tjc Jcffcrsonian.
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1860.
FOR GOVERNOR
Hon. Andrew G-. Curtin,
OF CENTER COUNTY.
2r The People's Convention, wbiol
was held at Ilarrisburg on the 22d ult..
did a good woik in nominating Col. AN
drew Q. Curtin, of Centre County, for
Governor of this Stole. Col. Cui tain has
been a member of the Stato Legislature,
and has held the offico of Seorctary of
Stato. He is a lawyer of superior talent,
and a capital btump speaker, who will
most undoubtedly personally canvass the
State thoroughly and successfully, no mat
ter ivhp the Democracy put against hioi.
He is strongly in favor of protection tc
American industry, and of course opposed
to tho extension of Slavery into free ter
ritories, and ia therefore just the man for
the people and the whole people, who ro
gard the interests of the wbito man supe
rior to those of the Slaveholder and his
slaves. He is well worthy to be the suc
cessor of the present able ExecutiTO, who
has so faithfully discharged the duties of
that office, and we venture the prediction
that he will be triumphantly elected nest
October, Governor of Pennsylvania.
SST" The Delegates from this Stato to
tho Chicago Convention were instructed
by tho Convention, to vote for Gen. Si
mou Cameron, for President.
Cfr The Delegates appointed by the
Convention from this, the 13th Congres
sional District, are Charles Albright, Wil
liam Davis, W. H. Armstrong, and Sam
uel E. Dimmiok.
EST The Court is in session this week.
The Grand Jury we understand hate
returned true bills against every Land
lord and Sbopkeer in the place, except
two, for selling liquor to minors.
. Proceedings in Court.
Monday February 27.
Court convened at tho usual hour.
Present all the Judges.
Judge Barret in charging the Grand
Jury, was severe in his strictures against
liquor dealers who are accustomed to sell
to minors and habitual drunkards.
The Constables of the different town
bhips made return.
In case of Commonwealth vs. Thomas
A. Donald, indictment for selling liquor
without license. Defendant pleaded guil
ty aud was sentenced to pay a fine of $10,
pay the costs of prosecution and stand
committed until the sentence be complied
Commonwealth vs. Thomas Emperer,
indictment for selling liquor without li
cence. Defendant appeared in open Court
and pleaded guilty. Sentenced to pay a
fine of S10, pay the costs of prosecution,
and stand committed until the sentence i
complied with.
Lewis Weiss vs. Charle3 W. Decker,
No. 43, Sept. term, 1353. This was an
action brought to recover the balance due
on a promissory note, given by defendant
to plaintiff, as a consideration for his in
terest in a tannery. The allegations on
the defense, were that the note was ob
tained by fraud and misrepresentation,
and also that the contract was mado on
Sunday, and therefore void. Verdict of
Jury, in favor of plaintiff, for the whole
amount claimed, being the sum of $350
S3.
Tuesday, February 28.
The Grand Jury preiented a true bill
in the following cases, vii:
Commonwealth vs. Henry Becker, indie t
aent for assault and battery, on oath of
David Kresge, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Peter Marsh, indict
ment for selling liquor without license.
Commonwealth vs E P. Tompkins, in
dictment for violating liquor law.
The Court directod that Samuel De-
trick, Geo. W. Brown, and John Kern,
Petit Jurors at this term, should not be
paid for the day, and also that John
Kern pay a fino of S2, for not appearing
in Court at the propej- time.
John P. Brock, assignee to Brock, Em
crv & Co. vs. Mary Keller. This was
a feigned issue to tett the validity of a
judgment given by George B. Keller to
Mary Keller
Wednesday February 29.
The Jury in the above caso returned a
verdict in favor of defendant.
(To be continued in our next.)
At the last term of the Cumberland
County Court, Judge Graham, at the in
stance of the members of the bar, made
an order, requesting the Commissions
hereafter to prohibit tho publication, in
the newspapers, of the names of the ju
ror. A good idea,
FOR THE JEFFERSONIAN.
Wonderville, 2d month, 27th.
Have we the Salemites amongst us?
