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Wednesday Morning, May 10, 1851.
WILLIAM BREWSTER, Editor.
CIRCEIATION 1000.
WHIG STATE TICKET:
FOR GOVERNOR,
James Pollock, of Nortloonberland co.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
George Darsie, of Allegheny co.
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JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
Daniel M. Smyser, of Montgomery co.
Medical Students.
Medical Students or Physicians, wishing a
well selected assortment of Medicines, with
Bottles, Jars, and all the necessary fixtures
belonging to a Physician's Shop, also a well
selected Medical Library, may be had on very
low terms. For further information inquire at
this office.
tea. See New Advertisements.
re - No news from Washington.
/kr James Maguire, Esq., State Legisla•
ture has our thanks for favors.
lien , Hon. John M'Culloch, M. C., has our
thanks for a copy of Stansbury's Exploration
and Survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake
of Utah, including a Reconnoissance of a New
Route through the Rocky Mountains, accom•
panied with a map.
Ser Tn another column you will find origi.
nal Poetry by Miss It. T. M., of Washington
Co. Md., it needs no encomiums from us. We
will be pleased to receive a communication
from her as often as it may suit her pleasure.
Sir We are just in receipt of Grsham's
American Monthly Magazine for May, and
have only time to give a passing glance at it,
but we perceive it is as facinating as ever, hav
ing, as usual, the latest fashions, with a great
deal of interesting reading.
fie" We have received the Twenty.first An
nual Report of the Managers of the Pennsylva
nia Institution for the instruction of the Blind.
It gives a specimen of printing for the blind.
ler An old hunter predicts that the follow.
ing will be a dry summer, from the fact that
woodcocks have built their nests in low, moist
places. When the summer is to be wet, he
says they build in dry, sunny situations.
Xrer If you want anything cheap, substantial
and beautiful, go to those who advertise. The
reason why their goods are superior to others
is very simple—they have articles which they
consider worthy of notice, and consequently
Advertise them I
>l The Peoples' Journal is on our table.—
This number commences a lleW volume, and
affords an excellent opportunity for new sub-
scribers to enter their names. It only cost one
dollar per annum. It is important to the Far.
mer, Mechanic. inventors and Manufacturers.
Address Alfred E. Beach, 86 Nassau st., N. Y.
Sir J. J. PATTERSON, Esq., has resigned the
Editorialship of the Harrisburg "Telegraph
and ;Journal." Mr. Patterson has been an ef
ficient, able editor, a strong and able supporter
of the Whig cause. We have no acquaintance
with his sueessor, Mr. STEPHEN MILLER, but
we have no doubt but he will be adequate for
the task. We wish him a hearty success.
Abolition of the Canal Board!
Such was the intense,feeling produced at
Harrisburg, by the recent extraordinary move
ment of the Canal Commissioners, that a bill
was at once introduced into the Senate to abet.
ish the Canal Board. When such high-handed
conduct is being acted, it is high time that the
people should be aroused to a sense of their
duty, and sooner or later will the State Robbers
and Peculators be made to HIDE their HEADS
in SIIAME. Let them be driven into, obscurity.
FIRE!
It is but a few weeks since we were alarmed
by a fire which burned a stable, and on Mon
day night, about 11 o'clock, another visitation
of the same kind, which consisted in the burn
ing of Four Stables, in the most populous part
of the Borough. With the Stables were con
sumed three Cows, three Hogs, and a Dog, to
gether wills a great quantity of fowls. Messrs.
Fisher & EleMurtrie's Store-house was on fire,
but was discovered in time to be arrested with
out much damage. It was with the greatest
kind of difficulty that the dwellings were saved.
They were on fire several times, but the great
exertions of the citizens kept them in check,
and although not destroyed, several were very
much injured. It was the work of an incendi
at7.
A GREAT A 3,1) NOVEL ENTERCRISE.WO pub
lish in our advertising columns a magnificent
Gift Enterprise, (the third of a series,) started
in New York by Mr. Perham, who has been
long and favorably known throughout the North
and East. An examination of it will present
features that commend it to the attention of
every man, woman and child in the communi
ty. We have only to say that the former en
terprises of this indefatigable manager have
been characterized by the greatest fairness, and
given the utmost satisfaction to all concerned.
lend in your•orders for tickets as early as pos
sible, as they will undoubtedly be taken up in
a short time.
Sale of the Public Works.
Gov. Bigler has signed the bill authorizing
the sale of the Main Line of the State Improve.
month for the minimum price of Ton Million
Dollars. The terms of payment are made ea
sy, and we hope to see the purchase made by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, but if
that association does not deem it advisable to
give so much, we have no doubt a Company
will be found for their purchase, for the bill au
thorising the sale embodies the most valuable
charter ever granted by our State. We should
be much gratified if the Legislature, before its
adjournment, made arrangements for the sale
of the other Divisions. Dispose of them, atop
the leaks in our Treasury, and the State will
be relieved from debt in a few years, and the
burdens of taxation most cheeringly reduced.
Ward Acquitted at Louisville.
trial of Matthew F. Ward, for the mut ,
el' w. 11. G. Butler Ints terminated in an
acquittal.
The facts of the case are these: A young
brother named William, who was a scholar in
Mr. llutler's shool, bad violated the rules of
the School by bringing chestnuts and distribu
ting to the other scholars, and the shells were
strewn around the school room. Mr. Butler,
after inquiring, fastened it upon Win. Ward,
who denied it. Butler then corrected him for
breaking the rules and lying about it.
Matthew F. Ward the next morning par•
chased two pistols, had them loaded, and in
company with his brother B. J. Ward, also
armed, went to the school room, and made an
assault on Mr. Buttler for the enormous ofTen•
cc of intimating that William Butler told a
Ischood abontthe chesnntm, whereupen Mr.
