N . r,‘. a go r 0 ..__ Mevoi:t.g.t, free Solt, Free *reech,'Free Alleu Fr-whim ter lfree Terrtt✓ry. E. 0. GOODRICH, EDITOR. TowauJa, Saturilay,. July , ..24, 18b2 Teems of The Urp3rier. 5063 per aani.ist-ssit•psiirt the t•a•nr 40 cents will I,letiorteil—(ol eaudirmicirrerr.roiy iu attest:et. $ II 00 will be deducted. No paper seat over two years. unless paid for. Antrcirri , smarts. per square of lan titles. 50 cents for the first and 2.5 reins fur each subs, Vent insertion. lirr °flee in the'' enion Itoe:.' north side of the Public Nuarri4rteiri,4ctor to the nesedfora hotel. Entrance be weep -Messrs. Adams' nlui law offices. - - - Deatc °ratio Nominatic n-. Ton Pni , llirST, GEN. FitANKLIN PIER(;E, oe xtle rindestsinr. you VICE. ETIESIDENT, WILLIAM U. KING. OT VANAXA rnn t'lll.l.L COMMISSIO!CT.Tt WM. SE4.IIIfAIT, of Fayette Courily Democratic Standlog Committee Ttte Dtrnocratic Stmittitie Committee of B,ntlford Colin;} w l reel al .he Ward Ilou4e, in Towan no Mmolity:The 2 I dtly of 2u.! nest at 2 P The foll(ns iu etntem en compose said commi:tce: A.. L. Crammer, J I). Montanye, A D. Spulklinz, CS. Ririrse!l, It. C. Baird, J. Al. Wattles, S S.riilt ; J. Vamtjk:e jr, T. Al Beat h. Destructive Fire! Our t•i izens were arout , ed from the: - !embers at pa-tt t xelve o'clock on Friday !waning, 16(11 1 it t 4 by the ever starting cly off ire, and the flames aireany - t:t.; from the ilotet oecupted by Mrs Croes, Indicated to a certainty that that and the ad sitting buntings we-e doomed to destruction. The strenuous exertions were put luith to prevent the further sprean oI the fire south, by saving Bart- Ict.'r_• state, and the stalie attached to the !!taut. Itch were fortoottkly iqwee.s-hit ; and all t!,?ttger t o..r,ootter soon atl•tyad. ty this time, the fire sit , e , l ,l t ot -toi l = tat o ; rapidity through the entire L(11(ck, which was cot; p , .)seti of wooden butiditip, and Cie War,l on the noir', was threatened with destruction. By well directed alit) strenuous exertions, it was saved from the conflagration, the windows and .ca•it '45 in the smith end being much bar .( , :t.l and ctn.-Erect d:celling-nouse occupied by D. C. 1111 1 , owned by .1. F. Mean-, nu the neat n a• ill imminent danger b:it. saved, Itiou;;!‘ cou,iderably burn The';.to 14 a list of the building - destroyetv, mid the names of the ecoupants 'I tie flute( owned by Daniel Bartlett, and occu pied by Mrs. Ccll. No jiwurance upon the build ing—Mrs Cross held a small insurance upon lurni to-e, which will neatly rover her loss Bailey Sc Ni vin's Grocery Store, recopied also as the post office—s•ock mostly saved, as well as the renteffis of the post r flice. Insured in the Genesee Company, fr.r a small ainruttl. Genr:zie E,4!iirg Grocery—}dad jest placed new frstotes i t his es!utdistturnt—li:ss considerable, with no insoi Tilt! F4(.1;',) J. P ell—goads mushy removed. The.*woad story was occupied as a dwelling by George EAU', whose furnitufe was partially Afived This as well as the store-house niliacent, and the building occupied by Geo. F..dell as a grocery- were owned by Thomas &lion, ho has an itisnrance of $l,OOO. At one time, it seemed as zf no exertions could Fare the adjacent butliltittc4 (mom destruction ; and that the terrible eliment would dera.tate the burd ne4s portion of our town. Fortnnatety there was net a brea'h of air stirring in the commencement : and la hat Bole was ratmil by the fire, seemed to fa rftr 1;IP threatened buildige. Oar citizens exerted tlremscbres with mitt the means within their reach, to save property horn destruction, and that they we( Fo successful, is owing , in a g,reat degree to a combination of fottimate cirromstances. 11c-1 - ear cv D Est 0(.11 kCI . IX 'Mg F.—The above will: ii in the course 01 publica ion in thirty num bers, at 25 et& per number; each contains 6-1 roy al nclavri pages, Nvi h a tine engraved portrait. It is tne declared design of the author "to render it n standard reference book, in lAA rimy be Para a re. cord of the great political erents r f the Country fully laithenlicakti and properly classified," It is pre pnreil by the author of "lie Republic of the Unit ed Stales of America," and is warmly recommend• ed to the democracy by the late Judge Wolitibury, George ,11 Dallas, James Buchanan, Wm. L. Mar cy, Gen. Cass,Gen. Houston John 13 Keller, no. Bert J. Walker, and other distoquished democrats. lie design of the svotk if well carried not, must reader it one of great wielullness and value. The fist Number is already issued, and we see it high ly commended by the press. The Publishers solicit _Agencies in the different SPates and realities for the circula'ion of the walk. Address, Case, Tiffany & Co , Ilunforcl, Conn. A . -recaa A DVERTV EMr.NTS —We Call the especial nnention of our farmers to the advertisement of It M. ‘Ver.cs in another column. He is prepared to furnish the most approved agricultural implements at moderate prices, and his enterprise should receive the support and encouragement Cl the agricultural cornmeatil. Tire rapid improvement making in this section, and the great prosperity of the farmers make. it absolutely necessary that such a depot of ti;ricultural implements should be established in midst. litlr. \V., will supply ary article from .t.c)ille to athrether or reaper. MR.(I - 4 ..13. ;141:tvalisesa larze stock of mate Onthing, %%blab as rat inducement to 1 ,,,,,,.;,a5erc, he war, ants to be well manufactured, :tad at low pi ye.; ir•-• In another column will be found a call, lor a Convenrinon r l :he-hiend , n; Freedom in Penn -I.