THE GAZETTE.
LEWISTOWN, PA.
SITIROJV, SIT 12, 1819.
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Advertisements.
A. J. NORTH offers tor sale some valuable
property in Newton Hamilton.
F. J. HOFFMAN ins on band a large lot of
Iron, of the variojs sizes and kinds in use.
J. A. MATHEWS invites attention to his stock
0/ ware at the Lewistown Pottery.
Persons interested in the estate of DAVID
SUNDERLAND will find a notice in another col
umn.
The Brau'y Regiment of Volunteers, under
tlie command of Col. HALE, will meet for par
ade at Mifflin on Monday, 21st instant.
we have omitted two or three j
columns of yearly advertisements for the past
few weeks, to make room for the favors of our
advertising friends, we are still compelled to
give but a limited quantity of reading matter.
A short t:me, however, will make 14 more
room," and our arrangements are now such
that we shail then be able to publish more
reading matter than at any time heretofore.
CCJ~The autho: of a communication relative
to the Martha Washington Temperance Soci
ety ought to have left his address at the office.
We repeat, tor the fiftieth time, that no c< m
niunicatioco will receive a-tention at this of
fice unless accompanied by the author's name.
G. J. BALL, E-q., our State Treasurer,
entered upon the tiiscl erge of his official du
ties 011 Monday last. THOMAS NICHOLSON.
Esq., of Beaver cony, has be* n appointed
Cashier, and Mr. SASB IRN, of fine county, to
a clerkship in the department.
A considerable quantity of heavy T Railroad
iron has ceen landed on our wharves for the
use of the Centra! Railroad.
Another rus?nt.
The Pit ! t! urgii Commercial Journal Fays,
44 A superb gold watch and chain, valued at two j
hundred dul.ars, were presented to JAMES
BURNS, late President of the Canal Board ot j
Pennsylvania, by a number ot our transport- i
tson men, as a mark of respect due to a faith
ful public officer on his retirement." It further
states that the energy and zeal exhibited by-
Mr. 15. on the occasion of the rebuilding of the
44 Burnt Aqueduct" over the Allegheny, were
the moving cause of this neat compliment
The names of the donors are given, and are
H. Graaffdc. Co, Clarke &. Thaw, VV. Bing
ham, Taafe &. O'Conner, Kier & Jones, U il
lingtord &. Co, and John McFadden &. Co.
WHAT'S WRONG I—The 1 —The Iccofocos of Juniata
county, at their meeting or. Tuesday last, a
mong other matters of 4 - sound and fury" signi
fying nothing—
" Resolved, That in the selection of a dele
gate for this Senatorial District, UNION and
MIFFLIN counties have pursued an unprece
dented course, in making the nomination with
out consulting or in any way allowing Juniata
county to participate in the selection, when bv
right and usage this county is entitled to the
delegate."
Hon. James R. Morrison was appointed Re
presentative Delegate to the State Convention
with instructions to support John A. Gamble,
of Lycoming county, for Co nil Commissioner.
These instructions are also extended to the
Senatorial Delegate, which we suppose ends
the efforts made to l ead our neighbor of the
Democrat.
APPOINTMENTS BV THE PRESIDENT.
W ASHINGTON, May 9.
The Philadelphia Appointments. — VYili ain
I) Lewis, Collector of Customs, vice James
Page, removed.
Wm. J. P. White, P. M , vice George F.
Lehman, removed.
Jno. W. A-hrnead, Atoruey fi.r the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, vice Thomas M. Pet
tff, removed.
Anthony E. Roberts, Marshal tor the East
ern D.s. of Penna , vice Geo. M. Keiin, re
moved.
Peter C. Eilimaker, Naval Officer, Phila.
Thomas Evvbank, of N. Y. has been appoint
ed Commissioner of Patents, vice Edmund
Burke, removed-
ACCIDHNT.— The Miffliritown Register says
an accident of a very serious nature occurred
111 Lack township, Juniata county, on the 31st
ult. A house and church were being erected
by John Knepp, when the scaffolding gave
way and precipitated two men, named Andrew
Wallace and William Burdg, to (be ground,
injuring them very severely. Mr. Wallace's
back was broken, nd Mr. Burdg had his leg
broken und his ancle dislocated We under
stand, however, that they are recovering.
~ . CIN INNATI, May 9.
Our city is ;nn great state of excitement.
