RE EMI .=q • 4seasimpir s, . - , l4herstopol i ftMilliVlat , A l**-Armatiithanslnste Ari.‘4•4 4triv--;up*/i. , fiver;d War' to P b l ioosed W6o4tAitiv: 1116#,f_eafafici in - Pa 'wing tWei use 4 1 1108stid" - • ' ..•• • MA'AM, April . I..—Toe, steamer Asia at% 1 41 ., L, / at IQ o'clock. with • liierisiitraateietbi,Aprai2Bthi tire days later tharOtAtil&-igg.4.!. - . • .• A Ltott;Wait _ The Vienna. conference haring. totally. failed anything which might be hosed prospects' vipeade, appearances at present indicate only a ptentettiil *Win the prospect. Hence some d e etst 3 / 4 4-atiCcesis -'in -the Crimea was anxiously .446'14611‘4,:., 4Witaiatesliwa,:o)l4.., siutrter,.ponttm, decieivtc:had accts 'i'tie Loiliti6daiitittare4etificaratii 1411 tfintitied by • .. . 41rewbgrairsi,-,-Prfiwn * Shipley quote, bread? stuffs as haring= con<iderably advanced. with a lasge.apeculatitre demand,, and:ths . market liftvant.'. Wheat has- advanced 6d a Bd. ,F;oar has -advsneed 11; Od_ t0..25, arid Corn has eibibition ,opening has been priatOrrif from'thelfith' to the 15th . of May. -The gerrrill. tone,of opinion' in England is that thelwar :musk continue .fur a ,lengthened . Ink ; locuidon Times .amks,of'the'policy, df the iaete: Czar , as - audacious than his father, and . t• to regarded-throughout Europe. . -PROwitss or emriStigos.—There is pothiitg definite ltraos - p relative to the condition of the siege;';',Thl general impression icfavorable. tO tit" isnOesa'of the 'Alias, but the ittinOule re-' turned theiilre in Apiritedinanner.. . A dispatch received at Brussels.morted.the.. sitspeteuettOthe bombardment, but the report, vgksinot,credittd. , . ' . -fishe details of, theTeid vim; frolftlpti:Crimea slatei under date_ if •lipril.4th, the bnnhard- 1 misfit . is beilicenniinued night and day from tins hundred guns, each :finng 120 rounds per, ' t ,T he ltungion,tower h ad. en -silenced and Some ,of - the. :Si:Hind -tower. guns • 44-mounted, butztho,Redsn and',flarden batteries keep up 'ai heavy4lre. There ia,130 immediate prospect Ofarrassault being attempted, Daring_ the night , of. the 5 14th*a most San guinary Wile, raged between the French and - litusiante,o.in which•, the, former ,destroyed the Russiawiiiie ambuscade- in flout of the Mala koff tower.. ' , '• I, ' • , : iApril I7th.-4 despatch; to the trench goy erntrusn,:says-the_iire...of* the, French batteries maintains its superiority, They have sprung -it tainnTbefore3he flag-staff.battery of a dia .' team , of. 50 Meters * thefeby,..opening,,a new parallel Avitichrima been ancpesfsfullklimned to otherst•-,, , ..- -,_ •, -I ~,..x ~; !, ~ . ~ . , , • 'Frain , the .12th, 40 alio ,14th the French. loss amouitted to`3oo4tell• r, : • • •-• •, Apeitilfith..—The French ',Minister of War leirnathat the Athos Were Stilt Rdv , aticitig, and wort. itonsolifiating -theii - .POSition. ,On the night, Of the ~1,73 h the'Rubsians• made a strong , sortieankt were pro,l4litlY rePulso... . kvincit'.l3OrtschOntra account of the satne date tie, the. foregejoz, saga the 11140 fire . is Srowibg44*-, violent,.: : : , , . - , . I The Suasian:bal.terien replied. sneeessfully, 1 ankoniibit 47th, the,Rossians made a sueeces- iuk sortio.Sod , destroxed the 'enemies' triOstad- • ',kneed `worlis. , ,, : , ~ ; The loss of the gin ison during the past few' days has been inconsiderable. . The latest accounts from 32lortoehalcoff. dated April 224 - state that.after twelve , days bow- !uqdment,gte:allieik,f_lre Was becoMing weak - ax.l4 ; caatiedlittle "tfaritge .to the works.. Pievragsetic,telegreph is nevi . emnplete from;' Letialitlix•ftte;Crunea. except a few .miles be tweei) Strohorerkorid icirshuck, but the British' , Z3overnment retains exclusive use 'Of it. I 'Alm Ryke4Alichael e vut tiii;ippui wife again 1 con'theirwriy `to ilie Crime*. 'Prince,Menschikoff is not, dead. - . angst*. - The St. Petersburg Jonrnal contains an im- Perild "%Or* of pressing the F.iiperoria N adi. , _'action at the...defence. of Sebaatopol, and Imp ing thopMenschikoff's health .Will soon be. re suttlll,--lx.stowing upon him and , bil clescen danta.a.pellice,at St; Petersburg. Aorol*,;.osto. PpastA-., 7 Buriin correspon dence siva that it hardly ndruitB or a doubt the; an approximation of views has taken 1 , place , between -,the Austrian and Russian I Cotirtv, which .bodes no good to the Western i _rower!, :Baron Hess, with the whole Austrian I staff, would proceed to Galicia on May, 2d, but ~ r only to, view the Austrian army, which he ' . says no t be ready , ,to take the field before B ug •Pe sia openly avows her adhesion to Russia. T de in India was 'dull, and money was, scarce. The Chinese insurgents had evacuated Shingb ' , A_ Russian frigate had been wrecked near Japan. - - The ratification of