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GETTYSETTRO, PA.
ItIONPAY 31o1NLNG, JULY 9, 11455.
ite(sr Canal ContatiNsifotter,
ARNOJA) PUNIER, of Venango CO.
~.71:{cad the card of the 31.es.s...pKamoot:tr.,
in --asjothcr column. They come with recout
tnendationt; of the . most complimentary char-
actor, and front gent:lenel
of the best modes of teaching the art of writing.
iIOTEL.7-We take pleasitr'e in
recommending the SUS4UNIIANNA oppo
site Calvert, Station,. Baltimore, -to such of our
fri.entlal.aspay haveoecasion to visit.the “Mon 7.
umental City." We have several times stop
ped there, and always found the table supplied
with the choicest of everything the market af
forded„ and enough of it 7 --the chambers neat
and clean—and all connected with the house
attentive to their respective duties. Col. BAnit,
the proprietor, knows exactly what constitutes
,/, , nod:tiotel. and pndeavors to keep Such--
and, ifvuijudgmerit is Worth anything in the
prentisys; heianeeeetli: His charges aro very !
- 137rWelad , the pleasure of meeting Mr. John
Scott find his brother, Mr. William Scott, on
Thursdai Week: 'l lie former, it will be re
membered, was so seriously injured by the
collision on the Baltimore -and Susqtrehanna
railroad, on the fonrth ofJuly, 1854, that his
life was &spited of ; the latter was also in
jured, yet not badly. Mr. John Scott is re
covering, his bodily vigor _amazingly ; and that
Orden of his leg, which was so badly crushed
is beginning to show very healthy signs. To
the Mends of thik gentleman, his convalescence
will'bechecringintelTi erica.
.146sivONG lerrxitS.—Tho sygetW reg
istration of valimble letters prescribed by the
Post Off= Department, vent into operation On
theist inst. The regulations provide_ that. on
the paYinent‘of a:registration fee or five oents,
h reeei pt. Anil be given by the Pestmegter when
a letterfa mailed, and extraordinary precau.
tion'nee'd iii its forwarding and delivery. It is
not, to be coitilited to money letter's, but any
letter will : be registered which the writer con.
eiders velnablos but for which the Department
dif net malte'thetoselves liable.
11:'David Small, EA., post Master at . York,
raceutly , applied to tho .Pot Mister General
to Iz - 4°w:whether a • letter containing, as-was
sti&tised; coontetleit Money, could be opened
atiki xegiteiti:if the police authorities; in order
that: the money contained therein might he
identified as'ithe SUMO as 'that passed by the
prisoner, and that thus further evidence might
furniabedto4lid in his conviction and pun:.
ishinent..*':Theyeist Master General replied,
empliaticallY,, that - it could not„ that ho had
nti,riOL :liar any officer under him, to open
any letter until it reached the Dead Letter
Office: and that. this principle must be al ways
acted nPon 'by these, in the eniployinent of the
Department. ' .
Postmaster General has ordered the
the re-establishment of the Post °nice at Mount
Alto, in Franklin county, Ps., and appointed
(1,00 N 1 Tunis, Postmaster.
'lt:7qt is reported that' there has been a vio!
lent personal rencontre in Kansas between
Goy,- 'Kee der, and Mr.' Stringfellow, resulting
in the Guwernor being badly beaten.
• RAILROAD OPENING.—The first nineteen
nriles'of the Noith Pennsylvania IlAilroad, from
Pliilailellitaa to Gwyuned, *a opened on
Teekalay: - • °
O'PEILSONS 'KILLED trr LiG fITN I N .-Dur
ing a - recent thunder storm in:Nlitinesutzt, the
struck the house of a widow ,holy
named Wright, killing two members of the
family* and, what was most singular, it proved
fatal to .One - that was sleeping in the upper
story and one on the lower fluor. These rr
ions bad each - a Companion in bed with them
at Elie time, both of whom were unharmed.
The Oldest daughter, a young lady, and a boy
some seven or'eigl►t years of age, were killcd.
The family were strangers, having but lately
arrived in the territory.
Mant,--,We learn that James ,
Myers. the Clown, and one of Aim proprietors
of Myers &Madigan's Circus Co., met with an
untimely diiath while performing on the Suck
rope attienuva, N. Y. The ring by which the
rope Air a$ fastened gave away, throwing him to
the ground with 80 much force as to dash Ins,
brains out.
QUA little girl, fourteen ` months old, (laugh
ter of Mr. Freed, teacher at • the Point Breeze
school house, died recently from eating the
composition from the ends of incifer snatches.
The salary of the (lovernor-General of
Canada is ten mousandAullars a year wow
than tout of Like President gf the U. S.
