The Country dollar. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1849-1851, June 08, 1850, Image 2

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''''.l.l4lii):.-1111pallaltt.froM Oka. observing. Gem Lopez, without a body
. . ... . _ guard,.. fearlessly exposing , himself to the
N..ra fide Account (y ',oc , Operations at
0 uzienae,: _ ono . o o ra - and jarty tire. , from,the Citadel, detached this inde
pendent company •to that duty. They
'''• I.: died and wounded---4panish decounts. gallently reformed it, end had en officer
•••. On the arrival of the steamer Isabel, at killed in joining the General. ,
Charleston, am the 26th .ult.',,ffie Charles- About sunrise a torelrwas 'lighted by'
ion Mee - cur l/ was placed. is !possession of Gun. Lopez's own hands, against one Of
copious details of the late invasion of the the doors of the Citadel, mar soon the
Island of Cuba by the forces • itrider Gem buildingin
below was , . flames. Neverthe-
Lopez, which will be found •annexed. less the Spanish Garrison continued, long
(Icn. Gonzalez, one of Gen. Lopez's a n er, t o•
keep up a destructive fire , from'
aids, and Col. O'Hara, of the Kentucky the flat and pa rapetted roof. above. Its
regiment, died the day. after the Creole was not until it been toe manifest that the
left Cardenas, and his body was b
consign- •
uddinz would soon blow tip, that the
ed to the deep. . . - Governor of the city, officers and gam-i
The Mercury learns that dispatches,
ton, canna down and surrendered. They
were receiveil in Charleston, by the col-
fought ' with a *till:ary unsurpassed by
lector of the Port, froth our Consul ut Ile- „ n ,. 11 .„, t , .
b
vane, stating that there were about one 1 Tlec authorities now surrendered the
huudred. prisoners in confinement in that city, the killed on both sides were memo- 1
city, charged with having been concerned yea'
.
and the •wounded taken care of. The
in the inVading expedition, who would be troops of the expeditirin bivouaked in the
tried by mCourt Martial; and requesting G reat Square,
that'an American vessel of war should at Gem Lopez was now busy in orgatii-
once be ordered there. An abstract of z i ng those whom scented likely to j o i n I
these despaes tch was transmitted to the
, theist, and in preparing to march towards!
State Department by telegraph. Matanzas that evening.
.
.
The Operation at Cardenas. . At two o'clock he ordered two of the
The follwing sketch o f the i nv asion o f remaining three companies of the Missis- i
Cuba, was prepared by an officer of rank, sippi I/intuition (one being at the railroad!
in the
. invading army.: , ~,depot )to march to the steamship and
On the lath of , May, when near the place all the ammunition and stores of!
Wand of Muheres, off the coast of You- the.expedition on the cars. In an hour
catanohe three. divisions of the expedi- the work was done, when orders came to'
timi; numbering in all 'six .hundred and place theta back again on the steamship.
nine men, were concentrate,don the steam- In another hour this was done, and the
ship. Creole. . work was just Accomplished 'what the'
; They consisted of a regiment,-from battle of the evening began in the town.
Kentucky, a regiment front Louisiana, a The Lieutenant Colonel offfie Kentucky
battalliamfrom Misssissippi, and one jade- Regiment during the evening had march
pendent company from the stone State. ed his force into the town, and they with
The two schooners which had belong- the Louisianians did this whole duty.
od to the expedition, were sent towards The Lieut. Colonel and the I‘lajor in
New Orleans, and the steamship started command of the Mississippi battallion at
for the town of Cardenas, on the notthern the steamship, against the positive _orders
coast of Cuba. .. - or the General-in. Chief; formed their men
The commander of the expedition, Gen. and quickly joined their fellow soldiers in
Nareisco Lopez, believed that, t h a t c ity the city. The enemy had been repulsed,,,
could be surprised and taken in a few however, with great loss, by the time of
minutes, 'the morning cars seized and ta. their arrival. i
ken, and the wltole'of our army landed in Gen. Lopez now ordered the whole force
Matanzas the same evening by the rail. to reitnbark on board the steamship, and!
road.the vessel stood out to sea. At three 0'..1
The General also thought that litte re- clock in the morning she run hard aground. I
sistance would be made atCardenas—that The weight of the men and of the ammu-1
the large number - of einigrants theta front ninon made g clear that she would remain
the United States would join the libera- aground and becaptured by the first Span.
