„- epA , ” , • 1 4 ,:zl';',l? r -r `-; , THE 1171 1 8101611 GAZETTE. PUBLISHED BY WHITE I CO PITTIIII/VIIGHt THURSDAY-MORNING,.. JULY 26, 1849 LEMPTIMIMI MILT GAZA= la published Weekly, and Weekly.—The Daily la Seven Donets per serum; the Td•Weekly Is Frve Dollars per annesk. the Weekly Is Two Dollars per aanern, strksly la LAMM, Dr . ildwarnscas are earnestryt tequeined to hand in .helr favor* before 6P. X., and as early in theday at practicable. Advertisements not Ins n nd. for a specie led time sill Invariably be charred until ordered out LIT .. . k 1 1` a OBIT. WILLIAM lIABLETT, of Butler County ROBY. C. WALKER, of Elizabeth Bonnet. JOHN MILLER, of Sharptburat. CALEB LEE, of Pittsbozgh. WM. ESPY, of Lower St Clair. CAl7}O3l. CURTIS, of Equaue, nanuarourr, GEO.S. HAYS, of Upper SL Chair. alums, JOHN RIORRISM, of Allesheni. CC9I2III3ZONICI, A&S. MITIMIELL, of Peebloa. =am, M. SIMMS, of Pitliboni} AUDI v 1 1 . JOHN DYERS of Findlay. Dor Local Matters U. to lie* mart palm (or palters TEIM Locums—A abort time ago a communica- Om appeased in the Gazette, requesting us to publish soma WU respeatiog the manual history of the Locust, as it is commonly called, or the "Mee. da tetligools" ofentomokerists. A press ofmatter has hitherto presented us from publishing the Gal lowing facts. The moat connected series of obsenritions res pecting this subject has:been made in Maryland, where the appearance of the locusts ban always been carefully noted sincethe year 1719. In that year they appeared In the month of May. They reappeared in 1788, in the same month, .3 was likewise the case in the years 1733 and 1800. In 1817, they did not appear until the beginning of June, owing, as is presumed, to the cold and wet weather which prevailed during the month of May and Rule. In IBM they !appeared in the months of Maylto dial their may be expected spin to emerge from the earth in Maryland, in the year 1831. They come forth at different times, in different states, and there will frequently be an interval of a year or two between the northern and southern parts of the mute ,tare; bat wherever they are. seen in numbers, there they have appeared seven teen years before. They emerge from the earth in the month of May, and it is a singular fact that': they always come out of the ground in the night In the early part of ,Tune, they beg in le lay their: eggs, which are deposited in lines of about twe% . Inches long, in the tender twigs of trees. The operation of boring is performed by the fn= male, who perforates the twigs in a longitudinaV directiou. The Instrument with which this is of keted, la =edits shaped, and is about the tizet_of lane needle. With this she bores in the dlreetiosi of the grain of she wood, until the fibres are bro- ; ken, and a secure place foreisbed for the ova. The eggs are then deposited, side by side, in two rows; each containing about fifteen eggs. They ore whits when first deposited, about the tenth of me inch In length, and of the thickness of a horse hair s ! One insect will frequently lay between eight hrui tired and a thousand eggs. After the parent has fulfilled this duty, it dies; and the young, as soon s• they attain a little gruitti in the grab mate, fell to the ground, and descend to the depth of two or three feet below the surface of the earth, in order to undergo their change into the pope Pate. Af ter attaining their last transformation, they we found in great numbers over large districts of country, though the time of their appearance is va ried according es the heat of the climate, sire. Notwithstindiug the commonly received opiates!, they are in no way prejudicial to vegetation, ex cept from 'the damage they do in depositing their eggs, and It is probable that but a Satan portion 91 the young locusts which penetrate the earth ever reach the surface again, as they are doubtless destroyed in inttneruie numbers by bream, ante, moles, dce. The common hog Is very fond of them, and rams them from theearth with its snout, befrite they become visible to no. When in their perfect stale, they are eagerly sought for, and as eagerly devoured by many kinds of birds, es well an by tire grey equirreL Woken this. the Intfiaal freqUeat ty eat them when fried; and consider them a surat delicacy. On one accoutre they 'Warmed in ankh Mutters to New Jersey, that they were used is the mantufeeture stamp. The locusts appeared in this vicinity during the present year, in great numbers, but they have now disappeared to fulfil their mysterious mission be neath the earth, and greet him in manhood, who, when a lade child, gazed upon the parent insert. Tni New CICKIIM—We publish the Wowing 'CarenMr. in ceder to let the publiorme what le want ed in Washington, by the Census Department, and infnmatimt respecting which can come better from many practical men • than from any one else: DKPAATILINt OF ST/171, WIEBINSTOII,IOth Jetty, 1849. Sir—Will I'm have the kindneas to inform She Census Baud Immediately what subjects embrar. ed within the Census of 1910, have no practical bearing upon the resources of your State, and which bad better be dispensed with to the admts 'fano( more haportans essokra6a:la Please aim Inform the Board what subject not embraced in the Sixth Census, would, in your opinion, be worthy of notice in the Census of 1850. Anxious to arrange the preliminary meationis in such manner as will be to the best exhibition dale varied traerces artists Caton, the Board has wither lead the preparation of blanks to differ somewhat. ss the requirements of different sections way ens gear- In blankistrat to the Northern States, to in clude questionarelatlve