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tlepublican 4Eompiter.
OETTYSBITICG, PA.
N.IIV
- 1L We leturu our thanks to How Wu. ti.
KL11.7% for a valuable and beautiful work, en
iitlecl “The C nstitution." Much of the polit
jol hkto_
- of . tie 17...S!utee is contained in it.
lt, is - a - d - hook _for:reference.-
Ever erein\Cemeteu.
The Opening Ceremonies and Sale of
Lots oft now Cemetery will take place To-
Unit on ke Grounds:—the Opening ex
. ercisies to be at 10, and:the Sale at 1
h he eitizens_JaLbotb town rknd
~,country will. vince their interest in this great
_ public enterp ise, by a general 'attendance and
:::purehase of lots. The exercises - will doubtless
be.interesting, several gentlemen having been
~ invited to deliver addresses, while the music i
. will add in the attraction. • Our —people have ;
entered into it with. a spirit and zeal which en
:Sure -s giatifying success.. A wore appropri.!
ate location cannot be found in this broad Coin-
• znOnwealth. ,The grounds have been bcauti
- - fully laidont,—trees of almost every variety
will, be placed along the avenues during the
~fallorinter and spring,—and ,the spot will be
otherwise beautified and embellished . to the
-- full extent of the resourcio of the company.—
. in's few years Even Green Cemetery will be
MoSt
. attractive spot in this region. • r z",
The Grounds are now open to the putlie;
and the avenues in condition to admit, vehicles.
The- 'Managers would therpinre he pl e d • •
, the citizens would visit the cemetery in vehi
des as well won foot. The driis around the
atiriage ways, with the tine scenery; will. atn
jlyrepaYa-visit.--l'here-is-an-abilndant, sup;
ply of lota admirably adapted to- the a pin opti-
EMMiMMINE=EM ME:MM
s esini e is
our citizens, from town anti country, should
examine the grounds at once.
"'W;re would propound to every family in
thiisection of the country, the Simple question,
"Bate :yau' a newspaper ?"' The long winter
evenings arc . now upon us, and it would be
well for every person _to piveide - such means as
way be at their command to - pass them pleas.
antly, as well as profitably to themselves bud
those around them. , There is nothing, per
-?yaps; can he suggested, which contributes so
,much to the pleasure and happiness of a faun
-Iy, {particularly where. theta. arc young chil
dren,) at this-season of the year, us the week
-2 ry , visits otagood family newspaper, or - which,
at the same time, is productive of more real
,aitbstintial good. ' Children are fond of
news
papers,, fur the simple reason that the articles
generally atom and -of•such a diversity of
character as to attract their attention, interest
-their minds, and prepare them as they-grow
- older fur more substantial reading. The Re
;pu4lic:tiet ,Curupikr, is recotutnended as tieing
just ,the kind of a newspaper generally wanted.
7 _I::PICNNSYLVANtit ELEATTION.—The complete
- official returns of the recent election in this
State: for Governor, Canal conitui,lsioneri 811-
- preine Judge,' and the vote on Prohibition, ex
the, following majors : For Governor,
Air. Pollock has 37,007 tiMority. 'For Canal
' • Commissioner, Mott's majority is 100,743. For
SnpremaJudge; Black's majority oVer.Baird is
46,414.' Majority against Prohibition, 5,108.
The whole' vote polled for Governor is 372.022
—6,170 more than the .vote for Governor iu
1851, and 15,262 less than the vote fur Presi
dent in 1852. ' • •
MEETING (W CONGRESS.—The last session of
the thirty-third , Congregs commences on the first
Monday of December, four weeks from to-day.
and closes on the night of the third of Jlarclt
folloWing. , As the'se'ssion will be a short one,
with considerable business to be trans:lewd, it
Jo
is be presumed there will be less waste of
ttunet \
an during the last session, in the de
livery of “buncombe" speeches. .
n"Tlie Superintendent of Common Schools
of this County, DAVID WILLS, Esq.. has
ted the Teachers and—all others interested in
the 'cause of Education, throughout the county,
to meet in Convention in this place, on Satur
day nest, the 11th inst. Hon. T. II Tit-nnowzs,
'of Lancaster;and other gentlemen, are e,spect
-ed.to address the Convention. 'lt is also pro
posed to organize a Teach ers ' sso ei tion .
`The' movement commends itself to public
attention. and the meeting no doubt be a
•large one.
r.r.7George H. Hart, Esq., of Philadelphia,
is talked of by many whips as a candidate lui
State Treasurer.
T7The Harrisburg Union understands that
flon.lames Cooper will be a randidlte for re
election to the U. S. Senate. Hon. Daniel 31.
Sulyser is 'also proposed for that position.
