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E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
Towanda, Wednesday, July '25, 1849
• Democratic Nomination. •
• TOR CANAL commrssioNea,
JOHN A. RANEE, of Lyanaing County
r Advertisements. lye., Wended for publication in
the Reporter, should be handed in by Monday night,
to ensure their insertion.
Meeting of the Stanaing Committee.
The Democratic Standing Committee of Brad
ford County, are requested to meet at the office of
Ulysses Mercur is this Boro', on Saturday the 28th
day of July inst., at I o'clock, P. M. The atten
dance of every member of the Committee is ear
nestly solicited. The following named persona
compose said Committee :
E. 0. GOODRICH, THOMAS SMEAD,
G. W. ELLIOTT, C. G. GRIDLEY, -
E. W. JONES, C H. HERRICK,
A. D. SPALDING. AVM. BLAKE,
NATHAN ItIAYNARD.
Speech et' Col. Denten.
We team that Col. Benton addressed the people
at Lexington - , Missouri, on the 7th. inst., on the
Proviso question. He divided his address into two
heads—first, the constitutionality of the AntirSla
very proviso; secondly, the nullification and disu
nion character of the Missouri resolutions of in-
etruction
Col. Benton maintained that he introduced the
amendment into the Oregon Bill, that it passed with
a Wilmot Proviso attached, and that it was done
to assert the unlimited power of Congress over
Slavery in the territories, and that as naked, abso
lute, unconditional exercise of the unlimited pbw
or of Congress over the whole subject, the Oregon
bill with ale antislavery clause received the ap
proving signature of President Polk with the sec
tion of his whole Cabinet.
Benton instanced the passage of the Minftota
Territorial bill, without even objection from Cal
houn, with a similar prohibition,
. The Missouri resolutions of instruction Cot. Ben
ton dissected with great minuteness, shoWing that
their spirit was that of pure nullification, and that
if carried out would lead to disunion. He pledged
himself to the State of- Missouri to sus'ain General
Taylor in preserving the Union against the assaults
of Southern fanaticism; and designating the authors
of the resolution as Calhoun the Father, Judge
Napton the Granny, and Caleb Jackson the Nurse
of the bantling.
John C. Calhoun'i Dereboo%
Hon. J. C. Calhoun's appears in a long and bit
ter letter, in answer to the charges made against
him by Thos. H. Benton. The Telegraph brings
up a synopsis of the first part of the defense.—
The address begins with declaring that Col. Ben
ton is unworthy of notice, and personally be (Mr.
Calhoun) has never thought it worth while to raise
him to the dignity of a rival, nor considered it im
portant whether he was put down or not; but as
Benton strikes at the Southern cause through him,
(Calhoun,) be feels it his duty to repel his attacks.
He says that Benton's effort appears to prove him
-unfaithful to the Southern cause, as aiding the Free
Solists and Abolitionists. This, says he, they well
understand, and rejoice rat his speech as helping to
weaken Southern confidence in me. It Is not the
first time a deserter has had the assurance to de
nounce those who are faithful. •
He, Calhoun, denies being favorable to disunion,
'and Says that be was always favorable to a com
promise, but that Northern fanatics prevented it.—
lie claims merit for voting for Clayton's compro
mise and taunts Benton as the cause- of its rejec
tion. He denies being the author of the Missouri
Compromise, which is Clays, and argues the dif
ference between that and the Proviso charge
against him of having, in Mr. Monroe's Cabinet,
sustained the power of Congresi to restrict Slavery
in the Territory. He denies, in fact, every asser
sertion in Benton's address, and charges that Ben
ton offered a pNposition to abolish Slavery in the
half of Tex aAr as to hem in the South with Ab
olition. He states that Ilayvrorde resolutions went
further, and that Benton was his coadjutor in ex
cluding Slavery from the Territory which he charg
ed Calhoun with giVing away to the Indians and
thus loosing it to the South. The Indians are
. Slaveholders and allies to the South. Hayword
endeavored to deprive the South of tins advantage;
and lientoa r smelted that he waswilling to take the
responsibility for taking the resolution of the House
as originally passed in annexing Texas. Tyler's
Cabinet were unanimous on - the subject on account
of its' simplicity. The details were fewer and less
complex. A half-million was saved, and' the Sen
ate's Amendment could not have been carried out.
DISTRESSING ACCDENT.-At West Troy on the
nth inst. Mr. John E. Fellows, of Cohoer, his wife
and some nine or ten females, mostly his boarders,
went down to bathe and cool themselves in the
Mohawk, and Mrs. F. getting beyond her depth,
was drowned before assistanee'could be rendered.
THE CROPS. -By a recent trip to the country, we
were pleased to see that the Mils of the Farmer,
are being remunerated by bountiful harvests. The
dry weather Of the last two weeks, may however
damage the corn, potatoes and oats, should it con
tint*.
6t;r- We have been furnished with a narrative
containing some important particulars in the event
ful bier of the - departed patriot and soldier, Capt.
JOSEPH Er.t.tcrrr, written by a gentleman Who pow
sessed information upon the subject, which we
shall publish next week.
CUOLERA /IT MILLPOF.T....-We learn by, the pa•
pens that there has been nine eases of Cholera
on the Chemung Railroad, at Idillport. Seven of
which were fatal.
