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.rsOIDLECEIME-CIIIMINALS CONVICTED.' T Awful Tragedy.
The MiYaville (Icy;) Eagle, of the 20th; From the i lSt. Louis Union, dale 20th
ultimo, has an account of the conviction we obtain the, particulars of a tragedy en-
Of-four Murderers; who killed a man and acted on the steamer Martha No, 2, on
his '
the.last trip of that boat from St. Louis to
• ..
Our readers, will remember the horrid. itl ,alenn. It appears, from the mengrq de
murders. committed in • the latter. end of tails furnished us, that an elderly gentle-
Febrdary' last, on the ',persons of Justice, man; from Hardin county, Itenttickyovhose
Ilrewer,and his with, 'in Grgenup county.! Immo was not ascertained, had taken deck
Theite deeds were perpetrated by a band, of passage for his family—consisting of two
desperadoes, four in number, three of them, daughters, a son; and son-in-law,
named Clark, arid one named Hood. They'.A bout the hour often o'clock, the family
Necked . their fuses, and far in the night were aroused from their repose by the in-,
proceeded to the premises of their victims. tr us i o n of one of the deck hands, who.nt
.Going into the poult7y house, they sot the tempted to fake unwarrantable liberties
hens to squalling, by which trick Mr. and with one ofthe women. He was repulsed,
Mrs. Brewer were enticed out of the house, , but in n few moments returned and tecom-
MrS. B. went out first, in her night gown, , mcnced his attempt. The father preceded
to protect her chickens from the fangs, as, to the cabin, and represented the.state of
she doubtless thought, of wild beasts of I affairs to the clerk, who promised the fam- 1
prey, littly.dreaming that they were prowl- ily should suffer no further molestation.
mg in linmanrform, and that her. husband i These worthy people were allowed to
aqd heMelf were the object of their bloody enjoy their places in quiet, till about four
hunt. Mr,:airollowed immediately, and o'clock, the following morning, when all
both were, set, upon and beaten to death the lights in the engine room and on dock
with heavy club's; ho being killed i out right, I were suddenly extinguished, and several
and she 101 l for dead, though she lingered men walked in the direction oftho sleepers,
insensible and speechlesstill next morning. , evidently determined on an attack. Tho
Then': poor little children, five in number,' noise awakened the old man and his sons,
the eldest but eleven years old, uncon- and they made immediate preparations for
scious of the horrid tragedy by which they' defimice.
were plunged into the miseries and sor- The son was struck down with some
rows of orphanage, slept undisturbed till sharp instrument—the father at once rush
morning, when missing their parents, they ;ed to his relief, and by the prompt use of
wandered to the house of the neighbors a sabre, it is said, killed two of the ruffians
in search of them. This awakened suspi- land inflicted a mortal wound on a third.
clan and alarm, and soon the people of the I When the son fell, the women dragged
country round about were roused. The him to another part of the boat, to which
'first party arriving at the house found the circumstance he is indebted for his life.—
prostrate bodies where the assassins left They also made free use of pots, skillets
•them—the husband dead and stiff, the and other utensils, in defending themselves
wife only exhibiting signs of life by an in- from the intruders. The latter soon re
voluntary contraction of her lower limbs, tired, but not till they had inflicted several
,At eleven o'clock that. morning her suffix• dangerous wounds on the person of the
ings ended with her life, old man. When the boat reached Louis-
Antecedent circumstances furnished lane, this unfortunate amity went ashore,
ground of suspicion that John Collins a and the boat preceded on her trip.
near' neighbor of Brewer, was the instiga- At the latest advices the old man was
tor, if not the actor, of the tragedy. A in n very critical condition, and by many
chain of circumstances, slight indeed it/ I was not expected to ilve. The family are
their oragin,butcorroborated and strength- stud to be from this State.
ened until they amounted to proofs clear
- and conclusive fixed the eye and the Ihand
of justice on Collins and his accomplices.
To make a.brief story of the evidence,
Collins, purely out of malice, had induced
the three-Clarks and Hood, by threats and
bribes to undertake the murder. One of
the Clarks was a son-in-law of
Two of the Clarks were brothers, the third
ti cousin,-and Hood, we believe a relative.
