IIY GEO- IV. BOIVA Y.
KEW SERIES.
Select JJoctvu.
Buitlliug on the Sand.
l-.v KLISSA COOK.
rj'j, well to woo, 'tie well to wed,
prtr so the world tins doue
Since myrtles grew and roses blew,
And morning bioughl the suit.
But have a care, \e young and lair, —
t',c sure ye pledge with truth;
He certain tliat your love will wear
Kevotid the days of youth.
For if ye give not heart for heart,
As well a> bund lor liand,
You'll lind you've. played the "unwise" part,
And ••built upon liie sand."
y |'is well to save, 'tis well to leave
A goodly store of gold,
Ami hold enough ol shining stuff—
For charity is cold.
But place not all your hope? and tru.-t
In what the deep mine brings :
We cannot live-on yellow dust
fiiinixed with purer tiling..
And he who piles up wealth alone,
Will olteo have to stand
Beside his coffer ctiest and own
I'is ••built ii|Min the sand."
"Pis linod to speak ill ktndtv-guise,
And soothe where'er We run;
Fair speech should hind the human mind,
And love link man to man.
But stay not the gentle words,
Let (leeil- With tantieme dwell ;
la- one who pities -Carving buds
S -mi!.l .-caller erunibvus Well.
M rev that i- warm and tine
\] lend a hatpins hand,
pur Iho e wlin talk yet tail In dtt,
But ••build upon the sand."
lEiiFonoliiiiiT
ID'tiforti, A1 1:4. 17, I •>•>.
Fruiii the Fulton Democrat Aug.'lt).
Democratic .Bass .BteJinii.
On Monday evening last the Democracy of Futton
County met m the Court tlou-e tor the purpose of ex
pressing their opinion and endorsing the action ot the
.-•vent Slate urn! ("onntv Conventions. The meeting
teas very largely attended—gyny township 111 the
rouHtv being lidly represented.
On root ion ot \V. B. S- vla r, JAMP.S .1. KIRK,
Ksq.. ol Belhei township, was ciilleil to the chair.—
The following persons were appointed Vice l'resi-
Thi.ma* Houston, <. Geo. White. Jacob Lake,
baniel IVck, (ien. Jacob Muuiiua. Henry Brewer,
Jaeob iloke. Samuel ltaker. David l* . ( hesnut, John
Soialer., ('. Barton, Peter Maun, Jacob Houser.
James 15. Saiirotn anil Lewis A. Carpenter, Se
cretin ie<.
Alter the organization of the meeting, J. B.
Sansom offered the annexed resolutions which
were read and unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That we approve of the manly
and patriotic Administration of I EAAKLIN
I'IEBCT. and have undiminished confidence in
his ability and integrity—and also in the abili
ty and patriotism ot his Cabinet.
Resolved, That the principles contained in
Ihe Nebraska and Kansas Bill is hereby ap
proved and endorsed by the Democracy ol hjsl
ton County. w
Resolved, That viewing the great and happy
results of Democratic rule in our National and
Stale Governments, and the deleterious effects
nf an adverse jwlicy when Federalism, or any
ot its kindred isms, occasionally obtain the as
cendency, we aie confirmed in the opinion that
the identity ol the National Democratic party,
as it has existed since the (lavs of the ilhisti ions
JEFFERSON, should be steadily and unflinching
ly maintained, as well HI adversity as prospeii
tv.
lb-solved, That the principles and policy of
the Democrat ic pat t v have ever been openly
and fearb-ssiv proclaimed to the world—having
no cnnr-ahnerits, and shunning no responsibili
ties. We are therefore determinately hostile to
all secret, midnight political associations, or
dark lantern movements —looking upon all such
political cabals as anti-republican, insidious and
designing, or they would not seek <o conceal
them from the public gaze.
Resolved, That to the free horn American
citizens, there IS something.revolting in the idea
that,men are-to he ostracised and degraded on
account of their religious opinions, and that, too,
it the bidding of the leaders ola secret, oatii-
hound political party, whose sole object is to |
delude aru) deceive the masses, so tl.at they,
themselves, may reach places of profit and trust :
to which they are not entitled, either socially,
.morally, or politically.
