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Mr. Buchanan's Health. . {
Those who make platforms for Mr. Boehau-1
mi nnd govern his choice of a cabinet, should i
tnke care that he is not killed by the press of
offiee-beggnrs who are now thronging to V. asli
ingtoii. 1 lie has nlreadv proved himself so ilo
cile under the management of those who lead
his party, that they will do well not to let him
break down at the very outset of his official ,
career. His soccer, or may be of a different
temper ; he may have a troublesome will o!
his own. The reports*we have of Mr. Buch
anan's health arc unfavorable, and the anxie
ties and perplexities attending the distribution j
of official patronage among tiic thanvinds who :
are scrambling for a share ot it, and every in- ,
dividual of whom insist, on the score of pol.t
ical services, that his own claims shall be list- i
CBCCI to, and that his own objections ag-burt j
his tel lows shall be heard, may be enough, j
when joined to the ordinary duties of the Frc- j
gidents office, to give the finishing blow to a ;
constitution enfeebled by disease. Neither
Harrison nor Taylor survived for a long time
their installation in office, mobbed as they were
daily by those who pretended to be their par
pans, and never allowed them an instant ot >
repose.
Air. Buchanan is said to have had a love
affair in liis youth, and will, therefore, under
stand the point of an anecdote which we are
going to relate. A young lady of great per
sonal attractions and considerable fortune, was
beset by a crowd of suitors for her hand. She
was as amiable as she vas pretty, and wished
to oblige even body ; she would willingly have
married any one of her admirers, if the re-t
had consented ; but to her great grief, there
was 110 one in whose favor the others would
resign their pretensions. So the wooing went
on, till the poor girl, with as many suitors as
Penelope, began to droop and wither like a
garden plant sickening from over cultivation.
At length she died, literally courted to death,
and her funeral was attended by the whole
troop of lovers, all of wlvotn wore black crape,
though they had helped to kill her. Mr. Bu
chanan may perhaps recollect the story ; it is
tlmt of the girl in one of the western counties
01 Pennsylvania who died of a hundred lovers.
If Mr". Buchanan should meet with a simi
lar fate, the victim of innumerable conflicting
solicitations, we are not certain that the swarm
of suitors who now surround hint, would think
so much of attending his funeral as ot pounc
ing upon his successor with their petitions for
office and the proof of their merits. \\ edo
nut suppose however, that he will oT his own
accord take any decided and spirited course to
get rid of the nui.-ance with which lie is tor
mented, and his life put in daily peril. His
friends who have more force of character must
do it for him. TV e would suggest, that under
their direction, proclamation be immediately
made through the Washington T'ninn, the ad
ministration organ, that the process of rota
tion in office, of which so much has been raid, !
is stopped for the present, or rather adjourned •
till next October—that the political mob who ■
jostle each other in the passages to the White
House, have leave to go home and recreate
themselves as they best may, till the arrival of
the first cool nights of autumn, when they may
again present themselves at \\ aslr.ngton, pre- j
♦pared to renew the attack. Thus we shall get
a sort of truce —it being understood that in
the mean time no changes are to be made in
the offices not already vacant. Mr. Buchanan
will have a little leisure to perform some of
the indispensible functions of his office, such as
110 Chief Magistrate, at the commencement of
his term, can well decline ; after which he j
might be suffered to make tlie tour of the \ ir
ginia Springs, in order to recover his impaired !
digestion, lie should not be allowed to face
the army of office-beggars again till he is able
to make a comfortable dinner.
For our part, we confess that we feci a par
ticular iuterest in Mr. Buchanan's health. He
has begun the game in a manner which promi
ses to make it worthy of our special attention,
and we are anxious to see him play it out in
his own way. We would like to see what
would come of his scheme of rotation in office,
tried upon his own party. We are curious to
see the development of his speculation of a
railway through Texas and the Gadsden pur
chase. We are still more curious to see the
manner iu which he will fulfil the promise made
for him by Mr. IHx and Mr. \ an Buren, that
he will settle the question of freedom in the
territories in a manner satisfactory to the free
states. We have a strong desire to see how
he will compose the tempest which he and the
slaveholding judges between them have raised
at the very moment he takes his office. His
administration was
" Itogot in whirlwinds and in thunder V>rn,"
and wc shall lie glad to see what methods lie
will adopt to bring about a calm of the ele
ments now so fearfully agitated.
