Foreign News by the Hibernia.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE!
The steamer Hibernia arrived at Halifax yester
day afternoon, and in a few minutes afterwards the
overland •express started with the news, but owing
to a very dense fog in the bay of Fundy, the express
steamer was detained about twenty hours, thus pre
venting you friar getting the news that much ear
ner.
}lusoAntArr 'WAn.—The Hungarians continue
•ucces•ful. They have defeated and out-manceuvr
ed the combined armies, placing the Austrians in
peril, and cutting off the Russians from their base
of operations.
The three grand divisions of the Hungarian army,
under Mom, Dembinski, and Georgey, are in full
communication with each other and ready to act in
concert—their respective positions being rendered
secure by the nature of the country. The whole
population are assisting the Hungarians by buyitig
the food, horses. &c., and giving intelligence of the
enemy's movements.
The London Nowa of the third contains Vienna
dates to the 28th July. Lotd Palmerston's speech
fell like a thunder-clap upon the ministers. The
news of Georgey's victory over the Russians at
Gowned, and his entry into Rostham, came at the
same time. There were rumors even of the Austri
an generals having instructions to negotiate for a
peace. •
It is reported that Senora has surrendered to the
lilegyars. Bea Jelhichich was continuing hie re
tteat to the south of Servia. General Bern an
nounced his great victory in three words, which are
as follows, .viz: "Bern!" "Barn!" "Baum!" In a
later despatch he says: "Our army has now to con
liier but two generals more."
Letters from Cracow, of the 231 of June, state
that a number of Russian troops, who were on the
- point of leaving that city for Ifungary, had received
counter orders.
Seventy railway wagons had arrived at Cracow
filled with wounded Russian soldiers from Hunga
ry.- A postscript in a Liverpool, paper of the 4th,
giving,accounts from Hungary through Paris and
Vienna, announces another battle at Ezlaw, in which
the Hungarians were victorious.
It appears that the troops of Dembinski and Pas
kiewitch came to an engagement which ended in
the total defeat of the Russian forces. General
Haynau is described as being in a _most perilous
condition. The Magyar Generals are masters of
the whole lino from Esey Asova, hating direct
communication with Belgra de and the Turkish prov
inces. t 4
Or I.sth of Jul- di
-'n the I.sth of July, a desperate battle was
fought at %Vaitzen, between the Russians, com
manded by Paskiewitch, and the Hungarians, under
Georgey, in which the latter were completely vic
torious. The army'of Georrey broke through the
firma of the enemy, and marched north, thus effec
ting a junction with the main army.
A letter from tile Secretary of %Var.saya that the
charges of the Hungarians upon Paskiewitch's di
visions were tremendous, and the Russians were
completely bore down and compelled to yield before
the terrible onslaught of the enraged Magyars, who
fought with unexampled courage and daring. An
other letter describes the Russian retreat to Dona
kess, before Dembinski's hussars, as a disorderly
flight, and says the Russians wero only saved from
annihilation by tho timely arrival of Gen. Ram
berg.
ft Dias admitted in Vienna on the 4th that 4 the
victory of the Hungarians was complete.
There has been a change in the Austrian minis
try.
ENGLAND Aim lans.%No.—The Queen - having
rjuitted Osborne ildose for Ire'andon the Ist instant,
the Parliament wail prorogued by commission. The
speech delivered at the close contains nothing very
novel.
Tho inhabitants of Cork, Dublin, and Belfast are
making the moat active preparations to give a loyal
and entlinaiastic reception to the Queen, and polit
ical feelings are almost forgotten in the genera/ ex
citement which prevails,
Fastqcn.—The President offrance is on a tour
to the south. On his return to Paris lie is to review
tho whole of the army of the Seine, amounting to
150,000 men. The spectacle is fixed for the 15th
of August.
There seems to be every prospect of a most abun
dant harvest. In some departments the' wheat has
already been cut, under the most favorablo circum
stances.
The funds also s i re on the, advance, so that na
tional prosperity seems to be within the grasp of the
government.
The President is still accused of
of aspiring to the
imperial crown.
ITALY.--Although the French have restored the
government of the Popo at 'tome, they have not
succeeded in persuading his l Holiness to return to
the Vatican.
The Milan Gazette of the 1.1 states that a rumor
was current on tho Neapolitan frontier that Gari
baldi had embarked for America under favor of a
disguise, and that bands of the Tuscan Appenines
merely kept his name as ascit of safeguard or watch
word.•
Charles Alb' ex-Kinri fS;
_larks .Jert, ex• King
bon on the 28th of July.
Tunne.v.—Advices from Constantinople state
that en army of 80,000 men had been ordere&to , as
semble on the Hungarian frontier to protect the
Turkish territory and to disarm all who made the
attempt to cross the frontier. A Russian Polish
paper states that a republican conspiracy has been
discovered in Russia: that the,conspirators intended
to overturn the reigning dynasty, and establish a
republic. Numerous arrests had been made.
Tna rdsanars.—Under the prospects of a good
harvest, breadstuffs of all descriptions are depress
ed, particularly Indian corn, of which there is a
large amount of good and prime qtrality hand.—
Yellow and white are quoted at 255. a 255. Gd. per
quarter. Inferior parcels, heated and out of condi
tion, are selling as low as 22 a 235.
There have been sales of flour to a limited extent,
and prices in favor of buyers. American sound is
scarce, with sales to a limited Atoll, at 24 a 4 255.;
superior, uninspected, is offering in quantities at 20
a 21s. per bbl.
Ltvattroca., August 4.—Trade generally has con
tinued quiet, but steady, the prospects of the har
vest being of the most favorable character.
THE PATBNT DBCRPTIVIi HEN'S NEST.---This it
one of the most ingenious contrivances of the age,
and is the invention of a regular down east Yankee.
The design is to deceive poultry into the speedy
and liberal laying of eggs, and which is accomplish
ed by the peculiar construction of the machine. - At
the bottom of the nest there is a kind of trap-door,
which works on a hinge, being supported by a
spring. The moment an egg is placed on this, the
trap opens, and lets it fall thro' into a cushioned
apartment prepared for its reception. The conse
'quenceis that the bird just as she- is preparing to
cackle, glances at the nest and seeing nothing in it,
actually reasons herself into the belief thi.t she has
not laid at all, resumes her position on the nest in
hopes of making a more successful efiort.
