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XIADAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1659
Vagarratir Itatr tirktt,
For dwiirur General,
^-111113041/DSON L. WRIGHT, of ritiladeirlifu
For Surveyor General,
jOaX ROWE, of Franklin county.
A pleasant story Is -A Slight Mistake," on
Orr first page.
The President of the United States, accom
panied by Secretary Thompson, left Washing
ton on Monday last, on a visit to Raleigh, North
Caroßlot, to attend the Commencement of the
iritlVarsity Caere. lie will rft ur4 to-day or to -
Narrow,
The Democratic State Convention of Ohio
iteeembled IR Columba', on the 25th ult., and
IL U. Itanne) for (jot ernor by AC cda-
C , Whitman fur Supreme Judge ;
VoMer Dorsey for Auditor; William Bushnell
for areretary of State. and Jacob Reinhard for
Tramway. The campaign has opened briskly,
Ohs Numerate giving the Abolitionists hot
hose into Monrning.—The New Orleans Bee
(Atitetiewn) declares that the American party
Leminisas is hopelessly, irretrievably die,
/Weed, *ha that any attempt to organize an op,
position to the Democrscy will be unavailing.
The construction of the section of the Bed-
lord K 1040441 from Hopewell to Bloody Run,
has base let to James Dull and Jas. Montgom
ery, of Harrisburg, and Thomas Collins, of
Cambria, Pa.
Miss Judson, who eloped from Pontiac, Mich.,
with a negro, and married him, to the great
disgust of all her friends, is to be rendered still
NM notorious. The whole story has been
dramatised, and will shortly be prOdacid at the
Metropolitan Theatre, Detroit.
Gov. Medary, of Kansas, who left Columbus,
ea the 21st, for that Territory, expresses
the opinion that the people of Kansas would
henceforth be exempt from the agitation which
has heretofore prevailed to so great an extent,
An Ohio sow, something more then a year
ego, swallowed apiece of broomstick, 18 inches
long, which remained in her stomach until a
few days ago, when it came out other side.
The editor of the Louisville Journal has been
PUTT' the unusual natural phenomenon of, an
egg without any white, the whole contents of
the shell being composed of yolk,
?he Troy Whig says there is a girl residing
with her parents in the lower Dart of the city
who is twelve years and four months of age,
and is the mother of a child about a month old.
• Its father is only in his sixteenth year.
A cubic inch of water converted into steam
will, by the condensation of that steam, raise a
ton weight a foot high.
A teacher, ens day, endeavoring to make a
pupil understand the nature and application of
passive verbs, said, " A passive verb is expres-
Mee of the nature of receiving an action ; as,
Peer is beaten: Now what did Peter do?"
Well, I don't know," answered the boy, paus
ing a moment, with the gravest connteaanse
possible, "without be honored!"
•A newspaper editor out West says, " that the
Amplest way of calculating distance of beaten.
Jy bodies, is the rule laid down by John
Phenix's celebrated lecture upon astronomy,
Wis., guess at one half the distance, and multi
ply by two."
Mr. Pallap coming home late, "pretty fall,"
dada the walking slippery, and exclaims : "V
-ter-very ; wh-when ever water freezes
it alias fr-freezes with the 41-slippery side up ;
Very sinelar."
Opposition Impudence.
The coolest piece of impudence and effront
ify we havo lately witnessed, is the attempt
of the Opposition papers to hold the Demo-
wade party responsible for the passage of
amendment to the Massachusetts Contd.
on, requiring tarn years' residence after
naturalisonon, before being entitled to a vote.
The whole country knows that the entire
Desnocratie party of Massachusetts can almost
be stowed away in a packet boat, and that
the Stets is overwhelmingly "Republican" in
its politiest and yet they pretend to hold the
handful of Democrats who live there respon
:•sible fur the odious amendment. You can't
some it, gentlemen, You must "take the re
sponsibility" yourselves, and if, in order to
please your Know Nothing allies in Massa
chusetts, you take a step that has the tenden
rye° drive out from the ' , Republican" ranks
the (swans throughout the North and West,
you must not attempt to shift the odium from
your own al)oulders, and to put the blame
upon men who abhor and detest the whole
transaction,
ltifir•Ths Attorney General of the United
Maim has recently written a letter (under
tke isstrnotion of the President) to the Judges
lit Mak tosahing the subject of the military
lbree with which the court for the second die.
test of Utah was attended during the term
sseently held at Provo city. After dilating
st some length on the relative authority of
the Gesersor of the Territory and the Judges
. in thisesse, it closes by giving the follow.
ins as the very decided opinion of the
President t '
L That the Governor of the Territory alone
bat power to issue a requisition upon the
'outstanding general for the whole or a part
of the army.
2. That Oar" was no apparent occasion for
40mt ptamoos of the troops at Provo.
S. net if a rescue of the prisoners in cus
tody bad been attempted, it was the duty of
the marshal, and not of the judge, to summon
Ow forge which might be necessary to pre.
trett it.
4. That the troops ought nut to have been
susetto rear° Ilithout the concurrence of the
Goverskar, nor kept there against his remou-
S. ?bat the disnt,wil of these principles
sad Mei of lotion Wu, been in many ways
saSeemoly saforsusate.
.last nrunbet of the Lancaster In.
feihipasatr says "We notice that several
liknessretis papers in the interior of the State
ken hpeken favorably of the Boa. ghaill
emu. of Centre county, as the next
Deseansie dastlidate for Governor. Their
likliatiesek not bare fallen ea an abler man
iiimaise Palsocest."
f ira. stoat carriage of kr. Hiker, of
i.-iggweeee L • 1,,
N. i 1.,. to atm . as ammo nada.
: - .7s i tibli v a,gieijderi agtr;bat did not work
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gorehap= i 4topel le up bill.
