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POLITICAL TESTS IN TUE SENATE.
Though the Senate has not yet removed thesew
of oecreey—from its deliberations irt executive i , es.
*ion on the 'New York appointments; enough of
what was done has transpired, we. believe, to give
the press jurisdiction of the sittiect.,.
s^ We have ascertained from p ei re e ,rtr i r e liabl e
sou r ces that a detwe a' it i tort. the itoiontaiirrn of
General Dix for the office of Arisistato Treasurer,
which lasted lour ur tire hours, and resulted in his
smatwasatiorrty-a-vote of.twerity.eight The etg,thr
who opposed him were Bi lii , of Indiana, the °Lily
one of.the number from. a tree irate; A - chison, 0 1
:•: - Missenrirtaller and E. ans, of South Carolina:—
Rusk, of .Texas; Morton, of Florida; Mason, 01
- Virginia; and Thompson, of Ketrucky
The ground of objection tisken to the nomination,
—for them Was but one—our readers will annul.
,P4.le.;.,acneral Dix -ha I epposej the extension of
-slavery to the new terrimires ; ha had been one of
• hundred and' t werrythousand democrats of N Y who
would notsubmit_io be proscribed by the Baltimore
ctmgentien because altos opinions, or of the opim
ions at his state, on the subject of slavery; tie would
inrilire his support to a candidate for the l'resid
who obtained' his nomination by disfranchising
ahs stete,ol , Naw York for having chosen delegates
to'vepresertit ber in the national council of the dem
', "immure parl who were determined to omit no
' 'hclitOrable eoit tAprevent the American flag be
ionsitig:the pions 3r and guardian of chattle slavery;
lint) finally, he Freferred to•stand loyally by his '
friends and constituents, to any honors, however '
Milted, which were to be purchased by tame sub.
Mission to the insult which had been offered to the
state he reprtisented - :
These were offences which most men of meg.
nammity . could forgive.; nor did they prevent the
- President from expressing a desire to avail himsell
of Mr. Dix's.experienee and accompli.lied rates
'inanship in the Cabinet, though we now feel au
thorised to assume that they did, occasion that pro-
slavery pressure, to which the President's original
inclinations ere reported io,have yielded. Had the
Whig semitors voted with the eight who have taken
it upon themselves to cast the first stone at the ad
. ministration—and we marvel that they did not—
qqneral Dix's nomination would have been da•
&ate& No - one would have had less cause to re
- wit such a result than he, nor would any have had
more, probably, than the eight who by their votes
invited it. But the Whigs did not choose to accept
- She lead, and Mr. Dix was not deleated, cense
questtly we need not waste words in speculating
tipm the probableconsequences of r•uch a contin
lency ii it ha.l occurred
Messrs. Atchison, Bright, and their associates,
are not disposed in 'pert:taiga General Dix as a
democrat, because he and a portion of the demo
eratic.party in the state he represerrod, would not
support for the presidency a candidate whom they,
because of their hostility to the extension olslavery,
were permitted to take no part in nominrciiig. ft
is nct alleged or pretended that General Dix ever
refused to support any candidates of the party
merely because of any differences of opinion' be
•sween himself and them upon this subject; on the
,Contrary; 'ars well known that no man It more
loyal than he to the expressed wish • - n of the ma
lority. His offence was, that he did not vote for
Mr. Cass
...It,was undoubtedly a source of bitter mortifies
lion to those who conspireil to secure the nointria
tion of that statesman excluding the representa
'tires of New York from the convention, that he was
defeated; nor was the mortification materially as
suaged by the result of the election in this slate
list fall s when the present executive was chosen by
* larger majority than Mr. Cass reeived iu any
State in 1846.
Wis'will not say that they would have preferred
to have seen General Pierce defeated, but it is cer
tain that if he or his friends had professed the poll.
ey which these gentlemen have pursued in the case
of General Dix, he wool.) have been detested quite
as badly - as their favorite hail been before him.—
But General Pierce wisely pursued a course in har
t:Pony with the tolerant spirit cii a democratic party
government. Ile is statesman enough to know that
a national party can only be organized successfully
ripen: the basis ul principles upon which a majority
el the people agree, leaving the principles about
which they differ to oe adjusted by circumstances
and disausion, in several stales where such differ.
ences exist. This policy the President has carried
ouahus far in his appointments. He has proscrib
ed no Class fir their opinions, neither has he de
signed to countenance:any tendency to dissension
or disorganization. The first effort to thwarth this
policy r and to porpetutie or renew divisions in the
party, comes . from the Senate. The quarter to
which be naturally looked for aid and support in his
effort at Consolidation, has proved a fountain of in.
tolerance and disaffection. And yet ti,e eight sen
ators who minister at this well of bitterness, found
noalifficulty with any of the getilernen,whom the
President had called to his cabinet, although more
than one or two of them had been distinctly inden
tithed with - an organization which not only disavow
ed all allegiance to the democratic party, but to the
general govern - tent; and one.of the number but a
few years ago was a leader of the whig party in
Confess, and among the most active champions of
the abolition agitation in that body. Nay, we may
go farther ; it is generally supposed that at least one
of the . President's official advisers also committed
the unpardOnable crime of refusing his vote for Gen.
