63213
Ike Republican Compilet.
33STTYSBtritG, PA.
MONDAY 1101LNING, MAY' 28, 1855.
_
o^‘ , Te are indebted to Me. MCCLICAN for
ropy of :idea of the Acts ant: Resolution - a
sulopte4l by the late Ler,iststure, and other
docettienta. The whole number of Acts pass
ed was 725.
Cs-wean.:soxs ~Foon.—We learn 'that a
stieer was slaughtersd at St. Joseph's, at Em
;"lnitsburg, on the 15th inst. . When opened,'n
large table fork, 61 inches in 'length, with n
bone handle 2tinches long, was - . taken from
the stomach. how did heiawallow such nn
article
0:7 Q u te a large nutnber of removals have
been made from the old burial yards to the
Cemetery this Spring, and Many lots have been
improved. 'A commendable spirit. seems to
prevail among all interested to adorn the , place.
and render it a beautiful resort for the friends
of the departed. We hope others - will soon fol
low the example already set, them, and as
sist in this delightful task.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-4 most frightful accident
=tined on Wednesday morning week ,at a barn
raisingon
: the farm of Mr. Christian Caulley,
c township. Omit four miles from Lan-
While in the net of raising some heavy
part of that - which had previously been
gave way and fell on the men below,
Milting onequan instantly, and injuring fifteen
others, breaking their arms and legs, and other
wise mangling them dreadfully. Several of
them are not - expected to recover.*--Cmatan S.
HENRY* of A bbottstovrn, Adams county, was
the person killed.
CO' reat suffering is said to prevail on Red
river, La., on account of the scarcity of provi •
&tut, flour being worth $9O a barrel.
Wagramsrga REVIEW.—The April number
of this excellent British Quarterly contains six
articles, entitled as follows; Memoirs of the
Court of Austria ; Dryden and his titnes
Our Army, jut condition and .its wants : Lord
Palmerston as Premier ; Victor Hugo and his
writings; Reorganization of the Civil Service;
Administrative Example in the United States.
Tho last named article exhibits the superiority
of our governmental systein, as compared with
that of Great Within, in a very strong light.
There is, beside, the usual review of - Cotern•
porary Literature. - The Review is reprint
ed in New York by LEONARD SCOTT & CO.
enxigl3 per annum - - - -or, - taken in connection
with the three other leading Bri fish Quarterlies,
(London. Edinburgh and North British) and
Blackwood's siagazine, the price is $lO per
annum for the series.
TessosisNATIONAL MAGAZIN s.—The June.
number is alreally on our table, and is en ad
mirable one. A new. volume begins with the
July number, affording a imitable opportunity
to subscribe. The terms - are $2 a • copy for
one year. To clubs, three copies for $5, live
copies.for. $7 50, or eight copies for $lO. with
a premium;--the "Gift Book of Art," with
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club. Address Charles J.. Peterson, Nu. 102
Chistnnt street: Philadelphia.
GODICT I S LAPT,'S Boos...—The June number
of this beautitul and interesting book is upon
our table. As usual the Lady's Houk presents
a rich feast to the lover of light reading.
379 n Saturday night week Shriver's hotel,
five miles from Harrisburg, was destroyed by
tire, with melt of the furniture.
To COUNTY TIMASURFALS.-By the 74th•sec
tion of the annual appropriation bill, all Coun
ty Treasurers, and others having charge of
moneys belonging to the Ceminonwealth, are
required on the first Monday of June next, and
at the close of each inonth thereafter, to pay
over to the State Treasurer, or to deposit at
such places as the said officer may designate,
the etitire amount of collections of the piece
ding mouth; and they are also required to make
out and transmit to the State Treasurer, a
statement showing the aggregate of the amount
of money so received and paid, and the amount
paid each day.
[l:7"The new German Reformed Church in
Greencastle will be consecrated to , Divine
Worship on Saturday, the 2d of June.
MORE PROSCRIPTION IN 31ASSACEIUSETTS.—
The legislature of 3lassachusetts. which has
just closed its inglorious career, passed an act
to amend the State constitution prohibiting
naturalized citizens from voting or holding any
office in that commonwealth. Those naturaliz
ed, however, before the amendment to the
constitution is adopted by a vote of the people,
are to be allowed to vote, but nut to bold office.
lAstaat. BEQUESTS.—The late Abner Mc-
Ghee, of Ala., previous to his death, wade the
following' liberal donAtions ; American I;ii,le
!Society, N. Y., $50,000 ; llcl, lie College,
; Samaritan Fund. .lla Lama
Conference Methodist Protestant t in 510.-
000; Alabama Bible Sudety, ,Ilunigontery,
11),00t).
