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Foreign News l iby the Niagara.
TWO ‘VEEKS LATER. FROM EUROPE.
HALIFAX, March 4 1850,
The steamship Niagara, Capt. ,ftyrie, w i t h 8i
through passengers, and with London and Liverpool
dates of the 9th inst., arrived here last evening.—
She will leave for Boston at one o'clock. She has
a NU freight list.
Li vnneoo a Corros M AattnT.—M arch 1
ring the past fortnight the' cotton market has been
dull, and holders have been obliged to submit to a
decline of h in all descriptions below fair Uplands.
No change in Mobile or New Orleans. Quotations
were fair Orleans 64; Mobile Gi; Uplands 6g.—
Sales for the two weeks 53,350 bales, of which
speculators took 12,000. The trade is - still put-ches t
ing but sparingly. 'Sales last week 25,000 bales, of
which speculators took 3000, wholly American. At
Havre lite market is very quiet.
LIVERPOOL Coax Excite Non, %not 1.-7`he
corn market has beentrery slack, and prices havel g ic.
en woy its most articles. Indian corn has declined
wo pence per quarter for White; and from six pence
to nine pence for yellow. Flour—Best western canal
Baltimore and Ohio flour has declined is. Gd. per
barrel.
-Liverpool Provision Market, March G—The provi ;
ion market has rather improved. Beef is in good
demand at sixty five shillings .. for old, and 7ta803.
for new. llama are dull;_ Shoulders are in better
demand at improved rates. ' Lard is Lunch:lnfra
Naval Stores are inactive ffit previous prices,
Rice—Carolina is freely offered at IGs. Gd. in bond
for one.
Coffee—The demand is limited—holders and
speculators being disinclined to act, until after the
great sales in lloland, advertised for the 11th and
14th inst.
Sugar—Considerable business has been done in
Porto Rico at rather-low prices.
, Tobacco— Sales for the month, 2114 Mae., of
which, about one half was Kentucky standard prices,
1 .,
have advanced during the mo th from half to one
penny per lb. on Virginia an Kentucky.
L6NDON MONET M nitAllT, h Krim, fith .--The mar
ket is slightly improved, Cot sots closed to-day at
961 for money, and 68h for accounts. American
securities are in demand at i proved rates. U. S.
sixes 1070108. New York sixes 107a108. Penn
sylvania fives 63a94: Mas 4:, insetts fives 105a106.
Freights steady with an ilicr using number of pas
sengers.
ENCIAND.—ACcourit9 from he manfacturing dis
tricts are not satisfactory. Itiany Of the mills in
Manchester and other places ate working short time:
and some have stopped altogether, but it ii not be•
beved that this is more than a temporary "a rra nge-
Advices from Calcutta to the 12th of Jan.,
and from Bombay to the 4th of Fehnory are at band.
Politically, the news from the continent possesses
no'interest. Her majesty has authorized a publica
tion of the following liberal rewards for the discovery
of Sir John Prsiiklin,'viz twenty,-two thousand
pounds to any one who will eactively relieve the
crews of the ships—ten thousand pounds for relief
of any of the crew, and ten thousand pounds to•any
one who shall first succeed it ascertsining their fate.
The news possesses no interest commercially. It
was less encouraging than was anticipated from the
continent.
The political nflliirs of England possesses but little
special interest. Nothing eventful in a politic a l
sense has occurred in Parliament, and nothin2 is an
ticipated before the Chancellor produces his budget.
Lord John Russel has given notice, that it kin
contentplation by the Gtvernment, to aholish the
office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. together with
the vice regal court at Dublin. The intentions
being to hove Irish affairs managed by the Home
Department, by a Secretary for Ireland.
Mr. Disraeli being ill, Sir'JatnesGraham is now
the recognised leader of the opposition in Podia
meta—his chief hobby being a change in the mono.
tory system.
- •
The Canadian Annexation movement excites but
little attention. Public opinion appears to be favor
able to acceding to any decided expression of the
wishes of the Canadians.
Lord Denham has retired from the Woolsack, and
Lord Campbell has beetvappointed.Lord High Chan
cellor.
Collins' new line of American Steamers command
n large share of attention and .00d- will. The Her
ald soya that it Will take something-in ihe shape of
a steamship that was never yet produced, to beat
any of them.
Lord Palmerston in continuing the Greek block
ade is severally commented upon by all the English
journals, and were it not fur a belief which exists,
that his lordship has made a clemonstration against
Russia', his conduct would meet with general repro
bati2n.
The Mission Government has preented an ener
getic remonstrance against the proceedings of the
English Government, and public opinion is general
that the Czar will give the. Greeks efficient sup
port.
The Russian note to the mini s ter of tondon'saye;
"You will demand of Lord Palmerston to what ex
tent ho intends to employ force in support of his
claims, in oreer that the allies of King Otho may be
in a position to consider what means may ia neces
vary for them to adopt, to guarantee the indepen
dence of the monarch and his people."
• The London Gazette says, that a Qtteen's mes
renger pried through Malta on the tlrnh Wt., with
orders to Sir Com. Parker to cease hostilities against
Greece.
FaAlscr..-;-The anniversary of the Republic pass
ed off without disturbance.
The Miniter of r in n rice states that the revenues
will be adequate for the public Eernibe this year,
without a new loan or increaFe nf loses.
The Postmostertleneral opeits nil letters pausing
to and from suspected persons.
.This conduct has
given rise to warm debates in the Assembly.
It is said thnt France and Russia are completely
united upon the Greek question.
Letters from Toulon state that the French fleet in
the Levnnt had tailed fur the Greel- coast.
We learn from the French flthlzet j.ist
that the army is . to be re limed to .103.000, and that
the expenses of the nation are to be reduced E 4 1,000,-
000 francs.
