'From tht Philadelphia Inquirer.
Interesting Correspondence Pennsylvania
' - Eailroad. " !
LETTER NO. V".
Jobn B. Myers, John Thompson, Robert
R. Levick, Morris L. Ilallowell, Wm. Spoon
er. George BoJdin, John T. Smith, Kdinund
Beacon, and others:
Esteemed Friends: In my last I detailed
Borne proceedings of the" Board, which I con
scientiously believed that my duty as a Direc
tor compelled me to rcs'st. I became, there-
fore, placed in an antagomsticai position witrr
roy associates. - And now, being pat npon my
defence, I hope, my late colleagues, with their
laurels green, will bear with me patiently
vViilct.T dt.ail nnlmlv ft fUro mnro mollora oKy-Mif
n u a. w a w mm i vHhu.v urn . v . . .u LA t- l, iu u W U V
which we disagreed. The question is not now
who was right or who was wrong I am en
deavoring to point out the reasons for my be
ing no unceremoniously and secretly disposed
of on the day of election.
There need be no alarm about exposing the
secrets . of the Board. All these notions
about keeping stockholders ignorant of the
transactions of their own agents, are, to say
the least, ridiculous. The anxiety about se
crecy wil never exist, when Directors and
officers of the company are conscious of hav
ing performed tlieir duty icith a sinyle eye to
the interest of the comjxiny The first time I
perceived that the President treated the
Board as a mere cipher, was when he started
a new passenger Hue from this city at twelve
o'clock, M. This was a measure of great
moment, involving a large amount of money,
and required deliberation and calculation.
But, notwithstanding its magnitude, it was
done in the name of the Board, without the
Board being consulted, or even knowing of
it, until it was done. Attention was called
to the circumstance of thus permitting the
Board to be treated with indifference. My
associates were reminded that the words of the
charter were that The President and Di
rectors, for the time being, are empowered to
Exercise all the powers granted to the corpora
tion." If the President were alone to exer
cise all the powers, there was no use for a
Board of Directors. It would in this way be
come a meae automaton. My words fell un
heeded. The next thing I noticed was, that
the President went off with all the poicers of
tho Company, to represent it in a Railroad
Convention in New York, without any author
ity from the Board, and without a single mem
ber, so far as I recollect, knowing anything
about it. This convention was held in great
btate at the St. Nicholas Hotel, and lasted
several days, making regulations to bind all
the Companies thus represented. The New
York papers published the proceedings, and
when our Directors were asked by the citizens
what it meant, they were obliged to acknowl
edge that they did not know. The President
had gone and taken the keys with him. The
President would also repair to Harrisburg to
procure supplements to the charter, without
ever consulting the Board, and explaining the
object and necessity of such legislation. These
frequent applications produced disgust on the
part or our estate authorities, and rendered
our Company unpopular at Ilarrisburg.
Daring the winter just nassed. haviner ob
served in the Inquirer that a bill was reported
in the Senate, by Mr M'Clintock of Allegheny,
'for tire Pennsylvania Railroad Company,"
1 wrote to a senator to Know what it meant.
He sent me the bill. The first section was to
perfect a title to property in Pittsburg. The
necond section was for the singular purpose of
enacting, by the authority of the State, "that
the Pennsylvania Railroad tens competed in
the meaning of the second section of the sup
plement to the 27th of March, 1 848." There
was a notable discovery that the road was com
pleted. I looked at the second section refer
red to, and found this very tcise provision, viz :
"That the Directors arc authorized to pay
the shareholders, in each year, interest at the
rate of 6 per cent, per annum, on all instal
ments paid by them, which interest shall be
charged to the cost of construction and continue
to pay the same until the road shall he comple
ted ; and that until the period for which a
dividend shall be declared, all the profij and
earnings oj toe saia road shall be credited to
the cost of construction.' Could anything be
wiser than this provision ? What then was
the object in getting the Legislature to enact
that the road was completed? Are there not
one hundred miles of the second track vet to
a- mi tii i
jay r xnere coma oe but two objects in view
in procuring this Jegulation. lather to sret
ria or paying mat o per cent, to the sharehol
ders, or to carry the profits and earnings of
Baid road to some other jyurposes titan the cost
of construction. Not understanding the ob
ject, and not knowing who was the promoter.
