„ . iii.'iialthearel I be still further inereaeedir future ad ..... sf Baltimore hue ngain been .ditions, for the relief of famties of yen assassination, which, in officers Benton and In n, hith of 464 4 „Ispiptisee of the San, "mar well whotn were sacrificed by thezwilhins of iiiksatie the public oar and' thrill the !Baltimore, for a bimplo perbritninee Of "rObft Wart” of that ill-fated 3letrop.' their duty , • INIL ' facts in this deplorable trllge- A t l i , "pl 7 these ; and their mere aloft is etiongh to shock thu `fastint* fat all law and order loving A+<, without requiring comment or tl i Ziivirsion. on the '_id of Sep r lst, as officer Benton was con :lrving David Houck to the Station- Mono, ha ,Tras shot in the public b t rot. t b ikiiKTOSIMIt , mimed Henry Gen/hi:tit. . horn%cide was WftneSsed Ity oorp W. Rigdon, who upon ilia( of .the prisoner during 'the last 4y i -seleiceivas the principal wit t, esi flguir.St !tillif.ittionsoll. tiambrill was convicted 'IR*" murder in the tirst degree" on • Attlay,lakt s anti at abort eight o'clock psi thatatme ci - ocing, itir.,(lon was shot .Alesd in his own I . 2outze and within a few ilwafrotnius ,scife. The fallowing par tars arc given in the American, of rd!ty : "Officer Eigdr,n left the Western t allatign..ll9use fur his home, and was can. i ttoommi by Captain Lineweaver 'not to fikoiit,asthreats had been made against Isis life on account of the testimony he giyan in the case of Gambrill, to the effect that he should die ou the day that Gambrill was convicted. These piwati had also reached the ears of the lee It ailed, but he was unabld to trace giant to any direct source, and consul wad them as idle or drunken threats :ea:leaving the statlon•hol.e he pro-s" eoglied direct to his !lonic, and was in ad . Hning the store, 'talking to Lis wife at the tine of his "At the corner of the sitting room a ming' window opens into rho yard, and i licigdon was stauding and leaning ust ,the maatel piece, with his back to ~ ISO .lits wife w toi sitting on I tii9s)ther side 'of the room, and a little Viat child, which he had picked up to • trio street, was sitting oh the' carpet at Ki loot. The absat,siti ‘vent up a small A i * at the aide of the house, and with • large horse pistol fired at him through Vie window, a heavy lead of slugs en- Uriag his right Side and causing instant WNW He exclaimed only--‘1 am " . 149t,'--and fell dead onthe i?oor, ebased breathing after one heavy 'man:" 'A largo hers° pistol, with thi) deed was committed, was Icing iu the yard, immediately 'un tar the window. "Police officer John Cook was on the ,i)pri9 . B,ite side of Baltimore, street, and oaring the report of the pistol, started , Ilieross' t 9 .V.r. Itizdon's house, when a Man came running out of the side alley, . - a rovolver in his hand, and as offi • feo9k started to arrest him be fired i —r leo at him, neither of which took lot.. The' officer immediately drew = Ili evolver, and started in pursuit, fir._ ing twice at, thi: assassin as he ran tip Baltimore street. On turning the, cor ner of Pine street, the assassin and the Officer again exchanged shots without -. ,efect, - and continued the racoon to Perin street, when officer Cdok ,suceeedid in kiwi:king him down with" his pistol, and With the assistance of officers Jam - hion and .ifiggons, carried him to the 4itiori-houso. It proved to be Peter Corn°, a bufdher, residing on the ' .Wookstown road, and ay itssociato of Gitaibrill." or ,Corrio Ares arrested and tae • 45iVo Station-hoaso,lte made a fa11.c.0.n 7 . :feesion of the manner in which theas eassination had been committed. It :sippeare from his pa..atemeo_t that .he did not commit the deed himself; but that le remained at the mouth of the alley „ - on Itaitimoro street, whitgit ' Marion ..,Cropps went up the alley and fired the ini •, late!. A warrant was immediately • ed for the arrest of Cropps, and the i ,`.%,. yor emimitted Peter Corrie, ae'an v seeeisory to the murder, and also *barged with attempting the life *of 615- 1 .iser 'Coot. On examining the hat of - • iCorrio, it was found that one of the bul lets fired at him by offictr Cook, had passed through it, grazing his head. . • - The Mayor at 11 o'clock, proceeded in the' Middle Station, when officers -1111cComns and Carmichael brought in Marion Cropps, whom they had arrest - :ed at trasmus Levy's tavern. on Holli day street. Ile was brought before the .'Mayor and fully committed to jail on the charge of raiirder. This prisoner, • :)lissaid, came into the house ct _Higdon, i - jam*liately after the shooting, along • pritibilhe crowd attracted by the firing, And on seeing the body exclaimed, "l ' - woald like to go Jack Ketch for the who committed the deed," sad taming to officer Stinchcomb re • harked, ~ luig was a good fellgw—he -letten loaned me a quarter when I was • - bird tip." His conduct was such as to • - hareremored any suspicion %hat might - . 