The Lancaster Examiner from Lancaster, Pennsylvania • 2

SiiEeaSter gamines anfc derail) IjO OA-Ij APIPAlIXIS. firxBJMJWf ffitTBll DEATH FROM EXPOSURE AND WANT IT -1 A correspondent of the Inland Daily Times, far CHANGE IN RAILROAD TIME. On Monday 1 nishes that paper with the following account of a last a new arrangement in the arrival and depar- death from want and exposure in the borough of ture of trains went into effect. The trains now Columbia. It furnishes a beautiful commentary Fast Driving and Law of Public Roads.

A suit for damages was tried in the Court for Chester county last week, which possesses some interest for the public. The plaintiffhad been at Longwood Yearly Meeting. He was in a buggy. Shortly after leaving to go home, Lancaster. pa.

leave this city as follows GOING EAST. WEDNESDAY. MAY 12, 1858. on the fitness and humanity of some of the licensed Innkeepers in that locality A young man abont twenty one years of age, named Lewis Eckard, who had been working during the entire winter in one of the upper conn-ties of the State, and whose employer had failed to recompense him for his labor arrived in this borough, on his way to Philadelphia, where his mother resides, on Saturday week, on a oanal boat, siok He applied to the different landlords in the vicinity of the basin, but having no money no one would take him in. The High Constable the Lancaster was spoken to for his removal to ha was followed by several young men with Line 1.45 a.

m. Lancaster Accoradu Train 6 00 a. m. Though Exprasfl Lancaster at 10 00 a. in, Harrisburg Accommodation 3 28 p.

ra. 1 3 X. A 1 .11 I Mail Train 816 p.m. ea aud broke his leg, and had to be killed. going west The suit was brought to recover the value Of Mail Train leaves Lancaster at 10.46 a.

m. al Fast Line leaves Lancaster ,3 87 p.m. tue horse. The plaintiff alleged that hlS horse Harriabarg Accommodation, at 6.46 p. m.

was alarmed at the noise and hallooing of the iSS I. m. The fare, on the Lancaster train, between Lan- young men became restive, kicked, broke his Much Learning. Some singular statements respecting Utah, made, by Mr. Frederic Lolia, have been given in our columns.

Whatever may be their value, there seems to lie no reason to discredit his personal history. He was an educated Swiss gentleman, had a variety of scientific accomplishments, invented a new principle in the manufacture of gas, lived in a condition of elegant leisure, traveled over all Europe, and associated with gentlemen of education and refinement. Arid yet he became a convert to the crude and transparent folly of Mormonism. His learning and his associations appear to have been no barrier to the grossest of existing delusions, leaving him as gullible as the most illiterate rustic. Such, too often, is the value of mere learning, by which we mean accumulation of knowledge.

The mo- ment a mans attainments cease to sharpen and strengthen his native faculties, they become A Rare Piece of Gossip. The Washington correspondent of the New York Express relates the particulars of a love affair, which has created no little excitement in the diplomatic and fashionable circles of the national capital. It appears that an attache of the Spanish Embassy has long been an ardent admirer of the only daughter of a retired banker of Washington, bnt the prudent father, not relishing the idea of such an alliance for his daughter, forbade the Spanish cavalier his house. The cavalier wrote the banker a challenge, bnt could find no one to deliver it On Tuesday night last, the Banker was dining with Mr. SlideM, who occupies the next house to his own on Lafayette square.

While partaking of Mr. Slidells hospitality, his servant came in and informed him that two persons were hanging about his house in a sus-, picions manner. The banker, whom we will call Mr. requested his friend Senator Bright, I who was of the party, to accompany him, and I caster and Philadelphia, $1.75. hospital, but replied it would not pay.

A In consequence of the evening mail train, East, superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad was arriving earlier than heretofore, the mail will close, requested to pass him in the cars, but the answer was it is contrary to the rules of theoompany. LIST OF JURORS, To serve in the Court of Common Pleas, commencing Monday the 2Ath day of May, 1858. Frederick L. Baker, Marietta. Thomas Baumgardner, City.

Charles Carpenter, East Cocalico. Ross A. Campbell, Bart. John Ditlow, City. Valentine Gardner, Drumore.

C. Geiger, City. George Getz, East Hempfield. Jacob Grabill, East Hempfield. Cyrus Hollinger, City.

Lewis R. Hibshman, Elizabeth. John Horner, East Donegal. John Halderman, Conoy. Elam Hurst, City.

Samuel L. Kauffman, Eden. Reuben Landis, Ephrata. Christian R. Long, Rapho.

Adam Miller, West Hempfield. Henry Miller, West Lampeter. Marion MelliDger, West Hempfield. Theodore Miller, City. John Nanman, East Donegal.

Joseph B. Nissley, East Donegal. Levi Pownall, Sadsbury. Henry Pfahler, Columbia. Henry A.

Rowland, Earl. Jacob Reiff, Manheim borough. Thomas Redman, Providence. James M. Steele, Drumore.

John Sleeger, Manor. John W. Shuman, Columbia. Elias Stone, Earl. David Weaver, West Lampeter.

Mitchell Weaver, City. William B. Wiley, City. Washington Walker, Little Britain. on and after Monday at 7j p.

m. SCHOOL MATTERS. At a meeting of the Board on Thursday evening last, the lately eleoted members appeared and took their seats. Hon. A.

L. Hayes was elected President of the Board Wm. B. Wiley, Secretary, and Peter McConomy Treasurer The Finance Committee reported that the receipts of the year thus far amount to $19,093.32 Expenditures Leaving a balanee in the hands of the Treasurer of $464.57 A resolution was adopted fixing the sohool tax 18 628 73 useless, if not injurious. Your profound seliol- wjtu (hat gentleman to his own res-ar is often like a six-bladed knife, with a file As he entered the hall, he met his and a gimlet and a cork-screw and a half doz- daughter in the hall, and proceeding to the en other contrivances.

It professes finely (per- gallery which was lighted only by the hall lamp whioh shone through the doorway, haps thence the word professor but try jje f(mnd a man snugly ensconed under the to make it cut, or bore, or pull corks, and it pianoforte. Seizing him by the collar, he not only proves miserably inefficient, but ten dragged him from his hiding plaoe.and discov- to one that the whole concern breaks apart hi' no less a Personage than the Spanish attache. He discovered that the afore said Spaniard was armed with a six-barreled revolver, which he took from him, and then kicked him incontinently into the street. As he opened the door for this purpose, he discovered another person of the same tribe lurking about the entrance. There is the same trouble about this universal education that is attempted to be forced upon the young of the present day.

It looks promising, but it rarely works well. The fact is, it is not, as it should he, conformed to the Under these circumstances the young man found shelter in an old oufc-let lock, called the lock-house, where he lay without attention, or any of the comforts or necessaries of life, until disoov ered by a man from the barrens of York, on Monday afternoon, who was attracted by his mournful groans and excessive suffering. This York man procured some laudanum, which he administered to the sick man, without, however, alleviating his pain, much less affording any permanent benefit. In this condition the sufferer lay, until pointed ou tle borough constable Hollingsworth, who procured a conveyance, and had the dying man 1 removed to the Town Hall a physician called in, and every comfort afforded that could be. The citizens in the neighborhood of the Hall defer the present year at 40 cents on the $100 valua- serve, particularly, praise for the solitude and at- tion on Personal and Real Estate.

1 hibited towards the stranger. The a mother was telegraphed to, who arrived a few A motion to increase the salaries ol the leacn- days previous to his death, which occurred on ers in the primary schools was postponed until the i last Sabbath morning at 4 oclock, with great suf next stated meeting. erlnl? ir vf a onri a 7a.hm Je exPen8es incurred by the attendance on George M. Kline, 0. J.

Dickey and G. Zahm, the young man, the fare of his mother, and the were elected to fill vacancies in the Board. removal of the body to Philadelphia, were borne The President announced the following standing by a few of the benevolent citizens of Columbia, much to their credit. To requisites of the working faculties and, therefore, it is liable to derange aud dwarf the abilities of a man, instead of fostering them. The intellect is not a sponge, and the brain is not a lumber-room.