13:71jell. Wg. AYRES, of Ilarri,l,lll.g.
an
notmces-himself'as the - A-mefir(an ca:ltli.l ie fur
T. S. Senator from Penns vlviini 3.
ca'We see it stateii ik that the cost to the
Baltimore and SusqueliMna Railroad coin pa i y ,
for thecollisiou near Rider's Grove, on the 4t h
of July, is - about, !caring one_ to ore
claiunCut to acute with, who demands SS , ()VO
for the injuries he sastanied.
,destructive tire occur' ed at Cleve! mat
on S.stUrtlay vie'.:, which troyed three
"squares of buildings, including seve]al Large
grocery and liquor Nt.treS, Ilfare it conlil he ar
rested. Ite ouitinen eediin Liao sta bl e ew
En g l au d R a ta The las 4; is very Ilk:airy.
tr7Connterfeit Quarter vilich al
,
most defy detection. are to circulation in Nv.w
York. They are Rttid_to .made from a
_
genuine Nes. Orlean: Mint die.. .gtelen some
- vain* sins*, and bear the -4)" tad:Tile taloms
mot' pie Owls:
It being settled that. the Whigs and their'
finowNothingiallies will have a majority it
tlie next Legislature .on joint ballot, a violent
discussion haS alreadi - atiseiftorto who shall
have the honor of represen'tia ,, the State in the
Senate of the L. S., for six years from the 4th
of March next, in Place of the lion. James Coo
per, whose'term of office expires, at that time.
Ex-Gov. Johnston appears to have the run at
the present time, hut_ in the dis'aace may
. he
seen looming up several smaller .fry, among
whom are Gen. William Lorimer, of Pittsburg,
Alexander E. Brown, E:q., of Easton, lion.
Robert - T. Conrad, of Philadelphia, Thaddeus
Stevens, of Lancaster. David IVilibot, of Brad
ford. Iletir , S.Trans, of-Chester,4e., &;e. lhe.
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-family fight is already ['teeming, quite interest
ing to the Democrats, who are corning along
in the second train and enjoying the fun amaz
ingly. how the farce will terminate nobody
cares.
The Simon Pore Know-Nothing candidate,
Conrad of Ph lied e I phia—lle_lias_lteot
' informally selected, __but still most strenuous
efforts - are making by the Abolition portion of
i the order .to substitute Mr. Wilmot - in his stead.
The latter gentleman was promised This post
by the Whigs on condition that he would aid
in the election of Pollock, , and also keep the
North steady for the fusion candidate in 1856.
This was the bait which led Mr. Wilmot to
pursue the course he has. But now the fight
is over, the spoils are to be divided, -and hence
the difficulty which looms up in the distance.
The orighild Know-Nothings are for Conrad.
The eleventh hour Abolition converts are for
Wilmot, while the Whigs are endeavoring by
at kinds of tricks to mask their real weakness
from their allies. This is the present condi
tion of the Senatorial fight in . t his State.-
te-Detnocrats are , not in the ring, and, can
well afford to lay back and ..'wait for the wa
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position. If thccountry is ruined, we hope our
opponents will have more magnanimity than to
charge its' destruction upon our friends. Gov._
Bigler leaves the country prosiferous a ndliappy,
the state credit unimpaired, the interest puiip-
wally paid, a good currency. labor commands
a.big,h reward, the farmer obtains a high•price
for his produce, andiand is . going up. Demo
crats, make a note of things as they now stand,
and see how much our condition is imp - roved'
by Whig and Know-Nothing tiovernment.
nn'lle tone of the Democratic journals of
this state, since the late election, is any thing
but desponding. As for ourselves, we never,
aTter any of the many political reverses we
have undergone, felt .so little like despairing as
we do now. In this county, where so many of
the democratic nominees have been stricken
down, we have established the fact, that it is
peSsible for the democratic party to defeat a
whig,reven though heitave the entire support
of the Know-Nothings—in the state, the addi
tional fact is established, that the union of
whigs, know-nothings, abolitionists and tem
perance men must be merEcr, , to defeat the de
mocracy. , Not one of-the many screws of the
incongruous opposition machinery paust be
loose—not one of the thOusand wheels of the
allies must be out of place, or '!down goes their
building." Wherever the whigs or know
nothins treempted to stand alone, away they
wenl! Is it likely. Democrats, that a cordial
understading can long be maintained among
those whose only common feeling in the late
contest was hostility to the Democratic party I
One hundred and sixty-seven thousand Dem
ocrats, united in piinciple. may well look for;
ward, hopefully, 'cheerfully, confidently—the
cornhinatir'in against them, though temporarily
successful, has not in it the elements of per
manent triumph. To the allies. or confeder
ates; the skies do not even now wear su bright_
an aspect aatheydid a brief fortnight ago•- al
ready a cloud -larger than a man's Irand,".ap•
pears athwart its brightness. The saute causes
which so soon dimmed the lustre of the mon
grel triumph in Philadelphia, and cut down
the anti democratic .str(rigtli in that city so
many thousand in a few moiiths, arc beginn;ng
to operate throughout the staie. Steady, then,
Democrats ! let us wait. with the never des
patting spirit of which our glorious cause is
worthy, tliv,next conllict - witlt such of the frog
menu: of the now victorious allies as Cittl
be rallied—shoulder to Amino. let us; coat out
su'lnneh of their grand wring as can be made
to colrere during the first yea!' of t; or. Pollock's
adininitration. When again, we meet 'them,
the work will already lia4 bvenhiflf done to
otir hands—easily. by one united of the
Democracy, will PENNSYLVANIA BE RE
DEEMED ! —York Gazelle.
