The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-07-26
Correspondence Of The aStar..'
From PhiladeIphia.

PHIIADELpmA, July 21.-Among The items
of gossips is The report that The Kuow-Noth-
ings will not nominate a Canal Commission
er this fall, but intend TO lull the Democrats
into a false security by a seeming f" m as,erly
inactivity and then 10 make u desperate
strike al the election for members of the leg
%islature. This will be a faint copy after the
Russian trick of retreatng al Sevasinpol un-
til they led the enemy just over the mine,
aud then by putting a match 10 The hidden
magazine beneath, blowing up some 8 900
OF the enemy. But the Democrats will like
ly be looking out for secret mines.
Great excitement has been produced by
the outrage committed in open day upon the
Hon. J. H. Wheeler the accredited minister
of the United States io.Nicaragua. He took
passage on the steamer Washington with his
three negro servants who accompanied him
10 Nicaragua from choice and not from COM
pulsion. A frantic aboliionist Passmors
Williamson, who was concerned in the ip-
famous Chfisiiana affair headed a band of
negroes, and entering the steamer forced
MIR, Wheeler's servants 10 leave him. The
servants insisted that they varied 10 Ego
with their master" but when Wheeler inter.
fered 10 protect them, one of The lawless
gang OF negroes thrust himself in front and
said with a threatening gesture, if you inter
fere | will cut your throat on The spot from
ear TO ear. Several gentlemen offered to as
sist Mr.. Wheeler in the forcible reclamation
OF his property, and the summary punish
ment Of his assailants, but be desired no RI
olous outbreak, and answered that he slived
in a land of laws, and would seek whatever
redress he might have in a court of i~us;;ce.n
The general opinion was Williamson should
have been put under the jurisdiction of
Judge Lynch, and very few men in Mr..
Wheelers situation would have left him of
with life. 1t was a most shameful and bru-
tai public robbery, and would be heralded a
burning disgrace TO any nation of barbarians.
A habeas corpus has been issued by Judge
Kane of the District Court of the United
States.
Yesterday, Arthur Hughes, Special Agent
of the Post office Department, arrested at
Reading a man named Adam H. Smith, who
bad been for a time a clerk in the Post office
at Richmond, Northampton county, on the
charge of robbing The mails. The prisoner,
on being taken into custody, confessed 10
taking one letter, containing $500, mailed al
Slroudsburg, for the Easlon Bank. He had
purchased with this money a horse and wag-
on. and had been on a pleasure excursion to
Harrisburg, Carlisle, SC, with a female com.
pauion, whom he had persuaded 10 run of
with him from Plainfeld, near Richmond
The hose, which was sill in his possession,
and is valued al Sl75, he gave into the
charge OF Col. Hughes. He had disposed Of
the wagon but a few hours previous 10 bis
arrest.
Several letters had been missed for some
time from tho Post office at Richmand
where Smith had charge of the mails tenn.
p%orarily, and a couple of weeks since suspi-
Zion had rested on him, from his having in
his possession several SleC bills. Hearing
these suspicious he made immediate arrange,
ments 10 leave, and telling his wife he was
obliged 10 be absent for a day or two, he
went over 10 Plainield township, and in.
duced a young girl, TO whom he had been
paying his addresses for some time, 10 run
away with him. The young lady is said Il e
be OF a highly respectable family, and pre-.
viously bore a good reputation. Smith was
lodged in Jail at Reading.