Cm in MTh. And yet not a voice was lilted up
against either of their nominations.
Whether they have since severely purged them
- selves of their past transgressions, or whether, in
the eyes of General Cass's - senatorial guard, it is a
opener offeneejto havetbeen a whig or a secessionist
Ebonite - Wee continued in the faith in which Jeffer
son died, and in whialr'General Cass lived until
after he was three-score years and ten, are ques
none about which we have no light, save that
which we share in . common with our readers.—
Nerare these new, questions of any importance
Alillaluise gentlemen have pledged themseles to car
ry onto the, best of, their abilities the policy mark•
iv& out by ‘ the executive in'his:inatio '' ural address and
in the severarcommonications he has ma le to the
public, since he was nominated for the presidency.
Whatever they may have said, done, or been, we
are happy to know that now they are democrats,
anpsvery .d emocrat ought to rejoice arit. We
thedicliery sincerely have deplored the loss ofiall
orlinfor the votes cast at the fast Presidential el
isetiowby Those who were whigs in 1840, or seces
ionists in 1850, and shall always be happy to co
operate_ with men who agree with us on nine
points of the law, for the purpose of defeating those
Who disagree with us On the whole ten.
And now esingle word to thole of our southern
ceuntrysnen who are disposed to countenance this
attempt to proscribe freedom of opinion among
democrats at the nnr.h. We have no fear that they
will succeed ;.,we do not entertain the slightest ap
prehersion that any, or all, the patronage of the
eaecatile could make any permanent impression
Upon the settled conviction which reigns in the
breast of every intelligent Atherican, brought up
under influence of free Mick, that slavery is an un
qualified curse to a nation. Ouripprehensions, if
we have any, are of a different character.
Should ,the impression get abroad in the free
stilekithat the counsels which dictated this attempt
ed proscription of General Dix were likely to pro.
Tail, and that the scmihern.people have succeeded
ie arraying ate power of the executive against all
who share General Dsx's aversion to the extension
of slivery and slave representation ; would not
like to answer long for the secori'y of slave pro
peony in the southern states. As it is, and looking
upon the (attire with the most hopeful anticipations,
we cannel see how the overbe iricg and intolerant
spirit Of eclias of southern plititions rhould be
labored itialtionger of the nation. •
"Ifire'beve; leafleted through the northern states,
shirr end influential Class of men,who are sway
ed to and fro inaheir political judgment by circum
stances and accidental interests, who give very
little thsught to the abstract principles of govern.
mint, and' who vote With' one party or another
without vouch veference to lendlameatal questions:
This party, at first, yielding to their instincts,
embraced the lefiersonian proviso, and the cense.
6 isellee WO ; Pull in 18.48 —4, the legi•lateres of er-
Cif ntirtlaelit Oilcan thi land, with scarcely an
ception, recomended its applicatiOn to the terri
torial bills then before Congress. The same party,
yielding.to pasim& anikprodential consideratibmif
7 -to' whatiare esteenierd unfounded apprehensioni
—went ins body in rapport 4f thel , comproniise
meit-urea - of 1850, hesitating bat fora Moment over
the inconshstencyA ,the two positions. Otte day
they are for the Meat liberal priticinles of free trade,
the next, upon a slight.change of the issue, they
will clamor for remiicions and privi Nes. This
class comprises the material (Dice of the nation,
and its naive/nem i- irresistible in whatever way
it may be directed. It is controlled by no tixed
principles, but moves mainly under the guidance
elite apprehensions. The time is at hand when
this impulsive and unreasoning mass will move
upon slavery. The political power of that institu
tion, in this country, is 'rapidly diminiehing,' and
like falling mannish bodies, the rapidity' or its de.
Pewit will increase in proportion to the distance it
has to full. The laws of is dustry and commerce
wilt geirtaly settle the problem which has so lung
vexed I:te politic:ens•, and then it will be as much
the fashion to decry the slave-holder arid slave-le
bor, as it is now to denounce the vendors of obscene
books, or diseased butcher's meat. When that
time comes, and come it will, or every received
axiom of political economy is a delusion and a lie,
the southern people will have an opportunity of
knowing who constitute their tine friends in the
free elates and open what arms, if any, they are to
rely for protection. They will then remember, it
not before, the radical states-rights democracy of
New York, who shielded them in 1835 and in 18-10
from the horrors of a servile insurrection; who re
lieried them in 1846 of the barthens of an un•
equal and oppressive tariff ; who, prevented the
exiension'of slavery over a large fracti• n of the
North American continent in 1842 ; and, in 1851,
denounced the too successful attempt of a minority
in Congress to syrip the people of the stales of im
portant gnarantiee to their constitutional rights, by
the enactment of the Fugitive Slave law. Though
we are no prof hem, nor the sons of a prophet, we
venture to predict that the very class who are now
denouncing the states-rights democracy of the north
as abolitionists, and trying to exclude them from
every position under the general government, be
fore two more Presidential elections are held, will
have need enough to their aid, and will he but too
glad to surrender every office under the general
government, for the simple privilege ofhaving their
slave property protected Iron, the assaults ot law•
less emancipationists
Nor then will they despise the'co•operation of the
Evening Post, whose services in behalf of free
trade, commencing more than twenty years before
those principles were advocated by arty other jour
nal north of the Potoman, were once warmly wel
comed at the south, but riot hull so warmly as it
will be in that day of political retribution which is
approaching, when the powers of commerce, of
wealth, of the press, of the forum, and of the pulpit
—yes, of the pulpit, for the pulpit is one of the rep
resentative institutions of the country, and goes
with the fashion—shall be arrayed against the de
moralizing, the debilitating, the impovetishing, the
ruinooe, the wicked system of negro slavery.
