liE THE COMPILER. TUE I.lli/Ori, AND TIIZ CONSTITUTION." GRTITSBUBG, Monday Morning, May 4,1851. Democratic State Nominations, you GOVERNOR, wazi„or F. PACKER, of Lycoming, CANAL COM/M3IONER, NIMROD aiI:ICKLAXP, of Chester, Seauembliog of the State. Democratic Convention of 1857. In pursuance of a resolution adopted by the Democratic State Oenunittee of Pennsylvania. the Delegates to the State Convention of March 241, 1857, ure requested ,to assemble at the Capitol, at florrisburg. on Tuesday. the 9th day of June, 1857. at 10 o'clock. A. M., for the purpose of nominating Candidates to nn plete the State Ticket, and transacting all other business pertaining to the original au thority of the Convention. CJMILLES IL. RUCKALFM, CI.I.ktIMAN. J. N. llvrcausem, secretaries. R. J. HALDESAN, lerPresident Buchanan has not, it 18 eta. ted, entirely recovered from the effects of the ;National Hotel disease. The oStates" says be has had another, though not very severe. attack, lle was, however, out on Thursday, In apparent good health, Ex•Pecsidle)Lt Picrec —lt is stated that ex. rresident Pierce has purchased 60 acres of land In the northern part of Concord, N. IL, whereon ho intends to erect a splendid mansion. SErThe Democrats of York borough have nominated PXTER, Wl:lima, Esq., for Chief /largess, A bettor choice could not have been made, and it deserves to he endorsed 1 0 the polls. " Ham Storm in the Pennsylvania Coal Re. gion..During the. Storm on Sunday and Monday, April 19th and 20th, snow fell 18 Inches deep Aire4therby, 30 inches at Rock. port, 37 inches at Beaver Meadow, 40 inc at Janesville, and 42 i 0011,36 ntleten, Cuba Gueno. 7 .-Lettra from Havana, state that Capt. Green and the Commissioners pointed by Governor Concha to Implore the guano Islands on the south side of Cuba /MVO returned and bring a favorable report. The quantity of guano is undoubtedly grout; but there is still en importomt question to bo de aided, viz : the quality of the article. Upon this the whole value of the discovery depends. Zook Out; Hold .li'tketl---1. Miasmal as tronomer . announces the startling fact that the greataeMoViTrhich la now pursuing its erratic course through the fields of space, Will strike the earth on the ltlth of June, at twenty minutes past 434,0'i - dock in the morn, lug, at a point near Carondelet„ The astrono mer appears to be e bit of a wag, and note withstanding the seriousness of the ovont .which Jae*preclicts, indulges in sumo humor• ous remarks, lie says that although "you oarknot boo gars through" the comet's toil,. "they will probably be seen by' many loin• vidulds at the time of the 1301640 n," Mi. doubtfully they will, Loot} out for *Ws, and hold fast 1 Religious roleration,,;---Thu King of Slain, in the East Indies, who recent ly issue(' n.dacree allowing the free profession of the christlan faith iu his dominions, ex, pressed the following language c "Persecution is - liateful - ; every man 'ought tube free to profess the religion be prefers, We cannot tell who is ri,,,rlit and who is wrong ; but I will pray to-my (lod (Buddah) to give you hie Messier, and you must pray to your God to bless • me, and so blessings way descend upon both," lierrbe Alack. llepu Wean and Know Noth ing editors are gloating over a statement that '`the liquor league of Philadelphia." (is there swab A thing?) had solicited Col, Straub, Son, ntor from Schuylkill, to become a candidate for Governor. " WitOID - Stattiletit is a first of April 110114, and was got up to bawl soma sport at tha old Colonel's e4pense, Utah. and do Moratoits,-11re invite atten tion to au article in euf columns relative to the got-amount end conduct of the Mortuous and the resignation ofJudge Drummond. it not a Lesiva and disgrace that there should be tolerated iu our at:lightened count try each a nest of outlaws? if there be uuy virtue in gunpowder, it should be used in subjugating these people to law and deeene,Y, Rcrurd, It is possible that, if the present adruinls. tratiou were ,to polut the "peace maker" ut the wait of outlaws in Utah, a goodly number Hof those. who not doelAre loudly in furor of eoereive weasures, would be found symput4iz 3ng with th:o poor deluded wretches beforo the "subjugatitiu" took Iraq eliair i - JejferBontafi, In arbitration was held in West elms ter .113 st week, on a, (Juju" fur dainage- , growing 4)14 of t,ho fulloying oirnom.stnnce, Tay/or ,Brown, of Reunsbe.ry towosbip, Chester co., in.posupany uncle, had been at a „I...fount Meeting, at Lonswo4,.l, On their way home, ,driving a spirited bone, they were overtaken by a company of young men, ssoms.on horsebaCk, And Who were proceeding itt ft 1204 pace,all4 ten:ai4e4 to Ilasti by 13 ri ) It, TbgtN i e made by the horses caused Ltrowa's Ilona) to laeconie Awl he commenced kicklug; got is ieg over tb.e sh;tft and l,roke a. leg. Drow,o brought em,it, „against the ;yoang men for daraa .. ges the loss of tbdio thyme. The AL rbitrattuss after r hearing, j awarile&damages w the ,the sow At's=.