REPORTER : Wednesday, Oetol!er 16, 1844. DE MOC RATICCNOMIN,ATIONS. For Pea Went in ntt, JAMES K. POLE ) . OF TENNESSEE. For Tito MAW, GEORGE M. DAL.AS I OF PENNSItLFANIA. 'Electors for President and Vio wcA.NDLEss, t senatorial. Ass .Dimocs, 13. George Scllnabel. 14. Nath'lß.Eldred. lb. M. N. Irvine. James WoOdburn. 17. Hugh Montgomery 18. Isaac Ankney. O. John Matthews. L. George F. Lehman. 2. Christian Kneass. 3. William H. Smith. 4. John Hill, (Phila.) 6—Samuel E. Leech. 6. Samuel Camp. 7. Jesse Sharp%' 8. N. W. Samolle. 20. William Patterson 21. Andrew Burke. 22. John APGill. 9. Wm. HeiderWich. 10: Conrad Shimer. 11. Stephen Belay. 12.Jonalt Brewster. The result In Bradford. The, unconquerable democracy of Bradford came off from the field of bat tle on the Bth inst., only victorious, but with signal honor: They have not only conquered the foe, -but they have struck the fatal blow so decisive that it will be impossible -for the enemy to rally again, or to make more than a feeble show of resistance at tho Novem ber election—Federalism is conquered, defeated and slain in Bradford. Our average majority , Is. more than 600. • 'he federalists entered the contest con , fident of victory—they boasted publicly that, they would carry the county for their candidate for Governor. Letters Were written from here and published in the Clay Bugle, at jiarrisburg, that Bradford would give 400 for Markle;". every exertion was made by them that cunning could devise, and every means resorted to that Federal ingenuity could invent—slander and personal abuse were showered forth. illlavits .from the most abandoned, were procured to prove any thing the leaders wished.— But all their schemes could not swerve the'Democratic soldiery. Steadily and firmly they marched to the battle, and most triumphantly did they sustain themselves. The result is conclusive proof of the steadily increasing strength of the De mocratic party in Bradford county.— We now have a clear and legitimate majority of six hundred. which we can Maintain eg long as we can preserve the concord that now prevails in our ranks. The enemy cannot reduce our majority below that sum, and we now give the challenge, that we Will beat them at the Presidential election on the first of No vember next, SIX HUNDRED in Bradford. Our cause is just, our prin ciples are those of the honest and free. Tyrants, aristocrats, federalists and whigs hate them, but the people love and will maintain them. Let federalism boast of "all the decency," " all the intelligence " and all the money. Let them sneer at.the name " Democrat"— let them denounce naturalized foreigners as 48 cattle." Let them prate about curtailing the right of suffrage—and let them read in the votes of the people a condemnation of their doctrines. The great mass of the people are in telligent and honest, and cannot be duped or deceived by federal promises or federal 'denunciations, and the vote the3r have recorded'in Bradford is a di rest rote of censure upon the doctrines put forth by the federal party ; and the record is malle in characters so plain and legible` that it cannot be reversed or expunged lAA) honesty and intelli gence prevail. FLIOUT Or THE GPFERZIOR OF AR KANSAS.—The 'Arkamsas Times and Advocate, of 'the 10th of September, states that it was rumiareo! that Gover nor Conway, of that State, has sloped for Texas, carrying all lus negroes with him ; the same negroes which the United States Government had levied upon to ware a judgment for tpwards of 512,000. appropriated to pay volun teers in v 336, but which the Goverdor 4had,appll.d to his own purposes. A Fau..- 7 -At Osiers°, N. Y., on the '26th ult., while paintipg the office of a Whig newepaper.Orrin Cook and Elon Laukton, fell from a Bulging, the latter breaking an arm, and both ea much in jured as to render their recovery im probable. Most heartily do we congratulate the democracy of Bradford, and of this congressional. District, upon the deci sion and overwhelming victory which they have so gallantlo achieved. At no period in the history of our political strifes- have the democracy of this coun ty; so nobly, so gloriously triumphed. Beset on all sides by a - vindictive and unprincipled opposition--an opposi tion reckless of truth, and unscrupulo'ps in the use of means ; .the democracy haie nevertheless, stood firm and un shaken by their principles and their men. Federalism in its arrogance and vain boasting, had