ICE= Foreign News by 'the America, SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM E it %UFA; April 19. The America arrived Thurs'itay night, at 12, M. EN GI. A NI) .—Sitice the sailing of the previous steamer little has been done, except to votetho sup plies. During the Easter ree. R es, Lord John us cell passed some time at Blanc ester. hi addition to the Lord Lientenancy . 4 Ireland, it. is said that the government intend to abash the Irish Courts of law, and transfer the whole machinery of gel erninrr to London. ' Barb measures are violently opposed by M the ali press. ' il Dr. Cullen, the 'new primate of Ireland, has is sued his first pastoral, which emanates from Rome, and is free from allusion to politics. • Agricultural operations in' England and Ireland aire being carried on, on a most extensive scale. Tho protectionists still hold meetings in the ap:. parently vain hope of imposing a tex on the impor tation of articles now free. Mr. (Merrell, the leader, is still severely indisposed. ; The repeal agitation has been partially renewed in Ireland under the auspices of John O'Connell, but lacks its former spirit. 1 . Smith O'Brien and his companions have airived at Hobart's Town, Van Dieman's Land. The fel ons were granted tickets of leav l e on condition of engaging that their Jibarty should nut be used to escape. , All except O'Brien accepted the Linn; lie had been sent under surveillance to Maria Island. . . Ftuarrr.eur. Snirwattcss.—The English coast was visited by a severe hurricane on the 30th of March, causing much destruction of property and a frightful loss of life. Among other vessels lost was the John It. Skiddy, driven ashore on the coast at Wexford; totally wrecked, the Captain, passen gers, and crew saved: The Howard, from New Orlcnns it was also wreck ed at the entrance of the Mersey. The steamer Adelaide, from Dublin to London, was lost near.the mouth of the Thames, • and every soul CM board, numbering 200, perished. The coast everywhere is stremin with portions of vessels which have fallen a prey to - the elements. 1 • FRANCH.--At Pa l ris, although there is increased excitement and greater bitterness between conflict ing parties, the only marked events of the 'fortnight' - have been, first the revolt of one of the regiments, which the government has• not succeed !d in quell ing; second, a popular demonstration in a small way against Louis Napoleon. Perhaps the most signifi cant event in the Assembly was the proposition of Mr. De Lai Roche Jacqueline, a friend of the Presi dent, to effect that on the first Sunday in June the' nation should be called on to pronounce defining on the form ofGoverrment which it should choose to select; that every elector. should be called upon to inscribe mills ballot, Monarchy or Republic. That if the Republic should receive a majority, it should be proclaimed in the Chamber by the Pres ifient of the Republic; and if the Monarchy obtained, a majority, by the President of the Assembly. This remarkable proposition was received with solemn silence by the majority, and by decisive sneers by the mountain party, but at length the proposition was negatived in consequence of not being seconded, and the previous question was im mediately voted unanimously. The members of the Mountain received the an nouncement with a cry of Viva La Republique. It is said that the President is so deeply in debt that nothing but the possession of the Imperial Crown can extricate him, and that lie is at present engaged in negotiations with Russia, for the purpose of pos sessing himself of that now necessary protection. The government are perseveringly employed in introducing their measure of coercion, in which the majority of the Assembly support them. The Paris correspondent of the London Standard says that the Government have received desputches from Germany %%Ilia lead to the belief that a colli sion between4ustria and Russia is alines; unavoid chile. The language used by both pcm ers is becom insimore hostile. . . n.nuern:—Advices from Athens to ifith 'March, furnish only confirmation of previous reports, that the captured vessels have been given to t Sir Wm. Parker•. Romn:--A recent number of the Roman Observer 41,4441161444,04tk ri gmeu ti R nme has been Athrices from Lisbon state that Commodore Mar tin was concentrating his squadron at Tunis in an ticipation of u hostilevisitfrom the American Na val forces to enforce a settlement of the long stand ing claims dr the American Government. ITlLletrit.—The Tuscan Government has refused to accege to Lord PalMerston's demands of indem nity forlosses sustained by their subjects at Leg horn last year.. The difficulty has been submitted to the arbitration ofthe Sardinian Government. GERSlANic:—Berlin it is said is,to be surrounded with fortified barricades, which have already been commenced. The German Parliament assembled at Frfurr on' the 20th' March. Advices are received on the 20th, and little had been done beyond organ izing the Assembly, It is said negociations have been opened by the Ceitral States fur the purpose of procuring American vessels of war, •completely equipped for service. SPAIN.—The report from Madrid of a speedy re conciliation between the English and Spanish gov ernments is confirmed. The condition of Cuba causes the greatest colicitude to be felt on the part of Spain. TURKEY.—Preparations are said to be in progreFs to conduct Kossuthand the other Hungarian refugees to Kntahia in Asia Minor, where they are to be con fined, it is said, five years. A•despatch of 20th Ma ch from Trieste states that the insurrection in Botht ha is extending its Tango and increasing in strength. About 2000 Turkish troops were a u by the insurgents, and com pelled to evacuate the fortress of Dan allicha. SWEDUff.—The , Swedish Navy is to bo put on a war footing; the object is not known. 'stns.—Another mail from India brings Bombay &tee to March ild—land Calcutta to Feb, 20th.— There are evidences of growing uneasiness on the Ipart of the people, and several rather serious de monstrations have been Made against the British .rule. It aminevitable consequence, more valuable 'tirritorys has been annexed to the East India Com pany's possessions. 1 Trade at Bombary was, unsatisfactory except for produce, which was scarce. AlTairs presented a more encouraging aspect. THE Mantirrs.