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for the time ordered.
TRI-WEEKLY PRliils,
Mailed to Subscribe:a out of the City at Taw DOL
US Pea ittreuiti
- ..WEERLY PRESS.
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Three Ooplet, ~ . - " • • 600
. Five Copies, 11 ' -" 800
TM Obpies, , 1, " 100
T wenty Ooples, 11 _ - " " (to one address).. 20 00
Twenty Copies, or over, 11 (to eaten of each ••
eribearlberd 'each ' ,
• ' Por u Club of Twenty-one or over, we will send an
antra oopyto the getter-up of the Olub. -
T•
sgst fogh arnestereoe _are requested to sat as Agents for
X" ig Pas: •
• • . CALIFORNIA FREON,
Lined Bend-Monthly in time for the Oolifornta
Watches, -ifetutirg, C.
BAILEY & 00., OHESTNIIT STREET,
Manntaaturess of
132111111NG BILVRIt WARN,
tinder there hmeation, on the premises exalnale ely
Oltinens and Eitrangare are Invited to That onr mina.
eatery,
WATCHES.
tuotatly 'coi "haeDd. a: splendid kook 11 - ) T
V14 , 216.i, of all the 69'W:witted masa.
DIAMONDS.
.
Noekleows Nraostets, "BrOookes, Plzen
And ell other articlat In the Dterciond line:
tetswilre of NEW' ENSIGNS will:be snide free o
thine foe those 'lrtoklng work nude to order.
RICH GQI.J) JEWELRY. "
A beautiful assortment of all' the new styles
. 91 Pine
Jolt.lry, such en blOaalo, Stone tad Shell Cameo,
Pearl, Coral, Carbuncle, Manlnialte,
Lava, .to., !to.
141.11811,D OABTOBJ3, BA811:14T8, WAITICSB, Be
Aka, Bronze and Marble OLOBEB; of newest stylez j
seSuVefteneineriot
,
1 ' CIAUDITELL
.%...,(4441..011EMPLM.BtliNitt . ,
,LtavexOcerrad?:iitalstaiiners - ,nirsr itytie
JolsoWAhafaliclenadrest 0441. -
- "bladiersant% w airYths. - '
t Stands; Bnnkets. .
Pat Goods and owir Vases.
- -Oorad, Lava and !daub Oats.
tlole Agents in Philadelphia for the sale of insults,
Prodaisra's LONDON TIMB-BEDPVDB. del°
SILVER IV,ARE. •
WILLIAM WILSON & BON.
AINI/PACTUR SOP SILVER WARE, :
- (ESTABLISHED 1812,)
, 0.• tr COMA 71,111 .IXO 01111111irt 81111111CT0...
A large assortment of SILVER. BABB, Of overi
de-
Aorlptton, constantly °ninon, or made to order to match
soy pattern desired. . , •
•• Importers of ROMA • and Birmingham imported
Notre, , • - • satin assay •
B. lARDEN .
• • surroradtrisaa Imo-rave:anis ov
. B.ILVAIR-gLATXD•WARB,
O. SO4 ahastinit Street, above Third, op starry}
-• Philadelphia. . '
Constantly on hand and for sale to the Trade, '
rah, SETS, COALMUNION SERVICE SE CS, ' URNS,
PITOUERS," GORLETS, • CUM WAVTERB, BAS
KETS, CASTORS, nNrcrsa, SPOONS, FORKS,
LADLES, Ao.,
and plating on all kinds or seSay „
Qatbroare.
I.I * .A.RDWABE.—The subscribers; CIDM
KJ-MISSION MERCHANTS for thesale of FOREIGN
AND DOMESTIC HARDWARE , would respectfully
Gail the attention of the trade to their atook, which
they are offering at lowest rates. • Our asaortruent con
sists In part of—, 7 • 1
Cludoe of all Mods —Trace, Log L ylalter, Breast Oz,
COW, Fifth, Rack, Wagon,- Stage, Bolter,
Lock, ;Bap,
Mine, and Coll Chains. .
The ellebrated " L Horse Nails Stone and Sledge
libuninors
Wright's ), and other Abrils Solid Box and other .
Fines.
Short and long he ndle . yry Pane rourid and oral
Bake Pans.
"Mart n's" superior /ilea and Hasp; Bed Screws.
"Excelsior ) 1 Safety FUPO; Blasting Tubes.
Corn, Grass, Asa litter Brython.; ,nay, Corn, and Straw
•
Bar, Manure, Tanners', and Blitsillog Yorks.
Rakes and Hose; novels and Spades, of all kinds.
Tacks, Brads, Shoe, Clout, and Finishing Nails.
Coat tied Wrought
Butt flingee, Screws fioelci of all
kinds; Cutlery, Rams and Pumps, Alex, Unin
-o)oll,,Planes, and other Toga, &0., &o. . • ;
N. G. LEWIS & SON, .
No. 411 COMBIEROB Sisbot.
Qiiptbing;
L. SHARP; 'TAILOR, 148 NORTH
41-m.! POURTII strcot, toßi rtaqk.. . , .
' Making and tsirrimiug Dress ,
Ooatii, SO, • ••
akigg Lati.trintslug'rkititilooti . l•Szyeste, T 4,76,. •
AYES. SILE R ID A:lf, MEROIANT
TAILOR ' Noe. 18 endlB,
: Routh
ABOTB CIILSTRUT.
•
'A large and well soleoto4 stook of OLOTLIBAnd
CIASEIWZILEBnIways ort Imad. •
All Olotking made et this Eetebileamont ;will be of
Ilbe bast quality aid in the most ibehlonebio
Partionier etiolation given to ObILIFORki °LOTH
-,‘ • ; _ , enti-tf
ii - prito: dnD iltiscit
00T8' AND , SHOES.—The subscriber
JIMP ..kas on hand a latge and varied stook of . BOOTS
and . ESTOß29,which yet nip sell at the loweat_pmea..
- GEO. W. TAYLOR;
S. B. corner PISTIL and SUREST Sta.
QPRING STOCK OF BOOTS-AND SHOES
—JOSEPH U. TIIOBI.PBON.de 00. No; 814 4Lalt.
AZT Street, and Nes. and SRADDIK.LIN PLAI3B,
have now in store a large. and Neell-meorted stock 'of
BOOTS and 8110E8, of 04 and Eastern rsanufastara,
,Ft/oh they offer for sale on the best terms for Cloab, or
e the coral credit.' -
Balers are Invited to NM and ' sot tins their stook.
.11111-dtf • •• ,
i/Irttge -anb
ROBERT SHOEMAKER & 00.;
, .
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
ntisalseta.cere and Dealer' - PAINTS, VARNISEIRS,
'end NTT/11)0yr GLASS; Northeast corner FOURTH and
`BAGS Streets, Philadelphici.
Sole Agents lei the sale of the celebrated Floral%
oats . . • nth 23.41
'ZIEGLER & SMITH, WHOLESALE
'DILIIGGISTS, southweet corner of SECOND and
GRSBN &reels, have in store, and offer to the trade in
ea to suit purchasers s „
Zug. Von. Bed. .
Waiting.
Gant; Arable, pinked end sorts.
Benue Alois. •
4.)11 Aniseed. , •
2/11i0 Green, in Brand,
;:VVrF LEAD,
eotier to the public Palate.
colors In Oil, Varnishes , lac., at snob raftreed prices
that we invite the attention of dealers and consumers
60'our stoat. , ZISOLER 8 11TH,
mia.lB • id. W. Oor.socond and Brien sta.
WINDOW GLASS! WINDOW
GLASS! I—We Invite the attentlon of the pp•
pe to our exteitslie stock of French and -American
Window Glass. The largo and well selected stock of
Glass coostantly en hand onablee . us totil all orders
with despatch, and iu low as any other• house in the
atty. ,ZINGI.I3. It SNIT%
Wholesale Genii/has,
xultle S. W. corner of Second and Green sta.
elAna, Glass an etneeneroare.
'CIGNA AND GLASS.
.
- TEA AND TOILET BETE.
GOLD lIIADD,"JaD DZOODLTIO
Nana AND DOREMILN GIABAWARI,
PADDY AATTOLD9, &o.
Xi SOLDi YIMA LOWER? UMW, At
• . iddßiflEN & WITTIVO,
titAoobllo HALL, 118 CHESTNUT STREW
• 13.--oota loaned to Wiles at reasonable terms
FIZENCII PLATE GLASS.—HAYING
beep appolotod by.the Compagnit de Fionffe”
he tIOLIi AGENTS for the "iudo of their GLASS to this
City, we aro prepared longer to the trade or mum.
sox: front' utdr Mock on hand, POLISHED PLATE
dirLAHI for Stores or Dwelling Fronts; Rough Plate,
-tar Floors and Skylights; and Silvered Plate, of large
ASS, for Mirrors, • The Glass will be sold at the • lowest
and warranted superior, 40 sorry 'upset, to Ulf
Also Imported. - • ,
ROUT. 13HoltMAKsR & CO:,
. .
• Mate end-Window Glass Warehlttto;
N. N. we. of 'FOURTH and RACE Streets
mIt2S-tf - Philadelphia
dobarcc anb ((Cigars
fl/GARS, -OF FAVORITE : BRANDS
via and warted PilefE t morally selected by own house
et Whom', in store, and received by every arrival from
OM_ port. , FiNitlET k SONS,
ad.23 . m •- • • 210 South FRONT Street.
.g.3lAverre 1NE110,13-7A handsome n.ort-
JIL li meat ar , odd' as ' .
' NI o
Olalads ` . I' ortocto,
Banana,
Jtipttet,
06loso Convordantesi,
Tom/Lopes, - Union Aineriesnaj
Orden Plonk Cubans, ho., tee,
In )(YU, 1-8 and 1-10 net, of all altos and gain-
Ufa, in store and oonstaniii ressivins L and for sale law,
Dr _ OBABLEB TRIII,
- (new) 118 WALNUT Sheet,
below Second , nooond story`
.1 '‘I4",OA-BA-NAB AND.PARTAGAS
BOilaiLB,—A. abates invOlde or tbena oelobrated
Violas on board brig"" New Era} , URI , expeated from
Hums, end for gale low, by OEFARLES TETE;
(NoirllBllWalant strait, below flecoad,
ani &road Rtar Y.
