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The CARLISLE Ibmom JOB PRINTING OFFICE is the
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suited for Plain and Fancy work of every kind, enables
us to do Job Printing at the shortest notice and on the
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U• S• GOVERNMENT.
President—FßANKLlN Primer_
Ilee Preshient—(do fheto), L• 11. ATettESOX.
L'ecretary of State—D . M. L. )l. REY,
Secretary of Interior—ltotoqur Mceattluvp.
Fueretary of Tronsury—JA :UM U(.11/x.
Feerelar,i; of 1.1 - ;:tr—JErrimmei
fteeretary of Nary—JAS. C. llnnntN.
'.t. Nest (leneral—.l AMES CA MI. um.r.. •
ttnrney t-loneral—tlALtut -CUSHING.
Chit./ Justice of United States—lL If. TANEY
STATE GOVERNIVIVNT.
Governor--Wu. Btat.m. •
tz,'rotary of State—Cif tiu,Es NV. lhArK.
SUMsyllr Beneral—.l. P. BitAm - LET.
Auditor Uent•m(—F. BANKS.
Treasurer—.loSrPli
Judge m of the SUpreme Court—J. 8. BLAcit, E. Lewis,
AS. B. Low Rm. U. WooDwAltr., J. KNox.
COUNTY Orrxwons.
President Judge-:-Ilon..l.oirs 11. OnMl.6f.
Associate Jud,res—llon. John lamp, &num' Wood
burn.
Distrik attorney—John 3f. Shearer.
Pr,Almnotary—deorge Zinn.
Ite ,, rder. &v.—Samuel 31artin.
lt , •zister—Alfred L. Sponsler.
113 : th Sheriff--Joseph Melhrruond; Deputy, JtUDOS
Whiner.
County Treasurer—N. W. Woods.
Coroner—Aosmh C. Thompson.
County Commissioners—John Robb:James A must rong.
Georlm M. Graham. Clerk to Commissioners, William
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Directors of the Poor—Deorge Sheaffer, George Brin
dle, John, C. Brown. Supvrintendent of Poor Douse—
Joseph Luhnch.
BOROUGH OFFICERS.
Chief Burgess—Col. Aintsinose Noun.
'"Assistant )largess—Charles Ort
Town Council—J..lth 11. Parker, President) E. Beatty,
'Henry Myers.. I. S. Egbert. IllinaiL4. Christian In
it./T. John Uutahal, Peter Monyer, lieu. Z. Bretz.
Clerk to Cewnwil—.humus Mullin.
Con.slables—Justipt/ Stewart, high Constable; Itotrort
MeUirtiley, Witrd*Constable..
OHIIROBEES.
First Fresbyterian Church, northwest angle of Centre
Square. Iter. Cosa kr P. Mao, Pastor.—:-erl ivos rr ory
Sunday morning at ;11 orlork, A. 711., and ice: ockn•k,
Se, end Presbyterian Ch ureh. corner of South Hanover
sod Pomfret streets. No pasbir at present, but pulpit
otments. Services commence
at 11 o'clock, A. M., and 7,4 o'clock, I'. M.
St. Johns Church, (Prot. Rpiscopali northeast anglii of
Centre Square. Bev..incon B. Moms, Rector. Services
at 11 o'clock, A.M., and 4 o'clock, P. M.
Eitz.lish Lutheran Church, Bedford between Main and
Loather streets. Rev. JACOB FRY Pastor. Services
at 11 o'cloel . :, A. M., and 7 1 A o'clock,•P.3l.
(iceman lief waled Church, Louthor, between Hanover
and Pitt streets. Rev. A. 11. Katlnta, Pastor. Services
at luil,( y o'clock, A. M. .
Methodist E. Church, (first Charge) corner of Main and
PitCstreets. Rev. S. L. M. Corssot, Pastor. Services at
/1 o'clock, A. M., and 736 o'clock, M.
Mtliodist E. Church - , (second Charge) Rev, J. M.
.303714. Pastor. Services In College Chapel, at 11 o'clock.
A. M., nod fi o'clock, I'. M.
Union Cath.)llZ• Church, Pomfret, near East street.—
Eervices by Rev. Mr. Losatmo, every second Sunday. .
A German Lutheran Church is in course of erection
on the corner of Pomfret and Bedford streets. The eon
gro nitiou. which has yet no stated Pastor, hold their
services In Education Hall.
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.Whon changes in the above are necessary the pro
per persons are requested to notify us.
