Another Letter from Stout, the Rochester
Murderer.
Rochester, Monday, May 3,1*65.
To rut HON. CHARLES P. AVERY — Lkar
Sir : I present to you my sincere thanks, for
vour kind and liberal letter. It partly cuased
me to forget niv present horrific position, and
carried me back through long years of unknown
suffering, to cur lirst acquaintance, and the
days of my boyhood, when hope was bright,
uud ambition powerful.
I distinctly remember my connection with
the Pennsylvania matter, and 1 still firmly be
lieve your views and actions iu regard to nic
were just and honorable. You believed (and
I will add your belief was truth) that I was
not responsible lor that affair, and if allowed
an opportunity for redemption, with an exemp
tion from certain destructive influences, I cer
tainly possessed sufficient power to make a man
of importance and respectability. By your
friendly action the indictment was suspended,
und with the best encouragement from your
self, and numerous others, I once more enter
ed society. Do you not remember what a glo
rious commencement I made t I was engaged
in business with my old employer, who was
acquainted with this difficulty, yet he trusted
and honored me to an extent which showed
his faith in me was undiminished. From the
best knowledge 1 have, of my views, position
and character at that time, I think if 1 had
been let alone my course would have been
" onward and upward," and true to the princi
ples of honor and honesty.
Then came that piece of perfidy and villiany
perpetrated by those men who pnferred the i
charge against ine in Pennsylvania, and who
luitl sacredly promised never to molest or in-1
terfere with me. You remember how secretly
tiic rcquision was issued, and with what dis- i
patch I was hurried away. My prosecutors !
were wealthy, powerful and unprincipled ; 1
was a mere boy, a stranger in the place, and i
almost friendless and alone. I bote this un
just proceeding against me with the same ener
gy and self-possession which I have always
shown ; but I could not encounter such oppo- j
sit ion with the slightest prospect of success. |
The clear and forcible letters you wrote in my j
behalf, should have influenced the .linlge in
Pennsylvania to a better consideration of my [
case ; and while it was injustice to do any- :
thing with me, yet it was quite evident the j
law would have been abundantly vindicated by i
sending me to the House of Refuge and not
to the State Prison. That I suffered a wrong
here which changed my life is too true. You
remember the melancholy terminus of that trial j
and my final disposition iu Philadelphia It 1
required all the philosophy I possessed to sup
port that long, unjust and terrible imprison
ment, but it seems I eventually triumphed.—
The nerve that never relaxes,the eye that nev
er blanches, the thought that never wanders,
lire the masters of victory.
If my conduct in Owego had not been unex
ceptionable, it is probable you would have act
ed on the suspended indictment, and decided
iny destiny according to the Lest of your judg
ment. And such a proceeding would have
been right and just.
Upon the question, whether it would have
been just to have enforced the indictment pre
vious to my first discharge, I will say, in my j
opinion, it would not only have been very un
just, but very injudicious. Though succeed
ing events showed that it would have been bet
ter, as a matter of policy, for me to have been
disposed of with my father, yet I never would
have admitted the justice of such a disposi
tion. I recollect how strongly you were inter
ested in me ; wirat good advice you gave me ;
and how firmly you believed I was born for
higher tilings than to squander my days in that
vortex of degradation called a State Prison.
And I appeal to vnu, if during the brief era of
my liberty iu Owego, did I not conduct myself
as straigiitly and regularly as the fallibility of!
human things would allow ?
There is a strange fatality which has attend- |
ed ine, even from childhood. When 1 think
of my present situation, and what it might i
have been, the reflection is bitter—bitter and
withering. Who is responsible for my life ?
Who shall answer for my death ? Had I been
in my youth directed iu the path of rectitude
and honor, who will attempt to say that I
might not have been this minute legislating in
the halls of a State House, or engaged in the
purer and holier cause of religion ; instead of
dying by inches, condemned iu a cell. But I
have no reproaches to make. " God forbid"
I should be guilty of making any bitter flings
at those whom I am bound to regard with the
purest reverence and aflection.
I have often bowed before the insnllied great
ness and goodness of your character,and I have
at time, been strongly impressed with the idea
that perhaps I might some day, be as much
beloved and respected as you. But the result
of this terrible charge has blighted my earthly
hopes and ambition, and left mc little else,
except that cool, independent spirit, which still
burns as brightly as the morning star of God.
