DUEL EXTRAORDINARY. —A duel was fought
near this city yesterday morning, which, for
the singularity of its denouement, is perhaps un
paralleled in the annals of single com hat. A
well known gentleman in this community, whom
we shall call Mr. A., feeling himself aggrieved
by the conduct of another geiitlctneu, whom
we shall designate as Mr. i>., sent him a chal
lenge, which was accepted—weapons, pistols ;
jlistancc, twelve paces ; time, six o'clock in
the morning. The usual preliminaries were
settled, and at the word " fire " both pistols
exploded. At the same instant 15. was scon
to stagger. The seconds rushed up, when it
was found that the ball had struck the outer
case of his hunting watch, from which it had
glanced at nearly a right angle, passing through
the lappcl of his coat. Tiie watch was worn
in the vest pocket and was almost directly on
the heart. The case was found to be conside
rably battered, but otherwise the watch had
sustained no injury, although it had gained
three hours in as many minutes. The hands,
which a moment before had stood at twenty
minutes past six, now marked half-past nine.
But perhaps the most curious part of our sto
ry is to come. On looking round to sec what
had become of A., the seconds discovered him
leaning over, in the act of picking tip some
thing from the ground, and on approaching
nearer, discovered, to their astonishment, that
one of his whiskers, which he wore unusually
large and heavy, had been shorn completely
from his face, and that with as much precision
as though it had been accomplished by the
most skillful barber. It was thought that
some peculiarity in the bore of Is.'s pistol had
communicated to the ball a rotary motion,
which, combined with its great velocity, could
necessarily produce an effect similar to that
caused by some sharp cutting instrument.—
The result of the duel, so far, had been so ut
terly singular that it precluded all thoughts of
pushing it to a farther and perhaps more dis
astrous issue. The seconds interposed and re
conciled their principals, and in a couple of
hours thereafter the whole party were toast
ing each other in a certain fashionable restau
rant below Canal Street.— Xnc Orleans Bcc.
SINT.RI.AR KIFEITS OF ELECTRICITY.—A sin
gular occurrcuce, says the Detroit Free Press,
took place, a short time since, at the Locomo
tive Works, illustrating the powerful effects
of electricity. A locomotive was being mov
ed from the manufactory to the Central-depot
and had arrived in the middle of the street,
when suddenly all hands dropped the bars with
which they were moving the machine, and fell
back in amazement. Resuming them at the
order of the man in charge, they applied them
again to the wheels, and again fell back par
alyzed the instant they touched the iron. The
director of the job caught up one of the bars,
and making a savage thrust, planted it under
a wheel, preparatory to giving a huge lift. No
sooner had it touched, however, than he saw
it full from his grasp to the ground, as it had
done in every case before. Such singular oc
currences excited attention, and an examina
tion was made as to the cause, when it was
found that the locomotive, in passing under
the telegraph line, had come in contact with
a broken wire that hung sufficiently low to
reach it. The whole mass of iron comprising
the locomotive had thus become charged with
electricity, which bad communicated itself to
the bars that the men held in their hands, and
caused the effect above described. The wire
was then removed, and the difficulty obviated
in a moment.
PAXGEROCS FRF.AK OK A LC.VATIC. —On
Thursday afternoon, about dusk, says the Wor
cester (Mass.) Transcript , a carpenter named
McGrath, a permanent workman in the Luna
tic Asylum in this city, went into one of the
galleries frequented by the patients, having his
hammer aud saw with him. One of the in
mates, named James Gibson, seized the oppor
tunity as McGrath laid down his hammer, to
snatch it and pound upon his skull. Another
blow was repeated before the lunatic could be
arrested. The blows were fearful, one break
ing in the table of the brain over the temple,
and the other over the eye, and both tearing
through the dura mater, so that pieces of the
skull bone were picked out of the brain. Mc-
Grath, who lives in Pine Meadow, and is, we
believe, a married man, could not be removed
to his home, but receives excry attention that
medical skill can suggest in the wards of the
hospital. It was thought he could not sur
vive, but yesterday he seemed comfortable,
and hopes are entertained that he may reco
ver, though, of course, he remains in a very
critical oondition.
