Circtilation near 2000.
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AikidoAlla, Pa.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21,
A Word of Advice
The cash system is the best one, lriends,
wherever it is possible to practice it. 11 all
who could do so mould, many who now can
not would be able to live upon the pineiple.
The laborer will find it better to live a mouth
ahead of his wages than a month behind.—
Mutdi depends upon a determination to pursue
a course of tiction-the will and desire must
be fixed, and then thit-g , -; will be accomplish
ed easily that I:ow seem loud and impossible.
Let every one resolve to introduce the cash
system—or what is tlie sari in effect, ails:vs
fix a time for payments, and religiously , J bsei ve
the period.
Farmers and Mechanics Bank.
At an election held at Easton, on Monday,
the 11th instant, to choose by ballot thirteen di,
rectors to manage the business of the "Farmers
and Mechanics blank of Easton," ontil . the next
election, as provided by the Charter, the follow
ing gentlemen were chosen :
Frederick Seiw.,Jolin Ci cell, Jr., P. S. Midi
ler, D. S. Miller, B.S. Clikkey, John Drake,
__C.__C. Field, E. B. AlixFeli, David Connor, A:
W. Hadley, It. Divatillead, l'eler Gloss, S. R.
lloagland.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors held
on Saturday last, Peter, 8. Alichkr, Esq., was elec.
ted President of the Board, and at another meet
ing, held on Monday evening last; the offices
of the Batik were all tilled by the election of the
following persons:
111uEVERS FORMAN, Cashier,
AIELCIIIOII H. HORN, filler,
JOHN KlNitur,
IVILLIAM lIAMMA NN, Watchman.
The new bank being now fully organized by
the election of an able Hoard of Direinors, and
a competent and experienced set of officers, well
qualified for its management, it will go into op_
eration at an early day. The house selected (or
the use of the bank is in a business part of the
borough, directly opposite Shonsc's Hotel.
Money_Market
In 1834,' says the Philadelphia Sun, con
traction occurred under the Withdrawal of the
Government deposits frorn the Bank of-the - Fni=
ted States. The pet bank system was shbsti
tuted, and we hind expansion till 1837. The
crisis of that year eri;tied, and conilaetion fol
lowed, until it dropped to its very lowe;t grade
in 1843; since then we have gradually ex•
',ended until within a year or two; since
then expansion has been accelerated from oth_
er causes, California being the primary and
plincipal, rind we call feel that a point of cul
mination can be attained under a gold ex•
eilement and a gold bask as well as with any
other. It may be. and it is, a sounder ba s i s
than we had in 7837, but it is just as liable
to be disordered and. overdone. Perhaps we
have not arrived at the pcdnt thtnt will floduce
a like series of disasters as %%as witnessed in
11337, and that this timely ..varning may serve
to put prudent Merl Olt their guaid, and remind
them that even with the gold of Culdornia
Money can become scarce, and the point of
explosion on that foundation may also be reach
ed. As we trust the banks and the binroweis
will have heeded the ad in on it ions of the mon
ey market, although we hardly dare hope for
it, we imagine that just a sufficient check has
been given to s teem lation , as will ensure more
modorate prices tulkg for all kinds of proper
ty, than %% o have had Mr a year past
Pennsylvania
The capital employed io the. 21 railroads 61
our State,
,(erritaticiog 1132 rules.) is $OO,-
000,000, and of their canals (1000 miles.)
$30,000,000. Large portions of theme
meets were made with a view to develope the
mineral wealth of the Suite. Iron and coal are
to Pennsylvania what gout', is to Caltlontia. the
great SOUICD•of wealth to the State. Ihe iron
product alone, in 1815, it is said to hale been
as fellows:
510 blast furnaces, yielding 386,-
. 000 tons of pig iron—average
of 900 tb the furnace per an.
num, tons,
950 bloomeries, forges ; rolling and
slitting mills, and yielding 291
GO tons of bars, hoops, &c.,
blooms, tons, .
Castings, machinery, stovo plates,
Ste.,
Which, at the thou market value was esti
tnuted thus.--
201,600 tons wrought iron, at $BO
per ton,
121 1 500 tons castings, at s7s.por
ton,
30,000 tone bloom iron, at $5O par
Scott, Johnston and Strohm.
