THE GLOBE.
Circulation---the largest in the County.
HUNTING DON, PA.
Wednesday,. May 28, 1856,
Democratic State Nominations.
CANAL COMMISSIONER,
GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia county.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery county.
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
TIMOTHY IVES, of Potter county.
The Cincinnati Convention.
The Democratic National Convention meets
in Cincinnati next week, and it is thought
will be more numerously attended than any
previous Convention ever assembled in this
country. The proprietor of the Burnet house
in that city, is preparing to accommodate
5000 guests; the other hotels are also being
prepared to accommodate their full quota.
Pennsylvania will be well represented.—
Delegates and others are busy making arrange
ments for that event. The Philadelphia Ar
gus says " the Keystone Club, which made a
stir in the recent election in Philadelphia, has
decided upon visiting the Queen City on the
same occasion, and it is said will take up
wards of 200 members. Beck's Philadelphia
Band has been engaged by the Club." They
will leave Philadelphia to-morrow evening.
The Pennsylvania Central and the Ohio
and Pennsylvania Railroads intend carrying
persons wishing to attend the Convention for
one-half the usual fare charged.
As the time for the meeting of the Conven
tion approaches, we see evidences of increas
ing harmony and good will among the De
mocracy in all directions,—a general dispo
sition to yield personal preferences to the
choice of the Convention. There is a host
of good men named in connection with the
nomination for the Presidency; and whether
he be Cass, Buchanan, Pierce, Douglas, Hun
ter, Rusk, or some other equally able and pa
triotic man, we are satisfied. So we say in
advance—Hurrah for the nominee of the Cin
cinnati Convention !
11C?The Journal's statement that their pa
pers are always " mailed on the same day as
the Globe," is not true. Only last week their
papers for the Broad Top route were not put
in the post office until Thursday morning,
and then barely in time to be mailed, while
the American and Globe were put in the post
office and mailed on Wednesday morning,
one day in advance on the very week they
made the lying assertion. It is a very easy
matter to see how one day's delay may de
tain the Journal, or any other paper, one week
on the cross route. And if any of their pa-
pers have been lost on the way, it is also easy
to conjecture the cause. Their packages are
generally put up in old rotten newspapers, in
a careless manner, and by the time they ar
rive at the post office and are thrown down
by their carrier, they beirst open, a fact to
which we have repeatedly called their atten
tion, and have as repeatedly taken up our
Mime in re-packing them, but which we car.-
not do again—it is no part of our duty.
We have to say in concluding this matter,
that we are not General Postmaster and Mail
Contractor for Huntingdon county ; we are
not responsible for the mail failures, nor the
weather during the winter and early part of
the spring which often caused them on the
route in question—nor are we responsible for
the carelessness, and negligence, and indo
lence of the excoriated lazzaroni who expose
themselves through the columns of their own
sheet, and whose highest glory and ambition
is to have weekly some object at which to
spit their slang.
MR. BENEDICT'S LETTER.—In our local
column will be found a letter from A. W.
BENEDICT, Esq., addressed to the editors of
the Huntingdon Journal, by which it will be
seen that the lazzaroni have " waked up" the
wrong man. By what rule of propriety, either
they or their friends, could expect Mr. B.
to remain silent under their insidious and
contemptible attacks, we know not. Did
they covet a fight with him 1 if so, they have
got it ; and having chosen the premises, they
must accept the conclusion.
Here we will take occasion to remark, that
as a U gentlemanly and an honorable citizen,
we have never known Mr. Benedict to be
"sick," and that the community regard his
reputation worth fully as much as that of a
hundred such as the lazzaroni of the Journal
who are traitors to every principle of truth,
honor, and friendship.
SINGULAR MONUMENT.—EIkanah Watson,
in his ''History of the Men of the Revolution,'
states that the magistracy of Devizes, a large
market town in England, erected a monu
ment to commemorate a striking, interposi
tion of Divine judgment. The fact perpetu
ated by the inscription is this :
A woman having purchased some commo
dities in the market, upon payment being de
manded, an altercation ensued, when - she . ut
tered the imprecation—'May God strike me
dead if I have not paid it !' She fell down
and immediately expired, and in the clench
ed hand, which she had impiously raised to
heaven to attest her perjury, was found the
money in controve*. 'Facts like this,' says
Dr. Watson, 'bear a fearful and powerful ad
monition of the interposition of an omnis
cient God in the affairs of man'
'The -Assault on Mr. Sumner.
