gOsiertenient, under the name ef the Northwestern Ter
ritory. I shell not stop a:lsring before you the inci
ibutta of a feontier life, nor the difficulties and privations,
awl - sufferings, in peace and in war, by which the forest
acquirca and reclaimed, and finally subdued. Du
tingmanv years this legion lind it full share of troub
..:u. Th e !inn of ;,oar rental was a Woad: - scar path,
which ha; seen d ee dhorror. And this peace.
ful town lid 4 had its Moloch, and the record: of human
depravity furnish no mnute terrible examples of cruelty
tbs were offered at hi: sin The lliami Indian`,
casters iu Ilia occupation of tln, had
institution, whose origin and ohje7ts have been
'iostit , the-darkuess of aboriginal his Lory, but which was
Onatinued to a. late period, but whose orgi.??, were held
upon the very spot where we know are. It called'
the 3,llPi l eating Society, and it was the duty of its as.
soeiates to eat such prisoners as were preserved and de-
BlitiniCtOthem fell that purpose. The members of this
longed to a particular family, and the dread
- frlTMe.'ritance descended to all the children, male and
Th;t, duties imposed could not be avoided, and
tLe sanetleas of reli:tion were added to the obliptiona
of itrunemorable usage. The feast was a solemn cot:c
-um:44;la which the whale tribe was collycted, as actors
isritematora. The mi , oralite victim was bound to a
stake, and burned at a ,:0-.v fire, with nil the refine.
itnints of einclry, which sa-a:o ing - ennity could invent.
There was a :raditionary ritual, N% 'Melt reeulated with
revolting precision, the whole cour-a , of procedure at
thew ceremonies. Latterly, the v and obliea•
tiatis of the institution had declined, and presume . it
Bestow wholly disappeared. But I have seen and con
veined with the head of the family, the chief of the So
ciety,. whose nalfic• White Sida. With what feel
ings sifilhigust, I need not attempt to describe. I well
know =intelligent Canadian, who was in -es - hut fit one
- . Ur the Inst sacrifices made to &ii .. horrible institution.—
' to victim war. a young Anieriean, captured in Ken
_ tucky. during the revolutionary war. Here, where we
MI twat assembled in peace and security, celebrating
did triumph of art and ind.Ltry. within the memory of
the present , : . ,, elwration , t_otr countrymen have been tine
tortured, and devoured. But, thank God, the council
Weis extinguished. The impion feast is over.
Nswsr po ts—A c o temp orary say::
- "The newspaper may he de.-oroyed at night; it nriy
light a cigar, or it may curl a lady's hair; but the
thoughts that arc in its 110111M11,; may influence ten thou
sited. for good, and produce effects which volumes of
ensup, sermons or narratives, could never roduce,and
espetiallY where they could never reach." To this,
another Journal, edited by a bachelor of course, adds the
following rhapsody:—"The very thought of one's lucu
bration:9 nestling down at night among the ringlets of a
mein girl, keeping watch over her midnight slumber:,
as welia‘ curling her hair, is enough to infuse poetry
into the pt,., and make the ink n. it traces along the
sheet, fra.gryn with ..entimlnt."
. Mon.u_s OP P 11%; EUROPEAN Cl' —On the Con
tinent of Europe the example of the "nobi.ity" and the
"higher classes" upon their inferiors is of such a char
*der, that there is not a large city on the Continent,
*bete the illegitimate births do not equal the legiti
mate. In Vienna, the average excess of illegitimates
is about 500. In Munich, 253; this year, 271. In
Warsaw the proportion is still greater. In Stockholm
they are about equal. In Rome, Bologna, aLd Naples,
the proportion is still greater.
KrA boy in Commy, Mass., aged about II years,
killed a catamount, a few days since. He took it to
boa =coon, and his dog being of like mind, lost his
life by making too close an a:7quaintance. This is the
eemmtappenranc , , , of this animal in the vicinity of Con
way Within a few years.
AN ACTUAL PIGNII
- .
::;,the London Literary' Gazette, of May, 1824, con—
Lateen description of a female dwarf, oven more extra
°s lina*in diminutiveneql of size. than Tom Thumb:
name was Craeliami, a Sicilian: by birth, and
itt the thee she was exhibited is London (May,
1824) e n s within a few months of being ten years
The writer in the Ghti tie s, "seeing isbeliev
log," aria unless lie had actually seen her, lie could not
have credit...l so extraordinary a variety in human nrt
pare. Ile 311 p, "It is impossible to describe the mu m .
ele of her appearance, or it.; effect upon the mind. To
iecratioality, sportiveness, intelligence, all the facui ties
oChumanity, in a being so inconeeiveably below the
standard at whi.;ll we have ever .+ them, so over
was all previous impressions, that even with the fact
tiefor e us, we doubt the Q . :id:race of our senses. A tol
- sized doll, acting and speaking, would nut aston
t* us so mech; for natux i. in this instance, far more
wonderful than art could be. Oaly imagine a creature
ebout half as large as a new born infant; perfect in all
puts and lineaments, uttering words in a strange, tnt
eltrtlfly vo'.ce, understanding whatyou say, and reply
iris topper clues; 4)llst—imagine, I say, this figure of a
lxianinetecia inches in height, and five pounds in weight
and you have some idea of this extrierdinary phenom
enon. And the more you look, the more you reflect,
tine more incredible it appears that this can be real.—
But true it is; here is the fairy of your superstition in
actual life; here is the pigmy of ancient mythology
*tight down to your own day; the expression of her
countenance varies with whatever affects her mind, (for
OA my faith, there is a mind and soul in this diminutive
frame !) her beautiful tiny hand (for the fore-finger of
whieh,"the ring of a very small shirt button would be
clinch too vide,) has all the motions and graces which
aro found in the same member of a lovely woman; she
threatens, she displays her fondness for finery, she likes
her drop of wine, she shows her displeasnre, she choos
e" and rejects; in fine, she is as perfect as a common
child of the same age. Her walk is rather tottering,
and her voice (as I have said) very remarkable. Her
gem* appearance is not unpicasing, though there is a
little of the sirnia in the form of the features, her health
is good, and her body, limbs, &c., are complete.
took her up, carressed and saluted her; and it was most
laughable to see her resent the latter freedom, wiping
her cheek, and expressing her dislike to the rough chin.
