II mum Ep.ExposiToß 1 CALRUSZat r 44 IVEDNPAY, MTy1gtr744,.1:£,36.1 THE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER s.-.:.----MCUMBERL/1110. COUNTY-! - Xerms—Two Dollars a yea: pr One Dollar and Fifty Cents. if paid punctually in J4dOnce. '1,75 paickwit4in 17(e, vear: ' • EXCITEMENT IN WASIIINGTON.—We learn that great excitement has been caused in Washing- ton, by the fugitive slave rescue in Bosten.--/- A Cabinet,, Council was „hold, and, it •Is : Bak! a ° procfninatioii will be illetecl by the PresiAcire, oommancling69 i4l , 6torcombiit Of the lair. • Meantime' 'the authorities of Bciston - Seem to be taking measures for the punishment of the rioters. , . • Welearn-a4c-from-Washington_thaLthe_ap. - __ Poioment , of Chief Jus,tice for the new terri tory of, Utah has been tendered by..the-Presi_ dent to our former townsman, L. G. BRA;a11- Bear, Esq. but declined by him. Such an ap-, pointment is a high coMpliment to Mr. Braa-.. rlebury's•ctiiiracter and talents. DOINGS IN IV4SHINGTON. Congres is obliged to adjourn on the 4th of /March, whichis not quite two weeks off, and. as yet the important business, that which con cerns the welfare of the nation; is scarcely touched. Not a.aingle aot of public impei tanco haS yet been passed. A postage bill has passed the House, - but has been as good as killed in the. Senate. The Senate have passed . a bill creating a Board of Account; for the exiimination of private claims, but'it hat Vet( defeated in the House. The tariff and the question of improving rivers and harbors are • yet to be noted upon. 0a Wednesday the Senate was engaged in a discussion of the' resolution authorizing the President to confer upon Gen. Scott the brevet rank of Lieutenant -General, for his brilliant achievements in Mexico. Messrs Atchison, Hale, Houston, Downs, Borland and others oppostd the resolution, and Messrs. Clay, Foote,H;Shields . ; - POwson, Seward, Butler,. Rhott and others in favoi Of; it. Mr: Clay made a short and beautiful speech, .and pro nounced a glowing tribute to Gen. Scott's fame as only the Sage of Ashland can pro nounce. The resolution was finally agreed to by a vote of 32 yeas to 20 nays. It will now come up in the HOllBO, and it ;mains yet to he seen whether the oppcisition Will be ungen erous enough to withhold this small token of approbation from the Conqueror of Mexico. EX,C;CV. RITNER We had the pleasure - , - -says the Harrisburg Telegraph; - of - taking - this worthy anti guished fellow citizen by the hand,_ while he was on a visit to Harrisburg a few days since, endives glad to find l him in the enjoyment of excellent health. ---- GcTv7Ritner is a striking illustration of the truth of the saying, that "every 'man is the artificer of his own fortune:". From the hum hilife, With - few of 'the advanta 7ges enjoyed by ehildreii of the rigeselit day - for a coMmon school oduinition, by dint of indus try, toil and the highest ihtegrity, he won the esteem of all who knew him—and succeeded to the chief magistracy of his native 'Stato.— Gov. Ritncr was-gifted with extraordinary nat ural powers of mind, which being -- Citltivpitecl with the means in his, power, soon distinguish.; ed him from those in the same position in life, around him, and gave him- an influence and position that led - to the honourable elevation he attained to. Ho is a farmer—a practical tiller of the soil—and'now residcu on a plan tation, near the place of his nativity, in Cum berland county, a few miles west of Carlisle,' to which he retificl when he left the chair. Of, State, and the toils,nnd vexations of 'offiCe.— No man ever encountered more bitter and re lentless hostility' during hie administration, I[llllllCprobilbly nowerli:V more generally the i•eaptiet and esteem of - all men - whose good opinion is worthy of being desired. - - • SpOTT 31CiV131111ENTS. We obse`rim in the Pittsburg American of the 48th.. inst., that the citizens of Clarion county have held a mass meeting and unani mously notainatedWinfield Scott as 'their can didato,for.the Presidency. Resoluthins were adopted eloquently exhibiting the claims of that distinguished citizen and ,patriot to the highest honors of the Republic, and also ex pressing abiding confidence in Governor Wil- Rani F. Johnston as an able and successful fi nancier, an honest man, a profoundstatesman, and a true-hearted Pennsylvanian. The Bedford (Pa.) Democratic Inquirer has put.at the head of its editorial columns the name of Collard Winfield Scott for President, and-that of William F. Johnston for Governor. This, the editor says, he does in accordance with his own individual preferences, and those of the Whige of-Bedford county, - who, at ono of-theliirgest meetings ever hold in that „re gion, convened at Bedford on Tuesday eve ning, adopted the old he t ro and Gov. Johnston- as their candidates. . LOCAL LEGiSLATTON • On Wednesday last in our State Legislature, Mr. Bonham introduced a bill which authoriz es the Cumberland, Valley Rail Road Compa ny to consolidate:and equalize all the stook of that Company, into ono upon such terms as shall,lie agreed upon by the holdins thereof,- It authorizes them, if-they shall deems it ex pedient, to extend their, road; under the, terms ancl;c9ditionirofitheir ; original charter, fur ihor and through the county of Franklin; and for these purposes they may increase their capital:o4k in an amount, not acceding one hundred thousand dollars. On Friday Mr, Bonham read`mplace a, bill .to change the memo of Charles EdwardSchad to thailif Constantine Von Hellen: is. TIIE E7C!.4 thiVERNAIENT,---Tho sup ply bills .3vlz . ich are before Congress include an expenditure of nearly 'forty-seven, millions of dolidze; its folldrns:::—The Defidiency bill, a znoutdink to about '52,600,000; and Dip: loriitic;'sg;lsoo,ooo; Army Ordnan'co and FoitifiCatioitii,"sl2,soo,ooo ; West Paint '$200;000; '10,000,000; Indian exlionfiee; $2,000,000 ;*`Nst ' 'Office; $5,6014- . 000 ' 000,000; and Harbor Appropriqions, $2,000,000; Light Domes, $400,000; Codst Surrey, - $lBO,OOO ; $ 1. ;0 60 , 0 , 00 1't0t61;540,686 000 AIRILNY:I4 Minimeor.k street ightlook place in St.iPiture bliiineeet4 on ,tho 14th of , Jahtiai7,lletwomr.loiephCooper; ahbroilier of Senator Cooptr,_nf Ponneylvanla and'ldataos M. 