We give in another column the telegraphic
accoun't of the brutal assault committed by
Preston S. Brooks, U. S. Representative from
South Carolina, upon the person of the Hon.
Charles Sun:Ater, U. S. Senator from Massa
chusetts, in' the Senate Chamber on Thursday
last. In regard to this disgraceful affair we
entirely endorse the following remarks by the
Pittsburg Union :
We had thought that the Senate Chamber
had been sufficiently disgraced already by ex
hibitions of rowdyism, and that the sense of
humiliation which the whole country had
sustained by them would have been an effect
tual guarantee against their repetition. But
unfortunately we were deceived in this antici
pation, and are compelled to chronicle another
outrage that is degraaing to its. author, and
calculated to bring the American Congress
into contempt.
As to the provocation for the offence, we
have nothing more to say, than that it was
not immediate either in time or circumstance.
Mr. Brooks was not the injured party, and
the wrong done had been committed so long
previously as to allow of the choice of some
other place for vengeance. To deliberately
select the Senate Chamber, although after the
hour of adjournment, for the infliction of per
sonal chastisement, is warranted by no code,
either of honor, decency or manhood. The
injury to Mr. Sumner is a matter with which
we have little to do. We have dozens of in
stances of just as good men as he being sub
jected to equally severe treatment. But the
manner in which the act was done, and the
time and place of its performance, make it
an insult to the people of the nation at large.
The blow is against the reputation of our
country. It tends to bring the name of our
most dignified legislative assembly into con
tempt; and we regard the perpetrator of the
act as being as much lost to all sense of na
tional pride, as to a perception of the ordinary
proprieties of life.
We mean by these remarks no compliment
to Mr. Sumner. His attack on Senator But
ler, who was absent, was disgraceful, and his
remarks throughout were full of personal bit
terness and spleen. Had he been called to
account for them in a proper manner, there
could have been little sympathy for him; but
we cannot, and will not defend the man who
desecrates the hall of legislation by making
it the scene of personal violence and revenge.
()=7 The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times, gives the following good
story :
A good story is told of Douglas and Bu
chanan. Douglas was sitting in a private
parlor at Guy's National Hotel the other night,
talking with a dozen of Buchanan's friends,
when the latter, having been sent for, came
in and joined the party. "My young friend,"
said Buchanan, soon afterwards, turning pat
ronizingly to Douglas, " let me give you a
little advice." ' " Thank you !" instantly re
torted Douglas, seizing him by the hand, "I
expect to choose my Constitutional advisers
soon, and am most happy thus to rece:eve
your acceptance in advance." "Old Buck"
was so confused by this turn in the conver
sation that he forgot the proffered advice al
together.
OJ' Hon. JAMES BUCHAYAN, in one of his
speeches at New York, uttered these senti
ments: to I have been abroad in other lands ;
.I have witnessed arbitrary powers; I have
contemplated the people of other countries—
but there Is no country under God's heavens
where a man feels to his fellow-men, except
in the United States. And if you could feel
how despotism looks on ; how jealous the
despotic powers of the world are of our glo
rious institutions, you would cherish the
Constitution and the Union to your hearts—
next to your belief in the Christian religion
--the Bible for Heaven, and the Constitution
of your country for Earth.
WHY HE LEFT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.-
Maj. Donelson, it will be remembered, says
he left the democratic party because he could
no longer sustain its principles, which re
minds a western editor of the manner in
which a fellow who was not wanted in a cer
tain company told his story cc Why, you
see, I called to see Miss Nancy, and she
wouldn't have anything to say to me. So I
sot awhile, and the old man told me I. had
better go. And T sot awhile longer, and then
one of the boys came and took me to the door
and gave me a push, and then I thought may
be my company wasn't wanted, and so I
left."