to the growth of Cotton, &the, and Cane Sugar, would be so superdnotts to Include productions exclusively Northerti, in blanks sent to the Stmthent Staves. la hoped that the importance of the subject, and the solicitation of this Board, mill insarean , immediate response to inquiries, the object of which' is to 110eriain the development of the resources' of the which, country, and the peculiar resources of year Slue or neighborhood. Addrum .Department of State Census." JOHN td. CLAYTON REVERDY JOHNSOg, JACOB COJJ.a moo Joit. C. G. Ifircinov, Secretary. ~~`. ~i:: To tan atanor Ann Larrr or TU DIDC2II cre; Panerrtwoa.,—Brathens—The President of the United Stains has recomaiended that dis first Fri.i day in Aargau be observed throughout our laud sea day affair= gdunnitistion endorsor. poet en observance eminently beau:tees a people, vibe owe so mactr tothe Gotta nations, and who ans now snaring so severely under his chastening. hand. - Ithetefure affecticmately invite the Clergy and Laity of this Diocese to a due participation in the solexonthe of this Nahuatl Fast; and I met girth the Mowing as, proper Psalms, Lessons end Pray. era, et be used On that day: 1. batted of the Waite. intoorsdng prayer, the dity-Cuat Psalm. 2. Instead of the peeper Psalm forahe morning of that day oldie tnotith, the Sixth 13election 3. First Leisoa, butiah BeCond Lesson, St. Matthew vi. 4. Before the General Thanksgiving, the #rayit already pat girth to be used in the Diocese, Atha; toting suited for threateeed at the end of the Arai emusnce. ` • In the Ante•CoUILDIMIOLI Office, use thi:Epits. tle and Gospel for the Poo ~th. Sunday after TWaity, with thse3llowing . 0, Almighty God ! who, by the many instancti of mortality which encompass us on every sidei diet call upon as setiotody to consider the-short. nest of oar time hem upon earth, and remindelt as that in the midst of life we are in death, so teach us to number our days, that we mapapply oar haute unto wisdom. Give =grace to torn unto Thee with timely rii# penitence, and than to obtain, through the merino( our Saviour, that pardon today which tomorrow it may be too late to seek that ao being strength ened by Thy good *kit against the tutors Of death, sad daily advattaing is godliness, we, may at all times be ready to give up our souls into Thy hod, 0 grantons 4 Pother, in the hope of a blessed imosomahty,thexegh Jesus Chrim our Lord! 4.sre, (Signed,) A. Parma, • Bishop of the Diouesm.. Punelmunau, July 12th, 184% RLI7IOAD Oeuarron.--Qalte a serious eellladon Wok place yesterday between the freight train o n west, and the yammer train emnitig rad shoot et: Boles west of 'Kalamazoo. Two valuable engines were considerably injured, and the baggage au and two or three freight ears stove up. Two or three persons were slothdy ared. We andsostand- the accident mooned ;by the g yp rands, on the time of the passenger Detroit dim 'Fa Samoan lator--The boundary fine be - Mara theYnited Buttes and Canada, ran the ac cordance Witte the dshbutlon treay, cook the la kw of SOO mien in 18 montha For three hundred miles • path was cut *mash the forest 80 (net widei awl cleared of all trees. itt theendlif every mile tOs mat hum pillar, painted white, Innate, four Gres out of the groond, seuan inchcaisq_aare at the bouom, and bur at the top with Milted lit tem on Its 100,naminethe Commissioners Who PROM NEM, IfoBt . fronospordenee of dorPtOS/Oligiaratelto. . . Nrailtoix, Jab} 21;1949. Thetpes week has teen:bum:at at incident, and save the'converention about the Choler., we have had tittle to talk about. The decrease in the awn of,deathe within the peat km deyo has revived the hopes of many, that New York tas wen the winetef the mallawas, A gMtr southern merchants have returned to the 0 41 frrt the nonhani watering Placer, and have begotC to look round preparatory m.Making their Frames of goo,* and the all trade may be said to, have beguft. The Wyandotte eat large, and the Cooke of goods already ample, in all aaeor tr cleats. t& - Calhoun's manifeste against Col. Benton; vies received yesterday afternoon, and in the face of OW bet weather, has tieezitoogki over with a geed deal of feeling by,the presi The bitter ( hearing tone of Mr. Calhoun; sn his crammed Osatertipt of Col. Benton, do cot hel4his argument much hereq and the old Mitsooriare is not quite ' irhistiti`7d doWn pr wind 'yet., Theta is a strong and growing feeling here% at the e!it and north, that free soil is to be the rallying i*y of the neat gresidenttal campaign; and. that Ise who dares Opp= this principle emotive Ida de fe at. Mr. Calhoun's argument but strengthen 4 Mr. Benton's eution and people here - Vok to see Mr;Beaton the lottofixo nominee for the north th 1852. t3or 40010 of the . patriots who Were rifesed the pri. Same of serving General Taylor -in the Custom Boo*, have, of late, been extremely 'exercised" et the absence of a creed on the part of the old soldier—quite forgetting test the ' llison letter is the exponent of his views; The 'anxiety on the part Of a few ffinppointedoffice seekers has hero emplOyed by the locofeco pipers of this region to express serious doubts whether the iidministration I eon go on without their Itelp; but (heir labors are all in vain. Gen. Taylor, in fins Omani message. Will be foiled orthodox upon the teifr and internal imptovementa; and forittOr thou tfis. his opinions *re immaterial, Masi:melt an theia are no other pagers of general interest before the people, and ;the epinion of General Taylor a minter of no con- sequence just now.. The steam boat New World ha& at last made a pasikage to Albany that is fast, in the