Ell Zlje--Utpti4impittr. WETTYSBURG, PA. MONDAY, MORNING. APRIL 16,- 185 S. livionitural Society. a}"Attention is ,directed to the advertise sner4-of.the Adams Cu!anty *Agricultural ,Socie• • , to--beed-on-our-fottriblineet ing of the &witty will take pace. in the Court house, to-morrow; itt . l o'clock in the afternoon. when it is-toped thai 141 'desirous of seeing a Fair in :the county ne*t.fall, will be present. Uponrtittbe-tutnimstlfiA--4vend-tle decision of that, questien. : ' Ide - taxed to alt Afr and MaLuiaiss ;for continued' copies of the Legislative Record and other docrongnts: 712 en Monday. Mr. hltet.EAs. presented three petitions:Nan cltizene, of Adams oonnty, for the repeal. of that 'portion Of the Corinnotkr taw whict provides for the election of county superintendents. " 111-Our Merchants have opened their Spring Goods, and present, an• attractive 'aasolunent. Bead their advertisements. - 11:2 - On Monday last six , thousand two hunt dr44 . oppliditiorr3 *ere received at the Pension office:for bounty land, tinder the new law. " &LOok out fin. counterfeit 14's <in the . W , Catein Reserve (0.) Bank . They are altered from n. *- - _ ibmWe again reutipd,opr. readers . - that - the- Mew poitige Zak which went into effect on the Ist 'of this month.; requires the postage on all letters to be prepaid; otherwise they will, not be 'Sent -117,: - A bill to prevent the carrying or Use of conoeale4 deadly weapons has passed to athird reiding in the Pennsylvania Hbuse of Rep-r- sentativel!! - SUDDEN Dimra.—Robert D. Carson, Esq., Caikier of. tho Lancaster. .C o unty Bank, died . •, Suddenly Of-apoplexy,. lust Saturday week. Ife -was in , his usual,- health up to the time' of 'his decease. and had been attending to his du ties in the -, Bank , on'. that. day:, Wm. L. Pei. peelaabeitfelected Cashier in his place. Kaxsas Eizartos.--The telegraph furnish es, in general terms, the result of the election held:: in Kansasi, on the 30th ult. The names of 'the successful candidates are not . given, brit the,dispat4} triefiy announces that the deo-. Von passed Orin a very quiet inankt.—There R*Ati. sir averw:helming majority , in -favor of the *poplar Soiet'eignty' ticket., n ' (17'The'price of flour in Boston, in Novpm- ber, 1817, was, according to the Herald of that city, $l6 per barrel, and in twenty m o nths af ter it Wail:t!Oillg at $4 a barrel. ~ Of course .itnett ruined hundreds, and the Her . sild, not believing that present prices can be •. • kept up, CAUtiOO9 speculators. to "stand, from under," Tug Arms IN TB PAGIFIC.—The French and English squadrons were at the latest ad. vices arriving at Callao en route to a rendez vcus, where they were to combine in another iatteck on the Russian fortress of Petropau. lowski. , O:7"Mr. Stratton - , -- father—of the well known dwarf Tom Thumb, rendered famous by_liar num, has become insane, and is now an inmate* • • of the Hartford (Conn.) 'Lunatic Asylum. • (C7The General Assembly of the Old School Pieibyterinn Church in the United States of America, will meet on Thursday, May lith, in 'the First Presbyterian Church of the city of St. Louis, Mo. Tns WyTREVILLE TRAGNIrr.—Dr. J. Austin Graham, Who has been arrested for killing Mr. Spiller, tit Wytheville, Nis., came very near being lynched by the citizens before he could be safely lodged in jail. He offers, it is said. no excuse for his crime, but says he did not intend to kill any one else. It appears a . par ty • of twenty-one persons was in pursuit of bin, and when he was taken he was nearly starved and frozen. He attempted to resist, by drawing a pistol, but being assured that it was useless, and that he would be lawfully dealt with, he surrendered. ErThe Know Nothings, evidently, very much fear the ellect of Mr. hlcet.).•AN's speech against their proscriptive order. 'As proof of this iniiety, their favorite organ occupies ciiit„ less than three coturnnain a fruitless endeavor to controvert it. STEP FORWARD.-By a law recently passed in Michigan, a married woman may receive. buy, sell, devise, mortgage. fte., her real and personal property, without the consent of her husband. and also sue and be sued, without joining the husband in the suit in either case. So the identity of the woman as an indiVidual is beginning to be fairly recognized. Ilf„tvr Loss. —A fire at Shelbyville, Tenn., has destroyed The dwelling of Rev. A. H. D. D., pastor of the Presbyterian —Chareirtirthat -was,one of the ,finest in the State. ilismanu- scripts, also buind. included six hundred ser- ; loons a►d lectures, which he had prepared for ress and desi the -- exactA-T - Flan-.