JJLI juiwawisww|J[^B|MM|BM^^^hp'.e l,ll *■' STAR Oy TOR NORTn. , |imi. 'wdny, 'I'J. Sickness -.ltecovery. Still cooped in our ctiamber by the weak ness incident to lyphord fever, our racked DWtwe drive the pen into poor misshapen marks far letters) but the spirit is willing though the flesh be weak to talk as much uj>- on paper ee we are used to do. A fueling of recovery cheers, and would drive the will be yond its power of endurance. The scenery from the window is only the sear and the •yellow leaf, bot the fresh air which we can jcrat move out to feel is a bftksed balm. The world has beeu closed to us for four weeks, ®so we have little to write about ex cept our own reflections. Nay, not quite all closed. A ray of light would bteak in that seemed like a crowd of gentle quiet visitors 'front'all corners of the world, who gave their news as neisleas us spirits. Of coure* a mean a newspaper. Only a paragraph was a telief as soon as (he brain could bear it, and then to skim s column even lightly wore away tedium and aufferiag. Wd are glad to see that our readers have not suffered from any want of interest in our paper while we Were separated from them.— lis-contents have been various and good.— Srioh things as Cov. Wright's speech could wot have had their place filled by anything better. Col. Johnson's Sunday Mail Re port contains doctrines very pertinent at this lime in other connections. And then the . Phrisilnn and manly'appeal of Prof. Long sirset against the wickedness of Know-Notb ibgism is so powerful and important that, if well, we would have made room for it at the coet of every tine of editorial. It was furn ished for our columns, we are told, by a tru ly Christian clergyman, who has our thanks for the favor. Nor did our paper lack in appearance ; for in fact we were compelled to use a superior material of paper, owing to the stoppage of the Cattawissa Mills. That establishment is now again in order, and we shall greet our old friends as we were wont. The Presidency. The present signs of the times indicate that Ibe voice and vote oi Pennsylvania in the next national convention will be given for James Buohanan. It is certainly in his favor that ha has bad a life-long experience in public affairs, until he has not only illus trated and adorned the history of the repub lic, bot his own life has become a part of that histoty. Since first he went into the Senate he stood in the foremost rank of statesmen, and his would be no obscure name for President in any corner of the Union, not indeed in any country in Europo. The present complicated affairs between England and this country will afford Ms, Buchanan another chance to d.o himself credit; and each he will Jo if he shov'' B h ' m ' eelfequal to his vindication of lhe"Ameil' can cause In the Oregon boundary difficulty, and* to his management of the State Department I during the Mqyican war. But io this matter it muat be ever kept 10 view that the candidate tor the Presidency is to be the representative and embodiment of peblio policy and political principles, and no I to be a candidate for his personal fame It is lo be remembered too tbat in a Re public ol 29,000,000 people, e<tch can not have his choice; and there must be great concessions of personal preferences for the sake ol union and harmony, and for the success of liberal and sound principles. The enemies of Democracy seek, nothing more than to create jealousy and dissension in our ranks. They would like to see the Democratic party so divided in sentiment, and each part so wedded to its choice that it could "'never unite or compromise. Bul every true Democrat will see this, and look ing first to principles, he will strive only in fraternal rivalry, and rejoice in any result thai will give Jtim a faithful and trusty stan dard-bearer. - The War In the East Seems to have changed into a game between the belligerents to see which can first bank rupt the other. It never had an honorable principle involved in it, for it was from the first upon both sides a selfish fight for power and empire. It has already cost more than any modem war of double its time, and there are yet no signa of the end. The British national debt has been so much increased that tor all lime to come the interest wilt hang like a mill-stone around the neck of British tabor and commerce, and generations yet unborn will feel it a heavy incubus upon every enßrgy and effort of life from boy hood to the grave. The Impetuous French in their many rev olution* dispose of these debts in a more summary way; and often wipe out the old ■core to begin anew. Louis Napoleon finds ooeupaiios in the Crimea for many spirits that would be restless and troublesome at home, dud the war ia a sort of opening to the nicer orthe body politic of the Empire. The fiaaactal embarrassment in France aod England will.louch public sentiment in those countries on a sensitive spot. Both government* already understand the danger, but neither can suggest a remedy. The pan to roust fisn the nature si Ibe case become general the Czar of Rasaie is said to di sect the causes through banks and bankers which here produced this pressure in the money market.' If so, he has his antagonists by . the throat. OT Gen. Wo. S. Calobaa, of Washington county,baa been "appointed Superintendent