—Reeord. laplett dollar bills, altered from ones 4..',the Liberty ,l3a4k,kl3).Yide l -Akte, J 3. J., 4 , r e. i 4 %-kt' LA= , The Legislature, On Wednesday, the Senate adopted an amendment to the Appropriation Bill, in creasing the salaries of the members of the Legislature $2OO. Mt, Brim Eu. voted against it. On the same day, certain proposed amene runts to the Constitution were passed finally. , In the House, the Apportionment Bill was resumed, and the vote by which the whole bill wits negatived on Monday night was re considered. Mr. Struthers offered an amend want • to re-apportion the Stoke according to the present appurtionwent, This was ric,ga. tivel 'rho bill then progressed and was final ly passed—yeas 56. nays 29. if this is the saints bill which passed the Senate, (a synop sis of which was given in our last,) then is it a most infamous gerrymander of the State. The bill for the sale of the Main Line of the Public Works is exciting a great deal of public attention, and no little public indigna tion, Bribery is almost openly practiced by the borers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany at _Harrisburg, and the integrity (or rather the want of it,) of certain menibers of the !louse is not sparingly dwelt upon. But so palpable are the evidences of fraud beeorn. (mg, that the Senate may be induced to stay the progress of the bill, and save the State from so gross au outrage upon her interests, "Don't Give Up the Ship." "While there is life there is hope," The defeat of the Sunbury and Erie scheme by a tie vote, in the House of Representatives, gives us some ground to hope that the whole iniquitous scheme fur the sal° of the Main Line to the Pennsylvania Railroad company, may yet bo defeated. In this hour, when nothing but the rotteness of corruption is dis-- cernable—all eyes are turned toward the con sorvativo branch of the Legislature, fur rescue from the impending ruin. Nor do we believe that we shall look in vain for relief. Ono week ago, the bill might—nay, we believe would have passed that body—but there has been time for reflection, the "sober, 'second thought" is operating on the minds of Sena. tors ; they have had time to examine the bill in all its bearings ; and it cannot be that men sworn to perform their duties, as legislators, "with fidelity." will give their sanction to a measure which cannot he justified by either reason or . 'policy 0-11ar. Union, Black Republicanism Always the Same, The o,4ljournment of the Black Republican legislature of New York is the occasion of the reessmwswww—... o owing retnar..s In t . Any tas nu Argus, They cannot be too curefullY.reade too extensively circulated "The Blaok Republicans commenced with an overwhelming majority. They passed 800 laws, They emptied the treasury, They anticipated its resources for years to come,— They sanctioned hundreds of illegitinluto They overrode the vetoes of their own chief magistrate. They rejected his nominations, They assailed the constitution of the United States and of the State ; doctor. ad defiance of the courts and overturned the charters of the chief - cities, They reversed the rules of the common and commercial law, and unsettled every vested right in the State. While doing this, they cried 'Liberty, Tiber. tv, liberty—the negro, the negro, the negro But they passed no liberty bill„They . tossed the measure from house to house, and aban doned it, They voted fur vaporising result'. Lions ; but the lover of liberty will:look in vain through the immense statute-book of the year fur a single word in protection of human rights, .11c will ,find nothing but Cuts of Apuliation and disorganization, 15,1ack . Republicanism is the same every where--corrupt, bypucritic, impudent, and false," -- Audits co-worker, Know Nothingisni, is in the stuns boat—,everywiloro bigoted, into!. orant, and corrupt.' Sign.---The cull of the Black Republicans of Mastael nsetts for a State Convention has been withdraA , d the reason assigned for the withdrawal is, tliat - no interest is felt in the sahjent by the people, not a single town or district haying elected delegates, or taken any of the steps necessary to secure a representa tion, This must ho extremely mortifying to the Kallochs and Porkers, SeuNible.- 7 -Tho Xahonal Era, the leading anti-slavery paper in the country, published at Washington, came 'out last-week with long article agalmt the course of the free state party of Kansas, in refusing not to take part in the election of delegates to the gonsti. tutional convention. The Era adiises the party to "rocons4er" their plan, and make immediate efforts to show their strength at the pull., rio Era says that no test oaths are required of voter c, and every inhabitant can Vote, and if the Vree state men do not vote they will prejudice themselves in the eyes of the people and be placed at a disad vantitge with the Democratic party, I= pied o ‘ f Poimr.