Raftsman's journal. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, October 17, 1855, Image 2
0 SI "Til Tf if iT4B t :ht .it J., ii w. ? ,. Mr s m 3 1 il ir I Si : i 'if III EMfSW'S8?SML A v- A . ' iT'ii"? r " ClearfiSli, Pa., Wedntsduy, Oct. 17, 135-3. The DiSTKiCTf We have no definite news from the other counties in this district , but it would seem that Mr. Souther is elected by a small majority. We hope so. Backus is probably elected to the Legislature. The Election.-Any attempt to conceal our chagrin at our recent defeat would at the same tinio le silly r.ad false, and we therefore admit, "at once, that -we are both grieved and astonished-: 'We had c?rtainly: expected an American victory, and that we have been most thoroughly whipped by the combined forces of Rum and Locofocoism, is enough to grieve any lover of lus country. "With the aid of the Liquor League, and their hundred and eighty thousand dollars, the Locofoco party has carried the day. TTe wish them much joy of their victory. ; A "Word to our Readers. For sometime past we have been compelled to devote our columns almost entirely to politics, but now that the election is over, and we are 'well licVd,' as soon as the smoke of ths battle blows o3, we will endeavor to furnish you weekly, with a more readable and more interesting paper. Wo wish to give you some thing practical, something intellectual, some thing poetical, something musical, something useful, something good, something ecictiuc. something uew, and something funny. Send us on new subscriptions, and we'll give you a first rate paper. Cacght. Themselves. The "crgin" madi a trrriM fnss over the discovery of the Dis trict Attorney, that the British entered Phila delphia on tho 2rtth of September, and argued that because we held a meeting on that day, we were celebrating a British victory. We suppose, threfore, that Saturday last, of all other days,was selected for their "jubilee" be cause it was the anniversary of the American defeat at Quccnstown! That battle was fought on the 13th of October, 1812, when Gen. Tan Rensselaer lost GO Americans killed, 103 wounded, and 764 taken prisoners! Such was the day selected for the Loco-Catholic-Anti- jug-law jubilee ! s . The Sale of thu Fublic AVorks. Gov. Pollock is again advertising for proposals for the sale or lease of the main Line of the Pub lic Works. Under the terms of the law pro viding for the s ile of the Line, the bids or pro posals for its purchase or lease, alter being re ceived by the Governor, are to lw? submitted to the Legislature for its action; and from tho complection of the new body, as indi cated by the election returns, there is not much prospect of either a sale or lease being agreed to by that body. We hope, however, that fair and liberal proposals for tho work may be made, and that the inanifi.'st necessity for -a divorcement of the Stutj from tha own ership of the Line may be so apparent to the ne:ctITousc a3 to induce promt action, on the Birbj-.'ct. jjEFEATED BUT KOT CoNQTJ EU"P. Tf the Op jiosition suppose that tlieir recent victory has killed Sam," thev will find themselves' most wofully mistaken. "lie is not devl, ir.t sleepeth," and he will wake up in time to hurl the prese.nt weak and imbecile National Administration from tho halls it has disgraced back to the oblivion from whence it came. Their victory is not a triumph of principle, but of. Rumism, Catholocism, and Foreignisni, which, if von trive them rope enough, will hang themselves before six months. The -raonied opposition to the late license law, allied with the Locofoco ' party aud its foreign Catholic cohorts, together with blun ders among the men who undertook to lead the members of our party by the nose, have brought about our defeat. But in less than a year, it will react with terrible effect, and just so sure as there will be a Presidential election, just that sure will Pennsylvania cast her vote for the American Candidate. We are defeat ed,' bnt not conquered, and our princijdes we will NEVER SURRENDER ! Catholic Jcbilee ! On Saturday evening tho "Bross Bond," with "Sorrell-top" carry ing the flag, followed by some six or eight of the faithful, and a string of boys, wended their way through a cold rain, to Cnrwensville, for the purpose cf holding a jollification over our recent defeat. We are credibly informed that the meagre procession paraded the streets of Cnrwensville, through the mud and rain, light ed in regular Catholic fashion with tapers or candles, and following the lead of a red-headed, red-mouthed Irish Catholic,who boro the flag ! When they arrived at the place where sup per was prepared, Ilis Honor, Judge Barrett and the District Attorney Elect, delivered themselves of two most powerful speeches ! The Judge was particularly "O be joyful," and was afraid he would "go up," in which event lie besooght his friends to "catch him by the heels!7.' We think there was mere likelihood of his going in the other direction! But tho Judge is excusihle, being himself a successful candidate, yet hereafter, when he's in danger of "going up," he had better take "Scratchy" along, as he'a said to be good on a "hind holt." The jartj having left Curwensville about elev en or twelve o'clock got home early on Sun day morning and this ended their first jubilee ! '& ("cs I.)EiAT.