Starvation at the West. Our country is upon the ve;ge of famine.— We have never kuowu so wide-spread and ex treme destitution as prevails at present, espe cially in the western states. We feel the pressure here on the Atlantic severely, but as yet there is no distress that we are aware of. West of the Alleghenies, however, cattle are perishing bv the hundreds, and people pine for lack of food. In lowa the traveller finds no hay or straw for horses at any of the hotels. At Pes Moines corn is considered cheap at two dollars and can scarcely be had at that. It is repor ted that five dollars is the regular price in many places between there and Council Bluff's. Dead horses and cattle along the road are said to be ordinary sights. Wheat seems to be nearly as scarce as corn and hay. Flour is Belling at five dollars and five "dollars fifty cents per hundred, and rising. High as this price is, fanners who could afford it were feed ing their carriage-horses on w heat. The suffering in Michigan lias been so ex treme tlmt public meetings have been held and measures taken by the put die authorities for relieving the destitute. The Relief Com mittee of Lansing report that in Gratiot coun ty people were selling their land for means to get away with—that none have provisions to last more than two or three weeks. What they have, consists of flour and meal mere ly ; they have no meat, the smoke last fall from the extensive fires having driven off the deer. One of the most substantial farmers in the town of Arcadia reports that in his neighbor hood most of the families have only a few po tatoes left for seed ; they have divided with each other until they can divide no more, and have seed to plant. Each has from one to three bushels. He had last season one and a half acres of tine corn, that was cut off by an early frost when it was in the milk, and he could only use it for provender for his cattle. The cattle have had to subsist mostly through the winter on browse. He lias heard of neigh bor hoods north of him, from ten to thirty and even sixty tniles, that have nothing but oats to boil for food, and that one woman and two or three children west of him, iu Montcalm coun ty, had died for want of food. Samuel Hewlett,one of the leading butchers of. Detroit, returning from a business trip through the north part of Macomb county, in the same state, reports to the editor of the Detroit Advertiser that he was compelled to ride miles in order to tind a feed for his horse, lie says that the cattle and horses arc suffer ing greatly, and that the shoe]) and lambs are dying of the scours by the hundred. This state of things he reports upon his own obser vation, and adds that he saw a number of persons from the county of Lapeer, adja cent, who say that matters are much worse there. The Advertiser attributes the excessive scar city in Michigan, in a measure, to purely locai causes. It says : " The pervading fires of IS-1", the heavy August frost, which cut off com anil buckwheat, and nearly r.uord po tatoes. the miserable crops of other vegetables, and a bit ter winter, have combined to depress the standard of life to a point of starvation. The worst has not come. The cattle can begin to live, it is true, and the milk wiil help out of the fare of the poor children ; but a large portion of the cows arc dead,and it will be two months before the ground will yield anything upon which human be lugs can rely for support.'' In Tennessee things are in a still worse con dition. The Kuoxvilie Register of the 7th inst., says that everywhere in East Tennessee, the'greatest scarcity of i rovender and grain o tvery description prevails. The cattle are ac tually dying by the thousand, and in some sections the dependence is to cut down trees, that the cattle may eat buds. Xor is this alarming state of affairs confined to cattle.