—Tho Danville (Pa.) Amer ican says that a post-mortem examination of 3fr. Montgomery, the member of Congress lately deceased, exhibited extensive abrasion of the mucous or lining tout of the stomach, and the entire destruction of the membrane, both at the cardiac and pyloric orifice, with a general loss of tone, or disorganization of the thoracic and abdominal viscera. 'll'..P Pl)Pi k:inns ascribe hie death to poison. :llr. Mont ;/1 Cry stopped at the National Hotel, Waeh ington, during the inauguration.. _ _ 4qt/us ion Vs a Steam Propeller.—Five Lives TuEsros, N. J., April 25.—The steani pro. pellor Fanny Garner, bound front this , place to New York, via the I)oleware and Raritan ealini, exploded this morning near Milisrone. TIo• destruction of the boat is nearly complete. e men employed upon her were instantly killed.—The affair has ereated much excate. pew:. 4".."1'h0 Legislature has passed, and the i;overnor signed, a bill regulating the fees of .Justices of the Peace aud Constables. lr-"Two hundred persons are said to have been fro4en to death in the United ,States rluring tho past winter. I 'Shad vu the StlbqUghaiga Jag selling la Si 4 per hundp,:d. Lost, =EI =CCM The National Hotel Disease. P rom the DC tkame RepUblican. The death of another distinguished victim Judge Taney Supported by the Supreme of the late National Hotel disease, Hon, 'Nix i Bench of Connecticut. Cr. Movroomtax . , of this State, and the contin- t The Black Republican prer,sos, have, since the bred Scott decision, poured upon the ued illness of the new Collector of the Port from the same complaint, re-directs public at- • of the venerable Chief Justice Taney sluices tention to the origin of this terrible epidemic, of wrath, to use the words of the New Or- There are certain coincidences connected leans Delta, only surpassed by the seven vials of the Angel of the Apocalypse. The . solemn verdict of that august tribunal is declared to lie the opinion of the "slaveholders" of the supreme court; and the unprincipled leaders of that party, disdaining to concur in the viewi; of the majority of the judges, openly counsel organization upon the false and harm ful doctrines pronounced by the two dissent ing justices. And for what? Simply be cause Judge Taney, delivering the opinion of the majority of the Court, decided that ."WE TUE PEOPLE," in the federal constitution. does with this subject which are suggestive of the most horrible suspicions, but fur the honor of human nature, we hope they may be unfound ed. Mr. BUCHANAti arrived at the National Hotel on the 25th of January. On the .26th, Dr. HALL was waft& to see the first case,— A few days afterwards he had thirty-five Ca seS, and quite a large number took sick, many of them after leaving Washington.— Mr. BUCLIANAN was among the latter. The symptons in all cases were the mine—violent, copious purging, inflammation of thp, large in. testiness, with a constant disposition to re lapse. During an interval of several weeks pre vious to the second of March, no new case oc curred. On the evening of that day, Mr. BUCHANAN returned to Washington, and about that period the hotel was crowded with visitors. On the 4th of March the disease broke out with increased violence and many hundreds wore effected, The symptoms uni formly indicate poison, which so►ne physicians consider of a miasmatic, and others of a min eral nature—probably copper, No satisfac tory elucidation of the mystery has yet been made.—Minsylcanian. Truth vs. Fiction. The Lancaster A:cavalier and other Black Republican papers have been 'circulating a story that the New York Democratic Stato Contra' Committee had been sued by a darkeo for an unpaid grog bill, incurred daring a, jollification over the result of-the Presidential election. The Albany—if/vas says, in refer this story: "it is a Black Republican paper that gives this twist to this story ; but the fact is that the gentlemen who were sued are John A. King, tiorernur of the State ; Charles A. Dana, editor of the Tribane; C. C. Leigh, Chaumy )chaffer, Jwlge 'alwer. John Bige low, editor of the Erelong It, Gel,. W. Cur tis, and others. The question (l i n as Negro sue, is to be tried by the colored brother against these leader i," Thhi puts the 'loot on the other leg, and shows that the Black Republieuns are mean' enough to cheat the %ery clasps of persons whose Übe rty they pretend to be lighting for, Think, of that, Mean enough to cheat a eig. ner ! Faugh The Pacific Wagon Road Expedition, • (% . pri hor ( pima ;tient has completed arrangements for the 4 e.. 011,14411 1 m:1a a a wapnt road. Iron Furt Deli• once to the .111ojuri river, under the snii(.rin. tetidanee . of Edward F, aiikted 11. 