claimed a majority in Bradford. The leaders of the par ty, aided by as foul and ruthless a press as ever saw the light, had flooded the country with the most infamous false hoods, calculated if generally believed, to embroil out people in a bitter reli gious and sectarian warfare; and de signed to excite a maddened and infu riated spirit in the breasts of such of their own partizans as should give them credence. Truth, honor, - justice ; the claims of friendship, and the - sacredness of private character, all were violated, by the federal leaders and their organ, but one spirit seemed to actuate and go vern them, the desire to gain a partizan triumph, indifferent as to the means, or the influences by whicn it was achiev ed. Severely and righteously, have the democracy rebuked this spicit.— The newly installed leaders of the fed eral party of this county ; those who surround and controll the Argus, have been taught a lesson, which it would be profitable for them, to ponder upon. From it, they can learn how impotent is their malice, and that the interests of the whig party of this county,. is not promoted by a vindictive warfare upon 23. Christian Meyer& 124. Robert Orr. The Result. individuals. Should the lesson pass unheeded, and feelings of private and personal hostility, instead of general party interest=stilicontrol their _politi cal leadership, we risk but little in the prophecy, that the sceptre will be taken from their hands. We know promi nent whigs in Bradford, old whigs, who have fought the political battles before the present self-constituted leaders were out of their swaddling cloths, who will never again submit,to have the character of their party compromised by a bar gain, such as brought a renegade dem ocrat in the field as their candidate for one of the most elevated, and responsi ble,offices in their gift. We fell confident in giving to our friends the assurance, that our candi date for Governor is elected by a hand some majority. The union between the Natives" and the Whigs in Phila delphia, on the very eve of The election, accounts for the majority of about 6000 for Markle,where we had reason to look for at least 1000 for Shunk. This will reduce our majority'in the State 7000 below what we had right to expect. We feel confident however that no such cause will operate in the Presidential Election, and _that Philadelphia City and County; will in November give to Polk and Dallas from one to two thou sand majority, thus swelling our major ity in the State to ten or twelve thou 'sand. •We say to our Meads relax not in your efforts. Now is a propitious time for action. We have gained a glorious and triumphant victory, let us reap the full harvest of its fruits. Let every democrat be on the alert from this time until the November °Elections. Let meeting be held in every township, and a thorough organization effected in ev ery School district in this county, and we can give to Polk and Dallas 700 majority., THE NATIONAL SABBATH CON'OEN rioN.This convention will be held in Baltimore on the 27th of November next. the friends of a due observance of the Lord's Day, in all parts of the United States, have been requested to call attention to it, to hold preparatory meetings, to appoint delegates, &c.— All the churches, trades, professions, c . oopanies. Ate., it is expected.. will be represented. Every minister of the gospel „throughout the country has been i nv ited to bring the • subject before his Congregatio.n. WARSAW. --Accounts from Warsaw, Illinois, state 'het Gov. Ford has issued writs returnable at Nauvoo, for the ap prehensions of the whole guard that was placed over the o . miths, and that the greatest alarm exists in the town, persons flying hourly. FOUND GTILTY of MURDER.-Fran cis Basler has been found, guilty of murder in the first degree, in the Wyo ming County Court, - for causing the death of Robert Stkinidn. Basler, who is a brother-in-law of Atkinson, was engaged in chopping with him, oil the 7th of February last, 'hen he was found killed apparently by the falling of -a tree. Butsequent examination, however, denoted that he bad met'wiih foul play, and circumstances fixed the guilt strongly upon Basler. Basler's wife and Atkinson, (who were brother and sister) inherited a property together which -was to become her .portion en- tirely. provided lie did not marry should die without issue. it is said he was to have been married in a few days. The