[Fr..m roii.e l'icv.) The Sword Drawn ia Illinois. The intelligence from Illinois disposes of nil doubt ns to the future policy ol the Demo eratic opponents of the Cincinnati platform, in that State, and per consequence in • very other State in the Union Tue convention of office-holders, held at Springfield on the 9th of June, has placed in nomin itio i a full ticket against the regular mini nations of the Demo cratic party, has rc affirmed the L-compton heresy, and has accompanied this double treachery by the most violent assaults upon Senator DOUGLAS and the masses of Democrats who follow his noble lend. As showing the character of the men who control and stimu late this movement, we need only mention that the leading spirit is a Docfnr Charles Leib. well known in Pennsylvania, and particularly iu Lancaster and Schuylkill counties. T.iis notorious person always regarded as an object of contempt, is in fact the chief of th oppo sition arrayed against the Democracy of Illi nois ! He lias passed through all parties, tak ing the hue and name of each in turn, having begun his career as the brawling personal foe of Mr. BUCHANAN. These facts are well known in Pennsylvania. LKIB is assisted by a man called CARPENTER, and by COOK, tli- postmas ter of Chicago, who was confirmed for that office by the United States Senate, with the '■ most dishonoring charges hanging over iiis head. LEIB is an agent of the Post Office Department, and CARPENTER of the Treasury. We have heard, from many sources, that the most prescriptive member of Mr. BUCHAN AN'S Cabinet is Hon. HOWELL COBB ; but we have always doubted it. until the facts and the proofs have become irresistible. It seemed to us that a decent regard for those gentlemen in Pennsylvania who -o urgently and enthu siastically advocated his claims for a place in the Cabinet of Mr. BUCHANAN, should have counselled moderation on the jr.art of Mr. COBB. Respect, too, for bis own abundant pledges to our people in 1850, beginning iu Chester county, which he canvassed in com pany with Hon. JOHN HICKMAN, and with him opeuly advocated the very doctrine which he now rejects, and remembrance also of his own public letters in support of Governor WAL KER'S course, written N late as August or September of 1857, should have made h:m the defender, instead of the pcr-eeu'or, of the Democrats who refused to go for the surren der of thr principles which elected JAMES BU CHANAN President of the I nited States. HOW ELL COBB tliould have stood forth for these men at the hazard of his life, throwing office and aspirations to the winds, doing what lie did iu 1851, in Georgia, when, rather than eubmit to an outrage, fur, far inferior to that which aroused the indignant protest of millions of men in the matter of Kansas, he irent out of his parti/ and joined hands Kith the opposi tion, and elected himself Governor of ins State. That would have been a deed worthy of his Union-loving record, and in glorious consisten cy with his ten thousand declarations against sectionalism. lie knew the men, in the free States, who refused to swallow the poison pre sented to them in the Lecompton Constitution. He knew that they had been devoted, heart and soul, to Mr. BUCHANAN, and that they dif fered from him with reluctance and regret. They—at least those from Pennsylvania— had no griefs to avenge by opposing his poli cy, but were animated by the noblest and the roost thorough patriotism. No man knew all this better than IIOWELL COBB. And now have the just expectations of these men been met 1 How has his ostentatious pledge to our people, less than two years ago, been ful filled ? How has he carried out his declara tions of devotion to the Union anil to the na tional Democracy ? By standing silently in the Cabinet when many of the noble spirits in the Democratic party were assailed, and by permitting them to be traduced in their ab sence : By joining hands with the extreme tire-eaters of the Smith, who demanded that faith should be broken with WALKER while lie was doing bis duty like a heroin Kansas, with the President's written instructions in his A i wis: By aiding a cabal at the seat of the Federal Government to hunt down Judge DOUGLAS be cause he would not disgrace ms manhood by deserting his solemnly plighted faith. Nor is this ull Partisans like CARPENTER and LEIB, scattered all over the Union, are paid enor mous salaries out of the public treasury to di vide the Democratic party on tiie Lecompton priucipie ; to act as apies upon independent Democrats, to break down regular nominations, to calumniate distinguished champions of our creed ; in a word, to