TUB MVIlDEn OP PRANK COM OS.
A TOl'CIIIHl MARK AtlVB.
Gen. Lealie Combs has written a letter in re.
lntion to the death of hi son, which we find
published in a late number of the Isininville
Joiirnil. The General states that about, two
years since, he purchased a place for his son.
j mt below the month of Red Itiver, to which
young Combs moved ond commenced work. A
few mouths after, a near neighbor died, and a
iiiaii limned O'Dleunis, purchased the place and
put hoi ne hands on it, but not his family. The
day he lore young Combs visited Kentucky, in
July last, he bought a small strip of land, ly
inu between him end O'Blonnis, at public sale.
O' Biennis deaired this land, and each h id en
deavored to buy it from the claimant, who r fit
ted to Fell it toO'Clennis, because he had first
promised toyoung Combs.
(Jen. Combs continues :
"Alter my son nturted home, last November,
I received a letter from his agent, Dr. J.ichs, ed
dioecd to him, advising him of the bud conduct
ol O'liiennis during his absence, in destroying
his -toek, and especially of 1 1 id cruelly towards
his riding horse, in forcing him with the aid uf
ono of his negro?s, over thu river bank back',
nurds into u bog, from which he cou.d not ex
tricate liimpelf, and w hen found and pried out,
lio died. Shocked as I was by such inhumani
ty to a dumb brute, 1 became seriously alarmed
fur the safety of my son, and wrote to him to be
on his sitard to have nothing pcrtnnuU to do
w ithO'Blennis, but to seek a legal ridrei for
any injuries he had sustained, if en consultation
with his friends, it was deemed advieabl Tins
course he adopted, although soon alter his re
turn to his place, he was informed by a man in
the employ of O'Blennis, that the latter individ
ual had ottered to pay him if he would kill my
.on, and that O'Blennis himself was repeatedly
iibscnt till a lute hour in the night with a dou
ble barrel gun louded with buck-bh.it. My son
applied me of these alarming circumstances,
and that some of his neighbors udv.std him to
leave his place, but he said that he "had rather
die than be thus driven off ';" in the meantime,
however, he was preparing, under tny instruc
tions, to wind up his business as soon as possi
ble and come of! temporarily at any rale, until
tumething could be done to render his residence
aafe, and hut for his murder, he would have left
early in January.
Things remained in this situation till the 30th
of December, my son never having met O'BIcn
nis but once, on which occasion he told bi n of
his intention to seek legal rrdicsx for the inju
ries he had done him, and expressly declaimed
all intention of any personal injury to him.
From this circumstance, and that nearly two
months hnd elapsed since his return, and O'
Blennis had not executed his threats, rr.y son
bpgan to think he was only boasting, and nt any
ratt he would not venture to attempt any ojien
art if violence upon him. On that day my sn
was visiting a friend in the neighborhood, when
O' Biennis rode up to the front fence, a few steps
from tho hnufp, and, seeing my son in the por
tico, dismounted and came in without being in
vited by the proprietor. Soon nferwnri,i, din.
ner was announced, and my son, seeing that
O' Biennis hnd seated himself at the table, de
clined eating ; a brief altercation endued, when
the host interfered and ordered or desired O'
Biennis to leave his house, telling him that he
would not allow hitn thus to intuit his guests.
My son remained all night and until one or two
o'clock the next day. In the meantime, O'Blen
nis had sent one of his slaves to a neighboring
grocery for a gallon of whiskey, with a written
order very strangely worded, showing that he
had some desperate deed in contemplation. The
next morning, and during the forenoon, O'
liiennis was seen by several persons walking in
the public road, or sitting on a log by its side
armed with a double barrelled gun. Along
this road my son would bo compelled to travel
in returning home. Although aware of the
difficulty between them, thpy did not siipnos0 he
wan contemplating an attack, and therefore, d cl
not take the tr-mlilo t-t notify my son of his dan
ger ; mi that a'xiut one or two o'clock, when he
Marled home, accompanied by a young gentle
man, named Johnson, so far from intend in' or
njucling an attack, he put his pistol (a small
bix-barrelled revolver) in his saddle bags, in
htaikd, und took neither powder nor bull with
him.
