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, THE COAIPILER.
"I,IDEETY, THE UNION. AND THE CONSTITUTIoN."
GETTYSIIrIiG, PENN' A.:
Monday morning, April 27, 1857.
Demoetatie State Nominations,
BUR GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM F. PAC:A - EH, of Arming.
CANAL CONI3IISSIONER,
NIMROD STRICKLAND, of Cheater.
Reassembling of the State Democratic
Coitvention of 1857.
In 'pursuance of a resolution ndopted by the
Democratic State Qom mittee of Pennsylvania,
the Delegates to tho State Con vention of March
2d, 1857, are roluilsted to assemble at the
Capitol, at Hs rrisburg, on Tuesday, the 9th
day of June. 1857, at 10 o'clock, A. M., for
the purpose of rominating , Candidates to com
plete the State Ticket, and transacting all
other business pertaining to the original au
thority of the Convention.
CIIARLES R. BUCKALEW,
Com 101.1. N
J. N. liumiiNsoN, t Secretaries.
R. J. HALDEMAN,
A Flimsy Fabrication.
"The lion. David Wilmot hits addressed a
note tit Gen. Wm. P. Packer, the Democratic
candidate, requesting him to name a conve
nient place to begin the canvass of the State.
Should Gen. Packer decline, it is the inter'.
g tion of Judge Wilmot to commence the can
vass alone some time in May."
We clip the above delicate attempt at bra
vado from the Peurtsylrania Inquirer of yes
terday, The whole story is simply a fabrica
tion. We are•authorized to say that Gen.
Packer has received no such communication
from Mr. Wilmot. On. our part, (if we aro
able to judge the man,) we are.of the opinion
that if Mr. Wilmot ever challenges anybody,
will be
,the last act of his political- life,
for nothing but despair would nerve hinP
to so-desperate and . fatal a conibat.—pennNyl
raaittn, 17th last.
liiiirThe Democrats gained largly in lowa
tlio - eTe - ction held on the 6th., The majority
in Council Blutill was 197, being a gait' over
I the previous election of 105. The majority in
PottawattaMie countk is estimated at 300.
, The Bluffs Bugle says this is the death kuell
<A* the "freedom shriekers." :
llia"The town and municinal elections in
Ohio,aswe learn fromour numerous exchanges.
all over the State, have resulted niore favor
ably for the Democracy than they have for
many years. The Kansas excitement has ,
about burnt itself out, and there is every in
dication that, if the Democracy nominate a
good State ticket, they will elect it triumphant
ly, despite the opposition of thelattious. -
stir The; Democrats have a majority in
every city in Connecticut except Norwich and
Ncliy Loudon. •
Elected Judge.—Tliorutts W. Clagott, Esq.,
formerly of 1 . Hi ice George's comity, 31d , has
• been elected judge of the first judicial district
of lowa, by sume SOO majority. lie watt the
regular Democratic nominee. lAA year, it
is qittid, the district gave 1,800 *publican
xuajortty, •.
. la -Henry. J Adams, the free State candi
date, for mayor, at Leavenworth, Kansas, has
beer. elected by ISO majority over all.
• A Third Candidate.—Thero is likely to be
a third candidate in the field for , Governor of
the Commonwealth. The dissatistitetion pit
the nomination of Mr. Wilmot appears to be
deep routed and extensive, and the question is
openly agitated amongst those-why h a v e no
disposition tor be sold and transferred to the
Black Republican party, whether a third can
didate shall be brought upon the course.
SiirSassum, of. the Nit Democrat, has
been appointed Pusunuster ut :net:outlets
burg, in ads State. We say Amen to that-
A harder working Demoorat than Sunburn
eau% be found just anywhere.
The Boston Attas, (Republican,) said
during the East eau bridge trial :—.'ibis nut
Mr. Kalloch alone who is on trial. There is
at etake in aome'degree the rcpulatiun of the
Republican - panty." Well;; that lets the
woolly beaded cat out of the bag.
11. .
. _An lit-grain ffilliimaire.—A Chicago paper
states that one of the grain and produce firms
in that city, hose handled within the year, in
their business, $12,500,000, their checks on a
single bank aumuuting to $6,000,000. 5,-
246,000 bushels of grain passed through their
bands.
4 Deep Saoic.—The Cooperstown (N. 'Y.)
Journal says that on Tuesday week 111 that
town, the ground was cowered to tite depth
twenty inches or more. In sow() parts
the county the snow is said to bale I,e,
three feet deep.
The New Cent.—lt is stated in t:pe Phila
delphia Gazette, ou the authority of Col.
Snowden; director of the U. S.i
molt. that in
about three weeks time this witch desired
coin will be distributed to the loJblie. .About
a million are already completed, and two nii !-
lions more will be finished before the mint
co - nuaeziees paying them out. Colonel S. also
Mates that since the establishment (4 th e
'Mated States taint no less flea., 18U'J tons of
copper cents have be +n c.)iue.l, making of
distinct pikes one hundred and fifty millions.
