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BAN FRANCISCO:II4y 14, i ! 850.
have - agsin resumed my positieriat Salk reticle
co after an absence of nearly dve:. months, and find
It by nomteans improved in a business point of view,
and very little in any respect, dtiring the Period of
my residence at tho seat of gevernment,
limits of the City, it is true, have been greatly exten
ded: but many, very many, of the thebnildings which
have teed erected, during the period.referred to, are
vacant,- arid stone of them offered for rent at rates
far below the prices demanded for those of a shinier
deettitition on my arrival in California. Nor'has the
recent disastrous fire r of which you will receive:dm'
particulars in the San Fradelsao _papers, increased
either the price of demand frir houses and stores very
materially, though that keluis certainly consumed'
three of the most valitabl4 Weeks in the most. busi
ness port ion of the city, destroying property eitima--
. ted at $5,000,000. It is a remarkable fact, however
that at the date of this letter nearly the entire burnt
district is again covered. with builditte,. many of
them already completed and occupied ' the some
owners or tenants, though only fen days hatie-elaps
ed since the fire* Occurred. . Many of these buildings
are far inferior, and but few of them are equal, to
those destroyed.
For men with cash capitol, and for laborers, Cal
ifornia preients many inducements; but to few others
and t find but few,adventurers were' by any means
satisfied with their prospects. Marry, indeed, are
- returning to the Atlantic Slates, end the steamer
Isthmus, which knees tomorrow ter. Panama, and
which will convey" to you this letter, Lundrstand has
disposed of every ticket.. Yet the popirlation of Cal
ifurnia continues to increase without precedent, and
will probably reach, 00,000 before the close of the
present year.
The southern or San Jouquin Mines appear now
16 be attracting the most attention. The miners, I
am told, are now averaging; in all these di..tricrs
which can be worked, froweight to ten dollars per
- day. This, now that the prices of provisions are
.comparitively low, will of course °film' a better com
pensation to the laboring man than he could obtain
lin the Atlantic States. ,
• The spirit of enterprise is taking many who have
emigrated to Ca'ifornra the Trinity River, and the
newly discovered mince in-that region. Already
have several new cities been laid out, and now com
panies formed to populite and improve them. There
are several vessels now plying regularly between
San'Francisco and the Iknya and rivers in that region,
and a very considerable amount of goods has been
shipped there, and stares established for the sale of
the same. As yet I have heard of no very remark
able discoveries there, though gold is said to be as
abundant as in the more Southern portions of Cali
fornia.
I have on, various occasions, since the commen
cement of the session of the Legislature which has
jest terminated, to the state of our finances in Calf
feuds, and to the action of our law makers in rela
tion thereto. Three hundred thousand dollars in
strip authorized to be issued, at three per cent a
- month. has already been exhausted. without wool,-
ding fully for the immediate demands on the tress-
Airy up to the present time. The consequence is,
that the creditor of the goVernment, now goes un
paid, or when his claim is audited by the comptrol
ler, receives a warrant on the treasury bearing no
Interest and payable whenever the treasury may be
in funds, out of any monies not otherwise appropri
ated. It will probably be several months before
sutficent amount can be realised from taxation to re
deem the scrip issued, and pay tha...current expen
ses of the government. -The sysiem of high salar
ies and exhorbitant taxation, adopted by our legisla
ture, it is already feared, will do much to retard the
%hitherto vapidly increasing pronperity of California.
The City Council, of San Francisco, appear to
be following in this rdspect, in the footsteps of the
State Legislature. Already have they voted to the
new mayor a solnry of $lO,OOO per annum, and to
each of the members of the city councils 86,000 per
annum: As the councils are composed of eight Al
derman and eight Assistant Alderman, it will
be perceived that their salaries, including that
ing that of the .lodges, will mount in the ag
gregate to $106,000 e er 'annum. These proceed
ings of the councils will necessarily'have the effect
still farther to depress, the price of real estatate in
estate in San Francisco, and to enhance the value
of town property in tlie upper district of California.
Now ciqls are spring* up nn the navigable streams
in event portion of - the mining country, and lots sell
far more readily in them than in San Francisco.
.many who were _ merchants heron few months sidl e
having removed thither, erected stores, and made
these new towns and cities the theatres of their op
erations.
Much interest is felt hero in the proceedings of
- Congress. in relation to the admission of California.'
into the Union, and much 'anxiety to learn what haa ,
been the final action, as it is presumSd the question
has ere this been settled. From the tone of some
of tho leading journals in New York and elsewhere
many are under the inpression, that the boundaries
established by our Constitution will be rejected, and 1 1
the line of 3G 30 adopted. Should their apprehensions
prove well aroun led an extra session of the I 'pis
lature may be found necessary; at which also the sub
ject of a perminent State line may be again agitated
and a bill similar in ifs provisions to that rejected
near the close of the late session, passed. It will
be :very difficult to collect from the present limited
population of California; a sufficient amount of' rev
enue to meet the ordinary enpendtturet, of the gov
ernment., so that event to which I have referred—a
brief extni gpeion'—might btkproluctive of real ben
efit to our 'new State.
' I do not think that much dissatisfaction would be
crowd here by the adoption, on the part of Congress
of the line of 36 30 aa.ont boundary, nor do I think
it would operate very injuriously to the interests of
the few southern counties which would, by the adop
tion of that line, be excluded from our present State
organization. It It is probable that immediate meas
ures would be taken to tonform to the wishes of Con
gress in this respect, should such be the determin7
ation of that body. The great majority of our peo
ple, however, are very confident that California will
be admitted Without any change in her preseut con
stitution.
LAW -1N bALIFORNIA.••••A carrcapondent the N.
Y. Commercial write,' as lamas:
"Five Miles from Sonora are the new diggings,
sometitties called the 'American diggings.' . I pee
sed over the ground when only a solitrtt tent was
visible. Three week's afterward, more fifte l en hunt'
dyed miners were colleotedthere, and the tents so
numerous that I found it quite difficult to recognize
the place. An &cattle has -been elected, nod
law and order were in,full operation. It was Sun
day, And two Mexicamovere about to by executed.
