THE COMPILER:,
TIIr. U;N lON, -AND TILE CONSTITUTION."
GErrysnußG,
.Monday Morning, June 2,1858.
• - President,
JAMES BUCHANAN, of Pcnn'a.,
(Subject to tho decision of tho National Convention.)
Democratic Electoral Ticket.
• r . siscroas AT LARGE.
Ch4rlo.9ff.Bucktile*,', of ColoiiiTaff - , y,
Wilson .Mi;Cuodloss, of Allegheny* county.
DISTRICT ELECTORS.
I. (}co. W. Icebinger, 13. Abraham Edinger,
2. Pierce Butler, 14. Reuben Wither,
3. EdWard Wartman, 15. Gee. A. Crawford,
4. William IL Witte, 16.. Tames Black,
'5. Jelin McNair; 17. henry J. Sta hie,
6. Johan Brinton, IR. John D. Ruddy,
T. David Lattry, 19. jaeob-Turns ,
8. Charles Kessler, 20. J. A. J. Buchanan,
9. Joseph Patterson, 4. William Wilkins,
10. Itiaa,c;Bleaker, 22. Jas. G. Campbell,
11. Frs. 23. Thes.Cunninghutn;
12. Thus. Osterhout, - 24. John Kealty,
Viucent Phc!ps.
Canal Commixsioner,
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia cOmnfy.
Auditor General, -
JACOB FRY, Jti., of 'Montgomery co.
- - Surveyor General,
TIMOTHY IVES, of Potter county.
Slir The Baltic reached New York on TUOB - -
- day last bringing three days later news from
Europe. Nothing important. - Everything
quiet in England, and throughout the conti
nent.
Congress continues to drag its slow
length along, and will probably be in working
order in a few days—when the Presidential
nominations will have bets► made.
Dedined.—lt is stated that Dr. Kane has
declined, Lady Franklin's renewed ciffer to
take the command of an expedition about to
be sent out by her, with the assistance of the
British government, to find; if possible, the re
mains of Si* John Franklin and the relics of
his ships.
lieftNirs. Cox, the mother of the two lost
children in Union township, , Bedford county,
has followed them to the "spirit land." The
stroke was too severe. She died of excessive
_etef.i_The_gates_of_Re_uven_have opened to
her, and her spirit is uow iu bliss, with thorn)
of her children. " The father is in a critical
condition, and may soon follow them. How
mysterious are God's dealings.'
Confirmed.—The U. S. Senate have confirm
ed the: foll Owing nozninations, viz :—Peter
Parker, of Massachusetts, to be the Commis.
siontir of the United States to China, vice R.
M. McLane, resigned. James Riley, of Texas,
to be United States Consul at St. Petersburg,
Russia; vice Wm. L. Winans, resigned.
g-threat
ened pending dismissal of the British plenipo
tentiary. - l r. Cramptoli, on tuxount of his
personal complicity, with the enlistment mea-
auras set on foot in the United States for the
British army, is at last a fixed fact. Informa
tion from Washington is to the effect that his
passports wore sent to . him yesterday, about
noon, by thint - iso- - - - tb - e - rarpatch of-Secre
tary Marcy .in:reply to the last one of Lord
Clarendon on the subject having been previ
ously sent forward, So as to go out from New
York . in the steamer for Europe yesterday.—
The British consuls at New York, Philadel
- hiaand Cincinnati are also dismissed. - Thus
ends that chapter, it is to be hoped, for al
though the dismissal has taken place, it is
supposed to have been done in a manner
which can -give no just offence to the British
government. Ai between the two nations,
we may be satisfied to receive the apology--
Made in such a conciliator s irit in Lord
Clarendon's latest communication.—Bali. Sun,
of Thursday.
Present to General Gass.—Tho CleVeland
Plaindoaler speaks of a fine present - to lion.
Lewis Ca.ss from Mr. Buell, formerly of Mich
igan, and late sheriff of El Dorado county,
California. It is a cane of a very heavy and
choice wood, resembling rosewood, from the
South Sea Islands, and is surrounded by an
elegant and expensive California gold head,
most elaborately wrought, and crowned with
a largeand finely-polished piece of gold quartz.
Within the head, which is ingeniously con
trived to open like a Scotchman's snuff-box,
are deposited, in several compartments speci
mens of gold dust from the dry diggings.—
The-whole-affair-is-a-most-magn ificen t -and
costly gift.
