RATES OF ADVERTISING. Poor lines or lees oonetitate half a spars. Ten UM Cr more than four, constitute* square. nlifiCtomoollY— 80.25 One aq., one day " one west.— 1.00 gg one week. —. 1.21 4‘ 8.00 u one month.. onesmith_ 2.00 .. u th r ee sien tB l . 8.00 cc three month s. 6.00 sixmonthe.... 4.00 g 'six months. B.or 14 ono raiz_ coo g , one year.— 10.00 Thlableril notices inserted in the LOCAL MM. or tam marriages and dea ths, nem Cairn rsa tans for iametkaL sters hastiouid others advertietngbytheyear Mberattei in will be offered. Er The mun esrofinaertiona most be designated on the inertieement. m arr i a ges and Deaths will be Inserted at the lame sac iegn ur Advertisements. Books, Stationerp, Su. QCHOOL BOOKS.—School Directors, I . Teachers, Parents, Scholars, and others, in want of School Books, School Stationery, &c., will find a complete assortment at B. M . POLLOCK & SOWS BOOK STORE, Market Spare, Harriaburg, comprising in part the follow- 'v im) ERS.—MeGnffers, Parker's, Cobb. AsVIPs SPELLING BOOKS.—MeGuffey% Goth's, Webster's, Tomes, Ilyerly's. Oombry's_ ENGLISH GBAKILIBS.—BoIIion% Smith's, Wood bride's, Monteith,s, Tuthill', Hart% Wells'. BISTOBISS.--Grimehaw's, Davenport's, Frost's, Wil son% Willard's, Goodrich's, Pinnock , s, Goldsmith's and Marrs. JUSixtustariC , l3.--Greenlesra, Stoddard's sEmerson's, Meals, Roesis, Colburn's, Smith and Duke's, bavie'e. ALGHBRAL—Greenleara, Davis's, Day's, Hers, 1112 V. • ITlONARTlL—Worces*er's Quarto, Academic, Com prehensive and Primary Dictionares. Waiters nohow, Cobb's, Walser, Webster's Primary, Webster's High School. Webster's Quarto.. Academic. NATURAL eaThOSOPHLRe.--elomstocles, Parker's, Swift's. The above with a great variety of others can at any time be found at my store. Also, a complete assort ment of School Stationery, embracing in the win le a com plete outfit for school purposes. Any book not in the store. preened at one days notice. Er Country Merchants sapplied at wholesale rates. ALMANACS.—John Baer and Son's Almanac tor sale al N. POLLOCK & SON'S BOOR STOGY, Harrisburg. Wholesale and Retail. aryl PHOLSTERIN. 9- . C. F. VOLLMER Is prepared to do all kinds of work in the 17PROL STE RING BUSINESS. Pays particular attention to MAKING AND PUTTING DOWN CARPETS AND REPAIRING MAN TRAS/IBS, REP AIRINGMAKING FURNITURE, Itc., &c. He can be found at all times at hie residence, in the rear of the William Tell louse, corner of Raspberry and Black berry alleys. sep29-dly LETTE R, CAP, NOTE PAPERS, AA Pens, Holders, Pencils ? Envelopes, Sealing Wan, of the best quality, at low prices, direct from the mann factories, st mar3o SCHREYER'S CHEAP BOOKSTORE LAW BOOKS ! LAW BOOKS !!-A general assortment of LAW BOORS, all the State Reports and Standard Elementarj Works, with many of the old English Reports, scarce mad rave, together with large assortment of second-hand Law Books, at very low prices, at the oree price Booketore ef E. IL POLLOCK Sr SON, na yS Market Square, Harrisburg. Atlistellantous. • AN ARRIVAL OF NEW GOODS APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON! SILK LINEN PAPER FANS! FANS!! FANS!!! incases Awn smisnin Lor or SPLICED FISHING RODS! Trout Flies, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grams Lines, Silk and Hair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment of FISHING TACKLE! • armee TAMMY OP WALKING •CANES! Which we will sell as cheap as the cheapest! Silver Head Loaded Sword Hickory Fancy Canes! Canes! - Canes! Canes! Canes! KELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE, no. 91 MARKET STREET, South side, one door east of Fourth street je9. WE. OFFER TO C - USTOMERS_. LADIES' PURSES, Of Beautiful Styles, Embstantiallf made A splendid Assortment of GENTLEMEN'S WALLETS. A New and Elegant Perfume, KNIGHTS TEMPLARS' LBOQUET, Pnt up in Cut Glass Engraved Bottles. A Complete Assortment of !HANDKERCHIEF PERFUMES, Of the beat Manufacture.' A very Handsome Variety of POWDER PUFF BOXES. lzw.LT RR'S DRUG STORE, Jen 91 Market street ,CANDLESII! PARAFFIN CANDLES, SPERM CANDLES, - - STEARIN E CANDLES, ADAMANTINE CANDLES, ciumicAL SPERMCANDLES, STAR Wynnton) CANDLES, TALLOW CANDLES. A invoice of the above in store; and for sale at surmsy low rates, by WM. DOCK, 7a., & CO., janl Opposite the Court House GUN AND BLASTING IJOWDER. JAMES M. WHEELER, HARRISBURG P . AGENT .FOR ALL POWDB-B, AND FUSE MAIIIIFIBTURBD BY I. E. DUPONT DE NhIMOURS & CO., WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. 1E4.'1 large supply always on hand. For sate at manu iseturees priced_ Magazine two miles below town_ 117. Orders received at Warehouse_ nol7 TIIST RECELVI+IO—A large Stock of SCOTCH ALES, BROW STOUT and LONDON TORTER. For sale at the lowest rates by JOHN H. ZIEGLER, 73 Market street. jan.ll S 1111 FI S Hll,l F MACKEREL, (Nos.l, 2 sA and 3.) LmoN, (very superior_) STEAD, (Mess and very fine.) HERRING, (extra large.) COD FISH. SMOKED 'HERRING, (extra Digby.) SCOTCH HERRIN G. SARDINES AND ANCHOVIES. Of the above we have Mackerel in whole, half, quarter sad eighth bbls. Herring in whole and half bbls. The entire lot new—DIRECT FROM THE FISHBRIES, and will sell them at the lowest market - rates. Sepl4 WM. DOCK, .Tn., de CO. ThOW KY WOOD! 1-A SUPERIOR LOT ud 'b received, and for sale in quant t WHEELER to Emit pur- chasers, y JAMES M. Also, OAK AND PINE constantly on hand at the Dowest prices. dcc6 FAMILY BIBLES, from 10 to *lO, strong and handsomely bound, printed on good paper, with elegant clear now type, sold at mot= 80FIEFFIIIVS Cheap Booluttwe. BOIIRBON WHISKY.