ill pood faith wo would maintain the com
promises oi the constitution, the furl her ex
tension of the system should be steadily
and firmly resisted.
Resolved , That we have undiminished
and abiding confidence in our patriotic, en
lightened and worthy (iovernor, Wx. K
JOHNSTON, and believe that with such a
man at the head of our state affairs, tf pro
perly sustained by an honest and intel
ligent Legislature, Pennsylvania will be i
able to assume and sustain her exalted 1
station at the head of the National confed- j
eracv.
Resolved, That the thanks of this Con- i
vention are due to our efficient and indefat
igable Suite Treasurer, lion. GIDEON J.
Hall, for his patriotic anJ successful ex i
crtion in paying the interest on cur st ite ,
debt in specie, thereby sustaining the cred- '
it of the Commonwealth against the tin- ;
woiihv conduit ition of the L >cofoco lead- 1
-rs to tarnish and break it down, by pie- j
maturely drawing enormous sums of mon- |
ey from the public treasury to place in the !
hands nt their office-holders and political
pirasites, under a pietext of paying tlie
laborers on the public works.
Resolved, That we hail with joy the
successful s ruggle of the gallant Hungari
ans for their 'long lost liberties'—and deep
ly deploring the unhappy fate of Rome,
loathe and detest the treachery and incon
sistency of her Republican conqueror— I
and with our whole heart send our shout !
of good cheer to all the down trodden and
oppressed of the old world, battling against
tyrant- a id tyranny.
Resolvtd , That as the government is
in duty bound to protect the labor of the
country, so more especially should it be its
care to foster and protect the youthful la
borer, the youth of tlie country being its
most valuable possessions. We there
fore deem the law known as the Ten Ilour
Law, a proper and judicious safeguard
against oppression,
Resolved, That we heartly approve and
will sustain an Elective Judiciary, a Whig
measure, carried out by the last W'hig
Legislature.
Resolved, That in presenting to the citi- :
zens of Pennsylvania,the name of HENRY j
M. FULLER as a candidate for their suf- j
frages fur the office of Canal Commission- I
er, we have given them a man entirely :
worthy of their confidence, one who is .
well known to the people, and the entire
unanimity of this convention is tlie surest ,
criterion of the estimation in which he is
held by his fellow citizens.
Resolved, That it is the true interests !
of the people, to have gentlemen in the
Hoard of Canal Commissioners entertain- !
tng different political principles, as thereby j
the fraudulent bestowal of public money '
on party favorites, fur party purposes, will .
be prevented. W'e therefore call upon tlie
honest tax paying people of Pennsylvania,
to give their suffrages to HENRY M.
FULLER, as the best means of promo- j
ting their own interests, and securing the
public Treasury against fraudulent specu
lation.
On motion of MR, SMITH, the delegates
from Dauphin county were appointed a
committee on Finance.
Mr. COCHRAN moved that the Provident
of the Convention appoint a State Central
Committee, to consist of one from each
Congressional district, and two members
at large in addition.
After an interesting discussion on this
question, in which Messrs. Cochran, San
deison, Kutikel, Franklin, Swartzwelder,
Riddle and others participated, and in the
course of which various amendments were
submitted, the original resolution was
adopted.
A resolution of thanks to the officers,
and one directing tlie proceedings to be
published in the Whig papers at Harisburg
and throughout the State, were adopted :
when the Convention adjourned sine die,
with three cheeis for HENRY M. FUL
LER.
The President of the Convention has an
nounced the following
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
Morton McMichael, (Chairman)