----Nearighteen-linitdred-Iyales ty, to proceed_bi_Sebastoppl—to_inspect acettqa were destroyed by fire at Magnolia, ! works there -and view the operations of war. Texas, out the night of the 19th nit. , the entire f They are ordered to depart as soon as possible. less Iling eatitnated at sixty thousand dollars, THE ANGEL GABRIEL ONCE Mons.—John S. which is the ' largest ever sustained by fire -in Orr, the "Angel Gabriel," gives notice in the T,exasi. I English papers that he is going to the Crimea Cs At- 01 .w hue- teen-sad.P ;:e?ir"• "to strengthen the spirits of the heroes," then .141 r; it is stated ' at 82 c e : 1413 4 3er to Africa'and Asia, and finally to Rome, to the Crimea. - suffer martyrdom, ana thus finish his testi 13:7T/dentine Porn. a German musician in mony. Boston, in sneezing, a day or two since, burst na - On the White Mounta,ins in New 'lamp s. blood easel, Ibitli caubcd his death. dare th e snow is said to be still six fret deep. ned The True Democrat. It iu necessary that-parties should: sometimes be purged, else, they would becorrie terrinit, thdtender elements de.rin-sitatZto-theirpres pellty and existence. The Democratic perty bas often required and often received such purging. - When it has been victorious in a _ntnitiplicityuf_contests, many of its opponents, who care more for spoila than principles, enligt under its banner and swear loyalty to its cause. Such are ready to desert at the first ktdication'of defeat. The hour of peril and imminent danger always finds them hesitating as to the course; to pursue, or fully committed to the enemy. In times like these, remarks the Philadelphia Argus, we can determine who are I - e - true - and - fsithfulTand - who - are_the_tiniL and itreacherous. It is no time to ascertain the brave mariner, when the sky is serene and The !mean calm. But let the tempest burst forth w(th all its fierceness, and the ocean ' :awrge rock - the - threatened - ship, -a nd--then thi brave and faithful tar is found at his post howling,ciinds and waves that threaten a wat errgrave. lie redoubles every effort, while his confidence in his craft is increased. So 'with the true and faithful Democrat. When he sees his principles in danger he redoubles his visilrce in.watching the point whence the emit is ,expected. and increases his energy in their defence. If there ever was a time since thy) foundation of this government which re quired the vigilance and energy of every Dem ocrat, that time is now- at hand. Let every ,Democrat then, who is a Detnocrat in princi ple,, look well to the cause which he has es 'podseit Now , is the time to try 'his genuine 'nese.' We candidly believe that some who 'ere trustworthy have been led off by the tricks of the Know-Nothings. Such can redeem their fidelity by renouncing their allegiance to, and seceding from the order into which they have been inveigled, and assuming their loyalty to those principles which they have so zealously maintained. Know-Nothing Defeats. Parrmisolv, N. 3., April 10.—At the munic pill election in thi4 city on Monday the Know- Nothings were defeated in four out , of the five wards. Van Blarcum, the Union candidate for mayor, was elected by 100 majority over lilies, the Know• Nothing candidate. HARTFORD, April 9.—The Union ticket nom tinted by the Democrats in this city against the Know-Nothings carried four out of the six al dermen, and thirteen of the twenty-four coun cilmen. The Know-Nothings are routed on the full vote. Oonock.s, April 10.—The charter election irr-this town yesterday passed oft harmonious ly. Mr. C, V. Clichener, for Mayor, and the other Democratic conciliates were chosen. TAUNTON, April 10.—;At our municipal elec tionlesterday, John R. Tucker, independent, itas - elected Mayor, Wagner independent, Mar shal,-,and Clark, independent, City Marshal. [l:7"The Detroit Free Press says the Demo crahlhave swept the State.of Michigan against the Know Nothings, .in the recent township efe'dtions. Peace Restored at Cincinnati. . . RESULT OF TIM ELECTION.—The disgraceful riots at Cincinnati have been brought to a close. The papers from that city, as late as Saturday week, announce a perfect restoration etc peiice and order. The Commercial states that not only have certflcates of election been granted to all the Democratic - candidates, but that Mr. Ferran has been sworn in as mayor, and entered upon his duties. Ills majority is 1,333, and to show that there could have been no great amount of illegal voting, as charged, the Commercial states that the vote last Octo ber, (when the majority for the Know-Nothing candidate for Supreme Judge was 6,425,) was only 96 leas than it is now—in other words the Democratic vote has increased 3,427, and the K. N. decreased 3,331, making a.clear Demo cratic gain of 6,758. Mtsstso.