rcr Caput", Eatcason.—The . followieg letter from Captain Ericsson to the editors of the "Appkiwis Meckinier Megaziae," appears in the April num ber of that peri'odical: Yop state that, the furnaces of the caloric ship preseli . • uare feet of great surface. This is not rue. They only present 761 square feet.— ,Y. , assert that forced blast may be resorted to, to a ellen extent that eighty tons of coats may be con s MU' in the caloric ship in 24 hours. This as ertion is untrue; no force blast whatever can be ap plied, nor can the consumption exceed eigkg tons in 24 hours, the chimneys being only 30 inches diam eter, and 12i feet above deck. Small passages were originally formed for passing air from the ex hadst-pipes, under the furnaces, in cos, the power ful suction of the engines should be found to pro .duce a back draught. Such a difficulty not having been experienced, the passages alluded to were long egotlosed with brick-work. Your assertion, there fore, is groundless, and you fall short of the truth in the ratio of ten to one. You next state that we have only fifty wire disks in each of our regenetators, composed of wire-cloth of four meshes to the inch. This is equally untrue; fez we. have oar hundred and fifty disks, and only half this number is tif the kind you mention, the re maining half being much liner. According to your statement, our regenerators would only present about 4,600 square feet of heating.surf,ice, whereas they actually present upwards of 15.000 square feet. Laboring ander this gross error, you draw the infer ence that our regenerators are of little use, ke.— Now, the fact is, that our regenerators in the cal oric ship are singularly effective, the temperature of the air in the exhaust-pipes never having reached 31 der •ee above that in the conductors from the supply-pipes. , You broadly aims that the quantity of fuel eras mimed in the caloric ship has not been ascertained, and you brand Our great demonstration as a failure; new the fuel has been accurately weighed, and the consumption found to be 4} tons in 24 hours, effect ing a speed of more than seven miler an hour: that you call a failure! Is there a steamship in exist ence of the size, by_the Ericsson, capable of going at the rate of twice the stated consumption? L•t me state a fact here which has not ye! appeared before she pnblic. The elasticity of wrought iron heaters has been found so great, that during our tria's, and during our trip to Washington, we did not venture to average more thin 7} pounds presure per square inch; cast-iron heaters are now being made, to en able us to carry full pressure. You state that my engine is nothing but a copy of Stirling's air engine; or rather you state that which leads to that inference. Now it would be -difficult to conceive two machines more dissimilar In action and mechanical construction: Stirling ex pands and contracts a certain volume of air, and thereby' operates a working piston, the power of which is Moat precarious, and it diminishes the in slant the piston moves; my caloric engine, on the other band, resembles a high pressure steam en gine; it has a pump and a working cylinder; the former charging a receiver, from which the - latter receives its supply, like a steam cylinder from the boiler. By the emphatic ginner in which you plate before your readers tho discussion on Stirling's en gine before the lostitutitution of Civil Engineers in 1846, and call it "old," your readers are made to draw the inference that lam forestalled. Let us see how the can stands: in 1833 I put my caloric engine in operation in. London, and submitted the principle of employing heat over and over again to the scientific world. Faraday and Lardner at brat repudiated the idea, but soon became convinced, and lectured on the subject to large audiences. The celebrated Drs. Ure and Ritchie else became my warm .supporters. Will any one contend, there fore, that I am forestalled by an echo, in the Insti tution of Civil Engineers, 1816, of the arguments which! had advanced 13 years previously? The Whig State Convention. The Ly coming Gazette, in speaking of this body in its assembled capabity at 'Lancaster 'says: Tice late Convention at Lancaster, which an nounced to the people of this State,nomineoa of the Whig party for the approaching canvass, was a queerly made up affair. It seems to have been gath ered' together from what heterogeneous material could be found and "cooped" in Lancaster city.— We believe no person was deputed to represent this representative district by any regular action of the , Whig party here; yet it was represented by Mr. J. W. Fisher, who was a "substitute." Whose sub-; @Brute he will, is a mystery. The action of this, self eenstiteted body we presume will be regarded as orthodox in every particular by all good Whigs; ,but what different results might have been witness ed, had a regular constituted brdy had affairs in ,charge, will be an interesting theme of speculation. query: Would Mr. Pownal, of Lancaster, have re ceive..i a nomination, without the influence and votes of tie seven extra Laneasterians? Would tone grade Myers have been endorsed in his treason by a coifvention of regulars? Th ee Lancaster Intelligencer speaking of the late convption, says, "Lancaster county bad something like4iirgeen delegates,seven more than she waxen titled to. Mr. John A. Heistand undertook to rep reeerit the Senatorial - district of Carbon, Monroe, Pike i and Wayne; Mr. M'Pherson, Editor of the in depehilant - Whig, assumed to be one of the repres entaiive delegates from Blair and Huntingdon; Mr. Merhaffey represented Centre county; Mr. Goseler, Conamorland; - Col. Herr, of Columbia, Monroe and Eke, etc., eta. .Io this way they succeeded in get tirig together about one hundred gentlemen, who farmed what they have been pleased to style a State Convention. for the purpose of nominating a State Ticket. The doings of such a body cannot carry anuch weight when tested before the tribanal of the people." °REGO:C.—The reports which have been circulated from time to time of gold in quantities to be worth working, both in the Yakima country aid the Grand Ronde, • Oregon, have received new confirmation within a few days, by the arrival of several persons from the uppercountry; and we learn that similar intelligence has been received at. 