Resolved, That the Democracy of Fulton j
A ounty, in Mass Meeting assembled, avow their ;
hostility to the Know-Nothing organization and I
oppose it, fertile following among other good ;
reasons:—lst. Because of the secret character j
"I its proceedings. 2d. Because it imposes upon ;
"s members, bv solemn oaths, a blind obedience |
to the dictates of others in their social and po- j
i'tical relations. 3d. Because it enjoins upon its j
members the denial of the truth, inculcates and j
promotes insincerity and duplicity, and stifles j
the hold, open, manly conduct and conversation
which characterize the man of honor and the j
treeman. 4th. TV cause it builds up and diffuses i
through society an organized band of secret :
•'pies to watch the conduct and catch the words ■
of the unsuspecting, to lie reported to their secret
midnight councils, anil made the foundation of
personal and political proscription and persecu
'mn. ;>ib. Because it makes religion a test of
H'talifirafion for office, thereby violating fhej
constitution, engendering ill will among n li;i- '
ons sects, and leading to personal strife and tin 1
shedding ot human blood. Gth. Because it lo
ses the door of-a 11 political rights and prefer
ment to foreigners of every grade anJ charac
ter, and strikes at the privilege of emigration,
thereby condemning the sentiments and policy
of the founders of the republic, and reversing
the-uniform action of the democratic party in
holding out to the world that America is the
asylum For the oppressed ol all nations.' 7th.
Because it sanctions old Federal doctrines which
have long since been condemned by the good
sense of the American People,-and herause it is
now made use of by the remnant ot that -party
as a disguise under which they hope once more
to steal into -power and place—and finally be
cause its JSctiines are opposed to the genius of
our Democratic (doverniremt,and to the princi
ples and policy ot Party, of
which we are members.
Hi-solved, That we are opposed to the sale of
(lie Main Line of our Public Improvements and
believe that the Bill passed at the last session of
the L-'grslature, authorizing the sale, to he un
wise, impolitic, and detrimental to the interests
of the People of Pennsylvania; and that we
will support no man for General Assembly
who is in favor, of the sale of said improve
ments.
Resolved, That we cannot approve of the
conduct of the Senator from this District, Hon.
IM:.ISCIS JORDAN, in voting for the infamous
Jug Law passed at the last session of the Legis
lature. By iiis vote he has knowingly set at
defiance the expressed will of his constituents,
and we call upon him to resign the position he
has proved J*i:nself unworthy to occupy.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the princi
ple oj'Legislation which seeks to correct moral
abuses by the enactment of restrictive and pro
hibitory laws. Whilst we approve of temper
ance and sobriety we regard all legal enact
ments of a prohibitory character, as out of
place ami improper, and as tending to more se
rious wrongs.
Resolved, That tin- experience of every day
more and more strengthens us in the conviction
that tin re is something radically wrong in the
hanking svslem of the country—and that the
course pursued bv those Worthy Democratic
Executives, Governors SIII-NK and _BK.LEI:, is
tiieonlv true policy, by adhering to which the
rights and interests of the people can be v cured
against Hie designs ol unscrupulous and dishon
est Bank officers.
R-solved, That we hail with hope and joy
the recent brilliant success of the Democratic
party in the State oi Virginia, believing that
this overwhelming victory is hut a prelude ol
others soon to be achieved in our own and other
States.
Resolved, That the administration of Gov.
Pot jock thus far tins given proof, as strong as
holy writ, of the danger of placing in power
anv man whose predilections are with the isms
arrayed against the Democracy of the country.
