riscantens, *nip intb *Mad 1111lir All Ixtraordinary Propoittios. Ruoff the !'d Y, courier Ind Znquiter of Tuesday The following communication ' from which we omit the name of the writer mid the place of his residence, was received by a Catholic Clergyman of this city It bears date 296 of - April, g i r r4, and reads as follows: (Private) * * * April 29,1854. Sir:—You We aware DO doubt of the existence of a Society—wide spread in its operations—working powerfully seams the interests sad influesoe of the Catholic Church. From present indications, it threatens the entire overthrow of Papist influence and Catholic In stitutions throughout the length and breadth of this Republic. Being desirous of benefitting myself, and your cause, I make a tender of the whole mystery by which this Society is now working, for the sum of ten thousand dollars. I say th. whole, for, as an °See in the Society, (and a high one at that) I am in poesresion of ALT, papers relating to its working, and have, of comae, correctly all the verbal instructions, peas words and mysteries, iu all the degrees of this Order; and as I would be under the necessity of 'oeing the country or suffer death by an expo nire, if you will promise to pay me what I ask, and send me a check for two hundred dollars to pay my expenses to that city, I will come on im mediately Any further detail of matters in this connec tion would be superfluous "A hint-to the wise,' Ic. I feel conftient that if you knew all yon would comply without hesitation, that a cheek may be made as early as possible. I am sir, &c. (Direct to) ------ You wtl! of course See the necessity of entire secrecy. till you are in possession of all PARTICULARLY MYATT. The person to whom the letter WlallAkareSaid is moved by charity to give the answer through the medium of the public press, lest the unhap py writer should find himself unexpectedly in the bands of the law, for attempting to obtain money under false pretences There is no doubt that if a check were s-nt to his address, be would claim the payment of it, and thus fail into a snare which the officer• of the law could easily have set to entrap him Besides this, he puts evidently too high a premium on theinformation be has toionpart. The knowledge of the awful secrets which he proposes to disclose, would not be worth ten dollars to any Catholic, lay or cler ical, in the United States First: it would not enable Catholics to avert the impending dangers, with which, if he is to believed, they are menac ed. Secondly: They could not place the least reliance on the statements of a man who disre ?ards with so little sense of honor his obligations .0 a society, however objectionable its principles may be, which has confided in him to the extent proclaimed by himself Thirdly: If the Society is composed of mimbers, such as he, it is quite evident it will soon accomplish the work of its overthrow, without any interference on the part of Catholics Fourthly: The principles of the Constitution are too deeply impressed on the minds of the great body of the American people to permit their looking on with indifference while such-an awful scheme for the violation of its en actments should be carried into execution by any society whatever—even against Roman Catholics. Fifth: Every sensible man in the country would perceive from the columenement of such an at tempt, two things--one, that •it should not and could not succeed; the other, that if by possibil .ty it did succeed, it 'could be carried farther .han the destruction 9f the rights of Catholich. For these and many other reasons, the individu al to whom the letter was addressed; begs leave to decline the benevolent offer of the peraon.by whom it was written A GRA SSHOPPLR It( JIA ST.—Amongst the choice delicacies with which the Digger Indians regale themselves during the summer season (says the Empire County Jr : jab ) istit. grasshopper roast Having been an eye-witness to the preparation and discussion of ‘ine of their feasts ofhop pers, we can describe it truthfully. T here s are districts in California, as well as portions of the plaiiis between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky mountains, that literally swarm with grasshop pers, and in such astonishing numbers that a man cannot place his foot to the ground while walking there without chrushing great numbers. To the Indian they are a delicacy, and are caught and cooked in the following manner: A piece of ground is sought where they most abound, in the centre of which an.excavation is made, large and deep enough to prevent the insect from hopping out when once in The entire party of Diggers, old and young, male and female, then surround as much of the adjoining grounds as they can, and with each a green bough in hand, whipping and thrashing on every side gradually approach the centre, driving the insects before them in eountleas multitudes, till at last all, or nearly all, are secured in the pit In the mean time smal ler excavations are made. answering the purpose of ovens, in which fires arc kindled, and kept up, till the surrounding earth, for a short distance, becomes sufficiently heated, together with a tlat stone large enough to cover the oven. The grasshoppers are now taken in coarse bags, and after being thoroughly soaked in salt water for a few moments, are emptied into she oven and eloseisin Ten or fifteen minutes suffice to roast them, when they are taken out and eaten with further preparation, and with much apparent renlitat, or, as is sometimes t cattle, reduced to Powde . teand made into soup And having from r cu el -asted, not of the up, but of the roast, really ' out di t himself, of the idea of eating an a.,,„ a as Ira do an oyster or shrimp, without other pr taxi Lion than simple routing, they would not be considered very bad eating, even by more refined epicures than the Digger Indians. FlOnnittl.E TRAGEDY—Last Saturday morning our community ica•.l startled by the 11.1211OUDOe• 'ne w th a t a mothcr bad cut off the head of her child—an infant about ox weeks old. On inves tigation, it WUA fuupd to be true, and tohave been committed under the following circumstances.