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Towanda, Wednesday, Jan'y 23,1860
• Terse for the 'Mortise lir.,
OS annum; lr paid within the year 80 ems will
be daiuetwl t for cash paid actually Ul advance, 11l CO will be
deducted.- ' • -
Anessrantemm . per equate et tea lines. 50 cent be the
finit, sad 25 cents en each iusbeequent insertion. .
ZEICI. NYM 11:2k 1117 111. X-.• •
The office of the ' Reporter' is re
moved to the third story of the brick
building, north aide of the Public
Square, next to the Bradforxl Hotel
—entrance between Messrs.yidams'
and
,Elwell's offices.
The Ball Opened! 1
After "seven long weeks" of alternate hope
and agony, Mr. JOHN W. FotutEr finds himself a
defeated candidate for the Clerkship,—defeated too
by the men whose support his recreancy to south
ern principles, should have commanded to the last
moment—and assumes his position as the editor of
the Petmsylcnntan, with his heart full of bitterness
and disappointment. The expectations raised by
a caucus nomination hare been crushed—the office
which he craved is beyond his reach—his hopes
have flea--
" Like ibis baseless &brie of a dream."
That he should at once denounce the Democrats
who deserted him, seemed natural—that he should
turn his vituperations and abuse to those upon
whom he bad no claims for support, is unreasona
ble. If he had one spark of manhood in his breast,
the_ former would have been the objects of his
censure. Brit he bends in humble submission to
the-degradation ;—nay, more, he licks the dust at
the feet of those who have humbled him, and seeks
by servile offices to render himself still more con
temptible.
Against DAVID Wit.terrr and PRESTON turn--
(more particularly- the former)—his abuse is level
led. They had no part nor parcel in his nomina
tion. The columns of the Pennsylvanian have
groaned with the multitude of articles, to prostrate
DAVID WILMOT. In season and out of season, he
has been assailed with a ferocity and bitterness
worthy of a political Harms. To him, no honest
and independent man, wider f 'tar c rcumatanceo,
would have, been abject and debased enough to
have looked for support. Yet, !imposing that with
all men, as with himself, principle was like a gar
ment, to be put ell and on, as suits the wearer's
convenience, he did ask turd expect Mr. Wiltnot's
rapport. And, for "seven long weeks" ho in
dulged this hoie. Mr. W. refused to bow to South
ern dictation, in vuting for a Speaker selected by
the South—without incurring Mr. Forney's dis
pleasure—he even bore in siler.co his first votes
for a Clerk—but when the question was settled,
and Mr. Forney was defeated, the vials of his
wrath are uncorked, and his paper that day forth is
silent no longer. At once he discovers that Mr.
Witmer is a " disorganizer " a "demagogue," and
calls him a thousand other hard names which are
recurrent in the Pennsylvanian's vocabulary. Sud
denly is the veil taken from before Isis eyes; and
iostint and deep his perception of what, for "sev
en long weeks" he had' failed to notice.
The principal of his attacks appears in the
Peensyloanian of Nov. 19, and is headed " Wilmot
and the Mexican War." We give it in full to our
readerv:
"One of the most efficient enemies of the last
war with Mexico, was DAVID WiLmor, the rep
resentative from . Bradford, Tioga, and Susque
hanna counties, in this State. It is a fact, that can
not be successfully denied that ever singe he in
troduced the Proviso, he has been as constant and
as bitter in his opposition to the Democratic party,
as Gintusas, or any of the other old Federal lead
ers iu Congress. When Mr Pour and the Demo
cratic party took ground against his anti slavery
movemems, : Wastor distinguished himself by op.
position to and abuse of the last administration
During .he present session of Congress, he voted
for Roar, of Ohio, for Speaker, a man who has
gone as far 'as any man in the country, to abuse,
misrepresent, and ridicule the Democratic party.
a man whose opposition to the late war, was that
of a prejudiced and malignant opponent of all that
was patriotic and right. Upon the war itself, Mr.
Waster did not allow ins sentiments to be mann-
,derstood. His course led to the procrastination of
babe war, to the loss of many valuable lives, sacri
'Geed for the want of reintorcements and supplies,
and to the direct aiding and comforting of the
country's enemy. '
The tof money also, which the protrec.
ted I • lion, conseqoent upon the efforts - of Wtre
.tsar and his supporter, added to the efforts of the
Whigs, against that war, -has cost to the Naticmsd
Treasury, would stanle the country, if stated in dol
. liars and cents. These efforts, while they paralixed
Me - national pride, were the cause of profound ex
siltation among the enema of our institutions in
foreign countries. In order to gratify his maligqity,
Mr. Wasarr did not stop to count the consequence
of his fatal folly.' He did not blush at theibad com
pany in which he found himself. He did not then
hesitate, when actingby !beside of southern Whirs.
northern Federalists, and all the worst enemies of
the Democratic! early. The denunciations of the
wa--the ridicule of the l-rave men who fought in it,
the open applause of the efforts of the Mexicana—.
were glad music in his eons • and during all that
trying period be never open ed his lips, either to
vindicate the war against its fuss, or to say one kind
word in favor of the gallant men who fought cin
der the American flag. He. whose heart beat with
sympathy for the southern shire (far better off in
meat eases, than the norther bback)had no Word of
compassion for the 'poor American soldier. He
who could dilate, by hours, against Southern .
greueioos, bad no anger to express at the- story
Mexican owessions. Basied in the attempt to
*mite the Southern blacks to servile insurrection,
he could not bear the cries for succor of his own
distant and gallant coonnymsm and even when
every gas binught intelligence that these brave
men were indanger of being overwhelmed by an
superior numbets...even when for months no ti
dings reached' their agonised families and friends
Dc.lo WILMOT turnadoentemptcsoosty awa , and
veimated his labors in hoe of the "Ha
man Freedom," which, nadir the plea of prevent
ing the eztenage of slavery, tribe to Wear op the
sicadfoundations of the tibiae,and to Make free
of those whims united efforts lone have, made that
, Union the admiration of the whole civilized World,
the-bacon to the oppressed, and the terror of she
oppressor.
