A amigo Mrcdr! 4 . . Una Ronsnta , amu rderim convicteapT poisoning, was executed at Smethport, filt.ean county, in this State, on the 30th ult. On the morning after the banging ,(wo copy from the Mclean Orbit:) -. "The grave of Mr. Robbins appeared to here been disturbed, and it was finally -thought best, to examine. On digging dOwn to, the coffin, it was found that the 'Wiled been bored some ten or twelve Inches from the head and split off: The end of the coffinias empty except seine little dirt bad fell in; the jr" eral impression at first was, that the body had b en taken out, but there was a doubt of the possibility of the removing the body through the epperture made in the coffin, and upon removing the dirt whiCh had fell in, it was. found that the head had been severed from the, body and carried oft The.deep disgust and indignation felt by those present, led them to-conclude to make some, inves tigations to discover the "grave fiend."—There had recently been a building reinoVeda little out of town, which was undergoing some repaire, and_ which being back from the road and frequented by a person upon whom suspicion rested, particularly attracted the attention of those present. COnsequently our citizens, to the number of some twenty or thirty, repaired tb the building. The person suspected was in the building at work at his bench. The crowd passed up a board into the door of the build ing, quiet and silent. - As they began to file into the toom, the suspected person, without speaking, turned around and set dowti on his work bench; _ still tere was note word spoken, either by him or .the crowd,,but there was a deep emotion' visible in hie countenance. Finally, after the crowd had got into the building, a search wee proposed, but no mention made for what they were sea/chine, end they commenced; still the suspected person sat per fectly dumb and almost motionless. After a few moments, two or three persons' went to a pile of shavings in the corner of the room, partly under the end of.the work bench, and pulled out from—under the shavings a glass box, saying '-here it is," and sat the box out into the middle of the room, and upon brushing otytka EltayingP , the hand was found in the box." The head wits decently re-interred, but when the person suspected, Anna P. DARRAS, was sought af ter, it was found he had fled before the ?recess. fur histrrest could be made out. A West; 815040.== - The Norwich Courier thus relates the narrow escape of a boy 14 or 15 years of age, named Lootnis, \ from downing in the sound a few days since. The lad wished to visit New York, and for this purpose,he ; :secreted himself on board the steamer Knickerboeker,,on Monday night— t'..jtskht ed Now York safely, and \set out to come home the same boat on Tuesdavevening,. About midnight, when the steamer was — somewhere off Saybrook the young scape-grace fell overboard in some way—in just what way he seems unable to explain. He cried fur help, but nobody heard him, and tho boat went on her way. He says his first impulse was, after finding himself left to his fate, to strike for the Connecticut shore; but, looking in the direction of New York, he saw, or thought he -saw, a vessel of some sort in the steamer's wake, and he concluded to "lie to" awhile till he should, find out what it was, and whether it was likely to come within his reach. ' The result was that she came steadily on, nearer and nearer,. till at length i` she cdme within hailing distance. He " poke" the craft—which proved to be a fishing s ack—and was soon picked up by her, and taken into ,New' London, from which place news of the boy's rescue was telegraphed to hia,friends in Norwich. How it WAS DoNs.—When :neral Hintnn batt ed from his keepers, his first care was to make them safe by turning his,key upon them. Ho then left the Weddel House without stopping to pay his bill, and took his course up Centre street Having gain ed the grade of the Pittsburg railroad, he followed it a short distance, but soon concluded it safer to make a short'dctour therefrom. Ho regained It, however, near the city limits, and at day-break brought op in a thicket near Newburgh. For forty-eight hours he subsisted on green corn , and tt piece of salt fish that ho stealthily obtained. Finally,- fatigued and footsore, he approached tlio habitation of man ob tained breakfast, bought a horse and boldly pursued his journey. At Wellsville he voluntarily Burton= dered to the tavern keeper. He gives it as his ' opinion that he could have escaped across the river, and by taking to the mountainous region of Vir ginia, and plying his trade of carpenter and joiner, have ;defied pursuit. Others have their doubts. lie also says that it was at no time his intention to es cape.for a loner time than he, could procure his witnesses and make ready toestablish his innocence. This point is open Tor discussion.—Cleveland Her - aid. A FOUR ;OLD SVICIDE..... Mr. Daniel P. Belknap, of this town, committed suicide on Tuesday in a most shocking manner. Ile cut his throat twice with a razor, nearly severing the wind-pipe; then witty a knife stabbed himself in the region of the heart, making a gash about three inches in length; ho then tied round his neck a hirdkerchief, which was, spliced to some others fin fastened round a bed post, and then jumped out'of the chamber win dow, but the handkerchief gave way and he came to the ground. He next started for the water with all the speed in his power, from which he was res cued by the people with whom he boarded.