Of these a large number have been 11q. ron
irertedintu "wnshers" for machinery. or utt.trr
arise taken out of circulation.
sera of bilser i$ w•urtk just itiJuut
--4.01P0-
Abolitionism and Know Vothingism
The nominees of the Black Republican
and Know Nothing State Convention, Messrs.
Wilmot, Millward, and Lewis, have en
listed no enthusiasm 'on the part of the peo
ple. On the contrary, their principles are
held in abhorrence by a vast majority of the
voters of Pennsylvania, and from present ap
pearances, We should not be surprised if the
Democratic State ticket succeeds by at least
fifty thousand majority. The honest yeoman
ry of the old Keystone have always been as
averse to Abolitionism, , a. 9 they have been
loyal to the Constitution and the Union.
They are slow to follow after strange gods,
and prefer traveling in the goe old fashion;.
ed Democratic path marked out for them by
their revolutionary ancestors. They' may
have occasionally erred in other respects—but
never when the question•of union or.disunion
—the integrity of the Constitution or its de
stroctien, was in issue. • In all this they have
been trite as tlie - needle to the pole, nei
ther looking to the right or to the left, but
pressing forward with steady step, and flag,
flying, to the music of the Union. Xor_ar
they alone (remarks the Lancaster Interne:en
eer) in their devotion to our glorious institu
tions. , There are thousandS of patriotic men
in the Commonwealth, heretofore known as
members of the Whig party, who will cheer
fully and gallantly act with theni when such
inimense issues are 'involved. Many men
were with us in the late Presidential contest,
and many more will join the Democratic col
umn, for the purpose of assisting to crush out
the fell fiends of Abolitionism and Know
Not) i ngi sm, no* that the -ringleader -in tin.
work of mischief and disunion is in the field
seeking for Gubernatorial honors. •
We anticipate for Gen. Packer, our noble
standard bearer, tn easy and triumphant vic
tory over his competitoi.. All the sfiphistry
and special pleading of Wilmot, whether on
or off the stump, will avail him but little,
when he comes to encounter the giant blows
of his sturdy Democratic antagonist. The
doom of Black Itepublicunis►n and Know
Nothingism is already sealed; the hand wri
ting is on the wall ; and the second Tuesday
of October next will effectually and forever
settle its conde . mnation at the ballot-box.
Pennsylvania has been—is—a n d W ILL
CONTINUE TO BE, true to the CONSTI
TUTION and the UNION.
The Elements-Coalescing..
The billing and cooing that has been going
on for some time between the Ahrodm and
patches of the opposition materials. in the
Northern and. Elistiirn "States, indicates a
'union between the Black Republicans awl
Know Nothings—the basis of which will he
the dissenting opinions of Justices McLean
and Curtis in the Dred Scutt case. The Bos
ton Courier, formerly one' of - the most bit
ter opponents of the Black Republican par
ty, edges up to them in the following style:
The great mistake inade• by the Republi
cans and the chief cause of their defeat, v;
their want of moderation. They went„ too
far; they demanded too much ; they alarmed
the timid and outdo the judicious pause. 14
order to bring up the popular mind to the
electioneering heat:a strain of reckless decla
mation was indulged in, which produced its,
natural reaction . muting men who represent
the reason of the country aft Opposed to its
passionS. This judgmen-, of -Judge Curtis'
embodies those sound constitutional ant-sla
very doctrines which are consistent with a
national patriotism ; it omits nothing and oh
trunks nothing ; it fortifies every point by a
p.)werful array of historical prooland legal
reasoning; there is nothing to be added tour
taken away front it. Upon the ground of this
opinion the whole anti-slavery sentiment of
the North may firmly plant itself. And if so
it will be sure to prevail in the long run.—
But if it - goes further, and insists on more,
it will hull in the future as it has in °the past.
Black Republicanism Rebuked
• •
At the late Baltimore Annual Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the fol
lowing resolutions were submitted :
Re,,,,/i-,;11, By the Baltimore' Conference, in
C,,nforeneo assembled, that we highly dep
recate the agitation of the Slavery question,
which has arreatly re'sulted to the great detri
:aunt of the political and religions interests of
the equntry.
Resobsed, That, as heretofore, we will op
pose with zeal any aggression which shall be
attempted by the abolition. agitators of the
country.
They were then put upon their' passage,
and the first resolution adopted by a vote of
:!.:20 yeas to 3 nays—the second by a Vete of
197 yeas to 14 nays.
The Baltimore Conference (since divided)
effihraced in its limits partions of Pennsylva
nia, Maryland and Virginia—and the great
unaniwity of sentiment in the body, in oppo
sition to the "abolition agitators" of the
ay, is creditable alike to the Conference
and to the Church fur which the body was
It Aing.
r SM,lfr Shirin and Aeeidenl.s.—The snow
storm of Sunday night and Monday was a
severe one its several sections of Pennsylvania.
