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Wednesday Morning, June 4, 1858.
WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1 EDFIORS.
SAM. G. 'WHITTAKER.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
TIXONCAS a COCEIRAN,
OF YORK COUNTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
DARWIN MUMPS,
OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL.
BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTE,
OF BRADFOItD COUNTY,
To the People of the U. States.
The People of the United States, without re•
Bard to past political differences or divisions,
who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, to the policy of the present Ad
ministration, to the extension of Slavery into
the Territories, in favor of the admission of
Kansas as a Free State, and of restoring the
action of the Federal Government to the prin
ciples of Washington and Jefferson, are invited
by the National Committee, appointed by the
Pittsburg Convention of the 22d of February,
1856, to send from each State three Delegates
from each Congressional district, and six Dole•
gates at large, to meet in Philadelphia, on the
seventeenth day ty , Jane next, for the purpose of
recommending candidates to be supported for
offices of President and Vice President of the
United States.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
E. D. Morgan, N. York, Fran. P. Binir, Mar.,
J. M. Nile, Connecticut, I D. Wilmot, Penn'a.,
A. P. Stone, Ohio, W. N. Chore, R. 1 .,
J. Z. Goodrich, Massa., I Geo. Rye, Virginia.
A. R. Hallowell, Maine, E. S. Leland, Illinois,
C. Dickey, Michigan, G. G. Fogg, N. 11.,
Cor. Cole, California, l
A. J. Stevens, lowa,
Brainerd, Vermont, Wm. Grose, Indiana,
C. K. Paulison, N. J., I W. Spooner, Wis.,
E. D. Williams, Del., J. G. Fee. Kentucky,
J. Redpath, Missouri, Lew. Clephane, D. C.
WasnlxoTolf, Meilen 26, 1856.
Our Platform and Principles
We do declare to the people of these United
States the objects for which we contend in po•
litical action, are t
Ist. That we demand and shall attempt to se•
cure the repeal of all laws which allow the in•
troduetion of Slavery into Territories once con•
aecrated to freedom ; and will resist by every
constitutional means the existence of glavery
in any of the Territories of the United States.
2d. We will support by every lawful means
our brethren in Karatts in their constitutional
and manly resistance to the usurped authority
of their lawless invaders, and will cive•the foil
weight of our political power in favor of imme•
diute admission of Kansas to the Union as a
free, sovereign and independent State.
3d. Believing that the present National .1d•
ministration has shown itself to ho weak and
faithless, and that its continuance in power in
identified with the progress of the slave power.
to national supremacy, with the exclusion of
freedom from its territories and with unceasing
civil discord—it is a leading purpose of the
“Journal" to oppose and overthrow it.
TILE CONVENTION.
The Convention of American Repdhli•
cans on Saturday, elected 'Yin. E. Mc.
Martrie and Wm. Brewster delegates to
meet similar ones from Blair and Cambria
Counties, to elect delegates to attend the
Convention in Philadelphia on the 17th of
the present month.
To Dodge or not to Dodge.
A. W. Benedict was elected a delegate
to represent this county in the American
State Council, which met at Ilarrisburg
last month. When the resolutions of ex-
Governor William F. Johnston were offe r
ed, he had not the manhood to vote for or
against them, but like the man who wish
ed to be popular and carry water on both
shoulders, he dodged the question. Such
men are unfit to represent any organiza
tion, any party, or any set of principles.—
We hope the Americans of the county will
reward him for his Yankee dodge, dodge,
dodging.
President Pierce,
Vir "If Mere is to be armed residenee to the
laws of the country, AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS OF THE fiuUTH, it might us well occur
at this time, and in Kansas, as elsewhere."
This is said to have been the exceeding.
ly sagacious and kind-hearted remark of
the President of the United states, upon
the receipt of the recent startling intelli
gence from Kansas. A dispassionate hear
er w Juld have found it very difficult to
discover any connection between the ob.
serration and the events. What are the
incidents reported
I. A peaceable citizen (Gov. Robin•
son) travelling through the State of the
sour', is seized by an irresponsible mob,
and detainud wi•hout warrant and against
law.
11. An attempt is made to arrest a wit.
nese, (Gov. Reeder) while he is in atten
dance upon a commission of the !louse of
Representstives, and thus to prevent him
from giving his testimony before that com
mission.
HE. A witness who had given las tes-
timony is shot, and left as °abolition bait
for wolves."
And the President of the United States,
when he hears about these things, can only
talk shout "the const,tutional rights of the
South!" Truly we are a people nine
times blest in our President—and nine
hundred and ninety nine times blest in the
prospect of getting rid of him.
iperileveral communications are crow
4•4 out for want Of MOIL
MUST TIIESE TIIINGS BE I
Who after readingan account of the bru
tal and cowardly attack of Brooks of S.
