SUNBU11Y AM KMC AN AND SHAMOKIN J OUKNAL.
(From the Phila. Bulletin, .Inly 17th
MR. CLAY'S GREAT SPEECH.
THE bUttXTB THAT JllCCl.EbED ITj
After Mr. Clajr had r concludod 'hi Rreat
pech on the Compromise, which we publish
ed yesterday, Mr. Borhwell, of South Caro
Ilea, rose to make a few remarks about his
State and Mr. Rhelt. The following inter
esting debate thon ensued ; r . , . .
Mr. Clay; Mr.' President, I said 'nothing
. with respeot to the ohamcter of Mr. Rhott,
for 1 might as well name him. I know him
personally, and hare some respect for him.
But if ho pronounced the sentimentattributed
' to him of raising the standard of disunion and
,pf resistance to the common government,
., whatever, he has-been, if he follows up that
declaration by corresponding overt act.', he
will be a traitor, and 1 hope he will meet
the fate of a traitor. (Great applause in the
galleries, with difficulty suppressed by the
Chair.
The President. The Chair will be under
the necessity of ordering the gallery to be
cleared, if there is again the slightest inter
ruption. He has once already given warn
ing that he is under the necessity of keeping
order. The Senate chamber is not a theatre.
Mr. Clay resumed. Mr. President, I have
heard with pain and regret a confirmation of
the remark 1 made, that the sentiment of
disunion is becoming familiar. I hope it is
confined to South Carolina. I do not regard
as my duty what the honorable Senator seems
to regard as his. If Kentucky to-morrow,
unfurls the banner of resistance unjustly, I
never will fight under that banner. I owe
a paramount allegiance to the whole Union
a subordinate ono to my own State. When
. my State is right when it has a cause for
resistance when tyranny, and wrong, and
oppression insufferable arise 1 then will
ahare her fortunes ; but if she summons me
to the battle-field, or to support her in any
cause which is unjust againsj the Union, ne
ver, never will 1 engage with her in such a
cause.
With regard to South Carolina, and the
spirit of her people, I have said nothing.
have a respect for her ; but 1 must say, with
entire truth, that my respect for her is that
inspired by her ancient and revolutionary
character, and not so much for her modern
character. But, spirited as she is, spirited
as she may suppose herself to bo, competent
as she may think herself to wield her sepa
rate power against the power of this Union,
I will tell the Senator himself, that there are
as brave, as dauntless, as gallant men and as
devoted patriots, in my opinion, in every
other State ' in the Union as are to be found
in South Carolina herself; and if, in any un
just cause, South Carolina or any other State
should hoist the flag of disunion and rebel
lion, thousands, tens of thousands, of Ken
tuckians would flock to tho standard of their
country to dissipate and repress their re
bellion. These aro my sentiments make
the most of them.
. Mr. Barnwell. I do not know that I havo
anything to say exactly in reply to the Sena.
tor from Kentucky; except that, when ho
uses such language as "traitors" and "their
doom," ho compels me to remind him of tho
old adage, "that there are two ends to a rope"
and when the Senator comes to the condem
nation of "traitors," it may prove that they
are the true men. With respect to the threats
of the Senator from Kentucky, if history
speaks truly, there was a certain British offi
cer once who promised, with a regiment of
soldiers, .to drive the rebels from one end of
the continent to the other. I need not say
the performance hardly equalled the promise
But I made, 1 think no threats; t institute no
comparisons. Far be it from me to detract
from the fidelity or the gallantry of the poo.
pie of any of the States of this Union. 1
should do great iujustice to my own convic
tions, were I to do so. With respect to the
justice of the cause upheld by South Carolina
the Senator has not now to learn that she is
sustained in her judgment by the recorded
opinions of the numerous States who made
common cause with the State of Virginia in
her assertion of her rights. And shall any
Slate, however feeble, subject herself to ru
inous and unjust domination, from appre
hension that tyranny might provo too strong
for her that the armed heel of the oppres
sor might trample out the lifo which he only
designed to make degraded and miserable 1
I trust not, sir; and I contond only for the
duty and the right of asserting justice, even
at the hazard of safety.