Can :infamy and falsehood go farther than this
1111 and Wed Onjarac—whone business is
to bear Ads, teitrals,,for ply—w ould wad a¢ ant
at the thought Ofetterfeteoclt inalieioes, apparetit
mrd tassit , hearterfsaltrmrtY. The authoreftheer
tick) eeoreorer filar for hie pre.emiarce in the
perpetration of anfinandedil , wietied a l it Infamous
lies. Noone but Jowl W: 'Poises ii capable of
Jiving so deep into the dirty pool, and coming up
Si covered with mud. The man who could invent
the above and theairthoief the falsehood about Mr.
Wu.stcres opposition to the Tariff of MI, need no
further efforts to ensure themselves a renown of in.
&my through life. . .
Some little exelMtcan be found is the disappoinl
- and rage which his defeat has engendered.—
The - crouching Spaniel dare not even show his teeth
at his southern mnsters.who have struck • him---he
feels the brand of slavery-propagindism burning on
his brow, Ind maddened to desperation -by a few
Bug of shame mil selfebesement, strikes at them
whose noble defence of thrift prinelAte makes hie
treachery the irlaelter. in his blind malignity he
has overshot the neut. He has pot forth e charge
moidle and false to command mention any where.
It will serve only to exhibit the eatent of his Imal
tee and disappointment. It Gills powerless at the
feet of the one it was intended to harm. Wi defy
him to point out a rote of M. Wasnies upon any
mission acted upon by Congress, which iinot radi
cally Democratic.. When he was filling and back
ing upon the Terrill question, and his master was
shaking in his slosesi Dane Witmer, alone of the
Delegation front Pemeryleania, was meeting the
question openly and fearlessly. When the misera
ble clique of which the Pennsylvanian is the mouth
piece, have been advocating banks and special
privileges Davis Wiusor has fought the battles of
the Radical Democracy with zeal and efficiency.—
It is not necessary for us in this beim le to defend
his Democracy. But while there is a drop of De
mocratic blood in in our veins—and we shall be
careful not to lot it out—we will defend him in the
Rota against the malignant and unscrupulous at
tacks of the Pennsylvanian.
Why does not Mr. FOR,ItIr notice the election of
A. J. GLossatesze, the editor of the York Gazette,
as Sergeant-at-Arms of the House 1 He was a can
didate unobjectionable-to any Democrat. A warm
supporter of Gen. Casa, yet as he came np as a
Democrat, not as as a sery ile truckler pu: forth by
the South, Mr. %%urser cordially supported him
We rejoice in his election, which is a direct re
proach to, FOR 24 sr, and a capital r ommentary upon
his defeat.
These constant ebullitions of wrath show there
is a concerted plan on foot, to write arid he down
DAVID Wituar. New and continned•demcnstra
lions may be looked for. They are not a new thing,
however ;—being merely a repetition of the" foreign
influences" which have heretofore been employed
in ,a vain attempt to put him down A galvaniz
ed specimen of them cannot harm him now. The
DemocraCy of Bradford have repeatedly spurned
the proffered yoke. The Pinusyloanian may issue
its pronunciamentoes—but it cannot swerve them
from their cheriified principles, or lessen their con.
fidence in a Representative who has served them
honestly and faithfully.
Correspomksce from Ilarrisboow.
Ilanatszcac, Jan. )7, 1850
Tlie most important business iu c tlie Legislature
autism the past reek ha been t discussion of
the resolutions introduced some days ago by Mr.
Meek, of Centre county, instructing our Senators . in
Congress to rote for abolishing corporeal punish
ment in the Nary. The Resolutions were warmly
advocated by Messrs. Meek, Corwyn, and o hers,
and opposed-by Judge Porter, on the ground that
the Legislature was transcend.ng its powers in at
tempting to instruct our members of Coll:, , ress - on
any subject; they passed almost unanimously.
A bill has been introduced and passed is the
House, increasing the salaries of the Acthtor Gen
eral, State Treasurer and Surve3or General, the
two first to 1700, The lamer to 1400. 14 was up in
the Senate to day, and passed two readings. It
will undoubtedly become a law. It is in it-elt right
and just as the salaries of those officers has hereto
fore been entirely inadequate to the services per
formed by them.
The only legislation which will be required, this
session, for the North Branch Canal, is the appro
priation of a certain amount to prosecute the work.