Utility is the test of education not merely the utility of money-getting or of personal advancement, but that which in- A nether letter in the same paper says that the young lady, afraid that her lover would shoot her father, took advantage of her fathers absence at the dinner above mentioned, and requested him by note to come and see her, for the purpose of explanation. A challenge has since been sent and refused by the father. committees Book Committee Messrs. Kline, F. A.

Muhl enberg, Steimnan. Finance Committee and Zahm. Superintending Committee Messrs. Atlee Cassidy, Krotel, and Demund. Messrs.

Jackson, Long, JURORS, serve in the same Court commencing Monday the 31 st day of May 1858. Hervey Brackbill, Stra9burg. John Busbong, East Lampeter. John A. Bartruff, Rapbo.

Henry Bechtel, Mount Joy Borough. Esais Billingsfelt, Adamstown. George Byrode, Elizabethtown. John Cox, Carnarvon. Isaac Diller, City.

Hiram Evans, Carnarvon. Henry Gall, West Lampeter. Benjamin Groff, East Lampeter. Casper Hiller, Conestoga. John Hibshman, Ephrata.

John Herr, City. J. G. Hess, Columbia. John M.

Hiestand, West Hempfield. Jacob Huber, East Hempfield. Daniel Leman, Mount Joy twp. Samuel Longenecker, Rapho. Park Mason, Manor.

Levi Metzgar, Earl. George Martin, City. Paul Mentzer, Earl. John H. Miller, West Lampeter.

John G. Offner, Paradise. Martin B. Ressler, Strasburg. John E.

Pfoutz, Ephrata. Amos Sourbeer, Manor. James McSparran, Fulton. Benjamin Sprecher, Earl. Henry Stauffer, Adamstown.

Christian Stehman, Warwick. Martin E. Stauffer, East Earl. John Stauffer, East Donegal. George B.

Withers, Paradise. Levi H. Yundt, Warwick. leg and fell. The defence denied the noise and alleged that plaintiff horse was a fractions, kicking horse, and therefore unsafe and unruly Commenting on this point, the Court remaked that where a horse is driven which generally takes right, when a civil attempt is made to pass him, and an injury occurs by the oonduct of the fractions horse, no damages can be recovered for such injury.

A man may ride or drive a horse not well broken he may ride or drive a horse of bad habits and unruly disposition but does it at his own risk and mnst take the consequences that flow from such habits and disposition. The main question in this case, however, is, was the horse injured by the misoonduot of the defendants? His honor reviewed the testimony of the witnesses. Was the injury the consequence of the alleged bad conduct of the defendants A man may drive npon the high road, and may pass another, in an orderly peaceable manner, and will not he liable for injuries from vioious or unruly horses. One point of the defence was that the plaintiff was making a trial of speed of his horse and thereby participated in the disorderly conduct. On this point, the Court chargedj the Jury, that if a party who receives the injury was at the time liable to censure for illegal conduct, (thereby contributing to the injury,) he cannot sustain action for damages.

He cannot be indemnified for resulting from his own conduct. A man has a right to pursue his journey at his own pleasure, and he may not be molested on the highroad. If a man enter npon a trial of speed, aud thereby sustain injury he cannot recover. Judge Haines made some judicious remarks to the jury, respecting the general deportment of persons using horses on the high road the rights of individuals and their liabilities, which we copy. He said I will here remark as a general principle, that the public highways are open to the free use of every man who chooses, either as busiuess or pleasure may dictate, to travel thereon.

No one has a right to inter" rupt the free travel of another, or to force him from the road, or to render it unsafe or dangerous. No man, or set of men, either for pleasure or mischief, whatever the motive which may govern them, have the right to use the highways in such a manner as to reuder it dangerous to another to travel thereon. If they do so and injury is incurred, the parties who have rendered the passage dangerous, are liable to answer in damages These are important aud salutary truths. On a thoroughfare where men, women and children, pass aud repass daily and hourly, safety aud security to travel are imperatively demanded, and so far as the laws of the State are enabled to secure them, they do it. An action will there lore be sustained where the proof shows damage, liy the wanton, improper, and illegal conduct of another on the public highway.

This case was argued in a very elaborate manner, and a great number of witnesses were examined. Mr. Darlington, counsel for defendants, took exceptions to the charge of the Court. Verdict for Plaintiff, $130. AN ARMY OF JUVENILES The number of pupils in the First and Secondary primary sohool of this city is 1729, of which 777 are male and 952 female pupils.

For this number of pupils there are 23 teac hers being one teacher for every sixty-two scholars. A LEATHER THIEF. On Monday officer Kuhns arrested German vagrant named Chris, tian Miller, on suspicion of having robbed the shoe store of Mr. Fraim in East Lampeter township. He was committed for a further hearing on Saturday.

Yesterday officer Kuhns recovered a roll of leather in a house in Middle street, where Miller had sold it for $4.00. FIRE. On Friday night last a frame building belonging to the estate of Emanuel Carpenter, deceased, was destroyed by fire. The building was occupied as a depository of seasoued lumber used in the manufacturing of planes, and at the time of the fire contained a considerably quantity, together with a number of bench-screws. The building was of little account, but the contents were of considera, ble value.

The fire was doubtless the work of an incendiary. TIIE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPAEDIA Volume II. Araktsheef to Beale.) New York D. Appleton A Co. The second volume of the New Cyclopaedia is before us, and well sustains the promises of the prospectus, and the earnest qf its predecessor.

It is a magazine of information of every class, such as all families should have hand. The 776 pages of tis instalment, contain about 2000 articles, on men, things, places, books, arts and sciences, prepared with the lights and for the purposes of the present time, and written, in a great measure, to suit the wants, and meet the inquiries of the American readers. In their origi nal announcement the editors said As far as is consistent with thoroughness of research and exactness of statement, the popular method has been pursued. The work, so far as we havi observed it, justifies this statement as far as could be expected. The articles are in general explana tions of the subjects to which they refer, in language which a reader seeking elementary in formation would be likely to understand, with little use of technioal terms, until those terms been explained.

For the more thorough and detailed statements which the student of singl speciality might demand, he is usually referred to the books which will give him the information variably characterizes the operations of a good, Tlw Secretary now hesitates, it is said, what sound mind, in whatever direction individual tQ dowhether t0 shoot or what The diplo. tastes may impel whether towards poetry, pol- matio corp3 are said t0 sympathize with the itics, literature, commerce, music, any kind of thinking, or any kind of acting. We do not, of course, think there is any danger of too much learning in the world, though we fear it may be badly distributed, and hoarding we dislike, whether of money or of knowledge. Nordo we fancy that overlearned individuals are often met with though we have occasionally seen men who were something like water-wheels in a freshet, idle because the back-water of their knowledge was not drawn off fast enough. And besides, there are cases which show us the folly of trying to get much more than ten gallons into a ten gallon keg.

But, as a general tiling, the danger lies in not putting the right knowledge into the right mind not employing the right proportions of the different kinds of knowledge. Had Mr. Loba, for instance, been taken out of his spere of elegant associations occasionally, and given a dash of common sense by plain, common men, he might possibly, have been saved his present humiliation. If a young person is inclined to theorize, he should be kept on a liberal allowance of facts if he is credulous, his cautiousness should be developed to the fullest extent if he is vague, he should be coaxed, irritated, driven into clear headedness, by every species of mental exercise, rather tlum attainment. But if the native qualities of judgment, penetration, caution, candor and reason or, in a single term, common sense are not improved by education, we must not rely on any amount of intellectual acquisition, as the least preservative against falling into error.

