ordinary character oeCiuisenifilings. The Tho efrectproduced by the report was vis- '
lici:torn of this sea consists of two submer- iblo in the countenances of all, and many
ged plaitr:,---en elevated and depressed looked anxiously forward to the morning
one—the last averaging thirteen hundred fixed for the execution for although the'
feet below the surface." The prejudice energetic measures of the state of siege
which gave to this sheet of water filename set any great demonstration at defiance,
of Dead Sea, grounded doubtless on the still something unusual was expect ed--I belief that its waters I held in solution in- either an act of mercy or an act of despair.:
redients, and emitted effluvia, destruct- The morning came, and the dawn broke
wo
may
animal life, is so far confirmed, that upon an assembled multitude of many l
it be regarded as an established fact thousands around a gallows erected on the
that no form of life exists therein, nor Holtz Matz. A rumor suddenly spread
could any animalculni or vestige of ani- through the crowd that Batthynni had at
maT
mutter be detected in it when subject- tempted suicide in prison. It proved true ;
ed to a powerful microscope—so salt it is, hut. either the hand of the unhappy man
so dense, so bitter.litit the men bathed or his energy failed him. Though he gave
in it without peril to Mb, though with suf. himself's-arms wounds, he (lid not deprive
&lowly disagreeable consequences; for it himself of life ; he, however, escaped the
was found oily and acrid in the extreme, rope. Twelve hours later, nt nightfall, he
pealing the skin Imin the body, and pro. was led out
.and shot. As yet, it is a mys
ducing a prickly smarting sensation ; and tory what influence procured the substitu
numerous and curious birds were found tion of powder and lead for the rope. Corn
upon the borders of the lake, and •seemed mon report says that the wounds in the
to fly over it, and to skim its surface; and Count's neck prevented the rope being us
wild ducks seemed to float upon it at their e'. Batthyani, however, walked, it si.ems,
ease. with a firm step to the place of execution;
The buoyancy of the water is such that
the boats with the same load Arm one inch
less upon the lake than in the river. Its
action was so powerful on the copper boat,
that, while exposed to its immediate fric
tion, the metal was as bright as burnished
gold, but corroded immediately on coming
in contact with the air.
The commander describes the water as
inodorous, and contends that its saline ex
halations are not only inocuous, but that
they are positively salubrious. It is to the
climate, the intense heat, that he ascribes
the 'dangerous and oppressing influence
that soon began to impair alike the physi
cal health and mortal vigor of the party,
causing the figure of each to assume alean
and dropsical appearance, the, lean to be
come stout, awl the stout corpulent ; the
pale faces to become florid, and the florid
ruddy ; the slightest scratch to fester, and
the bodies of many to be covered with
small pustules. llappily the work was ac
complished before worse symptoms ap
peared; and in a few days oiler their re
turn to Beirut, they all recovered, save the!
la - mented Dale.—Sew York Jour. of Com.
IF R 0 11 EUROPE;
Prom toe Penlitylvehian
Further Foreign Item.
LONDON. Oct. 20, half-past 10, A. M.
• - The advices from Paris are of yesterday
moon—They state that, during the speech
• ofMatthieu de la Drone, on the Roman
'question, an altercation arose between M.
Thiers and M. Bixio, ex-Minisiers of For
okra Affairs. The latter declared that the
.11inner had said the election of Louis Na
polean, would be a disgrace to France.-
- rhiers demanded satisfaction.
-A duel took place immediately: one
shot•was-fired by each at twenty pacesdis
- trance, but neither was wounded, and the
seconds dame forward and said that the
parties had done nil that honor required.
- Both members returned to the Assembly
just as the sitting was adjourning at 5 o'
-
AUSTRIA AND HUNGAKY
A le:ter from Presburg states that it is
not•true that. Pulsky's children are con
fined in the castle of the city; but that the
children of Kossuthand of Guyon are im
prisoned there ; and are in such a state of
destitution that Haynau was afforded an
opportunity of insulting their misfortunes
L.dolling out to them a paltry alms of
0, which was left with the Governor
of the fortress, so that they were not even
afibrded an opportunity of expressing their
contempt lbr him by the rejection of his I
dole. Madame Perczel and the Baroness
es Splenye are also prisoners at Presburg.