When they arrived at O'BIcnnis' plantation,
they saw him in the field near the road, and by
the time they had come opposite to the house, he
was in the yarJ. Without speaking to him,
or hailing him, if he puke, they pasted on at a
blow pace. When they had gone a few hun-
HlXm HU.,LJiillL.UJ I II I
vera! persons at my son's house distinctly heard
two report. The parties were so close togMher
that the whole load (the first one in my opinion,)
entered his forehead, without touching his hat,
in a circle not exee 'ding two inches in diameter,
crushing the skull end lodging in the brain. The
orntid loud must have passed over his head as he
fell, ns there are marks on the fence where seve
ral shot struck it, just behind where he stood.
Johnson, filled, with horrorat thescer.e, mount
ed his horse and started to'look for help ; just as
he did so he hraid O'liiennis call him, and look
ing hark, saw him standing near or over the bo
dy of my son, and heard him say something a
bout his being armed. It was more than an hour
before Judge Black and Mr. Hopkins reached the
place, accompanied by Mr. Johnson. In the
meantime a neighbor was accidentally passing,
and saw a man lying on his face by the road side
with a horse crazing nar him. He supposes it
must have been ten or fifteen minutes after the
deed was done. He immediately dismounted
and on ascertaining it was my son turned him on
his bark ; his pulse was still beating ; he groan
ed several times and died. Whether he was ren
dered insensible at the moment he was shot, or
was suffering the agonies of death all this time,
God only knows."
O'liiennis was subsequently arrested, and Gen.
Combs concludes bis touching account w ith this
lancunge :
"My son's body is deposited temporarily in a
neighbor's grave-yard. I shall bring it home
with me and bury him by the side nf his mother.
The sod on which his head lay when he died, is
still saturated and red with Mood. I shall dig it
up and pl.ice it at the head of his grave in Ken
tucky. If he had been a boisterous, forward boy,
I do not think my heart would have been so sore
ly bruised, but ho was as mild and retiring in
his manner, as he was brave and high-toned in
his feelings and principles."
The funeral of young Combs took place at
Lexington, on the 29d ult., and was attended by
a large number of persons. The Observer has a
touching notice of the last sad reremonv :
"Ue who, but a few months since, left his pa
rental home, full of hope and happiness, and with
bright prospects in the future, was brought back-
to it by an afflicted father, a mangled corpse
not killed upon the battle field, but flint down
upon the public highway, by one almost old e
nough to be his father his nearest neighbor
and who ought to have been his friend and p;o
tector, instead of his assassin. Oh! it was cru
el for one so young and noble-hearted to be thus
butchered in a distant land, with no friend or re
lative of his boyhood near him. Yet even in
that land of strangers, so manly had been his
bearing, so upright his conduct and character,
that one universal burst of indignation anil hor
ror followed the footsteps of his cowardly slayer
and tears of heart-felt sympathy fell from a'l
eyes upon his bloody grave. We have rarely
seen upon a similar occasion so lareo a multitude
as filled the house anJ streets adjacent to it.
while the funeral service was performed by the
Rev. Mr. Matthews. Nor have we ever listen
ed to a more appropriate and touching discourse
and prayer. The same Reverend gentlennn was
at the bed-side nfa dying mother; and a little
more than a year since, in the same place, de
livered a funeral discourse, commemorative of
her hiirh character, fortitude and piety, prema
turely, as she was huriied to the tomb. All par
ties and classes, then, as now. united in testify,
ing their love and regard for the deceased, and
in sympathizing with the afflicted family rnd relatives."
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THE AMERICAN.
Saturday, Jtay 31, 181").
rT7"We are indebted to the Hon. James Fob
lock for public documents, relative to Com
merce, &c.
OTOur readers w ill find some interesting ar
ticl-s on our first page. Among them a lecture
from Mi-ter Candle, and also one from the veri
table Mrs. Candle.
rr?"Candidates, this year, are thick and nu
merous. Our readers will find a long list of
them in another column. They will have no oc
casion to complain for w ant of an opportunity to
make a choice.