PPUOPittartoxs.—The gyllernl appropria
tion bill passed by the Ligisluture of this
State, at its late scsdou, cogatined in the ag
gregate appropriations amounting, to 64,601).-
000; of which awoirest 5.2,000.000 was for t:i
ttrest on the public Jeut. $12,U,000 fur es.-
pease' of the Legislatitre, tS2JO,UUU fur the
i•nlipatt. of Coudovu Schou-is, ,7 3U for the
completion of die Portage Railroad. and .2511..
OW for re-lay iag tbeSoutli the ettila
alelphia and Columbia Railroad-
- trrThe meatier Gent 111.11. MI New , - -
rxrimaii trateitigeswe
'York. on the .1.411, truct. 74,14 4,11112 ,
h it "bokii4 ti for the eottAin; NU , 3111.1.:! *
*tut 4,..11.000,,tiveJ JO 4 I - tAki.
11111 tie: i HAS la ziLiouns."
Sam and Uncle /3rm.
The 'Retow-NOthing party, says the Rocking-
WM, 'Register, is an . organization composed of
Multifarious-and - iliverse elements. Not the
least remarkable of these is the element offing
gadocia. On the contrary, this is the-great
audits' of the concern to Carryon their plans—
the Steam power by which all their tnachin-.
cry is propelled. They effect to have hearts
pulsating more strongly for America and Amer
ican interests than all. "the rest of mankind."
They love to speak of the intense devotion to
human liberty, which animates their patriotic ;
hosGms, and the cordial rancor which boils
froin their inmost bouls against everything that ;
is foreign in its character. Like that pompous
and boasting sect, never mentioned in the Bi-
We but in terms of the severest criticism . , they
set up the :ridiculous claim of S not being "as
other men - are." In strict accordance with
their native propensity to set up false claims
and to accomplish their nefarious ends by a
systematic course of braggadocio, is• the ambi
tious and impertinent name by which their
Organization - is known. Sam ! -Borrowed, of
course, from Uncle Sam. It is said that there
is nothing in a name—that a rose would smell
as sweet by any other name. Shakespeare was
right, and he might have added, that a fish
geranium by any other name would smell - as
disagreeable. The Know-Nothings think dif
ferently. Shakes] eare was a fool, and they ex
pect-to prove it. - Such is the arrogant confi
dence they repose in themselves, that they fond
ly hope to impose upon popular credulity by
affecting to be American in their principles and
even their name. Such, an aspiring cognomen
as •Sant,'' if the name 'be consistent with• their
practice and principles. will cast a gloom of
suspicion upon their a nibitinus pretensions, and
reveal the attrocious treachery which lies at
the bottom of their Organization. We have
always been accustomed to think one person
was named After another, either on account of
some resethidance, some near relationship or
some Emily cnnnectiun, If this view is correct,
-we submit that "Sam," in the-first place, can !
not claim the veneration which is implied in
"Uncle." lie is a self conceited youngster nut
yet in hie teens in this country, of questionable
ancestry, proud, addicted to strong drink, 'pm:
seriptive and decidedly dandyish. "Uncle
Sam," is grave in his deportment, venerable in
his appearance, not afraid of foreigners, not
given to wine, except for his' stainach's sake,
chivalrous in his bearing and inheriting great
ancestral fame. There is no relationship or
family ennneetion between these two gentle
men. No, more than between the Jew and the
Greek. "Uncle Sam" is the• son of the illus
trious sires of the Revolution—the noble off
spring of an oppressed people,- determined to be
fie° ! "Saw" was born upon a foreign soil, and
belong , : to that genus of noxious plants not in
dig,eninis to our soil. •He is the son of proscrip
tion, intolerance mid persecution.
.11e is the'
puny offspring of a barbarous age, and reminds
us of the ancient Pigmies waging war - against
the Cranea! The ono belongs to a family bold
in the proclamation of its doctrines, seek ing .no
.concealment and asking no favors ; the other
to a family covert in all its movements, shun
ning investigation and ignoring responsi unities.
Between "Sam" and "Uncle Sam," therefore,
there can be nh affiliation. They arc separat
ed as wide as the poles on every subject. "Un
cle Sam" looks upon his name-sake with dig
nified disgust. Ile bus no language with
which to convey to the precocious youth the
burning indignation and blasting contempt
•
which he feels for him.
A NOTIUM DKOISION ON TIM LICKNSK QrES.
