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Foreign News by the Niagara.
FIVE DAYS LATER FROM EURORE
TOTAL DEFEAT OF THE HUNGARIANS.
St. John, N. 8., Sept. 5.
The ateamer Niagara, Capt. Lang, arrived at Hal
ifax this morning at 6 o'clock, bringing 113 passen
rengers and Paris intelligence. iSf the 23d, London
of the 24th, and Liverpool of the 25th ult., ti r day
of sailing.
The steamer Europa arrived at Liverpool e rly on
Monday morning, 20th ult.
Commartciar, SUMMART.—In every department of
trade therd has been a steady bossiness going for
ward, and the commercial advites generally by this
steamer are essentially the same as those brought
by the Caledonia. The price of cotton is still ad
vancing, and largo sales are daily effected.
Accounts from the manufacturing districts con
tinuo of a satisfactory character. All branches of
trado,appear to be' fully employed.
In Il,lanChester there is a lively demand for every
variety of cotton goods, and the accounts from India
will doubtless give a further impetus to the trade,
under the; influence of _favorableweather fur harvest
operatione, and the increasing probability ,that the
crops will generally be secured in good order, and
that the harvest will be considerable above the aver
age for several years past. The grain trade has
continued, dull • and prices have a downward ten
dency. -•
Official:accounts have been received from various
sections of England and Ireland, which leave no
room to doubt but that the potato disease is begin
ing to 'thew itself to considerable extent in
withered and blackened stalks; but the tubers
have as yet been affected only in a slight degree,
and at present no apprehension is felt of extensive
mischief. In 'cured provisions there has been but a
very moderate amount of bUsiness transacted, and
the values most description of has slightly receded,
Metals continue to meet an improving demand, and
prices are tending upwards.
The official record shoWa a continued increase of
mortality; arising from the general prevalence-of
cholera in the! London districs, embraoing a poji
ulation of about two millions two hundred souls.—
The
deOhs from all diseases have risen tite last week
from 1900 to 2230, whilst the deaths from cholera
have been succesively 926, 823, 1230. At Liver
pool on Thursday the medical officers reported an
increaseut the mortality of the borough, the deaths
for the last week being from all causes 843 against
864 previous week; deaths from cholera 572 against
412 in the prelrious week. Manchester has suffered
a trifle more than last week, but not so much as
Leeds. There has been a good deal of mortality
in the south of Ireland, but Scotland exhibits a very
decided improvement. In Paris it has reappeared,
but not yet to an alarming degree. In Holland, and
especially in Amsterdam, following the course of
water, the mortality has been very, severe, In other
parts of Europe the disorder has sbated.
The political news from England is devoid of the
least interest, and the same nuty be said of the French
and other continental news. There Ts" nothing of
sufficient interest to warrant its being reported by
telegraph: -
Fnetica.—There is a complete lull in French pul
itics.
At the first meeting of Out pence congress, on
Wednesday, in the great hall of St. Cecilleon,
Chansiee de Antem, about 1500 persons were- pres
ent, tho' celebrated Victor lingo in the chair. The ,
flags of all nations adorned the hull. The stars and
stripes of the Uni;ed ) States occupied a conspicu
ous position, floating side with the tri-colors of
France and the English union jack, Mr. Cobden
and ivieporty were received with becoming applause,
and the American*gentlemen were saluted with en,-
thusiastic cheers. Names of parties who gave in
their adhesios - to the principles of the con ress were
read, and then M. Victor lingo read his sp ch amidst
immense applause. It is described as at exquisite
niece of. composition, replete with the J/1 st benevo-,:
lent sentiments. ,
It is understood that the French government have
expressly forbidden speakers from makit
4 any allu
sionAassing politics. I The French fu ids contin
uelteady.-
DAJBOART.—Theinteqigence from the eat of war
in Hungary are of the most disastrous ind. The
Hungarians have been 'defeated at all mints, and
the cause which they have so courageo isly upheld
against fearful odds, has fallen past reemption.—
The,precise details of the circumstance which led
to this unfortunate and unexpected re ult, cannot
be ascertained from any, accounts width our reach;
but of the main facts, that the Hungarian have , been
forced to lay down thenj, arms and submit uncondi
tionally to the Russian forces, there is no reason
whatever to doubt. The operations of the Ilunga
rians Uniler Dem, just preceding the termination of
the struggle, are alone given in an, intelligible form,
and', would seem, from the account before us, to have
:had an imporrint influence fin bringing about the
subinission of the Hungarians.'
The Vienna correspondent of the London Time's,
'under date of August 18th,, says an official report of
thefBth from Cal. Dossner, who is at Hermanstadt,
gives the particulars of what has taken place in the
south-west of Transylt;ania since the 4th, on which
date Gen. Luders was th Galfalda . A fter Bem's de
feat on the 31st at Schasburg he proceeded towards
Medgyer, which he reached on the 3d with a force
of 8000 and 17 guns. , Having been kilned at this
-place by en artillery force from Clausenbug, consist
ing of 4000, 800 horses and 12 guns, he proceeded
toWsrds • Ilermanstadt.l Gen. This:lord, who had
beMf left with 6 battalions, 8 guns and 350 Cos
seeks to protect HerManstadt, had gone to Reiss
markt and Multlnback l , - where he gained the victo
ry 'mentioned yestesilq over insurgent Gen. Stein.
All this having-,been made known to Gen. Leder.
bj's his scouts; he foresaw Beni would full upon Ilsss
ford, and probably drii.e him into Wallachia, and
then take possession of Hermanstadt, nothing re
mained to be done but to pursue Bent with all spec 1.
Before, however, !lders could overtake him, he
learned that Hesslord had actually been attackei and
driven from his pessession, and after a murderous
battle in the streets of liermanstadt, in which he
had many killed and wounded, had been obliged to
retreat to Salmacs. On the 6th at 10 A. M., Gen.
Luder's army stood before iieribanStntlt, 6 battalions
of the enemy, 500 horse - and 18 guns occupying
the neighboring heights. A considerable reserto had '
been left in the city; the remainder of the army had
gone in pursuit of llassford. A battle ensued,
which ended in the complete rout of the Magyars.