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news, eta.
•w4a• Xissodios.
VPOTORT
Virecis. th• other of *sties sad of Pro.
idots, Is still, as she has 'Tar boo, true to
tbe Democratic faith. From time to erne.
says the Frederick Citizen, strenuous efforts
hare been made by the Opposition to sedum
her from the doctrines taught by her early
petriots, heroes and statesmen, bat under all,
even the most favorable prospects, the schemes
and hopes of the Oppositions have failed. In
1840 the insidious and fierce attack of the ul4
Whig party had well nigh leveled the Demo
cratic flag in the dust. But even "Tippeea
noe and Ty ler too," could not conquer the
honest Democracy of that proud cid common
wealth. In that memorable contest, when so
many other Democratic States gave way, Vir
ginia stood true to her ancient faith. We
have not thus, at the writing of this article,
to refer to the election returns of that me
morable election, but we know that Mr. Van
Buren carried the State by less than 1,400.
Again its 1843, confiding in the unbounded
personal popularity of a great military chief
tian, the Opposition made another desperate
effort to win Virginia from the doctrines of
her founders, but neither the falsehoods of
the enemy nor the popularity of the hero
chieftein could accomplish the coveted object
of the "Opposition," and Virginia remained
firm and stezulfast in old and lung Cher
; ishea political .doctrines. The majority fur
!Omens! Cuss in la-is was only 1,500. Ou
each of these occasions the Opposition
felici
tated itself ilia% they were so near carrying
that good old Democratic comtgonweslth.
Elections for Governor and fur Congressmen,
however often they may have occurred, hare
demonatruteae—no matter how variant the
majorities fur this or that Democratic candi
d..tte.ethe same uniform and unmistakable
fact that Virginia was all the time thorough.
ly sad radically wedded to the Democratic
faith.
If, however, there ever was a contest in that
stronghold of Democracy which in its antece
dents was calculated to excite the apprehen
sions of - those Democrats out of hcr, borders
who had always looked to her with unfalter
ing trust, it was the one which has just ter
minated in the triumphant election of bones&
John Lecher es Governor. Why do we say
so? Because, first, no man had ever been so
virulently assailed by loading politicians and
presses of his own party before Ins nomina
tion—and, secondly, became for the greater
and most Important part of the campaign he
was confined to his home by sickness and un
able to meet his wily and unscrupulous com
petitor on the stump before the people. And
yet in spite of tha injustice done him by a
certain factious portfien of bis own party be
fore his nomination—which they were unable
and, possibly, unwilling to atone for after
wards,..s.nd in spite of the fact that he was
prevented by sickness from meetingjtis an
tagonist on the stump, except in two at three
instances, be bag been elected by a maiority
of upwards of 4,500.
We bail the result in Virginia as a most
conclusive and overwhelming evidence of the
fact that the Democracy of that State is
stronger to-day than it has been fur many
years. In view of the character of the op
position to Mr. Latcher's nomination. the
Bourne from whence it came, and the motives
which dictated it—and considering also tha
fact that be was unable to malts a personal
canvass of the State—we insist that no man
has ever in that State achieved a more bril
liant victory.
The Democrat* have elected twelve of the
thirteen Congressmen. Bowler defeats Faulk
ner. The Legislature is overwhelmingly
Democratic.
A Move on the Political Chess Board.
The last number of the Delaware County
Republican contains a column of editorial in
favor of John )1. Reed for President in 180.
We have it from good authority that a secret
movement has been in progress for some time,
and that letters have passed between political
wire.workers in many of the States, with the
view of forestalling the Cameron movement
by concentrating upon Mr. Reed. It is very
certain that Mr. Cameron's friends have be
some seriously a/armedat some things, of late,
and are considerably uneasy.
'genie national Democracy is the only
organization which, in this country, has stood
last and firm. It stands now where it always
stood. Buffeted and.hesieged, stiU it is as
steady as the rock of the ocean that stems a
thousand wild waves on the shore. Around
its organization will cluster again in 1860, as
they did. in 1856, the conservative influences
of public opinion—making their voice known
as the decision of the majority of the Ansel-
Calf PLOPLA.
Leff the Night Owls.—The Hon. George
Eustis, of New Orleans, who recently married
Miss Corcoran, of Washington. declines to be
a candidate for re-election to Congress, and
announces his determination to act hereafter
with the Democracy. Mr. Eustis has just had
two terms of Congressional service, fur which
he was indebted to the Opposition.
INSY-The Weekly Penstsyleamiaxi has been
enlarged and intyrured, and is now one of
the beat weeklies in the °Gantry. The enter
prising proprietor, Dr. Moserrrx, is sparing
no expense to make the raper worthy of a
very large patronage, which we hope he is
now rapidly realising,
Conitatition, the national organ
of the Democracy, has been so much improved
under the proprietorship of our old friend
Gen. BOWMAN, that we cannot help recom
mending it to Democrats everywhere--as we
now and here do. It is just such a journal
as the times require at the seat of the Na
tional Government
Greeley Keels a Slam Dealer..—We And the
fullowing going the rounds of the Western
Parnals
Horace Greeley, at Leavenworth, met a
gentleman who expressed pleasure at meeting
so dist' nguished &philanthropist, and in wish
ing him success. "Indeed," replied Greeley,
"I am happy to bear such sentiments, and to
see such men as yourself, where I did not ex
pect the least sympathy, in this laud where
I the iniquity of the nation is so firmly rooted.
God be praised ; the work goes bravely on."