Mr. Hale. I do not intend to occupy the
attention of the Senate but a moment. As
the Senator from Kentucky has taken issue
with me on a point of history, I want to give
what I understand to be truth of the case. He
says the Missouri Compromise was a very
beneficial measure. I do not undertake to
say whether it was or not; but if there is any
truth in history, though I was a boy at the
time, when the New England States were of
considerable more relative and numerical
importance than they are now, the history of
those men who went for the Missouri Com
promise has been a warning from that day to
this to northern men who come here on the
floor of Congress to surrender northern right
to propitiate power. I think the Senator from
Massachusetts in my eye (Mr. Davis) will
tell you that some of the most promising and
talented of the public men in that Stale, who
went for that measure, have never recovered
from the odium with which they were over
whelmed from that day. I think the Sena
tor from Rhode Island could stand up and
how that they have living monuments of
publio odium in the persons of northern re
presentatives who went for the measure in
that State. I know it was so in New Hamp
shire ; and I believe in that part of the coun
try there was but one solitary instance of a
northern statesmen who had vitality and
elasticity enough to rejuvenize himself from
the obloquy with which that measure over
whelmed him, and he was an individual well
known to the honorable senator.
Mr. Clay. Henry Shawl
Mr. Hale. No, sir John Holmes,' the on
ly man in the whole of New England that
was ever able to recover. The honorable
Senator from Georgia asks me if I would
nrve them so aijaiu. I can only lull him
ilia it i laid that liutuiy u puiluotipliiy tuath
inff by example J and when he holds tip ihe
isouri Compromise, and the fate of those
northern mon who went for it, as something
that is to stimulate us to go for it, does he
think that I am ambitions of filling a martyr's
grave 1 Laughter No, sir. not at all ; nor
do I want at thistimo to nccellerate the doom
which 1 have no doubt will overtake every
individual who shall vote for the passage of
a measure like this.
j "Mr. Clay. One or two words in reply to
the honorable Senator. He has confounded
two very different epochs in tho history of
me conntry. 1 spoke first or tne Missouri
Compromise; and t think I know the names
much better than then Senator does, though
there were not a great many not above ten
or twelves from the free Slates who voted
with us for that Compromise. I knew at
that time every one of them, and I preserve
tho most friendly recollection of them at this
moment. If tho Senator says they were all
sacrificed, I am sure he is mistaken. 1 re
member the names of Henry Baldwin, of
Pittsburg; Henry Storrs,of Whitestown, near
Utica, New York ; Judge Ford; Henry Shaw,
formorly of Lanesboro', who, although ho
did not return to Congress, went to the legis.
lature of his own State whenever he chose,
and was one of its honored influential mem'
bers long after tho passage of the Compro.
mise.
The honorable Senator says, however, that
there were some sacrificed, and he told us,
what ho need not have one, that he was
not disposed to sacrifice himself. Laughter.
Ho certainly need not have told us that no
body would suspect him of any such patrio
tic ambition. Renewed laughter. Now, if
any of theso gentlemen . were sacrificed in
the cause of their country, I would write
upon their tomb stones this epitaph "Here
lies a noble patriot, who loved his country
better than himself an epitaph which I
would never be alio to write, I am afraid, on
the tomb of tho Senator from New Hampshire
Laughter.
Mr. Hale. Mr. President, the honorable,
it seems to me, has been a little personal
Laughter.
Mr. Clay. Oh, no. ''
INTERVIEW BETWEEN MRS. LITTLE.
FIELD, AND PROFESSOR WEBSTER.
On Thursday, 25th ult., Mrs. Littlefield
with her husband, paid a visit to Professor
Webster in his cell, in Leverett street jail, at
about one o'clock, P. M. She was accompa.
nied to the cell window by Mr. Androws,
the jailor. Mr. Andrews spoke to tho priso
ner, and told him that Mrs. Littlefield had
come to see him. Mr. Webster immediately
came to the grating, and expressed himself
glad to see Mrs. L., and further said, "I am
sorry to hear that your little boy is dead."'
To which Mrs. L. replied, "yes, 1 am very
sorry too, as it was all the child I had." M
Webster then said, by way of consolation,
"he is better off to dio young, than to grow
up in vico and crime," and again said, "Mrs
Littlefiuld I am very glad to see you." She
replied, "I am very glad to sue you, Doctor,
but very, sorry to see you in this situation."
Webster thon said, "I don't know but that
it would be better for me, than it would be
to be out in tho world, sinning, if I have
ever said anything about you to injure your
feelings, I hope you will forgive me ; but I
believe I have never said anything about
you."
To which Mrs. Littlefield replied, "No,
Doctor, you never have."
Webster then said, "as to what I have said
about your husband, there is no man placed
in my situation but would have done the
same as I have ; but that ..is all settled be'
tween him anil me. What you nnu your
husband testified to on the trial was all
true."
Ho made no reservation in regard to tho
"sledgo hammer." It probably did not oc
cur to him.
Mrs. Littlefield replied to the doctor, "I
pity you and sympathise with you, and if I
could set you at liberty I would do so."
Webster replied, "that never can be done,
Mrs. Littlefield. I feel resigned to my fate,
but feel very bad about my family."
Webster now shook hands with Mrs. Lit
tlefleld, and thanked her for calling. The
interview was very affecting on both sides.
