REPORTER
Wcdnesday,, May 7, 1845.
1,4 1
The Office of the Bradford Re
porter has been removed to Col.
Means' Brick Store, (up stairs,)
entrance on the North side.
War with England.
, The news brought by the last steam
ship, of the proceedings , of the British
Minissry,'is of Of cidedly a warlike as
pect, and has g'iv'en rise to many:specu
lations upon the prospect of a war with
Great Britain. ,
We can see no good ground for rais
ing such a cry of war, in the proceed
ings and acts of John Bull ; the Pre
sident's Inaugural has merely stirred
him up, and he must growl. But En
gland has no serious, settled' wish to
involve herself in a protracted, and
bloody war with this country. Though- ,
she is trying to divide and distract the
confidence of the people from our
Chief Executive, she is well aware,.
that however they may differ in ques
tions of national policy, the nation,
with one heart and hand wilt rally rally
under her star-spangled banner. in de
fence of their country and its beloved
institutions, when either shall be attack
ed. And though she talks loudly of
the danger ,which slavery threatens to
our country in case of war, she cannot
forget the shores of the fast anchored
isle," enclose the elements of political .
revolution, which but waiman opportu
nity to develope itself ;—nor that adja
cent to her own horns, there is a peo
ple, the most oppressed of any nation
in the world." Her Ministers know
full well thLt a war with the United
Stares for Oregon might bring that debt
oppressed nation to bankruptcy, and
would certainly lose Ahem Canada.
War could not come at a better mo
ment for our country. With a Chief
Magistrate whom all delight to hon•
or," the operations of the Government
Nliould not be impeded by opposition,
and the whole strength and resources of
our Republic could be brought to bear
to bring the question to a speedy issue t
. But the Americans are a people of
peace, and in their connexions with
foreign nations have sedulously avoided
every avenue which led to national war
fare. They will, however, submit to
nothing that is not clearly right, espe
cially. from Great Britain ; for we
whipped her, most undutifully, we ac
knowledge, while a mere , child ; thrash
ed her, affectionately,before we were out
of our teens ; and now that our bounda
ries reach from Pacific to Atlantic, and
our enterprising inhabitants, gun in
hand, have penetrated our length and
breadth, whd can doubt the result.
We give below an extract from. the
Globe, , which looks a little s' fightish "
we acknowledge, but we set it downas
an offset to some similar paper bullets
which the leading Britivh Journals have
been firing off, and intended like theirs,
for a foreign market.
No patriotic man desires war with
any nation, and particularly with Great
Britain, if it can be avoided. It is a ca
lamity, whether recarded in its effects
upon individuals or upon the nation,
which cannot be too much deplored.—
It is not from mere timidity, or appre
hension of suffering themselvei i person•
ally, that our people have shown them
selves averse to conflict. It is from
the higher principle of religious duty—
a knowledge of the crimes attendant up
on war, its pernicious influences: upon
individual character, and its effects in
retarding the growth of our empire, on
which hangs so much of hopes of man
kind, for the moral and intellectual im
provement, and civil liberty of the
race.
" Yet have we been forced, at times,
and.that too under the mildest of our
rulers, from this, the settled policy of
our government; and it is our solemn
conviction that we shall soon again be
called on to take up arms against - our
former and only adversary. It is per
fectly manifest that they regard this as
a favorable moment to renew the sys
tein of aggression ,upon us which
has resulted in war heretofore ; which
to subinit to, is only to invite new
wrongs—wrongs premeditated, not for
the advantage which accrues ; to them,
I but arranged and settled upon merely
as the means of bringing on the con
flict of arms, or an entire abandonment
of our rights: as a nation. The Only
mode to avoid this is the firm adherence
by the President to the letter and spirit
of his inaugural address. He will be
sustained by (the nation in that; for,
notwithstanding the English ministers
choose' to level Their lanai at Mr. Polk,
it is not to be forgotten that the previous
action of the House of Representatives
had, by an immense majority, given
their sanction to his language. • By the
truckling abandonment of our rights
pursued by Mr. Webster in the Ash
burton treaty, we loss the subject of
controversy, forfeited the respect of the
world and of ourselves, and invited
new and unfounded pretensions from
our adversary."