A great sensation has been created by
the appearance in public of Asserman s
female Aid-de-camp, who is included in
. the capitulation of Comorn This second
Joan of Arc, who is only twenty years of
age, has fought in fourteen pitched battles
against the Austrians.
.The Generals Kiss, Kiss was possessed
.of landed estate, which brought him in
some .4:,6,000 or ..€B,OOO a year, Desoffy
and Lazar, were shot. Count Charies
Leinengen, Poltenberg, Nagy Sandar,
itneszich, and Damjanich, suffered the
death of felons and murderers. One Gas
per had his sentence commuted to ten
-years imprisonment in a tbrtress. These
rigorous proceedings took place on the
ever , memorable 6th of October. It is
istated also that theiate Minister Casuyi
and Baron Clessenek have been hanged
at Posth. There is no knowing where
these criminal processes will stop, now
that Baron Haynau, who alone is respon
sible has got his hand in,
Vienna dates arc to ctober 13. The
.Pesther Zietung records the execution of
another eminent Hungarian, Ganzzky,
who has been hanged at Pesth, Nor is
This the only victim announced. Baron
Jessorak has been subjected to the same
tate. Both of these victims attempted to'
address the crowd, but the roll of the
drunts, drowned their voices. The Jack
Ketch stripped the bodies to their linen;
they were left hanging for an hour, and
then conveyed in a cart to the hospital.
• The dowery of the Countess Batthyani!
,amounted to seven milliens of florins; the!
whole of which has been confiscated to the!
•Austrian treasurery.
f{i'A‘he. crown of St. Stephen and royal
insijoila of Hungary , have been conveyed,
, it is-Old, from Widden to England.
TIIE LAST AUSTRIAN MURDER.'
Louis Batthynni," says the Oa-
Delitsidterost "had voluntarily suriender
.
rtince Windischgratz. He was
:Orin Of - the Member§ of the deputation from
Nisilt.that - waited.Upon the Imperial corn
.'o4n-eltief to effect, if possible, a
soltitien Of the struggle against
Silica then 'he remained a pris
jiis none' was scarcely' ever
" Suddenly_ . .it is upon every
t' is, ;spread, that.nattliy,.
(ipon the
and before he fill, shouted in a clear voice,
"Eljen a haze !" or, lung live my country t .
r , m II e () 119.
The Lzcet►tion of Butthyoni.
Austria, though for nn interval again
triumphant, is more than ever doomed to
destruction. Aided by the legions of the
Autocrat, the I louse of I lapsbUrg has, for
the time being, re-obtained an ascenden
cy over the destinies of the I luin , nrinns.
Nevertheless, the position or that dynasty
has become for that very reason only the
more perilous. The hearts of fifteen mil
lions have been alienated Imin the cause
oft he Sovereign'at Sliambrtinn : and now,
although at the ,ipogcr of 11('1r shoe S 9, th e
glaive of a visible itiemesii intners al
ready over the heads of the conquerors.
Austria, we repeat, is doomed to destruc
tion. The brand of death, written in cha
racters of blood, has been imprinted on the
walls of her Imperial palace—and the
hand by o Inch those bloody characters
have been traced is that of the inhuman
land pitiless Ihlynate Europe, accustom
ted though she be to spectacles of horror,
land incidents of devastation, has shudder
ed at the tremendous crimes perpetrated
by that monster, in the hour of victory.—
She has stood aghast and overwhelmed
with tribulation, at the massacres taking
place in Pesth and Arad—massacres con- ,
ceived and enforced in cold blood, by the '
prc-consul of the Red Emperor. It was
miserable enough, God knows, to witness
the downfall of the liberty of the Hunga
rians, strangled by the brute force of Rus
sin, and stabbed in the back by the treas-
I
on of Gorgey. Yet, to enhance the gloom
of the catastrophe, to render the fate of the
heroic Magyars still more melancholy . and
deplorable—we have seen not only the I
expatriation of the liberator Kossuth, we
have heard not only the glorification of the
traitor Gorgey—we hav,: seen the desola
tion
of Hungary, and have heard the dis
mal talcs of the incarceration and butche
ry of her glorious children. The day ofd
warning has passed by for ever. We
speak now not of a probability, but of a
certainty ; and we say, almost with a feel
ing
of ghastly satisfaction, that the hour
of vengeance will come down at last, like
a thunderbolt, upon the heads of these as
assins of autocracy, of these homicides of
AbSolutism. When that hour arrives, woe
be to the murderers of Hungarian patriot
ism ! Thcy will look in vain for a repe
tition of that sublime weakness, which, in
1848, covered the insurgent democracy of
the contine#,` ) with the splendor of an un
paralleled magnanimity.
