_THE HUNTINGDON GLOB IA:, A_ DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
THE GLOBE
Circulation—the largest in the county.
UNIVEITMOOM 224
Wednesday, June 23, 1858
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT,
WIL. A. POILTE.R I of 'Philadelphia.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
WESTLEY FROST, of Fayette Co.
ZaaT' READ THE NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PRINTING IN DRY COLORS
Having purchased the right of this
county for printing in Dry Colors, we in
form our friends and enemies that we are
now prepared to accommodate all with the
most beautiful Posters, Bills, Cards, Cir
culars, &c. Call at the "Globe Job Office"
and examine specimens.
rer See advertisement of Dr. Sanford's
Liver Invigorator in another column.
zEr-See advertisement of Prof. IVood's
Hair Restorative in another column.
We have been crowded a little of late
with jobbing. Our friends in the country
shall have their favors attended to as soon
as possible
CONGRESS.—We learn that, COI. COFFROTII,
of Somerset, is also favorably named in con
nection with the Congressional nomination
for this district. From the list of gentlemen
already named the Conference will have no
difficulty in selecting a good candidate. We
do not hear of any of our political friends in
this county wanting the nomination.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—On Thursday morn
ing last, an accident occurredto the express
passenger train west, at Mapleton, 12 miles
east of this place. An axle of the ladies' car
broke, throwing the front end of the car
against a freight car on the siding. Half of
the one side of the car, including the seats,
was torn away. Three persons, two ladies
and a boy, were seriously injured, and two
or three ladies slightly so. The injured
were brought to this place, and talien to Mrs.
IlAmrsox's and Sheriff ZEIGLER'S—they re
ceive every attention the Company can pro
vide. This is the first serious accident that
has occurred on the Central for many months,
whilst they are of almost daily occurrence on
most other roads.
Locals.
Huntingdon is the heaviest freight station
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, between Phila
delphia and Pittsburg.
JAMES BRICKER'S new store is in full blast.
lie has a very large stock of Goods. See his
advertisement and give him a call.
The Coal business on Broad Top continues
brisk. The revival of business in the East
will create a demand for this coal which it
will be almost impossible to supply.
Capt. W3I. DORRIS, A. W. BE.NEDICT, JOHN
PORTER, JOHN S. ISETT, and THOMAS FISHER,
were sent to the Poor House on the 21st, by
order of the Court, to investigate and report
upon the affairs of that institution.
We had the pleasure on Monday evening,
of passing our opinion on the quality of the
ice cream manufactured by Messrs. LONG &
MILLER. We never tasted better—and we
believe we are a good judge of the article.
A most magnificent boquet was presented
us on Monday by Miss MARY MALI., selected
from the garden of her father, Mr. J.A. HALL.
We prize. it highly, as it is seldom the print
ers' path is strewn with flowers. Miss MARY
will please accept our thanks.
We notice daily arrivals for Bedford Springs
and Broad Top City. Already, we under
stand, rooms are taken at the Broad Top
'City House, by a number of families, for the
summer. There is no more pleasant place
anywhere, during the hot months of July
and August.
Prof. Moon and lady gave a kind of a
lecture and a kind of a performance in the
Court House on Thursday evening last.—
They left between two days, forgetting to
pay their printing and posting bill, and per
haps some others. The Professor is abun
dantly supplied with recommendations said
to be given him by clergymen and others.—
He is, beyond doubt, a professional swindler,
. and uses the good name of a society to aid
him in his operations. This, therefore, is to
caution printers and others in the United
States to keep a look-out for him. The craft
will pass him round.
TEE NEW USURY LAW IN PENNSYLVANIA.-
We give below, says the New York Evening
Post, a copy of a law regulating the rate of
interest in Pennsylvania, which received he
approval of Gov. Packer a ,short time since.