KP-In anothei column will be found a touch
ing narrative o( the death of the son of (Jen. Les
lie Combs, of Kentucky. We recollect having
heard Gen. Combs during tha Presidential cam
paign, in September last, at Philadelphia, when
asked to say something of Texas, describe, a
mong other things, tho captivity and hardships
eiidmed by this boy, who had been taken prison
er in llie Santa Fe expedition incarcerated in a
prison in Mexico, and often obliged to work in
chains in the streets of the city, witn felons and
others. Mr. Combs then stated that Col. John
son had invoked the aid of the Legislature ol
Kentucky, in bchuli'of his son, and paid a high
eompbment to the generous and rhivalric sp rit
of the old hero, w ho had taken a deep interest in
his fate. Young Combs was shortly uftT re
leased by Santa Ana, mainly through the inter
cession of Ceil. Jackson, we believe.
K7"Mp.xico. Py reference to the news in an
other column, it will be een that there is some
probability that Santa Ana. inst-ad of b-ieg pun
ched as he deserves, will, in all likelihood, be
restored to power. The Mexicans are mostly a
bigot ted ami superstitious race. The terrors of
the recent earthquake and the annexation of
Texas, are events, which, in the hands of the
more designing, will all be made to conspire to
the eb vation of Santa Ana to his former place
and power.
C7"The weather continues changeable and
unsteady. Rain is much wanted. I he showers
we have had were Generally followed by cold
and windy weather. The fruit crop, however
promises to be a fair one. Grain aUo wears a
piomising appearance.
K7Bi'bi;i.abs.
K7"Tn Battalion, or muster day, came off
in this place according to announcement, on
Saturday last. Tho officers marshalled their
forces in market square, about 13 o'clock. We
could plainly see tho decline of the ancient mili
tary spirit, in the accoutrements as well as the
conduct of of the soldiery, if the term soldiery
can be properly applied to a set of jovial indi
viduals, bent on fun and frolic, and armed with
sticks, canes and umbrella handles. Captain
Chapman's company, from Noithumberland,
were particularly uproarious while forming, and
paid as little attention to the intlnnt Captain as
to the commands of the field officers. Had he
used his "trenchant blade" upon the backs of his
refractory recruits, they would have richly me
rited the punishment. One of the men sported
a shield, formed of ginger bread, as large as that
of Achilles' at the siege of Troy. Among the
Sunbnry company we looked, but looked in vain
for something like a weapon of war, 1 here was
not even an apology for a firelock in the whole
company. The officers of the Battalion were,
however, generally well equipped and made a
handsome appearance. The hucksters were
more numerous than heretofore. The "flying
horses" also did a swimming business.
On Monday the Mahonoy Battalion came off.
It is well woith a visit Irom those who have ne
ver been "there to see." There was a perfect
jam in the street, as well as in every room in the
house. We observed one striking difference be
tween the Mahonoy and Sunbnry Battalions.
Tl i former were generally well equipped with
good rilles or other lire arms. We also observed
a handsome company of Rillemeti, called the
Jackson Uilletiien," which is highly creditable
to the military gentlemen who compose it. The
company is under tin' command of the following
officers : Martin Prniuheller, Captain ; Wil-
l:am Cariss, 1st Lieutenant ; Jacob Hetrick,
2d Lieutenant. The Captain informed in, that
his company now numbered sixty-one, rank and
file, iiml are perfectly independent, having fur
nished their uniforms, arms, nod every thing
else, at tlo-ir own expense. If called out in de
fence of their country, we have no doubt they
would show themselves worthy of the name of
American Freemen. Captain Jacob Hofti is al
o about raising a company, to be called the
Washington (iuatds.
Rfsoi.itions In th Presbyterian Genera!
Assembly, at Cincinnati, on Tuesday last. th
Committee to w hom memorials on th" subject of
slavery had been referred, submitted a Report,
accompanied by the annexed resolutions :
" Ketovrl, First, That the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church in the United States
was originally organized, and has since contin
ued the bond of Union in the church, upon the
conceded principle that the existence of domes
tic slavery, under the ciicumstunccs in which it
is found in the Southern poition of the country,
is no bar to christian communion.