Th e snow at Mati e li ('hunk fell to the depth
of fintrteen inclics: at Coopersburg, on the
North Pennsylvania Railroad, eight inchtm ;
at Pottsville eighteen and at Reading
eight o r ton inches. A dispatch from the
latter place, dated Monday i •says :
— At eight o'clock this morning, owing to
tie great a:Tninulation of snow and w a t er on
the roof of the Reading Railroad machine
;Ipurtiun of the iron roof of this vast
()eliding. fell. About 300 mere were at work
in the shop at the tune, and the crash caused
the;,, to be very greatly alarmed. Fortunate
ly, but two persons were injured, and those
but slightly. The section of ro o f which fell
„Gout ISO feet by 40, being about one
elLfhth of the roofing. None of the locomo- '
ti, es awl none of the valdable machinery sus
tained dautav;e. The escape of the
men and thoir tint sustaining further injury
is regarded as special deli', prance from death
Jul one of its must terrible forms."
On Tuesdlo..• of week before last, two feet
eight oi snow fell in Franklin counts,
N. Y. The, r.co.fs of se% oral building 3 were
crushed in by its weight.
adruitaud um,crupulous fabricator
may utter more fatAelloods in a day than an
livnest wan may, with ever it, much efrort,
rcurreet it:. a-year.
low Par.,
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Proposed Sale of the Main Line.
PEOPLE 02/PENNSYLVANIA, COME TO THE RESCUE!
A bill is now befbre the House of Repre
sentatives for the sale of the Main Line of the
Public Works, which is drawn so unfairly
and nrjustly against the interests of the Com
monwealth, and the passage of which would
inflict so lasting a blow at the prosperity of
our State, that we felt ouipelled to issue au
extra, on Saturday, culling public attention
to it.
This bill proposes to sell the Main Line for
$7,500,000, or, if the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company becothen the purchaser, the price is
to be $9,000,000, and for this consideration
the State is to relinquish the tonnage tax,
and the ,tax on corporation stocks, now paid
by the Pennsylvania Central and Ilarrisburg
and Lancaster railroad companies. Mortgage
bonds are to be given for the amount at which
the line i mold, bearing five per mania inter.
est ; one-t 7th of which is to fall dne in Ivo,
and the cinder in ten equal pay
ments aft r that time. All the rolling stock,
land, build ingmovater power, etc.,now owned by
the State, are tit lie transferred to the compa
nypurchasing. Such are the prominent pro=
visions of this bill. Let us now consider how
it will affect the interests of the Common
wealth.
In the first place, then, the State derives no
*Befit from the sale of this line for a period
of thirtythree years, save the interest of
five per vent. on the purchase money. For
this she relinquishes the profits to be derived
from these works, 'which, last year, amounted
to $302,590 42
The tonnage tax on •the Harris
burg and Lancaster and Penn
sylvania Central railroads a
mounting, last year, to 249,021 42
And the tux on the stock of the
two Companies, estimated 100.000 00
Making a total of '5741,618 84
Awl in return she will receive in
• -the shape of interest annually $450,000 00
Showing a yearly loss of $291,617 84
In this calculation, which is made from offi
cial records, we do not take into considera
tion the yearly increase in value of the ton
nage tax. which would undoubtedly make the
Loss to the State much greater. This minual
loss to the treasury of $291,617 84 of re\ tome
would, in thirty-three years, amount, without
Calculating the intercst,tos9,623,3BB 72: more
than the purchasers are required to pay for
the Main Lino. The State is, therefore, ask
ed, by the" friends of this
_bill, to sarrifice
these works to company, and rob her treas
ury to unable that company to,pay fiir them.
It would bettor for the State to give the
Main Line away,. and retain th e tonnage
tax, than sell it under the- provisions of this,
bill.
Another outrageous feature of 'this bill is
contained ion the banal section, which pro
vides that, if other parties than the Pennsyl
vania rivartiad company purchase it, such pun
-ehaSers Shall within ten days to - t - he
Givernor. for the use of the Cianhionwertlth,
bonds of the 'State of l'ininsylvania,-'or the
city of Philadelphia, to the ammint of $3,-
000,000, or in lieu thereof, a like :maim of
mortgage bonds of duo
2ennsylvania Railroad
coat rosy ; and meat of the pri , keipai of
such purchase Money shall lie made in certifi
cates of 101111 of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania at par or in cash, and of the in
terest 111 (Nish semi-annually." The meaning
of this section, in plain English, is that 110
party, save the Pelllisylvania Railroad Com
pany, shall be permitted to buy the Main
Line under this bill. -Can our Legislature
consummate such an - outrage - as this'.'
halve thus hastily referred to some of
'the provisions of the hill. : There are many
other. objectionable features in it, which,
did our sp tee permit, we would expose to
tfie public, but we think we have said etningh
to convince every reasonable man that the
bill is all we have characterized it, mid
should, under no contingency, become a law.
We do not look u'pon this as 5, party (loos
tion„ When the interests of our Common
wealth are attacked, it is Lie duty of men
of all parties to defend • her, am! there is
patriotism and honor enough among 'the
suns of Pennsylvania to reward her faithful
servants and pueistt her traitorous enemies.—
It , rrisqolro l' , ll riot.