•Ylvatittti to which we are requested to direct at h-m.:w. The nhject fur the porpo,e cif effecting t).- t a-i own, and ehoosing delegaies to the tivional t.:,..nventiott to he held in Pittsburg, on the tl , l, JAN of Augnsh the - day followin; the State co-vc: -. • Hoe. T. M. T. McKcasaa.—At Washington, PP. Ain the receipt of a- dispsich. announcing the death of tltr.' MeKetinen, besineit.qiswas snApentled, the Cow - Acme hill wan !Oiled ;MI a' flag draped aqinraipg was stispertilcd from the steeple.. A town meeting was called to espresailte i regret at the pecr, +le.arilte latteof their titstint.mitsheti to4nsman.= tye learn from the Journal that the disease of which . Mr. Mcg,. died was rust indicated, by ,a small ul cer on the font which was Ytottfitieted of little Mr; por!ance by the ph; yician. hut u hieh resulted in an affection of the bone, mortification, and final pros - - trlcien,of the system. . Btoi.mt has appoinietl Col Jolla J. WCA 4itai as Corniiiisslnhgt - Of Pennsylvania, 16 go to to negotiate for the conversion of that pm .m of the debt of Pemsllvatlia, now doe, into a . tors per emit loan, free from taxation. and for a plt riod not execeding thirty years. Col. MeCahen is a Philadelphian, *ell Versed in financial affairs, and Fa iled for ratrope on Wednesday. AN indignation Railroad Meiling is to tie held on the in Union enmity, , to protest the sno-eription of X 200,000 made by the cootrty au.limilies to the Susquehanna Railroad.— Ibe :tases of the county are S.IB,CRI, and the rt:'..!- FerOion will add St2,0(111 to them. this is the grottud of oppntition by the nrorinsed meeting, t i 4 'by a large number c.d . eititens, C,1117:l 1%1 C/A*, in a letlet to the National Era, declines being consideret) a candidate for the Pres idency before the Pipaang• Convention, on the gerund hat " thengh an old soldier in the (•ante of A mer'ean Re poblivanism, f flew coin ~r :•t iie titre ilemoeratic organizatinn ;" and he idlitiks that others are better entitled to tfre cortptirr.e'rti: TIM VOTE ng (lEorintA.—A majority of alf the rotes cast at the Presidential election in Georgia it necessary to a choice. There will he three lietteta i•I the tiel,l there, Demoera'ic : Whig and Union.—: if neither 't , 'y gets a majority the election hag to go to the licneral Avsentbly, where the Union wen have a large majority. Accmcs:v —A young man, named John Fee, for: raerly-a resident of this place, was killed at Green wood, on Tuesdsy last,white engaged M raisin; a barn, by being crushed beneath the falling timber. Mr F. was a widower, having lately lost his wile, and leaves a small. child. (*--- The notice of the appointment of Post Mas ter at Granville Eliould hare read Leman D. Mglor, who is the person appointed. Mtt C W -CINCINN ATI, July 16.--The' %VIII at Mr. Clay was presented iu Court on Mon day last, and admitted to record. It is drawn by hi, own hand, and bears date July 10, 1851. It re lates almost entirely to the disposition of his estate among the members of his family, the only excep tion being that which relates to his slaves, provid ing that children of his slaves born after the Ist of January, 1850, he liberated and Fent to Liberia, the males at the age al 28 and the females at 26, three years earnings prior to their emancipation to be re served tar their benefit, for the purpose of fining diem out ; ain' t prior to removal they are to be taught to read, write and cipher. Slaves in being before 1850 are'bequeathed to his family. Ashland is left to Mrs. Clay, far her sole use and benefit du ring her 111 e, and after her death to be sold, and the proceeds to be divided among his children. The only specific devises outside of his family are, to Dr D. W Dudley. the gold snufi boxpress. ented by Dr. Hunt, late of Washington ; to Henry I. Duncan ; a tinf a , containi"Z 41 - the coffin of Washington; to Dr W. N Mercer, a snuff-box said to have belonged to Peter the Great. 51rs. Clay is appointed executrix, and Hon. Tho mas A. Marshall and James() Harrison, executo,s nitric will, with a provision that no security shall be requited of either. C. Lf.t , inN Off LAKE Egret—Lives Lost —The Cleveland Forest City, of Wednesday, has the fol lowing account of an accident on Lake grie, which has been briefly referred to by telegraph : Oil Nlonilay night, about 12 o'clock, as the steam er America was on her trip to Buffalo, when about fifteen miles from this port, she ran into the propel , Its City of Owego, on her larboard bow, just for ward of the midships, and Sfink lie, a l m o s t ' mime . diately, by which S3lllO thitteen or f urteen lives were lost. Among those drowned were William I larrison second mate on the propeller, - Mrs. John Green, aged 22 years, who was moving from Os wego, N. ,to the west, Ailelia Green, a child of Mrs. Green above mentioned, aged 3 years, Mrs. Miles Ilotehktss and dacreliter, of o. o .ceon wh o were oti their way to Detroit. Mrs. James Callaghan and three children, also of Oswego, Miss Amanda Wise, of Oswego, need 14, James Pheeny, of Cleveland, and a Mrs. skinner, aged abant 60 years, whose place of residence was unknown, It appears from the testimony hrong,tit out, th,it the officers on the propeller saw the lights of the Ameri ca, and steered iu her- proper conrse, endeavoring, to take the inside ; but the steamer steered the same. Acrocc I•TORE is gradually widening vs operations in Ciiliforitia We see by the Placer Times that the Stale will probably produce wore barley this season than any State in the Union—more than will be requited for home cnnsnmption. In Cache Creek valley there are pre thousand acres of it growing; in Snisan valley, ten thousand acres.