REPORTER -Wednesday, December 25,.-1844. ilfe'Veo anti the rutted States. afs .tet' be at 'present the Atex . ico apf Meatrg of a great internal frevolution.- The iuilitary . dietat - or.Santa Anna, finds !liaiself Without the synipati ---- arid - -sup port 'of-the Congress and people who in- ciiue•to tbesupportof tiie revolutionary chieftain, L arcdes. Santa Anmi is char9,-- ~ ed with violating the laWs of the political arrangement on Which his power is fowli - filed, and with robbing the public treasu ry. • The rising spirit of liberty is perva ding all the states of Mexico . . Between the United States and Alexi- co,. there has arisen a: dispute, which met- 'be peacefu!ly settled, although it has 2 . iren rise to rumors that Mexico had already declared war against this country. Hon. WilSon Shannon and Mr. lic j9n, the Mexican Minisier, have engaged in a currespOndence` which has resulted in the ivithdrawalmf.The former tzenile rnan, and the. assuming of a belligerent aspect toward:the United States by Mex ico. Mr. Shannon protests against the in vasion of Texas by Mexico, so long as a treaty of annexalion is depending be tween Texas and the United States t he characterizes the declaration of war,ae barbarous, and more than intimates that, in case of invasion, the United States will take the war into its own hands.— Senor Rejon replies in a spirited and haughty manner, so offensive to our Mi nister, that he demands a retraction of the language_ apidied.to the United States.— This retraction ilejon refuses to make . — but on the . contrary, repeats lis former **rations. In -consequeUce _of this Mr. Shannon suspended all diplomatic intercourse with the government of Mex ico, and it is reported, had even deman ded his passports. The Mexican Congress has voted unanimously an approval of Senor Re ion's letters. • ASSAULT UPON JOHN QUINCY ADA'AI.3. -- - -Mr. Adams, for the short time that he has been et Washington, has managed to create hostility enough to satisfy his bel ligerent'disposition. lie is assaulted liter ally and manually. On his way to the ca pitol on Wednesday, an individual named Skenyer Seized. Mr. Adams and attempt ed to strike him. No motive is assigned for the act. The man is said to have been intoxicated. tic did 'not succeed in striking Mr. Adams. It is said Mr. A. intends to bring the subject before the House. • HARRISBURG PAPERS.—We shall pub lish a full account of the sayings and do ings at Harrisburg, this winter, but - those who. may wish a Harrisburg paper, can subscribe for the Democratic Union, published semi-weekly during the ses sion, for $2,00. For the — whole year, $3,00. The Harrisburg Argus, (dem)and Pennsylvania Telegraph (whig) are pub lished on the same terms. . POST- MASTE II AT TROT —The Post- Ala*.r Gencral has appointed FRANcis S'xim ESQ,, Tost-Master at Troy, in place of V. M. Long. This is a capital vpointment, and one which will suit the west. Our friend Sinith combines all the necessary qualifi cations for an accommodating and effi cient officer. 'FAXEN HOLY OM:MRS.—Henry S. Spackman, formerly a member of the House, but lately 'of the Senate, of Penn sylvania, is now a candidate for holy or ders in the Episcopal Church. Not the first person who has letl politics for the sacked desk . . -- • St.tioulixo.--The snow, so anxious ly expected and desired, for some time past, has at length arrived, and the bells .are ringing ‘, right merrily." It is. quite apropos for the (holidays, and brings joy to many a heart, where expected dis appointment had already cast its shadowi. , GlthAT FooT RACE.-;;;A: foot race of .twelve miles took place over the Beacon course, on Monday. 16th inst. The coni .petliors were, the Englishman ; Gyeen haigh, and Gilder Sleeve. The former woni'running twelve miles . 68 minutes and 48 seconds. k MERRY Cums-rsus, we say 'to all our readers, and i particularly merry Christmas to 'our subscribers who have allowed • their sympathie.vto remember the prinier. • • rive In lioneadale. We learn fitorn the Wayne co. Herald 'that most.a„ dei , tructiveAre, Oceurred.in that ho t to.on (ie eighl;Of tho . Akinst.. - 4 The ,4ro.l3roftVo . ut abOtit o'efeekiln" „.