u he rides, with flashing eye and belting
heart, to the National Palace of Mexico. But
six months before, Wixviexd Scott had land
ed on the Mexican coast; since then he had
stormed the two strongest places in the coun
try, won four battles in the field against ar
mies double, treble, and quadruple bis own,
and marched without reverse from Vera Cruz
to the city of Mexico; losing fewer men, ma
kins fewer mistakes, and creating less devas
tation, in proportion to his victories, than any
invading general of former times. Well
might the Mexicans gaze upon bis face!
TIE RAFTSMAN'S JfllRML.
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Clearfield, Pa., Welnesiay, Sept. 12, 1853.
AMERICAN NOMINATIONS.
FOR SENATE.
B. F. LUCAS,
Ol Jefferson County.
Subject to tht action of the other Counties.
roa ASSEMBLY.
Dr. C. R. ERLY,
Of Elk County.
Subject to tht action of Elk and il'Ktan.
FOR SHERIFF.
R. F. "WARD,
Of Clearfield Borough.
TREASURER.
PHILIP ANTES,
Of Lawrence Township.
COMMISSIONER.
ROBERT MICHAEL,
Of Burnside Township.
AUDITOR.
VALENTINE IIEVENER,
Of Huston Township.
Married: On Thursday morning, the 6th inst.,
by the Rev. D. L. Hughes, of Olrain, II. Ditcher
Swoope, Esq., Editor of this paper, to Miss Susan
P., daughter of Wm. Irvin, Esq., of Curwensville.
The absence of the Editor, who is enjoying
what ought to be a very delightful trip, must
excuse any deficiencies in the present number.
In confiding the charge of his paper to a friend,
who is not of the craft, and who, moreover, has
just now very much to attend to,theEditorhas
risked something of his reputat ion,but the read
er will, we hope, make all due allowances, and
be content, for a week or two,with what he gets.
Americas Meeting. A meeting of all
friendly to the American Cause will be held
at the Court nouse, on Wednesday the 19th
inst., at 8 o'clock P. M.
Several Speakers are expected to be in at
tendance. CAMPjMiiSTixG. A very large Camp Meeting
under the auspices of ministers of the Metho
dist Church, is being held at present in the
woods on the farm of Mr. Addleman, about
midway between this place and Curwensville.
We learn that the attendance has been very
large. On Sunday, which was a beautiful day,
our town was almost deserted. Every accessi
ble animal of the horse species, and every im
aginable soit of vehicle, were pressed into
service, and it is estimated that not less than
two thousand persons were assembled.
Several clergymen, some of them from a
distance, are -ministering to the spiritual want3
of thepeople, and their praiseworthy efforts are
said to have thus far met with much success.
- It is expected that the exercises will be dis
continued to day.
The Adjourned Court. An adjourned
court for the trial of civil cases was held last
week by Judge Burnside, and Judge Wilson
of Lewistown. The list was a large one, the
business of our county having accumulated
considerably. Several cases were tried, the
particulars of which we furnish in another col
umn. Judge Wilson came on for the purpose of
holding a special court for the trial of those
cases in which Judge Burnside was concerned
prior to his elevation to the bench. Judge
Wilson has the reputation of being an excel
lent jurist, and his manner upon the bench,
at once dignified, courteous, and decided,
made a very favorable impression upon our bar
and people. He sat until Friday evening, hav
ing tried some important and lengthy causes.
CThe Rpublitan is publishing a series of
articles the Jourmal of Commerce which it
commends to the notice of its readers.
The Journal of Commerce is notorious, even
in New York city, for its dough-faced-ism,
and has always been the consistent advocate
of what it calls the rights of the South, and tre
.call the insolent aggressions of the South.
. The articles referred to bespeak the writer's
fears lest the south should be driven to disolve
the .Union. He peed be under no such appre
tension. Higb-faluting speeches in Congress
from the southern chivalry, sustained by the
sneaking cheers of their northern servants,
are not very terrible to the men of the country
and this is about the extent of the danger.
The Union is very safe, if its dissolution de
pends upon the South. They are playing a
game of brag, and will back out so soon as
they find their adversary maintaining a bold
stand. The public crib is too important to
their interests to be abandoned, except upon
compulsion, and so long as the Union is en
dangered only by the attacks of the South, we
shall consider it a work of supererogation to
.Offer op the beautiful jTyer"Es(o Perpetua ."'