0, no; there is no one amongst us who
believes in witches ! Wo believe there
were witches long time ago, and not so
long ago either ; for we aro sure our pa
rents saw them. Wo recollect well bow
our mothers were frequently obliged to
throw a red hot horse-shoe into their
churn to burn out tho witches and liber
ato tho butter, so it could "come." But
j
whether the butter thus affected tasted
most of the witch or the horse-shoe we
do not just now remember. Now we
don't believe witches exert this atonishing
power in this latter half of tho nineteenth
century, though wo do occasionally find
butter that tastes of something besides
grass, hay or cornstalks.
I say we don't believe in witchcB, for
they are all gone long ago yes, gone-
dried up and disappeared on a broom
stick soon after we came into this world
of wonders. But wo have distinct recol
lections of some of them, how they used
to assume the form of a big black oat, a
littlo bird, or any animal that might suit
their fancj or convenience, in order that
they might do the peculiar work of their
office upon their subjoots, the human fam
ily. I say positively we believe they are
now all gone, but we still claim as a con
stitutional right we wouldn't do any
tbing contrary to tho constitution we
still claim the privilege to believe in
ghosts, and in fights, signs and wonders.
Wo beg leave to be exoused from that
rule which says, "Every effect must have
a causo." That is nothing but book talk
and tee profess inspiration. Now don't
say wo aro superstitious. Perhaps our
fathers were a little that way inclined,
but it is all slander if you apply it to us.
We fully beliove Gipsies can command
money to come and it will "come" faster
than butter with horse-ekoes. And fur
thermore they can command an evil spir
it to depart out of a plagued individual
and it will depart. They give immediate
relief to the tender infant that is taking
its turn at the sprue, and as for stopping
blood and perfecting a smashed limb,
why a few words, no doubt they are ve
ry powerful words, a gentle breath,
no doubt it is very gentle a soft brush
of the hand, no doubt it is very soft
and, this dono, three times, before sun
down, or after sundown, or between sun
down, or without sundown, I don't recol
lect which, and the wonder is achieved I
Now you need not produce any of your
philosophy to controvert what we say, for
we have heard our parents long ago tell
us all about these things, and others told
them before what they did not see them
selves, so that the evidence is beyond a
doubt, and wo are not going to believe
anything else. There were those in those
good old times who could do these things,
and happy we, they conferred the gift on
favored ones of their posterity, and disea
ses are stayed; the blood from a severed
vein looks out to tho light but dares come
no further; the bruised limb at onco as
sumes its wanted perfection ! What won
derful cures I And yet there are skep
tics who laugh at these thing", and with
their fingers in their cars run out of hear
ing crying "bah ! bah ! away with such
presumption, such humbuggery, supersti
tion, ignorance, and such supernatural
foolery."
POW WOW.
Much has been said of the Eas
tern Esculapiu9' labors for tho sick ; not
one half has yet been told of the indom
itable perseverance of this singular man.
Imbued with the conviction that Scrofu
la is the parent of disease, he has been
yearsengaged in searching the boundaries
of tho earth, for its antidote. With vast
labor has he canvassed the products of
sea and land, through both continents un-.
til ho has discovered that combination of
remedials wbicb cxpurges this human' rot
and corruption from the system. This
new invention we now offer in our col
umns under the name of Ayer's Sarsa
parilla, although its virtues are from
substances far more aotive and effectual
than Sarsaparilla. Mercantile Journal.
Who aro the Miserable?
Let the Dyspeptic, who suffers physio
ally and mentally answer. But though
be has drunk the very dregs of suffering,
relief exists in tho Oxygenated Bitters,
they are "a cure for all his woes."
Texas Hews.
Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 1860.
The New Orleans Ficayunc of Wcdnes
day is received by the Adams Express.
The Galveston Civilian of the 17th says
says that viov. Houston has transmitted
to the President the result of the labors
of the Texas Commissioners on the Rio
Grande. He says that unless immediate
btps are taken for the efficient protection
of the frontier of Texas, he will himself
move to repel the present invasion, and
prevent a recurrence ot the measures pro
gressing in and out of Texas, looking to a
protectorate in Northern Mexico.
The Commissioners report there is no
certainty of quiet without a partial ocou
nation of Mexico.
The Texas Legislature adjourned on
the 13th inst., without action on the South
Carolina resolutions,
Address to the People of Pennsylvania.
