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THE COMPILER.
"Ltrikirrr, TIIR UNION, AND THE CONSTITCTION ,"
GETTYSBURG, I'ENN'A,:,
Monday Morning, lan. 20, 1857.
'TRAITORS•
(WO. WAGONSELLER, of Schuylkill,
WILLIAM B. LEBO.
SAMUEL MANEAR,,of York.
stir The probable political complexion, of
the U. 8: Senate on the 4th of March vie.x.t, if
all the vacancies are filled as expected, will be
as follows: Deinocrate 37 ; Republicans 20;
Know Nothing , . 5.
-Col. (Bonne Scorr, the newly-elected
Canal Comtnissioner, was qualified on Tues
day week, and took his seat in the Board.
Col. Iliszsir S. Morr was elected President,
and MOS. L. NVII..SON Was re-elected Clerk,
The Board - now consists of Messrs. Morr,
PLOVER and SCOTT. Col. SCOTT is a gentle
man of sterling integrity, is practically and
thoroughly posted upon the working of our
State improvements, and will n►ake au *able
and .efficient officer. •
Tonnage Tax.
We perceive that an effort will be made In
certain quarters to induce .the Legislature to
'repeal the tonnage tax on the Pennsylvani
Railroad. Similar attempts have been made
upon preceding Legislatures. but hitherto
with only partial success, The tonnage tax ,
is an imptirtant item in the revenues of the
State, and we trust the Legislature will be in .
no hurry to remove it.-ILirria&urg Patriot.
serWe trust so, too.
Lobby and Special Legislation.
The Philadelphia Times ountains an article
under the above caption, which says, 'The
unsophisticated public would be hugely aston
ished .at the numerous fees, perquisitio, and
-stuns of money slyly put into the pockets of
their representatires,und willingly accepted
by them. Bribery is a hard word to use—
but it is a lamentable and shameful fact, that
members of the State Legislature and mein
bets of Congress are bribed—aye, bribed—in
to the support of many bank and railroad and
land bills, which would otherwise be rejected,
And the worst Of it is, that bribery has been
organized into a system. All members of our
Legislatures are exposed to temptation, and
too many systenultically abase their functions
so as to get rich."
Another Inauguration will be re
membered that the Democratic Association of
the Twelfth Ward of Philadelphia are to give
.a ball in this thy on the third of March next
in honor of the Presidont. etect, James Bu
chanan. The old theatre building on Louisi
ana-avenue is engaged for the occasion. Its
.upper and lower rooms aro sufficient to ac
commodate two thousand perions. We doubt
riet-the citizens of the metropolis, and especial
ly the Pennsylvanians residing hero, will con
tribute all they can to make this a gay and
brilliant ball. The price of the tickets will
be five dollars. Fifty citizens of Washington
and Georgetown have been appointed mana
gem tenet in conjunction with a like number
in Philadelphia.— Washington Star.
Iter4 Washington letter states that Mr.
Cadwalader, member of Congress from Phila
delphia, who recently =deft speech against
Know Nothingism, was shot at in the evening
while walking ‘.:'an 14th street, and the ball
passed close to his .head. .
Counterfeits.
Bicknell's Detector gives a description of
three dangerous counterfeits:
Harrisburg Bank--10's spurious. Vignette,
female, figure 10 above, male and female on
the right, canal on the left.
Columbia Bank-s's spurious. Vignette,
three female figures—on lower right end, me
.dallion head of Washington ; on left end, five
large ferrate figures.
Girard Bank, Philadelphia, Pa.-10's—gen
eral appearance good; can be detected.by no
ticing on right end two figures, male and fe
male, embritciug—on the genuine, there is a
medallion head of Girard ; also on the good
notes, the word-Ten around the margin is in
large letters—au the counterfeits they are
quite small.
tarßev. Isaae 11. Kelso, better known as
the author of that infamous Know Nothing
work entitled "Danger in the Dark," some
time since sued Robinson & Sharp, proprie
tors of the Cincinnati Enquirer, for libel, on
account of strictures published upon the au
thor in connection with the work, and has ob
tained a judgia sut for one cent damages. Not
much "danger in the dark." after all.
leir During the late Presidential canvass,
and at the moment a gallant Senator from the
South WaS pruelainiiug the oortain election of
2lr. Buchanan, a feather dropped at him. feet,
'front the wing of au eagle that was flying
over. The gentleman preserved the quill,
aDd, to-day, had it forwarded to Mr. Buchan
an, to write his inaugural address with. it
was not plucked by man from time wing:. but
was the free
.opfiof our national bird.— Wadi.
