prisoner until her friends called for her, he could gather no information. lie helped Constance into the chaise, telling, them inn to describe him to those who would seek. saying. "you came very near committing a great sin. Thwo who seek her are here tics, and you would, have delivered a daugh ter of Saint elary into their bands." They protnied to give no cleW to 'any one that :Mein seek her. The convent to ‘vhich Father Everard belonged was about ten miles, rind his horse was better than Engaged in re- hairier the events of her iii, since she had • parted front him, Constance was surprised when she was told that her journey was at an end. A lay sister received her, and she was conducted to the parlor where she was to be presented to the revered :Mother. The Priest informed her of the history of Con stance, and she went to receive her. The . black flowing robe, the veil floating over the head, and the pure white wimple, became the kind matron who advanced to the young girl and gave her weicotne in a low street tone. Constance watt received in the con vent 'as a boarder. The examfle of the meekness and gentleness of the nuns, could not fail to have a beneficial influence on the mind of Constance. She assisted the nuns in preparing linen and learning to embroid er lace. She was happy, and the sisters earnestly wished her to become one of ilmtin nan 'the convent was situated in the One night a snow storm set in, the wind died away, but it was piercin g cold the snow drifting in places, rendering it unsafe to walk unless acquaintr d With the road.— were, always, lights placed in the windows on such nights to guide the lost traveller to its shelter. raster and faster came down the flakes. Constance stood by the window as it grew dark, she murmured, , •God help the traveller who is abroad this night !" She sat down in her room, when sister Agatha came in. 'I thought von would be lonely Miss I ley ward," said she as she pia« d her lamp on the table. They had been conversieg", when they heard the bell of the convent gate ring with violence. Agatha took the light, saying it n as doubt less some benighted tra Yellers, she would see if they wants 1 any assistance. It wastlin hour before the nun returned, she told Constance that two gentlemen had lost their way, and were benumbed with the cold. They left their carriage shattered by the side of the mountain, one of the lay brothers had gone in search of it, as the dri ver and horses would perish. In the morning, Father Everard r quest ed Constance to come to him, tiny do lit child, cheer up,' said he, have good news for vuu. One of the gentlernen who sote - tht shelter here last night, is an old friend of yours.' "Who is it." said she smilingly, '•I have so few friends that it will be easy to name them." "Softly my dear girl, you must prepare yourself to see one, lost to your sight fur a long time, one whom you loved di tidy." "Father Everard what do you mean ?" "What if one you thought was dead should prove alive and well 1" The color &plead to her temples. her flame quivered like Gia aspen leaf. The Priest opened the door. "Constance; my beloved child I" that voice! it was surely his! She planc e d around. Yes ! I Ir. ileyward himseif was there ; his arms outstretched to receive her ! Constance sprang with a cry of jey, and was clasped to her fther's heart. At length lie found time to tell his tale. He had hren shipwrecked RS rumored, hut, instead of br ing drowned had escaped and again reached Indja, but was unavoidably detained. ,while communications with Canada bring diilicult and uncertain, the letter which lie had writ ten apprising her of the flirts she never re ceived. Mr. Heyward had proceeded to the house of 11 r. A rguile as soon as he an iced, but he found it shut up, and could gain no tidings of his child. The michLurs to;d him the whole family had left the country fur Spain, but the young lady went senile time before. His first thought was that Constance had taken refuge to the convent ; ho was in the montitain u n til the friendly light at its window g nu, d Dina. Ile light ly thought that the A rguils' had intercept( his lett: rs and dreaded to inert him ; hat thankful to find his child, ho found no room for vengeance. Constance was introduced to his compinion, Colonel Widdie. Ile Oats a gentleman with whom In r father had be come acquainted while in India. Wrildie had wealth and station, he had au innate sense of religious truth, and