PUI/LII4IIYD . U WIIITB iCO PITTBBIIHOIi. ; 11,h.TiJIIDAT 210/Ulll4O,- DEC. 6, I.pt say;RRADI2I O MATTER nu ,- EAFoalw?l , 01;'1.:.4011.1'..4e2E OF THIS PAPER. %Tie National intelliyencer' we are pleased to 'l-see; has ptit no a new dress. We rejoioe to CO. t h11!4711P20c..e..iir prosperity', The Intelligeneer L.itiapeper we always read with profit, arid ran :pilot &vita opinions.. • Thel3ol4mm - Patriot has •slso donned a new , tiress,''tuni ',Mikes a fine appearance. It is an Thefiritiirif. Witt er. - 'Titom Ruff soucon To 1 OLcoX.,A fe*vreeks'atimo we prepared and. published a description netbe route of the propoited railroad `lframlthin city to Oleau and Rochester, dividing it' into .sections Iris the 'nature orl ttte country citangaL. In that article we made the distanoe toogreat by üboutvid mike. We babe silica con vened with Col. JOHN SLOAN, who has reoently ittursayedtt portion of the route, and who is well ..iniltuanied With it all, and also with several oth eigenfleman, who all amnre as that the distance ;_doeti not exceed 172 Miles, as follows: grom Pittsburgh to the ,mouth of the Kiskitninems, 28 Kistitninetas to Kittanning, 13 Mttanning to Alouth of mahoning, 10 Phenre to o:mui (estimated) -120 Aftertiaring carried his survey over the moat difficult . grourul--that from the lifahaning to Couilen, a difitanee of 33 miles—Col 'Sloop as 'atire4 nalbat the whole distance from the Mouth er Elehouing toMO lalid SCXCeethat saber.) stated. The length ofithe State road be tween those points is .106 miles. This is an iMpottaist fact, awl we make the correction with great pleasure- There are no serious dilficul . ties 011 any portion of the route. • 'The northern end of the roots—say from Red •P2l,,Ti Oltetp, Through tha great even held atid tier goal more favorable than we had sopposed, there being ue neeiasity to fol. fon thew-Alleys of thoatreataa incept where their alireition ia.ecry nearly in a right line._ Alto. -gether the rood earrberatistructed at less ex-, passe probably than any other of equal length trirenwaylvaniw WENTROIMJLND COUNTY. numboi or the Whigs or Weetmoretand cenney,Vissembled at Harrison city ou the 29th "of No!ember, and organized a .Ileott and Crit tenden, pilb." Officers—David Klingensmith, Xt4.,3!iwijident; John - Dacam, N. A. Long, Vice Presidents .L.Rodenstine, D. Rawlston, Sec rctirtea;Pejer Mooro, Treasurer; Peter pen tane, Cor. gee.' Gen. ayrirs• Markle ace re. nterimended to the State Convention as the while candidate for. Casill Commissioner. Among the retotatione pitsee.i was thetollowing: , . . . It 'Thatalthough the recent election 'hiatiormillateil contrary to our wish., yet we ':'lire nriable to [Orme upon Our minds the belief thil.'the,Whig party is in the least impaired or weakental by the defeat of our Chief magistrate, Wm: F. 'Johnston,: atotthat the result or this election is no criteileriby which the claims and popularity of Cleo. Scott rimy or can he tested; the peorie are 'determined to go for Scott, Con. • tiettiiin extrentien, Johnston or no John titan; Vinton erne \lntim -• .• 'TILE PBESDENICY. • Mayer thelceding ',mares of the country ern noeimprettebing this i4orttint question, whcih cannot he Je *rad much longer with safety. The nominations' must by made Within six months,' and the time I, short enough for general in 'terelminge'of views, and tire attention of any con , - - . fain line - of policy. Wo „hove already given a . .. tracts on li ds noeution, from Whig papers both .. a the North and the. South. The following is 4 ' from the New York Tribune, a paper which, from its extensire eircoleatiou, daily and weekly, ex. anisesv'ost influence upon the public mind , inttre - mid4le and North Western States: We -shail pa:W.lp stejemrt any W big who nany ho nominated, though'we 'shall not hold our, . eelvat under any obligation to do so if support of the- Pogitive Slave Lion, or of any measure extraneous to the declared and well known prin. ciples of the Whig party is uvula a Shibboleth by tint nominating Convention. We wilb s ep. port candidates is spite of oar serious difference • with them:on this questiOn, as we have repeated , ly•tnipportal slaveholders and defenders of sin - very; but to ask us to support a candidate nom inated and run expressly as a supporter or this . . or any other atiocity,,in asking quite too much .....,WeEnifilla go very heartily . fur Nadel Webster