Hoi. EsEsurat NlLlcs,•ot Ithaca, died at his
residence on Thursday last, at 6A. M or Crin.
gumption
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A Conve ntion lirbOa4COvid,d , (*Ws as
the li th ; .in ig i' l . s t,EAO riPi lt we " Pr e *-
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be* for 4eili t ironit
Terr,ffory4 cOismetlirrits..4.
qniiiiimel 00787, 714chtii.evalrobalima
very - iin th4".Territori: Judge Tappai i of Ohis
presided; Francis D. Parrish, Of Ohio, Henry 'L.
Eib lr wh i - 9 1 !!!!1,1,91, and AF I .49P lEino-47.1 of
Illinois, wire Vice Presidents; Joel Tiffany, of
Cleveland, and George , Hoadly, of Cincinnati',
were Secretaries. A committee of csie from each
of the five Northwestern States, was appointed to
draft resolutions. Mr. Dilworth, of .Indiana, then
I addressed the Convention in an elocramit and pow-
MilEi
erful speech. J. W.-Taylor, of Ohio, was thew
called for, and responded in a powerful speech.—
It was then announced that John. Van Buren would
speak in the afternoon. In the aftenceen, 41. R.
Giddings, D. Pardoe, and- Mc-Spaulding, of Ohio,
and Mr. Wiley, majle short but stirring speeches.
John Vats Buren, then followed in a brilliant and
masterly speech, of which we give a few extracts:
" With Mr.Benton't views in regard lathe neces
sity of enforcing the
,proviso principle by la we
beg leave to differ. He treats the question Wan
abstraction. and compares it to a quarrel about
gnat's wool, when the goats have no wool. He says
Congress has power to abolish slavery, but cannot
exercise such power only where slavery exists t and
as there is no slavery in these territories, there is
no necessity of such- a law. It is strange this fact
has just been discovered. Three years ago, when
this proviso was first introduced, there was-an over
whelming majority in, the House of Representatives
who thought differently. Eleven States hate since
passed resolutions affirming the necessity of such
a law, and the fate of such men as Hannegan,
Breese, Cameron, Allen, and Cass, should admonish
politicians that a different sentiment prevails among
the people. These men would not want to have it
written upon their tomb-stones--" Died of an ab
straction and wrapped in goat's wool." (Roars of
laughter.)
Mr: V. B. then noticed_ the ... Alike/Hy of getting up
a national anti-slavery party. We have no believers
in our faith who can be national men ; even Hereon
is now accused - of sectionalism. This irises from
the nature of the case. We have no national Or
gans ; no political party has a national organ at
Washington; old Father Ritchie might do as well
as any one now, for such a purpose, fur the reason
that it is no trouble to him to change position's. He
denobnced Jackson. and afterwards supported him;
hedenou need the .Sub-Treasury, but stir his ink'
turns pale with the fear that the Whip will repeal
that law. And now, while a slave-holder is seated
in the Presidentitil chair, and under his nose a con
vention of slave-hplders is forming to dissolve the
Union, not one word escapes from him in disappro
bation of such a course. The onl3 tune which this
old man can now play upon Ur-tuition] organ, and
to which the people would most heartily respond, is
- “Ob carry me back to Old Virgimay."
The speaker tarn noticed what southern men had
said in relation to voting for no man Who was not
pledged against the principles of the Wilmot Provi
so. He (Mr. V. B.) would not say that be never
would again vote for a slave-holdtr, but felt at lib
erty to say, for himself only, that he would, ender
no political necessity, ever vote for another Presi
dent who will not say that slavery is an unmixed
evil, and who will not use the entire power of the
Constitution to abolish it. He denied the power of
Congress to meddle with slavery in the States, but
by surrounding the slave States by the free, it would
effectually eradicate the.whole from the land.
SINGING IN CHURCII.—A WiLeturgion
(Del.) Republican of the 16th says : " Quite an un
fortunate dispute. has arisen between the members
of the Bethel Church in Brandywine Hundred and
the choir. Owing to the choir, the other portion of
the congregation were unarble to participate in the
singing and on the complaint of some of the
'members the matter was brought before the trus
tees who decided to dispense with the choir by a
vote of eight to one. Previous to the commene
ment of worship on the next Sabbath, July 1, the
chair notwitstanding they had been notified of the
decision of the trustees took, their seats as usual
and commenced singing, when there some objec
tions made and finally .a push given knocking a
no'e-book on the floor which was then kicked.—
After considerable recrimination harmony was re
stored and the minister was listened to most atten
tively. A criminal suit was however instituted,
and the whole party brought before Esquire John .
son on Saturday last—Mr. J. C. Patterson appear
ing as the attorney of the defendants. The bearing
lasted nine hours and a half, when the anti-choir
pity were bound over in the sum of two hundred
dollars each to answer at the next term of Court."
CAOLERA ON THE UPPER MJssocat—Gol.D DLIT.
—Mr. A. Papin, of the steamer Highland Mary,
gives us the folloWing intelligence: The Cholera
has apppeared in several towee along the Upper
Missouri. In Brunswick, accounts give the aver
age at one death by Cholera a day. When the
boat passed Wavedy they found it entirely desert
ed—a jsingle person only remaining, who informed
them that the citizens bad fled to various parts of
the County, after the epidemic had carried off ten
or twelve of their number. Several cases bad oc
curred at Kansas. Mr. Ward, a gentleman who
had came down on the -Highland Mary, brought
down with him between 111,000 and $2OOO in gold
durf, wheh he purchased from an Arrapabm In
dian, who assured him that, he had dug it at the
mouth of Ash Hollow, on the Platte. We are told
by a mountaineer that no traces of gold 'Can be
found in the vicinity of the Platte, and that the
Indian, in all probability, bad obtained it from some
Mormons recently returned from the Salt Lake.—
St. Louis Retitle..
