•BY G. BVNI)Ua*ON $ K. UoRN.UA N.J VbfctUME 26, KrO 38. forms ef i*ublicdtioii. Wl6 AnlWltbfa Vdltmte'dr la published-every Thursday morning, in the white frame building, (rear nf the court house,) at Tiob per annUm; piVable half Vearlv in advance, *l6Uhps and fifty cents if nut paid withiirthe year* "No subscription taken for a leas term than six months, amino discontinuance permitted until nil arrearages hre paid. A failure tn notify a discontinuance at the ekpintioh of a term, will be considered a ivevfr engagement. •Advertisement* will.be thankfully received, and-pu'ilished at the fate of gl 00 per square .< W three inst rlidns, and 25 els. f r each subse quent insertion. Those not specifically ordered will be inserted till forbid. fftndbilfo, Blanks* Cards, idc. neatly eXecntei 1 at short notice, and at moderate prices. A9T3 TS POTEI THBybutTNTfiER. rim fallowing Gentlemen will please act as agents for this p m mev odd to dtluM* oftlteseindividualbwillbe acknowledged by us. ' John Vfooßfc. Esq. Newville. Josfcpn M Mh\m< Esqi Hopewell township. John Wunderlich, Esq. Shipprnsbnrg. • D Vvid Clever, E-«q. Lee’s ><J Hoads, JoAn Dickinson township. Abr AiiAifc H amilt »▼. mrestowh. OKattcfc P. Cain. R-q M chanicshurg. FREDERICK WONOERLICH, do. PawirCKryshkr. Esq. Churchtown. Jacob LoNGVEckKR.R Penn^boro*township. LAW fcIbTICE. ir. nr.jßMp’, v , ' BEING relieved from Hu- duties of his late ificc as Jud^y,•pr-tpottt's to resume-tilt prar.ice of’Law at Caiii'le, 1 Pennsylvania. He lenders his services to ALLcwho may think it their interest to employ lmn y . His office i* in his own house, Opposite . the College Campus. % , The Law bchoM’under, bis care tvill i)e cnntiu tied—and he hopes to be able to be&tutv upon it more u iiaterruped attention. Carlisle, Feo. 28,1839. 6t ’ paO3I.AMA»IOIT. WHEREAS the Hon. John Heed, .tlie _ then President Jrtdgu nf the Court of Common Pl-as of the _Chlnb±:daml. Tuni ita ahfl P. rrv. rhri’the Hdiu jfrim' Squint and John Lefevre, Judges of the said/C'iirt of Common Plpas of the county of Cinnberland. have issued their precept bearing date tlie 2ls’ div of J inuary. 1839, and to me directed, for holding a Court of Oyerand Terminer, and General J til Delivery,- and Genera) Quarter of the. Peace. at Carlisle on the second M-mdivof Anvil. 1839. {being the Bth day,) at lO oVh'rlt in the forenoon; .notice is Hereby given, to the C'-nver, Justices of tin* Peace, ail'd Con of the said county ,nf- Cumh-rland* thai they hfe thert arid‘there in their pyopt-r persni with their Rebnrils* - Kx im'iiiation; and other to do those tluhir which to their offices respectively appertain.— And those whd are hound bv recognizances t< piVVSecute against the prisoners that are, nr thei ‘rtiafy Wj ih thlf’J lil nfJCnmherland county, to In then had there to prosecute against them aS sha) be hi.&t/ O ited ,at C Hifch% the Tth day of March, 1839, and the 63 year of American. IndepemJ- Bace ‘‘- hoiifi IVtYERS, Sheriff. BOOT aWd shoe: Itt ANtrP AGTOR'ST. * tfVIE aufisipribcTH rtspecU’illlv iiporin the citi- I fc-riß of Carlisle and its vicinity , that they have pmr.haaed.ihp entire stnrk of John Thomp* 6on v and intend to cany on the ■ BOOT AWD STIOfi Manufacturing business, in all its vunmiß iir>mclu'.s. at the «•!<! stand .in U eat Mgh at:, next door to the Poet Office, w liere, they, are ppr.iv»re.d to mamitirtnre to or (lt all kinds o (ROOTS and SHOES, ot thr best hl Ueriajk'and in a workman-like irmmuT. • " j'heV urill iVgiil irljr receive anc! strictly fol lo up the latest fcltv fashions. Fhev hope by strict attention to huVliicdt to rterit arftl receive a liberal share «f public pa tr *nage, , . MTLLER & MALOY, GaHiMfS M-trcli 14,1839. tt J Estate of jahn 'Maharii deeeaiidi NOTICE. jL persons indebted tt> the estate of John Maluni.Cite 6f-N£wtan township, (Itxens td. rn! vdspwttfully re(]ut , sti?tl to ;ci(ll ttfitli the mitftttriher add shttleilieiF WWptVSlrti attHartiss dudalllbefse whb have dlalrtiS abrt itlenttinds a gainst the estate will present them legally ah tlieoticutediur'setllf-aieMr.. ’• • ’ , ; EtraAßEith . . , Executrix of laid t/rrrasrd. SduthAMpthri tbWiislrip, March Sl. 