Pierce. We Lave heard a story of a man,
who was notorious as the most remarkable profane-swearer
ever known in his native village.
Some wags, desirous of testing his powers
in. that line, hit upon an expedient likely to
bring him out in full force. The man was a
carter, employed in transporting lime from a
kiln at some distance. As he started with a
load, the tail-board was quietly abstracted
from the cart. lie walked at his horse's head
until he had reached las destination, without
discovering the trick. lie looked at the long
train of lime which lay in his rear, at the emp
ty cart, and at the crowd who had gathered to
hear thean, and then calmly remarked, "It's
of no use, gentlemen, I am unable to do jus
tico to the subject."
Some such feeling possesses us, as wo com
mence an article intended to discuss the char
acter and public acts of the person whose name
heads this column. To do full and ample jus
tice to this subject is far beyond our powers.
And if we should show up the miserable object
of our present notice in the strongest colors,
and stigmatize his pitiful pusillanimous and
unpatriotic course in the most emphatic lan
guage in our vocabulary, we should painfully
feel how inadequately our performance had
fulfilled our design and desire. The lash of a
Macaulay, such as he wielded over the back of
a Barrere, would alone be sufficient to "do
justice" to the merits of Pierce.
It is a mortifying reflection to an American,
to observe the falliug-off in the character of
the men who are called upon to represent our
nation in the eyes of the world. To go back
no farther than twenty-five years, what a rap
idly progressive downward line wc meet. From
Jackson little as we admire his statesmanship,
or venerate his memory to Pierce what a
prodigious descent ! What a lamentable chasm !
andyctsven thisaTords some consolation, wj
know that we have undergone the worst. No
deeper degradation can stain our history. For
even in the locofoco dough-facs, negro-drivg
horde of office seekers, no aspirant so paltry,
no candidate so despicable, no incumbent so
incompetent, can be hunted out, even with
microscopic aid, as Pierce.
The performances of this popular President
the choice of twenty-seven out of thirty-ono
electoral colleges, may te generally discussed
under two heads : his foreign policy, ami his
domestic policy. If every act of his, embraced
within this wide-reaching division, were im
partially scanned, it would be found that no
single one has risen above the merest medioc
rity, of both head and heart, while the im
mense majority indicates absolute imbecility.
It must be premised, however, that Pi:rce
is a man of one idea, and we readily allow him
to have been consistent in this one respect.
He believes, with the implicit faith of the ne
gro in his fetish, that, the slaveocracy is the
natural ruler of this Republic that the Presi
dential incumbent is not the chief magistrate
of the Union, but of the South, and that the
Constitution is merely and solely an instru
ment to make this idea a fact.
Understanding this, it is not difficult to com
prehend his foreign policy. Like his locofoco
predecessor, his tastes incline him to bully the
weak, and to crouch before the strong. Deter
mined to wrest Cuba from Spain, for the pur
pose of adding another slave state to the con
federacy, he despatched to the Court of Spain
Mr. Soule, a foreigner, and a filibuster of the
first magnitude. Soule's instructions were to
find, or make a pretext for a war with feeble
Spain, when, in the excitement of the great
European contest, it was hoped that our pro
jected seizure of the "Gem of the Antilles"
would rest unobserved, at least, unopposed.
But France and England both observed and op
posed the scheme. Pierce magnanimously
backed out. Soulo became disgusted, and
contemptuously threw up his commission.
All difficulties were smoothed over, and the
honor of the nation, near the Court of Spain,
is now safe in the care of Ambassador Augus
tus C;esar Dodge.
We wish we were able to describe the bom
bardment of Greytown. We should like to
show how Capting Hollins, of the U. S. sloop
of war Cyane, under orders, proceeded to the
fated city, 'with the intrepid march of a jack
ass towards a bundle of hay.' We should like
to tell the tale of the terrible conflict, and to
congratulate our readers npon the honors so
gloriously gathered by our gallant navy in
those southern waters. But we have no room,
further than to repeat the comment of one of
the administration papers upon the achieve
ment, 'That Pierce wanted to fight with some
one of his own size, and so set Hollins on
Greytown.'