—Mr. Daniel Ebert, of this borough, visited Baltimore on Monday of last week, on business, ancLit is said he had a large amount of money to receive. He put up at the Frank lin House, kept by Col. Jameson, forMerly of this borough. He left the Franklin House on Tuesday morning with the intention of return ing again, but has not since been heard of. His family were informed of his disapper.ance, and several of the neighbors, we understand. have been on to Baltimore to search for him, :but no trace of his whereabouts has been discovered.- Fears are entertained that he has been foully dealt with. Mr. Ebert is between sixty and 'seventy years of age.—Turk Republican. SNow IN WssrEaN NEw Yoatt.—Snow has ~---- fallen in Western New York within a week to a considerable depth, so as to make some of the roads impassable. Even in the western part of Albany county the ground is now covered with snow. A gentleman who left Rensselear villa Saturday morning says that there was good sleighing between that place and Clarkes vine. B tTAt LINGTON, Vt., April 11 th.- 2 Quite a se 'rem snow storm has been prevailing here du ring last night and this forenoon. Snow has fallen to the depth of fourteen inches. The ice on Lake Champlain is breaking up. j S. OFFICERS ORDERED TO SEBASTOPOL.— it is stated in the NW:York Trlbune Tha tie Administration at Washington have detached Cal. Richard Delafield, of the engineers, Major lfmd Ntordecai, of the Ordinance, and Ca • t of the Cavalr •,on s i eial The Anti-Lioense Bill. The bill which passed the Howie of Repre sentatives some weeks ,ago,_abolishing the tav ern license system, was taken up in the Senate on Tuesday, and after undergoing material amendment, passed by a vote of 15 yeas to niya—Dr. MELLINGeit voting in the neg ative. The Hooke took up the Siinati-Namend ments on Wednesday, and under the opera tion of the previous question, they were pass ed by an average vote of 57 yeas to 27 nays— Mr. IVIceLeAN voting in the affirmative. The Governor's- signature is_only needed to make I t the bill a law, which it will doubtless receive. The bill is, said to be very stringent in its rovitinns, shutting up The_taverns after- the first of October, "and requiring those who take out license to sell_ by the quart or more, to be licensed by the Courts, after due publics. lion in the newspapers, is now requir ed-hy-law—in-case-of-tavern---license. license fee is made treble -that now paid by in no cane shall it be less thanft3o'; and 1 every person taking - out license require - : 'give bond.in $l,OOO conditioned for the faith ful observance of all the laws of the Common wealth relating to the traffic. The act takes of on the lit of October next, hut, will not interfere with persons now holding license until the time for which the same was granted shall expire. - Licenses granted after the pas sage of the hill will hold good only to the let of, October. No license shall be,granted to other than citizens of the United States of temperate habits and good' moral character. The- bill has a minaber of sections providing severe penalties for violations of the law and defining the duties of officers under it. We expect to publish the bill in oar next. In view of the vote taken last fall, we do not believethat the people ol the Commtniwealth are prepared for so sweeping an enactment. - P. S,—Gov. Pollock has signed the bill. Divistom OF UNION COUNTY.- In . obedience to an Act of the Assembly, passed during the early part of the present session, the people of Union county voted, on Friday the Itith ult., on- the question of• dividing that county, and the official result is as fellows :--Whole num ber of votes polled 5061, of which there were 2553 for the division, 2508 against, making a majority of 45 for the division. We presume this Will settle the question ; but the Union Star says, "time will show whether, the matter will be tilloved to rest as it now is." Bouvr - r LAND -A PP LICA NTS. ---.I3IPORTA NT' D ECISION . —The Commissioner of Pensions has made an important decision, in which he draws a distinction between distant and actual service in the time of war. The decisiob is to the effect that a person who was in the milita ry or naval service of the United States during any : - of the wars in which this country has been engaged .siar. e-1790, is not entitled to bounty land under the act of March 3, 1855, if he was not at-the seat of war. Eta" The Reading Gazette says : Mr. R. Todd, of that city. has invented a plow, upon an en tirely new plan, to which he invites the atten tion of farmers, and those who feel an interest in. the science ofagriculture.