Terr• Tlf E CAHITORNIA NEWS, MaTrens ON TIM PACIFIC Stiiet..—Tho 'pining op erations ale progressing with zeal and energy, and nro yielding a-Voit return forlabor and investment. Heretofore the eui face of the gold region only has been gone over: but latterly the miners arc resort ing to the ore of mechinery, and tire depth of the earth and tin' moentneas MO tieing mado to yield their quota of (reassures. Companies are breeching out in every direction going to work systematically and I% ilk energy. Where operations have progressed far enough to test the working, sueCess has generally crowned their eflierte • The dittieulaCs which have existed nt the south ern mines bot Ween the Americans and_ fereiguers, end W}IICII Kaye reettned in no little bloodshed, have subsided, and peatfe is auxin restored. In consequence, of these outbrealre and murders, large parties of foreigners heel 1e r the country, and thus deprived the State of the b% of the Foreign Mi nors" Fax. Howe% er, we are glad to lie able to state thht n reaction Las taken place, and`that hence forth there is every uppearenee of quietness. FienniOregon tint intellieeence is nut of much in tercet te? the Atlantic States , . Busiuees was in a very prosperous condition at our last dates, July 25. Gold has been found on Rouge's river, anil it was colifulently believed that when the waters subsided, considerable quantities would be taken out. A trea ty of peace has been negotiated with the Indians by Uwe ! Lane. IltDiness,generally on the Pacific coast is slowly improving. Our own city; hr.s in a great measure recovered from the disaetrous conflagration with which we have been visited, and our streets present their wonted bustle trill activity. The miners will- undoubtedly take out more gold this season than ever before, in the same length of time, end of course ell e kinas tsf_bucinese writhe cor respondingly effecteed.' With the exception of one failure, somewhat ex tensive at Sacramento,. nothing has occurred to shake the confidence of the public in oar leading buidnese men. Great fatality is anticipated among therendtrains of the overland emigrants, and 010VOIIIC'eS have been in progress to give them succor. The water courses in the Great Ilasin have been higher this summer than for years past, which has caused much scryering. The Gement . of California has issue:( his procla mation for an election on the 11th' of October next, for the choice of Attorlmv General, Clerk of the Se prerne,Court, Dietriet Attorney, Members of Assem bly, &c., and we shall soon be in preparation fur the campaign Pacieic l'ea's,, :lug. id., GREAT . VIIILD OF TIM MINES.—We Jve' the fol lowing from the Sacramento Transcript: Our accounts from 'the South fork of the Ameri e ran are vt.ey ilattkiege. Tke waters. have so fallen that the mining operattens are commie:cif); briskly; and crowds are Icavieg Cultoma and the larger towns for rich localities on the rivers. This is searing trade in that seethe' of the "plarere„" and we shall, 80011 feel an increfteed stimuloes here. About half a mile from Cenci:et a large party are termite; the lever. , fifty er seer y Inca are nom constructing a tt : nnel drrectly throne-1i a hill, but it w ill not, in all probability, be liniehed for several months tp came. The.,worktneu haw reached a, spot wheel' i s very dir:ieult excavate. At th e compiction of the tunnel, the river is to he, directed through it;- this wil! tones Isere a tong, and very rich bed, over which the stream flows at preeent. In sevcial 00,,r elegies hem above and beloW this, ciimenmee are tut oing the etreittn, and, we understand that high lie; oe are meertejine,l of cone,- plete succese, and that all is life in the vieinit'-. We gather the full:it% ing from the Senora Her ald:— Soc - runaN Mcsrs.—The dry Feasop liar now so far adlai l iced that the Stanylaus and the Tuolumne are in gaud orEng order: and boll; thmie rivers are, already yieldine: a moderate gm:lnuits of gold, and as the water continues to fall, the excrtion4 of the mi ners will meet with a richer reward. There ure ut least from 6 : 000 to 10,000 on the bars of the rivers in this county. The various companies enengcd in darning and mining expect to work the beds of the rivers, and experience has already shown that t he nearer to the water on the bar, the richer are the drpor,its of gobl; and in one instance, where -the bed of the Stanislaus was partially worked last fall, gold was found in very large quantities. There is a great confidence exhibited by the Mi ners in the river claims, and shares are said fre quently at prices rangia. from iut Uto :::41,500. It is r generally believed that a very large amount‘if gold will be ti.ken out during tke months of August, Sepleraber and Ger. The bar , of larg.i geklies IS ill soon be in working Order, and tb , ,r.!rs err; l2•I real, 7.0 largely, partie;darly at the M ll onaco irtilon, %%here the rise of the seat rs last fall drip. the miners 'away just as they had di coveted tho'existauc k i of gid d in extraordinary diTouts. The Witder di, - gin;rs in Tdoldninc Cmity are probably the rirl.a4 in Calif - urn:a, 'as not one fiftieth part of the dry iii ,n; Live been wei het. Tbe4e wil1')1e1,1 the miner at least one Genee day, niter the rainy season has cQinmenced. Fifty thmmand miners can End rich Winter diggings in this county. Prot isions have bun as cheap here as in ally part, of the tniniii.g region of Californin, and as the tra ders haveddready all S LOC 1: on hand, there is 00 probability of t h u existenca• of exorbitant price,. In addition to the-above, we gather the following indelligence from the northern - MilIC3 through' the !Sacramento Transcript : Fitom anti Sot . ru Fons.