It lasted some fifteen minutes, and from its
nature it is apparent the Professor desires to
dio at peace with the living. Boston Herald.
Mr. Clay on thb Compromise The fol
lowing is in part the peroration of Mr. Clay's
recent eloquent speech in the Senate: "Mr.
President What is an individual man t An
atom, almost invisible without a magnifying
glass! a mere speck upon tho surfaoe of the
immense universe not a second in time
compared to immeasurable, never-beginning
and never ending eternity a diop of water
in tho great deep, which evaporates and is
borne off by tho winds a grain of sand,
which is soon gathered to the dust from
whence it sprung. Shall a being so small, so
petty, so fleeting, so evanescent, oppose it
self to the onward march of a great nation,
to subsist for ages and ages to come to op
pose itself to that long line of posterity which,
issuing from our loins, will endure during the
existence of the world. Forbid it God ! Let
us look at our country and our course ele
vate ourselves to the dignity of pure and dis
interested patriots of wise and enlightened
statesmen and save our country from all
impending dangers. What, if in the march
of this nation to greatness and power, we
should be buried beneath the wheels that
propel it onward what are we, what is any
man worth who is not ready ana willing to
sacrifice himself for the benefit of his coun
try when it is necessary 1
Paor. Wsbsteb. It is said that the deci
sion of the Council has produced no change
the appearance or manners of Prof. Web
ster. His mood, for some time past, has
been that of a man of deen thought. When
alone, he has a book in bis hand, but does
not read much. The jail officers do not keep
strict watch upon the prisoner, and thev
have no fears that he will commit suicide.
He is. according to the jail record, in the 55th
year of his aj-o, and is fivo feet two inches
.in. I oiio-iilitl) Hi heihl.
THE AMEBIC AIT.
SUNBURY.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1990.
It. R. MASKER, feilllor and Proprietor.
Td AvKRTimn The circulntiim of the Pmilinry
American Mixing the dilfcrent town nn the Punquchijnim
it not exceeded equalled liy nny paper published in North
em Pennsylvania.
TIIK LIST OF LETTERS ! published in this paper,
In nranrdnnce with the taw requiring; them lo be published
In the paper having the kirgest circulation.
Democratic State Nominations.
For Canal Commissioner :
WILLIAM T. MORISON,
Or Montgomery County.
For Auditor General:
EPHRAIM BANKS,
or Mifflin County.
For Surveyor General:
J. PORTER BRAWLEY,
Or Crawford County.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Democratic electors of Northumlwrlnnd
county, aro respectfully requested to meet fit the
usual places of holding delegate elec tions in their
respective Boroughs and Township", on Saturday
the 17th liny of August, 1850, for tho purpose of
electing delegates to tho Democratic County Con
vention to be held in Sunbury on the Monday fol
lowing, to form a Democratic ticket to be supported
at tho ensuing full election.
CM. YORK8, SAMUEL ENT,
WM. I). KIPP, SAMUEL LANTZ,
KEUliKN ZARTMAN, WM. WILSON,
A. ARMSTRONG, H. READER, Snr.,
SAMUEL T. BROWxN.
Standing Committee.
July 20, 1850.
O" The Compromise bill was killed on
Wednesday, in the Senate. Mr. Pearce of
Maryland is the murderer. It will pass
the House by 20 majority.
CJ" Hon. JosEm Casey our Eepresen
tative in Congress was at this place last
week attending to some professional busi
ness in the Supreme Court the session of
which has just been concluded. Mr. Ca
sey has proved himself thus far an able and
industrious member, and is seldom from his
post.
OCT3" Fourth tage. Our readers will
find some useful reading matter on our
fourth page, wbich for some weeks past
had been omitted.
THE LATE FRESHET.
The ravages of the late freshet have
been so general and so extensive, that it
would fill our paper to give a full account
The greatest damage in this neighborhood
has been sustained by our farmers along
Shamokin Creek, which, we understand
by Mr. J. Iloughawout, was about 8 or 10
inchts higher than in 1S1G. Mr. II. lost
about seven acres of corn besides considera
ble fencing. Mr. Joseph Hoover's loss
was considerable. In fact almost every
farmer along the creek; up to Shamokin,
has sustained more or less injury by the
freshet. On the North Branch up to the
State line the freshet has been very destruc
tive in the loss of crops, lumber, etc. The
West Branch was not so high and the dam
ages are but small.
Census Takers. W e neglected to
mention last week that Charles C. Cook of
the Danville Democrat had been appointed
Assistant Marshal to take the census for
Montour and a part of Columbia county.
Mr. Cook will make an excellent officer,
being a German as well as an English
scholar. What has become, of the Assist
ant for this county. Surely the Marshal
don't intend, contrary to all usuage to give
all to one man, instead of appointing one
for the lower as well as the upper end.
