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Eleetro-Magnetism a Motive Power.
Tun I MPORTA NT QURSTIONS SITTTLRUI:4"(OfOB
- Page, in the lectures which he is delivering be
fore the Smithsonian Institute, states that there is
no longer any doubt of the application of this power
as a !substitute for steam. The National Intern
geneer says:
"lie exhibited the most imposing experiments ever
witnessed in this branch of science. An immense
bar of iron, weighing one hundred and sixty pounds,
*as made to spring up.by magnetic action and to
move rapidly up and doWn, dancing like a feather in
the:air, without any visible support. The force
operating upon this bar he stated to average three
hundred wounds through ten inches of its motion.—
Ile said he could raise this bar ono hundred feet ns
readily as through ten-inches,and he expected no dif
ficulty in doing the same with a bar weighing one
ton, or 100 tons. Ile could make a pile driver, or a
forge-hammer, with great simplicity, and could make
an engine with stroke of six, twelve, twenty, or any
number of feet.
"The moat beautiful experiment we ever witnes
sed as the loud sound and brilliant flash from the
galvanic spark, when produced near a, certain point
in" hie great magnet. Eacit e snap was as loud as a
pistol; and'when ho produced the same spark at a
little distance from this point, it mpde no noise at
all. This recent discovery ho stated hearing upon
the construction of an electro-magnetic engine.
Truly, a great power is here, and where is tbet limit
to it?
"He then exhibited his engine of between four and
Ave horse power, operated by a battery contained
within a space of three cubit feet. It was a recipro
cating engine of two feet stroke, and' the whole en
gine and battery weighed about one ton. When the
power was thrown on by the"motion of a lever, the
engine started off magnificently, making one hun
dred and fourteen strokes per minute; though, when
it drove a circular - saw ten inches in diameter, saw
ing up boards an Inch and a quarter thick into laths
the engine made but about eighty strokes per minute.
There was great anxiety on the part of the specta
tors to obtain specimens of these lath', to preserve
as trophies of this great mechanical triumph.
"The force operating upon his magnetic cylinder
throughout the whole motion of two feet, was stated
to be six hundred pounds when the engine was mo
ving very slowly, but he had not been able to Asper
tainlwhat the force was whenlthe engine was minting
at a working speed, though it was considerably less.
The most important and interesting 'point, however,
is the expense of the paver. Professor Page stated
that he had reduced the cost so far, that it was less
than steam tinder many and most conditions, though
not so low as the cheapest steam engines. With
all the imperfections of the engine, the consumption
of three pounds of zinc per day would produce one
horse power. The larger his engines (contrary to
what has been known before) the greater the econo
my. Professor Page was himself surprised at 'the
result. There Were yet practical difficulties to be
overconie; the battery had yet to be improved; and it
remained yet to try the experiment on a grander
scale, to make a power of one hundred horse, or
mo e."
From the New York 'Frame.
Carving on. Wood by Steam
Wo spent an hour on Friday at Worrsll's ma
bine-Ankh) Elm 'greet, to witness the operation o
a new and very inzeninus machine fur carving on
wood, which has lately been invented by Mr. J. M.
Singer.
The machine is so simple at first sight as scarcely
to seem entitled to the name often invention. Yet,
on examination, it will be found that Mr. Singer
has applied a new and beautiful combination to an old
form, overcoming what has hitherto proved an insur
mountable difficulty to all who have attempted the con
struction of a machine for carving. The simple in
strument called the penta graph has longheen in use
for copying nutps and drawing* on a plane surface.
By adding a vertical to the horizontal tnovemements
- -the two being so nicely combined as to work with
entire and venness and steadiness. Mr. Singer
can prodime every possible motion requisite in car
ving. Another important change is this: the- cut
ting point is stationary. The block to be carved is
fixed in a sliding vice, which is attached to the pen
tagraph, (so to call it,) and obeys a motion, lateral,
vertical,:forward or dackward. The steel pointused
in cutting the wood infixed to the extremity 'of a
vertical cylinder, which, act in motion, revolves
with great velocity, cutting a smooth and beautiful
channel in the block below it.
The'plan of working is as follows: A model, some
what larger than the desired carving, is placed on
the table, under the further cod of the frame. At
the junction of the levers composing the pentagraph
is an iron point, which moved (by means of a handle
to the machine) over the model, cccaasions a corres
ponding movement in the block of wood under the
cutting point; so that, in the space of two or three
minutes, a block letter or a gothic,ornarnent may be
cut as neatly as the mostexperienced workman would
do it in at} many hours. By substituting other cut
ting points, or varying the size of the copy, twenty
or thirty different" kinds of letters may be made from
one model. We saw some beautiful specimens, cut
with a:double swell to the sides of the letters, picturd,
frames, saw and plane handles, ornamental mouldings.
cornices, &c. More elaberate pieces of carving aro
executed. by parallel lines, on the same principle as
engravings. Specimens of coati-of-hrms which
were shown us, retained the exact lines of the origi
nal, needing only some slight finishing by hand.
The uses to which this invention may be put tire
manifold. An addition to the numerous forms of'
wood-carving, of which it is capable, it' answers
equally well for cutting in brass or steel. One man
with one Machine can cut four hundred block letters
in a day, which, sold at one-third the present prices,
Would yield a handsome profit. The manufacture of
wood-sarvingilior churches, public edifices or private
dwellings, will, also be reduced in coat, that wo have
no doubt their use will become very general. Mr.
Singer' has patented r his ma ltina in the United
states, Great Brittin, France and Bet .t
'um. lie
hr.
has just'completed a machine which will sent to
England in a few days: He will shortly establish
a manufactory of wood-carvings In this city.
As Et.opustunr.- - -The police interfered at the
Depot last nigt,and took in 'custody a man named
Jas. P: Chamberlin, who was about to leave town
in company with a widow, named Weaver, whose
husband died a few days since. Chamberlin is a
married man who was arrested at the instance of his
wifeand some of the neighbors of Mrs. Weaver,
wtio suspected foul play in the death Of the lady's
husband, inasmuch as the parties were familar be
fog his death. On an investigation of the matter,
thdto was nothing to justify suspicion of any agency
on the part of the accused in causing the death of
Weaver. Ho was committed, however, in default
or bail to support his family. Neither of the parties
1111V13 children, and are recently from England. Mrs.