-31r. O'Dwyer, who has just arrived from Culloma, informs US that on Fri day last threefor four Chinese took out in that vicin ity 9300. Another man who was working on the north hank of the ricer, three-quarters of a mile from Culloma, took out on Saturday forenoon three , pounds of dust. The same man hal previously ta ken out in the course of three days 1,000 d )llars. Mr. O'Dwyer states that he was tv icgreen • iee. - The water On the south fork is falling rapidly, hut the miners are riot yet working on the' hare.—, They work alntwt universally with the ordinary rockers. The quicksilver and all other machines are not used in these mines yet. — Tho rivers are going down rapidly. On.the Yu ba, rind on the two forks of the Feather rivers par ticularly, the miners are doing finely. r Atuntn ,.._:l`he stoppage of for the heavy sum of iiisl,L,Co,o.4), in Sacramento City, has produced no little exciteMent both in that city and our own. Mr. Leo h.ri been carryinrz on business on a most extensive reale. He has assign ed over all his prope'rty to Messrs. 1.. F. Gillespie, E. J. C. Ewen and 1)r. Mackenzie. These gentletnen du not express the slightest.; ar but that he trill be able to'meet all his liabilities. The Sacramento papers state that the assets of tie estate are .91',1 NAO. Ills intlehtedness to Alessis_ Cornwell & Priest, his former partners, now absent In the States. amount to, td, , ',6„ . 00,0u0, titiou,ooo of . tt hich is 'Covered by mortgage. The spea,ir.l depoHts mount to 6..10,000 and the deposits, drawing interest; t0'r',.4 . ,•,180,000. Tire in come,of the estate is c‘timated at-front 350,00 to 9t , 0,000 per month. We understand that there wa 3 a considerable run made upon the Sacramento hank ers generally,' yesterday, but that they met all de mands.—. Myr . 'irons LIIAS MS L. 8111 TIL—A letter in the July 31, cunfaois the repuit Lf the worder of Eras ' tus L. Smith and Mr. Po: ter, of Captain Ilaris par ty, t.omj time rirrc. Suspicion rests upon two tipaniarrht, V.ho left the cirtip in company trial Smith an 4 The former had with him one hundi - cd imucce and l ter luu,dq Mug:Band llollurs. - ' The SacramFnitoitiOt - The following emract ffoni the narrative in the Pacific News, furnishe, as itn,ight. of the queitions at issue bet v.een the c.mtvildhor parties, as well as some additional particulars of the conflict:— Large tracts of ground covering the city and vi cinity of Saeraniemo, are held by grants from Capt. Sulter,'Who claims under his .New Helvetia Span ish grant. The settlas hold that Capt Sutter's grant does nut cover this territory; that it belong to the Government. Thf.v have moved on, ryi erect ed a suit t,r fogothly entry and detainer is brought again-t them; duel led in t h e plaintifrs favor; a writ of rontitioion the mlicer at tempts to execute it: is unit by h body of armed squatter:, s re , i,t him. 'llk occurred Sat in day, luth; prior to this date all appeal to the County Court, hod been niitde-by the attorneys for the ,set tlersr Judge Willis presiding, and the right of ap ical denied. Exasperation, of course, was the ofrect upon the party seeking redress in the higher : court. Meet ings were held and resolutions were passed to re sist the law. Nothing was done more by legal pro cess from Saturday until yesterday, (Tuesdayd whop some six or bight persona were arrested fUr rebellion, or resisting_ the officers and the process of the Court on Saturday, and two, in default of bail, incarcerated in the prison brig. Ono of them is Icelatchy, carrier of the Sacramento Transcript. twro-day, a body of settlers repaired to the Brig to release the two companions, where they met, Sher-, ill McKinney, Mayor Bigelow, and a posse, who drove them from the ground, but no force was used until! the settlers had retreated as far East from the river, up J. Street, at the corner of Fourth, near the Cresent City MO, when tlfey were 4.,vertiiken and turned,at bay, with pistols and guns. Forty Or fifty shuts were fired between the par— ties ~and in the period of five minutes Mayor Big des abut front his horsb, through the body, arm, and in the face. ' not expected to live. The lea4er of the settlers, Mahloney, was also shot dead. The Mimes of both leaders were pierced witit Assessor Woodland, and nn auctioneer, were also billed whfle'suppo - rting the officers. Mr. Harper, As siitant M.,.was shot in the left hand and right shoulder, and others of the same side are wounded. Another man of the settlers 'was killed'-'—shot through the body. A little girl was wounded while passing through J. street; the shots flew in all di rections around the corner of J. and Fourth, and the blood of the wounded streamed upon the side walks as they were carried along. One matt lead ing a Mule along the street was shot through the head: front the. top the ball passed downward through the neck. The Pacific Courier says:-- On Tuesday evening, Aug. lath, it. was under stood that an attempt would be made to release the prisoners. The• Mayer; Woodland, and others early yesterday morning repaired to 00 brig, in order to resist any such attempt. The squatters made their appearance, and were driven oll e and then retrpated up J. street,lthe crowd increasing, and the Mayor and citizens, on the pursuit. The squatters pro ceeded as far as the,corner of Fourth and J. streets, when they made a stand, and the battle commenced withfire-arms on both At the time of our informant's leaving tho place at 