TION.—The very loose and bungling manner
in which the new anti-license law has been
put together, is leading to all sorts of conflict
ing decisions upon its provisions. White in
some counties, the Courts have proceeded to
grant licenses as usual. subject to the operation
a the new law on the Ist of October, in others
they have absolutely refused to grant them,
under the plea that the new law has repealed
all the existing license laws, and provided im
substitute for them short of October. Judge
Galbraith, of Erie, has put this construction
upon the new' law, and refused to grant licen
ses to inns and taverns in Erie chanty. He
alsci decided that there was no law in existence
at this time which regulated the sale of liquors;
that all law's relating thereto. punishments,
&c., have been repealed, and no law can be
effective until October the Ist. at which time
the new law goes into effect. By-this decision
it appears that everybody can sell liquor, un
til October _lst. without a license for the priv
ilege, or the fear of incurring any penalty fur
its abuse.
FAMINE tv CrEORGIA.- Accounts from the
northern part of Georgia represent that many
people in that section are without corn or the
means to procure any. There is none for sale,
and there is serious danger of famine. Horses
and mules_ are turned out into the wilds to
wait for grass or starve, so that no plowing can
be done, and planting must he done with the
h o e. Unless relief be extended, the poorer
class of that section 'must perish.
TRUE CESEROSITY.—The Marietta (Ohio)
Advocate says that many farmers in that sec-
tion have refused to sell their corn to specula-
tors at $1 40. and have chosen to divide it
among their poorer neighbors at one (141,:r per
bushel. Such benevolence deserves to be re-.
cur ded.
•
CC7The Baltimore City Guard.; desi gn vis
iting ork. Pa., on the Fourth of July, accom
panied by the Independent Blues Band. on
which occasion they will he the guests of the
Houston Artillery, Capt. J. A. STAITIAL •
LouKs Wt.:Lt.—The. country just now looks
well. The trees have All put on their green
, foliage : the fields are green with the wavy
grass and the flowitt , P wheat : the flowers - ate
out in gaudy colors and all thing.. are beauti
1. After is th©
bright spring and summer time
Tile Virginia Election.
WISE'S MAJORITY 10,000.
W AsHiNti•rmi, May. 4 25, 9 P. M.—Mr. Witte
sweeps the Souttilmt cputittnl from the Pea
to - the kettitiekTline. — Litehent'' Midland
Cott uti's pile up intmmtse majorities for Wise.
Mr. Wise is undoubtedly elected from 5,000
trp 10.000 majoi . ity.
All the De►uoerntic Congressmen are elected
to, a certainty except Kidwell and Lewis—
these are in doubt.
WAMHINGTON CITY. Miy 25, 10 P. 111.—In
thirty Counties heard frotn Wise's malorities
show very lade difference from Pierce's vote,
when the State was carried - by over 15,000.
Faulkner is re-elected by a small majority.
The • Dernnerats gain in the Legislature, and
the Know-Nothings give all up as lost.
Coming Ont.
We are informed that several gentlemen of
this town. who joined the "supreme order of
the Star Spangled Banner," have come out.—
Deceive], humbugged, bamboozled into it,
they felt it their duty, as .honest Men, to.quit
and be once more freemen. Let honest Demo=
crats who have been persuaded to
.join, come
out from the embrace of their ancient enemy.
Let honest men come out from. the foul associ
ation, and leave the vile tools and tricksters
who got it up and who work and spy - for it,
to their impending and inevitable doom.—
flagerstuten Mail. .
THE WAn,—The public mind in Europe has
come to the conclusion that the war, instead
of being "sharp and short," as was first sug
gested, will be long and bloody. The London
Times says: "It, is mere self delusion to talk
of peace now. We must make up our minds
to fight it out with a stout heart and a strong
hand." Yet we see that Lord Palmerston is
still deluding himself and Parliament with
the hope - that the war may yet be closed by
negotiation. Ile is "holding the door open,"
but as long as a barrier of conditions stands
in the way opposed to Russian designs, no
Russian 31inister ,will enter. The nation is
for war, vigorously prosecuted. The llinis
ters are for peace if they can get it—but with
no possibility of getting it.
n'The expedition for the reiief of Dr. Kane,
to be'commdnded by Lieut. Ilartstein, is now
ready for sailing. A bark of three hundred
and twenty-seven tons and a propeller of two
hundred and fifty will go upon this expedition,
amply provided with two yea] s' rations. The
vessels will carry 300 tons of Pittston (Pa.)
anthracite coal for the use of the propeller, and
for ordinary consumption. The number of
ma going tint on this expedition will be forty
seven,including four officers to each vessel.