'W. is a bright, intelligent appearing young woman,
and seeps to manifest a strong attachment for Cham
berlin, and he, though guilty- of unfaithfulness to
his lawful partner, was not so inditrerent to his' du
ty and her claims upon him, but that he provided
her with some means of subsistence before his at
tempted departure. Ho made over tho article for a
house and lot to Mrs. C., and gave her some other
means, but of course she preferred retaining the
man.--(Rochestie American.
. "A lifosurrna California correspondou
•of the Salem Gaiette (Joseph S. Wallis) says that
-Colonel Temple litbets, formerly of Lewiston Fells,
cut tree of the Redwood species, in Collier}
which was two hundred and fifty four feet high
and measured at the top two'feet in diameter, and
at tho'butt twelve feet in diameter. The tree was
worked into lumber lip hundred and forty •feet
from the bolt, where it measured five feet •in di
-ameter. There were made from this giant of" the
foret 410,000 shingles, 6,000 clapboards, 4,000
- ;tree by four joists twenty-two feet tong; and there
were - left, at a moderate calculation, from seventy
to eighty cords of wood. The clapboards were sold
'for $5O per thousand. the shingles. for $35 per thou
sand, the joists for $275 pet . ..thousand, and the re
maining port of the treo would readily sell iu this
- city, for fire wood, at $.40 per cord; thus, at a mod
ert,teVriTu'Mtion, there was derived from the work
jog of this mammoth dweller of the primeval forest
tlio-neat little sum of 811,350,—N. 0 . Pie,
FALLING OP ABU/LOT° AND Loss. oP lorn.—Ono
of the new custom house stores' in" Dock street, Phil
adelphia, fell on Saturday morning •wittt t► terrific
crash, while the men were engaged in hoisting goods
unto one of the upper stories. Five men were dug
f r o m the ruing, badly iWored, two of whom havo
- piece died at the hospital.
Kosstith's Letter to 'Gen. Cass. .
ICUTALYA, (Asia Minor,) May 25, 1850.
•
General:—lt is already ten months that I have
tile anguish of exile to endure.
Nature has man's mind with wonderful elasticity
endowed. It yields to many' than of fate, and gets
accustomed even to adversity. But to one thing the
patriot's heart never learns to inure itself—to the
pangs of exile.
• You remember your practician of Venice, who,
when banished, feigned high treason, that ho might
at least from the scaffold cast over the Rialto, a glance
once more. '
This fond desire I can easily understand. I can
so the more, because yon Veterion, thourgh exiled,
knew the fatherland to be happy and g 4; but 1,
sir, carry the color of millions the pains a down
trodden country" in my wouudred breast, without
having even the Sad consolation to think that it could
not ollierwile be. Oh! had Divine Providence only
Iron, treason designed me to preserve, I swear to the
Almighty'God the threatening billows of despot
ism would have fallen like foam from the rock .of
my brave people's breasts. To have this firm con
viction. sir, and, instead of the well-deserved victory
of freedom, to find one self iv exile, the fatherland
in chains, is a profound sorrow, a nameless grief.
Neither have I the consolation to have found miti
gations of this grief at the hospitable hearth of a
great free people. the contemplation of which, by the
imposing view of freedom' s wonderful powers, warm
the dispoulent heart makin g cr it in the destiny of man
kind believe.
•••• ' • • •
It is not a coward lamentation which makei me say
all this, General, but the lively sense of gratitude and
thankful 'acknowledgements for your generous sym
pathy. I wanted to sliete!l the darkness of my des
'tiny, that you might feel what benefit must have been
to me your beam of light, by which you, from the
capitol of free America, have heightened my night.
It was in Bronssa, General, that the notice your
imposing speech has reached me; in yOnder Broussa
whore IlannibalbewaPed his country's mischief, and
foretold the fa'l of its oppres)rs—llinnibal, exiled
like myself, but still unhappier, as he . was accompam
ed in exile by the ingratitude of his people, but I by
the love of mine.
•••• • • 7 •
Yes, General, your-powerful speech was not only
the inspiration of sympathy for unmerited misfortune
so natural to noble, feeling hearts; it was a revela
tion of the justice of Gedit was a leaf from the
'book of fate, uneveiled to the world. On that day
General, - you were sitting in the name of mankind,
in tribunal, passing lodgement on the &pollen' and
despots of the world; and as sure as the God of Jus
tice lives your verdict will be accomplished. I
Shall I yet have have my share in this great work
or not? I,do not know. Once almost an efficient in
strument in the hands of Providence, lam now buried
alive. With humble heart will I accept the call to
'action, should I be deemed worthy of it, or submit
to the (loam of inactive pufferinge, if it must bo so.
But, ba it one of the other, I know that your sentence
will be fulfil:ed. I know that, aged Europe, at
the sun of freedom's young America, will herself
grown young again: I know that my people, who
proved so worthy of liberty, will yet, not withstan
ding their present degradation, Weigh heavy in this
balance of fate; and I know that, as long as oue Hun
garian livoi,'your name, General will be .counted
among the most cherished in my native laud, as the
distinguished man who, worthy interpreter of the
generoui sentiments of the great American people,
has upon us poor Hungarians the consolation be
stowed of a confident hope, at a moment when Europe
decrepid politics seemed our numerated fate forever
to seal. • -
May you be pleased, General, to accept the most
fervent thanks of an honest friend of freedom:
me hopo . that should Mr. Ujhazy, (iny oldest end best
friend, and present representative in the United Sta
tes,) in the interest of the holy cause of which you
have so generously your protection accorded, addreSs
himself to you for something which you might, in
your wisdorii, judge convenient and practicable, you
will'not withhold form us your powerful support;
and please to accept the insurance of my highest es
teem and Most peculiar veneration.
