BY S. B. KOW.
CLEABFIELD,J WEDNESDAY, AUGUST-20, 1856.
VOL. 3.E0. 1.
From the Dublin University Magazine.
A maid reclined beside a stream,-
At fall of rammer day.
And half awake and half adream,
She watched the ripples piny ;
She marked the waters fall and heave,
The deepening shadows throng,
And heard, as darkened down the ere,
The river's babbling song ;
And thus it sung, with thinking tongue,
That rippling, shadowy river -Touth's
brightest day will fade away,
Forever and forever !"
The twilight past, the moon at last
Rose broadly o'er the night.
Each ripple gleams beneath her beams
As wrought in silver bright.
The heaving waters glide along,
But mingling with their voice,
The nightingale now pours his song,
And makes the shades rejoice.
And thus he sung, with tuneful tongue,
That bird beside the river
"When youth is gone, true love shines on,
Forever and forever!"
TIIE SEVEN LOST BRIDES.
A 1EGESD OF SEW ORLEANS.
In the upper part of New Orleans, not far
from the Mississippi River, stands an old house,
well known in that part of the city, as "the
liaunted house." It is said that no tenant can
le induced to remain long in it ; Imt all, dis
turbed by supernatural sights and sounds, spee
dily seek another dwelling. These nocturnal
disturbances are sufficiently explained, to some
at least by the following legend.
'Long time ago," long before New Orleans
was a great city, and when the quarter now
known as Lafayette was occupied partly by
cancfields and partly by marshes, the old
house old, even then stood, as now, not far
from the bank of the river, and nnsnrrounded
by blocks and squares of substantial buildings,
as to-day, was the centre of a plantation, and
was haunted only by sunny faces and merry
voices. Its owner was an old gentleman, a
widower, who had seven treasures in seven
daughters all beautiful, intelligent and ami
able. "V7b.cn the eldest daughter was of an age to
marry, she was woed and won by a young plan
ter of the neighborhood, and for once the
course of true love seemed to run smooth :
All parties were agreed as to the suitability of
the match, and when the wedding night arri
ved willing guests flocked from all quarters to
do honor to the occasion. The old house was
brilliantly illuminated, and music and dancing
echoed through its chambers. In short, eve
rything went merrily onward and gay. Louis
iana never saw a gayer assemblage.
But all this merriment was doomed to met
a strange and sudden end.
Scarcely had the nuptial benediction been
pronounced, when it was observed the bride
was missing. The evening passed on, and she
did not return. Wonder was followed by anx
iety. Search was made, first through the
house and grounds, and finally through the
neighborhood ; but all without success.
All that night, and for days and weeks alter,
the search was continued with the sleepless
energy and vigilance which love could prompt;
but all in vain: not the slightest trace was ev
er found of the missing bride.
Had she, in some sudden aberration of mind,
wandered into the boundless swamps, and per
ished miserably of hunger and exposure ? Or
had she some fearful and unbosomed grief,
which had caused her to cast herself into the
turbid waters of the Mississippi ? Or had she,
perchance, met and loved some person so far
beneath her in station as to render an open u- !
nion hopeless, and they had fled together to
distant lands T
Such were some of the conjectures of the
gossips concerning her fate ; while others told
dreary stories of dreadful and desperate deeds
of the pirates of the Gulf, or, late at nights,
with terrible glances cast over their should
ers towards the door, whispered ghastly tales
of the doings of the demon huntsman, whose
horn was often heard among the woods and
marshes, and the baying of whose dogs, ming
led with the rustling of the wind among the
leaves, as it struck upon his ear in the dreary
hours of night caused many a pious Acadian
to hastily cross himself and utter Jive Maria
and a petition for protection against the devil
and his angels.
It would be tedious to tell as to hear, save
in the briefest manner how, one after anoth
er, five more of the seven daughters disappear
ed in the same way each on their wedding
night till but one was left the youngest,
the most beautiful, the best loved of all. A
strange infatuation seemed to enchain all who
- were concerned ; and while, when each was
lost, the same scene of frantic search, of wild
grief, and despairing acquiescence, was enac-
- ted. none ever dreamed of making the myste
rious fate which seemed to hang over the fam-
f!r. an obiection to the marriage ot the young
eirls. And thus it came to pass that the last
daughter became betrothed, is the rest had
in to one well worthy of her; and in clue
time another large company were assembled
to grace tho nuptials.
