Political and GeiieTal News. FROM Ii&ILBISMiIia. . Correspindence of the Pennsylvanian. • HallalleatlßO, Jan. 11 The standing Committees in both Houses, were announced this morning, and I suppotm you have them by telegraph before this time. The arrange. meet ou these• Committees, by the _Speakers pf each House respectively, has given very general natis faction, so far as I have heard, thatizh your corres pondent would have made them a Mae di/ferret in the Senate, if be bad been called upon to take such a responsibility., .More anon. Mr. Muhleriberg made a very able speech, to-day, ' in favor of the bill in" relation to the Sunbury and Erie railrnad,•giving municipal and other corpora tions the rizht and power to subscribe for stock in mid railroad!company, and to b trete, m aney for - the same. Helthaught that no Senator conld ob ject to the bill---that the same puw“s and privileges 1 - had been give i to the Pennsylvania Central Road 'that were a-ked for in this hill, and that he deemed it just and right for a company, which was strug gling, as this company was, to effect an important improvement through a large portion of this Com monwealth, to have his aid in ttatir efforts. - Mr. Buckalew illd that he thotight the bill an im portant one, end he boped - it vyould lii! referred to the Judiciary Committee, and receive from that COL - - mittee their careful and deliberate examination. Mr. Sanderson then moved th at the bill be so refer eed but thermotion failen, and Mr. llockalew moved to trice out the words, "atel other,'' b 0 as to con• fine the powers contemplated by the bid, to munici pal corporations. Mr. 13. urged this amendment with force and eloquence, and it was carried- by a - vote of 16 yeas to 14 nary. - Mr. Packer then moved to amend en as to leave the powers and privileges given to municipal. b Ales subject to the will of the people. expri•ssed by their T otes at an election held esoecially•and expressly for the purpose. Geri. Packer thought that this would be a 'just provision, and it the same time do away with the objections urged against granting such powers as were contained in the bdl. He acid that he was no enemy of the'bill, but wets anxious to have it pass in a proper form. lie thought this amend ment could not injure or weaken the bill, inasmuch as he felt sure, that in his district, the County Com missioners, or other municipal efficers, would not be willing to subscribe stock, and: incur •indebtedness, without some expression of the people in favor of such action. Pending this tnceiou the. Sena t e ad journed. . , . - tlAßZtelette, Jan. 13. . , , A bill authorizing a loan, of a sum su ffi cient to enable the-Treasury to meet the February Interest, was passed in that body to a third reading, through considerable discuasion and against a factious oppo sition from the win s. They' were almost unatii •mous in their fight against this bill; and tried every . means to entangle and delay action upon it, but without any material effect. , The course of Mr. Gen. Hart, from your city, however, it is jast to say, furnished an exception to the general cimrse of that party. . He said that he was satisfied that the honor, ereilit and good f a i t h of the State were at stake, laud he would vote fur the bid. Mr. Hart. is a sound faithful legislator, and has honesty of purpose! ennogh and. regard enough fur the obligations of an official oath, to keep clear of mere party, or fictions and captious oppo sition t o suc h a goo-lire as this loan bii', or any . -• other measure ca'l'l fur by the real iiirerest of the Comninnwealth,it it is painful entnetimes to see 11 bow very little fore and t!f it an hilt to discharge lifi duty witfelife, h s upon si me others, when par ty strife and party humbug altorbs -all the energies, and swallows up the conseienice in n.ditical strife. The bill relative to the S-filleirtand Erie Rail mad came up in, the Senate tliis meriting, and a long discussion ensiled upon it, beiwcon Ilessre. Packer. Forsyth and . Fra i ley, in raverlnf the amendment ma king the power to subscribe for stock aril borrow 'money subject to the vote of the people in each mu nicipal corporation proposin ; r to do so. and' Messrs. Muhlenberg, - Fenton and Crabb against it. Mr. Muhlenberz opened the discus‘ion by saying that he was opPo.e.l to the amendment, b."cause ' he felt !assured that it Would in eases kill the bill arid err. arrass the Company in su c h a manner as would Ten er the immediate progress of this greatimprove me t impossible. Ile therefore ei!:ruld not consent to have - this i.menilment attached to the Gill until-he ,could 4t legit hear some good and substantial reason for it. He thoneht that in his - own county the peo ' ple would not think it worth while to go to all the ' 'trouble of an eleg,t ion, for the purpose of spliscribing for a few shares of stock in this Sunbury nod Erie Railroad, while they might do so through their agents, or representat ices—the County Commission ers; that this doctrine of lemeine such matters to We ' voterof the people had been "exploded; and he could' not See anytime , 0 ' , ma. or contrary to the princi- [ ples of our I, overnin e n t . in-allowing the people-to; act In regard to them, throoNitl'ie l ie Representatives. He was an inaities friend of the, enterpriee of this Road, and did not .desire to see any obatructions thrnvirn in the way of its"suece , s, .: Gen. Parker replied that thore wile noSenntor upon the floor. who would be less %Wine" to off r i any unfair or tuareasonable ricers it ion to the bill than I himself: that he. had lone been the trite and ardent I friend of the Suu'utry and E ie Railroad: hod act- ! el and spoken in favor of it in the her Item ie, told; in the Senate, a til elsewhere rot in,My occasions, and 1 that he was now es anXianisly •in its fay as any i other Senator could b •: hut he could net er consent I to have the commissioners of his ciiiiiity, or anysith'- er county, town-hip or borough, in the Common-, - wealth, invested