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riabm&n who drove into an omnibug bo- 1 tween two lights. | Tie tolls you Mr. Buchanan will take ' care of Iho Government. He has left your treasury empty and left the hill unpassed to pay to carry your mails, and votes to raise the postage while be had the fruuking priv ilege. Like the Dr. in the Weft, he nays of the people, '-l physics. 1 bleeds and t F\vcatx 'em; and then if they dies, why, 1 lots 'em." fie says I voted to tax tea and cfTee.? Ask hiui to thow it. lie lias hi.* own vo lume, to which he can refer, and fee if I have ilone so. Ho voted for Weudi 11 eleven times, aud yet forgot he had done to. and protested he novcr had, till tho record was produced. There was e special provision in connec tion with the distribution hill, to wUL-h ho will refer but I cannot now, and ho will tell you I voted against the annexation of Texas. I did and would again under the same circumstances. Tex'i? v*?:< vv'iout her boundary deGned. 1 na'.d I would not take her to my embrace, a bride, till she canic arrayed for the ceremonial. I voted sgainfct it with Areher, Uixes mid Southern men, and I have n > recantation to make, as my friend anil competitor had iu relation to RuBucrism. Here his tiiue expired and Mr. C?ozriti took his seat amidst loud and long continu ed applause. A Ciruiovs Fact.?A largo proportion probably three-fourths, of the leaders of the Republican party, are Democrats; whila nearly or quite oue half of the !? tulors of the Democratic party, are Whigs. The ronscqueucc is, that occasionally a strango spectacle is exhibited in the reverw p?v-i tion of meu and of parties. For instance, at Washington, on the 20th ultimo, the "Washington Republican Association" eel- j c-brated Jefferson's birth-day, at which a Missouri member of Congress presided, a citizen of Washington read the Declaration -of ludependencc, and a North Carolina gen tleman delivered the. oration?all recent Democrats. In the morning a salute of twenty-one guns was fired ?0\t. .Sinlincl. 15 TIIE WOULD^UXG llATKKUL ? The I'licndt of .'t. Lamurtiiu Thick it is. Wc are utterly disgusted with the si:!f laudation which sonio of our second class great men are iu the hnbit cf practicing ; and we mean to expose it. oven though tin; tisk is a distasteful one. The vios is pe o diarly, though not exclusively, French; and is found among the sci<md c!a?s of great men, hut new r among the first who j ttrc.the real bom-factors cf I he world. Thomas Ilolloway, one of the latter, i whose name is idolized in all parts of the : world, and to whom it is not to? much to ! say that millions of all rreeuti r.nd complex- j ion8 are indebted for the preservation of I their live.",?Thomas Ilolloway, we scy, ifl never heard appealing either to the grati tude or generosity of those who have de rived the greatest of all earthly blessings from his skill; he contents himself with (ho assurance that his work lias been done, and that the price has been p:;id. ' Wo have been led into those reflections by an appeal which is now put furward on bohalf of a second class French poet.? Monsieur Alphonsc I.smartiue, it seems, though munificently paid fur the produc tions of his pen, neglected Id lay up any sufficient store for the support of bis de clining days; and now bin' voicc is raised ?gainst'the ingratitude of (he human lace.' The argument which ho pioJncefl to strengthen his claim, is one which should rather make him blush for his extravagance: he says that millions of his productions ! have been sold, and that therefore the world ] is in his debt ' But why ? Was be not ' paid the price, lie asked for every copy V Or j does bo think that it sounds like common I prosd houesty to ask to be paid twice over, j He wiil answer, doublic::S, that his po ems gavo a pleasure ths \uluo of which I their piice could not appro:,it:iaio. I,nt us I admit this luie, and apply it to another ense to *rsJL its merits. Health, wo all know, is the chief or csrtniy Mcm-Ih-.,, ? Y.^n which must be purchased, lot the cost be j what it may ; a blessing, iu W v>lrr~ which the sinking monarch would resign his kingdom. Suppose then, that Hollow ay, instead of 6xing such a price ou his rem edios as would rfl ^ J invri'ds were his CJfio'sieri") a fair and honorable i profit, had apportioned tho price of his pills i aDd ointment to the exigencies of each case ! and the ability of the sufferer to pay for . bis physical salvation ! Why. in such a J cbec, ths great physician would b>ng ag.? j have owned i.ll Europe ill fee simple, and j three fourths of tho tcr.iainJer cf the world \ ?for the royalties ar.d iiulilifk* of Europo were aiuotig his carii;s>t pitiou's, >ut r.re si ill too proud to acknowledge that they owe their live, to the same bimplc but nil mFieing remedies which have been brought, by Ilolloway*s philanthropy, wiihiu r.-ach of the meanest of their 6o:fa.?' La Jhllt s Jje(tre$ The. Fugitive Slate Cute ?The Demo cratic papers arc trying to make some cap ital cut of the discharge of Mrs. Simpson's fugitive slivc by a L. P. C?mmissio:ier at Philadelphia. It i; bad enough to have the teplimor.y of while men put aside hv that of free negroes, but the fact nutst not I c forgotten that LnugMrcth, the Commis sioner, is a Democrat, n; pointed by Judge Greer, of the Supreme Court, a's i a Dem ocrat, nod that nil the Federal officers aro Democrat?, for none others are allowed to fharo the spoils. It won't d.