But on this occasion there was but little mcr
riruent. Tho guests clustered together in
twm nH threes, and in whispers spoke of the
lost sisters. All seemed to feel as though
they were shadowed by the wings of some
dark and terrible misfortune hovering over
the doomed house. No ouo was found bold
enough to utter a jest, or to speak a gay or
thoughtless word.
In the meantime, all possible care was ta
ken to guard the bride from the "fate of her
sisters. A chosen body of friend's watched
constantly over her, and never permitted her
to be absent from their sight.
Thus were matters situated when tho hour
appointed for the nuptial ceremony arrived.
But the final vows were scarcely spoken,
when tho sound of a distant horn was heard,
and a thrill of terror struck to each heart. It
approached nearer and nearer, till at last the
heavy tramp of a man, accompanied by the
pattering sound of the feet ol hurrying dogs,
was heard upon the veranda. All eyes were
fixed upon the closed door. It opened with a
crash, and a gigantic huntsman, clad all in
green, and surrounded by a pack of huge and
panting hounds, stood upon tho threshold.
Fixed to their places, the spectators stared
with glassy eyes upon the terrible visitor, and
awaited, in speechless terror, his further move
ment. Fixing his flashing eyes upon the bride
with imperial air he raised his right hand tow
ards her. With tottering steps she advanced,
and fell fainting in his arms. One blast upon
his mighty horn, one yell from his ferocious
pack, and the green huntsman sprang from the
house, bearing with him the inanimate form
of the doomed bride. Fainter and fainter
grew the sounds of liorn and the dogs, till
they faded quite away in the distance; and
then, and not till then, did tho beholders of
this strangs scene recover from the spell which
had deprived them of the power of moving or
speaking.
All those who were present at this supernat
ural abduction have long since mingled their
ashes with their parent earth, but the old house
still stands, a witness to the truth of the le
gend ; and on stormy nights the demon hunts
man's horn and the baying of his dogs, rising
above the roaring of tho tempest, may be
heard sounding along the Mctairic Ridge and
the swamps and woods adjoining ; and at mid
night hour the ghost of the bereaved old fa
ther yet wanders through the deserted cliain
hers of the ancient house, weeping, and wring
ing its shadowy hands, and repeating, in ago
nizing tones, the names of the jeren lost brides.
THE ELECTION OF BLAIR IH ST. LOUIS.
The election of Frank Blair, an anti-slavery
man, an opponent to the extension of slavery,
of disunion, nullification, and of the oppres
sion of Kansas, and favorable to the renewal
of the Missouri Compromise, in St. Louis
must produce astonishment throughout the
country. That the people of a slave state
should elect such a representative will surprise
those who have not examined the question of
slavery, but not such as have viewed it in the
light of its effect upon labor and the laboring
portion of the white race.
It also shows that there is a deep cuirent of
opposition to slavery amongst tho laboring
whites, in the very region of slavery itself,
that only wants an opportunity to manifest it
self to tell the North that they arc with us on
this question. In speaking of his election,
the St. Louis Democrat (Benton) says :
'The battle was fought in a great measure
against individuals, and against no man was
this battle fought harder than against Francis
P.Blair, jr. lie was known and recognized
as the advocate of the working men of St.
Louis, he was ridiculed as tho man who defen
ded the rights of white labor in preference to
that of slave labor, he was abused as the man
who desired to devote the new territories of
the United States to the tillage and agricul
ture of white frcemem instead of slaves, and
yet as such he has been elected. All honor to
the noble vindicator of free u-hite tabor, and
may this be an example to the milliners, that
their dark and iniquitous designs meet with
no favor in this great commercial and indus
trial center of tho Mississippi Valley.