We cannot, therefore, spare Mr. Buchanan.
It will be hard for us to give him up after he
has made so promising a beginning : it will be
hard for us to accept in his stead a Chief Ma
gistrate whose public character is yet to be
developed and whose modes of proceeding we
have jet to learn.— livening Post.
Another Pctvam A\r>EXTn:E.—A few weeks
ngo, Thomas Evans, of Chest Creek, Clear
field county l'a., while out on a hunting ex
cursion, observed a ledge of rocks, which his
experienced eye detected as the haunt of a
bear. It being late in the evening he went
home, but returned the next morning accom
panied by his brother. They soon found a
narrow passuge through the roks that led into
a dark and dismal cave. Arriving at the mouth
the cavern, Thomas, after throwing down his
gun, and divesting himself of his hunting ac
coutrements, crawled in through the narrow
entrance, and after groping about in the dark
for some time, had the pleasure of laying his
hand upon bruin's bark. Having ascertained
the position of the position of the animal he
returned to the entrance of the cave, and got
his gun, then went back to the cavern to visit
his new acquaintance, while his brother remain
ed outside to act as sentry, provided the ani
mal attended to escape. Having come np
to the bear again, be placed the muzzle of his
gun against the animal and fired. A furious
growl from the beast aeompanied the report of
the gun, and young Evans hurried out of the
cave as soon "as possible. He, however, put
another load into his gnu, and scrambled back
into the cave again. This time he succeeded
in putting a ball through the vital part of the
animal's body. It was dragged out, and weigh
ed over three hundred pounds.— Ulairsri/te
Anuruan.
Sah Catastrophk.—Last Monday night, the
hone of John Nicliol, near Delhi, Delaware
Go., X. V., was destroyed by fire, and three
of his children—two girls, aged 8 and 14, aud
a son aged 12 —were burnt to death. The pa-
S'.uts v.r. uij. ent a: tlxs time.
Governor Geary's Resignation.
[rrom tlie St.LouU Democrat of March IT.J
At length we have a story of the wrongs in
flicted !>v the Border-Ruffians in Kansas which,
we think, may be credited. I.et us hear no
more of " Free State perversions" and " Abo
lition lies." The correspondence that lias ap
ncared in the columns of The Democrat from
time to time, has only been untrue in its fail
ure to fully represent the atrocities of the Pro-
Slavery outlaws, who have gained foothold in
Kansas.
(iov. .Tolin W. Geary,at Leeompton,oll the
Ith iust., forwarded his resignation of the
Governorship of Kansas to the Department at
Washington. Having notified Mr. Woodson,
Secretary of the Territory, of this fact, and
having surrendered to that officer the official
control, he, in a few days after quit tlie coun
try and started for ihc East. He arrived in
this citv on Saturday evening,accompanied bv
his private Secretary, Dr. Gihon. \esterday
afternoon he called at this office, and in the
course of a long conversation, gave us a com
plete history of his administration in Kansas,
and more than confirmed all the reports which
the public through The Democrat of the out
rages of the Pro-Slavery bandits and rebels in
that unhappy Territory.
The Governor states the cause of his resig
nation to be the failure of ex- President Pierce
to faifil the pledges rtrnde at the time of his
acceptance of the appointment. The promises
of Mr. Pierce, he savs, were to support him
(Geary) with the United States army, the mi
litia, and the Treasury, if necessary ; but, in
stead of receiving this aid, either in men or
$12,000 out of his own pocket, for the sup
port of his administration ; and with regard
money, from the President, he has paid
to military support, lie has even been refused
a detachment of two companies of cavalry,
for which he applied under the most urgent
circumstances, and lie received the haughty
answer from the officer in command„that the
army of the United States was not employed
to protect him. In addition, the Judiciary of
the Territory, as well as the military of the
Government refused its support. Judge Le
compte thwarted him 011 all occasions, and
having the means to execute his judicial de
crees, was enabled to overrule him in every
important measure.
