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R. W . WEAVRR. EDITOR.
Olooinshurg Thursday Jur.e 28, 1855.
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The end of KnowNottalngbni.
Since the new party of illiberalism has fal
len into disrepute we observe that some
Whige attempt to congratulate themselves |
that their party is free from the reproachl
which has fallen upon the new political ad
. ventures. But to the discreel mind it will i
.appear that Know-Nothingism is the child of I
YVhiggery, and that no fine Democrat could I
ever belong to this new party which is based
on the abnegation ol humanity. Some men
.who clung to the Democratic party for plun
*(!er alone, and covered their selfishness with
the cloak of its natne ro doubt crawled into
the new parly when they though! it was grow- !
it g popular; and other young men w hose
politics consisted.ir. impulse or thoughtless
generosity alone, were nd doubt seduced in
to midnight conclaves by the novelty and
mystery of the new orgies. But it was too
-plain that these discordant elerqgnts would
not mingle long. The demagogue was too
greedy for his plunder—the mystery and ffbv
.elty note-away —and those who honestly de
aired to reform ike world .with this new par
ty became disgusted when promises-were
falsified and tbe tree bore no good fruit. Bo
the end came.
But the leaders of all this play have been
Whigs, and the origin of :he paily lay in that
spirit with which in the first family of man
one brother taieed his arm against another.
Tbe spirit of selfishness and intolerance is
as old as mankind; and Phariseeism did not
die with.any one race or age.
Tte State Convention,
The Democratic State Convention will meet
at Harrisburgon next Weduesday. The con
test for Canal Commissioner will hardly be
very animated, as but few persons are named
for 'he office, and in these days it is not worth j
fightirg for. The North Branch Extension is
entirely under the control of' Mr. Maffet, and
the Main Line to be sold. Indeed, it was
generally thought alter the election of last
fall that the Canal Buard would be abolished
by (he Know Nothing Legislature, and the
Slate Committee for (hat reason did not issue
a call for a State Convention .until after the
time when it is usually held, and long after
the lime when our delegates here are gener
ally chosen. The county committee did not
get together until it was too late to call a
counly convention; and then upon consulta
tion reflecting that if a convention was called
the chance would only be inproved by the
Know-Nolhtngs to create mischief, jealousy
and envy in the Democratic ranks to help
them defeat the nominations next fall by get
ling up a contest for nothing and then opera
ting on such as should be now disappointed,
it was prudently decided not to call a conven
tion, but to follow the precedent ol the Send
ing Committee of last year and of the Com
mittees of the other counties in this district
-the present year. There being no pay, sev- j
eral gentlemen who were consulted and ten
dered tbe appointment of delegate declined
•because of other personal business; and the
Committee taking it for granted that the editor
of this paper would, as editors usually do, |
serve the cause for nothing and .-find himself
gave him the appointment. If the Know- {
Nothings and their friends have not been con- i
suited we can't-help it. We only accepted
the appointment upon learning from the
Committee that no reliable Democrat had
yet advised them to call a convention, and
upon seeing that in mostcountiea no conven
tions are called but the delegates chosen with
out.convulsing the county.
-This county is entitled to the Uepresenla.
live Delegate by the adopted practice of al
ternation, and Montour to the Senatorial Del
egate. We learn 'hat the Standing Commit
tee of Moutour have chosen Jas. G. Maxwell
aa Senatorial delegate.
Railroad Accident.
The heavy rains of last Saturday and Sun
day caused an immense land slide on the
Cattawissa Railroad about three miles above
Milton, covering the track to dig depth of
six feel. The through train that day from Ni
agara, with about twenty passengers, was
suddenly'brought to a hall; the locomotive
leaped the pile nf earth as it strurk, turned
completely over ami righted itself in the ca
nal. The engineer, fireman and a passen
ger were carried with the locomotive and es
caped injury.
The baggage car was broken, and the bag
gage master had his band badly mashed.—
The paß>enger car was jammed in against the
baggage oar, breaking up the platform, but,
with the exception of a few bruises, die pas
sengers escaped uninjured. Their escape
was truly miraculous, bad not tho coupling
broke, the car would have gnne into the ca
nal, and the result been fatal to all.
W We are informed by the Post office
department that the delays complained of at
Cattawisia will be remedied immediately.—
Judge Campbell has promptly attended to
every ressonable demand of the people in
this region, whenever the case came belore
him so that it could he seen by the Depart
ment what was really for the public interest,
anil where to relieve complaints,
Within the past fgw days we bare passed
through Scott, Orange and Fishingcreek town
ships, and find that the weevil is this season
Again in tho wheat, though not to such an
alarming extent as last summer. In many
eases the grain is so fully patterned as to be
beyond the reach of injury, and in other fields
the insect ia not found in any large propor
tion of the heade. Still, tbe crope will cue
tain injury from thia cause.
