Li AU *arty pin of the week beds , ' last )jr. Skalds' west as so New York. During ltis shames the busy slimed society observed , that the attendants of Mr. Key at his house , Well ME more unremitting than usual. Mr. Seiko reherated to Waslusigton on the morn- I Ihrig oF the day of ths Napier bail, and hem that time up to Friday last nothing imearnd to asks the matter of his Woos with. Yr. Hey more than ordinarily , poustbrest in his mind. So far was be from maxi lieting aaything like inordinate or ty- Misdeal suspicion, that be allowed Mr. Key to assert Mrs. Sickles es usual on Penney!. weak avian*, and I saw them in company with Mr. Henry Wikor, at the theatre on Wednea• ellay night. On Thursday Mr. and Mrs. Sick lm entertained a large party at dinner. Or 41r that gay and to empany how near jtatt fearful a doom impended! Os the next dilly, Mr. Sickles received from attopi one, an anonymous letter, stating with inreailion too minute as to mate suspicion im perative, that Mr. Key had rented a house , os Fifteenth st.. above K street, from a negro Amami John Gray. and that be was in the habit of meeting Mrs. Sickles there two or alms times • weak or oftener. The person sad dram of Mrs. Sickles were accurately de scribed, and the usual time of the interview 'pealed. Accompanied by a friend, Mr. Sickles went to the house designated and 'farad every statement of the anonymous wri ter corroborated. Mr. Key had taken the 'house; and he bad constantly met there a lady answering very closely iu description to Mrs. Sickle.. • Mr. Sickles still clung to the hope that the person who had stooped to the baseness of making such charges under the veil of secre .ey, might have thoroughly deceived him, and that Mrs. Sickles was net the lady in ques tion. lie accordingly requested his friend, .Mr. George Walbridge, of New Yurk, to watch the place from a window of a house just opposite. On Saturday no meeting took place, and -the woman in charge seems to have stated .that Done had occurred since Wednesday. Oa Saturday evening Mr. Sickles, resolved -no longer to play the spy upon his honor, de •dermined to confront his wife direcer with his terrible suspicions. At first Mrs. Sickles strongly denied her guilt ; but on her hus band's asking whether, on the Wednesday previous, she had not entered the house on Fifteenth street, in a certain particular dress, and concealed by a hood, she cried out, "I am betrayed and lost."' and swooned away.— ; Oa recovering her senses, she admitted her guilt, and besought mercy and pardon. Mr. , Sickles calmly said he would not injure her, aince r he believed her the victim of a scoun drel, but that he had a right to a full conies-' sion. Two ladies in the house were sent for I as witnesses, and in their presence Mrs. I Sickles made a full Confession in writing, I stating that her connection with Mr. Key had wanniencad in April last, under Mr. Sickles' I root, but that Mr. Key had since hired the, house in Fifteenth street, in which they hid I constantly met. Mrs. Sickles ' confession was made in the midst of the bitterest ountri tins and misery. Her husband simply ask- ed her to give him back her wedding ring. and desired her to write to her mother to come and take her from his house forever.— S:ekles made no objections, admitting the justice of her punishment in the must affecting language. Her mother will arrive to-morrow to remove her froth this fearful scene of guilt, remorse and blood. Once having quitted the presence of his wife. Mr. Sickles gave way to the most terri ble emotion, and passed the night in a state bordering on distraotion—a feeling which was worked into madness this Taunting on swiingthe cause of his misery, Mr. Key, with I gay audacity pass opposite his wife's room sad wave his handkerchief—Abe usual signal Aar assignation. Asking Mr. Butterworth, win) was at his house, to follow Key and engage him in con. venation so that he would not get out of sight, he rushed upstairs for his pistols, and Anickly following, found Butterworth and Key together, at tho corner of Sixteenth at., when the tragedy took place. The parties involved in this sad story all lived within the immediate circle of our daily Washington life. Key was about 40 years of age, tall in stature, about six feet. with an easy and fashionable air, but by no means prepossessing in appearance otherwise. Ilia , free had a slickly hue, and he bad been furl some time suffering from heart disease, or imagined he was, which gave him a sour and j discontented look. Otherwise he was es- I tremaly popular, and those who knew him best, said his eccentricities of manner cover-1 ad a very kind and generous heart. His father, Francis S. Key, was the author of the national song, the " Star-Spangled Banner." He a ves a widower, with four children. On I - his marriage he narrowly escaped 11 duel with Colonel May, who conceived that he had un fairly ousted him from the affections of the ; lady who became his wife, and who was a beautiful and charming woman. Mr. Key is s nephew of Judge Taney, and brother-in few of Mr. Pendleton, member of Congress from Va. Mr. Sickles, the member fur the third dis trict of New York, is a native of this city, originally a printer by occupation. littrrman of nearly forty years of age ; of =limners. As a member of the State as well as in the louse of Represen:l Amities's, hs had made himself remarked by a i quite unusual coolness and self-possession, which rive him great advantages in debate, and MAL:acquired for him a well-deserved reputation as a rising young leader of the' Deurooritio party. In 1452 Mr. Sickles was married to his wife, now ruined and heart-` broken, then a young girl, fresh from her' sehool-life, and remarkable then, as now, for something especially soft, 10% ely and youthful,', in the type of her very peculiar beauty.