They had beeti tried on the previous day, on the char
ge of stealing seven poupds of gold, convicted and
sentenced tohe hung, unless they restored the gold,
in which case they were to be' whipped out of the
camp. When I sti,W the prisoners they were seated
on a log, and two or threemten" standing guard over
them. One of the condemned was an old man, sixty
years or more; he was much excited, continually
protesting his innocence. and uttering the wildest
against his accusers. Ilia companion, a young.man
of thirty years, was quietly' smoking his eigagitn,
and seemingly took notice df what was goinglon
around him.
"The'A'mericans about the camp were discussing
the itpulce of the sentence. They said the eviden
ce was altogether insufficient, being nothing more
than the incoherent expressions of the old Man when
be was. drunk.; Another cause of dissatisfaction
was in the fact that they were tried by only six
jprors. After some conversation, reviewing the
whole trial, the' Americans 'waited on tho alcalde
and demanded a new trial, an 'American trial:'--
'Their demand was targed an strangely that the alcal
4ewasfinced to comply, and within an hour the ac
mind were tried and acquitted, ,on the same evi
_deuce upon which they .they were convicted the
previous dey.. The necessity fur these alcalde trials
sto longer exiiKcourts having been established and
judges elected in all the counties of the state,"
Ho lIIIILR Doscovutiv,.--4 barrel closely headed
and marked se freight, Wes caught in the Ohio, near
ahe mouth of Green river:Jai' Friday upon opening
which the body of a man tuost horribly multilated;
was found within. rho head, arms and legs, had
been put from the body and were in the barrel. An
ftnquesi was held over the remains. and as they Were
onitrelynaked and considerably decayed; they could
not ho Identified, appearances placed the fact that
he had been foully murdered keyond a.doubt, andibe
fury of Inquest returned. a •verdict rincordingly.i4
f`oasrville (10 Journal,
* 6lbnitingSVM4o/6*:
Flow dlCAlibtabulaTatilipti,;;-
rn, Public indignation has seldiiiii,been-excited bra • mn>;e, base,
ore_hase, and cold ,blooded , and murderous attempt
;thin: that Thuradey.last, the 27th inst.,
Planned, and allbut committed by,ltollin Har
mon, • farmer and citizen of Kingsville. • The con
templated victim was the wife 'of Harmon—young;
amiable, industrious, and a wife wedded to him but
tbreo .months • ago. She brought to her felon hue
band a 'handsome property ; and it appears that the
desire, eniiis part to _ hove this to himself—to
rid himself of the cost and cared housekeeping—to
melee money, and to lay out none—to carry out the
one. idea, which it seems possessed him. to the ex
'Mosier& Of all other feelings—that of amassing prop
erty—ilieie-were the motives, and these alone, as
the facts: in eVidence show, which meved him to
plan the murder of his young wife, and far,as jay
in hit'powar to carry his plan into execution:
On Wednesday the 26th, Mrs. Harmon noticed,
a strangeness in the movements cif her husband.- - .
He seemed wraped -tip in thought, and finally he
came round to her—told her he wished he was rid
of her,4—iiid,looked at her fixedly, He afterwards
placed his arm around her waist, and then around
her neck end - elides - tiered to 'coax hei out of doors.
He wee perfectly cool, Ile wished her to go out to
the will—said the bucket had Wien in—that there
Was a white cloth at the bottom. He wished - her to
go out and help him at the well. She finally went
out, and stood on the side of the curb opposite to
him. But he s worked round,—pushed her
and she narrowly escaped being precipitated in.—
She then escaped to the house. An evening of
great anxiety and distress of mind awaited her.—
Her husband was moody and silent. Ho did not go
to bed at his usual hour, and before her hour of go
ing to rest ; butt he hung on and wished her to go
before him. She filially retired. Through the
night ho never slept. Hie got up—went out of doors
and rolled on the grass in the ilior-yard—then went
end rolled on the bed till daylight — but nevfr closed
his eyes. Mrs. Harmon had noone toconsult with;
and the strago conduct of her husband bewildered
her. His violence at the well he explained to be
done in jest, anti he earnestly wished her to go out
there again. She refused. His artifices tneotice
her out, and his tnanneuvers to get his hired man
out of the way, show a cold-blooded perseverence in
his fell purpose, unparulled in to the annels of crime.
This was on Thursday morning., The hired man
was sent to the woods to hunt up the rattle. Mrs.
Harmon was engsged,as far as her feelings allowed
her, in her household work, whets her husband again
wanted her to go out to the well, and on her refueal,
he seized her suddenly -.. carried her out by main
force, in spite of her struggles to escape the death
to which she now felt he had doomed her. To sti
fle her cries lie placed his hand firmly on her mouth,
—his fingers and nails, digging into and holding
on to the upper part'a her face, and lacerating her
eyelids. He had her now at the well; but the death
at niggle nes not mei.: He could not force her over
the curb. Suddenly he kicked away the curb, and
plunged her headlong down the well.—thirty feet !
The water. was about three feet deep. He looked
doWn and saw that Mrs. Harmon was alive. She
had turned' on her descent, and was standing there
with the water to her waist. Ile now - Caned to her,
and wished to draw her .out._ She spoke, —she
feared it was only to throw her in again. H low
ered the well pole, but she could nut hold on to it.
He then went to the barn; and procured the cords
used in tying up the cattle. Mrs. Harmon was . at
last drawn ; her husband had not accom-.
Oohed his purpose, ,and now he was sealant for
her to change her clothes. The hired man arrived
at this juncture, and was told by Harmon that Mrs.