ONE or THE GLOBUS or WAR. " —A correspon
dent of the Delia, writing from &hill°, Mexico,
where some of our 4, heroes" resided for a short
time, says—
The Senoritas are anxiously awaiting the annex
ation of this part of the country to the United States.
They say they cannot enjoy themselves since
the Americans left Were. 1 have noticed on my
trip from Matamoras to this place, several beauti
ful white children, about twelve or fifteen months
old, and their mothers the color of a new jockey
inquired who the fathers of these chif.
dreu were, and they answered me, quien sake.
THE PHYSICIANS appear to be more frequently
the victims of the epidemic than any other class,
probably from their greater exposure and the fatigue
attending their professional duties. At Chicago
&anal° and New York the names of practising
physicians are mentioned as dying of cholera. In
St. Louis five have died, Drs. H. Lane, Pollock,
Ferrer, Drake and Barbotir. The finit, Dr. Hard.
age Lane, was the foremost man of the faculty in
that city.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MIRTH CIIUNE.-WE are
indebted to'Livingston's Express for information
received yesterday morning, at Tamaqua, from
Mauch Chunk r to the effect that a most disastrous
tire had occurred at Mauch Chunk the previous
evening. Thirty-tiro houses in the business por.
Lion of the borough are said to have been totally
destroyed. The amount of of loos had not been
ascertained:
Vrc-ruts' Meitico.—The Mexican Minister of
War in his Wh ew ** to his Government, states the
number of M if* women and children runway
captured and carried on by the hostile Indians to
be upwards of six hundred. It is the practice
of the savages to murder the men and hold the
women es captives.
ATTEMPT TO A531.1 . 1.158LNAT8 PONSIDENT OF
Vrarszon.a.—A leuer received by a merchant of
Beaton, from Laguna, of the 20th June, says that
an attempt had beed made to aseassuuue Manages,
the President.of Venezuela. The letter does not
state in what way the attempt was made.
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Pariemethe sth i , the 61h, einikerpeot
of die 7431 Wiltedlg at *book? o'cled• fleet ,
bil.eue Mt rirlarf infirm*
aim milky
..ImOtt . ors Biturday kirenoon,
The Caledonta his 45 pameniptra kir Beaton, ei
elusive of IS of the 42 sumvors of the ill-dated
haillrChatier-Bardelt•iof-nymeetk - .Mase...
Barden, Master, which, on Wednesday, 27th ult.
at 34 P. M. about 700 miles to the westward of
Cape Clear, was run down by die Euro
pa,, and sunk in three minutes, with 134 of the
Fair*" and crew. -The catasuophe occurred
dumgfadinse and idthoegh the bollard' the Eu
ropa were instantly lowered, and every possible as
situnce-reedered. ordy-43 out of the newels woes
saved. The captain, second-mate and 10 of the
crew.are among the survivors. The Europa is
sequined of all blame, not only by the survivors,
but by the unanimous voice of the British press
and public.
A subscription of £352 was promptly raised by
the passengers of the Europa, to which the Fort.
etors hive added £2O. They likewise offer to car.
ry the whole of the survivors front Boston to New.
York free of all expecise.
The Chares.Barilett was booed from Loudon to
New York, with emigrants = and had on board 450
tons of merchandise, comustingly chiefly of lead
and chalk. R. B. Forbes, Eeaj . , a passenger per
Europa, behaved with surprising gallantry upon
the occasion, and has been presented vr.th the gold
medal of ti e Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane
Society. The Europa sustained no Material dam
age by the collision.
•
The Chanute]) Estianawrs.—Ck;aisiortally we
bear a word or two from the army of emigrants
who are wending their way across the dreary track
of the Western plains in search of the newly . an
nounced treasures of OaWade. The wiped' lions
generally are getting along their journey very well;
dissatisfaction of course, is experienced by some,
but the majority of them will conticree on their
course. One company 01 strongly armed Kentuc
kians was found by a gentleatan recently returned
from the Rocky Mountains to St. Louis, travelling
with a wat party of Sioux nearly 10,000 strong.—
The Indians had been at war with the Pawpees,
I and were returning to their wan country with fif
teen scalps and a single prisoner. Despite ,their
amicable protestations to their fellow travellers,
they were unwelcome companions, and being
strongly suspected that they were only watching an
opportunity of stealing the cattle belonging to the
company. After two days sojourn together, the re
turned warriors were induced to cross the Platte
and to push forward by being east/rad that there had
alrearlybeen several deaths frotn measles among
the whites • that, therefore by remaining longer
with them ;hey were only unnecessarily exposing
themselves. The Indians generally are dissatisfied
with the appearance of so many whites on their ter
ritory, bat the overwhelming ranters of the intre
ders prevent a very marked expression of dissatis
faction and hostile demonstration''.
On the road from Fort Chiles to St. Joseph, the
same person connted several hundred graves. Most
of them are in the open prairie, and a rough plank
at the head of the grave, the name of the deceased.
his native State and the disease of which he died
are found hastily painted with shoe-black or such
other material most easily I rocured ender the cir
cumstances. Beneath almost every tree also, along
that distance, the newly raised sod and a coarsely
drawn inscription on the tree, where the bark has
been removed for the purpose ; shows the resting.
place of some other poor Siena. This mottaley
sewn' to have existed only between the starting
point on the Missouri and Fort Chiles. Further
than that disease and death seemed entirety toilette
disappeared.
