Bleasobeat Disaster—Five
Killed, Tea or Twelve Scalded•
Pouctiaacs-ta, July 16 —The atean*tal 41 . pirir
—an oIJ and favorite boat on the Netall York i l and
Troy line—exploded a butler about 2it Ib is
rn ornittu,,when off Clinton Point, volt* It 111
seven miles below this city. A., tf,t
, The accident it attribtred to varidual-easea
'account says that a sloop dun into the Empire on
the (aboard side, forward of the boiler, causing a
breach in the ;Inanity and thaborierbasingnotbinc.
to support st, fell overboard. Many of the passen
gers, however contradicted this, and say they saw
no sloop that could have tun into the steamboat: I
their belief that the explosion was caused by a
defect in the boiler.
The greatest consternation prevailed among the
passengers, neatly all of whom were 'Weep when
the _collision took place, The shock, however,
aroused them from their elunieere, and thoy ran
upon the deck in the most drea.lful slate , of cmiru
mon. They were salmi by a terrible panic, and
some five or six, in their terror, jumped overboard
and were drowned
The boat subsequently +Hind ashore, and now
lies stranded. her head up this the stream. a pettect
wreck, paddle boxes blown ofl, pipes shattered to
pieces, and decks crushed.
Thoselay the explosion was catased by a collie.
inn, blame the pilot, as the night was clear and
sunlight.
The lila boat was. lowered by the captain and
crew, but the passengers leaping lei it, caused an
upset, and it is supposed three Or tour perons were
driwned It is also tenoned that a number leap
ed overboard on Mil tits' alarm, who doubtless pet
ished.
The passengers and h e r baggage were taken
oft by the propeller Wyoming. sloop Ann Stafford.
and anothereloop. The injured eleven or twelve
in number,-weref-taken 10 dee. Exchange lintel, in
this city, and to the residence of of Mr Van R-n-
seller; where every exertion i• being made to Idle.
•late the sufferings of the unfortunates
Among the wounded are J. D Scott, a hook.peri
ler; Ed ward G Sartain. petunia engineer; Mr. Cush.
ing, third engineer; Charles Criehmaii, fireman ;
Mary Beetles, Mary Wooster. tier, squaws; from
Canada; Robert T. Cultiogham, New Haven, bad
ly scalded and leg broken :Mr. Austin. badly scal
ded, but it is thought will recover; Peter V. Vos.
urgh sligh.ty scuttled, taken home to H u d son .
A.S. Bullitt, of Waehington, D C , two deck
hinds, named James Johnson and Peter Van Fea.
len, and G Parritt, of New Jen, are badly se.ilded
Probably seven or eight of the victims of this sad
disaster will die; Mr Stafford, formerly an officer
on the Empire. His father keeps the Troy House,
near the Crystal Palace.
A gentleman, who visited the scene of the acci
dent, yesterday informs us :hat ten bodies had
carried ashore
A large quantity or fteight will be lbst by -this
collision„ but the amount is not known.
The engineer, who arrived in the Hudson River
Railroad express train, at a quarter past 3, reports
three deaths, including two squaws and doubts
whether any other of the passengers Were injured.
THC MARDI q5lll AT SALT Laze —From recent ae.
coon's of the progress of the Mormons at Salt Lake,
it appears they ire like the Gontiles in other parts
of the world, and exhibit a large emount of human
nature in their internal dissensions, schisms, - back.
biting and struggle for individual power and supre
macy. The general idea of their little saintly set
tlement in the wileeiness beyond the Rocky moun
tains, is that they are a' hand of brothers' and sis
ters—closely knit in the bonds of fraternal affection,
despising the lollies and pomp of the world, and
looking only to the spread of the true faith, and the
extension of spiritualism wifeism We are sorry
to say that the flattering picture is only the distant
view of the , heavenly scene, a nearer approach
shows that there are persecutions for opinions' sake,
bitter heart-burniiigs tapostacy,eand repudiation of
the doctrine of polygamy, which the Prophet Jo
seph, surnamed Smith, introduced as one of the
divine institutions.' A writer, who has been among
them says, a more discordant set of harmonies, than
they, never combine!. A very short acquaintance
with them, with some knowledge of their history,
exhibits a very curious accumulation and loss of
members constantly going on in the Mormon com
munity. It seems to require about u much Work
to keep the converts alter they are made, as to
make them. Many :of those new•l.oin saints very
soon lose the wade-water enthusiasm which is first
experienced, and fall away; and many who have
zeal enough to start on the great journey towards
the modern Zion, cool off, and lodge like drift
wood, by the way. Each emigrating i bOdy tapers
MI something the army of Peter the Hermit in the
first great crusade. The Mormons have, in reality,
more backsliders and apostates, and, for the length
of time since their commencement, are divided in
to more sects than any religious denomination
known.