reverence for virtue, which no collision with the world could efface. IVe must pass over the allectiotime actions of the nuns, and the tearful embrace of the Abbess, who loved Constance as a daughter. Mr. Heyward gave Father Everard a large sum to be devoted to the uses of the con vent, and told him to apply to hi a when they Wanted assistance. A. year had passed when a groUp teas seen occupying a room in the sph.nd id house of Mr. Heyward, all around was purely, beautifully feminine. The low damask ot tomans of . crimson—the rare ,bilds in their golden enacts the rich costly paintings hanging around the room. The parting rays of the sun fell upon the fig ore of eoluantice us she selcctrd timers to till an untigne vase which stood cm a table richly wrought in some foreign wood. Near her stood Colonel Waldie, he gazed on the lovely girl us if She was his tett: htry angel. Shy• had passed the season of gitlishness, but the fine pro porlions of her noble form, end her face wore a holier, deeper impression. Oh ! beautiful indeed are the moments in woman's life when the dream of love is first awakened, and the object worthy of its attachment.— The blended hoes of purple 'and gold with crimson shed from the diamond,—shaped glass that formed the gothic windows, threw is rays upon the snowy marble' images of 0111116 :lc worship ; and upon the aitnr•stooe, kneeling on the rich purple velvet that car peted: he steps bet Ween two massive silver censers was Colonel Waldie with ConstanCe, his newly tvedded wif•. Tho chaplain in his sacredotol robes had finished the cere mony.- Co , .='ante had received her father's dessi n sr. W hen af'era sweet prelude foal the organ, there burst a strain of von' music front the choristers who were enncealt d.— It was her favorite antlieni, rind slu• I;ncw the Abbess and the nuns were there to wish r joy. .:.1) , :..ci)i. , ,:t1) 11::gic.ilet. A ilentown, Tea. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1851 CANAL CON111118:q0NE13. noses ownai I=i AUDITOR GENERAL. Alexander K. 11Ecillture, =il SI 7 RVEYOR (aiNERAL. ChriStiall I 2 ye roL, I=l JUDGE' OF THE tiUDREME COURT 'l'imam* Blcuttl, ( r lAD:A.I'IIIA . !Who F'dir If a , iegle L'oobt in the mind. of any one a' to the s:a•re,. of the "I.ehi2h Oetrity A2tioultutal S wiety." the t .,, ttrtnt An neal Exbi'l;itt rne.t have tib , iiellett it, for a mote tnagn.lieent E%hitition,or fitlO better pat• r ‘l.lZed ['ever (4.ltoitte.l, i:t th:3Cerntnortwe.t!th. For three v,10 , 10, of %Illicit were must lavoral,ht us regi.ti!s weather—Well) Ihe I:14;e :1;:d beatitifol l'air•grounds thronged with si.eatators. home idea of the crowd may be obtained horn the tact that the tickets of ad mission dispin , ed of on one day—exclusive of menthe: or family tickets amounted to lip• wards of ten thousand. 'Hie probability •is, that there were at one 'time within the cm-lo t-ore cm Thursday, at lea,-,t thirteen to fourteen thousand persons. It was in truth a noble sight. The beauti ful !cowl in overlooking all the romantic scene ry, which surrounds our Town the spacious enclosure of eight acre., with its . fine look subsfaatial fence—the long ranges of Cattle Horse and Poultry sheik, which surround it— the beautitul enclosed trotting cour,e—the main buildihg (in the center pt Iheg1(1101) oua hun dred lest loog and 30 feet high, with it ) ..l trated rn .f, coveted with fl igs and streamers, all wi!h a most superb display if ;envies of the gum th nr. t inamitaenne of the county, and filled to ovcifhiwiog with crowds of troll dressed fictive, pleased and well behaved spec tators, all combined to make a picture of the fittest kind that can well be imagined. We might fill our columns with descriptions of the articles exhibited without exhausting them, but we deem it unnecessary, as most, it ! not all our readers have seen them, arid require nothing hoot us to remind them of the beauty and elegance of the display. 0.1 lltursday at ten o'clock A. Al., James S. of the Litlies of Allint. tom] 1)1i-cloud to the sorir-ty a very large arid bcautitul tanner, which they had embroidered for the litirpot , e. l'he address of Reese, was in exceeding good ;an-te and sparkled with beautiful arid intet,ie thoughts. The banner \vit. , received by J,.Jiut E ight, , who teprer.ctited the society on this urea-ion, and iitiose addres4 ivati appropriate and beauti fully delivered, touching the ri,e, progress and final bent his of the soeie'r. 11. ihroo o'clock P. 1.11., por,znant to arrange- rdoorthe second Annual address was delivered io the a•oeiety by the Rev. B. ILL Schmucker, iu the English language, which was li-t.