4theh.erise have attached to Him. It is . supposed that he quietly came out of leaving las weapon behind, -when °dicer Cook started in pursuit of Come. When arrested, he asked 'the • ;Accra the charge against him, and they nisde no reply —he then asked ifit was 'for Itobert Rigdon, arrd they told him that was the charge. . The scone in the vicinity of the Court Rouse, when Vie verdict in the Ganr • brill ease was rendered, was disgraceful .9n the extreme. It was with difficulty, Sea 'amidst great peril, that the ofh . cors - "Whro"enableci to conCzy the murderer prison. Several attempts were made 'jib mimeo the prisoner, and we learn ,that the person and residence - of the ling officer, Milton Whitney, , were threatened with violence and iT4... • erusve no comments to rnakle upon this fettrfal state of things. The time .. .akae come when the evils existing in 411Lat,city. must be cured,' or it must be - - oatiirely given over to tlie bravos and ;491111ans who have so long disgraced and .FeAradod Baltimore. It these evils con . liti• 10; it will be an easy matter to pre .japtike fate of that city. No matter 411 . 914responsible; . the result will be the t aarso.:ollche feet o' those, se, in other lee:hi , ties, vitiabase been accustomed to visit the Vairiumental City, will necessarlly -is turned in other directions. And ••itheh toile has been prostrated and blisibiesi;rielhitid, the safferers may pas -in-Ay find it 'imlesserrry, as the only -wept.: appearing. if :r own personal fie terise • • -:-• •-'rstrength 441 wa th-' , •• ' ,•,, are n `44arilbiek , and '•'• —• • them * 1 ' - '6ottatienf rie*a.v. -...'' • ' :, i:I.• ---) ....1,... _ ola 4,4; 4 , Atiato-...4E10i5e ttfolra a - dollars hat; sire*, p t,. ' - Baltimore, and tip aida will . .. A Baltimore. 31urflercr*.t first Vol! to Tra4tiagtilt.--Tlio Wn4l . lington Star in noticing the brutal murder of ofiteer Itigclun in Baltimore, by Mayion Cr9pps, StsVA : .Marion croppsi, the same person as "Mallory liropp„'`;‘lloliciu.lcd the web that at tnektsl the fourth ward polla in this City, in June. 1857, :irmed with a large tomahawk. which he brandished among the terridid voters in • a manner to'drieCtnan - y from the ground. Un der the List, mentioned o z one he was afterwards indicted by the grand jury here for being the riot of that .fay; but so far as we can :earn, no requisition was ever ,issued by the criminal court with a view td having him brought to trial, lie %%111 be recog nized by most of our citizens %who were present on the Oceanom ahoy.; referred to, who Rill never forget Lis billl-heau, short 7 eroppecl hair, - iron-toed boots, long legs, and the devilish weapon with which he clove his way among the legal voters of Washington, se-ate :mg, them before lam like so many affright rd sheep. The Rigdon Aturder.—The warder,of officer Higdon is *claiming littoo tion, and it is said that some new evi dence haecosnot.o,light that will involve a, naber of 'persons, other than .thoso an arrest, as acces.orios before.the fact, becausn of their haying had a knowledge of what was to-be done, and having Iletrills:As(' 'Led in the arrange. menta for tho commission of the mut.- ' der. 'pie facts in the matter, however, hare not been made public, nor will they bo until tho arrest of the parties implicated shall have been effected.— The weapon with which the murder was done had been sena before in the possession of Cropps. -A vigorous of fort is now making to ferret out all the parties connected in any manner with the horrible transaction.—Ball. Saa of I Friday. The Verdict on Locompton. It is fashionable now, since the OW : tions in Ohio, Pennsylvania ar me d Indi ana have taken place, and resulted dis astrously to the Demccratic party, to ascribe those reverses to rho course pur r sued by Mr. Buchanan and the p arty, last winter , in reference to the Kansas question. Lecomptonisin, it is said; was the rock upon which the Demo cratic vessel has been stranded, and hence that, it has been overwhelmingly repticliatpik by our. American people, and •thii resident. iad the National mop who bid stood by hipi on the great issue, signally , and irredeemably rebuk *di. Now; although, we eannotpretend to say to what extent this question en tered into the recent contests is the .c.nuierated above, yet wo are prepared to prove, and defy contradic tion, Oat if Dornocratic or Opposition majc,ritaes in the different States of the Union, furnish any index of public opin ion pa this subject, then has the posi tion cif Ape President and the party been triumphantly sustained and vindi cated. Since the passage of the English Corhpromise Bill, elections have occur red in the subjoined States, with the following results: Qpposit4n MO: Pennsylcauta, 28,000 Obio, 18,000 Maine, 8,000 lowa., 4,000 55,000 Itaijoritirs for L•eowpion, 219,500 Majorities against Lecompton, 55,000 - Majority is favor of Lecompton, 64 4 000 It may bo said in reply to this, that the States in which the largest majori ties have been given for the Democratic party, and hence for Lecompton, arc Southern States, and that, as an ex pression of popularopinion on this sub ject, they aro entirely worthless, and should not be taken into account.