AMERICAN VOLUNTEER
JOHN 1). BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor.
'rARLtSLKPA.. APRIL 0. 1854.
Democratic State Ticket:
- ■ GOVERNOR i
WILLIAM BIGLER,
OP CLEABPIED COUNTY.
JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT.
JEREMIAH S,BLACK,
OF SOMERSET COUNTY.
C\XAL COMMISSIONER :
HENRY S.MOTT,
07 PIKE COUNTY.
have been informed that the metn
here of the acw German Lutheran congregation
of Carlisle, have purchased tho lot belonging to
Mrs. Kerb, on the north-west corner of Potnfret
and Bedford streets. In this borough. They
will proceed to the erection of a, church edifice
as soon as the necessary amount of money is
subscribed.
CVmheiu.axo Cousrr Vauatiok.— Thcyal
ualionof taxable property in Cumberland coun
ty, as fixed by the Board of Revenue Commis
sioners, at their recent session in Harrisburg, is
$10,940,860. This is an increase on the valua
tion of three years since, of 5351,048.
The Burs Warrior Affair.— Thelsabd,
at Charleston, from Havana, brings intelligence
that the steamship Black Warrior had been
given op to Capt. Bulloch. The Cuban author
-IUCS offered ro give up the vessel on condition
that a tine of 50.000 be paid, which proposition
was accepted and the tine paid under a solemn
protest. I 'apt. B. look possession of the vessel
on Wednesday, the 22d nit., and sailed imme
diately fur New loth.
Ocr.ts Postiub. —We are gratified to ob
serve that Postmaster General Campbell, with
the advice and consent nf the President, as pro
vidisl in a section of the Postage I-a\v of March
lc.il, lias reduced the ocean postage rate to
two cents, on the only regular hue or route upon
winch the opportumly has offered since the
enactment of the law. lie, at the same time,
givts notice that whenever he can in future ob
tain the oecan-wise transportation of United
Stales mails lo foreign countries at two cents
per letter, llie Department will charge no more
than that rale for such transportation, in ad
dition to the inland postage required lo be ex
acted under the existing law ; both to bo pro
paid, of course.
North-westerv Railroad. —The locating
Engineers are now at work on the line of this
road westward from Butler, and we arc told
that it is the intention, to pul the road under
contract between New Castle and Butler in July, 1
and from the energy manifested on the part of 1
the fnends of this improvmcnt east of Butler,
we arc inclined to think the whole line will be
ready to be put under contract at that tunc.
Important to Merchants.— The U. S. At
torney General. in disposing of a question sub*
milled to him by the Secretary of the Trcasury,
decides that a vessel built in the Lnitcd Slates,
and voluntarily sold by the owner to a foreigner,
and then bought back again by the original
owner, cannot be registered anew os an Ameri
can ship.
America Citizenship —The Secretary ol
Slate in onawur to au interrogatory propound
ed to bun on a point of American citizenship
gives his opinion “ that every p-.uon born in
the United States must be considered a citizen
considered a natural-boro citizen of the United
in the language of the constitution, so
as to make him eligible to the presidency.”
Tin; Ex plomon of the Steamer Kate Kear
ney.—Captain Bruner and the engineer of this
steamer, which recently exploded at St. I-/Ouis,
causing great loss of life, have been, after a pro
tracted umstigalion, held for trial before the U.
Slates Court in that city. The explosion is at
tributed to a leak at the bottom of the boiler,
which it w alleged, was known to tho officers of
the boat the day before the accident occurred,
without any attempt to stop it. it being intend
ed to have it mended not until the following
Saturday.
Wheat Contracts. —Flour contracts, and 1
purchases of Com. weeks and months since,
during the inflation, arc lieginning, says the
St. Louis News, to mature and some to fall
through, as they usually do when there is a
sudden depression or inflation in prices. If the
buyer finds he has been deceived in his calcula
tions of an advance, or the seller thinks he has
made a bad bargain. thcrtfJs no lack of con
ditions and contingencies which are brought to
bear in annulling the contract.
Sloop of War John Adams for Cuba.—
The Boston Chronicle of Saturday week, says
that during the present week nearly one hun
dred men have been received into the Charles
town Navy Yard, their services being required
to finish repairing the sloop-of-war John Adams.
It will require only a week longer to get her
ready for sea. It is rumored that her destina
tion is Cuba, though nothing is yet known on
ibis point with certainty. There ore now three
hundred men in the various departments of la
bor employed in the yard, although there is
no other work than repairing the John Adams.
The Vermont, which is in ordinary, and the re
ceiving ship Ohio, are the only vessels now at
the Navy Yard. U is generally believed that
business there will bo more brisk in the course
of a month.
Fnou Sai.t Lake Citv.— lntelligence from
Salt'Lakc City to tho Ist of December bus been
received. The Saints are progressing with tho
wall around tbo city. The Indians are hostile,
and have burned several houses. Tho Lcgisla
.—tupowas to meet on the second Monday of Do*
comber. Captain Homer, in charge of twenty
wagons, and more than seven hundred head of
cattle, reached Salt Lake on tbo 6th November.
This herd of cattle is destined for California.—
They met with no particular obstruction to
their crossing tho plains at this lata period,
either from heavy snow or scarcity of gnus
■ Some snow, however, had to bo encountered at
the last two mountains.
RESPONSE OF THE PEESS.-TIIE PROSPECT.
file cheering tone of confidence that pervades
all 1 the ticmocratic journals of Pennsylvania, is
gratifying to tho friends of the Constitution
throughout the Union. Tho harmony that
prevailed in tho recent Democratic State Con
vention, is tho best evidence that the people arc
alive to the importance of the contest. Demo
cracy is rousing itself, and as tho struggle ap
proaches, its tremendous power will dismay the
hearts of tho Federalists, and their counterfeit
enthusiasm will vanish into thin air. The
“signs of the times” indicate a glorious triumph
for BIGLER, BLACK, MOTT and Democra
cy, at the October election.