—The driver ridei, guides the team; and manages the plow, with less labor than by the old method. The work is also done better, and much labor saved the team. Many practical farmers, who have seen the plow, say it will Succeed. a:7A breach-loading cannon was tried at the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard on the 29th ult., in the presence of some United States ofri cers.—Diseharges were made repeatedly, as often as six times a minute4,but it is claimed that, having everything perfect, from 15 to IS discharges can easily be niadc in that time. This is pronounced a formidable weapon for naval warfare. NOVEL RELIGIOUS MOVEN imr.—Gerrit Beriah Green, and a few other spirits of that order, have lately been holding a meeting of several . days at Oswego, N. 1r . ., to adopt meas ures to break up all old religious denominations and organizations, and build up a new system of their own, to take the place of every other. They hold that all sectarianism is wrong, that there should be but one universal church, and that honesty should be the only test re quired to entitle a person to the rights of membership, and so an.—Poughkeepsie Eagle. A Jun Vsantcr.—The-Quincy (M.) Herald says that the grand jury refused to find a bill against John Pigg, a lad about fourteen years of age, for shooting and killing a man named Pile. The circumstances arc, that Pile had quarreled with his wife, and threatened to beat her—she eSciped - rtothe house of the boy's mother, was followed by Pile, who made dem onstrations to whip her, when Mrs. Pigg in terfered, saying that no woman should be whipped by a man in her house. Pile then struck the mother of the boy several times in the face, when the . lad seized a shot gun and shot him down, from the effects of which Pile died the next day. The neighbors persuaded the boy to go to Quincy and surrender him self, which he did, and the case being investi gated, the jury refused to indict Wm.—Chicago 7'r ib tole. DEATH 01" MARTIN VAN BUREN, JR.—The Baltic-brings-tintelligence-of-tho-death-of_Mar , _ and if is a most eitraofiliticify — ph - eißiffet — io tin -3, - an Buren, Jr., son of the ex-President. t that. two of the springs have disappeared, whilst He died in Paris on the 20th ult. A large that called Caplidza was turned out of its bed, number of Americans accompanied his re-°' mains to their temporary — resting-place - and the water now runs in the opposite direr ; cemetery o ontmartre. e .e for a long time been wasting under the blight of consumption. His remains will be brought to the United States in-July. A VENERABLE COUPLE.—In Adair county, Ky., on the 27th of March, the venerable John Pendleton, aged 82 years„ was married to the amiable Mrs. Mary Adams, aged 72'years„-:w ho was entirely blind. o:7young Dr. Kane is going mitas surgeon of.the expeditio4 iu search of his brother in the Arctic Be&3. • • Four Days Later from Europe. I Nnew-Nothing Oaths'. . - ( el:I - The Clearfield Republican gives the fol . The Vienna Onferenee Unssailaetory—Nets ! In the course of Judge Douglas' admirable 'lowing- communication from , the pen of one t Conditions Proposed by the' Jellies Disaa,reenbk. l' speech before the Detnocrecy of Richmond, Va., 'of the Mesareipeetable citizens of that county, to Russia . : 77 General Attack on the Jilin by the on Tuesday evening last, he gave the following whose position.. and character entitle him to Russians before Sebastopol—lke Russians Re- happy and forcible application of• the events reelect and confidence: • pulsed with Great Loss.---The steamship connected with the rash oath'of Herod to the ' Know. Nothing Exposure. .• Washington, with Liverpool dates to Wed- swearing made necessary in order tojtecome a A CARD. nesday, the 28th alt., arrived at New York on Know-Nothing:— . itSiteetin: Tr., Feb. 21, 1855. - Wednesday evening. er vices are our halit►conclu - sion; my - friendessif anrof -you.-t --mm , :nts. mooitE & witioN :—Genttemen—T-__. days later than those received per steamer ! under false allurements...have, at an unlucky must ask the liberty to appear before the pith-- hour, entered the Know-Nothing Council and - lic, for the first time in roe life, in the column's Baltic. assumed its obligation, let me conjure you, as 'of a newspaper. To vindicate my own char- The proceedings of the Vienna Conference 1 yon revere the Constitution and love the Union, acter,.and to expose the corruption of a secret appear to be unsatisfactory. The allies do not j instantly to withdraw your allegiance from a i oath-bound politiesl combination in our midst, Council whose forms of proceedings and princi- is, my only object. I