From this picture, which we have no doubt is a
true one, for the papers from the Great - Salt Lake
are full of the fulminations of the faithful against a
backsliding crew, sod headed by one Gladden
Bishop, who impiously and impudently assumes to
be the Lord in his second coming, and also against
other apostates to the faith, it would seem that the
fanaticism under which the Mormon doctrine
spread so rapidly, is in danger of running itself out
for want of persecution which aided its growth so
materially in the settled Sates. Without the out
side pressure of persecution to hold it together,
there is not sufficient adhesiveness in its internal
constitutions to keep the fabric from falling to
pieces. Indeed, any society which adopts princi
ples so repugnant to the general sentiments of the
civilized world as those which form a part of the
religious faith of the Mormons, mu.► necessarily
be rtstricted with a narrow circle of operations, and
be of limited duration. Before the advancing foot
steps of a be'ter Christian, and of more refined prin
ciples of morals and social existence, it must recede
precisely as barbarism flier before ciiiilization, and
darkness before light.—Ledger
(x:r The operations, by means of sub marine ar
mor, upon the wreck of the frigate Hussar, which
sank - in the East River,. nearly opposite Stony Is
land, in the early part of the Revolutionary war,
which have been continued during the last three
summen,
are prosecuted with sucess the present
season.. There have been brought from the wreck
innon balls, pewter plates and dishes, hour glass
", hamf-grenades, leather hats, Ste /kn.; and also
hie bones of one the et:fortunate prisoners who
'ere confined in the vessel's hold when she went
.1 two. The bones formed a perfect skeleton, and
t doubt those of a young man, ol about five Met
to umhes in bight. The tees in both the upper
lower jaws were perfectly white , and had
t o the slightest signs ol —Jandial of ton'
mcfce.
NIAOLSLA FALLS SSD LAU Ears--Prof. SiMalan,
14.4 eminent geologist, discredits the opinion ad
. •.seed by some that the Veal Wedflaw's/jog
t' lay of the rocks of iiiagm Falls, may possibly
in draining Lake Erie. In a recent townie
Iv+ remarks: "They will not ball: at their present
11 .; ion, but retreat slowly and surely about two
miles further, when they will stop again for a tut
known period. and probably forever, since at this
place the hard limestone will loan oath base and
top of the falk, and thus stop the destruction of the
rock. Some have though they would i finally reacb
Lake Erie, and that then the lake would be com
pletely drained. Such an event is impossible.—
Ai the point already mentioned, the torrent will
gradually wear away the surface of the limestone,
forming a rapid, and thenceforth Niagara will be
one of the lost wonders of the world."
Norm &once Cairo. —in the months of Mirth,
April,May and June, 1854. the mils on the North
Blanch Canal amounted to 1156,885 94. Same pe•
thud lut year, 511,588 65. increase this year,
816,297 29 The delivery of coal at Dayville hi
now progressing with vigor, the whervei of the
M mum Company beim; crowdint vrith - boata, rut:
lolling—Danville Intl! rawer.
News ham all Mathes,
-rlms-beifiness of tefildis4 Locomotive r oigeiner.
. hektie4omkn impstOant fiesnett . ttdoyespie itoliii
, t nO is. ._ islOysFtow* itt!;,magitSlefft. Ki
ng to estimatennell btffie WOrtietl hint.
; ;' Bl brie iimbaktfi. n4,le4thitst Oist lhotowifil
i ll
.lotOintott,. *Oh yearly billtte shops now Pi °PO'
Jaw'', sulfisjent to4l , cle , I tom three,To fuer than
moil milt* of wad. Flom Iris to fireett IhnuSalid
tons of nisi iron, and the earner amount nf wroe2ht
, i.rPl34o4,lerso amours! of oth.tr work are n ! ./e0
!nr these establishinettis lot this yearly itsteluettott
Ram
• Nino!: Estraldire4.—The Po•itnittsier General
has authqrizetl Mr. Nesbitt, the etiii.tactor to leave
the points of the envelopes without any device, fin
the Present, reserving the right pis toed in
,the eon
tract, n 1 having thematianiarnted al any lirph here•
after dial may he deemed exile lient I'he Depart
meth-haralswdtreetert - tha , courrac - or musenntao
tore a quantity of envelopes of a larger AiZel hat
those hitherto used : together with a (vomit) a size
smaller.
—One of the hest thinos to resist firtigne wi.h is
music• Girls who "could not walk a mile to save
their lives," will-dance in.company woh a knock
ed-knee, clarionet and impersonated fiddle, from
tes.tim'till sun-rise; while a soldier grown weary,
with quietness, will no sooner hear a bugle give a
flourish than he will give one himsett Whether
men can march twenty or forty miles a day, depends
altogether on who blows the bass drum.
—The President and Directors of the Baltimore
and Susquehanna Boldroad Company, a' their meet
ing, held on Thursday last, determined on a reduc
riots of passenger fare to such rrsons as in Wit be
disposed to purchase ream, trip rickets g ((((( I for
forty-eight hours. This reduction is applicithle to
all points on their road, and is equal to 33-i per
eent. off }heir prevent rates.
--Thousands of bushels of heated corn have been
•hipped from Chicago within a tew masks. The
Butlalo market is overrun with damaged and heat.
ed Corn, and it is being sent In New York as tact
as transportation can be had. There it is used by
%fishnets, who buy it at almost thnttr own price -
-The inactiee of manufacturing whiskey nom dam
aged corn is getting to be quite common through•
out the couutry
—Col FremOnt has published an article in the
National Intelligencer on the Brest question of the
day, the Pacific Railroad He pronounces, with
out hesitation, in favor of the Central or Benton
route from St. Louis to San Francisco. through the
pass at the head of the Del Norte. He asserts thus
to be not only moat practicable, but the most direct
roots, and es imates the distance between the fron
tiers of Missouri and the eastern toot of the Sierra
Nevada, at 1800 miles.