SHAD FISHING. —Never perhaps since the
construction of the Pennsylvania Canal, have
shad been so numerous at this point in the Sus
quehanna as at present. The breaking of the
dams below by the ice this spring has provid
ed a channel for these delicious fish, which
they have taken advantage of, returning to
the waters from which they had been exclud
ed for years. The principal fishery at the
present time is along the western shore of
Buyer's Island, about two miles below Sun
bury. Mr. Wrn. Gaugler is occupying it, and
has caught some thousands since the season
commenced. Some fish are caught on the eas
tern shore of the island, but in limited num
bers, and a few higher up near the dam. Mr.
Gaugler has found ready and profitable sale
for his shad, disposing of them generally to
persons standing ready to receive them as they
are taken out of the seine. The novelty of
the fishing has attracted many persons to the
island who never before witnessed the excite
meut attending the sport.
STRANGE ACCIDENT.—ON Tuesday of last
week, a cliikl of Mr. Lininger, of this place,
that had just commenced walking, was, in its
innocent amusement, wandering from place to
place around the room, and reaching the ta
ble where a cup of coffee had just been served
out, it succeeded in grasping the covering of
the table, and giving it a sudden and unex
pected jerk, emptied the cup of about half its
contents, which were received on the breast
and arm of the child. It seemed as cheerful
and playful as ever, exhibiting no signs of dis
tress until the succeeding day, when death
claimed the little prattler as his victim, and
with a ruthless baud, tore it from the arms of
the sorrowing parents.— Jersey SAuic Repub.
RICH DIGGINGS IN A BURYING GROUND.—A
rich claim in the neighborhood of Oroville,
owned by Mr. Ford, is located 011 an old In'
dian burying ground. The skull aud bones
are constantly washed out much, much to the
discomfiture of the superstitions Chinese who
ure employed. It seems that the Diggers do
not burn all their dead—an has been generally
supposed—but only their warriors aud those
who die of contagious diseases.— Calif or nian.
| THE ADMINISTRATION'S VIEW OF MORMON
I AFFAIRS. —The subjoined article from the
Washington Union of the Oth instant is pre
sumed to express the convictions of the Presi
dent. From the statements of a government
official who arrived, direct from Salt Lake
City, in Washington on the evening of the Nth,
and from other information, the orgau of the
administration derives the following conclu
sions in reference t< the condition of affairs in
Utah :
" 1. That the Mormon legion is composed
of some five or six thousand iudiffercntly-arm
ed men, including a few squadrons of cavalry
—about as well drilled and as effective as the
ordinary militia of the states.
" 2. That the Mormons ridicule the idea of
the federal government sent sending an armed
force to the territory to execute the laws.
•' 3. That Brigham Young's commands, as
the head of the church, are omnipotent with
all good Mormons, and hence the resistance to
the United States laws.
"4. That the presence of one thousand
United States troops in the territory would
secure obodedicitce to the laws, and that no
resistance would be made by the Mormons to
so large a force.
"5. That it is undoubtedly true that there
is a serious defection among the Mornons, and
that if the disaffected could be protected by
United States authorities they would gladly
sever their connection with the church and its
head.
"fi. That Salt Lake City bears the outward
evidences of Mormon oppression, and that
business of all kinds is literally at a "stand
| still." Many who desire to leave for the
States cannot not do so for the want of
means.
" 7. That not more than fifty "Gentiles"
| were in the territory, and although it was
forbidden that they should he supplied with
the necessaries of life, they were enabled to
procure provisions through the cupidity of
some of the less scrupulous of the Saints,
j "8. That Brigham Young admitted that
he could, by a word, have prevented his
j followers from violating the laws of the Unit
| ed States, but that he did not choose to iutcr-
I fere, aud would not interfere."
