g rill proved by importations from England, aml the THE ITIISIII/1;;11 advantage is so manifest that every good far mer prefers the improved to the inferior stock n Ee.s BAit ti.dtcor ~mod erwprgetor• as a matter of profit. The sheep have also been improved by cros sing with imported stock, and even the swine boast European blood, to the manifestimproves merit of their recd and the increased profit of their owners. The number and average value of each de scription of live stock in Pennsylvania was, according to the census of 1850, as fob' PITTSBURC I4 THURSDAY I\I(Hi.i.NINO ...... MARCH 4, 1858 STATE CON N" ENTION.—At a meeting of the 11-gsDomeacratic State C‘nonittee,hold at Bochler'h Hotel, ti rriete c, January 10, 1858, it was Naolrrd, That the neat Democratic State Convention be halt ai. liarri.dourg, on the 4th day of March next. iMrseant to !Mid res,lotion, Delegates from the several S. natorial and Representative districts of the State will con. y„ne in the Hall of the Howie of Itepres , ntatives, at the tl.ipitoi, on THURSDAY, March 4th, 1858, at 10 o'clock, A. MV, to nominate candidates for Judge of the Supreme Court and Canal GOIIIMitiSiOrIiT; and for the transaction of such other looniness as pertains to tho authority of such Conven C. K. BUCK ALBIN, Chairman. J. N lloronmsoN, Secretaries. R. J. IiALIDEMLN, Reading Matter will be found on Ist Page PENNSYLVANIA In oar first article we gave a brief sketch o the early history of Pennsylvania, and pro coed to speak to some of its PII YI.ICA I, CIS A I:ACTIAZISTIA.2: , The State, in shape is a parellelogram, ill hingth about three hundred and ten miles, and in breath.one hundred and sixty. Its terri tory contains nearly forty seven thousand square miles, or 30,080,000 acres of land. The surface of the country is greatly diversi , field, there being few large tracts of level land the State. As the traveler whirls through our State on tha Pennsylvania Railroad, his eye is delighted by an almost endless change of scenery. The busy city, the thriving town, he great village, the fruitful field, the ver ant meadow, are magnificently set off by woody hills, wild and rugged mountains, deep _lens, and far oil' waving forests. From the he summit of the Alleghenies tho landscape s almost illimitable in its broadness, and of iloundless variety, and ever changing grandeur ind beauty. Pennsylvania, and especially that portion of it west of the Allegheny mountains is a billy country, but the soil of the State is gen eraq good, and a' large proportion of it of a superior quality. The more level traits along !the streams, are fertile in the highest degree. !The State is well adapted both to grain and to grazing, and the annual amount of the ag , , ricultural -productions of the State is eller 111009. In the limestone valleys we find the most productive coil, but the shale forma tions, and the large coal districts also fiber aliy reward the farmer for his labor. 111 E OM :t1 of Pennsylvania all over the State is healthy and temperate, yet it ie inconsistant and vas riable. One year ditleia very materially from another. The temperature varies from 20 ! degrees below zero, to 100 degrees above it, the mean ranging from 40 d , grees to 52 de grees. It has been found by comparison of tables of meteorological obcervations, that the extremes of boat and cold, are nit so great as they were many years ago. This is doubtless owing to the removal of forests, and the increase of cultivated land. In thickly wooded regions evaporation is retarded, and the ground is kept moist and ( old. RIOULTUIt A! , l'Rol Ijc7's The farmers of Pennsylvania have long been distingei:hed fir their industry and success. Agriculture is one of the chief sources of our wealth, and importance as a State, and rare ful attention to ciop4, agricultural implements, and scientific details in the management of the land, is yearly increasing the wealth of the State. The following statement of the prin- cipal agricultural products of Pennsylvania collated from the censuq returns of 1850, is believed to be considerably below the real annual average amount, but We give it as the only date approximating to correctness at our command. The number of farms in l'enn- sylvania in Ihso, way 127,577, containing 5,623,619 acre; of improved and 6,294,725 of unimproved land, the cash value of which was .