"Second, That the petitions that ask the As
sembly to make the holding of slaves in itself a
matter of discipline, do viitiially require this
judiciary to dissolve itself and abandon the or
ganization under which, by the divine blessii g.
it has so long prospied. Th" tendency is evi
dently to Scpara'f the North, i n from the South
ern port ion of the church ; a result which every
good citizen must deploie as tending to tin' dis
solution of the I'liion of our beloved country,
and which every enlightened chiistiuu will op
pose as bringing about a ruinous and unnecessa
ry schism between brethren who maintain a
common faith."
After the reading of the Report several inef
fectual attempts weie male to postpone. 'I'll, n
amendments were oft-red, with a view of ten
dering it less defensive of slavriy, but were re-
dred yardti and were in sight of Frank Comlw jeeted by decisive votes. '1 he vole on a lopting
house, they heard a horse epproaching then in
the rear at a rapid gate, and looking back, saw
O' Biennis with a dotiMo barrelled gun on his
boulder, riding at lull speed. Join son imme
diately said to my son: "O'Blennis is coming
after you to thoot you," and he replied: "I ex
pect he is."
O' Biennis rode past as fast us ho could, but
sa d nothing, and w hen be had gone some twenty
r thirty yards, jumped down from his horse and
ttteinptcd to hitch him to the fence, but tailed ;
iiid immediately levelled his gun at my son and
pproach 'd him ; he ami Johnson both jumped to
he ground, and Johnson said : "Mr. O'Llennis
on't bhoot him." My con exclaimed, raising his
ight bund, without attempting to draw any
tvapoii : "Stop, O'l'lennis, stop !" O Mlt-iims
lade no reply, but still approached till within a
w paces, my son looking him right in the face,
ml wholly unprotected, bath barrels were then
icharg. J, so nearly at the same time that John
m thought but one was fired, although se
ttle report was then talen, and resulted as fol
lows: Ayes 101, Nays U; non-liijiiets 3.
Raising a Salary. The New York True
Sun says it is rumored that a meeting of the Pu
eeyite Clergy in that city has been held, at w hich
it was resolved to raise S '.'uO per annum foi
the support of Dr. Ouderdonk until the General
Convention of the F.piscopal Church meets. A
circular was aUo prepared to the ruial clergy,
requestirg them to be non-committal on the sub
ject of the Doctor's potition for the present.
Roman Catholic P.aptisms were condemned
by the Presbyterian General Assembly, at Cin
cinnati, C'Oth inst. Yeas 1(19 ; nays 6 ; not vot
ing 4. Majority against recognizing the Bap
tisms, 130. T he question was, whether the
Catholic Church was a church of Christ. The
Assembly has decided that it is not.
The question, may a man marry his deceased
wife's sitter, is up again before the Old School
Presbyterian Assembly at Cincinnati.
A number of dwellings in the
countiy, in the lieighhoi hood ol this place, have
been entered within the last few weeks, and rob
bed of consideiable sums of money. Several
attempts were made in this boiough, but the
burglars made nothing by the operation. Per
sons should always be careful to guard against
dangers of this kind, by placing their money in
places of security.
K7The sale of the property of the Shamokin
Coal and lion Company took p'.iC on the
J Mh inst.. at the house of l'laiikl.ll A. Clarke,
in Shamokin. The sale was pretty well at
tended. The diff.-ient tiacts, excepting the tract
ol HO acres, were all pun based by the loan hold
ers of the company. Thetract on which the An
tluaeite Furnace is erected, w as knocked off at
SJO.TOO. The'.iGucie tract, which is subject
to a mortgage of about S,0(!0, was bid up to
S I. Kill, when the sale was adjourned to the first
.Monday of August next, at the Court House, in
this place. The portion of the land lying in
Columbia county, was sold on the 20th, at Dan
ville, for 511,000, to the same purchasers.
OfT Tho race bet ween Fashion Js Peytona came
oll'ut Camden, on Wednesday last. Fashion
was victorious, taking the 1st and 2nd heat
Time, 7-IS and 7-.'S. The loof of the staging
fell in just before the race commenced. Soni
'i or 20 persons were dragged out, some wiih
broken limbs, and others more or less bruised.