DEINIOCRATIC VICTORIES IN INDIANA.—The
Democrats of Indianapolis have elected their
candidate for Mayor by 315 majority, and the
remainder of their city ticket by still larger
majorities. At New Albany—which has
been cursed with Know-Nothing misrule for
two years past—the Democrats have succeed
ed by a majority of 300. At Lawrenceburg,
the entire Democratic ticket for city officers
is elected by a large majority. At Aurora
the Democrats swept every thing before them
—completely routing the combined hosts of
the opposition, who made a desperate - strug
gle to carry the city. At Lafayette the Dem
ocratic majority is 248, and Tippecanoe coun
ty is claimed as good for 500 Democratic ma
jority in November. At Vincennes the en
tire Democratic ticket was elected, with but
one exception. Remarking upon the above
results, the Sentinel says—" The Democratic
banner to-day floats proudly over the prin
cipal cities of the State. In October and No
vembernext the whole State will speak—and
the Black Republican column will be shat
tered and broken." •
A Souza) QUESTlON.—JudgeSmyser, of the
Montgomery and Bucks District in granting
licenses under the new law, propounds the
question : "Does the applicant keep good li
quor 'I"
Attack upon Senator Sumner
WASHINGTON, MAY 22.—immediately after
adjournment of Congress, to-dayi while Mr.
Sumner was still in the Senate Chamber, Mr.
Brooks, of South Carolina, entered and ap
proached Mr. Sumner, accusing hint of libel
ling South Carolina and his gray-headed rel
ative, Mr Butler.
He then struck Mr. Sumner with his cane,
and Mr. Sumner fell. Mr. Brooks then con
tinued to repeat his blows till Mr. Sumner
was deprived of the power of speech. Mr.
Sumner was taken up and carried to his room.
It has not beetuascertained whether his in
juries are serious or not.
Some, who were eye witnesses of the oc
currence, say Mr. Brooks struck Mr. Sumner
as many as fifteen or twenty times over the
head. Mr. Sumner was setting in an arm
chair when the assault was made and had no
opportunity to defend himself. Opinions on
the subject are contradictory, many applaud
ing the act and others denouncing it as a
cowardly attempt to beat down freedom of
speech. Mr. Brooks has been arrested.
The complaint against Mr. Brooks was
was made on the oath of William J. Loner.
Mr. Brooks appeared before Justice Hollings
head, and was held to bail in 5500 for his ap
pearance to-morrow afternoon.
Mr. Sumner.has two severe but not danger
ous wounds on the head. Mr. Brooks's cane
was shattered into a number of pieces.
SECOND DESPATCH
WASHINGTON, MAY 22.—When the attack
was made upon Mr. Sumner, there were
probably from fifteen to twenty persons pres
ent, including Messrs. Crittenden, Foster,
Toombs, Fitzpatrick, Murray, Morgan, and
other members of Congress, Gov. Gorman
and several officers of the Senate and stran
gers. The attack was so sudden and unex
pected that Mr. Sumner had no opportunity
to place himself in a defensive attitude. The
first blow stunned him, and the stick, which
was gutta percha, was broken into many pie
ces by the time the assault terminated.
Messrs. Crittenden, Toombs, Murray, and
others interfered as soon as they could, and
prevented further injury.. Great excitement
was caused by the occurrence. Mr. Sumner
sank to the floor, where he lay till he was
raised'by his friends.
Mr. Sumner's wounds bled profusely. His
physicians say they are the most serious flesh
wounds they ever saw on a man's head, and
deny his friends admission to him.
The assailant, Preston S. Brooks, is a Rep
resentative in the House from the Fourth Con
gressional District of South Carolina, embra
cing Orangeburgh, Barnwell, Beaufort and
Calleter Districts.
Spicy Comments upon Mr. Sumner's
Speech.
In the U. S. Senate on Tuesday, Mr. Sum
ner having concluded his carefully prepared
speech on Kansas affairs, the following sharp
and scathing comments were made upon it :
Mr. Cass said he had listened to Mr. Sum
ner's speech with equal regret and surprise.
It was the most un-American and unpatriotic
speech he had ever heard on this floor, and
he hoped he might never hear such a speech
again here or elsewhere. He did not rise,
wever, to make comments on that speech,
open as it was to censure and disapprobation,
but to say that the Senator From Massachu
setts had totally misunderstood - and misap
plied the case of Michigan to the Topeka
Convention. He briefly showed that there
was no analogy between the proceedings' in
Michigan and those in Kansas.