>n coomjtHtncfl of the reappearance m our
niidst ot that ilreadtul scourge, the cholera
In order to allay public apprehension, the Board
ot Heal h have issued u bulletin,from which it
a; pA..re that during the iast tweaty-to-ir hours,
there were 20 eases of cht leru, 6 of w inch tor
4-*.-iiiilC c. oi. !\ ,
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
There have been already elected, including
those from Virginia, 165 members of Congress.
Conceding the election of the Locofoco candi
date in the 14th congressional district of Vir
ginia, we have the following result for the next
Congress compared with the last: —
Next Congress. Lost Congress.
Whig. L. F. Whig. L. F.
Maine, 2 5 16
New Hampshire, 2 2 2 2
Massachusetts,* 9 9
Rhode Island,* 1 1
Vermont, 3 1 3 1
Connecticut, 13 4
New York, 32 2 24 10
New Jersey, 4 1 4 1
Pennsylvania, 15 9 17 7
Delaware, 1 1
Virginia, 1 14 9 6
South Carolina, 77
Georgia, 4 4 4 4
Ohio,* 10 10 11 9
Florida, 1 1
Michigan, 12 3
Wisconsin, f 2 1 2
Missouri, 5 5
Arkansas, 1 1
lowa, 16 16
* One vacancy.
f The Act of Congress admitting Wisconsin
into the Union, authorizes her to send three
members, from and after the 4th ol March,
1849, until the next apportionment.
There remain to be elected 66 members, as
follows:
Whole Jfumber. IF. L. F.
Maryland, 6 4 2
North Carolina, 9 6 3
Alabama, 7 2 5
Mississippi, 4 13
Louisiana, 4 13
Kentucky, 10 6 4
Tennessee, 11 5 6
Indiana, 10 4 6
Texas, 2 2
Vacancy in Ohio, 1 1
Do. in Massachusetts, 1 1
Do. in Rhode Island, 1 1
66 30 36
Elected as above, 165 99 75
Total, 231 120 111
111
Whig majority if remaining 66 members are
of same politics as in last Congress, 9.
There is nothing in this statement, says the
Baltimore Patriot, from which we extract it,
which is discouraging to the Whigs. On the
contrary there is every thing to stimulate them
to exertion. If they only niokc the exertion
which their cause demands of them, they w ill
increase this majority in the House of Repre
sentatives. Rut for the disaster in \ irgir.ia, by
which we lose four if not five members, this
would now be certain. That disaster is not to
be ascribed to any falling off in the strength of
the administration there, but rather to local di
visions and a culpable negligence on the part of
the Whig districts, which allowed the opposi
tion to succeed, w hen it was only necessary for
Whigs to unite and vote, in order to have elect
ed not merely the number of members they had
before, but more than that. As it is, a very
few votes, perhaps not two hundred all told,
were only wanting to have secured every dis
trict in the State that ever was represented by
a Whig.
FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.
Lady Franklin recently addressed a letter to
the President of the United States relative to
the expedition which went out from England in
D 45, under the command of Sir John Franklin,
for the purpose of discovering what navigators
had long supposed to exist, a North-west pas
sage to the Pacific Ocean. The two ships com
posing the expedition were last seen in June of
1645, and have never been heard of since. The
expedition was not expected to be heard from,
unless it was successful, before the close of
1847, w hen it was the intention cf Sir John to
return. As soon as it became doubtful what
had befallen the expedition, Lady Franklin,
, with the spirit of a true woman, set herself to
the work of finding iier lost husband, by offering
rewards for any intelligence from him, and by
interesting her own and other governments in
his fate. Shu has been so far successful, that
every where a deep interest is excited in his
behalf, but, as yet, nothing ha? been heard from
the expedition. The British government have
offered the munificent reward of <£20,000 for
anyone who may render assistance to the lost
vessels or their crew s, or any portion of them.
In the letter addressed by her to the Presi
dent. she seeks to enlist our people in the effort
to find and rescue Sir John Franklin and his
companions, if they be yet w here human succor
can reach them. The response made by the
President, through the Secretary of State, to
this appeal, is such as becomes him as the head
of A great nation, and will find a response in
every true American heart.
WASHINGTON, April 25, 1849.
MADAM :—Your letter to the resident of the
United States, dated April 4, 1849, has been re
ceived by him, arid he has instructed me to
make to you the follow ing reply :
The appeal made, in the letter with which
you have honored him, is such as would strong
j iy enlist the sympathy of the Rulers and the
People of any portion of the civilized world.