A New Cent. Everybody will be glad to
learn that a new cent is to "be coined. The old
copper-head, which has so long represented
the smallest fractional division of our deci
mal money in use, is too cumbrous and large
for the little value it represents, and the sub
stitution for it of a new coin, readily distin
guishable from all others in circulation, will
be considered by all a great improvement.
It is therefore proposed, by the Director of
the Mint, that the new cent shall be eightj--eight
parts copper and twelve parts nickel.
This will make a coin of a dark reddish color.
It is to weigh seventy-two grains, less than
half the present cent, which is 1G0 grains.
Toe Postmaster General's Mismanage
ment. A development has been made of tho
mismanagement of Postmaster General Camp
bell, which has cost the government a heavy
sum. A treasury warrant has been issued to
Messrs. Glover and Mather for no less a sum
than two hundred thousand dollars, which was
awarded to them by the First Comptroller r.s
an indemnity for a breach of contract with
them on the part of the Postmaster General,
in carrying tho mail between Louisville and
New Oi lcans. This is a nice little sum to be
wasted in this way, the whole amount being
of course literally sunk.
Republicanism is VinoixiA. A correspon
dent of the Boston Tch-graph says that a Fre
mont Electoral ticket will soon bo nominated
in Virginia, and that this demonstration is
owing very much to the late blow struck by
the sUvebreeders a,t the people's rights in the
expulsion of Mr. Underwood from the Old Do
minion for participating in the Philadelphia
Convent kn.
THE EAPPITE COMMUNITY,
AT ECONOMY, fA.
The editor of the Pittsburg Dispatch writes
as follows from the village of Economy, Bea
ver County, Penn'a : :s ' . "
"This place was. finished long ago. The
community or society once numbered eight
hundred souls; they arc now less than three
hundred. From one third to one half the
houses are tenantless. Neat comfortable dwell
lings, both brick and frame, arc "voiceless as
the grave." Elsewhere in the town all is still
enough, indeed at most hours of day or night,
save for the strangers who come to relieve the
quietude. . After 9 P. M. not a footfall is to be
heard, save when a traveller drops in from the
road or a locomotive snorts by with its rattle
and clatter. At G A. M. all who hope to cat
breakfast must bo ready to sit down at the ho
tel table. Those who are laggard will have a
sound scolding most surely from "Joseph,"
the worthy host, who occupies that trouble
some post for his share of duty as a member
of the society, aided as fir as practicable by
"David," another "excellent little fellow,who,
in addition to the duties of cutting tailor and
barber for the whole community, also helps
Joseph at the tavern. The fashions do not va
ry much, however, and probably David has not
an onerous post as tailor ; but I observed with
surprise that every gsown male member of
the community is shaved, at least on Sabbath,
though all wear whiskers, great or small.
The community seems to be pretty evenly
divided, male and female ; the latter almost as
hearty in appearance as the former. The so
ciety, as you are aware, first settled at Old
Harmony, Butler county, in 1805. Finding
themselves too far from navigable waters and
markets, they removed thence, about ten years
afterwards, to New Harmony, on the Wabash
river, in Indiana. Here, owing to the unheal
thy climate, many died, and the community
again removed in 1821-'5 to their present lo
cation ; having remained at each of the first
places chosen about ten years, and here, to
the present time, thirty-odd years. George
Rapp, their beloved leader from Germany,
came here with them. He had adopted a son,
called Frederick, who also came to this place.,
and died before his adopted father. George
Rapp died in the fall of 1817, then in his 'th
year. He had preached more than fifty years ;
had led his peple in all his wanderings, from
Germany to their last "promised land" here ;
and when all was settled hopefully, the com
munity prospering beyond his most sanguine
expectations, he prepared to lay down his
shepherd's crook, and, summoning his people
around his window in the yard of his dwel
ling, he thence delivered to them Ins last dis
course ; and, though of age so advanced and
on the grave's vcige, his voice was yet strong
enough to be heard half a square. During
that same week lie died, and lies buried, like
all the rest, in the common lot, without even
a hillock to show where he lies. Mr. R. L.