< to palm them opon the Opposition now. The effort is too j baro-faced to find believers ? M inch. Hep. j |;yOn Tuesday of last week, says the Troy, JN. Y? Timet, a gentleman named i Augustus Bedford, belonging in New York, j and who was in this city on business, got i shared at one of our barber shops. On re turning from it to the store of a friend with whom he was visiting, lie remarked that lio believed the barber had given him some disease, as a small pimple on his lip pain ed him very badly, and commenced swell ing after lie was shaved, presenting an an 5ry and inflamed appearance. During the ay, this soreness grew worse, and he suf fered so much from it he decided to return home, which be did on Wednesday night, lliscondition rapidly became more distress ing?the pain extended through the body and *e tho vitals? and finally, on Sunday morniog, after suffering uotold agony, lie died. The deceased, as long as he remain ed sensible, attributed his sufferings to the iooculation of tho pimple upon his lip with poison from tho barber's razor. Life anpeara to bo too short to be spent in nursing animosities or registering * rongs. Fin*. ?Tb? weather. INTELLIGENCER, ROM X FY, FRIDAY, M A Y tf. IS59. STATE WHIG TICKET FOR CuYLRNOR, I10N. W 11. L1 A M L. GO G GIN, Cl' HKM'OltD. FOR I.IF.LT. GOVERNOR. W A I T M A N T . \Y I L L II V . of m?xonoal:a. FOR ATTORNEY GF.NF.lt A I-, W A L T li U 1* It K STON, r-y v FOli CONGRESS, A L E X A N I) K It It. I'. O T K LEU, OK JI.KKKi:SvX. ffTW c arc au'.lmrizo'l to anuounce Col. Pav id Giii-m.s- as a candidate for a scat in the next House ol' Hcle-rati-* ol Nirginia.^t (In- Elec lion to Iil' In-Ill r.!i Ttitirsdav, tho 2Uh day of May. Ajnii 21?, ItO'J. ?V Wc s?r? atitliirii?l to announce A. IV. Kk'u iii v.M., s* an independent IJ.V.I Itoait candidate for the n-x! House of I)i le^a!<s ol Virsiitiia. I-lr. K. will lie supported as favor able to the C( nlrol llailroad route, anil opposed to county division, by Many Fjuk.ncs. April 211, Isj'J. We are in need of money, r.ml would re ijm st thc.ae j?crro:is who arc indebted to us to cal! and settio their accounts. Those of our subscribers al a distance, who have received, or will receive their Recount?, are requested to re n.it the amount > due. so soon as their Mils are received. All reinit'.M.ccj, if :nadc in the pro st-ucc of th>? Postmaster. ir.av be made at our risk. We do hope that this appeal will not be in vain?we rtpeat, wc are in need of money ; and, expect these who no owe vs to settle. | By On Motiday last, an election was held J for Couucilmen of this corporation, to serve ' the ensuing year. The following gentle j men were elected : John C. llei.-kell, Mi j ehael Kndler, Dcniel Maloney, William A. Vance, John I?. Shertard, Joseph Poling ; mid A br:. ha in Smith. ?3TThere will he a vacancy at the Uni ver.-ity nest session f>r a State student from this Senatorial District?also, in the I Vudieton District. Applications for ap pointment .should reach the University by the 25th of June, and should be addressed to S. Maup'.n, Chairman of the Faculty. yir. Henry V. Iloitser, contractor j for carrying the mail between this place . act] Green Spring Hun, we regret to Mate, : lost a valuable horse, en Wednesday night last. I miucdiatcly after the arrival of the stage here on that evening both of the hor ses were taken hick and one of"them died in about half an hour thereafter?the oth er still lingers, yet, there is a prospect that it may recover. C'un it bo that the horses were j oitoLcd ? Loth were tindlcilj af fected. Jt^*Thc steamship North ISrituin, from Liverpool, with dates to the 20lii u!t., ar- | lived nt Quebec on Monday last. Ths Par- > liauientof England was formally prorogued ; on the 11)th ult., the Lord Chancellor hav- | ing gone through the Queen's speech with ? &!1 due solemnity. The dissolution of the I Parliament, thus prorogued was to take place on the 2:} J, three daysafier the North Britain sailed, and the borough elections : would follow in about four days ; the eouu- ' lies coming id with their returns nearly at j |j|c heliumng (,f the month. ] 'rom 1'rar.cc ! Pcacc and war speak in turr^'J^ail-triif? | had currency that anoilicr attempt to as- j sas.-inate tho Ivnpersr Xap'>:con was dis- i covered and defeated. This rumor wants ? confirmation, but its existence is significant. ! Sardinia geems somewhat di.-poscd to stand bach fmTii its obstinacy. but riots were dis- j tuibing other section-of Italy, ?v these were being made the handles of war agitation.? The life of the King < f Napl-'S is di.-"paired i of. p.n.l the n:xt ir.-ii! may Irinz tidings of ; Ferdinand's death The chnr.ccs in favor ! of peace arc slightly improved by this ar- j rival, but tho oJ is were Kill largely the o- : (her way. There was ne-vs from India to (lie "full of March, at which timo the. late- j ly disturbed districts w.rcj comparatively Irano-iil. The funds both lit Paris and ; London continue to oscillate, but vote quot ed at the last moment a-; '?slij.-htly firmer." i Mr. Li.tciiki; a>;? tub Hanks?On the 21st of December. 