$y The Supreme Court for the North
ern district held at this place, adjourned
on Wednesday, after a session of three and
a half weeks. The Judges made a clean
sweep of the list, disposing of eighty-four
cases.
O" Small Notes. The Act of Assem
bly prohibiting the circulation of bills un
der five dollars goes into operation on the
21st of this month. The act relates only
to small bills of other states and does not
of course affect our relief bills. Some of
our citizens already begin to refuse receiv
ing small bills. Our merchants will how
ever receive them, but on what terms is not
exactly settled. Some of them will take
them, but not to pay out any change.
Others say they will take them as long as
they car. pass them. The better policy
will be to receive them and have them sent
home. Time will settle the matter very
soon.
O" Hon. Robert C. Winthrop late
Speaker of the House of Representatives
and now a member, has been appointed
U. S. Senator by the Governor of Massa
chusetts to succeed Mr. Webster in the
U. S. Senate. Mr. Winthrop is a man of
good appearance and fine talents, but he
will not be able to supply the place of Mr.
Webster, whose place cannot indeed, in
some respects, be well supplied by any
roan living.
Charcoal on Strawberries.
Charcoal is an excellent fertilizer, but it
was only recently, that it was accidentally
discovered, that its application to straw
berry bods increased the size and 'flavor of
tlit berry in an astonishing degree.
THS PEAK FAMILY.
This company of vocalists, will gWe
entertuinments in this place on next Wed
nesday and Thursday evenings, ai will b
seen by advertisement. Their reputation
where they have sung is excellent; and
we cannot do better than copy the follow
ing notice of the Havana Republican, and
invite all who are "moved by concord of
sweet sounds" to be in attendance.
"Their musical execution is superior, and
their songs were song with a chasteness and
elegance wo have seldom heard surpassed.
Should we particularize, we should be obli
ged to name them all : none were unequal
to their task. But we must sav that the
songs of little Fanny a bright girl of nine years
old, were elegantly perlormcd. one is a
perfect little warbler, and sings with the ease
and diction of an adult.
We bad often seen of late, complimentary
notices of this band of vocalists, but supposed
they were more the offspring of custom, as
such things too frequently arc, than the award
of true merit. But now having heard for
oursolvcs, wo cheerfully corroborate what we
havo frequently seen respecting them, and
cordially commend them to the lovers of
chaste, refined musio throughout the coun
try."
FATAL AND FEARFUL ACCIDENT.
Early on Thursday morning about 3 o'
clock, A. M., when the stage passengers
from Harriftburg were passing over the
canal bridge on entering Northumberland,
the bridge gave way and the passengers.
wagon and horses were precipitated into
tne canai. mere were ten passengers
in the wagon, one of whom Mr. Jones,
machinist from near Harrisburg, we regret
to say was killed. He was on his way to
Danville. The other passengers were but
slightly injured, excepting two, one an
Englishman, and the other a gentleman
from Muncy, who are seriously injured.
Two of the horses were killed, and a third
very much injured. The canal at that
point is very wide, and the bridge was sus
tained with a wooden pier, or support in
the centre. . The driver says he heard the
crash, and hurried over the horses, and the
leaders having got over the broken span
sustained for a while the wagon, which
was fortunately an open one, used tempo
rarily during the break in the canal. Three
of the four sleepers having broken, leaving
only the upper one, the plank, wagon and
horses, all went down sideways, dragging
the leaders down with them. Mr. Jones
unfortunately got under the plank and was
drowned, having probably been injured in
the fall. The water was not more than
four or five feet in depth, and the night
was not very dark, otherwise the loss o
life might have been much greater.
The canal authorities and their agents
are much to blame in this matter, and the
Inquest, we are informed, docs not spare
them in their report. This bridge has for
years been a rickety cmcern, and never
was such a structure as such a public
throughfare required. Who is to pay the
damaged Had it occurred on the works
of a corporation, or an individual, there
could be no difficulty. But as the state is
a sovereignty, it cannot be sued.
O" The damages to the Schuylkill
Canal, as well as the Delaware and Hud
son Canal Company, will, it is said, cause
a deficiency in the supply of coal. The
prospect therefore is, that the price of coal
will advance, and the operators in the re
gion are already looking forward for better
times.
ADVERTISING HUMBUGS.