with the power to ioviilve the peo- 1 ple thereof int' tv a heavy debt' their consent, I • even if it should peril the sure?.s of this, his favorite improvement in the Cornmonia alit h . ' He felt sure that several c•ur Ities 11 , 1 tVnel . I.': - I coining and Erie, including perhaps E-it. itse:r,'wollhli * by a rote of the people cmie to the aid of this corn - patty by subscribin for stn-k —that with I.vcoming! it wass more doubtful, on abcoutit of the fart that she had already a copal relining through her territo ry "which afforded an excellent outlet to the markets of Philadelphia and Doliimore.eil that its the heal near season home left Williamspert nearly ...eery i day for those cities, and they could-go to New York if they chorale to do so. lie said. however, that this subject was now agitated in hi s district. and- the - people talked of large subscriptions fur stock in this 'company, and he wanted an exprelssii n of the pt'o. ple Upon this subject, before they should be involved in extreme indebtedness. - lie thought, indeed, that the County Commiesion , era there, coital not be prevailed upon to mulct the people in a debt of two or three hundred thousand dollars, without such an expression of the people's '.., will. He knew also that the enterprise in question ' had merit enough of its own - to -draw out capital wherever it could be found, and that there was not necessity of attempting to rat=e it by any 'extraor - dinary means. lie spoke of the German portion of his own constituent s -a-said they were frugal, Indult. ii trious and thriving people,lint exceeditiely caution., and little disposed to embatk in such affairs as would put upon them indebted:lea's and taxation. He con cluded, that in other German districts they were of the same character, soil could not consent to allow such officers, of any municipal body. as batl been elected without any reference to this matter of in k/eating capital, causing indebtedness an; taxation, ~ to do so without the consent of those . I 1 111 whom . the burden, er responstbitity, must fall. Mr. Forsyth followed to: the same effect, after having made a motion to insert the words "incor porated Districts" into Gen. Packer's amendment, • so as to allow his custituents the right to express their wgiiiebefere they should be involved in liabili ties, by 'their repeesentatiaes, who had been elected without any reference to such "measures. He thoughiviat the force of General Packer's; argument ichative tp his con-tituentP, applied very Well to his own. Monet-me t , I.e had long had very Perini], doubts about the policy or the right of a municipal body raising money by laistion, or otherwise, for other purposes- than those which related tot heir own internal straits.; Ile thought that such corporations were never created for any extensive business or speculating purlposes, which would extend outofths limits of their own territory and jurisdiction, and if such - measures 'were in be taken, he wanted the people therneeleves to have a voice in it. He thought, also, that be would hardly be .milling to sup. the bill, even if the amendment should prevail. i Ur. Fernoo and Mr, Cribb opposed the intend ' infanta altogether, and advocated the bill in its °rig-, teat form, it..ii great Witt , and eloquence. • The Senate adjourned without coming re any vote upon the amendments. FRANICLiN. ' iiiidiniat_ TERRIBLE au t xarr Six persons E& others fatally I 1 i injured. . It is again nut mrdancholy duty to record another 1 1 ap . palli a calamity ittcolving the lives of six persons, who w r moat ins t antly killed, and many Others who ar i tjured is such a dreadful mapper that they cannot possibly sut4iae, ',Well occurred last eve ning a 9i o'clock, it the Emigrant Boarding House, Ni.i 14 Centre-at., under the care of one James O'Calliatt. The am s'of Case as nearly as could be ascer tainedl the , y our reporter at a late hour last Mew s are as folldws: It appears that at 9i o'clock last evening an alarm of tire as sounded In the Fifth District, which was I heard ti the fifth aind upper tory of the •pretnises abte Wined,' whicb, at the time, contained nearly. five huildred personk, most of wham had retired fur theillilit. No suciher had the woman above referred to Ma i d the cry of fire, which she said was in the i 1 bi,,,,„.,, than the %%hole multitude were horror strn k rooked from: their beds, and rushed' fur -the nary stair's to esdrit-e‘into the street. Tt o scene at 1.14 time, asldescribed by some of tli, ho y. ituess.ed it, wits I truly awful. At ' the her ft each pair of stairs the frantic emigrants ap pea d and in their, 1111*I oto escape, were urectpita } , ted to lh bo h ttom, rind in such numbers piled,on top .of cat! n er, that ix persons, three of whOm are namedi J Gleh„ n, John WW. Dalton, a b. - tir abort( 10 yea .8 if age, and. Mary Murphy, were suffocated. The to m s of the Other three persons who lest their hre.i is the same manner, could not be ascertained, as the:, at 12 o'cloek last Light, had nut been recog nizei. Serj: the iri which lfouse 1 w i redi I at d hal I 1 used 1 ha yin, ant Diu ing, of the sixth Ward Police, was 't man at the scene of death and suffering, s only a short distance from the Station- Ile immediately Wormed Capt. Lliennan, patched his whole reserve force to the place the dead and dying removed to the Station- which was turned Tutu a Hospital, atjd beds been spread on the floor for the atcornmoda- the injured parties, who were Isuon attended ti • rat med„cal gentlemen, who on heating of amity, kindlY volunteered their services, and E l •''dlilt the as istance in:their power. following met! persm)s. who are badly in were couve ad to the New-York Hospital by tth Ward rime: John Ha wk, leg and arm ; ElizaSa hge , shoulder dislocated; Locy g ani,Brid et Ifotigliton, severely injured in y: Williaqi Whelan, shoulder di-located; 1 gas Catherine-Sii,eeny, and a woman whose aun nown, whose arm was broken. Sever woe n the Hospital, it is thought, cannot re romj tbeir wounds. The sceno presented at rspital, and also at the Station-House, was' ag iT in the Etat emq thiire being at both places, mothers, brothers, and sisters, beviaging,, most uecit trolible agony, the lots and injury, ' tires.. . 