dlexa.ndrhi
The Lan -miter iatelligeneer says the above
statement is correct. Senator 'Brown, of
Mississippi, is the gentleman referred to. The
qui! is now La posbestoit o r. cue iannn, at
Wheatland, where we saw it on Friday last, :
ipital.—TheConneautrille Courier grave
and, ia accordance .rich the request the
1:r tells its readers that, "during cold weath
-44-gallant )Sen.t.Lor," 'it will be used by thy'
ttr.„ all persons should he careful to avoid fall- -
President elect in writing his loangural A.;-
tag upon, the icy streets." This is capi tal—
dreg S
Its sell-preserv;:.titin %souk]. s/4ecri to
' Ki`Lebo, Manear, and W3,4,,n..ei1er, 'ere ' tviinnui9ll tt4 all to "amid" breaking out r
beret is effila in BAILLI2ore vu fuez , AL9 u , : itl! uo:oks, ••diarii G. culd we4ther," or .at an: ,itlier
week. , tau!
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CoL Jonn W. Forney.
sfirThe defeat of Cul. Joir:v W. Fulmer
fur United States Senator will only endear
hint the more to the Democracy of Pennsyl
vania. Ills services to the party, his integri
ty of character, and his high sense of honor,
have secured for him the atliniration of all
true Democrats, and the rempectef the honest
men , of all parties. Col. FORNSS is emphati
cally a self-made man—the architect of his
own fortune,, lle possesses indomitable ener
gy, and is one of the ablest writers in the
.United States, as the opponents of the Demo
eratic party in this State, who have felt his
keen blade. can testify. His defeat, we re
peat, will only cause the Democracy of his na
tive State to cling the closer to him, and they
will !lice together when they see him placed
in a position commensurate with his worth
and talents, Tho Flack Republicans, if they
ezpect to crush Col, Foastsr, by means of
bribery and corruption, have counted without
their host. We wonld rather a thousana
times, occupy his position to-day, than that of
his successful opponent, who will sneak into
the Senate Chamber like a thief in the night,
there to insult by his presence, the wisest and
greatest men of the rinqqa,
THE TRAITOATHOME.
On the evening of the 1 th inst.,.the Demo
crats of Schuylkill county, where LEIto and
IVAcossEwut live, held a meeting at Potts
ville, in which the leading Democrats partici
pated, where their traitorous Representatives
were strongly denounced. Denunciatory re
solutions were passed and ordered to be sent
to every Democratic member of the Legisla
ture. Among the resolutions we find the fol
lowing
WIIgREAFI, The Democracy of this county
have been astounded with the information that.
the persons elected to the House of Represen
tatives of Pennsylvania from Schuylkill coun
ty, 'have perpetrated the crime of a most gross
and flagrant betrayal of the known wishes of
the party who have elected them, and .their
Own solemn and oft-repeated plelges, by vo
ting for Simon
_C.oneron fur United States
Senator, after his open and notorious action
as a leader among the Know Nothing and
Black Republican Fusionists of this State, in
opposition to the Democratic party, and the
integrity of the United Statteti.
Risorved, That the conduct of Wm. B. Lebo
and George Wagonseller, in connection with
another traitor from York county, in voting
tor- Simon Cameron for United States Senator,
in known and opeb defiance of the wishes of
the entire Democracy of Schuylkill county, is
a direct violation of their repeated assurances
and professions before their election.
Resolved, That for such traitors we know of
no adequate punishment provided by law, and
can only express the oxecratiot► of to deceived
and outraged constituency, who will treat
these Arradds and 600rgeys with exclusion
from all social and political intercourse..
On Saturday evening week, the-Democrats
of York county 'assembled in large numbers,
in York. and passed among others, the fellow
.
ing resolutions :
Resolved, That the conduct of Samuel Ma
near, in voting for the Blank Republican-
Know-Nothing candidate for the Senate of the
United States, in open defiance of the wishes
of the entire Democratic party of this county,
and in direct violation of his often repeated
pledges, is an net of Treason and Infamy that
will.sink him to the lowest depths of degrada
tion, and wake his mime despised and scorned
by a ll honorable and high minded men.
Resolred, That Lebo and Wagon:o/er of
Schuylkill runty, the infamous associates of
Mintear in his depravity and - villainy, are de
serving of nothing but scorn and contempt
and should be shunned and loathed by every
honest man as a destroying pestilence, which
carries terror and contagion on its poisonous
wing.