As the Governor has stated in his message that the
sum of $300,000 can safely be applied to that ob
ject, I think the friends of that improvement will
wee to take that amount, without contest, and in
corporate it in the general appropriation bill, when
it will undoubtedly pass. It has been said the
'Governor, will even consent to increase it 60,000
so as to make an appropriation of E 360,000, which
will be amply sufficient for the present year and
will ensure the completion of the work beyond
doubt. There seems to be a perfect agreement
among-the friends of the North Branch, that this is
the safest anttsurest course to pursue, as a separate
bill devoted exclusively to this object would meet
- with determined opposition, and might be defeated
while the policy of aim fly appropriniug the amt
recoresnendini by the Governor meets with greater
favor and woolli be far MOW likely to succeed.
The Canal Commissioners are in Session, and
are beset on all sides with applicents for
` places.—
No -appointments have beet made 111 1 yet,, , and
probably nor ICH be made befits* next week.
The election of Snits Treasurer will take place
next Monday—the prominent candidates are Ar.
nold Planter, who preceded the present inconi
bent, E. 4c. Pisnnfrniut of Philadelphia county.
Mr. Dimock of Enaquishanne, Dr. McClintock of
Allegheny co, and' Gin. Meter of Schuylkill,
My own opiuionis that Mr. Plumer will kereeem.
mated.
The town is fall of strang,ers, some &awn here
as candidates for places cm the Canals and Rail
roads, other. as candidates or friends of candidates
lop State Treasurer &c., besides there is at present
inlaid= an Educational Convention; and throngs
of Leetuters.-91ngers & Mountebanks are prepcnt
.^
xtichten the members and trenusunity at large
on the.. respective biotite topics.
Cotumas os TMZ N. Y. k Eau &mace-.
A. million assarrad oo tbs. Neff Vogt & Cris
Itaidnad an Satarday.nisia lag, a freight tgaia •
ing mat, meeting an empty eagle Ink comb.
west. Mach damage was Alai, and three men
were severely injured.
Wu. C. Wm last week ritired - front the Tulip
Banner, his partner Mr. Siam, assuming the
sole emir. Ms. Wm has ,heen a rtess 'tied
able editor, and we wish, hint . mean is some
tundra mid lees labotim Cain&
, The defeated camikksto-for the t lerkship, ap•
Patti in tlipcilnica: inn most remarkable
"Cal,", *Min b'netidiedy plays out aside , ids[
- grost . '6oMyed, bows hisOmatt is
oteerfuj IRAS6II4in lo* block, and inietnins
fate like a ThiikeeMant Deinicreis who
linisiied hiss; ate IRMO close to Ma bosom, and
- his misfomme only. inspires him- wilt . issw seal
kw the gi institution " which was not to *Satisfied
with a single victim, but demands a hecatomb.
We should hate been content to let Mr Forney
season this dish, of. his &ern cooking, to soft his
own tasie, but tot the grattiiions Ain' g he makes in
hiscanX at the member4rom this district, c o d sev
eral Miff/T . 4'We Soil Demociiti irint did trot 11811. -
port hint. Front the time Congress first enlivened
until this " card," he is silent in regard to the pom,
litical sins Of the Free Wets who teased to sop.
pore the southern candidate Mr. Cop. Not a word
is breathed about bids--to judge by the
columns of the Fenasy=heir modem is not
considered so heinous and disorganizing as to de
maid a rebuke. Alters lapse of six weeks the
vigihint defender of pure democracy wakes op
from his lethargy, and soddenly discovers the po
litical inkmities of these offenders.
Pending this remarkable developementrit should
be remembered Mr.' Forney was a candidate for
the Clerkship ; and it may be, was extravagant
enough to suppose that ne could possibly obtain the
votes of Free Soil members. From our knowl
edge of his character, and his lust for office, we
have no doubt tie hail the hardihood to sal pose
that Freemen of The North would sepport him in
his shameful apiistriey from their principles!.
Trete BM Omit& SipaUM Pr.. Webster.
The grand jury at Boston on Thursday morning
last, after hearing all the evidence, found a true
bill against Professor Webster for the murder of Dr.
Parkman. Pliney Merrick, Esq. has been retain
ed as consul for the accused. The amination
before the Grand Jury was not wholl y ex parte ;
several witnesses were examined who said they
saw Dr. Parkman after his disappearance.
The Clamming item % Waverly.
The following article from the Tioga Freeman,
meets our hearty endorsement. " Mine hosts" of
the Clairmont, are well known in this ‘iciuily and
to commend their skill in entertaining the travel
ling community is needless here. Strangers, how
ever may rely open the best attention, and upon
certainty of laming well.
The public will be well pleased to learn that
Solomon Moder, who for many years was the gen
tlemanly proprietor of the public House it Barton,
and A. M Coe Esq. , late of the Tunis House in
this village, has opened a large and 'splendid pub
tic hotel at Waverly in Tinge County. where they
are fully prepared to c:mtribute to the wants of the
travelling public. The House is entirely new, and
for internal arrangement atoll splendor, it surpass
es any thing of the 'kind this country It is situa
ted IR miles below Owego near die Erie Rail Road
depot, in one of the most healthy and thriving vil
lages in the State. That WMIZALT, and the
"Clairmont House" are destined to outstrip in the
career of prosperity, all the other villages and pub
lic houses in this region of Country, shrewd, and
far seeing business men caning for a moment
doubt.
" MINING Ar.cd4 - rsa."-11e have received the
first number of a neat democratic paper. es ablish
eif at kittaville, by INfassra. HALL & VLIEZ. It
seems to be editail with ability.
Nine Pori. Orrrca.—A post office has been
established at Bendy creek in this county and Ben
jamin F. Buck, appointed Post Master.