DARING. OETRAGE !—We learn from
the Montrose Register the particulars of
a most daring assault and,robbery, com
mitted on Monday evening, the 28th
ult. Just after 9 o'clock, as Mr. JERE
MIAH ,ETHERIDGE was going home.frbin
his Grocery store, having turned the
corner from Turnpike street toward the
retired situation of his own dWelling,
he was way-laid by a fellsw with a
club, who sprang_ from behind a wood
pile just below the hiouse of J. W.
Raynsford Esq., and struck him sever
al blows over the antis and head.—
While parrying off the blows as well as
he could, he cried out loudly for help,
and saw a larger man coming as he
supposed to his assistance, but it proved
to be another villain, who struck him a
still heavier blow, which brought him
to the ground, where after striking him
several times apparently to still him,
they seized his little trunk of money
and papers, and fled past his house to
ward the swamp below. He was thus
robbed of between two and three hun
t,
dred i dollars in cash, (besides many
valuable papers,) by two rogues who
must have „known well his
. habits of
carrying home evenings that little trunk
of money. His cries for help soon
called together most of our citizens,
with many people who were in atten
dance at court, and diligent search was
made in the direction they went, as
well as the,darkness of the night would
permit, but no certain traces of the rob
bers could be found. Mr. Etheridge
wait severely, (though not dangerously).
bruised on both sides of the head and
arms, and bled pretty freely along the
side walk, from the place of attack to his
house."
A reward of $250 has been offered
for the detection of the villains, and
$5O by Mr. Etheridge for the recovery
of his property, but as yet no traces
have been discovered of either.
DREADFUL EARTUQUAKE.—The city
of Mexico was desolated on the 7th ult.
by a dreadful earthquake which destroy.
ed a vast amount of property with many
lives. The following are all the par
ticulars we are able to give.
It is impossible to ascertain the de
struction. Not a house or a doof but
bears the marks of this terrible calami
ty. Many of them are cracked and
greatly injured, others are 'tottering;
and others entirely fallen. San Loren
zo, La Misericordia, Tompaste, Zapo
'and Victoria streets and the Grand
street have particularly suffered. The
aqueducts were broken in several
places. The bridge of Trzontlale is
demolished, The Hospital of Saint
Lazarus is in ruins, and the churches
of San Lorenzo and San Ferdinand
,greatly injured.
The magnificent chapel of Saint Te
resa no long exists. At the first shock
the cupola, a building of astonishing
strength and great beauty fell, and was
soon followed by the vault beneath the
tabernacle and the tabernacle itself.
Fortunately all those in a church so
much frequented, succeeded in escap
ing. At eight o'clock last evening,
seventeen persons had been taken from
the ruins of other buildings and carried
to the .Hospital.
RAIL ROAD Accluzyr.--We learn
from the Lancaster lutelligencer, that
while the cars were paseing along -in
the neighborhood of the bridge,, near
that city, the son of Henry Wilhelm,
one of their citizens, in attempting to
jump upon the cars, missed his footing
and fell with his foot upon the rail,
having it mangled in a serious condi
tion..
TIM Bow( of Gen• Mather's son,
who was lost in the Swallow, has been
found.
Imporiani troll% 111.exlco
CLOSE OP DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BE
TWEEN MEXICO AND U. S.—The latest
accounts from .Mexico represent that
impoverished and feeble Republic in
rather a belligerent attitude toward the
United States. Whether ; that Ration
will take upon itself the responsibility
of declaring war upon this country, un
aided and alone, is a matter of much
doubt. But she may, by the influence
and representations of England, be in
duced to oppose the annexation of Tex
as, even at the point of the sword.