But, Democrats of Cumberland county and
of Pennsylvania at large, do not rely on your
own strength too much. To be successful and
gain a brilliant victory, we most be watchftxl,
vigilant, active. Tho Democratic party, when
properly organized, never sustained a defeat,
and in all probability never will. The party
ought now be awakened to a proper sense of
duty ; and all that is necessary to lay Federa
lism in tho dust, is activitt and vigilance.
The Federalists anticipated a “split" in the
Democratic ranks, but how sadly were they
disappointed? Wo conjecture that Governor
Bioleb’s unanimous re-nomination occasioned'
feelings of sadness and despair, and that of an
unspeakable character, throughout the whole
1 Federal party. Rejoicing would have been a |
cardinal circumstance, and the success of the
opposition candidate certain, had a division in
our ranks taken place. But instead of such an
occurrence, there were only one or two objecting
voices. They must “ get out of the way” and
clear the road for Democracy. Wo arc united,
and by proper vigilance, can whip oureoppo-
nents and scatter their forces; wo will meet
them like Jackson met Pockenham at the bat
tle of New Orleans. Conquer we can and con-
quer wc will, with such an efficient General
at the head as Gov. Bigler, and Federalism,
with all its wealth and trickery, cannot prevent
us. VVe will buckle on the armor of BiOLErt
and Democracy, and through the instrumen
tality of his good measures, we will be able to
conduct the ship safely through the foaming
wrath and cannonade of our enemy, to VIC
TORY !
A National Foundry.
The Secretary of War, it is said, has appoint
ed a commission, consisting of scientific officers
connected withlTßTordinance bureau, to examine
certain districts of the country and report upon
the location of a site for a National Foundry.
Now is the time for the citizens of Carlisle to
take measures to endeavor to have this Foundry
located here. We observe that the citizens of
several towns in this and adjoining States, arc
about to hold meetings to collate information
for the purpose of showing the important ad
vantages of their respective places for the loca-
tion of such an establishment. While wc ad
mit the right of all to contend for the prize, we
feel we speak but the simple truth when we say,'
that Carlisle possesses advantages for the loca
lion of this Foundry, which no other town can
boast- Situated, as it is, in the heart of a beau-
tiful and populous valley, with a healthy and
genial climate, and with water power equalled
by few and surpassed by no other town; —with
mountains on cither side of us, filled with the
best and richest iron ore, and with the means
of easy and rapid communication with the great
cities on the seaboard; with the means of living
as cheap if not cheaper than in roost towns in
this section, wo think the advantages possessed
by Carlisle should powerfully recommend it to
the Government as the site for the proposed
Foundry. In addition to rtifly add,
that here arcJ.W Carlisle Barracks, where the
{iz-rcr-mncnl could very readily and cheaply
erect the Foundry upon ground owned by itself.
Wo trust our citizens will at once move in
this matter, and endeavor by every means to
have the Foundry here. The location of such
an establishment among us would be of immense
benefit to Carlisle and its citizens. The cm-
indiDg one jir
* nfleffut the I
formity with
\\f is generally
\nd a person
icd would be
ployccs in the works will bo wholly consumers,
thereby giving the farmers a better market for
their produce. It would put in circulation Vast
sums of money ; afford employment for mapy
of our working men ; increase rapidly the pop
ulation, and enhance also the value of property
in the borough. With the claims which we
liave, and the benefits to be derived from its lo
cation here, we hope ere a great while to see the
National Foundry in full blast in Carlisle.
I£7*A petition is circulating and has been al
ready signed by a majority of the leading mer
chants of Boston, for presentation to the Legisla
ture of Maineprayingthattheapplication foran
[ act incorporating the Atlantic Telegraph Com
pany in opposition to the Halifax monoply bo
granted. By an arbitrary rule of the present
line, no merchant can receive his despatches on
the arrival of an European steamer at Halifax,
until twelve hours after the news is IransmiHcd
to certain parties in New York. This has
aroused the indignation of our merchants, and
a strong effort, backed up with the necessary
capital, will be made to establish an indepen
dent line.
The Southern Commercial Convention—
The delegates to this Convention, which assem
bles in Charleston on the 10th of April, will no
doubt bo handsomely entertained by the citi
zens of that city, os we notice they are making
extensive preparations with that view. A mag
nificent ball is to be given at the Military Hall
on the night of tho 12th, in honor of the dele
gates. On the 13th, a grand excursion round
the hajbor will take place, the festivities of the
day to close with a fine display of fireworks on
tho Battery; and on the following day the
members of tho Convention arc to partake of a
public dinner.
UoantßLX Puacticb. —Two clerk last week
were publicly whipped in tho market place at
Charleston, 8. C-, for stealing from their em
ployees. They were sentenced to receive thirty
nine lashes, which were to be inflicted at tlirccdif
ferent times, and at such intervals that the
wounds caused by the first should bo healed be
fore tho second punishment, and so of tho third.
At tho first whipping, these unhappy victimsof
the barbarism of the middle ages, after suffering
twenty strokes, fell bleeding and fainting, and
were carried back to jail. Tea thousand per
sons beheld this horrible spectacle 1
Qy Count Thibaudcau, member of tho Sen
ate, died on tho 9th ult., in Paris at an advan
ced age. He was the last surviving member of
the convention who voted for the death of Louis
XVI.
disagreeable weather.
