lay" believe that the Gazette will suc
ceed Matti) . illorlttitg post. e cannot
in making .
the Raul Road, a party question, but
he is evidently very anxious tobring about such a state
of things. The people will tyke care of themselves at
the ensuing election—the Gazette's cry of "stort4tief,"
is well understood. The people are determined to
send men to tlaitisburgh who are able to serge 'them,
and secure the important object, which at• present
engrosses so much of public attention. We say
again, there will be a decided Democrntic majori
tyin both branches or the Legislature, and that it is
ch%rly our poficy to send men to Haerisborgh 004ro
cnn consistently harmonize with that majority.
JOHN BIGLER, Eniton
PITTSBURGH, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1845.
nr V B. PA I.MEn. Agent for (-notary newspapers,
is the Agent for the Pittsburgh Daily Morning Post,
sad Weekly Mercury and Manufacturer, to receive
advertisements and suburiptions. He has offices in
Nita/ Yong, at the Coal Office, 30 Ann street, (ad
..toioipg the Tci,une Office.)
, o po sf ros, 1g#.,12, State street.
PIIITILADF.LritIe, Real Estate and Coal Office:s9
Pine street.
Biutitllo4, Sit 'corneijikaltitnnee owl Calvert - au,
rhoie bat can be seen, arra terms' of adverti
Ilegilpi - VOLJNTY TlCitVr•
'141,49111 fit •
EL W. Pittsburgh.
„,+,4OM AS DONNELLY, Allegheny city
00.181 cOpPglt. Moon.
WM. L. MILLER, Vera/lilies.
C.LLRK OF TEE COURT.
:41r4.7.8.. KERR, Allegheny city.
COUNTY TREASURER.
T. SLACKMORE, Lower St. Clair.
• . RECORDER.
~; J. C.'IIKT:LLY, tipper Sr. Clair.
• REGISTER.
EDWARD M'COItKLE, Indiana.
COMMISSION' E.R.
JOSEPH E. M'CABE, Fayette
AUDITOR.
JOHN H. M'ELHENY, Jefferson.
WAR WITH MEXICO
11? The Administration, we are pleased to learn ,
is resolved to act with
_promptness, and be fully
prepqr7d, to tr4e,"short wort: of a war with Mexico,
sh f ostql thlitidater determine upowsuch a course.
Should Mexico . declace war, and it is now generally
believed that she will, it. is the true policy of our gov
nentient., to meet her at the onset with a force that
eanttatiltit of success. We commenced the war Of
1812 - entirely unprepared, anti the consequence was,
that sufllll, very much during the first sixmonths,
we
kutve , no , douht the advantages gained by our
eneinftit - ifs'e:oiniriericeraent,.prOlonged its duration.
It is unwise to underrate the enemy; concede to him
all thicx, force Ite-,can claim, and prepare promptly to
fiilliowirte• from the Nifn shi even Union
0 the 20th, is worthy of emeriti eonsideietion. The
Union.anya: "Wegive invertion to the following mem
orandum, from a respectable, citizen of the United
States; who has very recently returned. to this country
from a residence of se-ne twelve years in the interior
of Mexico, and whose statements, from his intelli- I
price, and the great opportunity be has had for under
standing what he speaks of, arc entitled to moro than
oixlinaiv attention.
The correspondent (whom we know, rind biddy
apprecint:! the honesty of Lk statements,) writes from
"Washington, July 24th," and says:
"As it seems to be a settled point that Texas is to
be a component part of our republic, it is suggested, I
Observe, in anent the New Orleans papers. that regu
lar trrwrps, should he stntioned by the United States on
the R.inGrande. If that be a settled point, I coincide
with him; hut I must disagree with him when he save
that those troops will require no commissary depart
ment. On 'he contrary, they will require a large and
well organized one. The provisions for this army
have all to be conveyed from New Orleans; for no
where else coin thPy be procured. The Mexican
troops now stationed in Mniamoins are, and have al
ways) been, supplied from New Orlenns— the only it'll
,de to be produced in the neighborhood being fresh
wientistnek is some abundance bring procurnble, but
not in sufficiency for the daily supply of nn army of
six or ten thrmsnmi men. I have lived some years in
abet country, and pretend to know som/iinii of its
•proautta. 1 passed thretigh Malamorns in Marrh.
Where !here were two regiments supplied entirely from
Newt/0451mi. If the Mexican. have been obliged to
buy from New Orleans all those artickne, hew mach
more neceiwary.will it not be fur us to supply an army
in the same manner?
4 1 think we have calcoltited ton lightly on the resin
-fence which Mexico will offer to our occupation of
Tessa. Mexico has a very conniderable army on the
frontier; the officer in command (General Arista) in
active and brave, and can cross the intervening desert
with his light cavalry, and commit immense damage,
arstretireagaio, without our pcenenting any obstacle
taitissulvancte or his retreat. We have been indtwed
to.believe the Mexicans to be cowardly. Are.
nftaidthat we have trusted too much to this belief.—
Arista had with him at Monterey in March last. two
Manama three hundred cavalry and a battalion of nix
hundred runaway ne2roe. from Texan. well drilled in
flying artillery tactics, ready for marching.
• • • a • • • v.
44 should not he motorised if Mexico should now
have an army of fifteen thousand ravnlry and flvine ar.
tillery on the river between Embargo end Monrlovn.
save know well that all the troops who took part
with Santa Anna have been sent north by the new gov
ernment, while new troop ;.(orririeos) havet nk en their
places in Jalapa, Orizaba, Gnadalarrtra, &c.
"I do hope that our government will torn its atten
tion seriously to this vohj , ct,nnd in time; for it would
be grievous to be worsted at the commencement by .o
weak a govermitentaa that of Mexico. Ati:ta k en
terprising sod ambitions, and is by no means ignorant
of the resources of this country. He has lived for
-years in • Cincinnati and other parts of the United
Stites. War we shall have in the event of our mew
pation of Texas; and I hope it may not find its onnrera
red. C. W. D."