LATZR TROM TliC CALIITRMAXII.-A letter was
received in the early part of this week, tom Mr
ions Lasixtso, by his fiieuds in this place, dated
at San Francisco. He hail left the mines in conse
quence of the rainy having set in, and had einzag
ed for the, winter in the gnveniment Steam Mills at
San *dim at 58,00 a day and found. His compan
ions, Mvisam, Couass and JIKNEN were 4till at
the mines; having all just recovered from severe
sickness, during which, Lennie./ had the sole . care
of them. For some time Collins' life was despair
ed of; he became very low, was deranged, Ste.;
but; together with the rest was quite well when
Lanning left them, and woillet fallow him to San
Francisco in a few days to spend the winter.
Lanning, met Nesbit and Buskirk at Sacramento
city, on their way to the mines, where they pur
posed wintering, as stated in a letter from Nesbit;
which we published a few—,weeks ago._Owego
Gaulle.
RIMAIVIC 'atm Styr:lL—The Florida Sentinel con
tains an account of the examination, by a commit
tee of scientific gentleman of the river Wacissa, in
Florida, with a view of testing its capacity for a
crater power for manufacturing purposes, and the.
practicability of connecting it with the St. Marks
by a canal. The head waters of the river are thirty
twofer!! above the high water in the St. Marks, at
Newport. The Sentinel describes the Waciasa
river as one of the natural curiosities almost pecu
liar to Florida. It takes its rise, like the Wakulla,
in springs of great volume, forming an immense
basin with bold shores, from which it rune in a
S S. E. direction, in a deep sad broad stream,
about fourteen miles, to a swamp, where most of
it disappears through a subterranean channel, by
which it is discharged into the Gulf. This river
is said to contain a weakr volume of water than
the Potomac or Jams River , and like aft rivers
having a similar rise in Florida, it is a ff ected aei:h
er by drowsk; \ or brisket, affosding one steady, uni
form and unvarying current all the year. The
committee are of opinion that more than ten time.
the water power of Lowell can be found then it a
small expense.
Trig Cases 's= —A plan has been adopted by the
Sarno& Ildnniciplity of New Orleans, by which, at
a coo of about *2OOO, a protection can be afforded
to the city against the theratessed overflow. The
COMMOVIdaI Butletin ray s :
The works now in pregrese and which in a
week of favorable weather may ber ompleted—tre
the elevation of a levee or dyke along the new ca
nal, on a level with the Metairie Ridge, *ern said
ridge to the city, and from the canal along the ceo.
Ire of Claiborne street up to the lints dividing the
city from Lafayette. end then along paid line to.
wardastbe river. to such point of neteral elevation
as will entirely protect every Pierian of the Muni
cfPlditY•
Tramm.
Tirmart mate Damintsm-4111 English piper
footsies a melancholy account of the la t oftweow
pilotatmehed to tits station; who were drowned m
a humane attempt toluene the stew of a Wrested
m s g. Aim hasinglemilfrilbe care* Meer rap
boat capsized, and twenty: out of the twenty4our
who had so genenmsoy manned her, sank see by
one to a wat er y grave ip the presence or tficse
wh3te_they Indgonels mean.
Ax tams' term The CherollPse Idiom% his
said, design to apple int idenission intathe Union,
in a few years, and, with that view, they - are ex
ceedinspy anxious to compete with the whiles is
all Wads of imp :mimeo&
11Pease7!i Card.
Tao iamb seek Owl.
The Report of the Canal Commisilioners, a CM
of which. Int liaelt‘tecideeii from Harrisburg, con
tains the folkefeing- favorable in regald .
to the - Niirth-lkanch Ceuta :`
1/port'receiviar in atiteCfient top
eierternier, that st souping of eon - 'nth's& and 'Shy
thousand dollars was in the Tramiarn applicable to
the completion of the North Branch extension, un
der the protisionsof the act of thole& Awn, 111411,
to provide for the ordinary expenses of government,
.the Board took stip at the earliest pnevicable pe
tiod to piece a corresponding amount of work under
contract. Proposals were publicly invited, and on
the Ist of December, the contracts wets allnued.at
prices ranging hem twenty-five to thirty per cent
Glow the estimates of William B. Foster. Jr., Esq.,
Elie iiiigineee appointed by the Board.. The letting
of the sections was so arranged as to place the
most difileelt portions of the work tinder contract,
with a view of bringing . the whole line into use at
the earliest period. practicable •
It may be said with troth, that the earlyekompk.