--Ti.ti U': AvW.i-x -tthe Ann r i can -vf ly cti Tuesday it:(, 1 1 utd t?ach..tfs m importir.t losson'J .If our rwztionj had been piopeily kept up, we should bavey; inost urtdoTibtedly carricd-the Cmii.tt(; From, the election of last fill, until within' few-weeks of the pre vent disastron's dfeat j the Councils in the County wtre almo.-t inactive ; the mem bers were taking no interest in the matter, no regular meetings were being held, and conse quently the organization was, to a great ex tent, worthless. If jve desire to succeed, we must work ; we miist keep up the organization by holding regular meetings and byji.ng no effort un spared, honorably and fairly to increase the number of membeis. If we had pursued this course for the last year," 'we would hare' carri ed this County by three hundred majority. Let the Officers of eve:y Council, then, call regular meetings, and see that they are well attended.. ,Let every, member determine to succeed, and to obtain at least one, candidate for initiation. Then, when we go into another contest, we will have the certainty of success, which cannot be prevented either by the slan ders or the schemes of an unscrupulous oppo sition. Our cause must and will be successful. GREAT VICTORY!! 1 i.Q.arir TOM SHEA ELECTED!!! Notwithstanding the most bitter opposition, on the part of our enemies, TOM SHEA has been triumphantly elected CORONER ! He was even followed to Curwen.svi'.le, on the night before the election with 'SWORN Affi davits' U prevent his success, but in despite of all their l-itter persecution, and to the almost total annihilation of "old Scratchv's" broech- c-., (wl.'a-li has produced a mot astonishing . , t At .!j.T",''r r:s? m tao tiireau ana cassmeii market; ljjl. is the :- CROWNER !" Three Cheers for SHEA!! Hurrah for "Scratchy" and the Editor of the "Orgin !" As" ";; "j i - TIIE GRAND INSTRUCTOR"' AND HIS DEPUTIES ON A PLEASURE EX CURSION UP f-ALT P.IVETl. THEY EXPECT TO RETURN ABOUT THIS TIME NEXT FALL. This new and splendid train will leave Ty rone Station to-morrow, with suiilcient accom modations for all the Know Nothings of Clear field County. It is to Le regretted that Shea can't arcorupany us, he must stay to take care of the wig-wams until next fall. SWOOPE, Conductor. DUNDY, Engineer. "NEALEY," Fireman. TmIilviti AND Nativk Ohimixals. The sta tistics of crime in Philadelphia, for the l ist five months, (as given by one of our city c-x-chaiies.) show the following t.stoundim: re sult. The whole number of arrests during this period, is 1-5 ,006. Of these, icn t'ir:i:in-l fu e hunt r til and he el re are fortifiers; and eight T;IOr3AXD TIlIir.L. HUXKRLD A.'I TWELVE AXE IRISH!- These-simple facts .speak with a trumpet voice to the common sense, tho pa triotism, and thes'ns3 of self-pivservation of every American.- The foreign population of Phil.idelphin is considerably than c,;ic-fflh that of the native born; yet of the whole num ber of arrests, more t 'nan ttvo thirds are foreign ers. In this proportion, if the whole popula tion had been on a level, in point of morilily. with the foreign inhabitants, the entire number of arrests would have amounted to the appall ing number ; of over ffy thousand, for five months! Can any commentary add force to such astounding statistics as these ? The sta tistics of every town and county in the State will show similar results. More than two-ihirds ;f allthe paupers and eriminalsin the old Key stone State, are .Forcigacrs.' and the expense of trying and maintaining them is borne by the mdnstnous "sons of tho soil." In view of these facts, who will deny the necessity t or an American Party I Civil and Religious Liberty. Civil and religious liberty are equally thegift of God to the whoki human race, and so intimately blen ded that violence cannot be done to the one without wounding the other also. Peuu'ua. "God's gifts," then, are very poorly respec ted in Roman Catholic countries. In Spain, Austria and Italy, nothinjg like evil or reli gious liberty exists. If we could only inspire such