[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'<Tssful bidders
Reporter.
E. U. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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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"