ratfol`t 24(tpotitr.
Towanda, Wednesday, April 26, 1848
FOR PRESIDE:4I" a, VICE 'AItrASIDENT,
Nominees 01 the National Convention.
• 131:113CTONAL TICKET.
Wrt..tt ix Hi ot.sa,of Clearfield.
DAVID D. WAIVIVELIL, of Northampton,
Sena ' . °rid '
I. Henry L. Benner. 13. John C. King.
2. Horn R. Kneasa. 14. John Weidman.
3. Isaa"hunk. 15. Robert J. Fisher.
4. A. L. Ronmfort. 16. Frederick Smith.
5. Jacob S. Yost. 17. John Criswell.
6. Robert E. Wright. 18. Charles A. Black.
7. Wm. W. Downing. 19. Geo. W. Bow=man.
N. Henry ljaldertian. 20. John R. Shannon.
9. Prter Kline. 21. George P. Hamilton
10. B. 8. Schoonsliver. 22. W. S. Davis. r
1 I„.Vl'. S wetland. 23. Tirnothe Iveq. •
12. Jdnah Brewster. 24. jamis G. Campbell.
FOR fintil, COILIIISSIONER,
ISRAEL PAINTEIt.
Or WE TMOVLAND COvrrry
The Two, Clayi.
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--- in ouf columns, this week, will 'be found two '
very important, and somewhat singullr, letters.—
One from. the Hon. HE'xitv . CLAt, notifying the
country, and his friends particularly, that he will be
tq, , atn a candidate for the Presidency. The other,
an answer, from Ctsstes M. CLAY, reviewing Hen
ry's letter,. and touching rather bitterly upon the
course pursued by the great ,“ Embodiment."
. It appears somewhat singular, that the leaderpar
ardlence of the Whig party, who has Alit 'ahe last
quarter of a century, been striving for the Presiden
cy. Should be obliged,aithis time, to issueithis let
ter assuring his. friends that their-entreaties have pre
vailed
upon him reluctantly once more to become
a candidate. Cater wits more modest still—he
"thrice refuse:l the erownr—the Americas pet -
'pie hare already twice refused it to fleti4 Clay,
and shouldlthis pronunciameata now be obeyed,
they will show him for the third time how futile
are his calculatifins. Mr. Clay, after gracefully
yielding to the "demands" of his friends, from the
great "obligations - he is ender to the Whig party,
proceeds to-ti,gre out his election, in a manner for
which Whigs' *e peculiarly celebrated, by assert
ing that his fnds had Jepresenteil if he would
cotaent tq the .of his name, that the great States
of New \Ork aid Ohio would, in all probability,
n,i e
cast their •Oles or him ; and that there is a better
prospect thati has any time before existed, that
Pennsylvania would unite with them : and modest
- ly asserts that his frie r g&are44tvinced that he is
*Atmore available" than t''' . 4 - alididate that could be
Fresented to the American people.
That Mr. Clay is the most vulnerable candidate
presented for the consideration of thelVbig Nation
al COnvention, we firmly believe, and should the
Democratic Convention place in nomination any
...
man who has not made- himself obnoxious to the
Freemen of the North the great States of New York
and Pennsylvania will repudiate Mr. Clay, and his,
monstrous doctrines by an overwhelming majority.
Cassius M. Clay, in 184-1, was a zealous and ac
tive friend of the, election of Henry Clay . —visiiin'g
Ohio and..'New York for the purpose of persuading
She Abolitionists of IhoSe States to the support of
his relative. He now favors, we believe, the pre
tensions of Gen.' Taylor, although he is a slave-hol
der, and cannot be - suspected of sympathy with
- abolitionism. He rebukes his distinguished rela
tive in strong and indignant language,and ridicules
his hopes of being elected, white' he characterizes
his letter as an attempt to assassinate Gen. Taylor.
We invite attention to it. - t .
At Act Relative te..Publie Schools.
By the following Act passed at the late Legisla
ture, it will be seen that the common School Law
has . been extern
Those districts
led over the whole Commonwealth.
,which have hitherto refused to ac-
I now do well carefully to examine
l e new law. One of the provi,ions
!- that the directors of the several
.hall not be required to admit chill
'tools who are under five yearslcof
wept the law w
the,d l otails of
of the late act
ttchool districts
aten-into the
age.
the "Act to provide for the ordinary
government,! lite, approved April
• Extract from ! '
expenses of • th,
11, 184 S:.
For- the support of common Schools, two hundred
thousand dollars, to be paid on warrants issued by
the Superintendent of Common Schools, to the seve
ral accepting school districts in the Common wealth,
in proportion to the number of taxable inhabitant;,
in said districts respectively.
That the Common School System, from and after
the passage of this act, shall be e deemed, held and talc
eit be ads pied by the several school districts in this
Commonwealth, and that the school directors of the
respective school districts from which the undrawn
school ainopriatisns were taken, I y the act of the
twenty-ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-four, entitled ".An, Act to reduce the State
debt, and to Xncorporate 'the Pennsylvania canal and
railroad company,", shall during, the month of May,
of the present year, lev,y and assess a tax as reqpired
by existing laws to enah:e school districts to receive
their portion of the State appropriation, and each of
said school districts in which a tax shall be levied
and assessed as aforesaid, shall therefore receive
its portion of the aforesaid appropriation of two hun
dred thousand dollars, and shall be entitled ‘ to a de
coction of twenty-five per cent. of all moneys paid
into . the county treasury by such district•for State
purposes during the next ensuing school, years,
which - money deducted, shall be paid to the board of
school directors of such school district. and shall be
exclusively appropriated to the erection of school
houses in stitch school disOicts.