11eap and 1)r, .I:uneg P, llamiltott, hiciatt. Mont. Charles F, Thar . lafrn Inns been de. tacheil from the navy to aecompany the expo. dition Jisr r' stayer. Twenty-five Camels and dromedaries will le empliiyed, one qt the objects ur the expedilion - being to test 0;04. endurance and adapaility to the climate. TIM party will omsistof about fifty picked_men, provided with all he necessary implements s to break a road throtp,.. h. They win nindezvous at 'New Orleam on the L!nth of May. lynx. All the parties foi the different, sections of the road are now orjanized, with instruction« to commence operniims at the earliest practicable period. It it thonght the work will he finished by next Deendier. Vrimi the York ;IlonArknoian. The Hog Cholera.—Teriibil Fatality. Sine() We last write 4111 this suject. a large number of hogs have died in thisConatv, from the prevailing- sickness, a k-iiiLof cholera. Messrs. I. ) . S; S. Small, at doh. grist mill, about two miles from town, arethe heaviest losers. Up to Howl on Saturdy, the 18th hoist, one hantipcd and ../tine (od two kin dred and fifty hogs, had.diod ; :ad from Sat urday till Monday evening, furfren more died, The hogs base for toms time been . running at large, in the woods, rrt that does not sewn to check the sickness.-:Some o f th e dead hogs, though not many, k,cighed ova l . two hundred paints; the gonerl, averago in about ono hundred and twenty vitals, each, Must of these. hogs have been )(might from Western drovers ; the rest wereiome raised. I'. S, We have a report fret the mill up to Thursday noon. at which tho there were oae hilmlred dead boy; or, riy the live preceding days. Jacob Myers has also lost a umber of hogs not heretofore alluded to ; and w are inform. ed the whole remnant of his drce-hogs lurve died. Like Messrs. Small, Mr. Iyers' loss is severe. A. Mr. Free, distiller, in Mannester town. ship, lost the next highest numbr—sumo ac counts say two dozen. Next acmes Joseph Ruby, in tenant town ship, who lost ten or twelve. lk think some were his own raising., Six hogs of his own raising., led. for Mr. John iliestand, in Suring Garen township, two milus from York'. Besides the above, other prisons in the county, about whom Nve have nuiheard, have no doubt also lost sotne . of their ;ogs„ It is singular ho - w. quick uftr an attack the hogs (lie. In numerous imil.nces, while eating the hog Ms, and in a fti7 minutes is dead. 1=11=E:1:=:1 roily ..4fflivtion.—John Richards, Esq., an eminent lawyer of balling, Pa., has been lying ill for two week' of erysipe ins. A week ago his mother andsister, resid ing at Columbia, procF - ordial to hafting to at tend him in his illness. Both :ere soon af ter seized with typhoid fever, id on Satur day last both died—the mutlunin the morn ing and the sister in the evenini Mr. Rich ards' condition is su critical as nt to permit his being informed of the calatitous distnt salion of Providence which in (4! day remov ad both these watching angels torn his sick bed. A Faet,—A young lady in Brddyn, N. Y., has recently had hor leg ampuited midway between the hip and knee in cesequence of a wound caused by a broken hoc. The hoop was of steel,-,and in some unacematable man ner a broken point penetrated° the bone. The wouud became inflamed; aoutation was thus made necessary. We hte the story front a young lady who is a frie3 of the now crippled-for-life victim of fashms, and can vouch for its authenticity.— Triitcud Herald. iticcrifon, rhomas Carson, forerly speaker of the Pennsylvania-. Senate,-dit in Mercers burg last tiunday. ' re - COrn is selling, in Siousity lowa, at 83 a bushol, Through the. mile portion of Elie Scats Itay is in (loin:lnd - at ti) per ton. - ga-The Queen of Xughtui.l higiveu birth to tt-uuti4vr pritn;vbs, nut embrace the slave p(ipulation as well as the whites, and, therefore, the irresistible conclusion is that slaves are "chattels." Now, if the New England Black Republi cans will but refer to 'the opinion of the Su preme Court of Connecticut, it will be found that the sante principle was enunciated from the superior bench of that State. Says the New Haven Register: In the case of Bullock vs. Jackson, in the Elth Connecticut Reports, Chief Justice Wil liams said: "When the preamble of the constifniion of the United States speaks'i)f WE THE PEOPLE, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity, &C., it cannot be seriously con tended that it included that class of people called slaves, and the term people in the bill of rights must , have been used in a - similar sense." Then as to the human "chattels" and the riv,ht of "property" of Mall in man, The ' , now court