1 I house in bleb this Itw . fut event occurred is I new, and had only bqen used for an etitigrant g.-house about ten dtkibs. Its construction, as' ;the stairs are-concetned, which are %mire than ly steep and very narrow, seems to hive been !planned. The Sixth Ward Police generally, lyerving of nthch credit for the promptness and • with whichlthey acted on the *occasion.— end bodies stjll remain at the Police Station, an inquest ,ill be held on them to-day.—X. -ibune. ME by et• the en render Th , ' jured, the si' broke 'Cushi iernal John name al of cover the II °that , fdthe inch, of re! (mull lodgii far as, usual, badly] are drue/ The whet', t . N strag vi.liat : s I THERN Aly,iico . .—The news, which comes Ana and wrangling and confusedlyfy in from e i ...L d by c urtesy termed the "feat of war"jOilex- Ica, s diy of ids a clue to give it any sortd signal! cane, cane, AM the clue is very easily firid. Mexico ii deny s w iia , revenue she enjoys mainly from au ele vated tariff. Oa the northerlykovincfs the burdett falls ea% ilk:. To evade it - he traders at the provin cial f ire milt up last summer the piratical !jag, and i smug l ed their goods into the towns in spite of cus tom- tuse and-pi lice surveillance. Stricter regula• trio ti the part of Government interfered with this itlici ibui,iiiess, and the friends of free trade, empl o y. fug - lie usual Metican togic, rd korninen, entered 'limo it military foray to enforce their views. To . he movement, Dun Jose Maria Jou Carvajil, nr gentleman indebted to American colleges ociety for his education and enterprising spirit, fec.'.ed; and withalt any marnier of selection, Ity set of lealstaffiab viarriors from Texas were Tied into the *service. And thus the downier olicy has been ar„ , rutd. !ently, it seems, the free trade politicians have. ither the ad% outage in the debate; and General I, one of the four conimisii.ioned champions of thin, ins been broilzht to /ender a compromise. j3I represents the !South Carolinian. spirit of ;. c lion, and protection has to yield, in order to ()lotion (;f the Uoion.—X. I. Titties. head u !fco mid a was a rno triu.t Cliff Re had r rag prute Can• MB tivftcr. Isseosinov:—The St. Louis Republi• • ",the7th in-t., contains the following: affair has been relates to us which demands a nrestivtion, arid, i true, should bring the zt visttaa on the col cable parties. 'A person ceps, or,-tilerks, in a store in Broatlia ay, be cquainted with the daiioll:er of a flower yen lta''a,gov; ..itotea very iaretfy girl, aged about J —awl, after visiting . her several times, made tain-overtures of marriage. Having obtained Itent, ha told her to meet him .at a particular n Saturday last, at his store, on Broadway, ite.proinised _thelatiendance of some fit person . 0..1d pert arm thia mariiage ceremony. The me, according to appoint men:, and after a short nmeher clerk in the store married them, or, ' eveilt. , . performed the mitii4ter'4 part,, iii a. fry ofthe mar ripge , ceremony. The principal i, we learn, i s-on the point of starting for New ity —then proposed that she should acc.unpa n to the boat. l girteiefused, however, stating, that she must HI keg mother of what had - tul:.en place, and, t nalny entreaties to remain, rt.turned home. !iarrilize certificate, as drawn out by the clerk Zned by all : the pvlies, has been secured, and tin the halnds of the proper persoitit. The Fr, Ve Itorti, has asceitained, to her satisfact: at a seduction was de.dgited in the plans laid ... EOM QM p co iio W hu EEE 1121 ter dauhi s er. Wes.antiut be vita care, bow 'tat' the tuarriage,-evett - periortned as it Was, aboli et er, unauthorized agynt, is [Mt valid; at all events, er it 'he veil,' or not, whether it was intended , justice deinsinfa that the matter be thorough- Sy a r Whet or nt ly sif prop ed, and the parties he nude to appear in their light, whether of good or evil. rtstox or TUR T./atm.—Al Washington cor- Went of The Journal of Commerce states that •,,r James, of Rhode Is;aod, has framed a pto r a nvidikatiort of the Tariffof 1846 0 and hav- R re g Sena jec t lug insulted several members in regard to it; will soot repent his scheme to the Senate, with the ap priy atioaof some'of the leading Democratic mere.' hers I bOth Muses. Ills plan is raid to look to it reduction of the, rate of duties on some articles of ittaiit - dcture. %%hint & enter into general congtimplion, and tin increase on finer fabric.. It propriiieg In add tbri per cent. to the present duties pn imp, and the slime, Ipo-n fine cottons, and fabrics of cumin and stow, it:acing tbe present system ntheritise as it is. sin Tin Paartnat—The' Mtiortal Inteli gencr, at.llta,hinguin, says there is gond reason to bebeve that peraoupsiti New York, and in %Yeah ing:tin city_ hale beeii.e:ideivorin to thtvatt im portant measure of the Government bearing upon its relstfuns with Mexico, and especially the Telma:na pe treaty, by corresp.mcling with persons of suppo sed ipfltience or in high office in that country. It goetrthe, act of ]in. 30, 1:799, to show that such perm' ns are guilty of high misdemeanor, subjecting thcm to a tine of 45000, jo;d imprisonment for three year. Let President Fillronre start the Mar:doll' and I istrict Attorney after these worthies, and they will ery soon desh.t. Sditaiot.ous.