Jnieitigencer & Journal.
Lancaster, August 10,1852.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR
FOR PRESIDENT:
. FRANKLIN PIERCE,
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
L. WILLIAM R. KING,
OF ALABAMA
R CANAL COMMISSIONER,
ILLIAM SEARIGHT ,
OF FAYETTE COUNTY
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
SENATORIAL.
OBOE W. WOODWARD, Of Luzerno
izeorr MICANDLEse, of Allegheny.
ADDITIONAL DISTRICT.
BERT P.arrEasort, of Philadelphia
ammra
•,ter Logan, 10. H. C. Eyer,
•0. 11. Martin, 14. John Clayton,
hn Miller, 16. Isaac Robinson,
W. Bodine, 16. Henry Fetter,
McCay, Jr., 17. James Burnside,
Apple, IS. Maxwell McCaslin,
I Strick.and, 19. Joseph McDonald,
braham Peters, 20. W. S. Colahan,
yid Fister, 21. Andrew Burk,
. E. James, 22. William Dunn,
.hn Mcßeynolds, 23. J. S. MtCalmont,
1 Damon, 24. George R. Barret.
County Committee 'Fleeting.
The Democratic Democratic County Committee of Lancaster
Count' will meet at the public house of J. G.
Leber l r in E. King Street, in this City, on Wed
nesday, the 18th of August, 1862, at 1 o'clock,
P. M. Punctual attendance is requested, as busi
ness of .importance will be laid before the body.
WILLIAM MATHIOT,
Chairman.
trhe Committee consists of the following gen
tlemen :
.dddnistown—John Echternacbt.
Baal—W m. Finkel.
Brecknotk...-David M'Colm.
Carnaroon—Dr. B. F. Bunn.
Coirrain—Abraham D. Whiteside.
Ccialico East—Col. Andrew Ream.
Cocalico West—William Bechtel.
Conestoga—S. S. W elah.
Cotimbia—William Brown, Peter A. Kimburg.
Coriay—John Filbert.
Citit Lancaster—N. W. Ward—Jno H. Lach
man, Jacob Weaver.
S. IV. Ward—Col. W S Amweg, Jacob F Kautz.
N. E. Ward--H. B. Swarr, James L. Reynolds.
S. V. Ward—Henry Wilhelm, Edward Morton.
/hi:more—Robert W. Moore.
DotSegal East—Jacob S. Roath..
-Donegal West—John Grose.
211Cabethtown Bar—Benjamin F. Bear.
Elilabeth—Lewis It. Hibschman.
Emil—Anthony Carpenter.
Earl East—George Hochman,
Earl West—John Forney.
Ephrata—Jacob L. Gross.
Fulton—Samuel Wicks.
Henipfield East—Henry Imhoff, jr.
Hempfield West—Dr. A. K. Rohrer.
Lampeter East—Henry W. Gara.
Lampeter West—George Raub, Sr.
Lancaster Twp.—Benjamin Huber.
Leaeock—John L. Lightner.
Legeock Upper—Dr. A. S. Bare.
Little Britain—William Hays, jr.
Mtirtic-;-Dr. George W. S. Smithson,
Mdrietta—Dr. James Cushman.
Mitint Joy Bor.—Joseph Porter.
Mdunt Joe/W.—John Sheaffer.
Mdnheim Bor.--Benjamin Donaven.
Minheim Twp.—Benjamm C. Workman
Mcinor—Abraham Peters. '
Penn—David M. Eberly.
Paradise—Daniel Girvin.
Rdpho—Joseph Masterson.
Sadabury—Robert Steele.
Salisbury—William F. Baker.
Strasburg Bor.—W. F. S. Warren.
Strasburg Twp.—Jobu Raub, Sr.
Werwiek—Henry Kreider.
Washington Bor.—John A. Brush.
The Angina Elections
Hay upon the whole, retulted gloriously for the
Democracy. Although the returns are not yet
complete, sufficient have been received to warrant
us in saying that our friends have triumphantly
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carried ARKANSAS, lOWA, NORTH CARO
LINA, and MISSOURI.
Manor Townslip.
A a vote taken amongst the harvest hands of
Mr. i C. Habecker, in Manor township, Lancaster
county, during the last month, the vote stood 12
tor .PIERCS-0 for SCOTT.
HT The Whig delegate Elections, on Saturday,
resulted in favor of ,the Silver Grey wing of the
party. In this City, heretofore their stronghold, the
Wocilly Heads were beaten by immense majorities
in eery ward. The contest was principally for
the Congressional nomination, and ISAAC E. HESS
TEE/ Esq., will without doubt be the nominee. Mr.
H. is a clever, gentlemanly and talented young
man, and, apart from his politics, will make a very
good member of Congress.
Irr The general health of our City is as good as
it usually is at this season of the year. The three
eases of supposed Cholera which occurred dn West
Orange street ten days ago, have not been succeed
by.sMy other similar attacks, and all apprehension
on the part of our citizens that we were about to
be visited with that terrible disease, is at an
end — I at least for the present.
Irr The Pole, MATH/A8 SHATTINBILI, convicted
of the murder of the boy Lehman, was hung at
Philadelphia, on Friday last. He made a codes
8/011Ttio the attending Priest, in which he charges
. the urder upon Johann Kaiser, who has not yet
hea l ! arrested, and alleges that he and his brother
Blaine are both innocent of the dreadful crime.—
He also denied having made any confession such as
bag been going the rounds of the newspapers. The
day for the execution of - }kates Stu:waist, who
. was also convicted, has not yet been named by the
Go • ernor.
R7' Col. Tuomss H. Beams is elected to Con
gress] from the St. Louis district. Although past
three-store and ten years of age, Old Bullion will
make himself heard in the House of Represents
tiveis as be did during, his thirty years service in the
lEPThe Cotner Stone of the new English Cath
oli Church, in this City, was laid with appropriate
ceremonies on Saturday last. Several Clergymen
from a distance were in attendance. The Address
was delivered by the Very Reverend Dr. J. MCA" ,
WT, President of Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmits
burg, Md. A large concourse of people witnessed
the ceremonies, and a liberal collection in aid of
the building was taken up.
Mr We have occupied our first page with the
able and lucid statement of the Canal Commie
sinners, and bespeak for it a careful and attentive
ET Saxon E. Hanna, Esq., of Juniata county,
is Strongly recommended for the Democratic nom
ination for Congress in that Distriot. Hench is a
'young gentleman of superior talents, a thorough
go ng Democrat, and would do honor to himself
ani his constituents, but the District is so everlast
ingly Whig, made up as it is of Juniata, Franklin,
Bedford, Fulton and Adams counties, that it would
bai l next thing to a miracle for any body but a red
mnuthed, out-and-out Federalist, to be elected. We
sli i 1 :11, therefore, in all human probability, have to
d pus with Mr. H's services in the next Con.
vess, and right don sorry are we for it.
,tt Galphin of Hideous Mien!
