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EWsTER,
Editor and Proprietor,
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Wednesday Morning, January 271858,
The Circulation of the Hun
tingdon Journal, is great
er than the Globe and Am
erican combined.
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It will he observed by a notice in
another part of our paper, that the Hum
ingdon county Teachers' Institute atilt
meet in this pluce ou the 22d o/ Februar.y
We have not seen a programme of the bu
siness to be transacted; but we understand
that one object of the ace ing is to cLI,-
brute, in a suitable manner, the fifth tuna.
versary of the Institute. A more appro
priate time could not have been selected
for such a purpose ; and we feel assuied
the occasion will be one of unusual inte
rest to the friends of education generally,
and to all who may find it convenient to
.attend.
err Prof. M. \lcl\l. Walsh, the new
Principal of the Gassy'lle Seminary. has
accepted an invitation to address the Ed
ucations! Mass Meeting to be held at
Spruce Creek on Friday and Saturday
next (January 29 and 3Jth.)
We would variculurly direct your at
tentipn to the advertisement of a tract of
land situated about a mile below Mt. Union,
to be sold on Thursday the 18th day of
February, by John Anderson.
Nor A short time ago we published a
notice in the loar;,al stating that 1V in.
Lewis, Ex-Postmaster and publisher of the
Huntingdon Globe. had been tabOring un-
der a des, orate spell of the disease, cal.ed
in conunon parlance, ..the man with the
poker."
But since Billy has recovered to almost
reasonable rationality, and (lads the c
are chuckling over the courqs he h s taken
he reeks out his v?ngeance upon us as a
kis' der. &c.
Why Billy. it really would appear that
you have not recovered sufficiently yet, for
you published in the Globe a few Java be
fore the .spell" came on you, Altar a parti
cular friend gave you a bottle of 'poor,
and perhaps getting it for nothing induced
you to indulge inure freely than if you had
to pay for it ; hence the consequence.
But we have only to say to those who
disbelieve the report, to look at the man,
and keep an eye single to the grag.shops,
and they will have nu difficulty in coining
to a conclusion.
our Kennedy's Bank Not. Review for
the month of January has at this late date.
It looks as if some person had taken the
benefit out of it before we received it,
Kennedy's Detector is one of the best
published, and is always a welcome visitor.
use February number of Peter
son's Counterfeit Detector, published by
Peterson & lin tilers, Philadelphia, is be
fore us. It is perfectly reliable, and will
prove invaluable to business wen, and all
who require to be posted up on the ourren
ey. Price $l.
The Executive !dungen. PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSMEN. I
.Prom the Philadelphia Ilidiciiii.
Pennsylvania has at la.t. agreed to provide
a house for Chief Magistrate to rei.ide in. Gov. The Na , " """k Gazette le..ns from um
Por.t.oce immediately signed the bill providing quo.limmble authority, that the lion. Wm. ILI
for the purchase, thus gracefully making one Dimmick, Democratim. Member of Congress
of his last official acts a provision for the rem, from that district, notwithstanding his • lever
fort of 116 ...SUM in office. boy. PACKKR to the Philadelphia Buchanan Administration
I
enters upon office with a salary of 14,0(10 per meeting, will oppose the Lecompton Cunsti.
maim—five hundred more than Gov. PobLoce I " it "' from timt to last. This ma"' 6"
received, and a handsome house provided for Dentiieraiie members hum Pennsylvania
him by the State. Ile will thus be enabled to.i known to he opposed 'to th 6 Lecompton Com
keep up a little more state, a n d practice a iff , stitutien, the two others being Messrs. Hick
tle more hospitality than his predecessor., have man and . Montgomery.' 9°"te others
are
been able to afford. strongly suspected of leaning the name way,
The Joiut Committee of"bOth Houses, the
Secretory of the CommOnwealth, State Treas•
urer and Auditor General have made an agree.
meet with Mr. Worrell for the purchase of the
"Griffith property" on the river bank as a rest.
genee for the Governor; the price to be paid is
ten thousand dollars fir the property, and One
hundred for the gas fixtures.
The agreement has to he ratified by both
Houses before it can be made binding, but
there is no doubt of its satisfaction, and Gov.
coot PACKER wl,l reside ita that locality.
4 Atten‘ion is directed to the now ad.
vortaw am veto is to day', paror.
Einem Elections. LATER FROM KANSAS.
The results of the recent elections in Kan
sa,. seconding to the latest nod corrected Tele- Special rorrespowleal ttr IS': Y. Tribune.
graphic reports, are as follows: I Lawitneee, K. T.. Jan. 13. 1858.
At the former of these elections, held under Thwfamon,s or infamone Jack Henderson—
the auspices of John Calhoun and the bogus or, as we used to call him :luring, the bogus
Lecompton Convention, the total vote stood: Constitutional Convention, "A pprehenderson,"
For the Lecompton Constitution with Slavery, f ree , t h e fact of hie b e ginning ever y speec h he
mode by equeaking through his nose, "Mr.