the - American treaty with Japan was concluded at &mods on Feb. 21st. : . : .. - GREAT BRITAIN. In • Parliament much 'energetic questioning of the: ministry had taken place respecting the a at::-ttie scope of .all: the questions being to .basten matters. ' • Sir .6t.orge•Grey stated that authority had . te,ep:given.the Govemers of the British Ameri , fan Provinces. to enlist men fur the regular army, not for the foreign Legion. Mr. Roebnck'S•commirtee continued still to investigate the of the war. The Duke of Newcastle's testimcmy tended to ex culpate himself. - • • - Notices had been given of an intended ma , tion for the adoption of a *lent of decimal coinage; and to unite in a Congress to estab lish *'uniform decimal system throughout the world. • ,- 1 • Some interest had been:excited by a report :that an American squadron was about to make a demUnstratidn against Cuba. It was not thought that war between Spain and the United Sates would 'essentially - add to the present complications of European- polities. It was still repOrted that Napoleon would take command iof the allied army in the CH.! lilies: but the report; was not generally credited. 3t hitibeen officially stated that the contem ylatesd dtpartirre,d,the Emperor for the Crimea pOstp9ned_for a short time. - ICanias'Affairi--Cholera Ravages. Sr. 1.001.5, May 10.—According to nl9mint mention Thursday last', a large nontlier of cit-." izentintliansascand (4-Platte and Clay coun ties,„ Mu., astir m 131 cd at .Lenventvorth, 'when much excitement was manifvgted at the mur der 01J,lark, and a strong di,position to hang IdeßNi was evinced, but the emninsoding offi cers at Fort leivenworth refused io give him up. ' futther wag done. The meetiog adopted resolutions calling uphp the citizens to asse bit. in their s.overeign ca city m ity to adopt rides for the initnelliate p;;:Mcßeti., • 'Major .Ege, .)1 Maryland. oripi.cd think in an elognent Kpeech. and pnr. :rayed the evils that might 'result from tlivna. Sir..tandiug to dissolve, the union, &c.. Anti was friiiiiently and loudly applauded. Tie arered phattir , resolutions: but. subsequently with cireW tbent. - A. leiter from the western part. of ihe Terri- Va.,. dated May 3. stales that the ei,,elera had appealed 'in a malignant (um 141td that thirteen ;deaths had giecartrd in .vcfpty-fotir boars.; The thwelAie ,ti -‘ repr, 1 , . be ads 4111, ur amt.*, in ii.4..4.% • BleiN =ECM MOlt : NWi; 31 , 4 X 14,,-1855. t/011N - CULP, the Burgess, by authority f . theory and in fact._ _We...are:in favoLa of the Town Council, offers a reward of:WO, !is one. of the , best features of the c Conat,itu,tion. fir the _detection and conviction of the'Peinn It . will be a taste or the milien(ittn vrlien priests inirgrePlie"Stlibliretkre.' `Titftrirtar' •atalt - creeds'grotsects - shall-devotelhenutelven :.Saturday night-week.' Thisittright, and it is singly to spiritual, affair's; and leave temporal to be hoped that the offer will have the desired effect. !The Democratic State Convention will meet at Harrisburg on the - 4th :or July, to nominate a candidate for Canal Commissioner. Hon. J. B. DANN . EIL was chosen at the' last County Convention to represent this county. (r7Tlie State. Legislature adjourned sine die on Tuesday. Q7The Legislature passed bills for, the re lief of Mrs. Lost; arid Mrs. HARTMAN, widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary war, both of Adams county. SALE or , viz 'At' ix 1424z.'—The bill for the I,saleof the,Main"Line passed the' Senate tinnily, by a vote of 22 to 11. - The minitunm price is fixed at seven and a half millions. If pit rehased by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. an ad t:litional million will be required, in coneidera- Lion of the repeal of the tonnage tax. 'Tile bill to abolish the Board of Canal Corn tnissikiners was i:ndefinitt•ly postponed in the UOLISC. _ • TONNAGIII TAx RitPEALin.•—We learn from llarri4hUrg; that Gov. Pollock signed the bill -to repeal the comings tax on coal and lumber - passing over the-Pennsylvania Railroad. SPEAKKI or Tna SctiaTir.,,- 7 At 10 o'clock on Tuesday, Srieaker Hiestcr resigned the chair with a feeling and appropritte address. The Senate then went intn an r election for Speaker, and on the ninth ballot William Platt, (I)cm.) was elected, Platt 17, illenniken 14. The con test, true terminated by :tit.. Platt toting for himself. r , lie was cOnduCted to the chair, and then addressed the Senate in a brief speech of thankti: 'The Speaker elect was then sworn in by,blr. Flenniken. and it 11 o'clock the Senate ndjotirned aine die. . , It7The.Hoose adopted a re , lolution thank ing Gov. Reeder, of KaM;as; for his . firmness in maintaining, the right. ritThe Legislature. on the lnst night of the sessidk'refused