George 11. Hart, James Traquair,
Thomas W. Dufficld,Joshua P. Eyre,
Caleb N. Taylor, Sand. B.Thomas,
Nathaniel Kllmaker,lsaac Bertolet,
Henry I). Maxwell, S. D. Lewis,
M. C. M ercur, fames Moor, jr.
Jno. C. Kutikel, Win. R. Morris,
Hi mon Oyster. M. Swartzwelder,
Jacob Criswell, Francis Jordan,
John Allison, J Stuart Riddle,
Satnl. P. Johnson, Wm. T. -Sanders,
Alexander Franklin, W. F. Murray,
Humphrey G. Hill, John M. Coleman,
CHOLERA AT BIRMINGHAM. — The Pitts
burg Gazette says that the ravages of
the epidemic in the town of Birmingham
are increasing rapidly, and spreading
through all ja ts of ihe place, in conse
quence of which a general panic has seized
upon the people. The stores are closed
and the stieets blocked up with vehicles re
moving families and their furniture into the
country. Fires of coal, tar, and rosin
were kept burning in the streets, to clear
the atmosphere. One day's report shows
20 deaths and 40 cns"3 under treatment,
yet the Gazette says that this is an under
estimate. The usual horrible tales are
related of bodies unhuriei, whole (ami
lies swept off, the suddenness of the at
tacks, cVc.
A VofTiiri'i. MCUDKKF.SS—A I. tile girl,
ori!\ II > ars oi age, attempted to poison a
whole family iri last Tuesday, by
put ting into the tea a quantity of alcohol,
HI which corrosive sublimate had I teen dis
solved to kill rats. The taste of the alco
hol fortunately caused the detection of the
poison, and thv juvenile criminal confessed
that she had done it. and anid that she had
learned the properties of the poison from a
eervaut. I lor desire was to poison the
family in order to get home to Iter family
iu Ohio.
ITHE GAZETTE.
LEWISTOWN, PA.
S ATI K DAY, ALGI'ST fi, 1819.
T I: R M s :
ONI! DOLLAR I*l4 It AAAUJI, j
IV ADVANCE.
For six months, To cents.
?I3~*A!! XK\V subscriptions must he paid in
advance. If the paper is continued, and not
paid within the t'ust month. $1.35 will he charg- i
ed ; if not paid ia three months, $1.50; if not
| |iaid in six months, $1.75; and if not paid in ,
! nine months, $2.00.
Delegate Elections.
mi vi 11 \i i:\Tiui
r jpllil Democratic Whig voters of Mi 111 in
.1. county are requested to meet in their re
spective townships and boroughs, at tlie usual
places ot hold ng their Delegate Elections, on
SATIK l> A V ,
t!e '2sth day of August,
to elect TWO DELEGATES from each of
sr id townships acd boroughs, to represent them
in a County Convention, to be held at the
TO IVA HALL, m tlie borough of Lewis
town, on
M O \ I> 1 V ,
the 27th clay of August,
at 2 o'clock, in the afternoon, to put in nomi
nation a Democratic V\ big County Ticket, and
do such other business as the good of the cause
may require.
By order ot the County Committee.
L. T. WATT.SON, Chairman,
j
10~ AN EXTRA, containing eight col
umns of advertisements, accompanies to-day's
Gazette.
new advertisements.
j oO~Thc DELEGATE ELECTIONS will be hold
■ this afternoon, between the hours of 2 and 4
j o'clock.
CENTRAL RAILROAD. —The first locomotive
arrived at Lewistown on Thursday afternoon i
with a train of lumber cars. The road will tie
opened for regular travel on Friday or Saturday
next.
The Lancaster Union pays the following com- i
pliment to the gentleman who has taken charge
of the Banking House recently opened here :
WILLIAM KLSSEI.L, Esq., who has for some
time past officiated as paying Teller of the Lan
caster Bonk, in which capacity he gave univer
sal satisfaction, left U9 last week to take charge
of the newly established Banking Houe of
Messrs. Longenecker, Grubb A- Co., at Lewis
town, I'a. The establishment of this Banking
House will doubtless be a gieat accommodation
to the people of that region of country, its
proprietors are gentlemen of undoubted respon
sibility and great personal worth, and its officer
will lie found in every way competent for the
prompt discharge of the new duties upon which
he is about to enter.
j
Mr. J. 11. CARTER, a lecturer ot much re
pute, delivered an excellent address on Tern- ;
perance at the Town Hall on Thursday even
ing. There is ample room here at present for j
awakening zn interest in this matter, end who- j
; ever will aid in clearing our streets of the I
J drunkenness and profanity BO frequently ex- i
! hibited, will bo entitled to the thanks of all .
good citizens.
