tbe Republican Compiler.
GETTYSBIIRG, PA.
Nie&DAY ORN IN 6, APRIL 30, 1855.
ImPßovtial.—We ate gratified to learti that"
Mr. DArnea. WILE, who was shot through the
neek,ln Eininitsburg,ian Wednesday week, by
„! ‘ "ke-- - iiieridental discharge Of a pistol in - the
bands of Mr. finder A. limn's.. keeper of th
--- regle - butel, is - improving, and'now -- oansiiie - 0
out ofdanger.
GODRY . 3 LA DT ' I S Bops.. —This - most desirable
„Magazine, fur May. is on our table. It looks
as fresh and inviting as the month itself, aria
aboundsin valuable and able original literature.
"'The “Keystosr Bards" gave Concerts
in McConaughy , s Hall on Monday and Tues
day evenings last. Although a new corn
_pank. there are few ..Quartetts" to eqnal them.
Their selections were in good taste, and all ad- ;
rairably executed. There were none of those
pointless and senseless 'attempts at, low wit
which too often characterize Concert and other
- similar performanceS, to the disgust of nine. I
tenths of their hearers.
The - steamer George Law arrived-A New
York on Tuesday morning, with 372 passen
gers and $772,000 in treasure.
Einigrants from Ohio. for KULISPIS. Ne
braska, lowa and Tilinoiv, arc passing through
St. Louis in crowds. :,bout - 500 arrived there
last week, and it Is expected that the number
during the season will reach 15.000 souls.
'The Pittsburg Chronicle, on the authori
ty ora private letter, announces that the cholera
has appeared at -St. Louis.
WELL SCIL6. - --At the sale of the property of
Rebecca Stoner, deceased, near Waynesboro',
on Friday week, we learn that 'a quantity of
Potateies sold at the rate of five dollars per
bushel ! We consider that 'a "good sell."
ENGLAND, FRANCE AND CUBA.--A London
`'letter by the Nashville states that the tone'of
the American papers. in reference to Cuba, is
beginning to ,cause great uneasiness in corn
, naercial circles in England. , Louis Napoleon is
said to have a far stronger prejudice' against
any interference with Cuba than the English
Government, but there is no doubt that they
will act together.—Sun.
DEATH OF "CURRER Bur.r..".—The London
News announces the death of "Curter Bell,"
(Charlotte Bronti) author of ..Jane Eyre."
•Shirley" and "Villette." The announcement
will be received with regret in this country.
She was - the last survivor of three wonderful
girls, the daughters of at clergyman who-,-now
very aged anl intirm, survives his wife and all
his many children.
DKLICATE AMUNIP ICENCE. —On Sunday week.
among the' contributions at the Church of the
Holy Communion in New York, to the funds of
the St. Luke Hospital, was a roll of five ono
thousand dollar bills. They were dropped so
qUietly into the plate, it is said, that not even
tfwgentleman who received them knew from
whom they came.
INIEr4NCHOLY CASUALTY.—We learn from the
Baltimore'Sun, that on Tuesday last, a youth
named Charles P. Zell, a student of Pennsyl
vania College, came to his death in a most la
mentable manner. He was spending his college
vacation at the residence of his parents, near
Baltimore, and on the day in question was
amusing himself in following a plough. A
small root Wag turned up from the earth, which
he tasted, and shortly afterwards he was attacked,
with sickness. Convulsions of a violent char
acter followed. lasting nearly four hours, and
terminating in 'the death of the unfortunate
youth. .The affliction of the parents is inexpres
sible, as they are suddenly deprived of a son
whose amiable character had endeared him to
a large circle of friends.
Flll3 AT EATON, PA.—Ten buildings were
destroyed at Easton, on the night of the 21st,
by fire, the work of an incendiary: Among the
buildings destroyed' was Howard's Express
stables, with five horses, and the Methodist
chuich.
'Rev. A. W. !ALLY, of Baltimore. has
been called to the Lutheran Church in York,
recently under charge of Rev. Dr. Iklmerix.
A GREAT PASSENGER TRAIN•—One day last
week a passenger tram passed over the Cleve-
mended to any Know Nothing paper which
Tnarbe --- Wwitlit. ofittn app repil are _at otTO :
`el( a stranger sojourn wills flue in your land,
ye shall nal vex him ;
"Bu: the stranger Mal Avenelh with you shall
`be unto you as one born among you. dtdd thou
1 shalt love him as thyself, fur ye were slron , ers in
A NNw NATIONAL llounay.—A new Na.. the land (I.ll:yypt. lam Ildc Lund your God."