Again, throughout his whole official career,
lie has beeu an object of hatred to an organi
zed and sworn band of conspirators in the
Territory. He states that fifty men were un
der oatli from the day lie entered the country,
until he left it, to assasinate him, provided his
official career should deviate from that course
which tliey had marked out for liim. His life
thus in constant jeonar ly, the judiciary bitter
ly opposed to him, the military inactive and
stubborn, and the Government without money
or means of any kind, he was necessarily com
pelled to decline. The Governor says that he
regrets the step that he was obliged to take
most sincerely, and fee's confident that had he
received the assistance promised him, he could
have administered the affairs of the Territory
in a manner acceptable to the honest settlers
of both sides.
In relation to the robberies, arsons and
murders at the hands of the Pro-Slavery ruf
fians, which have taken place in Kansas, the
Governor says the half lias not vet beeu been
told. He says : tbe murder of Buffum by
llayes was one of the most cold-blooded and
atrocious affairs ever witnessed. The Gover
nor reached the spot a few moments after the
affair occurred. As the poor fellow was lying
upon the earth in his agonies, the blood stream
ing from his brow, he seized the Governor's
hand, and declared that as he looked for mer
cy hereafter, he was innocent of all causes of
offense—that it was a most foul and unprovo
i ked murder, lie asked his assassin why he
sought his life or desired to take his property
; —that upon his efforts depended the subsist
ence of an aged father and mother, a deaf and
dumb brother, and a sister—that he himself
was a cripple, and therefore harmless—To this
appeal he was told that he was a " d—d Abo
| litionist," and that "'they intended to destroy
the whole of them." Upon which Hayes one
j of the gang, seized him by the collar, and pla
i cing the pistol against his stomach, shot him.
The Governor pledged him while he held his
' cold hand in his own, that he would use all his
power to bring his murderer to justice. " I
spent," said the Governor, " five hundred dol-
I " lars to have his assassin arrested ; and I
j " would have spent five thousand dollars to
i "have done so, if it had been necessary." It
! is well known that the Governor had Hayes
| arrested, but scarcely was he put in prison,
| when Lccompte issued a writ of habeas corp
us, and had him released and set at liberty on
! stn/ir bail. Hayes is now in Missouri, and is
i playing the gentleman. The Governor farther
i states that after the release of Hayes, Snrvey
; or General Calhoun took occasion, in a public
| speech upon the matter, to declare that the
discharge of Hayes was perfectly legal, and
that it was a mistake to suppose that the Ter
i ritoriul laws were enacted i'or the benefit of
| any other persons than the Pro-Slavery men.
Speaking of tie insult offered him, which
| fed to the death of Sherrard, the Governor
1 gave a detailed acount of the transaction, and
I the manner in which his assassinations had
been previously plannc'd. His own firmness,
however, prevented its execution. Sherrard,
the Governor states, with three others, way
-1 laid him in the hal! of the Legislature, lie
i discovered them, and Udcw their purpose ; and
! when Sherrard ;qoke to him made no reply,
1 but passed on, when Sherrard spat upon his
back several times. As soon as these facts
j became known, a public meeting was held,
composed principally of Pro-Slavery men, for
the purpose of denouncing the act. It was at
: this meeting that Sherrard was shot. When
j the resolutions were read, Sherrard said that
j any person that, indorsed them, " was a liar, a
; coward and a scoundrel." Mr Sheppcrd then
arose, and stated that he indorsed them, and
that lie was neither a liar, a coward, nor
scoundrel. Sherrard then drew his revolver
i aud commenced shooting at Shepperd, who re
ceived three balls iu his body. Mr. S. then
j snapped a pistol at Sherrard, but it failing fire,
he rushed upon him and struck him with his
; weapon. They were seperated, and Sherrard
then drew another pistol and advanced upon
Jones, whom he had previously insulted be-
I cause he was a member of the Governor's
household. Jones, perceiving his danger, drew
a pistol iu self defense ; a number of shots
were then fired at the saiue time, and Sher
i rard fell. The Governor says that the ac
count of the affair published iu The Kepub/i
--, cna, as furnished by some Mr. Jones, is a tis
sue of falsehoods from beginning to end.
Among other things, the Governor com
plain- bitterly of the annoyance which lie
j suffered in the obstruction and* mutilation of
1 his correspondence. The mail bigs, he says,
were constantly opened, and all communica
tions to and from him systematically overhaul
ed, and if objectionable, abstracted. Mr. Mc-
CTain, Chief' Clerk in the Surveyor General's
Office, boasted of the fact, and stated that he
himself had destroyed and snppresed two bush
els of mail matter.