"Let us not too much despise our enemy," is the
sentirnentof a brave man, who writes its, from Virgin
ia, on Tuesday last, flint '•it is neecessary, too, to call
for nen enough to man tha forts on the seaboard,
watch the Indians, and aid Texas. Let us not hlun—
det as we aid in the late war. by calling a handful of
men to the Bela. To make a short and light war, we
dhould take force 'to terminate it at once. But a war
with Mexico is viewed too lightly in several respects,
Itwillbe very expensive, and, if I HT not mistaken,
willmoe be terminated as long as we permit it to be
ene of posts only. Mexico has had preparatiooa on
handlor three months. We should act with great
proraptkdde. Remember, besides the interests of
those immediately-cor cerned, the national character is
at stake. We shall be Lenten in the field of politics,
if not in the field avrms. Do not underrate your ad
versity. Mexico;llbutigh ignorant and enervated, is
yet strong. She basa.population of 10,000000,and must
not, under the circumstances, be despised. To give
us eclat, we must go to work like men_
lasP' The American of Saturday, admits that the
Democratic candidates for the Legislature are friendly
to*the Rail Road. bet insists that they are not the
men that can secure' the passage of a Rail Road bill.
The Ameiicain -con not be serious in this; the editor
knows Bali 'that the candidates on the Democratic
Ticket are all men of very general intelligence—men of
Rind, and men of great industry and perseverance.
If such men icarrnot succeed at firirrisburgh; if they
canaot get right of way for die Baltimore and Ohio
Bail Road, what will bee-smear that important inter
est ifentrusted to the care of the nominees of the Whig
party. We did not say that Mr Donnelly had been
longer a resident of Allegheny county than the editor
of the American; we call' that he had been longer •
citizen of the county.
Mln the case Of the Commonwealth vs. Charles
Toward, says the Ilartjsburzh Argus, for larceny, the
defendant was found guilty of stealing a woman's cloak
ot l ltottrd a packet boat. He V.;1123 arrested at. Harris
burgh, a box of his opened, and the cloak found is it.
His trunk was opened, and a number of keys, saws,
files, and other instruments of burglary found. After
he was put in prison, the keeper found in his boot
seveml drafts drawn by a merchant in Pittsburgh on
persons in New York, to the amount of about $40,000
which drafts were sent to the Pittsburgh Post Office.
How Howard came by them is n mystery.
In the case of the Commonwealth vs. George M.
Lnuman, for assault and battery on Horace M. Mar
tin, the defendant plead guilty. and was sentenced to
pay a Lao ofsloo and costs. The offence was cowhi
ding Martin by ',Rumen for articles which appeared
in the Pennsylvanian, published in Philadelphia, and
written by Martin.
COIN AG v.—The following abstract shows tie total
amount of cninnge at the Mint and branch Mints, for
the month of July, viz:
"In eagles, $55.000; in half eagles, $131,000; in
quarter eagles, $5,737 50—total in gold, sl9l
737 50.
In half dollars. $71,000; in mintier ti-illars, $15,-
000; in dimes, $129,000; in half dimes. s4o,ooo—to
till in silver, $264,000.
In cents, $1,343 67.
Total value of the coinage of the month of July
last, $459,031 IT.
Total number of pieces of gold coined, 34.015.
Total number of pieces of silver, 2,472,000.
Total number of cents coined, 334.367.
Total number of pieces coined, 2,840,382.
DROUGHT ON IRIS RESERYW..—Tho Cleveland
Herald, of the 19th inst., says while we have been La•
vored with shunsinntly refreshing showers. 'time of
our city leaders may be surprised to learn that our
Reserve friends aregenerally parched with drought. At
Oberlin and vicinity the drought continues with unaba
ted severity. and the grasshoppers have done much in
jury. In portions of Summet, and most if not all of
Portage coauty, the earth remain" unmoistened, the
fields presenting, a bare and quite desolate appearance.
In some-sections of Portage myriads of grasshoppers
have stripped fields of everything green, even to the
leaves ftom apple orchards, and the bark from currant
bushes.—Oats, potatoes, corn and grass., have 'offered
alike from their Nnischei , mus depredations.—Such is
the scarcity of fodder and bad prospect for wintering
cattle, that some of the best and most extensive dairy
farmers are disposing of their choice stocks of cows at
from $5 to G per head. Others are clubbing together
and making arrangements for wintering their stock
abroad, and contemplate purchasing corn in the South
ern volleys of the State to carry them through the
coming winter.
Horns WANTED.—The Newark Daily Adveriiscr
contains an adversisemeat requesting all persona of
the name of Townl..y. and descendants of that name.
to meet ar Elizabethtown, N J, on the 21st instant., to
make arrangements for prosecuting their cleim to
a very lege estate in England, which has been ascer
tained to have been left by will to heirs in this coun
try.
SLAVERY IR Mia.l94itri.—By a pmviAon in the
constitution of Nlied.sirpi the introduction of slaves in
to thatState,i. prohibited after the present year. This
prohibition extends not only to the introduction of
slares 83 mercharylise, but settlers within the State ran
not import them for their own use. This state of
things induced the Legislature, at its last session to
anthoriße the people to vote on n proposition to rhange
thin provision. It excites general attention, the New
Orleans Bulletin thinks that the popular sentiment is
against any change.
Mr Abell of Carrollton. wan killed Initt week by
the "damp" in a well in which he wn at work. He
wss micendittz, and struck the"rinmp" 15 feet from
the bottom, and feinting fell, tincturing 6i. skull
He wee taken up dead.