•ued to with marked attention. It is impossible for Os to give even a synopsis of this speech, but all who hoard it ❑_reed in pronouncing it most ap. dopri,tte did eloquent. Ftiday the closing Atlikes.; was de liveted iii the Cerman langnage by the Hey. J. Ififts•, who in a manner peculiary effective, ail • veditd! the utney and iteces.ity• of Me astmci ation and the propriety of extending to it all pos-ib'e Mil and encouragement. Aker 11l conclmion of this Address the chair :rout of the Comm.Yee, Judge Dillingcr, ap. iii tted on the ~ : and ;he reports of the v - coinutitti l m. ttopMetetl to awaitl premiums. which tccie there, authirly atmouttedl. Tile so cidy was then disnii,sed, alter which t itch ar ticle un a-t %vere intended for ,•ale, v,c.re ,rot up at at tion and tli-pr,02,1 :I'ria lopor:s of the ir.vaiLlitiu commit tee:. will Lind a playa in our columns next week 0.113 thin!! is certain. The society is now etaiblis!,c,l en a lair bask—one mole exhibi tion will enable the members to complete the buildings and perfect all their arrangements, alter which the prizes will be raised to an amount that will be weld' contending tor.— Inoir operations will then be more Fy,tem at iv, Com i 006 will be selected %%hill a view to p,reil;er tteettruey fit their investitation6 untl re• porii ‘vhilt3 the number of (:rites distributed will hi) greatly e.lterestiog. It is also 111Iltillded to till the ettelesure with shade trees, eolleeted honk every to:via:hip it; the comity, so as to 'oak° the grouttd an epi. wino of Lehigh. A low years more and there will not be . a Inert , agreeable phis of resort ill ull the hind than the Ag:ioultutal Ent Ground ul Lehi4ll County. Accident from Burning Fluid. Scarcely a day passes that we do not receive accounts from some quarter of serious accidents and frequently deaths front the explosion of Cain phetio or burning fluid lamps. A few even ing's since, an employee in the Allen House in this place, while filling a lighted lamp the Hurd took lire and exploded with a loud report. Fortunately but little fluid was in the can and deinage was dn,e, except tilling the house with smoke. The Railroad to the Pacific ./110 Sentifiet—;he new wiper— icm of tt Pm ilic tliConail KS a gOVVIII , IIOIII WO; 1: - , by alea!I• furnished from the national neicoiry. It Minks Mere one vital and inytmant cim , iderioion which makes a railmad eiltenni•e on the part of the 1. , ,K1/001a1V10, more eljerMulatth, in view 0 ! constittoional linii•ations, than any other spre cies of imetnal improvement. It is OM.: An orilinaty road, when OVo constructed, require nothing more than repairs, and is open for gea oral use; not so with a railroad ; for such a wad of communication requites not only construe lion, equipment, and repair, but aim) the urea tion of a perpetual corporation, to %yolk it ant make it available. In fact it is an insMutim as well as a highway. The Sentinel whirs the constitutional argument; tigaimt teaks u internal itnproveic,etit tmtcr..aii,t.,l in the mes sage? of I'te•ltlenls and Polk, 114 lit gloom! tvhi.,h Lave induced iLr, dimmormi ; arty to dettolowo ;110 iniernal inlia.o:o4ne; ;mislay, when under ilie goald:lty .o.d dire, Lion of federal lotilionty. uneon.-titanora dangorr , ll6 and dernoralizina. Ihe po:i ion itms fore;bly San. The pawer to i•cadtzwt and wo:k a cariirr %VIII) tk dal t•rtortcatc a tit:iorai io iii orJcr to tiiiiho tlio road to:II:A:do. La tl ca,o of could u,Jy avoid ita3 cia.t.oion of a cor l iorati, graiiiin:±, !Lit load to iu liri iu,a. or 1;,a1,,r ai;Of its completion, or b>.• ve••un* in le, 1- eral the povve,a+ and (knit!, v. rich a; e e:serci,ed ineorporated ctinipattit- .. In either event, we hold that. the Com-Minn would be ialiinged, and a aintit tdride 'roa( toward eert•nptiou and demmalizaticm. va,t expend ire tun-t he made in co.l - a road conneetitig the valley v% ith time the army of employ er, and I , ln - d-; relpii , ite pt rlect the underul.•. irg, and to supci vi.