The above is merelv an abstract of the Gov
ernor's statements. There are multitudes of
interesting details which wc are compelled to
omit. His private Secretary Mr. Gihon, has
promised us a full and complete recital of the
entire history of the administration, which we
shall in dne season present to our readers.
Iu view of these things, and under the ope
ration of the act. of the Ruffian Legislature,
which provides for the election of delegates to
the Constitutional Convention, administered as
it will be by the dominant factiou, who hold
all the offices, he thinks it inevitable that a
Slavery Constitution will be established in
Kansas.
The Governor is probably correct ; but nev
ertheless it is one thing to frame a Pro-Slave
ry instrument and another to establish the in
stitution de facto, in the Territory. The friends
of Free Labor in the North must redouble
their efforts.
ikiirfort) ileporter.
E. (J. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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J&SY JOHN P. HALE and his eldest daughter
are said to be quite ill from the effects of the
" rat-poisoned " water imbibed at the National
Hotel in Washington. They have returned to
Dover, N. 11., where Mr. Hale resides
MINNESOTA. —Ex-Governor Ramsey, in an
address at an agricultural fair in Minnesota,says
there is vet room in that territory for a million
and a half more farmers. He thinks Minne
sota will some day produce more corn and wheat
thau any other State in the Union.
THE COMING CROCS. —The most reliable ac
counts from every section of the country give
every encouraging hope for a bountiful har
vest. The growing crops from one end of the
country to the other are represented as looking
remarkably fine.
U. S MINT. —The statement of the mint at
Philadelphia for the month of February shows
that there was deposited $010,900 of gold, and
$185,830 silver ;in ail 1,096,795. The gold
coinage for the month amounts to $232,561,
wholly in dimes and half dimes. The total
number of peiccs coined is 2,473,421, of the
value of $462,561. The amount of gold coin
now on hand is $779,070, and of silver $549,-
883.
THF. SOLAR TELEGRAPH. —Experiments with
a solar telegraph have heen made with com
plete success in Paris, in the presence of Le
Verrier, Struvc and others. The rays of the
sun are projected from and upon mirrors ; the
duration of the ray makes the alphabet after
the system of Morse. It is proposed to apply
it to the use of the French army in Algeria,
where the ordinary telegraph cannot be work
ed. The posts can be established at 20 leagues
from each other.
THE NEXT STATE FAIR. —The Executive
Committee of the Pennsylvania State Agricul
tural Society, have fixed upon the 29th and
30th days of September, and the Ist and 2d
days of October, 18">7, as the time for holding
the next State Fair. A Committee, of which
the lion. David Taggart is Chairman, has
been appointed to receive proposals from toens
and cities, whose duty it will be, if necessarv,
to proceed to such places as they may deem
advisable, and to accept the proposition which
they shall think best calculated to promote the
interests of the Society, an l report their ac
tion to the next meeting of the Executive Com
mittee.
THE GALLOWS. —The efforts to restore capi
tal punishment in Rhode Island and Wiscon
sin have failed. The restoring bill was indefi
nitely postponed in the Wisconsin Senate by a
vote of IT to 10. We are sorry to say that
Massachusetts has taken a rctrogade step in
this matter by repealing the law which requir
ed a year to intervene between the senteuce
and execution of a murderer. This has been
done in a panic excited by the murders which
lately occurred in the State prison. The Bos
ton Telegraph makes this significant record :
" Within twelve hours after the House of Rep
resentatives concurred with the Senate iu the
great remedial measure for the crime of mur
der, viz : the bill to repeal the law giving the
year's probation to convicted murderers, a man
was shockingly murdered within sight of the
State House."
EMIGRATION TO KANSAS. —The steamer Star
of the West, which arrived at Quindaro,
Kansas, February 24th, had on board more
than 100 emigrants. A letter from that place
says : " There is every prospect that the emi
gration will be tremendous during the spring
and summer."
Jefferson's opinion of the Federal Ju
diciary.
There was something prophetic in Jefferson's
frequent warnings against the encroaching ten
dencies of the Supreme Court. The danger
which he foresaw from the disposition of that
triunal to enlarge its jurisdiction, was a sub
ject of constant concern with him during the
later years of his life, and nothing that lie lias
written better illustrates the wisdom and the
foretaste of this eminent statesman than the
allusions to this source of danger to our fede
ral government with which his correspondence
abounds. The recent startling decision of the
Supreme Court gives a new, if not an unex
pected importance to his warnings, and fur
nishes us with an excuse for recalling them to
the remembrance of our readers.