- lie commenced the act about 12 o'clock, and died of the *round in his body about - 3. lie had made several stabs at his body before he ..effected the mortal wound, the 'ribs affording pro -toction. Mr. Belltnap`hail been insane for a lung time, and been at the Worcester Asylum fora year. —Dedham Democrat. ' • . ,s' TEE SlIfiLL NOTE Lew.—The following from the last Harrisburg ney'stone, in reply to the Intel/igen csr, a Whig paper, is what may be culled the hit di rect: • Tho lastinialligencer is severe upon,this law and its authors. We refer the editor to what GOY. Johnston said on the subject in 1849: • "A large portion of the currency of the State consists of note's of a lower denomination than five dollars, many of them spurioui and defaced, issued by forqgn institutions—about whose sohency no knowledge can bo possessed by the citizens. - ' , This circulation, while it inflicts injury on the community, is in direct contravention of the expreat terms of the law. As it is manifest the existing laws will not remedy the evil, it is suggested that an act preventing under severe penalties, the banks end brokers, dealing in money, from receiving on deposit, exchanging, or paying the same from their counters, would have a beneficial effect in driving these notes from circulation." Mae. MILLER.—Nre learn from a source fulli en titled to credit, that Mrs. Miller, whose sudden dis ,appearunce and supposed suicide at Niagara Fulls, elicited so much remark a few months since, has, within a few days, returned to the home of her fath er, the late senator Nervell, at Detroit, Michigan, who has died during her absence. The stories with which the press has teemed about her having gone to Europe in company with a gentleman, ttc., are . wholly unfounded. Her mind seems to be disordered, and, it is supposed by her friends, that her absence 'was induced by the wring religious excitement Wi der which she has been laboring fur some Y. Courier. IxrairrmicTn! lirlualart.---.0,1 Sunday last the village of JaVa - WaS thrown into the most dreadful consternation,iby ono of the most-,truic and truly horrible scenes. A Mrs. 13nTsrrr, - Wife of Mr. , CARSON DATANT, a highly respectable citizen of that place, cut the throats of her youngest children, the one three years and -the other six months old; and then cut her own. The fearful act was com mitted with oneofherhueband'u razors., The moth -4r and children tvere.found side-by-side, quite dead. No cause Can be assigned for the drepdful deed. A Ritmottesmss, savage, bret!e•browild'hus l bano was fined in Philadelphia, a day or two since for putting ciw.itch in his wife's stocking, before she went' to a dancing party. t3lte became quite wild while dancing, and could scarcely keep from tearing her stockingtfoff befure.the wholeco mpany. Her husband wished to break her of the practice -abe had of running to all the dancing soirees. liinsorr . nourno'Ovr.n.—Anis trial haa'been con cluded, and Moron bound over in $15,000 bonds. There was no defence in fact; bat an effort to make bin bail as favorable as possible. This case will never come to trial. "(V" Mark that! •Ttie bail will be given and forfeited!;Clevela nd Pkindealei: o .Bstinette Pill." Is the .amo of a new pill an Albany Dvtor is getting up for the core of eon breeelree. 'brie Pttlit 440tiltt. ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING; SEPTEMBER 21,1850. ('b(Os (i)f:J FOR- CONGRESS. CARLTON B. CURTIS, OF WARDEN COUNTS' CANAL ,COMMISSIONER. WM. T. MORISON, of Montgomery. AUDITOR GENERAL, EPHRAIM BANKS, of Mifflin. SURVEYOR*GENERAL, J. P. BRAWLEY, of Crawford. Health of Erie. The recent census of our city demonstrates that it lane of the healthiest towns in the country.— Out of a population of 6000 we have had but 66 deaths in a year. Where is there another town oT the same population that can'abow ao small a bill of mortality. Edenboro Plank Road In going out of town- the other day, we . noticed that the contractors on this road were pushing the work with all possible dispatch. -Shovels,,scropers, plows and teams, were busy in cutting down the Hill at Eagle Village, and every thing indicated that the contractor, Mr. Galbraith, would . redeem his pledge to have five miles finished.by the first of January. Our Population. From the enumeration given in the Gazette, and furnished from the recent census by Deputy Mar shal CAUCHIPaj we find the aggregate of 6,850: of the foreign residents, theri are 1063 Germans, 333 Irish, about 100 English, and 74 colored; of those who can neither read nor write, over 20 years of ago. there aro 100, and of those who can read but not write, there are 200. Deaths during the year 66. The population in 1810 was 3412: showing en increase of 2393, in the last ten years. The Village of Girard.. We were beautiful gratified the other day, on a brief visit to this uillage, to see the unmistake able evidence of the growth and prosperity which are presented to the eye. A, large and splendid brick edifice, to be used as en Academy, hi' in process of erection, and will be finished in Limo to open a , school in it this winter. It is built by private sub scription, and is a gratifying evidence of