THE TAYLOR DEMOCRATS. —The Washing
tan Union compares the Democrats who voted
for General Taylor to monkeys, and the last j
, True Democrat copies the article and calls it
! " agretable and instructive reading." We
|i t 0
j commend this fact to the men of Decatur and
; other townships who had independence enough
!to vote for the man of their chiocc. They can
i• - •
'here learn tne -estimation in which thev ore ,
i held—as long as they vote loeof<co ticnets, in
order to place loccfocos in office, tiiey are dem
ocrats, but it they dare to go contrary to the
wishes of those who desire to use them, they
are monkeys!
Johnston McKee, whoso arrest we noticed
last week, was taken to iiollidaysburg and
bound over by Justice Cox in SIOOO to appear
for trial.
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION'S. —The Conven
tions of tlie " Hunkers" and "Barnburners" of
New York, recently in session at Rome, have
adjourned without effecting a union. Still the
desire to unite was abundantly manifest on both
sides, and it is fair to assume that it will yet be ;
accomplished, even though it should be, as John
Van Buren says, if they cannot agree upon
principles, by giving tlie principles to the Barn
j burners and tlie offices to tlie llunkcrs.
REMEDY FOR THE DIAIIRIKEV.—A corres
' pondent of a city paper asks the favor of hav- j
ing the following remedy inserted, which he al
leges has never failed of curing the dinrrhrea,
so prevalent this season:
Burn a cork, and with the ashes of rork mix
some loaf sugar and grated nutmeg; and witii
the addition of a small quantity of, brandy form
; all these three ingredients into a black paste. A
teaspoonful of this mixture, or black paste, to
j lie taken several times in the couseof the day.
; In twenty four hours the most violent attack of.
j diarrhoea will bearrested—The remedy issiin- j
j pie but certain, and by checking the premoni
| lory symptoms, will prevent cholera.
LVUEREN'DEKCE IN CALIFORNIA. —A correspon
dent of the Baptist Recorder, in a communication
to that paper, lamenting over tlie " dreadful |
state of society" at San Francisco, gives the f
j following instance of the means which every i
man possesses, "to gratify the worst passions
of his nature, and speed his way to death."
He says: "On the day of our arrival a man
paid SIOO for ten bottles of champagne, (the
usual price,) and SSO for a large arm chair, in
: which he seated himself in front of a house,|
drank and swore, and sung and drank, till
bottles were emptied, and then broke, the re->.
inaining five upon the ground, his chair against
j the house, and walked oil ill all the glory of his
libetty
Iccofoeo Lying. -
The Carlisle Volunteer, a rabid and unscru
pulous lojofoco paper, in speaking ol General
Taylor's visit to Carlisle, 6ays ;
"The only effect it (Gen. Taylor's speech)
had on those who heard it, so fir as we could
observe, was pity for the u cak, but perhaps
well meaning old man who delivered it.''
On the other hand, the Democrat ol that
place, one ot the most decided locofoco papers
in the State, speaks as fuiiows :
"On Monday last, we had the honor of a
visit from our Chief Magistrate, and the recol
lection of Uucna Visla appeared to have been
revived anew by the sight of the veritable, ac
tual flesh and biood of the old hero who com
manded our troops on that glorious day Our
citizens, without distinction of party, joined in
giving Gen. Taylor a cordial and hearty wel
come—ami every one we believe was flighty
gratified ami pleased, both with the manners
and appearance of their President. What
ever we may think ot the politics ot the old
chieftain, we were certainly very much grati
fied with him as an individual. In stature he
is smaller than oui imagination had pictured
him, but Ins proportions are better, and his ad
dress much more pleasing.
We have italicised a few words in each
paragraph, in order to show the recklessness
with which a portion of the locotoco press be
lies and slanders Gen. Taylor, merely because
lie did not sutler himself to be used ns their
tool in the last presidential election. Had he
done so—had tic turned traitor to his own con
victions of right, the unprincipled demagogues
who now vent their malice against him, would
have been the first to load the eld hero with
fulsome flattery and adulation.
Knowledge for llic People.
The following statement presents the amount
of money drawn from the State Treasury by the
Canal and Railroad officers, since the 11th of
April last.