A few remarks upon the Kansas villiany
must suffice to illustrate the domestic policy of
Pierce. We need only allude to the facts,for
our readers have been fully placed in possession
of our views on this subject. But the whole
conduct of this unfortunate President in rela
tion to Kansas, entirely bears out our assertion
as to his truckling subservience to the South.
Pierce and Douglas concocted a scheme to
make a new slave state upon the free territory
of the North. To accomplish this, the Presi
dent, by gifts and promises, bought up enough
Northern votes, to carry in Congress the re
peal of the time-honored Missouri Compro
mise. This infamy effected, Pierce appoint
ed Reeder to complete the triumph of the
South. But Reeder was a man. lie had some
regard for truth and justice, and was tender of
his own reputation. He refused to obey the
behests of Stringfellow, and his gang of border
ruffians, supported as they were, by Pierce
and his Cabinet. The consequence was, that
Reeder was removed from office, on a lying
pretext, Pierce, as a matter of course, not
having the manliness to avow a motive which
was patent to the whole world.
The length of this article admonishes us that
we have no more time to devote to Pierce.
It is well enough to close, for if our readers
should but glance over a full list of the acts of
this most pitiful of all Presidents, they would
feel their cheeks crimsoned with shame at
the thought that they had assisted to make a
President pot of Pierce.
The News. No further events had occur
red in the progress of the war, consequently
the advices of this arrival are wholly occupi
ed with the details of the recent bombard
ment of Sweaborg, and of the Russian attack
on the Chernaya; or, as it is called, the " bat
tle of Traktir Bridge.1' We have full particu
lars of the Sweaborg bombardment, but only
partial details of the Crimean allair. Our ac
counts of both are full of interest. Finland
papers say the Russian loss at Sweaborg was
no more than 40 killed and 160 wounded,
while the allies had no loss of life. Ample as
the dispatches are, they do not convey a clear
idea of how much of Sweaborg has been de
stroyed, and of low much remains. Two En
glish steamers have been trying the range of
tbeir guns against Riga. In the White Sea
the allied cruisers continue to destroy the carrying-vessels
and stores offish and grain along
the coast. In the Sea of Azof! the British
have blown up the sunken ships at Berdiansk,
and have burned the suburb of that town.
Bufore Sebastopol affairs are quite changed, as
they seem to be at Kars. The loss of the
Russians killed and wounded ontho Chernaya
is said to be not much short of 4,000 men.
while the French own to 1,000, an the Sardin
ians to GOO. Later estimates may mcdify these
flguures.
There is no trustworthy information on the
subject of negotiations. "Private letters"
and "rumors" are busy in circulating reports
according to which the accession of Spain to
the Western Alliance is complete, and the ad
hesion of Denmark and Sweden all but ratified
Austria, according to the same loose authori
ty, has already submitted a new project of
peace, and will soon express herself decided
ly for the Allies. Further, there is talk that
the Allies will permanently occupy some por
tion of the Turkish territory, and will recon
struct the map of Italy. There are other re
ports still more fanciful, but all may be safely
distrusted.
Queen Victoria has been well received in
Paris. A ministerial crisis exists in Greece
The Liverpool Cotton market had slightly
fallen off, and the previous week's prices wcr
barely supported. Breadstuff had been more
animated, and all articles are quoted at a spec
ulative advance. Money continued iu demand.
Consols closed at 91J't01.
Passmoee Williamson. We notice that
this gentleman has been nominated for Canal
Commissoner by the Republican State Conven
tion which met at Pittsburgh last week. W
disapprove entirely of this move. It infers
that the Convention was controlled by the a-
bolitionists, and not by those temperate,
soun d-:hinking, and patriotic Northern men,
whose wisdom and firmness had led us to hope
much from this convention, when we heard
that they were to take part in its deliberations
We regard Mr. AVilliamson's nomination as
a mistaken appeal to the feelings of the people.
Whether the nominee is fitted by talents and
experience, to fill so important an office, we
know not, and we are sure the people of the
state know as little of him as we do.
Our readers will remember that we have de
nounced the infamous conduct of that wicked
and corrupt Judge, Jou.v K. Kane, in senten
cing Williamson to an indefinite imprisonment
upon a paltry and mendacious pretence. Wc
have sympathised with the prisoner in his
confinement, and have .expressed the hope
that our Supreme Court may have the manli
ness to strike oil" the chains which illegally
bind him.