'lßiii. hi • f_ • - - ■ ,«! ; ’■ ■' ■ Eeldte'df Joseph Walteri deceased. T^T'TTiCE-is. hereby qiv*u to all persons in- Jjbtecl to tlie Estate btJnst'ph \VSlter«,Jai ot HUtfer,S()i*ih«; ti)Wnshlp CinibdHand C iqnty , ;fle£Vl.,- to make payment ns sOnh ai pbsMbie t (th* ‘subscribers reavliot;• fnsaidtoWrisTiipi «>u' tWrtse .havtiig clMirt* against a tid present them properly fautUehtifcHted for, settle incut. , - . . JAdiyB:WA!,IT,K. ■ddmlniitrdtdrs. . 6t*V . - Mnrthgl, 1&39. NOTICE. '■'WWN'X .IWfYERS hiia iHii rtny taWrl SAit :t»'.UELiy. HAVERSTICE irtlb full anti eqnal pnVtiWrship in Iris Unify, Book and Sta■ in i it i e m The Commissioners of Cumberland Coun ty, will 'receive Proposals at the house of. John Cornman innkeeper, in the Borough of Carlisle, on Friday thfc ISthof April next, I between 0 o’clock in the forehoon an’d 2 o’- clock in the afternoon, for the ejection of a good and substantial Wooden Bridge, across the ConodOguinet Greek at the place where the state road from Landisbu'rg to Carlisle, by way of Waggoner’s Gap crosses said creek, in the township of North Middleton, of the following dimensions, to wit: To contain in length from one abutment to the other 190 feet, & 16 leet wide in the clear, the abutments to be about ten feetthick each or more if required in a splaying direction, with a regular slope, and to be eleven feet high from the bottom of the creek, from whence a wooden arch is to be started and to extend across said creek from pnc abut ment to the other if practicable; if not, there Shull be two spans of 95 feet long, each sup ported, on good and.substantial stone abut ments &• piers, the floor to be double floored with two inch plank, the upper floor oak and the lower pine; the sides and gable ends to be sufficiently high to admit covered and I -hay-wagons-to-pass-through the same,- say twelve and a half, feqt in the: clear,, to be closely weatherboarded and painted.red! the whole to be well roofed with good white pine shingles; the whole of the wood work to be well secured with iron bolts; ready eyes &c. From the back of the abutment the filling shall consist of earth and stone, and to be well supported .with wing walls three feet high above the. filling on each side, and to extend in. that manner on the. two extreme sides of the bridge until the filling and Wolf ing shall meet:, the road with an ascent and descent not exceeding five degrees elevation from the road to said bridge; the wood work to be built of sound and substantial timber; the stone work of large good stone, lime and sand mortar well pointed.. The party con tracting to give Such security as the.Com missioners.may require for the faithful per formance of the workmanship and perma nency of said bridge. Proposals to be accompanied with a plan. Should none of the proposals meet the ap probation of theiCommissioners they will.on the same day,,between 2 & £> o’clock in the afternoon, expose the said bridge to public sale, and sell the same to the lowest and beat bidder. By virtue of sundry writs of Venditioni Exponas to me directed, issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County, will be exposed to Public Sale, at the Court House, in the borough of Carlisle, on Saturday the 6th of. Jlpril Ji. D. 18S9, at 10 o’clock A. M. the following described real estate, to wit: A lot of ground situate in file borough of Carlisle, containing sixty feet in breadth, and 190 feet in depth, more or less, adjoining lots of William Alexander on the east, Nathan Woods oh the south, John Ag ttfen! on. the West, and Lbuther street on the horth, having thereon erected a two story Stone House, a two Story Stone Back Build ing, and a one and a half story Xog House. Seized and taken in execution as the proper ty Of Frdncii McManus, Iso, a tl v :ict of‘ wno(llail(1, sit uate,in North Middleton township, contain ing forty acres, more or less, adjoining lands of James Lamberton, Janies.Given* and the Perry counfy line. Seized and taken in execution as the property of John Common, (Cooper;) And to be sold by me, .JOHN MYERS, Sheriff, Sheriff’s Office, ) , Garlisle fl March,7'. 