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:ALLENTOWN, PA.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1860
PETER C. HUBER is JOHN H. OLIVER
INDITORII AND .PROPNISTONII
TO ADVERTISERS
THE "LEHIGH REGISTER" HAS A LARGER
CIRCULATION BY SEVERAL HUNDRED
THAN ANY OTHER ENGLISH PAPER IN
THE COUNTY.
!OR GOVERNOR:
Col. Andrew G. Curtin,
OF CENTRE COUNTY
The Covode Investigating Committee.
Too great praise cannot be awarded to the
honest and fearless Representative in Congress'
from the Westmoreland District of this State,
the Hon. John Covode, for the zeal he has
manifested as Chairman of the Congressional
Investigating-Committee in dragging to fight
the corruptions of the present National Admin
istration. Mr. Covode was elected to Congress
in 1858 over Henry D. Foster, the present Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor, and although
a man of but an ordinary education, has dis
played all the acuteness of a proficient lawyer
in ferreting out wrong and corruption. The
• evidence shows, how the Government printing
watt given out at enormously high prices with
the_ understanding that the contractor should
use a portion of the profits in carrying impor
tant state elections. From this source alone
thousands of dollars Were derived to support
Democratic papers in the cities of Washing
ton and Philadelphia. George Plitt, Treasurer
of the Democratic State Central Committee of
the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1856,
testified that in the campaign about $70,000
passed through his hands, for party purposes.
Of course this is but a small portion of what
was expended in the State in the canipaign.
But of this amount we should like to know
what share came to Lehigh county:
A Mr. Wilk testified that two men, to his
knowledge, had been engaged in circulating
fraudulent naturalization papers, one of whom
was employed on the Columbia road, who has
sines found his way into the Custom House at .
Philadelphia, and another, who was rewarded
with a place, but is not now an office-holder.
Some of their confederates had been sent to
the penitentiary. Isaac Yost was closely ques
tioned in regard to these fraudulent naturali
sation papers. His testimony was of a char
acter to implicate several leading members of
the Democratic party in Pennsylvania with
this villainous business.
The full report of the Committee will be
submitted to Congress in due time, and the
people will have an opportunity to inspect it.
Copies of those portions of the testimony im
plicating the President were sent to him, in
order that he might have an opportunity to
defend himself, and although the resolutions
under which the Committee wore authorized
to act, plainly indicated that the conduct of
the President would be investigated, it was
only after the introduction of damaging testi
mony that vthe President saw fit to send his
famous message to the House, protesting against
the right of the House of Representatives to
conduct an investigation, if it should happen
to implicate hie official conduct. It is rumor
ed that the President has threatened to veto
any bill, authorizing the payment of the ex
penees of the Committee. This may prove to
be rather risky business, in as much as Con
gress in return may refuse to pass appropria
tion bills for other expenses of Government.—
If any plan could be suggested to stop the pro-
gross of the Investigation, we have not the
least doubt, 'but that the President would avail
himself of it. However, the truth must out,
and every honest-minded citizen must rejoice,
that such is the fact.
Removal of Attorney-General Vandyke.
lion. James C. Vandyke, United States At
torney-General for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania, was lately removed front office,
and George W. Wharton, Esq., an old-line
Whig until ISM, was appointed in his stead.
Mr. Vandyke has been summoned before the
Covode Washington Committee, and in his
testimony produced copies of letters, which
passed between himself and the President,
upon the subject of, his removal. The Presi
dent states, that the only cause for his removal
was the ill feeling, which existed between Col:
looter Baker of Philadelphia and Mr. Vandyke.
As public officials, the proper discharge of
their duties required at least, that they should
be on speaking terms. ' Mr. Vandyke replies,
that the fast of their not being on speaking
berms for ,a year previous to his appointment
to office was known to the President, before
hi commission was made out. The President
in reply reiterates the assertions of hie previ
ous letter, referring to a conversation between
Mr. Vandyke and the members of the Cabinet
on the subject, in which they had urged him
to a reconciliation with the Collector. Mr.
Vandyke replied, that he recollected the con
versation, but,that the only reason urged for a
reeenciliation, was, that the Attorney-General
and the Collector could . work harmoniously to
gether in electing delegates to the Pennsylva
nia Democratic State Convention of 1860. The
great purpose and aim of the President would
seem to be to require his subordinates to con
trol primary meetings, in order that the Presi
dent and not the people might govern the par
ty organization. This, Mr. Vandyke states,
was not in accordance with hie views of the
Democratic doctrine of State sovereignty. The
people,should govern uncontrolled by foreign
influences. We believe, the President is
wrong and the removed Attorney-General is
• right.
RETIRING STATE SENATORS.—The Senatorial
term of the following gentlemen expired with
the late sessions of the Legislature :—.
Shaeffer and Baldwin, of Lancaster;
Ruthford, of Dauphin and Lebanon ;
Francis, of Lawrence, Mercer and Venango ;
Keller,
of Snyder, Northumberland, Montour,
and Columbia;
Bell, of Chester and Delaware ;
Mareelie, of Philadelphia ;
Turney, of Westmorland and Fayette ;
Craig of Carbon, Monroe,Pike, and Wayne ;
Schell, of Somerset, Bedf ord and Huntingdon.
• The four first named are Republicans, the
six last named are " Democrats." At least
two Republican Senators will be gainod nez t
fall, in place of Messrs. Bell and Scholl.
11111.. The Philadelphia inquirer has changed
its form to the shape of the N.Y. Herald, Tri
bune and Times, and is now the only Phila-
telphis morning Republican paper issued, at
,ewo cents a copy, and the largest two cent
paper in ghiladelphia.• For sale at the gene..
ral NOM Agency of Mr, Edwin Saeger of our
Boroughs
BEM
The Charleattin Cosatentl
The Notional Democratic CotiVendOli met at
Charleston on Monday last for the purpose of
nominating candidates for president and Vice
President. The two Most prciminent candi
dates before the Convention for the Presidency
are Senator Douglass of Illinois and Senator
Hunter of Virginia.. Mr. Douglas will un
doubtedly command the most votes on the
Ord ballot, and possibly even a majority of the
delegates. Heretofore, however, the rules of
the Convention.have required two-thirds of the
Convention for a nomination. The effect of
the rule in nearly all eases has been to set
I nside the, claims of the prominent cOndidates
at the early stages of the Convention and to
bring forward an entirely new and unknown
man, as was the case in the nomination of
Polk and Pierce. Such may be the cause
again, as there happens to be a bitter feud be
tween Douglas and his followers, and the Ad
ministration and Southern wing of the party.