Mr. Douglas adverted to the malignity
Which characterized Mr. Sumner's speech,
and the many personalities in which it aboun
ded. He compared it to a patch-work bed
quilt, made up from all the old calico dresSes
in the house, and abounding in classical elu
sions, most of
hich were from those portions
of the classics which were suppressed in re
spectable colleges. That speech was written,
and committed to memory, and practiced be
fore a glass, with a negro boy holding the
candle and watching the gestures. It was
rehearsed to friends, and they repeated in the
saloons of the city what he was going to say.
Those libels, so gross, so vulgar,. had been
conned over and written with cool, deliberate
malignity, and repeated night after night, in
order to find the appropriate grace to spit
them at men who differ from him. What
right had he to arraign three-fourths of the
Senate for dereliction of duty I Did the
means by which he got here give him the su
periority ?
Mr. Douglas said he had been arraigned as
a conspirator and a traitor by a man (Mr.
Sumner,) who was himself guilty of crime,
in having taken the oath to support the Con
stitution, and then violated it. Alluding to
Mr. Sumner's attack on Senator Butler, who
was now absent, Mr. Douglas said Mr. Sum
ner would, on his return, whisper a secret
apology in his ear, and want him to accept
that as a proper apology. Mr. Douglas knew
how that was done. (Laughter.) He then
proceeded to defend Mr. Atchison from the
charge of acting the part of Cataline.
Mr. Mason said that political relations, in
obedience to the forms of our government,
bring Senators into associations which, be
yond the walls of the Senate chamber, is a
dishonor, and the touching of his hand would
be . pollution. They were compelled to lis
ten to language here to which no gentleman
would give ear elsewhere. They bear it in
obedience to the Constitution, the trust of
which they have undertaken to perform.
Mr. Mason defended Mr. Atchison, whom
he was proud to call his friend, and said that
when Mr. Sumner dared, in the presence of
the Senate, to connect Judge Butler's name
with an untruth, as he did, he presented him
self as one utterly incapable of knowing
what truth is. In conclusion, he accused
Mr. Sumner of falsification regarding the
latter's remarks concerning Southern institu
tions.
Mr. Sumner said he had just been attacked
by three Senators, one of whom (Mr. Cass)
reveral in years, and with whom he had been
in relations of personal regard longer than
any other Senator within the sound of his
voice. The Senator from Michigan must
know full well, that nothing could fall from
him (Mr. Sumner) which could possess any
thing but kindness; and he would say to
him, that his sentiments regarding Michigan,
were founded on legal documents and on the
principles of Jackson, Grundy, Buchanan,
Benton, and the Democratic party of that day.
Therefore, the attack of Mr. Cass did not
touch him, but them. As to Mr. Douglas,
he should leave to him the privilege of the
common scold—the last word. That Senator
had the audacity to venture to charge cal
umny against him. He had said he (Sum
ner) had taken the oath to support the Con
stitution, yet was determined not to support
a particular clause of that instrument.
This statement, Mr. Sumner gave to his
face the flattest denial, saying, that he replied
to a similar charge in June, 1854, and he read
from his reply as reported in the Washington
Globe, in effect, that he had' sworn to support
the Constitution as he' Understood it t no more
nor less, and the clause alluded to did not im
pose upon h im any obligation to take part
directly or indirectly in restoring fugitive
slaves, and yet in the face of all this, the cal
umny had been extensively circulated, discus
sed and criticised by the Senator from Illinois,
who in the severistness of his audacity had
presumed to arraign him. He wished to ad
minister to Mr. Douglas a word of advice—
not to expend himself in gusts of vulgarity
and endeavoring to obtain that truth and
character, which is the handmaid of wisdom,
and let him remember hereafter that the bowie
knife and bludgeons are not the proper em
blems of Senatorial, that swaggering and fe
rocity cannot add dignity to this body. The
Senator from Illinois had been sweltering
venom and bringing forth statements utterly
without foundation, and heaping upon per
sonalities and obliquy. No person with the
upright form of a man—. Here Mr. Sum
ner paused.
Mr. Douglas—Say it—say it.
Mr. Sumner, replying—l shall say it. No
person with the upright from of a man can
be allowed to discharge from his tongue in
decent personalities. The noisome nameless
animal is no proper model for an American
Senator. Will the Senator take notice
Mr. Douglas—L shall; and certainly shall
not imitate you in that respect.