ling standard, as would the Cuban pop ish nian.or. Wai t who disciaverrd her, un-,
Illation, and perhaps the Spanish garrison. less lightened: Sho.had'no artillery, and
But these expectations of this brave, a man-of-war could stand oil' and batter
honest, and patriotic veteran, were ,entire: her to pieces. . •
ly disappointed, and the eXpedition in con- In this extremity, the Commanding - I
sequence, has utterly failed in accomp. General ordered the ammunition to be
fishing its object.thrown overboard. With the exception
At 2 O'clock on the night of the .:1•Eltle of a small number of boxes, this was done
the steamer succeede in landing within a and the vessel at daylight was afloat.
few yards of the wharf; and after some The troops soon enquired to what place
delay, a single plank was connected with they were bound. Gen. Lopez informed
the shore, over which the troops by single them tli.:t lie desired to proceed to the
files were disembarked. town of Manual, on the Northwest coast
The sentinel on the wharf had early of the Island, and again attempt the fiber
diaeovered us=- informed the garrison and ation of Cuba.
city of our approach, so that' they were Many ollicN . s expressed themselves
well prepared to give us a hostile - ran-- willing to go with lain, but nine-tenths
lion: oftlie soldiers positively refused. They
At 'least' an hour Was 'spent in the dis- assigned the weighty reason of the sear- f
. .
embarkation. By the previous order" of City of ammunition, the absence of arnl-1
the Commanding General, the troops lery—the scant supply of coal for the ves•
were landed as. follows : the Kentucky ley—the limited quantity of water, and
Regiment first ; the Louisiana Regiment the tardiness with which the Cubans at
second,. and the Mississippi Batallion Cardinals joined the Liberating Standard.
third: They all got into action, however, They demanded to be taken to the near
within a few minutes of each other. • est United State's port, and le on the offi
• Half the Kentucky.regiment were do- cers generally concurred wi;A
_them in so
tached under their Lient Colonel to the reasonable a determination. Gen. Lopez
right of the town, to attack any force that was forced to yield to their wishes, and
might be found there, and to prevent c- gave up the command of the vessel.
gress if possible, front the place. But the The next day as we were in sight of
latter duty was impracticable. Key West, Florida, a Spanish man of
Company (A) of the Mississippi battalion war steamer came quartering down upon
was sent •to Capture and hold possession us. She had been tainting us from Car- i
denas.
employees, of the railroad cars, engineers, eployees,
We led her into port a very few me- •
&c,, whom we had learned, Would leave
for MatanZas, at six, o,clook A. M. ments ;but owing to the qua rrant Me regu- 1
lotions of the town we could not land. 1
• After a sharp contest, this company
The Spaniard bore down on us and!
succeeded in taking possession of the rail-
Would with her Paixban guns have cle- 1
road cars, and in capturing twice its own
stroyed us, had not the United State's !,
manlier of armed troops, and retaining
them as prisoners. • ' Revenue Cutter informed her that we had
surrende red ourselves to the authorities 1
The action in the city soon became
at Key West, and that he (the Spaniard)
general. The garrison was concentrated
must not interfere with us.
under the Governor in the Ci adel. In the
It is proper to state that no one article
efforts of our men to storm this place, the
of property was ar.
molested by us at C
Colonel of the Kentucky regiment was
shot in the leg while b eallantly fightine• at dents; not one woman or child injured or
the head of his - men. Soon aafterthe insulted. The officers and men of the
° Col.
eXpedition paid liberally for what they ate I
of the Lousiana troops-was wounded in the
shoulder, while leading his regiment a- and drank: A large jewelry store came
(taunt the, same Citidel, and almost sinnil. into their possession during the fight, but
r,
. taueously the Adjutant General of the am- a guard of soldiers were placed over it
my; was shot itt the leg. and not an article was touched.
Soon after the Colonels of these regr- The emigrants from the United States
menta were wounded,• the threu:divisions at Cardenas, was as hostile to us as the!
respectiVely under their Major and Lieut. Cubans. One of them gave our officers a
Colonels, made a combined attack uPonsti mptuos breakfast in the morning, and
the Citadel 'in the evening he was killed, charging us
I ..Vhile t .
his attack was being made, the at the head of a company of lancers.
guard of soldierS at the prison at the .cor.
