Cjp Jltoßiia Critee. ALTOONA, PA. THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1838. .. \.t Where parties uro unknown to.ua, onrrulofbr adrer tWngia to require payment iuodvuncc, or a guarantee from tnown parsaba. It i* therefore useless for &U cuch to (end as •drertisemeuts ottering to pay at the end of three or dx I tMBIIu. Whom advertisements are' accompanied with the j sto&oy, whether one, five or ten dollars, we will give the i MTtrtiier the full bene f:t of cosh rates.' ji ' . ' ' . vf Wc sec it stated that the completion of the Sunhury and Erie Rail road isnow a fixed fact. It will be com- ; pieted to Lock Haven in November. Mr. Morehead, the (President, says .that a, loco-, motive and train of cam will pass oyer the i entire road, from Philadelphia andSun buty to Erie, before the expiration of Gov. Packer's-term of osce. , The late&t intelligence from Utah Indicates more trouble thatlunforta nate people. Gov. Ctpnming, it is re ported, has ibeen -driven from .Salt Lake City,but this is considered doabtfbh The Hpripons wercjn arms.and determined to resist thetroops to the last. The army at Fort Scott is said to be suffering for want of provisions, and were .living 'on mule meat. Still later intelligence brings the' alarming mmor that Gapfc Marcy’s supply brain from Santa Fe had been out off by the Mormons. • ' ' TheLaxe Southern Convention. —ln pursuance of a call for the purpose/ a Convention, intended to create public opinion in-favor of the Slave Trhde, was held/lately, in-Montgomery, Alabama. It is stated to >haye proven a failure. The editor of the Bichmond Sohth, heretofore an ultra: disnuionist and a great advocate oftbp trasc in, Slaves*, delivered a speech on the. Occasion, denouncing in unqualified terms the unholy traffic; and the effect of the cbfavedtibn was to prove that the South did.-not sapotion the Slave trade. ' Pexebsqn’s IMUciazine.— The July number of this popular periodical is je T oeived- - Ji# Ann -’S., Stephens, we see, hegins-a .thrilling .Original Novelet, tied “Bang I>hiUp'1 > hiUp'8 i liahghter.” Hereaf ter, ; Mm. 8. drill write exclusively for ‘‘Peterson's Magazine,” her own having been merged ihto it, and ber fine corps of contributors transferred to It " also. /This makes eraiymerit. A new volume'begins with tho july ptimber. Npw is the time; to subscribe. . Terms $2.00 per annum ; or, copies fpr $lO.OO. Address, Chas. J; Peteraon, 806 Chestnut street, Phila. A • specimenmay be seen at this office. *Eb® Emtobial Union.—Wc learn ibat.tho anuual meeting of the Pfennsyl- Tjmia Editorial Union, w,hioh was to take place .in Philadelphia June 16th, has, by the direction of the Executive Committee, been postponed till October 20th. 3jhe change has been made for various reasons. One is that many city Editors are out hf town-in June; the weather is hot and.the city is drill; many Editors in the country cannot then leave home conveniently .; and besides, October is a pleasanter month, when the election is over and ; all will be in a mood to enjoy the recreation and va riety afibrded by a meeting in Philadel phia. We hope there will be a good rep resentation of country Editors. / Almost a Duel. —In the House of JftOpresentatives, on the 2d instant, Hr.. Hnria, of -Illinois, denounced a personal statement made by Mr. Hughes; of Indi an?, aaiblse, when Mr. Hughes called him a jiar. ' Mr. Harris replied, “it is false, and yon can wear it at your pleasure.” Hughes subsequently sent a. challenge yjfft Mr. Harris, who promptly accepted it. Through the influence of the friends of froth parties the challenge was afterwards \' suspended, or temporarily withdrawn for Bate in the evening an ar yms made by which the offen that it was uttered, and thus the have been amicably adjusted. : Wtt The people of New Orleans, have hsen iji pn uproar for the last week, in of the establishment of a Committee in opposition to the city government. Both parties were strong ly am;sd and .detained to resist each #her, but the latent accounts state that jko Jiayor had in to the Vigilance election for city offi oern Monday last, which re- uuacess of the Americas ‘3SB’bgr about three hundred majority. National Feeling on tbe