Tnc ClioPS.—Nwestern paper says it recent
ly had a visit from a gentleman who had
.traveled through.a great part of the Western
and Southern country, who reports that
throughout the entire . Union a prospect of n
large Crop of wheat is in the highest degree
favorable. This but confirms the general im
pression even in the distant Californias, our
advices tell us that the plant otceral grain has
exceeded that of any other year. Wheat seems
to have engaged the farmer's attention m that
far off State, and it promises to yield more
than is needed.
D6STRCCTIVR num -L-On last Wednesday
evening week a fire broke out in the Mont Al
to Iron Works. Notwithstanding the etlints
of the people of the neighborhood. the fire was
not-extinguished until it had destroyed a large
amount of property. Of the exact loss we are
not now advised, nor could' we easily make a
guess. A large tract of pasturage land was
also on tire, and the grass entirely destroyed.
This will be a great loss to the surrounding
farmers as it was the principal, if not the only
dependance of their ca ttle. —Cita mb. Spirit.
OCR RKLATIONS:WITII Ctin.t.—The Savannah
Ch.mrgian is assured by gentlemen direct from
Key West., that Chuileotiore McCauley, on his
return from Havana. freely gave out in private
conversation — that our difficulties with Cuba
were entirely and peacefully settled.
Post•Ofbce Department has framed
a series of instructions for the guidance of
Post Masters, upon the introduction of the sieve
system for the registration of valuable letters.
The plan is to go into operation on the Ist of
July next, on and after which date any letter
can be registered and receipted for; upon pay
ment of a fee of tive cents, extraordinary care
being taken to insure its safe delivery at its
destination.
Baltimore County Advocate, of Sat
urday week, has the fallowing paragraph :
Ala..Jonx U. Scorr.—We had the pleasure
of seeing this gentleman on Tuesday last, as
he wns taking his first ride in the country.
since his injury by the frightful accident on
the Railroad at Bidet's' Switch, on the 4th of
July last. His left leg is not yet well, but h:.
is able to move about on crutches. It will
still be some time before it is perfectly healed:
and even then there will he considerable lame
ness. He seems in good spirits, considerwg
his long confinement and sickness.
STATS AGRICULTURAL FAIR.—The citizens of
Harrisburg have contributed $1,500. and
thereby assure the holding of the next State
Agricultural Fair at that place. The days
fixed for the Fair, are Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. the 25th, 2Gth, 27th
and 28th of September next.
M A SSA CHIUSRITS FANATictsm.—The Gover•
nor's veto of the Personal Liberty bill, or the bill
to nullify the Fugitive Slave Law, and effect the
removal of Judge Loring, has been sanctioned
by a etumnunication from the Attorney Gen•
oral, pronouncing the bill unconstitutional.
Me St." 3l v pass e l the bill over the veto by a
vote of 32 to 3, and the noose by a vote of 310
to 70.—The decision of the'Attoiney General
!nukes the bill of no account.
ri - Trederiek Getting. of York- P.►., was
drowned in the Susquehanna on Wednesday
1/04t. •
- - -
heila has..tol t, ni tun.; ant~xiliu
luti
D.,,►J twu Lhuuaud e.
The Fools at Work.
Verily. sayS the Boston Times, we are cal."
Initiating to the zenith at temperance, falsely
sp called, as appears by the fullowA l / 4 0g petition,
which is going the rounds of Massachusetts fir
signers. Unless the mad career of fanatical
demagogues in Pennsylvania be checked at the
ballot-box next October, see may soon look for
a similar request:
"7',, thehnnorable the Senate and House of Rep
resentatires rf 41Jamachusetts, in General
['wort assembled
"The undersigned. inhabitants of -. in
the county of -. and Commonwealth of
'Massachusetts, mit only entertaining fears, but
strongly believing that the penalties for breach-
CA of the act entitled 'an act'con :erning the sale
and manufacture or Apirittions and intoxicating
liquors.' are wholly inadequate - for suppressing,
the traffic of said commodities. most earnestly
petition your honorable body to modify the act
so as to make., any breach of the provisions of
The same punishable with death : or. to . pass
an act in addition to said act that shill einlody
the death penalty for all breaches of the statute
aforesaid.
"And your petitioners beg leave to represent,
that inasmuch as there is no'objection to class
legislation. and becaurie apothecaries and drug
gists are greatly given to dram-selling. trust
iug to their bbre window bottles for protection
against their-infernal hypocrisy—they would
implore your honorable body .to provide, that
all persons engaged in said calling, who may
he found - guilty of any breaches of said statute,
shall be punished by a fine of not less than five
thousand nor more than ren thousand dollars,
to be forfeited one-half . to the informer, and
one-half to the Commonwealth, before the exe
cution of 8(127 , (droling apothecaries and drug.-
gists, and that, after payment of the same, said
offending party or parties shall be hung by the
neck -mtil they are dead. It being understood
that all apprentices, clerks, porters or employ
ees of whatever - name, are equally amenable
to and punishable by The several provisions of
said statute.