To the citizens of the United States, who
share largely in the emotions which agitate the
public mind of your own country, the name of
Sir JOHN FRANKLIN has been endeared by his
; heroic v irtucs, and the sufferings and sacrifices
which he has encountered for the benefit of
mankind. The appeal of his wife and daughter
j in their distress has been borne across the wa
ters, asking the assistance of a kindred people
to save the brave men who embarked in his un
! fortunate expedition ; and the people of the
i United States, who have watched with thedeep
| est interest that hazardous enterprise, will now
; respond to that appeal by the expression of their
| united wishes that every proper effort may be
made by this Government for the rescue of your
husband arid his companions.
To accomplish the object you have in view,
; the attention of American navigators, and es
pecially of our whalers, will he immediately in
voked. All the information in the possession
of this Government, to enable them to aid in
discovering the missing ships, relieving their
crews and restoring them to their families, shall
be spread far and w ide among our people, and
all that the Executive Government of the Unit
ed Htates, in the exercise of its constitutional
powers, .can effect to meet this requisition on
American enterprise, skill and bravery, will be
promptly undertaken.
Ihe hearts of the American people will be
touched by your eloquent address to
fne'r Chief Magistrate, and they will join with
you in an earnest prayer to Him whose spirit is
on the waters that your husband and his com
panions may yet be restored to their country
and their friends
I have the honor to be your Ladyship's fiietsd
and oOcJieut servant,
JOH.V M. CLAYTON
Ladv Jane Franklin, Bedford Place, London.
THE SASDWICH ISLANDS —The suggestion
occurs in a New York paper that it would be
well for the United States to annex the Sand
wich Islands to the Union, giving to the whole
group the name of the Slale of Hawaii.
The importance of these Islands, in view of
the trade of the Pacific, being nearly midway
between Oregon and China, is prominently
urged, says the Baltimore American, and the
fact, no doubt, will be generally admitted.
The depopulation which, for some came or
another, has been going on throughout the
group since its discovery by Captain Look, :s
also uliudcd to as indicative of the inevitable
reeult that tiie Island must, sooner or later,
come into too possession ot some civilized
power. Thus we g< —Annexation seems to
be the word. " Manifest destiny" is: doubtless
in the ascendant. A great country this, when
it shall be fenced in. #
LI MBER TRADE OF THE SI:S<HJEUAVNA. —Some
idea may be formed of the extent of the lumber
trade of the Susquehanna, says the Harrisburg
Intelligencer, from the following memorandum
of the number of rafts and arks that passed that
place during the late annual spring freshet.
The account was kept by Mr. Jeremiah Reese,
keeper of the eastern toll-house of the Market
street bridge, and furnished to that paper by
him for publication.
The number of rafts were as follows :—From
the 224 to the 30th of March, 415 : on the 30th,
200 ; April Ist, 100 ; 2d, 2xl; 3d, 545 ; 4th, 2x7;
sth, 32; 6th, 135 ; 7th, 90 ; bth, 35; 9th, 19; 10th,
22; 11th, 27 ; 17th, 4—total, 2252.
The number of arks were as follows :—From
the 22d of March to April 4th, Ix 3; April sth,
5; 6th, 14; 7th, 15; xth, 12; 9th, 2; 12th, 5;
13lh, 30; 17th, 2—total, 209. Total arks and
rafts, 2320.
The Onondaga Standard argues that Con
gress under the clause of the Constitution
which guarantees to every State a Republican
form of Government, ought to rtfjuire South
Carolina forthwith to adopt a Constitution
more in accordance with Republican princi
ples, as a pre requisite to her longer continu
ance in the Union. Whatever may he the
duty of Congress in the premises, there c m be
no doubt thar the Government of the Palmetto
S a " is as far removed Iron; Republican-m
in its main features as that of Russia or Aus
tria.
NEW TRIAL GRANTED —The counsel of
Alirr.an, who, it will bo recollected,
was tried nnd found guiity of the murder o:
In- brother, in Clearfield county, at tht* Febru
ary C'>u:\ have euccecoeJ in tutor application
tor ane w tri-l. The case vviil be tried over
<_ ■ :i at the September term. — Bellefonlt
J), mocrat.
b he verdict stt aside is said to be that of
the jury who, being unable to make up their
minds, j lined together in a prayer, which pro
duced conviction. The Court, it seems, con
siders prayer in the jury box as informal, the
jury being eworn to try a man by tne law arm
the facts.