Car The locusts art found io great num
bers in some parts of ear comity at this time,
and are committing great depredations upon
some fruit tree*.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE rEUPLE.
That the last Know-Nothiitg Reform Leg
islature of Pennsylvania introduced a Bill to
give to colored persons all the righta now en
joyed by the free white men of this Com
monwealth, and were only checked in their
efforts by an instrument called the Constitu
tionl
It nearly doubled the Banking Capital of
the Stale !
It passed a law which is nearly eqcnl to
giving away the great Poblio Improvements
ol Pennsylvania—and. at the same time, re
leased the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
of a tonage lax nmwunting to between two
and three hundred thousand dollars annu
ally !
It repealed the License Law, and substitn
' ted an act to promote Drunkenness, by
| which the people's Treasury is defrauded
out of upwards ol two hundred thousand dol
lars annually, all ofwhiuh must be collected
in taxes from the sweat of the tax payers'
brow!
| It passed a Law nearly doubling the pay
J of its own members!!
It passed a Law through the lower House
to remove the seat of government from Har
risbnrg to Philadelphia; a measure which,
if finally successful, will add millions of dol
lars to the public debt, and place the people
of tho State at the niercy of the Speculators of
a city now governed by corruption of the
most diabolical character 1
Owing to the corruption of its'K.'N., mem
bers, it was unable to elect a U. S. Senator, i
one of its plainest and most important du
ties
Here are a few of the real planks in tho K.
N., platform, which admit of no doubt—none
of which, however, are to be found in the
little book which is represented as contain
ing K. N., principles—a book only designed
to deceive.
FARMERS and TAX-PAYERS, the issne is a
plain one. ilf you love these things—then
; encourage KnowtNothing Midnight Lodges.
If you disapprove of them, then array your
selves, like true Americans, under the great
banner of Democracy, and contend fearless
ly for its glorious principles.
I Know-Something* nt.'t Icvel.ird
'ilio Cleveland Express of.Saturday last, a
Know-Nothing paper, disposes, in a summa
ry manner, of the great Know-something Na
tional Convention, thus:—
GREAT CRY AKD'-LITTI.K WOOL —A Nation
al Know-Something Conventinn has been
held in this city the present week. After all
Ike blowing and telegraphing, it was a slim
a flair. Notmore than fifty delegates from
abroad were in aitendance, and they were
all nubodys. A National Convention forsooth ?
Why it hardly amounted to a respectable
town caucus And the resolutions—they
must have been scissored ifrom one of Vau
j ghan'sGod ar.d Liberty editorials. We hope
j Jonathan feels better after tha great Conven
j lion. Bah!
PRACTICE VS. PRECEPT. — The Know Noth
ing platform adopted last week in the Phila
delphia Convention, has a good deal to say
about reverence for " the Almighty Being
who rules the universe," belief in Christiani
ty, and love for the 'Bible. To show that
this is only the cant of hypocrites, intended
to deceive religious people, let us look for a
moment, at the following specimen of blas
phemy which was telegraphed on Thursday
of last week, from the Know-Nothiug Con
vention in Philadelphia to the Know-Some
thing Convention at Cleveland :
" The North defeated ! The pro-slavery
platform adopted!! Thirteen States with
drawn !!! God eternally d n slavery and
dough facism ! I!! "
l'p VOR -CoxtSUE-6.—Hon. Tho*. F. Mar
shall has announced himself a candidate for
Congress forlhe Ashland District, Kentuckv,
in opposition to his own brother, Dr. Mar
shall, who is the nominee of the Enow
Nothings. 'Captain Marshall intends to place
himself on the old Whig platform. He is
aow opposed to the Know Nothings, although
a few weeks ago it was generally understood
! he was in their faror.
THE EMPLOYEES ON THE STATE WORKS.—
We published a day or iwo ago a statement
showing tie increase in-the receipts on the
State works for the month of May, exhibi
ting a large improvement. The fact that
these woiks have added so much to the pub
lic treasury would indicate a greater ability
in the State In pay the wages of the em
ployees upon those works, but such u'e are
assured is not the lact. The laborers and
employees of the Columbia Railroad we ara
informed have not been paid their wages
since May last, though the understanding is
•that tbey are to be paid monthly. This gives
much inconvenienpe to the workmen, and
canses them a considerable loss in the way
of discount. Is there not a law requiring
them to be paid monthly/— Ledger.
fF Postmaster General Campbell was ap
plied to recently by the Postmaster, at York,
Pa., to know whether a letter containing, as
1 was se pposed, counterfeit money, could be
| opened st the request of the police authori
ties, in order that the money contained there-
I in might be identified as the same ts that
| passed by the prisoner, and that thus further
evidence might be furnished to aid in his
conviction and punishment. The Postmas
ter General replied, emphatically, that it
could not, that he bad no right, nor any offi
cer under him, to open any letter until it
retched the Dead-Letter Office, and that Ibis
principle must be always acted upon by those
in the employment of the Department.—Leg
er.