DICKINSON COLLEGE•
Rev. CharleN Collins, President and Professor of Moral
Science.
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Boy, Iferrnan M. Johnson, Professor of Philosophy
and linelish Literature.
,ram e H W, Ninrshall, Professor of Ancient Langtinges.
- Lev. Otis If. Tiffany, Professor of .11,ffhernaties.
Witliani 31. Wilson, Lecturer on Natural &Innen find
Curator of the Museum.
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Alexander Schein, Professor of Hebrew and Modern
L Ingo:4;es.
li4jamin Arbogast, Tutor in Lapgunges.
Samuel 1). nillinan", Principal of the Grammar School.
William A. Suively, Assistant in the Orannuar School
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, \4_3OItPOII.A.TIONS.
CARLISLE. DEPOSIT llASE.—Piesldont, Itrefinrd Parker;
Cashier, Wm, M, Beaten'; Clerks, henry Stowe!' ;,
Hoffer. Directors, Richard Parker, William Kerr, John
Zug, Henry Saxton, Samuel Wherry, Jactit. Lelby, John
S. Sterret, henry Logan, Robert Moore.
DVIInERLA NO VALLEY RAIL Roan ComeANY.--President,
Frederick Watts; Secretary and Treasurer, Edward M.
Diddle ; Superlutentlant, A. F. Smith. Passenger trains,
twice a day Eastward, leaving eitrlisie nt'7 o'clock, A, M.
and a ~'clork, P. M. Two trains every day Westward,
leaying l'arMe at 10 t;clock,..A. M. and 11. o'clock, I'. M.
CtßLaaa.E (Its Am) WAyEn COMPAY.—Prosldent, Fred
erick Watts; Secretary, Lemuel Todd; Treasurer, Wm.
M. Deetem: Directors, F. Watts, 'Richard Parker, Lemuel
Todd, Wm. Pootem, Dr. W. W. Dale, Franklin liard
uer, !leery Glass.
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T.rrrrat Panaus.—Postage on all lottery of:one-half
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paid. (except to California and Oregon, which are 0 cents
pre-paid, or 10 cents unpaid.)
NEM ht•ACESUI..--reSta,‘ , o on the IlEnntn—within the
county. ruza. Within the State 13 cents per year. To
any part of the United States, 20 cents.
l'ostage on all transient papers under 3 ounces in
weight, I cent pro-paid or 2 cents unpaid.
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VOL. LV..
813111111 ARI OF NEWS.
Cholera at Pittsburg--Irish Riot in NOW
Orleans--Whig Victory in Blaine, &C.
TuuttsDAY, Sept. 14.
A despatch from Columbia says that •the
total number of deaths since the cholera
made, its appearance there is 84. There were
40'C.iises still under tre'atment.—lntelligenee
from. Washington says there -is no truth in
the statement that a treaty for the annexa
tion of the Sandwich Islands has been re
ceived.—Further returns from Maine confirm
the great triumph of the Whigs and Anti Ne
braska party in thelate State eli.etion. They
have carried the Qovernor, members of Con
gress and Legislatnre.—A heavy rain fell at
Cincinnati yesterday.—A despatch reports
the cholera as raging in Knoxville . and Mad
ison, Tennessee. and the panic-stricken in
habitants ildeing in. all directions.
At Columbia, Pr., yesterday, six deaths of
cholera were reported, and four new cases.—
The ravages of the yelbm fever at the South
are terrible.' In Charleston, la,st week, there
were lib' de:l6ls; being by yellow fever.—
Id - Savannah the deaths by fever on Satur
day alone, -- were - 33. and Oil Monday AC).—
Many of the physicians were sick, but others
frbm the country were going to their relief.
Nc , arly every place of business was closed,
and there were not hands enough willing to
bury the dead. The bodies were thus left re
maining, at, one, cemetery. unburied. In New
Orleans, last week, the deaths at, the Charity
Hospital by yellow.fever, numbered 125. At
Brownsville, Texas. on the 24, the disease
was increasing.—The damage 'to the rice
crop, in the interior of Smith Carolina aml
aeorg.ia, proves to be immense. All the
plantations along the principal rivers have
been completely dessolated.—A battle is re
ported to have occurred near Victoria. be
tween the government, troops and the-insur
ge:nts, lasting three days, the latter retiring
'finally.-with a small loss. and the former los
ing four hundred i men. San Luis Potosi is
said to'have raised the rebel standard.