give up all their public duties to the gratification of a malignity on the part of their masters, as measureless as it is incomprehensible and insane. We hive seen these mercenaries turned into place by Mr. COBB and his associates, while ottiers have been turned out by the same influences who excelled in all the qualities of Democrats and of men, and who fell under the ban of a re morseless despotism because tliev could not swear by Lecompton. Such is the answer of HOWELL COBB to the confiding hosts who so readily believed his professions, aud who so generously assisted him to power ovir the heads of the merciless enemies at his own home in Georgia. His transformation is complete. The Union-loving COBB lias changed into the envenomed fire-eater ; the orator who pleaded so melodiously for fair play in Kansas in 13- 56, has become the truculent foe of all who would not agree to the reverse in 1853. The champion of the Union in 1851 gives bis hear tiest support to sectionalism in 18.58. As to Illinois, the hand of the Treasury ij openly displayed in the flagrant disorganiza tion ut Springfield, on the 9th of June. There h no excusing or srading the res|ionsibility. Every opportunity was g.ven Mr. COBB toad vise another course. There was abundance of time left to him to call off bis dog-. He has seen his subordinate, CARI'ENTSR, since the regular Democratic Convention assembled and adjourned. If he did not advise his disorga nization and his calunnies, and his assaults upon Judge DOUGLAS aud his friends meeting, he did not object to them. The in ference is irresistible that the rno-veraent against the regular Democratic ticket in Illinois, and lle Lecompton, test set up in that State,meet the solemn sanction of Mr. COBB, and are in tended to be followed oat as to other States. We do not speak of these things with plea sure. Tliey are not agreeable to our feelings, lint we have a duty to perform to a great cause, and we shall not fail to discharge that duty. A monstrous attempt is making to crush the Democratic party to the earth. Re volting doctrines are put forth, and made a test. In this create-these doctrines are coiu meude i to us by wlwvt is called the regular or ganization of the Democratic party. In Illi nois they are forced upon the Democracy over the licafL of the regular orgaiMzatioiH In the roe case, our support i- demanded for these doctrine* because they have been adopted by llu- regular organization. IL Illinois, this sup port is exacted in defiance of all regular nomi nations. Here we are out ol the party if we do not go for the regular nominations ; there we are out of the party if we do not oppose thetn ! And to make this inconsistency ac ceptable, the public money is squandered like water, and the most profligate scoundrels put in office to execute vengeance upon some of the purest und most upright citizens in the Union. It needed the achievement of the of iice holders in Illinois to crown the column of inconsistency, proscription, and tyranny, which lias grown out of these events of the last nine mouths. What will the Democracy of Penn sylvania say to the new demand which is made upon their forbearance and their fidelity ? SPLICING THE CABLE. — If the Agamemnon and A mgam left Plymouth 011 the 9th, or even the 10th instant, as they were to do, on i their great Expedition, it is probable that they i have already halted in mid-ocean, that the telc • graphic cable has been spliced, and that the ' central part of the electric cord that is to I unite K:iro]>e and America, is now laying in its permanent bed at the bottom of the Atliiutic, while the two ships are speeding on their opposite courses. Within the next fort night the anxious question will doubtless be answered, und it will be known on both sides of the ocean, whether the greatest undertaking of the present century has proved a success or a failure. The experimental trip of the two ships appears to have been satisfactory, the machinery for paying-out the cable worked well, the splicing of the two ends was effeet : ed with ease, and unless the ships encounter j a harder storm than may lie expected at this season of the year, or the Xiagira should en l counter an iceberg, which is one of the gren ; test dangers to be apprehended, there is a fair chance that we may hear of the great work i being completed before our next national I holiday. We cannot say that we arc confident snc ! cessful establishment of this telegraphic com ! munication with Europe. Every one, of | course, wishes for its success—und this eager desire begets in many minds a degree of con fidence which the facts will scarcely warrant Even if the cable slial be safely lain, we do not think the feasibility of communication through so great a length of submerged wire lias yet been demonstrated. Experiments, in j such a case, cannot be conclusive —for the ; wire upon which they are made is not submer- I ged.