111 P AT Iltsccir.—We have received and read a
pamphlet, containing a letter from GAIt llonnntr, jr.,
of Galveston, Texas, to Dr. ASIICEL SMITH, in which
he announces that he has discoved new process
or preserving the nutritious proper es of meat," and
a letter from Dr. S. to Dr. ALP.X. DALLAS BACIIR,
'endorsing and reccommetirling - said discovery as one
of unquestionably importance( and utility. ~11she
paramount excellence of Mr. .:13 disetwery,"•tays
the Doctor, "appears to me t consiAt in this, that, it
Is a meat biscuit—it is:, meat and bread." "One
ounce of the biscuit," he says, "will make one pint
of rich invigorating animal and faringcentis snap."
"The meat, biscuit is prepared as foilows: Fresh
beef is boiled a long time in pure water, and tuna
the nutrire portions of the beef. or other meat, im
mediately on its being slang,hterei, nre, by long
boiling, separted from the bones and fibrous and car
tilaginous matters. The water holding the nutrions
;natters in solution, is evaporated to n considerable
degree of spissitude; this is then made into a dongh
with firm [fine?) wheaten flour; the dough rolled,
and cut into the form erhisenits, Ia then deal
cated, or baked in an civet' at a moderate heat. The'
cooking, both of the flour and the animal food is
complete;" . •
The meat biscuit i 4 bout, kept, Dr, Smith says,
"in tin eases. hermetically soldered op," and may be,
'then thus prepared, kept a eery long lime. It call
be prepared with or without condiments, as may n o
preferred.
We hove po doubt that this is to some extent' a
alutiblp discovery, and we think it worthy of public
cateation. An article of (nod, that is both bread and
meat, and a rich, nutritious, and paiatable soup,
at once animal and 'vegetable, and which, (in cense
'pence of the concentrating process to which it is
subjected in the .manufacture) trill not be more than
Jonrili of the bulk and %eight of its original con
stituent elements, and yet furnish as much nutriment
Joust be one of great value to all that travel by land
or by water, and in the army and navy, in the mer
cantile marine, to all emigrants, hunters, trappers,
Rzc., and to all others who, from chnisce, or ne
cessity, are obliged to consult economy while pro
viding their food. Therefore, we say, success to the
peat biscuit .-7-TraFhington Globe.
Explosion of the Steamer Troy.
melancholy /incident and loss of Life.
On Saturday afternoon last, our city was thrown
into the greatest conateraatian by the report of the
explosion of the stermer Troy, in the Niagara river,
opposite the head of Bird Island Pier, about two
miles from this city and the probable loss of ten or
twelve lives. • .
iirThe Troy was on her first trip this spring from
oledo to this city, and had nn boird some ,twenty
r twenty-five cabin, and perhaps forty deck passen
gers from Toledo, Cleveland and Erie. She was
sailed by Capt. Thomas %%Timms, a veterian Master
on the Lakes. The engineer in charge was Lent L.
Pon., an experteneed engineer who was temporally
employed on the Troy while on his way 10 this City
with the majority of the hands on boar d, to join the
steamer Griffith; neither engineer nr men belonging
to the regular season crew di the Troy.
The Troy had been in sight OT our city several
boors trying:to:wok n passage thrnitgli the iceto the
mouth of the creek; but being unable to do so, was
on her way m Black Rock. Immediately before the
occident, she had been hacking, and Capt. WILKINS
had just ruing the bell for her to go ahead, when
after making one revolution the boiler burst•with a
tremenduons explosion, the report orwhich was dis
tinctly heard at the distance of s,everal, miles. Her
main and upper decks were completely demolished,
front the wheel house-as far forward as' the mast,
some four feet abaft the pilot house; and many of the
passengers and crew in that part of the boat were
terribly scalded by the escape of steam or fright
fully bruised by the flying fragments of engine and
and timbers; while several were thrown by the ex
plo:ion into the cold and swift Current of the river,
among, pieces of the boat and the floating ice. It is
impossible as yet to ascertain the number of those
thrown overboard. Several were picked up by small
boats which were soon nt the scene of the disaster,
but it is morally certain that some must have folind
a watery grave, thongh the number is.not so great
as W. sat first supposed. From the most reliable
information we could get we think that two men
were certainly drowned—one a very old man thought
by o gentleman who saw him in the water and 're
cognized him, to be about eighty years of ego and
said to be from Cleveland. Another was seen to
sink a short distance from the bow of the Steamer
Union—no description given.
The current and the wind brought the steamer to
the - dock outside Black Bock pier, and as she came
alongside she presented a most melancholy spectacle
of sufreringand confusion. The mamedrind scalded
uttered the most heart-rendering groans and shrieks
of pain and anguish; while.scearcely less affecting
was the grief of the relatives and friends of the dead
and (lying. Among the deck passengers were a
German Vie/lily named Seland, from Louisville going
to Syracuse, and consisting of father, mother, three
boys, and two girlq. - • • One of the sons was killed,
•the others dreadfully scalded, and parents and sis
ters were alwost frantic with sorrow. ,
Nicholas Seland,,aged twelve years was standing
at the arches warming himself at the 3 ornent Pr the
accident and was instantly killed—his body blown
in pieces and crushed by the ruins. George Setand
aged about eighteen or twenty, was supposed to have
been drowned, but abrint seven o'clock in th evening
he was discovered to he one oft hose who were most
severely scalded in his face. lying nearly insensible
at Lyon's tavern. His life is disappaired of.—
Peter Seland, eight years 'old, badly scaled en the
face, hands and feet. This little fellnw behaved
like a perfect stoic, maintaining the utmost compos
ure whilei in intense pain and surrounded by hie
grief-striken friends. - Levi L. Post, the Engineer,
was a•sight most pitiful, scalded ns he was from
head to feet. lying some part of the time insensible
and at other times in, most excr uciating pain. Ile
was carried to Lyon's where he had every attention
which his case admitted till his death, which took
place about nine o'clock. ‘Vm. Worthington, a pas
senger from Chicago. was carried to Fox's Canal
Boat in the agonlesof death and expired at 7 o'clock.
Dan Buckley, an Irish ritissenger, scalled about the
face and throat died at Lyon's about clewed o'clock.