—Judge Tarbley, who was appoint ) tr ed kithe Govern:), of I itlissippi, Chief Justice of that tate, until an el tion cowl! he had by the peo ple, o fill the vacan occasioned by the resignation of J dge Sharkey , as now resigned also, assigning as a ireasontlist he accepted the appointment with a view of holding court this month, but as it is now deteimined that no court will be held, he thinks it wood be morally wrong to continue drawing the wilary without readerine any service. tr. A woman watiately buried in a grace yard, nea r r London, who had been dead upwards of five Years, a near relatiort baring left her an annuli); of 3131. to be paid on the firet'day of nob linai.averY year, to long as she should remain on earth. in con equence of thii legacy, her surviving husband hir a little roma over a stable in the neighborhood of h s dvrelliag, where she Was kept In a led coffin i t 'anti,' after tair death. • - 1. erit Wtekiq Obtruer. ERIE. 41" A FRIDAY HORNING, JANUARY W. 1852. ___________ County Con - time The Democratic electors of the co , .ty of Erie ere re quested to inert at their I places • ( holding elec tions. on Saturday the 31st day of January, 'oat,, at four o'clock. P. M. in' the several township,. an. half.past six o'clock. P. M. i the petered &troughs d the Wards of the city of rie,, to appoint tiro Delegate rout each Election Distrie to represent said District 1. a County Convention to assemble in the city of Erie it. Monday the 2d day ofFebruary next to appoint two Del egates to represent this coenty iu the Harrisburg Con• vention on the 4th day of March next to nominate an Electoral , Ticket. to appoint Delegates to the Democratic National Convention, to nominate a candidate for Cl not Commissioner, sad to appoint threri conferees to meet hke conferees .appointed by Crawford' county to select a Senatorial delegate to represent this Diatrict iu the said Harrisburg Convention ,SMITH JACKSON.: I'Demecratic C. M THIBALS. • WM A. GALBRAITH. IL S. BRA% LEY, ' ) County F. W. MILLER, ' 1 C°lnnut r* I R. TAYLOR. '' . ) . Erie. January 3. 11352. ETWis are indebted to Messrs. Walker, Eelset, MAIM, and James, for Legislature favors. r-- _ , .., _. _ r - - U 7 We notice that Mr.' Kali*, of Erie. has introduced a bill, in the House. 'lto incorp'orate the Girard and Cha. vizi plunk read company." Where the dickens is "Chapoga"? - QJ Winebell. the cervical—WinChell the ,droll: the laughter provoking, side-splitting Winchell, is in town; and proposes to make our good people laugh themselves out of their boots on Monday evening, at the Reed [louse. To go and hear hint, 'tis true, will Cost a qua r;er, then it will Save live dollars worth of medicine.' The "long agony is over," and our cotheporary of the Chronicle, is Prothonotary. in Spite of fate and the "Ttyelve_Apostles." Judge lino: has filed bis decision. and it, iu legli phrase, informs the "market house clique," that their straw was titiont au inch too short to reach the cider. Hurrah for Parley! ••God and Liberty!" as San ta Ansa would ! . CU Our paper is dated one day in advance this week, in order : to accommedsto advertisers, whose favors other- wise would not be legal. • - • 03 Tlus Moving' Moraine of the Deluge. &c., now eshMiting at he Reed Home. is iced worthy of patron tigt;, and ire cheerfully recommend it to the attention of all concerned. riThe Icters of our ouriespondent:."thriego," reach , c t, nsin regair sztio in ntak anner—i"the last first, and t first last." The first received , and published Borne we '4 atom. was the lastoie writteu—that orthis Week, WWII e second, and that puithshed list week. was first., Th i s owing to the irregular and uncertain mail arrau geusynt i n Mexico, we Suppose. 4. ' 113 The Meadvil e Gazette is in favor of the adoptwn of the cask system lty the country press, and desires con cert of action upon 'the aubject. We hope others will come out in a sitn Jar spirit. The reform, sf properly un dertaken by country publuthere. CAP eabaly be. brought. a boo t.— Eric Gazetti. We go-in fer that arrangement most decidedly. Ad vance payments aro better fur both publishers and sub scribers, and we. do hope our cotemporeries, parecolarly to this vicinity, will at once unite in the proposedreform.— Count on us, Mr. Gazette. Who's the next ccistomer7— Warren Ledg'er. We are! and to show our sincerity, wo intend to erase every man's name from our subscription list, at the end of the present rain ine.'whuse account is not square. We should like to have company in this - game, but tf we can't, we intend to "order it up and play it alone." We think we shall make four, too; at any rate we can't do worse than we have done, for it has taken the molt scientific playing to enable us to make a "point" at the end of each year. By the by, would not a convention or Edi tors and publisher"! in this part of the Susi., for the pin -poise of conceutrating'opinion and action on this matter, be a good idea? What say you bretheru of the quill of Erie, Crawford, Warren, Venapgo and Mercer! . ID' Gujarati's have received the February number of this popular moodily, mind we can with truth say that it is to all respects as rich:and interes ting as ray of its predecessors It contains - 14 page* of readiug matter, to ilia all tastes, - "from 'gay 'to grave, from -lively to severe." Indeed, every number of Gra ham for 165::: ail 'content! pages. Th, embellish ments before us are "Sweet Sixteen," "Pere le Chase." "The Death of the Sag." ••View of the Navy' Yard. Phitadelphia," Pirk Benjamin's Lectures• • Absence from home deprived us of the pleasure Of lia tsuing to the three Oral - of the ad.nirable Lectures Of P4iu Hasa Ants, Es a , of Naw York, before the Irving institute. Ilia last. tie_ Wednesday evening, ci !lad the '‘Age of 1;0I3," was a rich intellectual treat, and we pit tied thoao 11,1 iinfortuotte or careless as oat to bo present. 113 was a poem of rare merit, sometimesinithetic. some times learned, soirietirwe simple , anon w tty. 