- 'the store `of -Mr. A.” -J: florp's entire stock of goods, together with his books and notes were, burned. Insurance on the goods, $3OOO-....-on building, - belonging to Mr. Dimrnick.and John L Allen, 8600. — .The building CeCupied by- ii.. H. More as :a -store—the 2nd story as:,a Tailor's shop, by I?. M. 13artlett, was alsowhol.:. ly destroyed : groceries bitrited4=dry goods mostly . saved,., but in a damaged state. Mr. More was-insured s3ooo— not ' , -,known. The ;building, was owned by N. M. Bartletthworth about sBoo—no- insurance: 11.-111. Barlyt's loss about $lOO. A building owned by Mr. E. o g ers, and occupied as a dwelling, a Tailor's shop, - and a Shoenr4er's shop was, also destroyedno insurbnee. Loss about $650. •, A small building occupied as a-Groce ry and a Barber's shop burned—the pro perty of George Brown—loss about $lOO. A blacksmith shop and lime house were torn down to save the large build ing of Mr. J. D. Delezenne, occupied as a store and dwelling, hrMessrs I. & A. Snyder, which . at one time was in great hazard. But a supply of waterheing obtained, it was with great exertion. sa ved. But the Messrs. Snyders suffered severely—probably to 'the amount of SION, by the removal of their goods in to the street. Most foitunately, there was little or no wind; had there - been much wind, immense destruction of property - must have ensued. - The entire- loss-and dam age cannot beless than $lO,OOO. PRESIDENTIAL Y.LECTION.—The fol lowing is the result of the Presidential election, with the Popular Vote attached: No. of Electors. Popular Vote. Por.k. CLAY. POpr.. CLAY. NI ain't., 9 , = 13000 N.Hampshire, 6 9230 Massachusetts, 12 14500 Vermont 6 . 8500 Rhode Island, 4 2476 Connecticut, 0 3353 New York, ' 36 ' - • 5026 Pennsylvania, 26 -- 6332 New Jersey, -7 , 873 Delaware, - 3 302 Maryland, -, 8 3399 VirginM, 17 - 6500 North Carolina, - 11 3945 Soath Carolina, 9 - 25000 Georgia, 10 - 2100 Alabama, 9 • - 10000 Tennesse, - 13 101 Mississippi, 6 -. , 7 10 00 60 0 : Louisiana, • 6 - Arkansas, 3 - 4500 Missouri, 7 - 12000 Illinois, 9 - 11000 Kentucky, - 12 9500 Indiana, 12 - . 2474 •-• Ohio, - 23 6052 Michigan, 5 __- 4000 175 105" 119162 52910 105 52910 Polk's maj, " 65 66251 i One lnindred and 11141 y-eight electoral votes necessary to a choice. SOO - Tn. C ARCM'S A LE GI SLATISE Mr. W. Giliner Simms introduced in the House of Delegates, on . the 26th ult., sundry resolutions, embracing the subjects of the Tariff, Texas and Abo lition, and inviting the slave-holding States to meet in Convention at Nash ville, in March, 1816. Referred to committee of the whole. SWSA : TOR. BENTON.--The present is the twenty fourth year that Col. Ben ten has occupied the wine chair in the Senate Chamber; and, should he ,bold his office until the end of the new term for which he -has just been chosen, he will of course have been a Senator for thirty years, nearly the third of a cen tury. RAT Sour."—ln Lock . flaven Pa., Whisky is now called ", Rat Soup," from the fact that, an old distiller, but now a ~teetotaller, of that place, stated in a temperance meeting that he had taken one hundred and seventy dead rats at a time out of his whisky refiners. REV. M. TORREY..--...ThiS ' gentleman, convicted, at Baltimore, of aiding. the es cape of slaves, is.notyet sentenced. - A motion to arrest judgement pends still in the court, on the droubd;'-niainly; that the indictments fail to deseribe " the. pri - • Boner as a free manor a slave. ' t CONVENTION.-A. Con vention of delegates fkoni, the,Eastern Counties of liennsylvania, on the 26tli 'day of-December, and a State Conven tion is to'be held at Harrisburg ou .the Bth Jantiary next. CPAgre,Eisiolal. ,• Congress7s : .itopears.,to'paye - gohe di 4ectiz' at Ofe:'buisifiesi, Preiideet make', for the - next four ears.;..:Cousegiteetly we , tria/e2vect . ‘ - a'short'S'eastoniandthe immediate- set tlement 'of the, affairs of thonatioii. The speaker of .the House is Mr. Jones . of Vireniai.a : gentleman.Of much talent and discernment.