— In Nappa, Sonoma, and Santa Rosas vallies, par• lions of land, for miles in extent, are represented as covered almost without interval, vasl fields of waving graip, now just ripening for Isarrevt The same statement is applicable to , Santa Clara, Con• tea Cos'a, anti other agricultural conn.ies larther south; while in Butie.coutity, and large portions of the Upper Sacramento valley, the barley crop is quite extensive. hi fact, this appelrs to be the on• ly grain yet cultivated in California to any great ex tent. The countly is equally adapted to the growth of wheat or oats, but the absence of figuring mills discoura , _te,s the immediate production 111 wheat. TII g ?UR E Jr; LltiniDrlg3 for Governor in Thane have been interrogated iu regard to their views upon the•liquor law. Governor Hubbard, the regu lar Democratic candidate, answers that he is oppos ed to a repeal of the law until it :dial!' have had a fair trial before the people, an" any modification that would impair its legitimme efficiency He be haves that the Legislatcre surd a tight under the Constitution to pass such a law. Mr. Closby, the "tVili4 candidate, answers that he is not in favor of a repeal or modification, unless time and experience should show the friends of- the measure that modi fication was nccesgary. Mr. Holmes, the Free Soil, is neither in favor of repeal nor modification, so that all three candidates stand upon the same plat form of opposition to the repeal of the famous it quer law. 144:NDRED DOLLAR Eiti.l,—A low days since, Thomas Cowan, meichata tailor, of Baltimore, hed the misfortune to lose a f..:100 bank bill, while cc:ill:in hurriedly along the streets. It was adver itstd, and met the eye of the finder. who chanced to be an accomplished young lady, of Mailtstyi street. She immedtatele enclosed the note in Mr. Cogan, stating, in a few lines, that she could not ieceire the mutant. Mr. Cowan then purchased a beautiful silver toa•pnt, and sent it to her with a polite I ge, tcaic•h was re.tddy accepted 7 by. the Ia- Pump the Louteinna Courier. Gen. Pierce In Picnic*. We latbefore our readers, from a dkCinglifthett source, a.daguarreotype sketch ofGen.Oierceisben engaged in the arivicepl his country u t Mexleo.— It is front One whose:ttame, were we, to lay before the publie, woad command universal respect, and who bore an honorable pan in those memorable harnpattns—one who, in his various capacities as citizerr, (Armlet', scholar and soldier, has few equals and no superitiro, atnont the Yoiing men of oor tame, and whose merits command the highest po 13. 4 ,b* Goad, TA., lune 21, 1852 .b&lr Sir i—The political history of Gen. Frank lin Pierce is on rem* and open to every body, I wish to speak of him as a gentlemen and asoldier, fur as stich I knew hint. In the latter part of June, 1817, I foteiti encamped near Vera Cruze, en route to join Getter. al Senn at P , ebla. General Pierce arrived from the !Ventt with the o , h regiment; ;hen commanded by the gaihttit Ind lanierithti tol. Ransom, who was Micro - MIN shot dead 11400 the head at the storm ing of chopaopeo. I was inircaliiced to General hetes by Col. W lenity Goveftior al Vera Cruz. I was pleased with and liked the Wine: r at froth the alia. Hie NflptliFiVe, aNtt at the albite tithe gentle. manly manner, ,rankness, quickness, and sincerity e:inessinii, ralialoy al thought mid triply, are all calculated In produce a lavartible I/apt-Olsten Upon any one at a hrsi introduetion. The yam* lever was in Vera Erni, sickliest' in cantif, freili troops arriving every tray, General '..k.-oft walling for us, and dispatch Hier dispatch to push an Pierce's brigade : but unfortunately for as, this oth• er important sinew and element of sitar, miiteti rim) horses, were sadly wanting, and Eli be hail for tulle of money. Brig,ailier Gen. Pierce, fie a I new, band at the business, Iniif t i great deaf to do. Ha was found, howeier, equal to nig trigs--prompt energetic, clear headed, and un:ike some citiiers appourturents; not afraid nor aphorised to ask, e hen ' ice debt, advice Irmo regular and eiperieneed rifti cers of the army. Owing to the exertions of Gen. Pierce and Col. Wilson, the brigade was organiz ed and equipped much sooner than could have been reasonably expected, and he left for Phebtri. As was expected, the - ailvaneing coldrnn, was harass ed along the route by Mit "guerillas," under corn /nand of that troublesome and persevering military Padre, Jarauta: Whenever fixed upon, the Getter al indariably Moved to the front, exposing himself as a COIMEIO i soldier. At the Paso tie lon °ves,' " S'atibhat EV/ridge," " Plan de MO at all of w hich places our progress was oppoied, the General led the Column. I' speak froth the book s - , as t was there alid saW him, ht the National' Midge he got throoght his fell hat an escopette bah, Which. Mid it rangad an ilia lower, would hair& saved him the trouble of running fur the VresitietiaY. The march to Puebla was raplit; the brigade arriving in good order, and ready to go into ;whim. The next day the hist division left fur Mexico under General T*lggs. General Pierce wasitl'altthe bah Itts'of the valley. ands everywhere did his duty laflhlully and pilaw- I y ,fass the reports ot tith coin maptleisin-chief, Gener. al Seett himself, will