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THOS PHILLIPS It P.M. H. SMITH. LOITOMs
PITTSBURGH, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1845
STtauAOAT Runexus.—We publish, to-day, IS Cir
cular signed by the most prominent businesit firma in
the city, embracing mechanics. merchants and manu
facturers, which has been called forth by the pernicious
practice, now so geeerally resented to, of employing
"enterter." to , precure freightand passengers for steam
boats, The circular pledges its signers "to withhold
"all shipments or other patronage from any steamboat
"known to employ, directly or indirectly, any of the
"said steamboat runners,"—and efforts are to be
made to induce steamboat captains to second the
movernent,by refusing to engage runners in future.
The evil is a palpable and growing one, end should
be promptly arrested. There is some doul,t, however,
as to whether the mode resorted to by the signers of
the circular is the best that could be devised to ac
complish the object sought to be attained. Still, it is
to be desired that the owners and caputins of steam
boats will join in soma movement to abolish a prac
tice which, they can see at a glance,, results to their
own disadvantage and injury. We are told that in
B°l4:it:lag patronage for a boat, runners are generally,
if not always permitted to fix the price of passage
at what they please, and if two of them happen to
meet with a party of passegers, they underbid each
other .until they get down to a price which will
result in a loss to the boat employing them. This
is a gross injustice to the owners of boats, who,
while they would be induced by fair competition,
to carry passengeri for the lowest Jiving rtes, ought
not to be compelled to carry them at prices which
renders serious loss unavoidable. A ruinous rival
ry like this is as unjust to the owners steam
boats, are combination of that class to keep prices
above airoper level, would be unfair to the traveling
community. It is much better fur the steam-boat trade
that prices should be fixed permanently, at low and
lair rater--pod they can gain no possible advantage,
either immediate or remote, by making a trip to Cin
cinnati with passengers at $2 a piece, as we are told
some 0( them have done, under contracts made by
their runners. If fifty persons wish to be carried to
Cincinnati, it is much better for the steam-boat trade
that they should pay $250 fur that service. (the regular
rate) than that they should be carried for $lOO. It is
true, that if they were left to themselves, and not im
portuned by runners, they would probably take passage
in various boats, and the $250 would be divided among
several--while if a contract were made by a tanner
.Soya '•whole let," one boat would get the sloo—but
Of this they" would have to support their passengers
and pay their runners besides—thus the boat works
"for glory," only—but the runners' prtfita are sure.
But the captains and owners of steam-boats are not
the only sufferers by the system of employing runners.
Passengers are always annoyed by it, and are frequent
ly induced to hurry on their route neainst their incli
nation and often against their inte:est. A man, for
instance, has business in this city, and purposes to stop
, here a day or two transact it—a runner meets him on
his acriur. (or perhaps before his arrival) and offers to
send him and his company down the river alt
low rates. Those who have •no business, or do
sot - wish to stop are eager to close with the proposal.
and often persuade others who are desirous to stop, to
'•go forward without attending to theirbusieess proper
Iy. They thus lose an opportunity of gratifying their
curiosity with a .survey of our city, of making them
loaves acquainted with its commercial facilities and
manufacturing advantages, and perhaps of confertine
mutual benefit on themsehes and on our citizens, by
purchasing many commodities which cannot be had so
cheaply any where else.
Many other reasons might be Oven—abd in con
thuiion, we will mention one other—passengers, in
coat:acting Logo upon a boat winch the have not seen,
are liable to be imposed on—for a boat with inferior
accommodations can just as readily pp-learn the servi
ces of runners as the best boat at the wharf—and
however great the difference might be in any two
crafts, the passengers could not ascertain which was
alabaster one from the representations made to them.
But this article will seem too long to many of nor
readera—all we will say is that we hope the evil
will be speedily remedied—not because we would
destroy the occupation of uny class of citizens, but be-
Cattle we think the interests of both shippers and
steamboats demands that the practice of hiring run
aers, should be broken up.
SALE OF TUE PCISLIC %Vona's.— The speculators
. their longing ryes on our public works, and
are determined to possess them if it is possible. They
*ever tire nor turn to rest, but with invincible energy,
toil on in the hope to compass their design. Other
passions may slumber fur a time or be wholly subdued
—malice and revenge may be stayed by circumstances
or forgone altogether—buCavarice muses on in pursuit
•of its object, unmoved by public calamity or private
.distress—it bus all "seasonefor its owe."
Notwithstanding their repeated failures to get pos
session of the public walks for a mere nominal price,
shout who are anxious to enter into that speculation,
no way discouraged by former defeats, ere again hard
at work. They now propose, through their tools in
the Legislature, to place the public works in the
hands of a corporation upon their paying ten millions.
the State to hold the balance of the stock, have three
directors to the company's six, and the company to re-
GelYll five per cent. upon their instalment of ten mil
lions before the State receives any thing. No man in
his senses can support this scheme under the pretence
,that it wid lighten taxa'iun. It is palpably a sct•eme
of speculation, the devisers of which coolly ask the
State to surreader its control of the public works to
them, and guarantee them a good'percentnge on their
money besides. The man who proposed it should be
hewed out of the 'Assembly.
COL. BURNSIDE, of Centre county, has met the
proposition with a short but effective speech, in which
he exposes its enormities with a masterly hand. fle
dwells on the filet that our public wotice will be irre
coverably lost by this scheme, while the State will still
owe 32 millions, and be subjected to the influence of a
corporation more dangerous and powerful than the U.