following is the sentence of death pronounced upon Basler, by Judge JESSUP : FRANCIS BASLEIt—The Court have heard your protestations of innocence, but can not entertain a doubt, from the evidence adduced on your trial, of your guilt. The offence of which you have been convicted, is of no ordinary character. You have notonly shed innocent blood, but the blood of a confiding, faithful brother—one wholtad assisted you in difficulty, and whose heart and purse were open to relieve you further front your embarrassments. Governed by mercenary motives, in an evil moment you deprived him of life and your own life must now pay the forfeit demanded by the laws of your Maker and of your , country. ' You were tried by a Jury of candid, sober-minded, judicious. and impartial men, selected by yourself You had afforded - to you all the safeguards which our humane laws throw around every one charged with crime. Your cause was defended by Counsel whose zeal, judgment. and eloquence did every thing of which your case was capable. You , were fairly and fully tried, and the unanimous verdict of the Jury is recorded, that you are Guilty. The Court are as well convinced of your guilt as were the Jury, and before proceeding to pass the dreadful sentence of the law upon you, they must urge upon you to consider your situation, and prepare for Death. You are soon to meet dui Judge of all the earth. The crime , of which you have been guilty, and all the sins which you have committed, are open to Hie view, and while we can not pardon, yet with Him there is pardon and peace for the guilty through the merits and atonement of a crucified Redeemer. We exhort you_ to confess your sins to God, to, humble your heart in peni tential abirow for your offences before His throne, a9d by faith in Jesus seek for pardon and salvation. Let no delusive hope of escaping in any way the punishment which is awarded to your crime, prevent your seeking in deep earnest the salvation of your immortal soul. In your case it is lamer) , deed madness to defer."— Your time is short, and -we most ear, needy entreat you let nothing prevent your attending immediately to the things which pertain to your eternal peace.' There is a divine Savior to whom you may flee, and in whom you may be saved, but there is for you no other hope than in Hie mercy. The sentence of the Court is—that you. Francis Basler, be taken hence to the place of confinement from whence you came, in the Jail of Wyoming county, and from thence to the place of execution (the jail-yard of said county,) and there be hanged by the neck until you be DEAD. And God have mercy upon your soul ! THE Ray. WILLIAM SAHTEB.The Federals crowed lustily over the ape:l 7 Lacy of this gentleman, and his nine column letter, written by Mr. Ginger bread".—The whig organ claimed him, as a man of great influence: of course they expected great things from him in his own vicinity. Well they have got it. The township of Towanda, which has been federal from time immemorial, has given a Democratic majority of fifteen. So much for Mr. Santee.— Quere. If a letter nine columns long can change a Whig township to 15 democratic majority how many such changes would it take to make a feder al county out of Bradford? P. - M. AT EDSALLVILLE.—We would request the P. 0. - Department, to for wardimmediately to the P. M. at Ed sallville county, a copy of the Rules and Regulations of Post Offices, as we don't Mink he is clearly aware of his duty toward ; publishers of newapa. pers. MIMING NO MURpER.—FOrd, who shot Low, in St. Louis, for' seducing his daughter, a woman of mature years, has'been tried for murder and acquitted. Assassination, it seems, under such cir cumstances, may be committed with impunity. It is strange - if suckdanger oui doctrine as this does not lead to the frequent commission of murder. FossU. 