4 i 13 ft! Mi 15 Hnftsman's Itmntak S. B. ROW, Editor and Proprietor. CLEARFIELD, PA., APRLL 9, 1856. Nominees of the Phfladelphia Convention. FOR PRESIIEXT, ' MILLARD FILLMORE. " 'VICE TRESIDBST, " ' ' ANDRZWJACKSONDONITELSON.-. - " -' " : - Union State Nominations. " ' ' s ' " " canal commissioner, ; -..7 , . THOMAS E. COCIIilAX, of York Co. ArUITOR GEXERAL, ' DARWIN PHELPS, of Armstrong Co. ' irRTETOR CEXERAL, - BARTHOLOMEW LA PORTE, of Bradford Co. "We would not be offensive to oar up-strcct neighbor. lie has our respect our best wish es for liis welfare, and we desire to lire upon amicable' terms with him. But he must not permit himself cither to pervert our language, or misrepresent our plainly expressed senti ments. JN either practice is at all consistent with that courtesy which should characterize the intercourse of honoroble partizans, whose conduct is to be scrutinized and judged by an intelligent and impartial public." Republican. That is precisely what we have to say to the editor of the Republican. We wish to have the most kind fraternal intercourse with him ; and we feel disposed to practice the greatest 'courtesy," exhibit tho highest "respect," and express ourselves in a manner that is not "offensive." The precepts of the editor, of the Republican arc good; but how does liis practice conform with them ? Arc his expres sious that we are "endorsing an unmitigated and wholesale falsehood," and giving curren cy to a "barefaced lie," either courteous, re spectful or void of offence ? Are they such as a man, who pretends to be our "neighbor" and "live upon amicable terms" with us, should use ? We leave it to "an intelligent and im partial public" to decide. ""Wc are sincere in the principles .we advo cate." Republican, I April 2. So, we trust, are we, and in oujr article of the 26th March we endeavored to express our honest convictions of the position ocenpied by the American party in regard to "foreign in flucncc." The correctness of our position, and the facts contained in 'our remarks, must have been clearly manifest, and seem to have disturbed the equanimity of the editor of the Republican to such an extent that he declares we "grossly misrepresent" when we "Insinuate that the Democratic party are not now, from " Maine to California, opposed t the identi " cal description of -'foreign influence' de- uounccd by Washington, Jackson and Bu- chanan," to which we referred in our article. What ? the Democratic- party. opposed to for-! cign : influence! Come, come, , ''neighbor," you shouldn't attempt to rob us of our "thun der." And if you talk in, that way the. for eigners will bcln to think you have turned American, and may call you a ."bloody Know Nothing,", or Jy gome of those "courteous" and "respectful" terms which you apply to us betimes.. ..... . PrrxAM's Magazine for April has been re ceived. It contains a number of highly inter esting aiticles, and sustains its deserved repu tation as a superior American magazine. IIolseuold Words are on our table." They contain their usual choice literary matter, which always afford a rich mental treat. The School Fellow, a pleasant little jour nal, is also at hand. It is a neatly printed mag azine and its articles are of a rather delight-: ful character. ... .. . . , . . The Way Matters ass Working. -At the election which has just come off in Rhode Is land, the American and Republican candidates for Governor, Secretary of State, and Attor ney General, have been elected by nearly 3000 majority. , There is no choice for Lt. Gover nor and Treasurer. . The coalition have a clear majority in both branches of the Assembly. The Senate stands 16 Coalition, 9 Democrats, 1 Whig, and five vacancies. The House, 39 Coalition, 21 Democrats, and 13 vacancies. .What they Cost. The IT. S. Ilouse of Rep resentatives has passed the usual resolution for the purchase of books lor the Representa tives and Senators, by a vote ot 97 to 60. Tho cost of these books . is about $1,500 for every new member, which would purchase a fine li brary of 2,000 relumes if judiciously expended.' Virginia has a debt of $35,000,000 on her public . works, and to complete them will re quire $100,000,000 more. But few if any of her public works are now productive, and large amounts are required to make them even pay Ihe interest on cost of construction. She" is on the verge of repudiation. The total number of convicts in the Eastern Penitentiary, on the first of January last, as appears " by the annual report; which is just published, was 285, an increase of fifteen over the previous year. ' " " .. . ' " Should there be many rafts going down the: river within" a -few days bar -readers'- need scarcely look for a paper being -issued during the next Week.