„Igit CompilEr.
H. Jr. Illudile, g4litor .*d Pr•prietor.
- - -IM'TTYSBUBG, PA
ond&y Morning, April 28, 1858
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
JOOGI OP SCPRECII Cork?,
WILLIAM A. PORTER, of Philadelphia
CANIL coloms:orsg,
WISTLEY FROST, of Fayette eonnty
lirTho Legislaturo adjourned last
Thursday.
if Both Houses paused the new
Liquor Bill. We will endeavor to give
It in our next.
The Canal Board Abolished.—A bill
lass passed both branches of the Legis
lature abolishing the Canal Board.—
The present Commissioners will remain
hr office until the Ist of July to settle
the business. The nomination of
WISTLIT FROST has proved an empty
honor.
Mount Vernon.—lt is stated that the
sale of liionnt Vernon to the Ladies'
Mount Vernon Association has been
made, and $lB,OOO of the purchase mon.
oypaid in cash. Mr. Washington re
tains possession - until a payment of
•76,000 is made, which will probably
take plsoe in a few months.
• "lifirTtis President has appointed, and
f~fitsw•ool/finned, Hon. John Cad
..bider dijudgo of the Eastern Dia
*rise Mori of Pennsylvania, vice Judge
Mine, deceased.
Gone into Liquidation.—The comp
troller of Tennessee announces that the
foliOring free banks have gone 'into
liquidation, and that their circulation
will bo redeemed out of the trust funds
in his bands, viz : Bank of Paris, Bank
of Commerce, Bank of Jefferson, Bank
of Trenton and Bank of Tazewell.
The Telegraph —A proposition is be
fibre Congress to lay a telegraph wire
under ground from some point of exist
ing telegraphic communication in Mis
souri to the head quarters of the army
in Utah, and to be continuer) to Salt
Lake City as speedily as the army
moves .
mes in that direction. They propose
to lay such wire in one hundred days
for the sum of five hundred thousand
dollars. The work can be executed,
With the aid of a machine, it is said, as
Ault as a common ox team can travel.
Western Maryland Railroad Compa
liy.-Jbe suit instituted by this compa
ny to determine its power to recover
subscriptions to its stock, will be argued
in Frederick to-day, before Judge Ngl
son. IThe stockholders mot at West
minster on Friday, to adopt measure&
to ensure the early completion of the
road.
The Burdell Murder.—?ho editor t of
the Detroit Advertiser says that he has
learned confidentially of new develop
ments which warrant the supposition
that the perpetrator of the Burdell mur
der will soon be disclosed.
Nirßrigham Young is a terrible fel
low—to talk. The latest news from his
seraglio is, that if the U. S. troops did
lkotievactune the territory by the 10th
of Ua.roh, he would annihilate them all.
But then Brigham made the same threat
Once or twice before—yet Col. Johnston
(we hive no doubt,) " still lives."
Public Defaulters.—The State Treas
urer, a few days ago, sent to the two
HOSIdi of the Legislatnre, a list of the
public defaulters, with the balance due
the commonwealth by each, up to the
let of February, 1858. The entire list
embraces three hundred and ninety-four
prothoootaries, marshals, sheriffs, col
lectors, superintendents, registers, trea
surers,4te.,who arein default to the tune
of half a million of dollars !
iA retired merchant of Hartford
acknowledges the receipt of $l5O by let
ter, dated and post-marked Now York
city. It was sent for the purpose of
slaking restitution by a sinner recently
redeemed from his iniquity. If the
0, great awakening " produces such
fruits, we trust it will progress until it
resebes several individuals who owe us
restitution. -
RIPN. P. Willis is said to belying
issrioasly ill at Idlewild. A bilious
lover, and a return of his old trouble of
the lungs, have combined in a prostra
tion, against which his usual active re
sistance to disease- has succombed for
th• present.
WIPThe LegiaLaSure of Maryland has
pissed an act providing for taking the
ism elite people upon the expediency
greening a nouveau= to frame a new
Oeiditetion.
eirliorth Carolina, as wall a; irir
its** asel, 'Maryland, are sending in
malvanisof the wheat crop.
irefilaer has been artestad lu
rtleakiarzed with the mar•
tar last fall.
The New Kansas boa.
The Black Republicans--Of Kansas
held a Convelition lately,,:at Leaven
worth, and adopted a new teeustitution.