In estimating our loss, 1 set it down at
ner ofthe Great Square of, the town, fired frean thirty to'forty killed and wounded
into the. Mississippi• battallion from the ---that of the Spaniards one hundred kit
windows.
, The Lieut. Colonel command- led and wounded.o- people of the United States should
Mg r imr s liately. ordered two of its corn
t Th i..ad C.,) to
,ab out face Ana firo' , remember that at dark on the evening of
deScribed. l
the 10th we had again repulsed and si-
By pldwingcd-.1.11g. The order was oboyea
cis es proper tromptness and effect as to lenced 'the enemy in Cardenas, and had
Vet postrtrahitaial . the place, and that by 1
14ttulIP tt . la',,,,d4ar . dy's'ndonm ent.—
.'"lte 4 ..,. slll.a..syt Colonel Gen. -1.„ 0 \ 41 .) nn,d 110 't
-a- orders we abandon
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`li'''' 7'-osr. ied 4 3 kaki ' ' gee instead Of mar
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, t04, - , 1,, r ,, ,;;; .%(..p. $...- tI S most of the troops
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attempt of the expeditionary pirates.. At
3 o'clock on the morning of the 10th fa
vored by • the darkness of the night, and
when no one could have immegined their
presence , in those waters, the robbers of
a la . hding at Cardenas. So soon
as this was known to tho-bravo- Lietiten
tin,t Governor D. F. Cerui, he placed him
self at the head of a sma l detachment "OT
17 men nt his disposel, and opposed
trucly heroic resistance which lasted un
til four houses, in which they had success
ively' entrenched themselves were burnt,
when they 11.:11 into the hands of the t:ne -
my, tiller having expended their last cart.
ridge. While this was taking place the;
population, including the women and chil
dren, abandoned the town, thus manifes
ting in an unequivical manner the horror
and aversion with which all were inspired
by the presence of the foreign banditti.
At half-past 6, they wore charged by
50 111011 of the inlantry of Leon, twenty
lancers, and more than thirty peasants,
mostly natives of Biscay, Nvho under the
command of D. Leon Furtun, military
commander of Guainacaro,, rrived from
the surrounding country, and put them to
a shameful flight, leavino many dead on
the field, obliging them to re-embark pre
cipitately, and ea rryinfi away their woun
ded, the so-called (Jul. White, and 40 of
his followers.
The, steamer which brought them was
the Creole, and the leader of the pirates,
Narciso .Lopez. In the percipitancy
of their flight, they allowed to escape at
Cayo Piedra, at the outlet of the harbor,
Senor Cerute, Senor Se g ura, Captain in
the infantry of Leon, and a sub-Lieutenant
of the same corps, who bud been made
prisoners.
Our attention has been called moropar
tieular!y to this circumstance ; that the sol
diers of the garrison, whom the invaders
bad set at liberty, subsequently turned
their arms against them, and gave un
doubted proof, that even so great a boon,
as being the gift of pirates, was odious to
them.
The editor of the Gaccta further states
that the wteanier Pizarro, which went in
pursuit, captured two vessels with a hun
dred prisoners, including.fourteen inferior
officers, and tho correspondence of the in
wading Canaille. He leads us to believe
that Havanna is all enthusiasm and shi
ning bayonets. Martial law has been pro
claimed. The coast is strictly blockade&
and the most stringent measures adopted.
The following accounts, conspicuously
displayed, with the largest sort of type,
arc found in, the Diaro Bala Marino, of
the 21st May:
"LONG LIVE TILE QUEEN !
"FIRST VICTORY OVER THE PI
RATES ! !
"General Armero, Commander-in-chief
of the Department, has already made an
important capture, which may lead to a
decided victory over the pirates. On
Thursday night, he left this port in the 1
Pizarro: Next day, ho reached Cape An-1
tonic), there ho ascertained that some ves
scls, with a srna?l force on board—the re
mains
ola lirger force—were at Contoy.
Proceeding Thither, he sent u boat'on shore
with Captain Vinalet in command. The
Captain took
, possession of a schooner, a
nother ship, and about a hundred of the
banditti, besides which he has made him
selfmaster of all their correspondence and
surprised all the plans of the invading
blackguards.