— The father and toucher have been addicted to drinking and quarreling, and some of the neigh bats seeing the destitution of the child, bestow ed some care upon it. Oh Saturday morning it was Firm to its mother, that she might give the nourishment it required,- and a person going to the house a few mmients after, and not seeing the child, asked the mother for it She gave an evasive answer. On going up stairs, the child wag found lying in a pool of blood, with its bead cut off and lying, some distance from the body. When the Coroner cave, and an inquest was summoned, search was made for to instru ment with which the deed had been Sone, but the only thing which could be found, was an old razor, that appeared to have been recently wash ed. The jury, after hearing all the testimony that could be brought to bear upon the matter, rendered a verdict that the child came to its death by the hands of its mother the head was cut off close to the lower jaw, leaving the whole of the neck on the body, and probably the nearest reason that could have paws to such a deed, was disclosed in a store found in the house. In the space of twestpitis da,ya, twenty-nine quarts of liquor wee c hord therein, and in about two and a-half menthe, laity-seven quarts were charged. She was co m mitted to the 'Montgonitry county prison to await her trial at the May sessions.—Newris. tows Fret IS•ess. air A leattini B(Tothe - Mi — Viiiiii paper pub lished at Mama, Goo, in aalkstaltmg a ra ,toad taken ageism the Nebraska by .a branches of the Whit par e is the Nordeam States, ups: "The •• party of eb• doss Us* com sad ranskissd. &micas Abui, Free Boil which elk% to that yam, ale have lobbed it of its prestige:, twat sae bs red with its somod material at the North sad at the Vasa s asSiossi Orgsaissaisw" Answer immedio►tely Tmaigiu n limuift—Osm Nair Kw. Amp irmb mama Elmaimm Bmar.—h.boat 8 , o'clock iimardaLmontiag, difimalt_y took /gale Garlman wedding party held in P. Kattelee,s art the oorporalion line, in Storm towi ship, the result of which was the murder of a man, named Caspar Dresher and the wounding of two other persona, named Angolans Sieger and Elisabeth Pope. The particular*, es we learn them, are these: Dresher and a man named Rob ert Thompson, got into a quarrel about a part ner, which the former claimed as being the one to whom he was engaged to dance. The lady decided in favor of Thompon. A quarrel en sued, and Dresher taunted Thompson sad *wit edly threatened to strike him. The latter cough t hold of the former and at tempted to eject from the room and finally outmoded went to his home, but soon returned, and again commenced upon Thompson who turned and fired a revolver. The first shot missed Dresher, and the ball Sieger on the head, inflicting a severe' wound. The see ond shot also missed Dresher, but struck Elisa beth Pope on the left arm. Dresher then ran to the head of the stairs, crying "murder, " when Thompson fired three times more, the alls en tering in the vicinity of the abdomen of Dresher who fell and rolled down the long flight of stairs. When picked up, he was found to be dead Thompson jumped through a side window and made his escape, and had not been heard of up to yesterday. Coroner Noble held an inquest yesterday, and the Jury returned a verdict, "came to his death by being shot by Robert Thompson." Dresher leaves a wife and three children. Magistrate Lieb. of Storrs township, has issued a warrant for the arrest of Thchupson and all due dilligence is being used to cause his arrest. The affray has created mod feeling in the immediate neighborhood, all parties being well known in that township.— Cinrianati Ga zette, May 11 A BLOODY Frotir.-The reucontre between Geo. Earle and a Mr. Wood, the former of Jack sonville, Ala., the latter of Wetampks, which took place on the 26th nit., resulted in the death of Earle, who had been a very prominent politi cian in his part of the State. A young 11 143 4, a relative of Wood, was in the cue, and she hav ing resided with Earle, and h aving been spirited away, the suspicion became so strong with Wood that a wrong had been done her, that he assailed him first with a pistol, the ball penetrating the back of the neck, and ranging upward between the skin and skull. The wounded man fell for ward to the floor, with the chair on which be bad been sitting partially covering his back. Wood then drew his knife, and cut Earle while life last ed,inflicting many wounds about the head, and fin ally breaking of the blade in the skull Ills death followed in a few minutes NAPOLEON WANTS A Dr once.--The Paris correspondent of the Montreal Witness, writes as follows:—The great question which occupies at present the Court of France, is the divorce of the Emperor. He no longer hopes to have any children by his present wife, and it is said he thinks octaking:ahother. The report is not official, but as it bas appeared in several licensed papers, the truth of it can scarcely be questioned Na poleon HI. is, however, very fond of his wife, and the divorce will resemble in every point that of iirs uncle and Josephine, who were, as you know, separated for the same reason. Whether from this motive or any other, the Empress of the French is looking very melancholy. It is impossible to see her without being struck by her expression of sadness. As to the Emperor, he appears constantly calm and imperturable. HAPLEss.—Among the killed at the late fire at New York, was' - George Rhinehart, aged 19, whose body was drawn from the ruins, the head being burned off ;le was an engine runner. George was from Kinirston. His father, a ma son, died of cholera in 1f439, leaving a widow and four children in poverty. By unremitting industry the widow kept the family together.— Last summers malignant erysipilas compelled the amputation of her right ann. George went to New York, and materially aided his mother by sharing his earnings with her, and now affliction comes to that poor woman in a new form. Sure ly we need not go to heathen lands or distant climes for proper objects of Fynipa t h y and kind ness. A NOVEL PROSECIITION.