The Mail Routes were recently let - . for -it
fourth part of the Union. A reduction has been
made in the prices, so as to effect a saving Of more
than t 3100,000 per annum. We are glad to learn
that an alteration has been made in the Tniikhan
nock and Athens route, which is to - he run daily,
thee giving us an expeditions route direct to Phil
adelphia. The contract was taken by Messrs. Mar
wows, of Oen°. • The Montrose route was let to
31r. smrrit, of the state of New York. The Cantoo
route to Mr. Dome, of this county.
Aarrtmorr or Taxes.—By an 'advertisement in
stn other column, it will be seen that the Commis.
sionera of Bradford Cowry propose to s give the be
nefit of the 5 per cent. abatement upon the State
Ta.:, to - all tax payers who will pay their State and
county Taxes by the sth of July twit..
tttr Capt. Small, of the First Peintsylvaniarlrol-*
toneers, will return to Me'deb on the 22 of May
furlough then e‘piree.
The Lenity - eviller Thalass t is.
Below,.will be found a itto act of the Pennsylva
nia Legislature, autborizit,g The Court of Common
Pietro of this county, to appoint
,tutathas to awl!
the grails of the Leltaysviilis Mho- The Et
silo contains some important provisiorrele Me*
to obligors and obligees width_ we publish :
SUPPLEMENT to an set. entitled "An act relative to the
Leßsysvil P a OEII, , passed March, iSt7, assi tehture
tb
oaltiors and obthgees
SonTton 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and/louse
of Rei&sentatives of din' Commonwealth t (Penn
sylvania in General Assettibly met, and it is hereby
enacted by the a uthority qf the same, That the .1 udges
of the Court of Common 4Pleas of Bradford county
are hereby empowered and required, upon the ap-,
plication of any person interested, to appoint three
trustees to settle the affairs of the Leßaysville
Pita
lanx, and that the trustees appointed under the pro
visions ofibis supplement alien have all the powers,
and be subject to all the'restrictions, as were the
trustees appointed by the act to which' ibis is a
supplement. '
SRC. 'l. That so much of the first section of the
act to which this is a supplement as names Gould
Se)'moor, Daniel Daily, Isaac Seymour, trustees as
aforesaid, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Ilse. 3. That when a judgment shall hereafter be
obtained against two,or more co-partners or joint and
several obligors, promisors, or contractors, the
death of one of the defendants shall not discharge
his or their estates, real or personal, from . the pay
ment thereof, but the same shall be payable by his
or their executors or administrators, as if the judg
ment had been several against the deceased alone.
Sec. 4. That in any suit or snits which may
hereafter be brought against the executors or admi
nistrators of a deceased co-partner for the debt of
the firm, it shall not be necessary to aver in the record
cr prove on the trial, that the surviving partner or
partners is or ate insolvent, to enable the plaintiff
to recover.
Sse.6. That when a judgment shall be hereafter
recovered against one or more several copartners,
joint, or joint and several obligors, promisors, or
contractors, without any plea in abatement that all
the panics to the instrument or contract on Which
'the gait is founded. are not made panics thereto,
such judgment shall not be a bar to a recovery in
any subsequent suit or snits against ans , person or
persons who might have been joined to the action
in which such judgment was obtained, whether the
same shall be obtained amicably or by adversary
process.
♦ Nan Drowned.
We understand from the Columbia Democrat,
of the 22d inst., that the body of a drowned man
was found on Saturday, the 9th of April, lodged
against a tree, on the head of Clark's Island, some
two mileA below Cattawissa in the Susquehanna
River. An inquest was held upon the body, by
Joscpu Baosir, Esq., but nothing was elicited by
which his name or residence could be known.—
The deceased is supposed to have been about 25
or 30'years of age, had on only a pair of eassinet
pantaloons and a flannel shirt.
The body was "partially decomposed, having ev
idently been some months in the water, and came
down the North Branch.
The friends of the deceased can address Joseph
Brobst, J. Y. , Cattawissa, Columbia county.
The Foreign' News.
The news by the Sarah Sands, which we publish
to-day, is,of undiminished importance, and will be
read with interest. Each arrival from Europe,
brings further accounts of the convulsions which are
shaking the political systerns of that country to
their centre. Years wilt probably elapse -before
she shall become tranquil--and the progress of af
cake is looked for with intense anxiety by the peo
ple of tips country. We shall furnish our readers
with a full and accurate synopsis of the news re
ceiveid by eackarrival. By the Electric telegraph
Crow Irought vrithia a short distance of us, we will
be enabled to do this, in most cases, in advance of
its reception in the city papers.
. Muvrotnt MILL REst;sten.—The Danville Intel
ligencer, of the 2 Ist inst., says—The fires have
been lighted up in the Montour Rolling Mil, and
the work of making iron is again successfully un
der way in that large establishment. The Furna
ces of the Montour Company arc likewise in full
blast, turning out more pig metal than is produced
in any other iron region in the United State.
LErrrsi....--The President of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company advertises that propo
sal& will be received at Huntingdon, untilWednes
day...the 17th day of May, for the grading and ma
sonry, upon about 36 miles of the railroad between
Huntingdon and LiWistown, and also for the heavy
work along the little Juniata.