All those who are in favor of the election of
Johnston and §trohm, and who are opposed to
increaseing the Slate Debt, are requested to
meet at the l'ublic House of George Moyer,
(this Thursday evening : ), at 7i o'clock, for
the purpose of adopting measures to form a
Johnston and. Strohm Club. A general atten
dance is' equested. •
..THE QUICLEBT • PASSACIE,"—In 1740, when
the, celebrated Swedish naturalist, Kahn visited
'this country, he sailed from Gravesend the sth of
August, and arrived In Philadelphia in little less
than fort)', one dap:, having matte, ,as the cdp,,
oi the shortest pas.
sages . rster I:ltt”,vit !--Ea.
.
tp o ts than ten days is the time now beivieen
England and the U.States,. In:ftvo years we con.
fidcntly expect to see : the passage made in one
The pressure in our Money market, now
raging, is just what every man, sound in his
views of political economy, predicted when
the Tariff law of 1816 was enacted.
But for, the famine in Europe in 1846, 1817
and part of 1848, this pressure would have
reached us long before now.
It has come now, because we buy more
than we sell; . because we bring here an enorm
ous unworn of foreign goods t‘cliiidi we ought
to manufacture ourselves, and which must be
paid for in stocks or coin.
• Our Stocks are all sent to En rope, or held
by foreign capitalists. Our Canals and Rail
roads earn •money which is sent oil, in the
shape of dividends, to pay interest on our debts.
The amount of Dry Goods and Silks imported
into this count!), last year, as shown by
the Treasury reports, exceeded :F67,000,000,
besides, Railroad ken, Bar Iron, Crockery
11_are- 7 -1 ron—Ware r -I n d es — arrd-8 ga
amounting to morn than !i:6 ; 000,000, in addi.
lion to the dry goods.
By referen6e to the re:orns of Specie eon•
rained in the Banks of New Volt, London and
Paris, in 1848, we find that New Yolk po:.
sewed, in rotted numbers, $7,900,000 : London,
$73,143,000; 1'ari5,E , 40,589,000; while in ISSO
New York possessed SlO.SOO.OOOi London,
$(18,720,000; i'111,035,000.
‘Ve here see that the Specie-has inereased
only $2,010,000 in New Yolk, while in Paris
it_hatt_inereut , ed-near !! , -.05000,000, in the two
years.
The plain truth is, all the gold bich we
have got from California has gone to Europe
to pay for goods imported, which we ought to
have made in our own country.
We spent sioo,ooo,ffilo, first and last, in the
es lean War, to acquire new Mexico and
We have carried into the harbor of
S;in Prifueisco 5500000.000 of properly. We
have sufficed 50000 lives in California. We
have lost the work and labor of 300,000 men
tor three years it) California, and, as,
the only
recompense for all This, we havereceived
about 80. to 90 millions of gold from the Pacif
ic coast. And this has mostly gone to France,
wider our blessed system of ad valorem du
ties, made upon a foreign valuathin. A man
in-Paris makes Brandy to sell: He can make
_it for 50-cents-a—gallon—he- will:swear thalit
is the market mice. Tne brandy pays a duty
of 1(10 per cent. ad valorem; hence his brandy
can be sold in Ne‘‘'Yink at one dollar per gal
lon, freight added.
This manufacturer now ( - pens a store or
counting.room in New York, and sells his
Brandy, and receives orders lor it at $1 per
gallon.
The American importer sends to Paris for
his Brandy; he is now charged 60 cents a gal
lon for the same article which the French man
ufacturer invoices at 50 vents per gallon. Du
ties are How paid by the American importer,
60 cents a gallon, or 100 per cent. In other
words, by the Tariff Law of 1816, the Ameri
can importer finds that his Brandy has cost
him, laid dowel in New York, 1 , 120 per gallon,
besides height and commissions, while the
Frenchman sells his !handy, by the same Tat - -
ill Law of 1846, at per gallon.
%Vim dues business under such a Law as
this? The Frenchman or American?