'Goodhue,- editor-of -the Miinicaota.Pioneer. Tile tatieo'#:the.igirawas Psi abieire, ertiele ip the Pioneer,. in which Judge 'David Cooper. -(no;rin aint!Col, Mitchell - Ivor° uo4-ereli'denetificed."Goodltim 'ioc'elved two' dangorone stabs in the abdomen, and' Joseph Cooper woo abet through' the hip.. At /Mit tIC 091111tellOih Pal4loB l i kil ; q11,001`04 , 114 , : • cyraaNGs FROM aommilive • REPORX. , - . Mr. :11onhittWs report, is entirely UM longfet. us review . hi extendp. lye haye determihed,' however to 'give a fe#abstrects, showin k the weahness.of the argument in, manY, Take as an instance'tlielollewing: 4lt id a settled axiom of political calumny' that trade betiveen nations must be barter,,or an exchange of commodity for. commodity.—. If'olieMation.briys the products' Of thellatair and capital of another, it mast pay for them in the.products:of-its.own labor or capital"— Report, pdge teis true, that to have free -trade, - merging to the idee'of: Scene politiCal leConomistfi,'.•na tions must exchange commodities, and if the 'exchange ie not of this SOrt,'thait theory fails. But' that when one nation buys' of another it must by some absolute necessity' pay in the-' products of its own labor and capital, we think is hardly tenable. We believe that among most nations of the world, with whom We have any intercourse, gold and silver mo ney is current, and that their commoditi64 can always be purchased' for gold and silver.— Mostlrc - quetrtlyinsteitro&dealing v by barter or exchange of commoditied, the nation buy ing-of another her manufactures pays for them in-money. Don't our own history _show that this is thd ° oase, and that whenever it is done - Id any great extent it is ruinous to the nation Which thus sends abroad its,money? It is to prevent such disastrous contingencies, and to keep our money within our own borders, that trepre in favor of American manufacturing.— The free trade men all take for granted that we can maid' grain cheaper than any other: part of the globe, and that if we buy our manufactured.artiolcs from England she will be forced to take our agricultural productS in exchange. May England not take our money and buy her grain where she can get it cheap', er_thanzwe can furnish it? There are parts of the world, and free traders don't deny it, where grain can be bought cheaper than from the United States. We think the fallacy of 'most of their arguments consists in consider ing England.and this country the entire world, which the Geography informs us is a mistake; We give another extraat from the Report: "But the idea of a home market is a Wilt , eious one. The manufacturers would consume the Same amount of ftOicultural products wore they engaged in the business of agricut 2 ture themselves that they - now consume."— Report, page 7. A most powerful argument. Grant that manufacturers would consume mare if they deli - voted themselves to agriculture, which they most undoubtedly would'; as the exercise of 'agriculture produces higher health and better appetites than any other pursuit! Still, when they did devote themselves to agriculture they would undoubtedly expect not only to raise their own bread but to have also sonic .wheat and other agricultural productions to sell, which must increase the supply and by a real axiom of political economy diminiSh the price. The Report speaks of the Protectiveystem es having origituded. in a dark "age.' how pleasrint it must be to Messrs. Bonham and Brindel to have the sun of truth_ shine upon them, when of Pennsylvania politicians they _bask.in.ite-rays-nlmost-alene-l—ln-tber-dark nos, we presume, are .Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster, •(the latter of whom could perhaps answer Mr. Bonharift - diarndu(ionaiwargument against_ 4, tariff in another part of the report if he were to try!) ti number of :other sagacions-states men and nearly all the practical business men in the country.' True, Mr. Bonham niay say that he ought to understand something about the value of labor, after writing this famous thirty-six manuscript page' report, and we think he ought, too, but not of produciire la bor. We have no further room to follow the report without wearying our readers. WHO ARE INTERESTED ? The rich man can take care of himself. lie is, to a considerable extent, equally indepen dent of free trade and protective tariffs. Not the poor mani His capital consists of his physical and mental energies. 'What ho wants is work. It is of vast "consequence to him whothes'it is the palicy og the party in power . industry,--T policy in which he Is interested is the policiy which cremes a talemane(for his labor. That system which will moat effectually scour° em= plOyment to the Mechanics and, Laborers of the country, is the system which the mechanic andlaboyer should support. 'When stripped of the miserable sePliTstries which theorists attempt to cast around it, it requires no pro found knowledge tm see that a system which looks to the importation of eVery species of manufactured fabrics, is not a system calcula ted to encourage Home Industry. lf we want to .give employment to American artisans we musn't go to England to buy our cutlery, our broadcloth, our calicoes, or any other of the thousand commodities which can be' just as well manufactured in this country. Those partizans who say that they are the friends of the working men of the country, and still oppose a ronsoneble protective tariff, can not be sincere. - What the working man wants is work. When there is an active demand for his labor, ho is rich: Whom there - hi no such demand, ho is "poor indeed." The system advocated by the Whig party, if carried out, will create a demand for labor at home: The system advocated by the Locefoco-party,..will create a demand for labor in Europe. This is the simple difference between the two systems. What working man can_hesitato for a moment which system to choose? And yet' thousands of Mechanics and lalmiers, bewildered by ' the delusive theories of the advocates of free trade; aro among the,sturdiest adherents of a' party whose 'whole Policy is diametrically opposed tmtheir true interests:. ,The question of a Tariff is likely soon to assume new importanep and a greater promi nence thanlor soma time.past in our political Alfseussions. Free Trade Leignes, wh0,40 real objects is to- promote the election , of Free Trader to the Presidenny,'are,pringing up in .various parts of the countri.