outtost gitutotrat. A. J. GERRITSON, Editor. ' - 14:ONTZ.013E, P 41., 'Thursday, Febritary 18, 1858. . lay - Distant subscribers whose term of pre ;payment has expired; will observe that this 'entice is marlied with , a pen. Tkey are re .ipectfully soliciteds-to renew their ,subscrip- Jions. • rir The second quarter ofjth: Suaque 7 .banna- County Noi mai School will mmence ' , on -Monday, Feb. 22, 1858. .Thy opening addreiii wilt be delivered in the Academy Hall at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that day .by Abe Ber. A. L. Posy. r The public - is re , -spectfully invited to be jreaent.. ' jrigr Mr. C. 1). Lsturop advertises c over atid.time•ly seed fir, sate, in 'to-day's paper, ?--Niself..P. Crowley - gives notice - that he. has ;spewed a grocery in the basement of the Franklin Motel.'-z--Tbe Post Master itidvertises the; uncalled for letters in this paper, it. hav ing the largest circulation in the range of the Post Office.—Xonin wants, a situation.' See advertisement. ' , -i. t4P* We turned yesterday that a Miss Bagley of Brooklyn died , very suddenly and misteriously on Tuesday.last. She was living at the house of Mr. Eiisha G. Williams. The family were 'all absent in the afternoon, and on returning in eref4ng, found the house faste4d ; after eYgering she was discovered lying upon the floor in the bedroom, with a pillow under *her head, -dead. The cause of her . death could not be dia covered..Coroner Blackman was , sent for yester di far Ii - has I,eeu understood - that the real cause of contention between the President and Douglas, was the different construaiou of the Nebiaska Bill, the former believing teat the Co - nstitutional Coniention was not boUnd:: by its terms to submit any.question but that of slavery id the popular. vote; the latter bolding that they were, as lie un: stands it. : It is \Ohl , probable that since his pa — rtial alliance with Black Republicanism, - the'liule giant 'w tray understand it, but that such as not bis opinion in June 1856; is clearly khown by his own - ree - ord. Read. the article headed "Senator Bigler-sustained;" in which you will find a quotation- froth Mt. Douglas' own kpeech e in wiiichhe states that he helped to strike out of the -"Toombs Bill" the clause _requiring the submission of atituticm to the mote of the people. /tar One off our subicribers in Brooklyn informs 11S - that he does not get bit . paper un til Monday er,Tuesday after its publication. • For the last six weeks the Dtrnocret has been mailed for Brooklyn regularly On Thursday evening, and it should arrive there on Friday. If it has not, it has been mis-sent or detained on the route. In ease this continues, we.hope our friends will give notice of the fact and we will endeavor to show who is the party responsible for the detention. • Our papers, sent liv.the Friendsville. wood, - Ilarford and D. L. & W. R. R. (going ei ''.2.lr On trove - x - (72m Office in time for the afternoon mail on Thurs day; those-for the Towanda;Tnnkhanno4,anil 1). L. .& W. R. R (going south) routes, are left atstlie POst Office on Thursday evening and go the next morning. 'Tbe Auburn mail does not go until Monday. We expect; to fill our mails in accordance with the above, every week, unless prevented by unavoidable Cir cumstances. In such -cases notice will be given of the fact, otherwise :those who have charge of the rust Offices — ard mail routes - tnua, be held accountable for the non-arrival of our' paper &t the paper time. Susq'a. . Co. Agricultural Society. TegSDAr EVESING; Jan. 26, 1858— Tbe'Sociefy met at the Court-House,,pur mut to notice. President, Thomas Johnson in the •Chair. . The minutes of the last meet ing were :tread and adopted. On motion, a committee was appointed to recommend offi cers fur -the ensuing yeti-, which reports as follows, arid-th.e StSclety adopted their. report: THOS. JOHNSON, Pres. . STEPHEN W. BREED, I t , A. IL PATRICK. - - 7 -- res 11, L. CATLIN. ", Rec. Seey. ABEL CASSEDY, Cor..Sec'y. S. F:CARM ALT, Ex. Com.. A. LXTHROP, Treas. The-Executive CoMmittee having examined the Treasurer's-account, report as follows : 1857. Jan. 1; Receipts. - " Balance On • hand, $166.94 Sept. 23 it44sh - recld on Fair Day, -305,90 " From Co. Treas i z,. 100,00 • DiShursements.- Sept. - 23. Cash paid Band. $:25,00 " ' " - N. Lyons bill 7,99 " " A. Baldlvin, 29, 5. • " " James Deans, 6,56 . F. B. Chandler; - g,25 T. Mawhinney, 9,71 " " 1). Post, •8,75 " " _ McCollum L-Gerritson,. 10,00 " " Police , .9,00 " " .Door Keepers, 4,00 A " . G. Jessup &A. Johnson,.; 3,00 " " A. Lathrop th-C0.....,.., 16,73 " . Premiunis, J .354,50 OW= Jan. 2t,3Rr18. Balance on hand . $84,90 Signed; THOS. NICHOLS''ON, '• • - A. BALDWIN. - Report of crops raised by A. H. Patrik, of Bridgewater, on his farm of 80 acres o im proved land : `- Oats, 287 bushel, at 371 cts. • -Corn, 350 " of ears, at 30 . Rye, - 160 " . at 75 Wheat, 25 " at $1,25 _ Potatoes, 60 "at 7s -- Apples 75 "of grafts at-15 ".• 100 "of common at 25 Hay 48 tuns at sB,oo'per too, Pork 900 lbs at $6,00 per lb., Milk and butter from 4 cows, Curn stalks and straw, I bare pastured 1 - span of borses, one poke °Coxed; tau" cckvs and''3o head of young cat tle. Signed fA. II PATRICK. The alkare 'report bras adopted and pretniun2 on - feted to lie paid. _ . The Colloviug resolutions were 'offered and adopted.. lbsnived, That the track ib the Fair ground trijo graded for the mere purpose of shOwing t!:e aMianair.,on exhibition at .he }fair aw was notintended or designed to exhibit the speed cf btses i and this. Society hereby expresses its entire hostility to any exhibition' of speed., at its Fairs as being inconsistent with thk ob jects of the Society. Resolved, 'that the Society request the President to communicate to Caleb Carmalt, the wishes of the Society that he with draw his resignation of life Metithership, and [-that he continue to favor the Society with his aid,. and that while the Society decline the liberal donation offered by him upon the con ditions annexed to its acceptance as at this time inexpedient, - they most fully indorse and adopt the sentiment contained in his - commu nication. `The following resolution was offered and pissed for'the- , tirst time, and laid over until the next meeting for further action. • Resolved, That the annual Fair of the So ciety be kept open for two days and that the reports - of Committeei be made at the close of the annual Address; which shall bideliver ed on the second day of the Fair. • If. L. CATLIN, Sec'y. ....The Canadian press is largely occupied now with discussions upon the selection..of Ottawa as the - future-capital. Acquiescence rat'her than satisfaction characterizes the _re marks of the Toronto,Kingston, Montreal and . Quebec journals. , .Cincinnati, Feb. 10th.