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Gentlemen are Invltad tticall - and enlarge. •*-" 01325,6 in ' .-,,,:.,, - -,-- •-, tiso.o)lSsalnlr Strad: ._. - _ , *Rao *he. GlCkit. " o444 l / 4 a. • • ANDc . ;rqsTlftivAE , YEAR LLOITAP wiNrsu OroAtta. V,14 Dl7 OiT.l •0 N -•- -• 7.21 RATOTS;;. • • TO' CLOS TODOOTOW-kR ANADO'Nz - r.' ;_••" P OO4 - SaixiessiThritailiiorDzOpitr4Drct, " dt2T-tjaT t • t" ODDOVOITikrot. Witel~es; e~cetarp,' fir: IDRAILET' & CO.; CHESTNUT STREET, A•JP - stanamtnrear or Bierma szumitt4llo/111 , Under their 'inspetAilia, on-the remiste`enniesDr47 Cilisoiniiaisitsitn•Aed-to , lrisit•olie Mann - WATCHES. •-• Constantly 'epienda stook of liniaffes - Wistelies;nl Otis elletwated tinkers. • • ‘- "•• .DiA/015.D./3. Wa% B raley; BroOokie, 14,01,45ge, ;PAM , 8A 1 411) all .othOr 19 Diamond 4 4 t. • Drawings of DEW DESIGNS wilt be made free, ot ohittrifOr those *4WD Work made to onier. _HIGH GOLD' JEWELRY. A benatiforsiwitinetie of all the new rtgles Of-Fine Jew‘i* ius,4jul *om4ot * O O *a Pell (huoxii . 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PP:ollft, JANDEPrk'BRO " • ok.r. • " Am:olmin* *so =room* Of, SILVER-PLATED, WARE; No. SO4 Ohoottart Arrest; it - bota TIM, Lip ' , Aloha,' •. vookoosotl4 lOinitonel for at io Trade Tati ,sisto lIIVNION SERVICE SMI, Imarat SMITE; CLIPS, WAITERS, BAR.' inklaTagg, UTIVXS,, SPOONS; !MO, - ' • IMAM it, , 441p , ir Uit At* ietassal. se2.ly Atimtt. - tx . ..- - NEWI°B'c , A121,10E11 • , -„ B „ - • • -:i gnd,,,BOBTON ' x'olietruEs,- Bought mutsohchy wiat i y . :0) . 4 87 South UMW Street. ig7.dtlfeb2 sctg.,L ) roApLos, - . co., • Third The hisitesiproottioxiipatd. for • ' ••• . A24E111.0.07 GOLD TOM; 34011ANCti. thaerarrOyOunt4 bought , , ' ' atOckt bauglit and sold on oOmmisili;n only:soi4m* A litanipAN GOLD,!- ..: [NSW' YOBI 11 3 XOUANOR AT 131011 - 338 T w a rl itl;NT ITATES, CHOSSOCCOO , • 81 1 lipfe At) z :130WITIL •z!n/i)-As.— eximeo:C4 ol l4 l gYiFe• WELLS; VARGO; & no., • taw VAN AND OALIPORNIA EXPRESS CO ' • - znitExonamos Dia!Aim; JOIST STACIE -COMPANY_ •, • • AZ LTA I. $1300,000. OPPiCE, 400 CHESTNUT STREET, PatLariiLiquA. , Eipreindent to= Okayama, Oasomr, , and WM PION leisstni cn,the Oth and 20th, and to HAVANA on. 7th, YR% and 27th of each month, from:NEW YORK. EKCIIEUNOR for sale in sums to suit, and cor.,Lac -71015 !LAME on California, Oregon, Sandwich Islands and Harms.. , W. P. & „Co. teeeive fieight eoeteigned to them et - SAN irnationco; Per ClliperWO' and Collect Invoices 'on delivery of The same. NOTLZ TTOALIFOILNIL BONDEIOLDESS W dr, Osseo now prepared' to reedy's. the OLD soinis" of -the Mete of CALIFORNIA, transport the setae to Seirameep City, and' procure new ones, in ac-' condatuie with the act of 28th April, 1857, and return sake to this city. 4521-lm' ' • • D.' N. - DMINEY, Ja., Agent. 1171A.D./OLE-EXPRESS CO., OFFICE, , 01KESTIMI. ;STREET, finitude PARCELS, PACKAGES, ifEßonaimm; RANK NOTES snit SPEOLE,;Cithet - Lk no own LINES, Cr in connection with Other NIPILEBirCOMPANLEB,to AU ilia principal TOWNS aild VI TM of theirnited Otates. -B. 0. SANDI/080, - Gernailikapqrintendent. 111Woolntions Coprictitersbip. NOTICE.—The, pirtnerehip heretofore er 4. Sating Wife= the subscribers - , trading under the 'firm of HiIIOGES & RTEV.IIIOONi hillataday dissolved, by mutual consent. The .business will be settled by Illtbialf STEVENSON, who alone 'ls authorized to nee th'e name of the firm in liquidation. A. M. BRIGGS, lIENSICHTKVENSON. Pnmaniti Biagi Jaia.l 1858 - . • OAND.—The nnder►lgned will continuo the Tailoring business; heretofore, at the old stand 107 North FOURTH Street. shore Aroh, where. ho hopes by mtridt attention to businetui to merit a tontinnance of the patronage so liberally extended to the late firm. . MITT STEVENSON. Pllll4issinnA lan 1 180. ...)acturtat*: DISSOLUTIOL-Thb *topittnersbip ex istbu between THOMAS EIADDOCK, 4r,, and - LEVERITT 8. RAYMOND, under the arm of MAD DOOIi RAYMOND, & CO., is this day dissolved by mutual consent. ~ ,Sither party is authorized to sign in liquidation. MADDOCK, RAYMOND, & CO. 00tca _Remove& to '26 liortkiiptyll. January / nos. . _,jel-frowl3l oTre,E- IS TORgBy GIVEN THAT i. - ,Tre i giro7l; and oontlnned Am three years !tom January Ist, 1858. fRANDEMIDGE, •; /LENP 4 L ". . a l i tagir, r. • Special Partner. 1r14;41'41.144, January 1;1858. ~ j al.l4wBw ' Af 0 TIC IA dvi this dal &ea j• FRANK BROWN pin interest In our business. GOMM, ANDERSON, & CO., P . nitanstearA, January let, 1868. ja.4.2w* T" - 00-PARINERSITIP OF -JAMES , HARPER- and 'EDWIN BENDER, under the dim of JAMES HARPER de; CO., in the Lumber busines, and as _EDWIN BENDER, Carpenter and Bullderi it thin day .. dimmed - by zaValalsonsent. SAMS HARPER," EDWIN BENDER. , , • P1111.1b1LITITA; dan. let, 1858. ja2l-2a,* TIME FIRM OF DIOVORTILIORANSONs & CO., is.thie cloy, dissolved by limitation. The business will be settled by either of the partners at the stork, No. 211. Market elseet.: WILLIAM DILWORTH, SAMUEL BRANEION, "'‘• : . •- - HENRY D. - UNDID, • 7AMIIB W, TANGS. Ii . FILIDISLPIS - 111., Deo SI, - 10.24.wW TCOPARTNERSIIIP HEItETOPOUE ealstlaiiiNter the firm ot sittan, LAMB & Is tide dal dlssetred by the death of 0. B. LAMB. ' The basineiSi dike late MO Will be settled by:the Woryirlogpertneri, v itt} leave associated with them , JOHN WIEST, SPONSLER, and D. B. ERVIN, under the Arai of It 0 aL, & 00., and will continue the Dry 06cde Jobbing sad importing bantered itelteretotore, at NO. 41 Ndrth TRIRD street. , • - ' Pk tER BIRGEN, lACANFRIEGRL, WV R. BAIRD, - - 70IIN -- " W. D. SPONSLER, D. B. Ith,yur ,Didair&er 101A'V,E it'lllß DA.YASSOCIATEi) WITH ALt-me EDVIABIi RAINS, .7011 N B; MELLOrI, and GEORGE 9 ,IPX.AII9 as ioneral partnere, end vitt con. Ulnae the itop,ortlng Roniery and ,Small - wares under I. the style or , TROATAS MELLOR th CIY., - at'Ne. BN. t-f , TRIED Street. _ Mg41,(1.1i, 2 'f; • PgipAoswz,r, ZArltarylet, 1858: • jawyro E• DWAR . VALI/ADD will have- ehirge of. : • our butioesitd tidedityfrout this date, at No. BA ClllMP4'lll7ll eo l t N u T r ep of Sewing Machines, Lirilinary 1;1868, - „, cadtLE6 -43/41DirEilL—Whotesale taw itlaP!la, I !9.r!fliurataatafer, No. 4 „ •:\ •; ; • • , \'o I,” _ • . • •‘ s i 11 . tif i ' %•-'% 7-, • • itilz (7 ..„ (ilk, . i ---; ;; -egi ; _k • , t= 4 / ' I 10% rer (-1 • VOLI,-NO, 137. gitrigs. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1858. THOMAS JEFFERSON. ,The'great Virginian, who drew up that im mortal document, our Declaration of Inde pendence, was far too remarkable a man to be left Without a good biographer. Hitherto, ho we'tyill not - say neglected, but ina dequately done justice to. (clime at last sets all things even," says the poet, time has brought amends to him. On our table is the first volume (to be followed by two others next 'month_) of 6 ‘,The Life of Thomas defferson,” ably, impartially, and laboriously written by the Hon. HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D. of New York State. When we use the word laborious ly we •do not mean heavily, for the book is eittramely spirited, but to denote the immense pains which have been devoted to it. Mr: RANDALL has been surrounded (we woidd 'say embarrassed, if he bad not made "such judicious use of them) by the abundance of materiale. He has numerous living de sCendants, who have lively, traditions, their parents' recollections of him. Ho left behind hini, a vast-amount of memoranda and menu *Apts. ale,aleo - left his diary, kept 'with ex traorilltutryminnteness for many years, with as much accuracy and care as a' mercan tile day”book. There also is an Im mense , MISS of - JarrEnsolf's family -cor respondence-pot one of. which letters has' ever before -been published. There ere his : daughter's Recollections of him, ably and impartially written. There are reminiscences of JEFFERSON by his many contemporaries end friends. There is the journal, kept by the physidien wIM' attended him, of his last illness and death. .And, besides these original ma laria's, Wholly unused up to the time they/mal -1 mutated in Mr. - Raxont's - possession, there is a large and accessible quantity of public infor mation, scattered through many. memoirs and histories-rfor the life of JErrensox; as a pub lie man, is written in the annals of that coun try which he-helped to raise from the subject condition of a colonial possession to the ludo peadenCe of a -Nation. • blegraphy; be it borne - in mind, of a inhAV Who died at the age of eighty-three— treeing him frOM childhood lo honorable old bge.f-whata long and high career is to be re eoried. ,'Born in 1743, a true Virginiatt, Jarysifsou died in 1820—exactly half a cen. tury after the date ifC the Declaration -of In dependence. :'`ln 1769 he was elected a mem ber of the- Provincial Legislature of his own State. In 1775 ho' entered Congress, and cirew,up, the fitmetts Declaration. -In 1779 he was 'Chosen Governor of 'Virginia, succeeding PAritMrHmtfar„ In 1785, on the return of Dr. Bnairtmx; he was - named his successor at Paris, frentwhich ho -proceeded to London, as envoy, in 17,80. Ho aCcepted the office - of Secretary of ',State Crider. WASHINGTON, in 1789--rat this epoch Mr. RANDALL'S first volume closes. 'He resigned in 1793; lived 'the next four years in retirement ; was then elected Vice President,- was called to the Presidential chair in 1801; finally quitted pub lic life, after he -had been President for two fermi, and thentnally, retired in 1809, passing his closing sevoideetf years in honorable and happy retironient:,, This is a Tepid sketch of his' career. 'We may enlarge on it when Mr. Bahriargs work is-completed. There 18 - an'interesting and explicit account iti - thieVoluina Of - Mr. arm:soles drafting the Declaration. We are told : The 'oommittee to prepare a Declaration of Lida. Pendenee "unanimously pressed" Mr. Jefferson "to undertake the draft." Ile did as, but before submitting ihis"pitner to the - full •cominittee, com municated it separately to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams, requesting their corrections. " which were two or three only, and merely, verbal." The re port was .then before the entire committee, which made no amendments; and on the 28th of Tune. 11718,1 it was preiented in , Congress by its nether: Alt wasimmediatelycad, and ordered to ,":Ort Congre , threoution4o declare the Colonies independent was carried by the vote of nine Colonies. On the same day, the draft of the Declaration - of Indepen pence was taken from the table in Committee of the Whole The question on its adoption was debated through out , that , and the two suceeeding days. Several amendments wore carried in committee. - Of the amuses. whioh led to the two most important ones, Mt. Jefferson gives the following account in his hiembir The pusillanimous ides That we had friends in Eng- land worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason those passages which con 'veyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them offence. The chum), tooi:rep•obating the enslaving tho inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the im portation of Ames, and who, on the contrary, !dill wished to continue it, Our Northern brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their 'people had very few glares themeelo ea, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them tdotiters.o WOn tho evening o; the 4th of July, the Declara tion, as amended is committee. was reported to the House and agreed to; and thus was consum mated that legislation, which, sustained by subse quent years of struggle and suffering, of which history