—The Woonsocket Patriot editor makes merry
over the mistake of an old Shanghae hen of hii,that
had been " setting" for five weeks upon two round
stones and a piece oebrick ! "Her wiz iely,"quoth
he, " is no greater than mini to know what she will
batch. ll it proves brick yard—that hen is nut for
sale."
—Neu*AKA —Notwithstanding the prospect nf a
vigorous opposition to the establishment of this ter
story by Congress, quite a number of families from
Missouri, have emigrated into and settled upon that
portion of it lying southwest of Cass county, Mo.,
which, it is said, is not claimed by any tribe of In
dians.
—We learn fium the Catholic Minor, that Mon
signor Bedini. Archbishop of Thebee. and No..cio
of the Holy See at the Court of Brazil, accnmpani•
ed by his Secretory. Rev. Mr Virtue, of Loudon,
arrived in Baltimore from IVaahitigion, on Wed
nesday, and is the guest of Archbishop Kenrtck.
—A petition has been prepared and in circula
tion in Washington and Georgetown, to be presen
ted to the President of the United Sates, asking
that Wootlwar.t, who is otider sentence of death tar
the murder of tuffs wile, may either be banished be
yond the U Slates and territories, or confined in
the penitentiary for life
—More than a hundred miles of the Illinois Cen.
tral Railroad are already in operation, and such is
the forwardness of the whole line, that within a
year from the present time the whole road from
Chicago to Cairo is expected in be opened. Ten
thousand men are now employed upon the work.
—A bid abolishing capital punishment has just
passed the Senate of Wisconsin by a vote of 14 to 9.
It had previously passed the House, and as the G
overnor's a-sent is anticipated, it will doubtless be
come a law.
—A hard working American family, in Boston,
the father of which a coal heaver, and the moth
er a washer woman, has just received information
that a brother of the fornier recently died in Cal
cutta, leaving them the vety acceptable sum of
852.000.'
—A Silk Flag, of New Jersey manufacture, flow,
above the dome of the Crystal Palace, twenty feet
by thirty, blue, red and white, wilt stars and stripes.
and of American silk of splendid quality, prepared
for the Exhibition by John R> le, manufacturer of
sewing silks, at Paterson.
PROTONS? PIERCC AND Gea. SCOTT —" It is said
in the Crystal Palsies, last Thursday, week, when
President Pierce met General Scon, he shook him
warmly by the hand, and said : General, I
net er expected to meet you on the same plat
form!" Of course, both laughed heartily at the
joke." „
—The corner stone of the first Protestant Church
in the Territory of New Mexico, was in have been
laid on the 21st of May Rev. 1.. Smib was to
deliver an address in Spanish upon the occasion,
and Rev. H W. Read to deliver one in English
—Very large wedding cakes and exceeding long
trains of b , idesmaida, are now the fashion in Eu
rope Two hundred pounds is by no means an ex
traordinary weight for the cake, and, twelve not an
uncommon number of bridesmaids.
—The Cincinnati Gazette, of Saturday, says there
never was a time whet so many counterfeit notes
were in-emulation. It supposes some .E4OO per
day are received in regular business, and thrown
out at the various banking•houses in mat city, when
offered deposit.
A Eatutoso to Aratcs.—Accounts from Alezan
dna, Egypt, mention the opening of the new Rail.
road from that place to Cairo, a distance of twenty.
five miles. A locomotive ran over the road on the
21st June.
RICH WAQL FOR LIBORERs —Contractors on the
first Division of the Illinois Central Railroad, north
of Cairo, are now offering St 50 per day for labor.
era. This is the highest figure ever paid for such
work in the State.'
—The Philadelphia ankSunbury ft4ilmail Com
pany are pushing lorward their work with great
vigor. The track will be completed to Shamokin
in another week.
—A child of Mr. Henry Miller, of Lancaster, Pa ,
died suddenly on the 2d instant While eating a
ground.nut, e portion lodged in its wind pipe by
which it was choked to death '
—A few days since, one hundred head of two.
year old MOW were bold in Marton county. Ky
at 3150 per head—total, $15 ; 000
—The ostensive cotton-am famory of Carver &
Washbun in Bridgewater 4 Mass., was destroyed by
fire on Friday morning.
—L Harper, Esq., has disposed of his interest in
the Pittsburgh Morning Post, to George F Gil
more Eq.
—The corner stone of Christ Church, (Methodist
Episcopal) was laid at Pittsburg, on Tuesday. Cost
of the building, $20,000
—Mrs. Lydia lane Pierson, the authoress, has
removed from Liberty, Tiro Co., Pa., to Adrian,
Michigan.
-41irdiord Sprinp lots about one hundred vial
yyea,lol9p, cOrlparly for go
. parsy in the season.
—A Female Conn, is being erected in Pittsburg,
Cost-114,000.
7
Vretbfort i t-w •
free Soil, F. ee Speech, Free Men
, • irreedinsi for eve rerrlitet*.