El.l7sLocusts are to be seen by thousands in
some pasts of tlerster county. They appear
to be as numerous tsg they were during the to-
ettst year, is iinv years ago
SQN STROKE..- A n Iri sl wan,
matt Wt. tilt. in-t-Itt-turplorof Ilk 11,,a-o-vrt li. i- - ---,-• - -
.1. - .,...ii4id Company, met, with lies" de '--,
atn Olt rr i rlte ' ll - i - tilicilial -- ;;leCtioiiit Bolivar. Va. Lith'it
4-t—i'llvito
i a .1 1 , 1 :,7 11 1 , L ,fii c -t c . r u- s u ' r ' -t o r ' rali l k -c-r 'h:::1 - : no duel aratio — u of pritieilles !" flow -- ittt — teli
eNtent. Snot, `I
Fridoy wuek. from sun stroke. came Ulf ott 'Monday, and resulted in a total died and eighty-six soldiers were cart ietl off! like a bravk. , - hearted .1 mei jean this sounds to-
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-- -- - -- front Ist of .M:Ly to 2.1 1 1.11 June. Some mild ca. i lie-nft'• Tiro c.'w:lrtilY In tlvow 3 . 0 111 ' Pfloci•
Try-B ower , at ~,so da Depot, ,, on chesonot ‘4o . citt atilt: Know Nothitigs, who were Kan
ses have appeared on board tile ships at Nett- ; l'ks , "(1 it claim - to hc Attio•i4:ans. rzr ex
,- me of success. It will be remembered that • i re/lericr ! I;:tit ! boor actions, -lye the lie to
gtmet, P11424100* ...sold un Saturday week., le"
. vitas. .c,
2.5 60 glasg..l4 of sodarwater. Sam" was qiiite trium lv
phaut there twee • -- -: -- --
- --- ; your professittos.—/.:.rdoigr.
11.15 E vs: (ii . ANI), I t 1 4, stat. - 11 in the Baltimore • ..___ _.. ._ .. .. __ _
months tigo, and defeated the Densocratic cowl- ' 11, atr
rj . Tht widow df lie 'Witt Clinton died at ', 1 iot, ')" chat - i l'ENnuA r,I.F: Pt.: ;i. IN Ei:s.
elk and abletnieti• ity, that Nes....tr st . ita te d a 1. i;1 1.. I ;Ise asisitorsd ' jrt the Prii: , iott ollire. the ...... _
the residenceor her danitter, in Poughkeepsie. '• .._ , . _ ... __ .____ _
' the price of l'ertiviaii gtiait o ; > - _, p er to il . Th e y ; Junes, of Alabama. and 11111. I tyr4i. of Tenuk7c= - , -- Lt
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• 1 ,Or Pim L (-owes out 1-..tinst elrl,,y ristu.'- ,
New 1 mk, on Monday. She vras in the 733 ''.' ' , - ' •'' ' 'e' • ' r" • now ultat'go*ss,-itvs' , Atatl of :2.'01, as 'heretof o r e , ' ia,:e, ',vete tilt . 11 - the former of it Itom is in the says that several cases of aolern. ILI,'
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The Democratic Mate Convention ns , :einbled
at Ihnisinirg on Weduc*Any last, for the nom
ination of :t.incli•late for Canal Comnsigsioner. ,
Eon: J. GLANci JoNio,s, of Iterks county. pre
sided, assisted by a large number of Vice PreA
derng-;---ar.-d----Seefemries:-Thnt-,--iuerling---_nn(L
highly-respected old `Denoctat, ARNOLD
PLUMEII, a Venango county, was notnina-.
ted for Canal Commissioner, on the third bal
lot, his-highest opponent being WM. Curt
-I::sq., of Alleghen.y. Majority and mi
nority resolutions were introdime . d from the
committee on that subject. The majority re
port was adopted—but all in that perfect har
mony and good feeling which characterize() the
.deliberationsof the Convention thritiughoUt.
Flat proceeding; tnay-be expected in our next.
711 - e Choi - ce tor - Canal Com oner-i s-a- mos
happy. onc—ene which every Detnociat can
heat lily endorse and support. Success surely
.must follow this auspicious beginning:.
A. J. DoskasoY, who edited the Washing
ton Union a few 'years
. ago, but whose course
gave so much offence to-many true and tried
Democrats that he was compelled to vacate
the editorial chair in order to prevent the pa
per from sinking, and who was an unsuccess
ful applicant for a high office under the present
administration, has become a Know Nothing.
This is right. Whenever a man becomes so
much of a patriot,as to think the government
can't get along without his ax,sistance in some
of its departments, he ought to join the Know
Nothings and inveigh against bqhe wild hunt
for ollice."i 2 '--Ommtti,sox claims relationship
with Gen. .I,tessoN, though in fact he is mere
ly a
,relative of JACV.SON'S wife. We hope
he won't follow the example of Swig' and
,foxss,' and decline being a candidate for the
Presidency. We have had Old Ihickory in the
i person of Jitekso!..:, and Young Hickory in the
person . of Toms:, and why not take Rotten
Hickory in the person of A. J. Das KisoN ?
Hurrah for Hum ten Iliekory DoximsoN ! Down
With Live Oak Law.—Spiril.
Our distinguished fellow-citizen, Col. A. G.
EuEduis just returned from a long tour through
Kansas aril other parts "of the great West.