It will be seen, by reference to the extracts
which we quote, that Mr. Jefferson held :
First. That the federal judiciary is no more
competent to construe and interpret the con
stitution for the other departments of the go
vernment —the legislative and executive —than
they are to construe it for the judiciary.
Second. " That each department is truly in
" dependent of the others, and has an equal
" right to decide for itself what is the meaning
" of the constitution in the cases submitted to
" its action ; and especially where it is to act
" ultimately and without appeal."
Third. That " the germ of the dissolution
" of our federal government is in the constitu
" tion of the federal judiciary "an irrespon
" sible body, working like gravity by night and
" by dav, gaining a little to-day and a little to
" morrow, advaueing its noiseless step like a
" thief over the field of jurisdiction, until it
" shall be usurped from the states, and the
"government of all be consolidated into one."
Fourth. That the tendency to consolidate
the government by strengthening the hands of
the federal judiciary, constituted iu his day the
distinction between Republicans and pseudo
republicans—real federalists.
Fifth. That the Judges should be appoint
ed for terms not exceeding six years, and re
newable by the President and Senate, " the
" insufficiency of the means provided for the
" removal of the judges gave them a freehold
"and irresponsibility in office ; their decisions,
" seeming to concern individual suitors only,
" pass silent and unheeded bv the public at
"large; these decisions, nevertheless, become
" law by precedent, sapping by little and little
" the foundations of the constitution, working
" its change by construction, Ix* fore any one
" lias perceived that that invisible and helpless
" worm has been busily employed in consutu
" ing its substance. In truth, man is not
" made to be trusted for life, if secure against
" all liability to account."
Sixth. " The Judiciary of the United States
"is the subtle corps of sappers and miners
" constantly working under ground to nnder
" mine t he foundation of our confederate fabric.
" They are construing our constitution from a
" co-ordination of a general and special go
" vernment to a general and supreme one alone.
" This will lay all things at their feet, and they
" are too well versed iu English law to forget
" the maxim, ' boni jiulicis est ampliare juris
" diet tone in.' The power of declaring what the
" law is, ad libitum, by sapping and mining,
" slyly and without alarm, the foundations of
" the constitution, can do what open force
" would not dare to attempt."
Seventh. " That a judiciary, independent of
" a king or executive alone, is a good thing,
" but independence of' the will of the nation
" is a solecism, at least in a republican goveru
" meat."
How far the Supreme Court of the United
States has justified the anxiety which Jeffer
son felt and expressed in regard to its influence
upon the federal government, we leave to the
judgment of the public.— Evening Post.
THE WASHINGTON' MYSTERY. —An article
from the New York Express, gives the first
intimation of the suspicion that the mysterious
deaths and sickness at the National Ilotcl, in
Washington, were the work of design, instead
of accident. This suspicion did not come to
light until three proprietors of the house stren
uously denied the truth of the rat-poison story.
In the New York Daily Times, of yesterday,
an editorial article makes the following start
ling observations.
" There have even been dark hints of a dia
bolical attempt at a wholeesale poisoning, for
the purpose of removing certain political per
sonages, whose offices were wanted by men
who would be their constitutional successors.
Hut we cannot for a moment countenance such
a foul suspicion."
There is no mistaking this, but the design it
indicates is too horrible for belief. A Wash
ing correspondent of the Times says that he
has put up at the hotel for four months past,
and he makes the following important state
ment :
" I have no hesitation in pronouncing the
poisoned rat story a pure fiction without any
foundation It originated, I believe, with a
waiter who was turned away from the house
for offering a gross insult to a lady hoarder,
and who cunningly timed it so as to meet the
beginning of tiit sickness at the house, and in
its neighborhood. I never deemed it of much
consequence, until it gained importance and
dignity by circumstantial details in a Lancas
ter paper,whose declaration that the President
elect had a narrow escape from death by arse
nic given to rats at the National Hotel, has
been copied and received as true all over the
country, nearly to the ruin of the house. The
utter uonsence of the story will be apparent
when the reader learns that the water tank
into which the rats were said to have plunged
after they were poisoned, sits upon the roof of
the building, from which its silos rise perpen
dicularly at least eight feet. It is not easy to
see how a rat could climb that height without
assistance, especially when weak and dying
from the effects of poison. Besides this tank
is emptied two or three times a day, and is
carefully cleansed of alt sediment, in order to
keep the water clear. Nor was this water
used for drinking or cooking purposes, but on
ly for bathing, the toilet, Ac. The water for
cooking is brought into the kitchen directly
from the spring ; and that for drinking is
drawn from pipes entirely disconnected with
the tank, as 1 know from frequent inspection.
