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Foreign News,b3 l. :the Cp,lcdonia.
NEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EtlitOPE.
Nuiv Yost:, Nov. 25-10 A. M.
Colton—Portlier advance of to Id, : •Pion r —.
I v, and in some inztances 6,1 lower. Indiati
rorn al.alower- o .3oAtArnerican yellow .275. Amer
iv ut pnivi. t ona in moderate demand—low qualities
pulite ne , ,s pork %%anted. Lard 35s to 35. s 61 for
g ood sweet ia barrels. l'riine lots chee.e bell freely.
1, miun money market improved. ; Consols 931,—..
l" . .; S.. ti's fur in, tettl—N. Y. s's 93-01110,
:200—Penn Cs '73.
Yonii, Nov. 2C,-3 P. M.
The, British Pittlitnent is Protofzued Lill the itith
01 nowt
Thu q iS1•110./ proclamations of General
thanksgirina on the 15th irt4., no account of the
abotetnent of the Cholera in great Britain and
Is
land.
It i. 4 slateJ thai Sir 11, bolwer's first itin.ine sq o n
hi arrivll ia the Is to know v. hat en
(' rinigenn , to, if aijy, the United States ,tztve 1 the
attempte I with-trawl. the CgnittlaF from 1161141 1
rii:o. It is umlerstood that he ha s full powers to
re , ist onorletteally all attempts at interference on
the part of the United ytates in Niearnami affairs.
h i 3 said that government has intimated to the Gov
cr:mr, of Camt,ht that no coereive measure will b..?
11,1 ;toed to prevent an a litleXi/t 1411 LO the IJni ted States
if the 10:Altar will be tiveideltly expresscd au favor of
the nwa
'The .hips-under thi entnmand of Sir James Ross
ha I err' off SearbiCrough. Capt. Rie.s; says. it is
lit, confident opinion that neither Sir t.,hn Franklin
n or by of his companions are eastward on any in-
In‘hitable point in the Artie regi ms.
S.r James traversed at least 230 miles in - the
tho.bergs of which are frightful—much more to
than any he. experinced in his artic voyages before.
Sir Ja inns and 1);, p?rty pqm.trated as far as the wreck
of the fury, where he fmtml the old tents standing.
Ile speaks most!highly.of all those who have been
connected and aho.oc . loed with him.
The intelligence which hail reached NA% York
on the 20th ult., by the barque McClellan from
Davis' Straits, is in a great degree confirmed by a
communication from Kirkaidy, dated Nov. 7.
f.aIN, , T Panat PAnPf.—Mr. Rivers alas received
by the l'resl:d.mt on 'Thursday, the letter remarking
that, if he had come from a monatchical government
he. would not have been received.
communication.; hod been received
float The Emperor of Russia relative to the reply of
t;,t) Porto,
wad in a very cli,tesi•-ed state. The Coln
-0 Gar.,:tte'striteF, that there ore mai)); symploiro
te!iling. to the suppotitien tilat war will be renewed
‘vi!;) I)o.nninrl;
Ascr..—All quiet. The Pope is said to have
expre. , ..sed,a d.‘sire to return to Rome, and the French
(10.cm - tient had ordered a steam •trig.ate to- proceed
•t r Porticit to be placed at the Pontiff's disposal.
Accounts front Italy state, that the Pope ‘s. as ex
p..eted at Buenny vino abo9t the 30th Oct. •
I \IPCMT.I.N r Pnom Morocco.—By accounts from
t;.b?ralter there appea t rs to be a likelihood of wad)°-
, ~. r/ ouch and the Einveror of Morocco. The,
onch C•msul Irid telt Tangiers, aril there had been
1 -1, ';•ls reo vessels of war sailing for the coast
'roc ••: nforce the demands made by the !Le
ta,'
A7;1) HUNG klly.-1t appears that Russia:de-
Ina nit.; ( , f the Stil.tau' (if Turkey tiisav that the
1 invarian reftwes shalt lie loenteil In the.
_
, rior of Ca naditt, or 'stone plaCe convenieot for
i.eeping a strict surveillance over their actiott..—
Anv of the refuges who choJse, may go to France
or England.
I.Ve' hale:no accounts that KO-Stith had arrived
in England.
The Rip_' if Naples has consented to recognizo
the Alexic.,n Republic.
1: ii thenolit that the Illitwaritin leader- , who have
e,.c.a:ied, meditate exciting a new ret elation at no
(14,-,I ant periOd.
REMARK 13 LH. mrkt remarkable
nicks of %%Welt we hale any kiwis ted ,, e, has lately
1).4m (Ik:covered in the middle of the inland tea,
Son, , rior.. By a gentleman who has lately
returned from Copper 11,tror, we learn, that a Shaft
of trap-nick has very lately been'dkcovered, rising
in the lake front 160 to 200 miles from land. - and as
ceeding above the surface ofthe water, a distance of
tint above four foot. What renders it more ext r'aor
dinary is, that - it Aland:- 'alone, and all around it, so
f(r n exaMinat ions h the been made, no bottom has
been reached by , any of the lead-lines used on the
lake; and the point of the rock itself dots not ex
;ay.: :iron of more than six or seven feet sqoare
a:nl a.; t,,r a, obr.eriation of it has extended. it does
not apt cart , ko,la , ge in size a, it descends. It has al
te,nly, become a ,00rce of alarm to the mil
liners %vb.) I% . 12:Ite MY) takesiecial paim3
• in pas-in. , , to ,rite it as wide a birth a;; pos , ..ible.
"/ It i too .nn It—inn remote and dangororts to ad
mit of a 14;ht, and therefore its renlm ill doubt
pertain to the duty of giv e r liment. A, single
last from a bore s,udicient dcatit. e.oold probably do
it; but the surface of the rock being so near that
of he water, and the space im narrow as to forbid any
lo Itnent for workman, they would have to
or.ml cotktantly by a se, , el stifiie;ent size to
re4l.4t any soil len ,tnrin ut the init.; and would ahm
Ste to he kept oomoantiy under way. a- no ha dim
or t•Vi..ll for an anchor, wi , lPn a dav 4 z- sari.