I informed the Senator that the bill did not
emanate from the Board of Directors of the
Pennsylvania Railaoad Co , that thero must
be a snalce in it, and desired him to strike out
all after the first section. This was done. It
afterwards appeared to me that I accidentally
struck the President, who was the author of
the bill, but who never condescended to ac
quaint the Board with his intention, or icith
its ol-ject. The President went to Pittsburg
aouietime late in the fall, to see about, as I
understood, the building of a separate depot
for Leech & Co. Bat it appeared afterwards
that it was upon more important business.
When he returned, he laid before the Board
a printed document, stating that John Ed
gar Thomson had agreed to lease, for twenty
years the Ptttsburg and Steubenville Rail
road." That said Thomson and his associates
were to furnish the means to complete the road,
and derive all the profits over six per cent,"
&o , &o. This matter was published in the
Pittsburg papers, and copied into our papers,
before our Board knew anything about it.
From these publications the impression was
made that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
was to furnish the means to complete the road.
Means were taken, however, to let the public
know that our Board had not the least intima
tion that anything of the kind was in contem
plation. This could not be done without
crossing the President's path. I declared
against all ' entangling alliances" with other
roads, against any further aid being extended
to them until our second track teas completed,
our floating ' debt pci , and our stockholders
realizing a better return on their investment.
The road in question will, when finished, un
questionably be one of the. most imporfaat
feeders to our road. But it will require a
million of dollars to complete it. The right
of way across tho Pan Handle has never been
granted by -Virginia nor the right to build a
bridge across the Ohio at Steubenville. I re
joice to see, however, that onr Pitsburg friends
have undertaken it in earnest. It has thus
fallen into the proper bauds More hereafter.'
.Jie?psetfu;--.r.:; WniZzi.
Democrat nnh smiiml.
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WHITE A DEYIKE, Editors and Proprietors.
EBEKSBURG.
WEDNESDAY MORNING::::::::.::::::APR. 23.
FOR PRESIDENT.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Subject to the Decision of the National Convention.
Canal Commissioner:
GEORGE SCOTT,
(OF COLUMBIA COUNTY.)
Auditor General:
JACOB FRY, JR.,
(OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY.)
Surveyor General:
TIMOTHY IVES,
(OF POTTER COUNTY.)
JrJ- We would call attention to the new adver
tisements in to-day's paper.
on. Richard Broadhead, Hon. Wm. Bigler
Hon. Thomas B. Florence, non. S. A. Douglass
of the Senate and S. T. Shugart of the U. S.
Fatent Office, will please accept our thanks for
renewed favors.
C7" Senators Cresswell, Buckalew. Jamison,
and Maj. T. A. Maguire have our thanks for
many favors during the session, also Representa
tives Smith, Barnhard, Foster and other members
for favors received.
The " Aggressions of the South."
Opposition to the acquisition of new territory,
and the reception of new states into our Federal
Union, has been one of the characteristics of the
opponents of the Democratic Tar ty, since Jeffer
son's administration.. In the errly cent s's in relr
tion to the acquisition of additional territory, the
southern and western States acted together. Ag
riculture was the principal source of the prosperi
ty of these sections, hence their interests were the
same and in common.. The opposition of the old
Federal Party to the acquisition of territory did
not arise so much from fear or dislike of what is
now-a-days termed the " State Power," Lut from
commercial jealousy. The slavery question wps
not the prominent element in the opposition to
the admission of new states, until the applica
tion of Missouri. The hostility with which that
application was met, had not it's origin in philan
thropy, as pretended, but in reality in calcula
tions of political policy. It was hoped that the
people of the west would sympathise with the
north, or rather north-east, in its pretended anti
slavery feelings, and thus the strong bond which
had hitherto existed between the South and West
would be broken
The same motive prompts the conduct of the
so called " Republican " or abolition leaders of
the present day, when they call upon the people
of the west to follow them, and endeavor to ex
cite in them a prejudice against their southern
brethren by declamations against what they call
the " aggressions of the south.11
As this matter of Southern aggression will en
ter largely into the Presidential canvass, and is
intended to be one of the best cards of the oppo
sition, we shall examine it throughout all it's de
tails. It will be found, that the assertion that
the south has been guilty of aggression or inva
sion upon the rights of the northern States, is
without foundation and false. To day we have
leisure for oniy a cursory view of the subject.