--The flour market has advanced -16. and Indian corn the same. American provisions market has been dull, and prices lower for bacon, hams, and lurd, each of which luta receded about le. Sugar—holders show a disposition to realize at a reduction of Nato pr cwt. nt Lyndon. Market dull except for refined. Meat Market unchanged. Lard Oil, do; Linseed 33815330 d. Arnerjenn stocks continue firm and in good re loud. Freights ovation° high, American ehipping ,scarce. Cotton has advanced to ad for Midland. From the manufacturing districts generally there is little to report. The tone of the Mancheste r mar ket has been gradually improving especially for yarn and fine gouda. DISSAT/SrED WITH HIS COU:OHL-A few days ago, on Irishman was convicted, in the Municipal Court of an offence for which Judge Bigelow sent him Co the House of Correction.. .Just Ls Patrick was step ping into the coach, his legal adviser approached him, and whispered something in his car, the nature of width the reader will divine by Nei answer,. which was rendered in a very decisive tone:—"Not a einit'--yo thafe o' the world! had yez been workin' the half as ftaird to get me Clare as the ould white headed devil did to convict me, I wouldn't bin in this dirty mild cart now D'ye mind thatt---son o' the 'dial! that ye are!, Nixt time I'll be gittin' that ould gray-hedaded.gintleman to defied me t an' sure yell be gittin' nofmore u' mo pathronage if yez starve for the 'Dade ivit,--och, ye pahhy pittyfog ger, don't be botherin' me jilt as yez see I'm to start on a thra moonths' journey! '—Yankco made. STEAMERS FOR Linsats.-41r. Joseph Byran- of Alabama, and others, are 'endeavoring to secure Congressional action to establish a line of steam,. ships between the United Stales and Liberia, to carry emigrants at $lO per,head, under the direction el the American Colonization Society. They are to be commanded by an °nicer of the Navy, to carry the mails an d to be built with a view to being used its ships a war, lirstuatotts Discovutty.—Among the ruins of the property recently torn down in Walnut street below Third by r dward Y. Farquhar, was found a mahogany coffin containing €corpse, yesterday.-!- The fact of the discovery had the effect to draw a large concourse of people together, but there did not appear to be one wise enough to unravel the mystery which surrounds the Whole affair. The houses re ferred, to wear built in the ;year 1770, consequett'y. at the time of their razeing they:were eighty years old, and ever since the foundations mere laid, they have been in the,possession of Mr. Farquhar's fam ily.. In the back cellar of one of the houses—No. $9, were three heavy ground arches, and the one on the west side was completely hidden from view by a wall which had been built in front of it, and which upon several occasions, had 'attracted the attention of the Present owner and builder. Mr. Farquhar gave directions to the workmen, that when the wall and arch in question, were torn away he 'would witness the work. Accordingly, everything being' in readil:a for the removal of that portion of the ruins,- Mr. Farquhar came to the spot about nine o'clock - a:ld the tearing away commen ced. As soon as the wall was removed, the coffin above mentioned was discovered, embedded in the arch in an upright position. The space around it was filled up with lime, rubbish and mortar, and the wood of the boards of which the box was made, was much decomposed, and the whole fell to pieces, upon handling it: The coffin contained the remains of a human being. It was full of v. hat was once strong quick lime, and all of the corpse that had escaped the destructive action of this powerful chemical agent, were a few of the _bones, and nearly all these were in a crumbling condition. The hip bone was tolerably perfect, and so were several . of the ribs; yet it was impossible to say of what sex the deceasd war, or to tell any thingsatisfaciory about the dead. On the coffin was an ornamental brest plate, formed of copper, silvered over. The metal vas so much corroded. as to dbliterate all traces of any inscription that might indicite the name of thedeceased. , The wall of the arch which:ival four inches thick, was built in a very irregular, rough, and unworklike mari ner, while the outside. will that hid the larch, and Which was nine inches in thickness, was sell execu ted, being constructed of good brick, cemented in du rable style. The excitement in the vicinity of Third and Wal nut street, as might be supposed, under the circum stances, was intense, and nearly every spectator had an impression of his own, as to how the coffin came to be placed in.that position. Some, of codrse, sup posed murder, most foul, had taken place; others thought quite the reverse, while many did not know what to 'think.' The mystery will be investi gated by the Coroner.—Pennsylvania. ROPE. THE AWFUL VISITATION AT WASHINGTON.—The blowing is the National. Intelligences accont.t If the sudden death of a bridegroom in that city', hereto-- fore referred to in our Washington letters: "A young man, named Charles Wilson, employed in the coast Survey Oflice, died very suddenly on Thursday morninz'under the following painful cir cumstances. He was married- on Wednesday night at Mrs. Little's boarding house. Mr. Wilion went to bed about 11 o'clock, and was found dead by his wife the next morning, when she attempted to wake him. !laving taken a mixture an Wednesday even ing, consisting of opium and ether, it was believed.' by. many . that this draught 'ns the cause of his death. ' On'a full investigation of this distressing case by a coroner's jiffy, they returned, after hearing the tes timony of four eminent physicians and a post mur tem examination, the following verdict: "'That the deceased was a man of intemperate habits, and had been, fur two weeks previous to this death, constantly under the influence of orient spirits and on the:night proceeding themorning of his:death he manifested strong, symptoms of delirium tretnens, and whilst in that state, about 10 o'clock at night, he was married and minted to bed about 11 o'cluck. that, after he got in bed he exchanged a few words with his wife and then fell asleep, and was found dead in his bed on Thursday morning about light; and the jury beliertid, from the evidence, tnat the deceased came to his death by congestion of the brain and stomach, pr9duced by the habitual use of intoxicating drinks." CurrePpotidenceof the retitisylvanian WASIIIMITON, April 13, 1850. It has generally been supposed that General Tay -1(,),t; mlt i Oati.v in t h e flat, JIIIg Vista: on the 24th his charger was a mule! This is true, beyond contradiction. Whitey was then in a stall Monterey. full GO miles distant from the fight.