The discoverers rave that the rock appeals io
n lace of tzetterd re:,orl of the crrlwvu trout of t.tti,
lohe, rig ttwy fimod them in ulumnt
havieg, during their short stn),
:(•%er.l l . I,3rrris a it% no other iostrutiwnt than a roil
iron, on cow cell of ix !rich they .1i; rile,: a
They tried, %% lib their lines on
di immediately nround the rock, felt x‘ii;hour
Sock R.:01111»tl,if it c ,, oltl l :t.fxpo ,, ed to
“k% • •••":1 1, 1lun_ • h into ridicule (;leopatruiri
e, l'olnee)'s pillar, the Colossus or
nPY l'rtyi....f_tiOn of ttocietit or, modern urt.-1)e
-1,'Dil Free Peres
F.v- kciateN,ter DIMCOVERY 4:1 t.A LIFORNI %.—The
an extract loon a letter «ritirn P;
,‘ if,. by n New Yorker, flliw working in ti.- wines of
calif.,rnia. The letter bents aate; .•261h.
1841;:
..vas n.aoll mine discovered here -( wlint
is called 'Afiirpliv's U,i ~ ono o,elr to-dav, it
is i , ‘idciiiady the cork tirno ,, -210 fret
thvp,.aitiisted on the mite mitt t f a very hig . .ll Inoue
it has made a groat excitement here, as it
::a. several days before preparation could be made
I,)d,.eend to the Itetture There was found in it the
remains of a human being, also an alter for wor
ship, r i •A some 1,111 ,, r evidences of human
p r ,, ro re‘erit ita:i,cations'it Is (/01/!nr(11 n ltethor it
::til pay to be orked, ns it is nearly all toi:. and
r: ill require a gre r at outlay fur tools and machinery
to work b.-
dkeevery. if properly pnrsued he competent
no,y pint x.'nf .the highest I,worieal
irn
i It will esmldish tbe — fset that tfw
wealth itf that region !v.:3 been known to p rf icodiore
gencrationF, end the relies which' hate , surviued.
it,dy e nlighten n 5 ns to Ow nationality of people who
tir:t t.ierced this mountain two hundred and ten feet,
‘‘ ill dnubtlei, ellgget.tl a n inquiry to the reason
for almelooing the pursuit of gold in a country
in which it seems to ab;innd, and te here its dis
c ?verelT lied found er,coqragetilellt tO make suet;
e N tensive excavations in former times.
61.ttim FAtrrs.—Under this head, that spirited
and able paper, ;he New Haven Regiite - r, thus poitt
tediv realm lis:
"IV, , ver teas a President, so accideatally elected
md so poorly qualified fur a high civil stating, as
Go.mral Ti) kr. Net er was so much duplicity used
tu an election, and never did an administration lava
ground so' fast and so early as at present. Never
was a President so unlucky in his cabinet, in ma
kiug a Vpointments, in dispensing his patronage, and
111 the character .of his leaking partisnn4. Never
was the doom of an administration im plainly seen
114 the preeelit— _Never did, the political pal boil such
material to the top as Truman Smith and Fitz War
n.
SMART MAX.—A friend of ours, Pays the Albany
)tineketbr , cker, arose L at• seven with a hpadache,
IA ;lipped his wife and four children, upset_ the table,
bra:Ae the div•llea, drank a pint of whiskey,. started
Iron) ;wine, got drunk, and got walloped before ten
-- , was sent to the tuck-up ,;.1 one, paid his fine, slept
nil hve. then took a Nrito on:," came_ back, took
tipper at halt-pzst six, and %%OM. 0 1 4 tVaint ,when
h. Evil inio 1111 Ups..l ceflati way, uhd ,htis out hiiice
Into iaLuad
(TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.
The, New Orleans , Picayune,. of
thins the felleWin.gAitiaila of thri.explOSlon of *the
stemei Louisiana, this most amirOexpliii3ion 'rec.
ord
. ,
One, of the most deplorable catastrophes that eve
er oc curred in the history of ategmboat . 2explesions,
took place at our levee yosteraa'y evening a ,few
minutes after. 5 O'ctock. \ • - •
•
'flue steamboat Hbuisfinna, Capt. 'Cannon, bound
for St. /sells. loaded with a valuable . cargo, arid,
liming On board a large number of passengers, had ;
rung her last bell, and was just backing out from
the wharf at the foot of Graaier firm, when the
%%hide of her boilers blest with a tremendous ex
plosion, which resounded throughout the city. The
coneossiou was so great that it shook the houses to
their foundation' for many slimes distant. The
Lenisinna was lying:alongside the Steamer Bostena,
Capt. Dustin, at / the time of the, disaster, and - the
stetoner .Storm,:Capt. had jest arrived'
fr•euHmist Oil ' her 'starboard s id e .
The tipper works of these two boats 'are a complete
WrOCk.,theif • f.li flipOyd hav ing been' ca rrier) away,
and their cabin- stove in and shattered in some pla
ces to atoms. The violence of the shock operating
en the boilers was tremendous. A part of ode of
them, a muss of considerable size,' was hurled with
ificonrei vuble force on the levee, It cut a' mule in
killed a horse and the driver of a dilly to which
tlwy wore attached, instantaneously. Another etas
eke pdttion of the same, twelve feet long, and of
imiuense weight. was blown to the corner of Canal
and Front sreets, a distance of 200 yards at lewd,
Prostrating three large iron pillars which supported
a wooden shed or awniug, which stood before the
ciade house there. Before canting in contact with
the iron pillars, life fragment of the boiler 'cut
through several bales of cotton, which lay in its
passage, making the staple scatter through the air
us if it had been blown throegh a cotton gin.
The noes spread like wildfire, end o ur c iti zens
pushed in from all directions to the scene of the
Disaster. Already on our arrival, a number of bod
ies in every conceivable stateof end mutilation, had
been dragged from the wreak, which were surroun
ded by the dense crowd that had assembled. Hacks
and furniture carts were sent for, and the wounded
were conveyed to the hospital's. The sight , of the
Mangled bodies which streilvell -the levee on all
sides, and the shrieks of the dying, Were appal
makiter the h1;m1.1 curdle m.ith horror. We
,saw one toot with his head of;, his entrails out, and
one leg off. A w o man, whose long dark hair lay
wet and matted by her side; had one leg Of above
her knee, whilst her body was shocAingly mangled.
A large ton, having the skall crushed in, lay a
corpse, his face looking as if it h d been painted
red. Others, of both sexes, also with legs and arms
offi, tm re trunks lay abein in difrerent places. Two
bodies wo found locked together, brought by death
i n to a sodden and close embrace. But it is utterly
imeossibie to describe all the revoltin g sights which
met our, veiw. Suffice it to say that death was re
vealed there under almost every variety of appaling
horror.
The Eousiana sunk about ten minutes after the ex
plosion, and it is imppoed many who went on hoard:
to assist the wounded, tvere carried down with her.
This, we judge from the fact of several persons who
had escaped the first effects of tile explosion, having
jumped .overbord at the time of her sinking, and
who were very providentially saved.
