MIMMIIIIIUIMO E I taking all the glory and the ollices, thus cheat jug every body_eiSe_whortiderl-thent,iwan ywayL, is their designs. Lag f,tll, the facLionci which . wade np the oppw.:ition not promising to pull well together, n fusion of their respect i.el fita to Committees was I)rfin OA - about, and all - I tered upon one candidate for . canal Commis ,P).\ - Es's CoraTsutP," tiro tirst 4 s inner---.care having hoer; taken that whatever sa-series -"-(4 iliustrated-Hurnorms Works, name he 'should ha 'e for the public, he 'should has just issued from the press of T;l3. Nam. secret/j/ he known rts what. be really was, a pox, 10.2 .Chesnut street, lthdadelphia—price f)llotvcr of tire sneaking dark, an tern -Sam. '' GO Bents. The work contains a number-of the i I This dodge. did not snacced, however, thanks Major'stiersriAt, heretofore published, be- i to the orlened eyes and returning sense of ir,arty hides .thirteen engravings from original designs previously humbugged. _ REPUBMCM*, CONN LER, GETTYgBIPRG, PA. MONDAY 31013-Nl-NG, rTi3. 25, 1g56 by Darley. The lovers of fun will lose noth ing by sending foi 110(4: Address as blVe. f r - Nir. NICHOLAS MELIA a. of Carroll county. - Ahh. aged about 50 years. on Wednesday morning last, in &tempting to get on the cart; whilst mowing, oat the Hanover Junction, dipped 48(1 leH. and tray dragged some dis tance Irith one leg upon the track ; and before be could be cxtiicated from this frightful sit uation, the whole train passed over it, crush ing and mangling it in a most shocking man ver. It is feared the litub will require ampu tation. Are not the trains on the , Nortlitirn Cential always in too great a hurry in start ing at this important point ? Would anything rtw lost to the Company or - passengers by al lowing an additional moment or two ? G.:711,er. Daniel Waldo, a Congregational minister of New York, aged t)4 years, and 70 years in •the' ministry, was on Timrsd3y elect ed Chaplain to the national Ifouso of Wpm,- sttutativ,s.. ~." Thecbminittee on elections, in the house At Wnhltington, have before them three cases of contested election front Illinois, one front . Louisiana, Maryland, lowa. K.awas and New 'Mexico each. tlinscfrout Nan aska and Maine will soon be submitted. • T/UCIIANAN AND Lou) CJARENDONT.— EC The report that angry words had recently been exchanged between these two gentlemen is not credited. „journal upon whose authority it is reported is the London Morning Advent - her, a - paper which - is said to be the receiver of all - the filthy whispers and , absurd fictions floating about the purlieus of the British me• • tropolis. - _ . itMONUD►ENT TO HE NEV {.'►.ay.--Sineo the in puguration of the magnificent equestrian sta tue to the memory of Audi ew Jackson, some of the citizens of New Orleans have made a move toward erecting a monument to Henry Clay on one of the publiCsquares of thut city. DEATTf OP DUN LATN , MINISTIM OP PEIW he .-*T Petersburg bitelligencer ,Itas -re ceived a letter from Limn, Perth.dated Janua ry 9, 1856, giving the following . account 'of the singular death of thelate Minivter of Peru to this country : •'The late Minister Plenipotentiary of Peru to the United States, who returned to this cnuntry about six months ago. died lately in Lima in a singular manner. :While asleep he swallowed three . of his fdse teeth with the gold blind which confined them, and died from the effects shortly after. Kfhirts were made to ex-tract the teeth, but without success." SuivioN or .1 Suser;rwit.n YousG 31,tv.-41 young luau, Mr. S. 11. Taylor, of Ravenna,. Ohio, committed suicide last Mongny by tak ing laudanum, ."in consequence or a disap pointment in not being able to go on a sleigh ride upon which his heart was very much set." ,So says the Democrat of that place. FAST VAr•—The bishops of the Methodist Chureh. have issUed a,proelaination appointing the :21st of March as n do of fastin_ tun prayer for a general revival of religion lIAVING A G 4 )01) MIK IT.—The editor of the Pittsfield (Mass.) F.ogle counted from his office window, the other day, two six -horse sleighs, fourteen four•horse, nine two-horse, marl any quantity of single teams, all from Lee, conveying :la individuals, all bound to have to good time." ‘.