$,;407,870,099. This gives an average o 117 acres to ea,h farm, and an average value of $3,197. The value of farming implements, and machinery emFloyed upon these farms was $14,722,540. Thus the agricultural capital of the State eight yeata ago, reached the sum of 5422,598,640. In 1850 the amount of annual product was as follows, of the principal articles of cultivas tion : Wheat, oat,, Inthan Corn " Buckwheat, " Barley, Potatoes, " Hay, tons Hops, pounds Cluversced, bushels Other Grass Seeds, " Butter, pounds Cheese, " Peas and Beans, bushels Market Gardens, value Orchard Products, " Beeswax and Honey, pounds Poultry, value Wood, cords sold Flaxseed, bushels . Flax, pounds... Maple Sugar, " " Molasses, gallons__ Tobacco, pounds. Wool, %Vine, gallons The above figures give a Blight idea of the value and importance of the Agricultural in terests of our State. In many of the articles named we produce more than any other State in the Union. In l;+50, Pennsylvania was the largest producer of wheat, leading Ohio by more than a million of bushels ; she produced within 50,000 as many bushels of oats as New - York and one third more -4 than Ohio ; in the products of the dairy she was sacand only to New York and far ahead of Ohio, and in oth er products she ranked second to no State in the Union, if climate, soil, &c. are taken into the consideration. There is not in the world a class of men more truly independent, and who have more perfectly the mews of happiness at command than the farmers of Pennsylvania. They generally own the soil which they cul tivata, and what they have is value produced —a real Lanefit to themselves. Industriously and economically they gradually acquire wealth, secure from the sudden reverses of for. tune incident to the pursuit of city life, and "free from the harrassing anxieties and risks of 'commercial speculation. The figures which 'we have given show what are the results of agricultural industry in value, but no cypher ing can estimate the substantial happiness of the household of a Pennsylvania farmer, who understands and carries out the arrangements of a well regulated farm. One branch of the farmer's business is not included in the table which wo have given above, and that is Much attention has been given to improv ing the stock of domestic animals, in Pennsyl yards, within a few years past. The ugricul. tural societies, which of late years have been organized in almost every county in the State, have done much by exerting a just spirit of pride and emulation . in this matter. The horses see of Pennsylvania have been more remarka ble for their size and strength than their swiftness. They have been bred for draught, and not for the race course. Recently an im provement= has taken place, and speed as well as strength is sought for. The breed of cattle has also bee❑ much im. 16,367,691 4,805,160 21,538,156 19,335,214 2,193,692 165,584 (1,032,904 1,842,970 22,088 53,913 39,878,418 2,505,034 4,231 $688,714 $723,389 839,509 $749,132 269,516 11,12', 530,307 2,326,525 50 G 52 912,651 4,481,570 25 590 DOME;4TI4 ANIMALS 0W8:- Horses Asses and Mules Mitch Cows Working 0x0n... Other Cattle...... Sheep ... Swine In numbers of horses, cattle and swine, our State ranks third, Ohio being first and New York second. The total value of the live stock of these three States in 1850 was New 1 ork ..... Pennsylvania The value of animals, slaughtered in Penn sylvania in 1850, was upwards of eight mil lions of dollars. These statistics will enable the reader to form some slight estimate of the value of our State, as an Agricultural Producer, to the other members of the U nion as well as to her own citizens. In a subsequent article we shall endeavor to give sone idea of her importance in mining production, manufactures and com , merce. All branches of industry and all sources of wealth ore dependent upon each other. The tiller of the soil produces value ; the miner and the manufacturer add the value of their I lbar to that which nature has supplied for the wants of hum. , nity ; the commercial man distributes what is produced, and in ex, change supplies us with that which we desire but do not produce. Each of these callings is an element of national wealth, and Penn sylvania has resources in each of these depart% ments, which entitle her to the position of the -Keystone" of the Union, in a more practical sense than politicians use the word. TIIE NOD.EPOLK E.EIJIEE' FUND It app:ars that a considerable amount of the contributions for the relief of the citizens of Norfolk, during the yellow fever, still remains in the hands of the Treasurer, who is a Bal. timorean, and permission has been asked from those cities, whose amounts were last received, that the sum on hand may be appropriated to a Female House of Refuge at Baltimore. The contributions from Pittsburgh and Louisville among others ara sought to be thus disposed of. he Louisville Courier objects to the arrangement because the Treasury of that city is entirely empty. So in good south is that of our own city, but as this money was given by the citizens and not the city, the corporation hes nothing to do with it. The subject is before Board of Trade, under whose auspices the collection was made for the Norfolk sufferers, and we presume at their me ting on Friday, they will take some action upon it. The Baltimore House of Refuge has no claim, direct or contingent, upon the fund which was contributed for a sp cific pur pose. We should ho pleased if the Board of Trade would direct the amount received from Pittsburgh to be donated to the Mt. Vernon A ss-iciaticiii, whose object is a truly national one. This, we think, could meet the applica tion of the contributors, many of whom we presume would not