There are now in South Carolina upwards of
fifteen Cotton Manufacturing establishments. These
cotton factories have confined themselves to the pro
duction of van and the corirs.r cotton fohiirs, in
which they have of late been doing a very good busi-
o:7"rhe Washington City Union, of August 20,
says, the President of the United states made a visit
of inspection to-day to the General Post Office. We
undertake to say that he found everything in good Or_
der.
UT' A woman in Amherst, upon brooking a large
hen's egg. the other day, found within the Abell what
appeared to be another egg, upon breaking which still
another shell was found, and so on till five shells or
eggs were found enclosed %viable the outer one.
VIOLATING THE SABBATH.-A number of the store
keepers of Cincinnati have recently been "hauled over
the coals" for keeping their stores open on the Sab
bath day. On Friday last, 16 of them were each
fined $4 and coots, and one $lO.
ARTI-RENTERS. The Lieinptons,Verplanks, Arm
stronge, and other non-resident proprietors of landed
estates in the middle counties of New York, publish a
card in the Albany Argus, declaring their leadinesa to
sell the lands to tenants, in fee, "on fair terms."
Cr A writer from the White Sulrhur Springs,
ayi—that the proprietor of the Hotel has one hun
dred and twenty-nine dogs, consisting of grey-hounds,
pointers, &c., and a corresponding proportio,i of fine
horses. The profits of this Hotel per season are
never less than $50,000, and sometimes amount to
$90,000-.
AN UNDECAYED BODY
Letter from Col Todd, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary in Russia.
22J June,
1 1845
Si. PEWEILISISURG, 4th July,
MY DEAR Srst:—There is a singular case of an un
decayed bodvat Revel, an anciewt German town on
the present Russinn shore of the Baltic. T visited
the church in which it is preserved, and where it is
eabibited to strangers. I t is the body of an old gentle.
man in a military dress worn in the year 1710. The
body is perfectly dry; some of the teeth and white
hairs are in a perfect state. The skin is of a brown
color, and was represented, when first exposed to the
air, to be very elastic. If you strike the chest or the
itgives a Loll°, sound. Tile etackjap are mar
y decoyed, but the boots are entire, and the halts of
the wig are in a good condition.
Some thirty years ago• when the church was repair
ed, the coffin was found in a separate room, under a
great quantity of furniture and old rubbish. When
the •coffin was opened the skin was of a lighter color
than it is now. liy a paper found in the coffin, and by
dre church records, it was °sect wino:l to be the body of
acGenera I Duke de 'Croy, who was a Frenchman, and
entered the Russian, service in vhe time of Peter the
Great, about the year 1696, and was employed in the
war with Sweden. At the bailie of isiurva, in which
the Hessians were defeated, fie shut himself up in the
fortress of Nurve,and capitulated. After his return
from Sweden, he resided as a ptivate per-on in Revel,
and incurred heavy debts. At his death in the begin
ning of the 18th century, his creditors did ndt allow his
friend's to bury the body until his heirs should pay his
debts. The body remained in the church, unburied,
and was kept in a dry room under ground, and it is
suppiiiied by some, that the composition of the soil
(which is chalk and limestone) preserved it from cle
coy;but I incline to the opinion, that the great degree
of cold that is said to have prevailed It; a the time of his
death, and the influence of the oak wood of which the
coffin was made. contributed to this rare result. It
produced a strange feeling on touching the hands and
face of a dead body buried 130 years ago, and that re.
sembles a petrifaction.
I am, with great respect,yours, truly, ss s
FRANCIS M•RROC, Jr , esq.,
Corresponding Sen'y of Nat. Institute,
Washington City
From the "Milwaukie Sentinel.
NAVAL STATION AT MILWAUKIE
The Skip Canal—Rock River Rapids—Ship Build
ing—Marine Barraci,s, ‘l..c
Wedesirc to impress upon the attention of the Gen
oral Government the importance of this city as a Na
val Station, in connection with the construction of a
Ship Canal between Lake Michigan and the 'Mississip
pi river. Lust week we endeavored to show the de
rided advantage that the government would expeti
encoin establishing that communication throne) Wis
consin. Many of our arguments in that article adds.
red facts that were incontrovertible, and plainly and
forcibly preponderated over the Illinois routes.
The object of this article is to dwell somewhat
more minutely upon the many acknowledged advanta
ges Milwaiikie and its vicinity possesses fir Site esheh
lishment of a Naval Station. There seem to'be 'fuer
points on the river, either of which could be made a
vailable, and converted into a Naval establishment nt
a compnrwively trilling expense. The dredging at
either of these points need not exceed 60,000 cubic
pods. which, at 10 cents per yard, would amount to
$6.000.
Thisis intended for 6 feet deep nn n basis of 4 feet
original water, aggregating nine feet in depth on an
area of 6000 yards. Suppose this basin to he docked
en idrrev sides, it will cost fur a very good dock $2 per
foot-3300 feet would be $6600. This would give
the government a basin of sufficient size for all Naval
purposes of an expense of only $12,600. Land can
be obtained at any one of these points fur a mere nom
inal sum. sufficient for a Ship Yard, Marine Barracki,
Forging establishments, wharves, &c.
The great quantity of excellent ship timber with
which our immediate forests abound, is another im
portant consideration. for it can he procured at a much
kss expense than at Chicago, and with greater facility.
TI ere are alto Furnaces and H tdentilic machinery in
the tipper part of the city, whore many essential requi
sites for the estaliliAlment of the Naval Station could
be procured at a much less expense than Euced.