- -' 4 2 -- ? v ' . Thk Governor-has signed the License bill, cf which we publish an- abstract on the first jtage of to-days- paper, and is therefor a law. : J. BIDDLE GORDON, ESQ., DEC'D. At a meeting of the members of the Clear field Bar, held at the office of J. II. Larimer, Esq., on Monday evening April 1st, 1856, Jo siab V!". Smith, Esq., was called to the chair, WA'; Wallace, John L. Cuttle, Jno. F. Wea ver, Robert Wallace, Sr., Ellis Irwin and Wil liam Porter, Esqs., were selected as Yice Pres idents, and L. Jackson Crans and Thomas J. McCulIough appointed Secretaries. John L. Cuttle, Esq. announced, in a beauti ful and very feeling manner, the death of James Biddle Gordox, Esq., a member of the Clear field Bar. He spoke of the sudden death ; the circumstances attending his short illness ; and of his full, faith in his happy departure. ,IIe spoke of his own intimacy with him, of his many virtues, and of his irreparable loss. ' Alexander Ircin, Esq. followed him, and in the most feeling manner alluded to his intima cy with the deceased ; said he had been an in mate of his house for near threo years,and that as a gentleman of high and honorable bearing, and roblencss of heart, he could bear ample testimony. lie spoke of the deceased, his many virtues and social qualities, as long as the emotions of his own heart would allow him to do so'. L. Jackson Crans, Esq. spoke at some length of the sudden shock the community had "re ceived, and of the high order of talent with which the deceased was endowed. He made some very appropriate remarks in application of the mournful event to those who were liv ing. J. B. McEaally, Esq. rose and said : Mr. President Death, when it comes, al though wc may be admonished of its approach, inspires terror. When the aged man, whose limbs tremble and whose feet totter, is called from earth, even then we aro filled with awe. But when one who stands by our side, in appa rent health and with all the fond promises of life before him, is suddenly struck down, we are reminded with terrible emphasis of the un certainty of our days and of our own-frailty. Seldom or never was I more powerfully im pressed with this solemn truth, than upon the announcement madcT this afternoon that our professional brother, James Biddle Gordon, wasflead. Perhaps I have known him longer than anyone here. ' My acquaintance with him commenced over 12 years ago. ' It was in the fall of 1843 that I entered Dickinson College at Carlisle, and joined the Junior class. Mr. Gordon was at that time a member of that class. 'We were classmates together for near ly two years, and graduated together in 181-3. Well do I remember those days. I recollect, too, how differently the visions of life loomed np in our imaginations then from what they have been realized since. . As years steal on us, a change change comes , over the spirit of our dreams. 1 The fancies of youth gradually depart, and new sentiments and new feelings occupy their place. There were 1 in the class, and perhaps all of them expecting long life. Yet how many have already fallen before they had more than fairly started in their ca reer! In about threo years after we had sepa rated, fonr out of the small class were num bered with the dead. Since that time I have ceased to trace them in their several steps. They aro scattered abroad and dwell I know not where : nor can I sav how manv. now. ar m m have ceased to live. : ' ' About three years ago, it devolved upon mc, as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Clearfield Academy, to enter into some cor respondence for the purpose of procuring a teacher. A letter received from a friend high ly recommended a Mr. Gordon, of Virginia lho result was a partial engagement. The person who had been recommended arrived, and, to my surprise, proved to bo my former classmate. Since that time, his history is known toy.ou all. After teaching a few months he resumed the practice of the law in Clear field. For more than two years he has been one of oi;r number. There was one trait in his character more prominent, perhaps, than any other. He was frank and open. He despised trickery and de ccit. To his friends he was generous and freej and towards all men without disguise. For a man so young and employed in. his professional business, he certainly must rank high as a scholar. As a student, he loved the languages, and his ability to learn them was cf the highest order. Latin and Greek he learn ed with case. Besides bis own native tongue, he spoke French and German with fluency, and, it is said, had acquired a good knowledge of Italian. No man in this county, and but few in the State, were his equals in this respect He had talent, too, that needed only applU cation to enable him to fake a high position in his profession", na entered on practice here as a stranger, with nothing to aid him but his own native abilities. But he succeeded well : at least as well as any man could have expected to do nnder the same circumstances. . But rime would fail to recount all. .,He is dead. - His earthly remains will soon repose in the tomb, whither we must all, in due time, follow him." . Truly we may say, how quickly we fall and how soon we are