the public spirit \ and intelligence of the citizens of that atelier' of the l ounty. A large blockief stores, five in num ber, three stories high, are 'early finished, besides otherluildings of minor imp rtance,were among the . l i 1 improvements we noticed. Wo understand, also, th 4. a paper is about to be e tablished there. It is to b'e whig in politics, and i 'tended, we presume, to i be the organ of the whig pa ty in that portion of the county. In addition to al " this, and perhaps the moat i nteresting to the hungry, our friend Wedelnr keeps one of the best hotels on the road from Erie to the Ohio line. We recommend our friends to give him a call'. The New York Democracy. The united Democracy of New York, assembled in State Convention'at Syracuse last week,'and af ter several days spent in settling contested seats, fixiv upon a system of organization, to., contrary to oacexpectationr, and Whig hopes, unanimously !nit in nomination the following ticket: HoesTio SIIT3IOUR, of Oneida, fur GOvernbrf SANFORD E. Omen, of Orleans, for Lieut. Governor; long C. MATHER, for Canal Commissioner; CriARLR3 S. Barrrow, for Clerk of the Court of Appleals; and Was. P. ANGEL, for State Pilsen Inspector. These nominations are well received by both sections of the party, and if we are not grossly deceived in the signs of the times, are destined to be elected by an overwhelming majority. Indeed, so far as we can see at this distance from the battle-field, the Democ racy of New York are firmly and perinanently uni ted. The following are the resolutions adopted by • Convention, so far as they relate to national•afl'aire; and it will be seen that they reindorse the Baltimore platforms of 1840-'44—:48, and approve of the passage of the series of bills by Congress, embraced in the compromise. Truly the star of peace shines brightly in the Empire State: Resolved, That the Democratic party of New York are proud to avow their fraternity with, and their devotion to the groat principles• ofi the Demo cratic party of the Union,as declared in the National Democratic Conventions held at Baltimore in 1840; '44 and '4B, and they look forward in hopo and con fidence to the complete triumph of that party in 1852. Resolved, That we congratulate the county upon the recent, settlement by Congress of the questions which have unhappily 'divided 00 people of these States. ' Rea.,That whilst we wage no factious war against the constituent authorities, and as American cilia zone, will, stand firmly by our country, by whomso ever its government may he' administered, we re gard the action of the, whig National Administra tion, from thefirst exhibitions of its proscriptive and intolerant course, to the climax of the Galphin claim, as worthy of the false pretences under which it came into power, and of professions which have been int ariably violated. Resolved, That devoted to the principles and form of ous confederation, ever mindful of the blessings it has secured to ourselves and to mankul, and re garding the citizens of all sections of our country as members of a common brotherhood, we cherish the union of the states as the ark of our political covenant, -and that we deprecate all sectional • agit ations ■t the north or south, calculated to impair its sacred obligations, or to threaten its perpetuity. 'Thought Better of It. • Not raft i ny months ago Hon. Moses Hampton, a whig member of Congress from Allegheny, gave notice tc4is friends that he intended to resign his sent, anti requested them to Tut in nomination a successor. This wee before Gen. Taylor died.— Well, • time run on—the whigs put , in nomination Hon. Harmer Denny, the Democrats, Dr. McClin tock, for the unexpired term. -But s , as we said be tore,.Hen. Taylor died, and the Cabinet appointment 'Moses intended to slip into, aliped out of hie fin gers; and ae Mr. Fillmore did'ut seem to appreciate his qualifications, helms thought better of it, and declares his determination not to vacate his seat—• that, ho-ia determined 'hall not slip fromunder him, nor the "dimes and dollars," which its occupation will bring, into the fingers of any body but - himself. Moses is a trump, that is. evident: Accident at Dunkirk. One of our Mel Cleieland Steamers struck the bottete while coming Out of Dunkirk Harbor yea terdtty, and stove some of her timbers. *She-was not seriously damaged ? however ? and 'continued her trip as far as Erie Harbor.—WasVald Ar men/go. • Vie boat referred to above was the:Diamond:. /3y continual pumping she was 141 . . afloat until she arrived here ? when after , unloading ? and_,Stopidng up the leak tempentrily , ? . she beck $ 9 aur a l* for repairs. Dunkirkio decidedly:a good harbOr for —skip builders! -• TrimnihoftlieDemoir4tioStibrniotnia. :• The passage of the billSAbmh4d by Foote's emit mittee of thirteen ; or tbeii:eqtitrilent, through the two houtei'of Congress, and their signature by ihti President, has 'peed - uttivereek joY through the country. Not i:.voice,' save and except tho ill omened crookers of the Seward end Jeff. Davis school of sibigher law" politicians, north and south, is heard in opposition. Whigs and Democrats alike join in the congratulation; la well they may. The ship of State is once mo e free from the breakers, and the sea sheadis as calm , as the sky, above is clear. That glorious constellation of stars which arose on the shores of the Atlantic, - Surrounded with Ere and blood, has crossed the Alleghenies, spread aver the western praries, and is now belted by the Pacific.