H. had fallen in the well. I
• Ho shortly left and went to his brothers—return
ed, and harnessed his horses—said he was going to
have them shod—then went out with them into the
lots, and finally commended harrowing a piece of
plowed ground. The situation of Mrs. Hnrmop
was dreadful—escaped from the jaws of death—
barely escapeddreadfully bruised—her face bleed
ing—suffering from so dreadful a shock, dreading
worse. She at once formed her resolution, went
out of the house, akd through the , grain; end over
the fences, to Mr. Parker's, at whose door she faint
ed. It was long before she recovered and could tell
what she had suffered, and what she had escaped.—
Mr. Parker went over soon after to Harmon's—
found him cool andliollected, and had some conver
sation Stith hint about the crops.• Mr. Parker allu
del: to the atiident, and Harmon assured him it was
a sad accident. It wets time to act in the metier,
and upon complaint made to 3. C. Thurber, EA., a
warrant was issued, Herron', was arrested, and 'kept
in custody through the night ; but he escaped from
the person in charge, took to the woods, and , was
not retaken till after a long search. He drew simile
on ?Mr. Benson, who first discovered his hiding
place, and threatened to "rip him up." He was se
cured ; his examination has been had befgre,Esq.
Thurber, of Kingsville, and he is committed to the
County Sail, on the charge ofan assault with intent
to kill. Ilia bail was fixed at $BOOO. ' Mrs. linr
mon lies in a precarious state.•at het' father'S house,
in Kingaville.
Awful Tragedy.
BRUTAL MURDRR!--JlK•Lousr. , — About twoo'clock
yesterday afternoon, a most revoking eutirder Ores
perpetrated In a house situated in tho'alley between
Jackson and Ilandcock, and Main arid Market streets
in our city. • •
Our reporter has given us the following facts:-.
It appears that the man, whose 'name is William
Keats, has of late, been much addicted to quarrel
ling and squabbling with his wife. Yesterday after
dinner he became exasperated ag inst her from the
fact of her mending the pantiloo sof a Mho who
was distantly connected to her y marriage. He
thereupon said-to her, ( her mother nd brother-in-law
being in the house,) that he inteneed to go out of
town today, and that she must go nut with him.—
She said she would' willingly . go if he would provide
a conveyance. on which she might remove her furn•
itUre and clothing. _He 'said he did nisi care I ii-=n
for bedding or fornitureand cried out "Will you
go, Gud.d—n yhtt, or not .". At the same time seiz
ing an adze or hatchet, he inflicted four wound. upon
her head and arm, entirely severing the skull, and
cutting the left hand in twain. '
Keats then made a number of blows at his mother
in-laW and children, and failingto kill or strike them
rushed out into the yard where be met the relation
of his wife, who had retired from the room that he
might avoid hearing harsh words. He immediately
,turned and dashed through the yard of his neighbor
on Myket street. 'At the junction of Market and
Jack,on he stopped and said to a man named Sleigh.
ter did not approach him, as he still had the axe in
his hand. The murderer thentontirmed in his flight.
He ran doWn both Washington and Preston streets.
At the font of Preston he cut loose a skiff' and es
coped to the Indiana shore. The officers of police
pu- sued him until nine o'clock, when they returned,
We were informed by them that he, had not been
caught up to that hour. . •
51.—We have since learned front the police
that lOats had secreted himself under the flooring
of Howard's large Ship House in Jeffersonville.—
He was not however discovered: r \ The police are af•
ter him, and expect he Will be caught by !loom--
Louisville bourn. Care. June 25.
The Falling,o Table Rook.
We briefly announced en Valurday the fall:ng of
Table Rack, an the Canada side of Niagara Fails.
It produced quite a sensation in the city, Is the ru
mor was current that sorne'two or three persona were
killed, which proves to be wholly untrue. The
rock, about siz rods in width and twelve in length,
fell about half past one o'clock on Saturday, mak
ing a loud report which. was distinctly heard above
the roar of the cataract. A number of persone Were
on the rock a moment before it fell, but were Warn
ed, by, the breaking away of some rocks underneath,
in time to make their escape. Among them were a
man and a 134, who were engaged in,trinitning a
carriage standing on the rock. They had`barely
time to save themselds, but she carriage went
down with the rock. A gentleman and lady, ac
companied by the guide, had quite a narrow escape
front below. They were passing under the rock at
the time it commenced falling, but wereso fortunate
as to escape without the slightest, injury.—ltteato
Republic.
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077 All the Gambler's in Ban Francisco were
tiortit mob) , the late fire, according to a lettei from
a clergyman in that city to the Newark Attairliaer.
The same writer says, during the tlre,": circa Ind
teams ware hauling (midi at WO a load, and Weenie
instances drawing pay in.advance.' Before night
a from was 'up and ready, powered on thtsbutnt,
diptrict, on the nort h aide of the square !, •
The Democratic Candidate *Canal
In the Lives of the Pdesuitete of the Legislature of
Penntivlvania l ,:pnblished in 1848, we find Otis nn.
See tit 'Mr; Modiste, the Democratio nominee fur
the office et Canal diniatiesi , mer:
••"" William T.-Morison;' whose parent's removed
Not Petersburg. Virginia, end located in Abing
ton township, Montgomery county, iu the year 1801
was born, and now resides, on the farm where his
father first located. He received a-liberal educa
tion, and at.the age ot 21 he engaged ill agriculture,
%filch pursuit he has continued to full.os two the
present time. He has frequently been celled - by bid
f e llow citizens, to 611 various places cif trust and
honor. He bee officiated as Justice of the Peace,
Director of the Public Schools, County Commis
sinner. and. in 1848 ho was elected to the State
Legislature, in which he performed the part of a
faithful and able representative and won the good
opinion,of his fellow members by his correct de
portment.and gentlemanly manners.
Mr. M. was . re•clected to the house in 1849, and
held a seat during the last session. Always at his
post, he never shrunk front responsibility, but met
every question as it came. His votes were Demo-
erotic.'
Mr. Morison, we should suppose to be about 95
years
. of age—is nearly six, feet high, slightly but
compactly built. and erect as au arrow. lie is ac
tive and punctual in the discharge or business :
and in the prime of life, bodily and mental.
The Bathing of the Griffith.
The last Mercer Limiikiry says:—There were
six persona on board,the ill filled vessel from Green
ville in this county—five of whom were drowned,
and but one saved. The names of those who were
drowned are—Edward Tinker and wife, Wm. Clark
and wife, and Mrs. Wheeler, the mother of the two
'females. Theodore Wheeler, a lad of tixieeti r stvem
about a mile and a half, an I landed in safety. Mr.
