1:!!==! TERRIBLE CALLMNITY-BURNING OF THE STEAMER; "BELLE OF THE WEST." Front the Cincinnati Enquirer, of Thursday. There was a rumor put in circulation . yesterday,l about noon, that the steamer Belle of the Weal caught on fire and was burned so badly that she blew up.. Of course such a rumor caused no little excitement, and all the sources that could be sug gested were hurriedly visited by a loge number of interested persons. The Belle left hero on Monday evening for St. Louis, with 200 to 220 passengers, in the cabin and on deck. The Visitor arrived about one o'clock yesterday, and confirmed the r ru mor. We saw Mr. Slocum, the second clerk of the Visitor, who informed us that the Belle caught .fire in the hold, near the hour of 12 o'clock, Monde; night at the foot of Warsaw Mr, As soon as it was discovered ) 'me of the pilots ran up on the deck and communicated the fact to his partner at the wheel, who instantly headed her in shore, but so combustible were her materials and the freight she cohtained, she burned like tinder, and before she could reach the-. shore; the whole boat, from stem to stern, was. iri a light blaze. When Ake flames bursted from the hatches, a scene com menced which was of the most distressing kind; men and worn. n, says a passenger, Wm. Daniels, who comedown on deck from Mariettil, in struggling to gain therguards of the boat, in order to jump over, were driven back in-the flames and burned to death. After he gained the shore, which he did , by running down a plank the mate had ordered to be put out upon the beach, he looked back and saw many, both male and female, clinging to the guards, uttering the most pitious shrieks, and when exhausted with the pain of burning, they relinquishing their hold, fell l i rito the river, and were drowned. Ono yong lady had . gained the hurricane deck, and was seen holding on the casing of ono of the chimnies until she was perfectly overpowered with fear, when she sank down, in the flames and was seen no more. Mr. Daniels says that it was the most heart-sickning sight, that could -possibly his imagined—to see so many human beings wrestling, with the consuming element with no possibility of swing them. In about thirty minutes after the fire was first discovered, an explosion of the connection pipe wok place, which rendered , the boat a complete wreck, and then not a living thing was seen on board. A young man, having in charge his father aild mother, when the fire mode its appearance, caught hold of their trunk containing vainahlss, and carried it ashore, attempting to rettirii, in less than a minute, he MIS prevented by the instant spread of the flames and he could only look on and see his parents con sumed by the raging element. his supposed there were not far from two' hun dred passengers' n board, and when the call was made from register, "only 69 answered to their names which, allowing for some who may have 'strayed away from the horrid scene, would make upwards of one hundred hnman beings that perished. • Among the sufferers were a great many ladies and children, and the severest loss was of cabin passen gers. . 4 is believed by all that the fire caught in the hold, and the carpenter gives it as his opinion that it must 'have (burned for an hour or two before it was seen in the after hatch; he, in company with some of the crew. secured the hose for the purpose of checking the flames, when they missed two of the sections, rendering their attempts fruitless. Iris next thought was to scuttle the boat, in order to save her, but when he sought for 'his axe, which was in his tool chest, the crowd was too dense for him to reach it. Ile,saw on moving;about that the forward hatch was up, allowing a circulation of air through the hold, thus increasing the flames, and while in the act of closing, it a man ran against him, fell into the hold, and he had hardly time to notice him when the heat forced him oil: One gentleman on board. bound fur lowa, a por tion of his baggage being a gun','' threw trunk ashore then started back for his gun: on his way through the cabin he saw, a group of six or seven children —"never mhid the gun," thought he, andhe gather ed three of them and carried them to a safe place, before he bOuld return fur the others it was too late to rescue them,. Some and had cut the yawl loose, and floated off in One of our citizens, Thomas M. Rutherford, who ?\vas on board, a passenger to Louisville, describes the affair as being, truly awful. When the alarm was given he rushed out of his state-room caught up a lady wbo was in his way, and succeded in reaching the shore with her in his arms. Mr. R. confirms the statement its to the probable number lost. DREADFUL OCCURRANCE•••••ibIi SHOT.OII Mon day morning last, a German named Fahlin s an, of Yankecbush, Conewango township, deliberately shot his son, a lad some sixteen years of age, caus ing I,is instant death. : For many years previous to his emigration to this country, and continually' ; since that time, ho has suspected his wife of infidelity to the conjugal Tele tione, and has been considered a monomaniac on that subject, though sane in other respects. A day or two previous to the occurrence, he told his old est daughter that he intended to kill all the family except her—she being, as lie thought, his only le gitimate heir—to w hom he intended 'to leave his property at his death. This threat was considered, likeothers-of the kind, as the idlB ravings of insani ty. On Monday morning he left the breakfast table and retired to a bed-room adjoining, where ho had four gun loaded. As the boy rose from .prsrers, he fired through a crack in the partition; the ball entered one shoulder and come out of the other, lodg ing in a log of the house. Ile then sought his n ife, ar.d fired the other barrel of his gun; (a doubletarrel shot gun loaded with ball,) the ball passing through her dress on one shoulder: Failing in this, lie at tempted to despatch her with a large butcher knife. Her Bereas and struggles caused tiim to desist be fore she w materially injured. The alarm was immediate, given, and he was Wren into custody vi c by.Sherif Anderson of this borough and lodged in jail. P. S. An inquest has been held by Coroner C. W. Rathbun of this borough. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder on the person of Jacob Fahiman, jr., by Jacob 'Pohlman, his father. . On Tuesday afternoon the prisoner was taken be fore Justice W. D. Browiyand after an exatnina tint, was committed for trial at the June term of the court of Warren Count y.