Andrew Martin, fireman from Maumee, scalded in
the face, and neck, life despaired of. Holmes Hutch
inson, of Utica, known to many of our tcitizensos an
engineer upon the canals Willis State, was severely
scalded upon the right shoulder, hand and hip, but
is doing well and will probably recover. Thomas
Gant,'Fireman, from Toledo, Was badly scalded in
the face and neck—Life despaired of. Nelson Con,-
verse,,Matimee City, kept a solonn on the Steamer
is severely sculled about the head and hands—getting
well. Wm. Allen, of St. Clair, badly scatted in the
face but not thqught dangerous. Michael mat
2d Steward, face and hands scalded—Recovering
Mahoney, a passenger from Toledo, ha a
severe bruise on the back of the head but is not
thought severely injured. Reuben Harris, colored
cook, terribly scalded in the face and neck—since
died. Patrick O'Herron, Fireman, was considera
bly scalded in the faceand hands but not dangerous
ly. Many others were more or less scalded of whom
we could get no account. It is said some 'went to
the Poor House but who or bow many is unknown.
Several slightly injured came to this city to the re
sidences of friends and the Hotels. John V.. Mil
ler, Esq. a Forwarding Merchant, of the firm of Mil
ler and Hathaway, Toledo was saved almost mira
culously. He was knocked into the ricer and being
unable to swim undertook to save himself by get
ling upon a cabin door, but he lost this and sank
three times, when being carried into an eddy, found
floating pieces of timber with which ho sustained
himself till rescued. He was very much chilled but
is not seriously hurt. Captain Wilkins, whe-was
standing at the Pilot-House, was thrown no•ainst
some part of the boat and slightly injured in the
back. Ile was probably saved from from being
crushed under the falling pipes by the mast againat
which they struck and - ivere,thits warded off from
him. , A sun of Capt. W. was standing by the side
of his father, and was thrown upon the main deck
but not hurt.
The huller was nearly full of water when it ex
ploded and the head of steam was not high. The
fracture happened in the bottom plate which is
rather thin. It is n boiler said to have been token
from the steamer Fulton, several years since, rather
old but thought to be perfectly safe. Yesterday
(Sunday) a Coroner's Jury was called to investigate
the cause of the occident. ' We suspend any opinion
till it shalt be known what facts are made to appear
by the jury. The greatest praise is due to the
citizens of Black Ariel: generally, for their exertions
to relieve the sufferers. We would notice particu
larly the kindness of Drs. Lewis and Stevenson,
and of Messrs. Lyons and Palmer to whose houses
they were carried, & to Capt. Jacob Bellinger who
was active in moving and nursing them. The fol
lowing is a hißt of those ascertained to be killed:
Levi Post, Nicholas Seland, Peter Seland, Wm.
Worthington, Dan Buckley, Thomas Gant, Andrew
Martin. Peter Seland died about 3 o'clock Sunday
morning; Andrew Martin Sunday morning: Time,
Giant on Saturday evening, and' Dun Buckley on
Saturday evening. Benjamin Bailey, and an old
gentleman of Selmylerville, Livingston county, was
indly scalded in the face, but will prObably recover.
r i We do not include in thekihled the name of Dr. 1411
Wright, nfSyracuse, who has not been found. lie
was ,arobattly thrown into the river and droivned.—
' A person sestvpring to his description was seen
• clinging to n cake of ice, nod soon after went down.
—Buffalo Daily Courrier:
ooasioox.—Mr. Tuorts•ro:v.r —Being. present in
the Representatives Hall on the first day of the
session of Congress, we•were a witness of the singu
lar emotion excited, when the clerk in the calling the
rail of members, by States anti Territories, uttered
the words oOregon—Mr. Thurston," (the name of
the delegate,) and thp answer was !promptly given,
ollere!" Yes—Oregon had indeed_ come! That
far off region, which 'scarcely a year ago seemed
almost like au_ appendage of another plannet, an
sweree—"Here," by its representative, in the Capi
tol at Washington! •
It was the mighty Atlantic calling in a thunder
tog tone to the mighty Pacific, "I greet you to-day;"
and;the latter responding in the roar of its surges,
of reciprocate your greeting," Thought could but
j be busy with the past, as well as with the present
and the future. It ranged rapidly frnm the• Rock of
Plymouth to the falls of the Wallamette from Decem
ber 1920 to Deceniber 1849, and coming down to the
assemblage in the flail as to a local point, it there
found tangible and living evidences that the young
Giant of tiro West already stands with a foot on
vUlter ocean.—Wilmington Chronicle.
(Erie I)3olthrOperutt:
EE I E. A.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1800.
Dn. WKEISTILTOII True.—The trial of Dr. i'Vebstei,
which has been going on in Boston for a week past. is
exciting throughout the entire country an interest that
has parbisps attached to no criminal proceeding since the
murder of Adams by Colt, in Now-York, some-aight
years since. This arises in a great measure from the
previous high standing mid respectability of the accused;
and of the deceased. One was well known for his sci
entine knowledge Redskin, and as Professor in one of
the leading Institutions of learning in Massachusetts;
the other as a wealth,y. active and prominent citizen and
business man. They were also intimate personal friends,
associating in the same high class orsocieti; they were
both somewhat advanced in life; and from all that the
world had previous to November last known of them,
they were among the very last who it would have been
supposed would have been the dramatis persomz in a
tragedy so horrible. Many of our readers here enquired
if we do net intend to give the trial in full. We would
do so, but it is impossible. The testimony has already
become voluminous, and is still being added to day by
day. No paper. sinless of mammoth dimensions. and
issued units, could pretend to give a full report. Ais to
the guilt or inuosence of the prisoner, it is scarcely
necessary to speculate as a jury Will, before many days,
decide tha:question, so far as tho law is concerned. It is
however undeniable that there is a mass ofstrong circum
stantial evidence that bears hard against Prof. Web
ster, especially the testimony of the dentist who fitted
a set of teeth for Dr. Parkman. Still, no evidence has
yet been elicited that will convict of murder—however
the public mind may stand affected on the; subject.