1V j7, the bill (o author ize the i.-jsue of Treasury notes being un der consideration in the House of iiopre sentiitivcs, Mr. Letcher :i:ade a fpeeth in which lie sail : ??I t1.tr:k ihat the banking**-s1?"in has lifen carri ed to a v< rv ruinous <-xi< ?.t. and I li::%t- nolimi'.a I I ion in saying now. tli.it ii I was in the Lrgisla [ tur" of my Mate, at this ni- is. I should co for ' n divorcc (?<?'**ien IJ.u,I: kimI Slate, (or silling I every dollar orslock tint t!i?: State of Virginia | has in banking iiitt.lntif ii>. "ml fvr lit colUction if Itrtlillf in 11'1<1 anil iiii tr." Mr. Letcher has not rccanled this opio ! ion, but on (he contrary rc-affirme it. In j his recent speech at Petersburg lie said : 'T did make (hat declaration in ihc House of Representatives, and have seen no rea son to withdraw i(." Here (hen, remarks tho Staunton Sjicctufor, we have bis delib | eralc opinion upon n matter of great prac ' tieal importance, and on explicit dcclara ; tion of how lie will art, as Governor, upon ? the occtirrcnce of a similar emergency ? j The "crisis" alluded to is the great coin ) mcreial revulsion of 1857, when all the Hanks of the country wero compelled to suspend spceic pnyruent. Tho facts arc fresh in the recollection of every reader.? Suppose now that Gov. Wise had instruct ed the Sheriffs to rejcct the notes of our Banks when offered in payment of taxes, what universal distress would have ensued! Thcro wm not gold and silver enough in I tho county to pay the revenue?not one j man in fifty could have paid his taxes, i large amounts of property would have been J seized nnd fold for a sone. aud almost uni verbal baukruptey would have resulted.? j Hut Governor Wife did no euch thing.? | Although n> much a hard money man as i Mr Letilic: >?, he took a common sense 1 view of the matter, and saw that it was 110 : time for putting his theories iuto practice, lie, therefore?more to relieve the people than the liniikM?ordered the Sheriffs to ? receive tho notes of suspended Hanks, ex . poeting to make some arrangement for their redemption. An arrangcmeiit was made ; ?the State Treasury suffered no injury, ! and the people escaped the danger which [ threatened them* ! "Mr. Letclwr tells us plainly what lie [ would have done, and what ho will still do, j as Governor, under the same circumstances ? circumstances, too, which may arise dur ! ing his term of officc. lie will go for sell i injr every dollar of stock that the State lias i in banking institutions?ut a time when j f..-w persons are able to purchase, and the | properly must be sacrificed ; nnd fir the collection of revenue in gold and silver? when specie cannot be had in sufficient a inounts for the transaction of ordinary bu j sin ess. This is Mr. Letcher's practical statesmanship. Like Dr. Sangrado, he slicks to hU theory without regard to cir , cuinstanees, and whether it kill or cure.? I He has, however, told the people what he ? will do, and they must abide tho conse quences of his election." SXT A h ?tter received at the Alexandria , Gazelle officc from one of the 1'araguay expediting dated from a town in the Ar gentine Confederation, Feb , 13th, says :? "litre wo are enjoying fruits and vegeta ' blcs of almost every variety, under a burn ing sun, with the thermometer at 00? while you perhaps, at homo, sire locked up in snow and iee. [Not exactly, last winter.]? Yesterday 1 was offered n very fine h?.rsc for ?10?and twenty miles from here, good horses may be bought at ?j a head. Old horse?, r.t.d sometimes young ones, are kill ed for hoy food, end cattle arc constantly used for that purpose." Gortorx and Mosta<;uk.?The Demo cratic papers are making a great splutter, because, as they say, Mr. Goggin has re fused to discuss with Mr. Montague. Mr. I.etcher has broken himself down in defend ing himself aud his criminal associates, has relinejuished the canvass and trotted off to llockbiidgc,and now Mr. Montague comes forward and proposes to follow and reply to Mr. Goggin. Mr. Goggin tells him no.? You and John Letcher have been resting each other, speaking time about, in the ho] e of breaking me down and thus saving your baeon, and I intend no longer to bo pursued bv you alternately. .Mr. Gnggin is ritfTit. Me ?)itln't agree to canvass with Mr. Montague, or any oili er demagogue, except John Letcher. He Iins sl.ii.DO'! them time about for several we:Us past, but seeing their object was (o break liini down, lie very properly refuses to let Mrr.tngue interfere and take the plaee of Letcher. lie is more than anx ious to divide the time with Mr- Letcher, but has no notion of permitting Montague to follow and reply to him while ' honest" John is resting and recruiting strength for a new and more vigorous prosecution of his desperate cause. If Montague wants to speak, let him hunt up Mr. Willey, who | is ready and anxious to meet hiin. Iu reference to this matter, the Peters- ! dash of the Norfolk ArgusC f&ulltfn.b^lder- j ' With the seine want of fairness, it ae- : cuts Mr Goggin of having declined to ' speak with Mr. Montague, because he had i had 'enough of the Red I'ox for this can vass.' W ill the Argus be kind enough to 1 enquire of Mr. Montague who it. was that i proposed, in a room at the Rolliogbrook Hotel, in this city, to stop the