'Vancouver.— Should this news prove true, as we hare littleressnr: to doubt, a vast stimslus will be given, not only to the trade of Oregon generally, but to the settlement of that portion lying east of the Cascades. Immi grants crossing the plains will find an inducement to settle forewith in the neighborhood of the digging, on finding that supplies will be forwarded to them, and there will be.work for the next Legislature in laying out some more counties. Q 7 " The Pruvidenci Journal says that the at• tempt to raise money enough, by subscription, to re tain Mr. Webster's Marshfield estate in the posses sion of Ms family, is likely to fail, and that the place will necessarily be sold. It infers that the peowe of Boston are a good deal more apt at making speeh es in honor of Mr Webster's memory, than in acting ii, compliance with his eipressrd desires. The I3or too _Courier, in correction of an inference which may be drawn from The Journal's language, states that everything at Marshfield which the public would de• sire to see preserved as a permanent memorial of the great statesman—meaning, probably, the house sad grounds adjacent—will be secured for that pur pose; but that it is not yet settled that his wishes, in regard to his birth-place, in New•Hampshirt, can be carried into effect. 07- We understand open reliable authority that the editorial fraternity of the Western States are about erecting a monument at Showhegan, in mem • my of the - inventor of scissors. It is to be 100 feet in height—same size at the summit as at the Imo-- on one side a base relief, figure of misery will be placed, emblematic of an editor's life, surrounded by a wreath of horse pistels—bowie-knites--wash-bills, and complimentary theatre ticket.. At the feet of the figure will be a representation of scissors, con quering talent under difficulties; the whole encircled by eller:akal designs upon tailors and printers, and the public generally.—Day Book. Ton New Cater.—lt is announced that the Phil adelphia Mint has about $lOO,OOO of the now silver solos ready, and that the delivery of these, for cir culation, will take place about the 15th lastant, or oto week from this time. That is an event which has ,been anxiously looked fur, as one that is to put en end to the vexation' that the public has so kin suffered for want of small change. C(7" License* fur the solo of liquors io Bootoo expired on Thnrsday lot, ir bee the boast the U. sere Muse were closed. Erie TiattkllttiMft ERIE. PA. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 23. 1153 Death of Vice Presitent King It is with deep regret that we are called epos to an aemiw the death Of Vies President, Ws. R. Imo He reached his residence on the 17th, and died es lb* reeoieg of the 18th last. He has Wag bout in public life, and his coarse has been such as to sides: him to the whole country, and his lose, althoogh looked for. will be severely felt by the coestry, at large. He is the fourth Vice President that has died while oecapyiag the position, and his death he. left another vacant ape( Is the list of the great and good. The Berate Cowrie" very justly says ••few of Mr. Kten's cetemporaries have ran a career so eminent er se misfit as his has bees. He has d his country for nearly half a cutlery, in different stations, and always creditably and asseptably. We mast trust to memory .ia mentioniag some of the mere prominent ineidents cr kis pnblie life.. Its most have bees a little ?Wag of seventy years ef age. He was •tested a member of Congress from North Carolina is 1809. Whether he curved more then one term, we have ■et at hand the mean/ of aacertaining. Ise 1812-13. he was appointed Secretairy of Legislation at the Court of Madrid, and in that capacity spent two or throe years,. the Continent. Soon after his retort, be migrated to Alabama, then a territory, and upsn its admiesion into the Union, he was chosen one of the Senators in Coo• grass. He was re-elected three or four times, and at the period of his appointment as Minister to France, in 1843. he was the senior member et the body. On his return in 1846-7, he was again elected to the Senate. and continued in the body seta some time in December last, when the state of his health 'impelled him to re• sign, and seek the genial iallsenee of a tropical climate. Bot tit* tasornfel result shows that human species were unavailing to prolong his life. OCR Ctrr.—Tbers is every prospect of 111 good Huss'. business for all our citizens during the coming summer Ths spring opens with fair prospects, and all are proper. ad to enter fully into the chances with a good will. Mer. chants, grocers sad dealer' ge morally are filling up with heavy stocks of geode. mechanics have their hands full with improvements already projoeted, many of which aro of lint slats dwellings. M•srs Lane. Fullerton. Koch sad Warren, are going on with residences that will do credit to themselves and be an 'raiment to tho streets ■p. on which they ars lowed. A serious Madras** to this kind of irapreverneta. hew• ever, is pressated is the enormous prices at whisks real estate is held, a price unequaled In Any other town of the site I■ the country and one which must give way before oar more central streets will be improved as they should be. A ins■ must be worth a small ferrous before hocan think of providing himself with,. comfortable house, at the rate of from 100 to 300 dollars per foot for ground for • dwelling. &minims most increase or prices go down before many fuse d4tillings will be added to those already but It Commercial burliness Peeing also to bid fair to M great• iy increased over say former rear. and while probably bat two or three lines of steam vessels will call regularly at ear port. a greater amount of freight generally will be sent forward than daring any ether motion. Tlietship yards have been crowded all winter is building canal beats, and two large Isere on the stocks to come ou t early in tits - season. Ous bedding for Mr. Reed is as large if not the largest