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Arrival or the Steamert
Fleet, Blockading Lisbon—Death Of Sir Robert
Poel—Louis Phillip Dying, &o.
ll.wrAx, Thusd ay, l l
uly 16, 1850.
The America has arrived. , Cap. Shannon re
ports head winds the whole passage. The A. ar
rived MY the harbor last night, but was detained by
a dense (og. SW arrived at Lierrinol on Sunday
noon, and sailed on her returmat :3 IN M.
again Drfeeard.— . —ln the
House of Lords, on nonday night, the Ministry suf
fered another defeat; by a majority of twenty-two
on the rich Franchise bill. The proposal of Gov
ernment was that ttM franchise should be regulated
by an £8 qualification, and Lord Stanley proposed
an amendment that the qualification be £l5 instead.
The amendment being carried, and the principle
of the MI destrqyed, Government have since with
drawn it. They have °also withdrawn the Lord
Lieutenancy of Ireland hill, the Mercantile Marine
bill, an I the amen led Elcumberedl E•tate
They have announced their determination to stick to
the budget, acrd if need be, appeal tollic country up
.en it.
Therelis.an increase of £161,t04 on this vet;-'s
reventds, as compared with last yPar's. The in
crease is the declared valtio,of exports, as compared
:with. June of last year, is Xe,604,623, being 'a larger
increase than on any former occur-ion.. This im
provement is distributed with remarkable uniformity
throughout all departments of buitiess. Ilnlf of
the amount being independent of Manufactures of
Cotton or Wool.'
DstArn OF SIR ROBERT Speculation in
rife in England as to the probable effect the death of
Sir Robert Peel will have on the posit ion of parties,
The general belief appears to be that the event will
rather strengthen than weaken the holds of the pres
ent Ministry. The death of Mr.- Brown, M. P. for
Mayor, was ulso announced.
The sudden and t talent death of I S:r Robert Peel
caused a great sensation in England and Prance.—
The English papers are filled, alinOst to the exclu
sion of every thing else, with extended notices of
the life and character of the late Premier, and with
speculations to the ell'eit his death will have upon
the politics of his c.nantrY. The particulars of his
death are thus stated:
On Saturday evening, Sane 21, While proceeding
from his residence in Whitehall up Constitution
fill!, his horse suddenly shied at sothething passing,
kicked up his heels and threw Sir Robert over his
head on his face. Although rendered insensible by
the fall, Sir Robert relained hold o f the reins, and
the animal being thus checked, 1(18 his footing and
fell heavily upon the top of the Bar onet.
Several gentlemen pn.sit.g rendered the necessary
nssistance, and the cx Premier v.as placed in a car—
tinge, and removed to his h‘ouse ii Whitehall in a
state of insensibility. All the medical talent of
London was soon at his disposal. 'l"l'heir united ef
forts were unavailing. After lingering till II o'..
(deck on Tuesday night, the great titatesman expir
ed, in the 63.1 year of his age.
In reply to nn offer by Lord John Russell, in the
name of her Mr.j.i.stpatid of the nation, of a public
funeral. the fitEnilv declined the hon or,' inasmuch as
it was Sir Riterf's Inilt wish that he. should be hur
ried in Drayton Abbey, with as little parade as pos
sible,.
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TRIiATMENT OF SMITH 0113HIENT:rile at lent ion
of Governimmt has been called tit the treatment
hieh Smith O'Brien has ri . cei% °JIM Brice Is'and,
but nithout eliciting any thing satisfactory from
them. Large public meetings have been held in
Dublin, Limerick and other cities, tit which the con
duct of, Government hat been denoUnced by! men of
all,r,,hadet, of political opinion. At the Dublin meet
ing a letter from Mr. O'Brien to M Butt,,•2lteeti's
Counsel, was received, confirming rill that ha I been
reported about lie cruelty to cc I nc lie was subjected.
Fit txci.—/tlow is 1.5 e Assesid4 .—Nothing. of
special importance from France. Thurslay's pro
ceedings in the Assetr.bly were interrupted by a vi
olent scene between two members in the lobby,
The Police hatl to interpose;
'President Depin has been re-elected in the As
winlily by a large vote.
0 t learning the melancholy intelligence of the
death of Sir It. Peel, business was partially sus
pended, and M. (InizA (1(.1 , other distinguished
Frenchmen left Paris to attend the 'funeral.
Louis Phillippe is said to be dying of cancer in
the stomaith, and his relations Atate that his life can
scarcely last it month. longer.
ftnrumr..oo Ilus.st t Ltnettivr: Ilia Faticit Am
ts)Attea.—LetteFs from Naples of the 1134 state
that the English seem to bate ab l andoned the idea
•of appearing at Naples. The EMperor of Russia
has signified to the Pre'sident of the Republic that
the presence of M. de Pressigny at St. PeterAtArg
will be ally thing bat agreeable. mistiott i of
this gentleman ti the Itussian Court therefore falls
to the gromil. This sort of deck:l l ll6ml is humbly
Submitted to.
P ORTUO A L.— War win the U . lii 1,-1 .;!.: la les .---Wo
hate - dates from Lisbon to the 9011 ult. Great ex
citement prevails there, in consewience of the irri.
vid of an American Squadron in the Tagns, to en
force the claim of £70,000. Twenty-one days were
allowed by the American Commander fora final re
ply.
Pears were entowaineil of refusal. The Portpy
gees G rvernment hate determined to resist the dU
i
(nand I) ion them.
Inlrelation' to the (I.liied!ty between the United
States and Portnga I, the 'corre-pendent of the Times
says that pret Mos to
. the arrival of Con. Morgan
with the Independence and Misbissippl, Mr. Clay
hail been pressing hie claims against Portugal and
refusing ell proposals for arbitration inn manner in- I
(Heating the possession of ample power and instruc
tions from the Department of state at WaAill g ion.