This precious instrument 17eccgrliacs the
white man as the equal of the
_negro,
for which white men everywhere ought
to be extremly thankful. It is a great
point gained—it shows the progress of
liberal ideas among the Bream Ruf
fians, when they admit that a white
man is as good as a negro. If the Carr-
TOWN', and MOSTGONTST movement
has effected this great change in the
sentiments of the Kansas abolitionists,
then we must admit that the fag ends
of facti.ons in Congress have worked
together for good. The new Constitu
tion permits white men to vote at the
same elections and in the same ballot
boxes with negroes. So, at least, it is
stated by the Leavenworth correspond
ent of the free-soil organ at St. Louis.
We believe white men are eligible
_to
office too. It is gratifying to know
that such liberal sentiments are taking
root with the opposition. If length of
years is vouchsafed to us, we may hope
to live to see it expressly declared in
the National Platform of the Kansas
shrieking party, that "a white man is
as good as a nigger, if he behaves as
well." We are the more encouraged
to hope for this recognition of the
claims of the white man to respect,
from the Kansas shriekers, because Mr.
DouoLes has connected himself with
that party, and we remember he said
in his Springfield speech that in the
North he preferred the white man to
the negro, and in the South he preferr
ed the negro to the alligator. Mr.
DOUGLAS' esteem for the white man has
diminished a little since be made that,
but we trust be still entertains enough
•respect for his former opinions to induce
him to insist that the new political or
ganization shall be made up of no worse
material than half negro, 'half alligator
and the balance white man :—Chambers
burg Spirit.
Greeley's Platform.
The West, Chester Jeffersonian says:
—The great leader of Abolitionism,
Free-Loveism, &c., has recently pro
claimed through his Tribune a high ad
miration for all Democrats who will
oppose the Administration's Lecomp
ton policy. Be has laid doim a new
platform—a now plan of operations—
whereby ho hopes, with the co•opera
tiou of Democrats and Know Nothings
with the Black RepubHeaps, to crush
out the .National Democracy. What
think you of the association, fellow-
Democrats? Read what he says, and
then think' of the repulsive association
here assigned you. We ask every sin
cere Democrat to consider Greeley's
programme and shun the vile crew as
they would a pestilence. Who in this
broad land has heaped viler abuse upon
the distinguished Senator from Illinois
than this same Greeley?—who has more
bitterly - denounced the great principles
for which we all contend? The Tri
bane has been the guide and text of
myriads of stamp orators and. pigmy
newspapers in their villifications of
Democratic men and measures, and in
advocacy of Niggerism in its worst
forms. But now this same champion is
ready to vote for anti-Lecompton Dem
ocrats—not only that—but he looks
upon them as " brethren." And in re
turn for this brotherly feeling, he ex
pects the anti-Lecompton Democrats in
Repnblican districts to co-operate in
returning Republicans. Isn't it a flat
tering prospect for those Democrats
who are opposing the Administration ?
Friends, do you see where it is leading
you ? And the use the Black Republi
cans design to make of you hereafter ?
Doesn't it clearly demonstrate that
your enemies are trying to create a
lead for their own' advancement alone,
and for your final overthrow ? Read
Greeley's views and judge of his mo
tives
"Henceforth, to the end of this
struggle, we know all who resist the
imposition of the Lecomplon fraud in
Kansas as brethren, while we i regard
those who uphold that fraud as deadly
enemies. Politically, the champions of
that fraud are our enemies; its oppo
nents are our friends. We shall urge
the re-election of every Democratic or
American member of Congress who re
sists the Lecompton fraud to the bitter
end and then declares himself the de
termined and persistent adversary of
its authors and abettors, as demanded
alike by fidelity to Principle and to the
interests of Frziedom. Wherever a
Democrat or an American in Congress
evinces hostility to 'the Lecompton
fraud to the etd, and to its contrivers
and endorsers thereafter, we urge eve
ry Republican in his district to give his
voice-and vote for that, member's re
i election. We believe the anti-Lecomp
ton Democrats and Americans in Ile--
publican districts will be prepared in
due time to co-operate in returning Re
publicans, and mat thus the next Con
gross will be sure to pruish any wrong
which may be driven through this; but,
be this as it may, we urge that every
earnest and persistent anti-Lecompton
Democrat or American in this Con
j gress be returned to the next. They
will there •be sure to find themselves
in excellent and abundant company.
The New Party Mope aent.—The plat
form adopted by the advocate* of a new
party ander the auspices of Greeley
Co., which gives to the negroes of Kan
eas the right.to vote on the adoption of
the new constitution, does not seem to
meet with the eclat, expected. A gen
oral musmur of disapprobation prevails,
and the movers vrilkellseove• r, very soon,
that' the • settbilsinnent of a System
pnotiptantalfigNi4an is t. 41 141 4 11 Pr
bliriasaima will *Om tolerated.
Know Trot/tinging in Dnittmoro.