£.III3IOOORICHADITOR.
Towanda, Saturday, July 23, 1853.
Terms eft The . Revere er.
$* Iso per annum—it - paid w..lts the year 30 cell:, wnl
.e deducted-6ot cash paid otiosity in odvanee ell 00 will be
teducted. No paper sent over two years. uulep• paid ;or.
A OVIRTIARMInti. per rapture of ;en line.. 50 rents for the
Arm and la, cent, for earls aubatittaten. insertion.
fE r Office in the '• rition Mork." north 'ink 01 the 1.“14:c
4oeare,:next door to the Hradford Hotel. Knteaucr bauween
Mess a. Adams' aunt gltvell'r law offices.
Democratic State Nominations.
I=l
THOMAS H. FORSYTH, of PHILA. CO
A OnITOIII URN 1611 AL.
EPLIRAIM BANKS, OF MIFFLIN, CO
FOR scavrrom ot*saac.
J. PORTER BRA WLEY, OF CRAWFORD CO
Mooting of the Standing Committee.
at e The Demarralic Standing Com
mittee for Bradford C.unty will
meet at the Ward House, in this
borough. on Thursday. August 11, 1853. at 2 o'clock
P. M. The attendance of the members is earnestly
requested. The following named persons compose
said committee—E. 0. thiodrieh. F. Cryan, W. H.
Overton. Eug'ne Keeler, H. C. Fos. W. 8. Guthrie,
Joon M'Mahon, Elmore Horton, C. F. Nichols.
E. O. 000bEICH, Chairman.
July 21,1853.
The National Administration.
Politic:llly, the nomination and election of FRANK
LIN Ptcace to the highest office in the gill of the
millions of treemen of this R&public. will bec•ime
historical—will form an era to which will be deco
tea more attention than almost any similar recur•
rence since the lormation of the government. For
never before had there been such necessity for wise
counsels and for prudent action to ewe to the
Democratic party triumph, as at the tiWwhen the
Baltimore Convention assembled to nominate a
candidate for the Democracy. That party, torn in
to fragments, was virtually anti n ply thasolved—yet
it needed but wisdom, forethought and conciliation
to consolidate those fragments, and unite in one
powerful phalanx, the Republican: , of the country
The schemes of politicians having failed, the
Convention, will; a wisLom for which they deserve
no credit. since it was unpremeditated. refused to
nominate the party hacks who trimmed their sails
to every breeze which they imagined would waft
them on their way to the Whiie House, and be
stowed that nomination upon a man who was on.
committed to any of the cliques two which the Di ,
mocracy was divided—a man of the people, and
from the ranks of the people—rebuking in the se.
cereal manner possible, the pretensions of the ex
pedants who for years had laid their manhood on
the shrine of their ambition
With this act of the Convention, a brighter day
dawned upon the Democratic party. Around its
standard, emblazon( d with the doctrines of pure
Democrecy, as exempitfied by the political history
of FRANKLIN Pl6itCl6, very Democrat could gather,
without compromising one lota ol his cherished
principles and with perfect self-respect There wet.
nothing in the antecedents ol our candidate a I
ate.'
need repulse a single. democrat fie was a Re
publican in its broadest, most simple sense In
vain were plans laid by this clique and that clique
to inveigle him into pledges which would secure
to them the control of his actions—in vain were the
kind and perfectly disinterested hints and t-ugges
lions as to his course—the strong good sense, and
judgment which characterize the man, guided him
safely and honorably thrcugh such minor tempts
lions, and brought. him to the end of the contest, as
he entered it, the Feople's candidate
Under such auspices was brought abou. the (la
temization and affiliation of the Democracy Un
the folds of the Democratic banner, shieLled by the
broad £gis ol our time•honored princtples, guided
by the ancient landmarks, which under the lead of
Jefferson, Jackson and Van Buren, had achieved
for the Democracy 63 much renown, once more the
par y marched onward rn solid phalanx to a brilliant
victory. Much of this was doe 43 the man, to whom
no Obnoxious antecedents attached, but more to his
determination to u.e his best endeavors to preserve
that party intact, and guard it with the utmost
wa•chtulness from the breakers upon which it had
almost been wrecked.
The dangers which have beset the Democratic
party, belong to the - past. Happily, they a:e r ver
ted, and may be avoided, if patriotism and liberali
ty control its counsels and guide its action. It is
not our purpose to unbury the embers of past fires,
to disturb the repose of, we trust, forgotten animosi
ties. Suffice it to say, that all the dangers with
which the democratic party have been threatened—
dangers so serious as at one time to threaten its
dissolution—proceeded Irom the unjust, uitchristian,
anti democratic attempt to nationalize slavery—to
make the Democracy responsible for its perpetua
tion and propagation—and a proscriptive and de
nunciatory course towards those who refused to aid
in the outrageous and unjust attempt. The passage
of the so called compromise measnres. settle! for a
time, the agitation of the question. The country,
wearied by the prolonged discussion, has finally
acquiesced in that settlement, not but that some of
the details are obnoxious, bat regarding almost any
settlement as desirable May this repose ever
continue; and continue it will, anti' Slavery shall
again rear its dark standard, and setting up its ex
orbitant demands, seek from the Freemen of the
lioith new victims fur the Moloch Then we trust,
the banners of reedom w ill again wave as brightly
and its supporters be animaiediby the same
enthusi
asm and determination which have characterized
the past.