SA TURDA Y, Sept. 16
A great riot at New Orleans, between Na
tive Americans and the Irish, took place on
Sunday evening last. Several buttdred per
sons, variously armed with murderous weap.
one, participated in the conflict; many per
sons hying shot, and some three or four kill
ed. The military were -- ? iunmediately called
out, and thounili they arrived too•late to pre
vent the Shedding or blood, yet they prevent
ed the renewal of the fight.--Thc cholera
broke out sud‘lenlv at Pittsburg two days
ago. Sonic ninety deaths ii!rere reported On
'Thursday and Friday. The Supreme Court
adjourned in consequence of. the prevalence
of the epidemic.—At Columbia seven deaths
were reported yesterday, and four new cases.
'Flue impression prevailed that the disease
was decreasing. The water in the river had
risen nearly two feet, owing to rains in the
North, and a caul breeze was prevailing.—
Yesterday a dillicultv took place at Lexing
ton. K v., Ag-riciultariil Fair between Thomas
Bedford and George 11. Thomas. Each par
ty tired fimr times, when Mr. Thomas was
wounded the thigh. and one of the balls
took erica in the person of a colored girl,
wounding her seriously. Thomas Ferguson,
a friend of one of the Parties, was seriously
cut with a bowie knife.
The cholera at Pittsburg is reported as di
minishing, the weather being more favorable.
On Saturday twarty deaths and ten new
cases occurred. At Columbia, on. Saturday,
there were six cases of the epidemic in the
hospital.- The cases in the hands of private
physicians were generally doing well. A
good deal of, distress still existed among, the
poorer classes.— '
Bishop 'Wainwright, of New
York, is lying very ill of-typhus fever.—A
special messenger, with despatches from the
British Government to the British Minister,
relative to the Greytown bombardment; ar
rived at Washington on the Ist instant.—Al
fairs in Tamaulipas,llexieo, are extremely
unsettled. Governs r Woll had stopped all
communications with Matamoras from Texas.
A great force of DM insurgents is reported at
Victoria.--A .singular
,excitement at Wash- .
ington, D. C., has been caused by the publi
cation of along list of names purporting to
be_,all the members of one-of the-ward-as
sociations of the Know Nothing order, and
the threatened publication of similar lists
'from. all the wards of that city. •
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The New Orleans riot between the Irish
and Americans was•renewed last Fridas, and
one woman and three men wounded. Tl
Mayor had issued a proclamation 'ordering
all the bar-rooms to be closed, for the prs
ent, at eight o'clock iii thtievening, and. di,
reeting the enrollment of n Alieckal
From the particulars. - given it appears that
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1854.
FRIDAY, Sept. 15
Sq)t. 18
TUESDAY, Sept. 19
au Irishman having shot n dog owned by an
American, for biting him the Anterior) en-
tleayored to get 'a watchman to pursae and
arrest him. But the watchmen in that sec
tion being nearly all Trish,'tedillieulty ensu
ed, in which the-American and his friends
were arrayed against the Irish police. The
eholera at Pittsburg caused forty deaths on
Sunday., and iifty-three'yesterdan and the
total number Of deaths for the last five clays
was two hundred and fifty-three. Great al
arm prevailed, and many persons were leav
ing- the city.—Cholera at Bank) last week
mused twenty-five deaths.--The Prohibitory
Convention of Phila., met again yesterday.
A. resolution nominating James Pollock as
the temperance 'candidate for Governor was•
offered, but declared out of order. , The coal- .
mittv' appointed to investigate the .charges
against Mr. Hamilton, the Temperance nom
inee fur Senator, reported in extenso favora
bly to IL A number of gmitlemen, how
ever, expressed their dissatisfaetion with the
report, and declared their intention to vote
for Mr. Br() imp, the democratic nominee for
the same otliee. Subsequently, during the
afternoon session, a resolution was adopted
by a nearly unanimous vote. recommending
the Hon. Jame. 4 Pollock as the temperance
eantiblatri for Governor.-:- - The l u de l iinalent
Whig Convention. yesterday, nominated Tho
mas Mcfirath for iteeorder of : Deeds. Jacob
Bennett for •Prodionittary of the Distriet
Court, .Tames ltobb for Cferk of the Quarter
Sessions, and Casper I", I,ohims for Coroner.
A democratic mass meetiug was held last
evening in Indepetalence Square, to cele
brate the adoption of the Federal Constitu
tion. .'There were processions by torchlight,
a display of fire-works, and a glorification
generally.