S. Dank. Ile shows that notwithstanding the decla
mation about the expense of the works, they are man
aged more cheaply than the works of New York, the
rival route—while it costs the New Yorkers /850 per
mile for the repairs, salaries of officers, &c., on their
canal, ours costs but $499 per mile. He, shows that
Its receipts of last year exceeded by 100,000 dollars
those of any previous year, and demonstrated that
from the rapid growth of the Vest, this tevenue must
go on increasing in a More rapid ratio than heretofore.
And he justly concludes that the true policy was to
encourage the people to pay their taxes cheerfully
until the credit of the commonwealth was established
ea a firtn foundation, when we can borrow money at
daxee per cent, take up our five per cent. bonds, re
dbee our taxation, and discharge the whole public
debt without burdeningtbe people as severely as they
would by the plan proposed.
M=EZZIN
Flom HARRISBU ROIL—The appropriation of 200,•
000 dullars for the Common School*, was discussed
lastly House on the 12th. Mr. B ual IDE read a bill
appointing officers to ruses. and equalize the Taxes
on Betallers of Foreign Merchandise.
Mr. SMITH offered abill for voting at elections one
general ticket.
It was proposed to stop tbeGerman Public Printing
on the Ist of July, 1897.
Mr. MOHAN read a bill to incorporate a ft:tinier
Association in Western Pennsyl•nnia.
ELFCTION or SINATOR.-48 democrats held a
caucus, and 25,a majority, voted for Geo. W. WooD
W•aa. On the 13th, a first ballot was hnd by the
Legislature, at which Geo. W. Woodward had 54
John Banks 10—Jatnes Cooper 10—Simon Cameton
11. No election.
IT" On Wednesday, the Senate confirmed the
nomination of Gen. ArtlisTRONG, of Nashville Tenn.,
as consul to Liverpool, and of Gen..JOHN DAVIS, of
Berke county, a■ Surveyor of Philadelphia. JOHN
W. FORNLY, Esq., editor of the Lancaster lntelli
genccr, has been appointed Deputy Surveyor.
NEw HAMPSHIRE ELEc - rtoa--In the only town
heard fro-n, Dover, the vote stood as follows: Wenn.
derstabd, that Doveris tle place of Mr H•t.tt's resi
dence:
Rcg. Dem. Irreg. Dem. 'Whig.
Not I is, 333 Hale, 470 Goodwin. 556
Moulton, 302 Nesmith. 559
Joh n icon . 300 Edwards, 490
Woodbury, 270 Sawyer, 410
All on the Abolition ticket had 118 except Perkins,
who had but 7. It appears from this that a portion
of the Whigs left Edwards mud Sawyer, and voted fur
Halt'.
At the Inst Gubernatorial election in New Hemp-
Aire, Dover gave this vote:
Steele. (Deny ) Colby, (li7tig) Others.
385 557 135
The
Vermont Mercury says, a young man re
cently arrived nt Windsor in the stage, and applied for
admission into the State Prison, showing the papers
which entitled Lim to a residence there_ .
It seems he had been convicted at Montpelier for
some offence, sentenced to the State Prison for six
months, and, in order to save expenses, was fitted out
with his papers, and sent to Windior by stage, without
shei iff or orther attendant! On reaching Woodstock,
the stage by accident left him; but he coolly waited a
day or two fur the next stage.
ns'The editor of a Virginia paper, in a notice of
a newly invenu-d lard oil polar lamp, pays the affair is
so good that he does not wish to go to bed, and never
thinks of daylight.
JOHN K. FncDLAT, ESQ., of Lancaster. will soon
remove to Philadelphia, where ho will commence the
practise of the law.
PRAISE FROM THE ESIRMY.—The Richmond Star,
speaking of the inaugural address of Vice President
Dallas, says: "It is a fine specimen of composition,
rather deep in its philosophy, but indicating a lofty
talent, and cultivated mind."
Mortara —A Frenchman named Joseph 6Sooin , was
shot while sitting in his chair in his own room, in the
town of Black Rock, on Sunday evening of last week.
The gun being pointed at him through the window.—
Suspicion had fallen on an individual as tha perpetra
tor of the deed.
YORE RUM—Tire Natchez Free Trader of the
15th tilt, says : "The past week has been one of unu
seal activity and bustle among our cotton and produce
merchants. The streets have been !hi onged every duy
with country wagon., and panics:dad:: on Wednesday,
when there must have been lom seventy-five to one
bundled in town all loaded with cotton, the owner', of
which found ready sales and fair prices.''
I harrier( thee, have left thee, sweet land of my birth,
And my oft thought of home, where I first drew my
bron
Among the blemt .-enee I mostilltved upon eat th,
Where I still hoped to linger, 'till summoned by
dentin
Oh! little I thought, as thy beauties I scanned,
How soon I must. leave thee, my own :Native Land.
IVhile encompassed by friends, most dear to my heart,
My life was a scene of content and repose;
I ci old not even think, that we ever must part;
IA bile vrrnpt in such bliss, I could scarcely suppose
How soon 1 MUst sever the Family Band,
Arid leave thee fur ever, my own Native Land.
When forced to leave all I cared most for below,
By the summons of duty, (alas! far too dear,)
I tore myself from them, much too proud to show
The anguish I felt, -by a sigh or a tear;
But I wept from my soul, as the breeze our sails fan
reed;
That wafted me fat from my own Native Land.
My gaze I long fixed on the receding shore,
As I felt I was leaving, my birthplace and home.