For the same without Slavery,
President I a rehend " Ac.—has at In t hero
As theree-State men had no voice in form- P P
summarily "apprehended." Ile was brought
this Constitution, ns they refitirded the body ,
here by a Deputy United States Marshal,
which called it as a bend of usurpers and op.
charged with committing frauds on the etee
pressors, and as no one was allowed io vote
rive franchise. The part which Jack played
against this Constitution, the Free-State men
in the recent bogus gatne is shout this : 'rte
very properly refesed to vote at all, turd only ,
i some twenty five honored Free State men of Leavenworth having polled
went near the polls to see how many nowresi
it was die.
dents or minors were allowed to vote, and how ntred votes,
covered that even Kiekrilmo, in all its glory,
many voted several times; lint even this slight !
would he unable to reverse this decision. A
aw.e,ini,
was
paid bet in a fen , instances. _
Poll had been opened at the Delaware crossing
11i.st of these 6,712 votes were returned from I
of the Ktee, in the Indian Reserve. At that
half ad, et points along the Missouri border
Point, there is a little Indian village. The
wl me it was not possible that Two Then:sand
Delawares. not being naturalized, cannot vote,
votes should have been honestly cast. It is wit
and there are but few others there, except an
probable that Three Thousand legal bona Me
votes is alt were cast at this Election, whether agent, and perhaps a ferrymen. There may
be a sprinkling of the whitey browns common
"For the "Constitution with" or "For the Con
"stitution without Slavery." An since! ". in Indian countries, which are styled "halt
recognised and perpetuated in Kansas in either Indian and half agent:" but even the doubt
case, and as no one could vote at this Election
fel paternity of these does not entitle them to
(if challenged) with taking at: oath to support the elective franchise. However, at the point
the Constitutiou if adopted, when there was no in question the Pro Slavery men polled some
t
possibility that it should not be adopted, the thirty votes, most of which were probably from
Free State men were clearly not right in voting. Westport. Finding that more.votes would be
needed, the Border uans ant J
Hardly a vote was cast at Lawrence, Topeka
derson down io the ß Del ffi aware crossingaek
foHen
r the
and other Free State strong holds. In fact,
this Election was sternly ignored by a large returns. Jack accordingly went after them,
majority of the People of Kansas. rind, although he started with only thirty votes
Another Constitutional Election, ordered by by the time the retort's reached Lecompton ,
the Territorial Legislature, with Gov. Statiton's the Delaware vote stood at upward of five
approval, was held throughout Kansas on the hundred—a number sufficient to save the
4th lost, Unlike the fanner, at this election "Democracy" of Leavenworth County and
each legal voter in Kansas was invited to record , the country generally—the increase having,
his rote "For the Lecompton Constitution with been mad , ' us the lawyers would-say, in trot:.
Slavery," or 'Tor the same without Slavery,'
or "Against the Lecompton Coestitution."—
From this Election the Pro Slavery party stood
aloof, not wishing further to expese its weak.
ness, and very few but Free State men voted.
The votes cast have just been canvassed, and
the Telegraph reports a majority of 10,22"
"Against the Lecompton Constitution." As
but few votes were cast for it, we presume the
total r oll at this election was probably under,
rather than over, eleven thousand. It is very
certain, however, that two.thirds of all the le.
gal voters of Kansas cast their suffrages against
the Lecompton constitution.
Still imuther Election was held on this 4th of
January, under the Lecomptun Constitution, by
officers appointed by Regent Calhoun and in
structed make their returns to him, For
this elecitoin a full "Democratic . ' ticket was
noniinatel, headed by Frank 51arshall for Go - -
en:or, with George W. Carr for Congress—
Pro Slavery of course. The Free State party,
ignoring the Lecompton Constitution, and re•
pestling it as a gross Pru-Slavery fraud and
usurpatiou,resolved in full convention not to
vete under it at thin election. A minority of
the Conveution, however, in view of the con.
tingeney that Congress might accept Ilia Con
green might accept this Constitution, admit
Kansas under it, and thus fasten upon her not
only Slarery but a Pro• Slavery government,
with Callitten and sous other ruffian for Seen.
tors and Carr fer Meniber of the house, bolted
and (rained a State Ticket, headed by George
W. Smith fur Governor and Marcus J. Parrott
(the present Delegate) fur Congress. Gov.
Robinson, though be declimd to be a candidate
supported this movement ; en did Den. J. li.