says, in the Ent Ifartlird ease, Sth or oinnevtniit, where the question was as to the legal condition of Flora, a. colored WO- Inan, as follows - Peters, Judge—" Upon the death of her muster, Fl.ira, ,not being specially devised, was transhirred to the defolidants, and, being a chattel, vesteil in theta." Williams, .1 udge—"Upon the death of Pitltin. this - slave did net vest in the heirs, hat, being personal property, was assets in the hands Of the executor." Thi s was not the language of outside bar barians, but o f our own ju(lges in deeiding a case upon our mln Nor was it in ancient times, but comparatively of modern ranter; and three of the meutletrs of the court. w:m took part in the first 011:•0 referred to—) wages Bissell, and. Waite—are yet living. Hero is a ohoieo Rlie Of history for Halo, Collainer,_andllainlin to ilia or law" had nut in the days of these judges tumbled the throne roasun iutu the VOlluX of political insanity. :1(/airs is Krim•YiLe..-.4thire.i.9 t/ - Secretary telegraph, summa days ago, fur -111,,l IL brief abStra.it of the address to theV people of Kansas published by Mr 2 Stanton, the new secretary of the Territory,. Speak ing of the coming- election for delegates to form It State Constitution, he says; need scarcely say that all the power of the territorial executive will be exerted with entire impartiality to prevont fraud, to sup press violence aria to secure to every citizen a fair opportunity for the safe and peaceful exercise of tho elective privilege; and it will be no o 4 the duty than the earnest desire and great pleasure of the Ciovernor Or acting tioternor of the Territory to carry oat, in ~.-ood faith, the policy avowed by tlse Presi dent of the United States to secure to-every resident inhabitant the free and iudepenolent expression of his opinion by his vote. This sacred r i g ht t o . e a c h iudividnai must be pre served. and that being accomplished. noth ing can be fairer than to leave the pe o ple of the Territory, tree Irmo all foreign influence, to decide their own destiny for thembadves, subject only to the constitution Of the United States," flu earnestly invokes the contidenen of the people in the declared intentions of the terri torial exek-liiive, and deplores the events that have marked the previous history Of the new territory. In order that all heart-bornings eliu .' s by the' past niny lat obliterated, and be succeeded by peace mid harmony, he ree,unmends that a general Am nesty he granted to all those in anywise in volved in the, previtatk difficulties. Such a measure, he thinks, would be one of coneilia tion :Cad -peace, leaving the people free front apprehension in the future; so they eau so. eurely devote themselves to those, inqmrtant labors Which are destined to make the territory a great, prosperous and. happy State, Ppesenbrilon Sword.'. --Three elegant and costly swords have been received in Washing. ton, to be presented, at the request of the British government--one to .'aptain Hart stein, who commanded the bark Resolute, which -our government mode a present of to England; one to Lieut. Trenaehard, of the United States surveying vessel Vixen, and ,the other to Mr. Morrison, master of the Vix en, for prompt and efficient services rendPred to tho British Bark Adieu, in 1536. The Union says, the heads' of the hilts of these Swords are surrounded by an eagle's head of gold, exquisitely carved, and the guards are ornamented by anchors and cables. Th 0 blades are very handsomely carved, atlq„10 scabbards of blue velvet, mounted with gold. .Congress o at its last session passed uu net al lowing the officers named to accept the pres ents. Tunnelling Neu. Jer.vy.---A correspondent of the New York News, who is evidently grieved at certain "evils of the• State," dug gests the idea of tunnelling New Jersey from the Hudson to the Delaware, and thus save the SA tax imposed upon travelers crossing her territory.—_mother suggestion is, that the Jersey dues be capitalized as the Danish dues are—each State of the Union to pay at once their respective proportions of the ex pense for "keeping and supporting" gatc.s at the entrance of her territory. An Assignment —The directors of the Lan caster (Pa.) Savings Institution appeared in court on Saturday and made an assignment of its effects. T. L. Roberts is the assignee. It is thought the institution will pay about fifty cents on the dollar when its affairs are closed up. ile - A day or two since the Treasurer of the United States received a letter on public business with the f Mowing superscription ev idently written in dead earnest: - "You night E D Suit©s Treser."