Ward drew a pistol from his pocket, presented
it at Butlers breast and fired. But he dropped
immediately, exclaiming, "Oh, my wife and
NH I My God II am dead I" Matthew then
Irew another pistol, and Itobt. J. Ward drew a
knife,
It has been said that persons of great wealth
cannot be convicted of murder in Kentucky:
in other wordu t that a man with "a pocket full
of rocks" can do just as he pleases—hill and
cripple whom he will, and justice as there adm in
istered, cannot be meted out to him. The
result of the above trial seems fully to sustian
that position.
The following from the North American, I
have no doubt will be read with interest.
The phrase, Kentucky Justice, seems likely
to pass into current use, with quite as defint.
tire a signification as Lynch Law, a kindred
contribution to our vernacular from the trans
Allegheny region. The question has been
fairly met, in that Commonwealth: "Can a
rick man, under any circumstances, be a mur•
derer ?" And after mature deliberation and
plenary argument, the decision has gone forth
to the world that the thing is imppessible. No
rich man can be a murderer. This is no Le.
gislativo enactment—if it were, it migh ho re•
pealed or modified. It is a judicial deliver
ance, ratified by the solemnities of a forensic
investigation, and impressed with the sanctity
of public and official oaths. For aught that
has appeared to the contrary, the statute under
which 'Matt. Ward was indicted, is sound and
explicit. It defines wilful murder and affixes
its penalty in the usual terms. That this man
perpetrated a wilful murder—that he shot
down an innocent man with malice prepense,
and under circumstances of the greatest atm•
city—was clearly proved by his own witnesses.
And yet Matt Ward is pronounced not guilty,
and turned loose again upon society. In other
words, a Kentucky jury has decided that the
law of that State, on the subject of murder,
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was never designed for the wealthier classes,
and they are not to be held amendable to it—
provided, only, they go out of their own caste
when they wish to indulge their thirst for blood.
With this limitation, no rich man can become,
in the eye of the law, a murderer. He may
plan assassination for twentyfour hours before
hand, equip himself and an accomplice, cap•
apie, in the peaceful exercise of his honorable
vocation, insult him with a volley of cowardly
bravado. and then send a bullet through his
heart—all this be may do, and be no mu - rdererl
Had the parties been transposed—had Butler
gone into Ward's parlor, and killed him—it
would have been a very different matter. But
ler was nothing but a teacher—a scholar, cer
tainly, and a gentleman, but not a man of in
dependent fortune, and, therefore, not to be in
dulged in shooting men at his discretion. He
lacked that essential qualification on which the
criminal jurisprudence of Kentucky hinges—
he was not rich. But ward is rich, and, there
fore, his killing Butler is no murder. Of
course, it will be no murder, if he sees fit to
assassinate a score of schoolmasters; if he takes
it into his head to shoot a few of the Louisville
editors, who have presumed to animadvert on
his late achievement. If Mutt, Ward is not a
murderer,now.nothinghe can do will make him a
murderer. From that stigma he is forever
shielded, so long as be keeps within the Com
monwealth of Kentucky. Kill whom he will,
so his victims ISe not of patrician blood, he is
no murderer. Let him even steal into poor
Butler's house and shoot down the agonized
wile and child of his victim, and he is no mut..
derer I
This principle being settled, we think Ken
tucky owes it both to her own citizens and to
the rest of the Union, to give the utmost publi.
city to this feature of her social organization.
With her internal affairs we have no wish to
meddle; but we see no reason why petitions
should not be sent up to her next Legislature,
asking for the passage of a declarative net,
defining the property qualifications which
shall be held to exempt a man from the opera
tion to the statute against murder. If this
should stimulate homicides somewhat among
the opulent classes, it would discourage them
among the masses. People who were disposed
to shed blood, would adjourn the purpose un
til, by fair means or foul, they had , acquired
wealth enough to guarantee their immunity
from the gallows; and by that time, in many
instances, their intended victims would be out
of their reach. This, however, is not our affair.
It does concern us, in common with all the citi
zens of thirty out of the thirty-one States, to
know what measure or protection we may look
for, and what we are not to look for, if betel.
ness or pleasure should take us to Kentucky.
What income will make it safe for a man to
travel in that Commonwealth? And by what
external badges is a stranger to distinguish
the select caste whose wealth invests them with
the prerogative of using pistols and dirks ad
libitum, without responsibility?
There are various other bearing of this sub
ject upon the reputation and rights of the
country at large, on which we cannot touch
to-day. I is a healthy sign, that the late ver
dict seems to have shocked the moral sense of
the nation, to a degree unprecedent by any
similar incident in our annals. This will not
recall poor Butler from his grave; but it at
least indicates that the other States are not
prepared to adopt the notions of justice which
prevail in Kentucky. We say, "in Kentucky;"
for we do not believe the people of Kentucky
will ever ratify this verdict; indeed, we know,
from the popular demonstrations that have
been made, they scorn and loathe it and its au
thors; and that they feel as keenly as we can
disgrace which this fitting sequel ty a mocking
trial has inflicted upon them.
Executions in May.
A slave named Merritt, who was convicted
of a fiendish assault and battery upon n white
woman, was to have been hung on the Ist inst.,
in Charleston, S. C. John Hendrickson, who
murdered his wife, will bo hung on Friday in
Albany. Patrick Doyle, who was convicted of
killing a woman, will be hung in Naperville,
on the 12th. A slave will be hung in Ala
erdeen, Miss., on the 19th, convicted of arson.
James Parks, for the murder of William Bent
sen, last summer, will be executed on the 26th,
at Akron, Ohio.
118... The Franklin (Chatnbersburg) Repcsi•
tory of the 26th ult., says—Mrs. Ellen Sarver,
wife of Mr. John Sarver, residing on a farm
near Shippensburg, belonging to Mr. Charles
Burnett of this place, presented her husband
on Friday last with four sons. The mother and
children are doing as well as could be expect
ed.