Anc. Governor of Hungary,
To the Idonorable:the general Cass, Washington.
I hope you will excuse ray bad English. I thought
it my duty to addess you in your own languaffe.
SUICIDR.-A young Englishman, named George
Nichols, who had been in this country about three
months, committed snide about 10 o'clock, last night
at the 11011913 of John Perkins, No. 97, Hamilton
Street, by shooting himself through the head with a
double barrel fowling piece. There was found in
the the _
, "This is my last will and testament. I hereby
give and' bequeath to ray sister, Mary Amela Taylor
or Driff/eld ) . (Yorkshire) England, two hundred
pounds. I also give. and bequeath to Mary With
erwich, of Grimsby, (Lincolnshire) sixty pounds, to
be pkid as soon after my death us possible.
Gao. Nrcuot.s."
/ No good cense has been assigned for the deed.--.
It is said that for three months he has bean trying
to procure work, and that his Obits have proved un
availing, and that this disappointment caused him to
commit sqic i ide. The coroners jury rendered a ver
dict of prerneditated death .—Evening Journal, An.
gust 16. •
• COOKING nv GAS.—Among the novelties produced
at a grand Agricultrial Meeting at Exeter, England,
*as. one which excited great curiosity; it was the
cooling of the monster joint, called by M. Soyer
the baron and saddle back of beef a ti Magna Char
ts, weighing 535 lbs'. For the first time in the an
nals of cookery, this was subjected to a new pro
cess of roasting, by use of an agent which has been
discovered half a conturv, that is to say gas. To
gratify the curiosity olthe public, it was placed in
the middle of the castle yard,-resting upon a dripping
pan, evidently with bricks, and surrounded with
216 jets of gas, and covered with sheet iron. It
took five hours to roast, and consumed 700 feet 'of
gas of the value of 4s 3-4 d. It weighed after being
cooked, 497 Ibs: the dripping 23 Ibs, the osmazemo
3164; thus losing by evaporation only ,111 lbs. To
cook this piece of beef by an ordinary fire would
have taken fourteen hours. This apparatus was
invented and fitted up by Mr. Warriner of London,
who was prepared to have roasted all the dinner by
the same means, that is, 400 chichens, 58 quarters
of lamb, and 33 ribs'of beef, at a cost of I2s for gas.
Fine AT Sixo-Strio.--On Friday, oth inst., 11'
fire broke out in the North wing of the State Pris
on at Sing-Sing,and, before it could be extinguish
ed, the entire wood work of the building was de
stroyed, including the "Union File Works" of James
Horner & Co. and the Carpet Factory of John
IlOmphries. The loss of property in these estab
lishments is some $17,000, but it was insured the
entire amount. The loss to the State, as near as
can be ascertained, is $12,000.
This is the second fire which has occured at this
Prison this year—the first being in February, and
occasioning a loss of $30,000; both of whicli, we
believe, it is supposed were the work of convicts,
or other incendiaries. A sevens fire also occurred
in tho Prison in July, 1843.
TIM MARVOLS OF CA uron:riA.-....HRNOT A.
SCHOOLCRAFT,'.Of &COMM% California, is HOW on
a visit to his relatives in Albany. Ile is about
twenty-five years of age, and went out to California
as a private soldier in Col. Stevenson's regiment.
After his discharge from the United States service,
he obtained employment as book-keeper for Captain
Sutter, and has since accumulated an estate voided
at $350,000. While iti Captain Setter's employ,
he had at one time the paying oil' or six hundred
clerks and surveyors., not one of whom received less
than thirteen dollars per day; Ile states that du
ring his stay with Captain Sutter, $15,000,000 of
that gantleman's money passed through his litmds.
DIISTRUCTION OF TIIR C(bux - rr COURT 110U5R.....:
. The Court House at Jefferson, fell a prey to the
devouring element, 'on• Friday night last. The
cause of the /ire• remains a mystery, fur the present,
at least. The bounty incurred a heavy bill in the
erection of this structure but a few yearsago, whiah'
long pressed hard ilium the tax-payers; and now
the whole is in ruins, 'rho building appears
was insured tothe amount of.soooo in the Calum
buslusurance Company. The record arid files
were saved; but there hain been •heavy individual
lo sses ,: The tinelatv library of N. 'CHAFFEE,
Esq., together with his papers accounts &c.; is a
total .161 m. The Clerk of the Supreme Court, 'SAM-
HurrpnY, Esq., is also a autfur : tua large amount.
--Jethabula Tcicgra.phi -
thrum lasonen.—Tbe Troy Post relates a
"good one" of
,Jacob Barker, tho -Quaker who,
hearing of the loss of ono of ilia vessels which ho
had omitted to get Insured, wrote to a broker with
whom ho had 'woken on the subject as follows:.
"Dear Friend—
If thee had not filled up the policy which I bespoke
on Saturday, thee need not, as I have heard from
the vessel."
The Broker, in fact, had not filled up the policy,.
but presuming from the tenor of Jacob's note that
his vessel was safe, and tempted by what seemed
a good change to clutch , his percentage without
risk, he filled it up forthwith and sent it to Jacob
with the assurance that it had been made all ready
for him 'on Saturday. On Monday morning the
first thing that met his eyes on opening his news
paper, was theloss of Jacob's vessel, which ho had
so wickedly ensured on Sunday. Then also ho
discovered the cunning ambiguity of Jacub's note
she had heard from the vessel!"
A SHNfflllfali MAN.—Gen, Garribaldi declines still
a public reception in New York. Ile says':
No such public exhibition is necessary to assure
me of the sympathy of my countrymen, of the Amer
ican people, and of all )rue republicans in the mis
fortunes which I have sugared, or of the cause out of
which they have flowed.
Though a public manifestation of this feeling
might yield much gratification to me, an exile from
my native land, severed from mylchildren, and mourn
ing the overthrow of my country's freedom by means
of foreign interference, yet believe mcithet I would
rather avoid it, and be permitted, quietly and humbly
to become a citizen of this republic, of freeman, to
sail under its flag,, to engage in businesi to earn my
livelihood, and await a more favorable opportunity
for the redemption of my country from foreign and
domestic oppressors.