- "And as in duty bonnd we will ever pray."
Mr. Hiss Once. More.
BOSTON, May 23.—1 n the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts, this morning, , Chief Justice
Shaw delivered his opinion in the case of Jo
seph Hiss, praying to be released from arrest
for debt .on the ground that at the time he was
legally a member of the Legislature. The
Judge decides that the House of Representa
tives had an inherent right to expell Mr. Hiss,
and having exercised that power, Mr. Hiss
could not claim any privilege of exception pe
culiar to members of the Legbilature and,
therefore, he is remanded to the custody of the
jailer. .
o:7rhe Presbytery of Shenango, Wis., of the
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, at-a
meeting held on the I7th ult., adopted the' fol
lowing resolution with reference to secret so
cieties :
"Resolved. That , in the judgment of this
Presbytery, the principles of r on r church exclude
from communion the members of the secret
societyralled Know-Nothings, and the members
of all such secret societies, and that . the Pres
bytery direct sessions to enforce this opinion."
PHESBYTKRIAN GENHUAL • ASSF,SIHLY, OLD
,SCHOOL.—From the report of the board ofmis
sions, made to this body at Nashville, it ap
pears that the receipts of the board 'during the.
year were $t84,000, much larger than in for
-titer years. In the various mission churches
there are AO missionaries and 145 teachers, 672
communicants and 4,79 d children in the
schools.
rl:7"We see it mentioned that the locusts
hare appeared in great numbers in parts of
Alabama and Mississippi.
Sc,',.Atterrf SunAn.,---The brig Monte Cristo,
which was dispatched from Baltimore some time
since to Attakapas, Louisiana, for a cargo of
sugars, has returned in ballast; the article,
it is stated: being so scarce that she was una
ble to procure a cargo. Advises from Uuay
ama. Porto Rico. to the 11th inst., state that
the sugar crop would fall very much short this
'season, owing to the vast injury done to the
canes by drought. —There was, however, a
large stock on hand.
INDIAN WAR. ON TIM PLAlNS.—Acconnts
from - the Plains, says the Baltimore Sun, re
ceived through various channels. agree that
the Indian tribes are assuming a very hostrtt
attitude against the whites. Several tribes
combined, numbering three thousand warriors,
having thrown up fortifications at the source
of the Grand River. It is reported, however,
that the savages seem' inclined to acton the
riefensive, although the provocations made are
of such a formidable character as to leave no
doubt that an indiscriminate slaughter of the
whites will occur the first favorable opportu
nity.
O:7A man by the name of HOLLIS:MEAD. of
Hopewell township, York county, was run over
and killed by an express train about three miles
from York, on Friday week. He was standing
on the track, but as the train approached, step
ped aside, not sufficiently, however, to prevent
being caught by part of the machinery and
thrown down on the track.
SIIFFERING IN CAMBRIA CorxTr, PA.—The
Cambria Tribune says :—There has been great
mortality among the cattle of Cambria county,
during the last three months. Scores of cows
and other cattle have (lied of sheer starvation,
or from the effects of disease superjnduced by
feeding unwholesome food.
BOSTON. May 21.—The jury in the case of
Dr. Brown vs. the New Haven Rnilroad Com
pany have returned a verdict for the plaintiff,
assessing the damages in $16,000. Dr.
Brown was injured at Norwalk and sued for
$20,000.
NEw Yong.. May 24.—A gang of persons
suspected of being extensively connected in
certain counterfeitings, burglaries, &c.. was ar
rested in a building on Ninth avenue last night.
A large quantity of counterfeiting apparatus,
burglars' tools, d:c., woe found.
UPAn exchange_say_s_tkat th_e_tino fixed
upon for the end of the world by the followerA
of father Miller—the 19th inst.—was postponed
on account of the Virginia election
J — The Massachusetts legislaturic at itiit
late session, ao one goud thin,. IL passed
a bill abolishing itunrisoninont for debt.