3 o'clock, I'. M., the squatters had gathered at the corner of J and Ninth streets, some nine hum. dned strong', with armq, and were determined upon resistance, to t h e death. Lieut. Gov. Nlcnongal had declared martial law, and Ordered a cannon to be placed at the foot of J street, so as to sweep it with grape shot; that all non-combatants should not appear in the street, and that all citizens shlntld immediately , repair to the City Hotel, and register their names for immediate duty. Tho Liimt. Governor came down in the steamer to Benicia for the purpose of procuring arms and s&diers.to quell the Mob. - The Gold Hunter was hailed on her passage up, in .Suisoon Bay, and came back to Benicia for the purp&me of conveying , sold iers and Munitions of war' to Sacramento. The tno,t of the solders are at Nappa Valley , and could not bo ready for, starting this morning. A letter wasreceivethero, which we have seen, requesting 'Mr. Ilowarifof the. Guards, to send Ina tire arms by the retort boat, and at 3 &clock this morning, Messrs. Ell vtrd and B: ers started on an exprosi to the Governor at .1 t Jr ,e. • ' . Curre;Ty the N. Y; 11Pine. ; Alig P. M. . I improve the last•mc u t to' give you important news. The stetitner from Sacramento City this morning, brought us news of anarchy and bloodshed. .1 collision between the "Squatters," so called, and "Landholders," occurred yesterday, in which May or Bigelow and several others were killed, among which was the leader of the Squatters, ".Mahloney." Several horses were shot under the Mayor and oth,- ers who were trying to preserve order. The excitement is said to hare - been intense.— When the steamer left, the squatters were dra..vh up in force armed,, to, the teeth, and it was supposed They would horn the city and spread desttlation and wo throughout. The Senator left t little before the regular time, fur the purpose of meeting tho steam er Gold hunter on her way up, in tine to enable the troops at Benicia to go up to the scene of strife.— , The Gold Hunter was,tnet some distance beyond ' Benicia, but returned for what troops and arms there wore at the military glation. Lieut. Gov. Mcl)ougal came down ns far as Beni filo on the Senator and returned on the Gold Gun• ter. Befdre he left he caused clinnon to he placed is front of 'the "pciron brig," which were con tused several persons who had boon conspicuous in getting up this difficulty. An express left in twen ty minutes after the arrival of ,the Senator, this morning., for San iqLc, to plac Go:. Burnett in pqssession of the facts and require his order, tz.c. This morning the Mayor of our city, Cul. Geary, eadled out all the militiry, (independent companies,) lire!compnnies, C.c., of, this city,'to go lip irnmedi:. ately. I have just returned from on beard the Ser ator, up'on whidth are a large, number of military, fireman, citizens, F.r.c., (not orgetting a host of ed itor,) bound for Sacrame itto, wko talk loud of "Law and order," "Blood and thunder," and a thousand other things. How' this matter will end God only knoWF—fear fully, - no doubt. M3iny suppose the city already in ashes, and that indiscriminate slaughter has been the order of the day. As to the "right" or igil.rong" I can Fay nothing at this time. The mail is closing and so must I. I'll give you the partici'. tars by next mail. In great haste. T. 3. D. S'ACTSANII:NTO CITY IN . A . Suns.—Just as the steam er Carolina was getting. under Fay, (about 4 P. M.) a despatch was received on board from the Pacific News .office, stating that an' express has just arriv ed, bringing the intelligence that Sacramento Clty had been reduced to ashes, and the squatters were receiving reiefurcements of men from the mines. At the time the Cdrolina let fifty U. S.! Soldiers, had left Benicia for the scene b( battle, and two vol.', unteer onnpanies in San Francisco had alss offered their servic6s to maintain order. , DrAnra.tc.N .4)um...0r.,.—A few days ago Daniel T. White was arrested for committing a rape upon Mary Schram, a girl 11 years of age, the daughter of Wm.. 11. Schram of this city. It appears from the admission of White, and the story of the girl, that on Saturday evening White took the girl into his room in one of No public houses, and after show ing her an ob,cene book - (which she would not look at), he forcibly and in pact, accomplished his foul purpose. On Monday, White confidentially, and strangely too, informed the motherad the girl (lids deed, and said he did it out of mere curiosity! The mother told the father, who, on Muneny evening, about dusk, went to White'o room, and (taking the law into his own hands) made White strip himself entirely naked, and with a leather strap, whipped him until he could geareely stand. Our Pon J - Lice getting wind of the affair, desliatched an r ill :or, who arrested. White. ild' was placed in ,k. il, tid awaits examiantTon. Many of our readers will re• cognize him ni; the man perambulating our streets du ring the past Ithree or four weeks, generally having religious works for sale,-,Sliracuse Stan Elnoct:rva Acemi:NT.—On Thursday,last, the 4th inst., says the Armstrong Democrat, as the Clarion coach was on its downward trip, when corninp.: down a hill near Cattish r im the Allegheny river, in Clarion county, the running gears befiame detached by some means, awl the body of the coact, together with the hind wheels, was precipitated over a precipice over one hundred anddifty feet. We understand there were five persons in the coach when it went over, all of idiom were j mare or less injured—among Al how were Mr. - Wm. Gates, of the Kittanning Iron Compc.n.y, and Mr. b. H. Meredith, PrOthonotary of this county, both of this pliice, also Mr. Irwin, the Marshal for the Wistern District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Gates died on Monday morning ii-om the injury received in the Mr., Meredith's injury is slight —not sufficient to p'revent hint from 'attending to the duties oft his office. I We have not been informed to, what. extent the others were injured. BANK ItAsc4.rno.