SUICIDR OF A CHILD.- he Jasper county corres
pondent of the Lafayette Is.) Courier, writes that
a daughter of Mr. George Grisseil, about 12 years
old, committedluicide, tie r Ransellaer, on the 23d
ult., by hanging haerself. to the joist of the_ house
with a bridle. It ape,'par: that she committed the
act through fear of being punished for accidentally
breaking a crock. After meeting with the accident
she dressed herself in suitable burial clothes, and tel
ling her little lirothor that "she would ,never break
another crock," she got upon the bed, tied the bridle
to the jois t, fastened it around her neck, jumped off.
Her brother succeeded in replacing her upon the
bed, but the jumped off the second time, and before
he could ebtoin assistance, she was dead.—Ex. pa
per.
IVhat a system of shameftb cruelty must have
been practised in that family. The whip must have
been the only monitor, and applied unmercifully on
all occasions, whether fault or accident was the mo
tive to its use. Love and persuasions could never
have been employedin a family where a'child was
so much under the influence of fear as to voluntarily
take its life rather than meet the punishment expec
ted.—Phila. Ledger.
A DAVs'EATING AT A Borst..—The following
are given as some of the statistics of the United
States Hotel, at Saratoga: t I
There are now about 700 guests at the house, to
which may be added 100 children and 300 servanis,
making 1100 persons to be feed daily. They con
sume, besides many other articles, the following
each day-600 lbs. Beef,soo du Mutton, 500 Chick
ens, 150 Ducks and, Turkeys, 2,500 Eggs, 600 lbs
Butter, 1,500 Rolls for breakfast, 4 barrels of Flour?
A LADY SHOOTING AT AND CIiALL'HNGING A GEN..
xr.natax.—TlM New Orleans papers give an account
of a case. of great interest and excitement which
came °tat Carrollton, on the 7th instant:
Mr. Benjamin Mason, an alderman of the city
council of Carrollton, made an affidavit that a lady,
who is living alone with her sister, and whose hus
band is now in California, shot at, with a double
barreled gun, with the intention ofltillting his life,
on Sunday, the 4th instant, between 6 and 7 o'clock
in the morning, the shot striking close to him, but
doing him no injury. Deponent further stated that
tho lady had threatened his life, and that he was in
bodily fear of her. The affidavit also charged one
It. N. Avis with threatening in shoot deponent'i.
slave, Maria. It appears that Mason was accused
'by the lady of having , circulated certain slanderous
reports abaut her, which reports he obtained trout
his negro girt Maria. This so enraged the Isdy that
'she shot at him, as above stated. But, finding that
the shot had not taken effect, she sent Mr. Mason a
note, of which the following is a copy:
"CARROLLTON, August 1, 1850.
1.. Kossurit.
".Ifr. Mason:—Sir; Having been grossly atul vil
lainously slandered by you antr,your incompliance,
Maria, and furthermore molested by having spies set
to watch my house at night, I demand satisfaction
from you. I shall expect you to meet me with pis
tols as soon as possible. (Signed) '
The examination took place. It was not attempt
ed by the defence to deny the shooting. It was
proved that the accused was a lady of unblemished
character; but the Justice felt it to be his duty to
bind her over to keep the peace fur six months in the
sum of $5OO. Avis was also bound over.
A suit fur slender will be brought by the lady for
damages in this case.
SflOC " 4 '
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11 I 1. INO DBATIL-.-..A DIAN CUT TO PIECES ON
Tote RAI ROAD.—WO learO from the Pottstown Led
ger tlict on Wednesday, the 7th inst., the Coroner
of Montgomery county held an inquest upon the body
,
of on on flown man, about 35 or 40 years of age,
who had been killed on the Readinglßailroad, a short
distance hove Port Kennedy. The body was found
dying on Ithe girder of almidge, between the tracks,
and mangled in a shocking manner. Roth legs were
completely cut off; one of them close up to the body,
The other leg,was served just abovc the knee.
With the exception of a slight Scratch on the side
of the face, the other portion of the body was unin
jured. The deceased had on a dark roundabout, dark
pair of pants, lark vest, a pair of dluedrilling over
hauls, and black c'oth cap: He had in his posses
sion a small sum of money and a "pass book," on
the inside of the cover of which is written the name
George Reinhart, which Is supposed tube the name
of the deceased. The names of Henry Collins, and
George .11arkle, also appear in the book,
under the
head of "boarding," and at the end of eac h name are
a number of marks, as if specifying the length of
time the individual had been boarding. The deceas
ed was seen at the village of Dridegeport 'the day
previous, in a state of intoxication, and it issiippos
ecl was lying upon the Railroad track in the same
condition, at the time his death occurred, A carpet
bog, contain a shirt and few other articles, was
found at the end of the.bridge, al few yards distant
from the body. .
The Boston Traveller notices the departure from
that port of the Ship General Taylor. She is a
"three decker," and is estimated to carry seventeen
thousand barrels, and is entirely full. She has on
board 15,651 packages of ggods, among which aro
2300 cases shoes and boots, valued at $4O per case,
(a low estimate,/ is 64 2 8,000; also 2700 cases and
bales domestic prints shirting and sheeting a $6O
per package, is sl62,ooo—the remaing 9751 Pack
ages, consisting of groceries, hardware, crockery,
Rte., may safely be put down at $lOO,OOO, making
the entire cargo worth $390,000, which goes coi n
signed to 332 merchantile firms at New Orleans,
A considerable part of the cargo is destined fur lit.
Louis, and placekon the Mississippi river
Hoornn Sn►rs.—We learn 'Cram Newcastle,
Delawareohat a new steamboat, named after the
town, has just been built there by Thulium Robinson,
on the hooped plan, invented by his father. She
is one hundred and twenty feet in length, is built
fur a company and intended for California, whither
she will be carried, on board ship, in pieces,' like
her engine, which is about being completed at the
works of the Newcastle - Manufacturing' Company.