—A gentleman st Green Farms, Connecticut, lately left the Meth odest and joined die Congregational Church. In his new place of worship he found it difficult to repress those outbursts of religious feeling which were allowable with the sect he had left, and was quite often guilty of the impropriety of "speak ing out in meeting," to the great annoyance of his brethren. He was lectured affectionately upon the subject, but it was of no use—the oc casional "Amen" and "Glory to God" would slip out in spite of his teeth. He was finally prosecuted for shouting "Glory to God!" under the influence of a stirring discourse, and was fined three dollars and costa mounting to ten dollars. In the complaint against him he was accused of "disturbing religions worship " Gar Orr EARY.—The Decatur, It. Presslast week noticedthe result of a citizen of that a..mi ty, who, on the 28th of December last, most bru tally and fiendishly outraged his wife. It says, "He was fined one dollar and sent to the peniten tiary for three years It was proved that he be gan the assault by knocking his wife down with his fist, which was repeated several tiniest. He then struck her with a chair, and- breaking it, condo ned beating her from two o'clock in the after noon until after sunrise the next morning, with one of the rounds He afterwards struck her several times with a hatchet. During all this time be told her repeanialy be would kill her— bade het kiss her children for the last time.— The net morning she escaped to a neighbor's, covered with wounds and bruises from the orowu of her head to the sole of her feet. For several weeks she could not be raised in her bed, and from the Physician's testimony, must have died but for the cool weather. CANDID.—the Edinburgh &Masa* baa an article upon the acquisition of Cubs by the Uni ted States, in which, of course, the Latter country is charged with greediness and eovetousnest.— The Scotsman, however, has the candor to say, that, "whatever course the United States ray pursue in relation to Cuba, we an hardly, with good grace, protest against it, after having taken possesion of half the Burmese empire, beesuse Commodore Lambert was not received with. thee r ip. by a third-rate olfieiaL" Wits, SAID.—The Silver Creek Gazette, hay ing been accused of being wanting in deference in its remarks upon the throe thousand clew men who petitioned Congress upon a politics/ question lately, replies: We plead guilty to the indictment. The Ga zette is professedly political in its character, and contains some political articlei, in which we ven ture to critic* both politicians and political measures. It is our right and privilege so to do. To those who deprecate our course towards the clergy, we can only reply by ayarn. A minister was once riding through a section o the State of South Carolina, where custom facia& ina-lteepers to take pay from the clergy who'stayed with them. The minister iu ques tion took sapper without "grain," drank wine, retired to rest without prayer, and atehis break fist without prayer or "grace," and was about taking has depictors, when he was presented by "mine host," with his bill, "Ah, lir," said he, "I am s elergyman."— "That say be," repooded Bengal*, "but you moo Jaen, wookod Oka a abuser, 'Sept Idle a sin- Per, mad sto and /book like s sinner, sod sow, We, yos shalt pig Alm a imier" The wend OE - tho Worry will at WIZOIa mooed WWI Mr T• the diegirees ef the canine ease, a *mho 'die sin& idaloriose a few days soda data** of .11100 Tbs Delsocaut kelp Illatahe piety as as ether bike • AA. data Beards verx_ipoi 111111.1.11111 fir a Iry aimano, eri lira oast sad bay ihnea by the aide et a woodayas." rem or Jews mit us. The Midi at April was the aii *tad for die abolition of Amery is Vesssela. An Indian woman died at Knieree Fa ri, California, recently, at the age of 142 years Mr The meal number of death is dm city of Buffalo for the month, was 166 Of these 22 were from Cooeumptiou imir Among a cargo of army comforts that lately reached Constantinople, from Ragland, were 700 wooden kr! ia.. Isaseph.B. Dui, landlord of the ()olds Sheaf, in Somerset, Pk, was Milled by a drank. en man named Hoonta, on Moseley last. Is. Gen. Persifer Smith, U. 8. Army, was married on the 18th. ult., at Corpus Chris*" Texas, to Mn. Armstrong, of Washington us. St. Pad, Minnesota, has now seven hun dred houses and four thousand seven hundred inhabitants. It was settled first in 1848 . lam' A. MOM named Button was killed is New York last November by the Hudson River Ran raid cam The Supreme Court have awarded $3,500 damages to his relatives Mir The Free Church Seiciety, 101‘111020,114 have invited the R. Miss Awinette L. Brown to bitome their pastor. She his not yet signified her acceptance. no. The Pennsylvania Bail - toad tunnel throuch the Alhigheny Mountains is three thousand us hundred and twelve feet long ms. Some two hundred sores of the bottom lauds opposite Plainville-0u the Little, Miami river, nine miles from Cincinnati—Wive been sold at $lBO per eam. Mir The stable of Mr. Brows, at Georgetown, Mercer C 0.,, was 6 by lira on the night of the Ist inst. Eight boron, belonging to the Ohio Stage Company, were burned to death no. The Asystace is the title of s newspaper just started in Madison county, Mo. It is Dem ocratic in politics, keeps up a bluing fire on Whigery, and is chock full of trriatmoar. Morturr.—A person signing himself "Less than the Least," has sent twenty-five tbonsand dollars to a society in London, for propagating the gospel in China! noh. The loos by the Ere at Charnbersburg, un Friday last, is set down at $BOOO It broke out in a house in the very heart of the town, and swept two square, without destroying a single dwelling! The lows Gazette (Burlington d says that an ordinance has been paseeci by the city fathers of that town, prohibiting the steamboats at the landing blowing their whistles, "for the reanon that folks can't hold their horses:" go. A Detroit paper contains a communication from the spirit of Thomas Paine, in which he de nies that he is burning in fire and brimstone.