...Mahon FACTS vs. FALLACIES".—.This is a very appro.
priote head of an article in the Fredonia Censor of this
week. Wo say appropriate, for a more unblushing tissue
offallacio—not to say downright falsehoods—front the
Editor himself (his torresponeent "•,," having been
ertingnished,) we scarcely over read. The Editor thinks,
because we treated his correspondent as ho deierved,
with "anathemas instead of refutations," that refutation
is impossible: '''kThis is wrong—we always treat anony
mous scriblers as pirates, not as honorable opponents.
The Editor of the Censor, however, having taken up the
controversy, we will briefly reply to his statements, un
true and fallacious though they be, and totally unworthy
of their respectable paternity. It is awell established and
acknowledged principle of moral ethics, that a conceal
ment,rof truth is as bad as down right falsehood. Tho
Censor, then, is guilty of falshood when it says "it well
knows that the large steamers of Gen, Reed's Lino were
in the custom of stopping at the pie,' rather than attempt
to enter the harbor last smuttier." One boat of "General
Reed's Line," the Niagara, occasionally, when she had
r•neither freight nor passengers, and when there was no
more freight in ware-houses hero than the other boats of
the Line could carry, stopped at The pier. But that she
could come in when she pleased, is evident from the foci
that she did when 'necessary. And% we undustsod that
Mint "Reed's Lino," consisting of the Niagara. Louis
lona, Keystone State, Queen City, Empire State. Hen
drik Hudson, Sultana, Empire, and A. D. Patchin. will
make this their stopping place, for the purpose of Ink
ing on a supply of coal for the -whole trip, this season.
Again, - the Censor is guilty of a 'fallacy when it says it is
or was "no unusual circumstance for bents even as small
'as the Fashion to get aground in that Harbor." So far
from such a circumstance being "usual," no boat as small
as the Fashion ever got i agrou id in our harbor, where bents
:usually lay. or in entering 0 1 : And again, our cotempo
`ivy is guilty ore voro, ihon fallacy when ho asserts
"that during the prevalence of a strong westerly gale, it
is dangerous for vessels to make its entrance." So for
from this being the.fact, it is well known that olio harbor
here is thin only one on tho South shore of lake Erie that
affords a safe entrance and shelter to our lake crafts du
ring the prevalence of strong gales from the West. 1140,
tho Editor of the Censor as mach knowledge as an oys
ter on this subject, ho would have known that our Pe
ninsula [Ards a complete shelter from a Western gale.
As to the steamer Canada, she did not attempt to come
in—had she donc so, although drawing more water than
any other boat upon tho Likes, she could have done so,
So much for the Censor's fallacies. We will only add
that a harbor which has been chosen for the rendezvous
and depot of the Naval and Revenue forces upon the Lake
by the advice of every United Statee Engineer who has
examined it, caannot be injured by the falsehood of annoy
!
moos scriblers, or the fallacies of interested newspaper
Editors.
Pte,asx Noin rue Facr.—We see it stated in our ex-
changes that Gen James Hamilton, of New Berlin, ha s
leeniippointed Associate Judge of Union county, in
place of Hon. John Moulding. whose commission has
expired. The gentleman supplanted is the Mr. Monta
nus, who was in the Legislature during the memorable
Buckshot War, and wire, although a good whiz had too
much honesty to sanction the revolutionary act of his
Whig colleagues in attempting to organize a minority
House of Representatives. He is the same gentleman
also who, interposing his conscientious scruples, when
importuned to assist in perpetrating the villainous out
rage. wrs sneeringly told to "throw conscience to the
devil," by the loader and instigator of the measure, Hon.
Thaddeus Stevens. Mr. M's hotwety and integrity upon
that occasion, was doubtless a barrier in the way of his
re-appointment by Governor Johnston. Will our friend
of the Jamestown Citizen, who appears to be a great ad
mirer of the immaculate Thaddeus, please nate the fact.
MICUDAN CMTRAI. RAILROAD Liss:.—Tine steamers
Mayflower, Atlantic and Canada, commence~ their regu
lar trips between Detroit and Buffalo, on Monday next,
April Ist. leaving Detroit daily (Sundays excepted) at
10 A. M., mid leaving Buffalo at P. M., on !the arrival
of the express train from Alb'any. The now steamer
Ocean will take the place of the Canada orkthe 15th of
May. These aro all steainera of the first class, and com
bine every convenience and luxury the traveling public
can ask or desire. They are commanded by gentlemen
of long experience and established reputati±the At
lantic by that favorite of the traveling public, Capt. a H.
M'Brtnix, of this city.
lizna ts MORALITY Fon You.—ln speaking of the
proposition in our Legislature to repeal the laws of "Penn
sylvania which forbid stole. officers from taking cogni
zance of the cases of fugitiv e
, slaves," the Gaulle has the
following.very lucid piece of morality:
"We deeply reverence the Constitution of the United
States. and hold to the ohservance of sU its parts; but
we think that if our State laws are in contravention of
that Constitution, this is an unfortunate time for their re
peal, as it Was the appearance of yielding, not to right,
but to the bluster of demagogues, whir raise the cry of
dis-Union mefely to alarm the timid and secure the
wavering"
hero is morality for you, with a vengeance. Although
"our state laws ore in contravention of the constitution."
We should not do right. and repeal them, because. for.
sooilt, it would have "the appearance," in the eyes of
some very thin-shined people, "of yielding," "to the
bluster of Demagogues." In other words, we should
not de right. for the sake of right, but we should perse.
vere in wrong, to keep up appearance, and prove to the
world we can't be drove. A very deep Moralist is our
colemporary.
117Th° Tribune states thatithe up freights on the Erie
Railroad are largely increasing as the season advance's.
and the down freights continuo heavy. The receipts of
March will reach $12.5.000. 'The. Contractors on dirt
Extension from HorneDavin* to the Lake, have a largo
force ou the ground.
113 The Legislature of Kentucky has added 'to the'
grounds of divorcekeretofore existing—"the unnecessary
publishing of one party in a newspaper for alledged
abandonment." Thie was probably suggested by the case
of klt..Lawrence and his Louisville wife. '
THE PHANTOM VANIOHING:-THE TRIUMPH
OF THE DEMOCRACY.