I still possess my almost fanatical attachment
to books, and to everything lofty and beauti
ful ; and sometimes when I examine my heart
and character, I consider it singular, that afte *
passing through those vicious associations,
there should lie so much goodness and princi
ple left. If " this is the last of earth," (and I
sincerely hope not,) I deeply regret that I
have not accompliscd more good and less evil ;
and I also regret that 1 failed to retain my
liberty long enough to develop those powers of
usefulness and greatness which I am certain I
possess.
From my heart I thank you for the inter
est and sympathy you have shown for me, and
with much deference I request that you will
write to me again.
With the highest regard and e-t a-rn.
I am, sincerely yours.
M. I. STOUT.
BANK ROBIIKRY IN GKBKNCASTLK, INDIANA
A large Sum Stolen. — A gentleman iu Green
castle writing to the American Express Com
pany yesterday morning, says :
"The safe of the Exchange Bank was
blown open with powder Saturday night, and
$40,000 iu silver taken out. One-third of it
has been recovered, and they are now en track
of the burglars. Last night live stores were
entered. Some arrests have been made this
morning.
Another letter says that $2,800 had been
stolen from the Exchange Bank on Saturday
night, and that SI,OOO of it had been recover
ed. Three stores were broken into on Sunday
Light, but the articles taken amounted to but
little in aggregate value.— Italialuipn/ii Jour
•/ '/, ISM.
Bt its LII TO DEATH. —At a conflagration in
Chicago Tuesday morning, ten persons, old
men, and women, mothers and delicate child
ren, were burned to dentil, i"...? !i;e wa•; lbs
\wA ci an inefcfidiarv.
News from all Nations.
—The Minnesota Senators have drawn lots
for term of office. Geu. Shields drew the term expiring
March lsjs. and Mr. Kiee drew the term exyiring March
law.
— Tlie Sun/lay Atlas, in a lit of revolution
ary enthusiasm, says "Hurrah for the girls of '7fi."—
" Thunder," cries a Jersey paper, " that's too darned
old. No, hurrah for the girls of 17."
—The Free-Masons of South Carolina are
taking h hl of the Mount Vernon fund in earnest. Sever
al Lodges have subscribed tl for each member.
—Henry Ward Beecher said in one of his
lectures that," Flowers are the sweetest things that
God ever made and forgot to put a soul iuto."
—The horse and carriage of tde Mayor of
Boston was seized a few days since by the police, for
standing in Court Square longer than the law allows.
—The I'ope has appointed Lucien Bona
parte, already private Chamberlain, as one of the Ponti
fical Prelates.
—The Fruit, as well as the grain crop, of
the present season, appears to promise favorably in most
sections of the west.
—William Connolly, the reporter of the New
York Sun, on trial at Cincinnati for having harbored cer
tain fugitive slaves, was convicted yesterday. His counsel
have moved for a new trial, on the grouud that one of, the
jurors was a Deputy IT. S. Marshal.
—Another outrage on the American flag
is reported. On this occasion a British cruiser fired into
the boarded and searched by an armed boat's crew.
—The steamship " Grapeshot," from Gal
veston, Texas, to Trinity river, was totally destroyed by
tire.
—The post office at Brnshville, Indiana,
and an adjoining mercantile establishment, were entered
on Sunday night, and a large amount of property and
mail-matter was carried off.
—The tornado which swept over Chester
field and Powhatan counties Virginia, on Saturday, has
proved very destructive to the grain crops.
—.Mr. David McCormick, one of the most
esteemed citizens of Clinton couuty, Pa., died at Lock
Haven last week.
—D.tvid S. Kvans has been committed to
jail at Pittsburg, to lake his trial for the murder of his
wife.
—Susquehanna salmon are selling in the Ilar
risburg mark't at twenty-five cents per pound
—The steamer City of Iluntsville sank iu
the Mississippi, near Palmyra Island, tea of on
board finding a watery grave. The vessel is a total
loss.
—A violent tornado swept over the line of
the Chicago and Alton railroad, in the vicinity of Lexing
-111., which blew over a passenger train, and uplifted sev
eral dwelling houses, resulting in serious destruction of
life.
