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Konday Morning, Feb. 22, 1858
THE LEGISLATURE.
lathe Room, ou the 11th, Mr. McClure pre
nentod a petition from citizens of Fulton coun
ty, fon: the repeal of the (Lett:isle imposed upon
medlars *ad tanners.
?elisions mere pre anted from Lancaster
cemea4 Ler the repeal of the act relative to
sealers of weights and measures.
Ir. tinftb, hots tee Judiciary committee, re
ported the sniplement to the three hundred
4•lLr exemption law, with w negatire recons
uteadation.
It. Bay read In place i bill to authorise the
Cam! Commissiouers to re-esamise the claim
ed/ames lic:llbenny k Company, for damages
esstelmed by them in the constructien of the
Gettyeberg Railroad.
la the Senate, on the 13th, M. Brewer read
la place a bill for the protection of deer in
Cumberland, .dame, rr.kuu aqd riOtoa
counties.
Oa the 13th, the Senate' passed gaaaisgonsly
•
14 bill for the punishment of fronds eozo
=Lunt by bankers, trustees, and others.
ON Xen i day, in the House, Mr. Will presented
• petition. from the Commissioners of Mains
amity, for nethosity to borrow money and sell
certain real estate; and reed in place a bill to
that elfeet. This is- rendered necessary in
view of die erection of the new Court House.
Mr. Geepp latrodoced in the House the fol
lowleg bill regulating the rate of interest
abellabiag the usury laws. Whether it i 4 like
ly to succeed, or not, we are Unatk to sft y :
SKIM 1. Be It enacted, That from and
after the 4th day of Jul; text, the legal rate
ofloterost in all eftsA, where no express con
tract 'shell have I,een made for a greater or less
1a441., gall be t per cent. instead of 6 per cent.
Saone' 2. That from and after the said day,
It shall be laved for parties to contract for the
pa of Meerut at a rate higher or lower
skew 11per cent yearly, as they may think
peeper, eel to take aid receive interest ac
astallit to the rate se contracted for.
Win Beaste, ea Tuesday, Mr. Brewer pre
sented a petition from citizens of Huntingdon
county, prnying tkat a certain part of said
county ma, be annexed to Fulton county.
Nrla oar Legislature it is said there
are bat three "gentlemen" out of the
whole body of 133 men. Of the rest
there are in the Senate fifteen lawyers
and six farmers; one "gentleman." In
the House, there are thirty-six farmers,
-tWenty-two lawyers, six physicians;
five editors, four carpenters and two
•• geatiesaoa."
The sate Interest.—The somi-annual
interest upon the State debt was paid,
by Treasurer Idagraw, at the Girard
Bank, -**/ the Ist instant. The pay
manta, were all rusk in specie or its
eqaiialeht.
lifirPnikitmt Buchanan and Secreta
ry Cris, -two of the oldest and most ex
perienced Statesmen in the world, say
that the people of Kansas can change
their Constitution as soon as they see
fit after their 111111306011 into the Union,
sad this opinion is concurred in by
Judge Black and other eminent jurists.
This being admitted, Why should the
Constitution now be referred back to
the people? Having the right to alter
need not live ander it a month
if they do not wish to.
writ is rumored that Gen. Harney
is to bays command of the army on the
Pacific court, and will control, in per
son, she movement from that qnarter
on the Mormons. 'No officer in the
Asaeriean service is better qualified to
nondant such a campaign than Gen.
Harney.
a The President, it is stated, .bas
nominated Colonel Johnston, of. the
Jib expedition, to be a Brigadier
General. Deserved.
The Pelen4y-Second at Bielimored.--ift
appears President Buchanan is expect
ed at Siattx>nd, Va., to-day, (the 2,2 d,)
as arrangements have been mado for
his accommodation. Secretary Floyd,
and Governor Newell, of New Jersey,
have accepted invitations to be present.-
A grand "State dinner" is to be given
on the occasion, tickets to which will be
sold at $.5 each, to such persons other
than invited guests, who may desire to
participate.
11111/"The Democratic Convention of
Perry county, on Wednesday last,
adopted resolutions fully and unqualifi
edly endorsing the policy of President
13aishanau. The Cambria county Dem
otrag. have taken the same position.
_ _
liirThe tiarrisburg Daily Herald has
gone, into the hands of Messrs. Royal
and Ifaisynolds. They speak frooly
of sanioFtin the Administration of
Goy. Per, bat make no allusion to
tint Of President linohanan
apother ".soak in the grassr
1111111PThanks to Senator BIGIXOL for
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viiloo4 Congressional documents, amil I
Sudden Death.—On Friday night of
to lissom Aisiown. and Witt, of the' lust week, Mr. Conrad Warebime, re.