as r ''..XfisiCiserly, earnest and potent champion of the 7,- . r,..;s:graiidand . fruitful principles of free lands for We could forget, in view of his re. talon teltuod reform, hisapostscy eu the trei: soil -quation, but why should we he asked to support becauac of that change, when in supporting him we .bold midi so fur us possible to forget it! If he were ta , ran t wouhl it nut he better to lens find in him is ideal good sad on little evil no possible! We 'Lave no faith iu the vitality nod potency of whop is called the Unihn sentinent of the corn-' try,er its. devotion to the •toMpromi.cs.' If that eentiment were no fervid end peeve ding as is pretended, why Amnia it not point to and nil! td,' the Presidency the earliest nod , net:lest-Pr its champions, Henry Clay? Ile did • -%; not wnit -*for inducements nor entreaties to nin . Idrn to the aide of Compromise; be came to Wag.- Inglon Its earliest advocate when Power W. rayed'agninit it, and scarce n hope could he in ' of its tureens. Ile did not ask nor care whet would he its influence on personal or prospects; ho did n at stipulate for conditions I.„'"ur Liege hie support of C011411,1111i50 on uny - eon - tingeuey erbatever, but was for them iu any shape that . ..obi seeerg their adoption—fur them separately for them all togaber, for theni any way, and always, their ablest advocate and -- most unwearied defender. If, then the Com promises were as vital to the Notional existence and lyell-heing ns they nre represented• and werk• as. popularas commonly pretended, Mr. Clnylnught to be chosen by acclamation our next President. Ati , to Oct. Salt, we know him to be, though for forty yeas in the Amy. hotter reformed with regard to the current history, public lei. Heypr..l public men of our country than almost say ether living man—a thoroughly honest, up right, Insanbitlitig patriot, who would hang up hiskat in the White House with a single-minded resolution to reeve the Country to the extent of hie abilitY:. We do not like his trade ; we still . more dislike a 'hasty' letter he once wrote to the 3 Naliva Ainerirea endorsing their principles, 'I which he has since virtually revoked and amp ' dead. We know that he would not. nett hobo ly believeslie would allow Nativism to influence hle criers%) tut President ; yet the fact that he hod ones written a Native lettSr would he in essantly urged to his prejudice to the canvas and to the prejudice a the party supporting him. To represent the Whigo as hostile to Immigrants . front Europe is one of the moot formidable de• vices of thcOpposition, and one which gives theen.almoOrwssnany votes as their pretensions to exile:fiat' Dimocracy. She should enter upon thesuplAttitilna. Scott with roluctana, mutely • heeneual=_litiitiorninstisn , would be powerfully . noel to frighten our Adopted (Nana from that t. 'enipOjejleisriwid coin) consideration of the vital priuniples and . : measura on which the two per ow:strayed against each other which in .7.now.'iroceeding with such beneficent results, whereof the a vet overtera in Wisconsin is in 'part ix trophy. • ',Bath are tome of our views en the present. • Arispie.or the Presidential question. We have d 1 o; .no C ate, nra await the developemerits of .€s , V.lkel•tuture without impatience or anxiety.— ;._Whenever we obtain more light, we shall make . ..E7•llitisto to diffute it. 10.11 suh,egaeut article, in reply to some eerie . • turns of the Net- York L'rprtas, the Tri:uno makcs the following additional emphatic ob. nertattons 'fere is oor grolind 7. The Whig party, oa each, • is not a pro.fllarery nor nu nun-Slavery party, though thiirc•nro pro.Blstery..and iinti•Slarary whi ge 4 We are stilling to go into ayoureation of the-entire Whig party, nominate candidata - 8 -irhonie known 'as reliable Whig; put them be ferethe -country on old-fashioned Whig plc-, . . ciples, tiVO theta a unite.' and hearty sup pore. Ent in: majority - is any DatiODDi con ',cation whicli.slasll -be. held - shell see M. to in , tifrp:olaie.inte . the,prty..o . retd an entirely new and eudagi. artiele :respecting Slavery; and rattio.