, , • . . MILLE R S TOWN, June 1 , st, 1860. MIISSRS.EDITORS:—The Democracy - of Penn sylvania, aware of their dangerons position in 1 1 the coming campaign, State and national, strug gle most -desperatey to avert the doom, that seems almost inevitable. The prospect of a signal defeat and the consequent removal of t h a t gr eat political tit, 'which has to long and so well nourished a large body of Loco-foco office-seekers, tears very heaviky.upon the har monious, national democracy. It seems, hard, indeed, for the babe to lose its suck, but when the "little Creature" becomes too large, and the mother seers from excessive extraction of the nutritious elements, every consideration of prudence demands its prompt removal from the breast. So with our political "suckers" of the present time. They have grown to such a prodigious size, and consume so much of the national milk, that their removal beconios a matter of serious importance to the safet,y of our common country. This fact being iinpressed " upon the people,the democrats may wel trem l i n v i n „ o f t h e great change ble in their bos" that will be effected this fall, by thaovotera of Pennsylvania and of the nation. Well do they know that, upon principle,. the great mass of the governed, from whom , in our political sys tem, all legitimate powers are derived, arc strenuously oposed to loco-loco rule or rather misrule and corruption.. They know well, that the great heart of the people beats in unison with. Republion doctrines•and 'principles, and that, if their sentiments be fairly expressed at the ballot box, the defeat of the pro-slavery, free trade democracy is a foregone conclusion. The Union of sentiment and feeling in the Re publican party, concerning its principles and nominees, the abundant accession received from the democracy, al consequence of their viola- Mon of solemn pledges on tho 'tariff and other important issues, together with the discord and disruption of the democratic party, and alLthis in the face of the fact of John C. Fro itm;Lt's large electoral vote, and James Buchan an's minority vote, in the campaign of 1856, at a time too, when the Republican party was scarcely organized, and had never tested its strength in a national contest, renders the suc cess of the Republican nominees, now before the people, " doubly sure." All hail the "good time coming," when our government shall have been wrested from the hands of those, who, whilst they profess the most pro found veneration for the framers of our Can atitution and government, evince thelr incon sistency, treachery and faithlessness in tramp ling beneath their feet, those long-cherished principles; by which our forefathers were ac tuated. 'With Lincoln and Hamlin, as their national standard bearers,--true and honest represen tatives of the great political reform now in pro cess of maturation, the people will march on to victory, and the 4th of March, 1861, will realize the inauguration of men to the offices • of President and Vice President of the United States, who will restore the tiovernment to its original purity. Meanwhile, Andrew G. Cur- ' tin will be placed "fair and square" upon the executive chair of the Keystone State, to prove t e loyalty of the people of Pennsylvania to r t ri he interest of our noble commonwealth, and the ascendancy therein of the principles of the Republican Party. Let, then, the friends of free speech, freedom and purity of Government, keep, as their constant watch-word, the names of Lincoln, Hamlin and Curtin, with the full assurance, that, with a. little work on their part, all will be right in the coming fall. REPUBLICAN. POWDER MILL BLOWNVP.—On Tuesday morning a week, two men, George Hummel and John Shuttleworth, were blown up at William Stahler's Powder Mill, just below our borough. It appears both of them were at work at one of the mills ; the ingredients— charcoal, sulphur and nitre—are put in a deep trough, and stompers play upon them until they are made very fine, and thoroughly mix ed. These stampers are raised by means of wooden cogs in a wheel on a roller back of them. A large batch of material, sonic fOur hundred pounds, was in process of manufac ture, when one of thane cogs that lift the etainpers came out. The engine was stopped, and thoughtlessly a hatchet, instead of it mal let, was . picked up to drive the cog into its place again : in striking rapidly the hatchet flew off the handle, and in its upward ascent hit an iron bolt, and glancing struck a spark of .81 . 0 •' this communicated to the inflammable dust lying about in all the different parts of the building, and ip an instant, like a flash of lightning, fire was imparted to the trough with the, four Mandred pounds in process of mak ing,•when the whole blew up. As the pow der mill is put together very slightly, so as to offer but little resistance to an explosion, of course, the whole mill?•was shattered, and the two men injured internally and externally, and burnt almost to a crisp. It, was in many repects a strange sort of an accident... Both men are dead.—Nor. Republican A HORSE GETTING HIMSELF SH.OD.