These ale the blossiegs of Free Trade. All
of our importing business is thrown into the
hands of the foreignei ; all our money slides
off to France, and in the n eon time money is
now demanding twenty . to thirty per cent. usu
iy for the best COlNtiterchd paper in Wall
street. Free Trade says : buy all our necessa
ries abroad ; let the foreign merchant do allow
import trade.
Let the Mattewan Company assign to pay
its laborers; let our cotton factories break, let
our hoe mines stop; let the furnaces go out :
let our woolen mills cease to du businesS; let
our .stocks ; let us run iti debt; let us ap
point committees by tens and by fifties and by
hundreds, to preserve the Viiion, lest some wild
Yankee should look it; let us retail before the
putters that iepeuled our Tariff Law of 1812
let us shout, tied save the Union according
to the Castle Garden system : let us read hum.
flies fioni "The Junius! of Commerce" on Free
nada, mid tin the Blessings of Slavery as a fem
lure of Republicanism. But it is no mallet
whether our flour sells for *3 or 87 per barrel ;
whether we buy twice as much as we sell
whether our stocks are owned in America ci
Europe; whether Bankruptcy is universal in
486,000
our country or not.
A man of common sense will tell LIP, that the
remedy for the difficulties which now beret us
is to restore our Tariff to a home valuation; to
give us specific duties on our imports; to set
our artisans and mechanics and manufacturers
iu operation ;to sell our manufactured goods
abroad, and to supply our own market with
the products of our own labor; to carry away
our cotton, leather, iron, and woolen goods to
foreign countries, alter they are made up into
fabrics by our own people, instead of exporting
the raw material. Let us no longer carry on a
ruinous trade with France, at the tune of 822,.
000,000 to $30,000,000 a'year for imports,
while we sell that nation no more than from
6,000,000 to $13 ; 000 ; 000 a yenr exports. .
Let us stop buying sugar front Brazil and
Cuba, while we have millions of acres of land
in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas,
waiting for cultivation with sugar.
Let us eat our own wheat mid flour at the
iron mines, capper mines,,and coal mines of
the United States, instead_ot-sending-them-to
Sweden,-Russia, Siberia and Staffordshire, to
feed foreign laborers and workmen.
Let Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio . and Ne'w 'Eng
land, raise and manufacture our silk goods, in
of Mauve, Spain and Italy.. ••
Lei its hear , no more about the humbug of
preserving the Union, which preservation
means Pree Trade—Which Feseriation means
buy everything and sell nothing.—Nctv York
30 ; 000
121,500
$23 ; 328,000
9,112,500
1,50.000
$3,4 ; 956,000
The Paulo
But the people of California, it appears, not
only have reasonable ',excuses fur these sWnlilla•
ry and indiscriminate.executions, but their,situ
ation. is such as imperatively to demand them.
The Australian convicts .of England, the most.
desperate and lawless vagabonds froth every na
tion under the sun, hay& been • condentrating•
their forces in Califurnla . aince the golden ills,
coveries of 1 946. They hare • become formitia.
Popular Law in California.
The California news by the Prometheus has
a strange and solemn interest. To thoie Who
have traced ihn history of our first Pacific
State through all the marvellous phases of its
short existence, the present time assumes, says
the "Tribune," the nature of a crisis, in which
order and anarchy, violence and security, are
struggling for the mastery. On the one hand,
we have_ a sickening succession of- murders,
robberies and incendiary fires; on the other, p
rapidly increasing list 'of trials, condemnations
and executions, perpetrated with relentless se
verity by the summary action of the people.
To those who are unacquainted with the dif•
citifies wider which California has labored,
ever since the adoption of her State Constitu•
tioti, the latter alternative may appear even
more terrible than the former; and a course
diotated,-in filet, by filo most awful necessity
which can be imposed ngon,a,ny...commintity_,..
may scorn little else than the lawless outbreak
of unbridled popular passion. The Tribune
has been somewhat sharply taken to task by
some of its- cotemporaries for justifying the
motives of the San Franciseo Committee of Vii
gilance, and the members of the Committee
themselves have been made the subject of a
violent denunciation ; yet every successive-ar
rival from California proves more clearly the
jastice of what. Our coternpormy Ilrges it first_
asSerted—that dui lynch law now ie operation
is not mob law, but the-result-of-a-universal
sentirnent of Older, a conscientious belief that
it cannot be obtained•by trusting to the regular
authorities, and a sense of danger which im
pelled thein to immediate action.. We have
professed our inability to judge, at this distance,.