The extreme pro-slavery men of the South
threaten to bolt in the event of the nomination
of Douglas, whilst his friends are as doter
mined upon his nomination. The result, how
ever, will be known next week, and whatever
it may be, the chances of the election of a
Republican President aro equally good. No
pro-slavery candidate can carry a single North
= State, with possibly the exception, of Cali
fornia, whilst the free-trade and illlibustering
proclivities of Douglas will weaken the party
in the States of New Jersey and Pennsylva
nia. With these States sure for the Republi
can nominee, an election of a Republican
President is a certainty. The only thing,
which can prevent the nomination of Douglas
is the enforcement of the two-third rule. In
the history of political conventions, the Nation
al Democratic Convention is the only one, in
which the rule has been adopted. The effect
of the rule is to allow the minority to dictate
to the majority or at least to prevent an ex
pression of their wishes, or as the politics of
the country now stand, to permit tho South
to govern the party.
Tho two-thirds rule was adopted in 1844 by
the following vote, (by States:)
CONVENTION or 1844
Yeas. Naye. Yeas. Nays
Maine, 0 9 Georgia, 10
Massachusetts, 5 7 Alabama, • 9
New Hampshire, 0 6 Mississippi, • 6
Vermont. 3 3 Louisiana, 6
Connecticut, 3 3 Tennessee, • 13 .
Rhode Islaffd, 2 2 Kentucky, 12
New York, 0 36 Ohio, 0 2
New Jersey, 7 0 Michigan, 5
Pennsylvania, 12 13 Indiana, 12
Delaware, 3 0 Illinois, 9
Maryland, 6 2 Missouri, 0
Virginia, .17 0 Arkansas, , 3
Noah Carolina 5 6 ....,
Majority,
CONVENTION OF 1848
. In this. Convention tho two•third rule was
adopted by tho following vote t
Year. Nays. Yeas. Nays,
Maine, 9 0 Alabimap 9
New Hampshire, 0 0 Mississippi, 6 •
Massachusetts, 10 2 Louisiana, 6
Vermont, 1 5 Tekas, 6
Rhode Island, 3 1 Arkansas, 3
Connecticut, ' 6 0 Tennessee, 13
New Jersey, 7 0 Kentucky, 12
Pennsylvania, 0 26 Ohio, 0 2
Delaware, 2 1 Indiana, 0
Maryland, 7 1 Illinois, 3
Virginia, 17 0 Michigan, 6
North Carolina, II 0 lowa, 3
South Carolina, 9 0 Missouri, 1
Georgia, 10 0 Wisconsin, 0 .
Florida, 3 0
Majority,
An analysis of these two votes discloses the
following facts. In 1844 voted in favor of
the rule :
From the Free States, - • -
From the Slave States, - -
Voted against the rule :
From the Free Statei, - -
From the Slave State 3, - -
In 1848 voted in favor of the rule
From the Free States, - -
From the Slave States, - -
Voted against the rule:
From the Free States, - - 79
From the'Slave States, - - 5 84
The South nearly as a unit sustain the rule.
We &neve, that in this Convention if a North
ern Democrat would dare in Convention to
move the majority rule, the South would be
a unit in favor of the two-third rule. Grad
ually has the South risen to be supreme in the
Democratic party and the only way for a
Northern Democrat to be free is to disallow
the dictation and abolish the two-third rule.—
We shall know better next week, however,
what in this Convention will be the effect of
the two-third rule, if adopted.
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Democratic Victories
Among the victories, of which the Demo
crats boast, is the election of a Mayor of the
city of Harrisburg, by a majority of 135. Wil
liam H. Kepner, the newlylelocted mayor, was
on the Democratic ticket last year for Commis
sioner of Dauphin County, and had a majority
of 533 in Harrisburg. We should not consider
this a Democratic gain. Harrisburg has al
ways been Democratic and the recent majority
is far short of even an average majority. An
other Democratic victory is the election of
Dickson, as Chief Justice of Wisconsin, by a
majority of 500. Mr. Dickson, however, hap
pens to be a Republican and not a Democrat.
The alleged Democratic victory in Rhode Is
land resulted in the choice of Sprague for Gov
ernor, American-Republican. A Democratic
majority of 1000 in Milwaukio is heralded over
the country as a great Democratic victory with
' out stating at the same time, that the same city
gave 3000 majority for Buchanan in 1856. A
Democratic victory in Cincinnati, showing a
Democratic lose of 2000, as compared with the
vote of 1856, is blazoned forth to the country,
as one of the signs of reaction against Republi
canism. It rather proves a reaction the other
way. Nothing is said of a Republican victory
in Dubuque, which heretofore has always gone
Democratic, sometimes •by a majority of 1,500.
And so we might go through the list, showing
Republican gains. To parade them as any
thing else, is to endeavor to impose upon the
ignorance of the people.
CURTIN TO BE THE NEXT GOVERNOR.—ReIit
able intelligence from the western part of the
State states. that Curtin will cross the Alle
ghanies with a majority of 25,000 in his favor.
We are of opinion, that this cannot be beaten
by any Democratic majorities of the eastern
•rtion of the State.
EXCICRSION . TO CnICAOo.—It is Mated that
tickets will be issued by the Pennsylvania and
tho Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail
roads, for the round trip from Philadelphia to
Chicago and hack at the low price of TWSNTT
DOLLARS. This is just about one half the reg
ular rice.
Ntw'Yoaa vox SLIVAIIO.—The New York
Republican State Convention assembled on
Wednesday last in Syracuse. A resolution
recommending the Delegates to Chicago to
support William IL Seward for President, was
passed by a unanimous voter
President Buchanan'a Treachery ILipbsed.