The Free Soilers often point to the ordinance of
1787, by which slavery was excluded from the
north western territory; laudation of this ordi
nance enters largely into the composition of an
abolition harangue, and yet this ordinance was
carried by the votes of Virginia, North and South
Carolina and Georgia, and it's author was Mr.
Jefferson, the first Democratic President, a South
erner, and a slaveholder. A man who received
as much vilification in his day from his opponents,
as Mr. Douglass does in this. We presume that
the most rabid abolitionist will not say that the
ordinance of 1787 was an infraction by the south
of the rights of the north.
When our Federal Union was formed, all the
unsettled territory within it's bounds, with the
exception of that portion now included within
the limits of the states of Vermont and Maine,
belonged to the Southern States. Within the
limits of the old 13, and out of their territory,
eleven new States have been formed. Of these
nine were formed out of Southern and Slave Ter
ritory, viz : Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Kentucky. Tennessee, Mississippi,
and Alabama.. Of these nine, the majority Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, do
not recognize in their state constitutions, the hold
ing of a race or class to servitude they belong
to the so-called free states. Before their erection
into state governments, slavery was Law ever
every inch of the territory included, in the limits
of the five free states just enumerated.
The Free Soilers of today, delight to indulge
in chronological enumeration of the successive ag
gressions of what the south has been guilty, be
ginning as they think, at the formation of the
government and continuing down to the present
time. They seem to have overlooked the facts
connected with the erection into free common
wealths, of that portion of the Territory of the
Southern States to which we have just referred.
Had Virginia, and the South generally been pos
sessed of the spirit which the Free Soil politicians
from Seward down, charge them with, the five
State referred to, could never have been received
into the Union except as slave states.
The territory of Louisiana, wa acquired under
the administration of a southern President, Jtff-erij,,-?
as theJPree-Soifers.ulirSiy,6furfn" the
acesitney-of rtht, Slave Porer?-took for a
moment, at the vastness of this acquisition. It
extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the upper
Mississippi; from the 30th to the 48th parallel of
north latitude. It contained in round numbers,
13,000,000 square miles, and 836,000,000 acres.
Thirty-five states, equal in extent to Indiana,
could have been formed out of this purchase of
Louisiana, and it was all slave Territory. '
When later Missouri applied for admission into
the Unionand in accordance with the Laws pre
vailing id the Territory out of which $er limits
were formed, had engrafted upon her constitution
a provision that a certain race should; be held to
servitude, then the north arrayed herself in oppo
sition, and was consequently guilty of an infrac
tion upon the rights of the South. The north and
not the South, was therefore the first aggressor.
Aftsr stormy debates, the south yielded, and
consented to a division of the Territory, Then
was formed the much talked of Missouri compro
mise. Bv the terms of that compromise, all that
portion of the Louisiana Territory lying north of
36 degrees and ,30 minutes, north latituae was
forever closed agoinst slavery . So that, it in or
der to insure to Missouri, the enjoyment of a right
which existing Laws had already given her, the
south gave up more than the half of the entire
Louisiana purchase. The south gave to the north
territory sufficient for the erection of at least fif
teen States of the largest size, and regained only
enough to make eleven states into which the peo
ple might introduce the institution of slavery or
not, as they saw best. ;
An examination of history will show that this
is tha sort of " aggression 11 of which' the South
has been guilty. The United States, do not own
one single foot of so-called "free , territory"
which hos not been made " free " by the votes
of the South in Congress.
William C. Johnston.
We have been handed a statement made by
this gentleman, with a request for publication;
with which request we cheerfully comply.
Mr. Johnston has heretofore been known as an
energetic, reliable, working Democrat. Of late,
charges have been made against him that he was
connected with the Know-Nothing order. Mr.