— The Senators and Representatives from California now set side and side with those from Maine, Mas sachusetts, and 'the other Atlantic States. Her in wrest is equal with theirs—she is no forwent dumb- , sister, but in the great family confederation of States has a voice and vote potential for weal or for wo.— With California'sndmiesion,New Mexico and Utah are provided with territorial governments, and the' vexed question of slavery in them is settled, or rath er left to settle itself as the nature of the country and the disporition of the people eeo fit. The ques tion of boundary between Texas and New Mexico, which for a time threatened to load to an open rup ture between the Federal and State authorities, is also adjusted. A bill for more effectually carrying into effect the provisions of the constitution in re gard to fugitive slaves, is also among the acts which Congress has deemed necessary to allay the storm against the peace of the Union; while another, for the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Co lumbia, has already passed the Senate, and will, no doubt, as readily pass the House. With such results as these, no wonder the country breaths freer and deeper. And all this is the legitimate result *of the Democratic policy, so ably, but ineffectually, upheld and proclaimed by Gen. Cass and his friends in 1848. And the months of agitation, anxiety and suspense .--the millions sPent'during the present session, to say nothing of the bad-feeling engendered between the different sections of the Union—must all be laid at the door where it cir right and justice belongs.— With tho Boston Post, we any let it be "charged to the right account—to the Seward whigs, who have out and out, labored en facetiously, so madly, so lit tle to the credit of wise legislation! lied these politicians had their way, where would the country in a short time have been? Texas and the United States would have been soon AT WAR: what-cared they? The Union would have been in imminent jeopardy, if not dissolved: what cared they? Cali fornia would not have been admitted, and something like thin is just - what they wanted as party capital. It was in vain that the public voice went!, up to the national halls, imploring an imtnediate'adjustment, and full of warning of the impending danger. They affected to ridicule the anger, despised the warn-, ing, and arrogated to themselves ail the genuine , love of freedom. The very politicians who, had they_a year or two ago had their way, would not have had an inch of ,Calrfornia, who would have left it in the imbecile hands of Mexico, who exhaust ed the language in their Billingsgate abuse of the last democratic administration, affected to appear as the special friends of this-new State, and ciumnrous for her admission. But their wrong move in Con gress gave the lie to their-words. Their votes did all that votes could do'to defeat it, by defeating the hills on the success of which they knew the admis sion depended.' It is not too much to charge the irritation that has marked' the last nine months, the hostile feeling that was arrying itself' with such fearful 'aspect at the South against the North, the gathering of forces to meet . in civil , war, the delay. of public business, the waste of public money, the anxiety in commercial men, to the policy of the Galphin administration, known as won-sarrox, which neither recommend the Wilmot Proviso nor repudiated it, but which sought to avant; iv. Such. was the panacea so ex tensively commended by the - narrow Seward whigs. Non-action as to Utah, and New Mexico, and Tex., as, was the cry. Was ever policy more short-sight ed? Was ever partisanship more dangerous? But in vain did the patriot statesmen of the Senate, a patriot press, and a patriot people cry out against it. They could expose it with an eloquence antrindig. nation that aro almost unequalled in our history, but could not stop the mouths of the non-actionists..— The latter bawled, loud for freedom, California, and had the stereotyped doughface epithet for the great men•who stood so nobly in the breach, and who de serve so well of. their country; and thin was Argu ment enough. And now, after their policy is dead and buried, after it his scorned, ,after it is seen there is nothing but disgrace about it; they are the earli est to shout three cheers for California! Now. that California is in the Union, it will bo well to remem ber, always, who; put her in. who were her true friends; and also to remember who, had they had their way as to their contemptible non-action, would have Iced on to civil tear, iceteed of procuring this gloriolis addition to the vast empire of freedom. While such heavy, judgment is fur the captious who have' only worked delay, it is but bare justice to giye,credit whore it is due. That California and New Mexico aro parts of this great confederacy— forever destined to witness the energies and tri umphs of ranunom—forever to bp,a field on,which American civilization is to spread—forever to be a home for millions of God's freemen—is owing to the bold, fearless, straightforward policy of a democrat icadministmtion. Old fashioned federalism, new namod whigery, always was, and always will be, against the increase of American territory. The struggles of , both to keep out Louisiana, and Tesaa, and California were ,based on the same distrust of the popular featurei in our government, the same narrow politics; the'same want of comprehension. The party that hati such a ground work is not fit to govern the destiny of the vast region it would have spurned. And with this glorious admission of ter ritory there ought to come, in the minds of all true patriots, a firm resolution to put men into . power who have patriotism enough to rise above party and servo their country. ti Glorious, indeed, is the news! Tlie bills are sign ed! The work that patriot democrats and prtriot whigs in the Senate have toiled so for, is done!