tional Holiday is proposed by a committee of
BosTos. April 23.—Mr. Joseph Ills, mein
the Pennsylvania Historical Society. The her from Boston, resigned his seat in the House
committee in their report recommend the cele- of Representatives to-day,on account of the
oration of the anniversary of th e a d o pti on o f : di ffi culties
growing
out of the
nunnery
inves
the Constitution of the United States as a Na
tigation. -His letter of res i gna tio n was re
ticle! Festival by the American people. The . ferred to a committee. The committee ap
report further suggests the anniversary of itshisconduct, ••ll I
pointed to i nvest i gate ito•i ie
formal ratification by the Convention, which, ; recollected, reported that he bad been guilty
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1"0"The Dettiocrats of the tenth district of ! time for its celebration, as Washing ton. -
who ' '
'Kentucky, have nominated Gen. Wm. 0. .But--} - presided over the deliberations, recinmended I ' A CANE PRESENTED TO TUE EMPEROR OF
ter for Congress.Russia.—We perceive by a correspondence
! tt to the people in a communication signed ou
that day. En urging this addition to the nn, published in the Memphis papers that a hand
tional holidays, the report urges that our tt- some cane, superbly mounted in gold, proem.-
- tional - festivals - are - orirtwo in maTh e r, an d — ed flotiTih - e - ln'irage grounds, near the-ttlitib
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the addition of a third can he made without of Gen. Jackson. was presented to the late Em
r7Torrratoeslind sweet potatoes are being ' peror of. Itussia in December last, by Col. T.
, impairing the value and efficacv*of the others.
served to the citizens of Petersburg, 'Va.
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, The Crops in Illinois are said to loot: -B. Shatfaer,through Mr. Seymour, our Minister,
pt,l'ha have new potatoes in Charleston. on behalf re
e oh H. T. Craven, of Ohio. Count ;
uncommonly well. mid, as a larger_breadth -,,;
S. C.,, and cucumbers in Indianaplk. L.. . esselrode _acknowledged the gift, of which.
thanosuat was sown, a heavy yield is antici- he said • • •‹.
, the Emperor had a lively appreciation,
pated ;very extensive crops of coo lan d -
expressed his gratitude for the sentiment
being planted. - - iVilich dictated the present.
land and Toledo Road, drawn by three loco
tuotives, and containing twenty-SeVeri Carl of
the largest capacity, carrying over sixteen hun
dred passengers.
C7The new Council of Gainesville. Ala..
has put the liquor licenne up to $2.000, and
no quantity to be sold less than twenty gal
lons.
Samuel Sprigg, ex-Governor of
Maryland, died at his' residence in Prince
George's county, on the 2lst inst.
Ir:7"Last Thursday week was thr , day ap
pointed by the .Niilierites for the final destruc
tion of tb world, but - it was again postponed.
P.ißtetsaatcr 4‘t New Orletms,
has been errestecl ott the eirtargt of purloining
- • , .• • ing -C ACV. i*N.S Kre 4110VV(1
11:71n some sections of Vermont the snov.
I'S said to be st4l fire feel deep.
Ronne N. Y.) C, rot;,r(.l ?41Aine iaw is to IP:. voted 177 - Iqr. Soule is to be tendered a public re=
LIM t4 . 4.watt . 04 1.1 !a alga Ce4lUit. j tlic iittipie a.„• iii June. - ce p u u u, La s ; fiieu./.;. al Nov thitar24.
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The Wheat Crop. . " The. Lion's Share., r .Can I Get Out? • , - ,
, From - tin /Maw .loarnal. 1 Cuba and the Federal. %ion.
n'''The wheat crop -throughout our State is . The Philadelphia Daily' News, a Whig and , Yes , sir,_ you can I Write .the following • 1 Withdrawal of a Clergyman from a Know •
Ci ' 1 Thirty-two years ago -John ' Q:. Adams, as
- • - Nothing Council.
pronounced very promising, With here and ' Know-Nothing journal, _publishes a list Of . "TO Ae, President, Officers and Members-4y - i , Secretary' of State under Mr. Monroe, address.
. FoßEsnri l ugi March 24, 1855. i •' ed an official letter to Mr.NelsOn. our minister
1 . ( ' ' .T , Ter i el ' q ' withdraw from s aid - Ca)
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there anexception. About Hanover and York Sam ' s" nominees in Louisiana, and adds : ,
1 an d , ' MESSRS. EDITORS :—,Enclosed yon will please , to Spain, in regard to the importance of the ac.—
; to !
1 , -- fr — om — th — e - tittle - I:Which said council represents."