friends of the Pcnnsylvanian's politics as Archbishop Hughes, with tha truth of its sen timents, they might, perhaps, so react by theso opinions, upon Rome, even, as to shed from thence a few of the blessings of this civil and religious liberty. CSCol. Joux Dariuxgtox, an officer of distinction in the war of 1S12, died at his res idence in Clark county, Alabama, on the 12th inst. At his burial his slaves collected in large numbers near the grave, and one of them, an old man, requested permission to pray over his old master. Ilis fellow slaves and fellow mourners joined in a hymn which he gave out f rom memory, when he ofl'ered to the throne of Mercy a prayer, which, for deep pa thos and profound humility and adoration, could not be excelled. The tears of a lnrge concourse? of white, persons present -showed how deeply they were moved by . the fervor of this good old slave. ' ' r y pennbylvak: I? u - ICICLES ! In Adorns county the Democratic ticket IS elected by a majority of from -50 to 100. InBucks.county the whole Democratic tick- dt is elected k a majority of 5 or 000. In York the Democrats have elected their whole ticket. Lehigh gives SOS majority for tho Demo crats. In Carbon the Democrats have succeeded by a small majority. Wayne gives S00 Democratic majority. f f Northampton give's 1100 Democratic major ity. - r- - .... . t In Luzerne the whole Democratic ticket in elected bv a close vote. . ? In Jiontour and Columbia the vote is very close. -: ' - ' - In Schuylkill the Democrats have elected their whole ticket. - ' In Monroe the Dcmocrts have shout 1200 majority. : : - Northumberland gives about 80-3 majority for rir.mmer, and 8 to 400 for Zimmerman, Democratic candidate for Assembly. In Delaware the whole Democratic ticket is elected, by .majorities ranging from 2 to 700. In Allegheny county the wholo democratic ticket is now reported to .be elected. : In Cambria the Democratic majority is said to be from 7 to 900. - In Philadelphia the official majority of Plum- eris2,Gll. In Montgomery, a telegraphic despatch states the vote for Canal Commissioner to be Pluuimer, Democrat, 5013; Nicholson, Fu sion, CoOO. Plummcr's majority, 1518 with one township to hear from which will iacreass the majority for Flummer 100. Thomas P. Knox, Democrat, is elected to the Senate by F00 majority, and the whole Assembly ticket by about the same. vote. In Berks, the Democratic majority is about 4000. SALT KIVUP. IlEFIlESIIalENTS. In Centre the whole American Ticket is elected. In Huntingdon the American party is suc cessful by a large" majority. lii Blair Uu-whole American Ticket is tri umphantly elected. In Bedford there is a small American m.y. In Lancaster the majority of the Americ:i:i ticket is thought to be elected. The Treasu rer and one or two members of the Legislature? are in doubt. The Americans have carried Fayette. Green has also been true to her integrity. in v. eotmi ll:f Lj Am ti et has bL-en tdecte I. Armstrong has also given a majority for the A mericans. Clrjster Comity gives 2CT majority for the American ticket. Franklin gives Nichoi.on -J 09 majority. JVfTorson gives Zs ichol.;on 4 of a majority, and Souther a m.ijority of C2 over Hamlin. Wrixk ok TUS r William Fe:,v Mkl- asvholi Lois of LirL. -We regret to have to record a raoat ilistresilng ca ;e f shiprrreck an 1 hiss of life. The fine ship Willa.m Perm, of New Bedford. Captain Cole tmm the Chin ca Islands,, bound to this port, was lost on Sunday, tin; Ci'th uit. oil' Cape ll.'tteres, aud all on hoard, with "the exception of one man, a seaman by the name of Thomas Dixon, were drowned. We learn from Mr. Dixon, who reached this city (Baltimore,) this morning, that the ship struck aboi:t 0 o'clock in the morning, the weather being line slid clear, ami the wind from the southward and eastward. Our informant states that about throe ' hours after she struck, the mainmast went closa to the deck, and soon after the ship went to pie ces, and all on board, including the c.iptain's wife and a passenger, were drowned. The longboat, our informant thinks, must have poue over with the mast, and this may account for the sad loss of life, th:re being but t'.vo sni ill boots aboard, and on the bottom of one of these he found himself after the ship struck anion which he Mas thrown on the beach near Cape Ilatteras. He shites there were -;5 persons on board besides him v'lf. We were particular in shoeing Mr. Dixon the account of the wreck seen bv the schoon er Cerra Gordo, otF Ilatteras, on the lI.Hh of eptemher, but he says it could not have been ti;e Wm. Pern, as he is positive that the hit ter did not strike until tin; next day, and he furt! r says - the description