Tho weather for tho Inst two weeks has been
ns coquettish,as a miss in her teens—one day
wo havo the warn rays of tho sun, tho next a
chilling northern blast, the next snow, sleet,
rain, &o. Generally speaking, however, tho
weather has been very cold and disagreeable for
the season of the year, reminding us more of tho
dreary month of December, when all is gloomy
and cheerless, than the month of April, when
nature usually decks herself in her richest and
most delicate attire. On Saturday night it was
so cold, that ice was formed in this neighbor
hood half an inch thick, and there arc some who
havo expressed a fear that tho fruit trees have
suffered. We will not venture to predict what
kind of weather wo are to havo daring tho
month which has commenced, ns, owing to tho
variableness of the seasons of late years, no cor
rect calculations can bo made. We will, how
ever, again caution those of our renders who
wish to preserve their health, (and who is there
that don’t ?) not to throw aside their winter
clothing, even should we be visited by a warm
day or two, until they are fully satisfied that
the weather has become perfectly settled, and tho
cold winds of the NoHh have given way to the
balmy breath of spring.
Education in Cumberland County,
In our advertising columns will be found the
notices of no less than five Select and Classical
Schools and Seminaries, located at different
points in this county. A “ Young Ladies’ Se
lect School,” in this borough, Mrs. J. F. Down
ing, Principal. The “ Cumberland Valley In
stitute,” in Mechanicsburg, Rev. J. A. Loose,
A. M., and Rev. W. H. Scran, A. M., Princi
pals ; " Shippensburg Institute,” D. A. L. La
vbbtt and O. U. Hahn & Co., Principals ; tho
“White Hall Academy,” in the lower end of
the county. D. Denlingeb, Principal, and the
“ Plainfield Classical Academy,” near Carlisle,
under the direction of Professor R. K. Burns.
There may probably be other Seminaries in this
county, but wc cannot just now think of them.
Tlie Seminaries which wo have enumerated
are all under the control of competent and judi
cious persons; the teachers employed in them
are thoroughly educated gentlemen, and possess
the ability of imparting to the youths intrusted
to their care, the elements of a first rate English
and classical education. Some of these Insti
tutions have been in existence for years, and the
great encouragement which they have heretofore
1 received, and tho success attending the labors
5 of their Principals and Professors, arc the best
1 testimonials which can he adduced in their fa-
Parcnts and guardians, in this and adjoining
counties, desirous of sending their sons and
wards to a first rate Academy, may rest assur
ed that in either of the Institutions we have
named they will receive a thorough education,
fitting them to enter any of the learned profes
sions, and enabling them in the great world to
fight the “battleoflife” with success and honor.
British Doctrine op Citizenship. —ln the
Vice Chancellor’s Court, England, Sir John |
Stewart recently decided that an infant, born
in New York, whoso mother was an American,
and her father a naturalized citizen of the United
States, born in England, is a subject of the
Crown of England! Naturalization,although
it conferred the right of an American citizen
upon the drtt-mrt absolve him from his
duties, or deprive him “of his rights as a Brit
ish subject. ” This fscarrying the arrogant and
absurd English doctrine of citizenship and alle
giance to a most ridiculous extreme. Such a
doctrine would make British subjects of every
native born American of British extraction, for
if it in applicable to one generation born here,
it is applicable id all succeeding generations.—
Those, therefore, who have been priding them
selves on being true blue “natives,” will be
amused to hear, that by this decision they are
subjects of Great Britian, and nothing but
“foreigners” after all.
Destructive Inventions — The war immi- j
nent between the powers of Europe, rays the ,
Ledger, will doubtless be of the most destine- |
live character. Invention has been busy during
the long peace Europe has enjoyed, in devising
means for bringing hostilities to a rapid termi
nation, by making the catastrophe terrible and
complete at tho beginning. Steam will be in
troduced for tho first time as an element of war
fare, and its gigantic energies will effect as great
a revolution in the science of war, os gunpowder
produced on its first introduction into the bat
tle-field. The arsenals of England, it is said,
have been closed for a long time, even to mem
bers of Parliament, while experiments have been
making in new and terrible machines, which
are now to be brought into use. One of these is
(called tho “ Wagner Floating Gun,” which
glides along on tho water in a straight line till
it strikes tho vessel at which it is directed,
when it thrusts into its sides its iron head, con
taining two pounds of fulminating powder of
mercury, which, by exploding, blows aholo in
the vessel ten or twelve feet in diameter, which 1
it is impossible to close as the round holes made
by cannon balls. Sub-marine boats are so per
fected that they can reach and attach a burner
to an enemy’s ship without running the .least
danger. Experiments arc also made with an
asphyxiating ball, to paralyze crews, and in
explosive balls, to set fire to ships os soon as
they strike, with other engines of destruction
equally as terrible and annihilating.
Arkansas.— On tho first Monday of August
next, the sense of tho people of Arkansas will
be taken upon tho propriety of calling a Con
vention to amend and reform the Constitution
of that State. The LiltloKoek Gazette mentions,
os among tho great objects of tho Convention,
tho extension of tho elective franchise, and tho
election of tho Judges of tho Supremo Court,
Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and all
other public officers, by the people. Southward
tho star of progress takes its way. Let the
power be with the people from forming a State
or Territorial Government to the choice of the
officers. Those who deny tills doctrine are op
posed to tho fundamental principle on which
tho Union is based.
OCT* Uis said that it was at tho solicitation
of the Hon. James Buchanan, Iho U. S. Minis
ter, that Smith O’Brien wan pardoned, Mr. B.
having previously urged tho measure at on in
terview with Lord Clarendon.
Difficulty Settled.—‘We ore glad to loam
that tho difficulty of Messrs. Brecjueniu dob and
Cottino (members of Congress,) between whom
a challenge hod passed, have, by tho interfer
ence of friends, settled their quarrel to the satis
faction of both parties.
The Wat against Santa 'Anna.
When the California steamship John I). Sto
phena left Acapulco, on her late trip; General
Alvarez, Governor of tho provencc, who recent- j
ly “ declared” against tho administration, of 1
Santa Anna, had 'six..thousandj troops, well
armed and organized, under his control. Santa
Anna had sent a large force to subdue Alvarez,
j three thousand five hundred of whom had al- >
ready arrived in tho province of Acapulco, and •
it was daily expected that a collision Would (
take place between the opposing forces, the Ac
apulco people feeling quite confident that Santa
Anna's troops would be easily routed. No ac
tual collision betw-een revolutionists and govern
ment troops had as-yet token place.