ID" - The bill for the •tokule'• ltiNed.thu linume in Thurs
day, by fifty-one to forty-,40. VoTtNG Volt
ir. It Is to he b.,14.14 that the :4eilAte will out sanetion tip
uutrinto Upon the Vonniumwenith. If ronnunnwitetl, the
Z. 4 tatti in ten yeitrA will have matter Public Works nor at
dollar as the price of them.
The Apportionment Bill.
'We annex the apportionment bill as it pass
ed the Senate on .londay, supported by the
vote of but a solitary - Democratic Senator. It
is unfair throughout, and may be truly char
acterized, one of the most unprincipled- gerry•
manders ever attempted. Why the venerable
Senator from Alleg,lleny voted liar it, is more
than we can imagine ; but we consider it a
great mistake on hi...! part, and trust that no
Democrat in the House may commit a similar
error. According to the arrangement of the
hill there is no thane° at all left to the De•
itineracy, in either House, without counting
very largely upon Philadelphia, a thing
which, under ordinary circumstances, it is
unsafe to do. In the Senate we cannot see
how, in any event, the Democrats can, under
the bill, elect more than fifteen members—
with a very smart chance 'of getting only
herb?. It makes the Senate hopelessly oppo
sition by annexing, in districts, such comities
as Dauphin and Cumberland, Washington
and Beat er, Westmoreland and Indiana, and
others equally unfair, and cutting down the
representation wherever it can be done against
the Democracy. In the house the ease is no
Letter—the toivantages are all decidedly and
unnaturally against us. It is needless to say
more. We have now—or ought to have—a
DeMocratic majority in the House, and we
invoke them to let no bill pass which "does'
not do at least simple justice to our party.
We subjoin the bill:
• sr.x.trontAl, ntsTairrs.
Ist. railadelphia cite, 4; l Chester and Delaware, 1;
ltd Montgomery, I ; 4th. Bunks, 1 ; sth. Lehigh and North
ampton. I; 6111. IRchitylkill, 1; 7th Berks. 1; MIL! Lan
caster dud Lebanon. 2 ; 9th. Dauphin and Cumberland, 1;
10th. York, I ; 11th. Adatioi and Franklin. 1 ; 12th. Bed
ford. Fulton, Blair and Hantinklon, 1; 13th. t‘omerset,
Fayette and Greene. I ; 14th. Wa.shingtoti and Beaver, I;
15th. Allegheny; 2; 16th. Indiana and Westmoreland. 1;
17th. Laurence, Butler and. Venting.), 1; 18th. Crawford
And Mercer, 1: 19th Erie. Irarren and M'Ke.in, 1 : 20th.
Armstrong. Clarion and Forest. 1; 21st. Jefferson, Elk,
Cli...rtiold and CArubriit, 1 : 22d. Tioga, Potter, Clinton and
Centre. 1; 23d. Perry. Juniata. 31011 in, Su.% der and Union, 1:
24th Northumberland, Montour and Columbia. I; 25th.
Bradford, tmllivan and Lyeaming, 1; 26th. t;iniquebanna,
wri i minq and Wayne, 1; 27th. Luzern°, 1: 2Stb. Carbon,
Munroe ,tad Pike, 1.
REPRE• 4 ENT4TIVE DISTRICTS.
First Ward, Philadelphia city. 1
;second Wand. do 1
Al. 4th arid sth Wards,
6th, 11!th ant 13th IViard , L do
ith. 6th. 9th a: 10th IVards do
11th, ltith a 18th Wards, do
14th, I.lth & 20th Wards, do
17th and 19th tt ants, do
t‘t nu t 24th Wards, do
2.d and tt:ld tVards, do
City of. Philadelphia, 17: Delaware county 1, Cheater
county 3, Montgomery county 3, Buck.; county 2, North
ampton county 2, Carbon and Lehigh 2, Belk. 3, Schuyl
kil; 3, Lebanon 1, Ltrieaater 5, York 2, Dauphin 2, Cum
berland 1, Adults I, Franklin and Fulton 1, Iluntinpinii 1,
Bedford and Souieraet 2, Fayette 1, Greene 1, %Vat:him:ton
2, Aib. 4 nyu . % .5, 'l% estmorelArii 2, Artivarung and Jefferson
2 , it tj u rr 1, 130avfi'r and I..strtence 2, Mercer aul VetiAnzo
2„
}.rle 2. Warren an I Nl•Reiii 1, F•iresit, Elk and Clear
field 1, Clarion 1, Indian% I. Caluihria I, Celan,: I, Potter
and Clinton 1, Militia I, Jul:Oat:land Snyder 1. Union and
Lycomiug 2 , Nortbumberlau I 1, Montour and Columbia 1,
Tioga 1, Bradford 2, Wayne I. Luterne 3, Su:lnehanna,
Wyoming and Nillitan 2, Monroe wd Pike 1, Perry 1,
Blur 1, Crattandll-1:0141 100.