The people of Pennsylvania assembled
in Convention at Harrieburg, on the birth
pay of the Father of bis Country, hereby
nominate General Simon Cameron for
President of the United States.
This act is not done hastily, nor with
out careful consideration of all its conse
quences, and of all the issues involved in
the present momentous struggle for the
highest office in the gift of this great na
tion. The reasons which have influenced us
in coming to tho conclusion wo have
reached, wo now present to our fellow
citizens:
1 t. General Cameron is the only man,
so far as we can see, of all those now
mentioned for tho Presidency, who ean
unite tho entire body of people who are
opposed, to the present corrupt aud dis
graceful Administration. That a major
ity of the nation are opposed to it we
fully believe: but there is imminent dan
ger, from the want, not of strength, but
of Union, of a failure to elect any man
who will be an honor to tho country. Il
is very clear that any candidate who, on
the one baud, is considered ultra or e:
travagant in his views, or who, on the
other, would be considered as untrue to
those principles of liberty which are the
very pulsation of a freeman s heart, could
not commaud tho suffrages of the united
Opposition. The man who will be elec
ted must bo able to oarry Pennsylvania
and the States wbioh lio, West of it, while,
at the same time, there must bo nothing
in his oharaoter or history which will pre
vent his being received with entire cor
diality by the Eastern States, by New
York, aud by the North-West. We are
unable to namo any statesman who com
bines" these requisites except the man of
our choice. For more than half a centu
ry no President Iras been elected without
tho vote of Pennsylvania. The loss of
thu Stato and that of tho otbcrs.to which
we have adverted, was the cause oi our
defeat at the lat election. Let us itaril
wisdom by experience.
2. That General Cameron's name is a
tower of strength in Pennsylvania ap
pears from our action to-day. But the
caufes of it sre not obscure. He has
been the early and unwavering friend of
every measure calculated to develop tho
resources of the State and to protect its
domestic industry. Not a mile of canal
has been dug, nor a section of railroad
constructed, in which be baa not taken an
interest. In bringing the iron and the
coal from their mines and making thorn
productive and useful, he has been con
stantly activo, and to no man more than
to General Cameron can we confidently
look for tho restoration of the cheerful
hum of neglected industry in this old
Commonwealth, by nature so highly fa
vored. A Peunsylvanian's heart ia in
him, and no man dare say that he ban
not constantly and unswervingly giveu
his bent energies to her welfare. And
she, as is fitting, now presents him to the
nation his faithfulness to her is a pledge
that he will be faithful to the whole coun
try. 3. Wo present General Cemeron to
tho people as a national man in tho beft
and highest sense. With some person
national character means only subserv
iency to an aristocracy who are content
to live in ease on the sweat of the brows
of men, whom they look down upon as
their inferiors, only made to be perpetu
ally servile. General Cameron believes
in no such nationality.. Ho is a sclf-mnde
man. He not only believos in free labor
in others, but he has exemplified it in bin
own life. Possessed at first only of an
honest name, derived from a virtuous and
not undistinguished ancestry, haviug on
ly a strong arm and o clear brain, ho ha?
himself gained by hit own manly exer
tions every Btep of his way. He can sym
pathise by experience, with all classes of
hi-j fellow men. He has shown his abili
ty to govern others by first governing
himself. Ho has uever sought a (station
which be has not gained; he has never
failed in any undertaking which he se
riously essayed. He has been equal to
every station ho has reached, and he
knows himself so thoroughly that he will
accept nothing for which ho is not fully
qualified. In regard to that groat ques
tion now before the American people, aud
ou which all men Lave a right to demand
a frank expression of opinion tho exten
sion of Slavery GeneraS Cameron's re
cord is clear. Agaiust the earnest plead
ings of personal friends high in power, he
voted for the Wilmot proviso. Every
where and at all timet bo has been on
this subject a thorough Pennsylvania.