StlOL 4 ll:4lo4..fbr continued favors.; aiding in Bacbman's Valley, this coun
.ll die - • ". ty, atter hiving eaten a hearty supper, , Sarin the House' at Washington, on
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'lllirglse - PIXIMIS married couple alive ' went to bed about 7 o'clock. About. Monday last, Mr. Campbell asked leave
arsailiensed to boa Yr. Snyder and hi s t ii . half an boar afterwards , his wife ie.: to introduce a bill requesting the Pried-
II I tired, and p erceiving that be was unu.' dent to, negotiate for the purchase of
*lik_. I tiaP. id 6 at ' Barna*, Pa. '-'° pally q - (being afflicted wi th the the British . ..loieh American provinces
4 . 1.14 t MC awl is 1 0 7 Pies old, all€L il rhen - mai.itsin t , be was scenatomod to bo , and Cuba, the people of said provinces
64 i4IIIID married 88 yeses. restless, and tams much in the bed) got •to regulate their inualutions their own
...4/ 3 1= 1 -4 . 4 .. , up, and. H ghted a candle , and found him i way. Mr. Utagipau stimmted ea
: MOW Wh 94l e/4 44 g 4 4.,_,
_,. W?! dead, ~Wit samosa )le. Waeviiime was /lag " and the . mot 9f iram49d." . ,The
"11 le -shall n" tiP between fifty and sixty $4111114•0* . 1;r.• ; Rouse '
refitted to suspend flu mi . thilprr
&wit. ,• ` 1 Westatiaster Democrat. i Ayes 10. a'.;
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bill DANlll4olllrAina. 121iSONDMIT „. 4 .! , Ma 1
e , if LIIIIIIK "RON IP' ' '_.. ' '., :' y 7atitt
There is no longer an .0 to --- - ..:' —A . Fr i Iri.! Wasio .-- leb. rlil, UV. ' wins wontai orrsdis.." .l . 4
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the existence of aMo e D a 01 0: , Wei!' have bee wait; .•-tl ..
. st Onsplilkr :-.411. gas* 40ne• r .,,„ll,asid lite article "Awry* bpd Triplk" as
ganization in Kansas, un I ..the‘Orders (eayailie Harrisbint Pat • and . .
tion,ll am Weaning , to parotid, my- ott ant page. .
of Brigham Young, and OAK the-mots, to sistwhat prteet the friends of the,
self, roll be more esidif settled
turbulent "Free State" I '
iss4rs, ‘ Lana t Sunbaty at Railroad would liave, wes _ st fniii t h en ....,.Dos't forget to step trite env oflisli and
t generauy
enpreed. Tho ' eabserib• for Tus allitrAsa before hilvins ;
& Co., are in close league with it,if not to present to the Legislature. It i s town. You will not regret it.
President's position is gaining strength I gob. Paul Leidy, the member of Con
actually doing its bidding. fresh in the recollection of every one,
. daily, and when " the tug of war" comes ,
A tew weeks ago, a fine hotel, which that at the list sosslon
the c°m ? ell Y i Lecompton will be found in a imelcient- 1
cost four thousand dollars, was burned used every art to procure the passage ly
strong
majority in both nol3llo*-1
at Lexington, Johnson county. The of a hill transferring bonds derived from , Jae- and common sense must and will
town is pro-slavery, and the house was the sale of the Main Lino of the Public ',
prevail. Several Northern Democrats!
owned by a pro-slavery man, COI. Me-! Works to them, for the purpose, .29 Wall , who voted for Harris's resolution, will
Kinney. About the same time a num-, alleged, of securing the speedy oomple- vote for the Lecompton Constitution.
her of cabins belonging to members of, tion of the Erie Railroad. The project The Senate Democratic caucus, on
the Democratic party were burned.— failed in the Senate. Since that time
Soon after an Indian named Tully was the people have adopted an amendment Saturday evening, took two very proper
positions. First, that when the bill for
shot. The Dan i tea had been stealing, to the Constitution prohihitieg the tbe admission of Kansas shell he reixort _
his timber, and in attempting to pre- 1 State from lending its credit to any
ed to the Senate, it shall be taken up and
vent a continuance of their depreda- 1 corporation. Notwithstanding this pro- considered until acidly - disposed of,
tions, he was killed. They have also, vision, we were apprised during .the without any postponeinent i . Secondly,
murdered others in cold blood, rind are i last summer that the company had not that in conformity with the President's
charged with setting fire to other' abandoned the ides of procuring aid
recommendation,Congress Anil express
buildings. A desperate state of things I from the State. We therefore looked its concurrence with the bill of rights
truly—and all abetted by snob "load-1 forward with no slight degree of curie which allows the people et K uno to
ere" of Republicanism as Jim Lane, , oaity to see what plan could be devised alter or remodel their Constitution wires-,
Robison, and Others. fbr evading the Constitutional previa- ever they please. Though this latter
The eppoaition platlbrra; here apd ion, and we have it developed at last.