EARLE , s_
FREE RALtRAT
PAINTINGS;
LOMIAO-GLABSEB,
PORTRAIT,
and PICTURE FRAMEfI
Ici every 4erf 01
JAMES B. EARtat & SON,
816 OHNBTNIIT Bt-Feet,
pthiesSte the Girard UOllll9
RI, MIARBT,) CLARET
Prow Si tier gallon utitiarda, and by the deran from
IPS in.ported LE-
Aritutti - irpcbage end Retell dealer* In Wines,
~16quotp, ece.,
06495r.i8. Xl9 South' '
B$V AT 3 TH atreet, 8, E.
lOW 44 ' .214*
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VOL. a.--NO. 299.
New Vttblirationg
GREAT SUMMER BOOK. _
MT OVT,
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LECTURES
OP
LOLA 3rONTEZ.
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al:tarok which are truly enrprising, the more striking
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"As Is usual with women of au active mind, Lola
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M ata Lola in4 Mooted hove credit for her talents, I aka
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political men of the country as a subatantive power."—
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"Lola )totitez is a women of superior talents, of ex
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linguist than half the collage pedants, and one of the
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and soil at fair prim. ,•" jo6-21n
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Je6-2zn FOUItTLI and ItAOE.
' FOWLER, WELLS, & 00922
4 CHESTNUT Street, 'keep standard wo rks on
Phrenology, Phyalology;Water Cure, and Pim.
nography, wholesale and Phronologl
cal Examination, With charts, and full Writ
ten description., of character, given day. and even.
in,g. Cabinet free .to visitors. Ordore by mall to be
addressed, to. Ponder, Wa ll a,. & Co., 922 Chestnut
atreot. , . je94molf..trky t pep 30
MissoWilgus attb Copartitcrelnps
WE, TEE, SUBSCRIBERS, bate this day
v v entered into a Limited PARTNERSIITP; agreea
bly to the prorisiens of the Act of Asaumbly of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, parsed the first day of
March, I$3C, entitled "An act relatire to limited
partnerships," and do hereby certify that the name of
the Orra tinder which the Enid partnership IF to be con
ducted is QUARLES HENRI BRIAN ; that the gene
ral nature of the business to he transacted in TAILOR
.IN(I, and the. asine will be transacted -in the city of
Philadelphia; that the name of the General Partner of
said firm to CHARLES HENRY BRIAN, of the city
of Philadelphia, and the name of tho Special Partner
Is JOSEPH B.- iftrraitmeoN, of Bristol, in the
State of Pennsylvania that tho capital contributed by
the mid Joseph B. Hatteltingon, Special Partner, is
Two. Thousand Fire Hundred Hullers, in cash; that the
period at whicli the mild partnership to to commence la
the twenty-Brat day of Juno. A. D. eighteen hundred
itnitufty : eight ; and that It will terminate on the twen
ty-tirat day of jano,,A - 1 D. nlglikell Ititndrod and witty,
(1880.)'' CHAS. 11. BRIAN.
J. ft. HUTCHINSON.
' P/lILADF,Lenis, June 21, 1858. 'l' , ;je22.-tuat,
NOTICE.—The Copartnership heretofore
1 exlatlng between ISAAC B. BAXTER, JR., and
CEO. W. BAXTER, under the name of ISAAC B.
BAXTER, JR., B BROTHER, waadiewolved by mutual
tangent on the lot Ind.' All pora•ona Indebted to the
lute concern wlll•pleaan make payment to ISAAC 11.
BAXTER, — .7n ; who la oboe authorized to receive
deLta due the late Orm, end settle the bovine:a of the
IMMO. ' ISAAC B. BA XThlt, Jo ,
111:0. W. BANTER.
. Pen, tosuntA, Joiy,l4, IKdt J)l5-thatn3t*
JMI UNDERSIGNED have this day
1 formed a,coportnerahlp. under the firm of Aro-
CaDLEY, BRATTIER BIIEWSTEH, for the frame ,
action of the Importing and Jobbing buttineas In
(1101141, and Fancy Goods. NA., 23 North
FM:Tata Street. RU/7 B. McOATILEY,
DANIEL W. McCAULEY.
• CHARLES 0. BREWSTER.
July Is!, MS. Jyl.thatu lm
to ULE UNDERSIGNED HAVE F3RMED
JL n eopartnerehip under the style of FRO TILL &OKA at
& WELLS, for the transaction of a GENERAL DRY
GOODS COMMISSION BUSINESS, and hare taken the
Mere No. 14 South FRONT Street, and 3d LETITIA
Street. THEODORE FROTHINOHAM,
KIRK D. WELLS
Pati.snacents, Juno 1at,1868
THE SUBSCRIBERS UATE THIS
BAT entered Into a limited partnership. agreea
bly to the Provisions of the Act of Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved March 21,
18311, entitled. An Act relative to Limited Partner
shlpa,” and the supplement thereto; 'Oct we do hereby
certify: -
2. That the name of the firm, motor which ouch part
nershlriJs to be conducted. is J. F. & R. B. ORNE.
2. The general nature of the bualness Intended to ho
transncted to the purchase and sale of Oarpeting in the
city of Philadelphia.
3. The name of the general partners are JOHN F.
ORNE, residing at the northweot corner of Arch and
Twenty-anti street, in the city of Philadelphia; and
EDWARD B. ORNH. residing on the north side of
Arch street, above Twenty-first street, in the said city.
4. The name of the special partner is BENJAMIN
ORNE. residing at 285 North Ninth street, In the city
of Philadelphia, who, no such special 'minor, Las con
tributed to the common stock or OM said firm the sum
or twotity-fiva thousand dollars In col.
b. ) he [Mid partnerehip commence[ July 14, A. 1)
1413, and will terminate on the 14th day of July, A. I)
1861. BENJAMIN ORNE,
JOBN F WINE.
EDWARD B. ORNE.
PHILADELPHIA, July 14, 1668. Jyls43w
2.gritnitnral
-.VNEW CROP TURNIP SEEDS, ot,
- every variety. Also, Buckwheat awl Millet.
EIPANGLEd. & UItALLAN,
Iris No. on 'MARKET street, below Eleventh
GR AIN CRADLES, SCYTHES,
Rakes, Yorke, Manure Drage, Bramble Scythes,
SPAN/ILEA:I. dr. GRAHAM,
No 021 MARKET Street. below Seventh.
1.1.0115 E POWERS, THRESHERS,
...W. Separators, Grate Fang, &e., of all the meal
approved kinds.
SPANGLER & </KAKAS'',
No. OW MARKET Street, below Seventh
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
LAND LOCATING AGENCY
CHICAGO, ILL.'
Tho subscriber, baring bad much practical export.
eine In selecting and locating lands in the various Land
District. in the Western Stairs, has unusual facilities
fur waling valuable sclectlous for
LAND WARRANTS OR CASH.
Having Flerv•yor, constant!" Ds the field to make
penomal examinations, Ito can always make the moot
judicloue locations.
Lands unsurpanioti for fertility of roil and salubrity
of climate, near the line of railroads, may now be had
, lOWA AND 'WISCONSIN.
Satisfactory references given when required.
try- Molloy Invested in Kansas and Nebraska, an
any of the Weetern States.
- S. BA I IBBURV,
,Jylo-Out 49 CLAIIKE Street, Chicago.
108 QR. OASES FORT WIRE.
111 RU. Pipe. Alicante do
22 Qr. do do do.
20 Qr. do Sherry do.
11 Pipe. Superior Padarcte RUC
- ' 20 Qr. Pipes do do do.
40 ,46' do do do do.
111 Bales A•sorted Oorke.
8 id Saga Almonds.
ZS do illberte
Lan.l4ll from Brig " Arrogant. Valetta," and for sale
by A. MERINO,
m 31.741 140 8011T11 FRONT Street.
DIME BONE DUST, GROUND FINE.
2. A very superior article. DOr sale is large or renal
lota, by OBOANDALN, PRIMA, &
my!. 104 North Dolow.re avenue
CEESE. —196 boxes Prime Herkimor
county just lauding and for sale by
0. 0. SADLER & 00.,
108 No O North Wats.. ntrawt.
SOFT PRUDE TURPENTINE.--Just re
oelved a small lot of Soft Crud(' Turpontlne, of
good quality, and for pain by
WEAVER; FITLER & CO..
Jylf. No. 23N. WATER Bt., arid '22 N. WIIARVEB
MONONGAHELA WHISKEY.—I 6 bble.
L old Monookinh.a a Whiskey, In Atom and for Rale by
WILLIAM U YRATON,
4,4 rzin Slnnth FRONT of
WHITE FISH.--7.5 half bble. of the cote
r! bread Detroit Ulm White Plsh, just received
so 4 for sale by 0 NorthDE & 0,
.164 0 W WATER Rood.
ONONGAIIELA.-13 bbls. Burnsido's
1,1 old Monongahela pure Rye Whlaloy, Just received
and for sale by , WILLIAM R. YNATON.
3.05 _ glti Routh VRONT Rt.
_ _
CERMAN CIGARS.-15 Cariell various
brands, in store and for We by
WILLIAM YEIATON,
, rl6 , No. 216 South FRONT [great.
:Ai4 , sopp'S PALE ALE, in htis., a
consiOut supply on howl, In Custom Umme stores,
for minty • • . WILLIAM U. YRATON,
1345 uitt Wont. FRONT Stroot
B ROWN STOUT:-40 casks cc Final &
imported diroct from Loudon, in
store tuid for sale by WM. II YEA7ON,
jyls 416 South FRONT Street.