E7* In lbs laat two months, says the
Washington Star, five hundred men have en
listed for the new regiments ordered by
Congress. This, independent of (he recru
ling for the general service, which contin
ues to progress at the rate of, perhaps, 4SO
men per month. If is anticipated that in
about ihree months more, all the mqn re
quired for the new regiments, will be ob
tained.
17 The North Branoh oT the Susquehan
na river is very high at this place.
For the Slur of the North.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
7he old world.—John Bull.— Who's "ahead."
—Filial kindness.— The " milluigterry."—
The dog days.
New YORK, SATURDAY, June-23, J855.
The late news from Europe hns made ev
ery " (Englishman" in town unbearably in
solent. If the Er glieh papers brought out by
the Asia contain the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth, concerning mat
ters and affairs in the Crimea, the Allies have
certainly gainej some advantages; but it is
simply ridiculous to base any opinion on
the general result ot the war upon the conrso
affairs may take for a few months, or even
for a year. lam strong in the belief that
England will come out of this contest a third
rale power. Individual living organizations
have their birth, infancy, youth, maturity,
decline, senility, and death. So have races
of animals, including races of men. Na
tions, planets, and solar systems, must decay
and die—that is, the material part of them.—
The English nation has had its day. It has
run its race. It has accomplished its desti
ny—and a wonderful destiny it has been.—
Turn tovyonr atlas, look at the "Map of the
World," or the "Rlup of Europe," and run
your finger over either of them, until it
comes to a little insignificant island that yon
could drown in Lake Superior, without dis
commoding the dwellers on it? shores by an
overflow; and then turn to the West Indies,
the East Indies, Africa, North America, and
Australia ; ponder on the superiority ol the
race that has been able to subjugate or col
onize such a vast extent of territory in every
quarter of the ghibe, and, frankly, throwing
aside, for the time, any feeling ol animosity
that you justly or unjustly entertain toward
the Government and people of Great Britain,
see if it be possible for you, as an honest,
unprejudiced man, not to acknowledge that
that same people and Government have
worked gloriously and successfully for the
advancement of humanity.
I think I appreciate,to their fullest extent,
the enormities thai have beer; and are now
being perpetrated by the British Government.
Few men have a more clear idea than my
self of the shortcomings of that Government.
But lam speaking comparatively. When our
own country gained its independence, did
our fathers go to France, or'Snain, or Russia,
fur the basis of our laws and institutions '—
Do we go to any of those countries now ?
No! Our lathers paid the highest possible
compliment to the country that had just been
tyranizing over them, by making its institu
tions nnJ laws the model of their own ; and '
to this day, the most violent anti-British po
litical demagogue, if a lawyer, and pleading
a cause, refers the Court anil Jury to the'
practice of the Courts in England, thus tacit
! ly paying a hiah compliment to the inetitu
| tions of that country.
| We can now afford to be magnanimous.—
England can never be, if she would, our on
ponent in the field. She has too much sa
gacity to make the attempt. She could never
oppose us for more than one year, even on
the sen. She has passed her meredian, and
as she sinks down into old age, let us Ireat
her with respect—even hutrior her whims,
when it does not cost too much, as the gcri
erous boy of twenty-one humors tnose of his
irascible sire, or fussy old mother. Let us
remember 'hat she has brought up a respec
table family. Neither ancient Rome nor
Greece left children educated up to the abili-*
ly to lake care of themselves. Look again,
in later times, to Venice, Portugal, Spain and
Holland, each of which was only a lew hun
dred years ago a first rate power, but is now
the football of nations. Net one of these,
when old age overtook it, could point to its
children which it had so educated that they
could not fail, in their turn, to become one
ol tho great powers of the ea:th. Where ate
the-colonies of those countries'? Why, their
very languages aro being swallowed up!—
Look at Brazil, the chid of Portugal; and
Mexico, Cuba, and Central America, the
children of Spain. Look, on the other hand,
to the United Stales, Canada, and Australia,
the-stout healthy children of England, speak
ing one language, approximating each other
I every year more closely in the freedom of
I their institutions, and see if old John Bull has
j not, after all, so trained his boys, that they
did fair to spread their institutions, and their
language, ultimately, over the entiro globe.
But I have been boring you. I must change
the subject.