The packet ship Yorktown, just arrived at
quarantine, New York, from Liverpool, had
21 deaths from cholnra on 'her voyage and .
the ship SC Petersburg, from Thivrei had
43 deaths from the same disease. Bishop
Waiaright, the Episcopal prelate of New
York, was so low yesterday that only faint
hopes were entertained of his recovery._ At
Charleston on Monday, the deaths from yel•
low fever were 17 ; total deaths for the week
160, including
_127 by yellow fever. rp•
wards of sixty deaths by cholera occured at
Pittsburg yesterday, but the new cases were
diminishing. In the sixth Congressional dis
trict, Maine, Milliken the fusion candidate
has been elected. The New York Whig
State convention meets to-morrow at Syra
cuse.
NEW I' aux.
Downward -tendency or Flour, d 40...
Sunday plots --Weekly Mortality—
Great Race, &o.
Ninv Tuns, Sept. 18
The late news froni Europe reporting the
prkspect of very full crops, and the conse
quent t=ill there in the price of flour and grain,
had produced a good deal of excitement here
and given the markets a decided downward
tendcni , y. Holders seem anxious to make
sales, while buyers hold off for lower rates.
Sales, it is said, made for October delivery at
sf4as7 'so—about $2 per barrel below the
present current rate. When the market shall
be liberally supplied, there must be a.gre,at
falling off in prices, but how soon that Will
be, even speculators cannot determine. From
present indications we shall have„llour id $0
per barrel, and wheat at slal 25 per bushel
within the next three months. It is now be
lieved, on what is esteemed reliable informa
tion from all parts of the country, that there
has been an average crop= ofwheat, and
though there has been some fears of the corn
and potatoe crops froni the late drougat; even
these. are being gradually dispelled, as far
ther information tl'em the interior is brought
to light. •‘ •
The great race, two milt Iwa*between
Logan and Maid of'Orleans, purse '55,000,
came off over the Union course, Long Island,
Thursday a fternoolt, The purse was taken
with great case by the Maid of Orleans.—
Time, 3.571; 4.00. This was understood
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be a contest between-the North atuFSinitii.
Logan from the.former ; Maid of Orleans of
the latter.
The number of emigrants arrived at this
port, from tforeign countries, from the Ist of
January to the tith inBt., is officially stated to
have been 217,14;2—showing an excess of
22,513 over thehrxivals tin. the correvond- -
ing period last year.
On Thursday, midnight, two ten pin dolor
ed boys; going home from the bowling alley
where they were employed, qUarrelled, and
One named Robert Lane, agbd seventeen.
years, struck tht) other, named John Coliug,
aged fifteen years, whereupon Coling drew
out, his pocket knife and stabbed him in the
groin, cutting the almond artery so that' he
died An a few minutes. ,The murderer tied,
but was pursued and caught..
The totatainnber or (Maths in this city for
the last week, was 615,, including 12 , 1 i'rom
cholera.
Liberal collections have been made in this
city for the'sullerers by yellow fever at Sa
vannah, Georgia, and aTso Tor 'the I:tdief of
the poorer classes suffering under the chole
ra pestilence at Columbia. A large quanti
ty of flour has been forwarded to the latter
place and gratefully received.
The arrangements for the State Agricultu:
ral Fair, which opens in this city on the 2Gth
inst., are on a magnificent
,scale. The area
of the ground - enclosed for the purpose is
twenty-five acres, upon which have been
erected a number of substantf[d buildings,
and an almost interminable line of stables,
&c. The centre hall, facing the visitor as
he enters' the enclosure,,is devoted to the Me
chanic Arts, and is 2GO feet long by 90 wide.
The southern hall, for Horticultural and Flo
rid purpose, is 240 feat lung. by 50 in-width.
The northern ball, intended fur the exhibi
.tion of A , rieultural Implements,..is Dia feet
long, 50 feet wide. There are, besides, three
refreshment houscsi two, each. 140 feet long,
30 wide, a-nd the smaller one, for ice cream
and other purposes, 40 feet in length. Rang
ed around the grounds, upon the outer edge
of the enclosure, are neatly constructed 498
cattle stalls, 118 horse stalls, and 120. pens
for sheep. pigs. &e. The stalls and pens are
built...in such a manner that the animals are
effectually protected in case' - 6f unfavorable
weather, yet at the same time can be con
von4ently 'examined visitors. A large
number of coops for chickens have also been
eonstrbeted. The arrangements fora supply
of water during the - exhibition, ace of the
most liberal character. Eighteen- hundred
feet of lead pipe are being laid throughout
the grounds, and a fountain will shortly. be
placed in a conspicuous position. Near the
entrance are erected two offices for the use
of officers, managers, etc., of the Fair: The
preparations Made for this Exhibition are of
the most creditable description, and calculat
ed, upon the occasion of the Fair, to attract
to our city thousands of visitors from the in
terior of Pennsylvania, and from adjoining
States. It will be the finest agricultural ex
hibition ever witnessed in The old Keystone
State.