— In inauy sectious of the country, families that have been well provided with not only the necessaries, but man of the luxuries of lite, are to straitened as to be compelled to go forty or fifty miles to buy corn or wheat. While this is the case with those who have heretofore been comfortable and independent, the American says that the greater want prevails among the poorer classes, ar.d in counties east of Knoxville, that some of them were actually unable to have more thau one meal a day. From Canada the same cry of hanger is heard. The* Hamilton Spectator says that hay brings SOO a ton, that no oats arc tube found except what are needed for seed, and cattle ha\e been driven into tiie woods, "where they are now dying i i numbers from sheer starva tion."' These arc some of the fruits of the excessive stimulus given to western emigration by the immense land grants of Congress. A popula tion that might be more productively employed in a compact society, through these influences is spread over thousands and millions of acres tempted by the prospect of a new railroad to be built, or a a swelling current of emigration, to spend all its money, and perhaps run in debt for more land than it can afford to hold or cultivate. This class of settlers generally have to sell their first crops out pretty clcaii for money to meet their interest account mak ing but little provisions for the family con sumption through a long spring. They also have overlooked this year the extraordinary emigration which lias deluged the West, anil indefinitely multiplied the number of consumers. With their money all gone, the produce of their land all sold, what have they to to do but starve or beg? In some instances, as in Michigan, no doubt local disaster has contri buted to the general destitution ; but, in the main, the scarcity which now prevails in the West may be traced pretty directly to the land gambling propensities which Congress has been cultivating for some years past by its do nations of public lands. Ten millions of acres annnally js all, and more than all, the new land which is required for the proper accommoda tion of a healthy emigration. Twice that amount is forced annually upon j the market, usually coupled with a condition j that some railroad or other improvement be j built through or by it. Thus a double tempta tion is created to withdraw money from other and regular channels of business—one to spec ulate in the lands, the other to construct the improvement—neither of which expenditures would have been attempted but for the bait held out by the general goveanment. Through these influences our people are spread over too large a surface to give to each other the strength and support which forms one of the main inducements for men to live in socie ty. But for this emigration, which is one of the increase, we might hope that the present suffer ing in the \\ est would be but temporary. The danger is, however, that there will not be seed enough left in the West to plant land of an average area. High prices ordinarily tempt .at *R°,V 0 MD p'" 3 wider surface, Liu Ml.en farmers are feeding Uet t 0 their horses, and people are obliged to subsist on one meal of corn or flour a day, itis not likely an average quantity of seed will be reserved for planting. Under these circumstances it is premature to calculate upon any great abun dance of considerable reduction in the price of provisions during the coming year. The time has at last come, we the think, when the east ern farmers may feel safe in devoting all the ground they can spare to the cereals. For the next year at least, prices are sure to be re munerative.—Erating I'ost. Important from Utah. The Federal Courts Broken up by the Mormons Outrage cn the Gentiles, dpe. Advices from the Salt Lake City to the nth of March, given an account of the break ing up and dispersion of U. S. Court by a body of armed creatures of Brigham Young, and the priesthood, commonly known there as the Panties. _ Correspondents state the facts as follows : The U. S. District Court for Utah commenc ed 9th of February, Judge Stiles, a seceding Mormon, o:i the Bench. The United States District Attorney is llosea Stout, an appoint ee of the Government at Washington, and a noted member of the Panite Band. Upon the opening of the Court, he rose and stated that no Grand Jny would be irnpannellcd, as there were no cases to lie presented worthy of its notice ! Thus, by one stroke, were covered up a long catalogue of heinous offences, in cluding murders, robberies and arsons. A Pe tit Jury was sworn, but every imaginable im pediment to obstruct justice were availed of. All the members of the Bar are Mormons, ex cept David 11. Burr, Surveyor-General, and Dr. Hurt, an officer of the Indian Department. They had not practiced until the present term when they air reed to do so at the earnest so licitation of Mr. T. 8. Williams, who had some very interesting eases to prosecute. It is con tended by the Mormons that all the offences committed in the Territory, must be tried by the Territorial laws. Starting upon this pre text, while the Court was in progress on the I'2th ul ~ the Mormon