Carolina, upon that noble statesman and pa
triot Charles Sumner, but must blush for
the honor of his country, and naturally
enquire—must this be so? Must our leg
islative hulls be disgraced by ruffian bullys
from the kennels of blackgardotn ? No
event within our recollection has created
a feeling of mingled disgust and rage so
intense, so like frenzy, as the assault upon
the distinguished senator from Massachu
setts by the mad Brooks of South Carolina.
As remarks a cotemporary, the provoca
tion was so slight—merely a few sharp,
fair, polished orutoricul sentences. The
scene of the assault so august. The cir
cumstances so attrocious in every particu
lar. Two men—nay two brutes, armed
and prepared, upon one man, unarmed,
unprepared and entangled. The character
of the senator assailed—incomparably the
finest orator alive, an honor to the country
he serves, an ornutnent to the Age in
which he lives. The insignificance of the
vulgar hearted brutes who perpetrated the
font deed. The magnihcent person thus
violated. All these, and other considera
tions, have combined to inflame the people
of the Nord) in a degree unexampled,
And yet the slave-democracy approves
the conduct of these monsters. The De
mocracy both North end South applaud the
cowardly act. Oh ! Shame ! Shame !
Meat you, will you Northern Democrat.
permit the prejudices of party to usurp
the better feelings of the heart? Can you
sanction the monstrous acts of your lead
ers ? For, the leaders of your party in
Congress, front doating old Nlr.Cass, down
to the murderer Herbert, and the assassin
Brooks, all, are prostituting your organize
Lion. Butler, who is one of your lenders
on the floor of the Senate Chamber, "ap
proved of the conduct of Isis galbtht ne
phew, and assumed upon himself all the
responsibility." Toombs also remarked
that the conduct of Mr. Brooks met his
approval. But when will this end ? We
answer in conclusion, not until the North
shall have done away with dogs for Sena
tors ; spaniels who lick the hands of their
Southern masters, the more they are beat
er,. We allude to such ns Douglass, CUSS,
Toucey, and slavery propagandists gene,
ally, who disgrace the North, dishonor
the free soil of their nativity, and make us
a reproach to the country.
It cheers and warms our heart to mark
the conduct of such men as Wade of Ohio,
Wilson of Massachusetts, Hale of New
Hampshire, and a few others, who dare
speak their minds in the Senate of United
States, regardless of the Southern nssas•
sin's knife. We give the remarks of Mr.
Wade. He said in reference to the inhu
man attack on Mr. Sumner, after Butler
and other Democratic leaders had signified
their approval of the bloody act, it was
impossible for him to sit still and hear such
principles avowed as had been on this oc.
casino. As to the facts in reference to the
assault, he knew nothing about thorn and
had nothing to say on that point. He was
there in a pretty lean Minority, not 'sore
than one•fifth of the Senate entertaining
opinions similar to his; but when he heard
it stated upon that floor that an assassin
' like, cowardly attack had been made upon
a man unarmed and having no power to
defend himself, and that ne had been strick
en down and almost murdered, and then
heard a Senator avow that he approved
such conduct, it becomes a matter of some
interest and some importance to rill the
members of the body, and the minority es
pecially. A brave tnan could not defend
himself against such attacks as thin, he
might be overpowered by numbers; but
overpowered or not, live or die, (said he.)
I will vindicate the rights of liberty f debate
and the freedom of discussion, so long as I
live. if the principle avowed here is to
prevail, let us tome armed for the combat.
Although you are four to one, I am here to
meet you! A mart can die in no better
cause than in vindicating the rights of de•
bate upon this floor, If these princi, les
are to be approved by the majority, and
become a part and parcel of the law of Con•
gress let it be understood."
Linda—We have received a splendid
copy of this best worker Aire. Hentz. Co
pies of this work will be sent to nny part
of the United States, free of postage, on
sending to the publisher, T. B. Peterson,
102 Chesnut St., Phila , one dollar.
We have rend this work, and pronounce
it one of Mrs Ilentz's best, if riot the very
best. We advise all to purchase and road
The City Areh:tect.—We have nee',
ed the second number of this excellent
work, from DeWitt & Davenport. 160 &
102 Nassau St., N. Y. Thin number
presents designs for houses on a cheap
scale, and the work is gotten up by a mas
ter hand. 50 eta. per copy.
iirOur townsman Major Campbell,
and family, started on it tour to Niagara,
and through the Western States. on Mon
day. He wilt be absent some weeks.
iL-7aWe have not had tune to make any
extracts from our Liberian letters this
week.