The "Newcastle" is, we understand, entirely occur
ed, according to the plan of •construct ion, by iron
hoopa, no timbers being fitted in her. Mr. Rubinson
is about . laying doWit the keel of. a similar vessel,
one hundred and lifty , feet in length, for a gentle
man in'WashingtonVity. who designs her fur the
trade of ,the .Potomac.—Philadelphia Gdzeite.
Fmk EIUNDRKD EMIURANTS DRAD,;-...A letter from
Bitter Water, 28 miles west of Fort Laramie, June
23, 1850, to the St. Louis Republican says:
4, From.the number of graves I have passed, the
amount of sickness in trains we have found lying
by, and from information received at Fort Laramie,
I have no doubt•thero has at least five hundred emi
grants died , betweeii the Missouri .river and Fort
Laramie since the.firat of June, 1850. This aide
o f Port Laramie) have foundbut very few graves."
erit 'WeeUhl Olyarutt.
ERIE. PA
SATURDAY MORNING; AUGUST 21, 1850.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
CANAL COMMISSIONER.,
WM. T. MORISON, of Montgomery.
AUDITOR' GENERAL,
EPIIRAIM BANKS, of Mifflin.
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
J. P. BRAWLED, of Crawford
CONGRESS,
C. B. CURTIS, of Warren
Congressional Convention.
The Democratic Congressional Coinivention which
essernbled at Warren, on Wednesday last for the purpose
of selecting a proper perion for Congress, have placed in
nomination C. B. CURTI3. Esq. of Warren, fur that re
sponsible station.
Err The absence of tho editor, who was a dclegtito to
tho Congressional Convention at Warren, will account
for the scarcity of editorial this week.
o:Twe aro informed, 'that at the lotting of the con
tracts for the construction of tho Erie and Edouhoro
Plank Road, the contrast for constructing the entire road
was token by Joss GALBRAITH. Esq., of this city. We
are gratified at this result as it gives assume() that the
work will be vigorously prosecuted, and that wo shall
soon be reaping the adv . aniages which tho completion of
that important road will bring to our city. NVe under
stand that the ground will be broke upon the work, on
Friday of next week at Eagle Village. and that the work
will progress as rapidly as possible until the whole is
finished. Seo advortisoment in' another column for
proposals.
' Burglary.
The store of Messrs. Vincent; llimrod tVCo., was bro
ken open on Tuesday night last, and robbed of about
$l5O of their duo bills, familiarly known et; "Prceterink
tarn," and four or five dollars in cents. The thieves ef
fected-au entrance by prying open the door with en
iron bar. Tho clerk slept in the store but did not hear
them. No discovery has yet been made to lead to their
detection.
An attempt was made ou the same night to form open
the door of the store-of S. B. Powers, but was not suc
cessful. The dwelling house of John Ryan, Esq., resi
ding just out of town, was entered on'Sunday last, in the
absence of the family, and robbed of money, watch, &c.,
to the amount of about 70 or 80 dollars. Thse things
are becorning-quite too common for the safety of the
community, and it is high limo that some measures
shidd be adopted to detect the scoundrels and bring them
to justice.
.What are our Railroad Prospects ?
This is the all-absorbing question at present, and ono
too of great importauco to this community. and we con
fess that we are utterly unable, from present indications
to answer it. We have solved and re-solved the ques
tion so often in our own minds that wo are hardly copa
l& of coming to any conclusion iti the matter. There is
ono thing however that is certain. Erie county holds the
key to the groat western world, and can turn the lock so
as forever to shut off an eastern Railroad connection with
that world if sho;chooses. Will she throw away this pow
er by allowing any company.corporation or whet not to,
build a railroad through her territory. making scarcely a
watering place in it, and thus virtually cutting the throats
of her citizens and making them forever tributary to'
and at the mercy of Buffalo, Cleveland end other rival
cities? Is Erie, with the best harbor on the ichole chain
of fakes for safety and capacity for commercial busiuesq
lc, Jio thus passed by: and sacrificed by the influence of
the Doilati and ,741141 of a company of an adjoining state,
and the business which :ightfully belongs to her trans
ferred to °there? Wo do not bti!iove it, and yet we warn
our citizens to beware. There is tt henvy game playing
and we know not who will be loocd. (Id not believe
it will be us. becauso wo hold the cards that muse Loin if
they are played. Wo are not among those. lietvei'Qr
confident wo may have boon heretofore, that will sit qui
etly down in that confidence and declare that there is no
danger until it is too late to prevent It. Nolo is the time
for action: Now is the time to stand up. with the direc
tors of tho Erio and North East road,-who with but ono
exception spurned tho offers made for la'yingdown a 'track
with the same gaols between Buffalo and Cleveland, thus
preferring the interests of their town to money. Now
is the time, we say, to stand up with thorn, and give thou;
people, and our own too, if there aro any who *favor it,
distinctly to understand that no such road can or RIIALL
be built though this section of Pennsylvania—but that
Erie County and city must be consulted and somewhat
benefited too by whatever arrangement is madp.
We understand that several. propositions were, made.
at tho meeting of thu Directors of the several roads, of
Buffalo on last week. but that nothingidefinito has been
done. Tho agreement between the New York and Erie
and North East and Erio roads still remains unchanged.
and that is what must bo fulfilled, the efforts of the cen
tral Railroad to the contrary notwithstanding.
Small Notes. . .."'
,1.
Below we publish tho section of the act, boing the 45th
Section of tho general Banking law, passed at the last
session of the Legislature for Om suppreseion of the cir
colatiou of email notes in this State, and in so doing wo
are led to inquire as to our duty iu regard to the laiv.—:
There is perhaps no section of the State so peculiarly
situated in the matter as the citizens of this county, be
ing as we are betwcon two groat commercial states, with
tho citizens of whom four-fifths of our business id trans
acted, and consequently, nearly our emir° currency con
sists of the Bills of those adjoining states and Canada.