Governor Walker upOn hid arrival in Kari
am, under instructions teem 'President Bu
chanan, assured the people of that unfortunate
tetritory that they should have an opportunity
of voting directly either for or against any
constitution, under which it was. proposed to
to apply for admission into the Union. The
convention, which framed the Lecompton Con
stitution, saw fit not to submit it to the people,
and although at an election held in pursuance
of an act of *the Territorial Legislature it was
decided 'that the Constitution was not the
Choice of a majority of the people of the Ter
ritory, the influence of the Administration
was used 'to induce Congress to admit Kluane
as a State into the Union, under a Constitu
tion, which it was well known the people had
repudiated. In the quarrel and struggle
which ensued, Governor Walker was removed,
although ho had acted in accordance with in
structions. The letter was never produced until
at a late session of the Covode Investigating
Committee. Ellis Schnable, Esq., from Penn
sylvania, also a witness before the Committee,
had testified, that Attorney General Black had
positively denied that any lettter of the kind
had over been written. We learn that Gover
nor Walker has since challenged Judge Black,
and that the challenge has not been accepted.
Tho President in the first place acted the
hypocrite in his treatment of Walker, and
either deceived Black, or else the Attorney
General has been lying in the matter. The
Investigating Committees aro dragging to
light the corruptions of an Administration,
which for duplicity has not had its equal in
American politics.. Tho following is the let
ter ;
WASHINGTON, July 12, 1857. •
MY Neu SIR : I duly received your letter
of the 28th ult., on Friday last, and road it to
the Cabinet, then in session. 'rho views
which it contained were not calculated to as•
sure us of your success, though we did not
despond. Hence you may judge with what
satisfaction we received an account of the pro- .
ceedings of the National Democratic Conven
tion, held at Lecompton on the 3d inst. The
point on which your own success depends is
the submission of the Constitution to the peo
ple of Kansas; and by the people I mean.
and. I .have no doubt you mean, the actual,
bona fide residents, who have been long enough
in the Territory to identify themselves with
its fate. The Legislature determined three
months as the period of residence to entitle in
.dividuals to vote for members of the Conven-
tion, and if the Convention should think pro
per to, adopt the same period to entitle indi
viduals to vote for or against the Constitution,
it appears,to me this would be reasonable.
On the question of submitting the Constitu
tion, to the bonafide residents of Kansas, lam
willing to stand or fall. It is the principle
of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, the' principle of
popular sovereignty, *and the principle at the
foundation of all popular yOVernnient. The
more it is diseasged the sti•onger it will become.
Should the Contention of Kansas adopt this
principle, all will be settled harmoniously ;
and, with the blessing of Providence, you will
return triumphantly from your ardous, im
portant, and responsible station. The stric
tures of the Georgia and Mississippi Conven
tions will then pass away, and be speedily for
'gotten.
in regard to Georgia, our news from that
State is becomming better every day. We
have not yet had time to hear much from Mis
sissippi. Should you answer the resolution of
the latter, I would advise you to make the
great principle of the submission of the Con
stitution to the bona fide residents of Kansas,
conspicuously prominent. On this you will
be irresistible. With the question of clitnate
every person is acquainted, and the more you
insist upon this, the more will our opponents
urge that we are violating the principle of
non-interference at the foundation of the Kan
sas-Nebraska bill. It is strange that people
at a distance, who have no practical acquain
tance with the condition of Kansas, should un
dertake to be wiser than those on the spot.—
It is, beyond all question, the true policy to
build up a great Democratic party there to
maintain the Constitution and the laws, com
posed of pro-slavery and free-State Democrats;
and if the majority should be against slavery,
to obtaimsuch constitutional provisions as will
secure the rights of slaveholders in Missouri
and.other States, and maintain all la*s guard
ing the just rights of the South.
You are right in your conjecture as to the
cause of Judge Williams' appointment. We
supposed it would.be acceptable to yourself,
and that he might aid in carrying out your
policy.
Colonel Cumming has been appointed Gov
ernor of Utah. This will cause his place to'
be vacant after the brief period required for
settling up his business, and I certainly shall
be disposed to fill it by the appointment of
Mr. Stevens._ _ _
148 116
110
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170 84
84
90-148
14-116
55
115--170
General Harney has been ordered to com
mand the expedition to Utah, but we must
continue to have him with you, at ldast until
you are out of the woods. Kansas is vastly
more important at the present moment than
Utah. The pressure upon me continues with
out intermiesion. I 'pray that Divine Provi
dence, in which I' place my trust,' may gra
ciously preserve my life and my health until
the end of my term. But'God's will be done,
in any event.
With every sentiment of esteem, I remain
always sincerely your friend,
BUCHANAN.
To Hon. Robert J. Walker.
PEOPLE'S STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.—Gov.
Pollock has announced the following as the
People's State Central Committee :
• A LEX. K. MCCLURE, Franklin Co., Chairman.
Henry L. Benner, Joseph Ilarrison„Charles
McNeal, 11. R. Coggshall, Wm. B. Mann,
Charles Thompson Jones,lEritstus Poulson, J:
M. Pomory, Peter Fusel, Philadelphia; Jessie
C. Dickey, Chester county ; Charles llitner,
Montgomery county ; H. D. Maxwell, North
ampton county ; Dr. E, Wallace, Berks county ;
Robert M. Palmer, Schuykill county ; W. 11.
Jessup, Susquehanna county ;E. Foster,
Carbon county; James S. Slocum, Luterno
county ; G. W. Scofield, Warren county ; L.
Ullmor, Lycoming county ; 0. A. Worden,
Union county • Dr. John Paloman, Columbia
county; Charles McCoy; Mifflin county; Levi
Kline, Lebanon county; Samuel Slocum, John
J.• Cochrane, John A. Hiestand, Lancaster
county ; J. S. Haldeman, York county ; D.
A. Buehler, :Adams county ; • Edward Scull,
Somerset county; J. B. MeEnally, Clearfield
county : Joseph Smith,. Indiana county ; Gen.