Educated and accomplished men have lent their lives to the propagation of every absurdity and every vice but wise men, who make the most of the faculties divinely bestowed npon them, whether skilled in books, or unlettered, are the hope and stay of the world. Sad Death of a Student. The Detroit papers give the particulars of a sad affair which took place at the University at Ann Arliori last week. George W. Brazie, a young man who has until recently been a student at the University, being anxious to become member of some of the various secret societies of the college, a hand of the students conceived the plan of giving him a mock Initiation into a sham society, and beer and whiskey were provided for the occasion Tlioceremony was performed by a party of nine students, in one of the study rooms, and all who chose partook freely of the liquors.

Brazie drank so freely he became intoxicated, and sank down upon the floor. The company sought to sober him carried him out of doors to give him the benefit of the pure air, and bathed his face and temples in water, hut without the desired result. He was taken back aud made as comfortable as possible with some bed cloth ing his vomiting precluded the idea of putting him to bed. He was attended to at intervals during the night, hut when morning came he was still drunk. The students, thinking he would soon come out of his drunken sleep went to college as usual.

When they return, ed, about 11 oclock, the unfortunate young man was dying, and before a physician who was sent for could arrive, he breathed his last A pest mortem examination ot his laxly de veloped no evidence either of disease or violence, aud the jury returned a verdict of death by intemperance. It appears that Brazie had been without food much more than the usual time, aud also drank freely of beer and whiskey before going to the place of meeting. The melahcholy affair has created great excitement at Ann JrmciAL Vagaries. Judge Galbraith, of the Erie district, so interprets the new Liquor Law as to authorize tavern keepers to procure license without publication or certificate, and he has granted licenses accordingly. The judge of the Northampton district construes tjielaw as requiring him to grant tavern licenses only where he deems them necessary.

These are two con. structions the antipodes of each other, and both equally absurd. The other judges throughout the State appear to coincide in giving a common sense construction to the law, which the Erie and Northampton judges seem unable to do. From Kansas. A Squatters Convention was held at Topeka on the 2Sth ult.

to take action upon the land sales ordered to take place in July nest. A committee to obtain remonstrances was raised, and then a bitterpersonal discussion took place between Gen. Lane and Hr. Robinson. The Free State Convention, called for nominating officers under the Leavenworth Constitution, met the same day.

The radical interest dictated the whole list of nominations. Our correspondent says in a separate note The Convention was control led altogether by the radieul men. and all of the candidates are of that stamp. Each of the Supreme Judges was requ.ied to express his views on the constitutionality ot the Fugitive Slave law. All the nominees declared directly or by implication that they believed it unconstitutional otherwise they could not have been nominated.

Mr. Parrott, the present able Relegate to Con gress, lost a re-nomination. action was taken upon designating the U. S. Senators, as had been provided for in the call.

The resolutions are explicit in favor of discard ingthe Lecompton Constitution, in case of its passage, and of putting the Leaven worth Constitution into immediate operation. One of the most amusing passages occurred between II P. Johnsou, the heaviest slaveholder in the territory, and a delegate who found some fault with tin Leavenworth Constitution. Johnson is a radical Free State man. The Grasshopper Plague According to the Gonzales Iiujuirer of the 22th the swarms of grasshoppers, so much complained of in Texas, are taking their departure from that region, the air being filled with the vast hosts, all living northeast.

It would take about two weeks to get rid of all, as a very large number were young ones, not full grown. Great numters were dying also all over the country, while others were still engaged in devastating fields of corn, cotton and wheat, which had previously escaped. So complete and general has lieen the destruction that all the farmers will he compelled to re-plant In two or three counties the wheat crop has entirely devoured, and in all it will le necessary to replant. It is mentioned as a singular tact, that the grasshoppers have everywhere spared the Sorgho, or Chinese sngar cane. On the Lnca: in Ataseoso county, several farmers saved their crops by arming all tlreir people, and turning out in a mass to tight the grasshoppers.

On the San Antonio river the crops are alt ruined. On the Medina the grasshoppers did not attack the growing com, though they damaged other crops while on the Salado and Cibolo they destroyed the com entirely. The Golaid Express of the 24th says that most of the grasshoppers have taken wing, anil fled from that region. They leave as soon as they get able to fly, and are daily seen rising from the ground going to an immense height, as if take a luti-4 trip. The Gonzales Inquirer has an amusing account of the invasion of that city by grasshoppers, and the attempt of the citizens to repel the invaders Everybody turned out men, women and children, white and black everybody, with fire and sword.

bru-dies and brooms, blankets and buckets, carried on the deadly conflict, but to no avail the hoppers hopped on. and the defending forces were obliged to beat an inglorious retreat, leaving the barbarians in possession of the conquered city. The Washington L'nion says We have watched with great interest the views of the press upon the passage of the bill admitting Kansas into the Union. North, South, East and West, send out a note of heartfelt re" joicing at this result and everywhere, intones of sincere gratulation, the administration of Mr. Buchanan is commended for its steady adherence to that great measure of peace.

What else was to he expected from subservient journals, whose independence, it they ever had any, is swallowed by britierv and the hope of personal gain Who respects the opinions of those whose opinions are governed by self" interest blocked out and ready for promulgation long before any principle is known upon which to form or entertain true sentiments No matter what measure might he passed by the Democratic party, newspapers under the control of that faction, are ready beforehand with their stereotyped editorials of approbation. Arbor, and the citizens are making a move ment to break up the sale of liquors in the place. From the Chicago Journal of May fitb.) A Fearful Tragedy A New York Mystery Cleared up. Some time since our readers will remember announcement in the New York papers that a barrel marked W. H.

Jennings, 185 Leonard street, New York, containing the mangled remains of a female, was found in the Hudson Railroad depot, at New York city. An inquest was held upon the body at that place, and the officers commenced investigations. Telegrams were sent through Canada, and it was found that the barrel had crossed the Suspension bridge. From thence it was easily traced to Windsor, and was found to have crossed the river from Detroit on the 18 th of March on the steamer Transit. Further investigation located Chicago as the starting point.

From the fact that there were no charges upon the barrel except for its passage over the Michigan Central road, it was evident that it was shipped here, and upon examination of the books it was found that the barrel had left the Michigan Central depot on the 16th of March. From this point, and with data furnished them by the officers of the company, and others, whose names are immaterial at the present time, Marshal Rehm and Captain Bradley commenced operations, and by a series of successful moves and detective strategy, which it is not necessary to detail, a few days since made up their minds who the man was. Considerable precaution was still necessary to be exercised until they should obtain some definite clue as to the probabilities of the case. A consultation was held yesterday, and it was determined to arrest the man last night. They proceeded to the shop where he worked, Messrs.

Frazz Ribollas barbers saloon, under the Matteson House waited until the time of closing, and when he came out to go home as usnal, he was arrested. His name is Henry Jumpertz, and is a journeyman barber by trade. He has been in the employ of the above firm for some time, and was formerly employed by Werner, who kept a shop about three years since, under the Revere House, then the Young America. He is a Prussian by birth, and twenty-four years of age. He came to this country about four years ago.

The circumstances of this cold-blooded atrocity, as detailed by himself, are as follows, in the outline. Of how much credence they are worthy it is not for us to determine. They certainly, at any event, form a combination of horrors seldom, if ever, equalled in the annals of crime, and show him to he, if not a murderer, to which all the circumstances point, at least a cold-blooded depraved man, with little of tlie human in his composition. The name of the murdered woman is Sophia Werner; her maiden name was Elten. She was twenty-nine years of age, and the wife of Frederick erner, who formerly kept a barber shop under the Revere House, at which Jumpertz worked.

Werner, at the same time, was living with another woman, whose name we are unable to learn. This was in the latter part of 1855. Somewhat over a year ago Werner absconded from city with this woman, leaving his wife here. His business was broken up, and his wife lived with a barber under the Sherman House Jumpertz was boarding at the same house, and formed an improper -intimacy with her. She told him her story and he sympathized with her, and finally so far prevailed upon her that she left her former paramour and lived with him.