Mr. Surnner—Ah ! the Senator again
switches his tongue, and again fills the Sen
ate with an offensive odor. I would simply
say to the Senator from Virginia that bad
words are not arguments ' nor do scolds be
long to Senatorial duty.
Mr. Mason was understood to say—The
Senator is extremely non. compos mentis.
(Laughter.)
Flour Falling
The staff of life, which has so long been at
starvation prices, has at last taken a fall, and
we hope a fall forever. A leading staple and
a leading necessity, it rules the rates of kin
dred grains, and makes the living of the la
boring masses high. This compels a corres
ponding increase, enters into the cost of all
kinds of manufactured produce, and the con
sumer, whoever he be, has to foot the bill.—
It is not so much the high price of bread
which works the injury as the fluctuations
of that price. Wages cannot rise and fall
with the varying tides of trade and many a
man is made a pauper, and manufacturer
ruined, before he can receive his own equili
brium by adapting means to the evil.
The New Yorltflerald says: Who could
have believed last December that flour in
April, from common to good New York State
flour, would be quoted in this city at a frac
tion uucier six dollars a barrel ? Yet this
thing has come to pass, and the probabilities
are that flour, breadstuff's, and provisions of
all kinds will continue to come down for the
balance of the year. The bulk of our prodig
ious crops of last year still remains in the in
terior. In addition to this, our farmers, last
fall, considering the prospect of a long war
in Europe and of still upward prices for
bread-stuffs, put in an immense breadth of
land for the coming harvest. Should this
harvest. therefore, be an average one per
acre, the aggregate yield will swell our exis
ting surplus to an incredible amount ; but
should it be a harvest like that of last year,
bread and meat wil: be cheap and plentiful
beyond all anticipations. This will especi
ally be the result with good crops in Europe,
aad the Russian depots of the Black Sea and
the Baltic opened to the wants of England
and France. We understood that on Wed
nesday from•eight to ten thousand barrels of
flour were sold in this city at an advance of a
shilling upon a speculation; but this is no in
dication whatever of a suspension of the ebb
tide. We are not sorry. Our farmers have
realized handsomely for three or four years,
and can afford a reduction without loss in a
crop or two ; and as, in the aggregate, we
have never known or heard of any country
on the face of the earth that has suffered
from bread being too cheap, so
.when they
tell its that flour is coming down, we feel suf
ficiently resigned to exclaim—" Let it come
doom.;?
From the Easton Whig
A Gipsey Thief.---$5OO Reward
A theft has been perpetrated in the county
of Monroe, Pa., under circumstances of an ex
traordinary character. Mr. Henry Fenner, a
resident of Fennergiville, was called upon a
few weeks ago by a couple of gipsies, a man
and a womanthe latter of whom conveyed
to him the wonderful information that an im
mense treasure had been buried somewhere
on his farm by the Indians, and that if he
would comply with the terms, she would, by
a little enchantment, find out all about it,
and put him in possession of it. He believed
the story, and with the hope of finding the
treasure promised compliance. She told him
it was necessary to get together a large sum
of current money, of near sbooo as possible.
Mr. Fenner raised the sum of $4BOO, chiefly
in $5O and $lOO bills on the Easton Bank,
which she tied up, along with some bread,
in a white linen rag and then gave it to him
to put away. Every day he counted it in her
presence, after which she would mumble
prayers over it, and go through (livers incan
tations, with the design of breaking the spell
under which the buried treasure lay. On the
last day her utteran3es were deeper, and her
bodily contortions more severe than usual, but
she arose at length, and reported her task ac
complished, strictly enjoining upon Mr. Fen
ner not to open the bundle for a week, prom
ising at the end of that period he would find
among the notes a written description, in
forming him where to dig. Excited by the
prospect and with hopes raised high, he wait
ed the required time, when to his amazement',
on opening the parcel he found the money
gone, and a piece of brown paper left in its
stead. Mr. Fenner now offers a reward of
ssoo—s2oo for the apprehension of the man
and woman, and $3OO for the recovery of the
money. It is thought that the thieves belong
to a gang encamped during the week past in
the neighborhood of Belvidere. The man
and woman pass by the name of Jackion; the
woman is small in size, with dark complexion,
black hair, sharp features, fluent in speech,
and follows fortune telling. The man is about
5 feet 8 inches in height, well made, with
dark complexion and . sharp features. They
had with them five boys and a girl, and trav
elled in a spring truck wagon with iron axles
and black cover, drawn by a bay horse, large
and spare.
