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Clearfield, Pa., "Wednesday, August 22, 1855.
Produce. We have frequently been asked
whether we would take Produce in exchange
for subscription and job work. Our subscri
bers are informed, that we will be glad to get
11 k'nda of Brain, provisions, &c., at the mar
ket price.
The Harvest Hose. Our friends at New
Washington will observe that the time of hold
ing their Harvest Home is fixed on the 2Gth of
September, instead of the ISth, which day
comes right in the middle of the regular term
of our Court. The 26th is the week after. It
this is wrong, there is still time to change it.
A More Fitting Occasion-. Our friends in
the upper end will, perhaps, be disappointed
at not finding an article in this week's paper
on the subject of "Religious Persecution."
We have concluded to await a more fitting oc
casion, which, we think, will be afforded about
the 26th of September. We will have it "cut
and dry,' don't fear.
Household Words, for September, has been
received, and is a most interesting number. It
contains the new novel, entitled "The Yellow
Mask," in twelve chapters. Besides Dickens,
the distinguished editor, the pages of this pe
riodical are enriched with the contributions of
Barry Cornwall, Mary Barton, William Howitt,
Faraday, the chemist, and a large number of
other distinguished literary and scientific wri
ters. Published by Dix & Edwdrs, 10 Park
Place, X. Y. Price $3 per annum in advance.
'Dead. Our esteemed fellow citizen, George
W. Khekm, Sr., whose illness we noticed last
week, was on Sabbath last, carried to his long,
last home. He has left a large circle of warm,
eenerous friends to mourn his departure, and
the place in the community, made vacant by
his death, will not soon be filled. Over his
humble grave may be truly written that proud
obituary "he was a good citizen and an hon
est man." He was for years a devoted mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
his friends have the cheering consolation that
he has left us for "a better land."
The New Bask at Camden. We published
last week an extract from the Trenton State
CiazcCCr, atattug Ilia oomo of ho ot o-okliol-dora
were willing to sell their stock below par, be
ing dissatisfied with the expense the Direc
tors were going to in the erection of a building.
The Gazette also stated that the capital stock
was $100,000. This is a mistake, as we have
learned by inquiry since. The Capital Stock
is $300,000, and so far from Stockholders de
siring to sell below par, a gentleman of this
place, who is already largely interested, has
been endeavoring to buy stock and can not ob
tain it.
The Habeas Corpus Case. The Supreme
Court of this State, which was in Session at
Bedford, after hearing the arguments of Coun
sel for the issuing of a Habeas Corpus in fa
vor of Passmore Williamson, adjourned over
until October, without granting the writ.
Thus, while their Honors are amusing them
selves at the Springs, regaling on Bedford
water and mountain mutton, interspersed with
an "occasional game of "Brag," Mr. William
sox remains illegally incarcerated in a gloomy
cell. The conduct of Judge Kane and the Su
preme Court are on a par a gross outrage,
and an insult to the State.
- Complimentary. We are indebted to our
friend Dr. R. V. Wilson for a copy of the pro
ceedings of the State Medical Society, among
which we fir.d the following preamble and res
olution, oflered by Dr. Morton, and subse
quently adopted with a slight modification:
Whereas, The editors of the Delaware Coun
ty Republican, Blair County Whig, Raftsman's
Journal? and Oire Branch, have, with a spirit
of genuine philanthropy, constantly refused
to insert in their journals, the advertisements
of patent or quack nostrums, and
IVkereas, They have been laboring with a
faithful and unapplauded zeal, to enlighten
the public mind as to their injurious tenden
cies, thereby enabling the community to de
tect and discard the ignorant and illiterate
pretender, who has too generally been suc
cessful, with the aid of a well-paid press, to
foist upon the ignorant and credulous his vile
drugs; thus jeopardizing the health and lives
of the people, both by their indiscriminate
use and by contravening suitable and efficient
medication : Therefore, as an evidence of our
appreciation of a course so laudable and self-
sacrificing, the Medical Society of the State
of Pennsylvania, do .
Resolve, That the members of the County
Medical Societies be requested to extend to
ihem, as well as to their families while under
their charge, the gratuitous services of the
medical profession.