But for all this, we cannot approve of his
nomination, or advocate his election, without
more proof than we now have of his compe
tency to fill tho office for which he has been
named.
Thomas Jefferson and Slavert. Wo pre
sent a scrap of history not inappropriate at
the present time. It is known that Jeffer
son penned the Declaration of Independence,
a document lhat has received the highest enco
miums from that dav to this. It is also known
that Jefler3on held in utter abhorrence the
system of slavery, and denounced it as a fla
grant wrong against humanity and an abomina
tion in the sight of Heaven. But it is net
known to everybody that Jefferson embodied
in the original draft of the Declaration of
Independence one of the most withering
rebukes directed to George III., Kinir. ol
Great Britain, for his guilty complicity in fas
tening the curse of slavery upon the Colonies.
We present the paragraphs which were stricken
out at the suggestion of John Adams and Ben
jamin Franklin. These omitted paragraphs
are found in Jeflerson's Works, purchased by
Congress, April 12, 1S48, and published by
Taylor & Maury, Washington, D. C. They
are worthy of a careful perusal, as theyunmis
takably indicate a healthy public sentiment
among Souhern men on the subject of Slaverv
in the earlier and better days of our national
history. We commend these paragraphs to
the thoughtful consideration of Judge Kane,
who professes to belong to the Jeliersonian
school. They are pithv. pertinent, and pecu
liarly "ad rem." Jetferson, in speaking of
the oppressive tyrannical acts of the king in
dignantly says : "He has waged cruel war a
gainst human nature itsulf, violating its most
sacred rights of life and liberty on the persons
ol a distant people who never oflended him,
capturing and carrying them into slavery in
another hemisphere, or to incur a miserable
deathin their transportation thither. This pi
ratical warfare, the opproprium of Infidel
powers, is the warfare of the Christian King
of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a
market where men should be bought and sold,
he has prostituted his negative for suppressing
every legislative attempt to prohibit, or to re
strain this execrable commerce And that this
assemblage of horrors might want no fact of
distinguished dye, he is now exciting those
very people to rise in arms among us, and to
purchase that liberty of which he has deprived
them, by murdering the people on whom he
also obtruded them; thus paying off former
crimes committed agaist the liberties of our
people, with crimes which he urges them to
commit against the lives of another."
Thus wrote Thomas Jefferson before slave
ry was discovered to be a 'patriarchal institu
tion," a "blessing to be prized," a good so
great, that for its security and perpetuation
we can afford to aend our citizens to prison,
who are guilty of no offence, and keep them
there "without bail or mainprize."
Equivocal Admiration. A wag, seeing a
lady at a party with a very low-necked dress
and bare arms, expressed his admiration by
saying that she outstripped the whole party. "
What Does it Mean. The Uarrisbbrg Tel
egraph says: For the last twelve or fifteen
months uearly every Democratic journal in
the country, from the Washington Union down
to the Carlisle Fblnnieer, has ransacked the
vocabulary of epithets for language to abuse,
defame and -misrepresent the American orga
nization. They hAve branded the members of
that body as conspirators, trators, assassins,
&c, and in many instances have incited our
foreign population to deeds of indiscretion or
violence, disgraceful to themselves, and dis
honorable to their instigators. As an instance
of this we may state, that it has been clearly
proven, lhat the late Louisville Riots (which
were commenced by foreigners who deliber
ately shot several inoffensive American citi
zens) were but the result of the editorial coun
sels, and lying handbills and extras of the
Democratic and anti-American organs of that
city. The real cause of this hostility, is, that
the order cannot swear by Franklin Pierce,
cringe to James Campbell and the Babylonish
prostitute, vote the Democratic ticket and
allow the editors and their Jesuit friends to
pocket the revenues of Uncle Sam, and hold
the reins of government for the next genera
tion. The avowed cause is, that the Ameri
can order is a secret sworn political association,
and that it proscribes foreigners and Catholics
from holding office. Now if these charges
were all true, we would like to know by what
rule these same Journals maintain a dignified
silence with reference to the Liquor League.