_there are as beautiful fi elds Of - wheat—as -P_lte r_,-. 4 1 he: 7 pol Ries of-these gentlemen,,-according-to' find :I' very sensible document from Rev.-1. H. : quisilion of Cuba, which ong,ht to be carefully
fell under our notice. but. as usual, th em is th e old classification, are : The candidates for i - Date it, sign it, and send it to one of the
, Tackitt. a clergyman of the Methodist Episco- • read - at the present time by every American
occasionally one not 8 f 0 good. Governor, Auditor, Treasurer, Secretar o '
;officers, and keep away, and you are a free man, question
pal Church. in this
question was handed by Mr. Tackitt to the which seems likely to be on the ere of fulfil
village. The document in • citizen.,! It contains a remarkable prediction,
-
By the way, Mr. P. A. Smar.L. at York, Ina y
again. It is of no conseqnence what -action , President of the Forestville Know-Nothing , ment. Ile said, that "in looking forward to .
spring, when his wheat was six inches high, pat
the Council may zske in you e. flaying c as e. Council, with the vievr of having it acted upon 7 the probable course of events, for the short.
a heavy roller upon it. drawn 'by two horses, in the Council, bet the same having come to period of half a century; it scarcely possible
done as prescribed •ou are absolved 1 II - , -
kand pressed :he growing grain to the earth—
"as tint," said our informant, "as a pancake."
The' resultivaa an excellent one-and he is
.. 'nO . vir pursuing the same system, believing that
it will again pay handsomely._ What Wink.
our farmer friends of the plan ? Have' any of
'.them ever tried it?
cor-dance-w-ith_a_number_of_pelitions_
1 from this county, Mr. McCLEas. some time
ago. read in place a bill to repeal the restric
tion in a snpplement to the charter of the Get.
tysburg Railroad Company, which made the
- grant of the-Gettysburg, Extension" dependent
upon onr Railroad being constructed-to York,
instead of Hanover. It was not supposed at
first that there would be any oppJsition to the
repeal, but the Intilatlelphi!ms appear' to ap
prehend danger to their interests from it, and
hence are resorting to all the tricks of legisla:ion
to stave off and delay the vote; in the hope that
the bill will fail for want of The Phila
delphia News, too, denounces the proposed re
peal., as_ a "snake" and a cheat. Any one
who.knows what a legislative "snake" is' as
well as the editor of 'the News does, can have
btit little regard for his verncity when he pro.
nouncee__throPos.ed repeal such. But it is.
easily seett - Whitty. the wind blows in that
quarter, to
.show which is all we attended in
this paragraph..
E7'The Douse, on Wednesday, had the Ap
propriation Bill under consideration. A sec
tion was adopted allowing the members of the
Legislature a salary of five hundred doltarkin
stead of the 83 per diem. by a vote of 4G yeas
to 40 nays—Mr. MCCLEAN voting in the nega
tive. • A section was also adopted increasing
the appropriation-for the support of Common
Schools, from 6230,000 to 300,000. The vote
upon .it stood, yeas 59, nays 20--' l Mr. McCLEAN
among the yeas.
(a — The House of Representatives, on M.
day last, passed finally the Senate bill relative
to corporations and to estates held for corporate,
religious and charitable uses, by the following
vote :
YEAS—Messrfi. Allegood, Ball, Barry, Berg
stresser. Boal, Bownam, Caldwell. Charriber
lin, Clapp, Clover, Crawford, Cummings,
(Phila. c 0..) Downing. Eyster, Fletcher, Foust,
Franklin, Free, Guy, Gwinner, Harrison,
Ilodgson, Holcomb., Kirkpatrick, -Krepps,
Laporte. Leas, Linderman, Lowe, M'Cntmont,
M'Combs, M'COntrell, M 'Cußough, Maddoelt; -
lorris, Morrison, Mrixe, North, Palmer, Reese,
Rutter, Sallude, Sharer, Simpson, Smith,
(Blair,) Smith, (Phila. city,) Steel, Stehley,
Stewart, Sturdevant, Thorn, Waterhouse.Wed
,dell, Wickersham, Wood, Yorks and Strong,
Speaker-57.
NAYS—Messrs. Bush, Carlisle, Christ, Craig.
Edinger, Fry, Gross, Johnson, M'Clean, Max
well, Orr, Ross and Wright--13.
n - The bill for the sale of the Main Line. of
the . Public Works of this State, has passed the -
Ilouse—Mr. McCLEAN voting in the - negative.
The bill fixes $8,500,000 as the minimum
price. It is to be hoped that this scheme of
speculators will not succeed—that its con
summation will not be tqlerated. The inevita
ble result of the passage of the bill will be to de
prive the State of a laige and annually increas
ing revenue, and compel( the travelling and_
business community to bow to the behests of
an exacting minwpoly. But the apparent favor
with which the proposition to repeal the Ton
nage Tax meets, with other evidences equally
ominous, leaves us nothing to hope for front a
Legislature constituted as the present one is.
Tunas MILL. TAX.—The Senate, on Friday,
says the Ilarrisbuig Patriot, passed an act re
pealing the threo mill tax, : paid by the Penn
sylvania Railroad on,coal and lumber. This is
an ominous measure, the end of which is not
yet. lithe act becomes a law. (and we are in
clined to think it will) it will deprive the Com
monwealth of considerable revenue, besides
rendering the State works less ptoductive.