—lrada. Star. Mr. Mi 1144. —lt is understood, sass the Philadelphia Inquirer, that this gentleman will not be recalled, but ho permitted to re main atir•n ;t ,l as long as he may feel disposed. B Judea Mason, our minister in Paris, will, it is said, remain there a year longer, 35 he has imporutut uegotiaticns peuding. lIIMILVINI =2 I "War" on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. —Quite a riotous state of things exists on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. the freight con ductors being on at, "strike." The difficulty originated from an order of the company, re quiring the conductors to seal the freight j ears in such a way as to prevent or detect pil -1 fering, by which the companyhas of late sus tained losses—and in the event of loss under the new system, the condUctors to be respon sible fur it. The conductors refused to carry out the order, alleging their too great respon sibility under it, and leaving their posts, have 1 1 gone so far as to stop trains, under new con ; ductors, by violence, thus disorganizing the business of the road. A number of trAins ; %chief' started out from Baltimore on Wednes day and Thursday, were compelled to return, and on Friday afternoon bloodshed result ,..__. sheriff . of - lialtinio - re - eennty, with a good force of deter Mined men, accompanied a train, haring the U. S. Mail on' board, which as short distance out of the city was met by a large body of the conductors and their friends, who rated the train with stones, and fired a number of shots at those in the cars and on the engine. The firing was returned, and a number were wounded. The train passed on until near Ellicott's Mills, whereanother fierce attack was made with firearms and stones, but hotly returned, wounding five or six. Several arrests were wade. 'The train then passed on unmolestedly. Telegraphic dispatches were sent to Balti more, that the train had "got through," when two more trains were started oat, but before proceeding far, they were met by the rioters, and not being provided with a 'a ufaciency of armed police, compelled to return to the city. The Governor of the State has been applied to in the premises, and he has authorized the calling out of the forces of the State to secure ; the company against such I:mle:s:mess. The ; affair may become oven Inure serious than it 110 W 1 The Difficulty Between the U. States and New Granada.—War Apprehm*. NEW YonK, April 29—P, M.—The.fullow ing are the demands of the Unitel States upon New Granada, in view of the late difficulties and murder of American citizens upon the Isthmus : First. T4l eonstitutd the cities of Panama and Aspinwall two independent muc►iripali ties and invest them with the powers of hell . - government, extending over the territory ten. miles wide on catch silo of the railroad—rler feet freedom of the transit route—its neutral ity and liberty guarantced—the sovereignty r ':110 “" 41; and ho ant to he changed; and other nations to cited to join in the guatanty. •;ecntni. To cede to the United States the full sovereignty of two small groups of is landß in the hay. of Panalllal for a naval Sta- i 6111, and all rights and privileges reserv ed in the railroad contract, tor ample consid eratinns. Third. To pay the damages occasioned by the outbreak of the 15th of April. Fourth. The sutra to be paid by the United States. All these demands Granada absolutely re jects, and claims one hundred and fifty thous and dollars from the United States for dama ges done at Panama to New Granadian citi zens by Americans on the 15th of April, and that the United States owes reparation_ to New Gramola 11)1. the rude protest of Col. Ward, dated April 21st, and for the disre spectinl letter: of Commodore 31ervine and Captain Bailey. The notes of Louis Puinito and Gonzales arc long, and full of false asser tions and. incorrect deductions. In the House Of Representatives it bad been propt)sed to raise a loan of five 'hundred thousand dollars in ease New Granada should be invaded by the United ..4tates'. Al letter front Aspinwall, dated the `_'oth, says: "The alarming aspect of our relations with New Granada is creating great excite ment. Immediate wax with the United States is apprehended. The property holders of Panama had bevin already to calculate the chances of loss. during the scenes which may yet transpire before the settlement of the diffi culty. Fur some weeks they have openly de clared that no negotiations could t-ettle the matter—that there certainly_ would be ti" rap , 'tore, tare, and the result would he the temporary posting of United States troops on the Isth mus." . Enormous Embezzlement. 