albe toinpiter.
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gg*: S. L. RUSSItt;t and Hon. Wit
EVlRTA;;;i_please accept our thanks for val.
mat;ressiiinal docoments.
loten.--111r..LAWanNen I)iirrx otters
ibr salelsin valuahle Sore Stand and Farm, in
Movetioy-Aowrisiiip. See advertisement.
Eihibition by
,Idr. .A VSTIN'S School,
tonk : phm, nt,iltlefZunattgby"a" I! on Tuesday
evening . 10. The - attendance of Indies and /
gentlernen wati - verylarge . , exhibition
mahly creditable to both Teacher and S:hoints. I
The t•Philhartnon ics Band"furnished the music ;
and thereby greatly a ntributed to the interest '
- of the occasion::
• The ""Sn'ain Birds' under the Tutor.
ship of Trot £j. PoTTEßiumui Fill npp':nr
in a Floral Festival, &c., at the Court=house,
on New-Year's - tight.- A rare treat may be
expected. and - we advisalli, to go.
tr7.“Putnineilkion thiy" ranks among the
veryt*stlittHrary . pc Roll in'tlie — country.
This position it has-v4ni by actual, merit. and
not through theThiarditsg means so often resort ,
tci . puff "windy-" productiOus into.popu
larlavnr# - The Prospectus ot . the "Monthly"
fort the coming year. will be found in our ad
vertising'columnS, from which plan, terms, ad
dress, may be' learned.
"g7- 4 The 'attention of our_ readers is invited
to the" advertisement of the 'Cosmololitatt Art
and. - Literary, 'Association, in. another eblutnn.
The inducements for subscribing to, this Asso
elation are such as are rarely presents
COLD WEATOBIL —ln-tbis place. on Tuesday
morning last, Abe:thermometer' indicated 1°
below, zero. At Albany 14 0 ; below zero; at
lioaton above - , Portland 1° below„, Calais 5°
below, Eastport-5° below, Bangor 17° below,
and Philadelphia . 5° above.-
. -Death- of -Dr. lnellvttia: . _
- Dr. WII I LiA3t 'of *l3Ui oldest
physicians and most estimable
atria residence in ibis place on Saturday last.
a t!hysician—seitizen—and a Christian; he
• z.iglfinsthincemniunity, and the intelli
;44t,, , •
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• • Aeoli. will be received_ with feel
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' ngs of the.deepent borrow .by all who knew
him.• His remains were followed to their final
resting place.•••••the Presbyterian grave yard 7
eiryesterday t by, a ,large, number of relatives
and friends. `.Peace to his ashes 7 honor to
his mettVA , ..,"•-•-lifii•kr 'Press of Tuesday.
'l, int FIRS-AEMS.--An accident
,"
singular in AS results, occurred at the Inn of
Nr, Wm. Scorr, in Green Wood; near Fayette-
Mlle,in Franklin
.connty t on the, 9tninst. A
Ifiegro named WILLIAM RoNE, was accidently
_shot by's pistol in the hands 'of a son of Mr.
or." "The'weapon was loaded with nothing
excepting a witd,/composed, of. fragnients of a
' silk" handkerchief, and the wound inflicted was
ofthe length of six inches; and across the•region
of abdottien; .It Was of such a character as
that the bowels of the unfortunate man protru
ded: 'ltoxe died in great agony, after having
- survived a little more than a day.
In connection with this affair we mainien
tion, that a negro family residing at a place
called Chicken -Town, near the Mountain,
who had gone on. Monday to attend the fune
ral of this man, and had sent the younger
thitilren to the house of a neighbor to prevent
danger from- fire, returned, to find their habi•
tatien in ashes.+.Transeript.
FAThi, Aritn&r.—On . Saturday: the 9th
inst., a childt-of Mr, PETER Ksserstt, residing
in. the, neighborhood of Mt. Alto, in Franklin
.county, fell upon a knife which it held in itr.
hand. The blade of the instrument Penetrated
the throat; Severing the windpipe, and produc
ing death in about two hours..
.DEA:nt rnom DnowNlNG.—On Wednesday of
*Week before last, Mr. John P. RielTd, of the
firm of Rickard 8: Davis, at FunkstoWn, whilst
skating on the Antietam, near that place, broke
thiough the ice and was drowned. No assist
slice was at hand, as he had gone alone.
