(Prow the Philadelphia Eveuiug Journal, May 1-.)
Tragedy in Philadelphia.
The loveliness of this bright ami cheerful
May-day was darkened this morning by one of
the most fearful tragedies it has fallen our lot to
chronicle for many a day.
George L. Goodwin is a native of Boston.
Mass., is about thirty years of age, and has re
sided iu this city for two years and three
months, lie bus been employed in a hair
dressing saloon and wig manufactory of Rich
ard Doiiard, on Chestnut street, above Fifth,
opposite the State Hous, until about two
weeks since. He is of a respectable parentage, !
and has borne a tolerably good character, al
though his fellow workmen say that he was the j
most " fancy" man in the establishment. In
appearance, Goodwin is of medium stature and
bulk, and facially rather prepossessing than ■
otherwise. As before stated, he left the cs- j
tablishiuent in which he had been employed,
stating that his purpose was to return to Ids j
native city in search of Lizzie Marshall. This !
jierson is u young woman whom Goodwin i
brought with him when he first came to I'hii-j
adclphia. Her native place is Lynn, Miss 1
She is rather short in stature, and slight in per-;
son, with a dark complexion, black eyes and
hair, and might be considered quite good look
ing. She has lived with Goodwin, as his law
ful wife, until a month since, when she left him,
her affections having been estranged bv a young
man named Samuel W. Randall, who was in
troduced to her by him (Goodwin.) We have
already said that two weeks ago Goodwin went
to Boston in search of his truant wife llis
efforts to discover her in that city proving in
effectual, lie returned to New York, and wrote,
from French's Hotel, to a friend here, that
Lizzie was with him at that Hotel. Lizzie,
however, was seen with Randall last Monday !
night. Goodwin arrived in this city on Tues
day night. Yesterday he went to his oid place
of business. There he displayed two pistols, i
One of these had three barrels, all of which
were loaded, and the other two barrels, only
one of them was charged. He said that the
former had been presented to him by a female
friend in Ogden street, and asked several of
his late fellows to purchase the latter. Last i
night Goodwin was at the American House,
on Chestnut street. He lounged about the;
sitting room until one o'clock this morning,
when he was turned out by the watchman at
tached to the premises. We now come to tiie
fearful catastrophe of to-day.
Franklin Square never presented a more
charming appearance as it did this morning. ,
The grass, fresh and green, and tiie leafy
branches musical with the merry voices of the
birds ; the flashing fountain, and the shy (low
ers twinkling in their emerald beds,made up a
rare scene of enchantment and joyonsness.— !
Rut this picture of purity and peace was des
tined to be sadly marred. At twenty minutes
past ten o'clock its stillness was broken by the
sharp report of a pistol, immediately followed
by another. A crowd of persons, attracted by
these unwonted sounds, hastily repaired to the
northeast corner of the square, where they dis-1
covered a woman and man lying on the gonial i
apparently dead. The man was George L. Paw
son, the woman was Lizzie Marshall. It ap
pears that the latter was sitting on one of two
stools on an avenue leading to the northeast-.
Crn gate, ami not very far from that entrance, 1
when Goodwin approached her, and instantly
drawing out his three-barrel pistol, discharged
one of its barrels at her, the ball lodging in
her left side, immediately beneath her breast.
He dropped the weapon, but in an instant
picked it up again, and, with another barrel,
shot himself iu nearly the same part of the
body, the ball enteringdierctly below his heart.
The woman was carried to the drug store of
George C. Rower, on the northeast corner of
Sixth and Vine streets. Three physicians
were called in—Messrs Levis, Gloniuger and
Bethel. They probed the wound, but were
nuable at once to find the ball. She was neat
ly dressed at the time, wearing a brt wu s'rip
ed silk dress and a light straw bonnet with a
veil. Goodwin was borne to the Sixth ward
station-house in Cherry street, between Fourth
and Fifth, where he expired iu less than an
hour.
A daguerrotypc of Lizzie Marshall, without
any case, was found on the person of Good
win.