They will look and look, alas ! in vain,
fbr the re-abolition of the political scaffold.
They will find no shelter then, during that
terrible period olexpiation, even under the
cover of the majestic eloquence and mag
nificent heroism of a Lamartine. They
themselves have cut the ground from un
der their own feet. They themselves have
drowned the popular generosity - in torrents
of blood ; they have nailed their banners,
not to the mast, but to the giLbet ; they have
thrown aside the sword and the lance, for
the rope and the guillotine. On them will
descend the penalty of their attrocious
butcheries. And for every victim which
has fallen beneath their merciless weap
ons, Democracy, in the next day of its as
cendancy, will demand a fearful and inex
orable account. Princes, and Dukes,
and
Marshals,
'savage Captains and Red Eta
perors,will receive the accumulated hcrit
age of their atrocities. For their recent!
proceedings have taught the people of Eu
rope the great truth, that the clemency of
a revolution is only productive of the cru- ;
city or a counter-revolution. Men recog
nize, at last, that it is not without meaning
that despots have been robed in purple—
dyeing their garments in royalty, as they!
do, in the life-blood of the population. The
fact has been revealed in the youthful;
reign or the Red Emperor, Francis Joseph'
--more precociously cruel than Nero,! ,
more ruthless in ferocity than Borgia, more •
besotted in his early dominion than Hello
gabalus. It has been illustrated, moreov-.
er, by the sanguinary career of the Red
Marslml, I-laynau, a monster whose Cam-1
paign of the Scaffold has eclipsed the Bloo
dy Assizes of Jeffries ; and whose actual
deeds have surpassed the fabled brutalities!
of Claverhouse.
Since our last enumeration of the
vie
tints of Austrian vengeance, other Hunga
rian patriots, of conspicuous distinction,!
and of u ndoubted, probity, haVe been bar-1
barously assassinated by order of the mili
tary tribunals at Perth. Ladisoy Csanyi, l
the Minister or Public Works, under the
glorious dictatorship •of KoSsuth, %Vas,
strangled on the lbth instant ; and on the
same day with , him was hanged the Baron
Jestenak. It cannot be tbrgotten tliat it
was the former who 'dytected the treacher
ous coryespotideriae between Ottinger and
',Jellachich. iThat . exposure' of n cOngqn-,
itd spirit 'has :been Crually : :•rephitt by the
f(iithl and :40tipjptilit0, Pokgq; For
Csitti yi,' tire vented from proOading
key' ytith, his illtOtri . o4 10(11% ! - 4 consd
quence of the langour of habitual indispo- server. Russian and Turkish uniforms
sition, was compelled to unite his destinies are constantly seen crowding the streets.
with those of Gorges. His confidence You may fill in with a Russian'privnte,
was fittingly respondedrto—he was betray- lounging in the streets, or in the markets; l Clearfield, Pa., Nov. 16, 1849.
ed, brought before the terrorists of Austria,- but the Turks never go out but in certain •--
and executed. I numbers, and always accompanied by The Country Dollar.