On the first trial of this cr/rious contrivance be
fore the Commissioner of Patents, to test its virtues,
a singular result was effected A large imported
Russian hen wee located on th nest and left to her
meditations. On account of pressing business, the
hen was forgotten until the nex t i day, when to the
utter astonishment of the com missioner, and even
the inventor himself, on examining the nest they
found nothing in it but a pair of Claws, bill, and a
bunch of feathers; the mystery was explained, how
ever, upon examining . the chamber beneath in which'
they found half a bushel of beautiful eggs.-I.l.lu
rora Borealis. , .
Tuts WORKS Woirostas.--About twelve or fifteen
years ago two person, who have since becnmo very
distinguished, pursued in the. city of Cincinnati,
occupations one would have thought not very likely
to have formed generals, statesmen or aoldierli, but
who-have each
world;
no small portion of the at
tention of the 'The first'of these, a working
h u m an and brassfounder, became the distinguished
General Arista of the Mexican army; and the second
to the famous Garabsldi, then keeper of a cafe. At
the same 'time Maroncelli, the companion of Silvio
PellicO, taught music in New York, Louis - Napoleon
was writing his treatise on artillery at Geneva, in
Switzerland and Achille Murat - was practicing law
and planting sugar in Florida. There are certain
ly-ebbs and donde, in every man's fortune.--Intsk
utglon &public. :
ST. Joni, August 15.
ardinia, flied at Lie-
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN IRELAND.
[From Wilmer& smith's Times.]
If there be faith in chemistry and Tho O'Gorman
Melton, a discovery has been made in Ireland which
is likely to be more important to this country than
the discovery of gold in California will be to the
United States of America. According to the state
ment of the gentleman in question the neater “turf"
of the Irish bogs is capable of being converted by a
cheap and simple process into a variety of matters
of the utmost value. One-fourth of Ireland is bog;
therefore, one-fourth of libland is composed, on the
showing of chemistry and The O'Gorman Milton,
of carbon, of ammonia, soda, vinegar, napths; cam
phine oil, common oil, candies, gas, and ashes.—
Only think of fifty sqbare miles of candles lying
under the feet for the picking up, the ocean of oil
' of that dimensions, or the volume of gee—to say
nothing of the vinegar. "A. new light in every
sense of the word was cast upon the House of Com
mons by the The O'Gorman Mahon in discussing
the subject. When. Edmund Burke introduced a
rusty dagger, his fellow.countrymen introduced a
piece of candle, made from the, bogs of his native
lanti, and well it burned according to the news-pa
•pers.
• The interest of this discussion was de-ived from
the fact that Lord Ashley bore testimony to the in- •
tegrity of the patentee—a Mr. Owen; but it is sin
gular, to say the least of it, that the patentee and
the discoverer should be both Welslimen—Mr. Ow
en end Mr. Rhys. It is, however, a discovery
which, if it be truly represented, must open in the
United Kingdom mines of wealth worth a thousand
California mines of wealth, having these extraordi-
nary properties, that all the cost of exploring them
will be 'clear gain to Me people, while the place
from which the treasure is to be withdrawn will bo
enriched by its removal.
Lord Ashley's statement of the amount of valua
ble materials into which 100 tons Of peat was con
vertible. 100 tons of peat, which cost £B. and the
labor of converting it about £8 more, contained.
Carbon of ammonia 260211 b., value 432 10 2
Soda • - - • '411181b., g. 8 18 6
Vinegar
Naptita
Candiew
Campliine oil - - -
Common oil - -
Ashes
Total - - -
Mr. Own, he said, had tried this experintent not
merely on 100 tons, but upon thousands of tons of
peat, during the whole of the last twelve months:—
He had expended his capital on it, and received his
remuneration and was ready to stake his character
and fortune on the issue.. .(Lord Ashley) wish
ed to add, that after the peat was cleared sway the
soil beneath was found
,fruitful beyond all descrip
tion, because it was abundantly saturated with am
monia; and consequently, not only would the coun
try be enriched by the conversion of the peat. into
valuable materials, but the soil itself would be found
to be in a far more cultivatible condition.
The introduction of Steam navigation, railroads,
agricultural chemistry, the application of the elec
trical fluid (itself unknown 200 years ago) to uses
unimagined 20 years ago, and in many other neW
applications of physical powers, afford pregnant
proof of the inexhaustible resources of material na
ture.
BLOODY AFFADI w•r Bsiturrows.—We received
intelligence last night of a dreadful occurrence at
Bardstown, the particulars of which are about these:
it. Logan Wickliffe, a young lawyer of that place
and W. 1 1 . Gray, a lalsedtsmitti, have been upon un
friendly terms for some years, and have had no in
tercourse °fatly kind fur a long. time. Gray lost
Sunday let a gentleman have one of his horses to
go to the country, and as the gentleman returned
he met It. L. Wtcliffe, who asked the use of . the
horse to go to a religious meeting sonic miles dis
tant. The gentleman let him have the horse, and
acquainted Gray (the owner) with the fact; wino re
marked that Mr. Wickliffe should not use his prop
erty, (or words to that amount,) and immediately
mounted another horse and proceeded with a friend
in quest of Wickliflb.
When he arrived at the meeting house Gray found
his horse hitched to a tree, and immediately took
him in charge and returned with bins to town. lie
had no words with on the ground, and did
not even see him. Wickliffe is said to have been
greatly incensed wheci he missed the horse and un
derstood who had taken it away, and made some
hard threats against Gray. The circumstances were
generally known and commented upon in Bards
town, and all who knew Wicklitib and Giay expec
ted a difficulty between them.