His urging and agreeing to the sale of the pub
lic works, which cost the tax-payers many mil
lions, for a merely nominal price: his giving
awav some three hundred thousand dollars an
nually of'the people's money, by approving the
repeal of tin' tonnage tax : his depriving the
treasury fcf some §200.000 more, per annum,
bv sanctioning the repeal ol the license laws,
and substituting therefor the "Jug Law," a law
not demanded by the people, and which il not
repealed, will increase, instead ol lessen the
evils of intemperance ; his promiscuous signing
of all Jaws granting special corporate privileges,
and ids numerous other acts ol omission and
commission—all go to prove either his utter un
fitness lor the Executive chair, or a dishonesty
of purpose which nolle but a Know-Nothing
would be gniltv of.
18-solved, That tin 1 Know-Nothing Legisla
ture of 1599 disgraced itselfaml State for which
it pretended to Legislate. file little good tin*
majority of the members did, ran only he attri
buted to accident—tin* vast amount of evil they
accomplished was manifestly intentional and
premeditated. As citizens of our good old
Commonwealth, having its welfare at heart,
we are sorry that such a legislature ever had
an existence :—and, as Democrats, we pledge,
ours-dves to work* for the total eradication ol
vistige of its existence.
Resolved, That we will gladly welcome back
to our party the members who, s<*duced from
their allegiance bv the false promises of Knnw-
Notbingism, have since discovered their mis
take and sept*rated from the order, and we cor
dially invite them together with all our good
citizens, to unite with us in opposing the insidi
ous and dangerous doctrines ol this dark lantern
fraternity*.
Resolved, That we approve and endorse the
nomination of Hon. ARNOLD PLUMEI;, for Canal
Commissioner, and pledge him our undivided
support.
Unsolved, That the Democracy of Fulton
county assembled hereto night, do cordially en
dorse the nominations made on Saturday last by
the Democratic. Countv Convention, and we
pledge the nominees—Messers. Bernhard, Gar
land and Chesnut—our hearty and unanimous
support.
Maj. S. H. TATI:, of Bedford, was then intro
duced and delivered one of the best off-hand
speeches we have ever listened to. His views
on Know-Nothingisin met with a hearty re„
spon.se from the audience. He was followed
!>v JOHN* CE.-.S.VA, Esq., and WILSON* R FILLY,
Esq., in short speeches of great power and elo
quence. We wish every man in Fulton County
could have heard the remarks of the eloquent
speakers.
The meeting adjourned at an early hour
amidst enthsiastic cheering.
ft 7"J. W. SIIEAIIAN, Esq., editor of the Chi
cago Times, has been presented by his political
friends with a gold double-case full jewelled
hunting watch. Judge Douglas participated
in the ceretnonv.
They don't watch editors qs well as that in
this pari of the world.
The -Jug I.aw.
Temperance in all things is a virtue enjoined
by the Apostle, and it is one that should he prac
tised in evt-rythjng, an indulgence in. or abuse
of which, results in vice. That evils have been
produced by intemperate drinking of intoxica
ting liipior.s no sane man can or w ill deny, and
just so is it with an ti ni est rained gratification ol
the appetite in any other propensity. Public as
well as individual morals are better inculcated,
corrected and preserved bv an enlightenment of
the public mind, arid instruction of" the individ
ual intelligence by means of grtcpjttive suasion
and good example, than by coercive measures.
The attempts to legislate a people into moral*
have been futile, as the history of the world
shows. Sumptuary taws have been,
will be, obnoxious- to tlm great body of the peo
ple. The enactment of such laws is no part of
the proper duty ola legislator. • They are ty
rannical and oppressive, and particularly so
when they are passed in the teeth of the express
ed will of a majority.
1 lira piuhibitionists and total abstinence men
have an undoubted right to urge their ideas of
liquor manufacture or drinking in lair discus
sion, or impress their correctness by open ex
emplary conduct, hut they have u<> right to dis
regard the opinions of those who do not go the
length they do on this question, hut who, never
theless, are equally sound in their morals.—
Much as we deplore the evils that flow from ex
cessive diiukirig, we doubt also the policy of an
attempt to coerce mankind into a measure uhlch
111 ev believe to be wrong, and the propriety of
which argument has failed to convince them of.