These four points that we. have alluded to, are so
situated as to he almost inaccessible to an enemy on
every side, without first destroying n greater part of
the city, while they at the same time are handily loca
ted on the river, and easy of ingress or egress for our
own Navy. Another fact we wish to r'vet upon the
•ttention of the Government is, that the construction
of the atop canal through Wi women, and the shack
water and side cut improvements on Rock River, will
npen a channel around the ''Rork River Rapids" on
the Mississippi, thereby enabling vessels and stenm
boats of a large class to ascend the Mississippi ahove
that point which they can only du now in time of ex.
ceeding high water.
From the Boston Transcript
ASTONISHING FACTS IN RELATION TO
THE E6YPTI A N PYRAMIDS
Thr mnt,thils of which the T., ramids are con•t ruct.
nfrord scope for long di.& , ertro ion, because indepen
dent of the Pci , nce anti .kill retpiidite for their adop
tion, the distance. from which molt of them were
brouz,lit prove that each montireVa .way extended all
over Egypt and lower Nubia, Knot la Nond; and in r<Ja•
tint+ to thi. sol , :io , lt we gather the following facts from
Mr. Giddon. new cotir!e.
Geologically considered, Egypt is a very peculiar
country, the quarrie s of different] kinds of .tone lying
at grennt distances from each other,in distinctlymarked
localities. If you .V . c a piece of !meat on the lienrh of
the Mediterranean, you know ihnt there is no basaltic
quarry nearer than between the first and second catnr
act, and, when you find a block ef granite nt Memphis.
you know that no granite exists bet at the first cataract
'veneer than the peninsula of Mount Sinai. Every
civilisation and extended dominion is indicated in
these'facts, and when we reflect upon them we almost
think we witness the work of I ran.pertai ion going on;
that we see the boil hors, and the building themselves
in process ill' eremion.
The blocks of Arabian limestone esed in the interi
or of the pyramids riesre brought Rom the ancient
quarries of Tomah, on the opposite side of the Nile,
distant about 15 or 2.15 miles from each pyramid.
These very rputrities nrevast hills ns it were rscaveted
in the living rock, wherein entire armies might encamp,
are adorned with now mutilated tabbits teerraiirg the
age of their respective npentings lrydiffierent Phenol's,
not only show the very beRA whence the stupendous
blocks of some of the pyramids were taken; but are in
themselves works as wondrous and sublime as the
Memphis Pyramids! Nay, nt the very font of these
quarries are the countless tombs and Sarchophagi of
unnumbered generations of ancient quartymenl
These quart ies are of intense archwelogical interest,
because the tablets nn them recorded that stone was
cut in them for Mephis, oci such a day, such a month,
such ayear; of such I king, and these kings begin from
'lie re. note times before the 16th dynasty, and at dif
ferent intervals come down with many of the others,
till we reach the Ptolumie. epach; and end with Latin
inscriptions similar to others in Egypt, attesting that
"these quarries were worked" in the propitious era of
our Lords and Emperors Serverus and A ntonius. thus
enabling, us to descend almost step by step from the re
mote antiquity of 2200 years H. C., down to 200 years
after the Christian era. The hand of modern berba •
rism, prompted by the destructiveness of Mahommed
Ali, has since 1830, done more to deface these 'tilde's,
to blow up many of these halls in sheer wantonness,
than has been effected by time in 4000 years.
Every atom of the hundred thousand tons of granite
used in pyrifilids was cut at Syene, the first cataract
distant 641) miles. The blocks of some of which are
40 feet lung, had to be cut out of their beds with
wooden wedges and copper chisels; then polished
with emery till they were as smooth as glass, and
then carried by land half a mile to the river—placed
on rafts and floated down 640 miles to Memphis—
brought by canal to the foot of the'Lybianchnin--con
veyen by land over gigantic causeways from one mile
to three in length to the pyramids for which they were
intended, and then elevated by machinery and placed in
their present position, with a skill and mnsanic preci•
sion that has confounded the most scientific European
engineer with amazement.
The basalt sarcophagi that once held the mummy
of the Pharaohs, in the inmost recesses of these pyra
midal mausoleums, 84 feat long by 3i broad, and 3
deep, were all brought from Lower Nubia, and from
the basaltic quarries of the 2d cataract, not nearer than
750 miles up the river! Looking into the interior of
the pyramids there is much to stagger belief —to excite
our admiration
In the pyramid of three steps, the upper beams that
Support the roof of the chamber are of oak. larch and
cedar, not one of which trees grow in Egypt, and es
tablish the fact of the timber trade with Illyria, Asia
Minor and Lebanon in ages long before Abraham.—
In the fragments of a mummy the cloth is found to be
saturated with "Pissasphaltum"—Jew's pitch or bitu
men Judiacum, compounded of vegetable pitch from
the Archipelago, and of asphaltum of the Dead Sea
in Palestine; we find Gum Arabic that does not grovi
less than 1200 miles front the Pyramid, attesting that
commerce with Uprper Nubia.
The gold leaf came from the mines of Suakin on
the Red St-a, or from remote Fezogla. The liquor
which cleaned out the body of thomntrimy was codria,
the fluid. rosin of the pinus cedrus—that grows not
nearer than Syria. The spices send us to the Indian
Ocean—the aloes to Succatra—iberintiemon toCeylon,
the ancient Taprohne—and then the arts and sciences
brought tobear upon the pyramids that must have or
rived at perfection long before that day, are not only
themes fur endless reflections, but (Nip us to confess
that in chronology we ure but Children.
Among his novel and strange assertions in relation
to the science of the Egypi inns, Mr. Gichion,maintain.
ed that from the very nature of their countrit and the
vast fossil remains in their quarries, the Egyptian
priests must have been geologists. and referred to his
chapte , rs for the remarks of the priest of Solen. ' , You
mentioned one deluge only. whereas many happened"
—and other evidences, that the Egyptians recognize
in their mythology and chronology of the world, vast
periodsnitime and anterior to the creation of man.
From the Clarion Democrat.
CLARION—THE IRON COUNTY.