1839. 5 5t ; Mary Black, ■, Alias Subpoena- sui By her brother and J Diyorce, in: the Court next friend, Thos. f .of Common Pleas ol Fraily, / Cumberland c 0,,. No, vs. ' 113? ' jof. January Term, John Black, /18S9; Return having been made by "the Sheriff in this case, that the defendant John Black was not to be found in his bailiwick; now to wit, 16th January, 1839, thtTsaid Court or dered and decreed that publication should be made by me requiring the said defendant to be and appear in the Court aforesaid, at Carlisle oft Monday the Bth day of April next; to answer to the cbmplaint of the said Mary Black, &C._ 1 - Whereupon 1 do hereby give , notice and require the said John Black to be and appear at Carlisle as aforesaid,- bn the day aforesaid, to answer the cOmfdaiiit of the said Mary Black, • JOHN MYERS, Sheriff. . Sheriff’s Office,-. > ' Carlisle, March 7, , St ASSIGNEE, NOTICIJ. rtTHEREAS. JiiC'.lj Slyder of the' borough : ff <ll Mecbanicahurg, did in .January hist, exeoute.th the. subscriber a deed of assignment .tt all his,,effects, including bonks and.accounts for the henefit'of hls creditors'. Notice ia.lVere urdll'those indebted the said Jacol slydef.'in aiiy manner; to call tjirthe sdbscfibei and: make payment, and those hftviiig claims sydl present them properly authenticated.- »s.£Ay ■. . ttofcsdis • To Bridge Buildefs. JAMES WTIXrS; l r . ROBT C. STERRETT. I - JOHN OORNM AN, J 810neTa - Attest —John Ikwin, Clerk. " March 7, 1839. Sheriff' l * Sales. * .'.'sl.Jf. ----- “ is« v uouND 'to swiiAn -tjr tHii woubs .op any' master.”- — Horace. pa. ipiiu&sD&Y, APRit 4. isiio. 9fmccictin ©oTuntccr. From the Keystone. ■ Jfttf. JParsonty Speech, A fewdayS ago,"Ml'.' Penrosfcmade afu rious personal attack on Mr. Par Sons of Ly coming, accusing him, inn three days 1 speech, of all manner 'of political Bins, and assailing his grammar, rhetoric, and mental qualifica tion's, without stint or measure. Mr. ParSbns yesterday replied to his long tirade of ma levolent abuse, in a speech of about two hobrs in length, for which Scorching sarcasm, bold manly eloquence, and strong,' pointed, un shrinking detail of facts, has seldom been equalled,and neversurpassed, in the Senate of Pennsylvania. The chamber of the Senate was crowded to overflowing with ladies find gentleman,, all of whom listened, with the deepest attention, to this masterly display. During its delivery, the "honorable Speak er” sat with sorrow, shame, and mortifica tion, legibly depicted on his uneasy features. The play of his nervous excitement, was vi sible to the most casual observer, and would have called forth the sympathy of ifll, had not Ids own unprovoked attack justified the annihilating rebuke administered to him. . After Mr.~ Parsons hadconcludcd Kjrre marks, Mr. Penrose arose with tremulous a gitation, and uttered the words “lowbldck guard,” to which Mr. Parsons replied, that he had said nothing but what he honestly to be true, .and that in answering the assaults made upon' himself, if he had employed severe terms, he had only “an swered a fnql according to his folly.” The laugh was all at the expense of Mr. Speaker Penrose, and thus ended the'“set too.” We venture to predict, it is the last time Mr. Parsons will be assailed from the same quarter. Even the ‘-'fiiddle blood,” of which Mr. Penrose .boasted so loudly, that flows through his veins,, will hardly prompt him' to repeat the onset. He will be far older than he is, ere he forgets these lines of Pope, the melody of which is yet sounding in his ears: - . . ' • II tliy ancient, but ignoble blood, H s crept thro’ .scniinrlrtls ever since the fined, Whai can ennoble knaves, (.v sots, or c« wards, Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.