What is lost to the people, however, is gained
by a-corporation, or rather, by some of the offi
cers of the company, and a few of their ad
juncts.—Thisis the entering wedge to the en
tire repeal of the tonnage tax, and. the sacrifice
of the Public Works. The next act, we pre
sume, will be a repeal of the Constitution.
(I._The 'House has passed a resolution to're
move the seat of Government to Philadelphia,
provided that city will, by ordinance. agree to
furnish suitable buildings for the Legislature,
Departments. and a Governor's mansion.
The vote stood-47 .yeas to 38 nays. Mr.
Mc - CLizAN voted in the negative.
fr7rhe House at Harrisburg has passed a
resolution to adjourn sine die on the Bth of
May. It is thought the Senate will concur.
State, and Congressmen in the lid and Ifhl
Distiicts are, or were, Whigs ; those for Lieu
tenant Governor and Attorney General are, or
were, Democrats." Six of the candidates "are
or were" Whigs, whilst two "are or were"
Democrats ! And the Whigs, it will be ob
served, have the important offices. One wonhl
think the Democratic Know-Nothings ought to
be tired of this one-sided game by this time.
Know-Nmhingism has secured a 'Whig Govern
or and a Whig United States Senator iri_ll
chusetts, a Whig Governor and a Whig 'Unit
ed States Senator in New York, a Witig:Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, and Whig candidates
everywhere for all the leading offices. And
notwithstatuling two or three of their papers
carry the name of a. Democrat, as their choice
for the ['residency, we venture to predict that
the Ti. N. candidate for that office will be a
Whig. FA-Governor •Jo'inston is at the head
of the-. Delegation to the National ConventiA,
appotnted by the State Council held recently'
atLaneaster. Witte is green enough to suppose
that lie will go for a Democrat for the Presi
dency ? The Democrats who have become
members of The new 'party have been "sold"
as "cheap as dirt." Like Lazarus they have
to lie- at the gate and be content with the
,
trumlts. The sooner they : pat a great gulf he
tivein themselves and the political thimble
tigers by whom they have been tricked, the
better for them.--Spirit.
Know Nothing Withdrawals inrVirginia.
We learn from private letters as well as from
the country papers, that secession from knew
nothingism in Virginia has become a Verfeet
epidemic. A correspondent . at Martinsburg,
tinder - date' of the 15th', writes as lolloWs.—
Wash inglon'
"I have. only time to say that reliable infer !
mitten from Harper's Fctry informs me thnt
- My men dreW out of the lodge on last Thurs
day night. _ They In suspended the regular
meetings in order to prevent withdrawals; but
n few of &reliable know-nothings determined
to have a little private special meeting that
night and not let any of the disaffected know
anything of it but a --fen? of -the disaffected,
not being "know-nothings naturally,'.' got wind
of i;, and went up to the extent of fifty and drew
out. Sixty more will do likewise when anoth
er meeting takes place."
Another K. L Deserter.
- The following card, says the 411entoier? Dem
ocrat, is from one of the first and most promi
nent membeis of the Know Nothing Order in
that town. Some rich disclosures are in store,
which will come to light in due time :
TO MY FRIENDS AND TIM FUlll.l(7.—Teeming
it an act of justice to myself as well as other,
right-thinking men, , who within the past year,
were inveigled into the Steyet'Orrrer or S.- S.
B„ commonly called Know-Nothings. through
the belief that a change fa the management of
old parties was necessary, I take this public
mode of renouncing all connexion or association
with this secret. oath-bound hand. and desire
all to understand that I wish no longer to h e
recognized as a member. It to eradic a te th e
corruption of the old parties was an object of
this association, most signally has it failed of
that purpose, for with whatever of experience
1 have had as a politician, 1 am free to confess
1 never knew so much festering corruption in
any political association as bascharacteri7ed
this midnight order . For the present. I shall
take pleasure in revealing to any of my friends
who may be anxious to know them, the rea
sons which prompted the course I have adopted.
Saturday, April 14,1855. E. J. ABELE
Ca - The annual election fin• municipal officers
was held in Kutztown, Berks county, on. Fri
day. the Pith inst.. and resulted in the election
of the pemocratic candidates by handsome
majorities.
~The Democrats nominated their
ticket a week beforehand, and challenged the
Whigs and [(now Nothings to meet them at
the polls. So the issue was fairly drawn be
tween Democracy and Know Nothingism, and
the former triumphed over all opposition, as it
will everywhere again, when the sober second
thought of the people resumes its sway.
DOWN ON TEX GovKitzcou.—A Know-Noth
-ing writer is down on (ov. Pollock in,.a late
number of the llarrisllurg Borough lien.
