THE DIVISION OF TIME. j Many ages must luu'e elapsed after the, creation of the world before any meshed of, computing Time, or of dai'ng events, was; brought into cstnblislied use. Atu very ■ early period, time was measured by the rovpjutions of the moon, the seasons sue-| 'i'jCesaiyo returns of labor and rest; but so tMe os the age of.Honier tv formal calender seems to Imvo been unknown to history, or a register of events. The division of days into weeks is the most ancient way of waking time, probably took pinqc at the Creation. The next di yiaipp wns lint of montin, which uppen ml fo hnvc been in iisc-befnn; the: r’luoil. — 1 *Tho months were rnarked bv the ri-vuki tions of the moon, consequently were cal-* led lunar months. The highest natural division of time is into years. At first a year consisted ol only twelve lunar months. It is supposed that this method of reckoning was in use ns early as the Lelugo, and tlmt it con tinued lor many ages after, lint this was n very imperfect mode of computing time, for a luner your was nearly eleven days shorter then a solar year; hence the months conid not very long correspond with the season, liven in the space of 17 years tjie winter months would have changed places with those of summer. The calender which is now generally ‘ndoplcd in the Christian world was institut ed by Romulus. [lis y ear began on the 1 st of March and continued only ten months, or about 30-1 days, hence was ypry imperfect. Numn gave tho year 33$ days, added two months, and transfer red tho beginning of the year to the 1 st pf January. But this was still making the yenr too short. When Julius Cresnr obtained the sover eignty of Rome, he found the months had changed from the seasons, and in order to bring them forward to their places, he fowled P long year of If) months or -CIO ijliiys, -..This has been called the year ol ieponfusion. It ended January 1 st, forry five years beforo Christ. From this period Jho Julian year of 305 day 9 and 0 hours commenced, The common years contain ed Stif) days, bu' once every fuiir years ,lhe six hours amounted to nnother duy, -pnd this was added to the twenty-eighth ol February, or the sixth calends of March, yvhirjh yvus to be reckoned twice, hence Jhis year was stvled Bisscxile, or Leap year. The Julian yenr, however, wus still im perfect, for the earth performs its, nnnuul circuit round the sun in three hundred and sixty-five days, five honrs and forty-eight minutes, forty-five and a hnlf seconds; ‘"hence the solar venr was shorter tlinn Ju- lian, or civil year, hv elevon minutes, and fourteen nnd a half seconds, which in two hundred and thirty years amounted to a day. In the course of time this inconvenience becoming 100 considerable to bo unnoticed, Pope Gregory, XIII, substituted a new cal ender, called the Gregorian Calender or new style. It was published in March, A. D. 1582. Ten days hud now been gained by ihe old mode of reckoning, and theso were struck out of,the month of Oc- Jobcr following, by reckoning the fifth day of that month the fifteenth. And in order to prevent the occurrence pf n similar variation in time to come, he ordained that one dny should be added to every fourth year as before, and that front the year 1680 every fourth centenial year should bo reckoned ns a leap year, and the Other three centenial years ns common ones. Thus the years 1700, 1800, IBOu, 8100, 2500, etc., are to be reckoned ns common oneS, and 1600,2000, 2400, etc., as leap years. Even this correction is not absolutely exact, yet tlje error is so small ns !o hardly vary one day in over a thou sand years. The mndo of computing time as estab- lished bv Gregory is called New Style, and that by Julius, Crnsar, Old Style. The new style wns adopted by Spain, Portugal and part of Italy on the snmo day ns Rome, and in France on the tenth of December following which was reckoned the twenti eth dnv. But in Grunt Britain this change wus not adopted until September, 1752, when 170 years had elepsed since tho Gregori an alterations, consequently a little more than another day had been gained. It was therefore enacted by Parliament thut elev. en clays instead of <cn should be stricken out of the month of September 1752. On the second day of that month the Old Style ceased, and the third day wns reckoned the fourteenth. By the same act Great Britain changed the beginning of the year from tho twenty.fifth of March to the first of January. The time for commencing the year hns i usually been determined, among difTeientj