THE GLOIE.
Circnlation---the largest in the County.
HUNTINGDON, PA.
Wednesday, *arab 26, 1856.
Democratic State Nominations
CANAL COMMISSIONER,
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia COUrlty
- • AUDITOR GENER4.L
-
JACOB FRY, Jr., of Mon tgornerr county.
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
TIMOTHY IVES, of Potter county
See New Adsrertisements
[Spring and Sumnier Goods, by Ben.
Jacobs.
()-Removal, by J. Bellman.
(Umbrellas and Parasols, by H. B. Fus
sell.
['Notice to Creditors, by John Miller.
[l'Hardware, by J. Brown & co.
[}i•Art Union, by Wm. G. Murray..
[}'Best Collection of Glees, by Lee and
Walker.
Irf'Female Seminary, by Mr. & Mrs. Rid
.
der.
[lNotice, by John T. Green
LT 'We ark: happy to announce to the, citizens
of Huntingdon, that Mr. 0. B. Carter will visit
his place during the and 3rd weeks of
April, with a large and elegant assortment of
Pianos, Melodeons, Sheet Music &c., &c., from
the Extensive Warcrooms of J. E. Gould, 164
Chesnut St., Philadelphia. He is now in Hol.
lidaysburg, where his instruments, by their
brilliant tone 'and beautiful finish have given
universal satisfaction. He will exhibit , his val.
uable lot for examination and sale in the room
formerly occupied as the "Engineer's Office" of
the "Broad Top R.R." adjoining "George Hart-
ley's variety Store," and mniediately opposite ;
"Graffius Miller's Rail Road Hotel..", The peo..
pie may expect some fine music from Mr. John
Pta,szyk, who accompanies him. 'We can assure
the ladies and gentlemen of Huntingdon, that
Mr Carter's instruments arc of the first quality ,
being from the best manufacturers in the coun
tr y. He will be happy to see all and will not
charge them for "a look." • 44.
IlZi'The "History of the Juniata Valley . ," to
which we have alluded on several occasions
will in a few days be issued from the press,
and ready for distribution among subscribers.
Our esteemed friend and fellow'citizerr, Mr.
Graffus Miller, has been appointed agent for
this borough and vicinity. To every resident .
of the Valley, and of the county, this will
prove an interesting work—an eloquent and
truthful account of the aborigines of the Val
ley, their habits and customs, as well as the
hardships endured and difficulties encounter
ed by the early pioneers. call upon Mr. Mil
ler, and if you have the money to spare, pay
him $2, and secure a copy of the work.
'tiLAIR COUNTY ART UNION.--We invite
attention to the advertisement under this head
in. another column. We are not in the habit
of .publishing in our pa pet advertisements of
this kind much less are we in the habit of cal_
ling attention to them. By ~many persons
They are considered as money making schemes
for the. projectors, while matters are so ar_
ranged that their
,intimate friends shall draw
the highest prizes. But from our persona!
knowledge of the,affair alluded to, and of Mr.
Murray, the projector, we are =willing to say
that in our opinion, it will be conducted with
the most scrupulous honesty and. fairness.—
Our friends who may take chances in this
scheme may win, or they may lose. In eith
er case we' claim neither thanks nor censure.
The 33.novir Nothings Defeated in the tAn
cient; Borongh 1" • .
Judge—John Whittaker, • 118
Christian Conts, :115
Inspectors—Grafts Miller,• 123
Job Morris, . . 114
Assessor—John Coleslock, .124
Wm. K. Rohm. . 114
School Directors—Thomas Fisher, . -108
Samuel T. -Brown, 106
*Wm. Africa,- • 13
*Jacob Snyder, 13
•
A. W. Benedict, • 113
Wm. Rothrock, -115
•
Auditor-4. L. Grim, • 120
David •Blair, . • 110
Constable—Wm. H. King, . 1.19
S. S. Smith, • • 100 -
G. A. Nash - 10
•
*Supposed by some to be the-candidates
. of
the ' fusionists—these votes • thrown away
would have defeated the Know Nothings.
Fusionists in italic—Know Nothings in Ro
man.
How. they like it.