The Americans they say "are a secret oath
bound political organization," so is the Li
quor League, and they know it. But "the
Americans are obliged to vote for no candi
date who is a foreigner by birth, or a Roman
Catholic by profession." And the members
of the Liquor League are sworn to vote for no
candidate.. Protestant or Catholic, foreigner
or native, Whig or Democrat, who is not in
favor of the repeal of the "Restraining Liquor
Law." We may add too, that the members
of the American organization are at full liber
ty to em-loy, or traffic with, any resident of
the country, and so far as we are aware make
no distinction in this respect, while the oath
of the Liquor League obligates its members
to proscribe every man in business, who is in
favor of the great Temperance reform. The
truth is that the members of the Rum-League
are likely to vote the Democratic ticket, and
if their obligations were a thousand timesmore
proscriptivc than those of the American order,
not one of these editors of the bogus Democra
cy will dare to wag his tongue or raise his
voice in behalf of si!fforinr humanity. The
Know Nothings can secure the silence of these
unprincipled scoundrels to-morrow, and pre
serve tho features of their organization whicl
are denounced as treason and conspiracy, on
condition that they vote the Democratic tick
et, throw principle and conscience to the devil,
and bow and cringe to Loco-foco Join.
How iHtt read the Newspaper. It is a
proof the great variety of human developc
ment to notice persons reading newspapeis :
Mr. General Intelligencer first g'a-ices at the
telegraph, then st the editorial, and then goes
oti into the correspondence.
Mr. Sharper opens with stocks and markets,
and ends with the advertisements for wan's, ho
ping to find a victim.
Aunt Sukey first reads the stories, and then
looks to see who's married.
Miss Prime looks at the marriage column
first and tiien reads the stories.
Mr. Marvelous is curious to see the list of
accidents, murders and the like.
Uncle Ned hunts up the funny things and
then smokes and laughs at his will.
Madame Gossip turns to the local depart
ment for her thunder, and having obtained
that, throws the paper aside.
.Mrs. Friendly drops the first tear of sympa
thy over the death column, and the next over
the marriages ; for says she, one is about as
bad as the other.
Mr. Politician dashes into the telegraph,
and from that into the editorial, ending with
the speeches.
Our literary friend is eager for a nice com
position from the editor or some kind corre
spondent. After analyzingthe rhetoric, gram
mar, and the logic of the production, he turns
a careless glance at the news department, and
takes to his Greek, perfectly satisfied.
The laborer searches among the wants for a
better opening in his business, and but
enough, an extension of the list were useless.
There is just as much difference in readers as
in anything else.
But the worst is yet to come. If each does
not find a column or less of his peculiar liking,
the editor has, of course, been lazy and is un
worthy patronage. Oh, who would'nt bo an
editor. .llbany Knickerbocker.
Will there be Troubie in Cincinnati 7
The Cincinnati Times says that there is a uni
versal apprehension that there will be serious
difficulty at the polls at the next election, and
these apprehensions are not withou founda
tion. Demagogues have been and are still at
work among the foreign population, doing all
they can to excite them against the native
born portion of the community.
Speeches have been made to foreigners in
their native tongue, in which they have been
urged to arm themselves, and prepare them
selves for the contest, and these appeals have
been followed by the most villaiuous newspa
per articles, representing Americans as thirst
ing after the blood of foreigners. The result
is, that committees are out soliciting subscrip
tions for the purchase of arms. Recently or
ganized associations, it is said, must be e
quipped, and the disarmed military compa
nies be put in fighting condition, before the
election.
These facts are well known in tho commu
nity, and it cannot bo expected that the A
mericans are indifferent to them. It is noto
rious, that one great cause of the excitement
at Leuiiville, on the morning preceding the
terrible election riots, was caused by the uni
versal knowledge of the fact that arms had
been supplied to foreigners, and that a num
ber of places like Quinn's Row, was stored
with weapons. And so it will be on the day
of the next general election. If foreigners,
aroused bv the unpatriotic and unwarrantable
appeals of interested demagogues, arm them
selves for a contest, Americans will follow
their example, and if a collision should occur,
Heaven only knows how fearful would be the
result.
Potatoes. rrThe New York Times savs that
at Newburg, on tho Hudson, 2,000 bushels of
fine potatoes were sold by a single dealer, on
Saturday, for 28 to 31J cents per bushel. We
are informed that there are tons of thousands
of bushels in the river counties ready to be
contracted at very low prices. So in various
parts of New Jersey this important crop has
matured In perfect order.
Two Laws for the Ladies. 1. Bellre
you bow to a lady in the street permit her to
decide whether you may do so or not, by at
least a look of recognition.