The mineral wealth of Clarion county is great—al
!Mit beyond calculation. Its devolopment. is but re
cently fairly begun. The enterprise of our citizens is
just putting itself forth, destined in a few years. to-con
vert our crude minerals into gold. and raise our coun
ty to a high place among the wealthiest and most impor
tant in the State. To give the public some idea of the
increase of business here, we give, below a list of the
furnnces in operation before 1893, as well as times,
since built, and those now building or to be bui t, with
in the limits of our country. We doubt whether any
other county in the State can show a similar advance
meet.
C. S. TODD
Old Furnaces.
Clarion Furnace, Hon C Myers.
Lucinda " Jno Reynolds & son.
Clinton " Clapp, Seymour &Clapp
Shippenville "
Forge. } Shippen & Black.
Beaver Furnace, Long, Blackstone & Co.
Jetiet dell " Pkuner, Crenry & Ca.
Madison 4' Lyon, Shotb &'Ce.
New Pun-oares.
1843 Elk Farnace, Wm 13 Fetzer,
1844 Deer Creek, Kerr & Hasson.
" Buchanan, Plumer, Creary & Co.
.1845 Mary Ay.n, John Black & Co.
Cantos, Black & Maxwell.
Hemlock, Fetzer & Maguito.
Beaver tp , Whithill.& Co.
Helen, Barber & Packer.
Turkey Run, Keating &NVentzell,
Polk, Hon C Myers,
Monroe tp., Long & Blackstone.
. Monroe, Cochran Fulton.
Sligo, Lyon, Shoih & Co,
Caillensburg, Ales'r& MeLlmy.
Pike, Duff, Lawson & Orr. "
\Vila Cat, Flick & Lawson, •
Corisenque, S & J Wilson.
Perry rp , Welch Comeelts.
Be:ides these twenty sever estahliAltruerns-T-six
tx•en of which LiIIV the w.,rk • . , year, there are some
others talked of that m 4 be undertaken linfote the
year is nut. So Inuit tor Denawratic little Clarion,
and the ruinous COliequetiCet of Dernociatic nobninie
trat ion?.
It is gratifying to find that there still exists nn in
terest in behalf of the remnant of our red brethren
who are yet living on Long Island amidst eiviliration,
in small communities, mostly half breeds, bust preser
ving many of their aboriginal habits and customs.—
How much more phil•nthropic and truly kind and elute
itable is this interest than stealing negrnes nr send•
ing abolitionists among the Southern negroes to create
dissatisfaction and rebellion. Attempts were made
as fur back as 1741 to bring them within the rinks of
the church, lint all ate now extinct except two little
bans's, the Poosepaluck near Brookhaven, and the
SAinitecock near Southampton—they hotel' smell
meeting house at each of these places wit a few
scattering members remaining. In old limes the
tribes on Long Island used to have one great annual
nssemblage called the June meeting, and it is still
observed by the Indians and their allies the colored
people of the Inland. The ancient wigwam held at
Poosepattick, three miles from !Moriches was the site
of the last June meeting. which took place on the Ruh.
"By 10 o'clock," says a correspondent of the N. Y.
Observer, the hour of assemblage—the whole plain
was alive and all in motion.
Some 150 carriages, from the four horse stage to
die ',man pleasure ibitL.on, each emit:ming from ten to
twelve down to a Hugle pair. were on the ground;
while scores of youngsters in their teens, evidently as
piring to become bucks Mill beaux, when a little more
down should 'grace their chins, were scampering on
horseback over the lawn. The adjacent watets, toe,
were s• hitetted with sail boats, from the little wherry
to the small perciauger of ten or twelve tons. Not one
fou r th part of the multitude could get within the walls
of the rhombi, or within sound of the speaker's voice,
And I rim sorry to say that the greater part of thole
excluded manifosted no desire to hear, and appear to
have come for quite another purpose.
The most of the coloted people obtained a sent
within the house. it was a diversified assemblage of
all 40111,1041f1t color, from the bright copper in he jet
black, Ate sinsieht black Lair, and high cheek
bones of the few, and thin curly locks and broad fea
ture; of the many, gave the most nnegnivocal evidence
of the runraces. Of bollnliese classes were
some of the most noble specimens. I never beheld
more venerable (orb - Lilian some of the need men pre
sented. Milne others a ppenred in the vigor of youth,
or in the full ;ft ength of manhood."
After praters. the table was spread with primitive
simplicity. the bread on a pewter plate, the ‘sine in
glass vessels. Deacon Obadiah Ctffec, son of the
great missionary•, Paul Coffee oho died in 1313, is the
Patriarch of the tribe, r.nw in his /32d year. His res.
idenee is at Ponseputuck, "the land of their father's
sepulchres," and where he expects his own head forest.
Deacon Vincent Coffee. the son of Paul, resides at the
larger settlement of Shinnerock, and is n principal
member of that church. He is now 03 years old,
has an intelligent and benignant countenance, in
which I could readily trace the lineaments of his ex
cellent father. Ile has a large family of children upon
whom may the converiatit blessings of Abraham con
tinue to descend as on their preceding generations.
Gribral Pent Office.—The zeal and activity of the
Postmaster General have no re,astion. Whatever
may be the falling ofrof the revenue under the new law
it will he found, by his report, that he has in the same
ratio reduced the expenditure of transporting the
mails, and in giving every facility to the rapid tians
mksion rf letups. The whole system I: undergoing
the most salutary reform.—N. Y. Sun.
Of Steam Engine, Lail es, Illaekimith'a Tools, En
gine Shop and Lol of Ground.