sail vessel apse the lakes, while the other for Mews Janes. Saabern Sr. Perrin, is of large size. The heaviest besisus will be the mil trade which has rove to be of very great importance to (tie prosper ity of ear city. It will probably be doable this TWO Over nay former season. Foundry's. machine shape and manefamories general ly ars daily increasing among us, and, notwithstanding railroad matters have all genii wrong with as, w• nen see nothing for us this season bet business and prosperity. LT Mr. M. W sod, wh• was harped oat last winter in French wool, has 11 , teemed his stalk of Goods ta.Nc 7, Browses Block. when he may IH Mend with a choice stock of clothing. Those in went of the snick will do welt to give him a Gall. 800 advertisement is umber oedema. Er Messrs. Boothe sad Stewart have •posed a new stock of plain and fancy Dry Goods, •n Stale meet. is the store formerly ireqppiei by G. Loomis As Ce.. sad from the rash of Lashes which we hat• *eon there for tholes( few slay!. we presume they hate a choice stock of cheap goods. They are venni men just cemmereist business and we presume will he sastaised. Cell and see them. For particolars ass their advertisentests. N•iwßooas.—This is decidedly the age of mew Books. and he who does not bey and keep op with•the has. wilt be rated • bore in society. The following molar works are to be had at ear counter: "Babylon and Nineveh," Layard's •wend Espodities. a large work, •stensively embellished. "Every Day Sariptaral Readings" for the sae of sod schools. by RAIL Jobs L. Blake. D. D.—every body should have a copy. "The Camel hoot," by J. W. Fabessa. b.lag a mar retire of Nimesl adventures as the Istbrossiusd is Cal ifornia. very interesting. "Beatrice." by Catherine ...Sigel''', highly news meaded by the clergy—get a espy sad rose it. "Amabol." A Family El isteri. by Elizabeth Werasky en• of first books of the day. "Light. sad Shadows." A Tate. by Aims Harrie t Drory. a good book and uts whieh Auld kw rurally read; with a groat assay ethers whisk we bows as time to mention. Call and look our sir assertmist. New Books maim! by Express daily. aid may book orders! if sat on hand. AUTOBIOGRAPUT or AP EsoLlfp SOLDICIL IR Till UNI TED ST.Tie ARatr.—This is a work areal interest ly issued from the press of &remota & Tewesssu, to whom we are Indebted for a espy. We have had no time to examine it for ourselves. bat /rem the notices it is receiving from the press in ell quarters we feel jostifi. able in recommending it to the pahliei A ',temporary says. "we have seldom met with a work of such abserb ing interest. Although it may be charged, perhaps, with somewhat of foreign prejudice, still it gives "faithful au nties of facts, which makes the reader feel their force, audio vividly has the wiiter'irawn his pictures that you seem to enter folly into his spirit, and travel with him from the time of his enlistment at New York, until he stands outs of the victors of the city at Mexico. Th. work is worthy of an extensive circulation." A few egipiee et the above work are tura& at !Ca. 9. Brown's Block. by Darlin 4. Lean. Er Graham and Gedey's Magas:am far May haw* come to haod sad mar be bad at the coaster of Dot tie & Moss at No. 9 Breuva's Bleak. "RV) WINO, OR TII■ Wat•D Capßaga," is the title o f • new work just issued front the press of Stri•rer & Townsend. It is a work of thrilling interest. anti one which all novel feeders mast hays to keep up with the spirit of the ego. Written by Goo. 8. Raymond. U. Navy, and may be had at Ns. 9, Brown's Block. Cal i soon or yen wont get it. Er Lodi**. a few of there very choice Pert Meals, aro to be had at No. 9 Brown'. Block by calling soon. Call i■ gad leek at them if yea do oat bay. Er We are requested to give titmice that the Stalls is the Market Howie will be leased to the highest bidder. ea the tat day et May atic. ter sae year. Thew later eased will take peace. Antler Sprier was mateaesd I. emit. at 10 (Meek ibis asorsing. by Jedge Ydby, is a sleet impressive masses. which WWI to praiser ssy *amiss is the primmer, wits previously, by pormissims. sew& s @pooch, repeating his finest aseerties tor Mews.., sad asses. is his ma el ih• mime. but aspreMArs williessem to es, wimp hat he would mess hie emrslervarlest. allpollegas We *OA bobs ibo posecalle remitudliss whit& Was paosod by ewe clip weemsilo Ist tho wpm .far. matt an impeesslam that seams So have ipso abroad, from some oseivera, that M. IL 1.011/ST. E.q.. as a Detec tor of the sssbsry dt Eris Railroad. is sot the cheie• of lb. eitisess of this city, and particularly of a majority of the members of the shy councils; and while so doing we will asilertake to give • history of the facts coneeroing his election, as they occurred. This has become nec essary, net for the isformation of oar ewn chinas, but for those abroad, and particularly these members of the Board with whom Mr. Lowry has been called to act. Mach dissatiefactio•- had been expressed here, previ• *us to the election of a proxy to east the vets of the city for 61Es/rein that road. in consequence of a seeming di torminatiee of the most of the the• directors to choose what is knows as the western roots of the read, wah eat making a eatery er examinatieu of any ether route, while a math better erne for this city and the read was believed to exist. The whole of last season was spent in surveying as that rests, whoa it was knows that it said be death to the read to adept it. and despite of alt remeastranees that could be made against it. This he. log the state of thi age, it became desirable to change the directorship, and la that desire • large portion of our eit• issue participated, whit. some. pecnoiarily interested. opposed the change. A vete was tikes ip the coursed* with tAs onwlers4earthag that the proxy that was elected was ieferer of a change in the directorship of the road. and resulted in men than a two third vote for the proxy elected. after one of them, Mr. Whittler', had declared in the meeting, against the board, as it was then commu ted. These are the facts we believe so far as the else• hoe of our proxy was d. The thtliceltios whin t have ememd in the city of Philadelphia