Res/Weed, That Samuel Manear be request
ed to resign forthwith and permit the seat
which he now Occupies to remain vacant, so
that the pollntion of the traitor may no
longer be an eyesore to his honest and faith
ftd colleagues and a disgrace to the State Cap
itol.
Resolved, That the open boast of James .11:
Anderson, of Carrol township, that he had
the entire control of Manear. and yet - refused
to exercise his influence to save the party from
betrayal, although -at Harrisburg, has for
feited the'confidence of the Democratic party:
Resolved, That the Democracy Aif York
County, now assembled in County I .,lleeting,
boridyr revoke the appointment of James M.
Anderson as Senatorial Delegate to the State
Convention, which assembles on the 2nd of
March next, and appoint Maj. Charles 31.
Smyser, of the Borough of York, in his stead.
The reading of the resolutions was frequent
ly interrupted by applause. and were adopted
without a dissenting voice and amid great
cheering—when the assemblage adj cornea to
the Centre Square, where Lebo,Wagonseller,
and Manear were burned in effigy, in the
presence of a large crowd of citizens.
'That the election of Simon Cameron to
the United States Senate—the highest legis
lative branch of the National Government—is
an outrage upon the character of the Com
monwealth, and a foul blot upon her honor,
no right-thinking and properly-informed man
will allow himself to doubt. Aside from the
antecedents of the political JOBBER, Cameron,
himself, the base and corrupt moans by which
his election has been secured ought to con
nect with the very mention of it terms of
earnest and indignant denunciation. And
yet there is a class of mean-minded Know
Nothing Black Republican editors who seek
to palliate the infamous transaction, by doing,
?—isot by lauding good qualities 'in
U;unerun, for he has none; not by puttingthe
choice upon the ground of expediency, for
there was no such ground ; hut, by ahn-ring
Col. Foaxr.v, his opponent! A more damna
ble subterfuge never entered the heads of bad
men—a grosser wrong could hardly be.. con
ceived, and could only be perpetrated by the
worst of our race, whose hearts are dead to
every honorable feeling, and who are as desti
tute of principle (and under like cirentn
stanres. would be as easily &Arca?) as Wag
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What was Thought of Cameron, two
years ago, by his Present Friends!
orr OF rugm OWN mourtrs 41.11 R
TIINY CONDEMNED!!!
From the Gdttpthurg
." Star an'i Banner,", of
Fehrtiory 23d, 1855.
11,, S. Senator.
lerTuesday next le the day to which the
Senatorial Conventi9n,etan de adjourned, when
another Wine made to elect n United
States Senator. Opinions vary as to the prob
able result, although the prevalent improseion
seems to be adver46 - to Cameron's chances.
If the anti-Cameron Americans and old-line
Whigs and Detneerats can unite on an accepta
ble candidate, Simon ie gone. But this we take
tole) improbable. The must likely result will
he a failure to elect, and a postponement of
the issue un til next winter—which is proba
bly the beat that could ho done. In the mean
time the press of the State, with unusual um.
nimity and severity, is down on Cameron and
all connected with him. He fares badly alike
with Whiz, American, and Democratic edi
tors, end if the Press has half the potency
over the Legislature it should have, Cameron
cannot be elected. As a sample of the tone of
the Press of the State, we annex the follow
lug strong article from the Lanca3ter Tri
bune:
SIMON CALSTION AND Tin U. S. SENATE.
If the question were submitted to the voters
of Pennsylvania, whether Simon Cameron
should be United States Senator, we ere con
fidentthat there would not be 25.000 affirma
tive votes. and yet he ham contrived to get a
nomination in an American caucus, and to re
ceive 59 votes in open convention. How has
this been effected? No one gives him credit
for any ability, (except cunning.) for learning
or general information. Perhopi by looking
at some other candidates and their means,
some light may be thrown on the subject. __A
man by the name of David Jayne, who is re
ported to have made it fortune by compound
ing Sarsaparilla, Burdock, Elder blossoms,
Pinintain, and other cow fodder, having heard
thnt offices wore sold at Harrisburg, repaired
thithei. and caused proclamation to be made
that he had inure money than Cameron And
ten men were actually found to vote fn-'him
in caucus. It needs no Witness to prove
what convincing arguments were addressed to
them.---The same men. after having fulfilled
their contract, improved their time by voting
on the other and final ballot. for Canteron.—
They were shrewd operators
Look at'a few of the districts that supported
Cameron. The whole valley of the Juniata
ran corruption. We do nut mean that the
worthy members of the District were corrupt
ed—but we do mess the influential citizens
who -attended as borers, and influenced the
members, did it for a consideration. What
operated on the monliers of the Western
slope of the Allegheny- —ot Anti-841A ery
Allegheny and Washington-4e make
theta WI in hoe with a Nebraska!? We ate
aware that they hoot there that they bore
fortified themselves" by having in their p iekets
Cameron's pledgo fo go for the repeal of - the
Nebraska law, to move and .support the re
peal of the Fu tire Slave law, to prohibit
slavery in the Territories, and resist the
miesion of any stare States into the Union.