members of the Bar and others of theDanite band, inveigled Judge Stiles into a private room, locked the door barred the windows, and theu with revolvers at his head and knives within an inch of his throat, forced him to promise to uphold them in whatever they did, and to "sustain the laws of Utah !" Thus overpowered, threatened, and intimidated, Judge Stiles yielded, dismiss ing the Jury and adjourned the Court, direct ing the Crier to pronounce it adjourned sine die. Tin* Crier accordingly announced the Court adjourned sine die, but also stated that if would meet the next day for the transaction of any territorial business that might be brought before it. ThoJddge, at the bidding of the Dunites, notified the U. S Marshal, Mr. I)od son, that after that day his presence would not be required in the Court; that the territorial Marshal would be considered the officer, and an account of the expenses would be render ed to the United States Marshal for pay ment. The Mormons feared that the U. S. Marsha!—who is a "Gentile"'—would in terfere with the execution of their plans, and therefore ndop ed this mode of getting rid of him, and substituting the Mormon Territorial .Marshal in his place. Judge Stiles being ask ed whether it was possible that he could im agine his proceedings correct, frankly stated, "You understand my positiou with this people, I cannot do otherwise Judge Stiles opened the Court the next day, and proceeded to business. The Terri torial Marshal, Alexander McKay, occupied the proper station of the Marshal, thus giving the Court an entirely Mormon aspect, with Mr. Burr as the only Gentile within the bar : The journal the preceding day was the read. : Finding that it recorded the Court as adjourn |ed "until to-morrow." Mr. Burr asked if the : record was correct, Judge Stiles replied that ; the crier had misunderstood. The court was 1 still in session on Territorial business. He al |so remarked that in all the cases to be tried I before him he should be governed by the laws of the Territory, and would have recourse t<> other laws only when enactments of the Terri torial Legislature could not be made to apply to the case. Mr Burr then asked hitn if he understood him to say that lie would be guid ;(d by the laws of the Territory in preference Ito tile laws of the United States. Before any : reply could be made, an Attorney named Fer j commenced a most foul and abusive | attack upon Mr. Burr. lie then turned to the Judge, and told him that if he dared to decide against their laws he could sit on that bench no longer, and that the court-room would be cleared "d d quick !" The district Attorney followed in a violent harangue, in which ho accused Mr. Burr of | trying to set aside the Mormon laws, and mid that the Mormons had submitted to Gentile iuterfencc long enough, that they were now go ing to have their own, and had good authority for what they did, as well as safe backers.— The room was filled at the time with armed ruffians, who constituted the "backers" alluded to. As soon as Mr. Burr and Mr. T. S. Wil liams got up to reply, the Territorial Marshal ordered them peremptorily to stop ; and im mediately the whole audience sprang to their feet, and the Danite murderers, who filled the Court, threw off their coats, brandished their kinqes and revolvers, and created so great confusion that the Judge was obliged to ad journ the court at next. The the next morning, the Court opened amid intense excitement. The whole Mormon populace were armed, and had been inflamed to such a degree by the incendiary speeches of Ferguson, Stout and others, that the least pre tence would have been availed of to massacre every Gentile in the place. The names of Mes Oh j 15 copies for.. . ?12 00 10 copies for S 00 [ 20 copies for 15 00 ADVERTISEMENTS — For a square of ten tines or less, One Dollar for three or less insertions, and twenty-Jive cents for each subsequent insertion. Job-Work Executed with accuracy and despatch, and a reasonable price*—with every facility for doing Rooks, Blanks, Hand bills, Bali tickets, 4'C. MONEY may be sent by mail, at our risk—enclosed in an envelope, and properly directed, we trill be responsible for its safe delivery. FOR GOVERNOR, DAVID V7ILMOT, of Bradford Cc. FOR CAN'AI, COMMISSIONER. waff, aff ILL WARD, of Philadelphia. for. JUDGES Of THE SUPREME COURT, JOSEPH J. LEWIS, of Chester Co JAXtffES VEECH, of Fayette County. SALE OF THE MAIN LINE. The Legislature which adjourned last week, passed many laws which had much better been left undone, but the passage of the law to sell the main line of the public works should be sufficient to cover a multitude of transgres sions. We hail the passage of this act as the dawning of a better day for Pennsylvania.