THE ERIE OBSERVER. SA/NJ. W. alltiOANt (maim s 11.00/Ur.. FIALIiAIWA- A ‘TURDAY News of the Week. - The way the shapers do things in New York is sJsuetimee very amusing as well as curious. as the follow.. tag incident related by the papers hilly testifies: On rt day *genie, an elegantly dressed woman mitered Stew• art's and asked le see arum shawls. After assertive sad comparing, she at length made a **loathe, the pries be. tog live hundred dollars. Greaten, producing her p••ne I 111012010, Ike elialleted the clerk a two•tbowsaad dollar bill in payment He took It immediately tG the cashier, who examined it carefully; and then to make himself perfectly Alto, s4til e clerk Out with if to •oe en expert, and oLtain te,oplolon lideauwblie the lade became very Indignant, cut resented the strong which she said had Leen put up' s her She was note character to receive or pass off bad urreney, and would come again to Stewart's to do mai shopping. Prerealy the messenger returned with the Intsiligeace that - the 101 l was good. She caught it from him, deeladag that she would not take the thawl.— A fief a little while, however, she mensal to relent, and said that she had been to a large number of sstabllshmests •n 1 that tie shawl was the only one that had salted her, the remarked that she-would take it, adding her determi nation not to expose herself again to a similar affront— Ike sleek was profuse to „apologies as he did up the arti • is, and the two thomissa dollar bill was taken by the cashier sad UM; leatrod dollars promptly paid back to kilt, whoa, without bidding good night, she took her leave. rhe tall this time proved to be a oeusterfete. FA* kuul paid the clerk a 4111111110% one from the one lint exhibited. - They do wonderful things out West, and there are underialitepple there. In Michigan. a man pulled a soak* three fait long, with teeth measuring an eighth of en inch, oat of him►elf, haring previously killed the ani mal by starvition, after he had been in his stomach for seveuteen ,years; in liardlo county, Ohio, a young lady was relieved of a tumor which weighed one•fourth as mush as she did herself; in Cincinnati there is a double-headed girl whose digestive organs are consolidated, but who talks and eats with two legs and walks with two mouths— c r 'area, if the public prefer it. Nor is this the only `•wander" co shed for by the papers of that "centre of fork." The Gassitte relates a singular circumstance which happened to a young lady In that city a few nights since. Ibo evening, or rather allsthe day previous, she had been e oinplaiting of a severe pale in the head and eyes, more r zsueslarly the latter. Judge of her astonishment, and that of her friends, to find, the morning following, that during the night she had become completely einem/pull the transformation occasioned her no additional pain, and has et:Labia a matter of much speculation. Her name Is Lai& Mkrkw, fib* u about 1 years of age, soil resides an Barr it., near Linn. Jacob Weil, a boy not yet 13 years of age. hung him pelf on Friday afternoon last week, in the barn abut Ma. tire, btr. Ivan Bresslager, is Lenhartsville, Barks ooun ty, with whom be wise staying on a visit. It appears that he took advantage of the &beano* of Mrs. Breasinger from the house, to slip into the barn, where he fastened a chain to one of the mans, attached a dos chain to tt, and buck led the collar around his neck. Hs wee .tancling upon a e carriage, and in leaning backwards, the carriage ,ltd from wider him, and left him hanging with hie toes barety touching the door in which condition be was scram Bled 0 0 death before any one was aware of what be had done. It Le not supposed that be committed intentional Weide, but that be merely w.shed to try the experimant vt banging, in play, without being aware of the danger of the net Bonbon Shiflett, San, of Windsor tt.wriship, held as inqwest upon the body, and a verdict was rendered in acoordanosi with the facts. The body of the unfortunate boy was taken home t his rarenu, In Logantwiimp on last. The Clarion Bowie. is reeposuaLle tor the to/lowing: "A young mak In Blobland township, Venetic° county, named JUICE Carnes, aged twenty.thrse years, who has tor *long time taken delight to disturbing religions meet tap, sad othanrias acting badly, west to a meeting a short WM sines, sad out up some abities—a gentleman moon. " strated with him, saying that in come way be would be 10411411 ed by • higher power for his evil doing—bat be 'seabed at the remarks, tad said he 'was not afraid of Atha God or the devil: It iris awful blappitemy. Early tbaJoszt meallog, tails working with I threads, ma- Ala., be ...lipped among the cog wheels and before be c mild be got cat was terribly lacerated and is not expect ed to live. The neiglibors think ibis is a direct ?Mita:lon .f Prorideesee." - A piece of diabolical v etratect In Bt. Lute Mat N edneeday. Dfr. hlockilimann, Dia wife, two 411drea, two eervant girls and hoarders, were posoned, Odle taking dinner, with arsenic which bad been :nixed with their fond. Eintm after the meal was finished Um,' ell wept mita( with severe griping end torniting. 