;.ATTACKED BY A plait.—Several days since,
%Mr. Boyd. in an excursion in the mountains,
rear Buena Vista Springs, was attacked by a
beavand gneezed in an awful manner, but it
its supposed he will recover, not having any
bones broken. Mr. Boyd says he inflicted a
.severe'gash on his bearship, but whether fatal
sun not be cannot
,tetl. The bear captured by
::31r. Poe% 'on the 9th, is 'summed to he the
tnitteTto -the one'sioutatd by Boyd. •
•-• WRot.it JouN Floor, of
Wrightsville, slaughtered a hog, on Friday
months old, which weighed when
"ileireedt)s3.l pounds. This shows an increase
.of more than 11 I Gs. each -day of its lite.
t7W'e learn that Mr: W . A. S. CAMPBELL, of
Pittsburgh, will be a candidate for tilt! Demo
tratic tromiitation I r Ontat -Commissioner, at
the nett election. Mr. CAMPBELL was a in on&
Meat - candidate for the name station in 1 '4 , )
,and has many friends throoghoilt. the S
We know. him to be a steadfast and rt
Democrat, and an hottest and intellivnt man.
he mime Getsetal George Nay, of
- York, will be presented to Governor VuUock,
as a candidate for Alto tan t Gearral. •
sq,. cif' York, at prevent
attached to the Nntexican Legation at London,
4311:; twenthtsignated by Gervront• Uigier. among
vniwrs, to represent this &Ate nt the Univerbwl
en* eq, gations; in l'Atis, in May next-
ij~P ` ill acorns kin cootie?" An article
ith Chis caption wilt be ((mud on our Plural
I,oge. Also one , on the 'subject of —Sowing
- Lorost Seed," and another describing o **big
'Potato," from Dili ia.
tr) -- 14. is understood that a spirktql corms
. ondeme. isgoiagem between Engiarml, France
ituti the United States, about die .+.4l4lwich
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Christmas.. ' . i . • Interesting to Old Soldiers: - _._! FIRE AT PIIII:ADELPITIA HOUSE' OF 21EPUGH.-- I : I:l'A-' few da,ys ego, Mr. ADAMS, aU. S.
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i ntro d 4ce d , About 10 o'clock on Friday week, a fire. Senator from Misssissippi, moved' to extend
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~,.. Th 4 o w, tano..4,,rev,tiv [ 4,- ‘ , l,klerris. Christ- 'Mr. , Baohluvio, of this State- baa
broke out in one of the work shops -of the ne* the period of Naturalization to 21 yeari. Mr.
inasi*.c-.:16 turniftg •np once mere upon the • 'in,'to the United
, States Senate, a bill granting
, ) House of Refuge, beyond Fairmount, and be- i• ADAMS was' quite- conscious that for such a
*heel of 'rink. I For- centuries flits this day ,Bo u nty Land to,old Soldiers. The'first section , fore it could be subdued, entirely destroyed the t motion' the public would look for some suf.
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*ti oelehrited . , with ; 1 featiitiei - and , re•- - proildes -"that-each of the surilritig-,:cointhia• - roof, and caused-a portion-of- the :walls-t a to-fall. -- ficjent-reason-:--and-what, good_reader,. 4 lo y ou
, ; 0 -Th i_ e building was
, 250 feet..long, a nd contained ' think .he -asserted first ? -Why, that certain
,30iei.tigs• :: 'The Gerix'innsof 4aticer Land," - and smiled offiteri and non-commissioned oil:leers,
a large quantity or materia l s , suc h as cane seat ! Naturalized' Germans in Chicago had hung
the stout yeomanry of Old England. ages before' musicians Ind privates, whether of regulars, 'chairs, slates, whale bones for tiMbrelleS, &e., (the effigy of Judge'Douar:As. to mark their dis
our star traeajts orbit in the nritional firma- r volunteers, rangers or militia, who were regu- , belonging to various persons who were having pleasure of his advocacy of the Nebraska - bill !
1
meat,: , filled with -.choice gifts•the ..Christinpa---larly...wast.ereA in, th e
_ ! e ) rvioo • of
.She roito
tree" and pledged life-long fidelity in the deep , States : and every officer, commissioned and • 7 work performed in the institution. , : From theft ?nutrient, said the learned and logical
r - The building is insured, as was also most of . Senator, I determined to advocate an extension
1 the cOntents.: The loss is estimated at about ;of the Naturalization laws ! Why so, Mr.
merry • non-commissioned, seaman, ordinary
"Wassail cup," while on every 'chapel seaman, I .530.000. It is supposed that one of the-boys.; Senator ? -Not to punish the rnen who did that
hells pealed forth a Joyous chime of welcome
marine, clerk and landstnan in - the navy, ex- I set fire to the canes, as it was impossible for i-act ? The extension of the law could not af
,
'tile premises to havecaught by accident, being • feet them. Certainly n ot, replies the ir Serator,
cept those who have received prize money in
to the anniversary of the morn that gave birth ;
heated by steam generated three hunched feet : but that act proven . if it proved anything in
to the Redeemer of o u r race. We sometimes I any of the wars in which this country has been distant. It is said that one of the boys sue- ;point, that foreigners are not capable of being
engaged since seventeen hundred and ninety, ' ceeded in escaping during the confusion inch- i good citizens ; that the cannot understand or
wish with our friend of the Carlisle DcmocraCt) !
that we lied lived in those •• good old days ofi
0 1--• I -
and each of the survivors of the militia or vol- I dent to the fire. 1 -appreciate our institutions. Let us examine
'the Sernitand to make it plaint.: , we
yore - for we Tear-that--theobservince-o•-teis.-711
nteers; - or-State-troopfrof - any - Statc—or-Terri—
A 'lltac.F — . TO — ;714: **CITY OP GLASGOW.'- '
time-honored festal day will be neglect( d in the
tory called into military service and regularly recent number of the Belfast (Ireland) North
'l
,
pell-mell pursuit of .notoriety and emolument I mustered therein, and whose services have been !