The city of New York has become some
what notorious for its Peter Funks and its
mock auctions. These rogues finding them
selves closely watched at home, now hum
bug the country press, and consequently
their readers, by sending out advertisements,
evidently of doubtful character, if not for
the purpose of actual fraud. The "Racing
subscription office" and "Assam Tea Com
pany" advertisements which we see in
almost every country paper, we look upon
in this light. While in New York a few
weeks since, we called, in company with
the editor of the Pottsville Mining Register,
at the office of this famous Tea Company,
No. 136 Greenwich street, but found the
office closed. A gentleman occupying tho
office next door, said it bad never been
opened, and with as .much English as he
could muster, lnlormeu us mat it was a
great humbug. The Racing subscription
office we did not visit, but we were inform
ed by our landlord that it was one of the
novel inventions of the day, so prolific in
New York, to raise money by gulling the
public. As a matter of justice to our
brethren of the Press and others, we deem
it proper to make the above statement.
DU The damages sustained by the
Schuylkill Canal will be repaired, the Mi
ners' Journal says, by the 10th of August
a portion of the work will be in opera
tion sooner. Many of the boatmen have
suffered severely by the loss of their boats,
and the operators also by the loss of coal.
K7 The Rev. Mr. Sheddin will preach
at the Presbyterian church, in this place,
on Sunday morning next, at the usual hour.
A bpoonfull of horsreadish put into a
pan of milk will perserve the milk sweet
for several days, either in the open air or
in a cellar, while other milk will turn.
Fum vs. Cholera. The Wheeling Ga
tette says : "the swarms of flies among us
this Summer are said to be evidence conclu
sive that the Cholera epidemic is not in this
region. It is generally observed that Chol
era don't prevail in fly time, or rather that
flies duu'l pievail in Cholera times "
lUasljmgton 2Ccw
5.
Correspmidnic of lb Phils. Ledger!
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, July 27."
Tho Compromise Bill is again in grent dan
ger. Its opponents have not hit on tne ex
pedient of talking it to death, which they
think is as good a way as any. The longer
they delay the passage of the bill, the less
chance is there after its defeat to got up any
thing else, the more likely is Congress to
adjourn without doing anything in regard to
the slavery question.
Should tho plan of tho milliners and free
soilers carry, the next step will be lo run
through the short session without doing any
thing, so as to he sure to make tho slavery
agitation an element of strife in tho next Pre
sidential election. Kest assured, the present
opposition to the bill is, in part at least, tho
result of a Presidential movement a move
ment which, by tho aid of Northern men and
of iVnnsitvatitaii.i, is to saddle South Carolina
men and politics for twenty years longer on
this faction-ridden republic. Thore was a
time when South Carolina talents command
ed the respect of the Union ; but the Lown
des, tho McDuffies, the Cheeves, tho Cal
houns aro gone, and wo have como to the
plain, hideous disunion demagogues, such as
Rhott, Barnwell, Burt and others. We have
the motion of the wheel and the stench of
powder without tho brilliancy o! the fire
works all chaff and treuson without force.
The idea of overslaughing the moderate
men of the South to givo the bridle to the
fanatics of bondage, is positively ridiculous,
if not in itself treasonable. Rather than do
that, it would, perhaps, bo advisable to fol
low Mr. Butts' advice, and by the unanimous
consent of all the Stales permit South Caro
lina to withdraw from the Union, on condi
tion that sho should never again trouble us
with her rebellious spirit, her puerile logic,
and her negro fanaticism. Let South Caro
lina realize for a number of years what it is
to be citizens which depends for its existenco
and security on tho good will, the interest or
generosity of others. Let them realize the
contempt which civilized nations will ex
press for the Slave State par excellence and
its moon-struck, fanatical citizens in particu
lar. What a figure tho representative of
South Carolina will make at the court of St.
James! The ambassador from South Caro
lina will, no doubt, rank immediately after
the minister plenipo from his Majesty Em
peror Faustin I.
The Compromise Bill is still in great dan
ger, though it is now understood that Mr.
King will voto for it, Mr. Bradbury's amend
ment has been too much amended to satisfy
the Texas Senators, who now make it a con
ditio sine qua rum of their consent to appoint
Commissioners, that Ihe late order of the late
Cabinet in regard to New Mexico shall bo
rescinded. This has not yet been dune, and
it is believed that the President hesitates
about it; if so, tho Bill is lost. We want en
ergetic action all round ; in tho While House,
in the Departments nnd in Congress. Half
measures will not answer at this crisis.
The Cabinet is not yet complete, and will
not be till some timo next week. Great har
mony of feeling and action exists between
Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster. The Southern
Press hero upholds Mr. Uhett's treason, and
attempts to prove that he is a patriot.
Governor Seward's amendment to admit
New Mexico as a Stato, received but one
vote, his own and still the Southern Ultras
and Nullifiers giumble ! It is in vain to ask
for the reason of it. It is all instinct mete
animal instinct tho same instinct that make
the scorpion sting, and the suuke bite, all, as
it is called, in self defence.