A disposition prevails amongst mankind to dic
tate to one another w hat shall be drank, worn
or ate. And there is as much reason or right
in the one as the other. The abuse of anything
which works an injury to the public is the sub
ject of legal restraint, but the proper use, {law
ful in we maintain cannot be prohibited
by legislative enactment without a violation of
that inherent right possessed by every man, to
use his own property iit his own manner, with
out detriment to the public. Moral reformsare
not effected I;v force, or by any other means
than reasonable argument and good example.—
Whenever coercion is employed, it becomes
persecution, and the strongest feelings ol our
nature are amused against it. •
The efforts to reform drunkards made by tem
perance men are praiseworthy and deserve suc
cess, so long as they use the legitimate means
to accomplish their philanthropic object : but
when they undertake impossible things, when
they seek to compel, by operation of penal
statutes, eveiy citizen of the Stale into their be
lief and their mode of life, their efforts must be
come failures, and they peril all the good they
have done by a resort to harshness. The pro
hibitory law is now in esse —familiarly known
as the "jiig law," is, in the language of Col.
Black the late State Convention, not on
lv wrong, "but it is ridiculous." Discrimina
tion amongst those who shall have the privilege
of vending ardent spirits, except where it is
made as to the character of the applicant lor
license, is wrong, and is an infraction ol the
principle of "equal and exact justice to ail
men.
Opportunities to exhibit partiality and favor
itism is too much afforded under this new law.
Res | lettable hotel . keepers and proprietors ol
necessary restaurants are excluded Iron* the
privileges ol this law, and to grocers and drug
gists and others who do not keep a place
public entertainment or amusement is allowed
a monopoly of the liquor business. Minulac
turers may sell, but riot less than a five gallon
jug or keg full, whilst those who can obtain a
license may deal it out indiscriminately to every
purchaser by Ihe quart. Those who will drink,
must either drink a quart or five, gallons —no
less measure can he bought. i lie man who
occasionally took a single drink can no longer
get it alter the lull enforce of this law,
whilst he who can purchase his larger quantity
and wishes to indulge to excess, has an entire
legitimate protection. Will tins law effect the
purpose intended bv its burners and supporters ?
Will the habits <>fajy Ire corrected? Will
there he less drunkenness in tin* land ? I pen
an examination ol the provisions ol the law,
and from the well-know n dis|tosiiioii ot man
kind, WT 1 do believe this law* must he a failure.
We have already on our statute hooks laws
stringent ami severe enough to punish and pr<-
venl drunkenness, if they wen only enforced.
Wis tin* certainly of punishment, not the sever
/7y, that prevents crime, I ruler this 'jug law, 1
the man w ho is disposed to dissipate and guzzle
excessively has a protection : and instead of pre
venting scandalous drinking, this law will drive
those who will drink, and who are ailnrded an
opportunity to get it in larger quantities than
they usually obtained it, to buy their qunrl or
five gallons , and take it to their homes, w here
will lie acted in its full perfection the drama of
the "Drunkard," ami were tin* complete mis
ery and wretchedness of a drunkard's life will
be seen and felt. Instead of sober reform being
brought about by this law—instead of temper
ance becoming universal in our good old glo
rious Commonwealth—we believe the contrary
result will flow from the existence oI this law,
and our land more cuisetl with absolute drunk
enness than ever. For this, and other reasons
which we will take occasion to mention lier*
alter, we are in favor ol the repeal ol this sad
ly defective anti-license law, and ask the atten
tion ol the people to it, ill the selection ol their
members to the next Legislature.— jJrmstrong
Democrat.
EXCOMMUNICATION. —Mr. Davis, one of the
editors of the St.- Jl/ban's .Mesncnaer, has been
expelled from a Know-Nothing Lodge, for ex
pressing the opinion in his paper that the party
would never succeed in the free States unless it
took strong anti-slavery ground; that it should
rid itself rfl its secrecy, and "Come out boldly in
the light of day." Mr. Davis details his wrongs
to liis subset ih'Ts in a column ami a ball qf cum
pluint.