Early PeachtB.—The New ()limns Picayune
of the 16th ultimo says that the people of thfs
Crescent City "are enjoying apricots now, and
expect peaches and nectarines in a few days."
Sair'On the night of the nth ult., the
dwelling of Daniel Holloway, Of New Vernon
township, Mercer county, w as entered and
robbed of $2OO. Mr. H. entered the room
where the burglars were at work, when he
VT al; knocked down with a club and seriously
injured. The rascals were tracked some dis
tance, but managed to escape.
parA- gentleman residing in Fourteenth
s - rtvet, New — Tork, put — 'o - h - u - s - FA a-fast h )rge t
other day for $2,500. The animal on Satur
day fell dead in the street, and while the own
er was bending over him trying to re4usitate
the animal, some thief in the crowd pleked his
pocket of $5OOl.
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soma of the farmers in that ontuty have had to
re-riant.their corn three times, owing to the
rot.
qrowning Men Catch at Ntraws
yAnother Know Nothing agony is over!
—another nttcmilt of OM KnoW Nothing !tad.
era to humbug the people has failed ! The
meeting--a "union" 'meeting! these leaders
called for—which took place at the Court
house, on Thursday lmt, was, after,all the trou
ble gone to to draw in. outsiders, simply a dark
lantern affair, managed from beginning to
enil, 7 —in the speeches, resolutions,,and • all—
by the very same men who have controlled
the midnight Councils of sworn and proscrip
tive Know Nothingism—nobody else mani
festing the least concern in the "demonstra
tion," nor looking upon it us anything else than
a trap, and a very transparent one stt that, in
which to catch outside strength. And we
are glad that s uch was the case, as it unmis
takably shows that the mass of the people of
Adams county are not as easily humbugged
us the Know Nothing managers seem o sup
pose. They have thus far shot wide of their
marks in every instance, and there is nothing
hazarded in the prediction, that such will
continue to be their fate, let them lug in all
the _abolition black republiban issues ever
dreamed
_'--
The Elections in Virginia.
The election at Norfolk,on Thursday week,
resulted in a Democratic gain of about 600
votes since Wise's election, a year ago. George
Blow, Dem., was elected Prosecuting Attorney
by 187 majority, and George W. Steed, Dein.,
Commissioner of Revenue by 94 majority.
The vote, however, was -light. The proposi
tion for the city to subscribe $300,000 to the
Norfolk and Petersburg railroad was carried
by 5 2 S majority. .
Norfolk county has also gone for the Porno
crats by 167 majority, which is a large gain.
Butt, Dena., is elected sheriff. His majority
in Portsmouth was 223. Goodwin Dem., is
the Attorney elect.
In Frederick county the Democratic candi
dates.for sheriff and clerk are elected—the for
mer (Miller,) by 336 majority, the latter (Ri
ley,) by 25G majority.
LICOI4, Democrat was elected sheriff of Jef
ferson outlay by 51 majority.
Gov. Pollock Growing Bold.
Under this head the Philadelphia Argus re
marks :-- 7 "Bcfore James Pollock became Gov
ernor,
he use to he considered a cautious and
'very proper man.' But Know Nothingism
and office are'spoiling him.—llis many politi
cal pardons of lute have in several instances
turned justice into a farce. lle seems to have
taken under the Gubernatorial wing all Know
Nothing ruffians of this city, who broke the
law under patent leather caps and starred
wefts nillegally--att empti ng
to remit the forfeited recognizance of Sergeant
Collins' security, and in releasing Spink V Me
.
Mantis,
,and other police criminals from just
punishment, merits the indignant reprobation
of all citizens who value the dignity and effi
ciency of our legal tribunals."
~BAs for the miserable slander about "Ten
emits a day," those who retail it know there is
no truth in it.—Reading Gazette.
The Gazette cannot be ignorant of the fi►et
that the low wages speech of Mr. Buchanan
was reported zer•batrve.• Reference to back
files of the - Washington 0/4ibe will show that
to so expresseditimselt --- In nubsequent - pub=
lications of the speech, the obnoxious expres
skin was suppressed.—Miners' Journal.
• As our neighbor of the Journal - seems to
now a a)00 ,p t - r e
the No. and page .of the Globe where this
speech is to be timid. Wo have searched in
vain. The Globe of 1840 contains a speech of
fr. Buchanan on the-Independent-Treasury
and the advantages of a currency based upon
gold and silver, but we have read it carefully
through without finding a single word which
can be tortured into anything like an advoca
cy- of low wages for the workingman, much
leSs of "ten cents a day." Will the Journal,
we again ask, give us the No. and page?—
Reading Gazette.