— X. Y. Times. Col. KANE arrived in Washington on Satur ■ day night, and delivered dispatches from Gov. j CcMMtXG to the President. The purport of the dispatches ha< not yet officially transpired, but sufficient is known to indicate their peiceful character. Col. K VNF. denies the reports which have been industriously circulated to the effect that there was a want of harmony between Gov. CUMMING and Gen. JOHNSTON. The con duct of both tiiesc gentlemen is sponken of in the highest manner. The idea prevails in Utah that the war is at an end. A peace party has | for some time existed there which, according ; to Col. KANE, is headed by BKIGIIAM VOLNU ' himself, who openlv espouses the cause of the | United Stues. There was a strong opposi tion to him before the emigration movement was resolved upon, but since then this feeling his been gradually subsiding. At the time Col. KANF. left, with tho exception of those { left to ginrd the property, here were no .Mormons within frorty miles south ol Salt ; Like City. | DROWNED.—A little boy aged about 6or 7 I years, tho son of Mr John Knechel, fell into 1 the Lehigh river at the wharf of the Allen town Iron Works, on Sunday afternoon, and although irot out in a short time, life was ex tinct. We learn that several boys wore play ing on the wharf where the Company had j their iron stored, and by some accident, this i little fellow fell in. When he got out, he was j not quite dead, but nil efforts to restore him were unavailing. His death proved a ter -1 rible shock to his parents. The heavy rains :of this season have been peculiarly disastrous ; the present season in our vicinity. A few j weeks since two men were drowned in the Jor ■ dan in consequence of the high water, and now ' an afflicted family are called to mourn the death of an interesting little child.— AUentown Dem- I mocrct. m THE U VEWI'LOTEO IN THE WESTERN CrrrEs. j —Buffalo, Chicago, and other Western cities, ; it appears, arc overrun with laborers and me -1 ehanies who are unable to find employment.— j In the former place, last week, several hun dred of this class paraded the streets demand- I iug " Work or Bread." In Chicago, the de ! maud for labor by poor people has been so i great that the Street Commissioners have been , enabled to supply each man but two days in a week, at seventy-five cents per day. 11 is ! thought best to cut wages down to fifty cents, ' and put one third more men into city service. At fifty cents per day, saj3 the Democrat tie j city will be overwhelmed with applicants for j la! o:\ tea~David Alton, John Foley,and Tl. Nelson, Principal of the Wyoming Seminary at Kings j ton, are talked of for the Republican nomina tion for Congress in the Luzerne district. On the administration side, R.lt. Little and II B Wright are mentioned. The Carbondale Ad vance, now published by S.S. Benedict, an an ! ti-Lecompton Democrat, says : ' It it a fixed fact, and cannot be ignored, that anti-Lecorap ton Democrats are quite plenty in the District. They arc men capable of voting uiiderstand ingly, and whose influence has generally been felt in a political canvass. Some of them have , been in the front ranks of the Democracy for a quarter of a century —veterans that are wise in counsel and efficient in action. AN ARGUMENT F<>R NEW YORK SWILL MILK. , Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, thinks that I a stop should at once be put to the swill milk | trade in the New York, yet very coolly adds : " But, were it quite certain that the pre i rent race of babies in New Y'ork would, if spared to grow up, make no better men than a large proportion of their fathers are the sup pression of distillery milk would not perhaps be important." THE MONTOUR IRON WORKS. —The Danville Intelligencer says: As our citizens generally understand it, the Montour Iron Company's projiert.y at I>anvillc, was sold at Sheriff's ! sale, last Thursday, for slOl1 —subject to the ! mortgages, which we have heard estimated at, I about S6OO,O(M>. Messrs. Michael Groves, | Henry M Fuller. F-d IF Baldy and Philip I Mills were the ii'■ each subseipient insertion. | Job-Work — Executed irilh accuracy and despatch, and a j reasonable prices—with every facility for doing Jiooks, Flunks, Hand-bills, Bali tickets, $-c. | Vlonhy may be sent by mail, at our risk—enclosed in an envelope, and