‘acquiesetice' in it'll test of Whig ortho dozy, nominating no roan'who does not prompt .ly uttai'the now Shib , ,,cdeth to their natiefietlon then, we nay, the minority will be corn , pietely abeoNpd hour 'ohligationt to ;Support a inniinailon Whichli'ractically proscriber, end ontricises 16nm:wives. That wan the l i ground taketiinnur former nrtleli. and it is quilt, hum , Ede 'enough. Thitr are - more of :them ado gen -'ertilff,accord with .us , who. cannot coins down hto it thitu.aariesdi to go beyond it. :1 • The X e:o Tort . Times, a new Whig paper, but , .: .. .pOistieallig all the elements . =n en end ix, indlttince, , has the telloiring jOldois rcFmine4: aFtlalp...qs! th 4 4iporta.xtt. =2l It iiirett elear that we are not to have next . year, one of our old-faaliianed, regular, parti zan Presidential contests. The signs of the times indicate a different straggle. A National Convention halt, for rametyears past, designated the candidate of each party—and that candi date his.received his full party support. The contest vras.rans between the parties,—and the result tested their relative strength. It stems doubtful, at present, whether this mode of pro cedure will be followed in 1135'1 The organiza tion of both partied has been disturbed. Poli ticians set from other motives than those of loarty adhesion. Other elements have been in 'ti oduced into ptirty creeds than those by which they have hitherto been mulled. New tests are applied in every section of the country. In other words, political parties are taking their shape upou other -principles, and with reference to other questions than those viol which they have hitherto beet. concerned. The Whig party, for etample will probably endeavor to hold a Convention on its old plat form—of protection to American Industry, In ternal Improvements, restriction of Executive power, &o. So: They will probably ucek to stand before the country just as they stood iu 1810 with Geu. listrriaon, in IS4I with Henry Clay, and in 1848 'with OW, Taylor, to their cuadi dates. But this is not likely to he allowed. Whig, from the South declare that, Limy ;menet go into Convention on such ground. A new test moat be introduced—a now issue raised—a new measure incerpoluted into the Whig creed. to- enlist their cooperation. The Whigs of the whole country in Convention mu.t proclaim ad• herence to the Compromise Bills, and to the Fugitive Slave Law without amendment, at, their creed, or else the Southern delegetes will with draw. Senator Toombs, of Georgia, having carried the State upon the C,omprutuise platform declares that the Whigs there will act with the Whigs of the Union only upon that platform. Portiana of the party, in various 11PetiMIS of the Union, thug die.leht terms to the National Com notion. And whothee dope tyro. are accept ed or not, the organization of the poi. iv 14.0k m:47 -41a unity greedy impaired, and itc pone, of course, diminished 1 la our , opinion, it is not at all likely that the Whig party in Ohio. New York, or New-Eng land. can be heidaeltarher urn suelk a platform II thißoutbsfa Whirl tatdsfyttutn as essentiai. The form of the party .flfsilir.thin way pOilliblY remain—but Its etrongth will vanish. The only escape front dondilecaum Vapid of course be to avoid both he horns. HAL see lion, must agree to drop the subject upon which thxy differ, and refuse to insert new testy or new priacipien into their party erred. A sec tional question "hnilld nut be mule a national issue. The whole party lino allow different Reclines to hold different opinienshivp sectional suljeals—antl to unite upon thole i.oiam ri t i4 they httl4 la iOnt111011.• If this degree of whit, tidy cannot be itraata4, tii If hos been hitherto, the part; must he dtstroyr.l.--fa ate nature of the case such a result in inerilehia . Mr. Webster hag been nominated tor Presi dent in Massachusetts: and the moan, of this nomination is mdre important than the fart, to far 4.3 nor present purpose il concerned lie is not nominated as a Whig, nor upon Whig party groundi. The Address to I#o. F,:opl. nays "'- thing of the Tariff, of Interne/ 14+01ra/tents. or of any of the old party Lamm. it ai,FeAa PP. Mr. Webster's behalf, upon his own Manta, or.d , hie public services. - This is certainly a strong ground of appeal—perhaps stronger thou nay party alliance could possibly be. All we rtfe to it now toi is. breanaa it shows a dispositi to auhstiltitel something. clue for the old Wia e platform, and thus Indicates theli.ue,rtte trbilit the party organization has been shattered. - ... It is very clear that if the, Inv parry of Cr Unisa.s.9 each, is to eupport any candidate,— +c mug be selected by a National COnlCattatt. That