on the Portage Railroad by the Canal Com missioners. The position is one of great responsibility, and Gen. Calobaa enjoys a high character for ability and manliness.. fanny .. By reference lo the advertisement of Ms (sow BROTH SM, it will be seed that arfcther | romance frbra this distinguished authoress, wiHb#published about the fitftt of Decem ber. The pnhliahars regard it as superior to | " Ruth HH," a Work which, when it ap ' peered, _crested n great sensation in the literary world. " Rose Clark' I —lor (hat ts the title of Fanny's new work—will doubt ' lest meet an exteasive sale. THK Even-trot NIGHTS or AUGUST 20TH AM 21ST, 18541 and hew Judge Edmonds wa hocusveir','or fallibility of " Spiritualism" exposed. By F. C- Ewer. This pamphlet from the office of the Knick erbocker, New York, contains a fiction which Mr. Ewer wrote lor the California Pioneer, and upon a copv being, cent to Judge Ed monds lie took the story for fact, and after ward wrote lo Mr Ewer that he had spiritu al communication with John F. Lane, the hero of the story. Mr. Ewer was thereupon compelled to explain that if the-Judge had found John F. Lane, it was more than Mr. E. had done, for the whole thing was a fiction, and it had deceived none but those who wished to be deceived. The book is an in structive chapter on mental philosophy for 25 cents. W By a foreign steamer last week the sil ly report came that Mr. Buchanan had de manded his passport and would leave ton don for home immediately. The contradic lion came along in the same steamer to say that there was nothing in the story. England has her bands quite full with the war in the East end the impending bankruptcy of her National Treasury. ' Ihe Saints In the Wilderness. According to the last advices from Utah, Ihe Sell Lake saints were experiencing the effects of a financial crisis, borne of the brethren sent out to expedite the emigration, had tuo Governor Brigham into debt about fifty thousand dollars, which-shows that U tali is in pretty good credit. The holders of Ihe drafts called on the leader, hunted him up for fhe cash "before," as he expressed it, "they would find time to shave their beards," which troubled him eo much that he went incontinently and preached a ser mon on the subject, his text being, " from this time forth, do not fret thy gizzard." In this curious address he declared that he will pay them when he can and not before. The poor, ho said, had got the money, they must have confidence ar.d wait. Brighain does not appear to have any desire to repudiate, for he offered, at the conclusion of his ad drees, to sell sixty thousand dollars' worth of property to pay off these claims, at the same time he gave many a hard hit lo the'brethren who still owed the church. He wanted these persons to apostatize, lor they were sure, he said, to take advantage of their brethren and leave them in the end. Brigham seems lo have a vein of hard common sense in his mental composition, which answers admira bly for the con'rol of the community which j surrounds him. Insanity ID Defence ol Crime. A trial has occurted in New Haven, which goes very far, by the verdiet of the jury, to establish as a legal principle that crime is Usually the result of insanity. One WilUrd Clark was cburling a lady, and the courtship had progressed to engagement of matriage. But }o consequence of some disagreement, tht' parl.'es separated, and the lady married anolr'. er pe.'on, Mr. Wright. Clark contin ued bis visits to the lady, and finally entered the house i/ne da, v ,and in the presence of Mrs. Wright, shot iter dead, then return ed to his place oi busn'' eßß until a police offi cer look him in charge.- The prosecution urged that this was a deitb.*' 4 '® murder, ari sing from jealousy and reveitg®; but the de fendant's counsel contended th.M the act was Ibe result of a mental de.'usion, a belief on tbe part of-Clark, that Mr,s. Wright loved him, and was by some unaoCL'tintaMe means under the tyrannical power of Wrig'bt, and that it was his duly to relieve bet'- The sub ject of insanity was treated with all the learn ing which medical books present, a nd acts of eccentricity, common perhaps lo ®very man, were construed into premonitory ® v >' dencesof Even the father's men tal peculiarities were dwelt upon to show tba. 1 there was an hereditary taint of insanity.— The jury acquitted the prisoner, on Ihe ground < that he was insane ; but it ia probable that j the dexterity of defendant's counsel, the sy in- < pathy oi the jury, and the morbid sensitive- , ness existing against hanging, had more to ( do with biakking their mihds in ihe prisoner's ] favor than any settled conclusions in the ju- j ry's mind of the extent of bis mental inca- i pacity, and the nice metaphysical question of how fay it affected bis moral respontibil- t THE SOUND DUES. —Denmark wishes the, Sound Dues question to be treated as a po litical and not a commercial question ; but she seems to have a bard time ol it to ioduce nations affected by it commercially to give it a political complexion. Public opinion in Great Britain refuses to regard it as a politi cal question, and the capitalization scheme is Considered absurd The idea that the maritime nations will pay Denmark six or seven millions sterling to get rid of a black