Nothing however transpired between them until
ye'sterday morning, about 10 o'clock, when, as• Gray
was going down street toward home, and had got
within some twenty steps of his yard gate, Wick
liffis came out of his office, (nearly opposite Gray's
house,) armed with a double barrel shot gun, took
rest against a locust tree, and fired—the discharge
taking eftlfet in Gray's side. Gray turned, and as
he did so, Wickliffe discharged the second barrel,
strickin,g him either in the back or breast. He fin.:
medtately fell, was carried into the house, and upon
examination of his wounds the physicians pronounc
ed theth mortal. ,
We !alit night received the following despatc
from nnrdstown:
- W. P. Gray is still alive, but cannot possibly
live long. IVieklia escaped this
.morning, and
has not been heard of since."
R. L. Wicklit% it is said, remained in the neigh
borhood of Bardstown, after the murder of Gray un
til Friday night, when he escat) 4d. Five hundred
dtkilers are offered fur his apprehension.—Louisvilk
Courier.
AFFAIRS IN VIORZOIILA....II.ISULTB TO AMORICANS.
-- 7 113 , the arrival of the bog Potomac at New York,
from - Maracaibo, we have additional intelligence
,from that distracted country. it would seem that
the whole country Is in a state of revolution. The
greatest animosity prevail towards American citi
zens by the government ofileers; their houses are
searched tinder the pretence of suspicion of their
being disaffected persons secreted therein; their
property sacrificed; and themselves in many instan
ces, thrown into prison, Soon after the intelligence
'of the landing of General Paez at Coro, the house
of the American consul at Maracaibo was attacked,
at night by the soldiers, said to be headed by some
of the principal officers of the city, and severely
pelted with stones and other missiles. One Ameri
can merchant was confined in prison, and others
i r had their houses taken from them by order of the
governor, who threatened, if they did not give them
up without any remonstrance, to imprison them.
, A correspondent of the New York Herald, under
date of July 12th, writes as follows:
iiAn American citizen,'lt few days since, had his
house brbken open for the purpose of taking his
horse, and the governor pays no "attention to this
-assertien, am an American citizen.' Ari Ameri
can merchant is now confuted in a filthy prison,
where criminals of every grade and of kill colors
are thrown into one common pen. His crime is,
having been present at a ball, where the portrait of
Paez was exhibited, +Ste.
"The American consul is connected by marriage
with a family who are violently opposed (as nearly
all persons of respectability are) to the present•ad
ministration, and in consequence is treated as an
enemy.
"A single man-of-war, not drawing more than
101 feet of-water, with one Paixhan guu and fifty or
sixty men, would insure our safety."
GENERAL TAYLOR'S "NO-PARTY" VISIT.-.-The
York Gazette publishes a report of Gen. TAYLOR'S
speech at Aliat place, from which we make the fol
lowing extract;
title thanked his audiencelbr the courtesies shown
him by the people of York—referred to his position
as chief magistrate of the United States--felt very
reatrol indeed for such an o ffi ce—and WOULD
ENDEAVOR TO CONFORM TO THE VIEWS
AND CARRY OUT THE - WISHES OE THE
PARTY THAT ELECTED HIM."
The Baltimore Republican and Argus gives a re
port of the same speech, which altogether agrees
with the above. Have wo not • been right in deals
ring that the President's visit to Pennsylvania is a
political one? Ife amide the distinct avowal at York
that he would dewy out the principles of the ivhig
party! -This certainly does not exactly "correspond
with the sentiments of the Allison letters, and other
celebrated, electioneering epistles written by (or for)
the Genetal when ho was !lidding for voteii.-Pett.
6001 b., " 7 10 0
30gals, " 7 10 0
6001 b., " 17 10 9
6001 b., " 5 0 0
8001 b., 44 3 G 8
"8 0 0
" 1 13 ,1
- £9l 16 8
PROM THE RIO GRANDE.
From the New Orleans Item AIWM. 17
The steamship Portland, Captain Place, arrived
at this port iesterday. tThe left Brazos Santiago
on the 3l ink. ' 41
The Passengers by the Portland • report that the
day they left Brownsville, information was received
there that-tbi authorities of Matamoras had arreres
ted two of the ringleaders of the gang who have re
cently perpetrated so many robberies upon the Point
Isabel road. - The Mexican authorities have second
ed ours in this affair, in the handsomest manner.—
There being no provision in the treaty for the sur
render of such characters, it was managed in this
way: The robbers were arrested under the vagrant
act, and ordered to leave
,the country, and were to be
escorted the next day to the banks of the river, and
compelled to cross the ferry at ,Brownsville, here
the Sheriff would be in waiting to receive them.
These men were formerly attaehed to the Ameri
can army, and are known to be desperate charac
ters, having committed ..rabberies and murders with
out-number. The citizens of -Brownsville, appre
hensive lest, through the law's delay, justice would
be cheated out of her dues, were deliberating upon
the propriety of making her cause ABM, own, and
saving the law all trouble in the matter—or, in
other words, to lynch them.
The Bien Public°, of Matamoras, of' the 16th
ultimo, says that a considerable quantity of goods
had been seized at a rancho about thirty milei above
the city, on account of some alleged illegality in the
forwarding of said goods.
Capt. 11. Clay Davis, who arrived at Brownsville,
from above, informs the editor of the Flog that the,
cruelties lately perpetrated by the Indians, are un , 3,• 1
parralleled in the history of this frontier. Among!
other circumstances, he relates having assisted W t .
burying three Mexican women, whom ho fume/41
while following the trail of the li:diart4. It appears
that their husbands had been rnilrdwedvi k e ran- ;r
cho, and these women carried off, wlio, beings
horribly abused, were also murdered.
Hoattinut Mnanva.- ! —The foot of Sixteenth strie
N. R., was the scene of a sanguinary eolith:et on
Monday afternoon, the particulars of which are
briefly as follows: As Richard Wiley was in the act
of remooving a block of stone from the wharf, ho 11
called one Michel Ptiwers to assist him, who not
coming up to hie aid, an alternation ensued be
tween them.' The difficulty was, however, ap
pareutly settled by the interference of the bystan
ders; when shortly afterwards a cart driven by John
Waisher, came to the wharf, and Powers taking one
of the sticks from the cart, went behind Wiley and;
Struck hiurs blow on the head, which rendered him;
seneless. The wounded man was immediately tn. ?
ken into the cabin of a sloop near the wharf, and
thence, soon after, to:his home in Broadway, between I
25th and 25th streets, wh2re he died and 2 o'clOck
yesterday morning. Ho spoke once after he Nul l
been struck.