'and ucce siuually ssarcastic. To ••Isit folly as it am. " midi/01J the e "-mirror up io nature," appeared to ba the authoesi and right skilfully did he accomplish his task. The chang ing, trading, speculating, book-making and book-ped dling propensity of "Brother Jonathan;" the "go it while you're young" c;iaracteristic of ••Yoong America," es exemplified in the California Exodus, and the constant 'striving for that "good tune comm.:, bays." which so tickles the teeny of some of our modem Reformers, wets Fts that brought peals of laughter from his audience. ake it ail alkali it was adiriarably done, amid 'we were re ally sorry therewere . not mare to hear, instead of the. "beggarly ,account of empty boxes" that greeted the Lec turer. It is a shame that so rich a treat should only have been enjoyed by about 15J in a pope lotion of six thousand. But so Walrus, and so it cvar will be we fear. Tenant may go a.b.gging„ !while brass and impudence way ride luau ry. ILP A Naw Unciab.—We 110INilild the Gazette, which hu • peculiar propensity to stick its fingers into every bb des dish, has becouSe Use Buchanan organ in this couo ae tyilllPTwice. within Oic list moods or so it as iudicated its leaning its that direction, and with its wo tad owl-liko gravity assumed the o ffi ce of the prophet , d predicted the success of the "favorite sou" ia Eno unty. Qf course we . ave no objection to this, for We coisfidet s will have the same effect as its notable e urt at diet - lion last Fail. in die case of the steamer Afiehigan. Th'it vessel- was ordered to sad the day Wore the election, blit shadsitnt. Erie county is ordered, by the same coin. mender. to go for Mr. Buchanan. List it asset'L The fore: r dawns oaf the anxiety of the Gazette in this dirsctioo, however, affords a tiery pregnant lesson to the Democra cy, and for that reason we can exclaim in the language of Shakspeare, "we thank thee, Jew, for that word'," The Gazstte tells os÷-and we wish oar Democratic friends to mark the expression well—that its anxiety for'the s e c ems of Mr. Buchanan iu this county arises from its hopirs that sled success lout knee a "tendency to bate* and stresgthast M. s sold, isrty." It "kips" mot , “for as sake of the whip- dug As stuff 14 tits Apiece( Ma Nil tioned iConeention.7 Here is the gist of the whole mat tar. The whip ate anxious we should nominate Slr. Blackeners. lieu's' they think their chances to hold on to title public teat is blotter with him for. an opposing sae ditlate than any other man. Now. shall be give *bake aid and co,n fort.' in doing as they desiti via. becalm we may hate a little !fatale prids"l ' Fur one, we say no! A Farm' Goop! Goss.—The Yankees are famed for guessing: and here is an instance./ In a Congressional Report we read:--”The Honorable gentleman informed the House; that In his opinion. Genie bad an eye to the sale of haw. when he gave that $lOOO to the Yeeenth feud." That bits :the nail on the.bead--Genia alwats has an eye to a good advortisemeet. Cr The Now York 114abl published a feet& slat,- most tbat Henry Clay b (lidera* Islmoolf fatrowdok to Gee. Can for ?redden*. It don't seem reasonable that s man labia eondilion weSW trail& bisnialf numb abeilt panic& affairs: MFM. , ! I I I 7 I P I .M Ono week front to-dey The DemoCrecy of Erie wM be called upon to deoiroate, by the oppisintment of delegates to our County C ' s, the person they desire to oast their suffrages fur at the Presidential election it. Fall. Although but a fraction of the great Democratic party of the State. it is not only their" dory. but it °nicht to be their pleasure, to nteet;tho queatione involved in an open 'sad fair manner. Out of the several candidates present ed-to their consideration. one ought to be selected. and their delegates to the 4th of March O onvention iustrocted for ns.whose nomination will best serveto harmonise the party.—not alone its Peuto)lvtiaiit, hot throughout the :forth and the South, the East and the West. lie ought to possess._ also, such elements of opularity, such well p i s, dance sufficient to stamp h ut as a i l Besides, Gen. Houston is no ' T eti claims to the popular gym thyldo pride,",pr personal antis w belie amen, or section of the country. i The Union and the Constitution; the whole couutry f,em Canada Wills) Gulf and from..the Atlantic to the Pacify:, ard%ll alike the sub jects of his care end his love. With such a-candidate the word ram would be unknowg in the vocabulary of the Democracy. And then, the eventful and checkered hie Of Gen flogiton—a life which par akes more or romance tau that of any living man—what; a theme for enthusi asm? Whit a entijeic ci i for the out, r upon the stump!—. With what glowing lore could ; he picture the early trials and history of our glorious candidate? With what enthusiasm could lie depict the scenes of his riper yeters, when„rit the head of a handful of rewsindis.eiplined troops. heitot to flight the mailed hosts of Mexico and took her I Pretident prisoner. And then, when a country had been" won; how lie safely piloted her ththugh all her dillicuttieh. . and finally moored her within-the folds of our Conatitu tiou. All this, and much more, cpuld the orator Say to - awaken the enthusiasm of the people in . behalf of Gen. . - Houston. if Scott s , iould be the "peeing candidate— ; land it is probable he will be—whiluf his friends point to' Lundy's Lane and Bridgewater.e can retort with Tal ledega add Tallapoesa. When l t ey telfus of the perils land gloried of Caro Gordo and t Mexican Basin, we 1 1 . . 1 can point to the ensonguioed field of -San Jaciuto, and auk a here in-military history its equal in results cap be I found. But Houston possesses lother adVantages over Scott, cleany other candidate Dirtied by the wings, that cannot fail to tell in a popular el4cliot: While Scott ie a "mere military hero," Without any claims as a states- ' mini Ileueton is a statesman as II as a soldier. While • the Voice of the one has only been hoard at the head of , charging squadrons. theta the of 'er has preyed itself as ' powerful in the& mate es upon the I hattle-field. - Such are some of the elements that,in our opinion. render the iselec- Ltion of Gee. Ili:meth° as the candidate of the -De mocracy" ' 1 fer Presideut more thin desirable, in fact absolutely no -cessary to make our victory certain. , There may be those Who prefer Mr. Buchanan or Gen. Casa. or Judge Douglas. There the doubt are, but that either of them could , with the smil