2. When your companion" bows to a lady,
you should do the same. When a gentleman
bows to a lady in your company, always bow
to him in return.
Nothing is so ill understood iu America as
those conventional laws of society, so well un
derstood and practised in Europe. Ladies
complain that gentlemen pass them by in the
streets unnoticed, when, in fact, the fault ari
ses from their own breach of politeness. It is
their duty to do tho amiable first, for it is a
privilege which ladies enjoy or choosing their
own associates or acquaintances. No gentle
man likes to risk the being cut in the streets
by a lady through a premature salute. Too
many ladies, it would seem 'don't know their
trade' of politeness. Meeting ladies in the
streets whom one has occasionly met in com
pany, they seldom bow unless he bows first,
and when a gentleman never departs from the
rule or good-breeding, except occasionally by
way ol experiment, his acquaintances do not
multiply, but he stands probably charged with
rudeness. The rule is plain. A lady must be
civil to a gentleman in whose company she is
casually brought ; but a gentleman is not upon
this to presume upon acquaintanceship the
first time he afterwards meets her in the street.
If it bb her will, she gives some token of rec
ognition, when the gentleman may bow ; oth
erwise, he must pass on, and consider himself
a stranger. No lady need hesitate to bow to
a gentleman, for he will promptly and politely
answer even if he hasforgotten his fair salutcr.
None but a brute can do otherwise should he
pass on rudely, his character is declared, and
there is a cheap riddance- Politeness, or
good-brecdng, is like law "the reason of
thinsrs."
Deal Gently with tht: Erring. That
man possesses an extremely low and grovell
ing mind, who rejoices at the downfall of an
other. A noble heart, instead of denouncing
as a consummate scoundrel, one who has err
ed, will throw around him the mantle of chari
ty and the arms of love, and labor to bring him
Lack to duty and to God. Wc are not our own
keepers. Who knows when we shall so far
forget ourselves and put forth a right hand
and sin. Heaven keeps us in the narrow path.
But, if wc should fall, where should be the end
of onr course; if in every faco we saw a frown,
and on every brow we read vengear.ee; deep
er and deeper would we descend in tho path
of infamy ; when if a different spirit were
manifested towards us. we mtght have stayed
our career of sin and died an upright and hon
est man. Deal gently with those who go astray.
Draw them back by love and persuasion, a
kind word is more valuable to the lost than a
mine of gold. Think of this and bo on your
guard, ye who would chase to the confines of
the grave an erring and anfortunate brother.
We all have sors? fr?.i!ty
We all are unwise
And the grace which redeems us,
Must come from the skies.
Two Views of the Picture The N. York
Herald states that 8,145 emigrants arrived at
Castle Garden during the month of Aug., and
that on Sunday l ist, (one day) 1T,3 poured in
to that city. The editor boasts that the emi
grants are composed of a much better class
than formerly. We should think so, indeed,
unless all Europe is one vast pauper estab
lishment; for if we judge of the immense
number of paupers ami convicts "tilted" up
on us in the last five years, tho parish houses
and prisons of the Old World have but very
"few more left."
The editor also congratulates us upon the
fact, that the emigrants alluded to above,
brought with them an average of $(S 1)4 to
each passenger. This is all very pretty on
one side ; but how does it look on the other ?
It costs New York alone at least one million
of dollars to support foreign convicts and pau
pers, to say nothing of the property pilfered
from her citizens by tho former. Strike a
balance sheet, Mr. Editor, and the tax payers
of New York will find they have to make a
deficit of over half a million per annum. Pre
serve us from such "valuable acquisitions."
Daitiiix County Politics. Ti e politics of
this County, like in many others, are in a state
of confusiou worse confounded. Three tickets
are in the field. Daniel Mumma and Dr.
Wright, aro the American candidates for tho
Legislature ; John Ilaldeman and Henry Lau
man are the Locofoco candidates; and John
Adams Fisher ami Williams, of Robison, arc
the Whig nominees.
A private correspondent writes us that an
effort was made in tho Whig Convention to
break it up, and that a small number of the
delegates withdrew and resolved that it was
inexpedient to nominate a ticket, but that Con
vention went on and placed in nomination a
full and strong ticket. Both appointed dele
gates to tho Whig State Convention. We do
not know whom the so-called seceding dele
gates appointed, but those who placed the
ticket in nomination, and who. we presume,
really constituted the Wihg Convention, ap
pointed James Fox the Senatorial, and J. (.'.