The success of the Democracy in the election of
Fusionist Pizazz, to the Presidency, was fraught
with new dangers to the piece and quietude of the
patty. No political organization ever yet existed,
or can exist witnout enbeacing within its mercenary
and unprincipled followers—men who look' upon
its organization as' calculated for no higher purpose
than the means occontrolling and distributing of.
rice. Such men, ate embroiled in the` Democratic
party. Sorrowful!), we say it, that wefear their
name is legion To such our party is only Taloa•
won proportion Sirfroputributes tw:their ptwsonal
aggtantiOemsii , The ire Aow the fiercer, be
citttite 4 - their Ast, ant . (ilartt,tiyous:r'for the favors
which - #e at 41 7 # beittoWit oiffie Adiiiihistration, A
mire•leah antpiungitryllordetnever beset an Ad
mileistiati;'.n-i=clamorine at the &int of every de.
partment, with a pertinacity before unheard of,
cwitmeerityrnenw4o claim rewards for their
tremendous services, from foreign missions down to
SRA : clerkships, accordingly as they estimate then
own merits or their chances. Disappointment (and
there are many who must be disappointetp brings
forth l hi:its/14 ruge,? ant!' the Athninistra ion has at
least one bitter and vindictive reviler.
I
DisPentritigirtitttilligtrisibe bane of our politics.
Its arvicipation seta at naught the wishes of the
people, perverts the purposes of our party organiz
ation, lessens its dignity and usefulness, and finally
brings upon it most of the tiouble and disasters
which it experiences.' Already the symptoms are
visible, for those who in vain have purseoed the
lignis Abuts, who were-ready to swear by Nance
on the 4th of March, but now think he is nu great
shakes !Unused, and his Cabinet mighty small po
tatoes.
Another class exists, who are very officious in
managing the machinery of politics, and who have
already given evidences of hostility to the Admin
istration. We allude to, the Thieves And in that
appropriate arid generaliterm, we embrace all those
who have designs of any character or magnitude
upon the Treasury. TO the depredations of these
gentlemen, Gen Pixece is decidedly antagonistic.
Hence the Galphins, the steam boat speculators,
who are looking lor special grants, and fat
contracts, in fact all who aim to dep:ete our some
whet dropsical Treasury, are beginning to array
themselves - against him, drawn together by a com
mon sympathy, aggregated for purposes of plunder
He may expect from those - dishonest and reckless
rogues a fierce and vindictive warfare, but we have
every confidence in his firmness and integrity.—
Towards such a public servent as Gen. Pierce has
proved .imselt to be, the people are instinctively
drawn by admiration of these sterling qualities
which so become a Chief Magisitorate, and which
are an earnest that the public interests will be car
fully guarded. The animosity of Oe disappointed
office•seeker, and the belled speculator, will be
directed in vain to his overthrow, so long as the
people retain their confidence in his integrity.
THa C11,41'41. PALACE —The event of the month
has been the opening of the Crystal Palace on
Thursday of last week. The President was accom
panied from Washington by' Mr Guthrie, Secre
tary of the Treasury, Gen. Davis, Secretary of War,
Mr. Cushing, Attorney General. and hie Private Se
cretary, Sidney Webster, Esq. At Sa
Wilmington, Philadelphia, Newark and other
points he was received with the usual ceremonies
of speeches, processions and civic and and military
display. At New York the reception was gorgeous
and imposing, after the publio ceremonies at the
Crystal Palace the Palace Association gave a splen
did bat.quet at the Metropolitan Hotel to 600 invit
ed guests, including the President and suitel, the
distinguished foreigners present in New York; &c
the President left New York on his return to
Washington on Saturday.
The ceremonies of the inauguration of the New
York Crystal Palace, though unattended with the
" pomp and circumstance," which witnessed the
opening of its London predecessor, will be re•
marked with interest, as more accordant with our
imstoutions and the habits of our people. The.evela
under consideration c innot fail to be highly bene
ficial in a national point of view, in the impulse al
will ;rive by esn'iting a noble and intelligent rival
!), to commerce, manufacturers and various arts of
!tie and by bringing together m.d introducing to
acquaintanceship the various great interests It
will also have its influences in 'a far wider sphere,
the brotherhood of nottwo, in hastening the day
r• when the nations shall team war no more."
COL BENTON ' f HVGTOILY .—Upon our out side will
be tumid a chapter lrom the forthcoming " Thirty
Years in the Senate," by Col. Bmixos. Judging
from this extract, this history will surpass in gen
eral interest any thing which has ever been writ•
ten of the history of this court fry. No man could
be selected more competent to fulfil the task Cul .
B. has imposed upon h,insell, to depict the events
which have occurred during the time he has been
so prominent an actor in the politics of the country.
For this chapter we are indebted to the Evening
Post, v, hich paper will publish weekly an extract
from the work, until its appearance, which will
probably be a:'out the beginbang of next year. The
publishers ot the work, which will tie4n two royal
octavo volumes, are'the M 3111115 Appleton's of New
York.