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SYRACUSE. —Monday,
June lf>, 1857.—About 1 o'clock yesterday
morning, a fire broke out in the new brick
stores adjoining the Washington Block, on
South Salina street, which proved very dis
astrous in its effects. The fire originated iu
the grocery and provision store of Judah
Pierce, and the flames spread with alarming
rapidity The sufferers, as far as we can as
certain, are as follows : The stock of grocer
ies belonging to Mr. Pierce was valued at $15,-
000, and insured tor SIO,OOO. The store and
the one immediately adjoining it were the
property of 11. A. Pillaye, and his loss is esti
mated at §IO,OOO, insured for $5,000. The
loss on Mr. Gate's stock of confectionary is
about SSOO, and is fully insured ; the building
lie occupied was valued at $5,000, and was in
sured for that amount. It belonged to Samuel
Mead. The next store was a cabinet and
furniture store ; it was insured for $3,000, and
the stock for $4,000, and these amounts will
cover the loss. The two next stores were own
ed by Harvey Sheldon, and Israel S. Spencer ;
they were not finished or occupied, and were
insured for the full amount of the damage.—
The total loss is estimated at $50,000.
THE HISTORY OK A " COMPROMISE." —Seven
years ago an elderly gentleman of the White
House wrote his name at the bottom of a doc
ument which, he blandly assured the nation,
would be a panacea for all their political trou
bles. It was an act to declare hospitality a
crime, and the detail of a crust of bread or a
cup of water the most cardiual of patriotic
virtues.
The prescription failed. Instead of an olive
branch, the Fugitive Slave law proved a fire
brand. Instead of promoting peace, it has
done nothing but foment strife. The quarrel
it pretended to " compromise " blazed up more
fiercely the moment it was put in the statute
book, and has grown hotter and hotter ever
since. It has drawn thousands of dollars from
the treasury, while it has hardly returned a
a dozen runaways. It has exasperated the
North, while it has not benefitted the South.
It has broken up the parties that sustained it,
ruined the presses that advocated it, and
crushed the ollicers that enforced it. It has
brought down the gray hairs of its Presiden
tial parent in sorrow to a political grave. It
has embroiled us at home and disgraced us
abroad. It has weakened public respect for
law and stimulated popular recourse to riot.
The chains around Boston Court house, the
murderous volleys at Christiana, the bloody
creek at Wilkesbarre, the alarm bell at Syra
cuse, the cell of Williamson, and now the arm
ed strife of Sheriff and Marshal in Ohio—
these are evidences of the kind of " peace "
that has followed Millard Fillmore's " adjust
ment " of the Slavery question.— Albany Eve.
Journal.
KILLED BY LEECHES. —At the village of
Montigny la Marc, near Paris, M Lanquie a
drugist, lately established a nursery of leeches
in a marsh or pond, where he was accustomed
to feed them by driving an old worn out horse,
purchased at knacker's yard, every morning
into the muddy water and allowing the leeches
to gorge themselves at the expense of the
horse's legs. His son, a boy of thirtceu, used
to ride the horSc into the pond. A few days
ago, the boy having gone alone upon that er
rand, the family were terrified by the horse
coining back without its rider ; his legs were
bleeding profusely and covered with leeches.
People went to the pond to look for the child,
and found him immersed there, struggling fee
bly to extricate himself from the mire, and de
fend himself from the hundreds of voracious
creatures which had crawled under his clothes,
(for he wore neither shoes nor stockings,) and
had fixed upon every limb of his body.—
He had probably been thrown off the horse's
back by the restlessness of the tormented
animal. The poor boy was exhausted and
speechless when he was got out, and died in a
few hours.
A CASE OK ASIATIC CIIOI.F.RA. —The Boston
Journal states that considerable excitement ex
isted in East Cambridge, on Sunday, owing to
the current report that a respectable citizen
(Dea. Geo. Fewhall) had been suddenly at
tacked with cholera. About 4 o'clock in the
morning, Dea. Newhall was seized with sud
den illness, which so alarmed his friends that
he immediately summoned Dr. Hooker, who
pronounced the symptoms in every respect sim
ilar to the Asiatic cholera. At the last ac
counts the invalid was more comfortable, al
though f.'.irs are still entertained for his re
covery.
ifeMott,lmporter,
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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TIIF. PENNSYLVANIA?! ON SNORBLE. —The
Pennsylvanian has been the advocate of the
sale of the Main Line, and has supported the
measure by several excellent articles. For
this treason to " the party," the indomitable,
the eloquent, the inevitable SNORBLE, came
down upon the Pennsylvania n at the late Con
vention, in one of his characteristic speeches.