ONLY A SERVANT,
It must reiNice the heart of the sincere
republican. the lover of justice, of equality
in the eyes of the late, and of ocher bles•
sings attendant upon a republic form of
government, to know that the slayer of
poor Kerrigan in Washington, will escape I
all punishment. It must be particularly
grateful to all well bred people, to know
that the Dutch Ministor being u gentleman
stands staunchly by his order, and refuses
to testify, bo that the Honorable Mr. Her.
bert cannot be degraded to a level with the
ordinary and vulgar felon. Then with
what a glow of holiest pride may not the
entire people of the United States point to
the Seventy• Eight Members of the House
of Representatives, who promptly and
dolly choked down all investigation into
the affair when it was proposed. Glorious
Seventy Eight! Guildsmen by birth and
instinct every one without doubt—and all
resolved to stool by their order. How the
American exults when he reflects that
there is now helping to make laws for him
at Washington a man whose hands are yet
dripping with the blood of a fellow crea
ture; and whose practice is always to wear
a pistol in order to be promptly able to
puni3h a want of respect for his person
with clesth.
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But a Imirable as all this••-just source
of pride as it is to the citizens of the coup•
try, and peculiarly impAhsive as it must
appear to foreigners, the Honorable Mr.
(which answers risen abbreviation for slur.
deter !) Herbert finds himself exposed to
various annoyances, from .vhich a gentle
man should be entirely free, particularly
when they are encountered in maintaining
the deference due to his order. These
annoyances consist in arrests, temporary
detEntions, examinations before coroners,
and being held to bail. True, these are
trifling affairs, and in Mr. Ilerberc's case
they have amounted to nothing-.and the
same will probably be the fact in other in •
stances, But as we said before, no gentle
man should be suhjected to them. What
we have to propose to prevent them is some
what as fellows : Let there be fixed in the
City of Washington a scale of prices at
which homicide of various degrees of guilt
and regulated according, to the position of
the party killed, roar be perpetrated. The
time has been when the murder of a peas•
ant c , st but asfew marks, and other men in
proportion. Ah ! ! gentlemen have)
list had their rights since that period. This
plan being established it will be perceived
that much benefit would result both to so
ciety and to individuals. In the first place
it would encourage murder. The present
plan does this to a certain extent, but not
so effectually. Secondly, it would relieve
the community of considerable expense and
even put money in the treasury, a fact by
no means indifferent to the city of Wash
ing,ton. Thirdly, it would promote the
and comfort of that superior class of
beings, ' , gentlemen by birth and instinct."
When a gentleman felt unwell in the
morning after a champagne supper on 'he
evening previous; if his coffee were muddy
or if his steak were overdone ; if the waiter
looked as if he were not mindful of the fact
that he was waiting upon a gentleman, the'.
latter might quietly shoot or stab him, walk
to the magistrate's office, pay his fine, and
go hew again in pevce and comfort Ile
might do the same under other circum•
stances to mechanics and farmers. and in
font to all people except those in his own
rank. I'm• we have milk in America. It
is only when one gentleman kills another
that it is worth while ascertaining whether
it be murder or nut !
JV:de—The common impression that the
widows and orphans of those who are not
gentlemen, suffer as acutely as the widows
and orphans of those who are, is a mistake.
Their sufferings in losing a father. hus•
hand, or brother, are comparatively trifling!
The murdered Kerrigan leaves a w;duw
and two children—but what of that. lle
was only a servant.
The Times.
We commend the following article, from
Life Raab ated, to our readers:
ltnpendieg civil war in Kansas—threat
ened war with England—the rule of vio•
tenet: established at the national capital—
the most brilliant at living orators brutally
beaten in the Senate chamber—an admin
istration composed of an imbecile chief and
a secretary who plumes himself chiefly
upon his di,patches—fillibusterism rain•
pant, officially recognized, holding moos•
meetings, openly raising money and chins
' tiug inen—the party which has all the po•
litical talent and roost of the political prin•
elide left to us, ,till far Irom power—the
most virtuous, orderly, and decorous of no•
Cons represented by ruffians and black
guards—the people indignant, embittered,
exasperated, and helpless—despots every
where exulting—the liberal putty through
out the world puzzled aril dismayed, be•
I ginning to think that, after all, Democracy
may be a Mistake—parties so curiously
disarranged that the people may be preven
ted from saying in unmistakable I.tnguage
what they think, and what they want—all
parties dallying with the the harlot Avail.
ability, still repeating the fatal maxim,
Aleasures not Men," when all the evil
hes come from puttina puppet where e
MAN was wanted. Such are some of the
aspects of the dines
Whose fault is it? Yours, sir, who'
think it the genteel thing "to take• no part
in pnlitics," and neither by vi.ice nor rote
come to the help of the Right! And
yours, sir, who go it bind for the PARTY,
consenting to be one of a Drove!