to pass the clnim bill, thus aleprisfint many, a poor honest man of his just dttec—but agreed to sell the Main Line fur seven and a half millions, to profit rich rim- Knor Nothingism can do strange things—but the 'people can do still stranger, if - they - 11110W it longer to rule and ruin. 0:7111e new State Treasurer. Eta SLIFER,. Esq., entered upon his duties en Monday. He has appointed Thomas Nicholson. of Beaver county, Cashier ; Isaac N. Rawn and J. N. Elder, Clerks ; Solomon Munson, Messenger. One appointment is yet to he ninth*. RIITAILERS' LICENSKS. —We understand that the County Treasurer, acting under instruc tions &Din the authorities at Harrisburg, is prepared to grant licenses- to Retailers.of Li quors, Beer-houses. &c., until the -first of July' saidlicenses to terminate on the first of October,; applicants will have to pay the full amount of the license for one year, notwith standing the license terminates on the first of October., near. After the first of July the Courts will have charge of granting licenses. Ca - The revenue cutter Joseph Litho, Capt. H: B. NONE% sailed from Aorfolk on Wednes day last, for the Pacitri coast. Dr. L. DE B. Ittntx,,son of Col. J. J. Ktmsoof this county, goes out in her as Surgeon. The good wishes of a -large circle of friends and acquaintances attend him. T7The editor of the Rochester Democrat states that in six', of: the Western States, through portions of which he passed, the wheat crop looks well, and there is Si pretty broad breadth of land sown. But in Southern Mich igan it Surpasses anything heretofore seen in the Western country. rPThe Bank of Chambersburg has declared a dividend , of five per cent. for the last six months of its transactions. a:7'A disease pronounced by the Physicians Scarlet Fever, has been prevailing in Waynes boro' with some severity. With the excep tion of ono person it has so far been confined to children, and bus in many cases proved fatal. .17The Daily Globe says that %Vat. C. Flour noy. a brother to the Know-Nothing candidate for-Governor in Virginia, has taken the stump for Wise. fell at Columbus, Ohio. Tuesday ati4 at Wheeling they had a touch of both snow and hail. ' Snow ' two inches deep fell on the moun tains between Cutnberland ornd Wheeling on Wednesday. On the night of the ith inst., six iooties of snow fell at LOckpoit, N. Y. 13,1 r- JOHN FRY wits killed on Thursday night week, by falling from the top of his resi dence. in York, Pa. He had ascended the roof in order to ascertain whether there was any 0;..-casion for the- alarm of fire- which had-just commenced, and, slipping. fell to the ground. IMPOST/a) LIQUOILS. —The city attorney of Troy. N. Y.. has given an opinion that aft er the'kirth of July, and under the provisions of the prohibitory taw, imported liquors may ,„be . sold, wholesale or retail. hr any one. ECrrite lion-Fiederiek WattA:of":Carligle. bag accepte4 in invitation to deliver the next ountiatt trt:foi Potw,ylvatlia . . cult u.. AI 5...L.:t.',.y. fiETTYSBURG, PA. - . Protestantism. • IC. N. Zoonogiyiind Reform. .The iitloi t v:Nothing papers olket to the! Thepresent : f.egisilattre, which has .bee n ' Wales* of catholic prie4ln ,potittga 4, :add 1 1 ,0blfged .piotiact, its seafficm pc1:11):'' erterciat elections.:Soro we. We geluither we , tength,'oWingp a shamefhl Waste eV time at Jett' p theirilittierence of.Protestint the Outset, will cost the State - a*ut tlOO,OOO. auMele 7 ctions. filitiAC9.Ow-Nothings , ; onr.the laatltePeq .. Ofthe Atiditor 'General, • depTee.ate-Polit.ical Romaniarn; .9,n do we,— 3 we learrt that the ttitalfexpeniaiotthe' Le? We go further :we deprecate political Protes- 'attire of 1854. were $79,848. Here is another tentisni. The KnoW-NOthing papers abhor specimen of Know Nothing riform.! Over do no more Catholic $20.000 added to the itidebtedneis of the Slate than Protestant Jesuitism. '" I - -1 -:and for whart . f . ' Will any sane man under __ The:instiii3tioirs of this di3iititry - Ciintemplate - Tdei:tate - to - Say that the'!igislature of 11355 has .`a:coMpleteseparatio g ilnf'thtirek been ;anything biit a lihame.aiel aisgifice to affairs to be managed by those educated to the business. When 'that 'day' "hall have come, there will be fatless strife, less contention, less bigotry, and less infidelity in 'the land than now. It will he "the good time come." There is a deal of infidelity abroad, and-it is every day spreading, mainly beetitthe there are few counteracting influences.. The Christian church is not engaged in the same mission it once was. Its adherents have not - thasanie faith in the saving grace and efficacy of the Gospel they once.had. ,Theyno longer appeal to the. consciences rif men, as they nsed to do, but appeal to the legislature to make laws to compel men to.. be goed.