STAR OF THE NORTH. H. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. Iffoomsburg, Wednesday, Jtuly 2, 1856. DEMOCRATIC IW>MIMTIONjf. FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES BUCHANAN, OF PENNSYLVANIA. ' FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KENTUCY. CANAL COMMISSIONER, fxEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia County. AL'BLTOR GENERAL, JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery Co. WANTED AT THIS OFFICE. An active intelligent boy RS an apprentice to the printing business. One of 17 or 18 years desirable. Til K MISSOURI COM PROMISE. There has been so much misrepresentation upon this subject that a true and impartial history of the facts is necessary. The "com promise'' was the wotkof the South, (says Ben ton) sustained by Ihe united voice of Mr. Monroe's cabinet, the united voice of the Southern Senators, and a majority of the Southern Representatives. In the Senate there wera 16 votes against i l , and all of these were from Northern ncn-ilave holding States. Even up to 1848 the Democrats honestly sustained it, and the very men who now rave furiously for the "Missouri compromise" were its destroyers. In proof: when the bill to establish a territorial government in Oregon came up in the United States Senate Judge Douglass proposed to extend the Mis souri compromise line to the Pacific, and every vote against that proposition came from Northern members. Among the Senators who then voted against the line of 36° 30' was WM. L. DAVTON, the present Republican can didate for Vice President, John P. Hale, Han nibal Hamlio, Thomas Corwin, John Davis and Daniel Webster. (See Benton's Thirty Years ir. the U. S. Senate vol. 11. p. 711 for this rote.) That proposition of Douglass was voted down in the House by Northern Wtiigs, Freesoilcrs and Abolitionists—in fact by the very political brawlers who now stand at the head and front of thu new Republican parly. It was that class of men who for political agitation first, in 1846, proposed to violate the compromise of 1821. By that compro mise slavery was permitted to exist south ol the line of 36° 30', and the YVilmot proviso of 1846 first proposed to violate that enact ment by prohibiting slavery in all territory to be acquired from Mexico. Judge Douglass then proposed to extend the Missouri line to the Pacific, and the present Republican lead ers then as in 1848 opposed the extension of the line. In 1847 Mr. Bnchanan wrote a loiter to his friends in Berks county in favor of extending the Missouri line to th Pacific. Iminsdislrly urjon the acquisition of a Urge territory from Mexico, President Polk in his last message to Congress recommended the extension of the Missouri line to the Pacific. But the old weapons of warfare against the Democratic party had become dull and worn out, and a new cry of terror was needed.— The bank was dead, and the tariff was set tled. The desperate demagogues and furious agitators continued to fight against this souri compromise line," and defeated the propositions of Douglass, Buchanan and Polk lo extend it to the Pacific. And then necessity required that some oth er basis of adjustment be found to settle this agitation. The North would not agree to le galize slavery in the new territories, and the South would not agree to have it prohibited. The Freesoilers and Abolitionists bad broken down the Missouri line as a basis of settle ment, but ibey bad no other to offer in its place: for their object was agitation and not peace. And then it was that the patriotic statesmen of the whole republic joined to calm the storm, and a Committee was ap pointed in the United Slates Senate to report a plan of settlement. That Commi'iee was Clay, Cass, Dickinson, Bright, Webster, Phelps, Cooper, King, Mason, Downs, Mar.- gum, Bell and Berrien; and from it Htmy Clay made a report which embodied the principle since forming the basis of the Kan sas sod Nebraska bill. The following is the resolution : Resolved that as slavery does not exist by law, and is not likely to be introduced into any of the territory acquired by the United States from the Republic of Mexico, it is in expedient for Congress to provide by laic either for Us introduction into or exclusion from any part of the said territory; and that appropriate > territorial governments ought to be establish ed by Congress in all of the said territory not assigned as the boundaries of the proposed Slate of California, without the adoptwn of any restriction or condition on the subject of slavery. This contains the principle ol popular sov. -ereignty nr let-alone policy, which has since been copied into the Kansas-Nebraska act; and that principle therefore dates to 1850 and rtol HSS4 for its first adoption ; and finds its origin in ihe committee of thirteen with Hen ry Clay at the head, and not in Judge Doug- J ass. UR AT the late State election in New York the Know-Nothings and Republicans united and so defeated tire Democrats by a oraaM majority. But