After the building was burned last fall, in the great fire, he hired a room in the fifth story of Pomeroys building at the corner of South Water and Clark streets. After they took the room, they ceased taking their meal, on Lake street. He provided a stove, tables dishes, and other articles, and she did the cooking. After a time the woman became enciente. He tried to keep the matter a secret, bnt it leaked oat, and his associates continually annoyed him for living with a low Dutch woman.

Provoked by their taunts, he determined to go to Milwaukee, and the guilty pair took their departure from this city. Shortly after their arrival, she was delivered of a child, hut by some means it was hurried out of existence. The prisoner says it was bom dead. Not satisfied with this guilty alliance, the woman plead with him to marry her, but he refused. He wrote to Chicago to obtain work, and Frazza and Rabolla offered him a situation.

He packed np his baggage, and she insisted on coming with him, and still more strongly that he should marry her. He flatly refused each of these requests, and hard words passed between them. He hired a room for her, paid her board until July next, came off, and left her about the middle of December last. Several letters passed between them, in all which she constantly reiterated her demand that he should marry her, and in one of them said that she should die if he didnt let her come. He finally wrote to her that if she was coming to come in the night-time, and come directly to his room, so that no one should know that she was here.

She arrived in the city some time in February, and no one knew she was back again except the drayman who brought her trunk to his room. They lived along in the old style until Sunday, the 6th of March. That morning he went to the shpp as usual and returned at half-past ene to dinner. The prisoner says as he opened the door it pushed hard, and that when he got into the room, he found her hanging by a cotton rope to a common screw-hook driven into the door, her feet almost toushing the floor. This is the prisoners version.

He cut her down and laid her on the bed. Upon the table he says he found a letter stating that Bhe forgave him and wished she could have died by the side of Werner. He then sat in the window seat abont an hour thinking what he should do with the body. Then, to convince himself that she was really dead, he took the body off the bed, laid it on a matrass on the floor, and cut her with a lancet in several places. At the first incision a drop or two of blood flowed, but afterwards none.

On the next day, he took out the entrails aud carrried them two or three miles off on the prairie and buried them. His first thought was to throw the body into the river, but there was too much ice. He then procured a oommon case-knife and carpenters saw, and, after much trouble, succeeded in getting them sufficiently sharp to perform his bloody work. After cutting the body up, he procured a common whiskey barrel, pat the limbs in, after burning such parts of her clothing as had blood spots on them, and headed it np. On turning the barrel over, he saw water and blood coming out from the bung hole.

He took it out and threw in a quantity of flour to staunch it, puttied np all the cracks, and painted it all over. Early in the morning of the 16th of March, after keeping the body ten days in his room, he met a drayman on Clark street bridge, and asked him to take the barrel to the depot. The drayman consented, and went up to his room. He proceeded to roll it down stairs. Jumpertz, fearful lest the barrel might hurst, requested him to carry it down stairs, but he cursed, and rolled it down as he had commenced, the body rattling against the sides of the barrel, all the way down, filling him with dread and apprehension, lest the drayman should discover his secret.

The body was finally got to the depot and shipped to New York that morning. Thus ends, for the present, this tale of blood And horror. The greater part of it is liis own version, taken from his own lips. Whether he is guilty of the terrible crime of murder the courts will determine aud it is not for us to say, bnt his own story shows him to be a thoroughly vitiated and hard-hearted man. A Glorious Victory.

The municipal election for Mayor, members of Council, and other officers connected with the city government, took place in Philadelphia, on Tuesday last, and resulted in an overwhelming triumph of the Peoples ticket, headed by Alexander Hen- ry, who was elected Mayor, overRichard Vaux, the present incumbent, by a majority of four thousand seven hundred. In addition to the choice of a Mayor, the opposition elected the City Solicitor, Controller, Receiver of Taxes, City Commissioner, a large majority of both branches of Council, fifteen out of the twenty-four members of the Board of Health, and a majority of the Guardians of the Poor. The victory for Mayor is overwhelming, the extent of which may lie more fully realized from a comparison of the returns with those of the election held in May, 1856, when the Democratic majority for Vaux was four thousand two hundred, and of the November election in the same year, when Buchanans majority over Freemont was over thirty thousand and still later, those of Packers majority over Wilmot was over eighteen thousand, and over the vote of Wilmot and Hazlehurst combined, upwards of four thousand. The result of this election is a terrible warning to that party in the city who, repudiating all its former professions, went before the people on the issue presented by the National Administration, and embodied in English 8 bill, which seeks to crush out freedom in Kansas. They and their friends elsewhere, have in it a lesson of wisdom which might have been learned long ere this a lesson which will doubtless prove practical in its effects, as it teaches the demoralized democracy of the North, that the people have their eyes upon those who would swindle free labor of its right in the teiritories.

The victory is an important one it was nobly achieved, and is a source of rejoicing among freemen, whereever it lias become known. A Political Boomerang. Prof. Lovering has been giving the Scientific Convention an interesting description of that curious Australian weapon, the boomerang. It is a curved peioe of wood, and when thrown skillfully it moves straight ahead for a time, very likely giving a sudden jerk upwards or sideways, when it comes back to its starting point, or to any other place, before, behind, or by the side of the operator.

Why, this is a very good description of the probable operation of the Conference Bill. At first it goes straight ahead for Kansas, from which it rebouuds without producing any effect, giving a series of su lden jerks sidewise, killing Mr. English in Indiana, knocking over Cox and four of his associates in Ohio, hitting dangerously two or three more in Penn-ylvania and New Jersey, and finally returning before, behind, or by the side of the operator, Mr. Stephens, to inflict a grevious settler upon the very vitals of the Buchanan Administration. A correspondent of the West Chester Record who attended the convention says Professor Lovering, of Cambridge, gave a most interesting account of the instrument, illustrating its figure by drawings on the black board, and explaining the erratic movements of tlie singular projectile.

He also showed experimentally, by small pieces of card, cut in the proper shape, how the weapon conld lie used and how the experienced operator could make it strike where he desired. In the hands of the inexpert, it will sometimes go within a short distance of the point aimed at, and then suddenly rising and turning, either fall at the feet of the party throwing it or passing over his head, strike some one be hind the thrower. Like some other contrivances, it occasionally returns to plague the inventor or like -ome iUv, when aimd at duck, or plover, BA.tr wide aud knock their ownr ort-r. The Boomerang is, in fact, a very simple machine, in structure, being merely a crooked slick, about as long as a mans arm, flat on one side, and rounded on the other. The great curiosity of the thing is, when skillfully thrown, the various directions it will abruptly take, in passing through the air, befoie it reaches the intended object.

While the learned professor was giving us the philosophy of this remarkable instrument, I was forcibly struck with its aptitude, as an emblem of a reckless politician. I have seen nothing in nature or art, so admirably illnstra tiv of that despicable political tool, called a Locofoco Dougnface, as this same Australian Boomerang. When yonr doughfaced demagogue is called upon to resist the extension of the arrogant Slave flights and dodges are precisely similar to those of his Australian prototype. Those who use him, and intend to make him betray his trust, will first project him toward the side of human freeitom. He will skim along glibly in "that direction, until people begin to think he will land there: when presto 1 he will commence an upward Highland talk dunocracy loudly, aud largely aud after an equivocal wabble, for a spell, you will see him when the pinch comes, take the bark track, as if lie.

was going down an inclined plane and plump he goes, right among the slave-drivers, where he torever remains an object of contempt in the estimation of all honest and ho i.i.able men, on lioth sides of the question. Such is the career of the genuine Political Boomerang aud the poor old Keystone State is jnst now provided with sotuere-maikable specimens ot the article. If the nostrils of the constituencies, which they have dishonored and betrayed, can endure the odor of such conduct without revolt, I should say' they are well fitted to stand bad smells. May 3, 1858. SPECTATOR.