most rapid imeprudg ofilte term, as steed by team boat men. ',NMI landed her plasm:lora in Arany in eight hours and seventeen.minutes, *hiding all the stoPi.. To Poughkeepsie, she made the -row m three hours, rennin/ timd, or twenty five mike an hour, or twenty: bee per cent greater than is made on the call' roads of New England. In financial affairs dime la notttirig new to note. Abtindance of money can be had for almost any scheme, and tiro very =tall sec u rity. The large vial in government stacks has United the attention of capitalists to tail road boudira4 more lucrative investment. Within a feia daysi7oo,ooo of Erie lie* bonds have been taken at and none are to be had now so low: An attempt o now mak ing- by Mr. Samuel Jaudon, °Oche U. S. Bank mettuary, to break down this coktpaoy; but with Mile success. A road that will yarn 15900,000 for the current year, is not crushtd so easy when matuured by men who stood s 4 high as do the Erie Bail Road Dizettots. The news by the Caledonia received here this mom's/ Is looked upon as fairorable, because peacefuL For all American itapites the European Markets are goo d and as a mailer of course, we read of the mi litary movements abroad very calmly alter that. The improvement tat cotton, and the continued good demand for out bread stuffs, that new seem so probable, warrant; the oplmon that the rate of exchange during the fall imponatione will not be against us to an extent that will take off our coin; which ii the only Circumstance that coo cease any advance in the nee of interest over the present rate; thus asimon% an easy money market during the fall rind wintkt. C. : Far P4burga Ga-vas. The Wheeling Bridge. Khans. Ennuis-4 have reel a number of at. (Inlay in our own and the Wheeling pagers on the sulgect of this bridge, and bei the use of your columns to say a &sr words. But, in advance, I lamtdd muttinkly entreat the wheeling editors not to use such sparkling atit--such cutting satire— Mich terale threats, nn this vatiject—at least dur ing dog days. When the dog star ceases to r.ge, these ?iv writers may delight pen readers with such choice morsels, hut in mittcy spare them at present. The advocates of this attempt to °barna the free navigation of the Ohio Carer appear to be iniseicius of the 97.. sapless of Their arguments— (fence they do not attempt intrantively to show the policy and Itaportatec of aka obstructions. The entire biuthen ore:ten tong is that Pins hurgh ban already -spanned 4ie Allegheny and ,--- Monongahela rivers, and of cilium their mouths Must be shut. This does not imear to me robe a eon nequlater. At most, it daily applies to the few stock holders it these bridges, Which are Shout 1 out of every 51100 of our population. ' But on turning to the laws of Pennsylvania, I fled that both the bridge compass were charter ..a an - the 19th and: 20th day§ of Maven, 1810— 'newly ten years bikini the user of steamboats was known upon these liege= waters. These bridges had their aright long rim to 'steam bolds; which have had to accorMxodate themselves to these etedructions. What the rights of the stock holders ind public in thesehridges May be, 1 know not, nor do I care. Thlsl do know that the Ohio River is not the Monongahela —that 1810 is not igt9.--inn4 our bridges azri.'built in accordance with their charterm while Wheeling bridge is In palpable violation of itslnhatter. And when ever you point me toe city *Nome 100,000 inhabi 'tants, with a U S. Cusurelionse, nearly 5000 steam boat arrivals tumor ,ca rrying some forty Millions of dollars wroth of ght, upon the ripper branches of the Miinoestaheffie 'ver, then, but not till then, will Ladmit the for* of your argument. The Monongahela is a local ritteam, bridged under State authority—alickwaterqd under State so. thorny. The Ohio River is a:magnificent national highway, the boundary of sir-States of the Union, over which no °berm:lion at this kind ever has, and I hope never, will be permitted to be thrown. But the important question is not simply this Wheeling Bridge—but shall We permit this stream to be bridged at every point , A writer in your own paper a kw days since to defend this Wheeling Bridge because he wants a bridge fat Omen:matt. Now if Wheeling can build a bridge at an elevation of 92 feet—Cincinnati at ' 112 ket—'then Stenbenvilk may build at 70 feet —Parkeriburgh at 50. feet, apd Fishing Creek at 30 feetNowonderihat these interested In the trade of the Ohio, should be abirmed and aroused to action to repel inch an invasion of their rights. The state of Peonsylnuria Wiring expended some 30 millions of dollars In constructing works of in terest improvement, Ismuld tindeed, be foolish to permit her great feeder to be eat off. The city of Pittsburgh which numbers Mutually shoot .3,300 arrivals, and the same number of departures . of steam boats, at het Wharf, 'engaged itt• the Ohio river trade, would be indeed short sighted if she permits the foundation of her prosperity to be rm . detrained. • For ((this company, whose charter requires them w erect their bridge of sucka height that steam boats can pans on the highest thuds heretofore knOwn—can now say that Inch boats shell cut off 40 or 60 feet from their chhiineys—then other corn ' patties with tees liberal chM:7em may say that they shall have no chimneys at nil. If steam boat own ers have no ptOteCtiOn but &•tutt the caprice of to , cal interest will allow thenfi.then It is Woe they should know it, that as sours' their present boats are worn OM, they may see .: soma surer employ meat. Our Wheeling friends mg 4 as well understand the matter at once. The gain question