Nothingisni has the same object in
view the country -
,over. r Some three weeks
since the Know Nothings of New York nomi
nated Mr. P. Uhlman for Governor, and they
took the field for him. But. -in the course of
human events." it became.apparent that Clark ,
the 11 - hig candidate, in order to be elected,
must have the Know Nothing vote, and ano
ther convention has therefore been held by the
Know Nothings, which has gone for the Whig
Candidate. Uhlman will not withdraw:having
been first nominated, but there is no telling
how twitters may be worked by the thin.- the
election day arrives. The Whig candidate hits
received the nominations of some kilt' doers
is tem - - too numinous to mention." Fzsximi
seems to he the order of the day with all the
opponents of the Democracy.
The Pacific has arrived—pc ws not important.
The anes expected to open their tire on.Sebas_
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topol on the 9th of OctoUr. They had 90.1TU0
men in the flold and expeCted reincorcements.
The Rassians had 60.000 and expected 30,000
more. The probability is that Se'Jasiopol has
fatten ere this. .
LATER.—TiIe Arabia arrived at New York op
Friday. The bombardment of Scta.stopol com
mencedon the .14th, with '2OO pieces of he11y,..Z.;
artillery, mid tic city was not-expected - to hold
out wore titan three or four d:tys. - A ru pt. ti t c
looked fur tictvi, et-a Au-ttria and Pruslo.L.
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Lread.ktuatt ice; or larxely advet.siced.
United States-Semtbr.
Foreign.
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An - Expressive. but Silent Truth. . f.Difeat Momentary —Principle! _ Eternal. ;Fmk of the Brig Adele, of Philad4ohia—
,The Washington Union of Oct. 27th says: ' The principles which - lie at the basis of the i Ell, , ht Gives Lost. ,
- :. - :,.. , Actiii niontent, - When the combined ?anat. 'Detnbdratio faith, are not changed by the results 4 - ,.......„ 1 5j -)Y YORK. Oct. 128.----,Ati Aspinwall letter
icismsof the day, ape rating undtr the auspices of an election. They are fotinded in human na,-
says that the brig Alvaro,- on` her passage fromof a,secret organization. are -conducting - a sue- - ,ture, in the desire of man for happiness, in the Nevi Y ork to that port, saved George Touro,
cessfu/ crusade alike against die - rights - of - the- innate ideas of individual independence. in dis- at , Italian , belonging to Philadelphia, from the
' States and the civil and 'religious rights of indi- trust of class legislation and birth-prerogative, .Wreck of the brig Adele, which left Philadel
%lanais. th e s ilence ,f the - folsig. leaders is full ofin confidence in' the popular capacity and phia on the-22d of August for St. Kitts. having
', m aul meaning. 'Where now is General Scott, _ intelligence. and in the charter of our country, on board nine persons, all of whom, we lost
who, in 1852,. flattered the so-called "foreign which was framed in wisdom for "the common except the above mentioned person. Five were
voters," exhausting his vocabulary of compli- - defence and general welfare" of the people. drowned- during the hurricane, which wrecked
merits to the - "rich Irish brogue" and the "sweet Such principles veer not with the gusty pasSio i ns , the vessel , and, Captain Lewis and the cook,
German accent?" These citizens are_ now in of the hour. They are not dependent for their with. o therS, clung to the wreck. and finally
peril ; they want friends ; th e y are assailed andpermanency on mobility , which reels tinder the perished of tldrst. The second mate was, by
need defenders. In this, the hour of their ex- impulses of error. - They live in the light. accident. killed. Capt. Lewis has a wife and
tremity, however,-the hero of Lundy's Lane is They are eternal. Faith in them will carry us family living in Philadelphia. Mr. Touro lived i '
as silent-as the___ rave.' _ There_ls_not-a-word--, ~• .. .4 . - 1 4 '- i -7 :7 temporary-defeat.- - The twelve- days-onithe-wreck — immersecrin -- the - a,
from Rufus Choate—not a word from Wln• M: Democracy have the honor to have nioulded,all water, and exposed to severe weather.