• 'Their sophis tries; arta and efforts should be mot et the threshold; and the attention of the working men-of the country 'cannot too Boon: called to the weighty considerations invelveffi.in this vast and important subjegt: ..... ' PAIRLi* CAtionr!--:-Every Whig in the Penn sylvenia'Senatoisave one; voted against a rea- olution to restore the tariff not 'of 1842, in all provisions.—Dvnoerat. . , , , Oh, not so , fairly caught" as you think:— The-Whigs of the Senate_have the strength to pass a resolutiont in favor , of, the tariff of '427 but as . they are endeavoring io,logislato :for practical purposes it was no part of their-ptir l Pose to pass such a resolutiOn . as tho ,ahove; especially, when offered in,a trifling spirit by 1 4nI'x.EN4P.WP. / 3 4 i l Frlct.' , "q9QTsP 'Phar°fibt cenyieted at yf,estehetttert 'gat) Pt It/9 ,, 41° r of ;pas fihatigess, the tteheo . l teacher, , 1/o was : on 116 WA B i'e l 7 ,3 tuProt,ei!tre t!?l4tp retnailte .. Previ, one to prortounein4'sentenee ef . but the culprithateued to hire with the utrnoskocrp o, .. sure; It is understoodlhat he has confessed the crime, and that bia,objeck was to obtaiii tho v watoh She had about In' person: MIN ME " . - 1 0 .ttEr. B.A.NTEING. • A ••• - • • Th governor,e in . his :ntessage, calls the-at ' tentiontifthelieghlleture lo•the establishment . "of A systeni of.freo batalfing. The following, - explanation of that system, we copy front-the Pittsbirg Gaiietleries it is not generally under • stood. 040 ,Or 'inch personi„ desirous of . embark ingdn'tlie busiiieS4 butup say half a million ofilltate tit , Malted Stales 'Stocks, which steaks are deposited with an officer designated by inW; 'at the - sent"-'Or Gofernitient.' In" l'esv York this officer is called a "Cpraptreller, and is.choson by thery,otcs v irf L tho,whole ifebile.— TheSestocks forms' .seOrity !brislo.., • 'This &lie, and'hnvindthe Invieul,aniunt of gold and nilyer . on hand: with_which , to,carry, on the bnsiness, the "Register"—an officer •Chaseh tor'the purpose., whose 'bffialj is 'at the seat of Government-rfurnishes thil bank with the amount of bills which it may laWfnlly put in circulation, signed brliniself r iatur which aro to.be signed . also . by. the'..rrosident Cashier of the bank. This .amount—hieing less than 'the amount • of par' 'value Of life Sto'clis deposited .with - the Conliptreller—the bankers cannot transcend, even, if they were disposed. They•are now a lawful corporation, - aiank - ofisconnt, - depoSit - ind --- issuerregn. - hated and. governed by the usual restrictions,. and invested with the ordinaiy Privileges,'of hankers.. We have shown how a bauk may bo built up; we 'will now show hold it, May be ,takeit down, if need be. When a bank fails to' re deem its issues, or pay its general deposits in gold and silver; the-fact is duly certified by the party aggrieved to the Comptroller, who, forthwith issues an injui - Mtioh, selze.Ohe - as sets, and puts the bunk in liqUidation. The stocks:in his hands are; converted'into cash, with which in the first place the bills, aro re-, deemed, next the deposits—the remainderis then the propertV of the banker'Or bankers in. their individual capacity. • Some such system is' uch needed in - Penn-. sylvania,more so indeed, than in, any other State. This would be free Banking, .' regulated by law, and Would do away, at least in a good . degree, with the ottomans amount of Private Banking now existing amongst us, regulated by nothing but the caprice and cupidity of one party, and the necessities of the-other. Every city, town, and hamlet in the State, is oppres sed and cursed by this system of private bank ing, which no law , can regulate or eontrolA„ It is safe. Nothing but the total progintlbn of the credit of tne: Commonwealth can sub ject the bill holder to loss. It - is republican.- It throws the business' of banking open to all who will comply with the conditions of the law. It is patriotic—hecauso, _it *ill take-our State Stocks out of the hands of- r foreigners, and keep among our own people the large a mount they pay annually in - the - shape - of in-. , terest. • It keeps them at homii, not a dead capital, but as a basis of greatly increased and perfectly sound circulating medium, tine in fusing life anthert,ergy,into every department of business, and developing our unbounded natural resources. It is wise—because, it will convert our debt from ng an onerous bur den to an element of inion - libd prosperity. It will emphatically be "making the best of a had matter.'.! There i2..as we learn from Harrisburg, a fah• prospect \ of the free banking law passing I the Present Legislature. le Reading a large meeting of all parties in favor of .it has been held, and the members from Berks will proba bly support it. , - - JUDGE LEWIS'S OPINION The last number of the Lou' Journal, edited by the lion. Ltd.'s LEWIS, PresideneJud i ge .of the-Lancaster—judicial — distriet; — contains — th, following opinion given in an able article on "the banking system." Judge Lewis is 11;011 known as a locofoco in politics: There.is no reason why the people `should not be secured by a deposite of reliable and convertible stocks to guaranty the redemption of the circulation. There is no reason why the amount of circulation shall be increased and diminished at the pleasure of a few bank ing corporations, without the knowledge or control of thct public authorities as welt as without security. There is - nri reason by the profits of banking shoUld be granted,' as a monopoly, to a few favored corporations and withheld from the people at large. There is no reason why the State should not provide for the gradual payment of her public debt by adhpting a system of banking, founded upon.:, the deposit° of State stocks, with a provision that one per cent per annum, upon all stocks so deposited, should be appropriated to the gradual payment of the debt. The piesene President of the United. States has expressed himself decidedly in favor of this System. It has operated with entire safety ha New York, where it hay men confined an it should