$l.OO l OO, intent f°(l l ° O r rt D go or d ° it v ro T p
x ( r ) .
. Apply to A. R. C iItVER & CO.,
,q/&-OtAt B. W. OrAer NOVI and FILBERT,
Ellt
TUESDAY. JULY 20, 1858
THOS. JEFFERSON'S RELIGIOUS VAtTll
Like other 'men, placed in high situations,
the great Democrat, who wrote the Declara
tion of Independence, was suspected and oven
accused of being an unbeliever. That large
class, whom Bonus called "the un co righte
ous," seemed to think it a point of their reli
gions duty to comment, in no measured terms,
upon the presumed indifference of TirostAs
,TErreneme to that Future which rests beyond
this world. Unjust, and eminently un-
Christian, were such baseless comments.
Even if they had a foundation, SS they had
none, the matter surely rested, not between
THOMAS JEFFERSON and them,- but between
THOMAS JEFFERSON and his and their Maker.
Whence, and from what authority, did these
censors obtain their commission for misinter
preting the motives and arraigning the reli
gious belief, or even the disbelief, of' their
fellow-men ? No delegated authority to
preach the Gospel gave them power to assail
Thomas JErrEasoN, whether ho was alive or
dead., We are involuntarily reminded, as we
think of ',their conduct, - of 'the impressive
lesson given by the 'apposite relation of the
Pharisee and the Publican.
Randall's Life of Jefferson, the third and
concluding volume of which has just been pub
lished (by DERRY & JACKSON, of New York),
supplies ample materials for putting an end, at
once and for ever, to all doubts as to the fixed
and certain Christianity of the eminent " Sage
of Monticello." Abounding, as it does, in a
large proportion of Terreesoe's private cor
respondence with his family and most intimate
friends—letters never befbre published, and
nor written with the remotest view to publics.
lion—this Biography places JEFFERSON before
the world, not only as ono of the greatest men
of a time when there were giants in the
land, but also as a kind and tender parent, a
faithful friend, and a chivalrous and high
minded man. In a word, this Correspondence
gives a perfect photograph ofJErrEnsou, not
only in his public relations (for it is also their
exponent,) but also in the various relations, do
mestic and social, in which he honorably and
enduringly participated, as a Christian gentle.
man should. Mr. RANDALL, by the judi
cious and liberal use of JEFFERSON'S own Let
ters, and by testimony supplied by the Corres
pondence and statements of surviving mom.
bore of JEPPERI3O2O3 own family, and also of
JEFFERSON'S few Surviving friends, has cleared
away, at once and for ever, the misrepresenta
tions with which the presumption of a num
rous and meddling class (described by POPE
as "graceless zealots") . had attempted to
darken his fair fame. JEFFERSON, with more
candor than policy, hesitated not to declare
his opinion of all Pharisaical pretensions, and '
the result was a constant blackening of his re.
potation. Of course, really religious people
did not join in this. But really religions peo
ple are not so numerous nor ao loud-tongued
as what may be called the make-believe reli
gious, who are excessively liberal in proles.
sion, and evidently consider intolerance a
point of duty—for, the moment a good man,
4; Whine life in in the right,"
even looks suspiciously at their pretensions, he
is sot upon with the stereotyped accusation—
soinetiteea only whispered, sometimes pro
claimed on the house-top—" Heed not that
man ; lie is an Atheist."
From the closing volume of Randall's Life
of Jefferson wo collect a few proofs (out of
many there given) of the belief of a man who
has so often 1)0011 assailed, dead and alive, for
want, not only of saving faith, but even of
religious feeling.
Early in 18:31, when THOMAS JEFFERSON was
President, his favorite 'daughter, MARIA, was
cited to God, In the bloom of beauty, at the
early age of 26. More than half a century
after this event, a niece of this young lady
sent Mr. RANDALL a long letter relating: the
particulars of the death. She adds :
"My mother (Martha, eldest daughter of Jet.
fersonJ has told me that on the day of her sleter'e
death she left her father alone for some 'tours
Ile then sent for her, and she found him with the
Bible in his hands. Ile who has been so often
and so harshly accused of unbelief; he, In his hour'
of intense afflietion, sought and found consolation
in the sacred volume. Tho comforter was there
for his true heart and devout spirit, oven though
his faith was not what the iverld nails orthodox."
In a letter written, at the time of his daugh
ter's death, to his old friend Governor PAnn,
of Virginia, Mr. JEFFERSON alludes, sadlyand
touchingly, to the ties which were so con
stantly breaking. Ho says, cc We have, how
ever, the traveller's consolation. Every step
shortens the distance we have to go ; the end
of our journey is in sight, the bed wherein
we aro to rest, and to rise in the midst of
the friends we have lost. ( We sorrow not,
then, as others who have no hope ;' but look
forward to the day which joins us to the great
majority !"
(.Early in 1814," says Mr. RANDALL, "in
answer to a letter from Mr. SAMUEL GREEN
now, who applied to him for aid to a Bible
Society, and who stated to him that there
were families in Virginia destitute of the
Bible, Mr. Jzerensote expressed his surprise
et the latter assertion, but presuming that the
society (bad evidence of the tact,' he on.
closed• a draft of fifty dollars to his corre
spondent, g sincerely agreeing with him that
there never was a more and sublime system of
morality delivered to man than is to be found
in the four Evangelists I"
JEFFERSON practically found more than "mo
rality " in Shcred Writ. As we have shownp
when the severest domestic 'calamity betel
him, ho turned to it for comfort and consola
tion. Well might a clergyman who had con
versed with him, as a stranger, on various sub
jects, religion included, have exclaimed, on
discovering that President JEFFERSON had
been his companion, "I tell you that he was
neither an atheist nor irreligious man—one of
jester sentiments I never met with." More
over, hi 1810, I n a letter to Dr. VINE UTLEY,
ho says"' never go to bed without an hour,
or half an hour's previous rending of some
thir g moral, whereon to ruminate in the inter
vals of sleep."
His biographer says " The book oftenest
chosen for reading for a hour, or half an hour,
before going to bed, was a collection of ex
tractsfrom the Bible."
31r. R slava', further records that in 1803,
while President Jan. snetoze was in Washing
ton " overwhelmed with other business, be
made time to cut such passages (rein the
Evangelists as ho believed to have emanated
directly from the lips of the Saviour, and he
arrayed them in an octavo volume of forty-six
pages. In a letter to an old friend, JEFFER.
SON described this book, (which he called
" The Philosophy of Jeans,") and said " A
more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I
have never seen ; it is a document in proof'
Cut I am a real Chris/tan, that le to say, a
disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very differ
ent from the Platoniste, who call me infidel
and themselves Christians and preachers of the
Gospel, while they draw all their characteris
tic dogmas from what its author never said
nor saw." In later years (1813.14) ho placed
the text'', in columns side by side, in English,
Creek, Latin, end French. This was the
hook he commonly read for an hour or• half
an hour before he retired to bed, "whereon
' to ruminate in the Intervals of sleep." Yet
this man, this really Christian student, has
been attacked for—unbelief ! .
After ho took leave, on his death-bed, of• the
female members (Shia family, almost his latest
words were "Lord, now tettest thou thy ser
vant depart in peace."
In nearly every public document which
JEFFERSON wrote or corrected, there are more
or less pointed recognitions of Cod and Pro.
vidonce. Mr. RANDALL. says: "In hie two
Inaugural Addresses as President of the
United States, and in many of his annual
messages, lie makes the 'same recognitions--
clothes them on several occasions in the most
explicit language---substantially avows the (loti
PHILADELPHIA. TUESDAY. JULY 20, 1858.
of his faith to be the OA of revelation—de
clares his belief in the efficacy of prayer, and
the duty of ascriptions of praise to the author
of all mercies—and speaks of the Christian re
ligion as professed in his country as a benign
religion. evincing the favor of Heaven. Had
his wishes been Consulted, the symbol borne
on our national seal would have contained our
public profession of Christianity, as a nation.
Them is nothing in hie writings or the history
of his life to show that his public declara
tions were insincere, or thrown out for
more effect. On the contrary, his most
confidential writings sustain his public
professions, and advance beyond them
into the avowal of a belief in a future
state of rewards and punishments." More
over, be subscribed to Bible societle's and
other religious objects, and gave money for
the erection of Christian churches and the
support of the clergy. He regularly attended
the Episcopal Church ; was baptized Into It In
his infancy; was married by one of its cler
gymen to a wife who lived and died in it. His
children also were baptised and married ac.:
cording to its rites, and its burial services were
read over those of his children who preceded
him to the grave, over his wife, and finally.
over himself. Lastly, he never was hoard to
utter a word of profanity-r-stever to breathe a
scoff at religion. What matters all this, if.
certain Pharisees declare thempolVes just men,
and JEFFERSON "far from orthodox." Wit.'
tily was it said to the English bishop, cc Or
thodoxy, my lord, is our dory, and heterodoxy
is yours." •
But JEFFERSON has himself left Ms re
ligions creed on record. Early in 1808, while
ho was President, he placed it, upon paper,
thinking it only just to his family, (as ho told
his eldest daughter,) "that his family, by pos
sessing Chit, should be enabled to estimate the
libels published against him on this, as on every
other possible subject." The document in
question was a "Syllabus of an Estimate of
the Merit of the Doctrines of - Jesus, compared
with those of others," sent by him to Dr.
Rust'. It is to be found in Vol. 111 pp. 1166.8
of the Life by RANDALL, to which we rotor, as
its length prevents its reproduction hero. Dr.
Dm-muses, of - Philadelphia, who attended
JEFFERSON during Lis last illness, and has sup
plied Mr. RANDALL with Memoranda, says
" His religious belief harmonized more close
ly with that of the Unitarians than of any other
denomination, but it was liberal and untram
melled by sectarian fooling and prejudices."