— She is of Italian origin, and possesses all' the Italian lustre and depth of eye, united with a singular candor and delicacy of fea ture. Kr. Fickle" had seen her grow up from' childhood, and was attached to her with an 1 elmoit idolatrous affection. Shortly after their marriage Mr. Sickles was appointed of the American Legation in Lon don,eitarin e household of Mr. Buchanan, and ; his beautiful bride won universal aduiiratioa abroad, not more by her charms of person and manner than by the gaiety and innocent of her character. On their return ' es they resided for some time on the E l ' vials road, in a charming house or- mrhnsking the Hudson river ; and, on his elec.- tiou to Congress, Mr. Sickles took his pre- mat house on President's square. It faces directly the Club house, to which was brought 40-day the corpse of the man who himself had slain all that made the life of that mansion, but a few days since so gay among the gay- eat, and so hospitable, amon the most hoe-, pitahle, of the homes of Waa hingt&u. Mn.e Sickles may be 22 and has one! child. She is the daughter of Bagioli, the eslehrated music teacher, of. Fourteenth st.— liffMeromen are better calculated to win their ars, in polite society, or to oontribute more ,tow vivacity. Whoa Mr, Sickles surrendered himself to' Attorney . Germs' Black he requested such 1 dispiiiitioit to be made of him as was proper. Too Astons, General sent for a magistrate, aim with the chief of police, came speedily. floss sitar the mayor arrived, announcing the death of Rey. Mr. Sickles was oonductaa Ms a aarriages tojaiL He was evidently la , boob; saw strong mental ettitentent, and iis bawd 000naensuos prossotod marked ariltems of the dais of the fearful emo tions width have harrowed his very soul der isy,thshlest evrenty-four boon, ao l um Waskagton letter we; Wo,. sod Mrs. Sickles lived in elegant style =4=g a house of $3,000 rent. Mrs. u a splendid cerrige with outri siss;.momeJtereis to the value of $3,000, and BOISOMed trif anseit nothing that she did not rt, 3111111' filiikar has been a resident of . Tat lies thirty years. Her mother's is i mt impg Book, and was born in New York. • ' rig*" blether of Hey was killed in jelloisismselt &Whams, of saw - ' Assiliter Map says t ib.. awn Imrer of as iotimaL,7 . ~- $llllO Ilia . IlEal foul hit wife, He asppos. ed it simply en inacteeut but isiesatioes flir tation, and. on account of the needs' Wit it excited in many circles, he remonstrated witb her. She did not pay any heed these eh treaties of her husband. bat eastinued unin terruptedly her singular, bat (by her hus band) unsuspected intereourse. Sty was known to be in the habit of attending the theatre, opera, balls, soirees, and other pls. ow of gaiety and fashion, and was almost in variably accompanied by Mrs. Sickles. He, indeed, followed her tverywhere. It is said that Key was accustomed to boast of his attentions in this quarter, and that at the National Club House the criminal intercourse between himself and Mrs. Sickles was well known, and formed the topic of con ve”etion. Mr. Sickles' dwelling was opposite the Club House, and Key was accustomed to go up stairs to a window in the latter building, ov erlooking Sickles' house, and hang out sig nals to _Mrs. Sickles. He would also go in Lafayette square, wave his handkerchief at her, throw out kisses, and make profuse de monstrations of attachment. Before the fatal denouement of this unhal lowed intercounie, Key had been time and again warned by his friends that something dangerons would grow from his criminal at tachment. He was soctistomed, however, to treat these friendly admonitions with an air of haughty bravado. Ile would listen to no remonstrance from any quarter. Ile had been known to boast of his amours in socie ty, and it is said that Mr. Buchanan. being informed of Mr. Key's character, had made out his dismissal, and was only waiting to select a successor. previous to sending in the document to the Senate. when Mr. ley met his death. I visited Sickles to-night in the prison.-.. Ile appeared to bo iu good spirits, and has been visited during the day by many of his friends and Congressional colleagues. Ile positively refuses another examination. and dec:s.res his determination to remain in pri son till the day t f trial. Ile asks no favors from the law. A despatch was received to-day. from New York city,from the friend.. of Mr.Sickles,orm pathisin& with him in his sorrows. Public opinion in that city is said to sustain Mr. Sickles in his conduct. Mr. Sickles' affection for his daughter weighs heavily upon him. Ile feels that his hopes are blasted, and that his home is broken up. The mother of Mrs. Sickles, (Mrs. Bagioli,) and the mother of Mr. Sickles arrived m the city to night. Mrs. Region will take charge of her daughter, while the mother of Mr. Sickles will take under her charge his daughter. Public opinion is universally in favor bf Mr. Sickles. The counsel retained by him embrace the tollowing-named gentlemen : Messrs. Stanton, Ratcliffe, Chilton, and Ma gruder. David Paul Brown, Esq., of your city, is not retained, as has been reported. the remains of Mr. Key will be taken to Baltimore to-morrow afternoon, at three and a half o'clock, sad will be interred from that city, • This evening's train brought many Mends ofelr. Sickles from New York. The greatest excitement still prevails. Wssuistorox, March 1.