Wo see, by advices from tho city of Mexico,
to the 9th of March, that the Mexican presses
condemn Alvarez as a traitor,, acting in concert
with the filibusters of California. They predict
his speedy downfall and punishment. The
‘ ‘ pernicious principles” which he sustains arc,
according to El Universal, federative and State
sovereignty ; preponderance of tho people over
the “cloth coat class;” absolute submission of
ecclesiastical to the civil power freedom of con
science and of worship; suppression of the ar
my, and tho supremacy of parliamentary rule;
re-organization of tho school system, &c. As
these are all fatal to the absolute authority
which Santa Anna wishes to centre in his own
person, the friends of that chief bitterly revile
Alvarez. The old and worn out theories of re-1
striction which Santa Anna bos imposed, have
caused much dissatisfaction among the people,
and his proposition to sell a portion of the ter
ritory of the republic docs not help to allay the
bad feeling already existing. With the money
which the sale would place in his hands, Santa
Anna and \yould probably be able to secure his
hold on power.
The Law of Libel.
The Judiciary Committee of our State Legis
lature is now engaged in maturing a bill on the
subject of Libels, with a view of reporting it to
the House at an early day. The bill provides
i that when an editor, proprietor, or publisher is
I sued for libel, he may offer in defence evidence
to show that the facts, when published with
good motives, were jqptifiable, and necessary
for public information. Another section pro
vides, that no editor, proprietor, or publisher
shall be indictable forfany measure or act of any
[person in his employment, unless said act is
| committed with his or their consent. The sub
ject is one that demands thought and reflection
before the Committee acts, as much of the use
fulness of the press as a means of exposing the
vicious and correcting the depraved, depends
upon the law with reference to suits for libel.
On the one hand, the press should be responsi
ble for a malicious and wanton attack upon
private reputation or personal standing; but on
the other, it should be carefully protected from j
annoying and vexatious prosecutions when ex-,
posing the thousand arts hy which bad and do- i
signing men attack the peace of society or the i
propert}’ of their fellows. This is the line of
distinction which is to be kept in view in fram
ing a wise and just law with regard to suits for
libel. The real interest? of the people and the
press arc identical and mutual. What will
protect the one, must act beneficially upon the
other.
Oun Relations with SpaiK.—Tho Washing
ton (fnioh seems to coiiiffder our Wlatro'na,; with
Spain to bo in fc critical condition. An editorial
in that paper of a lato date says :
“The indications are daily multiplying that
wo ore not long to enjoy' uninterrupted *ncacc
with Spain. We feared A* much when w 5 saw
Pczuola appointed Captain-General of Cuba, un
der what wo believed at the time to bo British
dictation. Lord John Russell- has since admit
ted that the selection of this functionary was In
accordance with the wishes of the Aberdeen min
istry. And for what did Victories government
desire him 7 Because of his known inveterate
hostility to the United States and their institu
tions, as m&ifcsted during his residence at Porto
Rico, os Captain General, and afterwards at
Madrid.”
It then proceeds to declare that if England and
Franco think proper to endorse this wrong—if
they send their vessels to the coast ol Cuba to
protect the authorities there In the wanton out
rage which has occurred in the instance ol the
Black Warrior —our duty will bo too clear to ad
mit of a doubt upon the subject. And in con
clusion, it thus admonishes us to prepare to de
fend ourselves :
“It is evidently oar <fnty to begin to prepare
for the worst. Wo must demonstrate to the
good of every land—those entertaining senti
ments kindred to our own—in an unmistakable
manner, that wo have not only a good cause, hut
that wo are so prepared that, with God’s bless
tng, we shall bo enabled to maintain it. Wo
should thus contract an alliance more formidable
to our enemies than any ever contracted between
crowned heads for the auppression of political
liberty.”
Tub New York Prohibitory Liquor Law.
—Governor Seymour of New York, intends to
, veto the Prohibitory Liquor Law Bill, passed
Iby the Legislature of that State. Ue has in
-1 formed Mr. Delavon, tho Temperance advocate,
that he means to do so, Tho reasons arc, that
tho bill is unconstitutional in several of its fea
tures, and Us tendency mischievous on account
of its unjust and oppressive character. Tho
• bill will go back to the Legislature, and an at
, tempt bo made to pass it by the constitutional
! majority. The veto is creating much excite
i raent among the Temperance men.
Another Ilian Treason Case.—There is
another instance of high treason in Missouri,
rather worse, though not producing so much
excitement as tho Lancaster fugitive slave ease
a year or two ago, which our courts pronounced
to be no treason at all. Some citizens of Miss
ouri drove off tho United States Marshal, while
attempting to servo writs of ejectment against
trespassers on public lands. Since then some
of tho offenders have been arrested and commit
ted to answer for high treason. A trial for high
treason will bo rather a novelty to the present
generation.
A LboalStrixb.—The legal gentlemen of Co
vington, Ohio, arc on a strike. They recently
met in solemn conclave, and agreed to demand
five dollars for counsel; lifly dollars for divorce,
and one hundred dollars for ejectment. Strikes
having tho sanction of .tho lawyers, they must
now bo considered legal.
The Steam Frigate Bill.—The House of
Representatives‘has at length entered upon the
consideration of tho bill authorizing tho con
struction of six first Cffaea steam frigates, with
screw propellers, properly armed and equipped;
and for altering, completing anllannching the
frigates Santee and Silnno.’and appropriating
88,000,000 for those purpji&es. .^e'earnestly
hope no obstacle may be" thrown in iho way of
| tho speedy passage of tho bill.
4.
The Appropriation Bill.-
Mr. Roberta, Chairman of the Committee of
Ways and Means, lb a communication to tho
Harrisburg Union, gives tho following exhibit of
tho various items of the General Approbation
bill, recently reported to the House of Represen
tatives. Ho says that exaggerated statements
of tho amount of appropriations embraced in the
bill, have found their way into the papers, which
are calculated to mislead and. do harm.