—The Farmer's Joint Stock Company, ol,Toronto, has exploded. The money has been paid out freely in northern Ohio fur wheat. —[.Uiheaukec lrieconsin, 19th.. • . It is no more 04 jUstice to say that the above stateMent is norcoriect. The notes of the Farmer's Joint) Stook Banking -Company aro purchased as usual.by Townsend Is:. Co. nud White v Williams, at the usual rate of discount.:—Beilifo Courier. erit Olikitro6. F. R E, PA SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 280850 DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. FOR CONGRESS, CARLTQN B. CURTIS • OP ‘YARREN COUNTY. • CUMMISsIONEIi, WM. T. MORISON, of Molitgomery. AII e atTORGENER.A7,, EPHRirIM BANKS, of Mifflin: SURVEYOR GESIMAL J. P. BRAWLEY, of Crawford. FOR ASSEMBLY, GEO. H. CUTLER, of Girard, C. M. TIBBALs, of Erie. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, ITENItY ALLISON, of Fairview. FOR DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL, RENJ. GRANT, of Erie. FOR COUNTY TRASURER. HENRY CIADWELL, of Erie. FOR COUNTY AUDITOR, HENRY GINGRICH, of Millereek. FOR DIRECTOR OF THE POOR, MAJ. A. MALLORY, of Springfield, FOR DEPUTY SURVEYOR GENERAL, IRVIN CAMP, of Eric O Gen. Lois Cass, Hon. James Thompson and Hon. D S. Kauffman, will accept our thanks fur valuable public doctiments. • The County Ticket Tho Democratic county Ticket, presented to the people of Erie for their suffrages bythe Convention on Saturday last, is an excellent one. In point of , talent and fitness fur the stations for which they are severally named, we. do no more than simple justice in claiming a marked preeminence over their Whig competitors. None who know both setts of candi dates will, deny this. %Ire say this without the slightest.wish to make insidious comp Prisons; the gentlemen composing th'e whip; ticket are certainly unexceptionable as private citizens, nevertheless it is notorious that they owe their selection more as a reward for party services than to any peculiar fit ness in themselves. Some of them, at least, would never have occupied the positions they do were the county a close one, dr :their election• doubtful; but having so large a majority, the Whigs of Erie have become lax, and in order to reward particular local ities for party fealty, sometimes fill out their ticket with gentlemen who, as we have before remarked, however estimable they may be as citizens and neighboi-s, are little calculated, by either education' or habits, fdr the stations they are respectively'riam ed. The ticket presented by our vliig friends this fall is-peculiiarly open to this objectior. Not so, however, with the one nominated on Saturday, and to be found at,the head of our. -paper... -. Every man, could theylbe elected, wolld fill the offices for which they are' respectively named with credit to himself and honor to the state and county. It is therefore 1 the duty of . dernocrats, and in fact everyone who has the public good at heart rather than party success, to support these nominations—to vote for them with es much enthusiasm as though their election were certain—and then if the dikes of the county are fil led with incompetent men, they can.-say "my vote did net do it- 7 -my hands arc clean." Democrats should do their duty at the baßot-b.)x, let the pros pect of success be what it may. 'Besides we have other candidates to vote) fur lrhoee election, if the Democracy do their duty, is not seriously contested, Our State and Congressional candidates aregentle men worthy the entire cciftidecce of the people, and should receive, as we have no daubt tmy will, an enthusiastic itiport. This congressiimni district has A democratiC majority of the hundred, but:JOHN IL WA 14C La, the NVltig candidate fur Congress, is in hopes he can, by arousing his friends !fere, and there by obtaining a majority large enough to overbalance Clarion, Warren, and the other counties, slip into the seat so. ably filled by Judge Titomesox. This position he has been coveting for years, but while the Judge was in the field, neither he nor his friends have had the courage to venture upon the trial.— But our old champion, before}whose clarion voice upon the political forum, the Bunk :litornry has oft quailed, has declined—and now he plucks up cour age for a trial. Tire Democracy of Erie county know John 11. Walker, and knezein:4 him, cannot fail to see l am importance of defeating him in his darling. wisbn They have now a chance of rebuking his abUse 6f them and their principles for a long series of years, and they will.not fail, . - ‘cr are confident, to embrace it. Let the ticket, then, State, District, and County, receive the whole vote of the party! llr. WaLker in Clarion. Our good friend, th'e Bank ,eltiorney, has been spending several weeks in Clarion and Jefferson counties since his nominction; and 'daft:ends en deavor to impress the public mind with the belief that he has met 'with great i,uccess in those counties—in fact, hits carried all before lim. We have no daubt he has, tetig fashion—i. e. before .... the electilon—but when the votes Me to be coun ted ,he will find that the sturdy y 0 manry of that portion of the disc et, cant swallot such a load of Bank corruptiO and rottenness. They will repu diate him as sure as the election day comes.