In that day we expect to encounter far more bit
terderrunciation front our contemporariea for stand
ing up, as we certainly shall, in defence of the con
stitutional rights of the southern planters over their
slaves within the states, than we ever experienced
in preventing their acquiring any such rights out of
them
The Second Trial of Spring the Mir-
der—Verdict of Guilty
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, Apr. 7
The Jury in the case of Arthur Spring came into
Court this morning with a verdict of murder in the
first degree.
Aftetthe polling of the Jury, the prisoner asked
permission to make a statement which was grant
ed. He then made a long address, giving an ac
count of his acquaintance with the murdered wo
men and his several visits to their house.
He said his son told him he would gn to Carroll's
house on Thursday night and get the money,
Lynch basilic , gone to New York He tried to dis
suade him from the robbery. No mention was
made of murder. Meson, he says, told him to go
to bed, which he did ; his son came in sometime
of the night and asked fur his pocket book, saying
he had the money.
lu the morning his son went oat and bought the
shirts, giving hirn a dollar note and a gold dollar.
He made no mention of t..e murder, arid he (Spring)
knew nothing of it till after he was arrested He
closed with solemn asserva ions of his own inno
cence and the guilt of his son. He was willing to
die, but woald die innocentl.
Judge Kelly rebuked We pi 'antler for his hardi
hood in persisting in such improbable statements
when tits moments on earth were numbered He
went over the history, of the Pon and We evidence
of the case to show how utterly false was all that he
uttered.
In conclusion he urged 'him not to die 'with a
falsehood on his tongue, but by uttering the truth,
clear the character of his son from the breath of
suvicion.
Sentence was deterred—and the prisoner was
conveyed-back to prison.
The Court end vicinity were densely crowded,
but no manifestations was made by the crowd. al
though the result of the trial gave evident satisfac
tion.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-41: flied Express Pass
enger train going West on Monday night, 4th inst ,
and due at Binghamton on Tuesday morn..:,; at
10 minutes past 2, when passing along the Dela
ware Bridge, came in contact with a large rock—
weighing 3 or 4 tuna— which had fallen from the
bank above directly on the trac. 'The whole train
was thrown on the track, and the baggage car came
near being precipitated into the river. The Fire
man was instantly killed. We did not learn his
name Mr. I. Tallman, •the Engineer, was mor
tally injured and died in about half an hour. When
they approached him he inquired about the fire
man—spoke of his wile and child:en, and said that
it was useless to endeaver to do any thing for him,
as be could not survive.
We did not learn that any of the passengers were
Peliously hurl, though some were severely bruised
The Engine was badly damaged, and all the cars
much broken.
LA M Vain OCCURRENCIi Yesterday afternoon,
Mr. Robert Elder, a highly esteemed gentleman,
residing a snort distance east of this place; along
the Reading turnpike, started to walk into town,
but on the road he was overtaken by a Mr. Rock
er, with a horse and wagon, who invited him to
take a seat •with him. While coming down the
steep hill jnet outside of town, the harness became
disarranged in inch a manner as to prevent the
horse from checking the speed of the wagon. Mr.
E. became alarmed, and in jumping Iron the wa
gon, he tell, striking his head against a projecting
stone, causing almost instant death. The horse
was stopped Mier reaching the foot of the hill, and
Mr Hocker, who remained in the wagon, escaped
uninjured. Mr E leaves a large 'amity, and many
trietrds to mourn his sudden and melancholy de
cease.—Harrisburg &pions.
Tire Arrant AT Gatrrowx.—Late advises from
San Joan de Nicaragua repon no change in affairs
at Greytown baleen the Transit Company and , the
authorities. The British way steamer Geyser juid
arrived, and the authorities waited on theboririnuiri
der with a previous complaint against Capt. Hollins,
of. the U.S. slaop of war Cyane, but the &Oral
commander said_ he had express orders not to
interfere in any matters that the govennueat
Greytown may see proper to execute; but, as the"
American commander has resolved to protect the
property of the Transit Company, he could only
represent the matter to his government.
,
COVIITICRItEITCa CONWICTED.IBI. &Its*, chatmsd,
with being connected with the Montour COUnty,
counterfeiter*, has been convicted:' A itiolimt Was
made for a new trial, which the Coati Wilds under
advisement maths Aagnst lemt.
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Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Men
Freedoms ffr, ..fres Territory.
E. 0. GOODRICH, EDITOR
Towanda, Saturday, April 16, 185
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fiquareezt door to the Bradford lintel. Entrance between
!Messrs. Adams' and ElwelPolaw off' re 0,
Democratic dtate Nominations.
ZAWAL rammusiivarm.
THOMAS. H. FORSYTH, or Pun.A. Co
A UDirrou moms IL.