Wo, who write these lines, hold a religious
faith widely differing from Unitarianism, but
we do not therefore say, as others did, in Jzi
rEasoN's CARO, that an Unitarian and an Athe
ist aro equally heterodox. In Jurvsasos's
closing years, ho would proyent discussion on
religion by saying that ho 141110 an Unitarian,
and his family and friends " hoard him habi
tually speak reverently of God, the Saviour,
and the groat truths of Christianity." That
is, he spoke of such sublime subjects oven as
his accusers ought to have spoken.
JErrEason's own opinion as to gratuitous
questioning of other men's religious faith was
tersely expressed, in 1814, to a Mr. Mums
Kum, who declared himself to have received
a special " call" for his (JErrsasoN's) con
version. It runs thus c
"I must over believe that religion substantially
good whichproduces an honest life, and we have
been authorized by one whom you and 1 equally
raspeot, to judge of the tree by its fruit. Our parti
cular principles of religion arc a subject of amount
ability to our Clod alone. I inquire after no man's
and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us
in this life to know whether yours or mine, our
friends or our foes. are exactly the right Nay,
wo have heard it said that there is not a Quaker
or a Baptist. a P esbyterian or an Episcopalian,
a Catholic nr a Protestant in Heaven ; that, on en
tering that gate, we leave those badges of schism
behind. and Lind oureetvee united on those prin•
ciples only In which God has united us all."
Perhaps then sentiments are " not ortho
dox." Nevertheless, they breathe a Lino free
spirit of tolerance, a truly Catholic spirit. It
is more Christian, we take leave to say, so to
feel and write than to denounce, as tho prac
tice has been, the author of this declaration.
EPHEMERA.---No. 2
IN THE 'III'S
&or The Prone 1
, 4 De omnibus rebut, et quttuptent untie ,t
As we purpose being elusionl or nothing In the
following article, we have headed It with aquota.
tine, the aptness of which will strike all our read
era ns irresistible. We have—in that celebrated
paper, No. 1 of this series—spokon of the Rail,
without raillery; we now approach the 'Bun, with•
out bustle. Before that ancient and highly in
oonvonient vehicular contrivance—known to the
general public by the name of Omnibus, and to
the literati and professionals as 'Bus—passes out
of existence, we desire briefly to chronicle Its in•
ventlon, progress, and decadence. And here we
thrill have an opportunity of bringing our well
known antiquarian and classical research into
play. or rather display.
Gibbon, a woll•known Dutch author of the 14th
century, and the inventor of " Lager," in a an
perficial work, with the fearful title of "Der Un
tergang and Fall des Romischen Relotts, mit
Varlationen ;" or, the "Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire, with Ramifications," has, with
hie usual thoughtleseneaa, omitted to mention the
use of omnibuses by the ancient Rotnans. The
most careless reading, however, of either of those
delightful authors—Horace, nicknamed "Flacons,"
'or the flatulent, from a trick ho had of puffing out
his °hooka In hot weather ; or Cicero, called Mar
one Tullius, after his maternal grandfather, Mark
Tully, a Kildare man—will serve to show that om•
nibuses were well known, and much used in their
times; and, as wo shall endeavor to show, muoh
earlier. And now to the proof of their me.
Homes, in a neat little note of apology to his
friend, Meeenas, who was then staying at his coun
try place at Tivoli, (the Roman Gortuantown,) for
the non-acceptance of a dinner invitation, which
ho regretted, especially as his friend bad promised
him some British natives—not real live John Bulls,
but oysters—as part of the entertainment, gees on
humorously to descri be the reason of his Inability
to attend the dinner; which was, that Lis coachman
had eloped the night before, taking along with him
the chambermaid and the spoons, and winding up his
note rt ln these words: "Nemo mortaliatm omnibus,
koris sapit," whioh we willingly and freely trans
late fur the benefit of the latinleas into " you know,
my dear boy, no cane man would go to dinner in
an omnibus."
To an unprejudiced mind, that quotation would
settle the business, but we have nu abundanoe of
authorities further. Cicero, in that delightful tot
ter of his • to Vorres—frout whom tho Verreo family
of the present day are descended—where ho de•
scribes his return to his "offices" in Rome, for the
September term of the Roman Quarter Sessions,
hits off the omnibus men of his day in a few gra
phic words, which show that they preserve the
same characteristics to the present time. Cicero
had been spending the long vacation lark-shoot•
tog on the " Catnpagna," still a favorite 'maso
n:int with the Romans, and thus describes what
occurred on his arrival at the railroad depot.
"Omnibus homines, qui miscuit utile et dales,
Coolunt nun 'minim, mutant gni trainman cut ,
runt," which we willingly translate for the bene
fit of. the ouuntry gentlemen • '• Theounibus men,
as usual, says ho, ran hither and thither, half
seas over," (transmare currunt,) " and assailed me
with their loud cries. Ono took my carpet-bag,
another my gun, reline a third bellowed in my ear.
'lip the Appian Way, counsellor ; right off!' 1'
was tempted to ride, but, says he slyly, I changed
my mind, (cfrintnnon animum
But it would be mere pedantry to elle fur-
ther authorities to show that those vehicles were
in general use in there tunes, and as they
mire new— evidently in slight esteems A re
cent remarkable discovery has, however, enabled
us to go boric much farther than the times of
either Horace or Cicero, and to settle two or three
vexed questiomis, which have fur a long (into agi
tated the literary world. The ingenious auc
tioneer who, when selling the Roman helmet, de
scribed it es belonging either to Romulus or Re
mus, the founders of Rome, but frankly con
fessed his ignorance as to whether they were iron
or braes founders, will, if he still survives, be
much relieved by this discovery. It also settles
the date of the Invention of the omnibus, and
disposes entirely of the ridiculous fable of the
founders of Rains being suckled by a wolf, and
• • . -
having no lawful mother to do far them. Here,
then, is the inscription found on a marble slab,
during the recent explorations made In the ruins
near Ostia •
ja^ent Romulus et o'i - tennis, (initiators'', :ere,
et ferrnc et ROMP,
Omnibus plums feceut, aria toe, et tentacutuni equine
rum
inborolore° MI, councilor° mimeo, (amnion 1301)nil,
II in .W.. 4, requievcant in pace—aoinpncrno iliberuio
Itilletl "
In one corner of the flab were the words , 4 lien
new foolt," nattily " rubliott out," in ?Mai un
pleasant condition ono member of that distin
guished family Is, to our certain knowledge and
belief, at this present writing. Under the in
eaription itself were two crosses ; thus—f f ; tho
meaning of which has puzzled the savers con
siderably, but which wore probably fee-similes of
the autographs of the great interred.'
The following translation givee, we think, the
spirit of the inscription which is evidently an
epitaph, and, therefore, a most reliable authority :
Rare lie Romulus and O'Remus, founders of Rome,
also In brats and Iron.
They built the first city, and the lint boa, will, tackling
for that Hume :
Irishmen both, and Kerry men of 'the good mild
gook. ,
Here they lle—trod rent their nowle. Miami forever—
Amen."
Singe the discovery of this interesting inscription, of
whose authenticity, by tke way, we have no doubt,
there has been much severe criticism levelled at
the grammar and style of its composition. In
these discussions and criticisms we desire to take
no part, but merely suggest to the classical reader'
that if the style is unpolished or ungrammatical,
it is not dofioient in vigor, and the repetition of
the words "Rio jaaent"—liore they lie—in the last
line, is peculiarly touching.
When omnibuses were first started they wouldn't
go; which statement, apparently, involves a bull
of as large dimensions as the vehlolo we are so
olassically describing. We wilt explain : When
the first omnibus was finished, at the factory of
Romultis,•O'Remus k C 0.,. It was discovered that
belwhells wouldn't turn on their axes.' This was
Isoneldeted a bad omen—everything was considered
an omen at that timo—and an Augur was consulted,
who said it was a bore. O'Remus, being a hot
'
tempered man, was about knocking it to pieces with
Ste hatchet, when his foreman, seeing the den
ger isle work was in—in which ho naturally took
reat pride—begged him to wait until the senior
inserter; Romulus, (who had gone to the Via
fiarberini, or Algerine coast, to have a note
shaved,) would come in. But o'nm:ens was inexora
ble, and had his hatchet raised to strike, when the
foreman, rushing forward, seised the first thing
that came to his hand, which, as the 'gods were
propitious, happened to be a largo pot, labelled
" Unguentam llollowayniensis," or Bolloivay's
Ointment, which ho had been using for a" bad leg
of eighteen years standing," with which he libe
rally lubrioated the reettleitrant axles.
Strange to relate, the wheels turned round
slowly—but when did en omnibus-wheel even do
otherwise—and thus demonstrated the virtues of
Professor Rolloway's wonderful invention. This
being the first authentic cure on record, and its
discovery being due to our own research, if the
Professor has any private aoknowledgments to
make us, he can learn our address at this office.
But , to return. "Lit avertint omen," said the
pious O'Remus—whose name, by the way, has boon
used ever since by the Latins as the commencement
of all solemn prayers—when ho saw the wheels be
gan to turn, t• the thing will work," " °test an fait
accompli," anti "per Bacchus" " hnook
spets" out of these " curricall" fellows. These
latter personages drove absurd little cabs, which
they ridiculously called " currionli", and were
as great a set of impostors as the luiektuon of the
prvent day, charging you a dollar it head for
driving you around the corner, anti, when they
got you thole, a quarter for condescending to open
the door. They had for a long thuo_all the pas
senger trade of Romo, and the now vehicles,
from having " bust up" this monopoly, were called
by thst 't Plebs"—or the " great unwashed"—Ont
ryeloisters.
But enough for our present paper. We will eon
elude rifle exerting eubjeat. in our next..
PACIFICATION OF MEXICO
For The Presa.i
IVAHuillaroN, July 18, 1858
Permit the the indulgent use of your highly ap
preciated ()plums for the portrayal of a few Inter
esting partioulars in Seforeneo to parties, the views
of the Zulotiga Government, the adjustment of ex
isting difforenees in, and the general pacification
of, Mexico.