Iron) the Harrisburg Patriot
Ma. EDITOR : I perceive by the last Star
that its usually affable, amiable and polite
editor has worked himself into another fit of
passion and "politico-religious" frenzy, in
consequence of the fact that an unruly boy
had actually taken french leave of his "Alma
Mater," of Mount St. Mary's, and taken up
holgings with ex-sheriff Benjamin, of the
"Junction House." ----
It is a thousand pities that these little
boyish freaks now and then occur, because,
simple — as they are, they are well calculated
to stir up the religious rancor of the at other
times calm and conservative editor of the Star.
Ever since the defeat of Mr. Wilson in 1854,
Mr. Buehler has been billow: on any subject
that calls in question Catholics, or that per
tAins to their religion or creed. •At the time
already mentioned, this Mr. Editor endeavor
ed to perform what had previously been con
sidered as impossible and preposterous—that
is, of traversing at one and the same time two
'opposite points of the compass,—and,of course,
failed in the attempt, and thereby exposed his
hypocrisy and 1:911y.
This unfortunate and unsuccessful effort
naturally placed him in a ridiculous and un
enviable position, to cover which, and to re
trieve the' past, he seems to have considered
it necessary to change his ground, and to con
vert his former neutral iburnal into a sort of
a "Clipper," to feed and be fed by the bigoted
and illiberal portion of mankind, that can he
found in all parties and creeds.
By this change of sail ho no doubt expected
to, repair the losses which resulted from the
hetrayel of Col. Neely and his friends, by ef
fectually appealiny to the religious passions of
as many belonging to the Democratic party.
to this end no fanatic history, however pro
fane and intolerant, was left unnoticed and
undisturbed; while the most unnatural, and
absurd stories, reflecting on the character of
Catholic pen, women anti children, were pro
iscuousl)t recalled mid reverted to, with as
much zeal . and apparent solemnity, as if they
wore so many Gospel truths, :La . ,' charitable
and neee. , csary revelations.
All this having failed to extricate him from
the' dilemma,' in which his rashness and
byThicrisy had placed him. he now seems to
grow desperate, and considers every lsaly and
every - thing Jesuit, that ibies trot conform to.
the word and work of Know Nuthingistn.—
Ile sotheth»es cannot even record the per
formance of a simple corporal work of mercy,
such as is placed to the everlasting credit of
the good Stunaritaa, without prefacing the
same wars gratuitous oilmen calculated to
d a mpen - or obscure the merits of the giver ur
recipient, of the most divine favors.
A loss of patronace, and the change of the.
moldy, may perhaps, have something to do
_with his- late-course,- and while;-his-recitingS
awl revelations continue to be responded to by
the sober second thinking people of the coun
ty, as they have been at, the late elections, so
i on:!: I suppose we must "grin and bear" them
in patience and in peace. FORMEARANCE.
Truth is :Mighty!--The editor of the Star,
has not it word, in his last Friday's issue, in
regard to the. Compiler, or the mattera in con
truveryV• hetw.‘ett us.
"Something bile your"
ftEr.Cul, SAM 1.71;1, \V. BLACK', of Pittsburg,
has been appointed One of the 'fudges of Ne
hruslt4. A good and deserved appointment,
which it
: gives us nu little pleasure to
chronicle. .
lgirl - bNCENT E..GEIGER. Esq., f 'lnerly Of
this placq, and for several years editor of the
Staunton Vindicator. has been appointed In
dian .Igoit for C This isa capital'
!appointment, and we congratulate friend
Geiger on his good luck.
C 0,-The Governorship of Utah has been
tendered to-31;110r Benj. 3loCtilloeh, and it is
thought lie will accept. - He is Well fitted fur
the pest, we should judge.
ter - A lady named Ann Eliza Tyler, died
suddenly on last Thursday week, in Rich
mund, Va., front - the bite of a spider. She
was bitten on the right cheek the night be
fore, and died the following evening from the
effects. .
EZll2l=l==
Me _Vatic) Epidentie.—Leath of a
Cityre.sw.
DANvILLE, 2-k-llon. J G.
Montgomery, the Democratic member of Con
gress elect from this district, died at 2 o'clock
this mornimx. Mr. Montgomery is a victim
of tho National Hotel epidemic.. lie was a
brilliant and rising man. •
Another llewrible Camphen -leculent--The
Allegheny (Mich.) Journal says that a horri
ble camphen accident occurred in'that village
on the sth inst. Mrs. S. N. Pike undertook
to till at lamp from the fluid can 'without ex
tinguishing the light. An explosion of ( 'Durso
followed. .. daughter of Mrs. Pike was
burnt to death, while Mr. and Mrs. Pike and
their son, ten years of age, were horribly
burned.
A 1 - ; , ilefi Female Thiri---Singular Highway
Robbery.--A prominent New York Physician
was robbed on Thursday afternoon, while
passing along Ninth street, near Callowhill,
by a veiled female. The 'ivoman suddenly
stepped up to the M. D., and before he Was
hardly aware of her presence she snatched
Told spectacles from his nose. The aston
ished doctor was too much surprised to give
any alarm, and the woman escaped. The
physician returned to his hotel with no very
favorable opinion of veiled women.—Phila
dclphiu Inquirer.