have all my life endetiv insist on the .destruction of Sebastopol. but pies of' political action are inconsistent with• ored to keep iny obligations with my fellow propose other. conditions disagreeable to Rus- your parammute duty to your country. Let man. and intend to do so in future, erhenevere sin. .. . , no false scruples in regard to the binding obli- j sound morality binds me to do so. I regret - . , gitions of unlawful oaths—no timid dread of I that duty to •my conscience and my country ethe-resentments-of-itileeilliberals-and-unev_or-ekompelserie-thusepubliely-to-venounce-an-ellii '.thy associates, level you forward. in a line of ,"gittion taker: without knowing its - 'extent or conduct which your consciences cannot - . ap- lhe character. 1 mean theobligation imposed prove. Take warning from the example of ! npon the members of the order of the "Star ' Herod, as recorded in the Holy Scriptures. SSpangled Banner." as it has been _recently That monarch, we are told, in the plenitude of i called, but more familiarly knows . as the order his-powereind-his-pride-eata-leaseitehonoe_of_Lof__Kno" _w_Neehh:wee___Le eeameeseraem e er ee -- his birth-day. became enamored with the i the order previous to the last election, and took - charms and _dancing of the daughter 'of has 1 the first two degrees. The order to which I wife by her first husband: In the fullness of The - longed -- was called the l 'NeW Waihingtots • -- his heart. and the deliridm of his passions, he Council," No. 261, anti held its meetings in said to the damsel : "Ask of me whatsoever 1 the town of New Washington, .Betrnsisle town- - you may choose. and it shall be given unto ship, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania. The' you, even to the extent ofone-half of my King- meetings were held always after night, in a se- , dom." And as an evidence of his sincerity i cret manner, in some out-honse_or uninhabited. and devotions he affirmed his - promise by an I building, with the windows darkened and made oath' as solemn and 'terrible as was ever ad- 1 secure from observation. • One' of the sneetingeea, ministered in a Know-Nothing Council. - was called in my wagon-shed, being able to. me The damsel, after consulting her mother, find no better place where the Council could said to Herod, "I will that.you give me by and meet without fear of deteCtion. The inst e uc e by, the head of John the Baptist in a charger." eon to the members was, always - to approach Herod was exceedingly sorry, for he feared and the place of meeting alone, and toleorre. in the loved John, and knew him to be a true and same manner, for fear of exciting suspicion. r, holy man. • must here confess that I always *le a degree "ely oath !my oath!" he exclaimed, and in of meanness in going to and returning' from obedience to that unlawful oath be directed the those places, that I had never before felt ; ante executioner to bring the head of John the Bap. the more I knew and learned of their secret or tist in a_ charger, and give it to the damsel, ganization, arid their movements, the more. I. who immediately presented it to her mother in became convinced that no honest,tep*ht, eon- atonement of the mortal offence of having said Reientious man could, without great violence to_ . that' marriage to the brother of her husband his feelings, and =entire surrender oral, self-- was unlaerfne Let the example of Herod be a respect and dignity of character, continue ine warning to all men how they violate their con- their ranks.-1 had always before felt the proud sciences in obedienceee unlawful oaths. Are consciousness of being an -honest man and a you prepared, my friends, at the bidding of a freeman. I had never 'mown what it was to: Know-Nothing Council, to become the execu- . shrink e reom the gaze of any man or - set of men. tioners of that great party with whose. ergeni- I had irways-felt, and feel now, that it is a zation you ' were born, and whose prihciples high privilege for a "freeman to express hie: you vindicate? Are you prepared to become thoughts" on all occasions and' upon all sub the instruments of a secret cabal to bring in jects. I have been taught to believe that an, the - heads of the Democratie party in a charg- "honest man is the ooblest work of God," and er, and to present' them to this dancing Know- my highest ambition through life has been to Nothing mistress, that she in turn may pre- occupy among my fellow men that exalted po sent them to her tpothez Federalism, in atone- sition: • I soon found. however. that 1 had been ment for the unavenged'injuries which in form- decoyed into a secret society, that claimed irons er days the