forgotten ! Hon. G. R. Barrett, who was nresent. rose and said : Mr: President : Though less acquainted and less intimate with the deceased than many who are present, 1 esteem it a pririlege to add an humble tribute to his memory 1 This is a sad and mournful occasion to us all. No heart can feel ! the weight of oppression more than my own. ' Death has again done its work in our midst. One of the members of our Bar has been called from the shores of time, and has gone to; join the multitude that throng the courts abovel " . With but a few hours warningj the hand of .sickness was laid upon him so vi olently that his constitution gave way and he sank into the arms of death. r It is nearly nine years since our ranks have been thus broken J In that time Providence has watched over us with peculiar care. : While men were falling all round us, death invaded not the circle of our profession. Were wo from this cause, resting in fancied security, and was it neces sary that this sudden shock should be visited npon us, to warn us of the uncertainty of hu man life ? To teach us that we stand upon an awful and fearful precipice, even the very verge of the grave 1 I trust not, and yet we know that such a visitation is for some wise end. The troubles and trials of life to our de ceased friend are over. He has .made the journey, and gone to reap his reward ! It soems to be a part of our professional life, to be constantly engaged in the strifes incident to men and business ; but how often we are ad monished not to let an interest for our clients interfere with our personal relations to each other." Engaged in the pursuit of "a highly honorable calling, our first object should be to dignify that calling, by cultivating the. kindest relations towards our brethren. If at times we are led into intemperate feeiing,: by a com mendable zeal,' for the cause entrusted to our management, let us strive never io indulge in personal assaults upon our brother. Feelings of animosity should never be allowed to lurk within our bosom for a single moment after the excitement of the occasion has passed by. The melancholy occurrence of this day, should again forcibly remind us of this duty. ; Death is the lot of all men, and wc, one and all, in God's good time, must obey the summons. : This morning beamed upon us with more than usual effulgence ! This first day of April seemed to promise the opening of spring, and the return of genial summer. When we all felt a buoyancy of spirit and lightness of heart,' rendered more so by the welcome season, Low little did we expect that sorrow and sadness wonld so soon take the place of such feelings! That ere the sun should go down, we would be called to the bedside of a dying Brother, and bid to witness the flight' of his immortal soul from its earthly tenement to realms of c ternal bliss! And yet such has been God's will. ; : James Biddle Goedox, Esq., a member of our bar is no more ! His tongue is silenced in death ! 'In the prime of life, only having fair ly entered upon its journey, he has been sud denly stricken down ! . This morning he walked our streets as usual in apparently good health, exchanging friendly salutations with his neigh bors, and perhaps enjoying as high hopes for the future' as any of us. This evening he "sleeps the sleep of death." How sudden ! How startling ! ! What a warning to us all ! ! ! His body is with us, but it is cold and inani mate. His immortal soul has silently winged its way to a ''brighter and better world." What an impressive lesson ! How loudly it calls to us, "be ye also ready." How plainly wc are admonished to live as Brothers ; to be kind, generous, forbearing and forgiving to wards each other, so that when it falls to our lot to pass the gate of death, we shall be able to die, as we trust our lamented friend did, "at peace with all mankind," and in the hope of a happy resurrection. If we have much to forgive, we should ever remember, that we have mnch to be forgiven for. It may cost 'us a struggle for the time being, but it will save us many a pang of regret in the last hour of our tribulation : in the agonies of death! The deceased was far from his home and rel atives, a circumstance which has added much to the solemnity of the occasion,' but which only served to draw us the more closely to him. When no kindred hand was present to minis ter to' his wants ; to sympathise with' him in his afflictions ; to smooth his pillow and to soothe his sufferings, how pleasant for a fra ternal brotherhood to perform that duty ! It will be a comfort for his aged parent and rela tives to know, that in their absence his dying couch was surroiindeu by a large circle of de voted friends in whose arras he expired, and who would have saved him from the embrace of death if care and human skill could have done it. God's will was otherwise, and he with meekness and abiding faith bowed his head to the unalterable decree. Wm.. 9. Wallace, Esq. spoke of his intimacy with the deceased,' in the social relations of life, as well as in professional business ; said that ho was gifted with a high order of talent, and that his professional intercourse was of that high minded and dignified character that no one could take exceptions to it. While he always maintained the interests of his clients with energy, firmness and great ability, he did it with dignity and courtesy. It afforded him untcignea pleasure to add this tribute to bis memory. J. B. McEnally, Esq., presented the follow ing resolutions, which were unanimously a dopted : . ' Resolved, That in the death of James Biddle Gordon, Esq., the Bar has lost an able and ac complished advocate and the community an esteemed and worthy citizen. Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the father and relatives of the deceased, and hereby tender them our mutual sympathies in their bereavement. " Resolved, That the members of the Clearfield Bar, in respect for the memory of the deceas ed, wear crape upon the left arm for the period of thirty days. . Resolved, That lion. Alex. Irvin, John L. Cuttle and Jas. H. Larimer, Esq's., be a com mittee to convey the body of the deceased to his family at Reading, Pa., and Ashley M. Hills, John F. Weaver and Elmer S. Dundy be a committee to make all necessary arrange ments. . Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet ing be published and a "copy of the same be transmitted to the family of the deceased. JosiAn W. Smith, Prest. L. Jackson Crans, , ie , Thos. J. McCulIough, becys. . Appalliko Fire. Intelligence received at Charleston from Knoxsville, Tenn., states that the town ofSevierville, in that State, was al most entirely destroyed by fire on Tuesday week. It originated in tho house of Mr. Dug gan, Sheriff of that county, and involved the destruction of the jail, court . house, store houses in fact, the whole village, with tho ex ception of three or four buildings. The only person in the jail was a man recently commit ted, and he was burned to death. . TSE CENTRAL AMERICAN WAS. Simultaneously with the news of Peace to the Crimea comes that of .War in Central America, and the former was not more import ant to Europe than the latter must be to the American hemisphere.' The government of Costa Rica, which is the contiguous State to Nicaragua on the south, refuse ! to receive Col.Scllessinger, the commissioner from Gen. Walker, escorted him out of the country, and declared war against Xicaragua.. With great decision Gen. W. put his forces in the field, now amounting to about 1G00 men, and was at Virgin Bay the very evening the declaration of war was announced! Costa Rica has about SOOjegular troops and a militia of some 5000. A writer in Blackwood says a portion of the troops are armed with Minie rifles, there is a good provision of artillery, and numbers of Germans in the country, many of them in the employment of the Government, to whom it is stated to be indebted for an effective state of military preparation.'-1 We hear, too, by tho steamer Illinois, that the British frigate Pres ident, which had come down the coast' with silver to Panama, immediately upon fter arri val at that port, hastened back to Punta Arenas the seaport of Costa Rica on the Pacific, in or der to defend the country against an incursion of Walker, which was expected by the author ities. A French frigate was at the same port, with the purpose of acting with the -British force against Walker; besides which the Brit ish war steamer Eiirydice was at San Juan on the 2C'th ult. Will Walker bo successful J is now the question . He has tried to maintain pacific relations with his neighbors., and having been invited to Nicaragua by the Democratic party there, he is nofiilibuster, and Costa Rica has declared war upon him. The news of this outbreak will soon summon thousands to' bis aid from California and New Orleans, like the cross of fire among the clans of the Highlands; those States which have refused the olive branch trill be' overthrown by the sword, and a Central American Confederation will be es tablished, where the Anglo-Saxon element will be dominant. f'';!i ; ? ''-. ''. " Wc observe that 3Injor Heiss has reached the American Minister, Mr. Wheeler, with des patches from onr 'government,- and all who know' Major U., and are aware of his deep sympathy with Walker, will argue that he car ried something encouraging to him. An en voy, with pacific assurances from San Salvador had reached him also. Under these circum stances, wo believe that Gen. Walker will be successful, unless France and England should interfere with him. And if they do, the cause of Nicaragua will become the qnarrel of the United States, for the, maintenance of the Mon roe doctrine of non-intervention by European nations in tho affairs of this continent. It is necessary for our securiij that the Isthmian States should be in friendly hands, or the tran sit to California and our Pacific territories may be cut off. Should Walker fail, our