— While we would save the rights of the public from oppression and monopoly we have never theless always felt as if the price to be obtain ed for these improvements was a secondary consideration. Regard for the financial inter ests of the Commonwealth, and particularly consideration for public morals imperatively demanded that this fruitful source of corrup tion and demoralization should be broken up. The main line has nursed a nest of robbers for years, who held on like leeches until they were gorged, and fell off, to give place to a new and hungry set. It has exerted a baleful and corrupting inlluence both morally and po litically. We trust the time has now come w hen this Augean stable will lie cleansed, aud the horde of thieves and plunderers be dispers ed. The main line sold, and the stealings attach ed to the office ot Canal Commissioners will he ! very materially diminished. The Upper North ! Branch has been virtually taken from them. The management of that work will contrast so strongly with want of energy on the remain der of tiic public works that it w ill not be long before the office will be abolished, and the im provements, if not sold, placed iu the hands of : men who will be directly responsible. | The Act providing for the sale of the Main ! Line of the Public Works, makes it the duty of the Governor to advertise the sale within ten Cays after the approval of the Act. It declares that the sale may be made for a sum not less than $7,500,000. No bid to be ac cepted unless the sura of SIOO,OOO is deposit ed with the Governor, in cash or State bonds, to be forfeited if the terms of the sale are not complied with. If the Pennsylvania Railroad | Company purchase it, the price is $9,000,000, | the whoie amount of sale to be paid in the five per cent. l>onds of the Company. Of those bonds, SIOO,OOO will fall due July 31st, 1858, i and SIOO,OOO annually thereafter until July 31st, 1890, $1,000,000 will fall due, and sl,- 000,000 annually thereafter till the whole is i paid. The Company and its connections ore | released from the payment of all other taxes j or duties on its capital stock, bonds, dividends | or property, except for city, borough, county, | township and school purposes. It may pur ; chase or lease the Harrisburg and Lancaster road, and it may straighten and improve the I Philadelphia and Coluinbiu Railroad, and cx , tend it to the Delaware. The purchaser of ! the works is to have a perpetual corporate I succession, but the Legislature may revoke the j privileges granted for abase of them, a judi | eiul decree of abuse being previously had, and i full compensation being made to the stockhol : ders, if the State decide to resume the fran j chises The purchasers are prohibited from making any discrimination in tolls, or charges, or any priority of passage through locks pas i sing to or from the Susquehanna division.— ; They shall at all times keep open the present | connection at Columbia and Middletowu with j the Susquehanna, Tide Water and Union Ca : nals, and shall at no time discriminate against ■ i the trade or tonnage passing to or from the , said canals ; neither 811811 they at any time i charge more for boats or other crafts passing ! the outlet locks at Columbia and Middletown, i than is now charged for the passage of boats or similar crafts through other locks owned i by this Commonwealth. In pursuance of this law the Governor has advertized the Mam Line for sale at the Mer-' chants' Exchange in Philadelphia, on the 25th of June next, at 7 1-2 o'clock, P. M. The property advertised consists of the following : —The Main Line of the Public Works be tween Philadelphia and Pittsburg, consisting of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, the Allegheny Portage Railroad, including the new road to avoid the Inclined Planes, with the necessary and convenient width for the proper use of said Railroads, the Eastern Di vision of the Pennsylvania Canal, from Colum bia to the Junction, the Juniata Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, from the Junction to the Eastern terminus of the Allegheny Por tage Railroad, and the Western Division of i the Pennsylvania Canal, from the Western J terminus of the Allegheny Portage Railroad to Pittsburg, and including