A gentleman who was a passenger on board the
Louisiana, was standing on the hurricane deck,
abaft the wheel-house when the explosion took place
and escaped. Ile distinctly saw the faces and arms
of several ladies and gentleman vainly struggling to
free themselves' from the falling planks and tim
bers. - They were carried down with the boat when
, :he sunk Ile succeeded in - saving a little negro
boy. Abmit twenty persons were standing on the
bow of the boat when she went down; most of whom
were =aged. The river was covered immediately after
the accident with fragments of the wreck. A portion
of the stern of the ladies cabin of the steamer is still
out of water. Numerous small heats were employ
ed picking up the wounded.
On board the Storm, the destruction of life was
also terrible. Mrs. Moody, wife of the first clerk,
was standing en the guard uppo,iite the ladies cabin
_ u
and was instantly killed.. The captain received
severe contusion in the head, but_ wan not danger
ously wounded. About We've or fifteen persons
were killed, and a large number wounded, some .of
whom will probably not recover.
' The fragments of iron and blocks of wood, which
which were sent with the ripidity of lightning from
the ill fated Louisiana, carried death and destruction
in all directious. Men were killed at the 'distance
of two hundred yards. Legs, arms, and trunks were
scattered over the levee.
%Ye understand that some news-boys, who had
been selling papers on board the Lonsiana, and had
just gone on shore, were killed. We saw the dead
b plies of several lads, but the names yet unknown.
Those who were near the spot at the time of explo
sion, state that bodies were blown as high as two
hondred feet in the air, and in the river. One man,
it is said, was blown through the pilot-horse of the
llostonia,makintr it'hole through the panOls which
might be mistaken for the work of a cannon bill.
The steamer Storm was very close to the liouis
iana at the time of the explosion, and she was sent
hack by the concussion at least fifty yards into the
strain. ller captain, although severely'wounded,
a r meared Ott? hurricane deck, his face covered
with blood, and cooly gave directions fur bringing
i l k bolt lie remained firmly at his
nod, affiordt n z all the assistance ill his poiver as lung
as it was neeed.
The Storm, from Cincinnati, was loaded with pas-
SeD,DTS, nod as the destructive fragments of the
Lmi-iana were scattered in every direction, the hav
oc iihich was made among the crowds cannot fall
much below our estimate. The effect of this diS
a-ter, unexampled in any former steamboat eX MO
sill!) at New (fleanQ, was visible in ever circle of
sociaty List evening. Dismay was in every coun
tenance. and sympathy fur the surviving friends of
those who were thus prematurely. hurried into eter
nity-, and for those who have been mutilated, rent
vier) heart. Never, pi:titans, was t bere a bast which
by the exploshe force (if that subtle and terrible a
gent, s team, was so soon reduced to fragmts as
the lionisiana—never one that in an insta
W l t came
11 .
! nearer annihilation. e learn. that before p oceed-
Mg on her way to St,Lonis, this illlfOrtunnte boat
wa , engaged to descend the stream to the thiisi Mu
nicipality, to tape on bard 20Q German Emigrants.
1 Tin' I-2uirm, it is al:u r.tale.l, landed a considerable
nunihrir of her pas , m.:.rer• ut L Ir.\ eve in q.uning
down, which circom , iance, no doubt, was the cause
of snitch saving cf life._ .
CA III'ORNIA GOLD rN DAnsvmmt.—Mr. Daniel
Still, of tvlto left here twenty yenrs ago
In t March, and tr'o't to Mexico, thence tn Califor
nia—where, as are info med. he has been ever
returned home Irt.t week, bringing with him
hen h„„d re d ih n „,,,,,d d o ll ars i n .;told eagles, fresh
from the liMied States mint, and as wo hnvo it, a
ceriilicate of dolt e•it,e for a bundree thousand more
in the nine place.
, We have n ot !mil the Pleasure. of an Quillen - fiance
wit h Mr. Sill. and regret that tvrtiarelinabletofurnish
nor remlers with sonic of the iniere.ting incidents of
his long Absence. It is said that at one time, (be
fore the gold mines were discovered) he was worth
some $400,000, which he made in San Francisco,
and afterwards lost it all. The 800,000 which he
brings with hint. he hav made we are informed, with
in the last four years by public house iu San Francis
ca—Danville Con rico-.
Ditmoca , vric QvAnnut.s.—The Whigs ought to
be grateful to the Democracy, for quarrelling, now
and then. lithe latter did not do it, the former would
not see as numb of the spoils as the old gentleman
saw of the gold, when digging for it, in accordance
with hii drOm. A Democratic quarrel gave the
Whigs this state, in 1835. A. Democratic quarrel
elected John Quincy -Adams: A Democratic quar
rel elected Taylor; and the, Regency that now lords
it in the high places of thegovernment, holds entirely
through tie divisions (lithe Democracy. And, josi
os'ill luck would hate it, the Democrats of the
Wheeling District in Virginia; •got to quarrelling.
about the nomination for- Congress, • a few weeks
ago; and while stillscolding 'and wrangling, a keen
Whig, on the Bth instant, slipii in through the divi
sion.- ' The rile - is -almost without an cseeption.—
Whig
In
should be called - Democrat:lc quar
rels, nine cateig 9pl, 4 ofevgry ten.rents:
CANADA...Thu great auneistionMeetingtanio off
at'llontrial on Thursday: It woe numerously at
tended by eltizens'of all - csatea - tirid 'potties; Prcuch i,
ffnglisb,,radicalii and 6)44. Au aoriesation mop ) .
Ciation was fortned l and all inland off - with much
enthusivm.
RAILROAD MEETING IN CONNEAUTVILLE
,
,At a meeting of the cilia - iris ofoin - neauteilie and
vicinity, held on theevening of the 22d inst., agree . e•
ably to previous iritice, to take !nth cOnsideration
outliers relating tti the Pittaturgh And Erie Reiireed,
S G. KRICK. Esq., wakcaPed to the chair, Dr. J.
Gage mid C. 11. Powlia, OiSq: Vice - Presidenta, G.
.4ecretairy.
The chairman stated at length the object of the
meeting, after which, on in4iion, a committee
was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of
the Isettseureting. The chair announced the followina
gentleman: l DS Such committee, to wit: Jesse Smith,
Wm. Power, S. W. Kiwi, John E. Patton, R. W.