On it previous occasion we have spoken their low officers, so zealous Omar Pasha,
Do our subscribers justly appreciate
of the death of the unhappy Count Louis is to maintain discipline, ands() well known ;I
•
!Batthyany, the Algernon Sydney of Hun- to him are the sometimes wild whims of the worth of the Dollar which we send
nary, as en infamous and detestable our- the Turkish soldier, who is at alive a bon them weekly . ? Will they compare the
der. That epithet is not used as n mere einfiint and a barbarian. The Turks,' cont e nts or its columns with those of oth
token of our abhorrence, but as a literalhowever are so well dressed—l mean so' cr
definition of the ace Count Louis Bat- 'cumurortably—so well red, so highly and, • papers, and then ask themselves it' they
have yet done their duty in trying to in
thy-any, we repent, was not executed, ' li,r privates, (their pay being more than
was murdered. lie was murdered &lib- 3s. a monde) that they have hardly any ; crease our list of' subscribee, 7 .
•,* We hold
! erntely, in cold blood, according to the' motive for committing th os e potty I l r e( .'ly asPPrt, without fear of eontrdiction, that
w r itt e n l a w s of gnglaud, and according to ' nies of which the Hessian sailer. F,e) ill we eive weekly, more reading matter than
?that unwritten code of justice ss hich has fiat that he will secretly stoop to la l eedng
any other country paper in the State, and
hitherto prevailed throughout Chi istendem. is too often guilty. Yet, in spite or their '
The city papers, it is ,
It is said by Blackstone in his immortal 'good deportment, the Tiirkish privates are • at ' a kwer P riec •
j"Coinmenta ries," vol. iv., p. 178, that constant obje c ts o f aw e , and even, abhor- ; true, publish more matter for the same,
"when a criminal is executed by the prop- retire, to a certain part or their population price, but what kind of stun' is it Does
ler officer in pursuance of his sentence, this I-1 mean the ti'male porti•un. one country reader out of every five read
lis justifiable homicide." "Bat it'd be done I First, tla v tire Turks ( M " s ""'"';) a n d >. more than half they contain? Wihile, on
.by any other perso," says Hale, m
i., secondly, they look en women as ere
n ' lllO other hand, almost every line we pub-
p. 5 0 1, "or nut done in strict conformity tools of pleasure; ts hilst, in the eyes onl'
with the
sentence, as for jastoacc it-an
oil weaker sex
01 . this
(mtrv, ow - it
assimis fish is worth being read by every country
fiver behead one who is adjudged to be have the same faith, and Ili,: not so bruseee. reader, fur it is selected expressly for their
hanged, or the contrary, it is murder!"— in their manners. Fowl Ettiauli, whose benefit. Let the people of Clearfield coon-
The assertion is confirmed by Coke in his 'departure fin. St. Petersburgh has been as Iv 'think of this.
iflniaindes," soh. 52, Now, Count great loss to Turkish influence in the Prin.
!Louis Battliyany was sentenced to. death cipalities, lives in the palace of Prince Ce. From the Gold miner,
by the rope. Maddened by his many cal- ben, wito is now in Constantieople. Gcn
amities, he threatened to destroy himself, tr
self, eral du Hamel resides in the eouny, at A letter was received this week from,
land, in consequence of the wound in his the seat of Contaeucene, the Cahn:lean of Miurox 1. Geoureta.ow, addressed to his
throat, he was nut hung but shot. There- the Prineipality, and now Grand Vornik, sister. in this place, and dated at the Mid.'
I fore say we, in point of hie and justice, or Ilona!, Minister. No two mien could be the Fork of the American river, Aug. Ist.,
'his execution was a horrible and flagraut , found of more difilTent minds than Fund
The Turk is and mailed at San Francisco Oct. Ist, '49.
murder ! On the Red Emperor—on Hay- I Effi.ndi and Du Hamel.