No Know-Nothing paper' in Maine supports
the Philadelphia nomination§. No Know
,Nothing.paper in New Hampshire supports
them. None in Vermont.- None in Connec
ticut.. None in Rhode Island. Ex . -Gov . ernor
Colby, of New Hainpshire,,who was falsely
reported to. have acquiesced, repudiates the
whole thing.- Ditto, theother delegates Tv:sm
New Hatnpsb . ire at Philadelphia: The Know
- Nothings of ,New HaVen have repudiated the
Philadelphia doings by a formal resolution.
Near one half of the Know Nothing
_press
es of Pennsylvania repudiate the nominees
mid ihe,doings of the Convention. The Indi
ana-Register, one of the rankest K. N. papers
in the State, says ,
"We_ proteSt against ; condemn, reject,
ignore, repudiate, spit upon and spurn the
whole affair." .
[C7 - Next week_ we will giv'eThe:resuits in
each township of the SpringF.letions. _ _
An Admirable Letter from an Old - Line
Whig.
We have read with great pleasure the let
ter of }lons SAMUEL'CAR UTHERS, a Whig
member of-Congress from Missouri, to ;his
Onstituerits; explaining his past actioil_:and:
defining his preaent2 position. Mr. CAtty
THEns 'having voted - for the Democratie'..can
diclates for
,Speaker and been chargecrivitilf be;
traying the Whig party and abandoning the
principles upon which he was elected, he re
plies as follows :
And who is it that makes these charges'!
Is it the old line whips? I have not heard
of an old line whig, either in my district or
elsewhere, who does•not'endorse my course.
These charges are made by the ,knew-nothing
press of my State, and by anonYrrious know,
nothing scribblers, the latter of whom, never
having had an honest motive themselves, have
no conception of the thing in others. TREY
charge errs with betraying the whig party !
They who decoyed it into their councils, and
assassinated it in the dark—they who come
forth 'from their conclaves with their hands
dripping with its blood—they who met at
Philadelphia in convention, and vauntingly
proclaimed its death—with a pharisaical af
fectation
,of party,. declare that they are not
Icresponsiblefot its obnoxious acts and viola
ted pledges;" that it has "elevated sectional
hostility into a positive clement of political
power, and bi ought our institutions into per
il." Yes; while I stand a mourner at the
grave of the whig party, they are rejoicing at,
its death and • calumniating its life ! Yet'
these men have the unblushing hardihood to
twit me with abandonment of that once no
ble party ! Was ever impEdence - rriore gt:
gantic and more absurd?
But it is sometimes softly and gently whis
pered that the American party is the 'Whig
party in disguise. If this is so, they have
solemnly declared a lie in their conventions, :
and it is a cheat and a fraud upon the demo
crats•in the order. So they have elater aban
doned their party, and have no right to•abuse,
or are-engaged in a fraud which makes their
•,Luse a compliment. I tell these gentlemen
say have slain my first love; ' and left me a
political widower; and I have a perfect right
to marry another party if f see proper ! 1
We would like to see a reply to this extract,
from some:admirer of the political hybrid
called " Sam. "• - -
It appears that Mr. CARUTHERS was cen
sured by'some of his enemies at home for not
supporting Mr. Fuller, of this State, for
Speaker. After showing up Mr. F.'s chan
ges of frOnt on - the slavery question—and
wonderful changes they are, truly,—Mr. C.
says:
But it is said that Mr. Fuller is a know
nothing, and therefore I should have giver.
him my. vote. The contest for the speak
ership -developed the fact that there are
now three parties in the country—the
_northern know nothing. and abolition party,
fused under s the name of black republican,
the (so-called) "national Americans," and
the democratic -party. This know 'noth
ing party „was. born amidst the factitious
excitement manufactured by abolitionists, and
disunionists out of-the passage of the -Kansas ,
.Nebraska bill. It sprung at once, "like IVIi-h
nerva from the. brain of Jovei" full armed,
and entered the political arena. In :the,
morning of its existence it was full of prom--
I _ It declared that it would say to the :an
gry.waves, "Peace. be - !" - that ,it was the
only broad, national, conservative party.; -that
its great,- paramount mission v.as -to-save the
Union, which was imperiled by agitation.-s
-del} ing upotn•these promises,. confiding its
these assurances, man y,geod men every where
—many in my district—went into this orga
nization. I •went twice (and but twice) . into
their councils:. 1 c csgw Sare." It ; Wok two'
Visits - to see him all over. I made them ; I
'saw enough, and determined to never look'
on his face again !