— I make this statemeat to save the old humbug's tail front such speculators; as were at work on it some night last week, when well nigh half the hair there of was stolen, rumor says, by some enterprizing Yankee, who designs retailing it to patriotic anti war Whig gentleman and ladies, by the strand, for breast pins! The mule, be it remembered, and not Whitey, is the equean hero for whom the Seward curry comb should have, been presented •by New York's illustrious statesman. Among other strange allowances:made by the pre sent administration, in one to Air. Bailey Peyton, 812,000 in the shape of extra lawyer's' fees. You will recollect that he was Harriso3's District Attor ney for LOuisana. This clain is understood to have something to do with his connection with the gov - moment. in that capacity. So they thus seem to be all feathering, their nests. The.payment of this de mand, is`said to have been refused by the'Tyler ad ministration, as well as that of Polk. LABOR IS TO OFTEN Dminsito..—What can be more ridiculous, says the Albany Knickerbocker, than the false pride shown by many of our young men. We daily see many of them loafing aboat corners of the streets, and seated by the bar-room stoves, well dressed, though they do not earn their own living by labor of any kind, and who, if they were asked to saw a load of wood, or carry in half a ton of coil, that they might earn a few shillings, would ihdig witty refuse the job from feelings, of false pride. Such drones should be kicked out of society, to which they aro of !nn earthly use. Mrs. Ireland and her daughter, of Qoincey, 111., came to an awful death by freezing and starvation on the mountains during the past winter. They were on their tyay to California. The wife and dau ghter, with the 'full knowledge of their situation, and after they had burned up their wagon for fire wood, insisted upon the husband and father leaving them to their fate, and seeking his own 'safety. lie did so. A CAVE FouNo.L—The Shepherdstown (Va.) Register says that as the workmen at the cement quarry of Mr. Alexander R. Boleler were blasting on Friday week, they blow off a rock from the front of what was soon discovered to be II natural cave. The entrance is of the size of a barrel. One of the men entered it the distance of a few feet, and drew out the neck of a black bottle, and also a horse-Shoe. Goma roiCittaroamit.--So many are desirous of going to California who ore unable 'to defray the expenses of the journey, that coal-heavers, raw dockhands, tr.c. l may be obtained fur any steamer bound thither,not only without wages lexcept l sl a month 'which ispaid to them just to answer the raw) but at a liberal prem'um to the agents or ownerk•-= The premium priid by thirteen such men who lately engaged ou a steamer for California, amounted to very uearty $lOO each, onan average. , --.[Journal of Corn. COFFER Damitus, LOOK OIJT!—A correspondent understands, from good authority, that a merchant on one of the wharves in Roston has sold eight thou sand casks of peas this season, for the purpose of being burnt and ground with oath; and they are probably now selling as pure Java, Sumatra, &c.— Salem Register. A friend of ours who hod been reading a paragraph in a newspaper, stteting.that the Alianthus, or tree of Heaven, is exceedingly detrimental to health, says the !reels probably of the same species with the old tree of paradice, the fruit of which was so ia►juroue to our aucestors—;and their descendants.— Very likely. • (The Rochester lipirita have been fairly floored. A gentleman was introduced to the ghosts of the apostles whereupon he asked them to translate a few verses from a .Greek testament into English bufillthough Greek was the 'language in which the apostles wrote, they couldn't do it. Since tho apos tles backed down the people who believed before be gin to maven—Troy Whig. frit Meltlq 43otrutt. Elt lE. PA. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 2T. I • DEMOCRATIC couNrif CONVENTION. The Democratic Electors of this count y are requested to meet at the place of hold ing Elections in their several Election Dis tries, ' On Satnray, the 4th day of May, 1850. at 4 o'clock, P. M., and select the usual number of Delegates to attend a County Convention tci'be held at ,the Court Hoiisp in The Borough of Eric on the following Monday,' at 1 o'clock, P. M., for the pnr poSe of, selecting delegates to represent the county in the State and Congressional Con ventions at Williamsport and Warren. , . DAVID OLIN, W. A. GALBRAITH, p • • E.' W. GERRISH, (-) WM..W. WYATT, . lIENRY GINGRICH, 5 • , WM. G. ARBUCKLE, • • MURRAY WHALLON, Erie, April 13, 1850. The Committee of Thirteen. - Tho Co'limitless of Thirtoon;or what has been gener ally known to newspaper readers as "Foote's Commit too," to whom it is to be refored all the questions' relative -to Slavery in the Territories, the Texas boundary, the admission of California , and Mr. Mason's bill, for the more effectual protection of the rights of property indite Slave -holding States according to tho provisions of the constitution, was appointed by ballot in the Senate on Friday, as we announced by Telegraph! It consists of Messrs. Clay, of Ky., Bell, of Tone.. Berrien, of Ga., Bright, of Ind., Cass, of Mich., Cooprr, of Pa., Dickin son, of N. Y. Downs, La., King. of Ate,. Mangum, of N. C., Mason, of Va., Phelps; of Vt. and Webster, of Mats. Those in italics are whigs—in roman Democrats. The political complexion is whig-7, to 6—but es tho ques tions to ho considered are purely' ifUtional, rising entirely above party, we do not object on trt score. Wo think the selections 'aro eminently oppro riato, and look for wardtwit!' hole and confidence to tho speedy settlement of the whole subject. How can it be otherwise when such Statesmen. as Cass and Clay, Webster and Dick enson lay aside party, and array thomsolves on the aido 'of Umon—of compromiso—of the country: - There is but ono name we regret to see is not on the committee, and that is 41orious old SABI Hoosros, of Texas, With him it tt ould have been complete. Withdrawal& The llarrisburg Kejstone is authorised to stale that Judge LAPORTE, the present able mid efficient Surveyor General, is not a candidate for nomination and election to the office which ho now so faithfully fills. Also, a