-... Mr. • HUNTINGDON of Connecticut, has introduced a bill in- Senate ; requir-' ing the confirin,ation 6y, that body of the appointment of . Assiktant Postmasters General. Mk: MerhiFFit, of South CaOline has reported a joint resolution, for. the immediate annexatien of Texas. _ - • Mn.. BElvrox, has 'laid before the senate, a counter project being the same as advocated by-him last session. Both projects were read twice, a-ti'd deferred to the committee on Foreign Relations. In the House, Mr. C. J. Ingersoll, has reported a joint resolution for the same purpose. It quotes the treaty concluded in April last, and suggesti it for adoption. He gave notice that he should move to go into Committee of the Whole, on • Monday, 23d, to con sider the subject. • Mn. lluxemq, ha's reported a bill ap pointing a lay for the election of Pres ident and Vice President of the United States, so that the states may vote at the same time. It will undoubtedly pass, and pipe laying .be done away with. A bill has been referred to the House commitee on Territories, for establishing a Territorial government in Oregon. In the Senate,. the bill for the relief of the heirs of Robert Fulton, has been or derail° be engrossed, and read a third time. The bili fixing a uniform time for tio election of President of the United StateS has passed the House of Representatives: The day named in the bill, on which the election is to be held, is the first Tuesday after the second Monday in Novemser. SOUTH CADOLIN'A AND MASsAcnu sErrs.=--The difficulty of some import ance has arisen between these two States. It appears that the Hon. Sam uel Hoar, a gentleman of high standing as a lawyer and citizen; had been ap , pointmenti b by the Governor_ of Massa chusetts to reside- at Charleston, and -extend legal protection to the free ne gro citizens or_Massachusetts entering .the State of South Carolina. In the mouth Carolina Legislture, on the 4th .trist., a message waspeeived from the Wirernor, transmitting a letter he had received from Mr. -Hoar, declaring the object of his visit to be to ascertain the names and numbers of such citizens of Massachusetts as may now be, or have heretofore been imprisoned in the State of South Carolina, by virtue of certain laws of that State, and to test the same before the , S'uprente Court of the Called States. Immediately after the presentation of the message a series of resolution were introduced, declaring the necessity of the objectionable law in question, and denying the right ot, Massachusetts to require South Carolina to extend to free Persons of color the same rights and immunities are "secured by the Con stitution of the United States to her own citizens alone." The Governor was also directed to expel Mr. Hoar, immediately, froth the boards of_South Carolina. Mr. Hoar, not waiting for the compul: sory orders given by the Legislature to expel him from the State, to be carried into effect, immediately started for the North, where the result of his mission wilt doubtless produce considerable ex citement. UNITED STATES SENATOR.-Me see proposed, in variotts quarters of the State, for the station of United States Senator; the names of the Hon Daniel Sturgeon, Wilson M'Candless, Esq., Hon. David Wilnaot, Gen. Packer, Hon. Gee. W. Woodward, Hon. John 'Bredin, Hon. John Gal braith, Col. James R. Snowden, Hon- Nathaniel B. Eldred, Gen. John Da vis, Mules W. , Elegin,s, Esq., Hon. Thos. S. Bell, lion. E. -B. Hubley, James Clarke, Esq., POll. David R. Porter. . - • • DiscosTpitrao.--_-The , National En quirer, 4:Tyler paper . printed at tlarris. nig v haw.beeii - tnerged.into:: - the. Harris. • - • News Irom all At llartford' Conn. ) ; "on gatitiday . morniag, the mercury stood 'at.7 abQ:u f e zero. The :Connectieut 'river" tras,of ; , course, effectually closed. The grist milrof - Zaclziariali Harwood of East. R u -pert. Vt., consumed on the Morning of the 18th ult.,'at about two o'clock.. Loss - ftstimated-at_S3ooo, sured $l2OO. 