Freedom of Thonglit *nd Opinion.
• itf- *
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BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MOptSTI, AUG. 17, 1855.
ILeurv nay on Fusion. i
The jpl lowing is an extract from a speech
delivered by Henry Clay, in the house of rep
resentatives of Kentucky, November 19, 1890,
and ncnv applicable to kuow-nbthingisin :
"But if it (the tile whig party) is to be mer
ged ififo a contemptible abolition ptirty, and if
| uhnlU ion ism is to be engrafted upon the whig
creml, from that moment 1 renounce the party
: and cease tube a whig. Jgo yet a step further :
i If 1 am afire, J will give my humble support to
j that man for the presidency who, to whatever
j party tie may belong, is not contaminated by
fanaticism, rather than to one who, crying out
s1? the tithe he is a whig, maintains doctrines
utterly subversive of the constitution and the
town."
TUB EXI'KKII.XI.T: OF A KNOW-NOTHING.—A
Citizen of Morgan county, Indiana, who hail
been seduced into a know-nothing council, gives
the result of his experience to the public,
through the Mart ins villr'Xlonitor, in the follow
ing pregnant paragraph :
"'Reader, von may think you hate know-noth
ingism : hut until you are initiated into its se
i&i ts, and witness something of the height and
1 rfflpth ol its iniquity, the solemn mockery of
j its rituals, and the completeness of its tyranny,
j its fiendlike indifference, arid its utter disregard
of moral honesty, you will not know what to
i detest. Then, if you are true to yourself, your
I country, and vour Cod, you will have so great
• a detestation for the order that you will avoid a
bona fide member as a political demagogue, and
| shun a lodge as a Upas tree." •
A HvrocfiiTE EXCUSED. —The Washington
(Pa.) Commonwealth comes out in a long arti
cle, exposing the treachery and hypocrisy of
the Hon. John H. Ewir.g, a leading member of
the Know-Nothing paitv, in thrusting himself
'into the old-line Whig Convention nt Washing
ton county, and aiding his K. N. confederates
in defeating the object of the Convention, which
was to nominate a pure Whig ticket fur county
officer?. The affair, it seems, was but a repe
tition of the duplicity, imposture and fraud
which have distinguished the Know-Nothings
in all their public political movements. These
<!ntk-lantern gentry take good care to guard
themselves from instruction, by meeting in se
cret places, with barred doors, which are only
opened to the initialed, who have been duly in
structed in the signs, passwords, grips, and ca
balistic language of the Order. But they never
hesitate, when an object is to he gained, to force
themselves into Hie company of honest men
who meet by. daylight, with open doors, and
theifi* repudiate their" Kriow-Notbingism, and
take upon themselves the nam-* ot those whom
they have set out to deceive and betray. And
this base of Is hoot of European Jacobinism and
Jesuitical craft, is caller! .Imrricunism ! And
the oath-hound conspirators who embrace it, are
the soit of Americans who claim the exclusive
right to rule America I
A Bold Lrttrr.
The manlv and outspoken letter of Hon. E.
M. Pease, of Texas, the regularly-nominated
democratic candidate for governor of Texas, is
as follows:
AI'STI Jrr.v 7, 18:7:7.
GENTLEMEN' : Your letter of the 9th instant
\va- received this morning, too late to reply by,
return mail.
To the interrogatories contained in it I make
the following answers:
Ist. I am not now, and never have been, as
sociated with, or a member of, the know-noth
ing party, nor nnv other secret political party
or organization whatever.
To tin* principle and objects of the know
nothing party, or the party usually called by
that name, so as tin y have been made known,
I am unalterably opposed.
'Lb The proscription of American citizens
on account of their foreign birth, or their reli
gious creed, is anti-republican, and contiai v to
the letter and spirit of our constitution, which
recognises no distinction between native and
(or'-ignborn citizens, and expressly declares that
"no human authority ought in any case what
ever to control or interfere with the rights ol
conscience in matters of religion. '
Whatever influence I may possess will at all
limes he used in opposition to thi* establishment
of any such prescriptive principles.