Vik. The New York Canals were opened on
the 2d inst. About twenty thousand dollars
have been received at the Collector's office in
New York for tolls iu three days.
Matters at the Seat of Government.
The Washington Star, of the 2d, says:
Tun MOVEMENT or SENATOR SLIDELL, yes
terday, created much sensation in the Senate
chamber. His resolutions propose that Con.
greys shall authorize the Presidednt of the VlA
ted States to suspend the operation of our nen
trality laws so far as Spain may be concerned
during the recess of Congress, if circumstances
occur which in his circumstances, make that
step
ns
i i , i ri e t e i e o s n s a r
i • for ute h re t sts e the
of the United t rights atein
connection with what may at the time be the
condition of Cuba. Mr. S. based this prop
sion upon the filet that England, Spain and
France had entered into a formal arrangement
for the Africanization of Calm, and for freeing
the negroes there, and the subsequent estab
lishment of a negro government over the Is.
land, under the protection of the three powers.
This is the substance of the allegation of Mr.
S., which lie sustained in a powerful nod very
exciting speech, wherein he presented nn array
of documentary testimony which astounded
ninny who were present. Much of this testi
mony is entirely new to the public, and can
hardly fail to create even a greateC sensation
on the public mind, than in the Chamber.—
His movement, occupied with that of the Chair
man of the House Committee on Foreign Af.
fairs, asking the President for the correspond
ence, with our diplomatists abroad'. and for
eign governments upon the Cuban affair, gave
rise last night to a rumor that the President is
about to send a message to Congress asking
directly fur the power which Mr. Slidell's reso
lution proposes to place in his hands. We
have no reason, however, to place confidence
in it. The President, we take it for granted,
will take due care to place before Congress all
the information upon this matter which is at
his command, and at an early day leaving to
the National Legislature the responsibility of
enabling him to protect the interests and hon
or of the United States during the recess, if
they concieve, from the array of facts which
may be before them, that there may
. possibly
arise a state of things which will require early
action on the part of the Government in the
premises.
Bribery and Corruption at Harrisburg.
The course of Legislation as discharged by
our Harrisburg Correspondent, must startle
and astound honest men of all parties. The
Legislature of this State became notorious
over the country for the corrupt means used, or
brought to bear upon its legislation—but from
what we learn respecting the present, it was
far behind in the appliances of bargain and
sale. It seems now to he a generally under
stood matter,thatthe services of the Legislature
is in the market,tohe purchased by the highest
bidder—and that legislation is made to suit
the notions of those who have the longest
purse and the freeest payers.
That this is the ease with all, is not preten.
ded, for there are, no doubt ; many honorable
exceptions—many whose votes cannot be
bought with a price—hut the great mass is be.
Honed to be tainted, more or less; and the
State, as well as the constituents of such menu
hers, is disgraced by their deeds of corruption
and crime.
We hope that a thorough remedy will be ap
plied to this great and alarming evil at the bal
lot box—and that those who have prostituted
their trusts as Legislators to "filthy lucre.' will
be arraigned before the bar of publie opinion
and be rebuked in a manner that will make
knaves tremble.—Lancaster Whig.
[From the Albany Journal, May I.]
Important Arrest of Counterfeiters---Re•
covery of $lOOO Bogus Coin.
For some month pest a large =omit of Apu•
ions United States coin has been put in drew
. .
ion in Utica. The whole dila was en.
oped in mystery until last Saturday, %Own the
police made a descent upon an old frame
building of Third street, and not only seized
s'looo in bogus coin, but caught three persons
in the very act of coining in. The part., who
made the' arrest were United State Mar,
Mott and three policemen of flee. Ti
weather was quite stormy on that der. at
there were but few persons stirring about
that section of the city, which enabled the par
to get into the house unobserved. A gentlet
tap was given by one of the party on the door
of a room in the rear part of the puilding. It
not being promptly answered, and hearing a
slight movement inside, with one blow the
door was forced in, and was thrown upright
against the mantelpiece, when the officers rush.
ed in and caught Mr. Voorhies, his wile, tuul
Dr. Way, not only in the act of manufacturint;
spurious coin, but found a large amount of it
on the table, around which titer were at Ivo*.
The party being secure, a thorough search
wars made, which resulted in their finding SI;
100 in spurious coin, consisting to 10c., 25.,
50c., and $.5 pieces, part of which was ready
for use, part in a rough state, and part not
vanized. They also found three dozen plaster.
of• Paris moulds, a galvanizing apparatus, and
all the smaller tools necessary for carrying on
the counterfeit business. The party are
must strangers in Utica. Voorhi . es came from
Otsego, about three years since, with his wife
and two children, and located where he was ar
rested. Dr. Way came from the same place,
and bad scarcely been in Utica a week.
He was indicted about two years ago, char
ged with passing bogus coin at the State Fair,
and is now under five thousand dollars hail for
his appearance at Rochester at the next ses
sion of the United States Court, to answer to
that indictment. Among other articles found
on the premises, was a set of instruments,
which, although not strictly surgicabare said to
be used by female physicians of Madame Res.
tell's school, which the doctor acknowledged
belonged to him. He is also a married man.
Owing to the absence of the United States
Commissioner at Utica, the party was taken to
the cars, conveyed to Troy, and locked up in
the jail at that place.
Homicide.
On Monday evening, Mr. Joseph B. Earl
landlord of the "Golden Sheaf Hotel" in thi
borough, was killed by George Koontz. It ap
pears that Mr. Philip Sullivan of Turkey foot
!township, who was staying at the honse of Mr.