Decline. « Look upon the bright side/’ says. the old maxim; bat in time} of danger, “look upon the dark side,” say we. “ Loot up I Look up!” ia very good advice —some- times; bat, while walking through a dch of rattlesnakes, “Look down! Look down!” |ia much .better advice. Many a poor mdjrtal' has been ruined forever, by looking upon the bright side, when the dark side is dangerously dark—rand TroW' often has the “snake in the grass” proven a destroyer to the unconscious looker-up I A constant looking upon the bright side— a . conscious sense of security has often lulled men to a sleep, the awakening from which has been a sad one.' So, we fear, isit the case withtthe American people- — always accustomed to. prosperity and se curity, they are accustomed to look for these Vblessings, as a matter of codse quence; and the anticipation of danger of any,sort is drowned in these blessings. At ttis time, we-think the American peo ple heed awakening; because we think there" is danger of the worafr kind - —danger consequent upon this failure to look upon the dark side. National feelf ipg r beyond doubt, is on the decline; and ■ what is more dangerous to ourcommon wel fare than this ?. Is it doubted that such is the fact? - Every day’s experience testifies to it Twenty years ago. Bap an exchange, but one common .country was known. Everything -partook of a truly national spirit. A common bond seemed to unite every part of this great country together into - a common brotherhood of States, whose destiny was the same, and' the wel-’ faro of one. was considered-to be the wel fare of all. A hint at sectionalism was deemed traitorous .to the best interests of the country, and it was spurned by all just and right thinking men." There Were, at those times, two great political partiesybut they were national in their, existence.— Every principle. and every measure that was advocated by. either was advocated on national grounds. Each party maintained that its success Would promote the inter ests of the. whole country. Indeed no party dared put forth or advocate a single principle that was not thoroughly nation al and applicable in every State of the ,• - -t i ' iTC : Union. - ■ Is this so now? What are the facts ? Just the reverse. Sectionalism has en tered into everything. National feeling has declined ; and the bond of common brotherhood has been to a great degree severed. Every thing that is spoken of is agitated on sectional grounds. The ques tion is not will it promote the interest, the happiness- and prosperity of. the whole country, hut is it northern or southern in its character. . That love of country that should unite individual unto, individual throughout the entire country, stronger than chains, is daily 1 becoming weakened and changed into hate. Men will not look with feelings of pride and admiration upon the progress of the country, butjeal opsy, hatred and malevolence usurp their place.. Docs any one portion of the coun try make progress, another is to the highest degree olf indignation. Sectionalism is usurping everything.— That love of country; that feeling which; should cause the exclamation, “ Till* iamyowp—my native laodt” is fast becoming extinguished, and a low, mean, contracted, selfish and unnational feeling is taking its place. We have nothing jthat does not partake of a sec tional character, not excepting the pre sent National Administration. We have hardly any national churches. It is the Church North, and the Chutch South.— It is the Presbyterian Church North, and the Presbyterian Church South. It is the Baptist Church North, and the Bap tist Church South. It is the Methodist Church North, and.tbe Methodist Church Sohtir r imd the end of the A man that was eousidered to be a good Christian, living in either .section of the country, can hardly be deemed So now, if living in one portion or another. Almost every Choroh in the country has been.sec tionalized, and preachers, instead of preach ing-the Gospel of the lowly Saviour, winch was intended for all mankind, preach the Gospel North and the Gospel South, and woe to the people that live in either sec tion, -for they will be without hope or mercy. ' There is indeed, no place -in which Sec tionalism is not now rampant. It is Nor thern or Southern, whatever may be .the subject in contemplation. It is the argu ment On the street, and the conversation - V -J. r"' ■ H . ‘ ' ,V in the parlor. In business, in politic, in the church and in the State it is section alism* It is not our country, our altars and our homes, but it is our Northern country, our Northern alters, our 1 Northern homes, or our Southern country, our Southern altars, our Southern homes.