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Progldent, —FriANKLIN Piritcr.
Vivo President— A do facto , . D. R. A'rotiv?oN.
:-.. , oeretary of State—Wm. 1..
.Eeeretary of In terior--ItonERT McCLELLAND•
Seeretnry of 'treasury—.l.‘ ME!: TIII: I E.
Forrolary of %Vor—.l rrui(...v 1).% \ Is.
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111:.1WL.L.A.
Auditor
Trod.iurer — Eta
.lul4es of tato LowlO. J. S. TILAcK,
'W. IL Luwitdr., U, W. oiniw Attu, J. e.
OPrZCERS.
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Dr,thonotal•y—llauiel K. Notal.
Itee•wder, nogg.
Ite,4,, , tur—William s Lytle.
llttn Dertreuml; Deputy, :fames
11 uluur.
C'eunty Treasurer—N. W. IV,aal, •
C,,roner---.lesoldi C. Tlpthu.oson.
,anty C'onlan,,,ion , rs —3 • it, I; James Armstrong.
eionr.tu dl. Oraluttn. Clerk to Commissi , mers.
itiley.
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dle, John C. Brown. Superintendent ef ‘' r Il~.n~e—
Juseph Leh—, . .
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Assistant AtUtles*—;:tutuld (foUld,
Town C. kl'reAtlent) Henry
Mon, John-tlntslantl, Peter Monyer, F. Ulu-tief . , 11. A.
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Cleric to Wetzel.
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McCartney, Wald U...nstable.
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cmitrituar.s.
rim Prosbytorian Chun. ert ..ngle of Centre
HeV. 0/SWAY P. %VINCI, Pastor.--r,r, iceS .36.1ry
morning at ll o'clocii, A. and
Presbyterian Church, corner of South llanovor
1 l'oturr..t. streets - . No past , r at pr. 0.. t, but pulpit
in-rkt by Presbyterial appointments. ;-.ery ices conano nee
at 11 0 clock, A. 71., anti i u clock, P. 11.
Churen, !Prot. F.piseoleil) northeast Angle of
Centre Squ.tro. Item. JACOB IL Mult,”, hector. Sankt:a
at I I O'rlock, A.M., clod 8 o'clock, P. M.
englW.t Lutheran Church, Bodlord between Main and
I.a tier streets. Item. .1 Oat, Pastor. I•Sorvicus
'at 11 o'clock, A. M., and o'clock, I'. M.
(Jarman Rot:aloud Church, I.,outhor, botwoun Hanover
awl Pitt streets. ltev_S. it. Kitt:AE/1, Pater. ;Services
at 11.)!.1 o'clock, A. M., and I'. M.
71etn.aliat E. Church. (first charge . ) corner of Main and
Pitt streets. !tom. S. L. M. cossea, Pastor. L , orvices gtt
11 Wel,elt, A. 11. , and 73.6. o'clock, I'. M.
71ctbwlist I'.. Church, (se..ond Charge) Item. .1. 'M.
Joxes, Pastor. Scrwleas iu Collage Chapel, at 11 o'clock.
A. M., 311.1 L u'elock, M.
lt'rt Catholic Church, Pomfret, near Hart street.—
Services by liar. Jh. DoSAnoa, eveo ,owed
tierouto Lutheran Church, corner of
Ite.tford ati•ents. Rum. 1. P. Naschohl. Vilsiur. service at
.1. M.
c hm,...,.s in the above are necessary the pro
per portions are requested to notify us.
DICILINpOIsT COLLEGE.
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Roy. Ciutrios CuDills, President and Prolessor of Moral
Science.
Rev. I It:11113 tl M. .IMinsomm, Professor of Philosophy
nal English Literature.
Jautue IV. Mllll7llllll, PnlfeSSOl' of Aliment, Law,miges.
Rev. irtis ii. Tiffany, Prof , ..ssor of at he:wales.
Willi: nu C. .Lecturer on Natural Science and
Curator of the Museum.
Alexander School, Professor of Hebrew and Modern
I.anpr,tittAes.
liwijamuin Arbogast, Tutor in Languages.
liaininol 1 , . 111111nan, Principal of the tirautumar School.