Lune, irreverently bight ',Jim Lane,' and a
geed share of the old leaders. Lawrence. To•
peke, and other Feee•State wrought:ld:3, voted
but spariegly, hewever, while enormous frauds,
partly by treble and quadruple voting, were
perpetrated by the pro Slavery party, who there
by polled over six thousand votes, though they
have .t half that numbee of voters. Our
last telegraphic advises, huwever, assure us that
the entire ticket ut the Feee.6tute butters is
elected, with u derided majority in both bran
ches if the Legisaiture. 6.11 being the fleet,
we do nut see how Congress ca: proceed to
three Kansas inti, the Uniun under a Constitu
tion so overwhelming rept:dated by her people,
nor can we see what Slavery 'will make by the
outrage, alieuld it be consummated. Can the
Slave Power insist on the annihilation of its
Northam allies fur uothing? Why should it?
Tribune.
Gov. Packer's Cabinet.
- Secretary(lif Stale—Wm. Dl. Iliesler,of Berks.
Deputy Seerelttry—Henry L. Lielfenbaeh,
of Clinton county.
Attorney General--Hon. Jno. C. Knox,
ol Clarion county.
',,,jiileuttal Clerk futile Secretary', office—
A. Innis, of Easton.
As ue before intimated Wm. A. Porter Esq.,
has been appointed Judge of the Supreme
Court to supply the vacancy occasioned by' the
resignation of the Hun. Jno. C. Knox.
and the suspicion Is - iiicreased since Gov.
Packer's inaugural address has been read
and received with so much favor by the De.
mocracy of the State. Among the suspected
' ore M. curs. Phillips of the IVth District, De
wart nl the filth, Leidy 9f the. Xllth, and
White of the XV'th (Gov, Pucker's District.)
Como unt handsomely, gentlemen, for you
may by sure you will be doing• eight and your
constituents will sustain you iu condemning
the Lecompton trick.
A Bra Itut.—lt is eaid that fleoeral Walk. I
er lays his damages sustained by his arrest
by Commodore Paulding; and deportation to
the United States, at the elegant little son, of
$1,000,000, and ban presented his bill fur that
1111•11111;
Nothing can indicate the spread of "law'.
more conclusively than the fact that
oar friend "ApprelnMderson" should have
be,s apprehended for such a peccadillo. The
Free State met , of Leavenworth hunted up the
judges of election at the Delaware crossing.
got sundi3i affidavits from thein to the effect
that 30 votes only were cast, and that the
returns showed said fact;. and, having secured
these preliminaries, *next thing was to se.
cure "Appreh telerson."
That °Atonable individual having done his
duty, as above recited, started for Washington
yesterday, no doubt to inform the President of
thetriumph of th 3 Democracy." At Wyan—
dot, however, he tons taken off the boat by
virtue of a writ of something, and a U. S.
Deputy Marshal escorted him to Lawrence.
When Jack arrived, ho was all viraeity. He
no doubt felt t nt he had done nothing of which
as a "good Democrat," he need be ashamed.
Ile jumped out of the carriage on his. arrival
in this fanatical city of Lawrence, and in his
usual way proposed to treat the party that
had given him so honorable an escort. He
proposed adjourning to one of the drinking
places that have been established in this city
since the people grew "conservative," and
played the part of a 13,der Ruffian gentleman
unembarrassed by the difficult'es that surroun
ded him. What will be (lane with him I do
not know, but fear he will not get his deserts.
He has for some months been acting as an
agent of the Administration here. For his
services in securing the Lecompton swindle
just as it is, he has obtained the post of mail
route agent for Kansas. Beside.a good sala
ry, this position affords n fine opportunity for
speculation to a man of such unmistakable
genius as "A pprehenderson." Thu customn•
ry way is to mulct all town companies along
any post route he may establish in a share or
shares of said town, in consideration of his
services in securing said-route. So notorious
is this that it may be set down as a regular
branch of the business.
I observe that the President has been pro
tending to his Northern friends that Martin,
and Henderson, and 'Elmore, and his other
creatures here,•deceived him in fixing up the
Lecompton swindle as they did. Do not be.
here anything of the kind. • They are, indeed
quite capable of cheating 'oust for the man
who pays them most, but as the President has
been paying them mast, I know WO 13111d1 of
them not to know that they are doing pi. work
of the Administration. Martin, who is a clerk
is the Department of the Interior, left here,
ror Washington with the news of a Democrat
lc victory in the recent State election. Ile
hasvcitlubtless, trumpeted the result ero this.
Prior to his leaving, he was most indefatiga
ble. That he conspired at, and was an ac•
tine party to the late outrageous election
(rands, is now very conclusive.
The State Legislature has passed a Militia
law. This law will, in many respects, conform
to that passed by the Teritorial Legislature,
and will exist under the state organization
should the Teritrrial Government be destroy
ed by Congress. An election law, laws for the
crusty and township organization; and on see
eral other important matters, are in progress•—
There have also been a number of applications
fur special legislation from this body, some of
which have been acted on.