at lame is not in regard to their bridge—that, if built, ran and sea At abated as a nossaa4tite first flood that ow. cum after its erection. Bat the steam beet intereits of the west want to know how tar the Gonna oF the United States will go, inMe preservation of the Ohio river to the en lite Union. In another paper,! may.netice some more of MO'. meanies. "FIIZE NAVIGATION." c==a=rms By the Prom Went ofthe Melted States. A ItEeIOhiIIMfGATION. At a season when the anvldened of God has manifested.ibell -in the vfahation of a fearful pea. tileoee, which is tipreadiegi, its ravages throughout the land, it is fining that itipeopla, whom reliance has ever been-on 11.14 Proqction, should humble themselves before His thritifte; and,whilo acknowl. edging past transgrassionsAsk a continuance of Dottie mercy. It is, therefore, eaniestlOicommended that the fins Friday to August be observed throtifhout the United Staten at a day OG - resting, humiliation and prayer. All billiado will he suspended In the vo rims brandies of the puldic service on that day; and it later-erne:leaded to persons of ell religious denoixmations to details, of tar as precticablefroco secular. occupatma, audio assemble to their ret spmtive places of public itionhip, to acknowledge the infinite goodness which has watched over our evidence as a nation, add so long crowned us with manifold bit:smogs; Slid to implore the Al mighty, in His own geodOme to stay the de stroying band which Is ticfai lifted op keeled us. TAYLOR. Hass 07 tug Crry—•Dur city, we are glad to nay, continues remarkablthealthy. It is now less visited with disease than. any other huge city of the Union, and we have every resume to believe that's will continue in thd same satisfactory con dition dining the season. riThe prediction of int • pending sickness which slew weeks ego were so generally made, have not thus far been realized; and notwithstanding they of pestilence in spired by the intutdationi we seem further than ever removed from tboti The many fine theories of misstate/ ingeences which have been put forth n the solution iif all hygienic questions appear to be It • fault In this instance, unless it be considered that the recent heavy and continued rains have so ellbetually itemoveli from our streets and Sewers the elements of corruption, that the atmosphere remains in itinormal state of parity. We believe it ia the gilicrally received opinion that rainy weather_ durinfthe summer exercises a favorable erect Upon tberbealth of the city- How. ever, It may - be Out fact ft. undoubted that at dal armour New . ime tarzni the score usyof freedom . Aroal da m , as. dialmtAt' re.idance es n yv,v . " --- • Illltassotem - The following is the second of a series amens on this territory, said, by the Washington Repub lic, in which they-appear, to be' by a 'gentleman of distinguished literary fame, who has done more to unfold the riches of the West than almost soy one since the days of Mr. Flint." Meteorological observations, made at Forts Snelling' and Atkinson, For man ,yearn . Indicate a highly favorable climate. At the latter post, the maximum heat, for the months of May, June, July, and August, 1848, wns 82, SEI, 84. and 81 degs., respectively; the mean temperature, during the same months, being, In their order, 63, 85, 71, and 62 dega, and the minimum 36,47, 51, raid 51 dogs. Thunder chewers are frequent in those latitudes, and even on the higher tributaries of the Atltssissip pi. The amount of free electricity is thought to produce local currents which mitigate the sultriest days. Thirty seven inches of rain fell at Fort Ats kinson to 1848. • By observation made at Sandy Lake in July, 1820, (vide Sehoolerafts Nar. Jour., Pub. Ex., p. 2880 the maxim heat at that high point is shown to be 90 deg.; and the mean temperature between the 17th and 24th pith. month 73 deg., which is a hula higher than the entire monthly average heat in 1848 at Fort Atkinson, lying some four hundred man, atmospherically, south. Probably the entire month would sink the northern average a couple of degrees, leaving it 71 deg. and showing a re workable equallity of summer temperature over a very wide range. - V°they appears to have been the drat observer to notice the prevalence of a valley current from the tropical latitudes up the Mhaissippi—a remark in which he is sustained at later dates by Dr. Drake and Dr. liildreth. it is evident, from the scur ty materials we possess, that this gulf current does not spend its force until it hae wellnigh reachedthe soothers terminus of the Itasca summit. It is Cer tain that the extreme upper Misaissippi escape. those icy winds from liodsoit's and Soda's bays, which are often felt, during the spring months, in northern Michigan anknorthern Wisconsin. The same lantirdes which cross the lake country give a milder climate in the valley of the upper Mis tissippl. One of the causes of this phenomenon', has probably been noticed above. Others will I doubtless be found by n scientific scrutiny of its ' I meteorology. Longivity mutt characterize a country without fevent or congestion. Surgeons, who have been stationed at the military posts of Mimosas and the upper Mississippi, generally give a very favorable view of its diseases - had their diagnosis under the effects of the climate. ' Malignant fevers seldom or' never originate, in these longitudes, north of latitude I 44 deg. it is also well known that the cholera, which in • single instance, in 1832, was carried by steam boat as high as latitude 46 deg., did not spread at that sanitary point, namely, Michilimackmac, but wen confined south of the general latitude of 43 deg. to 44 deg., which Is, according to the late Dr. Forrey, very nearly the northern isothermal line. Both Greco Bay on the east and Prairie du Chico on the west of Wisconsin escaped its ravage. 