It provides that parties may agree upon any
rate of interest they please, but that they
shall not be permitted to collect by process of
law more than six per cent. This is a sensi
ble law, and we trust it will commend itself
to the national approval and imitation. Our
usury laws are barbarous as well as absurd.
To deny a man the right to sell the use of his
money for what it is worth, is bad enough,
but to make the penalty fur doing so, the en
tire loss of the money loaned and the conver
sion of it into a bounty for the encourage
ment of fraudulent debtors, is the most un
natural and preposterous legislation that can
well be imagined, No other civilized coun
try in the world iS guilty of such folly.
The nlinois Complication
We have repeatedly asserted, says The
Press, that among all Democrats, not bound
to silence by the spell of patronage, there
was but one opinion touching the disorgani
zation fomented amongst the Illinois Democ
racy by a set of super-serviceable plattemen,
or aspirants fur place, whose chief title to
favor has been a bitter opposition to the pres
ent Executive. In stating candidly our con
viction that the course marked out by the
postmasters and Administration officials in
their recent factious convocation, is at war
not merely with all party usages, but with
the plainest dictates of political policy, we
have only uttered the unanimous sentiment
of the independent press of the country.
Even the Richmond South, once prone to
denounce Senator Douglas with foul-mouthed
abuse, in a recent article implores the Ad
ministration to cease persecution upon the
friends of that statesman, and declares that
an opposite policy must inevitably drive the
great States of Illinois, New Jersey. and
Pennsylvania into the ranks of the opposi
tion.
A new Democratic paper, the Philadelphia
Sunday Leader, conducted with great ability,
in a carefully-written article, which, with
much force and vigor of independence, places
the matter in a clear light, says :
"We are slow to believe that the division
of the party in Illinois was suggested by
members of the Administration at Washing
ton, because we can discover no appreciable
good which can result to the Administration
from such a hostile schism. 'War to the knife'
may be a pleasant pastime for those who do
not immediately feel its keenness, but that
sort of warfare is prone to enlist others in
the contest, until a whole party may become
engaged in such immolating strife. We re
gret to find, prominent in the schismatic ac
tion of the late so-called Illinois State Con
vention, the names of several officers connect
ed with the Post Office and Treasury Depart
ments at Washington. If their conduct has
the approval of the heads of Departments,
or if their subordinates do not receive a
prompt and severe rebuke, then we shall be
gin to think that there is some force in the
rumor that the Illinois schism has been in
stigated by the Postmaster General and the
Secretary of the Treasury, who are supposed
to be now engaged in forming a party of
their own in the Union, for use hereafter, as
circumstances may require, for their own
personal interest."
Our cotemporary concludes with the follow
ing suggestive remarks:
"It is mainly to the effect which will be
produced in other localities, by the schismat
ic action of the second Convention in Illinois,
that we desire to call attention. The Demo
cratic party throughout the Union is not so
compact, just now, in sentiment and feeling,
as to warrant experiments with its members,
nor is it so strong in numbers,- that- whole
squadrons can be garroted at pleasure in the
free States. There are thousands of men in
Pennsylvania, high in mental attainments,
and strong in _Democratic principles, who will
not quietly permit their brethren in Illinois to
be sacrificed, merely because they doubted
both the propriety and justice of forcing
Kansas into the Union Under the Lecompton
Constitution. They consider that a question
upon which Democrats may honestly differ,
without being subject to condemnation, or
even censure. Education and liberality have
diffused themselves too generally among the
Democratic masses of the North and West to
admit of servile obedience to the mandates
of any man, or set of men, who desire first to
interpolate the Democratic creed, and then
denounce all who do not conform their speech
and action to unjust and visionary political
speculations. • Our principles have been hand
ed down to us by the fathers of Democracy,
who believed that they had constructed a
basis as enduring as justice itself, because it
embodied scope of thought and comparative
freedom of action. A new doctrine and new
test of faith are now in process of inculca
tion, by a mode as sanguinary as the propa
gation of the faith of Mahomet. The sword
or the Koran is now the watchword; but
there is no Elysium in prospective, either for
conformists or dissenters. If it be right in
Illinois to bolt the action of the Democratic
Convention, then it would-be equally valid
to follow the example in Pennsylvania and
other States. Violence begets violence, and
even the forward march. of conquerors is
made necessary by stern necessity,•until they
are destroyed by the very violence which
they begat. One set of executioners give
rise to another set, and reasons are always
ready to justify such measures. Is the rally
ing crq to be death or obedience? Will Sec
retary Cobb inform us, that we may prepare
for the alternative ?"