Clomo TO WITIIDRAW.—It 01 rumored at
Washington that the Southern States will take
measures to withdraw their delegations from
Cengress in the event of the rejection of the
Leeetupton Constitution. The movenient of
the lAislature of Albama for the call of a
Convention upon the contingency named, is
the first step toward the object. The positions
taken by Gov. Hicks and Gov. Wise, however,
do not favor a union of action on the part clf
the South, and the probabilities are that any
such movement will end in a failure, and sub
ject the authors to the contempt of all sensible
people.
Special Dispatch to the Phila. Bulletin.
WASHINGTON ; Thumlay, Jan. 21, 1433.
A deputation of twenty leading Democrats
of New York City, headed by en-Mayor Wood,
k here for the purpose of urging the President
to reconsider his policy in regard to Kansas
declaring that, unless he dues so, ho will
destroy the Democratic party. They desire
him to hare the Constitution fairly submitted
to a vote of the reople of Kama,
Correvowlen , 6 of the IluiVingdon Journal. j
CITY ITEMS.
Puit,ApEr.rniA, Jan. 26th., 183 S. I
MR. EDITOR
Of course, the first remark in conversation,
or in common-place writing is now the goes
tion, "Did you ever see such weather in thou.
ary T---aud the answer naturally is "Surprising
indeed I It seems like a providential act of
mercy toward the huhdreds of poor who have
lost their employment, and means of living, by
the late monetary stringency. Well and rap
turously may they now exclaim :
"Immeasurable good is all around,
Good gleams upon us in our infant time,
Good makes the youthful heart with joy rebound
And goodness crowns our manhood in its prime."
The prospect of labor at remunerating prices
is growing bri,:i,ter every day, and mills and
fouudri,•e ar al :ttiy res,niiiig operations while
the ilecesAity a plenteous coall/in, to de
creased in like rota .
A New Improremerri ire our City—The City I
Passenger Railway, running from Frankford to
Southwark, (the north . and south extremities of
our Consolidation.) has afforded much w:•rk in
its 3unstruction. arid now it :,as, within the last
week, gone into operation as far as Kensington,
yet it employs many men as drivers, condor.
tore, ireck•cleanere, and stable men. About
twenty-five cars are daily running at intervals
of five or ten minutes up sth and down 6th eta.
five cents fare each way. And indeed their
convenience as an easy mode of travelling is
fully appreciated by our hitherto benighted
population, who begin to look upon omnibuses
us nuisances.
Mrln the matter of city news nothing has
occurred of importance since the acquittal of
T. W. Smith, the murderer. The verdict was
anxiously waited for from day to day, and the
people generally were well satisfied. That the
man's mind was tetnpotarily unsettled I can
believe, btt that the act was one of insanity,
and committed by an iresponsilde being, I do
not concur in. Murderers, L think, for the to.
tore good of the community, should suffer a
mast severe penalty, but r hesitate to judge
that a legal murder is better, or more just, thou
one from motives of revenge, or jealousy, &c.
Both are cold•blooded, and break the sixth
corn amid ; nest.
Mr. Allibone, of the Penn'a Bank, you
truly notice by the papers has again returned,
and tries . hard to persuade the public that he
did not abscond, but went to the continent fir
the good of his health—denying positively the
charge" that the money of the Bank was used
i t the sugar, or cotton speculations, which have
so frequently been flaw in his teeth. The
question remains yet to he solved "Where ar e
over a million of dollars of assets of the Bank?
But I turn from this unprofitable.sohject to
conclude by a short notice of an excellent ser
mon I heard on Sunday, 24th inst., by the Rev.
D. A. Tyng, of the P. E. Church. It was on
"The safe-guards of Young Men," from 119th
Psalm, 9th verse, and he truly said that "ores.
pinion, education, and domestic attachment,
with a pure loon of tho gentler sex, combined
with piety, and shut firm faith in an over ruling
merciful God, were safeguards that all evil
powers could not subdue; and that would crown
us, hoth here, and hereafter, with unending
bliss." Yours, etc.,
TB ADMINISTRATION.
In the matter of Kansas, Mr. Buchanan
seems liko,, to experience a full measure of
the inconvenie pee and difficulty of attempting
to play fast and loose between the rights of the
North and the greedy pretensions of the
South,
Mad he chosen, when he came into office, to
sustain Gov. Geary in his endeavors to do jus
tice and to secure the inhabitants of the Terri
tory against any new encroachments or love•
slot's, he might by so doing hove shaken off
any responsibility for the original conspiracy
to deliver ~v er KII/19119 hound hand and foot to
the slsveholders. liud be ever chosen to sus
tain the Governor or his own sclectiou ant up
pointmmo, in the course whic ti that Governor
who encouraged by Mr. Buchanan himself to
enter upon, he might have escaped the charge
of being a fellow-conspirator with Pierce, and
the disgrace, too, of being like him a baMcd
conspirator uguinst the rights of the people of
Kansas.