—A despatch from Maysville to -the Commercial says, that the. extensive establishment known as the Union Factory, recently erected for the manufartnte of coal oil Was entirely destroyed by fire at a o'clock -yesterday afternoon.' The loss is estimated at from forty to fifty thousand dol lars. No insurance. • . :..Utica, N. Y., 'Feb. 10th.---.-The Evening Telegraph .gewspaper office and bookstore of Jc W. Fuller & Co, were destroyed by fire last night.. The drug store of G. 1). Foster was also greatly damaged. ThB aggregate lostlis from thirty to thirty-five thousand dol lars. Insurance about twenty thousand doh lars. -....l3altimore, Feb. 10th.—The schooner C. R. Vickery from A4takapas, reports that in lat. 34 34, long. 81 14, saw a vessel supposed. to - be a brig Of • three or four hundred tons btirthen, burned nearly to the water's edge, atotndoned. On 'the first day out, Thomas lodge of Bath Me., mate of the C. R. Vickery fell overboard, and was drowned. - ....Richmod, Va., 'Feb. 10th.—A bill was reported in the [louse to-day' requiring the Banks to resume specie payment on the Ist of April next. A portion of the old cotton factory at Manchester, this State, was burnt this after ,noon. L&s ten thousand`dollars. Fully in mired here. Senator Bigler Sustained. Our, readers will remember the scornful terms in which - Mr. Douglas attempted to throw`off the charge of Mr. Bigler, that at a meeting of the Democratic members of the Senate Committeeon Territories, held in Mr. Douglas' own house, it was decided to strike out of the Toombs Kansas bill the clatise pro viding for the submission of the Constitution, .when -formed„to a.vote of the people. The Black Republican' letter writers at Washing. -ton_ favored. us with rhapsodical desCriptions of the defiant 'manner of the Little Giant, as be-dared - the Senator from Pennsylyania to say that he. had participated in the discussion at hic own louse, or been in, any- degree in strumental in striking out the clause referred to. We' propose to prove. out of Mr. Douglas' own mouththat he had. a band in alteringthe. 4 " ." 11ii . 0n tie - t o March, 186, 3fr. Douglas, from_the Committee on Territories,. reported to the Senate - a bill "-to authorize the people 'ofthe - Tesritory . of Kansas to form a Constitu tion and _ State government, preparatory to their . admission Into the Union." The 25th did not act upon the hill, and on the 25th of Jiine of the same year, Mr. TooMbs_offered a substitute, which contained as did the original bill of Mr. Douglas) the following clause : "That the following proposition be and the same are hereby offered to the said convention of the people of :Kansas, when formed, for their free acceptance or rejection, which, it accepted by the Convention, and ratified by the people at the election for their adoption of the Constitution, shall be obligatory on'thc United - States B'A-the State of Kansas." On !notion of Mr. Douglas, the bill of Mr., Toombs was referred to the Committee on Territoriv , . and on the 20th of June, Mr. Douglas -made a leitgthy report from this Committee, aecompanied by a bill., This bill embraces many of the features ()CALL Toombs' bill,-but the provision for submitting the Con stitution to a vote of the people was left out: The section was made to read : - "And be it further enacted, That the fol lowing propositions be, and the same are hereby offered to said Convention of the peo ple of gansas, for their acceptance-or rejec tion, Wi:ich if accepted by the Convention \shall be obligatory on the United States and upon the said State of Kansas." Now let us hear what Mr. Douglas has to say itilregard to the modification of the Toombs billthe striking out of that portion of the section first above quoted, requiring a ratification by the people. Let us hear who did the striking out. In his speech some time ago, Mr. Icouglas,gave the'following ac count of the transaction : 071,94 " The President does not say he - does - not mean that this Convention had ever been re cognized by the Congress of the United States as legal and valid. On the contrary, he knows, as we hereknow, that during the .last Congress I reported a bill from the Commit!te on Territories to authorize the people of Kan sas to assemble and form a Constitution for themseltes. Subsequently the Senator from Georgia [Mr. Toombs] brought forward a substitute for my bill, which, after having been modified by him and myself in consul tation, was passed by the Senate. It is known In the couiltry as 'Toombs bill.' It author izes die people of Kansas Territory to assem ble inCimventionanel.form a Constitution pre paratnry to their admission alto the Union as a State.".. ( 4 481,04 Here Mr. Doneas distinctly admits that be had .a share in modifying Mr. Toombe bill, As charged by Mr. Bigler, but which Mr. a defiantly challenged the proof of 4t the time. 'This is a curious chapter in the recent politi cal history of the distinguished i Senator from Illinois. We may add that after the bill was modified, Mi. Douglas and all-the Democratic members of the-,Senate voted for it.; but the House of Bepresentatives, which contained a majority of Republicans, rejected it—arid upon the issue thus .presented, the opposition parties appealed to the country, which sus• tained the Democracy.