ba satisfied to have their money appropriated to a local institution, no matter how praiseworthy its object. OLD .R4f.ES RESURRECTED. There is nothing new under the sun," says the Good Book, and in regard to those sayiegs which arc known as " witty " this is cspzciallj true. But since Punch has estab lished himself as an institution, puns and jokes and funny sayings form a portion of the stock in trade of the gatherer of items for every newspaper. At a fair average newspa per witicisms go the wands of the press as new about once in five years. We have been at the trouble to dig up from the bottom of our editorial barrel a few which have been dormant for over fifteen years. It is possible that that mythological individual known as " Joe Miller," who lived in the remote ages of antiquity, is responsible for the authorship of many of them, but what of that ? Good jokes, like good wine improve with age. —why is a man who has been hanged like a Drunken man? Because he has taken a drop too much. —Woman is like ivy—the more you are ruined the closer she clings to you. A vile bachelor adds,: Ivy is like a woman—the closer it clings to you, the more you are ruined." Poor rule that won't work both ways. —A western editor wants to know whether the law against carrying concealed weapons, apply to dootors who carry theirpily in their pockets. —Noahs ark is said to have been the first spec imen of naval ark-itecture. It was not as large as the Leviathan which will carry an army of 10,000 men. —ln 1840 there was a chap about Pittsburgh, who was so uneasy and irritable about water, that he refused to wear a watch, because it had a spring in it. He died a few years after strych nine whisky was invented. —Nebuchadnezzer is said to have crept on all fours, and eaten grass like an ox. What a hard time he must have had in dry summers. —" Ab," remarked a gentleman the other day, pointing to a wretched inebriate, " yonder fel low is dying by inches." " Nay," said his friend " he's only going off by barleycorns. —A young lady recently went into a dry goods BLOM to see some silk stockings. She inquired how high they came, (meaning the price.) The clerk a country lad—replied " I don't exactly know, but 1 guess they come up to the knee." The lady fainted. —Fraudulent debtors, like parched corn, make a greater show when they burst. —A roller boy in a printing office sued his employer for five dollars. The magistrate at once decided in favor of the plaintiff on author ity older than Coke or Blackstone—on the well known maxim that " the devil should have his due." —Why are ladies like Pharisees? Because they are "known by their much speaking." —An epitaph upon a negro baby at Savannah commences, " Sweet blighted lily. —A damsel who had "loved not wisely, but too well," was brought before a city magistrate. " What does that young woman want?" inquired the civic chief. "it a filiation case," said the officer. " Oh," said the worship, " i see—her object is a-parent --coming events cast their shadows before." --.‘l hate to hear people talking behind one's back," as the robber said when the constable was chasing him and crying " stop thief." —Many a man blows his brains out with a brandy bottle. They think that if they "go off " but half cocked there is no danger, but experi ence has proved the reverse. There is suicide in a rum barrel as well as a pistol barrel. —Why is an apple like a pair of skates ? "An apple's like a pair of skates, Deny it, if you can, For have they not, pray let me ask, Both caused the fall of man." —Upon the marriage of a Miss Wheat, of Vir ginia, an editor hoped.her path might be flowery and that she might never be thrashedby her hus band. —The patientest man that,ever breathed curs ed the day he was born, and the meekest man murdered an Egyptian. —A total abstinence man once cut off his toes, 'because they got corned.. —A bargain is a ludicrous transaction between two men, supposed to be honest, in which each party thinks he has cheated the other. —" Do you admire fine painting ? " asked a gentleman of a lady of fashion. "Yes, indeed," she replied, "I paint myself." How the truth will out sometimes. —The old phrase of " whipping the d—l round the stump" has become obsolete. It is now rendered " tlaggellating the venerable Nich olas round the remnant of a tree." —The time "utlistk to f1:3", when gc•nlinen would step up hor au , l call I'.‘t straight." Nov: the "agony - is to inquire for "extract of rye per 3e..' .—The best receipt for-41//-itms attack is said to be a "receipt in full." Some people find the medicine too expensive. —Foote defined marriage ad "bobbing for a single eel is a barrel of snakes." The fellow deserved to be swallowed alive by a boa con strictor, and belched out into a den of copper heads, for his impertinence. —Shane I clear, as oho fellow said, when ho made tracks with the fat rooster. —Jingle is always a considerable addition to humor, of which the annexed lines "To my nose" are a laughable proof. Knows ho, that never took a pinch, Nosey ! the plot:pare thence which flows, Knows ho the tittilhaing joys Which my nose knows ? 