mail regulation which she has been impos ing upon them will scarcely pass cutrent in this age, in which the freedom of the eeas has become a political axiom to be main tained at any hazard. Denmark had better abolish tribute and depend upon industry and taxation for means of supporting its gov ernment. HT The new Commander-in-Chief of the British army in the Crimea, Sir Win. John Codrington, has had no jrery great experi ence in the battle field. Alma was hie first engagement. He also led the unfortunate attack against the Redan. He it about 50 year* of age. HP We iuvita particular attention to the speech of Wm. B. Reed, whieh we publish this week. He it a Whig, but he hita Know- Nothingiim hard- • Endurance. When-Wo" raoaf son 4he course k4 prqlty evenly matched on ■ lcs>g racej, ffie anal re* ault will be tfclernrined fot eo mtnh by which goes ibe fastest el first, hot by wfikih has (to* beat wiad In hohl oof. So rtr, wheiil seems sejjled that the war wiih Bfcasia ia trot to be OuiiMed -by the ffrWheet, OT a single campaign, but by a long, rancoratie war, prob ably involving other nations, the final victo ry will more depend upon wind, or the pow or of holding uttt, than anything else, Can the Allies an the one band, or Russia on the other, bfear poOtiding and continue pounding the longestf It ia time, more than anything else, that will defeat the conquered, and set the seal of viotory upon the conqueror's brow. Years ago it was remarked that war had be come so entirely a thing of aft, science and material, that whatever country could afford to pay the expense of the largest army, must win in any conflict. So it is here. Rtissia has lost the Malakoff Tower.and the Southern part of Sebastopol—abe has lost her fleet, and she has lost muoh ol the pres- ' tige which the successful defence of her for tifications for a longtime gave her. She has lost a battle at Kara, and has probably been forced ere tbia to give up the siege. She has been beaten by the despised Turks in Asia, even as at Silistria, and along the banks of of the Da. übe. The seat of war has been entirely changed, and driven back upon Roe sian soil, while tier flag iscfiased from every sea. But for these very reasons, she has now comparatively liqla lo lose by a cor.linusnce of the war. And moreover, if Russia has lost, what have ttre Allies gained 1 Their fleets in the Baltic have jwo years done ab solutely nothing. Last year, indeed, they captured Bomersund, but could not bold it, and (his year not even so much as that. Not a man has been killed in Cronstadt. In the Crimea they have gained battles, -but lost men, and lost on the whole perhaps more reputation than they have gained. England has been notoriously disgraced in the char acter of her officers, who appeared to have no good quality bnt courage, no management, no science. The whole aristocracy of Eng land has even lost influence through tbe con duct of these officers, and the government of England has thus been immeasurably weak ened in Ihe sight of every sabject. Her for tressas and her colonies, too, are all left bare ofsoklieis, and the militia alone are left to man her lorls, or parade before the nophew of the great Napoleon when he appears as aily and guest of ihe Queen of England. All England was, in fact, shown np to him as most temptingly bare of "regulars" while the heights of Boulogne were crowned with a lar ger nrmy than ever the great Napoleon mus tered for the invasion of England. In fact, England, so far as the army is concerned, lies at the mercy of France, -in a manner that she never did before; at any rate, since Ihe lime of Charles 11. But what England has lost, France has not gained in reputation. Tbo attack on Sebas tnpoi was, after ail, a military blunder, un dertaken with 30,000 men, .while 250,000 men and a whole year were required to cap ture it, or rather that portion of it that has been captured. Half the number might have conquered the Crimea, by attacking and nnlding Perekop and the crossing place of the Putrid Sea. To lake the single fortress of Sebastopol had well nigh made abankrnpt of the French excheqner. Loan after loan has been swallowed up,- borrowed at exhor bitanl rates, and yet, after all, a run upon the bank of France has almost overthrown it, and nbt it alone, but the-whole momentary af fairs of Great Britain. How further loans are to be raised, it seems impossible to conjec ture. All men of France seem now disposed (O hoard gold in expectation of great convul sions, or else to ship it to America for corn. And yet all agree that the war, to be kept up successfully, must still proceed on the pres ent gigantic scale of expenditure. A rupture with Austria would almost double the war ex penses, and its interference with Sardinia may at any moment bring this about. 