— Thep le peace where there was discord—rejoicings where there wee trembling..—confldence in a bright future where• all was , gloomy. The despots of the Old World are not to rejoice at seeing the Union of the -New World dissolved." • Q7' The Governor of this stale has - issued a : Proclamation, 'oWering sloop' rearard for the appre hension:of the murderers of Charlie Bird, a respect able nuteiinio,of i'hiltalelPhla, 'lt - is to be hoped that the laWiess ,gang' of rowdies' who have made PhileilOphhorCterror to all orderly people, will'soon be hrOlten up, and the entire band 'slept to the pen itentiory; Id PaVaarlifulp Per . $4141181; law" Beward eeema to be rather popular in tboSpaate. His amendment to the sliest* bill was rejected ion Friaifi'only three otheribeildei himself solos for it, and forty-111.4%1nd 14 The Erie Congo= Vstrict. hue H. Wt&Lltinc ' at present it ' State Senator from Erie county. is the Federal candidate in, this district, of which Hon. Jamie 'Naimoli. Democrat. is now the ef, &hint, and esteemed' representative. • Mr. Cowns. of Warren county; lathe Democratic candidate, and should receive every Democratic vote. if not upon hie own mar-, its, which aro decided.' at lewd against such a'eandidate, as WaLllta. WILIER I. 0110 of the moat virulent and violent Whigs in the Union. His whole coulee has been marked:- either by treachery to his professions, or by as saults upon the best interests,of the country. His com plicity with the Dank of the United States in its worst days—and his connection with tho corrupt legislation that secured that Institution Its charter—should unite against him the whole Democratic rank and filo. In the Stoto Senate ho was one of the most vehement assailants of the Democratic party, and on tho subject of slaverY, he seem ed to have but one idea. and that was to protract the die -113 pato between the two sections of the Union. by asserting doctrines and lying votes of the most offensive charac ter. Will the emocrato of Clarion. of Erie, of Warren. of Jefferson. n d all that entire range of counties. help inch a candidate by their votes or by their actions? That noble district ought to poll a majority of at leaet a thou euUt 'against him in October next.—Pennsylvanian. A little too much, friend Forney; but soy five hundred, and wo will honor the draft—nothing more certain! He is as sure of being defeated as the elec tion day comes. We have reliable.informationirona the balance of the district, and if there ever were any "clouds that lowerd round our house" they are now In the "bosom of the deep ocean buried." Clar ion will give Our Candidate her usual majority, not withstanding the hank allorneyout Heroded Her od, in announcing himself in favor of "protection for protection's sake," at a meeting of the faithful on Court week in that county. The tariff men of Clar ion ire not so ignorant as the relic of the defunct 'monster took them to be, consequently when he "piled on the agony" in , that manner, they, saw at once , his 'arrant 'derrkagogueism. They know that no such tariff as he proclaimed himself in favor of can stand in this country, and consequently that when such ultra and obsolete doctrine is attempted to bo revived, they see at once that it injures instead of benefits them. Them his connection with, and participation in the reckoner of that fraudulent in stitution, the United States Dank, is weiglAtg, him dawn like a night-mare. No man can stand up under such a weight in this district, and least of all such an ono as Joh n 11. Walker. . Uncouth and abrupt in his address—repulsive alike to polit'h al friends and foes, he is as little calculated to w n friends among the Democracy of this district as any mart that conld have been selected. No Democrat' will vote forthim where he is personally known—on the contrary every one who has listened to his coarse and brutal abuse of the memory of those illustrious patriots, Jackson and Polk, will deem it a pleasure and a duty to brand him through the ballot-box.— To think that such -'man can be elected in this dis trict is preposterous, rind we cheerfully pledge Mr. Curtis' election by at least five hUndred! Information Wanted. What has become of the "President's planr We have not heard a word in favor of its superior excellence since Mr. Fillmore became President, notwithstanding all the Whig papers hereabouts declared themselves ready to live and die:by its provisions every week before? Can the Gazelle furnish the :desired information?