City of Glasgow:"
the lost steamship ern Whig contains the following in reference to
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which characterizes the age, as have most of paid by the. United States subsequent to the
A corresponeent of rhe Mail, at Camplileton,
the ancienteustoms that were wont to strength- 'eighteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and States that onSaturday last,herd bop
__ whileit
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!-,, .• ..,_ •,.. . • 1 , •, • .:: • •.L..., ..,, ;. • •.• ,- .., .. •, ,
the lower, as well as in the wore refined and
wealthier classes. ,. We would fain see this
i'day,ohscrved, while we ive at east—as tritic
for The.connection which it preserves between
our time the long ages of the past, as for
-its origins rpose.
Reader, we wish-. you, a happy, happy
Christmas; and may each one of your life in
crease the measure - of your happiness, until
you shall be a guest at a nobler festivat, than
earth affords.
Comfortable.
..Many of the whig journals of our State `are
now heartily exulting over the election of My
ron U. Clark as our next Governor. 'tVe could
, share in their exultation if we (lid not see be
-1 fore tts,a clouded and portentous future. The
skieS have an angry look. and no man can say
vita shalllie_t_be aspects of the morrow. Al.;
, ready we .observe many of those who have
heretofore basked in the sunshine of Whig pros
perity, and shared bountifully in the luteVieSt
of its better fortunes, now edging. oft* for the
{'camp of, the know nothings, to see what Chance
1
i of provender might present itself in that gnar
-1 ter. ' We expect this tendency to' diffuse itself
until about everything of the late Whig party
whiCh is essentially time serving and venal
shall havegone fully over to. the new array;
whose prospect - for futurc flesh pots is deemed
soilattering."—N ! Y. Tribune.
When has it been otherwise with nine-tenths
of those who composed the late -whig party ?
Was there ever an ism hatched up by the rest
less and discontented of that party, that was
not immediately adopted as a plank in their
platform, and blindly endorsed by. the masses
as well as the leaders ? In the contest of 1852
the whig party was defeated beyond even the
hope of a re-organization on its- ancient faith,
and the expectations Of realizing the spoils of
office through theelection ofGeneral SCOTT hav
ing been blasted, they naturally turned their
attention to an organization which promised
them, at least, a chance to retrieve their for
tunes. At this we do not Wonder., The lead
ers of the whig party were guided less by prin
ciples than spoils.—Dem. Union.
LEGISLATIVE Dit.toENcs.-:—The standing rules
()UAW House of Representatives, the National
jtitelligencer says, enjoin it as a duty on the
committee of ways and means to report the
several appropriation bills witiiin thirty days
after the opening of an annual session of Con.
gross. At the present session, however, - the
committee have Signalized their diligence by
maturing and reporting these voluminous bills
within the first ten days of the Session. NVlta t
is more, the House has already passed three of
them. •
DM:STIR - MI VE FIRE iv BROA mvAT. A de
structive Eire occurred in New York, on Broad
way, between Grand and Howard streets, early
on Tuesday morning last, the loss by which is
estimated at SI ,000,000: - It originated in a
building in which a Ball was about breaking
up, and spread with astonishing rapidity.
One fireman was killed -by-being-buried under
the falling walls, and several others injured.-
TUE NEW PENNL=A new cent - piece has
been coined at the Philadelphia Mint. It is
smaller and neater in appearance than the
old one, but has the same devices. Congress
has not yet passed a law for their issue, but
will probably do so shortly. A few have been
given out as specimens.
Tug Foitt.onN IturE.--The editor of the
Courier and Eugnirer who has recently return
ed from Europe, says that the 93d Highlanders,
the regiment which received and repulsed the
e„),tkrge of Russian cavalry with such admirable
- CTidness on the 25th of October, has volunteer
ed to lead the storming party when the breaches
are opened at Sebastopol. Probably not one of
the gallant fellows will live to know whether
the attack is, successful or not.
o:7t. B. Wu.wats, Esq., will soon pub
lish, in Boston, Mass., a Gentle Man's Maga
zine, entitled the .‘Bachelor's Button," at $2
a year. The publisher says, that ‘•bachelors
wilt find in this magazine an uncompromising
advocate, while it will render proper homage
to_ those women who have sufficient good sense
to know their places, and to perform their le
gitimate duties."
jj- Hon. Henry A. Wise, the democratic
nominee for Governor of Virginia, will com- ago, for the sutn of $3,000. Purchaser Mr.