— Such an objection would Only prove-the In process of construction twelve cast-iro n objector to be an extreme ISycliOnaliat,! columns, said •to be the largest in the United and entirely ineOtnpOtent to take a I States. They are each fifty feet high, four feet broad- and comprehensive view, over- I two inches in diameter, weigh between two looking and embracing the entire court- and three hundred tons, and will cost about try. Was not the Kansas question a thirty thousand dollars. They ere designed national one, in which the interests and for the - State House In Madison, Wisconsin. honor of eyery section wore involved ? The State of Georgut has over twelve !Inn .,.*.±To one can be national, conservative dred miles of-Railroad built, and what is more and Constitution-loving, unless he pays i extraordinary, 15sId for • which yield to the a proper respect, and giver, duo weight i stockholders more than an average of seven to the public sentiment of every section, Der cent. in yearly dividends. Two hundred of the Union ; and it will be It da'rk and i • - additional roads arc to be added dur i-intfi nous day for the country, if it should tn„es of happen that, through the popular . ing the coming swan. The . Harrisburg union says that immediate should be elevated to the Presidency, 15. hound, by the madness of the hour, o to tle Supreme Bench, the Telegraph of that place flout and to scorn any part of the Un- I started the story that there wore elm app. ion*, in defiance of the Constitution and i cants for are place vacated by Judge Porter.— the laws, which protect and shield all; al course the statement was not true. It has alike. been circulated by the press until the number has increased to ONE BrIDAID AND FIFTY. The truth is, there were no applicants for the po- The C'ontested Seats in the Ne.rt C'on g'rem,—Amor J. Williamson, American, will contest the right of Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, democrat, to represent the third districtof Now Yolk in the thirty sixth Congress. Governeur democrat. wik join issue with Hon. John B. Husk in , anti-Leeotripton, if.the latter succeeds in getting file certificate for the right to represent the Fjj nt h dis trict of that State. John W. Ryan, republican, denies the claims of Hon. Thomas B. Florence, democrat, to the seat of the first district' 6t* Pennsflva nia. Alfred ‘V. JelTson, democrat, will endevor to show better° tho next House of Representatives that he is bet ter entitled to speak and vote for the third district of Maine than Ezra B. French, republican, who has recered the certificate 'of election. Francis ?. .I . 3lf t lir, Jr., repuhlienn, has announced that he stands ready to prove that his ,ciponent, J. R. Barrett, - democrah in the first district of 3lissouri, was elected by frand,'anil on that ground ho will claim the scat. - Eiroti:on of J. B. Haakin.--iitTzw YORK, Nov. official result of tile oleo do in thc 9th Coogresaional district was lecia,red this af4irooon—John B. liaskm is elected . by 13 !majority. serß.r. Tao Brarat' *pp krbari r tor ran Tare a& *arket,Entland t sgainat Countliatbbyatly's bona 17m pad, tjte.oarnartsittio 4b4ir rrapar4irt t•Amt. Barbarity was. tiee!attil the E3l winner JAI" Opp,4ion !tax this ?ears 1 I "!acts are ISlOUra.tikiaga; The Reading Oazette is not. alc t no As the Star managers for the the opinion-that .thilliiresent_atteuess of tilousandth time "disoprited their the Opposition will ,by no mbnns inure confusion ar.d discomfiture. Though to their ndvantage in the futUre. Men ~they seek to escape trom the difficulty ,of eiperiencii and foresight, among that banner" has gotten thorn' into their own number, who have seen too by making ugly mouths at tho editor mnik of the mutations of modern poll— of the Compiler, their course is nt least a tics to be carrie . i.l away by. a passing tacit acknoslodornent Odle truth of All triumph, achieved upon ;fumes esseuti- we s'nid about it. They have discover transient, take the same view of, ed that we are poste4—enn PR O VE what tho matter, and look forward to 18GO .we have assorted—AA hence their in ,no sanguine mood. Fur example, shirking of the whole home by a resort the Washington correspondent of the to abuse, such as the managers have North American, a political writer ofex- become conspicuous fur—cool, brazen' I' tensive