Meredith—nothing from Reverdy Johnson— our inesent laws, by which we have attained.
Mr. Fillmore preserves hisodmal stolid-silence ; - our present - distinguished position,in the,world- i
and the ordinary observer would suppose that awl disseminated so much happiness among
the whig leaders were dead, riot sleeping, from wen
the apparent indifference at a time so full of in- ; Then Jet us Say t(;(*the Democracy
it__
crest--as-the present. just met the surgeslfrhave bran - en — in upon i
But where, at the present brisis, are the item- us, moved by the viewless winds of fanaticism 1 tr - " - Chas: J. Fisher, dem., has been elected
erratic champions? Where is Lewis Cass? De- aid intolerance- stand firm by your old ensign. ; 1 to the North Carolina Senate, from the Rowan
fending, in his hale old age. the 'principles of It has stood you in stead in darker days. Do.'
district., vice Lillington, Whig. deceased.
democracy in every county of Nliehigan! Steph
en A. Douglas hardly gives sleep to his eyes in
supporting •the great truthS •of that party.—J
Jess 1). Bright has just concluded a campaign
of unequalled labor and ability„ and though
temporarily defeated, he is htilt the same brave
and undaunted leader. ,fri the extreme North
we see the democrats on the stump 'arid. in the
press advocating the doctrines now Opposed
by the know-nothings: and so ofThe furthe.tt
south : but nowhere do we see the whigS de
fending them, unless in 'exceptional cases.
The contrast is .capable of elaboration, but
we close it here."
Shocking Railroad Accident.
The nssen.er trainirorn Rock Island w
,itial party that possesses principles which are
left chicage, on 'Wednesday night _last,_ met_
acknoixtedged from the forests .of Maine lo the
with an accident near Zklinoka, by the-break- golden sands of the Sacramento. No other
ingof the axle of the engine, which proved. jvirl . y has an existence, and our defeat; is at
crai-n was t ributable-a-lot ie-to-unTunnatura-1-111,-,ion-that
must explode by its incongruous elements."
thrown 'off the track, and some thirty or forty
Thvre is a. nom incui bond between Democrats,
-the strength of which is only tested in tin 7,
like these. In the past sunshine of our 6-
*cess it became too much Slackened. Let it
now be, close , around each Democratic heart ;
and let the electric spirit that ever animates the
liberal, hopeful and honest Democrat, make
our brotherhood a ,circle of potency within
which the liberties of the country shall be
guarded from all proscription and every, dan 7
ger !—Oisit, Sitiftsin an. • •
Ern.
.1 • wu
el About a dozen were fatally scaldeil.
Among the badly injured ,we regret-to observe
the name of 'Margaret Laughlin, of Gettysburg,
Pa . . The details of the accident, have not yet
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been received.
DosToN , Oct. 31.—The brig Margaret arrivcd
here to-dayJrom St. John's, N. F., which port
she left on tho 30th, and reports that all the
vessels sent in search of the missing boats of
the steamer Arctic had returned to that port
without tidings.
WOULD NOT lik; PUPIL —The Chicago Times
has a 'stiiry of a gentleman from Missouri,
stopping in that city, having with hint a slave
man. The antislavery folks hearing of the
slave, tendered him the hospitality-of a, winter
in Canada, and on his declining to leave his
Timmer, they proposed to ❑sake him free w heth-
er he desired it or not. A crowd of about five
hundred assembled for-this purpot4e, but the
slave proved still•neeked, and mounting a store
box, made a regular speoch, in which he defined
his position as against aholitionism, and the
crowd left him -alone in his glory," free to be
a slave.
"FRACAS IN A KNow•Noill Lo GE. —WOI
authenticated reports reach us that, a serious
disturbance took place at a meeting of Know-
Nothings in the sixteenth ward, on ‘Veilnestlay
night last. The proceedings of the Meeting
were oppose by the minority- wi_th, great ve
hemence, and he gas was finally turned off,
when a general fight en•AK:d. It is stated that
in the inv i tee a somewhat distingn kiwi] ex can
didate fo'r mayor was thrown out of the second
story window_ and severely injured.
Loutirr.
Goon Suoomu.—A few days ago. two of
our -townsmen, :Messrs. JAMES A. Gonnox and
IlEtinY SPA NGO.EIi, left fur the country, acc-Om
panted by a single dog. for the purpose of
bunting game. and after being absent a little
over a day returned, bringing home with them
nine'y-xix partridges, one wood-cock and a
rabbit —all shot upon the wing. Can it be
Lea t.--11auover Spectator.