already the lotion is dissolv ed, and ihe Republican Governor has sus pended from office (he Know-Nothing State Treasurer upon chatges of corruption prefer red by the Lieutenant Governor and Slate Engineer. QT The day fixed for the election of elec tors to elect a President and Vice President of the United Stales, is Ihe fiist Tuesday af ter the first Monday in November. It will fall this year upen the fourth day of the vnonlb. I3f Those Know-Nothings who would like to vote lor Fremonl will be a little staggered by reflecting that be ie only one remove Irem an odious "furriner." Senator Sumner's Illness. We do not, of oourae. justify the assault upon Senator Sumner, happening where it did, but the 'low game now being played by that distinguished Abolitionist,must dissipate all further sympathy for him and his exagger ated sickness. It he did not deserve chas tisement for his coarse assault upon an ab sent Senator, he certainly deserves the lash of ridicule for permitting himself to he usud as a *tandin£sebject for falseltieod. Like the "outrages in Kansas," his condition ha-> been magnified by lying, Abolition reports in the newspapers, when at no period, since his caning, has he been in the slightest danger. It may have suited Mr. Sumner's purpose, 'after being whipped, to pretend that he was much worse Ibau he really waa. .Had he not done so, he would have been expected to make himself even by challenging his as sailant, or cudgeling him in return ; but there is no possible excuse for bis lying in bed such weather as this is, when he could be in the Senate attending to hia public duties.— But the "outrages in Kansas" having grown stale, fiat and unprofitable, his bruises were the only mati'rial available for Abolition thun der. And it had been made the most of; we have no recollection of so great a business having been done, in any similar case, on so small a capital. I t order to prove this, we must direct attention to the following state ment of Mr. Suninet's physician, given under oaih, before the House committee of inves tigation : ' I have seen no medical man with him but myself. There has been cone there.— There are a great many friends present, and they make Mr. Sumner out a great deal worse than he is. They say he has a fever. I have never discovered any. I have been his constant attendant, and I have never known his pulse at any moment higher than eighty two. 1 yesterday corrected an anicle in the Intelligencer stating that lie had a fever, and the correction appears in to day's paper. He ! has no fever to my knowl dge. I have vis ited him twice a day. His brother said he ought not to come out,and cited a great many cases that had come under bis observation , in Paris, \ihere death had taken place six | weeks from tdows on the head. His brother I is not a medical man. Senator Sumner, of I course, took the advice of his brother and I his friends, and I, of course, allowed them to do as thuy thought proper. Perhaps 1 ought J to state my reason for objecting to his com ing out ou Friday. There was a good deal of excitement at that time, and 1 thought that, if Mr. Sumner did not go into the Sen ate for a day or two, the excitement might wear off." Again : "I think this: that Mr. Sumner might have taken a carriage and driven as far as Balti more on the next day without injury." A parly that resorts lo such contemptible tricks as this to make partisan capital, must be in a pitiful condition indeed ; but what can be thought of him who permits himseif lo be used for so base and contemptiblo a Kuril Cashed. The Washington Organ, Know Nothing, or iiAt much, relates an apocryphal circum stance, told by tho venerable Mr. A., (very definite authority) which took place in the Legislature at llarrisburg, two years before M r . Buchanan was a member of that body. The ciicvJ.mstance, or rather falsehood, out of which political capital is to be made, is (hat Mr. Buchanan refused to participate in some mark of respect about to be paid to a compa ny of ship carpenters, on their way to Lake Erie, to build ships of war. The pitiful li beller says Mr. B. left the Capitol in disgust at this testimonial, when he was not there until nearly two years after the carpenters had commenced building a fleet on Lake Erie. The only weapons to be used, it seems, are in.) .ideuee an 1 unblushing false hood. Finding it impossible to find a single spot upon which to fix their harpy claws, du ing the whole long life ol Mr. Buchanan, they wickedly resort to deliberate lying. The plot will not succeed. It has often been tried, and neatly covers its authors with irredeemable infamy and contempt. The Old I.iue Whig* of t'onnrctlcut. The amalgamation of the Know Nothings with the Republicans in Connecticut has left the Old Line Whigs no alternative, says the Journal of Commerce, but either to abstain Irom taking any part in the Presidential elec lion, or uniting with the Democrats in the choice of Buchanan anil Breckenricge.