11, therefore, Rhssia can only hold out long enough, it is possible she may yet secuta a peace on her own terms. The Crimea may be devastated and her frontiers laid waste, but Russia cannot stand that, and no one while history records the march on Moscow, will attempt.lo subdue Russia by striking at tbe heart of that country. We know bul little of the resources of that 9 est empire, or what the alate of public feel ; n>> - really is. Few newspapers are publish ed, a "d 'be tone of these is, in a great meas ure du" ti,le d b V ,be Government. Its finan cial resou rces are, alter all, a profound secret. Poor in mL'ney as Russia unquestionably is, it takes inooi" 1c ' v t bl y 1 088 10 support an ar my with them (hatr it does with the Allies. There is, thereto re, no telling the length of time to which it rt">ay protract the struggle, until France and England, weary with an in terminable strife that vislds nothing, may be glad to make peace on a l "* terms. Another thing may hat ten this. Red Re publicanism is the dread of France and Eng land. Russia, standing at tl.' e bead and rep resentative of absolutism in Europe, is the natural foe of this, and the war, if continued much further, must be made to phW into the hands of the men of these principles. On the other hand, Russia may be more deeply wounded than appears, and obliged to nutke peace at any price. A revolution there is a summary thing—an emperor ia murdered, and some one else reign's in his stead. It is, as we have said, the power of endurance that must now decide the day .—Ledger. APVOIKTMENT. —Hon. Joseph Casey, we learn from Harrisburg, has been appointed by Gov. Pollock, Superintendent of the Erie and North East Railway, which hat been forfeited to the State, under the provisions of the bill passed by the last Legislature, sad recently signed by the Governor. Mr. Ca sey bis, we understand, already entered p --on his duties, and taken charge of the Road. iy U. S. JONES, ESQ., of the Hollidaysburg Standard, proposes to write, during the ap proaching winter, history of the early set tlement of the Juniatta Valley, and desires such information as may assist htm in the work. UDdaniMrt ach >•*• The London Times and tb*Cobdfei Illus wited News, AeWe papers that hne the largest daily add Weakly circulation respec tively in hen lately assumed an attitude towards tin Uptd Stales, in which impertinence of tone and misrepresentation of facts are combined with sinister skill. This oonrse is deeply to be regretted by all intetligspL md mpti in either country. Pot so dffke Is the country and race, langnage and taws between Great Brit ain and America, Sid so intimate are the' commercial relations, that a war betwgqn the two nations would not only be fatal to hu man progress, but eminently injurious to the belligerents themselves. It would be a war, moreover, HI which neither side could con quer, but which would end as a drawn battle, with both exhausted. It would be a war at which despotic Europe would openly rejoice, a war which would probably raise the French mercantile marine to that height to wbiob it has long aspired, a war which—to use the words of Robert Hall, in reference to the battle of Waterloo—'would put back the di al-hand of the world's history for oentu ries. . | It seems but little-aboil of madness, there fore, for influential journals, on either side, to lend their aid In fomenting soch a war.— Yet it is certain that articles like those we h eve alluded to, caontijmt have soah a ten dency. TheTaol feqtMMy appear alnulla neously in the two leading London papers, and that tbey are coincident with a despatch of a comparatively powerful British fleet to the West Indies, favors the notion that there are others, however, besides newspaper edi tors, who are fanning the embers of hostility, and probably for their own personal ends.— The character of Lord Palmers ton, the Eng lish Premier, lends color to the idea that these editorials, as ball as the warlike dem onstration, are parts of a scheme intended to bally this country. It is generally said that neither he nor Lord Clarendon, the Foreign Seoretary, are particularly favorable to the United States, atyd it is universally known that Louis Napoleon, whose tool* tbey are to a certain extent, positively hates America. Under such circumstances, it may require some forbearance on the part of the Ameri can press to prevent hostile sentiment grow ing up toward England. it ia income*lbis, we think, that the peo ple of England and America have no desire for such a war. But as we have seen a bloody and protracted struggle bleak out in the Orient, against the original wishes 'Of the people of Great Britain, we are warned that a war is not impossible anywhere, tinder the combined influences of a blundering diplo.. macy, a demagoguical premier, and ft slan derous and malignant press. The situation of affairs in Central America is such, more over, that a false step on either side might exasperate the two nations mutually beyond the probabilities of reconciliation. For if, as has been surmised, the destination of the British' West Indian fleet is to seize all the important points on the Nicaragua coast, so as to cut off our road to California, a colli sion might easily arise between the English and American flags, which could only be wiped out in Wwstf. But we treat that the wisdom of oor administration, the conduct of its subordnates, and the impartiafattitode of the press will forbear making such a strife. On die other hand, the good sense of the Englisk people, we hope, will prevent any nnjost.fiable movement on the part of the Sritiah fleet. Should a war between Ihe two countries, however, ever arise, America will, at least, be able to take care of herself. . The Mexi can war proved that we can improvise any army whenever we wish. The Eastern war has shown that England can not. It is not, therefore, from any fear of Great Britain that we recommend forbearance; but because, feeling our own strcpglh, we think it childish to bully or be bullied.