We can only return our thanks to the medi
cal gentlemen who have thus so highly com
plimented our course, and assure them that so
Jong as we have charge of the columns of a
public journal, its Inflluence shall be used to
discountenance patent nostrums and quack
panaceas of every class and description. We
will not publish such advertisements, because,
in the first place, they take up space which can
be filled with more profitable and interesting
matter, and in the second place, they jeopard
ize the lives and health of the community, and
,often-times corrupt its morals. We conceive
that the man who lends his aid to foist upon
the public a medical compound, of the compo
sition and effect of which be is ignorant, it vir
tually guilty as an accessory to murder.
Ax Eicguioi. Xa company with, the gal-.
lust Quarter Master Petkm, of CurwensTille,
we node a tour through the upper part of our
county last weak, and were pleased to find it
in a most prosperous and healthy condition.
We passed field after field of Corn, Buckwheat,
Oats, Potatoes &c, all of which presented a
promising appearance, and the number of
grain fields which bad been reapt and cleaned
np, gave every indication of a most bountiful
supply of ail kinds of provisions. Every per
son appears to be in good spirits and high
hopes, all protesting that they have never be
fore experienced a more rich and abundant
harvest.
At every point, we were struck with the
contemplation of the vast resources of our
County. Those who have not seen it, can
scarcely conceive the immensequantity of val
uable timber yet standing in our vast forests
of pine, and every few miles a vein of bitumi
nous coal is exposed by the excavation of a
road, or the falling of a tree. We hear,
also, in different localities, of rich veins ol
iron ore, and other valuable minerals. Noth
ing is wanting, to develope these resources
but good roads, and a convenient access to
market. The roads all through the upper part
of the County, are in a most wretched condi
tion; iu fact we never traveled over worse.
The ground on which they are laid out is gen
erally good, and it would require but little
labor to make, at least passable roads. If the
trees were deadened, so that the sun could
get at them, it would soon work a decided im
provement. If a turnpike could be made from
the Pennville pike, to the Cherry Tree, we
think it would be a great advantage to our
County. At the latter place it would inter
sect the Plank Road to Willmore Station on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, and we have an
idea, that the stock would be a more profitable
investment than that of some Turnpikes we
wot of.
During our 'trip,' we visited New Washing
ton, where we found our friends actively en
gaged in preparing for the American Harvest
Home, to come off in that neighborhood on
the 2t, of September. We found our friend
John Shetter, keeping the old "Sebring
House," where he is ready to accommodate
all who give him a call. He is a good land
lord and a clever fellow, besides which he
keeps a first rate house. Our old friend D. S
Plotner, is still to be found at his former
stand. There is no more accommodating man,
a better house in the country. Those who
visit nim wilt nna themselves well taken care
of.
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From New Washington wo went up Chest
Creek, spending a night very pleasantly with
our friend William Westover. The next
day, after driving over a most miserable apol
ogy for a road, we arrived at Patchin's Mill,
one of the finest establishments in the County
Thev are extensively enjrajred in farming and
lumberiug, and are making such improve
nipnts as we hav seen no where else in our
County.
On our return home, we stopped at Bower
with our old friend James Elder, who, though
down on the Know Nothings like a thousand
of brick,' is one of the best men in the wild
cat region. We always make it suit to stop
with him, because we are sure of a hearty
laugh and a good dinner.
In every locality wc visited, we were assured
of the increasing strength of the American
partr. and found its members, uniformly san
guine of success in the approaching contest
A United and determined effort a long pull,
a strong pull, and a pull altogether, will carry
the entire ticket from Senator down to Audi
tor.
The Louisville Riots. We gave last week
the account of the Riot at Louisville,as publish
ed in the Journal of. that city. Avery different
statement is made by thje Courier, and we are
unable to say which is correct. We have no
doubt that both parties are to blame, and do
not suppose the criminality to be all on either
side. When men are excited in a political
contest it requires but few .words to provoke
blows, and blows are soon followed by the use
of deadly weapons.
It seems, however, that the first gun was fir
ed by a foreigner, and that while the Election
was going on quietly, an American citizen was
insulted, stabbed, and beaten by a party of
Irishmen. Amcrcans were fired upon and
shot, while quietly passing in the street. One
gentleman passing a German Brewery, accom
panied by his wile, was shot at. Although the
Americans may have been somewhat to blame,
there can certainly be no excuse for this indis
criminate slaughter. The deliberate shooting
down of American citizens, is not the way for
foreigners to obtain redress if they have sus
tained injury.