—lVarren Ledger. MURDER.-A man by the name of Rin,gold in Mon roe, Green Co., Wisconsin, was murdered by anoth • 'er man of the Same place named.Paytle. They had o dispute'about some land. Ringold was removing rails. Payne ordered him to desist; on his refusal, got a rifle and shot him in the beck, after which he lingered forty hours. lie .was taken from the place where he fell in avagon, and on the way Payne came along, said to him, "Payne, you have done the job for me," to which the murderer replied, "D—n you, I made yon drop the rail." The murderer then went and gave himself up to the authorities. Wo are glad capital punishment is,not yet abolished.—Ra cine Advocate. Nair Mexico.--In ti letter from the Hen. Hugh N. Smith, the delegate from Now Mexico, to Daniel Webster. he says of that territory., "it is entirely unsuited to save labor. Labor is exceedingly abun dant and cheap. It may betiied at three or four dollars a month, in quantity quite sufficient for car rying on all the agriculture of the territory." The country is said to be cold, and the general agricul tural productions two wheat apd corn, and such Neg etables as are raised the Northern States. It is evident from this statemel:t. that slave labor could not be profitably employed iii the territory, and that it woul4 be perfectly useless to attach the Wilmot Oroviso to any bill for the governmCnt of the ter ritory. If the climats permitted the introduction of elavee; they could be advategeoualy car: led to the territory, as laborers oh the spot can io often oi,tained for less wages than it would cost to maintain sla:cs- Such also. we believe, is the case in respect to ths7 territory of Deseret, Utab—aud .consequently, there shisuld he no dilficulty in extending' govedn meats to both territories without any,proviso in re gard to the introductiMi of slaves into either.—Ball. Lusus ISl.saun)c.—A calf was born near Burling ton, last Saturday,' which was the Most remarkable freak of naturoof which we have ever heard. It had eight legs, four behind and four before, four ears, and a hend and face very much resembling those of a bull dog; the under jaw, howevier, wari.Minus. It was, of course, stillburn.—Burlington (Ky.) Advo sate. Gossip from Washington. Weicompile, from several sources, the following items bf Washington news, which vill be found deeply interesting: Since my short stay in this city, eno gh has pas sed under my observation to satisfy me that the ac counts we have of the extraordinary proceedings in Congress have not been overrated. • The Senate yesterday presented one of those un fortunate scenes. Col. BRNTON, in offering a reso lution to make it separate report upon each subject referred to the Committee of thirteen, indulged in an intemperate exhibition of feeling that I much re gretted. Among other things, he not only charged Major BORLAND indire ctly with' falsehood, saying that be inteded to impugn Col. Be:ire:es motives, but declared his intention to oppose to the extreme the admission of California, -if connected with any other subject of legislation. I could plainly see that this declaration was un looked for by those Senators under the lead of Col. BNNTON, and from what I have heard several of them say after the adjournment of the Senate, they will not support or vote with Col BBNTON in any such factious opposition. They would of course prefer that California be admitted into the Union in a bill by itself; but if this is found , impracticable, or will tend to defeat such admission • during this session of Congress, thenf I have no doubt, the most of those who have voted' With Col. BRNTON, will vote for the hill. favored by Mr. CLAY, connecting California arid the Territories together. The Galphin Committee" examined on Saturday an ex-clerk, (a whip,) of the Land Office, who wrote the letter in t!*.o New York papers containing Charges arinst Mr. Crawford, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Clayton and others, of illegally re-opnting and paying old claims. Yesterday,:the Democratic Senators held a caucus. It was agreed that CASS should be proposed as chair man of the Compromise 'Committee, inasmuch as Cass was the first to stay the torrent, and his party the most powerful in congress. But the old Gen eral rose and declined the honor which he conceived due to Hero i CLAY. Had CLAY been in that entr ees, and heard the voluntary tribute paid to his gen ius and character by men, the most prominet in the land, and opposed through life to his politics and 'nee urea how it would hare warmed his heart and increas ed his faith in the generosity and vi r tue of his coutry, men! After the adjournment of the Senate, CLAY, being surrounded by ladies as usual- r and woman aro 'bettor judges of character than of men—several Serf atom passed him, when remembering the old adage, "business first and pleasure afterwards,"—the _old Boman cried cult, "I shall call the• Committee toget her to-morrow!" A correspondent of the Herald says—“ From con versation which I have had with some of the north ern Whigs, I understand the President makes no (Hs-, guise of his hostility to Mr. Clay's cmnpromise,— The cabinet consider it a game for the presidency and there . is some talk of the possibilitypf a veto, if California is mixed up with the territories. like wise am informed that the army officers at Santa Fe have been instructed 'to encourage the people of New Mexico to organize n state government as soon as possible, and if nothing is done this season, she will be ready by the next," The Journal of Commerce says—" Ge- Houston has resumed his sent in thesenate, and goes strong ly for the compromise. The committee on the char ges against Secretary Ewing, have had one meeting and agreed to a report." Tug FOOTE AND BENTON A'TFAIR.--The Merchant's Day Book, a paper published in the city of New York, and by no means friendly to Mr. Foote, says: - "The people in this section of the country aro not very likely to judge impartially of anything Mr. Foote may do; for they have been taught by the newspapers to look um him as a sort of ranting blackguard, who never sees any thing except through southern spectacles. But we shall not discuss this question with , the newspapers or their readers.