(o—Rev. Dr. Anderson, Professor or The
olcury in the "I'lleoluir,ical Sethinary at Canons
burg.. Pa., (lied last week.
jr*.‘t B iston, the-c was a
.4141rty" of •aul the 11.1 t; fun; a Li tie
i• • • One of the Cayenes;(B. N.'s)
I-- -The ncitnrions prison bird Dr. Hines was ex
amined in Louisville on a charge of swindling.
and committed to the ..eave,_",balingi a iz e d_ to
give bail in 81,00 for his good behavior. The
doctor got up in the court-house and made a
speech. entering into a general philippic against
the New Orleans officer present.- whom he
charged with persecuting him through malice,
because he land invariably been a staunch sup.
pm*, in that city. Yatire jmericanism. The
!Know-Nothings present loudly applauded this
portion of the doctor's speech : but they acted
very ungenerously in permitting their “staunch
supporter" to go to the workhouse , for the
want of a thousand dollars bail. ---Bull. Repub
lican.
:
The Progress of Proscription.-
If it, be right and just to proscribe a man
because he entertains certain views upon ques
tions of
_religion and church government. how
is the 'application of this principle to he
? If a majority here may say Catholics
shall not hold office,nor enjoy the hill privileges
of citizenship, w by may not a majority in anoth
er place declare the same thing in regard to the
Baptists or Presbyterians ? If the principle is
recognized. it lutist and will inevitably lead to
this, that whatever denomination is obncitions
.to a majority of the people, will be deprived of
their civil rights.. Already has this been man
ifested in Kansas, where 3lethodists have been
forbidden to cross the boundaries of a eertain
county. For some reason, or, perhaps without
any reason. the people of that county have be
conic hostile to that branch of the church, and
this is the manner in which they show their
hostility. We have time and again contended
against this sectarian bigotry and religious in
tolerance, and 'long ago we warned Our readrs
of the consequences of encouraging illiberal and
proscriptive views. But the seeds were sown,
and these are some of.the first fruits. Unless
they he uprooted, we very much fear that we
shall have to mourn in-anguish when the bar- -
vest is all gathered.—Harrisburg Patriot.
OBJECT nF TFIE • NNFS Exnurrtolc.—ln a
letter published in the Brownsville (Texas)
American Flag. as from Col. Kinney to a citi
zen of that place, dated at New York, April 6 ,
and apparently written with some freedom,
the Colonel says :
“I look upon the Central American expedi
tion as full of promise. It requires but a few
hundred Americans, and particularly if Tex
ans, to take the control Mat countr . q—n
country which is' destined to command the
Commerce of the world. Lhave grants of land
and enough to make a start upon safely and
legally. I intend to make a suitable govern•
ment, and the rest will follow. Many of my
friends have already gone out, and more are
going—all of the right statopfor such an expe
dition. I expect to be able-to leave in a few
days. 'The people of Greytown (San Juan del
Norte.) have requested me to take control of
their place, and to establish myself there first.
They are anxiously looking for me. This will
be the point from which I' shall start, and
where I hope to see my Rio Grande friends."
\ SALES OF. PUBLIC LANDS.—The Union con
tains a table showing that since the passage of
the graduation act. from Ist of October, 1854.
to 31st of March. ]855, there has been sold at
the several land "offices in Missouri
.1,880,363
acres of land, for the aggregate sum of $608,-
696. Thy same paper says:
-The quantity of land sold in the whole
State from- the Ist of August to the_ Ist of Oc : .
tobcr, 1854. and amount received payment
is as follows :—Land • sold 414,717 - acres:
amount received 685.243. Total amount •of
land sold from Atigust 1, 1854, (or since the
passage of the graduation act of August 4.
1854,) to'March 3 1. - ; 1855. is as follows :—Land
sold 2,295,080 ado: amount received 6693,-
•910.
Terrible Tornado in Illinois—Destruction
of Property and Loss of Life.
CnTCAGO, :Mar 24.—A terrible tornado
passed over Jefferson and Oak counties. Illi
nois, and other places north and west, yester
day. A house situated about one mile from
the Illinois and Wisconsin railroad, contain
ing nine persons. was taken un by the wind
and scattered in different directions. Four of
the persons were instantly killed, and the
others are not likely to recover.
SECOS'D DISPATCH.
CITICAGO, May 24th:—Later. accounts from
the region of the tornado say the locality has
an incredible appearance. It is impossible to
!earn the extent of the damage.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT PKTERS BURG. VA..
AND Loss or E.—Petersburg, Va., May IS.
A large lire oocurred here last night, in the
centre of the city, by which twelve stores were
entirely consumed, as follows: On Boling
brooke street—FalConer: Plummer &,
hardware store ; Uco. W. Steil, shoe store :
Hartman & Co., clothing store ; Muir & Ste
vens. china store. —oll s Sycamore street—W.
G. Ford. segar store ; Samuel Hall, hat store ;
R. S. Thompson, tin store : Watson & Alston,
commission merchants ; Watkins. Son & Co.,
do., do. On Old street—Hetet), Bros. & Co..
and Hutzle Bros., clothing stores ; E. , Rober ts,
restaurant. The loss is estimated at $150,000,
part ofwhich is insured.