Truth Stranger than Fiction A Remarka bi.e Case. If anybody has any doubt that truth is stranger than fiction, or that uiur-der will out, let him or her read the shocking narrative we copy from a Chicago paper, relating the history of the barreled (female) corpse which was brought to New York city some weeks since, without finding an owner or a consignee. If a murder has been committed (and the circumstantial evidence snubstantiating that theory, and weakening the hypothesis ot suicide, it must he confessed, is strong, very strong.) we see here how the most ingenious and careful contrivances of wicked men, to cover up and conceal their crimes, fail of their intent. Think of it. An unfortunate woman is murdered by her paramour, apparently for no other cause than her insisting that he should marry her.

The clothing is taken off the corpse aud burnt the body is then cut up aud pot into a barrel, which barrel, thereupon is sent upon a railroad journey of nearly a thousand miles, directed hap hazard to a certain house in Leonard street, N. Y. The carman finds there is no house in the street corresponding with the No. on the barrel. Then suspicion is excited the barrel is broken up, and all tne ghastly proofs of some shocking tragedy are visible.

The police thereupon address themselves to the task of clearing up the mystery, bnt the only clue to its origin was its railroad track. That track was followed closely, from New York to Albany, then from Albany along the Central road to Buffalo, thence to the Suspension Bridge, and aeross the Bridge into Canada, to Windsor. Here the barrel was found to have crossed over to Detroit, and investigation at Detroit gave color to the conjecture that Chicago mnst have been the starting place of the horrid freight. That conjecture was right. Following up the slender thread, beginning almost a thousand miles away, in New York city, the officers of the law at length got to the end of it, aud discovered the object of their search, in the person of a Prussian barber, named Jumpertz, whose story, and the story of the tragedy speak for themselves.

We have seldom read anything in the annals of crime more thrilling or Mississippi Pirates. A whole gang of robbers have been overhauled recently on the Upper Mississippi, between La Crosse and Prarie du Chien, which places have extensively suffered the past year from their depredations. The robbers had possession of an Island, which was searched by citizens, at the instigation of one robber, who quarelled with the others. Several boats, loaded with goods, were found near the Island, while on one boat the leader of the gang, a Dr. Bell, and his wife, showed fight.

This drew forth the strength of the villages in the vicinity, and some fifty persons organized, and assailed the boats. But the bird had flown, though, as was ascertained, in a wounded condition. Whole stocks of dry goods, hoots and shoes, books, drugs, clothing, household goods, liquors, groceries, provisions" stoves, proved the industry of the robbers aud the extent of the band. There was not less than from $4,000 to $5,000 worth of property secured, and the Vigilance Committee had dispatched men to other depots where it is expected plunder is stored. Many of the articles are identified.

This robbery had been going on for nearly a year, and it was feared that many men heretofore regarded as honest will be found deeply implicated in this astonishing villainy. Rumors of all sorts were afloat, the prisoners arrested exposing their accomplices, and it was hoped that this would result in breaking up one of the most formidable bauds of robbers ever organized in the West. The name of John C. Bishop, the Osage Land Robber, was connected with this party, aud it was believed by the prisoners that a boat containing $10,000 worth of goods from La Crosse and other towns, left the depot last month, for the benefit of said Bishop, which boat was seen near Muscatine two weeks ago, bound for St. Louis.

The Vigilance Committee at Prairie du Chien have already arrested fourteen, and as the rope is applied to the necks of some as a persuader, they are telling all they know with great liberality. A Party op Thieves Superstition and Fraud. A very ingenious plan of raising the wind was recently practised by a gang of gypsies, in Cobb county, their victim being a widow lady in moderate circumstances. The party camped in the vicinity of Marietta. One of the party a dark, sunburned wench, looking like a half-breed Indian went to the house of a Mrs.

Hanby, and represnted herself as sent by the Indians who formerly inhabited the region, to get a mass of gold, bnried in a place near by. The unsuspecting lady, knowing that the Indians had formerly made the region a favorite haunt, became intensely interested in the tale of the mysterious looking stranger, and entered at once into her plans for getting the treasure. Her scheme was characterized by the mummery and superstitious movement peculiar to the Indians, and only served to heighten the confidence of the good lady in the strange adventurers. In the progress of the plan it became necessary for the gold hunter to have $1000 to use as a sort of enchantment for the hidden treasure, and unless this sum could he had it was asserted that the whole 6cheme would fail. The money was obtained, Mrs.

H. having a portion of it in the house, and the balance was borrowed from the neighbors, after which the mysterious looking gold wizard took French leave of her new made friends, and is probably in the wild hnnt for bnried treasures in some other locality. Aug. Ga .) Dispatch. In settling the difficult question of the proportion of space to which each topic is entitled, liberal weight is given to the argument that a subject is new, and belongs to the knowledge of the present day, not yet accessible in other forms.

Recent discoveries in geography and in science, the lives of men made important by recent events, the history and topography of places- brought into notice by different events, are portrayed and illustrated with more fullness than is necessary with regard to similar subjects, which time has made amiliar to every reader, or which are explained in oommon text books In the same spirit, there is a large share of attention given, as we have hinted, to topics which an American looks for in a work of this kind, and does not find in foreign Cyclopajilias, and this without giving any undue prominence to the men and notions of this country or defacing the cosmopolitan and catholic character of the work. The opposite fault has been so com' mon in our former books of reference, either actu ally of foreigu origin, or mainly oompiled from foreign sources, that the marked improvement in the present work is not only an agreeable change but supplies a very important deficit. Of course, with regard to a work so extended and of such varied character and requirements, it is easier to point out individual blemishes, than to convey an idea of its general completeness, proportion, and accuracy. We can ouly say that so far as we have been able to examine the two volumes thus far issued, this Cyclopaedia takes a very high stand in each of these three essential qualifications Its table of contents is very full the amount of space to be given to each subject has been generally allotted with sound judgment; and the statements are accurate and brought up to date. On the whole, we think that the praise is very nearly earned, which Mr.

Benton bestowed upon the first volume, when he wrote The great arts of con densation, of clear perception, and striking expos! liou of the essential parts of their subject, fully attained, and will give the reader a library of universal knowledge in a convenient compass, arranged for ready use, and attractively present- ed in the concise and perspicuous style appropri- ate to such a work, Elias Barr A Co. have the agency for Lancaster and York counties. The American Horse-Tamers Secret. Mr-Rareys performances continue to attract the most lively curiosity on the part of the English public. The universal wonder with which his exploits are received, is well illustrated by the fact that Punch, that great reflector of public opinion, every week draws satirical illustra tion from the feats of Rarey and the Illustrated Mews has on several occasions referred to Mr.

Rareys progress aud has twice given his seances with vicious brutes to the world in attractive features. If any thing else was needed to show Mr. Rareys success iu his speciality, it is the fact that dozens of persons in England have professed to he able to tame vicious horses, and have all failed, with one exception which is given as follows On the 21st, at Astleys Ampitheatre, in London, Mr. William Cooke, the equestrian, undertook to exemplify Professor Rareys system of breaking, subduing and training nu-managbale and vicious horses. There was, consequently, a crowded house, the boxes particularly being well filled.

We take the following account of what took place from the Morning Advert iser: Mr. William Cooke informed the audience that, having advertised his intentions of exhibiting Professor Rareys principle of subduiug horses, by experimenting on any horse that might he sent to him, a horse bail been sent to him that morning for the purpose. A full-grown horse a hunter was then led iu, and the following simple mode of operation was adopted A strap is attached to the fetlock of the right foreleg, and then drawn over the animals right shoulder, where it is held by Mr. Cooke. The left leg is then bent inwards, so as to bring the hoof in contact with the thigh, aud made fast in that position by a strap and buckle.

Mr. Cooke then, taking the reins in his left hand and bringing the strap attached to the horses fore-leg into a state of tension, urges the animal to walk on his three legs. Holding the reins tight, and so as to incline the horses head to the left, the horse is forced to make a journey twice round the circus. At this time he exhibits symptoms of great exhaustion, goes on his knees, and ultimately lies down in the most submissive manner. He is then releived from the inconvenient and unaens-tomed restrictions imposed upon him by the straps, and Mr.