Our duty then, as good citizens is -to collect the small
bills and send them borne; draiv the spscio and bring
that here to supply the vacancy occasioned by the effects
of the law. This Can and must-bo done, and should have
been commenced sornetinniduce, in order to have been
ready to meet the requireme me of the act liko good law
abiding citizens. It is useless to declarS hostilities agaipst
the law, or to attempt to resist its provisions, for in our
I opinion the State has a perfee.f right to regulate its.own
currency, as long as it keeps within the prescribed lim
its of tho constitution of the United States. It Is cone°.
clod en all hands that the State has a right to suppress the
circulation of shin plasters, and we are at a loss to discov
er the difference between the due bills of a company, an
individual and those of ati incorporation.
Let us all MU hold of tho matter and assist in carry
ing out the law. and wo venture to assert that in less than
three months we shall have a currency hero that we
would not excliango fur all tho oue dollar bills in chris
tondom. The following is tho section declaring the
penalty, oSic: ,• .
SEC. 45.—That from and after tho 2.lst day of August,
One thousandeight hundred and fitly, it shall nut be law
ful for any person or persons, corporations or body corpo
rate, directly or indirectly, to issue, pay out, pass, ex
change. put in circulation, transfer. or cause to be issued,
paid out, passed, exchanged. circulated or transferred,
any bank note, note, bill, certificate, ar any acknowledg
ment of irdobteduess whatever, purporting to be a bank
note, or of the nature, character or appearance of a bank
note. or calculated fur circulation nEf a bank note, issued,
or purporting to bo - .issued by any bank or incorporated'
company. or association of persons, not located in Pon.'
nis) Jeanie, of less denomination than fiVe dollars. Every
violation of the provisions of this daction by any corpora
tion or body corporate, shall subject that corporation or
body corporate to the payment of five hundhd dollars;
and any violation of the provisiona of this section by any
public officer holding any office o appointment of honor
I ,
or profit under the constifirtion nd laws of this State.
shall subject such officer to the pa went of one hundred
dollars; and any violation of this section by any person,
not being a public officer. shall subject that person to the
payment of twenty-five dollars. one half of which shall
go. to the informer, and tho other half to the edusity in
which the suit is brought, bud may bo amid fur and re
covered as debts of like amount are now by law recover-
Shia in any action of deb!, In the name of tho Common
wealth of Pennsy lvania , as well for the use of the
proper county, as forthe person suing. -
Correapondenee of the Erie Observer.
BOSTON AND THINGS IN 2.
BMW'. August 16. 1850
Lot us look at Deacon Street, the residence of the
"high bloods" of lioston,or assome would signi fi cantly
say, tho "codfish aristocracy." l It is indeed a beautiful
street, wide and airy, and as clean almost as a parlor
floor. It fronts on the Common, and from the whitlows
of the tall brick and granite mansions, there is a magulf
icent view; embracing an agreeable part of the city,
tho,whole Common, the Public Garden, and the adjoin
ing town of Roxbury, with its handsome white collages/
and green and wooded, heights. On this street, those
old retired merchants, stuck jobbers and bankers, reside,
who have amassed in their several occupations, enough
of the "root of all evil," to outtHe them to live in 0330
and luxury, to clothe their wives and daughters in silks
and laces, to s heep their rakish sons in "tin," and well
wrapped in broadcloth; and to walk about the streets
themselves in fine weather, with half their faces con
cealed behind mammoth double starched dickies, and
their pecks enveloped in intricate folds of cambric white
as the driven snow. - 01k; saints of the calendert how ripe
and succulent they aro; how fat and sleek they look, as
with cane in hand, and hat drawn stiffly on, and with
huge gold watch seals hanging down the right leg, they
promendo the streets, seeming say—" Look on, oh
childen of the poor! loOk on, ye sops of toil! behold ma.
and the estate to which 1 have arrived. With these
hands alone, I have carved a fortuno,-and built a mon
ument to my own industry. Ssy if you please, that my
wealth came from a distillery; that it came from vend-,
ing the inAiriating draught, and from following in the
steps of Shylock. Still, I clutch the gold; still lam mas
ter of untold sums; and being master of gold, I am mas
ter of all else! wish."
Beacon Street is :he fashionable promenade: On a
lino Sunday afternoon, what gay peacocks, and ,fiao but
terflies, tread its sidewalks. The mustachioed dandy,
just let loose from his mother's bandbox, hero walks and
sucks the ivory head of his cane, ever and anon, bend
ing his perfumed hoed and casting corkscrew glances of
thci most melting character, at the gay,. giddy, bird-like,
fniryltke "creachaws," whom ho cannot help meeting
for the life of him.
But enough of Beacon Street; among its residents
there are doubtless many sensible persons; even many
benevolent, kind hearted individuals. So let them bal
ance the vain, the, foolish, and the purse-proud.
Let us walk upon the Common; a place combining
all the beauties of Nature, with all the adornments of
Art. Notice the extent, and variety of scenery in this
enclosure. Fifty acres of level land and beautiful knolls,
covered with emerald grass and. handsome elms and ma
ples, interspersed with walks, yellow as gold, hard as
freestone, end on which not a pebble'can be found lar
ger than a pea. Nearly iu the centre of this charming
place, this pride of Boston, is a little pond or Lake, al
ways full of sparkling Cochituate water. Its edges are
walled with granite and its bottom paved with smooth
round stones. •In the centre of this crystal pond, is a
powerful fountain, capable of throwing a heavy column
of water ninety feet into the air. Its mouth piece con be
adjusted so as to play in many different forms, low or
high, giand or simple, fanciful or artistic. Handsome
treoisurround this pond. and beneath the trees, and in
deed beside the walks all ever the Common, are placed
easy and .convenient seats. on which the lover and his
"fayre ladye" sit and talk away, the flying hours—the
politician smokes and enjoys his newspaper—the tired
man stretches himself to merest his exhausted frame, and
the honest citizen and his careful wife, sit and wtach tho
games of the children about them, thinking of their own
young days, long since burie'd beneath. the furrow of old
Time's forward cutting plow. Around the entire Com
mon is a neat iron' fence, the cost of which was more
than $lOO,OOO. I
From the Common, wo bavo only to cross Charles,
Street l to outer the Public Gordon. comprising an erca of
about twenty,acrep. Hero wo find good walks, skirted
with beds of shubberY and flowers, a handsome pond
and fountain, a green house, and pretty treei, and vari
ous arrangements for childrens' out door amusements.