— Valley Spirit. $107,62 105,00 120,00 31,25 45,00 56,25 25,00. 384,00 54,00 80,00 60,00 ju r ,We clip the tollowmg from the Har risburg.papers: - "The Citizen • soldiers who served a cam paign, at Baltimore, in The war of 1812, under the command of Brig. Geo. Foster, with such others, as may find it convenient to attend, are invited to meet in Harrisburg, at the Court House, on the 22d day of Feb. next, for the purpose 'of taking into consideration, the propriety of memoraliaing the Congress of the United States, to pass - a law, that shall place theta on the same foottag with the sol diers-of the revolutionary war. $1008,32 News Iteius. A Judicious Veto. The annexed veto message from our-excel lent Gov. Packer will mkt the hearty ap-' proval of every lover of a sound currency.— Read it, it explains itself :4 EXECUTIVE lin VdDER, HARRIEIBURI:I, January .28, 1858. t • To the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Common w j ealth of Pennsylva nia : GEVTLEMEN Jerevittu re.....- Rouse. of ,Representatives; in which it origi nated, thebill entitledAn net relative' to the borough of Scranto n" without my appro val. This bill proposes to ahthorize the Burgess and Council of the borokh of Scranton, , in Luzerne County, "to Issue. orders on Its: Treasurer for the payment - of laborers employ ed by said borough, and, pledge the taxeslor Itreet and borough purpbses for the payment of said orders, and otherwise anticipate the revenue of said bqrough for the same year for the purpose of providin_z, work for the desti tute and unemployed laborers during this win ter." • I _ ,- The evident object of thisbill is to create a species of local 'curreticy, tfpon the credit of the corporation, to be distributed in small ti.) amounts among the I oring population.— This isin direct conflic with existing gener al liws of the State. The act of 12th of April, 1828, entitled "An st l t concerning small notes for the paymen tof money," add the resolution of the ,24thiof June, 1842, estab lishcd a general \ policy,lwhich it will be wise to maintain. I am' notlaware of any recent attempt to depart from that policy, nor am I aware of any public,opinpan which would sanc tion it. The object ofj the State should be to furnish her laboring population With a sound currency, and ink my opinion their true interests will not be promoted by laws of the character now proposed. The objections to small notes_ apply with peculiar force to those issued by municipali ties, depending for th it prompt redemption upon the uncertain rev nue policy of the cor poration,-and partaking generally of the im perfections of paper not redeemable on demand in coin, they are liablb to sudden and great depreciation. I -This bill is also liable to the general objec tions which apply to sYecial acts for patticu: lar localities, exempting them from the opera tion of general laws. Our laws relating to boroughs are believed ,A) be • liberal, and suffi cient for alt. leoitimtite purposes. If they should be found ' to he imperfect, the true remedy is to amend th t m by provisions which shall operate equally yid generally through t:tit, the Cornruottweait. • . WM. F. PA C KER. From Woshiugton. The Board appointed by the War Depart ment to examine Sharps breech loading pis tol, of a similar construction to the breech loading carbine, have !made a report, the oh: ject being to ascertain how long they could be used ,without cleaiting. After twenty-six shots with the eight Snch, and thirteen with the ten inch pistol, the moveable or sliding breech became su foci as to work with diffi culty, and to render j further experiment im practicable. Ten shots were fired in one.min ute.- The Treasurer's sta ement for the week end ing Monday : Receip nearly six hundred and sixty four thousand dollars; amount deposited in New -York, upward of onernillion five hun .dred thousand dollat; subject to draft, four million four hundred and thirty' nine thousand dollars ; drafts paidalne million one hundred en ing with Decem er . Receipts in the Treasury from 411 souket", seven million nine ty two thousand, sis hundred and sixty - five dollars; expepditures, seventeen million dol lars. A majority of the Senate Committee on Territories are preparing a report and a bill for the admission of; Kansas into the Union under the Lecornptihn constitution. They are acting without reference to the question of whether the free State or pro-slavery party has the Le g islature 6 . ! State officers. In de ference to Mr. Douglas, the Chairrogn of the Committee, who has illeessin his family, the repot will probably not be made before Thursd4, in order to give him, time to pre pare is dissent*, views. Messrs: Wade A: Collamer will unite a third report. It is clearly understood that in the event of ro .. ersigent attempts first to pass the Minnesota State bill, a proposition will be made-to unite it with the Kansas Measure, that the success of the one may depend - upon the passage of the other. Suchi4 the present programme. The Kanshs 'Committee. Speaker c.hta has constituted the following special committee to; investigate the circum stances surrounding the Lecompton Constitu tion, under Mr. llAnvils resolution: Thomas L. Harris, Illinois, Anti-Lecompton Democrat. A. H. Stephens, Georgia, Lecompton Demo crat. Justin S. Morrill, Vermont, Republican. John Letcher, Virginia, Lecompton Demu th% Edward - While, - Oliio, Republica - n. ' John A. Quitman,l Mississippi, Lecompton Democrat. Warren Winslow,; N. Carolina, Lecompton Democrat. I • Henry Bennet, Ne;w York, Republican. Allison White , Pennsylvania Lecompton Democrat. ' D. S. Walbridge, 151ichigan Republican. T. L. Anderson, M-issourt.,, Lecompton Amet•- iean. J. W. Stevenson Kentucky, Lecompton Democrat. • Garnet B. Adrian, N. Jersey, Anti-Le compton Democrat.; Jas. Buffington, Massacbusetts,Republican. William F. Russ 4, New York, Lecompton Democrat. . I - EXCITING POISON ' ING CASE IN lOWA.