show. To these I refer the skeptical on this point. On the evening of hie 19th of August, dining the first attack' on Contreras Gen. Pierce was severely injure.l by hilt' horse falling up on him. (BY'the way, it is matter of Wonder that we all did not break' our necks iii that idenial pe. dregal—it was enbugiv Minn every otie " hors' du combat.") But with' italbmitable courage and for titude, under excruciating' pain, he was on his horse next day, and'leil dinnmand in both battles of Contreras and Chuiubuko. It should be remembered that the Ornate did not agree with the General; he was sick and' greattY reduced, in dependent al the accident. What .ranepired daring the min danferenee' Ido not know. But this ldo knbvi-that five Min. utes realm: In Gen. Pierce startifig to thdpface of meeting, he told the writer of this that' her wits op posed to any armistice whatever, and' ttlbst emphati cally it the castle of Chepultepec, under whose guns we were than quartered, were not uncanditienally Surrendered. Thus far rne memory • General i ' terce carries ids heart in his hand-. He is generous to a fault—proverbially so. People may talk as they please about the CENT given to the boy to buy candy ; but what will they say when told lie gave the last cent of his brigadier a.eneral's pay to the suffering soldiers who served under him When I knew General Pierce, he certainly ha•i no pretentions to the Piesidency. Weil, sir in camp at Vera Cruz, at the celebration of the 4th ol July at that city, on the march at the mess-table in Mex ico—whenever the subject came up and was mat. ter for conversation—he spoke as a patriot and lover of the whole Union, upon the rights ol the South anti the institution of slavery. Ile always energetically deprecated any interference with our Jomes•ic Institution, and would lay down his life in defence of rights guarantied to us by the Consti tution. And that time I believe him. trite and sin cere ; I kayo the same opinion now. Coil F. CLAIBORNE. SPXONI) NtAIIMAGE-^-isteorurssit oecassoa.—Judge Allison, of the Philadelphia Conn of Common Pleas, on Saturday last, delivered de opinion of the Court in the case of Harrison vs. t larrtaon, which rules an imporant question in the law of divorce Mrs. Harrison was formerly married to a man named Hildebrandt, who had another wife living at Baltimore. On discovering this prior marriage, she psosecnted Hildebrandt for bigamy, of on which charge he was convicted ; by his own confession, and duly sentenced by the court. The act under which he was convict'd by bLamydeclaresthe „sec ond marliage null and void." Her husband so this case, applied fora divorce on the ground of his former marriage with Hildebrandt. and contended that the prior marriage with Hildebrandt shoold have ia3,-o annulled b" the Court of Common Pleas in a libel for divorte, before the li r.fy sea at liberty to marry again. The Court, hove& er, detitled that either a conviction for Bigamy, oY a decree in a li bel for divorce. telly annulled the second marriage, and that as gildebrandi was duly cocrinOted, his marriage with the present respondent was thereby I I declared null and void, and she was ftilTy at libel.- ry enter into the marriage contract with Mr. liar nano the present libellant or plaintiff. The prayer 'of Mr. garrison was therefore refused, and his mar riage with the respondent decided to be as valid as if she had never been married before. RIOT aN Wesvacial..oin, Pk.—The Greensburg; (Pa.) Argus; of the Bth aft , states that on the ev ening of the sth, a patty of Irish laborers, about three hundred in number, behaved in a very disor derly Mariner : at Rudebaugh's station, two miles west of Greemburg. They had been attracted to the spot by the eiperitnental opening of the railroad ,on that day. They demanded liquor at a tavern, and beim -, refused, attacked the bar keeper, broke bottles, /11. A- general row folloWed, arid's niMilier .of persons was seriously itijured. Several arrests were made, - but the persons were restuei their ,companions. Some two or three were subsequent • ly arrested and held to bail, bat the greater number and principal rioters escaped. KIMIPPING IN Orrin—Two persons calling themselves men,, named Collier and Davis, k idnap. ped a colored man, in Lawrence comity, Onio, a few days ago,' Collier filet borrowed money Irom his victim, and under pretence of paying ii, enticed him to his house. Here ho was disimiled of his freedcmypapers, gagged, and bound, and carried in to Kentucky. After the commission of this horrid outrage, Collier went to church dressed in the col°. ered man's clothing. When the Uses become known, the kidnappers were arrested, tint after wards made their escape and fled to Kentucky. A t the last adwices, the cotored man was confined in the Greenupsburg (Ky ) jail. O-A notice of a rtcent steamboat explosion do. ses as follows:—.• The captain swam ashore. No did the chambermaid.. she was insured for $l6. ir.,r Frank Fleece Mae Character Therfollowinkleiterfrop; Mr. yhippte, tho pr. ent Clerk of the . Boise d(RepreseatOrWes of 144rw Heniprhire, And:fte of most retilectable of the State,)reare initearairle reetirnony to\ the purity . , and ;correctness` of :the piftrate ol Pierce, antis itriumphiet anst?er lane vilikalan.) tiers that hare been put forth by some of the Whig .pressee_and ,pgJiticiatui,;„ - , _ CONCORD, Arne 15, 1852 .Slv Mont * * *General Piete'S moral, social, awl private character is wittiouts'pot or biem ish. Eveii the nibune was l Iniste to disavow its defamatory fatal oil., So pule, so eponyms, so ex— emplary is Gei. Pierce in 'every relation el life, that since_ his nornimeion most of the religions pa. pets in this S ate; - viiihout regard- to dentimination or political prefeience, have referred to him noil his qualification for Mid high place in lerini of uncon ditional praise and co 11111 l emalm'. You well know that l have known him intimately fur many ) ears, and knowing, have admired and tr.