Boston may well be proud of her Common and Public
Garden. No other city in the Union has anything to
p i
csmaro with them. They aro of great benefit to the
people, they aro breathing places, whero the dusty
tradesman and mechM - tic can for a while forgot the bus
tle nr the city, and be reminded that Nature still exists,
an d to still' able to adorn herself 'with' such beauties as
man cannot pi S e ed to imitate.
yours,
The Southern Plot.
It has been generally rumored, but wo tit:zt not: very
generally believed, that a plot has been on foot (or some
time past, for the formatron of a new Republic out of
the Southern:States, Mexico, and Lower California.with
Mexico for tho Capital. However loth we may have
been to believe this rumor, it has assumed such a form
as to leave scarcely a doubt on our minds as to its truth,
and that the plot was only frustrated by the refusal of
Mexico to co-operate with the traitors of this country in
their grand !scheme for self a,ggrandiZetnent. Iu speak
ing of this plot
.the Philadelphia Bulletin very truly re
marks that the times are altered since a somewhat simi
lar plot was charged upon Aaron Burr. For an alleged'
participation in such a conspiracy that notorious intrigu
er was arrested on a charge of high treason, ignominious
ly taken to Richmond,nnd there tried for his life. Though
acquitted of the charge, the Odium clung to him; and
from that hour he became, a's it were, an outcast. A
large portion of his fellow citizens believed Burr inno
cent of treasonable designs against his country, and con
sidered that this plot was merely ne for the invasion
and dismemberment of Mexico.
J ut ,so strong was
then the pnblio feeling in favor o to Union, that the
mere accusation of a treasonable intent ruined Burr.— 1
Ile went abroad j after the trial, resided in Europe fur
some years in' obscurity, and finally returned to the U.
States to live iu comparative poverty and died neglected.
How is it now when a real conspiracy for the dissolu
tion of the Union has been set on foot, and when the
parties engaged in it are publicly known? Three and
forty years ago, when a similar plot was thought - to be
hatching, the iron hand of the law laid its grasp on the
principal offender, though then but lately Vico President 1
Grillo United States. It is true that; in the present case,
no overt act of treason has been committed, and that
consequently no arrests can be made, • though time, and
place, and persons are familiarly known. But what the
law cannot reach, public upiewmay. Thoughlthe guilty
participants in this conspiracy escape through the tack
nicalities of the law, there is a bar of the people where
no trickery avails, but where right and wrong are infalli
bly judged and sternly maintained. At that bar these
ungrateful children of our'common Union lain bo tried,
will bo Condemned, will bo outlawed. The remark
which•the late President, in the indignation of true-pa
triotistn, applied to the delegates of the Nashville Con-
I Nention, may be applied to those concerned in this plot:
and the whitest man that has participated in this nefa
rious scheme will, in the end, bo blacker than the black
est character iu the Hertford Contention. In the im
partial pages of history, these men will be infamous
forever.
We use strong language but the occasion .demands it.
When men plot treason, we call them traitors; and the
dismemberment of the Union is treason, if ever there
was such a crime. It is treason not only' to our own
common country, but to the human race. Since the pe
riod of authentic history no nation has ever existed.which,
in the short space of seventy years. has done so much as
this for the progress of mankind. At the present time
there is no one which promises to work such marvels in'
the future. Imperfect as our institutions still are, and
must continue, for a long time, to remain, they are
better than those of any other people, and should there
fore receive the hearty co-operation of every• friend of
his race. The success of these institutions. however,
depends on the continuance of the federal Union, for,
without that. there can boon permanent peace on this
continent. and, without peace. human progress moot
go on. The mac, therefore, who plots the dissolution of
the Union. conspires for a treason more terrible than
any recorded in blatory, a treason against i the cause
-
of civilization, of ,freedom, of material and spiritatl
provement. Ile attempts a deed which, if succce,f,,,
must put back the time-piece of humanity for center,;,
Yet them are—we aro pained to record it—there sr,
such men in this country. Some, from a mts:ak:s
conscience, would abolish the Union, in order to
what they think right. Such men are like the boy ‘ . te
broke his wagon against thostnmp; bucause, he said t:,,
bunts b ,ae bvsirtllttsin the road, 'and he was not geisz
o o way to it. Others would dissolve the feder a l
mpact bucause they fear that slavery cannot contioot
f orever under it; and regarding slayery as a patriareLV
institution, and the only relation between winter 1 5 1
blacks to be tolerated, where both live in one cowry,
wish to perpetuate it. There are still others, and they
aro worse than all, who desire a dissolution, because, 1.3
the event of a new confederacy being formed, they h 5 ?,
to rise to higher honors than they can ever expect to st.
tarn otherwise. Mere ambition, ambition, too, withou:
principle, is the riding motive of these traitors. Too,.
trance their personal ends, they would plunge the coca
try into civil war, blest their fair name of repo`o'.itwan u ,
and destroy the hopes of millions who look to this !a z ;
as their guiding star to liberty.
Wo repeat, as the law cannot reach these plotters,:e:
public opinion punish them. Mark them out, cans z ,
and patrons, mark them out for public ostracism! Cos,
fer on them no offices, show them no countenanee.te.,
when you can, display your indignation towards them
Thus will the public be saved, hereafter, from a secor....
brood of such traitors.
The Convention held in Meadville on the lath ice.
for the purpose of nominating a ticket to ha supported 4 1
the Democrats of that - county, at the coming electiqs
resulted in the choice of Wm. P. Shattuck, Esq , for
Congress; James Porter and D. M. Bale, as Represen.
tatives; A. B. Richmond, Prosecuting Attornsy;
Henry, Commissioner; A. W. Mumford, county Stir.
veyor, and Andrew Radio for Auditor. The Democrat
speaks iu high terms of the nominees.