BM, her great antipathy is to doctors; these have offen
ded her by examining he too minutely; and whenever
they are mentioned, she doubles her filbert of a fist and
manifests her decided displeasure. Of her trinkets she
seems very proud, taking off herring to show it, and
pointing to her ear-rings with the joyous exclamation
of "very pretty;'—for she has learned a little English.
AN ACT OF GRATITUDE.
The Noticioso de ArnbosMtualos relates thata young
Spanish Surgeon, named Hurtado, after the battle of
Ocana, undertook the care of a Pole who was danger
ously wounded in that battle. He dressed his numer-
CHU wounds and conducted him to Madrid, where he
3113 received into die house of a lady named Luja. This
IMY.snd Hurtado were aseiduous in their attentions to
the wounded soldier, so that, contrary to expectation,
he recovered, and took his departure with the warmest
CIE pressioas of gratitude to his benefactors. The Po
• lish soldier proved to be the Prince Brownowski.—
This Prince lately died at Warsaw, and in his will be
queathed to Sr. Hurtado, who had become one of die
first physicians in Spain, a legacy of 50,000 francs, and
td* Scuora Luja a like sum, in crateful acknowledge
nitent on his part, of f,:orvicTs which they regarded as
the mere discharge of a datv. Hurtado lately pass
through Bayonne, on his way to Warsaw, for the pur
pope of receiving payment of the legacy.
'rrAn iron 531 . 4.! with watches and jewelry worth
$3OO and secatities for morn - , stolen from Elijah
Braman's store, hi Warren, It. I. on Monday night—it
issupposed tr ; two nlen o: ho went off in a boat about
m t.
. The Phila. Forme has received from Ports
mouth, 0. a bottle containing three anler, a third crop!
JEFFERSON, THE COMEDIAN.
The rennsyh•anian, in noticing the tribute of respect
paa tad., .2,3,..-rnory of thi= distinguished actor mention
:din our /Lit, thus eulo 7 i7es hi., public :march-ate char
acter:
"Na,theatrical performer ever enjoyed, or marked,
greater popularity in chi; country than Joseph Jeffer
son; but it was nut only on the stare thathe was a re
marittitlelnam His dramatic excellence is known to
all; Nil btunor was it-resist:lWe, and it was m-rely be
cause the public would hay.: Jefferson to make them
laugh. that his other powers were not mere frequently
..eauteistxl. He had all the qualitles.tion3 necessary in
vocalist—he-raijit have been distittrui.tln:d in char
aptersof apathetic cat.ure, and hehad talents a pain
ter, which could have beea turndd to advantage. But
apiattlfrum the getaiities which conieine to insure sue
eau ivapublic carrel., Joseph Jetrr•rr•on, as a man, had
distinguishing:traits not often met with in any walk of
=inane., end perhap from u-avoidable eirctunsmn
cesoaillteare rarely among tic vratz.rlei of Tbespis
th.rtelttargehert. wa, oie of spotless
tiegirlikami,griwrioimimiiiiimamomoilmiimiaeid
purity—he was not only honest, honorable, and
guileless himself, but vils so imbued with integrity that
he could not bci incluivtrto harboi the slightest doubt or
suspicion of otters. Even when wronged, deceived,
and na.vL to under those bitter experiences which
render as di it ru Itful, his aiiiiabi.ity would sozgest pall
ado'', for the particular ca.3e in whlch he might hate
b een ry r , ( l. r the victim, while hiN Oneral reliance on the
good n e.:ri af hunt in ant ,tre:r.tratained unshaken. Being
free f r , an evil iniptft.,e6 in biz, own heart, he could not
believe in their exi,aenc-, and he was as much beloved
by those around him, as he was admicNiby the public.
It is gratifyin to that the last rvrtsting place of such
a man is to be appropriately marked."
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAS. BUCHANAN,
Subject to the decicion of
THE DEMOCRATIC NATIOSAL. COSTENTION
Milt) Morning Poet.
PHILLIPS EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS
PITTSBURGH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1843
'The Gazette either purposely or stupidly as
sumes, that our remarks exposing the political dishon
est,: and hypocrisy of the blue 110 Se leaders, were made
under the impression that the power of Antimasonry
, va : very great, nod that something must be done to
enuntemet its wonderful influence. Nothing in our ar
ticles would warrant such an inference; we know as
well as Deacon White, that the glory of Antimasonry
has departed, and that their present is the last despe
rate effort of the leaders, to unite together its broken
frn,gmertts, and to postpone its utter dissolution until af
ter the October election. Our principal object in noti
cing it at this. time, was rather to point a moral, and to
hold up as a warning and a beacon the course of the An
timasonic party, and the causes that have contributed
to its overthrow.
The Deacon denies that he is a mason; he says that
ten years since he relinquished his allegiance to the
Lodge, but forgets to tell the public that he never made
it known until he, like other masons, commenced spec
ulating in antirnasonry, and it was then reluctantly
wrung from him through our effort.,, seconded by the
attacks of his brother of the American. But turning
state's evidence has been oflittle service to him; the an
timasons will not trust him; the sneaking way in which
he came into their party, and his reluctance to cut loose
from the Lodge, has convinced them that he associates
with them only for the plunder and spoils he expects to
realize from their success.