The New York Sunday At as announc's
that Edwm Forrest, the tragedian, has been
separated from h:s wife, Caroline Norton Sin
clair Forrest, daughter of the vocalist, John
Sinclair. They were married in 1*36 in Lon
don, and have iived happily, as the At a.
states, until the beginning ot the last winter,
when Mr. F. became moody and melancholy.
Mrs. Forrest is described as a iaily of taienl
and oeauty She has been the mother of l< ur
children, ali of whom, however, died in in
fancy.
Locofuco Rtjoicing.
A salute was tired at 80.-lon oil Monday, by
the Democrats proclaiming their satisfaction
at the removal of Marcus Morton, Lemecra',
from the collcctorship ot that port. The Post,
the hading Locofoco paper, says:
"It Mr. Po'k and .Mr Walker, had done
their duty faithfully, we should not have been
dependent upon Gen. Taylor and Mr. .Mere
dith for a tavor we now most gratefully ac
knowledge."
A TIMELY HINT. —The editor of tlie CULTI
VATOR reminds his readers that caterpillars
should be attended to in season, and that when
tins is done, the labor of extirpaiiou wiil be
trilling. He says, "one easy mode of destruc
tion is to apply strong' soap suds to the nest—
if'the tree is large, a swab tied to the end of a
pale will accomplish the purpose effectually.
Suds which have been used by the wash.wo
man are as g Hid as any, and by rubbing a swab
on the nest—after it has been dipped into the
suds—the worms are quickly destroyed."
SENTENCE OF RESUUUECTIONIBTS. —The p u
ties ut Pittsburgh, convicted of stealing the
body of a young lady tor dissection, have been
sentenced—Dr. Dickson to pay a tine of S3OO
and custs, and I)r. Heron a fine of $l6O.
Boyd, the other convict, was absent.
MORE PROSCRIPTION. —EIy Moore has been
removed from the office of U. IS. Marshal, and
Henry F. Talmadge appointed m his place.
Reason—the Marshal's office is in default for
£20,000.
The seventeen year locusts, which are to
appear this year in the western part of this
btute, have been turned up with the plough,
in Beaver county, by the hundreds. The hogs
eat them wi'h avidity.
ARKANSAS. —John S. Roane's official major
ity tor Governor over his VVhig competitor is
103. Roane entered upon the duties of hie
office on the 10th. At this rato locofocoiiin
will soon disappear trom Arkansas.
NEW PACKET LINE.—A new line of
I acke's has been formed to run between
Johnstown and Pittsburg.
Notices.
The publishers have favored us with a copy
of THE WATER CURE MANUAL, a papular
work, containing much valuable information,
embracing descriptions ct the various modes of
bathing, the Hygenic and Curative effect ol
air, exercise, clothing, occupation, diet, water
drinking, <fec , together with descriptions of
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work, and find it embodies much valuable in
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From the Louisville Journal.
The postmaster at Nate lies, he who furnish
ed the bill uit-aie ofcertaw aegroea, bought by
• X'b. to the Free Suiters of Ohio, is re
moved, — Montgom' ry ( Ala.) Journal.
We wonder whether he bus made written
application to the Postmaster Genera! to iearn
* it" cau&e ut bis removal. The cortespon
d nee between him and the Department, it
n >y has !: !:eu p'ace, must be well worth pub
-1 ishinj Way doesn't tiic editor of the Union
call for if ?
The Pittsburgh Post has a picture of a
fiioht'al taking lu-trumeiit, which it cal sa
go: lotine, with a dozen or fifteen heads sc:t ;
sored a!! around if. We cou'd not possibly
imagine a more striking" and pa pable jusiifi
liation than this picture affords<f thedon<s or
the administration. A meaner, viier, more
viiiitin-us looking set of heads and laces were
never si en on human shoulders —or off
The editor ol the Washington Union, in
speaking of what he cal s the operations of tb
t guillotine, says that "the blood ol the martyrs
is the seed of the church." It must be a pre
cious "church" that springs from such rosea< iy
blood as circulates in the veins of the nn-sot
the ejected piacemeu of Mr. Folk's adminis
tration.
The Matches Courier asks ' whether per
fectly ra.-.d Loeufoxo edit rs can be honest."