—A horse having been turned into a field by its owner, Mr. Joseph Lane,' of Fascoiabe, in the, parish of Asholworth, was missed therefrom the next morning, and the usual inquiries set afoot, as to what could have become of him. liehad, it seems, been shod (all fours.) a few days before, and as usual got pinched 'in a foot. Feeling, no doubt, a lively sense of proper shoeing, and desirous of relieving the cause of pain, he contrived to unhang the.gate of his pasture with his mouth, mid make the best of his way to the smithy, a distance of a mile and a half from Fascatnbe, waiting res pectfully at the door till the bungling artist got up. The' sniith relates that lie found him there at opening hie shed : that the horse ad vanced to the forgo and held up . bisailing foot; and that he himself upon sexaminatiOn, discov ered the injury,_ took off the Shoe, and replaced it more carefully, which having been done, the sagaeinns creature set off at a merry pace homeward. Soon after, Mr. Lane's servant passed, by the forge in quest of the animal, and upon inquiry, received for answer---' Oh, he has been here and got shod, and has gone borne again.' WHAT DID THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ,DIE OF —The journals of the country are holding a post,mortem examination ovor.tho Democratic party. i All sorts of opinions are expressed as to thlycause of death. The verdict of the ma jority appears to be, "died of Douglas." One Journal, however, thinks that it died of the nineteenth century ; another says it died of old age and general imbecility. A very religious journal suggests that it died of visitation of God—fc,r its manifold sins. A Yankee says "the Little Giant sot on it, and killed it."— A wag insinuates that it tumbled off the plat form and broke its neck. A Southerner says' it was strangled while trying to swallow Squat. ter Sovereignty. A Northerner declares that its insides were burned out by an injudicious attempt at tire-eating. A lawyer says it died of the Prod Scott Decision. A delegate to Charleston says it became insolvent, owing to the hotel extortions of that city, and concluded to commit suicide: Another delegate says they went to Charleston with the motto, " Dou glas or death," and as they couldn't get Don las they had to " kick the bucket," as a mat ter of course. - TUE ATLANTIe QABI.E.HWO learn from par ties interested in the enterprise, that some 50 miles of tivi Atlantic. Cable" have been taken mp, to a point extending seaward 50 miles from the shores of Trinity Bay. Fractures -were found in the cable just where tiny had been indicated by the instruments on shore. The intention is to underrun a similar length of the wire on the European side, and it is then thought, by the sanguine promoters of ocean telegraphing, that the Atlantic cable will bti made to work. It cannot be questioned' that those concerned in this cable enterprise pos sess energy and hopeful temperarnents.—Bos lon .75.ansert:pt. .. e . i An abbreviation riot to be found it books, is to be .found on a tombstone in Dun kirk. The mourners intended to put an old aunt to sleep . with the customary phrase, "Let her rest.in piece," but the space on the Stone gave out at the close of the word " her." The ready-witted sculptor, however, inserted the initials, and pow the denr old lady sleeps be eeLth the isocklio, but Inelegant epitaph,'! Let nor MURDER ON A SrE'Ailtii.-One Man's throat 'Celt—Two oat+ Passevers Patch& Stabbed.— The 'steamer B. L. Hodge, on her list triti from Shreveport to New Orleans, Was the scene of a frightful trrigedY. - • A . Mtin calling himself It. L. Sleath camp on board at ShreVeport and registered himself as a deck passenger for NeW Orleans. On the next evening after leaving Shreveport lie came to Captain . 11. Martin, (who was is. com mand of the boat,) and expressed a desire to be I allowed to , change .his passage front deck to the 1 ca bin, whch was acceded to, and a stateroom wa s assigned him by the oleark. .11aVing a small amount of money in his possessitn he d e posited It with the clerk. Between two and three o'clock on the fol lowing morning, while almost all the pawn gem were asleep kseveral gentleman woreaill sitting up tonversing,) Sheath suddAnly stqi ped lip behind one of them (named F. U. Jir nigen) and caught him around the head, drtw ci • OPERATOR. bowie DEATH OF A TELEGRAPH abowie knife from behind him, and attempt -.—The Marietta; Ohio, papers announce the ed to cut his throat. He was prevented fron death of George L. Slocomb, a teleg!aphioope making a fatal wound by Jernig'en -catchini rotor at that place. A short time since, while the blade, of the knife in one has and Sleath ho was sitting at the instrument in his o ffi ce arm with the other. He, however, . receivei during the prevalence of a heavy storm, the a very severe wound across the throat. lightening ran in upon the wires and corn- The passengers who were asleep were roused. the stunned him. A few days developed by the noise and excitement in the cabin atul v tho horrible fact that his limbs were paralyzed the boat running into the bank. Just at that Ind his mucles almost totally deprived of ac time a gentleman, named Charles M. Fort, ,ion. The paralysis, gradually extended over coining out of his state-room into the cabin, lie body, and death ended his a ffl iction. was fatally stabbed by Sleath, and expired in a few moments. lie resided in Springfield, , II „, a. E E YE DECEIVED.