may be a work of supererogation, it is
e is e e r i k eps, being made up of the dia. Yr. Jackman bas introduced into thought best to adop t it, so as to dieerot
ohm msd destructive ereed of the the Hausa a bill under the seductive Repute hutitti ; arose outs most
Black Repablicans and the unjust and title of "Aa Act for the sal* of the prised wit pons. The Senate will net
tyrannical doctrines of dark-lantern State canals." It might more apps firmly, and lam In high hopes as to the
Know Nothings; it would not be out of priately be denominated, "A. bill to (verse of in the House also. The spirit
keeping to add Nfornion polygamy.— transfer to the Sunbury and Erie Rail- of agitation, which has so long ruled
Indeed, to snob complexion the opposi- , road company, for the special ndeen.
bore, is fast losing its fbothold. "The
tion mayii,-et come. It would perfect 1 tags of said company, all the Pablo ooantry will have peace, and have it
the picture of isiiii i' I Works belonging to the State of Penn
peaceably too."
sylvania."—lt proposes, for the very The majority of the Senate Commit.
moderato sum of 43,400,00, to give the , tee on Territories to-day 'made an
company the Delaware Division, the I elaborate report. The bill which ac-
North Branch Division and Extension,' companies it is similar to those hereto
and the West Brunch and Susquehanna 1 fore presented on snob occasions, and
canals. The Delaware Division alone, admits Kansas under the Leoompton
Gov. Pollock told us in his annual Dies. Constitution. Messrs. Douglas and
sage, yielded last year a not revenue of , cnaamer, from the same Committee,
$174,000; more than the interest at I presented minority reports, which, with
five per oent., of the munificent sum of!
that of the majority, were ordered to
$3,400,000, supposing the money to be ,be printed. Mr. Green gave notioe
paid into the treasury in hard cash. that he should call up the matter tt an
But this the company have no idea of early day.
doing. They purpose to pay the State A passenger railroad from George.
in bonds of the Sunbury and Erie Rail-I town to the Navy Yard, via Pennsyl
road company, bearing five per cent. vania Avenue, is projected, and will
interest, none of which shall full ,due succeed.
until fourteen years from the time of i Shad from the Rowan river, North
their issue. *Not only is the company Carolina, wore sold in our market on
to manufacture bonds for this purpose, Tuesday at, $1 25 per pair
but to lime seven millions of bonds, so- In haste ;
cured by mortgage on the Sunbury and • ......--
Erie Railroad, of which those given in
payment for the public works are to be
part. The balance, wo presume, are
to be disposed of to any persons who
will purebase them.
The other features of this Lill will be
better uuderatood by reference to its
details. It is even more objectionable
- than the bill of last session. It seeks a
y.'y's,
One of,the principal objections, says
the Union, that have been urgea ago. - List
the Lecompton constitution lyy those
opposed to it is, that by ine 14th sec:
tion of its schedule . I .avery i 3 fixed upon
the people of Ransas until after the
year 1864. This argument, however,
was fcrmally abandoned by Mr. Wilson,
^.;...Siass., in his late speech in the Sen
ate. He said: "But we are now told
by the President that wo can change
this constitution before 1814. I hare
no doubt of that. I beliere the people
have Q right to change tneir constitution
when they please,and just how they please."
If this be so, and we fully concur with
Mr. Wilson that it is—why not let Kan
sas come into the Union under the Le
compton constitution? By so doing
we inflict no wrong upon her people;
fur if a majority of them are opposed to
slavery, they have a right to call a con
vention the moment she becomes a
State, and amend. their constitution ac
cordingly.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 1858
The Northern Democrats opposed to
the Lecompton swindle will, in a day
or two, issue an address to the people
of the United States, s(Atting forth at '
large the reasons which, as fair and
honest men, compel them to differ with
the Administration of Mr. Buchitilan on
the Kansas question. It, will be firm
in taking position ftir the • will of the
majority."— Waeitinyton Cot% of Forney's
Press.
11 'The above announcement calls to
mind a reminiscence connected with
another great measure. Soon after Mr.
Douglas introduced the Nebraska bill,
it was announced, with just such a
flourish of trumpets, that " the North
ern Democrats opposed to" that "swin
dle" would "issue an address to the
people of the "United States, setting
forth at largo the reasons which, as
fair and honest men, compelled them to
differ with the Administration" of Mr.
Pierce, and the policy of Senator Dou
glas. When the address appeared, in
stead of the names of the disaffected io
full, it was signed by one Reuben E.
Fenton, as Chairman, a very , clever
gentleman, elected ea a Democrat from
the Chantanqair district, N. Y. That
gentleman is now one Of the most id
tense Black Republicans in Congress—
and the road he traveled to reach his
I present political location, is about to be
traveled by the "Northe:•n Democrats
opposed to the Lecompton Constitu
tion." It is no new road—it has been
an open tbronghfare for peitical mal
contents from the days eV ackson to the
present.--;-Brie Observer.
4: 1,1 .•04f1'i-LOCWIV4:6OO: I . - i:j*JA
- DINT.