-teemed his rot-:- al worth, his inward life of pure . gontlr4.tp, dui) his outward manifestatifin of Such is his generosity in the poor, mind Itie unbounded public spirit and lib rnat with the largest professicinal income in the State, and living in the most economical and humble style, he has nob Recumilliked, and as long as misery and poverty remain to be alleviated, in my belief, he never will rocumblate, more than a bate competency in lite. ThiS is literally so, with out color or exaggeration. It is as notorious in this Slate that every poor impoteriShed man find ai ble ther in General Pieree as any other fact. This is the secret of the position he lads in the hearts of our cititens. His great talents we admire, but his private f!hatai•ter and universal goodness we love Among his characteristics is a uniform observ ance of M it Sabbath, bounded upon a steady adhe rence to . die Cardinal dcetrinea of Christianity Whi.e in the army, I well recollett he never failed on'ttie Attihath to pirade his eornmanif, a:tid in the abilince 61 the Chaplain, dr other seeable person, to cause service and prayers to be read in their hear ing. Yours !tidy, Panseccis OF TIII.: ( DEMOCI.AcIr IN OHIO --Oh : 0 is on fire for Franklin Pierce. Hear what words the New Lisbon Patriot sends lion: the State, and es pecially from the sterling Demociatic county, Old Columbiana, which can easily give over one thou sand majority when tier spunk is up: If That Gen. Pierce will carry Ohio by a triumph ant majority is now conceded by „ intelligent men of all parties. We have yet to hear of the nisi demo crat an Colt:imolai a county who will not ;live Pterce his hearty and cordial support. The animated coun tenances and confident airs of the old democratic farmers, from various parts of the enemy, who have recently visited us, foreshadows I:glorious victory. Ohio is sale for Pierce ! Columbiana will give him doe of her old fashioned t h oj , oiiies The Whigs an Northern Onto instead of getting. hack any of their men who voted against Tay for in 1848 cannot even keep those who went hr him At a Democratic meeting at Freemote, Sandukky county, John L. Greene, until now a prominent wafs - dalled upon for a Speech, ant! announc• ed that lid shinifil vote f o r Pierce a n d K i li g " liestald he had al i waYs been a Dt•nitterat in principle, ,althooWtt for twenty years he had acted witlittiii Whig party. He said his Whirs hiends • with'Whom he had heretofore acted coutir bear him nut ih'the aslierlibn that it was with the utmost dif ficulty he was prevailed upon to vote for General Taylor. ,He was,bred a Democrat. His father was a . Demogral. ut in early life he had been led • to give in his adhesion to some principles Men ad vacated by the Whig party, and he had found at last tha,t thesu principles were never iote:oted tote carried out." PARTICI:II:AR% OF THE BURNING o , TIIE CULI.FEE OF TIM Hots Cabs," AT t‘ ' oncx , TEß, MA.6 --We hare previously announced in our telegraphic re ports the conflagration of the Jesuit Colk-e a tw or ., center. The Worcester pvi",ers yesterday bring us th.•Earttcularit, it seems that the fire was tin-t dis covered about half past three o'clock Wednesday afternoon, in a room in the third story on the west wing ,occupied.by one of the tutors named Sears The College is something more than a mile from the center of the city, and consequently belare the engines reached the ground, the !lie had made such progress as almost to preclude the hope of saving any portion of the building, especially as the fire. men were forced to depend upon the river, a quay ter of a mile distant, for water. At length they ar ranged a line of hose engines from the river up to the walls of the building, and eventually brought a powerful stream of water upon the fire, and by this means saved the east wing from destrnetion, which appeared inevitable, while the west wing and the whole of the main building were entirely consum ed. The building was a substantial structure et brick and grani'e, foul stories high, and about two hundred feet in length It was erected in 1840 and '4!, for educational purposes, and was under fate care of the " Fathers of the Society nt Jesus " The average number of pupils for several years past has been about one hundred, and the Faculty. at the present time, consists of a President, Vtce-Presi dent, Prefect of Schools, lira Professors. and sax As sistant Teachers. As a literary institution, It oreu pied a high rank in the denomination by which it was endowed, and youths from all parts of the Union, from Canada, and from the West Indies, are sent to it to be educated for ecclesiastical, prOfes aional and commercial life Its loss will be severe ly felt, notdy by this community, but by thou sands in other Owes who are deeply interested in its welfare. The loss upon the building and furniture is esti mated at about 50.000, upon which there was no insurance. The ra hole of the large anal valuable library was scared; fl pentod of it, hoe ever, is slightly tfamage4.l Most of the scholars lose their entire tiardrobe, their trunks being stored in a MOM adjoining that fit which the fie originated. GEN SCOTT IN THE FIELD IN PERSON e and Adopted Citizens Read !