OnstRvtii.
Fate of the Compromising Bill now Depend
ing on I'exas.
Washington, July 29, 1850.
The fate of the Compromise Bill now de
pends on the vote of the Texas Senators, and
there is some danger of Mr. Kuslc voting
against it if Mr. Bradbury's amendment be
adopted. This amendment was to-day lost
by a tost vote of 28 to 28, Mr. Douglass be
ing absent, who would certainly have voted
for it. The question will come up again to
morrow, on Mr. Underwood's amendment)
and will be deoidod by the voto of Mr. Win"
throp, who will present his credentials to
morrow, and fill the seat lately occupied by
Mr. Webster. I feel great hopes that Mr.
Winthrop will voto for tho bill on its final
passage.
Tho Texas difficulty is, no doubt, the grea
test of them all. Texas feels she lias not
been treated like her sister States. She cost
the Union nothing, inasmuch as sho alone in
curred the expenses of her independence, her
nursing and education and tho removal of
the Judiciary. She has received no assistance
from tho United States in any shape or form,
either in tho way of appropriations of money
or donations of publio lands for purposes of
improvement and for schools; but joined the
Union at once as a State, sut pond ing her
sources of reveuue, from which alone her
creditors could expect to bo paid.
Now Texas looks on the amendment of Mr.
Bradbury merely as on armistice ; for, if com
missioners be appointed their award will
come aguin before Congress, when, perhaps,
she cannot be a strong as she now is, backed
by the whole South. There may be some
truth in this reasoning, but on the whold it
is fallacious. 1 have no doubt that any award
the commissioners should be confirmed by
Congress, and that Ihe award would be ren
dered in less than three months after Ibe ap
pointment of the commissioners.
Obseevea.
ZJ" Mr. Bradbury's amondment alluded
to came up the next day, and was amended
in several particulars but not finally disposed
of.
The Grape Crop in Beiks county, we
learn from the Adler, is in a bad way. A
fiiend, who is familiar with the grape culture
in Berks county, informs that paper, that in
the viueyards of Heidelberg and Pennlown
ships, the fruit is rapidly decaying, and in
many places is already totally destroyed.
The total number of Deaths in Cincinnati I
during Ihe week ending July 20h, was 419,
of which 15 wcie by cboleu.
THE CHOLERA IN THE WEST.
The St. Louis papers stato that thecholora
is raging with feWful mortality at Liberty,
and other points otl the Missouri river. The
small pox is also quite prevalent, and is car
rying off its victims daily. !
A colony of Belgians, recently located
near the town of Kansas, on tho Missouri
river, have nearly all died of cholera. The
surgeon in attendance died from the same
disease.
Tho St. Louis Republican has a letter from
the Plains, which gives a sad account of tho
ravages of cholera among the California emi
grants. It is believed that at least two hun
dred and fifty deaths ocourred during the
first two weeks of June. Ono hundred and
fifty graves were counted by one person who
was travelling from Fort Kearney to the
westward.
A letter from Kaskaskia, 111., dated 13,
says lhal four deaths by cholera had occurred
at thnt place duriug tho four previous days.
AX St. Lonis, on the 17th, there were 100
deaths, of which 90 wore by cholera.
A telegraphto despatch received from
Washington, announces the death of Briga
dier General (by brevet) Richard B. Mason,
of the United Slates army, who had returned
from California. Ho breathed his last in St.
Louis on the night of the 25th a victim to
the cholera.
There is no cholera at Pittsburg. Tho pa
pers say tho genoral health of tho city is as
good as usual at this season.
There was ono death by cholera at Colum
bus, Ohio, on tho 23d.
At Cincinnati, from the 1st to the 23d tilt.,
inclusive, tho deaths by cholera were 659.
Tho number of deaths from all diseases, du
ring the same period, including cholera,
was 1363.
LYKCll LAW HIGH HANDED MEASURE.
Frederics buro, Va., July 25.
A terriblo outrage took place in Culpepper,
in this State, on Wednesday last. A mob of
200 men, including justices of tho peace,
members of church, and others, proceeded to
tho jail, resisted the sheriff, and carried off
William Grayson, a free negro. They drag
ged him to the woods, where they hung him
dead. The cause of this high-handed mea
sure is this Grayson hod twice been con
victed ol murdering David A.Miller, awhile
man, but each time ho appealed, and the
General Court granted him now trials, on the
ground that the testimony hardly justified
suspicion, much less guilt. The mob allowed
Grayson ono minute to confess. Ho dimly
avowed his innocence of the murder. The
mob then placed a fence rail across between
two trees, and strung him up. This outrage
has created intense excitement. The papers
entreat the Governor to arrest every one con
cerned in it.