Earl, had, on coming out of the door after
night, been struck in the face by a inissle, and
' somewhat injured. Mr. Earl came to the steps
with a light, and was examining the wound on
Sullivan's face, when Koontz, who was very
much intoxicated, came up and used BMW
very offensive language,
for which he was or
dered away by Mr. Earl. Becoming enraged
at this, he sprang up the steps, seized him, and
with great violence hurled him to the pave
ment. He was picked up and carried into the
house by a couple of young gentlemen, who
were passing by at the time, and medical aid
was immediately procured, but proved of no
avail. Without exhibiting any signs of con
sciousness, he breathed for about twenty hours,
when he died. A post modem examination
was made by Dr. Fendcnburg, and an inquest
held by Coroner Smith, which resulted in a
finding in accordance with the above facts.—
Koontz was immediately arrested and commit.
ted to prison. As the affair will be judicially
investigated we forbear comment for the pres
ent. Mr. Earl was Register and Recorder of
this county, the term preceding the present
one, was extensively knowh, and universally
esteemed for his kindly and gental temper, and
native goodness of heart. His death has or
phaned a large family of estimable young la
dies, whose only parent and protector he was.
Eqomerset Whig.
The Russian Expedition to Japan.
A letter from Malta, speaking of the report
that the Russians have signed a commercial
treaty with Japan, says:—
"the Americans, it would appear, have not
been very honorably treated by the Russian
squadron in those seas, who rather cleverly
succeeded in getting the treaty which, in all
justice, is duo to the Americans; and this, after
they had been lent coals, Ise., by the Ameri.
cans in China. If it had not been for this kind
ness on the Americans part, it is doubtful if
the Russians could have got so early to Ja•
The Postal Burden.
A parapraph under our telegraphic head yes
terdav, announced that some one in Washing-
ton had been detected in selling the franks or
members of Congress at the rate of fifty cents
per hundred, and that he had thus sold a large,
lot to a private dal. agent. The latter used
these franks to covellcirculars in reference to
his business, thirteen hundred of which were
found in the post office nt Washington city.—
Suspicion being aroused, the members whose
signature were thus abused were notified, and
the fraud exposed. The immediate result was
the arrest of the fellow who sold the franked
envelopes, but the ultimate result was his dis
charge again, for, as we learn from the Wash
ington Sentinel, "the young man was respect
ably connected," in consequence of which the
members of Congress whose franks he bad pur
loined waited on the Postmaster General, and
at the instance of the Attorney General the
Postmaster suppressed all further proceedings.
The Sentinel thus concludes its notice of the
affair:—"We forbear, at present; the publica
tion of the names of all parties to this transac
tion, in the hope that this announcement will
deter them and others prostituting to pri
. .
vale uses a privilege intended only for public
purposes; but we intend in future to make pub
lic all such and similar transactions, without
respect to family, title or station."
So the young "gentleman" who perpetrated
this fraud was so very "respectably connected"
that he not only got clear of a prosecution for
his crime, but succeeded in keeping the news
papers from exposing him like any other crim
inal, albeit the Sentinel hopes by being thus
gingerly to deter him from repeating the of
fence! A much surer way of effecting that
end would have been to publish his name, and
all the particulars of his case, in order that the
public might keep their eyes upon him. It
seems rather strange to find the Sentinel threat.
ening, to give names hereafter, at the same
time that it allows itself to be made a party to
the screening of this culprit from justice. The
crime will he no worse when repeated than it
is now, and was. before this unknown "respec.
tab!) , connected" person undertook to make
money, at the expense of the public treasury.
It was not merely a crime—it was a grossly
dishonorable breach of the trust confided in
him by the members of Congress, who employ.
ed and paid him for his labors. When he com
mitted this despicable deed he forfeited all
claim to consideration, and all who have per
mitted him to escape exposure and punishment
ought to be themselves held responsible. This
mawkish sympathy for criminals, because they
are "respectably connected" is all wrong, and
can only be productive of the most mischiev
ous results. It strikes at the foundation of our
penal code, and destroys the effect which the
certainty of punishment was intended to have
in the prevention of crime.
But we refer to this case not so much on ac-
count, of its importance, as to point our read
ers again to the monstrous ahuso of the frank
ing system which is continually perpetrated at
the national capital. Here was a packer em
ployed by two members of Congress to pack
and send away documents under their franks.
He had been at work thus for days together,
and the reader may imagine the extent of the
burthen these two "honorable gentletnen," as
the Sentinel styles them, have thrown upon
the Post-office department by the fact that
their packer had so many of their franked en
s-elopes by hint that he could sell thirteen hun
dred to the claim agent without their being
missed. it seems highly probable, indeed, on
,
a review of the facts, o
that the members were
themselves not over anxious to have the mnt.
ter investigated, lest the public should be made
mare of the extent of their operations. The
Post-offices of the whole country groan under
the weight of this franking system. Millions
of espies of speeches are sent to every quarter.
and reports, messages and public documents of
all descriptions crowd our mail bags. And yet
in order to maintain this ever increasing load,
it. is now proposed by Congress to raise the
rates on postage, on the plea that the depart
ment does not pay its own expenses at present
rates. If this sort of 11111180 is to be tolerated,
there nn rate that will pay.—North Ameri
can and IT. S. Gazelle.
lam' Three. More Indian Treaties have been
ratified by the Senate, as we learn from the
Washington Star. They were negotiated be.
fore the meeting of Congress by Col. Manypen
ny, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with
the Omahas, and the confederate tribes of Ot-
toes and Mis'souries. Those tribes sell all their
lands to the government, • except a small por
tion to be selected by the President ns their fu
tore abode, and they relinquish all claims for
money, ete., under provisos treaties, and all
claims to lands east of Missouri river. The
sums to be paid them are, the Otto. and Mis
sosries $20,000 annually for three years, SI 3,
000 per annum for the next ten years, $OOOO
per annum for the next fifteen years, and
55000 per anmim for the following twelve
years; to the Omahas $40,000 per annum for
three years, $30,000 per annum for the see
ceedine ten years, $20,000 per annum for the
next fifteen years, and after that $lO,OOO per
annum for twelve years. These payment are
to be exclusive of $20,000 to the Ottoes and
Missouries, and $41,000 to the Omahas, to be
paid forthwith, to enable them to settle their
affairs and remove to their new homes. The
President is authorized, at his discretion, to
have the country selected for their residence
surveyed and divided into lots for the exclusive
use of individuals. and the governtnent is to
provide for each tribe a rist and saw-mill, far
mer, blacksmith and miller.