Johnston having been apprised of this charge, has
taken the boldest and most straight forward way
to clear himself of the charge. His statement
is plain, straight forward, unvarnished, and bears
the stamp of truth in every line. It is instruc
tive, as showing the manner in which thousands
were humbugged into that order. We have no
doubt but that there are very many unsuspecting
men in our county, who have been'hoaxed into
Know-Nothingism, in the same manner in which
it was attempted to hoax Mr. Johnston into it.
As it will be seen, the dodge would not win with
Mr. Johnston, and we hope that all well mean
ing men whe were deluded with Know-Nothing-ism,
will further imitate his example, and come
" rigid straight out1 from among the . " foul
party." We can forgive those who were deceived,
who went into the new order, captivated by
it's promises, and specious pretensions. But now
that it's corruption has been exposed, now that
the common judgment of mankind has pronoun
ced it a hideous lie, the man who holds on to and
sustains " Know:Nothingism " is guilty of im
pugning the known truth, and is destined to po
litical damnation. But to the statement :
Mr- Johnston's Statement
Sometime during the summer of 1855, on the
day when Dan Rice's Show was in Ebensburg, I
was in that town, and while there, MR. EDWARD
HUTCHINSON asked me to walk into his office.
I went in with him after we were in the office,
he took up a pamphlet, and said he would read
over to me the rules of a new Party these were
not his precise words, but it was something to
the same effect he also said that he would like
me to become a member of the new Party he
saidthat the Whigs and Democrats were both go
ing into it. He then read over a lot of stuff, to
which I did not pay much attention. He told
me that I must object, when ever he read any
thing that I did not like. Af er ho had read a
while. he told me that I must take an oath and
swear. I objected to that, and said I was a Dem
ocrat, and wished to stick to that party; and that
I would not, and could not take any such oath.
The conversation then ended, and I left the office.
This was about what occurred, at that time and
place. I did not see him write my name on any
list. I did not authorise him to write it, nor do
I know that he did so. I did never sign my
name to any Know-Nothing Lodge. "I never au
thorized any one to sign my name to any Know
Nothing Lodge, or Council and if my name has
ever been placed on a Know-Nothing list, it was
done without my knowledge or consent. I never
was in a Know-Nothing Lodge or Council, in my
life at least to my knowledge. I never belonged
to the party, known as the Know-Nothing party,
and I never will. I never voted for a Know
Nothing, knowing him to be such. To all this I
can be qualified, and am willing to be qualified,
if necessary. WILLIAM C. JOHNSTON.
Consolidation.
The consolidation of the rail roads from Fitts
burg to Chicago has at last been perfected, the
legislature of Pennsylvania having recently pass
ed an act giving its assent thereto. The legisla
tures of the states of Chio, Indiana, and Illinois,
had previously passed acts for that purpose.
The Ohio and Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana,
and Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road3 are con
solidated, and now form one corporation, called
the "Pittsburg and Chicago Rail Road Company."
The whole length of the Road is 465 miles, and
the amounfof authoiized capital is $10,060,000
of which $5,000,000 have been paid. It is all
completed except a portion of the line between
Chicago and Fort Wayne, which under the pres
ent arrangement will undoubtedly be finished in
the course of a year.
California for Buchanan
The Democratic State Convention which recent
ly met at Sacramento in California, elected delegates
to the National Convention which will meet at
Cincinnati in June next and unanimously instruc
ted them in favor of the Hon. James Buchanan.
A series of strong resolutions were reported by
Ex-Gov. John Bigler which were unanimously
adopted. The delegates are P. C. Rust, J. L.
Brent, Senator Dosh, " Judge Hill, Sheriff Bnol,
Maj. Solomon, J. N. Dawley and Col. Inge.
" Blair County Art Union.
It is confidently expected that the first dist ri-
tution TfjU take place on or . about 'the '20th of
May. We would therefore advise all who intend
to Invest In the enterprise to do SO at once, as de
lays are" dangerous. Be advertisement in the
columns of this paper. '
Wm.- EA--We publisli another letter from
-aflCtXi.fo " refatioh if.Qn Pennsylvania
niu tvyij. fyidail, - -
Adjournment of the Legislature"
The Legislature at Ilarrisburg ad jourped yester
day. -A large number of important bills "were
passed at the close of the session, and among
them was the " Claim Bill," which provides for
the payment of the old debts upon the public
works. The proposed amendments to the con
stitution of the State, introduced into the Senate
by Mr. Buckalew, and which had passed that
body, were also concurred in by the House by a
large majority. These amendment are of a very
important character, and we clip the following
from the proceedings, by which it will be seen
that they were adopted by a very large rote.