These reflections are at the present mo
ment brought home irresistably to the minds
of thousands of earnest Democrats throughout
the State who have never swerved from that
living Democratic faith, the cardinal princi
ple of which is now sought to be stricken
down by a merciless proscription of its sup
porters. They who sow the wind must pre
pare to reap the whirlwind. The responsi
bility of the result must lie at the door of
the men who, from mere personal spite, are
willing to start dissensions and ultitnately to
disrupt the Deniocratie party. The signs
are portentous of a coming storm. Those
whose duty it has been to foresee the danger
and to provide against it, have been the first
to hasten and consummate a catastrophe
which all true patriots must deplore. The
people have asked for peace, and the signal
is given for war. There is to be no sheathing
of the knife! The query, then, becomes a
very important one—" Is the rallying cry to
be, death or obedience?" The executioners
will find it no holiday-work to "hang, draw,
and quarter" all the recusants in the "Old
Keystone. If all the Lecomptonites in the
State were to join in the pleasant proscriptive
task, they would find themselves over-tasked
by the gigantic work. They would necessa
rily have to invade every Democratic house
hold in the Commonwealth ; and in such an
officious round of patriotic labors, they might
unexpectedly find themselves turned uncere
moniously out of doors._ It will be some tiny
hence ere a minority faction can undertake
to ostracize the great bulk of the Democratic
party in this State; and for the mere sake of
saving themselves from utter confusion and
oblivion, we should think those now engaged
in the attempt would desist from the palpa
ble folly.
Public Meeting.
Pursuant to public notice, a meeting of the
citizens of the borough of Huntingdon, con
vened in the Court House, on Friday evening,
the 18th inst., for the purpose of making ar
rangements fur celebrating the approaching
anniversary of our National Independence.
The meeting was organized by calling Maj.
T. P. CAMPBELL to the Chair, and appoint
ing J. A. NASH, Secretary.
Remarks were made by Messrs. Stewart,
Colon, Campbell and Benedict, as to the best
mode of celebrating.
On motion of J. Sewell Stewart, Esq., a
committee of five be appointed to report a
programme. The Chair appointed J. Sewell
Stews rt, Wm. Colon, R. B. Petriken, Edward
Snare and P. M'Ateer, said committee.
The meeting then adjourned to meet in the
Court House on Saturday evening.
SATURDAY EVENING.—The meeting was
called to order by the President. The report
of the committee being called for, the follow
ing was read by J. Sewell Stewart, Esq., and
unanimously adopted :
1. That as the 4th, this year, occurs on
Sunday it be celebrated on Saturday, the 3rd
of July.
2. That a procession be formed in the street,
in front of the Court House, the right resting
on the Diamond, and march to M'Cahan's
Grove, preceded by a band of music, if such
can be procured, and if not, the time-honored,
inspiring drum and fife. The time of moving,
and the details of the procession, to be regu
lated by a committee of arrangements, a
chief and twelve assistant marshals.
3. Arriving at the Grove, the Declaration
of Independence will he read, and an oration
delivered.
4. In the afternoon a balloon ascension,
discharges of cannon and musketry, inter
spersed with patriotic speeches, music, grand
rural cotillions, promenades, &c.
5. Display of fireworks after dark.
6. That an invitation be extended to the
neighboring military companies to attend the
celebration.