Verv resiwctfullv, your obedient servant,
E. M. PEASE.
if -"Tm: "EMISSARIES OK TIIK Porn" Drnix<
AN EIMIH-IMIC. —Gilt- ol tlu* LUIHHIN'.i'UTAL obliga
tions oI Know-Nothingism is uncompromising
opposition to Catholicism. Every Know-Noth
ing, before br ing admitted into full fellowship
with tho Order, solemnly takes oath tlint he will
not vote for a Roman Catholic nor appoint one
of that religious denomination to any office
which he may have- in his gilt. Jo show the
class of people against whom this wretched
spirit of proscription is invoked, we make room
lor the following notice, which appears in the
.Suffolk . '/rgw.v ol Tuesday last. Jhe reader
need not be told that the yellow fever is now
prevailing in Norfolk to an extent to justify the
alarm which at present exists in that city :
"Worthy of all Praise.— Several cases of
the yellow fever having been announced, the
Sisters of Charitv connected with St. Patricks
Church, of this city, received a note yesterday
from a physician informing them that their ser
vices;, which hud been offered to attend the sick,
wei e desired. I hey replied with commendable
promptness, and in terms expressive of a sell-sa
crificing devotion to the cause of suffering hu
manity, and stated their readiness to enter at
once upon the work ol love and nieicv. I hey
add that their lbrce will probably he divider! be
tween Portsmouth and Norfolk, and. il needed,
aid will immediately be procured at Ernmits
btirg, so that in case the fever should unfortu
nately spread in our city the public may not
want for careful and experienced nurses to at
tend at the bedsides ot the sick, the suffering, and
the dying."
REVOLUTIONARY REIIIMSCENCES.
In the year I82(>, after all save one of the
band oI patriots whose signatures are borne on
the Declaration of Independence had descend
ed to the tomb, anil the venerable Carroll alone
remained among the living, the government ol
the city of New York deputed a committee to
wait on the illustrious survivor and obtain from
him, for deposite in the public hall of the city,
a copy of the Declaration of 177G, graced and
authenticated anew with his sign manual. The
aged patriot yielded to the request, and affixed,
with his ow* hand, to a copy of that instru
ment, the grateful,solemn, and pious supplemen
tal declaration which follows:
Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings
which, through Jesus Christ our Lord, He has
conferred on my beloved country in her eman
cipation, and on myself in permitting me, under
circumstances of mercv, to live to the age of
89 years, and to survive the fiftieth year ol A
mencan independence, and certify by my pre
sent signature my approbation ol the Declara
tion of Independence, adopted bv Congress on
the -Ith of July, 177(1, which 1 originally sub
scribed on the 2d day of August of the same
vear, and ol which 1 am now the last surviving
signer, I do hereby recommend to the present
and future generations the principles of thai irn
poitant document as the best eaithly inheritance
their ancestors could bequeath to them, and pray
that the civil and religious liberty they have se
cured to my country may be. perpetuated to re
motest posterity aad extended to the whole fami
ly of man.
CHARLES CARROLL of Cairollton.
August. 2, IS
South Carolina. — The telegraph several days
ago reported that at an election (br High Sher
iff in Charleston, S. C., the Know-Nothing can
didate was elected. The Charleston Mercury
sues this is not true: that Col. Carew, the per
son elected, is neither a member ol the Order,
nor directly or indirectly its supporter, and that
the Know-Nothings only eepporled him to hide
their weakness, as lie would have been elected
quite easily without their aid.
A Whole Family Poisoned.
THREE OF THE CHILDREN DE.ID
We learn bv a letter recsii'ed from Dr. \D.