— Ledger. SINGULAR. ARITHMETICAL FACT. —Any num ber of figures you may wish to multiply by 5 will give the same result as if divided by 2, a much quicker opeiation; but you must re member to annex a cipher to the answer when there is DO remainder, and when there is a remainder, whatever it may be, annex a sto the answer. Multiply 464 by 6, and the answer wilfbe 3,323; divide Ihe same number by 2, and you have 232 and as there is no remainder, you add a ci pher. Now, take 347, and multiply by 5, and the answer is 1,785. On dividing this by 3, there is 178 and a remainder; you therefore place a 5 at the end of the line, and the result is again 1785. Caution to Railroad Readers.— A recent Eu ropean magazine contains an ably written ar ticle on the subject of the injurious effects upon the eyes of persons in the habit of reading while travelling in railroad cars. It is stated that the joking motion causes the eye to strain in catching the separate letters, and makesthis elfict on the retina very Inju rious. Several Instances are given in corrob oration, where persons who were in the hab it of reading much in railway cars had be come nearly blind- Accident on Ike Lehigh Valley Uailrod Mauch Chunk, Nov. 16.—'The pdssenger train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, with freight cars attached, wss thrown off the track this afternoon, between this place and Allen town, one of the fieight oars demolished and a brakesman so seriously injured that he is not expected to jecover. _ A passenger car containing thirty passengers was thrown of the traok but uotie of the passengers inju red. • Later from Vexes— Indian Battle- NEW ORLEAXS, Nov. 10.— Later advioee Irom Texas, received by the Galveston steam er, brings intelligence of an Indian fight hav ing oceuired near Fori Belknap, between the Delawares and Camaaches. Seven of Ihe latter were killed. Many depredations have recently been committed aiopg the frontier by the Indiana. A treaty has beau concluded with the Co manche Indiana in New and Northern Mex ico. ■ The steamship Prometheus, from New York, hail arrived at Corpus Chtisti. Before the annual meeting of thle Histori cal Society of Peonsytvaato, held at Chester on the Bth instant, being the 173 d annivwrea ry of (he kndieg of William Penn, ia reply to the Mowing feast: 4, Lafayette on the battle gioun J of eld Chester. Mr. W. B. Reed •aid- Mr. President—When yonr committee in formed me tyat I was to >ay something to answer to a toast commemorative of " Lafay ett/j" they jocularly told me. that they had appropriated this sentiment in view of my krfOWn political bpiftltfns, not Whig (though they are beooming quits historical), not Dem ocratic—bnt I presume what Is known as a third mysterious,subterraneous organization, for which I am supposed to have no sffeolion; and hence s French Roman Catholic soldier of our revolution was assigned to me. I thank the committee and the society for the com pliment, for such ' I regard it, and with the theme' they have given, will venture to say a few words, not so much about Lafayette, aa about the curious oscillations of that per verse pendulum, public sentiment, on this | very subject of foreigners and foreign sympa thies and antipathies. What I have to say, I shall take osie to say without offence, but will try and tbink of the hater and lover of foreigner* and foreign things as abstrac tions. I thank fortune I have no oommun loo wfahf aimer, but .with every genuine, et, temperate Amerioaa heart io my boaom, oan safely say I hold in equal disregard him who, on this topic, either hates or lovos "not wisely, but too well." These oscillations—or swinging of preju dice from one extreme to another—began long ago, and if now-a-days an Irishman or a German is the victim or the idol, Lafayette's countrymen, the French, have had their turn at being persecuted and petted. Just a hun dred years ago, as I And noted in your Ship pen papers, a Philadelphia gentleman wrote to a friend, "May God J>e pleased to give us success ftgftinst all copper oolored cannibals and French savages, equally creel and per fidious in their natures, ar.d the truth of what they say and promise ts just aa much to be depended on as every thing which the old serpent said to our first parent in Paradise." This certainly is not complimentary, but was entirely sincere. The English cqlonists ha ted and bunted a Frenchman in tboee days with a right good will, having, however, some excuse for it in the bloody scenes of frontier butchery. Ia the fall and winter of 1755, ex actly a century ago, occurred one of the dark eat crimes that rests on the English of that day, and on English America. I mean the persecution of an exile of the French Acadi ana. It wag that kind of Rouble distilled wick edness, which is always the product of those acrid elements—politics and intolerance.