Crooke lies upon him in a recumbent position, and caresses him, aud his pattings are received by the horse with such indication of gratification as to leave no doubt that the most friendly relations are established between the parties. Singular Death. The Baltimore Sun, of Saturday, relates the following singular instance of death, which occurred at the Marque house, on Monument street, near Forrest, which threw the whole nighborhood in an intense state of excitement. It appears that a German woman, who, with her husband, lived in the house, had been ill for some time, and at two oclock on Friday morning was supposed to have died. Her flesh becoming cold and her limbs rigid, she was "laid out and prepared for the grave.

Those who nursed her then closed the room and retired for the rest of the night. About six oclock on Friday morning her husband heard a noise as of some one calling from the room where her body lay, and on opening the door saw her sitting upright iu bed. As soon as he opened the door she called to him and asked why her child, which was crying in another room, was not quieted. He was greatly alarmed, and called for the inmates to assist him in removing all traces of the preperations made after the supposed death. She talked to those around her, and drank some wine, a cup of tea, and a glass of water.

She had a vague idea of what was going on while they were laying her out, hut had not the power to speak or move, and after returning to consciouness asked her husband what they had been doing with her after she had fallen asleep. She seemed much better than she had been for some days, buf about eight oclock she died. There were many, however who would not heleive that she had really expired, and the superstitious were in a high state of excitement. affection was doubtless a kind of catalepsy, but the comatose condition was strange indeed especially, as the body presented all the indications peculiar to death. On Monday the river Delaware was on fire The Philadelphia Ledger says About six oclock the whole surface of the river was covered with the densest volumes of smoke.

The firemen, with their usual alacrity, were out, and there is no knowing what they might have done towards extinguishing the Delaware, by pouring streams from the Schuylkill into it, had it not been that the experiment of burning the river was a short-lived one, intended to demonstrate the possibility of the thing, and not to consnme it entirely. A Frenchman, named Guilbert, was experimenting with his chemical fire, to show how easily a hosile fleet might be destroyed. He raised a great smoke, considerable fire, and a perfect hubbub hut as the fleet was not there it was not destroyed. JUDGMENT OBTAINED We clip the fol. lowing item from Monday's proceedings of the District Court of Philadelphia The Lancaster Bank to the use of Horace Rathvon, assignee, vs, William L.

Helfenstein This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover the amount of six promisiory notes. The defence was that the sum of money specified in the said six promissory notes was paid to David Long eneeker, who represented himself as President aud agent for the Lancaster Bank. Verdict for the plaintiff for $51,244 29. John F. Brinton, appeared for the plaintiff.

We presume, that in this case, it was much easier to obtain the judgment than it will be to get the money. ADMITTED TO PRACTICE IN THE SU PREME COURT On Monday last at Harrisburg on motion of Hon. I. E. Hieater, Simon P.

Eby, Esq. was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. L0VE FEAST The Dunkard Society will hold a love feast, on the 19th and 20th of the present month, at the residence of Joseph Leamon, in East Donegal township, two miles west of Mount Joy. LICENSES UNDER THE NEW LAW The number of licenses granted by the Court under the new law is 378. Of these 291 were tavern licenses, 57 eating house or beer licenses, and 30 to storekeepers and liquor dealers.

Last year the number of tavern licenses granted in the county was 190, and of eating houses 14-showing an excess this year over lastof 101 tavern and 43 euting house licenses. LIBERAL DONATION. E. C. Reigart, has transferred to the Mayor, Alderman and Citizens of Lancaster, five certificates of City Loan of $200 each, in trust for the benefit of the poor of the city.

The interest is to be paid an nualy to the Howard Association, or in the event of the Howard Association ceasing to exist, then the interest to be paid annually to any other benevolent association that the City Councils may designate. DEATH BY DROWNING. Miss Mary Culp, daughter of John Culp, of Mount Joy, was accidently drowned in the Little Cheques creek, on Friday last. In company with another young lady named McNeal, the deceased entered a small skiff for the purpose of boating, which by some accident was upset precipitating both ladies in the stream. Miss McNeal caught the limb of an overhanging tree by which she supported herself until rescued, but her unfortunate companion floated out into the stream and soon sunk to rise no more.

After considerable labor and search her body was recovered. The deceased was abou1 seventeen years of age and was highly beloved and respected. At the time of her death she was a student of the Cedar Hill Female Institute. RIFLES FOR THE INDIANS Several hundred boxes of riflles, from Leamons rifle works, this city, have been forwarded to Fort Laramie, Bents Fort, Arkansas, for the Chippewas of the Miesissipi, Lower Sioux, Upper Missouri, Black feet Pillagers, and Lake Winnebegorhish Indians. Thesejriflles are forwarded in pursuance of treaties with those tribes, for lands purchased on the part of the United States.

WITH THE ADVENT OF FINE WEATHER the juvenile population ofourcity have oommenced their out-door exercise and recreation, prominent among which is jumping the rope. This is a healthy and invigorating exercise, but little girls, and sometimes large ones grow ambitious at times in it, and their movements should be watched, as they may do themselves injuries from the effects of which they may never recover. We have known persons made cripples for life by this exer cise, in their juvenile sports of an hour. As an instance of its injurious effects, when too violently indulged iu, we notice that a serious case of this kind occurred in Poughkeepsie, N. the early part of last week.

A young girl from New York, in a thoughtless hour, resolved to see how many times she could jump the rope without stopping, as others had done, and went on until she was exhausted, and sunk iuto absolute helplessness. As an immediate consequence, she was seized with an affection of the heart, and for two or three days was in dangerof sudden death. At the last accounts 8he had improved a little, but is still in imminent danger, and her recovery can only be the result of the utmost care, with the aid of a considerable lapse of time. Be careful, girls. FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE The summer term of Franklin and Marshall College commenced on Thursday last.

Professor Porter delivered the opening address. A YOUNG THIEF. A young girl named Sarah Foust, about 13 years of age, was commit ted to the County Prison a few days since fo theft. She is one of a gang of juvenile beggars with which our city is infested. MILITARY The Fencibles, Captain Duch.

man, had a full dress parade yesterday. As usual they looked well, marched well, and went through their right about face, with precision and skill. In the afternoon they were inspected by the proper officer of the Brigade. Under the law passed by the late Legislature, members of volunteer companies will hereafter receive pay when on duty. The law among other provisions provides, That every able-bodied man between the age of eighteen and forty-five years, with some specified exceptions, is to be subject to military duty.

He is to provide himself with the necessary equipments under penalty of a fine of one dollar for non performance, if a resident of the rural districts, and one dollar and fitty cents if living in a city; the fund thus raised to be appro priated to the support of the enlisted and equipped militiamen. The militia enrolment is entirely dispensed with, and all volunteer companies parading are allowed for every person, each day, not exceeding six times during the year, one dollar and fifty cents per diem out of the fund. In addition to this, the commanding officer of a regiment may order out the companies composing it for an encampment parade, not exceeding six days, once during each year. THE MOZART CHORAL ASSOCIATION gave one of their inimitable entertainments at Fulton Hall last evening. We were glad to see the effort of the Society to establish a correct musical taste in our city appreciated by the large audience present.

Want of room prevents a more extended notice of the concert this week. A NUISANCE. The innumerable number of street beggars, which at present throng the streets of the city, are getting to be an intolerable nuisance. The majority of them are thieves as well as beggars, and will steal the first opportunity they get. The public should have an eye upon them A NEW PAPER CALLED THE TEMPER ANCE ADVOCATE made its appearance in this city on Saturday last.

It is published by Emanuel Speaker, at $1 per annum. Ingenious Device of a Highland Soldier. Iu the year 1760, several soldiers of a British regiment, at that time stationed in this country a regiment commonly known as Mont" gotnerys Highlanders were taken in an ambnsh one day, and fell into the hands of the Indians, in the Cherokee country, where the regiment had been sent to chastise that tribe lor certain depredations and cruelties they had been committing. One after another of these unfortunate poor fellows was put to death, with all the prolonged torture and barbarous cruelty which the savages into whose hands they had fallen could devise. Allan Macpherson, one of their number, having witnessed the miserable fate of several of his comrades, and seeing the Indians preparing to give himself his turn next, fell npon the following scheme to disappoint the savages, aud deprive them of their anticipated gratification inhis torture.