Payment on accounts of the Public Works,
from the 11th of April to the 21st ot August:
*J. P. Anderson, $38,011 03
James Turner, 18,714 00
John Maglauchiin, 29, 6G7 55
fWm. English. 175,576 92
George Biatenberger, 7,950 00
T. J. Power, 12S£0000
Canal Commissioner, 1,003 00
Thomas Bennett, 39,100 00
J. 11. Jenkins, 15,590 QU
J. Ulam, 1 4.HK) (HI
N. K. Huffnagle, 17,600 00
Wm. McPhcrson, 10,093 00
Corn. Int. linp. Fund, to pay officers, 41,000 00
Total, §530.100 10
* Amount for old debts all drawn,
f Amount lbr old debts all drawn but S2B.
M AINE. —The Legislature of Maine adjourn
ed on Wednesday, after a session of over three
months. The Homestead Exemption bill pass
ed both branches, and has been signed by the
Governor. It exempts real estate to the value
of five hundred dollars, and if a debtor is not
the owner of real estate to that Yalue, then five
hundred dollars worth of personal property to
be by him selected in addition to the specific
exemptions already provided for. The change
is not to atiect existing debts.
Mr. William II IJurke, son of Mr. Michael
Ilurkc, of Marrisburg, the well known contrac
tor, ilicd at his residence in Wyndham, N. 11.,
on Sunday evening last, of dysentery.
Aristocratic Ism manitt. —The inhumanity
of aristocracy is strikingly exemplified in an
affair which has just come to light. Last year,
when the Sultan of Turkey subscribed 4'looo
for the relief of the famine in Ire.land, he pro
posed to give 10,000, but the English Ambas
sador suggested to him to give the smaller sum,
as Queen Victoria only gave
Notices.
Sartain'* I'm in Mauazink for September
id embellished with a splendid mezzotint en
graving of Christ Weeping over Jerusalem, a
line cngnving called 'Won't you come along!'
and a dozen others, among which is a full re
port of the Fashions, including Home Toilette
and Walking Dresses, Children's Dresses,
liead Dresses, Caps, &c., &c. Terms—sin
gle copy $3, with a premium ; two copies §5;
five copies §lO. Address Jciin Sartain &
Co., Philadelphia.
CO""The August number, directed to this
office, lias probably miscarried, not having been
received. Can the publishers furnish us with
a number for that month !
M'.Makin's Model American Cciiuer is
published at §*2 per aunum, but in order to con
tinue an immense circulation tne publisher
proposes to furmeh clubs or companies on the
following terms: Four copies of the Ameri
can Courier §•">; eight copies (and one for the
agent.) $10; thirteen copies (and one for the
agent,) §ls; twenty copies (and one tor the
agent,) sjt'2!); over twenty copies at the .-ame
rates as the last; two copies of the American
Conner and Sears' or Sartains'a Magazine, I
year, $I; three copies of the American Courier
ami nne JS.ir tain's or Sears' Pictorial Magazine,
American Revolution, or Great Britain, :s(>;
six copies of the American Courier, and two '
copies of eitlier Sears' or Sartain's Magazine, !
American Revolution, or Great Britain, $lO. — 1
Address post paid, to ASDUEW M'MAKIN, NO.
141 Chestnut street, above 4th, Philadelphia,
price on that day. Jt ijrnppcd, or soul to any
! person that does not get it ground in the mill,
TWO cents per bushel storage will be charged.
If they give notice, and keep it over after the
first of August, the storage will be ONE HALF
cent per month, afterwards. The grain will
bo ciear from high water.
The subscriber will keep
; Plaster, Fifth, Salt and Groceries
| of all kinds, which will be sold low for cash to
; Farmers, by the quantity.
(O-FLOUR, MIDDLINGS, and all kinds
of Grain and Feed, will be constantly kept on
hand, and Bold low lor cash.
A. W. VV. STKRRETT.
N. B. JOHN STERRETT is authorized to
trunsact any business in the above premises us
my Agent,
j Lcwistown, April 14, I^l9—ly.
T II E C II 0 L F. RA.