They well - know the sincerity of.suelt plo.tges;
given at a pilich, by a man who lobbied at
Washington for the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, and who in September last, help
ed to pass resolutions endorsing such repeal,
and demo niacin g Know Not ogism. We doubt
not if they will pick tlie . pockets of the Demo
crata who voted for hi m--Frailer, Ballade,
and others—they will_tind them to wally Well
fortified with I;ledges of directly contrary
t !nor.
Wit why need we speak of other districts?
Let um take shame onto ourselves, and roll
ourselves in sackcloticand ashes, all of its, for
we are all guilty, fur having voted for North.
Gross, Shuman and hi a district
which on a direct, test would not-give Cantor ,
on one thousand votes out of tweaty-tive
thousand. four of her representatives have
dared to vote fur him in open day ! Two of
tl , em have drawn their last of ccial breath.
The other two will linger a little longer, ho-
C1111i43 the pc iple will have ito_i_4lAortunity to
slnughter them. It was not to Is 3 believed
that any men would violate all previous S olututi
pledges.
Hat let us pause and wait. We yet believe
matay will reverse their steps. One thing . is
beyond a doubt-=whoever hereafter is mhted
k.littnerou's forces—whoever votes for him
who has not alreioly done so, will be known
as a purchased commodity. We believe tame
such will be founa..
Don't Drown Them.
Several weeks ago we said that any Den o
crat who would support the oi,position candi
date for Senator, ought to be thrown in the
Susquehanna. We now object to the carry
ing out of our own suggestion. on the ground
that it would destroy the value of the shad
fisheries. Horses, cattle. sheep, hop, dogs,
cats, racoons and skunks are frequently drown
ed in the Susquehanna, but this, does not deter
people from eating Susquehanna shad. But
if Lebn, Manear and Wagomseller were
thrown in, there is notes dog in the world that
would smell at a Susquehainna shad frien - that
day forward. We can conceive of but one
use that can •he made of these traitnis, and
that-is to cut them up in inch bits and scatter
the pieces over the monutaineus parts of our
State, to poison the rattlesnakes.— Val.
The Buzzard's Feast.—Two years age,
;Messrs. Taggart, Jordan, Ball and several
others, 'refused to vote for Simon Cameron for
U. S. Senator, saying that they had been in
vited to a buzzard's feast, and that they would
not partake of it. The same kind of feast was
amid prepared on the 13th inst., and those
gentlemen not only very greedily partook,
but heartily enjoyed it. Mr. MvssEi.usis, of
this county, also took a helping hand at it,
notwithstanding the pretence of "old-line
whiggery" which was set up for him by his
friends before the election.
The Senatorial Treachery.
It is attempted to pallitate this outrageous
treachery in some quarters, by asserting that
Col. Forney owes his nomination to the pre
ponderating influence of the President elect.
That Mr. Buchanan was his friend, we have
no doubt, and that he should hare been is
equally clear, for at all times, under all cir
cumstances, whether his prospects were bright
or apparently hopeless. Col. Forney was al
ways his friend, sacrificing place, and profit,
and power, rather than forsake his benefactor.
He has made infinitely more effort to place
Mr. Buchanan in the Presidency than that
gentleman ever made for himself, and we
doubt whether Col. Forney has a single ene
my in the State who was not placed in that
relation toward him because of his unyclding
support of Mr. B. We have yet to learn that
the sentiment of gratitude is a thing to be
condemned and scorned, or that it is not lliter The trial in relation to the validity of
equally binding upon the greatest as well as the will of Martin Ebbert, deceased, in the
the least. Court of York county, week before last, re
____Dar___XlVashington-letter—writer-to_one-of-k,
If Mr% Buehanarti - th - em - expetsed - n - prefer- -salted Fna real-wt
city papers says a vat of proportions suffi- enee for Col. Fo rn ey, it was but jost—Ahe just jury was out 24 hours.
cleat to float, when filled,- a man-of-war, would and proper workings of nature. Who is there
not hold all the egg-n gg and apple-toddy to • "
Qestion Col Ferney's fitness, or his &tar
drank in that city nn Now Year's day. his tion u to the principles ot his party? There.