also the right, ti tle and interest of the Commonwealth in the Bridge over the Susquehanua at Duncan's Is laud, together with the same interest iu the surplus Water Power of said Canals, with the right to purchase and hold such lands as may be necessary to make the same available, aud all the Reservoirs, Machinery, Locomotives, Cars, Trucks, Stationary Engines, Work Shops, Tools, Water Stations, Toll Ilouses, Offices, Stock and Materials, whatsoever and wheresoever thereunto belonging or held for the use cf the same. APPORTIONMENT ACT. The following is the Apportionment made by the late Legislatnre. It will be seen that Bradford retains two members of the House, but is included iu quite a large Senatorial dis trict : SEVATOKIAT. DISTRICTS. City of Philadelphia * Dauphin and Lebanon 1 Cluster and Delaware 1 Lancaster .2 Montgomery 1 York 1 Bucks 1 \danis, Franklin & Fulton. 1 Lehi-h and Northampton-1 Somerset, Bedford and Hunt- Berks 1 tnsdon 1 Schuylkill 1 j Blair,Cambria & Clearfield. 1 Carbon, Monroe, l'ike ami| Indiana and Armstrong.. .1 Wayne 1 j Westmoreland A Fayette . 1 Bradford, Tusqnehann, Sul ! Washington and Green... 1 livau and Wyoming ijAllcghcny 2 Luzerne 1 Beaver and Butler 1 Tioga. Potter, McKean and Lawrence, Mercer and Ve- Warren . . ljnango 1 Clinton, Lycoming, Centre Krie and Crawford 1 and Union. 1 Clarion, Jefierson, Forest Montour, Northumberland 'and E1k.,., ; 1 Columbia aiiu Snyder 11 Cumberland, Perry, Juniata! Total 33 and Mifflin II REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. Phila.City (districted). .17 Cumberland aud Perry... .2 Delaware County 1 Adatns 1 Chester 3 Franklin and Fulton 2 Montgomery 3 Bedford and Somerset 2 Bucks 2 Huntingdon 1 Lehigh and Carbon 2 Blair 1 Northampton 2 Cambria 1 Monroe and Pike 1 Indiana 1 Wayne 1 Westmoreland and Arm- Luzerne 3 strong 3 Susquehanna 1 Fayette 1 Bradford. . 2 Green 1 Wyoming, Sullivan, Colum Washington. 2 bia and Montour 2 Allegheny 5 Lycoming and Clinton... .2 Beaver and Law re nee ... .2 Centre 1 Butler 2 Mifllin 1 Mercer and Mcnango 2 Union.Snyder and Juniata 'ijCUrion and Forest .... 1 Northumberland 1 \ Jefferson,Clearfield, Elk and Schuylkill 3 McKean 2 Dauphin 2 Crawford and Warren 2 Lebanon l|Erie u 2 Berks Jjt'otter and Tioga 3 Lancaster 4 York 21 Total 100 NEW Music BOOK. —Messrs. J. B. Lippin cott A Co., of Philadelphia, have just publish ed a new musical work entitled the " Family Circle Glee Book," containing about 200 songs, glees, choruses, Ac., including many of the most popular pieces of the the day, arranged and harmonized for four voices, with full ac companiment for the piano, seraphina and melodeon, for the use of glee clubs, singing schools, and the home circle. Compiled by Ei.ias llowf.. This work is admirably adapt ed to the requirements of the musical public, as it contains more desirable music than any ever before published. For sale by O. D. BARTLETT. ffiaj"*-Tlie injury done to the Johnny Cake darn, on the Junction, is being repaired as speedily as circumstances will permit. Should the present favorable weather continue, the delay to navigation will not continue long.— The Horse Race dam, below, is more seriously damaged, but Mr. MAFFLT'S energy and perse verance, (particularly now that his hands are not tied) are a guarantee that everything will be done that any man can accomplish. The water has been let in from Athens to this place, and the Canal is in fine order. ffiaf A correspondent at Wyalusing writes us that an ox belonging to Mr. JOHN BRAN VAN of that township, having died, after an illness of two weeks, Mr. B. made a post mortem examination to ascertain the cause of his death, and found a darning needle imbedded in the heart of the animal, which had evidently caus ed its death. Our informant is a person of the utmost reliability, and the occurrence, though a very singular one, i 6 unquestionably true. We regret to learn that Mr. E. A. SMITH, formerly of this place, met with a verv serious accident by falling from the tender of engine No. 47, on the N. Y. & E. R. R., at Smith's Mills, Chatanque county, both legs be ing crushed and otherwise bruised. Though terribly wounded, strong hopes are entertained by the attending physicians that he would re cover, and that amputation would not be nec essary. GODEY'S LADY BOOK. —The June number of Godey's Lady Book is us usual in advance of all its cotemporaries. The Engraving " The nearest way in summer time," as well as the new style fashion-plate is truly artistic, and