The whole number of deaths by cholera in 1
the citv of New York, from the commence- j
ment of the disease uj to liie 18th insL, is 4,-
489.
The cholera is on the increoce at Newark.
X. J. On the 20th instant there were four
teen deaths in the city and three m the Alms- i
house.
The whole number of deaths in New Or
leans during the week enoing the 11th inst . ;
was 117, ot which G were by yellow fever—
none by cho\era.
The whole number of deaths in Sandusky.
Ohio, since the appearance of the cholera on
the 2<J July, i 52.78. The population of the
town is only 5.007 and, during the prevalence
of the epidemic has not been more than 3000.
MORTALITY IN N KW ORLEANS. —The number
of deaths in New Orleans, for the four weeks
ending June 30th, was 566, of which 227 were j
of cholera. Of the whole number, 433 were
whites and 133 colored. One person was hang
ed, and, with characteristic courtesy, is report- j
ed to have died of a " fracture of the neck." j
COINAGE FOR JULY. —Tiic coinage at the U.
S. Mint in Philadelphia, during the month of ;
July last, was as follows:—Gold coinage sl,-'
098.(120, silver $23,000; making a total of £l,-
126,690.
'
POPULATION or CHIC AGO. —The census of Chi- :
cagov. as recently taken and sliows a population
of 22,850. The population in August, 1848 was
19,724, making a difference in favor of 1849 of
3,220.
OREGON*. —There are six candidates fur the
j office of delegate to Congress from Oregon. It
is a place worth having, as the mileage alone
trill amount to about Sld.OOd or >12,000 !
HEALTH OF PHILADELPHIA. —No cases of cho
lera having occurred for some days, the Board
of Health has in consequence resolved to dis
' continue its sittings.
The Bath Tribune says that a child of Dr. ,
Shaw, two years of age, died on Saturday last,
after a sickness of six hours, from eating cobalt,
which was prepared for flies. One incident j
connected with her death, says the Tribune,
, was affectingly beautiful. When her eyes be
gan to grow dim with death, she evidently fan
cied it was night, and she was goingasieep ; and
she died with her customary "good night, mam
ma, good night, mamma" many times repeated,
trembling on her lips.
PITTSBI KOH. August 21.
, Mr. dunning, employed as hend clerk in the
house of Messrs. Lvon, Shorb &. Co., commit
ted suicide last evening by hanging himself to
his bedpost. Mr. G. leaves a young and in
teresting family. No cause is nssgned for the
commission of the deed.
THE DEVBY DEFALCATION*. —In the Cnited
States District Court of this city, yesterday in
the case of the United Stales vs. Nathaniel Den
by, late Navy Agent at Marseilles, France, who
is charged with being a defaulter to the govern
ment, the defendant confessed judgment for the
full amount claimed, with interest, being $159,-
493 67. Mr. Denby still remains in custody,
and is quite ill, so much in fact that he did not
appear in Court, and judgment was confessed 5
by his attorney. He is understood to be con
fined to lus bed.— Dullj .Vctcj, August 21.
! _ '
BEWARE or COCVTERFEITS. —Ten's on Bank
of Pittsburgh—s's altered from l's on Bank of
Lexington, Ky.—l's on State Bank of Ohio—s's
I'nton Bank of Massillon—3's City Bank of
Clcaveland—3's Franklin Bank of Zanesville —
10's N. W. Bank of Virginia, at Wheeling; all j
new and likely to deceive.
The Alexandria Gazette describes a bungling j
counterfeit of a $lO note of the Exchange Bank
of Va., payable at Alexandria, which has made
its appearance. The President's name of the
Branch at Alexandria is omitted, the faces of
Washington and .Marshall are omitted, in the
place of which are inserted two 10's, and the 5
engravings on the margin, of a railroad and ca
nal, are also omitted. The whole appearance
is entirely dilfereut from the genuine, note.
We have been shown, says the Pittsburgh
American, anew counterfeit $2 note on the ;
Seneca county Bank, N. J., dated Waterloo, j
September 4, 1848, which is not noticed in any j
of the detectors. It may be detected by its
bad engraving.