Wilii.tut A. 6nively, Assistant in the 14:1.111Ulltr School
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C ted.istu Drrostr Ilisa.—President, Diehard Parker;
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rick Watts; Secretary, Lemuel 'Todd; Treasurer,
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;., i dd, Wm. M. 1/00,0111, Dr. W. W. Dale, Franklin Hard-
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VOL. LIT.
I.4IRALD EXI .Y o.h,
NATIONAL AIIIERICAN COUNCIL.
We are at length able to lay before cur rea
ders the Platform of Principles adopted by
the National Council of Americans,, that has
been in session for a week past, in Philadel
phia. It is as follows
I.—The achnowledgement of that Almighty
Being, who rules over the Universe—who pre
sides over the Councils of Nations—who con
ducts the affairs of men, and who, in every
step by which we have advanced to the char
acter of an independent nation. has distin
t.inguished us by some token of Providintial
agency.
IL—The cultivation and developement of a
sentiment of profoundly intense American.
feeling ; of passionate attachment to our
country, its history and its institutions: l of
admiration fur the purer days of our National
existence ; of veneration for the heroism that
precipitated our Revolution ; and of emulation
of the virtues, wisdom and patriotism that
framed-our CoMstitution, and first successful
ly applied its provisions.
111.—The maintenance of the union of these
United Mates as the paramoulit political good:
or, to use the language of Washington, 'the
Primary object of patriotic desire.' And
r,
hence:—
Ist. Opposition to all attempts to weaken
or subvert it.
2d. Uncompromising antagonists to every
principle of poliey that endangers it.
3d. The ath:ocacy of an equitable adjust
ment of all political differences which threat
en its integrity or perpetuity.
4th The suppression of all tendencies to
polijicnl division, founded on ` g eo g raphical
discriminations, or on the belief that there is
a real .dilference of interests and views be
tween the various sections of the Union.
sth. The full recognition of the rights of
the several States as ex pressed and reserved
in the Constitution; and a careful avoidance,
by the General Government, of all interfer
eace with their rights by legislative or exeeu•
live action.
IV. Obedience to the C7rinstitution nr these
United ;Rates, as the supreme law of the lan•1.
sacredly obligatory upon all its parts and
members: and steadiast resistance to the
spirit of iunovation•upon its principles how
ever suspicious, the pretexts. Avowing that
in all doubtful or disputed points it may ot.ly
be legally ascertained and expounded by the
Judicial power of the United States.
And us a enrol ary to the above:-
1. A habit of reverential obedience to the
laws, whether National, State, or Municipal,
until they are either repealed or declared un
constitutional by the proper authority.
2. A tender and sacred regard for those
aF,ts of statemanship, which arc to be contra
distinguished from acts of ordinary legis
lation, by the fact of their being of the nature
of con:pacts and agreements; and so to be
considered a fixed and settled national pol
icy.
V.—A radical revision and modification of
the laws regulating immigration, and the set
tlement of immigrants. Offering to the hon
est, immigrant, who from love of, ,liberty or
hatred of oppression, seeks an asylum in the
United States, a friendly reception and pro
tection. lint unqualifiedly condemning the
transmission to our• shores, of felons and pau
pers., •
VI. The essential modification of the Natu
ralization Laws. The repeal by the Legisla
tures of the respective States, of all State
inws allowing foreigners not naturalized to
vote. The repeal without retroactive opera
tion, of all acts of Congress making grants of
hind to unnaturalized foreigners, and allowing
theta to vt.te in the Territories.
1:01
Tll.—Hostility to the corrupt means by
which the leadel s of party have hittayto for
ced upon us our rulers and our political
creods. Implacable enmity against the pres ,
ant demoralizing system of rewards for politi
cal subserviency, and of punishments far poli
tical independence• Disgust for the wild hunt
after offiee which characterizes the age.
These on the one baud. On the other—
Imitation of the pr.ictice of the purer days
of the Republic ; and, admiration of Alid max
im that 'office should seek the, man and nut
man the office,' and of the rule that, the just
mode of ascertaining fitness is the capability,
the. fidthfuluess, and the honesty auto in
cumbent or candidate.