we know the ludies will pronouuee them beautiful. It also contains some new and ve ry tasty patterns for embroidery, &c., and the comic alphabet will no doubt meet with gen eral favor. Ladies' work of all kinds, and contributions from the celebrated authors in the States, can always be found in Godey's Lady's Book. GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA. —The Harris burg Herald states that Gov. Geary having been consulted upon the subject, has consen ted to accept the nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania, if tendered by the American State Convention, soon to assemble at Lan caster. SCICIDE. —A wealth and respectable farmer named William Drew, residing near Edenville, Orange County, committed suicide Saturday night by cutting his throat with a razor. No cause is assigned for the act, though deceased had been in poor health for two or three days before it. a®- The Legislature adjourned finally on Saturday. In the Senate, a message was re ceived from the Governor, announcing that the bills to incorperate the Bank of Sharnokin, Bank of Pottstown, and Lebanon Valley Bank, and the bills increasing the capital of the York County Bank and Manufacturers and Mechanics' Bank of Philadelphia had become a law without his signature through lapse of time. Mr Taggart formally resigned his post as Speaker of the Senate, and an election was then to be held for his successor, which resulted in the choice of D. A Finney, the American Republican nominee. Mr. Finney took the oath of office, and delivered a short address. R. R. LITTLE, ESQ. Editor of the North Branch Democrat, has been appointed by at torney General Black, Judge Advocate of one of the Naval Courts of Inquiry, for the Uni ted States, sitting in Washington City. Mr. GEORGE A. CHASE has succeeded Mr. L. as Editor of the North Branch Democrat, Tuukhanuock. FIRE IN WELI.SBURG. —A fire broke out in the hotel of R. Piatt, at Wellsbnrg, Chemung Co., between 3 and 4 o'clock Saturday morn ing, and destroyed the hotel, and a grocery store and dwelling adjoining it. The progress of the flames was so rapid that the inmates of the hotel barely escaped by jumping from the windows. The loss is about SIO,OOO. Par tially insured. IThomas Cunningham of Pennsylvania, has resigned his Associate Judgeship in Kan sas. RCT.I.OFFE IN OWEGO. — A good mnny read ers of the Gazette will doubtless be startled by the caption to this paragraph ; but there is nevertheless so much truth in it as this, that there are circumstances which lead the suspi cion that RvUoffc, in the disguise of a woman, actually staid at the Ah-wa ga House in this Village, during the day and night following bis escape from the Ithaca jail—which will be remembered, on the night of the sth inst.— The circumstances as related to us, are these : On the evening of the 4th, a gentleman and lady—entire strangers—stopped at the Ah wa-ga, took a room, and remained over night. In the morning they were absent from the house for a while ; but finally returning, repair ed to their room, where their meals were serv ed to them, aud where they remained until in the course of the next night they departed in one of the express trains. It is moreover be lieved that the women who returned to the Ah wn-ga, after the temporary absence in the morn ing, was not the woman who slept there the night previous, but the murderer RULLOFFF dis guised in her apparel. DECISION* OF THE RCLI.OFFE CASE. —It will be seen by the decisions made at the General Term last week, that the application for a new trial in the case of The People agt. RNL loffe, was denied. But for the escape of the prisoner he would doubtless have been brought here on Saturday last and received the sen tence of death. As it is, we suspect some lit tle time will elapse before the Court will be called upon to discharge that duty— .Outgo Gazette. THE GREAT SNAKE DEN in East Hartford, beats the entire country. It is on the edge of the old Ilitter Quarry, and Mr. Ransom White, who reside in that vicinity, has taken two hundred and fourteen snakes from that single den ! No other snake den in thiscountry has as yet equalled this. He took out the first lot of 92 on the 10th of April, and from day to day, by removing rocks and digging, he found additional families or " balls" of them, for it appears that the snakes, to the number twenty or more, wind themselves into a ball and remain in that condition during the win ter. Most of the number were black snakes, measuring from