EPLIRALM BANKS, OF Mirrtabr, Co
7011 1117111MET0111 IrILIFINAL.
J. PORTER BRA WLEY, OF CRAWFORD CO
CANAL Cora►asstoaes.—Thomas H. Forsythe,
says the Doylestown Democrat, our candidate for
Canal Commissioner, is a carpenter by trade, and
a moat excellent and popular man. He is a native
of New Britain township, Backs comity, and serv
ed his apprenticeship with Jacob Kephart. He
worked as a journeyman carpenter with Samuel
Kachline, Esq , of this torough, and afterwards
moved to Philadelphia county, where there was a
more extensive field opened for his business in
which he was engaged. He is now an efficient
and active member of the Senate of Pennsylvania,
a station that he has held for several years as the
r?presentative of Philadelphia. He everywhere is
respected as an honest, upright and capable man,
and will make an ut.plecedented run at the ballot
box on the second Thursday of Ociobet next.
frtter front Narrishrg.
HARRInURG, April 12, 1853
The House has at last passed the appropriation
bill, and it is now in the hands of the Senate Com
mittee, The amount disposed of by the House is
about $0,400,000 including appropriations for the
comple'ion of the North Branch Canal and the
Portage road. The Committee appointed by the
House to examine into the charges of Corruption
against the Canal Commissioner's in allotting con
tracts on the Portage, have not yet reported. It is
understood that their investigations show a clear
case for the Commissioners, and will remove all
just suspicions of fraud. The Cant( Commission
ers sent a message to the House demanding an in
vestigation, in view of the reiterated charges made
in that body against them.
The Senate did not'concur in the action of the
House, appropriating, $30,000 to establish a school
for the education of idiotic children, but amended
it by giving Q 10.003 when an equal sum shall be
raised by private subscription, and an additional
$lO,OOO in one year upon the same condition, of
private subscription. A general feeling of the utili
ty of such an institution was felt, but from the fact
of es being an experiment in this State, prudence
restrained the Senate Irom a large appropriation
until the interest of the putdic is manifested in the
undertaking by substantial aid. Some of the best
men in our State had their feelings interested in
this institution. Ju.fge Kane delivered an excel
lent lecture, to which Bishop Potter added his pur
suasive eloquence, while the practical results of
education was illustrated by several children who
had been raised from a state of degrading idiocy,
to one of comparative intelligence ; had committed
to memory the Lord's prayer, learned the use of
their limbs, and to feed and keep themselves clean.
The)orm of the appropriation although far from
satisfietory to those gentlemen who had enlisted
themselves warmly in this project, is yet calculated
to awaken public attention arid stimulate its projec
tors to exertion. If strong appeals were made to
philanthropists, privately and publicly, in churches
and assemblies, the sum of 810,000 can be easily
collected.
Both Houses are inundated with petitions, favors.
his to removing the tonnage tax from the Pennsyl
vania Railroad. The York and Cumberland road
and the projected Lebanon Valley road have had
an act passed relieving them from taxation. The
Pennsylvania company now ask for thesame privi
lege. The House will grant it. IVhether the Sen
ate will is yet to be seen.
The tax on the Penn'a road was imposed with
the view of protecting our public improvements,
running parallel. It was apprehended that the con
struction of this road would divert a large body of
trade from the canal and setionsly diminish the
revenue. This fear has not beeh justified by the
fact. The revenues of the canal have been inures'.
ing in the face elite very large business done by
this railroad. Indeed every avenue from the vast
west is crowded with trade and travel. Instead of
there being too many, there are too few. Business
is brisk on the Canal, the Pennta Railroad is crowd
ed to its utmost capacity without being able to
ac
commodate all who desire to transport on it, and
the New York & Erie road is in the same condi
tion. Now although the fear which induced this
tax, has no reality, yet as long as taxation does not
drive trade from our road to a rival route, it is
right that the company should pay something to
the Commonwealth for their privileges. When
competition shall make this tax an impediment to
this route, and drive trade from it, then it 'maybe
proper to remove it; bat while its operation is
merely to diminish the profits of is wealthy carp*:
ration, it should remain.
, But this is a powerful
company, whicir has never demanded a privilege
from the Legislature, in vain.
Nevi counties have met with little favor this. ses ,
!ion. Look at Union county on the map and see
whets figure it would make, iL cutin-two by a
Legislature enactment. Yet a large number of the
people of that 'County have been petitioning: the
Legislature for a division, with- Lewisburg as the .
Seat of Justice. After the erection of Moamar Co,
acy small county maybeemboltlened to 'atilt fore
'division.. The most amusing,dibimme of new
.eounty men, is inAhe.case, of Schuylkill county. At
the last elation the dinimeratio candidates for Soo
ctinti:
ty, because they. were opposed to its division. The
Whig Senator elected—Mi., Hendricks—had his
favoriti bill:creating ifiew-Countr to be called An.
thracili, puled through the Senate and sent to the
Housi The:Whigßepreistmatires in House
- procured the passage through that body of a
anew Wit ,
making anew county to be called Penn and it .was
sent to die Senate. So each bill is in the hands of
its enemies. The Senate will not agree to the
Reuse bill; end The House will not pass the Senate
bill. The victorious new county men of Sao) I
kill county have by their divisions, furthered the
desires of their opponents. So may it ever be
This gutting our Sate into small, contemptible Vir
ginia-like counties is detestable. It lessens the
dignity of a'Stata,as.ii would of out nation to di.o
vide it into a hundred small States.