in dealing frankly With you,'it is due that.:
I should, make this acknowledgment. I
would not have the vote of an:anti-know-,
nOthing.in-my district without his knowledge
that I had been in ,their councils ;.-nor would I
have the vote of a know nothing without his
knowing that I arrynot of his order. I, may
prove wanting in ability to serve; I-shall tiev. •
er prove wanting jp candor totords.yozi,' It;
bas been the habit .of my. life to defend my .
c ourse against all odds when I believe it 'is
i right, and to acknoydeclge errors -.when I.
believe I have sane wrong', I - freely adreit*
to you that fraught' never to have gone ir. to a
secret political society of.aity. kind whate'ver;
that they are wrong-in principle, against the
very genies of our institutions, dangerous in
practice, and should be avoided . by all men
of all parties.. I , objecte'd• titer?, and object now,!
to the whole machinery of its organization;
I objected then, and object now, to an in
discriminate proscription of naturalized citi
zens from etbee ; I objected' then, and object -r
now, to anything that even looks - like making
a religious test. Protestant by birth,, a I
Protestant ; by education, 'by- prejudice ; - by
reason,:by faith ;.,a Protestant in all,' (I regret
to say except the pl'actice;) was a catholic or
ganization formed td brand me as- unworthy
of public trust because of my religious opig
ions, I would call upon every honest-Catholic
in the larld to aid . the in'striking it down.—
As would "have them do unto me I will do
unto them." •
The Catholic and Protestant have. fought
side by side on those battle-fields where our I
liberties were won ; and when "pestilence
has stalked at noonday" through Our cities,
leaving a track of 'desolation and death, we
have seen the Protestant and the•CalhOlic
ministry again laboring side by side to stay
its awful ravages—to administer balm to the I
sick, consolation to the dying, and - decent in
terment to the dead ! If we kneel not at the
same altars, under the same forms, we wor
ship the same God ; we are pointed to the
same accountability for sin, arid to the same
Heaven as a reward for piety ! Why should
not , we leave controverted points ent theology
to the ministry of 'the churches ? Why
should not we laymen go on--as we should
go On—in brotherly love and confidence?—
, As I have opposed the dragging of politics up
into' the - pulpit,-I. oppose drawing religion
down into politics:.
Why should Protestants agitate this sub
ject? Why should they en - deavor to build
up a political party upon a subject on which
they can have no political - action ? You are
forbidden to . -act by the constitution of the
United States. The constitution says that
"Congress shall make no law respecting the
establishment of ieligion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof." Take this case:—
Suppose a President, having sworn in know
nothing councils that he will appoint no Ro
man Catholic to office, is elected. He takes
an oath to support the constitution of the
United States. That constitution says that
"no religious test shall ever be required as a
qualification to any office or public trust un
der the United States." Suppose, then, a
man is presented for office; does he not have
-to inquire, inder' hie first oath, if the man is
a Catholic he'• is, then he 'must refuse
him ori that -atcount: lie does, so refuse
him, he rviolates his last oath,:.because he
then sWore hi- w Oirld , make onti . religious
test." Is comment
As to the great catch-words„ "Airiericans
shall rule America !" lam in favor"of Amer
icans rulin g America. They do, they always
have, and they always will rule America.
But who are Americans Your laws de
clare: that when, a man has .been here five
years--when he ivill under 'oath,. renounce
all - allegiance to any foreign prince, potentate,
or power—when he will prove that he is of
hood moral cliaracterattached , to the insti
tutions of the United States—he may be de
clared an Arnerica.ni and your law makes him
a citizen. - It is a fraud upon him if you do
not give him all the rights,of citizenship.
I have always understood that three grand
leading ideas run -through our institutions,
giving them all of their vitality, their beauty,
and their power—first, that the people are ca
pable of self-government. • This is the doe-•
trine of the Kansas Nebraska bill.. Second,
that• we had made an asylum to which the
oppressed of every land might come as a
refuge; that here they might worship as
equal at the altar of our- liberty, that here
they might, lift up their hearts to their God
according to the dictates ofitheir consciences,
and there should be none to molest them.—
Third, that_there should be no aristocracy of
birth. I. have regarded, and do regard; these
as the pecu:ier pride and boast of my coun
try." I regard them as the three grand and
massive pillars upon, which the whole mag
nificent structure of our government rests.—
I will' not, by any action of mine, deface or
mar these pillars.