Baker, a very able and worthy man, succeeded
in the spiritual and temporal leadership of the
society. More recently, Mr. Ilenrici, the very
able and intelligent treasurer of the society,
has been appointed joint trustee with Mr. Ba
ker. In the society, as is known, there is a
perfect equality ir. all respects; all are pro
prietors, all equal in rights and in dignity ;
none are hirelings. The cook at the hotel,
who for thirty-odd years has occupied that
post, David tho tailor, barber, &c, and all, of
whatever occupation, stand alike respected.
The people arc all pleasant and kind ; nothing
of austerity about them, except on Sunday,
and then they appear truly plain, devout wor
shippers. We attended morning service in the nice
cool church yesterday. Mr. Baker led the ser
vices, with two old men sitting on either side
ot him in the pulpit. The choir had about
twenty-four performers, male and female.
Two pianos "were in lieu of an organ ; Miss
Gertrude Rapp played one, Mr. Ilenrici the
other ; the music was rather monotonous, but
fair. The services were : First, music, sing
ing, &c. ; then prayer ; then a chapter, ser
mon, singing, and prayer. For the first pray
er all rose ; during the succeeding services
preachers and audience sat, in tho last prayer
leaning forward. On entering the church the
men and women came in at different doors,and
took opposite Eides of the house. On leaving,
the men sat waiting till all tho women had
gone out and the coast was clear ; then the
preacher led out, aud the other male people
followed. We omitted to say that, at the close
of each division of the service, the audience
respond "amen" in what sounds exactly like
a sharp quick guttural "tigh !" and rather star
tles at first. All the men wear blue clothing ;
all the women blue clothing, with silk caps of
exactlv tho same make and material as if
moulded. The ceiling of the church is arch
ed handsomely, and it also is painted blue,
bright blue. Blue is "the rage" here deci
dedlv. I estimated (pretty accurately) the
congregation at 225 ; the balance of the near
GOO w ere confined at homo by their avocations
or by age and infirmity. There were a few
young people, and I even saw one infant child,
whoso parents recently joined the community,
but the average ago of the members is compu
ted to bo now over sixty, and some are over
ninety ; so that death must soon bo busy thin
ning out their ranks. I observed very few
tottcrine -stops, but nine-tenths of the men
were bald, and most of the others gray ; tho
women look more fresh ; some wear wigs.
The evidences of decline and decay are
manifest painfully, and teach a sad lesson of
mortality. Count Leon took away, about 250
of the original 80Q, others left at other times,
death has reaped many, and ' less than three
hundred remain. The advance of age and de
crease of numbers compels a curtailment of
occupations. Silk manufacture is therefore
abandoned ; cotton and wool manufactures arc
confined now to the little winter work for their
own wear r so of tanning aud other employ
ments. The mnscum is gone long ago ; their
music bands are no longer kcptTip ; even in
tho harvest Holds they must hire help, and re
duce tho amount of land in cultivation. They
have fifty of the finest milch cows I ever saw,
and even this spring Mr. Baker purchased a
five hundred dollar bull, and eight or nine
cows at two hundred cach,for improved stock ;
they have also tho choicest varieties of shang
hai and other fowls in thousands ; but of sheep
only two hundred for mutton, none for wool ;
of hogs about seventy-five, which are bought
for fattening and killing alone each jcar, as
they raise none ; of horses about forty head,
for ploughing, &c. Every dumb animal is
kindly tended; all at c as fat as can be, and
neither man or brute is overtasked.
The people feel independent, and caro very
little for accumulation at present ; hence they
labor regularly, but never hurriedly, and the
hotel is merely kept up as a matter of public
accommodation. They owu some five thou
sand acres of land, worth say 100 per acre;
add value to town buildings, monoy, stocks,
&c, they cannot be worth less than two mil
lions, 1 believe. They are kind to the poor;
a house is set apart for indigent travellers,
where beds are furnished, and supper and
breakfast freely given to any wayfarer. They
have also kindly received back several truants,
who went abroad in former times, did badly,
and returned, like the prodigal son. Tho so
ciety has some very active members yet ; some
very ingenious mechanics too. They havo
within a few years purchased pine land up the
Allegheny, and have a saw-mill here, where
all kinds of timber is sawed and sold to the
neighborhood. They have a cider mill and
press, of homo invention, which will turn out
forty barrels of cider in a day. Grape, cur
rart, and other wines are made in abundance,
as also beer and even whiskey, but drunken
ness is unknown among them. Tobacco is not
used by a single individual in any way. On
the whole they are a happy and coutcnted,and
I think a really religious people.