A bill has been passed Incorporating the Faulk
era Union Insurance Company to be located at
Athens, Bradford County Pa. Yours truly,
Wesnincrroti Gossm—The papers are filled with
reports from the seat of governinent, some of which
we give for - what they may be worth.
The friends of Dickinson are making a strong of
fort to get the eonsolbhip at Valparaiso, for Birdsall,
his son•in•aw.
It is understood that Buchanan accepts the mis
sion to England, provided his acceptance. will not
abridge the number of Pennsylvania appointments
The State Department is preparing briefs for for.
eign ministers. The diplomatic nominations will
be sent in on Monday.
Count Pulsky dined with the Pres dent some
days since, and had an interview with him this
evening by appointment. He urged him to do all
possible in his foreign relations to assist Hungary,
if she should prove able to make a stand.
When Brownson's nomination came into the
Senate, a reference to a committee was moved.—
But on . Mr. Seward pronouncing a brilliant eulogi.
um on the nominee, he was unanimously confirm
ed without reference
Senator Rutland has been made Governor of
New Mexico. Mr. Saute, the new Minister to
Spain, was waited upon tn his ftiends on Thursday
night, when Mr. Weller, Mr. Wm. M Corry, and
others made congraiulati ty speeches.
The !fiends of Gen CaSS ate 'did to he indignant
at the report that Mr. Lester is to be appointed
Charge at Rome, in the place of youdg Cass, who
does not mean to resign.
Executive Doings of the Senate.
Reported Breach in the Cabinet— Appointment of and
Confirmation of Mr Buchanan as Minister to
England—Senator Soule's Letter of Resignation.
WASHINGTON, April I 1 —This morning there
were various rumors afi'iat in the city that a diffi
cult• had occurred in the Cabinet, and that the Sen•
ate had been reconvened by the P , esident. It was
generally stated that Secretary Marcy had resign
ed, but it appears that all such reports were ground
less, or at least, that it any such breach had
occurred, it was healed, as no Cabinet appoint
ments were sent to the Senate. The appointment
of Mr Buchanan, as Minister to England, was the
only matter of consequence sent in He was im
mediately confirmed, and it is understood that he
accepts, the Cabinet haiing been engaged until 12
o'clock, last night, in urging him to do so.
The followiri6 is Mr. Soule's letter of resignation
sent into the Senate to•day.
liViistininxtoN, April 11, - 1853.
To the President of the Senate :--Sir —Having
signified to the Preside/it my acceptance of the
high 'unctions he has pleased to confer on me,
now advise yen that I cea•e upon this day to
be a member of the august body over which you
preside. May I request tha you will accept for
yourself and tender to the other members of the
Senate the expression of my regret at parting with
such associates, a , d my wishes 'for the prosperity
of you all. Your very humble servant,
Correcromlenee of the Philadelphia North Ameri c a n .
The Vice-President' t Inauguration.
Having just returned nom seeing the inaugura•
hen of the Vice President, I thought perhaps your
readers might be gratified by a brie) description of
ie ceremony
Mr. King has been spending some time at the
hospitable mansion of Col Chatham:, on his sugar
estate, Ariadne, near thevillage
of Lemonarr, on
the Collesee railroad, about fifteen miles from
Mantanzas, and has derived some bentit from in
haling the fumes of the sugar-house
Our party, consisting of Judge Sla rkry, T M
Rodney, Consul at Man'anzas, G W. Jones, M
C., and Special Messenger, and several others, ar
rived at the plantation to Breakfast, and after being
presented to Mr Kula, were co , iducted over the
sugar works by Col. Chartrand and his sons, who
explained everything, from the cutting of the cane
to the final process of purifying. At 12, A.. M, on
the 24th of March we were summoned to witness
the inauguration.
The Vice President being too feeble to ward
without assistanee, was supported on the right by
G. W. Jones, M. C, and on the lett by-r. M. Rod
ney, Esq., Consul The oath was administered
by Judge Sharkney, Consul at Havana, and wee
afterwards signed by the Vice President, certified
by Judge Sharkey, and witnessed by the following
ladies and gentlemen
Margaret King, of Alabama; Cathar'ne Ellis,
do; Mary A. Stebbins. Lousiana; Jno. C. Caulfield,
Alabama ; S. W. Woolcot, Vermont ; A McWil•
Liam, South Carolina ; Jno. Chartrand South Caro.
lina ; G. W. Jones, Tenn.:we ; T. M,
Rodney, U.
S. Consul ;
Charles Stebbins, Lousiana ; Alex H.
Day, Michigan ; Edmund Marcy, New York ; and
Samuel H. Jones, Pa.
The ceremony, although simple, was very sad
and impressive, and will never be forgotten by
any who were preset.t. To see an old man, on the
very verge oldie grave, clothed with honors which
he cared:not for, and invested with authority which
he could never exercise was truly touching. It was by
persuasion that Mr. King would go through the cer
emony, as he lookei on it as an idle form, for he
said that he was conscious he could not live many
weeks.