C. P. -Markle, Westmoreland county ; John
Hall. Washington county ; Jno. H. Hampton,
Robert Finney, James Park, Jr., George Fin
ley, Allegheny county ; Jno. M. Sullivan,
Butler county; C. P. Remsdoll, Venango
D. A. Finney, Crawford county ; J. P. Lyon,
Clarion county.
IMPORTANT BILL PASSED.—Wo call the at
tention of the public to the following bill pass
ed at the recent session of the Legislature and
signed by the Governor, relative to applications
to the Legislature for charters for any incor
ration :
BE • IT ENACTED, &c., That from and after the
passage of this net it shall be required that
every application to the Legislature for any
act of incorporation shall be preceded by a
public notice or advertisement of the same in
two newspapers in the city or county for which
the legislation is demanded or in which the
parties applying for it reside, if two newspapers
aro published in said city or county • and if
there be not two newspapers published therein
then in ono newspaper if one is published there.
in ; which said public notice or advertisement
shall set forth filenames of all parties, commis
sioners or corporators to the bill or 'proposed
legislation, and the same shall be published or
advertised in said papers before the bill or pro
posed law shall bo presented to either branch
of thy Logioloturo.
LOCAL AFFAIRS. I
bar The le4lotiur Conference meets at Fa
geleville on' Ttineday next, May let.
• ,
AN OLD : tBLP.—Mr. Jacob Oeissinger, of
Preemansburg has in his possession a Bible
bearing the date of 1527.
THE LOOK-UP.—The water is being in
troduced into the town lock-up in accordance
with the recent orders of town Council.
HEAVY FAlLURE—Schweitzer & Jones,
distillers at Freemaneburg, faileddately. Their
liabilities are said to be over elzty thousand
dollars.
ge-On Sunday afternoon last, the Rev.
Joshua IL Derr, preached a sermon to the
Son's of Tomerance of this phice in the Ger
man Reformed Church.
CASE OF DROWNING.—A. man by the
name of Herman, tending a look on the Le
high Canal, immediate ly opposite Slatington,
fell into the canal during last week and was
drowned immediately.
THE CENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW
JERSEY.—The New Jersey Central Railroad.
Company have a corps of engineers employed
in surveying a route for the extension of that
road from Elizabeth to Jersey City.
ErrWe would call the attention of our mer
chants to the advertisement of Joshua Schnur
man, in another column. He has lately been
receiving goods daily, from the cities. He has
a very extensive and well selected stock of No
tion goods. Give him a call,
THE LEHIGH VALLEY FITRAACE.—
The Lehigh Valley Iron Company intend to add
i
another to the stack already n'toration, and
havo awarded the contract for the mason
work of the stack to . Mr. Samuel Mellon of
our borough.
PEOPLE'S STATE CENTRAI COMMIT
TEE.--The Eon, henry D. Mn ell of Eas
ton has been appointed a member ,at thei Poo
ple's State Contral Committee, to ro — plesen‘the
Senatorial District composed of the counties of
Northampton and Lehigh.
MASONIC 110NORS.--.llre are informed
that Tjaston Lodge, No. 152, A. it. M., appro
priated the sum of $5O towards the fund for
preserving and restoring to its original appear
ance Mount Vernon, and the grave of their il
lustrious Brother, Gen. Washington.—Exprees.
GYPSItS.--A band of Gypsies were en
camped in Griesmer's woods for several weeks
past and took their departure last week. The
party had twenty fine horses in their posses
sion. tither fortune-telling or pilfering must
be a very profitable business to these roving
idlers.
MESSRS. SHIMER, KESSLER & CO.—
We understand that this firm, which suffered
so heavily by the recent fire,`intond to coin
memo rebuilding inintediatat and expect to
be in operation again by the first of Juno. It
is supposed that about :i,1,000 will be raised in
our borough toward liquidating their heavy
loses. •
THE ROLLING MILL.—The Rolling Mill, to
be built in our Borough, is being rapidly pushed
forward to completion. The contract for the
Mason-work has boon awarded to Mr. Samuel
llcllose of our Borough. We understand from
Mr. Haywood, the President of the Company,
that the Mill will be completed by next fall, un
less some unexpected delay be met with. ,
ear Spring is coming, •ushered in by a con
cert of Sweet songsters—among them the
blue-bird' and the more timid and cautious
robin. Many of the vegetable tribes are com
ing forth, obedient to the confident call of red
jacket and blue bird. They aro mixing their
given and fancy tints, expecting soon tt take
a proud position in the world of flora.
- THE UNION CEMETERY.—At an election
for officers of the Union Cemetery association
held on the 9th inst., the followinging officers
were elected :
President—Daniel Ritter; Secretary—Chas.
Hoist; Treasurer—William Eckert, sen.; Man
agers—Jacob Miller, Ephraim Yoho, and John
Eckert.
PARADE OF THE NORTHAMPTON
COUNTY BRlGADE.—Brigadier General Best
of Northampton County, has issued an order
for the Ist Brigade; 7th Division of militia, to
assemble at Easton, on Thursday, the 24th of
May, for parade, inspection and review. No
company will be admitted into line unless fully
equipped, and having the number of men re
quired by law.
BEAR LOOSE.—A large hear, belonging to
Mr. Pritchett, confined in one of the stables at
tached to the Washington Hotel of Easton,
broke out on Monday afternoon a week since,
and finding his way into Third St., and stroll
ing up and down street, caused no little. excite
ment. After biting one of his captors in the
leg, he wits taken and shut up again in his old
quarters.
COMMITTED SUICIDE. —On Thursday
night last Jacob Stahlnecker, aged about 60
years, living in Upper Milford township, near
Shimersville, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor ; lie was found dead the
following morning. The unfortunate man was
laboring at the time under a fit of delirium
tremens. Another of the proofs of the bad
effects of intoxicating drinks.
ACCIDENT ON THE LEHIGH VALLEY
RAILROAD.—We learn that n„ young man
mama Jacob Sellers, from Springtown, Bucks
county, had one of his arms very badly cut,
and his body considerably bruised, in falling
from the Accommodation train at South Eas
ton, do Monday evening, a week. We believe
ho was attempting to pass from one car to an
other, whilst the trdin was in motion, and by
some accident fell off. He was taken to Riehl's
hotel, Easton, and is said to be in rather a
dangerous condition.