Baoice JAlC—JameiSickler, arrested for robbing
the mail, between Towanda and Eaton, has escap
ed from coifinement in the jail at Tunkhannoek.—
The Sheriff of Wyoming county offers a reward of
$5O for his apprehension.
CONTESTED SEAT IN Cormagss.—The contest be
tween Messrs. Jackson and Monroe, from N. York
city, for a seat on the floor of Congress, has result
ed in declaring the seat vacant. A now election
will probably be ordered.
Wcsr Poivr.— Frederick M. Crandall, a eon of
Dr. CMndall, of Pike, has been appointed a cadet
to the West Point Military Academy, from this
Congressional district.
0:!7- The Daily Owego Gazette will again re
ceive our thanks for the important Foreign News,
published this week, received some days in ad
vance of our city papers.
Kr The Hon. LEWIS Case and the Hon. ions A
D►x, of the U. S. Senate, have our thanks for vain
able public documents.
COI- VICTOR E. Notts:T.—We were pained to
see tin the 'Anita of Wednesday, a harsh attack up
on ibis gentleman, well known as an influential
citizen of Bradford counts . and wane of the most
intelligent and intrepid lientoenes in this State.--
The allegations of the nines have
~been so ' often
made in the Federal papers , and so often refuted,
that we cannot refrain from the expression of our
amazement, that our cotempomry . should deem a
repetition of them necessary to defeat the re-nomi- .
nation of Col. PIOLLET to the position of Payrnat.
ter it. the army. Of his repeater by the Senate,
when nominated by the President to the same
place. we are not now disposed to speak. Effect
ed in his absence, and at a time when his friends
1 1 did not expect it , the causes that operated against
-him, in the minds of Senators, were left to do their
mischief uncorrected ; and he fell a victim to mis
representations and enmities of the most extraordi
nary character. Our respected friends of the Tunes
wilt not. we trust, deny to Col. Plotter the oppor
tunity of vindicating his good name before the Sen
ate and the country, especially when it is well
known that there are Senators mil° voted against
him under gross misapprehension of the facts.
The part Col. Protr.wr took in the McCook af
fair, bitterly and industriously as it was misrepre
sented. wi.a warmly sanctioned by the Democrats
of Bradf county, who re-elected him to the Le
gislature by a triumphant majority, in the midst of
the clamors of the opposition. To this day, we be
, hii 3 Oigk r , to, be a great favonte with the sterling de.
m ocracy of That county. No man bus
• trarmer
friends, or more sterint; enalities,- than 'Cot Piot
tr. r.—Pr,tuyr/frl ~
Three ititys later grow Europe.
Arrival el the resist Darkest De Orlie Ire" real
Excitement is P-atis . 4 Havre--Reisabise htutekV
ad ie Preilkt !--The Army ef Brea ortiii4ll
Magian
"•-•-
•Nier Your., Aptil:2o 11148. t ,
The 'Packet Ship. Ttutchess de Orkn's, *rive&
this morning,' She.sailed nem Havre on the 264 e
oh., bringing advices from Paris to the 26th, and
London to the 25th.
The most important intelligence by this arrivid
is a report that Prussia has declared herself a Re
pnblic
Capt. Richardson states that the greatest excite
ment prevailed in Paris and Harm ; and that the
rich are-in daily expectation of being killed by the
por.
Gallignani's Messenger of March 24th, publishes
a despatch dated Menne, Mating that a Republic bad
been proclaimed in Bettie, and the liingdethroned,
lits majesty and Ministers having been arrested.
The news was confirmed in Paris. That paper
says, this time, the fact isotfieial, a telegraphic des
patch having been addressed to the Provisional
Government, and posted up at the Bourse, which
leaves no doubt of its authenticity.
A Berlin letter states that the dethroned Prince
had left for England. Before his Bight the people
demanded that he should renounce all tight to the
CrOWII.
We learn from Berlin that all Polish prisoners in
that city had been set at liberty.
Accounts from Berlin op to the evening of the
22d ult., state that the capital was tranquil;
The date of this aorouut throws doubts over the
news received from Mentz of the proclamation of
a Republic.
The Universal Gazette of Prussia, of the 22d ult.,
states that the King bad placed the property of the
state including Military stores, under the protection
of the citizens andjuhabitants of Berlin.
A revolution is announced in Geneva.
Genoa has detached itself from Sardinia.
The new ministryis announced in Vienna.
Letters from Munich to the 21st state that King
Louis had abdicated, and that the Prince Royal as
cends the throne. The King retires to Sicily.
'The insurrection is general throughout Lombardy,
aml the Venetian Kingdom. Milan was in the
hands of the people.
The King otfianover granted all demands made
by the people.
The Emperor of Russia was much excited at the
event,• in France, and - great activity was noticed in
•the War Department. The reserved army had been
ordered to hold itself in readiness to march' to Po
land at a moment's warning.
Large numbers of Belgians are leaving reit for
home.
Arrests have been made for destroying the Rail
Rowis.
The disturbances are again suppremed between
the National Guards and the people:
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte has joined the Na
tional Guards as a private.
The Provisional Government are adopting meas
ures to check the commercial crisis.
Four hundred Poles in Paris, had formed acorn
pany for returning to Poland.
M. Theirs declared for a Republic and accepted
a nomination for Commandant of National Guards.
There was great excitement in Naples and the
Jesuits had left for Malta.