Many of the walls fell this morning. bury
ing several little boys, since which two have
been extricated from the !Inns, one of whom is
dead, and the other is supposed to be dying at
the time of closing this dispatch.
The property was owned by Messrs. R. B.
Bollin g , F. E. Hives, Judge May and others.
KNOW-NOTRINOISM PUT TO SlM:Mg.—The
King of the Polynesian. published at Honolulu,
puts to shame the Know-Nothing doctrine,
simply and with few words in his recent man
ifesto, which we published. in which His Ma
jesty -Kamehamehah HI, t r w no more, was
pre-eminently the friend of the 'foreigner : and
is happy knowing he enjoyed their confidence
and affection. He opened his heart and hand
with a royal liberality, and gave OM. he had
little to bestow and his subjects but little to
ask. In this respect, the Emperor cannot hope
to equal him : but though he may fall far be
hind, he shall nAlow in his footsteps.
TEIU —A man named Cadv was
arrested at Cincinnati, a few days ago, with
$5,530 in counterfeit bilk on the Farmers'
Bank -of Virginia. and subsequently $15,000
more of the "same sort" was found iu the
house of a female.
A Drst, TIIR DARK.-A late California
paper mentions a duel which was fought by a
Yankee and an Englishman
_in a dark room.
The Yankee not wishing to hare blood on his
hands, fired up the chimney, and to his horror,
down came the Englishman.
I tryEtnigration to Nlinesota is at present very
large, and the emigrants are crowding into St.
! - Panl - by - thousamk: - Manyconld - find no other
, shelter than that of their moving wagons, with
which they are camped out in the vicinity of the
town.
DF.An Snot.—h is said that one of the "town
agents" in Maine. who is an apothecary. sells
an article for-medicinal purposes, and puts up
the same article in vials, and labels it, 4 • Dead
,Shut fur Bed Rues !"
AN OLD Fut‘t.—We nuticed a letter yester
day in the hand: of one of our merchants, di
tected to Adam & Eve. NA , hville. Tenn. The
old folks have cou.e toit.thel .i;;:aa.-1 1 / 1 1.1burg
faaL
Extraordinary Cane of Extradition.
The Boston Daily Advertiser, in noticing
the departure of the packet. ship Daniel Web.
ster-from-that-port-fur-Likerpool.-with-a-hirge
number of passengers. many - of them on tours
of pleasure and recreation 1n the Old World
during the slimmer months, records the fol
lowing case, which shows to what eitrett ! es
intolerance leads : •
"Aniong the crowd of human beings on
board that-proud eeissel was - one poor woculut.
vrith an infant daughter. tier passage and
that of her child were - paid by the ►tch and
powerful commonwealth of Massachusetts.
,She left our free' and happy shores unwilling
and reluctant. She went away against her
_own free kill, constrained by- force of the -- chit
authorities of--the—State. Her-cries.-is- she.:
begged not to be thus cruelly banished. were.
are told, most piteous, and such as to cause
the accidental witness of the - scene to burn with'
_indi,gnatiort
-
•.The offence of this unfortunate woman for
which she was thus violently and ig,rxninious
ly expelled from Massachusetts, was the fact,
that she was born in Ireland and is called
pruper. Ifer infant daughter, who unconscious-.
lv shares her mother's sad fate, isa native of
the commonwealth of Massachusetts; but she
too partakes of the hard lot of poverty
.which.
it has been reserved for Massachusetts to make
a crime, and a clime which Massachusetts
punishes . as - lin, other crime is punished in .
America, by banishment—banishment from
one's native land."
The name of the unfortunate woman is Mary
Williams, and the substance of the Taw under
which she is thus cruelly shipped ottis as
fot
la~~a:
..It pots irin the power of any justice of
the peace to send any man whom he may
ajudge to be a State pauper out of the country,
and to any other country where he may decide
that the man belongs, and he may deliver hii rs
up for that purpose to any constable or 'any
other person.' .This power includes lunatics
as well as the sane people, and it may be ex
ercised whether the pauper consents or not-
The justice is Me sole judge of Me laity and sf
Me facts. There is no trial by jury, and tar
appeal ; nor Can the habeas corpus, teen if these
wretched people could avail themselves if it, die
of any use, since the justice is. by law, cut►stitu
ted sole judge of law and fact."
* The fugitive slave law, about which the
Massachusetts legislature is rendering itsel I so'
supremely. ridiculous, contains no such harsh
and unfeeling proviSion.s as the ahme...