Awful Storm at Chicago.
The Chicago papers, of Friday last, give ac
counts of a tremendous storm which swept over
Lake Michigan on the day previous. The Tri
bune says of the gale:
"It was almost a continued hurricane, and
the wonder is, not how vessels exposed to it
were wrecked, but how they were saved. The
sea ran entirely over the North pier for nearly
half of its length, and even dashed over the top
of the light house, some thirty-five feet above
the lake level, It was with great difficulty
that persons on the piers could keep themselves
front being blown off. During the day, thous•
ands of people lined the beach. watching un
der the most intense excitement the vessels
that were wrecked, and the struggles of the
poor sailors to escape, in many cases, alas! in
vain."
At lost accounts, the schooners Rocky Moun
tains, Oliver Richmond and Merchant, the P.
Hayden, Lizzie Throop; Arrow and Main, were
wrecked. Seven livee had been loaf. Four of
those lost were of the crew of the schooner Met ,
chant. The damage was very great, hut no
estimate could be made of its extent, It was
apprehended that many disasters had taken
place along the shore:
The Latest from Washington—The Ne-
braska Bill.
WASHINGTON, May 4,-9 P. M.—lt is very
generally believed that the Nebraska bill will
ho taken up in the House on Momday meat.—
In this connection. members ore voting to lay
aside bill after bill, until the Nebraska bill is
reached. It car' be easily done, members not
being requested to vote by yeas and nays in
the Committee of the Whole._
The whole patronage of the President will
be used to gain votes for the bill. The most
glittering bait is several missions and consul
ships of value yet to he filled; beside, two Gov
ernors, two Marshals, two Secretaries, two At
torneys, and six judges in Nebraska and Kan
sas to be given out.
Several Western members, believed all along
to be against the bill are now known to be
among its warm frionds.—News.
Loar Mexico is a great place for fun. The
girls and boys do nothing but play till they are
twentrone. They then marry and spend the
root of their days visiting country cousins, amo•
king, eating soup, and going to mass. For a
free and easy style of folks, you may put the
Mexicans in the front seat.
Suicide of a Young Wife.
The New Orleans Delta records the suicide
of a heantiful and interesting young wifo iu
that city. The name or the unfortunate woman
was Mariann Lowe; she was about 16 years of
age. Abent a year since she' married a man
named T.oN•e. They lived unhappily together
and she Has had reason for believing that her
husband had ceased either to love her o• to re
member and respect the :owe he had made in
marriage, and had transferred his affections to
another woman, who resided in the immediate
neighborhood. Day before yesterday the young
wife (her husband having been absent from her
for several days,) repaired to the house of this
woman and inquired if her husband was not
there. She was answered by the woman, "I
don't know anything about your husband,"
pointed to a gentleman seated in the room, in
whom the young wife recognized her truant
lord. She uttered not a word of complaint, but
returning to her home, despatched the servant
to a drug store in the vicinity for an ounce of
laudanum. She wrote along and extremely pa.
thetic letter, and then taking laudanum, laid
herself down on her nnhonored bridal couch
and died. Yesterday morning her mother vis
ited the house very early, and found her ;laugh
ter dead. She stated, "that having nothing
more to live for, deserted by him she loved,
and robbed of all hopes of happiness in this
world, she preferred death to the miserable ex
istence which lay open before her, and she'
calmly and deliberately destroyed her own life
by taking laudanum. She would not upbraid
her husband; she had ever and still dearly loved
him—forgave him all the wrongs she bad suf
fered at his hands, through Isis cruel neglect
and desertion. She hoped, too, that God would
forgive him as she did—and that he might live
long and happily." The husband came in while
the inquest was being held, and appeared a
good deal affected, and expressed sorrow for
the loss of his youthful and beautiful wife; he,
however, denied the charges of infidelity and
neglect made against him, hy the letter of his
wife, as well as by the testimony of several wit
nesses,
The Kentucky Murder.
The end of this tragedy is not yet. The ex
traordinary acquittal of the murderer by the
Court in Hardin county, is met with unquali
fied denunciation by a public meeting at Lou
isville, the scene of the murder, followed by a
popular outbreak in the shape of effigy burn
ing in front of the elder Ward's house. The
meeting, after condemning the verdict of the
trial, passed resolutions of censure against Mr.
Crittenden, soon again to be of the U. States
Senate, and Mr. Wolfe, State Senator from
Louisville, requesting each to resign their pla
ces, after their disregard of the cause of justice
and popular sentiment; the one in volunteer.
ing a defence of the murderer, and the other
in traducing the city of Louisville, in his argu
ment before the Hardin county Court. The
brothers Ward were at the some time request
ed to leave the State. This expression of feel
ing is not at all surprising. The cold-blooded
murder itself; the hasty acquittal of the mur
derer; the volunteer aid proffered in his defence
by Senator Crittenden. are all bad enough to
call forth the indignation 05 a community in
whose midst the assassination took place, while
the course of Ms. Wolfe seems to have been a
deliberate aggravation of the wrong upon the
cause of ;justice .d the good name of the city
and State, which have to bear the odium of
the transaction abroad.
Robbed Himeelf
A Mr. Ilise, of Jackson township. who, as
we are informed, had sold his farm a short
time since, received his money, $lOOO, in gold,
on Thursday evening last, and putting it mto
a carpet sack which he hung upon his bedpost.
went to sleep. In the morning the sack and
money were gone—all he had in the world.—
To add to this misfortune, too, he had contrac
ted for another farm, and was to pay for it the
next day.