We hope the contradictory stories of the pa
pers published at the scene of the disturbance,
will soon be reconciled, that we may arrive at
the true state of the facts, and place the oblo
quy of the bloody outrage, where it properly
and justly belongs.
Disunion. A Mr. J. P. Benjamin, U. S.
Senator fronr Louisiana, has published a letter
in the New Orleans papers, in which he at
tempts to show that dis-union is imminent,
from attempts that will bo made at the ap
proaching session of Congress, to restore the
Missouri Compromise, and to repeal the fuga
tive slave law; or failing in that to defeat the
general appropriation bill. What a pity the
people will not believe in the threatened dan
ger, and let the mooted question alone ! Tho'
the country will probably be as safe this time
next year as it is now.
Reeder fcr Canal Commissioner The
Crawford Journal, a Whig paper, nominates
Gov. Reeder for Canal Commissioner, and ur
ges his support by all the opponents of the
pro-slavery National Administration. The
editor is of the opinion that in this way, "an
expression of popular sentiment can beeecu-
red that will make the ears of Pierce & Co.
tingle, and show the South that Pennsylvania
will no longer submit to be trampled upon."
Correspondence of the J ournal.
Philadelphia, August 18, 1855. j
Don't expect a single item of news this
week, or I fear yon will be wofully disappoint
ed. There's not a jot of news to be found
nothing's happened, and for aught we know,
there's nothing going to happen worth telling.
To be sure, the papers arc full of something,
but its all old. I think of oflering a prize for
an original idea just to stir the people up.
Watennellons and Peaches are so plenty,
to say nothing of Corn and Sweet-potatoes ;
I think it is time to stir up and see whether
we are not all asleep mentally, not physical
ly intellectually, I mean.
We have had Dentists' Conventions, Whig
and K. N. Conventions, and still we are none
the wiser. Would it not be a good idea to call
a general Congress, of "every body" who can
tell something original it would at least give
editors and correspondents a few chances for
writing leaders. You want an original letter,
well done ! to think of anybody ho actually
survives a summer in Philadelphia, having a
single original idea in him, is simply prepos
terous can't be done, 'friend Journal;' you
must wait till cold weather comes, and then
but I wont promise then there will be noth
ing broken. Speaking of Watermellons, they
are very plenty now, and "every body and his
wife" can enjoy them so long as the Cholera
does not make its appearance among us. As
yet we are free from it, but I learn from a pri
vate source, that in Cincinnati it has again
commenced its work of death; though only a
few cases have been heard of, yet it is difficult
to mark its course. Thus far our city has
been quite healthy this season the principal
mortality being among children; generally
about two-thirds of the whole number. One
cause of so much sickness has been the ex.
ceedinelv wet weather, but for near a week
past there has been no rain excepting a few
showers within a day or two.
The Riots at Louisville seem to occupy
about as much attention in the political world
just now,as anythingelse,and they are well cal
culated to set American blood a little on the
boiling-over principle. Every American pa
per we open contains some bold criticism of
the disturbance, while the Administration (or
Foreign) Journals keep pretty uear silent, or
attempt to cast off the responsibility of their
origin. Our fall election is approaching, and
ere long the opposing parties will have their
candidates in the field, and the war will begin
here. Our worn out National Government
will try another desperate game here in the
Keystone State, but only, I hope, to be more
thoroughly beaten than last fall. As a body
there does not appear to be much difference in
sentimeut among the American party herer
and in all probability they will carry the City
as they did a year ago, for we are so entirely
of the Anti-Pierce party, that there is no hope
for our Anti-American friends at all. The
Catholics and Liquor dealers will vote, as a
matter of course, which ever way their sage
counsellor who wields the puny helm of "the
Pennsvlvanian" tells them to, and he must
obey his masters, Pierce & Co.
To detail tho matters that occur in the City
at large, I suppose will include acts of benev
olence. Yesterday a meeting of Merchants
and others was held at the Exchange to devise
means of relief for the poor at Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Va., where that terrible scourge
the Yellow Fever, is raging with unprecedented
violence, and the inhabitants who can leave
have abandoned the place. Quite a large sum
no doubt will be raised in aid of this object, and
in anticipation of which one thousand dollars
was remitted at once. Six hundred dollars
was collected yesterday, as far as reported.