'rho New York papers contain the fol lowing startling account of an eniliezzlement practised in that city. It hardly scams possi ble that such protracted itislionesty RI Id have been ea rried on, and it is to be hoped that he will be "IN-anted" by the courts of justice, and that speedily -"John Mel!Yee!), cashier of the firm of J. Beck & Co., extensive dealers in dry goods at No. 355 Broadway, was recently arrested, charged with having, during a series of years in which he has been in their employ, em bezzled money to the amount of upwards of 130,001), The firm failed some months ago, and wished to ascertain the cause, if possible, of their deficiency in funds : they instituted an investigation of their books for several years past, and the discovery of the above enormous in their cash account has been regularly balanced, but the balances had been forced, and the difference between the true and false balance had been embezzled. The cashier had enjoyed the fullest confidence of his employers, and until the discoveries recently made was not suspected. "It is stated that he has made confession to his employers in regard to the dispo:iition made by him of the embezzled funds, and has already made over to them a house and lot on Fourth street, opposite Washing,tou Square, which he purchased with their money. It is expected, also, that considerable more proper ty will be delivered up to them." Singular Dirorce, Cu.yr.—A person in rath er a high position has just obtained from the civil tribunal of the Seine (in Prance) a sepa ration from his wife,' with the right of keep ing his child, in consequence of the following circumstances: The child had the measles and the medical attendant declared its life to be in danger; but the mother nevertheless, continued to prepare her toilet for an evening party, to which she had been invited. 'You cannot leave the child, who is dying,' exclaim ed the husband. The wife replied that it was impossible fur her to remain away from the party withoct breaking her promise, and be ing guilty ufa want uf politeness. The husband again remonstrated with her, but in vain ;she insisted on going to the par ty, if only f.ir an hour. The husband then informed her that if she carried her intention into execution, the door would be closed qgainst her on her return. The wife left for the party, but on her return home was refus ed admittame. The tribunal has decided that the husband was perfectly justified and has furthermore ruled that a wife whof Irsakes . her child iu forfeits her conjugal tact:- tion. The "Great Eastern." We find in the last nnmher of the Scientific American a description of the new steamship "Great Eastern," (now being built near Lon don.) with drawings of her machinery. It is confidently expected that this immense levia than will be launched in July or Aug,ut next, with all her engines on board, and will make hoe first trip to Portion'', Maine. soon after. We extract the following paragraphs from the description of her : "The ship is novel in several important re spects, aside from her vgy extraordinary di mensitms. The length entire is 680 fett more than an eighth of a mile the breadth, at tie widest point, exclusive of the paddle boxes, etc., isS3 feet, and the depth, from th© upper deck, is 58 feet. Unlike other vessels, whether of wood or iron, she has no keel, and, strictly speaking, no ribs. The shell does not diminish in thickness or strength from „the bottom upwards, like other vessels, but is of equal strength throughout, like an im mense tube. The lower portion, however, up to a line eight feet ab:ive her deepest irreo mersiou in the water, is constructed of two . thicknesses or shells 3 feet apart : the space between being traversed longitudinally by 33 continuous strong and water-tight partitions,' thus forming 32 separate iron chambers, each provided with suitable cocks, - by which it can be filled or emptied atyydeasnrei bermaintain the proper trim, or to ballast the vessel.— There are four decks, each of which strength ens the hull laterally, in the ordinary manner, and the whole structure is crossed by strong and water-tight partitions, each capable 4 r. & resisting the full pressure of the water a. case the hull should be damaged and either elim partment filled. There 'are ten such trans lexerse partitions, sixty feet apart, and the hull I is, in fact, designed to be separable, by vie s knee, into several separate vessels or sections and. in addition, there are, through a large portion of the distance, two longitudinal par titions, thirty-six feet apart, and extending up to the lower deck. "The arestt Eastern will be'propelled by loth is pair of paddle-wheels mid a screw;—' The paddle-wheels ore to be tifry-six feet in diameter, and are to be provided each with twenty-eight paddles, thirteen feet in length and three in depth. These will be driven not simply by one engine, as is Common (A our coasting steamers, nor again :by two, as in common on most of our ocean steamers, hut by four engines coupled in p a irs. one p a i r for each paddle-wheel. The diameter of each cylinder is seventy-four inches—considerably less than those of most of