— We do not believe Mr. Foote is at all such a man as the Northern papers represent him, and in most of his movements we-coincide. In the affray in the Senate, Benton was clearly the aggressor, He had repeatedly threatened to flog Mr. Foote upon the floor, if he (Foote) ever alluded to him again in his speeches._ Mr. Foote is a small man, and no match for Benton in a rough and tumble fight. He there fore took the same precaution that any prudent and rational man ought to• !nice taken. He. ,tlid not back out, or run, or dodge behind some larger man's chair, but coolly stopped into the passage way and stood prepared to meet Old Bull-head on equal terms . When Benton saw that he was completely foiled in his determination to flog his pigmy antagonist, he threw himself into a theatrical attitude, bared his breast and cried out shoot! Dot:tos AT Iliantsnuno.--The correspondent of the Bulletin states: Mr. Drum's' supplement to the general act, relative to divorces, passed finally in the House, yesterday morning. It provides that, hereafter, the jurisdiction of the several Courts of Common Pleas of this Commonwealth, shall extend to all cases of divorce from the bonds of matrimony, for the cause of wilful,-continued and malicious de tiertion, without reasonable cause, by either parties, from the habitation of the other; and it shall below ful for either party to Mate appjication, In such case, by petition or libel, to the proper court, in nem., dance with the provisions of the several Acts of Assembly now in force, at any time, not less than six months after such cause of divorce shall have taken place; but the sifid court shall not proceed to makes final decree, divorcing the said parties from the bonds of matrimony aforesaid, until after the ex; motion of two years from the time nt pdric6 such desertion took place. That it shall be lawful for 'the said several courts to entertain jurisdiction of all cases of divorce from the bonds of matrimony, for the causes of desertion as aforsaid, or . adultery, notwithstanding the parties were, at the time of the occurrence of said causes, domiciled in any other State: Provided, That no such divorce shall be granted, unless the applicant therefor shall have been a citizen of this . Commonwealth, or shall have resided therein for the term of ono year, as provided for by existing laws. This bill having become a law, saving the slginctUreof the Governor, will allow the case of Mr. Forrest to be brought before the Courts. I esteem its provisions just and equitable. CRIME'. AND Stncinn.—:-The N. o.lCrescont of the 10th inst., gives an account of a young man named Henry lieimer charged with robbing his employer. Ijeing arrested, and overcome by--the sense of his situation, the unfortunate man attempted to •stab himself with a pair of carpenter's compasses, but was prevented .1 lie made alsecond effort - to 'com mit suicide when the cars, half way to the city, by jumping from them while under full headwtiy.— The officers fortunately caught him by the feet and swung him aroundbefure his head touched the track; he was`then secured and watched until he was lock et! up in the guard-house of the First Muncipality. Since writing the above we aro informed that Mi lner hung himself in his cell about half-past 8 P. M., with his cravat which he attached to the bars over the door. When ho was discoved he was per fectly dead, with his neck broke. ileimer' was 26 years of age, a native of Germany. The value of the goods stolen was fop. THE Loin. Men—.ll long fast—lt is know that a Mr. Brown, of Kenosha, was carried out On the Lake, in a small beat orkSaturthiy the lath inst. The Telegraph says: His escape is almost a miracle, and his appear once was greeted with the surprise and satisfac tion as if hd had arisen from the dead. The weath er, it will he recollected, was very cold, the wind nigh, and his boat half full of water most of the time, and thus for forty /lours without food or sleep, and worse than all, he tiays, withotit tobacco, he drifted, until by unwearikqi exertions vith a single oar, he finely reached land. • , • ROMAKCIE: AND RsAmtr.--Tite Trenton Gazette has received a letter from a , printer in Honolulu who went to California,in Col. Stevenson's regiment, in which he remained till the war was over, then took to pbblishing,the Californian, • abandoned that iposiness, wiled for China, was wrecked at Honolu lu, 'was taken to favor by a chief, married his daugh ter and is now one of the first citizensof the village. Ho is perioctly contented with his situation, and is thinking of agltoting the project of the annexation of his Hawaain inajesty's'dominions to the Untied States.—.. Phil. Led:ver. • ' Tim Two P.EDL11111...-A pedlar overtook another of his tribe on the road, and thus accosted 'him: "Halo, friend, what do you carry?" "Rum and whiskey ," was the ,prompt reply.— "Good," said the other, you may go a-head, ?carry - ' grave stones." . News by Telegraph to Buff alo. From Dispatehes to the Matte papers. AWFUL CATASTROPHE-8 WAM BLOWN ITP7 I Ct.tvx.Lattio, Sund y From Mr. 'Vorco, .Clerk, who arrived hero to night, we learn the following particulars of the explosion of the steamer Anthony Wayne: The Wayne left Toledo at 9 o'clock on Satutday morning ivith•atiout 25 passengers, and took some 45 more at Sandusky, leaving there at 10 o'clock. These and the crow made the nntnher on board 90 to 100, About half past 19 this morning, (Sunday) just below Vermillion and eight miles from shore, the starboard boilers exploded, throwing them into a perpen dicular position. tearing away the etoerago cabin and shattering tho hull badly. She sunk in' Moon ritintites, going down bow foremost. • The yawl was launched, and 12 persona reached the shore in it. The life boat half filled ou labliching and leaked badly. But six per 'sonsrgot ashoro' In her after six' hours' 'exertions. Capt. Gore, James Edgecomb, let mate, and Mr. Vorca, Clerk, are saved. 