This State, tho first to abolish slavery, in
her great emancipation law passed in
1780, seven years before the adoption of
the constitution of the United States used
tho following remarkable language:
"We conceive that it is our duty, and we
rejoice that it is in our power, to extend
a portion of that freedom to others which
hath been extended to us, and release
them from that state of thraldom to which
wo ourselves were tyrannically doomed,
and from which wo havo now every pros
pect of being delivered. We esteem it a
peculiar blessing granted to us, that we
are enabled this day to add one more
step to universal civilization, by removing
as much as possible, the sorrows of those
who have lived in undeserved bondage,
and from which, by the authority of the
King of Great Britain, no effectual lejfal
relief oould be obtained. In jaatice,
therefcore, to person so unhappily cir
cumstanced, and, also, in grateful com
memoration of our own happy deliverance
from tho state, unconditional submission,
to which we were doomed by tho tyranny
of (aroat Uritatn' they proceed to pass
an emancipation law.
In theso noble sentiment?, General
Cameron has ever concurred. While
maintaining tho absolute right of every
State to manage its own domestic affairs,
to adopt and oontrol Us own institutions,
without interference from any quarter,
he has inflexibly resisted all attempts to
extend slavery; believing that its influ
ence U always deleterious to the prosper
ity of any State where it is established.
At the same time, hois an earnest and
cordial friend of the Union and the Con
- a s
stitution, under which it was formed.
But. while upholding these principles, he
has never yielded anything to arrogance
or assumption. Ho has calmly maintain
ed the rights of his own Stato, under
standing well that great principle that,
if wo would havo others to respect us,
we must respect ourselveB.
We ask with confidence, then, in what
respect General Cameron fails of meeting
the precise want of this time? Strong as
adamant at home: oapablo of carrying the
States esteemed as doubtful in this con-
.
tost: without ono characteristic which is
obnoxious to the opposition partv in any
quarter; a man ever calm, cool, able,
nltar. successful. Datriotio. we ask his
, j i r
nomination by the National Convention
an the certain prooage of his election by
the people of the United States.
Resolved, That tho following gentle
men bo the Delegates at large, viz :
David Wilmot, Henry D. Mooro,
Sansutl A.Purviance, Andrew H. lleeder,
Thaddeus Stevens, Titian J. Coffey,
John H. Ewing, Morrow B. Lowry,
Resolved, That Gov. James Pollock,
and tho Hon. Thos. M. Howe, be the E
lectors at large.
Resolved, That the present National
Administration, by disregarding tbe just
claims of the industrial interests of th
whole country, by fostering sectional ex
citements and antagoninms, by conniving
at schemes of land piracies, and by the
rankest corruption diffused throughout all
the department of the covernment. has
forfeited the confidence and respecfof the
people, has disgraced Republican institu
tions m the eyes of all observers, wheth
. i. 1 i 3 .1
or at no m u or aoroau, sua uesurves a sig
nal rebuke from the frieud of constitu
tional order and of political justice.
Resolved, That corruption in the Ad
ministration of the general government,
combined with federal usurpation, both
the delegated rights of the State, and th
reserved rights of the people, havo become
o flagrant and audacious as justly to ex
ciio tbo most serious apprehensions in the
breasts of tho intelligent and thought
of our citizens fr the btability of free in
stitutions, and especially for the main
fcenanao of norsonal liberty and State
sovereignty.
Resolved, That believing Slavery 16 be
an element ot political weakness, and 0J
social infelicity, we are unalterably op
posed to its extension into free Territo
ries. Resolved, That the dogma that the
Constitution, of it3 own force, carries Sla
very into all or any of the United States,
is a new and dangerous political heresy,
at variance with the explicit provisions of
the instrument itself, with contemporane
ous exposition, and with legislative aud
judicial precedeut, that it is rovolutinary
in its tendency, and subverdive of the
peace and harmony of the people.
Resolved, That the African Slave Trade
is a relic of barbarism, condemned alike
by the civilization, the humanity, the
laws, aud the reliiou of the age; and
that the attempt to re-open it is nn effort
of the powers of darkness to bring again
tho reign of "Chao3 aud old Night,"
which patriots, philanthropists and chris
tians aro under the most weighty and tol
ciun obligations to oppose.