"With your aid." rammed Mt. W.. "slavery
will soon cease to exist in Missouri. The
number of Ayres is now hat decreasing. I
am myself doing something towards removing
them. Only last week I took away thirteen. ,,
"My good --ftd howl where to!' ' "To New
Orleans. "Great God!" exclaimed Horace,.
"what! a dealer in human seals !" • "Yes,
sir, if that he what . los call it.- I buy and
sell negroes. I silat6sbted to you for the
profits of my business. Slat,aholders here
sell me their slaves for half their value in the
ISouth." to keep your disciples front stealing
them.
allrehambersbuirg ,utWAN& with les
tram Boston.
Popular Ikrrersypny.
The ilfishingtois Comelitution, of the Oth
slt., had sn excellent article entitled, ."Popu
lar Sovereignty vs. The Missouri Compro.
Niise." It hrielly glances at the rise of the
slavery question—at the momentous debate of
1853, and at the adoption of the popul.tr
vereignty doctrine in the Compromise Acts of
1650 and the Kansas-Seliraska Act of
Thee concede to the people of the Territories
the d u ty and thu right of dealing exclusively
with the geestion of lavory,—" suhjeut only
to the provisions of the Constitution"—and
the tribunal to expound the Tighten( the peo
ple under the Constitution is the Supreme
Court. Thir WO decided that the Constitati‘n
protects shire property in the TerritorieB.
The Con.sl;bilion then remarks as to the
new issues which hare been broached in oer
t.ain quarters
" This was the groat triumph of Popular
Sovereignty in 18,54. It was the triumph of
principle over arbitrary power—the triumph
of the CAlstitution over the usurpatory edicts
of Congress, Thu Democratic party, which
has ever proved itself equally the friend of
the Constitution and the advocate of the en
joyment, in their full irtegrity, of all the
rights of property of our people everywhere,
has assumed the ground of non-interference
with slavery in State arid Territory, and in
the District of Columbia, On this position
we plant ourselves. The abstract questiori of
protection to slave property in the Territo
ries by Congress, on the one hand, and the
power of the people of a territory to adopt
unfriendly legislation, on the other, are Dot
living issue'.
The intention of those who are now press
ing these respective views monut be other
than to destroy the harmony of the Democra
tic party. It is certain that it can be produc
tive of no practical good. It is certain that
no alaveholder in any Territory is asking
Congress to interfere for his protection ; and
it is equally certain that the people of the
Territories are not invoking the opinion of
politicians'as to the extent of their power to
trtl.ct a blow upon any of their citizens in the
quiet enjoyment of any property which they
may possess and which is recognized by the
Constitution. We, therefore. say this ques
tion is behind us. It is no longer an issue.
It is settled, and the best interests of the re
public demand that this source of sectional
strife should not be reopened. Let it be con
signed to the Tomb of the Capulets. The
great interests of this great nation require the
whole time, talents, energies, and attention
of our stsassmen. Kansas, formerly the great
feeder cf excitement, is quiet. The constitu
tional rights of all our people throughout our
vast country are properly secured and Bear
ded. Let the people, then, demand that their
public servants shall abandon a fruitless and
dangerous discussion, and come up manfully
to strengthen the hands of an Administration
which is striving to maintain the rights of
oar people abroad, uphold our good name
among the nations of the earth, and open mar
kets everywhere for our products, which will
stimulate domestio industry, and develope
the resources of a free and happy country. '
A Water Spout on the Prairie.
Yerribk .Destruction of Lift and Property.
—The telegraph has already furnished um
with a brief account of a severe tornado at
lowa City, but a letter from that place to the
N. Y. Tribune, dated May 25, gives these par
ticular*:
Last evening, while yet it was light, there
arose soddenly a violent wind, accompanied
by strong indications of rain. In a few mo
menta the whole horizon became pitchy black,
and the must vivid lightning darted athwart
the sky. A terrible thunder storm burst
upon us. While yet it was raging tearfully
the sky suddenly appeared unclouded in the
east for a space several inches in width.—
Many of oar citizens discovered, indistinctly
at first, the rapid approach of an immense
waterspout. The phenomenon was so unus
ual that the attention of hundreds was drawn
to it. The appearance of the huge volume of
water as it reached from earth to sky—sway
ing to and fro like a rope hung in the wind—
was exceedingly grand. The water-spout re
mained in sight nearly fifteen minutes, when
the sky becoming obscured, it was lost sight
of.
Scarcely an hoer elapsed before news was
brought that Jesse Berry, a member of oar
common council, had been killed in„a barn,
which was thrown down by the riulence of
the wind and water.
The next express from the country brought I ,
us iuformatiou that a family by the name of
Morgan. three in number. )tad been ',truck
—two of its members killed instantly. and
the mother so seriously injured that it is
thought impossible for her to recover. Two
men, whose names I could not learn, were
killed instantly. Many have had their legs
or arms broken, and others have suffered from
contusions and fractures, occasioned by the
fall of houses which had been blown down
upon them.
The water-spout seems to have been from
thirty to forty feet in diameter, and to have
destroyed a large amount of property. Its
extent was from seven to ten miles, and it is
said to have traveled with grearrapidity. In
one instance a barn of Mr. Berry's was taken
from its foundation, carried some three hun
dred yards, thrown down and crushed into a
thousand fragments. A child of Mr. Walsh
was taken up and carried nearly five hundred '
yards, thrown into a slough. but, strange to
say. escaped with its life. The spout appea
red like an immense funnel, and it seemed
very near, for the :whirl and sparkle of the
water could be plainly seen.