Powers was heard to say, immediately after the
fracas, when requested to go away by deceased, that
he'd, bed -3 if he would go before lie had satie•
fact4m. He was lomed tip, for examination, in the
16th ward station house.
Dr. Whitaker, of 510 Broadway, will hold a post
mortem examination on the body to-day. The de
ceased has left a wife and five children in a destitute
sit tia t 'Y. Evening Port.
Tim MEXICAN VoLuxTitEns.—A Washington
correspondent of the Pittsburg Posh says, with
much force•
Taylor is a man of strong passions and preju
dices, and the men about him humor these; and
where their dislikes and prejudices unite with his,
the combination of them aft together, hacked by su
preme power, make all attempts to counteract their
evil influence, hopeless. 'Tiros Taylor hates, with
the strongest hatred, all the Mexican volunteers.—
With his Cabinet, this hatred is as bitter as his
own. This feeling is also general with the whole
army, who have from old associations, an indirect
or sustaining influence over Taylor. So that all
the influences around the President are adverse to
the volunteers of the Mexican war. The new ar
my soldiers, comprising among them, some of the
ablest men of the Nation, are a proscribed class.—
They arc looked upon, by a certain order of Whigs,
patriots of the Truman Smith class, and such as
make up Taylor's Cabinet, as vagabonds and out
laws, sett degraded class, without 'mind, conscience
or tespectability. These volunteers, therefore, of
ficers and men, with a few exceptions, where per
sonal or family ties and influences make it otherwise,
you may please set down as a class heoeath the
notice of this administration, or rather as a class
who were the voluntary instruments of the last. ad
ministration in carrying . on the war—and as such
they are condemned and proscribed. ,
Frioat OnnooN.—liitelligence up to ti.' ltith June,
has been received from Oregon, der U. S. propeller
Massachusetts, commander Wood, which arrived at
San Francisco on the 20th June. An election of
Delegatesio Congress had been held, and Hon. S.
R. Thurston chosen, by a majority of 70 votes above
till other candidates. Mr. Thurston emigrated to
Oregon from the State of Blaine.
Gov. Lane has divided the Territory into Judicial
Districts, and assigned the Judges their respective
circuits. District No. 1, east of the Wilhamette
and south of the Columbia, to Judge Bryant; Dis
trict No, 2, west of the Wilikmen° and south of
the,Cohimbia, to Judge Pratt: District No. 3, lying
north of the Columbia, no Judge appointed. The
Courts in Judge Brvant's District commence in Au
gust, and those in Judge Pratt's District in Septem
ber. An election for members to a Territorial Leg
islative Council had taken place, but no time of
meeting named.
Indian difficulties had been rife in the region
about Nisqually, and one American had been killed,
but everything id now quiet, Gov. Lane having vis
ited that quarter. Capt. Hill, with the company of
Artillery under his . eilinmend, would repair to Nis
qunlly upon the arrival of the Fredo
nia. storeabip, with army supplied, then daily ex
pected.
Munnet.—A man bythe name of Stephen Men.
she w, residing in the- !nun of Schunpuel, in this
county, was arrested last week on a charge of mur
dering his wife, and on examination before Mr. Jus
tice Merry, was fully committed to the jail in this
city to answer the charge. (in the night of the 31st
nit. Renshaw come home in company with a man
by the name of Delay; both Frenchmen. and both
intoxicated. Me ashaw ordered his wife toget.sup.
per, to which she replied that they had nothing, in
the house to eat, whereupon he knocked her down
and beat her, when she was soon after found dead.
What a commentary is here furnished upon the
effects of intoxicating drinks!---Osteego
Accttintv . r.—.on the 12th iinst., near Vaeton, in
this State, a horse and wagon, containing two
women and a child, sere thrown from the bank, a
short distance below the Lehigh Dredge, into, the
basin, and the child drowned. One , of the women
jumped from the wagon as it was going over the
bank, and escaped uninjured; but the other, and the
child, six or eight years of age, was thrown into the
river, with the horse on fop of them. When they
were recovered from the water; life appeared to be
extinct; but upon proper applications being made by
those present, the woman was resuscitated. The
child was beyond recovery.
Box Ktram. , —Yesterday afternoon n boy named
Steele, about sixteen years of age, killed another
near the satno age, named Parker, by striking him
on the head with a stone.
As we heard the circumstances, they are as fol
lows: The boys had been out to C amp Webbing
ton to get apples: on their return, Parker stopped
at a coffee house and procured a few cents worth of
whisky. He became somewhat intoxicated, and
gretv quarrelsome. When bear the intersection of
Race and Liberty streets a difficulty occurred, which
resulted as stated, in the death of Parker. Steele
was arrested by Squire. Doty.—[Cincinnuti Oa-
Zak.
A Farowrruz ISTottr.—Two young and beautiful
women whose beauty had 'made them a mark for the
seducer, were suddenly stricken with death yester
day afternoon. An older Waterbed decoyed them from
their home and made them poetitutee. She had heen
absent from home a short tin Wand when 'she return
ed she beheld the bodies of her two sisters shrouded
in the clothes of the dead.—Au overwhelming sen se
of her misfortune seized the woman—she gave an
appalling shriek, and fell melees to the floor. TO
deed were buried, and the unfortunate parents hafe
taken the ogler home.. May heaven have mercy on
her.-Cincionati Novo refl.
brie Wttithl Oherntr.