Lion of this work is a financial measure. Connec
ting, as it soon most, by means of the New York
immurement'', with the most populous portions of
of western New York, and with the great chain of
lakes, which, with the retom trade, cannot fall In
a very short time, to yield a revenue more than
equalling the interest on its entire cost. But should
a canal connection between its northern terminus
and the canals of New York be delayed, there can
be no doubt that the tolls derived from the trade
thrown upon it. and conveyed from and to the ter
minus at the State line, by means of the'Erie rail
road, and other channels of transportation, will be
tar greater in amount than the interest on the sum
now required for its completion. In addition to
this, the impetus which will.be given to trade,
agriculture, and ibe mining interests of that sec
tion of country along its line, most necessarily cause
a rise in the vidttation of taxable properly, which
will be another source of revenue to the Treasury
of the State. The amount expended on this canal
is two millions four hundred and eighty-four thou
sand nine hundred and thirty.nine dollars and six
ty cents. For years the Commonwealth has been
paying interest upon this dead capital. At the time
of the suspension of the work. the amount estima
ted for its completion was one million two hundred
and seventy-seven - thousand four hundred and filly
two dollars and eighty.one cents The recent con
tracts, ander the act of the last session, have been
allotted at from twenty five to tidily per cent. tin
der the act of the last session, have been allotted at
from twenty-five to thirty per cent. under that esti
mate.. In every aspect in which this questioc may
be 'viewed, the Board entertain no `doubt, that
the early completion or this canal, would materi
ally advance the public interests. • •
J. D. Doty sr Wiseimisin.
This Democratic, Representative in Congress,
from Wiwortsin, has addressed a letter to one of
his constituency from which we make an extract.
It shows the true position of the southern dictators
in Congress, and the reasons which influenced him
in refusing to bow to their decrees:— •
At the commencement of the session, it wascon
ceded that the ninth had the right to the speaker;
yet the sown asserted her claim and maintained it,
in order that the committee might be constituted to
lavor her views of the question. This proposition,
which embraceJ the idea of packing the. commit
tees mg:6lst the northern views of it—was very ob
jectionable and . eilensive to many. Ii was so ar
tanged, however in a small democratic caucus of
the democratic members. that Mr. Cobb was nom
inated, and ninny of the democrats of the north vo
ted for him thirtv-one time.. in suecession, when
his name was withdrawn. The northern demurrals
then very generally united upon Judge Pater; but
you will observe the south withheld their support ;
scarcely a southern man voted for him. After this
treatment he withdrew his name—deeming the
course of the south [lciest a.ul insulting. A few
votes h 2.1 been given to %V. J. Brdwn while P. was
nintiints ; and Frdier ltichie undertook to election
,
eer for B. The entire democracy of the nilinh
led. to his support--atemloning their own man ;
although it was understood, the south was dictating
to the north what northern man should be the can
didate. Three men of the south refutted to vote!for
Brown, and they defeated his election. Southern
men then de.zlare, they have no confidence in any
man in the north; and they will not vote for an
other.
At this ottme of the case, the soMhem wen
bmitnht on the debate of yesterday, in which they
clearly stated the i4sue ; denounced the north ;
threaten to diAttelve die "Union ;• and then cast all
their rotes for southern men !
Some of the northern members are still disposed
to yield to the pretentions of the touth_,- end have
therefore voted for a southern man. But so long
as this is the issue I can vole for no men residing
i n a slave §:ate ; self-respect would forbid it, if the
opinions and feeling* of the north did not There
VlllOl no time when my vote would have elected
Mr. Cobb; the vote upon Brown shows clearly.
that if the southern democrats will vote for a nor
thern democrat, ke can be elected. The fault is their
own therefore if we do not; and did not cn the first
day of the smksion ; elect a democrat Speaker.
If it is important to the Democratic Party to have
the Speaker, and if the party is broken down in the
House, the south is responsible for the disappoint.
meat and its loss. I will not with the cry of
disn
ringing in my ears, any longer yield the political
power of this government to the south, if my vote
re" prevent it. A party in support of the union of
the States will be fanned, so soon as the southern
members take tke ft-at step (something besides talk
ing) in favor of a disaolutwm. J. D. DOTY.
Diorreucrtort or vas JAIL or ADAMS covirrr.-
-About 3 o'clock this morning, fire was seen dust:.
ing from the window the second story of the
Jail of this ortnnty. The arum was at ones given.
bat all the efforts of the fireman and citizens were
astable to may the progress of the devouring element
But most melancholy to relate, two human lives
were hag by the catastrophe—latsc klussimuss
and Jane Tommy both insane and confined for safe
keeping, each occupying a separate room. Every
effort in the power of man was made u-is of to me.
cue them from a fate so terrible, but in vain. The
immense volume of smoke issuing from their
apartments was perfectly suffocating, and those
who attempted to enter were driven back . stagger
ing. It is therefore evident the deceased had ex
pired from suffocation ere their rooms were teach-
Eventualy, the body of. Toner was tecovered,
but life was totally eztinct—ind a portion of that of
kfuenleman, after the falling mof the building. •
The bee originated in Blusideman's mom, but
how is left to conjecture alone.—Geflyaberg Com
pilcr9f the Ttk but
BEITOX AND SOUTH CALDLUIULAt
ones bee been published in the Nationa=g n et
cur between Gov. Seabrook, of South Carolina, and
Mr. Benton of Missouri. whietrlir. Benton ae•
knowledge* the weeipt of the Carouse resolutions
approving the Southern convention, and promises
to lay them before the people of Missouri. The
Contreittion, is to be held At Nashville on the first
Piimday in June, and senator V. eery dignifiedly.
sweep this early time for trying the slavery Woo
in Mimeo i, where he considers the sentiatente of
the people to be against it.
Awes Puce Pater.-. Robed Lorrip.a yoneentan
11 'mini of ageabwas riled in the Copt of Oyer
and Terminer. lam weak, for aiding and miming
iv seningdire to dos Amor Plane Opera Haase du
ring dip riots in May last.- Re sits found guilty, and
menieseed to die state pima fat dune years and
lir emits.