~One of the Clark's and Hood are lads,
•• about seventeen years of ago. These four
were the parties actually engaged in the
.:murder---tlie malignant but cowardly Col
lins planner of the wicked conspiracy,.
parposelr remained:at home, because he
• foresaw. he ..would be charged with the
murder. pert of the scheme designed to
provide for Collin's security, was that the
. young: men should leave their hats with
Collins, which would make it necessary
• fotiliem to return to his house, and by this
they would be . able to testify that Collins
was at home .on the night of . the murder.
The plot did not probably contemplate that
.suspicion would light on the young men.
Collins and his !bur accomplices were
indicted, and he and Turner Clark, the one
who.wielded.the murderous club, were tri
ed before the Greentip Circuit Court last
-week: . - These two were convicted of mut.-
der,.and sentenced to be hung on the 25th
ofJune next.. There was not time to try
.the other three before the term of the Court
expired, and they will remain in jail, iron
edmid guarded, till the next term. -
The circumstances establishing the con
spiracy between Collins and the four young.
men were so convincing that we un
dertitand each of them, except Collins,sep
amtely made full cOnfeSsion oven before
the trial.
A narrative of the evidence - of this case
would furnish a chapter of circumstantial
evidence perhaps as marvellous, but at the
:same. time clear and conclusive, as ever
wris . detailed., The very plot of tli con
spirators, designed to hide their crime
served. to develop their guilt. It was
fine illustration of that remarkable passage
where Shakespeare makes Hamlet con
gmtulate, himself on the contrivance of the
play, by which he expected to expose the
"occult guilt of the King in one scene of it :
"1 have heard .•
feirarguilty creatures sitting at a play
/lave by every cunning of the smut.
Bten struck so to the soul, that presently
yhey have proclaimed their malefactions :
Fed murder.though it huvo no tongue mill speak
.With most miraculous organ."
• TAU WAY AN EMPEROR AND AN EXPRESS
TRAVEL.—We have already stated that the
''Emperor and Empress of Russia had arri
ved at Warsaw on the .2d instant and on
- the 6th the King and Queen of Prussia left
Berlin to meet them on the frontier. The
Emperor goes to Vienna, thence to Plague
to visit the Ex-Emperor of Austria, and
afterward come for a few days to Berlin.
Extraordinary preparations were made on
`the read from St. - Petersburgh to Warsaw
Tor the journey of the Empress and her
numerous suite. When the Emperor trav
els alone he generally sloes so in a more
simple manner. A gentleman who came
a little in advance of the imperial train,
describes the spectacle along the whole
• line as extraordinary. The road for 400
English miles was repaired and swept by
land, every stone being removed, and at
'every post station 176 horses were kept
'reedy harnessed that not an instant might
be lost. •
LA: A FEEkli. OF NATURE.—Tho Wadesbo-
I,Yo'.(N. 0.). A rgus, states. that. Mr. Jabez
AticKay; living near. White Marsh,.Colum
what eounty;haatt' negro Avomansthat gave
• .birth some.ten.day . &.backi .to twin female
children f joineil together:in .a manner that
makes thermmore intereating-than.the cel
ebrated Siamese twins. Their faces leak
in opposite directions, and their .bodies are
:joined by 'the back. bone running, into one
at the joint 'Of the hip; and .forming ono
tipine.from.the joint .down, -
CK"'Tlie7 Limerick (Ireland) Reporter
says: "Father Kenyon, of Templedderry,
has just received a letter from his friend
John Mitchel. The letter was written in
December; it affords a glowing picture of
the present position and prospects of the
exile and his family, who aro enjoying the
sweets of domestic happiness in Van Dei,
men's Land. Mr. and Mrs. Mitodl and
their children are all in the best health ;
John Martin is living with them, and his
health has
_also greatly improved. John
Mitchel has taken a large tract of land,
which he is farming himself, and which af
fords .him constant occupation. He writes
in high spirits, by no means in love with
the Whigs, however; and his asnirations
for the liberation of Ireland are said to•be
as vigorous and as constant as evor."
PALACE OF THE POPE.—The ancient
palace of the Popes, and the most magnif.
icent in the world„ stands on tho right
hand of the Tiber at Rome. The place
takes its name from the hill on which it
stands, derived from one of those ancient
impositions known as oracular deities, call
ed by the Romans "Jupiter Vaticanus."