discussions? j If we arc not mistaken, it was Mr Monla- j pue, and not Mr. Goggin, that made the j proposition. Resides. Mr. Goggin was nn- j <:er no obligations whatever to meet Mr. ! Montague. The course pursued by Messrs. Letcher and Montague, from the time of the discussion at Charlottesville, had been so unfiiit that no honorable man will blame Mr. Goggin for dcelinitig to have anything to do with the Red F<>x. When Mr. Lcteh cr wished to go to Washington to rest him self and hunt up additional documents-willi which 'o meet Mr. Goggin. and thus over reach him by opening with new issues, Mr. Montague is close at hand to help out.? When Mr. Lctehcr returns and again takes the field, Mr. Montague retires and rests four days. and then opens ag.iin at Norfolk .on Thursday, so as to anticipate Mr. Gog gin's speech ; and then, when Mr. Letch er gets used up again, he proposes what ? Not to lead oft" iri the argument, but, if Mr. Goggin will lead, lie will reply, and thus have the advantage of the opening, which he bad made 011 Thursday, and then have the elese on Saturday ! Truly, 'De mocracy. thy name is trickery.'" /??f5"Thcstatement published in our last numler, that Mr. Lktciier had said "lie would not have voted for the Fugitive ! Slave Law had he been in his seat when I the vole was taken,''it now appears, is not ! correct. The Fredericksburg Jit mid thus ' sets the matter right: I ... j Mr. J/ftrln r ami (he Fugitive Slave Law. | ?We published an article last week in re ference to what Mr. Letcher said would have been his vote on the Fugitive Slave Law. Ri Moving as we do that the ttue p i-ition of Mr. Letcher (on what is known as the Fugitive Slave Ilill of I80O,) was misrepresented in that article.we very chccr 1 fully withdraw its allegation. The quota tions made from the record were undoubt edly (rue. but their application was impro perly made. It is no part of ours to mis represent t\ political opponent, and the rc j. traxit is made with great cheerfulness. 1<? ing indeed glad that Mr. Retchcr is able to j relievo himself aud that satisfactorily, io ' that re^prct Aoainst tiie Oi.i> Soldiebs.?Every De mocratic member of Congress from tliis Slate, with tbe exception of Mr. Uufiin, who, being (-iik, did uot vote at all, (saj-s the Raleigh, N. C. Register.) voted against the bill to give n pension of ninety dollars a year to the survivors of that gallant ar my which fought their country's battles in the war of 1812. Tlie reason alleged for these votes against so meritorious a bill was, it would take ?18,000,000 a year to pay I lie pensions. Now, a plain statement will show that this reasou was no reason at nil. Kight millions of dollars would pay eighty thousaud soldiers?as many as were engaged in the last war. and it is very well knowu that not more than one-fourth have survived to take the benefit of any pension which might be given them now. The same may be said of Messrs. Let cher and Faulkner. And, as the Register says thry could sit "by and sec combs, and tooth-brushes, and hair-brushes, and snuff boxes, A:c., &?., purchased for members of Congress with the people's tnouey, and yet vote to deny the poor old soldiers the small sum of ninety dollars a year, when they \ were jtorJiTttiuii jlflti tlo'lars it tiny oj the ' nivitey of the sttitl people ?1'rtns. The American Iron Association publishes the statistics of the Troii businescs in the United States, from which it nppears that 1159 furnaces, 500 forges ami 3S9 rolling mills are now in operation. There are 3SG furnaces, 27:! forges and 99 roll ing mills abandoned. In Virginia there arc 39 furnacer. 43 forges and 12 rolling mills in operation, aud 50 furnaces aban doned. Import nf Dry Goods.? The Journal of j Commerce states that the imports of for eign dry goods at New York during tbe I month of April arc three times as large as J for the corresponding period of last year j and considerably in excess of the same pe riod iu 1857, although the monthly, sum mary for the last named year included one more week. The total is ?7.084,303, a gainst ?2,251,023 in April of last year.? The ware housing movement for the past mouth lias been very light ; the entries for bonding have been small and iho stock in warehouses is so much reduced that but few goods were left for withdrawl. A Dkar Cow ?An appeal c.ise from a Justice of the Peace, involving the identi ty of a certain bob-tailed cow,occupied lvent Co., Md.t Court recently, for four days. The News says that fifty-odd witnesses ; were examined, and the estimated co.-t of j | the case is six-hundred dollars. This is a , round turn to he spent in litigation when J i only twenty dollars were involved. The ! : verdict was in favor of Win. McCauIcy, the ! appellee, ami one cent damages. [ MKXIC.IN SlkK ?The New Orleans Tie- | ; avnne has examined a parcel of Mexican j 1 silk received from the Isthmus of Teliaun- i tepee, which it sr?3\s is a curious product of ? Southern Mexico, and prows on one of tin? j most beautiful and mrijestic trees of those j inimitable forests. It is strong in fibre an 1 ! !irm in staple as the silk worm's thread. I which in appearance it much resembles and j wonderfully soft to the touch. <?5?"Thc Austin (Texas) State Gazette, j of the 16th ult., contradicts the report that j (.'apt. Ford's company of Hangers had been ! killed by the ('amanches. on the authority j of an express rider from the captain's camp. ! The captain had made an extended scout I of i 00 miles. Owing to the fall of snow he did not succeed in overtaking the Indians. Diiuadki'L Eartiiquakk?Late intelli gence from South America informs us that the City of Quito, in Chili, had been des persons perished ! i he rt/sJ R/-? ili/ius^nd estimated at ?'