350,398 2,25 J 530,224 61,527 562,1'15 1,322,357 1,040,3(16 NOSIO I I am as proud of then As any mountain of its snows, I gaze on thee, and feel that pride A Roman knows! am thy father'sspirit," as the bottle said o the Loy, when he fowl 1 it hid under the wood )ile and wondered what it was. —Why fe a loafer in the printing office like a ehaile tree ? Because we are glad when h o "leaves." $73,570,459 44,121,741 41,500,053 —A minister, who had received a number td calls and could scarcely decide which was the pest, asked the advice from a faithful old Afri can servant who replied; " Master, go where there is the mast —At a colored ball, the following notice was posted on the door-post : " Tickets fifty cents. No gentlemen admitted unless he comes him self." An editor is a man who endeavors to fill his stomach by emptying his brains, and after many years of labor, too often finds both head and stomach empty. From the annual report of the Trustees and Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital of Pennsylvania, we glean the lollowing some what remarkable facts : Of the 525 males in the Institution, 172 are farmers, 130 laborers, 19 merchants, and 49 no occupation. Of the 373 lemalos, 68 are wives of farmers, 28 wives , of laborers, 24 daughters of farmers, 16 wives of merchants, and 160 no occupation. Between the ages of 20 and 30, the eases of insanity (male and female) numbered 224—between 30 and 40, the number is 161— between 40 and 50, it is 177—between 50 and GO, the number is 870 ; and between 10 and 20, it is 110. Among the causes of insanity are set down he following : Domestic trouble ...3S males-69 females. 111 health 37 " 49 " Grief 0 I 3 o Millerism. I " " Spiritual rappings.. I " 0 " Epilepsy 22 " 9 " Intemperance 23 " 1 " Novel reading 0 " 2 " The social condition of the inmates is as follows : MAERS. FEMNLES. T”TA I Mu - ried , 180 ISI 361 Widowed 25 49 74 Single 320 143 464 In England a copy of each newspaper print ed is preserved in the British Museum. In this country there are so many papers, that they are read and then destroyed as if of no value. This is wrong. Like wine, the value of a newspaper increascs with its age. They are the best, most graphic and correct his.- thrums. of the times, and the time discolored leaves of an old file of newspapers are lull - of valuable information, no whore else preserved. It is every man's duty to take and pay for a newspaper, and also to file it, and have the numbers bound for the benefit of his posterity. Macaulay the historian respeatedly acknowledges his indebtedness to these valuable sources of cotemporary in formation. Me. H ACKETT is playing at Nashville Could not Miss Kimberly induce the Baron to pay Pittsburgh a visit. With the exception of a single night, Mr. Hackett has not played here for many years, and his admirable pei. tormcnce of Falstaff, Rip Van Winkle, and Monsieur Mallet would fill the Thcatte. —They aro luxuriat'ng upon the ripe Wa:, , r- Inclors at Pep'•acola. —The MaysNllle Eagle says: We have a pack t•ligar in our office, made from the Chi nese Cane, by Mr. Simon Reeder, who lives op posite this city, in Brown county, Ohio ; it is prettily grained and fine flavored, and we think fully equal in every respect to the best maple sugar. There can be no doubt of the ultimate success of the Chinese Sugar culture in all the Western country. —The Academy of Science in New Orleans has received a paper purporting to demonstrate that the water of the Gulf on the borders of South western Louisiana and thence to Texas, are the saltest which have been submitted to sclera- tific tests, and that by the process of evapora tion in tanks, salt of a superior quality, equal to Turks' Island, may be obtained. —The marine losses for the last month shows an aggregate of thirty six vessels, of which eleven were ships, four were barks, five were brigs, thirteen were schooners, two were steamers and one steam-tug. The total value of properly lost was $1,284.300. —Captain Harrison, who is to command the Leviathan, writes to Boston that he is in hopes to be in Portland w;th his vessels in the latter part of the month of Juno, and that ho proposes to remain there with her seven weeks. —T M. Taylor, editor of the Boston Rouge Advocate, and A L. Glusman, fought a duel on the 20th ult., with rifles, at thirty paces, a short distance below Fort Adams, Miss. Gasman was shot through the hips. He was not considered mortally wounded. Taylor was unhurt. —lt is said that in consequence of the extreme mildness of the season, an unusual amount of disease has boeu brought to New York by vessels from abroad as well as from southern ports. There have been a number of cases of yellow fever at quarantine, and fifteen deaths from cholera, within the past few weeks. The suf- ferers from cholera were mainly from Bremen. —Tho bill providing for au investigation into the affairs of the Lancaster Bank, has been signed by the Governor, and is now a