It was/ilso seated that Mr. Clayton had shown an
equal disinclination to treilt with Henry Thslwer, or
to hear an explanation of facts relating to seine of
the claims arising- from the destruction of the Amer-
Intl cruiser, "General Arudrong," in the port of
Faye', by a British force in 181.1, - kitbserpient to the
arrival of the. Mississippi. Mr. ' Clay callel upon
the Minister of Poreiga Afriirs;lanil verbally inti
mated that be ihould only give the Government
twenty•fotir hours for a lirnl resuletion upon tlie
different claims. Ha appears tb have refused to
give his ultimatum in writing, bet to have left it to
be inferred that he expected tho proposal of a round
bum fur the whole claitne. Mr. Clay assumed a
eery decisive tone, which had the effect of alarming
the Government; but I believe they camp to the res
olution of Count Jojai's addres s ing a note to Mr.
Clay to the effect that no ultimatum of twenty-four
hours could be submitted to the Council of Minis
ters unless he presented it in writing.
MI:LANCUOLY SUICIDR. Cota last Sunday evening,
a young lady residing in C viligTon, by the name of
Kean, committed suicide by throwing herself in the
Ohio river, near the landing of the ferry -boat.
Miss Kean was a daughter of a gentleman in Cov
ington, and is represented as a verry arni.,blc and
accomplished young lady. The causes which led
to this sad act are said to be the following: Miss K.
recieved and encouraged the address of a gentleman,
whom her father disliked, and whose visits to' the
house he had forbidden. :Sunday evening the yoting
man came to the house, and invited Miss K. to take
a walk with him; when she was about starting her
father told her that if slm did not return by a cer
tain hour, the doors oahe hourM would 'bo closed
upon heri, and he would not open them. Miss K.
started,: and remained away over the time, and when
she returned, the doors" were closed, and nu one
would admit her. Sie immediately started to the
river, and slirew herself into' the waters, which
closed over her fait form. The account of this
melancholy occurrence we give, as it was told us.
The tuoly'of Miss K. was recovered yesterday mot.-
Xonpariel.
EXPLOSIO I OF Tiitt GKs Worts.—At halfpast 2 P.
hi., on explosion took place in the south-we:A Of the
Cats\ Works, which unroofed the building and thread
tiro, coal, gas, boiler?; brick, and \cork:nee in-a fear
ful heap. Three of the.lattee were injured and one
so seriously that nt this itiliting, 3 P. ?d.," his life is
despaired of. li!P narno WAS '4L'iITON, purifier and
head man at the wo.'its. lie was found after the
explosion, head downwards itr a pile of hot trick,
with nothing but his legs in sight., He was black
ened and bruised from trod to, foot; ltin lungs were
found to be inflated 'with the lies.
There arp two inontha supply of gas in tho Res
ervoir, and the woita will he in operation again in
u few week.t.
P. S. Since the tilmve Wll4 in type, we learn that
1411:11.1': i 4 Ind . rhfindrater 1714'
.
Major Case, Ainetioan Charge ,at liome—Col.
Webb?-An Incident.
-The N. Y. Courier and Enquliir, - °Monday last,
contains an extract Of a letter from Col Webb,dated
Rotne; s teno IGth, in which ,the conduct of our
Charge at Rome ls epoken of in the following com
plimentary terms: -
If is Route of the Nineteenth Century, and yet
events are ofd ily occurrence here, which vividly
remind you of Rome of the Twelfth Century.—
Take the following facts as an illustration: •
An Englishman of very ecceptric character, has
resided several years at Rome, in the Rossi Palace,
near the Vatican. lie is fur advanced in life, and
it is the general, opinion 'that he is deranged. Cer
tainly his conduct warrants this belief. A few years
ago he married a young Italian lady, of princely
rank Since their marriage, her - life is represented
to have been one 'scene of misery. owing to the
treatment she has experienced feom her husband.
--
A week or two since. upon some pretext or ether,
he induced her to accompany him into the subter
ranean dungeons beneath the Palace, and immured
her in one of ;ire dark, loathsome cells. For nearly
two den's and nights she remained in that horrible
nlace alone, in complete darkness, exposed to the
disgusting and noxious reptiles that infest inoillder
ing ruins. The fbrvants of the Palace, after a dili
gent search, at length discovered the place of her
confinement, and immediately concerted measures
for her release. The British Government, as you
•are aware, has no diplomatic relations with the Ho
ly See Americans an I Englishmen are very often
indiscriminately confounded by the lower classes of
Rome, and under the impression that Mej..Cass was
the English Minister, two of the servants of the
Palace Sossi, repaired to his residence and implored
assistance for the liberation of their' mirress—
whom they believed to be at the point of death. It
was impossible, of course, to- resist such an appeal,
and Maj. Cass very properly gave immediate infor
mation of the circumstances to( the 'Police authori
ties. In less than half an hour, the lady, I under
stand, was borne from the dungeon in a state of in
sensibility. A few days afterwards her husband
had her conveyed to an obscure Onvent, accusing
her of an intention to elope with three different in
dividuals, of whom Mej. Cass, fu whom she is a
stranger, was named as one. As'. soon as this fact
came to the knowledge of the ecclesiastical author
ities, an investigation was cotnmeuced, ati, the in
stance of the Austrian Ambassador, 'which; resulted
in her immediate liberation. Iler husband hag left
Rome, denouncing vengeance against the , Govern
men', Major Cass, and all wh i have rendere , l assist
ance to .his wife. She; I understand, has gone to
Naples.
You cannot have forgotten, that when Major Cass
was nominated to his mission, several , democratic
Senators Senators, cpposed to his father, sought to
reject him through - the aid of whig votes, and that
I was active in defeating their design., buth through
personal solicitation, aad the Annine of the Courier
and Eiiqeirer. In the first ,place, it did not
become the whig party to lend itself to a faction
of their opponents, and thwarts the Executive in
the selection of his diplomatic agent. And sec
ondly, I knew Major Cites to be well qualified
for the station. Ile had served with credit in
Mexico, and it would hove been unjust to visit
upon him the political sins of party. The cen
sure which my'coeduct eallei forth from a portion
of the whig party, was unheeded, us it has ever been
my practice to fellow the dictates of my own•jedge
ment iestend of mere party expediency, when no
great principle was) abandoned is se doing. It is,
however, exceedingly gratifying at this time, to feel
assured that in pursuing the course I did, 1 render
ed good service to my country, and in on.; sense, to
the a med. li is due to Major Cass, to say, that in
no Court in Europe, is-our country more faithfully
represen•ed than et this; an it is matter of history at
, all the Courts of Eerose, and Pope h as eau; e s
it to he made matter of rceurd here, that • to Major
Cass, the America:, Charge t 1 Amir€ , , the civilized
world is iudehted for the presevaion of St. Peter's
nwd others of the monuments or Imperial Rome, from
threatened destruction by a reckless and infuriated'
mob. Major Cass reached hero after the flight of the
Pope and cis Court. Ile was subsequently, the only
reyresentive of a•forsig,n Government in Rome, at a'
period when several of the - genders of the Revolution,
, finding that further resistance, to the French was
impracticable; resal%e Ito destroy the monuments - of
Rome, and leave foi their ounquerers hitt a barren
victory. Major Ca'ss was aroused from his bed at
two o'clock one night, and informed that several of
the leaders, then in conclave, ha I just given orders
to undermine and . blow op St. Peter's, the proudest
monument of human skill the world has ever seen.