** The above has reference to Mr. Parson’s second speech. The following is from his first, and is in reply to an attack on him in consequence of a resolution (with which it is prelaced) adopfed at a meeting of"Miv Parson’s constituents in December last: _ v ~ “Jieaolved, That in 1835-6 we viewed Charl.es B. Penrose, the Speaker.of the Sen ate a traitor to the Democratic party, and we now vieW him an arch traitor to the laws of his country, who, coward-like left his of ficial station, when pursued only by his own conscience.” Mr. Chairman: If this resolution reflects upon the character of the honorable Speak er; a gentleman for whom personally 1 en tertain the highest respect from the short acquaintance I have had with him, I deeply tegret it; arid T shall endeavor to review «ith alfthe mildness which the circumstan ces of the case will admit) the political con duct of that gentleman. -It is not from any personal disrespect or unkind feelings that I proceed to this review and examination; on the contrary, it would give me great pain to wound, in (he slightest degree the feelings of the Speaker. But, as lam called upon to sustain the resolution 1 had the’ honor of subiriittjng before a meeting of my constitu ents, I will in the presence of the honorable speaker and the senate, in candor and fair-' ness explain ,n|y- reasons for proposing this resolution.. With regard to ,tlie first part.of this resolution, I think* if my recollection serves me, in the year,lB32 or 33,. the hon orable speaker took a seat on this floor as a senator- _ I saw sir* the news paper accounts Of his being a candidate.fof election, that he was the Jackson candidate and a staunch de mocrat. After he arrived here I'heard of is. advocating republican principled upon his floor in an able and eloquent manner. 1 also saw published in the newspapers of his place a.speech said to have’been deliv ered on this floor fay that gentleman, with regard to the United States ,Bahk, which a greed perfectly with my sentiments, and I was proud to think that we had such a cham pion on this ,floor. It will be recollected that, on the 4th of July, 1832, President Jackson vetoed the United States Bank bill, and at. the succeeding Presidential election he' placed his election on that ground, add on that ground .was he sustained. .After wards there were, .resolutions introduced here, relative to that institution, and it was upon, those resolutions that the speech which' f have referred to was delivered. That speech sustained the “second father of his country”: in the patriotic course he then took, and the arguments and doctrihesofthe learned' senator, on that occasion accorded, with my. sentiments and “fell like music on my ears;” , I was proud that'we had in, the sengte of Pennsylvania* a man So.distin-. gujshed and talented. I was opposed to the I'echarterof that ihstitution.because I thought it corrupt & dangerous. The learned speak er agreed with me, and took ground against it* and ably,did'he sustain the position he assumed. -Let me v say to the honorable speaker.''that at that tinie.,throughout-the commonwealth he. was the pride of the par ty, and they looked to h'un as the, able de fender of their rights... .Unfortunately how ever, in a short time a new era arrived in Pennsylvania, poetics,. and by a division : in" the democratic party, aminorityofthe peo-' pie plated in the\eje'tfutjvfe chair, a man as ') .. w I said Before utterly unfitted^Tor the jhigh station qT Governor. The same fortuitous circumstances placed in the other branch of! the legislature a majority of members oppo sed toi the will arid wishes of the people of) Pennsylvania? In the senate the democra tic party had the majority and when that bill was framed and with its glittering front held ‘ out its golden bait to deceivc and allure the unwary,' I say when, that bill was presented to the lower, house w’Hich was then ruled by the "great unchanged,** (who is however how chained by the expressed will of the people* and it is,to be hoped that he wifi re-1 main “chained (or a. thousand years,”) and passed that body, the people looked for a redeeming, character in the senate, they looked to the democratic