Miss Marshall resided in two rooms in a
house kept by a Mrs. Campbell, adjoining the
City Bank, in Sixth street, just above the mar
ket.
The physicians say that Lizzie is sinking
from the effects of the wound, and that she
will probably die. The ball has been extract
ed.
Goodwin has n wife and two children living
at No. S 5 East Cedar street, Boston. His
mother, likewise, IPcs there.
The Worl/i . I wricnn says that Samuel W.
Randall, the lover for whom Lizzie discarded
George, was an agent for a New York manu
facturing jewelry concern.
Lizzie's real name, it turns out, was Anna
Garland.
THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE LAW.— The Su
preme Court of Massachusetts has had before
it a railroad case, which is remarkable for the
number of times it has been tried, and the
different views that different juries have taken
of it. The plaintiff, with her husband and a
young lady, had been to Brighton, in the even
ing, in a sleigh, and were returning to their
home in Xeedham, when they approached the
crossing of the railroad, over tlie main road,
just as the last Newton special train caine along.
In attempting to cross, the sleigh was struck
by the train, and Mr. Siiaw received injuries
of which he died in a short time. Mrs. Shaw
was so badly mangled, that she remained sev
eral days betweeh life and death, and finally
recovered with the loss of one arm, and a por
tion of the other. The young lady was drag
ged along by the train, but most wonderfully
escaped all serious injury. Tiie case was tried,
and a verdict of $15,000 was rendered against
the company.Tiie latter appealed ami obtained
a new trial. The second trial the jury increas
ed the damages to SIB,OOO. A second time
the defendants appealed and succeeded in hav
ing the verdict set aside, on the ground of er
roneous ruling. The third trial has just now
closed, and the jury were unable to agree upon
any damages, and were consequently discharg
ed.
A Cm P.I i Bi it NEP. V man iu Holmes
county, 0.-iio, namM Wallock, who for some
years has beeu insane on religious subjects,
look it into head that lie was commissioned to
burn down all the chinches. Aminlinglv, on
Thursday last he proceeded to set fire to the
I. t'heria and Methodist c . living but before
mu •! damage was done, he found himself in
j til. He is s.iid to be .still of the belief hat
i hj only salvation for the people is iu g< tting
< ut aufi burning the chmcheo.
A Response from Kansas.
The Kansas Daily Ledger, an independent
paper published at the ci'.y of Leavenworth,
furnishes in its number of tlie 7th of May, the
lirt response from Kansas in reference to the
act which lately passed Congress for the ad
mission of that Territory as a State of the
Union. We copy enough of the article to in
dicate its spirit :
LKKIMIUON OK NO ADMISSION. —Since our
last issue, we have read carefully the substi
tute of Mr. English, which has now become a
law, and are prepared to give our opinion of;
that measure, as well as our views of what!
should be done in this crisis. Before proceed
ing to this topic, however, we wish to have it
understood that our opposition to the Leaven
worth Constitution has not abated iti the least.
We have never believed, nor do we yet believe
that that movement will amount to a snap of
the finger in importance.
We, as a people, are obliged to pursue one
of two courses. \\ e must eitheir swallow Le
compton head and tail, or vote to remain out j
of the Union until we have a population which
will entitle us to one Representative in Con
gress. This is as much as to say "If after,all
your shrieking and bellowing ; if, all your op
position to tLis " swindle," if you will now sac
rifice your principle, and say amen to it, we
will give you for school purposes so much ; for ,
the support of a State university so much ; for
the completion of public buildings so much; all
the salt springs within the State, not exceed- j
ing twelve ; also, five per cent, of all the pro-!
ceeds of the public lands for building roads, in- j
terual improvements, Ac. ; but if you will not ,
do this you will be obliged to stay out of the
Union until your population will entitle you to j
one Representative."
Having found that threats alone are insuf
ficient to curb the people of Kansas, our ene- |
mies have joined a threat and bribe, and hope
bv these means to succeed in their purposes.