--Mr. Butterworth last night prepared a statement tc the public, which includes the following facts :— N YVhile conversing with Senator Gwin and • member of the Cabinet, be received a note from Mr. Sickles, saying,—" Come to me directly."— "What does he mean?" said A ,Mr. Butter worth ; "I will go and see him." He went to his house. lair. Sickles was on the floor, in agony, and did not speak for some time.— When lie did, he said, "lam a dishonored and ruined man, and cannot lookyou in the face." Mr. Sickles then related the circum stances of his grief, and asked Mr. Butter worth's advice. Mr. Butterworth advised him to send his wife to his mother's, adding that Congress would soon adjourn, and that this course would excite no .remark ; then go to Europe for a le* months, and in the mean time arrange fur a divorce. Mr. Sickles re plied, "My friend, you mistake- it is the town talk, and even all the negfees in the neighborhood know it." Mr. Butterworth then said: "If such is the case, there is but one course to pursue-- I need not point it out." Mr. Butterworth thereupon left him and went to the club house. He looked behind, but did not see Mr, Sieklatf follow him. Ife stopped at the club house and took a glass of ale. When he came out he met Mr. Key at the corner of the arena. and Sixteenth street, near the Mary land House, and shook bands with him. As he was about leaving him, Mr. Sickles came up, the latter saying " You scoundrel, you have hishonored my f amily—prepare to die," and shot Mr. Key. The reason Mr. Butter. worth did not interfere was, he thought they were both armed. Mr. Key took from his pocket what afterward proved to be an glass. The father of Mr. DJ. Sickles has offered to Mr. Bagioli any house of his the latter may select, in order that Mrs. Sickles may hare a home. llfirMr. Sickles' tzial will take place this weok. An 'lmportant Bill. Tho following bill, to ' , prevent the intermarriage of the white and Glad:races," has been offered in our State Legisla ture, and we trust may become a law: Ssc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and louse of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen eral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this, act, it shall be unlawful for any black' man to marry a white woman, or black woman to marry a white man. SEC. 2. That any person or persons who shall marry iu thisCommonweilth, contrary to the first section of this act, and any justice of the peace, alderman, clergymen, minister or other persons, who shall join in marriage any person contrary to this act, and every person who shall be present at such marriage, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of quarter sessions havingju risdiction thereof, be fined at the dis cretion of said wart, in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars; which shall go one-half to such county as may have jurisdiction of such case, and shall be imprisoned in tho county jail of such county any time not exceeding one year. Horrible. Massacre of a Missionary' Family.—The Bev. Mr. Elifman, a Me thodist missionary who has been preach ing for the Indians of Oregon since 1838, was murdered, with his family, not long since, under singular and appalling cir cumstances. The small-pox having broke out among the savages, while the missionary's family were not attacked, the fo - rmer thought that the pestilence had been introduced by the whites with the intention of exterminating the red race. Acting upon this horrible suspi cion, their next atop was revenge. A bold ebief was selected forthe deed, who stole into Ile chamber of the sleeping family, and buried his tomahawk in the brain of the missionary and that of his wife, and then other Indians rushed in and halpleen children, malt) and female employees, were butchered, the 'house rased to the ground, fences destroyed, and every 'vestige of a ease happy home disappeared. The Marriage Queetion.—ln the Bri that 'louse of Cornatotte Lord Bury has obtained Ism, by a vote of 155 to 85, to introdndb a bill lerdiein leitrri-tge with A deceasod irikes sister. 1404:0=pire./4.3.7,41--auorg=pr,ll ■. J. ITAMILE, EDITOR AIP 7.IIOPILIIITOR. ONTTTRECUO,PAI MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1859 News, eta. I ir A full account of a terrible tragedy at Wuhington is given in this issue, commenc ing on the first page. President Buchanan has vetoed the bill do nating public lands to State Agricultural Colleges, on Constitutional and financial grounds. The people will sustain Mr. Buch anan on this question. Ile must use the veto power, having due regard for economy.... The Opposition vote for all measures, no matter how estravagfmt, in order to make the expenses of Government reach a high figure. It is fortunate for the country that a Demo crat is in the Presidential Chair. The York Press says that Dr. Alexander 11. Barnita has been appointed conductor on the railroad between that place and Colom bia, in place alit'. Theodore Trtunbo. St. Louis, Mo., is said to be full of emi grants bound fur Kansas, Nebraska and the gold regions. lion. E. A. Ilannegan, formerly United States Senator from Indiana, died at St. Louis on Friday night, In looking over the map of North Await*. the Gulf of Mexico seems like the month of the United States opened wide, with Cuba between the jaws, just ready to be swallowed down the throat of Uncle Sam. Much excitement and indignation bu been aroused in Susquehanna county, Pa., by the recent marriage of a colored man, named John Sophia, aged 42 years, to a young wo