The whole celebration to be conducted with
the strictest order and decorum, and to be
participated in by all who may desire to at
tend—young and old, male and female.
On motion of John 0. Murray, a committee
of arrangements be appointed, to consist of
twelve persons. The Chair appointed John
0. Murray, Andrew Johnston, P. M'Ateer,
Win. Williams, Wm. B. Zeigler, Wm. Sum
mers, John S. Miller, C.. Schneider, Henry
Africa, Joseph R. Carmon, Andrew' Moebus,
and T. P. Love said committee.
The Chair then, on motion, appointed Win.
Colon,' Albert Owen, A. W. Benedict, 11. T.
"White and J. Sewell Stewart, a committee to
procure an orator of the day, and other speak
ers for the occasion.
On motion, Ed. Snare was authorized to
procure a balloon and fireworks, with the
privilege of appointing as many assistants as
he may require.
On motion, the proceedings were ordered
to be published in all the county papers.
T. P. CAMPBELL, Pies'!.
J. A. N.isn,
CORRESPONDENCE OP THE GLOBE.
lIOLLIDAYSBURG, June 21, '5B
DEAR G LaTIE :—After enduring with Chris
tian (?) fortitude, the fervid rays of Summer's
sun, as it "careered, in unapproachable di
vinity, through the azure Heavens," I seat
myself to enjoy a social chat with you, as one
who has often cheered the lonely hours, which
will sometimes, in spite of ourselves. fill the
mind with gloomy thoughts.
Hollidaysburg has been, in a measure, re
suscitated, after baring been considerably
prostrated, in the general depression of "the
qpirs of men." Business men begin to ap
pear with countenances brightened up by the
pleasant smile of prosperity. The laboring
classes are being relieved from the cold em
brace of necessity, which so lately encircled
them.
The "11'eto Bank" has been opened and in
the course of a few weeks, will be in success
ful operation. Its friends predict a brilliant
future.
No excitement, whatever, prevails with re
gard to political affairs; and were it not for
the continual war waged by the editors of
the several newspapers orthe county, the ap
proaching election would scarcely be spoken of.
By the way, I observed in a late number
of your paper a communication, naming Thad.
Banks, Esq., in connection with the candidacy
for Congress. Mr. B. is a man whose claims
have been justly presented; his whole life
has been devoted to the interest of the Demo
cratic party ; he is a man who will, if elected',
redeem the pledges of his friends ; he stands
upon the broad platform of 1856, and, in_the
strictness of his integrity and devotion to
principle, will always contribute with a will
ing heart to the promulgation and support of
that cherished principle of Democracy—the
right of the people to regulate their own in
stitutions in their own way. In short, he is
the man for the times, and the sturdy yeo
manry of Blair will roll up a vote that will
show that they appreciate characters of this
kind—of whom, alas, there are but few.
To change the subject rather abruptly, I
am sojourning at the "American House,"
which no superior can be "raked up." Its
tables always groan under the rarest delica
cies of the season, and no expense is spared
to contribute to the comfort of the "alter
man." It is kept by that prince of "good
fellows," Capt. D. K. Reanny, whose cheer
ful countenance, lighted up by the genial in
fluence of a good heart, makes one feel at
home. But! am trespassing upon your good
nature, I must close. Yours, &,c.,
41 3 Professionalizing Teachers."
[For the Huntingdon Globe.]
This article is intended to meet the views
of all those learned worthies who set in judg
ment upon noble, interesting questions; and
who render a decision, then argue the case,
and finally listen to the testimony. It-refers
to the opinions of no one individual; but
many who have pronounced judgment will
be able to determine its significance.
A prevailing opinion among parents, teach
ers, and even legislators, leas been, that an
outline of Arithmetic, Grammar and Geogra
phy,-formed the summum bonunt of a Com
mon School education; and that almost any
person, possessing this outline, was capable
of teaching it: at any rate they have acted
upon this principle. This chief error is most
detrimental to the educational system. From
this cause the shadow stands still upon the
dial-plate---each footstep upon the wheel of
reform is turned back to the beaten track of
conservatism.