1' ' Curio - Raroaxan Orrice, Z Friday Morn. 11th.5 •C .L. W.tan, Es ix:=Understandingthat yott` have made a personal examination of a bone or fossil lately found in BhesheqUin, and believing_ that a description should be placed on record; you willlender an essential favor by preparing a description far pnblieaiioa. ' • I . You will find an account of a similar disco very in the " Annals of Binghamton," p. 192. Yours, witli much resig4t, E.'ol4sasi GOODRIca. DEAR Six—l have examined with great interest, the fossil to which you have rgfered, in yOur note of yesterday ; and also-the locality in "which this curi ous remnant of •, olden time" was dis covered. ' I It is; doubtless, the tuslof ' a Made don, a fossil state and the animal to which it originally belonged,Ssf have been one of the largest of Ali it lace. It was unfortunately , broken in several pie ces inlemoving it from :its hed in the river ; Land some of the pieces hive been carried away—so that it is impit'ssible to give you as accurate a description, as could be desired, for the purptises .o science. It was of solid ivory, before if became fossilized;—its length, as it lay . ` in the gravelly bed in which it was tatind, I am informed, was nine feet ; andilts cir cumferen9e, in the largest part, twenty one inblf63. It formed, as described to me, beforb it was broken, a regular curve, approaching near a semi-eircle- 7 tapering in size, mere rapidly, and curving out wards towards the lower extremity.— Fromthis curve, it must have been, (fa cing with the7aninial) the left-side tusk. About three: feet of the lower part, is still in a gold state of preservation. It was broken off at both ends, when first discovered ; and was at last eleven feet in length; in its native state ! It was found in: the present bed of the Susquehanna river, in Sheshequin town= ship, in this county—near lbw-water mark, in reference to the shore, and firm ly imbedded in fine gravel: mixed with sand. Mr. Isaac Horton who discover ed it, and- has resided near the spot for upwards of fifty years—informed me that the bed of the river has become greatly enlarged within his recollection; and that the bank formerly covered the place where the fossil was fonnd, to the depth of twelve or fifteen feet. Several large oak trees grew on the bank, imme diatelwver this spot, when Mr. H. first commenced clearing his farm, about the year 1792. The " large horn" described in the " Annals of Binghamton,"' as found on the Chewing river, near the second nar rows, must have belonged to the Masto don; and in earlier discoveries by the Indians, of similar fossils, most probably originated the euphonious name of that fine stream—Chemung—signifying " Big Horn." I have also heard recent ly, that a large tooth, weighing eleven pounds—which probably was a grinder of the . Mastodon—was found in the up per part of Sheshequin, many years since, by a Mr. Bartlett, who subsequent ly removed to the western states. Naturalists concur in supposing this race of monstrous animals to I have be come entirely extinct on the earth thOugh they differ as to: the immediate causes of this result, and as to the pro bable period when it occurred. Their remains, are now found only in the most modern of the tertiary series—in iccu- • Judge Baker, of Chemung, relates, that a few years _after his settlement upon its plain, he was passing up or down the river in a ca rib° with one or two others, and at the tore, near what is called the Second Narrows, hen they were about to disembark, there was observ ed, under water, something protruding out of the bank, looking like the- root of a tree. It was spoken of as a curious root. 'Judge Ba ker requested one of the men 'to get into the water and examine itl; and, if possible, to !draw it out'or break it off. It was soon found !po be po root. Their curiosity was increased, and all got into the water to wrest itfrom the bank; in which it was partly embedded. They sueceeil ed in getting it out, and found it to be a per fect, though an immense, horn. It measured; from one extremity to the other, nine feet in the curve, and was six feet, measuring! m a straight line. It was somewhat corroded by time, though not enough to materially effect either its form or coherency. As not much at tention could then bo paid to curiosities, it was negligently left at a blacksmith's ,shop,lfor a long time. Judge Baker intended to hive it taken care of, and to have it examined, if prac ticable, by some competent 'ptomain.. It was left at the blacksmith's shop , as nearly as the writer can recollect, to have a bancll put round, where it was split. After a while' ? the 1 horn was missing. The blacksmith having an op portunity of disposing tof it for a paltry- sum, sold it to a pedlar ; and it mistaken to some of the New :England states, and has noti been heard of since. A Capt. M'Dowell, whU was taken prisoner by the . l Indians, and some time with them, saw pieceirof a very Jargo !horn, which the Indiana said their fathers had 'found in this river, and therefore gave it the , name of Chemung ; which signifies Big-hoim Capt. McDowell, who few the Morn fon4d by Judge Baker, said he had no doubt the two belonged ,0 the same animal.