~iffahtt~g~ :~~~ek#~` v. r. vicumun—.v...t.atarqs,..v.amvq...,4sztas—jovart--„ S. RIDDLE _&. Co.,_ _ EDITORS and PROPRIETORS Frr•restrirta-x. SATURDAY MORNING - , JUNE 27, 1837, RLADINO MATT= OS LACS PAGE OF TIIIS PAPER. Fos 3rSlOl Or current literary news ere our fourth page. PLAITS VALLET, 8011111 -Pass Asp PAcirm RAILIWAD co.—lt is undeniable, now, that ibis is a "fast" age. Things go ahead with such ra pidity that it is difficult to keep pace with them and nearly impossible to anticipate what is com ing. When, eleven years ago, in the midst of a struggle to secure a direct railroad connection with Baltimore, our citizens were urged to look westward rather than cast ward, and build a road into the heart of Ohio, no one contemplated that the movement which then started the enterprise of building the Ohio and Pennsylvania Roads would eventuate in giving us, as it has done, a cantinuous road from here to Chicago, over 400 miles long, nor did any ono dream, then, that in ISM railroads would stretch in unbroken lines from Chicago westward into lowa and Missouri, with the certainty of being com pleted in a abort time to the upper Missouri, on the borders of. Kansas and Nebraska. Yet such is the fact. The munificent grants of lands made by the last Congress, has ensured the com pletion of railroads stretching across lowa and . Missouri from the Mississippi to the Missouri Firer, the aim of all of them being to connect, there, with a road leading westward through the ' Rock) , mountains to the Pacific. We have before us a Nebraska paper, of a late 'date, detailing - the organliation in the City of Omaha of a company to build a railroad from Omaha City to the South Pass of the Rocky Mountai_rui—a distance of 1000 miles. The getf tlemen who. engaged in forming this company belong to different States of the Union, and are of the highest respectability and influence. Among them we may name Gen. Wm. Robinson, of this city, lion. Jno. Comic, of Westmoreland, eon. Mr. Br a dshaw, late member of Congress from the Bucks district, CoL Orr, member of Congress from South Carolina, Judge Barber, of Wlimmusin, Col. Curtis, member of Congress from lowa, Mr. Roamer, of Ohio, Mr. Pierce, of Indi ana, etc. The company was organized on the 6th, and ben. Robinson, of Penna., was elected President, Judge Barber, of Wisconsin, Secretary, and Mr. Roamer, of. Ohio, Treasurer. The charter, which was passed by the Nebraska legislature at its late session, authorizes a capitol of sixty millions of dollars, and the construction of a railroad from the Missouri river to the South Pass. It will be the first object of tho Company to Recur° a grant of land from Congress, on the line of the contemplated road, when the work will in immediately commenced -at Omaha City, and preened forward with an the vigor of this wonderful age, and of our wonderful pbople.— It is a great undertaking, but although General Robinson is not a young man, there is no more improbability of his living to see it completed than there was, cloven years eince„ of his living to see what he now seen. In ten years from now, Raiboads from San Francisco and from Oregon may reach the western foot of the Rocky Mountains, and it will not G lung, then, before public or private enterprise will scale the Rocky Mountains with the Iron gorse. Site or rue MAIN LlXE.—Contrary to the ex pectation generally entertained here, the Penn, sylvania Road has purchased the Main Line of the Public, Works, at the Minimum price fixed in the act of Assembly, and under the restric tions imposed by the into decision of the Su preme Court. The railroad Company will con tinue to pay, as usual, the tonnage tax, the Su preme Court having decided that that part of the law exempting the Company forever from the payment of that tax, if it became the par chaser, is unconstitutional. The President of tho road has doubtless been prompted to purchase under tho assurance that the next legislature will repeal the tonnage tax, and that, once repealed, each succeeding legis lature can 'gaily be induced to continue the re peaL The suggestion of the Philadelphia Led ger, that $45,000 per annum "judiciously" ex pended at Harrisburg will be sufficient to this end has significance in it, in this connection, and we may therefore look for adetermined strvggle, next winter, to accomplish this repeal. As Things now stand we have no hesitancy in pro claiming the trust we sincerely feel that the ef fort may be unsuccessful. Sc. far as the politics of the State are concern ed, we are well content to see the public works pass out of the hands of the /Retie. They have been a fruitful source of corruption--a nest for hatching locofoco politicians at the expense of the Comfoonwealth, and a useful means of keep ing up the ascendancy of that party in the State. The public and the State will gain immensely by the loss to the locofocos of the