Who began this buildidg is not known, but
it was occupied by Charlemagne more than
a thousand years ago, and has been in
creased by successive Popes until it has
reached its present immense extent. The
number of rooms in the Vatican exceeds
4,420, and its treasures in marbles, bron
zes, frescoes, statutes, paintings, and gems
aro unequalled in the world, end its library
is the richest in, Europe. The length of
the museum of statutes alone is computed
to be a mile.
o***A letter from Utah states that the
Mormons intend termini , an alliance with
the Indians, the object being to excite them
against the United States Government.—
This is altogether improbable. The Mor
mons aro bad enough, •no doubt, in many
of their habits, but we believe that inn po
litical point , of view they have been fre
quently and foully libelled. Their leaders
may be deluded and fanatical, but they ure
not so utterly mud ati to attempt a conflict
with the authorities and people of the U.
States. Such a step would lead to fearful
scenes.
INDIAN AND YANKEE.—The water at
Mackinaw is very clear and cold, so cold
as' to be almost unendurable. A gentle.
man lately amused himself by throwing a
small coin iri . twenty feet of water, and
giving it to an Indian who would bring it
up. hewn they plunged,but after descend
ing ten or twelve feet, they came up so
chilled that after several attempts they
gave it up. A Yankee standing by, ob
served-that.if "he would give it to him for
getting it he'eswing it up quicker than
lightning ;" to-which ho consented: when
Jonathan instead of plunging in, as was
expected, quietly look up a setting pole
and dipped the end in a tar barrel, reach
ed it down to thircoin and brought it up,
and slipping it into his pocket walked off,
to the amazement of the Indian divers, and
to the no small chagrin of the donor.
ENORMOUS PROFITS OF PATENT.—The
most enormous profits have been realized
by the assignees of Woodworth's planing
machine during the 24 years the patent
has existed. It is stated that James'G.
Wilson has received in sales, assignments,
and traffics 02,131,752. John Gibson of
Albany, has received nearly as large a
sum. Charles Gould, of Albany, has al
so received a large sum. Gibson, it is
further stated, is in the receipt of 01 fOt
every 1000 feet planed in 100 mills, each
of which turn offlo,ooo feet each day.
'Barnum, the showman, was once a
poor "jou(' printer," but he got hold of 4
.fat take," and is now worth his hundreds
of thousand dollars.,
,TAere are but very
few printers that ‘gct j up' in, the. World as
much as 13arnuni
THE REPUBLICAN.
CLEARFIELD Pa9,JUile 11, 1852.
FOR PRESIDENT,
Gen..FRANKLIN PIERCE,
OP NEW HAMPSIIIItg.
MUNICH PiIEBIDENT.
WILLIAM R. ICING,
OF ALADAMA.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS,
F.
the State at large—Senatoriat.
GEORGE W. WOODIVARD of Luzern°.
WILSON WCANDLESS, ofAllegliony.
Ronurrr PArrunsoN, DI Philadelphia.
LECTORS.
13. IL C. Flyer,
14. John Clayton,
15. Isaac Robinson
16. Henry Fetter,
17. Jas. Burnside,
18. M. McCaslin,
19. las,McDonald,
20. W. S. Colahan,
21. Andrew Burk,
22. Wm. Dunn,
23. .T.S.McCalnzont
24. G. R. Barrett.
DISTRICT
1. Peter Logan,
2. G. H. Martin,
3. John Miller,
4. F. W. Bockius,
5. R. McKay,Jr.,
6. A. Apple,
7: N. Strickland,-
8. A. Peters,
9. David .Fistcr,
10. R. E. James,
11. I. Mcßeynolds,
12. P. Damon,
POR.CANA L COMMISSIONER.
WILLIAM SEARIGHT 3
OF FAYETTE COUNTY.
Democratic Meeting,
The Democracy of Clearfield county,
are respectfully invited to attend a meet
ing, at the Court House, in the Borough of
Clearfield, on Monday next, at 3 o'clock,
P. M., for the purpose of ratifying the nom
inations made at Baltimore, and express
ing their views in relation to PIERCE and
KING, the standard bearers of tl.e party
for the coming campaign. A punctual at
tendance is requested. Several speakers
will be present.
By order of the Standing Committee. i
Vol. 3—No. 26.