E7"Bisnop Ki.nl The F.piscopal Conven
tion, on Friday the 2Jd inst., succeeded in elect
ing a Bishop. Dr. Tyn and Dr. Bowman
w ere the original candidates. On the 1st 2 ballots
the vote stood nearly equal between Dr Dovui.an
and Dr. 'I )ug. when Dr. Tyng declined and no
unrated Dr. Chuke. On the third ballot be
tween Dr. Ilowmau and Dr. Clarke, the former
received 'Ji votes, just enough to iiom mate him by
the clergy The laity, however, refused to con
lii in the nomination, by a vote ol ' tt't to 3"?, when
Dr. Potter was taken up by the clergy by the
following vote, and the election continued by the
laity by a unanimous vote :
Rev. Alouzo Potter, received
Kev ll.n.itio Potter,
Kev. IIi-iii y J. V oi ton.
Kev. Stephen H Tyng,
liev. Saline I Powmau,
Kev. Dr Wainwright,
Right Ucv. Bishop Freeman, (Mis ) 1
Blank, 1
Dr. Alonzo Potter is at present the Professor
of Itelles Lettres and Moral Philosophy in 1'ninn
College. Schenectady, New Yoi k, und was for
merly the Rector ol St. Paul's Church, in Poston.
Dr. Potter is repiesented tube a ripe scholar and
an anient Christian. He si once elected to the
Fpiscopate of Massachusetts, but dec lined the
appointment. Whether he will accept the pre
sent one, we believe ii nut yet ceitain.
Dr. Potter is the son-in law of the much es
teemed Dr. Nott, of New Yoik , his views on
Church policy, the Philadelphia Gazette says, a
grce, with almost uniform coincidence, with
those ol our late venerated and apostolic Diocesan
Bishop White ; and the w hole tenor of his life,
as gentleman, a scholar, and a Christian, is an
assuiance that under his guidance the Church will
command the respect of the world.
E7Baii. Ai'som-tk. By a late Act of Assem
bly, bail, in casej of appeal from the judgment
of Justices of the Peaco and from awards of ar
bitrators and also bail for the stay of executions
before Justice, shall !" bail absolute. The Act
will go into efhet on the 1st of June, IS 15.
tyV-y the la'e Act of Assembly, the Reporter
of the decisions of the Supreme Court, is to pub
lish th decisions so that they be contained an
mally in two volumes, if necessary, in law calf
binding, not to contain the minority opinions,
nor less than .i.'O pages, which are not to be sold
for more than t per annum. This will save
lawyeis from f 4 to SO per volume. Robert M.
I'.arr, of Reading, has been appointed the Report
er, by the Governor.
locks
Cheap Tr avei.i.tn.-j. The fare from New
York to Albany, 110 miles, is down to 2"cepts;
from New York to Boston. .T'O miles, 52 .10.
F.xpfmhoi s Tiiavfi.i iMi. Travellers now
pass from New York to Detroit, by way of Al
bany and Buffalo, in fifty hours.
Ma. Ci shim:, it is said, is now engaged in
preparing a woi k descriptive of the countries,
people and scenes fulling under his observation
whilst engaged in his lat mission to China
The "Cnion"' announces that the President
has determined, in all apointin nts to Consul
ships, to iio.nina'e American Citizens, w here it
is possible.
Pit. Tymu, the Phila. Inquirer says, tend Ted
his resignation to the vestry of tho church of lk
F.piphamy, on Saturday last, and pleached his
farewell sermon on Sunday. He w ill preach at
St. George's, in New York city, on Saturday
night.
A SriirvK for Fohwaruixg tus Whole
Mail, at the rate of sixty miles an hour, tie
Washington correspondent of the Journal of Com
merce says, is now in agitation, experiments
are soon to be made, which will demonstrate its
entire feasibility. It w ill be a cheap mode of
transposing the mail ami is far profitable even
to the atmospheric I ail road talked of in F.ngland.
4 I votes.
17
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1
Bibe, the Pirate, the New York Tribune says
Miti'rm much under the state of uncertainly
liieli hangs around him, in conn quencc ot his
Ireqii.'iil reprieves. He says his mind is near
ly gone, and lu! doubls if ho sh'iiul ever be a
mail agiiu, where he to bo pardoned. He has
now only fourteen dys to live, if he be not a
gain reprieved : and he says that he would ra
ther be hung at once than suffer as he has done
all the horrors of anticipation, heightened by
the i n Ksioi'jil gleamn of h p..