We thought it possible that the anti-
Leeompton datterers, led on by the
Prince Regent of Black Republicanism,
might swing old Pennsylvania from her
moorings for a time. We bad seen her
led astray before, and we were prepar
ed to see her temporarily led astray
again. We were sure she would tern
up right on "sober second thought,"
but we did not expect the reaction to
occur at this early day. It has come
already. The Democracy of the glori
ous old Keystone are ranging them
selves in order of battle and prcpanng
for a terrible charge against the opposi
tion. The faithful are firmer than ever;
the wavering have caught the courage
of the mass and day by day those who
listened to the seductive voice of trea
son and consented to desertion, are dis
engaging themselves from the toils so
artfully thrown around them and again
enlisting under the banner of true Dem
ocracy. The plotting traitors who es
sayed to wreak their vengeance on the
head of the President have been landed
high and dry in the enemy's camp,
\V oro the corporal's guard of recruits
they have carried over has provoked
derision and contempt. The Democra
cy of Pennsylvania are with their Presi
dent, heart and soul, and Neo betide the
Democratic Representative who takes
part with the Blaekßeptiblicaus against
him.—Chantberaburg
transfer of the State Works to a corpo
ration for half their value, without pay
ing a single cent in money; or, in _other
words, it lends the public canals to a
company as a basis for the issue of a
large amount of worthless pa • secur
ities, and as the mean o iufl ting
their credit. This once accomplished,
the State would be at liberty to take
back the works. We have no idea
that this magnificent speculation will
receive the least countenance from the
Legislat u re.
MURDER A a NEOZSISARY WORK."
A few weeks ago, the editor of the
New York Tribune published the fol
lowing atrocious article, advising delib
erate murder as a " necessary work "
in Kansas. The following is a portion
of his fiendish proposition :
"We are opposed to killing mon
when there is any other possible way
of keeping them out of mischief; but
the leading border ruffians of Kansas
will have to be used up. It is not
possible that they and honest men
should live in the same community.—
The telegraph reports a slight beginning
of the nese,ssary work. The Ruffians will
either stop cheating forthwith, or atop
breathing, and will not be allowed many
more days in which to indicate their
choice."
From the very eommencemtent of this
mischievous agitation of the Northern
fanatics and land speculators, up to this
moment, the Tribune and its satellites
have been urging anarchy, revolution,
treason and bloodshed, rather than
have their partisans fail in their nefari
ous work.
gi The slight beginning " of the work
of bloodshed, alluded to with so much
complacency and mob evident satisfac
tion in the abominable paragraph wo
have quoted above, has been persevered
i n,as we see by recent accounts from that
infected section. One of Mr. Greeley's
" honest men," who could not " live in
the same community" with National
Democrats, met a State Senator of Kan
sas a few days ago in the road, Inquir
ed of his name, in order to be certain
that he was the right man to "stop
breathing," and then drew a pistol and
shot him upon the spot. The "neces
sary work' is in progress—the Tribune's
friends Lap blood like so many wolves.
The cause of this deliberate murder
is easily explained. There was a tie in
the Kansas House of Representatives
between the two political parties, while
the Democrats had one majority in the
Senate. By murdering one of the Dem
ocratic Senators, there would, of course,
bo a tie also in that body: Car. any
man, possessing the attributes belong
ing to humanity, longer affiliate with
such an abominable party as follow the
lead of the New York Tribune?—Phila.
A rgu4.
ffrr7wrZT)
The Philadelphia Banks have them
selves announced as resuming specie
payments, but avoid to mention the
fact that it is only on their circulation,
which amounts to about ono million of
dollars for all the banks in Philadelphia,
having boen reduced from five to near
one million since the suspension. But
they pay no specie to their depositors,
with whom they have made special
agreements to draw no coin until the
lUth day of July next; nor do they
pay coin to country Banks with whom
they had accounts before the suspen
sion, and to which they are largely in
debted—hence it is only a partial re
sumption, calculated to decieve the peo
ple at large. Some of the Banks have
paid sufficient coin all the tune to re
lieve the wants of the community,
without any flourish or announcement
that they had resumed specie payments
—the Bank of Gettysburg for instance.
AOCrDENT AT WASHINGTON.
We regret to learn that Mies Jannis,
eldest daughter of Hon. Wunow Ratty
LT, member of Congress from this dis
trict, was severely burned on Wednee
day night woek, stale Kirkwood House,
in Washington, her dress having taken
fire from a grate as she was pepsin
to attend a ball. By the eusietioos of
Mr. Jones, of Wisconsin, the flames
were extingninhed, although not until
hor chest and one of her armskad been
badly burned.
A Terrible Satuation.—A matt named
Streiger, near Davenport, lowa, was
last week in the woods chopping s
heavy limb from a prostrated tree.—
The limb struck him on the back of the
neck as it fill, and bent his body down
so forcibly as to break his back. A
portion of the limb penetrated his thigh,
making a terrible wound. The injury
to his spine paralysed all the lower pan
of the body. In this condition, and far
from help, he used his axe as a lever
and pried off the limb, so that he ()mild
get out of the trap. Re then dragged
himself by the arms—his lower limbs
being entirely paralyzed—a quarter of
a•mile through the snow, till he came
within view of the people at the house.