G —Pa t•tridgeg appear to be unusually
plenty tins sonson, and our sportsmen are !nu
king sad havoc among them. Every day large
number:4am brought home. Messrs. Jam Eti
than'? a Yid DA IU GA wraitAs Went out one
morning . last week, awl returned in the even
ing. with fifty-ci;ila partridges, several wild
docks, and a !miller of rabbits. Another
party, numbering'four. were out several days,
ao returned with over one hundred partridges.
This way be tine sport for the men, but death
to talc birds. — lurk Be publicqn.
Tiro GmLs ELOPED WITH Isni.txs. —The
Columbus Fact states that recently a band of
Indians gave performances in Somerset, Ohio,
and that two girls, sisters, were so captivated
wfth.the ~dunce and the whoop of these sons
of nature." that they asked permission to ac
company them, which being gallainly granted,
they proceeded as far as Putnam, where they
‘vere c overtaken by the mother of the girls, a
spry widow, w ho called on the police to aid her
in recovering her -wild going ' daughters.
Rut alas for woman's resistance to lo4's ap
peals when Dressed in.t bat clog motet. and those
t;igns of.natural atreetion and simplicity which
these native suns of the forest could bring to
bear ! After a little 'Stalk" and a private in
terview with the chiefs, the 'mother discharged
the police, and made a third "willingbear-t4 to
fellow the Indian "men" to their western camp.
..10Nl - MENT TO STEWART 11OLLAND.-11"c per
ceiLe that a butiscription has beep started at
11'ashm44m, with the object of erecting a
monument to the memory of-S;ewartland,
the young hew of the ill fated Arctic. Sub
scription papers Bare keen, placed at tile eon nt
ing.rooins of the Union and Li!uhe otlkes, and at
the office of IVillard's.
r7 - tVe have smother counlitiru,:ativn frotu
1.2 " 13 ill awn r ti). t
nut desert it now ! Faith way given. not for
NEW MEXICO. —An election in. New Mexico
the time of success. when the very elements
has resulted in returning a majority of Demo
wait On us in smiles. hut for the hour of ndver-
crats to the territorial legislature.
city, when the sky is overcast ! In the lan- I ---
gmtge of the Cincinnati Enquirer, - We say : jr) -- A Farmer, named Hughes, in Missouri,
"To the Democracy who have firmly stood shot himself dead recently, on account of the
the brunt of the battle—who have shrunk not drought. Ile apprehended-suffering in his fam
under the shock of passion and I . l er '''''lti," '----- ily on account of a short crop. -
who have been true to their country anti tnem- - -- -_
in---
selves, we say that titn‘ will vindicate their I r Potatoes are plenty the interior of
,I.
course.., Their pattiotim will be the adroira- i
New Hampshire, at two shillings a bushel.
Lionof al! who love their country, do fealty to i- . ._. _____ ___ ____. _ •
the Constitution, and ven e rate the examples t)f i "SOME PumritiNs."—The French papers tell
the fathers of American freedom. We tell'
()fa pumpkin recently sold in the Paris market
them to he of good cheer. Not a year will
elanse before the foe. now so exnhant, will t hat weighed 478 pounds: In this country it
.iiill Wine us.' With every possible combi- - would take "swine pumpkins . "-to conic up to
1 nation against us, the Old and true Democracy
that.
' has accomplished wonders. It is the onl V PO- '
1- al ng , 'Spade Aat 1' redev - ck, on di lii
A Goon 111 r.—At a :;upper recently given to
Governor T3IGLEII, at 'Washington, by a num
ber of his friLuds, the following toast, Was
drunk :
COL. Ilr.►ir PRA ZEn—The Conestoga War
llorse—ifluincibk in peacv—invisible in war.
Three tin►cs three. Ilip ! hip ! hip ! hurrah: !
- TheTKnow-Nothings of Brook title, Indi
ra-la, have held a meeting, in *winch they nomi
nated J. Scott Hinrison. of Ohio, for the next
President, and ex-Governor Wm. F. Johnston,
of-Pennsylvania. for Vice-President:
NEW CAUSE Mt CHALLESUING A JUROR.-
In the Court of Oyer,and Tertuiner, in N. York
city, on Tuesday week, a gentleman named
William Harrison was called as a juror in the
case of Charles Jager, charged with the mur
der of John Morgan. Mr.
.Spencer, counsel
for the prisoner, alter finding out that the juror
was an undertaker, said he should challenge
him peremptorily because of his occupation,
which was a too great" familiarity with death.