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The telegraphic despatches from Washington
contain the following in rderence to the Tehaunte
pec treaty :
"As a new phase in the Garay matter, it may be
mentioned that Mr. Rargoushaslust filed with this
governmenti claim for dainages arising out of the
refusal of Mexico to recognize the validity of the
Garay title, amounting to the snug little sum of
about FORTY MILLIONS of Dollars."
Here i3a Galphin Mexican claim of most hid
eous mien!!! i
This is one of the ,most stupendous and extraor
dinary claims that has eve. been presented to the
view of the American people!!
Forty Millionii of Dollars,
claimed by Mr. Harious iti consequence of his loss
of the Tehauntepec grantli I
We hear some one' ay that this Sutrageous claim
will ntver be recognized o allowed. That will be
true, if the Federal government is brought back to
the republican tack by thelelection of Gen. Frank
lin Pierce, and the expulsion from power of the
present Galphin robbers.
But how will it be if their reign is perpetuated
by the election of Gen. Sott? The country has
witnessed sad and hlumiliiting evidences of the
manner in which these claims were managed under
Gen. Taylor and Mr. Fillirlore's administrations.
If George W. Crawford, ,vbille Secretary of War,
could act as claim agent tor one of the most Us.
heard of and outrageous claims ever presented
against the American gove nment, and receive over
$BO,OOO for his services in getting that
claim passed through the Cabinet—if Thomas Ew
ing could urge and obtain ;Ile passage of the Ewing
and Chickasaw claims ' b I which he received near
$50,004 for his services while Secretary of the
Interior—ii Tom COrwin, the present Secretary of
the Treasury, could becorrr the agent and attorney
for the celebrated Gardner claim, which the gov
ernment now believe, was Paid on forged papers, and
receive over $99,000 ft his services ; and if all
these persons now support Gen. Scott so zealously
and warmly, is it not fair to presume that they
would engage in boring thrhugh this forty mil
lion claim, immediately ) on being installed into
power, on the same terms that they engaged in'the
Galphin, Gardner, and other claims, viz : their being
paid one-half for their', services. ..
Then the only way for }he people to prevent this
great wrong from being perpetrated, is to elect
Franklin Pierce, whose hole lite is a guarantee
that he will administer the i government economical
ly and honestly, and put anhend to all future Galphin
robberies upon the public Freasury of the nation.—
Investigator.
The Hudson River Calamity
The whole of the wreck of the Henry Clay has
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been removed but no more bodies were found, and
it may be presume , tl tha i t the entire extent of the
calamity is now known. The jury summoned by
the coroner at Yonkers laving heard all the evi
dence adduced in relatioU to the occurrence, have
returned a verdict, which, after recapitulating the
names of the dead and thcircumstances connected
with the burning of the boat, concludes as follows:
The Jury find that on the 28th of Ju1y,1852, the
persons described as having been found dead at Yon
kers were pasSengers ; on bbard the Henry Clay, that
she took fire and was consumed, and that J. K. Si
mons, one of the persons, was burned to death, and
that all the other persunh, either by reason of the
shock occasioned by 'the 9ollision of the boat on the
land, were thrown Overard, or that in order to
save themselves from being burned, cast theinselves
overboard and were drowned in the Hudson river.
That on the above named day the Henry Clay left
Albany, with passefigeti about 7 o'clock in the
morning; that Capt. John; F. Tallman was Captain
and part owner; that Thomas Collier was also one
of the owners, Jas. L. Jes'sup was, clerk, Edw. Hub
bard was pilot, Jas.: Hubbard assistant pilot, John
Germain was engineer, Chas. Merrit assistant engi ,
neer; that a certain young man (whose name is un
known to the Jury,) but who was employed to tend
the bar of the steambobt, and that these persons
were on board at the time, and had each of them
part of the charge of the lsaid boat 7 and that for the
purpose of excelling in sPeed a certain other steam
boat called the Armenia,lfor the purpose of increas
ing the speed of the Henry Clay, created an unusual
and unsafe quantity of steam, and in so doing made
excessive fires, and did Rot use ordinary prudence
in the management of said fires; and, although often
being remonstrated Withby different passengers, did
a long time continue these excessive fires and in
consequence thereof, , thrpugh their culpable negli
gence and criminal recklessness, the Henry Clay did,
at 15 minutes after 3 o , flock, P. M., take fire, and
all the deaths of the:passengers afore described en
sued;—so the Jurors say, that the deaths of all the
said persons, and of: each of them, were the result
of an act perpetrated by the said ohn F. Tallman,
Thos. Collier, James L. Jessup, James Ellmendorf,
Edward Hubbard, 4ohr I Germaine, and said bar
keeper.
The act was imminently dangerous to others, and
evinced a depraved rninfi, regardless of human life,
although it was perpetiated without any premedi
tated design to effect the death of any particular in
dividual.
The Jury were five hours in deliberating on their
verdict.
A Chapter on War.
I. And it came to piss in these days that there
arose a mighty commotion in the camp of the en
emy, and all Whigdom in the "Old Guard " was
convulsed from centre to circumference by reason
of the fierce warfare between the two divisions of
their army—the Silver Greys and Wooly Heads—
both striving for the mastery.
2. The first division of the grand army was led
into action by Ise. surnamed Heister, descended
from a noble family, ant in possession of all the
influence that wealth, and superior talents could
confer. Now Isaac is yet an inexperienced youth;
but, like David, of old, pith sling and pebble he
has boldly encountered the giant of the opposition,
and bids fair to get the mastery over him.
3. The second division was marshalled and led
into action by an old , warrior, who had done signal
service to the Whig party in the celebrated Buck
shot War, and whose famous retreat during that
memorable campaign has nothing to equal it in
history, if we except,' perhaps, the retreat of Xeno
phen through Persia with his ten thousand Greeks.
This great Woolly Head Chief—Thaddeus of War
saw—looked with ihelfable contempt upon the
youthful Isaac, and direited his legions to capture
and put him in torturesltor his daring presumption.
4. But Isaac, nothing ! daunted by the great skill
and enlarged experience of his wily antagonist,
was active and energetih, and withal had the repu
tation of being the equal of Thaddeus in strategy.
He had beside an abbndance of what has been
usually called the " iinews of war," and he lav
ished it among his toltowers with an unsparing
hand.
5. After a variety of, skirmishing by small de
tached parties of the opposing forces, unde-.the
command of subordinaies, the first regular :action
took place on Saturdai the 7th of August, in the
year of grace 1852. The fight which commenced
in the centre in a short: time extended along the
whole line, and had becCtine general, when night put
an end to the cornbat and both armies proceeded to
the solemn task of buriting their dead and provid
ing for the comforte,Of the wounded. Inasmuch
as it was a drawn batik, both parties claim the
advantage in this first' trial of strength ; but the
most reliable accounts eceived by deserters from
the field of conflict repiesent the advantage entire
ly on the side of the ;Silver Greys, whose com
mander, it is said, con4ucted the battle with con
summate skill and :prudence, whilst his opponent
was all the time seeking to effect a safe retreat for
his army.
A serious defection, too, had occurred in the
Woolly Head Division just before entering upon
this preliminary trial pf strength, in the desertion
of one of their most,experienced and popular Gen..
crabs, who surrendered' his whole brigade to the
foe. This untoward circumstance somewhat dis
pirited Thaddeus, and hence his indecision and the
dubious result of the contest.