'Proper antidotes were adnanistered, and they all recovered An analysii - showed that Illlenac was continued 411 the soup •nd moat, cad had been tamed with the salt used fa ecnk eg. A man who had quarreled with the proprietor, and mft the bearding brave that matalog u turpactod of the edam. - Anot her Denttbt, • Dr. 'Walter. of hicotreal, has boss convicted of an attempt to commit a rage apolt a pa tient while under the Itfluenolt of chloroform. It is instal ( ed. by those who understand the effects of chloroform, that In most mesa outrages lilt, thole are Tegeries of the hr Lin, and :trust only in the imagination. If so, why will destisti continue to run the risk of admintetcring chloral for mto patients who are unattended/ If not, why will f maim claiming to be reepeetable, .abject thomoolves to t be lists which numerous etTnvictions seem to show the re n •tilt from their taking chloroform when not In the pre. sites of third pasties. ti few days since, as the .chconer Plyowath Rock was proofiedlttg to Saginaw, a sailor named McNamar, w he is subleet to fits of insanity, wee seised with one of his wont Wools, and furiously rushed upon the captain with a knife In his hand, and attempted to stab him.— The mate rushed to the assistant* of the captain, when McNamar ranted apes Dim and iallieted a severe wound to his had. He was finally mewed with the assistance of ISO craw, An a most desperate Maggie, and was tee ken Into 8 sginaer t whence De was bent bark to Detroit, mime be beliags, by the steamer Fo*sct A young German of Chicago, named Simon, says We Prow of that city, remmitted suicide on Saturday, to the folios/slag strange manner. He went out into a shed, wok a scd had irg .1 wit,. poedr, •nd then with ,cab , , ylae• d Lb. mutzle in his mouth and fired, completely shot t aria( his head. When found he was standing lathe cot set leaning ow his gun. The room presented a terrible a ppe arm" being completely drenched with blood and covered with pieces of skull and brains. Th. mu, of the $ aikido .19 traced to the refusal of Simon's father to permit him to many the girl of Dia choice. It le currently reported in the circle of Spiritualisu, that the dilliculties existing between Mrs. Cora L V. Hsieh, the eelebested trance lecturer, and her husband, have bees adjusted on a basis of sepazatiou. The matter was referred by mutual agreement to three eminent gen tlessert.ot New York, who are identified with tipiritetahr both Mrs. Hata and her basband agreeing td abide their decision. After a hearing, the referees decided to favor of • separation, end that Mrs. Match be paid S;00 by her husband. It is said that the nett receipts of the lady's Isetaring tear Mae amounted to $6,000. Two New England Borgia, have just been sent to prison far Ulster poisoning their hasbands; Mrs. Gardner, o f Minghsan, Mass., sad Mrs. Studley, of Providence, Rhoda Island. Mrs. G: poisoned her husband, who was t he resiusaiter at Bingham, In order to be free to live with, • seas she liked bettor; and Mrs. S., who was a widow, years of age when married to Mr. Studley, then 75, • d him a few months after the wedding,lieeause he was • IWO hordes, and bad property which she coveted. She 'rotated bet Innocence when sentence was pronounced. A ycuag woman, a victim of seduction and desertion, onunitted suicide in Kilwankes on Monday, by taking laudanum. One year ago she was a happy sad respects. L 4 UMW , of One of the soot woos* tiksins. in that efty, sad wee an fatalities* and faeinating pti. Nor to d asst was present at her death bed, appereadran safes• wasted sputuor of the dyiug apeloe of the WIIIISP he bad Isdireetty inerdered. —VA - youag lad. fire years - old, son of Andrew Hough • tos s Paatemaider at Baskirt's Brldp, N. T.. was playing In has bases barn on Thursday attaracwa, with masher, whoa