Jefl'ersonian Democracy have in- me a very different character—a society that flicied.upon her pride and honor ? Better had not only asked me voluntarily ,to falsify Mt it been for Herod, yea a thousand times better truth and to act the knave, but actually im for his fame in this world, and for his salvation posed upon me an_ oath in advance, by which in the other, had he acted in obedience to his I was bound to liz at their bidding. Having own conscience by recalling his unlawful oath, Without proper reflection assumed these oaths, and preserving the life of the holy man whom and become a member, I concluded for a while he reared anti ! Better 'for you, yea a to remain with them and learn what I could of thousand fold better for pier own reputation them. 1 bave now left them and forever ! I and honor, for your children and pelf country, shall rio more meet in their secret conclaves, that should act in obedience to your own and no longer hear their impious oaths admire conscientious sense of justice and right—that istered. I rejoice to feel that I am again a. you should instantly withdraw your allegiance freeman ! -Those whose conscience.will allow froth these Know-Nothing Councils, and prove them to remain in their ranks can do eca - your fidelity to those principles for which you Doubtless ere this I have been expelled from • cherish a hereditary - reverence—fidelity to that their Council,' for thy denunciation of the' or- political ,organization whose triumphs consti- der, and if so,sour obligations are dissolved by tote the chief renown of this glorious old - Do- "mutual consent." minion that gave you birth !" ' . The question here arises in my own.min4— have I done my whole duty in merely freeing myself from their unhallowed influences ? Do I not owe it as a duty to my-fellow-men to ex pose this combination, and to warn them against what I conceive to be the most dan gerceis political movement that has ever exist ed in this country. .1 know there are those who will think and say that I am violating a high obligation if I attempt to expose the doings of these midnight orgies, but I shall content myself with the belief that they are not' those '- for whose opinions I have much regard. I have thought long and anxiously on the subject. lily conscience approves the course. If the judgment of the public is rendered in my favor, I shall feel glad ; if not, I shall be supported by the purity of my own motives. I firmly believe the oaths administered to be immoral in their tendency, and corrupt in their influen ces., Having sworn to become dishonest, and 1.0 practice/else/good, am I bound to keep that oath ? Having sworn, if needs be, to perjure myself in a court of justice, Will -the Almighty hold me responsible for the violation of such an obligation ? Believing as I do, that my duty, both to my God and to my country, demand at my hands a full renunciation of all such ob ligations, can I hesitate ? Certainly not ! Every impulse of my heart. approves the course I have adopted, and my friends will allow me alone to be responsible for the consequences. I shall settle that account before a tribunal far above the teach of Know Nothingism, and be fore which neither their fervors nor frowns can affect-me. One thing I know, I should not be alone if others were not afraid to go with me. There are hundreds in their ranks, whose out raged feelings dictate the same course ; and who, if they can summon to their aid sufficient moral courage, will soon follow iii my footsteps. I shall therefore proceed to unmask the mon ster and expose its iniquities to the public gaze. The organization of the secret society to which I allude, is after the following form : In the beginning- it was called a society of "Know Nothings," and I may be allowed to say the name was peculiarly appropriate. So soon, however. as that became generally known, they changed it for another, and then another, until during the short period of their existence they have been known by several appellations, the last of which known to me was the "Sons of the Star Spangled Banner." There is a "Grand Council" - for the 'United States, the president of which has a superintendence and control over all the "Councils" of the United States. There is a subordinate "Grand Court eile_for each State, with a President who con trols the "Councils" in the different erestiee of the State. The "Grand Council" for'ellsy a . sylvania is in Philadelphia, and the P dent 1 4 thereof appoints an "Instructor" for eact eoun ty in the State, who has charge of the eteoun eils"-in the different townships in the county.