During the tedious trip, the lower part
of his body was entirely naked. It is
very doubtful whether he can survive.
Sad Air.—On Tuesday evening
last, at about 8 o'clock, as Miss Mary
Ann Engelbrecht was standinkir in the
door of her father's residenoe, in Mar
ket street, engaged in conversation with
a young gentleman of her acquaintance,
a young man by the name of Milton
Shope, who had previously been on
friendly terms with the young lady,
came up, and halting fbr a moment,
drew a pistol from his pocket and dis
charged it, the contents entering the
faze of Miss Engelbreoht, and inflicting
several very painful wounds, but we
are happy to learn that they are not
considered of a very dangerous charac
ter, and that the young lady is improv
ing under the skilful treatment of Dr.
Waters. The provocation, if any, is not
known. Shope has been arrested, and
is now in prison.--Frederick (EL)
Union.
A Curious Calculation.—Mr. Merriam,
the Meteorologist of Brooklyn Heights,
states that the entire depth.. of rain and
snow melted that has fallen in Now
York in a period of $1 years may be
stood at 10 foot, and amid it have ail
remained, *mid tam adbrdad a free
ehita"Oirar sionimuss
shiP• aeroo:46.insoor low St*
York to chaboa.
grels from the I2U district of this State, is
roe the Locos:Elton Constitution, and not
against it, as the opposition bare been re
porting.
fa-President Tyler is fast rocoreriag
from las Illness.
~..According to the "weather reports,"
Vermont takes tlie palm for cold weather.
At St. Johnsbury, on Friday moruing week,
the mercury wu 31 oet. below sero.
......Gea. Calhoun sap he rise State ticket
is electest la Kauai by e, 114 1 40141 at 4 411 11 4 Y
votes, sat that be will give certificates to the
officers thus chosen.
St. Anne's Protestant Episcopal Cborch,
at Annapolis, Md., built in 1694, of brick
brought frou Ragland, was destroyed by firs
last night a-week.
The ice "crop' Is now reported "good"
in all quarters east and north.
editor of the Charleston Courier
Tes Fonltad with a mess of ripe strawberries
oat Thursday weak. They were grown in the
open air, wear that city.
......The oltisens of Lypcititrg, Petersburg
and Iliekswond, Va., and those of Weldon, N.
C., were ealoyleg good sleigbisg ou Saturday
week, the snow being from four to sir ladies
deep. Sleighing was thee "hard going" here.
......Yhtur ban been selling at $lB per barrel
In San Antonio, Tema, in consequence of the
difficulty of hauling from the coast.
It Is estimated that were all the United
States as "dewily inhabited u Massachusetts,
they would hare • population of 446,000,000
souls.
Hon. John P. Hale's term in the United
States Mutts expires with the present session
of Congress--and we hope it will rut , "ex
pired."
A yery fatal epidemic, as we learn from
the Bedford (Vs.) Democrat, is now presailing
in that county among the hogs. From the
time 040 a bog begins to complain be quits
eating, and dies in two days. The entrails and
Dyer become perfectly rotten.
Henry Fife and Charlotte Jones were ex
ecuted att Pittsburg on Friday week. They
declared Nowa, Stewart innocent.
TO ascertain the weight of a horse—put
your toe under the animal's foot.
At a debating society in Schenectady,
the other slay, the subject was: "Which is the
most beautiful production, a girl, or a straw
berry V' Alter continuing the argument for
two nights the meeting adjourned without com
ing to a conclusion—the old ones going for
the strawberries, and the loan ones fur the
X. T. I
The Massachusetts House of Representa
tives has by a large majority passed a bill
by which persons usually styled Atheists are
allowed to testify in courts of justice.
Mrs. Perry, the widow of the late Com
modore O. H. Perry, died in Newport on Thurs
day evening week, after a brief illness.
On the morning, at two o'clock, of the
day of Mrs. Perry's death, and In the same town,
died her husband's companion is the battle of
Lake Erie: Capt.;aylor's death was occasion
ed by paralysis. He was seventy-eight years
of age.
•the 9d instant, - the mercury was
17 degrees below zero at St. Paul, and ice on
the Mississippi twelve inches thick.
Quoth Smith to Jones, It really is a sin
Tou do not get your pretty house fenced in ;
Quoth Jones, your wrong; the place is fenc
ed, coufound it,
My wife is all , the time a RAILING round it,
Boston Post.
Dreadful Oceurre nee. —The most
heart-rending even t,says the Lewistown
Democrat of the 11th, that we have
ever bees called upon to chronicle, oc
curred in this•Tlace on Sunday night
last, which resulted in the death of Mrs.