Real educators take another view of the
subject. The absolute necessity for a legal
system of popular education is now an axiom
in our political mensuration. The quality
and character of that education will &x the
standard and merits of the profession which
bestows it. A proper system will instruct
the rising generation in language, mathe
matics, philosophy, history and political con
stitutions. In this I omit the accomplish
ments, as music, drawing and belleslettres,
leaving them to the voluntary efforts of stu
dents and parents. The teacher must not
only possess a knowledge of what he teaches;
but he must know the laws which govern
mind in its own reasonable development.—
llis experience and intelligence should point
out to the student the whole prospect before
him, viz.: the inducements and disadvantages;
the pleasures and hardships, connected with
the high and honorable pursuits of life. This
duty, now neglected by parents and teachers,
will inspire the mind of the learner, and
perhaps guide it in its whole transit across
life. The teacher or educator is a professional
man only when he is master of the whole
subject. Others may be tolerated for the time
being, from necessity; but teachers, officials,
and legislators; should look forward to the
great end in view, where a profession, the
most noble and exalted, is to be brought out
of chaos; and from which all other profes
sions, institutions, and improvements are to
emanate.
Professions do not make the men ; but men
fix the standard of the profession. The legal
•
profession has been brought out of the chi
canery and fraud, practiced by the servants
of tyrants and lordlings. Men of science and
art have elevated the medical profession, and
stripped it of the absurdities, Alchemy, As
trology, and magic, the companions of its
filmier history. The profession of the edu
cator is last to quit the embarrassments which
are thrown around it, and to take its high
standing, looking abroad over all, only, be
cause its basis is broader, deeper, and it com
passes a larger domain. Other professions
are abstract principles of it. Mighty in
themselves, they form the delta, and spring
from a -mightier antecedent. The attorney
has his prepared forms and statutes, beyond
which he cannot go: the physician, his com
pounds and his pathological treatise; but the
profession of educating is eminently a pro
gressive profession. True, no law of muta
tion changes a mathematical demonstration,
but constant mutation is the law of language;
the sciences which we teach are progressive
sciences; and the laws which govern the de
velopment of mind are but faintly understood.
"I magnify mine office," said the Apostle to
the Gentiles. "I magnify mine office," said
the proverbial philosopher, Tupper, as he
sung of the power of poetry. "I magnify
mine office," says every true teacher as he
looks around, above, and beyond the present
chaos of his profession, and traces it to that
ultimate destiny which its own intrinsic merits
claim for it. These men harbor no jealousies,
advocate no dogmas, and fear no impositions.
No motive, "ill-will caprice, or prejudice"
will dare to invade their rights.
But what shall we say for the stand-still
part of the profession who plume themselves
upon the puff of a superficial education, with
out the ability to impart it? What for the
drones who buzz in the hive of industry, who
are not of the gatherers in to the common
store-house of knowledge? When the un
worthy have, by deception or otherwise, ob
tairked the "badge of honor" which they never
deserved, how shall the adjustment be made?
According to the views of Mr. Benedict and
Mr. Burrowes, the restitution shall be made
by marshaling a court, in pomp, and with
ceremonies. Indifferent to the subject, I
leave that for a higher authority to determine.
My province is to determine why the badge
should be wore by the deserving. To show
this, another characteristic of our profession
must be noticed.
In law the relation of client and attorney
is mutual, voluntary, and not binding. There
the empiric in his practice, has the astuteness
of the bar and the ability of the court per
petually over him. No other restraint is
necessary. The teacher, whether in the pri
mary department, or' in the halls of science
and schools of philosophy, preside over—not
a single client, but a whole community of
subjects. In government and in instruction,
he is the sole arbiter. His tuition once wast
ed upon them, no earthly power can call back
the days for improvement,or restore its equiva
lent. None, then, but the deserving must
wear that "badge of honor." Then, and not
till then will the profession be worthy of its
name. Then no false sympathy•of the im
agination will be required to protect it.