Resolved, That we view with just ap
prehension and nlarm the reckless extra?
agauce in expenditure which pervades ev
ery department of the Federal Govern
ment, Bnu the steady and persistent de
parture from the principles and policy of
the founders of our institution?, that the
restoration of a system of rigid economy
and accountability is indispensable to re
strain tho plunderora who feast upon the
Treasury and to prevcut our politics from
degenerating into a wild and shameful
scramble for the spoil, in which personal
decency and public morality shall be o
vorthrowu. Resolved, That to maintain inviolate
tho rights of the State, and especially
the right of each State to order and
control its own domestic institutions ac
cording to its own judgment exclusively,
is essential to that balance of powers on
which the nerfection and endurance of
our political fabric depends, and we de
nounce, now as heretofore, tho lawless in
vasion by armed forge of the soil of any
State or Territory, no matter under what
pretexts, as among the gravest of crimes.
Resolved, That it does not entor into
tho scheme of the Opposition party to
seek the aboliton of slavery in the States
where it now exists, but to leave tho amo
lioration and ultimate abandonment of
the system to tho moral, roligioua and oj:
couomio forooB which pertain to the slave
holding communities, assured of tho final
provalenco of justice throughout all the
land, among all the inhabitants thereof.
Resolved, That to the union of the States
this nation owes its unprecedented in
crease in population, its surprising devel
opment of material resources, its rapid
augmentation of wealth, its happiness at
home and its honor abroad, and that, con
sequently, wo hold in abhorrence all ma
chinations for disunion, como from what
ever source they may.
Rosolvcd, That tho threats of disunion
in case the Republicans and their affiliants
shall elect tho next President, repeatedly
made in both nouses of Congress by Dem
cratio members, not simply without re
bukc, but with uniform applause from
their political associates, u a denial of
that vital principle of popular govern
ment, free election, and a bold avowal
and oountenanec of contemplated treason,
which it U the imperative duty of tho peo
pie to sternly confrout nnd forever silence.
Resolved, That whilo we are now op
posed, as wo over havo been, to the exten
sion of slavery, we hail the people of the
South as brethren, in whoso prosperity
wo rejoice, and whoso constitutional rights
and privileges we are prepared to sustain
and defend. That m the spirit of good
neighborhood, whenever the passions of
different sections of our-oommon country
cpme in conflict, we stand on the ground
of mutual forbearanco, believing that
fraternity of feeling is a chief element of
our national'strength.
Resolved. That in the enactment of rev-
onuo laws oy tne uenerai uovernmeu,
i . yt 1 r 1
fair and adequate protection should be
systematically afforded to tho industry of
all classes of our citizens. 1 hat we main
tain a devoted attachment to the policy
of national exchanges, which secures to
the working men liberal wages, to far
mers and planters remunerating pnoss
for their products, to mechanics and man
ufacturers for their skill, labor and en
terprise, and to tbo nation commercial
prosperity and independence.
Resolved, That we approve tho polioy
of a donation by the General Govern
ment of a homestead to every actual set
tler upon the public domain, and we
hercbv renucst our Kcnrcsentrtives to
i t
urge tho passage of such a law without
delay.
Resolved, That tho purity and safety
of the ballot-box must be preserved, and
that frauds upon the naturalization laws,
continually resorted to by our opponents,
ought to be counteracted by proper and
wholesome legislation.
Resolved, That the influx upon us of
foreign criminals is an evil of serious
magnitude, which demands the interposi
tion of a proper and efficient legislative
remedy.
Resolved, That this Convention most
cheerful v recommend to the people of
Pennsylvania, Col. Andrew G. Curtin,
the nominee of thisConvention, as a can
didate for Governor, and mutually pledge
themselves to his support; that ou account
of his lone aud proved devotion to the
Protection of American Industry, invol
ing tho dearest and most material welfare
of the people of this. Commonwealth, ane
his earnest fidelity to the interests of the
labor of white man, aud opposition to the
extension of slavery over our Territories,
and as a representative of tho pnnoipl
of reform, retrenchment and integrity in
the ad ministration of governmental affair
he is well qualified to receive the suffra-
ges of tbo people of this central, conser
vative Commonwealth, which is unaltera
bly aud inalienably planted to the main
tamance of the Union aud the perpotua-
tion of the constitution of the United
States in its entire integrity, and accord
ing to its ex unimo interpretation, and
the roal sen&c of its terms aud language
Prevention of Pitting in Sihall Pox.