Ile arrived . here'on Tuesday, and was cordial
ly welcomed -by. his numerous friends. Ile
gives a glowing-account of the Kansas country,
and designs going West in the Fall, with 'a
view to a permanent settlement. By the way,
judgii.g from the tone of the press, we think it,
-not unlikely that a change will soon he made'
in the Governorship of Kansas. - In such an
event, we take the liberty, thus early, of :nig
gestitc'r to President Ptsuez the appointment
of CoLEGE to that station, We doubt whether
a more suitable man could he found in the Union.
Kansas needs a hold. yet skillful hand to guide
the helm in the disorganized state of affairs in
that country—one who is right on the great
questions of- the day, and yet - .Chki manage so•
prudently as to secure the confidence of all.
lie possesses every qualification for the post,
.and would, he emphatically "the right man in
the right place." Ills appointment, we think,
would be very popular, as it would be de
serV y meritorious. !Vestal/lister Dem.
rf•We "second the motion" for Colonel
Emes appointment, if a change is to be made.
Ile has the ability to fill the pest well, and
would, we know,- exercise it, to the boner of
himself. the territory, and the appointing
power. •
ta -- -The Prohibitory Liquor Law, in Maine
and Massachusetts, does not seem to work
very restrictively. At legal decision in a liquor
selling case in Maine, has completely nullified
the prohibitory law, so far as the manner and
form of execution has been attempted. The
decision is, that the trial and punishment qt.
liquor sellers can only be clone by the Sur.
preme Court of the State. In Massachusetts
the law is scarcely opqative, from the fact that
the juries being clothed with the power of
joilgin6 of the law, have invariably decided
against the law iii some twenty cases.—Ger.
Ted:
l‘fota; K. N. PuosenwTioN.---Rev, Illeazer
Smith, an esteemed Methodist clergyman, aml
a Democrat, was in 1848 appointed chaplain
of the New: liampshire State Prison by Gov.
Colby, through the influence of Rev. Jared
Perkins. lle has now been removed by the
K. N. Governor, because he would not bow the
knee of abject submission to the modern 11anl.
T:iis is another practical illustration of What
the Know.tiottlings mean, in theif platforms.
by “religious freedom."
lUow-N6TniNcism l',AnooEn.—The Pitts
burg Synod of the Lutheran Church bare
adopted the following resolution :
'•ltexulrcd, That in the judgment of this
Presbytery, the principles of our church ex-
Chide from communion, the members of the
secret society called Know-Nothings, and the
niendicrs of all such societies, and that the
Presbytery direct sessions to enforce this
opinion."
(a - Mr. Joseph Hiss. N 1 ho was expelled front
the .Nfassachusetts legihlature, is suAt allied by
the know-nothing council to which he belongs,
in Boston, and is now the delegate to the
.Late council that will meet this week.
KNow-Noritimi DEvii.trs.—ln nearly all the
important elections held throughout the Union,
within the last two or three mouths, the Know-
Nothings have been defeated.--:Saan's 61111 is
evidently setting.
•.SAyi"'strr nAcK. - .u: ate.--, the recent inn
nicivzii election in San Franei:;oo, Mr. Van Ness,
the Democratic candidate fur Mayor, was elect
ed over his iiiiow-Nothil conipciitur. Last
year the Deinociatic candidate was badly
beaten. _
'nnn►ed Ited.
Democratic State Convention.
Rotten Hickory !
Col, A. G. „Ege.
Banks—Governors Bigler and Pollock.
The Know : Nothing press, in attempting to
j us tify t;cw. Poi.i.ors's course in sanctioning
the charter and re-charter of so many banking
institutions, try hard to create the impression
that Goy. litci.su was equ Ay, to blame. f low
ilarifrisitUrne_,Anay Lein furred from the fact,_
that during the entire term of Gia. Bemini's
administration but two new banks were crea
ted—the Erie City Bank., and the Warren
j County Bank. The former of these was to
supply the place of the old Bank of Erie, which
had gone out of existence ; the other was in- '
tended to meet the wants of that class of peo
ple who were largely engaged in the lumber
ing business on the 'All4gheny river.. The
j aggregate capital of these institutions is only
! two hundred thousand dollars. In addition to
-these_riew_banks,le_alsoanetioned_there:Lj
charter of /Lee old banks ;.but as these institu-
tions were all sound and.solvent, and not- ob.]
' jected .to from any quarter, we think- ho was 1
right in signing the bills. This is the extent
of Gov. Ba;tyit's approval of banks during his
three year's administration. Ncw, let us see
- what his successor has -done in the first year
of his administration.
Governor Pou.onc. has already sanctioned
the creation- of 1 , 4C111: new banks, with an
aggregate, capital of over TWO MILLIONS;
and has also . sanctioned the re-Charter of
-.:LIN'E'S:oId ones! At this rate of going, the
three years of his administration will show
an aggregate of twenty-four nosy banks with a.
capital of six millif;ns, and the re-charter of
11iirly-llcree old oils—being about twelve times
as many new ones, and nearly seven times as
many old ones, as were passed under Gover
nor BIGLEIL ,
If it was wrong in Governor 13roLsit - te cre
ate in three years !Iva new banks and sanction
the rc•chartcr of five old ones—it is a ninth
greater wr fur Governor PoLLocx., in one
year, to create ek/a new bunks and re-charter
eleven old ones.