politeness, sn i t; ,„„,,,' Mr. G. went to the gold region by the land
nun—on every member of die blood-stain- man of extreme
eil Government of Austria it ill h i ll th e and temper—sepoft, indeed, that it borders ' route, and, though he sufTered many pri
v engeance evoked ht th. eigamie c riffles on Inc , Icncss and apathy: Russian, cations and perils, lurreached his destina
vengeance to l indicted, not by the whose origin is French, it' YA lit I hay , .. 0
n in safely. fh2 was 05 days on the ,
!scourge %\ Iii.• 11 lacerated the unfortunate I been told by private people is true, it;
Madame-Madersiiach, but by the rope that I haughty and unatniable, though straight., route having felt Missouri on the 26th of
strangled A ulich and the muskets that mar- forward and honest; bat unrelenting, and 'April,
passing many companies on the
Iderial Batt hva ny. seeming to believe that the commands of way, and being among the very first arri
, Lloyd states that the Countess Batthva., his master would lose something th - ir vials by the land route. Ile had been at'
ny, a!ter the exceution of her husband, did j might and true character, if they 'acre not .ght days, di
was the mines eigging himself for
; nut go to Toth, but to Csargo, to the Coun- I sternly en:breed. More than owe,
toss marbly, who is also a Zi,diy. Front I told, the extreme blandness of Field Edim- I t h e "evil," with a fair prospect of success.
thence she will go, in cump:iince with the dt alone prevented the tw o Imperial Cow- To whers going to California he decided
, last tt fishes of the count that she should I missioners throw ing tables or arm chairs lye recommends the route by water as pref_
lease Ilungary, to visit a female relative lin each other's Cares. 'The successor " 11 (Tilde to the ovOilatid route; being both
in Bavaria. ; Fuad Effieali, during his absence at Pe- ,
quicker, and loss liable to eaSti-
TURKISH AFFAIRS. tersburg, is Omar Pasha, the Command- ,eilea p er t
er-in-Chiel of the 'Pe eltish army an d isdai„ I allies. In travelling the first two thou
' vraiii arse Corrprpondenl 11,t , Hirt
CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. a. tary Governor of Buch•trest. He lives in ' sand ,tiles he says he did not see,as "much
where the, unfortunate and ßent, the Hungarian hero—the Polish the palace A and ill-Itimber as stands on ninny a single acre in
patr.ot—the victor in many a battle, has
starred PrinceA Ghitta held his Coati.
I old Clearfield."
fallen; not in the field, for then his fate —a Court which he alight have. held to
this day, if he hAd been a little more pm- I
would havt been glorious; nor has he per.
, hed on the scatrald, to which Russia had dent and a little more clever too. Omar
I
Pasha is the great military man of Tut-. condemned him; for then he would have
been a martyr. He has ceased to corn-
key, the man who has put down the resist.
mind either our admiration or. our sym
ance of the Druses and the rebellion of
pathy; he is no longer the victorious Gen-
Albania and 114.1rdistan. The military ri-
I era], the devoted patriot. Bern is a rene-
G
val of Omar is General Luders; ss hose un
wide. He has repudiated the religion of
his country, know exploits in Cireassia have with no
his :hthers; he has renounce
difficulty- been thrown into the shade by
d
his really gret successes in Transylva.
and the noble cause with which his name
aria. Omar hks all the pride and pompous
was so closely identified. Bern has be-
demeanor of a 'furl:—nerve goes out, tin
!cornea Mussultnan; he has embraced the
less accompanied by horsemen and 'dee.
religion of Mohammed, and frini being the
bearers ; hilst the mai , whose name has hero and patriot, ho is now Murad the erns bearers
placed near that of
egade. Is this the effect of cowardice or
askiest itch walks
on quietly, only surrounded by
or selfishness? To escape from the hands
The Sultan has ordered that 25,000 du
, ladies.—
of Russia has he beeeme an apostate?
ca r ts . should be taken from the Treasury
To save himself' from honorable poverty
of the Prmeipality, (the treasury , is emp
ties he blasphemed his creed? One feels
ty,) and given . to . the ex -C innatean and ae
humilitited and'abased by such an event
futil Home Minister, fur his expenses du
as this. It shows us the weakness, the
folly' of poor human nature. This ought rung the time of his Camaicanship.