information, ac- faced, truthless and vulgni. Chit-Chot. - • • • curate judgment, expresses his appre- The effigy-burning affair at Benders 1010411re would remind our readers that , hensions for the future of his party, in , Tulle has placed them in a diffiCtalty (VI Thursday next, the 18th inst., is the day ret apart by the Chic) Magistrate of Ppinaylvania, the fdllowing desponding sf,rain,.w,hich,' the same character, bat of bigherik sidering that ho wrote in .the midst gree. They know outrage wns,com and recommended to all the inhabitants, to be e° " observed as a flay of Thanksgiving, Prayer and tif the rejoioings Of 1119 co-laborers over milted, as stated in dose. al9tunine ; but, Praise to Almighty Cod. the `,‘ gicl.r,i9lM3 news" from New York,' something must bo done to break its' The latent returns indicate the elec . - i lassaeliu,,joits, New lersey, and else- force upon popular ,opinion, and, of tion of Cooper , I?euaocrat, is -Alichltai. and Allure, is significant, to say the .lenst : I course, tho old game of slan g c , is resorted Leraber, Deeoperit, in WIPOODiIin, to Congress." Whether this result will be an advantage t Careful .to 49. They are deny nothing These arc gains. it is alsgprobal . ..le i the Demo- ' not, in 'a party sense, telhose whose boii- ' g }ACTH cratic State Ticket is elected in Illinois. son is circumscribed by that narrow measure- „--to say nothing in re and to Tar meat, reniainsto be 'deckled by the future : — —because the facts are figaimirt them ! Snow fell at 'Sanger, Me., en Sunday night ' My own isnwession is that it will nothe. With I 71:1„Litik „ eitigeos--think of . it, week, to the depth of six inches. I a Democratic ,Presideskt. id the W n hite oose, The corn crop, in Pennsylvania, with fete'l and 'a large Demoevathi piepanderence io the Alms county. It has exceptional localities, proves to be a good one i-Seaate, no igolicytiettba linage may originate -1 come to this, that honorable men and , can be carried opt„littspit their asient and i co-operation. 7,Na ,qp,e point. Another, gooo, eitifens , cram than that of bei nro to be beret. in effigy sad more important con'sideration, l i he oth**og Rion of responsibility beforethe couniry,:whin • • • • • • the Presidential canvass shall begin. DeMOCrntitt candidates ! "We have already seem: that the popular This insult; stipuld not soon bo forgot tiropeh of the Jest Congress was charged with 1443 putts of all the appropriations then made. ! ton, nor its perpetrators, abettors and * i * * And It is very certain 'nfirr, even I annlcidit'y 441 to receive a fitting re it there abottld be an opposition majotity‘trint no such iniuniiing have recently bey, ainertell I Duke. by Mr. Seward, cad command a united rote.— Whenever he and i his peculiar followers at tempt to impose that sort of test, they will be left in as begipirl•• r a minority ha their worthy co-laborers in ths s9ut 1 h , ,rho audaciously ad viicate disunion as a universal panacea for all real or imaginary grievances." This is the opinion pf one tvhoso op portunities of reading the political hori zon make Wm an Oracle worth listen vag to. If he sees Ettlepr no encourage ment for the future, in the recent suc cesses of Ilia party, how much less should Democrats find in it nnything to bo dishear,tened about ? We haVe only to kecp.up our courage, maintain our organization intaut, 41%11 by our principles even more eickely than over, and trs.st to the returning good sonso and sound judgment of the people.-- None but an united and a notional party can ever successfully ndminieter the —equal to any•perhaps within five years— croakers to the cog o trary,notwitliatanding. Dr4andolph, a celebrated afti.ritnitlist. has openly recanted. In a lecture at Utica, on . Sulawl week; lie stated it as his eandid opin ion, roundel; upon to experience ofFineyeare as a medium, that spiritualism was one : third ippitsture, one-third insanity, and • one-third dia4lisrp. Mr. Randolph declares that insa;:- ty la the usual fate of tjance mediums. Ile has received and accepted a call to the Chris tian miniary. We are glad to learn from Baltimore, that the murderers of Officer Itigdon are to be speedily tried. These men should be putaish ed, not only because they deserve punishment, but as a warning to others. Forbearance is no longer a virtue. Examples must be made.