That paper does not seemed disposed to sub
mit quietly to SNOBBLE'S abuse, and pays him
back in his own coin. It is refreshing to con
trast its now opinion of the West-Branch
blackguard, with the fulsome adulatious it
showered upon him last fall. It now says of
him :
" While this SCHNABLE was rioting in New
York and gaining for himself an unenviable
notoriety, the Pennsylvanian was battling for
Democratic principles, and its influences have
been felt by opponents and acknowledged by
friends.
The next remark made by Mr. SCHNABLF.
requiring comment, was the expression of his
opinion that " it would not be a bad thing for
the Pennsylvanian to come out in favor of
Black Republicanism, and not be nursing its
inclinations," and that the paper was without
" character," and other essential requirements.
We shall not bandy words with thisScHNABLE
as to character. Where we were born, have
lived and done business, our reputation stands
uuimpeached ; where he lives, and where he
has sojourned temporarily, he has acquired re
nown only for liceutiousuess and a reckless dis
regard of all the decencies of life. As to his
puerile intimation that the paper should change
its political course, and embrace the heresies
of the opposition, the idea is but the maggot
of a diseased brain, engendered by the rank
heat of his own vanity, which we are free to
admit we may have stimulated by lauding his
efforts in last fall's campaign, when we took
the glitter of his speeches for the solid gold
of consistency, and hoped that advancing years
had brought with them those reforms of which
he stood so much in need."
This is the portrait the Pcnnsylvanian draws
the man who has promised to stump every
county in the State for Gen. Packer.
Ou Tuesday last, the Democratic State
Convention re-assembled at Harrisburg, and
nominated Hon. W.w. STROMG of Berks, and
Hon. JAS. THOMPSON of Erie, as candidates for
Judges of the Supreme Court.
Mr. STRONG is in many respects a creditable
selection. Mr. THOMPSON is obnoxious to pub
lic censure for his active participation in the
Erie riots, and for his strong support of the
Fugitive Slave Law. Both are ultra party
men, who will do whatever Party may demand.
The first resolution adopted, is complimen
tary to Judges Black and Lewis. 2d and
3d approve of Mr. Buchanan's course thus
far. 4th. Complimentary to Messrs. Strong
and Thompson. sth. Approves of the de
cision of the U. S. Supreme Court in the
Dred Scott case. 6th. Condemns the Bank
chartering of the late Legislature. 7th. Con
demns the bill for the sale of the Main Line.
Mr. Scott of Huntingdon, offered a resolu
tion declaring that the resolution disapproving
of the sale of the Main Line on the terms of
the law, shall not be construed into an expres
sion of the Convention against the policy of
its sale.
The resolution was discussed by Messrs.
Weidrann, Wright, Porter, Sehnabel, in oppo
sition, and Mr. Scott iu favor.
Mr. Sehnabel, (Gen. Packer's favorite) was
severe on the Pennsylvanian, from which pa
per he read several paragraphs. lie denounc
ed the article in the Pcnnsylvanian of Mon
day, in favor of the bill for the sale of the
Main Line.
The resolution was postponed indefinitely,
and Convention adjourned.
We publish, in another column, the
time table of the Elmira, Canandaigua and
Niagara Falls It. R. at Elmira station. This
road is a direct one from that place to Niaga
ra Falls, running the distance in seven hours
and almost annihilating the distance from this
region for those who desire to visit that stu
pendous wonder. It also forms a link in the
route to the West, crossing the Suspension
Bridge, and passing over the Great Western
R. R., which we have heard highly commended
as cheap and expeditious by those who have
had occasion to make the trip.
fta?*A little girl aged about twelve years,
daughter of Wra. Jennings, at Port Penn, near
Muncy, was burnt to death ou Saturday, 2nd
ult., by her clothes takiug fire.