W. copy the following from the Bal
timore San, to show how the Know
Nothings carried the election in that
city last fall. It is a most revolting
` picture, and leaves no wonder that a city, ruled and governed by such a-par
' ty, is the daily scene of murder, rob
bery, riot and ruffianism :
Maryland thnteated Election.— Third
Congressional DidiTlCi.—We hare receiv
ed a public document containing the
papers in the contested election case of
the third congressional district, Wm.
Pinkney Whyte contestant against J.
Morrison Harris, contested. The mat
ter is presented at length, occupying a
volume of three hundred and twenty
large octavo pages. It comprises the
letter of Mr. Whyte announcing his in-
I tention to contest the election ; the re
ply of Mr. Harris, and other prelimina
ry papers. Then follows the testimony,
which includes the statements and par
ticular examination of one hundred and
forty-four witnesses, conducted before
!Justices Hugh J. Morrison, Daniel E.
!Myers and John McAlister. The ex
amination seems to have been conduct
ed invariably by Mr. Whyte in person
and on the part of Mr. llama by Mr.
H. J. Gittings, Ilk counsel.
We have looked through a considera
ble portion of the testimony, with a
view of making some selections for
publication, but we might take a ran
dom, anywhere, and it would afford a
revolting exhibit of the nature of the
whole. The volume is,
ip fact, a re.
cord of the most shamel ess and audaci
ous violations of law, public order, the
rights of suffrage and decencies of soci
ety, that any official document presents
in the United States. It betrays a
systematic) and persistent fraud at tho
several polls thus laid bare terpublie in
spection, and if we are to infer, from
the manner in which the system was
carried out in practice in the lower
wards, the same sort. of thing in the up
per, we mast confess that the aggregate
majority of the sitting memberslur Bal
timore is really the best evidence extant
of the extreme moderation of the Amer
ican party at the congressional election.
For instead of 7.000 for Mr. Davis and
3,000 for Mr. Harris,' it would only
have been at the cost of a little snore
effort to have doubled the majority in
each case.
The evidence establishes beyond con
troversy the exclusion at will of natur
alized citizens from the polls; the de
termination to do this; the atrocious
manner in which it was done; the de
liberate connivance of the regular po
lice; the outrage and violence commit
ted against, individuals • the daring
frauds by which the ballot boxes were
crowded with illegal votes- '
the perver
sion of the ballot by striped tickets, and
in short, a history of wrongs so great
as to justify the unqualified assertion,
that the civil and political rights of the
people were utterly subvert ail by organ
ized ruffianism, throughout the whole
mockery of the election of the 4th of
November.
A. considerable portion of the testi
mony is that of well-known citizens,
men of undoubted character, some act
ing officially, -and .some of the most
striking facts are elicited from members
of the American party also acting offi
cially. The tone of the whole volumin
ous record is the 'same from beginning.
to .end, and the reiterated assertions el
the witnesses, togetbor with the ov
erwhelming testimony iadirrct to the
fact that it was not "possible t'ar thu
people of the District, at that election,
freely and fairly to express their choice
for a representative to congress." Thy
record is a sad commentary upon our
boasted civilisation and political fiber
ties, fur the conclusion is irresistible,
that no despotism could more effectual
ly disfranchise a people, and in a man
ner more humiliating t han the Demo
cratic party of Baltimore were disfran
chised by mob law at the last Congress
ional election.
The New Jersey Democracy.
The Democrats of New Jersey bore
themselves with true gallantry in their
recent town elections. In Morristown
the Democratic ticket had 76 majority.
In Hoboken the Democrats elected
their Mayor and a majority of the AL
dermen. In Beverly they elected their
entire ticket, with the exception of one
Councilman. In South Brunswick they
were also successful, and in all strong.
holds of Abolitionism they reduced the
opposition majorities.
Mir Several men of Wealth in New
York, Baffalo, and Chicago, (says the i
"Movement," a new paper just started
in New York,) have it in contemplation
to establish somewhere in the west a
Leviathan Farm, of from 100,000 to
200,000 acres. Their object is to do for
agricultare, by the use of combined
wealth and the power of machinery,
what has been done in the past half
century, by the railroad and factory,
to snpercede the old stage coach, and
the spinning wheel. They will organ
ize the vast tract into two rivalised
establishments, with a military organi
zation of labor, gigantio machinery to
plow, plant, reap and render harvests,
vast herds of horses, sheep and cattle
of the most select stock, and the culti
vation of fruit and grains on a grand
scale.
A Railroad Tunnel ThrougA a City.