We can't tei! —few or none of them have ever
iried.
The financial condition of the American ana
Foreign Bible Society i- prosperous. For the
first time since its organization, Us receipts ex
ceed its expenditures.
FOOD FOK THE SCAFFOLD. — Within a few
tnoiUhs Irum the present tune, nine u HI.
and one woman will, according to the
t rms of their sentences, ascend the scaf
fold. Vintner at Baltimore, for the tnur
iler of Mrs. Togo Cooper. Wood at New
York, for the murder of his wife. Bald
win, at St. Louis for the murder of his
brother-it! law. Letitia Blstsdell, at Am
herst, N. 11., for the inuider of the mo
ther and child of her adopted lather.
Washington G untie, colored, at Boston for
Ihe murder of a rival lover of his mistress
Ihe Rev. Ezra Dudly, at Haverhill, N.
! Hampshire, fur the murder of his wife
wiuie returning from a prayer meeting.
The negro Shorter, at Buffalo, for the mur
der, in the frenzy of his abolition zeal, of
a white young man, who presumed in
conversation with a companion, to
something about " niggers." Two slaves
at Lexington, Ivy-, on Ist June, for mnr
d-f of Henry Yeliman. Alex. Jones, col
ored, at New York, 22(1 June, for arson.
And (licit: are some half dozen late mur
der committals yet to be tried- Tiuiy
w ill the annals of the scaffold be no.; the
least remarkable leatiue til the history of
| ttie year 1*49, in these United Slates.
I
IHON StowE9.--The New York papers
cent on descrip'ions of a block of five iron
stores, erected in that city by Mr. Knout
H. L AINC;. The stores are 20 by 50 leet,
and were built in a fit lie more than two
mouths, at a cost of about 629,000, and
with scarcely any of the hustle and incon
venience attending the erection of brick or
stone houses. The Tribune, speaking of
the iron storC9, says—
The effect is exceedingly light and ele
i gant. Each story is supported bv rows of
fluted pilasters, the courses between which
tire compactly bolted, and the seams of
panels completely covered and concealed
from the view by on ornamental cornice.
Thus the widis are in fact one solid iron
block capable of supporting an immense
weight. There are about 150 tons of iron
in the buildings.
Fetal Ef ds of Chloroform. —Another
| fatal case of chlorofotm is reported by the
Cincinnati Allan. A young man named
George, in undergoing an op cra *'tt ,| t to
; relieve deafness, took chloroform ty escape
j pain, and never recovered from its influ
! enre.
PK'>'CBH*TI'>N —The sheer bun-bug of
tiie crv of proscription, raised liy the De
mo<;fHiie pas.-, in coi.'-eqiience of the re
moval of ofnet rs since the commencement
of Gen. Taylor's Administration, is shown
in the annexed passage of a Washington
letter to the New York Journal of Com
merce :
Tho democrats, I must repeat, demand
all the offices, and esteem it a vio'tiMun of
their right* to take one from them We
kn >w the pretension, and would like to
know upon what uis founded. It wuuld,
I should think, be somewhat difficult to
persuade even the democrats themselves,
wiffi lew exceptions, that their party pos
sess an exclusive capacity for * I.e discharge
of official duiies. From what I know of
offices and ihi ir duties, 1 hive been led to
believe ileal, in inost instances, lhey are
mere sinecures, quite as much so as Mr.
Kit M -ore's office, it is a fact, as every
o: f e who knows any thing must know,
about offices here. Therefore, even if the
.■xclusne claims of competency for the
democracy were admitted, it would not
rollovv ffidt democrats alorie should be the
recipients of salaries, which the Govern
in' nt chooses so lavishly to hes'ow. Al
most any man ii ibis cuiurtry cn write
ins name, and is therefore competent to
' sign his receipt for i is month's salary,
and tins is the chief and almo-ff only labor
that officers cf the public departments
here, and hundreds of officers abroad, un
dergo in the public service. What labor
and what merit are to lie attributed even to
those who, by contracts with the govern
ment, acquire in a few years a fortune
which no talent nr industry in any pri
va'e walk of life eouid achieve? Ido not
envy my democratic friends their long en
joyed ami exclusive benefits. 1 would be
loth to possess horn upon the trrms on
which thoy have been generally held.