three to four and a half feet in length ; but among these were three racers, a long slim snake, with a white ring around the neck, and three little racers, not over three inches in length ; also seven poisonous adders. j There seems to be some difference in the appearance of these adders, some of them hav ing flutter heads than others, and brighter spots on them. One of them in particular, a large vicions looking fellow, flattens himsi-lf through his entire length, his head being as ; flat as a cent : when he is annoyed, he throws j the upper part of his head back, and strikes | likes a rattlesnake. He is about three feet long, his tail is tapering off abruptly, the point for about 2 inches being not much lar- I ger than a piece of small twine. He is evi dently as poisonous as the rattlesnake. Mr. White had a large show case full of these ser pents, all alive, on exhibition here on election day ; they drew together a large crowd. A friend suggest that for a mile or more around tnat snake den, few snakes will be seen this season, but that the ground moles will great ly increase. Let the fact be uoted—Hurl ford Times, Sitrudiy. THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER. —Afew years since, a farmer living near Easton, PH., sent his j daughter on horseback to that town, to pro cure from the bank, small notes for one hun ; dred dollars. When she arrived there the bank was closed ; and she endeavored to ef feet her object by offering it at several stores, but could not get her note changed. She had not gone far on her way, when a stranger rode up to her and accosted her with so much politeness, that she had not the slightest sus picion of any evil intention on his part. Af ter a ride of a mile or two, employed in a ve ry social conversation, they came to a retired part of the road, and the stranger commanded her to give him the bank note. , It was with some difficulty that she could be made to believe him in earnest., as his de meanor had been so friendly ; but the presen tation of a pistol placed the matter beyond a doubt, and she yielded to necessity. Just as she held the note to him, a sudden puff of wind blew the note into the road, and carried it gently several yards from them. The dis courteous knight alighted to overtake it, and the lady whipped to get out of his power, and the horse which had been standing by her side, started with her. His owner fired a pis tol after her, which only tended to increase the speed of all parties, and the lady arrived safe at home with the horse of the robber, on ! which was a pair of saddle-bags. When these were opened, besides a Quantity of counterfeit bank notes, fifteen hundred dollars in good mo ney was found. The horse proved to be a good one, and when saddled and bridled, was thought to lie worth at least as much as the bank note that was stoleu. The White Murder in Pennsylvania— Strangely Acquired Confession of the Principal. The Pittsburg Despatch, after stating that certain motives for suppression have now ceas ed to exist, publishes the following extraordi nary particulars of the confession of Bill Jone< now confined on the charge of having murder er a Mr. White in Washington countv Pa It will be remembered that this Jones' was arrested on the testiraouy of his sister Char lotte, who, with Fife and another, is accused of the murder ot the old couple, Wilson and his sister, in the same vicinity. The Despatch gays ; Shortly after the re-arrest of Bill Jones and his confinement in jail, there was an apr a rent change in his personal derm-anor He seemed to have lost all relish for life, and wag evidently weighed down by an intolerble bur den. He was nervous, restless aud besought the jailor and sheriff to permit some one of the jail inmates to sleep with him. His re quest was granted, and he shared Lis cell with a prisoner named Hutchinson, awaiting trial for burglary. Soon after, Jones made a con fident of Hutchinson, and narrated to him the particulars of the White murder, and confess ed himself the principal actor in that bloody affair. Hutchinson reported what Jones had told to him to the jailor and one or two others who would not believe him, circumstances at that time strongly pointing to another party in their opinion, as the perjietrator. Hutchin son then told them that if they would arrauge the time and place so as to overhear the con versation, he would induce Jones to repeat for their hearing what he had himself heard. Various expedients were tried to secure au