commerce will bo at the mercy of the Indians and mixed races, who have so long mada that fair portion of earth a disgraceful anarchy. This cannot be permitted,1 and as a natural consequence, the destiny of Walker, the ''manifest destin" of Central America, and the safety of our ter ritorial connections, are all unavoidably inter mingled. PhilJa. Sun. . ; A Storm Ahead. The Fcnnsylcanian copies a paragraph from the Washington Union, in re lation to the departure of Mr.' Buchanan from England, and makes this bitter comment : "We suspect that tho fact announced in the above paragraph is true, although we do not consider tho Union ver' good authority, jnst now, for anything that relates to 31 r. Buchan an. A more disreputable attempt to deceive its readers could not have been enacted by the Union, than the suppression of the resolutions in favor of Mr. Buchanan, "passed at some of the reoM meetings in v irginia. The Berkc ley proceedings, published in the Union, were greatly mutilated, and as they appeared, were a fraud upon the Democracy of the land. The resolution in favor of Mr. Buchanan was left out of the body of the proceedings. Such morality can have but few admirers; even a- mong 'scurvy politicians.' It would seem from the foregoing that the friends of Buchanan and Pierce are not likely to have a very harmonious time in the Cincin nati Convention, and that the conversion of the Union, the official mouth-piece of the party, into an electioneering organ devoting all its influence to securing the succession for Mr Buchanan, is already strongly resented. The Courts of Illinois have for decision the most perplexing question that ever puzzled tho brain of a Judge. The question is, what con stitutes "Democracy 1" The question origi nated thus : A Democrat at Alton subscribed $25 to sustain a Democratic paper, but after wards refused to pay his subscription because the editor's views of Democracy did not coin cide with his own. The editor sued for the money. Several prominent Democrats were called to the stand, but the testimony as to what Democracy is was decidedly incongruous and conflicting. When the question has gone through all the courts, we shall let our readers know the result. Here there is no difficulty in solving such an enigma, as whoever swears by the Pennsylvania Canal and Portage Rail road is considered sound. Lewislown Gaz. A Yankee Captain, bound for Liverpool, lost his wife on the voyage and embalmed the body in the oil of cinnamon found among the cargo. He was rather astonished on his arrival at port to find that the-oil ho had used was worth $4,500. He could not pay the bill, and was thrown into prison, but he was ultimately; re leased through the influence of Baring & Bro thers, and will have an idea hereafter of the essential, oils. -. , . J Sd terrible has been the effect of the cold and snow on the mountains, west of us, that the deer have become so weak from starvation that thoy have been captured in numbers by individuals who have them confined in their stables, for the purpose of saving their lives. Mr. William Glotfelty has nine in confinement, and so tame have they become that they will readily eat from the hand Cumberland (?1J.) Jclegrapfi. - . ; . Eiropeah News. The Asia brings no news whatever of the missing Pacific, and all parties, even-, the most 'sanguine, must now set her down as lost. ,Most probably, as was the case with the president and the City of Glasgow, no relic of her will ever be found. : Tho European intelligence is unusually bar ren of interest, - Tho Peace Conference at Paris have virtually concluded their labors, and wc may regard the pacification as com plete for the present. Of the terms on which the settlement, is accomplished we have no clear "account as yet. From all appearances they will be much more favorable to Russia than the world in general has expected. The rejoicings at the birth of the'Fr-inch Imperial baby continue vociferous at Paris, not unraiu gled with evidences of a deep under-current of hostility to the Napoleonic dynasty." Bona parte has granted an amnesty to the Republi can exiles, allowing them to come back on pro mising to be loyal to his Government and to obt-y the laws. ' Three Generals, namely Canrobert, Bosquet and Raudon have been promoted to the rank of Marshal! In England the great event is the confirmation of the Prin cess Royal, who will presently be married to the heir of the Prussian throno. The forge ries and frauds of John Sadleir prove to bo even mo,re monstrous than has been supposed. Mr. Dallas has arrived at London and taken posession of his mission, amid general good feeling. There is no Indication of the course which the British Ministry will take with re gard to the recall of Mr. Crampton and the of fending Consuls ; though Crampton is sharply admonished by the Press for his neglect in not delivering Lord Clarendon's arbitration dis patch to Mr. Marcy. From Turkey we hear of nothing but difficulties