Uso Ars wommankated to the away and bay with whisk It was ALMA The lames spread se vapidly that It Is supposed the Utile fellow was usable to escape, and partial. A reepestable silken of &sold" N. Y., diseovered os • Bawds, that bia dassbur, a yang lady el 16, bad eloped Irldi a peas melbas& dad pc respeetably mar ried. Mikis% aWs aasecadisig her deterialsodea to re • tura to ber Wier wbosever be ibITIIIIadIy disposed to wards ber burbsod. i the neat LsgLidatare 9f Minnesota, accordiog to the Bt. Yen' Piesesr, tie democrats will have five majori ty la the elitists, Sig the black republicste four majority ja the &gig deseerstie aka)oeity we joist ballot one. PiOVII3IIIISE 13, 19311. r. Tli*lourviLlc PLAT Po* tee. We iiitree *Oh New Yo Times, that it quite too soon to tell who will be candidates for President in 1660. "A rea t many important events may take place between this time and that. New mattes may arise, and old candidates may take new positions upon them We Indy have ware waged or threatened,—we may have sub. missions to foreign demands advised or made,— we may have questions of Title, of Currency, of l'ublic Expenditure, and public honor presented to our public mon an`cl the country within the next two years ;—iod men wbo may reem to be right rind strong now, may prove to he wrong and weak then Nobody eau tell what a }ear or r session of Congress, in our bury may bring forth ;" 4611, as matters stand now— as parties are at present arrayed, and upon the issues now before the country, we think it is very evident the Republican candidate will be Mr. Sewsnu Who the Democracy will rally around is n o t an certain. It may be Beekenridge, or it may be Douglas, ..r it may be, what the past tells us is not at all unlikely, an entirely new man— umit one who bu neither the taint of Lecomp. ton nor toti - Lecompton attached to his shirts Bat whoever it is, it matters not ; with the plat form presented to no by Senator Sttektuo and Senator SEWARD as a candidate, the result will not be doubtful—the Democratic party will tri.. umph But will Mr. Swam, be the candidate of the Republicans in 1860? We think the re suit of the New York election has settled that question The refusal of the republicans to "fuse" with the Americans on a union state ticks et, though the measure was earnestly advocated by thousands of reliable republicans, was a Stmt.. I .an triumph. It said to the Americans, in so many words, we are now preparing for the great contest of 1860—if we unite with you, the vie, tory won will be a partnership victory, and hence will indicate nothing,—while on the other hand, if we maintain our separate orginiaation and achieve a victory, it is a proclamation to the world that we can carry the State in 1860 with whoever we nominate. We say then that the refuse of the republicans to unite with the Americans in New York was a SzwAsn triumph ; the nomi illation of MoRGAN was 'another; and his eleci lion must be considered by every unprejudiced politician as the most substantial triumph of all. We know the Americans and that portion of the Republicans in the State of New York who are opposed to SIMARD try to look upon it in an. other light; but it is all in vain. The victory achieved in New York on the 2d of this month 11 a Seward victory, and as certainly makes him the Republican candidate for President as the day of nomination arrives. Chase, and Cam• eron, and Banks, and the other aspiring gentle men, of that ilk, may as well come down at once ike Capt. Scott's coon, for the battle has been fought sod the chaplet of victory rests upon the b►ow of the New York agitator. Of course we mate this prediction upon the supposition that the 11 nigger" question is to be kept open until 1860 and is to be the issue upon which the contest turns. This being so, it may not be amiss to ezaniine the platform upon which Mr. Seward proposes to stand at that time We quote from his speech delivered at Rochester, New York, on the 26th alt : "Hitherto the two systems have existed in dif forint States, but side by side within tie Aineri can Union, * * These antagonistic systems are continually coming into closer contact, and col lision results. Shall I tell you what this collis ion means ? They who think that it is sooiden tat, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanat ical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the out, altogether. It is an irrepressible con flirt between opposing and enduring forces, and tt means