political power which they possessed in these works. But, while we derive this political satisfaction from the sale, we are convinced that the Penn sylvania Road ought not to have been permitted to buy it. That road is thereby left without a competitor in the carrying trade, and the people along, the western end of the canal will be deprived all the advantages heretofore derived from it. A Corporation already too strong, becomes thereby an overshadowing power, such as no Common wealth ought to permit itself to encourage; and the State surrenders, to be destroyed by it,those public conveniences the preservation of which the people had a right to demand. We do not believe the results can be beneficial. The pub lic safety and the public good cannot be promo ted by fostering and strengthening a mammoth corporation, by the tide of which the United States Bank , wasa pigmy. But the deed is done, and we can only await the consequences. So far as the intetests of rittaburgh are at the mercy of this road, our citizens have noth ing to hope for. The little protection heretofore givert . by the competition of the public 'Works is wittidrattii. The Company is now at full lib erty to discriminate against the city to the top of its bent, and it will do so whenever it thinks it can make a point in that way. Our business men must make up their minds to grat and bear it, until chance or better fortune opens up the way of deliverance. Carrespanderace of the Richmond Despatch. DOINGS is PETTMIIitIIO, VA.—FATAL rolsONiNo. —Petersburg, June23.—atan advanced hour last evening, three slaves, employed by Mr. Edward Gill,. of Chesterfield, at his , residence near Mato :tea, were lodged in the jail of this city, under very important, and indeed, fearful circumstan ces. Their name. are, respectively: Rebecca, a cook, and Maria, (both owned by Mr. Gill.) and John, a slave of Sylvester Pearce, Esq. For segeral weeks past the entire family of Mr. Gill, consisting of six children, himself and wife, have been slowly and gradually visited with myste rious diseases,prodncing internal inflammations, deathly paleness, and exceeding nervousness —ln the course of time their youngest child fell a to its fatality; and on Saturday last, _physicians were called to attend the family, every One of whom had become prostrated, and were - laboring under intense pain. From the charac . • • . ter of the symptom of the affliction, suspicions of'poisoning were aroused, which were subse ..quently fully corroborated by investigation. On the premises of the cook, which were also occupied by the two other servants, were found parcels of lump and carbonate of lead, with a •4, vial containing the sugar of lead. These simi ler and deadly poisons, as every attendant cirL entastanee warranted, had been introduced from time to time in the food and drink Served in the fp.mily, earning a slow process of death. Onyesterday(Mondsy)ovening, Ella, the young , est surviving daughter, died under the loathsome saltation. The Chesterfield authorities wore Immediately consulted, all the circumstances fully Mated, and the arrest autherized. The , . rest of the family are slightly improving: We cite the following from the Americo. Oakes, pcsahlin, and it speaks well for Alleg heny townehip: "eusattiorr- Fonevew.—At the recent pii." wary'meetitig of the'Repalican Party in Alleshea „y foarteen.BeettaneraDemoctatiattendedand &eared their intention of supporting, jiereafter, the candi data of the Iteipablican party. : _ , • Iftw You, Jane 26. -It le reported that the South Royalton Beak of Varsiont; lfayt, 001 f Tat atil4aal oNissxrxl asgaitirsrcs Thiptatbes Soltrinted itr this 'ziently,Lound thettietiAndresm.k. 190- The true title of the book sLeold_he "Translations from Jurvnal, with the original ' prepended." We were niwnys opposed to the books of Prof. Authon, ever since we "po nied" with them slyly through the hard . places in the description of that "rhombus" taken off' the coast of Ancona, and the colloquialisms be tween the harttapex, Umbritius and the author, as t b eformer is departing disgusted, from the vices and follies of Rome. Vie do not set otirselves . . up as a critic of classical writings, and more particularly of Juvenal, the most difficult of the Latin poets to translate intointeiligibleEnglish. Yet we believe that we can discover in the notes of Prof. Anthon many translations of passages which the context will not justify and which we could point out were it either profitable or inte resting. But what we most object to in these half translated works of Prof. Authon, is the lacy habits of study they beget in learners. At itch tation, even the idle shay succeed in making what in College slang Is called "a sail," by a general knowledge of a word here and there, while a furtive glance may snatch from the co• pious notes a rough and "liberal" translation of passages which