Arreagrerb member of tl. !bits
sielithia bar, cm Wedne•day afternoon, made an at.
tempt to entomb suicide. inflicting s serious gash
in his abdomen daring a fit of temptwaty_denange.
ment. The wound was sewed op by s physician.
and the segues wasuouseyed to the lamas Asy
lum.
Orkl is_Cari"!Neditie.
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A beartrtthdering treennenert look plat* 'in
the tidy patt of this week, which resulted in" be
des:hitt MM Mary Braman, via of John .
man or.-ii-Big Johfl Woman" at he is limit ry
cattail* way of,destirition from others Cil the '
tan*.! • A nisi and outcries proceeding from Bran
wraiths- house were herd-by neighbors •frequently
during the afternoon ol Sunday last, and continued
on through the evening and early put of the night.
But as thit had been common for vows, Braman
having been long addicted to intemperance and
cruelty to his family, they attracted lest attention
then.they would have done but for that.cause
Some alarm was however excited from the long
continuance of the disturbance and particularly by
the moans which in the diaht begin to be heard.—
About 3 o'clock in the morning Mrs. Brenman was
abierved to - be thrust pot ;of
.doors 'with a young
child, both in a most deplorable and sulleriog con
dition. Some of the neighbors now went to the
-housi,, trot were driven out in the darkness . by
Brenman who they bOlieved to have been armed,
amid threats 'that how . the desperate- character
whiclibe has been considered to poorest, much in
timidated them. On Monday Mammy Mm. Ban
man was found to be helpless and covered with
bruises from head to kart, many porticos of the
body ant '
pounded almost to pumice. She
lingered a state of great bodily sullenly; thodgb
of mental insensibility until 4,o'cJock on Tueiday
morning when she expiree. •
She teft 6 children—two of whom'weremeririar
jilted, one of them has a bole oo the top of-thiL
bead—male as she says by.iqo father with' the fire
poker. Brannan was wetted on Monday Att.' gi As
. sank and Banery" (Mit. Emmen being then liv
ing),/ and a ft er an examination before , rodeo Roca,
wascommitted to Jail. On Tuesday an Inquest
was held over her body, Justice Joslin as Coroner,
which rendered a verdict of murders t the bands of
John Brenman her hatband. 'The unhappy cit.
cpmritances of Mrs. Brenman in being connected
with a husband so brutal has excited much sympa
thy for years, and Brenman has been 2 or 3 times
previously arrested and confined in Jail. Her con
nections are highly respectable, and her untimely
and awfuldeath much deplored not only
. by them
but by an excited and indignant community.
MlMail MIMI by lie Canada.
Lord Denman's resignation of the Chieflostice•
ship of the Queen's Bench, inconsequence of con.
tinned ill health, has been accepted by the Cabi
net, Rao Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the (hand
Duchy 01 Lancaster, has received the important ap.
pointment.
.1 reward 0(.000 has been .offered for the ap
prehension of an individual named Katz, who du
ring the past week has absconded from the London
Stock Exchange with acme thousands of pounds.
Tne Atheneum says that. Lord Aphley has sug
gested changing the name of Ragged Schools to'
The Colonial Training Si;hool:" as being less con
nected with the idea of degradation.
Three German Jews are in custody, in London,.
for having employed an engraver to forge Russian
bank notes to the amount of X 150,000.
Mr. Beckwith, late secretary to die Leeds Infir
maryi has been sentenced to seven years transpor
idtioli, for embezzling upwards of .Cl,OOO from the
lundri of that institution.
The First Lord of the Admirality, appreciating
the distini e misled services of Captain Sir James
Ross,. both as one of the most successful Arctic and
Antarctic explo-ers, has awarded to. him a vacant
captain's good service pension of £l2O per annum,
The Queen and Prince Albert have contributed
five hundred pounds toward the land for promoting
female emigration, which is now under the
auspices of the Riaht Hon. Sidney Herbert.
The item batch of convicts under sentence n
transportation will be forwarded to the new setde
mem at Perth, Western Austm ia.
The late Commissary General, Sir Gatuiel Wood.
has bequeathed 470,000 to elect and endow a has.
prat at Greenock for shipwrecked and dibtres.-ed
mariners.
An exploisioa took place in a colliery near Wrex
ham, Denbighshire, in u hicliforty men were en
gaged. Three who eignalledNhe engine man to
draw them up, were so burnel by the flames that
two died an d the life of-the third is despaired of
The others escaped unhurt, by passing into another
•
pit
ThO Agnes, Ahrensfelt, from New York for Bre
men Was wrecked on the coast of Texes, the 19th
of December. Twelve of the crew and seVen pav
nenuers were saved ; and the master, nine men
and thirty four passengers. were drowned.
It is supposed that the derision of the judicial
committee al the Privy Council in the Gorham case
will not be given heroes the middle of February.
'The Saudwhich Island Prince-v, Alexander Lihi
biho and Lot. Kamehameha, and the Hon. G. P.
Judd, had arrived in England.
The British Parliament will meet, for the des !
pitch of business, on the 29th of January.
Tut IMPRISONED Pirritsuenti M•mn.—The Phi
ladelphia loquirer, of Thursday morning. says the
Governo:'spardon reached Pittsburgh on Saturday
morning, and Mayor Barker was released from jail.