Until nought could be seen, but the billows that bore
Me far, far away, amidst strangers to roam;
`rill I fancied I traced the lofty chalk strand
That encircles thecoas: of my own Native Land.
But 'tis past, I have left thee, and bid thee adieu,
And alone I did enter the land of the Free,
But the kindne:it I met with, so heart-felt and true,
Soon healed all my sorrows. and Won upon me;
For received there at once, with a welcoming hand,
I soon loved her next to my own Native Land.
Oh blest be the home of the Free and the Brave,
Which affords a retreat unto all in distress,
Tim' my heart still, will wander across the salt wave;
Yet, the pride 'lint 1 feel in my heart's deep recess,
Is divided; but how I could ne'ei understand.
Between my new home, and lay uwn Native Lend.
R.
The New Postage Law —The mein prog4sioas of
this law are as followt4
1. Single letters, i. e. lenemweigliing half an ounce
or less,go 300 miles fur Eve cents, and greater distances
for 10 cents. Every aririitional half ounce (or part of
half an ounce) is considered an additional leuer.
'2. New•spapers may be sent by the publishers thirty
miles frum the place of publication, free of postage.—
For greater distances the rates are as heretofore.
3. Printed circulars on cap or letter paper are char
ged two cents a sheet for all distances.
4. Pamphlets, magazines, Ste., two and a half
cents fur each copy sent of no greater weight than one
ounce; and one cent additional fur every additional
ounce. But no copy exceeding eight ounces iti weight
can be transmitted. No bound books of any size can
be sent by mail.
5. Members of Congress can frank letters, &c..
as much as they please, both in session and recess,
provided the package does not exceed two ounces.
6. Private mail expresses forbidden on heavy penal
ties. Persons sending letters by an unlawful maxis are
made punishable. An person who shall deposit a let
ter at any place td be carried by unlawful means, is
subject to a fine of fifty dollars for every tiffence.—
CV•This part of the law goes into effect immedi
a:ely.
L 1 The Atlas terms "Co! Merrick, of Maryland,
A Down nio HT DssERTER oy HIS P•RTY AND HIS paint-
CIF LES." because, probably, with Henry Clay. he
would be glad to see Texas annexed, and thinks with
Clay also, that it would be unwise to refuse a perma
nent-acquisition to our country on account of the mm
pontry evil of slavery.—Louis. Dem,
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FOR TUE TUaT
MY OWN NATIVE LAND.
SONG 01 AN ENGLISH EMIGRANT
MURDER QF FRANK CO ABS
We publish below an intetestiag and authentic nar
rative of the circumstances of the murder of young
Combs. It "is in the form of a letter from his father
to a friend in Louisville.
"About two years since I purchaser' a tdeoe for him
just below the mouthy( Red River, in this parish, and
he immediately removed to it and commenced work.
A few months subsequently, his nearest neighbor, a
very worthy man, died, and an Irishman, named Geo.
O'Blennis, who emigrated from Canada, and settled
in Natchez, some years ago, purchased the plantation
last winter, and put some bards on it, but not his fami
ly., The day before my son came to Kentucky, last.
I July, lie had bought a small strip of land lying between
him and O'Blennis, at public sale. Both of them de
sired this land and ench had endeavored to buy it from
the claimant, who refused to sell it to O'Blennis, be
cause be first promised it to my son.
After my sun started home last Novemher, I receiv
ed a letter from his agent, Dr Jacks. addressed to him,
advising him of the bad conduct of O'Blennis during
his absence, in dearer:eine his stock, and especially of
his cruelty towards hi* riding horse, in forcing him,
with the aid of one of his negroes, over the river bank
backward into a bog, from which he could not extri
cate himself, and when found and pried out, he died.
Shocked as I was by such inhumanity to a dumb brute.
I became seriously alarmed for the safety of my son
I and wrote to him to be on his guard—to havenothing,
personally, to do with O'Blennis, but to seek legal re
dress for any injuries he had rustained, if, on consul
tation with his friends, it was deemed advisable. This
course he adopted, although soon after 'his return to
his place he was informed by a man in the employ of
O'Blennis, that the latter individnal had offered to pay
him if he would kill his son, and that O'Blennis him
self was repeatedly absent till a late hour in the night
with a double-barreled gun, loaded with buckshot. My
son apprised me of these alarming circumstances, and
that some of his neighbors advised him to leave the
place, but said that he "had rather die than he thus
driven off;" in the meantime however, he was peeper
ing, under my instructions. to wind up his business as
soon as possible and come off, temporarily, at anyrate,
until semething could be. dune to render his residence
safe. and bat for his murder he would have left early
in January.
Things remained in this situation until the 30th of
December; my son never having met O'Blennis but
once, on which occasion he told him of his intention
to seek legal redress for the injuries he had done him,
and expressly disclaimed all intention of any personal
injury to him. From this circumstunce, and that two
months had nearly elapsed since his return and O'B.
had not executed his threats, my son began to think
he was merely boasting, and at any rate, he would not
venture to attempt any open net of violence upon him.
On that day my son was visiting a friend in the neigh
borhood, when O'Blennis rode up to the front fence,
a few steps from the house, and, seeing my son in the
pottier), dismounted and came in without being invited,
so to do by the proprietor. Soon afterwards, dinner
Was announced, and my son setiag that O'Blennis had
seated himself at the table, de/lined eating, a brief
altercation ensued. when the host interfered and or
dered or desired O'Blennis to leave his house, telling
him be would not allow him thus to insult his guest.