— A large number of them will adopt the latter course. Among those who have publicly ta I ken this position are Col. Hazard, late Chair- | man of the Central Whig Committee ; Hon. | Charles Chapmau, lute Whig member of Congtess from .ha Hartford district; N. Mor gan, Esq.; Philip S. Gilpin, recently elected Mayor of New Haven by the Democrats, and many others. Look ut it Squarely. The New York Tribune indignantly denies 1 that it was owing to ex Governor Johnston's being a Know Nothing,that he was excluded from the Black Republican nomination at Philadelphia, but because his name would repel thousands in this Slate from supporting the ticket. Quite complimentary. The Union is now complete between the most odious wing of the Know Nothings and the Black Republicans. Proscribing white men it) consequence of their religious creed, and elevating the negro above the foreigner, seems now lo be the main plauk in their po litical platform. Iy The Odd Fellows of Berwick will cel ebrate the Fourth in the grove directly oppo site the town. F. Stewart, Esq., is to deliv er the oration, C. E. Wtight, Esq., of Wilkes barre, the Odd Fellows' address; and iu the evening the Committee ptomise a grand dis play of fire works from the river baok. Daowsco.—On last Thursday a young man named Frederick Keck was drowned in the river at Berwick while eudeavoring to swim across the Falls. He is supposed to have been from Reistentown, Baltimore county, Maryland. j Democratic Convention Ue-Hssembled- The Hon. TIMOTHY IVES, having withdrawn his name a 9 a candidate for Surveyor Gener al, in a communication addressed to the Democratic Slate Central Committee, at its fast meeting in Harrisburg, a resolution was adopted by that Committee, calling upon Ihe officers and delegates of '-the last Democratic Stale Convention, to assemble at Chambers burg, on Wednesday, the sixth day of August next, at 10 o'clock A. M., to nominate a candidate for Surveyor General, to fill Ihe va cancy created by the declination of Judge Ives. In pursuance of this action of the Democratic Starg Central Committee, the of ficers and delegates of Ihe last Democratic Slate Convention, are respectfully requested to meet at the time and place above men tioned. and for the purpose staled. JOHN W. FORNEY, Chairman. G. G. WESTCOTT, J „ . . I. G. MCKINLEV, { Octanes. iy Democratic papers throughout the Stale will please copy. Meeting of Ihe State Central Committee.—' HARRISBUHO, June 25.—At a meeting of the Slate Central Committee, held at Omit's Ho tel, this day, Judge Iveß sent in a let'er of declination as a candidate for Surveyor Gen eral. The letter was accepted, and the Com mittee appointed the sixth day of August for the assembling of the State Convention, at Chambersburg, to nominate a candidate in his stead. After transacting other important business, the Committee adjourned, to meet] at the call of the Chairman. I The Committee also adopted a resolution for the holding of Mass Meetings at Pitts burg, Erte, Chambersburg, Athens, Bradford county, Philadelphia, Bellfonte, and Harris burg, during the Presidential Campaign. The days on which the meetings are to be held, and other arrangements will be announced in due tic e. iy The Fillmore National Club of New York was transterred bodilv, a night or two ago, to ihe Fremont Republicans, by some of the w ire-pullers, without the knowledge or consent of the Club. The first meeting alter the act was called for Tuesday night last, and it drew a great crowd of the Fill more men, when rather a rich, though dis orderly scene ensued. Tho members refus ing to be "sold," repudiated the act of Ihe President of the Association. A motion to thow him out of ihe window was followed by his immediate retreat down Ihe stairs.— The Association resumed its old name and pledged itself to go lor Fillmore and Donel eon.—Ledger. NEBRASKA. —WhiIe civil commotion has existed in Kansai for the last year, Nebraska has gone on quietly and peacefuly increas ing in its growth and population. Brown vtlle, in Nemaha county,has 400 inhabitants. The town site is one of the best points on the upper Missouri forcommercial purposes, hav ing a fine sione landing. It is directly east ol Fort Kearny, to which place it is connect 'erpiti yt will, aje 'gUHN be. the grsat emigrating point lor that station, and from thence to California. There is more good timber near at hand than at any other point in the territory. Coal and stone abound in the vicinity. A F'itd Jor Missionaries. —The New York Sun suggests that missionaries be sent out to Christianize Utah. This is a good suggestion. We have Utah now knocking at our doors to be admitted into the Union, and before long we shall have to take her with all her pagan practices, for uotwithsisnding the Anti-Mor mon plank of the ''Republican" plaiform, Congress cannot constitutionally make any "law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."— Why not send missionaries to Salt Lake to Christianize them before they are republican ized f We send them to the antipodes to convert heathens and here we have the hea thens at our very doors.