3. Eltnoro,'lst and Edward Ms rcher,,2d en gineer, era bOth lost. Mr: D. A. Eddy, ofClevelatid, was seen after the eXplosion, but whether hO is lost or not is not known. Tlie state room of the Captain, next to the steerage cabin, wit; blown to pieces, but he was unhurt. When the Mayne went down eho- was on fire and the flames were' just bursting out. The cause of the accident , wfiCaimat state. The boilers wore only a icor old and in gOod condition. A fireman who es caped says ho tried the boilers just before the explosion, and there was plenty of water in them. The hurricane deck is supposed to have floated and was thought to be ' aeon from shore this forenoon. Two small vessels wont out froM Vermillion to pick up any survivors. Ono ortho #essols which wont out took off from the twaricant dock somo thirty passongons. Six doad. 0. A. Eddy is safe end he telegraphed from Sandusky. Wo'are infOrmod by Capt. Edmunds. of the St. Louis, that tho boilers wero entirely new last season, and wore built and put in under his suporintoudenco by Wolcott, of potroit. Tho engine is the ono which was used in the steamer Columbus. She exploded off Vermillion. on her:way from Sandusky to this port. Tho "Truo Domocrat" of this city gives the follow ing particulars of the steamer Anthony Wayne which occrred opposito Vermillion, about ono o'clock on Sun day morning: Tho fist mato says the Anthony Way no, came to Santinsky with ton steerage passengers, and twenty in cabin, from Detroit.• She took from tho train 21 passengers, and her crew numbered 20—total 84. About 10 of the crow and 30 passengers who word saved andiiicely to recover. Tho total number of lost and missing is from 35 to 40. The passengers known to bo killed aro as follows: Mathew Falkner, Sheffield, Mass., Willey Robbinsolt, floury McDonough, John Williams, and Harvey Kelh l . Tho Anthony Wayno was, au old boat, not in the regular line with the Buffalo and San dusky steamorsl She was owned by Charles_ Howard, of Detroit; insurance $lO,OOO. The accounts vary to the number on board. Passengers known to be 1 ille4:—Moron Titus, Dayton. 0.; 0. W. Hart, near Perrysburgli, 0., fOrmerly orLow er Sandusky; John Ellis, wife and child, iMt. Hope, Mich.; J. W. Doty, Warsaw', 111. Passengers dangerously 'teoundedt—J. H. Jollin, Chittonddou Co., Vt.; Rob't Shaw, Dayton 0.; Entity (but not dangerously) wounded: —John S. Cray. Louisville, Ky., C. 0. Lawrence, Angelica, N. Y.; A. %V. Gray, Stillwater, N. Y.; o soli of John Ellis, Mt. • Hope, Mich. Sqghtly BradleyeCloveland; Mathew Falk her, Sheffield, Mass.; Henry MeDonal), Trenton. Mich. Mee= of the Crew lost, rix;—J. J. Elmore and E. Burchard, Engineers; Herirf Sturgests, Steward, from Mt. Clemons. Mich.; Franklin Freeman, of Detroit; A. Mead, bar-keeper; Willey Robinson, John William son, and Henry Molloy, corgis; two waiters and Alexan• der Cartwright, dockhand, missing. Missing: —John Brainard and James O'riToll, fireman Whitney Parsons, (Porter,) and Henry Blano, dockhand. New Yuan, April 26 The building adjoining Barnum•s Musoam,'in.Broad• way, and formerly occupied by the Chemical Bank; fell in this morning and buried several persons beneath the ruins. Ono man has siuco boon taken out dead. A por tion of the bonded warebous also fell in this morning and hurried 10 or 12 workman who wero engaged in remo ving the rubbish from the Water street fire. It is-not yet k own how merry harp boon killed. • .WAAMGTOS, April 28 Tho comproiniso committee have agreed upona scheme and instructed their chatrmaa to prepare the bill and re port. , The Brig Boston. from Ilahii on . the 10th ult.. reports Yell ow Fever had been raging terribly .there, swooping otr °amen of vessels in port and'alaves in.great numbers, The government reports make total mortality in the pro vince 8000. Just before the Beaton left a severe thun derstorm occurred after Which the disease began to abate. Several vesssels arrived from Hayti with t I Wee to the 7th ult. Business was improving. The Blacks are pre paring to invade St. Domingo,in .—T May. 4 ru Vannts Emmy:eahe election f meritbre of the State Legislature took place In this State on Thursday, 25th inst., and it is important, from the fact that a Sena tor in Congreeis from that State it to be elected, at' the text soaoion. to supply the viaoe.of tho Hon. Jas. M. Mason. whose term expires on the-4th of March next.— Ike have received but few esturns. Wuzsmite, April 47. It is btliieved that %Vest, Dem., is elected Senator, Ed rington, Whig. The friends of the State Convention for amending the Constitution are attend so far an heard from. • By telegraphic dispatches from Alexandria last evening we learn thvit in Alex mina county. Massey. Whig. was elocteddolegate by a majority of 460 votes. For the Sen ate, Love, Whig. loads Thomas. Whig. 130 votes. Love is probably lelected. The majority in favor of the Con vention is 447. In Fairfax county, there is little doubt that Stuart; Whig, has beaten Williams, dem., by a i t considerabl majority. No doubt the Democrats will have a majority i I both branches' of the Legislature. The Ric mond Times says that the Democrats have so far gained five members of the Legislature and tho Whigs:four. The Legislature will bet Democratic. , At a large town meeting held at Richmond, it was resolved not to send delegates to the NualiVille Conven tion under the present circumstances. Tito Boston P•st otto-day says it is understood that the counsel of D . Webster has taken out a writ of error upon the ground that the ordor upon the idichnent upon the Muncipel Court for certifying the indictment up to the Supreme Court,, was not fully at forth.sin the certi ficate by the Clerk of the Muncipal Court. lixw Yorsx, April 20. We have tildes front California to the 9th ult. Those accounts state that the markets continue dull, goods , of all kinds being in abundance. The rainy ; season had not completely passed over and was preventit th e trans portation of provisions to the mines. Drop` ores were f ti very acearce and minors were suffering severely. The winter had beau severe and extended in remote• placers and it was feared that from thesaverity af,the winter and the scarcity of food that much sickness might ensue among the miners in some sections. The gold humid to be found in greater abundance than ever end that very. heavy qutintities have been/lately..Worked out., The continuance of the rainy season had prevented the gold being brought down to San franclaco for shi_pment ho me or to exchange for the necessaries of life. Bat the mer chants were anticipating better times• as soon as spring had fairly set in. Mr. Webster reached Boston yesterday afternoon, and was addressed by Mr. B.A. Curds, whit welcomed him in an appropriate manner. firr. W. responded in an ad dress of fifteen minutes, in which he denounced the ag itation of thealav;ry question as a ghostly abstraction; and promised on is retorts to the Benete to make his course tree frommisapprebertsio.,t. ills speee4 was warmly received by tin immense