He gave the Indians to under stand, jiy some signs, that he had something of great importance to communicate to them before he should be put to death. An interpreter was procured, and through him Mac-phersou informed them that he was in posses, sion of a charm of the greatest value, aud now that he was about to die, he did not wish to leave the world without imparting this secret to those who were to remain in it. He informed them that the knowledge he was to comrnn-nicate to them would render their warriors invulnerable and their tribe invincible. Having thus excited their curiosity to a high degree, he proceeded to tell them that the secret he would impart was, that a certain medicine, in the preparation of which he would instruct them, if they spared his life for a few minutes would, when applied to the skin on any part of the body, render it impervious to the stroke of the sharpest weapon, in the hands of the strongest man. This extraordinary medicine, he said, consisted of a compound of certain herbs which grew in their woods and if they would allow him to go, with a guard over him, to the nearest wood to collect the proper plants, he would prepare the medicine, and also instruct them in its preparation.

He also told them that he would immediately put the effi-caiy of this invaluable secret to the most satis factory test npon himself. He would prove to them, he said, that by rubbing his neck with this wonderful preparation, he would defy the strongest and most expert warrior among them to pierce his skin, even with the sharpest tomahawk. This story readily worked npon the superstitions credulity of the In dians, and in their eager desire to obtain the valuable secret, the request of the Highlander was instantly complied with. Macpherson set off to the woods under a strong escort, and soon returned with such plants as he chose to pick up. Having boiled the herbs, he rubbed his neck with the decoction, and laying his head upon a log wood, he desired the strongest man amongst them to strike at his neck with his tonrakawk with all his might.

He assured them that the blow would not make the smallest impression. A warrior of immense strength was selected for the experiment and, aiming a blow with all his might, the Indian cut with such force that Macphersons head flew off to the distance of several yards. The Cherokees stood gazing at each other in silent amazement at their own credulity, but they admired the ingenuity and address with which their prisoner had escaped the lingering death of torture which they had prepared for him and, instead of being enraged at this escape of their victim out of their clutches, it is recorded that they were so pleased with the cleverness of the stratagem, that they refrained from inflicting further cruelties npon the remaining prisoners. Scottish Journal. The Difference.

The Louisville Journal, says that the difference between the two great parties in respect to Kansas may be briefly stated One cf them demands the submission of the Lecompton Constitution to the people, and the other the submission of the people to the Le compton "Constitution. HARO AND SOFT BOILED EGGS. The longer any man reflects upon Englishs bill, the more glaring its foolish absurdity will appear. The thing selected to le voted on was a land-ordinance, but it might just as well have been anything else underheaven. They might for instance with just as great and indeed far greater propriety have said to the people of Kansas, von shall have no direct vote for or against the Lecompton constitution, hut yon may, on a given day, vote whether eggs should Le boiled hard or soft, and, if yon vote hard, yon shall come in at once under the Lecompton constitution, whereas if you vote soft yon shall not come in until yonr population is doubled or trebled.

If the eeg question were submitted to the people of Kansas and Lecompton made dependent npon the issue, would it be correct or incorrect to say that Lecompton was submitted If any man can solve this matter satisfactorily, we shall claim for him that he is no chicken. Death, Insanity, and the Dungeon. The sad consequences of vice were never more strikingly exhibited than in the following paragraph, which we copy from a late New Orleans letter. It is truly a melancholy case, and it should prove a solemn warning to persons tempted to depart from the path of virtue The grand jury of this parish has found a bill of indictment against George W. Harby, who, several weeks ago, shot H.

C. H. Stone, whom he charged with seducing his daughter. The bill was tound on Saturday last. The trial would probably take place in the course of a month or six weeks.

Public opinion now seems to be that the homicide was totally inexcusable, and that young Stone has met an unmerited fate. This is a truly melancholy case. The father is comparatively an old man, and heretofore stood well in the community as a teacher of youth now he is immersed in a dungeon and charged with murder. Stone was just entering life with peculiar advantages, was prosperous in business, and surrounded by a host of confiding friends now a cold grave enwraps him. The daughter is young and highly educated, was beautiful and greatly admired now she is a maniac, it is said, and her future happiness gone.

The five millions of treasury notes have been awarded at 103J to for $4,600,000, leaving the fraction of $400,000 to be divided among fifteen millions of proposals at 5 per cent, and upwards. Among the successful bidders are the following Farmers and Mechanicss Bank, Phil $200.00 BankofNorth America, Phil 200,000 E. W. Clark A Phila Vanrleick, Keed, A llrexel, Ihila Colombia Bauk, Penna York Bank, Penna York County Bank, Penna Farmers Bauk of Lancaster, Penna The rates at which these sums have been advanced show that the credit of the United States Government is still equal to that of any Government in Europe. A Starvation Religion.

A sect has sprung np in Liverpool, England, under the lead of Mr. Thomas Angel, calling themselves, Ange-lite3 or Human Nature Conquerors, who live without food, and who meet daily, mornings and evenings, in Sunderland street, to illustrate their doctrines and to enroll members, by signing a declaration that they will neither eat nor drink. They have pat forth a printed pamphlet, stating their views, and including a report of their sermons and the manner they adopt to overcome languidness and the total want of food also, the eminent Dr. Bickor-siths certificate of the excellent health of the members of this extraordinary society, with their apology for eating no food. Let them try it.

We once heard of a stingy professor of religion who boasted he had been in the church five years and religion had not cost him a cent. But he had to eat and drink. New York Observer. State op Trade. Our Custom House returns for the month of April show the continued effect of the financial panic of last fall.

The total imports into this port for that month were bnt ten and a half millions, against over twenty last year to the same month being a decrease of $9,634,932. The revenue fell off a million and a half. This is a little heavier than the decrease in the imports for March, which were $8,621,000 less than in March last year. In our exports the improvement in trade is more visible. During the month of March the exports this year were $5,000,000 less than last years, while during April the falling off is only $2,280,739.

This shows that the process of liquidating our debts abroad is going on faster than that of incurring new ones, and thus promises well for the future. New York Times. Animal Tracks of the Connecticut Valley. Among the most deeply interesting papers read before the Scientific Convention at Baltimore, was one by Professor Edward Hitchcock, npon the tracks of animals found in the Connecticut Valley. He described the valley as classic ground for these sandstone tracks, ten times more of them having been found there than elsewhere the globe over.

As to the age of the rocks thus marked, he had recently concluded that a portion of them, at least were as modern as the Lias formation. The cabinet of Amherst College contains 8000 individual impressions of these tracks. Professor Hitchcock said that most of his time for two years past had been given to grouping the individuals. He had made 119 species and 60 genera of them. He made 31 bipeds, 55 quadrupeds 18 having more than four feet, 12 without feet, and three of uncertain footing.

Upon this he dwelt the more, because in the Annual of Scientific Discovery he had been incorrectly reported as giving np his theory that they were bird tracks. Among the quadrupeds he had qualified, bnt without evidence that entirely satisfied him, that five were mar supials the youngest of the mammalials. Of the biepds, 14 were of the thick-toed birds, like the ostrich, aud 9 of the narrow toed tribe, These statements of the most accomplished judge of such matters in the world, and a man of great caution, give us astonishing glimpses into the period when such a variety of extinct monsters went tramping or writhing up and down the valleys of New England. Marriages of Consangcintv. In the National Medical Association, which adjourned last week at Washington City, a very able report was submitted by Dr.

M. Bemis, of Kentucky, upon the influence of marriages of consanguinty npon offspring. Dr. Bemis, after making some preliminary observations upon the importance of the subject in its bearings npon the welfare of society, goes on to state Yonr reporter has made great efforts to ascertain the proximate percentage of the deaf and dumb and blind, in our asylums, who are the descendents of blood intermarriages. This effort has not been successful from the difficulty principals of such institutions find in gaining the requisite facts.