—* That glorious nationality of feeling that should raise a, thrill of joy and admiration in the bosom of every true Amencan, and recoans of his heart, that hasbecn born in a country confemiij; sttfllr sings and privileges, has been almost ex tinguished. j j|\ Should not tins state of things make people .pause. Let them reflect upon the matter before it is too late. There is a point beyond -which the greatest danger may befall t the 'country.. Let the tru® spirit of patriotism be rekindled among the people. Let, nationality of feeling be , cultivated, and let sectionalism be' spurn ed from oar midst as a monster andfan evil of the most /direful kind. It should be looked upon as destructive of the intejrests of mankind. The union of the States is of the utmost importance, of fare account than the accomplishment of|any' merely temporary* object. Upon , the servation of the ;Union will. depend 1 the dearest interests iof humanity—the fate! of millions yet unborn and the hope of the World. ■ r ... - . PEHASD SCISSOBS: I KSf Is D»hkU»«er a. man was stabbed ■, in Boston a day ot two since, and singular enough, thekuife passed exactly between the heart add liter touching nsiU>or, prpny vital artery. , . . ... ; ■ |jjjp,' They mean•, to raise tall students in Wihepnßih. ; It£ Board of Edupatiophaaresolved to erect a building large'enough to accommo date five hundred students three storids high. ; On Monday week, a Welshman, gamed Isaac Blankfonh was drowned in Stoney Creek, near Johnstownl while ongaged.incatqhiqg drift wood. He leaves a wife and several small chil dren. ■ ■*'■ ' ■ T ' . ■ ’ • !' gffi-Tn the investigation of the hunting of the Ocean Spray &t St. Louis, one of jthejsteam* boat captains swore that they-always oairfed this pentine on Mississippi river boats, to be used in cate of a race'. -I- The man ■who plays at pneo on the trump of fame and the horn of a dilemma, got the first idea of music by hearing * hay cock while he was tying a knot in a irord of WOOd. ■ ' ,: r ■ ggv No Wonder they Emigrate —'Rip work ing days in Switzerland are from fourteen to nineteen hours. : Wages for children. five cents per day; women, from sixteen to thirty centsJ men, from forty to fifty cents. V'r hgg* “Jury,’‘said an Arkansas Judge, “you kin go out and find a verdict If you can’t find one of your own, get the one the last jury used*’ They returned a; verdict of suicide in the ninth degree. tQm The census just completed by Messrs- Gopall, says the New York Commercial Adver tiser, shows that the population of Jersey City is 27,000. This is on increase of 4000 in the last year. ' ygjf* Rot. Henry Wood, a chaplain in the United Sates Navy, writing from St. Helena, gays that ih the room where Napoleon died there isfathreabißgimaobmoui operation, »nd stalls fpy the hersepthatnioveit,ipiiisbed-dhpmber. - |UkL An election wns'held In Washington city on Monday last, for Major and Comnaon Conn til, which resalted in the success of the Demo cratic ticket by several hundred majority. The Conference of the Methodist Epis copal Church, recently hold in Monrovia, re solved to establish a paper in Liberia for lhe benefit of their church and the country ;- it is to be called the Liberia Christian AdvoeHits. ‘ The peers in the new Methodist church, • h New York, were sold on,Tae«lay last, for a largo sum. " This is said 'to be the instance bß’, record, in this country, of the selling of pews of a Methodist church at auction. , At an held in the State of Maine, on Monday last, the Prohibitory Liquor Law Was adopted by an almost unanimous vote. In three towns the vote stood: For Prohibition, 1668 ; For License, 24—and the pther towns in proportion. JQT During the first six months of the pres