—A very Supe rior Article of BOURBON WHISKY, in quart bot tles, in store and for sale by JOHN , II. ZIEGLER, mars 73 Market Street. ITARRISON'S.HOUSEHOLD SOAP. 50 BOXES OF THIS PERFECT. SOAP. For sale at Manufacturer% prces. A. ROBINSON& CO. mar° TTAVANA ()RANG - ES !I ! A prime lot Just received by oc3o. WM. DOCK, Ja., fr, Co. WI a onperior and cheap TABLE or .2. SALAD OIL go to KELLER'S DRUG STORE: .T" Fruit Growers' Handbook—by WAKlNG—waolessip and retail at mahal 80 IT ERIFERni Bookritnre. 'PERM eA.NDLES.—A large supply m,.. just received by yin DOGS. Jx.. & 00. GARDEN SEED 1.11-A FRESH AND COUPLET& assortment, jut received and, for sale by Egin Vol. DOCK, TL, & CO. CIRAbi 13E RRIES ! !—A SPLUDID LOT 1 - 0 mat reeeived by octie PRANBERALIES--A very Superior lot NJ at ooze.] WM. DOOK, Js. & COI WM. DOCK. Zs-, & CO - • \•• - \i.777:-- , • atr iot • -.:1. 11 '1111714 • • ..1;111 , 1 ' - VOL. 3. tin:o of Zrauel. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. SUMMER TIME TABLE. L.,,.,._,,N-.1 I- .r.j" „ir7F: - ' 77:77777- g r.: 4o e;';•• . ' 7 - _ - 17, 4111111, a 7 - Al•Slar. Cr 111 I j tI i i 1I II I II": ON AND AFTER MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1861, The Passenger Trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will depart from and arrive at Harrisburg and Philadelphia as follows : EASTWARD THROUGH EXPREaS TRAIN leaves Harrisburg at 1 15 a. in., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 5.10 a. m. FAST LINT leaves Harrisburg at 6.20 a. m., and ar rives at West Philadelphia at 10.05 a. in. FAST MAIL TRAIN leaves Harrisburg at 1.15 p. in., and arrives at West Pbiladelphiat at 5.10 p. m. These Trains make close connections at Philadelphia with the New York Lines. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, No. 1, via Mount Toy, leaves Harrisburg at 7.30 a. in., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 12.30 p. m. HARRISBURG ACCOMMO s DATTON TRAIN, via Co. lumbia, leaves Harrisburg at 4.10 p. in., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 9.25 p. m. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, No. 2, via Mount Joy, leaves Harrisburg at 4.20 p.m., connecting at Dillerville with HARRISBURG ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, and :knives at West Philadelphia at 9.20 p. m. WESTWARD, THROUGH EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Philadelphia 10.45 p. m , Harrisburg 3.05 a. in., Altoona 8.05; arrives at Pittsburg 12.40 p. m. MAIL TRAIL leaves Philidelphia 7.30 a. in., Harris burg 1.10 p. m., Altoona 7.05 p. m. , and arrives at Pitts burg 12 20 a, in. PAS LINE leaves Philadelphia 11.45 a. in., Harris burg 4 05 p. m., Altoona 8.40 p. m.. and arrives at Pitts burg 1 00 a. m. HARRISBURG ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves Philadelphia 230 p. m., Lancaster 6.05 p. m., Columbia 6.40 p. m., and arrives at Harrisburg 8.05 p ni. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves Philadelphia 4.00 p. m., Lancaster 7.44 p. m., Mount Joy 8.28 p. m., Eliza bethtown BAB p.m., and arrives at Harrisburg 9.45 p. m. Attention is called to the fact that passengers leaving Philadelphia 400 p. m. connect at Lancaster with MOUNT JOY ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, and arrive at Harrisburg at 9.45 p. m. ' SAM'L D. YOUNG, Supt. East. Diu. Penna. R. R. Harrisburg, April 12, 1861.—dtf ITEW AIR LINE ROUTE T 0 NEW. YORK. • Shortest in Distance and Quickest in Time ' BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES OF, NEW YORK AND HARRIBBIIEG, VIA READING, ALLENTOWN AND EASTON MORNING EXPRESS, West, leaves New York at I a. in., arriving at Harrisburg at - Ip. in., only 6 hours between the two cities. MAIL LINE leaves New York at 3214 noon, and as rives at Harrisburg at 8.15 p. in. MORNING MAIL LINE, East, leaves Harrisburg 8.00 a. in arriving at New York at 5.20 p. m. AFTERNOON EXPRESS LINE, East, leaves Harris burg at 1.80 p. m., arriving at New Yoik at 9.45 p. m. Connections are made at Harrisburg at 1.00 p. m. with the Passenger Trains in each direction on the Pennsylva silt, Cumberland Valleyand Northern Central Railroads All Trains connect at Reading with Trains for Potts. trills and Philadelphia, and at Allentown for Mauch Chunk, Easton, &c. No change of Passenger Cars or Baggage between New York and Harrisburg, by the 6.00 a. in. Line from New York or the 1.15 p. in. from Harrisburg. For beauty of scenery and speed, comfort and acconi medation; this Route presents superior inducements to the traveling public. Fare between New York and Harrisburg, FIVE DOLLARS For Tickets and other information apply to J. J. CLYDE, General Agent; dels Harrisburg. 11HILADELPHIA AND READING RA ILR 0 Arlo WINTER A'RRANG.EMENT. ON AND AFTER DEC.' 12, 1860, TWO PASSENGER. TRAINS LHA.V.2 RARRISBURG DAILY, (Sundays excepted,) at 3.00 A. M., and 1.15 P. 51., for Philadelphia, arriving there at 1.25 P M., and 6.15 P. M. RETURNING., LEAVE PHILADELPHIA at 8.00 A.M. and 3.80 P. M., arriving at Harrisburg at 1 P. M. and 8.10 P.M. FARES To Philadelphia, 40. I•Care, $3.25; No. 2, (1* same train) . 