properly directed, we wilt be _responsible ' for its safe delivery. A Great Book for Summer Time. One of the raciest books of fun aud humor that have appeared for a long time is a little daintily printed open type volume, entitled " Aquarelles ;or Summer Sketches." The work is brimful of rollicking fun, frolic, and ! satire upon the follies and forms of modern Lift at the. Springs, illustrated with many ex i quisite original designs. Its points of humor are brilliant sallies of wit, and so life like that ! all Newport, Sharou and Saratoga will he on the qui tire to get the hook. We believe it will challenge the notice of all lovers of light | reading, and we are sure they will enloy a rich treat in poring over its mirth-provoking pages. | We cut the following from one of our contem poraries : • Thi- author in eviik-ntly ;i skilful limr.rr, for his touches arc instinct with lil'c. This is just the book to choose us j a companiou on a pleasure trip to the quiet country,or to the sea side, whether by railear or steamboat. It pos ! sesses several advantages for this, in its gay and sunny pictures, as well as its keen yet genial satire,and its free, almost colloquial style. It will doubtless become the ta vorite ol all pleasure-seeking readers at home and abro td." Stanford A' Pclisser, of New York are the i publishers, who have also just issued a very charming work of a different class, but no less excellent in its way,entitled " Pear Is of Thought, gathered from Old Authors." It comprises the best passages of the great masters of our Eng lish prose and poesy of tiiu 17th century—the Augustan age of letters. This sterling little volume has been received by the critics with ! great applause, and is becoming widely popu lar. It is styled by the -V Y. Observer, "a very gem of a book, and one to sit down calmly with as a companion lor solitnde, a feast for ! friends in company, a comfort in sadness, and a joy always." Sauford A Delisser, have also now ready a series in six little volumes— The Little Church Library —by Jenny Marsh Par ker, author cf " The Hoy Missionary," Ac.— The series comprises the great initiatory truths of Christianity as taught by the P.E Church, beautifully aud effectively described in the form of a narrative, aud well adapted to the com prehension of childhood. We understand that the first edition had been exhausted almost as soon as the work made its appearance. It supplies a want long acknowledged in families i and Sunday Schools. 5Q~T!ie final adjournment of Congress took ! place Wednesday evening at 0 o'clock, both Houses having extended the session to that hour. The various Appropriation bills were j signed by the President, in respect to the j Post Office Appropriation the Senate receed ed from its amendments, and the bill passed without abolishing the franking privilege, and without raising letter postage from three to five cents. On motion of Mr. Seward in the Senate, the thanks of the body were unani mously tendered to the Vice-l'resident for his impartial and satisfactory discharge of his du ties of the Chair, and at 6 P. M. the Senate ; adjourned. Tne House was through its busi ness at 2 P.M., when it took a recess till 5 3 4 ; and upon assembling immediat ely adjourned. So ends the first session of the Thirty-fifth i Congress. have been received by Lieut- Gen. Scott from Gen. .Johnson, Commander of the Utah Army, five days later than those from Gov. Gumming, which throw a doubt on the I sincerity of the Mormons in their peaceful pro fessions. He arrives at different conclusions from those of the Governor touching their in tentions, and says that they are now arming and fortifying at every point. Our Special Washington Correspondent informs us that the Administration is now fearful the Governor had been deceived, private accounts represent i ing him as being a prisoner, and the Mormon leaders exercising full sway over the minds of the people. The next dispatches will be look ; ed for with anxiety. THE TRACT SOCIETY—FOR AND AGATN'ST.