— England executed the cruel order. Puritan New England aboited and stimulated it, and Pennsylvania witnessed some of its attendant horrora. And what a retribution has there been— bow grand and beautiful is the expiation of this deed of wrong. Lord Loudoun, the Eng lish Commander in chief, refused to receire a petition from the exiles, because they had the insolence to write it in Frenoh. And now a short century rolls by, and England's Queen, in St. George's Protestant chapel, (Lord Loudoun's descendants, still Peers of the Realm and Kr.ights of the Order, stand ing by,) puts the Garter on the knee of a French Roman Catholic Emperor; and in the English language, the hand of a New Eng land Puritan poet writes the tale of the poor Acadian'a wrongs in words that will live' as long as the language lives; sings thera in strains which will Bound eternally and sweet ly long after the howl of fanaticism and per secution has sunk to ignominious silence. Evangeline's death scene is laid here in Phil adelphia ; and her grave in the poet's vision is ID the heart of the city, in the little grave yard of her faitb, over which then rung in harmony the mingling chimes of Christ Church and Weccacoe. Surely, Mr. Presi dent, the retribution of time is very certain and very impressive. So were foreigners, and especially French men, treated a hundred years ago. Twenty years roll by, and what do we see then I The pendnlum has gone the other way—for eigners are in fashion; and we have the Con gress of 1774 and '75 appealing in formal and earnest addresses to Canadians and French men and Irishmen to come and help us, and live with us anAbe part of ua. There was no apparent intolerance then. General Wash ington, when attending Congress in 1774, (so his diary tells us) actually, on the 9th of Oc tober, 1774, went to the Presbyterian church iu the morning, to the Roman Catholic cbnrch in the afternoon, and afterwards dined at a tavern ! And the Irishman, and the Scotch man, and ihe Frenchman, the Papiat and the Protestant—all came and all were welcomed. All sorts came, the good and the bad, and the bad aoon sank to their low level, and the good earned their reward. Hugh Mercer, the Jaoobite, came; John Barry, and Lafayette, and Steuben, and Kosciusco came, not to make speeches to' hs, but to, fight with us and for us, and no one thought of proscribing or repelling them. If any one wishes to know not only bow a Frenchman and a French Prieat too, was welcomed, and what he thought of us, let him read, and it will well repay him, the Abbe Robina' charming little volume descriptive of- his travels in Ameri ca in 1781—French as it is all over, and fail ol a Frenchman's oddities and a stranger's mistakes—bis account for instance of the ar my marching to the " Head-a-Fehjue," mean ing the Head of Elk, now E'kfon, and his pit eous complaint of a Boston Sunday, when they would not let him play the flute, and of his being nearly burned alive when bis house took fire, and the hesitation on rescuing him, because he was a French Priest: or on ltis visit to Philadelphia, the review of tbe French atmy 'daua une vaste plains arroaee pgr ie SkuilkilL,' -meaning the old commons. The revolution, from 1775'f0 1785, was generally lbe day of triumph hnd welcome to the stran gat- But the pendulum moved again. Id a lit , tie mora than ten yeara foreigners began to be troubleaome. It was tbe lime of Europe an disturbance, end Washington's last offi -1 eial hours were clouded and perplexed by meddlesome, unprincipled men from abroad, AAjxtnd Fwchets and Turreaus, and sym patKisers atborne. Genet (for Philadelphia has fire of such experiments) fitted Oil privateers ender the President's aose, and WM caught, at it, and flopped by firmness and resolution, without parade, though not without a struggle. One perty at home was all 'for France, and the one party against it. From bad it vent on to worse—from one entreme to another—from wisdom to folly— the purest pub|io man next to Washington, this country bed produced, John Marshall, was almost expelled with ignominy from France. Tom Pame became the pet and and nearly the victim of bloody Frenchmen. Foreigners got terribly at a discount and at j last, on the 26th of June, 1789, persecution succeeding provocation, John Adams' Alien j law was passed, authorizing the President, et hie absolute will, to order any foreigner that he pleased, neck and heels out of the country, and have htm put in prison if be did not go. The next spasm was of course one of sym pathy, but the attack was slight, it was rath er sentimental than practioal, and did not do much harm. It took the form of admiration of that eminent Republican and friend of free institutions, Napoleon Bonaparte ! It passed away very innocently, and left no traces up on the national taste and rhetoric, which it vitiated sadly, ft survives now only on the pages of Harper's Magazine, or those of Mr. or Ip the memory qfaome few Gal lomaniacs, who think Bonapartg sold us Lou ■iana because he loved us, or that he did a handsome thing in bequeathing a legacy to Cantillion. Next came—for the oecillations one way or the other never oeased—the fever of sym pathy with foreign nations fancying they knew how to be free like as, the (Jreeks—to whom we sold a few dear frigates—and the Poles—and the whole tribe of Spanish Amer icans—and in the midst of this, io 1824, came as if to give us an illustration of the truerela tion which the friendly foreigner should bear