does not corres pond with the Wm. Penn. He says soon af ter she struck a schooner passed within hail ing distance, and on being hailed by ciiptain Cole, passed on without tendering any as sistance. The Wm Penn, was a fine ship of 700 tons, was formerlv a Philadelphia and Livernoul Packet, and at the time of her wreck was own ed in New Bedford. She had on board a car go of guano, consigned to Messrs. F. Barreda and Brother, of this city. Capt. Cole, our in formant says, was about o9 years of age, and his wife only about 28. A despatch from Charleston, S. C. dated October 8th, says : "The ship Wm. Penn of New Bedford, from the Chincha Islands, was totally wrecked off the Ilatteras shoals on tho ."Jth ultimo. Caut. Cole, the commander was taken off the wreck on the fir.-.t instant, and ar rived here yesterday. The Captain's wife, Dr. C. T. Bowline, "of Virginia, and seven seamen, who had left the ship in the light bout, were picked up by the brig Marcus, and brought to Savannah by the steamer Knoxville on Saturday. The first officer. Wood, of Nan tucket, and second officer Hall, of Massachu setts, and seven seamen, who took to a raft, have not been heard from. There were from 20 to 24 souls on board. Two seamen, who remained by the wreck with Captain Cole, were drowned. Buff. Fat. Oct. 8. dFrr. Purple, a member of ttie Nebraska Legislature informed a gentleman at Chicago, a short time since, something how members are gotten up iu Nebraska, lie said : "Cum niings, the Secretary said to me one morning "Purple we want a member from Burt coun ty." So I harnessed up and took nine fel lows with me, and we started for the woods, and when we theught we had got about far enough for Burt county, we unpacked our bal lot box, and held an election, canvassed the vote, and it was astonishidg to observe how great was tho unanimity, at tho first election ever hold in Burt county. Furple had every rf ie! So Purple was dulv elected, and here I am." " G""7""The widow of Louis Phillippe is in Bel ginm, on her way to visit her daughter-in-law, the. Duchess of Orleans. ' DSThe London Times receives, on an aver age, $15,o-C0 per week, for advertising. , .Wab, Upon' in k A sit am Nat"--Thu un'K becile AdniiniMr.'jiou at Washini;rftri", stiri-s to have -declared tar to 'the knife,7 upon. vit-e anayannavy of the .'-United t,oies. The Minding"' of tho -Board xl o.OiccVs. V.j.icli the ri'csiderit has approved by which p.1arge num ber of gallant men. are degraded J'ro'ai theii;pv sition in the Navy, and, succeeded Jy .iu:fG ftient an'd.incompetent. party fav'orites,' is 'one of the horrors of this iniquitous w;if. upon the navy. Among the first to he struck down was Commaxi)i::i Nicholson", who has passed for ty years of his lite in the navy, with credit to himself und honor to the country. This gal lant man has been degraded from his rai.k and placed in an inferior position, with a re duirtiou'f his jfty ti 4 stipend ' wii.diy iijluili cient to fciippoi t hiin and the I'rcfeiuenlf proves the, act.!. Another of the gallant men to whom gross injustice has been done" is Cap tain Graha-m, of Bafialo, who lost a k r.h.jve the knee in battle. on Lake Ontario, i;i 112. He.rJ'terwards.lost his hearing at the battle of Lake Champkiin on board the. flag ship ot Coin. M'Donough. ' Notwithstanding these severe disabilities, he was three years on sea Service, part of the time in the Mediterranean, and lor tifteen years he performed duty in the recruit ing, service with great satisfaction to the De partment and the magnanimous Board 'pro mote the ciiiciency of the navy" by retiring the wounded, crippled and deafened old vete ran, on the paltry furlough of a few hundred dollars! And the President says" Amen ! We could cite numerous similar instances, r.nd may probably take occasion lo do so hereafter. The Administration, not satisfied with its war upon the Navy,. lias also attacked the Ar my and Gen. Wi.vfif.lt Scott is the first vic tim. The gallant old "Hero of a Hundred Battles" has been scarred by too many wounds not to attract the Jaehali's scent and the in tention of Congress to reward the old veteran, is to be thwarted' by the most pusih-.nlmous Administration th.it ever disgraced the Nation. To this end Gfn. Calb Crsmxc, the - Hero of T(uni:i':o. is employed to mvst ifv ::iid befoj; the question, and certify ap-iinst giving the ! General his back pay, and the President with holds it ! But the victory ia but haif complete. G-;-:iv.l Seott granted L".ve of absence to rence. The Secretary o'f War, seizing this as a pretext, addressed him a vindictive and in sulting letter, dmatiaiiig his reasons for this act if l'avcriteism to General