ivhether Mher means might not have been em
ployed to enforce the laws, avoiding a course
which must be always hazardous to the future
peace of society, even when- the- sternest-exi
gency compels it. The disclosures which we
have published, show clearly the reality of the
dangers to which the Californians were expos
ed; they show how nearly hopeless was the
reliance to be placed on the ordinary operation
of law. So far as the evidence goes, they
prove, at least, that there have been sufficient
reasons for the action of the Committee of Vi
gilance, to exonerate :them. from the vinlent
charges which have been made against them
on this side of the Continent.
While, therefore continues the Tribune, well
do -not commend and cannot condemn the
course pursued by the citizens of Sae Fran.
cisco, Sacramento City and Stockton, we would
not withhold the'strongest expression of abhor
rence at the lynching of a Mexican woman
in one of the remote mining localities. Every
circumstance connected with this act invests it
with rnost criminal characts7, and illustrates ,
the extreme peril of setting an example to a ;
whole State, which May be followed -by corn
munities wherein prejudice usurps the place
of justice, and the names of Law and Order!
are made a plea to gratify a brutal desire for
revenge. lu taking the execution of the crim
inal laws out of the hands of the authorities,
necessary as it may have- been, the San Fran
ciscans have established a dangerous prece
dent, of which this case is one of the first
fmits. We can oily hope that they will fulfil
their design :of ridding the country of the
swarms of thieves and, murderers that infest it,
and restore the administration of law to its prop
er channel, before they shall have given li
cense for a similar tragedy.
The New York herald also, m speaking of
the execution of the decrees of the Vigilance
Committee of five hundred, (not quite so cer
emonMns as the old Venetian Council,) in the
prompt punishment of criminals, and for the
preservation of law and order says, "strange
as it may sound in this longitude, these off
hand trials and summary executions are, in
good faith, designed for the preservation, or
rather die restoration, of law and order. The
criminal may be a murderer, a horse thief, a
burglar, an incendiary, a common shoplifter,
or a petty rogue, if the Vigilance Committee
catch him, and con viet him, he is instantly
carried out and bung up at the nearest conve
nient tree, or beam, or rope and tackle. The
crime, the pursuit ; the apprehension, the in
dictment, the trial, the judgment, and the exe
' milieu may all take 'place in the same after
noon. The whole business, in the case of
Jenkins, was done in the course of an even
ing, by moonlight; and in the case of Stuart,
another Botany convict, tried also as a thief,
the interval ketween the commencement of
his trial and the hanging was about five hours.
In the oaso of the Itlexican woman at Down
ieville-,—who, for fatally stabbing a miner, was
tried by: the popular process in such eases es
tablished, and convicted of murder—the blood
Of her victim was not yet cold, when the wo
man, having been tried, convicted, and con
demned, we's swinging lileless in the air. The
Anglo Saxon institution of the rope, by a sort
of trittena-gemotc, or commune consilitun, may
be considered as pretty well established in
California; but the rapidity with which it
brings the criminal to his quietus is somewhat
startling to a community accustomed to the
slower formalities of law. This quickness of
the penalty is even more astounding to our
preconceiied.notions than the range of crimes
Which come under the death penalty by the
new California code. 11'e have no nice dis
tinction between murder and manslaughter,
nor between highway robbery and a pet t y I
theft the same judgement of strangulation
makes short walk of them all. Truly, thiSis a
terrible state of things, and is deeply to be de
dored
ble, dangerous and criminally mischievous.. -
Murders and robberies were multiplying. San
Francisco was in the power of incendiaries, and
her citizens and their property at the mercy of
thieves and assassins. The existing laws were
insufficient; they were so slow, and the means
of confinement of offenders so insecure, that the
chances were in favor of their escape. Such
was the state of things - which led to the Vigi
lance Committee, and its summary execution of
the judgements under the new code It appears
that this Vigilance Committee act as such with.
out pay or emolument; but simr4 to maintain
the supremacy of the rights of life and.property.