The present number completes the sth
half year of our paper since its increase in
size, and decrease in price. . Three years
ago, when our new paper was:commenced
under the low-pricefor-cash-system, it wa s
with many misgivings as to the successof
the undertaking. We thought it could on
ly be made profitable by a list of not less
than one-thousand subscribers—a number
which we thought might be •obtained. But
we could only raise about 700, which was,
shortly increased to near 800, and has',
since decreased but little. We are now,
happy to say that our list has Veen rapidly
increasing for the On few weeks. Yet we
know there are a large number of our cit.
izens, who are well able to take a paper,
and' whose fanlilies greatly need such a
companion, who are not subscribers.—
Many of those only want an opportunity
to subscribe, and wo are quite sure, that
if we had time to go out among the peo
ple, quite an tidditien of worthy names
could be made to our list. We hope, there
fore, that our friends, and all others—(if
there are others) will interest themselves
as occasion offers, and send us the names
of those 'Who are willing to comply with
our terms.
Since the commencement of the present
volunrie, or at least since February last,
wo think the attentive reader cannot
have overlooked a decided improvement in
the mechanical appearance of the Repub
lican. For this improvement they are en
tirely indebted to Mr. CLARK WILSON, who
has had charge of the office over since, and
whose interest in the financial department
commences with tho present volume.
Our paper may now be considered as
permanently established, and perhaps un.
der better prospects of profit to the propri
etors and usefulness to thecommunity than
at any other period.
A highly important political campaign is
just about opening. Wo presume it is
scarcely necessary for us to say that the
political character of the Republican will
remain unchanged. Wo shall us hereto.
fore, ardently support the nominees of the
democratic party; but whilst we shall thus
bo consistent and firm in our political
course—yielding to the candidates of the
lute Baltimore Convention, PIERCE and
KING, a warm and earnest support, and
do whatever else may be calculated to ad
vance the success of Democratic Re
publican Binciples, wo shall at no time
make our paper exclusively a political or
gun. We shall always be willing to let
the other side bo heard, and in no event
fill its columns so exclusively with politics
as to be offensive to the general reader.
TIM INVESTIGATOR.
Messrs. M'Rinley & Lescure of the
Harrisburg Union, have issued proposals
for again publishing the Investigator from
this until after the close of the Presidential
election in November nest, at 50 cents
per single copy;'s copies for $2,00, or 13
copies for , $5 , 00,, - &c. This sheet perfom
cd good Service in the grand contest; in
this State last fall, and we are assured that
it will he no less efficient, and no less wor
thy of the support of Democrats in the
present contest,
Again has the Democracy of the Na
tion met in solemn conclave and submit.
ted to the American people its chosen can
didates for the two highest offices in their
gill ; and again have theyelelected as their
standard-bearers men of high and irre
proachable character, and statesmen of
great experience, unsullied patriotism, and
unbodnded devotion to our glorious Union.
The Convention met at Baltimore on Tues
day the Ist, and continued in session the
remainder of the week, making the nom
ination about 11 o'clock on Saturday, on
the 49th ballot. The Convention was
composed of able men, and so far as wo
know them, or have read their proceedings,
of men of ardent, sincere and self-sacrifi
cing devotion to the success of the princi
ples of the Democratic party. They had
an arduous task to perform, and we aro
satisfied that they have performed their
duty in good faith, and in the most effec
tual manner for the success of the Demo
cratic party;and its candida,tes.
The friends of Mr. BUCHANAN and Gen.
CAss, however, have much reason to feel
disappointed at the result. They labored
hard and faithfully in the Convention fur
their distinguished favorites. The Pennsyl
vania delegation cast the 28 votes of the
State for our own Buchanan on every bal
lot up to the last. This they were in duty,
bound to do. The sterling worth of their
candidate deserved such devotion—and
their State was entitled to it by every con
sideration that should have a controlling
influence in such matters. But when their
colleagues, representing the Democracy
of the whole Union, thought Koper to
withhold their acquiescence in theirchoice,
an i to indicate their preference for some
other as our standard-bearer, they, as
faithful representatives of the over-faith fu
Democracy of the Keystone State, cor
dially yielded their personal preferences,
and the claims of our State, to the end
that the perfect union and certain success
of the party might be secured. So was it
with the friends of - Gen. Cass ; and each
of these two great champions of Democ
racy—the boast of their party, and the
pride of their country—as well as their
hosts of friends, have much reason to re
joice and congratulate each other at tne
fortunate end harmonious result.