, The diplomatic relations of the two
countries have been closed, by a letter
from the Mexican Foreign Minister, to
Mr. Shannon, dated March 28,: and_ a
circular addressed.by the same function
ary to the European Ministers.
The first announces the Minister as
addressing himsblf for the last time to
Mr. Shannon, and informs him, that
as both ;'rouses of the Uniie4 States
Congress have sanctioned the law in
relation to the annexation of Texas to
the territory of the United States, and
as the Minister from Mexico has with
drawn fiom his mission at Washington,
and protested against the act of Con
gress, and the Government of the United
States, diplomatic relations between the
two countries cannot be continued.—
That he laments that two nations, free
and republican, contiguous; and worthy
of a fraternal union, founded upon mu
tual interests and a common and hon
orable loyalty, should have cut short
their friendly relations, and by. an act
as offensive to Mexico as it is deroga
tory to the honor of the American Un
ion.
He renews the protest directed against
annexation, and adds that the Mexican
Government will oppose the measure
with all the decision due to her own
honor and sovereignty.
The. general circular was addressed
to the Minister Plenipotentiary of En
gland. France, and Spain, and is a pro
test against the acts of the United States,
and show a determination; if we may
believe their important• and bullying
language, to oppose the Annexation of
Texas, at every cost.
Other advices from Mexico state that
a majority of Congress are decidedly
averse to declaring war against the
United' States, but will send a large
force to Texas with the object of con
quering it, by this means forcing the
United States to declare war, if she
wishes to protect Texas.
If Mexico does not recede from the
belligerent position she has taken, we
see no alternative for the United States,
but to step forward, and protect Texas.
It is now too late for her to recede, with
honor to herself and-justice to Texas.
As much as we deprecate war, with its
evils, we trust that our Democratic Ad
ministration will not succumb to the
crafty policy of England, envious of
our acquisition of the territory 6f Texas,
nor to the braggadocies and blusterings
of an impotent nation like Mexico.
lOWA REFUSES TO ENTER TUE UNION.
--A majority of her people having on
the 7th ult., rejected the constitution
and boundaries proposed by Congress,
a compromise, satisfactory to all parties,
will 'probably be adopted by the Terri
torial Legislature next month. All
agree upoh the western boundary ex
tending to the Missouri river, but can
not agree on the northern boundary,
the southerners wishing to extend it as
far as possible, and the people north of
latitude forty-two, desiring separate or
ganization as a new territory, for which
they propose the name of Washington.
This, with the new territory of Superi
or, from Wisconsan, will make four
new states in the north-west.
NEW AND CHEAP GOODS.-It will be
seen, by reference to our advertising
columns, that our merchants are, replan•
ishing their shelves with new goods,
which are offered at unusually low
low prices. Persons coming to town,
to trade, will do well to take notice of
those stores which advertise, as they
may be sure of finding there the best
goods and the fairest prices.
COL. JOHN T. CUNNINGHAM, one of
the Representatives from Beaver coun
ty, iti the Pennsylvania Legislature,
died on board the canal - boat, on his
way home, on Saturday 2Gth ult.
MAIL WAR STEAMSHIP. —The Madiso
nian says that tire Postmasterpenaral
will bring the subject of rnall war steam
ships before the cabinet, as soon is the
northern lettings are over.
Benefits ot Adverthing;
Strange, aiijt may Seem. there are
individuals .ht.the world who cannot see.
the advantages` of atli:ertisinitiherellys!
or are too peiturioutte cOnsulttheii own
interest. They areb'Shlnd the age; al
together, and we . preieUt thein• the fol
lowing advantages •of adyertising, cut
from the Hollidaysburg Standard t—
• The•• idiantagelTO adiertiiing are
three fold.• • Firstthe person whe:ad
vertises in a Aewspaper, chews plainly
that he is anxious to sell . what he may
enumerate - advertisement ettlieing
for salef—thatihe wishes the people to
call and see for, themselvets—,he seeks
no. concealment, but :solicits : publicity,
for his butiness—fears no competition,
and is not afraid - to come before the.