We would inform them that the Government
does not own land enough to buy the people
of Kansas. We would rather consign our
selves to eternal poverty, than to be the in
strument of our own degiadatiou. Who that
mingles with tiie people, hears their opinions,
and observes tlie spirit in which they are ex
pressed, can doubt as to what will be the result
of that election 'I Our enemies may consider
us fools and knaves ; but give us a cliauce at
the ballot-box and we will return the compli-j
incut. In the event of the rejection of that,
ordinance, and with it the Constitution, what
harm is there to accrue from our remaining a I
few years in a territorial condition ? We can
see none, unless it be that the hungercrs for of
lice, the wolves who hope to gorge themselves ;
on public plunder, will be for a while, at least,
disappointed. Our population is at present
small; the expense of establishing a State Go-1
veriiment, erecting public buildings, Ac., must J
necessarily be enormous ;and, worse than that, !
Leavenworth county will have nearly, if not ;
ijuite all this expense to pay. What voter is
there who wishes to saddle himself with a bur
densome taxation. Let us retain our present
position until our population becomes more nu
merous, our business expanded, and our resour- !
ees developed ; then we can be admitted, with '
honor to ourselves, a uoble member of the
greatest of Republics.
The Tract Controversy—What Next?
fKrom the Evening I'cst.J
The management of the Tract Society yes
terday triumphed, aft,er a stormy struggle,
over the anti-slavery opposition, and the old •
board of officers was re-elected by a decided ;
majority. The society, in thus reversing its i
position taken last year, decides that no tracts '
shall be issued on the slavery question, and no
allusion lie made in its publications to an insti- ■
tution which a majority of its members consider '
a great obstacle to the progress of Christianity
in the southern states. It is claimed, however,
tiiat practically th's is a considc ration of small j
consequence, as most of the Society's issues ;
are circulated among the non-slaveholders of 1
1
the South, and that the prejudice among slave-1
owners is such that the publication of docu
ments on slavery would destroy its influence
altogether in that section of the country.
Whether thi3 be so or not, we cannot de- j
termiue. The opposition, however, maintain
tlie negative, and have all along asserted that
the whole truth of God involves a coudemna-!
tion of slavery, and that a mntilatcd gospel is i
no gospel at all ; though they are guilty of the
inconsistency of urging the publication of i
documents like Bishop Meade's Instructions to j
Masters, recognising ami prescribing rules
for an institution which they stigmatize as \
inherently immoral and wicked. Hence the i
root and branch abolitionists of the Lewis!
Tappan or the Garrison schools rather exult,
we suppose, in the discomfiture of the anti
slavery moderadus, headed by Drs. Tyug and
Thompson.
These latter, however, assert, if we under
stand them right, that the issue of rules for
| slavery will prove an inefficient, though indi
-1 rcct, attack on slavery itself, insuring its down
fall perhaps as speedily as a direct attack upon
the system —a species of argument of which
our recent Kansas legislation in Congress has
j furnished such notable examples,
i Meanwhile, as the Tract Society insist on its
inability to do anything but preach the undis
puted word, and on not promulgating what
! will give offence to evangelical Christ'ans of any
section, of course it will not again violate such
consistency by inveighing against intoxicating
drinks, dancing, theatre-going, or any other
practice on which a difference of opinion ex
ists among church members. This, undoubt
edly, would have beeu the smoothest and easiest
policy, had it been adopted at the start, but
how it will work now, after so great an agitation
has been excited, remains to be seen. We
rather doubt its success.
Rut what will the defeated opposition do ?
Will they, for the sake of the half million of
property und the SIOO,OOO annual receipts of
the Society, still adhere to it after they are
thus hopelessly prevented from controlling it ?
Will they join in the work of refusing the
Gospel to slaves and slaveholders ? Will they
adhere to the organization and neutralize its
influence by a continuance of a hopeless conten
tion, or will they throw themselves on their
wealthy northern constituents—the churches
of New England and the West—and peacea
!y secede ? This appears to us the best course.
; \\*e should then have two harmonious organi
zations, working in different ways, for the
i same noble object—the evangelization ef the
world.
fcaUA serious tornado passed over the vi
; ciniiy of the Relay House and lichester, Mary
land, on Wednesday night. Ry its violent
and disastrous force it caused an immense de
struction of properly. Eortuaatciy there was
no loss of life.