Tinker and his wife 'sunk soon after leaving the'
boat; Mr. Clark, with his wife, got within a short
distance.of tie shore, when they were lost. Young
Mr. Wheeler remained until the bodies of all five
were , found—the last being that of Mr. Clark. on
ridgy—when he had them interred, and returned
to Greenville on Sabbath evening.
"We undPretand that Mr. Wheeler. the husband
of Mrs. W., and father of Mrs. T. and Mrs. C. and
of the young man, has three sons-in Illinois, and
that these friends were mooing .out these to join
them, leaving, the old man at Greenville to settle
some business when he was,to follow theni. his
feelings may be better imagined than described,
when intelligence reached him of the untimely death
of those who were so near and dear to him."
'TRIAL FOR SRDUCTION.-/ICIIlly Dameges.—A
trial come off recently at Eaton, Ohio, in which ap
peared Michael Keever plaintiff, and Dr. Wm. It.
Winston,,defendant. Tho action was to recover
damages !from the defendant fur debauching plaint
iffe daughter, Harriet Keever. The 'patents of the
young lady had placed her, by the solicitation of the
doctor. under his charge, to be treated for club or
reeled feet. The - young lady was removed to the
residence of the physician for treatment. The pa
tient was operated upon for the lameness, after which
the doctor' went to his patient's room every morning
to wash and dress her feet., In the course of a few
days, white washing • her feet, the defendant made
improper advances to hie patient, but was repulsed
end desisted from further attempts at the time. But
it appears that the defendant afterwards repeated his
advances, and finally, by force and against the will
of Miss Keever, and while she was scarcely able to
turn in her .bed, Accomplished_ hie infamous design,
and sent her forth to•the world a ruined and dishon
ored woman. After this the defendant had frequent
criminal intercourse with the plaintiff's daughter,
and evidence of such connection was produced:—
The young lady is about nineteen years of age,—
From evidence given this wel an aggravated case,
and after argument from counsel and charge from
the court: the jury rotired, but shortly returned,
giving a verdict of $15,000 damages for plaintiff:
Ano - rmta Muansn.—An outrage was perpetrated
on the 18th inst., in Barren county,.Ky. It appears
that the victim, James W. Musttin, had been con
fined to !tis bed for two years, and on the night of
the murder, a man claiming to be an amtaintanceof
the decenited, and who gave his name as Juhn Smith,
came to set up with him. While Mrs. Mustun
was preparing a bed it an adjoining room for the ac
cotnodation of the wretch, he stepped'.-tut at the
back door, got an axe, came in and said—"My
name is John Watson, G—d tl—n you;' and emashe&
in the skull of Mustin, in• two places. with the pole
of thelIXP, and made his escape forthwith.. .About
three weeks previous to the murder, the same man
passed by Mustun's, and had a conversation with
his fady, a short distance from the,houite, and told
her that he knew Mr. Mustun, 40 years ago in Vir
ginia, and would call in about three weeks and see
t.Jlmmy Mnstun." The supposed 'cause of the mur
der is an old grudge of •about 40 years standing.
The murderer accusing Maudlin with having taken
an active part in sending him to penitentiary in
Halifax county, Virginia, for forgery, at which time
threatened the life of the deceased. Mustun had
not seen him from the time of the threat until be
committed the act.
SURGICAL Oeurtsrots---11framarisin.-.-Dr. Coats
of Dewitt performed a surgical operation on Tues.
day, the 11th inst. at Barre Centre, upon Mrs Roy
al 11. Hibbard, removing almost the entire right
brdast. Mrs. H. was mesmerised several days in
succession by 3.- D. Buckland, Eq., of that place,
preparatory to the operation. She was nut inform
ed of the day when it would take place. On the
day ofdhe operation she was mesmerised as usual
'by Mr. B. without any knowledge that the Opera
tion was then to take place. Mrs. Hibbard was en
tirely unconscious during the space of three'hours.
the operation lasting about one lhour, during - Which
time, and while the blood vessels were being taken
up, she seemed to faint or-swoon fur a time, but soon
recovered and remained as before. She arose and
walked to the bed after the operation and lay under
the mesmeric influence fur about
. an ham.; during
which time the organ of tune .being excited, ebe
'sang a verse of the "Grave of Nyashington," with
Mr. Biickland, which she could not have done in a
natural state, for want of familiarity with the piece.
On being awoke she pleasently remarked to hernia
ter who was present."how foolish 1 always
,feel
'when I come out of the mesmeric state," and not
until ortie saw her friends about her was she con
scious of what had token place. On being asked if
she had any knowledge or suffered nny pain during
the operation, she remarked that she "had no kr4l
edge of any thing that had taken place since she
took Ler seat to be mesmarised."[—Otleans Repub
lican.
Dert.onanut Ayr/att.—Yesterday about 9 A. 11 11 . 1
an occurrence took pluck, at the corner of 9191 a
Columbia streets, wh!ell in its effects was most de
plorably strange— A couple named Anthony Put
nam and Catharine Soumeyer had just been mar
ried at the F'fth street Church, bet Ween Smith and
Park. and were returning to her tathee's residence,
and just entering • from the yard, when a duelling
pistol, in the hands of a yming man, about nineteen
years of age, named Richard Overbeck, was dischar
ged at the party. Some
,sixty shot entered the
bride's face, neck end bosom! Some slint peeping
her took effect in the face of Joseph Linenkugel,
Both were much'injured, but the young bride is in
an awful situation; end it was feared she would die.
It was impossible tr extract the shot, as they ware
deeply embedded in the flesh, and too near the jugu
lar vein. Some, it was found, had penetrated near
the brain. The young husband, when our reporter
saw the couple, was wiping the blood from his wife's
wounds, as it oozed out. The wife was in great
agony: a crowd of same three hundred were sten
ding round. The fellow who discharged the • pistol
had fled for Kentucky. Dr. Cooper attended the
unfortunate- people. There were little hopes of the
recovery of the wife. What amid affair....-Cin. Cont.