During the slay (Friday) the carpet sack was
found in a hollow poplar stump near the horn,
with the pocket book in it. but no money there
—the thief had secured what he wanted.
On Friday night, Mrs. Hise wile awakened
by her husband getting out of bed. She arose
and watched him. He went to the barn, and
after searching a little while, came out with
the money in his hand and went to the stump
where the carpet sack had been put. She now
awakened him, when to his great joy he found
that all was not lost. Ile had doubtless while
in his pleep, became uneasy about his money
on the first night, and get op and hid it; the
second night, fearing it was not secure where
it was, he was removing it to a snore secret
place. Fortunately for him his wife detected
him in his somnambulistic wanderings, and
saved their all.—Greenberg (Ind.) Freon.
The Japan Expedition,
A correspondent of the ]Vine nrk Tribune,
writing from on board the U. S. steam Meath
Susquehanna, at Great Leo Choo. says
are preparing to sail for Yedo. We bare here
three steamers—the Illicedonian, Vendalia
and Susquehanna : and three store-ships—the
Supply, Southampton and Lexington. The
Saratoga is hourly expected. It has been blow
ing a gale for three days. The ships have each
two anchors down, but ride in safety and in
smooth water. Commodore Perry has given
notice to whaling captains of the advantages
of this port as a stopping place for water and
other supplies.
* * * * * * *
The force whirls had been promised us to
bombard the walls of Ycdo, and to overrun the
Empire of Japan, never has arrived in the Chi
na Seas but in part. And even that portion
which has rendezvoused here is weakened by
the necessity of keeping n vessel at Shanghai,
and another at Canton. And what is more
provoking, the last mail brought orders from
our Government to place one of the remaining
steamers at the dispose: of our newly-appoint
ed Commissioner, Mr. McLane, to carry him
from port to port. This mode of conveyance
is a little expensive, since the consumption of
coal alone will cost Uncle Sam eight hundred
dollars a day while the ship is under steam.
But no matter. The Commodore will go
ahead with what force he may have loft.
Fire at Chambersburg.
CITAMBERSTIVRG, May 5.
A fire broke out in the rear of the building
owned by Judge Chambers, near Diamond
street, at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and before it
could be checked, twelve stables were consum
ed, and much damage done to other property.
Whilst the efforts of the firemen and citizens
were directed to the extinguishment of the fire
at Judge Chambers' premises, several stables
took fire simultaneously from the sparkeacross
Main street, leaving the intermediate dwellings
uninjured. The flames spread quickly and
followed the course of an alley, burning all the
stables except two for the space of ten squares
from Main street, to the Franklin railroad.—
Messrs. Eberly it Getts, and Mead's stables,
took fire about the sanie time, and being near
the Court House, it was with difficulty the
building was saved, being several times On fire.
A number of dwellings on the north side of
Market street caught fire, but were extinguish.
ed before much damage was done.—North
American. _ _
An Artificial Man.
The Memorial Burdelais states, that not far
from St. Stever, there is living an old military
man, who has a false leg, and a false arm, both
moveable by means of springs, a glass eye, a
complete set of false teeth, a nose of silver, co
vered with a substance perfectly resembling
flesh, and a silver plate replacing part of the
skull. Ire bears on his breast the Cross of the
Legion of Honor, won in the campaigns of
Egypt, Italy, eod Russia. at Friedland, Jena,
Austerlitz, Wagram and Waterloo.
Re. A Whig Triumph hasrred in the
city of Cincinnati, all the Judges of the Su
perior Court just elected being Whigs. Cin
cinnati has always hitherto been a strong dem
ocratic city, but the eminent worth of the Whig
candidates in this instance. caused their sue-
Three Days Later front Enrop.e.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.
7'errible Massacre al l're'resa.-:-Tarkish
asters on the Danube.—The,lastrn-Pussian
Tardy oj' Alliance Signed.—The Greek In-
surrecliun
NEW YORK, Mav s.—The Royal Mad steam•
chip Africa arrived at this port this morning.
"ter dates from Liverpool ore to April
three days later than were received by Ole Pa•
_ .
.....
No UM; of the City of Glasgow.
The Blaok Warrior Case.
Tim correspondence of the London Times
says that the affair of the Black Warrior, so
far from being settled, has been urged on with
extreme violence by Mr. Soule, the American
Minister, and at present wears a threatening
aspect.
It is stated in a letter from Madrid, that Mr.
Soule has demanded the recall of the Captain-
General of Cuba, and that an officer succeed
him having full power to settle, upon the spot,
such disputes as may arise with the American
government. It is also stated that he has de
manded an immense amount of money by way
of indemnity.
The result of these demands is not known.
The Spanish Government has issued a high
ly important decree against the slave trade in
Cuba, according to which all slaves are to be
immediately registered, after which any slave
found on the island without a copy of the reg
ister, will be looked upon as fraudulently im
ported and declared free. The decree also
provides for the introduction and organization
of white laborers.
Numerous incendiary fires have occurred at
Barcelona.
The War,
Austria and Paussia have signed a treaty of
alliance, offensive and defensive.
The news from the Danube is interesting.—
There had been three battles, during which the
Turks retreated, according to orders from Omar
Pasha. They fought valiantly, however, du
ring the engagements.
The French squadron, under Admiral Des -1
chenes, consisting of twenty-seven line-of-bat
tle ships, frigates and corvettes, had left for the
Baltic. . .
Letters from Constantinople state that the
soldiers at Prevesa had sallied out, burnt fif
teen villages, massacred the men, violated the
women, and carried off everything valuable.
The French navy has now 56,000 sailors
afloat.
There was still some ice in the Gulf of Fin
land, but not enough to interfere with cruising.
The frigates were watching the Russian
movements closely.