32.75. • , • FARES ReadjuP; $1.60 and $l.BO. At Reading, connect with trains for Pottavige, Wines vile, Tamaqua, Catawissa, &c. FOUR TRAINS LF,AYE READING FOR PHILADRL PHIL DAILY, at BA. M.,10.45 A. M.,12.80 noon and 8.43 P. M. LEAVE PHILADELPHIA ROE READING at 8 A. ii.j.oo 8.80 2. Di., gad 5.00 P. FARES:—Reading to' Philadelphia, 31.75 and $1.45. THE MOBBING TRAIN FROM HARRISBURG CON NECTS AT READING with up train for Wilkeabarre Pittston and Scranton. • For through tickets and other information apply to ' J.J. CLYDE, dels.dtf General Agent. PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILROAD. REDUCTION OF PASSENGER FARES, ON AND AFTER MONDAY, APRIL 2, IE6O COMMUTATION TICKETS, With 20 Coupons, will be issued between any points desired, good for the holder and any member of his family, in any raDBODgOr train, and at any time—at per cent. below the regular fares. Parties having occasion to use the Road frequently on business; or pleasure, will find the above arrangement convenient and ernoomioal; as Four Passenger trains run daily each wsv between Reading and Philadelphia, and Two Train , i'v' v between Reading, Pottsville and Harrisburg. 0 , Svriart, onlyone morn ing train Down. and one &igen Crr train Up, rang between Pottsville:m.l philaelphi• aai eo Passenger train on the Lebanon Valley Brerr, Railroad. For the above Tickets, or 'any Information relating theretr apply to S. Bradford, Req., Treasurer,Philadel phia., a the respective Ticket Agents on the line, or to R. A. NICOLLS, General Supt. Maven 27, 1860.—mar22-dtf NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY. NOTICE. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. SPRING ARRANGEMENT. ON AND AFTER. FRIDAY, MARCH lsr, 1861 the Passenger Trains of the Northern Central Railway will leave Harrisburg as follows GOING SOUTH; • ACCOMMODATION TRAIN will leave at..S•OO a. m. EXPRESS TRAIN will leave at . 7.40 a. in. MAIL TRAIN , will leave at .. LOU p.m. GOING NORTE • MAIL TRAIN will leave at --.... 1.40 p. m. EXPRESS TRAIN will leave at...........p. m. The only Train leaving Harrisburg en Sunday will I e the ACCOMMODATION TRAIN South_ at SAM a. azi. For further information apply at the office, in Penn sylvania Railroad Depot. JOHN W. HALL, Agent. Harrisburg. March 14-dtf. • j al MD BEEF—An extra lot of DRLED „Ij BUY pint received by • un9 WM. DOCK, Jte., & CO. It WILING - TON HERRING I Tu4 recoiied by WM, POCK, k 00. ocl HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1861. Vatriot TUESDAY. MORNING. APRIL 23, 1861. THE LAST DAYS OF CHARLES 11. OF SPAIN. The prince on whom so, much depended was the most miserable of human beings. In old times he would have been exposed as soon as he came into the world, and to expose him would have been a, kindness. From his birth a blight was on his body, and on his mind. With difficulty his almost imperceptible spark of life had been screened and fanned into a dim and flickering flame. His childhood, except when he could be rocked and sung into sickly sleep, was one long, piteous wail. Till he was ten years old his days were passed on the laps of women, and he was never once suffered to stand on his rickety legs. None of those tawny little urchins, clad in rags stolen from scarecrows, whom Murillo loved to paint beg ging or rolling in the sand, owed less to edu cation than this despotic ruler of 30,000,000 of subjects. The most important events in the history of his kingdom, the very names of pro vinces and cities which were .among his most valuable possessions, were unknown to him. It may well be doubted whether he was aware that Sicily was an island,, that Christopher Columbus had discovered America, or that the English were not Mohammedans. In his youth, however, though too imbecile for study or business, he was not incapable of being amused. He shot, hawked and hunted. He enjoyed with the delight of a true Spaniard two delightful spectacles: a horse with its bowels gored out and a Jew writhing in the fire. The time came when the mightiest of instincts ordinarily wa kens from its repose. It was hoped that the young king would not prove invincible to female attractions, and that he would leave a Prince of Asturias to succeed him. A consort was found for him in the royal family of France, and her beauty and grace gave him a languid pleasuie. He liked to adorn her with jewels, to see her dance, and to tell her what sport he had had with his dogs and falcons. But it was soon whispered that she was a wife only in name. She died, and her place was supplied by a German princess nearly , allied to the im perial house. But the second marriage, like the first, proved barren, and long before the king had passed the prime of life all the politi cians of Europe had begun to take it for granted in all their calculations that he would be the last descendant in the male line of Charles V. Meanwhile a sullen and abjeCt melancholy took possession of his soul. The diversions which had been the serious employment of his youth became distasteful to him. He ceased to find pleasure in his nets and boar spears, in