NEW BILLIARD SALOON.—CoI. Ham
ersly is about fitting uti a billiard saloon to
add to the many attractions of the Continental
Restaurant. .He receives two tables from
Reading, of which we find the following no
tice in the Reading Daily Times:
O. Wzatar Moue.—Tho Billiard Tables at tho
Mount Vernon, having bean sold to W. W. liamer
sly, of the Continental in Allentown, are intended to
bo, removed next Saturday. All parsons wishing to
have another game on them before they aro removed,
are requested to call during this week, as they aro
the best Tables which were aver in this city.
KILLED.—Mr. Siegfried of Upper Macun
gie township, Lehigh county, met with a sad
accident on Tuesday of last week, which re
sulted in his death on the following day. In
returning from Allentown where ho hail been
attending an arbitration, he stoppod at Trox
lertown to water the horse, he had been riding.
The horse reared and raising him from his
feet, throw him violently against a wagon
standing in the road. Raising Mr. Siegfried
a second time, the horsethrew him violently on
the ground, falling on the breast of the unfortu
nate man with his front feet. The injuries.
wore such that he died the following evening.
SAD CASE'OF DROWNING.—On Sat urda y
night last as Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, wife of
John Williams, of Washington township, was
on her way to the store of William F. Messer,
Esq., in the same township in company with
her son Hugh, two other sons and Mrs.
Ovien Lloyed, Mrs. Williams and her son
in the darkness of the night, missing their way,
accidentally fell over the bank of a slate quar
ry, formerly worked by Messrs. Kuntz & Kern.
but latterly abandoned and filled with water,
and wore drowned. An inquest was held on
Sunday morning by William F. Messer, Esq.
and a verdict rendered; death from accidental
drOwning. The accident occurred between the
hours of nine and ten in the evening, awl the
night via.' vary dark and rainy.
• LAROENY.—Harrison Neal was caught or!
Saturday Morning;last in the act of pilfering
sundry articles of groceries from the store of E.
Fenstermaeher & Son by officer Lentz, and
lodged in the lock-up until morning, and upon
hearing before Esquire Witman, lodged in jail.
Policeman Lents had seen a light in the.store
room and cellar of the Messrs. Fenetermacher
on several occasions before during the night,
had informed Mr. Fenstermacher of the fact,
but through a misunderstanding nothing wron .
Was suspected. On the night of the arrest the
' light Was seen again ; Mr. Lentz' soon found
that Neal Was the person in the building. Mr.
Samuel Henn Vtdds stationed in front of the
building. and policeman Lentz was stationed in
the yard. Upon endeavoring to leave the prem
ises through the yard, Neal was arrested. In
his bundle were found eight pounds of candles,
several Nieces of tobacco, several dozen of eggs,
•ne pound of candies, several pounds of butter,
a lot of sugar and flour, one ham, and sundry
other articles. At his house were found a lot
of hats, belonging to Messrs. Weider & Bit
ting, Hatters of our Borough, and five pair of
shoes, which had been stolen froin Mr. George.
Dutt, also a sufficient, supply of groceries to
last the family several months, and which, it it
presumed, were likewise stolen. Neal had
stated some time since that lie had been out in
the country peddling, and the supposition is
that he was disposing. of the articles gathered by
the system of pilfering he has been carrying
on for some time. lie had apparently been
doing nothing for a year past, and Was known
to our citizens only. for his inveterate laziness.
Detected in his course lie may now 60{ for
ward to the punishment due his misdeeds.
FLOWERS AND THE FLOWER OAR-'
DEN.—This is the season of the year when
the Flower needs attention,, and tho out-door
labor of women begins. The flower beds re
quire to be uncovered, the earth dug up
around the roots that have remained in the
ground over winter, and fresh seeds to be
planted, The climbing roses want trimming
and fastening anOW to the trellis, and the
honeysuckles, and the numerous other beauti
ful creepers that so greatly adorn the garden,
aro put in order for the season. No sight is
more charming than to see a woman at work
among her early floral visitors, while the dew
is upon the grass. Tho Smell of fresh earth
is said to ho good medicine for dyspepsia, and
is also a capital remedy for pale cheeks and
languor. The morning air is loaded brimful
of health and vigor, and a woman can have
no butter employment at this season, of the
day--if her dontestic duties Will permit—than
to pay her court to the crocronts, jonquils,
violets, snow drops, and other fair flowers. If
more of our young ladies were to work in the
garden every morning for an hour or two, in
stead of wasting the fresh hours of the day in
bed, we think it would he much better for
their health and happiness. There can be no
more pleasant, as there is certainly no more
refined occupation for a woman, than the cul
tivation of flowers. They beautify the most
barren spot, and throw an air of refinement
around the most lowly home, that cannot fail
to make it attractive and pleasant.
•
MILITARY HALL ASSOCIATION.
'l7llrough the energetic efforts of Captain Yea
ger anti Mr. Peter Weikel, over ten thousand
dollars worth of stock have already been sub
scribed toward the erection of the proposed
Military. Hall on Market Square. The asso
ciation need but ono hundred and twenty-five
shares additional subscribed (at $25.00 per
share) in order to be prepared to commence
operations. The subject of the Borough's sub
scribing stock in the enterprize having been
agitated and having enlisted friends in kth be
half, as well as opposition, wo are autho ized
by the Trustees to state that in case one n
drod and twenty-five additional shares are st .-
scribed, no application will be made to the Bo
rough authorities for a subscription. The en
' terprize, if completed, as it doubtless will be,
will not only supply a great public want, but
will also be an ornament to the Borough. If
the old buildings on the south-east corner of
tho square were removed, and a handsome
building erected in their stead, as proposed,
the friends of the improvement of the town
would have reason to be proud.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF COM
MON SCHOOLS.—The School Directors of the
County will meet at the Court House on Mon
day May the 7th, for the purpose of electing a
County Superintendent of Common Schools for
the ensuing three years. The situation is an
important ono; and it is desirable that due care
be exercised by the Directors in making a se
lection. The only persons, whose names we
have heard mentioned in connection with the
office are Mr. Til4hman Good of Allentown,
Mr. 0. S. Fell of Millerstown, R. Clay Homers
ly, Esq. of Catasauqua, and 11. 11. Schwartz,
gsq. of Allentown. Mr. Tilghman Good is a
teacher of the public schools of the Borough of
Allentown, and held the office several years
since for an unexpired term under appointment
frOm Governor Pollock. Mr. Fell has a select
school at Millerstown ; Mr. Hamersly is a teach
er in the public schools of Catasauqua and
Mr. Schwartz is the present Superintendent.