—Secretary Cass has addressed a letter to
Lord Napier upon the subject of the recent overhauling
of American vesels by British cruisers in the Gulf of
Mexico. It is understood that his Lordship will make an
early remonstrance to the commander of the British
squadron in thit quarter, The N. Y. H i ra'd bis a des
patch to the effect that the home squadron have been
ordered to prevent a recurrence of these outrages.
—The Minnesota Senators have drawn lots
for term of office. Gen. Shields drew the term expiring
March, IS>9, and Mr. Bice the term expiring March,
1563.
—The Ilollid aysburg (Pa.) Register says
that the Central Bank at tint place is in a fair way of
being fairly established. The necessary stock, we under
stand, has been subscribed by substantial Philadelphia
men—fifteen of them subscribing SIO,OOO each, and pay
ing $7.,000.
—A gentleman at Ilawleyville, lowa, writes
thatthe grassh ippcrs or locusts have again made their
appearance in our midst in countless millions, and already
commenced destroying our spring wheat. Fears are en
tort lined that they will destroy everything in their way
this season."
—lt is feared that the late heavy frosts will
cut short the peacli and strawberry crops of New Jersey.
—The Prospects of an abundant crop of
fruit, the Rural New Yorker says, were never better than
at present.
—Tite Poughkecpsic Eagle lias completed
it - .70th year, and is still under the charge of Mr. Piatt,
the original editor.
—The lowa State University is so severely
straightened in its finances that the Trustees hu\e resolved
to suspend operations for a year.
—Mrs. Morse,Vice-President of the Louis
iana Mount Vernon Association, publishes a long appeal
to the women of the State to come up to the help of the
enterprise the ladies have in charge.
Miss Helen Cuningham, daughter of the
celebrated Mrs. Cunningham, alleged wife of Or. Burdcll,
was married on Monday last to a young dentist of New
York.
—Lola Montez says: Runaway matches,
like runaway horses, end in a smash-up ; and she advises
girls to hang, drown or poison themselves, rather than
elope.
—Orson Hyde, one of the Mormon Apostles,
boasts that if he lives ten years and thrives as he has
been thriving, he will have " sons enough to make a re
giment by themselves."
—ln the District Court of Philadelphia on
Saturday, a little episode occured. in which, Judge Shars
wood, with great propriety, ordered the arrest of a
menitier of the lar for giving the lie, in open court, to
another member of the profession.
—An old suit, commenced nearly twenty
eight years ago by the United States against Gen. Har
rison, upon an official bond which he signed for a public
officer, was recently ordered to be struck from the docket
of the United States Circuit Court at Cincinnati.
—Herman, under sentence for counterfeiting
United State- coin, lias escaped from the Biltimore pen
itentiary. lie was carried out in a chest that hail con
tained some fine tools, with which he had lieen allowed
to construct ivory ornaments, in which kind of work he
was very expert.
—The body of a man was found on last
Saturday, in the Juniata dam, about two miles above
Huntingdon. The body was afterwards discovered to
j be that of a man named John Watson, of Shaver's creek,
; Huntingdon county. He was about forty years of age.—
1 He had been attending court at Huntingdon. It is not
j known how be came to lose his life.
—A bill to erect a new connty out of parts
j of Erie and Crawford and Warren, which passed both
hrau<-hes of the la-gi-lature.has been signed by thcGov-
I eruor.
j —There are at present 264 patients in the
: State Lunatic Hospital, near llarrisburg. The total
| number of patients admitted since the commencement of
1 the Hospital, is 961.
—Hugh Shellito, about 18 years of age,
; was arrested in Crawford county, last week, on the charge
;of murdering his father. He is now iu jail awaiting his
i trial.
—I. T. Clement, the most enterprising citi
. /('II of Sunbiiry. has put in operation a steam ferry bM|
between Sutibury and the Union county side, it runs
during all hours of the day.
—Strawberries sold at New V'rlt on Satnr
day, for 60 and 7* cents per iloztu.
Skabforti Bqiorter.