(log fair . ' °petted in Boston receutly, and an infinite number of the canine race of every breed, size and color, were represented. One cof the aninuils announced little barker only three and a ha/f /ring, contrasted with which arc New fon ndlands capable of holding hire in their mouths. An F.:4tpiiinaux dog brought home by Dr. Kuno, was also on exhibition. petition tvarti pret : ,ented in the Senate last week tram a number• of single ladies from Northern PellinNylVanift asking for a law to prohibit Men from wearing moustaches r7rl e winter has heen so mild England that ag:rienitural laborers were, on the sth of last .f.uniary, working in the in the Iteighberhooti of Derby. So says die LOndon Tiutek,fifJanuary 7. r'The Ifenangrs says. that . Sunday morning week, at Franklin. the Iher mometer :stood at 35 degrctN ZUro. NVlii),liey was congealed, and retailed by the pnuii•during, the bitting of the :;raud jury the evitgis week. 014 lady New Jeria.y. nearly ninety years of ago, h is liad a growth bletek hair on her fora year past. Sh e 3 1, 0 etaiiiig new teeth: unJ her bight kar curse to her fur the Seeowl time. &C? - 1%1 J. It (3 , ll , DiNgs has publiOted z - luttkr deqlitrittg a re-elcetinti to Congre:;s. Inc nintklers have been eutivilil!,..l in ,?Ajunigiiis, Tenn., within a year, anti ne c 4 the intipiereri bas been brnugbt 0, 1 :,Lieff the b it • i b i ,, L B ot h ow i,„ ; i t notv ? About Samuel V. A.lert lek has been elected - C . rhf.) itirst shad of tine se a .01 1 41 Pot tg.. ninety of the brotherhood, p I tri o ti u I'rtsnlen of_the-Sanbury and I.:Tie Itadruad, in rapyti.r. V 4., ar rival utt Ti m; 8,/,14, have fitrEM Li.V.liCl r A 4,:.0,114 , cu:Nt of :;IL; th by- a- per,lstent vote, fur - t.il4liiVilreiil4i# ' hi 4, 01119, Another Sham ! Wilen it . hecnkle the. setthvi: secret purpose or the Kttoiv N4things to ttontirante lames Pu.l.- lock for Go4i,ert4or. they resolved to eatek out s4c" NViijgc by having hitra po iely uoin haa trot - it,' a sq-eille.l Whig Couveti Lima ! bait 40 . 6-k-,-An 4 1-11e-was-elccimi =ll Not Ili ng,_ W B see Lite g. nu w Nothing members of the Legislature issue a call to ali opposed to t 1 4 4 kliioCraey; 4 MCC 111 minfenitnn, an, r 4 noininate Stat., oleos. "4 union for the biah d eof the 'mon," they call_it—a union, rather, for the sake of the spoils, The whole manienvre has a Know Nothing humbug air about it—ctunigli, we think, to condemn it, in . the outAart, in the eyes of all sensible people. i•Dark lariternisin" is tt susr,icious **institu tion," decidedly. [allie - Know Wothing National Oland! met at:Philadelphia on Monday last, and con tinued in session until Thursday night, ex citement, noige and confusion being nearly all the'while-in-tbe ascendant. So discordant a body hardly ever before met in this country-- proving its Members to be anything but the light kind of , -AinerieansliThile At, the open;ng of the Council, two sets of delegates prowented themselves from Pennsyl vania., "the N.atiunals,":_lteaded - -by Broome, and "The Sectionals," headed by Edie. The latter were admitted. greatly to the mortifi eation-of Nationals," among whom there was "cursing loud and deep." The delegates from Louisiana were admitted, alter• a sharp, contest, wilhout credentiahr, bdt it vas understood that the evasion was to be limited, in its eireeni, to Louisiana alone. Ev erywhere else those who do not adhere to the Bth, or anti• Catholic section, are to be excluded. The Council, diseoVering that their doings could not be kept a secret—the disstttisticd usoukt“tell tales out of school"—.reholved to make a virtue of necessity, and adniit the re. porters. The great bone of contention - was "the 12th section" of their platform, having reference to the slavery question : the "North An ericatiS" taking the t•lllack Republican" view, (nearly all of them belong to that party;) whilst the "South Americans" insisted on retaining the section alluded - to, thus leaving' than vexed question to manage itself. On Wednesday, the 12th section was strick en out, (104 yeas totls- nays.) amidst the great est excitement. Mr. _Ford, of Ohio, made a strong anti-slivery speech, increasing the dis satisfaction of the Southern members, Mr. Bowler, of Virginia, immediately rose, and said he had been prepared to meet the . broth ers of the North iii‘p6nce and harmony, but, be now considered that there could be no such thing as union among the Northern and South ern tnemberS of. the party. The 12th section was their-only hope, and now, since it was gone, they were (lone. "Confusion worse con founded" followed, and amidst a shower of propositions. the ConVentlon . adjourned to the next day. On Thursday, a sulistitute.for the entire platforms was adopted, by a vote of 10S yens to 77 mi'ys, when another scene occurred baffling, all description, 'several of the Ohio delegation vehemently declaring that the new platform was a death blow to "Americanism" in that State. - The Council - adjourned . SlllO die sometime that night, and next, day the Na- Vona Cinlventhin met. to nominate candidates fur Pregident and Vice President of the Unitcd States but nt last accounts was doing nothing but wrangling. 