The rat story is not only untrue, but simply
impossiyc ; and not a single physician here
has ever entertained it for a moment?"
This is very explicit. Nevertheless, a phy
sician stated, at a meeting of the Washington
City Council, that he had known persbns to be
sick at the house from merely taking a drink
of water there,
ftaif A wise lady writer says—" The world
stigmatises many a man as wicked, with whom
a woman would be but too happy to pass her
life."
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
Slicker war in Barton County. —Great ex
citement existed in and about Golden Grove,
Burton County, last week, owing to a large
company of slickers having visited that place,
from other parts of that, and Jasper county.
The company is variously estimated at from
fifty to one hundred men. They started oot
on Sunday morning, swearing that they would
have the scalp of Jo Smith, whom they charg
ed with being a horse thief. They came so
near getting him that evening, that he had to
leave his horse and gun, ana take to the bush.
They then got drunk, and acted more like de
mons than " border ruffians." They slicked
more than a dozen men, on charges of harbo
ring or being friends of Jo. Smith—some of
them said to be good peaceable citizens.—
Some of them were whipped so severely that
their lives are despaired of.
Two or three females who interfered, were
beat and bruised up, awl the persons of seve
ral females violated. Neither age nor sex
were spared during Monday and Tuesday.—
They went to the house of Eli Smith, and cut
open his beds and poured out the feathers—
took his meat and corn and throwed them away,
and turned his wife and children out of doors.
But on Wednesday morning, they became al
armed at their own recklessness, and had ab
out ceased operations. The informant of the
Greenfield standard, who 1 ft the Grove on the
morn ng, states, that the whole neighborhood
was nearly desolated ; that some of those
slicked had been ordered to leave the country,
and others who had not been molested, had
fled for safety. Several of the fugitives had
arrived at Greenfield, Dade County, on Tues
day evening.— St. Louis Intelligencer.
ATTEMPTED BCRGI.ARY.— Man Shoi by a He
roic IVonan. —A bold attempt was made this
morning at an early hour, to enter the resi
dence of Maj. Joseph Trawin, No. 24, Chureh
street, resulting in the shooting of one of the
rascals, but did not prevent his escape. Oa
Tuesday night Mrs. Truwin heard some one
prowling about the rear of the house, and sus
pecting all was not right, and her husband be
ing absent, last night she stationed a young
man employed by Mr. T. on a sofa in the par
lor, to l)e ready in case another attempt was
made. At 1 i-2 o'clock this morning, 2 men
came, and effected an entrance by the base
ment window, and commenced packing up a
quantity of clothing, tying thera up in a table
cloth. Mrs. Trawin heard them, and placing
the young man at the front door with a club,
took a position herself at the back door, armed
with a pistol. All means of egress from the
house were thus guarded, and the watchers
anxiously waited the corning of the thieves. —
At about 2 A. M., they came out with their
plunder, and on the appearance of the lirst
one, Mrs. Trawin violently pulled the trigger
and shot him. He immediately d.opped his
bundle, ami cried out, "My God, I'm shot."
Mrs. Trawin being unable to do anything fur
ther, the fellow with his companion escaped,
though lie was traced over several fences by his
blood. The watch was summoned, and made
a search of the neighborhood, but were unable
to find them.
Mrs. Trawin displayed an intrepid courage,
unusual for her sex, and it is only to be re
gretted that she did not succeed in wounding
the fellow sufficient to prevent his escape.—
This is the second burglar shot within two
weeks, and doubtless will tend to prevent a
repetition of the offence—upon that house at
least, which has been entered before. Mrs.
Trawin thinks the person shot was a woman in
disguise, as the voice and appearance were de
cidedly feminiue.— JVewarSc Adv., 3lar. iy.