All the Russian ports in the Baltic arc now
under blockade.
_ .
There have been, altogether, ten Russian
merchant ships captured.
A decree has been issued in England, prohi
biting the export of iron to all parts of Europe.
The Journal of St. Petersburg, of April 13th
publishes a manifesto replying to the English
and French Declarations of War.
It throws the entire responsibility of the war
on France and England, and says that the gen
erous confidence of the Czar has beets abused.
The convention between the French and
English goverments, which was signed a few
days ago at London, has already beets ratified.
it is asserted at Copehageu that the Swe
dish government has positively entered into a
secret treaty with Russia, by which an abso
lute enactment forbidding more than four ships
to enter a harbor has been restored, and the
same extended to Norway. . .
- The inciter is, however, taken up by the Swe•
dish Parliament. .
Complaints are made of a want of sufficient
accommodation for the allied troops at Galli
poli.
The Russians have advanced within one
hundred and twenty milas of Verna.
The export of aims from Austria to Monte.
negro has been prohibited.
A Greek conspiracy has been discovered at
Constantinople for attacking the Turks during
the holidays. _ _
Count Nesselrode, the Russian Premier, has
issued a circular to the Russian diplomatic
agents favorable to the Greek . insurrection.
The English fleet was off Gothland on the
19th of April.
Eighteen Russian frigates are lying at Het.
songfers, and Admiral Plumridge has been
watching
,for thentx,ith four frigates, waiting
for Admiral Napier to come up with his squad
ron to attack them,
The Greek Insurrection.
Accounts from Athens state that an An&
French note of a menacing nature has bee
received. •
A Greek ship with ammunition has been
captured off the Wand of Negropont.
it is rumored that Themly, Macedonia and
Salonica are in a state of vreolt.
11%..The North Pacific Exploiing Expedi
tion, sent out by the U. S. government, under
Commander Ringgold. has been heard from
under date of Sidney, New South Wales, Dec.
28th, 1853; and Jan. sth, 1854. The Vincen
nes arrived at that port on the 2Gth of Decem
ber, in 47 days front the Cape of Good Hope,
officers and crew all well. Commander Ring.
gold says that for vessels seeking the ports of
Australia by way of the Cape of Good Hope,
the most desirable route, is in from 38 to 40
degrees south latitude, the winds there being
not so powerful, and inure steady, the weather
far more settled, and the sea less turbulent
than further south. The same parallel is also
recommended for crossing the South Atlantic
and passing the Cape. Ships bound to Sidney
will do well not to venture through Bass' Straits,
but rather to pass well clear of the extreme of
Van Dieman's Land, and haul gradually up,
giving the island n clear berth. The barome
ter may be implicitly relied on in those seas.
Commander Ringgold thus describes the route
of his exploration:
"Our course and duty hence are through the
Coral sea—the lea'st known, perhaps, and ad
mitted to be the most intricate and dangerous,
of any portion of the Pacific ocean. Our ob
ject iu exploring this sea is to expose its dan
gers, and make clear channels for our country
men in their way to China." * * * "On leav
ing here, I shall proceed to the examination of
the route to China, West of New Caledonia, ta
king up in succession Lord Howe's island, the
reefs and islets northward; thence coasting
along the western shores of Now Caledonia,
turning its northern extreme to Huon isle;
thence severally taking up the New Hebrides,
the Santa Cruz, or Queen Charlotte groups,
passing through and examining the passage
formed by the isle of Nitendi, and the Solomon
islands, and New Britannia, with the adjacent
reefs; thence either through the Caroline
isl
ands, via the Ladrone group, or more westerly,
sighting the Pelecw islands; thence reach the
China sea and Macao, via the Bashu isles
"Circumstances may cause a partial depar
ture in the movements and reconnoissance
thus contemplated. lithe winds are propitious,
I hope to gam the harbor of Macao in forty-five
or fifty days."
"The Porpoise, after passing over the south
ern ocean in the parallel of 39 0 south latitude,
will proceed around South Abstralia; thence
up to the westward of Lord Howe's Isle, through
the Coral sea, examine the passage formed by
New Holland and Bonanville Isle. thence along
northwardly to the west end of New U Mum,
and finally to Macao."
Salaries of Associate Judge.
The bill fixing the salnries of Associate
Judges, which has been hanging between the
two Houses for some time, has been arranged
through a committee of conference and passed.
The salaries are to be as follows:
For those whose attendance at Court ex
ceeds sin weeks per annum, and does not ex
ceeds twelve weeks, SM. . .
For those what attendance exceeds twelve,
and does not exceed twenty welts, $175.
For those whose attenchinee exceeds twenty,
and not thirty weeks, $200; and thou execed.
lag thiry weeks, $250.
For thn Huntingdon Journal
Evening Reflections,
BY R. T. M
The bright sun speeds in silence on,
And nears the western hills;
Another day has almost flown
With all its joys and ills.
The night is fast approaching, too,
The shadows o'er the vale
Are long, and in the sky to blue
The stars we soon shall hail.
The gloomy night around will spread
Her mantle o'er the earth;
How short a day! How soon t tis fled„
How transient all its mirth?
Its pleasures and its joys depart,
They quickly fade and die,
And often does the wounded heart
For lasting pleasure sigh.
Thus passes, too, the day of life,
It swiftly glides away,
And all its joys, its woes, and strife,
How soon forgotten they?
Lost in the silence of the tomb,
The lowly and the great,
Alike repose amid the gloom,
They share the same sad fate.
But in a brighter world than this,
Eternal day doth reign,
There all is joy! There all is bliss!
And everlasting gain.
Washington County, Md._
The Cashmere Goat.