The Russian cavalry put such of the fugitive as at
tempted to resist to the sword. The enemy, who
lost 1200 prisoners and 14 guns in this battle, has
600 killed and 500 wounded. The troops which
had followed Ilassford made the bsst of their , way
after their routed comrades. The Russians inclu
ding the less suffered by Hassford on the sth, had
364 killed and wounded.
The battles of Schetibuig nod Ilermanstadt pro
duced a most dispiriting effect upon the insurgents;
many threw away their arms and sought refuge in
the woods, while others came over to the victors.—
The Vienna accounts by the way of Warsaw, of
August 10th, state that the Hungarian diet having
surrendered its powers to Gorgey, dissolved itself.
A meetihg including Kossuth, Gorgey and Dem,
subsequently took plabe at or near Arab, at which it
was determined at once to put an end to the war as
both sanguinary and useless. .Gorgey addressing
ho council, protested that he had no hopes for the
cause of Hungary. That all resistance was in vain,
.and that nothing but utter ruin would attend the
prolongation of tho struggle. Curgey's reasonin g
induced a It rge number of the' Hungarian generals
to side with him and to insist on surrendering. Not
only Gorgey's corps hut also part of the besiegeing
army, of Setnaspec, numbering in alrfrom 30,000 to
40,000, withstood Gorgey, and the war party .head
ed by Kossuth, Bern, and the leading members of
-the Hungarian parliament, had nothing left but to
hasten to Orshova.
It stated that they hare already entered upon
Turkish territory, and it is also stated that M. Kos
suth carried with him the insignia of the Hungarian
empire, including the state jewels. Gorgey sur
rendered to Prince Paskiewitsch under the one con
dition if condition it, may be called, that the prince
should intercesie'with the Austrian emperor for him
self, his troops and his country. It is asserted that
Gorgoy's 4legpeiate resolution was prompted by
mutinous spirit of the Hussars. A Vienna letter
in the Hindle Refortn states the number of troops
L -that surrendered with Gorgey to have been 27,090
men, with 80 guns.—lt-was thought that Gen. K lap
ka, would now be induced to surrender Comoro, es
pecially as the city of Raab ivas on rho itsth inst,
ccupicd by the Imperialists, who have likewise de-
spaiched a corps to the valley of the Watig. From
a Vienna letter of the' 17th inst. in the Kolmer
Zeitung, it appears that'll. Kossuth intended to huld
out to the last. He - has published a proclamation
announcing a translation of his government from
Arab to Orshova, where he is now protected by the
Hungarian army from the Bacsk.
• The Russian papers publish the following letter
from .l'rince Paskiewitsch to his majesty the Czar of
all the Russians:— , .
''Hungary lies at the feet of your imperial majes
ty. The government of the-insurgents have trans
mitted their power to Gorgey, and Gorgey, with the
chief army of the insurgents, make an uncondition
al surrender to the Russian army. His example
will be followed by the other insurgent corps. The
officers whom he emit to capitulate offered to pro
ceed towith or without Austrian commissioners to
the burps induced them to surreneer.' 1 have the for
tune to inform your imperial majesty that Gorgey's
only condition of his surrender was to be allowed to
lay down his .arms to the majesty's artn:. 1 have
made arrangements fur the insurgents to be disarm
ed by Gen. Rutlig . er's corps. Respecting the extra
dition of the prisoners I am in communication with
the Austrian army. As for Gorgey, 1 keep him at .
your imperial majesty's disposal."
It was rumored that the Emperor of Russia' had
set a pride of 6000 rubles of Kossuth's head, dead
or alive. It is asserted by some of the ardent friends
of Hungary that Gorgey has
_proved himself a trai
tor, and has yielded to the the golden arguments of
the Russians. Kossuth's wife and family it is said
have fallen into the hands of the imperial troops.
ITALY.—Accounts from rurin state that the cham
ber of deputies will grant the indemnity of seventy . -
five millions of livers demanded by the government
of Austria. The Emperor of Austria has extended
to the end of September the amnesty hitherto offer
ed to his Lombard Venitian subjects, and also to de
serters from the Austrian army. The Austrian gov
ernment, in return for the services rendered by it to
the pope and to the dukes of forma and MOdena,
has required that the navig,ati6n of the Po shall be
rendered free. The government of Parma end Mo
dena have consented to the demand of the Austrian
government, and it is not dotffited that the pope will
withdraw his opposition.
MORE LIGHT UPON THE EXTRAORIIINA
•RY CAPITULATION OP BUM.
[The statements embodied in the following letters
front Kos- UTH, in Ilie Loudon Timcs, dated Vientia,
August 16th, go far to Enlighten us as to the
antecedent circumstances which fed to what yet we
cannot but look upon as the inexplicably sudden de
feat and disaster which have befallen the cause of
Hungary. A - series of letters, written by Kossum,
had come to light. They et identry were 'intended
to be kept in the Magyar camp, and by what means
they were published, we are not informed, nor Is it
matctinl 10 our pre-ent purpose, which is to show,
that it was in a great measure owing to the want of
union among the Hungarians themselves, that the
terrible catastrophs already recorded in our column ,- ,
came upon and crushed them to the earth.;• But who
dots not r dinire the eloquence and heroism of Kos.
sum in his extremity, surrounded on every descrip
tion! The letters alluded to are addressed to Gen.
K issuth's leettrs will not be publish'ed, but I am
enabled to give you some few extrac fis from them,
which are of the highest interest, as' they not only
throw a considerable light upon the reported Meson
sions-in the enemy's camp, but - give u statement of
the resources of the rebel gati'roment. Towards
the middle of July Gen. Bem, was to hate received
the sum of 800,000 florins in/notes and 30 and 15
krentzers (Is. 61.) from KoSsuth, but the latter was
only able to send him 125,0(10 florins in addition to
the sum which ho had forWurded him from St. think
on the 9th of the same Month. Kossuth poling mit
to the Pultsb chief the'difliculties of his position, it
being utterly impossible to fabricate any notes or
the moment, as it requires 14 days to ,pot its the
presses which had' been Wien to pieces at Debree
zin and Pesti'.