Brai)forb|if)Jortfr.
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THE NEW LIQUOR LAW.
A wide difference luis arisen in construing
the requirements of the license law passed bv
the late Legislature. In the Courts of this
County, Judge WII.MOT took the view that ro
discretion was left with the Court, except in
cases where petition was made against the
granting of license, or where the applicant
was already charged with violations of laws
relating to the sale of liquors. In all other
cases, where the proper petition was present
ed, it was not discretionary with the Court to
deny the application. The same view, we see,
has been taken by Judge PEARSON, of the 1
Dauphin district. ;
Judge GALBRAITH, of the Erie district, 01C
the contrary, has placed a construction upon'
the law entirely at variance with those just al
luded to. In Northampton county, last week,
a number of new applications came up and
were confidently pressed upon the ground that
their necessity for the accommodation of the
public was not to be considered —that having
complied with the forms of the law, they were
entitled to their licenses as a matter of course,
and that the Court could not refuse them.—
Gov. Iteeder, however, who was adversely em
ployed, took the ground that the Legislature
were entirely mistaken as to the meaning and
effect of the law they had passed—that it had
no such operation as was generally ascribed to
it, and that in fact, the Court was bound to
inquire, as under the old law, whether the
tavern proposed was necessary for the ac
commodation of the public, and if, in their
opinion, it was not necessary, they must re
ject the application.
The position is based on the legal operation
of a proviso in the sixth section of the new
law, and also upon the argument that by the
repeal of a repealing law the third section of
the act of IS3 4 was unexpectedly revived.
The Court sustained the position of Gov.
REEDF.R, and declined giving any licenses to
the parties applying, except in one ease, which
was held over under advisement, until June.
IMPORTANT TRIAL. —An important suit is
now, at this writing, in progress in the Courts
of this County, in which SIDNEY HAYDEN is
plaintiff, and the WILUAMSPORT AND ELVIRA
It. It. Co., defendant. The plaintiff sues for
damages received in October, 1850, in conse
quence of the cars beiug thrown off the track
ou the Crescent curve, near Cogan's Station,
Lycoming County. Damages are laid at $20,-
000. It is alleged that the train was run at
a dangerous rate of speed around the curve,
which was the cause of the accident. The
plaintiff was seriously and permanently injur
ed. For the plaintiff, Messrs. MERCLR, EL
WELL, ADAMS and PATRICK. For the Company,
Messrs. M.VYNABD and WILLARD, of the Wil
liamsport bar, and PIERCE.
The testimony of the Superintendent of the
Iload, and of the engiuc-drivers, in this suit,
was somewhat at variance with the popular
theory in regard to the insecurity of running
at high rates of speed around curves.
ftas" A man who has escaped from Salt
Lake, has arrived at the camp of Gen. JOHNS
TON in a sorry plight. He brings intelligence
that the Mormons are equipping companies to
come out on the road this Spring, for the pur
pose of cutting off the trains and liarrassing
troops. We learn, also, from New-Mexico that
a number of Utah Indians who are known to
be in complicity with the Mormons, are en
deavoring to corrupt the savages in the New-*
Mexican Superintendency, in order to enlist
i them against the army ; but their attempts
are, so far, unsuccessful.
FIRE IN APAI.ACHIN.— A fire occurred in
i Apalachin on the 28th ult., by which Mr.
Renner's Blacksmith Shop with the large Ilall
| over it, was completely destroyed. This Hall
was a considerable loss to the village of Apa
lachin, it being very generally used for lectures
and public meetings of all kinds, by the
! citizens.
fifea?" The Southern Convention are as busily
at work at Montgomery as their antipodes, the
Garrisonians, at New York. The main subject
under discussion is the propriety of the revival
of the slave trade. The telegraph states the
interesting fact that " a strong disunion senti
ment pervades the Convention."
m
JbSTUoI. Thomas I;. Kane is reported as
having arrived in Salt Lake City, on his mis
sion to Brigham Young, but his arrival is
mentioned in the Utah papers without eom
: ment. We shall soon hear the result of his
j visit.
tSagr The ship Osterwalde was burned at sea
a few days out from New Orleans. The cap
, tain and crew were saved.