But I do think that uf:er the recent cor.
deninatiou passed bv the whole people of
the United States against the spoils party
and tin- spoils stem, a little more modes
j ty of pretension would become them.
TEXAS —Late Texan papers contain
I accounts of Indian tu'reges, irom which
! it appears that the Camanches, Tonko
way* an I Lipan*, and perhaps oilier tribes,
, arc rioting ir. a series of lawless aggres
si <ns throughout the valley of the Rio
Grande and in Ntw Mexico. The great
! extent of our Texan frontier makes it im*
possible for the small military force i.ow
occupying the posis t i render efficient pro-
I ction to our pj'-ple, and the probability
i is t at tiie Government will be compelled
to send n small army to Texas, if we are
not again involved in an Indian war.
INGENIOUS. —E- 11. Howard, late post
; master at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has
started hr California, in a boat wagon of
h - own c instruction. The box of the wa
got is a b at, set on steel springs, the
v hole of which is covered with oil cloth,
making a very comfortable house. The
establishment is -o arranged that, upon
reaching a river, the running ge.r of
the wigon can be unshipped in a few
rn nntes, an I t iken aboard the boat while
r 's-mg the stream. This is decidedly
hi best overland outfit we have noticed.
THE Goto DOLLARS. —-The gold dol
i:os made th< ir appears' ce yesterday.—
r ey are a beautiful coin, but much 100
small to be popular, being at least one
fourth lcs< in .-ize than our half-dimes.—
Ooe side is decorated with the head ol
Liberty and the -tars of the republic.—
'in the reverse are the words "United
States <if America." with a wreath and "1
| Dollar, IS4'.). Daily Neirs.
HEAVY "DAMAGES. —The Connecticut
lover Railroad Company have had to pav
Lzia S. Corning, §9.045 for injuries re
reived on their road. The accident hap
pened fium ;.i collision eareless-ly induced.
Mr. C. sutfered no great inconvenience
for several days; but soon after he exper
ienced serious inconvenience from his spine
hip and head.
Dr. Roberts, a promising young physi
cian of Syacese. N. Y.,died quite sudden
ly last wek. LI is death was occasioned
j by touching a pimple on his forehead,
which was bleeding, with some matter
from a vaccine scab which he had just
1 removed from the arm of a child. The
I poison appeared to operate instantly, as
in a few hours be wis delirious.
ARTESIAN WELL —This well now in
processof b. iog l>.Ked at Charleston, S.
C., has reached the depth of 750 feet.
The auger his not reached 'he Burr stone,
having parsed through nothing but marl.
Water w ill not come till the Burr rock
■ be perforated.
The big tent of Welch's Circus was
1 blown over at Rochester in a cale on
Monday evening week, while l\s">o were
present. W m. 11. Crowel! was struck by
a pole and killed, leaving a wife and four
children.
I lie JSantvcktt Enquirer says that the
statement respecting the steward of the
ship Win. IVnn, having brought home
; four thousand dollars woith of gold dust
i from California, is untrue. He h*a brought
■ very little, if any.
I he Pennsyhanin is imploring the Ilun
| kers and Free Soilers of New York to
unite. It no longer denounces the Utter
HS "traitors"—"arch traitors"—but mod
e*!y stylos thorn "our republican bro
thers.*
1 he death of Jap. Cooper, uncle of Jas.
f emu more Cooper, took place at Oswego,
N. on the Ist. He had reached his
' ) Pi,r > and though a Quaker, m I ved
honorably in the Revolution.
Folt E I G_N NEW S.
BY TIIE STUAHER AMERICA.
French Intervention in Italy. —The a f.
fairs of ihe Continent are stili in a V erv
distracted state, though there are sirne
bright spots in the general gloom.
In the National Assembly '■! France, on
Monday, the President of the Council cf
Ministers made a communication relative
to the inte; venlion of France in Italv. {}„
stated, in substance, that the counter covp
of the victoiics gained by the Austrian
over the Piedmontese would be felt through
out the whole < f Central Italy ; that acrbn
appeared to bo imminent in the Roman
States, and that France would not remain
indifferent to tuch a state of things. The
Government have therefore determined to
send an army of 14,000 to Rome to
the Pope, Lenoil L'Ondinot to command
The cholera is largely on the increase in
Paris and many persons of opulence have
become its victims. Up to the 19,1, t( iera
hnvp been 1762 case.-, of which 1022 hid
proved fatal.