A writer in the Medioal Times and
Gonette says, in regard to this Mibjoct,
that if the eruption be distinct, the solid
stick of nitrate of silver should be applied
to the pustule, previously moistened with
a little water. If confluent, tne concen
trated solution of eight scruples to an
ounce of distilled water must be applied
over the wholo surface ; if necessary to
apply it to the scalp, the hair should be
previously removed.1 Tho application
should bo usod on tho second or third day
of the eruption. A case of confluent
small pox is related, where no punoture
were made, in which tho strong solution
was applied to the whole of tho face and
ears: tne pustules were immediately ar
rested, and in nine days tho esahar had
come away from the face without leaving
pits. Another writer recommends ap
plying a solution of the nitrate of silver,
of tho strength of one drachm to an ounce
of water, all over the face for ten days or
a fortnight, commencing a few days after
the eruption makes its appearance ; and
if thcro bo intense infiumcaatory action
about the head, it may be applied over
the scale, and also to the mouth and fsu
ces. Parental Sympathy.
Parents express too little sympathy for
their children. Tbo effect of thi3 is la
mentable. "How your children love youl I would
give the world to have my children so de
voted to me P said a mother to one who
did not regard the time giveu to her chil
dren as so much capital wasted. Parents
err fatally wheu they grudge their time
necessary for their children's amupoment
and instruction; fqr no investment brings
so sure and so rich returns.
The child's love is holy; and, if the pa
rent docs not fix that love himself, he de
serves to lo'o it, and, in after life, to
bewail his property of heart.
The child'ri heart U full of love, and it
must gush out toward somebody or some
thing. If tho parent is worthy o-f it, and
possesses it, he is blessed, and the child
ia safe. Wheu the child loves worthy
perons, and receives their sympathy, ho
is less liable to be influenced by the un
deserving; for. in his soul, are models of
excellence, with which he oomparoj oth
ors.
Any person can descend from bis chil
ling dignity, talking familiarly and ten
derly with him; and when the little one
wishes help, tho parent should como out
of his abstractions and cheerfully helji
him. Then his mind will return to his
speculations elastic, and it will aci with
force. All parents can find a few min
utes, occasionally, during the day, to
read little stories to the children, and to
illustrate tho respective tendencies of good
and bad feelings. They can talk to thom
about flowers, birds, trees, about agels,
and about God.
They can show interest in their sport,
determining the character of them. What
U a Rurer way than this of binding tho
child to tho heart of tho parent! Whon
you havo made a friend of a child, you
may congratulate yourself vou have
frieud for life.
$2?Tho course of tho democratic party
in refereooo to Slavory, is to be deter
mined in advaneo of the Charleston Con
vention by a Committee of democratic
Senators, via: Messrs. Green, Bigler,
Fitch, Gwin, and Chestnut. They are
daily expectod to report. In tbo moan-
time it has loaked out that they have a
greed upon congressional interference for
tbe protection of slavery m the Territo
ries in other words they takethoground,
that when a Territorial Logulaturo and
the Judiciary find themselves incapable
of furnishing protection to Slave proper
ty under the Dred Scott decision, thon
Congross must provide a remedy for the
ugut there
affirmed.
Death, of Stephen Whitney.
Mr. Stephen Whitney, the well known
merchant and millionaire, of New York,
died at bis residence opposite the Boiling
Green on the IGth ult., aged 84 years,
leaving a family of four children, (three
daughters and one son, the latter of whom
resides in Morristown, N. J.,) and a num
ber of grand-children. Mr. Whitnev
was the largest stockholder in the New
Jersey Railroad Company. His proper
ty is estimated to be somewhero about ton
or twelve millions of dollars, which he ac
quired in business, and by its own accu
mulation aftorwards. Mr. Whitney was
a native of Derby, Ct., and commenced
business a3 a grocer at Coentics slip, N.
Y During tho war of 1812, he thought
himself ruined in conaequenco of the largo
credits ho had given at tho South and
South Weot, and, was obliged to take his
payment in cotton. The following histo
ry of his transactions which wo find in tho
Express, shows how he managed it:
As a matter of courso, the effect of tho
panic was to cheapen cotton to tho very
lowest figure holders being glad to get
rid of the unsaleable commodity almost
at any price. But to a man of Mr. Whit
ney's mercantile genius, the way to find a
market for the artiole, and that market
an English one was soon made clear.