-e and rnamtge it alterwaid, uuald VPSI. in the eNemitive an amount et Power and itilluerive not eotupatible will, the ualuie of our institutions, mid to the last de• tree the, public liberties. A rorpor, ation irig its powers from the geneial 20y• ernifient, and detiving its means tiom the toil crab treasury, would enter into all alliance with the government or make the government a mere appendage. No supervising printrol in Congress could Lee of the tea-t avail, while the time of the national leiiislatine would be de voted to railroad dii.em:sions having no Mal reAoht and important and legitimate mea— nies would be emiiiely limdeeted, or binned over without thought or delitioration. Cotrup- 1 lion would stalk abroad, the road never be porn pleteil, while j ibbers and speculators would gorge themselves with phinder. Lutheran Synod The Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church, (Eoglistl77rancli) commenced its ses sion in Philadelphia, on Thursday, anti was permanently organized on Priddy of last week. Rev. J. A. Blown, of Reading, was re - elected President. Among the new members adolit• ted to the Synod was the Roe. W. AI! Baum, of Burks comity, stationed at Haircut Ilill. Rev. J. C. Baker, was admiiwit a i l l ihodelegiim rep rmteti ting the old (..;ermati Pennsylvania Synod of which he is the presiding officer. On Saturday ilieriparochial reports of the rnin i-.ers were received arid read. Tito following aggregates are presented, viz: Nntn bar of and imiching stations connected with this Synod, 75; infants baptized tithing die past ! Synodical year, 552; aquit;, 100; new mcin• bare cen ti rated, .16-1; whole nuntber of corninu nieiants, 9.122 ; Sabbath Sehools, 70 ; TrAyer illeetings, 02; Contributed to Home and For. eign Alissions, .5826 ; E location calls°, $1 355, loyal objects, 625.173 ; external object' , 2.015, These results exhibit a very gra:it) it:; increase over former years. Resolutions in favor of the rtlaine Law were Offered and unanimously adopted. A commit tee was appointed to entifer with Ole Bell iu relation to his colony of Norwegians, in North• ern Pennsylvania. Rev. Mr. Ziegler was ap• pointed delegate to the West Pennsylvania Sy nod; and the Rev. 111 r. Brown, of Reading, as delegate to the old Pennsylvania Synod. A resolution was ollered calling upon all the churches of the Synod, if possible, to free themsclyes from debt, and recommending the erection of parsonages, was adopted. The cext meeting of the Soyod was -fixed at L-wistmr 4 . Pa., on the Thutsday preceding the last SAb bath in September. The Synod aejourned sine ilia on Tuesday evening last. Agricultural Fair The First Annual Fair of the Agtion Soviet). of Northampton Coun t y, will be held in the Borough of E , ,,ston, on the 5:11, 6,h and 7111 of o..nober next. Preparations have been made for a considerable display of stock, agricultural iinplements, grains, friths, flowers, and other producrs of the farm and garden, mechanical moducts, ladies' handi;voik, ke., &c. Doubt• lees a large enucoursc of people will be in at. tendance. All address will be delivered in the English by lion. Peter A. Biwo, of I'hiladol• phis, and Pomp's Comet Band will enliven the occasion with their excellent Closing the Hotel We are informed that, on Wednesday last, at a special term of our Court, held at Pottsville, Judge Ilegins in conformity with a recent elect. stun of the :Supreme Court, gave orders closing the Hotels, Beer Shops and places of business on the Sabbath hereafter in this county. We are also informed that all persons disregarding this order will forfeit theirdicense.—Thindyud Gut:. Disgraceful Conduel.—A few weeks ago;while the German Reformed Sabbath School of Fred• erick township, Montgomery county, was in ses. sion. a number of persons entered the room, and by threatening violence, dispersed the school, and obtained possession of the Lesson Books Hymn Books, Bibles, &c. The Trustees of the, Church have since appealed to law for redress. Scrap Books Il is sorrrisim2 iliat people lit•in} it ;he vont!. try and lakioa nrne to , ehil paper. lip 1101 tithe mere pains In pte, , eive IRe va , ; atioaltd 01 u.e lul inforttlatien ihey c•oroaio. It is ;t dillirtah ;natter, we kr,nw, to keep f•uelt regularly filed. but it is very ane-y I.) cut wit Fin•!; title May tA j)4l It) preserve anti paste then; away in a hook wi:11 Hank le.tves The habit FUOII 'mined, awl with a Ihtle rare ;Ind patience a valuable ttIaSS• 6 I . LI)I4III and en teri;!inieg :natter may be ::c•cantula!etl, Si) as to form a relleetable - 11'e %%mild suggest to our younger readers nhiy Pimple method of adding' to their little librarie. an annual encyclopedia or kind: ofiulurntatinn• im mons() Dia.4 , loritial, goi!raphival, and philosophie e l I;tirm, I. edge might thins be laid upon the shelf anti in the memo:). at the same time; for hook s 0 1 this kind po-.e..1 tot inexpre-,ilile charm for those, who 111/,! 