Par. Rawley Galloway, Esq., (says the North
Carolina Standard,) a distinguished Whig of
Rockingham county, in that state, and elector
of Taylor and Fillmore in Is4s, has taken po
sition with the Democratic
support Bragg for Governor, and the Demo
cratic candidates for President and Vice Pres
ident. Mr: Galloway is a,highly intelligent
gentleman, and possessed of no small influence
in that section of country.
Maryland.—Froni the information which we
have received from various parts of the State,
within the last few weeks, we are satisfied
that old Maryland will cast her vote for the
nominee of the Democratic Convention. Hun
dreds of prominent Whigs who last fall did
not vote, have united with the Dimmer:4ic par
ty, and will use their influence to overthrow
the intolerant and proscriptive party. MARY
LAND MUST AND SHALL UK REDEEMED, iS the
sentiment of every friend of civil and relig-
iuus liberty .—Annupolbr Republican.
Startling Di.lelosure.—The following para
graph is taken from the columns of the Na
tiional
•‘Paring,a trial now progressing in the F.
S. Circuit Court in this city the extraordinary
fact came out in evidence, that, when a Know
Nothing is admitted to his second degree,- ho
heoomes a party to an oath which binds hint
to Maud by a brother of the same grade. re
gardless Of consequences, even as a witness in
I a ) Mull!'
Is not this enough to shock every honest
man
A Poor Brmine.vs.—Another libel suit has
just been decided at New Orleans. A man
wanted $20,000 dama ,, es from the Crescent
newspaper, but the jury. after mature deliber
ation, gave him the round sum of one cont.—
Suing newspapers for damages is not a paying
business at New Orleans. •
re'-A writer in the lien• York Tribune
states that 4.:_ 4 2 hand orr , ans are datil - ',round
in the str - eets fit' that city_
Der`The trial of Kendall, the New Orleans
postutaater, has - resultt4iu hisacquittal:
The Kansas News.
`The p - olitieiatis and extremists, at the Wcst
especially, are all agog with. "Kansas—Kau
sass"--and nothing but Kansas.—These gentry
out inthat quarter manufacture Wll4 , each one
to snit ,his own particular market, a little fast
er, it would appear, than even the rapid cur
rents of the telegraph wires can dispatch and
the matchless improvements of steam machin
ery print it. Dispatch follows dispatch in
such swift:succession that those who . coin
their contents, in the intensity of purpose by
which they are actuated, meim to become so
confused as to be unable to preserve the con
sistency of their Atory. It is a proverb in re
gard to a certain very reliable class of people
that they should have good memories—and
we fear it is applicable to Kansas news-
inonp:erm.
During Saturday telegraphic accounts were
receivel announcing the destruction of the
town of Lawrence after a somewhat bloody
battle ; but since then, up to last night, we
hadno confirmation of any such terrible event.
On the contrary; the later news seem to ignore
the idea of an occurrence of that sort, as it is
twice stated that the people of Lawrence had
evacuated the town, which - was in the posses
sion and under the protection of Col. Sumner
and his U. S. troops. The last story of a con
flict, however, is in regard •to 'the forces of
Sheriff Donaldson and a portion of the free-
State men, who had gathered and -made a
stand at Topeka, in which the latter were
worsted, with several killed and wounded on
both sides, and a great gathering of forces,
apparently for a future contest. It is to be
hoped that there is some exaggeration, too, in
this.—Ballimore Sun of Tuesday.
Dextraction of Lawrence.
ST% Lo u is, May 21ith.—T he Lel i gton ( Mo.)
Express extra, received to-night, confirms the
destruction of Lawrence. After the Marshal
had entered the town and 111141 made all the
4arrests he had writs for, he turned his posse
over to Sheriff Jones, whose attempt to make
arrests was resisted by the people. who fired
on his men. Jones then cannonaded and set
fire to the hotel and Herald of Freedom office,
destroying both. The artillery were still tire
ing and the fire spreading when the messen
ger left. A few lives were lost.
Further from Kansas.