since the election, ire entirely of their own mid have •o reference to the nets of the proxy or the Directors 'looted by them (rem this City. Upon piing into the Board, and at the first meeting of that body, Mr. Lowry found that as engagement bad been entered isle with the Franklin Canal Company. by which the bill was gni up. allowing that read to unite with the &satiety and Erie Railroad •'et or wear Eris." To this porticos of the wampum.' Mr. Lowry objected. as any man who had ibe int/ream of Erie of bean would do and a differs's* of opinion arose between him and Judge Miles,.... of the other Directors from this county. as is the location as proposed to be made at this end of the route. Puberqseatlrto this, an arrest's...it was is pro gress, which if completed would require that one lathe Directors frem this eimaty resign. sad the matter was referred by letter by the two gaatlomo■ earned to the ei• ty coaseils to say which of the two should remain is the hoard. Upon the receipt of that letter the preamble and remit:ties was introduced and passed, is the Common Council amanimou, and with only two vete, against it in the select. Wheretui, By • comasonicotion from M. B. Lowry and James Klee, the Select and Common Councils of the city et Erie have learned that by an arrangement between them, one of thews to to retire from lbe board of Direct• wry of the Seabory and Eie Railroad, and leasing it to L e OS eirkieh of the turn • 11•11 rob twain. Rastelesdi. That isesmiseh as the matter bee been sub. milted to a.. and the interest of the road requires some immediate action. we request Mr. Lowry :o continue as a Director .f the road, and that a copy of this resolution he transmitted to the Presidio( of the Sonionry and Erie Railroad Compaoy. Now after this explanation, and the publication of the TWO veva' had in our council chambers in favor of Mr. Lowry, we think it Imo for those who are not at all In• terested either in our city or our portion of the Board Of Directors, to stop their slanders upon that ;soden/an.— Nine-tenths of the people of this city &sired his election. cud new desire him to remain where be is. believing that he i• doing what he can for their interests. sod while we are satisfied, we would thank those disappointed men is other portions of the country. who managed Amulets out of the road, to 'mead to, their own affairs and leave se to oottle ours. Oar cilium, have got tired of bating all the calamities of the age laid at their doom. aid of seeing their best citizens slandered rtes by sack paltry commas a. the Youngsville Express. Amendments to the City Charter. It is useless to enter into a Lengthy diseveiriou of this subject at the present time. The fact is, all, except • few of ear heavy property holders. are in favor of hewing • "local assessment." climes In our charter. knowing that it is impossible to improve oar streets. and meet the other necessary expeudiisres of the city with our present rates of taxes. Believing this to be a fact, we were dis appointed in oar Mayor when he gave the rote against that measure. If common report before election did net belie hini, he was pledged to all setts of improve ments, and to see him set his foot upon the first one pro posed. was net what we expected. So far as the re marks of thi Mayor went towards softening the vete he gave, we looked upon it "as a sort of begging off (rem the responsibility which he was called upon to lissome. It is tree that he wanted some ens else to stand the bran' of the matter, and it is equally true that hi knew if he could girt the matter pot off for thot everting. it weald answer just as well, for the Legislature would ad • jou... the day after the next regular meetiog of the tteoaeile. leaving ne time Is make known its action epos the subject. Under such circumstances there was great virtue in throwing himself behind the people, and claim het that it was for their benefit alone that the vete was gives. We said last week, and we rsitsraie now that the Mayor it opposed to the doctrine of local assessments, sr that hie este, thereat ad of the man holies his true po sit:en en the question. With regard to the bill, we have only to say that it did net suit us exactly; bet we were willing to adopt and eat uoderit Datil a better could be procured. The ob. jetties that it was drawn up by two or three falls to the ground when It is know that the bill was got up by Mr. Skiener, himself, and was so stated to the Mayor in his letter accompanying it. If this had been known, we presume we should sot have heard a word against It from the Gazette, for they invariably puff everything thing that comes from eau of their party, let it be good or bad. We de net intend to be either "ungentlemanly" or "dis courteous" towards any man, nor neither do we intend tease a mac make tarp protections to accomplish his *eds. and then back *at of them, upon the first eppor• Welty, without taking the liberty of letting the public understand it. if we see fits* to do, and we shall not con sult the gentlemen of the Gazalit as to the courtesy of se doing, Er The person who wrote the article is the lut Gs• seas sigatd. "Truth." is inform'd that we Dever hold soy controversy with thou whose seribblioes are either se silly. ridiohleas, or Ishii, that they are ashamed to be known aa the anther. t? EugCeo•TT MUTUAL Ireoa►sra CONTAIIT-••At • its umiak( of the StockhoWers of this Company, the knowing pattern's wets sleeted *Moen foe the onsaisi year: President.—Swish Jacking. . Diroetore.—C. M. Tabbais. We. F. Riad•resehi, P. E Bono°. Job• Zimmerly. Joooptt M. Shorrott. Jaguar C. Marakall.--114, W. Caagboy. 8. P. Kepler, Thaw s . Moorhead. Jr.. Al. Log. J. B. Coal'. Jobe H. Pa nottoe. Tresoarior.=t 4 . M. Mimic Seerstary.—Jonas Gaaahara.