The project of Mr. Buchanan in sending
Walker to Kansns, and in giving him the instrue•
aorta and full power lie did, seems to have been
this. lie expected that Walker, since the
inhabitants of the Teritory were determined
to have it a Free Slate, would at least succeed
in twinging it into the Union as a Democratic
Free State. Ever since time of Mtn Ratidolph
the Southern politicians have been accustomed
to put the Northern Democracy in much the
same category with their niggers, so that to
have Kansas Democratic might be coins con
siderable consolation• to the slaveholders for
having failed to make it negro. It cannot be
denied that Walker exerted himself to the
utmost to bring about this result. Never did
u man labor harder to create a now party.—
But in Kansas patties wete already formed
lung Were Walker's arrival ; and as both the
existing parties had an instinctive distrust of
of hint, he failed to establish any influence
with emitter. Ot course he didn't succeed ma
king Kansas, Democratic, and having failed to
do so, Mr. Buchanan silents to have consider.
ed himself disearged front all his promises to
sustain hint.
Having failed in the project of making Kan.
Democratic State, Mr. Buchanan's next
Budge was to appease and pacify the South by
bringing it into the Union under the Lecomp•
ton Constitution. He, no doubt, expected,
when he sent his Message to Congress, that the
Slavery clause in that Constitution would be
rejected. Hod that been done. lie might have
replied to the complaints ot his Southern sup
porters that he certainly could not be expected
to go any further in the mutter of imposing Sla.
very on the State than hod been dune by a Con.
%nfirm notoriously chosen in the slaveholding
interest But the turn which things have now
taken has Moiled the door upon that avenue of
escape. Mr. Buchanan is now brought to the
point of either yielding to the wishes and the
*rights ot the majority of the people of Kansas,
by throwing the Lecompton Constitution over
boars, or at setting those wishes and those rights
at palpable and undeniable defiance ; and that
too, with nothing to gain by it. It is an em
barraseing situation certainly, but one fur which
Mr. Buchanan has nobody to blame but him
101.—New-Ter* 217,nrir.
INDIA.
•
The semi-monthly mail from India arrived
at Suez on the let of January, with dates from
Calcutta anti Bombay.
Gen. Havelock died on the 25th of Novein.
her, from dysentery, brought - on by exposure
and anxiety.
On the 27th of November an engagement
took place near Cawnpore, between Gen. Wind.
ham s division and the Gwalior mutineers, in
which the British troops retreated with the
total loss of the tents of three regiments, 3,000
in number, which were burned by the enciny.—
'flie filth regiment is reported to have been
nearly cut up in the encounter. The Gwalior
mutineers numbered more than 8,000 men,
completely organized and equipped.
Sir Cohn Campbell, hearing of this disaster
quitted Lucknow for Cawnpore. Os the 7th,
of December he catne up with the Gwliot mu
tineers and totally defeated them, captureing
If guns, 25 carriages, an immense quantity of
amunition, stores, &c., and the whole of theii
baggage. The British loss in this action was
iusiAnihcant, only one officer being killed.
All the women and children, sick, &C. from
Lueknow, had arived in safety at Allahahad.
The official report of the defence of Luck
now is published, and shows that the privations
endured bt tile heroic garrison, and particular
ly by the 1.1111111, were fearful.
Troop-ships combine to arrive rapidly at Cal
cutta, and' among others the celebrated Ameri
can-built clipper Lightning, had arrived nut in
a passage of 87 days from the Downs. Ex.
chauge.at Calcutta, 2s. 2.0.
Buchanan's Political Secrets.
The Republic (Washington) has the follow.
ing interestitir chapter of political history
'Governor Wise's defection from the Admin.
ii,tration hasla secret history, which, in the pro.
greys of the quarrels between the Democratic
leaders, cannot be kept secret much longer.
'The President started out with the policy of
securing to the people of Kansas a fair vote
upon their constitution. Ila sent Guy. Walker
to Kansas to execute that policy. For a while
he stood firm, and wrote a letter to Gov. Wal
ker (not yet publidhed, but shown by Governor
W. to many persons,) assuring him of the sup
port of the Administration. "Let Georgia and
Alabama and Mississippi howl," said the Pre.
sideut in his letter', "I will stand by yore." That
the President used substantially this language,
is a well authentiested filet.
'ln the end, the 'howling' become so terrific,
that poor Buchanan was frightened out of his
wits, changeg his policy, and abandoned Gov.
Walker.
'Before he changed his policy, he had arran.
ged with Governor Wise to make a diversiue
against the tireeaters in Virginia. Governor
Wise, and the Richmond Enquirer, nndrr Gov
ernor Wise's influence, were to support the Ad
miniotration programme in Kansas, and the
Administration were to support Governor Wise
for the United Stales Senatorship against Mr.