card' id tho ;am paper from Gcu. John A. Purvianco, the pro'sent Auditor 'General, announces that ho will not ho a Candidate for the office ho now fills. "Opposition is the Life of Trade." And fortunate it is too for the purses of fond husbands and doting parents. Juit look at the array of Millinery Advortisemontsin another column. Mrs. Curtis., Mrs. Pray, and Mrs. Ward: What visions of gay bonnets, flowing ribbon, rich silks and sattins, beautiful lawns and laces. and last. though not least, empty purses, their an nouncoments create in the minds of grave matrons, beau- . tiful daughters, and—grumbling puppas. To the tatter one word of advice—" What can't be cured must bo en dured,',' so down with the dust, and no grunibling. The Election this Fall. Our 'election this full bids fuir to be an animated. as well as'an important ono. The people will bo called up meat tin, (81101:11U our mutt-we- urovernos becomo a law.) members of the next Congress. a Catial Commissioner; an Auditor General, a Surveyor Gener al, and vote for or against the Amendment to tho Con stitution making our Judiciary elective. The Day Dawns. The eleelion•of Hon. R. M. Young. Clerk Odle House of Representatives, is a gratifying indication that a bet ter state of feeling is obtaining among the Democracy at Washington. At the commencement of tho session, al thought in a majority we could not elect that officer, but wore enmpolled. after the Waste of mach time, and the indulgence of'not a little disgraceful wrangling,'to allow -the wh L igs to carry onto prize. Now, however,. tho day dawns 'upon the Democracy. They are becoming united, and everything indicates a determination to work in har ness at in days of yore. : Let the Democrats at the seat of Gov i ernment do this—lot them stand by one another and their principles shoulder to shoulder, and rebuke and put down faction there in the bud, and the people will sustain them. The state of tho country demands that our par i ty should forget fts divisions, and seek by union, hat:moil and consession, to wrest the reigns of Govern ment fr i om the hands of the present corrupt and specula ting dynasty. This work has commenced well—lot it be contimed, and the . auspicious daWn wilt ho developed to an efr Igent day. - DISGRACEFUL. Pnecnnomos.—Byrofereuce to our Con gressioind Proceeding, it will be aeon that another "fight" has ocdurred in the Senate elite United States. Hang man Poole, it seems, was not satisfied with his sobriquet but defaces that of Assassin. lie has not only entered the Senate Chamber with concealed deadly weapons, but has drawn them in a deliberate manner upon a distin• guished Senator, with the evident intention °flaking life. —Cottrusuutville courier. The Editor of the Courier carries at the head of hie paper's motto which rends somewhat in this wise; "Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty, and to Law." Now, we ask him in all cUndor, is the above paragraph **pledg ed to Truth?" Has ho lived up to his motto? Let us see. "It is a well established principle of moral Ethics that he: who, in giving testimony. conceals the truth, is as much guilty of falsehood as though he manufactured a he out Qf whole cloth. Now, the Courier concealetho fact from his readers that Col. Banton made the first domcin stratiori of personal violence—that Foote was addressing the Senate, and had not transgressed the rules of debate, for the ' Vice President had not calkd hint to order. This, his rernarke, as reported in the Globe, and many other accounts we have read, prove. Ho' conceals the fact that Benton throw his" chain from him, and made a rush at Foote before any body was hardly aware that it was the Senator from the Missouri the SpoUlter was alluding to. Why not this?—why not gave the whole facts of the case, and leave his readers to draw their own con clusions as to the extent of the culpability of Foote in drawing a pistol? Why leave his readers to infer that Benton was perfectly in cuder—was in his scat—had done nothing—and that Foote. without cause or motive, attempted to assassinato him? We era not to bo under stood as defending Foote—far from 10—but we like*to see justice done, though the heavens should full. .We dislike this making a saint o'ut of a sinner, or another sinner worse than he really is. They were both to blaino,' that is evident—ana both ought to be' ,held up to the censure of the public by every press 'whether it is "pledged to truth, to liberty and to law; ,or not.] Foote was to blame for carryiug a pistol into the Senate, although he al:edges that he 'had been told Benton intended to commit personal violence upon him. Benton was to blame for allowing himself to become excited before he bad cause, and when so excited, attempting to take personal satisfaction upon the Boor of the Senate. He should have waited until the senate adjourned, and then pounded him like a loafer, or fought him like& gentleman. He would have disgraced nobody then bat hiinself. MP Quite &strong tide seems to be setting in favor of lion. T. Denton, es tho' next Democratic candidate for the Presidency.— Warren Ledger. It must be that tide. then. spoken of by Shekspearo. :which taken It the ebb, leads God lueoWa where." , Oar Rail Bead Prospects. Our Railroad 'prospects are bright. It is now pretty, surety decided that Erle Is to be the terminous of the Now . York and Erie road. We bave beard hints ear. rangetnen is being in progress to this died for some time. but nothing tangible lies leaked out until this week. Wet understand that the chief bash; of the arrangement , with the New York and Erie road to be that said company fs to bring their road to the line, and intersect the North East and Erie road—that the Now York and Erie com pany is to stock the road, and have the ekclusive right to run it for eight years. in cOnsideration of which they guarantee to the North East and Erie company 8 per coat. on their stock. The road is to bo completed in May 'SI; and the marnigetnent of its affairs this side of the New York lino coofitied to the Erie and North East company. This wilt he the most advantapoos arrange, meat to Erie. in a commercial point of view, that colild byp make. It will make her. without doubt. in a few yeare_ ono of the first cities on the lakes. The "sleepy bor ough" tete will he nor longer. for the anor of the iron horse .will ore another year Ivake her to life.lonergy end progress. We have waited long and anxiously for this