ent fiscal year. the State of Maryland realized the sum of $3,200 from the Issue of marriege itesosesin the city qf Baltimore. The number of licenses issued duriugthia period was eight hundred. ■■■■/.'; Mrs. Gage, ■ in a speech at the recent fominine convention, fold the story of a woman -who, haying secured : a 'second spouse that 4 * nursed the baby,” &c., very accommodatingly aVCrred that “a husband was the'next best thing about a house to the cooking stove.” . Beware of Tooth Powders—Two scamps sold in Water burr, Conn., several hundred dol lari worm of a “ splendid article of tooth wash,” wbiph turns out to bo chiefly nitric acid and oil 'of cinnamon, cleaning the. teeth not only out, dmt.off. - . \ IQti Wepeoit stated that Lemuel Todd, Esq., jpa withdrawn his call, for a State Convention oi thoEtb of July, and another Convention, em bracing all she opposition to tfaepreseni Nation nliAd ministration, has been called to meet in Bkrrisburg; on the 14th of July, to nominate candidates for Judge of the Supreme Court and C|Q&l Commissioner. SR®“ M.’ Fisher and Perry Hartman, two des- Wgate characters, escaped from York county, : ‘a., jail, on Tuesnay night week, by throwing snpff into the eyes of the Deputy Sheriff, and then knocking him down, they took from him the keys; and before he recovered, they got out of the prison and made off. Cox is a yellow mep and Fisher is white fejf- Billy Bowlegs has made another speech atOrleans. Here it is: “Istand-up here big chief, brave warrior. 1 kill heap your peo ple before, 1 can do him again easy; give Billy sCveugood men to follow on the war track, and he dick all the United States, scalp big father at Washington: Whoop !.” - An old'bnoheior, after his matrimonial failures, 44 When I remember all the girls I’ve met' together. I feel like a rooster in the full exposed to every weather; 1 feel like One alone, who treads some barn-yard all de serted, when oats are fled, whose hens are.dead, and off to market started.” MT Twenty-one prisoners at Wethersfield, Ct., have applied for release from State Prison. Among them is John Burnham, r.ho shot bis father when he was only 18 years old, and was sentenced to be hung. Ills sentence was com.- muted to imprisonment for life, and ho has now spent 26 years within prison walls. tST The largest church in Europe is at St. Petersburg. It was began in 1771, and in 20 years 2,000 men had not finished the walls. It is of polished marble, both outside and in; the pillars are of one piece, fifty feet high, the base «ud capitals of solid silver. But tho greatest curiosity of all is a wooden box, constructed to cover it from the weather. A balloonest who made an ascension at Montgomery. Ala, to amuse the Southern Con vention, name .down on a. {dentation, when the overseer and negroes fled in alarm. One old lame negro, left behind, approached with ex tended arms what be supposed his Jesus, ex claiming that he hud been waiting fur him these forty years. 10,. A large elk passed through Tunkhan pook, Pa., one day lost week, destined for Philadelphia, were, wc understand, h. had been sold for the sum of $lOOO. The owner repre sented its weight at six hundred pounds, (near ly bs heavy as a small horse,) and would trot a mile ijn two minutes and a half. It was broke to the harness and would drive well in a buggy. We lenrn it was taken from the wilds of Ne braska, and is only two years old. On Friday last, the engineer of a fast train was arrested by. (he authorities of Mid dletown, Dauphin county, for running through the borough at a greater rate of spe v ed than is allowed by their ordinances Having neglected, however, to give publicity to these ordinances, they could not impose any fine, and their dis cojaforturo was aggravated by the malicious ex cuse of the engineer, that “he didn’t know there Was a town there." This, we think, was adding insult to injury. Staeti/ko Facts. —Dr. Hiram Coxa, of Cin cinnati, Chemical Inspector of Ohio, in a recent C* licatiou states that “ during two years bo made 249 inspections of various kinds of liquors, and has found more than nine-tenths of them imitations, and a greater portion of them poisonous concoctions. Of brandy he Ims not found more than one gallon of pure in a hun dred gallons, the imitations having been whiskey for a basis, and various poisonous acids for the condiments. Of wines, not a gallon in a thousand purpor ting to be sherry, port or sweet Malaga, is pure; ■but they are made of water, sulphuric acid, alum," guinea pepper, horse raddiah, and many of them without a single drop of alcoholic spirit. No -Madeira has been made since. 