It really seems strange that in the taco o
such overwhelming crops of wheat as have
been gathered all over tho country, that the
price still keeps up, and the supply so limited
Dealers are nciamg on, ana tne iarmers are
doing the same; but the end will come, and
the vast granaries of the West must pour thei
burdens into our markets, and give us food at
a reasonable priee.
Flour is still selling at $8.75 a $9.25 perbar
rell, and Wheat at $1.70 a $1.90 according to
quality. lours, &c, O. O
Party Sevility. The Berks County Press
says: "We are glad to see that many of the
Democratic papers of Pennsylvania repudiate
the President and sustain Reeder. There are
still a few, however, who remain tongue tied
and sit like dumb dogs, not daring to make
even a bark at their master. This is despi
cable and slavish. Party tics are stronj
than the right in their estimation; and in thei
opinion, the President, "can do no wrong.'
What slaves to party! Slaves themselves
they know not what is due to freemen. The
light of liberty and independence has never
illumined their souls. They are shackled by
party. Their silence upon the subject of Gov
Reeder's removal is worse than cowardly it
is servile and base, unworthy of Amdrican cit
izens and American liberty.
Is this Democracy If it is, then is Democ
racy a curse, and not a blessing. But their in
terpretation of Democracy is not the true in
terpretation. We repudiate it as false and
unmanly. The people repudiate it, and will
maintain the truths of pure Democracy in
spite of the shackled hirelings who crouch at
the feet of their tyrant.
The people understand this outrage better
than these editors. They are not going to be
humbugged by falsehoods and misrepresenta
tions as to the conduct and principles of Gov.
Reeder. They will discriminate between jus
tice and injustice, between law and disorder,
and their judgement will be against Pierce
and in favor of Reeder.
Th people will judge for themselves, with
out paying any regard to the instructions of
the hireling Pierce press. Their verdict will
be for the impeachment of Pierce; and indeed,
that is already accomplished, for he is not
now President of tho United States His want
of stability, honor, and sincerity, have render
ed him unfit for the office; and a man who is
thus distinguished, cannot be President. He
only livei in the White House that's all.
Pierce and the Catholic Chcrcu. Tuefol-'
lowing letter from the Hon. Kenneth Ratner,
to Mr. Eixisr, the former editor of the Wash
inion Organ, establishes the fact, beyond con
troversy, that the Roman Catholic Church, in
terfered in the political contest of 1852, and
that President Pierce was allied with its dig
nitaries, who, though living in a foreign coun
try, were imformed of James Campbell's ap
pointment to a place in the Cabinet, in advance
of the representatives of our own country:
Raleigh, N. C, July 19, 1855.
Mv Dear Sir - I have received yours of the
16th inst.. in which you refer to the denial by
the Union newspaper, of the truth of the state
ment (first spoken by me in my speech at
Washington, and afterward by you in your or
ation on the 4th) of Hon. Daniel M. Barringer,
our late Minister to Spain. Mr. Barringer first
mentioned this matter to me last winter, in
Raleigh. I have since taken occasion to allude
to it several times in delivering popular ad
dresses. About four weeks since, on my re
turn from Philadelphia, I met Mr. Barringer
in Baltimore, and in the course of conversa
tion with him, I mentioned the fact that I had
taken occasion to speak publicly of what he
had said to me about the Pope's Nuncio, at
Madrid, having stated to him before he (Mr.
Barringer) had heard, and before the news of
the same had reached Madrid, of the formation
of Pierce's Cabinet, that he (the Pope's Nun
cio could tell him one man that woud be in
the Cabinet, to wit : -Mr. Campbell, of Penn'a,
a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
This was as I had received the statement
from Mr. Barringer in the first instance, and it
was thus that I had spoken of it. I asked Mr.
Barringer if I had represented him correctly,
fcr that I should probably speak ol itagain,ancl
I wished to be sure, that I might give the state
ment correctly. Mr. B. replied that I had
stated the matter correctly, and then went on
to relate the occasion and incidents of this re
mark to him by the Pope's Nuncio.