My son remained all night and until one or two ot
cluck the next day. In the mean time, O'B Tennis had
sent one of his slaves, late at night, to a neighboring
grocery for a gallon of whiskey, with a written order
very strange! ) worded, showing that he had some des
perate deed ha contemplation. The next morning. and
during the forenoon. O'Blennis was seen by several
persons walking in the public road, nr sitting on a log
by its side, armed with a double-barreled gun. Along
Ibis road my son would be compelled to travel in re
turning home. Although aware of the difficulty be
tween them, they did not suppose that he was con
templating an attack, and, therefore, did not take the
trouble to not ifs- my son of his danger; so that at about
one or two o'clock, when he started home, accompa
nied by a young gentleman, named Johnson, so far
from intending or expecting an attack, he put his pis
tol (a small six barrel-revolver) in his saddle bags,
unloaded, and took neither powder nor halls with him.
When they arrived at O'Blennis's plantation, they
saw him in the field near the road, and by the time they
had come opposite the house, he was in the yard.—
Without speaking to hi n, or hearing him if he spoke
to them, they passed on at a slow pace. When they
had gone a few hundred yards and when in sight of
Flank Combs's house, they heard a hcrse approaching
them in the rear at a rapid gait. and, looking back,
saw O'Blennis with a double-barrel gun on his shoul
der, riding at fell speed. Johnson immediately said
to my son: —“O'Blennis is coming after you, to ■hoot
pm," and he replied, "I expect he O'Blennis
rode rant as fast as he could, but said nothing, and
when he had got some twenty or thirty yards, jumped
from his horse and attempted to hitch him to the fence
but failed, and immediately levelled his gun at my son
and approached him; he and Johnson both jumped to
the ground, and Johnson said:----Mr O'Blennis, don't
shoot him." My non exclaimed, raining his right
hied, without attempting to draw tiny weapon: •Stop,
O'Blencis! stop!" O'Blenni• made no reply, but still
approached till within a few paces, my son looking
him right in the face, and wholly unprotected; bttth
barrels were then discharged, so nearly at the same
time that Johnson thought but one was fired, although
several persons at my son's house distinctly heard two
reports. The ramie+ were so close together that the
whole load (the first cite in my opinion) entered his
forehead, without torching his hat, in a circle not ex
ceeding two inches in diameter, creshing the skull
and lodging in the brain. The second load must have
passed over his head as he fell, as there are marks
on the fence where several shot struck it, just behind
where lie stood.
Johnson, filled with horror at the scene, mounted his
horse and started to look fur help; just as he did so ha
heard O'Blennis call him, and on looking back saw
him standing nearer over the body of my son, and
heard him say something of being armed. It teas more
thin an hour before Judge Black and Mr Hopkins
reached the place, accompanied by Mr Johnson. In
the meantime a neighbor was accidentally passing and
saw a man lying on his face by the road side with his
horse grazing near him. He suppose it must have
been ten or fifteen minutes after the deed was done.—
He immediately dismounted, and ascertaining that it
was my son, tut ned on his back; he groaned several
times and died. Whether he was rendered insensible
at the moment he was shot, or was suffering the ago
nies of death ail this time, God knows.
It seems that O'Blenois rode to the nearerr house
on the road, except his own, and in rather n boastful
manner told a couple of Irish laborers, who were at
dinner, that he "had laid out a man on the levee, who
would not hurt them if they "mild go to him." The
lady of the house, very much terrified and suspecting
what had been done, asked him if he had killed Mr.
Combs 1 He made no reply, but - rode to the ferry,
crossed the river, and took the first steamboat for
Natchez. All his slaves, too, left that evening and
went to Natchez, leaving the plantation untenanted
and to be paid for by his security. 0' Blennis after
wards descended the river, trader a /firmed name,
to New Orleans; but as Providence would have it, the
boat he was on broke a wheel, which detained him
till my son's neighbors made pursuit on another boat.
passed him on the way, reached New Orleansand had
the police officers ready to arrest him as he landed on
the wharf. After attempting to bribe the guard, he
was pat in irors and sent to this place, but the jail
being deemed insecure, the judge had him removed
to Bayou Sara for safe keeping till May court.
These are the substantial facts of this cowardly and
cruel deed. My son's body is deposited temporarily
in a neighbor's graveyard. 1 shall bring it home with
me and bury him by the side of his mother. The
sod on which his head lay when he died is still satura
ted and red with his blood. I shall dig it up and
place it at the head of his grove in Kentucky.
If he bad been a bnisterous, for ward boy, Ido not
think my heart would have been so sorely bruised, but
he was as mild and retiring in his manners, as be was
brave and high-toned in his feeling and principles.
Yours, truly, LESLIE COMBS,
lir The Arkansas Intelligercer says that there is
a little "nigger" in that Stutz, whose heels are so long,
people don't know IA 1)/01 way he is guivg to walk.
(Loa. Democrat.
Whig Consistency.—Hale, in coming outagainsi
Texas in the face of his party, was independent and
high-minded, and so on—Merricl, is coming out for
Texas in the face of his party, , ia treacherous! Amu
sing, very, those wings! But then they love their coun
try so, they can't be consistent!—Louiseuk
FROM MEXWO.
By the arrival at a late hour last eight of thebrig
Abiona, Capt. Doane, we ham intsilitgence from
Vera Cruz up to the 18th inst., four ilays later.