The choice, then, luckily fell upon a
new man, a man who comes Out fresh from
the midst of the people, a sound and tal
ented statesman, a tried soldier, a thorough
democrat, and warm and devoted friend or
the Union, Gen. FRANKLIN PIERCE,
of New Hampshire. Gen ;Pierce is now
living in private life, in the city of Concord.
For Vice President, the Convention has
selected ono orthe oldest, most experien
ced and safest statesmen in the Union,
WM. R. KING, of Alabama. Mr. K.
is at present President of the U. S. Senate,
and acting Vice President of the United
States.
So far as we have yet seen evidences
of the manner in which these nominations
have been received by the democracy,
they aro of the most gratifying character.
They have imparted confidence wherever
doubts or misgivings prevailed. And in
no State is this more true than in the great
Empire, whose 35 electoral votes, accord-
ng to the Herald, (independent paper,)
are rendered almost curtain (lir the Dem-
ocratic ticket, against Scott, Webster, Fill-
more, or any other candidate the Whigs
can scare up.
We have before us in the New York
Herald, a very concise, but correct memoii
of the life of Gen. FRANKLIN PIERCE, the
Democratic candidate for President, which
we have laid aside for our next 'paper.
Gen. PIERCE is a native of New Hampshire,
and is now 47 years of age-simsell, Gen.
Cass, Mr. Webster, and Gen. Dix. being
natives of the same county, (Hillsborough.)
His father, Benjamin PIERCE, although en
"unlearned man," as the N. Y. Tribune
sneeringly designates him—was for many
years Sheriff of Hillsborough county, and
afterwards Governor of the State. The
son, our present candidate, was many
years in the State Legislature, served four,
years in Congress; elected to the U. S.
Senate in 1837; resigned in 1842 ; was
tendered the appointment of Attorney
General of the U. S. by President Pour,
which appointment he declined; was af
terwards appointed Brigadier General in
the war with Mexico—served with distinc
tion and credit; returned to private life;,
was nominated for the. Presidency by the
Democrats of Now Hampshire last winter;
which nomination he also declined--and
is now fairly before the American people
as the almost unanimous choice of the
Democratic party as their Candidate for the
Presidency.
I'Next Monday the Treasurer's sale
of unimproved lands for unpaid taxes, will
take place at the court house. A Demo
cratic ratification meeting will alswbe held
on that day; when wd hope to see a dem:
onstration worthy of our cauw. ,
' I>
'~ ~ I
OUR BANNER STREAMS IN LIGHT
"WIIO IS FRANK PIERCE r'
Whig Campaign Paper. From tho Wnshington-Union. .
Roymend, Jones, & Co., of the N. Y. THE MACY OP THE, TWO PARER&
Daily Times propose to issue a Campaign ' A CONTRAST.—In discussing t6O preteri.tk
Whig paper, to commence on the 19th sions of the two great parties to the co
te
inst., and continue until after the Presi- dence of the country, and endeavoring
'discriminate between their different
dentin' election, to be called the Campaign to be intrusted with the administration obi
Times. It will support the nominees of i ts affairs, we are apt at times to becon ) o
the National Whig Convention, and pub- so pre-occupied with the considemtion'ef.;
lished at 50 cents per .single copy, or-5
those momentous questions, the solution of , -
copies for two dollars. Address the above which involves the stability of our govelii
named, 113, Nrissiu at., N. Y. ment, ns to lose sight of other points whiche A
though of minor importance, are still ofdeeg
interest as affecting our progress as a riCti, t
tion,_ and our prosperity as a people. rt
Eloping, trusting, resolving, then, as IN
behooves every true-hearted American,it;
all times, and under nll circumstances, to :
do, that our free institutions, the constito.
tion which guaranties them, and the Union
which secures their perpetuity, Aral belled
abide forever, it becomes a topic of no fin:: I
profitable inquiry, what lino of general pot.
icy is best adapted to the improvement et
the present, and the most brilliant realiztt - :.
tion of the future of the republic. Whelk -
a correct conclusion upon this point is ar.
rived at—and the process which conducts
to if is neither arduous nor tedious—a se. •
cond query of corresponding import, and
one which maybe satisfaCtorily responded
to with equal ease, necessarily follows: IS •
that line of policy one which can be safely'
predicated upon the antecedent practice and
present professions of the whig or of the
democratic party?