Patterson, residing in Candor Washington coun
tv, Pa., the particulars of a most melancholy
case of poisoning. It seems that on Saturday,
the '2Bth uit., three lads, sons of Mr. Alexander
Plotts, residing in the vicinity ot Candor, pro
ceeded to the woods and gathered a large quan
tity of mushrooms, which they took home for
table use. Tiie whole family, seven in num
ber, partook Ireely ol the dish, and shortly alter
exhibited the most alarming symptons. Three
physicians w< recalled in, and pronounced them
poisoned. The proper remedies were speedily
administered, but all efforts to save the hoys
who had gathered the plants, proved abortive.
They died in great agonv, shortly afterwards,
and all buried in the same grave. 1 hey were
aged, respectively, ten, six, and four years, i lie
parents ol the children were so unwell as to he
unable to render them any assistance, ihe pa
rents, ami the two children who survived, ex
hibited favorable symptoms on the -list, and at
the time our informant wrote, hopes were en
tertained of their recovery.
This is one of the most distressing cases of
poisoning we have ever been called upon to re
cord, ami should serve as a solemn warning to
parents.
It is perhaps a fact not generally known that
while some varieties'"of fungi are esculent, others
are poisonous : and great care should be exercis
ed bv those who use them as food. Jt would
doubtless be the belter plan to discard them al
together. Some are even of the opinion that
those which are usually considered eatable pos
sess deleterious qualities when they remain over
a certain time on the ground—and that those
are particularly pernicious which spring up in
everv moist soil. It may be possible that the
very damp weather of the present season has
rendered them rank and noxious. Whatever
may helhecause, the fact that lives have been
lost hv their use, should be sufficient to place a
ban iqion them.— Pitts. I nion, .id.
uorc FOR Tin: POOR.
The accounts daily received in reference to
the grain crops ofthe country, are of the most
gratifying character, and afiurd the hope that
in a few months, it not weeks, the prices ot
breadstuff's w iii he reduced to what may tie es
teemed a fair eating price. The news from a
broad by each steamer is happily of the same
character, the advices per the Canada, which
arrived at Halifax oil the ifb'lh ins!., showing a
decline of from one to two shillings - in the
quarter in the price of corn. 1 here has long
lieen need for this change, and it will he hailed
by the poor of the country as the grateful show
er of rain to the thirsty and parched traveller,
in the desert. Speculation in breadstuff's we
hope has had its day for a time, at !ea. - -t, and
it is fair to conjecture, that ere long, a barrel of
flour mav be obtained for something less than
the three months earnings of many widows,
who have suffered most excruciatingly from the
high prices which have so long ruled.— Daily
J\ curs.
Elopement in Columbus Ohio—The Parties
Caught. —During the latter part of last week,
officer Dewitt, of this city, received information
from Chicago that a couple (one a man ied lady)
had eloped from that city, and that the officers
had traced them ti< Ibis place. After three or
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four davs of unremitting search she was discov
ered at a boarding house on Front street. Her
lawful husband had arrived here a day or two
previous to her discovery, and suspecting her
being at the above house, watched the premises
from the loft of a stable near by, until he was
satisfied of her being there. On Saturday night,
between ten and eleven o'clock, he, in company
with some jrelice officers repaired to the house,
where they found her. Her husband had her
conveyed to the depot, and the couple took the
eleven o'clock train on their return trip home
ward. The name ol the lady's first husband we
did not learn; but the name of her seducer —the
man to whom she now professes to be married
is Burt. The lady showed great repugnance for
her lawful lord, and declared site would never
again live with hi err as his wife. Burt, as we
are informed, followed the occupation of a boat
man, and is said to have been on terms ot inti
macv with the husband of the lad) - wjjh whom
he eloped.— Columbus Enterprise.
Another Horrible Heath.
Yesterday afternoon between 3 and + o'clock,
a most shocking accident, resulting in death,
occurred in Simpson's Court, in the rear of No.