Verbally we learn that there •as no news of ins
portant* stirring. Santa Anna was still in prise*
at Perm..
Lettere fecal the tyrant - to different merchants et
Vera Crus, directingthem not to give up any of his
money into their hands. haJ beenintereepted.
It is stated that the 24th of February had - been fixed
upon., the time of bringing on the trial of Santa
Anna, and he is to send on his defence it, writing in•
stead of appearing in person before the Grand Jury.
Picayune.
EXPLOSION OF STEAMBOAT BOILERS.
Mr Simpson. from the Committee on Naval Affairs,
recently made a very interesting report on the preven
tion of the explosion of Steamboatboilera. From an
abstract published in the Madisonian, it appears that
from 1830 to 1840 eighty vessels have beeniost by ex
plesion, 780 persons itilled, and 296 wounded; and by
tire, 2.7 vess-ds last, and 255 killed. The true cause
of explosions, it is the opinion of the committee, are
went of water in the boiler, and incrustation from sedi
ment and salt.
The law of Congress requires that all boilers should
be mode to bear, by hydrostatic pressure, three hun
dred pounds to the square inch; then to-have a valve
put on, and weighed down so as to o en when the
pressure rises to a hundred pounds—yet many, thus
prepared, have burst. This can be accomted fur on
no other principle then that some part of the boiler has
been heated red-hot, and become so weak as to burst
with a pressure of less than a hundred pounds.—
Hence the great desideratum ism secure boilers against
this red heat. This is done effectually by keeping
the water in the boilers above the lino where the fire
is supplied. This and the other cause of bursting—
when salt or sediment settle in the bottom of the
boiler, and prevents the water from contact with the
metal—are both removed by the application of Raub's
and Barnum's self-acting safety valves, which will, ac
cording to a large mass of evidence from practical
and scientific men, effectually prevent explosions of
steam boilers and the extinguishment of fires. Bo ful
ly impressed with this fact was the Committee on Na
val Aaffairs, that they directed a bill to be reported
on the :• th stant, appropriating the sum of five thousand
dollars, tot the purpose of attaching the valves and
fire-extinguisher to the boilers of five of the public
steamships of the United States. The Secretary of
the Navy is required by the bill to report to Congress,
as soon as may be their efficiency in preventing explo
sions and burning of ships.—N. Y. Mirror.
A Thrilling Ineiclent.—The Rev. Dr. Beecher, in
an article which be recently furnished for the Young
Reaper, tells i h t following touching story:
"A few years since, as the Reverend Joseph Davis,
an excellent Baptist minister in London, was walking
along one of the crowded streets of t h at city. his at
tention was arrested by the circumstance that a car
t iage with several horses was just passing over a little
girl who was slowly crossing the road. lie strongly
felt the danger of the child, and forgetting his own, he
ran, snatched her up in his arms, and hastened with
her to the side path, when the thought struck bim—
what would the parents of this dear child have felt
had she been killed! At this moment he looked into
the face of the little girl, which had been concealed
from his view by her bonnet; and imagine if you can,
his feelings when he discovered thnt it was his own
daughter! I saw him ahont half an hour after the
occurrence, and never forgot his agitation as he de
scribed to -no the danger, or his expression of thank
fulness to an in initely gracious Being who thus deliver
ed his beloved child from death."
CHOCTAW .—The Vicksburgh Sentinel of the 18th,
in referrring to this tribe of Indians, Las the follow-
"The last remnants of this once powerful tribe are
now crossing our ferry on their way to their new home
in the fur west. To one, wbo like the writer, has
been familiar to their bronze inexpressive faces from
infancy, it brings associations of peculiar sadness to
see them bidding here a last farewell pethaps to the
old hills which gave birth and are doubtless equally
dear to him and them alike. The first playtnents of
our infancy were the young Chactaw boys of the then
woods of Warren county. Their language was once
scarcely less familiar to us than our mother English.
NVe know, we think the character of the Choctaw well.
We knew many of their present stalwart braves in tho.te
days of early life when Indian and white alike forget
disguise, but in the unchecked exuberance of youthful
feeling, show the real character that policy and hab
it may afterwards en much conceal; and see know that
under the stolid stoic look he assumes, there is burn
ing in the Indian's natures heart of fire and feeling—
and an all observing keenness of apprehension that
marks and ritmembers every thing that ocetire,and every
insult he retires. Cunni-at-a-hah! They are going away!
With a visible reluctance which nothing has overcome
but the stern necessity they feel impelling them they have
looked their last on the graves of their sires— tbe scenes
of their youth—and have taken up their slow toiltome
march with their household gods among them to their
new home in a strange land. They I eave names to ma
lty of our rivers, towns, and counties and so long as our
State remains, the Choctaws who once owned most of
her soil, ai II be remembered."
Married,
At Elizabeth, in this county, on Thursday evening,
the 13th inst., by Rev. Hess, Mr JAMES PATI Eason
to Miss HANNAHJ►SE GILFILLAN.
CIRCULAR
The undersigned, Manufacturers, Merchants and
Shippers of the City of Pittsburgh, in order to pre
vent the employment ofa set of men known as",Steart
boat Runner," whose occupation we conceive to be
directly against our interests as well as that of the ci
tizens generally,
Do HEREBY YLEDGE OUtteRLYES to withhold all
shipments or other patronage from any Steamboat
known to employ, directly or indirectly, any of the
said Steamboat Runners.
D Leech & Co, Western Transportation Co.
H & P Graff, Union. Line.
Clarke & Thaw. Peones and Oitio Line.