Those United States have not been set
apart and established at this age of the
world—endowed alone among the nations
with perfect freedom of thought, of word,
and of action—favored with every oppor.
tunity for the exercise of every faculty,
and a field for operation, embracing on
land a continent, and on the seas the inlet.
itable waste of waters—to be at this hour
cabinet!, cribbed, confined by the cold awl
sluggish counsels of a bigoted conserve.
tiara. No! though wo would cling with
tenacious grasp to the liberties our fathers
won, sustain with unshaken firmness the
constitutional fabric they reared, and watch
over the safety and preservation
. or both
with vigilance unceasing, weare—we must
be—conscious that the duties ofour mission'"
end not here. The march of human intel r
lect is onward. Even in the Old World,
trammehed and encumbered as it is by
stops and hindrances which happily we
know not of, rapid strides are making in
science and the arts, in wealth and power,'
and every element of greatness, but the
mightiest, the last, the best, the one which
we alone possess, our birthright—freedom!
Progress is the word; the policy of pro.
gross is the policy for us—progress in
thought, in action, in every branch of in.
dustry and commerce, in science, arts, and
arms, in cultivation of the land, in naviga. .
Lion of the seas, in exploration of the boTq
els of the earth, and in the 'acquisition of
new territories, and the extension of tho
glorious privileges we enjoy, to all who
are willing to receive and participate in
(17 - 1
-low effectually time and space are
_ .
annihilated at the present day,may bd seen
by the fact that the New York Ilerald,
dated 'Sunday morning,June 6th,' contains
the details of the proceedings of the Na
tional Convention at Baltimore on the day
previous, and also gives the particulars of
the manner in which the nominations made
by the Convention were received
..t...ro9gh
out several States of the Union. It tells
us that Gen. PIERCE and his lady were in
Boston on a visit, when the news reached
him, that his friends and neighbors in Con
cord, N. H., were wild with joy at the re
sult, and fired a salute of 282 cannon, (the
number of votes ho received in Conven
tion ;) and that at Steubenville, Ohio, two
men were unfortunately killed by the pre
mature discharge of a cannon.
TEE NATIONAL •CONVENTION.
The proceedings of the late Democratic
National Convention are of such great
length as to utterly preclude their appear
ance in our paper in full, and we. there
fore. make the following extract from the
last day's proceedings, with a ( ,promiss:t to
publish the resolutions constituting the
Platform, and whatever else we. can find
room for, in our next.
On the forty-sixth ballot the Kentucky
delegation commenced the movement in
favor of Pierce, by casting their entire
vote for him.
It now became well settled that neither
Cass, Buchanan, Douglass, nor Marcy'
could be nominated. There was a general
consultation among the members of the
State delegations. The result of their con
ference was revealed on the - forty. ninth
and final ballot, which is as * follows.
FORTY -N t NTII BALLOT.
Pierce,
Cass,
Buchanan, 0
On the State of North Carolina being
called, Mr. Dobbin, of that delegation, rose,
and after some remarks, voted for Mr.
Pierce amidst considerable applause, when
Alabama also cast her vote for Mr. P., and
Massachusetts changed her vote in his fa
vor which was added by the vote of Mis
sissippi and others. Tho excitement in I
281 Douglass,
2 Butler,
the Convention rose to a tolerably high
degree. When New York was called in
her turn, she voted as on the preceding
ballot, but before the vote was announced,
she changed her vote and gave her 35
votes for Pierce, amidst immense cheer
ing. Mier which the Pennsylvania and
Indiana delegates, asked leave to retire for
consultation.
While they were out, Alabama, New
Jersey, Missouri, Vermont, Arkansas and
other States changed their votes for Pierce.
The excitement became very great as one
State after another changed its vote for the
New Hampshire candidate;
Senator Bright of Indiana, addressed .the
Convention, and at the close, gave the en
tire vote of Indiana for Pierce.
Mr. Seymour and Mr. Dickinson, of N.
Y. addressed the Convention in favor of
Mr. Pierce.
Col. Black of Pennsylvania, addressed
the Convention in favor of . Gen. Pierce;
after which Gov. Porter, of that State, gave
the entire vote of the State for him, by, as
he said, the direction of the delegation.
Mr. Soule, of Louisiana, and others, ad
dressed the Convention.
The excitement during the delivery of
the speeches, and the announcement of
the change of votes; was so great that it
was impossible to hear all that was said
and done; the members were all on their
feet, most of them standing on the benches.