"1 do all that a limmtn.being, can," says Kossuth,
"but as I am tint the Creator, 1 cannut •make some
thing out of nothing. For a whole year no receipts,
emply .. clitlitrs when I took possession of them, and
war! tAt the present moment I have the following
troops \ to support: In TranTiylvania 40.000; Upper
IlungarY and Comoro, 45,000: setter south army,
30.000 - ; \ Theiss army, :20,000; Peterwardein. 8,000:
Nazi zy,8000; Gro...tva rdein, Arad, Szegedin, tze.,
10,000: in all, 173,000 men, Add to these 18 re
serve squadrons of Hussars, 7 infantry battalions
in formation, :10.000 sick, 60,000 Landsturn, and our
prisoners. the powder mills, foundry, gun, bayonet,
and sabre factory, and the whole ckil administra
tion to keep going, and you will, Lieutenant Gen
eral, confess that the At hole is no trifle. And the
batik Ole presses have been at et 'id still for a whole
fortnight."
Kossuth also complains bitterly of the want of
harmony among the commanders in the smith, and
particularly in Baum who refuses to acknowledge
Veter as his commander, alleging that he (Bea) had
invested Perczel with the supreme command in the
south. Gorgey's disobedience is also alluded to, and
Bem is ardently prayed, if Hungary is to besaved,
to conic at once with his army from Tram.ylvania,
to take the command of all the 'ft rimes which were
then under Messaros, with Dembitisky as the chief
of his stall: A passage in one of the letters is of
the utmost importance, as it explains Ko.,suth's, in
tentions in regard to the Danubian principa
"Two emigrants, 11 desk antdßoliuk: have olTered
to raise a Wallachian legion. Should you (11,m)
make an inroad into Wallachia, (% !licit 1 shoold
tvish,) let this legion form the advanced guard, as
it might spread the report that we came us friends
and delk erers.. In the proclimation it is a point of
eminence to state that we come as friends to Rio
'Purls and Wallachians, to free them from the Rus
sian yoke.
The Turks pursue an evuivocal policy. "11 f ac t
les compromettre." Kerauth !lather laments that
Hem has abolished all civil jurisdiction in Transylva
nia, and says, "hail the_ country is in 'lames in
consequence. Why do yol , n thus compromise me,
my dear Field Marshal Lieutenant?" Kossutlt states
that he is very unwell. The last letter of this most
interesting •coriespondence is orthe 211th of July.—
It is from a Hungarian inajo4 nuouncing the ill suc
cess of the Mag) ars'rn Wallachia, which lie attribn:
les to the behavior of a certain M. Asczlau, whose
name 1 have never before met with.
The foregoing (add i the writer) will serve to show
discord reigns in the c l amp, and to add to the diletmna,
in which the iliMlrgelitS are. lbsmnii, and Paskie
witsch are, just where Kossuth and Bela shotild, ac
cording to their plan of operations be.
TIM CUBA lIcNT BSOKIiNUr,The United States
District Attorney has broken up the Cuba expedi
tion front this port.
He has in United States possession the propeller
Sea Gull. (of a very ‘vatlike look.) the Orleans. and
Florida, m hich are in possession of
. the United States
Marines, or United States Deputy Marshals and
their posses.
One of the leaders of the expedition was arrested
last eight, but gave bail.
Processes are out against other adventures, nod
United States officers on the look out.
It is ascertained that 64150,000 have been put at
the disposal of these adventurers in New York
alone.
The Act of Congress under which this is done,
is tho Act which put the' Army and Navy at the dis
posal of the ?resident to execute the laws:—and it is
shown that the laws have been violated by affidavit
before the United states District-Attorney.
One of the principal men connected pith the ex
pedition from this port, now under arrest, has as
sured us this morning, that lie has abandoned the en
terprise, and that it may be regarded as now at an
end.
The President was officially - consuited this morn
itiz, in regard to the Cuba expedition, and manifest
ed-a disposition to preserve neutrality of tho-Gov
ernment at all hazards. At. the same time be said,
be wished to do no further than this. The honor Of
the Government, more then the punishment of per
sons, was what he-desired.
. .
United States Marines are on board tho Steamer
Orleans.
A Tstitunt.e. Scnris.—A letter form Fort forint
to the St.)Lonie Republcan; of the graves on the
plains, says:
pScoresdiave been passed wh ich have no identity
placed over their remains, and Redo not been enu
merated in any catalogue. The graves, that I saw,
had been dug up by the wolves4he bodies, dragged
to.the surface, and the limbs and fragments scattered
all aroud. . From'this place west, the sickness did
nut follow the trains, o far as herd from.
APOLOGIES FOR GENERAL T YLOR'S EL-
I/MENGE.
" The Albany Atlas thus natio-is the apologies put
foith in the Republic for Gen alTaylor's attempts
at speech-making. The lit tour of the President,
evidently planned with por ical purposes, has turn
ed out a failure. If the eneral would preserve his
popularity, he must be c refill how lie abandons that
species of °inhalant° which distance lends to the
view. Personal into -course with the people dissi
pates the illdsion vhich the victories Of Mexico
spread over their Inds. The people see him, hear
him talk, reflect at the 'Americans were neusr beat•
en in any confl . 8 with the Mexicans under any lead=
rr; and they a y to themselves, “Why, any of our
generals wo d have won the"battle of Buena Vista
With such t oops as he had." Intercourse witlmhe
people is &newly depriving him of the prestige of
his' victories.
When the chivalrous brinte the spell of Buo
land's supremacy of the ocean, by the capture of the
Guerriere, on his return to port he was complimen
ted by the the citizens of Boston with a public din-,
ner. The cloth beitig removed, after a few prelim
inary toasts, came that to the honor of the captain;
"Our gallant guest—who has secured himself a
name and a praise among, his countrymen, and ad
ded terror to the courtesy of his country's flag."—
The toast was drank with enthusiasm, and then all
was quiet.