ROBBERY OF. BETHLEHEM ANTIQUI
TIES.—About two years ago sonic old books
and manuscripts relating to,: the Moravian
church were discovered in the attic of the old
"Gemein-Haus." They had been lying undis
turbed in a closet for fifty. years. About a
month ago they were overhauled and examined.
On a second examination quite recently it was
found that they had been disturbed, and some
were missing. It was also ascertained that
Arthur Henry had had access to the room.
Upon investigation it was found that this per
son had sent several bags by express to Phila
delphia. The business of arresting the thief
was put into the hands of the police, who, un
der pretence that they were in search of anti
quarian articles, found some of the stolen goods
in the house of Matthew Henry, the father of
Arthur. Others had been deposited with an
tiquarian dealers in the city. The recoved ar
ticles were returned to Bethlehem last Thurs-
Aay.—Advorate.
DIMES SAVING INSTITUTION.—In pur
suance of the 6th Section of the Act incorporat
ing the Dimes Saving Institution of this Bo
rough the persons. named in the first section
met and opened books for the. subscription of
stock.
Wm. 11. Newhard was chosen Chairman and
Wm. J. Roming, Secretary.
A Book properly prepared for the subscrip
tion of Stock was laid before the commissioners
when on motion a committee of four was ap-
pointed to take charge of the said subscription
book for the,purpose of selling 'the Stock of the
Corporation. E. Moss, Esry..• Samuel Melrose,
Wm. 11. Soip and Jacob Mushlitz constitute
the Committee.
The next meeting of the Commissioners will
bo held at the office of E: Moss, Esq., on the
28th inst. at 2 o'clock P. M.
lIEENAN IN PRISON.—Our, New York
exchanges, on Monday last, brought us. the
news that John Heenan was lodged in prison.
All the folks could not account for the great
talk going on about town that the Champion
belt was sent to Allentown. Men, Women
and Children were all anxious to find out where
the bolt was to be seen ; when at last it leaked
out, that Joseph Stopp at the Cheap Cash Store
had it in possession. There was such a crowd
there for the last feW days that it was impos
sible for all to . gain admittance; and what sur
prised them more was that Stepp had the larg
est, best and cheapest stock of Goods over
brought to Allentown. See advertisement.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.—On Monday
night a week since some unknown person un
dertook to of act an entrance into the dwelling
of Mr. John Roberts, a silver:plater, residing
in Sixth street, Mrs, Roberts arose about
midnight for the purpose of getting a drink of
water, and upon finding that some person was
endeavoring to got into the house through
back window, immediately awakened her hus
band.. Dlr. Roberta . gave. the alarm and the
thief made his escape, although in his hurry
to leave, lie.left behind him his hat and
,bun•
dle, both of which areln the !mode of the po
lice, who nro endoavaring to ferret out the por
potrator of the utivohief4 •
NORTH WHITEHALL, April 21, 1800
gbtfofte!---..While a great many pol
iticians are doing their utmost, to save the
Union, and thereby avert a great calamity to
the, nation; and as , I think they have 'all the
power, and willingness easily toperform it, it
would undoubtedly,be considered an obtrusion .
for me, to offer my services to their assistance.
I shall therefore not make myself odious in
tendering them ; but shall start out 'with the'
satisfactory consideration, that the Great Tem
ple of Liberty is safe. Now as there is no
cause of alarm concerning this political structure
would it not be well at the same time to advert
a little to the state of society, to some practices
or "institutions" subsisting within this "Tem
ple," and see whether we cannot bring about
some moralization or reformation? I do, how
ever, not mean to make a general onslaught on
evil practices, but simply confine myself to
ode Mil of my own township. But should peo
ple of other place choose to apply it to them
selves, they are at perfect liberty to do so. I
mean simply to give battle to what is widely
known, namely, Hoe-down Frolics. I thinly,
and at least hope, every sensible man and wo
man, will agree with me in saying, that it is a
most contemptible and detestible relic of bar
barism. I should not hesitate in placing it on a
level with the "twin relics." But this course
of reasoning would perhaps not ho considered
good logic, as one of the twins is said to be the
sum of all villianies," consequently Hoe
down Frolics would merge in it, For fear of
coming in conflict with the wisdom of the age
I shall not carry it so far ; but shall simply
pronounce it a fruitful machinery for manufac
turing drunkards, blackguards, liars, thief's,
rogues, vagabonds, and to crown all misery,
am compelled to say for the manufacture of
lustful, sensual, rude and impolite, women.
And yet these are shortly to be mothers and
mistresses of families,
having their domestic
superintendence, thereto instill into the heart of
the innocent child the rudeness, profanity and
all sorts of iniimitles acquired at these mid
night orgies. Whereas there should bo instill
ed benevolence, gentleness, learning, politeness
and all the other christian attributes in order
"to bring tip a child in the way it should go,"
according to the divine injunction. Let us
for the sake of curiosity follow these "savages
of civilization to one of those dens. I will
twat
any man unused to such meetings,.
that if within half a mile of the scene he would
solemnly aver that the savage Foejee Islanders
had invaded the country, and were just per
forming one of their canabalistic feasts. But
of course a man acquainted with the matter,
would tell the almost dumb-struck individual,
that these are things practiced in a civilized
and enlightened country. . Perhaps after much
debate argument and explanation he might he
induced to go along. Arriving at the place,
having not yet given up the notion of a savage
don, seeing and hearing the noise and disturb
ance he will likely enough infer that they are
performing their national war-dance. Casting
his eye 4 aside he will probably behold seated
on a bench, extending from one end of the
room to the other, the more elderly members,
who have already passed through all the stages •
of honor. The insignia worn by those officers
is a beautiful glossy red nose. Tho "stranger"
noticing visible signs of top-heaviness will -in
all probability come to the conclusion that they
must be overloaded with striking ideas. Il
will however not gaze at them long, as the
smell issuing mu them is not at all agreea
ble.' lle wil leo be more forcibly attracted
by the " fa' sex" the beauty of which is not
often surpassed. But alas! when he comes to
reflect upon the reality of these fair ones de
lighting to revel in those dens of iniquity he
is impelled to turn away with a mingled feel
ing of contempt, pity and disgust.