A few days since I received a letter from
Mr. Barringer, dated "Niagra Falls, July 6th,
1855, in which, alter .alluding to the fact that
he had lately seen published, a synossis of my
speech in Washington, in which I was report
ed as having mentioned the matter in terms
somewhat variant from those in which he had
stated it to me, he (.Mr. B.) goes on to reiter
atewhat he had twice before stated to me.
I will quote to you, verbatim, the language
used by hini, in an extract from thisletter, just
received, to wit: "Before I had any authentic
and certain news of the formation of the Cabi
net, and while it was a subject of conjecture at
the Court of Madrid, he (the Pope's Nuncio)
told me that Judge Campbell of Pennsylvania
was appointed, and that he was a a Catholic:
which was the first intimation I had either of
his appointment or of his religion."
This is the statement as I had given it,wucn
alluding to it in public; although it might have
been slightly varied in the newspaper reports;
and this, I think, establishes" the charge, loHg
since made, and believed by thousands, that
there was an understanding, to call it by no
worse name, that the Roman Catholic vote
should be given to Mr. Pierce, and that he in
turn, should eive to that Church a seat in his
Cabinet, as well as many other high positions
You are at liberty tomakeany use you please
of thisletter, in vindication of yourself against
the oharge of falsehood by the Lnion uowspa
per, inasmuch as you based your statement on
my authority, lours, very trtilv,
K. RAYNER
Fiiom the Ckimka. Advices from the Cri
mea on the 29th, announce continued prepar
ations for a grand expedition. All the lighter
vessels of the fleet were assembled at Kam-
icsch. It was reported in Paris on the 3d inst.,
that the French government had official notifi
cation, that tho bombardment of the Malakoff
and the Redan had been resumed, preparatory
to another assault. Gortschakoll telegraphs
"There has been a partial cannonade on both
sides, but Dothing of importance." It was
telegraphed from Constantinople on the 2Gth,
that the Bashi Bazouks had murdered Gen
Beatson, but Lord Pammure, in Parliament,
positively contradicts the report. Correspon
donee from the camp says that Omar Pacha's
visit to Constantinople was not, as asserted,
to resign, but to consult with reference to ac
cepting the command of tho army in Asia.
The Viceroy of Egypt is negotiating with the
Bedouins to serve in the Crimea. Kemeish
and Balaklava were crowded with vessels re
cently arrived for the Secret Expedition. The
French Government has chartered 97 small
steamers for river navigation. Each to con
vey 500 men. The boats belong to companies
on the Rhone and Saone. The "Weekly-
Newspaper," just issued, says: "We learn
that the siege of Sebastopol is about to be
raised; also that a communication has just
been received from Germany by the Western
Powers, which may lead to startling results."
OriNiON of Caleb Cushing. The Sun speaks
of the decision of Caleb Cushing, that "on
habeas corpus ad subjiciendum issued by a State
court at the relation of a party held in confine
ment under legal process of United States
court, the State judge cannot lawfully go be
hind the return of the writ showing such pro
cess of the court oi tne united states," as an
arrogant interference with the duties of State
Judges. Upon what meat was Mr. Cushing
fed, that the Constitutional courts of a State
must submit to his imperial decisions! We
thought the Supreme Court was the "last re
sort," and yet this moon struck calf, who has
never been known as a jurist, until he was
picked up for the present Coalition Cabinet,
gravely issues edicts, and expects Pennsylva
nia to tremble. Who made the United States
Attorney General the expounder of law to our
State Judges? Was there ever a more stupid
piece of official impudence perpetrated?
Remedy for Cholera. Some sea captains
who sail out of Liverpool, assert that they
care no more for Asiatic Cholera than for an
ordinary cholic or sickness of the stomach.
They have a remedy which they pronounce
infallible, and so accessable and simple as to
relieve all apprehensions of fatal results. We
shall probably tell our readers nothing new
when we state the prescription: Common
salt, one table-spoonful ; red pepper, one tea
spoonful ; in half a pint of hot water.
New York Politics. Ex Governor Hunt
of New York, is out in a letter against the dis
solution of the Whig party and its fusion with
the Freesoil or Republican party of the North.
He is of opinion that no substantial good can
come of such a movement, and that it can a
chieve nothing but to keep one-half of the
United States incensed against the other.