law. The Commissioners will shortly be appointed. —The salary of Henry Ward Beecher is to be raised to $7,000. Quite comfortable, that ..On the night of Sunday, February 21st, the two sons of a Mrs Manly, living at Littleton Station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, killed her paramour. They went away from home to be gone all night, but returning unex pectedly, they found the man in bed with their mother, and killed him. He was stabbed through the heart three times. The boys escaped One of them is ten, the other fifteen years old. —" Water Gas " Paine has got into the papers at Worchester, Mass., with another discovery. It is no less than a high pressure steam engine without any boiler ! Tho Spy says :—' A small tank, not larger than the cylinder, which con tains water that never becomes hot, takes the place of the huge death-dealing boiler. With everything cold at the start, the engine works up to a pressure of thirty-six pounds to the inch, in three minutes !" —The following table will be read with inter est by the curious in such matters : Man grows for 20 years, and lives 90 or 100. Horse " 5 t, " 25 Ox " 4" " 20 Cat " 14. " " 10 2 tt " 12 4 " " 20 8 at " 20 State Lunatic. Hospital. NEWSPArIEftS VARIOUS THINGS. Dog " Lion 6 6 Camel " F""Nrt ti :' 7 i . 4 . ; 4 1 f : 7) r, . ~.1 c 3 meetl n g of the Creditors of Lawrence, .1 PA [ II b..' TA" a't. NI h_ il . Stone & Co. L,.: i, 7t! 4 JA , 41.11( N A41,,N : BOSTON, March 3.—At an adjourned mooting of PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. the creditors of L . Lwrenee, Stone 1e..C0 , before Judge , AGENT BY SPECIAL APPOINT: 1 Ames, of tho InsolvoriPy Court, claims were allowed THE SALE OF Dit. D. JAYNES' FAMILY , amounting to $2,000,000, making the total amount of /FOR MEDICINES CONGRESIO - 111, eiIOCEEDiNGs. debts thus far allowed against the firm $2,071,000. 1 5, CONSISTING 01 The KIII4Sati Matter b' fore the NEW HAVEN, March 3.—The Democratic State Convention met ere to day and nominated General Sl' FEU 11 ES BY MESS.'S SE WA ND AN!) James T. Pratt for Governor and John Cotton for Tift l l/P.A)N ON 17'. Lieutenant Governor. Resolutions approving of the policy of President Buchanan, as expressed in his inaugural address and subsequent massages, were adopted under the operation of the previous question. Senate. Another Terribie Disaster Railroad Colliision. ZANESVILLE, March 3.—A collision occurred this morning on the Central 01310 Railroad, about eight miles oust of hero, between the night acconano baton RE-OPENING OF THE SLAVE TRADE. and freight trains. Two fireman named Purcell and Yeager were instantly killed, and several were in jured, but none badly. Burning of Stelmer Emma Battle nenr Mobile FORTY LIVES LOST! Democratic Neeging In Si C. IN Yorlt--'l`lit Presidcut us, Ililked MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN EoCIIETEE CIIICAG o, rri% &C. 7 die Speteial Pel3patch t.. the 51orning Post.] PENNYLVII.friIA LEGISLA'PUILE HARRISBURG, M'lrCh 3.--. Senate.—Tito follociing bills we• J r - ad ir. phicc :By Mr. Gazza.m, relative to vehicles out ,r I nee, as recmurnended by Cohn- e n s ; rel , ttive to party walk; 01.• onin qof strvc:, ; and fur reducing the Fl,,er In:vector's fee'. Thu I.luu4e Lill t" feneo railroads in Beaver county gave rise to craisidurable debate, and was postponed for the present. The re•che-ter of the Merchants' and Manufactu rers' Bank ,atue up. when Mr. Wilkins urged the rassago of the bill. Mr Wright opposed the bill, which passed a second reading by a co'e of 1 a.znitiet 7 House.—The 11,uso pr-ccoded to eorcibler the Militia bill, which was slihtly i alCnd •; , 1 in Committee of the Whole, and made the special order for Wed au. day, by a vet 3 . e . 2f55 to 22. The bills to leg.r N:11.C.3 Adee;a ml to inco . porato the 2ro Sons of Molts, have iften signed by the (love, ~ur. Many W05 , ..0.111 menAcrs w '1 Lo in yuur city ;0. THIRTY-2IFTH CONGRESS 1 0 111. ST S ESS Yesterdly's Proceedings Mr. Hammond offered a joint resolution nuttier icing the Secretary of the Navy to pay officers and seamen in the expedition in search of Dr. Katie the same rate allowed in Dehavea's expeditor. The hour of one having arrived, the special eider of the day, the Kansas bill, was taken up. Mr. Peward delivered a loogthy speech on the sub ject of Kansas, discussing the following propositions: First, That whereas in the beginning the ascendency of the slave States was absolute, it is now being re :mood. Second, That whereas, heretofore, the Na tional Government favored the change of balance from slave States to the free Stat. , s, it has now re verted this policy, and oppases the change. Third, That national intervention in the Territories in favor of .slave labor and slave States, is opposed to the natural, social and moral developments of the repute lie. In arguing these propositions, Mr. Seward said that Nebraska was resigned to free labor without a struggle, and Kansas became a theatre of the first actual national conflict between slaveholding and free