
spondent of the A'. Y. Herald says Secretary
Marey has nipped in the bud an expedition
which was secretly floating out in New-York
against the present Yeneznelean government
and in favor of Paez, and that he says he will
not allow any filibustering parties to leave the
United States to make war upou governments
with which we are at peace.
Jteg- A Republican meeting held in Lehigh
county, not long since, unanimously adopted
the following resolution :
Resolved, That in DAVID WII.MOT we recog
nize the foremost man" of the " Old Key
stone," and we long for au opportunity to tes
tify onr high appreciation of his noble devotion
to the cause of Liberty.
fegr The crop of tobacco lias become one of
the staple productions of the Chemung Yalley,
N. Y , and it said to be more profitable than
any other. It is only about three years since
it was introduced, and this year two oi three
hundred tons have been raised in that county
alone.
The Clinton Democrat has raised the
name of Gen. Win. F. Packer to its mast head
for the Democratic nomination for Governor
by the next State Convention.
fta?" We learn from the Scranton Herald
that the Griffin Coal property near that bo
rough, was recently sold to some New York
capitalists. The tract contains 550 acres, and
was sold at S6OO per acre, or $330,000.
About half the passengers and crew of
the ship New York, wrecked at Barnegat, have
been forwarded to New York via. Camden and
Amboy Railroad. Many of them are badly
frost-bitten, though none are reported dead.
SfttjT The JV. O. Picayune says that a bar
pain was closed in that city on the 1 Hth inst.,
for 00,000 pullons' of molasses, in plantation,
at 00 cents per pallou.
MB SUMNER'S CASE. —In The Boston Medi
cal and Surgical Journal, we find a paper which
was read before the Boston Society for Medi
cal Improvement, in regard to Mr. Sumner's
case, by bis physician, Dr. M. S. Perry of this
city. lie gives us a clear and distinct history
of the case, medically, and concludes as follows :
" Since Mr. Sumner's return to Boston, he
has been gradually improving. He has follow
ed a rigid system of exercise in the open air,
and carefully avoided all intellectual excite
ment. The pressure in his head, or sensation
of weight, which formerly came on after the
slightest mental or physical exertion, und which
was very oppressive, is now felt only after great
fatigue, or considerable effort of the mind.—
He still complains, after sitting up for a long
time, of pain in. his back ; and when he rises
from his bed or chair, he finds, at first, some
difficulty in osing the muscles of the lower ex
tremities, but after walking a short time they
become flexible and under the complete con
trol of the will. His appetite is good, he sleeps
much better than he did, and is gaining flesh
and strength. I see no reason why he may
not entirely recover, unless he allows himself
too soon to enter upon his senatorial duties.
He has already assumed the external appear
ance of health. Time and mental repose will
do the rest.
" 1 think it is impossible to decide with ab
solute certainty what the pathological condi
tion of Mr. Sumner's brain has been ; but I
am inclined to the opinion of Dr Jackson'that
' the brain as well as the spinal cord has'been
the seat of some serious lesion.' The long-con
tinued sense of weight in his head, the pain
along the spine, the partial loss of power in
the lower extremities, the loss of flesh during
the first three months after the attack, and the
weakf'ulness, without any affection of the mind,
would lead, I think, to this conclusion. Had
the patient died, a post-mortem examination
would have determined conclusively the char
acter of the iuiiiry ; but we can only make an
approximation to a true appreciation of the
ease by a cautious interpretation of the symp
toms."
fiigf 7 Viompst n s Reporter of this week has
the following icinarks :
The Exchange Bank of Bangor, Me., is
thrown out by the Suffolk Bank. Whether it
iias failed, or whether it goes on and redeems,
we are not yet aide to say.
The Bonk of Hallow ell, Me., is promptly
redeemed, and from the known wc-alth and re
spectability of the parties interested in it, we
have confidence in its continuing to do so
The Bank of East Tennessee i> not bought
in any of the Northern cities. The last ac
counts are indicative of a failure.
The drafts of the Grantercy Bank, Ind,
have gone to protest. Whether this discredit
will lead to its failure, remains to be seen.
The Savings Bank of Indiana, Connersville,
had the folly to issue circulating notes without
being registered or secured, thus violating the
spirit at least of the free banking law of that
State. This has caused the discredit of all
the issues of that Bank.
There are evident signs of trouble with some
of the Illinois banks. The difficulty appears
to arrise from the fact that small change is
doled out when redemption is demanded.—
Holders of their notes are required to present
each bill separately, and as all demands not
exceeding $.3 can be met with silver coin, the
banks legally discharge their obligations in
this way.