Ho therefore asks Cor tho publication of an ac
curate statemont:
Expenses of government, $259,000
Ordinary repairs on public works, 801,889
Do. to be expended after Doc. 1, 1854, 225,000
Motive-power expenses, 657,275
Do.- to bd expended after Dec. 1,1864, 100,000
Farm bridges, 16,000
To pay collectors, toll gatherers, &c., 90,021
Common schools, 200,000
Pensions and gratuities, 16,000
Interest on public debt, 2,000,000
Interest on North Branch debt, 41,000
Guaranties, 25,600
Penitentiaries, 14,000
Charitable Institutions, 40,000
Militia expenses, 1,250
State library, 1,866
A contingent appropriotlon to repair
damages that the works may sustain, 60,000
Amount for old debts on the public
works,
Ordinary expense#, ircluding old
■ debts, $4,282,941
This amount, together with certain other per
manent appropriations, it Is bellered the treas
ury can meet during the current year, and also
repay the temporary loans now out-standing.
But it is proposed in the bill, in order to ena
ble the treasury to meet a balance of $142,000,
necessary to complete the North Branch canal,
and to apply $220,000 towards re-laying the south
track of the Philadelphia and Columbia railroad,
to authorize the extension of the temporary loan I
now outstanding. |
If tho policy of completing the new work on
the Allegheny Portage railroad should bo adopt
ed by the Legislature, this would require a fur
ther anticipation of revenues to tho amount of
$005,000.
The aggregate of ordinary expenses, including
$BBB,OOO of old debts amounts to $4,282,94'*
New work on the North Branch and
Columbia railroad,
Total,
Thus, It will appear that, even including an
appropriation for the completion of the new Por
tage, as above, the appropriations asked fall far
short of six millions of dollars, as stated.
The Whig Candidates,
The following well-timed remarks from the
Pennsylvanian Patriot, published at Harrisburg,
breathe a spirit of unflinching devotion to the
Democratic nominations which command our ad
miration, and is a sample of the tone of our De
mocratic exchanges throughout the State:
The Whig Candidates. —Well “ the child is
born, and his names is”— Pollock . The Hon.
James Pollock, of Northnmberland county, ex
meraber of Congress, is the Whig candidate for
Governor. What exulting proans will ascend
from Whigs in different parts of the State I The
big, hoarse voice of the mammouth city dally
will lead in the hymn, and the shrill small notes
of the modest country weekly will bo heard in
echoing tho chorus. How the types will rattle
and the heavy presses groan—to tell tho people
all tho virtues of this now champion. It Is not
unlikely that lltograph likenesses of him will be
hung in every bar-room, in every mill and smith
shop, and upon the most conspicuous tree at
1 every cross-road in the State. Ho is not a mill
* tary hero —Indeed, his vote in Congress in favor
. of tho expediency of ordering our troops to re
treat —proves him to he far from bravo. In a
lato campaign tho Whigs learned that military
3 heroes are not acceptable to tho people—with
their characteristic shifting, they have gone to
the other extreme —In the selection of their can
didate for Governor. Mr. Pollock’s rc/rea/i»g
vote would give tho lie to any one who would
claim him as a hero, or even a bold man. Mr.
Pollock is reported to bo a gpntloman of more
than -■ • and so
cially very agreeable. But did rq, possess each
of those qualities In a much more eminent de
gree, ho could not bo made tho Governor of
Pennsylvania. Tho Democratic candidate, Col.
Bigler, has been tried, and unfortunately for his
opponent, has given general satisfaction to the
pooplo of the State. His popularity was attest
ed by the unprecedented unanimity with which
ho was rc-nominatod. Whig editors aro wel
come to all the consolation they can derive from
tho fact, that one delegate voted against dcclar.
ing Gov. Bigler the unanimous nominee of the
Convention. If they cannot provide their rank
and (Ho with better amunition, wo doubt much
whether they will be willing to go Into tho con-
I test.
Mr. Darsxe tho Whig Senator from Allegheny,
received tho nomination for tho office ol Canal
Commissioner. Poor Gen. Larimer was thrown
aside—and his aspirations for tho Gubernatorial
nomination blighted, In order that his fellow
citizen might bo honored. Mr. Parslo has the
reputation of being a cunning politician—but he
would not have It supposed that his wily propen
sions were so strong—as to make him supplant
a political brother of his own city, who had spent
many months and as many hundred dollars, to
obtain a distinction for which ho was constantly
longing, and about which ho has boon for a long
time—either thinking or dreaming.
On tho 2d Tuesday of October next—tho peo
ple of tho State will convince Mr. Daralc —if he
does not sooner become conscious of the fhet,
that ho'camo before tho people of Pennsylvania
at a very inauspicious time.
Of Judge Smyser, tho Whig nominee for the
Supremo Bench, little is known out of bis dis
trict. Our information is, that ho la a good
Common Pleas Judge. No one, wo presume,
will pretend to claim for him qualifications that
will bear comparison with those of Judge Black.
There is ns great a difference in tho Intellectual
abilities and legal attainments of tho latter and
former Judges, as between Hyperion and Stayr.
Should both candidates live until tho day of elec-
tion, Judge Smyser will most certainly Und tho
honor of a nomination swallowed up In an inglo
rious defeat.