I Without loss of time, he presented himself before,
the assembled vandals, and by zppeuls remonstrancea
and threats, in the name of his country and in be
half of the civilized world, he compelled them to
abandon their fiendish parries , .
Comment is nnneesary. This one act, this noble
achieve me nd, is alik'! honorable to imself and to our
country; 'and most sincerely ill I rej i cc that our
country was represented here by a gentleman, who
posseesed nut only the will, but the firmness and en
ergy which gave him the poweci-to accomplish this
great good to mankind.
ills services have been duly, appreciated by the
Pope, and at his requestjor the first time in the his
tory of It nne, Protestant wurship is now ',outline I
in the sternal cite. ,
merle/al
A Ntiw SLTrLuattn-r.—.ln enterg c.tm,lan;
of Yankees have purclused Vid,O.e.rits of wild
land, on the,Kanawha, in Western Virgi•la, which
it is their intention to settle with non fr.un New
.Englund. •
The land c at the n fifty cents par acre—it is well
timbered—much of w hich is.valuable. The compa
r.:, in , end immediately itnproving the river by slack
water, making. it nactigab'e ns fur up as th e lands
extend, %%I'M!' will open ti safe and cheap channel
of communication to the OhM. Saw mills will be
at once erected, and such of the timber as is suita
ble for lumber will be brought inta market, and the
refuse cut up into cord wood for the Cii:cinnati and
other markets. Seine forty hale and hearty jive
Yankees. whose experience in the lumber business,
and all that pertains to it, has been acbnired in one
of the greatest lomper regions in the Union, have
already gone to the settlement.
Mumma, JEALOUSY AND RENEMIL...4i. is seldom
we are called upon to chronicle a more brutal mur
der than that which occurred on the night of Thurs
day, in the northern part of thd.city, near Hyde
Park. A woman named Mary Crosby, the trOther
of three helpless children. was murdered by a man
named Jas. Gallagher, under the following circum
stances: It appears. that immediately after the death
of Mary's husband, some six months ago, Gallagh
er' was received at the honsti as a friend, but recent
ly made overtures of love and promises of marriage
which were always repulsed, and in consequence he
we s forbid the house. Subsequently a more affable
person gained the good graces of Mary, and Sunday
nex t was set as the nuptial day; this earning to the
knowledgeof Gallagher, on - Thursday evening, he
prozeeded to the house of Mary, where he was first
friendly received, nal after a short tt inversation, he
produced a bottle and proposed to drink, which was
accepted by the woman. It is supposed the liquor
was dragged, inasmuch as Mary became stupid after
partaking of but a small quantity. Yesterday morn
ing Mary was found a corms in her room, having
been clinked to death, sad her ierson bearing the
marks of other viulenco--and by her side 'was her
brutal murderer, in a state of beastly intoxication.
Gallagher was taken into custody, and the witnesses
against him will be sent before the Grand Jury now
iu SOSSiOII.—Sf. Louis Republican.
A LARGE ROBBERY.—A young gentlemen (Amos
Zvcitrs) of Philadelphia, while in the Park yester
day listening to the Oration, had his pantaloons'
pocket cut, and his pocket-biok, containing $1,205,
taken therefrom. He held hia hand, as supposed,
over his pocket, but the incision and abstraction
were made below the hand. Among the bills were
$BOO of Philadelphia bnirks, , two $5O bills—moron
an - Albany Bank; also, thirteen $lO gold pieces.
The police were instantly informed of the robbery,
but nothing has yet been traced.--[Albany State
Ategister.
, Cattronrui Corrorr.-=:We 'have been favored,
ertys the N. 0. Picayune, with a sample of Cotton
grown in Upper California, which ii a great curi
osity. The Cotten ds of.e,very long staple, and of
excelent quality; the bolls are large, and the Cotton
of a fine
- color. We had no idea that such Cotton
could be.grown in California, and it only serves to
show that that enntry posseeses a variety of riches
in her buil.,
Ganeral Taylois CabiAet,
Prom the PentisiAvanlitii.,
Never, in our.hl4ory, has ti natleisal Cabinet re-,
tired, not only. With such an-utter-leek of sympathy
aod-respecti.but which such- - nalet' f blit stern condem
nation, if not indigtiant feeling, as the last , ,one.-..
Wo say this, not in the spirit of piety, because who
ever may succeed, they will be - Whigs, but there are
shades of difference between them, as there are be
tween elevation and mediocrity, daylight and dark.
noes, Contrasting this Cabinet, with their prat".
censors, whatever may have been the Par"! i.t power, I
it is impossible to disguise or coneeat the fact, that
the nation has felt itself disgraced by their deeds,
of commission or °Mission, raid their general policy.
The details are too rent for racapitation at the
present time. But a glance - will not be out of place.
Gen. T:ar.on, a brave old soldier and honpst-hearted
Man, but utterly inexperienced in public efl'aire, and
,unacquainted with public men, was, by an impulse,
called to the Executive chair. .His first selection
of a Cabinet was dissaypointed by-non -acceptance.