The more independent banks denounce this
practice, and must, in self-defense, denounce
and refuse all currency not promptly and cheer
fully redeemed in gold. When a bank treats
its creditors illiberally or aniioyinglv, it is safe
to refuse its "j romises to pay."
The new year (1837) bids fair to commence
with plenty of trouble in the bank note or pa
per money markets, all over the country. We
hope our friends will excuse us for not enlarg
ing on this subject, for fear we shall be charg
ed, as formerly, with "panic-making."
INTERESTING JI'OICIAL DECISION. —The Su
preme Court of the United States has decided
the question raised by a retired member of the
Rappite Association, near Pittsburgh, whe
ther he was entitled to his share of the pro
perty and effects of this Association. This
Association was on the comniunity*principle,
in which all the members agreed that all the
property of the society was to be joint and in
divisible stock for ever ; and that any indivi
dual who should withdraw should not be en
titled to anything. The complainant became
disaffected, and finally withdrew from the As
sociation of his own free will, receiving at the
same time from George Rapp S2OO as a gra
tuity, and $lO for traveling money, for which
he receipted. He afterwards claimed that his
services were of the annual value of two thou
sand dollars, and that he had been wrongfuliv
and unjustly excluded and deprived of all share
in the property and effects. His claim amount
ed to sixty thousand dollars. The respon
dents on the above agreement denied his claim
to anything. The Circuit Court, in which the
question was first made, allowed complainant
the sum of three thousand eight hundred and
ninety dollars and costs The Supreme Court
of the United States (Judge Campbell deliver
ing the opinion) reversed the decree of the
said Circuit Court, with costs, and remanded
the case with directions to dismiss the bill with
costs.
SCRVIVORS FROM THE WRECK OF THE LYON
NAISE —A despatch from Bordeaux, received
at Liverpool previous to the sailing of the
Canada, announces that a vessel had reached
the former port with the Captaiu and fifteen
other survivors from the wreck of the ill-fated
steamship Lyonnaise. The Captain of the Ly
onnaise was the last to leave the ship. There
were with him the first lieutenant, four petty
officers, the stewardess, and Messrs. Clairin and
Boncstac, the doctor and purser, all of whom
were seen to embark in two yawls detailed for
the purpose. The New York Times isof opin
ion that all of these were among the saved,
with a portion of those who were known to be
on a raft If all on the raft and in the yawls
had been saved they would have numbered
some twenty-eight instead of sixteen, as re
ported. But it is not unreasonable to suppose
that several must have died from exposure be
fore they were picked up.
Ect.trsEs IN 1557. There will he two eclip
ses this year, both of the sun. The first will
occur on the 25th of March. It will be invisi
ble in all that part of the United States oust
of the meridian of Washington, and partial
and visible west of Washington. The second
is an annular eclipse of the sun, which will
commence on the 17th of September, at mid
night in the United States, and therefore in
visible in this country. It will be visible in a
large portion of Asia, a part of Africa, and
the whole of Australia.
THF. RECENT MASSACRE IN KENTUCKY.—Fur
ther Particulars.— A telegraphic despatch an
nounced briefly, a few days ago, that a family
of four persons, of the name of Joyce, living
some miles from Louisville, were all brutally
murdered, and their dwelling, with their bodies
consumed by the fire. The follwing addition
al particulars we gather from the Louisville
Courier :
The house was the property of Win. J ( ,v C e
a young man, who was fortunately awav from
home on the night of the murder "to attend a
wedding. He had, however, left a brother
Richard Joyce, aged 19, at the house to take
eare of his property and the family during his
absence. The inmates of the house were Mr-
Lydia Joyce, her sou Richard Joyce, a voong
man of 19, Mrs. Welsh, her daughter, a wid
ow, and the latter's little daughter, a child of
three years. The oldest son, William Joyce
the owner of the house, as before stated, "was
away from home. The house was burnt to the
ground late Thursday night, and the next morn
ing an iuvestigatbu led to the horrible belief
that the entire household lmd been murdered
The charred remains of the two women were
found near the tire place, while those of the
young man were lying in the place suppo.-ed
to have been occupied by the bed.
Mr. Wm. Joyce returned to his home to find
it a mass of smouldering ruins, and with th e
assistance of the neighbors, instituted a vigor
ous investigation of the premises, and theeau-e
of the disaster. Suspicion at once fastened up
on several of the negroes in the vicinity, am]
on searching the premises of Mr. Pendleton a
watch, coat, pants, and other things, the pro
perty of Wm. Joyce, were found secreted un
der the house. Bill, a slave of Mr. Pendleton
was then arrested, and confessed that he ami
i three others murdered the family, plundered
and then fired the house. .\t this revelation
j the greatest excitement prevailed, aini Lynch
! law was about to be enforced at once, buteulm
' er judgment overruled the action "of the more
: hasty, and the three other negroes implicated
| were caught und tied to stakes to make them
| confess, which they finally did, and were com
, mitted to jail. They stated that they weut to
: the house uhout midnight, broke open the
j door, and encountered Richard Joyce, the bro
■ ther of William. He was brained* with aelub
lin the presence of his mother ana sister. The
i aged mother seized a pair of tongs to rash to
j the defence of her sou, but on the instaut was
I attacked by the negroes, one of whom knocked
; her senseless with a club. The daughter, Mrs.