IViiliatns, Wm. , IlleSder, Calvin Rater; Esq., C:
Courtright. Wm. IL Rubinson, E. 'Hauck, and Ira
B. Cohkey, who retired, and after a short absence,
reported the following 'preamble and resolutions
which, were, on metion, untimiously adopted:
Whereas, p. company lies been chartered by the
Legislature for the purpose of constructing,a
rued connecting Pittsburgh end Erie; an. 4. whereas,
it is not located but proposed to be laid out on the
Erie Patension Canal thus passing through this place
us it becomes proper that an expression of the views
of those residing in the vicinity and directly inter.
ester!, be had upon tho subject, iTherefore
[ Resolved, That we look upon Railroads as one of
the most important improvements of the ago fur bin
ding together the different sectional and comMerchl
interests of the country, and indispenaible to the
proper developement of its resources.
Re sot ved,[ That isolated as we are, and shut out
from all intercourse with the business world for at
least one-third of the year, we havens much interest
in the construction of the proposed road as any other
place on the route, and though lacking capital, yet
we feel it our duty to give the road our pecuniary
aid, and we hereby pledge ourselves to the incorpor
ation to subscribe as much stock, in proporation to
our means, as any place on the route.
[ Resolved, That this line of Railroad will be the
most important of any connecting the tributaries of
the Gulf of Mexico with the Great t.akes, end - when
constructed will become the great throughfare for
the traveler between the Northern and Eastern and
Southern and Western states.
Ilescifeed, That the twain which those engaged
In the agricultural, mining and rnanufactoring inter
esta along, the Conneaut and Shenango Valleys
would derive from such a work, shit Id induce each
one interested to lend a friendly hand, and do all in
his power to ensure its early construction.
Ite. , ulved, That the great "American Railroad"
crossing our continent, conecting the waters of the
Pacific with those of the Atlantic, it is not a chimera
of the imagination, but a national work which the
indomitable energy and preseverance of American.
genius and enterprise, will, within a few, years ac
complished, and the construction of the proposed
road through our ;lace will form another link in the
chain which will bind in one every portion of our
continent.
-Resolved, That Ihe . proceedings of this meeting
be publishe.l in the Conneatavill;Courier, and that
he Meadville t Erie, New Castle and Pittsburgh
t pers be requested to copy.
pa Signed by the 6fficertr.
RFPUBLIC or Lintinia.—An °nicer of the Deca
tur, just arrived from the coast of Africa, has writ
ten rt letter to the Boston-Post, in which he gives
the following account of the republic of Liberia.
The letter gives the news tip to, the :32d of 'Sep
tember, some items of which we omit, having before
published them :
"The republic seems to be'in a flourishing condi
tion, considering that it is peopled almost entirely
by slaves who have been liberated in our southern
States. It has , a liberal constitution, wholesome
laws, two newspapers, churhces of the various de
nominanions, and well cnnductd schools.
Their commerce is beginning to be worth look
ing after, nor did Great Britain send their popular
pre&ident and suite home in a magnificent man of
war for nothing. In proof of which I enclose you
a copy of a treaty recently concluded between the
parties, showing that while " the Queen, God
bless her." has one of her bright eyes on the sup
pression of the slave, trade on the shore, she has
the other fixed on the palm oil, ivory and /Old
dust of the interior. But I shrewdly suspect shit
we, too, shall have a finger in the pie; for I under.
stand that the Rev. R. R. Gurley. the champion of
colonization, had arrived at Monrovia before we loft,
as an agent from oiir government, and that he was
most favorably received. The Rev. Mr. Bastian;
lady and child, missionaries from our country, ar
rived at Monrovia, in health, about the middle of
September.
Dr. J. W. Prout, formerly of Baltimore, who
was mach esteemed by the Liberians, and held a
seal in their Senate, was drowned on Monrovia bar,
while returning from a vessel at anchor to Messeur
ado roads, which he had visited-professionaly to at
tend the sick. lie also held the office of register
which is now filled by the renowned Col. Hicks.
rum Kentucky,"
NP.WS FROM LAKII SUPRRIOR-Tll6 INDIANS VIC-,
TORIOUS--•TIIR lIIISIO SURRRNDIIIIIID.--By the De
troit Free Press and Tribune of Monday, we have
late and interesting news Irvin the Lake- Snperior
country.. The Indians have driven the Quebec
Mining Company from their location. The schoon
er Chippewa has arrived at the Sault St. Marie from
Mica Bay, bringing the intelligence of the attack
of the lanes and ths voluntary surrender of the
mines on the 14th inst.
The Indians and half-breeds to the number of
about 130, under command of 61cDonell, left the
Sault on Saturday night, reached the location of
the Quebec company on Monday night, and preceded
quietly and cautiously to lay their plan of attack.—
Two pieces of artillery, were so placed as to com
mand the works most formidably, and the forces dis-,
posed in ambash,' so that at a moment'a , warning
they could rush upon their victims. The plans were
so quietly carried out, that the miners, to the number
of 150, were not aware of the presence of the ma
rauders until completely in their power.
The agent of the company was suddenly - attack •
ed by a squad of the desperadoes with weapons in
hand, who threatened him with immediate death in
case of islance. A voluntary and immediate
surrender t f the mines, tools Etc., was then deman
ded, whicl after, some hesitation, was complied
With.
, r
Air 11Am:icy personal friend, who h.
acquainted with all the circumstances, has furnished
the Woodstock Tenth Legion with the following
details respecting a gun
Several years ago, Mr. Benjamin P. Miller, who
resides near Washington,! in Rappahannock county,
had a favorite negro boy, whom he frequently took
with blip in his hunting excursions. On a certain
occasion, he took his gun out to shoot birds near his
father's house; the bby followed him as usual; and
either forgetting or not observing the buy bet Ween
whom and his master .were some thick bushes, he
shot the bird, and killed the boy at the same time.'.
In November last, a man by the name of Johnson,
also of that county, had baited some wild turkeys.
and had concealed himself amid tne limbs of a fallen
pine tree, near the place, to await their arrival. A
nother gentleman, named Fletcher, who had b)
some means possessed liimi,ell. of Johnson's gun,
was hunting for turkeys in the same neihborhool,
and passing near the tree under which Johnson was
and attracted by a noise among the
branches, catching a glimpse of Johnson's head,
who on a, black fur cap, he fired, and the unhappy
man fell, exclaiming, "Lord have mercy on me!"
a rhl immediately expired.
The Unlucky gun was purchased of Mr. Fletcher,
by a gentleman mottled Curran, who resides near
in Rappahannock county. And a few
weeks ago it was again tho instrument of death
to a human beingi, Mr. Curran was hunting for
turkeys, near the dwelling of his brother-in-law, Mr.