Bomberger and Mr. Graydon the Representa
tive Delegates. Daily Ncics.
Modest Assurance. A meeting of Ger
man adopted citizens was held at Washington
Hall New York, on Sunday the21thth ultimo.
At this meeting Know Nothingism was de
nounced as a resurrection of the bones of the
Tories of the Revolution. They denied the
existauco of any "Native American," and of
any moral accountability to Deity. The pro
hibitorj liquor law was denounced as equal
ly pernicious with Kuow Nothingism, and both
wore to be resisted, 'peacefully if we can, for
cibly if ve must. Lo those resolutions they
affixed their names, aud, in the words of the
Declaration of Independence, pledged 'their
lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors,'
to support them.
This is truly a union of pernicious elements
infidelity, rum, riot and a total disregard of
all moral accountability.
Kansas. Stringfellow, the Missouri border
er, lately got Into a quarrel at a gaming table
with Robert Miller, agent of the Shawnee In
dians, and Miller challenged him, desiring to
fight it out at once. Stringfellow, however,
refused to go out until the termination of the
session of the Kansas Legislature, when- of
course, the probability is that Miller's dutios
will have called him clscwhera. This does
not look quite so valorous as his blustersng
conduct towards Gov. Reeder. The latter it
is said, will remain in tho territory until after
the fall ejection- Upon the choice of a dele
gate to Congress, the pro-slavery party is di
vided between Attorney General Isaacs and
General Whitfield.
The Last of His Tribe. The last Amer
ican mechanic or member of the 'American
party' was discharged on Friday from the out
door work of the Capitol and an 'anti' appoint
ed in his place. The person alluded to is a
most exemplary man and one of the best arti
sans in his line in the country. Whon charged
with belonging to the 'American party, he
boldly but calmly admitted it, and was imme
diately, and with indecent haste, thrust from
an humble position, in which he had been
supporting nis family honestly and by 'the
sweat of his brow.' Comment is unecessary.
Washington American Organ.
Romantic Suicide. The Coroner held aa
inquest yesterday on the body of Jacob Hill,
whose death by suicide we mentioned yester
day morning. On tho inquest some interest
ing facts were developed, which fte were un
acquainted with previously, and which lend a
most romantic interest to the affair. Early
in June last Mr. Hill's wife died in childbed,
and the mother and child were buried in i lot
in the German Protestant graveyard. Dailv
since then ho has visited the grave, often
spending hours there. He had enclosed the
lot with a fence, and profusely ornamented it
with flowers. On Saturday morning he visit
ed it for tfie last time, and after tracing on tlio
tombstone an inscription with a pencil, laid
down upon tho jrravc and blew his brains out
with a pistol. The inscription was in Ger
man, of which the following is a translation: .
"How soon are the ties of love rent aun
der .'
"Dearest, how fondly have I loved thee !
"I lost my all you may know now that I
love bar still.
"My heart is too sad therefore, oh, death !
fulfil my fate, and soon unite me to her, and
to love's eternal rest.
"I depart from the sweet habit of existence.
"It is at the grave alone man learns the true
value of love." St. Lonis Dcm. Jlag. 23.
Pixs. Tho Albany Journal says that the
largest pin manufactory in the United States,
turns out four million pins per day. Conse
quently it has to run six days to make one pin
for each inhabitant ! 11" to what this estimate
produces, we had all made by other factories
and all imported, the daily product is not half
a pin to each person. So, that it every one
lost or destroyed one pin tt day, instead of one
pin every two days, the whole world of pinned
garments will fall to peices! It also mentions
as a singular fact, that the Chinese have alway s
refused to adopt the article. Various attempts
have been made to overcome their prejudices
but without success. They adhere to the but
ton and string, making the two supply the
place of the simple aud ever ready pin.
Stopping Newspapers. A certain man hit
his toe against a pebble and fell headlong to
the ground. He was vexed, and under tlo
influcnse of anger and active self-sufficiency,
he kicked old mother earth right saucily.