It is not true that Jeerer. is "the representative
of the Constitutional Government," And that the
Zuleega is "a Govermnent opposed to a Consti
tution." The woe shall lie stated, as understood,
impel tinily. Juarez, a civil [l] judge of Mexico,
desit es. It would NOM, at the point of the bayonet,
net by the use of reason, to thrust him self upon
the Mexican nation Al President, in defiance of a
do T..tito Government, and without thereto being
eh if d by the Mexican people.
Ito, unideoted by the people, clattna to he Presi
dent under or by virtue of the organic law of 1857,
which Ito framers (the Congress) infringed, and
which its &et President (Comoufort) abrogated
and dethroned, &ranee found ineffective to pro
mote the welfare of Mexico Juarez would thus
bn President under an admitted improper and in
elTeetive abrogated and Infringed organic law,
without the oonsent (vote) of the people, but the
do facto Government of Zuloaga with the consent
of the people, would institute au organist law more
In aceordanno with their wish and -will than the
abrogated organic law of 1857.
Zulonga in thus. not only a Conatitutlonal.PfNi
dent, but a President who is willing to submit to
the will and ;visit of the people. On the other
hand, Juarez may be said to be denim, to sot up
his own porsonnl command over the people, on the
absurd ineignillant lame or plea, (and at all and
every sacrifice, and even ruin of the nation,) that
ho (appointed by Comonfort) woe Chief Judge of
the Supreme Court of Mexico under the organic,
law of 1857, at tha moment when ho (Comonfort)
dispersed the Congress, and in his own person as
slimed the authority of 11 Dictator absolute. The
Dictator ttbseluto, wee overthrown by the revolu
lion, and Zolonga holds the Presidency in the in
terests of pence and constitutional order by the
right and 888203 of the said revolution. When
unable to sustain himself Dictator absolute, or
after he (Comenfort) bad dethroned (resigned au
thority under) the organic law of 1857, he (Comon
fort) pretended to cosign (as Dictator) the Presi
dency to Jnarez as heir-at-law (will) or himself and
to the Constitution (organic law) which he (Co
monfort) bad previously sot aside—abolished.
Mexico was not nn empire, nor Comonfort nn
emperor,
with the ( legal) power to appoint a sue-
COP3Or at the moment ho had himself determined
to vacate his hostile position to the best interests
of the country, and with the view to prevent the
nation reaching again that pence of which be. by
excess of folly, had himself alone deprived It. The
errors o f Comon fort must necessarily be corrected
and ;Ward before peace again ran happen to
Mexico ; and it is 83 plainly evident that the
errors of Comonfort can be amended only by a
now organic law. That is the declared wisher the
&lenge administration The nation cannot be
made worse by a new organic law. It may be
made a groat deal better, and in every sense more
happy, strong, and prosperous. Zuloaga in Presi
dent in the interest of peace. Juarez desires to
he President only on a war issue, although ho can•
not but see that peace is the present necessity
of Mosioo.
Juarez will excuse the writer for believing him,
as a judge, wise enough to know the inestimable
value of internal tranquillity to Mexico at the pre
sent tithe, and dog it should now he his chief duty
to assuage, instead of propagating, a discord of
which all honesty should be ashamed, and which,
persevered in, would eventually crush out their
every present prosperity, as well as the indepen
dence of the Mexican people. For years defender
of the Mexlean Republic, the writer, for the first
time. admits ho is doubtful of the wisdom of Mexi
cans. The Maximum whose wisdom he is doubtful
of ate Juarez. Vidaurri. and Alvarez. They may
be nobly forgiven, but they aro nevertheless liable
to be considered traitors to the present and to the
future interests of the Mexican people.
Yes. Juarez, Vidaurri, and Alvarez are anti
nationally altogether wrong. Tho writer announ
ces that opinion as an imperative truth which all
Mexicana must consider such, and list accordingly.
Juarrz,Vidaurri, and Alvarez, however, will, it to
hoped, ere this, have adopted the writer's suggos.
tion of instituting overtures for u pence arrange•
meet with Zulooga in their own behalf and for
tho welfare of the nation.
In the meantime, is may be proper here, as on a
former occasion, to remark that the question now
is not who may have been wrong nor who right
in past tlme.--but what measures are necessary
to avert interminable dissmtvon, to re•extahlish
tranquillity and to inaucatrate a sureoss ful
state ,'f governmental aflinrs. Wisely end im
partially speaking, the n•tminiatration of Zatonge
alone p•tsesses n present (Mance to introduce and
establish a routine of gAvarnment which shall he
equally respected, orderly. and prosperous
In office in the interest of peaoc, the adminis-
ti ation of Zulonga deem the measures necessary
to establish It of the very first importance to the
nation; and that, provided those measures which
are necessary to establish peace for all time are
eventually adopted, it is, and will he, quite Imma
terial, who, in the interim, may or may net he
President. Therefore it. is that Zulonga, at the
proper moment, will, no President ad interint, ren•
dily submit to the manifestation of public opinion
for or against him, so soon as it may bo possible,
under existing eireumstaneett, electively to ascer
tain it. By such his (teetered intention., Ito would
do no other than endeavor to sot up a high
and honorable example, to be followed ad•
vantegeously for the nation by all who here
after may he invested by current events with
the highest station of right only in the people's
electoral gift—the acenrity of the country iu
peace, paretnount to every other present (topside-
Talley]. The interests of the nation must ha
Meet fully permitted to over ride., u, all, even an
home able personal ambition. Guided by a prin.
(tilde so tominently wise end patriotic, .Juarez, Vl
&err', and Alvarez need for themselves experience
no difficulty, en the score of delicacy or personal
Aloolly, in uniting their prestige and views,
in the interest of pence for the welfare of the
notion, the views anti prestige of the Admini
stration of Provident Zuloagn Conciliation, and
not won, Is the patriotism of Zuloagn
The question of exiting difference, then, Lel:omen
thecontending parties in Mexico, not being a Pre
sidential one, peace to attainable in the cessation
of the pre., enntest °ugh a prey/at/0y sun
,cer‘teel special mare are anerement with the de
facto Administration, after which the question
will be, that measures are necessary to inan
ut, n au,ress fill state of governmental af
fairs > The conciliatory wittlom of the measures
to i,e adopted in its behalf will then establieli the
ponce, averting thereby, for all time, the recur
rence of every past consent' national diNulet, 77te
reign of penes will be rho reign of twittery,
prosperity, and content. Mexico will wisely note
those words.
Security in the future to person, to property,
and to life, without in any way attacking, dis•
commodi ag, wounding; or dethroning any spe
cific present interest, tight, or possession estab
lished by the wisdom of the past-.measurei, and
not men—peace, and not war—conciliation, and
not revenge—equity, and not injustice;—these
principles fertile benefi t of the future of the nation,if
now allowed to control all intelligence, the present
intestine war is already at an end. In other words,
if personal injustice nor their own private will is
pronounced not desired to bo set up by, them, the
noble effort of Zeit:toga in behalf of peace is ne
cessarily triumphant, and Juarez. Vidaurri, end
Alvarez, have no alternative but in the interest of
tranquillity, for the welfare of the nation, frankly
to succumb to the necessity of admitting right to
he right, in order that they may be exonerated In
fall from personal censure and motive by the voice
of the people. through not continuing °cutest in
volving no ,just national principle but what Is al
ready represented In the personality of the de facto
Government.
Mexico, It mot be remotnbered, le a republic,
and not a monarchy. The will of the people, there
fore, and not the pereonnlity of a President, must
rule That is a first principle acknowledged by
President Zuolaga. The will of the people in a
republic means inalienable existing Nita( right
and privilege enproperty and person. fence, In
setting up a Constitution (organic law) in Mexico,
It should have been grounded upon existing privi
leges and rights. It will not be found that any
etizure of or interference with ohuroh or other
property happened in the United States when the
Constitution of the United States woe framed. All
_ . . .
existing rights were acknowledged. Hence jhe
summit of the Constitution of the United States
It establishedpeace ; it did, nor, like Comonfort's
attack on the Church in Mexico, inaugurate con
tent:V.le: It attacked no (then) immunity? rights.
It was framed on prinoiples of equity for ail. It
did not.invadei like' the organlo law of Meitisiii of
1867, the existing rights or privileges of the then
churches, or of any one, The Constitution of the
United States grounded tho future of the 'nation
upon the then present. So should it have been,
and eo must it now be, in Mexico. The Mexican Con
stitution (organic law] of 1857, and the nets of the
President undor which it was framed, wore equally
ex post facto, opposed to [at vafance with] the
wisdom and Justice which animated the benignant
and dignified moo who framed the Constitution of
the United States. the success of which, for the lack
of the exercise of a similar graceful benignity and
wisdom in Mexico, alone now perils the future of
the nationality of the Mexican people; and yet,
Juarez, Vidnurri, Comonfort, and Alvarez receive
in some of the presses of the United States that
comforting approval of their policy in' Mexico
which viewed under the equity of the Constitu
tion of the Uniteit'States, is their own utter eon
demnatien and imperishable honor to the present
conciliatory Administration-in Mexico, to which
they aro antagonistic. The public uotce an X6Zi•
eo can in no mkt, rule or be known except through
'an organic law which shall assail no existing
privilege or rights ofthe entire people.
General Comonfort, unfortungtely, as President
substitute, and as Presidentde facto, in defiance of
every just personal restraint, will, it is thought,
be found to have noted out his own personal will,
so far as ho could, in every particular. He alone
is responsible to the nation for the mischievous
attack of the Church ; for the seizure of the pro
perty of nu antecedent &moistly°, and for the
abortive Constitution which he superintended the
framing of, accepted, swore fealty to, end yet
dethroned.
The Constitution of 1857 dethroned, General
Zulonga became, and is now, President by the
right and usage of revolution, in defence; of all
the rtahts which existed at the moment an tece.
dent to its fornuttion. The Constitution of 1867
was found by Comonfort himself, and also ndmitted
by the Congress [in ite own grant of additional
powers to Comonfort] utterly of itself ineffective
and useless in promoting the just interacts, the
ponce, and tho welfare of the nation.