8. Both armies are now preparing for the final
struggle, which, from Certain indications, it is sup
posed will take place en to-morrow. The conflict
will be a desperate and bloody one, as it is ascer
tained that both commanders have \ determined to
risk all upon the result, and will neither give nor
take quarter. The itsult will be recorded in the
chronicles of Whiggery.
137- Spurious Quarter Eagles are in circulation
in New Orleans, andso well executed, the True
Delta states, as to hay , been received and paid at
some, of the banks in that city. They are made
of steel, and covered 'pith gold, ring well, are of
the right superfine, and thickness, but are deficisn
in weight.
General Pierce
The following description al his personal appear
ance, character, &c. &c., we take from the Concord
(N. H.) correspondence of the New York Herald:
FaLax Praacx, as his personal friends call him
—and their name is legion—is above the middle
height, erect, well built, though not very muscular,
of a large, intellectul, handsome, and benevolent
cast of countenance. He is one of those men whom,
when you see once, you never forget. His face is
full of character. He is 48 yeais of age, and looks:
as old as he is, though evidently hale and hearty.—
His hair which appears to have been originally
brown, is streaked with iron grey, and his com
plexion is fair, without any red. When 1 first saw
him, yesterday, it was at the railroad depot, where
he had just left the cars, having been to Wolf boro',
on the exquisite lake Winnipisseogee, with its 365
islands, to show some friends from the South the
scenery, and to procure them comfortable quarters.
Crowds of strangers are every day visiting him, on
their way to the lakes and the White Mountains.
He is also besieged with politicians from N. York
and all quarters.
I afterwards met the General at his office. He.
is a lawyer in good practice, but he is not rich, and
from his disposition is never likely to be so. His i
office is on the second floor of a plairf three story
building, in the main street. The Patriot newspa
per office, a news room, and the Selectmen's cham
ber, are all in the same building. The office is
plainly furnished, but has a large well chosen li
brary. His partner, Mr. Milnot, who is a young
man, appeared to respect him very much. When
I was there, an immense pile of letters and papers
arrived for him, and among them a letter addressed
to him as "the democratic nominee for the Presi
dency," upon which he observed to me facetiously
that the Writer thought he was so obscure that he
could not be found unless with that designation.—
He receives many curious letters.
Gen. PIERCE resides in the south end of the city,
in the main street, in a neat, though plain, two sto
ry wooden cottage, where he boards with a Mrs.
Williams, whose name is on the hall door. The
house overlooks the Merrimac, and commands a
beautiful prospect. Mrs. Pierce is a lady of ele
gant manners, and highly accomplished. She is of
a respectable whig family. Gen. Prauck has a son
about 10 or 12 years of age. His sister resides at
the family homestead, in Hillsborough, in this
State. She is the widow of Gen. McNeill, who
fought at Lundy's Lane, and was crippled from a
wound he received in that battle. He died about
two years ago. She has a pension from govern.
ment. Gen. PIERCE has no relation in Concord.
Having seen a statement in the N. Y. Tribune—
a paper that has been always assailing the General
even before his nomination, as well as since—hav
ing seen a statement in that veracious journal that
FRANKLIN PIERCE was an aristocrat, I was prepared
to find something in his personal appearance that
gave that impression at first sight; if not in his ap
pearance, at least in his manners or bearing, or in
some shape that would afford ground or plausibility
for the assertion. In every particular I found him the
very reverse—nothing of the aristocrat about him,
in any shape or form. It is true there is something
noble in his face, but it is nature's nobility. In two
minutes after you meet him you feel perfectly at
home. He is dignified, gentlemanly, and quiet in
his manners, big affable, warm, and cordial. He
is not dandified in dress, though neat and clean—
very unlike Horace Greely. His simple and re
spectable attire is in keeping with his unaffected
manners and his straightforward character. In
fact, his intelligent, manly countenance, so full of
good sense, forbids the idea of any approximation
to the fop on one side, or the sloven on the other.
He wore, when I saw him, a dark coat with velvet
collar, a summer vest, of a light color, and panta
loons of the shepherd's plaid pattern. He had on
a white beaver hat, with black crape, being in
mourning for his brother, his wife's brother and a
child. He enters into conversation freely—has
nothing mysterious—nothing reserved in his man
ner—nothing that tells you he is uncandid, or keeps
back
-anything. He is truly " frank," by nature as
well as by name. Yet, while you feel the highest
moral certainty that you are talking to an honest,
straightforward man, you feel at the same time
convinced that he is no fool, but on the contrary, a
wise and sensible man. A shrewd and penetrating
intelligence twinkles in his clear blue eye, which
together with a set of good humored features, gives
him a very interesting expression of countenance.
He has a tine forehead, and the prevailing impres
sion his face gives you is that of an unclouded, high
intellect, sound sense, mingled with benevolence,
and having the animal passions in complete sub
'ection.
The absurd slander of the N. Y. Tribune, of his
being a drunkard or a sot, is refuted in every line
of his countenance. No man ever yet was a drunk
ard with such a face as that of FRANKLIN PIERCE.
With his neighbors, who know him best, his char
acter for sobriety, and every description of moral
conduct, stands blameless and respectable in the
very highest degree. All classes here—whips as
well as democrats—are indignant at newspapers at
a distance propagating such barefaced, infamous
lies against him. The whig local papers, though
warmly oppOsed, never dream of making such ac
cusations. In truth, if he is liable to any imputa
tion on that score, it is that he is over staid in his
habits--by far too much so for most New York
folks, or for the people of the South. Were it not
for the genial sunshine of a warm heart that lights
up his countenance, he might be mistaken for a ri
gid Puritan, a Quaker, or bold water drinker.
His accent, though that of an educated gentle
man, is not refined to the highest degree, nor are his
manners, though bland, those of an exquisite or a
dancing master. He is not as highly finished as
fine marble—he is rather like the polished granite
of his native hills—such an exterior as befits the
sturdy materials. He is loved and respected by all,
and it is said of him, with great truth, that it is
impossible to come in contact with him without
becoming his friend.
137" The medical editor of the Express denies
that the two or three cases of sickness alluded to in
our last, were Cholera, and says they "were only a
severe type of another disease," and as proof positive
in the matter has procured a certificate from Dr.
Mtarcirir ! to that effect—although neither of th - e
distinguished gentlemen ever saw the cases alluded
to. We are rejoiced in being able to chronicle this
information from Doctors Pearsol and Markley, who
have doubtless made the pathology of the disaese
iheir careful study; still, in our old-fashioned way,
we prefer the opinion of the attending Physician ,
Dr. MIMILENBERG, to the learned gentlemen who
profess to be able to tell what disease a patient died
of, although they may not have been within half a
mile of the place! and had no opportunity of ad
ministering a gallon or two of their " Vegetable
Emetic," to the sufferer.