Hunter. Governor Wise arrived here, to cote
plete and perfect these arrangements, on the
very day that the Union announced the Presi.
dent's submission to the nullifiers. Gov. Wise
went home, and has been educe nursing the
wrath which breaks out in his letter to Tamma•
ny Hall. Not only was his lichees of defeat.
ing Mr. Hunter blown up, but he himself had
been drawn into commitments upon the Kansas
question which destroy his Democratic standing
disabled as he is from making any effective
fight by the treachery of the President. Gov.
Wise is a betrayed man, and, as a Democratic
politician, ruined. It he does. not compass some.
1 'rerenge,' even if 'victory' be unattainable, it
will prove that age has wonderfully softened
his temper.'
PENN
Important to Liquor Sel
lers and School Directors.
It was decided in our Court, lit-a week, in the
case the Cowma.,lth for the use of Ithe
Schotd Directors of the Itorung'a of Shirley*
burg against Dr. J. D. Lightner and his bail,
that a cot victor in the Court of Quarter Sea
slims for any violation of the liquor license
laws, is an absolute forfeiture of the bond re
(inked by the act of ISA; and that the whole
penalty of th 3 bond can be recovered for the
use Of thd Public Schools of the proper dis
trict.
TLe same dieission was made in the ease of
the Cototno.twealik fur the line of the School
Directors of Walker towtothip against Fades
Lehnrd and his hail.
These were amts for the penalties of the
bonds and resulted is a verdict of SSOU fur the
plaintifrs in each case.
A NIONErk:It Gmf.—The Daliglren gun of the
U. S. corvette Plymouth weighs 16,000 pounds.
The weight of each shell discharged therefrom
is 136 pounds; that of each solid shot 17.1
pounds. The sound of the shell and shot, tra
versed a distance of three miles, Is lost in tli6
enormous space which it traverses. In experi•
mews made to test the strength of one of these
guns. it had becu fired off nearly two thoustoul
times, with 4 large portion of shell shot, without
bursting.
Itar The President is in travail with Kansas
again. Ile denied himself even to members of
the Cabinet on Thursday, and was supposed to
be engaged in the preparation of number med.
sage on the question of the day.
NW The Administration has at length be
gun to perceive a speck of danger ix the hori.
zoo of Utah. Gen. Scott is to sail in the next
steamer for California, whence, with the regu..
Mr troops in that sei t tion of the country mud
such a force of volunteers as may be needA he
will march for Salt Lake City, in case the news
from that quarter wear the same complexion
as now. The Army will probably be conducted'
up the Colorado River, which is believed to
be navigable for 300 miles from its mouth, and
will (oral a junction with Col. Johnston in Juno
at Salt Lace City.
Ic FRIDAY AN "UNLUCKY DAY?"—.The year
1858 Logile and ends on Friday. January,
April, July, October and December end on
Friday, and January and October begin on
Friday. There are 53 Fridays in the year.
We trust, however, it will not•provo 'more die
estrous than 1837.
Fitom WssitiNnror.—Jan. 20.—The *a i r
Department has asked Congress for athepro
prietien of $1,224,000 to pay for 4,800,000 re..
time for subsisting the Utah expedition for
twenty months, from the let of July last ; that.
amount being required ter 5600 soltliets,.3o9:
women, 300 servants and 1894 employees—in
the aggrrgnte 8,000 pe=eves'.,
Pills 'ARCMS.
ter On the Rth inst. the Rev. Lowman
Hawes was installed as pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Madison, lowa. The
Rev. Thomas S. Crowe of Hanover preached
the sermon; the Rev. Charles Lee of Dupont,
presided and gave the charge to the pastor,
and the Rqv. Smiles of Pleasant, the
charge to the people.
NEW AND FEARFUL MODE OF EXECUTION
ny THE INDIAN Rnintt,s.—The following has
been communicated to the Poona Obsenr•
It appears from trite journal of a European
traveller that a new and fearful mode of exe
cation has been adopted by the king of Delhi.
The, inetrument and process are than descri•
bed. A box, each aide of which is fifteen feel
square, is constricted of timber about eigh.
teen inches thick. dovetailed together, and
braced with iron rods. The outside.' of the
bottom of the box is covered with a. plate of
beaten iron, one inch in thickness. The in.
feriar is filled with perfect cubes of granite,
weighing in the aggregate several thousand •
tons. A machine is erected after the manner{
of an ordinary pile driver. knit of coarse on
an enormous scale, and of tremendons strength
The mass is raised by powerful machinery.
The human victim is placed upon a block- of
granite,.of a cinWesponding surface buried it,
the earth immediately beneath the enormous
mass, and covered with a plate of iron. At a
signal, the executioner tonehes a spring, the
mass falls, and the victim, crushed at once, is
suddenly annihilated. The huge weight tie
ing again raised, the flattened borly is with•
drawn and dried in the Run. When com•
pletely prepared, it is : hung over the wall of a
public building, there to servo as a warning
1 to the multitude.