are nnne, who themselves have a character to
generally conceded that the eggs and apples sustain. Then is Mr. Buchanan disfrariehiS
discovered a quality which seemed to intoxi- ed—lare he not express an opinion—because
elite every one who wed them in such eon nee
he was elected President. The follv•ef this
excuse for treachery only proves more palpably
tint). The soientitie world is at a le.Ss to at
toe criminality and the corruption of the trai
' tribute the effect to any other t;aun. turs.—C.in!vit D:
Warne Pittsburg Uaioa says :
•'There is one thing from which we derive
some consolation; that is, that of sixty-eight
Democratic Legislators. but three could be
found mean enough. despicable enough to
support Simon Cameron, while every man - of
the opposition voted for him with apparent
cheerfulness. But three Democrats could he
bought to aid in the work of infamy, while
silty-four Republicans and Know Nothings
deliberately selected Cameron as their caucus
nominee, in preference to worthy and excel
lent men. We have this little crumb of com
fort."
From the Carlide Volunteer.
Rejoicing Over Bribery and Villainy.
Our neighbor, the editor of the &raid,
goes off into extaxims over the election of that
i desperately wicked and corrupt man, Simon
I Cameron, to the Senate of the United States.
The editor nays he rejoices at the result, end
considers it a great Republican and Americen
I triumph! Our neighbor must have a poor
:opinion of the honesty of his renders and his
party when he insults atm with his reieic
; inns over the grenteet piece of rascality that
1 ever disgraced our Shite. The editor who
/ can roice over the success of Cameron—a
I man steeped to the very eve-lids in corruption
—must be lost to nfl 'reuse of propriety, o_ol
! the finer feelings of our nature. The three
', Judamee in the Legislature who were perches
;ed by the gold of Cameron to betray their
1 party and their principles, have earned for
' themselves the scorn and indignation of every
honest man. As they walk the streets they
will be pointed at as the vilest of the vile, and
' their names will be regarded as synonymous
iwith dishonor to the end of their worthless
existence. But, much as theSe three traitors
I may be despised, much as the finger of scorn
I may point at them, what must be thought of
i that monument of. corruption, Cameron,
whose monev - was used to foist himself into a
position such as none but men of integrity
should dare aspire to ? It will nut du fur our
opponents to say that there oral:ion:lds in re
gard to the:manner in which Cameron was
elected. No line doubts that he was elected
by the aid of money. The, three miserable
rascals who were purchased, attended the
Democratic caucus, and one of thorn. Lebo.
voted for the nomination of Col. Forney, and
the two others, IVagonseller and Manear,
voted for Mr. Robbins, and the three voted (in
mucus) for the resolution declaring Colonel
Forney's nomination unanimous. It was,
therefore, after the nomination of Col. Forney
that these men were seduced from duty and
from honor by the glitter of Cameron's gold.
Such an act of scoundrelism and unqualified
turpitude, we have
,never been called on to
record, and for the honor of our State and her
honest yeomanry, we hope an. example may
be made of the culprits engaged iu this fraud,
bribery and treason.
And this bribery, fraud, eorrirptien and
villainy, the editor of the 11,ralti "rejoices"
at.! We can't believe it—we have a better
opinion id'our neighbor—we have too high an
estimate of his integrity to believe that he
was serious" when he expressed himself pleas
ed at the election of Cameron. Even hall
1
Cameron been elected without a resort to col--
rupt means, no honest man could exult over
I it, for he is not the man for the exalted posi
-1 t i o n of United States Senator. This p,saion
I should he r , :creed ler men of principle fled
1 sterling integrity. Cameron posse,4ges neith
sterling
er.of these ((utilities. Re never was minuted
hy principle. 3nd he would sell the Know
Nothing and Black Repultlieau parties tce.
mg prrow, if by so doing, he emild line his own
Pockets and rteeomplish his wicked anal dam
nable purpose*, Doling his eonneetista with
the Democratic party be did more to bring
the men and measures of the party into disrte
pute than any Hundred bad men belonging to ,
it. lie never had the eurdidenee of the real
men of the party, rind was alwaye regarded
a wily demagogue, ever ready to gamble in
polities, Ile is a frt man tie represent the
Week Republicams in the U. S. Senate, a nd
his nomination and election lay that poly.
over honest and worthy met , . re evidence of
the debauchery and dishorteety of that des
seicahle and rotten faction. Rejoice over the
election of such a man. indeed—rejoice over
the bribery of members of Assembly! We
would as soon rejoice over the. saucy: of the
highwayman, or the desperation iir the des
perado, who murders for money. Shame,
slime on the man whose conseiefree is so
stultified as*to rejoice over - sueli prolligavy.