These Ku ow-Nothing editors will have to
try some other scheme for bolstering up the
rotten' policy of the present SUM AdttlirliStra-
OUJI, than to 'attempt the up•hill business of
making out Governor I>inixa a bank man
equally with Governor PouocK. It won't
work. Thu people aro too intelligent to be
thus humbugged. Governor BIGLER. was al
ways opposed to a wanton increase of the bank
ing capital of the State. Ile so stated in all
his IneSSltgeS, and carried out - his professions
by vetoing no less than eleven bank bills at
one time !--hanc. Intelligericer.
Where will it End?
The- Know-Nothings who have assailed the
Catholic, church and rondo pretensions that
their hostility wits to stop there, have not been
satisfied.- The "Covenanters" in Butler coun
ty, Pu:, are denounced. and upbraided on ac
' count of their religion: The Seceders have. a
share of their persecution. The Rev. John
M'Cauley, who thought it his duty to speak
divaragi ugly 'of an oath-bound secret-political
party - as anti - -ibristi - an and anti-republican,
• has gained their displeasure, and came under
the stnartinv,• rod of an author who dared not
give his name. , That is well for him, fur that
servant of God would wipe away his proper
title in one discourse so that he never would he:
heard of again, only as having an existence.—
On the Presbyterian church, too, war has been
made. A fearless watchman on the tower, has
been threatened. with a dismissal from a con
gregation as a pastor.. Where will this end ?
Either in the establishment of a single church
in connection with the government, or in the
lota overthrow of the proscriptive party !
drgus.
SAM:—The Boston 1'o„: is after Sam
with a funeral text. It suggests "that the
following will answer very well as n. text for
, SAin's' funeral sermon : Job, 6th chapter,
tlth verse—Tor we are but of yesterday, and
know nothing, because our days upon earth
arc a shadow.' "
llalliin•ire Republican says the rea
son A.. 1. Doneison has become a Know-Noth
ing is that President Pierce refused to give hiin
a fat office which he wanted. Otherwise he
would have tuuained a Democrat.
l'AsTur.u. Rit.i.En.—.l few days since a Pan
.ther measuring six feet eight, inches from nose
to tail, was killed in Path Valley, by . .lessrs.
Gonn;p: and SrixBsnit Doil.N, and their Dog
4-14numwr." It is supposed the recent tires
in the mountain had driven the animal down.
—..cl o t n ib c rsburg Tran3cripl. •
SMALL l'ox.-- ; This disease now prevails in
our town to a pretty dangc . rous extent. Sev
eral families have been alllicted with it during
the past week, nail we learn that another fan►i
ly sonic distance in the country has also been
dangerously attacked. Great cam should be
taken, as very serious consequences might
happen from the further spread of this disease.
—Chu nibersbfirg
lrj"lhe ulajority in Illinois against the pro
hibitory law is about 14,000. It was the larg
est vote ever polled in the State.
s AD
,Ir u s A in.—:llr. David Burton, who was
Shot roar Smyrna, I►cl., a few iveeks ago, by a
negro lllntl, Tout Oliver, died 09 Wednesday
week. Distressing circumstances are connect
ed with the ca.c. The wife of Mr. B. was
sick at the time of his being shot : upon hear
ing of the occurrence .:he b e came very f ee ble
and died in a few days after. leaving a young
child, in delicate health, which soon followed
its mother in the train of death.
FEr Ku, —lt is stated - riot s'e .
fever. hhtek vi)mit. prvv3,ll --al I . lotigst, the-
,t,., 2 ,;: it 1\ .. 111) , I ; )) r„l} , F - 4;. r t,.:!. 7 ,-
!l j ,i, • Itl I .1. , Ti, , i)t .11• I It! V (.11 I I '1"41 t ;‘, II y14,-
11,r
An3IIV.II, TM; STrl.lll , :ri. AAll:ll.te.k
77.111 E. D. 7 VS L. 17 1,,71
The Allies Repulsed by
an Attack on S
FIVE TI1011 . .•ZANI) U;N
LlP.kx..., \..'.. July 5, A. M.—The RoFat
Mail Stcainship Xineirii; . -- 4 ijni
Liverpool. at, I:o'clock on Sa in,
the 2:ld ult., arrived at this port yeste/day-af
ternoon.
HI
DEpc.:AT op rug LLT -TERJOHLK :41,A rGIIT !
The allies have matte an unsuccessful at
te►npt to storm Sebastopol. The most sinis,
ter rumors prevail in re , rard tO the transaction.