General Zuloaga being thus aloofly President in
defence of all existing tight and pwrlvllego, the op
position—Juarez, Alvarez, and Vidaurrf"—are
pledged on their existing war to carry out the
mistaken policy of General Comonfort—make all
existing right, as ho did, subject to the caprice,
the spleen, or the enmity of the personality at the
bead of the Government. Tranquillity the ne
cessity of Mexico, unit tomb pretensions never could
establish Mexican tranquillity. Pronunciandentos
would eeasoleszly, in that Oflee, of right, continue,
and the nationality eventually suicidally perish
by the force of its own errors. 2hr honorable
principles of a just freedom desired to he en
tabliehed by Presidimt Zaloanra, must be
by any Atiminiftration whirlt may succeed las
own, should he, under the severe pressure of the
difficulty ho would surmount, rotiro from the Go
vernment.
This le not the ntOliftoll in which it can be defi
nitely grown that the seizure and sale of the
church Mates In Mexico, (the origin of present
trouble,) under the decree denominated " the law
Londe " were illegal and unneceosory, as well RP
violent' exorcise of arbitrary will in the then BKB
- ; arbitrary will, which, as 'stated, inaugu
rated present disquiet; arbitrary will, persiatel In
by him oven at the moment of his compulsory re
signation, as if ho had revolved that the country
should have no peace in his absence ; he pretend
ing to be able at that moment to give or transfer
the power and Presidency of the Constitution
which ho had himself dethroned, and therefore
could no longer make use of in his own person, Into
the hands of a successor with the apparent Bt
junction or view that the policy he had (him
self) not been able to force the people
to agree to his successor should endeavor
to compel them to cacao to. That would ap
pear to he, to the writer, all the Presidency
claimed by Juarez, at Vera Cruz. and reason
would, therefore, BOOM to suggest and sanction the
wise propriety of hie considerately (leasing to per
sist in entailing unneeessery intestine war upon
the country, in defence of the errors and arbitrary
will of nn antecedent Executive. Far nobler will
it bo if, in compliance with the honorable sugges
tion already made to him, be seek a dignified
peamoarrangement with the Government at the
capitol. The Administration of General Cornett
fort bad the best of all opportunities to estab
lish the nation In peace, but the golden extension
Ives heedlesely thrown aside by him for the
mere pleasure of despoiling the Church of
Catholic Mexico, after n crooner which eould
not hove happened under the equity of
the Protestant United States ! While the
very act and fact of getting the Church pro
perty has cost the nation, In war and other diffi
culties, more, perhaps, than five times the whole
amount of theentiroi value of the Church property!
Yes, valuing the property at twenty-five million
&Hers, the late Government may be said to have
sacrificed, in two or more years, in various ways,
one hundred and twenty-five millions of dollars--
rather a costly procedure for that act which, un
der the equity law of the Protestant United
States, would be considered sacrilege anti rob
bery.
The Church property in Mexico may he viewed
in no respect too large. but rather toe smell, for
the prospective increase of population and wealth.
For *he sake o f the peace °jibe nation, the Church
must be uncquitiocalty protected to all her
present poicessions, and any law to he made to
relation Motto must apply only to the property
it may be necessary to acquire in the time that to
to come. So will peace cc assured and all exist
tug rights respected. This opinion is given by
the writer—as °Protestant and, he hopes, a states•
mon—glancing only at the present need end the
future happiness of the Mexican people. On some
future occasion ho may point out the specific mis
takes of Comonfort and the Congress In reference
to the Church; but here will now nay that, ae the
property of the Church woe distributed through
out the States, its separate parts wore under the
protection of the respective States in which they
were situated, and under no circumstances what
ever could the priests of right he equitably inter
fered with by the General Government of the
federation, without illegally, also, neutralizing
State sovereignty or protection. But it was done.
Had not the advent of the Administration of 'Zu
tango happened, and reinstated the law in force,
(and not at any time annulled by illegality in
equity,) previous to the decree of the law Lordo,
in the just interests of a needed peace, I should
have rboommended the Mexican Congress, by a
unanimous vote, to relieve the then Executive of
the onerous obligation of persevering in the carry
ing out a his own decree, nnd to penult the sales
of the property of the Church to be nt once sus
pended ; and that for all those sales effected, and
not capable of being rescinded, the Church should
be indemnified in full. The better, more feasible,
and just arrangement, lethal, however, which has
been instituted since the advent of the Adminietra
tiou of President Zniosg,a But, General President
Zete
nga, while noting in the interest of peace, in
delete° of right, and advocating full compuneetien
to the Clinton' for looses under the law Lordo, will,
alto, in a jug equity, advocate fall compensation
to all those who may have purchased the Church
Lrorpuaerftteyr,
be,en d erd w in h i o
u h w av n e t, b .) o r e e n an n i o u w iati er i e t , ,
t o h r ro m ug a b y
the annulment of the law.
' By that eTitable proceeding, no individual
will have any ust reason to 'claim to be stiffener
by the law Aran, and the Administration of
Zulongawill evens() relieve the General President,
who illegally issued the Levin law, of the onus
of the mischief consequent upon his mistake No
individuality can fir permlettd. in equity, to
enf, personal detriment thiongh any error or
unfulfilled a ',ferment of executive a Who, ay
Too notion 10 responsible to indiNiduals and to
Governments for the riots of its recognised andel
wisdom. This noble sentiment, frankly promul
gated by the Administration of President Zulosga,
viudioates the honorer the 31evienn Republic in
the eye of every foreign notion. as well as in the
view of the individuality of the notion itself;
and it is thus most ele irly found that the happy
sulution of all existing diflioulty in Mexico rests
upon the tolventof a perfect tranquillity, with the
union of all patriotism to re-establish the national
ittLiirs in truth, in equity, and in honor.
If the law Lerdo,
alluded to in the preceding
paregraph, should ho found to have been filmset
universally approved in the United States. it unit
in Mevico ho considered so approved, not because
the law would be justifiable or possible under the
equity of the Constitution of the United States,
hut for the other reason that tho law attacked the
Catholicity to which, on principle, the Protestant
tenets o the United States are opposed. In other
svords, the law may be said to hove been viewed in
the United States as 4 /diction: queltion, and not
as THE all-important one affecting, most acutely,
the present and the rutty° tranquillity soil
prosperity of Movie°. The writer is himself p o nd
to he able to defend the Church of Nlesdeo with im
partiality ne a Protestant, and ithe with the
only (h o again hopes) of a statesinan, glancing
only at the true present and future interesds of
Mexleo.
The wiser plan would have been to have de•
Aired the Church rightfully in the possession of
and securing to it forever all Imiuttnitios :end pos
session:, and the admitting of toleration of religi.
nos tenets, instead of (as was the ease) opposing
(rejfeting) the toleration of religious tenets i» de
fenee ot the Choi ch, and, at the same time at
tacking the Church by the seizure of Its property
—en evident inconsistency. The plan above sug
gested as compromise of difficulty, it may possibly
be politic, with the heroic mutton of the Chureh,
TWO CENTS.
eventually to adopt, As - peaCe, however, was tue
first noseealty of Mexico e and Mexican society was
grounde I exclusively on Catholicity, it,was madl
to originate contention to attem p t to dethrone th y y
personal will; sustained by Executive military
foree, and not reason) the fundamental prinet•
pies of Mexican society. Religion is a local and
educational glory, as well as a Timm :IN its local
usages are not to be uprooted by violence, - bnt only
by gradual change suparindumbl-by conciliatory
wisdom and respect.
Assuming that all Mexicans who Staff acting
adversely to the de facto Government, as, w r ell as
all other, have only the true interests of Mexico at
heart, it will , not be derogatory to patriotism of
any to relinquish opposition to the Adminietra-.
Hon of Zuloaga for the benefit of the nation,- Auh
onitting to at aoith the anew to accelerate the ca
organi ration of the national tifairs, accolade
to every wish and interest, an peace and in
honor.
For himself, it will be but justice here to say
that these comments and opinions are sot down by
the penner of them ns the reeognised defender of
the Republic, glancing. only at the true present
and future just interests of Mexico, add entirely
free of all and every prejudice against any per
sonality named or alluded to by him. The Rota of
public men are the facts of' history, and nations
mutt profit by the results which they produce.
It would seem to be one of;the tertian of tbe ens.
mies of the peace of Mexico to ustimproperly the
name of General Santo Anna. General Santa
Anna can do no other than uphold the Government
of Genera! Zuloaga. General Santa Anna wishes,
above all things, to know his country tranquilized,
prosperous, independent, and happy. - General
Santa Anna is the friend of the nation's peace.
Re will uphold Zuloaga. ' General Santa Anna left
Afestioe, in -August, 1855, to give to Alvarez and
Cemented the opportunity they desirpd. to esta
blish the peace wheal they alone 'broke. - Instead
of peace, they`astablished war.' Thefr.waircon-
Canes ; not; however, through any fault in Gene-
Val entAtt Anna.
In the Baltimore Patriot of the firstia:iirfourth
April, 1858, the writer bad the honor to point out
certain matters of high - moment to Gen. COMOD.
fart, then Piosident substitute "only, which, bad
be, Ootnonfort, remedied, for the sake tif.peace, ho
would have had the dignified approval (support)
of General /Tanta Anna and his friend's. The er
rors pointed nut in said letters in the Baltimore
Patriot, tend transmitted to Comonfort.) neat
tended to, by - hitu, brought about, as was therein
intimated they would, the downfall of Oomonfort—
a fact Which. p 2 evie'that the 'impartial wisdom
of the writer as not at any time to Leilighili
teemed by the admrnistrative rulers and people' of
It has within a few clays past been Slated in a ,
Now York paper that "General Almorite bad left
England ostensibly for the Clontinept, , but; in
reality, had departed for, and wasln 1n , New
York, to pnrohaeo mnikenifor Gen Sa to - Anna "
The writer begs leave to Contradict that inslnua•
lion. and to say that General Almonte would be
incapable of so.valgar a compromise Of his per
sonal dignity. General Almonto is attending to the
diplomatio affairs of his nation In Europe. Ife over
was and is the friend of peace—a Government of
reason, and not of violence. Should he atany time
" want to bay muskets," he can preheats and ship
them (secretly) at London with Ica ItOtOriety than
at New York.