— He says he is "a happy, free and glorious spirit,, in the mansions of the spiritual sphered." Mir The Mt. Sterling (Ky.) Whig, of Friday, says: "On yesterday afternoon, after our forms were closed, we learned that Bright Friter, a well known citizen, got into a difficulty with soma Irishmen and shot three of them and killed one —the others mortally wounded. The Richmond Enquirer very properly, in our opinion, defines the principle of squatter sovereignty to mean that the people moving to s new territory have the right to take just such property there as the persons going there think proper. iW Charles Hathaway, of Windsor, Broome co., with his wife, two children and sister, were drowned by the upsetting of a skiff in the Sus quehanna • River on Sunday last. They were crossing the River on their way to Church. 4 Western editor says, that if you want to feel al nice as a hymn-book in a red cover and gold clasp, all you have to do is to run and plc& a pretty girl up when you see bet fall down in the street. He tried the experiment the other day, and has felt full of sunshine, clover, and four-story happiness ever since. no. A men named Hiram Tailor, was sent to the chain gang for two months, in Cincinnati, for passing a gilt coin or token as a gold coin of the value of four dollars and fifty cents. The coin was an advertisement of somebody's preparation to destroy insects and rats. lir A bright and interesting little girl about eight yore of age, died in the village of Newark from convulsions brought on by jumping rope four hundred times in anessesimt. The move ment of the muscles of the Habit, as isjumping, continued without cessation forty-eight hours, until the sufferer was released fromthe painful exemise by death. Mr The Boston Herold is learned in biblical history. It. traces the "know-nothings" back to the days of Absalom, and quotes 2 Samuel tv 2, in evi den ce, as follows: "And two hundred men went out of Jerusalem with Abealom, that were called—and they went in their simplicity and they knew sot anything." "A SOLOIN SOCIAL DitY."—Tbit Elizabeth town oorrespondent of the Louisville Courier says that ez-Governor Helm, in his address to the jury in the Ward ease, "avowed his belief that Matt. Ward was discharging a solemn social duty when he shot Prof. Butler." air We see that the man who tamed the monarch of the forest and led him in meek sub mission, as did be all the animals of the Globe, Herr Driesbach, has bad his lion nature tamed. He has sworn to love, honor and cherish a buck eye belle. What an anomaly-41e gave his youth to ambition, his manhood to love ; agh, An old lady in Corinth Me., who has at tained tharentarkable age of-112 years, is in the habit of taking three home of snuff daily, which would make about two bushels and one peck per annum. Since her fiftieth birthday, therefore —4O go no further bank---she has snuffed np one hundred and thirty-nine bushels! Any potion, hereafter, who may preach against the salubrity of this cleanly custom, wa7 be safely,t down as not being "up to snuff.' sar The ilmy in the case tried at Alston, in this State, in which amnia persons ware charg ed with entorting mousy from an obi getitisuus, by us* a fowls to &soy him into a place of doubtful Trumunitut, medamod a verdict of guilty. Dr. Meld um found guilty on all counts, and Daniel lemihenour guilty on the third and sixth counts. Mir The increase •of emigration from Germ*. ny, and decrease from Britain, has before been remarked. It is strikingly exhibited in the ar rivals at the port of New York on Tuesday last. OP that dill, the imasually large number of 4,- 418 arrived, 4,108 of whom were from German ports, and only 310 from those of Britain. es., An important decision to tavern ins given by Hon. (hyoid Thomper, Judge of the Court of Quarter Samoan of Phila. delphis county. The District Attinney is pie. seating the ease took the ground that the halos did Net eowe mate of Nino made at Sinday.— Judge Thompees eharged the jury that the de kmtiant's lifter did not give hire the privilege of selling os Sunday, that the Supreme Court had so deeided, and if they berseved liquor had been sold by the &feudist os Sunday, he could be couvishid a that °oust. itessasouc—Two eierba were meetly whip ped is the socket *oat; Obatieetoli, S. 0 , for ' .tailing from their eutpleree. They nee seat sated to men. lit'ittadate L abs, whisk wane to M Witted at tine &am; Uwe sad at .oh that the same twei by the fret Nimbi be busied beano dt• mood raiebleeleto mad so et the third. At the iht whintag awe aebappy wieder et the *baths 4As Dia& abse adkati twisty stroke", AV *A I sad Met*. sad were amid beck to falite r - Tea theeeeed row beheld bwilite ire* tea: trit 14P: All ctow I.L. EMS SATURDAY NORNMG, M4Y 20, 1854 IXBMWIC ffAlll IMEINATIONS /OR 00VZILSOIL WILLIAM BIGLER, Of CleGrikid Colinty AIM OF SITIOIIOI OOTINt =WAR S. BLACK, Of Samna , Onaty. POI CANAL. 0010LIANIOSItil HENRY S. NOW, Of Pik. County, egi,. The Gazette's potation, al Jellied this week, is perfectly madactory to a. W e newer expected that our autoporat7 would, in sa y "way eaeourage she Governor's political aspira tions," b ut b ow i ng as be did how wholly aid osireeerridly the Faantive sympathised with Ihie in the gery aim she bah/ Pawl thrcltiO, we did expect that gratitude would disarm polit aaimasity d its lug, sod that oar ootempo na7 would i s t ra sh sofa fact "reader unto Cesar the things which are Caesar's." We are glad to see that this expedition will be realised. Mk. Hurry has opened a new stock of Elate sad Cap is the room occupied by J. Culbertson 0 * SOS, os State street. We have eitataised the soa k, so d wink we ma say thit in quality sad prim those wishing to pantheon can't better themselves. Give him a call for "rad soquain %um aka." lir Indications are that the bill establishing territorial