—The Decatur County (lOwa) Court was recently the scene of a most laciting trial. The , occa sion, as we le'arn from a correspondent of the lowa City Reputiiican,z is this: A family, living in the ricinity of Leon, the county seat, of about eighti or nine members, were poisoned, four of whqm died suddenly from the poison, which was-ptonounced by the attend ing physicans to be arsenic, and the rest still sui - rer` from its effects, none of - whorn, it is supposed, will ever !entirely recoverfroa it. Suspicion fastened Upon a Dr. Perdue, who lived neighbor to the suffering family. It is said he was a man ho always bad a great many objections to urge in conversation against his neighbors. A difficulty has arisen between him and the community, about a.road, in some way, and not getting matters to go as he desired, Ihe was heard to-make a threat that be would have revenge. After this threat be borroWed from this family some buckwheat flour, a part of which he returned in a few days._ThO parents, being absent at the time, the.eildrOn baked and ate of it, so that when father and mother returned there was but little of thr`f, flour left—and as they ate bit a little, they are still living, while the first who ate of it are dead'. After spending sotne days in investigating his case, including the Sabbath, Perdur!, was acquitte far want of sufficient ev idence 'of his guilt. lie was conducted out of to/ by night, away- flom the mob. The Result of tile Admilei h or Re. Wilms of Kansas node' the Le complou Constitution.. The special message of Mr. Buchanan sub mitting the Kansas Constitutionto Congress has been assailed with much rsicorous =miry ; but the substantial reasns advanced , by him, in favor of the terinjiation of the Kansas controversy, by her ',mediate ad mission into the Union u as a Sate, have not been answered with ,the samefacility with which such epithets as "superamated'dotard, weak tyrant; southern tool," do, have -been showered upon his devoted had.. either have the facts from which Mr. Juchanan de duces his position ever beeu . sucessfully con tcoverted.. - There can be,no question tat the condi tion and necessities of the courry second the earnest.wish of the President tit the Kansas question may be definitely dispsed of as soon as possible. The great mass - 4)16e people, in all sections, would gladly see to end of this agilating_and.troublesome subjet. It has so long beenstiso for mere part:eralS, by de signing and ambitious men,that the peo ple have come to regard ever new perfidy, fraud or villainy enacted on tli soil of Kan. sas as something belonging tr its territorial condition, which cannot be of rid of until it is made a State, and the isponsibility of its management lakenfronixt general—gov, 4ith return to the ernmenL . _ Wo think that the Lecornpn Con.ventiOn committed a grave mistake imot submitting the whole constitution to the iople, but it is. at least questionable whetherirey had not . the power to frame and put im operation a constitution without popular tification, al though they did- submit the lal portion to a rebellious-people. But when majority of the people of Kansas refuseito' vote, they permitted the golden moment pass. We do not see bow the , step can be traced. The qaestion is now peculiarly - d entirely a practical one—whether the a rs of Kansas which have so long agitate ongress and the country shall be localized whether we 'shall raise the curtain upon a zw act in the great Katsina drama, the . e of 3vhich no man can foresee. Men may declaim as muc s they please about the great frauds that •e beeti com mitted by the minority in K as, frotritlie ' inception of this Lecompton vention until the birth of the constitutio ut the stub born fact - still remains the ne,—that the Minority . could not have gov , ed or commit ted frauds" but for the per ion of the ma jority. Bad this majority tied as they should have done, the Lei..pton Constitu, tion would now be Free Sta nstead - of nom• finally Slave State. Their restnsibility, there fore, cannot be questioned.they were in vited to vote, and they refttl. They have n 9 right to complain th those who did vote carried the election. The acceptance of the L mpton Consti tution can have little prat I effect on the future condition of Kansas. i Will be as ac tually a free State with, as shout that con stitution. The clause - admnig slavery will never add a slave to the tie Late, or would a free constitution take away. That slavery is not really in qu nis an admit ted truth. 'The pOwer of the ritory is in the bands of the enemies of sh for they have the Territorial Legislature, t Power, of the new State is in the handy of enemies of slavery, for they have tie Stat fficers and the State - Legislature . the pot to alter and amend 'the new e s mstitution nd trans form it within a few m o nths after- admis sion of Kansas, into a free c nation, is %sill til_sapie n arty. It would erefore do no pra Ica violence to the • e ; of the ma jority," if the Lecompton Const tion were accepted to morrow: But, although this is not a 01011 ques tion as far as it relates to the ablition of Kansas, it is a momentuous questin; it af fects the peace and welfare of tli untry. :If the Lecompton Constitution srejected, what will be the nest step R Whip ivill we again arrive so near the end of it:Fansas controversy ? Would not its det4 be a. signal for a bitter sectional strugglgor a re newed agitation which would thiri to the sarface the factious Material thaii.Ould be eternally quieted the moment Katis entered the Union I Would it not turn tiplains of Kansas into a battle-field, wheriould be renewed the bloody scenes but let f termina ted, and would not we enter upl a fierce contest full of deplorable conseqtes? This controversy will decide a her prac ticalar question—ls a rebellious m hi to. be permitted to rule by factious oppo on to the government ? It is a qtrestionfity as im portant as that rung on so many -s, as to the will of the majority gorer g. The triumph of any body of men vho eliberate ly defy the government would ben invita tion to lawlessness, dangerous b 7, govern ment,. and productive of future ran r.