Another Extraordinary Divorce Case,
In tho New York Supremo Court, on Satur
day week, application was made by Jeremiah
W. Dimick, for annulment of his marriage to
his wife Frances N. Dimick, under somewhat
extraordinary circumstances;
• « Plaintiff and defendant,'* tho Court said,
<< had been married more than twelve years. It
is now alleged that tho marriage was void by
reason of pro-contract. The defendant, it is ad
mitted, was married when a school-girl, to u
young man, who soon afterwards wont off to tho
West, and was not heard of, except it was said
ho was dead, for many years. She accordingly,
in good faith, married* her present husband, sup
posing herself at liberty to do so. It now turns
out that tho first husband has been living till a-
bout live years ago, when ho died, ami of course
left her in a condition to legalize her second
marriage. No further ceremony, however, took
place, but the plaintiff and defendant for said
five years continued to llvo together as man and
wife. Tho plaintiff says ho did so in ignorance
of tho actual state of the case, and there is every
reason to believe tho truth of this averment.—
Of course, no marriage by Implication could bo
inferred,’and tho original marriage between tho
parties was clearly' void, tho prior husband being
then still alive and undivorcod. There Is noth
ing to deprive the plaintiff of tho right which the
law gives him to have It so declared. Sentence
nullifying tho marriage of plaintiff and defendant
must therefore bo entered.”
Fire.—On Friday last, says tho Liverpool
American, a dwelling bouse, about two miles
from this place, in Wild Cat Volley, occupied
by Daniel Shcaflfcr and David Wagoner, wan
burned to tho ground, the occupants being un
able to save a single article of furniture, ondhad
barely time to secure their clothing. Both
families lost their all. Thedr loss, wo arc pleased
to state, has been In a groat measure made up
bV tho benevolent citizens of the neighborhood,
'fho house belonged to Mr. 8, Shuler, of this
place.
stti anb snmm.
*‘Thb Old Barlcttarecent
work, 44 The Pilgrim Father*,” on page 204, is
given an engraving of Elder Brewsters chair,
now in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, which was one
of the two brought over in tho Mayflower in
1620. Beneath the engraving are tho following
lines in reference to tho Pilgrims, which the au
thor says were 44 tho words of a quaint old
poem: ”
Full humble were their meals,
Their dainties very few,
’Twos only ground-nuts, clams, or cels,
When this old chair was new.
Their greeting very soft,
Good morrow, very kind,
How sweet it sounded oft
Before wo were refined,
Humility their caro,
Their, failings very few,
My heart! how kind their manners were
When this old chair was new.
[£?* Thcrounicipal election in Eric, last week,
resulted in the triumph of the ticket in oppo
sition to the railroad ticket. Mayor King was
re-elected, receiving 696 votes, while Fleming,
the railroad candidate, received only 10.
Three Bovs Drowned. —Three boys—Ed
ward Cullen, of Liverpool, Thomas Vail, of New
York, and Thomas McCoy, of Mount Carbon —
tore drowned on Tuesday , in tho Delaware,
above Port Richmond. They were employed
ns team-drivers on the canal. They were in a
yawl, in tow of tho steamer Hcnlopon.' The
yawl was upset, and all were drowned before
assistance could reach them.
O" There is talk that Santa Anna will di
vorce his present wife if ho can negotiate a mar
riage with one of tho daughters of the Queen
Dowager of Spain. His present wife was born
in Wcstcrlo, Albany county, N. Y., and her
maiden name was Lapaugh.
(TT'Mr. Scoville, Editor the New York Pick, is
the legal heir to some $15,000 to $200,000. in
moneyratocks, &c., left by lion. Nathan Pres
ton, recently deceased.
888,041
[C?I*TheMaysvillo 1 *TheMaysvillo fKy.) EagU says:—There
were 1,223 wild cats Rilled in Kentucky, and
their scalps paid for by the Commonwealth, in
1853.
867.000
OCT" James Raymond, the well known man
agerof circuses and menageries, did at Carmel,
Putnam county, New York, on the 23d ult.—
Among his property, which is valued at $1 .SGO.-
000, are the Broadway Theatre and Washing
ton Hotel, in the city of New York, and the
Walnut street Circus and Menagerie in Phila
delphia.
$4,049,94:
CC7* We learn from the Raleigh (N. C.,) Star
that an extensive bed of porcelain clay has been
discovered on the North Carolina Central Rail
road, a few miles below Ncase river. While it
is a serious obstacle to laying the rails, being so
soft that timbers laid upon it soon sink out of
sight, it may prove to bo n valuable discovery.
O-A provincial paper concludes a long
obituary with the following strange notillca
tioni “Scleral deaths arc unavoidably defer
ed.”
Ice. —The canal at Northumberland, Pa.,
was frozen over on Monday. and the ice was
two inches thick. At Harrisburg, on the same
day, there was floating ice in the Susquehanna.
Going to Europe. —Lieut. Jerome Napoleon
Bonaparte, U. S. Rifles, was in New Orleans on
the 20th ult. The Ftcat/une says he is about
resorting to the theatre of war in Europe.
(£7* Mr. Christy, agent of the Colonization
Society has been offered a group of slaves in one
of the Southern States, valued at 815,000. —
The owner cannot emancipate them where he
lives, and must remove them to some other State
to effect hi? purpose.
[£7* There arc 807 churches in New Jersey,
valued at 83,540,436.
A Handsome Reward. —The Government
bryq presented the owners of the ship Anthracite
(which took off a portion of the on
/ifaw.San Francisco) the sum of 825,000 as a to
ken of gratitude for the service rendered. It
was a voluntary gift, os the oweners of the ship
made no charge whatever.
Col. Maorudbr. —George Magruder, Com
mander U. S. Navy, writes to the Washington
Star , to contradict the statement that his bro
ther, Lieut. Col. Magruder, had entered the
military service of the Emperor of the French,
lie says it is Col. M.’s intention to proceed to
the Danube, for the purpose of witnessing the
military operations of contending armies in that
country, with the view of ocouinng information
in the art of war, for the solo purpose of bene
fitting our own country, and tne service to
which ho belongs.
Rentes to Indio, Ancient and Modern,
The intelligence that tho Darien Canal is Im
practicable is too disheartening to believe, with
out further confirmation. If true, however, it
will leave trade with India to go on through the
old channels, at least for another generation.—
Tho fluctuations of this trade, in ancient and
modem times, is a history in itself.