labor. Immigrants mot face to face to organize, through the machinery of republican action, a eivil community. In the first hour of trial, the new aye tem of popular sovereignly signally fails, because it is impossible to organize by one sit _plc act, in one day, a community perfectly tree, perfectly sovereign and perfectly constituted, out of elements unassinii fated, unerranged and unemnposed. Free labor rightfully won the day.; slave labor wrested the vic tory to itself by fraud and violence. In speaking of the opinion pronounced by the Supremo Court of the United States in the Dm,' Scott ease, he said, in this ill-omened act it forgot its own dignity, which had always been in:Liman - led ;.iith just judicial jealousy. They forgot that the province of a Court is ills core, and not at all Joe 'tar, ; they forgot that one foul sentence does more harm than many foul exam ples ; for the last do but corrupt the stream, while the former cot ropta the And they and Doi President alike forgot that judicial usurpation is more od icus and intolerable than any ether among the manifold practices of tyranny, and filial& afltil wont& Ile added : No wonder that the question be fore us excites apprehension and alarm. There is at last a North side of this chamber; a North side of the chamber of Representatives, and a North side of the Union, as well as South sides of all these. Each of thorn is watchful, jea'ous and resolute. If it be true, as lifts sr, often been asserted, that the .Union cannot survive a decision by Congress of a direct question inyelving the adoption of a tree Staid into this Uni;ri which will establish the ascendancy of the free States under the Constitution, and draw after it tho restoration of the influence of fret:don: in the domestic and foreign couduet of the govern mont, then the day of dissolution is at hand. Fur ther on, he said : Lot the Supreme Cowl. recede ; whether it recede or not, we shall recognize the Court, and thus reform its political sentiments and practices, and bring them into harmony with the Constitution and laws of nature. In doing co, we shall not only reassume our own just authority, but we shell restore that high tribunal itself to the posi tion it ought to inaintc:i7:, since so many inalienable rights of citizens, and ut en of States themselves, de pond upon its impartiality and its wisdom. If you attempt to coerce Kansas into th•' Union under the Locompton Constitution, the poople of that Territory will resist to civil war, if necessary. You aro pleased to put down that revolution by the sword. Will the people listen to your voice amid the thunders of your cannon? Let but ono drop of a free citizen be shed thorn by the federal army, and the countenance of every representative of a free State in either house of Congress will blush, and his tongue will rofuse to utter the vote necessary to sustain the army in the butchery of his fellow-citizens. Mr. Thompson, of New Jersey, in alluding to Kansas, said that now was a favorable opportunity to end her troubles by admission into the Union. He contended that the Locompton was expressing the will of the people of Kansas. Replying to many arguments againt that instrument, he instances the eases of fourteen States whose Constitutions were adopted without submission to the people. If wrong had been suffered by the opponents of Lecompton, that wrong was the consequence of their own mis conduct, and therefore they have nu right t, com plain ; if the Freo State party have as large a ma jority as pretended, they can change any obnoxious features in the Constitution ; but, if in the minurit: , they must submit like good citizens to the will cf the majority. But this pz.rty do not want peace; they desire agitation. The affairs of Kansas, he con tended, will be indefinitely worse if nut admitted. He was impatient and anxious that Congress be re lieved from the consideration of the question, and that the people be left to settle their own difficulties in their own way under their own State government. Then we shall hoar nothing more of bleeding Kansas. The Senate then adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENT:VIM:S. The Rouse resumed the consideration of the Senate resolutions relative to the Naval Retiring Iluard. Mr. Whitley argued in favor of the resolution. , severely criticising the proceedings of the Nava Board. Mr. Bocock opposed thorn. contending that the proceedings of the Board of Inquiry wore just, and oven if reversed, that many of its supposed victims who are now expecting to get back in the Navy would find themselves mistaken. Messrs. Winslow and Seward both advocated the resolution, which was passed by 71 majority. The Bouso thou adjourned. From ilow Orlcaints New ORLISANN, March 3.