—The Boston Post sap : We learn that the Whig candidate fur the Presiden cy or one of his commiree men has written a letter to the Boston Pilot, explaiiiing. or Irving to explain, his Nativism, and has ordered 6 o ilincsand co pies of the paper containing the tenet, ha his own use and distribution'. Thds is field einly, and in earns I'. Iv a letter dated Nov. 10. 1841, Gen Scott boast , eil to a native committee of Philadelphia, that his " views" of nauvism had their origin. w the elec tions of 1836, and that in 1840, " tiled with indig nation," he and two friends sat do an in his parlor at the Astor House. to " draW an address DE SIGNED TO RALLY AN AMERICAN' PAR.( Y ." This was claiming to he the Father of Nati vi-in ! Now he designs to get the, votes of menralized tor eigners by spreading a recantation hettire them in papers which he thinks they read exclusively. Easy Timcs —The N. Y. Tribune publishes ta ble f rom which It appears that 203 officers rn •the navy have been entirely unemployed for periods varying from 5 to 10 years ; 165 have done milting for 10 years and over ; 30 had test and ease for more t h a n twenty years ; and 2 captains have en• joyed uninterrupted repose for more than 30 years —all these receivititt their pat• and ernolumems, a n d yet not performing a day's dory in all ;he time, not even e:hnre service in navy yards It also ap. pears that 21d officers we now waiting orders, amt, of coarse, are dining nnilti»g. Il would seem made' strangil that nothing could be loom] fur the surgeons or the chaplaids'lo do for so many years. • A GRAND StetiT-11 i 4 Said dim the telegraph wife was tuck near Galena, last week, by airrom pheric lightning, and melted for Nbout 11 tee lanai red yarila, and more cr leanirired for a hall a mi'e A spectator, who d.iw the scene, described the el ectrial exhibition as a chair of fire arreirh et ) I m o ways as far as he could see across, the landscape Louis Napoleon gets a sat.ary ,n 1 $2llOOOO a rev,r, r•—r peony Clay's ecinatni Deposited. The ceremony-of depositing inkhe grave -the re 7, mains oftikinry.,claywas performed se Lexington, orb: he lOtkinetant, in 'the presence of thousands of spentetorCtind mourners The body was laid in. tlisiTettiegtim•CemOntry. A dense crowd sermon dadathe pOblickiraulyWhere the coffin was to be depesited,;., The vault is constructed irk the side of hill, ie.entranee being at the bottom of a beauti ftil ravine, surrounded by high ground on every side:, its the head rat the, procession wounded slow ly adorer the hill-side in its descent to the tomb, a spectacle was presented of thousands of pesons standing upon each ridge of pound rising from the valley, below, silently gazing upon the solemn pro. cession as it passed them to the burial place. The remains will net rest permanently in the vault where they were placed, but will be removed to the Clay family lot in the . samexemete , y, as soon as preparations have been male by the people of Lexington to lay the foundation of the monument to his memory : This even: will lake place some , time next Fell,•xlien Daniel Webster is expected Ito deliver the oration. eceorrespontleril of the Tri bune, who furni-hes t he , account of the funeral ; says in reference to the family: Mrs. Clay is now 71 years o age, and although filer health is feeble, - has the appearance of a lady of 50 Her name was Lucretia Hart, and her na tive place LeZington. Mr Clay married her shor ty after he came to Lexington from his native State Virginia. IJ7 her he had eleven etaldren, three of whom died in childhood. Elizs Clay died sudden ly in 1821, while on her way to 'Washing:on, i n conjpany with her fatber. fier . age was about six teen. Another daughter, Mrs. Dtibale. of New Or cans, died abotit the same time ; In 1835, entail:6 and only remaining daughter, the wife of James Er XIII, of New Orleans died also. Of the eleven children, only four now live, Henry Clay. Ir., hay. lug fallen at the battle of Buena Vista. His body is interred in the family lot in Lexington. Then. W. ' Clay, a ho, has been a lunatic since his boyhood, i- nearly fifty years of age, being the eldest MI his recovery is hopeless. hits lunacy is character ized by melancholy, with occasional fi . s of violence. Thomas Hart Clay IS the proprietor of Mansfield. a fine estate near Lexington, and devotes himself fin the most part to the cultivation ill hemp. His age is 42. James B. Clay, aged 11) is also a farm er, and owns a large estate near St. Louis, Mo , where he has a lan,fe dairy, lied is engaged exten sively in rearing stock. John Clay, the y0!;nge....1, is 28 years of age, and resides at home, nitinajng • the faun, and devoting a portion of his time to the profession of the raw. In appearance he resembles his lather more than any at the other sons. His features are similar, his hair has the Caine dry, s.mity appearance, and hangs about his features ui the same careless manner. Of the 35 slaves o-an: ed by Mr. Clay, Abraham, the groomsman, is old est, being near sixty, Adams, the gardener, is as years of age. Thornton, Mr, Clay's bouts servant, received from the hands of his maser his fire pa. pens, but never lett hum, even afer death, on if Me corpse were place! in the tomb. T J. tI'EiIPPLF; Enrroe, DEAR Ste :—Please open your col umns for a Voice far the lost