FROM CALIFORNIA. —The steamer George
Law arrived at New York on Friday last
with news from the Pacific coast. From Cali
fornia there is nothiug particularly important.
There has been a wagon-road Convention at
Marysville, with a prospect of making a fine
road over the Sierra to the Honey Lake Val
ley. The Convention passed resolutions con
demning the proposed Southern or Texas route
for the Overland mail. Politicians are pretty
quiet, the only lively factions being those of
Broderick and Gwin, who still agitate the
Democratic family quarrel. The crop pros
pects are tolerable, but by no means brilliant.
There is a fair supply of old grain on hand.—
Another indictment for embezzlement has been
fouud against Dr. Bates. The Governor has,
in the name of the people, sued a newspaper
for libel, in sayiug that he was bribed by a
good dinner to sign a certain bill.
From Sonora we have full details of the ex
termination of Col. Crabbe and his band of
filibusters. The entire party consisting of
eighty-four men, including Henry A. Crabbe,
their commander, were massacred. On the
Ist of April the party entered the town of Ca"
vorca, situated on the Gulf, and immediately
eucountered the Mexicans, under llodcriguez,
who, with several of his soldiers, lost their
lives. The filibusters next took possession of
several houses on the plaza, but shortly there
after were hemmed in by the foe. In this po
sition a sort of guerilla warfare was sustained
for eight days,with a loss to the Atuericaus of
25, ami to the Mexicans of 200 men. A sum
mons from the latter to the Americans to sur
render was at first refused, but at the expira
tion of the above mentioned period, Crabbe
and his fifty-eight surviving soldiers marched
from the building in which they had entrenched
themselves, and which had been fired, and un
conditionally laid down their arms. On the
following days the eutirc party, with the ex
ception of their General, was taken out in
squads and shot. A more humiliating and
ignominious death awaited General Crabbe.—
He was allowed to write a letter to his wife,
and hold an interview with one his original
company, who had left him before they cross
ed into Mexican territory, after which he was
led out to execution. He was then tied to a
post in front of the building he had occupied,
his face to the post, and his back to the exe
cutioners. A hundred balls were then fired in
to his body, after which he was decapitated,
and his head exhibited in a conspicuous place
for the multitude to gaze upon. Among the
killed are a number of the most distinguished
political personages who have ever resided in
California. Some days after the massacre, a
detachment of 25 Mexicans from San Juan
crossed the line and seizedjfour of Crabbe's
party, who were sick in bed in the house of an
American, aud meted out to them the same
punishment as had been visited upon their
countrymen. Twenty recruits from Tueson,
who were on their way to Crabbe, at Cavorca,
were attacked by 200 Mexicans near that
place. They, however, after severe fighting,
reached the American line. The excitement
throughout California, consequent on the re
ception of this news, has been inteuse, and a
very general feeling of revenge seems to actuate
the minds of the masses.
The Exercises of the Third Anniversa
ry of the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute
will be held at the close of the present term,
on Friday, July 3. The Address before the
members of the Institute will be delivered in
the Presbyterian Church, at 10 1-2 A. M.,bv
Professor E. W. EVANS, of the Delaware
Literary Institute.
The friends and patrons and former pupils
of the Institute, and the public generally, are
invited to attend. The exercises will be ac
companied with mnsic by the Towanda Brass
Band and by the Mountain Choir.
Dinner will be provided at the Ilall of the
lustitute, by Mr. Dayton, the Steward.—
Charge 50 cents.
We are requested by the County Su
perintendent to say, that his office is over the
store of Joseph Kingsbery, in the room with
N. N. BEITS, Esq., where all his papers, blank
certificates, reports for directors and teachers,
and copies of the school law will be kept.—
Esq. BETTS will deliver whatever papers may
be called for when the Superintendent is not
at home, also that after June 27, he will, as a
general thing, be in his office on Saturday of
each week.