But, we are always thankful for small favors; and
although the two learned Doctors deny that either,
of the cases referred to was Cholera, they very
kindly tell the public that "there is evidently a
choleratic miasm in the atmosphere," and advise
our good citizens to "observe much caution in their
diet and regime (I)" What the editor means by the
latter word, in this connexion, we are at a loss to
conceive; and our hope is that, for the future, when
proffering advice to the mass of the people, he will
lay aside his French and give us the plain, old
fashioned English or German.
ID' The Pittsburg Chronith of Tuesday makes
mention of a carrier on some morning newspaper,
whose unfaithful " better half" has decamped with
money to the amount of $l3OO. The Union has
since learned that the lady took away from her
protector $l6OO, $3OO of which was left in her pos
session for safe keeping, and $l3OO of which was
under lock and key,—and that on the authority of
a telegram to Hollidaysburg.
Enwris Foals m—The New York papers speak
of the conduct of Mr. FORREST, at the awful scene
which attended the burning of the Henry Clay, as
highly creditable to him. He was at - his residence
near by, and seeing the unfortunate beings who
were struggling in the water, he rushed into the
river and succeeded in rescuing many from a wa
tery grave, beside recovering the bodies of several
victim'.
tErThe announcement that Gen. W. F. Packer
would deliver an oration, on the occasion of the
dedication of the Odd Fellows' Hall in Lancaster,
was premature. The orator for the occasion has
not yet been selected.
II Both branches of Congress have agreed to
bring the session to a close on the 31st inst.
We.would advise all those fond of the weed
to call at the IntND or CUBA, (Evan's & Shultze)
Store, North Queen St., a few doors north of Long's
Drug Store.
' Their arrangement and stock of cigars are com
plate, and worthy the patronage of the public.
QT Mt. Bronsarsx is now on a visit to Bar*
top, N. Y. •
The Railroad Injunction Case
The recent decision of the Supreme Court of this
State granting an injunction against the proceed
ings of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, has been
violently assailed in the Philadelphia News and one
or two other papers in the interest of that Corpo
ration; but for the life of us, we cannot see upcM
what grounds. If wrong is done any where, the
blame should rest upon the Legislature who passed
the act out of which the controversy has arose—
not upon the Supreme Court who have been called
upon to apply the law in the case. The Legisla
ture. at the session of 1851 granted to the Susque
hanna Company the right to build a railroad from
Sunbury, in Northumberland county, to Bridgeport,
in Cumberland county, provided that said road was
placed under contract within one year from the
passage of the act, and the road finished within two
years after it was placed under contract. At the
last session, the Legislature passed a supplement to
the charter of the Sunbury and. Erie Company ,
which charter was granted, we 'believe, in 1837,
giving them a right to extend their read from Sun
bury to Harrisburg, provided the Sunbury and
Bridgeport Company failed to have their road con
tracted for and completed in tho time specified—
This is all plain sailing. But what do we see?—
The Sunbury and Erie Company instead of waiting
one year, or three years as the case might be, and'
as the plain letter of the law required, so as to see
whether the Sunbury and Bridgeport Company
complied with the provision of their charter, forth
with commenced operations themselyes by placing
the road from Sunbury to Harrisburg under con ,
tract—a road too, which must, of necessity, for
some distance at least, be laid on the same ground
(in consequence of the close proximity of the
rive: and mountain,) that the Sunbury and Bridge
port road will occupy, and for which the latter
Company have a prior right according to the date
of their charter. This, to say the least of it, seems
to be a singular proceeding on the part of the Sun
bury and Erie Company ; but it will appear stil
more strange when the fact is known that, altho ,
they have had a charter for a period of some fif_
teen years, to this day they have never placed a
foot of the road between Sunbury and Erie under
contract! and yet, under an act of the last Legis
lature giving them a right, in a certain contingency
to extend their road to Harrisburg, they. presume
now to make the "lateral or branch road," or ex-
tension, without having completed or even put un
der contract a single toot of the trunk or main
road! To show that we are not speaking at ran_
dom in this matter, we give the provision of the
ninth section of the supplemental act passed 27th
of March, 1852, which is in the following words
"That the said company shall have power to
construct lateral and branch roads from the line of
their road at southward or eastward from Wil
liamsport, to intersect any other railroads by means
of which the said company maybe enabled to fdtm
connections with the city of Philadelphia by way
of the valley of the Susquehanna. Provided, that
on any road that may be made between Sunbliry
and Harrisburg the same tax be and is hereby im
posed as is now,,or may hereafter be imposed by
law on the Susquehanna [Sunbury and Bridgeport]
Railroad, and provided further, That if the Susquehan
na Railroad Company shall fail to put that portion of
the line of their road under contract between Bridge
port and Sunbury within ONE year from the passage
of this act and complete the same within TWO years
thereafter, then, and in that case, the Sunbury and
Erie Railroad Company is hereby authorized to ex
tend their road from Sunbury by the valley of the
Susquehanna, to connect with the Pennsylvania
Railroad at such point as may be deemed most ex
pedient by the said company, on the said terms and
conditions that they are now authorized to con
struct the main line of their road between Sunbury
and Erie."
This being the state of the case, we do not per
ceive how the Supreme Court could have decide.
the question in any other way. The intention o
the Legislature appears to be clear and explicit
that the Susquehanna (or, as we have called i
above the Sunbury and Bridgeport) Company must
first fail or neglect to comply with the requisition
of their Charter which makes it obligatory upon
them to place the road under contract within one
year, and complete it in three years, before the sup
plement to the charter of the other road becomes
operative. If this be not the meaning of the Le
gislature, then they have been guilty of a trick
which is alike discreditable to them and the Com
pany who seek to be benefited thereby. The Court
were bound to take the law as they found it—to
give it a plain, common sense construction and in
terpretation. Having done so, they have discharged
their duty honestly and fearlessly, and their course
will meet the entire approbation of all disinterested
men. If blame is to rest any where, we say again
let it rest upon the Legislature, and not upon the
Court.
Since the above was penned we have seen the
published opinion of the Court, and snake the fol
lowing extracts from it as delivered by Chief Jus.
ice BL/cx
In 1837, the legislature incorporated the Sunbury
and Erie Railroad Company, with authority to
make a railroad from Sunbury to Erie, but without
any authority to extend their work, further south
or east than Sunbury. By this, their original char
ter, they had no snore right to make a road from
Sunbury to Harrisburg, than if they had never been
incorporated at all. Such was the state of things
in 1851, when the charter was given to the Susque
hanna Company. The act which brought the lat
ter Company into being, gave them the privilege of
constructing their railroad along the Susquehanna
river between Harrisburg and Sunbury, by a route
to which nobody else had any right' or pretence of
claim. On the faith of this unequivocal grant of
authority to construct their work on a track then
entirely open to their enterprise, they raised the cap
ital necessary for the purpose, and prepared to com
mence it. It is at this stage of progress that the
Sunbury and Erie . Company set up teir claim as
grantees from the State of the same privileges, and
assert that they too have a legal right to make a
road between the same termini, along the same val
ley, and by the same intermediate points. Did the
legislature intend that these two companies should
each have equal authority to construct the same
identical work? Did they desire or expect that
two railroads should be made between Hairisburg
and Sunbury, and conducted by two different com
panies? It seems to us extremely improbable that
this could have been contemplated. Doubtless it.