thence the canvass at Norfolk on the 3d of Jan- I George Bange.
uaiy, and after that day, and until the 10th of ; We understand that the fine Mill Property,
February, will address meetings in fifteen couti- I and 26 acres bf land, belonging to Mr. Wu.-
ties. He will speak at Petersburg on the 9th I, -LIAM S. JESKIZ•IS, (formerly Kitzuiiller's) situ
er Jowl ry. r, t Alexandria on the 3d of Februa- I ate in Adams county, was sold at public sale,
rv. and at Fredericksburg on the 7th. on the 10th inst.. for the sum of $B,OlO. Pur
i chaser Mr. John Duttera.—Hanorer Spec.
A AMIER GUANO ISLAND.—The New York
l'ost announces the discovery of another guano
island with at least a !million of tons on it, the
locality of which is yet a secret. Measures are
ihiw taking for the organization of a company
to tiring the 'guano to market. We hope it
wilt make the article a little cheaper and more
accessible to the Atnerican farmer.
r?Our little readers will been the qui vire
for "'old Itiiss," and we advise them to have
large stockings ready in the chimney for the
jolly lid
ri - There . ,appear-to be an open rupture be
tween the Witigs And the linow-Nothings in
:New York. They can't bear prosperity!
or warrant from the - Department of the Interior,
for one hundred and slat acres. of land; or,
where any of those who have so Served shall
have received a certificate or warrant, he shill
be entitled to a certificate or warrant for such
quantity of, land as will make, in the whole,
with what he
. may have -heretofore received,
one hundred and sixty acres to each person
having:served as aforesaid."-
- The second section provides "that in case of
the death of any person who, if living, would
be entitled to a certificate or warrant as afore
raid under this act, leaving a widow, or if no
widow, a minor child or children, such widow,
or, if no widow, such minor child or children,
shall be entitled to receive a certificate or war
rant for the sanie quantity of land that such
easerl perso, lxLenti_d_ed to
under the provisions-of this act if now living:
- Providect; -- Thara — subsequent - marriage - shall
not impair the right of any such widow to
such wat rant if she be a widow at the time of
making her application and at the date of such
warrant."
The fourth : "that in no case shall any such
certificate or warrant be issued for any service
less than twenty-eight days, or where the per
son shall actually have been engaged in bat
tle, nor unless the party claiming such certifi
cate or warrant shall establish his right there
tO by record evidence of said service or by tw9
credible witnesses."
The fifth and last: "that said certificates or
warrants may be assigned, transferred, and lo
cated by the warrantees or their Heirs at. law,
according to the provisions of existing laws
regulating the assignment,. transfer( and loca
tion of bounty•land warrants:"
—By the way, a Convention of the Soldiers
of the War of 1812 is to assemble at the seat of
the National Governinent,on the Bth of Janua
ry next, (the anniversary of the battle of New
Orleans,) for the purpose of impressing upon
Congress the propriety and necessity of more
adequately remunerating the services of those
who have periled their lives in defence of their
Country. That the .occasion will be highly
interesting and - the demonstriffidn imposing,
we have no doubt—and that they rosy succeed
in their object is the ardent prayer of many
an honest patriot. The assemblage, it is cal
culated, will be very large. Will not Adams
county' be represented ? Let us hop so—.
The Patent Office.
Mercury, the Washington city correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun, says : “In the agricultu
ral bureau of the Patent Office business is quite
active in preparing the valuable varieties of
seeds recently received from Europe, for dis
tribution. There also may -be seen samples
of very superior Lee corn, raised by Mr. D.
P. Inskeep, of Ottumev a, Java, on old ground
that never was manured —the average of which,
on five acres, was 13G bushels.. It was ship
ped to Mr. Inskeep, a distance of 1,100 miles
last spring. The Hon. Mr. Lindsley, of Ohio,
alSo presents ten varieties of apples, fine speci
mens. The waxen (or Belmont) kind is pecul
iarly beautiful. From Thurmond's nursery,
Atalanta, Georgia, there is an apple, red in
color, perfectly good, a seedling known as the
Shockley —a winter apple in a far southern
climate.
"It is estimated by one of our most distin
guished agriculturists that one third of the
products of our soil is destroyed by the depre
dations of insects, and the annual loss to our
planters is over a million of dollars. Commis
sioner Mason, some months since, took this
subject in hand, and obtained the valuable
services of Mr. Glover to travel and trace out
all the facts in regard to this great yearly loss,
of which I shall write more about in a subse
quent letter.
-.The arrangement of the models in the gal
lery of the new wing of the Patent Office is
also progressing anal very attractive. ' There
are displayed no less than sixty-four for sew
ing machines."
SALES OF PitOPERTY.—Tho large two story
brick house situate in Carlisle street, in the
Borough of Hanover, belonging to Mr. ileNar
DOTTARAR, was sold at private sale, a few days
-.- They have a Thespian Society at riano
ver. "Venice Preserved" is advertised by
the ..players."