man named Amelia Tingley, whose parents reside in Hartford, and are spoken of as of the highest respectability. Gen. Scott was sojourning at New Orleans on the 19th. and in improving health. An Albany paper has been sued for libel, the prosecutor laying his damages at the moderate sum (to printers!) of one million three hundred thousand dollars! What a tremendous character that man must have had. Mr. Denham, a minister of forty yea" standing. ran away from Terre Manta, Ind., on Wodnesdey, with another man's wife. Mrs. Mary Taylor, of Lee. Massachusetts, had a surprise party of ter fifteen children, on her one hundredth birthday, lately It is the opinion of the beat informed per sons that the abolition of the franking privi lege would involve an annual saving to tha Treasury of four or five millions of dollars. A column of reading matter on fourth page. The scarcity of grain in many parts of Ca nada, is said to be such that the farmers will find it impossible to procure the necessary seed for spring sowing. The Shakers at New Lebanon, N. Y.. are about to erect a stone barn one hundred and sixty feet long, to cost 580,000. A man named Prussia has been fully com mitted at Meadville, Pa., for the murder of his wife by poison. An eldrely woman went to a Cincinnati Justice reoently to inquire the best method of divorcing her daughter from a man whom the parents objeoted to as an unfitting per. son. The reason of the mother's desire for having the twain divided was that the bus• band had promised her a new dress when he married her daughter, and, on the consum mation of the event, had withheld-the gift. Herring were caught in the Elk river, near Frenchtoan, Md., on Saturday two weeks.— Some of the fisheries on the Susquehanna made the Brat haul on Wednesday week.— This early commencement of the shad and herring fisheries is owing to the extremely mild winter. Alexander Wentworth died in Boston the other day, from taking an overdose of medi cine, prescribed for him by a "spirit medi um." He had given. himself up to the delu sion for some time previously. The Legislature has decided that we are to have no monument 'rotated to the memory of the volunteers who lost their lives in fight ing the battles of their country in Mexico. Mary Ann Brown, of Orange, N. J., has been arrested fur the unnatural 'porde? of her own child. by cutting its heed of with a knit.. Adam Smith, foreman on the Pommyleant* railroad at Bailey's station, died suddenly on Wednesday night last. Ilia wife is charged with poisoning him. Burnt leather makes a very powerful ma nure. The Chicago Democrat says &swear* eleven papers in Illinois ready and willing to isup port Senator Lyman Trumbull, of that State, as the Black Republican candidate for Presi dent in 1850. Trot him out! The yellow jessamine Sower, if Was. is said by our Southern exchanges, to be dead ly poisonous. A preacher " down South" recently in formed his congregation that heaven is but 1.500 miles square. lie appealed for proof to the 21st of Revelations. This descriptive stems is in the hexameter style, and was writeo by the celebrated phy sician of Tinicum. It is in reply to a ques tion, where did you get that shad, eh? I caught this shad with a silver hook— With a silver hook I caught it— Or, in other words, I had the stuff, And went over to the market and af ter trying several places to lind a good one, at last succeeded. I put my hand into my pocket and took out three quarters (bow eves it got there is another question) ivid bongs it. The thirty-filth Congress adjourned at 12 o'clock on Friday laat. All the Appropriation bills were passed, except ing that for the Poet Office. Its failure may make an extra session necessary. All attempts to alter the Tariff failed. The Treasury Note bill passed near the close of the sessios. The Senate immediately convened in extra Executive Sinaloa, and may con tinue a fow days. ine-The United States Banat*, on Tuesday, milled the Medea with Chi- A& . Ti le Births ilootians. We call attention to the fact that the third Friday oSMsrcb, the 18th init., is the day upon which the Spring Elec tions will take place. The matter should be borne in mind by oar party friends, for much depends on these elections, as well concerning the local interests of the people, as the oontrol and oonduct of the general election in October next. Let the primary meet ings Iv well attended, and acceptable and capable candidates nominated.-- And lot the elections also be marked by a full turn-out, so that our candidates may not fail of succour through indif ference and neglect. The Opposition will doubtless make strong efforts to succood in many localities, and we caution the Democracy not to allcw themselves to be caught napping in a single township or borough of the coun ty. Especially would we put them on their guard against a trick practised by the enemy in several of the Democratic districts last spring—that is, running tickets composed of nearly all Know Nothings, but with a light sprinkling of Democrats, in order to secure a por tion of the Democratic vote for the whole of the tickets so patched together. Don't touch them. Tho Democracy of Frederick city, Md., achieved a brilliant triumph on Monday last- They elected their candi date for Mayor, W. G. Colo, Esq., by a majority of 34 votes—a gain of 80 sinoo the last Mayor's election. Por Alder men, they elected four of their five candidates, and for the Council carried five of the seven wards. The contest was an exciting one, every inch of ground having been hotly disputed.