Alter the ceremony was over, Mr. King convers
ed with the gentlemen present for a short time,
and then
,retired to his couch. We amused our
selves with walking through the orange and coffee
groves, till dinner time, when we sat clown to a
sumptuous repast, and in the evening took the cars
and returned to Manianzas.
The slave trade is in a very flourishing condi
Lion lust now. Two cargoes, amounting to, about
2000 blacks, have just been landed, and another i,f
fifteen hundred is daily expected. The British mi•
sers are doing their best to break up this traffic, but
so long as there is so much connivance if cannot
be done.
A GANG or WESTICRii 80IIFICR5.••—The Wahl of
Dr. Roberts and others, et the term n 1 the Superior
Court of Monroe County, Georgia, for the robbery
of John Jackson in October last, has elicited some
some facts which.the community will do well to
notice- Irwas shown that these desperadoes, hav
ing been driven from Kentucky and middle Ten
;ivies by the oacers of jniiiice, took refisger in the
Mountains of east 'rennesee, near the railniads, in
order - that their movements might be more rap.
id, and where they could pretend to , engage in
some honest business. It also appears , that they
a're'a'portion of an extensive and well- organized
band of villains, now engaged in flooding Georgia
with ommtetleit money, and' coni mini 4 fritgenes
of every oharecler and to almost every amount on
the people— When then measures of hand fail,
they reacirtl4 Wighity, highway robbery, and even
rtinider: cirry tnt theiji infamous purposes—co.
Sante,- Enquirer: ur
J. M. l
PIERRE' SOULE.
HAVANA, March 26th
''- - Viliiii nt'Vitiliiiii---"'
mum, .TINE RUMSELLEWS aftlia•
mangy pleading for the • Maine Law "—AiTemperance
!Story—kniuded on feet. B 7 JOHN K. CORNrii, will, an
r CLBIj Vg - inlfidUCl77r;alOWl.i:i. Au &
•
d!thrf, PP. 381' •
The discussion of the Temperance question, has
'very materially changed during the plat few years.
Lecturers have become almost obsolete, and the
public attention is absorbed by publications having
aArect bearing, upon this momentous quespei,
and depicting in glowing language the evils result.
ing from the baleful curse of Intemperance, and il
lustrating, as far as pen may do, the sum of hu
man misery arid wo, its inevitable consequences.
The Temperance Lecturer started upon a new field
of action. Armed in the glorious panoply of truth
1 -wielding - the weapons of morality, justice and
benevolence, he at first arrayed himself against a
Hydra which had raised its hundred heads in every
community, and hissed with impunity, poisoning
the happiness of lamities, tearing down and defac
ing tho home-ahem, and shattering or dispersing
families and fortunes. The heads of this grim
monster were to be crushed one by one ; and the
conflict was severe, calling for the exercise of the
virtues of perseverance and endurance on the part
of those who first commenced the fight. These
knights have all retired from the field, more worthy
of renown than those who in chivalric days, sought
to rescue the tomb of die Savior horn the possession
of the Saracen. Their mission bas been effected—
they have thoroughly aroused public attention to
the magnitnde of the evil they were seeking to al
lay. Their efforts have been folloived and sustain
ed by the appearance of many publications, calcu
lated for the careful consideration and sober thought
of the public, and intended to confirm and hasten
the good work already auspiciously commenced.
Of this class, is Dire Witsom, a bleb as its title
implies, is an -appeal for the " Mama Lica," in
the form of a Temperance Story, founded on fact,
and being introduced to the put lac by THURLOW
W. Baowa.
We have read the Introduction with an intensity
of interest. We have no recollection of ever be.
fore ineettng with such a tall specimen of the
'• lughfultain," as Mr. Berme has prefixed to Diu
WiLsis. We defy the reader to master one of the
highest wrought paragraphs, without experiencing
a sensation as if he was suspended in mid-air, and
concluding it with the agreeable sensation of having
safely randed on kriafirma. The tears of the wid
ow, the groans of the orphan, and all the phases
of wo and suffering are crowded into every pare
graph, with a reckless indifference which is per
fectly appalling. Now, there is a common sense,
practical way of treating all subjects, more decided
ly to our taste, than Mr. BROWN'S hyperboles and
climaxes and expletives, and much better intended
to recommend a book to the attention of the - person
who sits down to read it The inevitable conch-.
lion alter mastering Mr. BaowN's Introduction is,
that a successful attempt at reading the whole work
would be fatal a:i its consequences.
But we would advise the reader not to judge
DICK WiLson, by its Introductioe.. It is, as its title
signifies, a Temperance Story, and we have the
assurance of the author is founded upon incidents
which have really taken place. But the design of
the writer is, evidently, not so much to produce a
narrative, the plot and illuetration of which shall
engage public attention, as to present in the most
aittaciive shape, all the arguments which can be
urged in favor of a prohibitory liquor law, and to
hold up as obnoxious to public opprobrium the
traffic itself
The writer of this book, is evidently earnest in
what hesays, and betrays intense feeling upon the
stkjecluf Intemperance.. How few households are
there into which the Tempter ha►h not entered, and
left the traces of his withering presence upon we
heartlottone, and desolation in the'hear is of those
who once gathered around it ! There is in every
page of DICIE WiLson, evidence that the author is
sincere in the work he has undertaken, and if he
sometimes betrays somewhat of bitterness, it is be-
cause he is convinced of-the magnitude arid hein
ousness of the evil which he is endeavoring to
abate.