A friend skiing next to the gallant captain said,
"Sir, we are waiting for your speech" ,"A apeecie
said the chivalrous but modest pull, "I can't make
one; I don't know how." A gentleman on the op-.
posits side of the table exclaimed, audibly, "Sir,
von are in for a speech; don't you see the president
is waiting for your response to the toast?" 'The no
ble'tar rose up and said: "Mr.,President, thegentle
men round me say that you and the other gentle
men are waiting for me to make a speech: Sir,
never made one in my life; I can't do it, sir. I don't
know bow, sir. By I'd rather filth: the bat
tle ewer again flt;oi try it!"
The Washington Republic gites this anecdote as
an etiology for General Taylor's lame efforts nt
speech-making.
,It is well enough us far as it goes,
but it will-not ic. , tve in the case. - If, after his blunt
' avowal that he/was no orator, !101l had gone on a
tour lltrough,tlta country, proving lit by his absurd
and siweehes, Le would have made people at
most forget' his gallant services, in the folly of his
' ridiculous conduct. President Taylor has made
some scores of addresses to the people on crops and
cholera, %% lilt broken dosesof politics, which sound
ed us if he had been taught a lesson before starting,
and had forgotten it on his way.
This tour, clnntneocea without invitation, and
with no motive but a political one, and that made
cruel and selfish by the existence of an epedemic
which the excitement of Presidential parade tended
to increase, is not calculated to elevate its hero in
the estimation of the people. For ourselves, we
can Imagine nothing more ridiculous than the spec
tacle of a chief magistrate riding through the
country, his squat form bedecked with wreathes and
gold-lace, like a prize ox, his bowels in disorder, his
head hardly less cottfuseq, receiving the kisses of his
deputy do,tuinsters' tt irea and daughters, and show
ing by his crude and undigested fragments of speech
es and the frequentprostrationof health, that even
this is too much fur his mental and bodily constit u
ti in.
-- 1A ; PE:1;1t031
By the. arrital of the Steamship Yacht at New Or
leans from Gaviveston Whence t•lie Fiiiled on the 29th
ammo, the papers of that city contain several items
of inteiliizence, which are xvorth recording.
In reference to the reported gold placers in Tex
a-, the Bonham (Fanning county) .Idvertiser, of the
2uth nit., KiyiZ:
Two of the most respectable citizens of that place
had just returned from the reputed gold regiin west
ward of that outlay, and report the existence of
shining sands in the beds of rkulets issuing from
hills composed of sand, gravel, and slate. Observ
in.' Indians about,• and being in small force,
.they
made but a hasty examination and returned, bring
int. a Small quantity of the sand• with them. This
has been sifted, and the product is small yellow par
t des of metal, which - are malleable end, resist the
action of acids. They also brought specimens of
rock, of every conceivably color, impregnated with
metalie substances. Other parties brought in sam
ples of crude lead of surpassing richness.
We take the following, from the Austin Democrat
of the 1811):
We learn that Gen. Brooke, in chief command of
this military department, has made requisition upon
the Governor for tfiree companies of mounted men.
The propir order have been issued to Juhn S. Ford', T
John J Grumbles and Henry Smock to enrol colon- tu
leers for this service. They will be mustered into ,',,
the service nt Austin at as early a daYvas possible.— di
The etnergenc.y with induced the requisition is nr- I
gent. The Southwestern frontier is said to be com
pletely overrun with hands of Indians. It has be- 1
come exceedhigle dm gerou§ to travel the roads in I'
that region. and inurd r and depredation are of almost v
daily occurence. - I , ':
o
In reference to the crops, it appears that Inte news , 1
from diet nintry au ounces a more favorable torn ti
for the planters than was anticipated a few weeks
ago. 1 ii
The following is tto letest intelligence frOm the I'
army, en route to El Faso, across the prairiei. We r
find it in the San Antonio Texan, of the Kith tilt: u
Mr. J. T. Peacoc t arriVed in• twa n yesterday, v
direct from Presidio lel N l :ire, in seventeen days,' „
with a wagon. He left the army on the 7th at the t
Rio Pecos. The armylial 'crossed, ant the balance
of the train would cross Min day cur two. The of
tipers and men were all in fine health and spirits.—
Letters state that the. army would arive at Idi Paso
from the 10th to the :30111 September.
The army has left a good road for all those who
may wi-li to take that, route. Mr. Peacock loom] BO
difficulty in traveling %%WI his wagon from the Pre
sidio to San Antonio.'
The San Antonio Texan, of the 15th inst. learns
from a trentleinau from the Psesidio dcl Norte, that
Capt. Vtatch and his party, together with some
other Americans, were in the State of Chihuahua.
It vas understood at the Presidio that the Mm
ii
hu authorities had engaged 'their services to repel
Indian invasions.
A c')rresmnd nt of the Western; Texan, writtng
from El Paso, July 3, gives a glowing description of
the beautiful position of that point, and dwells forci
bly o'n the natural advantages.
Tui EPPECTS OP- CHO/AMA UPON TM/ 114ANny
reference to the Custom'bills aviary
for the month of July last, it will he found that the
increased quantity of foreign brandy, upon which the
dlty hits been paid, amounts to the largequnntity of
:20,000 wilco's, or nearly 1000 gallons per diem be
yond the ate:age. of former year.. This extraordi
nary increase is traced to the subA itittion,•by a large
1191nber of the public brandy diluted with water with
their meals, in the place of malt liquors. The Preni2h
growers have already taken advantage of the increse
and simultaneously 'raised their prices ten francs pe'r
hectolitre, or about 5d per gallon English.—London
Paper.
A Taw. Int:a or ExTExstoxr.--‘•Prom pretent ap
pearances, Uthink there* will be a general war in
Europe; and as soon as the. nations have thrashed/
each other all round, it will then be the .duty of
,"Uncle Sam" to take hold, lick the whole. and en./
nex them, Cuba included, to this country. The sea
-of government can then be one of the Sandwich Is
lands, or Kane is not big enough, "fill but," as wri' f 3
done in your Cove. and unite two or more. Thrp
-the Representatives from Norio Scotia and Japaii
can meet'ai Qs the merits of Free Soil; a)cl
and other nt, national questions."—Dei y
Trenscrik
e Taylor papers east are denoun
as both silly and corrupt, and
led): dissolution.
citig the
propheeyini
. .