The Rovolntion in Holland is confirmed ; and
all political prisoners have been released.
. The Duchess de Mcmtspenser asked an audience
with Queen Victoria; but Lord Palmerston evaded
the request.
Arrival of the Steamer Sarah Salads!
Great Excitement in France! ?-77re E/ediosiv Post
ported !—Rovolt of the Workman—Arsenal seised
In the Mob ! !—Expitian to Belgian 4. Poland !
The People Patrolling the Starts of Paris !!—Proe
lamation tf the Prorimcmal Government I—War rn
Denmark i—ilnesuin Troops on the March !—Re
palic Dedared in Germany!!-- France and Prussia
will unite against Russia !!--The Austrians Defea
ted by the Lombards !
NEW Yogic, April 21, 1048.
The steamer Sarah Sands arrived this mciming,
with later news from Europe.
iLivF.RPOOL. Corn dull—better demand, and sells
at 26a30 shillings per quarter—fresh arrivals of
flour.
FRANCE.-41ere is great excitement throughout
France.
A body of troops, attempting to enter Bkaium,
to assist the Revolution of Belgians, were defeautd
and 400 lives were lost. ,
Darnesag.—The Danes are preparing for war.
Disturbances are repotted in Stockholm & Venice.
The Emperor of Russia has sent large bodies of
troops to Odessa and other posts near Turkey.
Germany is in commotion, and a Republic was
declared on the 21st ult , out no general intelligence
was received.
The French Elections were postponed to the
of April ; and the National assembly meets on the
4th of May.
All the banks in France have suspended specie
payments by decree of Provisional government.
The workmen in the principal cities have revolt
ed. They had seized the arsenals of Paris, and La
Presse is against the Provisional Government. The
Goiernment issued a proclamation to the people,
and National Guards, asking them to maintain or
der.
Consols are St 3-1141. Cotton lower.
Outbreaks are reported in Ireland. Clubs were
drilling and forming themselves into rifle compa
nies, fully armed. Men were wearing uniforms in
the streets of Dublin.
It was supposed that France and Prussia would
unite against Russia. •
Sardinia had repelled the Austrian troops.
Provisional Governments have been established
at Venice and Milan.
The French Government is charged with prepar
ng an expedition to Poland and Belgium.
Paris is in a ferment, and bands of people are
patrolling the streets.
At Milan troops are being raised to fight the Aus
trians.
The Austrian army is withdrawn to Lodi.
Manton has fallen into the hands of the Lom
b ads. Tls Austrians generally were taken pris
oners.
Verona has declared for the Republic.
The accounts of the abdication of the King of
Prussia, and the declaration of a republic in that
cbuntry, are not confirmed by the news received by
this arrival, though the King appears to have made
many concessions.
He has recognized the expediency of uniting all
the German states into one general confederation—
has given his sanction to the creation of a Parlia
ment, consisting of a House of Lords and a House
of Commons, upon a vet) extensive representative
basis:
We learn from a certain source that there is 'aw
ry reason to expect that Prussia and Austria will re
store the Polish provinces.
The news of the arrival of masses of Russian
troops on the (roofer of Poland is confirmed. •
The Cossacks have commenced their predatory
incursions.
Faxsca.—Lmris Blane's committee had aits
plan for establishing a system of National t ry,
comprising two isisr , to be opened by the state,
with divisions of the Proceeds among the laborers.
The Provisional Government had supplied the ,
people with theatrical amusements gratis.
A rebel expedition from Paris, composed of
del
ega of French, had marched into. Belgium, to
proclaim the republic there, but no sooner had it
crossed the frontier, than the Belgium force gave
them a salute with artillery, which put them to
flight, in wild disorder, and they were seen no
more.
The expedition was disavowed beforehand by
Lamartine.
La Presse, M. de Giranlin's paper, has come out
decidedly opposed to the Provos:anal Government.
Some angry feelings were excited but no vio•
lance had been committed against the Paper or its
Editor.
The Proyittinnsil Government as making large
military preparations, I,rtnidable birdie* of troops
.sere daily maribing to Dip' 'which *es made
the central military station.
• The JA ttetee elya thakihree cams—forming
it is Ztosebblibmw 4 106400 men *Mete beestab
k
Liam from "at. Petersbuqeof iOth knot an
nounce that thevity *vein wattle argetmeglslion.
Ayistol shot waa t .firo atithe Einperor while
passing through the Mew.* Thifxdti# which pass
ed through his hat. •
Auirrau.—All was quiet at Vienna, the submit
siou of the Imperial Government to the demands of
the people being eimmlete-and satisfactory.
The Austrian Ambassador fled from Rome when
the news of the insurrection at Milan arrived.
Very late from Mexico.
Arrival of Gen. Kearney and Mr. Sevier--.13/rdiorte
in Vera Cruz—The Medan of Cong-rees--Brityl
whoa of the. Treaty Doubtful, 4c.
Naw Yost, April 23, 1848.
The U. S. steamship N. 0., Capt. Edward Auld,
arrived yesterday forenoon from Vera Cruz, whence
she sailed on the evening of the 9th inst. She ar
rived at Vera Cruz from this port on Thursday,- the
6th inst., and landed her distinguished passengers,
Gen. Kearney and the lion. Mr. Sevier, amid salvos
of artillery trom the castle, the frigate and the torts
in the cis,.