Sr. LOl7lB, 2.1 .-- from Kansas
report the return of Goy. 'Robinson, Mr.
ti .buyler and Mr. Conway to the charge of the
federal authOrities. f-lov. Robinson is impris
oned at .Leeompton. Mr. Reeder has nut been
heard from.
An extra of the Kansas city Enterprise of
the 22d says :—Sheriiriones took about twee-
ty men into Lawrence and at his demand Gen-.
Pomeroy surrendered all the rifles and cannon
he could collect, fOr which Jones gave a re
ceipt.
—Sheriff-Jones-requested Mr. Eldridge to re
move his furniture from the.hotel, which he
deelkned, when the posse entered and carried
' most' of it into the street. Jones gave express
orders that no private property should be in
jured, particularly Gov. Robinson's house was
not to he touched, but after a portion of the
posse left the house was burned.
During the excitement one man was shot
and another was killed by the falling of the
hotel walls. Gen. Pomeroy was at liberty in
Lawrence.
Sarrln the course of an ably-written article
on the pemling struggle fur self government,
the Albany Atlas and Argus thus speaks of
the ends' and aims of the negro-worship- ,
pers
"The accusations at present so freely put
-
pose to extend slavery are .but all additional
develo . ,meat of this characteristic of .the ene
mies el' popular rights. They seek, under
profuse professions of philanthrophy for the
colored man, to rob the white man *of the at
tributes of American citizenship. They false
ly charge upon Democrats the design to en
slave the negro, while they are striving to
rivet . chains upon' the lim17)8 of the Anglo-
Saxon. With hypocritical professions upon
their lips of a design to enfranchise the slave,
they labor to disfranchise the freeman.. With
cantini phrase about extending liberty to the
the,y-struggle—to-withh
from white Citizens of
. the same region the
right of self-government, and to impose upon
them institutions not dictated by themselves.
it is flue old contest of Democraey'deine, battle
for the representatives of the people, and its
antagonism resisting them with. speeious. ex
cuses and under ingenious disguises."
e-We find a paragraph going the rounds
of our Know Nothing exchanges - to the effect
that the arrests
~made in the city of Chicago
during the last six months of the year 1555,
showed that 18 Irishmen were taken - upupon
the streets to every American. This is not
castor ishing at all, if Chicago has the same
kind of officers that we have here in Harris
buro. Some of our borough officers make it
point to take up every Irishman st:en on our
streets who is the least intoxicated, no matter
how peaceable he may be. We have known
instatwes where the Irish laborers have been
taken when in the very act of leaving town,
and wl:en they were creating no disturbance
whatel er. Of course sonic body makes money
by thee arrests, and the county very fre
quently has to pay the expenses.—llirris
burg Patriot.
VSS - A, Know Nothing grand jury in Yin-
ttset o • m a )
against one of their oath-bound _brotherhood
'•ho had Uturdered a fellow -being in cold
blood. Herein lies the dangerous tendencies
of so proscriptive an order. Their obligations
to society and the government are alike swal
lowed up-in their hideous oath of proscription.
Beware of them.
cennes re
lerThe Providence Journal condenses the
whole Beecher Rifle Kansas argument into
t question, "Now, what is the use of bear
ing arms unless you can shoot somebody with
them?"
The Value tlf a Tridow's Son.—At Hamil
ton, Canada, Mrs. Mclntyre, a poor widow, re
-ceived-$5OO fikrm-a-wealthy merchanty-for-thc
death of her only child, a boy of eleven - years,
who was killed by falling into a cellar, be
longing to the defendant, on a public street,
there being no railing for the protection of
passengers.
Se'The All genuine Zeitrtntt Says that at
present a Company is being established at
Munich, with_the object of insuring farmers
expresse• t h e n _
express it, in a single word, a "Ha gel mrsich
pinion that hereafter coffee will he grow n in
soi ngve.yegichart.,, The Company is to have
that_State for their own consumption, and al- a capital of one million florins, with perma-
I Lent annual four per cent - coupons annexed.
07 .omo exportativu.
Disastrous Fire in Somerset.
Fifteen Building," Burned at oni nute—Niir
row Escape of the Entire Town fi•ouL De
atrnetio4! !