Hitchcock, and at the same time ccvufi rinande l the General's order granting leave of abaenee. Gen. Se.ott replied to this insulting' epistle as became a man and an Ann rie.an and the Secretary ha ving drawn the fire, of thy General, thereupon opens a furious bombardment upon him from his pop-gun artilh.ry, intending doubt b-ss to complete! annihilate the old llcro, and dis pos::. ess him of th confidence and esteem 'of the American people. He enters into a se vere criticism of iLeeon inct of General Scott, during his whole military career, and attempts to tarnish the fair i'me f t!fe g.illant old He ro whos briiii int achievements in nrms have given him a world wide fame, and deeply en shrined him in the bear's of ids admiring and grateful countrymen. We heartily endorse the sentiment cf ' eoter.ipor.try, thai it is an unholy warfare which does not si -are the wounded Swora enc sohliv L merciful than the "em ies of the country, it would th-t the Pierce Administration is to signalise its career by bayoneting tire oflieevs f-f the ar my and navy who have escaped the dangers of war thee..h crippled, maimed and disabled ; for what o: jeer tuy peopie ni.iv led to n- n.ire, and Congress rievc-? and Cnshiu n w j y r t ;';!' , demand. .sen he- and perse- cute, .but the Ai-.e: i.:a:i dieate the veteran Hero starrv banner of tho Re e:yl v.iii not -ly vin w!.o borne the ibhe iii t riumrih thro' a huddle 1 hl: -dy bittles. and whse honor Ide scars attest his devotion to his country ! Nativity or '.UriCiJisoLut.us Uxi;:r. the I'. S. (i jVi;:iN:i:.x r. As then' has been somdi3 pute regarding the proportion of officeholders supplied by di!?'e:vnt nation, appointed under tile United States Government, we have been at some pains to ascertain as near as possible, the facts in the ease, wifhos.t partiality or prejudice, and with v poliiieai bias to gratify. We i.'.ve l.mdtf the compilation with ear.'. r,nd we lu-lieveit to be in the main correct. Oi il.n anv one dipoed to c'.o so c in examine tho suint'ct himself, number oi j-r Ts fiee by appoint;: t!ie United St a Book of lb )o.:' authority of Ci The following list n.-f born abro id h;h' e::t under tin: gov es, compiled Iimt; the. 1 ist one pu'dis!. :gres. under tne p.' f.hows the in ' I h e of .tiVnvi't of he "lihie d hv'tiie :s A !- ministration : N't 'i.-i'v. AW.;',-. O.i O:, V. Irelmd 1 Lug 'arid, Germ any, Scotland, Prance, Canada, I tale. Poland, Sicily, Prussia, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Bavaria, St. Croix, Nova Scotia Belgium, Russia, St. Domingo Xil - 18 177 SI !"..-! SO 30 7 Zl Z 1.0 11 28 4 l:i li.t.Sd tl) 3 17 1-I.S84 17 7 10 V.OOo 8 2 6 4,200 8 2 G 2,".'.) ;-) . 1 4 4,3 0 o 1 0 ) id I 2 lj.so 4 3 1 ro 1 CHO 1 1 5'v0 ii roo , 1 l i.r,or 1 1 1,200 3 3- , 1 1 1,005 Cvpir.s, 1 1 o o 1 1 1 Turkey, 3 Minorca, 1 St. Thomas, 1 St. Helena, 1 Is.Camnabello 1 St.Christopherl Trinidad, 1 Greece, 1 Norway, 1 IslM of Jersey 1 Wales, 1 "40 730 1,200 Totals, 353 C3 290 233,303 " Employed in the N. Y. Custom House, and re signed in the spring of ISai to accept a private sit uation. Those employed on fees are engaged chief ly in the departments at Washington, or as foreign consuls. The amount of the fees va ry from a few hundred dollars up to $1,500 to $2,500, more or less. The nativity of country postmasters is omitted in the Blue Book, and hence no means exist of ascertaining tne pro portion of persons of foreign birth employed as such. N. Y. Herald. ET"The following is a copy of a handbill posted in South Bay near Broad street, Charleston, S. C, on the morning of the elec tion for Shei ifl of that city : Let it be the! Iduty of all true Catholics r.o put down the power J if all the lnieruaii Kuow . Nothings.1 Faithful Let the rule. , .XT" Hon. Edward Stauly, formerly'a distin guished member of Congress from North Car olina, is now a Whig anti Know Nothing can didate for the State Senate in San Francisco. I'm;; Gkraj.-t Ji!Y .ftfrTT 'f hlJ'w'iiif "A;. The Crimea a Gol Cot ktrt. Dr. F. Mr dcriiriioofHireotashibitf" d ivVi-.f ''Fniu Paris to bat..p1' - ;. r.t I '. , .,.' ''!, , .'" .in i Miowing: "If England and J iacr L wrnu!a anllo.,:Baby,low)1? PlnlaJ- t:le posWon' of thiv who,: f th, (j, , -. 