if .they are worth any thing are worth careful and assiduous study and close literal translation as fa thelatter ie possible. The Satires of P us which are also here printed in the same volume with the .luvena list; Prof. Anthon has not commented upon at , all, for what reason we do not know. This is better. We believe a grammar, a lexicon and a history contemporary with his author, are the only commentaries a student who is true to him self needs for the fell and thorough understand ing of a classic. Mr. J. L. Reed has this book for sale. It i well printed and elegantly and substantially bound. ?WWI to Broom. Edo - ant, Ihrol, New Lull, tl,ute, - Brow For sole by J. L. newt, 4th «t. We have read as much of this book aswe hove been able, and we like it. We aro particularly pleased with the spirit of the author. He does not come before the public with a low bow and a smirk,"induced bypartial friends." "conscious of his demerits," and all that. Mr. Edward , says "he has no apology to offer; it is not pub lished at the solicitations of friends, nor because there is any apparent need_for such a publics_ tion. It appears simply because I choose to pub_ lish it. The public will decide whether it shall or shall not find readers." In his travels, the Rev. Mr. Edwards (who by • the way resides in Petersburg, Va.,) saw all pla ces of interest in Naples', Italy, Germany, France, Enotliznd and Ireland, and writes his impressions with an easy and graceful pen. The book is pub lished in the fine style which characterizes all the works of the Harpers, and in their hands we have no doubt the author is safe pecilniarily. if his work has the merit we think we find in it, they will ace that it succeeds. /Larvacum 050 Ermstxnass is ilosDritAs, erlth 'tape and Muter4liona. by W. V. WelLs. Neer York: Limper Bros, For solo by J. L. Rawl, Fourth at. This is a large, well printed volume, copiously illustrated, and consisting of thirty chapters.— It comprises sketches of travel in- the gold re gions of °tench°, and a review of' the history and general resources of Central America. It is but a few years, comparatively, since all that vast region which unites the two Americas was a terra incognita to us, almost as much so as the dreary steppes of Tartary or the regions around the White Nile. Under the stimulus of a hunt for gold and a finding of it too, in California, the rage fur dominion among the fillibusters un der Walker, and in general, the adventurous spirit of the American people, who, like Alexan der, aro mournful when there is nothing left to conquer, that whole great land of gardens, alli gators, swamps, forests, flowers, disease and death has grown to he quite familiar ground.— • The present volume is quite a mine of knowl edge. It is colloquial, scientific, geographical, mineralogical, ethnological, geological, and forma, in fact, as far as Central America is con cerned, quite a union of the •flogies" and "graphic..." As a book of reference it is volua. • ble, and has become, we have no doubt, very . familiar to thousands who are conversant with the pages of Harper's Monthly Magazine. Tar Rm. asp ens Nome. by Corttartne E. Benches, New Sort: I.loxyaer Dn.. For sole by J. L. /tend. :Hiss Beecher, who is a maiden lady of great sweetness of character and geniality of dispo,- lion, and who, notwithstanding a physical in firmity which has nearly crippled her, has pre. servedthat same sweetness and geniality through trials and self-denial, is one of "the Beecher family," and well known to thousands of good housewives by her work on "Domestic Econ omy" and her "Domestic Receipt Book. - Miss Beecher has always been in her books as in her personal intercourse with friends, a great fa vorite. With such attention as we hove been able to bestow on this present valuate we have con cluded that Miss Beecher has here overshot the mark. This work is the result of -thirty years of devotion to the training of the human mind" —so we learn from the preface of this volume. The tone of the writing is above the undiscip lined mind. It is morein the style of Lhigalil, Stewart or Locke than of a work for the million_ The book is handsomely bound and printed in fine large type, on good paper, and shottlil he read by all those whom it will interest. • New Voris Correspondence. Nzw Town, June nth, 1S Editor' GazMe: Our Mayor's bsulesemeas has ately had an imitator, thus : The other night a party got into a terrible row in a, drinking hole in Centre' street, which, for a arvel, caught the ear of a passing policeman, who entered and attempted to put the law in force by making an arrest. The party, aLa Mayor Wood, resisted, and even cut and beat the officer ahookingly ; so you see there are others ready_ to copy him in his late conduct. Appropos of "Wood's Rebel lion" the case of "Conover vs. Wood" in resist ing the Serving of the process is now before the