We show. m know how Gen. Taylor is to
get rid of ft, fin Je n pot to vote in council, they
will vote him down!—Ohio Statesman.
Ar sw TIIIOS TO AVOID.-A bottle of wine at a
public dinner. -A short cut when you are in a bur
ry. Walking between twd umbrellas on a rainy
day. "Just another glass before you. go." Going
to church without a shilling. Being the mediator
of a quarrel between a man and his 'wife. Bowi g
to a lady, from the top of a cab. And lastly, taki g
anew hat to an evening ride.
Da. Fa,anxiim need to say that rich widows w
the only piece of second-hand goods that paid a pri
cost.
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sustainid their parts well: Miss B. ae Desditnobia, and
Mr. B. os logo, in Odielo, were copilal bits. The other
night, iln"A Glauce at New York," Mr. Brown was
Muse, and Mr. Morris, ns Metelty, the house fairly caino
down 710 applause. In fact, we doubt, whether the
two characters were ever played better. Mr. Tyler, too,
as the 4r tinted friend of the superfitively green and unso
phisticated Dutchy, made a decidedly favorablo
rot to night's I:error:mince, see bill of the thy.
The Fredonia Censor, Bur its whig instict, ift dis
posed to quibble. Not long spec it anneunced,• with a
flourish of trumpet% that would hallo done honor to, the
veretablo Chapmen. that E. W. M'Gaughey had been
elected to Congress in a whirr distrlct in indium., end
claimed that by such an election the Democratic Senate
had been "rebuked,'" because that body -had declined
to confirm his nominotien by the President as Governor
of Oregon. Upon this, wo enquired of the Censor, if the
Senate was "rebuked" by such nn election, who was
"rebuked" ,by the !election W. J. Brown in the satio
State, the first victim of den. Taylor's bra:, n pledges!
We asked the Censor, ton, who was "rebuked" by the
election of Stanton, late Post Master at Mayiville, —but
removed by Gen. Taylor because ho was a Democrat, in
n rclag district over Maj. John. P. Gaines, no original
Tailor man. We, also, wanted to know to whom the
various congressional electors since the-Bh of March had
been a "rebuke?" To the two particular cases stated
the Censor replies not a word, but seizes upon our allu
sion to general results to say that "where the Whigs have
lost at the South, it was because they were charged with
abofitiouisni, and at the North, because they were char
gedlwith being opposed to abolitionism " Now, thin is
down. rigk quibbling, besides it falsifies well known facts.
Thu only whig elected in Virginia, was elected over nuo
thes whig, on account of Ins ultra southern notions. In
,eituelty not n solitrey emancipationist wits elected to
let convention to amend the Constitution: yet there
, eio six whig members of Congtrir elected : l iVow, does it
unitippear a little strange that irw
t,4 whig Oil
Orly in Ke
uc ry had placed itself where the Censor thideuvers to
'mire its readers believe it has, thr4 these members
lid not Share the satire fate as the Jitiancipktienists did!
think so, besides % we kn 4, on the authority of the
tisville Courier, e rabid , Taylor paper, that the whig
nelnibers elect from that stite, and the candidates who
ve o defeated, were pledged •
• v •r our new territories. B
iu stiou—every body know:
i
IR Editor of the Censor, th,l
u favor oldie Wilmot pro
o s of Congressmen on the
- .
i ieutous and silly. So, to., at tho North, and pantie
ilirly in Indiana. Thoro almost the entire free soij
1 1)
.to was' thrown in opposi ion to Wright, the Dom
( retie candidate for Craven Fir. In the Fort Wayne dis
r et, the whiga tiniHroo b ilurs uniteed on Killgore,
a ainot Harlin, but in vat So, too, in tho districts
~
I i tely represented i by Dunn, whigt and Cathcart and Ito
b nsou, Democrats. lit the first, Lane, Whig, was Bop
p rted and received the mtited vote of the whigs and
fco sellers, nevertheless a i l Democrat was elected. In
t e Other two districts lit was the samo. 'rho only lis
t icl the Democrats united with the free Boilers was in
t tat lately represented by Thompson. Doty was it, too,
i 1 lowa. There wo find th whigs and floe sailers again
tilting, but, thanks to her tudountablo Democracy, with
o better success. But tl4 Censor says, it "sees no re
uke" in all this. There nro none so blind as those that
von't see—of this class, ve are afraid, is our friend of
he Censor. Gen. Taylor is thy first Prosidont who will
ddress his first message to a Congress politically oppos
ed to him, yet . the Censor "sees" ho "rebuke ii it!
Happy, thrice happy Censoil Its political sea ie all un
ruilled—no storms, to its self-blinded tvision, await the
'administration of the "Second Washington." The only
"rebukes" it dreams of, is to its opponents—tho only
election it is aware has taken place is in—Rhodo Island!
Sleep on, the thunders of the peoplo.on the first of De
cember, ma y , wake you, but we doubt It.
OIL
ANIERICAI , 6S DURESS:=TIIO Harrisburgh Union status.
that Mr. J. M. Beck, well known in that place as an in
telligent member of the typographical profession, trans
lator, engraver and universal genius, at the latest advi
ces was confined in the fortress of Rostatt, in Germany:
After visiting . his friends, Mr. B. was about returning to
this country, when the revolution in France broke out.—
Tho excitement in Germany immodiatly followed, and
he remained, and has since taken an active part in the
struggle for litnty, now in progress throughout Europe:
They have agreed to release him, upon condition that he
will take leave for the inked States never to return;
A DESPERATE LOVI:1 .—Tho Lancaster papers inform
il
us that a young lady % ho was returning, in company
with a gentleman frien , from the Cale Meeting neer
Kelsey's Spring, In ill t county, last Tharedayevening,
was violently assaulte ;and beaten by a young man
whose addresses she h decently rejected. She was se
riously injured', though not dangerotisly. Tho 4iarpetra
tor of .the outrage haslboen arrested. The young lady
may consider herself fortunate in having escaped a mat
rimonial alliance with such a lover. Ho would havU
made a nice husband. indeed: ' 7
"DISSOLUTION" IN Irvtina.---Tho pomocratie official
majority lu Indiana, l o,n the Governe;'s ticket, only
9,502, with twoDeMcratic precinct* to hoar frOm. In
diana has indeed done her full shire of the gOod work.