senate expecting to'See it’rallylng around the laws and the constitution, and protecting the rights of the democratic party. The tAert democratic se nator from Cumberland was looked to as the champion of the people’s rights.on thafoc caslon, and it was expected that he would be i fo'und in the front rank, Opposing the re- ( charter o.Lthat. institution by the legislature of Pennsylvania, which he had branded by more opprobrious names in' the speech to which I nave referred, and in language more, harsh even than that introduced into-the re solutions which the senator from- the "city looks upon with horror. Instead however of hearing the. senator’s voice,raised against the United States Bank, we found when it came to the vote that he was forsanctioning the recharter of that institution which lie had before denounced as being corrupt and dangerous.. He was then pronounced a trait or to his party, end it was considered by evory democrat In the commonwealth that he had departed front the principles avowed in the speech to which I have referred, and it was in reference to his'course at that time I penrfed the first branch of the resolution which has been read. With regard to the second branch of the resolution—-namely-—' the conduct of the speaker on the 4th of December last. I will state to the honora ble speaker the grounds on, which we cen sured,.:his_conduct at-the,-meeting- referred to. We.censured him because when all the returns "from . the Secretaries office -Were’ 'called fur by senators, he did not entertain the motion; and we censured his whole course with regard to the attempted organi zation of the legislature. lat that timehad evidence before me which I had a right to believe, which induced me to use strong ex presauma on that occasion., it .was current-, ly-rtponeu that there-was a combinationhe | tween the speaker of. the senate and, Thad tleuß,Stevena who (in a disorganizing man ner) moved the organization Of the Cunning ham house, to form a legislature not in ac,-" cordance with the will of a majority of the people, but in a manner unknown to the constitution and laws, of men who had been defeated at the polls, and who were not en titled to scats, and to exclude (hose Who had been legally and properly elected. In oth er words it was proposed to admit on this floor Messrs? Wagner and Hanna, and to exclude Messrs. Brown & Stevenson-, when it was known that the latter gentleman had received a fair majority at the polls It was further stated, although I hope it may turn out, to be untrue, that ftn arrangement was made, by which, when these two bodies were organized in this way. by using a tech nicality of law-which the dimocracy/newer could- understand, and . whichthe people Would eper repudiate, to exclude the votes of certain counties which had given large inajoritjhs, for. David R. Porter, and in this way Joseph Ritner was to .he continued in. office. [Mr. Penrose-explained.] "The allegation-in the latter part of the resolution is not that the speaker is a cow ard, oh'the contrary he may be a very cour ageous and honorable man. ./But,the speak er must know when he retreated from the chair, and escaped through the window there was a cause for it, and 1 think I can show to the senate the cause. He saw the people assembled here—he.aaw a bold expression of public-sentiment with regard, to his course, of conduct, and the course of those who act ed with him, and no man can withstand, po pular indignation. When the . eye of the people .flashed upon him; and when the frowns of an injured and insulted commu nity met him on every-hahd.: is ittobe won dered at that he desired to retreat. Nay, I, think it was right that the speaker .should retreat under such circumstances., . “ftis- cretion was surely the better part.of valor*” jfaoiit Orleans Cemetery. This cemetery is . quite out of the city; there.being no dwelling Ohehclosurcoflany, kind beyond it.. Oh approaching it, the front on the street presents' an appearance of a lofty brick wall of-very great length,-with i spacious gateway in .the centre.,:: This gate way is about ten feet deep; .and one passing •through it; would immagine the Wall of the salne solid thickness. - This however is only apparent. The wall which surrounds, pr is to surround the four sides of the,burial, ground,-.