On Thursday last at noon, our town was
visited With the most disastrous fire that has
occurred here for years, and which at one time
threatened its entire annihilation. The fire
originated in the old frame tavern house,
I (known as the Inhoof or Colvin House,) situ
! uteri on the south-east corner of the public
square, and adjoining the "Glade House" on
the east, and the Ware Ilouse and Store Room
of Mr. Cyrus Benford on the west,
The Colvin House, which was occupied as a
reriidence by the families of Mr. Barnet. Pick
ing ,and H. C. Marks, the Clothing Store of
Hindman & Schell and, the Law Office of
Messrs. Coflbrth keolbern was entirely con
sumed—from thence the fire spread to the
Brick Warehouse of Mr. Cyrus Benford, and
from that to his adjoining Store House and
Dwelling House. The warehouse was totally
destroyed ; the store house and dwelling house
- - were — much - injured, and - were - only saved - by
the most strenuous exertions, with the loss of
about one third of the roof of the former. On
the east the fire communicated to the tall roof
of the Gladel louse, which was soon in a blaze;
but the wind verging slightly to the west at
this time, it was checked here without further
damage.
At the time the fire broke out, there was a
14,erfect tornado blowing from the south- and
south-east, and burning splinters and shingles
were hurled on the houses on the oppesite side
of the square and the north side of the town, '
igniting the roofs wherever they fell. Thus,
at nearly one time, the houses of Messrs. Wey
and, 11. F. Schell, Stutzman, Bevins, Cum
mins, Parker and Mrs. Ankeny aroufal the
Square, and of Messrs. Snyder, Beam & Kim
mel, and Isaac Ilugus, Esq., on Main Cross
Street, and of Mrs. E. Ogle and John Neff, on
Cnion Street were on fire, appall ng, the hearts
attic stoutest, and threatemegtheentire town
with devastation. Ilappil t y, however, these
fires were extinguished 'without doing much
damage, and gangs of men being stationed on
the_roofs of all the houses over which the fire
was blowing, further ignition was prevented.
The preservation of the - buildings of Messrs.
Cummins, Stutzman, Schell and others on the
opposite side of the square, was almost, mirac
ulous. Immense volumes of flame would leap
fL•ross the space driving the men from the roofs,
and anon a cataract of 'live coals would be
hurled across, the fierce wind blowing them
into a blaze wherever they fell. We are un
der the mark when we say, that within the
apace of an hour these buildings were on fire
fifty times, and in;as ninny places, although
they were kept drenched with water all the
time. Their roasted and blistered appearance
as they now stand ; (monuments of the energy
of their preservers,) attesting the imminence
of 'their peril, and the power of the fiery ordeal
through which they passed.
• What the entire loss will he by this fire, has
not yet been ascertained. The Colvin House
was entirely destroyed ; one of its oceurants,
Mr. Marks, lost everything he had except the
clothing on the backs of.his family ;* the fami
ly of Mr. Barnet Picking saved very little ex
cept their wearing apparel; from the Clothing
Store of Hindu:nth and Schell; the goods were
principally saved from the sales room, but the
contents of the back room were consumed.
Messrs. Cofforth & Colhern saved all their val
uable papers and the principal portion of their
library, but lost a number of books and their
entire office furniture. In 'the brick warehouse
of Mr. Benford, which was totally destroyed,
he lost a large lot of glassy, white lead, flour,
coffee, salt, bacon, nails, &e., &e., comprising
the usual heavy assortment of such things
kept by large country dealers. In the store
house, which escaped with the loss ef a por- -
tion of.the roof and the east gable, Mr. B. lost
nothing by fire, but in the hurried and-tumul
tuous removal of a large stock of Dry Goods,
Fancy Goods, Qneensware, Glassware, Hard
, ware, Bce.., he-would necessarily lose heavily.
LWan_ll.—lneking r ef-the Glade 'House, besides
the loss of the Colvin House: (which he own
ed,) suffers the loss of a portion of the roof of
the Glade House, the windows, frames, &c.,
burnt out of the west end of it, and very serious
to the ht" by be" flooded -Ti
-
.imago to t ilhouse by being . aid, - 17viti
water, destroying the ceilings, &c., of the two
upper stories. The buildings, we understand,
were all covered by insurance, and Mr. Ben
ford. also had an insurance' on his stock of
'roods • from three to five thousand dollars Al 111
~ f, t ,
cover the loss.—Somerset Rerald.
Fire in Bedford.