The juror was rejected:
TJ'The entire repeal of the nswiry laws of
Great Britain - has been accomplished at the re
cent session.of Parliament. The act by which
this was effected is known as ch. 90, 17 and
IS Vietolia, and is now in operation. It is
now lawful in Great Britain to loan money at
any rate of interest and on any description of
property, rtal estate or otherwise.
ri — The great Temple which the Mormons
ate building at the City of the SAL Lake, is
de , ,erihe3 as promising to he a womierful
suneture. covering an area of 21 850 square
feet. The 'thick on which it is located is tarty
rods squaie ar►d contains ten acres of ground,
around is - rhidi a lofty wall has already been
erected, to be surmounted by an iron railing,
manufactured by the Mormons•-themselves at
their iron works in Iron City, Utah Territory..
A R; - sr lirN. —E. 11. filcher. of Adrian,
(Mich.) gives an account of a wonderful hen
he has-in his po , session. She has laid one
hundred and sixty-seven eggs in so many sue
ce,sive days. During this Ono she intermitted
two days, to wit, the L'..d and the but to
make up for : this she laid two eggs on the 122 d
and I Cl 7 th days eaeli,-7--15,,,,t0u
AosExcl.; or Mix!). —An abstnt-minded gen
tleman, on Boston Common the other day.
‘vbile killing time by throwinga stick into the
Frog Pond for his dog to jump in tier and fetch
001, inadtettrntly plung..d in himself, and
came swimming to the shore with the stick be
tween his teeth:to the great amusement of the
spectatol:i. _ -
frighlfol explo,ion took place at
1:.0 1104.1, New York city, on Saturday at=
to noon wrt k. - \u infernal machine which
had ken placed near the book-keeper's desk
in a valise. exploded. doing great &linage. but
tort:u aul). injot - ing no person, though many
were hi the inana•Lhate
CorNTERFErs.- 7 —The-Petershurg—lntellige
cer cantions the - pablic a - gainsf —e-otuiterfert
notes on the Bank of the State of North Car -op
ium and the Bank of Cum Fear. These coun
teriviLs--,.are mosl l lU and 650 notes, very
well execuled,autl very difficult to detect. The
editor hai seen recently two $lO notes on the
hank of Cape Fear which were counterfeits.
BAND I NchEAsE. -The St. Louis ( Mo.) I)crho
crat estimates that within one rear from this
th. A - 4, \ A in lie atle4st one hundred thou
sand p«-ople in Kmisas, which will rmilie tha
orj - to as a-44:ate.
THANKSGIVING DAY. —The Governor of Penn
gylvania has deign ated the 23d of November
for thanksgiving. instead of the 30th, as has
been stated. Wive states have now degrgna.ted
who Kaye
,e, trier 'Tame. ,e charge
o f killing Kept Inger, at Hagerstown, Ila, -has
been, acquitted.
TGIF PltiCl~3 AT TIIE SouTH.— A private
ter from D arien, Ga., says that potatoes are
selling thereat the_rate of $4 per busl►cl, but
per-pound, and'app'les, at 3 - cts.
apiece hi-the dozen. and small at that.
rirln consequence of the great scarcity of
mackerel this year. prices havereached the
highest points knov,fn for years.
r7The fact is worThy .of being `recorded,
that in one county or the State, at least; ?Ir.
Darsie obtained a majority. In Somerset be
beats Mr. Mott K? votes.
Irf7There were no less than sixty-one w
mPn and nineteen children on board the Arc
tic, but not one of whom w as saved as far as
intelligence has reached us.
WnFutis; SUN En COMES FROM. —The product
of the silver mines of Mexico for the year 1854,
it is said, exceeded that of the rest of the world
by one million of dollars, the total yield being
thirty-three millions.. - - - - - - -
DREADVEL STATE OF AFFAMS.—In the town
of Crockett, Texas. there is said to be not a
single marriageable female. Here is a chance
for some of the superabundant female popula
tion of New England.
1,7 — / - The Whceling Inielligencr has been
furnished with an account of a quilt made by
Miss Magdalene' Miller, of Fish Creek, Va.,
,`containing, 7,913 pieces in the middle,- 1,756 in
' the border, and. 2,500 yards of boss.
DE Ara FROM OYsTEas.—James Brady, a
colored 'man, died in Elkton, Md., a few days
ago, from eating oysters, which, it is pro bable,
were not sound.
CONTEMPT OP Cof - ET.—The 'Whig Statesman
published at Butler, Choctaw county, Ala.,
says that Governor Winston, of Alabama, was
tined ten dollars, a few days ago. by a Circuit
Judge in one of the counties of Mississippi, for
wearing Ids hat and puffing, a cigar in the
count room, during the session of the day.