was very desirable that an improvement so impor
tant to the northern part of the State, should be
finished as soon as possible, but the struggle be
tween the two companies invested with the same
privileges, each having an equal right to the ground
would be more likely to end in the ruin of both,
than to give either a fair chance of success. Le
gislation like this would not only be injurious in its
effect on the public interest, but it would be a
wrong against the company first incorporated,
whose stock, subscribed in confidence on the good
faith of the State, would be greatly reduced in val
ue, and perhaps rendered worthless. • This would
be a violation Of justice that no one would expect
to see perpetrated by the representatives of a peo
ple who love the right and hate the' wrong like
those of Pennsylvania. The improbability that the'
rival corporations were •intended by the General
Assembly to be clothed with equal power to make
the same road along the same route is infinitely in
creased when we find that no provision is made for
settling in any legal way the innumerable disputes .
which in that case must necessarily arise between
them. We assume that it is practicable to make
both roads, and practicable it doubtless is, at least in
that sense in which any thing is practicable, by
those who have the command of very large means, I
and are willing to use them unsparingly. Never
theless, the choice of the best location, especially
in the narrow parts of the valley, or where the riv
er washes the foot of the mountains, may be of
such immense value to the party which gets it that
it would be fiercely contested for. How is such a
contest to be settled? Shall it be determined by
the wager of the battle? Or in what other form
shall the appeal to force be made? The wisdom
of the State has furnished no law to settle it by
but the law of the strongest. The struggle would
not cease with the survey, and when the building
of the two roads would bring thither thousands of
excitable men the probability of violence and
bloodshed would be very great. Supposing the
road to be made, and the cars and 'locomotives of
the respective companies to be running side byside
and sometimes crossing each other's track, what
hope could be entertained ,that they would regard
each other's convenience and interest in such' 'a
manner as to keep the peace and avoid collisions
dangerous to property and life I Certainly the least
desirable of all Wogs would be two railroads thue
tying together interfering' with each other, and con
ducted by rival and hostile companies. The most
extravagant and wasteful expenditures of capital
which can well be conceived of Would be that of
the millions which, according to the defendant's
opinion; the legislature meant to have thrown away
on this double enterprise. Perhaps it has never
been heard of before that any legislative body in
this Union, or elsewhere in the civilized world, has
created such a difficulty in the prosecution of in
ternal.improvements, or adopted any measure so
full or fraught as this would be, with impolicy,
wrong and peril. These considerations are suffi•
cient to induce a careful examination of the statute
,before we adopt the construction
,contended for.—
When the legislature means to invade previously
invested rights, to disregard the public interests
and endanger the peace of the Commonwealth; its
intention must be expressed in terms free from all
ambiguity.
Let it - not be said that both parties in this cause
claim under the acts of incorporation, and therefore
both are equally affected by this rule; for though
that be true, one of them is beyond its reach. Tile
Susquehanna Company claims under a charter
which is free from all doubt or ambiguity. It is
not pretended thit they have all the rights which
they claim. They are here not defending their own
privileges, but seeking to restrain the exercise of
these claimed by the Sunbury and Erie Company.
The great principles of construction ruled in the
Charles River Bridge case are therefore strongly in
favor of the plaintiffs. .
Keeping this in mind, and remembering that the
supplement relied on is not only a public grant, but
a public grant which seriously conflicts with a
previous one, and is, in its nature, purpose and ob
ject, such a one as no legislature would be likely to
make, we come to examine the 9th section of the
supplement_ to the defendant's charter, which is as
follows:
"That the said company shall have power to con
struct lateral and branch roads from the line of their
road, at southward or eastward, from Williamsport.
to intersect any other railroad by means of which
the said company may be enabled to form connec
tions with the city Philadelphia by stay of the val
ley of the Schuylkill; or, as hereinafter provided by
way of the valley of the Susquehanna: Provided,
That on any road that may be made between Sun
bury.and Harrisburg, the same tax be and•is here
by imposed, as is now or may hereafter be imposed
by law on the Susquehanna Railroad. And provi
ded further, That if the Susquhanna Railroad Com
pany shall fail to put that portion of the line of
their road under contract between Bridgeport and
Sunbury within one year from the passage of this
act, and complete the same within two years there
after, then, and in that case, the Sunbury and Erie
Railroad Company is hereby authorized to extend
their road from Sunbury by the valley of the Sus
quehanna, to connect with the Pennsylvania Rail
road at such point as may be deeined most expedi
ent by the said company, on the same terms and
conditions that they are now authorized to con
struct the main line of their road, between Sunbury
and Erie."
That the last of these two provisos does couple
a condition with the powers granthd to the Sunbu
ry and Erie Company of extending their road by
the. Susquehanna, is so plain that, any attempt to
prove it would be a mere waste of cords. That
the privilege is only to be exerised if the Susque
hanna Company fail to complete its work within a
certain time, and shall only proceed with the ex
tension "then and in that case" is wholly undenia
ble. Shall we treat this pioviso as nugatory and
meaningless? Shall we strike it 'from the statute
and give it no attention? Certainly not. Yet how
can we say that the power claimed is given without
condition, unless we eliminate the words which im
pose the, condition? We cannot consider the sec
tion in detached parts. We must take it as a whole.
And if it is consistent, and if were not, that would
not help the defendant's argume'nt, for the rule
In cases of irreconcilable repugnancy is to let the
last part and not the first determine the meaning of
the law-giver? At the bead of the section the Com
pany is authorized to form connections with Phila
delphia by way of the valley of the Susquehanna.
How? As hereinafter provided. And then follow
the two provisos, one imposing a tax, and the other
fixing the time when they may begin. Both these
provisos are, one as much as the other, drawn up
and connected with the grant by the words "as here
inafter provided." What is hereinafter provided?
That the right shall be exercised it the other Com
pany is as much hereinafter provided, as it is
hereinafter provided a tax shall be laid on any road
that may be made. But it is argued that the power
is given in the body of the section, coupled only
with the condition in the first proviso, and that the
second proviso is a new grant of the same power
upon new conditions. ThR forces us to ask why
two separate grants totally independent of and un
connected with each other, should be run together
in the same section'. Why should one independent
grant be tacked as a proviso upon another?
But this is not all. The section says they may
construct lateral and branch roads and form con
nections with Philadelphia by way of the Susque
hanna, as hereinafter provided. Now these last words
must point to some mode of making the road or form
ing the connection, for that is the thing to be done as
hereinafter provided. And to satisfy this call we
are directed to the first proviso, which points out no
mode of exercising the power at all. It declares
that any road through that valley shall be subjected
to a tax. And is a tax imposed by law upon a road
when made to be called a mode or manner of con
structing branch roads or making connections ?
The defendants' construction misreads the. body of
the section by assigning an improper meaning to
the words, "as hereinafter provided;" it misreads the
first proviso by disregarding the word "any" and
declaring that a tax is to be paid, not on any road,
but only on one made within two years; and it mis
reads the last proviso by tearing it entirely from
the rest of the section.to which it properly belongs.