Jame 26. '
07 . The Hollidaysburg Standard, &radical Dem
ocratic 'paper, states that Mr. JaconCansawact o
who ws.) &apart aspirant for nomination before the
Whig State ponvention, was rejected becaure'ha.
had taken advantage of that exceitent• Whig trees
ore, the Bankrupt. Law. Scildr: Strohin has lame
companions in misery. We should
,not be at all as
tonished to hear next, that the other aspirants were
rejected • because they were in favor of the Wilmot
Proviso.
•Alla, that nica-young man, Mr. Idaottonir, eery
fond of , !'Mind your,seirojalia, -whouid
you such nonsense!" I'Ma 4 had %t fro Ms own lips?
Erie 143telthi oYritruii.
tE. PA
SATURDAY .MORNING. JULY 6. 1850.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
CANAL COMMISSIONER.
WM. T. MORISON, of Montgomery.
AUDITOR:GENERAL.
/EPHRAIM BANKS, of Mifflin.
SURVEYOR.GENERAL.
J. P. BRAWLEY, of Crawford.
117 We are indebted to Gen. Lewis Cass and lion
James Thompson for valuable Congressional favors.
Oarrosnv.—We regret-to announce that J. P. Coen
teas. Dq.. Editor of the Commercial Advertiser. died at
his residence in this city. on Sunday evening lest. alter
somewhat protracted and extremely painful illness. It
is scarcely necesiary to say that this sad event is regret
ted by all. To hit estimable Lady it is en irreparable
bereavement and we tender her the heartfelt sympathy
of the entire community.
Areortan.—Wo neglected to notice last week, that
our respected cotetnporary of the CrizeUe, Jos.' M. Sven
usrr, Esq.. has born appointed - by Gov. 'Johnston.
sociate Judge of this county, vice Judge Brawley, whose
time has expired. It isicarcely necessary to say that
the appointment Man fiCelleut one in every respect. .
HARP6R . B Mactsxmx..—The July number of Harper's
New Monthly Magazine is out. and can be had at Spar.
ford's; State Street. It Is truly an excellent number:
abounding in, articles of the most sterling merit. as those
of a more lively oust. Cull and get a copy before they
are all gone.-
The Fourth in Erie.
Though our citizens got up no very brilliant display to
celebrate the birth -day of the nation's liberty, they all.
so far as wo could observe, enjoyed themselves in their
own peculiar way, quite as well as, if they had made a
more imposing show of "Fourth-of-July" patriotism.—
every thing wont off quietly—there was no great com
motion, and comparatively very little of that curse of all
festive occasions, drunkenness I The boys shot off their
fire-crackers and thew their torpedoes es boys only know
how—the "boys of older growth." after having partaken
of alt excellent dinner at the Reed House, served up by
"mine hosts," Mews. Keith & Barber. at which wit
and wine flowed freely. enlivened the evening and made
"darkness visible" , with a very brilliant display of fire
works The various Sabbath-schools e ach and sever
ally had their celebrations, and we doubt not much to
their spiritual and teritpora! satisfaction. Our German
friends, overflowing with love and reverence for the land
of their adoption, were in no respect behind their native
born neighbors Their two companies made a very im
posing and creditable display. On the whole, re can
safely say we have seen many a worse "Fourth-of-July"
in Erie than Thursday.
"Send None but Good Men."
This is the warning cry of our Democratic exchanges
throughout the State. in reference to the election of mem•
bens of the next Legislature. We reiterate it: Seed none
but goodend true men: Men who can be relied on in ev
ery emergency. Much,depends upon the next Legisla
ture. A United States Senator is to be elected, and
while we proscribe no man. we desire to see one elected
who shell do honor alike to the State, by his comman
ding talents, as well as to the party by his strict adhe
rence to those national principles.upon which the Keys
tone Democracy have planted themselves. We are aware
that iu this contest we have directly no part nor lot—that
so far as the two houses of our State Legislature are con
cerned, the Democracy of Erie County era impotent—
but in the result of the deliberations of these bodies
'in naming the individual who shall represent the State
the Senate of the United. States. the twenty-five hundred
Democratic votes of Erie County, claim to have as deep
an interest as any other twenty,-five hundred Democrats
in the State. We say., then, to our brethren in Demo
cratic counties, send none but good men to the next Leg
it/claret For, it ik alone to men of tried integrity—of
unimpeachable political honesty—of unyielding firmness,
and adherence to the long eeteblished usages of the party,
'that nre can look for !safety. Send none but ouch men
then !—let no political mountebank, who may have
sought our rank for selfish ends, ride into power and
place on the strength of "regular nominations" that
he - May be the first to disregard such nominations when
seated in our legislative halls We won't no toady of
privilegedMotopoly in the Senate of the United States
We want no trimmer to every popular breeze that'
blows front Nord or 'South. We want a National man,
with National instincts, National feelings. and National
principles Give us such an one, or give us none !
We would rather be represented in the Senate by an,out
and-out whig, whose political course is bold, open and
manly, and in accordeuce with duo long established
land-marks of his party. than by an "af-and -al" Demo
octal moped up in the rotten carcass of a full-blown
Demagogue. We repeat, then, let the warning be' ung
from the Delaware to the Lakes,—heed well that your
nominations be good. true. Ind tried men.
. Their Eyes are Beginning to Open, "
The Philadelphians are just beginning to open their
eyes to the results , which will Purely flow from the com
pletion of the New York and Erie road to this eity.,—
The Pennsykanian, in noticing the fact. says that next
summer they may expect to see the N. Y. and Erie road
**entirety completed, with a terminus at An, in our mon
State. This terminus in Pennsylvania will be establish
ed through the control it has obtained of a Pa. charter
from Erie to the State line. Tim result will be that the trade
will be drawn from the Lakes at Erie. and from the nor
thern counties of Pennsylvania, to swell the revenues of
the New York and Erie Railroad, and to enrich the
merchants of our commercial Huth New York city."