—A bill has .passed the House authorizing the company already organized to import five hundred free blacks from the coast of Africa, to be indentured for not loss than fifteen years. A despatch from Mobile stales that the steamboat Eliza Battle was burned at Kemp's Landing, near Demopolis, on Monday morning. Thirtynino lives were lost, with 1200 bales of Cotton. Among the lost was the Rev. Mr. Newman, of Louisville. Many were frozen in the water. . _ Gen. Walker arrived here on Monday, and has taken the old quarters of (len. Henningsen hero. Ile voluntarily gave bail to-day in $4,00d to appear on the fourth Monday of April. From Washington WASHINGTON CITY, March a former des patch it was stated on the authority of leading Dem ocrats' that the calculation was that the Kansas bill would pass the House by fifteen majority. On the contrary, loading anti Lecomptunites are sanguine of its defeat, and rtro working industriously to that end. Gen. tram Dyo is appointed Marshal of the North ern District of Illinois, in place of Davidson, re moved. Grand Democratic Rally in flew York. NEW YORK, March 3.—The grand rally of the Democracy in support of the Kansas policy of the administration filled Mozart Hall, last evening, and was a most successful demonstration. The speeches and resolutions were all indicative of a determine. don to sustain the President at all hazards. Ad dresses were delivered by ox-Governor Jones, of Tennessee, th 3 Hon. Mr. Hughes, of Indiana, Mr. Ililboa, of Tennessee, and others. Elections in New Tork State NEW YORK, March 3.—The Democrats cleated the Mayors in Rochester and Oswego yesterday. The opposition have a majority of Aldermen in the for mer, and the Aldermen are tied in the latter. Chicago Election. Crimea°, March 3.—The municipal election yes terday passed off quiety. It was the largest vote ever polled. The entire Republican ticket was elected by an average majority of one thousand. bI.,N Al P Connecticut Democratic State Convert. tiou. Leo tL 111130 i OF PREY.—There is a class of hangers-on to every pi ofeasion in life, no matter how honorable and respected in itsell, who bring it into ridicule and disgrace; and no calling is more d abject to this objection than the legal Profession. In every community there is a greater or less number who may be appropriately termed •• birds of prey," who watch an opportu nity to pounce upon any kind of game that will save them from starvation. Au hottest open banned case is seldom committed to their charge, and hence they are compelled to watch the police e urt-3, magistrates' office, and grugeries to be tir--t, to tender their services to any luckless Wight who happens to get within the meshes of justice for drunkenness, rowdyism, or petty thieving. If a victim has no money they accept his clothes, a mortgage on his household furni ture, or an order for wages. If an article ap pears in a newspaper giving the name of some fellow in connection with a disgraceful affair the legal vulture seizes the first copy he can lay hands upon, and hastens to convince the in dividual before he is out of bed in the morning how badly he has been treated, and assure him that under the ruling of the courts, the pub lishers are liable for slander. A suit is cote menced or threatened, and newspaper men must submit to be fleeced by a compromise, or b. mulcted iu a heavy bill of costs to defend a sui which is generally commenced upon shares by the ‘• limbs" of an otherwise honorable fritter nity. Until the profession of the law is purge , of such characters, honorable members mus ointinue to suffer from the association. A °HEAT MEDICINE' FOR FEMALES.—Hundrods stimulants have been invented and sold, purporting to be specific in the various diseases and derange ments to which the delicate form of woman render her subject. The result of all those stimulants has been to impart momentary activity to the nervous sys tem, and false vigor to the muscles; but this relict has been succeeded by a depression and prostration greater than before ; and the repeated attempts of in veil& to build themselves by these false remedies, have finally ended in destroying what little vital or ganization was left. But in using "Boerhave's Hol land Bitters," you will find no such disastrous results. It is a purely vegetable compound, prepared on strictly scientific principles, after the manner of the celebrated Holland Profesgor, Bcerhave. Under its influence, every nerve and muscle receives new strength and vigor, appetite and sleep return, and finally, perfect health. See advertisement in another column. Caution!—Be careful to ask for Beerhezee's 110Ilan( Bitters. Sold at $1 per bottle, or six bottles for s's, by the sole Proprietors, Benjamin Page, Jr., & Co. No. 27 Wood street, between First and Second streets and Druggists generally. AI- DR. M'LANE'S LIVER PILLS, FLEMING 8R0...., PROPRIETORS.