George W., Compton, and coming to - some thick
bushes, among which were grapes, and seeing some
thing which be suliposed to bea turkey ? ' without tak
ing a Closer obsertation, he fired? and horrible to tell,
the' unforttinate object proved to be the daughter of
Mr. - Compton. aged nine or ten year's. Site hied
untill the next day and expired.#Weiandria, (Vu)
7
A Czarist(
,Coart roa Cocas . —As the season for
colds is, approaching, I give' you a remedy'l hare
never known to - fail:-three coati ,worth of liquor=
ice; three ,cifuts, worth of ,rock candy; three cent*
worth of gum-limbic; put then) in a quart of water;
simmer them till thoroughly dissolved, then add three
cents worth of paregoric; lad ftlike quantity of n
tkmonial wine.._Lct ' cook an& alp.Whenever-tke,
Cough' is ttoublesome:' ' It is `plessankinfalliblii
Cheap and goad. Its coat is fifteen cuts. •
erit iVeeitiq (130trutr.
ERIE.PA.
SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER
,1, 1849
IT We call attention to the proceedings of a meeting .
Connoant►ille in relation to the Pittsburgh and Erie
ftailrerd." - Throughout the entire route of the proposed
road, we•have the assurance that the greatest anxiety ii
roll by the people, for the construction of the work, and
t h a t stock more thanample to insure itucommencoment,
will be subscribed.' . • .
Er A number of articlea which ought to 'bo noticed
Editorially this week, we ere unavoidably compelled to
postpone. When wo got through with the Message of
the Prebidont. we Willi attend to thous all.
EU Our next will probably' contain the brat message of
G e m Taylor. As this document will undoubtedly bo
looked for with some interest, we Shall issue it as soon as
received. If it comes before oar regular publication day
we will got out our paper immediately, but if it does not,
we will hold on until it is received. If 'our subscribers,
therefore, should fail to receive their papers at the usual
time, they will know the reason,
TIIA.NKSGIVING.—Iu accordance with the recom
mendation of the Governor. this time-honored custom,
was very generally observed on Thursday. The shops
a nd stores were all closed, people to a greet extentiab
stained from secular 'employment, end service was Per
formed in most of the churches.
THE SPEAKERSHIP.--419 the time tor the meeting
of Congress draws nigh, the (ideation of the speakership of
the House of Representatives. more and more attracts
the attention of thO prase,' and apeculatio i n is rife amon g
the,“kpowiag ones" as to who will prove the lucky
Democrat Upon whose shoulders the mantle of 'union,
and harmony' in the party will full. The whip, although
from two to four in the minoriiy. still affect to believe
that the old speaker, iVerriinor. of Massachusetts, will
bo elected. We. howevel% have no such idea. Tho
Democracy must and will unite upon some man accept
able to all—the north and the south. As we have be
fore intimated, we think the representative from this
district, lion. JAMEY Tuosmsos, is that man: Gov.
Cleveland. of Connecticut, and JudgaPotter, of Oh io,
are both put forward as compromise candidates by the
"Free Democracy," and both undoubtedly would make
excellent officers; but will they bo acceptable to the
southern members when they find they must abandon
their favorite candidates, Conn, of Georgia, Dl'Dowetx..
of Virginia. and Born of Kentucky? Wo hardly think
they will; while on the other hand wo have pretty good
evidence that, as a second clmice. Judge T. would call
to his support every southern and south-western mem
ber. We hope, however. to be able to annouuce in our
next the result—in the meautitne, as evidence of the
correc:uesS of our conclusions. we copy Ills following
from the Portsmouth (Va.) Pilot:
JAMrs THOMPBO‘,:i or Pesesursais.-=Among the
democratic memberaof Congress who have been pro
posed as candidates for Speaker, we are not surprised to
find the name which heads this paragraph.. Although
we have expressed our ,sincere preference for another
highly distinguished person, who, we flatter ourselves
will be the most acceptable candidate for the honorable.
responsible and important position; yet if wo are doom
ed to foil in our first choice ! or if the greater harmony of
the democratic party can be secured by the election of
another, we are not clear that wo would pot be pleased.
to see- the mantle fall on Judge Thompson. We are
certain no ono has boon named from the North of Mason
and Dixon's line who would come , nearer to the stand
ard we, have laid down, as a guidance to the action of
Congress in this particular. Tho topographicalosition
of Pennsylvania gives her a figurative place as t he Key
stone in the federal arch; and many a time has hor,ac
lion on mutters of national concern served to draw. or
hold. together more firmly the parts of which we are com
posed as a nation. If locality must be considered, lose r
letting a presiding officer of the House, there would bo
propriety in lotting it be this middle ground. But there
sea other ee...;Jee.troes we consider earameent to this:
and while we yield nothing from our favorite, ur the com
parison. we are free to give to Judge Thompson, credit
for talents, character. dignity and affability of deport
ment, Adequate to the position.
This will be the the .third Congress in which he will
'have represented his district. During the two last. though
ho has sometimes. in obedience to instructions, support
ed measures not consistent with our notions of political
economy; lie has, in all cases conducted himself so es to
gain the confidence and esteem of those with Whom he
has had occasion to act or hold intercourse. HO has al
ready, we believe,-had creditable experience as the pre
siding officer of a legislative body, as well as of one of
the higher courts of his State. -
Goss To Cactrontris.—Messrs. John Pinkney, and
John,Robinson of this city, left for California on Thurs
day last: They are both Carpenters and Joiners by
profession, and intend to follow that business when there,
and let gold digging take care of itself. They intend to
take passage on the U. S. Mail Stentner Philadelphia,
which leaves on the 11th. There is not many interior
counties that have contributed so liberally toward popula
ting California as Erie. We have from thirty to forty
representatives there, or on their way now, and we hear
every day of more intended departures. May they all
realize their brightest dreams of the richness of the Wes
tern El Dorado, and return to their friends laden with
the product of their enterprise and toil.
IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTA.—We learn that W. W.
Loomis, Major-General of the 23th Division of Penn
sylvania Militia. has made the followingappointmonts:—
Galbraith A. Irvin. of Warren county. and James W.