Governments over Nebraska and Kan sas, will pas the Homo is a few days. In three months after it doss, allow us to predict, the "sound and fury" of the Whig and Abolition army will have ceased. People will only vol. der there was so much clamor raised aver such a harmless affair. SPRAY= OF rai SSNATIL—As usual, the Senate elected a nee► speaker before it adjourned in place of Col. McCoulin The choice fell on Hon. Brunt D. MOWN, of McKese county. Mr ALI is but thirty years of age, and has been but two years in the Senate, or in public life; but in that time he has '•wen golden opinions" from all parties. He is a staunch Democrat, an able debater, and well informed in relation to public affairs. ` 8116, The Meadville Gar , is down on the Legislature in general, and Gov. Bigler in par ticular, because the bill relative to the Sunbury road and Clevelead and Erie road, him been per mitted to become a law.. The Editor says he "will call this act by no other name than a bas sieendk,Zn outrage upon the right. of the cid seas of Crawford county, as well as all interest ed in our i alailroad projects. A dikct sale has been made of our rights, granted ni in the char ter of the Franklin Canal Compri ... Y r and the pro oeeda given to a road adverse to our interests— antagonistic, and desirous of erusling out' ev ery hope which we have entertained." This is the first we ever heard that the Sihibury road was "adverts" to the "interests" ;of Crawford oouuty, or "desirous of Washing' every , out' hope" the &Mums of that minty edtertainedl— tide aside. 'Sere b one *cams rable ileum about this railing of the tiorietse, and it is this. It it but a short time Ines when the Editor of the Gasser was ratlia's as bitterly about the use of the veto power, and, if we are not mistaken, advocated an amendment to the constitution abolishing "King Veto," as he called it. Now, be rails at Gov. Bigler bemuse he lid not ezer oise "King Veto" upon a bill that pared the popular branch et the Legislature by over two thirds, and by a &sided vote in the Bersatel— Inconsistency and Whigery go head in hand always, we believe! Al. Diel mod. Our last advice. from Washington reader it pretty evident that an "affair of honor" will anus off soon—unless the parties beak oat, a la Cut ting—between Mesas. _Mau, of L. sad Oraig, of NonistoCarolina. The cause of this "important affair" is thir. Craig called Hunt a "fsetioaist," and Hunt called Craig a fiat, or the equivalent! Thus oar unsophisticated readers can see what "compliments pass when 'maltreat meet." Hunt west into Congress with the reputation of a fight ing man, having killed one or two men for look ing sideways at him, or for some other trivia/ of *we, and from this dispute it appears be is still ready to "cider coffee for one antpistols for two." We have as mash of the "milk of human kind ness" als say oar hut the eltareeeer of a bully and a braggart we despise, hence we shunt shed a great many teen if Mr. Craig gives this fellow "entire matisfaetioa." 18,,, Brown, of the Coaneantrills Courier, rays the Nebraska obit!' will ao doubt become a law; if so, but a few weeks will elapse before Aefill hail for some point lit Kama " He also de clares that "the nett great battle for freedom will be fought on the mail of Kamm and Nebras ka," sad he is "going to mingle is the Mrife." Dm Qaizot's battle with the wind mills, will be nothing to this "groat battle" thee moos to oome off away out is Maria, Well, if our free soil fried will throw himself away, why "leer rip." Good-by George; good-by Washiagam, good by Browns! Send US an olden, sad a pieee of black tape, if you fall is that "strife," do! LIQUOZ Law.--Our Legislature passed a very stringent act is regard to the reeding of liquors. Among other things it pr o hibits the sale of beer and other malt liquors without H ome, and prohibits any perms hem obtaining Hoene, and selling spirituous liquors by the quart or otherwise, unless the person so applying shall he a retailer of foreign or doesestie goods, Wens, and nterehandiaa, entitled to be tieeecd equal to elms 14, sad have bees than classed by mercantile appraisers. Penes* violating the law see enhiset to the one maths; as keepers of endiesisull tipping louses • The set does sot apply to brewers of male Lipton, or reetilbers af spirituous liquors tat whoknale porpoises. b. Masai wea, And °thew iwieletwok wiil do v.n to make', sus hies. Vie PrlPsigtosi OR sward etvelops of qie rat d ice Owasso en sot alma sa evidesee Opre plum; 11/* eeperase Ayes dilie ~skip( on mina they ore wale. Seporgiag seeks stay" filkwl the wok". an sigkei NOW* &strop its kepi mdse. Mr The hmarylvia 19tato hit is to moil ariip !Otis at at Pte. 1 111 is dab, Jos pad sthit I Vim ; the PhalldhiPlih7A... "'- 11. 111- 111111 • klig 1111011. rt Waled with this sigitillels4 4 . o6o 4 * IMO."' to; Chitiwedr in whisk tio writer sodeessik to show that the Dentomerty of the State have toot ziSuch strength, and gained yeah% because the State Convention, when it nominated Gov. BIG -11.11, did not pass resalations endorsing the prin eiples of the Nebraska bill. With most of the i seutiments of the article we heartily agree, bat to its tionehaimis we respectfully beg leave, as one who has stood faithfully by the principles of the Nebraska bill through good and evil report, to demur! We any with the Arra emphatically that "the fact that the principles on which the Nebraska bill is founded do meet the hearty ap proval of the Democracy of the State, is a fact that cannot be questioned or doubted;" and hence,l in car °pinks, any re-espression of opinion would be labor lost. So true is this, that the idea ad van oed by the Asps that the "State Central Committee should at craw adopt the National platform, and issue an address upon the subject," sounds much to us as the proposition doubtless ! would to a Ann believer in the Chureh, if WOO one of the Elders should gravely propose that his brother Elders should at once "adopt" the Bible "and issue an address upon the subject." Why, the "National Democratic platform" is the "plat form" upon which the Democracy of Pennsylva nia have invariably stood. Nobody disputes that in the canvass of 1848 and 1862 they stood shoulder to shoulder upon that "platform." It was their watchword when defeat overtook them, and it was their rallying cry whoa victory perch ed upon their banner. are they changed?