— No more deserving subjects for exemplary punishment can be found than these miscreants are; and the law, therefoie, should act at once and sternly. Tll2 New York Enqnirer has taken ground in favor of Hon. Wm. B. Seward as the Black Re publican candidate for the Presidency in 1860. Prom the Penn.,'!Tsetse One of the finest writers' says, that the "nightly dews come down upon- ni like bless ings." How differently the daily dues come down these bard limes ! _ Democratic Maj. Missouri, 45.000 Kentucky, 10.000 Georgia, • 14.000 Florida, 8,000 S. Caroltna ,say 20,000 California, 3,000 North Carolina, 12,000 Indium, ME Martha Morgan, a yonngend transnally hand .some girl, is to be tried for murder in Raleigh, N. C. She killed in a brutal manner, another young woman, who was her successful rival ' for the affections of a young man. The bard times are not confined to this coun try. Even the Sultan of Turkey, who le popu larly supposed to have unbounded wealth at his disposal, is "hard up." All departments of tke government have stopped their works.— "en the Arsen...%l, which bad commenced • new dry dock, has dismissed ha workmen, and entered upon measures of economy. A cement eompbsed of thirty parts of rich lime, fifty of-sand, fifteen of uncalcined clay, and fire of powdered silicate of potash, is re , commended by M. Kuhlman as having tha re . qnsite hydraulic properties, !Rather worda, as being capable of withstanding the effects of water, as in the walls of cisterns. 1 A writer In the Literary Messenger asks "if there is no way for s lady always to remain I TOMS." Certainiz . there is—she earl go to Utah tad marry Brigham. .. . , 061 - .ThoDelavare fiegialatn!:oatimula:. ea tbat. A l3 viatiql l Puttflo o 4l l a4- -- 4/8 914 PetrapatA T, Ckwol t ipli ! 'Amara melt . 111111i1111 aANFAkpay ; 4410 Howie Deakocrita 14, O pposition 7. tintereat on railroad twills : • • ' • fie con*. O. J. ale, Editor arid Proprietor GETTYSBURG, P.l Monday Morning, Nov. 15, 1833. ! • portion ot_the company which went from Lawrence, Kaasas , to the Pike's Peak gold mines; has returned to winter at Lawrence, with the view of returning in the spring, and all the metnbcra fully authenticate the reali ty of the gold discoveries. The Peru (Ind.) Ili/publican reports a huge squirrel hunt at that place a few days ago, in which two parties of six killed exactly three hundred squirrels each. That sort or game must be abundant up there. Wild tut-Lies, too. are said to be rather " numerous." ♦ most horrible murder of a courtesan took place at Cincinnati on Saturday morning week. The deceased, Kate Denman, was stabbed by a man named Cook. The wanton died with a prayer on her sin-stained lips for her husband and child, lung abandoned. , The New Fork. Pest says A Connecticut doc tor has offered to sell Mayor Ticmann a recipe to drive the cholera out of Sew York for $lOOO. A steam fire engine is ordered from Phila delphia for the Empire Hook and Ladder Com pany of Lancaster, Pa. The "Princess Royal bridal skirts " and the " Picolomini bustle" are among the latest things in New York. It is stated as a proof of the confidence which capitalists repose in the government, that a few days ago a warrant was drawn in favor of the United States treasurer for about $488,500, being the amount of the premium accruing to the government on the $10,000,000 loan. It is stated that one man in every eight in Massachusetts is a shoemaker. In Lynn, 5,- 000 persons are employed io shoe-making, and the sales in 1837 amounted to $4,000,000. In Boston ther*are 218 firms_ engaged in the trade, doing business to the amount of $53,- 000,000. In New York there are 44 houses. In Cincinnati there are at the present time salon S —Gineprr Pilcker ing of the result of the late election pecial Electic7l. , that State he says : has issa o 4 4 ll* for an s l eelk° • " Thesietory just lion Op the Rep* in Berk* county on the 30th inst., .to lieans of par State is oho of which we Rep& the vAcancy causcx by the se r i cannot feel prou4." Aigsitt4pn of 4on. J. Glancy Jones, as a Tax to Pay 1: op,* of Congress. lititscst 1 ititscst on. Re a road Bonds.- 7 -T6 StrprettieCoutt has &ad. government of the United States ; mud that party is not the combination of heterogeneous and discordant factions which has just secured a majority in Pennqvlrania and New York. ===l The Next .Congrasti. Not so Bad After the worst aspect of the ease—giving the mongrels every Northern Congressman yet to be chwted—the next Congress would stand thus : Democrats,. Republicans South'.kruericaus, Oregon will add one member to th'e Dcmcwratic column cartalnyand there may be n few more Democrats elected in Districts now conceded to the Oppo sition. The Washington States gives a better account. It. Kays: " In the elections which hare already taken place for members of Congress the position of parties stands: Demo crats 49, Republicans 102. " The States yet to elect are Alabama, Connecticut., California, Georgia, Ken tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, New, Hampshire, North Carolina; Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas; and Virginia, which elect 8 members. In the present House they stand as follows : Dem. Rep. Amer C 7 7 12 Add already elected 49 702 "In the States yet