Gen. Kearney was installed as Governor of the
State of Vera Cruz, on Saturday the Bth inst
was to receive the troops in and around the city'on
Monday last.
Mr. Sevier left Vera Crueon the Bth inst. for die
city of Mexico under the escort of Capt. Tilghman's
command, about sixty strong: We learn from
Captain Auld that Santa Anna did not sail till
Wednesday the sth inst. From. the. Arco Iris, we
learn that he took his passage on the Spanish brig
Martino.
Capt. Auld informs us that it was supposed at Ve
ra Cruz that Gen. Scott and suite and Mr. Trist
world leave Mexico about the sth instant, " the
Court have adjourned its sitting to the United
States ;" but in our report of the proceedings of the
3d, we find no announcentrt at such as adjourn
ment.
Capt. Miletp arrived at Vera Cruz on the sth with
despatches ft'bm Washington. lie reports the road
between the eapital.and Jalapa to be infested with
small bands of armed men in masks, who were
daily cummitting depredations. The route between
the city of Mexico and Tocula is infested in like
manner.
. -
The Monitor says that fifteen Deputies and three
Senators were still necessary to form a quorum of
i
the Mexican Congress , and op inions vary as to the
probable rati fi cation of I y•
The elec ti on for alcade
_rl city o ffi cers took
place in Vera Crui on Sunday, the 9th inst. The
Governor was requested to take down during the
day the American flag from the main plaza, where
the election was held ; but Capt. Auld informs us
he declined to do this. He was also called upon to
deliver up the public buildings on the same gaze,
which was indignantly refused: While the elee
tion was going on, the troops composing the garri
son, with the exception of what were necessary for
a guard, went out of town at 9 o'clock, A. M., turd
were received on the beach by General Kearney.
The Free American, of the erilt inst., has a report
that the Mexicans under Gen. Bruno have been
plundering Palizada and Laguna. taking advan
tage of the absence of Commodore Perry. We
shall, no doubt, hear more of this in a more definite
shape.
During the week ending the Ist inst . there were
56 Deputies and 19 Senators present at Queretaro.
The Monitor says it required only 15 more Depu
ties and 3 Senators to torn* a quorum to proceed to
business; but we regret to say that some members
of Congress had left Queretaro under pretext of re-
I luctance to vote for the ratification of the treaty.—
I From the very earnest and indignant manner in
which the Star mentions this subject, we infer that •
the gravest asprehensions are entertained lest a suf
ficient number of factious Deputies should with
draw to prevent a quorum from assembling. Opin
ions are very various as to the probable ratification
of the treaty.
The Star is urging upon the Mexicans the abso
lute necessity of giving it their sanction if they
would preserve their nationality. Yet later accounts
are even less saire e nine than "he of the glances of
a confirmation of the treaty. Upon the whole, we
cannot but regard the ratification as at least proble
matical, although we hope for the best. The news
of the action of our Senate upon the treaty reached
Mexico at the end of last month, and was despatch
ed at once to Queretaro. The Star announced it
on the 2d instant, and gave the full particulars on
the 3d.
The Ardi-Aholition ..rertemetit al Washington—lm
mense Meeting—The Pmprietors of the National
Era ordered to Leave—Their Refusal—The Remo
val resolved uponnd the Tuneft_red.
L WAsinearox, April 19, 10 o'clock.
An excited assemblage, at least 3000 strong, as.
sembled this evening in ront of the National , Era
office, to cobsider the reeent scheme of the aboli
tionists to carry off the slaves of the District.
Though the excitement was intense the crowd
was persuaded to move their position Apposite the
Patent Office, where they were addressed by Wel
ter Lenox, scl., the President of the Board of Al
dermen, Mr Radcliffe, and others, who, appealed
in favor of proceeding peaceably in reference to the
National Era office.
The crowd, however, insisted upon speedy ac
tion, and a committee of fifty was finally determin
ed upon, to meet instanter an I wait upon the pro
prietors to request that the establishment should
be forthwith removed. It was also unanimously
resolved, that in case the proprietors decline that
the committee, backed by the citizens, should pro
ceed to remove the office and- appraise the dama
ges.
The committee was forthwith appointed, and af
ter an absence, returned and reported that the pro
prietors refused to obey.
A resolution was then adopted. amid immense
excitement, that the committee should proceed,
with the aid of the citizens, to remove the presses
and materials of the establishment to-morrow morn
ing, at 10 o'clock.
An adjournment then took place when the crowd
in front of the Era office cried " down with it, down
with it !" and the symptoms of an attack were made.
The citizens having volunteered to maintain the
laws, under the Marshal qf the district, prevented
the anticipated violence, nd the storm has appa
rently lulled for the time.
Wksmearox, April 20.
It is believed that the summary , resolved
upon last evening for the remo v a l Nation
al Era office has been abandoned, as but few per
sona have been collected in its vicinity to-day, and
all appears (inlet.
The propnetors have published a card, declaring
their entire disconnection with tee transactions re
cently developed, and their determinaiion to do or
say nothing until fully investigated.
Tears are still entertained of an attack upon the
office by the rabble to-night.
C►PTURE or rua FuorrrvE SlLAVEll,Wasking.
ton April 18th.—The party of slaves that escaped
from this vicinity on Saturday night, - were taken on
board the schooner Pearl, Capt. Sears, of Philadel
phia. which immediately proceeded on her voyage
to your pan. As soon as these facts were ascer
tained, a steamer was armed and sent in pursuit.