Ile then selected, with an exception of two, politi
cal tyros and experiinentalists. The good General
confessed his want of administrative qualities, and
placed, confidingly, his Presidential reputation, and
the interests °ram country in their 'Safekeeping', ac
cording ,to the respective department of each. lint
they politically betrayed him, partly from ignorance
and the want of the high attributes of real] butes
men, and partly from design, and made him, (how
shall we use the mildest term of expression?)--,the
regret of the people at large, who loved him person- -
ally for his military services, and the purity of his
heart, but oho could not help-seeing, that his fame
and reputation, as a President, was given as a prey
to spoilers. They constituted themselves, as soon
as he was warm in his seat, into a Rnonxer, so odi
ous to the American people. They made him, eith
er unknowingly to himself,or by dint of 'specious re
presentations of political necessity, violate the plom
ises he had made in the face of the nation—thus cast
ing personal obloquy upon thou lands of honest and
pure men; cooling his friends and beating his politi
cal enemies_. They have blundered in our foreign
relations, being either to, soon, or too late, with
petulance and without dignity of manner: and
finally suriendering the substance, which has
enabled an English plenipotentiary to stigmatize
us as a "teed: Government," t h us affording a reaso
for foreign insult, which applied to the adin-iniat,-
tion, might have been correct, but to the people, eAd
their representative 4, was absurdly wrong. They
adopted - a crude and antiquated theory 'on tie. doc
trine, which involves the finances, protection of h om e
industry and revenue and the general domestic poli
cy, which the experienee of the day, hr a caused to
sink below even the dignity of nutiee our national
cutincils. Their ability to get al erg with the ways
and means, have been the resul, of the system of
their predecessors, which•the; would havedestroyed.
They have been extravigs . 1 1. in ge n e r al wa nt i n g
in order as to details. Che Post Office Department
has been made a gullr.one office, and that of the In
terior, a retricacy P.; pensionists. Contrary to law,
and the delicacy tot conductmeut which shotild be
long to the Cabine a officer, t'tey have permitted hint
to pocket ney fro nMe public puree, the direct par
ticipants expr Jsbly guilty, and the indirect permitting
officers, cm- eicted of gross negligence. We need
hardly sty, we refer to' the GsLreity frauls,,ei id
genus omne, in regard do which some pregnant corn
11.ar;sons of facts, in the reigns of diverse of the mon
archies of England, might be made; hut Which
were then nial, being according to custom, but not
suited to our times or:institutions.' But, worst of
all, they have displayed no unity, no comprehensive
pion to reccommend to their President, upon the ab
.sorbing question of slaver?, so :as to enable him to
take the initiative, and present a platform of, com
promise and settlement, the usual effect of which
would have been to have q tiatel the land. They
have truckled:to circumstances and expedients, with
out a polar star or guide. If, then, their dismissal
shall ba ordered. this Cabinet will retire from office
as an unit.
turn, l un!ilulra I an I unsung."
A Habra an-salwitii ai As,twapt to
son Es Wife
There has been an examination going on at the
police office for 'several days past, which has resul
ted in the commitment of the party charged with at
tempting to poison his wife. His name is Win.
Van Gosbeck, aged some 30, years. On Sunday
the 7th, inst., the family had some strawberries for
tea. While setting at the tea table, Gosbeck men
tioned about his going to Kingston; mado up his
mind to go; and Mrs. G., at his request. left for
another room to get hint some collars. She was
absent not over five minutes, and says while absent
she heard the rattling of paper which proceeded from
the dining room. Having, obtained the collars, she
returned, awl found herhusband standing by the tea
tab'e knifing the strawberies in a preserve dish with
a spoon, the dish sitting by her plate on the table.—
When she left the table her dsih of strawberies - was
empty, but the prisoner hal re-filled it. The man
tisr of her hushan I after she returned to the room,
Mrs. G., describes as very singular, and shrs took a
seat away from the table. Ho said that ho,
go to Kingston that night; left the house; returned
an I said that he had lost the boat. It seems G., did
leave that night, an! Mrs. 0., afterwards examined`
the strawberries, and observed they presented an ap•
pearance q rite uwisual, 'rimy were afterwards shoWn
to some n:lghbor nho detected a powder in the hot
ton-1 of the dish.—Dr. Ilyran was called on Monday,
an I was satisfied was someNtig wrong; and on his
ads ice, the dish and its contents were taken to Prof.
Green, of the Itaneselnear Institute, ohs made a
chemical analysis of the same. Prof G., testified
that there was powder perceptible in some parts of
the dish; and that on testing it, it prove! to be red
precipitate—a very violent poison—and the quantity
was quito sufficient to cause death.
Gosbeck went from thiecity to Kingston, where his
brother-in-law resides, who charged him with the
crime and finally succeeded in drawing a confession
from him that he intended to. poison his wife and
child and then make way with himself. His excuse
was that he had signed a 81000 note for a friend
and was obliged to pay it, and was tired of living.
There is a rumor however, which imputes his mo
tives to an entirely different cause.
Van Gosbeck is said to have been an industrious
economical man, and his wife, is said to be an intel
ligent, interesting woman. They had always lived
happily together. The examination resulted in the
commintment of Van Gosbeck.—[Troy Daily Post.
So we Go.—The American Mechanic (Pough
keepsie) justly remarks:—A man growls at paying
a shilling for a loaf of bread, thinking he ought to
get it for eleven pence, and the same evening takes
his family to witness the feats of a magician, for the
purposeof being humbugged and willingly-pays a dol
lars fort he privilege! Another is too poor to pay adol
lar fur a newspaper, but can spend two shillings at
the tavern every night, and nut miss it. Another
is too poor to pay a few dollars, but can attend all con
certs and negro performances tint ctime along. An
Other wants a mechanic to work.for nine nni six
pence, when he demands ten shillings, anl watches
him to see that he lob faithfully, and the next day
hires a horse and wagon, at the expense of two dol
lars, to travel ten. miles to see a horse rase. An
other "beats down" an old woman a ' penny on a
bunch a radishes,' and before getting home spends
two shillings in treating his friends.
Tun OLDEST REPUBLIC cox EA RTIL—Tho Ameri
can Quitterly Review contans a letter from G. W.