Jacob Horning Ken son, who was residing in South Creek 'own, Brad. lord Co., Pa. At Ins regerta, I, his wife. we n t A t tl t him to see my sister a ho lived in Colesville, Broome Co ,N. Y He lea me to return- on the 17th day ut March, MI. He said he would come a l ter me in two or four weeks, and that he would write me in the meantime; but I 41:lye not seen or heard from him suree that day He is 34 years of age. He was somewhere at ont merli m size, had dark brown hair, a 11101 fOrehead, Inng favored spare face, blue eyes, light complexion, game neck • 'lcrl in the summer, sadly whiskers, and in the winter wore a very red beard on 11:s chin. He wad a little round shouldered. Ills left arm is smaller than the other above the elbow, and he cannot com pletely straighten it, lots ing to ihe eflects at a fever sore with which the bone was afle.tted %Oen he was a boy He is sut 'yet to aptlep:re tits occasion ally. 11e had a sear over his lets eye. lie has been a local Methodist preacher for eleven years and more, and has preached in various places in Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania— lie was the eldest of Dude and Ma y tier son, o Chemong Co, near Jefferson. ‘Vrites his name Jacob It Benson. He married , rte, then Rhoda Dibbles, in 1841 1 know not whether he,is dead or alive ; have been unable by any ellort,to get ti dings from him. Wilt any that have, seen him, dead cr alive, make it known to me r if there is such an one who will do so, 1 shall be very thank. lul. HrS 11110 DA FIF:NSZ)Nt, N. B.—Please help this to be circulated in Penn. and N. Y. Stlict i.du INCIDENT.-7-The Cincinnati Commer cial says that a gentleman of that city was passing along the footwalk Jn lour••l street, while the pro cession of the Clay funeral was innving,, when his a:walnut was arrested by the familiar appearance of a fresh but melancholy-10,4;11w, girl, about d uff teen years of ace, who had a babe Ili her to ma The girl Was btaimling in the butiting sun, and ave , - ting its rays, as well as sue could, nem the face of Maintain The gentleman approached her, and was at once recognized by the semi Lunatic, why, calling him by name, asked him to buy a pataioi 'for her, and a tan for the baby. In an instant he discovered, by the peenhariiy of the eye, that the girl was airected with the wandering of the mind, and on asking her a few questions, discovered she was the daughter of a vt idow lady in Clermont county, with whom his own wife was temporarily boarl'inz., arid on looking closely at the infant, dis covered it was his own chi;,! Ile was exceedtngly agitated. ianl, for a lime was at a loss %% hat course to pursr was, however, taken by a Ii tend Ito was with him to a lady acquaintance in the vicini.y, who gate it that (lOW I, , liment which nature required, a nil in twenty minutes the whole party, co swung of the fattier, the lady acquaintance, who w a s the wife of Its hiend, the .tifatit and the wandering girl, were in a light carriage, with a fleet span of hicses on their way to Clermont. In three hours they arrived at the farm to which they were destined, and their ap,)earance gave un ppeakable joy and surprise. The country for miles around had been hunted over for the missing ones, and many of the people were then out.seeking them the mother had suffered the extremest agony arid anguish, which, on the possession of her beloved, was suddenly changed to a dangerous nervous ex citement. Yesterday morning, when her husband left Ler to return to the city, she was.composed, tut clinging 'o her infant will hooks of steel. It appears this simple-hearted girl is e hat is ter med " hag-wined," arid that hearnig about the great Clay fuLeral, wi'hout probably kin:ming really t% hat she did, she started to attend it, and took the child for company as it fay in the cradle. It is be lieved that she left about 8 o'c.,lnck in the moining, and was brought to town by son.e wiggoner who overtook her on ine road ; but this is mere conject tre, as she says she 'walked all the distance, A Sr AMP Carnwr.+A negro stealer, who was at- tempting to run off with some slaves, from Wood ford co., Ky., was caught at Frankfort, a fortnight since. He had started with twenty, but all except two soon left him, resurned home. and informed their masters. He was immediately pursued, and, was caught, together with the t ivo negrues who came on with him in a negro hou-e ih Frankfurt. Thev were all taken back to Vers.:tales, where the negro stealer will soon have his Info rniatten Wanted CCr. GENT. PIERCE DiSCRIDEDBY A 1V11(0.-..AI the olit4 ratitic•ttron meettne at latieuil Hall in Sas. ton, Hon. Luther V. Bell paid a high compliment to Gen. Pierre, who, he said, possessed " as gene. nuts, lionotatle, 'brave and pure a bean as %Le Al mighty ever placed in the bosom of man." A gentleman of Ilostotthas invented a lamp for burning spirit gas, or burning fluid, which renders an expl mon uueily impossible, even if the Lame is brought in contact with the fled at the orifice of the Late inteisigence tram CaWorm; Judge Aldrich has decided in favor of the y o live slase fAw passed by the last Legislatu re ': has remanded the negroes claimed by Mr. p er 'C it " The Sillies were brought into California, Prior -. the admission of the State into the Un.oti, arid +ar t ' , conAllered slaves at that time. s now from the mountains IS selling at Sh agalc, tifty:flve cents per pound. There are now upwards of a hundred cloth stores established on Long %Thad, in s au Fig cisco. The number of passengers landed at S an p ciaeo during the month of May, was 10 . 