Death from Poisoned Thmey.—The Dade
rifle (Ala.) Banner states that Mr. Lewis
Kent, of Tallapoosa county, cut a bee tree on
Saturday evening, and the family partook
of the, honey, from the effect of which two
of them--a son just grown and a small
child—died that night. Several others were
in a precarious condition when last heard
from.
The Potomac Fishing season is about
half gone, and less perhaps has been dune
within that time, says the Intelligeneer, than
during any similar previous period. Shad
at from to $l6 per hundred, and herrings
at $9 50 and $lO per thousand, are almost
unparalleled prices. Indeed so dear are fish
that intending buyers are in many-cases hold
ing back for cheaper
_purchases or no pur
chases at- all.
Col. .14,rivy.—We understand that Col.
Forney, who, it has been stated, was lying
very ill in Philadelphia, a few days since,
has been for some tune rather seriously in
disposed, hut has recovered sufficiently for
travel, and is now in Washington, convales
cent.
Fee the Complier
Some of the papers have published an ac
count of a young' woman's running away from
the Convent School r at Nazareth, Kv. She
herself, or somebody for her, published a long
rigmarole of a letter in the newspapers,
charging the nuns with interfering with her
religiun, persecuting her, and preventing her
from having access to or writing to her
friends. She speaks in her letter of "the
corruptions" which only the great day will
reveal, or something to that effect. This let
ter was published in some of our St. Louis
papers.
Everybody . "rho knows anything of Con
vent-Schools in this country, formed a judg
ment of this young person at the moment of
reading her letter, and, set her down as no
better than she should be, only wondering
how she ever gotin the Convent. A gentle.
man of this city has received the following
letter on the subject :
"Dear Friend:—Your short note has just
come to hand, and iu compliance With vont.
request I send you an account of the "Naza
reth affair," published in the Bardstown
'Gazette. You can judge for yourself us to the
character of the case. I have it from a gen
tleman (a reliable man) who lives at Mt.
Washington, that she is anything but a proper
young lady. She has-now been living with
Mr. Hall, the tavern-keeper of the place, for
about one month or more, and he is very anxi
ous to get her off his hands, but no person has
vet arrived who claims any knowledge of her.
Moreover Mr. Hall himself has seen his error
in so readily acting as. her guardian in the
case ; fur, he will not even allow his daughter
to associate with : and the girls of the vil
lage shun her. This gentleman also states,
that she seems to be very intimate with the
stage drivers who stop at the tavern. ,As to
the letter, purported to have been written by
her, it is 3s fabrication of some male genius of
the Know Nothing school of which Mt. Wash
ington has several, who stand pre-eminent in
worrying their empty heads with something
to strike terror into the poor Catholics and
foreigners. But the letters of the Mother
Superior and of the girls of the Academy, are
sufficient to show what the nature of the case
is."
The Banistown Gazette contains, however,
=eh fuller particulars, comprising a letter
from the Superior, and one from the Protes
tant young ladies of the school, touching the
history and character of Miss Miller.
The letter of the Protestant young ladies of
the school is too long for insertion entire:—
They seem very indignant at-the-insinuations
of Miss Mary Miller, whom they plainly inti
mate to be an ignoramus, a liar, and a vul
garian. It is rather a school-girlishletter,
but hatter evidence for that : • • -
"Not wishing to be prolix. ice will refer on
ly as far back asJanuary 17th, 18313, at which
time Mary E. B. Miller became a pupil at
Nazareth. It was remarked at the time, by
the youngladies who are prone_to_t • •,
comments ; that her wardrobe was scantily
supplied, though we hear ; since she left -of a ,
splendid assortment of
&c., that has been retained herb : Sfe entered'
the least advanced classes. wiiere she if-email:it:-
ed, and 'Was ever noted fbr her -indolence and
unholy-like bearing, to u•Le the mildest ex•: -
pressimt. From the stium her brother left
Nazareth, the faculty of this Distitution were
unable to obtain the least reliable information
of him or any one else whom she claimed to
be her relative, although inquiries were fre
quently made to that effect, as the Sisters as
well as the girls were anxious to have her
removed from
. the school. Far from her let
ters being intercepted. as she states. it IV4IB
desired that they-should reach, their destina
tion, in hopes that some clue to 'her friends
might be proeured. -
In the regulations of Nazareth we find no
rule prohibiting unrestrained correspondence
between the young ludic-; and their relatives;
on the contrary, each pupil is required to srite
every two weeks to some member of her NM
ly, and we unhesitatingly pronounce the ftd
lowing assertion of Mary E. B. Miller to be
unfounde I in truth: "Their regulations
are such that no letter written by Me could in
form my friends of my condition."
_ . .
I We are ignorant of the instructions left by
!, her brother relative to what religion she
j should practice : but the 'following passage
i extracted from her letter, we positively, affirm
Ito bona in:wife:4 untruth : "I have been re
peatedly confined in a room two, three, and
once five days at wtime, deprived of my allow
ance of food, for no other reason than that of
refusing to
Nazareth,
to confession." During our
long stay at :Nazareth, we have never known,
an instanee where the least attempt has been
made by the Sisters to proselyte those enter
taining religious principles at -variance with'
their OWII, nor a punishment inflicted to in
duce them to change their religion.