The writer has an official Comonfort Government
dooument now lying before him, which, now con
sidered in reference to the course of .Comonfort
and Juarez in Mexico, and towards Spain, and
published, would astonish every honest Mexican,
and hurl utter confusion upon the stated clause of
Juarez, flomonfort, Alvarez, • and Vidaurri. The
v , ?ple o f Mexico have teen in great peril of
being sold to a foreign Government. The writer
withholds the nature of the document, because this
address is intended rather to pave the way to a
noble peace, than to severely arraign the fatal
mistakes of those who by war are against It. The
document, however, atatedly considered, would bo
utter disoomfitore to the cause of Juarez, Vidanri,
Alvarez, and Comonfort, bat eminently ealealated
to sustain the lofty principle of just and peaceable
rule upon whiob are nobly grounded the views of
the conciliatory National Administration of Presi
dent Zalonga. PACIFICATOR.
INTERESTING FROM MEXICO.
The arrival of the steamer General Rusk, at Now
Orleans, from Bray:: Santiago:furnishes advises
from Monterey to tho 28th ult.
Vldaurri was to start for San Luis Potosi on the
10th instant, with 2 000 mon, eight pieces of tied
lory and ammunition; and to take command of the
army of the North. Znazun was moving Zia`llol3l2
with about 4,000 man, to attack San Loua Potosi,
and would not wait for the arrival of Vidaurri
Tao latter was in bad health, but in exaollout
spirits, and sanguine of sucrose. It was rumored
that propositions of reconciliation bail been made
to him by the Centralists, but that he refuscd to
ontertaln them unless they acknowledged the so
preinsoy of too Constitutional Government.
It wee stated that a portion of the liberal army
under Deg. - Mach) and Blanco attacked Onrothinjarts.
carrying all the outworks and driving the enemy
to the main plaza, which was to have been stormed
on the 14th inst. Miramokhad left San Luis al
the head of 4,000 men, to aid the besieged, and
Zunzua was closely following in his rear with a
heavy force of rifles. A great battle was antici
pated. •
ft was rumored that Moreno, commandant at
Tampico, had been reduced to the necessity of
making peace ovortnres to Caravajal, who answer
edalter he could listen to no terms which did not
recognise the existing authorities.
Galindo is military commander of Nuevo Lean
during the absence of Vidaurri, and is charged
with the duty of organizing and supplying forces,
ammunition. tc . for the army of the North. Ms
position on the Rio Grande is considered highly
favorable for obtaining supplies. Vilaurri says
they are determined to send liberal forces from the
North to overwhelmn the reactionists. A thou
sand men from Chihuahua, undor Corned°, were
marching to join the army of the North. It is ex
pected that by the end of July there would be
al, nit eight thousand Federal troops concentrated
at San Luis Potosi, ready to marsh towards the
dry of Mexico.
The correspondent of the Brownsville Flag, at
Rowe, says that the Indians had made n deaosnt
on the Gnara silver mines, recently opened by
the American Company, taking all the property of
any value they could lay hands upon.
A degpatch from General Vidaurri to the Consti
tutional Minister of Government, dated Monterey,
May 6, recordiu; the operationa of hie foreleg. aid
announcing his antettions, states that during the
month he would organize a section of 1,500 rifle.
men, and ton pieces of artillery, with which he
would join General Gnus, and then march for the
capital, with every certainty of getting easy pos
session of San Luis Potosi.
General Vidaurri says that his operations hare
on: obliged him to inour debt abroad to the amount
or a single cent; all his resources having been
raised in tho states ho governs, and at the frontier
custom-houses.
The San Antonio Texan learns that the Legisla
ture of that State has granted to Memo. MeManua
and Potts a special privilege for the 'contraction
of a railroad through that State The Texas,
thinks that, as soon as a politioal calm comes over
that country, this road—which will be the great
thoroughfare through to the Pacifio, and the great
outlet of some of the moat wealthy mines of gold,
silver, iron, and lead in the world—will be built
At present there is no safety there for life or pro
party. Over one hundred thousand head of cattle
have been driven across the Rio Grande, during
the last few weeks, Into Texas and by the advice
cf Vidaurri. The States of Northern Moxioo will
never yield to the Churoh party now in pow-or;
and. if necessary, they will seek aid from outsiders
to carry out their latentions.
The Brownsville Plug ha/ news from Tampico,
by way of Vitamin A large conducts, In charge
of near $1 000.000, is reported as on the road from
Sou Luis to Tampico. To intercept this, we aro
told that General Carvajal, now second in com
mand of the forces of 'Tamaulipas, has despatched
a portion of his command. It is rumored here
that General Osollos, the head and front of the
Zuloaga forces. had died of fever at San Lois, cud
that General Moreno, the commandant at Tampi
co, was reduced to the necessity of making over
tures for neace. It is said that he proposes a con
fol once with General Carvajal, for the purpose of
providing a new set of rulers f w the State, to
which Carvajal returned for answer that he could
listen to no terms which did not reeogrilso the ex
isting authorities. Wo place considerable cre
dence to this rumor. Wo have just reoeived a
lengthy Proolemation from Carvajal to the people
of his State, in which he informs them that the
sail of oblivion will be thrown over the past con
dart of Owe who have been seduced into the
ranks of their military and clerical oppicwors on
corithion that they abandon the error of their
ways and "air, no more." This would argue, at
le•iat, that the General bad some reason for his
offer.
We have additional items of news from the
capital and Vera Cruz, by the barque Brilliant at
New Orleans
"The Progreso states that it was reported that
Mr. Forsyth lied demanded his passrorta after
(dosing ellao Legation. fhe ground for this step Is
stared to es, that the Government, in the deoree
ordering the expulsion of frreigners, had stated
tb.it tho retool to pay the fo.cad loan was not
supported, directly or led.reetly, by any of the
nocredited foreign reptesontatives ; that Mr.
Forsyth expressed big surpriee at this statement,
and categorically required its rorreution, protest
ing that lie should retire if the untrue statement
were not corrected ; and that the reply not being
aatisfactory, he necordingly adopted the course ho
declared he would"
The Vera CI tiz correspondent of the Picayune
states the business ditTerently. lie soya •
By gentlemen just down from the capital I
, have learned the particulars. which are simply
i that the collecting officer of Government com
pelled. at the point of the bayount, the collection
of the fororil loan or contribution fetus Allleti•
con eltiZoa. ag,9lllSt the payment a which you
have already received Mr Forsyth's protest.
The individual was a Mr. Migel, a jeweller, a
it lustful by birth, bat who married a New York
lady, and who is himself a naturalized American
citizen lie hoe lived in California for some five
years, but during the last year or more he lies re
aided in the city of Mexico.
The amount of his contribution was 5700, rebirth
ho refused to pay, when the collecting officer not
I only took from his store by force ten times the
I amount, but his passport wan handed to him, wills
orders to leave the Republic', (by way of Trnnion,'
in forty-eight hours. Mr Forsyth demanded the
recall of this order, which the Minister of Foreign
' It olationy refused to accord, whereupon Mr. Forsyth
' nt one° broke oiT the relations of his legation with
the Government, and he now awaits the instruc
, Goes of the Government at Washington. Thus
I
stand matters now
Mr. Minot being very wealthy, and having many
friends, did not go to Tampico, but woe smuggled
in the stags for Vera Crnz, and he is new time.
The above is his statement of the affair.
The Charleston Courier supplies seine additional
particulars in regard to this gentleman, whose
cause Mr. Forsyth espoused so warmly :
j "Mr Migel has been established for ni my year , .
six we think, in the jewelry business, at the , op
tat of Mexico, on a very extensive Beale, and ho
also carries on n heavy pearl fishery on the coast
NOTIC TO VOlkuLesertorlD/EN2I6
Ocaregondente Zar Two Puna will plow heir Lk
* mind the following rules :
Mit , r7 communication taut be aaaompaniad ty tba
name of the writer. In order to lager. aonroota.se of
the tlpooaphy, bat one aide ca a sheet should be mit
ten upon.
We ellen he g • roatlYobligedto gentlemen in Penult.
11104. b. and other States for contributions giving the oww
rent noire orthe day la their particular localities, the
resources of the surrounding country, the Waimea of
popalatiou. or Any information that will be intereatiza
to the general reader.
of Mazatlan. Tue °spiral employed for this busi
ness amount. to $.400,000. lie was expelled from
Mexico by the Government pony new in power
there at the capital Le.muee he did not pay the
for levied en him'until he was reined to do so by
an armed body of men, who went into his house
and mired property belonging to him to the amount
Trhieh they . thought would be sudloient to cover
,the amount demanded. Ile thinks that in making
this resistance, he strictly followed the instruc
tions which he received from the American Minis
ter. ; Mr. Migel was allowed but:thirty.six hours
for the settlement of bi 3 haeineee before hie
p fm t cunt a, h of de
leaurher o
nial6e * s, hi a ry
oplo nd b t e iitete eou no
klect, from which he must consequently suffer
very heavy losses. He leaves a wife and family
in llexido, exposed to the •oiroutustenees of the
changes .that may Goons' until he be allowed to
return to the country.
GENERAL , NEWS.
A shocking affair occurred on Friday In
the town of Calais, Vermont. A young man,
about eighteen years of age, named Ariel Martin,
took his rifle in the morning, went Into a boring-bayingneigh
field, put himself In ambush, and,
as Mr. Wheelock, the owner, made his appear"
sure to commence work. shot him deliberately
throngh'the heart, 'Mr. Wheelock fell at 00643,
and in five minutes breathedlie lut. Martin im
mediately hurried - off to another farm, whore ha
met a laborer. named Ainsworth, and, after ex
changing a word °stare With him, shot him alas.