Hannah Eiseobise, wife of Major Daniel
Eisenbise. At the time specified, she
was sitting in her room alone reading
her Bible by the light of a small fluid
lamp, when the lamp was accidentally
thrown from the table and fell in her
lap. The top of the :amp not having
been fastened securely, the fluid escap
ed and speedily ignited, and the next
moment her entire person was envelop
ed in flames. She ran to a window
fronting tbo street and gave the alarm,
arida number of citizens, including her
husband, who bad boon at a neighbor's,
hurried US the scene, bat notwithstand
ing the isosttpersovering attempts to
subdue the dimes, they' were unavail
ing, and the unfortunate woman's en
tire person ws burnt .to a crisp. She
lingered in thi most excruciating agony
until half past 4 o'clock the subsequent
morning, when death relieved her of
her sufferings. Major Eisenbise, in his
endeavors to extinguish the flames, had
his handl burnt so severely that part
of one of his fingers dropped off, and it
is feared others will requireamputation.
Mr. Alexander Eisenbise also had his
hands badly burnt.
A Royal Bridegroom's Pressats.—The
nuptial present given by Primo Freder
ick William to his royal bride
of a pearl necklace of unusua=
and costliness. The necklace consists
of thirty-two large oriental pearls, pro•
pounced by connoisseurs to be remark
ably pure, and - the larger of which,
those towards the centre, are of the
nice of *a hazel nut. The cost of this
little collection, which has been com
pleted only by dint of groat diligence
daring a lengthened period, it stated to
amount to 28,000 t balers, (.£4,000.) For
six ladies, who have been tho compan
ions and friends of the Princess Royal
hitherto, the Prince brought with him
six golden bracelets, consisting of a
broad, rich band of gold, bearing a
shield, on which is mounted a Prussian
eagle, the wings of which are encrusted
with diamonds. The Princess of Prus
sia has also had s set of diamond and
turquoise ornaments arranged with ex
cellent taste as her present to the Prl*.
eon Boyill.
fierSeven inches of snow and fisir
sleighing here on Saturday last.
RisesDimon laigma.
on composed of 23 letters.
ley 14.43 7 1 is a name.
2S 2 24 4 is s town in Pennsylvsnia.
22 912 is szituntsw.
19 3 21 17 is s lake is N. Arneriss.
13. 22 10 13 7is what every per
son has.
11 6 221 16 totlopp to the conqueror.
18 840 444 te a arse's name.
15 6 11 is a beast of harden.
14 224 4 is a familia artiels.
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LeetareL
D. McCoiSuornr, Esq., delivorod the
',mature bel*e the Young Men's Chris
thin Assoc . !lttltnt on Monday evening, in
Christ Church, on " The Crusades."
D. A. BUEHLER, Esq., will lecture this
evening, in St.. James Church—subject
" Cromwell."
' We theerfhtly publish- -Marriage sud
Death notices without charge, and as
such are always of more or less interest
in the vicinities in which they occur,
we trust those concerned will furnish
us with the proper facts, that they
may duly appear in our columns.—
Readers often look for each notices in
the newspaper, before the publisher
"knows a breath of them." Send them
in from all quarters, and send them
promptly. The newer the news in all
eases the better.
A Rog.
Quite a large and really pleasant
Cotillion Party took place at Witit's
Hotel, in Emmitsburg, on Monday
evening last. The ladies were out in
" full feather," and the gentlemen
seemed fully alive to the importance of
doing the agreeable on the occasion.—
"Old Vidor" furnished the music, and
Mr. Wile the supper—both of course
exoellent. The dancing was kept up
until tho 48 woe sma' hours," and all
present appeare4 highly pleased with
the manner in which the night was
spent.
We were sorry to learn, that, a few
days ago, Mr. NATHANIEL GITT ; residing
near M'Sherrystown, Adams county,
while hauling saw logs to the mill, met
with a painful if not a very serious ac
cident. It seems that when he was in
the act of drawing up a log on the sled
in the woods, to which a log chain was
attached, and after the horses had
started to pall, the large hook of the
chain flew out by some means or other,
striking him with considerable force
under the leg, and the ho k imme
diately penetrating into the knee joint,
causing a most frightful and patnfnl
wound. Medical aid hosi - ever was soon
procured, and notwithstanding sill that
could be done he continues to remain
in a critical oondition.—llanover Spec
tator.
4 - The Gettysburg Railroad Bonds
are selling quite rapidly. The eyes of
the veople throughout the entire coun
ty are opening to the safety and profit
able character of the investment.
*ErMr. M. S. CONVERSE is making
preparationa fur the publication of a
Map of Perry county. Mr. HOPKINS
will make the surveys.
sa-To-morrow is the day fixed by
the County Commissioners for the giv
ing out of the contract for the erection
CT the new Court House. Quite a num
ber of contractors will hid for the job.
low Old Winter has given us a touch
of his keen, biting air for the past week,
being quite a welcome visitor to • our
ice-gatherers, who have been making
the best of it. The weather has been
decidedly the coldest of the season.
iiirThe eeatton of Lout eotntneneod
on Wednesday last, (Ash• Wednesday.)
Sirs3ade Notes can be had at this
office.
for T 6• Compiler.