There is food for reflectionlii the foregoing
extract, which we trust the reader has care
fully, perused. Many good 'men in our,own
county have, like Mr. CARUTHERS, "seen
enough of Sam" in the course of a few visits
to his'hidiag
After contrasting the consistent course of
the Democratic. party on all - at public ques
liens,- with the vascillating action of the
KnoWnothing party, Mr. CARUTHERS appeals
to all the honest men still remaining in the
bogus cfAmerican" organization to.leave it:
And now—l do not ask the aspirants for
my placel . do not ask those whowant' to go
as 'know nothings 'to the legislature—those
who want to be the sheriffs, county judges,
squires, or constables ; &c.—but I ask the true
men of me districtthe real people, where I
have always founilmy friends—the men who
have no object but the good of their country
at heart-4o do as I have done—abandon this
- organization ! if it 'has not failed, utterly,
completely, entirely failed, as a sound,ina
tional, conservative party=?—if every intelli
aent-mari does not know that it has so'failecl?
—and if'everylionest man_ will not acknowl
edge-the-fact ?
Mr. CARUTHERS nex: discasses the practi-.
- cability of reorganizing the Whig party.. The
Know Nothings have utterly-tlestroyel it, and
have not built up a.respectable : patty to take
its place. Mr. CARUTHERS has, therefore
wisely •deterrnined to connect himself with
the only political organization which gives
promise oTh u'seftiln'eSs to the country. He
SaYs : • ' ' •
I have se - blithe democracy come down from
the, Ncutti . aild - tip from the South,, and Bath-,
ering in 'sell,' column around the constitution,
declare that the rights Of' the South, the just
equality of:.the,rBtates, the capaCity, of man
for self-government, are their bondspf, broth :
erhoOd ; that they will protect that constitu
tion against ali:the assaults of all the isms of
thalami. While - they continue to occupy
this
them
position' am with them and of
them !
. Then, Mr. CARUTHERS, you are "with us
and-of us" for'all time, -for we will "occupy
this proud position" the gound . Oltlre. last
trump. And rightcordially. do we welcome
you to our ranks, for we know that the fire
of true Americanism glows in your breast.
Let 'every honest Whig tvii,
_would ,pre
serve, the high plaCes of his country, from
defilement by political adventurers who have
neither fixed principles nor capacity to ad
tniniiter yu - blic trusts, follow-the example of
CAICUTIIERS . Let them connect them
.selves .with the Democratic , party, which is
willing to receive them 'without 'the mum
mery of an "iriitiation" or the mockery of
an oath. Its future progress will beta grand
triumphal march to the music of the Union,
and every lover of his country ought to en
roll himself in its tanks.. .
"I used to be. a Whig:",
.." "I- used to be a Whig," is' the language of
thouiands Of :the Most intellizent . and influ
ential , men of our country who were once
-honorable opponents of the democratic party,
but who are now enrollino• themselves in. its
'ranks, .as the only true-Constitutional and Na
tional party.. A' writer of the class alludedto
•in a letter to the Hollidaysburg Standard, of
the 19th inst, says :"I used to be a Whig, and
would be one yet had I the opportunity of ex
pressing my sentiments-at the polls as-of yore;
but- the absence of .the old standard-bearers
from the fields and fights of their former glo
ry has thrown many an• honest. fellow• like
_myself out of rank, and •sent us wandering
through the fray either, to fight prOmiseuous
ly or surrender ourselves prisoners of war in
the hands of ,onr old enemy, who in times
past, ere the army of political cormorants,
under the ,guise of 'Union-Savers,' had grown
so strong, were often compelled to leave a
well-contested -field in • the possession of an
honorable - oppenent, in whose ranks I was
pleased to be reckoned a trustworthy private;
Whether thoSe good old times will ever-return
we cannot tell, while in the inaantime we
have to deplore the absence of anything like
an equivalent for their loss. You may not
feel' on this subject, Mr. Editor, as I do ; but
I can imagine no healthier state of the politi
cal world than when public sentiment was
fairly divided between the old Whig and
Democratic parties.