The editor of the Farmer and Planter sass:'
This goat, which has recently been introduced
into the United States from Turkey, by Dr: ba.
vis, of South Carolina, is of larger size than our
common goat, is as easily kept, and by this ex•
pertinent is proven to be admirably adapted to
our climate. Its great excellence is, that in
stead of a coat of hair, it has a fleece of fine
silky appearance, from four to six inches long
in one year's growth. It is from the fleece of
this goat the celebrated Cashmere shawls from
China are made. Besides its beautiful and sib
ky appearance, textures made from the fleece
of tins goat outwear all known substances.—
Stocks made of it have been worn six winters
without material injury. They can be shorn
annually, and the average weight of each fleece
is about four pounds, sometimes weighing au
much as seven pounds, being equal in value to
the united fleeces of about sixteen Merino sheep,
annually. Dr. Davis considers these so well
adapted to the climate, and so valuable, that
he refuses to sell full blood ewes at all. but sells
the bucks from $lOO to $2OO each. He is very
liberal, however, and has given several to
friends. _ _
Rail Road Hours.
Fast Line going Eastward. Westward.
Leaves Mt. Union, 4 33 P. M. 5 31 A. M,
Mill Creek, 4 19 " 5 45 "
Huntingdon, 4 09 " 5 59 "
Petersburg, 3 53 " 6 12 "
Spruce Creek. 3 41 " 6 26 "
Slow Line going Eastward. Westward.
Leaves Mt. Union, 343 A. M. 400 I'. M.
Mill Creek, 3 24 " 4 17 "
Huntingdon,
3 14 "
4 32 "
4 49 "
5 05 "
2 54 "
2 38 "
PetersGrg,
Spruce Creek,
TS DIA RE
HUNTINGDON.
May 9, 1854. •
• •57.75 n !MOO
7,00
1,40
1;50
Flour per Uhl
Clover Seed, per bu.,
Red Wheat, per be.,•
White Wheat, per be
Rye, per ha
Corn, per be
Buckwheat, per hu• •
Oats, per he
Flaxseed. per he
Hay, per ton
Butter, per lb.,
PHILADELPHIA, Ray 9.—There Is nn In
creased demand for Flour, and the market lirm
Sales of 500 bbls standard brands at $8 75 per
bid, 1500 bbls extra nt $9, and 150 bbls extra
tinnily nt $9 121. In Rye Flour and Corn Meal
there is nothing doing and prices are unchanged.
Grain—Thera is a good demand for Wheat,
and hat little offering—White $2 20, and Red
$2 10. Rye is in demand at $l. Corn, at 87
cents. Oats are in litir request, at 53 cents.
ne most rel 07 , 0(11 . 110,W diSr6l.ll in the World;
is the Great Arabian Remedy fur Man
and Beast.
n. G. pAnnm.T.'s
CELEBRATED ARABIAN LINIMENT,
IT IS A FACT ESTABLISHED and well
known that the Arabians attained a height in
the knowledge of medicine which caused the
whole world to wonder and admire. With
them the science of chemistry had its birth,
and it is, therefore, not at all strange that a
people so eminently successful in the healing
art, and so persevering and daring in chars,
ter, should by actual and untiring experiment;
discover remedies far surpassing its efficacy all
ethers, for the cure of those diseases incident'
to them from their mode of life. The greater
part of their time being spent its hazardous and
bloody warfare with the different tribes, they
were subject to the most violent attacks of rhea
matism, paralysis, neuralgic pains, and vari:
ens inflammatory diseases, as also the must
horrid wounds, sprains, bruises, tumors, swel
Hugs, diseases of the joints, etc., etc. All these
diseases they were so surprisingly efficient in•
curing, that the uninitiated looked with won
der and attributed their skill to the powers of
magic. H. G. FARRELL'S ARABIAN LIN
-1 IENT is a composition of balsams and oils,
from the rare plants peculiar to this country,.
and it was by the use of the articles composing
this great remedy that not only their physmians,
but even the wild Arabs of the desert were en
abled to perform such miraculous cures. The
Arab steed is world-renowned fin• his beautiful
symmetry of form, Isis unsurpassed speed and
agility, and the incredible Wigan he is capa
ble of enduring. Why is it? Because from
the time of his birth his limbs are carefully
watched, and upon the first appearance of dis
ease the magic lotion is applied, and such
things as confirmed sweeny, fistula,
ringhone, scratches, spavin, lameness, etc., etc.,
are unknown. The sumo result will follow in
all canes where IL C. Farrell's Genuine Arabi •
an Liniment is used in time. Therefore delay
not it-. procuring a good supply of it, for every
dollar spent in it will save you twenty, and a
great deal of suffering, if not your life.
Look out for counterfeits!
The public are cautioned against another
counterfeit, which has lately made its appear
ance, culled W. B. Farrell's Arabian Liniment
the most dangerous of all the counterfeits, bit
cause his having the name of Farrell, mani
will buy it in good faith, without the knowledm
that a counterfeit exists, and they will perhap
only discover theffr error when the spuriou
mixture has wrought its evil effects. '•
The genuine article is manufretured only lk
H. G. Farrell, sole inventor and proprietu)
and wholesale druggist, 'o. 17 Main stred
Peoria, Illinois, to whom all applications ft
Agencies must be addressed. Be sure you gs
it with the letters H. (1, betbre Farrell's, the
—H. G. FARRELL'S—and his signature
the wrapper, all others are counterfeits.
Sold by Thos. Rend & Son, Huntingdon,9
E. Sellers & Fleming Brothers wholesale, Pit
burg, and by regularly authorized age'
throughout the United States.
oar Price 25 rind 50 cents, and $1 per be
AGENTS WANTED in every town. Nil
and hamlet in the United States, in which' d
is not already established. Address H. G. II
roll as above, accompanied with good Wet*
as to character. responsibility, &c.
May 10,1851—1 t.
LOST,
On Sabbath evening, on Main street, hi
the Presbyterian Church and Miller's
GMT/ WATCII-KEY. 'rho finder
mutably rewarded by leaving it at thin uft
May 10, Mt