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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UTATE CONVENTION.—The Citizens
O of Philadelphia and of the se?eral counties of the
Commonwealth opposed to the " Leeompton Swindle,"
and the despotic policy of the National Administration
in forcing upon the people of Kansas a Constitution in de
fiance of their own wishes, and in subversion of the great
principle of self-government-.aid in favor ofa sound Ameri
can policy in opposition to the policy and intrigues of for
eign governments,are requested to send Delegates,in equal
number to their Representatives and Senators, in the
State Legislature,to meet in Convention,nt llarrislmrg, in
the Hall of the House of Representatives, on THURSDAY,
THE STH DAY OF JULY, A. D., 1858, at 2 o'clock
P. M., to nominate State O Hirers, and transact such other
business as the exigencies may demand.
By order of the State Committee.
LEMUEL TODD, Chairman.
Attest— EDWARD MOPIIKRSON, See'y.
STATE CONVENTION.
The State Committee has at last issued a
call for the State Convention to be held at
Harrisburg on Thursday, the Bth day of July
next, for the purpose of nominating a State
Ticket.
It will be seen on reading this call, that the
wording of it is somewhat peculiar. We do
not attach much importance to the mere word-'
ing of a call for a Convention, provided the :
body itself is conducted properly ; but there is '
an ambiguity about the anouncement which
does not strike us favorably. However, we
are content to abide our time in peace, hoping
for the best results.
feT* We publish in another column, a letter
written by the murderer STOUT to Judge AVERY I
in answer to the Judge's letter which we no-!
ticed last week. The reflections which IRA ;
endeavors to cast upon the prosecutors and
the Court for his conviction in this County of j
the crime of arson, are entitled to no conside-1
ration, but answer as an excuse for him to en- j
deavor to palliate his disgraceful career.
Judge AVERY, we have no question, acted ;
from the purest motives, in endeavoring to ;
ward from IRA the penalty of the arson com- ;
mitted in this county, and we have is little !
question from the circumstances surrounding
that crime, and from IRA'S subsequent career, I
that the Judge's benevolent intentions were j
sadly misdirected.
It is somewhat refreshing to remark the ;
coolness with which IRA argues that but for
his conviction his career might have been a far j
different one. The man, of his age, who al- j
ready stands convicted of wilful murder, and •
has been proven guilty of arson and the more
disgraceful crime of incest, could hardly have
beeu kept in '* the path of rectitude'] and
honor," and is more likely under any direction
and training to adorn a scaffold than be found
" legislating in the halls of a State house, or
engaged m the purer and holier cause of reli
gion.
IMPORTANT FROM UTAH.— A correspondent
of the N.Y. Times , writing from Fort Rridgcr,
Utah Territory, April 9, gives the latest reli
able information received from Utah. There
seems to be no doubt of the statement, that
through the negotiations of Col. KANE, Gov.
CUMMING had been invited by the Mormon lead
ers to visit Salt Lake City. Great prepara
tions had beeu made for his reception. The
Governor accepted the offer, and started from
the camp on the fifth of April. The latest
account of the progress of his journey, is that
on the 7th, he was met at Echo Canon, about
45 miles from the city, and was escorted by a
guard of some thirty picked Mormons, sent by
BHIGHAM expressly to meet him. We have re
liable intelligence that the Mormons were em
iirratine from the vallev to the White River
PC" -
Mountains, as some suppose, but the point to
which the exodus is directed, is not positively
known. There is no indication yet that the
Mormon leaders are disposed to yield ; but
the people undoubtedly submit to Federal au
thority, and would welcome the troops within
their city, if they dared exercise any indepen- 1
dencc of thought or action. They seem to be
thoroughly enslaved by their spiritual oppres
sors. Col. KANE arrived at the cauip, on the
12th of March.
fey" The packet-boat " Gazelle," commenc
ed making regular trips between this place and
Athens, on Monday last, under the command
of Captain SMITH, who during the last season,
gained so mnch renown for his careful and skill
ful navigation of the waters of the " raging
canawl." For speed, comfort and safety the
" Gazelle " is unequaled as a means of travel.
fey-The trial of Mrs. ABIGAIL GARDNER for
poisoning her husband, the late postmaster at
Hingham, which has occupied the Supreme
Court at Plymouth, Mass., during the week,
ended Saturday morning, by a verdict of mur
der in the second degree.
fe?"W. M. Connolly, of New York, con
victed at Cincinnati of harboring Fugitive
Slaves, has been refused a new trial, and sen
ten ed to twenty days imprisonment in the
i County Jail, aud to pay a flue of >'lo.