1851, and jthere are now wily 7,000 or 8,000 pipes upon the en tire island. Dr. Cox warrants there arc not ton gallons of pare port in Cincinnati. He also states that -iu his Inspections of whiskey, he found only from 15 td 20 percent, of alcoholic spirit, when it should have-been from 45 to 50, and some of it contains sulphuric acid enough lb a quart to eat a hole through a man’s stom ach. BQk.ln the Borough of Danville, Pa., a most atrocious double murder was committed about one ychr ago. William J. Clark and Mrs. Ma ry Twiggs poisoned with uranic the wife of the ope and the husband of the other. The guilty pair had formed an unholy attachment for each other, and in order to rid themselves dfthe Only obstacle to its’gratification, they deliberately re solved to murder the partners Of their bosoms: This was accordingly done. Twiggs was poi soned in April, and Mrs. Chirk in May. But little suspicion of fool play was excited, and shod after Clark and Mrs. Twiggs commenced cohabiting publicly, without deeming it neces isary to go through the usual formula of a mar riage. This act, so bold and guilty in its char acter, soon aroused additional suspicion and strengthened that which had previously existed. The pair, were accordingly arrested, and have >just been found guilty of murder in the first de gree. They will be bung, as they deserve, hemp time this summer. All the parties were,lrish: Movemksts of Qkjj: Wai.kbr.—A private.; despatch frdm New Orleans informs ns that'top Steamship .Company, chartered by the Alabama Legislature, will run the first boat from' Mobile to San Juan del Norte, (Greytown,) on the 25th of this month—when Qeh. Walker, with*strong vanguard and staff,' with proper appointments of nil kinds, Will proceed to invest the Son Joan River. He will be followed, as soon as practica ble, by detachments for his army, so as to re inforce and concentrate a column of about three thousand men.— Star, Thuriday latu j FKOM OtTR OWN CONTBIBBTOBS & ! COBBESPONDENTB. ArdiJIMM The Incbrlete’i Corn** “Look net then upon the Wteo when ItJ* m rfreth tt« color la the cap, when It moywh U At tho tart it biteth Uke a serpent, tax) stW» •dde*.* I 1 once knew a man who was In post a strong constitution, a bright and mind and deep religions principles, received a good education, and inhori tune, and started out in life under circumstances. He had married atn lady of. considerable qualities of pi: heart ; a lady who looked upon mar different light in which many view ponsible and holy relation. They splendor, and love for each, other WS?: ing to their lives ways have been—pleasant and happy, There seemed to have been a rs® feeling and aeutiment between thep peach and comfort pervading their ardent desire on the part of both to Everything aronnd'fhem was colonist fy the taste and raise the soul beat the contemplation of things nobleam Their’s was a union whicE I cofisi pleasantest and most happily chose Lad ever seen before. £ i About two years Lad paaSpd’tbusth nothing marring their happiness,'; * tillery was erected near their reside! rels of whiskey were there soon mad to retailers tfaronghont the country; tiller, being a man of an inslnuatl! tion, soon ingratiated himself into lions of the young husband, the. latl him often and engaging in conversati passed rapidly on, and the two me? became more and more intimate, wife of the young man after husband of the evil effects fearing lest it would result i both of’them. He said that possibly arise from it, as he < proof against the temptatioi for he never bod a desire to tt the distiller made. When thv ti led, its merits, if it had»an tested by the manufacturer, . degrees the young man sipping at that fiery fount until he flattered himself that he was a good judge of