There may be, then, no help for the existing state
of things in California. It may be that the
perative necessities of self preservation have
driven the people to these extremities. We trust
that law and order may soon be re-established,
and assigned to some effective guardianship uir=
der the regularly constituted tribunals of the
- couirtre - have no doubt, whatever; that the
active, honest business community of California,
are laboring to this end, nor have we any doubt
of their final success in attaining it.
Protection to Home Industry.
Rid Road Iron.—About 1,900 tons of railroad
iron have arrived from Wales for the Alabama
and Tennessee River Railroad, and will soon be
.shipped to Selma.—/Robik Herafil, July 12.
To pay •for the above iron, $70,000 in specie
had - to be carried to England. Every week we
notice similar arrivals_ of iron _at all ahe-princi ,
pal ports in the country, and in connexion with
each is a similar export of our specie. And all
this time we have hundreds of furnaces, and
lions of tons of iron in our mountains; we have
a vast number of but halnetnployed Workmen,
and a great scarcity of money! Why do we
not keep our money, employ our own,people,and
use our own iron? Why encourage foreign in
preference to home labor.
In the Bristiin Atlas, which has come in, since
the above was written, we find the two following
items:
Ex•Governnr James C. Jones, of Tennessee,
is about to visit England for thepurpose of pur
chasing railroad iron for the Memphis and
Uharleston railroad, of which he is president.
The steamship Atlantic left New York yester
day for Liverpool, with seventy passengers and
1500,000 in American gold. - - -
A friend points out to us the following in the
Albany Journal:
Out of the two. hundred and ninetpeight fur
-taces-in-Penn„VlVania, one hundred and forty.
I'nine (just one hall) have stopped within the last
eighteen months, and the workmen thrown out
of employment! And yet every vessel that ar ,
rives in this country from England is loadrul
with railroad iron.
These 149 furnaces, when in full blast, em
ploy, on an average, (directly and indirectly,) at
least 50 men each. One.half of them would
earn $2 a day; but, for the purpose of making
a low estimate, we will suppose them all to
earn, when employed, $1 a day ; the whole nurn.
ber of men would be 7,450; at $1 a day, would
earn, per week, $46,700. Aggregate annual
earnings $2,428,400.
There are at least an equal number of furna.
ces out of blast in other States - ; and the aggre.
gate sum lost to the iron worltera of the country,
is not a dollar below five millions.
These five millions, which, but for the present'
Tariff policy would go into the pockets of Amer
ican mechanics, is now sent from this country
ut gold and silver, and' in State or corporation
bonds., and paid to the tron•workers of England,
Scotland, Russia; and Wales.
[Lawrence (Mass.) Courier.
The above indicates but a trifling amount of
the extent to which the imporldtlott , of foreign
iron has been carried. It is probable that more
than 100,000 tons of railroad iron is annually
requited in the Southern States alone, all of
which will be imported direct. The interest has
suffered more severely by the late conflicts of
opinion than any other whatsoever. The pro
tracted Congressional session of 1850, unprofit
able, except that it adopted a compromise of
opinion, was fatal to the hopes or the industrial'
interests which relied upon legislative protection
against the pauper labor and mammoth capital.
fists of Europe. But the distraction and distress
of that session, and the little short of civil war
which followed it, has been fatal heretofore to all
conference or cooperation. Northern Whigs
have been infuriated against , each other. South.
crn Whigs have been excited against the North,
and unwilling to expose themselves to the re
proud) of giving bounties to their sectional and
political enemies. We may hope a better day,
however, for the depressed interests of the man-
ufacturing operatives when an universal acqui-
essence in the present relations between the
North and South shall allow some modification
of the present tariff, moderate, staple, and so ad-
justed as to secure the largest amount of -reve
nue and the prutectinn of the great interests to
which the Courier has adverted
An Orchard Mat Pay.—Messrs. Morse &
Houghton, of Cleveland, have 93 acres in one .
orchard, 3i miles 'east of that city. They have
6500 peach trees of the best varieties ; 2000 ap.
ple, 400 cherry, 750 quince, and about 7000
pear, apricot, nectarine, plum trees and grape
vines. There will be several thousand baskets
of peaches, and as they are rather scarce this
year, speculators at Cincinnati and Buffalo have
already offered ttiree dollars per bushel for the
crop. This, we should think, will par—as it
ought. , •
Sauer Psssecie—The U. S. Mail Steamship
Baltic, Capt. J. J. Comstock, reached the New
York Battery at 20 minutes part 6 on Saturday
morning From Liverpool, which she left at 4 P.