—Har risburg Potriot and Union. 1 I. lIMIr 41,--•-- re - W. 11. Seward declarettbat in spite of Southern aggressions, agaiosivhich he has uttered so many earnest protestons; in spite of the continued, systematic persistent 1 11 prostitution of Northern Demo is to their Southern masters; in spite of thetrime against Kansas; in spite or border rufian invasions; in spite of Calhoun and the Leitmpton Con stitution, and in spite of tae {resident and the dough-faced Northern De*racy, Kan sas will come into the Unim a k a free' State . under the Lecomnton n Constiuttm." The admission is a significintme, proceed ing from Mr. Seward. lit hat heretofore characterized the policy ‘wbbh froduces this result as a southern aggression,,end the Nor thern Democracy as the wlliag slaves of Southern masters. Now he cimedes that the result of that polidy will be tomake Kansas a free State, although his Meats have thrown every ,obstruction in the way ,refusing to at tend elections, organizing the Topeka Gov ernment, and maintaining at armed resis tance to the General Governmet. Mr. Sew ard is at last brought to the poitt otadmitting that:_these Southern aggression, which bate afforded food for orators throtrAi two or ihree political campaigns, have termitated in a free State. The Fight in Coulees& We find the following versiot of the origin of the Keitt & Grow affair in tin Washington . "States," an anti. Buchanan paper: Mr GROW was moving- down the avenue, contiguous to which was the seat of Mr. Some honorable member made a motion, to which Mr. Gaow objected. Mr. Kairr said : "Go .io yOur own ; Side of the house, sir, and make your objections there." Mr. Grow promptly replied that le would make his objections where he pleased," and indiscreetly followed up this remark -by say ing "he wouldn't. be governed by ,s.slave-dri ver. This was the tocsin for the war. • • riy- An important circular has just been issued by_ the Oriental Bink of London, an nouncing that as soon as the arrangements can, be made, the extreme terms for bank drafts in India, Ceylon, Singapore, and China will be four _months' sight, and that from and after the 30th of June-next, the purchase of metcantile bills by the Bitak, will be restricted _ to bills having the same limits. A Duel Fought. We clip the pirticulars of a duel from the Philadelphia Daily-News of Saturday At twelve o'clock yesterday, a duel was fought between, two medical students, about one mile and a half from the Permanent g ridge, and a short distance to the rear of the Blockley Almshouse. The particulars of this bloody affair, sn far as we have been able to learn, are as follows : A few evenings since, a number of medical students were in attendance at a social party given at the house of a friend, when one of them, Cha'a De C., behaved rather insultingly to several of -his fellow students, and threw a glass of old Otard over them, and 'some of which sprinkled the furniture. One of the students, It-- 5---, -threw a glass of hot water into the face of Cha's De C—, who became exceedingly indignant, vowed reyenge, and demanded the satisfaction due - to 'a gen tleman. The parties met next day,and:through the medium of friends, the arrangements were made, the weapons; single barrelled, pistols, chosen, and at eleven o'clock yesterday, the principals, seconds, surgeons' and a few other intimate friends, jumped into carriages and started for, the place selected, where honor was to be healed by inflicting wounds in human bodies. ,The Surgeons laid their instruments ont on a filerfitree,ln sight-of-theamm-batantfy_and the seconds prepared the principals for the contest. Ten paces were measured off, and the principals being placed back to back, were to wheel and due. Everything being in readiness, the words oie—twoz--three—were given, and the next moment the sound of si pistol. that reverberated through- the sur rounding trees and hills, and R— & staggered a moment, ane giving one moan, fell backwards to the ground.. his second hastened to him, and In staunching, the purple, tide of life as is poured out from the right breast of the Ptllen man, it completely saturated the linen cambric. Cha's De C---, the other Principal, turned pale, he began to realize his situation,"and observing a man in the distance with it significant star on his breast, picked up his coat and hat, and flew away upon wings of flight, passed over Grey's Ferry Bridge, and the only thing heard of him up to the dusk last evening was a small noto'found lyi ng , on the table in his room, containing the following, which we give ver batim Dear J-- H. I am off for Europe, will remain in New York for a day or so—telegraph to me when he dies—come and bid me good-bye. , C-- De C.--L The letter, evidently written in a hurry, was directed to his friend and second. It is supposed that he started in the five o'clock line yesterday afternoon, for New York. . We may mention, that the whole affair was a joke. The pistol of the fugitive pin cipal was loaded with powder .only, and that of the other with' paper. The blood spoken of was obtained from a, slaughter house pri vately, and the man with the star, who was seen approaching in the distance,-yvas a fellow student. There were, perhaps, not less thin forty vtitnesse's present. who were stationed behind trees. The whole party was in the secret,, excepting the absconded and affrighted Charles De C--, who has, perhaps, by this time, passed one sleepless night in the city of Gotham. From Mexico. aewest at les, YEW ORLEANS. Pph 1 1 -43. W. At(',/, T. papers, received by the Tennessee,-.0 - mn --,I Cruz, furnish interesting details of the odt.",t retices that have recently transpired in that unfortunate Republic. There was a series of conflicts in the City of Mexico for eleven days, before General Zuloaga triumphed over the Government troops. There were but'very few -killed, how ever.