affords a few .parallels, struck from the British realm a territory far exceeding its whole extent under its Plantagenete and Tudors—and to contain, even before the generation then living should pass entirely away, a population far out numbering that which owned the sway of Henry V or Elisabeth. How little various persons whose names are at tached to the. Declaration had to do with proper ins it, or paving the way for it, at least in Con gress, is a matter of notoriety and need not he hero recounted. Several delegates arrived only in 'time to vote for it, and others were allowed to at tach their names who were not present at that vote. Mr. Ilatinettr, gives not only a printed copy of the original draft of this great document, with the parts which were stricken out enclosed in brackets and italics, and the amendments placed on the margin, but gives a lithographed fee-simile; occupying four pages foolscap, in Jivrintsoii's own writing, with the erasures and interlineations. This document was written, all the world knows, in this good city of Phila delphia, but what follows may be neiv to taaby: In answer to Inquiries from Dr. James Moose, Mr. Jefferson (September 26, 1825) telle where ho wroto Jim Declaration of Independence. Ile says: • "At the time of writing that Instrument I lodged in the lemma a Mr Omar, a new brick house, three stories high, of which I rented the second floor, con sisting of a parlor and bed-room, ready furnished. In that parlor I wrote habitually, awl lo It wrote this paper, particularly. So far I atoto from written proofs in My possession. - The proprietor, Graaf, was a young man, son of a German, and then newly married. I think he was* bricklayer, stud that hie bonne was on the south. side of Market street, probably between -fiay.nthand Eighth Greets, and If not the only house isthl, part of the ' street, l em cure there were few alums near it. I have some idea that it was a corner house; but no other recollections throwing light on the question 6r Worth OommUntratien." The account boOk, before us, shown that on reaching Philadelphia, he remained eight days at his old lodgings, with " Ben. Randolph," and that 'on the 23d of May he " took lodging at Grad's." Entries of the payment of the weekly rent of his rooms (thirty-five shillings sterling) continued throughout the cession. lie appears minty° taken most of his meals at " Smith's —the keeper, we simpoie, of tire My Tavern. Ike little writing desk on which ho wrote the Deolaration: of Independence is yet in existence. A, grand' aughter who, on her marriage, loft:Ilion ' Well° for her future residence in Boston. intrusted most of her belongings to a packet sailing from Richmond,'Which was lost at sea The most se verely felt loss among her effects wan a writing desk containing her grandfather's letters to her, :and, soma ether personal memorials of him. And there' was another utterly bereaved party—John Venotninge, Mr.' Jefferson's faithful old black, head carpenter, - joiner, etc., of whom wo shall , (me more' as oar narration progresses. John had fondly lavished all his skill on the lest treasure, 'for the favorite young "Missile." Innumerable were the different kinds of vette era on it, 'and 'miens and (John thought) recherche their arrangement. "lie could not make another like it for Miss Ellen." " Ile had . no more such °Woe aticks laid away." "Besides, ho was get ting old, and couldn't see well enough," eta., etc. In a IT okde lie was ineonsolable. Whether Mr. Jeffers-had any eye on him in Sending a suhsti tuts, which the faithful old fellow had learned to look upon with a sort of mystical veneration, we cannot say; but he probably thought that a. little reading and writing desk in his pos seesion—some fourteen inches long, by about ten .In breadth and three in depth—would - tamest make good to the other parties the place of John's Beautiful handiwork ; and accordingly, he s en t it (to dividd the compliment) to hie grand-daughter's husband; with, the following inscription attached to the under side of the leaf which is turned down, In writing ' .1 4 Thomas iettarson gives this writing desk to Joseph Coolidge, Jr., sea memorial of affection. It RAH mode tromp, drawing of his own, by Bon. Randolph, cabilact makft at Philadelphia, with whom he first lodged on his Snivel in that pity, in May, Me, sad Is the tdentl ted one eit'whleti /m- wrote the Deolaration of Ude pendenes,,Politiee, es well as religion, has Its super - 1t1#99#•,-,Octse gaining strength" with time i pay one day give imaginary value to this relic, for its associa tions with the birth of the Great Charter of our inde pendence. " Monticello, N0v.18,1825. ,, Numerous anecdotes and acute sketches of character add to the interest of this biography. Here is a pen-and-ink sketch of FRANKLIN, which conveys a very good notion of the man " We have hitherto passed over ono transcendent name, because, if Franklin was heard on the floor, as he doubtless was in his short pithy way, his in fluence on the decision of the pending questions was exerted priselpally in other quarters. That influence was truly great. If ho lacked tho elo quence and vabmenee of John Adams, h 6 greatly excelled him in other particulars. Ile was a mom experienced, and undoubtedly a wiser man. Ile had a nice appreciation of the quali ties of associates, and consummate tact in addressing himself to them. From the suavity of his temper and manners, from his respootful way of treating adversaries, from hie entire want .of that egotism which disgusts, and that dogma. tism which offends all, and partioularly equals in position—be was personally popular in trad out of Congress. In the step which he, in, his own quiet and peculiar manner, was urging onward, he was apparently incurring . greator risks, and certainly making greater sacrifices, than a comparatively young' man, who, as yet, had attained to nothing like his general position. Franklin's ability as a statesman had been tested and estab lished, in the most difficult positions lie was better acquainted with Europe, and especially with England, than any of his colleagues. In sci ence and philosophy, he enjoyed a reputation not before attained by any American. Ile pos. mend exquisite address as a writer. ills " Poor Richard's Almanac" had made his shrewd sense familiar to every class of his countrymen. Ilia style was adapted to all 'tastes and comproben- lions. The seholar admired its compact and nor-, vons simplicity; the uneducated fancied the limpid diction was like that which they them selves employed in familiar intercourse. It united some of the characteristics of Runyan and Pelee, with some of those of Swift and Addison. Tbe:re was an obvious common sense in its propolitioos— its illustrations were so inimitably apt- and tell ing—its poignant but easily understood sense sure ly exposed every weak point of an adversary. so surely carried the derisive laugh of the multitude along with it—that it may well bo doubted wheth er a more effective popular writer, on a ohms of sub jects (simple appeals to the 'understanding, in re gard to the purely practical affairs of life), has writ' ten in the English tougum If he lacked the deep ear nestnem and fiery enthusiasm of some natures—if he was proverbially cautious-4f he was more disposed b surrender something than ask too much, and sot a yielding than a stubborn part until deeply roused if ao one would suspect the cool, placid edge of lovingtlintor for danger's sake—perhaps these ne gative qualities gave only the more weight to his opinions, when his reputation, his honors, and his life were staked on their accuracy. And all who knew that Franklin had east off and seVered every tie with an only and distinguished son, because he sided with the mother country, knew how impla cable were his resolves when his line of action was determined on." The volume from which we quote is pub lished by DERBY & JAcKsort, of New York, in what is called library or octavo form. It is illustrated-Pith the portrait of JEFFERSON by STUART, a view of Monticello, and fac.similes of a page of his pocket account book, a cu. rious table of the vegetable market of Wash ington, during eight years, (also in JEFFER son's writing,) the original draft of the Decla ration, a page of the accounts kept while JEFFERSON'S arm was broken, and a letter to his daughter PATSY, afterwards Mrs. RAN DOLPH.' There can be only one opinion as to the ability, general impartiality and industry which Mr. RANDALL has brought into combination in the composition of this biography. He shows us JEFFERSON himself, and particularly fills up the blank, heretofore existing, as to JEFFER SON'S character and course of life in Virginia, before be entered into the troubled ocean of national politics. We can well believe that Mr. RANDALL has spent Live years in collect ing, collating, and digesting his ample mate rials. Ho has worthily executed a much wanted book. FROM HARRISBURG. The forthcoming Report et the State Superb'. tendon% of Common Schools. Correspondence at The Press.] llaanteauna, Jan, ft, 1858 The annual report of Hon. 11. C. Iliekeek, State Superintendent of Common &hoots, will be pre sented to the Legislature in about ton days. The statistics, I understand, present highly favorable and satisfactory results, and the general report will show the system to be.in a A:gantlet and prosperous condition. The framework of the sys tem, after twenty-five yfinrs waiting, is new complete, and continued energy and prudence will doubtless enable it to realize the highest ultimate hopes of its Mande. The county superintendency has been entirely successful in some counties, but not in others ; the difference In the results being generally owing to the difference in the qualifications, fidelity, and prudence of the men elected to theoffice. No further legislation will be asked for except the usual school appropri ation. It appears there are upwards of thirteen thou sand schools, and nearly six hundred thousand children in attendance in the Commonwealth, being an average of forty-eight to owls school. The first year after the law creating county on periutendencies had gone into operation, the volume composing the annual reports of the gen- Con= who had a superintending care over those who had in charge " the young ideas" of the Com monwealth was quite a "curiosity of literature" in the way of bad grammar, sentences like unto the Egyptian Labyrinth, and a total mis conception of what should constitute the subject matter of their reports. Mr. Effekoek issued a circular of instructions to them, and we conse quently find less of the didactic essay and of meta• physical discussion than characterized their Initial efforts. There is, in foot, a marked improvement visible. As an evidence of the growing esteem in which county superintendents are held, it may bo mentioned that there is an average increase of ten percent. in their salaries—voted by the boards of directors in the several counties. There is no subject connected with our public affairs in which we all ought to feel a livelier in terest than this subject of popular education. The system lies, until recently, been so imperfectly carried out, that expectation as to the result has, perhaps, boon somewhat disappointed ; but now, that it is fairly established and vigorously con ducted, we may confidently predict that the next generation will be strongly marked with its salutary influence. Who, indeed, can look into one of our common schools without surprige and delight et the facilities enjoyed by the rising gene ration ! The text-books in