6 41 whole departure for the same lime LW r i o t e ,4 1500 Several teams, with.. or tubers of Mat e , . passing the mires in F,lllot ado county, h a ,,, fee : ly brcii stopped, and stile eel bark to I;tecity,,,r their freight of passengers fndeed, ezcite,l4.,, some people. become, within Me last fetv days,. rents, merchandise, rockers, &c have bee n t xo ; The San Joaquin Republican says, the us ttxt ; nl the miners seem now to be almost entirely t o votedip the construction of canals. Stop en t cl ; winks have been undertaken ,and bionghi totem cesslul issue. The owners of 340 are DOW tv: zing large fortunes from the mpes!trie nt . two years, there is no doubt, during all the ttat. mer months the whole mining region, by the t inA will be constantly supplied with an 4 04 ance of water A party of Germans have recently iliscortisl. very rich cold placer on the Sacramento row , Yreka. The discovery was made on a creekes 4 lyi n g into the Saeran I.o[o river from the re g. , The earth in many places yielded harn tise tt five (toilers to the pinks) amittio lc twit Many persons who lett Shasta Valley fur t a mines Oil Rogue river are said In be retora mt They report the mines on Rogue river to be l . ceeilingly rich, but they'were not of sufficient me t In afford claims to all who were attracted Met Those who have claims upon the river are gen ii:. ly obtaitonn a great abundance of g o l ‘ i. The mineson Dead Wood creek, mar are provit gto be exceedingly rich It is tlfor that a very large amount nr.gold will be taken Inu e this during the present summer. A corre;poniient, writing to San Franci.co. from Rich Bar, ays :-- ,4 Provn-ions RIO (Win; am Very cheap here, and !hose who I.itior by the d aT get six tkil.rr• very readily ; in f.ict. all who do wiNti to try their luck at digging on their (mph,* find Awry of opportunity, fur all dollars diem" The Webster and Conn Hollow Canal env $.2.1, 000, is fourteen and a half mile; and piri monthly i70(10-27" percent. on aq final coat. T. Gold Hill Canarcost $2,165, iq teii and a half rm in len:A, and pays monthly 4-12 tin 47 per ce' . , nn i's first cost. The Bradley lif•iden &Co. Ca; ; s t Diamond Sprint; cost $l2 OW). )+ ten and a codes in lem.cl-, a-i-1 pays mr , n'llty s '..2 107, fir !•. per cent., on its cost. The flr•ck Creek Car a N eva d a , i s s ix mites long—cot 4 $lO 00. ar.d motility ;:'5,000, or 40 per cent., on t < onttna; cs The Ca 3 ore lynch at Nevada, is six mile , . 1 ,, cot $16 , 000 and pays tom, td!, S 6 000 or rent ou cs coal. And ta.tly, the Deer Canal, at Nevadi, in ei2ht - rnitetalnii2—co,ti , 2:l and pays motility :55,573, or 273 pet cent., ar, first cost. The rri'mes about Weaverville have, it prove) to he among the riehe,t in the rote. ter Lits,been convey ett (or the last ITDI throw!: races ; varying from one to twelve tr.,:et. , „ let‘2,ll, The party who introduced water into the tic, gulch on Cotton creek, are now washing dart dr, racing thirty-'.ice cei Is to the bucke Ott the 15 lt of June, a fire occutted ;,; Jim's, in placer county, by which property to rte amount of San 000 was iiP,lTOyrt). CRIMP-4 L'..xCCI.:TiONs.-011 the Bth of JUIr. aor. named John Jackson, a Nurweetae, mu de: Mrs. Butes, a Swiss woman, near Ttiha citcnnwattces of peculiar atrocity. He had tx>...n tio-rirably entertained by the deceased sad to husband, and during the absence of the latter. sett his wite, and then shot her w'a her I ti•ta,3 revolver 0.1 the return of the husband he e , ,lrat. ored to shoot him also, but failed. The gave the alarm, and Jackson was sexed by populace and hang, upon the spot. A Neg ro _ man. named Ridcout, was 7 Judge 1..) itch, at Nicholaus, for tie minder of al,l - On the 1 1111, - a boy ; nameN! Cruz Flores a Jles• can, was hung by the French, at Jaczson for a , u;• posed participation in the murder of one of 'tart countrymen. f,`• Two Indians were hung at French Coral, No. Maysville, for murdering a 'Alr Crims:o4k. H had been shot through the body uith ot,e of arrows. On the 11th, a Mexican, named Cieveriqn ce hung by alroob at Jackson, Calaveras rotor. the supposed murder of .a couple of Frenrhmer- The mob rescued him from the auth 'titles, an z was hung on a tree. Cul Crarz, of the 3.1 infantry, and 5erg , ,e,;? , ..:. , of the lst Aitilery, overtook Iwo de-ever= (cm the Army, near Camp Yuma, and 0r,1en..: hack to the camp. The men being arran t upon and killed them The murdriets tree aires.ed. Major Wood ward. mail contractor, as la rt i • &ans. who started horn San Fistnel , ‘•o ka in November last, are believed to bare eer. dered.. NOTICE.—The North Branch As, r of UniVerSail is, hold it , annul ' sion at Monroeton on Wednesd3y and Thr , :a August 18 and 19 18:2. Religious services will be holden n0;11 the usual hours, upon which ihe munity are respectfully invited to ait:n Shesbequin, July 20, N 52. CONVENTION nF 04154 FRIENDS OF MEM! , PENNSYLVANIA.— A Conventit;n of the friends of Freedom oi Pr."' yenta who believe to political axiom, at the Cour: How.e. to PITTSBURG on Tl:f.t.Dk. AUGUST 10, 1852 at 11 o'clock A. N 1 f :Se pose of effecting a State organization, aria delegates to the National Convention to be , e,; • that city on the following day. A Gencrol a. ance from alt parts of the State W%l. P. CLARK, JOHN S. MANN, S's we R. EVEREM C. D. CLEVELAND.) - = PUBLIC SALE virtue of a deed of assignment. I : haller:! , 1-.)to public sale on friday the 3d. day of S