That badge, like the coat of mail, must be
kept burnished, bright with the progressive
sciences, arts, and institutions, or rust, and
not the "ill-will, caprice, or prejudice" of au
thority will consume it. [To be continued.]
ALBERT OWEN,
County Superintende
31. I. J
EDUCATIONAL.
Next Congressman,
[For the Huntingdon Globe.)
MR. LEwis:—ln a few weeks from this
time the Democrats of the Eighteenth Con
gressional district, will be called upon to
nominate a candidate for Congress. The dis
trict has been so grossly misrepresented during
the last two terms, that I, for one, believe
that it will require no extraordinary efforts
on the part of the Democrats to revolutionize
it. Indeed, it will only require the same vote
PACKER received to elect a Democrat, and it
is reasonable to presume that within a year
past the Democrats have not lost a vote—
neither have the opposition gained one.
Assuming then that we can elect, if the
proper exertions are made, it is of the utmost
importance to let a man in the field who could
command the entire confidence of the party,
and who would use his influence in behalf of
the passage of such laws as would produce
the "greatest good to the greatest number."
Important matters will be brought before
next Congress—not only measures in which
the nation at large is interested, but measures
of a local nature that may have considerable
influence on the future prosperity of the peo
ple residing along the Juniata. It is a pretty
well ascertained fact that strong effort will be
made next session to establish a National
Foundry. Should such foundry be located
anywhere along the Juniata, our iron men
would have a home market, and the real
universal wealth of the valley would then be
developed. No one can form any adequate
idea of the immense advantage such an es
tablishment would be to all the surrounding
country.
It is likely, too, that a modification of the
duties on iron will be asked for in the next
Congress. In view of the exigency of the
times, I am free to say that the import duties
on iron should be increased—aye, must be
increased if we do not want our furnaces and
forges to stand idle. The tariff is no longer
a party measure, and as it is an acknowledged
fact that iron is the chief product of three
counties of the district, we should, of all men,
be in favor of extending protection to those
who are engaged in the iron business.
With all due deference to the opinion of
others, I think I know a man, who, if elected,
would fulfill all the requirements demanded
for our welfare. I have reference to Major
JESSE R. CRAWFORD, of Hollidaysburg. lam
not aware that Major C. has any aspirations
of the kind, but I know that if he was elect
ed he would fill the office to the entire satis
faction of his constituents. He has ever been
a firm and consistent Democrat—one whose
labors in the cause have not been without
effect on the opposition of Blair county. His
energy and perseverance generally sees him
through in anything he undertakes; and, al
though not a brilliant orator, he is possessed
of that good, sound, practical sense that would
enable him to make his mark among the men
of the nation. In his election, We could
boast of being represented at Washington in
fact, as well as in name.
lIITNTINGDON.
Col. Kane at Washington---Despatches
from Gov. Cumming.
WASHINGTON, June 20.—C01. Kane arrived
here last night, bringing despatches from
Gov. Cumming, whom he left at Camp Scott
on the IGth of May. They were delivered
to the President of the United States. Their
purport has not officially transpired, but it is
ascertained that many of the accounts with
which the public mind has been pre-occupied
are erroneous, and calculated to deceive the
country in respect to Utah matters generally.
To this fact may be attributed' the refusal
of Col. Kane to communicate with the press.
It is understood that he denies the truth of
the telegraphic announcement from Boone
ville, intimating that the army would move
on the arrival of the peace commissioners,
when, in fact, Gov. Cumming has requested
Gen. Johnston to remain where he is until
orders shall be received from Washington.—
Contrary to the reports widely circulated,
Col. Kane does not-admit that there has been
any such want of harmony between Gov.