Condition of Mr. Sumner.
WASHINGTON. May 24.--The condition of
Mr. Sumner is not deemed so favorable this
morning as yesterday ; and his physicians
forbid him leaving his room. The Commit
tee of the two Houses took the preliminary
steps for the investigation of the circumstan
ces attending the assault.
Laws of Pennsyliea . ida- - --Seesion of
1856.
An act relating to the rigla's of property of
husband and wife
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, 45T., That so much
of the act relating to the rights of married
women, and for other purposes, passed the
eleventh of April eighteen hundred and forty.
eight, as requires the consent of a married
woman to be first had and obtained, or the ac
knowledgment of her deed or mortages, when
conveying her own real estate, to be made
differently from that which she is authorized
to make when she joins her husband in con
veying his real estate to bar her right of
dower therein, is hereby repealed, and all
deeds or mortages of any married woman
heretofore acknowledged jointly with her
husband, so as to bar her right of dower or
interest in her husband's lands, shall be ef
fectual and valid to debar her in respect to her
own real estate.
SEC. 2. That nothing in said act centained,
shall be construed to authorize any married
woman to contract any debt or liability, so as
to make liable her husband or his estate fur
ther than she might have done before the
passage of said act.
SEC. 3. That whensoever any husband shall
have deserted or separated himself from his
wife, or neglected or refused to support her,
or she shall have been divorced from his bed
and board, it shall be lawful for her to protect
her reputation by an action for slander or libel,
and she shall also have the right by action
to recover her separate earnings or property:
Provided,That if her husband be the defendant
the action shall be in the name of a next
friend.
SEC. 4. That whenever any married wo
man of lawful age, shall be entitled to a leg
acy or to a distributive.share of the personal
estate, or of the proceeds of the real estate
of a deceased person, it shall be competent
for her either in person or by attorney to sign,
seal, and deliver, a refunding bond in pursu
ance-4%f the 'act of Assembly in such case
made and provided, and also to execute all
such other instruments, and to perform all
such other acts as may by law be necessary
to be done, or may he lawfully required by
the executor or administrator upon, the pay
ment to her of the moneys to be distributed
as aforesaid, with the same effect for the in
tent and purpose, of binding her separate es
tate as if she were sole and unmarried.
Approved April 11th, 1856.
A Further Supplement.
To an act relating to the lien of-mechanics
and others upon buildings, passed the six
teenth day of June, Anno Domini eighteen
hundred and thirty-six.
' SEC.- 1. Tnat horn and after the passage of
this act, the provisions of the act entitled
"An Act relating to the lien of mechanics
and others upon buildings," passed the six
teenth day of June Anno Domini eighteen
hundred and thirty six, and the supplement
thereto be and the same are hereby extended
as fully as the same are now applicable to
."buildings, to every steam engine, coal breaker
or parts thereof, pump gearing, hoisting
gearing, fixture or machinery in and about
1 mills of any kind, iron or coal works, coal
mines and iron mines.
Approved April 21, 1856.
ARRIVAL _OF THE ASIA.
Interesting Intelligence.
By the Asia, at New-York, we have three
days' later dates from Europe. The news is
generally interestirg, though not important;
The condition of Italy was exciting much at
tention.—Breadstuffs were rather firmer, but
Cotton had declined.
The British Parliament had adjourned.—
The debate on the motion of Mr. Whiteside,
for a vote of censure against the government
for the fall of Kars, was pressed to a divi
sion, but the motion was lost, the majority
against it being 127.
Lord Clarendon's dispatch in answer to
Secretary Marcy's note of the 28th Decem
ber, has been laid before Parliament. The
Daily News, in its comments upon the mat
ter, refers to the demand for Mr. Crampton's
recall, as an invitation for the English cabi
net to disgrace itself for the amusement of
the government at Washington.
The official proceedings of the Peace Con
gress, just published, proves that the most
interestin g feature happened after the treaty
was signed in an interchange of sentiment
upon various subjects of European interest.
This interchange of opinions was invited
by Count Walewski, who, amongot her things,
referred to the disturbed state of Italy, recom
mending that suggestions for a milder rule be
conveyed to the Italian governments, in
which suggestions the plenipotentiaries heart
ily agreed.