Willingford & Tuylor, Citizens' Line.
Taaffe & O'Connor, Car Body Line.
John M'Faden, Relisatee Line.
Wm Bingham, Bilsesam's Line.
Charles A M'Anulty, U S Portable Line.
Clarkson &Co. American Line.
L Hutchison & Co. A Beelen,
IVm Holmes &Co. Fersy th & Co,
James Dalzell, Joshua Hanna,
M Allen & Co. Atwood Jones & Co,
J W Burbridge &Co. King &Holmes,
\V & J F Kelly, J Williamson Butler,
A Gordon, Robertson & Reppert,
Church & Caruthers, G M Horton & Cu,
M R Rhey & Co. L St.J D Wick,
Poindexter & Co. W H Campbell & Co,
Jas Park & Co. S Vonbonhorst & Co,
Curling, Robertson & Co. Bailey, Brown &Co.
Bissell & Semple, Wood, Edwards & Mc-
Lyon, Shorb & Co. Knights,
Freeman & Co. G & J H Shoonberger,
Turbet, Royer & M'Dow.Spang & Co,
ell. Lorenz, Sterling &Co,
B tkewell, Pears & Co. Avery, Ogden & Co,
Wm M'Cully & Co. John Anderson & Son,
Bolman &Garrison, C Ihmsen,
Geo Cochran, Robinson & Minis,
P McCormick, J K Moorhead & Co,
Blackstock, Bell & Co, P Mu!vany,
James M'Cully, Wm Wilson, Jr,
James M Cooper, James May,
Sbacklett &Glyde, Wm Bell & Sons,
Bagaley &Smith, Hampton & Smith.
Murphy, Wilson & Co. Isaiah Dickey &Cu,
Alex Henderson, Semple &Barker,
Tiernan & Jones, DT Morgan,
Ii Childs & Co. C Brown & Brothers,
M Leech &Co D Fitzsimmons & Son, .
Hays & Painter. .1 Painter & Co,
R. Robinson &Co. Myers & Co,
H Coulter &Co. Irvin & Martin,
Miller & Rickertson, Ale: Hunter,
S M'Clurkan, W & R M'Cutcheon,
English Sr. Polisher, A G Reinhart,
Jas Anderson, James P Hanna
R Galway, Hamilton &.,IsmOinp,
John Grier, Ewak, Morison & Co,
John Parker, James Chier,
Jos Jordan. - - - .
SchoGl Or IreMr L111411i416 •
/SHE Rev W 3, Mrs and Miss Baknorell, respect
'', fully inform their friends and the public, that
their new quarter will commence on Monday, March
Nth, at the new residence, 'Little's Buildings, foot
of Third, Liberty street.
ml7.lllw*
Wandering Jour, No 8.
HARPER'S BIBLE: Nu. 20.
JUST RECEIVED at Cook's, 85 4 h at., this
morning, a greet variety of now works, among
which are the following:
Harper's Bible, No. 20;
Wandering Jew, " 8;
Blackwood'. Magazine, for February;
Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb, generally
attributed to Sir E. L. Buiwer.
Mount Sorel, or the-adventures of the Da Verse,
by the author of "Two Old men's Tales."
Safia, or the magic of Count Cagliestra.
Phil Puree!, and other stories of Ireland, by Wm.
Carleton, with engravings.
The Comic Miscellany for 1845, by Jao. Poole,
author of Paul Pry.
The Ghost Hunter end his family, by the author of
Tales of the ' 4 O'H are Family."
Englishman in F.gypt, being No 2 of the Home and
Travelling Librar.
Knickerbocker for March.
Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, No 24 and last,
the book being now complete.
Pictorial Histary of the World, by Jno. Frost, L.
L. D.
Living Age. No a.
Supplement to Ure's Dictionary.
Harper's Illuminated Shakspvare, No 39 end 40.
Illustrated "Chimes?' by Dickens, in one neat Hula
volume. mar 17-d2t
Tor Sale
fi NESTS best cucumber, milk and butter bowls;
as./ NJ a supply of churns, tubs and buckets; an as
sortment of all sizes window sash and glass;-Louisville
lime, by the bbl. or retail; bed chalk, and clothes lines;
carpet chain, Coffee mills, ales, hatchets, augurs, mat.:
tocks, shovels, and spades. IarFLIBITURE FOR
SALE cheap for Cash, &c., by
ISAAC HARRIS, Ag't and Corn.
mar 17-4td&l tut Merchant, No 9, Stit st.
Carpet and Paper Rags and Country Carpet,
&c. bought.
Notice.
rvins is to warn all persons from purchasing of
1 Alex. C. Forts, my note for $3O —on %hid::
there is a receipt for s.l—as 1 . am determined not to
pay it, having received no value for the same.
mar 17-(l3t GEORGE BAER.
Fancy Hardware, Just Received.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs his friends
and the public, that be is now opening a fine as
sortment of Fancy house-furnishing Hardware, con•
sisting in part of
Table Cutlery, Britannia table and tea spoons;
German silver tea and table spoon.;
Britannia Tea Setts, Coffee and Tea Pots,
Sugar Bowls and Crea n Jugs, (seperate,)
Japanned Tea Waiters, Bread Trays;
Silver Plated and German Silver framed Castors,
with 4, 5 and 6 bottles;
Britania framed do, Silver Plato Candlesticks;
Brass do., Snuffers add Tiava;
Fire Irons in seta and single pairs;
Fire Fenders, (of various sizes;)
Chimney Hooks;
Solar Lard Lamps, Britannia and Japanned hand
Window and Curtain Bands, Glass Curtain Pins
(for blinds) of all the various sizes. With a variety of
other articles too numerous to mention, all of which
will be offered at unusually low prices.