By some accounts the English 10::s is set d o wn
at finfr llemseind men, but the report is be
lieved to be much exag
The following are the only official notifica
tions of the event : •
Lord Paninure regretk' to have to announce
that he has received information that the En
glish troopkattae Iced - t h - e - RadauTand - the - Frettch:
the Malakoff towers at daylight on the morn
ing of the 18th. without the success which
has hitherto attended our efforts. Both the
French and .ourselves have suffered considera
hly. The names of the officers who have
fallen will he forwtirded immediately, but it
will he impossible to receive complete - returns
of all the casualties - befort the 30th inst. (June)
at the earliest."
Private accounts published in the London
Standard say the loss Or the British officers in
killed and wounded amounts ,to no less than
seventy. Among the killed are General Sir J.
-Campbell, Col. Yea and Col. Shadforth. . From
the obstinacy and courage with which the com
bat was maintained by the British at the Re
da% and the necessity of eventually retiring
from the attack, the slaughter on
,all sides has
been immense, and if the information be cor
rect, the loss in killed and - wounded of the
British alone, amounts to very little short of
3,000.
The greatest portion of the loss VMS experi
enced in a ravine where a powerful and unex
pected battery was opened on the troops.
There is reason to fear that the loss has been
Very great, but Lord Palmerston' said lAA
night no additional information had arrived.
The allies lost terribly by the Itussians.spving
ing a wine, and during the confusion they le
captured the Matnelon ToWer.-
All the camps arc healthy, excepting that at
Balaklava, where cholera- prevails.- The Sar
dinians are suffering, and General Martuora,
the younger, is dead.
The Journal of St. Petersburg semiofficially
says that peace is possible if France and Eng.
land are willing, inasmuch as the 4th point is
morally although not formally settled, and
the other points, namely : the navigation of the
Danube and the evacuation of the Principali
ties, are also settled—leaving only the Vienna
third point to be arranged.
Pennsylvania Know Nothing Council at
Reading—The Philadelphia Platform
Repudiated--Split in the Council.
REAnisu, Pa.. July s.—The. Pennsylvania.
State Council, which commenced its session in
this city yesterday. has divided, Gov. Johnston
leading Of for 'a Northern party and that di
vision has repudiated the Philadelphia platform
by striking out the 12th article, and inserting
a declaration in favor of the restoration of the
Missouri Compromise.
• It is said, also, thaalov.Cardner has address
ed Gov. Johnston a letter, inviting Pennsyl
vania
,to join the East.
.The seceding delegates are to-day, organizing
a State Council on the seceders' Philadelphia
platform. There is much eiciteuient in con
sequence of the division. -
Scene's in the Philadelphia Convention.
At the meeting in Redman Hall, last even
ing. Mr. Carey, of Ipswich, in his speech,
stated that when Gen. Wilson rose to reply to
the assault made upon the Massachusetts del
gation al d upon himself ii particular, a Mem
ber from the South, sitting directly in front of
him (Carey) and within four feet of Gen. Wil
son. drew his revolver, cocked it, and so con
tinued to hold it until the close of the speech.
During all this time, Mr. Carey sat with his
eye fixed upon the weapon, teady to act if the
slightest movement was made. When (len.
Wilson rose to reply. to - Bolling, of Virginia,
he (Bolling) rushed across the hall and took, a
seat beside Wilson, with an evident intention
to intimidate him. 'Mr. Buffington, o f Rd)
liver, who had heard Culling deelare that he
woitldlike to whip some one of the Massachit-_-
settsmen, TaFreeiving his movements. walked
across the hall, and took a seat directly behind
Bolling; ready for defence if neeesary. Pitting
this speech. Gen. Wilson turned directly to
Bolling, and said that he was the last
' person
to be intimidated by threats--that if a perso
nal war was necessary to vindicate his opin
ions, he was ready 'Or it. —Boston Telegraph.
The Virginia Election.
The Richmond Enquirer, in commenting on
the lact_that some of the Know-Nothing papers
attribute the election of \Vise to the "foreign"
vote, although they are not ignorant of the
circumstance that his majority hugely exceeds
the entire foreign vote of the State, says :—"[t
is known that a considerable pro Portion of the
"foreign" vote was cast against the Democra
tic candidates. A correspondent of the Balti
more Sun says an examination of the polls in
Alexandria has developed the surprising fact
that a large number of foreign born citizens
supported the Know Nothing ticket. There
is another Net which settles this dispute be
yond controversy. In the cities and in the
counties through which works of internal im
provement are progressing—in Richmond, in
r e tc t shurg, in Norfolk, in Alexandria, in
Wheeling, in Fredericksburg. in Augusta, and
in Loud - on—in short, just where the 'foreign'
vote is the strongest. just there did the democ
racy sustain the greatest loss. On the other
hand, in° the remote Southwest and on the
South side, where nobody ever sees a Catholic
or a foreigner, the Democracy made thelargest
gains. These are facts which the KnoW
Nothing papers can no more dispute, than
they can make them 'conform to their fantastic
theory. that the election of Wise was the work
of Catholics and foreigners."