The Summer excursions of our Volunteer
Militurv companies have commenced, and
on almost every pleasant day some one or
more of these fine associations of tho untried
heroism of New-York, may bo seon tnarrh
ing through the streets, their inspiriting mu
sic utnl gay uniforms presenting a singular
comta-t to the monotonous sights and sounds
of our everlasting roll of business. During
the delightful season of the year upon which
we have now entered, these excursions will
be all the rage. Almost every day portions
of the Union will be visited by them, al
though no company will go this year to any
place that it visited last year. It is not alone
| the regular military companies who go upon
these expeditions lor pleasure in the guise of
war. The fire companies, and various other
useful, ornamental, social, and.even literary
associations, fallow the custom, carrying
their borrower*! guns, under an intensity of
martial air, into the deep regions of " the
country." These are not all whom tho hot
weather afflicts with mania for lugging
around twenty ponnda of bored iron. Innu
merable individuals, sorted according to
their occupatons, goupon 'trade excursions,'
toward the latter end of Summer, and during
the Autumu, taking the hired contents of an
armory along with them, and pleasing them
selves with the delusion that, in escaping
from their shops into this harder labor, they
are having a "good time."
Another prevalent folly among the " Sum
mer fashions" ol this city, is the dog fever,
which runs riot with the imaginations of the
great bulk of our population while the ma
lignant atar of the canine tiibe holds its bane
ful rage orer the earth. During the preva
lence of ibis disease, men became hydro
phobic on the subject of dogs. A dozen per
fectly tabid men, foaming at the mouth, and
exhibiting every indication of utter madness,
may be seen daily and hourly, leading a
horde of watcr-ehunning boys, in pursuit of
a miserable, terrified, starving animal, that
wishes to bite nothing except the bones
which his pursuers are casting at him. For
fear the madness of the city should not at
tain a sufficient delirium, the municipal au
thorities,(some of whom are supposed to be
uever in sane mind,) stimulate it by the of
fer of fifty cents per head for every canine
wretch, ungruced with collar and muzzle,
that shall be brought to the public inclosure
called the "dog pond." Here, once a day a
public execution is petlormed upon n heter
ogeneous multitude of curs, Tray, Blanche,
and Swettheart, with dogs of nobler growth,
by a grim functionary whose horrible profes
sion has hardened his heart to the most pilh
ous yelps and wbinings of despairing dog
hood, and who is well qualifiing himself lor
promotion to the more dignified office of hu
man hangman. All this is done without
benefit ol judge or jury, or even a medical
coramission'to determine the question of san
ity. It is a mistake thai dogs ever run mad
itt Summer; it is the men who get the hydro
phobia, and imagino the dogs to be mad.—
Never do dogs look meeker, so far as my ob
servation goo*, than they do in the City of
New York during the sweltering 'dog-duys.'
lion. Wm. Treston, of KentncKy.
This gentleman, who so ably represented
the Louisville district in the last Congress,
and who so gallantly represented Kentucky
on the battle fields of Mexico, has published
n letter declining- the anti-Know-Nothing
nomination for Congress. Mr. Preston was
among the ablest, if not the ablest whig in
the lust House. His letter concludes thus:
•The old Whig parly by which I was
elected is disbanded. A r.ew organization,
which proposes to introduce questions of re
ligious belief as criterion! for office, and to
repeal the naturalization laws under which
we have lived from the beginning of our
Government with the single exception of
the federal interregnum under Adams, whan
they were extended to fourteen years, has
arrayed itself in the field of politics. In ad
dition, we find that the new parly maintains
an ominous silence in relation to the rights
of the southern States, which should fill ev
ery patriotic heart with fear. I have been,
and yet am, inflexibly opposed to such prin
ciples.
The regularly nominated Democratic tick
et is the only opponent in the field against
this new party. It is clear that it cannot
achieve success unless, as in Virginia, by
the aid of honest and fearless southern whig*,
who will not be absorbed in secret fraterni
ties, and who desire no ambiguous alliance
with northern . Know Nothings. Their aid
has given the first check to this new party
and annihilated its prestige of victory. * *
* * As between the democracy and it
self my choice is quickly made; but I feel
that I must consult my own dignity, ami re
lievo myself from all suspicions of unworthy
motives, if, at the same lime that 1 frankly
avow my determination to support the prin
ciples of the parly, I decline its honors. All
that I ask is tho privilege to sustain by vnte
tho wise, great and nobly liberal principles
upon which I know the republic is founded,
and by the faithful observance of which 1 am
profoundly conscious the social repose and
political prosperity of the nation can alone
pe secured.
Permit me to return my heartfelt thanks to
those friends, both whigs and democrats,
who have so generously offered to give mc
their warm support.
I remain, with respect,
W. PRESTON.
A EDITOK'S EXPERIENCE IN PRISON. — Ho
raco Greeley, of the New York Tribune, was
arrested in Paris, on the claim of a French
artist for damages done to a statue at the
Crystal Palace, of which Mr. Greeley was a
Director, Mr. G., served the best part of two
days in prison, and aives a very amusing ac
count of his detention. He says. ' I always
hated and condemned imprisonment for debt
untainted by fraud—above all, for suspicion
of debt—but I never so well knew why i ha
ted it as now. 1 think 1 have learned more
there than in any two jirevions days of my
life." Whether that knowledge will be ap
plied hereafter to the instruction of mankind
or not, be does not say. One fact may be
useful to those who aro about to visit Paris.