A Good Sermons—We had the sincere
pleasure of listening to an eloquent sermon
on last Sabbath, in the Seceder Church,
train Rev. Samuel Reed, a native of this
county, and recently graduated at one of
our 'I heological Colleges It was a noble
effort ; and delivered in it clear and forci•
ble manner. Mr. Reed promises fair to be
come an eminent laborer in the vineyard
of the Lord, ano an honor and ornament
to his • noble calling. We b.lieva Mr.
Reed was ordained in Philadelphia, last
month.
BEAT THIS.—We were shown a stalk
of rhubarb on Saturday lust, from the form
of our fellow•citizen Gen. John McComb,
which we !direr to be a " lretie" ahead
of any thing about. The leaf measured
321 inches in breadth, 27 inches in length.
The stem was 54 itches in circumference,
181 inches long. The entire length of the
leaf was 3 feet 94 inches. We intend to
brag of that, until we hear of a larger.
Pennsylvania Delegates,
En Governor Johnston of Allegheny co.
and Gen. John Williamson of Huntingdon
county, have been appointed delegates at
large for the State of Pennsylvania. to the
A inorican Convention which is to assemble
in the City of New York, on the 12th of
the present month, for the purpose of nom
inating candidates for President and Vice
President.
Vcncit
Plenty as Blaricherrics.-office hunters.
Fun in - Washinalon,—Killing Irish waiters.
efe-
W had some delightful showers last
week.
Vir White toes are becoming decidedly fa-
ftEir The peaches in the West .have all been
killed by the frost.
The President has dismissed Crampton,
the British Minister.
lie" Fisher and MeMmtrie have had their
store•bnikling, sponted.
.121W' It la li1.1;:lit llit,bitnati will lie the
Lleoroeo nomineq ProAident.
/la'• We were hon.wed with a visit from two
very fair ladies yesterday. Coll again girls.
SQ .- In Luzern° county the Court granted
107 liquor licenses-27 more than under the
old law.
zerMrs. Cox, the mother of the two chil•
dron lately lost in Bedford county, it is said has
died of grief.
fear The new building of Franklin and Mar
shall College, nt Lancaster, Pa., was dedicated
on the 19th inst.
Good Adeice.—When you go to drown your
self, always pull oft your clothes—they may fit
your wife's second husband.
Mr Governor Reeder has escaped from
Kansas. He was at the not accounts add,s•
sing a large meeting at Chicago.
Z Scene in the street--Obliging Celt to
swell, (who has dropped a valuable breastpin.)
"Is it a chit ye'r !cubit,' Lather, sir-r.r?"
Served hint right—The individual who wan
ted to ride with the 'woolly heads' on the Pa.
Ratiroud. and was kicked out of the cars.
liar Somerset, Pu., narrowly escaped burn•
ing last week. Some dozen houses were burn•
ed down before the fire was extinguished.
2'^ Win. Mclntire, residing in Block Log.
Valley, Juniata Co., committed suicide last
Wednesday, by shooting himself with a pistol.
ger The commander of the United Status
troops now at Lawrence, Kansas, is R eoushu of
&motor Stunner. It is Col. Edwin V. Sumner
ger Jonathan (to Master Cramptoe.) —Nu,"
go home to your mother. If I'd packet] you off
some time ago, I shouldn't have had all this
bother.
Se' De Quincy somewherc tells no anecdote
of a man who, on being threatened with no at.
sault by tighleem tailors, cried cot, "Come oti,
&a of you l"
air' The Presbyterian Congregation of thin
borough increased the salary oldie pastor, Her.
0. 0. McLean, at a meeting held on Welles:
day last, f5:100.
Stir The election or. United States Senator
from California Ilan been defeated, the Legisla
ture, which adjourned April 218 t, refusing to
go into joint ballot.
aiiir".l3mh of you, muster nn4 minion, seek
to hunt me as proper quarry for your sport."—
A. Benediq.
The game's too small, entirely.
A Well Fed Peopfe:—Thero are to be nine
hundred and thirty-four hotels, and two him.
deed and thirty ono eating houses, in the city
of Philadelphia, under the now liquor law.