, 1 77 -- The Juniata &Wind, a 'rabid now-
Not Itittg and Whig paer, published at in
town, appears to he much gi iketlbecause of
the disruption of the late National Council of
Traitors at Philadelphia. The editor says
4 •There zhnirld haec ca to) dee/arra/on if prin
ciples," by the K. N. Council. No doubt such
COUrSC would hare bean the policy of the
dark-lantern gentry. but the Southern del e
gatetitrecal their Nrtrth, rn fellow-traitor , to the I Sravlin Washington Star
wall, and Sam of the South finally kicked Sam intimate:444l:a the President has removed nom
of the Not th out of the co:med. and sent him
i\ ! o bo e eusamm.hous e 6encral C. A. Brad
iii l4l l_ , lns . -Titmeshooltl e been
Steamboat Explosion ,
. Let Protestants Be . re.
31,1,xy Liv E.-: Err: l'—itoxie BURNT. Th e
; • 'tterrololit
sehjoined paragraphs from the Nngoerrl
setni-religions paper. the. in
• 011 st-in Kv. Jiiiy2.—Thesteamer Lex- organ 4-reedsnite Free-Soilism—areciantitend
ington, running between Louisville and St: et ! to three people to Whom they are addressed:
Louts, was blown to atoms near Stephensport, Lei Protestants beware—they are in Mimi-
Ky.. by an explosion of her boilers, on her up neat danger of disgr;'icing, their own cause. It
trip. The packet Baltimore leas just...arrived., ist,nj,e,ssihlethat t h e prroseriptive. oath•bound
- from- the-scene-of--4lisaster_with-2ti_oLthc_offi ret _ r Ai ;kai_ or arai t izatiiku, corn p reltend litr,
cers and passengers of the Lexington, includ- • infidel and Christian, the pious and the profit
ing the-captain and first clerk, Mr. Davidson, gate, r,,s„iii—
y and respectability. bound to
beth of whom are wounded. The captain wailer by the common resolve to inflict civil
thinks that thirty-five were wounded out of
II disabilities upon the Cathollca, can long hold
one hundred on board.
` 2
-le ladies Were all together; hut when it hail have been broken in.
m
unhared. The accident occurred at 3 o'clock
On Sunday morning. The boat and cargo are pieces, what a reaction mav 'follow in favor of
the very body new so fiercely proscribed
a total-loss.
The Louisville Courier, of JlJnday, says:— extreme of indiff;•rence as it has into the extreme
The boat, it is - sii - ppoed.exPiedetl all her hen - 'of bigotry. And with what - arguments will
• • _
not the miserable experiment have fated-the
- mouths of the advocates of- Catholicism !
'They will illustrate your boasts of liheralitY•
and toleration, and - justice, and magnanimous
reliancenp orolie_trutli_of_Protesta attain ,_/1-7 0 " -
miniseenees of Enaw , Nothingisral Already, the
most thoughtful of the
protestant ministers are
looking forward with apprehension. An emi
nent divine, in a recint letter to us, remarks:
4 .13 w a word as' to konianisin. I feared two
things as soon as it was brought into apoliti
cal moVernent—first, that in uniting the infidel.
opponents -of Romani:lm with those who are
evangelical. the vital truths of the gospel
would be left out. The result of this would'
be an ultitnate recoil into superstition and des
potistn,lor. infidelity- can never, destroy
monism. A positive religious - power fitting
the heart is needed to• do it. I'f - eared also,
superficial arguments and a reaction, so that
the final result should be to strengthen Re
inanism, rather than the hieratchy, another re
action."
It has been to us one of the strongest devel
opments of Know-Nothingisrn that men pro=
leasing piety, and, in many instances, minis
ters of thc gospel. have been detected in issu
ing- down dark staircases leading out from the
obseure dark room in which the Secret Ort'er
were wont to congregate—alternating, in their
stealthy•egress, with persons of the most open
ly profligate habits, of the most abandoned
lives, of the most openly professed infidel
.opinions.—When religious intolerance
.reaches
such a point as this—when hatrerof Catholi• .
cisin brings professed ministers and represent
atives of the Protestant religion to consort with
the representatives of every degree of sin. and
wickedness in midnight conclave—well .may
the National Era, and every other Protestant •
paper in the land. , exclaim newsne !
It must be remembered that Know-Nothing
ism is not, in fact, a Protestant organization--.
that is,'it Is not controlled by men 'who care a
fig for the Protestant or any other church-. -It
is purely a politicatengine, in the hands of
the same petiticians who moved heaVen' and
earth to obtain the 'votes of Catholics and for
eigners for Gen. Scott, in the Kist PYesidential
election. It is
,anti-Catholic only to enlist
Protestants le support of its candidates. Jt
panders to the morbid anti-Catholic spirit of
the country only to bring to the aid of its
Presidential schemes those Protestant Demo
crats whose zeal runs away with their discre
tion. The old Whig party disbanded., and
Know-Nothingism succeeds it; and the new
organization sets its sails for that popular
breeze With which they may possibly be filled.,
That breeze is just now hatred to Cathol
icism and prejudice aoainst foreigners, siituu
hated by violent appeals and arrosinit narra.
tions of a mendacious character.