Oa the same day a similar tornado passed
over a portion of Illinois. A dispatch irons
Jacksonville says:
As far as heard from, it began in Calhoun
county, carrying everything, men, house*,
barns, fences, trees and cattle with it, from
Manchester to a distance of twelve miles,
directly northeast. We can count tbirty-eix
dwelling-houses, with all the barns and out
houses, destroyed. The number of killed, as
far as heard from, are Mrs. Route, a son of
Get). Vaa 'Alines, Samuel Brown, a Portuguese
in the employ of Mr. Route, Jonathan Car
lisle, JacoliSanaple and wife, and a kl r. Thom
as. There are about fifty seriously, if not
fatally wounded. 3lust of them, it is louts],
must die.
To give an idea of the form of the storm, I
nave in my possession a stone weighing three
pounds that was lifted up and carried silty
feet, passing through a window four teet
from the door. The door and partition of a
school room, twenty by thirty feet. was car
ried away, with heavy timber, and all cannot
be found within two miles of the place. A
wind mill was carried over four hundred
yards, with pipes, pumps, dc., the small end
foremost. There is not ten feet square with
in the route of the storm that has not rails,
boards, ke.. stack in the ground, so that no
one can easily pull them out. Whole parti
tions of house. are gone and cannot be found.
A man riding in a field was blown from his
horse, the saddle torn off and carried about
two miles from the place.
No one can form an idea of the terrible ef
fects of this storm. whim lasted but five min
utes. with but little rain. The cloud was
very bright. while, on either side, it was so
dark as not to be able to dietivnials ohjeota.
Three Days Later from Europe.
NO BATTLE FOUGHT YET.
lIAI.ITAZ, June 2.—The steamer America
with Liverpool dates to Saturday, the 21ss
ult., arriveoi here last evening.
There has been no beide yet.
The ..dustrimis had leafed from Vercelli,
which was occupied by the anise. and had re
moved their beedgnuten to Gariaseo.
Breadetelfs.—The market Me a declining
tendency. and ali qualities are slightly
lower.
The Liverpool Poet publishes (what it mills
reliable information) that the passage of the
Ticino by the French troo will be the
signal for an lumps& arum* %lames
Franc&
adrarain is declining in Same.
.Local .A.lTaires.
A T. Ileslimed.
When tbla neighborhood was canvassed for
subscriptions to the stook of the Gettysburg
RaiWad Company, several Jean ago, it was
predicted by the advocates of the enterprise
that the Lime business alone would pay •
large proportion of the interest on the invest
ment, The ineredulous laughed at the pre
diction as vastly over-wrought, and not to be
realised to anything like the extent antiei
pved by the more sanguine. But look at
th • result already had :—Duriug the month
of May. just past, 1,344.62:1 pounds, or about
1'7,00t) bombe's, of Lime, were received at
Gettysburg Station. on which the freight
amounted to $.196 59. Besides this, large
quantities of Lime and Lime Stone were
taken to Hanover during the month, yielding
a considerable revenue.
Notwithstanding the large amount of Lime
brougfit to this place, the suppky was not up
t) the demand-.-proLably double the number
of bushels could have been sold. To accom
modate the better this growing trade, the
Company have purchased several additional
Lime Cars, and will soon put down another
Switch, for the Lime and Coal business.
MI • rot Dart reT ed .
The large , B.tnk Barn of Mr. IL& tc Rire.
near Bluslitawn, Conowago township, was
struck by lightning on Friday evening last.
and entirely consumed, with ono horse, sere.
tel sheep. farming implements, &c. The
other horses were gotten out with great diffi
culty before the fire reached their stalls. The
lass is heavy ; whether insured to any extent,
we are not informed.
Suess thrldkr.
On Wednesday afternoon last, the body of
a white male infant, well developed, was dis
covered by some boys in the Run where it
crosses "Love Lana," near Bock Creek. The
news was rapidly communicated : and soon a
crowd of persons oullected at the spot. De
composition had already commenced in the
body, which it was supposed might have been
in the water ten days. An inquest was held
by Justice ARNOLD, and a verdict of death
from unknown causes rendered. It is not
known whether the child was born alive or
not. No suspicion, so far as we are inform
ed, has as yet fixed itself upon any one as
being the guilty party in this heartless deed
of infanticide.
Pa'chile.
Mr. 111C2ARD 11cHtattorr, one mile from
Emmitsburg, anespecterle farmer, of correct
habits, and living comfortably, committed
suicide on Tuesday morning week, by bang
ing. After eating his breakfast as opus], be
went to the barn ; and not returning fur sev
eral hours, search was made for him, but
having chasen an out-of-the-way place in the
barn to carry out his purpose, he was not
found until the neat morning. The act is at
tributed to a slight abberration of miud,
which was observed for some time previous
ly. His age was 50 or GO years, and he
leaves a respectable faipily to mourn this sad
dispensation of Pro-idenoe.
it.. Orr,.
An interesting little daughter of Mr. Gco.
F. ECICINInDit, aged about five years, wee
run over by a one-horse wagon ; in Chambers
burg street. on Wednesday ermine last.—
When picked ep the child was insensible, but
Dr. DORSEY was immediately called in. and
by applying proper restoratives, she soon re
vived. Although oonsiderably bruised. ber
hurts were not serious, and she is now stow
-17 rostured.
Will not the Council do something to pre
vent fast driving in our streets 1
Death of a Chilli.
A child, two years old, of Mr. Josue Bowel,
of New Oxford, this county, lost its Bah week
before lost. by drinking a quantity of
Early resit.