— The South Carolina branch of the Ameri can Tract Society has held a meeting the anniversary of the parent Society here, to indorse the measures of the Executive Cora ! mittee. The South Carolina brethren declare that "whereas, the parent Society lias virtoal j ly receeded from the offensive position" it as sumed last year, a satisfactory guarantee is now afforded for the peaceable prosecution of its work in the Southern States ; and, as a mark of restored confidence, the Treasurer of of the Branch was instructed to remit the sum of $1 ,(X>o to the Xew York office. On the other hand, the Congregational Association, of Illinois, has passed a strong vote of censure ; upon the Society, and enters a solemn remon j strance against the abandonment of its former position ; going so far as to advise the church es, under the care of the Association, to in ; trust no more of their funds to it* use. The ' opposite courses of proceedings arc -hrwiSicant i indication* ffG-r A dispatch from St. Louis inform* us that Col. Thomas L. Kaue passed Boouville, Mo., last evening, with importaut intelligence from Utah. He leftJCamp Scott on the ltftli of May. He reports that (JOY. Cumining hod rcrurued to Salt Lake City'making vain at tempts to stop the Mormon hegira to the South. Salt Lake City and the Northern set tlements were nearly deserted, a few only re maining to guard the buildings. It was esti mated that forty thousand persons were in motion, their trains extending for miles down the Valley, the advance being already three hundred miles distant. They evade answering directly where they are bound, but Cedar City or some part of Sonora is thought to be their destination. flafThe Carlcston Couriers Key West correspondent says that Lieut. Pym asserts that the reports of outrages on American vessels are much exaggerated, and in many instances false. The account of the seizure of the Cortes, for instance, was the grossest exag geration. The captain of that vessel, when overhauled, threw his Hag into the sea and de clared that he was a Spaniard. The contra band articles found aboard proved her a slaver, and she was accordingly sold as such. A new political movement has been made in Delaware. An Opposition meeting, held at Dover, organized the " People's Party," on the following basis : That the citizens of the Territories be allowed to settle their own institutions and their own forms of Government that the Constitution of every new State be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection before being accepted by Congress ; that a tariff for revenue be laid with incidental protection to home industry ; that the impor tation of foreign criminals aud paupers be pro hibited, Ac. fie£rNews from Salt Lake City to the 11th of May states that Gov.Camming had return ed to Camp Scott, hut that he was expected to go back again immediately. Everything was quiet and indicative of peace in the Mor mon capitol. The army at Cam]) Scott is re ported in very good health They had provi sions sufficient to last notil the 10th of June, and Col. Hoffman, with a supply train, was only a few days march from the Camp. Up to the 9th of June nothing had been heard from Capt. Marey at any of the posts on the plains. tGF Cairo, at the junction of the Mississip pi and the Ohio, is almost entirely swept away by the great flood in the former river. On Saturday afternoon a crevasse opened on the Mississippi side, through which the water poured at a fearful rate, filling up the space between the levees, and flowing over the em bankment on the Ohio side a distance of a thousand feet. Nearly all the houses yesterday were tumbling down, drifting away or sink ing, and the water still rising. Moud City was also in great danger of being overflown. OUR FOURTH OF JUI.Y CELEBRATION. —As has been announced, we are to enjoy a good time celebrating the coming Fourth. Exten sive preparations are being made, and if the weather is favorable, there is no doubt, judging from what we Hear from the country, the croud will be large. FISHING. —The fishing season has fairly he gun, and parties arc almost daily starting out for a treating expedition in some one of the mhny attractive localities of our neighbor hood. A party of three gentlemen from this place, caught, on Friday last, four hundred and seventy-five ; weighing thirty-six pounds. SINGULAR An OINTMENT. —A correspondent of the Chicago Press writes from Washington: "The country will learn with astonishment and disgust that the President has conferred upon Geo. W. Clarke, the murderer, of Kansas a life office—a pursership in the Navy, which is almost a sinecure, and which is worth, when on service, about $2,.100 a year. This Clarke not only killed Barbour, one of the most estimable of the free-state citizens of Kansas, near the beginning of the troubles, but during the last eighteen months he has been the head and front of the sanguinary conspiracies and tumults at and around Fort Scott, where he lias been stationed as acting receiver of the land office." SUNBURY & ERIE RAILROAD. —The allotment of work on this road from Williamsport to Farrandsville. embracing a distance of thirty three miles was made on Tuesday, at the company's office, in Walnut street, Phila delphia. There were upwards of six hundred proposals, and the allotment was consequently at low figures ; but the successful bidders are men of reputation in their line, which insures a sure compliance with their contracts. We learn it is the intention of the company to ]>roseeute their enterprise with vigor, so that a train of cars may pass from Philadelphia to Lake Erie, via, the Sunbury k Erie Railroad before the close of Gov. Packer's term of office —Daily Herald. DEATH CAUSED BY A BLOW SNAKE.