to us and we to him, the visit of Lafayette, the only leading Frenchm an of bis day that had the least conception of what constitution al freedom was—a Frenchman of the Revo lution, not besmeared with blood—a public man whose American career was spotless, aod of whom, in all his career, here and awsy, Americans are bound to speak kindly. It angers me to hear Bonapartists, and Hour bonists, parasites of kindred despotisms, and English writers defame our Lafayette. We are olu enough to recollect him —his frank and modest tone —bis gentle, graceful cour tesy, his words of peace and wisdom; and we are young enough to remember the con trast of another stranger's pilgrimage—an in trusive mendicant, who came to see the world to rights, and us particularly—whose bearing to us, his silly hosts, was one vast condescen sion. I am now coming—for there is a regular law in this movement—so near to our own days and their living actors, that I am admon ished to be cautious in what I say. There may be within sound of my voice Repealers of 1844, or Iconoclasts of 1844, or Kos suth enthusiasts of 1861, for so has swung the pendulum in those dsys, and I should be sorry te revive here any sorrowful memory of temporary insanity. I therefore pass them and later gusts of transient feeling by, with but one remark, that at the bottom of many of them, there is often a generous sentiment of sympathy, either with the en slaved abroad, or with some domestio im pulse tha exempts them from too harsh cen-' sure. And on all the se mutations of feeling, Mr. President, and gentleman, History looks calmly down and records her sure judgment, and that judgment is, that all such follies are very transient, and that as to foreign men, and foreign things, and foreign principles, there should be neither sympathy, nor ami' patby, but strict, resolute neutrality—neu trality of the heart—the netrality which it consistent with kind and generous feelings, which gives ready welcome to the stranger who comes, but couples with that welcome the resolute admonition that in becoming one of us in form, he must be one of ue in leeling. Such a stranger Lafayette via, and happy wouM it have been for him bad be never left the land that long ago welcomed him. He would have been spared many an hour of bitter anguish. He would have been spared the orgies of Verasailea and the horri ble fear that in bis sight and trusting to his word of honor, a brave woman ran the risk of being murdered—he would have been spared (be agony of watching the ghastly antics of revolutionary France—of apparent treason to his country—he would have been spared Olmu'lz—and 1815, when one gleam of liberty was darkened by the Boutbons, and most of all, 1830, when forthe last time in his day, liberty was cheated. Here, home would have been happy. Here his grave would have been honored, and -not be, as it now is, save by some accidental way-farers, forgotten or scofned. There was something very picturesque and impressive, a few months ago, when the Queen of Eng land stood under the great dome of the In valides at Napoleon's tomb. The figures of the living and the dead were sublime in the world's eye. It was the musing of one sort of royalty, traditionary, historical, decorous royalty, ovet another in its bjief day quite as imposing, bloody, lyrar.ous, energetic, im perial royalty. But it had no higher moral grandeur, than when the American traveler, 'swayed by honest revejence forthe Revolu tion, stands in the cemetery of the sisters of the Sscred Heart by the bumble, almost for gotten grave of Lafayeue. The poor inhabi tant below was his country's friend when she needed friends. He was Washington's friend. Frenchman as he was, he belonged to us.— I beg your pardon, Mr. President, for saying ■o much, and speaking so gravely on a fes tive occasion like this, but I am American enough, in loyalty at least, never to speak or think of the days or the men of the Rev olution, without enthusiasm, not the less in tense because earnest and reverential. Morse's Telegraph.—The Emperor of Aus tria, baa conferred upon Prof. Morae, "the great gold tnedal for Science," being the fourth he has received from European sov ereigns for his perfecting-the maguetio tele graph, which in He practical results ranks by the side ef the application oi steam as a mo live power. " . The Heuae of Rothschild*. A paragraph baa {teen going the round* of the press ihdt (be Rothschilds were worth ' eight hundred millions of dollar*. X denial of Ibis statement has been put forth. it would be e waste of words to discus* Which esti mate is corner. The wealth of ike Roths childs does not consist in land* and tene ments, the val ( ue of which might be aeeer tainad, bat in stocks, scfttds end othir de scription* of personal property, the amouut of whioh no one know* but themselves.