On Tuesday last, Mr. Joss Kiss, proprie
tor of "Selinsgrove Nursery," near A.rendts
vine, sent us a lot of most dolitsioui Cherries,
of the 0 Bowman's Early May," or " Six
Weeks" variety. It was a rare treat, anti
appreciated as inch. Friend Kime has our
thanks for his kind consideration, and we
trust that Lis pleisdi largeaales of trees may
be greatly hietwased. His Nursery is bard
to beat.
UM
Mr. NICUOLAS WISILIIAN, of Menellen town
ship. sends ns a stalk of Rye eight feet in
length—which is represented u little more
than the average of six acres. "If a body
should meet a body coming through each
rye," and "if a body should kiss a body,"
we are of opinion that the world would know
little ache matter, unless one of the " bodies"
should indiscreetly " blab" it.
School Biatters.
The School Examinations in our borough
took pla'ee last week—front which time the
Schools will remain closed for three months.
Mr. CONTIIig, the Principal, retires, bat his
successor is not yet named. The Directors,
on Tuesday evening, fixed the School and
Building Tax at 9 mills—one mill taken off of
the Building Tax, we suppose—and appointed
Col. S. IViruxitow Collector.
P assist ci...e.t.
We are pleased to learn that a patent hail
been granted to Mr. Davin WARREN, of this
plate, for his invention noticed in Abe Com
plier recently. The patent will be issued in
a few weeks. It is an invention for detaching
Cars when thrown from the track.
New Peweessgper Cow.
We find the following in the _York Gateifie,
of Tuesday last :
A Handsome Car..—lfearrs. Ilgenfrits and
White, machinists and car builders. of this
borough, hue just completed a beautiful car
for the Gettysburg Railroad, which we bare
nu doubt will give entire satisfaction to that
company. The body of the car is painted
green, striped with orange—the trucks and
platarms straw color, striped with black.—
The interior is finished with cherry and the
seats are cowered with new Brussels carpet.
At naa sad is an apartment for the stowage
of baggage. as the car is intended fur the
double purpose site baggage and passenger
car. The whole yresents a neat and hand
some appear/me sad redacts great credit
upon Osbuilders.
aiirThe new Locomotive and Pamere
Car are expected to arrive bare ii 2- 41011 4 3 W....
probably at noon.
The summer session of Pennsylvania
College oommenoed on Thursday last. with
the prospect of a large aeesseion ofatedenta.
Mir Daring the storm or Miley syssisyg
week, two home were kaki by Ilisitialig •
is the barn at "Mont El. /Wyse Callnp„
near lienntitebaig. They wow the preimpter
of Mr. Autumns Amon'. wig h lON
ploughing new, awd tooksbolisi istAbOomo r ,
&moral meow wbo Win 1. Os bang
very mkt etounhed.
ihroill• alma Ilsame.
The most destroetive bail storm that ever
occurred in this county, visited portiiins of it
on Monday last, about 4, P. M. The rain
descended in torrents in this vicinity, scam
pealed by a " sprinkling " of hail, butpro-I ,
duced no damage worth mentioning beyoud i
the " washing" of several corn fields. In
the neighborhood of Ilunterstown, however,
and from that point south-eastward, by New
thfo rd, as far as Hanover, and north-westward
as 'Middletown and Bendersvillo, the
hail came down with terrific force, cutting off ,
and crushing all the growing grain and grass ;
in its course, and rendering utterly worthless ,
hundreds, yea thousands of acres, which but
a moment before promised an almost un
paralledly heavy yield. A more pitiable ;
sight the enterprising husbandman never
before had presented to his eye. Farm after
farm, to the breadth of a mile or more, and
probably a course of eighteen or twenty
miles in length, are entirely devastated, as
though an instantaneous blight had stricken
them. The wheat and rye were rendered
perfectly headless—the grass as though
closely postured—whilst the oats and eons
were mown level with the earth. From scores
of wheat and rye fields which came fully
within the range of the storm, not a bushel
of grain can be expected, so complete is the
destruction.
The hail, much of It, was SO binge as a
hultled walnut. and in places it washed to.
Bother to the depth of several feet--so thick
that on Tuesday evening all had not yet
melted.
The amount of loot is hardly to be estimated
in dollar" and cents, and the visitation will
fall with almost crushipg weight upon many
a renter—:-many who depended with certainty
upon the yields of their flourishing crops to
enable them to meet their financial engage
ments. But by an within its immediate
scope will this extraordinary btorm be loug
remembered, and the sincere wish entertain
ed that they "may never look upon its like
again,"
la addition to the destruction of the grain
and grass crops on the course indicated
above, the fruit is ruined, the- gardens are
blighted, and no little injury is dune to
buildings beyond the ordinary breaking of
window lights which attends the heavy fall
ing of hail. Many of the forest trees aro also
shorn of much of their foliage.
We are told that in the neighborhood of
Flohr's Church, on the Chambersburg Turn
pike, the hail also did considerable damage
to the grain and grass on several farms.
To give our readers an idea of the charac
ter of the storm at Ilanover and in the lower
and of tlois county, we clip the following from
the Hanover Spectator:—
The hail stones which fell in the borough
ratite tired some of them, four mar: half inches
in circumference, many of them were the size
of hickory nuts, while most of them were
abent the size of musket bullets. They were
hard and solid lumps of ice, and descended with
terrine force and tremendous effect. It is es
timated that from three to four thousand panes
of window glass were shattered within the
liesite of the town. Our office and dwelling
suffered to the extent of 57 panes and many
of our neighbors fared as badly. The Luth
eran Church lost, we are t01d.1211 panes. In
other parts of the borough the effects of the
storm were more disastrous still. On Ab
bottstown street near the Railroad a brick
beildiost io the 110111116 of.areseicra and 3 sally
for the roof, the property of Mr. Jacob Myers,
was nearly demolished by the partial destruc
tion of the walls, involving we should sup
pose a very considerableuniary loss. The
Roof of Mr. Davis Garber's pec livery stable wits'
likewise injured, though not we belie, e to a
serious extent. We are informed that the
roof of a freight ear on the Gettysburg Rail
row] was turn away by the storm, and we are
aitthorised to state the almost incredible
fact that a number of holes were actually
driven through the sheet iron roofing of a
building belonging to the Hanover B. R. R.