ATROCIOUS FBAUD 05 THE PUBLIC. I
Arrest and Committal of the Pertetra- I
tor. We learn from the Philadelphia press,
that Ilollis who was charged with counterfeit
ing so extensively the labels ot Hollow-ay's
Pills, lias been committed to Moyamensing jail
for trial in default of bail. Tho examination
showed that the immense sales of Hollowav's
remedies in this country had long since exci
ted the cupidity of a class of miscreants known
as "medical counterfeiters." The establish
ments of Professor Holloway, in every city of
the Union, had been closely watched, the ex
tent of their business ascertained, and finally
a system of counteifciting planned out which,
in extent and magnitude, has probably never
been equalled in this or any other country.
We hope the fortunate arrest of the chief con
spirator, Hollis, will tend to explode tho whole
scheme ; all the materiel of the rascally com
bination is now in the hands of the police. It
is somewhat difficult to counterfeit the reme
dies of Professor Holloway with impunity.
His agents "cover the land," constituting an
all-pervading "vigilance committee" whose
Argus eyes are ever open to his interests and
the interests of the sick,which are in fact "one
and inseperable." Hollis and his gang forgot
this independent medical police, ever on the
alert, all in direct communication with the of
fice in New York. They left out of their cal
culations the boundles pecuniary resources of
Professor Holloway. and under-estimated his
Zealand liberality when engaged ilf hunting
down the" double knavery that tampered with
the public health while it sought to rob him
of his reputation. The timely discovery of
this scheme of wholesale rascality, will, we
trust, bo a warning to "medical counterfeit
ers." The counterfeit plates, labels, &c, are
all in the hands of the authorities of Philadel
phia, and the conspiracy is utterly crashed.
Its effect has been to exhibit in a more strik
ing light the unparallelled popularity of Hol
loway's Pills, for only against the leading
medicine of the age would such a scheme have
been organized. It would be well for the trado
to be on their guard against similar frauds for
the future. One scheme of impostnre is put
down,bnt tho popularity of the medicines may
give rise to others X. Y. Xat. Police Gaz.
The Democract in Northumberland connty
is split,and a bitter contest is going on between
the two divisions. A convention has been held
and a ticket nominated by one wing. The o
ther has called a counter convention to meet
on the 18th, also to nominate a ticket.
The Hon. Andrew J. Harlan, a Pierce mem
ber of Congress from tne 11th district of Indi
ana, has declared for Fremont.
Nearly every paper that reaches us contains
accounts of Union district and county tickets
being formed, in opposition to the Democracy.
THE PRESIDENCY.
George Law has written a lengthy letter on
the present political crisis, from which we
make the following extracts, as being worthy
of the attention of every voter :
New York, July S, 18 jG.
Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge the re
ceipt of your letter of the 2Gth ult. I have
carefully reflected on its contents. " In reply I
beg to state to you that I deeply regret no
more perfect union has been effected by those
whose duty it was to have accomplished that
object to unite the whole elements of oppo
sition to the present corrupt administration,
wielded as it is by the extreme Slave Oligar
chy of the South. For the last three years
this same oligarchy has used the entire power
and patronage of the General Government to
crush out all independent action and honest
Representation on the part of tho North ; to
purchase up Northern men to misrepresent
their constituents from personal motives and
for promises of favor from the present corrupt
administration.