- Ta riff or no tariff,ithey won't swallow so nauseous a dose as John 11. Walker!—that winery may rely upon. But the accounts, use receive of our friend John's manner of speaking of the Democracy„ in his speeches there, amuses us not a little. here, s our readers are aware, when he addresses a public meet ing, there is no epithet too vulgar, or abuse too strikrfor him to use - 'towards our party and' its principles. How the , word "Lo-co-fo•co" is mouth ed by him, as though it pcissessed a peculiar sweet ness! No sweet morsel in the mouth of an epicure is dalied with, with half the gusto this :candidate prolongs his delivery of "Lo•co-fo-co." But. in Clarion and Jefferson, these same vile "Lo-co-fo cos" are his "dear Democratic friends!" How he does love them!—what crockodile tears be sheds over their ruin, all en account of the odious British tariff. A friend in this county Who happened to be present at one of his political harrangues in Curls ville, Clarion county, writes us that; had be not seen the speaker and known the voice, he would never Mistrusted it to have *been John' H. Walker. In an address of over two hours, says - out correspond ent,, ho did'nt' use the, word Lo-co-fo-co once!— Shades of Ritner and Stevens, what is this world coming to! Mr. Walker may think he is playing a very deep game, but we beg leave to assure him it is a very„ very shallow one. Likd the ostrich, 'his"head may be concealed beneath a pile of Tariff rubbish„ but his, less' fair proportions are exposed to everybody but himself. , Rail Road Matters Once More. • Some one has sent us a number of the Dunkirk Journal, of the 20th, in which we find a long and labored article in regard to railroads, and the pro tentions of Erie to be the terminus of the roads from the East and the West. The article in question contains a great deal of verbage, more misrepre sentatiotf,- and not a little nonsense. It sets out with the usual stereotyped laudation of fictitious harbors, wherernono exist; of commercial advanta ges, that no ono sees except interested speculators; and profound prophecies of future greatness, that will never have a "habitation and a home,' except on paper! The pretentious of Dunkirk as a harbor, we shall not question—they speak for themselves. Although the- government, with munificent hand, ha;; spent millions in erecting breakwaters,walls and piers, the traveler up and down the lake sees naught of all this waste or money but the ruins tvraughtby the windS and waves. Sea-walls that would stand the "Atlantic's mighty dash" 411 ave crumbled to pieces before the waves that cone rolling, in from the north-west when Old Erie shakes her'mane in the spring and fall. Steamboats, Brigs and Schoon ers, avoid this "best Harbor on the lakes," l as they would the malatrom on rho coast of Norway. True this spot has been, es the Journal Faye, "bated, feared and reviled,"for in its "deepest waters," iNts "best anchorage ground," has been buried many a merchant's hopes, and •many a ship-owner's all.— But we do not dispute, we repeat, the claims of Dunkirk to be a harbor on paper, or any other way. We only object to the Journal's interference uith, and misrepresentation of, •the railroad policy of ' Erie, as a city, and Pennsylvania as a State. We claim to regulate our own affairs to suit ourselves without any of the Journal's help or advice. If wo choose to have public meetings, wo shall do so. If Pennsylvania chooses to say that there shall be no road from Erie west, unless there is a change of gauge, a's she has said, and as she trill reiterate ' this winter, iv do net know that it is any business of New Yorkor her citizens , : Having the right to dictate uponwhat terms New York may compete tvith her covnercialitupital, Philadelphia, for the 1 trade of the west, she %lit) exercise that 'right, and , •dictate the -terms to suit herself. Philadelphia is 'willing to enter the field upon equal footing 'with New York for the trade and travel of the great west, but having it in her own hands to prevent it, she will be slow to allow her rival the ndsantage of an unbroken gauge of road from Ohio to Dunkirk and Buffalo. The capitalists of Pennsylvania have embarked- their all in the great Central road from Philadelphia to Cleveland, in which there is a break of gauge at Pittsburgh—the Ohio gauge running west from there, and the Eastern, •1 foot 81, running east—flit would certainly be the heigbth of folly ir - rh would allow New York to obtain the advan tage of a continuous width of track one hundred miles beyond, and into the very centre of the trade she is aiming to secure. New York would not be thus liberal,—neither will Pennsylvania; cense quentlya it is any object for the railroad interests •of Now Ye and Boston to form a connection with the roads of the west through here, they must do it as we so,, or not at all. There must be a chaqge someone e, and that somewhere - we say must bo 'here.