—lt it stated that the leading railroad
men connected with the principal rail
roads running into Philadelphia wore
before the Legislature of Pennsyl
vania asking an act of incorporation
for uniting all the railroads in the cen
tre of that city. It is proposed to do
this by tunneling one of the streets,
from the Schuylkill to the Delaware,
and having a central passenger depot,
into which all the lines of railroad con
verging to that city shall oome under
ground.
spa terrible storm of saki and
wind passed over Auburn, Ain., on the
1.1. th inst., destroying property to aim
sidenade extent.
imrStraw berxias ass . ipolliag at A.
rota, Aar, al 1141 ingits per rairt -
NAM AND ?I►AQT.
"r 0 wou.D Lx ♦ arrr $11114."
Good morning, reader
The journals of the West team with an
nouncements of the flonrishing condition of
the coming crops. The same is the case in
England.
—Mr. George N. Morton, (Democrat) hsa
been elected Mayor of Hoboken.
The trial of the tiro McKibbins, for an
attempt to kill Mr. Craig, at Chambersharg,
some months ago, GMe on lathe Court at that
place week before last, but nobody appeared to
prosecute, ands noLle prosequi was entered by
order of Court.
Counterfeit five dollar gold pieces are in
circulation. They are well executed and can.
not well be detected, except by weighing. We
are not afraid of being cheated in that way.
Mr. Frederick Kammether, of Indiana,
Pa., was shot a day or two ago by a tenant of
his named Baker, from whore he demanded Lis
arrears of rent. Baker settled the cue by kill
ing the landlord, whose age was about 60.
L Slaven, a youth, convicted of high
way robbery, at Columbia, S. C., and sentenced
to death, has had his sentence commuted to 44
lashes and banishment from the State.
Rev. Dardel Webb, now a resident of
New Bedford, Mats., and who reached his alet
birthday on the 17th inst., is believed to be the
oldest Methodist minister in this country.
The revival interest bas extended to vit
riol:. parts of Canada. In Montreal, prayer
meetinQs are held three times • dal, and are
largely attended.
The New York Senate ha's passed a bill
to provide for a convention to amend the State
coistitntion.
Capt. Simples, of the topographical en.
&etre, Gov. Powell and IN. Ncenllough, the
Utah peace commissioners, arriired in St. Louis
on the 16th.
Being determined to introduce myself.:l
walked up, hat in hand, and said, with a re
spectful bow, "Mr. Charles Lamb, I believe."
Id Y-e-s," said Lamb, slowly, feeling and coax
ing at the same time his short, thin, gray whis
kers, "yes—they call me Lamb yet, err I A*
OLD 115000 R TO Di A surer."
Mr. Samuel Wright, a farmer, who residas
in Washington county, Pennsylvania, has
eighteen children, one hundred and eleven
grandchildren, and one hundred and seventy
fon r great-grandchildren. His wife, too, Is still
living.
A couple of the members of the Philar
delphia Agricultural Society, at a late meet,-
Ing, gave it as their opinion, that bone dual
was a more valuable manure than Peruvian
Guano; that the latter was too stimulating for
permanent value.
It is said that many citizens of Monterey,
California, petitioned the Governor for the par
don of Joe Anastasia, recently hang for mur
der, as he was the only fiddler in the town, and
they could not carry on their fandangos with
out him !
Spare moments are like gold duet or
time. Of all portions ofonr life, spare moments
are the most fruitful in good or evil. They are
the grips through which temptations find the
easiest access to the burden of the soul.
"Look oat fer paint," u the girl said
when the fellow went to kiss her.
The Black Republican papers tell us that
it costs tour millions of dollars per annum td
keep the United States troops in Kansas, to
preserve public order. Yet they would gladly
prolong the squabble until the next Presiden
tial election, be the cost what it may.
A young naval officer, when asked what
period of battle was most appalling, replied:
"Tile few bashed moments when they sprinkle
the deck with and, to drink the human blood
yet nn3hed."
Mrs. Turner, wife of Rev. Mr. Turner,
while riding in a buggy with her husband re
cently near Palmetto, Ga., was instantly killed
by a kick from the horse.
Rho, accordingto Shakespeare, was the
greatest edleken butcher t Claudius, "who
did murder most rots. 1"
A company of sappers and miners, six
ty-four in number, under the command of
Capt. Duane and Limit. Alexander, left West
Point on the first of April for the Utah War.
A serious epidemic somewhat resembling
typhoid fever is prevailing at the University of
Virginia. Quite a number , of the students have
died and many more are sick.
j ..... Why are gloves generally unsaleable
Ulnaee they are kept on hand.