—This groat medicine has supplanted all others for the cure of diseases of the Liver. Its effects me 80 salutary and speedy, and at the same time so perfectl) safe, that it is not surpritiug it should supersede all other,. Invented by a very distinguished physician of Virginia,who pri4,ticed in a region of country in which Ilepatis, ur Live: Complaint, Is peculiarly formidable and common, and Wl'o imd spent years in discovering the ingredient , and prop, tion'tm their quantities, those Pills are peculiarly adaptto to ever; form of the disease, and never fail to alleviate the oet obstinate r rice of that terrible cmpleiut. They 1 letly become celebrated, 811.1 the reeoarelud of Dr. 91'1,1 Jae place+ , hie tome tun , rot the U•llefactors of uuteki N."'Tio ha' jog iiiptoms c•.inl aintOh, Without V 31.1101 4, i'illl flaV*3 011 it pain in fight likr th” odgo of tho which lucre:tom w pressure—linable to 1k with rase on the left side—m it Yomolitnom coustAnt, pain 'rioter the shoulder-I,'; frequ• ntly ex trieling to the top f the HhouWei I I: upon it. Iluit it. hough the:latter pains are sornotinieti tit' for rheumatic, they all wise rem dia.ases of the Liver and if you would have ri lied, go instantly and buy II twx Dr. M . 1,11111,1 . /3 Liver .1 prepared only by Fleming Brea of Pitt,Mur azr- Purchasers will be careful to aFdi for Dr. NFLANE , :- CELEBRATED LIVER PLLLS, numonfactured by FLENI t N 43 BRCS., of Titt•lburgii, Pa. .There tto othor t ill purpoitili, to be Liver Piles, now bef.r , the public. Jr. SPLano's ge.lllllLt. Liver title, also his celobrated Vui uiluge, can now la, awl at oil respect abh , drug stores. None jellaine without the sign a. lure of tfisf.4lllladavil &LEMING It 11.)ei. FIRE INSURANCE, Reliance Mutual Insurance Co OF PHILADELPHIA ON BUILDINGS, LIMITED OR PERPETUAL, MEROIIAN DISE, FURNITURE, ,1;C. 4 IN TOWN OR COUNTRY. Office, 140. 308 'Walnut street. CAPITAL, 5177,920 \'.lL' 7 S, $252,465 80. Invested us foil, we, viz : First Mortgage on Improved City Property, worth double tbe amount $.120,1L0 1 ) Pennsylvania Rath oad Co.'s 6 per cent. Mortgage Loan, $30,060 cost 25,500 os Allegheny County 6 per cent. Penn'a RAS.. Loan. Pennsylvania Railroad O, . s Stock 4,000 no Stock of the Reliance Mutual humane,. Co 19,150 D Stock of County Piro Insurance Co 1,050 Scrip of Sundry Insurance Companies 475 o.t Pills Receive le, busifiess paper 52,711 bo 13( ek Accounts, accrued interest, etc 3,316 Cash on hand and in Hank 16,043 20 Clem Tingley, William It. Thompson, I avid 8 Brown, Cornelius Stevenson, John It. Worrell, 11. L. Carson, Robert Tolaud, Yodel Johnson, Charles S. Wood, James S. Woodward, Lora B. J. GA inr3 North-east c., Wei. MILL.:' MILLER Ss. IIiCffiETSON, WHOLESALE GROCERS AND IMPORTERS OF BRANDIES, WINES AND SEGARS Nos. 231 and 223, Corner of Liberty and Irwin Streets, PITTSBURGH, PA IRON, NAIL'', COTTON YARNS, &c., &0., CONSTANTLY oN lIAND A. H. 1300ECHAUUBB JOSEPII BUDD. BOORIIIIAMMER IBUDILD, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND DEALERS IN Fish, Cheese, Flour, Meats, and Produce Generally, N. 2 44 and 206 North Wharves, T bird and fifth doors above Race strce, PHILADELPHIA, AVE NOW IN STORE, AND TO Alt sVz MVP., a full assortment of Mackerel, Cod Fish, and Herring, which they will dispose of at the very lowest mar ket rates. P. 6.—liama, Sided, Shonlderg, Barreled Pork, or other Produce taken in exchange, or sold on commisalon. Jordon A Brother, Stroup & Bro., Win. B. Smith & Co., jall:3m-2p LOAN OFFICE - IFIENR-V W. CIICEILO'F7PI, Near the corner of Fifth, MONEY in large and small quantities LOANED on Gold and Silver, Diamonds, Joni°lry, Gold and Silver Wallies, and all kinds of valuable articles, for any length of time agreed 4itl" Ogles hours, from 7 A. M. to 10 P. M JOS. P. HADUILATOLV 6k CO., ENGINEERS AND fiIACILEINIISTS, Carus of First and Liberty streets, Pitlstno gh, Pa. QUPERIOR STEAM ENGINES for Grist 10 and Saw 31i11s, Breweries, Printing Establishments, Manufactories, &c., made to order. They also continue ti , manufacture of their Celebrated Machinists' Toole, such a, Turning Lathes, Iron Planers, Boring and L rifling Machines, &c. Also, Wrought Iron Shafting, with Pulleys, Hangers. &c. &c. ja8:13,11 PITTSBURGH CO/CH FACTOR M. L. STEPIIENS. UCCESSOR TO BIGELOW & CO., former ly E. M BIGELOW, No. 46 Diamond alloy, near Wood street, Pittsburgh, Pa. I would respectfully announce to the carriage using com munity and public in general, that I have, this day, pur chased the interest of my former partner, Mr. Albert, and will carry on the business in all its branches at the old stand, No. 46 Diamond alloy. In changing the name of this old, and so well established manufacturing establishment, I as sure thf public no effort shall bo wanting on my - part to do servo the same high character so tong enjoyed by my prole cursors and associates. fatihtlyds , M. L STEPHENS- BLACK VELVET RIBBON.-6 cartons of the beet quality, =tolled width, at low priceejnet opened at 1f231 JOS. 1101LN IVe., 77 Market street. EPANS X lON. —Another lot of those supe rior Expan4on Skirts, just opened at te23 JOS. 1.1010103, 77 Market street, BY THE $452,465 b CLEM TINGLEY, I,ruaichnt. DIHEOTORS Samuel Bispham, Rol , er t Steen, William Musser, Benjamin W. Tingley, Marshall Hill, Z. Lothrop, Charles Leland, .1 - fleet) T. Bunting, Smith Bowen, Wm. M. Semple, Pittsb'g I. lIINCLIMAN, Secretary. DINES COFFIN, Agent, er Third and Wood strovt, C. W. RICKETEION, l'ittdi 128YER TO McChatchoon Coleman