be• to the stocio,pf, the State.or the Union. Among disintaiUsted and intelligent men there is no crones banking interest is so powerful, in Pennsylva6 mitt and withal So shrewd in their measeres to sustain the present system, that it may take time for trutil, prevail ns it must in the end. „ FREE TRADE iv GREAT Bt . cor respondent observes:—according to the tables accompanying the Report of, the Secretary of the TreaSary, the exports of tobacco for the year ending July 1, 185,0, amounting to 101,- 501 hogsheads, valued -at $5,844,207. Of these 21,047 hogsheads were exported to Great Britain, the value of which is put down at $1,771,000. The duty in Great Britain being three shillings - sterling per pound, or about $BOO, per hogshead, that country collected and will collect, when the whole is taken out of bond for consumption, $17,557,600, which sum is about the annual revenue the kingdom derives from the duty levied - en - a potion 9f the products of ionic half dozen of the Stales of this, Union. This is free. trade in .Great Bri tain! And we reciprocate ltlby permitting her to flood i thc country with her goods at the expense of our own industrial pursuits; THE SUSQUEIIANNA BANK SWINDLE.— The Harrisburg correspondent of the Lancaster Intellistencer, in speaking of the report of Mes srs. Buckalew and Wright, commissioners tip pointed to investigate the affairs of the Bank of Susgtiebanna county, says—" The repOrtis rich in developements, . which will cause the Bank-loving people to open- their t;)yes SONIC What. WVhen the Bank failed it hadjtist thir ty2seven and a half rents in specie In its vaults and one sorry - looking fine dollar note. You should publish this report, in order that the people may see how - easily rascality of the 'grossest character may be perpeirated r -.with impunity by any luinks if the officers are so disposed.". The readers of the ' , Volunteer., wZro treated to the above in the last number of that paper. But our neighbor did idicif: tell then,k, l as he might have.done with entire ' truth, that the management of the- Stisquellanna Bank, was entirely s'nlprofocn It was not a "federal bank"in whleh this " Outrageoui' sw4idle'!, was perpetrated. The.case of the Busquehan nn Bank. indeed shows how, ens* rascality mayle perpetrated by anY;bank• under the present system, hill:under a Free Banking law, no such swindle cotildharetaltimidace. ' . PIIILADEL.PIifA DISTIiIQT. ATT . OIIIIEI4- , -Tlle , contested olOctien case: in. Philadelphia exhi bits fraud's of, the most astounding: character; It is now evident that ;W. B. Reed.was.elected by the people,, and. a fraudulent return, Made from Meyamedeitagi.giving the , certificate to Born: IL Knoass. Many persons Who did not. reside, in the:Ward, and iwlume,,nnames appear o ' n, the tally listing Laving: voted, .swear 'that : they didnetorott;:ak the election,. and rnany 'were ohaent from the . Ward. :More, .voters,. than. the, whole:number returned, for:, Reed, in, the 241y4rd, have already. eiver,e that..,they, voted ; fer Reed. , ,T,Aocofopoista,does not,stop pj hritles,in pursuit ,of plunder. , ..` .r. t THE FEDitTAIIY INTEglegT.—Tha senu-niaa Untirileihtioii'tho'tqato'bobWrimoußting to ,V94 0 ,2741711 , 4is rtid'to jn.' ftinaci on. Clio ;18 tttionojK`ouoggh loft the treasury to ineet•strolirrent4letentele: ;•,j. ; :r 3 4ErOnT ,ort-connioN:sitoova We ha.VofteileiVed..a'cOpysof the seventeenth 4nnual Report ,of the Superintendent (A. L. ituseell,..Eeq..)ef ' , Common . Schools of Penn . . ,sylvania„fortheletii ending Juno, let, 1850, and find it to cootainMatters extremely inter esting to the friends of education in the State, and the citizens generally. : , The follouing,ox- , prepared with much care - from thd re ports of 'thcr district directors, affords a con densed viett'of 'this operation of the — SysteniTof the.year ending June 1, 1858: Whele,ntioster,of 11'1887 Nninber paid during thcYear, ' 1273 ;Whole number of Schools, 8510 Number yet required.- • -- - 674 Av,erage•nomber of: months taught,' Number of male teachers. 6972 Number of female teachers,,393s_ Average salaries of male touchers , • per Math, " Average' salaries of female teachers • per month, Number of male scholars, Number, of female icholars, , Number, learning 'german, ' .:—Ax.erake_nurabez.iLselmlardirk_L_ onehnohoel. • ' Cdst: of iteaching.eaWschookper „., ..• i ' inotith 5144 • Amoant tetai. ' $102,422 .07 Amount received from State ap propriation • , 159 ? 86T 44 Cost of instruction H 609,877 45 Fuel and oofitingeniee 63 329 .14 Cost of school housds, purchasing, ' building, renting, and repair- .' • ing „ 353,74.1 06 The piinoipal ammo of . complaint against the presenteystam is the incapacity of tilehers, and the report proposes.e.remedy, by n,ppoint lug a superintendent for 'each CongreAional diatrict,,whoso duty-it shall be toestablislitup sup,orviSe..a.tetitherte seminary for.; thorough instruction in the• Common School braneheS.-f. They could, be established and supported at trifling expense, and through their instrumen tality much of the fund now squandered could be advantageously ,employed. An alteration: of the mode of collecting the tax is reconimen decl,-and a reduction Of the number of diree - tors from G to 8 suggested." The main feature of the report, and thatfor which it is to be most commended, ) is the:pro ' position which the Superintendent znaltds of establishing a :State .4gricultural-*4l. J ifThe propriety and usefulness of such an institution • is ably urgedliythe Superintendent, and , the duty ofgovernme'pt to extend every ,possible facillty• to the, advancement Of agricultural sciencels strongly enforced. The plan in its details 'embraces an institution large enough for the instruction of 600 pupils at a time, 300 to be supported by the• State, and 200 at their own personal cost. The State pupils 'selected ..from_overy. county, inAhe ratio of three. pupils for each member of the Hoffse of Representa tives, the selection to be determined by the standing of the candidates in- the oommon schools, so that admission to the State institu tion should be the, highest reward of merit.