— Ledger. Cy A young man was well nigh being ru ined by a legacy left him a few years since by his father. It was twenty-five thousand dollars, and the career he ran in Chicago made him a pauper and a miserable broken down loafer, who was, from a liberal sowing ol wild oats, reaping a most abundant crop of repentance. In this mood and tense it was announced to him that a deceased un cle had left him thirty thousand dollars "Oh! dear!" was his exclamation, "have I got to go through all this again? It'll kill me. just as sure as shooting! It is no use to fight against late—they ere bound to ruin me !" Chicago paper. Fillmore Electors Declining. —We see by our exchange paper?, thai in Virginia, the candi date* nominated for electors on the Fillmore ticket, are declining to run since Mr. Buch anan has been nominated. S. S. Weigsler, of Amelia, J. H. Gilmer, ol Richmond R. B Davis, oj Louisa, W. W. Cosby, of Gooch land, and G. W. Billings, of Petersburg, de cline to act as Presidential electors. In Mississippi, Amos R. Johnston, Esq., one of the candidates for elector, on that ticket, for the State at large, has also de clined. tw The Boston Courier, Old Line Whig, long known an the home organ of the late Hon. Daniel Webster, says: "The Democrats of our city and State, and of all the New England States, including N. Hampshire, receive the nomination of Mr. Buchanan for the office of President, with the most exulting exhibitions of joy and satis faction. We hear some open and straight old-fashioned Whigs say (hat they will vote for him." CHOPS.—The farmers in this region will rejoice in bountiful crops this year. The weevil has injured the wheat in some cases, but not to much us last year. The grass crops are everywhere large. IT Hon. Richatd drodhead, of the U. S. Senate, has our thnnks for a large and hand some Map of Central America, and other val uable Public Documents. BP* In the Village of Hazellon there are two licensed Hotels, five licensed Ale Hous es and one Store. Another Rope Blasted- The Free Soil and Abolition Jootnals have been exulting with almost byatertcal delfri um, a: the possibility that that distinguished gentleman, the Hon. John A. Dix, formerly United States Senator Irom the Slate of New York, would give the weight of his com manding influence in favor of Black Repub licanism. Mowing letter from him, addressed to tba4gd > <Oemooratic meeting at Knchester, settles This question effectually.— Read it careftrHy. NEW YORX, June 17lh, 1856. Gentlrrrun —l have just received your invi tation to address u meeting of the United Democracy or the city of Rochester and county of Monore, on the evening of the 19th inst., to ratify the nominations for the Presi dency and Vice Presidency, at Cincinnati, by the delegated Democracy of the Union, and to respond to the declarations of piincipie and policy made by the Convention. Concurring, as 1 do, cordially in the nomi nations, and assenting to the leading decla rations, by which they are accompanied, as practical rules for future guidance, I regret lhat engagements here will deprive me of the pleasure of accepting your invitation. I hope, however, to be able, at an early peri od of the canvass, to take an active part in it. I consider thd notfilnatlou or Mr. Buchan an a very fortunate one, both for the Democ racy and the country; and I look with confi dence to his ability, experience and soand judgment, for a satisfactory adjustment of the disturbing questions, by which the public peace is endangered. Firmness, moderation, good sense and fearlessness in the discharge of official duty are always indispensable to the administration of our government, rep resenting, as it does, so great a Variety of interests; and they are pre-eminently so at the present juncture. Few of our public men are as much distinguished fot these qualities as Mr. Buchanan; and he combines with them a thorough knowledge of public affairs, foreign as well as domestic. Believ ing him to be able, honest, and equal to any emergency likely to arise in the administra tion of Government, I shall give to the Dem ocratic ticks; a eorJia! support. I am, gentlemen, truly yours, JOHN A. DIX. Home Truth- A correspondent of the Boston Traveler, writmgjfrom the "West," says the scramble Tor land in the new Territories is greater than the scramble for bread in the old settled States. Millions of acres are uncultivated, bnt all the choice spots are extravagantly dear. Speculators have got hold of nearly all the marketable lands, and those who want cheap land for cultivation have to go still fur ther in'o the wilderness, and still more re mole front all that makes life desirable—so ciety and civilization. This confirms the re cent statement made by a correspondent of the Ledger, who had been out to Minnesota looking at the chances there for enterprise, but watt satisfied that if an indi vidual in the country would sub mit to one