(t - An Irish giant is mentioned in late for
eign advices. His name is Patrick Murphy,
and though only 18 years of age. he is seven
feet five and a half inches high:weighs twenty
one stone. and measures -fifty two inches
axound the chest. He is a native - of the county
-
Ireland. _
A CALIFORNIAN WHEA7 FIELD. —As a speci
i»en of what can be done on the soil of Cali
fornia, the editor of the Sacramento Union men
tions tliat he had seen a field of wheat of six
hundred acres growing in Polo county, part of
which he thought would harvest seventy-five
bushels to the acre, and that ten acres had
been measured off and reaped. The owner
threshed and weighed it. The weight was
thirty thqusand andfonr pounds, which, at six
ty potaids to the bushel', gives sixty-six and
Iwo thirds bushels of wheat to the acre, and
other parts would furnish a greater yield.
TuE LAST AND MEANEST VILLAIN T.-11C
cently a gentlemanly-looking stranger called
upon. a se-x-ton in Louisville and ordered a
child'.• grave to be dug. offering a - ten dollar
bill in payment for the services and receiving
eight. dollars return. No child's funeral ap
•pearing at the appointid time, the sexton was
led to examine his te❑ dollar bill, when he
found it %1 as counto feit.
The Chicago papers contain an sore e
mein,' entered into by the proprietors of the
several newspapers, by which they give notice
of an advance of twenty per cent. in the rates
otzavertising„ . ._ This they_found_necessary_in
consequence of Me heavy additional expenses to
which they are subjected.
T,":: - / Senator Douglas Is to be treated to a pub-
he dinner at Chicago
r . L7 - / -- Several members of Congress have al
ready arrived at IVashington.
f" - - - Cul umbia, Pa., is saieto be no►c uuusual
.
ly
of :NLitiqii , to,burg. VA. is Fail
he pin•feeti;.: reswied.
Terrible Railroad Accident.
hOrrible accident _occurred on:Abe-NI--
agora railroad, in Canada,' on Thursday after-.
noon week, by. the collision between-a passen
ger and a gravel train, 13 wiles west of Chat
ham, by which 25 then, 11 women, and 11.
children Were killed ; and . 21 , men,, 20 women.
and children badly wounded, one lialf_probably
fatally! Such a wholesale slaughter has been,
rarely equaled in the history of railroads. ,
The Detroit Free Press, of the 28th ult., re
ferring to this accident, says: .
"Up to the hour when we receii , ettOttr latest
inrormation, fiftv-Seven persons had been taken ,
out of the wreck dead. or had died of the wounds
received. Besides these, it is ascertained that
thirty-nine were wounded, and it is feared that
•;Tmany-orthest. will be added - to the &tat
the killed.—About thirty-rive Were men, and
the remainder women and children."
:The Detroit papers contain many additional!
painful particulars of thif terrible accident._
The Advertiser says:
The appearance of the wreck—the mingled
mass of_broken_eari,—and-crushed--bodies---is---
declared by eye-witnesses to have been per
fectly indescribable. The engineer of the gray--
el train,. which had caused the destruction,
- - , - -
frightened almost out of his senses. at tne ruin, ‘;
fled as fast as possible from the Scene. The'
darkness of the night was intense, but by strip
ping boards from, a neighboring fence, and la- .
king fragments of the cars, fires were kindled,
which threw a lurid glare over the scene, re-
veal ing and adding to its horrors.
A few, among whom are those whose names
are mentioned - in our last, applied themselves
to the work of da'verance, and toiled for five
hours, before assi.,Lince came. The patriot
Meagher was 'distinguished for his zeal in the
work. His escape was one of the narrowest.
The sole of one shoe was taken off completely,
and his coat torn from his back, yet he was
scarcely perceptibly bruised. His hat, and
shawl he afterwards gave to some of the wound
ed, and when he arrived with whatever substi
tute fur his lost garments he could procure,
covered with blood and clay, he looked as
though he had conic from a well fought field.
The dead, as last as extricated, were lain togeth
,nd r
er, and covered - With canvass. Their loss seem
ed-happy compared with the wounded, who
were yet. waiting death in agony.
A young man from the East, whose leg was •
terribly-broken, never - uttered a - .sigh while
waiting his turn, and moaned but once when
being. removed. "Must I lose it !" said he,
in a subdued voice, as he gazed on the shatter
ed limb; and that was all. An elderly lady
,of went size, crushed beyond hope of recovery,
wished not to be taken into the cars, but calm
ly await death where she was. "Gentlemen,"
said.she, expostulating mildly, "you will find
it very difficult, I weigh two hundred and forty
pounds!" Tier perfect coolness in such an aw
ful moment was not surpassed on the field of
Alma or on the deck *Attie Arctic. Her remo
val was indeed difficult, but was accomplished.