Irving, giving a sketch of his visit to San Martins,
a small Republic in [telly, between the Appenines,
the Po, and Adriatic. The Territory of this State,
is only forty miles in circumference, and;its-popula
thin about 70,000. The Republic was founded more'
than 1.100 years_ ago, on moral principles, industry
and equality, and has preserved its libierty and inde
pendence amidst all the wars and discords which
havelaged around it. Bonaparte respected it, and
sent n embassy to express his sentimen:e of friend
ship and farternity. It is governed by a Captain Re
gent chosen every six months by the representatives
of the people, (sixty-six in number,) who are chosen
every six mouths by the people. The taxes are light,
the harm houses are neat, the fields well cultivated
anion all sides are seen comfort and peace, the hap
pyeffeCt of morality, simplicity, liberty and justice.
Plum Tur. MURDIMItIt.....TWO petitions were
presented for a respite in Pearson's case, to the
Massachusetts Council, on Tuesday last, .upon the
ground "that4e is not prepared to die." Two rever
end gentlemen who had visited him in prison gave
very discouraging accounts of his spiritual • condi
tion." If his murdered victim was not "prepared to
die," he allowed her no "respite"to improve her
spiritual condition. • '
Erie. lUttitlq (13arner.
Enti:. PA
SATURDAY Istoptisa, JULY 27, 1850
DEMOWIATIC NOMINATIONS.
CANAL'COMAIISSIONEIL
WM. T. MORISON, of Montgomery.
AUDITOR GENERAL.
EPIIRAIAI BANKS, of Mifflin.
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
.1. P. BRAVOLEY, of Crawford.
Funeral Obaequie3 of Gen. Taylor in Erie.
Tuesday last was the day sot apart by the committee
of Arrangements for the'observance of the Funeral obse
goics in ,honer of Gon. Taylor, in this city. The day
was beautiful, the arrangements complete, and the core
many imposing and appropriate. At dawn the
tot tolling of bells; the firing of cannon front I'm sJnited
States steamer Micliigan. the Revenue Cetter ingham;
and by) the Artiliery,proelaimed the general gloom which
hovered over all. As day advanced, the shops, offices,
stores and public houses, were shrouded in black; there
were exceptions to this, amuse, but as a general thing,
this outward emblem of grief was to be seen everywhere.
At one o'clock the procession commenced forming
uttdor the directi(in of MURRAY %Vnkt.t.os, Esq., Mar
shall of the day, assisted. by Messrs. CLARK, Cooomor,
Risnensecter, Kiss :and ZIMMERMAN. The procession
was over half o male in length, and would undoubtedly
have been mach longer, if the day had not'been so
warm.' A% it was it consisted principally of the Military.
Fire Cer.opanies, and the different Sittieties, arrange() in
the fo'towing order: Music, martial and brass band, With
me:tled drums; Two companies of German Volunteers,
vreceded by their field officers on horse-back; Eulogist
and - Clergy in Carriage; Hem and pull-bearers, with
Military guard of honor, followed by the War horse and
groom; Officers of the Navy and Revenue Service, fol
lowed by the sailors from their respective vessels; Mem
bers of the Frosivo Isle Lodge of Free Masons, in full
Regalia; Memhers of the different Lodges and En
campments of the Independent Order of Odd Follows,
in full Regalia; Gorman Beneficial Society. With badges
and colors shrouded in crape; Fire companies with En
gines trimmed with mourning, and drawn by four hor
ses each; Officers of the Corporation. After Iho proces
sion was formed; in this order it marched through the
various streets, in accordance with the programme, and
finally to Perry Square, where an eloquent and impres
sive prayer was caned by Rev. Jos. 11. Pnestv,and the
Eulogy delivered by Hon. Tnom ts A. Stu.. Rev. Dr.
FLINT pronounced the Benediction, and then the vast
concourse retired.
Death of S. C. Brown.
We regret to learn, by the last arrival from California,
that the worst fears of the friends of Mr. B. C. Mows,
of this city, have been realized. He died at Auburn,
in California, on 3d of June, of consumption, aged
about 25 years. ; He was tho eldest son of itlajor 11. 1..
Brown, of "Brown's Hotel" in this city, and went out to
California among' the first adventurers. He leaves l a
young wife, and a largo circle of friends to mourn his
early departure. May Ho who "tempers tho wind to
the shorn lamb" comfort them rill in this affliction!
Professor Webster to be Rung
Tho Governor and Council of Massachusetts !lotto
determined that Prof. Webster shall be hung on the 30th
of August. at 1 o'clock P.. M. The cup of misery of this
unfortunate man is now , full to this brim! Verily. "the
why of the transgressor is hard." Notwithstanding the
Professor's affectation of great piety a nd contrition since
his conviction, it is our belief that ho will never suffer
the hangman's rope to go round his neck. his altogeth
er likely that ho will die by his own, hand. It will ho
remembered . that ho attempted to poison himself imme
diately after his arrest, but the dose only stupified him.
His poor Null!y aro objects of real pity. Ally he "who
louvers the wind to the shorn lamb," protect them from
the rude blast of an unfeeling world.
Arra3ted for Murder.
Two men named Johnson and Large, the former
physician, were arrested on Wednesday le s t, and lodged
in jail in this city, on the charg3 of murdering a , girl
named Raymond, near Lockport. in this county. Pull
particulars of the case wo have not obtained, but we un
-I;.rstand that the unfortunce gill had been seduced by
Large, and that' J0.1115011,a9 employed to procure an
abortion to hide the fact, and that while under his treat
ment the girl died. IVliether there are any extenuating
circumstances or not we cannot ascertain. If there are
any, nothing shorted' a judicial investigation will bring
them to light: the tragedy has caused much excitement
in the neighborhood where it occurred.
"Death Has Been Busy."