PRIGHTrUL RAILROAD DISASTER.
A dreadful accident occurred on the New-
York Central Road on Tuesday morning.—
Two trains running upon different tracks, one
of them at full speed, met upon the bridge
over Sanquoit creek, near Whitesboro, when
the united weight of the trains crushed the
bridge, precipitating the freight and passenger
cars into the bed of the creek. Eight or ten
persons were killed and forty or fifty wounded.
The two engines got safely across, the weight
of the falling trains breaking the couplings
and leaving them standing upou their respec
tive tracks.
A reporter of the Tribune says : " The
smash is a most terrible one, and the ruins
convey a vivid impression of the horrors of
the disaster. Between the stone abutments
of the bridge is a space of thirty-two feet ; the
ordinary length of a car is thirty-five feet, and
the depth to the bottom of the creek is nine
feet. Three entire cars lay lengthway, crush
ed up like a telescope between the abutments
of the bridge, thus occupying a space of but
little more than the length of one ear. The
first and second cars cannot be distinguished,
one from the other. The third car is entirely
demolished, except about one-third of the rear.
On the sides of the cars and on the timbers
of the bridge are frightful stains of human
blood."
The evidence at the Coroner's Inquest in
Utiea, held on the bodies of the victims, bears
very strongly against the Company. Civil
engineers, millwrights, blacksmiths, and others,
persons acquainted with timber and the con
struction of bridges, testify that the timbers
used in the bridge over the Sauquoit were un
fit for the purpose, and unsafe. One witness,
Mr. CKANDALL, who assisted in the construc
tion of the bridge, three years ago, swears
that he called the attention of Mr. EVERTS,
the overseer, to rotten chips brought up by
the augur, but was told that "it wouldn't
amount to anything." The condition of the
wounded is unchanged, but it is thought that
no more will die.
The Coroner's Jury have agreed on their
verdict. The feeling of the Jurors is under
stood to have been unanimous at once.
The verdict is : " We find that the persons
whose bodies have been viewed by us, came to
their deaths by the giving way of the bridge
of the New-York Central Railroad, crossing
the Sanquoit Creek, in the town of \\ liites
town, Oneida County, on the morning of the
11th of May, and that they were all passen
gers by the Cincinnati Express Train, coming
East. The deaths were caused by the insecu
rity of the bridge, owing to the same being
decayed and rotten. A portion of the bridge
was constructed of inferior timber, the same
being bastard elm. We find the deaths were
caused by culpable neglect on the part of the
Central Railroad Company in not causing this
bridge to be properly examined."
If wo are to credit a dispatch from Fort
Leavenworth, dated the 13th, which, is publish
ed in the New-York papers, the Mormon War
is ended before it has well begun. It informs
us that an express had just arrived from Camp
Scott, which point it left on the 10th of April,
bringing the news that the Mormons were
leaving Salt Lake City for the White River
Mountains, and that Governor CYMIW. had
gone to the City by invitation. Should this
intelligence prove true, it comes just in season
to prevent the necessity of calling out two of
the new regiments authorized by Congress,
and will relieve the Administration of a heavy
responsibility. A doubt, however, is thrown
upon its authenticity by a dispatch from the
Washington correspondent of the Associated
Press.
MaF Two horrible murders have recently
been committed in Ohio. In the town of Ports
mouth, on Wednesday night last, a man of
55 years of age, named SAMCEI. MORGAN, quar
reled with his wife, and killed her with a
piece of fence-rail his children being witnesses
of the scene. In Cincinnati, on Sunday, a
well-known sporting-man, named WILLIAM
GREGORY, was murdered in a quarrel with
CHARLES B. KENDLE, who beat his victim over
the head with a heavy wash-bowl till he died.
Roth these murderers are in custody.
Reinforcements for the Army of Utah
are rapidly concentrating at Fort Leavenworth.