(for, it’ is yet incomplete,)7ls about' twelve feet in.height,. and ton inthicfcnessi The, external appearance : oh ; the;.street ife similar, to .that of any. other high wall, while to ,a: beholder .within, the cemetery exhibits three stories of oven-lifee tombs; constructed in the;wall, ,nnd extending on.every side of the grave-yard. Each of the tombs is de signed to ndmit only a single coffin, which is enclosed in the yaultwith masonry, and designated by, a small, marble Blab fastcncd in -the face of the walk at the head bf thfc coffin, stating.the-pame, age.ahd sex of thfe de’cfcaie'd; "By casual estimates I judged therb were about ;cighteeh hundred aptter i tures in this Vast pileof tombs. - Thisnieth -7 od, resorted to here from necessity dh ac count of the nature of the soil,- might serve as a huit to city land-economists. - I entered the gateway, I was struck with Surpnse and admiration.. Thoughdes titute of trees, the cemetery is certainly more deserving, from its peculiarly novel and mique appearance, of the-mttention. of strangei'S, tnafi' (with the exception of that at Mount Aubern) any. other in the United States. From the entrance to the opposite the-centre of the grave-yard, a broad avenue, or street-extends nearly an eighth of a mile in length; arid on the other side of this are innumerable isolated tombs of all sizes, shapes and descriptions abpve the ground. The idea of Lilliputian city was at first suggested to - my mind on look ing down this extensive avenue. The tombs iu their various and fantastic style of archi tecture—if I may apply the .term to these tiny edifices— with to w ers,- Moorish dwellings, - ' Chapels, palaces, mosyi/M—substituting (he cross for the cres cent—and structurcs-of almost every kind. The idea was ludicrous enough; but as I passed 'down the avenue, ’I could not but indulge the fancy that I was striding down the Broadway of the capital'of the Lillipu tians. -.1 irientidh this, not irreverently, but to give you the best idea I can of the ccthe try, from my own impressions. Many of the tombs, . Were constructed like, and sev eral were, indeed, miniature Grecian tem ples; while others resembled Ffahch or Spanish edifices, l : ke ' those..found in "old Castile.” Many of therii, otherwise plain, were surmounted by a tower supporting a cross. All were perfectlywhite, arranged with the most perfect regularity, and distant a little more than a foot from eacli other.— At the distance of every ten rods, the main avenue was divided by others of less width, crosslngnf at right angles, down which tombs were ranged in the same novel and regular manner. The whole ce’metcrywasin squares formed by these harrow streets intersecting the principal avenue. -It was -inrealitytlie City of the Dead. Bn tit was a,city compo sed of miniature palaces,-and still more di minutive villas. -The procession, after passing two thirds of the way up the spacious walk turned, down one of the riarrow alleys; were a new tomb built On the line with the others, gaped wide to receive its destined'inmate. The procession stoned. The coffin was let down irom the’ sbouTOei‘3Tonhc bearers ‘aiul rolleU oh wpoden ,cylinders, info the tomb. -The mourners silently gathered. around; every head was bared; and-amid the,deep silence that succeeded, .the calm clear, melancholy voice of fhe priest suddenly swelled on the silent evening air, in the plaintive chant of the last service of the deadly Requiescat in pace! was slowly chanted by the priest—re .pe.itcd in subdued voice by the mourners, and echoing among the tombs, died away in the remotest recess of the.cemetery; From the Richmond Compileri TUo Black Heath Coal Xtftine. The Black Heath Mine, worked by the “BlacK.Heatl) 'Goal Company,” is one of the richest and most extensive-iff this