Passmore Williamson : The editor of the
Philadelphia San, thus speaks of a visit to
Passmore Williamson, the victim of the
American Jeffries- IIis magnificent apait
ments, so eloquently depicted by some of the
papers, had somehow resolved themselves into
one of the common prison cells, with no extra
comforts except a single strip of common car
pet, a table, and two plain chairs, hi own wife,
who was present, being seated on his prison
cot. He is considerably wasted from confine
ment and disease, but his spirit was as un-
launted as ever, and he looked and acted like
a man who had made up his mind to die with
in those walls rather than yield-a jot of princi
ple. There is no appearance of bravado about
him. Simple, stern, unbending integrity of
motive and action, seems to characterize bis
countenance and demeanor. We are no man
worshiper, nor are we disposed to unnecessa
rily elevate Passmore Williamson into the po
sition of a hero, but we feel that we would
rather be in his lonely cell, sustained by his
conscious rectitude, than the Judge who placed
him there, surrounded though he be with ev
ery luxury of life."
Pretty Good for Barbarians. The Rus
sians are not such barbarians but that they can
not show a great deal of the amenities of civ
ilization when a proper subject calls for it. In
speaking of Lord Raglan's death, one of the
Russian writers says:
"Lord Raglan was, on several occasions,
distinguished by the late Emperor Nicholas,
as also by the reigning Emperor. He will be
personally regretted in Russia by all who had
an opportunity of knowing and appreciating
the nobleness of his sentiments and the bright
ness of his character. Asa subject he per
formed his duty by obeying the command of
his Sovereign, and as a soldier, bv valiantly
defending the honor of his flag; but even in
theexecution of hisduty he preserved unblem
ished to his death his own personal dignity and
that of his country.
"He Las fallen, like so manv others, a vic
tim to this disastrous war. Honored be his
memory, and respected bo his grave, which
will be as sacred on tho sou of Russia as on
that of England."
Republican State Convention. At a meet
ing, which was attended by persons from ten
different counties, held in the city of Reading
on the 8th inst., the following resolution was
adopted :
Resolved, That we do herebv call upon all
our fellow citizens of Pennsylvania, without
former distinctions, to meet in. general Mass
Convention in the city of Pittsburg, on Wed
nesday the 5th day of September, 18oj, to or
ganize a lie publican Party, whose object shall
be to place all brauches ol government active
ly on the side of Libert v.
CI1AS. D. CLEVELAND, Pres.
Caleb Jones, Secretary.
Mormon Emigration. From the 27th of
November, 1S31 to the 2Cth of April, 1855,
3,0:26 Mormons emigrated from Great Britain
to Utah. Of these, 874 landed in New York,
1,450 in Philadelphia, and 1,302 in New Or
leans, from which place they were forwarded
to Salt Lake City. 1,127 of their number
were iudebted to the perpetual Emigrating
Fund for the means of emigrating, and from
their statement it would appear that there"
are at present nearly 1,000 persons in Eng
land alone, only waitiDg for the means to join
the Saints iu Utah.
From Fobt -Laramie. The St. Louis
Republican says that Mr.H. F. Mayer left tho
fort on tho lOtn July. Everything quiet in
that quarter no outrage having been com
mitted by the Indians since tho murden of
Captain Gibson. Mr. Mayer does not confirm
the stories which so often reach us through
other channels, of large numbers of disconten
ted and hostile Sioux Indians being collected
on the route of the emigrant trains, with the
intention of murdering or robbing, nor have
they assembled at any place within his knowl
edge to make war upon the United States
troops, now rapidly concentrating in that coun
try with a view of compelling the Sioux to o
bedience. On his route to Fort Leavenworth ho met
no Sioux Indians at all.
Captain Foote's company of Infantry had ar
rived at Fort Laramie. Colonel Howe's com
.mand, consisting of several companies of dra
goons, was met fifty miles west of Fort Kearny,
jrettins alonpr finely. The road was lined with
Russell & Major's trains, conveying govern
ment stores to Fort Laramie. They were prog
ressing well.
From Fort Riley, the new military post re
centlv established by the government, we
have deplorable news. It will be recollected
that the government determined to make this
a prominent post on the vv estern border, and
for this purpose a large number of mechanics
were employed to proceed thither and con
struct additional barracks and other houses.