Twelve hundred men had arrived at St. Louis,
and left for the rendezvous within the three
days previous to Monday last Gen. SMITH,
who assumes the chief command of the force,
has arrived at Fort Leavenworth, not quite
recovered in health, but much better and able
to bear the fatigue of travel.
B*o"** The verdict in the General Twiggs
Court Martial is reported. The court find
that officer guilty of " insubordination," but
in view of his distinguished service and the
unanimous recommendation of the court, the
sentence "that he be reprimanded by the
President" is remitted.
•
The Southern Commercial Convention
( has been in session at Montgomery, Ala., for
three days past, about 500 delegates being
present. The most interesting subject of dis
cussion has been the proposed reopening of the
Slave-trade.
• fifar"ltis believed that the Cass-llerran
treaty, which has just passed the Congress of
New Granada, will be confirmed by the United
States Senate. The Senate has to pass upon
some slight amendments.
ItesT 1 A. P. Uayne lias been appointed Uni
ted States Senator from South Carolina, in
place of Mr. Evaus, deceased.
EDUCATIONAL.
The School directors of Pike district in this
county, requested the teachers of the township
to meet at the Lellaysvillc Academy, ou the
28t.1i and 29th of April last, for the purpose
of organizing a district Institute, or drill. —
Upon the 28th, therefore, about forty young
ladies and gentlemen assembled and were form
ed into a teachers' class by the County Su
perintendent, who had been invited by the
hoard of directors to be present and conduct
the exercises. The two days were pleasantly
and we trust profitably spent by the teachers,
in drilling upon the several branches which
they are required to teach, Quite a number
joined the class who were not teachers, but
who came in for the purpose of receiving in
struction. Several of the prominent citizens
were also in attendance most of the time. A
permanent organization was effected, and the
teachers of the town are to meet once in four
weeks, and their time while thus engaged goes
on as if they were teaching. This is a new
move for Bradford, and it is to be hoped that
other towns wilt be induced to follow the ex
ample of Pike. Great credit is due to the di
rectors for the success of the plan. At the
close, the following resolutions were unani
mously adopted by a large audience :
Resolved, That the Common School interest
is second to none except that of Religion, and
merits the best efforts of every philanthropist
in our land for its advancement.
Resolved, That among the various plans
adopted for the advancement of that cause,
District Institutes are not among the least ef
; feetive, and should be formed and encouraged
in every District.
Resolved, That the first effort of Prof. C.
R. Cobum, in Lellaysville, has been pre-emi
nently, a successful one, and presents a strong
inducement to persevere in the cause which
lias a commencement so auspicious.
Resolved, That Prof. Coburn has by his kind
and winning manner, his untiring efforts, the
consummate skill in the management of the
Institute, as well as the correct instruction in
the science of teaching, richly merited the
heartfelt gratitude of the members of the Pike
District Institute.
Resolved, That the full and punctual atten
dance of the Teachers, as well as the ladylike
and gentlemanly deportment, and the good at
tention tliey have paid to the instructions gi
ven, merit and receive the hearty thanks of
the Directors of Pike District and the County
i Superintendent.
Resolved, That we sincerely thank the friends
of education who have favored us with their
presence and influence, and we extend a cor
dial invitation to all, to unite with us in our
efforts to promote tiie good cause.
Resolved, That we, the visitors, directors
and teachers, in view of the interest and satis
faction we have had at - this time, do pledge
ourselves individually and collectively to con
tinue our efforts until we secure the full bene
fit to l>e derived from the District Teachers'
Institute.
Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing reso
lutions be furnished the Pennsylvania School
•Journal and the County Papers for publica
tion.
The following is from the decision of the
State Superintendent for May, 1858. It is
expected that directors will give heed to it, as
the receiving of the State appropriation depends
upon their action. But few of the annual
reports have yet been received by the County
Superintendent.
" Stale appropriation : The annual District
Report must be received from each board of
directors, before the warrant for the State ap
propriation can be issued. The four month's
certificate is not sufficient of itselt. The re
quirements of the dCth section of the school
law of 1854, will be vigorously iuforced here
after iu this respect."