THOS. A. HILLIER,
House-fur i ali ing Warehouse, 104 Wood at.,
mar 17. below Fifth.
Dissolution of Partnership.
THE partnership heretofore existing between
M'Gargili & Maguire, was dissolved by mutual
consent on the 7th day of February, 1645, James M'-
Gargill is alone authorized to settle up the business of
the firm. JAMES M'GA RGILL,
WM. A. MAGUIRE.
N. B. I will he in attendance at the Store of J. N.
Bausman, on Smithfield, between First and Second
streets, where all persons having dealings with 1W-
Gorgill & Maguire, late Coal Merchants, will please
call. Persons indebted to said firm will take notice,
that all bills not settled in two weeks from this date,
will be left io the hands of proper officers for collec
tion. JAMES IWG ARGIL L.
Pittsburgh, March, 15,1845-at
PRZI4III ARRIVAL,
At No. 49, Liberty St.,
P. DELANY,
RESPECTFULLY invites the early attent'on o
his friends and all who are about supplying
thenas. Ives with
SPRING AND SUMMER
CLO/HING,
To his present stock, which he has purchased in the
cities of PHILADELPHIA and NEW Yeast,
A7' STILL LOWER PRICES THAN
HERETOFORE.
This stock is large, and comprises
EVERY DESCRIPTION
Of PasMesabi* and New Style Goods,
in his line of Business. The very liberal patronage
given to the subscriber, enables him to employ per
sons competent to cut and make work it such a style,
as will be SURE TO PLEASE, and at least
TWENTY PER CENT LOWER
than they can otherwise suit themselves. A glance
at the Goods and Prices will gausfy any good judgo
that he can get
BETTER GOODS, AT LOWER PRICES,
(made or unmade.) than are to be found at any other
establishment, patticularly articles of a superior
quality.
TUTS IS TICE PLACE
Where a GOOD DRESS COAT for from
$8 to 9 and $lO, of any fashionable color,
CLOTH AND MAKING WARRANTED,
o:7' Made to order at the same prises.
CASSIMERE PANTALOONS,
for from to $3 30, anti $4 and 5 dollars—fine
qualities in proportion. French and English Cloth
COATS MADE TO ORDER.
And ready made far from $l2 to 14, 15, and 18 dol
lars. A great variety of
171113 7- Ze &ND 77,8 EMIZIOr
Of the most elegant and varied style--a large assort
ment on hand. Every description of
TWEED COATS
For from 2to 3 and 4 dollars. Also, a general va-
riety of other SUMMER WEAR, with a general
stock of
SHIRTS, STOCKS, HANDKERCHIEFS, SUS
PENDERS, and all other articles in the Clothing
line,
20 MINUTES,
spent in looking through the finery of this establish
ment will be better spent, and save more money than
could be saved by looking through half the tailor shops
in the city,
Walk in at 49
You will be sure to get exactly what you want—or
something better.
mar •
I_s P. DE,LANY.
Spring Fashion.
No 93 Wood Si, Third door below Diamond Alley.
„A HAVING JUST RECEIVED FROM
New York, the SPRING FASHION ft/I'll/IMA
I am now, prepared to supply my customers and all
those who may please to favor me with • call, with
this new sod beautiful style of Hat.
mar 14-ddlcw2m S. MOORS.
(Western Star copy.)
Leaking Glasses! Looklas Glasses !
CHEAP! CHEAP!! CHEAP!!!
THE subscriber has now in stores large assortment
THE
Glasses of his own and Easter* New
sfeeiwie, of superior quality and lawer prices than
can.beebtained west of the Mountains. Persons about
refitratshing their houses for the Spring, and merchant*,
would do well to call and examine before purchasing
elsewhere, as the undersigred is determined not to be
alciersoki by any establishment in his line in this city.
All work of frames will be warranted to be of seasoned
lumber, and plates of the first quality of importation,.
N. B. All kinds of repairing attended tnandGiasso
es removed and re-hung.
THOS. A. HILLIER,
Looking Glass mansifacturer,lo4 Wood year .stb.
mar I 5-2 wci
Shawls Al pliccas, cashmeres /Vows..
83. Market Street, Pittebargk. 83.
SELLING OFF AT COST.
p E. CONSTABLE reTirste the attention ofthe
public to his stock of shawls; consisting of
Blanket Cloth, Cashmere, embroidered Thibet era,
Belvidere, and Broohe, at prices ranging from 50 cents
up to $l2. • •
Alpaccas, figured and plain, !lamellas, Zonobit
Cloths, &c., at from 18t cents up tmso and 1-2.
Cashmeres' D'Costo frum 25 up to 50 cents, the new
est imported styles.
Just received, another lot of Flannels, imported as
the only kind that is not li.Sle to shrink. jan 15
To the Beau Monde of Pittsburgh.
LA POLKA.
A BONNAFFON is now prepared to tiinsidi the
/1.