— The correspondent of an eastern paper, tells of the death of a Mr. Alien, in the Clinton cormty lowa, caused by the breath of a" blow make." Mr. A beirrg a new settler, was entirely igno rant of the " blow snake/' and seeing one, he got close enough to strike it, when the snake suddenly raised itself up and blew in its pur sner's face, caus'ng Mr. A hen to inhale the breath of the reptile, poisonous enough to cause the death of the unfortunate man in a short time. Stop' llo.v. JOHN C. ADAMS, is engaged to deliver the nratiV> at Towandn, on the Pwi of July, in commemoration of our National Birth Day. We bespeak for all who may be present on that occasion, a welcome aud acceptable ad i 4res. U'cvertu \Jrreik. CORRECT COPY OK THE BILL.— We Annonne ed last week, Hint Gov. Packer had signed ilia bill passed at the late session of the Legisla ture, regulating the rute of interest which may be charged within thisComrnonwrulth. The Hnr risburg Herald , the official paper of the State Government, gives the lollowing as the only correct copy of the bill yet published : AN ACT REGULATING THE RATES OF INTEREST. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and llousc of Representatives of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the of interest for the loanor use of money in all cases where no express contract shall have been made for a less rate, shall be six per cent, per annum, and the first and second sections of the act passed the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled " An Act to reduce the interest of money from eight to six per cent, per annum," be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. That when a rate of interest for the loan or use of money exceeding that establish ed by law shall have been reserved or contract ed for, the borrower or debtor shall not lie re quired to pay the creditor the excess over the legal rate, and it shall be lawful for such bor rower or debtor, at his option, to retain and deduct such excess from the amount of any such debt ; and in all cases where any borrow er or debtor shall heretofore or hereafter have voluntarily paid the whole debt or sum loan ed, together with interest exceeding the law ful rate, no action to recover back any such excess shall be sustained in any court of this Commonwealth, unless the same shall have been commenced within six months after the time of such payment. Provided always, That nothing in this act shall effect the hold ers of negotiable paper buna fide in the usual course of business. HORSE AND BUGGY STOLEN. —Between the hours of 9 and 10 on Wednesday evening last a Dun Colored Horse (familiarly known as Buck Skin,) of middling size and good build, together with a Buggy and harness, be longing to PETER DAILY, of Chemung, was sto len. Thf. Horse was hitched to a post in front of the Snyder House, where he had been left a short time before by Mr. Daily. P. S.—Since the above was put in type the Sheriff of Elmira, Mr. Gregg, passed through this place for Owego, with Mr Prooert, the man who escaped from Owego Jail. He had Mr. Daily's Dorse and Buggy, which the Sheriff also recovered.— U'nrerh/ Advocate. • OPERATIONS OF THE PHILADELPHIA MINT.— The deposits of gold at the U. S. Mint iu Philadelphia, for the month of May were from all sources, $343,400. The deposits of sil ver for the same time were $206,500. The number of old cents received in exchange for the new were equal to $3,970, making the to tal deposits for the month $553,960. The gold coinage for the same time was $338,180 in double eagles and $12,291 in gold dollars, all $351,481. The silver coinage was $48,- 000 in half dollars, $159,000 in quarter, and $33,000 in half dimes, besides $6,720 in three cent pieces—in all $246,720 There were coined during the month, 2,200,000 cents, of the value of $22,000. The total number of pieces of all kinds coined during the month, 3,845,200. STRIKE OK LOWEI.L OPERATIVES. —A large number of the operatives .at the Lawrence Mills in I iOwell, were on a strike on Monday, and threatened violence to those who continued work. The difficulty arose from some changes