111(10,411'y It l'olliti•t their frialeiiithi : the Jaste to lel i. eoriaiii to he formed. An exectlent itravtival hock ott aatienhure ett.ily l e In:pie in thi> u•:ry by malty who brit L the expetr:e of pat eita-ing new %Yorks t•I the kind. ‘Ve thion• .ta the Itit , l to them, with thy Irmo‘ that it limy 11.0111'0 SWIle 1.1 ti.em !,) try the plan. .Thr.uthcfl In the Delaware Canal, aftotto l.tnllet'ville, on the night of the .hutir.e Lair, 14 par: , of aoe. Ile was a hard' ott board a Canal Boa!, and in passing up the ; Canal on th a t night was employed in steer is while not Captain was asleep in the Cabe'. The beat ran neJound, and waked up the Cap, lain, wi.en it was found that the young man misting.was The L. at was stoped for the night, atid seatch made ; and about (loon next day his body was pio'sed up from the canal jtist below a bridge. A scar was found on his t lace; Inn which it is supph,eo l ie fell asleep; at his past, and was struck by lie Lnidge in passing antler, and hi:or:keit off the boat. A 1 cotottei, jury investigated the ease, and report. tie! aenottliog to 010 hots. The young [(;U'S patents reside at lletllleltetzt, and his b.tdy was conveyed to ilottn.—llycks Co. Lad.. A Further Reduction of the Tariff I :Secretary Giterthrie has issued a circular, in which he says that in consequence of the accu mutation of money in the Treasury, the ensuing Congress will probably reduce the present tariff. lie therefore asks for information of the winking of the present rates of duty upon the leading branches of industry of the country, and of the effects to be expected from the proposed modifi cation, lie thinks that the reductions, if any shall be made, should be so arragneel so as to afford equal participation in the benefit to every interest and to every section. Articles which enter into our manufactures and those which do not come into competition' with American pro• ducts are those, he says about which there will doubtless be the least question. He also prop. ses to abridge to the labors of the custpmhouse by adding to the free list of articles of general consumption and articles paying small duties,—, A "Bird" of Trey Clwyd—A heartless villian, named Nathaniel J.-Bird, was arrested in Cam den, last week, on the charge of Bigamy. It seems that he made matrimony a regular trade; fur, to this time, no less than six young women have clamed him as their husband—two in Camden, two in Philadelphia, one in ton, and one in this city ! lle boasts of having twenty wives, and there appears to be no doubt that he tells the truth. The ease with which he obtained six of the numd , r, renders it more than probable that he found no difficulty in wedding the other fourieeo. lie is well known about Reading,having nourished here at intervals due• ing the last live or six years, sometimes under his real name and sometimes under an assumed one. His last appearance was during the first week in September, when, we believe, he styled himself Dr. William J. Hunter; and by that name, married a very respectable young lady of this city. He soon deserted her, and, as has been discovered, went to Camden to prosecute his matrimonial speculations. He is an' accom- I plished scoundrel, and deserves the severest punishment.-,Reading Gazette and Democrat. Stoic Agricultural Fitir.—'l'::^ state Fair at Pittsburgh this week', was attended by an im mense number of people. The exhibition em braced a floe display of agrieultural products and articles of domestic manufacture, and was considered decidedly the most successful that has yet been held under the auspices of the State Society. Gov, Bigler, Canal Commissioner llopkitis, and other public functionaties . , were present by invitation, and the editorial fraterni ty was %yeti represented by some of its most prominent members. Another Bank in New York.—:-A rumor is cur_ rent in German circles in New York, that the Batik of Dartusiandt, an institution of high char. acter, widt a capiial 0t ° 520,000,000, proposes to establish a branch in that city, with a capital of $10,000,000, and there is reason, it is said: to believe that the minor is well founded. The in: troduction of such an amount of foreign capital into that city could not Gil to have a very mark ed effect upon the money . market. . • Indian Dificu7ies.