TUESDAY, Sept. 19
The lion Joseph R. Chandler has accept
ed the independent whig non►ination tbr Con
gress in the second:district. In liiy letter of
acceptance, tiller referring- to his past efforts
to serve, his constituents, he si►ys:--u If: re
telectedrthese eflbrts shall not lie abated; and
I pledge' myself that they shall he joined to
an unfailing vigilance against all inroads and
innovations which may have for their objects
a weakening of the rights which the Consti
tution secures to every citizen of the United
States, and which render our common coun
try an asyluth for those who are objects of
persecuting intolerance; or are sufferers un
der the iron lice) of relentless despotism►."
On Wednesday, in the Court of Quarter
k Sessions, the Grand Jury returned a true bill
against Robert Simpson, late Treasurer of
the countrof Philadelphia, Wm. J. Christ
man, his chief-clerk, and John Sizer, one of
his sureties. In the bill of indictment they
are charged; under the, act of_Assonibly; with►
a felony in the embeizlen►eat or loaning of
; the sum of $80,7A9 33,. belonging to the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
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PHILADELPHIA.
The Croat State Pair---Independent
Whig Nontinations—Pretatittua for 11a.
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Ptin,.l,DET.rtun, Sept. 12
The great baby fair which takes place in
Springfield, Ohio, on the sth of Octobler, is
the slubject of mud) remark at this time, es
pecially among the heads of families, in
which, there are fine babies. If the fair
grounds were not so far on; Pennsylvania
would, we have no doubt, he well represent
ed there. As it is, it is too far to carry the
little ones. The prizes which the company
intend to award are displaywd in the west
window of the establishment of Messrs. Ar
cher & Warner, on Chestnut street below
Fourth, and - consist of three silver tea sets,
finished in an exceedingly' rich and chaste
style. The following is -the inscription eri
graved upon the pieces—" Presented by the
Clark County, 0 c
k,o, Agricultural Society, as
a Pretnium ibr 1) .ing the finest Baby shomn
at the Annual Fair, 185-1." Accompanying
the set is a Pariah marblemarble figure represent
ing the Saviour of mankind, in the act of re
ceiving little children. The babies must
have been, born in the United States, and,
not over two years of age. The idea of such
a fair is truly a novel one, and worthy the
great hiid growing State of Ohio. We trust
there may be spirit enough among the pos
sessors of fine babies in Pennsylvania to
make a respectable show at any rate.
Tho lndopentlent Whig Convention for the
selection of candidates .for the Senate and
Assembly, within the bounds of the Second
Congressional District, met last evening at
the American Hotel. The following candi
dates were selected :—.Senate, William Welsh.
Assembly, jl. K. Strong, Thus. Biddle, Jr.,
Jeremiah Nichol, WM.'. Devine.
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The total number of tliatlis. in the city last
week was 226, of which 11 were from ehole=
Me.EDiTon:—That question, which - shalll
be the law,'shbuld be submitted to a vote of
the people, is as palpable a violation of the •
spirit of our t'onstitution, am it is HIM ke, in
expedient and unjust...towards the people
themselves. Bat the subject. of a "Prohib
itory Liquor Law" has been sulonitted ;
and the result is to•be taken for the will of
the people. What is proposed, and its con
sequences, should be understood. 't ‘ o pro,
hibit the manufacture and' sale of ardent
spirits is 'the proposition.
am opposed to it, because such a law is
violative. of the spirit' of our Government,
and that liberty .of action which is intinlate
ly interwoven into the habits and busiio o f
our petqile; and I am especially opposed to
it because' leis unnecessary for, the attain
mentof thedhjeet which the judicious friends
of temperance have in view.