use, and the methods of instruction, are snob as to make the present road to knowledge a royal road indeed, coin pared with the old crooked and thorny paths. Some persons. I am aware, make this an objection. The road is made too smooth and easy, they tell us, for the development of the intellectual muscles ; end that the old sys tem, therefore, if it taught less rapidly, was more thorough and invigorating. In this view, so often taken, there is, I conceive, a single grain of truth with a bushel of error. To dis cipline the mind it is no doubt necessary to work It, and, with proper care, to work it to the full extent of its powers. Rut is it therefore necessary to work it in trimming away preliminary hedges which might bo Cleared at a bound? Are there not difficultiee enough in science and literature to test the powers of the strongest mind—oven of a Locke or a Newton? Why, then, should a bard way of learning to road, or of learning the ale mentsof grammar, arithmetic, or geography, be preferred, when there is an easier one? Let everything he learned in the easiest and shortest mode possible. Tho more that is thus learned the better, and the sooner will the student come to grapple with those real and higher] difficulties which will be quite sufficient to call out and dint pline the powers of men until they have attained the sum of human perfection. In short, the complaint against facilities for learning, because they make it too easy, is about as absurd an would be that against railroad ears as a means of transportation. The tonnage and the rate of speed of the old Conestoga wagon if applied to the rail road oar would, no doubt, leave its powers in a great measure aflame ised. But, in fact, we every day see the oar loaded to its utmost capacity, and whirled at a rate forty times faster. Its powers are strained to the utmost, still, and its execution is a hundred fold greater. Most of the Senators and Representatives are out of town on a visit to their constituency, until Monday, and those loft behind appear to tread " a banquet hall deserted," The committees will be announced on Monday, when business will com mence in earnest. I was in error when I stated, in a former letter, that Mr. Welsh, the Speaker of the Senate, was the youngest member of that body. Mr. Welsh is the youngest Senator over elected to the chair, but there aro two or three members of the Senate who are younger than Mr. Welsh ; but thojuvonilo honor belongs to Mr. Item:all, of your city. Mr. John Buckley, of Bordontown, N. J., publishes in the RrEister a challenge to trot his horse, George M. Patchen, against any horse in the State for $5,000 aside. Here is a chance for speculation. Jedediah Jack, Esq., an eminent lawyer, Rag shot dead on the 27th ult., at Metropolis. 111., by a man named Stolen Jaok was from Pennsyl- vania. PIIILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1858. LETTER FROM GOVERNOR luouty A RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 30, 1807 GENThaaaN : I have the honor to acknowledge the invitation of the Sooloty of Tammany to at tend their celebration of the forty-third anniver sary of the Battle of Now Orloans, on the evening of tho Bth day of January next. I regrot that I cannot be with you in person, but I tender to you my warmest sympathy in the eon titnents and objects of your celebration. I trust that your venerable or der will always uphold the Federal Constitution, with which you proudly claim to bo coteinpoia neous ; that vou will strive to rovivo and perpetu ate the spirit of tho revolutionary fathers, who you boast wore your founders; and that you will now, more than elm, cherish national as opposed to sectional feeling—a strict construction of the Constitution, as opposed to all compromises of Its provisions—true Domooraoy in Its republican forte, as opposed to the licentiousness of mobs or more mojoritim enacting their own "higher law"— and the liberties of the pooplo against all power, delegated or undolegated, upon earth. To these ands you may well comnsomorate the vic tory of New Orleans. Its hero was " guidadAy law and bound by-duty," when ho took the reopen-' shinty to save noity then, and afterwards tostiva rt country from a foe more formidable than foreign bayonets, Ho gave us the motto: "The Union must and shall be preserved ;" and I hope that his great authority still romaine potent to atanit it unon every heart, and upon every banner in tbe whole country. ,To preserve it we must steadily Adhere to tho Democratio faith and platform ; •we must stand by you in standing by James "ARP °lnman as the people stood by Andrew Taoks;on. Ho had to contend with the money powor,4ad subduod it by the Samson of Democracy. eW, e now have to meet the bleak demon of the " hipber law," and the same Summon survives in vigor' to tight for the chosen pooplo. God forbid I hafthe Samson of Democracy shall at last ba a Samson AgOnlatcs, shorn and blinded, to become a des strayer. Almost every other poople and or r oiy other party, except the Anierican Democracy, htile had their ~ bridges of asset;" but I do pray Brat I we may not be such asses oursolvos as, tt 'oinks a bridge of slavery, or of 'tiny other elnli joot, for us to stall at in a. earner and prOsiw,..4 of national, greatness. And yet, gentle n are a groat many Firms-asses 11 our coun try. and they are not half no stubbein asses as the can't-asses. A driver can get along after a Dion ner with an nes that can. but the oruolest goad ?dB not prevail with the asses who can't. They tire`.2l4l' etubborneet of all, rend are sure to stall just In rl , , way and at the very place of most danger. TheY bray ft political religion and religious politics. The best whip which ever touched those 11.8.909 . ix flatly in the raw was James Buelianan's ConesietgA thong, laid right on upon forty fanatical prow:Sera " all in a row." As to your other motto, " Ctvil and religious liberty," ours was saved by the 'Vir ginia Democracy in 1855. We struck the dark lantern out of the bands of ineffable Sam, and none now are found eo poor he to " hurrah'Lfor him. We, therefore, have someNtight to sly to you on other topics that nil common Benno and.jas- Lice require it that we lot each other's property and pawn and political privileges alone, igal attend to the conservation of our own inteicets respeotively at home. When wo happen ,to meet in the common Territories, to make weir homes and neighborhoods there, all we halve to do is to respect each other's equal rights. If we are Southern sinveholders, don't let oar property be invaded or taken away from us ; d'ra't allow any power to prevent us from settling u common lands, or don't drive us away fromme settlements we have made upon a domain r.. eliti‘ed or won by common treasure and united valor. On the other hand, if you prefer that slavery shall not be incorporated in the now body politic of which you aro to become members; we promise you that it shall not be imposed upon yen, with our consent, either by force or by fretfcis We propose to go together to the polls as equals, justly respecting each other's rights, and there de termine, by legal voter, what shall bo the law of the case. If property be established in ono firm or another, it shall bo respected ; and,' If fortild den In any other particular form, it shall nab-r, that form exist in that'eommunity. Now, heothis just, fair and equal college been observed? Force and fraud both, on both aides, have been attet.tpt ed, and have to a shameful extent prevailed. And it is the great vocation of Democracy to put down both fraud aid force in this and in all other cases. plow? The easo divides itself into twooate gories—tbe one de Pasta the Territory as beta oen the Convention and the people ; and the other da facto in the country at large, as between Congress and the Tertitory. In the first, in Kansas there woo an "enabling statute." If the Kansas-Ne braska act did enable the people to hold a Con vention, or to make laws for their own self-govern ment; it had no virtue in it at all. The Kniiiies- Nebraska bill organized a Territory, and the pee -110 thereof were enabled thereby to govern damns selves. By their own !awe they orgenisedst , :let , " 'motion to frame a Constitution of State govern. went. That Convention was, therefore, depth, legitimate. It formed a Constitution, and had a right to form it. That was its function, and there its power ended, except to submit it, as a propmed organio law, to the fair and free election of thaw .. vereign people, to bo adopted or to be rejected' by them. They, in their organised being of legal voters, are alone sovereign. The entire Constitu tion ought to have been submitted to their voices at the polls. The power was I not, delegated to the convention to proolnlinrand establish a State CAtution ; it had to.b a proved by Oongromft;"-nnds touch Irene- ' 1 to be approved by the sovereign prier 'Ali _Piss- -.whets - -toe - 'lair. -frausit, She,. Con, noted. It was not- a mere sto s tuto law, repealable at will by a Legislature tti sit yearly, and to be chosen by the precincts of annual elections. It was the groat fundamental organic law, under which titles and tenures and franchisee wore to be held, and judges and legislators were to sit, and executivo authority was to wield the arms of State, and °tines were to be filled, and justice was to be administered, and law was to be enacted, and confederate station was to be assumed, and sovereignty itself was to bo assumed—and it was to bo irrepottlable by legislation, and to be, in a word, the supreme Constitution of a State, under which oho was to be received into the most glorious Union of States which over protected and fortified the liberties of mankind! Whatl Tell us that an instrument of this dignity; that republican government itself, was not to be submitted in its form and plan proposal, to the only lawful cove reigns—the organized people—not a mere mans of persons. lout the loon fide inhabitants and legal voters of the State to be governed, for their eke lion, to adopter reject it ! De jure, I say it ought to have boon so submitted. Pure and unde filed republicanism. consorvativo Democracy, re quired that it Should bo so submitted. There is no mobocracy in that idea. It is even, just, steady, organized free republican action ; the law of popu lar liberty, defined by citizenship and the rule of election, and is the true example of essential sove reignty iu the people. Instead of so submitting this proposed Constitution by the more agent, the Convention, deferentially to the principles, the or ganized sovereign people, thorn was a usurpation —n withholding from them of afar, free, full, and equal election to choose or not to choose their own Constitution of self-government. It was e.r parte: it was all on ono side • it, was, in gambling phrase, the foul “Ileads I win and tails you lose;" the Constitution was obliged to be adopted, with the clause or without the clause; the veto was bound to be "for the Constitution ;" it was all pro anti no con; and we say that was no submission to en election at all. Election is choice of alternatives —to adopt or to reject ; to reject ns well as adopt, to adopt as well as reject. There was no ehoico in this moo, and no equality of voters iu the case. Throe men went to tho polls ; A said, "I vote for the Constitution with or without the clones; but B and C said, "We vote against it, with or - without the clause," A's veto was counted, D's and C's worn not to be counted, and thus cue was made not only to effect two, but to In solo sub stitute in fact for three against the majority of two to one out of three. Now this was but the unveiled trickery and shameless fraud of a so-called echo dale. There was neither right nor justice in it. The Democracy of Virginia at least scorns a title of any sort founded on a fraud, occult or pidpable, like this. We Bay that, as between the Convention of Leconipton and the people of Kansas, the question was ono de joys, and de jure tho whole Constitution in all its parts ought to have boon submitted to all the legal voters pro and coo, and the two voters ought to have ' been allowed their voices against it as well as the ono voter his voice for it. And, BO far as slavery is concerned, it mato the (lase worse against that species of property, to sub mit the slavery elaxso alone to the election of the people. Why discriminate in respect to that " peculiar institution ?" Is it because It win peculiar ? If we contend for anything especially it is that our property shall not be distinguished or discriminated from other property in legislation. It stands on the same footing of right to protection and preservation which is claimed for any other description of thing owned or possessed by others as property. Why was this singled out for theehanoos of prohibition? Was it not enough that the Bad ger amendment of the Kansas-Nebraska bill had already enacted that nil laws protecting anti es tablishing it prior to 1810-'2O should in topeatod t Why repeat a discrimination against slavery in this schedule of submission? 