—if not, perhaps the new Editor of the' Chronicle can, es he is nreply read in the dbadlanguages! The Last Plank Removed The whig papers of this District have been bowl ing most piteously, for the past few weeks, about the Tariff. They are very anxious—the Gazette par• titularly so—to know how our . candinate, Mr. Cur tis, stands iu regard to the "material modificat ion or repeal of the , trariff of '•16." We certtinly cannot enlighten them, for we never converied with him upon the subject; but we can give them a piece of information which ought to stop their clamor for the present, in regard to tariff's. Mr. Toombs (whip ) from the committee of Ways and Means, reported on Saturday last, that it was inexpedient to attempt any legislation altering the existing duties cn im ports. Good! Now let us hate a \ show of honesty, at least, from Whig Editors and politicians for the future.' They have for the last three or four years been howling about 'iruin" and "distress,' the avowed purpose of operating upon Congress. Although all branches of indtistry have wipes tionably flourished under the Operatione of the Ta riff' of 1846, these croakers have ender.vorca to make it appear .that the country has been going to de struction with the 'speed of , a locomotive! But, “Othello's occupation is gone"--the Galphin Edit ors must henceforth find some now political hobby upon which to ride. Poor souls! 137 In speaking of our increase of population in the last ten years, our cotemporary of the Gazelle said “we'believe agencies aro at _work which will cause a much morn rapid augmentation in subse quent years." We really shouhrnt wonder if our cotemporaiy spoke advisedly in the premises, as it was'nt but a few days after when wo saw him dashing by our office, in a Wench° and two, and ho want alone either! All Hail Naive. l' Maine still maintains her proud position as the frontier guard of democratic states. Hubbard, the democratic candidate, has a clear majority over his whig and free soil competitors, and both branches of the Legislature are decidedly democratic, as usual. The Congressional delegation will-stand as former ly, viz: five democrats and two Whigs. Q7' A Western orator, haranguing his audience nn the vast extent and overwhelming population of the American republic, exclaims by way' of climax, “Fanouil Haltwas its cradle, but whar, whar shall We .find timber enough fur its collie Just so; where shell we; if we add a few more states like California, and take another slice from Mexico. Q7' The Richmond Enquirer contradicts the ru mor, as far as it relates to Virginia, that the Gov ernor of Texas applied to several Southern States fur military aid against the General Government. a' A dispatch frooi Washington statea that the rumor that the American flog had been trampled up on at Charlestown, turns, out, as might have been expected, to be a hoax. 1:1? The new Editor of the Chronicle says we are , jonly just what, nature designed" 118 "to be." Thank you; but 'really we cannot return the compli ment and tell the truth, for to our mind it is evident you fro not "juSt what nature designed you to be"— nature desigted you for •e foot, and education has spoilt a capital specimen of natures handl-work in that line. • • . The Last of the .omnihue Through. The bill abolishing;tba Slay. s Trade in thpDie triet of Columbia* passed the liouse.on ; by a trete of 4,24 to 47. This is the last piece of tho Omnibus and : completes the passage of the series of measures reported by recitals celebrated 'committee of thirteen. Q 7" The Democratic Contemns' of the Congrea sional district - tom' inured Of Franklin, Cuinbertand and'Perry counties; met it Manilla, on last Tuea "llaY, and' unahirnously , re-firiminated tor . Congress, the Hon. Junes X. breLatrahan, of Chanitreiabiigli, .Franklie county. Aini nuns IN BOSTON.—Na a. Ckercepondence of the Erie Observer. Bosroxi Sept. 13, 1880. Almost every one in the United States has heard of.Faneuil Hall, the old "cradle of liberty," whine walla have listened to the voices of America's inns trious dead; the voices of the patriots and sages of the Revolution. No American views it and la not proud of the past. No orator lifts up hie voice be neath its venerable roof, without alluding to iteihis torical reminiscences, without invoking the spirika of the "iron sons of '76," without congratulating himself for the opportunity of making himself heard within its time-honored portals. • This memorialof ,the,Past Is a great favorite In Boston. It is free on certain easy conditions to every. sect and party.— When the Whigs:wish to ratify some nomination, or call,out some tremendous echoes, they rush to Faneuil Hall. When the Democratic leaders wish to touch up the "unterrified," and bring them out, en masse, they put, up their mamoth posters at the corners of the streets, headed In leviathan letters; "Democrats! to Faneuil Hall!" So with the Abo litionists, so with the Free &Here, and to the old "cradle" all direct their steps. The "big guns" can not speak except, in Faneuil Hal!, and rarely is a meeting there thinly attended. The Hall is nearly squire and will hold 4000 persons. There are no seats in the body of the house; the galleries, which 'hive rude uncomfortable benches, usually "reserved fur the ladies,". are supported by. stout pillars, not by any means remarkable for style or finish. An enor mous gaslight iron chandelier, is suspended from the ceiling. When the motion