„ Its ministers (we speak of the Protestant church) leave the pul pit for the humans ; abandon divinity for pol itics. They have been, known to join Know- Nothing lodges, and to take the fearful, wicked, damning oaths there administered. The de scent is fearful. No wonder, that infidelity prevails. We observed, the other day, among the names of officers elect of one Of our city Christian cliureites. that of n notoriously prom inent Know-Nothing. but not notorious for piety. We make no profession ourselves, but we know what mockery of religion is. 'No wonder, we say. that infidelity prevails. Things, we suspece, will be mended by and by.- MasiaChnsetts has a full fruition otknow- Nothingisin. Through the instrumentality of the Order, thirty or forty professed ministers of Christ were sent to the legislature. , ThOse thirty or forty ministers have not exercised in fluence enough to save the legislature from disgrace, We do not know that they 'have tried. They voted for the appointment of the committees whose exploits have been recorded in the public journals, and one of whose mem bers offered shameful indignities to the Lady Superior of a convent, And .another of whom;. on the expedition to another convent, carried With him a disreputable , person of the opposite sex. Whose expenses werepaid by the State These things were enacted, in the name of Protestantism, in Massachusetts, by a com mittee of a legislature containing among . its members thirty or forty professed ministers of the Gospel. They never will be reenacted in that - State ; Massachusetts has bid a surfeit of know-Nothingism. Few other States will de sire to be thus fated. We believe in Protestantism. But we don't believe in political Protestantisin. We don't believe in Protestantism that countenances know-Nothingism. We. don't believe in the Protestantism 'which perMits its priests to de file their religion. We don't believe in Pro testant inquisitions more than in Catholic in quisitions—in Americaninquisitions more than in Spanish inquisitions. The Protestantisin we believe in is that whose weapons are truth, and whose faith is in its eflicacy.—This is what Protestantism. used to be--what it must be if it would save itself from disgrace and ruin, and the country from infidel ity. Know-Nothingism has done Catholicism no injury yet. What injury has it not done Pro testantism • —" Ddruit Free Prres. Expulsion of Mr. Hiss. BOSTON, May 11.—After a night session of seven hours, the House, this . Morning at two o'clock. passed the resolution expelling Mr. -Hiss by a vote ofyeas . 137, nays 15. Previous to his expulsion he charged the chairman of the committee that examined his case, and several other members of the House, with be ing guilty of the same offence alleged against him. • U 0 - Miss 13usici.sy, whose escape -from the Sisterhood,at Emmitsburg, Nid., some time ago, made quitesa talk, is out with a •card. Stating that She prepared Material for a hook upon her experiences, but that, somebody else got hold of the papers - and secured the copy right in'New Dirk. and that she has, in consequence, instituted a suit to recover her MSS. 0::7A colored graduate of Oberlin , College, named J. Mercer Langston, has been elected Clerk of the toWnship in which he resides. viz : Bmwnhelm, Lorain county, Ohio. lie is a Know-Nothing. Governor of 3fassaehnsetts refuses to remove Judge Loring. •E{is cheek is not quite hard enough for that yet. ESPLOSIO:s7 OF A LOCOMOTIVN-7FIVI: LIVES Losr.—A locomotive attached to a, freight train on the Jeffersonville railway, exploded near Seymour. Indiana, on Friday morning. killing the engineer and four others,••passen gers, instantly. The locomotive was blown to fragm;nts. • SAD RMULT OF JESTING.-Ori the 2d instant at Memphis, Tenn., a young man, in a spirit of levity, said. to Mrs. Green Wormely, a re spectable lady in delicate health.' that her husband had been seriouly injured-by a dray running over hi an— 4 F . • • her such a shock that 'she immediately fainted and in a short time was a corpse. effOLEHA AT Sr. Louts.—The cholera coltin- nes its ravages among the emigrants on the counterfeit of the $2O gold pieces is now in Upper Nlississippi. The boats are generally circulation. It. is precisely the same circutn crowded beyona their capacity. Unusual, fa- ference as the coin, but it is not as thick. It Linty seems to attend the disease. is valued at $l3 50. The coin may be detect ed by observing the word -sold" in small raised letters, on the bottom of the head. 70 - The grand jury at Rochester, N: Y., has indicted the I,ecret ua.h ,ist(rn of the know Doth llii, As ii:egal goa The Statot,_But. this is i RP* i affair, ef.ttnpar ! ed with l othey ,ext,raregAnces„ . ..that. ha vie been reeillesiTy plungedd intti.i 'the .oirer:barderied 41x-peyers-44-Itennsycleanie-scilLopea.4heir eyes with astonishtnent,nd.sla!m, when they 'see the siitn. total of ',the cost of only four months' K. N. rule.