Gen. Taylor as a General, as a military chieftain. we
honor and respect. No ono. when the news of hie vic
tories in Mexico was spread through the land on the
wings of lightning, felt more like honoring the brave
old man than wo. Bat Gon. Taylor as a politician, as a
statesman; and lastly as an orator, is quito a different
affair, and if we felt proud of him in the first instance—
if we could have thrown up our hat at the news from
Pala Alto, Retrace, Monterey or Buena Vlata,—we aro
forced to acknowledge now that in the other positions he
has placed himself, and especially as an orator, we foot
humbled. We feel humiliated that so good and bravo a
General should have boon forced into a position where ho
exhibits so little of the politician to admire, so much as a
statesman to condemn, and so little es an orator to be
proud of. All our Chief Magistrates heretdfore have been
mon of pro -eminent abilities—even Gen. Harmon, al
though aged, with the fires of youthful oratory quenched,
and tho powers of intellect somewhat impaired, did not
draw the blush to the cheek of his countrymen by his
blundering attempts at oratory. We would not bo un
just to Gen. Taylor. Ho will probably visit our town
to-day. and as the President of the United States, we
would have that respect shown him which is dtto to the
official position he holds. But truth should never be
concealed—by the foreknowledge of a disagreeable fact,
the ultimate realization of it ni deprived of half its pain!
Therefore, we say, those who expect to hear a speech I
to-day from Gen. Taylor worthy of the President of the
United States, will be disappointed. Tho following is
his speech at Pittsburgh, reported for the Whig papers in
that city, from ono of which (the Journal) we copy it:
General Taylor then rose in hie earring° and , replied to
the address of Mr. Forwent in the following words:
Sir, it is with utimingled pleasure, and at tho same
time with grant distrust of my own abilities that I have
to return my acknowledgements to the citizens of Pius
burgh, nay I should ally, the citizens of Allegheny coup -
t), the second in consideration of the great State of Penn•
Sylvania, and Pittsburgh, the first city for manufactures
in tho whole Union. I say it Is with feeling of union) -
gled pleasure that I thus have an opportunity of meeting
you.
Sir, I have served more than forty years in tho milita
ry service of my country, most of which tithe has been
spent on the extreme borders in the protection of our in
habitants from the rod man,' and in carrying war into the
enemies' country.
It cannot, therefore, be expected of a man whose whole
time has been devoted to action in tho field of strife, to
make any theplay of oloqiieoce on the present occasion,
or even to do justice to his own feelings. I would not
bo a man of word.. I wish to be what I have always
endeavored to be, a man of action.
Sir, you have kindly alluded to my services. They
have been, for the moat part, tilt bOrlllet,4 of the camp,
and in the achievements gained by our arms, I chum but
- l e b t i a iik il a small shore.
Fresh rarnily Groceries. Wholesale an e d ,, F .
hiN"
II." renn in his They aro mainly due to the strong arms and hold hearts
to ma r. roil. t . 0 . of our regular volunteers, in which the Citizens of Itt.
of orti and
fresh Grucires, sew sylvan's, held no inconsiderable part in the memorable
aeon rare, L011'10111" of war against the Mexican government.
Tsai tti !ire pitch forks The operations of the American soldiers in Mexico,
'I ace Tor Potties
r t
and among them the volunteers of Penns) lynnia, info
Spicos
Nada I convinced the world that they are equal
e not oillY 'to 'it.-
Nuts ClV:ei if Oil
Ripe , fend their own country, but to carry sneer...llM), their
Jiu{Rozutne
e.-es co ish Itifq arms into the country of an PllO,l/. and to Main fain thi•ir
' l n"' , nt of eery thin:; in to position wherever their banners may be unfurled
noon ut nem' nv.hwg i, But, Sir, while I speak with pleasure and with pride
t ee rie vele tomb' l uteamt " ' II I e ' I I of the scenes that
j„ .i ) occurred in Mexico, I am empliatical
% T Inn' fur C or re% It llt 10bitt% iv a man of peace: and I would here observe that the
I,ci 1e5 . ... No• 2 I , Ithzti
great difficulty oar people is to reshatn rent
net.', June '2. t-ta.
mitirery enterprise, whether in self drfence, or in currying
war into an enemies' country.
Although I have been bred to the profession of arms, I
soy again that lam a man of peace. I uni anxious at
all times and under all circumstances, that every possible
means should he tried—every honorable means adopted,
before War' should bo restored to.
Sir, I have entered your Stale to see the people of
Pennsylvania, as their Chief Magistrate—to reo the
whole people—Whigs Democrats, and Natives—without
regard to party., and so far. - as- - 1 have endeavored to pro
ceed without escort—without pomp; and my xtish has
hoen to meet ton as a plain republican man.
Sir, I have been met by your distinguished and cour
teous Chief Magistrate, and by many of your distin
guished citizens, who have conducted inn thus far dire'
the State. if not with greater pomp, at any rate I 11111
satisfied with greater affection, than has of recent years
accompanied the pagentiies of turepeitii monarchs, as
they have passed from place to place, with all thu para
phernalia of royal.
Sir, I must say that 1. feel myself perfectly at home
with the people of Pennsylvania.
I have now had an opportunity of passing though the
States and of seeing their mercantile, their mining. end
manufacturing operations: and I hope I :nay be allowed
to say that I am not trespassing the laws of propriety,
when I dovote a littlo leisure to oequiring such inform"
lion, as I can obtain by a visit to seine of the most Prom
inent places of the Linton %%here such information is to
be obtained,
In all matters of this sort, I wish to coo and to judge
for myself.
Sir, iii conclusion, I beg to return to you, and through
you, to the citizens of Allegheny county—not forgetting
the ladies my highest respects and good wishes. I return
}on my hearty thank , ' for the distinguished honer, you
have conferred upon me to day; and my inosyfers mit
desire shall, nt all times be, whether as Pre_sident of this
great Republic, or as a private individual, to promote
our mutual welfare, and to do all in my power for your
happiness and prosperity,.
ERIE. PA.
ATURDAY MORNING, AL GTST 250849
MO OUAT7.O NOMINATION.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
OLIN A. GAMBLE,
.
OF TA - comma, COUNTY.
COUNT? CONVZINTION.
o Democratic electors of Erie County are respect
' requested to meet at the several places of holding
lion in their respective districts, on Saturday the Bth
pf September nest, at four o'clock, P. M. and appoint
gates to attend a Convention to be' holden in the
ough of Erie, on Saturday the 15th day of Soptem
lot one o'clock, P. M. to put in nomination a county
et to bo supported by the democracy of this county,
ho ensuing election.