Cumming and Gen. Johnston, as would jeo
pardize the public interests, lie speaks in
eulogistic terms of Gen. Johnston, and the
high state of discipline in which the latter
maintained his forces, and of the praise
worthy spirit manifested by the army during
the winter. The friends of the Administra
tion are much pleased with the manner in
which he is understood to allude to the con
duct of Gov. Cumming, saying that he is de
serving of the gratitude of the country.
There was a great hope in Utah, as well
as elsewhere, that the war was at an end.—
A peace party had been formed, and was
sufficiently strong in numbers to arrest the
march of the Mormon forces against our own
last spring. It was the impression in Utah
that Brigham Young, who openly espoused
the cause of the United States, would in this
respect be able to maintain his position.
There was at one time a strong opposition
to him before emigration was resolved upon,
but ever since this •feeling of hostility has
been subsiding. All the northern settlements
are evacuated, with the exception of the few
Mormons left to guard the public property
iu Salt Lake City ; besides these there are
no Mormons forty miles south of that city.
The seventy Mormon families alluded to in
the recent despatch, did not, as stated, apply
to Gov. Cumming at Camp Scott for protec
tion. They were brought there by him from
Salt Lake City.
THE TRUE CAUSE OF MISGOVERNMENT.-
The St. Louis lidelligelicer takes the bull by
the horns in the following: "New Orleans
has been a city of blood ; but who is to blame
for it ? Who is to blame for the fact that
other large cities besides New Orleans—St.
Louis among them—are, too often, the theatre
of unendurable crime? We answer—the ten
der-hearted juries who lose sight of the
crime in their maudlin pity for the criminal
—the smart lawyers who move heaven and
earth to clear their client and fob their fee—
the easy judges who exhaust their severity on
the friendless pilferers, and reserve their mer
cy for rich murderers—' Our best and most
influential citizens,' who become security for
desperadoes, and get up and sign petitions
for the pardon of villains whose hands are
red with murder—and the sentimental gov
ernors who cheat the gallows of its deserts,
and open the doors of the .penitentiaries to
give man-slayers their liberty."
Description of the Town of Utah.
Salt Lake City contains about a third of
the population of the Territory, and has a
great many fine, and some elegant buildings,
the principal of which are the Tabernacle, in
which all religious meetings are held ; the
Council House, Endowment House, the Tem.
ple, in course of erection; Court House,
Young's two mansions, nineteen public school
houses, together with the costly houses erect
ed for the elders;
The next settlement, north, is called Ses
sions, eight miles from Salt Lake City, and
contains several fine houses. It is situated
on the main road ; the houses are not com
pactly built, but extend nearly five miles.- -
This settlement contains the richest lands in
the Territory.
Farmington City comes next—a very pre&
ty little town—the county seat of Davis cot - in
ty ; it contains about 1000 inhabitants.
Eight miles north is Keysville, containing'
about the same number of inhabitants—here'
is some excellent arable land, and a fine stock
range.
Weber River is about eight miles further
north. On it has been built two forts called
East and West Weber Forts, containing about
five hundred inhabitants each. They are
very pleasently situated.
Ogden City, one of the principal cities of
the Territory, is about three miles from Web
er, It has many costly , buildings.
North of Ogden City, about two miles, is a
large well built Fort called Bingham's Fort.
It has about seven hundred inhabitants.
North-east of this, three miles, is Ogden
Hole—a very pleasant locality, surrounded
on all sides by mountains, with the exception
of the entrance. It contains about five hun
dred inhabitants.
North of the "Mule" twelve miles is a well
located fort, called Willow Creek Fort. In
this vicinity there is fine agricultural land,
and the heaviest crops of wheat in the Terri
tory are raised here.
Five miles north is Box Elder, or Brig
ham's City, being about eight miles south of
Bear river. This city is very handsomely
situated. It is built upon a plain, about two
hundred feet above the level of Bear river.—
It is inhabited principally by Panes and
Welch, whose houses exhibit considerable skill
in their construction, and taste in arrange
ment.