coun try.; It is ; 12 miles from Richmond in near ly a.western direction,, and is situated in the midst-of bituminous,coal fields of unknown extent. The shaft from which the explosion of Monday took place, has-not been long, sunk, and we believe is the deepest Id the Union—being more than TOO feet.lo its bot tom. , Upwards of 10,000,000 bushels, of coal had been .explored In- the.pit reached by it; and'none conjecture how much more a further.exploration Would discover. ; . The Steam. Engines and apparatus, for hoisting coal from this shaft were excellent;, and the system and.facility, with Which, the hoisting . process, was conducted, produced an average ofabout 2,500. bushels' of Coal per day. ' " ' —'- - ... . The explosion was one of a most violent nature. ■ How it happened there is.no tell ing. But that it occurred from neglect, oh l disregard of positive orders.and regulations! of the pit, .is beyond all doubt;-. The drifts and ,"oir coa»/s,”: (passages for the air from chamber. to chamber)-were so arrangcd-aa to keep up constant; ventilation. It is, the gen eral opinion that one of the doors of the air coasts .must have been .closed,:and that thus .tlie “inflammable gas ,? acciimulated on Sun l day to, such an extent as toprodufce the.ex,--| plosion soon after the laborers entered . the Pit,: on Monday, morning. Sir Humphrey Davy’s safety, lamp was; regularly-usedrin the:Mine,;and Up"donbt.is entertained; but! that; it was.-Used:,bn Monday morning; i.lit j Was commonly carried forward paYlist Jthi ' presence of-tlie-gas. •It, may;ha.ve-beemt)ujt| :of order!df a slight-rent should;have been id its.wire gaUze,Coyenngit-iwould readily.ig-1 [ nite. the gas; . Other lamps were used; and j ode of these- may. have been. taken, into a chamber or drift; where.tHe s'afety laifap hadi .not been presented.- -Either of l these causes would; have involved carelessness; ■ r lm> dehsityafid inflafainabilityofthegasmight j haVC oaused the wire -to' have beqome oxiua'- ted, ? and fall; to pieces; but thUt could holt I have occurred until after indication by. flami: insidothe gauze, of a danger,- in; theYace ol■ which It would have been' madneBs in the la ! - b'orers torerriain; Whatever may haye beed the immediate cause; the arrangements and rules of thfe pit. drawn-; from the lights of science: and experience in , mining,- •wbri Suchias.fbhaveensuredsafcty.if, proper]’ .attended;-JEo; rsut .-w<n|d 'it not .be weli; i! Srdcr'to diminish the chance's' of darrgtr frp [AT T. : \VO DOLLARS PEU AMUM. SBW SEHIBS— VOX,. 3, HO. 42 I eveh carelessness itself, to use Uavy’aJarop exclusively^ in all pits wherethcrenas bqen any exhibition of carburettcd hydrogen or “inflammable gasf”, . _ One of the superintendents of. tho. opera tionain thepit.wh'o was below when lire explosion took .place, was nmSn of great skill in hia profession! having been many years engaged in it in some of the most fa mous of. the English Mines. He r WaB a Scotchman', homed John Rynard.- Itishnrd to account for: hour he should hate permit ted the cause of the occurrence; but evert in the midst of an effort to correct the omission or neglect of Saturday night; thecsplosiun may have taken place. . , . Mr. John Hahcock, a native of ' Qhestcr fleld; of respectable family, was the oilier unfortunate.superintendent. ' . fhe laborers were alt colored men. The superintendents ajbovc the shaft say Ihat a bout forty were below. They cannot speak ■ with certainty; ‘ Many hadgoueto see tlieir wives to distant plaiuations;;anil;it was not known how many had returned,. Those who had not, do not yet appear from terror at the rujws of the explosion; hat forty is the, maximum. ■ ’ _ The explosion Was so powerful as to blow pieces of timber out of the shaft t_n a distance, of a hundred yards from it.. Three men were blown up in it in a coal hamper, .to a height of some thirty or forty feet 'above its top: two of them fell oat of the .hamper jh different directions, and were immediately killed—the third remained in if, and frill with it, escaping