This is true. but it is a truth the Philadelphians have
been told time and again. but they would believe it not.
They are beginning to upon their eyes now. but it is too
late. The fruit has been gathered by their more enter
prising and far-seeingneighbor.NVW york. The Penn
sylvanian desires to know how they, can prevent the
trade anti travel from being "drawn from the lake at Erie.
and from the northern counties of Pennsylvania: - to
swell the revenues of tho New York and Erie Road."—
It can't be prevented ; and more. notwithstanding 'the
Central rond ii to be built lo Pittehurgh ell 4 from there
to Cleveland. the New York and Erie' road, with her
terminus at Erie, Will draw from the west almost the en
tire trade and travel the Philadelphians 'vainly imagine
Is to "swell the revenue, of" the Central road. This
is a "fixed fact." which the events of the next three year.
will demonstrate to the satisfaction of every one. We
say again, the Philadelphians have awoke too late in the
day—the harvest has been gathered. and they are not
invited to the feast.
Pittsburgh and Erie Railroad.
We ere pleased to announce that Taos. 3. Noma,
Esq., : of Herter. visited our city this week for the pur.
pose of making arrangements for cotnmenelng the sur
vey of the'Pittsburgh end Erie Railroad. He purposes
t o organize his corps of Engineeta. anal cerement* the
survey neat week. David• Garber. Esq.. is to be his
principal assistant.
I •
A .For4tnitta Escape.
we see• it stated that On Saturday. just five minutes
before the pert of Table Rock fell. T. D. McGee. Esq..
Editor of The Nation. in company with two felon 4 sat
on the verge of the doomed ledge. cud the form en.
demon plucked corn. wild_ flowers. Which he ea a he
Would not now part with , for a chunk of Cali ornia
metal.
Very Probably. .
.. The Trumbull Democrat says Os, •'Qltn who has no
time to rood." Two eeen is dud pieee i leet week. et the,
circus, drewil
The Dentamau and the Statennan.:—A Graphic;
• , Picture..
The felloirlnigrapbic picture of tw”haraeters, whose
lineaments art familiar to every observer of the political
events of the day; Is painted by the Hoo. Dam .0.
KAUSSIAi:r. of Term, In an address 'before , the Literary
Societies of Princeton CiAlege. His subject wes .. .Tile
Present Crisis," cud graphically and faittnolly has he de•
pleted some of the pruniment actors hi the "present cri
sis" in the Sou rte .Who dues not recognize iu theiliuea
memo of the " Demagogue," as drawn by this toaster
hand, the sleek and stealthy Seward, 'who, when lie
sweaty to support the constitution, dues so with a "men
tal " lion" in favor of a " higher authority." There,
too, is the bold and blustering John P. lisle, intent upon
proving that his "sets done for one purpose, were dime
fur another,,"—his brow •• iuseusible to Minnie," Ind his
principles as "inconsistent as Alto weadiercuck." And
who but Clemens, uud Benton, and the factionists of that
int/ are— •
" Laquaeious, lOnd, and turbulent of tongue,
And by nu sli.itue, by , tut respect cotiyulted."
Again, who so well oelineated as Mr Senator 'paltry.
in his fierce onslaught upuu " Father Racine." by this
pen-painter when he saye,,in the hinguage of the pool.
"One eye was Winking, and one leg was Inme,
Spleen to inunklud Ms envious soul taater.ed,
And much be bated all, out us et, tun mad:.
His pen-and-ink portrait of the " Eitatestnen" is also
true to the tile. Look into the Senate I/OW and you will
see men there whose !'souls are absorbed with the love
of their country"—who" know no section, court no fac
tion. and foment no discord." They are "not infallible,"
end therefore they take fur the " guide of their political
conduct," the Constitution. We need not IlikMo these
men: The people know cud honor them! Their names
are written upon every page of the ?resew, and will go
down to the Future closely entwined with those of their
illustrious predecessors. the Fathers of the Coufederation.
The following are the portraits: -
There is one species of the human family, (said ho,)
against whom I cannot neglect to caution you. Fly him
as you would the pestilence; avoid him as you would
cantagion; crush him es you would the adder. Just en
tering, as you are, upon the threshold of life. he will
centioually cross your path. He lives to prey upon the
young. You will find him at the social board, at the
hustings, and in all the walks of private end of public
life. -He has existed from the beginning of the world to
the present day, and unfortunately flourishes most in the
generous soil of our free Republic. He is prefigured by
the subtle serpent, that "produced mates first dieobe
dience, end brought death into the world: and all our
woe." He is represented in Holy Writ, by the reckless
Esau. who sold his birth-right for "potage of lentils."—
His moral and physical determines are graphically deli
neated by; the poet of the Iliad. in the character of Tiler
sltes. toenhom the thong of Ulysses was so appropriate
ly applied,
• Loquacious, loud, and turbulent of tongue,
And by no shame, by no respect controlled;
In scandal busy, in reproaches bold,
Ills figure such as might his soul proclaim,
One eye was 'striking, anu one leg was laine.
Spleen to mankind his envious soul possessed,
And much he hated all, but moat, the best.?
Ho is s hypocrite of thNeepost dye. His deformities
are hidden in a mask. He is the very soul of faction.
and delights to swim in its turbid waters. Like Judas.
he would betray Li Saviour. lie worships no other
deity but self. With the malice prepense of a murderer
ho stirs up strifes and sectional discord. He infuse's' his
deadly poison into social intercourse, and disturbs tho
flow of tho human affections.