George W. Kendall, who is now in New
York, leaves for Europe in the Atlantic on
Saturday, to superintend the completion of
his work on the Battles of Mexico, on which
he has been engaged for nearly two years.
Tho 7Yiotine says tho original sketches were
taken by Carl Nebel, a German artist, who
was with with Mr. Kendall in Mexico, and
made his sketches on the very spot, as the
events depicted wuro occurring before his
eyes. Mr. Nebel is celebrated as a painter
of animals and men, and in this respect hus
probably few living equals. He enjoys an
extensive roputation in Europe, and is a per
sonal friend of the renowned Humboldt.
The letter-press of Mr. Kendall's work is
finished, and the plates will probably be com
pleted in lime to have it brought out in tho
fall. The work proceeds slowly, since 160
men employed in coloring and preparing tho
plates, can only finish 120 copies in a month.
The plates aro 12 in number, and their sub
jects ate Valo Alto, Uesaca de la Pulma, Cap
ture of Monterey, Buena Vista, Landing at
Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Controras, Cheru
busco, Mulino del Rey, Two Views of the
Storming of Chapultepec, and Gen. Scott's
Entrance into the City of Mexico.
CHOLERA.
Cincinnati, July 30. The Board of Health
report, for tho 24 hours ending this evening,
75 deaths, of which 10 were from Cholera,
and 35 from other diseases.
St. Louis, July 30.--Tho cemeteries re-
port for the 24 hours ending on Saturday at
6 P. M., ten deaths by cholera. For the
samo time on Sunday, seven cholera deaths
were reported.
Louisville, Feb. 30 The Board of Health
report for the 48 hours ending last evening,
45 deaths, of which 17 were from cholera,
and 21 from other diseases.
Pittsbuhoh, July 30. Matthew B. Low-
rie, Esq., formerly an Alderman in this city,
and a gentleman much esteemed for his ma
ny goed qualities, died on Sunday afternoon
from an attack of the cholera.
Several cases of cholera have been repor
ted during the past few days.
There is now three feet water in the chan
nel. Fortunate Escape. The Vermont State
Journal gives Ihe following account of a nar
row escape from loss of life upon Ihe Ver
mont Central Railroad, during the recent
freshet ;
"The lives of two car loads of passengers
on the Central Road escaped most immirent
danger. The train ran safely over a bridge
between Bethel and Randolph, when one of
the abutments had settled, lnavino nn n,i
! . . vuw W.IU
of the bridge sustained only by the super
structure of the track! Ere the last ear had
passed, tne bridge bad settled about four
feet: but the cars ware stromr tho
. - Q u VVIIIIBVI-
ins bars held and lha nmn llto.ii..
v ...w .I.UI.IIJ
snatched the train from the jaws of death."
THE COMPROMISE BILL.
A private Correpondence of the Thiladel-
phia Ledger, dated Washington. Julv SI. avs:
"Things look very well, and the friends of
tbe bill are great spirits. The bill may be
put on its passage to-morrow. Mr. Edward
Bates arrived here this afternoon, and it is
not yet sottled wether he takes the luterior
or the War Office, Judge Sharkey It talked of
as going in the Cabinet. General Shields
won another balllo to-day by voting for Bind-
bury's amendment."
Privsts Corrajmnlaice of the Ledger.
. Washington, July 29, 1850'.
"fhe Bradbury amendment was merely"
lost by accident, Mr. Douglass being mo
mentarily absent. , A similar amendment
Will carry Mr. Winthrop will take
statesmanlike view1 for the bill and vote for
it. The nation will owe him a debt of
gratitude. Mr. Berrien is known to be in
favor of the bill, having first endeavored to'
protect it President Fillmore is clearly,
unequivocally and decidedly in favor of the
bill. Judge Sharkey, of Mississippi, Presi
dent of the late Nashville Convention, is
here, warmly approving of the bill, and
denouncing Rhett's treasonable disunion
speech. The prospects of the passage of the'
bill are decidedly good. A statement
contained in some of the Northern papers,
that Gen. Foote is shirking every direct'
rcsponsibiliiy in regard to the bill, is entire-"
ly false. No Senator labors more assidu
ously, openly, energetically and succenftH-f
ly for the bill than he does; not one I
OnsRvfcR.
Loss of Peaches and Apples We
learn from a large peach grower of Morri;
county, N. J., that the crop of that fruit'
was materially injured by the gale of
Thursday night. In numerons instances"
the trees were entirely uprooted; and iti'
others, the weight and foliage of the limbs',,
caused them to be broken off and the fruit'
destroyed. In that region, it is also said'
that at least one-half of the apples have"
been blown off. Daily Mv.