1 There has been another terrible_eonflagra
tion in Bedford. On Sabbath evening week,
about 9 o'clock, the brick building belonging
to Dr. G. W. Anderson, on East Pitt Street,
directly-opposite-the-Grizette-offrceTeaught fire
and Was quickly consumed. The fire spread to
the adjoining offices, on the ea one of them
occupied by Dr. C. N. Hickok, the other lately
in the occupancy of John A. Blodget, Esq.,
4.
te.h were also consumed. From the offices
the fire extended to the adjoining dwelling, a
large two and a half story brick bowie, lately
occupied by Alex. King, t:sq., which was also
burned to the ground. Here the — pro; Tess Of"
the fire was stayed, although the wind blew
very strongly at the tune, through the exertions
of the Fire Company and the citizens. All
the houses destroyed belonged, we believe, to
Dr. Anderson, on whom the loss will fall Very
heavily, as none of the buildings were insured.
Mr. Brashear lived in the house in which the
tire originated. it is said that the fire was
the result of carelessness on the part of a ne
gro servant - girl. Dr. Hickok was absent
from tome at the time, and it is presumed that
the most, if not all his furniture, materials, SLc.,-
were destroved.—Fulton Democrat.
Married Women.
An act passed by the last Legislature and
signed by the Governor, contains the follow
ing section in regard to married women:
SEC. 3. That whenever any husband shall
wife, or neglected or refused to support her,
or she shall have-,ben divorced from his bed
and hoard, it shall be lawful for her t4l - protect
her reputation by an act for slander or libel,
and she shill also' haVe the right by action to
recover her separate earnings or property :
Provided, That if her husband.be the defen
dant, the action shall be in the name of a next
friend,
A Warning.—A late number of the courier
lin pas de Calais, contains the following:
"Two men lately entered an inn in Cambria,
ordered coffee, and died shortly after swallow
ing a cup each. Tho landlady summoned the
police, who declared that the men had been
poisoned. 'lmpossible :' cried the landlady,
'they have only drank a cup of coffee a piece,
and that can do no harm.' She at once drank
a cup to prove its innocence. The same re
however,-ensued in her case, as she was.
seized with-terrible pains and also_ died. On
examining the pot a box of lucifer, or locofoco
matches, was found lying in the pot."
RANDOM JOTTINGS & CLIPPINGS.
... the V. S. Senate, on Monday, Mr.
Weller presented a petition of 75,000'citizeus
of California, the, signatures to which were
bound in two large volumes, asking the con
struction of a wagon road to connect with the
Atlantic States. He briefly urged the impor
tance of the measure.
' ....One hundred and fifty barrels of green
peas were shipped from Norfolk on the steam
er Pennsylvania, for Philadelphia, on Thurs
day week.
....A son of Mr. Joseph Roman, of Row
landsville, Md., aged DI years, foil Nut a
swing one day last week, and died two' days
afterwards from injuries received by the fall.
'.....The_liarrts.onburg (Va.) Democrat
states-that two young ladies, Miss Zigler and
Miss Toppin, aged 13 and 14, daughters of
Samuel Zigleriand_John Toppin, while crossi l
inn over the Shenandoah river at Timberville,
in that county, on the 17th-ultimo, fell in and
were drowned.
....Locusts are said to be destroying the
corn and cotton crops_ in the Choctaw Nation.
....On Saturday week, the Qiteen Of Eng
land, Victoria, reached her 37th year—the
18th year of her reiign.
....The Empress Eugenie has entered her
thirtieth year, having been born on the sth of
May, 1825. •
....It is stated that the Emperor of the
French will visit Ireland in July.
....The sum of 800,000 francs has been
placed at the disposal of M. de ,horny,, the
French Envoy to Russia, to enable him to
represent his country in a fitting manner on
- the occasion, of the Emperor Alexander's cora
nation. 4 Napoleon will furnish him with six
of his own carriages. Several European jour
nals have, it is said, already engaged reporters
to proceed to St. Petersburg, and engaged to
pay them $2O a day for their Services.
..Sixty thousand dollars will, it is said,
be expended in decorating the church at Notre
Dame, Paris, for the oceas).T of the baptism
of the imperial Prince.
...."Delaware will never yield an inch to
New Jersey,' said a partisan Delawarian
when-ihe pea case was - being tried. "If
,she
did," replied a Jersey Blue, "she would lose
half her territory."
....Romseau used to .say, "that to 'write a
good love letter, you ought to begin without
knowing what you mean to say, and to finish
without knowing what you have written."