—Gersolio. . _ rr Bab Batten, at present. satisfying Oa &masa of issues. to dm teas of five years is t h e Auburn ants Prison. for pecket-pisking, mostly melted • letter frig' Eagiasd. Slating that by the death of a maths, is said* beir to property raised st_iver $90.000. A moot horrible 041011111/ OP piece st the toe►. this twersise. About 6 o'clock soy of the keeper* of the baildisig sassed a sell in wbish several eon were blear. oersted for beim( intoxicated *a ilseday. Be Wail throe of has dead. and a fourth in ate. B. promptly gave ea alma. sad a pbysiaiaa was seat for, who ozamiami the mea sad preammeod than dead. The (Muth mu was eery weak sad will probably die . A Comer io sew inveetlptiog tho affelr. Heim A. f..w is orpoisiod U. B. Diarist Afton*, lot ON Nenlows Distriot of Now Twit. Alt. Wads* An. - ite Mit owls„ dts Lag Pool s 11 1 1 Smog' leg 'charter ihr s raiinaadto ..saint with whelk Munro ao the Little Valhi, Road. ■shin with the New Twit sad Erie railroad at Little Valley sad amnia( by /MINN {Olin to Erie. sada the title of the Erie City Raillasi. Siete its passage, we balm sot beard s word shout bet w• *aka this otteosioa to-say 4% few word." oaths so bjoet. It will set be denied, that upon all Railroad projects. our citizons hays differed in their views nsatorially. so moth se as lobs I. a gentians! jute* oboist them. and while we are not simple! for that. let as learn wisdom fiem the past. and profit by the experience we haws had. It is conceded, in the first place, that this reed is one of great importance to es. in many ways. Dot the least of which is that ender the present airangement in Railroad matters it will secure to as a aulferm gangs to New York: and by a good route, with a grade over the ridge of about forty feet to the mile, hiring lees than the Now York and Erie by es* half — while at the same time it gives no the termination of another important road. This is desired by all. sad lot all sow hold up their hands for the build ing of the road Let us pto work together, and labor like brothers for the good of the road and the good of our city. Let no man or eel of mss attempt a land specula tion or • speculation of any kind out of this location of the road. Its Depots and otherbuildings, but let us take the stock. build the road, and run it by the best and cheap est and most prietieable routs to the Yea e'er the PUT ■aasoa OP LANZ ERIC" or any other lake. without stop• ping to inquire who it will benefit or who it will injure. The injured ones have their redress is the law, mad all others hove whatever benefit the road se located, and so built will give to the trade and commerce of our city.-- Experience is the beet of tcaohero, and we have before as in the location of oar eastern and western railroads e lessee that shoold teeth as hew to locate any reed that may be built in future. These "few words," we believe to be the wish** and sentiments of the people at large, and we hope. if the "Erie City Railroad" is to be it will be hilt as suggested oboes. Now York * Eris Railroad. There is •• mere truth than poetry" in the Mowing remarks from the Philadelphia Bulletin. Every one that has shipped goods by the New York &. Erie Reed daring the past whiter and spring can certify to it. and we would think such facts weak' begin to epee limey.* of the Director' of that road to a western connisetion of their owe, or st least nos le !shish they could stand an equal chance with their great and as yet esecoesful rival, the New York Central Railroad. The Balls& says. we were present the ether day. is the store of a mercantile (need, when the ramie* turned on the advertise- Meat. which we published last week. of certain goods. consigned by the New York and Erie Railroad to Lou• isville, but newer yet came to hand. On this a western merchant, who was purchasing a bill of geode, narrated a more estraordinary instance of ■egleet. He said that a friend of his, doing business in Lowell. Ohio, had er• dered seine goods sent by the Erie Railroad last fall, but had heard lanthins nr th,•• weeks ego, Whom they termed up In Cincinnati. As Lowell is on the Wooten] Reserve, nearly a hundred and fifty miles from Cincinnati, the destination which the goody obtained was not less curious than the length of time consumed in getting there. filach instances, we are told • are by ns meant rare. Tho New York and Erie road, instead of being a connection with the west, is only a connection with Dunkirk, and happy is the man who does not have to go there. and hunt his goods up. often waiting weeks for them• if not months. And when packets' escape from Dunkirk, at last, they often, like the dove sent oat of the Ark. • can find no rest for the sole of their foot." bet go wandering ep and down the country, to Cincin nati, to Columbus, and to other places, •ureteral to Den kirk, and there abide, no the good old Latin has it, swentlissatealerana."—from everlasting to everlasting. Foe the EriY Obeerrer. A. article under the head of the "Franklin Canal Railroad" appears in the last Geults.esdeavering to keep up the old silly spleen against that most valuable work. and far what purpose an eld oonteinptible and onjoeiei ens war is recommenced, it is impossible to Wows,. If I were disposed to retort, it would be easy to show that the Pandora. box, so familiar with the wrier, if it ever has been poured out upon the citizens of this devoted city, has come from entirely opposite quarters, and quaters in which the writer very penally has received his bread and batter during a considerable portion of his , existence; and it would net be difficult to demonstrate too, that it has been almost,.if net entirely the only honestly constructed work of improvement, that we have been eaablsd to Witnees in oar neighborhood—and the only corporation among as which has not been guilty of the grossest ecru motions, even to the making of a bye•word of our place. Look at the Erie Bank—the Erie Canal Company—the Erie and North East Railroad company! ! ! as far as their management has b cue concerned reflect warts •pes the body politic. I would like the writer le point oat the man ever prominently connected with the west ern Railroad, such a fool as to deny its paternity or to ex press a wish to have the road stopped or the rails torn up. I weeld have passed this stepid article or the Gazette over in couteinpt and disregard. did I net have reason tai believe that it hat an object, at this partica►ar period. un manly and @mischievous. JUSTICE. Er A Government Sala of Muskets. and other mili tary requisites. took place yesterJay