When the year 1819 closed, remarks the Philadelphia
Bulletin,lt was thought to have been particularly fatal to
gerat men; but 1850 threatens to be even more so. Al
ready we have chronicled the demise of Calhoun, of
Wordsworth. of Jeffrey, of Taylor and Peel, e ach, in
his different sphereo man who "leaves no parallel be
hind:" and now, as the foreign papers inforni us, Louie
Phillippe probably lies' on his death-bed, a victim like
Napoleon. to cancer in his stomach. The past few years
have made sad !levee indeed with those great names
which, from our childhood, we have been accustomed
to reverence. The giants in intellect—pools, philoso
phers, statesmen, military men—who formed and led
the age, have disappeared ono after another, until few,
or nouo are left. With Wordsworth departed the last of
the great British poets of the nineteenth century. With
Jeffrey went out the last light of that brilliant constella
tion of wits and poets who revived or rather founded
criticiser in this age. And now Taylor and Peel and
Calhoun are no more: and the old intriguer, Louis Phil
lippe, threatens to follow them. How forcibly all this
reminds us that We stand on the threshold of a new,
ago, with new men all around us. Especially, asArner
icons, do we feel this. Calhoun has gone, and, in the
order of Nature, Clay and Webster must soon follow.—
Taylor has gone, and Worth and Kearny, and others of
the heroes of the Mexican war: and Scott, more aged
than all, cannot be long behind; indeed, as ho followed
the corpse of the President to the grave, gloomy thoughts,
j akin to this we speak of, must have possessed him.—
With melancholy emotions we see the past take tho
place of the present; and tho reflection arises, "who ero
to tak the place Allege that are gone?" Alas! who?
Good Advio9 from a Bishop.
Bishop Horner. gives the following pious advice,
which wo can do no less than hope to see piously followed:
"The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multi
tudes, displayed in a newspaper, aro so many admoni
tions and warnings, so many beacons continually burning
to turn others from the rock on which they have been
shipwrecked. Only take a newspaper and consider it
well—pay for et—read it and it will instruct thee."
'here is n beautiful propriety, wo think, iu the last
throe words before the last seven words. Just notice
them.
Small Notes.
The /ow prohibiting the circulation of small notes takes
effects on the 21st of August. As the time draws near
they will begin to depriciate. We learn that the Pitts
burgh lirokers'llavo commenced their warfareupon them
by putting thorn at a disoutint of 3 and dper cent. We,
however, still continue to take thorn at par for debts duo
this office...
Giving I.
The Albany Journal, speaking of President Fillmore's
probable course. sap. "We are content to await his de
cision, taking it for granted that Mr. Crawford will be
permitted to retire with his - filthy lucre and his tarnished
reputation." Perhaps some other wliig papers' wilt now
nonfoss the "filthy lucre" and. the "tarnish;' though it
bo not 'complimentary to the late President that hu kept
such calkers around him.
Warning to th 3 Pennsylvania Legislature,
Wo here a c cidentally become cognitankuf a content*
plated appeal to our next Legislature. by a New York
company,which weconceive it to be our duty to denounce.
It appears that the speculators of Buffalo, to order to di.
liert credo from Oa New York and Erie Railroad, and to
their own city.: and the more effectually to secure the
Ohio and Weeterri trade to New York, having obtained
tho power under the new general imprevejnent law of
the latter. will shortly place undevr eontreet the Lake
Shore Railroad, from Buffalo to the State line dividing
New York from Pennsylvania,which is exact:y twenty
two and a half miles from rie, Perms:mania. The
guago of the Ohio roads, (or rather the width between
the rails or tracks,) Is four feet ten inches; that of the
New York and Erie road, six fet,t; that of Pennsylvania,
four feet eight and a half inc:ies; but in order to be ready
to receive the Ohio tre.ie at once. the 13uffulo company
have made their gtzego four feet ten inches, which is
that of Ohio also—au that they may, without change of
cars, if necessary, secure the trade and travel which the
latter Stillc wilt pass over her great lines of railroad.—
This entire project is Incomplete, and the design of its
origivate.s utterly defeated, if our Legislators only keep
their ~ /e on the attempt to extract from them a char
to. for the twenty-two mils and a half front the New
'.ark State line to krie. When our great Central Rail
road is completed, and the road constructed from Erio to
, Pittsburgh, of which fort y miles front Beaver are already
completed, the distance from Erio to Philadelphia, over
our own works will b about four hundred and seventy
miler, and from It o Pliiladelpnia, over the New
York and :Faid,qt
,f,;l out six hundred and tbirty-five
mites; and unless AVG° crippled by the scheme of the
Lake Sliore Rallrotid, we shall ho able to meet the New
Yorkeragan elided terms, and to contend with them, even
at Erie, fir that western trade, they aro so eager to se
cure fur themselves . The attempt is' a very cunning
and dangerous oitA and if it shall succeed, it will be it
lasting disgrace upon the Legislation, and a serious blow
at the interests of the State . of Pennsylvania, No doubt
the Now York capitalists, who are interested in it, will
be early on the ground at Harrisburgh, to secure the
fulfillment of their wishes, and probably inducements
may he brought ttiThear, in t h e hope that any thing may
be carried trough a Pennsylvania Legislsture. But it
is time to teach these gentleman that the people of this
State have at last become alive to the importance of stop
ping.bad legislation, and they will rigidly scrutinize the
acts of their servants hereafter. Such a scheme as is
contemplated/by the New York speculators, only needs
to be exposed, to meet a vigilant and determined oppo
sition.
Wo cut the above from the Pennsylvanian, and as it
foreshadows the opposition the'tßuffslo speculators,t'now
engaged in endeavoring to overreach and ruin the local
interests of this section of the State; aro likely to encoun
ter from the whole State, we give in the hopes that they
will take warning in time, and cease their efforts. The
statement of the Pennsylvanian is correct. Effirts are
making in Mail° to run a four feet ten inch track thro'
to Cleveland, but backed as wo are, in tippoilltion to such,
a move, by the entire railroad and local intereEts of the
whole State, as well as by the earns interests in Ohio,
the whole scheme, wo are confident, will foil. It must
foil. The citizens of Pennsylvania will ,over suffer the,
New York Central Railroad capitalisla, or the New
York and Eriesroad, to extend their tracks beyond ill's
place. Thus far shall they go, but no farther. They
shall have a railroad communication \ with the welt, but
it must be upon a different guago. We aro willing that
the New York Central railroad, as well as the New York
and Erie road alien be extended to this place, but here
they must and SHALL stop! No power, be it money or
legislative enactment, can carry them beyond! Our
citizens are law abiding citizens,—they respect their ru
, lers, and revereace the •'broad seal!' of the State, nev
ertheless, a rail road cannot be built by their doors with
out their consent! and the.genitemen in Buffalo engaged
in this scheme may as well understand this first as last.