The parallel he draws between the patriotism of
Washington, and the conduct of a mason who turns
state's evidence under the "most suspicious circumstan
ces," is a piece of sacrilegious audacity that we did not
suppose even Deacon White to be capable of; and to
compare his mercenary services in the cause of Alaimo..
saucy with those of the "father of his country" against
the tyranny of Great Britain, must shock the mind of
the most callous political pander.
That the "antimusonic yeomanry of old Allegheny
are aroused" we fully believe; but they are only aroused
to the infamous manner in which, for the kit fifteen
years, they have been swapped and traded round for
the benefit of a city clique, and are now determined not
tk:, permit adhering masoni, or those to whom the dust
of the lodge is still stiehing, to drive thorn any longer.
MAJOR NOAH AND THE PREiIDENT.—It will be re
membered that Major M. M. Noah, of New York, was
one of the first prominent whips of the country to de
clare for Presidmt Tyler—to cut loose from the coons,
and range himself on the side of the administration. He
established a paper in New York, for the purpose of
aiding Mr. Tyler, and resigned his judgeship, in order
to devote inure time to its management, and to make it
more effective. Notwithstanding all this, Major Noah
failed to procure what be sought at so many sacrifices, a
profitable post under the General Government. Cr: :he
influence.' which defeated the :Major's application, we
know nothing; certain it is that men of less talent and
politital influence have obtained places with half the
exertion he fruitlessly made to obtain one. Perhaps it
witz the want of confidence in his firmness that defeated
him—he had wantonly betrayed every party that had
trusted him, and all men have an invincible aversion to
reneTadi,m—more especially when it is plainly and
palpably enacted for purposes of gain. Noah, however,
is undeniably one of the best editors in the country, and
failing in his attempt to obtain a place, he has establish,
ed in New York, a paper called "Noah's Weekly Mes
senger." In a late number of this paper, we observe
he has withdrawn Mr. Tyler from the canvass, or re
commended his withdrawal, in the following queer par
agraph:
"WITHDRAWAL OF JOHN TYLER AS A CANDIDATE.
As we were almost the first person in the city and county
of New York, if not in the whole Union, to organize a
committee to establish a daily journal to defend the
principles and sustain the administration of John Tyler,
we deem it a duty to our country, to our fellow citizens
and ourselves, to explain the objects of our original as
sociation, and the motives which impel us at this crisis
to take the steps we are under the necessity of taking,
in defining the position of the President, and recom
mending his withdrawal as acandidate for re-election."
* I I I * * *
SEDITION LAW IN FORCE.—The Free Trader say , ..:
"In New Orleans, a respectable man was imprisoned
last week for saving, "Damn these Aldermen!" He
was dragged off to jail by the watch and for some time
bail refused him. Through the exertion of Dr. Mc-
Farlane, he was at last admitted to bail, and when he
appeared next morning with his counsel, the mayor told
him be had no time to attend to his case. This is the
act of the whig mayor and council of a city that has been
made to ring with the charge of tyranny against Gener
al Jackson for imprisoning the enemies of his country
and the spies and mutineers in his camp."
Ltr The coons of Cincinnati arc much alarmed for
fear the President will remove Mr. Taylor, the present
Postmaster. Mr. T. was one of the noisiest and most
devoted of the friends of Genl, Harrison in 1840, and
received the Post Office as a reward for his services.—
We understand he still holds to the notion 3 broached by
the whip in that campaign, and, of course, is among
those who denounce President Tyler fur defeating the
grand National Bank project of the whig leaders. If
this be true, Mr. Taylor and his friends cannot complain
if he should be superseded in office, as we think no one
can object to an administration fur turning out its ene
mies, and appointing those in whom it can place con
fidence. It has always been considered propel• for ev
ery administration to appoint such persons to office as
were friendly to its principles, and we cannot see why
the same privilege shouldhe denied to Tyler.
Irssocat LAND SALES.—The t"oceiveri at Plato
burg, Mo., arrived at St. Louis on the 13th Met., with
from seventy to eighty thousand dollars of public mfr.
ney, received in the previous four or five weeke, for
lan& at Plattsburg, and deposited itiu the bank. There
is a general rush for land in that chariot, under pre
emption rights, and much litigation about conflicting
claim,.
C.rner StJac , of a ut-iv Catholic Church
his bcea laid in
I: is rumored, is Philadaphia tlizie a clung.: will
thy Po-t ()Two an 3 Custom
of that ci• :
MORE BLACKGIIARDS.--Tiyia fellows taped George
Owens, better. known as "the Manchester Pet;liund
Stephen Gordon, were engaged in a prize fight at the
corner of 13th street and the Bowery, N. York ; on
Wednesday, when after a few rounds the spectators
rushed into the ring and broke it up with a ery of "the
, Strange that such audacity should exist a
mong these inhuman creatures, with the result of the
Sullivan fight yet fresh in their memory—however, we
believe there was an interposition of Executive clem
ency at last, and this we presume is a constructive
sanction fur a renewal of brutalities in the above pro
fesion.
HOTEL FOR IrVALIDS.—As very excellent and hu
mane project is now.going fot•nard at Cincinnati.—
Several medical gentleman have established in that
city, a Hotel for Invalids, where sick strangers and
others not provided with funds to procure them the
necessary apartments and attendance, swill be properly
taken care of. It will prove an institution of great
value to the city, and should be warmly supported by
the citizens.