half the deprivations required of him in the new countries of the West, he will grow rich at home much faster than in that region. The active, intelligent, indus trious and saving will do well anywhere, but in the West, without these qualities, an indi vidual is miserable indeed. A-friendly Visit. We learn that a number of distinguished Philadelphia gentlemen, personal friends of Col. Joseph R. Prxtou, of Cattawisa, contem plate paying him a friendly visit on the 4th of July. They have, for that purpose, pro cured a most beautiful passenger car, built at their own expense, in the most gorgeous and costly manner. The old "Cattawissa," the first engine that evei run in Pennsylvania, and which was impnrted from Eng'and some thirty years been overhauled, and remodeled, and will bring up the train, A number of genllvmen from Pottsville, Dan ville and other places have been invited to join them in the.r excursion. They expect to arrive at Cattawissa about noon, and in the atternoon intend to visit our enterprising borough, to take a peep at our stupendous iron works. Tti9 compliment thus intended to (tie Colonel, who stands identified with nearly every important improvement in this ■ section of country—the great pioneer of every publio enterprise within his reach—is as del icately conceived, as it is well merited. Danville Democrat. Lycoming Insurance Company. —By the an nual report of lhs> Company it appears that during the past jiaar its losses by fire have been <78,961 26, irhich includea also the ex pense of SiljuwUtiffhe i-laims. The Compa ny has not sustained any part of this loss in Columbia county, although it has many in sured here. The total amount of its hyets over all liabilities is estimated at <4,346 36. Hr Mr. Fillmore, intending to be compli mentarv to the politicians who surrounded him on his arrival at New York, said that when he stepped c shore at Naples he was surrounded by beggars, but in New York he was surrounded by freemen. It is a little curious that Mr. Fillmore should have thought of beggars the moment he was surrounded by politicians. Land Offices Closed. —We lesrn from the Milwaukee Sentinel that all the Land Offices in Wisconsin have been closed until the land granted for railroad purposes shall have been selected. The Land Officii"ln lown have also been closed. A Handsome Iron Bridge is to be built at Chicago, 111., costing <48,000, the posts to be ofcaM iron, the balance ol the bridge of the best wrought iron*. The Galena and Chica go, and the Illinois Central Rrailroad Com panies are to bear <(0,000 of the whole ex pense. ttr Sir Benjamin Biodie, the leading sur geon in England, ha* an income of £17,000 a year; never operates on anything under an Earl or a Bisbop'a leg, and receives a fee of Uiomost pnorn-ous kind. Arrival of the Greatda i> IK, Orleans. Two Weeks Later from California. New ORLEANS, Jane 26.—The steamship Grenada arrived, to-day, from Aspinwall, bringing date* from San Francisco to the sth inst. The steamship Illinois had left Aspinwall for New York with $2,250,000 in gold and 900 passengers. The excitement at San Frandisco continues unnbated. Casey arid Cora were hung on the 22d ult. The luneral ot Mr. King took place on the same day, and perfect decorum was observ ed throughout the whole proceedings. The Vigilance Committee had arrested several other desperate characters, including the notorious Yankee Sullivan. On the Ist inst. Sullivan committed'suicide in his cell at the committee rooms, leaving a confes sion in regard to the election in San Frao cisco. On the 2d inst. the opponents of the Vigil ance Committee attempted to hold a meeting to denounce the committee, but it proved a total failure. Several murdets and accidents are record ed in the interior. The health oi San Francisco was good, and business moderately active. | Rumors wete circulated that Gov. Johnson would call into requisition means to suppress the revolution, but no such steps bad yet been taken. These rumors had created much excitement throughout the State, and word had come that 1,000 men were ready to march to the assistance of the Committee.— Sacramento also offers to furnish one thou sand men. Maitial law has been declared in San Fran cisco, and the excitement is on the increase. The Committee are determined to carry out the:r measures, and continue making arrests. The opposition are organizing with 700 atand of arms, and rumors prevail of an at tack on the Committee rooms, which are doubly guarded, with two cannons before the door loaded with grape. All the papers in San Francisco,except the Herald, side with the Committe. OREGON. The Indian hostilities in Oregon have been partially suppressed. WASHINGTON. A difficulty had occurred in Washington, on account of an attempt by Judge Saunders to hold Court during the existence of martial law. The Judge had been made a prisoner, and would be kept so until peace was estab lished. FROM THE ISTHMUS. Advices from Costa Rica state that the ar my has been