—Reoding Gazelle, Afasf,s. Froutx, Va., May- 7, P. M.—Our municipal election took place to -day , and re sulted, after a desperate struggle., Oh which bothrparties made every exertion to secure 'the victory) in the defeat of the Know Nothings. The Democratic Mayor, Recorder, and Council are elected by large majorities. ' PETEH*BURG, Va.. May 7.—At, the election for corporation officers here to•day, after an exciting contest, the knoW-nothings were de feated. The democrats elected a majority of the council, the mayor, and :All the city offi cers, with one exception. -Axarntat, SMASIEL-At an election held on Monday week, in Indianapolis,' the capital of Indiana, the Know-Nothing candidates received a very handsome dressing at ihe'hands of the Democracy. Last year the Know-Nothings carried the city by 240 Majority : now they are beaten by 248, being a gain of 488 iu six months... *- In Pottsville, the Know Nothings elect ed their Burgess by a small majority, but the Democrats have the Council. Oa - The State Know-Nothing Convention of Illinois, adjourned on the 4th inst.—after a stormy session. It is stated that a disruption took — place on the slavery question. OF 11Is PASSAIC Butous:—The new bridge over thuFassaic river, above the Falls, fell on the 3d inst.. at the time a test of twen ty tons was being applied.. There were about thirty persons on the bridge at the_time. most of whom were precipitated into the water. Two were seriously injured, and . tt is feared there are others among the ruins. This tho sec ond suspension bridge put over the river at this point, within a year. , _ [a'Hon. Walter T. Colquitt died at Macon, Geo., on the 7th inst. He represented Geor gia in the House of Representatives, many years ago, and was subsequently chosen 'United States Senator. On the expiration of his term in the Senate, he retired to private -life. Mr. Colquitt was IL great natural orator and had, white he took part in politics, a reading influ ence in Georgia. FIVE PER§ONS STARVRD TO DRATII—The schooner John Clark, Capt. Matay, was lost on her passage . from -New York to Jacinel, San Domingo, by becoming water logged. The captain and four of the crew perished from starvation, and two men who were left alive, were taken off and brought to New York., They report that they had nothing to eat for eight days previous to being taken off. DThe Reading Railroad "Company estab lished a new era on Monday last, when they commenced running a third daily line, for the Lakes, the Falls of Niagara, and all the Great West. leaving Philadelphia depot at 6 A. M., and reaching the Falls in sixteen hours ! This is taking the wind out of the sails of the New- Yorkers. MP; Patce or Lumma. —Almost the only ar ticle which has' fallen in price recently is lu m-. her, especially timber. The Philadelphia Ledger says that logs are now selling at tide water at six cents which brought from ten to fourteen cents at Lock Haven last year. Much suffering and distress is anticipated in conse quence in the lumber manufacturing regions. HIGH PRICF: OF HAY. —Some idea of the scar city of hay in the District of Columbia, and, parts of Maryland and Virginia adjacent there- to, may be formed from the fact, which we state on the authority of a private letter from Washington, that the President recently paid SG3 for a load weighing about a ton And a half. Cattle have died of sheer starvation•in that region. • 1:7 -- The N. Y. Flour dealers are already at work speculating on the growing crops. On Monday a contract was made for 3,000 barrels, deliverable in July, at $8 75 : also 1,000 bar rels at $9. The stock of flour in New York is said to be almost exhausted. From Canada the receipts are about 1;000 barrels daily. It meets with ready sale. BREADSTUFFS IN WlSCONsts.—Thcre are now at Milwaukie, Wisconsin, ready for ship• limit, 70,000 barrels of flour and 550,000 bushels of wheat. GREAT BALLOON TRAY ElANG.•—Monsieur Go dard. the great remnant, left New Orleans on Sunday last, in a balloon, and having travelled 0 rniles.in_ciT hours, landed hic pass at Port Gibson, Mississippi. lie then resumed his voyage. His passengers were six in num ber, and included one or two members of the New Orleans press. Cc:7-The St. Louis Intelligeneer expresses a full belief in tee rumored discovery of abun dant gold deposits at the source of tho Arkan- sas river COrSTER.FEIT DOC ISLE made "r - -4 A E.:faiiant AO am, Cfwetczy Municipal Elialong. - Hanover Brand)' Riiii-Road. f An Meal- Pietttre, • The President and Tfirectirrtref the:Fanover The Rev. 