WILL he sold, on Tuesday next, August 26th,
at 10 o'clock, A. M., ngreenhly to adjourn
ment, on the premises, corner of Liberty, Front end
West streets. a lot of Machinery, Steam Engines,
Lathes, Taps and Dies, Drills and Bins; Screw cutting
Machine and Screw plates, Bellows; together with
large lot of 'fools of various kinds, all of which will
be sold separate; at the same time, the Lease of the
House and Lot of ground. Fur further particulars
see handbills. Terms nt sole.
aug2s I'. M'6ENNA, Auctioneer.
ONE HORSE CARRYALL WAGON
AT 2 o'clock on this afternoon, With instant.
at Davis' C'ommercial Auction Rooms, corner of
Wood and Fifth streets, will be'sold,
1 well made Carryall Wagon or C f arrilige, it tried
order whiehmay be examined any timeduilog the day.
aug 25. JOHN D DAVIS, Aue'r.
magazines for Spetember,
RECEIVED AT COOK'S.
T,ADY'S Bonk for September, a beautiful number.
Columbian Magazine for September, with five
steel Engravings.
Selections from Fry's Opera of Leonora, 2d part.
Melodies of Scotland.
Ireland.
Celebrated Matches.
Quicksteps and numerous other pieces, which is the
ebeapest Music on record. Call and examine.
sug
LONG ISLAND INDIANS
POSTPONED SALT.
NEW ORLEANS CIRCUS!
['Ticket can be had at the E*Onge Ho t el,
at the blarlatt Hotel, at Mr. Hotel and it
the Box Office. adjoining the Circus.
•
S. P. STICKNEY SOLE. PROPRINTOR.
q uestri an Director' and • Rill .
'' > Master; Mr.
M. Buckley, Clown, (alias Gubblejolie,)
Mr FERO. GARSON•
This Evening, Monday, August. 25th,
The entertainments will commence with a Grand
Entree of Men and Horses entitled Stars and Stripes
of Columbia's Pride, led and arrayed by Mr Buckley.
Mr T Yonng will appear and sins his celebrated
Emilet of Comicolities..
Graceful Etpieitrfartisri (Ora Strtgleg-forge, by M iss
Rosa line Stickney.
Josh Doolittle's Visit to the Arena in act of Horse
manship, bylV.lx Eversull.
Great TuoddinOlistch, by s the wliolo Canspany.
Master II Buckley will give his admired leaping act
of Horsemanship, viz: Garter, Canvass, Hoop, Whip,
flat and Balton.
Fancy Hornpipe, by Miss Laura Buckley.
The Splendid'Melo dramatic act entitled the Moors
Defence, by Mr Smith.
Grand Operatic Classical Scene.
Mr S P Stickney at thi period will produce liia
Matchless Young Horse Cincinnains, who will per
form many astonishing feats.
Wonderful bare back riding, by Mr Elwin Stone,
as the Piairie
The whola to conclude with Mesmer: Rand of
St reteaders.
Admiita*ce—Boxes, 50 eta.; it 25 cts.—
Child cen under 10 years of age, half price to the boa
rs. No half price to the rit. Bug 25 •
EXTENSION OF PITTSBURGH,
Rare Chance for good . Alvflitmerits
rfl H E eribscribev has laid out, and ;Ow offers for
sale at reasonable prices and on accommodating
terms; One hundred and ten 'brfri/ding Lots, on that
browlsome level ground betty' Braddock street and
the Monongahela river. T. &y are about one-third of
a mile from the city lina;hnd are situated in that part
of the first city dtstr' .t ultich will probably soon be
annexed to the eit',as the Seventh Wald. No pro
' pre rtyin the itruluik s possesses shperior advantanges, nor,
boa any hereNitri:i been laid oar with so' liberal an'ah .
lawance of .rile streets; Braddock is from one hun-•
dredar+thieetty to about one hundred and ninety feet
widg-oond Berien, Commerce, Brady, Columbus and
Water streets all wide avenues. Moot of the lotshave
Wo fronts, and as they arc of various sizes, and will
be sold, one lot, with the privilege of four or five; early
applicants can be accommodated to stilt their toWn
views of improverspat.. .Persoos W. 1117 desire to build
or jo malso secure inveaunentaan property, that *row
to advance in value, and particularly those who intend
to erect manufactories, oat/milli- do. svel t l to view 'these
Lots, and examine the draft, b'efore purchasing else-.
where, the'survey fin. the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
Road and the tail road survey by the State of, Penn. ;
sylvania were both made alongside of this property,
and it is generally consideeed that Braddock street,
or the ground immediately alongside of it, affords the
only eligible route for a Rail Bond from Pittsburgh to
the East. Coal can be delivered en this proper ry at a
much less cost than on the Allegheny t iver, and there
is always deep water at this [net of the river.
E. D. rrAZZA NS,
ane2s-tf. Office Market between &I& 4th sts
Arnold's Writing Fluid.
AFURTHER supply of the above writing fluid
(warranted a genniwe artir le.) just reed and fur
sale by C. H. RAY. No. 76 Market at.
ring 25 over White & Bro's dry gotAis store.
JAMES HOWARD & CO.
IT AV E the pleasure to announce to their friends
I that they ngain occupy their old stand at No.
83, Wood street, %here they have opened an exten
sive
WALL PAPER WAREHOUSE,
And will have constantly on hand an extensive assort•
meet of Satin glared and plain PAPER HANG
INGS, Velvet and Imitation Borders,of the latest talk
and most handsome ['attains for papering halls, par
lors and chambers.
They m•inufacturs, and hnoe. owl lhand at'all times,
Printing, Writing, Lester, Wrsepping nod Tea raper,
Bonnet and Fuller's Bousds—all of which they °frier
In .nle on the most necommodating terms, and to
wjlich they incite the attention of merchants and
others.
A LSO —Black I3,wka of all kind+ nod the twig. (041-
iry, Sobool Rookc, &c alwace on hand and f,,r
as above. zing. 25.