—Orange or lemon juice, Robertson county, Tenn. Another passenger, 11% upon a knife, or other piece of iron, will in named R. J. Lyle, of Nashville, Tenn., being afew days, produce a stain so nearly resem oused by the noise, opened his stateroom door Ling that caused by blood, as to deceive the to look out, and was immediately stabbed b e y ~ met careful observer; and not many years Sleath. Lyle only said, "I am stabbed , n in Paris, a man was nearly convicted of and expired without a groan, the bowie knife nutder, owing to a knife being found in his having penetrated the heart. toliession stainbd with what was pronounced At this juncture the captain, who . had been y everal witnesses to be blood, but which asleep in his room„was called, and corning wastfterwards discovered to be lemon juice, into tlie cabin lie succeeded in getting the knife from Sleath, and then secured him. The mur- - -- -- darer had upon his person at the time of, his arrest several other knives and a revolver. The murderer is a deformed creature, tir i laji in stature, broken-backed, and all twenty eight years of age. He , !fliii he was a native of Weston, Lowey county, Virginia, and_ that lie had been. teaching school at It place called ICtuaville, in Cherokee county, Texas.. The reason given by him for committing the deed were that they were the parties who were seeking his life—although they had never met before. He acknowledged the deed, but does not seem to care particularly about it.—Nele •Orleans Picayune. A BRUTAL. ACT.—A Man Vii//3 a Horse,s longue from its tilwith. The Troy Times of the 4;1 ult., published the sccount 'of a brutal act perpetrated in that city on Monday last, by a man named Thomas bowning. It apppears that Downing's team were in the cellar-way, pulling on a heavy load of stones or dirt. They refused to draw, when Down ing, in a momentary fit of passion, stepped to the head of one of the animals, and opening its mouth caught hold of the tongue and pull ed it out I At least three inches of the tongue was pulled off, and the piece was left lying for some time afterwards on a stone—it being wit nessed by quite a number of people. The•story of the cruelty was rapidly Circulated, and a gentleman :went to have the passionate man arrested under the statute punishing with se verity such cruelty to dumb beasts. Downing followed him, to the Detective's office, and beg ged so hard to be let off, that the gentleman did not care to press the matter further, though it is probable that the man will be ar rested, since all agree that something should be done to punish him forhisunnatural crime. Downing states that he did not mean to.pall the tongue out, but only took hold of' it irt•or der to make the horse draw. He says he hag seen other people do so, and had no Koh: the, tongue would come off. lie thinks the'bitiut it in the first place, so that with the strain of his pulling it separated front the mouth: 'The animal belongs to.him, and will probably have to be despatched, as it will be impossible for the poor beast to eat hereafter. • It is to be hoped that such a cruel act will meet with suitable punishment. RATS VERSIiS TIME.—Tho Troy Times tells the following rat story: Something more than six months ago Mr. Leonard Edwards, who lives on Fourth street, lost a valuable gold watch, worth about $llO. He placed it upon a stand when he wont to bed at night, after winding it up—twisting the chain over it us usual. When he got up in the morning it was nowhere to be found. Yesterday after noon having occasion to make some repairs a bureau in his room was removed, and the floor taken up to get at the base board. A large hole had been eaten in the carpet and .the floor underneath it by predatory rats. In a snug corner between the joists was a large pest of varied articles, such as bits of paper, old rags, remnants of cheese, cloths, shavings and timepiece, carefully stowed away. There was a dent upon the face, the crystal was broken, an4somo disarrangement of the tria chinery indicated a severe shock. lIAUDEN. —A Belvidere correspondent of the Newark Advertiser, says that Harden appears quite calm in his mind, and expresses hopes of salvation. At his special request, Mr. Day, of tilt M. E. Church, visits him frequently.— He is much annoyed by the statements fre quently made about him in the newspapers.— He has never intimated an ihtentiori of making liconfession, nor has he said that "if he hung, others would have to hang with him." Neith er has he made any attempt to commit suicide. Harden•will he hung in the jail yard, an in closed space which will measure about one hundred feet either way. This small area will preclude the possibility of a large number assembling near the scaffold,. but • if the same plan is followed as in previous executions, available •spots for witnessing the hanging may be gained on many of the surrounding build ings. RETURNED AFTER A CAPTIVITY OF THIRTEEN Yznas.