Vlll—Resistance to the aggresivo policy
and corrupting tendencies of the Unman Cath
olic Church in our country by the advance
ment to all political stations—executive, legis
halve, judicial or diplomtitic—of those only.
who do not hold civil allegiance, directly or
indirectly, to any foreign power whether civil
or ecclesiastical, and wlm are Antetierms by
birth, education and training:—thus fulfilling
the maxim, " AMERICANS ONLY SHALL GOVERN
AMERICA." ,
The 'protection of all citizens in the legal
and proper exercise of their civil and reli
gions rights and privileges; the maintenance
of the right of every man to the full, unre
,
strained, and petteeful enjoyment of his own
religious opinions awl worship, and a jealous
resistance of all attempts by any - sect, denom
ination, or church to, obtain an ascendency
over any other in the State, by means of any
special privileges or exemption, by any politi
cal combination of its miebers, or by a di
vision of their civil allegiancewith any for
eign veer, potentate, or ecclesiastic.
IX.—The reformation of the eh trader of
Viip N u fur tie jfamilti etrrit>,
PLATFOIIIII AND PIIINC/PLES
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1555,.
our Nationalelegislature, by elevating to that
dignified and responsible situation men of
,-higher—qualifien-bons,-purer - monrls and - morn
unselfish patriotism.
X. The restriction of extensive_ patronage=
especially in the matter of appointments to
office.—so far ns it may bc-Teimitted by the
Constitution, and consistent with the public
gooigf
XI —The education of the youth of our
country in schools provided by the State/
which schools shall he common to all without
distinction of creed or -party, and free from
any influence or direction of a denominational
or partizan charattter.
And, in nsmuch as Christianity by the Con.
stitutions of near.y all the States; by the de•
cisions of the most eminent judicial authori
ties ; and by the cons . tnt of the people of Ante
rica, is considered an element of our political
system,- and es the Holy Bible is nt oboe-t-1,.;
stparce of Christianity. and the depository am
fciuntain of all civil an I religious freedom, we
oppose every attempt to exclude it from the
Schools thus established in the States.
.Xll.—The American party having arisen up
on the ruins and in spite of the opposition of
the Whig aind Democratic parties, cannot be
held in any manner responsible fur the obnox
ions acts twpledges of either . . And the 83'S
tematic agitation of the slavery question by
those parties having elevated sectional hostil
ity into a positive element of poli , ical power,
and broullit our institutions into peril, it has
therefore become the imperative duty of the
American party to interpose, for the purpose
of giving peace to the country and perpetuity
to the Union. And as experience has shown it
impossible to reconcile opinions so extreme - as
those which seperate the disputants, and as
there can he no dishonor in submitting to the
laws the National Council has deemed it The
best guarantee of common justice and of future
peace, to abide by and maintain the existing
laws upon the subject of slavery, as 11. final
and conclusive settlement of that subject, in
spirit and in substance.
And regarding it the highest duty to nvow•
their opinions upon a subject so important, in
distinct and unequivocal terms, it is hereby
dec flied us the sense of this National Council,
that Congress possess.ls no. power, under the
Constitution to legislate upon the subject of
Slavery in the States where it does or may
"'•-•- prom admission
exist, or to exclutio ahy
into the Union, because its Constitution does
or does not r,cognihe the institution of Sla
very as a part of its social. system; - end ex
pressly pretermitting any expression of opin
ion upon the power of Congress to establish
or prohildt Slavery in any Territory, it is the
sense of the Notional Council that Congress
ought not to legislate upon the subject of Sla
very within the Territory of the United States
and that any interference -by Congress with
Slavery as it exists in the District of CJIU9I
- would Le a violation of the spirit and in
tention of till compact by which the State of
Maryland ceded the District to the United
States, stud a breach orthe National faith.
JJXIII.--Thekplicy the Government of the
United States, its relations with foreign go
vernment, is to exact justice frOm the strong
est and do justice to the weakest; restraining,
by all the power of the government, all its
citizens from interference with the internal
concerns of nations with whom we are at
peace.
\l V.—This National Council declares that
all the principles of the Order, shall he hence
forth everywhere openly avowed ; and that
each member shall be at liberty to make
known the existence of the order, and the
fact that he himself is a member ; and it
recommends that there ho no concealment of
the places ofeliket,ing of subordinate coun
cil's. ' •
E.T. BARTLETT, of Kentucky,
President of National Connell
C. D. Dnsist.iin, of New Jersey,
Corresponding Secretary.