miming. at the marine barracks. The articles were arranged on the parade ground to the best advantage. and within a sweep of the eye could be seem piles of white undress suite of clothing. blue jackets and pants, caps and more impes• log uniforms; I &rims of swords, resting quietly io their scabbards; boxes of brass ornaments and pan wi pers; nests *1 leather belting, pyramids of cartridge and percussion cep boxes; twenty or more drum bodies, some of them bereft of the sheep skin, ethers with mer• ly a big hole rot he head, while several of them, in geed condition, can still cause a noise In the world. Spread over the earth were upwards of 5000 Sint muskets, in lots of twenty live, All the marines were there. in undress. act a few as bidders; and from the extensive exhibition of military implements. it seemed that Undo Sam was about to break op his war ostablishmeat and begin the millennium. A merchant of New York. engaged in the sale of mil• itary rods. mad• large pernhasee of muskets. and he and a pallor/ma e•aneet•d with the American C•loni • sstioa Society wire nearly the eitelusive sneceeafol bid ders. The price• ranged, for each gee. frern eighty seats, or a■ average. upaardo of ens dollar'and twenty cents. Fifteen hundred of them muskets will hereafter enter into the defensive operations of the republic of Li beria. together with the swords to which we have already referred; and the elething and equipments intend for marine, will adore probably. the land tomes of the Afri can severe igu. Eight iros Biz and twelve pessiders were purchased by the New Tork 'merchants, et eight dollars limb, and the halls were veld to other ponies at eight seats apiseo. Wank IhreitSic. The beige eerreepeadeat of the Washiegtea Repair lie says the Cabinet have sealed their daily session, sad only west three times a 'reek. Their last ateetiage have been eeeepied is the eessideratiea of the Head*? ran uad7 sad Niearagea geestiee. The Boa. 3. IL Chandler. wh• ha• beim eenflood to his miasma by a severs attack of •iakaus aim the adjearnmeat of Cosines, has entirely neoevorod and e•at•oplatse anbarkiag for Larop•. ' Decussate. Aped 16. The illenrksi Legislators necked Harrisburg et sees le day. se pews of the resseylresis loarietstare.— They met with as estbsedeetie reseptles. G. Low* was &Woad at Saltiest. from indigo aitioa. Ihemeenrete. April 18. Tim sift' of Manchester hoe Liverpool. Moroi Mk reeshool here We menthes wide • volsoilleiorgo sod 170 111911111.-71011 ALL 1101111101111. Nzw Yeaz. April 16. Er A.liissisialky gild pisiss is w lowssised Os, lb* Am of ham. Cr Rhea Ada. xis tired' seesisi hia emereue da *dadeste, he sold. 41et 811 the teat ►e esi6d Smith." Er TAO 81. m... Trrise, 'skit their children are drawieg large crowds at their levees is Boston Cr Tim staasped •nvelopu ceetractodffor by Mr. Nes bitt will bo ready for delivery on the Ist of Joon. Q Hos. J. 1. Crittenden has declined th• beam of a Faiths dinner teadered him by th• citizens of Mabel'. 1N11.141T1 ♦soao FOSSIONSIIII.—Ia the Boston Lusatia Hospitable there are 251 patients. foar•f~ftba of whose are _ Aweigh paupers. cr ;s 14 is sea of high repetatiee are like hose is • ceatieeally stirred ap, that the crowd way we their size •ed hear their roar. 117Andrerr lockout Davis and ethers. props* • Con solation to investigate the origin and inspiration of the Bible. at Hartford on the 94 day of Jane. IT The U. S. Sepreine Court has /decided that the sale by Sheriff of the engraved plate of a map does not convey the copy right. . Er Ao illiterate corrospoodoot who is give■ to sport ing, wools to know when the ••Angle Saxon rico." so mach talk's! 'boot, is to toms off. QT A minister's wife heirs' asked the place of her nativity, replied: ••I am w safertenste so not to have any native plan:-1 was the daughter of a diagrams.•' CT It is prepeeed, is Boston. to enlarge Fonesil preserving its present form. bat somewhat modifying it. The most of the alteration is estimated at $11,500. IT Is the New-Yerk markets. green peas, from Sa vaaaah. are gaited at 64 coats the peek; tomatoes at 38 ea. per gout; sad radishes at 9 ta 10 its. per beach. Er Miss Casella* E. Potaant, of Salem. has epessd a berbar•shep is that eity—aasther brisk frets the Hi**m ar Teasels. Not the first time mss base hese abased by weans. ET A colored man who oailiml for Califorpio Crows Nowboryport. in tho brig Ark. is 1849. returned by the lut oratnor, $lO,OOO bettor of Oise when be wen away. FT A epeeist meseesger from Vera Cris hu reached Nerr•Orlease wittithe treaty gearanteeing to Col. glee" the neutrality and pessession of the Tehnaatipeo T sit reale. Loin S xxxxx at.—Dr. Roberts has been sent t• Geor gia State Prison kr nineteen years, Gideo• Copenhagen fir fourteen, and Lewis Clark for four. for fobbing a■ old man of $6.500 is silver. CROSS PORPOSES.—Speakieg of the death of no:spid man, one of the papers says, "h• retainsd rsmarbis pos session of all his mental faculties down to within a few milss of his residence!" (ET The preesention of George A Gardiaer.of N. T. for false swearing. in order to obtain •n award from the Mexican commission. is now in progress i• Ib• criminal court of the District of Colombia._ 1:17 The law •uthonsiog the registry of births sad marriages has been repealed by the Legislaterr. The people pay for the books that were promared for the car rying out of the law. So much for logislat;ag. CO' The Wisisrn Press says that Job■ Taymyr. the supposed murderer of Dr. G. W. Baskin. has net yet bests taken, and nothing that wouldindieate his where abouts has been ascertained. that we have heard of. ET Win. D Starr. i.eq editor of the Sentinel and Witness. has been appointed Collector of th• port of Mid dleton. C 4 Ho was turned oat of that office by tho 'big' four years ago, having held it scarcely six months. QT Te• dollar counterfeit notes of the Granaerey Bank of Lafayette. lad.. are in circulation. This bank does net 'issue ten dollar", its circulation being composed •s -tirely of ones and Ewes. 1117 Tha Pea with which the Minors of the Dspiara• tioa of Indopondone signed their several names to thud instriment, is now in the office of the &tertiary of State. in IVoshingten. 