—firot, because the eastern roads have estab lished their width of track at 4 feet Ot t , and 6 feet, while the west have established theirs at 4 feet 10 inches; ond as we are located exactly half way be tween the two established widths, it is no more than fair and proper that they should both make this their common terminus! And secondly, because we have the power in' our own hands to force theta to do Ft), and do not lack the disposition to use that power! That, we take it is the best reason of all. But the Editor of the Journal is "wise above his day and generation." He knows better than those who obtained the charter fur the Eric and Noy h East road, what their obkct 'was in obtaing it. qt is not true," says this Sir Solomon, "that the charte( of the Road from Erie to the New York line was obtainedby citizens of Erie. with, any especial view to a connection with the New York Sa Eric rail road." Now: we beg leave to assure this ''wiseacre' that it is tritc—that one of the objects the petition ers had in ;view was that very connection—that to make "assurance, doubly sure," another charter fur a road • was obtained, at about the sane time, to, form a connection , . with -the New York and Erie road via. \Vattsburgh, Jamestown, Lec., :but that, 'becow,ing convinced that the connection could be. formed more advantageously through the medium .of the first named charter, they allowed the latter to .expire, and bent all their energies upon the one road. It is true that they contenqihated a connec tion with Buffalo over the seine grade and by the same charter, and for that reason all the heavy work of the road has been constructed for two tracks, yet an ultimat.connection with the New York and Erie road was always the primary object had in view by the originators and 'constructors of the North • East and Erie road. That such primary object will be accomplished there is not a doubt. The necessi ties of trade and travel, to say nothing of the inter ests of - the Bond holders,': who will in a few years own the New York and Eric road, will force that mad to find some other debouciter than, the, so ii called, harbor of Dunkirk. But the Editor of the Journal says "it is not true that the Erie and Nortt East Company have entered into a contract with the New York and Erie hail road Company, by which the latter-'agree to bind themselves to connect their road with the Erie and North East road, at the State Line,' thereby in ef fectterminating the New York and Erie Railroad at Erie." This is a mere quibble, and shows how hard run the- writer was to make out a case.— What ate the facts? The New York and Eric com pany are confined by their charter to terminating their road onCLake Erie in Chautauque county.— But in order to evade that close, they weremainly (instrumental in procuring the passage of the gen eral railroad-law of that State at the last session; immediately upon the passage of which, a company was formed, under Aar auspices,col led the Dunkirk and - State Lino railroad company, to !mild a road from the terminous of the'New York and Erie road at Dunkirk to intersect our road at the Line. This company, which to all intents and purposes is the New •York and Erie company, entered into a con tract s he North East and Erie company of the tenor re erred to by the Journal, and,thelNew York and Erie company, in their corporate capacity, guaraaled the fullfihnent 0f.,. all the stipulations in that contract. The company thus formed, thus backed up 'by the New York and Erie company, went on and let the entire road from Dunkirk to the line; and the Journal knows, for the men at work -can be seen from its !Alice windows, that the con tractors are progressing with their job. It may be that this guarantee ,is tVorthless—we are inclined to think It is, for we believe that the stock of the New York and Erie road is not worth five cents on a dollar—but that fact does not alter the dishonorable conduct of the managers of that company. There aro *some more points in the Journal's article we might notice, but time rind room will not permit, ncr is it essentially necessary. In what wu have said wo.have.e ndeavored - to confine ourself to a sim pie refutation of false imputations against our citi zens, and a of rebuke of tbo intermeddling spirit of the Journal. , "Still Harping on my'Daughter!" Wo have discussed the tariff question with the Gazette over and over again, and it ought to know our position—yet, with childlike garrulity, it still harps upon the same worn-olit string. What fully for an Editor, claiming the least particle of common sense, to affect nut to know whether we are in favor of the taritras it is, or a modification! Surely our light has not been hid under a bushel, that he need set down and argue, like a school boy at a debating society, the question pro and -con. That we have been and are'still in favor of the tariff of '4IJ, or Some other equally liberal revenue measure, rather than that of '.12,'00 ohe who' has read the Observer ought plead ignorance. More; wo know of no Dam oMe.who asks fur the restoration of the bill of '42, nevertholess we do know many who are willing that the bill of t4G :should he somewhat modified, and among them.are Judge Tiwreso:s, whim we hate alwaj's warmly supported, and Mr. CURTIS, wlioie election we are striving fur now. That we disi gree with them upon these points is no reason why we should not support them. We never did, and never expect to find a candidate for Congress whose views on alt the questions of the flay, entirely coin cide with our own; more especially in a district with 81) much diversity of opinion as•ours. But how, stands the Gazette and its candidate upon thisques tin? Are they where they were a few ye r ars since? If wo recollect correctly, the Gazelfr took its unal terable position that the tarilrof '42'must be restor ed! Nothing short would answer! It scouted Judge Thompson's position of a modification to meet the views of the iron-men! But now it sings a different tune, and what is more, claims an exclusive patent fur it. It has abandoned