the fandango and the bullfight. Sometimes he shut himself up in an inner chamber from the eyes of his courtiers. Sometimes he loitered alone, from sunrise to sunset, in the dreary and rug ged wilderness which surrounds the Escurial. The hours which he did not waste in listless indolence were divided between childish sports and childish devotions. He delighted in rate animals, and etili.morein dwarfs. When nei ther strange beasts nor little men could dispel the black thoughts which gathered in his mind, he repeated Ares and Credos ; he walked in processions ; sometimes he . starved himself ; sometimes he whipped himself. At length a complication of maladies completed the ruin of all his faculties. • His stomach failed; nor was this strange, for in him the malformation of the jaw, char acteristic .of his family, was so serious that he could not masticate his food, and he was in the habit of swallowing.ollas and sweetmeats in the state in which they were set before him. While suffering from indigestion he was attacked by ague. Every third day his convulsive trem blings, his dejection, his fits of wandering, seemed to indicate the approach of dissolution. His misery was increased by the knowledge that everybody was calculating how long he had to-live, and wondering what would become of his kingdom When he should be dead. The stately dignitaries of his household, the phy xicians who ministered to his diseased body; the divines whose business it was to soothe his not less diseased mind, the very wife who should have been intent on those gentle offices by which female tenderness can alleviate even the misery of hopeless decay, were all thinking of the new world which was to commence with his death, and would have been perfectly wil ling to see him in the hands of the•embalmer, if they could have tieen ceitain thathis Succes sor would be the prince whose interest they espoused. f" In a very short time the king's malady took a new form. That he was too weak to lift his food to his misshapen mouth; that at thirty seven he had the bald head and wrinkled face of a man of seventy ; that his complexion was turning from yellow to green; that he fre quently fell down in fits, and remained long insensible—these were no longer the worst symptoms of his malady. He had allifiysheen afraid of ghosts and demons, and it lad 'long been necessary that three friars should watch every night by his restless bed as a guard against hobgoblins. But now he was firmly convinced that he was bewitched, that he was possessed, that there was a devil within him, that there were devils all around him. He was exercised according to the forms of his church, but this ceremony, instead of quieting him, scared him out of almost all the little reason that nature had given him. In his misery and despair he was induced to resort to irregular modes of re lief. His confessor brought to court impostors who pretended that they could interrogate the powers of darkness. The devil was caled up, sworn and examined. This' strange deponent made oath, as in the presence of God, that his Catholic majesty was under a spell, which had been laid on him many y ears before, for the purpose of preventing the continuation of the royal line. A ding had been compounded out of the brains and kidneys of a human corpse, and had been administered in a cup of choco late. This potion had dried up all the sources of life, and the best remedy to which the pa tient could now resort would be to swallow a bowl of consecrated oil every morning before breakfast. Unhappily, the authors of this story fell into contradictions which they could excuse only by throwing the blame on Satan, who, they s'tid, was an unwilling witness, and a liar from the beginning. In the midst of their conju ring the inquisition came down upon them. It must be admitted that if the buly office had reserved all its terrors for such cases, it would not have been remembered as the most hateful judicature that was ever known among civilized men. The subaltern impostors were thrown into dungeons. But the chief criminal contin ued to be master of the king and of the kingdom. Meanwhile, in the distempered mind of Charles one mania succeeded another. A longing to pry into those mysteries of the grave irom which human beings avert their thoughts had long been hereditary in his house. Juana, from whom the mental cGnstitution of her pos terity seems to have derived a morbid taint, had sat, year after year, by the bed on which by the ghastly remains of her husband, ap parreled in.the rich embroidery and jewels which he had been wont to wear while living. Her son Charles found an ementrio pleasure in celebrating his own obsequies, in putting on his shroud, placing himself in the coffin, cov ering himself with the pall, and lying as one dead till the requiem had been sung, and the mourners had departed, leaving bim alone in the tomb. Philip /L found a similar pleasure in gazing on the huge chest of bronze in which his remains were to be laid, and especially on the skull which, encircled with the crown of Spain, grinned at him from the cover. Philip IV., too, hankered after burials and burial places, gratified his curiosity by gazing on the remains of his great grandfather, the