that the United States mast and will, sooner or later, become either entirely slaves holding nation, or entirely a free labor nation Either the cotton and rice fields of South Car. olina and the Sugar plantations of Louisiana Ultimately be tilled by free labor, and Charleston and New Orleans become marts for leyitintate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields end wheat fields of Idassachneetts Jed New York must again be surrendered by their farm ers to slave culture and to the production of slaves, and Boston and New-York become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men. It is the failure to apprehend this great truth that induces so many unsuccessful attempts at final compromise between the slave aqd free States, and it is the existence of this grdai fact that renders: all such pretended comprornsei, when made, vain and ephemeral. Startling at this saying may appear to you, fellow-citizens,. it is by no means an original one" Remarking upon this platform, she Detroit Free Press says it supposes it is of no use lo ar gue with Mr. SiWAtlar—to tell him that this is not a consolidated government, but a confederacy of independent States--independent of each other, wholly and entirely, as regards their do mestic institutions and conoerns—at perfect lib• erty to establish this or that system of labor arid to reject this or that system, just as they are at perfect liberty to establish this or that system of e ducation, or this or that system of internal im provements, or this or that system of punishment of crime, without eonsultation with or leave of the Federal government or the other State gov ernments. We suppose it is of no use to tell Mr. Si warn this, for it has been told to him a thou sand times before and he would not see T here are none so blind as they who will not see, and Mr. Sew/Lew is of this class He will Pot see because, if he should see, be would be left without occupation. The true theory of the gov ernment is in direct and unrelenting Antagonism with the doctrine of Mr. EitWARD's Rochester speech. The true theory of the government does not .admit of the agitation about slavery which Mr. Sirwean seeks to promote. It is agi cation at war with the separate rights of the States, and cannot live a moment. longer than Mr. Seward and his party can perpetuate their false theory of government—their theory of Fed eral interference with the internal policy of the States. The experienoe of the whole existence of the confederacy proves that slave laborin South Car , olina and fret) labor in Peonsylvattia are harmo nious systems The queetion does not rise to' the dignity of a problem. South Carolina' employs the labor that best suits her oil ? climate and productions Pennsylvania doe* tbe same.— What has this to de with their rittations towards each other in the Federal goveirssnent? Labor everywhere is a question of soil, climate, and pro dpetions. Tbat- iceinpLoyed which is the cheap est and meet prelissbile. What sort of a system of government U*M it be wherein one State, or half the States, emdd digeste the kind of labor another State, cd 'the other half of the States, should employ ? What sort of .a goveriment would It be wherein South Carolina °mild diet tate in !bat wig Psuusylnola should ounduot the internal reoll9grj other podustiou, or where. in Peousylssuialhoild 'Oka* to fkutb Groli na 1 Yet this is tkegorettiment into which Mr ,ftwaith would convert that of the United States. Viewing as wo do the feattit result in isl , York, and the prooeedinp of the convention that bristlglit tier *WO!, 1 , 151,fr 0 . - people, it is Lit t.. presoak • that Mr - SIMARD 8 spook from which we have quoted, was designed to be his Presidential platform Wa trust that it is ; bei cause, if ever the issue must be tried which hs makes, it comma be too eerie. It involve s o th • tug less than rovoiution—revelutton of the pow. ere, relatively, of the Federal and Stet, vern waits It involves undisguised war upon the South. It involves the whol.t question of State sovereignty It. involves the most detestable and odious th.et rine that has ever been announced on the ..I.tnericA continent But odious as it is, thr oppooitios must .nbserib" to it, Or go wit h • out an issue in 1560. DON'T DETO FAST. Ii was a oapttal •saying of Davy Crookat, sure you are right, then g 'bread," and if mole people would heed it than we ar.