M., ou Wednesday the 6th inst., making the pas_
sage in nine days, fourteen hours, twenty minu t
ter apparent, or nine days, eighteen etree..quar ! .
tars hours actual time,, ; from 'port to port. If
counted frum,the time, she passed the Bar al
LiverpOol, (5 P. M.) hec.passage is ; above. It
is at all events the shortest passage ever made.
IV - There are goo ,expresses, in Boston, nom?
municating with 1600 cities and towns. It is
estimated that they carry at least 16,000 pitch•
gas daily.. ' -
Terrific Balloon. Ascension..
The Parisian papers give the annexed account
of a recent balloon ascension there. For intre.
pidity and daring the fact is unparallelled :
On Sunday last, M. and Mme. Poitevin made
their second ascent in a carrigge and two hors.,
es. Leon Faucher having been induced to take
back his prohibition. Immediately beneath the
ballon was a small car, in which' an assistant
took his place; from this hung the ropes and
irons to which the carriage was made fast. The
balloon rose, at the given signal, with its ponder
ous load, with all the grace of a butterfly. Mme.
Poitevin showered the spectators with roses, and
M. Poitevin held the reins as unconcernedly as
if he was driving a slow team out to Blooming.
dale. But the most wonderful part of the :Tema.:
cle was not down upon the bill, and was only
visible to those who had fortified themselves
with lorgnettes and telescopes. At the point 1
where the trtke_d_e_y_e_lost_the—i
the magnifying glass revealed the following
MEI
The man in the car let down into the carriage,
some 12 feet, below, a rope ladder; up this walk
ed M. Poitevin, with a glibness and unconcern ,
edness positively frightful : Mme. Poitevin was
just on the point of following suit, when the
strongest magnifiers gave out in•their torn, and
the spectators remained in doubt as to the snc•
cesslull issue. A thunder storm comidg up,
these intrepid aeronatits thought it best to get out
of its way. by going above it. Thev therefore
penetrated the muttering clouds that veiled the
face of the sun, and in a few moments were high
and dry. They descended an hour and a half
afterwards, and found themselves about 45 miles
from Paris. The next morning, the hotel where
they had taken lodgings for the night was be.
sieged by a crowd so dense, that the gend'ar..
merie had to be called upon to procure an exit
for the party. All the way hack to the Capital
it was a triumphant march. It was no use try,
ing to travel incognito, having, as they did, a
balloon to take care of, and one that you couldn't
hide under a bushel. They reentered the city,
safe and sound, after an absence of twenty four
hours.
Queen Victoria and Yankee Doodk—Her Ma
jesty Queen Victoria and the Royal consorts
have been extremely attentive to tfie United
States portion of • the•lnditstrial Exhibition; soil
pursue their walks through Yankee avenues,
filled with works of art, greatly to the satisfaction
of Brother Jonathan, who albeit they revere, lhe
Republican modes, seem highly honored at the
Royal condescension. A few dayaago,says the
London correspondent of the New York Spirit
of the Times, she was present, and Mr. Pirsson,
of New York city, who has a large double grand
piano in the American division, somehow or
other forestalled his neighbors by getting wind
of .her coming, and engaged four splendid per
formers, and had them all waiting. As Her Ma
jesty approached down the grand aisle, he gave
a signal, and they struck up “Yankee Doodle,"
with variations, much to the Queen's admiration,
for she leaned on the arm of the Prince, and
waited until it was over. Pirsson, with shrewd
discrimination, saw by the pretty smites that lit
up Her Majesty's face, that she was pleased with
the national idea, and immediately there was an
encore. With the , promptness ofJulien, he jump.
ed upon the platform, seized a cane, and using
it fur a /w/on, recommenced the sAine "gout; old
air," and his performers dashed through it, exc.
outing the sparkling but difficult variations with
a force and' elegance Mat' again enchained the
Royal presence, and elicited' the cheers and viv,.