FRANKLIN, NO I.—At the semi-annual elec
tion of Franklin Fire Company, the following
persons were elected officers for the ensuing
icrm :
Foreman —CHESTER WELLS.
L.< Ass*t —ADAM ESENWINE.
2d Ass't —JAS. KINSMAN.
Pipe.man —JEßK COLLINS.
Treasurer —ALLEN M'KEAN.
Secretary —J. DELA MONTANYE.
tfiP Mr. Daniel E. Shaw, one of the firm
of Blauchard, Craig, & Co., at Lock Ilaven,
was drowned on Thursday week, in the Ba
sin belonging to the Steam Mill of the Compa
ny.
ttirOn Monday afternoon last, a man
named Micheal Carney, and a boy named G.
Strectsinger, were drowned in the river, near
Williamsport, by the sinking of a flat, while
engaged with others in flatting stone.
ExEcrrioN OF A MURDERER.—RETURN J. M.
WARD, convicted for the murder of his wife,
at Sylvania, Ohio, in February last, was hung
in Toledo, on Friday last. The execution was
private. He confessed to having murdered
two men and his wife.
FOREIGN NEWS —The steamer Vanderbelt
arrived at New York, ou Sunday, after a
voyage of about ten days and hours
from Southampton. She brings news of un
usual interest. A serious disturbance has ta
ken place in Belgium. The occasion was the
introduction in the Legislative Chambers of a
bill on Charitable Institutions, which was re
garded as giving too great power to the
priesthood. The people thronged into the
Chamber with some violent manifestations.—
Military force was employed to expel them ;
and in the provincial towns there was a de
sire to aid the Capital in the threatened in
surrection. The hostility was directed against
the obnoxious bill and the Ministry by whom
it was framed, while we are told that the
greatest popular affection was displayed to
ward the King. At the last advices the
trouble was over, and the obuoxious bill had
been withdrawn.
Iu Spain, the Chamber in Deputies has also
been the scene of unusual excitement. One
of the members, Mr. Carnpoamer, accused the
Government of exercising a virtual censorship
of the press, none the less onerous because dis
guised. An immense hubbub followed this
declaration, the galleries frantically applauding
and the Conservative members as frantically
expressing their resentment. It was proposed
to expel the offending member, but at our last
advices no action had been taked in the prem
ises. It is said that Gen. Concha will certain
ly be recalled from Cuba. The reason is his
too notorious implication in the slave trade.—
lie receives, it is alleged, four ounces of gold
for each slave imported—double the bribe
paid to any former Captain-General. He will
probably be succeeded by Mr. Lcasundi, late a
member of the Ministry.
Sophia, the first child of the present Empe
ror of Austria, is dead, aged a little more than
two years, and the second is said to be at the
point of death. The electious of the French
Legislative Body are to take place on the 21st
inst.—next Suuday. The Grand Duke Con
stantine has paid to Queen Victoria a private
visit of a day and two nights. Parliament
had not been in session. There is a rumor,
apparently groundless, of an attack on Louis
Napoleon. At Constantinople a fire has des
troyed 1,500 houses.
THE FCGITIVE SI.AVE CASE IX OHlO.—Ac
cording to present Indications, the late colli
sion between the Federal and State authori
ties in Ohio, will not terminate without some
further trouble. The Columbus State Jour
nal understands that Gov. Chase, at the ear
liest possible moment, after reaching the city
from Cincinnati, bad an interview with Messrs.
Mason and Good, who represent the prosecut
ing attorney of Clark county, in the case be
fore the federal judge at Cincinnati, involving
the right of the State to euforce her own crim
inal laws withiu her own jurisdiction, against
violators, whether federal, or official, or other ;
and that he immediately telegraphed to At
torney-General Wolcott to appear in the case
on the part of the State, in conjunction with
these gentlemen.