Piano Fortes.
T‘YO elegant Plano Forts, with mahogany cases;
iron (ram.' and plate; made by Adam H. Gale, &
Co., New link.
One splended Rnse•wotr.l Piano Forte made by A.
H. Gate, & Co., New York, with IV:dker's
meet. The above Pianos have been selected with the
tt►mnst care, in regant to Tone; and will he sold at
nsanufacturers prices by JOHN H. MELLOR..
°nen No. 122 Wood street.
Cheap Music.
ALL tbethenp publication. orG. Ferrctt, &
at about 12i, cto
. per pngeijust received and for
sok, by J. H. NIF;LLOR.
N. 12 Wood street.
Powder.
29; KEGS Beatty's FFFG Rifle Powder, just
IL) tecened nod for sale low on accommudatiog
terms. by M. B. RH EY & Co., Nog, Waterst.,
uue'23. Agents for the Manufacturers.
N. B. Merchants wishing to purchase bore will
please leave their orders at our counting room before
9 o'clock, A. M.
Batting
75 0 in 25' pound bales, just received and
oflered fur sale by
M. B. RHEY & CO.,
No 9 Water st
Tobacco.
23 KEGS, isix twist Tobacco, received per
Steamer Hallam, and for/4111e by
M. B. RHEA & CO.,
aug23 No 9 Water street.
Now Books.
B IOGRAPHY end Poetical Remains of Margaret
brWashington Irving.
Poetical 'Remains of Lucretia Maria Davidson and
Biography by Miss Sedgivick.
Lyell's Travels in North America.
Cheever's Lectures on tho Pilgrims Progress.
Vinets Vital Cluistianny.
Winter Evening Tales.
Oracles from the Poets.
Dictionary of Q imations. Just received by
I3OSWORTH & FoaliEsT ER,
aug23 No 43 Market street.
WM. DOUGLAS,
Fashionable flat and Cap. Manufacturer,
•
No. 78 WOOD ST., PITTSBURGH,
4 WOULD respectfully announce to his 14
friends and citizens , generally, thal. he.
bas opened at No 78 Wont! Street, East side, Burnt
district, nearly npposite his old stand, where will be
found Hats and Caps, of the latest style and Fashion;
prices very low., . .
N. B. Country Merchants are respectfully invit
to call and examine his stock before purchasing
where, which will be offered at prices that canna.
fail to please at No 78 Wood street.
nug2 I -3m
Pittsburgh Navigation and Fire Insuratiss
Company.
A MEETING of the Stockholders of this corpo
ration will he held at the office of the Company,
on Mon 'av the fitst day of September next. at 9
o'clock, P M. ROBT. FINNEY,
nog 21-dtd. Secretary.
Louisville Lime.
10 2 MILS. fresh Louisvillo Limo just received
and fur sale by J AMES MAY.
STAFFORD & (VS DIORAMA
) •i•-• , ' OF THE
nflagration of Pillsburgh!!
.. HE public are respectfully informed that the
-.- ragnificent Diorama of the late calamity which
lit
trvielooll the Iron City, on the 10th of April last, con
eistii!tg of four elaborate •iews, made from drawings
,il ie v i on t h e .pot, with all the marhinely moving fig
ur„,..„gi,e, etc., being coinplekd, alter *Jong Psafkarli•
lion, and a glent expense,
.will be exhibited fvr tbe
fist iimi);(01 Monday 25th ; Tin‘aajkAti l iO6 'Wed
nesday, 27th of August, at Philo Ilall, over the Foot
Office.
lit .If 'p
ken
15t . ..7.-fittsbdigt, pre•iool ' to . i , , 'silken
front Coal 'Hill.
- . .
Cicw 241:=Ir1rriiid Wood ets—siidVniarin . 4
Fire—ringingof thearrived or the mreinial
draw.a b.y Nychaeur.si &girt», sin. *ie. ear tot
the scene of der4sta
iew 3d:—The Fire, raging is all as fury.
View 4th...--Roins by Moonlight. The' 3ti Chierrit
in the distance, the Monongahela river, rippling on its
way, as if unconscious of the desolation that over
took it.
r• r •
Dtirivle the eeeintna will bee zinbited Ilifeiv r Mir;
representing the
BATTLE OF NEW ORL'EAN'S;
•
Being a spirited view of that memorable field which
shed eterenal glary Aroond the )nte,cleya e 4 and
Lem* iiirzu, cmirtua't
iur An intermission of 20 m:
place after the firstpait of tIollok,„
, -
.... t ,•*1 1 0/1*
THE r v.,AvES• I F .ST A FFA,
Are Gonsid*:'..eil as ape of the wonders of the v4nehl, not
0111 v for their singular beasts and immense extent, but
as I .itttig the fittest 'l , lleCi MEM • Geek ! gy on Ole gi ,, be.
4housandt Of columns are thrown together, in the wil
dest confusion, forming one of the must pleasing and
picturesque views in Europe: These rnnrine caverns,
had, in anaient•times the repot nion of being hannti-d,
td embody w hich idea, the: Artist hes ventured to in
troduce Neptune, in his car, meeting with
trite the Ocean Q.men.
.Doora own +t-half. pant 7 o'clock,
Ex I bi tiosi tg cptnrptmretoy 6 F,t.Ock..Priitsilel7.:l
Tickeis .9.1; centrs;, children accompataied by their pa
rents, hell, price.
Front seats reserved for the Ladies.
aug23.
E : AAsreiSTlitigt, 7.l
83 MAltfigt §tftEET, PITTSBbIIGII N
OFFERS the remainder of his stock of Summit
Goods, to the inspection of all who wish to rut.