Linea on the Death of are. Martha, L
Little.
DT LILT LOCILDILIDT LITINGSTOY.
She's gone from earth to Marco above,
To meet the Saviour of her love,
She's gone to her Eternal Name,
Where sin and care can never come.
The winds may howl around her grave,
But He wlto died her soul to save,
Has borne her $o her Heavenly reel,
To dwollwith him—forever blest.
Her brow no more shall clouded be,
Nu pain or trouble shall she oleo;
She dwells with Christ before His throne,
To make her praise forever known.
She left her loved ones here below,
To realms of endless bliss to go,
They see with grief her vacant chair,
And know she'll never more he chore.
Her vacant place beside the hearth,
Can never more be filled on earth,
She sings above, in a nobler song ;
Clud's praise in an immortal tongue.
February le, HMS.
Foe ?h. camowr.
Mc EDIT,* submit the following as
the solution to the problem of "S." in Tns
Commas it few wee ks
Part simile standinig, 1101 feet.
Tart broken
Whole length,
In my garden having traced a walk that runs
due East and West,
And at the East with good design, I drew a
true meridian line,
And at the place of intersection, planted was
by my direction,
A white Narcissus. There it grows and at
the western sad a ruse,
Southward where the meridian ends a beau
teous lily drooping bends ;
Now from the lily to the toile a butterfly di
rxtly goes,
And at right angles to its Rhomb, a bee from
the Narcissus comes,
Feet 288 from the sweet rose the insects meet.
They tarry not,
But each pursue the former course in which
they dew,
Foes 162 due But the bee must yet puss
thro'
Ere he would sip the lily's due.
Now the length of the w&lk and meridian I
deand,
And you who geomehy and nariFation know
Tell me the came which either insect Hew.
A solution desired.-W.
,
Vet Ilks Oespnow
1111-Tar Water, as combined with
other simples, by Dr. Wistar in his cel
ebrated Bahasa of Wild Cherry, has a
peculiar power over all diem's°e of the
icings. Many physicians use it in their
practice, and generally with marked -
MOMS&
lire. al. Ai. 4j6iligt Orsarrrived 6tps
'Zama&
To All Concerned.
Painful Accident
75 "
W.
for The Compiler
Problem
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On Fria" gent 71 Fifts . ‘“ . 121?1101011
James were emended at fittsbart ref PlaIPIPI" -
der of (hone ,
Wilms sad his sister: 1;111111,18,
said to be the second woman neeitttll jp
murder In Pennsylvania. The esseatlha Rita
strictly private, no persona belt/ preseatair. ,
cept a iherifrs Juty of twelve for eachprismoses," )
the clerical and metrical rum, mad Up*
en' counsel .—Even the reporters of the prim. Irress
were excluded. Fife made a statement se ,
knowledging his guilt and the justice of Eris
sentence. Ile said :
"lt must not be supposed front what has bees
published in the newspapers here from time.to
time since my arrest, that lIL differout or
careless about the awful fete I anizowtimfer,
nor must it be supposed' that 1 havesadrered no
compuaction of conscience for the deed that
has brought me to a felotis .Isath.—Uh, no.' .1
have already.undergonc more torture %ban a
thousand deaths . ; end, oh! how often j bps
wished I eotild restore George Wilson autl his
sister back to life. Vain thoughtl Maddened
with a thirst-for-gold, and stimulated by drink,
I gave thesithe fetal biota . that robbed them of
Life, and sent their souls, without warning, to
the bar of God.—My fervent prayer now Ls,
and long has been, that they have been made
happy by my Wickedness, and that their rimer.
tal souls are among the redeemed of Christ, and
I pray Almighty God for his pardon, and that I'
may be permitted to hope that, in the world -44
spirits, I may be there, cad then beg them to
be forgiven." -
Ile then reflectedseverely on the nvwspepent
for not allowing him • fair trial, inasmuch as
they prejudged his ease. But as he confessed
the ericae end admitted its justice, we do opt
see what reason he has to.coniplals.: Us de.
Med the guilt of Monroe Stewart, who alto
stands convicted.
"Alid now, before these witnesses, and is
the presence of Almighty God before whom in
a moment of; time I expect to appear, and with
the last breath I am permitted to breathe ose
earth, with a fkill know ledge of my awful situa
tion and my accountability, I solemnly protest
and declare that Munroe Stewart is entirely in
nocent of the murder of George WMson aasfldi
sister. The deed was planned and perpetrated ,
by myself and etsrlotte Junes, without another'
human being to plan, aid or assist us. For Oar
crime he has suffered a lung imprisonment, bat
I pray God that ibe lust words of a dying man,
with no hope or motive to declare anything but
the truth, while the just punishment of God
would bet isited for falsehood, will be taken,
and restore to him that liberty of which he has .
been so long deprived. In whatever yea hon
est he was my friend, but no partner of mine
in crime. He has suffered much for my crime,
and I beg his forgiveuem. Munroe Stewart is
innocent."