THE LIQUOR LAW.—For the benefit of ho
tel keepers, we publish the following supple
ment to the new Liquor law, which was passed
by the legislature subsequent to the passage
of the main bill. It will be seen that those
who have already taken out licenses have the
privilege of changing them, so us to be uuder
the new law :
A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT
To the Ad entitled 11 An Art to regulate the sale
of Liquors," et ceto a.
SF.C. 1. lie it enacted, That all persons
who have taken out license during the month
of April, A. D. 1858, under the provisions of
the law to which this a supplement, shall be
charged iu accordance with the rate of license
provided for by the supplement passed April
20th, 1858, and and County Treasurers of the
several counties are hereby authorized to re
fund to such persous as have paid a greater
price than is required by the supplement
above referred to, the excess above said rates
of liceuse.
£•£?*• The Telegraph brings us accounts of
violent storms wind and hail at the West and
South. At Lexington, Mo., on Thursday
night, a violent tornado blew a train of cars
off the track of the Alton and St. Louis
Railroad, severely injuring several persons.—
The towns of Lexington and Peoria suffered
several, half the houses being prostrated, and
several lives lost. On Friday another storm of
like character passed over the region between
Bloomiugton and Springfield, 111. In one of
the houses crushed, a family of five persons
were killed. A terrible hail-storm occurred
in Chesterfield County, Ya., 011 Saturday eve
ning, which did au immense auiouut of damage
to navigation.
WILLIAM HENRY HERBERT, better known as
FRANK FORRESTER, committed suicide Monday
morning about 2 o'clock, at the Stevens House,
Broadway, in his room. lie hail been speud
| ing the evening with several friends, some of
| whom was iu the adjoining room when the
1 deed was done.— Hearing the report of a pis
i tol, they opened the door, and found him fal
-1 len 011 the floor. He exclaimed " I told you
I would do it," and in a few moments he was
a corpse. The servants of the house were
summoned to the room, but lie was beyond
the reach ol medical skill—the ball had pene
trated the heart.
: The Utah mail service is performed re
; gularly so far. The second train left St.
j Joseph 011 Saturday week, according to con
-1 tract, with but one passenger.
Senator Douglas in Illinois
[From Forney's " Press."]
The purpose of defeating Judge I) 0 r,,
Illinois seems to have been entrusted 1
Right' Hon. JEHU O. JONES, of Pennsyv,
His letters to the office-holders in I 4
fabricate a ticket again the regular p .
ratic nominations, selected by a Cor,-,'/"'
representing about ninety-nine out of'?.'
hundred Democrats iu the State, seem t '
clearly fastened upon him; and now */', '*
it from good authority that he is at
Washington dragooning the Illinois clerk' .
electioneer against ♦his regular ticket iV 0
impossible, of course, that the President
aware of a movement, the only effect of .7
is to prove to the Democratic party h, j.
sylvania that the nominations made at 1t,.,
burg on the 4th of March last are not bin
for how can we vote for WILLIAM A p
in Pennsylvania, who stands npon the |. .
ton platform [and who will not get off ! ar 7/
gard as binding upon us his nomination p. ■
by a Convention which ran away from '7
principles ; while, 011 the other hand, the...'
influences that offer us PORTER here call
the Democrats of Illinois to reject the re -
nominations for State offices in that <•
because the sacred creed of the Dem^ r "l
was unanimously endorsed 'I The only ...
this sagacious movement is to defeat IV
It is hardly possible that the people ofL.
will listen to the appeals of a meddler a',
quack, like JoXEi£—a failure in politics a l /
was a failure in tbepuTpit—who. assuming -7
lead of the House in December, lss; ~
distinguished himself by such eminent nie
rity, that even the Southern politicians L,"
rejected him,willing as he has been to bet .
tool.
The Main Features,
OF THE ENGLISH LECOMITON BILL, AS PASSED RR
CONGRESS.
[Forney's Tress says that inasmuch a? t v .
action is not a " settlement," hut a wicked
opening of that which honest legislation w
have forever tranquilized, we desire the read--
to preserve and remember these facts :
I. That although the people of karsas
have repeatedly rejected the Lecouapton (V
stitution, with all its protection to slaveiT
they must take that Constitution, now, or
till they have a population of 92,000 or i
000.