moat, miracubusly with his life, having both legs broken; Hef is- now doing very well. Much- loose coal. was. blown from the drifts to the bottom of the shaft, and four of the bodies as .we have al ready stated, were . taken from bcndkth' a large bulk.there, in a mutilated state., Four were taken, out shortly after the,explosion bn Monday—one of whom died. The oth ers are in a fair way to recover. " " Every exertion has bedn made which could be made consistently,with safety, to rescue the unfortunate beings. It-appeared upon going down*the shafts, thatbnuch carbonic acid gas (the product, of cothburition) was present. This is called at the mines'“blark damp,” and though not inflammable, is de structive to human life. This then bad first to be dispersed. The. partitions too, in the shaft, necessary for the-ingress and egress of air - ,in the pit, were much torn to piec.es by the explosion, arid had to be repaired as the shaft was descended, or death would have resulted to those who went down; These explosions were formerly very com mon in the. north of Onc occtl rrcil at the Felling colliery in. Northumberland, England, on the.3sth,May, 1815, in 92 lives were lost, This is the greatest destruction ever known from the same cause. In Jgls, an explosion occurred in a mine at Durham, in which 57 persons were destroyed,’and in another 22 were killed in the same manner. The discoveries of Sir.Huinphrey Davy and. other contributors to science and .-benefac tors of mankind have since rendered ihe a yoidance of the destructive explosions cer tain; - . .. 11l our mines, no explosion of atrv extent lias ever occurred, from the ignittfln of in flammable gas. Such arena's, certainly to bo guarded against as the bursting of. steam boilers., The safeguards in each ard assim ple' as effective. , Prbrii the Baltimore Suit: ', - , ijhOm. ike Alaine seatofji'ur. —The latest accountsyv-e have from Maine are tip - to (he ■■ 14th ihsf‘. Th,e BangorWhigi in-a,postscript of that date,- announces thd ari’ival of an ex press fromHoiilton; bearinga letter froth the ■Governor of Jvtny Brunswick to Gon. Scott, who vyas .at , Augusta.. A letter .from . the commgnderpf thc li'Jaine'tro'ffps has been re ceived at Houltoh,.the head quarters,,stating that an attack from the'British Was appre hended; inconsequence of Which; the remain der of the. forte' under.GehrHodgdon was ordered to proceed to camp, apd took the line of marcli on Wednesday morningj, ...JHalifaxp.apers, to the 11th jpst. appearJo fliihk the danger,of ah, conflict 'with .‘Ortas Is past. but'thatthe delay willbe short: InjKe mead titne.Jhey bluster didst terrifically as to what Great Britain,' iiuthe event of .war, could;’. should'and’vyoulddO! - The, Halifax, Recorder, in a long -article pbiising; this'eouptry.. th? iPrcsitJent.of.the JJ. Sfates;-the,. Gutvof jMaipe.-.&c.. says,if England and,America, liayc.anothci hy’ar'it :ViU‘ hbt.be’ foiight ip, the' Wpods’of America, but on the ocean. ~The Recorder cbVeludes thds:: !V.- i >' •- ,i d ig-./x-n f-si;'.? ?v “.We; Will, pieet tlicni op ouriEnipice—dbp sea.--We willcominpnd the pi tppboy-slialfld, i thej.cllsregp i rU.th,e summons., .wg-wip punish' tljem lor their.temerity;.'WeTtayp ko,dpsirc to behold the 'AthOniari ; acted m America—but'such we arts tearful -wilt Be the 'case;' dtwdnld dti nssirtUCh'piim ;tp See such cities as Now York; l).-ijtiihore, Boston, -,Philadelphia, ,&ci' raised-to . the ground; we say „it tvmild gjye.usi, paini—yet deeply as ive should regret such .anjoecuj - - rcncCjWcivouldraiherJhatfeiifimesgreat'er calamities should.falTuppn that devoted land, than; that ■ oUrriaUonat’fchkraeter ; ahdliigh rcplitatidif,should bo tarhisfiedby thekhavery andliaGkslitiingof'h.natioii, 1 which,iirofcsaes for, ii s die;greates t respect antics teem .1 ’., ~ * Whatb"long tail, pur cat liasgpt|,!L' - ’ : made itvj’mad ljou|e's, 'die'sti'ea"of is very 'seldom'to’ bo fotihtl: Bedlam is inhabited btify by gods.-lvifigs* p'deta, and philosophers'.' 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