AT EASTERZVCOST
French Lawns, • Organdi Gingham's, ..rithest styles,
nt 15 and 31, worth 56 chs. • i
Rich French Bulzarines at 31 ptp.,,worth 7:t;
Black Bareges with Satin sktipes,-rich, 'very cheap;
Bonnet Ribbons, new, at 12i, worth 31 cts.;
BarageScarft and Shari/POP/11[44ff, low prices;
it. ache% Laoe , Caps at 371 cts. SY, itew 0 0'4 I
Florence Braid Bonnet.sotew, nt $1 374 and upwardif
Checked, Striped, Lace and Mull.lllth.lins; •
Colored Lawns for Bonneto,,Astificints, Bonnet Crape;
I'araertlet., nod Parasol; bentilifitl;sele t i and cheap;
French work Collars, Chincesettes; Cra‘•ais, oribsfel
&c: &c.
Cotton and thread Lares and Eflgiii,v, Bobine't Locos:
French Ginghams for dresses, from 20 cts. to 25 cts.;
TOB.
Shirts, !Tars, 1311601111 q• in good variety;
Gloves, Cravats, Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, &eirSty
Gauze Cotton under Shinto, Silk, do. and Drawers.'
.iy 4-2 m
NO. 46. THE PLACE FOR
HOUSE KEEPING GOODS!
CEI,` , .FERAL •VARdETY JUST'. ItEwitlrEtw
r Cit2CA 4-4 Bleached Sheeting, at bargains; Ber-•
nesle,y's Pillow and Sheetinz Linen.f White brown
Linen Damask Rnd Spreads, all iiitesiKnapkill%Cttbitb -
es, Ditrpent, &el Irish inerni;'pt iCe5 from 25 - cli. to
.$1,87.1i Counterpane's, !splendid, prices from 2.124 to
$lO. I3ARROWS& TURNER.
Markm stieet
liirlutra 6100e65; f . & ski , orb hither
1I desirable shades opening at the Down' town.CasiY
House. BARROWS & TURNS*.
. _ ,
USQUItO NEtTING--No46lvoisevproenrile-
J.TJL ces lc(—the balance will be clew,' wt the right
NEW CASH HOUSE.
IkteigkeiTat roof&
prices.
aug 22
No. 46 Never Surrender&
-
o . _ TILL THEY COME—Another lot of thosespleh' t
did Gold Pencils received. Those persons who
were not supplied from the previous invoices may, pow
have an opportunity to mnke selections from nridi
, Prices' the seine as before; fiont ithbOlif
$lO. BARROWS & TURNER. ,
nue 22 46 ',Wilke'. street. • .•
Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs,
el - FIE la , gest lot vet, received yesterday evening at .
1. Pim 461 .:We. r kiVe nove-tr better artickt,forl94
witha beautiful assot tment, varying in prices fror
18j to $2,25. Call and sea nt,
aug22 BARROWS S.:, TURNER.
.
Selling off -tint Not at Cost.
S EA GRASS SKIRTS. Another duplicate invoice, received and selling ut. 25 GM./ less than previ
ous lot.
BARROWS & TUR
plows. Ve. .
2PACK.IGf.S nonß. De Luil l is'ot superior.qual
ity, in black, blue and VerydesirubleTtinci tibadi4,
received at the New Cash linase.
aug 22 BARROWS & TURN ER
Dr. George Watt,
Office, No. 7 Braid:fiat& siren, near SIMI,
PirigiUßGH
Coliott's Levizac's Preach Gramsear•
PROGRESSIVE French Grammer, 'exeiciges on
the hasie of Leyizae,eireech Grarpmar, by
,A F LI
Collor: ' For sale by " PI:KAt; .
11 , 102.
No 76, Market eirret.
Jacob's Latin Reader.
HE Laiin Reader with notes sod illso4rations by
1 John D. Ogilby, for sale by C. H. KAY. r
aug22 Market street.
MAIM'S LATIN slngrAx.
Ev is ED and corrected by A. R. Carson to which
I.lLis lidded copious notes, Scc, for site by
aug.22 CHAS. ft.: KAY.
Per Sale,
IN the town of Eaet Livepooi, Columbiana county, i
Ohio. Two adjoining Brick houses on First st,
erected on a lot 60 feet front by 1 . 30 -feet deep. One
of the house , , bats been finished neatly and comforta
bly, and has been occtinicd as a store, the two houses
connected would make a suitable building for a Tavern
or hotel. Title without dispute; apply to Aaron !haw,
dey Tavern keeper, Fast Liverpool, or to •
.BLAKELY,.•& MITCHEL,
Realtstiite Agents, Pit tabu; tk
aug 22 tf
BOOK S....JUST KECK/V/IM%
MEMOIRS
Lives of Jay and tramittoK
Lives of Eminent Men, 2 v'nisi
Letters of Dr Rainey, ft VngliAh opium cuter;
Veotige4 of Creationt • • •
TT
For_ te,by lIQSWQR.T, Sc,..f
• , ol l -Matitet st.
MISS Ai cs Weak* ire • /
D.EGS leave to inform her friends and the publc goa
l) orally that her Select School For Young
,La i dies'
and 7t,lissea. cuintutince hq Vrintrr Bession on
Monday the eih or:September, at her school room in,
St. Clair st., nearly opposite the Exehehge
She begs leave to refer to . the following 'gentlemen':
Hon John Breden, Rev W A Passavant.
Rev J Nibloek, Wilson McCandless,
Rev S Young, . Kraim, Esq.,
J Esq., . Jahn Jac*, Fef •f>
' Butler. Pa: - ' rittsborei:
Any information as to terms Szc., can be nbiairied by
calling or. Allen Kramer, Erq. aug 22
New Wkeat Fleur.
10 BBLS. more of that extra Friily Floor,
From new Wheat, just received and for &Rio
A. G. REINHART,
No 140 Liberty 'street.
TElff=
ZEE=
46 frinr}ket street