Whed the meaning which the defendants would as
r sign to the section is expressed in words, it will read
somewhat thus: The Sunbury and Erie Company
may disregard the rights and privileges heretofore
vested in the Susquehanna Company, and construct
a road as soon as they think proper, by the valley
of the Susquehanna, in the following manner, that
is to say—any road, no matter when made, or by
whom, shall be subject to a tax; and further, any
road shall not be subject to a tax, it being the legis
lative will that no tax shall be imposed on the road
to be made by the Sunbury and Erie Company, it
the Susquehanna Company shall not also construct
a road by the same route. We cannot read it thus
without doing violence to the, language and putting
the common sense of the legislature to open shame.
I am well aware that this minute criticism upon
words and sentences is not the Way to make a stat
ute plain. My only reason foi it is found in the
vast amouut of ingenuity expended on it in the ar
gument of nouns!. But, after all, the best argument
is to hold up the law, and let it speak for itself.—
The broadest, plainest, and most natural view we
can take of it, is the one which brings us soonest
to the truth. The majority of the Court have no
sort of doubt that we are bound to regard.the claim
of the defendants as wholly unsustained.
• We are not dealing with legislative grants which
conflict, but we are deciding between two demands
of a right to which one party has a title and the
other not. The constitutional question, whether
the legislature would have a right to authorize the
making of a second road, does not arise, because no
such authority has been given. When an interfer
ence with the rights of a railroad company, like the
one complained of here, is altogether without au
thority of law, we think the injuredcorporation has
a right to all the relief which equity can give.
I will close by briefly recapitulating. It is very
improbable that the legislature intended these two
comranies to make two roads over the same ground.
The right, of the Susqu-hanna Company is plainly
granted and is not denied. The supplement to the
Sunbury and Eye Company must be construed
strictly, not only' because that is the rule for all
public grants, but because this particular grant can
not be supposed to have been intended. But while
the Strictest construction is the only proper one, no
interpretation could be latitudinar'y or loose enough
to give it the meaning which the defendants insist
upon. The Susquehanna Company has the right
to make the road, provided they commence and fin
ish it within the time limited by law; and the Sun
bury and Erie Company have no authority given
them for that- purpose, unless the other company
shall fail. •
And now, to wit, on the 27th.day of July, 1852,
on reading thd bill of complaint; and affidavits filed
in this cause, and on argument of counsel for both
parties, the Court order that the Sunbury and Erie
Railroad Company, and all and every its officers,
agents, workmen and servants be strictly and finally
enjoined and commanded that they do absolutely,
cease and deiist from all further prosecution of the
work, and from all the acts and doings complainep
of in said bill, until the final hearing and determi
nation of this cause, and that a writ of injunction
be issued 9pon the plaintiffs giving bond in the sum
of $lO,OOO, according to the statute in such case
made.
ID- The Boston Advertiser of October 7, 1840,
spoke as follows of Gen. - Pierce and his speech at
apolitical meeting holden at Claremont, N. H.
Oct, 1, 1840;
" Mr. H. was followed by the Hon. Franklin
Pierce; the other Senator in Congress Mr. P. is a
young gentleman of varied accomplishments, of un
doubted talents, and great powers of eloquence.—
He has served about ten years in both Houses of
Congress; and would be listened. to with interest
in any forum. He occupied the meeting for an
hour. He spoke with fluency . , grace and eloquence;
and hiss peech was not deflcuint in lofty septimanta
aad patriotic views."
Corrospoodetios of the Into Wren
Letter from Washington
Wmurtrrarom, July 31, 1852
The sangifine expectations of the Whigs immedi
ately after the nomination of General Scutt, do not
seem to mature into very promising fruit by the pro
cess of time; The'fact is the Whig party is just get
ting its eyes open to the deplorable truth that the
days of gunpowder popularity have passed away,
and that, with all the military renown of their
standard-bearer in the coming contest, something
more than the cry of Lundy's Lane, Chepultepec,
is requisite for a Whig triumph. The idea
which watt once so prevalent, that military chief
tianism is a more potent argument for the success
fur termination oft a campaign than any platform of
principles, has now become so palpably fallacious
to the leaders of the Whig party here, as to induce
the unwilling admission that it was' 44 nomination
not fit to be made," and deserved to be 44 execrat
ed and spirt upon."
Defection is everywhere seen in the ranks of the
Whig party. In the South the elevation of Gen.
Scott to the Presidency would be regarded as
nothing more than an absolute Seward triumph--a
triumph of abolitionism in its most malignant form;
and the truth cannot now be concealed, that the
whole Whig party of the South is in open revolt
against the hero candidate. In the North things
don't look a bit better. The General's Native-
American predilections, and his nob-commital
course on the Compromise, and other measures,
as
announced by the Baltimore Convention No. 2,de
leits the most - strenuous efforts of his friends to
harmonize the disaffected Webster and Fillmore
clans. " I accept the nomination, with the resolu
tions annexed," admits of too many constructions.
A more explicit avowel is wanted by his wavering
hosts before they quietly work in the traces. The
shouts for his achievements on the field of battle
won't do. The time for such delusions have pass
ed by. Some of the most prominent Whigs of the
country, who well know the General's meagre
abilities as.a civillian, have pronounced against him,
and there are ethers who were, at first, kindly dis
posed to give a helping hand to a bad cause, now
stand by with folded arms and contemplate the in
evitable defeat which awaits them. Such is the
position of the Whig party.
Look, now, on this picture. The Democratic
party in every part of the country is united, har
monious, and eager for the fray. The "earthquake
voice of victory," has already began its distant
rumblings. North, Smith, East and West they pre
sent the unbroken, Spartan front. The series of
brilliant measures passed by the last Congress are
now in full operation. These measures were es
tablished by Democratic,statesmen, and are now
the policy of the government. And to these prin
ciples are our candidates committed, fully and un
equivocally, and the whole party unites upon them.
That the Democratic party will be victorious in No
vember is as obvious as the light of the sun.
The fisheries question,
which recently caused ao
much noise and speechify ing, - seems to be taking a
"snooze." War with England, growing out of
this difficulty, is not much to be apprehended ; both
nations being far to enlightened to place themselves
in hostile attitudes for•the consideration of a few
cod-fish.
The terrible disaster of the steamboat Henry
Clay, on the Hudson river, has excited much at
tention here, and a great deal of indignation is ex
pressed at he wanton recklessness of the officers
of the boat. Mr. Sackett introduced a resolution to
the House on Friday last, instructing tho Commit
tee on the Judiciary to inquire into the expediency
of reporting a bill, making steamboat racing a cap
ital offence. The committee have the subject un
der consideration. Stringent laws
. will nb doubt
be made, with a view to make travel on the waters
of the United States more secure in the future.
Quite a spirited Democratic meeting was held
here on Thursday evening last, at Apollo's Hall.
The assemblage was eloquently addressed by Hon.
John B. Weller, of California, and Hon. Mr.
Wil
cox, of Mississippi. Both gentlemen were listen
ed to with much interest and warmly-applauded.