multitude of people. Wo call the attention of capitalists and business men to the Advertisement In another column. offering for male at Auction on the sth of Juno nest, somo vuluablo real estate hi this city. To business men it is a rare char.ce, as the property is very eligibly located for morchantilo operations. In fact there is none more so in the city. and as real estate will ungnesttonabliadvance in a short time. those having means had better invest now. Somebody has sent us a copy of ttio Pennsylvanian containing a letter from Harrisburg. conspicuously matt ed, so as to call our attention to it, describing the debate in the Senate on the Forrest divorce case, in which tho Senator from ibis district, Mr. Walker, took a very prom-. Went part. What the object was In sending it to us. we can hardly understand. We re the Pennsylvanian at tentively, and the letter rehired o did not escapo our no tice at the time of its publicati n, hence, if we had seen any thing in it worthy of notic wo should have laid it before our readers. If the per n who sent it happens to see this, and had any special object in view. he will understand we want information. We see it stated in ens of our exchanges that the no - (orients "Buckeye Blacksmith," • of 1840 memory, was recently 'nominated in Sacramento City. California, for a sentjn the Llghdaturo, to fill a vacancy. Of course he was defeated. The waters of the Pacific, nor the great overflow of the Sacramento, could so far wash out tho smell of "hard-cider," as to make him acceptable to the people. Mininar, 9 A. M cLEV.KLAND. April 29 flogroPr, April 27 parmironr. April 27. llosToN, April 29 erit.:Vtlittil ejotroq, ERIE. PA. SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 18t0. A Rare Opportunity. Information Wanted. Still Sticks to Him. Powalra Brio Theatre. Powoll's Erio Theatre opened for the season, at the largo Hall of the Reed House, on Tuesday evening, to a pretty fair House. The company, take it as a whole, is decidedly good, while Mr. and Mrs. Powell for vereatil- ; ity of talent, are seldom, equalled on the boards of our first theatres. r They aro always welcomed with applause whatever part they undertake, and deservedly so, too, we Then there is the good-natured quizical count°. nonce of Toni Morris—he has oily to look at the audience to get them into good humor with themselves, as well "as the rest of mankind." Mr. Brink is a young actor of decided merit, and destined, wo doubt not, to become a vast favorite with our play-goers. Then, again, thorn is our old friend McKibbiu—but it is useless to speak of him, as ho is at all times, to use ono of his own expres sions, "g-o-o-d." Mr. Do Vero, in the Highland Piing, drew down the Houso in a perfect shower of applause. lie has improved much since wo last saw him. Mr. Churchill is a now actor here, and no have not soon him in a part yet of sufficient depth to enoblo us to form an opiuicin of his write. lie will probably have a chance before the season clrs' es. Do also with Mrs. Banker, and Miss Damsel!. An attractive bill is.presented to-night. "The Lady of Lyons," and tho lungliablo vaudeville ofthe "Wandering Minstiel, or Music Mad." Mr. Clay and the "President's Plan." Wo are treato4 almost every week by the Gazette with high-wrought commendations and, when needs be. to defences of the "President', plan" for settling the ques tion of slavery in the territories. It often strikes us. when readin4 those rhtieles. as though We had.some faint re collection of the lame pen being once engaged in de nouncing this same "plan" as a "monstrous usurpation" on tho part of the Executive. But we may ho mistaken, therefore, to decide the question, and ascertain What the "plan" of President Taylor really is, let us call Mr. Clay to the stand. Perhaps his testimony, being a good Whig whose authordoxy never was doubted, will be satisfacto ry to the Gazette. Tito other day,in the Sedate, in re ply to some of the advocates of the "President's plan," ne made use of tho following language: "You say you are satisfied With admitting California, andietting the territories continue under the present mili tory government till they aro ready to come in as States. and yet you call yourselves Whigs. Did YOU not cry out against the military government in Now Mexico nu der Polk; and in time of war? And yet YOU WOULD CONTINUE THAT SAME MILITARY GOVERN MENT. in time of.peace. On what grounds?—:'or what purpose? is this whig doctrine?" Certainly. Mr. Clay—Polk's "military usurpations" in war, over which their presses and orators howled so piti ously, is good orthodox whigery now in time of Profound peace. - Circumstances alter cases—the Democracy,were then in power; the country will; engaged in a foreign war, ,and by the laws of nations and a pressure of circum stances, were cotnpollod to exorcise military jurisdiction over the conquered territories. To embarrass the Prosi- Aent, and "give aid and comfort to tlps enemy." this mil itary government of the territories—this very same "Pres ident's plan" in time of profound peace—was denoun ced from ono end of the country to the other by such Za charito Statesmen as compose the cabinet, as well as every paper in the interest of the whig party. The fact is, Mr. Clay, you aro entirely behind the ago of yourpar -o—you aro getting too old to "wheel about and turn about." as often as tho exigencies of yoUr party demand, and hence you wore assassinated in the house of your friends at Philadelphia. This, too, is the tloason yOtt arol just itow .the object of assault by the' "poweiv that bo," from tho occupant of the -"whits house" doWn through the several grades of employees to the various county organs—like, the Gazette, for instance. This is why your efforts in favor compromise are stigmatizod as "unwise and uncalled for," and the reason they have "no confi dence in its ultimate success." This is wh.y also, these same employees are just now endeavoring to "kill you with,faint praise," knowing well that a manly and open donounciation would rebound and hurt themselves. You cannot stultify yourself and swallow a "military govern ment" in limo of pence, and hence you are no longer the political God theso men worship. Verily, the ways of whigery aro not past qdingout. Cuba, Not California, A company was recently formed in Cincinnati to go to California. It was organized with officers, much after the fashion of a military company, and when they arriv ed at New Orleans, the offiessa coolly told the privates their destination was Cuba instead of California. Upon this &ailment a number of the members withdrew. some of whom returned immediately to Cincinnati and resum es their ordinary decimations, while others went out to California by the first opiptanity. The correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, who furnish these particulars, says "he is:not disposed to turn tygand yet.l i !