He says, each person incarcerated is allowed
a franc per day to live on; if this is not forth
coming from his creditor, he is at once turn
ed out to pick a living as he can. While he
remains, he must have his franc per day,
paid every third day. From this is deducted
four sous per day for his bedding and one
sou for his fire, (in tho kitchen,) leaving
him fifteen sous net and cooking-fire paid
for. This will keep him in bread.
A LETTER writer uteris says:—The three
officers sent by our Government to study the
military works of the allied camps before So
bastopol, have not, I am told, thought fit to
accept the conditions proposed to them by
lire Fionch Minister, which were simply to
give their promise not to visit Sebastopol af
ter having made their examination of the
French works. It is difficult to see any
thing dishonorable or unreasonable in such
conditions, which considering the impor
tance to the French of not giving informa
tion to the Russians,the importance to the
Ruasians of getting it, and their reputed skill
in Obtaining information were naturally pro
posed by tile French Government.
A HORTICULTURAL CCRIOSITY.—.On the £lh
ins|., at a floral and vegetable exhibition; in
Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. George Hoadley allow
ed flowers of the Virgilea Luiea, from a Iree
in his grounds, 20 years old, and 25 feet high,
which had never blossomed before. The
Virgilea Lutea ia a very rare Iree, found by
Micbaux in Tennessee, in 1796, its only
known locality.
CRUSHED TO DEATH.—On Ihe 16th inst., a
man named Thomas Jones was instantly kill
ed in G. Bast & Co.'s mines, at Minersvitlo,
Pa., by a heavy fall of coal.
TV" A premium of SSO was given by
Barnum, to the Boston fat girl, Helen
Eckeit.
Sours Funeral.
The following excellent hit from the Vicks
burg Sentinel, is equully applicable to the
latitude of Natchez, and we, therefore, copy
it. Natchez Free Trader.
The news from Virginia has fallen 'on'the
Know-Nothings in that quarter like an iced
shower bath. Such lugubrious faces we'
never saw before. It is the easiest matter in
the world now to tell who nre inside or out
side of the Order. The Kuow-Nothing party
has gone to its long home, and the mourners
go about the streets. The sorrow of Jacob
when he rent his clothes and put sackcloth
upon his loins, because Joseph was not, was
nothing in comparison with the affection of
the Know-Nothings in this vicinity. Poor
fellows, we feel aoiry for you—we do in
deed. To perish thus in the wilderness, just
as Mount Pisgah was in view, from whose
top you were to see spread out before you a
laud flowing with milk and honey—it is pos
itively 100 bad. It is almost enough to tempt
you to adopt the advice of Job's wife.—
'J Curse God and die." Yon have our sym
pathies. Had we the gift of poesy we would
write you an ode of cor.solu'tion. As it is,
we can only commend to-your perusal those
sublime stanzas, <; deadokated to an indivi
dool in Pursute of Lickcr on a Sunday morn
ing." With a few slight variations they will
suit your case exactly:
" Knocklurnel jyr&ten navegater,
May bee there's a vacuum in your bowel,
You feel elite!y
Kurrous in the abdominal regens? 9
Want an office, eh ? It can't be had,
Knocklurnel navegater.
Demenetrnler of the power ol sucshen,
This is an eppesode in your- karesr,
i A full stop to your ambishus asperathuns ;
To go to Congress, or the Legislator.
Yours is a hard case, one
Hekwiring brandee and compashun,
You may hoxe, perswade, beg, promise,
Hut its of no use.
The kanine kwadruped is defunct
In old Virginnee.
Demonstsater of sucshen."
Fire. Proof liulldings.
Ever) body knows that two-thirds of the
destruction arising from fire is caused by the
combustible character of the building usually
erected, mere shells of brick, held together
with hemlock joists and pine flooring. i\
great improvement in this respect has been
introduced in the use of iron, not for the
fronts of houses merely, but for all the beams
girderß,and joists, and even for flooring; so
that sulidity and safely are both attained
The new publication office of the Harpers is
built altogether of iron and brick, so that Are
cannot touch it. The office is composed of
two buildings. Each floor in both buildings
is made of iron joists, rather to close togeth
er, and brick arches between for flooring, but
covered with boards lor the actual floor.—
There is no stairway or other passage be
tween the stories, as all going (rom one story
of either building to the other is' by a spiral
iron staircase out of doors, in u-space between
the two buildings, and til every story an iron
bridge goes from the staircase into an outside
door. Each window has an iron sash, which
is immovable, and venlillation is bad by two
lights of glass at top and two at the bottom
of the window, turning on an axle—the lines
of sash between the two lights—so as to open
a space. The steam pipes, with which the
building is heated directly from the boilers
of the engine room', have cocks that can be
turned and fill each room with steam ; so that
fire could be extinguished without the aid of
the fire engines. There may be other busi
ness offices built with the same degree of se
curity. If all buildings were put up with a
due regard to sofely frntn fire, there would
be a vast amount of solid capital, the accu
mulations of years of industry and toil, saved
to the community, and adding so much to its
available wealth.— Ledger. ,
Atf.riis in Washington.