to show the abiurdity of identifying men
with principles; for, with the vulgar, the
treachery of Gorgey and. the al ostacy of l
Beni must have the effect of giving them a
bad opinion of the - cause with which both
these men; were unfortuntitely connected. ;
Humiliation and shame were the senti
ments excited in the Minds of the friends
of Hungary, at Constniitinople, when the
news arrived, that not only Bent, but all
his staff had become apostates. It is im
possible to give an idea of thoi contempt
which the name of renegade inspires in
Turkey, even amongst the Turks them
selve3. In the times of Moslem fanati
cism a price was set upon upostacy ; but
though the pretended convert was reward
ed Tor abondoning the fliith of Christ, he
was always held in loathing by the proud
minded Mahommedan, who was well a
ware of the baseness which had led the
renegade to a change of faith. Now that
Turkey has become a tolerant and civili
zed country, acts of religious apostacy
have become more rare, because they do
not meet with the same rewards as in far
mer times; the contempt of the true Mus
sulman has grown much stronger fur a
postates, since he is better able to judge of
the motives by which they are animated.
60,000 men were. yesterday reviewed
at Sun Stefano, on the coast of the Marmo
ra, by the Sultan. Sir Stratford Canning
and General Aupick were present. Alter
the review the Ambassadors were honor
ed with an audience by the Sultan. Siri
Stratford Canning presented the Hon. Mr.l
Jerningham, Secretary oS.Ambassy, and
Lord Mandeville, to His Majesty; and the!
Vicomte de Gabriac, First Secretary of'
the French Legation, was presented by,
General Aupick.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Odin arri
ved here this morning, from Corfu and
Athens, with despatches for Sir Stratford,
Canning. It is understood that the Odin'
is to remain here for some time, under
the orders of the Ambassador. Her arri
val caused a great sensation. She brought
the news that the English & French fleets
were shortly expected at Vourla-bay; near
the 'mouth of the , Dardanelles.
BUCiIAREST, OCt. i.
resume My correspondence,. which
has been interrupted, by a into the
country. The Turkish and - Russian ar7
thies 'have lilted up their tents, which were
pitched out o' , the town, and have taken
their quarters *in the town itself, adding
about 20,000 people to ifs 'Population. The
Turks are quartered in large khans on the
right hank of the . Dembor4z.ti, a small riy
nr,whichpitturesquely. runs through, 114-
'Cliarest;' and .the ussta na on the: tett
Thu towmaffords~a curious Sight 'for
A Rod for Gossips,
The 11.)flowing partigraph! which we find
floating in the newspapers, lays it on the
Gossips just as-they deserve. If it should
!catch the eye of auy who are in the habit
of slandering, and peddling evil reports a
bout, let. them read this and metal their
ways. There are seine ho proli ss great
piety and innocence who would do well
to refleatin the statements given:
"The slanderous woman poisons the
atmosphere ofan entire neighborhood, and
blasts the sanctities of a thousand homes
witc a- single breath. FrUll) n woman of
this class nothing is sacred; she fattenson
calumny, and upon slaughtered reputa
tions.. She is the Ghoul of eastern story,
transferred from the Arabian Nights, to
the circle of the fireside. She never as
serts anything,--she merely hints, and
supposes, and whispers what Whey stty."
Every 'iteighborbood in the city is infes
ted with some creatures of this sort, and
in country towns they very oflen are af
flicted with two or three of these Ghoul
Women. One is enough to set a hundred
families by the cars, but two can break up
a church, three are sufficient for any kind
of mischief from the separating of the hus
band from his wife, to blasting the fame
of an innocent girl. A pure woman is'
simply an angel embodied in human shape
—a slanderous woman is something worse
than the cholera—certainly as infectious
as the yellow fever."
There is more truth than poetry in the'
above. Pass it around. Preserve it, and
whenever you hear one of these veteran
gossips, with a furtive smile, beginning
with "they say," read the above aloud.—
Unhappily, there are male as well as fe
male gossips, but, with a little alteration,
the above "blessing" will apply to both.