Au Apology.—Mender, we believe wo owe
gnu an npulegy, for noticing the obscure lee
quay who attacks us in the two papers of this
borough. We must hereafter, show upon what
he bases his claims for office.
skir "Before that God whose religion you
profess, whose church you pollute, I charge
you with breaking the ninth commandment."—
Bombast. Benedict.
"Thou fool; fir 4 pluck the beam out of thine
own eye, then shalt thou sec clearly to take
the mote out of thy brother's eye."—Saviuur.
A Marriage.—Since A. W. Benedict has as•
mimed control of the Lueofuen organ of tint
county, and is a doer a,f dirty dribs fur Lewis,
and as he works the douse•pated things of the
"American" under hie big toe, we see olearly
the "drift o' the dowuie." Americana coo you
unite with the Locofoco party ?
ADIN BENEDICT—THOU HVPOCI!ITE.
Some men are horn great, others have great.
miss tiniest upon them. When the latter cies
cum:gone° occurs. it' generally ruins the object
upon which it places the laurel wreath. We
hove bitterly opposed this system of malting
men notorious through the columns of a public
journal, yet, where importunity demands it, we
see no re.uu to witlhold the glory. For this
reason, we propose conferring n notice on one
who otherwise 'night have lived, died, been bur
vied and carried away by worms in the deep
solitudes of the 'Juniata Valley.
Adin W. Benedict, :.creature old:T.l3ton
cos, an atom in the living world, a mass of hy
perbolical greatness, a stool.pigeon for any oc
casion, a second "Pistol" in Sit:l.l,3l).re, and
yet a worm of infinite jest, of happy - thought
and eget"sm unbounded, boldly breaks through
the clouds or his obscurity, and steps out once
noire upon the public stage, (whermonce he
immortalised himself in the character of Sylt.
say and Mose, in Keesington) and
With an effort to be funny,
With his foolish Yankee spirit,
With his flings of Yankee fashion,
With his seeps of Ynnkee humbug,
And his scoffs and Yankee bragging,
Hull of ride and affectetion,
Like a lunkee meth and flunky,
assumes the chi - Ironer °fan injured Chridlianl
Yes, reader, don't smile, Arlin says he 1,1 all
injured Christian. Let us investigate his claims
and apply the Christian probe, gently and char.
itably. It has always been the case with Adin
Benedict when hunting office, to float in on the
sympathy of the people. • Thin gusto he has
repeatedly attempted, and as frequently foiled.
Ile is at it once more. Adin Benedict, we
charge you with uo crime, we use 110 epithets,
we leave you to the gnawing ',tryout. conscience
and the hand of that God who has spid "Wo
unto you hypocrites;" but we do charge you
with uncharitableness. First, you have sought
a querrel with us time mid again ; you have
Rased.' us weekly in the editorial cull.ns or
the Iltuitingdou American, cloaking your in•
sidions attacks under the garb of its mull-by:the
ed. editors ; nay, farther, thou hest even pour
ed forth thy Christian epithets through the eel.
tinuis of the Huntingdon Globe, ecting as edi
tor Inc Imeolbco sheet, to vilify and abuse those
who "are members of the same church." 0
thou bright and shining light. And yet you,
arm' you Adin Benedict, can unblushingly as
sort, "1 not a private citizen, without a median,
fur defence l" "Wo unto you hypocAtes."—
Failing to pet any answer from us in return
tor his assassin-like stabs in the dark, he has e
ven slandered us in our very office, and dis
graced his profession by seeking personal quer•
ref upon our very premises. And new, shame
upon his baseness, throws himelf upon the
sympathies of the people as an injured Chris.
tian—putting on his cloak of pr(ffession, and
dragging the question of kligion 11a0 ileetapa•
pent, to pracure hint a seat in the Senate of
Pennsylvania. What are your claims Cu ',brig
tine c haracter? since yeti will make that the
question. We are to -judge the tree by the
fruit thereof," (tad lye consider it no evidence
of godly piety to be a brilliant billiard player;
therefore, Arlin Benidict, your claims to chile.
tianity on that score, are flimsy. We believe
it to he no evidence of piety, to frequent places
of evil, and therefore, what other claims can
you bring forth ? We will notice one or two
other paragraphs, sad eellelll4o.
Adin Benedict assent, see " sought and ob.
taisted admission into the American Order by
a lie." That's charity. "That church you pit.
lute." That's brotherly love. "The old man
has lost tulle of his meanness, and the boy
still loves his lying." That's Adin Benedict's
christianity. In regard to the first, we deny
seeking admission into the American Order.
If roe joined the °Mee it was by request. If
we belong to the American Order Mitt Bene
diet is guilty of perjury, in saying so.