With imperturbable gravity he looked to see
the globe dissolve, and come to naught' But
the earth remained, and only his poor foot
was hurt in the encounter. This is the way of
man. An article in the newspaper touches
Hiu in weak place, am! straightway he sends
to stop his paper. With great self-complact n-
cy he looks on to see a crash, when the ob
ject of his spleen shall cease to be. Poor
fool, he has only hit his toe against a world
that don't perceptibly feel the shock, and in
jures no one to any extent except himself.
EF"A young lady arrived at Galensburr,
Michigan, last week to take the cars. While
waiting, she was grossly insulted. A warran,
was issued for the rascal. The moment tho
culprit reached the hotel, the citizens forci
bly took him from the hands of the officers,
stripped him of all his clothing, smeared him
with tar from head to foot, coated him tho
roughly with feathers, and aftvr trotting him
through the streets .straddle of an oal; rail,
gave the new plumed bird funr minutes to
run five nubs, which he accomplished satis
factorily to the express train, which arrived
soon after.
K7"Shilhibcr, of the Carpet B:ig, tell the
following outrageous gun story :
Speaking to-day with a son of a gun regard
ing some gunning exploits, he fold me of
singular instance ef a gun hanging fire, which,
were it not for his well known veracity, I
should feel disposed to doubt. He had :..).
ped his gun at a grey wparrel, and the c p
had exploded, and the piece not gi:ig .U lie
took it from his shoulder, looked down in the
barrel, aud saw the charge just starring, when
bringing it to his sdioulder again, it went i!"
and killed the squirrel!
Polygamy amd Slavery. Mrs. Swiss!. elm,
in an article in the Pittsburgh Visitor, treat
ing of Polygamy among the Mormons. ':
"In Pennslyvania here, where men have
come with dogs, and hunted a young and
beautiful woman, to compel her to live as the
paramour of a purchaser, luteal of the wife of
the man she. hail chosen for her husdaiid
where they did hunt her, at mid-winter for
hundreds of miles, for such a purpose, and in
obedience to law, it would not be much out of
tho way to keep a Commissioner for catching
runaway wives fiom Utu'i."
American Councils in Minnesota. It U
stated that when the news of the pro-slavery
action of the Minnesota d.-logates in the Phil
adelphia National Council, reached St. Paul,
every Lodge in the Territoiyexcept one, at
Stillwater, threw up its charter and dissolved.
That Stillwater Lodge is the only one in ex.
istencc, and it of course, supports Rice, tho
Pierce Administration Nebraska candidate
for Congress.
Santa Anna Going to New York. The
Ac to York Herald of Tnes day last -stays a suit
of rooms have been secured at the Metropoli
tan Hotel, by a Mexican gentleman, for "a
party of distinguished Mexicans," who are ex
pected to arrive shortly. It is shrewdly con
jectured that the distinguished Mexicans,"
are none others than the ex-Dictator, Santi
Ann i, his family and suit, who aro expected
to take up their abode in Now York for the
present.
Kansvs as a State. In the Kansas legis-:
lature a resolution has been olfered to. tho efT
feet that a convention bo called to frame a
constitution prior to Kansas being admitted in
to the Union. It sets tho first Monday in
October as the day on which the polls should
be opened, rnd tho people are to vote "Con
vention" or "no Convention" on that day.
If the majority are in favor of a convention,
provided this resolution passes, wc may ox-;
poet a petition from Kansas to be admitted as
a State at the next session of Congress.
A Deluge of Wheat. The wheat pressing
forward to market begins to embarrass the
Western roads, whose freight equipage will
soon be fully employed. Tho Illinois Centra
Road has found it necessary to order three
hundred more freight cars. A large amount
of wheat has already reached Chicago from
the southern section of the road. One station,
alone, (Jonesburg,) it is estimated, will give,
tho road this season 300,000 bushels.
IT?" James E. Simpson, a Merchant of Bos
ton, has been arrested, charged with fitting
out the schooner Marv E. Smith, for the Af
rican slave trade. Jacob R. Sunt, a harbor
pilot, who took the Mary E. Smith to sea,
carrying off tho Unitod States Marshals who
had "boarded her for the pmpose of serving
process on th officers, has also been arrested
on a charge of obstructing the said officers in
their duty.
Decrease in the BrandyTrade. A French,
paper remarks that there has not been an
American vessel in RochelIe,the great brandy
mart of France, for the last six months, and
ascribes it to the failure of the grape crops
and the temperance reform iu the U, Stwtcs-;.