There is no doubt that the phantom of Pisanion which
for a time haunted our.national capitol , itivanishing,and
a better and a brighter day dawning upon our escutch
son. As our readers know we never had much faith in
its reality. During . all the eacitemeutwhich, far a, time
unquestionably prevailed to an alarming extent among
all clamant Washington. our faith, strong and abiding,
in the goodsense and patrietlem orthei - peoPle and their
Servants, lose above suspicion or doubt. We never for
a moment doubted—nay, not oven entertained the shadow
ofa shads of doubt that this Union, framed by those whose
Memory is dear to every true heart, would outride the
storm, end live to boa blessing to the millions of the old_
and new world, whose anxious hearts and eyes are turned
tovivds her with prayers for her safety and honor. How
over high sectional strife may run among politicians, and
fanaticism prevail among certain portions of the people.
the "acber second thought" has ever, and must still,
rectiry all mistakes, and allay all footles. This result is
about to be accomplished,. Compromise and Concession.
two worth, which to au admirer of our political structure,
the Federal compact, ought to' be as dear as hie own li
berty, are destined again to save our barque. The Helen
and Sewards of the north may rail, and the Calhouna and
and Davis' of the south preach disunion, but so long as
we have a Cass, a Webster, a Clay, and a Houston, to
stand by and defend the Constitution and its compromi
ses, their railings or preaching will avail nothing. What
the buses of such comproinise and concession may be,
we, of course, can alone conjecture; but as matters stand,
we cannot be far wrong when we use our yankee privi
lege of guessing, that California will be admitted as a
State—Torritotial governments organized without the
Wilmot proviso, or any other similar provision—the set
tlement of the boundaries of Texas as claithed by that
State, or in the event of,her relinquishing her claim to a
portion of the territory of •Now Mexico, a suitable com•
pensation for the artmethe abolition of the Slave trade
in the district of Columbia, and the passage of a hill mak
ing more effectual provision for the re-capture of fugitive
slaves. That some such compromise as this will, before
many week, be reported in the senate, and receive the
sanction ofa majority of both branches, we have scarcely
a doubt. And that it will receive the sanction of three
fourths of the people of all sections, we also believe. And
should a settlement of this vexed question take place up
on some such basis as this, which, as the reader will see,
is "Nun-Intervention," to whom will the credit belong?
Not to Gen. Taylor surolyaor he came into the Presiden
tial chair without a settled principle upon the subject.
Not to the whig party, for in the canvass which resulted
in the success of their "military hero," they denounced
it from ono end of the Union to the other.—To the Dem
ocratic party, then—that party, which in peace or in war.
in sectional turmoil, or party strife, has but one polar
star. and that the Union—let the credit be awarded of the
present flattering prospect of a speedy 'settlement of the
whole controversy. Never in the history of parties in this
country lias' the great Democratic party of the nation oc
cupied a prouder and more enviable position before the .
world than it does at this very moment. All its great
measures of public poky have been adopted by the pee.
ple, and are now in successful operation. It first grap
pled with that modern monster of iniquity, a Dank of the
United States, and although the struggle, for the time be.
Mg. was fearful, right and justice prevailed, and the
Bank was crushed beneath the iron heal of progress and
reform. Now, even its warmest and most powerful de
fender has been forced ty, i declare it an "ottsolete idea."
This monopoly "obso10," our party was next - Called up
on to crush another. and yet more powerful enemy of the
people—•a high protective tariff! Thirty years ago a huge
system of monopoly, under the name of protection, by
which capital was enabled vastly to increase its profits at
tho expour or labor, was devised and adopted. It con
tinued to wax in s i ze, and grow in strength for years, un
til its oppr&isious were so severely felt in one section of
the Union as actually to menace its stability. Such was
the state of things which exited in Gen. Jackson's second
presidential term; and then that noble patriot, as ho had
done in reference to the Bank, raised the standard of re
form. Ho proposed a more moderate and liberal
system, which was the commencement of the struggle
fora liberal revenue tariff; that led' to the Compromise
act, and which has finally resulted in the adoption of the
present. The Bank of the United States dead—the con
stitutional treasury so firmly established that even its
most bitter opponents dare not touch-it, a liberal revenue
system beneficial alike to all, and not discriminating
for any particular
_class—our• boundaries extended
to the Pacific, and a territory which is adding millions of
the precious-metals te the wealth of our people monthly.
added to their field of, enterprise—it would appear as' ',
though the triumph of the policy and measures of the
Democraticparty was complete. But not sel—one more
chaplet, one more triumphant wreath is 4* be added to
the already brilliant clustre—and that triumph is, (to use
the language of the • Washington blition,) "the success
of the principle of non-intervention with regard td the
subject of slavery. That principle was incorporated into
the platform of the Democratic party by the convention
at Baltimore in 1840. It was substantially imbodied in a
resolution drawn up or dictated by the late Silas Wright,
one of the purest and most eminent statesmen whom this
country has produced. At that period its application to
new territories was not contemplated; but. in the late
presidential election, the principle of such as application
was organized by Gen. Cass, the Democratic candidate,
and most lucidly unfolded and enforced by him in his cel
ebrated Nicholson letter. _ That principle was repudiated
by the entire whig party North and South. In the South
it was repudiated because it did not go far enough to suit
the whip of that section. and the election of Gen. Tay-
for was advocated because ho would go further, and
would stand as an impenetrable rampart of defence fcri'
southern institutions against the assaults of um fanaticism
of t h e North. Aid in the North it was repudiated by the
whig party, under the lead of Mr. Webster, because' it
conceded everything to slavery•. In the North the motto
of the whig party, in the last presidential election, was.
"Taylor, Fillmore, and Free soil." Now, what sort of a
spectacle is there presented to the world in the conduct of
the leaders of that party? It is the abandonment of their
own dangerous eeetionalisma, which were rapidly hurry.
tug this glorious confederacy on to destruction, and the
adoption of the platform of Goa. Cass and the Democrat.
is party. - Gen. Taylor and his cabinet have at last
adopted it; Mr. Clay has adopted it; Mr. Webster has
'adopted it. in fact, "conservative" portion of the
whig party, who d o
,really desire a dissolution of the
Union, have jumped upon the platform of Gen. Cass and
the Democracy, as the only ground upoecwhich they can
save themselves and preserve the Union.