{,000,000. A number of the small towns to the northward of the city were also destroyed and s^me damage was occasioned at Guayaquil. iCSgrJoscph l'arks, for a long time the head man of the Kansas Shawoecs, died early last month, un l was buried at Shaw nee on the 5th, with Masonic ceremonies. Many whites and Indians were present at the obsequies, and before the body was low ered into the grave, an aged Shawnee wo man addressed her people in their own tongue, saying : "There lays the last of our best friend here, my people. He's gone ! No more will ho lead and adviso ui. Wo have no head man now. Like forest leaves, on the frozen ground, wc will be blown a bout by every wind of Winter. Who will be to us what he was V" A gentleman who arrived a few days ago at Independence from the Pike's Peak mines reports that tho emigrants there and those olong the route were en rolling themselves into companies for Ari zona and Sonora. A battle took place on the 21 ult., near Zuni, between the Navnjoc and Apocha Indians, in which ten of the latter and ' ciirht of the former were killed. The Na : vnjoes also lost 4,000 sheep. Tho Zuni Indians assisted theApachas. j jtsrThc St Joseph (Mo ) Gazette gives j some unfavorable information from the i Pike's Peak Mines. James Campbell, of j Ilolt Co,, Missouri, who has been in the ' mines the patt six months, relates his pcr | sonal observation. lie says that uo dig ! gings have yet been discovered that will j pay, aod is surprised at tho rush iu that | direction. He thinks, nevertheless, that j there may be gold in abundoncc in tho i mountains, and that rich di.?covcrics may I yet be made. Ho did not sec any man j with ?100 in gold in the mines. X3TG ov. Wise is out in a letter on po litics, which is said to make thirty columns of the Richmond IJnrjuircr. X-^Mr. Siuart, of Staunton, who was injured by the explosion on tho St. Nicholas, is still at Memphis, snd slowly rooororing. The Judicial Election. By the Charlottesville Jeffereouiau Ex- j (rii, we receive the following com|?lcte state ment of the vote iu the lute election for a ?Judge of the Suprcma Court ot ? irginia, I in the place of Judge Samuel*. It will he seen that W. J. Robertson, Ksq , of Albe- j niarle is elected by a plurality of 512 over I j Mr. Baldwiu his highest competitor. OFFICIAL. i Counties. Rob'ts<x). Baldwin. Parker. Albemarle, 1-10') 143 4 j Amherst, 136 120 3 I Aujrustn, 113 1 i>77 15 I Bath. 50 90 10 i Berkeley, 5 09 452 | Clarke, 10 29 174 I Culpeper, 190 129 27 i Fluvanna, 355 10 1 j Frederick, 138 171 418 Goochlund, S3 14 1 i Green, 252 17 4 i llamp&hiro 35 37 412 | Hardy, 39 148 37 j j Highland, 00 147 30 j | Jefferson, 25 117 527 I Louisa, c:;o is 2 j ? Madison, 400 .12 0 i Morgan, 2 11 205 j j Nelson, 9S 141 4 ! I Orange, 533 10 2 j ! Pace, 191 29 90 j Pendleton, 30 107 21 j j Rockbridge, 119 489 2 1 I Rockingham, 211 839 09 j i Shenandoah, 271 131 llfc j Warrou, 32 25 193 ! 5557 5015 2848 5045 Robertson's inaj. 512 The Staunton Spectator learns that the j returns of tho following counties were not 1 legally authenticated : Hath,Rerkclcy, Flu- j vanna, Hardy, Jefferson, Nelson, Pcudle- | ton, Rock bridge, Rockingham aud Warren ; I but casting out the vote of these counties, i Mr. Robertson still has a majority over j Col. Baldwin, and is entitled to the ccrtifi- ? cate of election. "It is currently reported that, before the | election, Mr. Tucker, the Attorney Gene- | ral of the State, wrote letters to the strong i Democratic counties down the Valley, urg- ^ ing the election of Mr. Robertson, on party ! grounds. From our knowledge of Mr. Tucker we are slow to believe that he was engrged in a secret movement of this kind, when throughout the canvass it was pub licly proclaimed by the press aud the peo ple that politics should have nothing to do with the election." Tiib Banks of tiib Statu.?In one of his messages to Congress President Bu chanan recommended the passage of a bank rupt act by Congress to put Slate Banks into liquidation whenever they suspended specie payments. Mr. Lktchkii has de clared in some of his speeches that if he had been in the Legislature at the time of j the last suspension he would have voted to ' wind up the banks. This would have re- ' quired the people to pay their taxes in gold and silver. Hear what Gov. Wisi: snyson this head. In a letter to the Hon. David IIl l:nAl:l>. in which he declares himself a gainst the authors of Kansas-Nebraska acts, he thus lets down upon Mr. Buchan an and his supporters in Congress : "Arc the land owners to pay all the cost of (he crusade of Congress and manifest destiny ? Is strict construction and are State rights to he abandoned, and are wc to give up Shite Corporations to itic hank- | ruptoies of a federal commission ? Where ! would have been our people and t'neir cf- ! feets last 3'car if n federal power could have j put our State honks into a cotirsc of lifjui- I dation under a commission of bankruptcy ? | Is the South?is any portion of our coun- i try. in a situation to rush into war?war ! invited by the President with three Euro- i pcan and five American powers ? And arc ' 1' *" a ^raud consolidated elective, ! J tic question is not, 'it m ? 