At Springfield, Mass., a lady seat the
following volunteer tout:
" Bruen old bachelors—tbe area Gasses of
society."
wiiratt religious jocirnal in Europe
brags over the oonversjon to its faith of
"three duchesses, ode marchioness, two
countesses, eight right honorable ladies,
ten baronets, two archdeacons, eighty
five clergymen, and two hundred and
seventy-two distinguished members of
the aristocracy." In order to enhance
the value of these conversions, the or
gan observes that " titles in England
are not usurped by the premier venue,
as they are in France. They are, there
fore, real countesses and viscountesses."
All this may be gratifying to the ad
mirers of aristocracy in the church, but
we presume the reclamation of the same
number of poor miserable sinners
would be equally, if not more, pleasing
to the God of all. It is quite probable
that the souls of beggars will rank as
high in heaven as those of duchesses,
marchionesses, &e.
Caution.—There never have, at any
time, been so many counterfeit knd
altered Bank notes in circulation as at
present, many of which are /SO well ex
ecuted, as to defy the closest inspection.
We would advise our subscribers to ex
amine all large notes with care, and
not depend wholly upon any Bank Note
Reporter, as Bank Notes are being
altered and counterfeited daily, in some
part of the country, and therefore are
issued before they are known to be in
existence by any Detector.
Taloa Deetroyed.—lt is reported that
a hurricane passed over the town of
Bertonville, Arkansas, on the 27th ult.,
blowing down nearly all the houses,
and killing 25 persons,--s great
_num
ber were wounded.
1/11Kohe Liggett, Esq., has been ap
pointed Postmaster :0 Chambersborg,
in place of John Noel, when commis.
lion expired *wing the present mouth.
Aritsnr. DudLey A. Tyog died U
INladelphiaos 110041/7
• Pantie* f Ulla&
Mee fir, Lasvereeprilh Daly pr.)
Rich Revelations.—Whilst the consti
tutional convention was in session, a
spirit of revelation, at ono time, was
manifest. If they had continued in
session a short time longer, we feel sat
isfied that we woutu have learned where
all the funds for "bleeding Kansas"
carne from, and " whar " they went to.
In 'course of debate Mr. Fish, a mem
ber of the convention, and a member of
the Topeka legislature, regaled us with
the following within his own knowledge:
Fir j st. That two thousand dollars
had boon subscribed in Burlington,.
lowa, for the good of the cause, to be
subject to Governor Robinson's order.
Second. Two thousand dollars had
been subscribed in Quincy, Illinois, for
tho same purpose, and subject to the
same gentleman's order.
Third. That the Hon. Henry Wilson ,
senator senator of the United States from the
ommnwealth of Massachusetts, had
f rnished the funds to pay tho expenses
o the Topeka legislature.
o this third item of revelation we
call particular attention. What &pity
for "suffering humanity" that Mr.
Fish was not allowed to. made a clean
breast of it !
Jair‘The followitig is from the Herald
of Freedom of Hatch 27, 1858 :
41 Lane says the passage of that swin
dle will not maku a ripple on the sur
face nf Kansas affairs. Moore says
we have a majority in the legislature
under the swindle, and we will use that
powet to establish a good government.
The Herald of Freedom says lit will
not create civil war,' and the people
say Amen ! And yet a class of fanati
cal journals, defeated in every measure
they have advocated in Kansas., are now
seeking to fight free-State men unless
they will join in a:revolutionary move
ment 'against thu government. If a
certain clads of journals in this Territory
could have their own way,- one month
would not intervene until .Kansas would
again be cursed with civil war. We
auk those who desire the restoration of
civil liberty to the people of Kansas
iiinnediately—witbout war, without
revolution, without deluging our Terri
tory blood —to %chew such journals."
Decline of the Anti-Slavery Sentiment.
It iii very evident from numerous in
dications which meet the eye that a
very decided decline in the anti-slavery
sentiment is taking place throughout
the northern SLAWS. The National,
Era, an anti-slavery journal published
at the. federal capital, not long Vince
confes►ed that its circulation had fallen
off ono-half of late It is well known
at our , post office that the anti-slavery
organ of our country parts,the Weekly
Tribune, has lost-quite as large a share
of its :subscription list. This is also
manifest from the piteous appeal which
it makes to its friends to come to its
aid and advertise its columns at half
price. No journal. doing a good busi
ness or with an increasing circulation
would show evidence of such weakness
in the knees at this.
The 'late elections tell the same story
in the extraordinary diminution of the
anti-slavery. vote. The truth is that
the people of the' free States, the agri
cultural, oommercial,. and manufactur
ing chi/ides, have grown tired of the
anti-slavery humbug; and want to hear
no more of it. The late revulmion first
diverted their thoughts from the sub
jects And now the • religious reviVals,
which , have no a4i-slavery nonsense
about them, are another evidence of the
disfavor into which tho nigger feeling
has fallen among thoseTious and godly
classes who have been heretofore its
warmest friends. ,In two or three
years it is not unlikely th • t anti-slavery
journalism in the Ijor will have ex
pired of inanition. • York !Jerald.