whereby the spinners are required to do the additional work of doffing. About one hun dred marched out in a body and others followed their example. In consideration of those threats. Marshal Clemenre detached an extra golice force to the neighborhood cf the strik ers. THF. IIOOSAC TUNNEL. —Six hundred feet of the main tunnel is completed, the heading is advanced some two hundred and fifty feet, and is going forward at the rate of twenty-four feet per week, while the footing is being removed at the rate of thirty feet per week. The last one hundred and thirty feet of tunnelling has been entirely free from water, and the rock is growing more and more pliable as the work goes on. The rock is a primitive formation, and of pure mica idato. WNATTIIE SOUTHERN- II VTIRWLS THINK - The Charleston Manny says the passage of the English bill " will not allay agitation ; and those who think that the Union is to be pre served by such instrumentalities, will only add another proof of the vanity of their timid and short-sighted policy." The Mercury also be lieves " the Douglas defection will most pro bably annihilate at the Fall elections. The Democrats adherents of the South in the North and present in the popular branch of the next Congress, an almost united anti Southern sec tional majority against us." That opiuicm is well founded. GOLD IN KANSAS. —The gold fever is raging in Kansas. In the immediate vicinity of Law rence forty five persons have become its vic tims. I, pwards of tliree hundred have gone from that territory and from Arkansas to the western part of the territory, where gold has been discovered. The existence of gold in Kansas has been known for several years, but its precise locality has been concealed.lf Young Kansas survives this discovery she is indeed immortal. SINKING OF THE BRIG LEONTINE.— BosIon, Monday June, 21.—The brig Leontine. froni Philadelphia, of and for Salem, was in collision on Friday night in our bay with the United states Store Ship Release, sinking the brig immediately. The crew barely escaped, and were lauded at Wcllfleet by the Release.' GREAT RAILROAD CONTRACT AWARDED TO AMERICANS.—A letter received bv the Phila delphia Bulletin, dated Rio Jar.erio, April 30, says : " The board o{ directors of the Don Pedro II Railroad Company have awarded to the ' American bid ' the contract for all the work on the entire 'second section' of their rail road—all that was advertised to be let. This contract,at the engineers' estimate, will amount to about three and a half millions of dollars. There are about. 212 miles of the rotid yet to be let, which, if the contractors carry on the second section satisfactorily, it is expected will be placed iu the same hands. This will amount to some twelve millions. The Americans had to contend against a powerful English apposi tion, but with complete success." News all —Tlie English government ha, factory answer to our dispatches corn-,.,. ' M iu the Gulf, and the danger of war i- !''"** t: * .1 —lt seems to be a season of storm and West. The atorm*of Friday an>] s ... , ' Street* in Baltimore were flooded —There is gold in lowa, bat not \ found to pay. It uin very fine dust. o| ' H up a lump worth 117 ; and the Tribunt a* tiie best mode of getting rich in l Wa ' I he U.S.Senate has admitted boil p 1 and Fitch to their scats a Senator* ft, r " ■ tlicr ronfirmtd them. ' —The new government loa D a , for twenty millions at 5 per cent. J jr -^ —The National Honse of R e pf (s last Thursday passed an act repealing all ; 'tfl ing the Secretary of War to sell military J* 1 T t —Jews have been admitted to seat-■ liafnont in Great Britain. Lord Napier, the English jj : , I Washington, has a salary of 112,000 and I —Counterfeit s's on the .Mechanic t> I .X.J.. have been circa fating in Philadelphia. 1 "' '" I Madame Ida Plcffer is on her - a -... I having sailed from the Mauritius in March - " ■ ! fourth v yage, was commenced two years ' H ! nou ced as the last she will undertake. l \ i her 62nd year. * *.H —About two o'clock on Sunday or- I the Erie Railroad Company', station and I at Haukins, took fire and were entirely destrl —The Richmond Whig gives as jt s . for seeking a " Reconstruction of Parties." its v * I prevent the election of a Black Republican ivJ ' j Isoo. C; 1 ■ I —A correspondent of the Richmond £. ; quircr predicts that the American party,of fog, , will nominate for the next Presidency Hon T . Swaun,a distinguished Marylander. i —A famous jiair of pistols which be!:- I • to 6en. Putnam, and previously to Gen. Pit.-a : r - British army, are now in possession of Mr. Job- I nam. of White Creek, Washington County. i n •. I i —The deaths in Philadelphia last were P2. 