1 dissolvedThat is a settled question.? But the question is, 'Is the old Virginia Democratic faith to be abandoned,' and arc we to rush on with the President into u full scheme of federal policy which in its whole outline exceeds any federalism in all its points which a Hamilton or an Adams or any other latitudinariau ever dared to prcjcct or propose '! For my part, I take ground now firmly and nt once against the war power. I am for the Washington pol icy of peace, against all entangling allian ces and protectorates, and the .Jackson rule of ?demanding nothing but what is right and submitting to nothing tint is wrong,' aud for preserving and protecting the South nnd the whole country from ambitious and buccaneering wars, of which tlio landed and planting interests would have to bear the burthens at a great sacrifice of prcscut prosperity."? Winch. larTiie Suiciijk ,,L?onuE."?A man calling himself Lamartine,is wandering thro' the West and raising funds by pretending to commit suicide. lie takes laudanum and sends for a doctor nnd clergyinnn.? They come to him and find a letter in bis room iu the most patbelio style of suicidc literature. lie states that his poverty is the cause of bis rash act. lie is restored with difBculty and sympathetic people raise a purse for him, and he departs. He raised ?25 in this way las! week at Dayton, Ohio, 1 and ?40 at Sandusky, nod departed with a "free pass" on the railroad, to commit sui I cide at some other place. It is thought that I he bad experimented until .he knew just j bow much laudanum he could safely swal low in carrying into effect his suioidal dodge. -- - > i4 ? < /C-iTAu accident occurcd 011 Wednesday morning of last week, on the Potomac and Winchester railroad, near Harper's Ferry. The baggage car of a passenger train was thrown from the track aud broken. A man in the car was killed. The passcoger por tion of the train was not injured, though the cars generally left the rails. A switch was conccrned in the accident. MZTThere are about ono hundred mill ion pounds of cotton used in Masstcbusetts, in ? yoar. NEWS OF THE DAY. Four hundred Mormon eouverts from DciitiiHrk * <????*>?!y k-fl that country fur Salt Lake The I/mJoii Globe announces the death of Lady Morgan, tha tiuthoross George C. Dencalc. Ksq . of Rockingham | County, announces himself a candidate fur j re-clectiou to the Senate of Virginia j The Frostburg (Mil ) Gazette slates that j the American Coal Company has the eon- j tract to supply the line of Cunard steam ers with 50.000 ton* of coal this season ! Iti Canada there is uo postage on newspa pers Proceedings for a divorce baveal ready hern commenced, in the New York Courts, by tho Hon. Daniel K. Sickles , Gen. Sam Houston is a candidate for Gov ernor of Texas against Governor Ilunnels, the candidate of the convention Democrats. The sales of real estate in San Fran cisco in three weeks amounted to ?000, 000 The Agricultural Society of Illi nois offer a premium of S3,000, to which the Illinois Central Railroad Company add ?1,500 more, making ?4.500, for the best practical and acceptable steam plow The valuation of property in Cincinnati is ?110,- , 000.000 The artesian well at Coluin- j bus, Ohio, is now 1.001 feel deep A | horse 10J hands high, and weighing 1,-1 800 pounds, is offered for sale in Cincin nati. He seems to be a cross between an j elephant and a steam cngiue In the j Lafayette (Ind ) Circuit Court on Tuesday of la *t week, a decrce of divorce was "rant ed to the Rev. Mr. Allen, of the Second i Presbyterian Church of that city, at the j wife's cost Mrs. Allen eloped last fall , with K. II. Sherwood, secretary of the La- I fayette and Indianapolis railroad Wm. ! M. Hro wne, Iwi., of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, has become the principal editor j of the Washington Constitution A daughter of Thomas II. Clay, and grand daughter of Henry Clay, was married a few days since to Wm. 0. 1'. Hreckinridge, son of tho Rev. K. J. Rreckinridgc Mr. Thomas S. Sutter, of New Jersey, has been appointed public gardener, virr James Ma her, deceased .The Norfolk Day Hook boasts of possessing a feathered quadruped, that is, a chicken with four legs So great is the demand for houses of moderate rent in Cincinnati, that they are frequently let two months before being built A ' writer in the Providence Journal furnish- i e9 the following proscription for Hydro- i phobia : Kai the green shoots of aspara gus raw : sleep and perspiration will be ' induccd, and the disease can thus bo cured ! iu any stage of caniue madness. A man ' in Athens, Greece, was cured by this rem- j edy after the paroxysms had commenced. ......James D. Porter, the Kentucky giant, I died at his residence in Portland,Kentucky. I on the 2t)ih ult., in the fiftieth year of his j age. He was seven feet nine inchcs high, j and was supposed to be the tallest man'in j the world. He