A few "spavined" and windbroken hacks
have benefitted 15v the dissensions and sub
divisions of the past few years, : but it has
been at the sacrifice of honor on their 'part,
and to:the shame;of those who elevated them.
'.'Sayings and:Doings of Our'Neighbors.
We learn from' the Hollidaysburg papers
that the citizens of that place are moving in
the matter of procuring and erecting gas
works, for the, purpose of lighting the streets,
residences: shops, -&c. Mr. J. N. Burt, of
New.,Sersey, proposes erecting the works and
piping the town with mains at_ an expense of
4' 20,000, and should there be any doubt as to
the value of stock in the proposed works, he
agrees to take one half of it—say, $lO,OOO,
leaving a like amount to be subscribed for by
the citizens. R. M. Lemon Sr, Co's Line for
the carrying of freight from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg and the• West, by railroad and canal;
is fully equipped and ready for" operations.—
The cars are standing upon the sidelingS, and
the boats are ready. Considerable freight is
ready, and the firm is only awaiting the open
ing of navigation to go into business with a
rush. It is to be hoped that this line will be
extensively patronized, for the projectors of
it certainly deserve some recompense for the
yen tdre they have made.--For several weeks
past a religiOusrevival 'has been progressing
in the LUtheran church at Duncansville, which
has resulted in the conversion of some sixty
persons, 'forty of whom have connected-them
selves with the church. The congregation is
under the charge of Rev. Mr. Baker, of Al
toona.—A. friend writing to us from Holli
daysburg under date of March 21, 185 G, says :
" They (the opposition) had a grand farce
enacted in this place on Wednesday last. A
few of the old broken down politicians assem
bled at the Court House and held what they
called a'"Union Meeting." Their object was
to unite all the factions oppoSed to the Nation
al admiaistration in one party. But alas !
for the frailty of human foresight—they for
got that such a thing was utterly imfrossible.
They had not proceeded far when Mt. Jolly
of Altoona, full of 'his own importance, moved
a resolutiOn that "the delegates bo instructed
to vote for Kimber Cleaver for Canal Commis
sioner, because he was a true and unflinching
advocate of American principles." This was
_a firebrand cast into the magazine of "isms"
and an explosion folldwed immediately. Mr.
131whet:line, the High Priest of political chi
canery, moved to amend the resolution by
striking out the name of 'Klaiber Cleaver' and
inserting ' Wm. M. Lloyd,' and striking put
all after the word ' Commissioner.' This
motion knocked the K. N. stilts right from
tinder the " Jolly" fellow, who swelled, and
stuttered, arid growled and gnashed his teeth,
exclaiming, _" I, Mr. President, am one-9f the
.arosT PROMINENT Americans in Blair county.
I protest - against the action of this Conven
tion, and will not support any man of its se
lection." 'When . the "Jolly fellow". ei-orked
off his excess gas, .Mr. Dysart, who every
body knows to bea sensible man, very blandly
•said " he thought therwere some men pres
eat ' . who had been in the habit of meeting at
midnight and maturing-their diabolical
.plans
by the aid of dark lanters a and now, embold
ened by their utter loss'of all shame, had come
, here to force tneir 'obnoxious 'theories down
the thr . oals of,freemen in broad day light. If
theeteeting .was to be ruled by such nonde
script patriots as tney, he wished to know it ;
he for one tseuldnot agree to compromise his
character for decency and respectability by
making associates of,. much , less acting with,
or for 'them.'' 'Maj. Ray-mond Of the
gave 4.l"\v hoine.thrusts to the "dark lanterns"
,an the other. side of the house, when Judge
Jones moved an 'adjournment, which motion
prevailed,,aYes 17,'na:ye 15 ! amidst the most
bequtiftil confusion arid cries of the ". Union
is Dissolved." The. " most PROMINENT
AMERICAN,4I 816.ir county," stru tted' from the
hall- With all the signs, of unappreciated irn
poi Lance, visibly stamped upon his piginy
brow, 'and-the it domparably handsome'ihoe
brusii on his upper lip•gave ev ident - sy mptems •
of having failed to charm so effectually as
such foreign appendages o generally do.