• inclined to think clo'now, there tc , tild not ba half so many bloat , tiers, especially in politici This remark will apply with great farce to the Gazeitt, and s,)me of its party, in connection with their rejoiciag over the imeces4 of Senator Doucius In his re- cent contest in Illinois ‘Vbst cause they have to rejoice, and, a at least one of the leaders of the ReEtiblieau pirty of the ootittty did, get "gloriously fuddled" over the fact that the wish of Senator Brown, of Mississippi, that Douglas "would whip Lincoln out of his boots," has been gratified, is more than we can •ce It seems to us that the congratulatioo4 of the Gazette, and the whisky of its leader, have both been wasted. L►t a look at facts and see if this is not so. It is a well known fact that Mr Douglas and his "antl , Lesiotnpton" friends carried with thos the regular oiganization of the Democratic party of Illinois; and consequently in their late Contest they enetuntered the most embittered opposition ever kndwn from the Black Republican.; In ulikStates, however, whore the regular organi atrai of the party were uniformly favorable to the Kansas policy of the Administration, every bolting gang of disappointed offiee-eeekers and their deluded dupes laid claim to anti-L,comp., ton scrupleA, and dubbed themselves "Douglas men!" The falsity of their claim is apparent from the fact that Mr Douglas never advocated, but has repeatedly and publicly condemned throughout the canvass, all bolting from the re gular organization. The dissimilarity between the rest Douglas men in Illinois and the factious traitors and demagogues in this and other states, who claim affinity with them, is furthertapparent for the fact that, while the former were engaged in one of di l e warmest eontesui with the Black Itepublicans, the latter have uniformly fused with tind received the most fanatical support of that lifamons party So wide indeed is the dif ferentia between Messrs. Douglas and Harris up on the one side, and Forney, Basking, litokman dr. Co., upon the other, that they are entirely at antipodes in their affinities, associations and ten denoies. With this fact in view, why the Ga. mite should rejoice, and its late favorite for Se n‘torial honors in this district, should waste good liquor over the result, is not at all clear to our vision But there is another view of this Illinois con test Which shows most conclusively the gross ab ritrdity of the Gamete.' s rejoioing and im late candidate's waste of the "raw material" over the result. To adopt the language of the Harrisburg Patriot and Union, the contest in Illinois was one "in which the future of Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln was immediately involved. They spote in this spirit Mr. Lincoln proolaimed the same treasonable doctrines which Mr Seward en nuciated in hie Rochester speech; Mr, Douglas, while differing from the Democratisi party in some points, bore himself as a national man They traversed the State, harangued the people, exhibited each great ability, but often noncom t nary personality. Air. Douglas conquered—and we have new to contemplate the result It ls a victory of nationality, over sectionalism; of pa triotic views over fanaticism; of the Union over abolitionism. Mr. Lincoln had proclaimed a ceaseless war between free and slave labor; be t Ween the North and the South; he placed him' self at the head of a crusade which, however it may be d'agnised, means the arraying of ono Dele tion of the country against the other; a oonfliet b e tween etrial and sovereign States; the conque;- iog of the great South by the great North. Ifli noie has repudiated him, has condemned the pg,i. tater who preaches an antagonism of sections, which, if it exists, patriots should ameliorate, but not stimulate—we therefore rejoice in hie discomfiture," but why a paper like the Gazette should also rejoice—a paper that has not one sentiment in common with the victor on any na tional question that is likely to arise in the next Presidential contest—why its leaders should waste even poor whisky for the same reason— is a little beyond our political arithmetic—and, especially in view of the fact that the Chicago Times, Mr. Douglas' home organ, made the tol lowing emphatic pledge just previous to the elec tion: "We can safely say that Judge Douglas, whether re-elected Senator or not, will for all time act within the Democratic organisation, never within any other; and we can further say, that so sure as the Charleston Convention shall be the National Democratic Nominating Conven• tiou of , I*a,, so sure will Judge Douglas and the Democrats of Illinois be found Aupporting its nominees." tip' Our amiable neighbor of the Gazet/e ought not to be quite so fast. The Observer has not "come in" to the "standard" of Judge Douowks. The Observer never did rejoice at the defeat of a Democrat by a Republican, and hence could not, with its post antecedents and present views, otherwise than rejoice that such a pestilential demagogue as Abe Lincoln will not occupy the seat of Judge Douglas in the United States Senate. This being our position, it does not necessarily follow, however, that we have "come in" to the "standard" of the "little giant." if the Charleston Convention should nominate him ie 1860, the Observer will then "come in"—of that fact the Gazette can "bet high on." Mir The Gazette says "vicissitudes are tho lot of mortals, especially polities! mortals." . As our neighbor has never had any thing else but "vieissitudes" since be entered "polities," it is presumed he speaks from experience. lam' We may have a few words to ssy in re ply to the Meadville Free fines* in our next; and we may not—it depends altogether whether we come to the conclusion that s man whose pro• pensity to lie appears to be ohronio, is worth the spaoe it take to ootivict him. In the mean time, as be say. he can prove our assertion, is a lie, that we went to Meadville previous to the late election to indite* Mr Shattuck to decline and Judge Church to consent to the use of his name as a volunteer for Congress, we beg to assure him that we are very anxious be shall try it. Yes, we want that proof) Trot it oast! One of our eotemporarlos says that in some parts of tb• coestry Fiat dimmustatition Is expresead et tb• to immolation at mil retell establisbetento of qesotttles of silver cote The Batiks will mot take it on deposit; it eon not be sold In large quantities, tzeopt at a beery discount. ?be war oltb China, which bas stopped the **port tbitb, et, aid, to mess 'intuit, the daproeietioe of be seta her., but led to this stabs of tbiags. We ob. old be attromoly flail to 'Of this market glutted with ASITICIS ether coin, —Feruorra Analog Revise', says 'bac die GhlE !Zee% neer Department at the Sunbury sod Eel& Raiheed COD. pony. /Mr* It a at potoitostit of Mr. Robert rink, as Ks Cbist segrrei 'eon bas been under a mutt tflicietat heed, •od test ILI. time I most complete and ezoillent Gru gatiiiitaut, to witieb Mr. Womli, *be bee recently been ap Cbla Engineer of tie Western Division, is a resdai. CIIII 011* The motive t,D, (7, r•ade, N) the y 6 ,twrrble .• Atlitio., Ili+ heua a tied by the Oftviltion pre!., s 4 well as by one or two ruts-lakinsinistxAtion p wet.. professing yet to Dmioeratie It is therefore gratifying ti know that at least one polities' opponent is candid en. ' ough to interpret it szight f anik generous aweigh to command it, as is done in this handsome nisk: net by the Washington correspondent of Arorrlt American, in his Letter of the 2nd inst.: "It is now understood here that Mr. (Haney Jones will not start for his mission, until the ac tion of the Senate upon the nomination, though be sill I. ,ign his seat in the House, in order that •oe vacancy may ba filled at once. This is a becoming deference, inasmuch is the seeeting of Congress is near at hand Much has been in regard to the motives which prompted this appointment, but there would seem to be but ono fair interpretation fer the sot, which is, that the President designed to testify his person al estimation of the recipient, and to signify, at the same time, that in his defeat he enlisted the sympathies of those who were eqindlyinvolved to the result But, whatever opinion may be entertained, the President is certaioly entitled to the credit of obeying a generous impulse, in ex tending so high a mark of his countenance and confidence to a friend, who had been stricken down in vindicating his personal cause and the policy of his Administration. And no one can deny that this expression was rendered the more graceful, is it was doubtless made the more ter oeptable, by the prompt and handsome muner in which Mr. Buchanan tendered the mission, without suggestion from any quarter. There were those, to be sure, who thought, from the intimate relations which had so long subsisted between the parties, that another position would have been offered, but Austria, Mexico and China were the only three points at the disposal of the President when the necessity arose for him t) art, and