Bale of the State .0
The bill to sell the State Canals to
the Sudbury. and Erie Railroad Compa
ny passed finally through both bran.
elms of the Legislature on Saturday I
last. Lt had previously passed the
House, but being amended by the Sen
ate, it had to go back td the House for
the concurrence of that body in the
Senate amendments. It was opposed
in the House by Mr. WILL and supptkt
ed in the Senate by Mr. BRZWER.
The hill to sell to the Sunbury and
Erie Company underwent many and .
great alterations before its final passage.
It was made much better fur the Com
monweaith than when first reported.
The State is expressly exempted from
liability for the bonds issued by the
Company; the_payments are more ef
fectually secured to her; and in the
event of the Company making sale of
the Canals, seventy-five per cent. of the
amoun tlhereby realized over and above
the pride set on the works in the bill,
is to be paid into the Treasury of the
Commonwealth. These alterations have
done away with the leading objections
we urged against the bill when it was
first reported in the House—objections
growing out of the inadequacy of the
prim, the insufficiency of the security
and the liability of the Commonwealth
to be held responsible for the bonds.—
Cliambersburg Spirit.
Yr. Reilly's Speech.
The Democratic papers of this Con
gressional district are warm in their
commendations of Hon. WiLsoN REM
LY'II speech on the Kansas question.
We have, too, heard it highly spoken
of by intelligent and prominent mem
bers of our party outside of the district.
Mr. liazz,Lv'i3 course is cordially approv
ed by the people who elected him, and
he will receive their enthusiastic sup
port at the next election. The spirit
that animates our party was shown by
the grea t
, gathering at the Court-11mm
on Tuesday evening of last week.—
Chu mbersburg i9p tit .
Army Orders.—Movements of Troops.
—A general order has been issued by
Lieut. General Scott, directing partic
ularly the movements of troops from
the barracks of Newport, Jefferson and
Cazlisle, and from forts Columbus and
Randall, for Utah, at the earliest-no
tice. General Smith is appointed •to
the command of the department of
,Utah, sad Brig. Generals Harney and
Johnston to . command according to
their brevet ranks.—Col. Lee succeeds
to the oottuallnd of the department of
the Week.
War-Abundantly manifest—The " un
certain glory' of April weather during
the past week. •
airGissehoppers, it is said, have ap
peitred in swarms in some sections of
/Ow's.
I0b31)& eogiq
Celli tot Doings
The Court was occupied with busi
ness throughout the entiro week, inelud
ing several night sessions. President
Judge FisliEa and Associates ZazoLta
and WrEamAN on the Bench.
The contested Will case, involving
the validity of an instrument offered
for Probate u the Will of George
Groupe, sea., occupied the time of the
Court up to Thursday morning, when
it was given to the Jnry, who, after an
hour or more of consultation, rendered
a verdict in favor of Plaintiff—sustain
ing the Will.
In the case of Sebastian Kremer
against James C. Haswell, for malici
ous prosecution of criminal process and
false imprisonment, the jar' , retarned
a verdict for plaintiff of $173 331 dam
ages and costs.
The following cases were disposed
of in Quarter Sessions :
Corn. vs. Jacob Jones—lndictment
for attempting to kidnap three certain
free negroes, to wit:—Daniel McGee,
George McGee, and John Bedding.—
Ignored by Grand Jury, and county to
pay costs.
Com. vs. Amelia McGee, Daniel Me.
Gee, at alias—lndictment for Assault
and Battery. Not a true Bill—proaa•
ontor, Jacob Jones, to pay costa.
Com. vs. Ferdinand Buck i ingham,
Philip Snyder and Joseph Tuckey—ln
dictment for attempt to kidnap Marga
ret Devid, a free colored woman.—
Grand Jury found a true bill. Process
awarded for arrest of defendants.
Com. vs. John Moyer—lndictment
for Larceny of pair Of Gloves from the
tavern of Joseph Barker, in Little&
town. Verdict Guilty. Sentenced to
one month imprisonment, pay costs, &e.
Com. vs. Wm. B. Wank—lndictment
for forging and passing a Check on
Bank of Gettysburg for . $215, purport
ing to have been drawn by Conrad Wee
nen Verdict Guilty. Sentenced to
one year's solitary confinement in the
Eastern Penitentiary, pay a fine of $lO,
and costs of prosecution.
Corn. vs. Jesse W. Bittinger—Adul
tery. Verdict Guilty. Defendant's
counsel filed a motion for a new trial.