A FOG ix PAIII9, FIIANCL—BetWeen six
and seven o'clock, on the evening if the 19th
ult., a dense fog covered the streets of Paris.
The darkness was so complete thut a pedestr,
an could not distinguish an object at a nh,,rt
distance from hitn. In some streets it became
impossible for 'coachmen to continue their
course. Tn others. coachmen were obliged to
descend from their seats and lend their horses,
calling out, at the same time, to avoid a mall.
Slon with others. The authorities commanded
that policemen should be placed at short die•
tames front each other, bolding lighted tor
ches.
DISAETER iw TIP.OOICT,TN.—Ott Tuesday of
ternmn, 19th inst., a fire_ originated in the
large public school N0.,14, nt the corner of
Leonard find Concord streets, Brooklyn, New
York, in which were TOO children, when a
most agonizing scene took place. The tea.
ellen in one of the moos, in ...Tience of
the increased hear, not knowing the cause,
threw up the windows, and it was not until the
smoke poured into the room, that the ohms.
ing fact that the building, being on fire was
suspected. A statnpede ensued among the
alarmed children, uttering the most agonizing
cries. Many were thrown from the windows
at.d saved from injury hr being caught in the
arms of the firmness and other!. SeVen or the
' children were surfocated or killed Iy being,
trampled upon in the rush for the various
stairways, nt the first alarm. It, is belie. - ed
that none were burned. The teachers re.
mined at their pasta until all the scholars
were riot. The building was entirely destroy.
ed. It is believed that the fire originated in
this way. As the weather was very mild on
Tuesday but few of the registers were opened,
and it is supposed that the pent up heat igei
ted the uosdw•orh with which the fluei came
in contact. The flues were of tin, and all the
wood work near them was cased in the same
metal.
A Tokens Petite.—The Victoria Ilridge
across the St. Lawrence at Montreal, which
has been in course of erection for several
years, will be the largest and fittest in the
world. it is to be two miles long. The to•
tnl amount of masonry in the bridge Will be'.
2,000,000 cubic feet, which, at 13} feet to the
ton, gives a total weight of abed 22,000
tons. Fourteen of the piers are Completed,
and it is expected that eight more will tee fin
ished next season. leaving only two to ereet
in 117 , 59. The total weiglitof iron in the tubes
will be 10,100 tons. The bridge will cost a•
bMit live millions of dollars.
. ice^ The State of Rhode Island, kith
population of newly .200,000, and no .death
pontlty, had no murder committed within
her borders daring the year MIT. The City
of New York, with about quadruple the pup.
lation fghtide Island, had not less thou
thirty murders. It must be borne in mind
that Rhode Island has a dense population, en
gaged in manufactures, much of it foreign
born and uneducated.
The Chanthersburg R , pnsitnry and Tran•
s cript announces the death of George K. liar.
per, who had leen the editor of that paper for
more than forty years.
Cowtt•ren or MUDDED.—The trial of An
JorSon and Richards, the murderers of Mrs.
GMber and Mrs. Ream, near Illanheint, iu
Lancaster Comity, Clime uu yesterday in the
Corot 6f Oyer and Terminer. Alexander Au•
derson• WWI tried first, for the murder or Mrs.
Ann Garber, and the Jury last night brought"
in a verdict of “guilty of murder in the first
degree." To day.the other prisoner, Richards
is to be tried, and au doubt exists . an to •his
conviction. The trial causes much excite•
mcnt, nod as the prisoners were conveyed be
tween the Court blouse and the prison, they
' were jeered and ho6ted at by the crowd.
air The captain of a Mississippi steamer
has started a morning paper on hoard bit boat
called the Bulletin. Ile is►pes it regularly,
serves it to customers at stepping places, otid
fills it with news and' pleasant g(isoip. lie is
one of the veterans of navigation, having fol
lowed that caHing for twenty seven Years. It
.is prof/mm(l especially to make the paper an
organ of the ricer boatmen. This is similar
ft thy Vanderbilt einem itamorpre:
Meeting of the Democratic State Com•
mittee.
The members of the Democratic State Com•
' mittee met at Buehler's Hotel last night, and
judging from common rumor about town this
morning. we infer that a good deal of dirersity
of opinion existed no to the tint, a Convention
ought to ho called 'for the purpose of nomina•
ting State officers, to be voted for at the next
election. The friends of Mr. Buchrman desired
a postponement of the Convention until some
time is July next, whilst the friends of Doug •
las insisted that the Convention ought to be
called in March next, which was after the
withdrawal of come of the members, finally
greed to. The Convention will, therefore, be
Lend on the 4th day of March next.