he selected that which appeared to conflr the highest present distinction cc= Stir The Hon J Glancy Jones resigned hie seat in Congress on Monday last, November lst, and on the same day formally accepted the com, mission recently tendered him by the President, us Minister to Austria It is the desire of the Government that Mr Jones should depart upon hts mission as speedily as possible But it is probable that his credentials may not be fully prepared until the first or middle of Deoember. In the event of his detention until the laat.oam' ed period, the action of the Senate can be bad upon his appointment The Washington corm. pondent of the New York Tribune—soul au , thority in suoh a matter—says "no opposition to his confirmation is anticipated." ---~- --- aft. The Abolitionists are incessantly awns. lug the Democraoy of being in favor of the ex turision of slavery, and yet we fled that no slaver S ate has been admitted into the Union smee.the admission of Tam, thirteen years ago, whilst two free Sates, C.ilifornia and Minneota, have been admitted since 1850. Besides all the Teti: ritories are free Kansas is free. Utah is free. N•brasirs. is free. Oregon is free What, then, btoomes of the charge that we are the "pro , slavery Democracy?" The Xurda of Itigdon. From the Ills Moon Aistaigra, Nev. Ot.li. Police officer George W. Bigdoe, the princi pal witness in the Gembrill trial, was last night brutally murdered in his own house, on Baltimore street, a few doors west of Pearl street, where his wife keeps a small dry goods store. The facts of the oast are as follows: . At 8 o'clock last evening be left the Western station house for his home, and was cautioned by Captain Linewea,ver not to go out, as threats had been made against his life on account of the testimony be bad given in the ease of Gambrill, to the effect that he should die on the day that Gambrill was coo rioted. These threats had also reached .the ears of the deceased, but be was unable to trees them to any direct source, and considered them as idle or drunken threats On leaving the station ti , ,use he proceeded directly to Ins home, and was in hie sitting room, adjoining the store, talking to his wife, at the time of his death. At the corner of the sitting room a small win dow opens into the yard, and Mr Higdon was standing leaning on the mantel piece, with his back to the window, from which be was not two feet distant. His wife was sitting on the other side of the room, and a little lost child, which he had picked up in the street, was sitting on the carpet at his feet. The assassin went up a small alley at the side of the house, and with a large horse pistol fired at him through the window, a heavy load of sings entering his right side and causing instant death. He exclaimed only—"I am sbot,"—and fell dead on the floor, having ceased breathing after one heavy groan. A large horse pistol, with Which the deed was committed, was left lying in the yard, immediately under the window. ' Police officer John Cook was on the opposite side of Baltimore street, and hearing the report of the pistol started across to Mr. Bigdon's house, when a man came running out of the side alley with a revolver in his hand, and as cfficer Cook warted to arrest him he fired twice at him, neith. er of which took effect. The officer immediately drew his revolver and started in purim_ l it firing twice at the assassin as ho ran up Baltimore street. On turning the corner of Pine street, the assassin and the officer again exchanged shots without effect, and continued the race on to Penn street, when officer Cook succeeded in knocking him down with his pistol, and with the assistance of officers Jamison .and Higgins, carried him to the station house. It proved to be Peter Corrie, a butcher, residing on the Ileckstown road, and an associate of Gambrill's. THE NIXT Com:num.