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ceive each week this excellent magazine, and
find it sustains its high reputation. Each suc
cessive number is full of information and amuse
ment. Money speut for the " LIVING AGE "
is well spent; for it is unquestionably both
theirs and c/uuipest periodical ever offered to
the public. This is not merely our individual
opinion, it is the concurrent testimony of the
Press throughout the country ; it must, there
fore, be the true estimate. The work is issued
every Saturday, eighty pages, double columns,
12 cents each, or per annum, post-paid to
any address. It is a work that supplies the
very ujarrow and essence of all the renowned
British periodical literature of the day, consist
ing of the elalwrate and stately essays of the
Quarterlies, the masterly criticisms of Black
wood, and the lighter articles of Dickens'
" Household Words," and scores of other pop
ular Journals ; its contents being not only of
interest of to-day, but of imperishable value.
The numbers for the year, formiug five large
octavo volumes, present a complete Enejclo
pmdia of Literature, reflecting the spirit and
genius of the age in which we live. To say
that such a work is indispensable to every li
brary, is not enough : it is an essential to
every intelligent family circle, to professional
men, and to all who are educating themselves.
Hoping that what wo have said will awaken
a fresh and deeper practical interest in this
long-established and excellent work, we shall
content ourselves with simply referring to the
fact that many of the representative men of
our country have borne the strongest testimo
ny to its superiority ; among them, J. Q.
Adams, Henry Daniel Webster, Chan
cellor Kent, Prof. Sparks, Justice Story, W.
11. Prescott, George Bancroft, Ceo. Ticknor,
Bishop Potter, Rev. I)r. Bcthuue, Rev. Al
bert Barnes, Ac.
The President on Wednesday sent to
the Senate, a response to a resolution of that
body, the documents relative to the recent out
rages by British cruisers in the West Indian
waters in detaining and firing into American
vessels, and setting forth the action taken by
the A ministration in regard to them. The
most prompt measures have been adopted, not
only to obtain an explanation from the British
Government, but to interpose onr naval force
against a repetition of the acts complained of.
fey"Advices from Ilio de Janeiro to the
13th of April have been received. The pro
position for a closer alliance with the United
States, as proposed to the Emperor by Mr.
M EAI>F., our Minister, was being discussed by
the papers, but no steps had been taken to
wards carrying out the idea. The Government
had under consideration a proposition to en
courage emigration from Europe by granting
bounty and land to emigrants. The project
was very widely, ana generally, favorably dis
cussed. The papers say nothing of the yellow
fever.
fer" The frigate 1 Vabash, formerly the flag
ship of Commodore PAULDING, and under com
mand of Capt. FREDERICK ENGI.E, who distin
guished himself by the capture of WALKER and
his fillibusters, has been ordered to the Gulf
and Coast of Cuba. She has been in readi
ness for several days, and is only awaiting sail
ing orders. She is now in command of Com
modore LAVALLETTE.
fey" TJic next meeting of the Bradford
County Teachers' Association will commence at
Shcshequin, on Friday next, at 10 1-2 o'clock,
A. M. An address may be expected from Dr.
TURNER, and the State Superintendent, Mr.
IIICKOK, will address the Association on Fri
day Evening. A session of more than usual
interest may be expected.
Miss STRATTON will give lessons in Pennman
ship, at-Miss HANSON'S school room, at 4
o'clock in the afternoon, to such as may be
j desirous of improving their chirography. Miss
S. has had much experience as a teacher, aud
acquired an excellent reputation for success
"ully imparting a knowledge of this desirable
and graceful accomplishment to her pupils.
The Hon. CHARLES SUMNER sailed again for
| r
Europe on Saturday, by the \ underbill from
New York, in search of health. He finds that
he is still incapacitated for active labors, and
intends to seek repose abroad. lie left a let
ter, addressed to the People of Massachusetts,
announcing the reasons for his departure.
The Secretary of Navy has scut orders to the
New York-Navy-Yard to equip for sea, at
1 once, the steamers Arctic and Water witch,
j to cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, for the purpose
! of affording protection to our shipping enga
ged in the Cuban trade. It is reported that
; Lieut. HARTSTEIX will have charge of the
, ArrJir, and Lient. JOHN ROGERS of the Water
i lUi/cA. The latter is a snug side-wheel steam
er, belonging to the Coast-Survey service.