— have they turned traitors to their protestions?— have they became lukewarm and indifferent to the issue? We believe all these questions can be answered in the negative. We believe the Democracy of Pennsylvania stead sow where they stood then—upon the Baltimore platform, and the principles avowed in that confession of faith! Believing this, we raise our voice against any re expression of opinion upon this, or any other point of party faith, let it come from whatsoever source it may We are not whips, with a party creed as changeable as the season, that we need Central Committees to reveal to us the path we must tread. No, the beaten path by which our party Alas so often marched to victory, is straight before us, and we want no new light—no patent lamp—to show us the road. We say, then, let the Central Committee attend to its legitimate duties—mind its own business-- andthe mama will do the voting and thus march to victory Were this a new issue—had the Democracy ne ver been before the country upon it—there might be some propriety in the complaints of the. Ar gus: But such is not the fact. We were de feated in 1848 with it inscribed upon our banner, and we • were successful in 1852, thanks to the "sober second thought of the people" with it still emblazoned there. How has it been *truck from that beerier since, that the Central Com mittee must nee& come forth and, Sir Oracle like, proclaim it anew? When? and by whom' What Convention of the tarty has repudiated it'—ln what marts. has it been lost sight of? These questions cannot be answered The Baltimore platform is still the "platform" of the Democra cy of the State—so proclaimed by the recent State Convention, and so acknowledged by the masses. To "adopt" it, then, through the medi um of the State Central Costunittee,.as as address to the people, would do no good—nsikke the cause no stranger, and in the end place us in a false position! It would place us in a false position, because it would in Ascot proclaim to the Dem ocracy of the Union that, in the opinion of the State Contral Committee, the Democracy of the State had "fallen from grace" since 1848 and 1862, and requited a "new revelation" from the Elders of their church to bring them book to the fold! We hope therefore the call of the Anjou will not be heeded by the State Central Com mittee, as indeed we know it will not., if good council carrells. Wosas TEAM INTAMOVW—That pink of de cency, the New York Tribaae, strongly recom mends to the members of Congress to resort to every species of factious and disorderly conduct to defeat the Nebraska bill. With an insanity or rascality unparalleled, it urges a defeat of this nisaeure by blocking the wheels of public affairs, by breaking up Congress in a riot, or even by burning the Capitol' ! ! And this rd - commendation comes from a print which is al ways noisy in its professions of virtue, and of love for law and,order. Well, the enemy burned the Capitol in the war of 1812, and it seems we now have traitors among us who would rejoice to see it "blase by the torch of the ineendiary . ."— Lest ow readers may think we do not quote the Tribune correctly, we annex the exact language: "Better that eonfusiou should engine—better that discord should reign in the motional oouneila —better that Congress should break up in wild disorder--usy, better that the Capitol it'd/should blast by the torch of the incendiary, or jail and tzsil its issasates &tussah its crusibliag:rotina that lids perlidy and array Aosta be fi nally aeotaplisked.' - In relation to the wheat crop in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press says from information re. oeived through the local papers and other sources, it is d opinion that the prospect is now fair for at Most an average wheat crop to that State. In the early part cf the mason, in some sections, the appearance d the Adds was forbidding, the root of the wheat seeming to be winter-killed; but in some Magness these hide have recovered, and me now promising. With no intervening oalun ity before harvest-time, the wheat crop of Mich igan will be a fair one. Mir The Ex-Honorable who conauets the sandosky /Error is very maoh like a oar dog.— Go eivily by, Or attempt to pm him on the bank, and ten to one he will snap at yon. Give him a good pound kick, however, and he retreats rustl ing to his hole. Poor ninny, a few years in Washington; has upset what little sense and do oettey he ever had—and that was't mach! A' The Toledo Rath states that there is to be no gambling on the staame6 plying between that city and Detroit; ttlit it is to be ittierlY ex. elided from all the boat". This it an example which might be followed by steantboate every where with emit, attety. Is. The is the way they do things is 01110. The Paine& IWiress lays the Trimmer of Lake scanty walked into the yeah of the Beak of Glans oa Friday demo= LA, sad lad* hisemedno the cam 111110 26, tilefiaollllla die ander the bag Ss ///41/ flays tsar, Mime sad Peral,th 6 . 1 r tits PM Mk r pa, Ne:mss teweliag %ea% 6i ? 