ON VIE wnotto Ptt.r..-,-A New Jersey farmer arri
ved in Philadelphia last week with a horse and wagon.
At about 12 o'clock the same night he was discovered at
Noble Street Wharf, upon a large pile oflath, throwing
the bundles into the river. He was made to desist by a
watchman who was called, and taken, to the watch
house. The only account he gave of his queer conduct
was that he was under the impression ho was upon his
neighbor's pile of lath, and was throwing down the bun
dles to take away to finish his house with.
THE MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE CORTened OR the
10th instant, and Gm. Tucker transmitted the cus
tomary message on the 11th. Hit Excellency de
clares it to be his opinion, that the Secretary of State at
Washington, had no authority to pay over to R. S.
Graves the amount of about $166,000, of the 2 and 3
per cent. fund—but he was only authorized to pay the
said Graves some $22,000, and that that sum tam e i s
legitimately chargeable to the Slate, as it was paid in
conformity with the law of the last session. He re
commends very earnestly to the Legislature to return
the amount received from Mrs. Graves to the Govern
ment, not being, in his opinion, the monies belonging
to the State.
On the subject of the Repudiation of the Union and
Planter's Bank bonds, he says that they were made and
sold "in perfect conformity with the constitution, and
that they of right mill and shall be paid by the people
of .31ississippi." Tell that to the English.
THE ARMED OCCUPATION OF FLOHIDA.—The Flor
ida Herald of the 17th inst., says:—"The whole num
ber of permits taken out at the land office at St. Augus
tine up to the 14th inst., was 217; and from the latest
information received from the office at Newtnansville,
the number taken was near 700, and about 100 appli
cations were then pending; it i s therefore probable that
the tiomber now actually issued from that office must
be near, if not more than 800. The applications have
actively increased at the St. Augustine office, within a
few days, and the same must have been the ea,,e at New
tniutsville; so that we may now estimate the number of
permits taken at 1000; a sufficiently clear indication
that the whole 200.000 acres of land will be taken up
and that the law itself need not remain long in forre or
require the suspension of the law by the President.—
East Florida will under this law acquire a permanent
population, ere the expiration of the present year, of
upwards of six thousand to be added to that which ex
isted previous to the passage of the act."
II IMPORTANT FROM THE SOCIETY IS LANDS.—
By advice received at Providence, dated March 24,
affairs at these Islands begin to wear an exciting aspect.
We mentioned some days since the fact that the natives
had made demonstratians of dissatisfaction with mean:l
to the French Protectorate, and the disturb-I:ices. It
appears that early in February, H. M. Ship Talbot,
Capt. Sir Thomas Thompson, had arrived there, di
itxt from England, and also the French frigate
Boussoule.
Sir Thomas brought letters from the English Gov..
ernment to Queen Pomare; and as she was,
on the arri
val of the Colgate, On Morea, he sent a boat for her to
come over, as she never had been at Tahiti since the
French had got possession, and hoisted their prottzto
rate flag. But on the receipt of Sir Thomas's letter,
she came across in state, with the old Tahiti flag flying
in her barge. She pulled directly on board the frigate,
without landing, and they manned the yards and ran
the old flag of Tahiti to the fore, and saluted it with
twenty-one guns, as they also did 01) her departure.
The French were mach annoyed with thisprocedure,
and protested against it. The English letter to Queen
Pomare was, that England would protect her from any
foreign power. Sir Thomas advised the Queen to call
a meeting of all the inhabitants, and ask whether tin-v
were were willing the French should hold possession of
the Island. The meeting was held on the 9th of Feb
ruary, and upwards of 10,000 natives assembled.—
Every man was against the continuation of the French
government, and on that night the protectorate flag
wns hauled down, and the Tahiti colors ran up.
The French threatened to fore into the town, unless
their flag was again raised, and the English promised
to reciprocate by firing upon them. In this state mat
ters remained till the 12th, when Com. Nichols arri
ved in H. B. M. ship Vindictive, and gave notice to
the natives of his intention to protect them. Another
French ship had arrived, and, although no hostilities
had been commenced up to the 24th of March, war
was expected as soon as the French Admiral should
arrive, and he was daily expected.
IMPORTANT PROM MEXICO - REVOLUTION IS To-
BASCO.- We copy the following from the New Orleans
Bee, of the 18th inst:
"By the arrival of the schooner Robert Centre, Capt.
Sheppard, from Tobacco, Sill Sisal and Campeachy, we
are in possession of news from the former port up to
the 30th ult.
A short time previous to the sailing of the schooner,
Gen. Sentmanat, Governor General of the province of
Tobasco, had revolted against the General Government,
and ‘vn.s at the head of 600 men, preparing to make a
stand against the troops under Gen. Ampudia, which
had been despatched against him. Sentmanat's forces
were daily increasing in numbers, and it is supposed
he would be joined by a large number of the indepen
dent party in Yucatan, who are not altogether pleased.
with the late compact entered into by their own Gov
ernment and Mexico.
Gon. Scntmanat was formerly a resident of this city,
and is a son-in-law to one of our oldest and most respec
table citizens."
MEXICAN OFFICERS ARRESTED. — From the official
inteliig,ence conveyed in the HavaAa papers, received
at the office of the Now Orleans Bulletin, it appears
that the chief officers commanding the land expeditions
in Yucatan have been arrested on their arrival in Mex
ico, and imprisoned in the castles of Ulua and Perote.
The charges against them are cowardice and incapacity
and disobedience of orders'of the President. The plan
of the campaign was drawn up by Santa Anna, who
directed that the attack on Merida should be made by
the high road, leading from Campeachy.