A Washington correspondent of the Ne w York
Journal of Commerce writes
I not it e tl.iit, among other improvements and
discoveries, the use of galvanism in promoting
the growth of plants, is spoken of as something
new. The Tribune mentions an expeiiment
wherein a plant was made to grow three-fourths
of an inch in twelve hours, by this means. But
I am credibly informed that this mode of forcing
rapid vegetation has been known and practised in
the Fast Indies from time immeinoi lal It is
practised in India by the jugglers and the Fakir's
for the entertainment of the vulgar. A gentle
man now here, mentioned to nie some extraordi
nary exhibitions of the kind, which he saw in
India, a year or two ago. In these instances, the
seeds were put in the ground, covered with a
basket, frequently watered, kc , and the plants
grew six inches in half an hour.
GaAND Labcenv Green, the reformed gam
bler, says that the game ol faro is 20 per cent,
stronger than stealing.
amirltsn Illbta Soelttjr,
7The following is an extract of the speech
of the Rev. Mr. Todd, at the late mooting of tha
American Bible society, in New Yoik :
"That universal diffusion of the Scriptures
ovpr which the heart exults, and for which we
pray, has always been dreaded by the powers of
darkness. Hut ever since Moses wrote, the
Scriptures have been the mnnna nf the Church!
And when deep persecutions drive her to the
stake, Bishop Latimer will c.rry the Bible with
him to the flumes; and the poor blind girl burn
ed at tn age of'i'i. will cheer her soul throieh
the dark valley nf death, by quoting the Bi dn
till the flames chase her s;tir t up to God ; and
when tho church is driven into the mount ain.i
as were the Waldenseg she will carry the
Bible with her to the hills. It is affecting to
read tho history of those d lys, and to hear a Ro
man catholic historian complain in hitter terms
that those poor mountaineers used to go out
in the character of pedlars, that they might give
away the Word of Go I secretly, and thus, as he
says, spresd hirrity Img, long before a Bi
ble Society was formed or thonght of, thse
i Kir, pious meii, were up and down the moun
tains and valleys in the character of pedlars, in
order to distribute the Word of G xl. And I am
sure thin audience will be w illing to hear this
simp'e atory ofone of the.se glorious though per
secuted saints :
Oh ! lady, fair, these silks of mine
Are beautiful and rare :
Tho richest web ef the Indian loom,
Which beauty's self might wear ;
And these pearls are pure and mild to behold,
And with radiant light they vie ;
I have brought them with mo a weary name,
Will my gentle lady buy ?
"And tho lady smiled on the worn old man,
Thro' the dark and clustering curls
Which veiled her brow, and she stoop'd to view
His s Iks and glittering pearls.
And she placed their price in the old man's hand.
A lid lightly she turned away ;
But she paused at the wandei er's earnest call
My g-ntle lady, stay !
'Oh ! lady, fair, I have yet a gem,
Which a purer lustre flings
Than the diamond flah of the jeweled crown,
On tlv 'ofty brow of kings;
A wnndrful pearl of exceeding price,
Whose virtues shall not decay ;
Whose light shall boas a spell to thee,
And a blessing on thy way !
"Tho lady glanced at the mirroring steel,
Where her youthful form was seen.
Where her eyes shone clear, and her dark
waved,
Her clasping pearls between :
Bring forth thy pearl of exceeding worth,
Thou traveller giay and old ;
And name the price of thy precious gem,
And my pages shall count thy gold.
The cloud went off fmm the pilgrim's brow,
As a small and a meagre bonk,
L'nchased by gold or diamond gem,
From his folding robe he took :
Here, lady fair, is the pearl of price
May it prove as such to thee I
Nay, keep thy gold I ak it not
For the word nf Cod ! free. .'"
"The hoary traveller went his way
But the gift he left behind
Hath had its pure and perfect work
On tho high-born maiden's mind ;
And she hath turned from her pride of sin
To the lovliness of truth.