Tho oldest, if not tho wealthiest country on
the globe, India, has been valuable for its com
merce over since the dawn at the historic period.
In tho puisant ago of Rome, this trade was car
ried on through Persia, and a lino of opulent,
cities, illuminating the desert with civilization,
gradually sprung up along tho route of tho car
avans. During tho earlier and more brilliant
days of tho Roman empire, when tho aristocracy
of Italy disbursed tho plunder of half a world,
(his traffic grew to bo Immensely valuables and
it was through this commerce that Palmyra, sit
uated midway between tho Roman and Parthian
ftontcra, rose to splendor,w)dch, even in ruins,
is still the wonder of tho world.
But tho wars that waged between Persia and
Rome, after tho Christian ora began, eventually
turned this commerce into a different channel. |
Merchants could no longer safely cross from tho 1
Euphrates to tho Mediterranean with their car
avans, and wore compelled accordingly to take
shipping Lp India, ana. ascending tho Rod Sea,
io mdko Alexandria tbqlr depot; By tho close
of tho .sixth century, Arabia, Egypt, gffd oven
Ethiopia, had become opulent with (ho profits
of this vast trade, while Mesopotamia had sunk
Into a comparative desert, and tho cities of Sy
ria wore falling to decay. This was the golden
era of Alexandria.
Tho ruin of Greece had attracted to that me
tropolis the loading philosophers, and learning
lifted its proud head side by ildo with commerce.
A Christian See hod been established there which
rivalled those of Constantinople and Romo in
power, and fora longtime exceeded them in in
fluence. Until tho Saracens conquered Egypt,
Alexandria was tho London, the Oxford, and al
i moat tho Vatican of tho ancient worldj. Us harbor
was crowded with fleets, Us schools were throng- I
cd with students, its pulpits resounded with
harangues enforcing tho orthodox creeds. Tho |
trade with India had made it tho metropolis of
tho Mediterranean; and thoro, accordingly,
commerce, science and religion culminated,
Tho ascendancy of Islomlsm destroyed, almost
entirely for awhile, tho commerce between tho
East and tho West} what llltlo remained was now
conducted through Constantinople. But, in tho
middle ages, Venice became, to somo extent,
what Alexandria had been centuries before. Her
merchants engrossed tho trade with Indio, and
though this was loss valuable than in former
times, because ■Western Europe was poorer and
more barbarous, yet it sufficed to build a city of
palaces whore once had boon only a few fisher
men's huts, and to render Dandalo, Titian, and
the Doges of St. Mark Immortal. Tho discovery
of tho route around tho Capo of Good Hope un
dermined tho prosperity of Venice, and built up |
Lisbon, Amsterdam, Antwerp and London. A
now cycle would appear if a Darien onnal cquld
bo built, and the trade with India bo again I
revolutionised. For tho flrattimo since tho keel I
of Columbus turnod hopelessly homoword on his
last vovago, tho droam of that mighty navigator
would bo realised, and a western passage opened
.iotho Orient. The groat highway to India, ,ovon
from Europe, would henceforward bo towards
tho sotting bud. Tho principal distributing mart
for East India products would eventually settle
itself on this side of the Atlantic. Most sincere
ly do wo hope, therefore, that tho canal may yet
b? pronounced practicable.— Ltdstr. s
From tho Washington Union.
Franknltt Pierce, tie Friend of a Frugal hi
ministration—tie Fee of Peculation and
Fraud. , •
Almost simultaneous with tho judicial exunm...
of tho groat, Gardiner fraud, tho people
startled by tho discovery of on extensive comhf
nation of shatpers, who had nourished for venri
by a system of unprecedented peijnry and fn.
gory under tho pension laws. Wo saw, Brel th
melancholy sequel of tho first of those crimes-!
tho sequel, at least, so (hr as tho principal of «
gang, of respectable peculators was concerned
and wo wore next called upon to witness tho it
suo of tho second outrage referred to. The t»
loading participants in the pension Hands hotn
mon in high social position In Pennsylvania
have •. Ood the, country," leaving money e„oSlh
to indemnify their sureties, who were held l
largo sums to produce them at trial. Them V”
mon aro now wandering upon tho earth a hne 1
aftaid to meet a human being, and pnisned to
tho unsleeping IhriQS of remorse. One of them
has loft behind him Si lovely wife nod chlldraT
the ’other Is a member of one of tho oldest faml
lies In the State, and has for years been a most
eloquent ond popular leader of tho opposition
n° r,J 'e .? ni L 0f i “ m ’ 04 4,10 time of the dclec.
tmn of tho fraud w wnleh ho became so Inexlri
cahly involved, and upon the fruits of which ho
had lived so long unsuspected, wns n Judge on
tno bench, and wo perceive that, by a nniuiimon j
vote of tho legislature of Pennsylvania, a few
days ago, tho governor is called upon formally
to remove him from office. What a tessou tor
the young men of America!
In both these cases, It Is not doubted that the
tote of tho principals la only tho beginning of
the end. Tho Gardiner conspiracy is known to'
involve others In tho wide sweep of Us astound
ing details. It was a monstrous plot; and it
stands out upon history na a warning to future
times and future men, and at the same time as a
poisonous blot upon our national escutcheon—
There is, moreover, much reason to believe that
this stupendous crime is not the only one com.
mitted by high and influential politicians since
(ho defeat of tho democratic party in 1848.
Success, hi too many instances, covers a multi,
tude of sins; and when wo recall tho events of
our recent experience, and remember bow vainly
and how long the attempt wns made to bring one
set o( combinations to justice, wo can readily
imagine bow the temptation of being able to
commit groat offences with impunity has induced
men, heretofore respected and confided in, to
sink themselves to the most criminal associations.