ANOTtial Cacvasse is Potters Cotrers.—The
Pointe Coupee Edio of-the 9th inst. gives Us an ac
count of another crevasse. It says: "_ t tis strange
as it may seem at the present stage of the river :
which is several Piet within its banks,yet a cre
vasse has taken place near the mou t h - of False
River, through which a volume of water some 3
feet deep' and 209 wide is now passing. It was
occasioned by the caving of the batiks. For the
distance of about three quarters of is mite above
the lower mouth of False River the land is low
and of a light, sandy, alluvial nature, having been
deposited in the former bed of-the Mississippi
since the Ciit-off of 1812. The whole of this
space has been mpidlf caving in for several years
The front ptoprietcrrs have been nearly ruined by
the loss of their crops, and tlie heavy expense of
making and keeping in repair enormous levees,
and some will no doubt abandon their places rath
er thaa be at any further expense. There remains
about five acres in depth, between the Mississip
pi and what is called the Bay ; when that is gone
the River must throw a great portion of its waters
into itssancient channel of False River, for it win
then be impossible to build a dyker or hives across
the Bay. The water thus coming from the Missis
sippi will find an outlet through the various bayous
passing out of False Rider. The Parish of Pointe
Conpee will receive trot little injury from the change
in the course of a portion of the Riveti as has been
proved by the late high water. Portions of West
Baton Rouge and iberville, and other contiguous
Parishes below will be completely deluged.
Ncw- HAMPSHIRE. ON SU. V gay.-4tesolutions were
recently received by the N. H. Legislature from
sundry Southern Legislatures, complaining bitterly
of the New-England States ecause they decline
the honor of turning slave•catcheni for the special
benefit of Southern flesh-mongers. The blood of
all-the chivalry is up, and threaten. very terrible
things in case their runaway property' shall not
in all =sea be restores} to them. The Legislature
of New-Hampshire answers their insolence and
bravado as follows :
Revolved. That the-American Union is strongly
based upon the affections of an overwhelming ma.
jority of the American people—that we trust that
it will outlive for ages the threats with which fa
naticism assails it—that in its horn of peril, stout
hearts and strung arms will be ready in every cor
ner of our land to defend it—and that it will long
continue here a proud ark of Freedom, firm and
enduring, the time-tried model after which shall be
fashioned those free institution. which are hermi
t m to bestow their incalculable blessings upon the
whole world.
Rewired, That, in our opinion, Congress has the
Constitutional power to abolish Slavery and the
Slave trade in the District of Columbia, and that
our Senators be instructed anti our Representatives
requested to take all Constitutional measures to ac
complish that object.
Tea Damao, or Russ,* has found *defender in
a correspondent of the New York Courier, who
signs himself Conservative. The writer affirms
that in Europe there was liberty enough for all ra
tional use. He predicts that tilt Czar will be hail•
ed as a deliverer from the holm' of Red Republi
canism by those who now revile him for his op
pressions. The writer appears to be Serious in what
he says. Ile is probable one of those aculiarly
constituted minds who always prefer beinr oppos.
ed to the general sense of what is right, NW will
advance any untenable and ridiculous- proposition
in order to show his skill in deferding it. •
Derrunensami Pumas Recxxxxx DILCZASICD.—
Within a very short space of time, the following
dietinguishecl persona have died in this country
and in Europe
James K. Polk, ex-President of the United States.
General Edmond P. Gaines, of the U. S. Army.
General W. J. Worth, of the U.S. Army. •
General S. W. Kearney, of the U. S. Army.
Colonel James Duncan, of the 11. S. Army.
Marshal Ittigeandof the French Army,
Charles Albert, ex-King of Sardinia.
Madame Recamier, leader of fashion in Napole
on's time.
Madame Catalani, the celebrated vocalist.
Madame Cavaigtrac, mother of Gen. Cavaignac
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general utihty, tun • - iced le take t e lilbin a nimal
enclose yea aicopy of a letter from Mr. Jefiersont
to me on thereabjectof slave 7.
I avail myself of the occasion to tender my res
pectful.„ 'Aimee% to Mrs. Clay, and to renew
to you of my high respect sand sincere,
regard.... • • • EDWARD'COLES.
_ To, am, Husx Cz.rm.Le*iogion, Kr_
Mormcki.iti;AU„,fonit 25,1514.
Den tut; Yottr favour:if July 31st was daffy re
ceived, and was read withpecullbuldessom. The
sentiments breathed through the whole do honor
to both the head and hart df the writer. Mine
on thesubject of slaittiy of nercies have long since
been in possession of thapublie anti time has only
served to give them stronger mot.
The love of justice and the love of comity plead
equally the cause of these people, rind it is ti moral
reproach to us they should have. pleaded it it) long
in vain, end should have produc .0 not a single effort
—nay I tearnot much serious!ilingness—to relieve
titers and ourselves from our present conditori of
Moral and political reprobat . From those o
srl m
the former generation who were in the fullness of
agewben learns into public life, which was while
our controversy with England was on paper only,
I soon saw that nothing was to be hoped. Nursed
and educated in the habit of seeing the degraded
condition, bodily and mental °ribose unfortunate be
hip, not reflecting that the degradation was very
much the works of themselves and their fathers few
minds had yet doubted but that they were es legi
' ornate subjects of property as their horses or cattle.