'this was ground enough to make pro-slavery partisans resat ft. In fact, and of right, if the Constitution had not been submitted at all, in whole or in port, to the people, it would have been more impartial and morojust to the elaveholder than as it was sub mitted. If there be any mistaken and mho guided and mieguiding parties in the South who would bo guilty of arraying against the ectual rights of slave property the Irresistildo and indlsputa• ble rights of popular sovereignty, we would have our property from the guardianehip of such folly, and rely, as property and protection must always most safely rely, rather upon law and order and the rule of justice and fair dealing—to "ask nothing but what is right, and to submit to nothing which is wrong." On the ground of policy, then, as well as de jure, the whelo Constitution ought 1 1 to have been submitted to all tho legal voters, without fear, favor, fraud, or force. So much for the case els jure. ed. The Convention saw fit to submit the Constitution to the ono voter alone, and not to all throe of the voters, and the Conven tion was legitimate. It was legitimate, de Peltt. Congress could not go behind tho return; it can not intervene, we nro told, except to see that law has authorized the not, and that the form is re publican. Tho law authorized the not, and we grant the form of the Constitution itself to be re publican We don't agree with Mr. Senator Dou glas, that his own Kansas-Nobroska net wee not an" enabling statute," and too don't agree, either, with the President, Mr. Buchanan, that slavery was the only "domestic institution" to be sub• milted, as ouch, to the people. Tito Kansas bill enabled the people to govern themselves; that was its very essence and its chief excellence, and every municipal institutiou of a State Government IA a " domestic institution," The President is a bachelor, and he must, therefore. be excused for not comprehending a '• domestio institution" ns well as wo who have houses full of ohildren. He had better reasons for his recommendation than ho assigned. lie was bound to look to the fact that this was the work of a legitimate Convention, anti that these were subjects for Kansas alone to judge of. But whether Kansas bad been allowed to judge—whether her people had been allowed to °boom, to dee., to adopt PT select this CoAstituttOn of government proposed for them—whether they had bean allowed to govern themselveS was anether fact, 'ivhich had not been looked to—de faro, whether the schedule was republican? Ac facto, whether there were not other denies tie institutions besides slavery which ought to have been submitted to the sovereign legal voters ? It is the very gladness and glory of our State Governments, When organised, that they guard andgovern the hearthstones and homes of the people of the United States Tho State governments are the municipalities of sovereignty which embrace especially the indLridual persons, the families, the households, the affairs and the homes of our people. It Is that which maker State rights, State laws, State organization, State action, so precious, because se domestio,in our Confederacy. The Federal Government embraces rather nutional and foreign subjects of jurisdlotion, end therefore, it ought to leave all domestic questions to the States and the people. What then ? Why, then, if the sohednie of submission was anti-rer ablican, If it was partial, if it did not acknowledge and allow the sovereign right of the people to judge for them selves on the question of. highest dignity, the or genie law of their government, and discriminated unequally between the subjects of property, the Congress of the United States ought not to reject the legitimate and republican Constitution, but ought to adept it, subject to a fair and legal vote of tire people of Kansas, according to a law to be prescribed by their Territorial Logishiture, and to admit the State under the Constitution whenever the Territory shall proclaim its approval and adoption by the people. If they adopt it, to ad roit her into the Union ipso facto ; and if they reject it, to leave the people of Kansas in their own *ay to organize another Convention, and to submit another Constitution to Congress for ap proval. This would be a plain and easy solution, and would take all the asses over the bridge of shrieks." And for any difference of opinion as to the mere mode of submitting or solving this question, I. protest that no true, honest, earnest Democrat shall be proscribed. No Northerner ought to denounce the President for recognising the factor the legitimacy of the Lcoompton Conven• • lion, and no Southerner ought todenounco Senator Douglas for &intending manfully for the right of the sovereign people to adopt or reject their own form of self-government. There is no conflict, in truth, between the two principles de jure and de alto—they, combined, rule the ease. and rule It rightly. It may be very desirable to have Kansas admitted as a State as early so practioablo, but nothing will bo gained by admitting her into the Union In a mode offensive and oppressive to a large maJorq of her voters. Wisdom should teach a minority to insist upon nothing but what is sustained by perfect fairness and justice A majority can take enro of itself, and a minority should bo the last to resort to either fraud or force. Nothing less than the highest tone of morality can protect a minority in its rights, or will restrain a majority from wrong. The groat State of Now 'York should realize the re• sponsibilify resting upon her. If she will stand by Mr. Buchanan as she did by Gm Jack son; if her Denineraey will only firmly unite; If she will maintain no other rule than the just rulo of the law and the Constitution; If she will remember her greatest stake in swelling the late Democratic triumphs into a permanency of power. and in maintaining low, order, justice. peace, and Union.: if her Democracy will cease their factious divisions and devotedly and unitedly coma rip to the patriotlo work of saving a happy and prosper ous Confederacy from the dangers of dissolution, or the (Wasters of &ell war, therm truly New York will resume her empire rind bo en nrbitress thrice blessed as the peacemaker, All the sister States already contribute to her beauty and streogth ; she is in position awl power to be an arbi tress, but to be so in truth and with effect, she must be sancti fied to the high and holy office. Hearty A. Wise. DANIEL ro• Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society AIL STRINGFELLOW ON TIIE LEco:nr- TON CONVENTION. TO TII EDITOR oe TIIE Wasnlawros, Jan. 7, 18L8 Enclosed is a communication, prepared by Dr. J. li. Etringfellow, of Kansas, for publication in the Washington Union. That paper has (helloed to publish It. At his request, in such an event—ho having in the meantime set out on his return home —I forward it to you, and ask fur it an insertion. Respectfully, your obedient sorvant, Mancus J. PARROTT. )VaanisnroX, Tan. 5, IK.OB In the New York Tribune, of the 4th January, a correspondent from this place, in noticing tny arri val, uses this language: "Striugfellow, of Kansas notoriety, arrived hero lest night. lie denounces the Lecompton Constitution as an imposition. It is too groat an imposition oven for him." ' I am not vain enough to presume that my npiniens will have any effect in settling this vexed Kansas question. Still am unwilling to have theta misrepresented. I will state what I have said on this subject. When I arrived in Washing ton on the 25th November last, directly from Kan sas, I found a division In the Democratic party here en that part of the President's message rela tive to Kansas matters. I stated then, that al though there was no violation of principle in not referring the whole Constitution to the people fur a direct vote, It would have been wiser to have submitted it, as there won an understanding amongst lire pennle that annh would be the ease, and all parties would bare been satisfied. That 'she•foath a' best eeald only ebtaio a mere empty and temporary triumph, the question hating el ready bean settled against them by emigration, the only way in which that settlement could per manently be effected. In a few days after my arrival it was announced that noting Governor Stanton had convened the Territorial Legislature in extra session—a course he had undoubted authority to pursue, however mush the policy may be doubted. The representa tives of the people, elected by 13 000 voters, 9,000 of whom voted fur Mr Parrot for Congress, as being opposed to any Constitution from the Leeempton Convention, passed a bill providing for the submis sion of the Constitution to the psople for a negative vote, thus affording them the only opportunity they sunlit have of expressing their objection to that instrument, or of being admitted into the Union under it. I hare raid that, should the Donmeratie members from the free States, urged by the South. and for no practical good to the South, lug Kansas Into the Union egainst the remonstrance of two-thirds of the people, that remonstrance expressed in the only legal way they could express It—namely, by a vote of the people under the act of Legislature, with all the penalties for fraudulent voting that could bo provided by law—that in such event the Democratic party would of necessity be broken down nt the North, the peace and interests of Mis souri and Kansas, if not of the whole Union, seriously endangered, and by no sort of contin gency could the interests of the Smith in Kan san be advanced. So believing, I have urged that if the people of Kansas, by their vote on Monday last, did, by a large majority, decide against the Constitution, that Congress, and especially South• ern members, should• in answer to the petition of the people thus expressed, reject the applica tion for admission, and at once pass an act for the formation of a now Constitution, upon terms simi lar to those proposed by the " Toombs bill " of 1856. J. 11. STIIINGFELLOW. Strike on the fluclituatt and Marietta Hall- road—The Running of the Road Stopped (From the Cincinnati