As to the heinous penance spoken Of by
Mary E. B. Miller, namely, continementin a
room and deprivation of food, we unhesita
tingly deny that any such punishment was
inflicted on her or any one else. We remeak
ber on o ne occasion that she voluntarily ab
sented herself from the table, for three or tour
i days. refusinglng to eat, through ill temper, in
) consequence of not being pleased with the
Isat assigned her, although she had request
ed a'cliange of place. At length she return
ed, and made a kind of apology for her mis
demeanor, by saying that she had once done
,'it with her uncle because he told her she was
eating too much. ,Ilie.remark_of the presid
ing Sister was, that ••you have punished your
self far more than I could have 'done."
1 To our certain knowledge she was never
subjected to anything more severe than that
usually imposed on idlers, viz : to prepare
iand recite the neglected lesson—and of course
1 she did su in a
_room apart from that in
1 which the young ladies were amusing them
! selves. A Sister is generally in the room
, (which is the study hall or a class room) with
1 those• who are, as we say, punished ; though
sometimes, when called away, to_ attend to
something, shedoCs 7 loalfie door. - TliTh all
understand to be done to prevent interrup
tion from others : so much so that we often
request a Sister, when we wish to be uninter
rupted in a room, to lock the door, as we
would not like to refuse opening it for our
companions.
From the time she entered school all the
efforts of her teachers to inspire her with the
love of study, and to obtain from her such
deportment as is becoming in a pupil, proved
abortive. Her conduct often elicited from
the girls the remark, that the sisters ought
to send her from School ; hut they, with their
wonted Christian forbearance, were unwilling
to send her out into the world without prop
er protection, though they would gladly have
been relieved of their onerous responsibility.
On one occasion when chided for not pre
paring her Arithmetic, she vented her wrath
by throwing the book at the Sister's head; so
you see the "poor unprotected girl" was not
so unprotected after all, since the mighty
bump of combativeneSs was so fully develop
ed. Other instances might be mentioned il
lustrative of her pugilistic disposition ; but
we think oven this will suffice to show that
that "poor unprotected girl" was sufficiently
endowed by nature for self-defence.
Her inventive genius was well known while
at Nazareth, and her
,knowledge of persons
who never existed was proverbial even among
the smaller girls. Hence, we are not aston
ished at, the ;taring tissue of falsehoods which
Tram the St. Louis Leader
The Nazareth Runaway.
"Loutsvrt,LE, March 20th, 1857
she has sent forth to the world. The circus
! stance of her being lock up the day she left
Nazareth is an entire fabrication ; t'or she wad
' certainly with the young ladies who took a
long walk that afternoon, and was with them
throughout the whole day.
Two Men "Hanged by Mobs in lowa.
On Saturday, the lith inst., Eli 4riturd,
half breed, was hung by a mob , in 'Jackson
county, lowa, for killing John Ingalls.. On
the same day a mob at Bellevue, lowa,.forei
bly entered the jail' there, and tpking a pri
soner, charged him with murder and'Otiiiiiter
felting, and hung him. Great. excitement
prevails in the vicinity. ,
It appears that Orifford, when bewas forci
bly seized by the mob, (who broke into the
jail,) declared his innocence, bet .where he
found that they were determined upon . bang
ing him, and there was no probability, of es
cape, he made a clean breast of it, confessing
that he shot Ingalls in the woods where his
body was found. The weapon used *as the
rifle, and he approached has victim from be
hind to within fifteen feet, and shot him in
the head, the ball passing through and lodg
ing against the skull over the left L eye„,,lle
further stated that he, was instigated to the
murder and paid for doing it by his uncle, a
man named Jarrett, and another named David
McDonald, neighbor of Ingalls. Griffordalso
confessed that he had attempted to kill two
other persons in;the swim vicinity—one a - man,
at whom he shot three times, - and the other a
woman. .
When told the fatamement was approach
ing, he acknowledged the justice of his pun
ishment,butsaidhis"uncle should suffer also."
From 300 to 500. persons witnessed the hang
ing. A prayer was offered up by a Methodist
clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Babcock, the guilty
wretch kneeling and bowing himself, the
surrounding crowd standing in respectful si
lence. When the last moment arrived, the
leader of the party tied a handkerchief over
the eyes of Oriffurd, who remained standing,
and twenty-four men took hold of the rope.—
At a signal they pulled upon the rope together,
suspending him in the air, about eight feet
from the earth. ;As soon as the execution
was over, two men•were disnatched in pursuit
of Jarrett, the uncle ; and Mi!Donald, his ac
'n
complice,'and it is sail fto he the determi tiott
to hang,them both if taken.,,;'.4lriffurd w s a
native of Missouri., , , - -::.-:, .