Count Cavour, on behalf of Sardinia, de
manded. that a secular government be estab
lished in the Roman Legations, and that the
Austrian troops be withdrawn.
Sharp words ensued between the Austrian
and Sardinian Representatives, but it ended
in nothing.
The Confederation then proceeded to the
discussion of the new declaration of mari
time law, in reference to neutrals, &c., and .
to all the principles of this law, the Plenipo
tentiaries gave their. adhesion. Russia quali
fying her assent in the matter of privateer
ing.
The treaty gUarranteeing the independence
of Turkey decrees:
First.—The contracting parties guarran
tee, Jointly and severally, the independence
and integrity of the Ottoman Empire, as re
corded in the Treaty of Paris, of the 30th of
March, 1856.
Secondly.—Any infractions of the stipula
tions of said Treaty, will be considered a
casus belli, and the contracting parties will
come to an understanding with the Sublime
Porte as to the measures to be taken, and
will immediately determine among them
selves as to the employment of their milita
ry and naval fOrces.
Letters from Rome state that the Ecclesias
tical circles wdre panic-struck at the Sardin
ian program* of Italian reform. The sud
den departure or Paris of IVlonsigneur Ber
nardi is supposed to be connected with this
movement.
A letter from Berlin says that the proposal
of England to capitalise the Sound Dues was
not acceptable to Denmark.
It is stated in Le .Nord that a Prussian
flotilla of five vessels is fitting out in the port
of Swinemunde, to accompany Prince
Frederick William in his courting expedition
to England.
Baron Brunow had arrived in England to
present to Her Majesty letters of the acces
sion of Alexander to the throne of Russia.—
Count Orloff did the same thing in France
for his brother napoleon, but added a letter of
congratulation on the birth of an Imperial
Prince.
The King of Wurtemburg was about to
visit Paris i to remain eleven days.
I A squadron of war steamers was about to'
sail from Cronstadt on a cruise—they not be
ing the least afraid of the-British and French
fleets.
The accounts from RUssia inform ns the
Militia had been disbanded, and crosses have
been distributed to the men, in token of their
servitude with great liberality. The paren
tal tone of this Government to its subjects
sounds a little amusing. "Children of Rus
sia," says the manifeto which relieves the
men from their servitude, "return to your
homes, resume your occupations and daily
, labors, and continue to give to the classes in
the midst of which you return the example
of order and submissian by which you con
stantly distinguished yourselves in the rank
of the active militia of the empire I"
From the same source we learn that Prince'
Mentschikoff, whose name figured so con
spicuously during the war, has been relieve&
of the governorship of Cronstadt, on account'
of the conclusion of peace. He is to retain'
his rank as Member of the Council of the'
Empire, and as Aid-de-Camp General. The
Emperor has addressed an autograph letter
to Count Orloff, at Paris, expressing the high ,
admiration which he entertains for his person
and his services. and he is raised a step in
the scale of nobility. The rejoicings in Ruse
sia, arising out of Peace, have been univer ,
sal. In the cathedrals of the treat cities, at
Te Deum has been celebrated for the cessa
tion of war, and in that of St. Petersburg,'
another in honor of the birth of the Imperi
al Prince of France,—a proof of the close
relations which exist between Napoleon and
the Czar.
The building of Sebastopol as a naval and
military harbour, being contrary to the terms
of the treaty,the Russian Government it is
said, will encourage the building of private
dwellings, by exempting them from ground
rent, and other taxes, during a given number
of years. When the Allies have left the de
voted city, the Russians,
it is alleged, will
ship their materials to Odessa, and divers
I will be employed to raise the guns and ma
chinery sunk with the fleet.
More Shooting in Kansas.
ST. Louis, MAY 23.—The "Republican"
to-day publishes a dispatch dated Westport
20th which says: As Mr. Cosgrove and De
Brannon were goinc , from Lecompton to
Franklin they were hailed by a party of Free
State men who enquired who they were and
where they were going. On being answered,
the Commander of the party turned to his•
men and asked their motto. They replied,
"Sharp's rifles," and immediately fired on
Cosgrove and Brannon. Brannon was wound
ed, but Cosgrove sent a ball through the brain
of their leader, when the balance fled. The
Free State men shot at Blanbor's bridge, were
mortally wounded.