SAD Cstsmt - or—We learn t rom the Trojan, that
as two young men, in Springfield, on Sunday, the
10th inst., one by the name of Dennis Bally, son of
Oliver Bally, and the other, whose christian name
we have not learnt, bat who lea son of Nicholas
Voorhis, were strolling about the neighborhood, in
which they lived, with a gun, they stopped into a
house, and, on leaving the house, in rather glee
some mood, young Bally, being ahead turned
around as his companion who had the gun, corn
in out of the door, when the cock, Batched against
the casing of the door, drew it back, and the gun
went off !discharging the load, which was shot, into
young Baileys shoulder, dislocating it, and passing
up forward and above the ear, lacerating the scalp
and laying bare and abrading the skull, in its
COME,
In another column will be found the views
of • Terpsichore," upon the subject of Dancing
Of course the sentiments therein contained one of
those of the author, who under our favorite motto
of 4 , Free Speech" is entitled to be heard.
(1;) The Democratic State Convention meets at
Harripburg, on Thursday Imo, for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for Supreme Judge. The
nomination is certain to fall upon Hon. Joey C.
Knox.
RANI or ELMIRA —An institution to be called
the Bank of Elmira, is soor to go into operation in
that village, with a capital of $200,000. It is to be
located in Ely's new Brick building now erecting
on the cornet of Baldwin and Cam) streets.
mi. While a pang or twelve ladies were bath
ing at Newport, the other day, the horse ran away
with the wagon _containing all their clothes. How
they reached home may be better imagined the.
'described. The horse took it as a few business
trinsaction is but the ladies took it as a naked outrage.
(For the Stadion! llisponet.)
Dancing.
Ma EDMIII:—The practice of dancing, is, by
some over pious persons, under the assumed veil'
of chord sanctity, so sternly rebuked, that.'many
people take it for granted that they are_sestained.
in their assumption by Biblical authority. Having
thoroughly examined she scriptures on that point, I
feel warranted m asserting that dancing us not con
demned, nor even disapproved of any where in the
old or new Testament ; although frequently alluded
to in boils. Front among the numerous allusions
in the Bible and Testament to this subject, I will
make two or three quotations, which :Accord with
my Baser:ion.
la the book ol Ecclesiastics (chap 3, v. 4,)it is
said " there is a time for mourning And a time for
dancing "
In the book ofieremiah, (chap. 31,) the Prophet,
in speaking of the restoration of Israel, says, (v 4)
"U virgin of Israel : thou shalt again be adorned
with thy tabrets, and shalt go f n , fh in the dances ol
them that make merry." Again, (ver 13,1 " Then
the virgin rejoice in the dunce, both young men and
old together: for I will turn their mourning into
joy. and will comfort them, and make them rejoice
from their sorrow."
In the Gospel according to St. Luke, (chap 15,)
the subject of dancing forms an incident in that ad•
Filtrable and touching parable of the Prodigal son,
spoken by no less a personage than our Savior
himself. With due deference to the opinions of
others, I cannot but regard dancing as simply an
Innocent amusement; as harmless, in itself, as
these innocent plays resorted to at private parties :
which, I believe, no pastor or clergyman of any
denomination condemns; but in which some.ol the
most distinguished of them think it no harm to par
ticipate. And why should they, when David, the
devoted servant of the Lord, thought it not unbe
coming in a Sing to dance on a public occasion, to
music played by himself on the Tinibrel.
The only difference, 1 can conceive, between
innocent plays and dancing. is that dancing is per
formed by geometrical movements, accompanied
by music: whereas, the movements in plays are
leas regular, less graceful, less dignified, and with
out music; and some of them, I might add, are ra
ther more in the romping order, admitting of fa.
miliarities bordering on rudeness of questionable
propriety.
The . dancing spoken of in the scriptures, was al
so accompanied by music; so that it " the Devil
lives in the Fiddle box," as some modern weak•
minded creatures of supers.: ion think he does, his
Satanic majesty must have inhabited the timbre!
and other instruments also, which accompanied the
dancing of the ancients
I hold that, if it is sinful to move geometrically
to the sound ol music, then every soldier commits
a sin in going through his military evolutions to the
sound of the bugle or drum and fife : and so does
every society, moral or religious, uho, on public
occasions, marches to the sound ol music: and so
does every leader ol an orchestra io church who,
by the motion of his hand or foot, beats Mae for
the choir.