mode of ecieetion doubtless hat its et li. but experience puree that it is the only practi. -cal method of uniting upon a nominee If no 'sack convention can be had—if the ti.'hig party 43-0.01 en far agree upon principles as to Lit in, getter fur that purpose—then each !Raton mutt net for traelf—support its own candidate, and -atade the result. Tie Trdtne, se observe. ad encores tkia proceeding. ft may les noce.eary, but it is very clear that it teat notiao to rirtery. EDWARii D. alTuansor, Esl., late editor - 1f the "Ha rrisburg;lD ally American," boa pure based the establishment of the ••Laucasha• linlon and Tribune," and has changed its name to j pendtnt Whig." Mr. MePhereou is etc of the most indefatigable awl spirited political writers in the State. The future pailion of the paper is indicated by the following, extractlrorn hie Salutatory addroaa: "The "Whig" will inaiat that this country has a North as well as a South and that the has right,: worthy of mynah protection with {base 1 of the South. It will freely accord to the all that the eonatitutinti of the country gunman. tees them, and will firmly claim for the Nor:h all tha,pririlegea guaranteed them by the acme -tarred instrument. It will to liie free land :elairuthe right of Free Speech, no matter when, by whore, trader what pretext, and for what put 'Vase this, the only sure defence of nut libertirS may be'assailed " Mr. M'Pherson also announces his faamita Presidential candidate is the followineirtul, , .'We raise to-day the name of our favorite for the next Presidsocr—Gen. Son —the gallant soldier, the enlightened etatestaaii, the honest man. Since the death of that great and good man, Zichary Taylor, the eyes of the Whintparty have instinctively turrusito the Ocar red llero or Chippewa and Mexico all their leader lb the approaching CSLIVII9P.. The Whig ' masses have reviewed with pride the record of his gloribus career, and have admired the won derful' blooding in his character of all the quta it ies which constitute the succezeful soldier and sound statesman. Whether surrounded by the ' carnage of the battle field, or in the private counsels of civil life, be has been equally calm. far seeing, wise lie has epentilzie life in 'the; service of his country—has earned a reputation which has penetrated no far so civilization has reached—and with, mind polished by educa tion and improved by experynee, be t•tands be, fore our view, as fit a man to M.) our potty to victory an the armies of our country to tri umph..' ITEMIGNATION OF THIS MESICAIi Wctsrra —1.2 Crouirdk,, the Spanieh paper, published in New York, lu its muuther of Saturday, makes the ful- wing oonoaoccment '•We ire oseured that the government of Met ico Las finally accepted the reaignation of Uoo Louis de - in Rosa, as envoy extraordinary and tolnieter plenipotentiary at IVaehinetoa,•vhieb be Lee repeatedly tendered. Thia -Worthy fouctionary, it appears, is about to take charge of the civil government of the State or Zacate .4, to which he has been elected by the popu lar vote of that State. It is said ,that his place will be filled by either Senor Olaguive or Ler rebus. two Mexican Sinatora, who are both well known for their patriotism and public merit." tse editors of Mr Pittsburgh tootle. Ptrrsnonna, Dec, 4, 1851 Dean Elia:—As one who on the first Sabbath evening of November enjoyed the privilege of hearing the truly eloquent lecture delivered on that evening, to a largo assemblage of young men, by the Rev. W. Et Howard, of this city, I would desire, through the medium or your pa per to call the attention of the young men to thee. lectures, and to request their attendance on the nest one, what] is to be delivered on the evening of Sabbath Hie 7th inst., at 7 o'clock, in the Second Presbyterian Church, on Fifth Street. The Rev. gentleman, whose reputation for elognence in no well known In this city, has ex erted himself particularly in .the proparation rod delivery of these lectures; and judging from past experieuee. I can safely assure ray who may feel incllned to attend, that it only re quires their attendance upon one of them lec tures, to ensure their allowing noon to pass unattended afterwards. "Tours, Taunt" CENSUS OF WISCONSIN Dwelling'houses in the State Families in the State White males 114,221 White females 140,444 - 304,505 Z;65 Colored males Colored females Total 'populaticu 305,191 Deaths