InnVe learn that the time for holding tho County Ag.
riculmral Fair in this county, has been changed Iron
September, to the 21 and 3d days of October next.
ID" The followiug resolutions a tribute of respect t 3
te motnory of Josieu STANCLIFF. Jr., one of the riC.
ms of tho America who was buried in this city by the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and subsequendyr e
moved by his friends, were passed by Central Ledg,
No. 12, of Conn., of which he Was a member, and tral,
mimed to us with a request that they be published.
Whereas. it having pleased Almighty God to realer!
from this earthly sphere, our beloved brother, IMP 2
Srasextre, Jr. under circumstances of a peculiarly Su
tressing character, therefore.
Resoired, That while we mourn his early departs!,
and give his name a plade in our memories, We bow
in Submission to the infinite Wisdom which directed an
event so fearful and unexpected. •
Resntred. That we tender to the widow and othet
afflicted relatives of the deceased, the assurances of our
grief, that they are thus called to grieve over the sudden
loss aline endeared to thorn by so' many amiabibuei
of heart and excellencies of character.
Resole:al. That we very gratefully- acknowledge our
indebtedness to the officers and members of Presqeep s
Lodge, No. 1071 of Erie Penn. for the promptness Be d
assiduity with Which they sought to discharge the pees.
liar duties of Odd Fellows, and blhten with their be.
nevolent attention, the last hours our departed broth.
Resolved. That lino. 131:11J. Gstasr, of Phits
Lodge, No. 299, in his ready and affectionate ministries,
commends hirnselr to us and the family of the deceased,
a s hi g hly deserving of our gratitude and esteem.
Respired, That the foregoing Resolutions be forward.
ed to the relict of our 'late brother, Presque'lle
and Bro. Benj. Grant, and also inserted in the papers of
this city, with the request that they may be copied into
the Erie papers. '
C. A. NEWELL, Secretary.
Must Serve the People.
Anong the members elect of the . North Carotin L.
islature. we notice the names of Kenneth Rayner, W,l
liam 11. Washington, 'William B. Shepard, and Rome-
Ins M. Saunders. all ex-members of Congress--thy hit
named Minister to Spain under the late President Polt
ELT Min M. Death is the name of a whig volunteer
candidate for the Senatorial delegate to revise the Con
stitution of Indiana, for Rush county, in that State. Hs
regular whig opponent is terrified by this unexpected ant
inauspicious visitation, and it is more than probable that
the Democrat will beat both DZATII and his adversary.
Population of Pittsburgh.
The Pittsburgh Gazetta, on data furnished by the cen
sus takers, estimate the population of Pittsburgh arit
surrounding tows at 78,760 persons, and of the county
1.12,739. This is en increase of 80,000 in ten years for
SCRIBO
the whole County.
EL The Freemasons of New Eleven are to celebrate,
on the sth of Ssfittimber. the one hundreth anniversary
of 1-+am Lodge, in that city, and invite their brethren
from abroad to join them, to whom a free public dinner
is offUred.
IL7The legislature of Missouri just elected, Win poll
161 v gegen joint ballot—it will therefore require 81 votes
in fug convention to elect the United Stites Senator.—
The prospect is. that no ono of the three parties will
have that many votes.
ILFThe New York Block for the Washington Menu.
ment has been ordered by Governor Fish to be taken
from the quarries at Glen's Falls.
115 - Gen. Houston has confessed, that aelltestacZ:
live to a southern confederacy was presented to ht last
winter, but says it was not by Gon Lopez.
JEWS IN THE UNITED STATICE—There are, it is sop
posed, 50,000 Jews in the United 'States, mostly in the
large cities. In New York, they have ten synagogues-
Ono is about to be erected in Syracuse.
MT"! wettish to schipp•in the Lucille," said a Dutch
man to the clerk of a shipping of f ice.
"Well," said the clerk, pen in hand, what'syour
name?"
"It ish Hans Vanasmanandereaunsevaneymendeymi
teheitenschupflopeldtmidtdeschupeneridrornp!" said the
Dntchy, gravely spitting out his old quid. and taking a
fresh ono. '
"Mavens!" said the clerk, "do you huow what it 13
in Englishl"l
"Yaw Irb does. It is Ybon Smith!"
NEW Pcarrortn.A candidate for office in Michigan,
thus announces his platform: I am, sin in favor of the
next war—opposed to the cholera—in favor of high sat•
aries—opposed to uncurrent funds and poor brandy."
NAME Esecon.—We have received from Newport,
Ky.. a daily paper bearing the following extensive title:
"Tho Newort and Covington Daily News and Licking
Free Bridge Advocate." If it can beer up auoh a name
it will have a deal of vitality about
ILTRhodo Island is a small State. Its Governor
the editor of the "Providence Journal," one of the beat
papers in the country. The General Asset Ably of that
State adjourned its session ort Saturday lest, after a so-
Sion of four days and a half. j f
tErA large number of the,:rioheat and most respecta
ble citizens of Concinuati have petitioned the Common
Council of that city to loan the credit of the city foreight
hutitirid :thousand dollars ' to the Ohio and Mississippi
railro d. The hat is headed by Nicholas Longworth,the
ricitesiman in Cincinnati.
GROWTH OT 311 X WESTRRN Crrirs.--thicago 4 rhas
quadrupled her population since 1810, having at that
time a population of 24,000. The increaso of 51ilwaukis
-has been more rapid, - having grown from 1,900 in 184)
to 25,000.
07The canine returns for Willismsburgh made do
present population to number 25.000 souls. In 1010 the
population was only fi„000 showing an increase of 20.-
000 in 10 years.
117 The route for the direct railway line between.fiyra
cute and Rochester is to be definitely located immedi
ately. Surveyors are now preparing for the work.—
Palmyra Cour t
Fussy Mirmic—The telegraph to Toledo antiouri
au that President Fillmore had appointed Vim. Dellarne
collector of the port of Buffalo, They meant to hare
written Wm. Ketchum. Wo doubt whether Mr. K•
would recognize himself under the former garb,
Crawford County Ticket,
G. W. liaitats, N. G