•'A monster mixed of intiotroce nod feat,
A dog in forehead, but in heart a deer."-
He would array the poor in mortal combat against the
rich—.the African against the Caucasian. He is insen
sible to shame. inconstant as the weathercock. lie sa
crifices justice. mercy. constitution and country, to catch
the temporary or sectional popular breezes. He pretends
to sacred zeal in behalf of the rights of those• whose fa-,
cur he is courting. -He claims prescience of events and
credit for bringing them about. He endeavors to prove
that hie own acts done for one purpose, were done for
another. that may be popular at the hour. flu, appetite
grows with what it feeds upon. The best men—the
best nations have boon his victims, and yet his voracious
maw is unsatisfied. Like Nero. ho laughs while big
country is burning. Like Satan, lie offers his fol
lowers ..all the kingdoms of the world and the glory
of them." lie administered the deadli 'poison to
the patriot Phocien, and the fatal hemlock to the virtuous
Socrates. Athens fell flout his subtil machinations. He
deatro)od the Amphytrionic League, the GermaMe Con
federation, the seven United Provinces, the old twigs
Confederacy, and still fatally bent upon mischiot, ho now
aims his envenomed shafts against our own, glorious
Union. to which ty,e, era all bound by so many lies of in-
terest and recollection. I need hardly say to You. that
the hideous creature 1 have been describing Is the Dem
agogue. • -
You have looked upon that picture, (continued the
speaker.) now look upon this. Yap have veen,the coun
terfeit presentment. now examine the genuine original.
You .have contemplated with horror the demagogue.
now view with delight the statesman.
"Sec what a gtre Is slated on uta brow,
A combination and a form Indeed •
Where every god does seem tore+ hie seal
To give the world assurance of a Man"—
His whole soul is absorbed with a love of his country.
He knows no sections, courts no factions. foments no
discord, No_practices justice, acts conciliation and ad•
hares rigidly to the constitution. ••Nthil aut 'outfit aut
dicit nut tacit nisi pro patria." Ho treads the path of
duty wherever it leads and takes no step backwards
He ssi)s to the tempter, popularity. "get thee behind me,
Satan." A Como% ho will throw hiniself i n to - the
deadly breach to save his country. A Regulus. he will
not consent to violate a plighted faith, although 'certain
political death stares him in the face. An Aristides, he
sacrifices expediency to justice. interest to principle, and
will do no act, however profitable it may seem, that'wi ll,
tarnish the honest reputation of his country. A Brutus,
ho makes sacrifices on the altar of the public good. He
speaks the whole truth, regardless of consequences to
self. He respects the rights. feelings, and even preju
dices of others. He pretends to no infallibility. He has
no guide of political conduct but the constitution He
has no self-sufficient standard which he chooses to de?
signste conscience; and which he puts above that sacred
instrument. When he swears to support it. he does it
without equivocation, mental reservation or self-evasion
of mind whatsoever. He protects the rights of the few
; against the demands of the many, with as much alocri=
ty as ha dues the rights of •the many from the exactions
of the few. I have thrill finished the description of the
statesman; let me conjure you to sustain him.
Buffalo and State Line Rail Road.
The last Fredonia Censor states that the whole line of
this road is under contract—" frOm Buffalo to Lagrange.
to Asa Wood & Co.. of Butlitim from the latter place
to Fredonia. to Hays & Co.. of Rochester; from this
place to near the line of the town of Ripley, ,to Cook &
McDonald. of St. Catharines. Canada. and from that
point to the Pennsylvania line, to Messrs. Leet & Ely,
for the people of Ripley. who have agreed to construct
the road among themselves. for the purpose of keeping
out the foreign populatioi which usually flocks in to
construct the public works. We Understand the contrac;
tors are to have the work ready for the superstructure by
the first of Janiary
The companies to construct the road from this piece.
were hero last Week. and expressed the determination to
continence the wor» this week, on such places as the
right of way was secured, end wii: ;Pen be at work in
[hie vicinity. The Ripley
. company commenced the
grading last week, and Wood & Co., we learn, heir..
began the work on their part of the line."
DT Wo ere indebted to the lion. Thaddeus Stevens
for a pamphlet copy of Senator Seward's celebrated
speech on the California question. 41s it is printed In the
German language. we . will he codatrained to call upon
our etassio neighbor of the Observer to read it for us.--
Gazette.
We have seen and heard of renegades who denied
that, country—the land that gave them birth—but. in
truth. this is the first instaace that ever came to our
knowledge of a man denying his ntothcr•tongue! We
may forget the accents,of friends and relatives—even the
of a father's voice may fads with the flight or
time—but the soft lullaby that soothed our infant hem.
and the accents of maternal love in imitation of which
we first. learned to lisp tho blessed name of •'Mother.',
elonef fades from memory with the last flicker of 'life's
expiring lamp. We call upon no "classic neighbor" to
read our mother4ongual
117 A letter to the Eris Observer. from Hon. Jamas
Tuomersotr. the present able Member of Congress. from
the EXlltd district. antionnceethet be will not be a can
didate for're-election. Judge TUUMPSON is one of the
strongest san.most rideable representative. in the pres
ent Compass. and We shall regret. with many *there.
blikttneopocmd retirement from public life. at the, end
present term.—Pertipicaniart.
• - .,The Aspect of Affair' at Washthgten.
The present aspect of our political horizon et
Ington any thing but cloudless. While wi
truly good and grew of all parties, such stater
patriots as Cass and Clay, Houston and Websti
and Dickinson, men who look above and bet
petty triumphs of the hour, endeavCring to
fierce war of section against section.—of brothel
brother•—in order to avert the threatened Ong'
glorious Union. fiercely lad bitterly assailer
Demagogues" of the North and the South,
end aided by a corrupt and venal irdministrstiol
it is now evident, desires nothitig so mochas its
grandirement. no matter at What sacntice, we
suppress our doubts as to the result. Will the
gogues triumph or will the Statesmen? We
well, were the question submitted to the peop
their response would be ! The "sober secondr
would prevail, and the Compromise be!ustailieL
unfortunately the people cannot speak rfoetively until it
will be too late, and in the mean time we fear that tletne
agoguitin will have done he work. We write tha l s
gloomy. fur until within a few days we have confideolli
anticipated the passage of-the Senate adjustment, Pot
the delay of bringing it to a final vote, the innumerable,
amendments offered by those who wish to defeat it, ear
the hearty co-opera ioitot the extremists of both meadow,
Davis and Soule being as "thick as two tbieves" with
Seward and Sale, warns us that nothing will be left so.
done to secure its defeat that faction and fanaticism eta
invent. We therefore say to our friends, be not surp l i.
sad if Congress should adjoins without accomplishieg
any thing towards an adjustment:
Is there to be a. "Cleveland & Buffalo Rail
Boadl"
A corroppondont wishes us to tell him whether them
is a pMject on foot to build a contionous railroad from
Cleveland to Buffalo. Ile says he has seen a good deal
lately in the Cleveland papers about the "Cleveland sad
Buffalo Railroad," and although he lives in this comer
of Pennsylvania, through which such a road would hue
to be located, he has heard of no such project being in
contemplation. We are willing to give our correspond.
ent all the information we_ poeseas urn the subject, and
then he con judge for hirnself. In the first place. we
know of no charter or charters under which a connected
line of road can be built from Cleveland to Beek', on
which cars could be run from point to point. There is a
charter for a road from Buffalo to the State Line, and
the work is under contract. From the State Line wet
4tere is uo charter under which the Buffalo and Stets !