. above dance, together with Polka quadrilles as
danced in Paris, London, and the fashionellges of the
Eastern Cities of the Union, the original music of width
A. B. will perform himself to his scholars. The courser
(and one course only, having made arrangements to
go South,) will commence on Monday the 17th but.,
at Duquesne Hall; from 9 o'clock A. M. till 10 for la
dies; from II to 12 and 12 to 1 for gentlemen; fmm 4
to 5. P. M , fur misses; from 5 to 6 for masters; from
Bto 9 a clue of gentlemen for dancing. Should the
above classes exceed 10 scholars in each, more time
will be devoted. At the expiration of the course, A.
B. hill give a Polka party. Terms for a course of 12
lessons, $B, being two dollars less, and two lessons more
than in the East.
The dancing. under an entire new system as used by
Monsieur Hazard, of Philadelphia, and lately from
Paris. Also, many uow Cotillions, in the Gallopade
style.
P. S. Under no consideration or excuse will
spectators be admitted in the room during the hours of
tuition. Applications made at A. Bonnairon's resi
dence. Fourth street. mar 14-3 t.
----
For Salo or Bent. .
T HAT fi ne House, and eleven acres of with
Stabling, Gardener's House, and other improve
ments. situate near the U. S. Arsenal. and formerry oc
cupied by Williath Little. Possession Riven immedi
ately. Apply to GEORGE BREED.
mar 14-4 t
D. C. STOCKTON. WM. STOCKTON-.
D. C. STCKIZTON & CO.,
(LATK STOCKTON, DICK CO.)
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
COMMISSION AND FORWARDING MERCHANTS.
No. 114, Wood street,
PITTSBURGH. PA.
M.
TIERNAN. S. 0. MURPHY, J. A. INHAMMI.
MURPUY, WILSON & .
tiz
(Successors to Jones, Murphy 4. Co-)
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN DRY G00D5:4V....
No. 48 Wood Street, Pittsburgh. : : t,);
RE now receiving a splendid assartmentorilpiiii
ll_ Dry Goods, to which constant additions olmoltbebe made throughout the season.
City Dealers and Merchants visiting the city, Sr.
respectfully invited to examine 'licit stock before.pur
chasing. They will find terms and prices altogether
sofisPclory. mar 12-dlvrlas
Valuable Property.
DUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that by order
of the Orphans' Court of Allegheny county, held
in the city of Pittsburgh, in and for said county, on
the Bth day of July, A. D, 1844, will be exposed to
sale by Public Vendue or Outcry, on Thursday the 10th
day of April, A D., 1845, or the premises, at 2 o'clock,
P. M., four certain — contiguou s Lots or pieces of
Ground, situate on the south side of the Monongahela
River, in St Clair township, Allegheny county'afore
said, in the town of Birmingham, marked in the gen
eral plan of said town Nos. 94, 95, 101 and 102, bound
ed by iota Nos. 87 and 88, by Ne el Ile street, by other
ground and by the Monongahela River. The said lots
95 and 102 containing together in breadth on Neville
street aforesaid 120 a le_et, and in length 95 feet, the
said 94 and 101 containing together in breadth 120
Feet, and in length from said lets 95 and 102 to the
Monongahela River, with the appurtenances, being
part of the estate of James Patterson, Sr. late of All&
gbenv county aforesaid, dec'd.
Terms of Sale—one third of the purchase money
in hand, and the balance, one thitd in nine months
from date of sale, and the other one third in eighteen
months (tom date of sale with interest, the said two
thirds to be secured by bond and mortgage on the
properly so sold.
JAMES PATTERSON,
WM. O'LEARY. s Executors.
march 14-w&citloap
GLASS STAINING,
By J. Netotox, Fourth street Road. sear Toll Gate,
T HE only Glass Stainer west cf the mountains. A
specimen of this glass is to be seen nn the steam
boat Cambria. All orders promptly attended to.
feb. 19—w &dlr.
Granges and Lemons.
9 K BOXES Oranges and Lemons in prime order
eriel for sale low by I'. C. MARTIN,
mar 13 60 Water street.
Smoked Herring,
20 BOXES smoked andscaled Lubec Herring,
for sate low by I'. C. MARTIN.
mar 13 60 Water street.
Potatoes.
3n BARRELS Neshannock Potatoes, for sale low
k/by P. MARTIN,
mar 13. 60 Water greet
U,
IST RECEIVED.n superior lot of Sugar House
Syrup, in bbls and half bbls; also a fine loud
Sugar House Molasses.
mar 12 CHURCH & CAROTHERS.
JUST RECEIVED on consignment per Steam.
fla/ era Hibernia and Monongahela :
130 Boxes superior Cincinnati Soap;
50 " " Star Candles, 4s, 5s and 60;
For sale by
mar 12
CHURCH & CAROTHERS
IMPROVED LARD OIL, of superior quality,
entirely free from Gum and equal to the beat
Sperm Oil; a few bbls received on consignment and
for tale by
mar 12
CHURCH & CAROTHERS
'
BARRELS White Fish:
4J JO Drums Codfish; for sale low to closo con
signment. M B RIIEY & Co,
mar 13.
Medias' Chests lior Steam Beats.
THE subscriber has 'now on band twenty medicine
chests (of various sizes and prices, for sale cheap
or cash. WM. THORN,
feb 22 Druggist, 53 Market at., Pittsburgh.
Colas at Last.
ALOT of the reel Goshen Cheese, of very !Appe
riur quality and flavor.
mar 13
Oranges and. Lemons.
AFEW boxes prime Lemons and sweet Oranges.
just received and fur sale by
A G REINHART,
140 Liberty et.
Peaches.
2Q BACKS for sale by
Q ear 13. Mll RHEY & Co.
A. G. REINHART.
140 Liberty at