To make it short, !wonder if these frequent
ing these places could or would be taught the
great disrespect it begets—a spark of self-re
spect which might be left could not be kindled
nto a blaze and prevent thorn from going
again.
For fear of encroaching too much on your
space I will conclude with the hope however
that some will heed the opinion of their sin
cere well-wisher. ANTI-HOE-DOWN.
THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENCY.—
MESSRS. EDITORS: The time is fast approach=
ing when the School Directors of the several
districts of this county will meet in Conven
tion for the purpose of electing a County Su
perintendent of Common Schools. It is high
ly important that some good, sound, talented,
practical man should be placed in that posi
tion. The welfare of our schools demands the
employment of competent tenchy.rs ; and in or
der to secure them, it is necessary that some
person should he elected to the office of Coun
ty Superintendent, who is not only a good
scholar, but, at the same .time, thoroughly ac
quainted with the art and practice of teaching.
The possession of knowledge and the art of
communicating knowledge to others are two
things separate and distinct. A man may be
very well educated and yet lack the requisite
tact of communicating his information to those
around him. Hence there are many young
men with excellent education who Would nev
ertheless prove bad teachers, on account of
their not having paid attention to the teacher's
art. Now it is evident that a Superintendent,
however well educated lie may be, who is not
a practical teacher, or who has not paid a
close attention to practical teaching, is but
ill qualified for the office he holds. Making
the standard of mere education his criterion
of the qualification of applicants for schools,
ho is very apt to fall into the error of grant
ing certificates to many who n 6 more deserve
them than the mere doctor deserves to be rank
ed as a minister of the Gospel.
Among the various candidates, whose 'names
will be brought before the Convention, 0. S.
Fell, Esq., seems to he a prominent one.—
With all due respect for the other persons
named for that office, I trust I Blinn not be
considered R 9 an intruder when I attempt to
direct the attention of the School Directors of
Lehigh county to the character and-standing
of the above named candidate. • •
Mr. Fell is a ge Aleman possessing irre
proachable moral character and a fine edu
cation. He has been engaged as a practieal
teacher for the last ten years. During the last
four years of this period he was employed 'us
Principal of the Macungie Institute in which
position he has acquired the reputation 9 f be 7
ing one of the best teachers our little County
affbrds. Having fine talents, well cultivated
and impioved, at the same time that his ex
perience.•in teaching renders him thoroughly
conversant with the best methods of training
and cultivating the minds of Youth, ho cannot
he otherwise than well qualified to perform the
duties of the office for which . ho is named.
Mr. Fell is -not, and never has been an ac
tive politician. • Education with him;' is the
all-absorbing thought. He asks no police' of
fice—desires none, but offers his name to the
convention, independent of polities, because he
believes it to be radically wrong to make a
political question of the County Superintend•
ency. Should Mr. Fell be so fortunate as to
be elected, he will no doubt prove himso7
a worthy officer,
• P
APE RING ROO M S.—The Scientific
American remarks that many lives have been
loit from the laziness or ignorance of paper
hangers who have laid ono paper above another
instead of tearing off the 01(1 before hanging
the now. There was a very handsome house
near ono of our best provincial towns which
could never keep its tenants. A ready-witted
observer promised the owner to find out the
cause. He traced the • mischief to one room
and presently conjectured what was the matter
there. Ale let a slip of glass into the wall and
found it next (lay dimmed with Redd condens
ed vapor. He tore° down a strip of paper and
found abundant cause for any amount of fever.
For generations the walls have been prepared
afresh, without the removal of anything
underneath. And there was the putrid size
and the fermenting old papers inches deep!
A thorough clearance scraping and clearing
put an end to the fever and restored the value
of the house.
Ate...We are requested to state that the Good
Will Fire Company is underlying repairs at
the Foundry of Thayer, Erdman & Co., in this
Borough;
THE EAST PENNSYLVANIA RAIL
ROAD.—A number of the lending citizens (AIL .
Schuylkill and Berks counties, interested in
the coal operations of Schuylkill, and the
Reading and East Pennsylvania Railroad Corn- .
polies, paid our Borough a flying visit on
Wednesday 'last via the East Pennsylvania.
Railroad. the object of the visit was to ex
amine the advantages of constructing the con
' nection between the East Pennsylvania and.
Reading R. R. at Leesport, authorized by a'
sup_plement to the charter of the East Penna.
R, R. Company, passed at the recent session
of the Legislature, as well as to ascertain the•
feasibility of transporting coal to New York, •
via East Penna. R. R. by means of the new - •
connexion. The visitors were sumptuously"
entertained by our hosts of the American,.
Messrs. Bechtel and Bigony, in a style known
to few others savo themselves. After the re- •
moval of the cloth, Mr. Yardley of Schuylkill
proposed the health of Edward ,Clymer, - Esq.,.
President of the East Pennsylvania Rail-road
Company, who responded, stating the origin or
the idea of the construction of 'the East Penn
sylvania Rail-road, referring to the prostration
of the coal op - orations of Schuylkill county, and
pointing out the advantages of affording the'
means oT transportation Tor the coal of the
Schuylkill Valley to the New York and other
Eastern Markets. In order to make this effec
tive, the several Rail-road Companies would
have to regulate their rates of transportation, so
that coal could be transported as cheaply to
New York from the Schuylkill, as from the
Lehigh and Lackawanna coal regions. In or
der to effect this, there need be no conflict of
interest. In fact in Union there is strength,
and the interests of the coal operators of
Schuylkill, as well as of those interested in the
Reading and East Pennsylvania Rail-road
Companies, require harmony and concert of
action.