as of the whole assembly:
_
Distressing Aceident.—.At Chainville, Wm_
gomery county, on Saturday evening last,Thom.
as Clark was killed from the effects of carbonic
acid gas in a well. Subsequent to the unfortun
ate man being overcome by the foul air, efforts
were made to hoist the body by grappling irons,
says• ffie Norristown Herald, and several times
they succeeded so far as to get it within ten or
twelve feet of the surface, hut the clothes giving
way it would fall downward, thumping and strik
ing, and chilling the blood in the veins of the
hundreds who hail assembled at the scene of the
disaster. Experiments were then resorted to
drive the foul air from the well, and shavings
and straw were burned in a large bucket, which
was lowered into it. A large cedar bush was
then procured, which was worked up and down
in it by means of a rope, and by this means the
foul nir was so far expelled theta lighted candle
would bureit - Jhe bottom of the well. A man
then descended, and having fastened a rope
round the feet of Clark, he was hoisted to the
surface. His clothes were found to be entirely
stripped from his body, his . neck broken,' his
head very badly fractured and his body lace•
rated
A Southerner al the NorM.—The Savannah Re
publican publishes a letter from a Democratic
Senator of the last' Georgia• Legislature, now at
Boston,from which we gleanthe followingeitract i
°One thing I have ascertained to be a certain
ty, that we are making more fuss at home on
the subject of slavery than the most bitter fan
atics are at the North. After travelling through
all the Nordiern and Eastern States, I have
seen but one Abolitionist, that I could put my
finger upon, and even he was willing to stand by
the Compromise. lam a tnore steadfast Union
man than ever, and hope to return to,my native
State in time to give my vote fur Cobb, Hopkins
and the Union."
Bigham Young.—The President oldie Morinon
settlement in Utah To ritory, has made a discov
ery of an ancient city in ruins, in the South
counties, similar to the discoveries of Col. Don_
iphan during the Mexican war. In the ruins he
found immense quantities of broken burnt earth
en ware, painted according to their time ;.arrow
points, adobes, burnt brick, a crucible, and every
color of flint atones. The ruins were about two
miles long, arid une wide ; one of them appeared
to be the remains of a temple, and covered'alout
an acre of ground. In digging. into one of, the
ruins, pottery, abbes, a lire place, and the burn
embers 'of the fire were found.
riff During the week ending the 7th instant,
9208 emigrants arrived at New York from En.
rope. •
A..baspantte G
In some sections of - the south western parts of
our country, fit-de are gangs of lawless depreda
tors who indulge in the most outrageous exces
3ess, and by the desperation of fheif conduct
seem to set justice at defiance. It was the.exiit
ence of such gene which ot'ig,inated the body
called "Regulators" in Mlssfssfeiti7 some years
-since, and similar "Committees of safecy," under
other names, in various others of the new States. If .
was their custom;'Where the arm of the raw
was not long enough to reach, or strong enough
to punish offenders, to interpose their powers,
and inflict summary vengeance upon culprife.
either by the cord or rifle. That the system was
in itself a bad one, and In many instances went
far beyond just bounds, is a matter ofrnotoriety.•
but, it must be conceded' at the same time, that
hail not some barrier of the kind been raised
against the commission of outrageous crimes, the
- region - referred - trrwoutd unquestionably be much"
farther behind' a state of civilization at the pt*.• .
sent day, than it now is. We find in a Sof:them'
paper an article detailing the discO'veey and ar.„ .
rest of a gang of villians, itlio hate carried on,
for years past, a regular systein of kidnapping
slaves, horse stealing, forgery, thieving and mur
der. Their &hrtquarters were on. Wolfe's Is_
land, Kentucky, deaf the corner of the stafes.of f
Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri.—
The band` was discovered not long since,ihrough
the failure of an attempt, by one of the ringlead - '
ers,Ao_muriler a- Dr.-Bwaynei-who-had-reCover--
ed a judgement for some tbn thousand dollars
against Newton E WHO!, another prominent
member of the gang'. In May, IfitiO, Wright
gave Abe Thombs, a man of desperate character,
one hundred and fifty dolfaes id kill TV S. Au . -
cordinglv, Thomas, pretending to wish the Dr .
to visit his sick father,.enticed him from home.