A statement, signed by Charlotte Jones, wag
then read by one of the clewmen present, in
which she also acknowledged her guilt, and
that she hail engaged in the murder of her un
cle end aunt for the purpose of obtaining their
money to support herself and Fife, who, she
feared, would leave her. She also fallyasun
crated Stewart from any participation. in the
murder, and said that her motive for sec ising
him was because she suspected him of lies
sanding Fife to abandon her.
THE ElCCUTlO.ll.—Everything VOW now ready
for the completion of the fival act ofthe bloody_
tragedy, in which the cons lets had played such
a terrible part. The ropes had been adjusted
around the necks of the victims, and but a few
moments were to elapse ere their souls would
be ushered into it ein.ty. Still File's rephrase
forsook him not. Ile called such of 'theist
around hint as he knew on the, scaffold and
shook them affectionately by the hands.—lle •
then declared that, "with the help of God,-he
would die like a man," and with a 4r;dl Yoke,
in a iiich- the slightest tremor was not discern.
able, exclaimed, '•ftemember, 1 die Rams."—
Ile then turned to his companion in guilt, who
at this tibia was scarcely colitcious, and puts
tiny; his arm around her, kissed her. Bath
then declared themselves ready to die, and the
signal being given, the Sheriff touched the
spring IA 1 the souls of the guilty couple were
launched into eternity. Fife fell straight down
ind died without a struggle; but Charlotte's
death was less easy. and fuUy ten minutes
elapsed ere the pulsations of her heart ceased.
Fife's heart ceased to beat within five minutes
from the time-the drop fell.
Fife's appearance ou the rtilows +littered' but
little front that•which he preigeted 'while in
prison. Ile wore the same clathiinsostnd, hut
appeared to have dressed with gresterleare.—..
Charlotte W 45 attired in her ordinary clothing,
and wore over ull a huff colored shrood. She
seemed haggard and pale, and looked the real
personification of mi+•ery.
=ms
Drowniog of Three, Chiaien. , —Wo
learn from the York (Pa.) • itertfhttiabt•
that cm Tuesday afternoon fivechildren
—three boys and two girls—who were
returning home from school in Man
chester township, ventured upon the
ice on the Codorns, but, it not being of
sufficient thickness to beer their weight,
four of the number Uroko through, mid
before assistance could be rendered
three bt them were drowned. The fifth
child,' a little girl, gave the alarm to
some yonng men from York who were
fishing near by r (ameng whom ems Mr.
Henry Hablcy,) %%lib hastened to the
rescue or the children. Mr. littMey, at
the risk of his own life, with much diffi
culty succeeded in bringing the Other
little girl safely to shore. Two of those
who perished were sons of a Mr. Baylor,
and the other a son of Mr. Philip Lehr.
Steagioe' rt Explosion—FY/teen or Tuff*
tg 'Lives Los t.—lntelligotwo has boon
received that the boilers of the steam
boat 'Magnolia, bound to Fayetteville.
exploded while at Whitehall. Fifteen
or twenty persons were killed. ()ply
lbw of the - Ix:4les have been recovered.
Fire at n School-House at Ilirtford.-
11ARTFORD, Co nn., Feb. 1(3.—.1 tire broke
ont in the North Middle school house
in this city, during the session of the
school-this f,renoon. Tho fire was (bi
covered coming up through the floor in
the first department. No great dam
age was done. In the various depart
meats about four hundred scholars
wore dismissed, and no one was hurt,
though the panic was great.
Arrest o f a Supposed ifurdererSin
gitletr Charge.—W AS H N GTON ,f-9146 . 16.—t
Last night Officer Mellen g arrested
W. Herring alias - W.• F. Borten, sus
pected of being Itcredith, the murderer
of U. F. Robertson, of Winchester,
Tenn., about Christmas. Subsequent
information induces the belief that the
same person followed Gen.
with
and his party from Kansas with nefari
ous designs. He has been committed
for further examination, rir until the
receipt of information from Tennessee.
Col. Carpenter, of Chicago, has
. been
retained by Gen. Calhoun to asmatia
the prosecution.
Fatal Accident at Tamaqua—Tiro Mut
Suffocated in a Coal Mine.—TAXAQI74I.•
Feb. 18.—J. Edward Barnes, anpeinial,.. —
tendont of the Little Schuylkill sy
gation-and Railroad Co., and Daihow
`Pier, mine agent, were saffocate4.l44 ,
mine, a short distance from this
yesterday afternoon, by thegas.
bodies were taken ontabont , teno r
last night,
sbugoi
iiiirWe noticed in 4' 4
.
Herald, last week, OW) A nkill4
James A. Doyle was preset-cited. p set
kneeling in prayer daring njWaiiiii.
ercrisee in ei chars:4 .sto that, ; Aliksid.-
fined 111 and costa. : , ) . -
'3801.3.. , 41.1:8a5tabigr;6
ihister, died at ChambersbeirSt.oB4;
the 4th hut.
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