The following extract points significantly to
some dark doings in which the Governor av•
pears to have been a partY:
• "Is Gov. Pollock aware that the course he
is now pursuing nut only b►ings upon hi►n-the
anathemas of his fellow men, but the wroth if
God. Does he not re►nember the ever-memo
rable night of the 25th of May 3 But without
the fear of God. no ,cheese is too low for a pol
itician to resort to."
KNOW NOTHING MOTTO.—The following
from the 19th chapter of Leviticus is recom-
of itupropriety.
Y
obligation to the Oilier.
the knowledge of persons not connected with
- - the Order, without his fault, he now consents
fear of the oath. It is illegal and expressly_ that it. be published in-the Censor over his sig
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forbidden by the statute of the State, and the nature.
Very truly yours.
man who administered it is a candidate fur.
To the president and found! at Forestville,
the State Prison. Such an oath has no binding (haulm:pie County, N. •14
legal, or Moral force, and the man who repudi
comproniisesWhen joined this Council. I joined in good
ates it, in no sense
himself as faith; and have acted aecording to. the oldiga-.
--t-tions-of-414-getter-e-vett-since-as-___Lunderstaint
I them. _ That is, we arc to vote for second de,
gree members for office, if we judge it hest avr
the interest of the American cause. AO4l, as
I judged it not for the interest of the American
cause to vote-for-Mr. Ullrn , tn tbr -Governor of
the-State of New York, under the circumstan
ces under . which he was nominated: I therefore
voted for Mr. Myron 11- Clark for Governor ;
and for second degree members of the Order
for other offices, and have acted, upon this prin
ciple ever since I have belonged. - 1.1.nt recently
learning from some of the mem bers'of the Coun
cil, that the obligations of the Order are con
strued by this Council so as to blind us to vote
for second degree members, and abuse on/y,
and that if we vote for any others,: and not
such as are. nominated by the Council, and it
come to the knowledge-of the Council, we Must'
be expelled; and as' I have seen documents
from the Supreme Council of the order, con- 1
struing the obligations the same way ; and as
with many others, •joined bethre such con-1
struction was given, of which we had any
knowlettge, by oar 'Supreme Council' ; and' as
such construction operates upon us as art ex
post facto law ma.king an act a crime and pun
ishable, which was committedbetbre such law
or construction of law existed ; and asin a free
Government no person can be subjected to pun
ishment lay an, ex post facto law, which is mak
ing an act punishable in a manner- in which it
was not punishable at the time it was coumiit
ted ; and as such a law is coutrary to the Con
stitution. of the United States, and of every
State in the Union, 1,. therefore, do hereby most
respectfully withdraw from this Order, that I
may exereke my elective franchise constitution
ally, and according to, the dictates of myowni
consCience and judgment, untramMeled by the
dictation - of any luau or set of men.
I. H:TACKITT.
FORESTVILLE, N. Y., March 10,1855.
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tyeittint•nriuTAAMTl
SOBICIC SECOND Turwair.—The /Yasilington
(Pa.) Review, of April 5, contains a well writ
ten manifesto from four honest. _men who had
suffered themselves to bel i e ve_th a t_ther_e_w s
vittqc - and merit in the Know Nothing organi
zation., but who:found open close acquaint
ance, that it was a sink of impurity and rot
tenness, with whiCh they can have no s_ mpa
thy. and feel-it a duty to-renounce all affinity
with it.
A 11.: it PII ESTDE N PIA L. ASP IR NT.—CornE•-,
Vanderkiilt, the - steamboat commodore, re
plies to several: Members of the New Jersey
legislature, placing himself in their , hands.as a
native Amerfcan - candidate for the Presidency.
We have not had time to read the commodore's
entire epistle to the Blues, but towards• the
end of it, notice this decent sentiment :
'•'lb seek to deprive our adopted citizens of
any social or political privileges which they
have acquired under existing laws, would ht• a
measure of wrong as ignominious to ourselves
as unjust to them."
With a great many K. N's. that will kill-the
commodore's chances. lie expresses himself,
however•, in favor of a more eitended probation
of foreigners hefore naturalization.
DoNirx WITH THE PIOCES. —Potatoes haVe seen
the top of the ladder - , and they must now de
scend, rtindle by. rundle, until they shall reach
a reasonable price.. There hasnot only-a con
_
spiruey been discovered among Jersey farmers
and others to keep up the price of potatoes in
Philadelphia—a conspiiiicy ac base, we learn,
that it was to be investigated by Conncils on
the 24th ; but many ship loads of potatoes from
Nova Scotia, and from Ireland, are now on
their way to the United States. Some font
thousand bushels have already reached Boston
from Nova Scotia, and many thousand bushels
more may be daily expected. These facts must
have a telling effect upon prices, and .with the
fidt of potatoes, hreadstuffs, beef,. &c., will al
most certainly follow. The idea that there can
•be a scarcity in this country under existing
circumstances, is sitoply preposterous.—Ger
man uw a Telegraph.