The vessel was overhauled at the mouth of the Po
tomac, captured without resistance, and brought
back to the city. The captain, crew and seventy
seven of the runaway negroes were conveyed to
jail. The excitement of the crowd assembled in
consequence of their arrival was intense,-and the
. prisoners were conveyed to jail in hacks, which
was the only thing that saved them from violent;
treatment.
Gcx. Scores Ayres:v.—The Cincinnati Chro.
niele says, that General Scott will, on his return,
leave Vera Cruz directly for the city of New York,
sratticucc to his home at ElizabethtOcrt, New Jer
,
Letter trim ; Mary Clay.
TO THE PUBLIC.
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,The t a r iml * d ia" liii l til/ g rely 2ol- ' 4II A hi , *
Oman itt iz ~ Pircullponil to my Infentsons vella
rel4a ne l
respectlo diernextines y, appear tai tustin
furnish the proper occasipa for the ftll, - fritir, and
eiplich': expointi l ort'Of mr I feelin„,oa, wishes, am)
views upon that subject, which it in now my I*.
pose to make. With a streng disinclination to the
use of my name again id' connexion with that ot.
bee, I left my residence in December last, under a
determinatkon to immunee to the public; in some
suitable form, my desire not to be thought of as a
candidate. nmy absence, I frequently expressed
irs dillerent gentlemen my unwillingness to be agate
in that attitude ; but though no one was au th orized ,
to publish my decision one way or the other, hay-
ing reserved the right to do so exclusively to my-
self, on reflection, I thought it due to my friends
to consult with them before I took a final and de.
Ogre step. ..
Accordingly, within the course of the last three
months, I have had an opportunity of conversing
filly and freely with them. Many of them have
addressed to me the strongest appeals and the moat
earnest entreaties, both verbally and written, to dis
suade me from executipg my intended purpose.—
They represent to• me that the withdrawal of my
name would be fatal to the success, and perhaps
lead to the dissolution; of the party with , which I
have been associated, particularly in the free States;
that at no former period did there exist so great a
probability of my election, if I would consent-to the
use of my name ; that the great States of New York
l i aml-Ohio would, in all probability, cast their votes
for me ; that New York would more certainly be
stow her suffrage upon me than any other candi
date; that `Ohio would give her vote to no candi
date residing in the slave States but to me ; that
there is a better prospect than had heretofore at any
time existed,-that Pennsylvania would unite with
them; that no candidate can be elected vrithoutthe
concurrence of two of these three States, and none
could be defeated upon whom all of them should
be united ; that great numbers of our fellow citi
zens, both of native ,and foreign birth, who were
deceived, and therefore voted against me at the last
election,, are now eager for an opportunity of
be
stowingtheir suffrages upon me; that whilst there
is a strong and derided preference for me, enter.
tained by - the great body of the whig party through.
out the United States, they—the friends to whom I
refer—are convinced that I am more available than
any candidate that could be presented for the Ame
rican people. Ido not pretend to vouch for the ac
curacy of all these representations, although I do
not entertrtili a doubt that they have been honestly
made, 'alai amt. 'sincerely believed. It has been,
moreover, urged to me, that the great obligations
under which I have been hitherto placed by a large
portion of the people of the United States, the full
force of which no one can be more sensible oftha, n
I are; demand that I should not withhold the use of
my name if it should be requeleed ; and I have
been reminded of frequent declarations which"
have made, that whilst life and health remain. a
man is bound to render his best service upon the
call of his country.
Since my return home, I have anxiously deliber
ated upon my duty to myself, to my principles, to
my friends, arid, above all, to my country. The
conflict between my unaffected desire to continue
in private life, as most congenial to my feelings and
rendition and my wish faithfully to perform all my
public duties, has been painful and embarraising.
ILI refuse the use of my name, and those injurious
consequences should ensue which have been so
confidently predicted by my friends, I should justly
incur their reproaches, and the reproaChes of my
own heart; and if, on the contrary, I should assent
to the use of my name, whatever the result may be,
I shall escape both. I have therefore finally deci
ded to leave to the national convention, which is
to asremble next June, the t"onsideration of my
name, in .connexion with such others as may be
presented to it, to make a selection of a suitable
candidate for President of the United States; and
whatever may be the issue of its fair and full de
liberations, it - will meet with my prompt and cheer
ful, acquiescence. It will be seen from what I have
related, that there was reason to anticipate that I
would decline giving my consent to the we of my
name Again as a candidate for the presidency of
the United States. Owing, perhaps, to this, as well
as other causes,, many of my friends and fellow-ci•
tizens have avowed a preference for, and directed
their attention to. the distinguished names of other
citizens of The 'United States. I take pleasure in
truly declaring that I have no regrets to express--
no complaints---no ,reproaches to make on account
of any such preferences, which am fully persua
ded are generally founded on honest and patriotic
convictions. 11. CLAY.
ASHLAND, APRIL. 11th, 18.18.
Cassius! M. Clay to floury Clay
/ (From the New York Coutter and Enquirer.]
HON. HENRY C LAY,
Sta—ln the Tribune of this morning .1 find a let
ter dated Ashland, April 10th, 1848, over your sig
nature. The letter is addressed, I presume, to the
American people. If I did not know you well, the
intervening space of three days only between its
date and arrival here, would- lead me to suspect its
authenticity. If your determination to allow your
name to go before the Philazlelphia Convention g as
a candidate for the Presidency had been in accord
ance merely wiih your wishes and individual
judgment, I should have kept a respectful silence.