to elect the Re publicans may gain 'two members in Vonnectieut, and tbe Democrats will, in all pmbahilit.y, gain qx members from the South Americaint, in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Xaryland. Such a result wilt make the next Congress stand : Demo crats 120, Republicans 111, ? South Amer icans 6, which willgive tbe Democrats a majority nigree over all ; and if tee fou i rth dyitret, in Michigan bas gone Democratic ? as roported. tbe Demo ; erotic strength in - the house will be 121, and a majority over all of five." Truly do the "glorious victories," and "grand triumphs," and "overwhelming overthrows of the Democracy," achiev ed by our Republican 'neighbors, turn to duet and ashes, The .Negro Vote in New York.—ln Sew York, owing to the ascendency of the Abolition-Republican party in that State, negroes are allowed to vote.— Tbo negro population is sufficiently nu merous to hold the balance of power and the politicians vie with each other in bidding for their cote. At the elec tion which came off on Tuesday week, there were four candidates for Gover nor; Smith, Abblitionist and Temper ance ; Morgan, - Black Republican; Bur rows, American ; and Parker, Demo crat.—it is said that tho negro vote ?meant almost excltiairely for Morgan, the Bieck Republican =ndidate. From this it would seem that the nefroes prefer the Black Republicans even to the radical Abolitionists. greeley oq the .New York Election.— lioraco is in the sulks. "Things isn't a working" to please him. In speak- Coming Down • little. It wilt ho 're , nembered that Senator Crittenden, of Kentucky, in ono of his buneomb speeches, delivered about the dose of the last session of Congress, as serted that the expenses of £ho first year of Mr. Buchanan's noiministration were 8100,000,000. Since then the hon orable Senator has reviewed his state- Anent and dropped 820,000,000. In his letter to T. Lyle •Thekey, Esq., dated the Ist of August last, in relation to Judge I;ocradas; hu is unwilling to say that the expenses" exceed $80,000,000. Coming down at the rate of $20,000,000 ajump is ddQig pretty wel; fora Know Nothing aspirant for the Presidency. Ono morn such a jump and lie will land somewhere in the neighborhood of the truth.-I.).ederiek Union. After Them. The Office of Striti;) Treasurer, in this State, is a. snug little birth - , provided the occupant is sharp, and not over conscientious. Trate, the salary is no great sitakeS, but the " stealing in " is eapitr.l. And hence the Erie Obserrer supposes, now that the'. Opposition" have rt_ majority in the Legishiture, that particular offi^o in the gift of that body is chasing dnwo qvite a number of the patriots. Osr readers all recol lect, doubtless, when the " Opposition" was called " Sam" for short, how their lardinal doctrine was that " the office should seek the man, not the man tho offico." Well, upott tho hypothesis that • principles never chine, we assert that tho office of State Treasurer is chasing the following gentlemen, with a pretty lair prospect of catching' one of 'em— namely : Thomas S. Strut hers, of War ren ; B: Laporte, of Bradford ; Eli K. &lifer, of Union; v . . Souther, of Elk; David Taggart, of Northumberland; and, we don't. know how many more, whose names hav'ot got into the news papers. The Kansas Legialature.—At the election in Eansas in October, the Dem ocrats and moderate Frew State men defeated the ultraists and put the noto rious Jim Lane and his party on the shelf. Sincsiihe settlement of the Kan sas question by ill* wise provisions of the English Kansas the people of Kansas are attending to their own busi ness and ovorything is going on peace ably. There are no more "Kansas Tragedies." . ' tar Postgaster General Brown, it is stated, has niaturod a plan, to be recbm mended to Congress, by which money orders maybe transmitted from place to place through the post:office. Such an arrangement Would be of the grea test possible benefit to the business of the country. Peterson's Magazine.—This popular Lady's Magazine ;will Ixt greatly im proved for 1859. It wilteontain near ly 1000 pages: from 25 to 30 stool plates; and about 800 wood engravings. Mrs. ANN S. Srarrtxxs, author of " Fash ion and Famine," and CHARLES J. Pr- TERSON, author of " Kate Aylesford," are its Editors, and write exclusively for it. Each will give a new Novelct next. year; and they will be assisted by all the best female writers. " Peter son's Magazine" is indispensable to every lady. Its Fashions are always the latest and prettiest; its steel En gravings magnificent; it.b Patterns for the Work •Tet ble, its Household Receipts, &c., almost countless. The price is bat Two DoLyts a year, or a dollar less than Magazines of its class. It is the .Itcigg.zine for qv times. To Clubs it is eheaper still; viz : three copies for 115, or eight for 110; with a splendid premium to the person getting tfp the Club. Specimens sent gratis. Address Cnatt.J: PIIMINISQN; 206 Chestnut Streat, "0/441)414 to be eelebretnd in Phiiimunptin aalitiLty Fa es. Wood ?"4 1 DPW aat= w hi c t tai U pep their 0 . . 