The quiet and monotonous course of colonial life
I had been disturbed by no alarm and little-reflec
i Lion on the value of liberty ; and when alarm was
taken at an enterprise on their own it was not easy
to carry them the whole length of the principles
Which they inioked for themselves. In the firstor
second session of the legislature after I became
a member, l drew to this subject the attention of Col.
Bland .on or the oldest, ablest, and most respected
members, and he undertook to move for certain
moderate extensions-of the protection of the laws
to these people. I seconded his motion, and as a
younger member, was more *pined in the debate;
but he was denounced as an enemy to his country,
and was treated with the gteatest indecorum. I
From an early stage of our revolution other anti
more distant duties were assigned M!), PO that from
that time, until my return from Europe, in
1189, and 1 may say, till I returned to re
side at home in 1809, I had little opportunity of
knowing the progress of public sentiment here on
this subject. I bad always hoped that the young•
er generation, receiving their early impressions af
ter the flames of liberty had been kindled in every
breast, and had bib:Una, as it were the vital *pint
of tivety American that the generous temperament
of youth analogous to the motion of their blood,
and above, the suggestions of avarice, would bare
sympathized with oppression wherever found and
proved their love of liberty beyond their own share
of it. But my intercourse with them since my
return has not been sufficient to ascertain that they
had made-towards this point the progress I had his
ped. Your solitary but welcome voice is the first
which has brought this sound to my ear and I have
considered general silence which prevails on this
subject asindicating on apathy unfavorable to our
hopes. Yet the hour of emancipation is advanc
ing in the march of time. It will come and
whether brought on by the genitives energy of our
own minds or by the bloody process of St. Domin
go, excited and conducted by the power of our
present enemy, if one stationed permanently with
in cur country, offering asylum and arms to the op
pressed, is a leaf of our history not yet turned over.
As to the method by which this difficult work is
to be done by ourselves, I have seen no proposition
so expedient on that whole as that of emancipation
of those born after e ghee day, mid of their edu
cation and expatriation at a proper age. This would
give time for a gradual extinction of - that species of
labor, and substitution of another, and lessen the
saieity 01 the shock which an operation so funda
mental connote fall to produce. The idea of eman
cipating the whole at melte; the old as well as the
young,and retaining them here, is of those only who
have not the amide of either knowledge or exper
ience on the subject. For men probably, of any
color, but of tens Soler, we know, brott,ght up Rom
their infancy without necessity;for thought or fore
cast, are by their habits rendered as incapable as
children of taking care of themselves, and are ex
tinguished promptly wherever industry is necessa
ry for raising the young. In the meantime :they
are pests in society by their idleness and Oft de
predations to which this leads them. Their amal
gamation with the other colors produces a degrad
ation to which no lover of his country, no lover of
excellence in the briniep cltaracter, can innocently
consent.
I am sensible of the partialities td which you have
looked towards me as the person who should un
dertake the salutary and anlous-work ; but this my
dear sir, is like bidding old Priam to buckle on the
armor f Hector "trementibus 'zoo humeri* et inutile
ferrum tinge." No. I have overlived the generation
with which mutual labors and perils begat mutual
confidence and influence. This enterprise
-is for
the young; forthose who can follow it up to its
consummation. It shall have my prayers, and
these ste the only weapons of an old man. But,
in the mean time, are you right in abandoning this
property, and your country with it? I think not.—
My opinion has eV'er been that, until more can be
done for them, we should endeavor with those
whom fortitne has thrOwn on our_ hands to feed
and clothe them well, protect them front all usage,
require such resonable labor only as is performed
voluntarily by freemen, and be led by nti repug
nance to abdicate them and our duties to them.—
The laws do not permit us to turn them and our du
ties to them loose, if that were for their good and to
commute them for other property is to committhem
to those whose usage of them we cannot conttol.—
I hope then my dear sir you will reconcile your
self to your country and its unfortunate condition ;
that you will not lessen its stock of sound. disposi
tion by -withkmwtrig your portion from the mass;
that on the contrary, you will borne forward in the
public councils, become the missionary bf this doc
trine, truly christian , insinuate and inculcate it sof
ty but steadily through the medium of writing and
conversation ;associate ethers in your labors and
when the phalanx is formed,bririg on and
press the proposition perseveringly until its ac
complishment. It is an encouraging observation
that no good measure tvms ever proposed which if
daily pursued failed to prevail in the end. We
have proof of this in the history of eadeavoni in
the British parliament to suppress that very trade
which brong - ht this evil on us. And you will be
supported bythe religous precept, " Be not weary
in well doWg." That your success may be as
speedy and complete as it :will be honorable and
immortal consolation to yourself,l shall as fervently
and sincerely pray as I assure you of my great
fr.ealship and reepect.
THOS. JEFEERSON.
EDWARD COLES, EMI.
CELEBRATION OF TUE ORDINANCE or 'B7 us ONTO.
—On Friday, 13th inst. the People of Ohio com
memorated the Ordinance of 1787 by a hearty and
spirited Convention at Cleveland. John Van Buren
J. B. Giddings, Henry Lt-- Ellsworth, Salmon P.
Chase, John C. Vaughan, and others, were the
speakers; Judge TAPPAN presided;, The first
speenb was by Mr. Elswonh. He bare down par
ticularly 'Lauren. the Peculiar Institution, and as
signed it an unpleasant origin, as the work of the
Evil One. John Van Buren followed, in a speech
characterized as of leen wit and masterly argu
e/eat, discussing the prominent issues of the day..