„and others of his companions felt as he did. FIrMirM?t!r • I I M ' M The Pen nsykaniou, of Monday, publiikes a letter from lion. Morris Longstreth, in which thatgentleman states his determination not , to be again a candidate for the Ga -1 bernatorial chai, of this state. This is a very sensible de termination we think, and one which if it had been arriv ed at about this time in the Spring of 1848. would have saved the Democracy from defeat. and the nation from the speculatibus of the cabinet and the blunders of an Wankel and confessedly ignorant President. Prospects at Washington. Tue correspondent of the New .York Tribune thinks there "is no room to doubt" that the compromise plan of passing the California bill and the bills for organizing the Tetritorice, will pass the Senate, andtbat "in the House its chance of success is as seven to ten." He says "there is no disguising that there is a bad state of feeling here among the whiks, sod which lam appriehensive will re sult in great injury to the cause of freedom .and redound to strengthen The power and Influence of slaveryand lo co`-foceism." A proper bad state of affairs, truly. By "injury to freedom" we presume the writerTheana. that agitation will receive , its depth-blow. sind the Dema gogues who have mode the shivery queition. a belay horse for their ambition, will he, , forced to exclaim with Bhakspear's hero, "Othello's o ccupation's gone!" What is a "Thoroughly Whig" Administration? The qazette Taylor's "Administration has been conciliatory, dignified, patriotic and thoroughly Oil. and it would be Mintage, indeed, if =Mkt*, country-loving whigs—should desert it under such el,- Cumatances." So; it would, passing strange ! But then It appeals they have deserted it—these "pare; zealous, country-loving whigs"—and are doing so daily. The Buffalo Express, than which no whig paper stands higher in this region, asserts that "the annals of our party con tests furnish no instances of change so great,. and reverses so disastrous, in the same period of time, oaths whigs hare experienced since Gen. laylor's accession to the Presiden cy." And this is because the Administration has been so "thoroughly whig" when It promised td he so "thorough. ly" "no Party." Such has always been the result attend, andauch' always will bo the result. But what is a "tho roughly whig" Administration? Let feats answer, and in them see it we cannot discover the reason these "pure. zealous, country-loving whip," have repudiated and de nounced it so emphatically through the\ballot-boz. This "thoroughly whig" Administration has paid to one of its Secretaries $190,000 interest on en old claim, (thdprin cipal having been paid by a previous administration) which had been rejected time and again by the proper officers, both whigs and Democrats. This "thoroughly whig" administration, has also paid another old claim. called the "Do Ia Francis claim" of $40,000, after having been refused by Mr. Polk and his immediatopredoceesor. This "thoroughly whig" administration has paid the old Chickasaw claim, of $lOB,OOO, dismissed by previous ad ministrations, and which the Secretary under whose con. trol it came during the Administration of President Polk, scarcely gave a hearing. A Committee of the House of Representatives has been appointed to investigate this. and similar other charges against Mr. Ewing, viz. The re•opening and payment of a rejected claim of the Ewing family upon the Treasury amounting to $77,000: and the allowance of $31,000 as interest on the claim of Commodore James Barron, of Virginia, for services in the Navy during the Revolutionary War, after the, principal had been paid. Under this "thoroughly whir admin. tration, we find ono Robert E. Horner, Door-keeper of the House of Representatives, has been arraigned before a Committee of the house, charged with having made false certificates' by virtue of.which his brother drew pay mini officer of the House. when it was notorious that he w ) a; absent from Washington. and hold office in another State, the duties ofwhich he was discharging, and et the Sumo time receiving a salary from the United States. This dark catalogue ought to complete the list, but we are compelled, reluctantly, to add "one more of the same sort," which is thus alluded to, in the New York Eecning Feist: Out whig friends so seldom get a shy at the national file, that when an opportunity occurs to them, they scarcely know how to avail themselves of it with any moderation. Though they have carried the keys of the treasury only about a year, they have already not only got the outiide doors unlocked. but have left them standing wide open. One would suppose that the recent humiliation of one member of the Cabinet would have inspired the govern ment with somo caution, if no more virtuous emotions, but the temptation seems to be , too groat either for the prudence or the self-respect of Gen. Taylor's advisers. By the last accounts at appears that the Hon. Bailie Poy ton aforetime District Attorney of Louisiana, under Gen. Harrison, has been infected by the example of Mr. Sec retary Crawford, and has.presented a claim for extra ser vices rendered during his attorneyship, to the amount of e 12.000, and tt tat it has been paid. - We understand that the claim was passed upon and rejected by tho administrations of Presidents Tyler and Polk succoassively. If the government proposes to review all the stale claims which havo'been passed upon by preceding administra tions, it is likely to be fully employed, eren though some member of the Cabinet should happen to befamiliarly con versant with the trits of every case before it is presented. Thus we haveanswered the-question at the bond of our article, "What is' a thoroughly whig Administration?" and thus, too, we have given a little insight into the rea sons why the "pure. zealous. country-loving widget" are deserting it. But comment is unnecessary—the party that has tie long delighted in stigmatizing the Democracy as