No jury within the limits of Penns} lvania could be em
ponneled that would be willing, much less dare, convict
fur resisting such a scheme by force, if necessary! But
force will not be necessary, we aro confident. Reason
and common sense must prevail. The Central railroad
interest of New York have been offered every facility to
reach this place with their present width of track, that
they coati reasonab:y ask. By a vote of the Board of
Directors of the Erio and'Nerth East company, they are
placid upon an equality, as to right of way this side of
the line, with the New York and Erie road. The Erie
and North E ist company have proposed to them, that if
the Buffalo and State Line road wi:l compromise with
the New York and Erie road, and allow tho latter to
come up along side of them, over their right of aray,
from Dunkirk to the Pouns!lvania S'tite Line, They, the
Eric nod North East eorur.2ll., will build them a second
track over their right of way from the State Line to Erie,
provi ,l 1 the i2entral railroad interest loan them C.200,-
gad fur eight years, to enable them to build the said sec
ond track. This certainly ought to be satisfactory:—
indeed it must be satisfactory, and if the `:^w York Cen
tral railroad intoreit will not accept it, or something
similar, they can't come into Pennsylvania, much less
go through it, with a four foot ten inch track or any other
width of track. Df this fact they can rest assured. •
A Clun Evrecp of tle Calrbint=
The whole country will learn with pleasure that Mr.'
Fillmore has made a clean sweep of tho Galphin Cabin
et of the lute President. They are all sent packing iu
disgrace! Not one is left. It would have been better
for our party, probably. if he had retained them, as they
would have given to his adiniuistration such an oder
that no decent politician would have consented to have
touched it with a "ten foot pale," bat such retention,
to the country, would have been most disgraceful! We
prize our country's good name and honor above mere
party, 'and wo rejoice the now President has "chosen
the better part," and cut himself loose from their rotten
ness and corruption. Of course ,in the formation of the
new Cabinet, or in the results to flow therefrom, the
Democrats, as a party, could expect, nor ask for favor or
consideration. 'iihey expected au out-and-out ultra cab
inet, and their. expectations have not been disappointed.
Maim Wsosvrat, of Massachusetts, is Secretary of
State; Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, is Secretary of the
Treasury; Edward Bates of Missouri, is Secretary of
War; Was. A. Graham, of North Carolina, is Secretary
of tho Navy; JamesA. Pearce, of Maryland. Secretary
of the Home Department; N. K. Hall, of New York,
Post Master General; and J. J. Crittenden, of Kentucky,
is the Attorney General. So far as regards talent these
selections are honorable to . the President; though woi
must confess that when wo come to weigh them as true
and patriotic American stateamen,there is ono extremely
"black sheep" in the flock—ono that wears a brand up
on 144 forehe4l which neither time nor cabinet ap
pointments can obliteritte! We orcourse refer to Then:i
-e. Corwin,of Ohio. Although no more culpahle,perhaps,
titan any:of the other members of the now cabinet in his
opposition and denunciation of the war with Mexico, he
unfortunately had tho boldness to avow and proclaim his
real sentiments, and wished the Mexicans would wel
come our bravo volunteers "with Weedy 'muds to hos
pitaplo graves." Thus ho has become obaoxiJus to the
patriotic sentiment of the whole country. His maniere
ble speech wo refer to will stick to him as long tis his
uamo lasts. Although an acknowledged man of talent,
and an orator of groat eloquence, his call to fill a cabinet
appointment must be looked upon as a direct insult to
the thousands of relatives and friends of the soldiers of
the war with Mexico. Aside from this ono selection,
then, wo say that so far as our knowledge extends, the
now cabinet will,bo as acceptable as a Whig cabinet
could be to the country. At any rate it is, as a whole,
infinitely above the Galphins, and deserves to be hied
before condemnation. '
Look out for Them.
We learriby information received here on Thursday
from the chief of the New York Police, that a large num
ber of the light-fingered "Artists" of the city, such as
pick-pockets, gamblers and burglarers, have loft the city
on a professional tour to the South and West. It will bo
well for our merchants, and others, to look well to their
stores and shops, as it is not impossible eve shall be hon
ored by the visits of some of these gentry in the course
of their tour.
Graham's Magazine.
"Grahan►" for the coming month is the bast August
number we have ever eireu of any magazine.. Tho ern
banishments are beautiful, and the articles generally Of
a much higher order than we usually find in our period
icals , couiributors embrace such names u Whip
ple, Prentice, Bayard To)lor, Street, Simms, Norbert,
.'Cc.
The Bounty Land Bill.
Ave were pleased to see that Judge Tnearsos, of
district, was very active in procuring the passage, by the
llonse, of the bill granting bounty lands to the officers
and soldiers engaged in the military service of the coon.
try since 1790. His remarks upon tho various amend.
mauls offered by the enemies of the bill, for the purpose
of embarrassing its passage, were peculiarly happy and
forcible. The bill, as it passed the Home, provides that
each surviving commissioned and non-commissioned
officer, ninsician and private, whether of the regulars,
volunteers, rangers or militia, who served in any of the
wars since 1790, including each commissioned offietr
who served in the late war with Mexico, shall be entitled
for twelve months' service to 160 acres of land; fur a i a
months' service to 80 acres; and for three
,months! ser
vice to 40 acres; or, in case the officer or Soldier is not
living, his widow, if married prior to the close of hx
service, and is at thu time of her applications A idow, i s
entitled to the same bounty that her husband would hare
been entitled to if living.. No other heirs are emitted to
the donation. The Soldier must have been honorably
discharged, and never have received bounty land from
Congress, or be entitled to it by any existing law. No
land :warrant to be bid upon land where a pre-emption
right exists. The owner cannot sell, mortgage or as
sign his title or claim; nor shall the warrant be liable to
pay • any debts contracted prior to the issuing of the p a t.
ant. By this bill several members of Congress were ex
cluded and deprived of receiving beue6ts therefrom.