nations, ~by the date of some memorable bvent, sii'ct) as the Deluge, tho Incarnation | of Christ, etc. The Egyptians began the year with the autumnal equinox. The Jew-1 ish ecclesiastic year began in the Spring,| but in civil affairs they retained tho epoch 1 of the Egyptians. The ancient Swedish 1 year began about the time of the winter j solstice. Tho Turks qnd Arabs commence thoir year about the middlo of July. j When Romulushegnnthe yearin March,' ho named tho four last months according lotheir position. The names, September,! October, November and December, desig nated their order; seventh eights, ninth, kind tenth. But Numn changed the begin-i jning of the year to the first of Jununry,) without altering the names of the months hence they do not correspond to their or der in the calendar. ! Owing to these changes in the mode of reckoning time, if we wish to ascertain to Whnt'.date in Old Style would a certain day in New Style correspond, or what dote inj New Style any day of Old Stylo would represent, we must observe the following rules: If the event .ImppcnccJ before the first of Marqh 1700, add ten days to tho Old Style and you will have it corrected for ||ie New ; 'if it happened between the Inst: day of February, nnd the Ist of‘ March, 1800, add eleven days, if between j the same dates in 1300 and 1000, add twelve days ; nml iI between 1000nnd 2100, add thirteen days. If you wish to nse.er tain tile Old Stylo from'the New, subtract from the Now instead ol adding to the Old. S.MAT.r. Notes. — An net to prevent the circulation of smnll notes. Provides that from and after the Ist day of June, IBSB, ( verv commissioner of liio revenue and court shall require ol'ench person to whom license is granted, on oath that ho wdl not pay out within the limits ol ihe common • wealth, notes of less denomination than five dollars, issued lyv banks, corporations or individuals. It is further provided, that from and nl’tcr the first d i v of Juno next, where such note is issued nr offered as money by nnv person, persons or corpo ration, such offerer or issuer of such note or tio'cs shall pay a fine ol ten dollars, re. coverable before any justice, alderman or court in this commonwealth ; hall ol the penally to go to the informer, and the res idue to the city orcouuty where prosecuted. The informer may he a witness, and shall not lie required to testily to more than the denomination of the nolo ; and every per son whose name is signed on the luce ol such note shall he deemed the issuer there of. Any person may recover Irom nny ono wlto.se name is on the. lace of a note of less denomination than five dollars issu ed uller the passage of Ibis act, live times the amount of such note, in addition to the fine herein imposed. Fortner penalties against the issue of small notes are contin ued ; the luw is construed remedially, and applies as well to interest hearing scrip under five dollars, ns to notes of oilier do scriptions. Loss or Tin: Si-anisii War Stram siijr Pi/.ahko. —By the arrival ul New York of the schooner John G. White, from Bnrncoo, wo Imvc nows ol Iho loss of the Bizarre ; thr* particulars arc ns follows : The simmer arrived at the anchorage oil Playa do Mini, from Si. Jago do Cuba will) 8(H) soldiers on hoard, lo exchange with those in garrison at Baraeoa. She* embark ed them on board, arid left the same night at eleven o'clock, and at lour ydock next morning struck on the reef off Cape May, on the east end of Cuba. • The boats were all stove alongside ol the steamer in at tempting to lower them away. The Iroops 330 in number and her crew of 100 men, were landed by rails formed by the steam ship's yards.nnd topmasts. The command er of the steamer immediately sent a mes sage to Baraeoa for assistance. The enp tain of tho port promptly despatched the schooner John G. White with launches and boats. The schooner arrived at the scene of the accident on the same night. It was blow ing very heavily and the sea was malting n complete breach over the steamer. The John G. White remained by the steamer nil night, and finding it impossible to embark the troops next day, returned to Baracoa. The steamer lay bilged in two and a hnlf fathoms, her reefs in three;-fathoms water. On the 14th ult., the French war steamer. L’Elan arrived ut the wreck, having the Spanish brig of war Pelayo in tow, to as sist in getting her oil' if possible. The steamer will, in all probability, become a perfect wreck. A Valuable Remedy. —The New Ha ven (Conn.) I‘allailium says: “Wo ore able to record another case of a complete cure oferysipelos by the simple application of tho raw cranberries pounded fine. The patient was a young lady, one side of whose fnce had becomo so much swollen and in flamed that the eye had become closed,and the pain excessive. A poultice of cranber ries was applied, and after several changes, the pain ceased, the inflammation subsided, und in tiie course of n couple ol days every vestige of the disease had disappeared The case occurred in the lumily ol one ol the editors of the Fallariium , and we can therefore vouch lor its troth.'’ Treatment of an American at Val paraiso.— It is stated that a commander of n vessel, and who is a naturalized American, was recently mobbed at Valpa raiso, on the ground that he had ill -treated his pnssengers, a number ol t'lnlinns, and when asked for protection Irom the authori ties, they threw him into prison. The b. S. Consul advised the Governor of the province that he recognized the Captain as [an American citizen,and demanded for him n fair and impartial trial. He complained also, that the mate of the vessel had been mobbed, und declared that, unless such proceedings were stopped, he would make a national affair of it. Interesting from onf. of the “Three Thousand.” —Henry Ward Beecher—so says the Journal of Commerce—in a lirude against tho Nebraska bill, on Sunday eve ning, open and unblushingly ndvoouted a dissolution of the Union, and expressed it ns ' !; opinion that the time had arrived when such an event would prove highly beneficial to the North. Ho vigorously plied his clerical batteries against all who presumed to entertuin upon the general subject of slavery, opinions not in accor dance with his own. : .Hungarian Freedom. —While Kossuth ■is qunrrelling with old friends, says the Pittsburgh Union , would it he strungo if he were to form an allience with old ene !mies? Austria, it seems, is disposed to join tho Western I owors. As soon as this union is formed, and the allied forces commence their attack on Russia, Nicho las will be tempted to proclaim liberty to Hungary. It is to bo presumed that the Hungarians will not object to receive the boon, como from what quarter it may. Oir’Take t|ie-|iand of the friendless.r- Smile on the gad and dejected. Sympa thise with those in trouble. Strive every where to diffuse nrouqd you sunshine and [joy. If you do this you will bo sure lo bo beloved. the republican. CLEARFIELD , APRIL I il, 1854. For Governor, WILLIAM BIGLER. For Supreme Judge, JEREMIAH S. BLACK. For. Canal Commission mi, HENRY S. MCTT. promised in our Inst to give place to the communication signed ‘Kin derhonk’ this week, but through some mis take or other it has been overlooked. The communication shall appear however, in due lime. SALE OF THE PFIILIC WORKS That n bill, providing for the sule ol llio public wm ks, or at least u portion of t hem, : will pass the present Legislature in some shape, now appears very evident. One | proposition is to sell tho main hue of Tamil, nml if ten millions of dollars can he realized for that work which would be ; a chenp bargain to the purchaser, as the real estate belonging thereto is worth a large portion ol that sum wrr would say that it should be sold. But to sell all.the .Slate improvements, including llie Colum i biu railroad, the Lehigh Division, \’c.,eSrc., tbefuro tho North Brunch division is com pleted, which, in the opinion of many, is destined to render all tho State works east and south of it, doubly profitable, might ; prove to bo very unwise. Before we part with these works, we should at least fuirly test their worth and capacity. This can only he done when the .North Branch Canal shall be finished, and which will ; now bo done without nnv further expense, i The main line of canal would be a fine. ; speculation for any compnny, and if owned by the Ccnlrul Railroad Company, would be a source of permanent wealth ; and if that, nr any other company, w ill pay as much ns ten millions of dollars, we say let them have it, —the Stnto reserving tho power to resume the ownership in a cerium number of years, ori the payment ol n fair per centago A bill providing for the sale of these works was under consideration in the House of Representatives on the (ith inst., when it passed to a third reading by a large majority. On the 7lh the subject was still under consideration for final passage. PORTRAITS OK KmINENT AMERICANS now Living. —Livingston’s Monthly Mag azine, published in New Tork by John Livingston, has attained an almost unex ampled popularity. Its terms arc •s.'