EMBEZZLEMENT IN KINGSTON, CAN ADA.—On Mon
day of last week, a young man named Askin, formerly a
teller in the branch office of the Bank of Upper Canada,
at Kingston, was arrested. at Toronto, and taken to
Kingston to answer a charge of embezzlement of the
the bank funds—Xl3so. Some eight months since,
Askin resigned his situation in th , l bank. A younger
clerk naiLid Dean, is also implicated in the charge, and
is in custody. They are both respectably connected.
G
ambling and tiosonA living is the all edgedca use oftheir
crunined conduct.
DIVAIXATIOS AND BLRIOV3 RIOT IN 8R1719H A
attraci.--Thet Treasurer of St. John County, N. 8.,
as-we learn from the New Brunsiekker, has been su.s
ponded from office, for being a defaulter.
On Monday, 17th inst., an election occurred at Mi
ramichi, when party spirit became intense, and at the
last advices threatened serious loss of life. A leading
canvasser, Mr. J. Ilea, was so seriously beaten soon af
ter the opening of the Poll, that he was carried off
senseless and speechless, and it was somewhat doubtful
if lie would survive the injuries received. The opinion
was very general on the Miramichi, that it would be
impossible to conduct the election to the close, and that
even if it should, such violence would be used as to ren
der the election void.
[Correspondence of the Philadelphia Exchange.]
EXCHANGE READING ROOMS,
Baltimore, July
_2B,
LOSS OF THE PACKET SHIP
By a slip from the office of the Norfolk Herald, on
the evening of 26th inst. I am informed of the loss of
the ship Memphis, Allen, 16 days from New Orleans,
for N. York. The M. was wrecked on Chicarnicomico
Island, 35 miles MI Cape Hatters., on last Saturday
morning, about 3 o'clock. Passengers (21 cabin and
30 steerage) and crew all saved—vessel and cargo val
ued at $200,000, all lost. The M. experienced n gale
from northward and eastward on the previous evening,
which continued with very thick weather all night.
The following is the cargo the M. had on board at the
time of the disaster-5863 pigs of lead; 1667 sacks of
wheat; 770 bales cotton; 625 sacks corn; 91 hhdo to
bacco, 55 bbls whiskey, 96 do. oil, 89 do. lard, 39 do.
flaxseed, tuid 84 bales hemp.
CANAL COMMISSIONERS.---In making up the list of
democratic candidates for nomination as Canal Com
missioners, a few weeks since, we inadvertently omit
ted the name of WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Jun. ' at
present residing in Allegheny city, formerly of North
umberland county. Mr. Foster is an experienced
practical engineer, and was formerly in the employ of
the state on the North Branch division of the Pennsyl
vania canal. He is also a firm and consistent Demo.
crat, of blameless integrity, and will, if nominated by
the State Convention, make a popular and efficient
member of the board.—lfarrisburgh Union.
REMEDIE3 FORA NRlSANCE. — Blackiogbottles are
slid to be excellent for ;;upping the midnight music of
eats, CLpi-dally when hurled with a strong arm and
nice aim. Boot-jacks have been known to hit, but are
too cumbrous. Glom lamps and China soap boxes are
too expensive, though occasionally used in desperate
cases.—Boston Times.
We advise our contemporary to try the common Chi
nese fire crackers. Fire three crackers at each cat,
and you would soon get relieved, Mr. Times.—N. Y.
Sun.
We would-recommend you to have no cats about
your premises; and you be relieved all the time
bottles, boot-jacks, glass lamps, &c. would
not then be necessary.
TIIECHARLESTONRIPZAL ASSOCIATION RE-ORGAN
IZED.-Mr. J. H. Dunn, at a Repeal meeting in Phil
adelphia on last Tuesday night, stated, that he had
been informed by the Rev. Mr. Doyle, :recently from
Charleston, S. C., that the Irish Repealers in that city,
have regretted the hasty manner in which they dissolv
ed their Association, and again re-organized them
selves, and were determined to lend their assistance in
the great cause of Repeal.
MODESTY.—Beauty byneverso lovely and attractive
as when it is hidden beneath the veil of retiring modes
ty. The most beautiful flower of the garden, that mo=t
attracts and charm= the se ase.s, never aunears i‘ - woi=-
a. when it is beheld sweetly pooping from the -.IA ,t. of
its curtain of green leaves, which serve = rv :,-
teet it from the sun and olem .•=.
its charms doubly interestin.: and iy•antiti:.
NAPOLEON'S LAST WIFE
llere ii th" only mention We have for some time seen
ma le of M tri I Louisa. !!ie second. (but not the best)
tr.E` nt N..:no -la ••
Parma, Juoe 6.—Th,• Archduchess Maria Lou: sa
has just proceeded as sh•' do^s every year, to the Ischei
baths. She has left her dominions, rather irritated
against her subjec Li, who have opposed the re-astabliAh
meat of the Jesuits in the Duchy of Parma, and who,
Peeing that a petition, signed by 500 families, had not
been attended to, have taken the 14berty of dressing up
a figure in the garb of Ignatius de Loyola, and hanging
it. All the searches of the police have failed to discov
er the perpetrators of the oWence.
6:7 "Jo' Smith," in a late number of the Nauvoo
Times and Seasons, has a review of Millerism, in which
he avows his belief that the world has a decided liking
for being humbugged. There is not a greater truth
to be found within the pages of Joe's bible.—Ledger.
u p , Between time and four hundred handsome
brick building-, are going up in Louisville, Ky., this
season.
raPNix, the mto who wag char zed with cutting a
maws throat in Willianthurgh, Long Island, has been
acquitted.
nrThe three Linseed Oil factories of Cincinnati
turn out 1500 gallons rer day.