Co. so unpreftdently violent was the descent
of t he hail. A gentleman belonging to York
had his hands severely out by the hail in
front of Mr. H. A. Webb'. grocery store, on
Broadway Avenue. Mr. Michael Carl, resid
ing on the Carlisle turnpike, was similarly
injured while endeavoring to protect his tenon
of , horses--tbe animals ware swollen as if
stung by bees or hornets. A hail stone
struck a dog running upon the rail track and
he fell as though be had been shut. The
roof of Messrs. Shirk & Slaee's powder
hoase was carried off, and the gable end of
Mr. Kinaig's barn destroyed. We hear of
trees being broken down, fences fallen and
many other effects of the storm in the neirb
lsorhood. It raged with great violence in the
country between this and. McSlierrystown.—
Some of the hail stones were as large as hen's
eggs and the destruction of property of vari
ous kinds was considerable. At Mr:Sherry.-
town the efforts were about the same as at
Hanover.
At New Oxford the storm was likewise ter
rific and did immense damage, breaking glass,
destroying gardens, stripping fruit trees,
etc. Our correspondent at that place writes
to us as follows : " Rain fell in torrents inun
dating our town, in fact it was impossible to
see across the square fur hail and rain. It
was alarmingly furious and continued for
about half an hour. The glass in some
houses exposed to the storm was entirely de
molished, the garden plants all cut to pieces,
and the peaches, plums, gropes and cherries
stfipped from the trees. Some supposed
that the last day had surely come, arid one
man was nearly frantic. When the storm
had abated cart loads of hail could have been
swept up, many of the pieces as large as shell
barks. A few days ago farmers could speak
of their crops in mosteasearaging terms, not
now however—their grain lies firostrate and
the stalks cut off. This is the case in this
immediate vicinity. ,,
There is reason for believing that the storm
did not extend very far. It visited York,
however, which is 18 miles distant. while
Littlestown, which is but 7 miles distant,
escaped.
The York Gazelle, of Tuesday, says :
Yesterday a ft ernoon, between three and
four o'clock, our borough and vicinity were
visited by one of the heaviest hail storms that
bas occurred for many years in this neigh.
borhood. The storm lasted fur nearly half
an hour, and in some places the hail entirely
covered the-ground. The stones were very
large ; and we fear that great damage bas
bees done to the crops and fruit., if the storm
extended any distance around us. This is
much to be lamented , as in the first column
of thispage we announce to our readers the
promising appearance of the crops everywhere
in this *Dusty. up to the moment of writing
the paragraph in question.
Th• storm of Monday also extended to
Wasidisgton swag, Yd., owl swept over a
strip of oountry, :boat two miles in width,
ices a few sass southwest of Ilagesstenra.
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otroly aspect of mid-winter, ind at the College
of St. James hundreds of panes of glass were
broken. The wreck is thorough, and thus in
one hour, hare thousands of dollars worth of
property, the product of a year of hard toil
and patient care, been swept away as with a
bosom of destruction.
Tho Frederick Cition, of Thursday, says :
The hail storm which passed over a portion
of 31i,Idletown Valley on Monday afternoon
last, is said to have entirely blasted the fair
prospects of the farmers residing along the
course over which it passed, which we learn
is about a mile in width and four miles in
length. This is a great calamity to those
affected by it, and very much to be regretted
by all. •
The storm of Friday week was very severe
in our neighboring county of Franklin. The
Chambersburg Ttanscripl says :
In portions of Franklin county it utterly
destroyed entire fields of wheat. rye, corn.
oats and grass, uprooted trees, scattered
fences and prostrated a number of out-build
ings. An orubard on the premises of a Mr.
Abraham Houck had some three rows of trees
turn up from the roots. It extended into
Camber land county, and, we learn, destroyed
a new barn of a Mr. Ilerberling, literally
tearing it to pieces. The space over which
the storm prevailed was about one mile in
width, and extended more than fitteen miles
in length, destroying all vegetation in its
course.
mirThe Military Election will take place
to-day. Messrs. 11. G. Clain and Jens Scurf
ace announced as candidates for Brigade In
spector, and W. F. WALrla fur Brigadier
General. The election for General
(for York and Adams) will bo held un the
first Monday in July.
atiirMr. &lam. lunar, last week, Sold
his Farm, in Cumberland township, to Mr.
ADAM Burr-153 acres, for $5,000, cash ar.d
possession on the Int of April text, Mr.
Ilerhst bought the farm from Mr. Juo. Butt,
two years since, for SLOW.
Discomfit Tickets.
A new and very desirable' arrangement
has been perfected by the Northern Central
Railway Company for the issue of what they
term " Discount tickets" between Baltimore
and Uanover, Littlestawniind Gettysburg.—
They are sold at the following rates :
Ihnover-30 tickets,
Littlestown-30 tickets,
Liettysburg,-30 tickets,
For Pilaimro.
A party of llanoverians are talking of
making an excursion to Niagara Fella, proba
bly in August. A capital idea—which we
hope to see imitated here. The round fare
would be made low, and the trip would of
course be plemant. We're in, fur one.