-- We congrutulato the sterling Democra cy of the "Mountain City" upon their gallatt fight and their glorious victory. Frederick county, too, will " do botter." The President's Spectial Message. On tho 18th ult., President ByesArrell sent to Congress a special message, ask ing authority to use force in compelling foreign powers to respect our national rights and honor, and particularly to enable him to keep the transit routes over the Isthmus open to the uninter rupted passage of Amelican citizens bo tween the Atlantic and Pacific States. Among the many favorable views of the subject elicited by the message, our exchanges contain the following, ex pressed by Senator Douglas, who is not friendly to the President : " Mr. Douglas was rejoiced that the President had called the attention of Congress to this mat ter. He believed the Presideut ought to have the power that be asks. We have such interests that we ought to bare and must have the high way to our Pacific possessions kept constantly open. In order to do that we mast necessarily repose confidence in the Executive, for unless we put this power in his hands, we fail to accomplish the objects contemplated by the Constitution.— The President of the United States ought to have the power to redress sudden injuries upon our citizens, and outrages upon our flag, without awaiting the action of Congress. " The executive of every other nation on earth has that power, under their respective forms of government. It was our right and our duty to keep open these transit: routes ; and for any out rages on persons or property which did not ad mit of delay, we must give the President power to demand and enforce instant redress. This should be done not only with regard to the Cen tral American States, but also with regard to Cuba. We have had constant troubles, and we have unsettled quarrels all the time with Spain, growing out of connection with Cuba. The Cap tain-General of that Island has ample authority to inflict injury upon us, but none to grant re dress; and we must have authority to enforce the release of a ship instantly, when it is seised at Havana, instead of going to Washington, like a circumlocution office. Either this power moan be conferred on the President, or we shall be driven out of the markets and ports of those countries. When a revolution breaks out, the revolutionists know that if they rob an English merchant or an English bark, a ship-of-war will be there and batter down the walls of their city if redress is not granted ; but when the property of Americans is taken it only results in negotia tion, and this never comes to a termination until the revolution is over, the existing government is tanked out, and another party has to foot the bill--and half of the time the bill is never footed at all. Mr. D. proceeded to say that he would not confer this power for a single cake, bat for all cases—for the present Executive and his suc cessors, so matter what their politics might be. lie was glad the subject had come up, and hoped it would result iu definite action. By granting this power, we should be saved from the necessity of often exercising it." The editor of the Adams Smitixel do= nouneos the message of the President as " HIGH-BANDED " and "IN FAMOUS !" The reader who possesses a spark of patriotism will—make his own comment. Vote- -Oregon. It will interest all our readers to know how the Pennsylvania. Delegation voted on thkadmission of Oregon. It might have been expected that upon /mob a question, thoy would be a unit. But it was not so. The dictates ofjas tics and patriotism were overborne by the tyrannous exactions of party.— Here is the vote : The YEAS were—Messrs. Ahl, Chap man, Dowart, Dimmick, Florence, Gil lis, Jones, KIINKIL, Land-, Montgome ry, Phillips , _ Reilly and White-14. Tbe%ire were—Messrs. Corode, Dick, Bdie, Grow, Kelm, Morris, Par: viance, Ritchie, Roberts and Stewart -10. Dodged—JOHN HICKMAN. It will thus be seen that but one Op position member—Mr. .Kunkel, of Dao pbin—bad tbo indopendenoo to sink the partisan in the patriot, MID DO wait Its £NRW re's LIGHT --.14,010/li4a. Ono of Thom We see that the great embodiment of Republican decency, Gen. Ashley, the dewly dented member of Congress from the Toledo Distrkm, Ohio, is at one of the New York Hotels. In hie ra. marks accepting -the nomination, the Toledo Ilisee says the following ins mons declaration was made by him : " le_eipeaking of Senator Norris, of New Hampshire, now deceased, Ashley, at It in tkie scanty daring his speech that /be (Norris) was dead sad gone to holl—or at ioast.lio hoped - UW-4ry mil **Yam might to yo, to have their Use hahed.' Wa items a private word, this week, lire a goodiinuaber of our patrons. A heavy bill for wee type, and soother for that JoAnne*. sable angels, paper, are beginning to *tarsus closely in the face, because payment will be looked for won—at latest, by the first of April. Now, " let as reason together ": We desire to pay these bills when due. It is nothing pore than simple honesty to do so. But that life may accomplish this desired purpose, is it unreasonable in us to look for equally prompt payment from those for whose benefit such expenditures are made— to say nothing of the heavy amount required for labor and the scores of other items neces sary to keep the wheels of our establishment in motion ? Surely it is not. Common sense, then, would dictate a mutual p.tying up. Let those who owe us, "fork over" before the first of April, and allow us to gladden the heszts of those to whom we are indebted in the same way. Many of our patrons pay prmaptly. For those we bars but two words—rnalltil