A report of it has not, yet reached us: ' Mr. Old
dings as said to have 'spoken briefly, but with pow
er.
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t r. a , ' 47' ' , enjoqu a bru taltaunt will
. , ' •` — - tit° miles east of this , Said*.
. ' •;--",-- .... ' . . .. characterbyphOr mine '11(
A . •)4 riffe l ind delbtOefelyArbia.lat
• ..''' '. , Allied Aaron Gaurd i, thobell4iiirtured
Villt • - — of thejight lung; be lived bat it flaw ma
Meals Mier he received tbe fatal shot. Cahooriwas
niveseetitrabeittwir hotivaidlittwanfit liii-fici
of Amzi Wilson, about one mile from the scene of
murder. Squire Hoot, ths,Corober; treld,aninqirest
en the body of Gaord on Sunday morning, when
when the jury returned a Veralet "thit the deceas
ed am. by his deeds in consequence of a rifle ball
Imitating his body, which was ,fired deliberately at
him by - John Cahoon." The Caioner committed
the pristmer to Wiliaberre jail, arawaitiris:uird-at
the next l
C t ourt of Oyer and Terminer, which takes
place hex month. The main facts in this triely
are the following:
John Cahoot is a wild; roving, reckless, dissiii
ted character—a kind of "wild man of the woods"
—who has obtained hie scanty livin g for the most
pin of his lite by hunting deer On the hfoosic Mona
tains. His greatest ambition and enjoyment were
the possession of his rifle and a jug of rum. • In or
der to enjoy his selfish and depraved passion, he
had located himself in a small hut or shantee, in
the woods about three quarters of a mile from any
inhabited or public thoroughfare; and there be liv,
ed`u.kina of "Lord of Creation," until a few weeks
since he induced apoor unfortunate young Mag
dalen ip accompany him to his loathsome and po.
luted den of iniquity, where blie remained till the
afternoon of the murder. 'lt appease that since this
girl went to live with Cahoon, that a number of the
profligate and degraded characters of our town have
been in the habit of visiting "-Cahocin's pen,"
among whom was the unfortunate Aaron Gatird:
On the the afternoon of the murder, he with seve
ral others visited this vile place to mummer and de , .
bench. Their presence was iummying to Cahoon,
who took up his rifle and went out, declaring" there
would be blood spilled." lie fired into the " Den"
when the fatal ball entered the body of Gaunt. It
is difficult to decide whether it was jealousy;. mal
ice, or revenge that goaded this depraved. charac
ter to commit so foul a deed in open day; bet from
the facts that.have been developed in connection
with the affair,,it is evident that rum and the asso
ciation of a degraded and pointed woman Were the
main and thief cause of the perpetration lof- this
!.
foul tragedy. When be was arrested he d,." I
am glad he is shot; I would shoot him a,,, in 4 :if I
bad a chance." He appeared to think had , dom
ed a herons act. Bat yesterday he began to realize
his situation and shed tears.
Cahoon is about 49 years of age. lie has a vil
lainous. guerrilla countenance—one of which Fow
ler or Redfield yould consider a chance specimen
to grace their cabinets: Gaeta war about 20 years,
of age. Re left parents,_ brothers and sisters to
mourn his loss. '
. .
We hope this sad catastrophe will produce a sal
utary influence on the minds of the youth of oar
grog ing population. That strict integrity, virtue
and temperance are the only -safeguards against
vice and its .debasing influences.
The voice of warning comes np from the open
grave- of long Gaord to 'the young men of Ibis
community and of it/island, "to abstain from strong
drink, to shun the unholy cup as they would a vi
per, cast from them vile and evil associates; avoid
the strange woman's house, for it is the way that
leads down to the chambers of death—avoid it, pima
nbt by it,tarn from it and pass away." X. Y.
Tan RIOT AT ST. ions, N. B. _The St. John MOP
ning News of the 13th contains full particulars _ of
the late Riot in that city, by which ten lives were
lost, and a number of persons wounded. The riot
oectered on the 12th of July, a day commemorated
by the Orangemen in memory of the landing of the
Prince of Orang e in England, And the Battle of
Boyne. A numer of Changemen came to the city
from the upper country with banners and emble
meats, to march through the streets in proceasion.=
Some of the party,were armed with muskets, doubt
less anticipating a disturbance. The procession
started about 11 o'clock. Some person of opposite
feelings had erects' a green arch across York Point,
so that the Orangemen would either bez obliged to
pass under, or demolish the structure, which would
be the signal for war. ' The procession passed un
der without disturbing the arch.
The Mayor proceeded to the place, and in a - -
tempting to.have the arch removed was struck 'll3
the back oil the head, and otherwise severely han
' tiled ; and he came oter to the city bleeding. The
procession finally parsed along the point, when an
excitement was created—stones and pistol shots
were fired; several persons were wounded, but
none itiortalky. With the exception of this skirm
ish the procession crossed the bridge utmolested.
The authorities now interfered, and a company of
about 60 men was marched nri. (four the hi:necks,
and stationed on the platform; where ball-cartridges
were served out, It does not appear, however, that
the military fired a shot. 0q the return of:the pro
cession, and when near Rankin's. Bakery, a num-,
her of gun's were fired ; upward of fifty shots at
least were heard—which resulted in some ten or a
doien persons being killed immediately; and many
more. wounded. The shots were fired into the
thangeMen, and by the Cfrangenien again into the
crowd—but whence came the first shot we could
not learn. A scene of death ensued too horrible to
se e m was a reality for a civilized city like SLJohn.