'J-J-.L . . ! i c liiia, we clipjrvni Jne Aisf Aetrsif In Uitf.affro6.n there was a brilliant atten dance of ladk, Mho, in thedr rich and showy attire, were more attractive; to the -'hi ale por tion of ilt Rempijege, than the babies: Uottnd nod round the Tlal! th-y went, now doseiy. in specting this chubby specimen of infantile hu manity; anon patting a "sweet bnbe'upon tne head; and then gathering around Phineas the Great, to listen to a few words of explanation touching one or the other of the "darlings." Barnmn was evidently in his glory ; his eyes sparkled his face wore a glow of satisfaction, such as must h ive mantled the cheek of idis sier when the news of the capture of t he Mala Koll first reached hini ; and it was ja 'dri that. when upon the stage, he felt himself to be, next to the babies,- the observed of all. observers. Book and pencil jn had, he moved slowly from one ond of the stage to the other. pausing only to ask a' question or two from the hopeft l mothers, who clearly "saw "that" great first prize'-' in the prospective. Barnum is a tru;nt card himself, an 1 he !--,..., ;t . ..1 t. ; - ii, iiu.i lie iiiive? e:ite- iu (r.-l"ll I:il!vt';. before th sjiectptors, during each h--vet, and to v.ee.r, meanwhile, Lis most facimiting smile-. During the .Afternoon levc, yesterday, lie was overhauled by eon of the strong-minded after this fashion. . ' EAT. SUM AXD THE S7I7 OXC3 -ItlXTtrCP. ' T!ie Sf rong-Miinle 1 fin the gar!) of a Friend) Is thee Phineas T. Bm-nnni, the great showman ? - ,-r. . . - Barnuru (With an evidently slight appre hension r.f impending ill.) That is my name madam.' Vi'hat Js your wish ? The Strong-Minded I think, (pause.) thee should -not (another pause and look of solem nity,) keep these children in this heated room. Thee mnv d-eper.d upon it, (pr.use,) thev will suffer in "health. Barnum (Starting back with a look of ahum.) Indeed madam can't help the. heat windows all raised ventilators open take every possible care of the babies wouldn't hurt a hair of the dear creatures head. The ' Strong-M inded (Shaking her head in creduously.) Ah, Phineas, (pause,) I fear thy heart is running too much on the quarters thee makes, to care for the babies. By this time Barnum bad beat a retreat, and for fenr cf l eing overhauled again by the strong-minded, commenced giving directions, in a loud tone of voice, ti tV-. attendant in a snnff-colored c -a!. The irize of $100 f.-r the prettiest child iu the ex-iihitioi. his b'en awarded to 31i ss 11. is. 1 hoTiipson, aged aoont three years This young lady iiad a place p signed her yes terday on the platform, swiiy.frcru the common herd." in company, with Master Scott," the New York pri?:e baby, and .Miss Hardy, the Maine Giantess. Touching this Maine wonder, we don't think it was a master-stroke on the part of Barnum to make her a feature of the exhi bition. If one were disposed to give him credit for any unselfish object iu thus collect ing together a number of infantile specimens, this stalking monstrosity would forbid it, trot ted out as cue is, every little while, by the mm in the sniiiT-color'ed coaf, in 'a speech of this fashion : This, ladies and genflfiuen. is Miss Hardy, (at this she looks demurely, with a faint at tempt to smile and drop a curtsey.) the cele hta'id giantess, born in Maine. Sh is twenty-two years oi l, and in consequence of hav ing been sic!: lately, weighs city a little over three hundred tonnd. She is over seven feet high, and is altogether a fine specimau of a down Hast belle. This rpeech is repeated every little while, and sounds like the oi l Menagerie speeches of Bill or Tom after he has stirred up the animals with a long pole. Her i pea anee at tli3 cx liildtion. loksa3 though B.iru:m had not r.n" abiding confidence in the drawing powers of the babies themselves. P.moue Wii.mamsox. A gentleman cf New York City lately wrote to Passmoro Wil liamson, itioiitring as to the truth of certain rumors respecting new c Torts f.-r his libera tion. "The following is the answer, which has been furnished for publication by its recipient: "No. "eYPn ii-.' nntt'it i a C.-rxTY Ppison, ( Se; t. 1'.', in ;i. ) D.' :r 5.-: Your letter -f the 27th inst. is now before i:;e, u;i 1 i:i reply to your buiuiry I may s'y.that I co"..te;.;p": ite no fnrCier legai .ro:ediie-;.s with reiVreuce to n-.v hler.ii in fror.i t'-ns i :;!, in w hich 1 am :-w ei-i-.Hu 1 t have now months, tio:: I ; l.een kept here for more an two iiid 1 can see no prospect ol libera - l:v mi a native, end h ive always been a citizen of Pennsylvania ; and believing myself atrociously wronged, I' applied to the highest tribunal known to our laws, but relief has been withhold. I can expect none from the ar.thori'y that placed me here, without dis honorable submission. Having heen guil ty neither of falsehood, dissimulation, nor contumacy, I am sure that it is no case for a degrading capitulation. Such a course would bring with it a diminution of self respe- t more oppressive than ".he power now seeUing to crush out the highe.'