! per yenr, each number containing nbout one hundred pages, giving the portraits and biographies of distinguished American Salesmen, Juiisls, Lawyers, Clergymen, &e. The present number contains the portraits rind biographies of President Pierce, the members of his Cabinet, Jus tices McLean and Grier of the Supreme Court of the United States. Snow. —Yesterday morning the ground wns covered with n slight snow, which, howover, soon disappeared under the rays ofn blight morning's sun, to the great ilis nppointment of nur lumbermen, whose hopes ofn flood in ihe river had been great ly encouragec hv the ram ol Monday af- ternoon The prohibitory liquor law has not yet passed the Legislature. The Semite bill, which provides for submitting the law to the action of the people, Ins n fair chance of success, and to which no persun can reasonably object. Let the people sanction such a law—as they surely will— and then there will he much less dillicully in carrying it into efleet. Fire. —We regret to learn that the steam saw mill of (!eo. Leech & co., in Pike township, wus dostroyed by lire on Monday night last. Our informant could give no particulars, further than that us he pnsserl the premises yesterday, he saw the smoking ruins. The mill was in excellent condition, and doing a good business. Oir'Many persons are under the appre hension that Ihe homestead bill has passed Congress, and is now n law. Such is not tho fact. It passed the House some weeks since, but lias not been acted upon in the Senate. Hartford, Ct., April 4. —Two Whig Representatives hove been elected for Manchester, one for Meriden, und one for East Hartford—all Whig gains. Tile indications are, thut the Whigs lmvo swept the State. Out of fourteen Repre sentatives heard from in this county, ten nrc Whigs, three Democrats, und one Freesoiler. The Whig gain is nine. Hartford, April 4. —So lur as heard from, the Wl!igs‘liave elected fifteen Sen ators, and the Democrats two. Four Rep resentatives not heard from. Tho Whigs Imvc 87, and the Democrats 41. Providence, R. 1., April 0. —The Whigs have curried this city by majorities vary ing from 200 toJIOOO. Hoppin is elected Governor by the people, and the rest ofthe ticket will be elected by the General As sembly. 1 Population, Productions, &c., of Clearfield Co.( In looking over tho Census report for 1850, we find the following facts in rela tion to our county which wo transfer to our columns for tho information of our rentiers : At tho above date, tho entire population of tho county wns twclvo thousand fivo hundred and eiglity-six; number of births during tho vent - , three hundred and ninety-six; mnrriuges,soventy-six; deaths, one hundred and forty-two; dwellings, one thousand nino lihndred and thirty ; num ber of families,ono thousand nino hundred and thirty-six. Schools and Academics in the county, cighty-two; teachers, eighty-two; pupils, two thousand eight hundred und ten ; tax ation, five thousand three hundred and ono dollars; public lends, ono thousand and seventy dollars ; total, six thousand threo hundred and seventy-one dollars. Number attending School during tho yenr ns returned by families ; white males, ono thousnnd und eighty-five ; white fe males, nine hundrdd and seventy-four; total, two thousand and fifty nino; colored moles, six; females, five; total, eleven,; natives, two thousand and thirty-five ; foreign, lhirty : five; Aggregate, two thou sand and seventy. Adults in the county who cannot read and write : While males, sixty-one; fe males, thirty-seven ; total, ninety-eight ; colored males, two; females, ono; natives eighty-nine; foreign, twelve; aggregate, one hundred and one. In this relation, it is worthy of notice, that our county stands second bcsl on the list of all the counties in lho state. (Within the bounds of Clear field county, according !o the census re pon, there are a less number of persons to lie found who cannot read anti write, than that of any other county in the Stn'c ex cept (,'rnwlord. Even L'dk and M Kean, with their sparcc population, far outnum ber us in this respect. ' Acres of land in farms: —Improved, six tv-nne thousnnd one hundred and fifteen acres; unimproved, one hundred and sev enteen thousand four hundred nnd sixty eight acres; cash \aluc of farms, ono mil lion seven hundred and eighteen thousand eight hundred and sixty nine ; value ol lurming implements, Arc., nincty-fourthou j sand, two hundred ami eighty-nine dollars; ! number of horses, two thousand six