Gazette of Friday ) For sours time past an ill-feeling has existed on the part of the employees of the Cincinnati and Marietta Railroad Company because of the non payment of wages due them. On Friday last it reached the point of open rebellion, which resulted in a general strike amongst the engineers, firemen, and brakemen, who congregated at Chillicothe, where the work-shops aro located, and the engines and cars repaired. On that day they took possession of the shops, and locked up every engine in the round-house, and as fast as the trains arrived for a couple of days, they took possession of the engines and ears and refused to pet wit them to go out again. The number of engines now held by the strikers is about fifty, leaving the company o n ly two with which to operate the road. (If course the result was the stopping of all the trains. About two hundred men are engaged in the strike, and at the last accounts they kept forcible possession of all the property of the company at Chillicothe. On Friday Mr. George Barnes, superintendent of the road, went to Chillicothe for the purpolo of arranging matters with the employees, but had not bean successful when the last intelligenee reached the city. The telegraph wires have been down for two or three days, probably being cut by the strikers. Wo understand that Noah L Esq., president of the road, notified the city au thorities of Chillicothe, that they would be held responsible fir tho property of the company, and the authorities were taking measures to put the engines, do , again in the possession of the com pany. On Tuesday a eltitens' meeting was to he held at Chillicothe with reference to the subject, but of the result no account has reached us. Yester day ono of the officers of the company muds un effort to raise a 'tome here for the pat pose of taking them to Chillicothe to aid the sheriff in the service of any process, or in making arrests of the leaders in the strike. A train will leave for that city this morning, at six o'clock, with the men, together with what engineers and firemen can he procured to take charge of the engines, should tire company succeed in getting possession of them. Great excitement has existed at Chillicothe for several days, and large crowds of citizens daily gather around the workshops to watch the pro gress of affairs. Since the escape and recapture of Donnelly there bus been much speculation as to what would have been the effect if he hail not been taken un til after the day fixed for his execution, the pro. veiling opinion ieeming to he that he could not hove been executed. The editor of the Monmouth (N. J.) Democrat, at the instance of a subscriber, has made inquiries upon the point. and pronounces the popular opinion incorrect. No case like the ono supposed has over occurred in this State but the opinion in that court which sentenced hint could have suspended the execution of the judg ment indefinitely, and could have ordered his exe cution whenever ho was again in custody. Cases of this kind have occurred. in England, in ono of which thirty years elapsed before the culprit was re-taken, when the (mart ordered his execution, and it was done accordingly. Rev. John Knox, of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church, died at his residence, in New York, on Friday evening. Dr. Knox was next to tho oldest settled pastor is Now York. Ito nes born near tiettysburg, in Adams county, Pennsylvania, of pious parents of the highest respectability. He pursued his literary course and graduated at Dick inson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in Lill. lie then entered the Theological Seminary of the As sociate Reformed Church, under the vaperintend. ones of the Rev. Dr. John M. Mason, and was li censed for the Gospel ministry in 1815. Purser John Y. Mason, Jr., U. S. N., has resigned. 7HE COURTS. sArrnpAy's PROCREDIXO9 The Tragedy at the St. Lawrence Trial of Thontas Washington Smith for the Murder of Richard Carter [Rep rted for The Press ] Oren axe TEVIINin —Judge Allison and Ludlow— The trial of Thomas Washington lbutth charged with the uthrdor of Richard Carter, ant awned on Satnnlay morning The public excitement, to place of alintleiah fug event to be on the iwerease, and every Incident in detail connected with this singular cute, le caught up with the greatest avidity. In eomptianre with this itnt• parlous public demand, we give the full details of all the evidence tall on en Saturday, and di dt continua to give each day's proceedings lu full, until the close:of the rase. There were few Incidente worthy of note occurred on Saturday. The prisoner kept himself sodolonsly concealed from the public gaze ea on the previous dsye. The court room wee, as usual, crowded to its utmost capacity An application wad made by the Jury, by letter, to the court, for permission to vieit their respecti•e places of worship on yesterday, which, after being aubinitted to the prisoner's counsel, was complied with. It Is under stood that each church was to be Yisitod in a body by the jurors, accompanted by one of the officers of the court. It is expected that Mr. HiaryJ. Toy/wend, who wit employed by the prisoner to procure the ditosre, and Muse Smith, will both be examined today for the defence. Johnson Biinpers..crciss-oxamined by Mr. Loughesd Mr. Smith's rather trout away on hernetutek; he had no funds with him; I think he had mime no preparations for • journey; I euppose be didn't have much money with him; I understood be went round to Delaware; don't know what ho did with his horse; don't know n heti= he Is living yet or not; I saw the prisoner about an hour in August; rather more than an hour; I Raw his madness without his saying anything , know from hie look; I had beard of his situation bolo. ; know front his look he was not in his right mind. Q. From what you en, and hoard, did you is August lona the opinion that he was not sane A I knew so before from him look; I hod board of hie situation; his countenance had fallen; ,he dilu't look brilliant ae he need to; he looked very gloomy; I con• retard with him about an hour; he win, a into of truth: here no reason to believe he told me anything that treett't true on that occasion; don't know that he made any mistake in fact upon any subject ; the subject was but one which he talked on; he did not on that one subject make any misstatement, that I know of ll• When he told you the bletory of he troublea, to accounting for them, did he stale any fact that you to liere wan untrue ! A. I don't think that he did, I had beard these mat• tore before I saw him; he didn't tell um lio had been married: he spoke to me of his wife; ha did not speak of his wife having given birth to a child on that °era, sion; he d'd say the child wasn't his; his principal topic woo d ivorce; said ha couldn't get cue until he got citizenship in the State; am not certain whether he said one or two years It would require to get a divorce; said he was Roam on to New York; It was in September he told ma that; in August, he said be was coming on to Phila• delphia to era his - Attorney in reference to the ditoroe cave, he was rather better in September. Ile-examined by Mr. Brown —I had no means of as certaining whether his statements were true, ,•},pi what I had heard from other person,. Cro.4..exemlned.—lie Nieto! only uhat In iny opinion na., true. Re examined —lliad no way of funning an opinion, excepting what 1 heard Or. Charles T. Simpers, sworn.—l am the son of the old gentleman oho has Just left the stand; I reside at North Vast; 1 ass a little dull bearlug; am a practising physician there at the present time ; I know the defendant ; have known him since he was a snail boy ; I raw him in August last ; I had ',mobilo prior to his marriage; be wee then vely much elated ; in August last he was emaciated; 1 did observe some thing peculiar about hie countenance; It we, eepres 11110 of trouble; tho expresidon wan a strange one; I observed something peculiar in the expression of hie eyes; his eyes were wild ; the expression of his eye wan stillerent from what 1 ever had seen before in him Question was It a fixed or tlighty look ? Objected to by District Attorney Lougbead j and ir• geed be him and D P. Brown. Esq Objection overrule I be the court. Answer. It was an unsteady look; he roar exceed ingly nervous, very ro. mous ; o hen speaking he would speak vehemently and rapidly, unusually so; he 111.11 very regless; constantly changing his position, his con versations were confined almost exclusively to one sum ject ; this war the subject of his misfortunes ; his manner of speaking woe dirferent from what it was be fore when speaking on the subject of his misfortunes; my opinion was his mind was unsound on the rubject of his Iniglortuties Edwin Winner, sworn —I reside at Elk ton. Cecil coun ty, blaryland ; I know the defendant ; have known him about twenty yearn; hie natural dismaitlou was kindly amiable disposed man WAX the estimation I always held him tie; big moral character is unexceptionable; saw him in the latter part of July or August, on the road from Port Deposit to Elkton, on the herders of the town of North East; last saw him before in the fall of ISM In the mouth of October or Nos ember, I think it was ; will not be at all reit/. about the date; when met him on the road to North East, I observed a great change in him; I then had no conversation with him ; he looked very haggard and wild In his expression; I Just spoke to him ; had no conversation with him ; I next saw him at Mauston House, Baltimore, iu the latter part of October or November, 1 only law him about five minutes on that occasion ; I w ant to the Mansion Douse to ace a gentle man; I met Smith there; lie was acquainted with the gentleman I wished to see; South said hcnould give him any message if I would leave it with him; I commu nicated to him my business message and left hninodiately; alter leaving the hotel I thought of them Ildnes+ and rest lessnees exhibited in his deportment and concluded llama unsafe to commit toy business to him ; afterwards I left the message with another loudness friend. Jacob Hyland, sworn. I reside in Baltimore; AMA cominisston literal:tent; I know the defendant; hare known him about twenty years; his moral character WAS good, his natural disposition very kind; have seen good deal or Min during the twenty years I trek of ; RAW lira In Balthoure In July or August, P 35, ; about the 22i of July, I think; saw him previously, probably a year or Hl:meths ; I did not know him when w e met in July. lie looked •o o ild ; he HAS very much ema ciated—had fallen away a great deal, and was very wild; I mean the expression u: eount(inx[l4o ; L bonidet at the Mansion Hoene where he boarded; toy thrifty was in the cnuotty at the time; saw a great deal of him w bile there, kocw hie habits; very frequently he roomed with me; ho slept very ; I generally went to bed fled; I tried generally to 'mike hue go up with me; I tried to take control over hint ; lie seemed indisposed to go to bed , a hen he roomed with LIP he very frequently would got up In the night and commence talking about his diffi culty and I could tell hint to hush up; he would spring out of bed and commence arguing his difficulty with coo ; I would tell him to hush Up and go to bed again; this was a common thing with ham; I sat clear him at the table ; he ate very little at times; fre quently walked out with bite; I wade it my busi ness to be NN I tit him whoneaer I posaility could; from the appearance of the moo I thought he would go crazy; I saw him then In October, 1911. at the Morodun Holum and at my alike; he used to genie there; I used to take him from breakfast and after we had dined down to the oilier ; I talked to hint a good deal; he generally talked about the trouble and difficulty he had on account of his is ife. The court then took a recess tint 13 o'clock. tele nit was resumist Samuel Ford, sworn. I reside at North East; I know the defendant; have known him fromityouth up; I uses' him in the year 1857; saw him at North East in the latter part of August, and In Baltimore subsequent to that tone ; I had seen him In the latter part of September or early port of October, 1850; he then looked cheerful, lively and guy, as he usually was ; In August, ISST, when I Kee IWO, I obaervel a very groat change In him. indeed, so much so I would not have recognised hint had I met him on the :street In the city; his countenance was changed, his appearance was haggard; I know of no other sold to ex mess ea LitiPrs in his loots, e wild unsettled explestien in his I'3 , never saw It:in have this e x pression before ; his actions to ere reitle,e ; could not keep Ithuself quiet; it scan sery Leith so seemed vary much disturbed and excited; I converse oath hint du ling the afternoon of the day he arrived, the es using, that night, and next morning; lair I,rinci pal talk sent the rubjectof his misfortunes; this mar the burden of lain conversation, exclusively on Ibis one thing ; hie manner mire notch were vehement and ex cited than usual, very much more no; I tray I coot] on• slly to divert lily mind rope that subject; I Wan not successful; the would net convert.