8o far, however, as fevers and malignant diseases' have been locally compared, there is a decided tecidenc a t to pass the lake latitudes in the Missis aiPlrrli v th bauhe of the Mtssiuippi, the boun daries of Minesota, are quite elevated. This ele vation is rocky and often precipitous, at the river's brink, as high as St. Anthony's falls. Above that point, which is, according to Nicolett, in latitude 44degs. 58ea. 445. a succession of elevated plains, with forests of the drift stratum, come m and char acterize both banks, in for up as Sandy Lake, and, with intermissions, quite to the &Ls of Puckaguma. The consequence of this elevation is, that its wa ters, which reveal themselves abundantly in pore springs, lakes, and streams, flow into the iSiLuis aippi with rapid Currents and cascades, which present numeroas seats Gar hydraulic works. At these works, the pine forests of Mine:soh may be readily converted into lumber to supply the cen tral and lower portions of the MutsirsippL The falls of St. Croix the Chippewa, and other tributary &Creams, have already been occupied, in put, with sock works. At the falls of St. Anthony, where the Miartasippi drops sateen and a half feet perpendicular, with strong rapids above and below, its tamer may be thrown, by a series of mill canals, upon almost any amount of machinery. This point, which is distant nine hundred miles above St. Irtuis, and two thousand miles from the Gulf, is the true head of steam boat navigation, and roust become an important manufacturing city and point of transhpment. In a future slate of the -outur7, L.sets of moderate knows may be be' above the ftdls to run, during the freshet's, as high as Cdmtognma, or Sandy Lake, Pnekadumk. — They may also mean the De Corbean to the month of Leaf river. AlOOl. The 3L Louis Republican, of /hip 17, gives the following Items Burrito Bones—The weamera St. Croix and Mustang arrived last evening from the Missouri nver, bringing down about twelve hundred packs of Buffalo Robe., consigned principally to the firm of P. Chautan, Jr., 8t Co. A party of ...ono tam trappers, in the employ of the American Fur Company, came passengers. Faux Comm Buirsis=The steamer Mustang, from Council Bluffs, reached port last evening.— Her ofE.ens inform us that when they hat the Bluffs, a Mormon train of about bur hundred wa gons was crossing the river, preparatory to taming out to the Great Balt Lake City. The Missouri river is reported rising slowly from the Bluffs down. CALTRIMIL DICKII 11 01.1:1.4 on iu Mrs- coots.—We are indebted to • friend, Mr. W. L Parvin, who arrived yesterday on the steamer Mustang, tot the hallowing items The Calitornia emigrants are getting along very well. Grass on the plains has been abundant, ow ing to the numerous rains. The companies beyond Fort Laramie have suffered but Little from richness, bot the remainder, upon the name route, have bad the cholera and small pox among them—some of them to a conaidemble extent. The cholera mill prevails in several or the towns on, and in the vicinity of the Missouri river. Dr. Cook, formerly of St. Louis, died at St. Joseph on Tuesday last, of Cholera. There were bur or five deaths al Kansas, and two at Lndeperidenos, du ring the week ending on Friday,l3th. In the vicinity of Camden, the Cholera la raging with great violence. Eight persona we reported to have died in one house, within tarty-eight hams. 'he simmer MOll/130 lost seven passengers, on whom diedi at Lextagto. Her pasaeogers mere nearly all soldiers, bound for Fort Leavenworth.— At Waverly, shout twenty-fits deaths had occur red during M. last three weeks, end most of the uchablumui had left for the country. At Brururarialt, on Friday, there were mix deaths; on Saturday, up to four o'clock, four, and seve ral dangerously ill. At Arrow Rock, on Saturday morning, there ware three cases sad one death.. Six Mackinaw boats, belonging to the American For Company, and laden with buffalo robes, had arrived at St. Joseph from Forts Benton, Union, and Laramie. . . The river was rising at Gonna Biafra, on a stand at St. Joseph, and falling at Sibley, and all the way down. TER HAVIGNITION 09 HUNGARY, we stated 11 kw days ago, wee the subject of memorial, embod ied in a resolution passed at a public meeting held in New York city some few weela since, and ad dressed to the President of the United Slates.— The Secretary of State has retained the knowing answer to one of the officers of the meeting in question: Sir I am requested by the President to acknow ledge the receipt of your letter to him of the 9th in stant, and the printed account of the proceed ings of the meeting of the Hungarians and others In New York. Thew proceeding. had not eacaped attention. The government and people of this country are profoundly interested In the events which are now passing in Hungary, and all information calculated to throw light upon the picsent struggle between that oountry and Austria and Russia, cannot fail 10 be welcome. It is the policy and practice of the United States to recognise all governments which exhibit to the world convincing proofi of their power to main tain themselves. If Hungary al:mains herself in this oarstnal contest, there is no reason why we should not recognise her Independence Congress, It is believed, would sanction such a measure, and this government would bia most happy in that event, to enter into commercial en well as, diplomatic relations with independent Hungary I run, respectfully, your obedient servant, Joan M. CLArron. A Pour. 81/IL94l7.