Col. James Price, of Clark county, Ky.,
was killed uenr Winchester, Ky., lately, with
his son, a fine young man, by a neighbor nam
ed Gay. It seems that Price's wife had been
writing, under the nom dc plume, of " Molly
Broom," sketches for the Ohio Farmer, iD one
of which she held up Gay's family and himself
to ridicule. It was for this that Gay took
revenge.
fi©" A man named Jefferson Randall, who
had returned to Rockingham county, Virginia,
after being sent away for burning bams and
plundering farmhouses, returned and was seiz
ed on Tuesday by a Vigilance Committee and
hung on a tree. His son-in-law was also ar
rested and doomed to be hung.
JteaP" Daniel Clark of Manchester has been
elected U. S. Senator, in place of the Hon.
James Bell, deceased, by the Republican ma
jority of the New-Hamsphiro Legislature.
He is a lawyer by profession, was formerly a
Whig, aud is now an active and energetic Re
publican.
Laton S. Fuller, has been appointed
Postmaster in Scrantou in place of Dr. I?. H.
Throop, resigned.
NEVER TAKE A GR.v BY THE MUZZI.E.—A most
lamentable accident occurred ou the 16th in
stant, at Watertowu, Ohio, the wife of Mr G.
J. WOODRUFF killing her instantly. Soon af
breakfast she took a broom and went into the
room occupied by EI.IAS WOODRUFF, Esq.,
her father-in-law, to sweep. Soon after she
went into said room the family were started
by the discharge of a gun. They, as soon as
possible, rushed into the room, and found her
lyiug against the wall of the the room, the
gun lying on the floor with the muzzle close
to her breast. The ball entered her left breast
and penetrated the right ventricle of the heart ;
she never spoke after she received the wound.
The gun stood between a bed aud a writing
desk. She no doubt took the gun by the muz
zle, and, in the act of bringing it from its posi
tion, the hammer struck against the foot of the
desk and produced the fatal result.
gfe?" Last Saturday, Charles R. Buckalew
et al. applied to the Supreme Court for an
injunction, to prevent the Pennsylvania R.
R. Company from bidding for the Main
Line. A hearing will be had at llarrisburg,
12th inst.
fta?" Several children have already swallow
ed that last plaything, the new cent—some al
most choked thereby, aud other being badly
poisoned in the the stomach by the metal.
Two men at New Orleans have recov
ered SBOO damages from that city, for allow
ing their fruits stauds to be destroyed.
COUNTERFEIT MONEY AND TOOLS FOR V
INO IT BECI RED.-The Philakclphia AK "
Jane 3d ajs We were *
noon, Deputy United States
a large Jot of connterfeit American gold e? '
and moulds making every description of 2
coins of the United States, and boJH* l 2
dollars. The coins were in ever condir
from the rough casting to the finished gak2
S?tS?S n " The diea or nSlds
for the bogus coin as cast—were nrW iT
executed and well calculated to deceive T 7
bogus com, and the tools used in making u
were the property of the two men kilkd
the Harr.sburg and Lancaster Railroad
Highspire They were secured in this city ht
Marshal Jenkins, who obtained them thrmJ
information obtained from the wife of one rs
the men on her arrival in Philadelphia, Re
coming hitlver has already been renorted ;
the papor,. The proper' „a me J ,
men killed were Charles Clark and W? i
Brown. Mrs. Clark, the wife of the man fiS
named was the woman who identified the bod.
les of the men who were killed, and who r
terwards left Harrwburg in the train for Phil,
adelpbia. She was arrested this morning i
the police in this city ; but the arrest amwnt
ed to nothing, as Marshal Jenkins had already
had an interview her and got from her the in
formation he wanted. It is supposed that
he greater part of the bogus coin put cirou
lation of late has been made with the tools se
cured by Mr Jenkins. Killing of the two
vilhans on the railroad seemed like an act of
providential retribution, and the most imnor
tant results to the community have already
grown out of their death. ;
A MAX POISOXED BY nis WIFE AT MARIET-
Ta - ester day afternoon, a young mulatto wo- I
man, named Mary Jane Sebastian, was brought
to Lancaster from Marietta, charged with pois
oning her husband, Henry Myers Sebastian-
She was arrested ou Monday afternoon IT -
William Yates, Constable of Marietta,'and
brought before Squire Rhodes, of that place.