The aniiqnity and u iversality of this custom of
dancing among the nations of the earth, horn the
rudest savage to the most civilized demonstrate it
to be a natural recreation. In this country it has
suffered in reputation by being associated u itti
practices of an immoral character I remember
when card playing and drinking to excess were
concomitants of dancing at public Balls: bu' in e
moral reforms of late years, their has been a ; pun
lying sanctiry thrown around social ~agues of all
kinds that imperionslk forbids the presence eitliei
of those, or any other immoral practices: and un•
der the present elevated atandard of moss's, th. y
are now carried on with so much propriety il ia '
nothing, offensive to the eye of modesty, or to the
ear of morality or piety, dare obtrude asel:
The prejudice against dancing. no doubt, and
very justly too, was excited by those immoral ac
companiments at public balls: but as these evil
concomitants have ceased to exist, the tramm lot
fostering the prejudice has ceased also And, as it
is as natural for the exuberant spirits of you h to
congregate and have an outlet, as for water to seek
its level, or the pent - up fieshet to burst its bounda.
ries, would it not be better for the cause of morals
ty to keep this harmless channel open fur them,
and prevent their pent up spirits from forcing open
new and dangerous channels ? I would say let
those who rightfully wear the garb of piety, chasten
and sanctify this universal recreation, and by their
sacred presence at least at private parties, keep it
within the pale of moral propriety and religious
compatibility, and thus remove from the buoyant
young heart, one& the greatest barriers to the holy
cause of christianity. This rigid and unnatural re•
straint, arbitrarily imposed upon the buoyancy tif
youth without scriptural authority, I fear, hascaus
ed many a well-disposed young person o look up
on the discipline of the church as upon the incar
ceration of lettered nature within the sombre.walls
or a mental dungeon; and to dread its fastidious
portals aw,they would the fabled boat of Chatont,
and hence may have fatally eschewed the only
safe road to unalloyed happiness here and irete
alter. TERPSICHOR 6.
Rosionas or Immerise FRAUDS I.—The Pottsville
Emporium of the 7th inst., says, that rumors are
rite among us of most gigantic frauds having been
practised for a series of years upon the P .& R. rail
road company, by a combination of certain exten
sive and hitherto respectable coal operators along
the line of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven
railroad, and an officer on that road, amounting in
the aggregate, it is said, to a yuarler of a million of
dollars! A thorough investigation, we understand
is now being made by the two companies, with the
assistance of Mr. William Newell, collector on the
latter roai, near Schuylkill Haven, which, its is
thought, will shortly lay bare the whole of this ne
farious affair. Most extraordinary and startling
suggestions are made in cdnnexion with these
frauds, which. should they be realized, will astound
the whole country, and the troth of them certainly
cannot much Icngar be suppressed.
CATAWISIA RAH-Roan —By the following, copied
from' the Milionian of the 3d inst., it would seem
that the point of connection of the Catawissa and
Sumbury and Etie railroads has been definitely
decided upon
We are unable to announce, this week that the
Catawissa railroad is to conn.ct with the Sumbury
and Erie railroad at Milton, and that the road will
be placed under contract during the summer. Sat.
isfactory arangements have been entered into be
tween the two companies, so that the cars from
Catawissa road will not be delayed ''.on the Sunbury
and Erie road, but will at all times be passed over
the road without interruption.
...
- Itryn-A tearful accident occurred yesioda'
Niagara Falls. Three men, belo„„, a to i
which came down the river on ' `,Vi. i l d . y l ko
/en i weep in a small boat %both ;t:
m hilt 1
came loonened horn her ll.Onliogn, 01 p„,„ 7 . :
the en were ne,l over 'he F. 435 01 ~.,'
they were insiandy killed the whet “„:
the Rapids for.several hoots and all ,ti,,: . ; . a
relied prove 3 abocive Lite ii; the ah 5,,,,,
1,5 , hi , h o ld upon a rock, which !red hr
An ., 4
lamed him, and was dashed over ihe Ak.
Fall The,Calanirophe elided the 111rn,,,, rt it
nation in thn vicinity. Ii is seldom th at an ' -
dent involving a 10.6 0114 so setiOUS a. :t , lee `
occurred at the Falls, and ihe ev ent 1 a
a .
I I IS io
fe are d, i s attributed in part to carete"„ ew , Var. .
io the Fall this summer canno t be too t .„, •
venturing into insecure places —N y Tont 7s , i,
A CON MD3IIA TE Yahoo..? —Ttie Cironp
quest into the deaths caused by the fire
fin.'
any
r r
tary to Alms:real. during the OW ~
Zzirti
,:t•
turaeila verdict, 111 which they dociatrn , n ,
any reprofich upon the military, bit ter ;.ert
that in the next riot where their per,,,,;
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needed, that the interval between 'he
and the diveharge of guns, shall be 7 , ..i 0n ,, ,yv tv
Ma)low all persons exposed to the fire i0 .3 2 : 1 !
ly Gut of teach " ThiA Is very corma etwe
..r t•
mane, on th e part of ihe Inquest, but the 74.
are riot to fire till every body gets wkl y
mo t?
way, would ir nor, for
bet economical rea,,o;•-r;it
ter to s ave th e gunpowder by rioi c
DIKD WHILE Da cot( A But --NIA.
shields, who resided on Liberty ,tr,,e. La
her room on the evening of July 4 h. I n
a hall, to be given at l'oron Hdil o n Ri lrhra
ni";
Wh en t h e gentle man came whir, was lri
her Fhe had no came down rain
called her, but she did 110 . romp r h h „ :h '
hour passed in waning dir her A i
mother weni m the (loth arid rapp e d . b oi
was returned, and she hail locked (t
ihen became alarmed and ie
door Tin
Laura was Mum! lying npr,,, 4
dressed for the ball. arid ilead ' She and re ,,, r
be in perfect health in the ete , rr :: a as;
ea s he
buried in the dress they founJ her H. on
--Cin.