Ainsworth staggered ' intd the house not far db•
tent,' and died - in - -about liolieand a half The
neighborhood became alarmed,' and Martin took
to the woods.. llecoonafterwarda,,however, made
big aPPElSralitla theroad,,and ,was arrested. On being quesHoued why, he hal .beem shooting these
men, hereblltid;" r beoanie they *ere Mean men."
No'canso: can be - -tutsiantal:for Are horrid sot
There had -been no difficulties , between the par
ties, and between Martin-and. Whielook a cowl
rabi o degree . of intimicy, had, ',slued. Doti( of
the unfortunate men were Yining, and bad fond.
lies. Martin has always been considered
weak-minded, but has nover.been;supposed tn.
<fano. , ,
- There la reason to - believe that, the Indian
troubles in Washin.iton Territory have only Ns
gun. An o ffi cer of tha army; Writing' from Port
land, Oregim Teriltivy; to the Pose, says, " First.
Lieutenant hen Mol t en.' &mind tlllery, re
ceived orders from the War 1/epartment, a short
time, since, to construct a military road from f rt
.Walla-Walla, Washington ,Territory ; Jo fort Bar
'ton, on the Mistouri. Bid instruotiond are to 0,1
on' the oommandicg Mild& at fort fbr
an escort of sixty-five men; he is also to take thirty
citizen employees. ~Ifors this -party of ninett•flve
meo will be able to accomplish their pornote is not
doubtful, when it is known that the ppokanens and
Coeur d' Alines. numbering some one thousand war
rions, have bound themselves togethisrnot to allow
Lieutenant Malian to cross Snake river. The em
ployees, with Lieutenant now en. route to
Walla-Walla The Nes Peres. not
r-main
faithful to the whites Would if not ean effectivo
as well us economical plan for our Government to
employ this tribe to assist In subduing our common
enemy ?
The Court of Appeals of .Kentucky has af
firmed the decision of Chancellor Logan in the
telegraph eats The history,of the ease is briefly
this: Mr A Camp made an offer by telegraph to
a party in Cincinnati for a lot of whiskey at a spe
cified sum. Iu the transmission of the despatch
over the wires a mistake of a quarter of a cent
was made by increasing:the price offered for It by
Camp and the party at Oicobenati sold It. The
whiskey was shipped to Louisville, and Camp dia
covered the mistake. Be thereupon br.eght cult
.ngairest the telegraph company for the difference.
The company, In their answer, plead the piloted
terms and conditions which bead their Menages,
to the effect that the company do not bold the m
adves responsible for mistalees In the 4st:embalm
of messages. unless the same are repeated, for
whiob ono half the original price Is charged. The
courts sustained 'this plea. •
At the Howard Athensentn, Boston, Mr. J.
E Oweno,hati his benefit on Friday. The Courts..
(Saturday) says: Mr. °woes bad for his benefit
last evening the largest house of this season. Not
only woo the auditorium crowded, but en attempt
was even made to oover lila front of the stage
with temporary seats in the early part of the even.
lox. The performance's of course were meat
amusing throughout. After the first play, "The
Comedy of Errors," Mr. Owens was called out,
and quaintly expressed as much of his feelings as
he had time far; givirg the audience also the
latest in telligebee respeeting the stab-oceanic tele
Itaph whieb Lad just been reeolved. Naturally
enough, the information woe taken as an exesliont
Jake; and was latlgiled at more heartily than emit
the rest of the speech.
The Burlington (Vt.) Free Pran Says
The Ethan Allan monument Is now oomplete, ex
cepting ite cap mho. and this, probably. will ha
elevated to its plune the present week. When that
is done, the structure will ho a becoming one, suit
able bath to the State and the object of Its erre.
tion, creditable to the taste and care of the com
mittee, end to the fidelity of the contractor. It is
a plain Tuscan column of granite. the whole height
from the base of the pediment to the top of the
abaous being fortytwo feet. When surmounted
by the colossal statue of Allen, to be soulptured
by :Hr Mead, the entire etruetare will be fiftyfeet
in height, or a little more.
TL•e'citizena of St. Paul's are agitating the
alvantages of the overland route to Frazer'.
river, from Minnesota,. through the roagnideent
volleys of the Saskatchewan, Red River, and
Asainboin. They argue that Saab a track,
ascending the course of the Saskatchewan, end
mussing the Rocky Mountains in latitude 64 deg.
to British Oregon, would traverse a region of
North America hitherto withheld from colonists
lion, but soon to he surrendered by the Hudson's
Bay Company for civilized settlement. West of
the Rooky Mountains that company claims nu
chartered rights, and their lioense of Indian trade
will expire in May, 1859.
The store of Messrs. Vernon, Baker,* Co.,
Burgh Hill. Trumbull county, Ohlc, was I,:own nn
on Wednesday afternoon. by the explosion of two
kegs of powder, and two boys. ore a son of Mr.
Vernon. the other Irmo,' Albert Powler, so seri
ously injured that they died shortly after The
powder was in the second story of the building,
and the boys, while at play, had thoughtlessly
taken powder from one t f the kegs, and laid a
train on the floor, which trim being fired, comma
nicated to the keg. The explosion was tremen
dous The building was shattered to pieces, and
the stock of goods somewhat damaged.
On Friday Dr. 0. D. Wilcox committed
suicide at Elmira, Now York. He had amputated
a leg for a man by the name of Hammond, in the
town of Chemung, who soon afterwards died. Dr.
W. was charged with mai•praetioe, and mimingl
prbeeedinga instituted against him. and immsdi
ntely after the sheriff served the papers (Li lam
he took sours deadly poison. and died in telt en
boor. The Elmira Advertiser exoneretes Dv
Wilcox from all blame in the matter of the ampu
tation, anti says he did the beat he (meld in the
ease.
A circuit of two miles In Cbanceforil town
ship, York county, Penney'yenta, is afflicted with
dysentery. In two weeke the following, amos
others, have died A. M. Wilson. aged forty, with
two of his children, and two of Sacks. n Werner's
children, with Mrs. Werner. Many other persons
are suffering from this disease
Mr. John Zook, Sr., of Lancaster county,
Pa , bas in his possession, in an excellent state of
preservation, a Gorman Bible rrinte4 one hundred.
and forty•six years ago It woe brought to this
onuntry from Switzerland by the great-grandfather
of the present owner, and has remained in the fam
ily ever since.
Among the number of persona residing in
the United States who have reesived the St. Helena
medal from Louie Napoleon, is Mr...T(OmA Mena%
of Philadelphia. lie entles.l the French service
as a drummer in the Seventh Regiment of Artillery
at the age of thirteen.
Governor Randall, of Wisconaln, pro
nounces the " Amerioan lieraestead Land (.1..m
-pony " a s simile. It has been extensively ad, er
ased. and his name appended to tho advertise
ments without hie knowledge or oemsoit.
John C. Moore and L. L. 13 , o:tater of St•
Louis, "exchanged shots;' in 'lll.+ , the o th e r
thy, with.•ut d“mace to 01 e'r persons Both
tvnt , os then shook band.; and oipresiod th,tn3olvta
satisfied.
The brig Orinoco arrived at New York on
Sunday from Remedios, Cub', having lost b•tth
notes with the yellow fever. Their names were
Jams Hulett and J. II Holden
A prize fight took place at Savannah, Ga.,
on tho 13th inst., between John MoGnire, en Dicg
Tishman, and James Duffle, in wh.ch the latter
was beaten.
John lifcDish, a giant *front Georgia, passed
through Norf.lk no Friday. Ito weiebs three
hondred pounds, nail It raid to be eoven toot la
height.
seems to he the imprinsion that Co'onel
II:oant in,d his ar.ll,7liter, or B vitro notoriety. lett
New York for their how, in M..bile, on Saturday
It is estlnritznl that 8,400,000 three-cent
hatiketa of Ftri..l her .1,14 vie ding $252,0m, were
e in N.sw York city durinz tho season
One hundred and fitly-three soldier 3 left
Carl Isle barrockg or. Saturday for the army in 'Soo
Mexico.
A BPrend Engle Toast.
At Prentia. Centre, Ste , on the sth, the lolb. w.
woo the second regular sentiment .
Our Not/on--314: , tten amidst the atartna of the
sixteenth century, irg Infantile, lucre inonta stern
dim and indi;tinctly ,7en onboard the May rLw..
nn the rock of Plymenth, at Jatuatoern, on the
plains of Monongahela, and on the height; rl,`
Abraham : the " eapricions squills" t its infancy
were heard in the tea-party of Bootee, in Fantail
Hall, on the plains of Concor I, 1. g•ton
Bunker Hill , in his boyhood he ran barefooted
:tad bareheaded over the flolde of Saratoga, Tren
ton, Princeton, Mormenth. and Torltown, whir,
pieg his mother and turning her out of door.. , in
hie youth he strode over the praiiies of the bound
lees West, and called than Lis own, paid tribute
to the demote of Barbary In powder and bell, se'-
In hie fatber'e face front behind cotton hale: t t
New Orleans, whipped the mistress of to ocean,
revelled in the halls of Mentesurna, straddled o
Rocky Mountains. and with ono foot upon golden
sand. and the other upon eotlfigh and lumber. de
fied the world; in his manhood. elothe3 in purnl,
and fine linen, he rides over a continent in en.} . .
ioued ears, rides over the ocean in onlace et,a,
sends his thoughts on wing; of lightninp• In thr
world around, thunders nt toe dc , r..f the Celrs , ist
Empire. and at the portal. of distant .1., ran.
hie poor old decrepit father in the fee 011 trl
hint to ho careful how be rack , into apy
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Imo or all the I.o+ it !, 0, 1 e
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