- General Zulosga received 26 votes out of the 28 forming the Council of Notables,-for the post of Provisional President of Puebla, and the few other points where the new order of things was recognized. The whole country continued in a state of anarchy and con- fusion,. James, Perodi, Dablado and others opro3ed the new Government-, They elpezted to march soon against the Capitol, where- pre parations were making to repulse the attempt to capture it. More fighting is therefore inev itable. Gen. Alfara has pronounced at San Luis in` favor of Santa Anna as Dictator. Gen. Zulohga had issued dec?ees restoring the ecclesiastical and military jurisdiction, and repeated the laws of 1850, which declar ed the property,of the ecclesiastical corPora tionskalienahle,and Fondling the sales made of the chnrch estates under that law. It is reported-that the clergy have loaned the Zuloaga party one million of defiers to promote the success of the movement. Ad vices from Sonora show the same state of civil warrare eysting there. Intelligence from Northern Mexico states that Gov. Garzia and Vidaurri have settled their difficulties, and also report that the States of Taumaulipas and Coahuila will act in union with the coming , confliet. Distinguished Deaths Abroad. The Arabia brings news of the death of several persons who have held conspicuous: positions in Europe. Frederick . William Louis, - Grand Duke Baden, died on the 21st of January. He was born September 9th, 1827, succeeded as regent in the place of his brother Louis, April 24th, 1852, and was created Grand Duke by patent, September sth 1856. His wife is a daughtei of the king of Prussia and sister of the Prince:Royal of England. He will be succeeded, we bpre sume, by his infant son , t, . 1857, but probably the Grand Du cihess, his widow will be 'regent. The late Duke was not a remarkable man - in any respect. , William Spencer Cavendish, sixth Duke of Devonshire, died at Hard wiiike Hall Derby shire, on the 17th of February, aged sixty eight years. He has been well known as one of the wealthiest English noblemen, the lord of Chatworth, and other estates that were fit to be residences for royalty. He was well known as 'a liberal patron of the arts and of literature, but was not in other qualities worthy of especial estimation. - He dieo un married, and is succeeded by his cousin, William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington. On Friday.the 23d of January, while the preparations for the Royal marriage in St. James' Palace were going on, the `Marchion ess of Westmeath, who occupied apartments in the Palace, adjoining the Royal Chapel, where the ceremony was to be perforined,. died, and the signs of mourning were ex hibited at the moment the nuptial. arrange ments were making. - These` deaths had. cast a gloom over the „courtly circles in the midst of the wedding festivities.. .., . AV - Pu/mmrary - Consumptina.—The great scourge of our northern climate is disarmed of half its -terrors since_ we have a remedy ! so singularly efficacious as Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry. It is performing-many _wonder ful cures: None is genuine unles signed I. Butts. Gen. Jackson's The general temper of President Buchanan, his easy, pleasant manners and racy conver sation, have always rendered him a great fa vorite in society abroad as well as at home ) and few of our public men have laid up such a stock of amusing andvaluable reminiscences. There is one anecdote which he tells of Gen. Jackson, villa ia cbaracterestic of the old hero that is,vrortb preserving. The President relates that one day during the administra tion of Old :Hickory; be went to the White House to ask permission to present to him the celebrated Miss Betsey, Caton. Gea..Jackson readily assented, and [laded - the next day rer the interview: At the appointed hour Mr. Buchanan repaired with Lis fair charge .to the Ptesidential_Mansion, and leaving thela dy in one of the drawing minis he mounted to the private cabinet of the President. To his great surprise and disappointinenr, he found the General buried in his books and papers, and; attired in a plain morning dress, his chin unshaved; and his flivorite pipe in Lis mouth. The Senator from Pennsylvania was greatly embarrassed. He was apprehensive that if be announced Miss Caton 's presence the ,gallant veteran would descend all in neglge, as be was. Mr. Buchanan did`not like t 6 expose the renowned belle_ to such -a chock as that, and, on the other hand, be equrilly dreaded offering a suggestion on the subject to the old fiery horse. There was , no alternative; however, and he had to state that Miss Caton was waiting the General's presence in the green drawing room. Up jumped Old Hickory at the first, word and laid down his pipe. There was not a moment to be lost, so Idr, Buchanan, in a timid and apologetic manner, ventured to observe that the " lady could very - well wait till the President had ehaved himself." The General saw what he was driving,at, and shook-his frizzly beatrat him like the mace of an enraged lion. " Buchanan," thundered out the impetuous old man, "did you ever hear of the man in Kentucy who got rich by minding his own business I" Without stoppin4 to say wbetb er he -was acquainted with the individual in question, the experienced Senator fled from the storm and took refuge with his lovely companion down stairs. In a few minutes afterwards the hero of New Orleans entered the room with the dignity of manner which no man knew better how to assume; and great was Mr. Buchanan's relief to find that not only was his face virginial in its smooth ness, but that he was got up in his best black suit, with boots of faultless radiance. PIIIL--Feb--'56 Sunbury and Erie Railroad `ANCw Project We have been waiting patiently to see - - what project the friends of the Sunbury and Erie railroad would have to present to the Legislature. It is fresh in the recollection of every one, that at.the last session 'the compa ny used every art to procure the passage of a bill transferring - bonds derived from the sale of the Main Line of the Public Works to them, for the purpose, as -was alleged, of secu ring the speedy completion of the Erie rail road. The project failed in the Senate.