But as your determination is bused upon the sup
posedinterest of the Whig perN, I shall venture,
unasked, to'add my opinion to that of the numer
ous Whigs to whom you refer. When I tell you
that royalty rarely hears the truth, you will think,
no doubt, that repeat a very stale dogma, if not
altogether out f place in a republic. But there are
parasites in üblics as welt as in despotisms, arid
of those you h a very liberal portion just now.
Were Ito claim t be your personal friend, I might
better, 'perhaps, ACC list my purposes; but as I
bare never avowed on cla'ss of sentiments whilst
in reality holding anothe '
you frankly that,
although from my earliest youth I had been some.
thing more than scold admirer of yourself, so tvhen
you - stinted, on the 14th of August, 1845, to the Vir
ginia Springs, leaving your friends and family, to
murder me in my sick bed,' for vindicatiig those
principles which you had taught me, in your speech
es at least, I ceased to be your friend, and became,
by the necessity of my nature, your enemy.. What
I shall say, to you now, then, will have the more
weight, because you will see the t it comes from
an honest„ . if not an unprejudiced man ; whilst I
shall attempt to &iota myself of the individual_and
creak as the member of a great party.
I shall then take up your letter in its proper or
der. In saying that you had " a strong disinclina
tion to the use of my (your) name in connection
with that office," courtesy leads me to confine mv
self to the remark that you deceive yourself—lint
no one else! So soon as you were defeated in the
last election,
.a committee of your friends from
Frankfort waited upon you and condoled with you
on that melancholy event. You: responded in a
manner that led me almost with the power of cer
tainty, to. emark to some friends that Henry Clay
is a rand date again for the Presidency. 'Time at
tests iny sagacity.
So strong was, my conviction that you awould be
a candidate, when letters were read in the Conven
tion of tbe " Whig friends of Gen. Taylor" in the
State House at Frankton, from the Hon. J. J. Crit
tenden, Hon. Charles S. Morehead, and Hon. J. P.
Gaieery begging us not to nominate, Gen. Taylor,
and thus push you from the track, and saving that
you would on your return home retire (sin the
canvass,. in the presence of the thousands there as
sembled I rose up and declared that although I re
spected these gentlemen, I had not the least confi
dence that you would in truth withdraw. Tim_e at
tests my sagacity. After you had gone on to Nt3w
York, and delegates were chosen to the National
Convention whilst you were the city's gitest, and it
was again asserted that you would decline on your
return home, I said no, you refused to go to New
York last summer, you would not have gene now
unless you had determined to run fur the Pi:widen-
NEW YORK, April 13, 1849.
fi`
CSf. nle attests. the int of the predien om _,
You say. that your friends represent that "the wi th.
dratwel,ciftain s imme would belistal to their succe s o
Vireirmaktrig to y o u, they speak a di ff erent lan.
F . •
emewhere. I have been told that all the
meimberit* Cobras; from our own State but o ne
told you . that you could not be elected, and that di.
vrills othe*sreWm I could name told you the same
?bin.. Bata these reports be untrue, allow me ..
uni.y o u thee' have beard almost universally that
your name would again bring ON defeat. Ist th a t
- garden Iteocur, and I will give you my mem os
I.
Ileatione larri'mot guiltless Myself, and because of
the bad taste of the thing; l will not urge objections
I to your private clummter. Neither will press your
prestige dill-luck, in saying that all the measures
which you . have urged upon the people, except th e
Missouri compromise, have been erased from the
s t a t u t e book For wie lament in amnion, the fall
of the tariff, the balikeand internal improvements
sunder your lead ! I shall confine myself to the clues=
j lion oravailability. Three times have we runy o
1. and three times - your name brought WI defeat r
g o
soon as Gen.:W. IL Harrison bad bree e h t us s .
from a miserable minority, where you had left rt e
to a large majority, you hurried on to Waali ngoe :"
Thew Mr. Tyler under Mr. Webster 's lead was a re i
ing good serviee to the country and pane, an d b y
attempting to force on him and us the " °b ru n ets
Bank' which he bad purposely slurred in the caw ,
vase, you brought us to a speedy minority!
A " long time ago," being too old to perform the •
comparatively light duties of Senator, you gave the
public a farewell address, and retired from public
life. The Democratic party, by the excess of its
numbers, was at once spilt into widely separated
fragments. Messrs. Cass, Calhoun, an Buren,
Tyler, Polk, and others, were all praising their
claime r with a bitterness before unknown to the pins
ty. Whom the gods wish to destroy, 'they first
make mad." They determined to bring Texas in,
to the Union avowedly to break down the powe r o f
the free No rth, and to make this nation' a slave em
pire. The-friends of liberty rallied once more, and
in spite of your Missouri compromise, and your
constant dentinciation of all real antiedatery adion,
your Raleigh letter made yrin, by some tatality, our
candidate owe' more. The Democratic feuds were
at once cured up by the greater hatred of Henry
' Clay. Mr. Van Buren, who had taken similar
ground with yourself, but who could not unite the -
p ar ty ? was overthrown, and Mr. James K. Polk
substituted. Notwithstanding the claims of other
Whigs, I will now restrict myself to saying your
equals were postponed, who no one now doubts
could have been elected ; we, the Whig party, all
united-on you. We fought with the ardor of bro
therhood, and with the moral power of a noble
cause. Our success seemed certain. Now once
more, by that fatality which attends you, you came
out in your Gazette letter, and disclaim any sympa.
thy - with emancipation: It is true, there was a little
inconsistency in this, inasmuch as you had always,
avowed just the opposite dx•trine; but as you wrote
to me "go on, good Cassius," I thought at last all
things would come out right. This, however, was
a small affair between you and me, and our aboli
tion friends. But all at once,.you game out in your
Alabama letter, when you would "notreject a per
manent acquisition of territory on account of a tempo.
vary institution!" This was a very different affair.
l lt lay at the foundation of the, whole contest. You
" changed 'front,"X The Whigs of the North were
disgusted.. They had nothing left to contend for.