'M. •Geechancriifitiniber of the BA - nal ".Itail;Otid Cortipany, Published -2-LoPdon-" recentlyWesleyttnillisszon,return. Allies, and the course of their' reportof the gperations -and finan sed-fronOt tei - , •' d d'l• sketch of t moral an soma con it ition o vial -condition of the - ;company for the past ; t h e fl eil rees 'i o t la bitieg o ttie Gold COast and its year: Notwithstanding the gbort crops of last vicinity, he : furnishes sitruly awful picture. season acid the depressiofi of the business, 1 I his one' of their barbarous and which, in a measure. suspended the transpor bloody eusto :been abandoned, from the ear tation of Ore, the business of the road exhibits; Beat period of which anything is known of an itier - enSe on that of the preceding year of them. They still pave their court-yereP, pats, ces, and even the streets or market plaees of - abont l 2 per cent. • - their villsmes or towns, with the skulls of those. The gross receipts •from the earnings of the .butelaered . i ars, et_fea.sts, funerals, or as L • :"roit'el 'hive been:as:follows": • •( • • - ' t - crifies tic IlOssiirn.... l Still their wives and , From Passengers, ...... . , 43 slaves are buried alive with the descend bu5•'......... •'......... .13.5 M-431-bend-or master. - -- When --- Adatrenzen died;- - twoer- I " Mail .pay, 557 00 hundred and eighty of hi ' 'wives were hmehe r e. ed before the arrival of firs successor. which put ..._,,,...-*23-;054-86 4 .***t0p4044,4miy-do,in erewse the flow- of biondb benuniberelf - , - deatlialw - other - wa - ys - r --- The --- remaining' living wires' were buried, amidit dancing,- singing, and - bewailing; the noise. of - horns,- drums,-muskets, yells, groans,' Screee‘ hines: the woppen. marching by , headless' trunks, debenbed themselves - with earth ar'd : - blood. , Their victims - were marched along' with large knives pasted through their cheeks.' -The:executioners struggle; fur the office, while; the victims took on and endure. with apathy'.' They were too familiar With the horrid saeri-' flee to show terror, - Or'to imagine that all•was , - not as' it should be. -Their hands were IF - '- chopped off, and then their'heads sawed ok i prolong-the emusetnentettete -some-w ho• sisted to fill the grave were, hustled in alive, in order to Add te: thiltspoti Or ( Stoleinnity of the scene. Upon the death of a King's brother, four thousand, victims t ivere _thus sacrificed. These ceremonies are-often repeated, and hun dreds slaughtered at every rehearsel.--,--Upon the death ofa king of ..Ashantee, a general maS;-' sacre takes place, in which there can .be no computation of the victims. "At their .Yam Customs,' 'Mr. Rowditeh witnessed spectacles of the most appalling kind. Every caboceer, or noble, sacrifieed a - slave as he entered at the gate. Heads and skulls formed the ornaments of their posses sions. Hundreds were slain ; and the stream ing and - steamin g blood of the victims was' tiiihgled in a vast brass .piin, with.various'veg etables and animal matter,-fresh ai; well as pu trid. to compose a powerful Fetiche. - At these customs the same scenes of butchery and slaugh ter oce' r. The kinc , 'sexecutioners traverse the city. killing' all the; meet. The neat day des olation reigns over the land. The king dur ing- the bloody saturnalia. looked on eagerly, and danced in his chair with delight ! • ''The King of Dahomey paves the approaches 'to his residence, and ornaments the battlements - •of his palace, with the skulls of his victims ; and the great Fetiche Tree, at Ha - angry, has its wide-spread limbs laden with human.ear casses'and limbs. There the want of 'chasti ty is no disgrace, and' the priests are einpLO . yed .31 tirder, -- sitidlhieseryr? says Bosman,••are • here no'sins.-',l,'; • Phoning .an increasoin . reeeipts_over t: lastyear, as follovrs From Passengers,.... " Freight, 'Of these earnings the Northern Central Rail way Company haveieceived one-half for stock ing and working the road, leaving-as net earn ings for this Company's share $11,525 93. The ordinary expenditures for the past year have amounted to, 154.665 28—the Extraordi nary to $1.144 074, leaving a balance of .$5,- 716 671', which has been appropriated to pay ing c,fc the floating debt, interest on the bonds, Than l'atco" w BMEF.