hun | dred and ono ; asses and mules, thirty-two ; milch cows, three thousand four hundred : and twenty-six ; work oxen, one thousand and sixtv-four; other entile, three thous ' nnd seven hundred nnd fifty-five ;. Sheep, twelve thousand two hundred and thirty ; two ; swine, seven thousand two hundred nnd sixtv fivo; value of live stock, two hundred ami seventy-seven thousand s’x hundred nnd thirty-seven dollars; value of animals slaughtered, sixty thousnnd nine hundred nnd fitly-four dollars ; bushels ol . wheat, eighty thousand five hundred and i cightv-eiuht ; bushels ol rye, thirty-one i thousand ami forty ; indian corn, fifty-five (thousand nine hundred and forty-three ; ; oats, one hundred nnd fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and seventy; pounds ef wool, lliirty-ono thousand four hundred and nim ly.eight ; bushels of peas and beaus, four hundred am! ninety ; Irish po tatoes, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and sixlv-two; sweet potatoes, one thous iami nuil -sixtv-ihrec bushels ; barley, one I hundred and eighty bushels ; buckwheat, | thirls-five thousand one hundred and filiy -1 nine ; value of orchard products, four cts.; J pounds ot Liu iter, ono hundred nnd sixty - I eight thousand eight hundred and ciglity | five ; cheese, eight hundred and seventy : ! lons of Imv, ten lhausaud five hundred and fifty -six ; bushels of clover seed, four hun dred and eighty-three ; other grass seed, three bushels ; pounds of hops, eighteen; flax one hundred ; bushels of (lax seed, seven; pounds of mnple sugar, five thous and five hundred and seventy-seven ; mo lasses, live hundred nnd twenty-seven ; pounds of beeswax and honey, five thous and two hundred and one ; value ol home "'made manufacture, seven thousand seven hundred and ono dollars. Churches, church property, <Scc., in the 1 county: Baptists, two churches; aggregate accommodations, eight hundred ; total val ue of church property, ono thousand dol lars. Friends, three churches-; aggregate accommodations, six hundred and fifty ; ; total valuo of church property, one thou sand three hundred and fifty dollars.— German Reformed, one church ; aggregate ! accommodations, five hundred ; total valuo . of church property, five hundred dollars, i Lutherans, ono church; accommodations, 1 five hundred ; totul value of church prop erty, five hundred dollars. Methodists, | seven churches; accommodations, three thousand ono hundred and thirty ; total value of property, three thousand three hundred. Presbyterians, four churches; accommodations, pne thousand eight hun dred; church property, three thousand seven hundred dollars. Roman Catholics, t two churcties; accommodations, eight hun dred ; church property, two thousand five i hundred dollars. Whole number of Churches in the coun- 1 ty, twenty ; accommodations, eight tlious-; and ono hundred nnd eighty ; total value, of church property, twolve thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. I,ATE FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC. New Yoiik, April 4—5 r. m Tho American Steamship Baltic, with Liverpool dates to the 22d nil., (being four days later than tho previous advices,) ar rived hero nt half-past 4 o clock this alter- noon. The Livorpool market for Flour and Wheat was unchanged, but corn hod de clined one shilling per quarter. Yellow Corn was quoted at 40—white 42. Tho London and Liverpool markets for Breadstuffs, wns much depressed. There was a strong desire to keep down prices in view of tho large receipts shortly ex- pected. Tho Liverpool Cotton market was one eighth lower (or all grades below fair. The sales lor two days wero only one thousnnd bales. The Liverpool Provision market had not undergone much change. Lard was dull. Pork firmer. The London Money market was more stringent. Consols closed at 00, which is a decline Trade nt Manchester was dull The Czar rejects ull the proposilipns of the Western Powers fora ponccuble settle ment of the Eastern question, and war is now certnin The decline in the English fundsis owing to the unfavorable character of secret cor respondence, in which the designs of Rus sia upon Turkey arc clearly expressed and the continued drains of bullion upon the Bank of England. There arc rumors current in London of the failure of a heavy house in Australia. Lord Gilbert Grosvenor is dead. Tin: Waii News. —The intelligence that the C'/.ar had refused all the proposi tions pf the Western powers had created much sensaiion. Tho first portion of troops from France