(i 1- Catharine street, below Second. A married
woman named Catharine Gwici, aged about 27,
with a child aged about IS months, entered the
rear premises of their residence, and in a mo
ment both were precipitated a distance of some
twenty feet into a cess-pool containing eight or
ten inches of water. The flooring gave way,
the structure of the place being in a wretched
and dilapitated condition. The screams of the
mother alarmed the neighbors, and for a time
givat excitement prevailed. She was discover
ed holding her infant in one arm, while with
the other she was dashing the water from her
person. A lad, named Samuel Holt, about
] 2 years of age, was lowered into the cess-pool,
by means of a rope, and through his courage the
child was safelv brought up, ami is now in the
family of .Mr. Francis Jaret, a member of the
police.
Last evening it was doing well, and will no
doubt recover. Mr. John Adams next went
down, and brought up the poor woman, whose
life was extinct. She had been in the place
full three lourths of an hour, while the child
was there about fifteen minutes. The cool dar
ing of the lad Holt is deserving of all praise.—
Mrs. Gwin is the mother of four children, and
at the time of her shocking and terrible death
was enciente. Her husband has been out of em
ployment for several months and the tafnily is
in a deplorable condition. They are really
worthy objects of the benevolent, as we are as
sured. Coroner Delavan was sent lor to hold
an inquust upon the ttody of Mrs. Gwin. The
occurrence ot this accident is of such a charac.
teras to demand a full investigation.
appoint merit of IWr. Dawson, of
Pennsylvania, as Gov, Reeder s successor, na
one acquainted with him can object to.
know him well, and no one need fear but that
lie will dojust what he thinks is light, if the
powers of darkness should stand in the way.—
lie is a bold, honest, fearless man, anil a Demo
crat every inch, and is clear of all the fanati
cisms of the present hour, on one extreem or
the ether, lie is a Slates Riif/its man, and be
lieves that the people of the States have a right
to adopt their own laws, and that the people of
a Territory emigrating hum the States are just
as capable of knowing what laws will best suit
them, as they were before they emigrated.— OAia
Statesman.
['Cy'''' A few days since a gentleman who was
en route for .New lork, got out at the station,
leaving his "better hall'' sole occupant oI the
seat; returning found a good looking gentleman
occupying his seat and making himself sociable
with his travelling companion, politely reques
ted the stranger to give him his seat. "\our
seat,sir ?" said the stranger, "I don't know that
you have any better claim to it than I have."—
"Very well, sir," replied our friend, "if you
will keep it,allow me to introduce you to 77uj
wife." The stranger looked blank, and made
very hasty tracks for the next car.
A gentleman was once riding in Scotland by
a bleaching-ground, where a poor woman Was at
work watering her webs ol linen cloth. He
asked her "where she went to church, and what
she had heard on the preceding day, and how
much she tern. mbered ?" She could not even
tell the text of the sermon. "And what good
can the preaching do you," said he, "if you for
get it all "Ah, sir, replied the poor woman,
"if you look at this web on the grass, you will
see that as fast as ever I put the water on it, the
sun dries it all up; and yet, sir, / see it gets
whiter an d whiter
DATING LEAD. —Two persons were convicted
of being drunk at Saratoga yesterday, and were
sentenced to the Balistnu jail lor 1U days each.
One is -natm-d Root. Morris, said to belong in
this citv. On the train coming down to Ball
ston, they were locked up in what is known as
the "State Room Carand when about mid
way on the road, and the officer had left them
shackled together, both jumped out of the car
window, while the train was running at pretty
good speed, and they were last seen by the pas
sengers on board the other cars, rolling down an
embankment some 30 feet deep. Whether the
prisoners were injured or not we have been un
able to ascertain. The train was stopped short
ly after, and the officer started in pursuit of the
i'ugiti ves.— Troy liudget.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT CINCINNATI. —The
cornice ol the new building in process of erec
tion fur the Ohio Life'nnd Trust Company, in
Cincinnati, fell on Tuesday afternoon, crushing
to death six persons, injuring others so seriously
that their recovery is despaired of. Robert Cam
eron, master builder, W. B. Curtis, superinten
dent of the building, were sitting beneath at the
time, and John S. Chambers and B. Waldron,
passing by —all well known- are among the
killed"