" The House then resumed, on third reading,
the consideration of the bill from the Senate pro
posing amendments to the Constitution of the
Commonwealth, and after considerable debate the
previous question was called and sustained, and
the main question ordered to be put yeas 65
nays 42. The first amendment, relating to the
public debt was agreed to yeas 72, nays 24.
Messrs. Ball and Whallon moved to reconsider
the vote just had. Lost yeas 9, nays 65.
The second amendment relating to new coun
ties was agreed to yeas 63, nays 25.
Messrs. Ball and Longaker moved to reconsider
the vote just had. Lost yeas 10, nays 65.
The third amendment, relating to Representa
tive Districts, was agreed to yeas 64, nays 25.
Messrs. Ball and Whallon mdted to reconsider
the vote just had. Lost yeas 13, nays 64.
The fourth amendment, reserving the power to
amend charters, &c, was agreed to yeas 69,
nays 16.
Messrs. Wliallen and Ball moved to reconsider
the vote. Lost yeas 7, nays 67.
The bill then passed finally, and was sent to the
Senate for concurrence."
Six hundred and seventy-one bills and fourteen
resolutions have passed and been signed by the
Governor. The General appropriation bill is not
among them, and several bank bills are also re
tained for the present.
N. B. Browne "of Philadelphia was elected
Speaker of the Senate previous to adjournment.
The session has altogether been a laborious one,
and the proceedings stand in strong contrast with
those of the Know-Nothings of 1855.
Wisconsin.
The recent elections in this growing state have
resulted largely in favor of the Democracy, and
many of the towns heretofore carried by the
Black Republicans," have had to make room
for an entire set of democratic officers.
The " Madison Argus " comes to us filled with
the good new s, and says that if Buchanan should
be nominated at Cincinnati, the democrats can
cany Wisconsin by 10,000 majority. Keep the
ball rolling.
rtrrign 3!rras.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE-
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC
The Baltic anchored off the Light Ship at
C o'clock this morning. She left Liverpool
at 9 o'clock on the morning of the 2d.
The Baltic passed the Arabia on the even
ing of the 4th, bound in. She also passed
tn Aeia at 11 o'clock last night, 100 miles
east of Sandy Hook.
She brogs the glad news that the treatv of
reace was signed at Paris on Sunday the 30th
nit.
No intelligence had been received of the
missing steamship Pacific.
lhe declaration of peace was announced in
Pari3 and London by a salute of artillery.
Paris was illuminated in accordance with pre
vious arrangements. In lingland the church
bells were pealed in joy over the event.
lbree or four weeks will probably elapse
before the final ratifications will be exchanged,
the details of the adjustment having been re
ferred to a committee.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times says, a Council of the Ministers was
held at the Tuilleries, at half-past 11 o'clock,
and remained till 12 on Sunday, at which the
Emperor presided. He gave his last instruc
tions. Count H allewski returned to his offi
cial residence to receive the Plenipotentiaries.
They came at half-past 12 o'clock, and after
the Treaty had been read over, they proceeded
to sign it. The moment the signatures were
completed, the signal was given, and a salute
proclaimed the news. Bulletins announcing
the fact were posted throughout the city.
On Monday the Lord Mayor of London
made his official proclamation of peace from
the portieo of the Mansion House, and after
wards at the Exchange. Salutes were fired
from the Tower and Park guns, and flags were
generally displayed throughout the city and
upon the shipping.
In other cities similar displays were made,
but there was not much enthusiasm shown.
London, Tuesday Evening. Hon- Spen
cer Ponsonby, arrived at the Foreign Office
from Paris, this morning, with the definitive
treaty for the restoration of peace and for the
maintenance and integrity of the Ottoman
.Empire.
Railway Securities continue animated, and
in some cases a fresh rise has taken place.