— __The-term of -instruction -for-tho State pupils "should not be less than six years, conunencing about the ago of of twelve years. After the organization would be completed and the sys 7 tem in regular operation, fifty pupils would, -- I,liFer folic, enter, — auU - fifty be diliarged every 4 yhar. A annul of Ilegente, consisting of three persons, to be elected by popular' vote, to reg ulate the fiscal affairs, appoint Professors, &c. One tl.oustind acres of land to Le purchasect, affording to.all,the.popils, antlicient_area for the practide of tillage, after deducting space for woodlands, orchards, pleasure grounds, yards and buildings; suitable buildings to be .erected for the domestic and school accoitim6: ~ cations of 411111wapils; alkbrary rind philosr;ph ical apparatus.. Eight professbrs, with six tieen assistants, for the various branches of i nstruction,.and for the maintenance of discip line among the number of pupils. . The financial features of the project make the total original 'outlay for lands, buildings, implements, &0., $250,000; current outlay, interest, $15,000; salaries of Regents, $3,000; "Piesident, $2,000; Professors, $1,200 each, $0,600; ton male assistants, $5,000; six fe -male assistants, $1,800; salriries of• overseer steward, matron, and seventeen female doMes- . gross annual expenditures, including salaries, clothing, food, &c.., $74,500; !urinal income, at $l5O a year, for each paying pupil, $30,- 000—total net cost to the State, $44,500, or about ono hundred and fifty dollars for each State pupil. ' Thia flitid;•tliC — Sape - rifitendent thinks, will attract 'lt . . largo number or pupils from other States. The Agricultural School at Germantown, a -private oCterprise and necessarily limited in 'resources, has pupils from the 'most distant parts of the country, and its merited success proves the , Cotrectness of the opinion expi'essed in the report, that a State InStitution, on the - comprehensive scale propoted by the Superin tendcnt of common schools, would he eagerly sought .by students from other Sta r i •• ' report fixes the annual charge for . ; &tits at one hundred and fifty dollars, - ing every item of education and. maintenance, clotbing.only excepted. This charge is cer qainly too low. There' can be no pat that -the institution, founded and conducted as the Superintendent proposes, would at once corn mand.two hundred paying students froin 'our own and other States, at two Hundred dollars a • year-each. This would yield forty thousand dollars a year, reducindthe,cost of the insti tution to the'Conarnonwealt, to thirty-four, instead of forty-four thou Sand dollars as . the report estimates. There is no college in' the • country that Offers equal adqautages for "the 1 same - cluirge: CliA.r,-A memorial from the State I. gisia= tore, of Arkansas,.M . favor oi the aggn'isitiori of Cuba, was presented to the Senate, a few 'days sinoe,,by Major Borland, . This is the beginning of an important movement, and, ono . itp.t will, probably, eneinto the: next Pres contostr. ,AnneTation and accjuiition appear to be:favorite schemes with . a largo portion of the people of this ebuntry. ncs Tens and California:. .:We pereolve, al so, that a' correspondent of the Baltimore Clipper augstAs tho purchase of Miteari from Portugal, and . itays:--! 4 lYe.Wantttet.'onir the ,key to the (lull of Meideafbnt afoothold for our coinnilige'in 'the 'Cantr#4,Flowery lling 'dom. " • •.-. . . " Kosount.:—A,Washington corr9spoodeqt of tho N. Y. pilinoo,ifates that Dr., Toylor,-of ,l'onnsylvania, Lae recpived diopatoltos from `,Hosooth, the illustrious 4. llWegarian 44,t0tuitun,. cloolring him .to, ectnilouniooto to tho,.Ulxited States govertuneF4 his entreaty foT.itti.intorco 7 Irene with th'e Turkel* gove a rnment,, in ,fayoF of hie reloose. i Icosauth Oleo oxprooseti lie desire to.. °oleo :to, the ,United Ste toe, The Tribune's, eOprespootiewee Ode that Mr: 'Web later will ropl*, foyoroWy• ~;, • • Tdo : Quoioy linitiosoi.—The two '1)01 5 13611S ! loan and yillb, wito . so:romantically mat death n inehr, Quintly; Maiiachnsetts, ' aro said' John Gidoit Zinthivilro; Tha gives a long accaittit cif thath; that' they' iliotO poetry, 'wake lOW ot ' peared;to biisb'esestieaioty 'rand-, itdirliOtiOr their - Strange. ' :tugs: • Vitriol' novelk deem to: have' boon. - . the A 1: b ;:;.. ~ r. IiTATT4p.V • BOUT #0111E• itedHea LTtieres Ezhlbltion. .. The exhibition of this Saeietyi, place on MnuditY,ovening the 24th,linstealj. of the 22d, , tin' advertiedin our:last; TemperaiLee CpnitOn. ;'- We are' requested. tostata that the 'Dirk and Cumbe'rlandyemper'anno Convention will hi' held at zsTeCliimin'6ur g i,,oii' Stittirdny tffe.lnt of : March, at.lo. o'clock A. M whore 'all who are friends to the cause of temperance are in . , • vited to attend. ztv ' The' Aileghstnialis: Thchie accomplished vocalists .gave a Con cert last evening inliducation Hull, _affording high pleasure to a large and faslibinablo audi— ence. Their sinking fully men-its the warm commendation" whicli we. notice in so freely lavished upon them by the •pressrin- -various seotions,of the country. .. • $17'20 $10.16 203,302 19(1,052 11,041 Weiiihfil;ton , s Birth-Day I . The birth-day of the ithinbEtai WABLITNOTON r wo-leain-w ebratia4tirmbecoming—s ' 'Fit in our borough. BesidOs a handsome mill !tary parade, we understand that the members 'of the Union Fire Company, will parade in full firemen's dress, under Col. A. NOBLE, as 'Chief Marshal, the - members drawing witq them their Enginwand Ifose-carriage, which ;will be tastefully decorated for the occasion.— They have also secured the. services of the 'Barracks Band, who will parade with them.