The editor of the New York Sun, who cian. He was the first white child born
was at the telegraph office in that city, in Bellefonte, Centre county, 'in the year
says, when there was a pause in business • '9B. He was a printer by profession, and.
operations, Mr. W. Porter, a young but for years the editor of the Bellefonte Pat
skillful operator in the Boston office, asked riot. RO was a member of the House of
us "what tune we' ould haver we to- Representatives fOr several years, and,
plied "Yankee Doodle," , and, to our Sur- as we learn from gentlemen ' who served.
prise, he immediately complied with our with him at that period, was one of the
request-;.-theinstrument commenced d rum- most active and intelligent members in the
timing to notes orthe tune, us perfectly and House. Ho-was subsequently .elected'to
as distinctly as a skillful' drummer could the Senate to fill' the - vacancy occasioned
have done' at the head i efa regiment,. and. by the resignation of Jtidge
many will be astonished to hear that "Yon- At the general election in, the year '1831;
kee Doodle" Can *travel by lightning.— Col. Petriken was elected ' for a full term
So perfectly and distinctly were the Which he' served 'ed.". ? •'''
sounds 'of' these tunes transmitted, that When Goyernor Porter canie into poW:'
good . instrumentak performers'could Or he t was appointed ',DePtitY Secidinii"ofi
bad ''difficOWOry,'kewnetior' with - the Conoroonvettith which post . he held' for
'
itWrtitnerVi ht t 'eitid OHIO . ivWes. • ' ; Witeiretiiii*l'-*- thee Slice
t4i4l
THE DOLLAR.
Death of lion. Charles llnston.
This venerable judge and esteemed citi
zen, departed this life at his residence in
Bellefonte, on Saturday the 10th inst., i n
the 80th year of his age. Our coon ry
possessed few greater men than Judge Hes-
TON. lie stood conspicuous at the head
of the legal profession.
Death of Col. Henry Pet rikt a.
By the following paragraph the people
of Clearfield county, at least many ofthem,
will learn the death of an old and valued
friend. Mr. PrrniKEN has been long in
active life. From his very youth, he was
a politician of the most active and ener
getic character. For many years--coin
mcncing perhaps previous 10 1820—he
published a paper in Bellefonte, called the
Patriot, and from that time up to the rast
General Election, he acted a bold, con
spicuous and efficient part in every con
test. And unlike a great many public
men, be never was accused of changing
his political opinions, but was perfectly
consistent. During the whole time he
served in the legislature—about nine years
in all—this county formed part of his dis.
trict, and well are his services remember
ed—and equally well will be his memory
cherished—by hundreds of our citizens
for the faithful manner in which he atten
ded to their interests. The poor mall nev
er possessed a more faithful friend in the I
Halls of any Legislature, and a speech he
delivered in the Senate in 1834 in oppo
sition to a proposed poll tvx would do hon.
or to any man.
Among some half dozen printers that
were schooled in the old Patriot office, un
der the regime of the Pcirikens, we be
lieve that one of the editors of this paper
is the only one that is at this time enga
ged in the business.
Mr. PETUIKEN was not only a politician.
He was als a man of fine literary talents,
and as a poet, fe was the author ofsever
al pieces of considerable merit. Peace to
his memory.
From rho D.iily Timry, Nov. 9
COL. HENRY PETRIKEN.
We are very sorry to announce this
morning, the death of Col. Henry Petri
ken which took place yesterday morning,at
2 o'clock, at Mr. McKibbin's Merchants'
Hotel. Col . : P. was well known through
out the Commonwealth as an active politi-
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by Governor,'Shullo . He ,
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..remov
by Governor Johnston'. Pot ri &Ai/Montt
lie has been disCliargiag the Auties of Su
perintendenf on the railroad to avoid . th' e
Inclined Plane. '.Colotiei P iv6.aivitrtn
hearted man, exceedingly attai.hed to his
friends and not. ungenerous towards his
opponents. jle had been in bad health
for•some time, 'rind his' death will not sur
prise his friends. His 'remains will be
conveyed to Harrisburg for :interment, as
he requestedyesterday morning.
John W. Forney 0 Esq.