Paris, Monday Evening. Advices were
sent off yesterday by telegraph, to the Crimea
to renew the armistice for a month, as the
treaty had been signed, but wanted ratifica
tion.
Berlin, March 30th, P. M. The news
of peace published this evening, has produced
an extraordinary sensation.
From Russia we learn that the Grand Dukes
Constance and Nicholas and Gen. Tottleben
will accompany the Emperor on a journey
tor inland.
The report of the intended visit of the Em
press Dowager of Rrssia to Germany, next
month is connrmed.
Turin, March 30, P. M. Salutes of artil
lery announced at Turin, Alexandria and Ge
noa the news of the conclusion of peace.
An extraordinary article appears in the
. Dublin JSation, almost proving that baddler,
the swindler, is still alive, and that the body
found n his room was not his.
The London Times of Monday, March 30,
has a bitterly disparaging article on the Cen
tral American question.
The Bank of France lias reduced its rate of
discount from G to 5 per cent.
English securites were rather active durin
tho-day tut without any great alteration in
prices, a decided tendency to" advance being
checked by tue spproaca of settlement and
closing of the outstanding bul accounts.
SUMMARY OP NEWS.
Our next Court commences on the first Monday
in June. ' S
The Democrats of Westmoreland nominate a
county ticket cm the 17 th of June.
The new State Treasurer, Henry 3. Magraw,
Esq., will enter upon the duties of his office on
the 1st of May.
Last year the State of Ohio sent to the New
York market -40,000 head of cattle j Illinois over
22,000 ; Kentucky 10, 600, and Indiana 9000.
Preparations are making in England to cele
brate with great pomp the conclusion of the Rus
sian war.
In Trenton, N. J., the Democrats elected their
Mayor by 230 majority, on the 14th. There is a
tie in the councils.
The Democrats have elected a mayor in Annap
olis, Md., by six majority a decided gain over
the vote of last yeaT.
In Chicago, on the 4th, nine thousand passen
gers arrived by the Michigan Central and South
ern Railroads.
There are now one hundred and thirty-thr e
inmates in the Pennsylvania institution fc-r the
Instruction of the Blind.
The bill granting writs of error in criminal ca
ses has passed the Legislature, as amended by the
committee of conference.
Land i s now selling on the G uadalope ri ver in
Texas, at $20 per acre. A few years ago it could
be bought for six li(s.
The Daily Cleavdander says the Cleaveland
and Mahoning Railroad will be in running order
from that city to Warren, by the 15th of June.
Senate- Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, is spoken of
as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for
the Vice Presidency.
John M'Closkey has been appointed postmas
ter at Tort Perry, Allegheny county, vice William
Rupp resigned.
The Canadian Parliament has refused, by one
majority, to pass a prohibitory liquor law.
The Senate have rejected tbe bill to increase the
feeof Justices, 13 to 15 and refused to consider
that to reduce their own pay, 7 to 23,
The Governor has vetoed a bill relative to Kit-
tanning boro., because the courts have power to
grant what it confers. I
The New Libel Law has passed the House. It
makes the truth a good defence, in all 6uch prose
cutions.
Last Mondav the bids for carrj-ing the mails in
Pennsylvania were opened. It will be several
weeks before the result will be announced.
The Governor has signed three hundred and
nineteen acts of Assembly, and thirteen joint res
olutions, this season.
The N. Y Freemans1 Journal says there is now
no doubt but Bishop O'Reilly perished on the
steamer Pacific.
The Beaver Bank bill was indefinitely postpo
ned in the House, on the 16th, by a vote of 54 to
33 and the Allegheny City Bank, 57 to 32.
A portable mill for grinding and bolting flour,
occupying twenty-one by four feet, has been got
up in the East, and sells for five hundred dollars.
It turns out a barrel of flour in two hours.
The new railroad law requires all companies in
the State to fence their road within nine months
-or pay double damages to any one injured by
their default.
The slave Margaret has been shipped South
again by Mr. Gaines. Margaret, it will be recol
lected, is the woman, who murdered her child in
Cincinnati a few weeks since, sooner than have
it brought up a slave.