emperor, and sometimes stretched himself out at full length, like a corpse, in the niche which he had selected for himself in the royal cemetery. In that cemetery his son was now attracted by a strange fascination. Europe could show no more magnificent place of sepulture. A stair case incrusted with jasper led down from the stately church of the Escurial into an octago situated just beneath the high altar. The vault, impervious to the sun, was rich with gold and precious marbles, which reflected the blaze from a huge chandelier of silver. On the right and on the left reposed, each in a =Say sarcophagus, the departed kings and queens of Spain. Into this mausoleum the .king descended with a long train of courtiers, and ordered the coffins to be unclosed. His mother had been embalmed with such consummate skill that she appeared as she had appeared on her deathbed. The body of his grandfather, too, seemed entire, but crumbled into dust at the first•touch. From Charles neither the remains of his mother nor those of his grandfather.could draw , any signs of sensibility. But when the gentle and grace ful Louise, of Orleans, the miserable man's first wife, she who lighted up his dark existence with one short and pale gleam of happiness, presented herself, after the lapse of ten years, to his eyes, his sullen apathy gave way. ,"Lihe is in heaven," he cried, "and I shall soon be there with her ;" and, with all the speed of which his limbs were capable, he tottered back to the upper air. MURDER WILL OUR A young butcher, who lived with his mother near Smithfield Bars, was better known in the • ale-house in the neighborhood than he was in the market, and was generally accounted as great a rascal as was. to be met with out of Newgate. Cards and dice, drink and dissolute company, emptied his pockets of every groat, and the mother's slender resources. were con stantly drained to supply his vicious propensi ties. One night inflamed by liquor and losses at the gaming table, he cam) home, and look ing into his mother's room, found her asleep He had a suspicion that the money with which the grazier was to be paid, was hidden some where in the room, and creeping in as lightly as he could, be began to search the drawers, but found nothing but a steel, a blue apronand a butcher's knife. With the last in his hand he approached the bed where his mother lay asleep, and beneath her pillow caught sight of a leacher pouch ; he reached out his hand, seized it, and himself was seized. The poor woman grasped him tightly by the arm, and screamed for help. Not knowing who was her assailant, she screamed for her son—and that son silenced her cry for ever! With £2O in his possession he stole away from the house; hired a boat at Billingsgate to carry him to Tilbury, pretending he was going, to buy cattle at a fair in Essex. The boat pushed off, and he was never seen again. When the murder was • discovered in the course of the next day, suspicion was at, once excited that he had been her assassin. His wild course of life and frequent quarrels with his mother were well known ; the brutal threats he had been heard to utter, the desperate things he had been known to do, all assisted in fixing the guilt of the murder upon him ; but search was made for him in vain. He had been seen to enter the hdluse at Smithfield Bars ; he had not been seen •to leave it; but a person answering to his description had been observed at Billingsgate, and nothing further could be traced. Some people conjectured that he had escaped to foreign parts; others that he had fallen into the river and been drowned, but nothing was known with certainty for many years after. About eleven ye ars after the murder, two: watermen, named Smith and Gurney, were playing at a shuffle-board in .a tap-room.— Quarrelling over the game, incited to fury by the liquorthey had drank, they began to accuse each other of crime. " Be careful, Mr. Gurney, or I'll hang you' yet !» "Hang me !" retorts the other," there belt Jong cord and short shrift. for bo th of us." "I told thee no good would come of it; that to murder the fellow would be a safe road to . the gallows." "And I told thee that sharing the money and washing the boat was not a whit the better." These angry words collected - a crowd of idlers, who were drinking in the tap-room, and among them a parish constable, who immedi ately took both into custody. On the examination of the prisoners, it ap peared that the butcher, who took a boat . with 'them on the night of the murder, boasted of the moneyise possessed, and that they agreed to rob and murder him, and in this attempt they succeeded, stabbing the man, taking his money which they shared between them, and throwing the body overboard. On their own confessions, they were convic ted, condemned, and executed at Maidstone, and banged in chains a little above Gravesend. None of the butcher'e relations knew what bad become of him until this happened, but the fact was then established that the murder er, in his efforts to elude justice, had met a barbarous death, but that the instruments of his punishment were not allowed to escape, and also that by a strange and mysterious course of events they betrayed themselves, and were brought to justice. DISCOVERY OF MOUNTAINS IN AFWICA.