time. `We havei sometimes been almost discouraged— sometimes heort-siek with hope deferred—hut now the day begins to d own upon our always beautiful. but (must wo own 'it) over dull town. Dull alto will be no longer. As the actual terniinous of this great thoroughfare from the East to the West. it must draw to it a large accession 1 of population. of businesi, wealth and enterprise. Our beautiful and capacious harbor will be no longer the more stopping place, to take on passengers, of the lake steam ers—it will bo their destination! Commerce will find hero its centre. and trade its most favored mart. Hence forward the destiny of Erie fel onward! A Short Sermon on a'Familiar Subject. ponce writer, wo don't know who, nor indeed is it of nktich consoqueuee, has said that "Hats have given the world almost as much trouble as Heads—they naturally 'go together.'" This characteristic of tho Hat is the reit-, eon why one, when ho secs another do a peer act, per forin'some feat out of the common run, oty something extremely witty, almost inclutinently excl.tims, "He can take my fiat." Now it Is not so wiikCoats. Coats have been of groat service to the world, Ad however pleased or astonished we are, wo never any to our neighbor you can "take our Cost." No indeed! On the contrary, we have aeon men who looked upon that garment with such veneration that they pinned their hopes of future salvation on its cut. Wo have soon othen3lboso their claim to res pectability on its fit. And Again, wo havb aeon ladies, beautiful and amiable, adopt the memo criterion in choos ing a Husband. It PM 6 coat. too—or rather a coat and the tail:of another—tbat saved Egypt from famine. Be cause the old gentleman gave Joseph a better Coat than his older brothers, they became jealous and sold him in to Egypt. And when there, if it had'nt been for the tail of this garment that Potiphar's wife succeeded in retain ing, he would.not have been thrown into prison, and thus Pharoli's dream of seven lean and seven fat kine; would in all probability never been interpreted, end Egypt would have been left to famine. So you see, my dear hearers. there is something in a Coat—Yea, there is much in a ' Coat. This point having been established, thou, it only remains for us to tell you where this garment, as well as every thing else in the lout ensemble of a, gentleman's wardrobe, can be Itirocured of the neatest and cheapest, and most durable character. Just opposite our office, one door below Brown's Hotel, we ace JosTicsizireceiv ing an entire now punk of Clothing. Give him a call, and if ho don't fit you oat "from top to toe," like a gen tleman, mid treat you like ono into the bargain, you can draw cin us for the Ice Cream andiSoda, or if you rant a temperance man, a "wee drop" oflthijor Brown's beat. Cleveland and Ashtabula Railroad. We have seen a portion of tho report of the Chiof En gineer of this road. It irian able, one, and presents tho advantages the construction of such a road to the country through which it is proposed to bo built, and to the public generally, in a strong and convincing light. Ho estimates that tha road can be built for $19,000 • per mile, and this for a road of tho firstelass, equal in every respect to any iu the country. In regard to the business of the road he null/11UB 101 I.Jcpurts unu - impurts- of Fairport; Ashtabula and Conneaut, as reported by the Collectors for 1819, amou•lt to thirteen millions of dollars. The counties_of Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga and Ashta bula, aro among the most densely populated of any in Northern or Central Ohio, and will furnish as large a proportion of way travel arid business, as is enjoyed by any road in the western country. It would be impossible to estimate precisely what the gross income of a road. connected as yours is, would be. with a full monopoly of the Eastern and Western add° and travel for at least four months every year. and a fair share during the summer, having no rivets to compete with, except the steamers on the Lake. Not less than seventy-five thousand stock hogs were driven along the route of your road Eastward. during the last winter, and twenty thousand head of cat tle—a business which is peculiar to the winter moths. and would be greatly augmented as the facilities aro in creased. The article of Cheeso from Ashtabula and other counties for a Southwestern market would also bo very large. Many elements of basilicas now dormant for want 'of facilities and proper encouragement; will be develop ed, all serving to enrich the country adjacent and become a profit to your road. " Your lino must of ncaessity bo the groat artery of com merco and travel. Looking at the resources already do valoped, and constantly increasing, of tho North of the Ohio, and this side of the Mississippi only; and the con nections which the road has Eat,t, and West. nothing is hazarded iu stating that the income upoti it, from the mo ment'it is opened, will Ito equal to, if not greater, than the income hitherto, of anysection, of tho same number of miles. on the lino of the roads between Ilutralo add Utica. Well Take the Bet. The Editress of the Lancaster Gazette,,(Mrs. Pierson) sitypelio would as soon nestle her nose in a rat's nest or swing's tow, as allow a man with whiskers to kiss hart - Would she indeod? Whew! well really that Bounds vary much like a stump—"Do if you dare!" Now, we novor hot, but will just for this once, put up a pair of Healy's tip-top inexpressibles against a shilling calico cheek apron, that the Ldaress above' referred to, is old and ugly, and her young and handsome, smooth-laced husband ' can do hatter than kiss liar; so she makes love thus by contraries, at some gallant whom nature has beautified with &lusty pair of raven whiskers.