DANID OLIN,
E. W. GERRIBH,
W. W. WYATT,
HENRY GIGRICII,
W. G. ARBUCKLE.
W. A. GALBRAITH.
MURRAY W HALLON.
County Central Committee..
_-...044i 1 tr446 42 %areemi0r ....
;planita, us alluring one of the best tneart or - thetr cui...
or toilet
1 A. I, Matthews, Hollister & Co ., A. Reynolds, RulTale ;
L. It. Swan, Yost & Willis, Rochester ; Foster &. Dick-
Inson, .1. E. Warner & Co., Win. Bristol, Utica; Filch,
'Hovey & Dillaye_Syramise ; _Joseph Osborn, Seneca
Falls; Luther Kelly & Co., Platt & Simpson, Geneva;
IL. C. Cheney & Co., Chipman & Remington, Canandal- ,
Run; C. Remington, Nunda ;E. 11. Huntington, J. H. '1
Laphain, Penn Tan; Tracy Beadle, Elmira; W. Sea
war & Sou Batavia; John J. Foot, Hamilton; Russell &
Leonard, home; H. & E. Gaylord. Cleveland; John
Owen & Co., Detroit ; T. M. Runt, Auburn. .
C. N. T U TIP l.kl, Auburn, N. T., GENERAL AGENT
,tor the United buttes.
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:ill I.Leit I:E S Wool.o K PACToltl'. 1
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'he i r mi had all of tile :tlaeldeacry tharninzilly repaired. a
tau eniplo3c.l experienced ts or kneel in till the ditrerent liranc
I the laWdalet, he i n WI" Itowart.. n t to Mo,ococto, ‘Voot w i
n1 , 51t and dispatch, lino the rilletvithf article* traniely•—Pla
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notice. All l.ttier. of the Ceimxiy Vrralare taken for WOrIC, awl'
W.. 1 ,1 olt.rtllittl 10:01e for ca,ii. rt - leittls :Illti the public ce ierall
arc hit mat to give him a call, and lie lisoures them that ell the lit
prmiellienti. than Ilt. hae loade arc onward. Beim!. determine,/ I
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Tux Nt:x•r CosnaEss.—The next Houso of. Reprc
•entutives, says the Baltimore Argus. will be coinposed
of 231 monikers, 116 being a majority. From returns
elrriady received, the Democrats have elected 98 mom
bore. la the Slates or Districts yet to -be ascertained,
the following was the Democratic representation in the
last Congress.
Vermont, 1; Rhode Island, 1; Maryland, 2: Alaba
ma, 5:-Mississippi, 3; Louisiana, 3; Tern;, 2; Mal 17.
It legonerall); conceded that in those States the De-
mocracy will certainly hold their own. Usti. they will
have 115 members. A clear gain of one in the Statoe
yet to veto will give the Democracy a majority over
Free Sailers, and Abolitionists. From all ep
poarancos wo shall undoubtedly gain ono each in Pilissis•
sippi and Louisiana.
What a rebuke loos this exhibit of the Democratic
strength in the next Congress administer to our refute at
WashirMlion! The first Congress under Gen. Harrison
was largely administration in politics. Tito hard-cider
and coon-skin humbug did not explode as quick as the
no-party fraud of GOll Taylor. Mr. Polk assumed the
choir with a largo majority in Congress to suppOrt him
—but Gen. Taylor will address his first message to a
Senate and a House whose political antipathies he has
err oused by falsifying all his pledges, and pursuing a
course of proscription unparralluled in the annals
of the country. It will be the duty of ono of these
bodies to enquire into the numerous removals and ap
pointments ho hat made, while it will bo the duty of the ,
other to enquire of the Secretaries of the different d epart
ments the manner they have discharged their respective
duties. We trust they will do it—The Democracy will
be!satisfied with nothing short of a thorough and com
plete investigation of the manner honest men have been
proscribed, and such men as the Ponroses, Fitz Warrens,
and Heudoborts of whigery appointed to places of honor
and profit. As strict constructionists it will bo tho duty
()litho Democratic majority In the House to enquire by
what authority the President has s urrenderod the duties,
which the Coustitution enjoins on him olone,to his Seem
taries—how it is that appointments ore determinated in
I '
the Cabinet, each member ex mining as much power as
tho President,. when the Constitution expressly vests them
•in' the person of the President alone! This will be the
duty of the Democratic majority in the Sonata and Ho use.
and the people. will require them to perform it!
GYN. Tog THo7lll.—This most distinguished of small
men proposes to honor our city with a visit on
Wednesday and Thursday of next week. This, unlike
another General wo have beard of, is not a spurioa, or
even a •second" Tom, but is the veritable "b'hoy"
himself, and as such, will of course/ attract attention,
Wherever he has been, whether In Europe or America,
among boof-eating Johnny Bulls, frog-eating Frenchmen,
or wooden-nutmeg Yankees, all have pronounced him
the smallest, if not the largest curiosity in the world. We
refer the curious to his advertisement in another column.
Ler JUSTICE DE DONS .—The Philadelphia Ledger al
ludes as follows to the attempt to deprive the Democrat
ic party of ltaving restored the credit of Pennsylvania.—
...
This language of a newts, press is iti strange contrast
with the modest articles of the North American and its
echo, the Erie Gazette, claiming the whole honor for the
present administration, which has boon in office about a
year;
There con be no question with candid men that
much, if not all, the credit of having placed Pennsyl
vania among the solvent States of the Union, is main
ly duo to the wise and determined policy of the late
Gov. Skunk, who early end unyielding took his stand
against every scheme of public expenditure should bo
brough within the control of the Treasury. Under his
adminietratiou the resumption commenced, and but for
the odious "relief" issues that a previous administration
had fastened upon the State, the payment would:have
been began and continuedin coin. In all-that relitted to
public economy, equal taxation and honest payment of
debts, free from finesse and brokerage management.