e ease, unite the eon. libeling interests of the party and secure fur its banners a victory, as Gen. Houston, see have our, serious doubts. In regard to the two former tiring doubts approach very near to certainties. We know Mr. Buchanan is eirged by his friends upon the grounds , of '"State pride,t , an d our feelings asPeiths2.lvaitians are sought to be enlisted in• his . favor; but upon the other hand we think we see in the distance core defeat should "state pride" achieve a triumph at,Baltimore. is the language of the Indiana &mine& the Democracy, in the epproachin campaign, want "no milk and water statesman—no man whose opinions can be quoted on both sides of great sod leading I questions—no 'changeling—no ofd federalist—in a word, no men that carries weight, or whose previous course has already roused a certain degree of opposition. We want a man with whom we can take the field. and whoishall collet the popular sympathies of themasses withotit the whip and spur of mere party drill," Does Mr. Buchan.. au come up to this standard? We think not. He'"Cerl. ries weight," far -his "previous course has alreadyt ar roused" an opposition that must certainly loose bi-the State.shouW he be nominated. And we cannot do ith r Mit Pennsylvania in 1852. We tried to-do without New Turk in 18.-18, but the result proved, that .it was a fatal trial. Mr. Buchanan cannot "enlist the popular- synipa thies of the masses without tliewhip and spur of mere party drill," and we doubt much if lie can with it. Be sides, like the charges against Mr. Van' Buren in 1810, that hewai ie favor 'of a standing army and had hunted'{ the "poor indians" in Florida with bkiod-holihtle; that against Mr:ftochanan—(wtiethrr true or false, and it is certainly false)—that he isle favor Of reducing the wa ges of the laberer to the European standard of ten cents a day. will' be used-against him with tremendous effect. The Democracy cannot afford to carry this "weight," notwithstanding it is I false one.' Again.'Mr. Buchanan: is charged with interfering. and with a good deal of rea son too, in the selection of candidates for Judges at Her- 1 riskier& and of Cabal Commissioner at Reading, last summer. No man who lays himself liable td such im putations can expect the enthusiastic support of his entire party. And this is why, in - part, the spectacle is now presented of Mr. 'Buchanan's inability to rally around him the full strength of the Democracy Of Pennsylvania. i This is why "state pride." all powerful in other States and with other statesmen, is parented I. the case Of Pennsylvania. She has ato longer a "favorite son;"— she is no longer strung in her own household, and hence , must be contest to occupy the position of electing at Presji ident but not furnifhing ode. We proclaim these on. welcome truths MOTs in sorrow than in anger. and:were ' it not that we demi it all important that the Baltimore; Convention should not be deceived as to the true state of, affairs in the Keysione , we would be the last one to' probe the wounds of our political friends. But firmly'be hiving Mr. Buchilian's nomination at Baltimore would be but the prelude to • defeat; wo cannot consent that he shall ge.there.withihe united voice of the State proclaim ing otherwise. . ' • Flogging in the Navy. %Vc did not think there was a person, occupying the exalted station of a Senator, so lost to. all the finer fuel-,, logs of homanity , is to become the a rotate of the res toration of the Lask among our sea a: but it sppearit we were, mistaken. .W 8 did not wo arse much at Mel Secretary of the Navy's becoming its dromitB , for be is surrounded with the old fogies ind lice of the quarter, deck, and hence is somewhat updor ' eir influence. but the course of Mr. S•uator Mallory, o Florida. is a burn jug disgrace to his State. la a speech in the United States Senate, the other day, on-the memorial praying: for the restoration 'of flagging in the Navy, be took strong ground in its favor. He . oeriood to glory in the hub, and to take an exquisite pleasure in hearing of poor Jack's bleeding shoulders. The privilege of flagging he seems to look upon as the officer's most glorion• prerogative.— Among other wild assertions, be.said that "no good sail or was ever flogged in the Navy." This, which he seems to make his strong point. is so utterly withal, foundation, that so Senator can Lire it a moment's Coun tenance. Any. one wb6 will enqoiro into the matter, may learn that many a first rate sailor in the Navy, has been modem bleed under the lad), owing to the mistin ilorstandiug or the ungovernable passion of an ill-temper ed Officer. who bad no le* to fear or to restrict has pan lament. Senator Stockton can answer Mr. MallerY'• assertions. and his evidence of die facts and ePinhta of the law are Worth more, on this particular subject. than dhows of any , other Sen ator. Wi are glad. however, to see thg 11r.: Hale, of New liarripshire. rePlfed very wormlrood properly to the remarks of the geneter,froas Illeride. , • . A LETTER PROS XEXIICO. i 1 DURANGO. Mexico, Octubs! 13. 1851. Dean Pasant—Here 1 am again. in thisOlessaut city of hugs churches and pretty girls. We arr4ed here titre days since with a mound scalp, thanks V I ) oilir good leek. 'Out afraid we're. timid for the galtiers; Me've rue all tads of Halm. and bave-oot seen one single lodise. Two days before we arrived at the hacienda lif "Chorra," . (ten leagues from here) a party of five Americans were attas , ked by them and us of the party badly wounded The people were terribly frightened all along ear route. and for whole days we would trait witliont meeting a soul upon the road. Their crops too have failed for the past two years, and really they are in a Most pitiable condition. We found the article of *hello+ core selling Most of the way at five dollars per bushel. I • • la a delay of mite days at Parras we only succeeded in recru.itiug one man, sod three of us, (toithe ashiniels went of the natives.) have made our way tri this place. I hear nothing or revolutionary inoveinbmis up 011:4 way, and begiu to believe that it is couliued to the reip i of the ltio Grbude. Fifteen bonded trotil l ie are ord ed / to march from the iaterior to the North. 