—The National lahlliseneer learns that much difficulty is to be apprehended in the effort to cat ry out the act of the last t.:on. gress enjoining on the Executive to open nego; nations, with the Indians went to the Missouri, with a view to an organization of a United times Territory there. The premature agitation of the subject by the, whites on the frontier is said to have produced a very unfavorable feeling In the Indian mind, which may have the tendencydo delay indefinitely the desirable measure of an or• ganization of Nebraska. Pacific Railroad.--The Pacific Railroad Corn. parry held an adjourned meeting in New York city on Friday, and the books of subscription were reopened, and stock to the amount of $3O - was taken. The whole amount of stock subscribed at present Is $93, 030,000. The books will be opened again in two weeks. Important from Mexico Since the destruction of the liberty of thr press, %%hint) was the first act of Santa Anna',. return to power, it has been alma>t impossible I to obtain ally reliable infoonalion conri nitric / the political state nl the country. ',gilt is thrown op.!t the subject by an article in the 'Plaits of } this morning, copied from the New Orleans ;•Picayune. It set ins front that article, which is Lased Ppm statement made upon good authority, that tinder the apparent calm which pervades the country, the elements of fresh revelations are active and vigorous. Santa Anna himself has lost all the elm gy and ambition which made him so popu lar and so formidable years ago, and has becoine lazy and effeminate; while conspiracies, 1' the most li•rintdable character, abound •in every. Department. Santa Anna,notwithstanding what is said of his inertness, does not seem to lack vigor and decision in disposing of those whom he suspects cf treachery. Several of thr public men.of the d ' apital would have been ban• 'shell on suspicion—among whom we'ithserce is; Signor Luis de la • Rosa, recently the Mexican Minister at ‘Vashington, who was older. ml to gait the City of Mexico within forty•eiglit hours, but the intervention of their friends procured a temporary suspension of these decrees. It Is limiter stated that Santa Anna can 110 longer dipend tipmt the Army,—though so Mr' probable a statement requires confirmation— Ilithrito the Aunty has been his sole reliance, and it has never yet failed him. Its position anti Mfluence under him are certain!) , greater than they could he under any other chief, and all the mea‘ures of lii Government thus tar have tend, eti ni ins advantage. not at all unlikely that fresh revolutions are still in store for Mexico, and that many months will not elapse without witnessing new struggles for the ascendancy.—N. Y. 7Y pies. Tho Credulity of Women A heartless villion was recently arrested in Camden, on a charge of bigamy. It appears that some time since he became a boarder in a respectable house in that city, and scum after proposed marriage to a daughter of the lady who kept the establishment. The rifer was ;leer pt ed, and the marriage took place on the 13th. A few days after lie disappeared, and it was.subse• fluently discovered that he had played the same game at another house in the same city, the bride in this case being the estimable daughter of a highly respectable widow. Both courtships and marriages were effected within leSs than a month; The rogue Was arrested, and will no doubt be adequately punished. Hut, surely, under the circumstances, the young ladies acted with great haste and imprudence. They must have been sadly credulous, or the bigamist must have been peculiarly attractive and persuasive. Such hasty marriages, and with strangers, are always at tended with peril. In the first place, it is diffi cult tp imagine how a permanent attachment can be formed in so short a time, and in the second, a week or a fortnight is by no means sufficient to discover the character of a stranger, or to test his sincerity., Mothers as well as daughters should be admonished. A genteel ex. terior and a flippant tongues are not the best es sentials for matrimonial life. 'roc SleamGout on the Western Waters.— According to the statements in the Newport (Ky) News, the first steamboat that ever ran on the We,tern waters was built under the superinten dence of Mr. John Robson. now 81) years old, and living with his son ‘Villtam, two miles back of Newport, Ky. 11is head is whitened with ege, but his memory is good, and reccollecfs well about his youthful exercises. He was employed by Fulton, Livingston & Co., of New York. The boat was launched at Piitsburgh.Pa., on the 17th day of March. 