11. That the people can have no vote dm
this Lecompton Constitution under this K
lisli bill as lately, most positively, and <j>
tinctly shown by Senators Douglas and
in the Senate, and by Mr. Stephens in the
House.
111. But, in order to bribe (Item to tak
it, some four millions of acres of 'nad are offer-;
to them, which if they accept, they go inn
the Union with Lecompton, and, wiiii-liiffi.tr
reject, tlioy remain out an indefinite of fix/
IV. If they take Lecompton with the land
bribe, which is a Slave Constitution, simp,?
and wholly, they enter'the Union with, sav;
000 of a population ; if they refuse it, 'tbr
will remain in a territorial condition, under
pro-slavery management, for years to come.
V. That the commission appointed toil
the election in Kansas, when the land or::
auce (not the Constitution) is submitted, la
been constituted by the English bill to co
of a majority of pro-slavery men, who will .!
course count only to suit themselves: tie
House bill made the commission stand tffoaL,
two.
VI. That the clause so highly favored bi
the Lecoinptonites, that the people of Kan- •
should alter the Constitution at any time
side of its forms, has been carefully a...'
by the English legerdemain.
All. That all the Sou f hern men say there
is no submission of the Constitution to tie
people of Kansas, while their paitizaus f: a
the North say there is.
THE GRA 9SHOPPEU3.—The vast swarm? '■
grasshoppers which have been devastating the
prairies of Texas, steered a northeast conr-e
upon their departure thence, and as they r •
to a great height from the ground, as thori
for a long journey, it is a melancholy con
sion that they are coming up this way My
riads of thein are now eating up vegetation h
Oltio. It is, therefore, uo very violent -oppo
sition that Pennsylvania,with a milder climate
than lowa, is not unlikely to be visited iy
them. These insects are not like the common
grasshopper, which are every summer found io
our fields and roads, but are the size of s i
enst, with the same gregarious habits. Tse
ordinary grasshopper is weak of wing, ani
never rises to a great height, whereas the
gions which have so repeatedly desolated I t.
and Texas, rise far into the upper air, aid
move off together to great distances, like wild
geese. They appear in innumerable hosts, and
instead of scattering, alight in a body up -
some devoted locality, which they attack and
destroy with the systematic movement of an
army. They will thus eat up a crop of com
or cotton in a very short time. In 1 tali iiu ?
plague visited the growing cereals with utter
destruction as often as three times in one >ea
son, so that the afflicted Mormons were reduc
ed to extremities for food. They stem now to
have attacked our frontier States, and to be
moving gradually into the body of the repub
lic. The honors of famine have never bc' 3
felt in our country, and accustomed to the
most prolific abundance, it is a calamity
which 110 one has ever looked, yet these
hoppers arc a terrible visitation to a region.
THE OBLIGATION OF SECRECY IN PHYSICIAN
—The recent decision of Judge Welles in the
case of the physicians called to testify in 'be
case of Ira Stout, deserves considerable im
portance from the fact that it was a judioD
interpretation of the law of IS2S establish' 1 ®
the law of secrecy between the physician and
patient. The common law allows no such re
lation, but was constructed to compel the phy
sician to reveal any disclosures made to him 1
criminals under his care. Before the
of this law in 1828, instances occurred * hen
physicians, acting uuder their professional iv -
of ethics, suffered the penalties of contemp l
court rather than betray the confidence of p'"
tients. After Louis Napoleon's sneers- •
coup (T etnt some forty physicians of Paris * orc
arrested for refusing to disclose the hiding P'*'
ces of wounded persons whom they were 3
tending. AH of them persisted in th<
sal, and it is noteworthy that the court? ?
fained them, although a strong government
flnence was brought to influence their decisis
Ciucinatti Times.
serious affray occurred in
on Thursday evening, between two unl*
and in the conflict, singularly enough. 1 4
did the other so much damage that it - 1 "-
posed neither will survive.