As the cdject is to bring the traffic itsel I into dis
repute, and to advance argumen's for its discon
tinuance by legislative enactment, we have present
ed in this work the most striking examples of the
misery which is, or may be wrought by licensing
the sale of ardent spirits. We have a happy fami
ly plunged in the deepest distress by the death of
the husband and lather, fur which the rumeeller is
answerable ; the sudden descent horn affluence to
the direst poverty, of the remnant of the family ;
the loss of " guanine" friends," and exposure toil:-
suit and injury ham the bends at whose hands all
their sufferings and sorrow had emenated. These
are all depicted in the liveliest manner, and argu
ments and deductions drawn against the traffic
which had caused all the ruin.
In the career of Dim iViLsort, is also displayed
the temptations which are laid to ensnare the feet
of the inexperienced trom the paths 01 truth and so
briety, ending in the total wreck of all the hopes
and dreams of youth, and depriving the lonely fa.
mily, of the only earthly stay upon which they lean
ed. His history is not greatly different : from thatof
thousands, who have started out with the brighiest
anticipations and the loftiest resolves, but have
been allured by the ruby hue of the tempter, and
have fallen so low that humanity could scarcely
claim them.
The characters employed in the work of dragg.
ing down Dim Wir.son to . a common level, may
be over-drawn, and ihti plot itself is in many in.
stances detective, but the whole story is one calm
lated`to warn the reader horn the dangers which
everywhere lurk around, anzl particularly assail the
young, the inexperienced and the thoughtless ;
while the arguments in favor of the " Maine Law"
are unanswerable, and are here presented in a
more, attractive shape, and with a conciseness
and perspicuity we have never before seen. We
recommend the book most cordially to every friend
of Temperance, to every enema of that moral and
physical desolation which " stalks by night,- and
wulketh by noon-day." It will be ellective in di
reeling public attention to the only certain remedy
there
r is or can be, for the disease which is now
blasting the brightest hopes and the highest lame,
which is severing families, and contributing in an
alarming manner to swell the burden of our taxa
tion.
ARIRTIC ExpEorrion.—The various expeditions
that have been. fined out within the last five years,
tor the discovery of Sir John Franklin, have cost an
aggregate of .£758,408. Nearly eight years have
elapsed without tidings from the missing- voyager.
No less thin fifteen expeditions in all, consisting
nt thirty vessel!, besiees boats, have been engaged
in the poring!, and the effort is still continued. •
:.,...ogiti,
swierrirr,,Aßitarruosoalab:tyeeo:ll.
Mom —On the 7 7th inst., C. H.g m i, h. l4l
figured as President of the Buckeye Klitt(,,l'
:iiatinn, teceited through the Post Office:
directed to C. H. Singh,
that a package of $3,000 had been tentage(
press In, Troy t to the office in this c ity
the health man, presented himself at th e
Office, and identtf) ing himself as the Sikh
cd the package. A lew days after th e fr : , '
discovered, and officers Gallaol4 and ? 0, 1
pot upon the track, but they were onthl e l c
er the whereabootrof the swindler, c c nii
morning, when they telegraphed otrine,',
arid Buffin, of Ciaeontati, who arrested 14 1
just as he was leaving for die South 4
Smith acknowledgel the swlnille, a n d,
to Cleveland. He had changed the hills c r ,
of which $2,700 was found tr, his pospe,,,,i
had also on his person $ll4 in countede,,,b
'the Oneida Valley Bank, Madison Ca ne? ,
so well elieCtilpd as In deceive bow ', u ' dt
money—Cleveland liciald.. J \
Hoaatnuir. bloom —lt become s De r
to record a most summons murder ee fe t•
one of our citizens Last evening, b ei „,
9 o'clock, as Dr. G. VV fia4kin was gn u
dwelling lie Was attacked by som e
know, within a few rods of his door, i lk
in the neck, cutting his jugular vein f ro ,
ances, he must have been knocked deer
c l u b firer, and stabbed afterward/ 1 / 4 He
Ri
his office, called for a light, and haring
one, took offcoa', and examined
and almost immediately fell over and
in
e L detection of the faun The knife will,
particularly shaped bowie knife was it, e •
used. D broke oft n the wound, and the
ultimatelywe eloun
lead
d ont he 6
to
The jury is stiff investigating the mi ler,
have delayed our paper as long as possitj,
can wail for no new facts. The uom etue '
exists : and the sympathyfo r the Ne il ,
friends of the deceased is universal and pi,
Mercer Democrat, 2d.
A Damming TRAGEDT —The New
News gives au account of a &mese iv
that vicinity, which hay its more?. M. F,
of Washington, South River, Middlesex es,
married about a year since to a travelling nt
a Health Ineurance Company in Philadelpi;
Shortly afterwards her husband commenced
ing her brutally, and filially left her Irtaic t i
means of support. Alter I.'w!, physical and ,
suffering, the de.reried wife died at a howon
day last. On the same day, the husband In
rested in Pennsylvania, charged with swindlz
Middlesex co , and will be brought to the
S
requisition.