1 - 1011II;P t.F. RAC I'm —The W3trd.',
the 6lt , e'rrirarnA an Pri , o•.• r ,
event wii,ch robk nldee IPW dii%.
AVatino ui Viln r•ri t
nev v quarrerieri wr'h - •
wh re bo ii were d V , I M°S
the toe .M(1'1 Oiled id•ilter ohe rb.,
ord man Jon 10 lake 3
criun'rr a• he (1,1 tn• iAti In Lace
The father dieri, arid , he sun la en nu ca. •
MEI.,INCIVILY Art WEST — lhls villa _r A par%
vevP , lay. on a v,
curstort nn Nloun , Zero atytu. tire tr.,,,
wh i i. going up the till! , t,e re“
sat Mrs Cur.'s nfk MI
toy, turned over, and the , ty,
riously Injured by he 14U It.
64,,timee wa• called in
Nits CO3 - rk.catinn , rm
em L,
nor dangerous Eimn,
COOL CntraAGE —A' AN ur, \ I a, tln
a team of
horses ran a AA ,
lit-le child was lel, al one .1
danger. rit an 11,•4::,
on lile rule Walk. ,111 4 n 'e A k r ,
i:'e wagon cauglc tt'r, tr
wagon jerked he.rril..l:l. , b
ly clasped ale child it her arm. a• •
vorable
Injury in herself or
woman deserve:, a
A N OLD SOLD! R —ll , \\.o H.. r.l Pun
CO, Pa, (to N' ill tl-4% 1 , 14 a 1... f • •i, i ,;,e G ,
from he litmie 1. , WA. , •
ev.2to miles t.% A.r. A
revolutuonatv ,•
able Hist:owe 1.1 r r,.
Viletari
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Jud l! r. t.l ihr :•.1,.1,11••••
eser) t.niy .r..—•r•.• a fp , d: , :(11 ,0 ".
11 , 9 now main,' NY 1., 0 ,• :1
•cre m I th. rrn W 14 .Grr.
man ever re( etvrJ
CLot , C —(1:, Si OrLial la Nl'
place We, !e., •1.1 , .1 ,3 %.iw •','•1 , 1
a rale a' a tire tar
and Me •.,.22re.4a•e ri;; h af ail ft , . story him r
°Nitre wa, but ri2ll , 510,12 measure ThJ
we con& , l,lel a teat to ma,‘,(nara.top Ib3 , Tr''
etinahe.l even atn,,,,2 me"t
men and tte don't be ,eve •rix.
ecrefled in !hi! cour",
SCROFI 1.1
C—, says Dr. Tyler. of delicate oast:two.
when nine', en year< of ace. Wil• abirtrv.ti
ertug.h, and her neck wa , :hirklY 5 added alklk.e
alous tumors: Under :he influence of a hew
a decoction of Rool, Rose, qie recovered heti:
and has not been at teted with any such N!cr-tl
since. The above •• taken from a wort i'co•te
by D. A. Tyler, M It of New Hr•en. ft .2
and proves the wonderful efficacy of the placltt
Rove, as a c•re r Scrofula.
MICERs' EXTR NCI of Rock ult
Dr. H. C. PORTER. T, wanda. Pa..cf whom po
phials may be had ",canna.
MARRIED,
la Franklin, ink the 4th. I tzs3, by .S•tiattk
EN.. Mr. I.r.mt EL Ro( kirLtd. ot Fran: n.tOft
HARIULT Hors. same p'ace-
DIED,
to Burlington. on the 261 h , stay. tL•
Scour vg. in the 37th year of her ce
INIP^' THE Nor'h Branch Aii-ric woo
rersalists will ,cold tta annu, cellos
Sheshegoin c n Wed ne•day and Thur‘dir -111s
17th and 181 h Pub , c sersiees "' h
usual hours. Rev J. M. Ac•ris and 0ue7.0
speakers wiil be in attendance.
NEW ARRANGEMENT!
HARPY PHINNEY, Jr ,havin:ro thr.ed
fr ,
J. Cash of G. M. Bowman. hi' ett"r'i 5 . 6
Merebandete at eprice tar below the aeui,oV.
New York, (and 15 per cent. lower ihazir
chant in Towanda has or ran burl P"N" 4 :,
sell for case, more Goods Inc O ne dellai. ,se
man will sell for nine '
large, embracing all articles u‘ually
Store, irtz—Dry Guodc, Grocci ir,. H.L. , !sa' n
r is
and Shoes, Leather, Nails. Sa,h,
and Bonnets. All of which will be
and no mistake. At the Brick; Store, it' ll
Main and Bridge streets.
Towanda. July IS, 1i1513.
F LOUR by the barrel and Sark. s tirri 'Y e
PHIN ‘6I.
at
DR.e P D APPLES, a large quantiir HO , lor °le ct
NEri
fit
Towanda and Burlington Plank g
THE Subscribers to the Capital t!iteet
Company, are hereby notified that to
instalment of Pl
per cent will be due and i t , o
to the Treasurer on the sth day L ,f Aegis'
the fourth instalment of eight per cent. at
if August next.
'EY order of the B BE oard,
NJ. S. RUSSEL!, Sec
July 19, 1853
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