.."Exetise me, madam, but I would like
to ask why you look at me so savagely ?"—"I
beg pardon, sir, I thought it was my hus
band 1"
...."More trouble coming," said Mrs. Par
tington, laying down the paper, "there is
the state of allairs ; I suppose it will soon be
applying for admission into the Union," and
"the old woman resumed her darning
. with
look of patriotic anxiety.
. : ..Why is a dog's nose like January ?
Because it is always cold.
...Judge Cutting of the Supreme Court of
Missouri,. has decided -that a boy attending
school may be required by the teacher to
build" the fire it the school house his portion
of the time. The decision was the result' of
the trial of the teacher for flogging a boy for
refusing to make the fire. The Court sustained
the teacher.
....The Rochester Union, N. Y., states
that Dr. Langworth, of that city, has obtain
ed specimens of fish with four legs from a
stream of water near Fort Defiance, in New
Mexico.—They are about seven inches long,
and resemble a young codfish the legs- are
like those of an alligator. They have been
sent to 'Professor Agassiz, at Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
.... A considerable quantity of cork oak
acorns were imported this season by the
Patent Office and distributed in the Middle
and Southern States. These acorns are from
thesouth_d--Frant
....In Bedford (Va.) Circuit Court, at its
last term, Wm. Steen, a gentleman 84 years of
age, Ntas sued by a young lady for damages
for breach of promise, and mulcted in the sum
of $750.
. The Norfolk Argus states that there are
immense quantities •of Canada flies in
the surrounding countryniore than have
been for many years. , The young leaves of
the sweet gum and other trees are greedily and
quickly devoured by these voracious little
.creatures.
Several meetings were held in Boston
last week, to denoutice the assault of Mr.
Brooks upon Senator Sumner. It is sincerely
doubted whether the Beeeherites regret the
assault at'all, as excitement is what they want,
and this helps to keep up the stock in trade.
....The Congressional committees are in
vestigating the Sumner affair, but have elici
ted no new facts. -; ---
The Abingdon Virginian learns that
ioisoned a few days
ersons were
ago at a log-rolling, at the residence of Peter
Morrell, in Scott county, Va. Several are se
riously ill, but hopes are entertained of their
recovery. It was supposed by some that the
poisoning occurred from eating chicken cook
ed in a copper vessel; but the physicians say
that it was occasioned by arsenic.
....The National Council of the Know
Nothings meets in New York to-morrow.
....Snow to the dePth of three inches fell
at Ontonagon, Lake Superior, on the 11th of
May.
..It is said the llempfield railroad will
be finished to Wheeling by Sept. Ist.
. There Was frost at Marion, Ala., on the
9th ult
....In Fremont, Sandusky co., Ohio, a few
days ago, the funeral services were about be
ing performed on the body of Daniel Stearns,
Esq., who was supposed to have been dead
three days, when a slight warmth was percep
tible in the body; restoratives were applied,
....The two ea-Gov. Bigler dined with
the Hon. Jas. Buchanan, at WhCatland, on
Monday last.
....Benjamin Marshall, Esq., of Troy, N.
Y., offers to give six acres of land for the erec
tion, in that city, of a building for the recep
tion and treatment of patients afflicted with
infectious diseases.
....The weekly statement of the New York
city banks show an increase of $1,053,000 in
specie.
.... "Boy, you are not far from a fool."
"Well, as we ain't more than three feet apart,
I give in to that," was the reply.
....Betray no trust, divulge no secret. .
.....One ounce of mirth is worth more than
ten thousand pounds of melancholy.
• • • • Some impertinent old bachelor says:—
"Show me all the dresses a woman has worn
in the course of her life and I will write her
biography from them."
• • • •An Irishman who had been fined sev
eral weeks in succession for getting drunk,
coolly proposed to the Judge that they should
take him by the year at a reduced rate.
..... The editor of the Columbia' Democrat
has lost a hog. Guess the animal thought
one was enough at that establishment.--Jersey
Shore I\ 7 'ms Letter.
We are very glad to know where our hog
is—when did he get to Jersey Shore.--Coium-
bia Democrat.
....The city of Marseilles, in France,
about to establish a system - of electric: clocks
throughout all its streets. The dials of these
clocks are to be placed in gas lamps, so that
the time can be read by night as well as day.
This is an excellent idea, and will, we think,
yet be adopted in all cities lighted with gas.
Parker, Esq., deputy..iheriff for
the county of Middlesex, Mass., is now in his
70th year, and has been a deputy sheriff for
the last 44 years, in constant, active service.