Thus is the triumph of the Democracy complete. Thus
Goa. Cass steads vindicated before the world from the
foul aspersions of his bitter opponents. He is the patri
ot and statesman whose far-reaching sagacity discovered
and suggested the only principle upon which the presen t
dangers which environ the country could be avoided, and
the Union saved. How much more lofty and sublima—
tiow much more to be envied—is the position which lie
now occupies be fore the American people and the world,
than that filled bye man who succeeded to the Presi-
deney by the miserable. paltry. and criminal frauds by
which Gen. Cass was defeated! As the veteran states
man approaches towards the settingsun °fhb, life, it sheds
a flood of glory upon hie head. And when he shall de
part, posterity will Crown BIN RS the greet PACIFICATOR
in this crisis of his country's peril, and not the men who
now rush to his platform Tor shelter and protection from
the peltings of the very.storm which their own arts had
conjured up, to overthrow the now
. triumphant states
men."
DT The Gazelle is quite indignant becsuse, at a meet
ing of "colored citizens" in New York, it was insinuated
that Mr. Webster had "colored blood in his veins." It
says it is "in favor of liberty of speech; but hotels . -that a
spirit so grossly insultingshould at once be effectually
checked." "Devil," bring us a pinch of snuff:
Err The Fredonia Censor appears this week. in - knew
suit, and makes a seq?
,fine appearance. We,wislo our
cotemporary success, and-repeatanee!
[For the Erie °hoover. 1
A blarts's NUT DISCOVARIM.—Irhe Cotantevdat of
Monday. quotes triumphantly from a Pittsburgh cones.
pendent, tho proceedings of 'the Legislature upon a sac.'
Hon authorising a, Railroad company to construct a plank
Told, under the
,supposition that it was introduced to
favor the Franklin Canal Company; and aid In the pros
ecutioh of a RailrOad from Oi l s is Ohio line; and
thinks there is a deep (rand in resisting the contemptablo
hostility of Pittsburgh. Philadelphia. and the Central Rail.,
road to anything which favors north•western improve
ments. if he knew how link the Franklin Canal Com
pany cared about the resolutions referred to. the writer
might havo been spared some of his waspish bitterness.
If Mr. Walker is correctly reported in his remarks, there
is a little more dough-face about him, than his friends
have been led to suppose.
How tr Won s us.-.—The Pennifrania Slays in the re
turn of the Comptroller of New Mork, giving the condi
tion of the Banks of that State, when last examined, we
find an array of very retnarkabl4 facts, going to show
now little the "specie basil," has to do whh the circula
tion of bank notes in tlitit State. Upon analyzing the
return carefully, we find that 40 of the incorporated banks
had an aggregate circulation of 416,400,000. and a total
of $2.11.000 in specie, showing In average of specie to
each bank of $6,000, and an average issue of paper of
sl6oooo, or rather more than 25 paper (Wars for each
metallic dollar.
The returns of the private or ion-incorporated banks
show still more remarkable resUlts, We find by the
tables published, that 34 of these institutions have an ag
gregate of $lO,BOO in specie, and an aggregate circula
tion of $2,430,000, showing an average to each of about
$3OO in specie, and an average_cirCUlation to each of $72,-
000 or 240 paper dollars for each 'metallic dollar. Ten of
these honks with a total circulation of $480,000 are return
ed as having no specie at all; one of them, with the im
mense "basis:" of $75 in specie, circulates $70,000 in
paper, another $833,000 to $96 in specie, two with 100
each in specie, circulate $168,000 in paper, three with
$2OO each in specie, circulate $301,000 in paper, two
with $5OO each in specie circulate $302,000 in bank
notes. lt should be added that all of these notes are
registered in the Comptroller's off i ce, and secured by a
deposito of State stocks; and that all those banks keep a
small amount of funds in Albany and New York, for the
redemption of their issues. Theaabanks, so far as specie
is concerned, represeutcones with very broad bans, (pa
per being the base) standing bottom upwards upon a
very small apex or point, specie being that apex. Pay
ment of the notes is promised on idemand in specie.—
But that is out of the question. If the notes are presen
ted for payment the bank fails as "' matter of course. end
the holder goes to the Comptroller for his pay, and gets
it—after a while.
Tarts Tons Now.—The whigs of New York are
now ahem to take their, turn at Divisions—instead of
"Hunker" and "Barn Burning". Democrats, we shall
have "Hunker", and "Barn Burning" Whigs. And the
identical question, which split the Democracy of that State
in twain, is the one which is about to split the whigs.
This will be a righteous retribution. Already the Web
ster and Seward whip are at sword's points, and very ,
soon we shall see such a fight among tit, faithful as e
politicians of New York alone.know how to get up. o
open the ball a new paper, called the Stine Register,
made its appearance at Albany.l It is designed to b
the organ of the anti-Seward portion of the pally. We
hope they'll have a good time of 'rt, and have as luau
Van Barons among them as they cen convenient!) e.
PEtOGREISSIKO—BACYWARMI.Vi) hear a groat deal
about whig progress, but the following specimen of it is
the most striking we have seen." to the State of Ten
nessee, imprisonment for debt was abolished by nu act of
the Legislature, passed someuine during the year 042.
Recently., however, it bill was introduced i nt o the Senate
of that State, to repeal the act of 18-p, and itfinitilj pas
sed that body, a majority of which are IF^nigsl The
Times says it is gratifying to state that this bill was im
mediately killed when presented tolthe consideration of
the Reuse, which is largely DemOralic. Of the fifty
Democrats in ilia Somuu and HousO of Representatives,
bat three wore found willing to vote for this ancient relic
of European aristocracy and oppression. What a striking
example is hero afforded of the progressive tendencies of
the principles and feelings of the Democratic party!