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~ 1 r.N. —.;l - Wirn 1 ante(_ e'rge -Al- r — - 1 lam=
was wea -e , , • : etua.l4-y-b .
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Letthas just been tried at Buffalo, for marrying i rowers bv - earnest arimmentS 'pO I when he saw that one of the Englishmen - had
ILLEGAL VOTING.—Geo. Ott has been con- married %roman. He teas convicted and
tined $l5O, which is decidedly cheip. if he was victed in Now York of attenipting to vote ilia- eral to say that bosuspected there was a lins
guilty, and rather dear if innocent of the charge gaily. and sentenced by the Recorder to six s i an spy a n , t h em . . •
ragainst him. -
{ months' imprisonment in the penitentiary, and , 0
. grown suspicious, and had sent - otf to the gen
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The first Shad of the season was caught ----------- ;fined two hundred dollars.
, Sour: GOOD EVERrwiltinta. --Bayard Taylor, L . i ,,„, is .
wife and daughter
A i l atvr Caocr.m's FAsm.r. = The Hickman
in the river at Savannah, Georgia, on Saturday, ! the traveller, says that he prefers Mexico for I -AB—. *" TITE L°C.K.. "'"" -°rr, alias " n g e L . (Ky.) Argus 'says that the
Gabriel, with two eompaniinhovere committed o f
and sold to an hotel proprietor of Mason for the the beauty of its scenery. Germany for its so
to the station house in Milan, on Sunday- ;tins, Davy Crockett, passed through Hickman
handsome sum of $55. ciety. l California specially for its climate, and: • •
____ __________ 1 the United States for its government. 0 evening. for disturbing the ralee.
: last week, on their way to Texas, to get pos
the distinguished patriot and eccentric ge-
G:'lt turns ouc that the Whigs have bat 1 -- - - - - -• - ' - The Democrats of Ohio hold a State Con- • session of a portion of the land donated by the
one member in the Massachusetts .14ouse of 1,..7 7- The operatives in one of the cotton mills ' rention at Columbus, on 'the Sth of J a nu ar y, - State o f Teias to the heirs of those who fell at
at Lancaster, Pa., aft, oux strike a.-ainst an to nominate candidates fur Cioveruor Auditor, the battle of the Alamo, -during the struggle
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Representatives. - - , in.;itabe of the Lours of labor. _
- J... 0. - • for iii. 7 o.lm.:udeu,..e.
0,..
association to suppress houses of ill
fame is being formed at York. The evil has
become enormous. It always was a bad place,
that York.
•• / Z • : •
.. I • n 6 . • : • I' • _ , I , r.• On, ' lOse erns : • . • . '
picked up a portion. of the bow of a vessel, 1 zens, generally, are unfit to be citizens; and
which bears every mark of having belonged to i none hereafter arriving, should be entitled to
to--ill , -fated---lias-on it. in-large--i-vote for-2-1-yearsT{if-at-al-h-) . The-more-numer
gilded characters, not much.defaced—"City of ; ous class of Naturalized Irish. who did not
Glasgow," and,ln the corner, "Let Glasgow . burn the effigy of, but generally supported
flourish." This memento. which is probably Jud ge DOUGLAS, and those agreed with the
all that will ever be seen of the noble vessel, learned Senator, are also unfit. to be citizens,
vraS taken -to the office of Mr. Watson, from and hereafter none of.them• shoUld vote for 21
whence it Was forwarded to the builders, years—and so of all other Naturalized citi-
Messrs. Toodi!c McGregor, Glasgow, for identi- - zens, whether they supported or opposed Judge
fication. I DOUGLAS! , From such premises, there is a
conclusion for you!
It is a Know-Nothing conclusion, and as a
fair specimen of such logic, especially as it has
been uttered by a .Senator, it deserves to be
analysed. Does the learned Senator mean
that to burn an effigy of an obnoxious political
opponent, is per ae evidence of unfitness to be
citizens of this country ? Then how many
native born citizens arc unfit to vote ? How
many of them, countenanced also by their
wealthy employers, hung Vice President DAL
LAS in-eiligy;for-his-msting-veterawainst-the
tariff of 1842 ? How many native born citi
zens-of New Jersey,, would_ be disfranchised,
because of bis support. of the Camden Railroad
Company. they hung Commodore STooKros in
effigy ? How many Native Americans, at a
time of violent political excitement, lampooned,
libeled. and hung, and burned in effigy,TlioniAs
JEFFERSON ? Were the Germ us' of Chicago
worse than the Americans • 76 ? They
hung' officers in Effigy,carrie
i iin
' On a bier
to Oliver house, 'which they supposed was de
signed for a stamp office, - and then demolished
it to the foundation ; afttr wink they burned
the effigies !—.Pennsylvanian. .
DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED LADY. —Mrs. An
na Bayard, of Delaware, died in Philadelphia
on the 10th inst, in the 77th year of her age.
Her father, Richard Basset,was the first Uni
ted States Senator elected by the State of Dela
ware. Her husband, James A. Bayard. repre
sented Delaware in both Houses of Congress; in
1801 he was -appointed Minister to France; in
1814 he was one of the commissioners who
negotiated the treaty of Ghent, and in 1815
was appointed Minister to Russia. He died
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i.t e same year. 'i art ;val. , a son o t.e
deceased Mrs. Bayard, was formerly Charge to
and-Jas. A.—Bayard, another son, is
at present a U. S. Senator from-DelaWare.
A MAGNIPICENT SCREME.—The St. Louis
Daily Intelligeneer tells us-that a scheme is in
agitation there to open a direct - trade between
St. Louis, China, India, &c., across the cOnti
pont, by means of a semi-weekly overland
stage• and transportation line between some
point on the -Missouri river and the Pacific
ocean. Such a line, it is said'. could be main
tained for a year on a capital of 8500,000, with
all the conveniences that may be had on any
stage route in the Union. •
RESULT o P Vicroms.—A late letter from
London says: Over .COG.OOO have been collect
ed in an/ of the wives and childrenof the - dead
and wounded soldiers. Trade suffers di eadful
ly. The West End shops are literally desert
ed. Half of the aristocracy are in mourning
for the deatb of kinsmen in the Crimea. and all
fancy sales are ended. The usual quantity of
amusements (halls, &c.,) . .is curtailed for the
same cause. Every third person is in mourn
ing..
ANECDOTE OF TIM CZAR. —Nicholas, it seems,
in spite of the anxiety incident to his present
position, maintains his old habit of walking
the streets of St. Petersburg unattended. Ile
was lately informed that a tradesman in a large
war of business had insulted a Frenchman
without provocation; and he immediately sent
fir him. When asked why he had insulted
the man, he replied. •because I hate his nation."
"Ts. that your only Motive ?" "Yes sir."
"Then you shall have an opportunity to grat
ify your hatred. I shall send you to join my
army in the Crimea."
.thiother Switaille.--The Glendon Iron Dill
Company, near Boston.hns failed. and the Su-.
perintendent. 4evoort, has left for parts un
known, having defrauded the Company to the
tune of - , ;250.000 !
Messrs. Cutler, Brodhead & Clapp, Exchange
Brokers in Boston, have also failed, with •full
pockets" no.doubt. •
..9nd Yet -ivother !—The Treasurer of Holmes
count•, Ohio, has absconded with $38,000 of
the • public funds. Ilis name is John M. Shrock,
and it is supposed he has sailed for Australia.
GOOD ADVICE.—The 'Albany (N. Y.) Knick
erbocker says: The best cure forhard times is
economy. A shilling's worth of white' beans
will do as Much feeding as fifty cents' worth of
potatoes; while six-cents' worth of Indian meal
will make as much bread as fourteen cents'
worth of flour. Besides this, it is_twice as
wholesome. Almost every family in town
could cut doWn their expenses one-half if they
only chose to do so.
GENEROUS DoNATtoxs.—Judge Helfenstein,
of Shamokin, Northumberland county, Pa.,
proposes to dedicate, forever, a valuable
and productive coal estate, in the Shamokin
Coal Basin. for the benefit of the destitute poor
of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lan
caster. Carlisle, &c. And also the laying of
a corner-stone of a Free College at Shamokin,
to be endowed with the proceeds of another
coal estate : and likewise the dedication of a
coal estate for the benefit of African Coloniza
tion. The corner-stone of the college was laid
on Friday last by Gov. Bigler.
Important Decistion.
PHIT.ADELPHIA, Dec. 21.—Justice Black, of
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, to-day gave
a decision in several cases froin Allegheny
-county, where an alderman had fined tavern
keepers $St) for selling liquor on the Sabbath.
The defendants claimed the right of trial by
jury, denying the jurisdiction of the alderman.
The decision affirmed the judgment of the
magistrate, holding that such cases were not
suits at common law, but criminal proceedings
under a special act. All the other judges
agreed with this decision except Judge Lewis,
who contended against the whole . principle of
summary conviction as an invasion. of the right
of trial by jury.
Death y . a State Senator.
PIIILADMPIIIA, Dec. 21.—H0n., Levi Fonlk
rod, Dem., a member of the State Senate, from
the Fourth District of Philadelphia, died this
morning at his residence in Frankford, aged
about 33 years.