whiskey; while the same opinion was entertained by the man of the still. Finally, the unsuspecting young man became a victim to intemperance. He became & regular attendant at the still. Thp society of bis lovely wife bad no attractions .sufficiently strong to retain him at home; but he sought the society of those who were like bim—lovers of the beverage. ft was twelve o’clopknt night, wife bad long awaited the arrival band. The moon was shedding,; rays upon that wife’s anxious cou; she sat by the open casement 100 l loved companion. She.saw in the <3 a human form It approached net her husband; he staggered! ‘*o drunk!” exclaimed the wife as sbi dear. As she glanced at him, she - with a deathly paler on her ebec fainting to the floor. Her husband fearful sight, raving with delirium, ! dirt and gore and bis face drcadfi bruised! In' bis bacchanalian revel at the dist.llery, he got into a fig associates and Sadly bruised. * ; That night’s transactions seem given him an impetus down ward, fr never recovered. All the efforts 6 bors to reclaim him—all the earn! entreaties of bis wife, were in vain, hour dated the misery of that once As her husband advanced in bi course to shame, she' sank under grief, just like a tender flower lab its native bud, yields to the ragii falls withering in the dust Her tiremeut were spent in dismal fore thoughts brooded over the destin and husband. The thought of b of a confirmed drunkard added;] her feelings—that idea racked h< hqd often said; “I would, rather hovel and gnaw poverty’s crust all in the mansion of a prince with husband.” The faithless husband continjii besotted life a few years longer, came and cut him down in the;' his drunken revels, covered wit] disgrace. Thus ended his life,J neglected his business, squanders basely injured his wife, and ruinc At his burial no tear was shed ov no dirge was sung, no prayer, was All this happened within the spt years, in which time a beautiful, girl had become a wife and a hi widow; her husband, a debaucli who died the drunkard’s death itu drunkard’s reward. Thus is ihe drunkard’s careej ever downward ; if slow at first, | sure. Such is the distiller’s Influx nature of his business, and such of manufacture. MA&TISSBCBO, Juhpl Messes. Editobs: —The dark j clouds which so recently veiled tin of heaven, have dispersed, and the again made its appearance, and Blair county Normal School contij per, and increase In numbers and | or eight students have lately oo|m more are expected the present number now here is between sixty On Wednesday evening last,;'lectures rfcre delivered by Professors • Dean and Calkins.— .The subjects were’ ably discussed shoving, the. benefits arising from the establishment of the Common School system. ;p The people'of Martinsbnrg, rolled in m maise until the lecture-room was so'densjely crowded, that there was scarcely space enough left for free and easy breathing. However, the sub jects were so eloquently argued,;that they were appreciated to a very high degree by all who vrc» present. On Friday evening last, a lec ture was delivered in the Lutheran Church, by Professor jC. Subject: “Method of teach tag Common Schools twenty years ago, and bow taught now-a-dnys.” Professor C. was followed by Prof. Miller, of Hbliidaysburg, with a transient hut able address. 1 Mr. M. is a man of high education,, and certainly under stands: the art of teaching. May; he ever pros per.. You will excuse the brevity of this letter, a* it bu been given on the impulse of the mo ment ; PV pH ¥AC. An Indian Battle In tKlaotcsotor TbeMinncsotian, Extra, printed ntShakopeo, gives an account of a battle an i tribes, Chippewas and Sioux, yrhich Tfebb place in that vicinity, and of which the citizens of Shakopec were gratified spectators: The Chippewas numbered, according to dif ferent enuim-rations made of thorn at bony* , vrhon It ■lf aright, lb like an lessloh of vigorous lie bad ted a for favomble »pec table Bind and -iagb in a t—A rea lised in’ qot want iboold 'al« prccity ofj «n air of ; wing; an ► please.— odto satis 'ienward to [divine. — dered the l of any I lightfully, ten a . 'Chr I treated :his tronndiin manner ; to that no ae tljan the mtmtatldn o la doiugweli; ] ,