A HEIRT)LIES3 MURDKRILit.—We learn from i
ter, undei'llate of Mackinac, March 2d , ihc
0 T. Houson, of Grand Traverse, blather
murdered one of his sister's children. H e ,
lured the child several days previous will
iron_ He had kept his wife locked op (or
days, and fed his own children on raw corn
ear, one ear per day being the alloy/enter
He went to the woods one morning, low
lock his family up as usual, when they enca ;
and gave the alarm. Pursuit was immedwi
commenced; and hopes are enii•tained ,
villain will be captured,—N. Herald,
(yam At 2 o'clock P. M yesterday. EL,
Water Cure vras discovered lo be on tire m
the 'rooms on the third floor, on the earl cep. tat
alarm brought patients, strangers and ail boa
promptly to the 9)01. 13 , -i-g Plenty ni Water GIVa
saute floor, and ready handy to ado:l9lslr a I.:a
bath in true Hydropatinc style, the lye Tarim
extinguished, without doine mitch dams...term
destioying some dainty:. belonging to the ar t s
penis Elmira Repel
RHODE ISLAND—Th 7 re!..1111 (.! S decks
in Rhode Island is a complete vrelory for io , riem.
°era's, They have elected their G 'rent Lrez
Governor, other St.ite eili..er., t o ;h frfirse3
c ongreas , a n d majorities to.h tPa:.c!.el
Legiblieure.
Ronne lat.evn Litatlrnt LAW The reams ofh
recent elee[irm in Rhode f,dand !how a iraiorrr
of 900 in favor of Ft:wain in 2 tle ro^diirry
quor Lacy. There is, boa ever, nod ffibt a mayx•
y of the Assembly are oppose' to the lax.
p.m smA tr. ha. been appointed Mek
ter at Yo'k ; J. J. Haaqra. at Eastoa. Pa ;Des
rcr STEvEss at Elmira, N. Y.
On Wednesday morn ing. the 6th Inst. it Copen
Plains, Stenbeu Co., N. I'. by the Rev.lno.Vii
derorre, D. D. of Easton, Pa., Wit.LianC.Moui
of Painted Post to !Gar E. Connie( the forc
er place.
In Alba, by the Rev. Mr. Mraingtil, Hr. R'n►•
INGTOIt PI MICR to MISS SADAO C 1 1 slt
the same place.
SPECIAL COUITE
NOTICE is hereby given, that a special Coon)
Corn. Pleas will be held at the Court Houma
the boro' of Towanda, commencing on Make,
the 20th day ofJune next, at 10 o'clock, A. N.
and to continue one week, at which the klea.Ria
ert G. White will preside for the trial of the lona.
ing causes to wit:
Robert Spalding vs Nathaniel Clapp et al
Pendleton Riley & Co vs Henry W Tracey
Thomas Elliott vs Israel Smith
Welch, Longneeker & Co v.: John Wood et 0
Stephen r °well vs H W Tracey, Ganrishet
Earl Nichols vs Wm Coryell et al
Lyman Matson vs Ira Jennings et al
C L C DeChastelanx vs Lyman Matson
John Beidleman vs Nedebish Smith
Horatio & Rebecca McGeorge vs Ebenezer WI
ham
Newton Humphrey •s Wm Humphrey
C L C DeChastelaux vs Ira Jennings et al
A. McKEAN, Prothoeerl•
Prothonotary's Office, Towanda, !writ 11.
Borough Ordinance.
D E it ordained by the Town Cout.eil of th e 8 ,0 -
of Towanda, in council assembled. on MO
day of April. A. D., 1853. That if any pro.l
persons shall pile, lay, or store, any boards,P, m ....j"
or scantling, shingtes or timber, upon th e F;
square, or within any of the public streets. 5
person or persona shall forfeit and pal fa ef "
such offence the sum of Five Dol!ars foreterTdil
the said property shall remain upon the sisi s q 2" ,
or in any part of said streets, after note f a
street Commissioner or the Town Carol e ro
move the same.
Provided, that while aisy person shall be ene ll
a building, he may occupy opposite his land fart
reasonable length of time a portion of the suetl
for the purposes aforesaid, not however us emu°
to obstruct travel
rgtfl.
WM ELWELL, tin
J. F. MEANS,
=ed.
N. N. BETTS, Town Co
J. BEIDLEMAN
Attest—H. McAlpiu, Clerk.
Towanda, April 12, 1111.53.____.--
NOTICE TO COLLECTORS AND TAXTASS
C OLLECTORS of Bradford County are hem
authorized to make • dedaciion offise pee
upon the State Tax of every iadeidual who sum
Pay his or her State and County Taxes io full, oil
or before the 21st day of JUNE next, and the satee.
shall bas allowed you is your settlement -- 1 061"
this ;lime is by you paid into the County Tresill
on or before the 22d or 22d days ofJune
west
By order of the Commissioners.
Comm'rs, Office, Towanda, April I. 1859.
SALT just received at
Towanda, Dee. IS. 1852,
ME