Did not you, Adin AV. ltencdii t , with your
right hand raised towards Heaven, "declare be•
fore that God you profess to honor," that you
would never divulge, by thought, word, or ac.
tion, the secrets of that society, or the 'tame of
•ony member thereof? Take that morsel for
your conscience.
Ile says n,ain "the medical society expelled
you;" that's flat. but is :mother evidence of his
vaunted goodness. No, Atli'', that is not true,
but we believe it would be a good move, to
expel your eminent informer.
Now Adin, we have dime our duty. and be•
fare we conclude, take this howly advice ; do
not assume a false position. Yes are getting
old. white hairs cover that "noble palace of the
seui" of thine ; deep furrows are plowed on thy
expansive forehead ; gummy excrescence
bout filling that eagle eye ; thy little !munch is
Making rapid strides toward corpulency ; thy
pearly grinders have long since decayed ; thy
calf (of the leg, mark ye, not the body) has
shrunk to the Lotto; old age. Adin, is creeping
on thy back, and soon naught will remain but
the vacant stare, the childish voice, the decay
ed trunk of the once majestic tree ; (dog•wood
species.) Now Adin, do not cheat thyself
ger ; remember that on must die, and "after
death the judgment." And Adin, would not
Clarence's dream be your position in the hereaf•
ter, were you to die (tutu f Now take this ad.
vice ; cease to do evil, learn to do goad ; love
your neighbors, and it will he well with thee.
We aro now through with Mr. Benedict for.
ever.
Coutemptible.
Is anything more contemptible, more posit.
lanitnnus thou the cringing of jackanapes to
tuen they dispise, because forsooth they may
answer their purposes. Such is the peseta
feeling between Lewis of the Globe, and his
stoobpigeon, little Aidy Benedict. Lewis
din•
pines him, but Lewis is incapable of writing;
Aidy can blackguard, therefore Ably answers
Lewis' purpose. Politics makes strange bed•
fellows.
fibe• The Ohio State Republican Convention
met at Columbus, 0., on Thursday. Delegates
were clotted to the Philadelphia Convention,
three being in favor of Chase for President and
three for Pretnont. Resolutions strongly con.
doming the Sumner assault, and in favor of
the immediate admission of Kansas as n free
State, were adopted.
yattst Dttus
Dead—Gen. Wni. Ayres of Harrisburg.
A meeting of the citizens of Col umbia, S.
C., hus expressed approval of the outrage per
petrated upon Senator Sumner.
The American State Council of Vermont
has adopted resolutions in favor of union with
the Republicans, and denouncing the Brooks
outrage.
Mr. Sumner has relapsed and is dangerous.
ly ill, bruin fever having set in. Visitors. are
denied admission to him. His physicianshave
held a consultation.
A rumor is telegraphed from Washington
that Brooks, of South Carolina has challenged
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, and that the
latter tins accepted the challenge.
We have Inter intelligence from Suit Lake
to the effect that the people of Utah had held
a Convention, and a committee had reported a
Constitution for the "State of Deseret."
Indignation Meetings in regard to the out.
rage in Washington, are being held all over
Massachusetts. Men of all parties participate
in them, 'and tho State seems to be thoroughly
aroused.
In the Cove and on Ceder Point, the city- of
Sandusky, Ohio, thousands of the common Mud
tortoise have lately been washed ashore dead,
so that the bench is covered with thent and
still they come.
In the House bills were introduced providing
for the connive of lands to State, nod territor•
ice, and to repeal the act to establish the Court
of Claims. A bill was passed granting 1,000,
000 of acres of land la Louisiana for railroads.
Preston S. Brooks, of South Carolina, sent
challenge to Senator Wilson, yesterday mor•
ning, on account of language used by the lat.
er m debate. Wilson replied, that he woe no
duelli,t. Ile would use what language he saw
proper, and if assailed would know how to do
fend himself. •
The Republicans of Calif nit have elected
delegates to Philadelphia Convention. The
Indian war continues in Oregon and Washing.
ton Territories. The details of the recent ac•
eident on the Panama Railroad show that 71
were killed and 47 wounded. Four snore
deaths had occurred.
By advices from Washington we learn that
the President has at last dismissed the British
Minister and sent letters to the British Con.
mils at Cincinnati, New York and
phis, dismissing them and revoking. their exe•
(pours. The President will send n message
to Congress on the subject.
An anti-Fillmore Americas State Conven
tion assembled in Albany, N. Y., on Thurs.
day. The Convention that nominated Fill
more and Do nelson was denounced as prostitu•
ted to slavery. Strong anti-slavery resolations
were adapted, and delegates elected to the Na.
tional Convention to meet in New York on the
120 of June.