And given her human heart to God
In the beauteous hour of youth.
"And she hath loft the old gray halls
Where an evil faith had Miwer,
And the couitly knights of her father's train
And the maidens of her bower ;
Anil she hath gone to the Yaudois vale,
By lordly feetuntrod,
Where the poor and the needy of the caithare
rich
In the perfect love of God !
Murdrr lu Chester County.
The Philadelphia Spirit of the Times, of yes
terday, contains au account of an awful minder,
committed by a man named Jabez Boyd, in the
neighborhood of West Chester, on Sunday morn
ing last, the particulars of which are as follows :
Mr. Patton, a very respectable farmer of the
neighborhood, in connection with a poitiun of his
family, staitedto church, leaving the house and
au infant child ill chaige of his son William, a lad
of 1 1 years of age and abound girl of 15. About
half past ten o'clock Boyd, w ho had formerly re
sided with Mr Patton, entered the house, care
ful1)' locked the doors, and deliberately beat out
ihe brains of the boy with a pair of tongs, and
threw the lioy iututhe fire, which was burniug
on the li-arlh. The girl, with a singular pre
sence ol ininJ snatched the infant Irom the cradle
the moment the boy was attacked and escaped
with it through th back window of the house,
giving the ala hi to the neighbors w ho immedi
ately assembled and found the murderer gone.
The body of the lifeless boy was discovered par
tially consumed, and a cupboard in w hich Mr. P.
kept his money broken open and rifled of its con
tents, w hich consisted of about 'i0 in silver and
gold. It is presumed the intention of Boyd was
to murder both the boy and the girl, take the mo
ney and then set fire to the house. He is a man
of low character, having been imprisoned in
WestClu ster, about three years ago, upon the
charge of larceny, w hen he broke jail, and esca
ped. He was puisued, and arretted at his father's
house, and committed to prison to await the de
mands of justice.
A two story brick house has been raised in
Barclay street, oposite St Peter's Church, by
being lilted nearly thirty feet. The house has
been raised by machinery, and two lower stories
are to be built beneath the upper ones. .V. Y.
Tribune.
Interesting from Mexico.
ProbablX Restoration op Santa Ana.
Dates from Vera Cruz have been received at N.
York to the 2d inst. The American squadron of
four vessels was still at Vera Cru. The U. S.
Squadron consisting of the steamship Princeton
and other vessels, under the command of Com
modore Stockton, had arrived at Vera Crm. The
usual fiiendly salutes were exchanged between
the squadron and the Mexican fortifications.
The British Minister for Texas had arrived at
Vera Cruz in a vessel of war from Galveston,
and proceeded by express to tho city of Mexico.
The friend of Santa Anna are rapidly extend
ing their influence throughout the Republic, and
his restoration to power is Inokel upon as high
ly probable, if not certain. The late earthquake,
which was very destructive to property and life
in tho Villa do Rio Blanco, swallowing the in
habitants as though huje monsters were feasting
upon human beings, was one of tho causes which
have tended to produce this extraordinary change
in public opinion, the Clergy having preached
upon it as an evidence of the wrath of Heaven
towards thu people of Mexico fot their ingrati
tude to a great chief. Tho Now York Sun siys :
"The influence of Signor Almonte, the former
privute Secretary of Santa Ana, and late Minis
ter in the f.'nitod States, has also been exerted in
favor of the fallen President. The next arrival
may bring us accounts of Santa Ana's peaceable
restoration to power. In the meantime the
acting Government has sent to Texas an ultima
tum, off-ring independence guarantied by France
and F.ngland, provided Texas rejects annexation,
which offer, being de facto a recognition of inde
pendence, will bo lejeeted ; and the present Go
vernment of Mexico becoming unpopular at
home, abdicates in favor of Santa Ana; Texas
then comes into the Union, and we pay a few
I hundred thousand to Santa Ana, to heal thu
wound inflicted upon Mexican honor by the
j course of the provisional administration. Such
' appears to be the probable course of events, and
j the restoration of Santa Ana, though acceptable
to Fnglaud and France, may prove advantageous
to all parties.
The Mexican Congress remained in session.