B - 7'A ton weight has just been decided by
the U. S District Court sitting in Philadelphia,
to be 2244) pounds. and not 2000 pounds, as has
been 'decided by the Supreme Court of this
State. and by a former U. S. District Court.
As the reguintion of the weights and measures - .
exclusively belongs to congress, the late deci
sion must be regarded as the law.
"Tns: Ultima TuanE.—The Coltimbia — Spy
says that the run of lumber thus far has been
great, and that it is still arriving, the river con
tinning in the best.raftin order. Some of the
oldest inhabitants say there never was as
much at Columbia at one time. within their
recollection. As yet the sales have been ex
tremely limited, purchasers holding off under
the expectation of lower rates, while the lum
bermen maintain that they will not be lower.
The prices demanded are about-similar to those
of last year.
CALM AND STORM SIGNALS•—The American
Code of Signals, by Henry J. Rogers, of Balti
more, has been adopted for the use of the Navy.
The Union states that copies of 'Rogers' book
and 'the flags are to be distributed among ves
sels of the navy, and commanding officers off'
the navy are instructed to embrace every
.op
portunity to familiarize the service with the
use of these signals.
School House Struck by Lightning—Four
Boys Burn! to Death.
ST. Louts, April 21.—At Arcadia. in Madi•
son county, in this State, on the 17th instant,
during a storm, the lightning struck the Arca
dia High School, and four boys. pupils of the
institution, who were asleep in the building,
were burned to death. One of the boys, nam
ed Ilarry; was the son of F. L. Ridgely, of
this city.
PLEASANT FOR TIIE E Gusn.—Tn a pamphlet
lately published in Paris, M. Girardin main
tains_tnatior_the_p_eace of Europe it is neces•
I sary that the Russian fortilications at Sebas
topol and the English fortifications at Gibral
tar be destroyed at the same time.
l'i - The pews of the new Methodist Episco
pal Church, (Rev. A. Cookrnan's) at Pittsburg,
were sold on Monday week .for $;22,000 ; one
assessed at 5600, brought :i'77o !
The poor. we suspect, will not "have the
gospel preached to them" in that church, as has
always heretofore been emphatically the case
under the Methodist Ministry.
r s l7'Dog poisoning in Ne.,vark. N. J., is cre
ating considerable excitement anion , : the citi-
zens. One hundred and fifty are known to
have died alrcadv this month.
In Orange-county,--Florida, _which has a
population of four hundred persons, there has
not been a death in twelve months.
f'rhe town of Ashfield. Mnss., has elected
Miss Lydia.liall and Miss Marietta C. Patrick
members of the school cnininittee.
;y'Ripe tomatoes are selling at Harrisburg..
Pa., at :25 cents per dozen.
71*The whole number of applicants for
boooty land under the new law, iS thus far,
101,6G0.
Tile World's Fair in - Paris, it is said,
E ill A.:utainly . be (:reued on Uie 144. of .Utt.y.
rom a
There need be no
,icon.
BRUTAL MURDER NEAR LEnasoN.Ki.—Thcre
eras a brutal murder committed near Lebanon,
Ky.. last week. It appears that Richard
Guthrie was'in deldt to a Mr. Glascock, of the
same locality, or the latter had become his se
curity on certain notes, when Giascock levied
on a negro man‘belenging to Guthrie, and gave
the sheriff of the county_the process to serve.
Guthrie, it was thought, had secreted the negro Thomas Brock Sfm.ooo : Thomas F. Brock $2,-
on the premises of Mr. Burns, where he was 01x1: Fletcher Brock 5 4 .000.: A. B. Pratt
caught by the sheriff. Guthrie, on learning , $2.500: W. S. Fletcher $1.000: Widow Metal
that time negro had-been taken, became greatly__' _et $300: George Burke $5OO ; Dr. J. M. Laz
exasperated, and went to the house of Burns ; zele 5150 ; others similar amounts. ..
and, after accusing him of conniving at the ; - .
capture of the negro, or giving informna,tiun to , Ilt4vi - UM - E. OF Ftsn.—Probably the largest
- the — Offiar, - he drew a b(ANlOlthife, assaulted tNW lwr ofin w fish ever made-fly-a-sirrgle-hant—
the unsuspecting Burns. and cut his throat ' of the seine was made in the Patuxent river on
from ear to ear. causing his death almost in- Sunday week. It seems almost incredible,
stantly. After committing the foul deed, the but such is the fact. that twenty-six hundred
murderer mounted his horse, and fled to parts large rock ash were drawn to the shore ; the
unknown. aggregate weight of which was twenty-flve..