—Makslog Au Neud Con foreabts.heriff Sumner was remarkable for his great attention to mutters of etiquette. Naming could make him forgot his natural politenenw, and at times this quality WSJ extended when it bad most ludicrous effect. Towards criminate he was extremely polite, and on one occasion, when an unfortunate prisoner was to be executed, the sheriff, with that kindnen of heart which was one of his prominens characteristics, paid every at tention to the culprit which his dreadful illtuation seemed to require, and when the poor fellow was led upon the scaffold, and the rope had been ad justed, Mr. Sumner inquired in the most friendly . manner—. "Does the knot suit you, girl" "Yes, I don't know but it does," lard the pris onez. If I could make it more comfortable to you, I should be extremely happy," said the sheriff.— "Will pan do me the great favor, when you are ready to drop your handkerchief'!" "I haeld got any handkerchief," said the prirr oner. "Oh! came me. Will you oblige me by making use of mine for the occasionT' The handkerchief was accepted and the black cap was drawn over toe doomed man's head. Af ter a short time the handkerchief was dropped.— Mr. Sumner cut the cord, and as the body drop ped down, he raised his bat from his head and goad with a most polite bow, and bland mile, .Good morning, bit !" datutosios.—Letter , from California to the 91st of May have been received in thin city from a di. tinguished offirnr of the umy stationed on the Pacific. They represent that the excess agenda beyond the demand in great, that labor is still warm and that 4,000 penguin who came from Sonora, are working the MUMs on the San Joachim river. A motor had reached California that Congress `had established a tumulus' government, In an amendment to the Civil and Diplomatic Bill. Great 'bmbarrasament wag apprehended in the civil affairs of the territory, if it should turn out that the rumor was false, and that Congress had failed to legislate on the subject —Wash:sem _ _ From do Notional Ininthirencer. We bedfast right of our old idea Major Dows ing ao . king that we were quithsetreelted on Sat urday by the receipt of a letter betrigig his well known wtheracuipuon. Oar readmit, we are tare, will be equally glad to hear from the wrathy Major again, although he Wall dates from that region, the terror of politicians, Salt River. His letter will be found In another column, and we have only to hope that if our neighbor of the Union should be disposed to tale exception to the freedom of the personal address, the honest advice and good In- tentions:of the Major may plead ha excuse. I=l Hie➢ OP SALT Mrs*, July 18,1849. Dear Mr. Bitehie—l can't keep from writing to you no longer. I must say we are getting most out of patience rip here in thin Salt river territory and are beginning to feel a good deal dirappoitited to think Gineral Taylor is balding on to the f'mi idency so locg. I was in hopes alter you conchi. dad to stay down there to Washington and fight the battip out, that you would have routed him -out by tHis time, and gin our party n chance to come back strain. Not that I've got any thing Gineral Taylor, and I don't say but what he'. a clever sort of a man enough, and foul well in Mexico; and I don't know but he and the folks round him is carrying on the Government all , smooth and regular. But all that's nothin' to the pint. The whole nub of the argument Is, they've got our places, and we want 'em. This Salt river country is a tiresome place to stay in. And we've been walling here now - ppumber of months, hoping you would upset the whole apple .cart of the Administration and give us all a fair chance to pick up the fruit. But we've been disappinted. I don't see so you are any nearer getting Gineral Taylor out of office than you was three months ago. We've had a number of meetings up here about it, and talked the matter over, and some of our friends are quite put out with you about it, and ding out about your being old, and lost your spunk, and don't fight with the grit you used to. I took your part strong, and told 'cm 'twin no rich a thing; if you was older than you used to be, you was toff as a pitch non yet, and had as much grit in .you as ever, and only wanted rousin to make you fight like anger. They finally agreed if I would write to you and stir you up, so as to make you come down upon the Administration hot and heavy, no though you meant to do some thing, they'd be patient a little longer. But If not, they'd kick the "Union" over, and take up another organ for the party. I asked theit how they thought they could bettor themselves by that, and where they thought they could find an organ to be compared with the Union? Why," says Bill Jones, nye he,"we'll take the Salt River Herald" ItaL" says I," you know the Salt River Her ald can't hold a candle to the Union for reapecta- 0 doe% care Dm that," nye he, "the Herald is a smarter paper; it can tell two lies to the Union'. one week in and week oat, and pm a sting in the tail of every one of 'em." "Well, I tint egoing to brag." nape I, "about the Union's talents for hat,Mn fibs, but there's one thing you ought to remember, the Horrid& are alevar icemen's, whilst the Unsaa's far an al. Far well good to; and you know, according to the old sayin, which is considered worth the most." I think I rather got ahead of Bill In the argument here, far be couldn't answer me a mord. And now, my dear Mr. Ritchie, you see what sort of • pickle we are In, and I hope you will spunk up and