Oh t it's sad indeed that." Jolly" •
• Should ever change to melancholy.
This, I think, beats your "intensely Amer
can" meeting in Huntingdon, the proceedings .
of which were daguerreotypedin the "Globe,"
and is only another lesson of
. the importance
of having more than one idea wherewith to
construct a national political party.
• The- evening of the same day (last Wednes
day-) on whichthe aforesaid "comedy-of er
rors" was enacted, Thos. D'Arcy. McGee ;
Editor of the "American Celt," delivered a
lecture in the Court House, on "Napoleon
and his policy," to a large audience:' He
showed a thorough knowledge of his Subject,
and his ability as an • orator even surpassed
the expectation of friends. I am free to say
that-1 was agreeably disappointed. I knew
well Mr. McGee was a bold, vigorous writer,
but from reading of him I . had no idea that he
combined all the qualities essential in a first
rate orator.
The character of Napoleon as delineated by
him differs widely from that we have of him
from the London press, and which has been
accepted by the American , public without
stopping to enquire into its " characterfor
truth and veracity." He spoke for one and
three-fourth hours and the only regret visible
throughout the entire audience was that he
ended so soon. He has a clear fine voice,
with an Irish-Yankee accent, not vociferous,
but sufficiently loud to be heard distinctly
throughout the largist Hall. His language is
chaste—his: periods well-rounded—inflective
above criticism—metaphors well timed and
logical in:the extreme. . : He makes a fine ap
peatance, :on the: rostrum, : mEidium in size—
high, broad forehead—dark . eye, restless as the
aspen, and glistening ,with intelligence, and a
~e nuine milesian nose and mouth. He lec
tures again to-night. Subject, "Political re
lations between the United States and Eu.
rope." Yours, WATCHMAN.
Speaker Wright's Letter.
We subjoin, with our entire approbation,
the following reply of RICHARDSON L.
WRIGHT ) Esq., Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, to a letter addressed to him,
through the Philadelphia Sun, by the Rev.
JOHN CHAMBERS. This Reverend gentleman
(?) has taken upon his own shoulders the
principal task of defending the Jug Law, and
abusing, in his own rough, peculiar style,
every prominent public man who favors its
repeal. His language is always personal,
ill-chosen and harsh. If used by men of low
er degree, it would be pronounced vulgar :
at all events no one, with truth, can "deny
that it savors more of the savage than the
christain gentleman, and we are glad, there
fore, to see him so sharply and deservedly
rebuked. We commend Mr. WEIGHT'S let
ter to public attention :
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
March 11, 1856.
Respected Friends :---In the Sun of to-day,
find a characteristic letter from the Rev. John
Chambers, to the Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives. The letter abounds in charges
and statements which have no foundation in
truth.
While the amendments to the License Bill
were under discussion in the House, I was ,
constraine4, by a seuse of duty, es a consis
tent friend of Temperance, to express my
views thereon, and advocate such measures
as I thought best calculated to remedy exis
ting evils, without infringing on the rights
of Ow people, or defiling the - statute book
with laws "too grievous tO be borne"—laws
which their authors and advocates are consci
ous cannot be enforced.
I did so in language pertinent, proper, and
truthful. Whether my arguments were
sound or otherwise, I will leave the unbiased
judgment of the honest and unprejudiced por
tion of my audience to determine. I diti not
then associate, nor haVe I ever on the floor
of the- House; or in private conversation asso
ciated the Temperance movement or the Li
cense question with the Democratic party in
any way, shape, or form; the Rev. John
Chambers and those who supply him with
his facts to the contrary not-withstanding.
In my course of action on this or any oth
er question, I will not be intimidate;] by the
shallow sophistry of a time serving politi
cian, or the Billingsgate of a notoriety hun
ting moral desperado, even though he :as
sume the clerical garb, and desecrate the pul
pit with his - uncharitable ravings.
I have never been the advocate of the doc
trine that men cart be made sober, temperate ;
or honest bfit mere legistative enactment.—
Yet I have, by precept and example, endea
vorod to persuade them to' practice in their
daily walk•those virtues which tend to "exalt
a nation.”