for Turkey, left Marseilles on Sunday' evening. I There is nothing new from Constnnti-| nople. The combined fleets would soon re-enter the Black Son. Tiierbhad been no further engagements with tlie opposing armies either on sea or land. It is said that 100,000 Russian troops are on the march between Moscow and Odessa. The Inst ultimatum of tho Western Powers lias been positively rejected by tile Czar. Prince Napoleon would leave for the East on the oth of April. A Rnssiancorpsof thirty thousand troops had arrived at Odessa. Another corps of seventy thousand was about to he established at Sebastopol. The arming of France nnd England created tho wildest excitement among the Turks, and the spring will usher in war on a most gigantic scale. The Greek insurrection is considered to have been quelled. The very severe winter in Asia still checks the operations of the opposing ar mies in that quarter. The Russiunsare represented as having received large reinforcements, and other forces are on the march to join them. New Oh leans, April s. —The El I)o- 1 rado arrived Irom Aspinwall, whence she left on the tiOth with 300 passengers and 810,000 in gold dust. Sho reports that the George Law would sail lor New \ork on the 31 si, with 500 passengers and near ly SI ,000.0011 transit re. Lieut. Strain and Ins pnrty are safe. Tim Golden Gale has also arrived in eleven dnjs from Panama. Wells A: Fargo forward from Sacrcir.en to 900 lbs. gold dust. 'idle accounts from Walker’s expedition are extremely discouraging. The forcesi arc quartered at St. Vincent, nnd urc dai ly dwindling away. Several have return ed to San Francisco. California dates to the 10th little gener al news. The country was healthy, hut the rair.y season had been unusually se vere. Provisions depressed. Cincinnati, April 0. —Tho steamer; Ohio ran into tho steamer W. B. Clifton ' on the Mississippi, near Cairo, yesterduy ; 1 the latter wns sunk to the hurricane deck. Her passengers und crew were saved. The Clifton was hound from Louisville to New Orleans with a full load. The opening of the Ohio and Mississip pi Railroad to Aurora, was celebrated yes terday. There were ltlOO invited guests, which left on three trains, and had a grand bunquet at Aurora. Several speeches were delivered, and there was great rejoi cing and firing of salutes. John Mitchel and the Ikisii.— TliO; “Citizen” publishes editorially what is called “A letter to tho Survivors of the Irish in Ireland under forty years of age, signed by John Mitchel.” The pith of. this letter is, that all patriotic Irishmen ought to withhold their sympathies from! Great Britain in tho war with Russia; that j if Austria and Prussia range themselves! against the red cross of St. George, Irish-j men ought to pray for the success of their; arms. j Ameiucans in the Turkish Army.— A letter in the Boston Traveller, dated j Constantinople, March 2, says: “Twoi Americans are now in the Turkish Army, j one having the commission of a Colonel, | and the other, I think, of a Major. Tho former was a captain in the United States army. Both have gone to join tho troops at Kars, near the Georgian frontiers.” o^7” When our desires are fulfilled to tho very letter, we always find some mistake which genders them anything but what wo expected. - ' i From the Philadelphia Mail, NO CHANCE FOR PEACE IN EUROPE. With every European mail uomos para, graphs stating that thcro is a chanco of pence—negotiations, they say nro going' on, or theynre about to goon. Tho PaHs; correspondent of tho London ChronicU says the emperorof Russia is coming rouqd to a milder frame of mind,, seeing that England nnd Franco are taking active steps to induce or oblige the Sultan to'put rnyahs or Christian population on a per feet level in every respect with tho Osmam lis. This seems plnusiblo ; but it is an itn. possible thing. Tho ussent of tho Cz a r would not make it less an The Turkish Sultan could never put the: Christian on a level with the Turks. . Ip ho did, ho would have abolished the Ottoi mnn monarchy ; ho would have flung the : ascendancy in which exists tho spirit ofhis nation into tho gutter. When tho Turks coaso to regard themselves as a favored’ race und lose their civil and military fanat. icism, they are gone. And this the Po ilishah knows right well. Ho will no more consent that rayahs shall have the privi leges of the children of Ottoman, than tta Christian people of these States wouldcon sent that her free black raco should have all our privileges. And if the Czar shall consent to quit the principalities on condi. tion of such n change in tho policy of tho Porte —nnd ho may so consent in thecraf. ty nnd well-grounded hope of seeing Ab dul Mcdjid bullied by his good Western friends and the coalition broken!