All good men who havo the love of their
country at heart, both in the North and in the
South, should unite cordially in a common ef
fort to destroy the viper that has coiled around
the freedom and independence of the Atneri
con people. Freedom of speech is prohibited
in the halls of Congress; bowie-knives and re
volvers are daily appendages at the capital as
a means of assault and defence. The Senate
declares itself not only powerless for punish
ment, but even palsied for protection. Its
members look quietly on and sec a member
stricken down in open day in the Senate Cham
ber, without even the common effort of hu
manity that would be exercised in a bar-room
to save a man that was prostrated, without an
opportunity of defending himself. Thus you
see that thqsc who represent their constituents
honestly, and by unanswerable arguments, and
who cannot be purchased by executive favor,
must bo awed into silence by bowie-knives,
bludgeons and revolvers. Such is the scheme
of government inaugurated by the Pierce dy
nasty, and fostered by tho Southern sectional
power that supports it. Upon this basis, and
into the arms of this power, the nominee of
the Cincinnati Convention surrenders himself
before the country, without the slighest reser
vation or individual independence of his own.
What has the country to expect if Mr. Buchan
an succeeds 1 Nothing better than it has ex
perienced under Mr. Pierce, aud perhaps some
thing worse. One is an old man w ithout inde
pendence of mini or energy of character,
which the country is forewarned of by his dec
laration that he is no longer James Buchanan,
and has no views or opinions of his own, and
is therefore the pliant instrument of the Slave
Power that nominated him at Cincinnati, and
must reflect their views only. It will be well
for the American people to remember this
when they cast their votes for Chief Magistrate
in November next.
The other came into office, a man in the
2rime of life, without any submission or pled
ges, backed wp by almost the unanimous voice
of the country in his election, and yet lie was
not three w eeks in office before he surrendered
himself to the same oligarchy that has w ielded
his power during his administration, as abso
lutely as if he had no will or mind of his own,
and had no responsibility to any section of the
Union except to the 350,000 slaveholders of
the South, who now- control the Executive, the
Judiciary and the Senate. The only voice
the Free States have in the Federal Govern
ment is in the House of Representatives.
Is it not fair to expect that if Mr. Buchanan
should be elected, the evils that the country
has experienced for the last three years will
go on increasing during his administration un
til the Northern mind will submit no longer
to be cheated, bullied, defied and deprived of
its just rights and fair representation in the
federal government ?
As one of the leading features of tho com
ing administration, Slavery is to be forced in
to Kansas. The rivers, the great highway of
the Nation through Missouri, a Slave State,
are to be closed, as they arc at present, to the
freemen of tho North, who desire to emigrate
to that Territory. Those great thoroughfares
which have hitherto been looked v.pon as the
pride of the nation, and that steam has ren
dered so valuable for transportation of ersons
or property, must be closed to the freemen of
the North; or they must be subjected to ex
amination, insult, loss of property, and turned
back, unless the proclaim themselves in favor
of the institution of Slavery in this Territory.
Such means as these are made use of to force
Slavery into Kansas. When free emigrants
arrive there, after all these difficulties and de
lays havo been surmounted, they must under
go another examination, and swear allegiance
to the government of the Slave Power organ
ized in Kansas by the Missouri mob, or lc de
prived of the right of franchise and of holding
office. . This is the operation of squatter sov
ereignty, which deprives a man of his citizen
ship nnlcss he swears fidelity to Slavery ; and
all this is to be carried out aud put In execu
tion by an armed force, furnished from Mis
sourithe adjoining Slave State ; aud the fed
eral government, with federal troops in the
Territory, will look on calmly without inter
fering, so long as tho Missouri mob succeeds
to enforce Slavery upon Kansas; but if the
men from the free States, who believe in Free
Speech, Free Territory, Free Labor, Fre
Press and Free Men, should be too numerous
fpr the Slave Labor; then tho federal troops
organized for this special purpose nnder tho
command of a Southern favorite of a Southern
secessionist Secretary of War, are to interfero
and decide the contest in favorof Slavery lu
Kansas. So much for the chances of tho Nor
thern principles and Northern men in Kansas,
and all that vast territory north of 36 dcg. SO
min. secured to Freedom by solemn compact,
in which the great minds of the'eouutry uni
ted to build up and preserve to Freedom, and
which the pigmies and traitors, aided by this
corrupt administration, have attempted to pull
down and destrov. Here is where Gen. Fierce.
stands, and. here is 'where James Buchanan
stands, while asking for the support of tho
freemen of the North. . . . .