On Bear river there are two small settle
ments, and further north two others. These
are in Cache and Malad Valley, where the
stock belonging to " the church generally :ire
kept."
The Recent Freshet
Our exchanges from all parts of the coun
try bring us accounts of serious freshets. At
Norfolk, Va., rain fell in torrents all day on
Sunday, creating quite a flood. Many cel
lars on Bank and other streets were over
flowed, but fortunately no serious damage
was done. The Pittsburgh papers report -a
serious overflow of Chartiers' creek, deluging
all the adjacent country, sweeping off bridges,
and in one case a shanty, occupied by an Irish
man, who, with his family of five or six,
were drowned. There is also a freshet in the
Allegheny river at Pittsburgh. In Fauquier
county, Va., whole fields of wheat, it is stated
have been deluged and destroyed, the corn
washed out of the ground, and several bridges
carried away. The Cincinnati papers give
accounts of damage dune to various railroads
in Ohio and Indiana.
The St. Louis Republican of the 13th inst.
has the following additional accounts of the
flood in that quarter :
At its present height a vast deal of water
is spreading over the American bottom, and
it will require some time for it to return with
in its banks. Even should the destructive
course - of the water be staved where it is, in
calculable damage will have been done by it.
All along the•banks of the upper Mississsppi r
the Illinois, the Missouri, and the lower Mis
sissippi, most melancholy evidences of devas
tation will be presented. - Hundreds of well
improved farms will be destroyed, the labor
of years of unwearied industry. These sev
en years' inundations, for such they seem to
be, will now be looked upon as certain to oc
cur, and will depreciate the - value of bottom
land, which, before this disaster, was being
sought for by many persons. It is not a
high estimate to say that millions of dollars
worth of property will be destroyed by this
visitation. , The dike erected by the city from
Bloody Island to the eastern shore of Illinois,
at a cost of at least half a million of dollars,
stands firm, and is yet ten or twelve feet
above the water, and no abrasion from the
current on the upper side of it. A very
large amount of lumber has been washed
away from the upper part of the city. The
actual loss will not be less than 1,000,000
feet. A good many rafts of logs have been,
and are yet, in danger of breaking loose
from their fastenings. All the saw mills in
the northern part of town, on the river, were
stopped by the high water yesterday, and
some of the foundaries and machine shops on
the Levee, in the southern part of the city,
were compelled to stop from the same cause.
I=
Five Men Hung and two Women
Whipped.
The Regulators are doing a lively business
in Florida. The Savannah _Republican says:
"We are informed that NI ithin a month
five persons were hung by the Regulators in
and about Tampa 'Bay, for divers serious of
fences, and without the formal trial by jury.
One man was hung. to a tree in the streets of
Tampa, so high tbat his feet could not be
reached by persons passing on horseback.—
He also states that a negro was arraigned for
trial for murder in Nassau county, some time
since, when but eleven jurymen answered to
their names. While the officer was absent
summoning a talsman to make up the twelfth,
some fifteen Regulators entered the Court
room, took the prisoner from the box to a
place on the Florida and Georgia line, and
hung him to a tree.
"One of the volunteers in the late service
against the Indians, he also states, for the
same offence, was arrested by them, whipped
within hearing of the camp to which he was
attached, and given 24 hours to leave the
State. The intrepid soldier, rather than meet
the threatened vengeance of the Regulators,
preferred deserting, and has not been heard
of since. Two women of ill repute were ta
ken up in Tampa and whipped, each receiv
ing fifteen lashes, and given notice to leave in
24 hours. At the expiration of the time,
they gave no evidence of any intention to
move, when they were again arrested, and
another flagellation inflicted, besides having
their heads shaved, and themselves assisted
out of the place."
NEW ORLEANS, June 18.—Hon. Charles M.
Waterman has been .reinstated Mayor of
New Orleans.