694 ltdo U a fameritT bring 48=1 l r 4 )l ll?*44).VD.i geokiessoned ertr.4s). - Towific eotmi!! Offaii.ts. Divine Services orriev. C. Z. WrisErt, of Selinsgrove, Pa, will preach in tho 'Gomm ge formed Church in this place, on Thurs day next, (Thanksgiving day,) at 10 o'clock in tho morning, and at Flohr's Church at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. There will al,o he services in the Presbyterian and Associate Reformed Cliarctiep, in this pipes, on that day. Turnpike 'ffientisni. At au election, on Monday last, for officers of the Gettysburg and Peters burg Turnpike Corppacy, tv serve the qusuing year, the following gcnticrne t wero chosen : PresideN, gym. D. ilimes. Ilanage7B, ticSlierry, Gco. 15wope. Jacob lykrt,),no. Ij. McClellan, Itobert MeCurdy. - - Treastrer, J np. ]t. McClellan. Re-appointad , by the etu3mlbuMohere. E. B. BUEHLER, AttornOy ; J. M. WALTER Clerk ; :6nd .14cpar. Burr Keeper of Court -Railroad Items. Tho track is nOw within a mil° of this place. We have not only heard but seen " tho Locomotive" for pevdiral mornings. .4.nothar week of. good weather, and we imay expect the sir.oker" to thunder into our very midst. The Engine "lons° is ready for the roof. During theP4st week Mr. David Goodyear lairs down the pipes to con vey the water into! tho cistern at the west end of the bulkliag--where a full supply will, doubtl t ess, at 4 . r,1;l times bo had. The Company Freight House will ,also soon be under roof, the brick work being finished. The masons have com menced on the Turn Table, and a pair of weeks should servo to have it ready for its use—the turning of the Engines. The Few Court Douse. Tho skeleton of the Tower was raised upon the new Court ,llouso last week. Its proportions arc very good, aa a. e n finialia it will be found tobe "just the thing" to " top.ont " that admirably designed boikfing. Mr. TURNER Juts a large force of carpenters at, work, and will donbOesm soon; be prepared for tie plasterers. Ire expects to have all the rooms on the first door, for the County Officers, finished and ready for occu pancy hr the first Of Apr4i nett. More Town Programa. Tn addition to :the town improve ments heretofore notices! pit these col umns, we haze the pleasnre of giving the following : Mr. S. Zorbfingliis about to erect for Mr. Adam Dmrsosn, on the Railroad, a two-story Frame Building, for dwelling and business purposes. Messrs. Valentine and John Warn,or have commenced the erection of a two story Frame Dwelling for Mr. Daniel Lashell, on South Washington street. Mr. Perry J . Tate has purchased from Hon. E. M'Phoetian. a piece of ground lying between the Charibersburg turn pike and tho Railroad near town, and is about meting handsome dwelling house—Gottuge style. Major Jncob .11ollebaugli intends har ing his Dwelling ;enlarged, and MT. Zorbaugh expects in put up a tyro-story House on the adjoining lot—on Nort Washington street; Large L:m House. Mr. Davm Tan.tu., Jr., has in course of erection, in thq rear of Ws father's carriage-making c.4tabiishment, on East Dfid~lu street, a 7eiery. substantial Teo How, h which lie designs storing, during the coming winter, a large quantity of •ice for. town consumption neit summer. The project is a com mendable or.e, ant we hope he will be handsomely remunerated for the labor and expense incurred: Few Warehqnse. Messrs. McCtrat & KIND are push ing their Warehouse, on the Railroad, about four miles from this place, rapid ly towards completion. The building is two-stories high, and sufficiently roomy for *large business. The loca tion will doubtless, prove a good one. Manasnotig Mr. DAvm Tilostsm, of this borough, placed upon our whin, a few days since, a monster Radish, measuring 19 inches in circumference, and weighing..6l pounds ; end "a beauty " of a Turnip, measuring 20 inches, and weighing 8 pounds and 5 ounces. That Radish is hard to beat. air The Ordination And Installation of Rev. Wm. WELivisz, Pastor of the tinited.Presbyterian Churches of this place Ana Chambersbnrg, took place at Chambersbnrg on Wednesday. The exercises wore interesting and the au dience jrge. aer-A - Cemetery Company has boon formed at Hanover and the ground secured. Mr. Josam S. Grrr has been employed as rural architect, and ho will of course girt- the place a very at- Lracalve shape. iarShOrifr 1/11311TAULR, Sold, on &Aar day week, - half of a lot and a half of 1179un4 on Kest Middle street, for 11100 —property of 436,11:'Bentley. Theo dore teotley purOhitier. lirmap Zirpu2l7 removed into the 11 07 Tote"}; corder of Carlisle street and the "44r440:4yed4451ai • Noyetkbor term of Ocairt 4944fteiticiad43c prubsay Recopy 'he wael . F - I 1 An act . k prevailed pletion (WAR* that point., Messrs. 