—Buffalo Courier. Wokll take that bet, Mr. Courier. Wo always do when there is a lady in the case. In the first place Mre;Pier son is not very old. and as to being "ugly" its a vile slan der. So much talent was never wrapped up in sin and ugliness. As to her •handsome. smooth-faced husband." re have you there, certain. She's just a 'Heeds the nicest" widow in tho whole State of Pennsylvania; but whether, like most widows. she is in market or not. this deponent had rather ho excused from answering. Send along the "inespressildes," Rather too PersonaL Our good cousin of the "nuking Valley Republitan," . is rather too personal in his allusions to our dearly belovod bochelor cotemporary of tho Gazette. Ho should aim his shall so as to miss-our dolomporary's lady friends. How• ever open he may bo to a sly rap, aqua sacred. How ever ,wo will attend to his ropiest, and take him uudor our "espocial protection," and if possible wilt "not per mit him to wander out after 'lino o'clock at night;" at boast not in the direction Indicated by the Republican. • 0, Thrice Unfortunate Whigery. Tile Washington correspondent of the Pittsburgh. Journal thus mourns over the election of a Democratic Clerk in the House of Representatives. Hear him. and oil you have tears to shed prepare to shed thorn nowt" "The Whir as a party ore most unfortunate. There worts-many o them absent yesterday when a Clerk was elected by two votes. beyond what were indispensible.— If any sudden sickness, any bereavement, any emergen cy call home a member •it Is sure to be a Whig: If a man is kept in his 'room by a visitor from 12 till .1,• it is always a Whig. If a locomotive explode; it scalds a Whig. • Ifs mad breaks his leg or arm, he is a Whig. By the absence of Whigs, Democratic officers have been elected, and the House has become a scene of confusion to-day, - by efforts to turn out the present door-keeper." Truly, "our entlerlnge is intolerable." Another Tribute. The whigs of Ohio. es we learn from the &alarm" are o3t in favor of insorting the veto power In the new Con stitution. Here is another tribute to tho Democratic doctrine in favoi of the vete, PROFLIGACY OF THE CABINET-rIL IT - BE DIMMED t The profligacy of Gen. Taylor's constitutional advisers. as exhibited in the payment of the Galhpin elaim, togeth er with several others of a similar character. has alarmed the whip. and opened their oyes somewhat 'to the true situation of their party's supremacy: They review the elections since the advent of Taylor and his "heroic age." and they see no contested field upon which their banner has been victorious. ' They endeavor to discover a streak of dawn in the future, but the profligacy and peculations of the Cabinet—the President's broken pledges—their own false promises—all hang like a black,pall across their political sky. Too kite they see the breakers, and like tho passengers of a te e pest-tossed ship with rudder gone. spars and rigg" • ,d away. every shi ft of tho wind. every lull in the • watched for with an anxiety bordering upon deep • radon. Their only hope is a change in the Cabinet—a fa born one they know. bututill a hope —and they clamor° sly cry for It. Ii the party to be ship-wrecked. th •y exclaim, by the mistakes and obstinacy of Clayton the speculations of Crawford—tho "easy virtue" of Jul neton when his legal opinion is ne cessary to secure t e payment of old and oft rejected claims—the ignoran e of Merldeth of our national upon cos—the rascality an. ambition\ of Ewiug r -and tho in competent narrow- . fadedness Of Coliamar end Preston. tong nothing about the notorious =pod= of the whole concern: But listen to one of these croakers—the Buffa lo Ezpress: "We must look ti e facts of the case in the face, and a mighty ugly face th,y wear, just at the present time, too. We have no !waited. Is in avowing our conviction that the administration - of Go 1. Taylor will aiuk into insignificance —be powerless for a I porpoises of good to tho country, and end in feeblene , and disgrace, while the whig party will bo delivered ov. sr to the enemy, bound hand and foot, to remain in a hopel =so minority fOr years, if the relations now eXisthig betwee i the Cabinet and the Whigs in con gress are maintain'', until the fall Congreisional elec tions take place. he annals of our party contests fur nish no, instances o changes so groat, and reverses so disastorous, in tho same perio d of time, as the whigs have experienced since Gen. Ta lor's accession to the l'resi denev. From our overthrow in Connecticut, on the first Monday of April, 1849, up to the present hour, we have experienced ant almost unbroken series of defeats. * * " * , * We may rnetition a fact notorious at Washington —there is neither sympathy, understanding. nor consul tation, between the higs in Congress and the cabinet of 4, Gen. Taylor. This is one reason why the administra tion has no support rorn the whigs as a party in either HOuse. The cabin tis in a state of complete isolation. The wishes and ex lectatious of the administration are wholly unknown to engross." There is much more in the Express' article of tho same character, all uoing to show that the Cabinet is hold responsible for all th= recent defeats the party has suffer ed since tip advent • f Taylorism, and that nothing short of its dismissal will : ripens' the party-loaders. Now we claim to be neither : prophet, nor the son of a prophet, but wo thinklwe tot , our readers, immediately after the result in 1848 was k• own, how it would be—that the suc ' easeful party could of hold together long—that so soon 'as the "cohesive po er of public plunder" ceased to ce ' ment their pie-bald egimeats together, the administra tion must *and be le in fact, as it had gloried in name, I without a party: 0 r prediction is now being literally fulfilled! The time a drawing nigh!—the day is at hand; so near, indeed, tha: whigery even, moat-eyed on most occasions to its desti • y, cannot fail to see the gulf yawn ing before it. But the paper we have quoted above is not the only one that seas that the administration is doom ed—the Now Yor. . Tribune, and Express, the Boston Courier, and many qhers, unite in ascribing their pres ent minority positi ,it to the Cabinet, and demand a change in the vain hope that such a result will restore confidence and brio : back the deserters. But hear tho Tribune: "That it is the ce j who have any opini and if Gon. Taylor subject, the count the wilt members be guided thereby. thirty advise him to whole, yreshall be Tho New York E her of Congress, is pendent. at Washin the Editor himself who would vote to another month." • intelligence in this The reason of this h viction of nineteen of every twenty n on the subject, we have no doubt; has any doubt or hesitation on the I will thank him to take the 'Sense of 1 Congress without exception, and 11thirty out of the ono hundred and et on with his present advisers, as a rievously mistaken." press, the Editor of which is a mem- UII decided. It has a corms _ ton, which cotrespudent may be or aught we know, who "declares eve the present Cabinet retained ' Every Inan e " hp continues, "of any lietropolis knows this to ho true."