Kicked Out of Decent Society:.
The Chamhersharg Spirit says :--Satre
%near, of York. one of the dogs who sold
hinetelf to Cameron. was boarding at Wilt's
Ilota Six Democratic members who were
hcarding there addressed hint a note request
ing him to (cave. ILe took the hint and left.
We print the correspondence. Manear's hit
ter proves him to he a fool us ClP:lrly as his
cute shh‘yedlt int to be a knave. The dog tried
to sot up a dignified bark at the gentlemen
who kicked him out of the house. but Came-.
run's collar fit his throat too tight, and he
could de nothing but whine.
Iflinuisauna, Jan. 14, 1857.
Ma. SAMUEL
D , !ar Sir :—The undersigned, boarders at
the "Pennsylvania feel that they can
no longer (without doing injustice to them
selves)'meet you on those t erms of perfect el - ill:1'-
4y which members of a high and honorable
hotly should have for each other. We, there
fore, hope that knowing year presence to be
disagreeable to us, you will without delay
leave the house.
B. Nunenmeher, Jesse Pearson. Michael
Hoffman. Franklin Mcllvain, C, M. Leisen
ring, John C. Evans.
January 14th. 1857.
C. 111. Lcisenring, J. C. Evans, .I\imin
macher, J. Pearson, Hoffman, P. MAI-
%ma:
I have received your note of this date, in re
ply to which I have to say, that feeling that I
have done nothing which. as an independent
Democrat, I ought not to have done, I am un
willing longer to associate with persons who
evince by this note, that they have so little
knowledge of what is becoming in members
of a high and honorable hod P. and who, on
this account, are not fit associates for gentle
men who can associate on terms of equality.
As I cannot consent to meet such men on
terms of equality, it is my . intention to leave
a house of which they are inmates.
SAMUEL. MANEAR.
1 Col. Forney and the Cabinet.
1 The Baltimore Republican e an old true Dem-
I ocratic paper, Sap :
"We have now One hope, a ms-eet, Cheriehed
t hope. and speaking for ourgelveg, we ex-
I prom that hope, that Col. FORSEY nutty he
) called into the next Clibinet, than which
no step, in the future of the Democratic :
I party could be more popular with the peo- ,'
i ple.'l
In the same traih speaks the N. Y. alfirrorp4
an opposition journal :
s"f he defeat of Col. FonNl:v." pnsn that pa
per. "as a candidate for the U. S. Senate,
will very likely, by the force of re-action,
place him in the Cabinet. We Hilmar] not be
sierprised to see . Col. FORNEY Postmaster-
General on the 4th of March next. lie im
better calculated for the executive post than
for a seat in the Senate."
State Treasurer.
Monday last was the day fixed by law for
the election of a State Treasurer, by the Le f 4
islature, but both branches having adjourned
over from Friday until Monday, a majority of
the members left Harrisburg, on a visit to.
Philadelphia and other places, and in conse
quence of the snow storm were unable to Let
back ; a quorum was not present-on Monday,
and consequently no election was held. •it
will now require a special act of the legisla
ture to provide for an election.—Carlisle Dem.
Varna Abolition Governor of Ohio,
Salmon P. Chase, utters sentiments in his
last Message, which had they been enunciat
ed by the Chief Magistrate of any Southern .
State, would have :Caused the Black Ilepar
licans of the North to throw up their hands
in holy horror; and shout lustily "Nullifica
tion," but. Coming from the Afiulition Gov
ernor of Ohio, are approved by the Shriekers
fir Bleeding Kansas, whose gory wounds
Chase attempts to re-open by advocating nul
lification I
A Bible waR raffled off at a coffee-house in
Louisville, a few days ago. It was put up at
$lOO, and won by a Southern Kentuckian, who
threw 44. "
zerWitat a eemmentarr on the demorali
sation of the age. We have read that the
Saviour drove money changerti front the Tem
ple, at Jerusalem, hut. it was left for" the
to gamble a*ay the l•Word of
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/10eSy a mail which reached this from;
Ili/mover on Saturday evening we have
more.and othilpapurs to 'Thursday morning.