We repeat the injunction of the Wational
Bra, 'get beware." They are,.
indeed . , inimminent danger of disgracing their
own cause. - When Protestantism shall lend
its name to build
,uP a political religious
or
ganization—it wilt be more than disgraced—it
wilt bit ruined—"lel Protestants beware:"
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the Russi
ebastopoL
ans zn
LI,EI).
GLIKU Oil
Bt TTIN(; (I , Z ErEcTioN:-..—The last rzrand )u
-ry iii [)dtllc. Va., not only piesinteti per
sons for betting ort electrons, but pre, k -Ht et i
4 tho.c too g 4 ,0(1s, payable when
-( We( k. certain candidates were elected.
of Thomas C. •
hat absurd ideas soin , ...iitics get into
K •ople ! There is a 'Anent
is noise, catistwg-
ers wit
struction to nil around. The upper works of
the boat, forward of her water wheels, were •
blown to. fragments, throwing the sleeping
-Passenger-s-ana-the-cteliz.like “chaff before the
wind," many of them falling' in the river, and
others alighting among the fragments of the
burning boat and red hot furnaces on the low
er deck, as the boat, almost. on the instant of
the explosion, caught fire, thus exposing the
survivors of the wreck to the horrors of being
either burnt alive or drowned. At this junc
ture the boat careened and commenced sinking,
when a wood boat was caught, and that, to
gether with skill's, and the steamers J. C. Fre
mont and D. A. Given, which , cauni up, saved
many lives.
The J. C. Fremont, with eight of the sur
vivors, all wounded, reached this port Satur
day evening. The D. A. .Given stayed by the
wreck some time, and arrived here yesterday
morning with a good many Of the wounded
and the passengers who were saved.
Capt. Throop, who . was terribly burnt, went
back to St. Louis, accompanied by his mate,
John Johnson, first enginer, Mr. Davidson, the
.cterk, and a number of the cabin crew, on the
Baltimore. The boat turned bottom upward,
and sunk near Stephensport. The second
Mate was standing near the forward bins
at the time of the explosion, and the first
thing he knew he caught the Captain .in
his arms. The latter was on the hurricane
deck the moment before. Several of the pas-..
sengers•who were saved, ineludinc , Capt. T - .
White, who arrived in the Given, knew noth
ing of the disaster till' they found theniselves
in the river, in their night dress, among the
floating portions of the wreck. how they
were saved, or in what manner they reached
the shore; was equally a mystery. A passen
ger asleep in an upper ,berth was saved, and
the one in an under berth of the same room.
The second engineer, who was on
watch, was killed, and his assistantsaved. The
second clerk and an assistant bar keeper were
killed, and twofiremen, names not known, burnt
to death in their butiks. Two passengers who
got on the boat at Smithland were killed. One
of them was a gentleman about 30 years of age,
rneditnu size, with brown hair and dark sandy
goatee. My. Wiley Johniron, of Madison, had
his leg broken and received several contusions.
A German deck hand and- a colored man, who
lived back of New Albany, - died on the D. A.
Given. All the ladies, children and passengers
in the after part of .the boat were saved un
hurt.—One or two dead bodies and portions of
the wreck were met by the Rainbow 35 miles
below the scene of the lisa-;te."
The Lexington lacked only a few days of
being, 5 years old. The - machinery was - made
by Philips, Ills & 'Co., of New Albany. and
the boat was quite old eucugh to be condemn
ed. She has been a packet in our trade, but
was recentiy sold to St. Louis. The Inspectors,
of course, knowing that the damage is all done,
will investigate as usual. The boat was un
der way, had but two firemen on watch, and .
it is, the opinion of those who 'saw the wreck
that the boilers had no ,r“ter in them. All
the wounded persons are burnt, 'bruised or
crippled.
A MoNsTint I, VEDin:sa; arr.—The Rich
mond. Dispatch, a tiy' day.ti ago, contained
what seemed to be a fabulous account of what
would be a monster wedding. which, it was
stated, would soon tallc place at the St. Nicho
las Hotel in New York. The Herald, however,
sl.ys the account is substantially correct, and
adds:
The bridegroom, who is, a Louisiana sugar
planter, named Mitchell, and reported to be
very wealthy, is n o w cn route for New York,
accompanied by two hundred. pairs of young
ladies and - gentlemen, who ON w take part. in
the wedding exercises. On their arrival they
are to put up at the St. Nicholas Hotel, the ex
elusive use of ‘vhich has been hired for the occa
sion for the slim of two thousand dollars per
day, the festivities to continue four days. The
bride is understood to be the daughter of Judge
Concklin, formerly Judge of the Northern Dis
trict of New York, but more recently appoint=
ed .Minister to Mexico, and whose successor to.'
the first' mimed pust is Judge Ball, foriuerly
Post master-General.
The. marriage ceremonies ate to take place
at the St. Nicholas, aittl we understand that
two—thousand invitations have already been
issued.—The religious rites arc to be most im
posing, and the attending festivities are to be
on a scale of the most profuse magnificence,
and will include balls, fancy, dress and mas
querade, private concerts, and dinners and
suppers the most recherche.