to adjourn is carried, the gas is lowered to the feeblest ray, and the mix ed multitude disperse in double quick time. In this twilight there may have been pockets picked, who knows? The rostrum is a plain table like affair; where the speaker is obliged to show himself to the people full length. No hiding of crooked legs, patched shoes, or tattered trowsers; he must stretch himself for the inspection of the curious. The wall behind ,'the rostrum is decorated with portraits of Washington, Peter Fanelli), the donor of the Hall, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Gen. Knox. Com. Treble, John Quincy Adams, and a bust of his fath er...lo)l'n Adams. The picture of Washington is a fine onq, by Stewart tie stands full length beside Ilk noble ?Acct. A tuan and hero, both to eoul and deed. I The building is much cared for by the authorities; it is kept in excellent repair, and were it.not for its round dormar windows and somewhat antiquated style, a stranger might pass it by as a fabric of re cent date. It was built in 1742 by Peter Faneuil, then a distingiiished merchant of Boston, and by him presented to the city. The vane'on the old lash-. lotted cupola, is a huge guilded grasshopper; and well is he known by old and young. The winds blow and the storms descend, the seasons come and go, but the fine old Grasshopper is ever at his post, heedless of the tempest and the flight cif Time. The "Province House." the residence. of the Gov ernors of Mass., in ohl colony tiinfs, still stands, a mark of interest to thoso who love to look at things suggestive of other days. No "sound of revelry" heard within its walls; no guilded coach, as in olden time, stops before its spacious door. It rears its time stained front, but there are few to reverence it or to° think kindly of it for what it has been.- It is hemmed in by taller Buildings, which encroacts'even \on its once broad court yard, and few have time or Aisisosithm to seek it out, as we did, and spend a thoughtful half bobs in meditating on the scenes it 4/as survived, and'comparing its former' provincial . pomp, with its present sinking and forgotten state. The old South Citurch. fimiliar to every reader of American history, stands at the corner a milk and Washington Streets; and every Sunday the voice of the preacher is heard in its aisles. It is owned by a very wealthy society. It wss erected in 1730, and during the century and a fifth whiCh has elaps ed, it has been memorable for the scenes which stave been 'enacted within its walls. The interior of the edifice remains as it has been since the Revolution. While the British troops were quartered Isere in 1775—'-'76, this sacred temple was desecrated and abed as a riding school by the English cavalry. To prepare it for this unhallowed ptirpose the pulpit, pews: and western gallery were - demolished; the ground floor was covered with dirt and gravel, and 'a bar was placed west of the Milk street door for the horses to jump over. The eastern galleries were suffered to remain fur the accommodation of specta tors, and spirituous liquors were•there provided for such as resorted there to witness the feats of horse manship. After the Revolutionary war, it was "sol emnly rededicated to the worship of Almighty God, by Rev. Joseph Eckley, pastorrof the church."' It is built of brick, painted a light slate color. There is nothing peculiar in Its appearance. Longtnay it stand, and be as it is nr, dear to the people of New England: . The former residence of John Hancock, stands in fine preservation on Beacon street, and is now occu pied by one of his descendents. It is built of stone, and noticeable for its primness and singular style. The Massachusetts State House is a noble look 7 ing edifice. Its lofty spacious dome is the most prominent feature of the city. It is the nose on the face of Boston. For proof, see pictuies of the city. There is no gorgeousness about the building; a re publican affair, free to every one. Thousands, both citizens and strangers visit tho dome windows for the sake of the fine prospect commanded by-them.— The whole city, the harbor, the country for miles around, can there be seen. On a fine day the pano rama is a truly magnificent one, hardly to be sur passed in the World; so say travelers. ' The Repre sentative's Hall is remarkable for nothing except an old carved and painted figure of a Codfish, suspend ed by his dorsal fin from some projection on the wall. It is sk symbql probably of the Bay-State fisheries, and was hung up there to remind the legislators of their "chowder," and make them "hurry up" the - atattitesfand "put 'eat through" by dinner time.— I centre of the building, on the first floor, in suitable place prepared for its cicpptioil, is a full: length marble statue of '4l7ashinr:;,, executed by Chantry. No bust or . - trait I have seen of that great man ever pleased me so much as this. There he stands in beautiful proportion; goodness, honey olente, firmness, the true nobility of :nature, all beam from his majestic countenance: He looks the embodiment of virtuous mannood. In a little niche, not far from the statue, aro throe marble slabs; on the first and second are inscribed, in chronological order, the leading event-sof the war of Intlepondetice. On tho third is an inscription which 1 have often read, and as often have my eyes been suffusedfsith tears,-and my heart thrilled with intense but raptor -ous emotion. It may be silly and boyish, but loan not-help it. The •inscription runs thus: 46Artieri cans, while from this eminence scenes of luxuriant fortility,"of nourishing commerce, and the abodes of 'social' happiness Meet your view, forget not those Au 'by their exertions have secured to von ihese blessings.'