07 Somebody very, pertinently Nays &di / Stupid people
have an extensive abhorronco of mimicy ,tind wit. The
cause is obvious: they are afraid of being made tho butts
of these plinumut qualities. Blackbirds are exceedingl y
afraid of being quizzed, and cannot tolerate 019 slightest
joke at their own expense.
113tsilthl (151)5tturr.
ERIE. PA
I AY MORNING. SEPTEMBER .15, 1849
°RATIO NOMINATION.
' OR CANAL'COAIMISSIDNER.
N A.'GAMBLE,
LYCOIUING COUNTY
see by notices in the other,papers in this place,
W. Hawkins, ono of tho original Washingto
allimore, Mill lecture on Toinporance ,at the
Ise, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
'lB, 19, and 20th of September.
las been given that Mr. U. would lecture this
crew evenings, but wo learn by telegraph that
!he hero until the time panted above.
t. TAYI,OIVS SPI:1:C11 AT EntE.—Tho Wash
' niblie and New York Herald, have published
aid to have been delivered by the President ut
It is known that no speech sync made, nor
reception—tiro Presient was token immetli
room, too ill to see aIIT 011.
thTinan from Erie, has related to us how this
me in print, and the facility with which speech
, do fen the old General.
lily correspondent of the Itepublic
not present it seems, bat anticipated whet as
ace, enquired of our informant who ho knovi
ont, "how the speech went oft" Ho was told
was no speech made, to which he immediate
1, "By G—d I run sorry for that, for I have just
letter all written out.for publication.".:—Bdruto
THEATRE.—The Theatre at tho Reed House
tly visited by largo And fashionublo audiences,
rtanding it. is now drawing towards the close of
h week of the season. This is suf fi cient evi
hat the efforts of the Manager, Mr. Powell, ere
ted. Most of our play-going citizens have boon
leased with the deliniations of Mr. end Mrs.
n the higher walks of Tragedy and genteel Coin-
TAYLOR "REIII:KESV AGAIN!
gninst extending the proviso
It los useless to urguo this
; and no ono hotter than
tno party in the Smith is
iso, and 'that to excuse the
round that they aro, is both
CHEAP POSTAGE
Wo have on our table a circular from the "Boston
Cheap Postage Association," which requests that we
"prepare an article for our pap 44" upon the subject of
cheep Postage. We do so with pleasure. It is riques
lion upon which aU should be heard, and no - one partic
ular class allowed to secure tho passage' of laws by Con
gross for their immediate benefit. IVe have ever been
in favor of cheap postage. By this, however, we aro not
to be,understeed of favoring a system which will make
the Postollice Department a burden upon the public treas
ury. We set it down as a principle which shoubd not be
departed from, that the postoffice! dopartme it should sup
port itself. It was established to accoMmodato the pub
lic, and those who use it, should he willing to contribute
to its support as often as they avail themselves of it. and
no more. If the postage on letters is reduced to a scale
which will not pay tho expense! of labor in the offices,
(and it is enormous and the worst paid in .the govern -
ment,) and the cost of transportation, the 'deficit would
have to come from the public treasury, and thus from
the purkets'of the people! Under the present indirect way
of taxation, the farmer in. the-Interior of Ponnsylyania
pays much inure, in proportion to his property, into the
public treasury than the merchant in New York or
Boston. Yet ho may use To postollice on o c , a- year to
receive a letter , from his son in the far west, or Ito may
not. Thorn aro thousands who never use it, while the
merchanta and business mon of, our cities and villages,'
do so daily—nut to carry on friendly correspondence, but
their business—tu put money in their purses. Now, they .
should pay for the support of this.Departruent just in, pro
portion as they use it, and it can be done in no other way
than by making the receipts fur letters cover tho expense
oldie labor in. preparing them fOr, and l ank transporta
tion after they are so prepared. ' There is no kind of. jun
tice or equity, or even common sense. in calling upo'S the
whole people to pay for the support of a Department
which is the vehicle of a portion in carrying on their
mercantile and commercial' transactions—transactions
from which they rintlize their thousands every year. It
may be asked whet rate of. postage on letters wo think
would pay the expense of labor and transportation. We
answer:a auroral rate of five cents on a halfounce, paid
invariably in advance. The Postoffice Department losses
thousand's of dollars every year by*"doad letters," and us
some ono ought to pay for these letters, we know of no
better plan than pie-paymeut.
But the object of the "Boston Cheap Postage Associ
ation" is, more particularly to bring about tho total Abo
lition of Ncivspriptir postage. To such a proposition we
enter our discent in lute. The reason fur such dissent Is
based upon the saute principle involyad above—it tottuld
he unjust; not only unjust to the people, but to tho pub
fishers. To the people, because, us above stated, , the
deficit which LL would produce in the postoffice receipts,
I would havo to come front the public treasury, and thus
from `the pockets of the whole people. This would be'
wrong. - Lot thoso who take newspapers pay the posy,
_tags—let them pay it t,OO, in proportion to the distance
they aro carried. it is noosenso to talk about the equity
of a uniform rate of ono cent on newspapers for any dis
tance. If is is worth twenty cents to carry a package of
twenty "Observers,'" a distance of four miles, our neat
est country postoffice. how much is it worth to bring tho
mane number of the "Model Couriers" from Phdadel
phis to this place, a distance -oloyer four hundred miles?
%Vitt the "Boston Cheap Postage Association" ,answer
us that question? Will they get their slates and cypher
it out! The total abolition or newspaper postage would
be unjust to the country publishers, because it would have
the eiffiet of completely crippling the country 'Koss, and
in the language of the Pittsburgh• Post, we cannot avoid
thinking that 'some such end is at the fouudation of this
wisociation. It is a notorious fact that the east has the ad
vantage of the wesCat this time. In Pniladulpbin, Bas -
ton, New York, &.c., a weekly is made up from the mat
ter which has already appeared in the daily, and with these
papers which cost little more than the paper, the whole
west is flooded, to the almost entire starvationiof west
ern papers not connected with dailies. If an entire free
; ostage, or the uniforiu cent postage is adopted, the west
ern press will he stopped; just as surely as Keel-batting
is stopped by Steam-boating ott the Ohio. Ho* is itiies
sil for a western publisher, who works °frills pap'er on
a It nd press to compete with au eastern publisher, wile
works off his on a strain press. It cannot' be. And
moreover, our western publishers are alone—they have
not the pi ivilege of exchanging matter to save composi
tion. We would say then, if Congiess wishes to previrt
the east front monopolising the business of publication,
they will not adopt a regulation, making postage on
newspapers "Uniform" us the Boston association terms
Uniformity.