~ ' thousand pounds. or twelve and a half tons.
FATAL AccupsNT.—A young man named
Kos-mth, said to he a nephew of Loins ti.o.,Nnth, It ig said that sufficient calico is daily
-the ilungarian exile, was crushed to death in manufactured in Rhode Island to wake each
a coal pit. near Pittsburg, on Monday. female in the State a dress.
.
Some of the Beauties.
New Orleans correspondent of the N.
Y. Hei aid, writing under date of the 6th inst.,
says:
"John Donn, a native of Chester • county,
I;ermsylvania, aged about 3
the quiet discharge of his
officer of this city, was roost
on the evening of the 27th r
of Union and Phillipa streets. in this city, by
a band of desperadoes, headed by one Victor
Dnprat. It seems from the evidence before
the Coroner's jury, and at the examination be
fore the Recorder, that James Costello, George
Watson, Dan Wilson. Barton, and sever
al others, headed by Duprat, had, after dis
turbing the peace of the city in , reveral of the
streets, finally reached the beat of officer Dunn,
when becoming unusually boisterous,. that
officer requested them "not to make so much
noise." Instantly the cry of 4 -kill him! kill
the Irish son of a b—h," arose from
their ranks, and the ruffians rushed upon the
officer, Wilson and Watson dealing him se
vere blows on the head with slung shots, and
Costello stabbing hiM with a knife in several
parts of the body. The Police coining to the
rescue, arrested several of the murderers.
Dunn was borne to - the CirctiS street Infirma
ry, where he died .the next .morning at 2 &
chick. lie was conscious to the last, made a
dying confession, and bade his wife and three
children adieu. Deceased was a highly re
spected citizen and efficient officer, and though
a Know-Nothing, was evidently considered a
foreigner by those who set upon him. They
proclaimed themselves natives. and are known
to be Know-Nothings. The whole party are
now in custody. except Duprat, the "trader,
who is win. est invenlug. I am informed that
Mr. Dunn is the brother-in-law of Mr. Wm.
Pie. the organ builder of your city."
What a glorious party this Know-Nothing
party is. They murder each other on suspi
cion. Poor Dunn, although . a Know-Nothing
himself, and a fall blooded ?Wive, is set upon
by a band of - his midnight confederates, and is
foully murdered upon suspicion, that he was
born in Ireland, instead of (lieslcr County,
Pennsylvania! ! -
Men who help to keep up the Know-Nothing
fever by exciting piejudice against foreigners,
should be cerlnin that they will never he mis
taken dark - lanternhy the
T patriots, for foreign
ers. o look, in any respect, like a foreigner,
may cost them their lives at the hands of their
confederates, when they least expect to die.
Did poor Dunn anticipate such an end when
he took the horrible oaths I—Glorious !
—Frederick Mizell.
THE"A NGEL GA BIIIEL" tv PRISON.-. 8 Mob.
—John S. Orr alias the "Angel Gabriel" seems
to have met with rather a poor reception on
his return to his native country after his visit
to the United States, where he remained long
enough to disgust his friends by his inflamma
tory harangues. It appears from the London
News that he has just been sentenced to prison
for sixty days at Greenock, Scotland. for creat
ing a breach of the peace' by holding forth on
Sundays in the streets, after being cautioned
by the authorities.
his imprisonment. it appears, caused much
excitement. and a large mob having gathered,
attacked a Roman Catholic Chapel, and after
doing it consideralle injury, broke in the win
dows of the clergyman's residence, and those
of the school and the teacher's residence at
tached to the church. The militia was order
ed out as soon as possible, but on their arrival
they found that the mob had dispersed.—Sun.
1r7".11.at. Ward. who was acquitted of killing r'''''The legislature of Liberia has itnpoced a
Butler at Louir , eille. is said to be a oral lion duty of 51 a gallon upon all spirituous or malt
at New 0.-Itan... •h lours.
to resist the conviction that the annesa . tion
Cuba to onr federal republic wig be indispen
sabte to the continuance and integrity of the
Union itself." Under existing' circutnstances,
we cannot perform a more valuable service
than to reproduce the following full and. inter.-,
esting extract from Mr. Adams' letter :
".I.topAsersiENT OF STATE:,
4c W.a - sbingtcn. 'Apra 28. 1.823. -
nthe-war-between-Francenrid-Spain-now . --
momencing, other interests. peculiarly oars.,
will, in alt probability, be dveply.
Whatever may he the issue of this war, as be
tweets those two Evtrepean powers, it 'may be.
taLen Or granted that the dominion , of-Spain-- -
upon the American continents, north and south,.
is irrecoverably gone. Bat
.the islands of
Cuba and Porto Rico still remain nominally..
and solar really, dependant
,upon her, that she
yet possesses the power of tranrercing her`
earn dominion over• them, together with the
possession of them, to others. These islands,
from their local position and-natural appendages.'
to lilt North .9merieern continent, and one of
them, Cuba, almost in sight trf oun shores, from*,
a multitude of considerations, has, become an
object of transcendent importance to Ms come
mercial and political interest& of our - Union,
Its commanding position, with reference to the-
Gulf of Mexico and the West India seas : the
character of its population.; its situation mid
way between our southern coast and the.