D3' We find the following paragraph in ono of our ex
changes. It looks very much like a hit at our *tamp°.
rary of the Gazare.—the coat fits high to a hair. and the
pantaloons and i vest would pass a pretty. severe inspec
tion—but then Users the class it alludes .to are "extreme
ly silly," whereas our cotemporery is ' l szernriutingly witty,
in his own e4insotion, whenever he ailudes-to the subject.
We caution all, therefore, not to supp 'se the paragraph
has the slightest allusion to him:
11:F"There are extremely silly perMits Who rail at mar
ried life, and endeavor to be witty at! the expense Adler
people. The fact is that many of Misr calumniators are
not able to obtain wives. A nmii's wife is his best law
yer. his best counsel, his best adviser, his best Judge,
and what is important. also, \ the cheapest and most rea
sonable."
A "Donau FACX."--MILS. t.LIZAIIETH DROWN, wife of
Wm. W. Brown, a fugitive, slave, 'Who is now stump
ing it in Now, England, sent to the N. Y. Tribune a long
statement of her conjugal ditriculties.l charging her hus
band with deserting her and her children, end adding
very maliciously, "Mr. Brown has tiecotne so popular
among the abolition ladies that he does not wish his sable
wife any longer," &c. Mrs. Brown . ;' you are a "dough
face" decidedly, to make such vile insinuations against
the good name and fairfarne the" Abolition sisterhood
of New England, and you ought to be asshamed of your
solf, po you ought.
"On! CARRY rE Bacs."—A slave. the property of
Edwin Do Leon, of Columbia,. S. C. t returned volume.,
rily after being absent from the service of his master for
nine months. This slave, who has!' passed himself at
times during his absence for a white, man, has visited
Ohio, Penns;slvania, Michigan and Canada, satisfied
that s slate of servitude in South Carolina is preferable to
freedom and hard labor In anyr h
u. sections of coon.
try.—Ex paper.
lie probably experienced some of that "philanthropy"
of the over-philanthropic patriots among us, which ex
hibits itself in "talk," but seldom, very seldom, in acts.
We hear a great deal of mourning wr i sr the condition of
the slave from a certain class, but we 'have never yet seen
an alert made to ameliorate the condition of the free
blacks among us.
fiL7 The Phantom of Disunion whi?h was burnt in the
Park of New York last week, the 22d inst., was a gigan
tic figure, twenty feet high, of paper!mache, elegantly
designed, and represented a man struggling to break a
circleomposed of thirty shields. 'Around is the motto,
"Let o man sunddr the Union that., God has made." i
This otto is ofibpaqua fireworks. ' !
Err CT OP RAILROAD'S' UPON REAL EACTILTE..—WO fine
often a vetted to the effects of railroads upon the value
of real 0 tate, but in all we have said ;Or quoted on this
c k
point cannot be found so significant tin item as the fol
lowing: "The:Vicksburg Whig estimates the increased
value areal estate in the counties bordering on the Vicks
burg and Jackson Railroad, in rand numbers, from
$700,000 to nine millions, in ton years—and the increase
of merchandise sold, from $600,000 to $2,300,000, and
the amount of money loaned at interc i at rising from $l9;-
000 to $1,600,000. These estimateS, say's the Whig,
aro mostly Mon from the Auditor'S Report, end are
published to show the value of RailroOs to the country
through 'which they pass."
I'
"NOT WORTH ♦ DOLLAR•"—The .tVow York Journal
of Commerce mentions that a solid chain, made'of gold,
as it came from the mines, and valued of $440, has been
forwarded from San Francisco by George W. Eg
gleston, for presentation to Daniel Webster.
lD The Cincinnati Commercial of tho 14th states,
that. when the steamer Yorktown, Capt. Haldeman, pass
ed Gen. Z. Taylor's plantation, on tke Mississippi rivor,
testy miles above Natchez, the entire place
.was under
water from an overflow in the Miesietsippi. thus giving
those uthretAinndred" evidences on the plantation of the
General's "froe•soiliem: a hulliday.
News by Telegraph to B
note the dispatches of the Buffalo Paper).
New YORK. 11l reh'2l
The U. S. Steamship QM°, Lieut., J. FindlayiSchtat's,
U. commanding, arrived yesterday noon. Si ts
left Chagrea 13th. and Havana on 21st, and nes th ere.
fore made the ran home from the latter in .11 day s g h ,
brings the mails from the Sandwich Islands, P anamt.
and Havana, but no later intelligence from CetlifornaL,_
Tho Georgia arrived on the morning of the 21st azalea,
to have sailed the next morning for Cliagren, with a t
passengers. The Ohio brings home 100 passenger, sad
one box of gold dust. Operations on the Panain 4
road have been suspended in consequence of the inknt§
boat and fever which prevaili on the Isthmos N ewy
all th e hands had either deserted or died, and Colonel
Trotwine, Chief Engineer, could not obtain help on Lay
consideration whatever.
Our letters from Washington confirm the si
that a sharp corespondence has passed between'
wer end Mr. Clayton, In relation to the Nicara
Lion, and that the pretensions of Mr.. Bnlwer
most inadmiasable character. -
Tltie is the correspondence which was sent
Benet° day before yesterday by the President.
FROM THE Rio GM/MM.—An account of thii
of Mr. John St. Luke, the eminent musicien, o
has been received. He was found in the agoniel
by a party of gentlemen and died in a few moint
is supposed ho was stabbed by a woman with V I I
was seen in company a short time before.
• • Bums, Ma
The all absorbing trial of Dr. Webster was
this rnorning,being the sixth day since its comma
The Court arid Jury came id promptly at 'nine
and the prisoner more than promptly. The late
rather worn down, but still self-possessed. Th ,
interest in as great as ever, end there is an mere
sire manifested to get sittings inside the Court
Officers . on duty are offered quite freely to pass
tiers Of tho Bar,
WASHINGTON MaiTh 25.