Those arc our views—that they will please the "Bos
ton Cheap Postage Association" we do not expect. Per
haps the gentlemen who forwarded no their circular,
thought we could not see through its thin disguise—that
the cool effrontery with which they call upon us, country
publishers, to cut our own throats for tile benefit of New
IM!I
York, Boston, and Philadelphia merchants and put/iA
ers, would ptevent our noticing tho cat in the meal tub.
They aro'nnstakon hoWever—and wo 'can assure diem
that tho Congressmen who hereafter votes to make
newspaper postage uniform, or the postotlice a burden
to the people, had better prepare to halg his political
harp upon the willow, for his doom is sealed.
We cannot better close this article than by copying the
annexed, which we find in the last Fredonia Censor. It
'is from the Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Eagle, a paper we do not
exchange with;
"Furff I.simvaramms.—Since it begins to be apparent
that the eonntry papers will hoc) n Make the mselves heard,
and in spite of all opposition be freed from the tax fraud
ulently imposekupon their local circulations, a few pa
pers are taking matand to have newspaper postage abol
ished altogether. In Great Britain and Brazil papers
already circulate free of postage, and that is clearly the
only uniform system that can be adopted having in it a
shadow ofjustico. But a little reflection will satisfy eve
ry body'that a free, system never can he carried into ef
fect in this country union the government is willing to
allow the Pastollice . Department to ho-taxed at least
twenty millions per annum to pay the expenses. The
venders of flash papers, and. the cheap trust in the large
cities would send forth ten tons per week all over the
Guinn, to load down steamboats, railroads and stages,
and besides, the vendors of quack medicines, the owners
of mammoth clothing stores, and large city establish
monis of all kinds, would get. up newspapers of their own
to circulate their advertisements at the expense of the
government, and tax the Postoflico Department at least
tonl millions per autumn in addition, for they also would
send tons to all parts of the Union. This they are now
doing to a considerable extent, pausing large expense
and labor in attending to what is as much mere individu
al business as letters, and of no public utility whatever.
But Congress can give the people the full legitimate ben
efit of a free system, and that by giving all papers a free
circulation a short distance, say thirty miles, or through
out their counties, and that will be sufficient for all pub
lic purposes. for the local papers give the people just as
much information asony others, and would sopa be ren
dered as valuable.
JUST LIKE Tit em.—lt: is stated that, on the day of Gen.
Taylor's reception at Pittsburgh, the iron works Were all
stopped, to enable the personi employed in them to par
ticipate in the ceremon i es; and that the owners' mad,
him believe that' they were stopped on account of the
"ruinous effect" of t h e resent Tariff:
ID- The New York llerald—an Herald—original, and claiming
to be the trirliest, Taylor papersays:
"We .have every mailed to believe that a more corrupt,
deeHthil, and selfish cabinet than the present one never
existed at Washington. • Hoiv long aro the honor of the
President and tho public interests to, remain in such
hands?"
./ The Herald is famed for'telling home truths when it
'ileals in that article at all. but it never regailod ils road•
era Vertu°, with one so plain as this.
WHY HUNGARY HAS Fsua:s.—The Pennsylvanian
says: "A vory intelligent friend in Paris writes that the
fact is susceptible of proof that Gorgoy, the young Hun
garian Goneral, - was purchased by Russian gold. Two
millions of dollars wero previously offined to Dembriski,
another of the Hungarian genorals, but ho indignantly
spurned tho,lirribe and exposed tho plot."i
03' Lord Byron once said, that "with ell his follies ho
was never guiltrof Mopping his papor because its editor
happened,to displease him."—Exchnngc.,.
Syron was'nt a modern politician or he would nom
have been guilty of saying so sinsible a thing.
1
TILE WHIG COUNTY TICKET
Tho whigs hold their annual county convention at the
Court House in this 'city on Monday, and put in nomi
nation. a county Ticket. Of courso a regular nomina
tion in this county isas good as 'an election, hence_ wo
may sot it down as a fixed fact that the fortunato indivi
duals who compose that ticket will be our representatives
in the next Legislature, etc., etc. No matter how oh:
noxious any of them may bo to public tonsure—no
:natter how dishonestly they may havo obtained their
present porfornient, or to what tricks of political loger
domain they may have resorted to procure their no
minations—no matter what better men they may have
pushed aside and rode Over—the whip of Erie county
aro bound, like old 'Lack's three hundred slaves, to si
lently bow to the beests of their masters here in 'town.
Never, since the day Morgan's , ghost frightened them
from their propriety, and furnished oar town political
speculators with a convenient hobby to ride upon, have
they dared td bolt a regular nomination. Even though
Belzebilh himself should head their ticket—and we hum
bly submit whethelone of his most favored imps does
not hold that position in the preent opei,-they would
swallow it, horns, hoofs and all. Bound together by the
I principle of the "five loves and two fishes." they con
trive, by a system of row&rdeand punishments, to stifle
every murmur which from time to time twines to the lips
of such of the leaders as may unfortunately hold a poor
hand in the county convention. Under such circumstin
ces is it to wondered at, that—as Hattie! IVebster said of
Gen. Taylor's—nominations, "not fit to be made" are
forced down the throats of the party. Is it to be won-:
doted at, that where party fealty and political subservi
oncy aro made the highest and brightest of virtue', me.
aro placed in office, not because they come up to Gen.
Taylor's professed standard of perfermont,•"honesty and
capacity," but to appease a particular locility, or reward!
political tricksters! Something like this must have go
verned tho late whig convention, in one at least, of thei
belections.ln fact such considerations have alway•
governed die actions of their conventions, and why no
this?