SriciDE AT ELMIKA.- —On Thursday night a
j stranger traveller stopped at the Forest House
! and registered his name as Jno. Jay. During
the night a noise was heard in his room, but
no notice was taken of it, and in the morning
be was found dead, with a number of gashes
upon his arms, sufficient to cause death. The
coroner's inquest being held, returned a verdict
! of suicide.
fey- Gen. Persifer F. Smith, commander of
the Utah forces, died at 12 o'clock on Sunday
night at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His re
tina! us are to be brought to the East. Gen.
1 Harney succeeds to the command.
From Washington.
[Correspondence of the I'ress.]
WASHINGTON, May 15,1838.
You are right about J. Glancy Jones, and
the movement against the regular Democratic
ticket in Illinois. I have just seen THE PRESS
of yesterday, and hasten to give you the facts.
This Jones, and the man who signs the land
pateuts for the President, have called upon
the few clerks from Illinois, and have request
ed their services iu the Pennsylvania clnb
room, to assist in the attempt to overthrow
Judge Douglas, and the Democrats in Con
gress from Illinois. These clerks are given to
understand that their places will depend upon
their compliance. A list of the persons hold
ing office from Illinois has beeu called for.—
What a frightful condition of things { A po
litical banditti, headed by a miserable syco
phant and toady, like the Ex-Ileverend Jones,
rushing upon a few clerks, and demanding of
them to unite in cutting down the gallant
Douglas and his noble friends, by defeating
the regular Democratic nominations in Illinois.
What renders this outrage more infamous is
the fact that these Illinois clerks have not :
been called upon to help Judge Douglas and
his friends, but they are not permitted to be
neutral. They are to be seized by the press
gangs of Lecomptoriism, and compelled to
draw their swords upon their own representa
tives and the noble champion of popular sov
ereignty, on pain of banishment. You may
rely ou the correctness of this statement.
NORTHWEST.
WASHINGTON, May 10.
The President of the United States has for
mally asked Congress for authority to contract
a loan of fifteen millions of dollars for a term
of not exceeding ten years. The Senate Com
mittee of Finance have the matter under con
sideration.
Mr. Loring entered upon his duties to-day
as Chief Justice of the Court of claims.
Mr. Boyce presented a report in the House
from the Select Committee on the Tariff, Ac.
It takes the ground that the protective policy
should entirely be abandoned, and that resort
should be made as early as practicable to direct
taxation as a measure of economy. Articles
of prime necessity should be taxed at the low
est rate of duty, and the burden thrown, as
much as possible, on luxuries. The Naviga
tion laws should be so modified as not to re
quire any portion of the officers and crews of
American ships to be American seamen, and
American citizens shall be free to purchase and
sail foreign ships on an entire equality with
American built ships, and the American coast
ing trade shall be open on terms of perfect
equality to foreign built ships. The commit
tee say they do not entertain the hope that
they can inaugurate a new policy now. Such
radical changes must be the work of time.—
They do not, therefore, look so much to im
mediate practical results as the triumph of
the principles they advocate. Mr. Garnett
does not concur iu all the conclusions of the
committee.
[CorresjionUencc of The Press.]
WASHINGTON, May 17,1838.
There seems to be a well-grounded fear that
hostilities will ensue between England and the .
United States from the right of search exercis- I
ed upon our shipping by the war vessels of the 1
former, unless there is a clear and explicit dis
avowal of the principle involved. One war :
was begun and ended because this right was
claimed by England ; and, unhappily for the
two countries, was, and is, left undetermined.
Therefore, now that the question has once
more arisen, policy, and a prudent regard for
peace and the interests of our people, would
seem to demand that there should be a speedy
and definite settlement of the controversy ;
' and this the friends of the Administration
hope and believe will be the object which we
will press for, and attain, if possible.