in tho way of the new reforms on the one hand, and of Western fi nancial speculations at Constantinople on the other. From India we have at last, the final proclamation of the British authorities depo sing tho King of Oade, an-1 annexing his country to the British Empire. ; TueclorYakd suame of Rome. UoJerthis head tho New York Express points attention to the fact that the "Sisters of Mercy" in that city are soliciting contributions to support the orphans under their charge, while the "lnsti tute of Mercy" is a Roman Catholic establish mer.t, under the special patronage of the Most Reverend Archbishop Hughes whose prince ly revenues and landed estates in that State (Provence) have now for him the distinction of "tho modern Wolsey." While these poor Sisters of Mercy are thus asking alms for the daughters of poverty, and the sick, and the dying under thair care, this humble, self-sac rificing disciple of Him who on earth "had not where to lay his head," i not ashamed to announce, in his official organ, that upwards of nine thousand dollars has been raised already to send over to the Pope, to build an Ameri can College at Rome ! This College, we are told, w ill be the "crowning glory" of the Cath olic Churc'a iu America. Heaven have mer cy on the "sick and dying" Heaven take care of the poor girls for it is clear the niudcrn Wolsey will not. "Thousands for Rome, but not one cent for New York," is his motto. Reason If the College In Rome is built the reward is to bo a Cardinal's hat, and the Cardi nal's hat may lead ono day to the tiara. A Most Rev. Archbishop, with his eyes longing for that prize, cannot be expected to devote his revenues, or his sympathies, to the poor, the sick and the dying at home. The godless "Americans," the "insect" Know-Nothings, the heretical Piotcstants, must take care of them in the "Institution of Mercy." just as they arc taken care of in the public Alms houses. Terrible Sickness ix Odessa. A letter in the"Oesterreichische Zeitung," dated Odessa, February 20, states that a terrible complaint prevails in that city, and it is particularly vio lent among the troops. Above 20,000 are now in tho hosjntals, and thousands have alreadj- died. In one week 12 military physicians and four medical men in private practice died.- Among them aro two Americans, who were a bout to return home. The typhus has commit ted terrible ravages in the whole of Southern Russia, and particularly in thoso places which are near the theatre of war. Bakshiserai, Sim pheropol, Kherson, and Nicholaief! are almost empty. It is estimated that this pestilence has already carried off 100,000 men. It is grad ually spreading over Bessarabia. A Kansas Wast. A correspondent f the Hillsdale Gazette, after mentioning rifles and some other things which, he says, are not want ed in Kansas, states a real necessity ar follows "A young Missourian came to my office yes terday on business, having left bis claim, about one hundred miles west, a few days since, where he had been living about four months. He said, among other things, 'there are plenty of men up there, but I have not seen a woman for four months. There is an Illinois man up there who has got a woman's dress, and carries it around for a show, charging one dollar a sight, and is getting rich at it.' " . Ax other Veteran Gone. Commodore Con ner, one of the veteran patriots, whose chival- ric bravery added lustre to the American Na vy in the war of 1812, has iaid the debt of na ture. He bad been in the service about forty five years about half of which was in the ac tive service. ; He entered the Navy in 1800, and was on board the Hornet during her en gagement with the Penguin in 1814, where he was wounded, and from whence be carried to his grave a ball in his body. -r ANew Feature. The New Jersey Rail road Company have opened a complaint book. The book is open at all hours, at the office in Jersey city, for the entry of all causes of dis satisfaction or complaints of any kind, which the company engage promptly and thoroughly to investigate and redress, if made by respon sible persons. A like course will bo taken if the complaints be communicated to the offi cers of the company, with the name of the par ty azstieved. V; GLEANINGS. Prcssia possesses 25,000 teachers, or school masters. There are 11,000 barrels of flour in store in Quincy, Illinois. , The crop of maple sugar this year is esti mated at $3,000,000. , There are fourteen female physicians now practicing in Boston. "Liberty or death," as the rat said when his tail was caught in the trap. TnE Wool clip of Washington co., last year was 2,918,921 pounds, worth $1,135,393. - Tux fellow who slept under the "cover of night,'.' says that he came very near freezing. Uxtrte The report that Ex-Gov. Bigler, ot" California, has been nominated as Minister to Sweden. The Dubuque 'Tribune' says that five hun dred good mechanics will be wanted in that city the coming season. Marti.v Koszta has married a rich widow