The whole amount of land which a ill be required to
answer the demand as this bifida variously esti mated.--
Some fears are entertained that the bill will meet with
difficulty in the Senate, but ills hardly possible that that
body will so far disregard the justice due the panr soldier
ns to reject it entirely. The opposition the bill encoun
ters is placed upon the ground that it is a mere scheme
of speculators—that the scrip will fall into their hands,
and not benefit the soldier or any others than the wealthy
operator. These objectsons, on their face, appear seri
ous. lint ire are satisfied that they are unfounded. The
poor emigrant was the chief beneficary of the large issue
of land scrip to the Mexican volunteers. It is estimated
by those well qualified to judge, that, of that Is see , t h e
average grain to 'ereeuintora did not exceed $5 to a cer
tificate for 169 acres of land. The course the busiuess
took was this: The soldiers who did not want to enter'
the land sought a purchaser among those who did de
sire to purchase land. But little land was entered by
means of this ecrip by land speculators. The greater
part of the scrip was sold to actual settlers. It wns
forwarded to those places where land offices were hea
ted, and there cold to the emigrant. The greater moat of
it was sold at prices varying from $19.5 to $159 for
certificate for 165 acres of laud, Which, at Government
price. cost $9.00, The settler, instead apaying
for 160 acres of land, purchased it for less than $150.
The effect of this state of things - was, to atimulate,emi.
gratiud and promote the more rapid settlement of the
Government lands. The 531110 consequences would
now result from the issue-of loom scrip. It would bo
tantamount to a reduction of the price of the public lands
qnd onura to the bousfit principally of the par
_mi.
gr aut.
. - "Eveiy one to His Taste." I
A Mr. Ferraud, said, nt the,clase of an oration in New
York, on the 4th of Jul: "As am a living man,
were the captain of a inerchat ship, and the authori
ties of Charleston came on board my vessel and tore ono
of my crew away, I would thrust a red-hot iron into a
barrel of gunpowder. and blow them to the devil nod
Myself to glory." Well, "every ono to his taste as the
boy .said when ho kissed tho cow," but it strikes us we
should prefer a thirereut road to glciry, and much light
er company. •
England and Cuba.
The New York Globe says that Jahn Bull seems to
have been thrown into spasms by the intelligence of Gen.
Lopez's foolish expedition. The old gentleman talks
very big, as if ho had forgotten his own rascalh interfe
rence with the affairs of ether people and nations. He
seems to have discharged Ws memory Of all traces af a
nt'ilebrati.il piratical bombardment of Copenhagen--cf to
piratical attack recently oa Greece—of all his pirecits
in the East li.dies, and everyvi here else n here he is
known. We apprehend that , Brother Jonathan cares
very little what Mr. Bull or any other ignorant person,
peer or potentate.in poor old u?orn out benighted Europe,
thinks or sags of American attuirs, so long o.s they con•
fine themselves to bluster and gosconade.tit - we must
very respecttully advise them to keep the' /taw/in—
/0
f.
We shall not tolerate.any interferoace L by :uropo in this
Cuban affuir. We are competontourselves to Its adjust,
moot. And though England may feel cry much fr , ght•
enctl whenever Jonathan squints iu the direction of her
free uegroes in Jainacia or thereabout, she may for the
present rest in peace. The annexation of all her West
India Islands to the republic is not contompluted imme•
diately. We 5111111 lint be prepared to accomplish dal
before the census of 1870.
Ir.f Mr. Secretary ing attended the C.iiholic Church
in IVashington on Sunday the 11th. The preacher took
for his text "Give an account of thy stewardohip." The
application disturbed Ewing into contortions of &ciente
!lance. He felt that he and his associates is the cabinet
had been terrible sinners. and were now to surrender
their power.
(I' The Washington Union sacs that one of the mast
distinguished Democrats of Washington, has just re
turned from a month's visit to the West, u hero ho met
with a great many citizens of Pennsylvania. 111ar)land
end Virginia. Ile reports, as the result of his experience,
that tie did not meet with ono citizen who was not in fa
vor of the Compromise.
o:7*Abbi Folsom has been making a fourth of July
speech. After tho oration by Mr. Whipple. at Boston.
was concluded. she got u? in the gallery and denounced
Washington as it slaveholder, and the orator for eulogiz7
ing him. Poor Abby: She is hopelessly mad.
irr Somebody has said, and our experience proves the
saying frit:, that lovo is as natural to a woman as fra
granco is to a rose. You may lock girl up in a con
vent—you may confine her in a cell—you may cause
her to change her religion, or forewearler parents:—
these things are possiblo—but never hope to make the
sex forego their heart worship, or give up their river
eLce for calumero.
UJ' Mr. Buchanan's speech.: at Lancaster. at a meet
ing of the citizens of that city, after the . announcement
of tho death of General Taylor. Rea a noble and heart
felt eulogy of tho brave old hero.
lir The Philadelphia Sun congratulates its readers on
the accessioa of Mr. Fillmore to the Presidency, on ac
count of his natvo American feeling, for' which, it adds,
ho should be put in nomination for 18521,,, We believe
Mr. F. will leave the Nativists as he left the Abolition
ists in 1915—t0 take care of himself.
Tho Democrats of AVashington. Pa., have nomin
ated Col. Wm. Hopkins for Congress, and Messrs. J.
D. Leet and Di'vid Riddle for the Assembly. Resolu
tions were passed against the Dolphins.
Ili -So rim things can be done as well as others."—
A Sam Patch has appeared in England whose feats sur
pass those of hie illustrious predecessor. This sub
aqueous prodigy leaped into the water from an elevation
of eighty feet with a pair of boots in his hand, which he
succeeded in putting on before ho camo to the surface.
try. A reforipation is going on in the Five Points. Not
York. At the corner of Cross and Little Water grate
Rev. L. M. Pease. of the Methodist church, has a Sab
bath school, with one hundred scholars. and preaches
there on Sundays: but the building is not large enough.
and a new house of worship is So bo erected . . hlr. l'esas
has also a temperance society in operation.
Comments.
Tho Loudon correspondent of this New York Herald
states that the commercial tonnage of the United States
is 10,000 tons more than that of England—the former
being 3,150.000 tons. and the latter 3.130.000 ton's. It
this be true. we are of course the first commercial mown
of the world.—Troy Badges.