° on any other subject for name than a fir memeets ; has neettlett as if ho one all a state of mental tottering, not physically; I leapt with him that night at my father'a house; he del nut sleep quiet, but quite the reveree ; I doubt if ho slept any that night, irony, very tattle , be Iraflelel/InUall) We me, and runt t Ned; t m at not awake any time that he mar not au aka anal wanted to talk about this auhjeet ; would rouse up ambient:. , take the clothes off of me, amgo on to another pert of the same subject; he told me he had not slept (tau night before. I wan confident he was insane, and it PM the subject Of re, la.trk by all 1010 PAW halal he was insane Croon•exemined by Ihstrict Attorney Mann—Thi, was in August, can't say if I atm him in :froth East ;Utter manta, but I alit iu Baltimore, and ley opinion was the Sate°, salt hien frequently there ; the latent war donna; the whole of the month of September; he was with Mr. Ryland then ; don't knot if he attended to hotline-a; can't state a he/ tag Cenrereat lons were; they Store on lain gettinga did twee and his misfortunes; I cannot repeat areitimees Admit tee used; cannot state bit 131,BalagA can't remember What hu eell that Light ultra lie War awake ; I en havered to get him to sleep ant Lot alint, mo, end let mi. sleep; leis answer I don't remember, don't recollect whet lie said about the elivoece ; the rambling, wild and Incoherent uterine, of his language mode me think him insane; I thought from the l enguage that he was lonalle; nay general toime•sion was that lie Way insane, anal fur this reason I did not take pain, to recol lect whet lie said, This Dupers...ion mate en my mind m hen I first looked at him, I funned Oil. impresrien m lien I first 01st him, and it 11,1coutlented by her cornea - notion, anal took nit paint to ieculleet has cons taratieti ; this was part of the reason; his whole timelier and de meanor, his wildne,s, Incoherency. &c., was another rea son; hie conversation was generally Cal kir tillerre; lie did not converse reasonably on this subject, but I cannot tell noything unrensonable he Arid Alexander lkL I erni. Boom —I ant a fanner; 11,0 In Cecil county, ,Marylatel , 1 kites Small, and hate I. nom n hien since u bey ; his moral rharaeleT in good; 1 net er knew or heard of anytlitug scaliest ; 1414 natural dirponition I always considered Has very good, I saw plate in the latter part of September, ISST, in Baltimore; I caw him last before that in October ear September, 1855, et any house; he eroke of lair intended marriage tome; said he expected to get merriest Ant al ; /11/11111 not tell me to m hoin, and appeared delighted to tell me, anti teemed as if it was a secret he was tell ing me ho bed tint reveal to others; his smuts were v dry One I thought, I saw a peenliar thane° ht him When I saw him in Baltimore; he wee 111110 t thinner In cleat.; hie face was ettanr,ett, that is hi, countenance ; can't stay oho spoke Mot, but think I did; When he first approached the room nitero I was altt111;!, I got up upon my feet, mad me met each other, anal I shook hands there ; lila area around my shoulder, :sod wiped his eyes; then I invited limy to taken seat, and we sat dem it together, awl tee sold I suppose you have loot confidence in me; he risked me if 1 ,As hid it and then he spoke about obtaining a divorce.; I think me talked frouv'2,t4 to .1 hours; this etas in the Fountain Inn, Baltimore ; w kilo me were talking he would remark to me, and asked me if I believed the people knew abet he Nana ying ; those people \sere not near enough to hear what ho was saying; l think twice iu our cony ors:then he rose to lair feet, and threw up her countenanco, wrapped his coat around him, and I invited lion to act dean; raised his head, and Mopped it again; he seemed to peers the conversation to me 14.1 u secret, I believe he said three different tinier if I believed anybeely knew v. hat ho was talking about ; I ob.arved a tremor In hie frame; so much so I don't think Ile crake a wool tome fora minute; thin was Rhea Ile foot 'net me; I belies that his mloil wits uneound on the eubject of his trem bles; I folioed this opinion nit the thee ; tine is the last time 1 rate him Mt I saw him In prison. Crow-examined by District Attorney Mann.—l heel no way of ithigine. lain mind MOS 13011114 of other subjects., my impression NA as he conceited other people heard m hat be mos talking about; I considered this brae° ; We spoke in Is too tone of voice ; I knew t spoke lett ; be also spoke In a low tone of voice; our cons creation u arr pretty mocha this way; why lie adopted ties style I /All . t keel, nor can I say I done It to gratify him; I theught his desire was nut to be heard, and exhibited this ile•Ir0 by speakteg law; the people were from 55 to 40 feet from in lies shoe room; a room es ante ft 4 th is ettert 110t1,0; I mean the length; its w idth Urns 55 lest; I shouldjudge there mere Out few in at the time; it was the bar-room of the public house or at least the office; we tt et e in lint south corner, about thirty-live or fealty feet (rent the door; the !people were In the north corner; he astral me if 1 was his friend, in the manner he asked it I thought It strange, he related to me his troubles; and be asked me if I thought his friends would for sake him, nod if I was her friend ; I regarded this as an evidence of iusentty ; he would throw up and don pie CouutenaUCo: got up on bls feet, alt down again, TWO CENTS. and that Is the mum 1 regnrdod him as of unsound mind; lite Language I would regard alone Si an imileation of unsoucalseat of mind; I do not think • sonod-minded roam would ask toe If portion coukt hate blm who were some thirty fast off; the question la nasty ml; I thought he was very much incited; Inlets excited. I dld not think he would sal oath • question, I don't recollect the conversation, all of it; h• told nos with the consent of his friends he would go nod fight the Indians, If Its miter was by tax side; he did hot state when , 1 thought that laws.; don't know this was descriptivo of hie feelings, amt to the boat of mt recollections I don't think he said any thing clout his feeling., but 1 am trot certain tho conversation lasted some two and • halite three hours; he con tor.ed pretty much all tie time, he did nit say what ha was golog to do, I &Weed k:m; he had plenty of friends; 1 invited him to COW. and stay a Ith me, sod boar nit oat, hi. troubles, am} q¢k thinking about them: It fem.t to melt him do - vn ; hi. conatemme• • on 141111; helmet he had wade up hie mind to apply for divorce; I think he mid, it wan hi. settled purpos ; ho ',poke sonsethiag about the law ; sold some thing about reeldenea to reunaylvaula ; hie conversation waa on the obstacles thrown fa his way; I wee not very attentit e , and wanted to divert Idol mind from rt: it evens"! to b , ono straight subject he was talking h e would repeat things ever sod over shout his (titbit look ing at him In contempt mid nothing about his centrtahlp and marriage ; I never lesroed from him the whole story, I 111. not punitive if he asked me if I beard It; I suppose he thought I know all about It Re-examined by D. P. Drown bad always bomb's frici,d, sad thus when he naked me It attonlabed me ,• the people around could not hear Win; and It as amished me, from the fact of knowing the moo previous. Ilia going to right the Indiana also operated on my mind set I came to the conclusion of his unaoundaem of mind. Re.crow-examine.l by Loughead—The *Mule In the welt and south ends, from the door we were not over twelve feet John Janney swore—.l live in ?teeth Zane, Coeit comi ty, Maryland, aro a surveyor end ocinveya.neer i %poen Smith for twenty yams; he was quite a boy when I be come acquainted with him; saw hiss la Ample, 'SST, at ?forth East first time ; I ow bin lime lale marriage . I observed & very peculiar 'binge in him; be was at fret a fine looking young man, good countenance, clear ant expreaelve eye, and when I amv him again It was quite the reverse: ho ter emaciated. very yellow, end had a very peculiar tenuitmin &Mot his eye, a peculiar look about big eye; never silw him look %hie way before ; I spoke to him, be - rather spike to Me. for I dirt not boos biro when he smile to me; he souk.) to me by name ; say• lis It postible this IC Tom Smith; ble mower wee I mo the fecoant et re mainder of Torn Smith, I don't remember which. I knew nothioc oriels ildeculties. and inquired for the wel. fire of his wife; his response was I have,.. wife; this reepon.e and his doleful appeoranee canard me ark to my any thing more to him.. theta-mm:on : he wag egitat,4 very muck ; I euyipurre theillitlioitioolaad Tulle cum..; leaked him no more; I think h. thee asked me about the fetilee elution in that eounty soil State ; before puitilag n reply he was several step. Iron in, and when he MCA tack said I am done with politics forever. It was uo a porch at North bast; sail nothing' for him to. elm away In aught sullen manner; be caked about soma other per sona in the place but I don't recollect whom; at tinit my ein t at I mpreasion was be au mentally or pbysleal dormaged, sod the coneiroOon was I todierect him to . mentally deranged ; I have expremad MO. opinion conscious of his wife e dirgreee at that wag. I Warp Cross-examined by Ihetrict attorney kturee.