Dania's. of Crawford county. Aida-de-Camp; Andrew
Scott. of Erie. Division Inspector, and Alex. W. Hays;
of Venango county. Division Quarter Muter—all with
the .auk of Major. These oppointments haVe a peculiar
fitness about them which does even the uomartial soul of
a civilian good in these latter days of the "Heroic Age:"
mud. should red-mouthed war ever call them to the ten
ted field. we have not . tho lent doubt they will prove
themselves "some pumpkius"-rto use the language of
a great Dutch poet—
"Hither in the battle's 'learning din,
Or, at the Sutler's Holland Gin:"
, Tna flume DEPAT.UENT.—Wo heartily concur with
the Boston Post, hi saying that the first duty of tho new
democratic Congress will bo to abolish tho'dopartment
of the Interior. which the proscription, nepotism and
meanness of Thomas Ewing has rendered so infamous
and so odious to the country. It was a mistake in the
last Congress in permitting this department of intriguo
end consolidation and cliqueism to bo established at all.
But they had no conception of the usurpations and abus
es to which it would be perverted in bad hands. The
powor of signing papers given to tho chief clerk in the
treasury department, and the distribution of a portion of
the duties among the old bureaus, would be ample to re•
liove the secretary. and prevent the absurdity which has
grown out of this new formation of a cabinet minister.
who usurps all the patronage. and sinks the secretary of
dto treasury into a mero clerk.
hlExiecnot.r Stoicism—We learn from the Buffalo
Courier that a Mrs. J. S. Miller. wife of hfaj. Miller, of
the U. S. Army, now in Florida, and the daughter of
lion. John Nowell. of Detroit, committed suicide on the
night of the 27th. at Niagara Falls, by throwing herself
from the Bridge leading to Goat Island. She clime to
the Fells that morning in the care, 'having with her two
bright looking boys, foUr and six years old.• After taking
rooms at the Eagle Hotel,-ahe called for writing materials
and nothing More was known of her until the next morn
ing.• Between coven and eight o'clock, the bell of the
room she had occupied was rung , by the little boys.—
Thes were inquiring for their mother. The children state
that their inothechad bid them good-byis and kissed them.
after they had gone to bed—that' they had lasteoine from
Winchester, Virginia; and that their father basin Flori
da. No cause can be assigned for the act. She appear
ed perfectly rational cud not the leaxt symptom of insan
ity was noticed. • Search Iwitifinsmidiately made and up
on the second pier Of the Bridge :was found her helium
which had been trodden upon: Her black Crspollhawl
Was found tied to the'• tailing of the Bridge, to let her
down aped the Plei , iihtehi 'hiewme -Net .tielOW the
-*Unit: , 'She ' undoubtedly did - thli to Indfcato-tO thein
Who stuiuld look fir bait; that bee *mitid4is made ; up 'An
the foatful 'loop late the sitoinlitg thisitt'belOwi
, '/'ARIF:F FACTO,"
In discussing this sal
ttectly undennottd.' Wi
"Ind we claim froin the
are neither efrestrader,..
bi3lieve that the country has pros
iklias—nader the !aria of '46, t
repeal or Modification. We ti
ground of complaint on the part ,
that they receive,. under It. opt
ogemont and protection at the
cpn reaeonably ask. The at
seta out with the assertive that
invested in cotton nulls on the
and food am cheap would man
crease of the home cotton mark
lions of pounds, or 200,000 hal
now homO'rotrket for food of u
&Hans a - venr." At first blush,
appear to be a Angry, and yet
the writer pretend to any tbut t
millions of dollars" MA° erecti
any particular locality, will lucre,
gumption of agricultural product.
Will he pretend to any that such .'
the 'aggregate Consumption of co
Mates Or, in other words, do•
cause cottou goods l , !ire main&
Ohio," the people of 'the west wi I wear more than they
do now? Unless he can show ole or the other of these,
rt )
he cannot show that such expo , diture "Would make a
new home market,"—it would b only transferring that
much of the "home market" fro[ the other manufacto
ries of the Union, to the "lower . itio." Laws nor cap
ital, as we have before remarked.wore never supposed
to have the power to create men. But aside from this,
the Tarifrof '46 Certainly throws no. impediment in the
way of investing this "ten millio s of dollars in cotton
mills on the lower Ohio. where c al and food are cheap."
The manufacturing of cotton goo a ill the United States
is not certainly languishing uu. m the present revenue
laws, for the quantity of cotton, appears by annual re-,
turns published in New York, to en fur consumption the
year preceding the passage of the act of 1816, was 389 -
000 bales against 518,030' bales it 1819. Here is an in
crease of 32 per cent. equal to 200 000,000 yards or more,
in three years. Since 1845 more spindles have been put
in operation, not only in the nort ern bpt in the plan
ting states, than in any similar s ce of time. Prior to
1845 the cotton states derionded • finest wholly on New
England for supplies. In 1849 t e returns show a con
sumption of 110.000 bales, makin • „with the quantity re
turned for the northern states, 6 -'4,039 bales.' *Do these
facts sustain our cotompuraries' 'mplid complaint that
cotton manufacturing has been di couraged? We think
not, but on the contrary show conclusively that this "Ta
ta Fact" is "fallacy.
But there is another/a/tory co
manufacturing and "protection"
tier,. Theo/titer of the article u
speaking at the "protected menu
Lowell manufacturer makes large
knowledges the "protected" matt
profits.") and pays high wages, a
close of every week or month."
milieu is no doubt true, Mit tho la
high wages" when so protected,
is not true/ We do net wish the
take our ipso dire! for this riser
statistical furnished by those cottot
selves. Here is our proof—in tit
more than once referred to by th
of what it would have built up in
Union," the manufacturers cause
statistics of the amount of the ra
the :sages paid the laborers, &c.
the statistics made out by the ma
that they paid the operatives $2O,
1843 than in 1842, and $31,500
than in 1842; and this, be it rem
Pasoan of the tariff of 1842 Th
that the average wages of (moil
week, were—
In 18 1 4
In 1843
In 1845
The average wages of males,
vrere--
In 1842
In 18.43 -
In 1845
Now, why were the wages of
interests are to be so carefully gu
passage of the tariff of 1842?
mont of such wiseacres as the El
wages should have been literalist
minished. But let us see if, witi
ufacturers were cutting down th
fives, they performed less labor
have been the case.. But it has
to the statistics Although 'her ,
males m 1842 than in 1843, yet
3,578,000 yards more. In 1842, -
featale operatives than in 1815; •
2,019,800 yards more in 1845 t
There were 55 more female ope
1845; yetthey manpfactured 5,
1845 than in 1813. I Now, how,
reconcile this strike-ing down th •
live. at the same time that the am
sid7 And how can he reconcile
tiYes under the protective tariff
'tautly proclaiming that 'a protei
to a greater number of laborers?