....The City of Cincinnati has seven steam
-fire-engines, that do all the , work of the Fire
Department.
. The Hagerstown (Md.) Herald says the
wheat crop of that county looks well, but the
joint-worm and fly have appeared.
...Accounts of the state and propeets of
the growing crops in Ohio, Michigan, Illi
nois, Wisconsin and New York, concur in re
presenting a very gratifying state of things;
and it is predicted that, the yield of breadstuffs
the present year-will greatly exceed that of
the previous one.
....The Syracuse Journal says that on
Sunday, May 25, there was a heavy fall of
snow at Cazenovia, N. Y. It commenced at
ten o'clock in the morning and continued un
til about noon. The ground, fields and trees
were Completely covered with snow. The
temperature of the weather at the time Was
freezing cold.
• ..,Mosquitoes have become very trouble•
some at Wilmington, N. C. The Journal
says they are unusually blood-thirsty, long
billed and ferocious.
..Jersey city has appropriated $l,OOO to
celebrate the 4th of July.
9 ... The Scotch Presbyterian Synod has re
fused to allow the use of organs in its churches.
. . .. The English papers record the death of
the venerable Earl of Digby, aged 83 years.
' ....Counterfeit $lO notes on the Bank of
Newburn, N. C., are in circulation at Norfolk.
- - The Old Line Whigs of Illinoii.
Not only is there a perfect fusion. of the
Know Nothings with the Black Republicans
in Illinois, at an effort is now making—
which must end in a perfect failure—to force
or wheedle the old line Whigs of that State
into a hostile attitude against the only true
national, conservative party in the country.
In view of this effort, the St. Louis Republi
can, an able and influential organ of the old
line Whigs, puts • forth the following timely,
• :e • • 441.1 •
"We observe that irettt efforts are being
made in various parts of Illinois to induce the
thousands of old line Whigs, who have hither
to strenuous ) resisted all attempts to connect
B k t
them with .ck Republicanism, to take part
in the conv don which is to be held at
Bloomington on the 29th inst: We do not
suppose there is a Whig in the State who has,
up to this time, kept aloof from the foul em
brace of this party who will yield it now when
the Black Republicans are in utter despair,
and see nothing in store for them but a humil l ,
iating defeat by the Democracy. But if there
be any Whigs who are at all irresolute or
doubtful where to go—who, faithful to the
constitution and to their old principles, are
yet pressed to adopt a course which may lead
to a connexion with Black Republicanism- - iill
we ask is, that they shall read the report
which, we publish this morning of proceedings
of ananti-slavery- convention just held in New
York. We tell them - not to be incredulous
about that convention having given utterance
to the predominant feeling in the Northern
States. The same spirit was abunbantly dis
closed in many of the religions- conventions
held there during the same week, and it will
be a surprising thing if they are able, after
the exhibitions of malice, hatred, and all un
charitableness on the part -of men claiming to
belong to a Christian church, to prevent a
dissolution of the philanthrophic associations
nowUnluckilv intrusted to their charge. Read
these proceedings, we say—then recollect what
has been going oh all'over the country for the
last twelve months—how churches have been
converted into places where ministers of God
have commended murder and bloodshed, and
" . q4.1 66 •• 6 • o r - ut heir des era e re-
commendations—reflect that politicians and
statesmen, and men holding conspicuous posi
tions in Congress and many of the States of
Union, have not hesitated to proclaim an anx
ious desire for a dissolution of the Union, and
then, as Whigs, as enemies of agitation, as
lovers of the peace and quiet progress of the
country, we feel assured that our Whig friends
of Illinois will never commit the gross error
of attaching themselves to the desperate for
tunes of any such party."
PHILADELPHIA, May 29th.—At 4 o'clock this
morning, the steam-drum of the steamer
Union, of the Ericsson line, from Baltimore,
exploded when off New Castle, scalding four of
the hands belonging to the boat, and four pas
sengers.—Wallace Maney, engineer, is sup
posed to be fatally injured, and one or two
others will probably die. The rest are only
slightly hurt.
SlarCongress has been asked to appropriate
money to test the practicability of the Atmos
pheric Express, by which packages are to be
forced through a tube at an almost incredible
eiLllefarefitl , y_ypars passe n ers will be
conveyed in the same manner, at the rate of
one or taco hundred miles an hour, and much
more safely than they are at present by rail
road.