4,114 ' wi t 11 1 11 !111N IS WollollB7* SCI " 114 4116: : "aka I* asi Oceie se,' be plat a' *gem at the mei imam gm mil aewii■a. is thossid, sins Deal Wilmot mei sleety Mosul Way spelt WIHOMMIki bear no afte at or WO lesea, t‘ittp* lid Dan- , only of Bradfisd wusid be stowed to walk the beaten path they trod ere his somey aspiration after notoriety lured *ma into the slimy paths of Free Soil. We ken him to be indolent and hay--litermed to take his ease—and we hoped that a seat epos the Bench would keep him in a delightful political dose for the next ten years at /east. BM it appeal we are not to be gratified. The great "Proviso" has woke up, and is deter mined to "kick up a brew" even at the ex peen of his damaged repstatios. To do this ef factually he ailed his faithful allies together last week, in public anesting,and addressed them upon the affairs of the'Sountry in geseral; and the No, breaks bill in particular. Not satisfied with making a speech the "Judge" read an address to ; the Democracy of the State, which was adopted, de&ariug Nana* a political issue, and predict ing that It would (Imo every party that sup ported it in the fres States. He proposed also a State Convention to take necessary action on the subject. As the fellow said when he saw the Clown in the Circus attempt to swallow himself, such proceedings look very much like weaned especially in each a minority as the Bradford Democracy: They ought to recollect that they are a very small portion of the Democracy of the State, aid kompe they show themselves in a ridi onleus light when they attempt to regulate the political lines of their party. We have no ob jection to their "speaking out in meeting" for themselves-4M they have a perfect right to do —but the idea of such a fellow as Davy Wilmot, and his few followers up in Bradford, mounting this Free Soil hobby, and asking the Democracy of the State to take a seat with them, "is eittOng it rather fat," we think, As the Residing Gazette I very patiently remarks: • "Nebraska is apolitical issue—an issue between , national feeling aid seolional fanaticism--es is eat, between Dweomete who stand pledged to nuustain theprieciple of the Compromise of 1850, and Whigs Free 'oilers, Abolitiotusts, and kindred spirit*, who have eossistently opposed every Cow -1 promise between North zed South, and every et / fort to exclude 'Lamy agitation from the Halls of congress. This is the issue now before the I people, and if the voie' eof the great National Dem ! wade party, which triumphed so gloriously in 1852, upon the platform of non-interference with the question of slavery in the territories, could be heard to-morrow, it would speak trum pet-toned in favor of the same just principle.— Let Bradford bear in mind the fate of her famous 'Wilmot Proviso; and abstain from the quizot ism of attempting to dictate a ereed for the polit ical organisation in which she is, rinmermlly al ' most a cipher." torraaniaa in Congress I==:=l The "assembled wisdom of the nation" did a good thing, the other day, in deciding that a man ought not to have more than one wife liad the proposition been decided otherwise, as a good chisel', we should have felt bound to have ac quiesced in the arrangement; but as it is, we "breath freer and deeper " The occasion of this decision was the consideration of the Utah bill, the object of which was the establishment of the oboe of Surveyor-General, and to grant donations of land to actual settlers. Among the provisions of the bill was the following: "Provided, That the benefits of this act shall not extend to any per son who shall now, or at any time hereafter, be the husband of more than one leffi.." This brought the question directly home to the mem bers, and the result was a very animated debate in which polygamy was treated philosophically, ec clesiastically, and politically Whatever may have been the private feelings of members, how ever great their respect, love, and admiration of the gentler sq, there was not one who had the boldneis to declare himself in favor of polygamy. The patriarchal sad amiable delegate from Brigh am Young's spiritual wife parsrlise,even, did not declare himself is favor of it. This may bare been owing to policy, to an lndisposition to speak, or possibly to the feet that he is "declining in the vale of years," and feels more comfortable under the Christian than the Mahomedan matri monial system. There were members, however, who, in strains of fervid eloquence, indignantly denounced the Mormon practice of having a plu rality of wives. The highly respected delegate from Utah thought that the more wives a man had the more land he needed to support them, while the Hon. Mr Smith, from New York, thought that one farm wag enough for any man, no matter how many wive he had. and while the balance of the speakers thought that if a man had more than one wife ho ought not to be pre. seatedwith ose solitary acre of land The result of all thi* *lobate woe that the bill was dispoooti of by a rote of the awassittae of the Whole to report it to the House with a reenm asesilaties that it sot palm • iew is., We hare aim doubted that the time would SOWS when the prom of the bleat would do justice to the people of Erie in their war with the Railroads. The cause and objects had in view--the opening of another great avenue of Linde from the Lakes to the Atlantio•--were of such deep import to the people of the west, that the result we alluded Mums sum to *me sooner or later. Already we me sips of the "Wonting morn" when light shall some out of darkness, and the people of „Erie receive justice at the hands of those who were first to denounce them. Witnees the following from the Cincinnati Max Tits Bvuusy 41(0 Eau RAILBOAD.—In speaking of the settlement of the Lake Shore diLulty, the Cincinnati Times, thus alludes to the ilusbury sad Ririe Railroad, and its benefit to this city. The Times says:—“The Sunbury and Erie Railroad from Lake Erie to Philadelphia yet to be built, moat prove a form idable rival to the New York and Erie Roan, and it *lll tekepasesajiers to New York through i Philadelphia, n shorter time than any °thew line, sad rut a strtam of trade into Philadel phia, whilst now finds its way to New York;— hence the hostility of the press of that city during the time of the "break," and their desire to settle the diftrairies by the forte /*public opini&t, and ottigcsat motors to law. The amnion of her sovereign rights by Peauylnnia over her own territor boltavor, defeated this gild) game, and now w eave tire result, by which the tturrelling community will largely profit."--Phil's. Argus. 