'Tile Virginia Annualf donfererieeof the Methodist Episeopii Chtiich Maimed its session onl i lie lath of No veinkerat Lynchburg. A man named John K. aged cp, was:aceidelaily at New York, on Saturdat night, by a fall 6e.in. a house., . 1 , • 1 i The editor of an .Albany paper, speaking of the weather says :—"The air was a bracing' as . a pair of corsets." Happy simile. i A trifi'n named,Jahn Bradshaw, under the influence of mania.a;pote, commit. mitted suicide at ' FrUnkfort, Pa.,'on Thursday. The Madisonian announces that Mrs. Tyler's days of reception, at the' Presi dent's Mansion, are Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays. Mr. Polk receives precisely the'same number of electoral votes (one hundred and seventy,) that Mr. Van Buren - re ceived •in 1836. The Providence Herald states that Thos. W. Dorr . completed his. 30th year on Tuesday, the, sth instant. The negroes of Philadelphia are bti slly employed in the slaughter of cats, whose skins are used in the manufac ture of caps, << very much in the fash- ion" there. It stated that the fastest teelotaller in existence is the aka* engine; it takes nothing but water, and can go liorn twenty to forty mites an hour. The lion. Savage„, who presided in the Electoral College of New York on Wednesday, gave.anTelectoral vote for ty years 'ago for ThOtnas Jefferson. Mr. Cothe, a Saxon Miner, gives it as his opinion that the gold mines of North Carolina are equal to any in Europe or Brazil. Ten millions of bullion have already been obtained from the North Carolina mines. A negro found one lump of ore at Reitrs mine which was worth 88,000. Her Hriesbach; the wild beast tamer recently' travelling through western Pennsylvania, espio a deer, but dare not shoot it, as the act was illegal. He therefor set his tiger upon the deer, and soon had a savory haunch of veni son.. The Arielt of evasion was worthy of a " In Goshen, they cover the hands with linen gloves and forcibly work out the buttermilk, and thus, by excluding the air in packing, the article -long, keeps sweet. The New York , True Sun says that a munificent table cover, wrought by Harriet Martineau ' for the ladies' Anti- Slavery Fair;to be held on Christmas week at Armory Hall, is now ,on its way to this country. Its market value • is SlOO. Dr. M. Clay Wallace ; of New York, insists, in the Boston y lledical and Sur gical Journal, that oysters are unwhole some. I.V hen eaten in immoderate numbers they certainly are. A diseased potato° was magnified 0000 times at 0 3ford, Massachusetts, and found to contain animalcule: with bodies like the soldier ant, and legs like the hairy garden spider. Six large gutis (for the U. Go,vern- Meta are about being finished at Pitts. burg. They weigh seven tons each in the rough, , and are to weigh 'five tons When finiilted. Mr. tlirney has commenced suits against a great number of Ohio. and Pennsylvania editors, by whom, he asserts, be has been The body Of a newly born fethale child was fouridlon Thursday - near the ! Episcopal church, now being erected 'in Spring Garden, Philadelphia. -The little creature's throat has been cut. Thecelebrted Congress Spring, at Saratoga, - produces its owner, Dr. Clat:ke, an income of twenty., thousand dollars -a year: The fact was: elicited at a recent trial before Vice chancellor i • • A . dhiuney. !near.Cheslitre, 49 feet in - .diant reeently. l been built 'England, 309 feet high, ,eter.at i : thp-base, , and 9 it is of conical form.— seasons of three years y cdin building it. ac is`nnw .on .a visit to at the Hermitage. feet at the top The sumniei has been empl Major Da. :Gen: Sacklopi Bradford County Court. a ions. The diy was takea up in , dOposing of pact O(thiariurnOitliit;and.in set tling the docket.' • ." Dec:- 15);.•184 .,. 1 The . Hon. m JeSsup.tooklifs • - seat °Vile bench this morning, for the PPFP. 4 4\9 I .