the "Spoils potty" have been caught iu the act them selves. and must reap the consequences. Treason Most Foul. Treason to the infalibility• of the 'cabinet is showing itself in almost every'quartesi. The pont up thunders are not loud but deep, and 7e long we shall hemstitch a crash as will "%eke up the capers" everywhere. We last week called our reader's attention to-tho tone and temper of some of the most influential of the Now York press, and wo ;don , have to direct their gaze to an ominous sign iu tho political heavens of their State. The following from the "Pennsy/rania Democrat," . a whig paper, publish ed at Uniontown, Fayette county, derives importance from the fact that the paper is the organ and cello of a no less whig personage than Hon. Andrew Stewart, more familarly known as "Tariff-Andy." To our mind it sounds like treason must foul, but we will let it speak for itself. After refining to the rumors of a "blow up" at Washington, the Editor says: .'For our part we hope it may occur. We are not dis posed to question the legal abilities of Mr. Meredith, but he is among rho last mon in Pennsylvania, who, if the whigs had been consulted, would have been selected for his present position. In truth, we believe the people ne ver thought him for that office. His standing with the party had just then been tested in,an uttempt to elect him to the United States' Senate. Ho got, we believe, but four votes. Il e was utterly Unknown to the mass of the people, and he 'had neither sympathy for them nor they fer him. He had engaged but little in politica, studiously and steadily devoting himself to his practice as a lawyer. In all the great struggles fer the vital interests of Penn solitude, he has been a silent if not an indifferent obser ver. He has opposed ne wrong. lie has devoted him:, self to the support or defence of no one . of ts the great issued which has resulted so disastrously for the whigs and peo ple generally of Pennsylvania. Who ever beard of Wil liam M. Meredith addressing a public meeting of the people, in behalf of the' party which he represents in the cabinet? He is as unknown to the people, and if judged by his acts, or non- action. indifferent to their interests , if he did not hold Went in co tempt. If Mr. Meredith had loved hie country or his party, with more zeal than he did his pie'ession ma lawyer, and the pecuniary ad vantages arising from it, we would have had some tangi, blo evidence of it. No party can bo sustained. by the ap pointment of men urknown to it, or wanting its confi eonce. We have little faith in thastatesmanship of mere lawyers. The appointment of Mr. Meredith was a great mistake, growing out of Gen. Taylor's went of know ledge of Pennsylvania politics, and the standing of her public men. In appointing Mr. Meredith ho conferred no favor on Pennsylvania, and acquired neither friends nor favor by it: Any other distinguished whig out of Pennsylvania would have dono more for our peculiar in terests, and given the party more strength here and else where: It was no favor to Pennsylvania to appoint Wm. M. Meredith." CoL Benton: - -- ---- --- , i - The New Bedford Mercury, a Taylor artig paper, eaye: "Mr. Benton is likely lobe sustained in Missouri after all.. The whip have rallied to his support. He wilt pro bably be elected, through their union with the Benton Democrats. In Bt. Louts the Benton party, it seems, is four to one of the anti-Benton.l' Now this, says the Pittsburgh Post, is all slug: ,It is sheer nonsense' for Col. Denton to expo 4 support from the whigs of Missouri. They no doubt will profess any amoytof friendship for him. but time will show that f t is only for the purpose of widening the breach in the Democratic ranks in Missouri. "Divide and conquer" is now and always has boon their motto., What a Profound Statesman. What is profound statesman is Mr. Meredith. the pre sent Secretary. of the Treasury! The Washington cor respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger. say. the Revenue from Customs. for the fiscalyent ending3oth June: 1850. exceeds already the estimates of Mr. Meredith. for the whole year. by more than Italia miliion of dollars. It will probably reach between thirty-six and thirty-eight. perhaps forty million' of dollar,. , This is • not a "famine year;" and the phenomenon must thereforebe explained on a new principle. Er The Erie Observer. in the course of en article up on'elothing, remertri: "So you see my dear hearers, there is something lit &Coat." -We fear 3t will puzzle them to determine its nature in the case of his garment. —Fredorihz Censor. Which proves us very unlike tbeditor of the Censor. Now. nobody will ever mistithe the nature of the some thing Covered by-his coat—the length of his ears is too 'unening tigulde-hoard to allow et a misteke, even by a blind mint, AUDITOR GENERAL. Mr. Editon—The late act of Assembly. among other officers. makes that of Auditor General elective, and con. sequently a part of the duty of the Williamsport conven tion will be to place in nomination a candidate to be sop. ported by the Democracy of the Keysone for that office But a short time will elapse before the meeting of tha• contention, and a still shorter before we shall meet to appoint delegates to it. and we deem it proper to fully con sider this matter, and place in nomination some roan upon whom the Democracy can Unite—one agaimt whom there are, or Can be no prejudices to' lesson the chances of his election. We have looked through the the state, an d among the many who would do beam to tho station discover no one bettor qualified than MURRAY Wusit.ox. - Esq: of this- city, and therefore bog leave to recommend him to the favorable consideration artful Dit mocracy of !his County and of the State. Mr. W. has had rvtich experience -as an •aceonnting officer, and if selected to fill the post of Auditor General of this Conimonwealth, would po doubt perform all the duties appertaining to that station, with fidelity to the State and honor to himself. It is long since this:portion of the State has been represented in any of the Depart- ments at Harrisburg under a Democratic administration. and it is hoped and believed that the claims which are now presented will receive due attention. _ No man could ha selected by the Convention, whose nomination would bo received with more satisfaction by the North - West than Mr. Mallets, and none upon whom the party would so cordially