J'Amtiti M of Maryland,
Recording Secretary.
lIIANIFESTO OF' TDB SECEDERS.
The following manifesto IS published ns
having been adopted by those who withdrew
from the Connell, in consequence of the adop
tion of Article Xll.
A meeting of citizens from various States of
the Union, representing the American party,
was called by general consent, whereupon Hon.
J. W. Foster, of Massachusetts, presented the
following paper, which, after being read, was
signed by citizens of the several States, as
follows,
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
The undersigned, citizens of the various
States assembled at Philadelphia on this four
teenth day of Juno, 1855, feel constrained,
under the existing state of affairs, to affirm
the following principle's:
First. The unconditional restoration of that
time-honored compromise known as the Mis
souri prohibition, which was destroyed in
utter disregard of the popular will: a wrong
no lapse of time can palliate and no plea for
its continuance-can justify; and that we will
use all constitutional means to maintain the
positive guarantee of this compact until the
object for which it was enacted has been con
summated by the admission of litaisas and
Nchraska os free States.
Second. - That the rights of settlers in Terri
tories to L the free and undisturbed exercise of
the Elective Franchise gu.tranteed to them by
the lilWs under which they aro organized,
should he promptly protected by the NatiMml
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Executive, wherever violated or threatened,
and that we cannot consistently net with those
wire - will - trot aid us Ili - the correaion of tli se
nationid wrongs, and will not even permit their
fair considerati m and full discussion.
Zhird. We further declare our continued
and unalterable detern.rantion to use nll hono
rable efforts to secure such a modification of
the naturalization laws, aided Ity such an ele•
vation of public sentiment, ( . 4 shall preserve
the true interests of the. nation and shall
guarantee the three vital prit.ciples of a Repub
lican Government; spiritual freedom, a free Bible
and free schools, thereby promoting the great
work of Americanizing America.
Fourth. That we invoke the arm of legisla
tion to arrest. that growing evil, the deporta
tion, by foreign authoritie, 'of paupers and
convicts to our shores; and that as our National
Constitution requires the Chief Executive of
our country to be of native birth, we deem it
equally necessary and impbrtant that our di
plomatic representatives abroad should also
possess no foreign prejudices to bias their
judgement, or to influence their official action.
OHIO NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Thames IL Ford, Anthony Colby,
L. IL Olds, Jesse Mann,
Joshua Martin, Stephen B - Sherwin
.1 K. Marlay, vntumoNT.
George It. Martin, Evelyn Pierpont,
A. MeKay, Joseph• 11. Barrett,
11. M. McAbee, Ryland Fletcher,
John B. Rees It M Guilford,
INDIANA. John D. Hatch.
Curnback, 31AINE.
Schuyler Colfax, Louis o—Cowan,
Godlove S Orth, A S. Biehmond,
1. S Harvey, Benj. D. Peck,
F. D. Allen. John L. Stevens,
James It. M. Bryant.. John S Sayward,
Joseph Covell,
Itirael Coggeshall, James M. Lincoln.
Moses A. Isr Naughton. lOWA.
ILLINOIS, James Tharington,
Wm. W. Banenhower, Wm. Loughridgo.
Wm. 11. Young, mows ISLAND.
Henry S. Jennings, Jatbez 0. Knight,
V. L Eastman, Nathaniel Green, '
IL Sweet.
Henry J. Gardiner, CONNECTICUT.
Henry Wiison, Daiid B Booth,
J. W. Foster, Thomas Clark,
A. C. Carey, N. D. Sperry.
11. W. Rugg„ wiscoNstN.
" .'• , noton. D. B. Waod,
J 11111C8
Andrew A. Richmond. R. Chandieri-m---)
C. W. Cook.
. I approve of the above—adding nn more
slate States, no more slnve.territory.
13l 51t\1;I. WHITE.