It is impossible now to get a correct statement of
the number of deaths. A person of veracity, how
ever, informs us that he saw ten corpses himself.—
Some say there were at leafittweive killed; but.we
put the number dawn at ten.
THE CA*ADIAN Moms —Reilgious Sectarian Rids..
Ah-Between the war of races and the war of religi
ous sects, Canada is kept in a pleasant state of ex
citement and disorder. The partials from that
country are filled with the proceedings of the 12th
of July, the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne,
when, some 200 years ago, a Dutch Pniitastant
King overcome an English Gatholic one! This
evert, so important.to the interests of humanity and
the establishment of human rights in the world, has
been July celebrated in a characteristic manner
with blows by the respective sects ever since, some
of our own cities formerly being the battle-ground
of the belligerent parties till the good sense of the
American authorities put a stop to such intolerant
bigotry. itsemi,. however , in Canada the praa;
tice is kept nip, and:the last aniversary led to sevp
nit gross outrages. In Hamilton an armed proces
di
don passed 'rough the streetr s and were about to
be attacked jib scythes and pitchforks, but the in
terference of hers snipped the fight. In St. Catha
rine's a colli4on took place, and . two men were
killed and silimortidly wounded. At Coburr, one
man killed arid many seriously wounded.. Ai Mon
treal a very serious riot occurred and in other parts
of the country similar outrages, indicative of the
bad passions'and the ignorance of those engaged iii
them. The Canadians have a great many ridicn.
lous prejudices to remove before they will be able
to enjoy in their excellence the blessings of annex
ation.
THE Poer - oiTtcEßorssaavrut Ny AIMINGTON:
—The Republic alluding lobe reported. robbery at
the Post-office, mentions the following particulars
connected with it :—IL W. Where & Co., welt
known exchange brukentathat city receive week-.
ly heavy remittances.from their correspondents in
Philadelphia and Baltimore. By last Sunday Mot
eing's mail several Were received and put into his
box by the-distributing clerk, and there remained
during the day ; Mr. Latham not permitting any
taniiness lobe done for him on Sunday and deem
ing them safe iu the Post-office. They were seen,
in ihe box late on Sunday evening by some of
the clerks but by Monday morning they had been'
purloined, and nothing 'remained buts single fetter
and a Richmond paper. Prompt measures were
immediately taken by Mr. Bradley the Tostmaster
and Captain Goddard, of the Auxiliary Guard, to
direct the depredator bu t valet they have failed in
obtaining any clue. 1#2342. in Virginia bank notes,
and about 8258 in individuals notes are anion.- 0 the.
stolen property.
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Dr. Armband ofParisfitas4 e reasert. the N IL
di* ofilrq*s2 emy Of Scie 'es, upon the alleg e d
caimiiectiortitelwisen the pre of cholera IQ
thikedieneliket eketricity from the atmosphere, 0 ,
'Ldiminellon of the quantity Which usually Ne l
tralib's the "*.. • The Doctor says, under datecifitn 4
266, thatAigneg the months of April . and /day sh e ,
eliileratheTrulightly prevailing in Pans, he had no ,
tided, in, his experiments with the electrical m g .
Abiser:4o4-41,.:50eh1-AollwelleeeAli&-tense,
fecte twice, and that the number of sparks emitted,
after agiven number of turns of the wheel s ..mes a
less than hill what were usuhUr-obtainedsisdios.
ting that. dig electricity of the atmosphere bad di,
tarnished io that proportion ; and the variation I Q
the quantity of electricity thrown. off 'by his a lto
chine n corresponded precisely with the degrees of
i p tensuag IritnßhAte_cholerkprevailed..in the city.
Tbe "meanie 'continued to indicitelns mid les e
of electricitY,in theoir until the 7th of June, wh en
the pestilence readied the highest point of naafi: :
nancy, and then itgave evidence of the total 4.
sense of the Avid, orat.lraitrift its inactivity. Bat
on the Bth, a kw *puke were obtained; towatdi
night the evidence of the return became mote de.
cided, and on the 940e,Olitrcelll was Perfectly res.
tored The cholent declining.
The rendrof Audnuid's observations is th is
nature has diffused three - 8h tliCatrnosphere a mil e
of electricity which contributes to. sustain life. it
by airy means.this becomes diminished, or if, a s
sem i• possible, attenuated to exhaustion, .peopl e
throughout the world suffer. Those whose corps:
real systems contain, by aeon of secretion, a. Bath.
ciency of electricity to preserve life and health, re.
slat the u,niversakipedeney to disease end death ;
those who are not so provided, being unable to sop.
- ply the deficiency for the means of electricity whi c h
usually surrounds them, languish and die. Th u
explanation appliesequally sea definition of th e
cause of all epidemics, if it be true in respect t o
cholera. As the medical profession possess so Many
means of produchg and maintaiuingelectricity, Dr.
Audrend considers that it will now be practicable
to treat the disease with success, and to completely
finest its progress.
k ouss T .
,C1;101.11:111. - AT ST. LOMS.-4118 Ol
the 12th says : •
"All worldly matters have nowlgiven way j fv ,
this city to the one absoibin, , ,l dieakof the Cholera.