1811, and was called the New Or leans. She was painted with a bluish colored paint. She passed New Madrid, Mu., at the time Of the earthquake in December, 1811. Mr. Scowls, now living in t.lonvington, a wealthy man, was cabin boy on her; Andrew Jack was pilot, and a Mr. Baker, engineer. She carried Gen Coffee and Bon Carl, with their troops, front Natchcz down to New Orleans, in, 1814, at the time Gen. Jackson was defending the city against the British.—/hrtiry Mere/ant's Mos. A Ilcmine.—A feat evincing the most uncom mon courage and presence of mind, for one of het sex, was recently performed by Miss Sophia Peters, daughter of Mr. V. Peters, of this comity. The other day, when no grown persons, with the exception of Miss Peters and her mother, were near the house a child of live years, a grandson of Mt. Peters, was discovered to be at the bottom of a well some thirty feet deep. How long it had been there is nut known; but immediately on its discovery the young, lady seized the rope, descended on it to the bottom of the well, and placing the child on the bucket, if was drawn up by her mother, after which she herself was drawn up in the same way. The child recover ed in a short time, but from the situation it was in, it.wotild soon have drowned, had it not been for the intrepidity of Miss Peters.-Bowie (Texas) Inditcr. Dud qf a Percale Centenarian.irs. Eliza beth Perkins 'died at her residence, Maverick street, liast Boston, on Saturday. last, at the ad. warmed age of ninety nine years and five months. She 'was, probably, at the time of her death, the oldest Iverson in Boston. Impaled Crinie.—The latest national statistics of cruise are found in the abstract of the Seventh Census, I•'rotn that it appears that the whole nusnber of persons convicted of crime in the United States, for the year ending June; 1850, was about 27,000 ; of these 13,000 were natives, (including colored prisoners,) and 14,000 foreign born. By the same authority, and to the same date, we are informed that our population was composed of 17,737,505 natives of its soil;- 2,210,828 born in foreign countries, and 30,014 whose nativity could not be determined. While we have; therefore, but about one foreign resit dent to nine native whites, there is a fraction over one foreign born criminal to every native, including black and white. Such was the ratio of crime in 1850, and there is no reason to sup pose it has materially changed since that time. Santa Anna's Policy RV Prospects. As the fortunes of Santa Anna wane, the con dition of Mexico becomes more interesting.— This country cannot but-feel a lively concern in all that relates to the neighboring Republic._ The editor of the New Orleans Picayune recent• lv conversed with a gentleman who came pas senger on the steamer Teas from Vera Cruz, anti he furnished much valuable information in I relation In the real condition of Mexico. It ap pears that the intelligent portion of the pnpnla^ lion have com e to the conclusion that Santa Anna's government, inaugurated with sucli splendid and dazzling, promises IS.r Mexican greatness and power, is n toml failure. The . vital enerrTy is wanting. The machine works' on, hut it is merely the refuse or waste steam that still gives it nudion. The liberal men orthe country. united tin once, tip:luso the ”Naintlenn of th? West," auntie openly. some covertly, thwarting hint as far as possitde in every scheme—renturitig to the lu auk nl the precipice, lint not so fir m t.i slip in. Nothing hut the 1111i1 , 11 of all pant , : could save lie country, atitl rescue it Iron its pre. mit depth of degradation an l ili:s union is entirely teaming,. Conspiracies “leinnil, and every man of more or less note is thoitulti to be implicated in them. Santa Anna di evidently on the watch for such attempts, and meets them by decrees of banish ment to the interior Cri complete exile. A few days before our informant left ibc city of Mexi" co, a universal sensation was occasioned there, to cnnserpthice of several prominent persons bring lirnught under these inortitnt tits of gov ernmental authority. Among lie in was Robles, formerly Minister of war; 'darn y Tainatiz, who, a few week sitter., wss s , tuita Anna's Minister of the Treasure ; ,Munn: I, mitt and Luis de la Rosa, late Mexican Md.isterai Washinwou City. Rahles was banisk,l to the interior; Tatnariz was treated in the same inanner ; Rosa was ordered to start from the city in forty-eight hours ; and Lienh to gent off in another di- EiMEM As soon as this news spread through the city, every man of any ?tete suppoArd his own turn teas next to come. It "“t was ill in bed when he received the ordor for his departure. Ideadver- Used 'di house and furniture to be sold the next. day. The other Senm , made like prompt pre parations for their departure. In the meanwhile, th-ir friends exerted them selves td obtain a respae of their sentence.