-In England considerable excitement has been created among naturalists and geographers, by the startling discoveries recently made in Cen tral Africa by a gentleman now in London, Mr. Chaylion, a gentleman of mixed French and American blood, who, mailing himself of the facilities given by his position as son of a con- Maim officer near the Gaboon river, has pene trated across the African continent on the line of the equator, and has there discovered, in a densely wooded region, a range of lofty moun tains, (one peak calculated by him 12,000 feet,) which contain, according to his convic tion, the sources of the four great rivers of the African continent, the Nile, the Niger, the Zambesi, and the Zaire, or Congo. SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK.—The Russian Consul Killed.—Mr. Jno. C. de Nott beck, the Russian Consul for the port of New York, was instantly killed on Friday last. He was driving up Broadway in a buggy, accom panied by his wife, when near the corner of Pony-ninth street his horse became restive and fell. Mr. de Nottbeck was thrown from the vehicle, striking on the pavement, and taken up insen s ible. He was removed by the police into an adjoining station house, where he died. TILE WAR NEWS ! PROM NEW YORK Naw Youx, April 21.—Evening—The Rhode Island regiment, under command of Governor Sprague, one thousand strong, arrived here this morning, and left in the steamer Coatzacoaloos at sundown. The Sixth, Twelfth and Seventy-first New Yprk regiments, comprising 3,000 men, marched dowik Broadway to-day, fully armed and equip ped. The scene on Broadway was perfectly .unparalleled, and the march was a perfect ova tion. The crowd was estimated at nearly a million of people, who showered their blessings on the troops, and exhibited the wildest demon strations of patriotism. The Twelfth regiment embarked on the steamer Baltic, and the Seventy-first on the steamer R. R. Cuyler, which left at 6 o'clock, accompanied by the Revenue cutter . Harriet Lane. The latter sails under sealed orders, probably as an escort. The steamer, Columbia also joined the fleet, taking the Sixth regiment. The steamer Ariel will take the Third battal ion of rifles, of Massachusetts, and some regu lars. The , steamer Chesapeake took aboard 300 seamen, but returned them, the orders being countermanded. The harbor was a scene of great excitement as the fleet left. All the piers, landings. and housetops of this pity, Jersey City, Hoboken and -Brooklyn, were crowded. The battery was covered with people, and thousands of boats saluted the fleet as they started clown the bay. Flags were dipped, cannon roared, bells rang, steam' whistles shrilly saluted, and thousands upon Thousands of people sent up cheers of parting. • The steamers Monticello, Marion, James Ad ger and Roanoke have their steam up, ready to sail at a moment's notice. e The steamer Parks burg, and the steamers Florida, Alabama and Augusta, of the Savannah lines, have been chartered by the Government. . It is understood that the fleet. will rendezvous in the lower bay, and all start together in the morning. • • W. W. Leland, of this city, a large landholder of Texas, whose property there has been con fiscated, has 'been tendered and, accepted a Major's commission in the Engineer Corps, Ninth Regiment. Archbishop Hughes, in common with a great number. of other private citizens, has. suspen ded the Stars and Stripes from the w,indows of his residence. A large number of the most respectable citi zens of foreign birth are volunteering in addi tion to the regular Irish and German militia regiments. The same is true of New England. The Emmett ,Guard, of Worcester, Mass., is among the arrivals to-day. The sons of our most wealthy merchants, lawyers, judges and divines are enlisted in the ranks of the defenders of the Union. Each regiment which left to-day numbered nearly 1000 men. Tao; April 21.—General Wool will leave here to-morrow morning for New York, to make that city his headquarters for the Depart ment of the East. There was considerable, excitement at the Westervliet Arsenal to-day. SECESSION MOVEMENTS LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 20.—Ex-Vice Presi dent Breekinridge . addressed a large audience at the Court House this afternoon. He de nounced President Lincoln's Proclamation as illegal; saying that he - could not make his 75,000 men efficient till after the meeting of Congress. He. proposed that Kentucky should present hertielf to Congress on the 4th of July ,through her Senators and Representatives, and pi otest against the settlement of the present difficulties by the sword. Meanwhile, that Kentucky should call a Convention to aid her 'Congress men in.presenting such a protest. Should that fail, the honor, interest and duty of Kentucky unite her with the South. Governor Magoffin has not called a special session of the Legislature on the 29th inA., as reported in our newspapers. The'Proclamation has been diawn up, but not issued by the au thorities. A military alliance is about to be formed between this city and 'New Albany and Jeffer sonvillai Indiana, to preserve a peaceable status bet Ween the three cities and to, preserve amicable relations in any event. The Holm Guard for this city was organized this evening. MISSOURI , INDEPENDENCE, April 20.