From her own testimony it appears, that be
ing charged by Peter George Sebastian and
John Anderson of having poisoned her hus
band, she said she was instigated to do it by a
man named Jeremiah Johnson, who said to her
that she should give him a slydose to get him
out of the road. For saying this, Jerry he
was arrested ; but the woman being asked
whether he was in earnest or not when he said .
it, answered that she did not know, and the
Squire, thinking that there was not sufficient
grounds to detain him, discharged him. The
husband died on Saturday morning last, and
on the Monday following his wife was arret
ted.
She is quite young, only seventeen yaars of
ago, and of preposessing appearance, and does
not look as if she was capable of committing
so dire and awful a crime as that which she is
charged with. What interest Johnson could
have in instigating her, as she says she did, to
commit this awful crime, we cannot see ; if his
motives are purely selfish, then he is reallv
worse than she, and should suffer the penalty
of the law. But the details which will in
time appear, will show which of the two is
most to blame.— Lancaster Inland, Times, Jun
THE UNITED STATES AND STATE AUTHORITIES
IN OHIO. —The case of the State against the
United States authorities was resumed in the
United States Conrt, in Cincinnati, on the'
morning of the 11th. A nnmber of deposi
tions were read of a rebutting character, main
ly substantiating the testimony of Elliott pre
viously given, to the effect that no excess was
committed by the Marshal's posse. Some of
the affidavits went to show that the first at
tempt at firing came from the Sheriffs parte
Attorney General Wolcott, on behalf of the
state and Sheriff, asked for an adjournment,
in order to take other depositions. This wa
objected to, and a compromise made to the ef
fect that rebutting testimony might be intro
duced at a future day. Senator Pugh then
commenced his argument in behalf of the Mar
shal and others. He closed this afternoon,
and was followed by Mr. Mason for the de
fence.
IIOG CHOI.ERA OR IIOG CONSUMPTION. —From
Johnson County, Indiana, we learn that the
fatal hog disease is very prevalent, but the
symptoms are more those of consumption than
cholera. Out of 1,500 hogs put in one enclo
sure, fifty a day were dying. The first symp
tom noticeable is a slight cough, which is soon
followed by a drooping, stiff appearance ; the
nose and lips, and sometimes the jaws and care
turn blue and swell up, and finally purging,
aud sometimes vomiting, follows, and death en
sues speedily. Hogs, in every stage of the
disease, have been killed and examined for the
purpose of ascertaining the nature of the dis
ease, aud the result establishes the fact be
yond scruple that the disease here is inflama
tion of the lungs, those in the first stages shoe
ing a congested condition in a portion of the
lungs, while those further advanced had a more
extensive engorgement, and iu the last stages
of the disease the lungs were dark, dry and
solid, with some ulceration of the lungs and
throat. The stomach and intestines show no
signs of disease.
The disease prevails fatally in Massachu
setts and Rhode Island among hogs brought
there from the West.
OPENING OF TNE WINONA LAND OFFICE.—
The Commissioner of the General Land Office,
having been informed that the the settlers in
the Wiuona land district, Miunesota Territory
express great anxiety to have the office for
the office for the district, which is at Faribault,
re-opened, has instructed the newly appoint
ed register to execute his official bond anil
repair to his post as soon as practicable, to
give such attention to the interests of the set
tlers as may be demanded.
This office has been closed since January
last, owing to the vacancy in tbo register's of
fice, and will now be re-opeued as soon as tho
new register can qualify.
BIDDI.E STAIRCASE.— Visitors at Niagara
Falls will remember a staircase on the west
side of Goat Island called " Biddlc Staircase."
Some one asked a friend of ours why it was
called that name. " Because it wound up tic
bank," was the answer.
THE LOUISVILLE MOB LAW REPUDIATED.
The Grand Jury of Louisville have indicted
for murder fifteen persons, aud all they couiu
discover as participants in the receut lyuchiuff
of four uegroes.
Madame OttoGoldschmit (Jenny Liud)
gave birth, on the 31st of March, at Dresden,
to a daughter.