1111" it ifpOtig bo s pest tUllary to trikv ai oa lea of 'Wooten aessaboaut. —Lou isa/8 filaag. TIMM 40 be 44Weve ap" mum be a "luxury," tot wrisialy !Me Odra Wed= steamboat is hiOn ap, or 'illispd aad soak. Lord deliver ae ham awe *NEW ler Tbs genimpindat of the Is4.Bte rap dist a Yids palm t 4 phalli", tits olootios nholts, i. ono to make its opponsoo is oshisipm. Tim bog otty to Jill off Ety Pro► gel opine* is Se OW • pore to Rey** elithdpelaft PI Vdliek cbmetpa.se•.•• qf the ere. 1,. , Ta ft. n o ■w York i• swiping ad; n o a W.A.—Th. groat oity stisek its twi t , too web was Me by set el the lisy4e 7 nit bum sway ydeshisd Ibir Mate whils t um at *sir sew Item • fortsight nese, r day Is still Mend Coehdion, R a m on grad sondes. crockery sad c.luo, are weld to attic. Old (ictitsa and yaw s N n to s uop together In the Me Rabre ft. Water surrenders the Wei eba eia Mk dews on the beet polar sem male vat do up tti.i► lisytiew lovs story. N o . Yak la .seat pad. It rail that bebteritta yeses raisterrer, Swi ft is , Wel eat. What • vim ot' a fellow ra sy you se a ropritosetative of 0 44 rata sad sleet, frost tad snow B y the Propetlarat sad so settlair nd of k r * r bee helped that ebanaiag widow, m a i m her real estate WON the tau lake ,f Ia conwposkes 4 t►sas nomin al quested to apologists to all maim* who have laved tinappolatmeat s •agouti*. As 66 parkin are la 1044 oar yoaog ladies sad than monitor aeny t annals to tarry their programmes of sea r ,„, being thou damosailled, au gara t4g ,, easentsid, and all army smoriniteata ter la of JULIO*. At that lima a pgs , matrimonial operations will be rwo season 1.11 to Oil 111116000, 0 01 1aOlitag Inoue, social and rallgiotts anteing*, July. The sesupar fashionable lit that time. It eloped that this inssi milliners, clergymen, silk holism mid , mammas, sad baby hapPora, to hitt ; rowdy spring has ago rudely punpass This is peculiarly an age for wooer. Mont City topic is mother phase of wt dame de Gram:Vert, a lady , if ?nisch Orleans. lectured mitre upon the 'nee of woman. She maintams duo • sprere of.wonian's action. that she shouie strength than tears, no other power tlea other happiness than that she can team Per Cuero, twenty thousand way On the nth of hay, to witness th e Light Guard, a corps of Young Anatol *ho, it as said, wen to march up tows, armed with lances, and radient didn't come. however, greatly to •• *spent:int multitude, bet ere eq...eted summer. It te understood that a hie Chief of these AIRINIODS and piny theory is that "woman's progress' rival culture sad development by km diet, and that "the love, the devonos, bility" which constitute Misdealt de( of woman,) are only like precious beds, tree, unless you Invigorate the failing sea. Madame de Grencifort is French, rustle style of beauty, hearse in is. nay , in the French language, to audiences o f the most approved het-boom ppieste Airton is Young America all orer. sad demonstration in Breadwey, with ands duce, to all the lecturers in Christer:oM Guard has decidedly the most plow ewe But this is a mere seven days ketosis, Gotham must bare a new imoitewest a week on this great stag* of ever.ewyag few weeks once the greet Firemen's Destt' the ony into gloom. Ths neat and intellectual feast of the Re-opening toe attracted gay bad happy crowds. al plays of the anniversaries brought see ton before the public, and thus the zees rises and falls upon novelties end epic* to city life Yee highly spiced s life here, bat therefore the sooner rue tranquil house and calm enjoyment A • simple pleura:we- Lees taint to the ice., the life, and a curer hope for the mini But hark' the Atlantic's guns. as at bor. Fresh news from Europe. Lou, Breadstuff:, in good demand! Pork bardment of Odessa by the English Flee Europe. The New York mousy mute( ie easy ge. Last week the Conneaut*: ed the names of Benton and dates for President and Vice Girard Express, however, think, are "badly matcbed." The it can't forget what Benton its< accident on the Princeton 3hst But this wide; the ret,orta press, and insists that tney are not • ed;" and to prove it r.iv 3 parallel views, and shows conclusively, tion, that the nominees hate acted , alike, and almost look alike A. umpire, we think the l on r,.r br argument -- ~•►--- RATHER AN Usust:Al. RESULT of this country are not unwilitng their posterity, but t\have s tartly vote to tax themselves to is such an unusual oceurrenes ths; passing notice of the-fact should ' other day the people of the city St. Louis voted to instruct the subscribe 11-1,200,000 to the 'too: Railroad, and to pay the same b‘ direct tax on the property of ther inns, so voting 'That wa.4 ct tion, and the majority to favor tion was very large, over •ux t oat and about 3,000 in the cousin rs oned an exhibition of public , rtr' ll4l roism of no'sznall degree /.2 :Ms 14 4 igglPMeintOta hale te uudertak‘ great retinal miterprm. as for aubsoriptions to be ptil to 'on); bad serer expect t o f ee t the boles of soli But to vote a direct tat e, die mount million of dollars, to Ite pale' ot on short time, it' severe tort of paN and liberality, even for 'suet s comsat of St, Louis Gov. BIGLEIL.—.'he populsrit is not alone confined to this State uati Commercial says: -Gov Bigter.s week vetoed four bask bills He or Powell, of Kentucky; and. la ITP I liPPesni LO be "treading it the kotga . est old Simon Snyder." MI6 A poor woman was arrested 2 ti the other day, for stealiti4 f , rir ' a barrel itt front of a store, t., froita ved children. The Justice tine -Ex.c.iia nye It i' pretty evident this p" IP. "respectably connected,' cist 3 Ls hare been convicted. Mir A Mr. Harvey Ihrehsr3.fs o l aggrieved by a newspaper par&Pi ll i wankie Free Democrat, matted that awe, with a large club, iut head, threw him against cite 04 , 4 with such foroeas to Lean) cres+ a' led his hair, watched 1113 few, ogreabble Pulliam he was fined C 4 • •••:•.'": 4 , Ortal Paw as the afterueoi 41 We peadanna w e►all ban. a WO and ties--arbas? sir it. lon from an actor tia tt a l , 1 11 : 04a Ws . teurailLiaranalast:6illiiorulow4F =me EMI
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