In regard to the' frauds under tho pension lavs,
they are not of recent origin. It has been here
tofore difficult to punish tho guilty, hut tho ex
islenco of spurious papers lias frequently been
the cause of earnest solicitude among honest le
gislators and conscientious officers. Theie is
something about a fraud upon tho pension laws
so revolting and so debasing, that wc are almost
led to doubt the existoncoof manly integrity and
republican sincerity, when wo read tho shameless
details of these attempts to mutilate statutes in
tended for the protection of the brave men whoso
valor has defended our flag, or of their poverty.
stricken widows or children,
In the last annual message of President Pierce
ho referred to this subject In the following em
phatic language :
“ Numerous and flagrant frauds upon the Peiv
sion Bureau have been brought to light within
the last year, and. In some instances, merited
punishments Inflicted; but, unfortunately, in
others guilty parties have escaped, not through
the want of sufficient evidence to warrant a con
viction, but In consequence of the provisions «{
limitation in the existing laws.
“ From the nature of these claims, the remote,
ness of the tribunals to pass upon them, and the
mode in which the proof is, of necessity, fur.
niahed, temptations to crime have been greatly
stimulated by tho obvious difficulties of detec.
tlon. The defects In the law upon this subject
are so apparent, and so fatal to tho ends of jus
tice. that your early action relating to it is most
desirable.”
Since this well-timed appeal tho great fraud
in Pennsylvania has been discovered,
hope that Congress will no longer delay in car.
tying out the wholesome and judicious sugges
tions of the Executive.
Wo are enabled, from daily observation and
experience, fully to appreciate the unsleeping
activity of tho President and his cabinet—and,
indeed, of all the officers of bis administration —
in ferreting out tho authors of the' repeated and
various frauds npoo tho treasury, and In enforc
ing tho rigid practices of economy, according!©
the example and the counsel of the fathers of tho
republic. One year has elapsed since Franklin
Pierce was inaugurated President of tho United
Status. In a single department of tho govern
ment alone ho has, in that short time, nobly
proved his title to the confidence and the sup
port of his countrymen. .Taught In tho stem
school of constitutional principles, and deeply
Imbued with tho Idea that ours, to be a free must
also be a frugal government, ho resolved, from
tho first, to change entirely the loose and venal
practices that had been almost sublimated into n
science of fraud under another administration,
and to initiate tho rule of strict accountability
and Impartial economy in the public expendi
tures. Tho abolition of a horde of useless of
fices, created to reward political fhvorltcs; tho
abandonment of tho system of delay in the set
tlement of public aooouta; tbo vigilant collection
of millions of outstanding debts; tho gradual
extinction of the public debt; tho prosecution
of defaulters; the punishment, by tho sevens*
judgment of tho law, of all peculators and for
gers upon tho public treasury and tho public
laws —these ore a few of tho trophies of the ad
ministration of Franklin Fierce, connected with
a single department of tho federal government-
Tho men who aided to build up this grand and
sublime structure of republicanism would hit.
In such a President, tho faithful follower of their
sacred precepts —tho fearless disciple of their
! pure ana simple creed.
l Before such a spectacle as this tho calumniei
■ of tho corrupt, tho slanders of tho disappointed,
and tho brutalities of personal foes, foil hurtles*
' to tho ground. In our country It is one of the
. highest attributes of executive ability and dcief.
i vlng successfully to keep tho money-changer*
out of the people's treasury. This Is a first duly
and tho statesman who is woll-polsed In this ns
i giml, and who is not afraid of tho howhngi cf
I tho b«ffl?d crow of peculators, will take hit pb»
. by tho side of tli* greatest and tho beat, and win
j become an example and ari taalug to I> ofller '*
Latest from Europe.
By tho arrival of the Franklin at New York on
Wednesday, and the Canada a * Jlalafaxlhowini#
evening/ wo are put in pb'sscsflloft t>i odtloc. ft®o
Europe to tho iBtli up., fl week lator than wo Mrt
previously received. The first dovlslon of 1M
British fleet Intended to operolo In In the Dame,
sailed from Portsmouth under Sir Charles jva.
plot on tho lllli ult. The Qucon visited
arjuadron In her yacht, and escorted th ® 6 *P
sea. Tho remaining division was t° 'h .
days, under Admiral Chads. The whole (!« -
when united in tho Baltic, will consist of
sols, with 2,200 guns, 22,000 men, and WJ*
aggregate horso power of steam force, r ,
scat of war on tho Danube there Is n ° ftht
Importance, beyond the partial rot *^f I n ic
Russian, from before Kalatat. Tho auxlW
Propell and English armies w II not rc«J J
key and bo ready to act much boforo Ap ■
Tho OrooU (nwirrootlOns, I" „ st,
Czar has published In tho oßlclat Joursi
Petersburg a' reply to tho recent, invo
Lord John Bussell In llpo House °f Comw" •
Ho accuses tho British Ministry of havlngkn jjj
and partially approved beforehand all 11,0 f'rj
whose execution they now hold up «•
crime. Tho Ministers repel the P[ ,ar f o .' .j.
promise to ruftito It by documents. Ausm
Lores to the declaration of neutrality! he*
she approves tho course of the Western to . ’
states that her future course .prill bo decide
regard for her own Interests. Prussia ai «
fuses to join tho league against tho wj-
Franco there Is nothing of moment oxc p
fact that tho budget makes up an excess
million ftanos revenue over tho expense J»
Government. Nothing new from °P ’
England wo hoar of tho sudden death by *poP t
of Sergeant Talfourd, tho distinguish® * uO .
and Jurist. Tho prices of cotton romjJiw s
changed j flour hadlUllon from 76 con .
barrel at Liverpool. acv
Tho representatives of Prance, rfl .
trla and Prussia have decided that the® An
posals of peace, from Russia, do' not c
tho requisitions of tho last protocol to w
i hod set their names, and that they cannon
- fore, bo entertained. ,
■ . \P~A party of Apache Indians
t Refirly destroyed a company of
bn thdr way to Sonora. ■
Let us