There was a report in Kansas City that the'
people were preparing to evacuate Lawrence
and had called upon Col. Sumner to protect
their property. Kickapoo, Doniphan and At
chison are almost deserted, the men having
gone to aid the Marshall at Lawrence.
The "Democrat" learns from a gentlemen
who arrived from Jefferson City yesterday,.
that a dispatch had been received there, sta
ting that a battle had been fought at Law
rence, and a number of persons were killed
on both sides. We have no particulars.
A mass meeting has been held at Kickapoo,
which resolved upon sacking the Kansas Ho
tel at Kansas City, as it was understood to be
owned by Massachusetts, and so certain was
its destruction' considered, that persons had
rriovei out. The citizens of Kickapoo had of
fered a reward of $2OO for Gen. Pomeroy,
and parties have been sent in search of him.
M. F. Conway writes to the "Democrat,"
saying, that himself and Gen. Schuyler while
on their way from. St. Louis to Leavenworth
were arrested at Parkville, Mo., on the Bth
inst., on a charge of being fugitives, and de
tained until private information could,be had
from Lecompton.
ExecutionL of Peter Mattocks.
PHILADELPHIA, May 23.—Peter Mattocks,
a colored gentleman, was executed within the
prison enclosure at noon to-day, for the mur
der of Elizabeth Gilbert, in the presence of a
large number of spectators. He died protest
ing his innocence, declaring himself ready to
meet his fate, having confidence in the mer
cy of his Saviour.
MARRIED,
On Tuesday 20th inst., at the Jackson Hotel,
in Huntingdon, by Rev. D. Shoaff, Mr. JOB
SNEATEI and Miss NANCY A, CASKEY.--,
And also, Mr. THOMAS D. BEMEIt and,
Miss REBECCA BRUCE, all of Antes town.
ship, Biair county.
On the 25th of May, by Davi ‘ d Snare, Esq.,,
Mr. BENJAMIN SHADE and SUSA,NNA
WERT, both of Huntingdon.
On Sunday the 18th inst„ in Shirleysburg,
after a. lingering illness, GEORGE ASKINS,
aged about 49 years. The deceased died in, tho
full hope of everlasting life,
List of Letters
Remaining in the Post Office at Hunting.
don, Pa. on the 26th May, 1856. q
Samuel Amy, Elisabeth Millikin, 2.
MichaelArehart, Mrs Mary Myers,
John A. Blodget, Esq. David Miller,
John Reed Boyd, Miss Barbara Mash,
Daniel Beauchamp, Wm. Maffit,
Benjamin Bowman, Miss Carlina,Matern„
John Butts, S. Moore,
Hugh Brown, 2. Mrs Jane Myers, or-
James Canody, Henry Miller,
B. F. Crouse, Caroline C. Miller,
Geo. W. Colbey, Bertha Miller,
Berry Cook, M. H. Meyer,
S. B. Chase, Michael McPariah,
Heirs of John Clark, Mrs Hannah Moyer,.
Jas. Clark, James Magill,
John Carrimel, Samuel Norton 3
0. C. Carter, 2. Mr. Ptazyk,
Miss Eliza Cone, Rudolph Ruck,
Geo. Decker, 2. Wm. Ricketts or heirs ) .
R. Allison Decker, Samuel Royer,
Dennis Ragan, Thomas Rickets,
Patrick Flynn, Joseph C. Rodkey,
H. Fink, Susan Souders,
Miss Eliz. Flenner, John Shoemaker,
Rachel R. Green, J. & J. Shirley ) ,
Mary Glasgow, John A. Shultz,
Franklin Green, 2. Milton H. Sangree,,
Frederick earner, Henry Sturtztnan,
Frans. Garlack, Jemire Templeton, .
Hiram Grady, Miss M. Thompson,
Wm. Hight, Samuel Thompson ) ,
R. F. Haldeman, Esq. Wm. H. Wharton,,
John Lawson,. Esq. A. W. Wright,,
Michael Loftis, E. B. Wilson,.
Nancy Louden, And Walker,
Thos. Lee, Henry D. Wilmer,
Eleazar Lloyd B. M. White, 2.
Sarah Lewis, J. J. Wyly,
John Morrison, Eleizabeth Yaw,
WM. LEWIS, P. M..,
May ?.6, 1856,
DIED,