On Sunday last an express reached Fort Lea
venworth with intelligence that the cholera
had broken out at Fort Riley in a most viru
lent form, aud that numbers had died every
day since it made its appearance. Maj.Ogden,
U.S. A., and a' most eiheient officer, was a
mong tho victims of this scourge.
All the persons about the. fort were panic
stricken, and tied to the hills for refuge from
the pestilence, leaving the sick to die and the
dead unburicd. The mortality is represented
to have been very great, on report, which we
hope is exagerated stating that as many as
forty had died in one day. -
By the Polar Star, yesterday we received a
letter dated at Fort Leavenworth on tho 7th,
in which relerence is made to one written on
the previous day, giving all that was then
known of the extent of the ravages of tho
pestilence. That letter has not come to hand.
In the one before us the writer says:
Since my letter of yesterday morning I have
learned some further particulars of the state
of affairs at Fort Riley and I give them to you
as they are received by persons coming in
from there, one by one. It is to be expected
that there is no more cholera at that post, per
haps for the reason that there is no victim left
in fact, so far as we learn, the post is aban
doned, all who did not die having left panic
stricken.
As yet we do not know the exact number of
deaths ; it is enough to say it was awful. Last
Friday, men were offered $10 to dig a grave,
and nobody would do it. The last man -from
there, who came in yesterday evening, says,
when he left ho saw four or five dead on the
porch, and no man to bury them.
Why He was Defeated. A paper having
nominated Theodore Frelinghuysea for next
President, the Wheeling Times and Gazette
says that a prominent Catholic of that city
"told us in 1844 that Mrr Frelinghuysen's
nomination as Vice President defeated Mr.
Clay. He was a Protestant Christain, and
President of the American Bible Society,and
the Catholics would net vote for him."
State Temperance. Convention: A Mass
Convention of the friends of Temperance as
sembled in the Odd Fellows' nail, in the City
of Reading, on the 8th instant. On motion of
Henry K. Strong, Esq., the Convention was
organized temporarily by the appointment of
Hon. John Williamson as Chairman, and
Courtland Folwell as Secretary. The usual
Committees on business and to report officers
for permanent organizations, &c., were ap
pointed, when the Convention adjourned to
2 1 o'clock P. M.
At 2 P. M., the Convention met pursuant
to adjournment. Prayer by the Rev. T. A.
Fernly. The Committee on officers reported
the following, which was unanimouslv adopted:
President. Hon. U. K. STRONG, Phil'a
Vice Presidents. John Williamson, Hunting
don ; Jessee Evans, Chester ; Edward Owen
Parry, Pottsville ; Joseph Henderson, Wash
ington; William Darling, Berks ; A. L. Pen
nock, Delaware ; A. Rood Philadelphia; Ste
phen Miller, Dauphin ; Peter Schell, Bedford;
Vt m Donaldson, Schuylkill.
Secretaries. J. Knabb, Reading ; Courtland
F. Folwell, Phil'a., J. M. Willis Geist, Lan.
The Committee on business reported the
following resolutions, which after an interest
ing discussion (during which the Rev. A.
Rood gave the history of a recent visit to
four or live of the Eastern States where the
Prohibitory law is in force, and where he as
sured the Convention scarcely a drunken man
or populated prison can be found) wero a--dopted
with great unanimity :
Whereas, The Legislature of this State, at
its last session, did not deem it advisable to
pass a law entirely prohibiting the sale of in
toxicating lixuors as a beverage ; but at tho
same time, yielding to tw voice of public sen
timent, did pass "an act to restrain the sale ot
intoxicating liquors," which act abollishes all
drinking houses, and prohibits the sale in less
measure than one quart ; and Whereas, This
Convention has been called to meet the emer
gency arising from the violent opposition of
the Liquor party to said act, and by the adop
tion of suitable measures to prevent its repeal
.by the next Legislature : Therefore,
Resolved, That while, as the advocates of
Prohibition, we are as much as ever deter
mined not to relax our efforts for tjie entire
abolition of the traffick in intoxicating liquors,
we hail, with feelings of devout gratitude, the
passage of the "act to restrain the sale of in
toxicating liquors,, not only because we are
convinced of the great benefits which must re
sult from its enforcement, but because we see
in its passage a pledge of our future and final
triumph.