— Tamariz called in person on t3allia Anna, and the latter, as ihe goes, told his whilom Minister that "he would just as soon shoot a Le per() who wore a coat, as one who wore a blatik• o.,'"Vhe Leper() is 01 the lowest class of Mexi cans, and it can well M. imagined how crushing an insult the President's remark was to the ex- Minister. Alder a great deal of manoeuvring and the bringing of all kinds of influence to brar nu Santa Allila. be finally' con.ettied to wnhholdhi~ decrees for the present. This affair had searce blown over ere a more I formidable conspiracy was announced to have been discovered, having ramifications all over the Republic, and counting any number of per sons among its members• Furlong, the present Governor of Puebla, and Mogica, the late Gov ernor, were arrested as being concerned in the plot, and were arraigned before a miluary tribu• nal. The Fiscal desired to proceed capitally a:tßinst them, and the general impression was, that 'buy would be executed. The report was also that these were not the chiefs of the conspi• racy, but t h at the lcaikrs would soon be disco vered. The Pope's Nuncio endeavored to save Fur long and Magica. He waited on Santa Anna, but the latter would not see the Prelate, sending hint word that he was sick. The difficulty was Ifinally overcome, possibly through the interven tion of nffiam Soma Anna. who had been a few weeks previous, on her rt torn to the city of I Nlexico, the guest of Ihmica at Puebla. The two prisoners were sent to Vera Cruz, and it was thought would be banished from the country. Indeed it is added that the whole of theinteri. or of Mexico is one nest of conspiratori. The chiefs ate not yet known, nor does it seem prob able they will be,at least for some time to come. The Government employees, sit far as they dare do it, are courting the opposition and giving themselves the airs of Liberals,—a signific'hnt fact which Santa Anna is said to he well aware of. He. however, appears to rely for his supre. macy on the fact that the oppesition is made up principally of lawycis, who have none among them bold enough to proclaim himself their lea- der and lake decisive steps against the Govern ment. His sagacity is evident in this, as he well knows that the Aetna quite overcome the Toga in the estimation of the mass of the Mexican people, and the soldier is more certain or their suffrages than the civilian.—/Vekneles Reporter.. The Die:nity of Misery—The "luxury of woe" or the "bliss of ignorance." we may comprehend but the Tribune is a little to much for us in the following: 1 •We will not confine theloriins and title of fellow citizens to himborn i onou g r e c i : a v i vt i v soil, to him who has lived here at least five years. and been naturalized, but extend it to him who • has simply declared his intention of becoming a citizen. No matter how poor, or friendless, or• t fallen he may be: all the more reason for defen ding him. He may be the victim of whatever tyranny—he may just have escaped the fangs of Irish famine—but there is eloquence in his rags , moral grandeur in his shunken muscles, and di..,•• vinity in the tears that wet his sorrow dugcheeks and as he makes his illitternte cross, to bis and. clpatory declaration, this country takes him io' her arms as a mother, and swears to live , with , him, or if need be, to die for him. George nOss, from' A Modern 71.nrelirr.—sit Montreal, arrived it this city on Sunday morning by the Michigan Southern I(ailroad: Hi h as twenty one dogs with him, three servants four tons of baggage—comprising any quantity of guknapsacks, and other shooting utensils.-- He n l s eaves in a few days for Minnesota, to take n hunt, from thence. he will proceed to Texas, to spend the winter r and designs'taking on excur sion to the !tacky Mountains, In the Spring. Chime() Tribune.
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