I confess I arri not enthusiastic enough to
believe for a moment, that by an act of As
sembly, I could compel even John Chambers
to adhere to the' "dead le2ter of honesty", in
his statements, or from the pnlpit, or through
the press exhibit the propriety of langunge
and deportment which should adorn the Chris
tian gentleman.
• Trtily your friend,
RICHARDSON L. Warcwr.
Remarkable Murder Trial.
The Corrigan murder trial, in Westmore
land county, Pa., is one of the most remar
k-able that has . occurred in this country since
the celebrated Professor Webster and Park
man case, at Boston.
•
Corregan is an old man, some sixty or sev
enty years of age. His wife disappeared on
the 29th of September last, and 'has never
been heard from since. Four or five days af
ter, some ',Ones .and, part of. a skull, declared
by Professional men to be those of a human
being, were found by some neighbors in a
large fire which had been burning near Cor
,rigan's residence, in the open field. Corrigan
had been observed stirring it, at unusual
hours. 'A smell came from the fire like that
of an animal carcass burning. A button
similar to those -worn upon a woman's dress
was found in the fire, and also one belonging
to a man. Considerable blood was found in
different parts of Corrigan's' beuse, although
evident attempts had been made to conceal
it. All of the woman's dresses that she was
known to have were at home, in their usual
place. This indicated that she had not gone
away voluntarily..
A person passing Corrigan's house, on the
night she was last seen, heard screams com
ing from that quarter. A sled, having marks
of blood,' was found near the. house, with
tracks showing that it had been evidently
dragged in the night time, by a horse, near to
the fire where the bones were found. Corri
gan and his: wife, who
_lived alone, were
known to quarrel. He gives no satisfactory
explanation of any of these circumstances.
He pretends , that he gave his wife money to
go to Philadelphia' with, and that the bones
found in the fire were old bones, scraped up
in rubbish which he was burning on his farm.
But this is rendered improbable by the strong
animal smell which came from the fire.
After - a trial' of several days, and speeches
both for . and against the prisoner by able
council, he was convicted for murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be hung. No
body was ever found or identified as that of
his wife. The circumstances are such as we
have stated.
The supposition of the jury was from the
evidence, that Corrigan had murdered his
wife, then conveyed her body to the fire in
which .the bones were found, upon the sled
that was lying near his residence. The cir
cumstances seem to be strong in that -direc
tion.- The disposition the murderer made,of
the body is the most horrible almost as much
so as 'Professor Webster, who, it will be re
collected, cut up the body of his victim into
pieces, and then burnt them in a grate in his
room. But in that case Paikman's body was
identified, which was not the fact here in this
trial,, which . has created great sensation in
western Pennsylvania.
[From the Washington Union.]
The Contest of 1856. A. Contest for Prin
ciple.
Since the days of. John Adams, when the
opponents of the Democratic party boldly
avowed their principles, and boldly set forth
their aristocratic doctrines in favor of cloth.
ing the Senate and the President with almost
unlimited power, and of declaring the alien
and sedition laws necessary to maintain that
power unimpaired in the hands of those who
should be the servants of the people, there
has not been one instance in which the ad
versaries of the Democratic pasty have been
as frank and as courageous in setting forth
their principles as during the memorable era
to which we have referred. At last, how.
ever, we are promised an exception to the
general rule. The sectional - party; the rep.
resentatives and successors of .those 'who in 4
augurated their policy in the midst of the
earliest days of the Republic, have through
their immediate organs, Messrs. Seward and
others, formally proclaimed their principles
for the public eye; and this fact will add un•
usual interest to the contest to be decided in
November nest.
The doctrine prominently brought forward
by Mr. Seward, and by his adherents, is this:
that the people of the Territories of the
United States shall not be permitted to man
age their own affairs in their own way, and
that this power belongs to, and shall be ex
ercised by, the members of Congress repre
senting other communities, and having no
direct interest whatever in the concerns of
the Territories. Proceeding from this theory,
in natural order, is the assumption, that in.