disbanded. The cholera is ra ging throughout the State. Baron Barlow died of cholera during the retreat of the army. There is nothing startling from Nicaragua. Later Irom England—No Probibllity of H It. By a telegraph despatch received last night we hate baen placed in the possession of four days later from England,—the leading feature of which is that the British Ministry have been so completely taken aback by the masterly oppose of the enlistment business contained in ihe dispatches of the American Government, that they have very wisely con oluded to let the whole question rest where Mr. Marcy has placed it, and so far from desiring to go to war upon the subject, will not dismiss Mr. Dallas from the British Coart. This decision is sensible and judici ous.— Pennsylvanian. Kansas! Kausast II the public needed any other proof that the whole outcry about ruffianism in Kan sas, has been got up purely for political ef fect, it may be found in the fact that the Black Republican majority in the House of Representatives, in Congress, have not made the slightest attempt to put a stop to the out rages which have been committed by "Bor der Ruffains" from Missouri, and "Puritan Ruflfains" from New England—the Round Heads, or Rifie Christians. If the Black Re-' publicans could elect a Speakerof the House, they could have passed a law long before this to have settled Uuffainism in Kansas, come from what quarter it might. At least they could have tried, if they had been so disposed. No. So long as political capital can be made for their faction, they will pre vent a settlement of the question, if possi ble.— Pennsylvanian. . Kansas Uill Defeated. The House Kansas bill was defeated yes terday, by one vote. The Black Republi cans could elect their speaker, but could not pass their Kansas electioneering propo sition. Is there a screw loose any where! Law Beginning to Reign in Kansas. —Col. Sumner, under tbe authority of the Federal Government, has asserted the supremacy of the law in Kansas, where lately violence and outrage reigned triumphant. He has the prin cipal roads guarded, to prevent any armed bodies from passing, and is putting under ar rest all who are implicated in the late outra ges. So far so good. Tbe next best thing he could do would be to seize all thepartizan letter-writers or correspondents of tbe press, end trot them briskly beyond the borders of the Territory, into Missouri. There will nev er be peace in the Territory while there ex ists in it such e manufactory of lies in full op eration.—Ledger. Industry and Its BUssings. —People may tell you of your being unfit for some peculiar occupation in life, but heed them not. What ever employment you follow with persever ance and assiduity will be found fit for you; it will be your support in youth and comfort in age. In learning the useful part of any profession, very moderate abilities will suf fice ; great abilities are generally injurious to the possessors. Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion still improve* by ob serving that the most swift are ever the most apt to stray from the course. Hr At Mur.cy there have lately been some cases of small-pox in that irregular form known as "crystalline" by medical men.— 80 far only one case has proved fatal, and that was a child of very delicate constitu tion. | ARRIVAL OF THE ILLINOIS. LATER FROM CALIFORNIA. The steamer Illinois arrived at New York on Saturday, the ißth instant, with 900 pas sengers, arid $2,270,000 in gold. She con nected at the Isthmus with the steamer Gold en Age, which brought down $7,658/000. The steamer Sierra Nevada, over dus from Gicaragua, had not arrived when the Golden left. Immediately on arrival she was to be dispatched wilb troops for General Walker. EXECUTION OF CORA AtiD CASEY. Oil Wednesday, the 22ddayof May,a Cor oner's inquest wss held on the body of Mr. King, intelligence of the assassination of I whom by James P. Casey, was transmitted ito the East by the last steamer. Evidence I was taken which went to implicate Edward McGowan and Peter Wightman in the assas sination of Mr. King. It had been given out that the prisoners would not be executed till Friday, yet for some reason an immense concourse of peo ple assembled near the CoiTimittee rooms on Thursday morning, despite the excitement existing in the upper part of the city, where preparations were being made for Mr. King's funeral. Towards noon the crowd increased, and at fifteen minutes past one the men were brought out on the platform in front of the building. Cora's fsce was covered, and he maintained silence, but Casey stepped for ward and spoke, denouncing the Alia Chron icle and Globe, for persecuting htm, denying that ho was guilty of murder, and stating that in attacking Mr. King, he had but aimed to tesent an insult. He also alluded feelingly to his mother, and begged that his name might be ignored, and that she might be kept in ignorance of bis fate. The word was ihen given, and the rope which supported the platform