--Annall of Binghamton, page 132.: I • mnlations of loose graVel or diluvium.-- They have been freqiteritly:disCovered in Europe and Asia. mixed V with those of the Elephant and Megalonyx. in re cent dePosites resulting from focal floods; . sometimes in beds of lacustrine merle. The most rational conclusion is, that the Mastodon has existed during , the present order of nature, but not in what is usual ly termed the, historic period, since no 'vestige of any thing relating to , the human rack has been - found mixed up with their remains, when discovered in . I their appropriate strata !.. Cuviei has classed' the Afeistodontes into six distinct species ;-tWciuther va rieties have been added, mote recently. Of these, one—the Great Mastodon—is the , most common, if not the only one ECtliqirlit N. America. The earliest pub lished account in,this country of the re maini of this animal, was that of Dr. Mather in 1712. He supposed their remains to be those . of a race of griiits an erkor corrected by, Dr. Hunter, a dis tinguished anatomist of London, to whom tiler: were submitted. In 1802, Mr. Peale obtained parts of two skeletons in the state of New Yoti, near the Hudson rivet.- One of these, with the missing parts supplied in wood, is now in the Museum at Philadelphia. • This meas ures 18 feet in length ; and is 11 feet 5 inches high. The tusks are 10 feet 7 inches long. By analogy, then, the fos sil discovered at Sheshequin, must have belonged to a larger animal than the one disinterred by Mr. Peale. A large number of skeletons have been fcund in the western states—particularly, in the neighborhood of tie Salt Springs, in Ohio; and complete frames may be seen in the Museums of most of our prin cipal cities. In 1805, , a grinder of a Mas todon was found in Butler county in this state, below a rock, four feet in thickness. A tusk was also dis Covered 70 feet be low the surface, near Chambersburg, in 1820,—seven feet long—fpurteen inches in cirCumferenie, and weighing seventy lbs. The remains of a gigantic animal was disintened in 1840, on the Pomme de Terre, a tributary of the Osage river in the western part of Missouri. I had an opportunity of examining a these remains about two years since, when on their way to Europe. This skeleton was 32 feet in !length, and 15 feet high. The tusks, 10 feet 3 inehes long, including the roots ; atid.much less curved than those of the Mastodon are usually found to be. A discussion ensued at the time of their exhibition in Philadelphia, as to whether these were the remains of a Mastodon, or of a nondescript' animal. Mr. Koch, who prepared the ,skeleton, claimed the latter was the fact, and called it the Mis souri-Leviathan ; whilst some of the most distinguished naturalists of Phila delphia, decided' th 4 these 'bones were thosesof the Great Mastodon, erroneous ly arranged and distorted—probably by design, in order to increase its value and magnify the importance of the discovery. The disinterment in the valley of the Susquehanna, of remains of that mighty race of animals, who with their kindred and cotemporary monsters; inhabited this glebe, (and probablT . became ex tinct,) long before it was the abode of man—naturally carries the mind into geological speculations, ih'order to de termine when, and, ky what agency these remains were separated from their parent trunk, submerged in the gravelly bed in which they were found. , From a careful examination of the bed in Which this fossitley, and alsoof the surrounding region, I - ern satisfied, its deposits in that locality, was coeval with that of the diluvial, gravelly plains, 'which, in many places, now form the higher, or secondary` , bank "O'f.our noble river ;—and which, probably, are as old as the river itself. In this view, I adopt the plausible—l had , almost said, inevitableconelusion, that this pap of the earth has undergone a great physical revolutiOn, which: 'hay have been subsequent to the Noachin Deluge, since it was evidently produce l d by im mediate causes, not reconcileable with the peculiarities recorded of tliat won derful event. But T find, miself on the , point of entering,- into a series of hy potheses, which :w'outd demand more space, thin, amid - the engroesiligelaims of the politics of the ,daY, 'ion, would be willing to accord me;—,and I for bear, with a singlelConcludinginquiry. Can we in any Mhmrininner, so ra tionally account forth‘ lieculiar farina tions of the south' eastern portkin.ol.nm: tontiacot-the 'Tat - kois, geo lo gica l P h • • • ntimena—lhe endless variety of andsubmarme remains, which multiplying under the reisearcin ence—as by supposing that east part of America, lying north east of the great chain of eluding 'Labrador, New Britain together with the region from 1 1 urination of the Stony blonntai where the Alleghany disappe ar St. Lawrence—was alrformedy, 'Deep in old Ocean bariell;" and has been upraised by som e volcanic agency ;—when the the sea which had covered it, r e; the south and south west, fasliioni basins, pf the present great lakes, forming, by degrees, breaches it posing strata or mountains,—;th en ing on through channels, which since been deepened and diver the rivers, that now glide throne —until it met the counter cone ! subsided into its present bed Hastily and truly yours, • r obtained at Trenton Falls, n ee about a year since, trilobite; Which hal been classed by Geologists as heh m ,i r Jo the great transition groupe. - Foreign Extracts. Mr. Templeton has been perk at several places in Seotlana,atti nietl by Blewit. A coinage. of half-farthing s is ent in progress at the Mint, T e have already been made. Mr. John Parry has been sit during the past week at Swann, dill, Newport, Brecon, &c. The Belgium Government hue( tised the British Queenship for sal On the 6th instant, Havre wz ed by an awful thunder storm. Fanny Ellsler is now dancing great success in Liverpool. Thel is crowded nightly. Mr. Alderman Brown has been ed Chamberlain for die City of don. The Bank of England _has rec the_rate of discount.on three moi bills from 4 to 2:l . per cent - Sir Robert Peel has sent a et of 1,000 to the committee foT pi tin t .g. public Walks in Manchester. The settlements of Sierra Leon Cape Coast Castle have been appi British colopiers. A fellow, In London, has bet frauding druggists by ordering and paying For them in mutat crowns. ; • In the late population reports, number of church of England eh men= is returned for England at L. In' the month of August, 25,979 sengefs,were conveyed by the par boats on the Forth 'and Clide Canal The driver of an omnibus, Kent ton, was last we::k sentenced to a on the treadmill for. racing. The Lisbon corn monopoly is stroyed by royal decree.: By ibis beneficial ,measure the price of in will be reduced one-third. Messrs. Cocik and Wheatstone, inventors, are to receive £l5OO pr HUM from Government for wol their telegraph between Ports and the Admirality. The Germanic Diet closed its sittii on the 31st ult., after deciding that should re-assemble on the sth uary.. The Hull and Gateshead papers encouraging accounts of the irospt of the shipping interest. The South Devon shareitolaeu . determined to adopt the atmospl principle for working their hue e it is completed. The capital - of company is to be reduced to 000. • The road between Rome and N, is again infested by robbers, and dilligences having been recently am ed by thetn;, travellers haye been cent!y e6iiipelled to make the voy: :by in - French steamers. At a - meeting - held in Landon Wednesday, it was resolved to an atmospheric railway from .. mouth to London, joining thq C don line eighteen miles from -the tropolis. A. land-slip has occurred at the of the Isle of Wright, at Allied' \where upwards of an acre of land slipped into the sea: Pio one was L but a co'tt'age, and its inmates had narrow escape. Mr. Winterbottom, late Mayan Mr. Stockport, has been appreheded committed to take his trial on a c 1 of forgery. Some of the alleged genies are to a large amount, and* committed several years back. At the recent entertainment given the sons of Burns at Belfast, Rob e ' the eldest, said that he was not wallet a strong tie to the Green Isle. HI sister was the widow of an Irish gen tleman, who, when alive, resided * New Boss, and_ his" second brothel Colonel Burns, was the widower ( an Irish lady. France like England, is sufferio from rural 'conflagrations; The N= tional de l'Gu es t of the 31st 'Augusl it ports. many ftm,' and destruction c much iroperty; hile the inhabit act nc e l ate greatly alarme'd by the pre of incendtarism. Forty houses bar been burnt by one fire at Crack. II
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