I intend to go for tho man who most nearly
represents the American sentiment, and tho
sentiment in rel.it ion to Slavery of tho Free
men of the North, which declares that Slave
ry is sectional and that Freedom is national.
At the same time 1 desire to have the best rep
resentative of the progress ol the ago in which
we live. I want a man who has done some
thing for the great material interests of tlio
country. I want to see his foot prints, not
promised, but already made in the direction
that has led to the development of the resour
ces of our country who has enlarged tho field
upon w hich tho labor and intelligence of our
country is to bu applied one who has dona
something lor American interests and Ameri
can rights one whs has done something for
the area of freedom something for material
progress and benetit to his fellow men. I want
no oid politician, with his host of dependents
as seedy as himself. Let us havo a man in tho
prime of life, full of energy ,and yet sufficient
ly familiar with the vicissitudes of life to judgo
of men correctly to appreciate the wants of
the whole country to avoid the intrigues and
traps of politicians todevote himself hon
estly and fearlessty to the interests of tho
country to apply tho resources of tho gov
ernment to the accomplishment of such im
provements as are national in their character
and that w ill result in the greatest benefit to
tho wholo cosntry one who has no old polit
ical friends to reward, and no old political en
emies to punish one who will feel that he is
elevated by the people and not by intrigue.
Now, Sir, of the candidates who are before tho
people for the exalted position of Chief Ma
gistrate, I prefer John C. Fremont. I prefer
him because he is not an old hackneyed poli
tician, and all sold out. He is in the prime of
life forty three years old. lie has been brought
into notice by the energy and exertion that ho
has evinced as a great explorer of the route to
the Pacific Ocean. He first opened up tho
pathway through the wilderness that others
had followed to the golden fields of California,
and gave the most accurate and extended view
to the American people of all that vast region
of country between the borders of civilization
on the Atlantic slopo and the Pacific Ocean.
He took an active part and was foremost iu
raising and sustaining the American flag in
California. Ho commenced tirst and went all
through, that campaign with. signal success,
that ended in the acquisition of all that vast
territory and wealth that opened up to A
uif rican energy sueb a field as has no parallel
in the history which lias advanced this coun
try 25 years at a single bound. It gave us tho
facilities for increasing our commerce. It en
abled us to extend largely our railways and o
ther internal improvements; and thus has
greatly increased or.r manufacturing and agri
cultural interest by enlarging the fields of pro
duce and consumption. It has added hun
dreds of millions to the capital of the nation.
By his explorations he has opened np the mo?t
central arid convenient railroad to California.
He aided in tho organization of California as
a State, and devoted her institutions to Free
dom, and she acknowledged her indebtedness
to Fremont by sending him as her first Sena
tor to Congress. Ho protected American in
terests in California. He protected and advo
cated American interests in ti.e Senate of tho
United States. His antecedents, are Ameri
can. He rose by his own energy, his own in
dustry and his owu merit. These are antece
dents that will be appreciated by the Ameri
can people. They arc not promises of to-day
of American principles under the expectation
of tho suffrages of tho American party, but
they aro a history of bis life from his youth
upward, when actuated by no other motives
than a true American heart, thoroughly devo
ted to the interests of his country. .
I am, with much resptct, yours truly,
George Law.
To G. A. Scroggs, Buffalo, N. Y.
A negro woman having died in Richmond a
day or two since, after a brief illness, it was
thought expedient to bold a post mortem ex
amination, and tho result was tho discovery of
a pin embedded in tho lungs, which the had
probably swallowed a considerallo time be
fore. Donbtless tho careless practice very
common among females, of holding pins in
their mouth, has been the cause of death in
many cases, besides the one alluded to.
Jas. Beans, aged 10, residing in Syracuse,
N.Y., while playing with some companions i
a Salt Block, on Wednesday, accidentally feil
into one of the kettles and scalded to deatU.