Island. of St. Domingo ; its safe and eapacioun
harbor of the Havana, fronting a long .line or
our shoves destitute of the same advantage ;-.
the nature of its productions and of its wants,.
furnishing the supplies,.and needing .the re
tarns of a commerce immensely profitable anct,
mutually beneficial, give it an importance in
the sum of am- no/jotted interests toith. which
Ural of no other foreign Territory can be-com
pared, AND LI'T'TLE INFERIOR TO- Tlf.-VP WTIICR
BENDS THE DIFFERENT EfF.3SI.BEILS 03t THIS UNION:
TOGETHER. ' Such, indeed. are, between the in
terests' of that island and of this country the
geographical, commercial, moral, and political'
relations, formed by nature, gathering, its the.
process of time, and even now verging, ta
ma
turity, that, in.looking forward to the probable
ccurse of events. for - the short period of half a
century, it is scarcely possible to resist the
conviction that the anntaration of Cuba to our
federal repußlit - .will be indispensable to Me con
tinuance and integrity of the Union itsey:
It is obvious, however, that far this- event we
are not yet prepared. Numerous and formid
able objections to the extension of our territo
rial dominions beyond sea, present themselves
' - -ntemplation of the subject ; ob
;ystem of policy by which aloner
be compassed and maintained,
Rea and skrasounted, both frora
at home and abroad.: but there are hates cf po
litlcal as weir as of pilysica/ gravilution ; and if'
an apple, severed by the tempest from its na
tive tree, cannot choose but fall tathe ground, -
Cuba. forcibly disjoined from its own unnatti
ral connexion with Spain, and incapable of self
sup-port, can gravitate only towards the-North ,
American Union, which, by-the same law•of'
nature, cannot cast her off from its bosons."
Important "if True" from Havana..
The„New Orleans Picayune has intelligence
from Havana, said to be from sources it can
not question, to the effect that a decree issued
at Madrid—that is by the Queen of Spain and
her governMent—has reached Cuba and been
published there, in which it is ordered that in
the event of a fillihuster expedition landing, or
attempting to land in Cuba, all Americans.re
siding inthe island, the U. S. Consuls includ
ed, are to be iinmediately, and without dis
tinction, placed under arrest. The Picayune.
further says :
The gentlemen to whom we have referred as
our informants, during their.visit to Havana,
naturally paid frequent visits to our Acting
- Consrd; - Robertson.: In-the-first - instance; -
he cheerfully assured them that there was no
danger whatever for them, if they conducted.
themselves with ordinary discretion while on
the island. On their going to visit him, how
ever, on the morning of the 10th inst., they
found. him considerably dispirited, and on
mentioning that they contemplated leaving in
the Philadelphia, he said he was very glad of
it, and wished that every American would do
so, as they were no longer safe on the island,
and, as his reason, he translated the decree to
them, in the terms above given, informing
them that he had just had it-officially sent to.
him.
It is believed, however, that the decree is
not new. Mr. Soule and our government are
said to have been in possession of it for some
time. If this be so, we apprehend that the
preparations making to increase our naval
force in the Gulf have a reference ti the fact.
(a?Two young lady admirers the "yaller
kiver'' literature, of respectable f lilies, late
ly ran away from their homes in vith a
pair of counterfeiters.- They had not been
away long when their lovers were arrested fur
passing counterfeit money. Great interest was
excited by the trial, in the midst of which, one
of the young ladies "rushed through the crowd
with disheveled hair and streaming eyes, sit
down by. her lover, and threw her arms around
his neck, in which interesting situation they
remained during the greater part of the trial."
EXTRAORDINARY • ENDURANCE. --CharleS J.
Rich, of New-Albion, N. Y., missed a turkey
from his flock on 28th .lannary, and believed
it to be stolen. On the 16th March. on turning
over an old tub, which had stood out of doors
for a long time, the turkey was found alive, but
dreadfully emaciated. having been in dur
vile for forty seven days, without food. rat`:•.e
likely to live. It
rillarnum has been caught at last. Last
week, in New York, he had a verd;ct of dam
ages against him for $15.254 for guarantying
s o me Crystal Palace stock, when he assumed
the Presidency of that defunct institution.
A VIRGINIA TOWN Bt7RNT.—The town of
Monongalia county, Va., has been
visited by a destructive fire. It appears that
35 houses were consumed, involving a loss of
shout 530.000. Wm. Lantz lost 46.000