EXTRAVAGANCR.—As an indication of extrav
agance which has prevailed in the country for
some time, an importing house in New York
has written a letter stating that the amount of
duties paid for French artificial flowers for the
first quarter of the current fiscal year was al
most double the amount of duties paid on rail
road iron.
will state it for himthus—Premises—any body
of men who burn the effigy of another (say a
Senator) because he advocates a political
meas
sure which_ !ley disapprove, are untit to be
citizens-me hundreds of Germans did this
in Chicago, .Iherefure, (now-mark the Senator's
THE KNOW-NOTHING CANDIDATE FOR TEE
PRESIDENCY.—The Indiana Chrouiele contains
a list of names. which it says was before the
late Know-Nothing coniention in Cincinnati,
as suitable candidates for the Presidency ofthe
United States. Rives and Botts, of Virginia;
Stockton, of New Jersy ; Houston, of Tetas ;
Fillmore and Ullmann, of New York ; Davis,
of Kentucky ; and Broome, 'of Pennsylvania, it
is said, were not deemed available ; while
George Law, of New York ; Clayton, of Dela-
Ware : Rayner, of North Carolina, and Adams
of Mississippi, were though to stand the best
chance at present ;' one of the two, latter at all
events, to be the candidate for the vice presi
dency.
TROUBLE FEARED IN THE M. E. CMTRaf.—
Another breach is _expected in the Methodist
Church: Rev. Dr. Bond, editor of the_New
York Christian Advocate, in noticing . the op
position to the appropriations of missionary
nioney to the preachers laboring in their slave
holding conferences, says :
''We have seen strange things in the lapse
of three score years and ten, but this caps the
climax of the marvellous and though we are
no prophet, nor the son of a prophet, we ven
ture to predict that mischief is now brewing
in our church—agitations,, convulsions mid
disruptions, such as we have never wimessed
before." •
"SAD FATALITY.—We learn that two young
men, aged 19 and 21, sons of Mr. Sutherland,
living at
.the North Beach, in Colchester, werv!
drowned on Saturday, 2d inst. While trying
to - save a flock of geese, which they feared would,,
be frozen in the ice, they broke through the ice,'
it is supposed, and wereonable to extricate
themselves. The family' becoming alarmed at
their absence, went with some neighbors to
search for '
(lay mor'
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water.
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who wail
Shackleford drew a pistol and shot him—some
say several times—wounding hilt severely, if
not dangerously. At this
,stage, some other
person, who. it seems, is unknown, fired at
Shackleford. the ball entering and killing him
instantly. It is not supposed that Taylor will
recover.
ID — The New :York banks show themselves
$1,000400 stronger in gold than a week ngo.
The Savings' Banks have absorbed of the $l,-
300,000, over drawn from the Government
Bank, only $260,000. The Bowery Savings
Bank only ,lost $27,000 on Saturday, from
which it is evident that the run is nearly over.
—These are indications that the pressure has
done its worst.
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRADEDINARY.—The fol
lowing curious advertisement appears in a
Western paper ;
"Whereas, at particular times I may impor
tune my friends, to let me have liquor', which
is hurtful to me, and detrimental to society,—
this is. therefore, to forbid any persons selling
me liquor, or letting me have any on any ac
count or pretence ; for if they do 1 will positive
ly prosecute them, notwithstanding any prom
ise I may make to the contrary at the time they
let me have it."
GOVERNOR OF Nion,AsKA.--Mark W. hard,
of the Territory of Nebraska, has been appoint
ed Governor of said Territory, in the place of
Francis Burt, deceased.
: 7P. T. Barnum is said to be worth $BOO,-
000.
Q:7 - Gen. Whitfield, the Delegate from Kap
as, has taken his seat in Congress.
TUE USURY Laws.—The Richmond Enquirer,
he leading Democratic paper of Virginia, sup
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The Battle of Inkermann.
Desperate diffair—Sn Enenunter with the Ra s .
sians at Me Paint of Me Bayonet;
. The correspondent of the London 'Times,
writing from the field of, battle on the sth,
says :
"And now commenced the bloodiest struggle
ever witnessed since war cursed the earth. ft
bas been doubted by military historians if any
enemy could stand our charge with the bayo
nets but here the bayonet WAS often the only;-
weapon employed in conflicts.of the most oh--
stinate and deadly character. We have been
1)1=o - he to believe that no foe could ever with
stand the British soldier wielding his favorite
weapon, and that at Maida alone did the ene
my ever cross bayonets witle; but, at the
battle ofi m
nkerann, not only Wichlrge
vain—not only were desperate encounters be
tween masses of inn maintained with the hay
, net-alone-- --.b-at
we were obliged to resist bay
onet to bayonet with the Russian infantry
again and again as they charged us with in
ci edible fury and determination..
The battle of Inkermann admits of no descrip
tion. It was a eeries of dreadful deeds of dar
of sang=u•nar hand-to-hand-filbtainf---:
pe rate assaults—in glens and valleys, in brusl,
wood glades and remote dells, bidden from all
human eyes, and_from - which the-coixperers,-
Russian or British, issued only toengage fresh
foes, till our old supremacy, so rudely assailed,
was - triumphantly asserted, and the-battalions
of the Czar gale way before our steady cour
age and the chivalrous tire of France. No one,
however placed, could hare witnessed even a
small portion of the doings-of this - eventfurday; -
for the vapors, kg, and drizzling mist, obscured
the ground where the; struggle took place to
such an extent as to rendettit impossible to see
what was going on at the distance of a. few
yards.