A hailstorm of great severity visited Johns
town, N. Y., on Saturday last at two o'clock
in the afternoon. The wind prostrated almost •
every thing in its course. Some of the hail.
stones were like frozen balls of snow, while
others were pieces of pure transparent ice as
large as butternuts.. In the village about thir•
ty thousand patios of glass were broken. Shin
gles and bricks were blown off, and the trees
were nearly stripped of their foliage.
The execution of Peter Mattocks, convicted
of the murder of Elizabeth Gilbert, took place
within the walls of the county prison of Phila.
delphin, on Friday morning last. The Daily
Times publishes on extended account of the
scene at the scaffold, from which we leant that
he denied the commission of the crime to the
last. From 1300 to 2000 persons were within
the wall the time of the execution, and some
5000 on the outside anxiously expecting to be
admitted.
We have further news from Kansas. The
Congressional Committee continued its sea•
fliOlIS at Leavenworth, but the members seem
to have been buoy during - the recent riots. 01
iver, of Missouri, had been requested by the
other members of the Congressional Commit•
tee to use his influence to prevent outrages at
Lawrence, but lied neglected to do so. The
mob shot an Indian near Lawrence, in mere
wantonness, and the Delawares threaten ven•
!mance for the outrage.
The Steamship Africa, from Liverpool, with
dates to Saturday, the 17th hist, arrived at
New York on Friday the 30th. An English
journal in the government interest explains
Lord Clarendon's letter respecting the two
thousand rifles offered to Costa Rica, by say
ing that the British Government have quanti•
ties of old muskets for sale and will be glad to
meet with other customers besides the Costa
Ric., The Central American question was
producing no excitement.
In the U. S. Senate, yesterday, Mr. Pearce,
Chairman of Committee appointed to laves•
tigate the circumstances of the recent assault ,
upon Mr. Sumner, submitted n report to the
effect that, although the assault was a viola•
tion of the privileges of the Senate, that body
had no jurisdiction in tho ease, and could do
nothing more than make a complaint to the
House. The resolution attached to the report,
providing for submitting this formal complaint
was adopted ; Mr. Toombs alone voting "no."
'the President's veto message in regard to the
improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi
river, was considered up to hour of the adjourn.
meat.
Some additional news from Kansas has been
received by the way of St. Louis. It is stated
that after the burning of the Herald of Free.
dom office, at Lawrence, Sheriff Jones dismiss
ed his posse, and the men immediately corn.
mowed plundering the stores. All the houses
of free State men were pillaged, and a large
amount of property destroyed. Buford, String.
fellow and Atchison were conspicuous on the
occasion. Gov. Shannon has called upon the
U. S. troops to sustain hint, and tho Missouri
ans were returning home. A number of un
provoked and wanton outrages upon the free
State men are reported, several resulting in
murder. The Post Office at Lawrence had
been broken open and pillaged.
Terrible Tragedy in Kansas—Later how
Lawrence.
Sr. Loris, May 30,
A letter to the Republican, from Indepen
dence, dated the 2Uth, says that eight pro.aln•
very settlers, of Potawatuniie creek, wero
led by a party of Free State men. The report
says the deed was committed by an organized
band, who were determined to wreck their ven
geance upon the opponents of their views.
The other settlers on the creek bad asked
Gov. Shannon tar aid to protect themselves
and their property.
All was quiet ut Lawrence, Leconipton' and
Franklin. 1.7. States troupe are stationed ut
each place.
Dr. Root and Mr. Mitchell, of New Haven
were murdered by a posse tee miles from Law.
fence.
Ohio Republican Convention.
COLUMBUS, May 30.
The Republican State ConventiJti met hero
yesterday. Messrs. Spooner, Paul, Stono, Den.
bum, Spaulditur and Ecldey, were elected dela.
gales to the Philadelphia Republican Convert.
Lion. The three first named are Chase men
and the others favorable to Fremont.
Resolute's. were adopted condemning the
Sumner assault, advocating the immediate ad.
mission of Kansas with the 'Topeka Constitu•
lion, and declaring that Congress has the pow.
or to prohibit slavery in the Territories. A
vote of thanks was palled to Senator Hole for
his recent course in the Sumner affair, and to
L. D. Campbell for his resolutions, offered in
the House, relative to the same.
Rhodo Island Senator.
NLWPORT !any 3u.
The anti• Administration members of the
Legislature have held a caucus for the purpose
of selecting a candidate fur 11. S. Senator.
An informal Whalen, hod, u•heu a vote stood
—Janice F. Simmons, ; Thee. A. Jencks,
15 scattering 19. The caucus refused to go into
a formal ballot, and adjourned over till this
evening.