1A Ladies' Fair came off at Hanover on
Tuesday last, fur the benefit of the Brass
Band of that place. It woe quite a susses•
ful affair, the receipts amounting to between
two and three hundred dollaA. The new
Band Chariot, a splendid vehicle, was shown
off to good advantage on the occasion. The
"People's Band" of this place was the only
Band pretient from abroad.
Roble Art.
The storm on Monday evening last blow a
large tree across the track of the Gettysburg
Railroad a few miles on this side of Hanover,
after the down train bad passed. It was
covered by a man, whose name we have not
learned, residing near the spot, who went to
work and removed the tree, before the train
returned, than braiding probably a serious
accident and any detention of the train. The
company have, or will, grant him a free pass
over the road, which he certainly deserves.—
Star.
Mowing Trial.
Messrs. Sauce, BUICHLSI & K rare, ngen ts
for the sale of the New Jersey Reaper and
Mower. propose a trial of the machine, on
Thursday, the 15th inst., at 2, P. M., in some
suitable held convenient to the town. They
tell us that this Reaper. and not the Manny's,
as has been stated, took the first premium at
I\
the last York Fair. as we as bony other
Fairs of the interior counties, !peak con
fidently of its merits, believing I to be su
perior to all others. They wish, owerer,
that the Reaper should speak for itself, and
to this end, they invite the agents of all other
trachines to a friendly competition with them
on said oseasion. 'a
Conanmel:rimUKl.
Etardimmul Tostirsesiel.
The Ladies of the Presbyterian Church in
this place have just made a very handsome
gift to their Pastor, Rev. G. P. VAN Wyatt.
It is an elegant Sayer Pitcher and Goblet—
both beautifully chased, and of very neat
style—manufactured in Philadelphia—their
price $7B. On the Pitcher is the following
inscription
In teotintony
of the
. Zeal and Fidelity
of our Pastor.
To
Ro•. Oeo. P. Van Wyeit,
From his Friends,
Gettysburg, Pa., May 2Otb, 1559
The presentation took place on Monday
last, and was highly interesting. The Ladies
who presented it, were two venerated Mothers
in the Church, both over fourscore years,
Mrs. Axv 3feCcarir and Mrs. Parscrua Co
'mix, who thus showed their strong and
abiding oonfidencie in their Pastor. The few
remarks made were affecting, sad were feel
ingly responded to by the Pastor. The ele
gant gift was a deserved tribute to a most ex
cellent, worthy and faithful Christian Minis
ter, who will doubtless highly prise this token
of affection. The act is equally creditable to
the givers Sad recipient, and is one of the moat
pleasing incidents it has ever been in our
power to chronicle.
siiirAt meeting of the" Peoples' Baud,"
of Gettysburg, held June Ist, 1859, the fol
lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of this Band be
and are hereby tendered to the members of
the Independent Braes Bpd of lianover, for
their kind reception and the manner in
which they entertained as whilst on a visit to
lianover on Tuesday, May 31st ; and that we
will strive to cherish a feeling of friendship
between the associations.
fieeelsed, That the thanks of do Band be
tendered to the Gotyebein &Braid Caspany
kr th eir Madame down to the Bend.
By order of the Beeretery.
airliie *iv. Dr. Gramm will preset) le
the Ger. Ref. Church put Sabbith monde&
at 10 delimit. • .
11i!lit. D. Kasoutataar has removed his
Boot sad alms osiottlishiaset to Chambers.
hors gamito orPolii• Ilasbier's drug Moro.
' The qf A lteeosboi . e.—o The death
rest 401 rirests lisemstak, eoatioted of. the
itardie fitllyeolgtooth caned) at
the hoe tent of Cleriell Vosety Cow
beeerreeeited by tile sheriff, Ix - bag the •
dait Jens he isOr meanies el Wesiodastert
tor Mt Cempaer.
A Eafiromui Mr Lover*.
Me. EDITOR I—l found the following Enig
ma in on old paper, which may perhaps be
interesting to some of your readers, at least
to theme whom Cupid may have sent to the
orchard of Love to gather the •fatal apple"
for the fair daughters of old mother Eve:
Enigma.-esA, witty young gentleman living
with a rich farmer, fell in love with his daugh
ter. On hearing of this he said to the young;
man that there were three gates between his
house and his orchard, and that if he Moult
go to the orchard, and get a nuMber of ap
ples, and leave half he had anet.lpilf an apple
over, at the first gate; and halt t i he had left
and half an apple over, at the second gate;
and half he had left and half atf apple uver,
at the third gate, and bring one to him,
without cutting an apple, he might have his
daughter. I wish to know how many apples
he left at each gate, and the number el apples.
May 30, 1859. S.
N. B. reowsx, late State, Sena
tor, has been appointed Poatenaater at Phila
delphia, in place of G. Weatcott. Au ex
cellent selection.
VirNine Military Companies partieip3ted
in the Eno:wipe:lent at ChaluLershurg last
week.
Who Got hie Money ? —Gerrit Smith made a
complaint in New York last fall, while can.
va.sslng the State for Governor, that he had
given ;WOO to the owls° of the poor in
}Canute, "bat had never been able to discover
where it had gone or what good it had done."
Part of the money has since been aucututtell
for. Governor Robinson, of Kansas, in a late
speech, informs the public that General F lint
Lane has pocketed coo thousand two
dollars in hard cash out of Brother Smith's
pile.
gar Senator Seward took passage on &tut , -
day week for Europe in the Ariel !rum New
York. Parties of hie Irieuds accompanied him
down the harbor, in the eteamors la awl
Josephine, and gave him a parting salute.—
The New York Express says: It is well
,known among the admirers and devotees of
Mr. S. that he leaves the country in order to
avoid as much us possible its political compli
cations. lie is a candidate for the Presiden
cy, and expects to get it at the hunds of his
Republican frieuds, and of court() from nu
other quarter, fur from no other quarter will
it be tendered, even if it should be by them.