— Since that time thi people hive adopted an 'amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the State from tending its credit to any cor poration. Notwithstanding this provision,we were apprised during the last summer that the company had not abandoned thesidea of procuring aid from the State. We therefore looked forward with no . dight degree of curi osity to see what plan could be devised for evading the constitutional provision, and we ste,it.aev-et”..td at, last:- ' - ~ _ %i'errons Irritatit—,,, rth ._ ling , clients orrito to ~., n nays. Mut. nod othffhilrod complaints arimajjell t S4l " low state of the body or obstruction of its/ _,.: .e'Salli of the""giate`%an'als". It might more appropriately be denominated, " A bill to transfer to the Sunbury, and Erie railroad company, for the special advantage of. said company, all the Public. Works belonging to the State of Pennsyliiania." It :: proposes, for the very moderat sum of $3,400,000, to give the company the Delaware Division,the North Branch extension, and the West Branch and Susquehanna canals. The Delaware Di v i "on alone, Governor Pollock told us in his annal message, yielded last year a net revenue - of $114,000 ; more than the interest at five per cent., - of . the munifieicut sum of $3,400,000, supposing the money to be paid into the treasury in hard cash. But this the company have no idea of doing. They purpose to pay the State in bonds of the Sunbury and Erie railroad company,, bearing five per , cent. in terest, none of which ',ball fall due until four -1 teen years from the time of'theit issue. Not only is the company to-manufacture bonds for this purpose;but to issue seven :millions of bonds, secured by mortgage on the Sunbu ry and Erie railroad, of which those given in payment for the Public Works are to be part. The balance, we prekume, are to be disposed of to any persons who will purchase them. This bill is even more objectionable aian the bill of last session. It seeks a transfer of the State Works to a corporation for half their value, without .paying a_ single cent in money; or, in other words, it lends the Public canals to a comprny as a basis for the issue of a large amount of Worthless paper securi ties, and as the means of inflating their credit. this once accomplished, the State would be at liberty to take back the works. We have no idea that this magnificent speculation will receive the least countenance from the Legis lature.—Patriot and Union. MEXICO AGAIN.—Late ad vices from Hava na annoutite that a Spanish fleet, consisting of one ship of the line, one sloop, one brig,and a steam frigate, had sailed from thence fot a cruise in the Gulf, ostensibly, but really for. the purpose of landing Santa Anna at Vera Cruz. There can be but little doubt as to the destination of this fleet, supposed it to bare, sailed; nor as to the fact that the " hero of the cork leg" is on board. He will find a ,warm reception in Mexico, but the caloric will not be of the most grateful kind. From ,all we can learn theie is a strong feeling against Santa Anna ,with the majority of the factions that now divide Mexico, while so far as Spain is concerned, the oppositiOn is unanimous. The Mother Country. has only to attempt to land an army, in Mexico' to stir up an united oppOsition from the people of that Republic, and to call into their aid, hordes of volunteers from the United States, who will eventually bring the " Halls of the; Montezumas" once more under the Star-Spingled Banner. TIKE UNITEDSTATEB tßEAßUßY.—Wasing— ton, Feb. 120.—1 t appears , from the books of the Treasury Department, that, the total amount of the receipts into, the Treasury, from March 3d, 1780, (when the Constitution of the United States went into operation,) to the rat of July, 1857, was $1,955,000,000. The expendhures for the Naval and, Military services amounted to $824,000,000; for the civil list to $11000,000; for the Revolu tionary and other p r enaions to $77,300,000 ; for the Public Debt to $598,000,000. The Secretary of the Treasury advertises for proposals for the issue of five millions ad ditional Treasury,Notes, as authorized under the lite law. . Sireeney, Rittenhouse, Faunt dr Co., quote_Land Warrants at 88a91. - lar The oldest newspaper in Holland, the Harlemscke Courant, had been published two hundred years on the lith of January last.— For more .than ; one hundred_yeara it has been owned by the family of the present editors= Johannes Enschede & Son. The paper was first star* by Abrabitai Csatello. - Eseention of Henry Fife and Char lotte Jones at Pittsburg. The :Pittsburg papers of Saturday are filled with the details of the execution on Friday of Charlotte Jones and Henry Fife, for the mur der of - George Wilson and Elizabeth Mc Masters some months since, at IFlCeesport: We make the following extracts: TOE SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD. The scene on the scaffold was painful be- - yond comprehension, an' drew tears from. many of the spectators. Charlotte and Fife were attended,-tile first by Rev. J. G.Brown, and the latter by the Revs. Mr. Bell and Mr. Williamson. They had religious services in the cell within a f4w minutes before their re moval to the scaffold. Shortly before ten o'clock they left their cell, and linking arms, the procession was formed, which entered the jail yard in the following order : Rev. John - G. Brown and Walter Bell ; Fife and Char lotte, with arms linked; Rody Patterson, High Sheriff; Jailor Phillips:- After entering the yard, the partyasceVied the scaffold, and took their seats on chairs, which had, been provided for their accomo dation, A beautiful and 'effective prayer was then made by the Rdv. Mr. Brown,, after which statements made by the prisoners was then read., Fife read his statement in a clear audible voice. During the delivery he seemed greatly affected,:and frequently burst into