—the peace is never the nearer ; nay, the wari# only going to proceed in a wilder and moro terrible style thnn boforo; for then will ho invited into the argument a con summation unspeakably dreadful to all royal imaginations. Again : the late mails told us that the Greek insurrection in Albania and else where was nothing —a mere flash in the pan. But it i 3 not so ; it is a fire—smoul dering n good deal, ns yet. Tho Turkish minister of War has ordered 25,000 men to proceed to Albania nnd the Greek min ister should receive his passports nnd bo sent out of Constantinople, unless his majesty could show that he did not encour age tho late hostility of his subjects ngainst the Porte. A massacre had occurred at Lamos ; nnd a French and Turkish ship went with troops to restore order intheisl nnd. Tho people of Syria are also break ing out, seeing that tho Turkish troops are drawn away to tho Bosphorus nnd on the Danube; and the Greeknnd Latin Priests at Jerusalem are fighting like dragons about the shrines nnd ho'y places, now that the Turks are not strong enough to keep them down! Several persons have -been killdd in the strife and the Osmnnlis ; regard both parties with unspeakable con tempt. All these things show that tho Czar has not come to the Danube without having extensively provided for the dead liest issue that may arise. Tho Greek pop. ululion everywhere look to him, Such a man cannot dread war or he very anxious 1 for pence. Nowhere, on any horizon of Europe, is thcro any sign of peace; but 'everywhere the shadowofthe coming war, war embittered by recriminations, and in sults, nnd all the exasperations of religious fanaticism. THE STATE ADMINISTRATION Gov. Bigler stands before the public in vulnerable to all the assaults of the oppo sition. He is “an Israelite, indeed, in whom there is no guile.” The measures of his administration thus far have met the ap probation of tho people, and ho enters up on a fresh contest with clean hands nnd a light heart. The evidences of his increa sing popularity are multiplying daily, and the signs of tho times indicate that he will not only receive the undivided democratic vote ol'the State, but a large support from the opposition ranks. To Judge Black t!u-re will bo but a nominal opposition, all parties concurring in the opinion that he is eminently qualified for the office of Chief Justice. Col. Molt will carry « storming vote in the “tenth legion,” and receive the democratic voto entire in ev ery oilier section of the State. Thus we have every reason to be sanguine of a great nnd glorious triumph at tho State olectiou. Hamburgh Union. Tm; Liiieration of Smith O’Brien. —Tho Washington correspondent of tho Ledger, mentions the following fact rela tive to the act of clemency recently exer cised by the British Government toward Smith O’Brien, one of its political exiles in Australia: “Mr. Buchanan, in an interview with Lord Clarendon, brought to his Lordship's attention and intimated to him the proprie ty of emancipating Smith O’Brien from his condemnation and banishment to tho Australian Island. Ho had the gratifica tion, on the day succeeding, not only to find the subject, introduced into tho British, Parliament, hut also to hear Lord Palmers ton announce to the House that the Gov-, ernment had authorized his release front exile and bondage. So Smith O’Brien, whose only offending consisted in loving his country, not wisely, perhaps, but too well,, is now emancipated and redeemed. Thfk act of pure patriotism and benevolence is, characteristic of the enlightened Pennsyl- ( vania statesman.” Fatai, Result. —One of the Irishmen, shot in the affray opposite this place, on the 18lh inst., (which we noticed last week) died on the Monday following; the other one is recovering from the effects of his wounds. Tho name of the deceased was James Cohoe, nnd ho was buried W the Catholic burial ground, at Milton, on Friday last. —Lycoming Gazette,2oth ult: Boston, April 4.— : Further returns show the election of Elliott to Congress from th? first district, by fivo hundred majorjty.—' Ho is a Whig and a determined opponent, of the Nebraska bill. J, 03“ The name of Robert Tyler, Es<J.,t». mentioned in connection with the vacaßv Consulship to Lbndon. , :
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