asmuch as the people of the Territories shall
not control their own affairs in their own
way, so when they demand admission into
the Union as a State, the Congress of the
United States may and must refuse to admit
them unless their State constitution conform
to the abolition ideas of Mr. Seward and his
coadjutors. We thank our opponents for the
boldness with which they set forward these
doctrines, and we are glad to know that the
Democratic party throughout the country is
as ready to accept the issue thus tendered as
Mr. Seward and his friends sewn to be sin
cere in presenting it. The Democracy take
the broad ground that to the people of the
Territories should be confided the regulation
of their municipal concerns, and that as they
are closely and constantly interested in their
own local, social, and political concerns, so
are they the proper authority by which these
concerns shall be managed and decided; and,
on the other hand, the Democrats assume the
equally distinct position that the people of
the Territories, when they have formed a
State Constitution in accordance with the pro
visions of the federal compact, and in like
manner as has been done by those who have
preceeded them, they shall then be admitted
into the confederacy of American States.—
These ate the principles at issue in the cam
paign of 1856. There is no evading them—
there is no concealing them. The opposition
cannot retreat from the attitude they have
boldly taken, They have already abandoned
their ground in favor of the restoration of the
Missouri line, and in so doing have been ut
terly demoralized. But in taking the step to
which we allude, in declaring for the inter
vention of Congress in the Territories, in set
ting up as judges upon these Territories ask
ing admission into the Union as States, tle
abolition majority in the House have clearly
made up their mind to pursue these theories
to their alarming conclusions: On the other
side, the Democracy, having beforehand an
nounced principles precisely antagonistic to
those proclaimed by the Abolitionists or
Black Republicans of the day, the issue is
fairly made up between the parties.
. We shall, therefore, not have a conflict as
we had in 1840, when there were no princi
ples proclaimed for the public eye, or as we
nad in 1848, when the Presidential candi
date of our adversaries confided his case to a
committee. Two rival doctrines are in the
field, each surrounded by its own devotees,
and each advocated by the ablest men in the
respective organizations. We repeat, that we
greet the occasion when these two doctrines
shall meet in opposition with great satisfac
tion, no matter olio may be the candidate of
the Democratic party in the Presidential can
vass. It is the principles here asserted by
one party and denied by the other that will
constitute, during the canvass soon to open,
the great attraction the American masses.
The Latest Foreign News.
The steamship Persia, with LiVerpool
dates to the Bth inst., arrived at New York
on the 20th. She brings no tidings of the
lost Pacific. • •
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.—The Times
Paris correspondent writes / on Wednesday
evening, the sth inst:—"No secret has been
Setter kept than the proceedings of Confer
ence up to the present moment, as far as de
tails are concerned. All that can be safely
affirmed is, that matters are going on "well
enough;'% hut it would be an error to suppose
that there is not 'yet a'good deal of work to
be got through. I believe that France and
England have not been since the commence
ment more firmly united than at the present
moment. Of Austria's firmness, 1 doubt
whether as much can bp-said. At all events,
I again hear whispering of Count Buol real
izing
all that, was'expected of him. It is
stated positively that no prolongation of the
armistice beyond the 31st of March will be
listened to, and that everything must be ar
ranged in ten or twelve days from this date.'"
SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES IN THE CRI
MEA.—The IVloniteur of this morning says
that Marshall Pelissier has informed th Min
ister of War 'that the resolution passed by
the Plenipotentiaries on the 25th of February,
relative to the armistice, which is to extend
to the 3 ist of March,•was known - in the Cri
mea on the 28th of February. On the 29th
February,--at a conference held at the Trac
tir Bridge - between the chiefs of the Allied
armies and General Tutohimenf, delegated by
the Commander in Chief of the Russiamarmy,
it was decided that there should be a com
plete suspension of hostilities.
BREADSTUPFS.—The Brokers' Circular
quotes Breadstuffs as having considerably de
clined. Flour: has declined 2s. 9d. White
Wheat has declined 6d; White Corn ls.—
Other circulars state that Flour on Friday
opened dull, but improved at the close; also
Wheat and Corn. Western Canal Flour, 31
a 325; Philadelphia and Baltimore, 34 a 355;
Ohio, 365. Red Wheat, 9s. 3d.. a 9s 9d ;
White, 10s. 6d. a l is.
Ohio . Repudiates Fillmore.
CINCINNATI, March 2.l.—The IC. N. State
Connell at Columbis last night, of a stormy
session, adopted majority report, repudiating
the nomination of Fillmore and Dona son, and
endorsing seceders from the Philadelphia. Cou.
ven t ion.