— The "Instructor" for the county is sole dicta tor and settles all questions arising in the "Councils." He orders when their meetings shall be held for making political nominations, and if' the nominations do not please him, he tray order another to be held, and so on until they areiiiiefaCCOTT. - llie leseOeiiiiiiiiiins for each 'Council," a -Deputy Instructor," who acts for him and under his advice and ;Zinc tions. Each "Council" is bound in everything to the strictest obedience to its superior. Th i s arrangement first alarmed me. fhorned the because I had been induced to fear the power of the "Pope." But when I learned that the President of the -Grand Council" had more power than is even attributed to the Pope of Rome, that he was constituted forthe pur pose. and willing to use his power to further the designs of the basest political demagogue isus, I could notclose my eyes to the fact, that lie was a more dangerous enemy to the - civil TIM PRAM CROP. —Nicholas. Longworth; ex -1 1 cr7Ge.n ! G. Sutter, once the richest, is said to institutions of our country than I had before Pope.. I fear now that my worst cellent autitrity in everything pertaining to 'be among the poorest men in California. To is thought the poverty added the i nfirtuities of old age. apprehensions will be realized. H. Bucher horticulture, informs the Cincinnati Commer- , ewoope, of the borough of Clearfield. is the "In-: cial that the peach crop is not injured in that ! Leeelr. Trott. the licenee candidate for me. stria-tor" for Clearfield county. and direct', the ' taut emente, of all tbe "Counolz - iu it. He is se.:tion. of the country. i or of Staunton, Vs., was elected on Saturday. It - was , una erstood that the eon tereisee' had agreed upon the first two points, and that the critical third'point on which the question of peace or vrar turns wan under considermion' and would occupy several days. The demo hion.„o f Sebastapil vtomid nst be demanded. On the other hand another dispatch says : 4 , ••• jecutre_as-to-the_results_is ' 7- Odessa advises of the 24th ultimo state that the Russians in spite of -repeated attacks, maintained - their position on Mount Seponne, near Sebastopol, whence - their guns play upon the French lines. The weather continued fine and the health of the troops improving. The advanced bat teries of the British were making considera ble progress. According to information received from deserters,:the Emperor's death had not been promulgated to Sebastopol. Omer Pasha arrived, at the allied camp on the 12th, ..nd on the - ljth the Rassians_open ed fire from the heights of Balaklava, but the English, assisted by General Kuoys, routed them. On the 17th. the Russians attacked the" whole line of the allies, but were driven back with great loss. On the 14th the Turkish cavalry at Enpato ria made a sortie, but Were repulsed.' On the 17th three battalions of Zenaves attacked the new Russian redoubts before Sebastopol, but were driven hack - with great loss. -On the night of the 15th the French troops carried the line of ambuscades occupied by the Russian sharpshooters, and at the-same time the Rus sians made a sortie, but they were repulsed. Preparations continued to be made at Con stantinople to receive Napoleon. In the mean time he and the Empress will visit Queen Victoria on the 16th of April. -France agrees, says the London Morning Herald, to send 5,000 additional troops to the Crimea, after the close of the Vienna. confer ence; provided England will furnish the means of conveyance. - '!'he sufferings of the English troops in the hospital at'Seutari ate Teported as terrible. Tne imperial guArd of Frauce left Paris on Tuesday for the Crimea. 'rho total effective Russian army in the Cri mea is one hundred. and fifteen thousand. . The position of the allies is now completely slant in by an enclosure of formidable entrench ments, extending to the heights of Dalai(lava. Important events are shortly tinticipated. The condition of the tronps was improving. The fourth sittina of the Vienna conference is represented as having been very stormy. At London, the impression appears to be that Russia will not accede to the conditicns re garding ;the Black Sea. The conference will probably split on this question. Constanti 7 nople letters, however, indulge hopes of peace. The revelations of the Roebuck committee of the British Parliament, inquiring into the conduct of the war and the late condition of the troops, in the Crimea, are appalling. Fifty arrests had been made in Paris of par ties implicated in the conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor at the late review of the Imperial Guards. The prevalent opinion at Paris is that peace is near at hand. The three years' dispute