COMCI.ETEI.Y CAIT.IIT.— All who read must
have observed how the Bucaniers have howled
for mouths past against the great mass of Pro
testant preachers who "cried aloud, and spared
not" the border ruffians as well as other eril
doers. Such preachers were denounced as
"freedom shriekers," "reverend sinners." &e.
while all the Catholic and Mormon priests who
led their ignorant hordes to the polls like
dumb asses, to vote for Buchanan, are exemp
ted from all anathemas. Well, Gov. Pollock
thought fit the other day to renominate for
State Librarian, the Itev. Kansas-Nebraska-
Bill De Witt, 1). 1), (who has one son pen
sioned on the State, already :) and don't you
suppose the virtuous latter-day Democracy pro
tes as one man, against a " clergyman coming
down from the pulpit," and " dabbling in the
filthy pool of politics," by "intriguing for a
paltry office ?" Not a bit of it! every one
present voted for him ; and the Rev. Dr. hav
ing circulated among the Republicans one of
his old sermons against slavery, and another
in which he recognized the " higher law," he
received seven more votes, and is " in" for an
other three years, lint not one of the Catho
lic, Mormon, or Infidel press, who denounce
Republican Cleigymen for condemning fraud
and oppression, have not a word against an
inveterate office-hunting and office-holding par
son, of their own political faith.
A singular freak the Supreme Court
has been committing ; for, not satisfied with
kicking Drcd Scott, his wife and two daught
ers out of their august and supreme presence,
they proceed forthwith, under the impulse of
the moment, to kick out, knock down, and
break things generally, in true slaveholder
style. Dred Scott and family having been
kicked out, there, was no case before the Court.
Upon the point of the weight to be attached
to the extra jdicial opinions of the Court,
Judge McLean, in his dissenting opinion thus
expresses himself:
" In this case, a majority of tffe Court have
said that a slave may be taken by his master
into a territory of the United States, the same
as a horse or any other property. It is true
this was said by the Court, as also many other
things, which are of no authority. Xothing
that has been said by them, which has not a di
rect bearing on the jurisdiction of the Court
against which they decided, can be considered as
authority. I shall certainly not regard it as
such. The question of jurisdiction, being be
fore the Court, was decided by them affirma
tively, but, nothing beyond that question.
MOXUUEXT TO IIEXRY CLAY. —Tiie directory
of t!ie Ciay Monument Association at Lexing
ton, Ky., lias at last selected a design for the
national monument to Henry Clay. It will
be erected in the cemetery near that place,
over the Statesman's body. The height of the
column is to be one hundred and nineteen feet,
and on the summit will be placed a colossal
statue. The material of the structure will be
magnesia limestone, which is said to be as in
destructible as Egytian granite. The corner
stone will be laid on the 12th of April, the
anniversary of the birth day of Clay.
COBBLERS AND TINKERS.— One fact connec
ted with the delivery of the opinions of the Su
preme Judges in the Dred Scott case, shoul j
not lie overlooked, which the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Times asserts • it
is that several of the Supreme court judges 'are
getting their opinions printed privately, and have
revised them to conform to the points of Jud-e
Curtis and McLean. Chief-Justice Tanev is
altering his materially ; and Judge Catron has
suppressed some portions clearly announced in
the Court. As the majority disagree upon va
rious propositions among themselves, and have
changed ground since the decision was promo!
gated, the whole moral effect of their concur"
reuce is destroyed. The process of cobbling
and tinkering,'first introduced to political litem
ture by James K. Paulding, when sccretarv of
the navy, must be extensively adopted to pre
serve the infallibility of our partisan jiidn-s'
A MAN KILLED BY THE CARS —On Satur
day last, Mr. C. Allen, Colsesville, Broom Co
was killed by being run over by the ears near
Binghamton. As the Emigrant train was
coming round the curve, it struck the deceased
who was walking on the track and had just
left the other track to avoid the train then
passing east. Both legs were broken below
tlie knee, the skull severely injured, and the
scalp lacerated. The Engineer as soon as he
discovered the deceased gave the usual signals
to put down the brakes to stop the train im
mediately, and the signals were repeated in
quick succession. The train stopped as soon
as possible, and backed to deceased, but he was
d"nd when it readied him. The deceased had
come down to Bingharatou from Colesville
that day. lie was about fiftv-one years of
age.— Klmira (Jaz.