The present Government of England, when
inaugurated, was supposed to entertain a just
er idea of what was due to the United States,
and that it would in a brief period, mark out
honorable ground for the two nations to stand
upon, clearing away the Clayton-Bulwer imped
iment, with others, which have chafed our peo
ple, and engendered unkind feelings towards
England ; but it now appears that that just
expectation is doomed to disappointment. Not
only have they exhibited a greater tenacity in
clinging to rights in Central America, which,
in the latter part of the last century, Edmund
Burke,after having gone with careful investiga
tion over the whole ground, denied they were
entitled to ; but to still more exhibit their un
friendliness, they resort to every sort of chi
cane to estop successful negotiations. The
House would have rejected the resolutions re
commending an abrogation of the Clayton-
Bulwer convention, and trusted for an adjust
ment during the recess ; but siuee the present
contrdempts has arisen the probability is that
measures will be taken to demand information
for the country —first why is it that England
has had, for more than six mouths, two full
Ministers at Washington, Lord Napier and Sir
William Gore Ouseley, one with credentials
presented and received ; and the other with
credentials still in his pocket ; and secondly,
why is it that further delay is permitted when
it is the universal sentiment of the country
that England has made pretensions, every jot
and tittle of which wc repudiate and contemn.
Too long already has our Government been
patient and forgetful of insults from other
Powers. A South American or Central Amer
ican State can make solemn treaties with us,
and then trust them aside as idle words.—
Yule Venezuela and Paraguay, and probably
others. Great Britian can keep us in suspense,
through decades of years, on a question where
the issue has long been joined. Shall England
yield, or mnst we 1 If neither leaves its posi
tion, what then ? History, which tells how, in
time past, we are jealous of our dignity as a
nation, will not leave the answer problemati
cal.
The Legislature of Wisconsin, in obe
dience to the expressed wish of a majority of
the jieople of the Btate, has passed a bill re
establishing the death penalty for murder.
The trial which wc noticed last week,
SIDNEY HAYDEN rs the. William sport Elmi
ra R. R. Co., resulted in a verdict for the
plaintiff of $5,000.
RECORDS ON THE CRIMEAN WAR. —At the
mill of William Clark A Co., Northampton.
Mass., a bale of rags was recently opened,
which came from the Crimea. Pillow-cases,
sheets, shirts, bandages, surgical aprons, rem
nants, and parts of clothing stained with b!o< 1,
told an eloquent talc of suffering and
GREAT EXPOSURE IN WISCONSIN.— F \
in the Milwaukic Xeics a synopsis of tl
port of the committee of the Wisconsin *
upon the question of the amounts ex,, T*
during the session of the Legislature of u
to secure the passage of the bill ahnorti/" 5 '
the lauds granted by the Uuited State" '
Wisconsin for railroad purposes amon*V -0
several roads. The great effort was to'" •
portion of the lands for the Milwaakif'
La Crosse railroad. According to thisr,
all who voted for the land grant
indirectly received bonds or stock raltn-'i *
from $.7,000 to $25,000. The total amo.
paid arc said to iiave been as follows
Governor of State. $50,000 ; Go'vcrr •
private Secretary, $55,000 ; State off;'!'
$20,000 ; Supreme Court, $1,900 • l;j <3
Senators, $200,000 ; 66 Assembly men
000 ; Legislative clerks, $1~,00(J ; editor, j
others, $201,000. Graud total, $989,00^
This amount of bonds was given to
the passage of the bill, and it will strike S
public very stroiigly that it must be a
ble thing to hold office—iu Wisconsin. " 'fi'.'C
bonds, however, are worth little or not!
now, and the present iiKinagers ot
pany repudiate them.
J6£3=* We call the attention of the Fiona,
and those interested in Pioneer subjects to ?
following announcement of the 6th at-,
meeting :
The Sixth Annual Historical and p..
Festival, of Bradford, Broome, Chemnn? C t
nango, Luzerne, Schuyler, Steuben.
hanna, Tioga, Tompkins, Wyoming,
Counties, will be held at Montrose, Ba. .J
liana County, Pa., on the 2d day ot JmJ ,
10 y. M.
Committee of Arrangements—A. 1,. j> y
Wm. 11. Jessup, A. Baldwin, I. L. Post.B ;
Bentley, G. Z Dimock, L. Searle, 11.
A. Chamberlain, R. B. Little, A. '
The Committee of Arrangements met at >
office of I>r. G. Z. Dimock, Tuesday, Mv l)-
1858, and elected Rev. A. L. Post Chair:;,v
and G. Z. Dimock, Secretary and Treasurer
On Correspondence—Wm. 11. Jes.su;., /
Dimock, R. B. Little.