! :• Yours, • SCRIBCI• U7' The Rochester Democrat states iion tb,fr hest authority`," that' there' has, been a serious mutiny among the “Knockips Girle,' recently returned from New York, and that matters are nearly ripe for II full disclosure of the "grand secret:l4 LIitTERB P-ROM PAIIIS: Correspondence 01 the Eric Olnerver. PARIS, Arover 23, 18.10, Dear Frank:—What excuse can be offered i t , my long s il en ce? if I wore to give any it wouldk, the hot-weather; and truly "it has made" a 'err warm time, as the French have it. The therm oti . eters hare been of no use, the cornmonlinstrumeet, not b e i n g . graduated high enough to indicate tL, temperature. 'lt came as near Holmes sql et set. son" as possible: "Plump 1000 of toOrti top ordered tights, Hot.,cre the scorch ; op noon r, Their eandte-moulds had crown as taste As Coss%ek Pantal"ohc The dog* run mad—men could not try If water they would choose: A horse fell dead—he only left • Four red-hot, rusty %hot's?, Last week, however, came relief in the. shape of ono of the heaviest rain' I ever witnessed. For nearly en hour it poured down in torrents; 14 mouths of the sewers, in many piaces,,becam e 0 4 . strutted and the streets flooded in consequence;.. even some of the shops were inundated to thedepat of a foot or more. In one place the water rote so high that a party of boys swam about the temper s .' rary lake, much to the amusement of the lookers -e a , In another, a drayman left his dray loaded with tap. ty barrels, but when he returned, after the rain ceas ed, he found nothing but his horse and cart; the flood had carried of his load, which he found scat , tared about a square or two froni the spot. The next day, the streets had the appearance, for the first time, of being clean; the air was coot and pure,and every countenance expressed a feeling Of relief--ee though some bamboo had been removed from th e mind. Truly a heavy rain is a great blessing, is such city as Paris, for the streets, become dirty in spite of the daily sweeping they receive. The city has been very healthy, and although there are so many causes here of an epidemic, none has prevail- ed.- The Cholera seems to have done its walk len year, upwards of forty thousand having died From it in Paris alone. Speaking of this epidemic remicdl me of the Hospitals of Paris,,of which a few worill may :not prove uninteresting. They are of tap Icindg, and are called "hospitals" and "Hospices' The first are devoted to patients laboring under mt. tidies considered curableond are again divided izt3 general and special hospitals; the first for the meet tion of the ordinry patients of both sexee,'and Ike last destined - only fur the treatment of a particulu class of maladies. The hospitals pre fourteen is number, furnished with about sevaia thouiand beds, and affurdinerelief to upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand patients each year. The Hospices are fur the reception of infants abandoned by their parents, and those rendered help. less by age, or affected by some incurable dmaser. The population of these is upwards cf twenty-thaa- sand; or rather this is about the number annually received in theze establishments. The prineipa!, "La Salpetriare, was roundel. by Louis XIV, arid takes its name from the fact that the building was originally useit for a manufactory of saltpetre. Itis . ,now used exclus:yely for the treatment of fediale patients, and within its walls there are now over sixty thousand souls; some mad, acme epelectic and . others decripid from age or disease, maiiing in all such an aggregate of suffering as can be bound only in a great oily like Paris. These charitable lam- tutions are supported at an expense of about three millions of dollars, and are under the control of a "general council." The money does not come u'i• reedy from 'government; the theatres are obliged to pay a certain portion of their inctime to them; the city of Paris pays annually a large sum, and they have funded property to a large amount. Etch e - tAblichnical has a "Director," who has charge ofthe administration. In cases of urgency thOlnterne up- on duty may admit patferits; bathey are venally re quired to go to the "central bureau," where there is always a physician and surgeon'in attendance.— The physicians and surgeons are chosen from the members of this "central bureau," and each have to attend about seventy-6ve beds, of a morning. Since the Fatientsare attended gratis, the hospitals are - open to stti eTs every morning from seven to tea or eleven, and sigh men as Velpean, Ricord, Jobert, Roux, etc. etc. areollowed by a large erd - wd of stu dents, brought here from all quarters of the world by a common object. `After the visit all repair to the ampitheatre where a\lecture is delivered Upon the cases in The wards, and\any operations which may be necessary are then mrid Each ward hay, what is called, an ' 4 lntern'o," who, is a student of medicine of acertain standing, and,d.-io