our large steamers. The engines are oscillating, with slide valves, and the general arrangement of erieli pair is shown in the engravings. These engines will work with a nominal power of 0;00 horses. The screw is twenty-flan- feet in diameter, with a pitch of thirty-seven feet. The pro peller shaft is twenty-four inches in diameter. This will also be driven liV falr engines, to subdivide the power, and either may he dis connected at pleasure to ease of disarrange ment. Screw engines are necessarily ofsher4- • -. . . • . , • .eli-bffon-r-feet the diameter of the cylinders is eighty , fur inches. "There will be in all :22 engin_es,_ including all sizes : 4 for working the sererr,A for work ing the paddlewheels, 2 for working the cap stan, getting up anchors, and -pumping, out ship; 2 for revolving the screw, ito prevent its creating resistance when- uncoupleil and the ship is working under sail and paddle. wheels,) and 10 donkey engines, or steam pumps, for tilling up boilers. 'The large screw engines are also fitted with a separate steam cylinder, to ahl in starting ant/ revers ing, which cylinder might almost be sated. us a still additional engine. "The tonnage of this ship, by our gpvern- - meat measurement.• would he about 22,1100$ tans. The di-placement of water, or the :e -tool supporting capacity, will he about 27,- 000 tons. The weight of tho hull, rigging,. and enginery will he al,out 7,000 tons, and a sufficient quantity f.foonl f9r a full Australian voyage is estimated at from 5,000 to 6,000 tons, leaving a clear capacity for freight of about 14,000 tons. 'lf "the very gigantic clipper ship Great Republic, the mantimith N t eaniS hip of war Niagara, and the Cullins steamer Adriatic— at this date the largest steamships afloat —were each _to be fully loaded, and klien transterred• bodily, with their loads, into.the bold of than Ureat Eastern, it would al pear from the , figures that .t . " he whole would make bat a fair cargo for this novel craft." I== The Indian Massacre in Minnesota. _Prtrther Port if-illclrs.—Tlie St. Paul (Min nesota) Pioneer, of April Pith, gives some further particulars ono:eating- the Indian troubles in that territory. A party of SOl'.. diers who had been dispatched from Fort Ridgely to the scene of depredations on the Des Moines river, on arriving, at Springfield, on the 4th inst., frond that a band of Sioas- Indians had attacked the town the 2tid hest; killing seven persons, wound.ing three, anft earrytrigfour women into captivity. Among the killed ,were William and George F. Wood, Josiah Stuart and a Mr. Church. The name,' of two of the women who were taken prison ers were Mrs. Marvel and Miss Gardner. The Democrat says The attack was without provocation, and was unsuspected by the settlers. Mr. Wm.. Wood, a trader and nu old settler of Mankato, had been proceeding to have a talk with the. Indians on the bank of the river, when het was shot dead and his body burned. After this a general massacre took place, in which all who were not armed suffered naTe or less. Th o se who were armed barely escaped. Two Indians wore killed—tote having been shot by Mrs. Church, who loaded guns fur the men in ,►ne of the houses. Thirty-eight volunteers left 31ankato, tinder Capt. Lewis, immediately on receipt of the in telligence of the massacre. The company reached Slocum, on the -Watonwan river, on the evening of the 11th, where they met a budy of Indians eacamped, who, on their ap proach, fled, throwing their hatchets in . tho air, firing hack as they ran. The company killed four Indians. his, however. was but an outpost, fur immediately afterward 150 :trilled Indians made their appearance and showed fight. Gen. Shilds, Gen. Dodd, and ono or two others, had raised companies of volunteers and proceeded to the scene of war. Telcyraphic Cables.—The Magnetic Tele graph Company between New York and WaA ington city have just succeeded in laying two largo and very fine cables from the foot of Thirteenth street, New York city, to the Jer sey shore. Each of the cables contains three conducting wires, and although very heavy, the cables were laid lw Mr. Heiss, without difficulty or accident of any kind. This,:with the telegraphic cable recently laid across the Susqueanna, makes the connection between New York and Washington less liable to in terruption, and will ensure; with other im provements, the working of the line at all hours, day and night, accNrding, to the recent orders of the company.—San.. VD* "A fellow who had undertaken to serve some subprenas, finding the roads in a shock ing condition, wrote a note to each of the par ties, .tating that a sum of money was deposi ted in hands, which they could hare by callin; 4Th 'pint. They called and got a tibpo..l - and cents each.
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