17 it is stated that eighty Americas illisessea. aig!steas captains, lab metes, sad as assay mire loreigsers. hate died during the put 9 Isaiah' at Pert as Prism: frees yellomfever. IT John Mcßae. postmaster at Fayetteville. N. C.. has declined a rs•appoiatmoat. H. hasi bees coarieeted with the office for S 2 years. 17 yeas, as clerk seder hie father, and 35 years as pestmaster. QT We omitted to acknowledge the"receipt of a copy of the G Menage. and report of the Benignity of State of California from *sr old friend, W. W. Dob. bins El.. who is now a resident of the new Ehhirede of the west. fie will please accept oar thanks for the valueb:e document. A STATE, "Dauitauxa" /OR Consiss.--The Logi It tore of Wisconsin bur passed • bill providing for the ap pointment of a traveling •migrant agent. whoa* din/ it shall be to iodate emigrants to the west to imbrue the advantegre held oat to them in Wisconsin. Hos. J. J. Townsend. formerly a member of the Legislator.. bu accepted the appointment. A BRIDGE AT Hares as Quacs —l'ho bill to allow • railroad bridge to be erected over the Eissqeshana, at Havre de Grace, has passed the Maryland Legislator• and is now a law. Wonder if that will help Havre de Grace money any. We knew who has a V that they would like to pass at par. or even eonspresion for one half. Cr The director of the Philadelphia Mint has give■ notice that the coinage of three•cent pekes and their die tribotion at the expense of the !dint has been discontinu ed. with the view to a more active employment i■ man afaeturiag ■ew silver coin. Over thirty-fix willies three•coat pieces have been coined. Q A New York paper says that •'than le a Hotel building in Broadway. the proprietors •f which intend. in addition to the 'Bridal Chamber' t• haw• • *Pita Room' fitted up in magnificent style. for the imamate. dation of travelers who wish to die decently 'and; hive their exocntore pay for it.' " Er Reynold Groh. was alight by a band wish* he was adjusting to a drum. is Pittsbergh. ea Friday last. sod carried around that shaft shoat 100 times-4mA rev elation bringing him is eastact with the Poe above.— Ho aspired sees after beim; ostrieattd. Er The New &lifted Fanner mentions the ease of an orchard of sae hundred and six thrifty Baldwin,. that were washed with a *elation of a pound of potash in a gallon of water. The owner foiled in two days that he bad killed the whole of his beautiful sad valoablolrees. Soap ends or ashes in water. arestreag enough. Guano is as eseellsat thieg for tress. and salt is seinotionugood. bat it is, one of the easiest things i■ the world to kill trees with nide( then" i• excess. CT The Rochester Anerican Jeanie that the C. silts.. of the various Central Railroads have agreed at ea ts a pies of eeaselidatios. sad that it will take .B e sheet the lint of Aegis' acct. All the reeds meowed is ill, bill have seceded to the arreagewient. The terse of the plea of sales Yee* alit yet transpired. Arai[ sand story is told of a cognitions's. who accidentally *tipped his peekst•book Is the street. says the Bastes T. es the doe illellat• sostaisist the sees Woman of $3OO. Passing along. he soon had oesasios to ass It. whoa Ito dissevered that it was lest.— Turajo g directly mead. aid remising his steps. bo was surprised te boo it lying ea the side walk. warded by sheet a doses loafer.. whs. he said. he would sat treat with three seats. sash WWII tea eajoying a joke. se they supposed. epos the teas Who phdtaii it sp. Some! had paned sad kicked it. seppotrias it to he a Wok* Neer MesasoisCatoovrr.—.ooo of the Isn ot L.. NlAWeesowltiosoccorrod on Saturday at Toro, c,,'" d i et we woe %ford of for a long time. O ne moot respectable citizens, named Charles Re n „.„" l veils attempting to leap on the platform a ""1 , trsin.on the Pennsylvania Railroad, miatainnt the distance, and fell on the track, the i nur Z passed ever his body, cutting it diagonally froiT, sisonlder to his lions, and completely seper nt i n .•• portion from the ether. The heart was thro w s and the lower dart of the body was cut literal, F".. 'mince meat.' The upper part was entirely nn o In thia.onndit ion, an inquest was held upon th,i2 11 on Saturday, by Coroner Lowrie. Mr Kennedy was a young man, and-outners,, He was , the superintendent of the coal trainkniZ lair to Messrs. Diann, of this city. An arran n a had been made between the deceased and tha -- : neer of the train to stop for him at the slat' n a: the latter not slopping soon enough si r . g a zt male the unfortunate leap. Mr. Kenuedy r e - 47 the Filth Ward, and enjoyed the esteem and c of all who were squainted with him.—pighcit New Advertisement BOOTH & STEW A RT. Witotcatts and Retail deLiers in Fancy and Starlit 0, 7 sa d millinery, No.-6, Poor PeOple's Row, oppcnne t„. Hotel a scorn. N- election for Ilirectors • will be held at the office of the company frbe en .2 3 . cr an e s law office.) in Ai.nday the Yd day of May, isy,i7.2 the hours ofl and 4 _,o'cloek P.M. BENJ. OAR' Erie, April IP= Proposals for Grading Prencirltiiii: GREEABLE to resolution of COutictli, the o h d emott e i t h er o f them. will receive nettled proptuals of May nen for grading aud unninking French mem 6,,Z Fab al. aud YuQalo toad, kt be completed on or bet:4l%3 day of July neat. The work to be done In accordance with the establartei rla and to the satisfaction of the street committee. FOI hirk, formation enquire of J B SMY W. C. BaAtirTsLcia. D. G. LANDES, Erie. April la. IQ To Rent. ACOMFORTABLE Dwelling house ignited on the 11th and Peach street. For particulars apply to Erie April 23 1853-311 VINCENT. lIIVIROD k 7.• ADI II EEL! 0 11.1 - 1: HURRAH FOR THE NEW STORE, THE Subscribers are uow opening one of the finest sh eesoi of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS ever otTered la Get* and - exception. Any person purchasing at thi. store Wln aRs legion II per cent. as our goods are bought and told ft eAgg . Call won to secure a good bargain. (Mr Co. d. an. all 11,.. is selected expressly. for the Erie trade. BOOTH k STLIVAtt Erie. April 22 1833—50. No.6. Poor Peelog., IaIAO and Blue Sheeting, Drills, Tit king. Urn i.weur , LIA . „LI Table clod's, Napkins. ke. ROOTH kST EWALT. April 23 ' 3150 No 6 Poor People's Row, OPPCmile girsrw t - - "TWILLED Calico, a new rtyle. Polka Dela ins thing new nt the Emporium. BOTH k STtWth Erie April 23'53.50. No. 6 Poor People',.