The President had proposed a loan of three mil
lions of dollars, to meet the expenses of a war
w ith the L'nited States, should Texas agree to
annexation. The people are exceedingly anx
ious for a war with the l'nited States.
A Paris letter says thai the French Cham
bers will make the grant of nearly four million
of dollars, required by the Government !T tho
uriiKiini lit of the Tuititications surrounding th'it
c ipiial, mi l mills
"The '"JlKf pieces of cannon to be planted a-
heiit thein, and the fixed garrison of fi'ty thou
sand men, starlit; the I'.irisiHiis. Tim Rnlicils
and I. be nils originally cried vehemently and
incessantly forthe fortifications; now, they dis
cover that toe coasts are not adequately prepa
red for defence, aud that the chief danger for
France i from maritime approach."
Cn.c tLno or Ki i ioimsj Papi rsi. At a
late meeting nt the Suinliiy School Unum of tha
Methodist l'piseopnl Church in New York, the
secretary n ported that the circulation of the
Sunday Solnsd Advocate was already -I,(HKf,
Hid was rapidly approaching -r)ll I KM, 'and there
fore the largest in the country.'
IIAI.TI MOIIK MAItltKT.
Offti-eiifthe Uauixusi AsimciS, May 0?.
GRAIN. The demand for Wheat is less ac
tive A small lot of good Md. red was sold to
day at US rts. We quote good to best reds t)7 a
100 cents, which show s a decline of about Scents
pi i bushel. Tie e was no Pennsylvania Wheat
at market for two or three days past. Sales of
Corn at 30 a 37 cents lor white, and 10 cents for
yellow. We quote Ojts ut i!l a 26 cents, which
is an improvement.
W1USKF.Y. Holders to day offered to sell
hhds. at in j, and bids, at 'il J cents. Small sales
wore made at th-se rates.
('us st a it Ej i Heist When constant exereiss
ennnm be u-ed, fnt-n any riur, Ihe nroision il use
of njit ning mrdichie, s leh as llrnndieii'f IVgfir
ble Vniverxnl I'ilh, is nlsolu ilv requojd. Thus
Ihe conduits of ihe hi. mm, the foun'uin of hfe, sre
kept free from thosa iuv'jiiiies which would pre.
vent is stendy current iniuisieiiiig he, III). 'I he
moiled humus are prevented from heciimii g mix
d with it. It is nature Wli U ihus assisted
thmogh the mttim anJ iiil'tn uhicli she hs pio-
d d for herself. Daily use f these I'll! will ne
ver be injurious, bee me the longer they are use I
(he less is requited io produce an operation. They
tie ihe only melaiue known which pis .ess it) i
quaii y. liefereiice enn b given to some of out
mo t respec'a de citizens, whom they have cure.:
of c nst imioiMl colivenes.
qJ-Purchase of H. 0 Mser, Sunhury, or a
ihe seems, puldished in another part of this paper.
K N i It ,
In this place, on the 37th inst , at the house o
le;n on John liudil. by the Rev. D. Trites, l'u
II. T. Tunis to Miss S. II., daughter of Mr. N
Gariison of Maryland, both of this borough.
On the '.'nth lust., by the Rev. J. II Worrel
Mr. Maiii.on lloFK of Augusta township, to Mis
Ha vnaii V as i ink, of Shamokin.
On the osth ult , by the same, Mr. Hasma
SvYi'i K to Miss Mary Ann Raise, both of Bus'
township.
i i: n ,
In Augusta township, on Thursday mornin
last, Mr JACOU G.SS, aged about &i years
Wu!iIii?i'oii rire Company,"
THE nieinU-rs of the " Washington Fire C m
p.n" sre icq icsl.'d lo in eel at the Sim
House, on Monday Evening, June S, al 7 o
chick, precisely. Punctual attendance is reuunrd.
My 311. U W, HINDRl.. See.
"Uood Intent Tir C'oiiiaiiy.,
A S'AIKU MKEIMNU ol ihe Cmp nv i
l I"1 held on I'ue-I.y evening i.eit, at 7 o'cl l
at ihe Court lljuse. Punctual utteo.la ice is rt
qo"rd. CHAS. 8. WEISKR.
May 31, 1645. ctory.