1;4 Iti" say: tee like the fight between the,old lady's heihoud ad the bear, no difference Which whips. I should ihi it much more sensible in Them to whip the ludic s out of the Country. than to be cutting each others !treats .about Who shall be the reci,aent of the President I sahry. • l i . The company of A inericans.which tl s•Sitate employed against the lui:lsaus. I'm told. did ine t excellent service, and were bringing matters to righ quite almertly. when 'he authorities took it into their li ads that five dollars per fur soldiering, was rather "tall." and so, one Set t • ight, settled off pit h 4he lads. I ',suppose they - . ...enhanced the'r okra characte4 for I find our ....IN. uch better eceived here - than) whim I vis ited the ,PlaceN s_ l9. erhaps the California dust which / the boys 'hell out. .s ein, ea passuitt.,has some agency iu this Mighty work o a . f u me . s • himself somewhat °merlons t or his. forgeries and other \ r -,,l - Freuth, is confined a. the prison at this 'Race, togetliet 76 .li so Me five or six . ~ N, s, een in prison ...,1 meanie; t hi, I V I oin of the true trisM, , nal candidate. Ills not rest upon “state of any particular 'Net urda must ha' countrynie A man %lie "as render. throughout thoynited State little financial tricks, by the nos 'others oido•ur countrymen. ; They lai‘. Tome tan months without. any trial. Till, is on the principle of the 'lrish dilation whO . 'main and then rendered his apologe. I think 4ralian rnuat hate been a stranger -to anything lakeloke out bees corus" act. • else Elicit star-ehaantaer abuies COIIII not prevail in the country - if the law was of entirely:a :mockery. The charges against them are s, fight, nothing Jake whin they have been reported in the pabers, and I am well informed that even liaise will not be proved. They are a hard crowd, however, and will do oinch lass harm in the calaboose than out of it. French is represented se :a young man of 21 yeare,• of Gem persousd appearance, 'with a power of intellect equalled by few of Menge, and Iwiiieh, but far the - unfortunate kink in hid 'morals, would have griced the Seuite of tiny State; in short, he is one i l of those Chips that "blathers them up, and slathers them Idown,idival is more in at.'' lie is a nolo vcaof Kentucky. ;where he has a most accomplished Akital. r Ile has beets ;shot two or three times, and has lost due arm. Ile lis as cunning as a fox, and as brava as a Ilium—truly a most dangerous man to society. 119 was!just upon the point of obtaining letters of iutrodurition Mid starting to , Mexico, with a grand scheme of colonizing the Rio Gila Valley, when he was overtaken hare by the report of Ins forgeries on the House of Aspinwall. Surely his jure', hale da3 a nye not spent in reading about the "rude boy that an old roan-found ub in his apple-tree stealing ap ples," and bow the:old codger first threw tufts of grass at him, end then btazad away with stnnes.lelse he would have learned thet•••tke ic f l3f iiie trawrf.ssor is Aar[." We start to-morrow fo lanatian, where, if the Lord preserves me, I'll write you again. Be sure and forward the "(Awry." to My direction in San Frincisco or the "da l - " I can't 4u without at. I Your., "ONIEGU." _..._ ._ MR. Etnrilat—ln your river of Jan. 111th. I observe, aver the •ignatur ! , of •• Wan rfurd," a lengthy communi cation in auswer : to my article ; relative to the new Coun ty projects. Will you allow me a small space to answer some"of the reasons urged by ••'Waterfor4" why a new county shoulil , be formed out of parts or Erie and Craw ford? As to the ouptives of those urging lbe project it is uuneceisary to say farther than this; IT it is the Weller , of the denr.people they are `striving for. ;we think the could accomplish their object better by letting things re %main as they are than by imposing upon them the-bur dens of iocre . asad taxes to organize a new county and pu. up the necessary buildings;and'when"Wat?rford" shows that thirty or fifty thousand - dollars can I.ie raised in the territory of the proposed new County wititout tucroasinu the taxes or burdens upon the people. I ehlall b dispose.. to concede that I coluMitted an ••egregiokvi;!blunder' 1 - when lasserted that "taxes wilt be greatly ; incr ased,"— The first,reason urged by r*Waterford" is " a, couve uitucs of theeitizens in this section of the coo ty would be grettly accommodated." header, recollect that "this settion" refers to Waterford and its rintundiate vicini:y. Itocolleckthat a Plank road is being built ; from Erie to Meadville by way of Edenboro; and thil 46a citizens o tlNrhole western, part ofshi proposed ueW county , , twill be better accommodated to go either to Erie or Meadville than to Waterford. •Tr ed _ lie road at most seasons of the year is bad from Eden bore to Waterford and there is no itsducentent to go there except wilcompelled by urgent ii i eeess4. We do no business t hew , our market and tradet is at 'Erie, and with the facility cif , the plank road the drive is but a short. one, and we are always enabled to unite our own business with that of the public. ,This is so I am seism with other portions of the proposed new county. A •plank road 1 being &silt to Wattsburv; this accommodates *the whole eastern part oldie county. Tesoro the lutabsr and shin 'es trade ieyery great, arid Erie is their market, an when they go to Erie on• matters of public business the) take a load of lumber or Shingles with them'. What in -tercet have they or us in common with Waterford? Fron both sections there are or will soon be goisd plank rood to Erie. whereas to Waterford we have for a large par of the year the pleasure of traveling through (not over mud roads. The assertion in "Waterford's" second ilea son that the taxisi will be greatly ditninishhd is too