Superior Court here, Judge Roffman presiding. Nor is the case before the Court of Appeals at Albany yet decided, though it is supposed the constitutionality of the Metropolitan Police bill will be sustained. In truth the party who- have fastened them selves in each leech-like manner upon all the offices in tho city—whether federal, state or municipal—do not like to let go the pap. The federal, such as Custom lib - Use, (united salaries a round million,) and the Post Office, &0., 'will of course continue to be enjoyed and entple.red in various ways in advancing the intereath'of the Democracy. The manufacturer and merchant, the mechanic and millionaire, have alike resolv ed that they will no longer be quietly robbed to support such n set who "dress in fine linen and fare eumptuously" out of our taxes—only eight million per annum. There is a party and power at work that have determined to rid our city-of such an incubus if possible. . A reliable correspondent of a city journal atates that in the 18th ward, one of the largest and wealthiest, there were open last Sunday 830 shops, representing nearly all trades, though mostly rum-sellers; also caw two fights—no ar rests, no officers in sight. I also have seen much of the s.wie scenes. Several Sabbaths in sue. cession, I have noticed a large troop of boys, from ten to twelve years of age, dragging a small engine through the streets, hooting at the top of : their voices. I tried to intimidate them, saying I would call a policeman. They only cursed and passed on, nor could I find one, although I milk od around four blocks. You must pardon all this, though I wanted to show you jtust hon and by whom we are ruled. There was a sale at auction, in the Exchange, of the famous "Greek Slave" of Powers. You will remember there is a copy in the possession of the Earl of Elle.smore, and also one in the spier'. did gallery of the wealthy banker, Mr. Corcoran, of Washington City. The first above was bought by the Cosmopolitan Art Association, of Cincin nati, for the-handsome sum of S6OOO, and was sold for the benefit of Mrs. Gillespie, of Brady's Bend, Pa. Gonfril & Co., of Broadway, have on exhibi tion a magnificent painting by Winterbalter, favorite artist among the royalty or France and England. It is entitled ...Florinde:" scene, a . , . " bevy of n„impite_bathing." It is really very beautiful, both in drawing and in color. It will be engraved. Mies Eliza Logan is now playing at Wallach's, with decided stances'', to overflowing houses. I well remember her first benefit at the good old National, in Cincinnati, some eight years ago, when she played "Ion" to a "$9OO house," shim. when what triumphs ban she not achieved! Her readings now are so perfect and intonations so pure and correct. The health of the city is remarkably good— deaths are below the average, and no fevers, though no thanks to .the Street I;4' numintio4en nor Street Inspector; as trltltihem , all talk: mominei PlPeis eon'' tan li/wilt:tin:dies of early aid eflicieat cleont;. lag , . We' shall as. - Yowl;faithfully , L Tries..t Ttrz-h p - Ei - C.M/4,ED: „-oilliCliveltreericie: 4 - ~,,,, , .-- -e ,, - SprriaUniAsyttrisr ----,-,,: --,• with inthate . plidit, ultra moms agapElonoiring' ---1.- r.... - ..'....____.........,_ .. - --' -- •.:•. .., • iradligetifet biO4bf to the SE. Pe ter ' s' Courier TFi L .C4atistuares and other Iroiiitlieg .. icy E. E.Frauldiag. F01.q., fittlit,l44wWod, up the: L . ". i..crl'OrrrNENT 6.17E.i1in, TO jrzii,,,,,. Ntinnesutesitiveii- lie's:vitt hat ' ithe first -reportf ---- n% to the murder of both the woman in captivity . t r . co e nc , -.151 i . 4 - , 4 7 :„ 1.1..C1 , 1 6: ' T . N V- SiYi't "RS' is - ordy - Tartintlrtrrim' fine - of them Mien Ourd- `SAT.GIIDAYEVESIi2,7;I3'tf,,t'iI ':iirreuro'bi:ihht. Ott ner, tine . been found by some Yankton Indians HT. CLAIR. lICYTEL w here Wol W.' he Coll. itni by th..r and brought into Yellow M edi c i ne. Elie Md.! wild t og to avail thoneklren of it. 1 , r,4s system of tre.,t been placed on a bill as a target by the red der- , n combluatien of ronnolial rnowonreo let Owl by Dr. IN of the Spirit Lake miiesiere. L and sElif at, the . Pitc hnod Dr. BY l ww L ae town amply 100,,t . '; tl./ so nho n whole band alternating in the sport.. Beth her , d '" ri x P T. "` I t " . fi t ' Pr urnr""tVit.'," dame m 'n' in On' loge ware broken, and she wee left to die She cow. not obsulutt.-. . t ° l7alll " ;:ntln S . ' re ri lfermay boobvs ' inod in till t" ""'". '''''' 4 ' raja thiat the tormentors had murdered Mrs. • ly beyond:he reach °treated:on Noble, a few days previously, before her eyes, siatar,,l3.o`,7l,7nr=mo:ol,ll,...,c'gr;',.l-ne'^','-',Sicid sad left ,her on the praries. This story is doubt- toraot reniodies, to renovate and annain i lie ..trriTh " t:f th ' . • less reliable: And 3lr. Paulding was informed I 50 ,. ...i .v.e.A.ri t lbw. wick noch rin'