The battle was lost. We felt our country's wounds
in your person. We paid your debts, we condol
led with you in your retirement once- more, and
raised monuments to your memory! Once more
1 the excesses of the Democratic party began to ex
hibit themselves. The unconstitutional annexation
of Texas, and the Presidentiil wrec, began to'stir
the souls of indignant freemen. rseeing that we
were in a minority, and without the sympathies o f
the people—having experience that a peace-party
can never have the confidence of a Republic during
a raging war—our wise Whig leaders voted sup
plies, and the Whigs turned out to the war, and
once more ire steadily, brought ourseltes up from
a minority where you had again' left us, into a-ma
jority. The administration had all the responsibili
ty of the loss of honor, men`, and money, by the
war; our Whig gener als reaped all the glory. The
success of our party was certain. The public, with
a unanimity never before sees. in plus country,
looked to our man ; a man who, growing too great
for the powers at Washington, was left to perish
with a handful of men before twenty thousand
troops in the enemy's country. But Zachary Tay
lor was not the man to die. to accommodate either
President Polk or his ally Santa Anna ! The battle
of BuenaTista fixed Gen. Taylor in the hearts of
the people ! Neither you, nor the wire-workers of
party, nor the President can cause him or his friends
to "surrender !" The honest old soldier was gener
ous enough to give a parting compliment to your
name, by saying he would have preferred you to
himself to lead us on once more to the battle. You
have taken him at his word ! Immediately your
friends of the " secret circular," under the pretence
of being "the friends of Gen. Taylor," stab him to
the vitals. Then, sharp sighted patriots found out
that Gen. Taylor was not the choice of the Whigs
—that this willingness of the grateful heart of the
people was all a sham affair : in a word,' that you
would reluctantly consent to rumagain ! I, am a plain
spoken man, sir; I tell you I know these men ; they
would not rive ventured to take this step without
yen& consent ! It is true this is not sal play ! It looks
to me like political assassination! Nor will it be
cured in the eyes of all disinterested men by the
spirit olviolence, which our friends in Frankfort—
in -Baltimore—in Cincinnati—andi in New York,
hare ventured against the friends of Taylor and
" the liberty of speech." The verdict of a jury
against your son lately in Kentucky, ought to teach
'Henryvrln arid" them, that we are net yet slaveseven to
i Clay.
It is true that this in your deep ingratitude to Gen.
Taylor ; but you are but playing out your lifelong
game; for when did ever.ttenry Clay spare an ene
riry or a—friend ! i cong,ratulate you upon your de
termination at least to denounce the Native Amen
can party, to whom you wrote encouraging letter
during the lam canvass ; and which they were kind
enough to suppress: you can do-so with impunity !
The Native American party is dead ! But whether,
the memory of the Irish and other foreigners wild
be as easy in-forgetting a wrong as you are in not
remembering a favor, remains to be seen ! Space
compels me to Funs over the long roll of your sell
advocacy and confine myself to two specifications.
You seem to think that Ohio will not go for ens
" one residing in the Slave States" but you; sh - d
that New York would more certainly bestowilier
vote on you " than any other candidate."
Ohio went for you, by the Western reserve vote,
which I assisted in getting for you, because you
were suspected of truth, in declaiming against Slave
ry ! 1 had to much respect for your talents to sup.
pose that you would again attempt the same shal
low game ! No, your Janus-faced resolutions at
Lexington, deceived no longer the blindest "fana
tics." Besides, if the free North would ,not take
you, when the (ration was Clay and no dare ter•
ratory. will they take the issue Which you covertly
tender them. Clay and NO FREE TERN/WHY
With regard to New York, you seem strangely.
to hive forgotten the fact that the Whig members O f
the legislature have declared that the State will r
for n any other Whig," to close the mouth of your
partizans here ! The city election of a Democratic
Mayor in New york, whilst your friends put the
election upon your popularity here, demonstrat e
that your name is indeed " all powerful" to chan tre
a Whig majority into , a minority at least ! th e
Whig party are capable of learning,
will read the future. I know the strength of part.
organization, and the desperation of those whohri n e
-life estates in your person—yon may succee a
_ I ,
pushing Websier, and' McLean, arid, Sewar d .
o an ac u
in this, the !'
Corwin. and Scott, and others from the track ..
am e,
more—the dagger of your " secret cnnenitt avior ' ,
your pub lic
. inquisitors may kill off Gen - , f . ' b i
pal now—bnt the deceiver may himse lf
de
ceived ! Yes, Henry Clay can never-be pr esident
of these States ! I have the honer to subscr i be,,,) .
t
self, ever a Whig, and your obediecnt sem
Thk4 year the national expenses of t4rat
Btitiatt are cgintattxt at 'F272,000;000.