was born in Portsmouth, i ^hio The Republic of llayti has com- I missioned two colored gentleman, named ' iouissant and Merdon, as Ministers Pieni- ! potcutiary to London, where they have ! been rccelVed officially by Lord Malmcsbu- j ry Hubbard M Taylor, of Warren I county, was drowned on Saturday evening j last, in attempting to ford the Shenandoah j river below Hazzsrd mill Eli Thayer ! is organizing a company Ht Worcester. I Mass., to emigrate to Cercdo, his Virginia 1 town A building for the education of' horse doctors, is now going up in the city of New York, at a cost of ?40,000 A Texas pap<*r says a circular is going the rounds putting in nomination Gen. Hous ton for President and Gen Wind for vieo President \ few strawberries have been offered in Norfolk at 2-f> cents per quart, but nobody would pay that for them ? Green peas were shipped from Norfolk last week to the North at. ?S per barrel A negro named Over, formerly of Leesburg, has been sentenced to death in Canada for mail-robbery and murder Charles Dick ens realized twenty-five thousand dollars, last year, by his lectures. Thackeray, nearly double the amount The hardest situation for a grumbler to bo in is to feel like grumbling, and have nothing to crum ble at The Catholic Church at Ports mouth, in this State, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night of last week. " The building was purely Gothic, and was 57 by Si feet in size, and cost in all about ?"23, 000. The fire was the work of an inccn fefc""Scarcely a week passes in which her clo7hi^:~ !^Lal tality of this might be prevented by the j exercise of a little presence of mind and ] couragc. If they would immediately lie down, the clothing would burn much lets : rapidly, and the flames would not ascend J to the body and face There was a hca- j vy frost in Texas, which did great damage i to the Cotton crop. There is timo enough j to re-plant ; but a scarcity of seed Ao coming tome J^cirou Advertiser, the pop ulation of that city now numbers 75,000. The President has appointed Simeon M. Johnson, of Buffalo, N. V.f Consul to Havre Politeness goes a great ways.? Henry '.Vard Bcccher says an impudcDt clerk can do almost as much injury to a store as tho neglect of the proprietor to ad vertise his goods Jaincs Henry, son of Joshua Bates, of Natiek, Mass., a promis. ing 1,-vkl twelve years of age, died on Friday evening last from tho effects of wrestling. It is thought that the immediate cause of death was the rupture of a blood vessel The democracy of Ashland (Ky ) district have nominated Capt. W. E. Simms for Congress, vice Mr. Clay, who declines The Act of Congress requires Coal for na val purposes, to be advertised for; and tho Coal Agencies have been abolished in con sequence Tho refusal of the Supremo Court of Ohio to interfere in the Bushnell case, has somewhat staggered the higher law advocates, who hold tbat the fugitive slave law was of no force or validity, and that the State laws on tho subject superce ded the authority of those of Congress. A majority of tho Ohio Supreme Court is composed of republicans, but when tho quot-tion eamo before them of the right of a United States Marshal to hold a citizen of Ohio in custody, who had been convicted in the federal courts of rescuing a fugitive slave, they decided tbat tbey could not go into tho question of tho validity of ft law which had been declared constitutional by the highest tribunals in tho country. It is only the Stato of Wisconsin which ha? set tho authority of tho State law above that of the United States, and invited a conflict between the State and federal courts. A correspondent writes from Hancock Co , Iowa, that they aro greatly in want of '?more of the fair sex to urgo on and en courago the people" out there. Won't somebody send them a supply ? Lifo is a farce to tho rich ; a cotnorfy to tho wi?o ; ? tr*?cdy to Uw poo*. Irtttcin Worth Carolina Klias Nevili* has b?cn convict cd iu aoUnt p C of il.o inurJvr of named Phfo. ^ and suutcuc ?<1 to bj hung. A corrcapo\ cut uf the 1 cicr?burg lixprosa aaya; That the conviction of Nevillo result of the cruel hardship of tl our Supremo Court has laid it admit. That ho ought to be pa a new trial is Dot granted him, ' lie is a poor man with a large $ killed one because lie had madtf a baso pro posal to his wife, aud wben the rejected it, seized her with great violence, (she far got>? in pregnancy.) threw her down, and ou deavored by forcc to accomplish bis object! For killing such u brutal ami brutish rujh (iii, Neville is guilty of murder. Sickle killed Key for aJulicrous intercourse with his wife?that wife being willing aud con I Renting to the act. yet he is guilty of ?