—At'ant early hour this utorning the arms and munitions of war held at the Arsenal, in Liberty, Clay county, were, at the demand of some citizens, given up. It is stated that there were 1300 stand of arms and ten or twelve pieces of cannon, and a con siderable amount of powder in the Arsenal. This will be distributed in Clay and the adjoin ing counties. Ninety stand of arms and a cannon• have been brought here. KANSAS CITY', Mo., April 20.—The Arsenal at Liberty, has been 'garrisoned by 100 men. A large secession meeting was held here to day, and thousands from the adjoining coun ties of Missouri and Kansas were present, A secession post was raised, and many prominent places were decorated with secession flags. Sr. JOSEPH, Mo., April 20.—The Secession flag was unfurled and carried through the streets to-day by a mounted company, after which it was raised on Market square, without disturbance or much enthusiasm. Considera ble, excitement is manifest,- and Secession is the' prexailing sentiment. THE NEW YORK UNION MEETING. NEW Yonx, April 21.—The Union meeting yesterday was attended by over one hundred thousand people. and there were half a million in the streets. The ,feeling was of the most enthusiastic character: The flag of Fort Sump ter was raised on the statue of Washington; the hand of the bronze statue of the Father of his Country grasping the shattered flagstaff. The Commercial Metropolis is a unit for the Union. FROM WASHINGTON The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald, writing under date of April 20, says: In the second patrol of Col. Cassius M. Clay's command I visited to-night, carbine in hand, the Capitol of the United States of America.. As we approached that magnificent edifice the prompt call of the sentry brought us to a halt;` but soon the conference of the officer in com mand of the patrol with the officer of the'guard, procured us admittance. As we arrived, two ladies, escorted by a gentleman, who were un derstood to be volunteet nurses for the mem bers of the Massachusetts regiment wounded at Baltimore, applied for admittance, though it was then past midnight. During the pirley between our officer and the officer of the guard, we had leisure to admir e the ample arrange ments in the way of barricades, which were mainly composed of barrel . of cement placed endwise, and piled up ten feet high between the immense marble piers and columns that. form the various entrances of the building.— Entering, we passed along its tessellated floors, sentries meeting us at every turn and directing us through all the devious approaches that led PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SuNDAve axosprzn, BY 0. BARRETT & 00 Ism DAILY PAT2IO, Awn ITllon will be served to anti scribers residing in the Borough's.? six OENTO PIS Wl= payable to the Carrier. Fail subscribers, revs nos. 1.418 Pit ANNUM. Sus Waanzir will be published as heretofore, semi weekly during the session of the Legislature, and once Si week the remainder of the year, for two debars in ad vance, or three dollars at the expirationef the year. Connected with this establishment fe ..en extensive JOB OFFICE, containing a variety of plain and fancy type, unequalled by anyestablishment in the interior of the State, for which the patronage of the public is so licited. NO. 198. us to our special object of search, the quarters of the Massachusetts regiment. We found' these tired and sleeping men in the Senate. Chamber, where were delivered the last national speeches of Mr. Jefferson Davis. The men, exhausted by four sleepless nights of travel, bad thrown themselves down to sleep, the moment they reached the building ; but a few of their officers and a surgeon of one of the Washing ton regiments, detailed to attend upon their wounded, gave us an account of the melee at Baltimore, substantially the same which your enterprising reporter had managed to forward for your columns, having, by virtue of his earnest representations, gained consent for its transmission from the army officer in charge of the Washington telegraph office, which had at an early hour been taken possession of for the exclusive use of the government. Besides the Massachusetts regiment who were relieved from guard duty, the Pennsylvania troops were posted in the Capitol, and also one company of United States artillery. Alertness and discipline seemed to prevail at every point. We found these soldiers in the most magni ficent quarters in the world. They ascended starcases lined with heavy wainscots of the marble of Tennessee. They traversed corridors where the eloquence of the noblest orators of the Republic, dead and living, had daily re sounded. Ceilings, rich with all the magnifi cence of the decorator's art, were above their beads, and from the walls looked down upon, them the counterfeit presentments of the heroes' of an earlier age of the Republic, who little dreamed that their countrymen should behold: a scene like this. With the reflections which such , aspectacle inspired, our patrol (made up of gentlemen of education and culture who could appreciate its historic aspect,) returned to our quarters in the