WASHINGTON, June 21.—The Russian Min
ister treats as a matter of merriment, among
his friends,what he regards as the exaggera
ted accounts of the successes of the Allies in
the Sea of Azoff, and says, the people of
F.ngland and France required the manufac
ture of victories to satisfy their clamors and
avert a social revolution. As to the number
of vessels reported to have been destroyed in
the Sea of Azofl, he remarks that it very
greatly surpasses all the Russians ever had
there.
Georgia Politics.
BALTIMORE, June 24.—Hon. Charles O.
Jenkins, of Georgia, declines being a candi
date for Governor. .He is an anti-Know-Noth
ing Whig, and as there are are now but two
parties in Georgia—the American and Dem
ocratic—Mr. Jenkins says there is no place
for him in the coming contest.
Mniße Politics.
PORTLAND, June 28.—The straight Whigs
held a public caucus liere this evening, and
chose delegates to the State Convention of
straight Whigs, to be held m this city next
Thursday.
KNOW NOTHINGISM TADOOED. —The Pitts
burg Synod of the Lutherian Church have
adopted the following resolution:
" Resolved , That in the judgment of this
Presbytery, the principles of our church ex
clude from communion, the members of tbe
secret society, called Know Nothings, and
the members of all suck societies, and that
the Presbytery direct sessions to enforce this
opinion."
THE AntotEs OF EUROPE.—A table of the
land forces of the European powers gives
England 230,000 men, exclusive of the East
Indian army of 848,000 men ; France, 666,-
000: Russia, 1,154,000; Turkey, 457,680;.
Austria, 893,000; Prussia- 580,800; Germany,
224,005; Sweden and Norway, 167,000;
Denmark, 69,648; Sardinia, 47,559. This
table sbows that tbo military resources of
Russia equal the combined military resour
ces of England, Frnnoe and Turkey,
W At a meeting of the Board of Mana
gers of the " Philadelphia and Sunbury Rail
road Company," held at their ofltce, in the
city, on Saturday, the Hon. VV. J. Helfenstein,
was eleoted President of the Company, in
room of D. Longsnecker, Esq., resigned.
ARRIVAL of Hie STAR Of the WEST
TWO WEEKS LATER fwom CALIFORNIA
Nrw Yonic, June 24.—This vessel arrived
al (his oily this morning, at 9 o'clock.
Her arrival was rather unexpected, and
caused soind excitement.
The Star Of the Weal brings same three
quarter million in gold, which incluJes three
hundred and sixty dollars consigned to Willis,
Farge-fc Co.
She also has on board tome five hundred
passengers.
The municipal election has taken place in
Sjn Francisco, resulting in very great excite
ment and satisfaction, inasmuch as the entire
Democratic ticket has been elected. The fol
lowing is (he ticket.
James Van Ness for Mayor ; Wm M Kib- '
ben, Treasure!; Andrew Moulder, Comptrol
ler ; J. Hoff, Surveyor.
The Know-Nothings succeeded in electing I
a tax collector, harbor master, city marshall,
and city attorney.
The Democrats elected four aldermen, and
four assistants. The Know Nothings, also,
four each. The eieouon is there regarded as
a fair test between native and foreign born
citizens.
It is said that more excitement was ap
parent than at any previous election in thai
city.
We learn that the deficit accounts o[ Mr.
Frierson, financial agent and manager of
Wells, Fargo & Co., is confirmed. The total
deficit amounts to one hundred and seventy- |
seven thousand dollars.
During eight days previous to the depar
ture of the present advices, There was one
million 01 dust deposited in the Win 1 .
The gambling laws went into operation on
the 17th ol May, by which law, all gamb
ling saloons are closed forevpr.
Fiom the London Times, June 28.
'Prophetic Destruction of Itnasin.
The Rev. Dr. Camming addressed a very
full audience on this interesting subject on
Tuesday, the 29,h ult., in Halkin street, Bel
grave square, London.
The lectuter began by observing he had
I no desire to fit predictions on the Scripture
J to any*present and passing events, however
I stirring. He desired impartially to ascertain
I whether anything was said in'Scriplurc in re-
J alion to the Muscovite empire and its future.
| and to explain such references as he might
discover fairly and without fear. It might
| be a contribution of some light to those aw
ful snbjects on which all parties felt so deep
ly, and most parties lorsee so little Oar du
ty, he had no doubt, was to meet and repel.