cut, and the souls of dames P. Casey and Charier Cora were no longer upon earth. The men fell about six feel. Cora made no motion after the falling of the trap, but Casey's legs were drawn up slightly. The execution took place at twertty min utes before one o'clock. All this while, a strong guard, armed with muskets, revolvers and sabrea, were stationed on every street leading to the CommitlM Rooms, and the outside spectators preserved the utmost or der. The friends of Caiey took his body, laid it in a "stale," and followed it, to the number of four or five hundred,to the grave. He had no relatives there, but leaves an aged moth er, who resides in New York. Cora's body was given to Bella Cora, who was married to him jest before his execution, and on whose account he killed General Richardson. She displayed the greatest devotion to him, ami attended htm with many signs of mourning to the cemetery. In another part of the city an immense fu neral procession—by far the largest ever wit nessed in California—followed the remains ol Casey's victim, James King, to the grave. Great liberality is being manifested by tbe cit'zeps of California ip behalf of the family of Mr King. In Socramento S3OOO has al ready been subscribed. In San Francico, $20,000 will be raised, while from many of l the interior towr.s considerable sums are I promised- | ARREST OK SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS. The Committee quietly proceeded in their work of inquiry into the conduct of certain leading characters who have had much to do with the management of elections. Af ter close, yet quiet investigation, it was de termined that the well known Yankee Sulli van and Charles P. Duane, Billy Mulligan, Wooley Kearney, Martin Gallagher, William Carr, John Cooney, and Edward Bulgar should be taken to the looms of the Commit tee. Their arrest was eflec'ed without disturb ance, though in the case of Duane and Mul ligan a disposition only was shown by out side parties to interfere to procure their re lease. ESCAPE OF NED MCGOWAN. For several days the Committee devoted their time to endeavoring to effect the arrest of Edward McGowan, a notorious accom plice of Casey, and who, along with him, had been indicted for the murder of King. Their efforts to bring him to justice—the scaffold— had not been successful, and it is probable that he left the country upon witnessing the fate of his confederate. The search fnr McGowan and Wightman | is not yet given over. Squads of the Com mittee searched for them indifferent portions | of the city, but without success. ELECTION FRAUDS DISCOVERED. One of the ballot-boxes uaed for "stuffing" has fallen into Ihe hands of tbe Committee, his a very ingenious pieon of workmanship, and contains a lalse bottom, whieb, by press ing a secret spring, is thrown open, and the ballots previously placed in it are counted with the regular vole, i ARREST AND SUICIDE OF VANKEK SULLIVAN. Billy Mulligan, Yankee Sullivar. and Mar [ tin Gallagher, were arretted and taken be fore the Committee. It was reported that Sullivan had claimed protection of the British Consul, as a subject of Great Britain. In the name of Heaven, what right had he | to officiate as an election judge at the Mis sion, some mouths ago? Yankee Sullivan afterwards withdrew hie claim to protection by the English govern ment as a subject of (hatcountry. Reason- Mr. Aikon, the British Consul, gave him to understand, that if a subject of Great Britain, he should pluce him in irons and send him to an escaped convict. Early on Friday morning, May 80th, the oily was stiired into a wordy uproar by the announcement thst Yankee Sullivao bad committed suicide Ihe night before, in his cell, at the rooms ol the Committee. This was true. He had severed the bronchial ar tery in his left aim with a knife which was laken to his cell with food. His body was oarried away by (he Coroner, an inquest held, and be was buried without any display. He made a confession wiib regard to tbe election frauds. The arrest of Sullivan caused some won derful developments concerning tbe ingetti out tystsm of ballot-box stuffing which has lor a long rime enabled the rogues of San Francisco to select whoever they pleased 10 ofhces of public trust. All '.be influential presses of the State bad endorsed the action of the Vigilance Commit tee, and ihe country people announced their | Approval by holding meetings and adopting dignified resolves. The miners, too, favored the new movement, and everywhere the ory was heard: "Let us rid the State of official corruption, purify the cities, and enforce good citizenship." IT One day last week, a dear little Lady, somewhat spread by the aid of a "whale bone," waa promenading along the atreet, monopolizing the to such an ex tent, that none were able to pass by, unless lakiag the middle of the road for it. She j was coming along by Steele's Hotel, when, | to her great dismay, her balloon burst, and I let the hoop through her dress to the etftenk | of a foot and a half; this sad accident created I quite a sensation among some gentlemen, I who happened to be in front of the Hotel; I some of them, out of sympathy, of course, threw her a quarter, and others, not o well provided with dollars, threw her a sixpence, intending to enable her to procure a new end more substantial sailing apparatus. I really pitied the dear Lady, bulwould not have been in her place for all the "quarters" in town. 1 hope that my lady friends will take warning by this sad calastrophe,nid dispense with this foolish and absurd fashion of hoop ing themselves ; but if they must be fashion able, let them at least be sure, before start ing on a promenade, that they don't explode the "whale."