The other portion of the seceJing members,
it seemes caused to he entered on the minutes
of the Council, the following protest:—
The undersigned, Citizens of the United
States, and residents of the States set oppc
site our respective names, solemnly protest
tigainst the introduction of any question con
nected with Slavery into the platform of the
principles of the American party—being con
vinced that no such issue was intended to be
embraced within its principles and objects.—
That we believe in, and shall ever defend the
right of freedom and discussion, on that and
every other subjec, not intended to be em-
braced within the designs of our organiza
tion.
That if the question of Slavery is to be
passed 'upon, and made a pat t of our national
creed, then, in that event, we cannot consis
tently act, in fidelity to our principles, with
any national organization whose action on the
Slavery question will result in endorsing the
Kansas-Nebraska act, and which rt:fuses its sar;e•
lion to the principles of the Missouri Compromise
act of 18AL
That we believe that time-honored compact
was an honorable and fair adjustment of the
question of ;Slavery. We desire to place this
protest upon the journals of the Council, that
ui uo future time the undersigned may be
charged with infractions of expressed or iru
plied faith to their fellow ° members.
11' illiam F. Johnston, of PentAbylvania.
J. Bow wan Bell, • " • •'
L. E Small,
B. Coulter, "
A. S. Livingston, " NOV Jersey.
E. S. McClellan,
Joseph H. 13arrot,
liorace Kingsley,
It. W. (Wilford,
Evelin Pierpout,
J. D. 'latch, 11
John A. Prichard, " Illinois
Wni W. Danenhowcr, "
ltichmud Clement, " Delaware,
Signed at Philadelphia, June 14,1835.
"THE FAMINE" AT THE WEST .—Tho'reccipts
of hreadstutf, at the upper lake ports arc tre
mendous, end the export demand is but nom
inal, with a limited distilling business, the
present prices of this description of grain can
not be maintained.-103,436 bushels were ,re,
ceived at ports on the Upper Lakes in one day.
At Buffalo and Oswego the receipts reported
on Monday reached 7,824 bbis flour, 82,897.
bushels of wheat, 180,027 bushels corn, and
193,275 bushels oats. •
Tinc Puler: or licur Muse Com": DowN,—
The Chicago Millet:rat says that immense
numbers of cattle and hugs are now being •
shipped from that city Or eastern markets:
The cattle have 'been brought from Texas and
wintered in: Ma ;is, n•td are now being vent
forward over the Michigan Central and tire' t
Western, Railroad. A day or two since ono'
train left Chicago with 118 cattle, I,lt b hogs.
NO. 42.
41 Vermont
KNOW SOBIETIIING.CONVENTIGVN.
CLEVELAND, June 13. —The Know-Something
or Republican Convention, convenes in this
city to-day. Every Free State is fully repre
sented. Among the delegates from New York
Stag, are H. ThompsNi, of Staten Island;
:‘ , le,Nlullett and Seymoir of New York City;
Stebbena and Van Voothies of Rochester, and
Richardson, of Albany; Charles W. Slack, of
Boston. and Ex Governor Boutwell, with thirty
delegates representing Massachusetts.
The reports fr. tn the: ieveral States show
that, this new organization is 'progressing with
rapid strides and already has possession of
about fivo of the Northern and two of the
Western States.
The news of the adoption of the pro-slavery
platform by the Know Nothing Convention it
Philadelphia, was received in the Convention
this afternoon with Iflll COII..
sidered the death-knell of 'Sam' in the United
States, and the In'ginning of Jonathan's tri
umph. Nearly all; the States represent..d
have a deletion- , equal to the number to
ts hieh they are severally entitled in the,„lower
house of Congress. The demonstration is
!arge and enthusiastic, 5111 is looked upon n s
one dint will havt a most importAtit-beating
upon the ensuing Presidential contest.