2. That the failure of the advocates of tho
License System to secure, under the most fa
vorable circumstances, the votes of a majority
of the voters of the State in its favor, not ouly
justifled the Legislature in taking action upon
this subject, but the result of ht late popular
vote imperiously demanded that some radical
change should be made in that system at its.
late session.
3. That those members of the Lgis-Iatcre
who secure the passage of Ihe late act, not
only deserve the thanks of the friends of
prohibition, but justice to them requires us.
to sustain their law nntill it can be tested by
its results or repealed by the better one of en
tire Prohibition.
4. That both policy and principle combine
to make it our duty to sustain this late act,
seeing that it is a Prohibitory in its character,
inasmuch as it abolishes the sale of liquor by
the small and prohibits the existence of ail
drinking houses.
5. That tho title of "jug law" bo contempt
ously given to the late act by the advocates of
the license system, because it prohibits tho
sale in less measure than one quart, applies
with equal force to their own system, as the
sale by tht quart has always been one of its
prominent features.
G. That the well known fact that there is
less drinking in the country population than
in that of towns and cities, proves conclusive
ly that the evils of intemperance result princi
pally from the sale of liquors in taverns and
drinking houses, and, as like causes produce
like effects, it is equally conclusive proof of
the advantages which must result when both
classes of population are compelled either
to drink at home or abandon the practce.
7. That the wisdom and propriety of this
late act is seen in thfe fact that it prohibits
drinking houses of all descriptions, thereby
removing the greatest temptations to bocial
drinking, which is the most prolific cause of the
formation and cultivation of intemperate habits.
8. That as this late act confers on us the ad
vantages of position, in that it gives us some
thing to defend at the present, and leaves us
less to gain in the future, we wil not only sus
tain this law, but under no circumstances
will we vote for any man for the Legislature
who is favorable to its repeal, except for tho
passage of one of entire Prohibition.
9. That should politicians fail to profit by
the experience of the past, wc renew our
pledges to teach them in the future, that no
party can escape defeat, which either aban
dons or opposes the principle of Prohibition.
10. That the beneficial tendencies of the
prohibitory laws adopted by Thirteen States
of this Union, are seen in the significant fact
that the more reputable class of liquor sellers
are withdrawing from the business, leaving
the same mostly in the hands of the low and
profligate, of which, in this State' nearly three
fourths are persons of foreign birth.
The following resolutions were offered by
Stephen Miller, and unauimonsly adopted :
Resolved, That the thanks of this Conven
tion are hereby tendered to the ladies of Penn
sylvania, for the uniform support they have ex
tended to the Temperance reform.
Resolved, That we hereby return our special
thanks to tho ladies of Reading and Lancaster
for the repugnance and coolness with which
they received and looked upon the liquor
meetings recently held in those cities.
Resolved. That we earnestly solicit the con
tinued prayers and efforts of the ladies of
this Commonwealth for the permanency of tha
law and for ultimate Prohibition.
Crossing the Atlantic in Three Davs.
The Boston Advertiser says a working engi
neer, by the name of John Ross, residing in
Montreal, has addressed a letter to the Mayor
of Boston, upon the subject of a recent inven
tion of an extraordinary character. He claims
to have discovered a new motive power, which,
will waft a ship across the Atlantic ocean in
three days ; and further, if a hole were bored
in the bottom, the vessel would float with
equal safety and freedom. In order to com
plete a working model, which is wholly inde
pendent of steam, he asks the assistance of
$1500 from some gentleman's pocket. No pro
gress, says Mr. R., has been made in that di-.
rection (the sea) to keep pace with the move
ments over railroads on the land, but this de
sideratum will certainly bo accomplished and
demonstrate in his great discovery.
Hebrew Conference. A circular signed
by the Rev. Dr. Guenzburg, of Baltimore, Rev.
Dr. Cohen, of Albany, and others, announces
that a conference of the ministers, rabbas, and
delegates of the Israelitish congregations are
to assemble on the 17th of October next, oGlti,
A. M., in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, to delib
erate on the following points: 1. On tha
Union of American Israel- 2. To organize a
"permanent" regular synod or Sanhedrim.
3. On a plan for religious and scholastic edu
cation. 4. On all othermatters of importance
in rogard to Judaism, which may b brought
before the conference.
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