-t attribute of State Sover eignty by immuring ins within these. walls. "Accept fur yourself, and communicate to others who favor me with their consideration, my most grateful acknowledgments. "Respectfully vours. fuc, " P. WILLIAMSON."' Tin: Elkctiox ix Kaxsvs. The e! -ctiou in Kansas for Territorial Delegate to Congress ha- come ;T Whitfield,-tho last DcL-gifc. was the only candidate on the track, and, of course, got all the voles, except a half dozen or so thrown away on Reeder. - There was no excitement of consequence, , because theie was no opposition. . G..v, Shannon voted for Whitfield, and tho the whole pro-Shivery vote was not cast, Whit field received a much larger vote than at the last election. His vote, m thre counties, amounts to 1,100 The Free-State men did not vote at all, con cluding to hold oil' until their own election comes off, when they will cast their vr.ices for Reedrr, elect him, and send him to Washing ton to contest Whitfield's seat. Fkai di lkxt Foreign- Voti-:s. It is believ ed that the American candidate for Governor in Alabama, was cheated out of his election by the introduction of unnaturalized voters from Louisiana, sent there for the purpose by the Administration. The astounding incieaso of abnut 22,000 in the voting population of Ala bama, in the short space of two years, cannot bo accounted for in any other way. 'It is said that prior to the late election there, some 8000 naturalization papers of the assets of delunct foreigners, " no doubt were sent from New Orleans. Does any mm honestly believe such increase is legitimate, or tint it exists in fact? We do not. Nor do we believe that the 30, 000 increase in the voting population of "Vir ginia is exempt from a like suspicion. HF-A black servant being examiued in tho church catechism by the iniuister of the par- f)fmii,l.r,i:isM." -On iw-iriT inu diniil.l --.- - . ...V. ..A-.tJl.. -J . have sai.l dust, lie replied "No, massa, it no jo n) stick togedder." ; and wished,; without keeping up an . occupation at a vast expense, to preven-. ! sia from cvef re-establishing her power ; have only to decree that henceforth the C;, liiea should be an independent state, self-governed: and- to attract thither, in less than a year, as many millions of inhabitants as could be lodged on the soil, it would be suf.icient for them to declare the ports free, and to plant en the Tchatir Dagh a banner inviting the gold-seekers of every nation to come and search its sides. In the rocks of the Tchatir, rho JMmirdgi, . Srnr.h. nad lAlnchtay : there - is t rojgh to pay thee-xpensts of a war if it lasted a century. Perhaps my readers may feel as tonished af niy making sueTi a sf af cnit iit." They would -bo le.-s astonished if they knew the au thorities on which I rely. I do not merely ap- I pea! to geographical documents and the his tory or past times to prove ntf-lULly that tne gold mines of the Tchatir Dagh exist, and have been worked; I Hlsoinvoko tltc testimony of those who, ds rhn 'ds i:;7i.t, have seen anil touched veins of gold more abundant, a thou sand fold richer than those of the Lrrsl and all the known mines. It suited the policy of Hi Czars to leave these mines nnworked, and to efiace the recollection of them as far as possi ble. If they were worked by free men, that would have attracted from every corner uf Europe a multitude of adventurers men of en terprising character, on a single point of the empire. It would have been kiudling a con flagration which they could not have mastered: If on the other hand, serfs and prisoners were employed as miners, the Crimea was not, like the Ural, so remote from Europe that tin groans of the slave martyrs could be smother ed and they might have escaped the fangs of the despot. The Russian Government, con sequently, proclaims the auriferous strata of these mountains, which evidently attach the Alps to the Caucasus, to bo fabulous. The Crimea, within ten vears. will become the 1 dorado of the Old World. Lvsrnnrcriox i?i Ixiii.t. A foimldahle re bt iiionhas broken out against the British Gov ernment in India. The insurgents are a wild, strange race of people called Santha's. Tlieir character and habits are described inthcD.lLi Uazcftc of August 4th, as a race little Letter than savages, and inhabit tho lower slopes of the hills trom Banguiporeto Drissa. -They are for the most' part destituta ' of firearms: Li;t they in a measure make up for this disadvan tage by their skill in the use of a bow, which they do not hositato to render more deadly la the cruel device of poisoned arrows. Their ru li.'ion is a simple and barbarous idolatory the worship of stocks and stones, wtthout any of those mystical refinements by which the idol atry of the Hindoos is overlaid. Their my-tlittUfc-cjlttparcl-with .that of