' We might rest our case here
that our cototnporaries* "facts" h
nothing but fallacies, Vi were enti
them farther. but as we have a fe
consideraticM. we will proceed.
then, which our cotempomry call
contained in a table showing that
'4B, "next to her own coloniesoh
best customer Great Britain had,
sixth of- her whole amount • of e
show that in those'yoars, althoug
one-sixth of her whole amount
from us a muds Larger amount of
ducts, will not the Editor of tho
he was a little too fast in asSdrtin
be our political relations with the
in a cond}•lion little better than on
once upon Great Britain in all in
domestic economy"? Ho certain
he will, therefore, We respectfully
lowing table, copied from an artist
the Chronicle, this week:
For the years ending Juno 30,
ports of domestic produce from tit
Britain were, to
1847.
$70,2217
13,397.6
3,645,
England.
Ireland.
Scotland.
$86.276,9
The WO velue of our imports
tries for the same year, were
1847.
$65,170,31
1.837.01 1
590,241
England.
Eicsinad.
holaud.
$67,597,6
This exhibit shows that in the y
ain took $18,t79,279 worth more
duce." than we did of her maned
$.5.99%755 nore. This is a pre!
it not? Such a trade certainly ei
way of 7tinereasing Queen - Victeri i
..iwelling tier pride or etrengthenil
Gazette says it does this, bui has
Suppose it enlightens as in its'-tie I
toodus operandi? We, of ail thin
,
how "increase the revenues"
trading Products with it for two y
twenty-four stellar, the
Itnt;itiyi the Gaxette . "we ruin
iMp'Otirleins Seeks to ke
,o'hediaitioiss to vegaini to theirclida
be aiiintspittle4 by
LACIES AGAIN
are• worthlese. This has neither evidence nor face
sustain it, and hence we ptouounce it worthless and
tins. Indeed, so evident is the contrary of the pict
drawn by the Gaulle, that Gov. Johnston himself,
man upon Whose head this merit weekly showering''
most-fulsome enlogiems, was forced, by the overwhell
ingjort, to ackuowedge in his proclamation calling 4
the people to unite in thanksgiving and prayer,. i!
"The enterprises of the citizens. IN ALL BRANC II
OF INDLSTII.Y, hare been appropriately reicarde l
Now which is right. Gov. Johnston or the Gazette
the latter. t!ion tho Governor is guilty of an 0.6611 r
noon:—a earraligious neraurn: Which is right,
repeat, then—the largo or the sirtall star is this protec
'galaxy? With such evidence as the following, is re
to tho coal trade. before
,ns, we shall incline to bel
the Governor in preference: Irons official tables we
that the amount of anthracite coal sent to market f
the Penn's. mines was, in '43, 1,107,551 tool; in
1, 262.532 tons; in '4l, 1,623,459 tons: •in '45 2,002
tone. This shows that the increase of the coal trade
the first year, under the bill of '.12, was olly 154,98,1 t
Under the operation of the bill of '46, his coal sex
market was, in 1816, 2,333.491 tons; io 1847, 2,970
tolls; showing that so far from "ruining oar coal t i
to benefit" Groat Britain's by the bill ofi'46, we hay
increase of the trade of 637,103 toils for the first yea
that law, against an increase of 151981 tons c
for the first year of the law of '49.. We have ,
the returns of the coal trade for 1848, but t
i presume
would show ai gratifying a picture. ' Now, does - this
like "ruining our coal trade?" On the contrary does it
not show a prosperity4n that particular branch unequal
led? As to our iron interest. we have facts equally as
strong. showing that it too is in as prosperous a condition,
but our article is already too long. and we will close L eith
a promise that when the Gazette picks these factsland
figures to pieces, we have a few more left of the lame
sort to keep it busy.
ish our position dim
irrepreeent no one,
em. jornunity. We
Irrotectfonist." We
Ired—ln foot. We know
4 We are apposed to its
•lievo there is no jnet
of manufacturers. but
rations. all the armour-
1 , %Ids of government they
to under tousidenition
Ten millions of dollars
.ower Ohio, where cool
in tho immediate: in•
t of at least eighty nail
and would rnako a
least half a million of
his assertion does not
I us examine it. Will
le- expenditure of 4.ten
a of ••cotton =ilia" in
I. so the eggregute eon-
in the United States?
xpenditnro will increase
•lan goods in the United
e he imagine that W-
I
;ctured "on the lower
il
nected with this cocon
which we wish to no
, ider con s ideration, in
muter" says: "The
profits" (mark, he ac
facturer "makes large
d in cash down at the
he first part of Oils es
ter part, that he "pays
.e are prepared to provo
dittr of the Gazette to
'on, but will refer to
manufacturers them -
• city of Lowell, a town
i Gazette as its model
'every county iu the
to be m tde out yearly
• material consumed,
It appears, then, by
pfueturers themselves,
100 per month loss in
.ss por month in :815
inhered, was alter the
-I..vans
.a, clear or board. per
$2OO
1 75
1 75
r day, clear of board
80 cents
70 ••
70 "
heso operativcs,•whoso
'rded, curtailed alter the
ccording to the argu
.itor of the Gazette, their
d instead of being Bi
le these princely matt
wages of the opera-
Surely such should
ot. Wo appeal - again
were 1,055 more re
.
ey manufactured only
there were 'l,llO more
- et - they manufactured
an they did in 1812.
ativos itt)BP than in
.97,800 yards more in
will our cotomporary
• wages of the opera
-1• ant of labor is ;acmes
this dismissal of opera
-1849, when ho is' con
ye tariff will give labor
'nd, upon tho ground,
• vo been proved,so for,
nsehr to examine
more figures for his
he next "tariff fact."
upon us to notice, is
in the years 1847 and
United States was the
taking more than ono
• ports." Now, if we
we took "more than
.f exports." she ' took
.ur own domestic pro
zette acknowledgo that
•'that whatever may
Empire, we are still
of colonial depend
ustali concerns and
ly ought! Presuming
refer him to tho fol
e in his whig neighbor,
817 and 1818, tho ex-
United Staten 10 Groat
1848.
- $62.028,024
2 0 05.426
;0 • 2,455,4726
15 . , $ 67,838,876
join the same coun-
1848.
$58,763.502
1.666 - .694
415;923
• *61.846,119
•
11.. a r ISM Great :Brit
. f our "domestic pro
actors; and in 1848,
y fair trade for vs. is
Tears, 'to U. a queer
's revenue.," or of
g her power." The
t explained to us heiv.