Line road can be continued on. even - sj far as this'
place, much less to Cleveland. It is well known that
the Erio and North East road; which, by the by. is tire
thirds done, have entered into an arrangement with ths
Great New York and Erie road to connect with them, to
the exclaims of the Buffalo road to the State Line. The
continuation, then. of the latter road arjor as this place
even, depends upon a contingency. From this west,
the " Franklin Canal Company. authOrked to construct
a railroad to Lake Erie." have, surveyed, located, pot
under contract, and will soon commence a road to the
Ohio line, to connect with the road surveyed from Clorei•
land to our State Line. But as the Ohio portion of this
road is to be built under a charter which keg the gunge
at four feet ten inches, and as,the Erie and North East'
road is to be built with a six runt track, to correspood
with the Npw York and Erie road, and as the Buffalo
and State Lino road, j/' it is seer continued beyond the
Pennsylvania line, will be a four foot eight inch guage,
wo cannot see any possible chance for a connected road
ever being, built farther east than this place. 'Perhaps ,
however, the Cleveland Heraid y from which our corres
pondent
s very probably obtained hie information in regard
to the road ho inqnires about, can furnish the desired
formation. , It ought. at least, or else cense to talk about
•the "Cleveland and Buffalo Railroad."
Professor Webster's Confetaion.
By a dispatch to the Bullish) Courier. which will be
found in another column. it will bo seen that Professor
WeLeer has sent to the Governor and council of Maus
chusetts, by the hands of his clergyman/, a written con
fession of the killing of Dr. Parkman. It is unfortunate
that the storm east should have interrupted the comma
nication before that part of the dispatch containing his
centes.ion was received. We will. however_ nave
very probably be enabled to lay the confession itself be
fore our readers. It is sufficient to know that the l long
mooted question as to the guilt or innocence of Dr. Web
liter. has been solved by himself He is guilty, and the
over-wise gentlemen who so strongly claimed to know
more than his Judge and Jury, and Were more eon•
versant. according to their own story, with the facts of
the case. than almost the entire intelligence of Boston.
will have to bottle up their sympathy for some other
criminal in broadcloth: We are opposed to capital pun
ishment in every-case, but we prefer to see the law re
pealed altogether. or strictly enforced, rather then re
tained for criminals in rap, but not eaforcedlin cases
like the one under consideration.
A Worthy Son of a Noble Sire.
A letter from Indy, in the New York Commercial Ad
er, aser. states that Mr. Cass, our Charge at Rome. on
pitying his congratulatory visit to Pius IX, at the Vati -
can, did not kneel and kiss the Popes slipper. as yrs
done by the other Foreign Ministers. To a remonstrance
from his brother diplomatists against this breach of eti•
quette, he replied, that as a representative of a republi
can government, he could not kneel to any monarch on
earth; and as a Protestant he certainly could not peg°,
such an act of homage to the Papacy. This is becom
ing the dignity of our Floridan Ministers. Such cringl
ing servility as he refused to sitbmit to may do for thil
lick-spittles of a monarchy. but will never do for an
American Democrat. It is repugnant to his nature and
at war with his edircation.
Congressional Contention. /
The delegates to the Congressional Conferees Con
vention. for this county. will bear in tnind 7 that the third
Wednesday of August. the 21st, was fixed by resolution
of the lest convention, as the day for the meeting this
year at Warren.
fig' We regret to learn by a gentleman just,rstarasd
trout California, that Mr. S/1713 C. Einows. eldest son of
Major H. L. Brown, of this city. who went to California
with the first company from this city. was lying danger
ously ill at Auburn, some fortY miles above Sacrament*
City. His illness we understand is Consumption. and
there is little hope that he will ever teach hie twigs and
friends.
UT We have one or two arrivals from Europe sine
our lest, but tho new. brought i. neither irripormat BOP
i nTlV , intertetine: We have; therefore, deemed it us.•
low te 'timber ;Tour column* with the details.
The Gaiphin Claim.
A - Washington = dorrespoodeurof the N. Y. Tribune
states that Mr. Brooks member of Congress from the
City of New York. has received - from Georgia a large
number of letters in regard to the Galpltin Claim. with
certified copies of certain papery from the archives of
that State. which it is sold will place the justice of the
original claim in a still more objectionable light before
the public than it has, yet assumed. Will our neighbor.
the Galphin Gitzefte. ".put this in its pipe and smoke it.
There is evidently a "good time coming" among the
Cabinet speculators la interest on claims for work dole
to Noah's ark.
TT The Doylestown ladepoufaut Democrat annonn•
ces that JOSIIVA Du.aam. of Bucki county, the nnti•waf
Whig candidate for Canal .Comniissioner. was a noisy
opponent of the war. the verysin for which Mr. 871101111
was denied the nomination. This is something hito-Vo"
log out for wool and coming home shorn.
Q? It le rumored that Major Hobble. Fest Aosistant
Postmaster General. and twenty•thrie ;clerks in the
,F'oat•ofhce Department, will be remised during the pre•
sent mouth. The - Major hu had a long term of pails
•employment. add' Would sot object to being nmeMPid.
espeolally.bT this atttl•protctiptit'e admidietragett.