Gov. Shenk would favorably compare with any execu
tive in the Union; and Pennsylvania sins peculiarly ar
tunato in having such a man at such a time in the Exe
cutive chair. Ills efforts to reform the currency and
narrow special privileges, form an era in the administra
tion of the State as marked as that of the National gov
ernment on the same subjects by President Jackson.—
From the two the important fencing have been learned,
and will be long remembered; that paper promises are
not money, and ••borrowing of Patel' to pay Paul," is
not the way to get out of debt. Pennsylvania is now
reaping the fruit of the seed sown by Gov. S's wisdom,
in the payment of the interest in coin, arid in the sinking
fond already commenced for the payment of the princi
pal of the debt; and the day is probably not remote when
the doubtful policy of the State's supplying the Treasury,
by taxes on her own bonds, will be alulndoned, as too
nearly approaching reputation. i
Wong. Ann Wonsz.-.-The N. Y. thy Hook, which
pirreista in tho assertion that President Taylor awes it a
year's subscription, charges hie organ at Washington
with hooking his editorials. This is adding insult to
injury'., . •
GEN. TAYLOR AS AN ORATOR ! !
No ono can accuse ns of misrepresentation in the
above. It was reported by Whigs and published by whigs,
and of course has been dressed up as favorably as possi
ble. And now we appeal to any candid man if this ef
fort, view it in any light you please, ie worthy of a suc
cessor of a Washington, a Jefferson, or a Jackson. Can
the reader glean the least iota of information from it?
Is there a thought or sentence which Would do hotiot to
a school-boy's fourth of July oration even? For our part,
we can discover but two points worthy of a second
thought—its arrant domagogueism and egotism: No one
tan escape noticing these points—no one can fail to see
with what pleasure ho alludes to his services in the field,
and then as if afraid his hearers slid not place a high
enough i estimate upon them, re-alludes to them time and
again./ And tho dornagogueism displayed in his repeat
ed,
declaration that he is emphatically "a man ofpeace,"
that "although ho has been bred to the profession of
ovine, he is a man of ponce." and that-he "is anxious at
all times, and under'all circumstances, that every possible
means should be tried, every honorable moans adopted,
before war should be resorted to." Just as though peace .
with all nations, entangling alliances with none, had not
been the guiding stars of our republic front Washington
to tho present (lay! Just as though all, or a port at lint.
of his successors had been men bent upon war, just or
unjust, and that "every possible moans," had not "been
tried" and every "honorable moans adopted before" the
wars we have had the misfortune heretoforio to prosecute,
were "resorted to," Who among our P esidents have
not been men of peace, wo ask? Where has this ko
ve'rnment manifested a disposition to war_upon its neigh
bo6 without just cause; Alnless th'ere can ho shown
among our Chief magistrates men bent upon war, or
instances wherein the government has acted the part of
the aggressor and resorted to arms without just cause,
then this "peace" glorification of the Present means no
thing, and of course should never have been said, or is
intended as a piece of political dertagoguoism, unworthy
a Chief Magistrate of a great nation. Again, who among
tis is willing to set down calmly and fully endorse the
President's assertion in the above that "the great diffi
culty with our people is to restrain them from military
enterprise, whether in ; self defence, or in carrying war
into an enemies' country." That there aro men in this
as well as every, other country, ready to engage in every
military'enterprise projected, we do not deny, but no
candid man will say that as a "people" thoro is any
"great difficulty" in "restraining thorn front military
enterprise." But we have said enough—all can read, and
we trust all will read thiS speech of Gen. Taylor, and then
tall us whether his military fame, and the success it has
brought the whig party, is sufficient to compensate them
for this mortification they must feel at the thought of
thrOwing over a man of the pre-eminent abilities of Hoa
ry Clay for the nuttier of this miserable production—a
production which is almost beneath criticism, and would
be quite so but for the high quarter from which it
emanates:
Two Dterutootattro Anttivet.a.—Gen Taylor will er.
rive to--elity. and Gen Tom Thumb next .week. , Every
body. dooms°, will flock to see them. Tho one has
been kissed and fondled by Lords and Ladies, and oven
royalty, but the other kale lead armies to victory in a war
which his suppliant *nines pronounced "God abhored,
unholy and unjust." ,
spy YORK POLITICS
Both branches of the Democratic party in Now York
held conventions At Rome last week for the purpose of
adopting some platform upon which they might unite in
the maintenance of those principles common to both, and
in an effort to drive the Taylor whig party from power.
- They effected nothing however. The regular Demo
cracy-, by which wo moan thOso who supported Casa
and Butler last fall, offered every reasonable cctneemion,
but without success, Both .professed a 'willingness to
waive all technical questions as to regular organization,
&c., and both expressed great desire to harmonize. The
Free Soilera were.strenuous in their determination to
force the others upon the platform adopted At Buffalo last
summer by Giddings & Co., while the Hunkers ware as
Strenuous in their determination not to submit to such a
humiliation. They were willing to ,adopt the resolu
tions of the Ilarnburners in 1848, but they were not wil
ling to swallow the dose prepared at Buffalo by an assem
blage of Whigs and abolitionists. In this they were cor
rect, and the people, we are confident, will sustain them.
The following are the resolutions in regard to the Slavery
question, adopted by the regular convention.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the extension of sla
very to the free territory of the United Stalest — hut we do
not regard the slavery question in any form of its agita
tion, or any opinion In relation•thereto EIS a test of polit
ical faith, or as a rule of party action.
Rejoiced, That power of Congress over Slavery in
the territories, and the particular made. of legislation
thereon, are among Democrats, controverted questions.
not regarding any particular mode of coestitutional con
struction on this question, a part of the Demorraticereed.
or as exsentiai to fellowship with our Democratic breth
ren in this Stole. or in any section of the Union.