— We have had handed for publication the fol lowing programme: The lumbers of the Company will meet at their Engine-House in Loather street, at fq o'clock in the morning, when the procession will be formed rind' move over the following route, viz: Up Louther street to West; along West to Main street; down Main to Pitt street; along Pitt to Pomfret street - ; down Pomfret to Hanover street;. along Hanover Qo North'street ; countermarch to Louther street, thence along Louther to East street; along East to 111#in street; up Main to West street; No West to Pomfret;street; down Pomfret to Pi kstitet: along Pitt to Lowther Street; down Lo ether to Hanbver street; along Hano ver to South ; countermarch to Pomfret Strect; doWn Pomfret to Bedford street; thence along Bedford to' Louther and up Louther .to the Engine-House; where the company will be Volittnteers of,l6ll:—Notioe. We are requested by, Jacob Squire, Esq. to state for the 4nformacion of the surviving members of the Volunteer Infantry, who march: ed from this borough under the commandvf Oppt. Jacob Squler, end,were attached_ to_the.. 49th Regiment of Maryland Militia; under the command of Lieut.. Col. Veazy, in the service of the 'United States in 1814,' that all the mem-, hers of the said company are entitled to forty acres of bounty land each, under the act of Congress.. of. September - .14 th-,- 1830 ? --Their. Military service and discharge will appear upon the company and regimental rolls now in the Auditor's Office. Thus the solffier . need_ only , prove.his identity—the widow her marria.e— fheheir luTright to inherit. . Should it_be_inconveniene-to-the claimant to locate the land in person, he may transmit his warrant to the .Commissioner of the General ,Land Office, Ishose duty,it js,to_cause to belo cated, free of wens°, "any. warrant-which ' the soldiei may transmit to_the General Land Office for that purpose, in ouch state and land iliatriet as the said holder or warrantee may designate, and upon good farming land, so far as the same can be ascertained." Mr. Squire therefore suggests to claimants in his compa ny thut it will be best to have their land loca ted in a body, for if in a body it will bear a bet ter price than if separped into forty acre tracts. After receiving the warrants they can request the .Cothmissiouer of the General Land Office to locate it for them in that way.— Surviving members of the company, or their heirs, would do well to confer with Mr. Squire on the subject. The Valentine Maula As a proof that the young follit;011Y-availed .than,selves-a-thOltrivileges-of-thcrecontinr niversary. of St. Valentine, we are informed that no less than front eight hundred to one thousand tender and sentimental' effu sions in the shape of Valentines passed thro' the Post Office in this borough., We regret to learn that the. occasion was token advantage of byn number of gentlemanly blackguards to attempt to introduce into respectable families communications of the most'obscene and infa mous character. Put these purposes . we aro gratified to be able to state were foiled in a multitude of instances (possibly in all).by the vigilance and care of our Post-Master, who took the responsibility, and very properly too, of suppressing such letters as bore umuistake able evidence of their infamous character.— Military Concert. • The admirable Band connected with the Car-' lisle Barracks, announce a concert in Educa tion Han, on Thursday, (to-morrow) evening, on which occasion they will perform an attrac tive se potion of Mush,. The Band has fre quently contributed to the enjoyment of our citizens by their public performances during the summer, without soliciting or receiving remuneration, and they deserve "therefore, 'on this occasion, a substantial manifestation of the liberality of the public. ire shall be glad to see a crowded house. • We are requested to state thnt.there aro a number of valuable bookS" missin,g- from tlCe library of tho late Judge Reed, which had been loaned to persons in town.,,,?,'llany,,,Pf them brenkset3 and render the othbavolUmes' comparatively worthless, as for instance, the first volume of the letters of Mince the first vidume of llume's England, several Volumes of Scott's works, and in the Law Li brary tho first volume of 9reenleats Esidenee. There aro only a few of the numbers Missing. • Persons having books belonging to this library, „ 'ivi:luld , thereford aonfor a great favor by inpe,:. dip,t9ly returning tilem, or handing them over - ' - , . . . ]. Loontpig Land Warrants.. . . ;Wo observe hyi the 'Gettysburg Sentinel, that Gen t ,T. C. Miller, of this county, . designs ".going r to Illinois in tho Spring, with the view of - locating his min Land :Warrant and time? of a :number of his, neighbors—and that he will,ohearfully servo any of his old emarades in thu war of 1812, .W.taking , With the Warrants of those who may think . proper to send thorn )vith him, for s tlin purpose : of loon., .LITERAILY NOTICES. •" Waeotteta; or the Prophecy, , " by Major Richardson. ' , 'We'have , received from the pub lishers, Messis.• Dewitt and,Dayenport,!Tri- • buns Buildings, Ilew,York i , a book bearing the , above naino.: • Tliq Work is,boatitifallyprinted,', ongood paper,. and contains 224,1arge - oetave, l pages. , ,'. As a.novel•;writer, the .anthoris 'not mask:if .equalled, by any, writer ittthe awn- , try, (not even. exaspting :Messrs. , Bulwer and James.): .'rhis book is considered , *: master- Aces, andVell it ,deserVestbe;nnine; the it of. the work consist in.the spirit oflts his'. torioal pictures, which possess;.at -the COhiltitenC6 of truth. Price ,fifticenta. • .' 111119 MlA:sing Books. ' Pere!oxekl Property }late,. • In addition to those itenotbfore ,Mentioned, the follerting;;sales of. Personsil 'PropertY will take place, according topubjio notices prin ted at lhis office :• Sales of Diy Goods, '4. by 'auctionAt the store of S. 4. Coyle, in this boroiigh,-fOr three eveninie, commencing on Thitrsday, the .21st 2 . . ~.•Sale of personal property; of Daniel Irrich,, of Dowel. Alien township, otyltontlay the 2.1t1i of February. Sale of personal property of George Priest, dec'd. at Good Hope Mills, West Pennsboro township,. on. Tuesday,. the 25,th' of : February. Sahviif personal property of thedatti Adam Ileigel, , deo'd, in Mechanicsburg, on Wednes day, the' 25th of• rehrtiary. Salo of personal property of Benjamin Dil icr, deceased, of North Middleton township on Friday the 28th of Febrilai , y. Sale of personal property+ of John Brindle, of •Monroe township;— on Friday the 7th o March. • Sale of persondlP6Porty'of Santhel Kinder, n,South Middleton township, on Friday, the ith of March. • , Sqlc'ot'ispziF7itl - M3FO - ftrWter Dill, in Shiremanstoirn, on Saturday the Bth of March. Sale of personal Property of Jacob Goo, year, jr. in Cburchtown, on' gonday, the 10 'of March. , Sale of furniture, books, &c. at the resilience of the into Judge Iteed, in this borough, on