On Place of Meeting—B. S. Bentley, [
Baldwin, A. Chamberlain.
On Dinner —A. Lathrop, G. Z. Dimock. [
Chamberlain.
On General Arrangements—l. L. Post.Wir.
11. Jessup,, H. Drinker, L. Searle, B. B.lke
lev, A. Baldwin.
On Invitations— A. Drinker, 11. B. Litti-.
I. L. Post, B. S. Bentley, Wm. 11. Jessup,
Lathrop.
Moved and carried that the Treasurer bs
directed to raise funds, &c.,
Moved that the proceedings be published j
both of the county papers.
Adjourned to call of Secretary.
G. Z. DIMOCK Secretary
begins to be more than maniM thai
scarcely anybody can lie elected to CoaTf9
from this corner of the continent who voted
for Leeompton. The brand is on the brow
of every one who did the deed, and like the
" scarlet letter,*" it cannot be obliterated while,
unlike the " scarlet letter," it is seen of allnm
Now, it may lie a pleasing thing to power to
see the Lecomptonites re nominated, but it •
a much more important thing to the Democra - ?
to pat nobody forward who will kill others
didates bv the contact. If the Lecorcptoc
Congressmen want vindication they should;
to the treasury for it. There are not rrs
enough for tliein in the North, and that'; the
long and short of it.— Press.
course of The Prc*> on the Kar ; i :
question has not been a doubtful course : .
the editor of the New York Times has at:-
ted a letter into his paper of yesterday, im
porting to have been written from Wash:;:-
ton, iu which it is distinctly stated, and tit;
some attempt at detail, (which has surpr;--.
as in the Times,) that the Press is abouttt
surrender the great principle to which it he
been devoted for many months, and to bcce™
the subservient tool of power. We have o r .y
to say in reply, that the editor of the Ti#
has been grossly imposed upon by some e::
rapt and reckless knave. The story is an ntttf
fabrication. It lias no probability, no rcspofr
sibility, to rest upon. We have nothingtc
surrender. It would afford us great pleasure
to agree with the general Administration oo
this Kansas question but this will never be,
until the Administration is true to itself, I'd
to the pledges upon which it was elevated tJ
power.— The Press.
THE INEBRIATE ASYLUM. —The Cornrnisston*
ers to locate the State Fimbriate Asylum,
understand have agreed upon Bingliamton.-
Troy is said to have offered $12,000 in aid
it, if it should lie located in that city. Alb; •
! $12,000. Newburgh $15,000. Bingham;"]
1 $25,000, or what is equivalent, 250 acres d
land, valued at SIOO per acre. The Coaw
sion was appointed by an act of the rec
legislature, and consists of some forty UK
hers of whom John W. Francis is the
named. The building is to cost SIOO.Oi M, y
Of this $50,000 are already subscribed.-- 1 '
bany Journal, 20 th.
BURNED TO DEATH. —Three children of M
Frank Hopewell, in Gotland, Indians, *
burned to death last week. There were
small children in the house, three were re*" "
two of whom were badly homed, but the' ■
an infant of about eight months, could not *
reached. The mother, in her despair, reacW
tike bed once, siezed some of the clothe? v
rushed out, thinking she had her child :
on examination, is was discovered hurnr i
death, and crushed among the falling tin
Two of the other children died in a few !*'
after, from the effects of the flames,
nearly a thousand dollars in gold, which y
laid between the beds where the eh ■
slept, was missing, it is supposed that the u - -
was set on Are.
jQr*The new Comet, discovered three" J
ago at the Observatory in Cambridge, - 1
is found to be ripidly receding from hot
sun and the earth.
A number of students in the States 1
sity of Michigan indulged in a "ight de ?
last week, when one of them, named ' rv ,
\V. BRAZIE, died from the effects o' c.v l '-
intoxication.
INDU.VAPOI.IR MUNICIPAL KT.E<:NFN
AVAPOUS, Wednesday, May j ■''
pal election here yesterday RESULTED -
choice of the entire Repnblican ticket .
to 300 majority. Five of the seven
j men chosen are Republicans