- - -lierse not tt,r would not have mentioned It to hurl; be enklitha re mainder of Tom Smith 1 took it to M all:Kolar observe. bon; lie looked very sad, but spoke pitammtly; never beard him speak any other way be my lafe; Me fawner of speaking wee not pleaunt to me ; but it is herd to discri minate how it was with him. as I thought he iras not right, arid I felt l ` unhappy myself; I was *warned for bin health ; the ittLetion was for Governor ,• I attempted to tell him how It would go. but be moved *way; tried to tell him the State was safe for the Americium be ob *erred/mat afters lola he sea done with politico forever; be e, an a warm politician, and took a great Interest in lie politic, ; wo were political brethren; he gave na rea son for saying he woo done with politics. By District Attorney loughlad —This wan on tiro porch of the store. the last of Amorist; the convenation looted about IS or alii minute', and he manifested a great deal of unwearineve, and seemed to be restlere; I did not take a step that I know of; I may have stepped about, but du not recoiled; he was nerve., and excited. and it e as the manner of it nerve.. end excited man. Thomas Hughes, soon —I hoe in Baltimore , •in a I.olllElll,lton merchant; I hare 11,141ffel Smith for about 8 years; in March,lBs7, I raw him in Broadway, T. Y ; we reinamod at thu same libtel. and occuied the same room; an Incident occurred which showed hi, affection for his wile; I was lying awake. [Obleatrcl to by Mr. Mann, and otter argument, the Court orerruled the objec tion.] I heard him speak of the „happiness he enjoyed In his m ter bet life, and fo anticipate , ' joy, and happinem. not of having now an object to live for; on the follow. ing morning I saw him take from wider his pillow his wife's likeeess; he held it up, looked at it, then kismet It, and then again looked at it; I made a movement which I suppose attracted his attention, and be thou cemed to act in this way; e appeared In good health and spirits at that time; 1 next saw him in the latter part of July, ISI7. at the Mansion Moue, in the city of Baltimore; I observed a change In him; he had more hair or his face; was thinner In tub; I thought the general expresnon of his connte more was entirely different ; his eyes had a glaring appearance; an appearance different than ever I new betore in hie eye, I conversed with him; hie first talk was about the dilicnitlem otitis marred life; on every occasion In which I root, him he would talk about it ; I remarked n peculiarity ice his conversation ; it wu alas.) dlreettd to that imbiect; hie conversation gene rally vi as rapid; I noticed tranotioes In bee conversations on several mearione; I do not recollect the precise dates but it wee between the latter part of July and the 20th of October, 1e.57; nu ms mild speak of his intention of obtain ing a divorce, end he would then remark that he con sidered thin woman had never been, legally or morally, log n ife ; there were many things which at the time at tracted my attention, but which I cannot now distinctly I recollect; they attracted my attention front their tn cotMleateiee eith others—because they eeemed so dif ferent (tom any of his usual expreexione; I taw him very frequently between July and October; 1 saw blur the last time on the 10th of October. on lialtimore street, ler only a few minutes; he appeared to be laboring wider very great excitement; hie frame was agitated; his eyes then had a more unnatural expres alma than at any previous time I had .ern Lim; he write:teed his lawyer on genital occasions; mid he believed he was bribed by Mr. Carter; he maid some thing about even; on our eteallloll. after hie return from Washington, he staled he had been acceded in the e' trete , temode by a roan who vequeeked him to go to a public home tie,. the Avenue. a bleb lee refuse I to do; after lids return he told me that In believed him to be a Foy of Mr. Carter at the utile time lie related the cirenentance • I believed eteteini nt of the parte ha, for appraelmel hue. bat I belieeed that lien idea of lice party being a spy wee incorrect; en, opinion an to the gate of kin mind is—on some occeeiou, he appeared to be rational -sail calm. and on others very irrational mid excited; on the toot occasion I saw bun I believe he was unaiiittel: oath,' disposition wee ala aye kind an/ gentle; his moral Character hes been very goal throes-examined by Mr. elann.-1111 remarks about an appeicet ion for a divorce, end then In the same breath suing that he did not coaeidor her has wife,T&A. 1.400- eider, an incensieteney, I cannot at preeent think of any other; hie remarks were to the effect that the mar -rage wee a (mud; that was the impreeslon conveyed to lay mind; his language then Ina not very adj.% it van mixed up with other subjeetee e kdon't knew if he be wan mistaken when he raid n took that man is Weehutigton to be a spy; when lie Oral spoke of it I Intigh,d at Itim. end he appeared hurt; I said try and drive these morbid fancies from your curl. I de not recollect his anewer ; I die not b cheer he was capable of thinking sanely upon the sithie et of hes wife; I don't recollect anything he sod time a high-minded, honorable man would not have void bad he been so deceived in a wife; the only rupees- Flan he nerd wan "Come and take •drink ; 1 ' he ap proached me from behind and struck me on the shoulder: it was in a very wild yammer; I thought getuethiug wan troy in the expreemon and partly in the manner; ill the other interview before this one I have just spoke of, him remarks about the party at Waellitsgtua was etre Irrational; this opinion on his part was entirely different from whet I hal seen before. ea I renstelered him open and net trtl,plClollli ; I Wei,: that he hal become smpieium, in that the char.,a consisted; this was an element that mile up my imed that he was of un sound mind, I cannot roisill,t u tae iii• ceo , n of right any incident that amid throw arse II;ht the subject: cornet recollect e.ny time/melee , r calculated to give ale an opportunity of fermiee an opinion. at the time I lamt PAW tuna; I in not holiest , lie eat eel. - ble of Juilgine between righi and w rune o,' any subject; stealing might be roe of the exception:. I di not make it so or not so. I suppose be woe capable of knowing ant did know it was wrong to kiteal ; I bad knee n him about 8 pane; him educate:° templet,' before I 1 EWA bins I believe; tee th ^ //".t few rare 1114 itcqualiantice was ; Ido not he. revs he wan capable of Meerut that it ea! wrong to a` lll a man eguinst the law of the lurid, the rectums , a t under it hieh labor-it ea, too great to elle, him to tile thieuist, beta Len nclit and oiling in tilhoit ; such is my tielof, (mulled en his conduct; daring the Interview hi, conduct has such I male A leteteXl of e1m,0&44 in a ,fora in order to liner him: 1 was not with him then re than twouu mutes, I Lave not •aid he did not know it an, i rung to 1111 a inn, tall all Al; to his elicit...mut Lo could not judge between right and wrong; I do not think Ina :Med twee in such a con talon am to term an opinion as to whether. if he killed a mare he amid lie liable to arrest .11111 puoiehment : 1 believe that he could nut rellect Cro4s-ecatoined by Loo mead —I had born tolerably intimate u ith him for the last 4 or 5 'ear.; to one on with Lim at our twt interview ; he had not ben n drink- In,: to me knowledge; had he reeled and +taggered aboat I ihould bare thought he had been draiki:.; or if 1 hut emolt hgnor upon him, I may titre drat eats eater ; Iltntining rtrolizer , Ith, hen , lappal we on the shoulder hi nilkht hat e cant and come take drink, or imoinir to thAt ,•(frt; his wormer and appear mire indicated to rnr nasotio.lue,s of mind, or :Lu sati% Adjourned to }lender liT—C J ri , , W0"..1n ant, Knox and Thompson, Justices. George hi' 'mermen es the Lebanon Valley Railrcad Company el of A bill in equity woo tiled on Thursday last by the csinplalnant, an origirel stiekholler, on be half of himselt and much other stockholders am may choose to become partners to the Milt, against the com pany and it. directors and °fluor., to prtl cot the merg r lmtcoo.olidation of the company into the Philadelphia and licadine Itailroa Con.pany, under an net of Assein. lily of the Mb May. 1557, t'roeidi•g f or th e lion of the Lebanon Valley Railroad Company and the Phils lelphia and Rooliog Railroad Company '' The bill alleges that a good agreement hat been entered into between the directors and managers of the too companies, (made. am it afterwards appeared. on hth D,cember, 1b:.7,) which wan to be submitted to (AO of the ttoctihoblers on Monday, 11th January. ig;;S i MA if accepted by a intjortly of Totes east, (ea h share being entitled to coo Tc ted then a certificate cf the same, with a copy of the agtceraent. being filed to the obi, ..f the Pecretsry of the Comnumwealth, the merger and consolidation of the Lebanon \ alley Company into the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company was to be complete, and each stockholder in the Lebanon Valley Railroad Company woo to be•ome o stockholder in the Phdadelphin and Reading Rail road Company, and robject, so such, to all its liabili ties The bill then alleged that the said the Philadelphia and Rradmg Railroad Company, with small front Phila lelphi•t to Potts% ille, of a little more than ninety milee. had expended ay year age $10,163,161.00, of which nearly eight millions consisted of outstanding indebtedness. On bonds, mortgages, and other liabilities j and your orator 191111'011119d, and believes, that the said coin] any halo increased their liabilities, tome of which they hare Leon unable to meet, and have also placed another mortgage on their road to a large amount. to cove• former and present, and perhaps future iudebtednese. It is also alleged that the Phi's& ]phis and Reading Railroad Company, and the only of Reading, and t'•e borough of Lebanon, and, he believe , , the county of Lebanon, own or control a majority of the 'took of the said Lebanon Valley Railroad Cornoany ; and if it be true that the Philadelphia and Realing Railroad Conn olly Ins, s returned to the city of Reading their bonds, and hold their st..ck. amounting to 5200,000, your orator avers, and so charges. that, under the provisions of the and act, by an Lich each 9111111. to elatalt , l to one sae, and ft majority of votes so cast Is to bind all the stock holder', the two meetings and the two elections will 91119t111y decided and controlled by tine Philadelphia nod Ibuiding Railroad Company. and it would have been more to have rooted once that the 5 110, Linn should be submitted ro the stockholders of that company alone. The bill then alleged that the complaina❑t 11 - 11 9 in formed a n d so Inst. iteted, that the said act of the rah of May. 15:.7. to contrary to the principles of natural justice, In violation of the tir.,t article of the tenth section of the Constitution of the toiled States, and of the seventeenth section. and tenth section of the ninth article, and the fourth sect,on of the seventh article of the Constitution of the State of Perin<ylvanla, and that all proceeilino under it aye null and void. ey ithoat the unanimous c01.19011t of all the stockholdara of the whirl the Lebanon Valley Falleoad Company, and that your NOTICE TO CONJLESPONDINTS Oarraspied6sts Ito , g Tea hams " irli 3iimis Ms to alai lb* (oilmen rata lhory etemealesele• seat le seeemosakol 17 the 11•1.1 e of tar niter. Is 0121. c t, lawn. egeredzem at tbe typesT•Ay bat cue t.. 14 •1' • skeet sbeskt be writt.es spaa IV• alkali b• grikatiy °Weal to glatlasma la Poesarl nal' Sidi ether Ewan km asaterialiaaa fivtag Ur air raid sows of tSik ity is Matz partieder locattaaa taw naaarais et Um surrotattai imPastry, ths fasarai of popalatico, awl say isimemestaa that aiLl la latimbiabbe to Ma pails! Nair. crater has tarred apen the mit tmespaay his writhe preteen egtotort all settee ander the atld set •espy of .bleb whew, (matted DJ Le arantet team( mob p of this, his bill. art Antal:get other prayers. the till resumed sprayer Set a rmlivalthrl taiseeticee la these verde n had that the defendants, tht,r offiatni. seats lia4 serraati, wad awry of them. Lod all others acting Co. ores behalf of the,, or ei