Now, while the Barnburnors were unwilling to harmo
nize with the flunkera upon this platform, they did no t
hesitate Co say that they did not propose the "Wilmot
Proviso" as a "test of any man's' indiciduca democracy,
or of his right to membership with the party." What,
then, In the name of common .9017180, did they propose
such a test for—why BO strenuous in forcing man to pall*
collectiVely what they alloW them the liberty of repudia
ting per:Knny: Pshaw! wo might as well talk about
a man's right to hold the 'individual opinion' that a United
States flank would be a blessing, and still hold fellowship
with the Democratic party, as to say that he can satire.
main in the party after that party has, in solemn conven
tion', declared fur a line of policy which his "individual
opinion" teaches him is wrong, inexpedient and Unneces
sary. The question of slavery is a delicate one, and
shoultrnever be introduced into the creed of a national
party: For thie. as the resolutions above show, the reg•
ular- lininocracy contended end firmlyadhered. But it
I W 3.4 of no use—the ilaruhuruers would not compronaiso
up•n any .such grounds, and there the matter rests.
The fact is, the proceedings of these two conventions
have convinced us, if we ever doubted before, that the
slavery question is not the real question which divide the
party in New York. It is a tnero pretext—in the lan
guage of Benton. a "goats wool humbug"—usedbyitho
Bortiburiter leaders to draw otT Bier masses in their efforts
at a demmon. 11 Me hunkers had yielded every thing—
ad got down on their knees and humbly crauled upon
the Ltutt:i lo platform, bttt had refused to give al the offi
ce:, of twoor or profit to the Baroburners—John Yen Bu
ren and his followers would have quarrelled with them
before a year upon some other equally silly pretext, or
other. The offices is where tho shoe pinches, and not
the question of slavery in territories which they care as
little about as they do about the territory in the moon.
Mims: orriciat. Btweinratiso.—This adininietration is
a budget of blunders from Zachara, the spurious Wash
ington. to Ear. Henry, the lowa Hog Driver. The Penn.
sylranian says AIL Clayton, the Secretary of Stag; re
cently refused a passport to a colored man about to visit
Europe. On being complained of, says the Washington
Union. for the refusal, ho justified himself on - the ground
that it had been the uniform practice of the State De
partment torefu , e passports to colored persona. It turns
out, howover, that such has not been the uniform prac
tice of the State Department-11r. Forsyth having gran
led one or two pas.ports to colored men. The Boston
,ales, recollecting the a‘titts Secretary's letter to,tho
etroct that ho had to labor sixteen h . ours a day in the de
lectable business of removing Democrats and deciding
upon the appointment of Whigs to office who had beea?-
•'ostraeie.sed for twenty years," endeavors to excuse him
on the ground of his great and ardous labors. Perhaps
the blunders itt reference to the steamer United States,
the Lady Franklin letter, and the letter relating Hunga
rian independence, may all be excused on the same
mound. But this cabinet is t-uly an illustrious one, wor
thy of the-great and profound statesman nominally at
the head of the government. Its blunders, therefore,
nro of no consequence, inasmuch as they or to be ex•
peeled.
As 66 E31D A.RII4.SSED . ' SMIT/I.—Just before the last
election in /minute, lion. Truman Smith, the wooden
nutmeg
senator from Connecticut, and the doer of dirty
work generally fur the seven wise men in buckram at
Washington, wrote to his r„vhig, friends in that State, and
said his "position would tit somewhat emba r rassing l in
urging n favorable consid&!fttion . of" their "claims if"
i s
their "State should return rti delegation mainly hostile to
the now administration." 'Well, Indiana has ent a del
egation "mainly hostile" tj
Gen. Taylor, co tsequently
wooden-nutmeg is "ernba assed." Poor Truman, his
occupation is nearly over—Connecticut, Tennessee, Vir
ginia, and Indiana have all conspired to "embarrass"
Mtn, and through him the "second Washington." What
a pity!
Mont or vuxv Rung.--The Louisville whig Courier
says it understands that a company of gentlemen are
about erecting on extensive cotton manufactory at Car
rollton, in that State. The stock is subscribed, and the
work will go forward immediately. fs'nt The tariff of
'46 ruining the country, with a vengeance!
A MONIFIF.D PRESIDENT.—TIIO POtt8;71110 Emporium
says that Gon. Taylor, in his reply to the Pottsville corn -
mittoo. at Harrisburg, epoko of the "Locofoco" party,
and tho "Locofocu" presses, in imitation of the slang
°fan, Whigs when speaking of the Democratic party.
Very dignified, indeed, in a President of the United
States, when speaking of a party. which haS governed
this great nation. almost without interruption, since the
adminigtration or Jefferson, and comprises at this time, a
hrgo majority of the people of the Union. I •
i i
T I M: 1V( 1 )115T OF rut BAROAIN , --ACCOrdiOg o the Edi-
tor of the Commercial, the Democratic party g t us in ex
change for the present State Treasurer. If t is "is so,
and the charges of that papor against Abe!aid State
Treasurer are true, then whigery got the wcirst of the
bargin; for while all acknowledge that we have done the
Detnocracy some little service, the NValkers •nd. Coch-.
1
rano of whigery aro by no means satisfie with the
Treasurer.
THEATRE.--The New York Circuit Company, un
der the management of J. H. Powat.t., Esq. ( opened for
the season 11t the Reed House on Thursday evening.—
The Tragedy of Pizarro was selected for the occasion,
and the parts were well supported. Mr. and Mrs. Pow
ell never
,played better. , Miss Hensel, as tie beautiful
Cora, made a decided !impression. The same may be
said of Meseta. Brown, Tyler and McKibbin. The pret-,
ty Miss Homer made her debut in the favoril Dance of
La Tyroline„ and was highly aplauded. The Lady bids
fair to become a groat favorite with the patrons of the
theatre. Mr. Dense!, the leader of the Orchestra, grati
fied the lovers of music with his harmonious strains; and
in short we think if the company continue to give as
much satisfaction as wets evinced on Thursday evening,
we have no doubt the manager will reap a goldenbarvest
for his exertions.
For particulars of this eveuing'e performance, see bills
of the day.
. /1. 1 .15019 U. S. Smisron.—Tho St. Louis Era. BM.
on the authority of a leiter (tom ono of the but inform
ed politicians in Illinois, that there is not a reasonable
doubt out that Gen, Shields will be re-elected to the
Senate of the United States. The Era places the more
confidence in this opinion from the fact that the writer
prefers ti third person over the General. We bops %t
coriesportdcet is correct.