public. 'Consequently, in the - second
1430, it is to the advantage .of the 'peo
ple to' call and deal with-such a .man.—
He ie plain and honest in the matter— I
he puts on no air of independence, and
shows by his conduct that he is indiffer
ent as to whether the people call to see
him or noti Depend upon it, he is
your man for a CHEAP BARGAIN. He
is out before the people,' seeks their
patronage, and will not let a sale slip
through his finger by hanging on for a
penny. No—rely upon it,'TOUR AD
VERTISING BUSINESS MEN ARE THE MOST
LIBERAL IN THEIR DEALINGS.
The third-and last, is, that it helps
to , support to printer ; and who, we
would ask, needs assistance more than
the printers of nearly every country
.town ?—what class of men are so
-poorly paid for their labor as they are?
In conclusion, we would say, don't
neglect to look over our advertising
eolunins—you will always And some
thing there that it will be to your ad
vantage to know. And, to business
men we would say, hand in your adver
tisements—by laying out a dollar or
two in patronising the printer, he, in
return, will give such publicity to your
business as will bring hundreds of dol
lars worth of .custom to your establish
ment.
We would, moreover, say, that we
consider the Reporter, an excellent
channel for advertising, as it has a lar
ger :circulation than any other paper
ever had in Bradford, and quite equal,
to any paper in Northern Pennsylva
nia. When we get the borders of our
paper enlarged, and have plenty of el
bow room, which will be at the com
mencement of the next volume, we
shall be ready to insert any quantity
of advertisements at the usual rates:
viz—One square, fifty cents for the
first, and twenty-five cents for every
subsequent insertion. Yearly adver
tisers ten dollars.
Row AT TIIE UNIVERSITY OF VlR
cama..—We learn from the Richmond
Star, that a most shameful riot has oc
curred at the University of Virginia.—
The students, it seems, commenced a
series of mock serenades on the i• Cala
thumpian " principle, which being de
nounced by the Professors, their houses
were mobbed, one after the other, fire
crackers thrown into them, and other
outrages perpetrated of an exceedingly
alarming character, especially to females
and children. These disgraceful scenes
were followed night after night, until it
become necessary to call in the police,
and finally the military force, and the
University is now in the possession of
a body of 500 soldiers. Some efforts
have been made towards a reconcilia
tion, and a set of resolutions were pass
ed by the students at a formal meeting
for that purpose, but the rioters refused
to sign their names to them. Most of
the students have left ; the Faculty, it
is understood, will resign, and for the
present the college appears to be bro
ken , up. Many of the students, says
the Star, took no part in this shameful
affair, but there is a point of honor
among all students not to be tale-bearers,
even upon the guilty. This is a point
of honor, in such a case,-more honored
in the breach than the observance.
WALLISTER'e OINTMENT.-4n an
other column may be found an adver
tisement of an All-Healing Ointment,
said to be a capital _ remedy for most
the ills that flesh is heir to." It is
very highly recommended by those who
have made use of it.
`Pus• taniort Casa.-The trial of
John Rice and Wm. H. Winder, on a
charge of defrauding the,Northampton
Bank, took phtee at Lancaster, on
Thursday 24th ult.; and , resulting in Lim
acquittal of the defendants.
BOWERY TURATRE BURNT.•••••Tha N
Y. Express states that about 6 &clock
on Friday afternoon, site broke out 10
the carpenter's shop of 'the. Bowety
.