in Chicago, Illinois, and settled himself on a farui for which he paid $9,000, Col. A. K. M'Clure has been appointed Su perintendent of the Erie and North East Rail road, in place of Joseph Casey, resigned. A letter from Hon. James Buchanan says, that he will leave tor the United States, in the steamer Arago, advertised to sail from Havre, tor New York, on the 9th of April. A Coroxer's jury in Columbus, Georgia, lately held an inquest over the dead body or a slave child of eight years, and returned that it came to its death by blows inflicted by its mistress, Mrs Elizabeth Clayton. A Mr. Allmax, at Gallatin.. Va, blew np his house and store, killing himself and severely injuring his wife, by accidentally dropping a lighted cigar into a keg of powder which ho was passing. The accident occurred on the 21st of March. The Montreal Advertiser says that some idea of the snow in that region may be formed from the fact that there arc drifts in the neighbor hood of the "Mile End" 23 feet high on level land, actual measurement. A warm rain would create a disastrous flood there. Destitution in Tf.xa3. So shocking is tho condition of the roads between Indiatiola and the Gulf coast of Texas, that flour was worth twenty-five dollars a barrel at the latest advi ces, and at some other places in that section it could not be bought at all. At Dexter, Me., rccenlly, the floor of the Town Hall gave way during an excited elec tion of town officers, and two hundred and fifty persons were precipitated into the room and cellar below, and no one was killed or serious ly wounded, though some appeared to be bad ly maimed. Parliamentary Wit. A resolution offered by Sir Edward Lytton Bulwcr, in the British -House of Commons, was designated by Lord Palmerston as "Much Ado About Nothing." Thundering cheers followed the reminder given to the Premier by Bulwer, that "Much Ado About Nothing" follows, iu chronological or der, after the "Comedy of Errors." A .Shoemaker received a note from a lady to whom he was particularly attached, request ing him to make her a pair of shoes, and not knowing exectly the style she required, ho dispatched a written missive to her, asking her whether she would like them " Wronnd or Esq. Toad." Tke . fair one, indignant at this rich specimen of orthography, replied, "A'necAer." The number of bills which Governor Wins ton, of Alabama, has regarded it his duly to veto, has obtained for him the name of tho "Vtto Governor." He has recently vetoed two bills that purport to incorporate villages, but which contain "not a sentence to be found going to incorporate either of them." The only point in the acts is the regulation of the sale of liquor. In N. Carolina, within six miles of Greens boro,' Rev. John B. Marsh reports a fauiily who had never heard any person pray orpicach, had never seen a Bible, or heard of Jesus Throughout "the Pines," where every body is engaged in making turpentine, ho found similar specimens of heathenism ; not one half the population according to his estimate, hav ing ever seen a Bible. The demolition of the Irving House, in N. York, has been commenced. Its central front is to be replaced with marble, and several ele gant stores fitted up. It is stated that the Messrs. Delmonico refused S 100,000 for their lease of one wing of this building. The Ir ving House was built in 1848, and was then thought too far up town. Now, it is too far down for a hotel. Ifollotcay's Oinhnent and Fills, certain Reni- dics for Rheumatism. nenrj' Foot, aged 52, of Natchez, Mississippi, was a severe sufferer from this complaint, and tried a number of re puted remedies, hoping they would benefit him, but he became so bad at last, as to be en tirely confined to his bed, and he was unable to more hand or foot.. While he was in this horrible condition, a friend brought him a quantity of Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which he immediately commenced to use, ho soon , found himself gradually improved by them, and by persevering with tbem for eleven weeks, be was entirely cured, and has sinco enjoyed the best of health. Mail Robberies. A regular system of mail robberies seems to have been planned and put into successful execution between St. Louis and the eastern cities. The St. Louis papers learn from the postmaster that the mails made up for Boston on the 26th January, the mail of the 27th of tho same month for Washington, and the mail of the 7th March for Philadel phia, are all missing and have fallen into tho nanas of the robbers. These mans contained money, and large amounts of drafts, and it seems strange that they should be stolen, as from the , moment they leave the St. Louis post office they are in the charge of agents, who are employed for the special purpose of guarding and safely delivering these mails, and if those containing money, which are known by the brass locks, ara missing, they ought to now what becomes of them. n n
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