Counterfeit 82 bills on the State Bank of
Indian® are reported. The bill is marked let
ter 8., dated January 1, 1848, paybale at the
Tcrre Haute Branch; G. Preston Cashier, and
J. Morrison, President. The engraving is
coarse, and the signature lithographed.
Counterfeit -Ts on the New Haven Bink—a
very close imitation of the genuine—have
mule their appearance. Vignette, a spread ea
' glr. ships, &c , n miniature pictureot the' First
Sabbath in Quinnipnick' on the right end.—
In the counterfeit the head of the eagle is
; quite indistinct, while in the genuine it is
plain.
I!nntip.2ilon County.
The Whigs of Huntingdon assembled in coun
ty convention last week and nominated the ful-
lowing ticket :
assembly —A. K. Cornyn, of Huntingdon.
Treasurer —John A. Doyle, of Shirley.
Commission r—lsaac Pcjghtul, of Penn.
.luditor —Thomas Fisher, of Huntingdon.
The locofocos met on the same day and nom
inated their ticket:
.Issembly —David Duff.
Treasurer —Jacob Miller.
Commissioner —Gilbert Chcny.
.luilitor —John Carl.
THE COURT. —The attendance at our Court
last week was large. The entire week was oc
cupied in the trial of criminal causes. Henry
Heltrigbt whose arrest we noticed some time
since, on the charge of stabbing his brother,
George llelfright, with a pitch-fork, resulting
in his death, was acquitted. The case was
carefully investigated, and all the evidence
clearly proved that Henry acted on the defen
sive, and that George received the fatal wound
while violently attacking Henry's house, at
tempting to enter, and threatening Henry that
he would kill him. Messrs. Stewart and Orbi
son conducted the prosecution, and Messrs.
Qpmpbell, Scott and Benedict the defence.—
Huntingdon Journal.
It is stated that the sum of $93,000 was
paid by Messrs. Stewart, dry goods deal
ers, Broadway, New York, on Friday nml
Saturday last, for duties on goods entered
at the custom house.
General Taylor's Progress.
The hero of Buena Vista continues to
receive enthusiastic receptions at all the
towns he visits.
Gen. Taylor was welcomed at Pittsburg
bv a speech from Walter Forward, E?q
The General in his reply alluded thus to
the Pennsylvania volunteers and our S'ate :
Sir, vou have kindly alluded to inv ser
vices. They have been, for the most part,
the services of the camp, and in the
achievements gained by our arms, I claim
but n small share.
They are mainly due to the strong arms
and bold hearts of our regulars and volun
teers, in which the citizens of Pennsylva
nia held no inconsiderable p.irt in tbe
memorable war against the Mexican gov
eminent (Loud cheer? )
The operations of the American soldiers
in Mexico, and among them the volunteers
of Pennsylvania, have convinced the world
that thev are equal not only to defend their
own country, but to carry successfully
their arms into the country of an enemy,
and to maintain their position wherever
their banners may be unfurled. (Immense
cheering.)
Put, sir, while I sppak with pleasure and
with pride of the scenes that occurred in
Mexico, I am emphaicailv a man of peace ;
and 1 would here observe that the great
difficulty with our people is to restrain
them from military enterprise, whether in
self- WTencp, or in carrying war into the
enemv's country. (Rapturous cheering.)
Although 1 have been bred to the pro
fession of arms, I say again that 1 am a
mail of peace. I am anxious at all times
and under all circumstances, that every
possible means should be tried—everv
honorable means adopted, before war
should be resorted to. (Vociferous cheer
iug.)
Sir. 1 have entered your State to see the
people of Pennsylvania, as their Chief Ma
gistrate—to see the whole people Whigs,
Democrats, and Natives —without regard
to parly, and so tar as 1 have passed
through your Sta'e, I have endeavored to
proceed without escort without pomp;
and my wish has been to meet you as a
plain republican man. (Loud cheers.)
Sir, I must say that I feci myself perfect
ly at home with the people of Pennsylva
nia. (Immense cheering.)
I have now had an opportunity of pas
sing through some of the Slates and seeing
their mercantile, their mining, and manu
facturing operations ; and I hope 1 may be
allowed to say that I am not trespassing
the laws of propriety, when 1 devote a little
leisure to acquiring such information as I
can obtain by a visit to some of the promi
nent places of the Union where such infor
mation is to be obtained. (Cheers.)