Mr. Seward,- we aro told, spoke very freely of
anticipated personal and political victory in
sefure leaving. Ilis friends allude.l to
it also, at his welcuine of the Repuldivaii O
Committee, on Friduv evening, and Es-Gov
ernor King seemed to be forentuAt to the will).
It is not our purpose to comment, much less
to spoil, so pleasant an anticipation. Thet o
is, however, as two proverbs %cry truthfully
declare, " many w slip Letween the cup mil
the lip," and " we sued see what we shall
see."
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Shocking Affair at St. Louis.
Sr. Louts, June 3.—Joseph Charles, I:sq.,
one of the eldest and most 1'01+04;10,1e ,pl
citizens, was shot and mortally winnided
the street this morning, by U. W. Thornton,
feimerly a teller in the ItJatinan's Savings
Institution. Thornton rtes tried and acquit
ted about &year ago ton the cliiir.r ' e of having
stolen $20,01/0 from the bank, and Mr.
Charles was one of the priazipal witnesses
against him.
Sr. Louts, Juno 3, P. M.—There is an in
tense est:hen:lent here in consequence of the
shooting of Mr. Charles, and threats hayo
been made of banging' Thorii,.on. The mili
tary have been ordered out to prpserve the
peace. One of the wounds of the victim is
pronounced mortal.
Horrible Ccime iu France.
The Court of Assizes of the Lair-et-Cher, in
P-anee; recently tried a young-woman nenicul
Oanthier, and her mother, a widow, named
R 'set, for murder. The younger woman, in
1858, married a man mimed thinthier, who
had two children by a former wife. She an 1
her mother wanted to make him settle on h.q.,
in the event of his death, the property 1,0
possessed,. but a notary whom theyitconsult
ell said that he could nut d o h o„as h dlg 3 . 4
the two children li t ed. On tlettheybriiught
frum nurse the younger child, mho was ahsoy
net a year old. • At diat tine ho was quite
healthy, but' the woolen ptve him lint little
food, and compelled him to take eutisidaralile
quantities of wine. and even brandy, every
day. The eonsequens.c was that he soon be
came-sickly, and on the 341 ofJuly expired.
On the ll,eth of January last, the Lwn vraoun)
announced to the neighbors that the elile,t
ehild,,three }ears of age, haul fallen i n to Itin
fire and linrited heNell t , , (loath. The neigh
bors finind the dead bads (,1 the
in the grate dreadfully burned, hnt a meds
cal man who examined it lio..lared that th,
little creature trust babe been, thrown into
the fire and pressed_with th e N ee .I „wnwar l 4
until dead. On that the two women were ar
rested, and the elder, after a while, relate
with revolting effrontery, that she had pro-
Tamed to her daughter to burn the chit I to
death, that the other had eonsented, and that
she haul then thrown the child on the tire,—
"At first,” said she, ", the Add cried, hut I
held, her down until she was silent; slto
struggled a little. and when she was quiet I
went away!" When this murder was 66114
committed, the young woman was quietly
sitting at the door. The jury declared tiie
two women guilty, and the court cuudemned
them to hard labor fir life.
Tornado in /1/ineis—Sl*.rteen l'ersons
ed.—Cbioago, May 23.—The Jacksonville
oorrespo ndeti t of the Springliold liejislei: say 4
that a most terrific tornadu oocurreJ twelve
miles south' of that city yesterday. .The vier
knee of the whirlwind is described u ex
ceeding anything of the kind ever witnessed
In this country, and could only be compared
to a West India hurricane. Sixteen rsons
are reported to have been killed and many
others seriously injured. Houses and barns
were demolished and blown to atoms. The
names of the killed have not been ascertained.
mar Daring the eontlagritioriof Canton,
caused by the bombardment of the British,
the extensive medical warehouse of our coun
tryman Dr. J. C. Ayer of Lowell. (the depot
of his Cherry Pectoral and Cathartic Pills,
for China.) was totally destroyed. He now
makes a demand upon our suvernment fur
indemnity trent the loss of his property, and
hence will grow another not to erect": with
our elder brother Johnny. Stick to it, Doe
tor; and if our Government maintains ear
rights wherever your Pills are sold, we shall
only be unprotected on tracts that are very
barren.--Reformer, Trenton, N. J.
, Commmlcated.
Dread/Sri Homieide.—Stephen Petty,killed
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary_ Aiken, a de
fenceless old lady aged some eighty years, in
the eastern part of Cherokee °aunty, Ala..
Sunday week. He stabbed her with a pocket
knife in some Ave or six places, killing her
initially. No cause is asogned for the dui
hello's' deed. Petty has been a preacher. and
heretofore regarded as a peaceable alscl'order
ly
Nere York, lune I.—The New Jersey Rail
road depot, at Jersey city, was portianyburn-
Id, at an 'early hour this morning, together
with the fer boat John IL, Duty tying at
the wharf. The steamboat was onto* sew,
and coot $60,000. The damp to the depot
is very heavy.
Beat is Lie Wye.--The wet has already
wade its appearance in the wheat in St.
Mary's county:2dd, and itsinridpii are said
to be fearfully on the facresie. - • •
its. Wept, a milkman in
K;., lost eighth* rehribie COWS
eu Tuesday w_arris t +Soddenly. The cows broke
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