sasyss! _The Gettysburg Railroad Company has or dered a first class Locomotive at the cele brated establishment of MOWS. BALDWIN k Co., in Philadelphia. The price is to be $8,509. payable in instalments of 2 months. The Engine is to weigh from forty-eight to forty-nine thousand pounds—is to have four drivers, four and a half feet high--theeatire machine to be finished in their best style, and to be accepted only after thorough trial. The name selected fur it is "Clarrrsauaa." We may look fur it here in about ten weeks from this time. Triumph! The other Locomotive will most probably be built at the Trenton Works. The little boy lost in the South Mountain, several weeks since, (heretofore noticed,) was the only child of Mn. M. J. Oyler, who resides near Leesburg, Cumberland county, near Cone's mill. It appears that on Thurs day, the 17th ult., about 10 o'clock, the mother was absent from the house for a short time, leaving the little fellow (four years old) with her father, with whom she resides. On her return, she missed her boy, and im mediately commenced a search for him, but in vain. The fact was soon made known through the neighborhood. Friends and neighbors rushed to the rescue. They scoured the surrounding mountain until night fall, but without screcess. They then renewed their efforts, carrying pine torches above their heads, until the day dawned, when nearly one hundred more of tie neigh bon cam. to their assistance. Another day and night were spent in the search fur the lost one, with no better success, until about 9 o'clock on the Saturday morning following, when the child was found, dead, on the " Big Flat," nearly nine miles from its home 1 The little dog, which bad been the child's play mate, and which had accompanied him in his long and fatal journey, was found ne.tled in the child's bosom, with its head reclining on his cold and lifeless bosom. The faithful dog bad tramped quite a path around the lifeless body of the sleeping innocent, thus betraying the affection that it had for the youth, and in its fond caresses had licke I beck the hair up on the child's forehead. The corpse was con veyed home to its weeping mother, who, un der the peculiarly afflicting circumstances, Was almost frantic with grief. On Sunday following, his remains were interred in the public cemetery at Shinpensburg. On Monday last, u Mr. Pena Jonas and his lady were Grossing the Belli from their own residence. on the Muntraasburg read, to that of his medico% on the Chambersburg turn pike, they encountered a large airkr Snake, three feet in length, am active and " cross" as it would bate been in midsummer, and requiring quite as much effort to kill. They also observed a number of Grasshoppers "boipingn about. Sash sights are rare is February in this latitude, and deserve newspaper mention. On Wednesday morning last, two young =AM Of oar plea—Amczo RCTURACTT anti Lawn 11cCutttair--departod for California, intending to take a 'tamer at New York. and go by way of the littbeens. We hope they may bare a pleasant voyage and abundant 1110001 a in the " Golden State." This is the name of the new Military Company recently organised at Hunterstown, this county. Some forty or forty-fire per mute already belong to the Company , . On the litth ult., the f:llowing °doers were elected :—Capt., Dr. C. E. Ouldshoroagh ; 24 Lieut., Wm. N. Sanders ; Orderly Ser geant, Jacob Pottorlf. Jacob King, Esq.. has agreed to furnish the material for the uniforms, and has already seut to the city fur the cloth. The uniform adopted. will be similar to that of the Independent Blues,— varying slightly in the trimmings. The post of Ist Lieutenant remains to be filled. The new military company at New Oxford —numbering about 40 men—we understand, has also been regularly organised. illlovlas In less than a month that most dreadful of daya—moving day—will be here, when the groat annual disturbance in domestic matters will again take pace—when things that are not wanted will lio around in every direction—when the town will be tamed up side down generally. A number of the young ladies and gentle. UM of Petersburg and vicinity are actively prirparing for two Literary Exhibitions in that place, to some of on the evenings of the 15th and 16th of March inst. The Programme neebraens a long list of Dialogues, Orations, he, suited to the tastes of grave and gay— the whole to be interspersed with Music and ganging• We doubt not that the partioipaias in the eseraisas will acquit themselves eatisAtetarily, and that they will be greeted with erowded houses. duetnatione in the weather daring the repent via ler hare had a diseetrona eireet upon the clover crops h. ataxy parts of the county. In some of *Ai folds, the roots of the pees have been thrown oat of the ground by the eeeeesoire hewing and thaw ing. Iron the dowse in the stubble Is inch World. Arlin Rsilros4 train* now depart bon sad arrive at this with ..weep laa• able ritidarhy. Xac)oal .Aitra,iriE!s.. Commie Similar/. sr. sigia• Ordered. Tit* Lem CMS& raorasesably S Wee Chi.. Tb. National liiimairdin. XxlaibLiisar. Ti. Ill Moor sad ab. Orals. IlLegieladve. On Thigsday week, a the Mose, at Har risburg, lir. Durborew presented a petition frds citissrue of Adams county, for the re pod of the tics of sealer of weight' and sessares, to fir as relates to the county of Adana. On .Wonday last, in the Sevate, Hr. Welsh read in place an Act to incorporate the Han over Gas Light Company. Mr. Keller, (Banks,) reported as commit ted, "A supplement to an act incorporating the Hanover Saving Fund Society, of York county." In the