the Hindoos... is almost a blank, Mtd, they have no notions of caste. Their food consists of almost anything thai c.au be eaten. fro:r. tcadi and eatterpillers up to tigers and horned cattle, for the flesh of kine is not forbid dep. to ihem. As to their vices, it is certain from their recent pro ings that thev cc-mline CL-wari'iee with crnul y to a remarkable degree, fur they war v. it:. wo men and children as well os isicn; s.n I, eahhe t lie North American Indian, v. ho p.'i.s :no-t a warrior's scalp, the head f a womasi is to the Santhal tho most rceepta de trophy tint ho can take away from the village, of ids ene my. But with "all this it is remarkable that the Santh da are u stinguisi.e d for a love f truth which exists rowhere else among th' natives of India. Their numbers arj said : amount to IW,V"0 light 5: im-.i, wt l if i!i -y are joined by other tnlws, tl.euut.r er of Via 1 hyanhill men capable of 1 car.ng anus ,ig iat . us would become formldaile indeed. It is not supposed that any attempt v.iii he in n'e during the present season to do more tha i drive the cnemv to the h'.lls and d1 him there. Next cold season will W the time f r activu olltensivoper.it ions, andni;st sign d ret ribution for the damage done m::st he in.I'.c ted, if the shock which this aii.iir lias i-ea to or.r prestige is fo be recovered from. What tiik Allies have ylt to Atc-:ensrr. Many of our cotemporaries ar liberal in their conjectures and speeui itfons us to what tho allies have yet to accomplish before Seb;:: pol is wholly in their possession. T'ee north aid;- of the tow n, a our i e iders will re'.uernhe", is si III in po.-session of the Russians. An Ann-rle.tn. who i s---rv::ig i;.-. an (diicer of the me.iie ;! ::f itT in (;.-.- riu.-.van arlav, jiivea t'.e .1. n oi t:e forts o:i the norm sal of tne h sy: "Oil the north side of the bay is also a suc cession of hills, some of which are very high, and running in every direction. You find on them all bastions facing every direction. These bastions and re doubts extend up this bay lor a mile or so from tho city, and some of them are very elective, pouring nearly a coutinui! stream of bails 'across the bay into the enemy's battery which is nearest the bay. I think it very doubtful whether the French would lie able to hold this city lor jiiv length of time it' they could get possession of it, from the f ict that the hiils n the north side arc taller than tl;ose on the south, and the city and the bat teries on them, 1 think, woul I force them to leave it. In the main, they have been attempt ing this from tho bind on the south side. I will finish this by saying tmit it is the best for tified place I ever saw. There is not a hill or a mound where a cannon coul I be placed with alvai.tage but you find them." Axti-Forf.igx i'.UTEr. Movkmkxt. We see by our New Orleans exchanges that Mayer Levels, of that city, has issued his prod filia tion to prevent the landing there of the hordes of paupers which have hitherto been cast on the more Northern cities. It seems from this proclamation that the "Emigrant Agents" in Bremen have been circulating through the in terior of Germany circulars cautioning emi grants who are "deformed, crippled, maimed;" tec, &C-, from shipping for New York, Bos-. to-, &c, but advising them to ship to New" Orleans and Baltimore, where fewer obstacles are said to exist. Mayor Lewis announces that the laws require bonds to be given that pauper emigrants will not be a, public charge, Uc, as in the Northern cities, and that thesa laws will ba vigorously enforced. We do not wonder that Mayor Lewis thinks it high time to check a further influx of such materials, when th-. statistics of the Mew Orleans work hous2, as published in the papers of that city, show that out 1202 comniitals of paupers, ont thousand and ticcttc are foreigners, two thirds of these being Irishmen. Telegraph. A Graphic DEscairTiox of Sierra Leoe. A worthy, weather beaten old sea captain onco gave a perfectly definite notion of Sierra Leone, in one little anecdote: "Sierra Leone, sir. he said; "I'll tell you what Sierra Leone is like. A black fellow, sir, goet into tho mar ket. It's as hot as well anything. Ho bu a melon for three farthings and what docs lie do with it ? The black fellow, sir, hasn't a rag on. He's as bare as a robin. He buys h" melon, cuts it in halves, and scoops out tne oiirMlf. Ho sits in one half' covers his hea ..-:, !.. ol,.r .mi it,(4 th middle. Tht what he does, sir. I saw Sierra Leone m O 1111 1 V..w., - - . - - - - - all dark- 1 its tropical glory, cheapness oi prou.. - ... . j j ness of population, gigantic vegetation, . primitive state of ruanueis.; . . , . " ana