ther of theta, moy rentemmed by a pre liminary Wartime firm all h,thre or Mb os ae , hiw safer the said set of the ieh Rey, Mr. sad frees settler ay, or le any manage alleging that tier, sae a joint acritemsat of the demure mot mar.a.gere of the two rompanlee, or ~tint op the aura er heis, the them before as alleged retesting at La eat that they aad the iteethattera may reetrialitei by the said prelim:l~y injegartiSs tram knits; coil meetirg Da the tliD Jeans/9,lW e few the parietre of cow:twin the ass* or from acting to Soy way en:~ alleged joint scremant " A ~llea heroic bean made tar • pealiminary *Om ton, It 1.1. a Lawrie( by John M. Read. Ethave, fee the eemplainast, and by 8t Norge 1. Campbell tai Wil l:are hi iteredit • „ Esquires, for the 414(iindiatil, vith treat vtrcr and aninatou. a hoar(--c the altdaelt of the omplatomet sad t collate, anigewil at W. Ii (rota, oaf, of the directors of the eammany eat she the en - poet:tea/ant of the Philedelpiiht sad V.MLLI Railroad Company mem mad. The &rpm:rant fee the complainant vas that this .ad toalteration of the Lerma of the eettapeny [set eenteraplalang its heiag merrarbet and tato another mod with ettormemi habaLtlase eb*tiaa — i by all the ~Wow, both Zachnle mat Ansterials, ft ...I sot wi this the Fever of the directors ee at tie stock holder.. anem the. charter, to Whet It, sal that by all the Ametiath tensions, many of theca lain sal. leeted in two late aorta of wathowity—Pieres eta Baia ways, and Iteddeld ea Railways—the Ltrialidat• teal( eat tied it witteat the annaimmaa conerat et all the stoelthattere, Wag is direct emiabaa of the let artnie of the loth **cam of t h e Comatitatiaa at the Ncirri State*, no Stela shall paw thy *t La Impaimait thw b'iceliene of cant:recta — ant th e 1:11 meth= Um kith artlale of the Commitatista K PraskrylvvaArs, ',hie% says. " sof ear Law itspairtac ~trade Lid be made," aid Mu that.. tom refund." of say hIY %oft/ pftvAed. it .as a close viol:thee of the 19th sense of the same article ant the 41111 seethe of the Ith irtirgr. It was also entree that the owmpbethent, it seemems with the thy of Barham the bersegh of Latent. eat other stockholders who bed pallwi their stack. bad as farther liability Wire the chaster of tha lehanemit Tal ley Railroad Conapthloe, bat if they beenarett stelLhatet • "d." 811 act of Mb May, ISM at the Phinfietphth sad Reeding Raab-oat Compeer eiellk. natter the Uth Ape tion of he wig:event to tie PkiLdelphis sad But. my Railroad dewier. passed 51 rebreary. lall , dry be came Josatir bells dis par Lard, (reed 1.11 t40211:7 en..ee,. for elf tf.tti dm Pitithialpais mad Read ing Railiatet Company. tattradi.l altar the peas* at the last meat,or.el let, that is for all tebte ettatneeted daring the lest *early eight yenta, sad that maybe hereafter amtrahed This it rat cootoodol, no legislature malt fares seam the 'feet hoiden of &ay company% Os the part of the delendavta, it .ae wiped that tits was a SeLtSl 1,2411 C earparattcn, Tartals; easily of the ham* of a pielhenikip seal Snell ) mt. sod that a we. lorilY a rotes cast email thmfery motto! the mitherity. v inch. in this insta.s.ce. coneistvi of one ladleidisal. Itome also arysted that ilite vu a sumader et the corporate freocbfese sod property to the State, sod at, granted by Mr= to the Thiladefphisi sad Novi* tan. nod Ccaarany ; add thereeznit a iiejoray et wide ea matt vivre. It was ulna irunriatitd train etre c 4 thin juuryare of the ►lll. tie• Ranallair Railroad Cain pay alaoadd Logo beam tad* 1 parry; but this amend ixouatarial as tla present arrIIOIIZOL. oltardi did Dot Ltucho Mt relief esered for. The eourt, after a short denbersticra. ask that they del sot mean to decide this fluted°. wee: bat es it maid do So hum to allow the oreetray te>H hekll axd • moth tthee, tier merle an crier allevlay the same to be done, bat <hived** that the oestalleate thereat shenlet lot be d fed With the Secretary of the Cornamenweatth until the further ardor of the mart This we regard se o meet inryerrtaat cleat.= bp it the Legislature hare the power. as claimed by the de fent Into, then no man can - rah safety teem* a stock holder to any carrepany within Um Stethet Pennsilthnia GENERAL NEWS.. The Hamilton (C. W.) Spectator glees the fallowing sequel to the death of a young lady, the niece of a sheriff in Upper Canada, which loss chronicled a few days before. It seems that mu* gaited attachment was the cause of her melancholy end. One of the most deplorable eircumetancee connected with the sad story is, that the gentle. man to whom she was engaged did not int/zed the slightest insult or nakindems. He wrote to her, informing her of a change which ht had made in hit fitait ion, stating that he now received a cer tain amount tt salary. and asking her opinion as to the prudence of their getting married. Not en calving an answer, he went to Landon himeelf to converse with her upon the subject, and was met with the information of her tragie end. She was said to be the mad beautiful girt in the city. After she bed been buried a day or two, her corpse was frond lying on the nitrate of the soil in the churchyard. Some bodyntnambere had probably attempted their nefaziom designs. but bad fled, through superstitious fears or quail ing' of eoftscience. Iler remains were of course re-interred, and watch is to be kept several months near the grave. The disentombeaent not performed in a scientific manner. The whole affair is one of the saddest romances • hare heard of. A new invention tat been attached to the , steamship Moeea Taylor. recently ectranneted at New Tort. It is a valocimeire, or an appa ratus used for registering the speed cf a renal. The mechanism consists of a " dreg," which is at tached to the keel midway of the vessel, playing forward or backward in a 4%31E1-nal. This drag is ietlectel from its perper.dtetriar ;coition jest in proportion to the resistance of the water, which is. of oonrse. greater or leas as the vassal mares furor or Blower, and the amount of the defection is reg istered by a connecting rod on a dial-plate in the male cabin, which is capable et' recording ai kiwi& en hour, and 4'O a day. The correct time is given by,* chronometer. It le claimed, for the relr.ei metre that it will retard the distance from New York to Liretrol within a mile, wbereas by e other process can it be ascertained within fifty miles. The Paterson (N. J.) Guardian. advocates, at length, the immediate construction of a railroad from that city threegh Little Palls. Boonton. Powersille, to Dentine, on the M 01 1 .13 road, at e en:lilted to be of much benefit to the neighbor• log property, offering the most direct route to New York, and bringing Paterson eighteen miles nearer to the coal region than Newark, when the Morris road shall be extended to Easton, besides being of general advantage to the trade of Pater son. Not inlay wilco from the city of Baton, there is a young elergymay, who, attar attendizg to the spiritual welfare of his esagregation on Sun day, is to be found on Monday. and at intervals during the week. laboring at the wash-tub In a laundry, doing the sane work which is expected of any of the women employed in the establitheneut The industry of the young mss is doubtless lints- Me, but it seems to rt/ that he might obtain a more appropriate avocation. So says the Trarelltr. The last steamer from Europe brought letters from the Rev. Mr Prettyman. a eilssica ary of the Methodist Episcopal Church. residing at Ehneala, in Bulgaria, in. which that gentleman thus speaks of the price cf food in that place Shumla is the cheapest place to lire in we bare ever been in. A rood aired loaf of bread can be bought for one and a half cents. a chickeo for five cents, and eggs for two cents a dozen, do." ' The amount of water now discharged front the three-inch artesian well, at Charleston. South I.'arolin3, is twenty-ei g ht goons per minute. , r Fallon 3 Fen do.Y. It is believed that by the application of a from pump. this quantity can be increased to 300,000 gallons, and a committee of the Beard of Aldermen recommends that the expe riment Le tried. Meantime a well is now being bored twelve inches in diameter. A man name.l Griffith was killed at the steam SAW mill of Irwin 4 Ilyleman, in Burnside township, Centre county, Pa., cn the Minn. Ile woo empl , ved as fireman in the mill, and beesme entangled in the machinery, and was dreadfully ern and mangled. One of his let was torn from his body, and his skull was no badly crushed as to let a nt a portion of the brain. Be leaves a wife au l ft ttr children. . The following is an extract from a letter sent from , a minister in Illinois : .• Preachers feel the ,. hard :tines sensibly For taws than tan months I have not had a cent except what I re ceived for mart, Ing..and , marriage fees arenot very large in this .. e g,T n :, _Messrs. Banks St. 'selleY, associated together for four Tears pa,tandl , T , lrie , cm?! t h e c„ t h ow i ng elif their . har mony, e , o r e n 1 3 1e , e b opinion'' ate l,ve a pa vh- r : h •era d h " ic- ux t ed r. Briley re tiring A newspaper correspondml hating Lately visited the Siamese twins, puts 1 . 70 " . '' , 9 ~iP :7 l g que'e tion : Should Chang, POP of the twins, "-nng the laws laws by something worthy of death, binbe be punished and . ivtree be satisfied, if it • .°D '" not be without the death of the innocent. Orlando Hunter has just recovered a ITN!'" of 57.000 against the Green Bay, Chicago and MN' waukee Railroad Company, in the Racine Court, for the devil of his father, who was killed about two Tears aga by the train running out frou Chicav, Illin J:9. A correspondent of the ..1f ancheeer (N. )i.) ror stys that an Englishman of wealth, wi"l - any relations in this country, died at New Or leans a short time since, bequeathing all his pre, perty, estimated at from $40,000 to ,Sao,oi 3 O, to the wife of a peunyleas and unemployed mechanic cf Manchester. An engineer, named Wilhelm, employed in the mill of the Ilesars. Shoenherzer, at Allegheny city, Pa was killed t.n Thoraty last by heirs; caught in the machinery. lie leases n wife an I three children. The New Brunswick (N. J.) Rubber Com pany hwe deposited in the police station hcuse in that city, rubber boots and shoes for the travelling poor we" are destitute or in need of them. A difficulty took place in Stevensville, Wil kinson county, Ga., a few days since, between Gen James B Bostwick and Mr. Allen. The latter was shot and flied in a few minutes. It is estimated that the State of Illinois has produced two hundred and eight million bushels or grain this season—morn than ten bushels for each man, woman, and child in the United State.' A widow lady, named Crow, residing at Pottsville. Pa., was accidentally killed by a pi-tol in the bands of William Worm. on Thursday la,t Thomas Sheridan has been convicted of murder in the second degreo at Pittsburgh, for kill. ing Conrad Thieman. Mr. Benjamin Treat, of SonthriPe, Conn., boa lost several cattle I Itely. They were poisoned by licking the off a newly-painted inrn. To put a new set of boilers in cne of the Collins steamers costs about 3110.01. ama this mast be .lone every six years. Mr. Daniel Ti. Grooch, of Melrn4e, hat been elected member of Coneren from Massachu setts, in place of Governor Banks On Wednesday last the Gettysburg (Pa.) railroad was formally opened as far US New Ox ford. T. Burr, Jr., Esq.,eilitor of the Wilmington (N. C.) Herald, died on Tneiday. The magnetic telegraph line betweenßead leg and liarriaburg is now in operation.
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