Ir all matters of this sort, 1 wish to see
and to judge for myself. (Great cheering.)
He left Pittsburgh on Tuesday last for
Beaver, Erie, <kc.
THE A nDtcTioN" CASE AT NEW OR.
LEAMS. —Something serious may yet grow
out of this case, unless the Governor of
Cuba should be able to show that Garcia
left this country of his own accord. The
last accounts from New Orleans state that
the Spanish Consul had been held to bail
in the sum of SSOOO, to answer the charge
of abducting Rey from that city. The
Washington Republic devotes a long ar
ticle to the subject, in the course of which
it says :
We do not hesitate to say, from a pe
rusal of all the evidence, that there has
been more peijury and villainy disclosed
on this trial than ordinarily meets the eve
or ear of any Old Baily lawyer. It can
scarcely admit of doubt, that bribery to an
immense amount has been employed to
suborn witnesses and induce them to for
swear themseles.
We cannot believe in the innocence of
the Spanish Consul. The weight ofcred- :
ible testimony satisfies us that Garcia
was liaudulentiy, if not forcibly kidnapped
and carried on board the Mary Ellen. We
doubt the innocence both of the captain
and crew of that schooner. We believe
that Garcia, who left New Orleans with
out a single change of clothes, was put on
board the American vessel, Andrew Ring, '
nominally for quarantine, but really lor a
prison; that vessel being all the time kept
under the guns of a Spanish man of war.
so that she could not possibly escape out
of the harbor with Garcia on board; while
the fact ot his performing quarantine in
an Amercan vessel was but a trick of the
crafty Spaniard who governs that Island, j
to induce the people ol'ihe United States
to suppose that Garcia was free. We
have no doubt the confession of Garcia to
our consul, Mr. Campbell, in the presence
of the port,Capttain that he came voluntari
ly Iroin Nmv Orleans, was an acknowledg
ment extorted by fear of death, and that he
has long since retracted it, if he has not
gone to his grave. We learn fiom Ha
vana that the captain general has refused :
permission to Mr. Campbell to visit Gar
cia in prison, and when we last heard
Iroin him he wus confined on board a Span
ish mail of war.
Mr. Hdward Hughes, a well known cit
izen of Allegheny county, Fa-, of the turn
of Wood Hughes, Brewers, of Pitts
burg, was found drowned near the landing
\ l ice of Jones' ferry in that city on the
lDth mst IPs gold watch and some 9120
in money was found on his person, which
precludes the snspicion that he had been
robbed and thrown in the river.
An official report of the Camden and
Amboy Kailroad Company states that du
ring a period of 17 years past, the number
ol persons killed on the roads of ihut coin
puny was 20. Upon all the rnilioads in
Massachusetts there were killed, in 1847,
forty-four persons; and in 1848, fifty-six
' persons.
THE MEX CAN PKTUCOC —The N A .,
al intelligencer contains an eUtJ,! . '
r i . • r.v
animation of the subject of the l' r( , t(JCri
the Mexican treaty, which, no doubt
presses the views and concht,„. n( , f , Y '
present Administration. J | ie \j ' a
government has shown a
consider the Protocol as a key ur
the const ruction of th a provisions
Treaty of Peace. 'Plut such a view'"- •'!
is not justified eidier by the facia o f°,
case or by the law mid usage of nan.,, '
is abundantly shown by this expos,xi™*'
- The full.-wing is a summary of tj ie '„
suits to which tiie article referred to ■'
rives, after a full investigation of the w'h
matter :
1. That our commissioners had nop-,*
er to negotiate on any 0 f the points
which the Protocol refers, except as to the
mode of payment of the twelvo million,'
on which, however, they could conclude
nothing until the treaty of peace as amen i
ed on our part, hud been latified by Mr\
ico.
2. That the explanations and assurances
given by our Commissioners to the Mex
can Government are indirect opposition t„
the sense of the treaty of peace, as clearly
and unequivocally shown by its term?. '
3. That the treaty was ratified by the
Mexican Government, without any pii,ie.> t
exception, or objection whatever, in it^ act
of ratification, to any part of the treaty.