CLEVELAND, June 14.—The Committee of
the Know S , unething Convention appointed to
draft resolutionw, and which consisted of one
from each State, made report this afternoon,
which was revised, slightly modified, and
passed. The preamble asserts that servility
to the slave power is characteristic of the ex
isting p till al pieties, ankat once perilous to
menriood, to the best interests of the N,rtli,
and the liberties of the Republic. Vie res , lu
tient; declare the issue before the A modem'
people to be whether frtiedotn shall lie limited
to the free States, or slavery to the slave
States; that the issue has been forced upon
the country by the aggressions of the slave
iower, and especially by the Nebraska out
age, and that the assault upon the elective
ranehise in Kanzas has aroused the freemen
f the Republic, and they will maintain their
ights, and resist the creation of all additions
o slave territory; that they will maietain ti.e
Rationality of freedom; that the friends of
reedom should make principles. not birth
dace, the test of admission to citizenship; that
hey will repel every ecclesiastical interference
di political affairs, either by potentate, imutin
or priest, as destructive of the right to war- -
ship God according to the dictates of consci
ence, es well as of liberty. They recommenkt
action by the several States fur the pkinution
of Temperance, and agree to support free
schools and free labor. They take ground in
favor of harbor improvements, and urge upon
the peTple to strive for the election of men of
integrity and over to resist aggression of any
and every kind. For these of jects they are
ready to unite with all men, under any name
or organization that promises to aid in carry
ing into operation these principles. -
The Convention is in session this evening,
and will probably finish its labors and adjourn
to-morrow.
CLEvsLANu, June 16.—T1,
-oo Anew Some
nave resolved to dispense with the oath,
substituting a pledge of honor, to remain anti
shivery, and anti papal. An attend tto bind
the organization to support Mr. Seward, by
the iuserden of an article to tliat effect iu the
constitution Was opposed by several de:egates,
and final y postponed. The constitution was
adopted' last evening, end Hiram Griswold, of
Ohio, teas elected President, and Wm. Pilchard
son, of Albany, Secrernry. The convention is
nearly ready to adjourn,
FAILAIERS' lIlCill SCHOOL.
In pursuance of the law of the last session;
incorporating the Fanners' High School c.f
Pennsylvania, the Board of Trustees met at
Harrisburg on Thursday, the 14th inst., for
the purpose of organization, and selection 'of
a site for the location of the Institution. The
Board is composed of Governor Pollock and
Secretary Curtain, who are ex.uflicio members,
and illcesrs. Fredelick Watts of Cumberbmd,
Dr. A. L. Elwyn and Algernon S. Roberts of
Philadelphia, IL N. McAllister of Centre, R.
C. Walker of Allegheny. James Miles of Erie,
John Strohm of Lancaster, Win. Jessup of
Susquehanna, A. O. Meister of Dauphin, .and
James Gowen, Presffient of the State Agricul
tural Skiety, et officio. The members were
all present but Win. Jessup, JalUeS Gowen,
and Algernon S. Roberts.
COMintinicationS to the Board informed it
that Gen Jaines Irwin, of Centre county, of
fered gratuitously 250 acres of good limestone
laud in Barris township, upon condition that
the school should be located there. Judge
Miles offef•ed 200 acres, situate on the bank
,of Lake Erie, upon, the lino of the railroad, oa
the lake shore, int should be located there,
mind iL was said the commissioners of the corns
, ty of Dauphin would probably oiler a farm
owned by that county. Besides these, other
persons proposed to sell, upon moderato terms
:arms located in Delaware and Chester eoun
des. All these communications were referred
,o a Committee, composed of Gal. Pollock,
Judge Watts and Dr. A. Elwin, with in
structions to make an examination of the •se
veral properties ofered, and report their de
termination to the next mooting of the Board
which will be held fur that purpose early in
July. The Committee will meet at Harris
burg on Monday, the 25th inst., and proceed
by the Pennsylvania railroad to Spruce Creek,
mind thence to the laud of Gen. Irwin, and by
the way of the Elmira railroad, at IVilliams-
port; to the New York and Erie road, and
thence to Erie county, and returning will ex
amine the other proposed sites.
The Board evinced at their meeting a de
termined purpose to establish this echool
without delay, and ti) prosecute it with nil
the mneans and energy at their command; and
we are Plgsed to hear that the means aro
probald quite autple to make a beginning.
NAIIItIA O• AMONG Tllll
Sum.kx, duug r, of Col. T. 11. 13rxrcfs, was
married in St., Matthew's Catholie' Caurch,
Washington, on Monday afternoon last, to itlr•
G. D Bott.i.nAti, Secretary to the French,Le
galiett. A' splendid entertainment was given
the bridal party at the residence of the bride's
brother in-law, col, FIVErIONT.