Aid for Kansas.
BOST ON, May SO.
. _
In the House of Representatives, tn•day,
Mr. Male offered n resolution_ app,priating
$lO,OOO to people or Ennsos, represented in
the Topeka Convention, in maintaining, their
rights, and appointing agents to disburse tie
Sal..
Bound to Shine.—A gas company has been
formed in each of the towns of Hollidaysburg,
Blair county, Pa., and contracts hate been
made foe the erection of gas works, laying of
pipe, &c. Is Johnstown, the coot will be SW,.
000, and the work will be completed by the
first of October. In Hollidaysburg the cost is
to be $30,000, and the job to be finish,' by
the first of September next.
EDT's IZErtor.—Eennedy S Bro.,Pitts•
burg. This Counterfeit Detector has been re.
ceived fur June. It is the very best.
- P - lIILADLP - HfA - M - ARKiU 7 j
The Flu( r martin centimes tuosettled at d
dull, but there is rather nnue inquiry tor export
at the late decline ; sales te•day seclude 1000
blels. straight brands at $6,121, 700 barrels bet,
ter brands at $6,25, 200 bbls. mixed brands at
$6, and..loo Ltda. Brandywine at.sl, . At 1.4,
close orChange holders generally were Bee
sellers at $6,121 per WO. f o r standard
.shigpia,„ ,,
brands. Trans:lv:tie:is for limo it, to mud. ,
erute extent are malting within the range of
$6,25@56,50 for lair to goad retailing brands,
and $0,73(ip,57,50 per Lld. for extras, ns in
quality.
Ortiiii—Very little demand for Wheat, said
prices have fallen off sc. per itu.thel. Red sold
at 150 c, and white at 170a175c. Rye 72e in
ate. e. Cora 53e.for yelluw. Oats, :-13c.
• .11,1arti6, --
On the lot initt. by Rey. C, Rightinyer, Dr.
John Hudson, of 'flirt,: Springs. to Miss Hettie,
daughter of Dr. Baird, of eassville, Huntingdon
County.,
On the 22d ult, by Rev. Bergstrer.ser, David
Clarkson, Esq., to Miss Kate Walsh, all of
Cassville, this county.
NEW ADVERTISERIENTS.
MXI3,
3. 111.7 D SON,
DM._ BAIRD & HUDSON,
CA SSVILLE;
Having entered into copartnership will be plea
sad to attend to any business of their profession
REFERENCES:
J. It, UDEN, N. D., Huntingdon.
C. BOWER, M. D., Newton Hamilton.
J. A. SHADE, M. D., Shade (lap.
J. if. \l IN THU DE, M. D., Marklesburg.
June 4, D.3d.—int.
LEstate of Robert Speer, deed.]
ORPHANS' COURT SALE.
By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court
of Huntingdon county, there will be exposed to
public safe in Cassville, on Saturday , the 28th
day of June next, the one undivided half of a
tract of Coul Lund situate ou Broad Top, Hun.
tingdon County, containing
55 ACRES,
more or lens, known as the Rhode's Tract.
Tyams—One.third of the purchase money to
be paid on confirmation of sale at the August
Court following,and the remainder in two equal
annual payments, with interest, secured on the
property in the usual manner.
D. CLARKSON, Trustee.
June4,'s6.-4t.
[Eslate of Alexander Tres!brook, Dee 7 d.]
41UDITOWS NOTICE.
T HE undersigned Auditor appointed by the
Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon
County, to distribute the funds in the bands
of IVm. Christy and Thomas MeLoy,Adminis
totters of Alex. Westbrook, late of Porter tp.,
dee'd., hereby gives notice that ho has appoint
ed Tuesday the Ist day of July next, "nt the
Commissioners' Office in the Borough of Hun
tingdon, for the purpose of fulfilliug the duties
of his appointment, when and wheve all per.
sons having claims against said fund ere re•
quired to present the atone or be debarred from
coming in upon said fund
A. B. CREWIT,
Juno 4, 1856.-41. Auditor.
PILES I - PILES 1 Pll-.E-S-1
Are you suffering wish thu Piles, inuiirdly
or outwardly?
if s°, use Dr. Dupries' Celebrated Remedy.
Warranted to curd in all c.o.
The above is the only rented) that has eve,
cured effectually. City retbrences and testi•
monists given.
If you have the Piles inwaedly, asst fora box
of Dr. D.'s Pills—only 50 rents.
If you have the Piles outwardly, ail( for a
box of Dr. D.'s Ointment—only 50 cents.
For sale by JOWN RriD, Huntingdon ; Pa
.tune 4, '54.