Mn. BUCHANAN IN FHANCE.-1110 Paris
Charivari, the French Punch, pretends to
have been informed by its correspondent at
Washington that, luring the reading of his Men.
sage, Mr. Buchner. was present in the Mouse
with'his !mkt° full of revolvers; and that. not
satisfied with the reception given to the does•
meat, he shiest the Clerk, the Speaker and
several members of the opposidoni and, while
,passing home through Pennsylvania avenue
amused himself by emptying the contents of
the remaining barrels on the passers by. it
morkover, that the President is a con.
firmed and that Cum. Walker wrote
thnt portion' of the Message which relates to
, his movements.
R I atria',
On the nit inst.. at A. Lewis' Hotel, in
Mount Union, by 11. Ilav Weaver, Esq., Mr.
John 'limes and Miss Margaret Lewia, both of
Edward Furnace, Huntingdon Co., l'a.
On the 191, inst., by Rev.,J. MeKee. Mr.
Robert Reed. of I,lSa 'Cm, 111., (son.of Sara•
.1 Reed of this Conn ty,) to Miss Margaret J.
Watt, of IZishneoquinas, Mifflin roman, Pa.
In Cosgville, on the 6th inst., by E. B. Wit.
so, Mr. Thomas Orowdon, of Bedford
muniy. to Mini tiarith A. Chileott, of dm fur•
t, Cnco.
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS
FLOUlt.—There is nn new feature; $5
25 in slt per bbl. •
WilEAT.—hiees are stendy.
CLOVER SEED.--Is minted nt
51 per bush.
NEW AK ERTISEAIENTS.
171172e/PROVIOD TRACTS
OF LAND WANTED
In exchange for TWO BRICK HOUSES IN
Philadelphia, Pa., as fur Stocks Ste.,
Address
COL. F. BRADS',
No. 123, Snob Seventh st.,.
Philadelphia.
Jan., 27,
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if Large fre,lcly at Si.rt,y Cents a Year.
contains choice seiection of Literary
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at' commercial informally:l.
The reviews of the Markets and Bank Note
Reports are of themselves worth more than
the priers of suhseription. and the paper itself
I.fme it is print•sl, costs more than an get
for it.
For Ten Riillars tvi teill 3e11 . 1 slxteen cop ,
ivs of the Mett.hant and n cnpf ttf any three
dollar Mg/17.111e, snch as Gudey's Lady's Book
Graham's Magazine, rte.
Specimen copies of the Merchant will be
sent to any address on the receipt of a pos
tage stamp. .
Activeyoung men wanted to minces* f
the paper, to whom a liberal eommissimi will
be allowed. that will amount is some cons to
eighty dollars a month.
Address,
S. B. ASHTON & CO.,
National Merchant Office.
Philadelphia.
t Jan., 27. '3R.
TAKE NOTICE
Notice IA hereby given that Mr. S. T. Hill
1101(1:4 the fullowing,notea aLminut me :,..no rot
fifty dollar.; dated Jannary Ist.. 1858, lobe doe
on the tit* day of April, 1858; another note
dated January Ist., 1858. to be dun June lat.,
l• 58, tor .whielt I received no value, and do nut
intend to pay then; nidesv compelled by law.
A BRAM AM' GRESSINHER.
Jackson tp., Jan.27,'58,41.
Exturrows NOTICE. •
TITE untler,igned Executor of the last will
and testament of Ann Stewart, late of the
Unto'ad' of Alexandria, due' 1., herby elves no
tice to all ',emu. who know themselves to he
'wielded to the palate of said dee'd, to make
immediate pajama, 'and all persona loving
claims against said estate to present their se
rout.," properly authentiested for aettlement to
John G. Stewart of said b0r0ugh,.......
G. 11.-S'fIN'AF.T.
PUBLIC SALE OF LAND.
THE t‘ubserib, will ailitr for role a tract of
I load, either by small guar dues, or by whole•
bale, as way suit the bidders, on terms as fol.
lows ,
One third of the money paid on confirma
tion of the sale, the balance in two equal pay.
steins. without imerest fur one year, by giving
ommity by mortgage on the property.
This land lies on the bank of the Juniata
River. one mile below Mt. Union, in Shirley
township. There is
FIFTY SEVEN ACRES
in the tract, alma; twenly five acres of which
is cleared, anti in a geed state of cultivation.
The balance is timber land. The DOI TOM
land is chiefly MEADOW.
• fh e e,, is a Qabin on it and some fruit tree.,
and a never 'falling spring of irater.
This pruperty.will be sold on the 18th day of
February, 1858.-- .
Pue attendance will be given, and a good title
wade.
JOHN ANDERSON:
Penn township, Jan. 27th 1838.-3 t.
ADNINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Letters of administration on
.the estate of
Eli. Donal(ls., late of Springfield township,
dee'd., having been granted to the undersigned
all persons indebted to said estate are mine.
ted to make immediate payment, anti those ha.
sing elaitns present them to
ELLIOTT RAMSEY, Adair.
Jana:l;s7.4h.*
WANTED!
V 111 , 4), /1.,N0 thte
Thiso having as diopese4 die
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