pat your best Gam forward; go at the Adinkilatra- Bon in arrest; take hold of 'em like • catamount, and give 'em sick a clawing that they'll be glad to clear out in a hurry, and let our party come in and have the rights again that have belonged to us this twenty years. Now, I doot want to find fault nor complain ; you know it aint my cater. Bat I most soy I think you have been quite too mane a long bark, and too mealy-mouthed, so if you was afraid to speak out your mind. The fact Is, you ' mast go at Gineral Taylor in teal arnum He's the head of tba Administration, and you know if we can cut the head off the critter's dead. Bat you moat give harder blows than any you have used yet. I doot deny bat what you have need some considerable smut arordallowards him; I don't deny bat what you've called him a.:"dolt" andla "chest," and "a tad," and "a mere cypher." and "a dis• grace to the country." and "an imbecile, ignorant tyrant:" and "a whitened repulehre," and a man who "is disgracing himself," and "a (=Lion of a man:" and "an eighth part of the Cabinet," and "the dy upon ncoach wheel," and "a butcher,"and "a Nero," and "a Moloch," and "a Cyclops," and sick a like. But all of this dont amount to nothim. It's only pen tuidgio a man in the nba with your el bow, when you ought to up fist and kuo-k him bead over heels. If you really mean to do any thing, it wont do to nand minion woods ht this soft kind of way. Yon must pot dui blow• on with a sledge-hammer. Instead of calling him • dolt you oh told call him • nateral bon fuel. In stead of allowing him to be a eighth part of • man. you abound swear right up and down (that is.. If you ever do swear) that there Isn't • particle ofthe hair or hide of a matt about hint. Talk up in that kind of way, and our party would begin to take courage, and feel as if there was some hopes for 'em yet There's ace thing that's very important, and I are you feel very anxious about it and that is, that we should get Glneral Taylor out somehow oroth er on the Wilmot pttlyieo. It's • shame and die ' rte_l:dhia. Ziometh.'.l7.7.lhthttjtrem ect t.Amat you will be able to wenn some way or other to get it out of hem; but I krone is a shank wt. ter. Cousin Nabhy seed to have it way dgetting tenets oat of folks when they was asleep, about their oven and soon . I believe she used to do it by stealing into the roots slyly where they was asleep, and holding a lookingilus over their face, and whisper's.' to 'eta, and they would ans wer any question she asked 'ern. Now, if you esold catch Gime! Tayliii asleep somewhere, or if you could get one of the terms of the White bloom to catch him asleep eametimea, and hold • I.lring-glass over his face, and whisper to him and ask him whether he is fir er agar the Wfi• mat proviso, probably the secret would he out, and our party would be safe. It makes not • pin'. difference which side he comes out on; we can fight him as well one way as 'lather. The only thing to to get him out. Wb are ready to head him on both tacks. If be comet out for the proviso, we can run him doom with Ginral Cast; and if he come out nen the proviso, we an run him down with Col. Benton. But IT he dont come out at all, I'm afraid we can't nut him down with nobody. Now, do try and do your beat to get him out on the proviso, for you see bow important it is. So I remain your patient bat rather hungry friend, MAJOR JACK DOWNING. FAMILY Poison - to—ln the !Benz= of yester day, a most alarming report was spread in the vicinity of Sixth and Chesnut streets, that the en tire family of Mr. Brush, the keeper of a gentle men's ready made linen store in Sixth street, be. low Chesnut, had been poiaoned. From tho per- Ocean we have gathered, it seems that a mix ture of flour with arsenic had been made in mistake for amiantus into cakes for dinner, of which Mr. Brush, wife. and all inmates of his house partook, and in about an hour after eating them, they were all seized with vomiting and violent pains. Dr. Bryan, their physician, was Immediately called in, and did every thing that lay in his power to alleviate the sufferings, and save thisfive• of the su ff erers. ' The calms were afterwardhi analyzed by Dr. Durand, the chemist, who detected arsenic therein. Up to a late hoer last evening, the whole fam ily, we are pleased to state, were doing well,and all considered out of danger. The arsenic bad been lyylng on a glair in a paper, unlabelled,near where the saleratus was kept, which caused the mistake. We hope this almost atal occurrence may prove a warning to those families, who keep arsenic in their houses, without any mark of die. Unction upon IL—Phil.a. Jay., July 20. The Union quotes a passage from a letter pub• BMW in the Baltimore Clipper asserting that he heard with his own ears, Gen. Taylor proclaim, In the presence of a number of penons mumbled at the White House: "I am for good roads, good harbors, and good lame; and then we can go ahead." Our contemporary gives us a criticism upon them words, from which we infer that this style of plain, straight kirsiord remart is something too homely for Democratic ears. Fir our Irvin put, we approve both the sentiment and the phraseol ogy of the President. They ore good enough for us. The Union prefers the circumlocution and rbetarteof their last Administration on these sub jects, which reduced to vulgar English would reed thns.--"Mve no bad toads, bed !muter', and had Ism, and then we can go backwardt."— Washusg ton Reppnblw. Carmen's Ismnerr.