I Welsh, attempted to escape out of a window,
' but was caught by the feet, dragged back.and
| then beaten to death. The infuriated ruffians
' then sacked the house, took the little girl of
! Mrs. Welsh, threw it upon the bed, aud tet
; tire to it and fled, the child being burnt alive.
llow A PHILADEI .rrn A TAILOR PAW A BET
ox THE ELECTION. —Some time before the late
election, a Southern admirer of Mr. Buchanan
made a bet with his tailor, a Piiiladelphian
and a Fremonter, on the result of the election.
The bet was a suit of clothes against their
value in money, that John Charles would car
ry the day. The Southern gentleman, of
course, won the bet, and upon the occasion of
a visit to the city within a few days, the suit
of clothes was sent home to him at his hotel.
Now the winner of the bet is wont to he at
tired in the hight of fashion, and his surprise
may be imagined, when it is stated that the
waggish shneider sent him a full suit of sober
drab, cut after the strictest Quaker fashion,
collarless, and without aught superfluous
There had been no stipulation as to what
kind of a suit was to be made, and the South
erner began to conclude that his tailor rather
•'had him" after all. But the recipient of the
garments was equal to the occasion ; he mount
ed the drabs, and during the early pgrt of this
week, people were rather astonished at seeing
in the streets, at the hotels, and at the thea
ters, a gentleman attired in "plain clothes,"
and wearing a mustache and a fashionable
beaver. The Southerner started home on
Wednesday, carrying his new clothes away on
his back.— J'hil. Bulletin.
THE HORSE MARKET. —At no time within
our recollection have we found a greater stag
nation in the Ilorsc market than has existed
all the month of December, and if onr conn
try readers have made any money arrangements
based upon the expectations of real zing the
cash from the sale of horses in New York this
Winter, they are in a bad fix. The business is
in a state of positive stagnation, as mav be
judged by ihe fact that large dealers speak of
a sale as something extraordinary. "I dout
know of a sale these three days," said one.—
"I do, was the reply, I sold one yesterday at
SSO.
"And how much did you make by the trans
action ?■'
" Well, now. I will tell you honestly. A
person who buys for me, paid S7O for that horse
in Jersey six weeks ago, thinking he wouldseil
for a hundred dollars here ; but I found that
I could not sell him for that or even cost, and
determined to tak > the first offer rather than
winter him ; and that is why Isold him at that;
and I believe that the best thing I could do
would be to sell out all my horses at the samf
per cent, loss, and lay up till Spring."
The only sale of any importance that ha"
occurred lately, was some 12 or 15, principal:*
mares of trotting stock, "for a northern mar
ket probably to retail to farmers who are
indoctrinated with the spirit that Ims lain*
affected so many Agricultural Shows in t.r
country ; whose fast horses have led the ere*
away from everything else, legitimately belong
ing to an agricultural exhibition.
Mr. McCauley, finding the market dull here,
has gone South with 30 or 40 horses, wo-t ?
Canadian, or Northern Vermont, of a cl"e
that would sell here if there was any denism ,
at prices ranging from $75 to sl.')o eaelr
Fanners who have horses to sell must wa:
for the wagon" of time to bring them a
show for a market than we can make them •'
a Christmas offering.— Tribune, Tec. 2->.
THE RECENT ACCIDENT AT A''-un' l E y- .
Cherry, the engineer on oue of the tiains
the time of the recent railroad catastiop n
Alliance, Ohio, who lias been held to wn
s£oo to answer the charge of mam-lan? > |
in the premises, lias published a statement u
der affidavit on the subject. He says ie 1
all in his power to check the
lie had charge ; that the usual app'mi•' ■ ?
such eases failed, (it is generally said \
the frosted condition of the rails,; am u
he left the spot only when his life had >
peatedly threatened in his own preseme. a
hour after the accident. The (. levelain •
Pittsburg Railroad Company havccou.inem
an action against the Pittsburg, t l,ll 'V
and Chicago Company for placing oa> in'
on the track of plaintiff's road, by h"_ 1 ■
the question as to which company wa.- m •
will be determined