Democratic Meeting
Mr. Editor:—A large and enthusiastic meeting
of the Pierce and King Club of the Borough and
TownshiP . of Strasburg, was held at the pnblic
house of Wm. Echternacht, on Saturday evening
the 7th inst. Between thirty and forty persons join
ed the Club, all of whom pledge themselves to sup
port the nominees. The meeting was addressed by
W. F. S. WARREN, Esq., in his usually eloquent
and fucible style. The Democracy appear to have
forgotten all past differences and intend to "pull
altogether" in the coming contest. On next Satur
day evening, the 14th inst., a public meeting of the
Democrats of Strasburg and surrounding townships
will be held at the public house of Wm. Echter
nacht, Wm. MATHror and H. B. SWARH, Esqrs.,
of Lancaster, will address the meeting. On the
Saturday evening following a meeting will be held
at Leesburg. We have made a start and are deter.
mined to carry on the work. T.
MARIETTA, August 3d, 1862.
AIR. SANDERSON :—The Democracy of Lancas
ter county will soon 'meet- in Convention, for the
selection of suite* candidates for the October
election. In view of that event, permit me to
mention FRANKLIN K. CURRAN, of. this Borough,
as a suitable person for nomination on the Assem
bly ticket. The Democrats of this Election of the
county are by right entitled to one of the represen
tatives, and I know of no man more deserving than
Mr. Curran. His qualifications are undoubted,
hie personal friends many, and his family connex
ions extensive, and of the most respectacle charac
ter. As to the soundness of his Democracy, you
and others who know him will no doubt vouch for
that. Mr. Curran would doubtless concentrate a
stronger vote in this section, than any other that
could be selected. AN OLD DEMOCRAT.
Trouble Brewing.
Our up-river friends, it appears, are not satisfied
with the way things are managed by certain men
in the interest of the Susquehanna Railroad Com
pany. The Union County Commissioners a short
time since, in behalf of the County, subscribed
$200,000 to that road. The people rebel against
this, and held a tremendous indignation meeting, at
New Berlin, on the let inst., at which the following
preamble and resolutiops were adopted by accla
mation:
Woxaxas, it has come to our knowledge that
our County Commissioners have agreed to give the
bonds of Union county for $200,000 to the Balti
more and Susquehanna Railroad corporation.
Axn Wananas, we have good reason to believe
that a false misrepresentation of facts was made to
induce the subscription, to the effect that Northum
berland, Clinton and Lyeoming counties had sub
scribed $200,000 each to this Baltinfore road, and
that not one dime of this money need ever be paid
by this County, &c., which representations we be
lieve to be entirely false. Therefore,
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, it
will be the duty of every man, who loves truth and
/air dealing, and hates falsehood and deception, fo re
sist payment of the $200,000 upon the ground that
the subscription was obtained by false pretences.
Resolved, That the election of the ring -leaders of
an old broken down political faction, as officers to
preside over the destiniesof this Railroad corporation
has completely dispelled from the minds of our
people the vain hope once indulged by a few, that
payment of the $200.000 would never be demanded;
we know the history and plundering propensities
of that tribe. For twenty-six years they have feast
ed and fattened upon our railroads, and canals, and
we do most solemnly protest against our Commis
sioners helping this faction now to put it's iron fangs
on Union county for $200,000 more, as we consider
it anti-republican, that the power and privilege of
plundering our - public works should descend from
father to son and from generation to generation.
Resolved, That a Railroad through our county is
desirable—we love progress—but let the capitalists
who expect to profit by this road, and the politi
cians who expect to use its patronage, pay for it
If it is a "speculation," as they represent, they may
have it all—we want none of it—we are content
to "earn our bread by the sweat of our brow."
Resolved, That we view the act of the Commis
sioners, in subscribing $200,000 withput the con
sent and concurrence of a majority of the people
with regret and contempt—as aristocratic, anti-re
publican and calculated to influence as a dangerous
precedent, further outrages.
Book Notices
' The American re-print of "Bi.a.cswoon' s
EDINBURG MSG/TINE," and THE WESTMINSTER
REVIEW," for July, 1852, are already received and
for tale at Spangler's. These numbers commence
new volumes, and thus afford a fitting time for per
sons to subscribe for either or both. They are
among the ablest of the British Periodicals.
TRY DEMOCRATIC RivrEw.- , --The July number
contains a handsome, portrait of Taccuts Flusters
Mxitmmt, the Irish patriot, in connexion with an
admirable article entitled " Ireland and the Holy
Alliance." The other articles are also written
with great ability.
Bane . BIIIINT.—The barn of Abm. Landis, in
Ephrata township, was entirely consumed by fire,
with the whole crop of grain, &c., on Saturday
morning week. It is supposed to have been set on
fire. The building was insured in the Lancaster
'County Mutual Insurance Company.—Examiner.
Hon. Roman. Rauxonr, member of Congres s
from Massachusetts, died at Waihington, on Sun.
day last, after an illness of only three days.
CT The Cholera is prevailing to an alarming
extent at Rochester, N. Y.
DESTRUCTION OP THE NORTHUMBERLAND CHIDGE
DI A Toassno.—On Thursday evening about half
past 6 o'clock a violent tornado suddenly passed
over this place, and in its course, we regret to say,
swept from its foundation that portion at the North
umberland bridge spanning the river from the island
to the Sunbury short. The bridge now lies crushed
in a mass of ruins, above the piers. Mr. Krum,
who resides on the Grant farni at the eastern end
of the bridge, had just driven off with a our horse
team, and by the time lie reached his barn, about
twenty yards distant, he saw the whole structure
raised up and hurled into the river. Mr. James
Smith who was hauling in grain. on the island, was
just preparing to drive over the bridge to
, thi; place.
Fortunately no person was on at the time. The
Northumberland Bridge Company have been sin
gularly unfortunate. The old btidges were erected
in 1815 eta cost of $90,000. In the spring of 1839,
the bridge on the Northumberland side fell, and was
rebuilt about a year after at en expense of about
$20,000. Several years atter the Danville bridge
was swept off by the flood, and in its course: came
in contact with the new Northumberland bridge,
and carried off all but one span. The bridge was
again rebuilt the year after. About four years since
the old bridge on the Sunbury side was destroyed
by the freshet, and was rebuilt the year following,
and now lies in the stream above the Piers a perfect
wreck. The bridge just destroyed was' badly con
structed, the arches being so much sprung the first
year of its construction, that it required repairing.
The telegraph wires, passing through the bridge to
this place, being severed, has of course cut all our
means of communication at present, by telegraph
—Sunbury Americas, July 31.