—An inquest was held, near the foot of Cherry meet, on the 13th inst., on the body of Mary Adeline Winggester, found dead in • lumber yard. She was lately from Pittsburgh. She left two smell was. The jury rendered a vv. Uol that she came to her death by Cholera—St. Louis Timm, July 17. Pinnate Loren • Eleamt—Prepared by J. W. Rally William street N. V, and for sale by A. Jaynes, NO. 70 Fourth street This will be found* delightful arti cle of beverage in (Wadies, and particularly for sick rooms. Hamaa.—An improved Chocolate prepara tion, being a combination of Cocoa Mit; innocent, la- Mgorating and palatable, highly meaguneuded para. tamely for invalids. Prepared by W. Baker, Dorehe. ter, Maga., and for mile by A. JAVNM, at the Pears Tao Store, No. 70 Fourth at mehla Piro dud 111drlete Insursdaee.—Tax Prt+t 'moo Norma:too axe FM Ixernasex Caerearr-.- chartered 1223—eontiooes to insure, upon every de scription of property u etr kneed neut. Orvics, No. 21 blaiket greet. SAMUEL GIORBILY, Preet. Romer Fewer, See). mybelem Improvements In Dentlstzy DR O. 0. BTEARNB, lain of Boston., is prepared to masefactare nod set Sioux Tarra in whole and parts of sets, upon Section or Annospherie Section Plarea- 6 ToOIIIACUI CIiIIES IN 7191 ININDTZS, N•here the nerve Is exposed. Office and residence next door to the May ore office, Fourth street, Pittsbergi, Rana M'Fadden, F. H. EC= )al➢ JOB paurruia. DILL HEADS, CARDS, CIRCULARS, Manifrits, Bib Lading, Contrimb,. Law basis, 11.011, arLhoi, L•EXIA, cWITICATII*CII2C., townie, da. &e., Printed at the shortest notim at law prices, Wage del9 6 ancrrs Onurr, Twin rrnxe. W. M. Wright, E. Do, Dentist, Omni and rettidance on Fmt.rth sc r oppootut the PlUsborgh Bank, OfEcts (lttloam Loan from &clock lb 19 A M.. and from I cedoc kto P. M. oonl4-11 yo ICS-3 domes Carolina, to strivig to r sale by 1720 onariT, V7e;ilbet ottilertigned,ldereltiate at tillegbeng VarsPes &PM at 7 detect, P. M . en SUM thosiiist day_ of August, 1919, asTazeall CM= Further We do p'edgo ourselves to adhere firmly to this aitireeurthet, until a majority of us, shall have agreed to make this agreement mill and void. IMMO Was Hobson, Pratt k, Heaney, W. Hiekenbonum. aaoa Dral.X.S. Olt GOODS •• • • A. M. Mankell, Jan De., AL Connolly, Z. iff"Diilte:,' James print, Jo bs Parker, F. R. Moore, alter Glass, J. D. Chambers, A. M`L•art, T. T Alylrr, r, Peter ter Nathan Muting, L. Winn:lab, R. M. Rhoads, John A. White Mance& Wilson, Menu.. 8T011.13. J. S. Rumen, John hrGratty, F. Vanhorn, James Cowling, Wm. Wilson A Co., Edward Cowling, G. R. Atlanta W. & T. Cutler, J. Copeland, Kaufman & Gering , Gordon A Rafferty, George Spangler, John Vickery, James M. W. Conner, Wm. Dawson. N. 13.—1 n •ccordanee with. the above agreement, we would respectfully invite the public to make then. purchases before that hour. W. Monson""' / c s . o ,• t C. BUTS. .". = Allegheny, July 21, 1842.—ijy211-d3e On Wednesday mending, July 25th, at his residence on Oran, between Fifth and girth street.. Watts* gravamses, Jr., in the siztytfirst year of his age. lit. Ideas, and those of the Madly, are invited to attend his funeral, from his late lesidence, this day, at 10 o'clock. - GEORGE HUHN, by calling at my °Mao mid pay ins charges, will receive a Box containing vain able dfaboinas, Book., do., dc. GEORGE B. MILTENBERGER, iY26 No. b 7 Prom n. 20 fi.. e d b ;Vinier Strained Lard W. & R. aI'CUTCHEON, iY26 No. L 52 Liberty wee. 67 'd.',o'rs.L7.; /TM No Dhl Liberty street. _ WANTED—A good compositor at this office. SUGAR - 1 hhds. strictly prime , for sale by 0 trid C. H. GRANT, No. 4l Water sr MACKEREL-100 bbls. Largo No 3, hlessachusetes ',location, to arrive; for sale by C. IL GRANT. EMPIRE MINSTRELS, OULD tender their sincere thanks to the citizens VV of Putaburgb for their very liberal patronage the past ftHREE WEEKS, and beg tense to announce that they willentettain their friends et APOLLO HALL, Ttiußsper Evs3, JULY 'IA On which mouton new Bong., new Dances, he. he. will be inundated. Doors open at 74—Concert to commence at 8. ay . Ticket. SS cents. von GRIMM WOOD GARDENS The .team boat A MASON now tons from the Point, foot .s of Liberty street. to the Gar. • al—leaving at 9 o'cloek. A. M., and at the beginning of euh boor untll 9 P. M. Visitors may rely on finduth the boat at the hoot. She leaves the Garden, the last up trip, at 10 o'clock The season is fast advansing,..d those wishing to visa this delightful retreat, now Is the time to !wend a few hours, not in the smoke and dust of the WY, bun° pare atmosphere, perfumed with the fragrance of dower*. All kinds of refreshments, except intoxleasing drinks, are kept on the mouses. Greenhotsse Plants, and Bouquets of choice dowers for sale. Closed en son. day. /5 1,3 JAMES hl.ll.All'S Oa-Change of landing made on account of low wa ter. Cheap Dry Goods. W BO WANTS Natquito Bars for 62 i cents. T T Heavy Brown ?dueling for 41 " Extra " " " 0 ''' Vllleaelied " " 5 " Superior Ai " Parsaalese M 0 Calle'oes 9 0 Good quality, do " Moue de Lein. 12 " Gingham. " 10 '. Alonzo. " Lel ` ED,. do. ~ 43 " Bilk and Wool Berme. " 199 . Cotten & " e " 11 '. Bonnet Ribbons e " , Good quality Kid Glove." 37 " • Coolants MI " Broad Clothe 0 11,211 A. A. MASON A CO. have Goods at prices named snare. Call soon no the only cheep one mice store, 1 CO Market Mite.l..lTO ILTEAV rOOKßo—Bosthey's Common Place Book, 111 edited by b 1 son-to-Dm, John Hood Harlon, D. D. Abbate. thstory of hallos C 0..?, with eassarints. JOHNSTON k STOCKTON'S, ear Mark. and Third s DAMES' NEW NOVEL — The Woodman! AIP nsanee of the times of Riehard by G. I'. R James, Esq. Just marred by JOUNSTON tr. STOCATON, jr4 ass Malta and Ttiirdats, Bittisla nre. I. The London Quarterly Review, 2. Thn Edinburgh Review, The WterMo33