friio lons to need an answer. It is true that the County Corn miapioners contemplate building a now Court blouse a Erie, and each section of the county.ill 'contribute. pro rats to their *erectiop. Ii is well known that a large, an. I may say the largest amount of the wealth in the Count 'is on the lake shore and would consequently principal) erect the new buildings. It may be true ' that the Judi cial business of Erie county is increasing.' The amonn of business has to be done in the State. and the expense except costs &c., paid by the parties lit:Out are paid h . the Commonwealth. and it consequently makes no pi ouniary difference whether the Courts ate , hold in ou place or soother, except teat if the places of holding are multiplied, the additional 'lax of erecting the new count buildings will be imposed i on thilsse of the hew county, of fording, as any one will see atia glance, a most conchs_ sive argument against any dismemberment of the pre sent county .. organizations. The reader twill observe i “Waterford's" third reason that the harden of his praye is to Increase Waterford and draw the buSiness there di' now goes to Erie, and yst he disclaims any "sordidan. *elfish motives." Of this the reader is the judge. Th very best reason wpythe propord new county should no be formed is that a majority °Me citizens are opposed tali and I speak ;understandingly, when I say that Mc I Kean, Flanklin, Elkcreek, Vdenboro. Waihington, Atni ty, Wayne and Concord in Erie county. skid all the town proposed to be taken from crawford, are Violently oppos id to the project of making a new county with the cenin 'ty seat at Walerferii and mils deterniined to oppose it. I A Quatro FAILURE./0 this State, wEen people i so unfortunate as to fail, their creditors begin to count a , their loss. Not so in Wiatroiain. for we see that a fella ' who lately retno\eed to Wiscousin. writes to his brother that the section where he resides is in a Wetly prosper ova cottditloa. Missy* that bat one faller* has ever • ' carted in bigamist); aid is that ease the wan paid o • hundred and twont3•fite cents oe a dollar. - t'Jr The New County Project EIIEiBORO mr In . ' urg. 4 assemb A wiedom of Peim.; 2!1, h e had a niiiergtimeti ved; of the reception of km. .fl ' e , tticed In our Jut ander iiii the information wa g b e . _ge l d account of the Mika tr„. rat that the trein had been d... u i ri ec uurrlf suss, upo e the tram in attendance upon him e, h d asurribled. ft,eholte,,e,, p nitted the part to pis s t , nerved. .M Kossuth, e;; O. tbeproceeded to the lay, eigl, surrounded and blockaded 44 crowd °Luise and women e nmanuerl molt, with mach you d that the gal!e'sies, lobbies ; lu mg tyre Boor ot'die Sonata d e ,'k, of this ritendotts them. • cl stly packtd throng, mail, . 4 14 1 , an tuck, or Eyen,to maim pus to the platform,which they ntisitine thfficulty. k g" the SiSeaker shouted and imidored ; ealed to tiro goo: breeding and 0 at least retire from thsSena• oved 7 -et ery pettieotit stood fire AClength, as a last resort, Mt and , actually came! But ohm: ;ha, with the ••gallant Coptit,s ,r heal, do against a crud r: ~to every danurlese bayonettet , of whom He stood in mont glances Made him quake in hi fusion grew worse ond,worse— pooch of welcome, and M. Kos. umb show—not'os:Oloye trent. m. ;The alisir :Lea te;iminatec, .To„ 'the officials and the onib , a., the limb, marched out incur, , nod the mob d.siterset.. The. Hosinth Prom all accounts, the ylvaaia" at if 4 , 61401. t," last week, Aptre the uth. The icons wits bri •ur telegraphic head, bu manly meagre, the. cur of come alnico. It api !eyed fur some hours/ Ved wi Sica K nioti crows uthildii bly. itli -1 re dinner its sort, tit conanlittee, lot, whi tro, by rorci Lim a gave way peace ha hotel, why was compte' dense and stray; g a way through tl and trouble. it liras / id hady of the house . , id thamber and die seats tit *dies, were filled %nth 11 bulics, who rtitas'ed to way fur the prxeseton to at length retched, after Sergeant-at-arms and ih a vain the Governer al losintalityof the lades or's Beats. );01.* foot is upon its reserved rights. military were scut fur. could a compsny of m, John R. Garland"•nt th woman. in sown of o I hero recognized a wit: (tread, and whore Ingry military boots! The co the Governor made hie suth mode his reply, in Piling beyond the pled() the Governor, the Sen 4 sneaked ingloriously off phantiy ip solid phalan This is the first time ocrac} that the women I part in a public rot au It is a lasting d.sgrace the now ideas and pirinc and duties, which the • are co industriously diss, Yio les Nict.a:ttuot.t . • vile Gazette that Nv t.t. Dwnshap. C r 'sw '• i 7: . de c e l o r e t k h 17'4_ in th • LL 11N. EMI Wm. Kinney, a mutt ct Quay. lost h§l,r e co Frod,r log Ctreatristntice9. .fteruoon to cut some woo:, fling, search wee made 1,- d. basin ; ; bren k./Itd by to, ft tree, which struck him :a and apparently de'pr:ru vt.ry respectable C1,,/CD, tit' urn ire {OM the 9th • r. A the bouie abou and not return'. . bun, when he wae. falling of a dead lune the head:fraoturing hi: 'hi•n of life latently. and ha 3 left a lame felt{ e♦ i d de ISM FlfLin-011 , ri4 and one o'clock,. the Cr. sit the covered to he on au im,teint, sb th .1 it, %t hie sables, were burn eirculisinnce that the covered with avow, vigorous ex.rnowl of 11 hate been lar,,ly d inn idy indebted to Oki of our okrie , e and a cob and we kitqweie vibe Jae a kindred ,otlig.euel Fliqnteo t tw l, We re'rneujier na f.,r . ed to necopith n r: peoon:iyilln I 1 1 /e th Mr. CCOpte., h IV in..ored. Mr. EiL. for wh:clt he he.;tot olthottet expom d to ti dmuttrzed. tire r of an inzendt.u, .-1! ler ,h,. -the! MEI 1111111 sup ett, New Ad tisements. s‘pi.ii:Ty I qT. UrII St. .',t•. IS 1 . 111 •ernr.r,/,ldeletr.ri rit n Ith other • ft, r 'J I. :Ell-7,W r. r • ZS CODIZNO: :I),ni••reo•Cer• I , IT, IS. Rt. 111. jr , *••'l , ll2-. 2t; an•rth .Cr • p,. thatkr• of rr..c.frn r . 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