Saturday, the 14th of "➢larch. ' Sale of personal property of Frederick Fish er, of Dickinson township, ou Tuesday, the' 18th of March. ME A fire broke out yesterday in a smoke house attached to the dwelling of Mr. Peter Spahr, in Louther street. The.firemen were speedily on the spot and prevented the spread of the fire„witnut damage. . TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES. News of the Lost Steamer Atlantic . . NEW YORK, Feb. 14. j The Packet Ship Seine,,fronHavre, 'arrived ht this port this morning. Capt. Williams, her commander, reports seeing the American SAcaniship Atlantic when she Was four days out from Liverpool; under a full head of steam in Longitude 21 degrees west. The Seine had just experienced a heavy gait:. Capt. Wil hams did notsee anything remarkable in the movement of the Atlantic. He thinks if she had been disabled after he saw her she could not reaoh the Western Islands, in consequence of, the wind bloWing from a contrary quarter, The Mantic had, if the degree of longitude is stated' correctly, accomplished only about ono quarter of her voyage during these four days, which is considerably behind her usual speed—.l.l.amaccident.had—happened _to .her_ after going thus far, it, would require probably several weeks to return, under sail, • eitlier tO n`h English or Irish port, or 63 the Azores.— The fact'that the Atlantic haa been seen by a Havre packet, would seem to indicate • that I (MI; -West-has taken - - a 'Southern course on -1 this voyage, as Havre ships Hover get "so far north-as the usual northern route. r , Conjecture' is still at--fault in regard to the 'Atlantic, , Ind ere L -y_one-is-hoping-thatAlke-M-rica; rica; now daily expected- at this port, may bring - further newsilor. her. (News of her safe arrival hat sine, been received.) ' The District Attorney Case. Purr,Anntrum, Feb: 14.—1 n the 'case of the contested clecliew for - Distriot Attorney, the Court sat rsterday afternoon, refer ence to the alleged frauds in the Second Ward, MoyanMnsing. Eighty-two persons testified yesterday that they Voted for William B. Reed for District Attorney, in that ward; These, in addition to the fifty-five examined previous ly-, make one hundredand forty instead of nine ty-ftue given to Mr. Reed by returns. Sever al others swore to the best of their knowledge and belief that they voted for Mr. Reed, 'ns they obtained their. tickets from his known friends. ° The persons from whom these per sons had obtained their tickets were also ex-: unlined, who swore positively that they 'carri ed no other sort of tickets than thoSe 'con taining the name of Wm. B. Reed fdr District Attorney. Xllxeltement in noston.LS'itgltive Slave Reacteed by a-Mob ! Bosros, Feb.. 15.-•—Frederielc Wilkins, • a waiter, was arrested to-day, as a fugitive slave, belonging to John Debree,• n Purser in the U. S. Navy. The ease was heard before. the U. S. Commissioner, and was postponed until Tuesday. , Wilkins remained in 'the Court room, in the custody of officers. , A mob of, hlacks rushed in, knocked the officers down bud secured the prisoner, and hurried him off. This act has produced the highest excitement. - Boston, Feb. 17.—This morning an affidavit appears from P. Riley, Esq., the U. S. Deputy Mar:dial, relative to the rescue. Ile com plains that the Mayor and City Marshal did not do their . clitty. It is reported here that ) .•xteen warrants are out for the arrest of black tors. Shocking Affair in Georgia BALTIMORE, Feb. I'7.—The dwelling of Mrs. SWinden, near Macon, Ga., was destroyed by fire lately, and she and her Nur children per ished in the flames. It is supposed that in a fit of temporary insanity she murdered her children and fired the house. - Murder anti Snickle IlotinAvsnona, Feb. 17.—A man named Pecht, at Blair Furnace, yesterday, killed his daughter with a hatchet, and before the mur 'der was discovered ho drowned himself in a saw-mill darn. He was.partially insane. A LnOISLATIVE EXCURSION.—Tho Baltimore ' Patriot 'says that the rark and Cumberland, the Susqueltatunt, and the 'Baltimore and Ohio Itailroad'Companics:, have in*ited ;The Gover nor antlAßie . ,lgembeia of,the,..fiegielaturo of Penasylvania,'to pass ov4? - 411tfit.: respective roads, from Harrisburg ie goo. and back, free of expenee,,and it is - .Nlieelptl- the invitation 'will be Aiccepted.' PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATUR44/11 tfIC:PCIII/- sylvaniii:,Sonnte,.on-Tuesday r .alhili dg -intro duced supplementary to tho acet9pttinguish tho public ,dabt-cr rennsylvaninKrlt ; !requirea persons malting returns of their lroPerty to the Assessoro to, do so Oa oath, 't also Prevides that the 9ounty Treasurers 04,11911. 4 Aunty s.lAnll,coll.vQt all taxes. It will into the treasury $509;090 a year. ,'II,IILIO . LANDI3.—.-itiS officially Stated itinoty=iive of acres of public finds, will be:required , to" satisfy the warranh , of sohliOrif in the 'lnto' war, and' . the 'of tge t ri'eaAtni , ephipdies that it frill 'take: IA the 'rate pdhliOlarids have 'feed heretofore sixteed Years to dispose of these" ninety= live ' ' " • TELoori.tomo. Conussoo;;UsNoo.—r-qQuoboo, JanfiQ,—pour 'Torn: °l'm. &cosh:lg.:. ore yours, Henry TAO ,TOply ITfte 4 NOIY 00.011115, Jan. 81,-1".)Oar, Hwy: molting. Sigul foq:by tologruph : „ ,Yourg,• ; Tho..l.luines,?? Fivq yours Blue°, 44're,..b00. 4: put -( 10 1Yu0'. 1 4 .Alutoltaissou,..of Aio.nrpt . ewmor. .„- . . learn- from the report of Gen. ROI:WORT %01181Taiinfc mamisaioners, that, for the year 1d66,' alb iitoome from the Philadelphia and .Golumbin Raifrond.alninintdd to *358;8 95 , 16i Tieing ahOut,' nine per bent.. 0ti,54,900,000, Xtsilr'Capt: Vadat; 13. Pabst. nail 4:31011!•,, tho,co4, of the. road .and.!..4, l og ehinery upon . Irnil,od'iv"itfi'.'iehiiiriloi,..df..`.(tooxgq,,,,tutiiy, It truly 'it- gouffying in illiladelphie, last haye been aerjuitted thlitira,iiitd willf nftcY 'a long b4i4 , .lurtrii '.." , :st yl :!..• • •.• ' • •• • . , . AZ:E, ! Theidtcaniehip Aftliea arriyed atsNew York on Saturday night last; with two weeks later frion'iHurope, 'The Aft4ea brinks' . the Joyful news of the 'safety of the stenrashit: .Atlarttio, about whose'Safeiy BO pinch anxiety has been NC.' It appears that when nine days out, she broke her shaft, and-.yams' impelled to put back.