—They complain bit terly in New York, of the exorbitant price of beef. A person Writing from that city. says. 4 •Good beef is selling at from ]1 to 13i cents per' pound on 'the hoof—the latter being - the highest price ever known in the New York market. A conversation with some of the dro vers elicited sufficient to justify the belief that an arrangement has been entered into between the brokers _there, and the owners in the coun try. to keep c attle, back, so as to give color to the cry of scarcity, in order to obtain exorbitant prices." GREENSFOH,S, WAI*E Co., INTL, • " April 30,1855. have a brother, NATHANIEL 111.1)EVITT, who lives somewhere inTerilisylva nia, (or so I have learned,) who-I have' not heard from for• some forty years. Any one knowing anything in relation to his wherea bouts, or should this happen to meet his eye, *ill confer a great favor by addres:ing a note to the subscriber at Greenblork, Wayne coun ty, Indiana.. SAMUEL M'DEVITT. (Editors please copy. FEARFUL POSIT,ION:---The Montreal Gazelle. of Friday, says the ice was broken up, and rapidly moving away, but the river was not yet clear. On Monday last twenty-three per sons', including thirteen ladies and gentlemen who wished to, take the cars for Poston, and ten ferrymen, undertook - to cro-ts the river on foot. When a bout , : four hundred yards from the Montreal shore, a' loud ,shouting -from the land which they. had quitted. and a sharp hissing sound, caused by the rapid upturning of the ice above them, warned. them that a •'shove" had commenced, and than the ice was moving down. They were in a very danger ous. position, and immediately commenced making. for the shore. Around them was a moving mass. of jagged, rotten ice, and they were obliged to jump from one cake to another. Finally, all reached a place of safety, with the exception, of one gentleman—Mr. Sanderson who was brought ashore by the current upon a 'cake of ice, dead. .Whether he was stunned or crushed by the concussion of the ice, or whether he was frightened to death, is not known. Two Woutok Brit-T TO DNATIL—The Wil mington (N. C.,)-11ei'aldol_Aprd 2.3 d, says : “A distressing rumor comes to us that whilst tWo white women were absorbed in resisting the encroachment of - a fire in the woods,on the line of the ,Wilmington and Weldon rond, the other day, so rapid was its progress that they, were completely surrounded, and. before they discovered their situation all means of escape was cue off, and they perished in the flames. At another point, another barely escaped her life by forcing her way through the flames into an open field, and thence into a pond of water." WORKING OF TILE MAINE LAW.—In Boston. Mass.. there is hardly a show of restraint in the sale of liquor : in Portland, Me., fbur hun dred and forty-drunktirds were arrested during the past year: in Providence and Newport, R. 1., liquor way be bought by the penny's worth : in Hanford and New Haven, Conn., it is sold openly, and the Carson League wink at it; in Cincinnati, Ohio, the groggeries are in full blast. 17 it is stated that Governor. Reeder, of Kansas, hits determined, if his course meets with the approvalof the authorities at Wash ingt9n, to order another election for members of the Territorial Legislature, to fill the vacan cies where commi.4sions have not been granted, said election to be conducted with proper safe guards against another incursion like that which vitiated the previous election. • The Kansas llerald says the Missourians Them selves are aware now of the error - they have made, and are apprehensive of a serious reac tion at the East. rf"Dr. Charles A. Peck has been released from imprisonment in Cuba, and is on his,way home. Ile has published a statement from New Orleans, complaining that his treatment was very blush, and making a claim on the government of Spain for compensation. Many eminent Cubans, resident abroad, had been summoned to appear before the military tribu nal for trial. A list of -their names is given. AN EKTKNSIVE FARMJUt.—Michael L. Sulli rant. an Illinois farmer, it is said, is about to plant ten thousand acres of land in corn. lie was one of the largest farmers in the State of Ohio, for many years. and. according to a co temporary. he could ride in a direct course fif teen miles through his own cornfields. NIORTALTTY AMONG THE Cows.-11 is stated in the Cleveland Plain Dealer that the scarcity of food for stock in Trumbull. Geauga. Ashta bula, Portage and Sommit counties. Ohio, has been so great that a most unparalleled loss has occurred among the stock of cows of the dair - men. More than !'our thousand - laie ie. an eat—at east ye pax or you, an. now yogi the county of Trumbull alone, and from all ac- must eat"—upun which. he seized every thing counts it is supposed the number Jost on the eatable within his reach, nuts, raisins, apples. Western Reserve will not fall short of sixteen ' cakes, pies, and amid the roars of the bystand thousand.ers the delioht or his brother passengers, and . . POST OFFICE DErART.IIENT.—GFOUIId jrIS discomfiture — Of the landlord: phlegruatically jeebrakenatwashulgtnn for_the_ert ,__ , went and took his seat in the cars. tie said be " Li g e- i-- 1 ird --- -- •• .' 