! if able, the colossal power which for years
had been making preparation to overshadow
and enslave Europe. Whether we or Russia
should eventually Succeed might, perhaps,
be inferredJjjom prophecy more clearly than
| seems iwobable to those who have not sluJ.
I ieil the subject. The chapter from which he
\ drew his views was the 98th of Ezekiel. He
! would first identify the names in that chap
> ler as the names of nations destined to play
a momentous part in the last elites. The
names of the nations therein given that were
to form themselves into a confederacy in lite
last times, were Gog, Magog, Mesheeh, Tu
bal, Gomar, Togaunab and Tarshieh.
He referred to the first map of the ancient 1
world, in Bagster's Polyglot Bible, as a very
fair picture of the distribution of these races.
He showed die descendants of Gog and Ma
gog as inhabiting the east and noitheast of
the Euxine, on the Don, lite Dnieper, and the
Caucasus.. Josephus says, *' The Scythians
J were called Magog by the Greeks." Cau
cases is Gog-chasun, i. e. Gog's fori. Mcs
cbech is settled amid die Moshic Mountains,
east of the Black Sea. The river Araxes is
Rosh in Arabic, and the people on its banks
were first called Rosh. Rosh was the Rus
sian. Tubal was the origin of Tobolsk ; Mes
heeh the source of Muscovy. !i is the l'tince
of llosh, Mesheeh and Tubal who is to head
the last confederacy. Gomer first settled in
Asia Minor, spread into the Crimea, iormerly
Cimmera—a work originating in Gomer,
then extended into Germany, or Gomerland.
These are to be united in pre-occupying Pal
estine, now a portion of the Sultan's domin
ions, and preventing the predicted return of
the Jews.
From the express prediction in Ezekiel,
| xxxviii. he gathered that this confederacy, of
which the l'rinqe of Rosh, Tubal and Mes
heeh was the leader (i. e. the Czar,) had now
begun its career. Fiom one pa-t of the chap
ter he gathered it would be arrested in its
course for a little by a quiet, supposed by us
to be a piece ; but only to accumulate aguiti
as a gigantic avalanche, driven by irresista
ble force towards Palestine. Gomer, in Ger
many, would unite with Russia, and swell
its bulk and add to its imates. But he show
ed after Chamberlain, that " Tuishisb, and
its lions, described as a commercial, warlike
nation, having ships, and wealth, and traffic
with the East, which was to oppose and meet
the Prince of Rosh ith great power, was in
all probability the type and symbol Of Great
Britain."
The lecturer quoted from Bishops Lowth
and Horsley, and showed that these great di.
vines concurred in this. From all these and
many other grounds, he came to the conclu
sion that Russia would soouer or later pos
sess the Mediterranean, sieze Palestine, aud
on its plains, in the language of the prophet,
finally perish amid the judgments of Heaven.
He saw in our country's present course—
were only what should be our whole availa
ble resources pitched and pointed against
Russia with all our energy—the line and du
ty of destination also, and, therefore, her and
our immunity, as a nation, amid the desola
tions soon to sweep broad Europe. While
precepts alone were to regulate our conduct,
it was nevertheless cheering to seo it indica
ted and approved in the page of prophesy.
He did not dogmatise on unfulfilled prophe
cy, still less dare to predict. All he sought
to do was to ascertain if Scripture had spoken
ori the subject, and what it had said. It is
clear that statesmen are st their wits' end;
the nation is perplexed; no solution of com
plications is given by any one. The student
of prophecy may breathe a free air, lire on
a loftier level, and bring down from the sa
cred oracles lights of no transient or misgui
ding tendency. He did not on so difficult a
subject give forth dogmatical judgments, or
denounce those who differed from hint. He
left what he had submitted as data for others
to ascertain, and arrive at or reject his con
clusions.
Fiom the Medical Reformer.
Til E MONTH.
Wo are always amused on the annual re
turn of the sultry days of JCLV, at hearing
voluble tongues, among the upper ten of
town and city, harping upon the words "Re
creation, Amuseinont, ai.d Health," and of
their telling of intended trips to Bedford, or
Saratoga, or to the sea shore, or the Lakes;
and equally as much at their conclusion that
a month or more,at this season, thus spent, is
essontial to the enjoyment of (lie two former,
while it is absolutely required for the restor
ing of the latter. Now so far as recreation
and amusement arc concerned, we havo
nothing to say. A change of place and of
scenery, for those who can afford it, are all
well enough. But as for the going to "Min
eral Springs" contributing very materially
towards propitiating the Hygean Goddess, it
is a vast deal of it the veriest humbug. And
is it not time that the attention of the invalid
was directed to a few simple facts in rela
tion to this subject, which if practically ob
served, would not only obviate the needless
expenditure of time and money—an impor-
item by the way to those who have
neither to spare—but would make all the re-'
cuperative virtues of the majority of the
famed watering places of our country, avail
able at each man's home!