The German Empire. — Germanv U still
in a state of great confusion. The Frus.
sian Government is said to have obtained
the assent of a few of the small States, such
as Hesse Ca-sel, Brunswick and U'eiman
to the assumption of the Imperial dirrnitv
by the King ; but these form only a small
part of the Slates of Germany.
Austria is of course violently opposed to a
plan which would transfer the Imperial dig.
nity from the House of Hapsburg to that
of Brandenburg; and Bavaiia, the third
State in Germany, for population and influ
ence, is scarcely less so. Both France and
Russia are strongly opposed to the change.
All these difficulties inay perhaps be got
over, if the smaller States of Germany
were unanimous in favor cf the union with
Prussia. But this is not the fact. Hano
ver, w hose assent is essential to the cam.
ing out of the scheme, is not likely to give
ii ; and Saxony has so strong a sen*e nf
what reasons she has against re constituting
the German Empire on the basis piopusto
at Frankfort, and even if they could be over
come it is doubtful if she would assent.
The Austrian Empire is in as great dif.
ficultv as ever, for it is clear from the re
treat of all the divisions of the Austrian
army towards Pesth, that they have been
repulsed by the Hungarians. The great
struggle now is for ihe position ofthe Hun
garian's fortress of Comoro on the Dan
ube, which tiie Austrian have beseiged for
several weeks., and which the Hungarians
tie endeavoring to relieve. If they should
succeed, the cause of Austria wili be des
perate in Hungary.
Charles Albert, though he could not re
sist R-ideizky, indicted a great injury on
Austria, by compelling the Austrian Gov
ernment to detach an army of 20.000 from
Croatia to Italy at the breaking out ofthe
Sardinian war. This army is now hasten
ing back to Hungary, and may perhaja
arrive in time to check the Hungarians.
Tne luipetial army beseiging Comoro is
now exposed to a three-fold attack—from
tiie Nonh, the South and from the gairi*
son of the fortress itself. The country
surrounding Comoro is all but in the hands
ofthe Magyars, and Comorn is but twen
ty leagues distant from Vienna. The Im
perial party amongst the inhabitants of
Pesth, are quitting the Hungarian capital
and flying to Grau and then to Raap and
Presburg.
\ ienna papers of the 14th, furnish pos
itive information of the occupation of the
important position taken by the Hunga
rians. The details of this action are given
by the German papers, and are to the ef
fect that, Windiscberatz, at the head of his
best regiment, opposed the progress of the
Hungarians in the direction of Comorr.
A tierce engagement ensued in which ihe
superior tactics of the Magyars proved ir
resistible.
A fairs in Italy. —ltaly is still in in
describable confusion. Tiie Republicans
have been put down in Genoa, after liar,
ing had the command of that beautiful city
for nine days.
In Tuscany there had been a general
rising in favor of the Grand Duke, ar.'J the
man who was recently dictator is nc*
prisoner.
Venice is besieged by the Austrian by
sea and land, and must surrender.
In Sicily the struggle has commenced
Willi dreadful ferocity, and a desperate bat
tle took place on Good Friday, between
the Neapolitans and the Swiss*troops and
the people of Catana, which continued all
night and ended in the defeat of the Cat*
anians. A great number of them were
killed and the city was afterwards sack
ed and plundered. The terror caused l v
this defeat has caused the city of Svra
ruse to surrtnder without resort to arms-
Palermo is now the only place of much
strength in ihe hands of the Sicilians.
A desperate resistance is expected there,
but with very little chance of success.
Denmark and Germany. —The Dan Jh
entrenchmenis next to Dope!! had been
attacked and carried by the Saxon and
Bavarian troops. The loss of the Ger
mans in this affair is calculated at 150 to
200 men. Several additional captures
have been made by the Danish vessel*, and
it is stated that German emigrant ship*
w ul not be exempted.
From Ireland —We have the usual
quantity of misery and crime, but there is
nothing of special importance. Theju f )'
in the case of Mr. Duffy ofthe Nation
have again disagreed, and he h3? been
at liberty on bail, for his appearance at d.e
next commission.
It is stated that a commercial treaty
about to b formed between England ate
France, the leading features of which vvu
b the free admission of brandy, wine an
fruit from France, —coI iron, l * lii
from England. Whatever advantage*
may be conferred upon French vessels - s
the alteration of the Navigation Lawi
are to be liboially reciprocated by tin
Government ofthe Republic.