Muse, same day, M. Durboraw read in place a bill to incorporate the East Berlin Railroad Company. Also one author izing the Commissioners of Adams comity to sell and convey certain real estate. The bill relating to evidence has been de feated, by a large majority, in the Senate..... The proposition of the Senator from Indiana, Mr. Coffey, which allowed parties to the record and all persons interested to be wit nesses in civil suits, failed by a vote of 10 yeas, to 21 nays. The milder substitute of fered by Senator Bell, which permitted in terested parties, not on the record, to testify under certain restrictions, was defeated by yeas 12, nays 17. As the question is an en tirely new one in Pennsylvanit, it is better, perhaps, that before such a radical change should be made in the law of evidence as these propositions would effect, the'working of the system in other States should be more fully Wiwi. *.II_. illeetiaw. A series of daily religious meetings have been held fbr the last week or ten days in Christ Church (Lutheran) in this place, and 'reedit in progress. Besides regular preach ing every night, there has been a Daily Ern on Prayer Meeting, at 1 o'clock, after the manner of the great religions movement in the ebbs. This Prayer Meeting, we under stand, has been in progress at the College since the commencement of the Winter Ses sion, and, has recently been transferred to the Church above named. The Prayer Meet ings are conducted alternately by some gen tlemen designated from time to time,by a committed bating the movement in charge. It is opened promptly at 1 o'clock, with sing ing, prayer and reading of a passage of Scrip ture, after-which an opportunity is given to any person to participate, either by exhorta tion, inviting to pray, or designating a hymn to be sung. The rules prescribe that no one exercise shall exceed three minutes—no one person shall speak more than * ones during the same meeting and no similar exercise follow in immediuto succession. The meet ing closes promptly as half post one— t hus giving an opporunity to business men and" others to participate without sacrifice of busi ness engagements. Thus far the exercises hare been interesting and the meetings well attended. serWe understand that the citizens of Hanover intend presenting Mr. JAMES ROVE 111, of this place, with an elegant licit of clothes, for the services rendered by hint on the oxarion of the burning of Mr. Slagle's barn, in that borough. Wiirlhey are about organizing a Firo Company at Hantorer. They are also talk ing of forming two additional military com panies—one 01 Infantry awl one of Artil lery. iliiirMl. WILLIAM A. Ila.tax km purchased the house and between six and seven acres of land, of Mr. NATUINIXL LIGUTYCM, in Mount joy township, for $6lB. M. Nrstr, Esq., of Reading township. this county, has a cow which had a calf ou the 25th tilt., burn totally blind,' haring no sue halls. Otherwise too calf is perfect, large, healthy and doing well. Sir The Poor !louse Account* for 1858 are to be fognd in our colunins to-day. The statement exhibits excellent aaansgtment. and a decrease ofexpenditures. lli'The communication of " Rambler," a Obarade, and several Enigmas, are deferred, because of a press of other matter. !.sale. • PI LELOCIPIP 1 POLERMLOP I COPERTREPOC OLEPTIITPELG LEMT PEP T BBL ER THEMEHTRE LERTPEPTREL OLKP T lITPEL 0 COPERTREPOC I POLERELOP I PI COLELOC I P —, Pa., March 4,1859. A. s. • Ix no °impair lebeellamon• sails.... I am composed of 19 letters. Take my 9th, 18th. 3d. 13th and 4th letters; and you will bare all but the first let ter of the name of something which fills us with wonder and amazement. My 12 1 6 7 19 is very irksome to some persons. 11'2 is a word often used. 16 15 is an adverb. 17 14 is a conjunction. 5 is a consonant. 8 3 12 is an adverb and often used. 3 10 10 is one of the letters of the alphabet. My whole is delightful and-instructive. The answer to " M. C. s's." Amalgamated Enigma in your last is "Electric Telegraph." The Plantation. March 2, /859. 8...u.ta. IC sigma. I am composed of 18 letters. My 13 15 17 9 11 is a town in New York. 11 15 7 is an island south of Scotland. 14 6 7 is a metal. 8 18 15 is one of the exports Irma China. 2 is a voweL 17 18 8 14 9 12 is mostly used to carry a message. 5 1 8 is to decay. 4 3 1 13 18 fp very pretty to read. 17 6 1 7 is the muse of a Imast 16 15 6 10 is part of the body. My whole is what we atonal well do with out. MAZY HATS W. Gettysburg, March 1, 1859. fte TM Cusiew. Zslima. las soerpored of 13 Wises. . . My 4 13 is sn ezelaaiatios. 15 13 14 is a aleksauss. 14 7 4 4 is 'what a boy can Sell! U. 14 13 11 15 is a plaint, 3 13 11 17 is as anima. 14 17 13 15 4 17 15 is a disease.' 15 13 4 17 14 lis the same eta chunk. My wiiale is one of the scholars of Moans Superior School. Mourrrisasear. Ma. Vann :—The answer to Rebecca J. Rassell's lairs& ia, "The Gettysburg Rail road," and is comprised of the following pro ems, via: Tag lea play loved both by girls sua be.ril ilet is often worn by boys ; Goat is ag animal 'Tab = to wash In; Toys are vim ia ; Read ia viol perm should be abbe to i• ; Great is as vs ; Us is lama ropkalmewainer lb •. isa kiad el ipaki; MANX 141171 W. t aw . Magi OW • , . , lbws* es' en Old 0111110 W Mr. David Diehl, an aid iliA Mg* rospeat. able eitison of Hanover, slapsrled thls fife on Friday last, the 25th ult., in the 4 filliywar of hi s age. Mr. Diehl remote t Ilditiessonigh many pars ago from Adams' etionlyvo.of which be was, we holism*, a oaths.