C2l AT FIELPS OF WIINAT.—The celebrated
traveller and agricultural writer, Solon Robin
son, a few years ago pronounced the farms of
Messrs. Henry K. and Thotnas Burgwm, on the
Roanoke, in New llampton county, N. C., the
best between Canada and Louisiana. Wu
learn that the harmer has a field of 000 acres
of wheat, which good judges estimate will
yield 20 bushels to the acre, or 18,000 bushels
in all, worth at present prices about :•' , .'40,000.
It is said to be a most beautiful sight. Mr.
Thonins Burgwin has• a field of 900 acres in
wheat, almost as good. These gentlemen
make, besides, large quantities of corn, oats,
Ctio!yrt.s. tN Missoußt.—Cholera liar broken
out in ticor!:etown, 310., and there had been
twenty-two deaths at the last accounts. ~Not
a single Qamilv in the town it is stated had es
e‘caped visitation Ns-Ith the epidemic. A large
p o rtion of the population had , Iled in conso
quence..
litm; FisT.—The lilla rc Rirord informs ns
that a chicken belonging to William Nelson,
of Chester county, was lately accidentally shut
up in a barrel, where it remained - for twenty
days without food. and was alive when taken
out, though - reduced to a skeleton. It has
completely revived
- 44141,-I,t-hi-)-tv43.s_ one ut . he.d • ••:. • • •
bum to the revAlit Ktiow-Noth-
Natlolvil Council.
MI
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771 Ili'l ti la .1:131-
GEN'. HOUSTON' AND THE BATTLE 6F SAX JA.•
ClNTO.—General Minster), in a recent: address,
iu 'relation to the battle of San Jacinto,'gave a
version of the history of iLs incidents, and his
own connection with them, which has brought
out a host of indignant commentators, who not
only deny the truth of his narrative,•but accuse
him of - cowardice and incapacity. The Sew
Orleans Picayune, of the 27th eh., says :
"The first to reply was David H. Burnett,
formerly President ot Texas.- and by the mails
which arrived yesterday we have two other
addresses—one by Gen. Sidney Sherman, and
one by General Mirabeau 1L Lamar, also once
President of Texas. These. gentlemen - were
officers during the battle of 'San Jacinto, and
they concur with Burnett in declaring Gen..
Houston's narrative false throughout, and in
allirming that' the battle. was fought against
the wishes and judgment of Houston, who is
-accused, moreover; of behaving with- personal
cowardice as well as showing utt,er - incapacity
as a general., lien. Sherman saYs that when
ever a full narrative of the.battle is given truth
fully to the world, 'Gen: Houston's mushroom
fame will rapidly decompose and sink into' pu
trescence with the mass of falsehoods upon
which it rests ;' and Gen. Lamar says, •My
own opinion is that he, himselfi . (Honsten) was
the only coward on that field. I can name no
other, and him 1 know as one.' " .
110 ---CITILDKVIN KILLED AS U EATEN'
By HOGS. —A Mrs. Abashaba wife of
Thomas Ellatield, became deranged about
twenty days ago. and left home, taking with
her two small children, one aged about two
years and the other about four years. Search
was made by her friends through the woods
for a space of twenty days, when she was
found in a frightful condition, and the two
children were found eaten by the hogs. They
had evidently been killed, as the skull bones
of each had been broken. The maniac mother,
is now in charge of a friend a couple of miles
from this city, in Perry township.—Evansville
(And.) l uquirer, 251 k ult.
A YouNo MAN SAWN IN Two.—On 'Friday/.
week, at E. O. Brigham's saw mills, about
miles from Dunham, Canada, a young man
named John Spooner. was sawn in two by a
circular saw. The saw was going very fast,
and is four feet in diameter. The young man
was stooping to pick something up, and fell
on the carriage moving toward the saw. Be
fore he'had time to recover himself, the saw
caught bun and cut him in two instantly.
- FRIGHTFri, DISASTER AT MAZATLAN.—( )n the
15th ult. a violent storm of wind passed over
the harbor of Mazatlan, _Mexico, causing seri
ous coflisions among the shipping. No less
titan six English, Fretith and Eeruvian ships
and barques were sunk and 23"0r their crew
drowned. Their cargoes were valued at over
1.0o(1,(100. The American schoduer Cope
land, in ballast, was also sunk, and it was re
ported than an American touS
had foundered 11l the pill,
- SA 7I K. ; N
wealthy ittruter, t•e•zicling in Callaway c ounty,
`icaz, tntirdered by a female belong
ing in hiun, on Thursday 'tight week, thrown
into the tire and con,lint6l, cell to the bowels
and head. The negro has been arrested and
acknowledged the dyed.
m. ho has been employ e d
for two •:,etunig Trir - a I ,o ivse
en-me sintlf Le ‘rffl - ked \vitt' Epboin
ail:~,i;oiningroon, pro
p T p 1 1 c.- 11/110
o
"to ca r. tax, water volal It jll
ill the asylum at t