At that time, as our readers are aware,
Florida was a province of Spain, and A
tnelia Island North of the St. John's riv
er, was tho bouudary lino betwoen the
Unitod States and Florida. Mr. Whit
ney, having purchased immenae quanti
ties of cotton at Savannah, Georgia, and
New Orleans, for little more than an "old
song," sent his purchases to Amelia Isl
and; whence they wero .shipped to Europe
in neutral vessels. His returns were so
satisfactory that he was induced to mako
still larger purchases of cotton, which he
shipped in tho same manner, aud with
unvarying success. He continued this
business till the close of the war.
During the attack on New Orleans by
the British forocs, under Sir John Pack
enham,inl815,he bad immense quantities
of cotton in the city all of which depen
ded ou the issue of the struggle, whether
it should change hands, or continue his
property. The result of the attack ia
known; the British troops were repuled
and New Orleans saved. Ou the conclu
sion of peaoe, in tho same year Mr Whit
ney, from being nearly a ruined man,
three year before, found himself possess
ed ot a fortune of SfilH,U0O.
Mr. Whitney retired from active mer
cantile lifo about thirty ycara ago, and
has ever since, by prudent investments in
real estate and sound paying stocks, been
adding to his wealth. It was character
istic of him that he always minded bis
own businens, kept his own books, and
never had anybody to take charge of hid
affairs, but always conducted them him
self. His illness, a dropsical affection, wbicfr
rendered him lame, lasted for three years-;
but his la-t sickness was quite Buddcn.
He was attended by the family physician,.
Dr. Beales; but the ca-?e was beyond his
skill. To the last bo was methodical aud
bc&inosfl-like as ever, the verv latest act
he did being to take hi3 check-book aud
lock it up in a drawer, taking the key and
putting it in its proper place, after which
be lay down, without any apparent exer
tion or suffering, and died.
Mr. Whitney married the daughter of
Mr. Hendrick Suydam of Long Island,
by whom he had several children. Of
these he leaves one son, Wui. Whitnev.
and three dauehters. Mrs. J. Pbillins
Phenix (widow), Mrs. John Dore, and
Mrs. Ferdinand Su?dam.
In private life, ho was strictlj abstemi
ous to which may be attributed his vigorous
frame, and the retention of unclouded fa
culties, to tbe end of his unusually long life..
He died without pain his last breath
leaving bim like an expiring taper.
Though his name never figured ostenta
tiously m puolio chanties, his pnvato ben
efnrtions were extensive. His charities
were dispensed in secret his left hand
not knowing what his right hand did.
Politically, Mr. Whitney was a Henry
Clay Whig, and whenever tbe great Ken
tuckian visited New York they always
met. To advance tho political interests
of his leader. Mr. Whitnoy contributed
liberally of his substance, though he nev
er sought nor held office himself.
Death from a Broken Heart.
James Stephens, who was hung in New
York, throe weeks ago, for poisonig his
wife, left behind bim a daughter, who
died on tho 19tb ult , apparently from
depreseing effects wrought upon her mind
by the execution of her father. Sho was
about nine years of age, and remarkably
sensitive and intelligont. She was exam
ined as a witness or her father's trial, and
after listening intently to tho sentence of
the Judge, exclaraed : "Come along
father, it's all over now." A short tirao
before her father's execution took place,,
she one night woke up in great fright,
screaming. "They aro hanging father."
She was buried in the same grave thai
contains tho remains of her father and
mother.
Kansas is consequently in every par
ticular fully entitled to admission into the
Union except that a majority of her
citizens are Republicans a fact which in
the estimation of tho pro-slavery dicta
tors of tho U. S. Senate, constitutes a faT
tal disqualification to her becoming a
State until nfter tho Presidential election
shall be held.
fiST-Tho PoopleNs Party in tho littlo
State of Delaware, are discussing the pro
priety of sending delegates to the Chica
go Convention. They have the opportu
nity to redeem the State from Sham De
mocracy, and they will regret it if tbey
suffer the opportunity to pass unimproved.
N. B. Since tho above aentences wero
put in typo, wo hear that tbe People'
Party of Delaware have resolved to send
Delegates to the Chioago Convention.
Tho wife of Senator Slidell, is a Cro
olc of extreme loveliness,