Ftuta them rce glean. the following items,
&Erne germ SY e..fi , al to have been one
of equally intense severity, northward, east
' ward and southward. Telegraphic. - at:wallow
frtau Pitiladelphitt, New _Yolk, Boston, and
farther'north ; Washington.. and beyond that
swath ; ropreset.t tsrrii,te bLwing and drift
ing,. with a, freexiog cold rarely known. • in
Saltintore, at theinaersection of streets,. the
piles of snow were anm eight to fifteen feet
deep.. end in Pbiledelib a. and New York
akuttt"the sawn_ All the lines of travel were
*closed', ;aria inuaeuse labor has been expended
in opening theax. As a sample of the work=
gang.,'s of tive i • six, seven and eight heavy
freight engines were.synt from lEhtliiutore
to force passages through. tle drifts on the
Isaltinarre and Ohio Railroad; but wren 'lase
failed in many instances, and' ras - Ora to the
&novel and cart was had, some ty . the aids being
fun to are top. W ith extraordinary labor,
all the Radroad lines front that city, except
that to ,Philadelphia, were opened by.Wedn es
' day—and trains on the latter were expected.
through d uring the next day. Work on the
RailrfNuls east and
,north has been much of
tie sane eharactor.
Qfe"Three I'h•.rofl' Frozen to Death.—On
Monday Morning, before daylight,. a. milk.
wagon was caught in a snow-drift near Market
street bridge,' Philadelphia, and daylight re
vealed a dreadful spectacle o f a woman an d
meupants—frozen to deatil,—
Another woman was also frozen to death in
the 10th ward.
ler Shoeki7og Apir.--Oti Wednesday last,
a prescription was pat up at the drug- store of
Mr. Letfer. Lonbard and Eden streets, selti
more, as. ordered by a physician, for a child
of Mr. Eckert. The child died shortly after
.
taking the medicine, and the matter being
brought to the attention of the druggist, he
tasted a part of the same, to show that it was
not dangerous, when in a few minutes he fell
and soon expired. Dr. Arnold then tasted it,
but swallowed none, and he was at one time
s oil) 'sod to be dying, hat when last heard
from was better. "Cyanuret of potash" had
been substituted by Mistake for "chloride of
potash," Another sad warning.
Xtia"lllriess (If Jr. Giddings,—Mr.(lidding,
of Ouio, dropped down in his seat, in the
House of Representatives, at Washington, o n
Saturday week, from an affection of the heart,
-Medical aid was at once had, and ho is nux
much better.
tar War has been commenced between
England and China, grovringout of griersnees
sustained by British merchants. At last ac
counts, the British fleet was bombarding Can
ton, and the issue was not doubted, The
Chinese fleet had already been defeated,
bar Arrest.--Jas. W. Simonton, the Wash
ington correspondent of New York Times,
has been arrested and imprisoned at the in
stance of the national House of Representa
tives, for refusing to the names of
members "who had approached him and desir
ed to know if they could not, through him,
procure money for their votes on certain
bills." Quite a "scone" ensued when he was
brought before the /Louse, on Wednesday.
ta'Missouri U. S. Senators.-11un. T. potk
has been elected for the long term, and H o n.
J. S. Greene fur the short term. Both are
Dem"crate.
iter ...Vicaragua.-- Returned Nicaraguans
give coutradictnry but generally rather &is
inal accounts of the state of affairs in Nicar
agua.
'"•••••-.••
t maintaining a nuisance" recently at Exeter,
Serit is said that the notorious Frailey, of
_Schuylkill county, received the nomination for I England, it was shown on the part of Mr.
State Treasurer at the hands of tho Know 1 Abraham that his neighbor, Mr. Minty, haul
Nothing and Black Republican members. ;
(',iv IT BE ?-But the election of Cameron '
a cock which crowed one hundred and 6fty
times in °0 minutes. The learned Judge
should cause us not to be surprised a: anv
thing, Frailey is a regular Ilarrishurg thought this was an amount of crowing which
er—'`no more nor Jez.b." Clod bare the Cum- . humati nature was not bound to put up with,
nwuwealth '
NIG lifl" S MAIL.
PEN AND SCISSORS.
....The old adage, "too cold to snow," w as
at fault yesterday a-week.
The severe wintery weather extends
South and West of us. The James River,
irginia. Las been frozen over, end the winter
in New Mesico has been the hardest known
there for Many years.- -
....A man in Fulton county, in this State,
bap just been convicted of theft, for taking his
own horse from the poßsesmion of a Sherif,
who held the animal under an attach ment ;
the court decided that such an operation WWI
stealing.