4. I hat the ratification was given bv
the Mexican Government with the lull aud
certain knowledge, on its part, of the exact
ness of the first and second of iho aboru
propositions.
5. That the Mexican Government con
firmed its assent to the treaty bv immedi.
ately afterwards accepting the first insta..
men* of three millions of dollars, made
payable to it by the United States under
the tweltfh article, and by other acts ia ac
cordance with other stipulations of tns
same.
If these propositions be admit.ed— and
no grounds can be seen fur impugning any
one of them in any way—it follows neces.
sarily ihnt Mexico is bound to the observ.
arice of the treaty in all respects, by everv
principle of national law and national hon
or : and the United States are equally jus
tified in disregarding the interpretations to
which their Commissioners assented, ta
signing the Protocol without any power or
authority to do so, and in express contra
vention of their instructions.
THE CINCINNATI DEFALCATION.— The
question of Mr. COLLINS' defalcation is
still discussed in the papers. While it is
contended by the Washington Union and
other democratic prints that the late Col
lector is not a defaulter, and that he will
be able to satisfy ail claims of the Govern
ment, it is maintained on the other hand,
by the Cincinnati Gazette and Atlas, that
there is an ascertained deficit of some
$93,000, after taking into the account all
the funds in his possession or deposited ia
bank to ins credit. It is stated that some
$60,000 of merchants' bonds, notes, Ac.,
are also held by Mr. Collins, which, if ad
mitted into the account by the government,
would reduce the figures against him to
813,000. But as a matter of course the
Government declines to receive these
vouchers in payment of the balance due
Irom the Colletcor. Such a course of pro
ceeding was evidently never contemplated
by the Revenue Law Mr. Secretary WALK
KR procured to be passed, the chief merit
claimed for which was, that it required the
duties to be paid in cash, or the goods of
the merchant to be warehoused until all
claims of the Government were satisfied.
Such bonds and notes then, taken without
the sanction of the law and at the Collec
tor s own risk, are not and certainly ought
not to be received as money from the reti
ring Collector. The Government must re
quire the actual money, or the goods upon
which the money is due, which, under the
law, the Collector is presumed to hold as
collateral security lor the payment of tit#
duties accruing thereon.
SOCIETY UPSET IN CALIFORNIA
i There appears to be what the French call
a bouleversement —a complete overturn—
of the usual arrangements ofsociety,at the
gold region; for a specimen of which see
the following extract from a San Francisco
letter in the Boston Courier :
•Sinco my arrival 1 have seen a lieuten
ant of the navy and a New York merchant
dragging a hand cart, at an ounce per load;
a few da\ s since I met a professor in one
of your first colleges, driving his ox team
hauling emigrant 'traps to the dtgouis.'" l
S'dt) fur one hundred pounds. A (eorg' l
planter cooks my salt pork, and does the
flap jacks brown; a printer from the Pu'4-
yutie office keeps my books, andtwoyoun?
gentlemen from jobbing houses ir. IVsrl
street take care of the mutes, haul lumM
and act as porter in the store; eacli fro" 1
£lO to 1< per day, with board. In Calif#'
nia all labor, and one is daily fumble
with innumerable sources of amusenie#
by meeting old friends in such conned
employment. Imagine our friend •
artist, with buckskin trousers red flannel
shirt, and California hat, peddling newspa
pers : 'Sun, Herald and Tribune, si f
latest dates from New York, onlyhrodob
lars each.*
Fhe artist spoken of is doubtless J-
Osgood, whose excellent letters to d<'
JNcie York Tribune confirm this as '
part ol his occupation, at a California re*
mumeriting rate, of course.
MARRIED,
On Tuesday morning last, by the Rev-
Rosenberg, Jons M. BOWMAN, of Cambria
tv, to Miss CATHARINE A., daughter of P"* "
Spaulding, of this place.
.May a long and prosperous life, uatiisferU
by the storms and shadows that so often liu
cloud human affairs, be the lot of the }—b
cptijilc noticed above,