- - 494 1 ing---- 441 P04-C9- 11 a4- &tit the . pa4t,ies not Aping ready he did not prOceed s to, business till afternoon. The forenocaTS-occupied-•-itrfurther disposing•of the argument list, certiora ris, • Hs, &e. • \ .In the afteilioon; Jut,* lesstip_ealled over his • ' - In the case of Rebecca Se.hratler vs. Decker and ' others, the plaintknot be ing 'ready, ,the Cotartentered a no \ ksult. •• The case of O. P. BALI,MID t's. tCoo. s w DEzrr l / 2 was then commenced.. hrs. was an ejectinent.,„for . . a tract of land situate in the township of Burlington. Verdict for the defortdanl.. TIIITRSDAV, Dec-. 12th, 1844. Before John N. Convngharn, Presi- dent Judge.. JpiEs li. PIIINNEY to, the use of Sons llA.ssux -vs. GEO. TRAY.—TIII9 was an action brought to recover the value of an ark, in whiCh the facts were sub stantially as follows. In . the spring of 1842, Hiram Baker went to Wilson Decker,,to purchase an ark', Decker -offered Min one for sixty five dollars, to be paid •on his return from down theriver, provided he would secure the payment of the above amount at that time. Baker applied to Phinner to belcome surely for him. Mr. Phinney declined doing so,-assigning as a reason, the. ab sence of his partner, Mr. Hanson ; but at last consented to do so, if Baker would procure some other person to indemnify or save him harmless. Mr. Tracy agreed, in common parlance, to back bait Mr. Phinney. This arrange ment' having been effected, Phinney drew an order on Decker to .de'liver up Baker his ark, and stated that lie would see him paid. When-Baker went to get the ark, Decker had gone down the river, and it was in the possession of Richard Delong. Whether -Decker or Delong owned the ark at that time, did not distinctly appear. HoWever. Mr. Phinney direbted De long to let Baker have the arkrpromis ing to see him paid as before . . Mr. TraCy was not consulted. in re lation to' the second order, -and it was on this ground that he sought to defeat a recovery by the plaintiff. • It was contended that. the defendant had incurred no liability to indemnify Phinney, if he was compelled to pay for an ark procured by Baker of any either • person than Decker; and that the plaintiff having voluntarily paid or secured to be paid, the price of the ark before he was legally compelled so - to do, could not recover. It was alleged on the part of the plaintiff, that it could make no differ ence-of whom the ark was obtained,s6 long as it was the same, andwas called the Decker ark to contra-distinguish it from Noah's ark, &c, FRID'AY, Dee. 13,1344. • In the case of Phinney vs. Tracy, the Jury found for the defendant. RUSSEL'S Administrators vs. SosErtl Busn.—Action on- a promissory note, barred by the statute of limitations, the amount of which was sought 'to be re covered by showing an acknowledg ment to pay within six years. The testimony, however,not 4eingsnilicient ly conclusive, the case went for the de fendant. ALEXANDES. HEIZIARD VS. W s. GlB SON.—The,testimony. in this case was gone through_withl when a suggestion having beeiimade, that the plaintiff had better amend his declaration, and coun. sel having ;concluded to-do so ; the op posite party-was taken by Suiprise, and the cause) Was continued. 'We will state - the.facts in the case after it Shall have. beett(tried. • • REMARR t ABIIE GUVITY.--M C. John Hightower,-of Marange county, Ala bama, died in"AugUsrlast, having attains ed thc,rer n arkable:nge' of-oni hundred anciswenty-sl4, \vas a sol dier in, the revointionafyyivar-as at Byaddocki, s defeat, and received a mound in thit hide::: • • TUE 6:IAL , TRADE.The total am% of coal transported this 'season, from the Schuylkill zegion; i§ 813, 824 07 MOI 4 IDAY, Dee, 9th 1844. SATunDAr,' Dce 14th, 1844 mow is an article Pra m ‘ 4ITISII GOLD ,Cdagite,"of the I.oth of 0 0l b o e r , noticing the infamous forgery Nice ing British Gold • being subscribed Manchester, for the purpose of a i di in the'circulatiO of free trade tr act , the 'United States. This R eer