its own platform— it has thrown its own bantling overboazd, and ta ken up with the child of another, and Aims it as its own. No matter though it has in times pant stigmatized this child as Illegitimate, os the produc tion of a derriagogue, only intent to catch votes in Clarion; it stfruples not to own it now for the very same purpose,. But it won't do—the bait won't take —the people pf Clarion know ton %t ell that their pe culiar intereets are safer in the hands of Mr. CtiaTig, who stands ready to vote for any reasonable modifi cation in regard to iron, than in those of Jun 11. Walker, whose whole song heretofore has berri the restoration of the odious bill of -13 or nothing'. The Question Solved. It has always been a mooted question, we b l elieve, since good old father Adam first hid his nakd ness behind the fig-leaves, whether it actually take nine Tailors Make a man or nut. :We know there are sorbs ttho, notwithstanding they owe more to their Tailor for the position they, occupy in society than to any natural or acquired gifts of their own, de clare their firm conviction in the truth of the affir mative; but we are of the opinion that such evidence should have little weight, as we have no doubt, if the truth t null be arrived at, that the secret of all such ill-natured and illiberal sentiments could be traced to "the number of unrcceipte I bills for their diplomas of gentility which they have snugly stow ed away in their pockets. Now we have studied this question pretty closely, and we have observed that our friend Ji.wrics;, whose establishment is di rectly opposite our office, is ;engaged every day in making men according to thie latefst fasion, and in the cheapest and most approved e. I manner. Il tits them to hair with Coats, Vests, and Pants; and does ii, too, according to their "pile"! or inclination.— The question, therefore, we say Is settled—it does not take nine Tailors to make a mkt), for here is one who, to all intents and purposes, I mlkes any quan tity. Whether there are any mote of the same sort in town we litre never yet asortaineil by actual measurement and obsers ation, but presiime there aro. If we find out we will let-the public know. CU- - After profound cogitation fir three week., the new editor of the Ctronide has come to the con clusion that Peter Parley's GeogrJlphy, which we had advised him to study a little, "was defunct long before" we "was dreampt of.'' Now, we have no evidence that we "was ever dreampt of" at all, but we have Occuiar evidence that if Jour cutemparary "was ever dreampt of," the dreamers must have had the night-mare, with extraordinary long ears, mo:3t. awfully! What a Noise. The number of piano fortes mann filet ti red in New York in the course of the last year, Was fifty thou sand. The number' manufactured in other parts of the'United States is estimated at no lees than the same number, making one hundred thousand in the whole. The number of imported pianos does nut bear a very largo proportion to those manufactured at home, because the foreign instrument does not stand our climate. The Jenny Lind furor will prob ably very greatly increase tho demand for pianos this Assault with intent to Itob Mr. Peter Pierce, of this city, was Ifsaulted on Saturday night last, on Stb street, near the Cana l 1 Bridge, by four young' men. named Fisher, Tuttle', Miller and Kendrick. lie supposed their intentien was to rob hint, and in the scullb they did obtaiin his Watch, but afterwards- returned it. They were all arrested the next day and lodged in lei'. Two hare. since been bailed out. They appologised for the assault by saying they were intoxicated, but we ap prehend they will all be sober enough before they get out of the scrape. (-'The new editor of the Chronicle has become the especial defender of Mr. Walker, and says it is very "unmannerly," so it is, to throw up to him his connection with the birth, lifo and death, of that cot of whigery/tho United States Bank. No doubt— but then the DernocraCy are a very "unmannerly" set of dogs, we know! They never forget such in cidents in the lives of public men, nor neglect to make their mark at the polls! Attempt to commit a Rape. A brute, in , the shape of a man, connected with Crane & Co's. Circus, nitemptedlo violate the per son of a little girl, 6or 7 years orti,ge, in this city on Monday evening last. Ho did not accomplish his purpose, neither did the officers of . the law get held of hint, as we were in hopes they would. Or The Pittsburgh Po s t says that since the npvs of . the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill rgached that city,' quite a number of the colored folks have suddenly loft. Several' servants in the Monongahela, St. Charles and Exchange Ilbtels,are said torhave mysteriously disappeared. Mr. Paine, the gaseous man, is getting• up a one wheel horse carriage, on the principle of a wheel-barrow. In which, we suppose,,he intends to ride down to immortality, by the light of his.wa ter gas. 07- Ve are glad to hear that-Mr. Sibley, !A present able delegate fron► Minnesota, has been re elected. The Whigs tried to run him out, but-fail ed. The Democrats haye also a largo majority of the Territorial Legislature. Demociatio County Convention Pursuant to previous notice, the delegates fro the several townships assembled at the Hall c r Brown's Hotel on Saturday, the 21st a t 25% clock' I'. M.; whereupon the Hon. Joirr of North East, was tailed to thr... eld.r; Marruaw SMITH, E. , 41., of Waterford, aril J. S. BAalr,t, of Girard, were appointed Vice l'rch",er,!!, a a l I'. Dunhre, of Erie, Secretary. UFon a eth Townships, tho following delegates to:A seats 13 the Convention, viz: Erie, Eaht Ward—G. B. Reece, West Ward—W. A. Galbraith, A.P.D ;r :is l'sirt ie ^ w—Geo. Aralersan, T. J. Farza, Girard Bor.