What, for Milano), could have induced a conventio,
governed by other than the vilest political motives t.
place sty:h a man ai JOHN H. Wst.afn before the peo
ple for qenator. With his political reputation still putri
with the rotten carcass of the defunct United State
Bank of 'entniylvania-:—with his moral honesty in regar
to the re-charter of that accursed institution, still deobte ,
by many, very many, of his own political friends, som
of them members of the very convention that nominate.
hint, it regnir,ed more effrontery Map was over posesse.
bt any political body but a Whig convention of Erie coffin
tY: to ash the people to- support such a nominee! Ye
he will be supported, and elected, by the very men wh
we have heard, timo and again, denounce him with . 1
bitterness we dare not imitate, and with epithcits
would be ashamed to repeat. Yes, Johan. Maier wi
be voted for and elected by such men! We wish the
joy upon his nomination! 7 -and when their noses coin
to the grind-stone, and their masters lead them up to th!
polls, we shall lake pleasure in bearing witness to It
lamb-like docility with which they stitltifthent;elve;
and spanicl?like, lick tho hand that has chastised theni
h would ho istriigp indeed, if, in forming a count
ticket, Horne good men should not be. by mistake ye
haps, placed upon it even by nu Erie county Whig cot
tion! Of this character is one Of tho nominees f
the legistuture—we mean/la:lms C. REM, Esq., of
city. In this gentleman the Whigs of Erie, have aca '
didatc every way worthy of their support. We kno
him intimately, and aside from politics, will take pleathal
in seeing him in the legislatured With the otherican
date far the legislatute, Mt. Hart, we aro not acquaiuiel
but presuinJ, as heretofore, Ito is put on to fill
'
the ticket here, and vote in Harrisburg when and ho
his colleague fells him.
Of the rest of the ticket ere have only to say that
ere pleased that so bad a head has no worse a tail.
Pont' vio, Sept. 10-9 P. M.
EI.P.CTION.—TweIvo towns in Cumberla ,
county, give for Governor, Hamlin, Whig, 19G9; Hu
hard, 25 . 26; Talbot, Free Soil, 495. The same lon
last year gave Hamlin, Whig, 2306; Dana, Dom., 287
Froz-senclon, Free Soil, 728.
Six towns in York county give Hamlin 1158; II
bird, 1105; Talbot, 117. List year, Hamlin 933, Dal
1101; Fiessendon, 228.
Return:, Ciotti one town in Lincoln county, give 11a
lin 151, Hubbard 119, Talbot Last year, 11am
183, Dana 19%1, Fmasendon 101.
REPREU% rn rtr ELEcrim.—Portland elects
Whigs.
Gorham, 1 Democrat
Westbrook, • I
Cnpe Elizabeth, 1 • 46
Standish, 1 "
Kittery, 1 "
New Gloucester; 1 Whig.
Belfast, 1 "
Bangor,
Cabs, - I "
Saco, I "
Bonds, Sept. 10-10 P. 31
•
'Returns from 21 towns in the 4th District have be
received, in which the votes add up as follows;
ThoMpson, Whig, ' '2659
Palfrey, Free Sode3l;l9.
•
Robinson, Democrat, 107 G
At the preceding trial, the same towns gave—
Thompson,2324
•
Palfrey, 241:4
Robinson, 3:36
There is now a gain against Palfre); and probably I
election will result in no choice.
133 The Pennsyleartion says Mr. Crane, the Edi
of the California JVhig, a new federal paper for circa
lion iu our Pacific- possesions, is now in Philadelp ,
collecting subscriptions. We suggest',-after he is re
to go ahead, that he should raise the famous mottoe•l
his party, while they opposed the acquisition of Califor i l
'lt is not worth a dollar."--llartim
CVs ess .
should be surrendered back to Mexico, as a considers
of the nonpayment of the twelve Millions true under
treaty of Gaudaloupe."—Mr Scseatt. Either would
very• apt to be received with great applause by the pa. ,
of the now territories. ,
CU In accordance with orders 'from Gen. Tayk
conscience keepers in Washington, the Gaunt' has eh'
egd its ground on the tariff qaestiort. Not long sine
was furious for the fincouditiorial restoration of the tr
of '42—note, that beloved measure, rbcoives a cold she
der, and in its stead, it faintly squeaks for the rep I
el l
the bill of '-16 only And it is shrewdly
would'nt even ask for that, bu l l rewdly surmised th i
for the certainty th I
cannot be repealed, in which event it is laying an ani .
to windward id order to lay•to and grumble,
A Jusr Itr.nmir,—The brutal attack of the Washii
lon Republic upon Mr. fleict?.orr, our distinguis
American Minister to London, proves that the editor
that Journal have no ambition to csanmead their u
ings to the regard of decent or intelligent men. '.
'New York Illirrur; a decided and able- wbig Taylor
per, rebukes this attack is the following indignant ter
"The )Vashington Republic has an article attamp
to exalt , Ir. Brodhead and to ridicule Mr. Bancroft
think it ignally fails in both efforts , and we cannot
that any apital is likely to, be made by abusing a n
who is generally acknowledged to bare been one oh
Secretaries of the Navy we have ever had, by all
veterans of the s'" - Th ' Repubi
both ungenr
ED" We
Whig Com
lintel's c0mn0,.....,__. Ba
Esq., for his able and efficient managetnent of the $
finances.—Gazelts
We also find in the Erie Commercial .Adrertimr,
organ of John 11. iValker, almost every, week open ,
tacks upon the political reputation of the dame gentlel'
notwithstanding "his able and efficient managemon
the State ffitauces,"and we have as jet looked in VII'
a defoiMe from his porserriat organ, the tlniefte! rot
and that together, will you: •
UT Col. Wilton spOke at St. Joseph, Mo., on OH
qf Avlgiot, to about 800 people in • grove, flit' °P•
was entirely heti?. 'sad paid to be bolder than his first
at Jefferson City. Ainong other thipgs he said
"Slavery is now both abolished and prohibitpfl jU
Mexico."
vf
t it
it it
ith i I
VA
ciao
that