8a5t...... ' havo erected a shrecostorTbrick witty , house, (dui cg a largo hasindts‘) Mr.Pll - tor Diehl a largo produce wasehouso, Mr. A.mosZnok a two-storytdieit house, Mr. A. W. Staub a throe-story .brick, (store and dwelling,) Mr. Lectittb a 'brick back building, (pod Arai up a front ono in the spriax)" Iliti e. W. 1 Doll a thiner and satkilo4%;*A Henry Wiest a brick beuesoustl Woe j smith shop, Mr. Daniel ~ Heltsell :a framo dwelling, Mr. J. Euebresen brick house, My. John Distriekitbing house Irid tinner shop, Mr. Petal* a black smith shop, Mr. J. l3arnitsivrelhousos, Mr. MUly.r a two-story brick house, Mr. 'Jeremiah Diehl a brick houso, Mrs. Miley a two-story brick house, My. prank Sherman a brick home . , auil Hr. Joseph S. GRA is Areetingot *rot-class three story br,iqk Amuse, which promises to be ono of tho neatest and Aunt sub stantial (n that thri,vingvAlage. Qtbor buildings aro pin progress. Mr. Stuck and Capt. Wagner have improved theiy promises by tho putting up of ,com• modious barnp. Jacob Aulabaugh, F;sq., has Hand somely rentoddlod the brick building .on the south west _corns ergot Squaro, and Ineupies it as a hardwalltatore.— Mr. Franklin IXershskeeupies Mr•Diold's warehouse and has also a coal and lum ber yard. Wo take pleaspro t in notitng theso evidences of enterprise on the part of our neighbors ofCixford, and doubt no,t I tho wwk will go steadily forward. " True an Preaching." There aro many intelligent 'Jamaica in *Urns and adjacent co un ties who at present take no_ county pa per, and who, if they over read one" de pend upon borrowing it, of some ttergh bor. When so great a convenience is so easily obtained, no pm:vivito stn af ford it should be Nephew, a county newspaper. It keeps the reader posted up in aU that is of gen,eyal interest, while it is an , Inclispennabla record of local affairs. - ?to one can -be fully in, foriaed in regard to his own feterest who does not regular,ly- pernoO wo4 conducted county paper. Its . _ advan tages in a family cannot be exaverit : tad, and it soon becomes as nlmedisary to the youngest member iii to tbohead of the liensetwoid- Wh several l'l pe.ts are taken, kite county paper is al wy.,ys the first one 'opened, and the one most closely red. Its record of local transactions and business, marriag.es and cowl, proceedings, Salver, tisements, &a., cannot be had in any other way, and give the paper an hi : teregl, which is wanting in the most ambitions of the city weeklies. The C'umpiler is furnished at, 51,7.4 per annum, if paid in advance, or 82 if nut paid in - advance. Any potion sending us liiup On:nee-pity/ay sitbscrlbeirs, will receive the paper A year rjtlia occoAno Pr9mitu . ns i.LVMbot Wo notieud lust week thatlfr. C. W. Griest, of Petersburg, was awarded a handsome- Premium at, the lat 4 York Fair for the bost four year old horso Colt on exhibition, and a first class premiiim for tho best Corn (Gourd Seed.) Ile also received st-First-class Premium at the late Undtb'eland Coun• !y Pair for his *titilion, Eilipso , and a handsomo Premium foF theP host four year Qld horse Colt on exhibition, and a First-class Premium for tlie best Gourd seed corn. Mr. Christian Rico, of Holmllan tow a oh ip. was also awarded s /41Klaome premium at tho Cumberland County Fair, fur his fine four year old horso Colt. At the York County Fair, Joseph Shircman, of East Berlin, 'received a iliplotna and a $5 premium for the best Mower. Border & Ross, of East Berlin, received a 82 premium and a dloma, for the best Cornplanter. F. 3thor, of Littleetown, received a 85 premium and a diploma, for the best Buggy. HONG to Prepare Superior Masa meat for Piss. Take stoned raisins, currants, sugar, and suet, of each 2 lbs.; Sultana rais ins, boiled beef (lean and tender,) of cacti I lb.; soar. or tart apples, 4lbs.; the juice of two lemons; the rind of ono lemon chopped very tine ; mixed ',Rice. lb.; candied citron and lemon peel, of eat!' 2 oz:; and chop the *bob very fine. The preparatiox maybe varied y adding other spice or &Tering, and the addition dreggs, or the sillostitu tior of chopped tbwl or real, for . beef, ac cording to fancy or eoammilm. The Boys. If any one will take the trouble to look around him on an -evening walk through our streets, andlniniarve the number of boya . runningdyllitln many quarters of the town, NOM- become convinced, as we have, viiform is needed. Is not the day hdent fh exercise and reerestion I And over, this is the *titular orlon, cool evenings; when the time dreCtid to so otnring knowledge truly bil'r•iseed time of a glorious harvest o _ honor, wee! hay gini the "Ii
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