Com. vs:Michael Po ugh t--Assaul t and
Battery. Verdict Not Guilty. Prose
cutor, Jesse W. Bittinger, to pay costs.
Com. vs. Michael Pough,t—Surety of
Peace. After hearing of partiei, the
Court ordered Defendant to pay coats:
Tavern licenses were granted as
follows:
Geo. W. McClellan, Gettysburg; Har
vey D. Wattles, do.; John L. Tate, do.;
Benjamin Shriver, do.; Micbs.el Hoff
man, Berwiok Borough; Henry Koeh
ler, do.; John A. H: Rather, Butler;
Francis Bream, Cumberland; John
Busbey, Conowago; Isaacs F. Byers,
Franklin; David Goodyear, do.; Jacob
or, do.; Henry litickhoy, do.; Mary
Brough, do.; Henry Mulish° wer, do.;
Hezokiah Latshaw, do.; Henry Bitner,
do.; Josoph Barker,German3-, PeterLin
gen fel tor, do.; Israel Yount, do.; Henry
Hoffman, Hamilton; William White, do.;
Peter Sohively, Hamiltonban; Reuben
Stem, do.; Wm. McMilan, do.; Mary
Hildebrand, Huntingdon; -John D.
Becker, do.; Conrad Moul, Latimoro;
Charles Myers, Monallon; Mary Brough,
Monntpleasant; 'Elizabeth Miley, Ox
ford; Jacob Martin, do.; John A. Dicks,
Reading; Jacob L. Grass, Straban; Ja
cob Sanders, do.; John Bokenrode, Ty
rone; Allen M. Cook, Abraham
Sell, Union; Peter Long, do.
Sore Licenses—John Yost, Mount
joy; John Robert, do.; Noel k Spalding,
Germany.
Eating House License.--• Leonard
Auxt, Gettysburg.
Collars mad Send awry.
At a meeting of the Board of Trus
t's:4lot Pennsylvania College,on Wednes
day week, the Hon. Moan McCLzAN
was elected President of the Board, in
the room of J. B. M'Pherson, Bag., de
ceased, and Gen. SIMWS Caximom a
Trustee of the College, in the room of
said deceased. Resolutions were unani
mously adopted by the Board, express•
ing their regret at the loss of so valua
ble a member as Mr. M'Phorson—as
follows:
The Board having received informa
tion of the death of •J. B. McPszasoN,
Esq., the late President of this Board,
and one of its first Patrons, ands faith
ful and valued friend of the Institution,
it was
Resolved, That, in the decease of Mr.
IdoPuzzaoa, this Board have lost a val
ued member, whose counsdls were al
ways wise and prudent, and this insti
tution one of its first friends, whose aid
was cheerfully rendered at all times to
advance its prosperity and reputation.
Resolved, That the Board sympathize
with the famly and friends of the de
ceased in their bereavement.
Resolved, That these proceedings be
entered upon the minutes of the Board,
and that the Secretary be directed to
furnish a copy of the same to the fami
ly of deimsed, and that they be pub
lished in the papers of the Borough.
There are in the Seminary at this
time twenty-six students for the min
istry. Of the more than one hundred
students in the College, forty-eight are
preparing for the ministry, making an
aggregate of seventy-four in both insti
tutions. The Seminary has already
sent forth three hundred ministers of
the gospel, who are laboring in va
rious parts of the world.
Ardis. the Court is Chambersburg
week &for* last, Cam= X. Dumas %
formerly-of Caatitown, in this county,
wan admitted to the practice of law 10
the moral Courts of. Ptaaklie•eeaaty.
Pas 11%, OmMOW.
EL auxin :—The following pratlibtal ques
tion sou handed to cos a few weeks ago. by 111
gentlemen,. and after furnisring him with •
solution, he intimated that it was incorrect is
part. It is by no moans dilScult to solve, yet
for the satisfaction of myself and the proposer,
I hope some one of your ruder* will furnish a
solution, and oblige 8.
A gentleman a daughter had,
Of beauty,very rare;
Through all the country far sad tear,
None could he found so kir.
Re offered her in marriage to
The person who could tall,
The fortune that she did possess, • - -
When he world state It all.
A tram of land, the soil beieggied,
She had unto her shire ;
Enclosed by fence just five mile high,
In shape the piece was square.
The palatal' each were ten feet lug,
Al you shall understand,
And every rail about the piece,
Enclosed lour roods of land.
Theicres and the rails the same,
As you will by this see;
At fifty dollars an unjust,
What would Its value be
April, 1858.
alltoeellismoome Its
I am composed of 29 letters.