—The Washington States of Saturday contains the following Breen. latious on the political Amplexion of the next Congress: "The next Congress will be Democratic to a certainty Our readers may rely on this u a fixed fact. "In the elections which have already taken place for members of Congress the position of parties stands: Democrats 49, Republicans'lo2. "The States yet to elect are Alabama, COMM tient, California, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hemp. shire, North Coolies., Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, 'wide& elect sightyssix members. In the present House they steed as follows: And already eleowd 49 102 116 109 12 "In thatates yot to .elect the &Tublimas may wan two members in. Connecticut, sad the Democrats will, in all probability, gain AU mem bers from the Beath Americans in Keatnelty, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, atidAtcr. land. filtieb a result will make the pelt Con gress stand: Democrats 120, EsPahrloatpe 111, Squib Americans 6, which will give the ii)emo orate a majority of three over all; and If the 4th. district is Michigan has gone Demecretici as rm. ported, the Daniel:ratio strength in, the Moose will be 121, and a majority over all of 64." Moss h thue been dihonaluird st Loottvlll4 that its sittinets ass vote without being otorlinredih, order , die piece is pinning mg again. 11e Alma Welse eity is tall of Iso46—toll to erstioOleg, and ate ilessad for houses assist a suppling. Amelia Dumber. who .. e i t it 8 litiboore city, was raised byba r motors Ni ft , ts lett! Bright, .4 Lisboa. W. Ils was forme, of Ohio. He witted the New Lisboa R.pubfieria for a lath. but fa • lawyer by profosatos. He has a wife Dow Hying, but Imo loft bor. He wu formerly • hfotbodbm mbilatm, sad is Meetly s &spans* Dem. Bed. Amer 67 7 12 Wilt, of our people this week. Then to New York, there warisairshnalltitairaf maitmai, stater *ow% 4 4 and purely personal issues. that everybody had a point of his an to carry, and a het of Moore on the remit, Nor the smoke of the clonal.% has Coated away and the wounded tine ploktog thwaseivos up one by one. The ileotivi bee of eourre Interfered coster'sliy with Imisinoss, as county purohasers are all at home eaa•assing tbeTr irws distrititl. It *Mesta are sow Ample. wish assiotte oyes the proepeeta of oldster the sowing Spring sessoo. So far as the South N oonesrsed. there is every. thisg to favor an early and wide, butanes which will go fey towards restarts. ..mirky is the issautkontriog die. trUsts of New lilaigitind. But nothing vary promising sip pears in the West An opormoia crop of breadstob has Demo os sad is being stored up in this eity, *opal boat, 0060 la by **ores every day, and proceed directly to the wasehou•stsg docks, where their loads are shifted by ma. oblatory into the bowels of great dock caps:ids Of swallowing food enough to feed a Suits and crying still for "more." The Bonded warehouses and the numerous unbonded stores, bold at this time of the yosr, but esp..- 1 0 1 E7 lids season, a princely store of wealth. Cloth, silks sad velvets from Europe, broadcloth and 6ney - stuffs , hides from South dmerioa, raw slik and tea from China' sugar end coffee from the West Indies, are piled up der on tier in the great warehouse, by the doses, waiting for trade to come In. It dots not pay when trade is a den at at present to pay cub duties iolf goods whisk may not be sold for mouths they are therefore storedAs Bonded Warehouses, when, as meet of yes readers are aware, they pay no dudes until restored by the owner. The importer has his samples of these goods to his plan* of business ; therefore the sales at this season, bspested mutt admits , are made wholly by sample, to be delivered from bonded warehouses. The literary crop of the mason to hogistalng to 00S110 is freely. Theme are one or two enteapte en popular novels, of load life, whlals do mot however mein to have the ele. moots of snoems. The story of a sew England girl who went to Germany to see how tbe tkundius hre, has Att published her rather unflattering opinions, is malting something of a noise, there are a great many tiermani in this city of tbe hlghest.intalllgence, cultlestion and so • oial position, who resent the publication of thee. aketche 9 as a littel upon their country sod their people Is;ew meg mime and popular weeklioe are starting 'to et err .11ree• tton. Four endive cent weeklies he.e paid we', h•therto, when thillfu',y managed, I..ut the Ittle:h es+ to be overdone. Bonner seems,to - .lead the tie'. i • wrth, ut the sitghts.t ditEculty A notorious scribbler the SanJey paper/ bat taken It into bra heal t: , .;-.-•! Its the stt•ry of the murderer (Inlay --Introduelo he cam•+ of tb• real member, of the unfortunate famJe, tn lion with - his imagined history of the boy it 0 a 1.0. that no law can be found to check such peculhr rt. •elite Amusements are generally doing pretty Irv! The Op era hoire•er le less successful that has beet sot:cipited - , The gloat seems to wear off from Pleeolomini ear. gate's: ' A`tor ell the be•pralseneent of wartegers and 'be b