unite. ERIE. Cleveland and Brie Railroad. ' An arrangement bas been made between the Frank lin Canal Company and tho Cleveland, Painaville and Ashtabula Railroad Company, tinder which they will unite their energies and mutually co-operate in the pros. ecution of the work, virtually forming one line from Erie to Cleveland, in pursuance .of which Facozazca Ma- BACH. Eq., Chief Engineer on the Cleveland, Colum• bus and Cincinnati Railroad, and also of the Ohio per. lion of the line ttEleveland, has been appointed Chief Engineer on the portion of the line belonging to the first named company. The high character of Mr. Her bach as an engiaeor,formerly on the eastern roads and latterly on the western, gives assurance of the skilful and energetic prosecution of the work. Thus our city will be the terminus of the great western lines of improvemen't • - also. Mr. Clay and the Northern Agitators. When a political opponent says * "good thing"— something we can heartily approve—we like to give him credit for it. Unlike some whig Editors we wot of. we are not afraid to praise a political opponent because he is our opponent. Now, Mr.. Clay said a good thing in the Senate the other day. and as it echoes our sentiments to a fraction, and as it is not likely to find its way into the Zacharite press hero soon, we will jot it down that all may see, whigsnud Democrats; "Sir." said he, "of all the bitterest enemies toward the unfortunate negro race, there' aro none to compare with these abolitionists, pretended friends of theirs; but who, like-the Siamese twills, con nect themselves with the negro; or like the centaur of old, mount not the back of a horse, but the back of the negro. to ride themselves into power. and in order to dis plara friendship they only feel for themselves, and not for the regro race. No. sir. there ale not worse enemies in the country of the negro race than those Ultra aboli- 4 tionists. To what sort of extremity have they not drivea the Slaveholding l e s i tes in defence of their own rights, and in guarding a inst those excesses to which they have a constant to deneyl" Er The Editor of the Conneautville Courier cannot •conceive that hie motto 'pledged to Truth"' was vi olated last week in the account he gave of the Benton and Foote difficulty. Of course not—we never know one of these, piratical-nrulya/ gentlemen convinced of er ror, though they are often conakted. - The matter, how ever, is not of mdch donsequence; not enough, at least, to warrant Us in prolonging the- poraroverey, especially as we see our friend of the Democrat has republished oar article, and thus sent out the antidote among those the poison was intended to affect. Has He a Soul 1 The Now Orleans Picayune tells of i man who lost h:s pocket-book containing over $ll,OOO. It was found by a boy. who restored it to the owner. who, having satisfied himself that he had recovered all his money. magnani mously thrust his hand into his pocket and drew forth a whole dollar. which he generously bestowed on the as tonished finder. Now, we would be pleased to have some ono acquainted with the subject tell as whether such a man has a soul or not? A most Righteous Charge. In a late charge of the Court in a riot in Northumber land county. his Honor. Judge Anttiony, gave notice that any person, engagingin he common riots at weddings. called "Selling,'" "Calatihumpian Serenadings," dre.. and are brought before him they shall be severely pun ished. This is right, and if a few should be "put through asourse of legal sprouts" for offences of this character, we should hear less of the music. MP "The Editor of the Oametta is respectfully inform ed that," what he calls our "Hocking County (Ohio) Democratic friend," is as much of a "red mouthed" whig as be is himself. So far as our knowledge extends, there never was a "drop of Democratic blood" in the family, end the prospect is fair that there never will be. EIX It is astonishing. says an exchange, how much wisdom can be compressed into three lines; for example, "The most useful sign-painters in the r orld are publish •ers of newspapers—advertise your bnaihess in the papers, if yen would draw custom." Just Like mm. "Observer," the Washing!Ots -correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, says _the Cabinet have refused a cadetship at West koint.to Henry Clay's grand-son, the son of Col. Clay. who fell at Buena Vista. This is just like Gen. Taylcir. A Good Mt. The following is from the Boston Post, andisdecided• ly the best hit of the 8011501111 A NEW PLACER—THE GULP-IN-CLAIM. Gen. Thylor are a ease, And Crawford area easer And Uncle Sam's big pocket' is The best and newest "placer." Veiy Probable. The . Washington correspondenfof the Journal of Com merce. undl.r the date of 24th.states that Gen. Houston quits Mr. Benton. and goes - with Mr. elay for , " uniting bills. He will aid, too, in promoting the adjustment of the Texas question. r Tr The Pittsburgh Mercury, a paper got up to break down thatstannch and reliable democratic sheet; the Post. and to sustain the "protection" and "Bank interests" of certain „Would' be Democrats of Pittsburgh. has died for want of support. It has lived longer than we expected. and accomplished just about as much as we anticipated-- nothing. Peace to its ash& trr Hon. Alexander bolos, Marshall of Western district Of this State, was in • our city this week. and re ceived ear from almost all the "faithful." As the Cen ill be takeik this year, and as he has the appointment the Deputies, his corning , created quite a flattering ranks of the expeettrafs. of all t la - l Tho principle of vote yourself a house, we see is heist anciessfupy carried out in the city of New York, and we see no reason why the same should not. take atl over the countri.r We are impressed with the idea from examining the second annual balance-shect o f the New York American Benefit Building Aszociatiou. We find the association has on mortgage nearly. $10.0..00%, and is doing a capital , safe business. Admission fee le. $25, and,s2 per month. Any one whet wishes, to purchase a house. and become his ovraleadlord,*tabtain the mon ey from the association, and repay it by monthly iasLal mente. U Amoug the acts passed by the egislature of Ohio at its last .session, was one authorizing the city of Cin ciunati to borrow ono million Qf doffing to build and Ira. prove the public docks of that:city.
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