Interesting and eloquent speeches, bearing
upon the suliject, which brought the guests to
gether, were made by Col. Cake,Hon. Robert
Palmer and Benjamin Hayw ood, Esq., of
Schuylkill, Henry Lantz, Esq., of the Reading
Daily Times, and Robert E. Wright, Esq., and
the Hon. Samuel A. Bridges of Allentown.
The visitors returned on the day of their
arrival, highly pleased with their trip and con
vinced of the necessity and the advantages of
constructing the link between the East Penn
sylvania and the Reading Rail-roads, more
iearly connecting the Schuylkill .valley with
he Lehigh and the New York markets. •
TILE LOAFER.—The most miserable, hope
less scrap of humanity, is an idle man—a man
whose chief aim of life is to "loaf"—to waste
in listless lounging and mental and physical
inaction, the best years of his life. There are
such beings in every town—miserable loafers
whose sole occupation is to avoid employment
of any kind—whose lives can be scarcely called
lives—who die one after another, and leave be
hind themL-ewhat? A vacancy to be mourned?
No, for they are in themselves vacancies, not
.men. To these atoms society owes nothing.
The history of the world's progress ignores
their names, their existence, and being dead,
the grave contains no more inert, worthless
enrth than it did before. They beconie (throne.
is nuisances ; they have no local habitation or
name in so far as regards their worth or value,
and from day to day, in the haunts of busy
men, they pass current as uncurrent funds—
at so much of a discount that they can't even
buy themselves. The only apparent exertion
they ex ibit is that which enables them to be
eternall ' somebody's way, to the great hin
drance of th t somebody's progress and buei,
ness. The never do any special harm and
never accomplish any good. They die only
when they get too lazy and indolent to use their
respiratory organs.. They never got the con
sumption, because they haven't energy enough
to cough. They give employment to nobody;
for they have none for themselves. From such
as those, may Fortune preserve all wdll-mean- .
ing mortals.
THE BUTCHERY OF INDIAN INFANTS IN CAL
IFORNIA.—San Francisco, March 16, 1860.
The particulars of the horrid massacre of peace
able Indians, ono bright Sunday morning,
(Feb. 55,) I detailed in my last steamer letter.
Since then, many who wore in the vicinity
have been in town, and the coherence and
agreement of their several stories show that
we have arrived at the truth in the matter. It
appears that the brutal and cowardly murder
ers were not over-anxious to meet the male In . -
diens ; that a spy vitio had attended an annual
dance on Indian Island (about a mile from Eu
reka, the county seat of Humboldt) the even
ing previous, conveyed the intelligence that
there was not a gun, bow or arrow on the is
land, and that the savages were entirely de
fenceless. The whites then approached, about
six o'clock in the morning, fired upon and killed
three men, who wore asleep in a cabin at some
little distance from where the women lay, then,
entering lodge after lodge, they dirked the
sleeping, and with axes split open and crush
ed the skulls of the children and women. The
total killed on the island wore fifty-five, of Whom
only five wore men. On South Bench, about -
a mile away from Eureka, in another direction,
an hour or two before ' the same party of
whites had killed 58 most of them women and
children. No defense was made. Many of
the women were making an honest living in
faniilies of the whites. The half breeds
pleaded for their lives in good English. On
the following Wednesday 40 more. were butch
ered on the South Fork of the Eel River. The
Humboldt Times, which justified this short
method of getting rid of disagreeable.neighbors,
says that many of those killed on Eel River
were bucks and bad fellows. Still later by a „.
few days, 35 were slaughtered on Eagle Prai
rie—total of butchered within ono week, one
hundred and eighty-eight. The victims had
lived on terms of peace with the whites, and
relied on them for security. They wore not
even charged with thieving. Their groat
crime was that the whites suspected that some •
hostile mountain Indians had taken refuge
among them when hard pressed. The names
of the brave men who brained the children
have not been published. Ono writer for the
Bulletin says, however, that there is a follow
in Eureka who boasts that with his own
hatched ho slew 31) women and children in
one day, and that another man who professes
to have been captain of the outlaws says 'that
he alone killed sixty infants.
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PRICKS OF PRODUCE IN Naw YORK. --On Wed
nesday last, common to extra State flour sold
$5.30 to $5:50 per -barrel ; comnum to extra
Western, $5.35 to $0.75 ; extra Genesee, $5.50
to $7.75 ; extra St. Louis, $5.50 to $7.75. Rye
flour, $3.70 to $4.40; corn meal, $3.60 to $4.10.
Wheat—Chicago spring, not prime, $1.21 per
bushel ; Milwaukee club, $1.26 ' • white Indi
ana and white Michigan, $1.60; some white
Kentucky, $1.72; rye, 84i cents; oats, 38 to
44-cents; corn, 72 to 70 cents. Hops
sales at 6 to 12 cents per pound. Barreled
beef and pork sold at prices of the previous
week. Live beef catth3 sold at 7 to 10 cents
-,--average 8. cents.
APPEARANCE OrlocusTs—Mr. Gideon Smith
of Baltimore writes to the National Intelligen -
cot. that the locusts will appear this year exten
sively in New York and Connecticut; New Je
rsey, occupying the whole state; Pennsylvania,
in that portion bounded by Peter's mountain on
the north the Delaware river on the east. and
the Susquehanna on the west; Maryland, Vir
ginia, North Carolina, Michigan, and Indiana.
They will commence emerging in North Car•
olina about the 10th of May; and a feW days
later for every hundred miles as we progress
north until the Ist of June, in Washington,
county, New York:
AMICUS
Itel.,..The Adams Express Company's safe,
which was stolen from their messenger on the
Boston train on Monday night awoek.was found
about one o'clock on Wednesday, half a mi e
below Westport. The bottom was broken open
apparently with a hatchet. The pouches which
contained the 'money worn cut open and the
contents. gone. The thief will find it difficult
to disposo of the money—at least the greater
portion of it—as the bills are large.
a 37 - A manufactory of friction matches •has
just been put in operation at Cincinnati by two
wealthy Mize& of that city. The cost of the
building and machinery . has been $150,000,
and it is the most extensive match factory in
dui world, except one iu Austria. •