3:7A "Black Republican" Convention as• scudded in Putsbol.g on /Monday, Francis P. Blair acting President. Speech-making was the order of the day, Messrs. Greeley and Cid dings hying among the speakers. Rev. Mr. Lovvjoy, of Illinois, said he was willing- to go to Kansas as a captain or a private—recom mended evvry ttiatt to supply himself with. Sliarpe's rifle, aini said let there be war to the knife ! J pious and palriutic speech it must have been. Sick of Know Nothingism. The LouiBville ( ourier, edited by Walter Haldeman, Esq., formerly a Whig, but more reeently a Know Nothing, has repudiated his Ilea , . him : BM '•'l'he next, c•lt•ction will SEAL 'FILE DOOM OF KNOW NOTIIINGISM IN KENTUCKY. TismisftsidA if 1 1 who ruled the Kouu Noth ing. ticket lux( •'ing - ust, are now utterly disgusted with the purl//. and will work with a will at the next election to secure its defeat. Within 1!u• last live months such changes have been as to leave not the slightest doubt as; to what will be the position dour noble State in the next contest." There is nut a TIO.Tg PATRIOT in the land _that ~ do u bts it." Kentucky m just as eel Lain to east her electoral vote fur the nominee of the I)emocra tie National Convention, as that the (lay of elevtiun will come. A pA Louisville Democrat \k lokt the elections of the lucent conga-o,lnel/ W 1:1'4! going on in the North the of Nam chiimud the honer_ Thcy saw Lis foot-prints in cvety contest, rokl.the call Ig triumphant. The I)eintx.tacy were betnco. ant beaten by 8.1:11. GI (.It. was the ao,l tejoiehi c ;. 'IVe did hiwiltud ray's : -- MZI us n t.Tie n ra tcl An Important Executive Proclamation. Documents in Relation to the ICan Who are Responsible? LOCAL JTENS. The election of Mr. lianks as Speaker of the In laying before our readers the folll9wivie• s a , e ff ra ai l r o s. ffic i i i al ui d o o n ;: Tronble,s. Gtr t; US TILE ITLMS.—qur friends bah . ; j h ju se of pi eget, ta 0 .i yes has cos( the country important paper, we need loudly say that it The . President, OH Monday, conutinnicated ir, town and country would eonfer a great iiivireds a thousands of dtAlars. For this ex. . i t t o t I r lee ela U tio . n B. to Se K n a ll i te isa: travagna wilia.e of motley, the people will fl , rvor by informing us of any tuattGr—s airaterest meet the lapprobstion ofe<,•ery true patriot, ;that may transpire in their respeetire because it shows that the Federal Government Bold the opAition relion4ishle. 11;id th,e'y, • srholie duty-in the-premises well, and are tiaoreportS of Gov -- Shannon to thePresi iiorhoods. Local -news is the s - the Ca rl i e - fiersioc ra_t - united , lu„ty ' shopld have dolle, instead of berating and -eaeh- have-been elected on the first day of the Session. The Dernig:,rats were but a 54 mail minority of the Nom:e t and could not, therefore, by ally have elected the Speaker. The responsibility rests with the opponents of the .1 , 1- u,irristraUnn, the e n ern lev of,petpoera.ey, wlu, bane d'emonstrated.their factional character by nflowing the wheseis of govefnutent to stand still, while they quarrel/42d over their piety shibboleths, and narrow sectional platforms. The - - Know Nothings Perplexed.. The know Notliings and Abolitionists, de spairing of electing a President by the -people, Mime of •Itepiesentatives, and thug avail theinselves of the fanatical elements which temporary egeitetnent lms thrown into that body. But the data which the Ihnige has furnished, in - the last few weeks, for a judg ment of its political character, has tended very greatly to dampen these anticipations. and the Troy Budget and other know -Nothing organs are in - great tribulation lest the patronage of the government shall, drier all, slip through their fingers. In an election by the louse, the votes are cast by Stat'es, and:the Budget clas sifies the Stateif as lI Democratic,ll Republi