Two of the means—and they are the
chief—by which Hygoa dispenses licr ben
efits to those of her votaries who are in'the
habit of visiting mineral springs and water
ing places generally, arc bathing, and drink
ing the waters of the "fnmcd fount." Tho
benefit derived from the first, or bathing,
are mainly teferriblo to ablution and the
eflects depending upon the temperature of
I the bath, rather than to any mineral im
pregnation of the wutet This being tho
case, he that is doomed from pressing pro
fessional or business engagements or from
poverty, to remain at home, can just as well
enjoy the bath, as lie that is enabled from
freedom and 'well lined puree,' to climb tho
Alleghany, or immerse himself in tho water
of tho Atlantic.
It is true that what are called medicinal
baths at thoso.popular places of summer re
sort, may, indeed, from the influence'-of
faith, produce wonderful results, in the serCo
manner as miracles have been wrought, in
periods of superstition, at fountains which
havo beep 'hallowed by some patron saint.'
The natural efficacy of thoso fountains was
improved by their supernatural reputation.
They were salutary because they were suf
fered to bo sacred. It was the imputed ho
liness of tho well \yhich gave it in a great
measure its healing quality.
Alt, how woli the .priests "of Paganism
know how to turn natural gifts und phenom
ena to account, in fa'for of superstition, whort
they eree'ed near or over a mineral
or thermal spring, and made tho invalids
who came to invoke tho assis'anco of their
favori'e god undergo a regular course of
bathing. From the accounts of travelers wo
learu that an arrangement of this kind was
still evident, a few years ago, in the ruins of
ho telnplb of JnpiierSerapis, near Naples.
There is nothing more important for tho
enjoyment of hoallh than cutaneous cleanli
ness. Frequent and thorough üblu'ions and -
bathing arc necessary for this ; aiid it is only
in proportion as hoso visiiing watering
places, e;c., at end to this matter, that they
are materially bfcnefjjcd. But if, as is very
generally the case, they arc too indolent to
adopt tho practice, and even carry koine
with thein the dust and perspirable matter
accumulated on their skin during the jour
ney! their "search aficr health" results as
it should do, in a miserable failure.
Now our ad\ ice is:—Do not lettlie 'miner
al spring' going mania affect you. If others
wilt go, why just let them—you need not. Du
ring the summer, take regularly a bath, at"a
temperature comforiabie 10 the skin, twice a
week, about hn hour before dinner, and rub
tho skin with a Coarse towel or sponge dip
ped in salt and Water every morning on ri
sing, and you will, as far as regards ba hing,
havo little cause to envy your traveling
friend for the advantages he may enjoy at
some famous mineral spring. And as for
tho benefits derived from drinking you need
not despair so long as yrfu have a well,
spring, or foun'ain near your own door.—
Drink every morning early, and at noon, a
tumbler full of the water from'Cifherof these,
adding a few grains of common salt or of
magnesia if you have a preference for mm
ciat water! though we shbuld advisei< in its
purity.
Adopting this course, with proper exor
cise and a prudent diet, we will venture to
assert ihat any one may compare notes, as
to tho s'a'e of his health, with very many of
thoso who shall return from their trip tc 'he
springs or the sea shore. J.
BURNING OF JUDAII Touao's OLD BOOKS AND
attention was railed
yesterday evening to a fire in the yard of
one of the buildings belonging to (he TourO
estate, on Canal street, near the corner cf
Bourbon, which are to be lorn dowuto make
way for several new and splendid stores. In
an old brick wall ir. the centre of tho yard
was a pile of burning faggots mixed with
old account books, in which the detail* of
Mr. Tnliro's business have been recorded
for the last forty or fifty years. The process
of burning had alreaJy continued two days,
and there was still a cart load left. Among t
Ibcm was a volume ol his "correspondence
with his friend Shepherd," which bis friends
might desire to have preserved, unless des
troyed, like the rest, by his positive orders. —
These numerous books, extending over the
liansactions of so many years, wete sugges
tive of the assiduous business habits of the J
deceased philanthropist. It looked some
what Vandal like to see the flames destroy
ing what cost to him and his clerks such im
mense labor. They ate, however, but the
scaffolding over which the fabric of his
princely iortune was reared, and that lortond
only a part of that with and over which the
structure of an industrious noble file was
built. The books and other instruments cf
the fortune perish ; he who accumulated it
is mouldering in the tomb; the bequests and
oliariiies be bestowed will soon be lost in th
common mass; but the example of his mag
nanimity will reiuaiu in the memory of on
borr. generations.—Atw Orleans Courier.