Parents are often sensitive on this score and it is a delicate matter for principals to attempt investigations which the friends of the beneficiaries suppose to be unauthorized by the regulations of lhtr various institutions. I feel, however, that my researches give me authority to say that over ten per cent, of the deaf and dumb, and over five per cent of the blind, and nearly fifteen per cent, of the idiotic in our State institutions for subjects of these effects, are the offspring of kindred parents. Aside from the facts which I have gained by corresponding with gentlemen who have given close attention to these points, a curious hut perfectly legitimate process of computation confirms me in the opinion that those estimates are very nearly correct. Five classes in the schedules prepared give 7S7 marriages of cousins, 24U of which have given issue to deaf and dumb, blind, idiotic, or insane children. Kansas a Slave State at all Events.

The Richmond South describes the beauties of the English Lansas bill as follows It achieves a Congressional recognition of the Lecompton Constitution. It affirms the principles for which the South has contended throughout the struggle. It admits Kansas into the Union as a Slave State, and thus consolidates the victory of 1854. In practice as well as principle, it is now established that no Federal prohibition will avail to restrict the expansion of pro slavery power. The journal from which we extract this passage is the representative of that newly developed feeling iu the Southern States which makes slavery the only issue, and gauges its relations, to men aud to parties by the degree iu which they support or oppose the peculiar institution.

Scarcely any measure can be introduced into Congress which The South and its associates do not approve or condemn from this staud-point. The sectional and sensitive spirit which is thus encouraged may be aud is most fatally imitated elsewhere, but so long as it is as candid as that which characterizes the passage above copied, ample notice is given to other parties. Press John Rkyhner, a Swiss, swindled some New York merchants out of $9000 last winter, and fled to Venezuela, South America, with his booty. A detective police officer followed and landed at Caracas two days after the Swiss had left for the country. The money, however, was ascertained to he in the hands of a banker, bnt owing to the recent revolution there he could not be compelled to give it up, and Reyhner conld not be arrested.

An embargo was laid npon the money, however, and as soon as political affairs become settled it will be recovered. New York Cattle Market. Yesterday the butchers were jolly the drovers were not. Both the rain and price of bullocks came down on the run at Bulls Head. Not because of the extra amount of water that was falling did the prices fall, but because there was an extra supply of cattle entirely too great to maintain ten cents a pound for beef, when fish are selling for a cent a pound.

There were 2750 cattle in market, the most of them very good beeves, and the average weight probably full 700 pounds, which would make 1,925,000 pounds of beef. This was an over supply, and the market declined full half a cent from the previous week, and very few only of the extra good cattle realized a price equivalent to ten cents a pound for the meat. Tribune, 9th. Religion in the Public Schools. The old troubles in the New York city public schools about the reading of the Bible, have come up once more.

The Board of Education has laid npon the table a resolution to open the schools by reading a portion of the Scriptures, without note or comment. In three of the school districts the Bible has been prohibited by the ward officers, aud tlie vote laying on the table the resolution in the Board of Education, prao-tically sanctions those proceedings. In consequence of the prohibition, no more Catholic children attend them than before, while the children of many Protestant families have been Withdrawn. This is one of the results of throw, ing into tlio current of small politics the election of school directors. Abrest and Suicide op a Poisexer.

Mrs. Phoebe Westlake, a widow residing in Chester, Orange county, N. was arrested on Saturday last on suspicion of poisoning persons in the village, and then destroyed herself by taken arsenic. Before the suicide she confessed that she had administered poison at different times to a Mrs. Fielder, who died about two weeks since very suddenly.

She also confessed that she had administered poison to Mr. B. Tuthill, a merchant, who has recovered and is doing well. Mrs. Charles Tuthill and a Mrs.

Derrick are now very unwell with every symptom of having been poisoned; and as Mrs. Westlak had lately sent them some preserves, which they had eaten, it is supposed that they were also intended by her as victims. Dreadful Affair Ax Infant Eaten by Hogs. Mr. Amos Barlow, of Medina, informs us that as he was coming to the city this morning he saw, a few roils ahead, when abont five miles from town, two hogs ravenously devouring something in the middle of the road.

As he approached the spot the hogs fled, leaving a small pool of blood in the road. On investigation Mr. Barlow found that it was an infant they had been engaged on. The head and one foot were whole and untouched, but the other portions of the body, except a few bones, had been devoured. By the head, Mr.

Barlow tliiuks it was a female infant. Looking in the direction taken by the hogs their flight, Mr. Barlow saw a woman lying in the gutter, apparently asleep. He went to her aud found that she was in a state of unconscious and beastly intoxication. Evidently the miserable wretch was the mother of the infant.

Mr. Barlow informed the people of a farm house near by, and they went and carried her to their house. She was a stranger to them. She is a German and apparently about forty years old. It is altogether a shocking affair.

Cleveland riaindealer. May 5. Superstitions. In many parts of England" where the fairies still maintain their ground, the milkmaids sprinkle water the true descendant of holy water about the dairy, to prevent the little people from dipping their whiskers iu thehnilk pans during the night. The same persons are also persuaded that witches often prefer to broomstick fine handsome horses, and accordingly take them from the stable, and ride them over earth and water all night, though they are always very careful to bring them back before the morning.

To prevent this, the grooms studiously stop up every aperture in walls and doors, by which a witch might be supposed to effect an entrance. Still the members of this sisterhood are so ingenious and powerful that they get into the stables nevertheless, and ride the horses so furiously that they are found in the morning trembling all over and covered with sweat. It seems never to occur to the worthy grooms that locking out the wholesome air may produce this effect. Death op Senator Evans, of South Caro, lina. Hon.

Josiah J. Evans, one of the Senators from South Carolina, died very suddenly, in Washington, on Thursday night. He was in his seat on Thursday, apparently in the enjoyment of his usual health. In the evening he was a guest of Senator Hammond, of the same State, and shortly after returning home was attacked with disease of the heart, and died after a very short period of suffering Mr. Evans had been in the United States Senate for five years, and though not previously in Congress, had filled prominent positions in his own State, where he was at one time Attorney General, and subsequently for twenty years Judge of the Supreme Court.

He is the second South Carolina Senator who has died within a year. The Chances in the West. A letter in the Salem Register, from St. Louis, says 1 Those young men who give np- a certainty in the east, with the hope of improving their condition by removing west, had better stick to the foreplane and plough-handle in New England or, if they do come west, must come prepared to shove the one or hold the other for clerks and speculators are here already in droves, and must either starve or go to farming. Orville Gardner, the converted pugilist, has been set np in the shoe business by his friends in New York.

Instead of beating his enemies, he will now boot his friends. The confession of a sailor, who died recently in Texas, identifies him as the murderer of Mrs. Alston, the daughter of Aaron Burr, in South Carolina, forty years ago. Sailing from Charleston to New York, the crew of the brig mutinied, and murdered the passengers and officers Mrs. Alston was the last to walk the plank, and the look of despair which she cast Washington, May 9.

The intimations in the Democratic newspapers that Judge Douglas is seeking reconciliation with the Administration were pronounced false by Judge Douglas himself to-day. He affirms that he maintains his position npon Kansas to the fullest extent, bnt at the same time he stands with his party in Illinois on a platform not ostensibly opposed to the Ad. ministration, though openly hostile to the Republican party. The steamboat inspectors of St. Louis have revoked the license of William S.

Spargo, the engineer of the steamer Ocean Spray, which was recently destroyed by fire. The inspectors find him guilty of wanton negligence and conduct, whereby human life was imperilled and lost. The captain, mate and engineer have been arrested on a criminal charge. COMING HOME A letter to the Philadelphia Press says, that our townsman, John L. Keffer, Yeoman on board the U.

S. steam frigate Susque-hanna, now in China, has been invalided, and may I uPn Uer murderer haunted him for forty years. be expected home in a short time..