can, 7 _ Ainetican, and tied. A majority, therefore, could not be obtained. Moreover, the Constitution provides that if the House does not elect a PreSident before the 4th of larch. the Vice Preskient chosen is to net, and if there be no Vice President elected, the - Sen ate shall then elect the Vice President, who shall act as President. Should the election. thereGire, he thrown into- the House, and a deadlock, like the late one on the Speaker, occur, the eleetion ,ofa Viee President would hexane the duty of the Senate; in which body tlwre is very !kik of Know Nothing sytnpathy. —ilaPipi.ore Republican* The great -glory of our g,overrnnent in the pit has been that required no snore front the citizen than what was requisite for the general good. Whenever the time moos that principle is stinek down, then there is little hope for the Constitution. . We must fight to r;nve the Union.- The only way to make that ll•glit is to assail these parties in every point. We must stand opposed to all of them, whether Know Nothings or Driirk Nothings, or any other "nothings:" The:only way for us is to stand on the Constitution as our• fathers framed it. IVe have to stand for the glorious Consti tution formed by our lathers. Strike down the government, and what is there left ? Where else on the wide-earth can a man go and say : "1 nin a freeman ; 1 ain the equal 9,,f any other man ?" In 1001% log* at our 'government, fel low-citizens, I have thought that it looked more like the fulfilment of the prophecy of the angel described by St. John in the Revelations, which, With one foot on the sea and another on the land, she said to every people, and every clime : “Behold here is a country fur the trod den of every nation.'•' I trust that the prophe cy will be veri 11'14..11. lilehardson. Henry Clay on Fusion. The follewiKt• iti no extract from a speech delivered by UNSHY CLAY, in the House of, Representatives, in Kentucky, Nov. 19, 1850, and now applicable to the doings in Congress ; and should, as a ,piece of information, be kept before the country as a beneon-light, that the people may see and avoid the quick-sands of the rilach Republicans; "Vint if it (the Whig party) is to be merged -into rr emilernplible lion party, and if (thrill hr royal/HI upiwataLitli4c Train oitoorill I renounce the party and retage lo he /7 Al/17;2:. Igo a step further :if .1 inn alive. I will give my humble support to that mau ihr the Presidency who, to whatever party he in;ty belong, is not contaminated by fanaticism, rather than to one who, crying out all the time that he is a NVing, maintai ns d oe .. trines utterly subversive of the Constitution and the linion." 117 - larimin. the Showman, has, Oleic ap pears to be nn doubt of the fact. actually made on as4gument of his property sand gone into banl,ruptey. It seems that the Jerome Clock Company, in which he was largely interested, failed for over half a million, with but little property to show. Barnum, it appears, was beaten here by his own weapon, of humb»g gory. We were literally- certain that his specu lations must some day come to a disastrous end : and while we are really sot ry for him, without knowing why, except upon the natural sympathy principle, the end did not come a day earlier than we anticipated it would. —Ger mantown TcleLfraidi. _ r.. 7 " ., The Village Record has a sly way of reminding delinquents. They are. supplied with the damaged papers, which arc always incident to last sto.am presses. We have no doubt thrir gromblings are very audible, though the remedy is in their own hands. r), - The story of an elephant that was lost overboard from a Baltimore steamer, swimming, ashore a great distance, is contradicted by the Charleston Mercory, which says the animal was almost certainly killed by a blow of the propeller of the boat. * At any rate, it Itas never been seen or heard of since. A Nr.w Pennsylvania Le gklature hat c allutscd a suppleinetiCto the charter 01 the Cumberland Valley railroad, au thorizing them to extend their road i A:rom Chain l'er';hurgl." :Illy point on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. in Vn:;inia, between Haneoel: and the Opcquan creek, or to Any point in M nglsnd. aic 11,4,hting placcs out wcst with Eul stanalq—aut • 17. -- /- Lap, 1::at slew cr.H.ova )1 d lalid a ) car ago. , Irr a titne for hia cotlit; is is saiJ• dit:J at 31alia:ivi1..1•1w,lt, ^z the I ti.l Our Government. every uewvaper. do