between Switzer luntrand Austria has at lenwth been settled. Still Later ! The steamer America arrived at Halifax' on Thursday night, with three days later news from Europe. Affairs in the Crimea had un dergone no change, except that the Russians were strengthening their position. - The third article of the peace propositions has been con siderably modified by the Allies in their de• minds, at the Vienna Conference; and has been referred to St. Petersburg. The Earthquake at Broussa. • The most distressing details have been re ceived of the dreadful earthquake that recent ly destroyed one-third of the flourishing city of Broussa, in Turkey. The panic caused by the destruction of the stone buildings is inde scribable. The population of Broussa rushed out into the fields terror-stricken. The wound- ed were dug out of the ruitiss rapidly as pos sible, and conveyed to .temporary hospitals. The first day 500 wounded persons were re-- covered. It was under the Khans, baths and mosques, which are all of stone, that the most serious casualties occurred. The silk spinning factories, belonging to Europeans and natives, have more or less suffered. In Mr. Dzezaifli's establishment upwards of 70 poor young 'gills were killed. Broussa is celebrated for its thermal springs, I _obserred_t4_detaciLitself_frouti_ I roll down like a tremendous avalanche, carry ing in its descent trees, bushes, and stones, until Oj-Snow was three feet deep at Gorham, lit arrived at the bottom of the - ravine on the N• H., last week. It has been five and six other side of the city. The number of killed feet during the whole winter. are set down at 500, with twice as many wound- i atr Rev. Mr. P.:als has been called to the ed, and 250 mosques have been destroyed. Second Presbyterian Church at Carlisle, Pa. arge roc wfls 03 IiZI _ y Ras, How Oyster-eating was Invented. The North British Review for February, has a most hutnourous and withal a valuable arti cle on "Diet and Dress," from which we extract the following: "It has often been said that he mast have been a bold man who first ate an oyster.—This is said in ignorance of the legend which assigns the first act of oyster-easting to -a very natural cause. It is related that a man walking one day by . the sea-shore, picked up one of these savoury bivalies just as it was in the act of gaping.. - -Observing the extreme smoothness of ,the shells, be insinuated his finger between them that he knight feel their shining surface r when suddenly they closed upon the exploring digit with a sensation less pleasurable than he anticipated. The prompt withdrawal of his finger was scarcely a more natural movement than its transfer to his mouth. It is not very. clear why people when they hurt their fingers put them to their months ; but it is very cer tain that they do ; and in this case the result was inost fortunate. The owner of the finger tasted the oyster-juice for the first time as the Chinaman in Elia's essay having burnt his fin ger, fivst tasted eracklin. The savour was de liciouscr—he had made a great discovery so he picked up the oyster, forced open the shells, banquetted upon their contents, and soon brought oyster-eating into fashion. And un like most other fashions it has never gone, and is -never likely to go out." Raining Brimstone. A gentleman from Chulahoma, informs us that there was "a shower of brim stone" in that vicinity during the list rain, about two weeks since. Particles of brimstone (he says) were scraped from the ground the day after the rain by spoonsful ; and by tast ing and burning were fully decided to be brim stone, and nothing else ! Brimstone is said, also, to have fallen throughout De Soto and Marshall counties, Mississippi, during the same rain ; and reports of a similar shower were_in circulation here about the same time. We hope our 'Mississippi friends are not alarmed. Such showers frequently occur in the tropics and adjacent countries, when the trees are in bloom. The pollen of the flowers is taken up 'by the wind and distributed far and near, and out of such material was our shower of brimstone made .—Memphis Eagle. [r7The English papers state that a clergy -- titan in England is now -suffering the severe penalty of twelve months imprisonent, for marrying a couple at half-past six in the morn ing, when ecclesiastical law forbids that such a ceremony shall take place before 8 A. M. Ssartm'h - e - Riptey cult court last week sentenced Mr. Muir to the penitentiary for two years for forging a note for 525. Mr. Muir is probably the richest _ = l man in Ripley_ county, his property is worth near 6100.000. is suppose
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