.... A child beginn;ng to read becomes de
lighted with a newspaper, because lie rends
th e na mes of things which arc familiar end
will make progress accordingly. A:newspa
per in one year is worth two quarter's school
ing, to a child. -
....An ardent Fillmore man in Farmrille,
Va., pledged his word before the election,
that in case Buchanan came in he would
drink'six bottles of ca4tor oil at one time.--
We have not heard that he has "pi; d up" yet.
....A couple named Jerry Better and
Louisa Well, were_ married at the cathedral
in Cincinnati, on Saturday. Louisa was
Well, but now she is Better.
....Wonderfill. : —Congress has now been
in session nearly six weeks. and have had
"narry" fight yet! That dignified body is
evidently improving.—Jamodosen Dem.
Neither Sumner nor Burlingame have bees
in their seats this winter, we believe—a fact
that will explain why there has "been narry
fight'," and also the "improvement" alluded to.
.The man who could not stand it zany•
longer had to take a seat, and now feels quite
comfortable. •
. , ..Why are . railroad cars in no danger
from lightning.? Be' wise every train has a
conductor.
A husband advertises thus :—" My
wife, Annie Maria, has strayed or been sto
len. Whoever returns her will get his mead.
bmke. - As to trusting. her, any body can Rio
as he thinks fit; for. as I newer. paymy own:,
debts, it's not likely I'll pay been.",
In churning butter, if small granules
of hatter appear which do not "gather r
throw in it a lump (Shutter, and it will form a-.
nucleus, and the butter will "tane."
Nat less than seventeen bears have.
been killed in Lebanon county within the last.
....Lemon juice is much relied on by the•
physicians in London, for curing rheumatism.
Three tablespoonfuls per day is a dose for a
man,
. Glorious. Times for 'leg' ;—ln the
reign-of Queen' Ifirgaret of Scotland, the par—
liament plosed an act, that :may sintiekm
1:1, high or low degree, shoull.havethe liberty
to choose for a Ittisand the mar-ion Whorntshia•
set her fancy. If a man refa'sed to marry her,
he was heavily fined, according to the•valno
of his worldly possessions. The only groimd.
of exemption wits previous betrohgtl..
A Sad Occurrence.
On last Friday zik , trisn?o/ Mahaln Rohrer,.
Is widow lady risiding nt Tighltnantnn,)ell"
home for the purpose of visiting some neigh
?ors. She locked her two little children, agef
one-and= Hum years, in the house and took flier
key with her. :The eldest one was very an.;
i ,US to accompany its mother, but she po-•
sitively refased to take it, tearing it at
home to take care of the youngest. During-
her .41Kerrte th*Frhouse.took fire, and the chit
dren being locked in,.burned entirely up. It .
is supposed that the children were laying
with the fire;ttn•l thus seltire to.the
which being of logs was totally destroyed.--
The occurrence took place between two Ala
three o'clock iiLthelliternoon. 'Phis is a sa.l
warning to parents never to I.zre•f-armalifehil-•
dren alone, especially where there is any tire..
—Hagerdown Chrmikle.
fler The small pox is prevailing to an.
alarming extent in Stove, Vt., and all the, Pith- -
lie gatherings are forbidden, and schouls•nre•
stopped ; pest houses have been provided, Lunt
the Congregational clergyman has gone to .
one of them to devote his services to the
tar The Legislature of .11.1i,....55uri have'
awarded the position of Lieutenant Governor
to Hancock Jackson, the Democratic candi-•
date. It will be recollected that the returns,.
as first sent in, elected Newland, the Know
Nothing candidate, but it was discovered that
a mistake had been made in the returns from;
oiie county which reversed the result. A.sup—
plementary return was made by the elerizte
the county where the error was, stating the.
fact, and it was duly recognized by the Leg—
islature, who proceeded to do substantial jus—
tice by awarding the place to Jackson.
WY - We learn from the Pittsburg Post that
a gentleman named Dr. James M'Elheney, re
siding about twenty miles distant, along the
banks of the Ohio river, arrived in that city
on Saturday with a large arm chair, a walk
ing cane, a broom, (all carved from hickory
in the most elaborate and ingenious style, by
his own hand) and two wild turkeys, all of
which he had borne on his back the entire
twenty miles, to be forwarded by express to
lion. James Btchanan, as a New Year's pres
ent. On laying down his precious cargo in
the Diamond market, the rowdies of the appo
sition, learning his mission, succeeded in
stealing the turkeys and cane, but the , poul
try was subsequently recovered through the
assistance of a gentleman who witnessed the
theft, and the articles safely lodged in the
express office, and have, ere this, no doubt,
reached their destination at Wheatland.
A "Ntli.ia act" Defined.—At a trial for
and a.sarded to the plaintiff