1 - . 7"St±venty-two of the crew of tile U. S. Steam n.
Missouri, have signed the pi...l;e, of total abo.htenca
front all intoxicating liquors.
E,..""A beginning has been made in Georgia, to man
ufacture cotton bagging. It is computed by the Savan
nah Republican that the Georgia planters pay more
than $350,000 per annum for this article.
0/"George Monday has gone from New York to
Saratoga Springs, to "holdforth," sell his paper, &c.
ta'We learn from the New Orleans Picayune that
both parties arc in favor of calling a convention to re•
model, or rather to Americanize tho Constitution of the
state.
ri p The hay crop in Maine is said to be one third
heavier than lust year, though still under an average
M'During one week the arrivals at Saratoga Springs
amounted to 3,500 persons. The number now there
surpass anything ever known before.
rr S. B. Clark, P. M. at Cherry Grove, Ky., who
is a young man about .9.2 years of age, has been arrested
for robbing thomail. He woe to have been married in
about two weeks
William L. Carter, an old gentleman of Russel
cup" Ky., was killed by lightning on the 9th inst.
MVPThe corner stone of a new church, St. Ste
pheiis, Protestant Episcopal, was laid in Lee st.. Balti
more, on Wednesday.
P:FIt is said that the Influenza has seized horses
and cows in Ohio. Numbers lave died from it.
The President and P. M. Gmeral left Washing
ton fcr the Rip-Raps on Tuesday last.
T. F. Marshall, has been lecturing on
Temperance with great effect in Kentucky and Ten-
I - ""Col. Page, we ec it stated, has refused an ap
pointment to tho Philadelphia P. 0.
The case of Amos Lawrence and others, vs. the Cor
poration of New York, for goods lost by the blowing up
of buildings during the great fire of 1835, has been de-: :
cided by the Supreme Court in favor of the city.
The banking house of the Northampton Bank is up
at Sheriff's sale. Will its notes be received for bids?
The water is so low in the Hudson, near Albany,thas
first class steamers cannot get up from New York.
The New Yorkers want a State Convenrion to tur.c:id
their C'unstitution
T. Bowno, Ex-M. C. firm, N V
appointed Mr. Tyler, a: it , vs
Nfineral Pi.at L 17.1 t , .
home. Iwtead of the oil= worth V 2,500 a year,
he fmnd it worth only 41300.
STRAICOE VLSI rims. •—Tbe New York Express states
that a pair of Chinese Dogs attracted great notice t in
the stre.2t3 on Tuesday, and are rattily a great isurios.
Their color is jet black, and they are as complete
bare of hair as the palm of one's hand. They were
brau?,-ht out by the S..vo.dish brig that arrived on Satur
day, from Canton.
i'Several hundred eithens of Cincinnati have in
cited President Tyler to visit that eitv next September
MOST HORRID MURDER
We have to record one of t..hu. most coldblooded mur
ders upon record, which was lately perpetrated in Bar
bour county; Go!o. by a man named Brown. B. and his
wife went to visit a lady named Gachett. who lived a
short distance from them, and remained during the
evening. On leaving, they invited Mrs Gachett to ac
company them home, and remain all night. but she re
fused, saying that her two daughters would be left alone.
and farther that all the money she had was in hot house.
They however, continued to nrge her until she consent
ed to accompany them to remain the night. Shortly af
ter her departure, a sick and weary traveler rode up
and asked permission to stay the night. The two la
dies said they were alone, and be could not stop. He
said he doubted whether he could ride to the next
house, and presuming they were afraid of him, he told
them if they would consent to let him remain, he would
take his room and s'uffer them to keep the key. At this
proposition they consented, and the traveler soon went
to his room. Some time daring the night -he was a
wake by a noise in the other room, there being but two
in the house. Continuing to hear some one moving
about, he got up, went softly to the door and discover
ed a man at the bureau examining the drawers. He
hailed the individual, who instantly drew a knife and
made at the traveler, who, as he approached, shot him
dead at his feet. The pistol alarmed the negroes, and
when they came up they went into the ladies' room and
found both of them lying in their beds, with their
- throats cutand dead! The traveler, on enquiring for
their mistress, was taken to Brown's house. On meet
ing the old lady he told her that some one had mur
dered her daughters, and that he had shot the villain.
Mrs. Brown exclaimed, "you have killed my hus
band," and so it turned out; the very person who had
spent the day with Mrs. Gachett had murdered her
daughters!—Phila. Sp. Times.
THE MORMONS
This Joe Smith must be set down as an extraordi
nary character, a prophet-hero, as Carlyle might call
him. He is one of the g eat men of this age, and in
future history will rank with those, who in one way or
another have stamped their impress strongly on socie
ty.
Nothing can be more plebeian, in seeming, than this
Joe Smith. Little of dignity is there in his cognomen;
but few men in this age have done such deeds, and per
formed such apparent miracles. It is no small thing,
in the blaze of this nineteenth century, to give to men a
new revelation; found a new religion, establish new
forms of worship; build a city, with new laws, institu
tions, and orders of architecture; to establish ecclesia.s- I
tical, civil, and military jurisdiction: found colleges;
send out missionaries, and make proselytes in two hem
ispheres; yet all this has been done by Joe Smith, and
that, against every sort of opposition, ridicule and per
secution. This acct has its martyrs, also; and the spir
it in which they were imprisoned and murdered, in
Missouri, does not appear to have differed much from
that which has attended religious persecutions in all
ages of the world.