He immediately entered upon his duties, and du.
ring the morning disposed of a number of cases of
rowdyism, Sts. A tavern keeper made complaint
to him of a drunken man having broken his win:
dews, after getting drunk in his house. Its it ~was
the man's first offense. he fined him 67 cents and
costs and let him go, and he warned the groggery
keeper to beware how he conducted' his house in
future, as he was determined on porrishing as well
the men who made the drunkards as those who got
drunk. He also gave his officers instructions to re
turn the names of all proprietors of drinking, gain- ,
bling and other establishments who had' violated
the law in keeping open houses oche Sabbath
day.
GSTTIY42I Rica IN s HURRI%—: I OIII6 lime ago Al
young mart named ,Fisher left Schuylkilltcounty for
Coliferniw under an attack of the gold fever. He
died at Sani Francisco, and the intelligence came
to his widowed mother that he had left her some
property. Another of her sons started out tQ utile
rattl ed
the estate and colteet the p rty. He reportrithat
the deceased brother had o w 11 lots in. San
Francisco, one of which had.
,ely 'old for $4,000.
He thinks the pro?erty which is brother had ac
qui.ed may be worth $21,000, and'aends a remit
tance of ssoooko his mother. * Bhe Wet poor .here.
totem, but it is said ,that she is getting quite a town;
ber of mnplimentark friends lately. Shouldn't
wonder-
Tzurourn roam:ion :rut Ought—The Seim.
.tilki American is authorized to state that an extend
sive guua percha manufacturer of liew Yorkstands
ready to lay down, and guaranty its integrity for ten.
yew", a fine across the Atlantic of perfectly insu.
Wiftl e xceed v three millions
with Gotta Pettit., for a sum
not to cs of dollars to be nom.
plated in twenty months from date of contract,r",
this vial - scheme will receive . the attention of
Congress at an early day. He is also ready to lay
down a similar line on the underground plan from
die Misrinippi to the Pacific, to be completed
within three years from the date of contract.
ATTOOTT To ertim Tag PATIOS IX TOO PAR[
SUN Cats —O%; deritsratimmpt was made awe* or
two staim to obtain the evident* given'. bob's) the
Coroner's jail in the Parkin= eat. Boppitaind
that the evidetinamthe in tin pomension duke -Cor
oner, his Mike was entered and bit de* and ash
imeedropen. Alisrof the mitosis". in the ease
wee married oti, but the &ammo' wanted was not
there.+Booton Intwatr, 7th.
Itgrocsgeggen c it Corset" Par--As the wife of
Mr Plass, ofßroeklyn, was' preparing her melting
meal a few daslosince, the coffee pat,, which way
standhog upon r the smote; stisldifily explinfed.k the
renened steam towing the top astaitost the roiling
with greet Ilwee, and throwing the bailieureoffee in
to the fare and (mom the neck mod arms of Mrs.
Place, who is very badly scaltled,.and remits en
tertained that oho will Inse-both oyes; as she is 'now
sulkily Nit:bd.-7kt
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fonalcwitiviganized at th e eftai
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Reasimatrances were presented spina A h a
appointment arChaplaia. _
Mr. Mason, of Va., offered a reiolution to First and stah Auditois for examininga ko l
.and Claims of Wail. Collins, 0750 each. k ‘
&viral petitions were presented from from kbo.
lition districts, and Mr. Berrien. moved to l a y fi rm
on the table. The motion was taken by y e . aott
nays, and carried—yeas 30, hays to.
The Commissioner of Patents sent-in a tra km „
niemion stating that his annual :report would sat b e
be ready for several months. ifi:Dirkiiiiren, of Nati York, offered a terel k .
lion of inquiry, whether • the 'l2lh paragraph of
West Point Regulations interfered with religi ra „
opinions. . 'lt lies aver. •
Mr : Benton katrodeeed it bill foe defining s k i
limiting the bnimfanes of Texas, and fixing' her
territory at 150,000 square miles, and Tea.
as $15,000 ! 000 indemnity for ter ritory relinging ied
The bill was refierred. , •
Mr. Foofe; of Miss„ Called rep his territorial i
and advocated its principles, whir* was, dented,
appropriately referred.
The Judiciary Coinmitiee reportmla bill is bra t
of the election of Senators by the people, who
was made the special order of the day ha Vied.
nesday next.
ltrobedi.ence to a call of the Satiate, the Se am
tart' of State eommui*ated-the_Yelparnio ones.
pondence. _
On motion, the Senate then went intio"etectuire
session, and soon ands adjourned.
Hons.—The House Irma pilled tp ordet by th e
Speaker at 12 111 : •
A joint resolution for the- collection of Terc el* ,
way received from the Senate, and on motto s o f
Mr. Bayley, Wee wad twice and ordered to b e
printed, and rekrred to the Committee on Ways
and Meaner
An election for Door-keeper was then gone into.
The first ballot resulted in no choice; Romer, 66:
Ayres, of Min, • 33; Tufts , of la , 23; Raid,
111., 19 ; Cole, 14 ; Randolph, 01 Va , 15; Les
scattering. •
Four more ballots were had without • choice,
when Ayres and Clair. were withdrawn.
Two resokitions were made to postpone the elec.
lion, and rejecied.
Ater a call of the House 'was- made, the fifth
ballot was taken, when many Whigs changed ic
Tufts. -Theo ballot matted' as follows: Tufts. 98.
Flood, 51; Cole. 45, when, there being no choice,
the House adjourned.
The Lees If the Ship Cakb Grhatitaw—hity
sr Seventy Llves Lest.