— l& says is— rdinary allowances which the met lave nude within the past year in Is and 'the interest thereon, which .reviously„ for years and years, re- • • s "the extra. bora of the cabinet payment of oh! clai the government had jetted. By allowing thes treasurer has nut oil out the cry of knoll) gout and wasteful an plo's money, has bee bility. Nor is this al on this whig adminis a patriot who is fain his doalings with the moment ho learned t commanded that the gated. It has over been th ono of its officers, in in any way interested or in claims against it _ Mr. Secretary Cra Galphin claim, and re of it.' and deposited it Tho matter ib underg milted pf the House o tea was appointed by to the Speaker's chair friend of Mr. Crawl whose influence and Mr. Thomas Butler cabinet. old and oft-rejected claims, tho ly been made to bleed shockingly, oism, that the whigs aro extravar unfit to too intrusted with the peril. , •clothed with some color of plausi . - Reproach has been brought up ration, at the head of which stands , d for his scrupulous honesty in all government. Thank heaven, the to facts in the Galphin case, ho matter 'tumid forthwith be investi- rulo or the government that no gh or humble capacity, should be in contracts with the government vford was deeply interested in the oived at least $90;000 for his share in bank to hia private aceount.— ini► an investigation before a com- f Representatives. That commit i fr. Speaker Cobb, whose election was effected by Mr. Toombs, the .rd, end the Crawford, through exertions Mr. instead ot log. was appointed to a seat in-the pretty reliable a therity. in the beet lee here, that he committee will will neither applaud nor •censule -xion with the Galphin claim. arid honorable acquittal, and thereup -1-: ecretary of War. It is rumored. upon informed political cir make a report which Mr. Crawford's coon - that he will deem it a on resign his office as Whether his tonno. the allowance of the c est an the claim, were purpose hereto decide work to convince loc stump. and at the poll transaction. tion with tho Galphin chin, and im, or rather tho $193,000 inter strictly legal and just, it is not my 1 only know that it will bo hard focoism at the hustings, on the of tho fairness and equity of the What right has Mrl upon tho administrati, upon President Taylor What right has Mr. I legal opinions, as Atto. tablished usage of 'the his predecessors in the by the Secretaries ma and adjusted claims, upon them, until tho life Why did Mr. Clay Francia claim of about his predecessor, would son gave a logal opinio William Cost Jall and ho now dofonds Galphin claim, upon ill, Treasurer was not bou the . govortirfient in the law for authority; as I laws to settle claims u 1 government had not 1,1 law: - • I Crawford to bring this reproach ri, and to produce this drawback Is popularity? • ' I evordy Johnson to giro so many nay General, against the long-cs- Idepartments and the opinjons of ttornoy General's Office, *hero ' ro•open old, rejected, or settled y id pay out principle and interest . , -wood of the troatury is exhausted. on allow and pay the old Do la $40,000, which Mr: Eltichanan, not allow? Mr. Iterordy John • that it ought to be paid. The neon was the agent of the claim; l o payment of the interest on the ground that the Secretary of the d to bo governed by the - usage of otter, but could go to the public there could be two conflicting der, and as if the usage of the .ug since superseded the public Why did Mr. Ewing claim of $lOB.OOO. so Did not Mr. Reverdy decision on tho subject allow and pay the old Chickasaw (ten rejected Gy his predecessors? Johnson give' the requisite legal . Now is not thie a be, integrity of Gen. Taylor men now in power! intl, reader, this not "10-co-fo co" authority. his ono • hig testifying to the manner his brother whigs ate spec toting on the capitil generously loaned to them by a cre. ulons potpie's confidence. Ae cording tothis witness t e Cabinet has only feathered its neat to the tune of Mr - hundred and forty ona,thousan4 I s 611ars. in one year. by allowing old claims—the Most of it. if Detail , owned by OftleelVeS—the payment of which had been repeittedly'r used by their predeoussors, the earlier cabinet. if no the " earlier presidents."- No wonder those out scout think it time for those ie to re tire. and give place to them. But w.ill•Gen:Taylor die. miss this cabinet..-th 0 speculators In government claims—these ors upon the people's pockets? Will be? Aye, there Is the rub; Wo think not. There is notenougli of the JaCkson alrut him to see where his confidence has been abinied,.aild hit adininistraticmimide tiful exhibit of the honesty and s constitutional advisors--of be • .. odious. Ile Is not statesman enough to cesdpreheild his position, or understand that these men:afe using him mearly as the calsivaw of their own.private speculsti'oe s . We aro strengthened in the belief, that he will notldis mias this brood of office speculaters, from the factlthst the Intaligencer and Republic contradicts the reportslof a disagreement betwween the President and his cabinet. and of.ei disposition on his part to,form a now one, ii:i the ,mostexplicit terms; simultaneously with this, the IVSsh lington !Otter Writers are taking beck their predictions, so confidently made a week since. Pretty Good whether True or Not. Tho following good one is told by a coteroporary of one of the new "no-party" appointments of iight-house krep. ors. Whether it is true or not. It is "good."