—Mr. George Brubaker, a citizen of Lancaster County, Pa., reached St. Joseph, Mo., last Wednesday, on his Way home. lie was captured by a band of 'Camanches while on his way to California in 1847; thirteen years ago, and has just escaped from them. After becoming acquainted with the language and habits of the Indians, ho was made a medicine man, and in that capacity did a great deal of good among them, and has succeeded in con verting over two hundred to the christian reli gion. It was only after the most solemn prom ises that he would return, that they would al low him to depart, and he will go back as soon as he has seen his family, who have mourned him for years as dead. . firlli—One Dr. J. E. Ealing, alias Elliott, who claimed to have belonged to the surgical staff of the Medical Department ofQueen Victoria, and who signed himself " Operating Surgeon to the Queen of Great Britan," was arrested on the 19th, in. Washington, where he had boon practicing as an aurist, because his 0110 ms to scientific knowledge were not sustained by a medical diploma. He was held to bail in the sum of $1,000,. the Justice consenting to take $3OO in cash as security for the Doctor's appearance. His rooms at the National were vacated before the time came for his trial, much to the indignation of his patients, •one of whom 'had paid him $5OO. Thrza—A Novel Vessel awl Strange Motive Power.—Yestorday morning a large concourse of people assembled on the banksof the Alle ghany, on both sides, to see Torn 'Watson, the. Mr. Mr. Merryman, of Spaudling & Roger's Mammoth Circus, perform his novel feat of sailing down thy river in a wash tub drawn by four geese. Soon after eleven Tom started in ~his tub, at a point above thmaqueduct, drawn by his geese, which seamed very tractable, passed under the Hand and St. Clair street bridges, where ho was greeted with the shout of the Multitude there assembled, and effected a landing near the point,—Pittsburg Post. sEti Three of the four ex-President of the United States were in New fork city lest week—Messrs. Van Buren, Fillmore and Pierce—and all of them in excellent health,— Mr. Van Buren is aged 78 ; tVlr. Fillmore aged 60; Gen. Fiero aged 56. . . THE Cuhitrientsittf..—A correniondent of The Tiohil'on, Morning Post says: "If Sayers. were ,equal to maintaining the position of Champion he ought to have upheld it, as he has led the public to expect he would. If, however, he finds that his arm is perm,. nently injured, or that from any other cause it is desirable that he should give up the belt, he lie should have done so at once and openly— stating his reasons—and ho might hate retir ed with honor to himself and satisfaction to his countrymen. As it is at this moment, Heenan is Champion of Englaed. Sayers.has retired, and Heenan defends the bolt against all corners. This is tantamount to an acknowl. edgement of defeat by Sayers. If he had made it a little earlier, the people of England —lords and Indies, tinkers and tailors—would not have subscribed £5,000 for the petted hero of the prize ring." MuE WIFEt PonoNiso.—Alexander Moore was clested in Manchester, New Hampshrie, on Mnday a week upon the charge of whole sale pisoning. The victims of his attempt ore huWife, daughter, son-in-law, and servant girl, tie charged that Moore placed• white lead orsome other poisonows matter in the flour dad by the family. All the persons named are in !very critical condition, and but faint hopes ar entertained of their recovery. VACANV IN TUE U. S. SUPREME COURT.- Justice Dniol of the United States Supreme Court die on Thursday last. The vacancy will be, tied by appointment by the Presi dent. hove you to Dympepaia the Asthma? the Liver Complaint, or leneral Debility? does your food dis tress you Dr 'offer froni nary , — • ' ennui all them BM which this article ias attained. For Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Bun, Bruises, Stiff Joints, or tlaids, t , Sprain, Polo Evil, nd S ellings upon Horses, it has no equal. No peon till bo without it who has once tested its valu. n nd with reference to the general estimation f th Mustang Liniment, I can cheerfully say thatno article ever performed' so many cures in ourue hborbood as this. L. W. SMITH, Ridgefieltleo 1." E. LEITCII, Esq., Hyde Park., Vi., writes, 'tha the horse was considered worthless, (his camas pavin,) but since the freo use of the MnstaugLiniinetit I have sold him for l $l5O. Your Linim, Iskoing wonders up here."— Suchtestimony is r h g us every day.. The half 'itt tot sold. Every e icy should have it. Beware irnaktion!:' The vino Mustang is sold by all riaspletalAS dealerq I upout the world. ARNES A. PARK,. Proprietors, New York. —lm May 30,1860. CATARRH ! CAIIRH ! CATARRH What is IA How Cured ? Thousands of person :differ all sorts of annoyance front Catarrh. Most polo know what its inconve nience and results aro, YLut few know how it can be cured. It is simply t4ronic irritation, and often enlargeinent of follicles id consequent thickening of the mucous ramnbranclning the nasal cavities, frontal sinuses, and sclbnes extending into the throat and lungs. From; is result tightness and i often vertigo of the hoinV i strueted- nose, or a pro fuse flow of mucus, loss °moll, nasal voice, and often impaired hearing an4stc. The old-school retnedies‘ve never been able to I do any thing for it. Naxaloctions and inhalations are ns painful and expensiso they are generally worthless. Yet, Ilumphre, Catarrh Eapecifie, a simple Sugar Pill, taken twlr three times per day, promptly cures the milder