Besides this, the irregular nature of the
ground, the rapid fall of the hill towards
kermann, where the deadliest fight took place,
- would have prevented one under the most fa- '
vorable circumstances, seein g more than a very
insignificant and detailed piece of the terrible
work below. It, was six o'clock when all the
head-quarter camp was_ roused by roll after
roll of musketry on the right, and by sharp re
port of field guns. Lord Raglan was informed
that the enemy were advancinr, in force, and
soon after seven o'clock he rode toward the
scene of action, followed by his staff, and ao-.
companied by Sir John Burgoyne, Brigadier
General Strangways, R. A. and several aids
de camp.
As they appr 4,71 the volume of sound,
the steady, unced. bonder of gun, and rifle,
and musket, told that the engagement was de
its height. The Atha! of the-Itussians, thrown
with great precision, burst so - thickly among
the troops that the noise resembled the contin
uous discharge of cannon, and the massive frag
ments inflicted death on every side. One of
the first things the Russians did, when a break.
in the fog enabled them to see the compel the
second division, was to open fire one the tents
with round shot and large shell, and tent after
tent was blown down, torn to pieces or sent into
the air, while the men engaged in camp duties,
and the unhappy horses tethered up in• the
lines, were killed or mutilated.
In darkness, gloom and rain they bad to lead
our lines through thick scrubby bushes and
thorny brakes, which broke our ranks and ir
ritated, the men, while every pace was marked
by a corpse or a man wounded from an enemy
whose position was only indicated by the rat
,tle of musketry and the rush of ball and „shell.
Sir George Cathcart, seeing his men disor
dered by the fire of a large column of Russian
infantry which was outflanking them; while
portions of the various regiments comprising
his division were maintaining an unequal strug
gle with an overwhelming force, rode dowry ,
into the ravine in which they were engaged,
to rally them. Ile perceived at the same time
that the Russians had actually gained posses
sion of a portion of the hill in rear of flank of
his division, but still , his stoat heart never
failed him for a moment. Ile rode at their
head encouraging them, and when a cry' arose
that the amunition was _failing, he said coolly,
`.Have you not got your bayonets?" •
As he led on his men it was observed that
another body of men had gain td the top of the
.bilr behind them on the right, but it wits ha
possible to tell whether they ;were friends or
foes. A deadly volley was poured in our scat
"red regiments. Sir George cheered them
'old led.them back up the hill, but a flight of
bullets passed where he rode, and ho fell from
his horse close to the Russian columns. The .
men had to tight their way through a host of
enemies, and lost fearfully. They were sur
rounded and bayoneted on both sides, and won
their desperate way up.the hill, with diminished
ranks, and the loss of near 500 men.—Sir
George Cathcart's body was afterwards re
covered with a bullet wound in the lead; and
three bayonet wounds in the body.
At twelve o'clock the battle of Inkerm - ann
seemed to have been won, but the day, which
had cleared up for,an hour previously so as to
enable us to see the enemy and meet him,
again became obscured. Rain and kg set in,.
and as we could not pursue the Russians, who.
were retiring under the shelter of their artille
ry, we had formed in front of our lines and.
were holding the battle field so stoutly contest
ed, when the enemy, taking advantage of our
quietude, again advanced, while their guns
pushed forward and opened a tremendous fire
upon us. •
General Canrobert, who never quitted Lord
Raglan for much of the early part of the day,
at once, directed the French to advance and
outflank the enemy.
General Canrobert was slightly wounded..—.,
His immediate attendants suffered severely,—
The renewed assault was so admirably re
pulsed that the Russians sullenlyretired, still
protected by their crushing artillery.
The Russians, abotit ten, made a sortie on
the .French lines, and traversed two parallels
before they could be resisted. They were
driven back at last with great loss, and as they
retired they blew up some mines inside the
Flagstaff Fort. evidently afraid that the French tt
would enter pell-mell after them. At one o'-
clock the Russians were again retiring. At
forty minutes past one Dickson's two guns
smashed their artillery, and they limbered up,
leaving five tumbrels and one gun-carriage on
the field."
Ca — The-Russian spies at Sebastopol seem to_
be much too sharp for John 41u11. A British
sentinel at Balak lava, being , astonished to per
ceive a horse with a sack of corn on his back,
deliberately walking pa* him in the moonlight,
attempted to seize him, when the sack of corn
speedily became metamorphosed into a Cossack
trooper, who put spurs to his steed, and van
i,hed before the sentinel recovered his speech.
At another part of Balaklava, on the 3d, a Rus
sian spy, attired as a French officer, boldly en
tered the British I i nes , sauntered about, chatted
with the officers, learned from them - where their