The Boston Advertiser says : "The treasury
of the United States - bore the expense of the
rendition of Anthony Burns. The treasury
of Massachusetts paid for the rendition of Mary
Williams. — l3ist then _he was a negro. a man
and a brother, while she was only a white wo
mau—a woman and a mother."
THE MCDONCATCaI ESTATe.--The New Or
leans Picayune publishes a recapitulation of the
accounts of the executors of the late John Mc-
DOnough, as filed in the Fifth District court,
on handing over the estate and affairs to the
commissioners and agents henceforward to
manage it according to law. The receipts, up
.to the 9th instant, amounted to :5570.2313 50.
and the expenditures to 6511,125 97, leaving
a balance of t 59,112 53. which has been paid
over to the commissioners and, agents. The
Picayune says:—
"The expenditures have been larger than
they are likely ever to be again in the same'
space of time. They were run up' by law ex
penses 0-sustain the will repairs. improve
ments, and similar unavoidable and =sun/ de
mands. Its one effect of the judicious manner
in which they have been incurred, we may
mention that the rent-roll of some 830,000 has
been doubled since the executors took charge
of the estate. It now amounts to about Vio,-
000 a year, we understand. The cotutnission
ers and agents have already taken full charge
of the estate from the executors."
Brantz Mayer, Esq., one of the commission•
ers, left New Orleans on the 12th instant, on a
visit to Baltituore.
(I:7"While England is drumming up recruits
in - the United States to fight the Russians, it
is a fact worth recalling that in the revolution
art war she tried, with as little success, to en
list Russians to fight ;he Americans. When
the British government was buying men, as if
they were mules or peck horses, from the, petty
German despots, Lord Nlahon tells us in his
history,' "the cabinet had also entertained
some home of Russian auxiliaries; but the ne
gotiation for that object could not be main
tained." Such, indeed, was the contempt
which. even at that period, attached to the En
glish mode of raising troops, .that Frederick
the Great imposed upon the subsidized Hes
sians, who were marched through his domin
ions, the usual toll for as many head of cattle,
since, he said, they had been bought as such.
Even George In. himself, in nietter to Lord
North, declares, "in plain English, they were
making him a kidnapper.—Bustin► Post.
a:7The.King of Belgium is a Protestant,
though his Subjects are mostly Catholics. The
King of Saxony is a Catholic, though the great
er part of his subjects are Protestants. The
King of Greece is a Catholic. though most of
Ilk subjects are of the Greek Church. Of the
15,500,000 European subjects of the Sultan
of Turkey, 11,370.000 are of the Greek Church,
and 260.000 are Catholics, while only 3,800,-
000 are Mahotuedans.
(Miss Lucy Stone has taken her time and
got married. The happy man who, by this
act, has lost his identity, is Mr. Henry Black
well. We say, lost his identity, beea•lie he
will never be known among men hereafter hut
-as the man that married Lucy Stone." The
knot was tied under a joint protest of the par
ties against the existing laws and en stoms gov
erning the marriage relations ; and stipulations
were exchanged between them for the entire
freedom of the person and property of each,
from the control or claim of the other. So that
Mrs. Lucy and Mr. 'Blackwell-Stone are not
one. as a legal fiction declares man and wife
to be, but two separate and distinct individu
als, joined in a sort of partnership of the affec
tions. But the Buffalo Courie r thinks the ar
ticles of agreement between Lucy and her hus
band are exceedingly defective. It inquires:
-What provision is made for the reciprocal
carrying of the baby at night, what, time it
squalls and will not sleep No liquidated
damages are provided for, in the event of the
loving Lucy and Henry refusing to be bound
by the award of the arbitrators. If Lucy puts
the baby's clothes on, should not Henry, in
equity and good conscience, pick them up and
replace them whenever they drop off ? If Lucy
patiently endures the tyranny of nature in-the
lacteal arrangements fur the benefit of infant
humanity in search of sustenance, should not
Henry engage to feed the babies spoon victuals
from and after their - second tooth I"
- --LARGE- t- this -day-of- brag- chickenei
eggs. babies, and big things in general, it may
not be amiss for us to state that a gentleman
near Williamsburg. Blair county, in this State,
now owns a cat which weighs one hatuired and
twenty : four puunds. Our informant, a gentle
man from that place of unquestionable varaci
ty, represents the animal (having often.seen it;
as being as large as a sheep, and a terror to all
the dogs in the-neighborhood. Ile states that
within the last year the owner has been offered
large sums of money for it, but refuses to part
with the animal for any amount. It is still
to-rowin ...--Waync-sborg l ft, r,,,rd.
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Lropii —file Jail.