It is •the first time in this country thitt it
has lawn proptised to provide by law, what a
man shall not eat, drink or wear; or in what
business he shall not engage; and I trust the
time_ is lar • distantrwhen-the - peophlt -- tt f - Pe n -
sylvania shall he brought to the tetit of obe
dience to such a law. If such a mtasere he
now apparently sustained by a popular vote,
it will he because it is not understood. To
prohibit the manufacture of whiskey in Maine
or ,Massachusetts, whore none ever Was or
ever will be manuthetured, because, there
they raise no graia, may well be submitted
to; but to apply the same rule to Pennsylva
nia, where rye and corn are amongst their
staple pommodities, is to strike deeply and
fatally at the interests of not only the fariner
but, through hint, the whole community. It
must not be tbrgotten, that whiskey, ill the
arts, and - for 'heat and light, has become a
necessary of life, and must be manufactured
sonu'wlo Shall the farmers of our State
be made to pay the expense of carrying their
corn and rye hundreds of miles out of the
State. that it may be manuthetured dot) al
collo! and - burning flit id: and tronght back
and sold no them at aEoportionately enhanc
ed priv? If this .IFfso,__llica--there-
One morn step to lie taken—provide by
that:they shall not rai ; ie corn and rye,
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But fliave.s;xiii such n provision bylaw is
wholly unnecessary.- What is the root and
orig,in of the evil complained of? Is is the
Anontifitetnre or sale 'of ardent spirits ? , We
answer, emphatically, no. And we ask the
sincere and sensible friends of temperance
to look at this subject dispassionately. We
assert as the result of our observations, that
the source of the evil, and the. only sottree,
is in the tuft-admit. A hundred years
hence, when, we trust, many of the vices of
the present day ratty be forgotbM, it will
scarcely be believed, as din item of history,
that Pennsylvania, licensed for a price, paid
into her coffers, tj place furnished with the
seducind , n
appliaces of a school for dlrunk- -
eness.
seducing
up this stigma upon our char
acter, this legalized curse upon Our commu
nitv—this place, appointed by law, where
youth escape front the - heat of the day or the
chills of -the night, at a trifling cost, to par-'
chase their , eternal ruin. To permit such a
system as ours to exist, and attempt to regu
late it, is to give a 'harmless 'conrse for poi
son through. the Veins.
It i4,.not the
. mannfacture of whiskey, nor
ms
the Salt‘ of it, and,l may add, the drinking
of it, that is Hie evil to be cured ; but that iidf:dt,
slmuld learn to drink. Drive away the Nut,
dishments of the landlord, the elegance of
his fashionable saloon, the conVeniences of
his house, the comforts of this place of as
signation for young men and old, and the
end is accomplished. '
Spirits are so extensively useful that they
must and will be made, and that th.d business
of men should ever by law be-brought under
the periodical surveillance of a Court, is a
principle we cannot assent to. Let the far
mer alone in the pursuit of his business, let
the distiller manufacture his products, and
let the merchant dispose of it when he pleas
es, but punish the men Ai/imprisonment who
sells spit-its and qtrords a place to drink it.—
This is the root of' the evil, at which every
good man should strike, and not array. such,
a host of interest against so holy a cause its
that of temperance.l3.
fri,v- The author of the above, although
he differs. widely from the friends.of
Prohi
bition, in respect to the means of abolishing
a great evil, we know to be a truo•and sin
care friend of Temperance. His views are
entitled to careful consideration.
In 1818, thirty-six years ago, Mr. Meigs
often predicted in the newspapers, and: two
years after, in the Legislature of •New York,
that the time would conic when railways
would be travelled at an average speed of 15
miles an hour! Few believed hint, Ile has
recently published a book, in which he states
that F.Cnperor Nicholas, of Russia, has taken
the first great step in the, construction of rail
ways, which looks to the• attainment : of the
highest practical spa - din' travelling on them.
Instead-of opening narrow cutsonid going
round every obstacle, the road from St. Pe•
tersburg, to Moscow, 500 miles, is made on a
straight line, and opened ;ZOO fimt wide, so
that the running engineer an see everything
on the way. The guage of thetrack is broad
and the locomotive is on wheels of large di
ameter, and the signals and tame are perfect
ly fixed, and the roads crossing the tracks
-are shut off by gates, as The trains approach.
In this way speed of 100 miles an hour is at
tained, and Mr. Meigs thinks this may be in
increased to 300 miles. On some straight
rubs, 60 miles an hour has been made in the
United States, anti 'lOO in England. '
A line of road is now in progress of con
struction from Savannah, tileargia, to the-
Gulf of :Mexico, on a lierfectly straight line,
and is to be opened 156 feCt wide. If, open
way is, secured, mayes avoided, and proper
Machinery prOyided; we see no . reason why
100 miles an tour cannot be as safely run as
30.;i4 on' our common roads.—Cincinnati
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