By 1 18 28 2 la seen on the sea.
2 10 28 14 20 was the last King of Trey.
1 20 19 15 11 8 29 is a man's name.
4 22 36 is the Goddess of revenge.
- 5 3 26 29 is a part of a ship.
19 10 /2 4 10 11 1 is the fabled place of
punishment in the lower world.
7 14 16 8 17 is the place of departed ipiriti.
21 20 2 8 is a railer QM/Maly described
by poets as the most dellghtfdl {;Wt on
earth.
13 19 27 8 15 is a place of shelter.
16 21 4 22 131 a the entissttieu ante..
17 11 29 5 Is the body of bold ship.
20 14 10 17 is the God of war.
23 19 10 2 la a stringed isotsnakoat of
music.
24 4 10 29 Is a British title of aobility.
25 11 2 28 is one easily imposed ois.
27 3 15 11 1 is the Goddess of love.
28 15 is a prepositioa.
29 4 17 1 is the name of a young woman.
My whole is a motto that should be asiver:.
sally observed by all who wish to malatalo
dais dignity; , R.
~r Tits Ow.lter
1111110“lissesse asligase.
I art compbsad of 21 letters.
My 14 10 12 111 4is to goon In iseasiui. ,
15 4 17 5 is a well known frail..
2 17 15 is to undermine.
21 10 8 20 is a panU7.
1 4 13 5 is a taunt.
9 5 10 11 le is a bird.
I/ 3 7 is reserved.
19 10 5 /5 Is a ninsisal lasteuineal.
My whole is a delicious inanu. lii; $.
lee me 0404.
tirAitirwor to ?algwa .
1i bat wtoief Q.
Ilftnor thy rather and Illother7
401108,
IL 3. Slum; Iso.—Tbe following ip ply
solution of the Question published in you hist:
Each inan's daily ration 21 lbs. A. to* 34
lbs.; B. 40 lbs.; C. 55 lbs., total 130 lbs.
April, Isss. COIIIIOWAOO YUIXIIII.
tor The Tale of " The.Anchoret;" on
our Ilrst page, re-published from the
Saturday. Evening Post of 1830, at the
request of an old snlncriber to TAs
Compiler, will interest story-readers.
sir The Commissions for the Juitiete
of the Peace, elected at the last Sprit/
election, have been received by the
Register, and are ready to be handed
over to those entitled to receive them.
sirlce three-eights of an inch thick
this morning.
Stolunboata Burned-:Loss of Life:'-„
ST. Louts, April 22.—About 5 u'eltieii
this evening the steamboat Ocean Spray
was totally destroyed by fire, about
five miles above the city. Eight or 1.44
lives are supposed to be lust. Th.
burning boat floated against the steant
boat Keokuk, lying at the shore above
the city, and it was also totally destroy
ed. the Ocean Spray was valued at
$35,000, and was insured for $25,000 in
Pittsburg offices. The Keokuk was
valued at $35,000, and only $15,000 in
surance. •
Tho steamer Ocean Spray was ru
ing at the time with the steamer Ilan
nibal City. The fire caught, in conse•
quenee of throwing turpentine on the
wood immediately in front of the furna
ces. Last, night the steamer Star of
the West caught tiro and was oonsam
ed.
the Goat Reaping Machine Cast.—
The 11. S. Supreme Court on Thum:lay
decided the suit between the rival In
ventors McCormick and Manny, in 'fa
vor of Manny on every point. The
Washington Star says:
The ease involved several important
principles and a large amount of mon- -
ey. It was elaborately argued during
five days, with an unprecedented array
of working models and illustrations,
showing the operation of various -ren_p
ing machines in the. grain fielti.• The
decision is a very important Ona, as it,
effects all the manufacturers and nears
of reaping machines throughout the
country : . The case was originally tried
in the Circuit Court of Illinois, and de
cided by Judges ICU= sad Drum
mond in favor of Manny.—Mr. Jostles
Grier deliverd the opinion of the •Flu
preme Court, affirmin the former de
cision and dismissing McCormick's bat
with costs.
ferlion. Edward Everett's two o*-
tions in Charleston yielded $2,6 4 4-0
which $787 was distributed to two c6Mo►.'
table societicar, -and $1;904 to MOS
Vernon.
Flour hispector.—Gecs. 3: 16 4
Esq., recently appointed by Glst, v.
er, has entered 'upon the.
his duties.
:;.
sir Judge Stevens, the West
of Indianapolis, a brother of t '
Thaddeus litevens, died '
Monday evening.
Flour is said to be ~11...
Knoxville, Tenneseen t owifialit
and a half a sack ) or taree'dolliebtAw
barrel.
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sive market gnaw -
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