Peter Mattocks, who is to be hanged on the
23d of May, for the murder ot Elizabeth Gilbert,
in Phiadelphia, is solicitous the Sheriff should per
form the ceremony, contending that the deputa
tion of a hangman is not legal.
Wm. Roberts apprentice in the office of the
Juniata Sentinel, Mifflin, Ta., died on the 7th
from hydrophobia, from tho bite of a drg received
on the 16th of February.
The President of the American State Council
of this State. Col. E lie has issued a call for a meet
ing of that body, to be held at Ilarrisburg on Tues
day the 13th of May.
Hush Brawley, Esq., of Randolph township,
Crawford county, died on the 3rd inst., in the sev
enty-third year of his age. ne was one of the
earliest settlers of the county, and the father of J.
Porter Brawley, Esq., the present Surveyor Gen
eral of this State.
Walker has more than two thousand troops un
der his command, in Nicaragua. He has already
captured Zapoya, in Costa Rica, where eight hun
dred of the enemy abandoned five cannon, a quan
ity of amunition, three hundred horses and
mules, and ran from two hundred of his men.
The Supreme Court of this State recently deci
ded that when a building is destroyed by accident,
a mechanic's lien will not lie against the ground
on which the building was erected.
Russia, Austria and Prussia, when they recog
nized Louis Napoleon as Emperor, made a treaty
by which they agreed not to recognize his chil
dren as heirs to the imperial purple, but to aid in
restoring the Bourbons. They look upon Louis as
but a tenant for life, and that life not likely to be
insured at ordinary rates.
The Abolitionists, headed by Gerrit Smith,
Lewis Tappan and Wm. Goodell, have called a
national convention, to meet at Syracuse on the
28th of May, to nominate national candidates fa
vorable to the abolition of Slavery. They say the
Republican party doesnot go far enough its an
tislavery being confined to Kansas.
The following bills passed the House of Repre
sentatives finally, on Tuesday of last week : An
act to authorize the school directors of West Pitts
burg to select sites for school-houses , to establish
a ferry at or near Middletown, to provide for
erecting a poor-house in Lawrence county. The
following passed first leading : to authorize Alle
gheny Cemetery to sell real estate ; in relation to
paving in the boro of Manchester ; to incorporate
a road company between Mt. Pleasant and La
trobs.
LOCAL news;
Independent Order of Odd-Fellow.
The following members of Conemaugh ani
Highland Lodges were regularly installed as cE
cere for the present semi annual term, by D. 1).
G. Master, II. C. Devine. - .
Conemaugh, No. 191. N. G. F. W. nay,
V G., T. R. Kimmell Permanent Sec'y., John
P. Linton Ast. Sec'y, Casper Horle Treasurer,
Gotleib Byerly.-' Representative to the GrauJ
Lodge, AleXander'"'Kennedy--!Leeture Master, a,
Kennedy. Meets every Thursday" night.
Highland No. 4 Lewis Hoover, N. G.
R. Griffith V. G. Permanent Sec'y, George C.
Zahn: Assistant Sec'y, Hugh H. Hughes-Treasurer,
Evan Evans Representative to the Grand
Lodge, D. C. Zahm L. M..E. Hcfchicson. Me?tn
every Wednesday night.
Alma Lodge, No. 523. The. ."officers of this
Lodge were elected and installed- op. (he evenisg
of their organization January 1st 1856, and will
still hold their offices for the present semi-annua.
term. James M. Campbell, N. G. Thos. II.
Lapsley, V. G. J as. Young, Sec'y John J.
Mills, Ast. Sec'y James Merely, TreaslirerJsg.
Williams L. M. Representative to the Grand
Lodge, James M. Campbell. Meets every Sat-'
urday night.
An election for D. D. G. M. was held in th
different Lodges on the second Tuesday of April,
resulting in the re-elrtion of H. O. Devine. -
Horse Thieve Arrested.
Theodore and Thomas Slick were yesienlnv
safely lodged in our County Jail, for stealing a
valuable Stallion from John F. Stull of Richland
Township, on the oath of Rutter now confined in
the Indnna Jail. This is the second time thexs
3roung men have been arrested fpr Horse stealing.