1 pru.i..,ions enouglT - ToT - last -- h - im — to — Nevr ment of the building occupied by the General ; ; York. after a bountiful supply had been served Post Office of the United States: The addi. out in the cars. There was at least $8 worth Lion to he made will cover a spflee quite as in the bag—upon which the landlord realized large - as that occupied-by the present building, , ; nothing in the way of profit. and the whole, when completed. will fill the entire ,square. 5300,000 ."were appropriated i ti.../' 7 "lt was seventeen years on last Monday by the last Congress Tor this much needed im provement. . w since the first Atlantic steamer arrived at New York. The Sirius, Captain-Roberts. ho was - - ----- .. -- i ---- - "' — sub - se — qu - ently — TisT - Tri'" l . l fe — Pre.idt - n - t — , -trrived— rin Kansas, the Missouri regulators hare early in the morning. and a few hours after- to oust Governor Reeder, and elect. a Governor in his stead. accordingly. they wards the Ghent Western bate called a conrcation to nomioltt a catidi dau obe o $1,094.39 ,1,275 05 512.369 44 Another Phase of the Order. We had supposed . - Know:Nothiontsm was especial ty ,th e-antagonism of p 4 thoEcism.: 4tieta is the case, here, - and throughout , the. Not:du, In New Orleans, hoWever, where the Catholic; religion .ts.poptilar, this antagonism, we see r , ,• is uisclaimed. The New 'Orleans, Ouyetin,., an organ of theorcier, says : • , -"We have the very best authority for say- ing that this obnoxious and proscriptive, fea ture (the exclusion of Catholics frO tr. office) does; not characterize the order of Know Nothings in Louisiana.. We,are very-confident that the religious element forms no:component part of the Louisiana order ; that there is ,u recognized' discrimination between Catholics and .Protes-. tants ; and the Native Americans comprehend and embrace, in the fullest sense of the word,: those who are born on the sod. and those only, be they Catholies_or Protestants." Thus, then, the cry of -down with' the: Catholics" is to be the watchword only where. votes can be made by it. A letter front Washington city, published its the Boston Post, aays: ''The evidence is very good that the Blissou , -, rians who invaded Kansas at the recent election, were know nothings. A writer of a private, letter from there 'speaks of their having-secret . Ird,ges and of concerted action. , One thing is sure, that they were enemies, of the Nebraska law. Why, the law didn't leave it to the peo ple.of Missouri to form the-institutioas of Kan sas ! It assumed, and justly, that the men or Kansas were , competent to make their own. laws. Therefore any obstacle put in the war, of their .exercising this right is the expression of hostility to that law. ,It is nullification, and it should he put, down. INVENCTE. Lorno Orr.—The receipts of the:: State Treasury, during the year 1854; for Li censes, which the new Law "To restrain the Sale of Liquors" abolishes, were as follows,. according to the Auditor General's Report : . Tavern I ketKieg $ . 187.602 16 ' . . Dikt Ile ry and Brewery licenses, 3.223 99• liathrg, Beer house end Restaurant license:. 20,977 30 Totat, 5211 r 5303 44 ' This heavy item of -revenue will be entirely lost to the State nest year, and withont - any compensating • benefit to the people. Those , : who think the ridiculous anti-license law pass ed, is going to cure' intemperance teetotally; or diminish 'the consumption of intoxicating liquors by ci thimble 'full, "imagine a Taint thing.''=-Reading Gazelle. • A HUNGRY CARPET BAG.—The Mph) Er press relates an amusing incident which oc-, curred at Erie a few days since. A gentleman. left Cleveland for New . York at an early hoar in the morning, without his breakfast, and be inn'4' very hungry, upon the arrival of the train at Erie, entered the dining room, and placing his carpet hag upon a chair, sat down beside it, and commenced a valorous attack upon the viands placed before him. By and by the pro prietor of the establishment came around to collect fares, and upon reaching our friend, ejaculated. "Dollar, sir !" "A dollar !" sponded the eating man. "a dollar—thought you only charged fifty cents a meal for one— eh ?" -That's true," said Meanness, "hut 1 count your carpet bag one, since it occupies a sent." (The table was far from being crowd ed.) Our friend expostulated, but the land lord insisted, and the dollar was reluctantly brought - forth. The landlord passed on. Our friend deliberately arose and opening his car pet bag. full in its wide mouth, discoursed unto it, saying, "Carpet bag, it seems . you're an individual—a human individual. since you 1 " - ;"'"The most impol cpw.slion among the -Know - - . ltiothinis ,c;;Littl. The Kansas Outrage.
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