*? criinc, and the verdict of bis acquittal is received with Miouts of applause, aud & burst of enthusiastic approval. But what of all that ? The one is a poor, humbl? man?the other, ? member of Congress / Distuwancc at Panama.?Wo have ac counts from Panama to the 21st of April. On the evening of the 17th, during tho procession on l'nlm Sunday, at Pauf.uifi, * riot occurred between the natives who \c s-idc within the city, and the black's who live without the walls, in which 2 or*3 wer? wounded. The military were cclled out, and were under arms all night. The Unit ed StateB Consul signalized the nian-of-war in the harbor, mid Commodore Long cent several small armed boats with three hun dred men to protcctthc American rcsidcutn, hut their services were not required, aud they returned on board at daylight. The United State sloop-of-war Vandalia. arrived at Panama on the morning of tbo 17?h. Tbo Roanoke, Jamestown, and Re lict'wero at Aspinwall on the 21st. Tho Roanoke was to sail for San Juan del Norte, 22?1. The steamship Washington, from New York for San Francisco, had not ar rived at Valparaiso to the 1st of April, aud fears were entertained for her safety. On? of l/ic humanitarian movements of the times although little kuown as such, can hardly be over estimated iu its impor tance upon the well being of our widely scattered communities. The population of the American Stales is in many section* so sparse, that skillful Physicians aro hardly available to tham. Vast numbers of our people, aro obliged to employ in sickness, such medical relief as they can hear of from each other, or indeod anj they can got from any quarter. Uenoo arises the great consumption of Patent Medicines among us, greater by far than iu any of the old countries, whcr? skillful physicians are accessible to all classes.? Unprincipled men have long availed them selves of this necessity, to palm off thoir worthless nostrums, until tho world has hecoinc synonymous with imposition and cheat. One of our leading Chcmiats ir? the East, Dn. Aykii, is pursuing a courso which defeats this iniquity. He brings not only his own but the best skill of our times to bear, for the production of th? best remedies which can be niado. Tliesa are supplied to the other world, in a con venient form, at low prices, and the peo ple will no more buy poor medicines iu stcad of good, at the eamc cost, than they will bran instead of flour. Tbo inevitable consequence of this is, that the vile com pounds that flood our couutry are discard ed for thoso which honestly accomplish i?iv> I'uu in view,? wuicn euro. iJo wu over estimate its importance, it) believing that this prospcct of supplanting the by word mcdiuiucs, with thu.so of actual worth and virtue, is froiiglit with immcn.so cou Bcqucnce for good, to the masses of our people.?Gaz. and Citron., Peru, la. IJolloway's Pilh.?Prcmnturo dcoay, whether the result of iutcusc application to business, free living, or any other ex haustive cause, may be checked, and tho physical and mental energies resit-rod to their original vigor, by a persevering uso of this unequalled restorativo. The stoop ing frame may bo straightened, the trem bliug nerves quieted, and tho wliolo mus cular system braced, by a course of tho Pills. They seem not only to purge tho internal organs of all impurities, but to infuse into every fibre a new principle of vitality. Let not the sick say that their constitutions aro broken down, until thoy * 1 1 -"yiyntinr proportion or fyThe National Intelligencer what is callcd 'free trade' constitutes tha basis of a sound public economy, how does it happen that the prosperity of free tradn countries, or those which seek free trade, is seen to be in a perpetual state of uustablo equilibrium ? S3T A letter from L. Bringle, Esq., pre sident of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, in relation to the dumogo dono I to the Canal by ibo reccnt freshet, slates, on the authority of Mr. Stone, the euperin j tendent, that one crib at Dam No. 4 is gono, I with part of the guard bank on the Marjr ! land sido ; to repcir which will cost about ?10,000. The new dam lias been injurod to the extent of ?0,000. The rest of tho canal is not injured. Boats will continue to run until the water gets down, when ? new orib will be put in, which will not de lay navigation over two weeks. /S?~In the Circuit Court of Hardy, last week, iu the case of Daniel Murphy, charg ed with killing George Armentrout, tUe ju ry was discharged, being unable to ogrco, and the prisoner remanded to jail. JSSrThe man who couldn't trust hi* feelings is supposed to do business on tho cash principle. VIRGINIA,to wit: At rules continued and held in the Clerk's Officc of the Circuit Court of Hampshire county, on the third day of May, 1859. Jacob Z. Chadwick, and Mary C. his wife, plain tiffs, against Jacob B. Earsoin. R. W. Varden, Anthony Ham mack, James Parsons, administrator of Jatnet Parsons, dee'd., Isaac Parsons and William Vance, defendants, In Chancery. The object of this suit is to obtain a decree a gainst the said Jacob B. Earsoin for the renls and profits of the land in the bill mentioned, being | the laijd which descended to the heirs of John ! Earsoin of Jacob, dee'd., and that the said land I may be sold out and out, or that a fair division of the same may be made, and the interest of tho | plaintiffs laid olf and assigned to them, and for ; such other, further apd general relief as to eqtii I ty may seem meet, and the nature of the esse re ! noire. And it appearing by affidavit that tli? 1 defendants. R.W. Varden and Anthony Ham i mack do not reside in the State of Virginia: It. i it ordered, That they do appear within one month I after the due publication of this order and do whaV I is necessary to protect their interest. A copy-Test, J. B. WHITE, e. e. Msjr 6, I8W (Armstrong k Whit^, P. ^