This ge . rilleman; one of the talented ed
itors of the Poznsylvanian,, is favorably
spoltvn all; a candidate for the highly
conspicuous ,of or,. the next
House of Representativesotyashington,
No man Could 'be Selected who, ivoUld more
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efficiently perform the arduous duties of
the station, and but few men's elevation
would give satisfaction to a larger number
of the people of the United States.' Should
the Democrats have control of the offices
of the House, they should by nil , means
confer the honor upon Fnapity. He is
one ofihe most untiring, and nt the same
time. fair, honorable and courteous politi
cal editors in the Union, and no editor has
done more efficient service for his party.
The selection of FoRNr: would be every
where received as a compliment to Ate .
Press.
0:7 - The editor of the Cohontricr Spy
says he did not desire to provoke a con
troversy with us, in the ,very abrupt notice
he took of us a few wicks h4o, and accu
ses us of "sophistry and prevarication" in
what we intended as a flat and positive de
nial of discourtesy towards the Spy. W,(4
am disposed to doubt the sincerity of tho
editor in the first instance; and in the gtc-,
ond, had he laid our statement before hit
readers—to whom In has wantonly slag.
(feral us—nnd thus given them an oppor.
tunity to judge of our "sophistry" and
"prevarication," and also enabled them t a ct
judge how much we deserved the coarse
and vulgar insinuations he cast upon us;
he would have much better acted the par:
ofa gentleman.
Palmer's Business Men's /limonite for 150.'
V. B. PALMER has kindly favored. us
with a copy of this neat and truly valuable
repository of knowledge of the most di.
rectlyiiseful character to every man:, and
especially to every wan in business, who
wants to know what is going on in.,t h u
world. The pri(N., is only 12+ cents per
single copy; or $.:41 00 for 12 copies. Ad.
dress V. 13. Palmer, Tribune Buildlngi r
New York.
The ?linguine* for December.
Sartain's Union Magarine is already
I on our table, ovortio•% ing with no less than
20 splendid engravings, rind a variety of
literature from some of the foremost wri•
ters of the dny. Among other authors
whose pens embellish this number, Mary
Ilowit, Eietity W. Longfellow, Edith May,
Mrs. Neal, Mrs. L. FL Sigourny, Park
Benjamin, Rev. R. Davidson, and Rev:,
W. H. Furness, are the most conspicuous:
Sartain's Magazine is always a mat, but
it never seemed so peculiarly entertaining
before.
Gorfey's .T.arl y's .Rook, for December,
contains all the way 100 pages-24 en.:
gravings—and is adorned with the rich
productions of no loss than 40 different
cent ributors. We cannot praise this work:
Its fame is that it stands at the head ofA.:
merican literature.
,(*--We intend publishing the prosper•
tuses of both the Lady's Book, and Se r•
lain's Magazine, and trrst that it will in
duce some of out 'lady readers to send on
and procure a copy of ono or tho other, 9r ,
both of these works., Their families might
profit thereby. Terms—Single copy of
either of the above works, $3 per annum,
2 copies $5; 5 copies $lO.
COMMITTED.-A man, named Joaph,
Bennet, was committed to the jail of thi .
county, on Tuesday last, on' a charge of
threatening the life of his brother's wife,.
From California.
The steamer Empire City, 'Capt.. J. 1)
Wilson, arrived at New York on the W.
inst., having left Chagres on the 29th.. ‘
October. She brings over half a
in gold dust, as freight; besides a large e
mount in the hands Of the pasSengers.,,,,,
NEW ' JERSEY F4LECTION. -71 BO v, 7 ugi
have elected a. majority of the members 01
both Houses of the Legislature--thoue
the majority is miirh redueci' &orb Wile!
it was Wit Year.
NEW YORE ILVCT1ON;;;-7-Ttle oe , r ll .
Jpotion in • Now York, contras to tsd4 .
cations from thei first miurns;.rocolvedi
re s til ci , closei'vofo, and. ihtiVio
414' that atietteheff the candidatee • •
party Intre been elected; iizt Detifirk
crats,fer ..Tes Appeals,.,
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Conti Commissioier , and 4tate Id"
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