The conductor, an old and hitherto fortunate
railroad employee, declared that "this was the
last of his railroading." He had done.
End of a Tennessee Frolic.
Br SAM SLICK.
Well, we danced and hurrewed without any
thing of particular interest to happen till about
three o'clock, when the darndest muss was
kicked up you ever did see. Jim Smith sot
down alongside Bet Holden, (the steel trap
gal) and just give her a hug, bar fashion. She
took it, very kind till she seed Sam- henry a
looking on from behind about a, dozen of gals.
then she fell to kicken', and a hollerin', and a
screechinlike all Cyrath . . San he come up and
told Jim to 14t Bet go. - Jim told him to g 6 to
a far off country whar they give away brim
stone- and throw in the lire to burn it. Sank
hit. him spat atween the eyes; and after a few
licks the tightin'started. Oh, hush ! It makes
my mouth water now, to think --what a beauti
ful row we had. ' One fellow front Cady's Cove
.knocked a hole in the bottom of a fryin' pan,
over Dan Turter's head. anet—left it hangin'
'round his neck, the handle flying about like a
long cue, and Char it hung till Jake Thurman
cut it off with a cold chisel next day! That
was his share for that night. sure. Another
feller got knocked into a meal barrel ; he was
as mealy as an Irish tater and as hot as a boas
radish : when he hnsted the hoops and came out
he raced a few ! Two fellers it out of the door,
down the hill into the creek, and there ended
it, in a quiet way all alone. A perfect mule
from Stock Creek hit me a wipe with a pair - of
windin' blades : he made kindlin' wood of
them, and I ht on hint. .We had it. head and
tails fora very long time, all over the hope,
but if the truth must be told and shame my
!kin, he warped me nice ; jist to save his.
time,• I hollered. me licking, he gave me
made me sorter oncasy and hostile: like: it
wakened - my wolf wide awake. The tittle-I:id
ler came scrougin' past, hoiden' his fiddle up
over his head to keep it in tune, tor the tightin
was gittin' tolerable brisk. You are the one,-
thinks I, and I gist grabbed tlx dough-tray
and split it plum over his head ! lie rotted.'
down right thar, and I paddled his 'taller end.
with one of the pieces! While I was mollify
ing, my feelings in that way, his-gar'slipped up
I,t4iind_uie_alid fetched me a rake with the pot
hooks. Jule Sawyer was that., and jilt an
nexed to her right oil', and a mighty nice the it
was, Jule striped and checked her face nice r
like a partridge net hung on a white fence.
She hollered for her tidier, but oh, shaw ho
' couldn't do her a bit of good ; he was too busy
rubbin first his broken head, and then his blis-
tered extremities ; so when I thought Jule had
given her a plenty, I pulled her off, and put her
in a good humor by givin' her soft sawder.
Well, I thought at first if I had a drink I'd be
about done, so I started for the creek, and. the
first thing I saw was more stars with my eyes
shut than I ever did with them open. I look
ed around. and it was the little tidler's big
brother ! I knowed what it meant, so w^
locked horns without a word, that all alone
and Ido think we fit an hour. At last some
of the fellers beam the jolts at the house, and
they cum and dug us out, for we had fit into a
hole where a big pine stump had burnt out,
and there we was, up to our girths, a peggie
away, face to face, and no dodgin'.
r;The fatuous-Brigham - Young, the Gov
ernor of Utah, and Grand lligh Priest of the
:Mormons, came near having an inglorious encl
put to his tatter. in August last. He went
down into his well to recover a lost bucket,
when the kerbing tumbled in, the earth fol
lowed, and Brigham Young became, for the
nounce, a subterrani . !an Saint. But the zeal
of his followers would not permit any such
finish to the life of this most faithful shepherd.
,S ides and shovels were brought into requisi_-
tiun ; the harem 'of the buried Governor as
sembled-in-force- to-aid the saving efforts - of
the male members of the 1166 k, and. in about
t o hours, they had the gratification of pulling
him out, like a forked ravish, from his sub-sod
bed. lie preached that night from the text
-It is well with me."
PENNSYLVANIA LEGIsLATCRE.--It is said that
28 -Pizulinettnns - are elected to the Pennsyl
vania Legislature. The term is intended to
de:-.43;nate a cla,zs of politicians who- are not to
be relied on. It is "supposed the "Pizerinc
tutus" will hold the balance of poWer, if they
can agree among themselves. --ildllinc9re Sun.
Who are the Pizerinctums ?
.they the
pq.pu pods; —Pettsburi. Ufaill6 .