-. She Was-aeCorit-whentthe Africa left. All her passengers came over in the last na med steamer. The 'Atlantic experienced ter rible weather, and the scenes at times must have been truly . perilous. Her machinefy is much damaged, and will probably take two months to repair her. But,thiii is as nothing, compared to the fact of her re-appearance-af ter so long a period of anxiety, and the entire safety of all her passengers. • The following additional foreign news has beef brought by the steamship Africa: The Ministerial. crisis in , France is over. The President has snStained his position ; which is saying more than can' be said of his en entics—Thonitra-legitimisftyntake no se cret of their dissatisfaction with the conduct of H. niers and Berryer. The people have: been tranquil; the funds hare remained the same. • The report is revived that the Pope is about to abdicate and retire to a monastery for life. Cardinal Antonelli proposes, it' is said, to create three cardinals in the United States. The Dresden Conferences seem likely to evil in the complete discomfiture of the liberal party in Germany. The chief nations ein Europe are 'making preparations to despatch their respective pro- - fluotions to the world's fair in London,' during the ensuing summer. Tut PIIDIOREE or W:taniNorox..—Mr. Ma plesnn. the editor and illuminator of Pearls of o:;:.rican has published an illits tra the pedigree of General Washington, as tracetland illuminated by Mr. Mapleson, carrying back his descent to Win. do Herbert], Lord of the Manor of Washing ton, in the county of Durham, England. From' him descended John Washington, of Whitfield, In the time of Richard 111. and - ninthAirde scent from the said John, was Ge6cge, first" President of the' United States. The mother of the John Washington who emigrated to Vir ginia in 1657 ; and who was great-grandmother to the General, was Eleanor Hastings, daugh ter and heiress - of John Hastings, grandsoir - to Francis, second Fail of Huntingdon. She Sias the descendant, through Lady Huntingdon, of George, Duke of Clarence, brother to King 543vard IV., and King Richard 111., by Isabel. Nevi], daughter and heiress of Richard, Earl of Warwiek, the Kingmaker. " - Washington, therefore, up well as till the descendants ,of that marriage, are entitled to quarter the aims of Hastings, Earl of Salisbury, Plantagenet, Scotland, Mortimer, Earl of March, Nevil Montagne,-Beauchamp, and Devereux. ELECTION or U. S. SENATORS.—TLC Legisla tures of, the ._various_States- this yea have a hard time of it in the election of ^li,,,S. Sena tor..: In Massachusetts there have been four teen ballotings, and still they arc as far from a choice as ever. In New, Jersey. the same clic- }iculty prevails: `rho locos after ,taking al , a candidate in canCils;dropped.him, and.took up Commodore Stockton. The joint meeting for election took place on Friday, and four inef fectual ballotings showed that the , millioriaire Commodort; could not be elected. A motion TofrOitpone ilieicireraiied by a vote of 41 to 37—Messrs. Williams and 31nyheo - Orbigs, co_ ting with the locos. On the fourth ballot the vote stood 85 for Dayton, agnint flB for Stoc kton., Williams and Mayhew weKe burnt in ef-, figy on 7 Tridalevening, at , Trenton, in cense queue° of their deserting their party. A Loco nrT NOT AN . ULTRA Loco.—Gen. , James, the new U. S. Senator for Rhode Le land, is net a bad pill for the Whigs to mid low after,;all. The Providence Jdurnal says : He voted for Harrison in 1840, for Clay in 1844, supported Taylor in 1848, and was pre vented from Toting for him only by absence. He voted for Anthony for Governor, although lir. Sackett, his personal friend, was the op- osing_candidateand;fcr-feartlisrall theSe7 Pledges which htre plit conduct, offered might _ not be sufficienede in 'writing a distinct , ono for the future. In a communication to the lion. Sprague, he distinctly pro nounces himself in favor of the 'measures of the 'Whig party, and de'alares. that_if_elected to the Senate, he shall render to those meas ures a cheerful and cordial support. STATE LITN.ITIC ASYLE3I.—A meeting of the 'Soard of .managers of the State lunatic Asy um 'was held at Harrisburg, en Saturday ust. The following acting Board was elected, :iz : Pr. Luther Heiler, Presieent ; Dr. John .;urwen, i d is, Superintendent; John A. );"if.,r, Harrisburg, Treasurer add Aaron Bomhaugb, Secretary. Win. D. Slay- 3 maker has been appointed Steward of. the Asy- m. No LICENSE IN atixois.—Tlio following is the substauce.of the no license bill which wits passed by the Legislature of Illinois:-1. It repeals all lice'nso'laws. 2. Prohibits the sale of intoxicating drinks in a less quantity than one quart, under a yen:thy of 525. id. If sold to minors increases the fine 'to from . to 100. 4. -provides for at" penalty of not less than 25, nor over 1100, for selling more than a quart,,and permittinglhe same to be drunk on the premises of the seller. ing :limy liquor to come within . the prorishMs' of the law., CENSUS leErumss.—The 'Washington Re public states that complete returns have been received at the Censlis (Mice from eight of the :Maim's., Nen- 'llanipshiie, Vernitint,,,Na'Ssaelinsetts, Rhednisiand, Nary-. land, Kentdalcy, Wircensin; and front :Hid Ter ritory. of Minnesota; and. that partial re itFnli have been received from all the 'restof the States and . •TerritOrics, except California and Oregon. • ; • The complete retfirifi:ridll hardly: - hintWcoltf: ed by the Secretary of tho Interior in titne)for• hint to declare the ratio lidera the adjontif ment'of our State I;gialatuke. CQ A rich rurgsr, in Auburn, Neff Mitt, - is to bo buried in Owasco Lake, lteautifpl sheet of water none thut town. He b r ass stoiM, node, which takes twolvo yoke of osen 'to arfiff it. Ile giros:4 . mm n uico , form for burying him., Ho is to take him to the middle . of• the like,Mnd sink him. ',, • . . ritts..A. 'Washington correspondent. of Um !Can York L:.rpreas intimates that n now journal :will take thii`place "of the Tl'irshiti..gfon , Globe, and , will .become . tho organ and ndroente following ticket for -1852:—For' President, Thomas' . H. 'Benton of Missouri. Tar' Vito President--. MM Van Buren of NoW.York.