— They may be worth the sum suggested, or even more) and they may not he worth a quarter of that amount, it is pnjwkbin the range' of possibility, though it* i* not probable that the Rothschilds may be worth nothing at all. If, for example, tbgfs bold the loans of themealves which they have negotiated since the war began, the depre ciation on those loans, which hps taken place lately, has caused a loss of fifty millions of dollars. Or again, a bouse like theirs, deal* ing wholly in fluctaating securities, might maintain its credit far years after it was ab solutely bankrupt. Paul, Strshan & Co., is a case in point, though on a smaller aeale. The power of the Rothschilds may be es timated with more certainty. It is enorm ous. No single European monarch i atiwg enough to oppose it* So far baok as forty years ago, it proved too great for the first Na poleon -, for it famished the sinews of war to hy enemiga and thus bjonght abpnt, bis downfall. Th£mperor, aware of this;sough! to conciliate the Rothschilds on his retain from Elba j but the head of that houao re pulsed his advance*, by the significant re mark, "there are two Napoleons in Europe;" and time soon showed that the moneyed Na poleon was the most powerful. At present, the house is arrsyad against Louis Napole on, both because he rejects their intervention in obtaining loans, and because the war, . which be hu ioaugu rated, is damaging their securities so seriously. Austria, it ia conce ded, has utterly failed to make peace. The Rothschilds, it is generally conjectured, are now tryiug their hands; for the disturbance in the specie tnarket has been traced borne ta tliem ; and there is certainly a strong ohance of success, because nothing will make I England so ready for a peace as a continued pressure on the money matket. We have alluded to the loans negotiated by (he Rothschilds since the WM began- These loans reach the enormous amount of fire hundred and fifteen millions, viz:—To England, 980,000,000; to Turkey, 940,000,• 000; to Austria, 9120,000,000; a first loan to Russia, 9130,000,000; to Sardinia, 10,000,- 000; to England, in exchequer bills,* 935,- 000,000; and a second loan, just being per fected, 9100,000,000. It is this last loan, which the Rothschilds,it is said, have agreed to make in gold, that is supposed to be .at the bottom of the specie movement. Most of these loans, it is to be presumed, have been sold out before (bis, the Rotbschildt merely acting, tn such cases, as agents be tween the public and the governments that borrow. Nevertheless, the house that can even temporarily assume such a border), within little Store than a twelvemonth, must be one of gigantic influence, credit and pow er. It ia nour plain ihal this same house is on the side of peace. It apparently favors Russia, if peace should fail to be made.— The conflict is thus rendered more equal, for the Allies, with the Rothschilds against them, have, as commercial nations, an ene my within their own borders; wbile Russia, with the Rothschilds on her side, has a cer tainty of being kept' in funds, and money was that in which it now appears, she was most deficient. 17* SICKNESS IN OHlO. —Several parts of Ohio are said to be afflicted with sickness no paralleled ia the history of the State. It ia not confiaed to particular localities, but ap pears to be general—on the hjtla ** well as in the valleys, in towns as well as in the coun try. In Central Ohio, where the chills were never before known, they have been sbakiug the people most cordially. Spiritualism at Fault. —'t here Was a very large meeting at the Hall, in Cincinnati, Ohio, last .Friday evening, to witness an at tempt to move a table without touching it, by a spiritual medium, named Wilson, for I the sum of 91000, uffered in case of success, by Professor Spencer, who is delivering lec tures (gainst Spiritualism. Of course, it was a dead ta.lure, the medium being unable to affect the table in any way. Pennsylvania Coal. —lt ia more than twen ty-five years since Pennsylvania ooal began to be a recognized article of production and commerce. This year the product will a mouot to no lea* than six millions of tons.— This as delivered at the mines, is worth at least twelve millions of dollars—so that this great sum may be regarded as the amount of solid wealth dog annually at the preaentrimb, from the bowels of the earth.— PottsviUe Reg tsler. , Political Composition of the Next House of Representatives. —The New York Herald fig- . ores up the following as the political compo sition of the next House of Representatives:— Democrats 81, Southern Whigs 9, Union K. Ns. 60, Abojition K. Ns. IS, Fusion or Abo lition Republicans 68, Vacancies 1. '_ = In Benton, on Thursday, the 15th inat., by ' Elder John Sutton, Mr. CALEB O' BRIAN, to Miss MARTHA JANE KARNS, of Benton twp., Col. county. On the 15th inst., by the Rev. W. J. EVM,' Mr. DANIEL GEREHART, to Miss MARY SHU MAN, both of Cattawissa twp., Col. Co. On the 12th inst., by Rev. S. Barnes, Mr. JOSEPH W. FSEY, of Neseoneck, to Mise AN NA C. SEYBKRT, of Beach Grove, both of LD- ' • zerne co., Pa. In Berwick, on the Bth inst., by the Rev. I. Bah I, Mr. WILLIAM ABBOT, and MRS- MARY RUHION, both of Centre township, Columbia cdtinty, Pa. In Berwick, OR the 15th inst., by the earne, ' Mr. SAMUEL ANDREWS, ef Mainvilie, and Miss ELIZABETH HARTAEL, of Mifflin township, Col. Co., Pa. aaaißt. In Port Noble on last Thursday, of con gestion of the lungs, Mr. MARTI* Coovsa, aged about 30 year*. At his residence, in Williamspoit, on the sth inst., of typhoid fever, Dr. JOSEFB MON TAYNE GREEN, in the 52d year of hi* age. In Berwick on theßth inat., HANNAH Wtear- LIB, aged 69 years, 3 months and 27 days.
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