—J. S. Barnes, A. Gr... cr.d. Greene—Cyrel Drown, William Gral.ara, Harborereek—Wm. May, WM. E. MeJJangh. Elk Creek—E. P. Miller. Cunteaut—Wm. M*Kendree, Al den Itcr-n rcy. Millcreek—John W. Ryan, Jul.n Fagan. North East tp—llan. J. Bray. ley, Wm. EAVs t i Springfield—Win. Weed, J. 11. .I.3rinTy. Waterford tp—Mathew Smith, A. NVoed.,:.l t .. " Bor.—B. W. Van.,inse,' P. P. JuJ,ca. Unioh—Dr. J. Humphrey, Sam'! The convention being thus organ;zed, the ing ticket was put in nomination, fur the sopi , prt cf the Democrats of this county at the rcmioge!ect::::, viz: Fur Assembly Guu. 11. CLTLLI, of Guar.!, in! C. M. Ttntsams, of Erie; fur County Gomtrilt:::,;.tt, llsmnr A Luso:l, of Fairview; 1 4 11puty Attr r . ney General, 13cs.i. ,GRA:,T, of Erie; fur County Treasurer, Its sur CAW ELI, of litifr, Auditor, llnsur Gixouisit,- of M:l:crcek; for 1J:- rector 9f the Puor, Maj. A. 3•LI.011I, of field; for Deputy SurVeyor General, !al I', Gyr , cf Erie. On motion,W.A,Galbraith,Geo..AcLrso n . and V/ V. Baird, were appointed a committee to draft rein lutione express Ave of the sense of the tm?etin;. They reported the following which sere criani mously adopted. Resolved, That this Convention mo-t approves of the nominations mode by 1 1,, 2W,1:.ami• port State Convention, and that we pie , !ge cw tekes individuany.and coNec:ive:y, to pr,%.-.:2 election W. T. Morrir,on, Ephraim Banks gni P. 8ra , .% ley, by all fair ant Lot:Dratlc means in c power lievdred, That in J. P. Erswley, the for Surveyor GUneral, we recognize a faithiu: Ll lierent to Democratic principles, n man cf sctni judgment, strict integrizy and eni:nent:y fitted by his business talents fur the r,t has been niirninated: and no hare no iiympatily uith those %%hp would gratify their own t•mate and ia dividual griefs by opposing his- eiecti,n or With= holding from him their uppurt. Resolved, That we have the mnst entire conf:- ence in the souhd political ieWi of C. R. Costs, E-q.i the candidate for Congress in this 12,:str.ct.— His lung and c , n=istent adiierer.ce to the 11.rn.crat ic policy, his 4nowri , iitility, honesty and it,dcttry and his constant devotion to the cause cf the peo ple, entitle him to ' l our most cordial and hcarry support. Iletwicrd, That we entertain undeminished re spect for the integri tv and tried political prinrip!es of our representative. in Congress, • lion. Jams Tit )mpson. His un:iform and consistent a.lNeren ce to principle, his' fine talents and alidity as a statesman-hace win) for I , im a high rank among the distinguished men of Penn:Sylvania. Resolved,- That we hail with eatisfaction the termination of the etrur•gle on the all absorturg question which has for eo 'prig a period engto , ed the attention of our national Logi.lature, and uhlc!l has hung over us 11ko a dark Cool, overshadow lc; the futura pro:Teets of our glorious.confederv:y, and fining the heaFts' , of its peop!e with anxiety BA gloom. Res()lcrzl, That we cordially approve of the Fro iimf..ed amendment of, the Constitution of Pennsyl vania, providing for the viccti,m of Judges by the people; and that we - i regard the proposed change as eminently democratic and in harmony uith the principles of a republican form of gosernment. On motion, a committee of three from each town were selected as a committee of %igilance and cor respondence, to act till the c,mln2 e:cction. The following: named gent!emen compcse said eom; mittens. Erie,ll"cfl Ward-r-D. Derby, Prel . k Seanett, A. E. AVllitn. Las! Beigel, Wm. G. Arbuckle, D. Dippd 3fillcreck—John Pagan, A. Thayer, D. Thomas. Harborereck—R, D. Bryant, WroL W. Wyatt, Plara Elliott. :Vora East Tp.—Chauncey Campbell, NAsart Nash,` Michael Allen. • Do. Bor.—ll. 11. Allison, E. A.. Davidson, Wm. E. Ward. Greenfield—James Wilson, J. M. Finn, Henry Raymond. Vertartgo—D. Phillip., Wm. Dlore, D. William!, John R. SMitb. Wayne—Jubez Coot, D. W. Howard, H. Bright. man. Concord—P. G. Strannhan, Ezekiel Lewis, John M Cray. Union—George Smiley, Sam'l. Middleton, Alex- Smith, DuncoMbe, Truman Stewy,tlA. Ens wort h . Letyre—Geo. Keilison, E. Thintin, H. Dowler. Ilizterford Bor.—P. - P. Judson, B. W. Vanscise, John Curtis. D. Tp.—Mali Smith, Curtis Osborn, John Moore. - (h-eerie—Leonard Vaughn, C. P. Shattuck, Z. L. - • %Vebste iroshingtaa—l. y t l Taylor,. James Port. Eitenhoro—C. A. - Culbertson, .Collins Kent, Marcus Laley. ! McKe(in—T. D. Chellie, John M'Clure. h J. Fargo, Geo. Anderson. ...Franklin—Elijah Tifilanyj-O. G. Wood, Alexan der Russell. Elk Creek—E. P. Miller, Harley Sherman, Hor ace Pomroy. Conneaut—Alden Pomroy, Wm. McKendree, Jackson. Springfield—Wm. \Yced, J. H. Brindle, Wrn. Doty. Girard Tp.--Henry.Telter, Chas. Wright Do. Bor--)avid o;in, John S. Barnes. The following resolution was than olTered nod. adopted. Resolved, That the nominations made by this convention be unanimously confirmed, and the sup port of the members individually pledged to each and all, the persons named. On motion, J.'S. Barnes, of Girard, P. '\ P• son, of Waterfurd,'R. S. Brawley, of North East, W. Weed of Springfield, Benj. Grarkt, A. P. Dur lin, and James Dunlap of Erie, were appointed as a Central Committer for the county, fur the ensuing year. The thanks of the Convention were tendered to Maj. Brown for On use of his Ball. Oa motion, Resolved, That the proceedings of 0
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