But a short time 6ince they were arrested, jjj J
lodged in our jail on the oath of Randolph Harper
for being concerned in the Horse thief gang, and
were then liberated by their father giving the re
quired bail at an argument court, held a few
weeks since by his Hon. Judge Taylor. They
will now be confined until oumext June Court.
Death of Nathaniel Hughes.
We are sorry to learn that Mr. Nathaniel
Hughes, brother to our townsman Ezckiel IIugl.e.s
met with an untimely end on Sunday evening
last at the mouth of Chest Creek, in this county.
The particulars as fir. as we have.been informed
are as follows. Mr. Hughes was assisting with
others to land a raft, placing a handspike in a
hole in the middle of the raft, it came in contact
with a rock in the bed of the river, wrenching it
from his hands, and flying back striking him back
of the ear, he fell overboard, his companions in
stantly brought him out of the water, but L.o
was extinct. He leaves an interesting family to
mourn his loss. . '
The Weber Tteolean- Opera Family. Our
citizens have enjoyed two evening performances
from this family. We have heard some praise
them and others condemn. We think upon the
whole, each performance was worth tie price of
admission. As far as the children were concern
ed they played their parts well and were loudly
and repeatedly cheered. " Old Laser " CTinnetl
and smiled, which was the cause of much Jnerri-
ment. Miss Louisa Weber plays well on the Ac
cordion, but, we have heard better 6inging hc.-
gestures are ridiculous
Ssow Stoem. We thought that spring was
with us in reality, kat our wishes were fustrated.
It commenced snowing oa Sunday morning and
continued until Monday evening to the depth cf
a foot and over, but at the present writing it is
rapidly disappearing. Many of our citizens had
made their gardens, what effect it will have wo
are unable to say, but should judge, it would not
benefit them very much.
Jceoes. -Some of our cofemporaries have been
"blowing" about their attendance at some o,"
our county courts. We too have been honored l y
a summons of that character, but it is from Mar
shall Frost to attend the United States Court at
Pittsburg in May next. We shall endeavor to
fill the post of "Juror " to the best of our ali'i-
ty, and hope to enjoy a trip to the " smoky city."
Our patrons will be duly apprised of our return,
and the paper attended to during our absence.
The Wool Merchant. It will be seen by an
advertisement in to-day's paper that Mr. Joscrh
Gwinner the Wool Merchant has arrived in town
with a large stock of Domestic Dry Goods, whicl.
be will exchange for wool at market prices. We
take pleasure in recommending Mr, G. to ov.r
citizens and farmers as an honest business man,
and his goods will compare favorably with those
purchased in the eastern cities. Farmers not
wishing to exchange their wool for goods will bo
paid the highest market price in cash.
ThI CRT IS FTILL THET COME. Mr. Edward
Roberts, has arrived from the eastern cities with
a large stock of choice goods, and we are inform -ed
for quantity, quality and cheapness are not t y
be excelled by any house in town. Purchase
from those that advertise, and ret assured you
will get good goods and at low rates.
M'Caxs's Goods. In our notice last week of
the first arrival of new goods at M'Cann's store
room, we neglected to notice that he had purcha
sed while in the city a large and beautiful assort
ment of Millinery Goods, just suited to the war ta
of his lady customers. The goods are well sdc:
ted, and are the tip-top styles. We judge frcm
the beautiful array of goods he has on hand that
the pockets of many of our neighbors will have
to suffer. For ourselves we feel perfectly safe, fer
we never have much in our pockets to tako out
The "Old Link Democrat." We have re
ceived the first number of the Old Line Democrat,
published in Perrysvflle Juniata Co. Pa., by our
old Foreman Mr. Geo. F. Humes. This number
presents a very creditable appearance the edito
rials are well written and democratic to the core.
- The democracy of Juniata county, should not
falter in giving the Democrat a liberal support, as
a more true and tried supporter of democratic
principles never lived than George.
The JoHNsrowx Beobxchteb. This is the ti
tle of a neat and well executed German paper
published in Johnstown,-by Y. G. VcCgtly and W
Herman at $1,-60 per year. A German paper has
long been needed in the south of the county, and
we hope our German population will subscribe
i liberal 'v to the Becba&ter.