tears. Charlotte's statement was read by Mr, Williamson, a gentleman who took much in terest in the unfortunate woman's spiritual welfare. Mr. W. i 3 -an-Englishman by - birth, and a member of the Episcopal Church. (The statements of the convicts were full' confessions of guilt, and exonerations of Mon roe Stuart from any band :In the murder.) Immediately after Mr. Williamson ceased reading, the Rev. Mr: Bell read a chapter of the Bible, and offered up a prafer, In which , the prisoners joine.i. Fife, during this trying scene, maintained the most astonishing com posure, and when the time came, actually ad justed the rope around his neck and stamped on the platform, as if to say he was prepared to meet his fate. Charlotte, on the other hand, seemed utterly broken down and bewildered. She cried bitterly, and every now and then uttered incoherent sentences—now stating that she desired to,die, and ,again declaring that she was afraid of death and wished to - lire. Fife, seeing her agony of soul and utter proltration, - put his arm around her, and en deavored in every way to console and cheer her. Such was the state of mind of both and quch their condition, when it was announced that their hour has 'arrived. and that they must, now prepare for execution. I THE EXECUTION . . Everything was now 'ready for, the corn• pletion of the final act of the s bloody tragedy, in which the convicts bad played such a ter rible part. - The ropes had been adjusted around the necks of the victims, and but it few moments were to elapse ere their souls woul)k be astered into eternity. Still Fife's coolness forsook_bim not. Ile called such of them around him as he knew On the scaffold, and shook them affectionately by the hands. Ile then declared that "with the help of God, be would die like a man," and with a firm voive, in which the slightest tremor was not discernable, exclaimed : "Remember, I die game.", Ile then returned to his companion in guilt, who at this time was scarcely coa• scions, and putting his arm's-around lier,kissed her. Both then declared themselves ready to die,-and the signal being given,. the Sheriff touched the spring, and the souls of the guilty couple were launched into eternity. Fife fell. ~..inht...inr- _ na rd dica without a ctrugglo, if& . 7eltrirforte'vteath was less easy, and 'full ten minutes elapsed ere the pulsation of he( t heat ceased. Fife's: heart ceased to beat v wit • five minutes from the time the.drop fell. File's appearance on the gallows differed .but little from that which he presented_ vThile in prison. Ile wore the same clothes as' usual, but appeared to have dressed With greater care. Charlotte was attired in her ordinary clothing; and Wore over all a buff colored •sbroud. 'She seemed haggard and pale and looked the very 'persenification-of misery. DISPOSITION OF THE BODIES The' bodies were allowed to bang some twenty minutes, after which, it being evident, that life was extinct, they were cut down and placed in two coffins providedlor the purpose. Charlotte. requested that they might he buried in one coffin, but as this could be not con veffiently done, her request was not complied with. A 'relatiVe of Charlotte is in this city, wait inn.p to receive the bodies 'and take them to , Monongahela city, for interment. They will probably leavein the Brownsville boat this evening, and be buried in the same grave. The .Chronicle says that the bodies of the Mc'Keesport murderers, after being cat down were placed in coffins provided for the purpose and placed in a furniture wagon with a view to their removal to the grave yard for inter ment. -The sister of Charlotte, with an affec tion which, however wicked or abandoned its object may have been, should secure for her the sympathy of the crowd, took a—seat on one of the coffins, and the wagon moved on to its destination. The crowd at this time was immense and the conduct of malty of the loafers who formed, it, disgusting. As the vehicle neared the grave yard, however, it became much worse, and the scenes which followed, where dis graceful to humanity. The unfortunate woman seated on the coffin of her sister, and filled with grief for her untimely end, was hooted and abused, and called all kinds of names, and finally pelted — with stones until her very life was almost put in jeopardy. Foremostin dip brutal affair were a number of abandoned_ negroes, who did everything that their blutal "instinct" could suggest to annoy the woman, aud-but , that they were pre vented,we believe they would have laid violent hands upon her. A few respectable men, whO saw the transaction, however, interfered and succeeded in getting the mob to desist, and the wagon proceeded on its way. . MARSHAL RADFTZKY SELLINGI HIS BODY TO A CREDITOR.—German papers itate that the veteran Radetzky,who it seems Was constantly -in debt, sold his body, sometime pievious to his death, to one of his creclitois, a linen dra per. of Vienna, named Barkfrieder. It ap pears that Barkfrieder, who had acquired RD immense fortune from contraetsd'or furnishing goods to the army in Italy, wins desirous of obtaining kposttion among the. clignataries of the Court, and determined by a .master stroke to accomplish his elevation from the plebian ranks. Radetzky figured extensively in the linen drapeirs,books; the , latter offered to cancel the obligations if thel Field ltfarsbal , would place his body, after death, at. his dis posal, to be buried in his cOuntry seat at Wizdorf, promising - at the same time, that surrounded the veteran's; grave should be by a handiome monument." Reotzky readily assented, and signed a writtennareemeut -to that effect: The old soldier now slumbers in the grounds of Id. Barkfrieder whose coun try seat has become the Mecca of prince% dukes, barons, counts and - generals. wit Thh a linen draper's scheme has been crowned success—members -of the imperial family and itled nobles . have necessarily, become- his oasts, and be is a member Of the "Court rcle," .
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