„,„ LA D I ES gotta perelia Sleeve Protectors, by Erie April 31 '53-30. BOOTH k STDVAIT. lAN° Coves, figured. velvit. linen, damask and r 4 P hle Cloths, black 8 1111 Lace, figured needle wroutlit a , e . i Eriging.inserting, at the Emporium. BOOTH & TIM M". April •J3',13-.50 No 9 Poor People's Row. ()Kaput. lbss,,, U NDER Sleeves. Swiss bands, embroidered co:la nai s" setts, window drapery. dotted, corded and I'lTel bishop lawn, India, book and Swiss mull. April KYr II & F 7 EW ktr WAT ER ED. (trot ade. lined and steeple lop Ya raso, lasi% OD to $6. at the Emporium. . BOOTH k S l'EKtat Erie. April !It '5340. Oppobite Brow Wt. New Nut /%1 i m ss i:Xe l t a r l it c :n h e a d te t,a j t• ern ;t y ra L w ind gi n in a p ".et, silverrdn r a u t : d . r ea pir for the head, and a great assortment of straw trtmmuirs, Emporium. A pril '33-313 BOOTH k STETVAIT T A B'S French flowers, wreaths, ruches, ;prig flowers,TriP led wreaths, lionneit frames, crown linings. erape huts* Emporium.' April t"I'S3-50 BOOTH It STEWIr ONNET EIBtiNS. a choice assortment from It to Itts B F:mpoimin. A '53-50 BOOTH k STEWAIIT ROC ADE, st r pod. e fleeted. grode de Thine. Mich.:S Ike el ion and Canton Silks. April 21.50 Snorts k. FTrirm TISSUE, ha rage de lane, Persian de lane. *min ehirt. lin de halite at the Emporium. CIO &ern & Blum. CARHMI RE. Kra de rhino embroidered Canton emirgr by Erie. April 23'33.30. BOOTH k STEWitt QIIAMBRA Cinch:int at 10 ets per yard. M U L iesauov kJ" lawns at 6 eta, matter prints fast eolors at 6 rta. Imes H kerchiefs at b e ts at the Emporium BOOTH t STEW lit Apr >b. '53 50 No 6 Poor People's ley riI_FATS Piik Wrappers at el .50. rotion wr - iprier. ai Xra Embroidered Linen handkerchief.. fancy ailn cretin,. in tics. embroidered polka ties, "meth! , t new. Erie, April 23,15 —3O BOOTH & STEWART. riOSSIVIER. Cohiirgh. Pedals. Diamond. Satan. Tnt p,Dal. Semi and French Lace. Rads eye. Grey and Fiery law Spider Lice. Jenny Lind, Sontag Ronnette from en to JRY the Empor Mtn. BOOTH k STEWART. April '33-30 No f Poor Propie's Row. opposite Bran's. Burnt Out, But Tat Alive. AT IRO. 7 anows's awn'. ATA T rrarn. WHERE he will be happy to see his old cuormers.sada many new ones as wall favor him with a call. Pay LIR tion all who buy clothing that my motto is to, .11.1DERSELL ALL OTHERS IN THE TRAM There nre some in the clothing trade 1 , ho ran rkesselas men and they vi ill tell aou that my clothi nein eastern atatte.ar and hand. fte..or I could not sell it so che a p Th e y t h at is theiy policy to say so: but the people won't rehear !two Tki ,t Hiner', are ntrakeither have been milled lone ermagli midmost stand itany Longer, and the universal cry in onto W00D1.04 clothing more. hr in in tow n yet and intends stay herr. k you want to buy he hoe ever} thing you want in thectodnal yent eats depend upor. ohm he sap; if )ou buy. and *Vs IN. Mime it the goods should not roil 1011. )811 can bring .hen lad and WOr.D will pay you tour money. he won't al) I &Valls you. cell I 'ink you got dot some oter place. What he aa)t god and truthmuetatt willprevs tl. In order to *firmly the mane of every man and hey. I harem cured the sen tees of Mr JOHN GRAHAM. an Pllwteggelita• ter and practical workman tlo All who wroth clothing saki order can rely upon a fit Clothing CLI and made (armless who wish to fti mph these own cloth, and warranted is Li A general nsnortment oh Cloths. Cassimeres. %'esongs. aid he Wetting rood. oio aye on hand. and (tithe latent styles ,Oneatlat our roods nre all cut and made by the most practical IMMO and under our ow n •uperviston. All I ark in a lock bektiews buy. and be convinced that I will •eti 5n per cent cheapettiaswi other house in the elate. I invite al:. partimalarl) thew/wham laborer and farmer as it is to their interest and can Arcuated expense. Boas Clothing or all nines always on band NW don't forget No. J. Brown's Hotel. State street. next door monk Curry's Exchange Otrtee. Mr WOOD defies the world la rm. tiorslohle aid quality Erie, April 2 1e.13-50 N. ROOD a ca - New Spring and Sumner Geode dr Ivo. I BROWN'S BLOCK. TtnnA LS k HAYES take plea stare in announcing so Usk friends and all whom it may concern, that they art Ma receiving the largest and best selected stocknOtprins sag Noe frier Goods they have ever offered to the nubile. There Poi have been selected with special reference to profane( the w est styles. the hest fabrics and al the lowest firtlfel that Reno& could purchase them for, and we are now preparedmothitler to our customers nt bargains. All we ask in an opperaladY* show onr goofs, when we 'rust we can saiiqv cne andall tS No. 1. Brow n'• Rloek, as where the cheap goods are to WWI. Erie. April 111 /1443 , 5 received a line assorthirni a sr* styles of Braze de [.ants, Crape de Lanes law?". ro/lr► Ginahantr, /se., Jte , cheap a t TIBBALS t HATES% Erie. April SI 1R5.1 BLACK and Dress bilks-330 pieces jnst opcnrd. coalinigai the newest mole. , teat are out. and eheip enough. Erie April :12 tSil. TIBBALS k HAIM CIILI.A RS. Cuff, Undersieeves. dothint R Imo Just the finest assortment of this style of roods errr oted in the city, and would respectfully call the ' , penal attre" sd the ladles to this trade. TIBBALS t HAT S. Erie. April 'XI LA.I3 0 Boot and Shoo Mstablishirent. THE Subscriber would inform his friends rind ti , r. prairie Ire erally that he bas °weird a BOOT and SHOE. 2TOU 111110 MOM formerly oceupie by J. Eiebenlaub, one door northerlies . doll's list Store on State street. in Erie. Hr ' 5 well **ld with every variety of BOOTS and SHOES, ranleatarly are lighter kind, donna the summer, which he ail sell at wee rates as any other esta hi ishnient in the city. lie menet I* eral *bare of public patronage. Boots and Shea, made well. and repairing done on the shortest notice Erie. April 23 1633-30 13, 1 011'F.1. Z. milt "MAN, KNOW THYSELF." 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