THF. XFXT CONGRESS. —Nineteen States have
elected their Representatives for the 3,ith con
gress, and politically they stand <>, Democrats
and J0 opposition, giving 25 opposition majori
ty. The twelve States yet to elect have To
members, Connecticut and Ilhode Island bein*-
the only places where Republican strength
can be expected. Alabama, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississipi, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, cast
ing an aggregate vote of 73, will be solidly for
slavery,so that the administration of Mr. lijeh
anan will have all needed assistance iu the
effort to nationalize slaverv.
TtiE Cr.FKGY ON TUK DRKI> SCOTT INCISION.
—A New York letter writer says ;
I he late decision of the Supreme Court in
regard to the Drcd Scott Cise, received ron.-h
attention from our city pulpit yesterdav, the
Clergy being unanimously opposed to it. I>r.
Cheever preached last night from the text.
" Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment
of the stranger," and was particularly violent
in his denunciations of Judge Taney "and his
decision. Rev. Dr. Tytig alluded to the
affair, also in very strong terms, and Kv,Pr.
Cuapin, referred to it both morning and even
ing service : his eloquent remarks created
quite a sensation.
DEATH OK REV. SIMEON R JONES.— Another
land mark of the past lias been obliterated hy
the hand of death. SIMEON R. JONES, a preach
er of the gospel in this county for over fortv
five years, died this morning, at lus resident
in the town of Southpoft. At the time of his
death be was over eighty three years of age.
but maintained his mental faculty in a remark
able degree. The funeral obsequies of thede
< eased will take place at the Church at Webb.s
Mills, in the town of Southport, at eleven o'-
clock iu the forenoon, to-morrow. His remains
will then be brought to this village for inter
ment. The friends of the deceased and the pub
lic generally are invited to attend the funeral.
—lZlmtra (iazctle.
A young woman lately drove a load <>f
wood into Louisville, sold it, purchased soai 1
family necessaries, threw them and li- rs lf in
to the wood wagon, with the agility of an ac
tive young man, and pursued her way home
to the rapid measure of " Pop goes the \\ ea
sel," which she whistled with masculine taste
and spirit. She is eighteen years of age, and
her father has tuxables to the amount of $lO,-
01)0.
Tin: X. Y.Mirror says that one of the young
ladies that visited the P. S. ship I'ortsuiou! .
tiie other day, who was not supposed to have
the slightest knowledge of nautical parlance,
asked Captain Poruin why the aftermost sa:
was like a tyrannical mother. The gallant
captain scratched his head over it awhile, and
then " gave it up." " Because it's a spanker,
modestly lisped the important young miss.
Two DAYS IN A Corns ALIVE. —M I
Butler, a Georgian timber cutter went to Sa
vannah, a short time since, to sell timber, was i
taken sick, and it was thought, died. Hi* re-j
mains were deposited in a coffin and sent homed
On opening the coffin after its arrival, he wai
discovered to smile. Medical assistance w.n
immediately obtained, and it is said he is • I*l 1 * 1
recovering.
Yot'XG AMERICA.' —A few days <ince,
little schoolboys were missing from Wins-^ 1
Conn.,and fears were entertained that they f
been drowned. They were found. hoy •
the same evening, seven miles from home,
ing started to go to California, because -■
had "such hard lessons to get. ai ' " 1
afraid of being Hogged if they did not get V
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT seems indisp fl
to send out any other Arctic expedition- B
is no possibility that any of !• raukiins ]>■>'•■
now survive, and it does not seem J
with the motive of humanity which pnrp'-l
another expedition, to send other sjj'P 5
crews to cncouuter the same perils IL ■■
which the former perished, merely to saL ' ■
curiosity.
SINC.CI.AR FATAI.ITV. —A brakemao
Dickenson was killed la.sk week uear "/■
X. Y., while passing under a bridge. 1 B
the last of four victims who liavc per's (j, ■
a similar accident within a lew wee ■
all live in Utica, and three of them in 11 |
house.
Kir .LEU' —A man named Xe'son
formerly of Otsego county, New i • ■
instantly killed on the 12th inst. nboi it ■
miles above Trout Run, while in p- J
ing timber down the mountain. it' > ' •
horribly mangled, having one arm TO
head and chest brused in. He was 1 H
no faniilv. |