That Jae Smith, the founder of the Mormons, is a
man of great talent—a deep thinker and eloquent speak
er, an able writer and arnan of grea• rm•ntal power. no
one can doubt who ha watcn-d Tn-,t - 11,5
followers are rit , r-,iveri, hz::. 41011:d tn
inherent corruotions cf M fai; to cdw,-;
r.h-ntse:vPs su licientiy to convilc? 1:: oweri (}ftleir
where will the , A
nti m i= Trovr , nq up in the .er Et-- r,
"ortortio than the ..tuTou , dinz popillatio r, sur.. JI
!.1.; . ..ailue , ,ce a.,d
it 7 1t..3 to r•very patriot.
N. Y. Snn.
ERIE CANAL COMPANY
4rre , ..Hv to previnu4 notio.e
Er ! Canal Cnrnpro, met at the 1t..4 - 4111 , 1 ,, ,. in Erie.
oil Saturday the 252 d irntant la or.Tani , .e the ennKrany
and elect officer:. The Erie pap.T6 Watt: teat a maj,,r
iri of tli,•,:uly,t.rit-wrs to stock wa, present, and that the
Board wi:i meet without delay to adopt measures for
the completiou of the work. The result of the elation
is as follows:
Mana g ers—Rifin S. Reed, Tlioma: G. Colt, B. B.
Vincent, John A. Tracy. Wm. M. Watts, of Erie, M.
B. Lowry, of Crawford, and James M. rower, of Mer
cer county.
Treasurer--Charles. M. Reed.
Secretary—Wm. Kelley.
We suppose the newly elected officers will give gen
eral satisfaction to the friends of the work. They are
men of intelligence, and wealth. and will doubtless fin
ish the Erie Extension as speedily as it could be done
by any board of managers whom the stockholders could
have selected. Mr. Roberts, under whose able su
pervision the main part of the work has been done,
is appointed Principal Engineer, and will be found at
his old post. Mr. R. is a gentleman, and one of the
ablest engineers in the country.—Meadrille Republi
can.
Messrs. Editors: I would respectfully ask, for what
object is the names of those dames who oppose the li
censing of public houses, (rejected by the Court, at its
present session) paraded in your paper. this morning. I
would beg leave to inquire of you what part of the law
for granting licenses authorizes this petticoat petition
ins,. In the second place, have the ladies any spinning
or knitting to attend to? It would quite as well com
port with their duties to society, to see them spend their
time in a more becoming manner than this, by their sil
ly interference as to who shall or shall not receive li
cense at the hands of our judges. If this parade of
names is to influence the Coast, we will dispense, in
future, with fees paid to printers, under the act of As
sembly in such cases. If these female and male peti
tioners pay you as well as the rejected tavern keepers,
your printer's fees will be well increased by this exhibit.
nut, does this array of names show any thing? There
is nothing in the proceeding, becan , e they only approve
of the Court rejecting such as hay • .lot the requirements
of the law; and we do know tint many men have been
denied license at this term, who have, Mail things, com
plied with the requirements of the law: and it is for
this wanton act of the Court that our citizens complain.
This lady petition gives no power to the Court for this
1 usurpation on their part. If this array of names, of ei
; titer male or female, is intend-d to bolster up an act of
usurpation in this community, I think the getters up are
egregiously mistaken.
AN OLD CITIZEN. AND ONE or TOUR SUBSCRIBERS.
An old citizen must have observed that the remon
strance was published as an advertisement. It was
handed to us by one of the Judges, and we understand
its publication was resolved on by an unanimous vote of
the Court.
FOR THE MORNING POST.
Messrs. Editors:—..lllow me to offer the name of
WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Jr., as a suitable person to
be nominated for Canal Commissioner at the Harris
burg Convention. Mr. Foster is well known in this
State,—has long and faithfully acted as Engineer on the
public works. He is a firm and unwavering Democrat,
of unimpeachable integrity, and should he be nomina
ted by the State Convention, will make an efficient and
popular member of the Canal Board. I know of no
person who would make a better officer, or whose elec
tion would give more general satisfaction.
na'Spealsing of places of resort for our citizens,
please just look at Bailey's Spria„7; and if von can
stop a day, or even for one meal, you will find Mr. and
Mrs. Quinlin "at home," and every "cookery" done
up in the best style.
Just go down and see for yourselves.
July 28, 1843. G., FROM WHEELING.
We will attend to tlt! suf re.'sr'.. , :_:of G. , a ;.,1
at the first convenient Gim3rtu:„lty, try 11.-2,
ry" of Ar. ilvi Mr!.... Quin:in
of litluz.t a. 3 rq-pu'Enc-in
intrz.rity. The. clairri4 of Meitt should ix- consid:ral.
ailL- 1-1 t FEroit.m.
FOR THE MOR:g ING PO3T
DEMOCRITUS HIBER:TICCS
FOR Val'
ENEEIi
I clromntrtial .fitatttrit.
NEW Oat Emirs I N Stsistra.—The Tropic gives this
following description of New Orleans in the surname
season. Really their "sufferings is intolentble"
"Throu3hout the city, in every quarter, stagnation and
d u b loss exist. The wharves are vacated, steamboats no
longer g:ut the Levee, drays are all ti xi up, cabs are
stationary, the flower and boquot venders sleep $
corners of the streets, the influenza or grippe is raging,
the sun shines warmer than usual, and some people a&
about the yellow fever being very bad—then "hi this
name of all the gods at once," what shall we do to ren
der our sufferings more tolerable. Yesterday we went
up to hear Father Mullon, and see Who could afford as
any comfort, but we could not obtain it, as his disconme
did not touch upon the times at present but altogether
the times that are to conic, about which we know noth
ing,. From thence we walked across Lafayette Sgratte,
sshere everything looked drooping and spiridess, with
the exception of a sweet little girl, about twelve-yaers
old, whose eyes looked like a couple o( little Starli pit
out of the firmament,and whose smile resembled every
thing we dream of in heaven. From thenon we passed
down Chartres street, through the venerable walks of
the "ancient population," where the monotony seemed
to thicken into an Egyptian gloom. At the Place d'•
Armes, nothing was visible to disturb the deadness and
everlasting, solitude that prevailed."