51,446,175, in gold, from Cal I rived on Saturday by Steamship Star of the W e .; —The Locofocos of Schuylkill Count; • I < fonv( I Administration and resolved in favor ulaptutecio I —The Commissioners for the erection of- I Ethan lllen Monument have publish* i istat* I ing that the Iwnes of Allen were found in the g- . I at Burlington. It Is -till unknown wen- they ij. A terrible gale visited Plum towny-l Venango county. Pa. on the 4th instant. AV- I McClelland was plowing inr a field where there I died timber. A limb of a tree struck him. kilting; stantly. On an examination it was found that . .. I was broken. His legs were ah broken . I hi. body horribly mangled. Seme farm, had I their fences blown down. Orchards of fruit tr*e. I , destroyed or greatly damaged, and the distraint I timber was enoraaons. Horses, cows, mid othn I •'i - aad I Iu other parts of the county the storm did much-tit,- I John. Y. Campbell, who was so iuliam. I Iv murdered in Kansas, a few days mice. Ln I resident of Indiana county, Pa. —On Wednesday last, as we learn from J resident of Johnstown. Pa., Mr. Morgan Wiliixn , - ner emp! -red by th* f'atnhria Iron Company,ct-n: suicide by cutting his throat with a largo j.i k k —The amount of coal shipped frotr, Sr.' ton to June 7th was 229,96.7 tons. La-t year to sau; -j 203,087 ton-. .l caravan, bound to Mecca with pre for the Prophet's tomb, was attacked and pirns .-: i Bedouins of Damascus. Mr. Mason, of Somerset, Conn., savs than rat calfctl at his hen-coop yesterday after a chickenW dinner, when coming within reach of the maternal (-.. bird, she took the rat by tlw n,-k. dragged him in: : coop and killed him without renvir-e. 4 ho i'hiludclphia Dm rug J nrnil stat - : tl.iit Mr Ket-d. Anieriean Commissioner t-' 'bma. i-a S to return home, by tiie overland route. —Madame Jenny Lind Goldschuiidtha-, i given birth to t {*>. There is a lunatic woman at BiacktwLi Island who insist that the kittens in her roomarr dren of President BucTianarr. —A well-known circus performer, Mr.Jams Mctarland. met a violent death, a few day- a.'M'. i erty. Mo. A rival company had among it- meinbe* Mile. Costello, who was formerly McFarland's wife, A attempting to see her in ber room, McFarland was - ed, and finally staW>ed by the kimHord of the house, Roberts. ; —A chimney, built in 1793, in a*i old how 'on King street, Northampton, on being taken d I .' lew days since, furnished bricks enough to'-aill"' modern chimneys, an underpinning to the hau-e, i • tern, eight piers in the ern.tr, am! a drain three feet long, besides a wagon fotrd sold and a lot on har.-i —Thp working days in Switzerland are f ' f thirtevw to fourteen hours. Wages for children, rv? cents per day ; won>m>, from ten to thirty cents; n* 3 from forty to fifty cents, —Although the term gainea >s still in fff " iar uc i!t Kngfattd. *!ie actual coin is seldom sccn.ar.d' so much worn that can be taken by weight. —Ex-Governor Stanton has retorrreG ■' Kansas, reaching Lawrence on the 291 Is of May. H* thinks there is danger the lAieompton Cirti-'atu*; -n o-'f he " put through ' by the unscrupulous frauds oft ministration, and intends to take the stump agin" s ' ll ' —Tiie correspondent of an Eastern pap fr tells of the death of a Mr. Ahen, in Clinton county. • | caused by the breath of a " blow snake." Mr. A.. I*'-' i a new settler, was entirely ignorant of the nature of ' blow snake, and seeing one, he got close enough ■* strike it, when the snake raised itself np, and blf '® its pursuer's face, causing J| r . ben to inlmle the hreaUi of the animal, poisonous enough to cause'he dear • the unfortunate man. —As the inmates of Gov. Seward's at Auburn, X. Y., were retiring on Friday night, tl*? observed a man prowling about the yard. Lou is the colored servant, weut out and asked the iVlhov * '• he was doing, whereupon the man advanced aad tin- s pistol at Bogart's head, and fhen nude hU U rascal missed his aim. however, and did not injure W 1 ' 1 ' He had been seen about the grounds during the- 1 " 1 ' noon. —R.E.Tvohiason's dwelling-house atCoriii'i?' was destroyed by (See on the night of the 13th. T' e mutes barel v escaped with their lives. All the and weariug apparel were bumt. The los- i- c- umJ '" at about #9,00(1, on which there is an insurance to amount of MAOO. —Tiie Democrats o-f M'Keau cottntr, opp o ' oil to the Lecompton Swinkle, have catted i meet - appoint delegates to the State Convention which is semble at llarrisburg, on the 1 tth of July. t or two lines to |RJ a column, I rintor* often search i v'-ftni"