STRAWBERRIES GTAFTED ON Roses.=A short
time ago there were exhibited in Paris, in a florist's
shop on the Boulevard des Italiens, several rose
trees upon which were grafted a lei , : strawberry
[Vents. This curiosity attracted much attention
from the passers by. The process by which it was
effected was as follows: In autumna few dog-roses
of good sorts, on their own roots, are selected and
planted in pots; at the same time a well-rooted
strawberry is pieced with each rose, planted just be
low the stem of the rose. In spring, when the runners
push out, two or three ni them are tied up to the
stem of the rose. It is well known that the run
iers of the strawberries soon make their own roots,
'and in due time these roots are cut away, making
the cuts as for a scion, and then they are patted
on the rose stem, "without cutting or tearing the
runners from the parent plant in the ground." They
should be preserved very carefully, to lead the sap
upward to the scions, and, treated in this way, the
strawberries will vegetate upon the rose tree for
some time
ALBANY, August 3.—An extra from the Wool
cott Standard, Wayne county, states that on Satur
day afternoon it was advertised that Mr. R. Sands
the well known circus performer, would, among
other things, walk across the ceiling, with his teet
up and his head downward, by means of a scientific
apparatus appended to his teet. The experiment
was successfully made by Mr. Sands, and the au ,
thence all went away perfectly satisfied with what
they hod seen, except one individual, who said Mr.
S. could not perform the feat out of the circus.—
Mr. Sands offered to exhibit the same performance
in any place where a ceiling, having a smooth sur
face, of sufficient strength to sustain his weight,
could be obtained. The large room hi the Town
Hall was selected, and Mr. Sands repaired to the
Hall and commenced his antipodean performance
over the ceiling, at an elevation of eighteen feet
from the floor. He had proceeded several steps
and was in the act of returning, when a large por-
. .
tion of the plaster gave way, and he was precipi
tated to the floor beneath, from which he was to
ken up senseless. The neck had been broken by
the fall, and death ensued instantly.
Toe HENRY CLAT—Moar. Anassrs.—Yesterday
morning, James L Jessup, the Clerk of the Henry
Clay, Edward Hubbard, the Pilot, and John Ger
maine, the Engineer, were brought before Mr. G.
W. Morton, U. S. Commissioner, charged with caus
ing the death of sundry passengers of the steamboat
Henry Clay, and ordered to find bail, each in the
sum of $lO,OOO, to answer the charge. In the course
of the afternoon the following gentlemen entered
recognizances for the due appearance of the accused
before the , U. S. District Court, at the September
term, viz: J. L. Knapp, Lewis Radford for the Pilot.
The sureties testified to being worth, in real estate
and other property, $20,000 each. For the Engi
neer, Joseph Belknap and Francis Cunningham,
steam-engine manufacturers, testified to being worth
$30,000 each. For the Clerk, William Radford
and Thomas Collyer testified to being each worth
$lO,OOO. Dennis McMahon Esq., attended us coun
sel. The warrant against Capt. Tallman is still
in the possession of Deputy Marshal de Angelis;
but, as Capt. U. is confined to his bed by illness, it
has been arranged to take his recognizances at his
house.—. New York Times, Aug.
I=l
Noble Conduct of a Newfoundland Dog,—The dog
Rolla, belonging to Mr. Adams, of 60 Courtlandt
street on Sunday, last, performed one of those he
roic deeds of humanity for which the New:ound
land .breed is remarkable. An interesting little
boy, about ten years old, while playing near the
water at Hoboken, lost his balance and fell in.
The tide sweeps along the shore there with great
rapidity, and the little fellow in a few moments
was carried apparently beyond the reach of hurran
assistance. The lad, it seems, could swim a little,
but just as his strength was giving way, the dog,
at a short distance from the spot, quick as thought,
dashed through the crowd, leaped into the water,
and in a minute more had the boy by the collar,
secure between his teeth. To bring him ashore,
back to that particular place, however, was an
impossibility owing to the force of the current ; so
that the only hope was to make a point of land
some distance ahead (between Jersey City and Hobo
ken) and for that quarter Rolla steered his course,
amid the applause and excitement of the spectators.
On went the noble animal, bravely buffeting the
tide, and careless of the shouts of applause, all the
while keeping the boy's face out of the water. He
reached the goal at length with his precious bur
then, safe and sound, but a little taint and frighten
ed ; and no sooner had he laid him down than the
noble animal sank exhausted an the sand. He was
instantly surrounded by a numerous crowd of peo
ple, who had been eye witnesses of the scene, vie
ing with each other in showing kindness to the hero
ic animal that bad thus risked his own life to save
that of a helpless human being. Some idea of the
labor performed
~by the dog the fact that the en.
tire distance be had to swim is said to be not lea.
than two miles.—N. Y. Express.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY—DEATH OP ONE OF THE
PARTY.—In the last number of our paper, we sta
ted that Mr. John B. Edwards believed that the per.
eon who two weeks ago hired a horse and buggy
at his livery stable, (respecting which nothing has
since been heard,) was one of a party who at.
tempted to rob. the house of Mr. Isaac Phoutz, near
Liverpool, Perry county. We have since learned
the following particulars of the attempted robbery,
by which it will be seen that one of the party was
shot, and that he has since died from the effects of
his wound:
Sometime last January an attempt was made to
rob the house of Mr. Phoutz, which failed, however,
owing to the fact that some 'of the family w escaped
and gave the alarm. Before the burglars accom
plished their object, [the securing of $3,000, which
it is supposed was concealed in the house,] they
Were frightened and made their escape. Another
attempt to rob the same house was made on Fri
day night, the 23d ultimo, which resulted as un
successfully, though more disastrously to the bur
glars than the first. It appears that a. man named
Charles Shular, (who resides in Liverpool, where
he has a family, and who is captain of a canal boat,)
a short time since entered into a plot with three
men.residing in Philadelphia, named ---- Stitzler,
Thomas Fagan, and Bunyan, to rob the house
of Mr. P. When they made the attempt, on the
night named, a young man in the house discharged
a rifle, the ball from which took effect in the breast
of Stitzler, who, aided by his comrades, managed
to get a short distance from the house, where he
fainted from the loss of blood. His comrades af
terwards left him, and he 'acceded in making his
way back to the house. He lingered until the fol
lowing Monday, when he died. A. few hours ba
fore his death, he disclosed, on oath before a magis
trate, the facts we have narrated.
Caleb Shular,-who left his home in Liverpool
before Stitzler died, was arrested in Wrightsville
'one day last, by Constable Thompson of that place,
whilst on his way back from Peach Bottom, whith
er he had gone, be said, to redeem a horse he had
pledged for debt. Fagan and Bunyan are still at
large.—Columbia Spy.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 4.—A ca mph ine lamp exploded
last night in a store on Fayette street, in conse
quence of carlessness in filling it, and seriously
burnt three persons—Mrs. Eckhart, the proprietor
of the store, Miss Agnes Fiche, and a young girl
named Augusta Steiner. Miss -Ficke died died to
day from the effects of her burns, and the other two
are in a dangerous condition.
mr - The report that Mr. Sands, the equestrian,
was killed by a fall from the ceiling of the Court
House at Walcott, N. Y., turns out to be a sheer
fabrication. Mr. S. is reported to have been alive
and well at Oswego, on Wednesday.
Loursvinta, Ky., Aug. s.—The mail from Naeh•
vine, Tenn., to this city, was robbed on the 23d ult.,
of $13,000 in drafts, and it is also reported that a
second robbery was committed on .the 27[11 7 when
mu sso,ooo wu stolen.
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