The death of Sir Robert Peel adds an--other
to the list of English Prime Ministers
who have died from violence. Percival;
was assassinated ; Hcskisson was killed by a '
railroad train ono of tho first ever run ; :
Castlereagh committed suicide. Sir Ro-'-bert
Peel was confessedly the ablest living
English statesman.
Wo copy the following exceedingly neat1'
retort from the Norfolk, Va., Daily Despatch1!
"Carlylo asks, 'what thing to admire has
America ever produced !" She has produced'
a girl deaf, dumb ond blind, who, with her
own hands, did sewing enough to send a bar--rel
of flour to Ireland's starving people tho
victims of a tyrauiual nation you so much'ad--mire."
Gift of Louis Philippe. The French
minister for Home Affairs, has consented1 lo
givo Louis Philippe, the so-called Spanish
Gallery of the Louvre, consisting of from
1000 to 1200 pictures.
The Archbishop of I.imburo (Austrian
Poland) has prohibited his clergy from wear
ing lung hair, like the peasants, nnd from
smoking in public, like demagogues and sons
of Baal.
THE PEAK FAMILY!
Respectfully announce that they vill give
an Entertainment of
VOCAL MTJSIC,
For Two Nights Only!
ON WEDNESDAY AND THIRftDAY NET
,T TIIK COIIIT HOI .SB IN !HNHl"RY.
A(
CCOMl'ANIKD l.y tin- Hurp, two (hilars
and the Cronioiicr. The Hum !rinir suni-i'
rinr liiKtruini'nt having Iwn purrhunrd at an r--in-nsc
of 5IKI, two German Guitars, Isrgi'Kt size',,
mailr cxpromily fur this Family, the n hole mnkhigi.
the finest nrronianinieiit.
T1CKKTS 25 Cents To I hud at the tiautiH
phires uinl at tho door. To commence at Hs
oVIitrk.
"if Pianos tuned if afplieation i mnile rarlji
August 3, 1830. .
NOTICE.
ritHK Books of Thomas A. Billington, lata1
JL Sheriff of JVorthuinlwrlaiid county, he been 1
loll in my hanils fur collection. AW persons iiiuV'tv -ted
to hi in for Hlit-rill' fees, are required lo call
immcdiiitely for settlement, otherwise auHi will
lie brought without respect to persons.
FREDERICK LAZARUS, J. P.
Sunliury, August 3, 1850
NOTICE.
A LI. persons indebted to tho subscriber or
Notes, Book Accounts and Constable Fees,
are hereby informed that his books 4c, have
been placed in the hands of J. H. Zimmerman,.
Eq., for collection and will be put into suit with
out delay if not immediately altendutl to.
THOMAS A. BILLINGTON.
Sunbury, August 3, 1850. 3t
T)ROWN'8 ESSENCE OF JAMAICA GIN--GER,
an excellent article.
Rtiiwii's Medicated Soap for sun burns, tan,,
letter, Ace.
Railway's Circassian Balm, for the hair dand
ruff Ac,
Railway's Ready Relief for Cramps, Cholic,
Cholera Morbus, Ac. For sale by
H. U. MA8SER.
Cunbury, jug. 3, 1850.
ALBERT LEHMAN,
OFTICIAIT,
(From Philadelphia,)
RESPECTFULLY inform the citizens of
8unbury and it vicinity, where he will of
fer fur sale, daring Court session, at the frame
building of Mr. Gobin, near the Courthouse,
Spectacle
With Gold, Hilti ahi TWtoiss Smsliv
Frames,
with new and improved assortment of flint ami
pebble Glasses of his own manufacture. These
Glasses are of the best bind for preserving and
improving the sight in continued reading or wrv
ting, wherein they do not tire the eye, but strength
en and improve the vision. They are recommen
ded by the most celebrated Doctors and professors. .
Also, SPY GLASSES, of every aiu and qual
ity ; MAGNIFYING GLASSES, of every de
scription, Micaoscoras, with different minifying
powers, together with a variety of articles in the
Optical line, not mentioned. Optical and other
instruments, and Glasses) promptly and carefully
repaired at the shortest notice. Ha can always
select Glasses to suit the sight ol persona as
as they sea them, epou the first triaL
July 87, 1B3U.
NOTICE
To Judgement Creditor.
NOTICE U hereby giv.n to the Judgment
Kauffman, to appear on the tint Monday af Aw
gust next, and show causa why the proceeds ers-
i n iv iiTuin tk uU tm ... I 1, gj mmaA
Kuker and Kauffman, should not be paid out ac
cording to priority of lien etc By order of thai
Court. JOHN FARNSWORTH. Trotb'j.
Proth'y office Sunbury, 1
July 13, 1850. )
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ttui Slul f. n u-U .1 ll.M Ol tUA.
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