b a c, figured' rather conspicuously in :-Vtiltilpaper-.durkig the - late can vn , Indecd,„Wo believe some of them tr , so far as to say that boxes of saidtra ca - AOen 16 , this cou ntry, a were being circulated. Th e a lb, Evening, Journal, should, fi ne , have the honor of its paternity, TnE AMERICAN PrtEszomiet~ the late' arrivals from America, it nro , appear that a 'considerable chance • taking place in reference to the pr peas Of the two candidates for the p sidency. The friends of Mr, C , seem to be leSs confident, but Ili , olent in- their language,lkineh, vituperation, certainly eclipses a, • think,we have ever read in Eur ope we t3l.aerve that their newspapersli. been forging " capital," spreading tle report, that the Free'p tiers in EngParld have subscribed £lO 000 to assist. in\earrying the election Polk. We expect to hear !text, we are setting, hp,netv dynasty Pekin. By the wad, the inventor this story—the editor ofdfie 'Neter Republic newspaper-4ught to whipped by his employers, o: clumsiness with which he Ita,kr, what Sheridan calls the " endorserne to the lie," He pretends to give port of the public meeting in Match ter, at which this subscription , commenced, and puts Lord Pre . voit the chair. Be it known to all inte rest. that Manchester has no such Cunctia, ry ; and we need hardly add, that persons over whom he presided, oh list of whose names is given in .Republir, had no bodily existence the It is bad enough for the reputation American Democracy in Europe, trh we are told, that there are any number of persons in the United Sta , -to be deluded by such trash : het w must be thought. of the Eipridi. other protectionist prints. whePin gulled by raw-and-blnody-hones c !u n : such as the above ? school children would be pronfigii such clumsy atttempts upllll then dttiitv." MESSRS. EDITORS.—On the EastS bath I enjoyed the pleasure ollisteei to an excellent discourse from the de in the Methodist Chapel, aid was prised to hear the speaker . tissert po tively, that tae phrase the pram the wicked is an abomination to t sight of the Lord," could not be fee in the Bible—nor anything that eu be construed to such a Meaning immediately searched the ,scro whether those things werl so," a found at Proverbs 28, 0, „ He t turneth away his car from hearing tta law, ever: his prayer shall be aa nation. See also, Proverbs 15. The sacrifice of the nicked abomination to the L0r,1." Prove 15, 26, .• The thou.7lils of tlie are an abomination to the Proverbs 21, 4, *, The plough4oi tricked is sin." TRIAL Or POLLY MODINt. - Court of Over and Tenniaer mond county. after htinE coglgc'' days in. endenvorioir :a obtain a being successful is o yt 1, 1.1 Ain; elocrl rots only, an Silr:t.r.ing tour dtit - t , fruitless encieavers ie ottetn e; and having ciihrtus.tetl - the count, ceded to a, raotioa made on Tliurs evening by the counsel for the pr= Cr,: , to suspend proceedings inue. motion for change of venue be made to the Supreme Court. rbrrt TO BE REBUILT.—TiIe CI Valley Rail Road Briclac la!e!y des:. ed by tire, is to be relcei t. PAIN IN THE SIDE AND fIFAST , ACR, &c.—Wrif..7.lit's Indian Ver Pills are a certain cure for ecer;-, scription of headach, becaoc cleanse the body froin those morbia mors, which, if confined to the ach, are the cause of nausea all ness, want of appetite, disagree' taste in the mouth, bad breath , of the gums, decayed teeth, and 5 other distressingeomplaints; ands taken 'into • the Circulation and tbr' upon the various parts of the IiNIY• rise to every malady incident 105 • For sale at the store ofJ.D.: D. iNlontanye, in Townalla , ypd agents published in another colum this paper. LW — Caution .—As are abroad, avoid all stores es d , t, character, and be particular. es. to ask f or •irri4his i n di I ca table Pills. cone Married. 'ln Monroe township, on the t tit tr 4. J. W. Nevins,s..or • Miss &Irma LYON this Drough o& Thursday 0014 IA ins b y' the same. JOHN 11 la 51 1 . ) • JAN E BuistoN all of this ur ~p b 4 ..,14Nag lEM