The New York Courier ha:pa long ;narratives(
the lois of the ship Caleb Grimihaw, by fire, hn
her way from Liverpool; having on hoard. nearl)
four hundred paissengera, a number of whom. stx
ty or seventy, contrary to the lirirt reports. it appesri
perished. On Monday, the 12th of November
flames were discovertl in the forward hold. a k
the consternation among" the passei N zeld bean
appalling Some refused to work longer at tte
fire engine, and abandoned iltemselt es to delis
while others rushed to the quarter ,boats, 1ia 411 , 2
at the davits, and crammed lull: a owing thrr.
selves in like cheep, without reg.:lrd to the prsri
hill?) , of the boats sustaining them. By the use of
force the Captain and crew were able to drat one
of them, while the other was carried an ay hi t
the ilavihs by the immense number aho 111,4.011;r
crowded into her. These ad perished, a ith-trtier
who sprang from the chains atter the boat an tte
went down.
' The construction of a raft 4 yeas commenced. el.
der the direction of Carairn-loaie. from the spa n
mid planks On dark. Au soon a 4 it was finahru
the paseengere became utirontrolable, at.dcomn.r
to the orders of the Captain. and in elute of 1.11
endeavors to prevent them, launched the tuft. hrt.Le
the locks from the "'harness ca ke.'' and restore
thelbeef and pork they contained to the raft Tee
-make increasing, the .passesigeis became welds..
and stout sixty
.01 the strottgeet rushed to the or.
and. fearing that it might be overburthed, at pm
cut it adrift. and at smiSet that day tame Prarre! !
visible The heat day. the 13th. the wind be
heavily from the eastward. and Capt H dces at
beliive it poseible that The raft' coul, l have stir.
"mood the sea s and has little doubt that they merit
lost.
The boats were then filled with P sic h of the FL.
1. / sengers and crew as there was roof. for; .that lot
whom no place could be found, became petted!
wild: their shrieks of desl air were fr'uhtfiii—
Prtelldeped by the increasing heat, they began
cut holes in the deck. and to stave the water !anti
containing some 2200 gallons notwithstanding Int
entreaties of she captain. The boats a ere kep! IA
tow five days and nights, when the Bri'l.ll bait
Sarah, Capt Cook, came in sight _ and-took thetwg
on board. Severid 01 the passengers died • tree
exhaustion. The names of the entire list of pas.+
sengers are published in the Courier, but, aslihe
survivors have not yet arrived from Fayal, where
the bark pm in, the names of *boil!' lost cannot Tet
be known. The bark was to sail, in a week or
two, with them for New York
.Pacer AKATIOPCBT TA L. PILLAIDENT.—GeneraI hr
Ira, in conformity with'dits act of Congress of ihr
14th of Angus+, 1848, entitled an act to eolabtri
the teritorial government of Oregon, declares ani
proclaims the ports of Nesqoally • (on Fuge
Sound) and Porthind, in the collection disinr: o
Oregon. to he constituted ports of deliven, %)th d
thwpritrile authorised by law to sot 11 pod.—
The proclamation is dated the 10th inst. he * 1
of tmgeess only allows these two ports of deliver!'
in that district.
Caimans GOLD—The quantity of gold bona
impaled from California into New York, dint
the Year HIP, is estimated by a corresrondem of
the Journal Of Commerce at neatly seven minor
and hal f— nearly four millions by the stearnerrsni
store ships, width. rest by passengers. This Is s
pretty fair item, but far short of some ot the
mates made by enthusiastic letter-writes st Ih °
commencement of the gold kver. The scowl
which has gone to England is probably not net
lee , than the sum above named.
.
REIMIXABLE Escsru.—A vessel arrived silky
ton last week with ayellow girl, a stare, belocT
Mg in Wilmington, S. C.,who had been mood
on beard by the -mate. yhe vessel bad' her
seattehettod* baud several time, to find her. :no
Ili
authorities at Wilmington oked the vessel 6e ''
eral times, alley loudly anti unclog that they I'm'
smother her if she did ri ot show - herself. It . 23
ormarcesefol., She reinainittr secure U. her hider;
place. Du sinethe voyage the girl was fed in Ile
watches, irithoutthe knowledge of the maser.
Tut Illustomaie sT WAIIIIIN-CTOI.--11°V• t
zy, his eons; and otherillastrious Hungarians, wr i
introduced into the Halls of Congress, cm Tassig
They were cordially and enthusiastically reran'i
IA both dm Senate and House orßepresestativ o . - ,
Thi members ware eager to take thase_aafot a°ll.
bat noble patriots by the hand.
Theminims had in interview with th!_t i .;
dent on Wedneeday, and went cordially graww- - .
by Gen TATT.on in a brief speech , to a P 31641.
11411/ al 66 politicalPaieitegearrf Anlerkaa chino.
Sublime Or* STATI! totaltaltlAN.—r s kin! LP
Miry Coinmiues of the Legiplature, m" ,
amd•afler sarieus socciirdel
.eleetine "Tiinlias C. MCDovrat.L. Stasi Libra'
dam Mr McDrssiki.r. was Coupal tti Brazil ode
President - POLE C II administration.
ill • Mated 'from authority, that
Ihit 1200 mmlar troops stationed in Cal ifon ia, Fina
the Ist of January , . ita, no lege than two it*
ofthontunher downed - within the fins eight 616°'
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