Smits% —Mr. 'Webster tose to make an explanation, t;
for the purpose of defending his recent epee+, from
thecherge of, being inconsistent 'with his remarks made'
on slavery, in 18.18. Mr. W. said some per+l had
been' edifying the "Senate by sending round a
piece of paper quoting from the two speed+. lie
would not undertake to say now, that if alty one
could make these , quotationa for the purpoSe of titling
any inconsistency; he either did not tinders! nd the
subject. or - was not candid. There was no i
teucy. He had never voted for any increase of
in slave territory. He would carry out the - compe l
with Texas. Having resisted unsuccessful') the c
he would not now violate it, after it was made.
Mr. Hale replied that the compact was made
and was just as much a reality in '4B as it was
and it seemed to him thalunder the circumstance
was an unwarrantable difference of eentiment.
however, in his allusion, designed no disrespect .
Mr. Webster said that if he did not intend quo ing to
allow inconsistency.' he could not see what the Abject
was: After some further explanation between 3lessrs,
Webster and Hall, Mr. Douglass, from the commit
Territories, reported a Dill to admit California.
Bill to organize a Territorial Government fur New
ico. The Senate then proceded to the considerati
the special order of t 4 day—the motion to refer th
sidont's California Message. Mr. Hunter basin
floor, addressed the Senate at length upon the qu PPP
of slavery. He maintained the right of the South tQ
slaves into the' erritories. and pictured the evils I
would result from emancipation. Ile took decided 8
ern ground, and said that the Union could not be pre
ed by any patched up Compromise. He was,
ready for anything that promise peace, if consistee
the Constitutional rights of his State.
Mr. Upham obtained the flour, after which the
jest was pospoued till Monday next.
Huuss.—The Bill to supply the deficiencies in
priations for the present fiscal year. : Were taken 19
the Traction on the amendment reported from the
mittee of the Whole. The amendment voting $
for the :Minister of Prussia, and $4,500 fOr Chesil
Austria. was concurred in. The amendment appri
ring $200,000 fcir subsistence, &c., of Florida Int
was concurred in, yeas 106, nays 75. Other an
meets were concurred in and the Bill passed.
The House then went into Committee of the Who
the California question. Mr. Thurston said he we
first representative from Oregon on this noon- lie
not as a party man. He had been grieved to hear
farnia slandered, because she had dared to protect ht
by forming a Constitution and asked for admission.,
opinion was, that California abOnldbe admitted wy
plucking u - angle hair from the silver locks of her g
Constitution. Mr. Thurston held that any State hat
only a Constitutional right to ask, but demand admii
-The question' is, "Is the Constitution of California
blican?" In the whole history of this country. a C
tutiou cannot be found more Republican and with
extended views with regard to human rights, She
tains no more area than she ought. lie contende
the Convention to form the State Constitution, we
brought about by Gen. Taylor.' Jewett purely,a
of themselves. He gave a history of past events to
that matter. Gen. Taylor, Gen. Riley, nor Butler K
had anything to do with - the Constitution. . I
I , Borrort, March
,_
THE WEBSTER TRIAL.—The trial of Dr. %Yeeste l
l.
been more painfully interesting on this (the sixth)
than on ' any previous. The pecuuairy transactioo
Prof. Webster have been raked' open in a way to S
that there was no truth in him; that he could not
had the money which he says he paid Dr._Parkman
that he asserted he had already settled with Dr. P. b
the time at which he afterwards pretended he did.
deposite of $9O by him the day after he said he pal.
Pm-kitten, is a fact which centre shudder through
Court room. His counsel will-`have to work a mil
to do it away. The details of the arrest by officer C
and the interview with the Rei. Francis Parkmani
brother of the deceased, as related ny that clergyi
produced a deep i - preesion. The lameness of the et
examination, we very 4larmiog. Dr. Webster
seemed to be sink ng as the confidence in his favor'
ebbed away. Still we have not beard the other sidii.
i i
Boner, March fif
Every thing looks dark for the prisoner this mor n
end the hops of the public that he will be acquitted 1
almost expired since the evidence of yesterday afternb
The developments in regard to Webster's pectin
transactions, showing that he could not have had
money which he said he had at the time he allege!
paid Dr. Parkmaa. is the darkest and most damning !
turn in tin) case. God grant that he may yet be abli
redeem himself and our' common humanity fronli
stigma of crime too fiendish for devils.
Dn. Wznsvalt's TRIAL.--The most important piiint
in the testimony before the close yesterday, was the lan
onymous letter written to Marshal Tukey, that Dr. Park-,
man had been murdered in Cambridge, which tho prose
cution endeavored to prove had been written by Dr. Web
ster himself.
Regarding the letter. the following testimony was p"
en: Eli C. Kingsley sworn. lam Post Master of
.Iv
. ast
Cambridge. The letter was handed to the witness
It was dropped into my o ffi ce, Nov. W. I took it out nd
carried it to Marshall Tukey. Tho letter bears the hd•
dress, "Mr.- Tukey, Boston." It must have been drop
ped in after ten. It saw it about 20 tninutes afterward..
1 brought it over about half past U. to Mr. Tukey. I sent
word to Mr. T. that I had mailed the letter for him, end
I concluded nftemanis to bring it - over. Francis Tokey
recalled.. (The witness was shown three letters.) T he ,
first of Mess{ wee the anonvmeus ono I received.' /4 ii
post marked Nov. X/. and 1 received it on that day. The •
testimony yesterday was very voluminous aucl if sent in
full, would filll columns. '‘
On openin_g the Court this morning. the first.witness
i s
called was Nathaniel Gould. I am eel personally c
quaiuted with the defendant. but know him by. si4b rsi
have neverseen him write, but hayestium writingsupp
ed to be his—have seen his signature to diplonnutes,Pref.
of Chemistry—have always ett!tirtvc,b ottpottp, to pea-.
manship from my youth—luipo. taught it and written a
hook on the subject. (pare the letters sent to Marshal
Tukey were exhibited'. The dormice urged very etrenli
objections to ibis testlrtiony, contendiag that euyll Kea'
mony did not Come within the principlecof the hot"'
laid Own in Foot re. Rawlins. The Attorney Geo a!
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