By this means it is discovered that the
whole invading' force has not exceeded
five hundred men, who, in their madness
and thirst after money, intended • first to
march upon Matanzas and thence to Ha
vana'. !--to this Havana, where all rushed
to enlist as volunteers the moment the call
was made, and where we are anxious to',
meet them ! It appeals from the papers
seized that the villin us calculated on di
viding our property among themselves--
Each officer was to have twenty thousand I
dollars, and a line farm; and each soldier
four thousand dollars, and lands fur each
of them.
Inhithitants of Cuba! These facts re
quire nocommentary. Let us put all con
fidence in the authorities of the Island,,
ho have already done so well, and com
pletely destroyed, in so few hours, the work
of ‘illany, and the whole undertaking of
the vile buccaneers.
May 22.—The traitors and robbers
have already quit the soil , „of loyalty.—
The people of Cardenas have given them
a most terrible lessen, after they had al
ready received some, from the few hxavc
soldiers who were on the spot. Scarcely
had the population recovered from the
sudden surprise produced by the lan'ing
in the morning, but they immediately
gathered in masses, and rushing almost
without arms upon the infamous robbers,
they drove them before them before them,
and obliged them to re-embark, making
some of theM pay dear for, their daring
insolence.
Ay sat Key West.
Key West, May 21.—Early this mor
ning, a Spanish man of war Steamer was
discovered and boarded by one of the Pi
lots, oft' the Ship Channel, the Command-I Strange Revelation of a Rhode;.—
c. enquired of him if any steamer had ar-: This seems to be a day of developements,
11% cd with an unusual quantity of men,' not only of crimes as they aro daily corn
which our pilot denied. The Spanish- I muted among us. but of old ones, on
man-of-war then changed her course and 'which which the shadows of mystery had long
stood off. At about 6A. M., a steamer rested. More than a year ago, a man
Wltt3 discovered coming down under reef,' named Jenny, living entirely alone near
and arrived here at about 11 A.M., which the town of Lansing, in Michigan, died
proved to be tb,, steamer Creole, having on suddenly, and was supposed to have been
board some 600 to ion
armed men, under poisoned. No clue, how over, could be
Lopez. Whilst con. nn in, a Span-ltraced by which to fix the deed on any
,
0-Dman-of-war was also ~,e n conic one, and the affair remained in mystery.—
A ew weeks since a revival of religion
1.-0111111 took place in the neighborhood,and a young
-rkia_* o %row
gamed Spinning, ha%ing had his con
fy ):4
r Vned, confessed that he and
`limrde re rs of Jenny.---
-1 existed iaer mid, T.
first - illthAte';
ur-41q10 en9,r,V,
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Faith. I /
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-the Nava
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said port on or about the 2d of May ,ltt.st,'ard in carrying it out. Poison at length'
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in a barque, an,d at a given 'ffoint met said was determined pa_, us the means, and his
Steamer, and on Sunday morning.last, at fattier, giving him the money, directed
3 A. M., they landed at Cardenas,, Cuba, him. to purchase some arsenic. Ho did so.
and after a severe fight, retained and took Father and son then ,look an opportunity
pp ssession of the city for some sixteen . .,to go.to Jenny's"house when he was away
hours, imprisoned the Governor, Lient. from home , and while the father kept watch
Governor, and Secretary . , burnt the Gov-'outside, the• Sen went in and sprinkled the
ernor's house, and from the appearance arsenic on all the . foOcl'that be could find.
of a„,white flag from the authorities , were !Jenny returned, partook of the 'food, and
unddr, the,impression that the day was in a short time died. The Spinnings, both
theirs. A reinforcement, however, arri- father and son, have b'een committed for .
ved f r rat Matanzas, and other ports, and trial
lighting recommenced.. The insurgents
lost, in killed and wounded, some thirty
men, but the inhabiall'is, it is estimated;'
lost from nitie.t- to 150.
Th u continued their fight in retreat un
til they regained their steamer. Got un
der weigh and ran—discovered a Spanish
man-ofwar-steamer after them. Since'
the arrival antic steamer, she. ,has beck.
seized under the Passenger Law. She is
now in charge of Lieut.—, of the U. S.
Survey schooner Petrel, Lieut. Comd'g
Rogers. Many of the Regiment being
wounded, have found comfortable quar
ters amongst our citizens, and the U. S.