* His character wet that of a quiet, armlet' sad unobtrusive aitisea. His funeral tools place on Sabbath morning Ind i ra largely slams& ed. Rev. Martin Lobe oSeisted on the solemn oi;ession.—ffanover Specteler. ilimilikia Daub aad 'Wahl limber. Mr. John Rontson, as elderly geastemalt: residing on the Carlisle n shoat tlysef miles from Hanover, died suddenly a few days since from some iatestia• ditordser.:- Ccmmon rumor connected hie death with a fracas in which doomed was lalwigliPs Friday or Saturday last, and in whis k _ lt is alleged that ho wu terribly beaten. Thera is probably, however, no reliable foundation for the painful suspicion that death WM OR perindueed by the maltreatment which be received on that occasion.—lianseer byes. We find the following in the last Fork Gazdtc. The Littlestown communisation has a hoax-y look : We have received the following communi cation, which explains itself. York county. hereafter, must look to her laurels, when Adams takes the field. If we must be bent. we would gamer see Adams oar ooaqoarsur than any one else. for, iu that case, we could look with paternal pride and Plasm* gPuCk the exploits of our offspring: LirrLisrowa, Adams co., Feb..T., '59. Messes. blorrofts :—I noticed in the York papers an account of " 80/Nd hive hogs," which weighed when dressed, something over 000 lbs. I slaughtered one Wit Wednesday, which weighed, when dressed, 104 HA. Let York county beat that The piy was only 21 months old. Very respectfully, &MRS 8. CHANIUM. The following story is said to be true, but it is rather tough to be swallowed in one mouthful: A farmer living on the line of the Lebanon Valley railroad, cot,long sinee concluded he would send a lot of beans to Harrisburg, for sale. Not being acquainted with the *nudes operandi of shipping goods for market by the cars, be stationed himself by th• side of the track and waited the approach ot the ion. As they passed him, one of the doors being open, he threw his sack of beans into the Soar. The last that was beard of him, he was bewailing its fate, and said be would send no more beans to themtellows up there, for they never sent him * cent or a scratch of a pen." Hereafter he will take his beans to market himself. Mrs. Russell and James Hilton were arrest ed in Chicago last week, fur indulging in hugging and kissing in the street. The wa• 1111U1 beine the aggressor, was tined $lO, anti the man 63. We wonder if any of the.police of Gettys burg would have the impadonee.to smelt s a man and woman for indulging in a little luxury of that kind ? Why the people of Chicago are as bad as the ancient residents of Connecticut. when they were living ander the old blue laws. The mayor of Chicago must hare been jealous and fined the man ZI out of spite ;. and we will wager a big hoop that the lady oould have paid her eae with* single kiss. Ma. STATILE :—Send three more copies of the Compiler to this i.e.k directed according to the names annexed—and I enclose you the cash tor_them. Allow me to say to your fame. that you print tui etecellent paper must what is wanted by the Adams county reader. The univernal opinion here is, that it is one of the neatest, best and most interesting pa pers that comes to this office. Your " L nail Affairs" are particularly uuught eller by all classes of regulars. hope yuu are liberal compensated for the expense suit labor in. (furred in iuuing the Compiler. • ifirConsider us, friend "yours to command." We shall always endeavor to deserve the good opinion you and your neighbors have of our labors in the newsy.. per line. XirOn Friday evening week. the beautiful Sorrel Horse of Mr. A. C. GARD.Iftlt, of l'e tenburg. Y. S.. bad his leg broken. It wax afterwards rnind necessary to shoot him on mmount of the_ impossibility of having hint cured. He was a valuable animal. ant his death" is lamented by all who had ever ridden or driven him. Tee The Coopl3er. Elscat.ra bai taken Ware of his Congregation at Hanover, where he la bored for nearly twenty-two years. His future geld will be Littlestown and vicinity. Stir Sprin g is ooming! The robins mad blue-birds are bore again, to treat us with thetr cheerful notes. Arne Waynesboro' Record very proper ly gays tbAt the Gettysburg Railroad is the most available route for the business mea generally of that quarter. lOWA 'very agreeable Cotillion party cane cff at York Springs, on the 22d ult., under the supervision of the proprietor of the Springs, Mr. Moor.. Advertising Has enlarged many s small besisess ; Has revived n•.any a dull business; llas rescued many a lost business ; Has saved many a failing business ; Has preserved many a large business; Ilan crested many a sew bagasse; And ensures success in any basin's. Poe l'lmi Oomapiler Sur,au. allowed his bill for the acquisition of Cabs to go over until next session, in order to facilitate thy passage of the appropriation bills and to prevent an extra session of Congress. liirOn the lltkult. the Texas far mers wore planting Corn; p:aeh trees were in blossom, and then/lasi was look ing well. There is a large em ion Into Texas this spring. 11111rJohn Minor . Botta t of advocates a union -of the Meow iota, Black Berthßeans, And a l oke t factions, against the Dentoosserta No use. _ lerßev. Mr. Spurgeon lualsillithifon• ed his contemplated trip to Asierica, - certainly for the present your. So nays a London paper. vw.re7r,” liireetne wag tells Ckmgrese the United States Gas Works. - lora Jeff why am you alitt.o4 ee• dad" I gores eals ; aka_ yea." 44 'Ow yea_liap ice' r Mummy aid itiatiec - 'ls lies: avither Tough. Woroisia io Loiters. . Feb. V, 1850
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