Theatre; which extended, -with-aston
ishing rapidity, to the main portion. of
.
the house, and-in tele than thirty ini
notes every part of the extensive build-
ing, 7 . with - its splendid scenery and pro
perties, were involved in one vast mass
of flame. A high wind from-the east-
ward prevailed at the time, throwing
immense 'cinders to the distance of near
ly a quarter of a mile. The heat from
the burning edifice was excessive, plac-
n in great jeopaidy the buildings ad-
jacent on klilabeth,'Motti Buyaril,.the
Bowery, and other streets, the inmates
of which removed their furnittire, and
consternation and - alarrii 'appeared in'
every direction to - prevail. The flames
were • confined almost .entirely to the
Theatre itself, which, in the course of
; an hour or an hour and a half, was but'
is heap of ruins. Tho building extend
ed through the whole block from . the
Bowery to Vlizabeth street, and was
very wide and capacious. Some ofthe
buildings in the vicinity took fire, but
the flames were soon extinguished. It
being a period of the day when most
of the men connected with the various
dwellings were absent from home, the
alarm and terror exhibited by the wo
men and children, is almost impossible
to depict. To the -shame of spectators
be it said, that in too many instances
they stood idly by and permitted wo
men. without assistance, to°emove the 1
various articles of heavy household fur- 1
niture, &c. Great effort was necessary
on the part of those occupying premises
to the eastward of theburning building,
to prevent injury from the cinders which
fell upon them.
The Theatre was owned by a com
pany, in which Mr. Hamblin was the
largest stockholder. Little or none of
it was insured.
This makes the fourth time in which
the Bowery Theatre has been burnt.--'-
The first was in 1828, and the last,
previous to this, in 1837. The first
time was under Mr. Gitfert's manage.
ment, the second under Mr. Hamblin,
the third under Mr. Dinneford, and now
again under Mr. Hambin. It is under
stood that it will be immediately re
built.
A SCENE AT TILE PRESIDENT'S HousE
—An insane person, named Milton
Fowler, walked into the President's
house at Washington,. on Friday,,2sth
ult., the Madisonian says, carrying un
der each arm a loaf of bread, and in
each hand a bottle of wine. Having
deposited his provisions, with extreme
nicety, in a safe place, and after resting
a few moments on one of the very soft
est cushions of the recepuon-room i he
drew a knife and attempted to enter the
private room of the ladies. They call
ed for assistance and he was sent to
LANCASTER COUNTY MARBLE.—The
marble quarry of Philip Reitzel, Esq.,
about nine miles from the city of Lan
miter, in this State, opened about a
year ago, produces fine white marble,
and is improving greatly as the excava
tion increases. It is susceptible of a
very high polish, and is said to - be pe
culiar in resisting rain or frest.: Mr.
Reitzel has erected a steam-power in
Lancaster, at his marble yard, and is
sawing it up into mantels, tomb-stones
sills, and platforms.
ACCIDENT.—On Thursday the 17th
inst., a man by the name of Moses e
Glossen, while in the act of getting into
the omnibus which conveys the passen
gers from the Harrisburg railroad depot
across the river, fell under the wheel
and was run over, and was so seriously
injured that he died in a short time af
terwards. He was very much intoxica
ted at the time, and had been married
the evening before.
Vigo ELECTION.—The Rich
mond Compiler, (Whig,) gives the re
sult briefly as follows :—lt is now
placed almost beyond a doubt that the
Democrats have carried the Senate and
Rouse of Delegates,. and have elected
fourteen out of fifteen members of Con
gress. Legislative Democratic gain,
10. Whig gain 3. Clear Whig loss,
7—which makes a difference - of four
teen—giving the Democrats decided
majorities in both Houses.
TUE RUOUE ISLAEII LEOISLATERE
Iwill Meet on the 6th filet, The moat
,;important question which will come
1 before it will lbe,tlie liberation of Dorr„
News froth all Nation%
The Alton, Illinois Telegraph, lays:
We regret to learn that our disunguiepett
dSe.telrmiBlien eBdmuipthOnEreele°,l.
c fel h lo je w ig c o t , ti h z a e s n,
n
ing from this State tat ee Ph r i p,
lad ; e i l a p t l e li b a o . ndl
of
A steam cotton factory is r about t o l e
established in Marblehead, Mass.t
The o ffi ce of the Western and A I
anli e
e ßailroad a
n a d t Mariet ta, robb e doai.
as.recen t i y
- and gold to - the amount' of $2,500.