This terrible destroyer of the human race menu i n
increase in violence in thii city , daily, until - we cm
scaicely look at its ravages without a shudder of
terror. Already it has carried off over five that.
sand of our population, and now its blows fall ash
more fearful and fetal rapidity thanever.. Te i add
to our terror, medical specifics' and medical still
become each day more coefficient and useless to
arrest the disease :in. its progress to fatality. i n .
deed, most otour eminent Medical men now de
clare the disease an- outlaw, to which no kno wn
rules of treatment can be applied with any certain.
ty of success. Contrary to our first suppositions ; a
seems - mow to have little or no regard to t:.e
es of society it attacks, as the rich tall with the
poor; the temperate and comfortable in life ; alon
tvtrlgthe diMeute, the abandoned, or the wretched.
The past week's..bil.s of mortality prove this, as i n
it w ill be found
. nrinabers•of what are called the bet.
ter class of society—a lame number of these fe.
males, toe, whom we are ° bound to believe wen
prudent and temperate: On the other hand, 300 or
400 generally impoverished,_ dirtyi and wretched
foreigners, quarantine below this city, remain cont.
paratively healthy in all their filth and discomforts.
As regards the city itself, we have heard it remark.
ed often of late that in the most filthy parts of
there is now the least amount of sickness. • What,
then, cal be the law that governs this disease I If
care, cleanliness", and all. the comforts of hte, ina
ciously used, form no barrier, what . will arrest gi
We frankly confess we do not possess the drAlors
of any knowledge on the matter. All we can say
is, to do what we can to ward off this disease, .amt
trust to Providence. Come what may, be cheerful,
be contented, be resigned, and we lessen its ter
rors if we cannot avert it altogether."
THE BRIDAL PORYION FORGERY CASE,' in Neil
Orleans, has ended in acquittal of the defendant,
Madame Gallot, as our readers have already learn
ed by Telegraph. The tfial is _reported in as
Picayune at length, and was moat interesting. Th e
prosecutor, AntoinelliCliond, prevaricated very
much when 'under cross- - exammlation by the cons.
eel for the defense in relation to his signature to
the note , and everything in the evidence went to
show t hat the note was not a forgery. The allen
bon that the body of the note had been removed
by Chemical ptocees, or the signature transferred..
was disproverkby a chemist. The prisoner made
a statement to the Jury; written in French. to the
effect that Mr. Mielmod had been condi= her for
a long time, and hqd,. in fulfillment of a promise,
given' her the note 'm question, as a token of his
•regard. The Jury were . only out two minutes and
a half. The case has attracted general =emirs
from its '
singular features.
THE ReST WHiAT.—The rust in wheat is quite
extensive in the Ohio Licking and the taller. of
the Miamis ' and in many cases the crops are-en.
useless,Lively and some of the famiersdeetn them
selves:fortunate if they are enable to secure a hal
crop. Mr. Tibbnttit, Whose farm is some 23 mills
smith oltNewixart; informs us that the neiglibonat
farms formiles around are sufiering from rust, aad
that entire crops are wholly destroyed. Oa Won
farm he thinks he Will.be able to save attest ore
half, and attributes his good fortune to having sow
ed earlier than his neighbors. Rust is occasion
by sudden o .seasonable raid's, followed it
equally sudden droug •id heat, when the wltri ,
is in a milky state and tequ .owerful num..
to mature it. The stalks, being - • tams
red, and is covered with a thisty substance prem. ,
ly resembling the oxide of iron-, and hence the tore
" rust " The.stalks collapses, the pores close, the •
leaves wither, and the crop ts -ilestroyed.—Cw.
Conarntr. • •
Tire Darivotrr.-Anotber week has passed we
out rain' in this region, and the greater portion d r
the pasture lands look as if they had been searez
by hre. More than hall of the oat trop is past re
dernption, and we shall be compelled to contest
ourselves. with "small potatoes," should we be 5 0
lucky as to get even. them. We understand tits
the fires are spreading through the timber lands r.l
the north . part of this county, Hamilton and Ems.
Many cf these fires have been raging for two weeb
—long enough in all conscience, to completely et•
plode Prof. Epsey's doctrine, that great fifes p 1
rain.—Glim s Falls Clarion, 19th.
A Dtscusruic Ser.:tn.—We yesterday witnegel
It most disgusting scene in the Third MunicionMY
A negro boy about 12 or 14 years of age• had beefs
whipped and cut up shamefitlly-by hia mistmm,
colored woman, and sent by tuamother to ahlatk
smith-shop to be manacled: His feet were irenti
closely together anerin this conditimv the• mother
was leading him through tfte Meet. A gentleman
whewas attracted by the spectacle sent Ilse boy to
the police cane and be was-thence sent lath!
hospital by Recorder Seureneau.. Th e matter wal
be investigated.--[N. 17..Picarme, 11th inst.
Tux Porsve..—The hope is indulged Goat an
exanniattionorthe potato patches this year, that tl 4l
'f potato ettoreni passing away. The plant noi
exhibit the old-lbshioned iadioationa.of health sea
vigor which belonged to it. years ago. The top
have a,fretth and healthful hue, trod are well Co'
ered erUkseed Ws.* This lest indisatiPe
"ardekraw sign of returning health to the cense
;abort the 'potato race, which for a number of
years has presented but very few seed balls.
Tom WHEAT-Cam , is below an average this year
in Ohio, fionthernindiana and Sombein—
in,other parts ot thaeountr, it is very large, proba
bly sufficient to make up . this deficiency.. The
Cincinnati Gazette'says, " The corn crop; thns far.
promises welt, and there svili be a great many 1 1 °
tames deg, thoigh the preent indication is that
this important vegetable will this year be at a 611:13. 1
size." .