REvIVAL OF BUSINES3.—The Philadelphia Foram
says:—"The fall trade has opened unusually early this
season, and promises to be better than it has been for
several years. It was stated to us yesterday, that an
old house in Front street made more sales on Tuesday
than they ever made in any one day in the most palmy
times."
WOOL GROWIN O.—The people ofthe far West have,
it appears, turned their attention to the wool growing
business. Many of the farmers in the Rock River
country, Illinois, have embarked quite extensively in it.
The Saint Louis Gazette says:
"We know of some who have flocks of sheep nuns•
bering from seven to fifteen hundred. That country
and climate is said to be well adapted to the raising of
sheep. They feed upon the prairies, and are protect
ed from the ravages of the wolves and other wild
mals, by the "shepherd and his dog." The time isnot
far distant, when wool will constitute one of the largest
staple products of the West; and indeed when our own
cloths will be manufactured within the borders of our
own western States, which certainly will be a greatre
lief to some of our New England friends, who live
ameng the rocks and hills of Vermont and N. Hamp
shire, who are compelled to get the noses of their sheep
sharpened at least once a year, in order that they may
feed among the rocky hills and mountains."
CLCAiy COUNTERFEITING.—Counterfeits on. Gear. ,
gia gold pi ices, of the nominal value of five dollars,
have been pasied off at New Orleans. They bear the
stamp of G. Bochtler, at Rutherford, and we should
suppose might easily ba detected, as the Courier says
they do not weigh but about half as much as the gems-
SPZ.C.Ii: IN Tar. U. S.— F. , :tiratted at i - 120,000,000.
is a greater amourt than has ever before been in this
cou“Lry oae time. It is still flowing in. What s
c. ,, mn.il:tazy i 3 t. 1115 Let upon. all tile. - predictions of fed,
ti n for yoars past
hin COTTON CROP-The Rea River (La.) Re..
5 - tys that hay, doe great injury to
rort , .,n craps of that a:A the surreurniing parisApeo,
tnAer the most favorable circum.uaaces, there will
not be more than ha2.fa crop mad , -. If the wewther
continues unfavorable, there will not be that. The
corn crops in the Pine Woods are better thrut ever
they were before.
THE \VHF:AT CROP NOT A FAILURE.—The editorof
the American Farmer says that after comparing the !lc
counts received from all parts of the United States,lo
inclines to the opinion that the wheat crap will prove
to be an average one. He adds: "The grain
. alreody
in, is of excellent quality, and notwithstanding theme
ges by winter killing, the fly and rust, has turned out s
very fair yield. The rust and fly, which, at one time,
created so much alarm, have done but inconsiderable
injury. Thus far, then, Providence has been bountiful
to the tillers of the earth, from Whom an overflowing
measure of gratitude is due, and which, we trust, will
be repaid in a spirit to render the offering acceptable."
CHEsAPEARE AND OHIO CA NAL.—The Ctrtrail:::6o4
Civilian says: "We notice that the work on the Canal 4,
is still processing. We fear, however, that it will be
stopped, though report says that the cont r ac t o rs will
continue the work, and that, too, under the contract as
entered into with Gen. McNeil
port of tlittsburgi).
Reported by Shade a;;,i Ge7:crai Steam
Boat
13Eri==21
A RR IV L D.
*Brid4ewa:er, Wn•!.±ling
Warren, Beaver.
DEPARTED.
Belmont, Poe, CM.
*Bri4e.wator, Clarl.l, B. ast,r.
do.
c.•srion, I I old;on, Ctn.
All Boats'keel thus () the above list, are m
yid ed with Evans'., Satlety
ilgThe River is becoming vrylow, and navigation
is suspended for all but the very lighten draughtboats.
The rain of Saturday and Sunday, however, will pm&
ably cause a rise of some inches, as, from the present
temperature of the air, it appears to have been general.
The Belmont and Clarion left for Cincinnati yesterday,
and the Pinta and Rose of Sharon are loading for the
same place. Freights are as follows:
To Cincinnati $0 75 per 100 lbs,
" Louisville 0 87.} "
" Saint Louis
FOR CINCINNATI.
waits` The new, light draught steasser 4 _ 2 _,
ROSE OF SHARON, George Eraniq —
Master, will depart for the above and intermediate
Ports, on Tuesday, August Ist, at 11 o'clock,A. M. Far
freight or passare apply on board, or to
BIRMINGHAM & CO., No. 60, Water st.
The Rose of Sharon is one of the lightest arm*
boats on the river, and her cabin accommodation are
unsurpassed. aug 1.4 t
Dr. Pasey's Sermon.
THE Holy Eucharist, preached before the thilaead
tv of Oxford, fourth Sunday after Easter.% Pam
phlet edition with full notes. For sale at W. Fue
ter's Universal Agency and Literary Depot, St. Cla
sr. Price 6 cents. jy ZI--4ars
IMILITOGANY.
and Shade Vetoers.
Y.,..5-, for sale at. the
101 - NG &CO.
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rin TIE , T) . Institet:
~.ort.7aheia Haase 01%
Thur-,117 - I.- 3d clay of Ati.rnsv, rr )xinao, between-lb,'
hours of 9 o'caick,, and
4,1'./ 0 1-, by order,
R. MILLER, JR., flee*
re tAe Ceinalueititear.
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