ricular commuuication with the cell from with out, but they failed. At last an artificial ear, fashioned after the human ear, and admi rably adapted to magnify the faintest whisper to audible articulation, was produced, and so arranged, that every word was distinctly heard through an almost imperceptible aper ture in the wall. Everything being arranged. Hutchinson, at a favorable momeut alluded to the murder, and desired Jones to repeat the particulars, which he did, the substance is as follows : The Saturday prior to the murder of White, (March 28,) Bill and his wife Sarah were at the house of Mr. Fleming, in Columbia, where they stayed that night, aud next morning pro ceeded thence to the house of Bill's father's near Dunningsville. Arriving there he des patched his brother Madison with Charlotte Jones to Hickory to tell Fife jwho resided there with Charlotte Jones till the 2d of April, according to her own statement before Mayor Weaver,) that he (Bill) would b-jthree that night. In the evening, about nine o'clock, Bill left his father's and proceeded to Hickory, where he arrived about one o'clock in the morning. Fife and himself then started for White's. When they arrived there they spent some time in examining the premises. They did not intend to commit murder, but rob White of his money which they learned was in the house. While near the house they beared footsteps, and supposed that White was awake. Tuey then went to the wood pile, and Bill pot the uxe and entered the liou>e. White was in the bed at the time, and Mrs. White seeing them fled. Bill proceeded to the bed room, and with his own hands committed the murder, while F.fe searched the house for money, Bill stated to Hutchinson that he did not know whether Fife found any money or not, as he had never had or seen any tuken at that time. Having lonimitted the robbery and murder they fled, Fife returning to Hick ory- This statement confirms the particulars of the White murder, as given by Mrs. White, though she did not know the murderers. LAND SPKCCATTON IN THE WEST—M e are told that a certain bank in a certain Dairy i county in the centre of this state, had on de ' posit in the spring of 1846, the sum of $455.- j 000, money of the farmers. Week before ; last its deposit account footed up only some $25,000, and the farmers of that county were borrowing money for their spring operations. The deposits in the bank had been drawn for investment in the far West. A portion went directly into the lands to be held for a raise The residue and the larger part was trans mit ted to be loaned at four and five per cent a month, on real estate security, and the legal assurance of unlimited usury laws. We have also been informed that the surplus moneys of very many other counties of ibis State have gone the same way as the deposited earnings of the Dairy district we have mentioned. That the loans thus made will he perma nent, and lawfully permanent, all who know the West can well say. They will t ur o out, by the operation of the bankruptcy of the borrowers, to be simply investments in land at enormous prices. The money will nev er come back here. The pit of unlimited in terest beyond the Mississippi is bottomless. We thus can place our touch upon one ol the connections which New \ ork has witha very scarlet fever of land speenlation, now burning through the West. Dry-goods joo. bers, grocers, hardware dealers and clothiers in New York city, can place their fingers on other chords which tie ns all to the patient ol this fertile disease. Its pulsations are felt through Ledgers and Note Books, in over due aocounts and protested drafts and notes Their customers far West have bought land greedily, and have greedily clutched at four per cent a mouth for money, really belonging to New Yorkers, but which, if wanted from them will bear only seven per cent auuum interes* —Albany Journal. THE IIOG CITOLERA IN* NEW JERSEY. This strange disease, which has made such ravages among the porkers of the West, has also been very prevaleut in this part of the country. At Easton, New Hope, Lambertsville and many other places where large numbers of hogs are kept, hundreds have died, and the disease has not yet disappeared, neither has its cause been acertaincd. DESTRUCTION OF SHEEP. —As the Express traiu bound sonth on the Canndingua ami tl raira Road when just north of Watkins, a flock of near sixty sheep gathered on the track, aud before the train could be stopped about twen ty of them were run over and killed