Peace Congress Hall, at Willard's Hotel: There we found some hundreds of our comrades under arms, enjoying, as we arrived; their ra tions of coffee and biscuit. Soon a reporter of the Herald—a corps which seem to be übiqui tous—came in and relieved the monotony of the watch by detailing the latest news of war-. like import We maintain our guard till morn ing, but all feat of a sudden dash of . marauding thieves upon the capital to-night is dismissed from our minds. It is protected in every di rection, and scouts hourly arrive with reports of every symptom which 'can be tortured into a hostile demonstration. There are ample troops now here to protect the city against any possible attack which can be made upon it by any forces the enemy can immediately concen trate. Depend upon it, Washington is for the present safe, and with the troops mow rapidly concentrating upon it, it will be held against all the devices of a set of ingrate rascals who, for the devotion they owe the republic, substi tute thievery, treachery, bad faith and rascality on a scale as large as their pretensions and as mean as their performance. LANDING OF THE FOURTH REGIMENT OF MAO &WILL-SETTS VOLUNTEERS AT FORT MONROE TUCrBOATS LYING IN WAIT FOR THE STEAMER. STATE OF MAINE-THE ESCAPES-DESTRUC TION OF THE BRIDGE AT OLD POINT COMFORT BY THE SECESSIONISTS, &C., &C. The steamer State of Maine, Captain Allen, left Fall River, Massachusetts, on Wednesday last for Fort Monroe, Virginia, with the Fourth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, consis ting of four hundred and seventy-one men, un der the command of Colonel Packard, on board. On her passage one of the men—a re cruit—died. It seems that the deceased had purchased a bottle of liquor from one of the boats that were flying around the ship. It seems that the 'villainous stuff had been adul terated with some strong kind of acid. The consequence was that he was poisoned. During the paroxysms arising from his fatal mistake, he stabbed himself with his bayonet, but the wound was insufficient to cause death, which' is attributable only to the use of the bad liquor. On Saturday morning, about four o'clock, the State of Maine arrived at Fort Monroe,. having had a pleasant passage all the way.— The troops were all landed to the great joy of the garrison at this timely reinforcement. On nearing her destination, it was ascertained ou board the steamer that four steam tugs were in waiting to capture her, upon which Captain Allen put out all the lights on board, and a friendly storm coming on at the time, the tugs bad to make a port at Smith's Island, while the State of Maine went up and landed, the troops. She left at twelve o'clock on Saturday, and reached New York at half-past ten yak'''- . day. When de steamer was about to leave, the commandant of Fort Monroe, anticipated trou ble, and proposed at first to put a gun on board of her; but he altered his mind, and telegraphed either to Washington or to Baltimore for a ves sel-of-war to act as convoy to the State of Maine; but before any assistance could arrive she had left. The secessionists had possession at the time of the entire shore to the west of Old Point Comfort, and they had cut away the bridge connecting the Point with the mainland, thus converting the Point into an island. At eleven o'clock on Saturday, just before the departure of the State of Maine, the steamer S. It. Spalding arrived from Boston with more troops. The garrison, before these reinforcements were poured in, consisted of some three hundred and twenty men. They were augmented to about twelve hundred by the troops taken On by the State of Maine and the Spalding. UM;2I.UJU.=a.i.S2MMUI=U s A CONCORD, N. H., April 21.—Ez-President Pierce made a most patriotic speech last night in favor of sustaining the flag and the Union at all hazards. The steamer. Louisiana arrived at Baltimore from Norfolk this (Sunday) morning, and brings intelligence that the Federal officers were de straying all the United States property at the Navy Yard, and that the United States steam ers Germantown, Merrimac, and other United States vessels, had been scuttled and sunk by order of the United States Government. • A Putow-CAsE.—The newspapers state that " Genaral Pillow otters to raise ten thousand men for the Government." Which side of the works will this scientific warrior take ? Re member his old achievement: " I hang my harp upon a willow . Whene'er I think of General Pillow, The man who dug for Polk and Marcy His ditch of breastworks vice versa." IMPORTANT.—The Charleston !Mercury, of• the 160, says several guns will be spared to North Caroline, in obedience to the request of Gov, Ellis, and will be forwarded immediately.--, There is one unfortunate quality South Caro lina possesses more than all others—that:of quarreling with her friends. She first fired upon the American flag, and now gives her neighbors on the north a cannon aid. A new mineral has appeared in England. called the Torbanehik coal—which is not coal, but bituminous schist, which gives seventy-five per cent. of tar oil, and is expected to come into general use. Frank Blair is a candidate for Speaker of the next Congress, with a prospect or an election GOVERNMENT VESSELS SCUTTLED