—. "immediately Slier the appointed took possession. tem. plaints were made that the lights were out by twelve o'clock. The proper officer was at once sent to look t int o th e matter, and he was told that complaints were made against him; for what? was his inquiry—"why." replied the officer, "they any your lights don't barn after tw l olre o'clock at night." "Well," was his reply. "1 know they don't, for 1 put 'em out myself then; fort thought ailths vessels had got in by that time, and I wanted to save th. Graham's Magazine. After an i absence of a year and , a half 'from our t this starling add popular Monthly, is again before tis, der the auspices of its old Editor, Geo. R. GILMAN E and right &artily do we welcome it. The antnbei fare us, for May. is an excellent one. The engravl are superb—" The Mountain Spring." and the "Gi of Draughts," aro of Eno finish and fairly sparkle. ' fiterary i are from the pens of writers, whose merit has voived the L; ig liost stamp of approval. Among thes l t George D. Prentice, J. M. Legere, E. T. Whipple C. Morehead, Harbor, Home!, and others of tho highest literary reputation and ability. Mr. Grahami commenced well, and from all we hear, will Ore give the public a Magazine, such as has never been lished in this country. His new volume ponimi'l with the, July number. Thanks, Good Cousin The Junior of the Washington Examiner iu apologiz ing for non-attention to his last paper, excuses hiniself on the ground that his "Senior has gone to i the coiintry on a matrimonial cruise," and promises that "shouldiany thing of a serious nature occur. our Editorial brethren shall bo advised of the same in due season. You4bro ther of the Erie Observer, shall have the first inteli gence." Thanks...good cousin, but we "kinder sort !o reckon." there will nothing "of a serious nature occur," —there nerer dors. Pettingill's 'Reporter. We have received a number of a paper bearing this title, published in Boston, by S. 1. Pettengill, Genieral Newspaper Agent. The Editor is endeavoring to ritake ont n list of all the newspapers published in the Milted Stutes—a very difficult but , worthy object, by the wifiy— for the benefit of Advertisers and the public generally. We send him the Obsater, trusting it l will be like caking bread upon the water. `. Sensibility as to Names. In the Massachusetts State Senate, a motion was to change the name of the "Lyman Etofurm as the word "reform" would cast a stigma on juvet sent-there. Another member suggested that it won well in this connexion to change the name of the prison, 'and that it be called "The Manual Lab or emy for Mutual Improvement." • The Transcript gents instead of • "pick-pocket," the term "Ostia artist." aktiSfor "burglar," the phrase "untimely visil The Cabinet Illustrated. • The following which' we find floating around the waves of newspaperdom, is the best illustration way Gen. Taylor formed his cabinet we have sees is truo to the life, with one exception. Although aro "half-and-half" statesmen—the real "fifteen eggs"—wheti it comes to speculating in old rejl claims, and pocketing the proceeds,,they are, as Coll Black would say, "a whole team and big dog unde l wagon." But lo our anecdote—it runs in this WiS2 ...I,:qt.3 . sraNTlVfeiLtbkt. GM SATIN:* 4 j s h 9rl . limo I had two small tubs full of eggs: What's the Pri these?" said Old Zack. "Thirty cents." "And I are these? ' "Fifteen cents." "Fifteen and the thirty? Well they almost look quite as nice; so givi three dozen of the fifteen cent eggs." They were co od out into the black boy's basket and paid for, an Gen. walked home. "Now," asked a bystander, 'll ' is it that you ask only fifteen cents for these and t cents for them?" "Why ," said the market inan, "i at thirty cents are all fresh and sound, and those arfii are about half a teeth) too old to be t Used." "Very ni replied the other, "1 expect that Old Zack Echoed cabinet in the sumo way that he has the eggs. Ile plenty of thirty 'cent fresh statesmen to choose from, ho took the fifteen cent half and half boys, because were cheap and plenty. Ile: hat ha: Good !porn sir." - Godfs Lady's 800k * , . 1 Gody's magazi ne for May is a perfect gem in its ay. The Editor ; never flags in his exertions to please his ea-I ders, and as the. months roll round they era always at tain to get double the worth of their money. The Ts. cut num her Ls illustrated with twenty-two ergrartfigs, the most prominent of which are, "Gift from Heave and and "Playing Mother." It contains also a favorite pee of music. entitled " Ellen Polka," and a beautiful col or ed plate of Fashions. . The contributions are varied itid exceedingly attractive. ' They - will be -found to b a source of interest to the re ader and calculated to im art many valuable lessons. _ - A Good Suggestion. It has been suggested since the Galphin speouintio• ;of the cabinet came to light. that thataugust-body be kno• hereafter as the "Gulpin Cabinet." Wo • think the name highly appropriate, for‘if there is not a stop Boom put to their operations in this line, they will ere long g jdp down all Uncle Sam's small change, as well Ids cred Cook's Eagle Saloon. The nicest place for a Lunch in this tom) is "COO Eagle Saloon," under Williams' Exchange Office. T o Edibles aro first rato and ample, and dui Drinkablesrire said, by those who have a taste for such things, to be of the finest quality and flavor. Mr. Harris, the gentle= ly superintendent. is a superior caterer, as well as a "gold follow." Give him a call. Fun for the Million. We hero the pleasure of announcing to our play goi❑ r. and fun loving readers, that Powell's Theatrical 'Flour have returned, and will open at the Reed House. pn Monday evening. Mr. P. will expect abumper after his long absence from his numerous friends. Partieul4s will boa. . _ Os' O. 14bn:in men wore working on the bed of the agent near, A - bans., ono of them struck a pile ofilovereiges. All ban a - immediately came the "grab game.!" - ahn,wsliag their big full of mud, and gold . together.. The fast discoaerqr secured $5OO and the others not.far from $l5O apiece.— In all about $1,200 were taken out. It was doubtlel the all of some unfortunate emigrant, dropped accidet, tally in a bag from. a canal boat. rue laborers "knoc k off and calk:slit half a day." .01CLATIC &owls:P.l , a ~....An elopement or a ver 6 extraordinary character, with a view to matrimenil proceedings, took place in this city on Monday niglit, last. The pat'ilea were a boy named Ward, eget] 17, and a Woman aged 40, living in the family of one of our eiderly physleiana,_ whose resideneo is it Teat le street, The young-lad - bad never before ea - joyed any female acquaintance out of his own farnill and when ho became acquainted with the- .bewitch ing crealure offorty, to whom ho is by this um joined In wedlock, ho was shot through the hex with' ono of CuPid's sharpest arrows: - In short, h Was dying of love, anditho wom n persuaded him t save his peace of mind by A ill t.t9 New York N I the peurpose of "mingling int one. -- , New Havel Palladium. GRAMMER HUN MAD.—The•President, in his Ist : speeoh at Richmond, says "the thanks of the coup: try a due," Ike. So they is. He a l so i n f orm ed hi audience that the "honor bestow;ed upon him hat ` Oiled his hcryt." Statermum IME Very has UM cc➢l ected ` dam r the ince, re id 6 hr. ,they
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