—FFi lkubarre Union. Disinfecting Agents. —The best and mot simple disinfecting egent kr.own is the chlo ride of zinc. It is made by dissolving zino in muriatic acid, and is applied in a dilated stale to foul and offensive drains, cesspools, &c. The sulphate of zinc, however, is neat ly as good, is cheaper, and is more easily managed. It can be purchased at any drag gist's in the form of a salt. A pound of it dissolved in two pails of warm water, and thrown into an offensive cesspool, will *>ou deodorize it. During the hot weather, thie disinfecting agent should be applied pretty freely in thousands of places in New York and other cities. Copperas (sulphate of iron J may be applied in the same manner and for the same purpose, ft is not such a good disinfectant as the chloride of zinc, bat it it much cheaper. EST Bamum has hit upon a capital plan to retrieve liia lallen fortunes. He is going to hunt the man who worked for ''ten cents a day" under a Democratic administration and the man whogot "two dollars a day and roast beet" under the rule of our opponent', and osrry them round the country fur exhibition. We believe he expects to find them some where in this country—or out of it—with ihe assistance of some dozens of Know Nothings, well armed, with "witch hazel."— Val. Spirit. Adoertising out I Vest. -A man in Wiscon sin, recemly adveitising his farm for sale, winds up as follows;—" The surrounding country is the most beautiful the God of na ture ever made. The scenery is celestial, divine: ; l-o two wagons to sell and a yoke of steers." Ilolloway's Ointment and Pills are the finest remedies for bad legs.—Francis Tom kinsott, ol Ottawa, Michigan, had the mis fortune six years ago to break his leg, which was imperfectly let by the doctor, the con sequence was, that it formed itself into an angry wound, and despite of the various rem edies he tried, he could not get anything to cause it tu heal, and n was feared by all who knew him, that he would be lame all hialife. About four months ago he commenced using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which soon caused an improved appearance in the leg, he continued them for nine weeks, and the leg is sound, to the astonishment of all whu knew hitn. On last Sunday evening, in the Episcopal Church, in Bloomsburg, by the the Rev. Mr. Tullidge, Mr. PETER HARMAN and Mils RE BECCA FREEZE, both of this place. In Berwick, on Tuesday, the 17th init., by the Rev. I. Bahl, Mr. HinAM SwEPESHEiim. and MUS MATILDA HESS, both of Lima Ridge. Columbia coutny, Pa. At the same time and place, by the same. Mr. REUBEN HILL, ol Dixon, Illinois, and Mrs. CATHARINE HILL, of Salem, Luzerne county, Pa. On the 12th insl., by the Rev. J. M. Young, Mr. ABRAHAM EHRWINE, of Centre township, and Misa REBECCA A. Ho WEB, of Ml. Pleas ant, Columbia county. May 14th, 1856, by Rev. E. A. Sharretts, Mr. EBENEZEH S. CASE, and SUSAN A. HART MAN, both of Lime Lidge, Col. Co. May 15th, 1856, by the same, Crius NEW HART, and Miss FANNIE MORRISON, both of Montour county. May 29th, by the same, Mr. JAMES CABR, of Lime Ridge, and Miss SARAH ZIEGI.ES, daughter of Geo. Ztegler, near Bloomsburg, Columbia county. June 3d, 1856, by the same, A. M. FOW LER, and CATHARINE AN* POFF, both of Es py, Columbia couuly. June sth, 1856, by the same, RANSOM HAZELET, of Espy, and CATHARINE HESS, daughter of Jacob Hess, of Bloomsburg. List of Letters REMABNING in the Post office at Blooms burg, Pa., July Ist, 1856. Addams Tobias Blessing Yal Brown Susan C. Cretht n Cbantban Deisher Henry H. Dreibelbis Catharine. Ford Thomas Goss John Hollans Lewis Hoyt Samuel Judson A. Kent Matlhiss Kranse J. Lytle Robert O'Neil Francis Parks Jasen Roth Andrew P. 3hmite Sebastian Siiitvill VVm. H. Tyson Jesse M. Thomas Thompson Ur.angst E. Welliver Thomas J. 2 Hughes David, ship. Persona calling for the above Istlers will please say they are advertised. PHILIP UNANGST, P. 31. Bloomsburg, July I, 1856. TOLLS AT BEJICtI HAVEN. COLLECTOR'S OFFICE, ) Reach Haven, May 31st, 1856. I R. W. WEAVER, ES., Dear Sir The tmnuot of Tolls receiveJ si this office during ibe past month is #29,062,36 Previously reported 5,146,5! Total amount sines Dec. 1, 1855 #34*206,86 Respectfully yours, TETER F-NT, Collector.
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