The Hon. James Cooper at present a
Representative, in the Legislature from
Adams county and the Hon. Charles
B. - Penrose. of Carlisle, and l a i c s o
hcitor of the U. S. Treasury Intend ie.
moving to Lancaster city in a fe l ,
weeks.-*---The Hon. Leveret Saltot
stall member of Congress lion] Man e
chusetts, is lying dangerously ill at his
residence in Salem. ---A block of
buildings at Perrysburg, Mich., own e d.
by C.spt, D. Wilkinson, and occupied
by Hall & Co. and one or two o ch e
traders was burned a few nights since'
Loss on the building, s2ooo,en th..
goods $l5OO, and no insurance in eithe
case.—A colored woman; name.
Catharine Freebody, who died at Hart
ford, Ct. on the ,6th instant left Ittioi
each to four religious societies, s2oot,
•
another and $lOO to the African Sock
ty of Hartford• for the support of the
ministry.—A Chalk of a very sope
rior quality has been found in lug:
quantities in Morgan county, Missouri.
—The brig Baltimore for Boston,
came in contact with the brig Pearl
from Boston for Phtladelphia, on the
night of the 16th instant, and received
much injury. She was leaking badly,
both pumps going, and a steamboat had
been despatched from New York to
tow her into that port. —The Hon.
James Shields, one of the Judges of the
Sufreme Court of Illinois, has been
appointed Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office, and commenced the
performance of his duties at Washing
ton, on Friday last.--The game of
the Madisonian will be changed after
the Ist of May, to the a. The United
States Journal," and not the Con
stellation," as originally intended,
General Samual- Milroy has been ap
pointed Indian Agent in Indiana, n
place of Gen. Hamilton resigned
The report of the loss of an American
ship of war at San Blass, proves to le
totally unfounded.-----Memphis,
flourishing metropolis of West Team.
see, is said to have grown more rapidly
during the last tenlyears than'almost
any city in the Union.—Mr. 'I hemp
son, of Mississippi, who was appointed
by Governor Brown to fill the vacancy
in the Senate of the United States, oc•
easioned by thp resignation of !dr.
Walker, has declined the office.—
The carpenter shop of Mr. Wolf, in
Washington, D. C. was destroyed by
fire early on Saturday morning last—
Loss s2ooo.—The Maryland His.
torical Society has resolved to publish
the
Carroll,o Journallkept
Carrollton,by t ii
o n o
J ha ourn d :
to Canada, in 1776, as one of the cow
missioners from Congress. ---Snot .
fell to the depth of five inches, at San
e
dusky, Ohio, on the 7th 103 .
distillery of Leon Beardaley, pea
Franklinton, Gino, was burned 0
Saturday morning. Loss e 350 0--
The United States steam revenue cut
ter M'Lean, was launched at Boston
on Sunday 27th ult.—Senor Gorr
Pedraza has been appointed Ministe,
from Mexico to France, to settle exist•
ing difference between the two govern
menta.—A new Protestant EON
pal Church wan consecrated at Wen
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the 41,
ult.—The Rt. Rev. the Lord Nebo ,
of Newfoundland, arrived at Nei , York
on Saturday in, the schooner Attiivel,
from Bermuda. M. A rage IS
to have won a considerable sum on
bet that the Seine at Paris would b.
frozen over on the sth of March.
was frozen hard enough to bear s
viage.—The Order of Odd RR or
in St. Louis, Mo., 'propose to
commodious Hall, the estimated costa
which is 812,000.—Several old at
furnaces in Pennsylvania, are to be r
newed, among them the Sarah An
Furnace, near Columbia, and soothe
near Middletown, Dauphin countY•
A boy named Charles Weaver, died
the House of Refuge, at St. LOU'S'
few days since, from the e ffect , '
6el
swallowing a piece of tobacco.- ---
Jackson was very ill, from last again
They have abolished all imps'
onment for debt in Iolia!
ri