I t
number es' to the
e. should like to hear
f a rival country by
ars, and getthig• some
ibut of the dargisist
or coil (ludo to benefit
p her. in'tiperatioh.!'
effeetiotlawi
6 cr- , by htcts:-or they
BOVND Dos-rnum.—The Penns,yfranion says: "the
boundary of the new State of California is now the sub
ject of dispute, and will donbtlesi bo the cause of truth
difficulty—more especially. as it' is supposed to affect.
seriously; the boundary of the new State of Deseret r i We
mat, e that one of the ultra abolition organs is de oon
clog the citizens of Deseret for not positively prohir
slaver• in t h o Constitution they have framed while,
other hand, several decided Southern newspapers
Dr. Gwirirt, Mr. Borrs, and others, Southern me
not having opposed the clause in tho California C
tution, prohibiting slavery! The first objector forget
Deseret is inhabited by those who have already disp
the highest qualities of self-government. and who
in all probability; ultimately dispose of the qnestio
cisely as their brethren of California have done.
other objectors would not certainly have had Dr. G
Mr.porrs, and others, take ground against an over
ming public opinion, and insist upon viewa which
in all probability, have only made them odious.
first of these gethlernen has written home,, since hi,
val in California, testifying to the resistlesslfeeliug a#aiiist
slavery. in that territory. and predicting that it would be
prohibited by acclamation. It strikes no, that the
lkjec
don to the Constitution of Deseret. which cornea l , from
northern ultraism, is about on a par with this objection
from the ultraism of the South. It will be a vein effort
1
for any party in this country to take ground *gait at the
doctrine that the people are not able to take care or their
own interests; and nothing has more establisaed this.
truth, than the course of things in the regions of the,
Pacific." I
This is sound doctrine, and we have no doubt w i ll ulti
mately be concured in by the discent of all parties and
sections. The man that argues against it. does so at the
expense of his own rights. Claiming himself to 1)e ca
pable of self-government. he should at all times be wil
ling to allow others to be equally capable". The 'people
of California have decided against the admission of slaves
and the south should be Satisfied—at any rate;th+ WA
be! i
- • - Lro, up. a
gentleman, who is engaged in the iron business in. Ve
nango county, declared on Saturday, .in our prisence,
that ho was utterly disgusted with the humbug Tariff
Convention, which met in this city. Instead tire
cing him that there is any necessity for addional
tion, the proceedings and speeches of that body on
the effect of Making him more confirmed in the
that Free Trade is the true policy or the Conutry.
cannot make money with 30 per cent, protection
iron business, (Said he,) I shall convert my lam
cattle pasture, and torn my attention to raiding at
iCT The fel.awing communication, which, cr .
appeared in tt.i Lancaster intellig,encer,, ass hau(
by a DontocL at of Pennsylvania, of 'lto old
who wislies Js to say lie endorses the common
and its candidate for Stato Treassuer in every pa
We cheerfully insert it, disclainahit. however, a
dareentent so long as one of our owistizens is a
date: •
COL. GEO. APFEELY.
In a recent number of the Pennsy/ranirthf lu
ticed the name of Col. Groner: NlT:taws, of "Old
er Cumberlitud" mentioned, at the suggestiOn of
respondent from Erie, in connexion with the ri
State Treasury. Permit me to say that lam fire l
vinced, that no more acceptable name could be pt
ed to the Democracy of the State for that resph
office, than that of CoI. M'Feely. Ho has rdiva:
a firm and unwavering Democrat, and is a man 01
intelligence, and great integrity of character. /3,4
ho has, in days gone by, dour "the State some so,
—which in this era of parlour politicians, ghoul&
forgotten te r overlooked
Col. M'Feely was appointed Lieutenant Co onel of
the 16th Regiment of U. S. Infantry on rho 14th day of
March 1812. by President Madison. This wassothe time
before the declaration of war against Great Britain., but
when a war was confidently anticipated. Ho roorr,:ted
at the Carlisle Barracks until the sth October. 1812, when
ho tnarched..wlth a detachment of the 22nd Regi' ent of
'
U. S. Infantry (having been transferred) to Bufial New
York, (Flint Hill. ) and reported tolGen. Smyth. From
there he teak ordered to Fort Niagara, which p ace he
it
defended under a severe cannonade on the 21st Norm-
her 1813, the particulars of which are detailed in Brack
enridges history of the war, to which the reader is refer
red. On the 27th of May 1813, ho was placed in the
1 1 van of the attack on Forte George, in Upper Canada,
which fort Was taken after a severe engagement at the
landing. Lieut. Col. Scott (now General Scott) ed the
van in this attack, whose regiment together with Lieut.
Col. NlTeely's command, consisting of the Wad and
part of trio 23d regiments of Infantry. and Major For
ayth's Riflemen. landed first on the Canadian shore ugh
der a heavy fire of artillery and musketry, and routed the
enemy. I have recently seen a letter of friendshiP from
Gen. Scott, dated the il7th March 1843. in which the
General acknowledges in a handsome manner the ins,
portant and gallant service of Lieut. Cul, /Wree/T on
this occasion..
On the 30th day of March, 1814, Lieut. Col: AlTeelv
had under his commend parts of the 15th, I6lliar422sta
Regiments of U. S. Infantry at the atTairof. Ltt.S.. ohs
Mll e in Lower Canada. meationed in AVilkinson's me
moirs. _. _ .. .. --.. .
On tho 18th day of May, 1814 he wait appointed by
President Madison full Colonel of the 25th Regiment U.
S. infantry. was at the attics of Fort Erie. and continued
in the Army until July, 1815, when it wasreduce to the
isen , to establishment.
As an.ollicee, the Colonel was distinguished as a dis
ciplinarian. and was considered among the best drill of
ficers in the American service.
Since his retirement from the army he has been
veto citizen of Cumberland county, anil Is entire
beloved there by the people of all parties. He,
brawling politician, but is firm and consistent iu h
Wiest faith. Ho has. like General Jackson. neve
ed for office. and I feel assured that like that same
man Its would not decline it. Ho is a kind ndi :
and has with peculiar modesty sought spheres of
nese in the quiet walks of life, rather than obtrud c
self upon the public gaze, ll:has literalist sought)
meta, those who are now. from the best:of in:
bringing hie name before the representatives!of tti
pie for an important official station. are most likely
violence to his feelings and wishes. ,Iu the corn
in which ho lives, his sterling, •:nostentstious w 4
justly appreciated. Ho has beau among a few wh
done much to build up iu that county our beautifa
tern of Common School.. and render them wit
ought to be, and it is 'generally conceded that the
there the moat perfect lovelorn - in the State. He
er of his follow man and a philanthropist in the erg
sense of that tem—ranch a man as the peoplr , she;
light to how. Such fa the man that the Dom
of that valley Wonld present to theik brethren of th
for the office of State Treasurer,
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