and attempted to murder him ; but the Dr., after"
being shot in the arm, gave the alarm, and the.
desperado escaped. Notwithstanding every ex.
ertion was made to ferret out the villian, so deep
ly was the plot laid, that he was only acciden.
tally discoverd a short time ago; and his discov
ery led to the disclosure of the whole affairs of
the company. They seem to have made a regu-•
lar business of stealing slaves in one State, run
ning. them off to another, and there selling thetn.•
Another of their modes of speculating in negroes
seems-to-have been as follows: Some of their
emi.:saries would make a tour through same of
the neighboring slave States, enticing slaves to
run away and providing their victims with•
means to get into southern Illinois.' Arrived .
there, the fugitives were arrested by others of the'
gang on the lookout for the runaways ; fled
netts claims to them were then set up and main
tained by false testimony and perjury. The
slaves were then taken into one of the slave'
States and sold. They carried on another spe•
cies of swindling upon an extensive scale, by'
means of fictitious claim's against estates of de.
TEM
ceabed persons. Having forged notes for Inrge
amounts against such estates, they would prove
the validity of the claim by some of their gang.
In some cases thcy had gone so far as to take
depositions ; and were provided with coon!) ,
seals, and every thing requisite to give their
proofs the semblance of legality
Medical Use of Sall.—Being once on board a
steamboat on the Delaware, on a eohl, unpleas-
ant day, the passengers were nearly all crowd_
ed into the cabin. Suddenly one of them fell
down in an epileptic fit s attended with strong
spasmodic action of the muscles. A gentleman
present immediately called to one of the servants
to bring him some salt, with which he cranitted
the sufferer's mouth until we feared he winild
smother him. Almost insmaily the muscular
action ceased, consciousness returned, and the
poor fellow manifested as much haste In get the
salt out of his mouth as the other did in getting
it in. We thought the incident worth renietn.
bering, and it is now brought to mind by a para•
graph Which We find in the New York Courier,
on the medical use Of s'alti, which we knob from
experience to he true. That paper says, "in
many cases of disordered stomach, a teaspoon..
ful of salt is a certain cure. in the violent ruin
termed colic, a teaspoonfal of salt, dissolved in
a pint of cold water, taken as soon as possible,
with a short nap immediately after, is one of the
most effectual and speedy remedies known.-..
The same will relievesa person who may seem,
almost dead from receiving a heavy fall."
Heavy Failure.—A large dry goods firm, on
Baltimore street, Baltimore, stopped payment on
Saturday, with liabilies of about $300,000, over
$lOO,OOO of which are caused by losses in Cali•
Imoia shipments. There i a panic among the
Baltimore merchants, and several other large
houses are wavering, says the uCliriper," caused
by California liisses and endorsements.
The Richest Man in 16wa a Miner.--TlMmus
Seven, n persevaring industrious lead miner, who
has pursuzil his vocation with great patience
and perseverance, and amid great discourage•
ments and difficulties, has at last reached the :
point.of his hopes,- the I icheat lead mines in the
Union, which makes him the richest ;man in
lowa. The, disciveig was made about; six
months since, but not till of late ;fully develop.
ed. It is a cavern, full one hundred and• fifty
feet below the surface, and its Walls, and floor,
and roof, almost the : pure ore.— Chicago Adv.
New Ballast for Ships.—lft often happens that a
vessel has to sail from one port fo another with
out a cargo, and in that case the vessel Tree Jo be
ballasted with something or other, whether it ge
old iron or gravel. A method has been intro.
duced into one of the New Castle v'essels,at the
suggestion of n Dr. White, which appears to be
an excellent plan. The system is a tier of water
proof bags along 'each side of the keel, insjde,
and one or tio•forWard'and'aft. These , Prit 51.
led'with water, ttrld'whlcli can be easily pumped
out again. There cad be vet'y little lost oflime
either in receiling'or diicharging such ballast,
and there Woo experise in getting as mrictibf it
as is retinir : etlifor'etery.vessel carries it tielow
het bottont "• 1 ' • •
Time from Cid:forma to Bogland.—Tl, news
received from California, on Wednesday, by the.
Prometheus, was carried out in the Niagara,
' and will reach - Liverpotd, therefore 41 about
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