Fatal Afigialce.—A mistake Of a distressing
and fatal character occurred on Fridayilright
last in Forest street, nearllaclison. It rip
pears that Mrs. Margaret Macfarland:Widow
of the late Captain Macfsrland, 'being of a
plethoric: habit, ac,ctistonied herself , to taking
'magnesia and like aperients fir the ptirpise
id Preventing a ' rush of blood to the bead.—
Oa- the night in question she felt. anivell and
, asked for some salts:. There beinganhe in
the hi-ruse she' Waif advised:l.Y a fermi° friend
to taltessonia'-raalltilav: timillifre - accordingly
sent tir thit , hOurre ti) obtain soma.
The su pesed .•
she raised 'a large teaspoonful milk and
swallowed it. Fur a time she felt quite cons
fortalriklaft nt taidnight'ldre was seized with
ritniiitink and Severe crarrip in the-stomach.—
Not stispeeting :_tfiat 3uty •inristalte.had beers
'magic in the medieirie, she waited until Satur
day miming before a physician was-sent for.
Dr O'Donnell was. then- culled; and he
.pro
pounced the symptoms tr be those ofpinsmi.
Everything possible was done for bar, but
she died; shortly after in great agony. The
bottle - from which her *neighbor had taken
the medicine preyed to contain arsenic there
:being another of the 'same description arm-.
taining magnesia, and dais the mistake oc
curred. Coroner Stevens w Called - to hold
art inquest Ern the holly. and theSrary ren dared_
a verdict of accidental death,. closed by talc ,
lug arsenic in mistake for teagnissia. This.
fatal error, has produced great the ,
'family of the deceased d's well as airsoucat^a.
large circle of friends.—Bait. .
GyAnzacenient.Exrtri.ve.v.,—The ken? l'Atfnre
the sppipi class at Jefferson Colh>ge, Can
notishtieg, Pa., at the next commeneetnent,.'in
JuV. will lie read hylVin:- Called? Bryant—
. Dicki r nson C.dlege, Carbale, Pa:. john
Saxe is to read the poem , M.. Poin
dexter, of Richmond, Va.; is too preach thee an
nual sermon before the gm - hinting' &ass ut
Wake Forest College, N. 0., in
The Cqloitizgas? , S2eioll.l-r-114 e_ :Washing
t6n Star stalti
tesak ttiefrieiids of President
Buchanan, headed by fiert . PiO'ree, hat °open
ed a subscription fi r the American Coloniza
tion ,Society. which. as soon as it reaches
$l,OOO, will entitle . .. Mr. Buchanan to.a certi
ficate of 'valor as a life-director a the society..
Geo. Pierce sent fir Dr. Danforth on' retirit,4
frf au office, gave lii in a cheek for $lOO tOlrat ds
the object, conunetaled the society,, and bid,
him God speed in his efforts for the caue.
Shocking.—Tile Easton (Aid.) Star
,Kiy's
coroner's inquest lvas held in that &minty, on
'Saturday last, over the'hody of a child nainc(t
Alar!=aret June AleGian;only sis years of age,.
and that the verdiet was. "that,it ()lupe to its
death by drinking whisky::
Pardoneer.—Rev. ICtn. S. IL' Keys, former
ly of Lancaster, Pa:; whet was indicted for as
sault, 3nd battery with intent to•commit
rape, but convicted the assault sukttbattery
only. and sentenced to three !wattles' impri
sonment in the county Jail of Blair county,
Pa., has been- pardoned by Governor Pollock.
, .
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General Hougton,.—The Hunts vi lle (TexaA).
Recorder announces that Gen. Ilowtton Will'
support slr. Buchanan's adminiNtration as
long as the latter adheres, to the principles of
his inaugural address.
Brigham Thinly, the ..Iformon. - - It appears
from an article in the Buffalo Commercial
that President Fillmore, in appointing Brig-
ham Young to the governorship of Utah, did
su after consulting, many respectable persons
• -h-e - Feieral Steetai,lunong theni Col. Z11.4:4:- -
L. Kane, of Philadelphia, a brother of the
late Dr. Kane, the Arctic navigator. Col.
Kane spent many months in Utah,, and at
that time formed a high opinion 'of Brigham.
It seems, however, that - at the time the ap
pointment was made, the doctrine of polyga
my was not avowed by the Mormons, and
that if they practiced it they did so and con
cealed the fact from the world. They have
since incorporated it in their creed as one of
their leading articles, and' have openly de
fended it, anti hence the jast indignation
which has everywhere been expressed through
out the country. It is further stated that
Brigham's nomination was c(infirrned by the
U. S. Senate without the slightest • opposi
tion.
The Kansas Election.--1 gentleman who
has recently arrived from Kansas informs the
Evansville (Indiana) Journal that the free
State men in the territory intend to vote at the
approaching election, feeling confident in the
strength of their overwhelming numbers.—
This is in direct contradiction of all other
statements.
The Frederick ( . .‘id.) Esa.miner stags
that two feet of snow fell on the Catoctin
mountain on Monday.
se-New potatoes, ,green .pray anal corm
bc.rs were for sale in market at 31untglcaery,
Ala., last week.
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