When the Michigan vote was cast for
Gen,Pierce, the chairman of that delega
tion said Gen. Pierce was particularly ac
ceptable to Gen. Cass.
Finally, before the last three or four
States, in the order of voting, had been
called, and of course before the vote on the
49th ballot was announced, all . the States
changed their votes in favor of Pierce, ex
cept Ohio, who cast 18 votes for Pierce,
2 for Cass, 2 for Douglass, and 1 for But
ler.
It therefore appeared that Gen. Frank
lin Pierce, of New Hampshire, was.nom
inltted as the democratic candidate for
President of the United States, by a vote
almost unanimous.
During the ballot an intense excitement
prevailed, and as State after State changed
vote, the shouts from the gallery and from
the members were deafening.
As soon as the nomination was known
outside of the door, a national salute was
fired in front of the Hall.
The convention then, at 2 o'clock, ad
journed until 4 o'clock.
o'`i 'The , correct names of the new bish
ops elected by the M. E. General Confer
ence a few days ago are as follows:. Mat
thew Simpson, D. D., of the Indiana con
ference• Edward R. Ames, of do.; Levi
Scott, D. D., of the Phila. conference, and
professor Osmon C, Baker, of New Hamp
shire conference.
(* - When our country becomes so deep.
ly populated as Holland, it will.contain
837,433,019 inhabitants—nearly the pres.
ent number of the human race. It will be
a hard job to whip us , then—Uncle Sam's
militia will number about two millions of
fighting men—and as for taking the cen
sus, won't that be a joke?.
But is this policy the whig or democratic
policy From their antecedents—from,
the principles they at present profess r -,
which of 'the two parties can claim that,
their programme for present and future
tion, as well as the record of their past,
identified or connected with the policy of
progress? Suppose that the doctrines of.'
the whigs had been adopted, and their prin.
ciples had been acted upon in this country . .
since the day when, under another rimer
they passed their alien and sedition lawg,,
and clamored for a strong central govern ! :
ment and an cxecutivb clothed with almost
regal attributes: what would have been
our position now?—where the countless,
myriads of our patriotic naturalized citi-'
zens ? where, indeed, our native liberties?
Where would now be our national chamc 7 .: I
ter and dignity— where the glory won up'-"
on the ocean's wave—the laurels gathered
on the land, from where Niagara thunders`
in the North down to the sunny Soulti.
where Jackson saved the mighty valley of
the Mississippi—where the freedom of
the seas—if whig or federal counsels had
prevailed, and the arrog ant pretensions of
Great Britain been submitted to in 18121
Where would bo our financial indepett. '
dence—where our national prosperity—
whore our solvency- . —had the efforts of the
whigs to sustain the Bank of the United
States been successful, and the weight of
that incubus been permitted longer to,
burden the industry and commerce and
control the legislation of the country?
whose possesijon—under whose control—
would now be Louisiana, Florida., Texas,
Now Mexico, and California? What des•
potic, or monarchical, or semi -barbarous,
powers would have dominated over those
rich States and Territories, now the happy:
homes of myriads of freemen and thesour-
ces o f incalculable wealth—where would
be the credit of tho splendid diplomacy by
which some, and the high renown of the
martial valor by which othersof these vast
domains were acquired—had the timia v
selfish, narrow-minded opposition and re-. •
monstrance of the whigs been heeded?—
Is the policy of the party which has stood "!
in the way of all these demonstrations in
favor of the tbndamental principles of re‘.:: :
publicanism—of our own national dignity
and independence in every relation, whetb
er foreign or domestic—which has striven
to prevent the acquisition of so much nation
al honor and renown, and such vast addi-:-
!ions to our national population, Averdtb,.,',
and territory, and dignity and power-4e
policy of progress? Does it bear any re- 1.
semblance to it? Is it like it in any single
characteristic? Is it, in 'fact, 'a policyfii.' ,
to be adopted, enibraced; followed and care
vied out by the American people 'at 'hr.. i
day, or any'day.? No—certainly no; not
at least without taking first one gla.nee,tt. - ;
the characteristics of its opposite—thert.',
icy instituted by the democracy from 111:
, 0 ."
time that it first aspired to grasp the reigil
of thq car, of State, and in the track
which it has steadily pursued its noes°
whenever it has been intrusted withthe
trol of them. • " •