Barracks, which were, on application, 'de
livered to them. A Lieut. Jones, of Ala
bama, is now recovering; having received
a ball through his right side. -He is in
comfortable quarters, at a private boarding
house, Our little villiage is apparently all
alive. As the %var steamer still retains
her steam, it is presumed that she will
leave this evening
' I ' IIE FEVER AT 1110 DE JANEIRO. — We
have been favored with the perusal of a'
private letter from Rio de Janeiro, dated
19th April, from which we extract the Cul- I
lowing :
The ship Monterye, McManus, from
Baltimore, with government troops for Cal-'
ifornia, which put in here for supplies, re-!
mained only two days, in conse , ::uence of
the frightful epidemic which has for the
last three months raged with fearful vio
lence in the harbor and city of Rio do Ja
neiro. I'o attempt to give you anything
like a true 'account or the number of people]
who have been swept away since its first'
outbreak, wOuld•he altogether completely
out of the question. The public authori- '
ties say that but over 3,000 to 4,000 per
sons have died with the prevailing fever.
This statement is absurd in the extreme.—
Many of the churches have
s commeneed
burying their dead in the country, or at
least not in the heart of the city as they did
formerly, and the burial ground attached
to the church San Francode I'aulor, open
ed only about three weeks since, already
contains 657 graves. Now this is for a
single church in the short space of three
weeks, and fi is too at a time when every
body says the epidemic is subsiding. It is
' my firm belief that over 13,000 persons
have been carried off from the time the
fever first made its a ppearance. Many,
very many of my best friciids have 'Wien
i victims.
The United States lost in Major Morgan
1"a man, who, take him all in all, she'll
seldom look on his like again ;" and poor
1 1 Mons. Serra, the French Attache, who;
I delivered a very eloquent and touchinr , l
speech over his much regretted friend's
grave, has also gone to that long home
Ifrom whence there is no return.
The French are sending troops out to the
River Plate, but for what purpose is not
I exactly known. Two or three vessels
have put in here with detachments of
French Infantry on board. The ostensible
object, I believe, is to disband the French
Legion of volunteers now in arms at Mon
tevideo.
Owing to the ravages of the fever all
I the places ofamtiremcnt have been closed.
;The Fr e nch and I:allian Opera companies
I have had their raiiks awfully thinned.
The Indian Troubles in .41innesota.- 1
Our town wne startled from its propriety
on Wednesday, by the swill running thro,!
out streets of a small doaclunctehf Da-
kotall soldiers,bclonging to the Little Crow
band, "armed and equipped as the law 1
di
rects," and heading up the river. Upon I
inquiry, we found that one of their fellow
citizens had been killed and scalped that
morning in the vicinity of Mendota,by some
daring Chippewa, or Chippewas, who had
ventured into the heart of their enemies
country, and witllin sight of the guns of
Fort Snelling. „The Dekotuhs scoured the
country batween here and the fort, and
about the place where their comrade was
slain, but the Lint was unsuccessful.—
They returned in the evening with the
dead body of the murdered Indian. It is
I rumored that the Chippewas were out in
force, to avenge the recent slaughter on
Apple River. Owing to this, the Govern
or has granted. a parol to thirteen Sioux re
cently confined in Fort Snelling for para.
cipating in that transaction, that they may
!protect their homes and families. They
pledge themselvesnot to engage in any ag
gressive warfare. Things look as though
our red brethren were going to have hot
!times . this summer.—St. Paul (Minn.)
Chronicle, .1114 18, 1850.
THE DOLLAR.
C 1 rfi : Ta p 4 -Juno 8, 18'O.
TILE WILLIAMSPORT CONVENTION
The Democratic State Convention as
sbnibled at IVilliOrnsport on Wednesday
the 29th oi'MayitiiidaAer an exciting and
interesting session of three days, adjourn
ed at a late hour on Friday night. The
gentlemen settled upon as candidates are,
kw Canal Commissioner, W3l. T. Mount-
SON, of Mon'gomery. For Auditor GCD
eral, EPIIRAIn BANKS, of Mifflin county.
For Surveyor General, J. PORTER BRAW
LEY, of Crawford county.
Every district in the State was repre- I
settled, except the county of Somersott ;
and also Blair county, where there was
two contestants, and the Convention refu
sed to admit either. Theo was but one
delegate from Franklin county, which re
duced the whole number of delegates to
130. Messrs. lium.Ev, of Berks ; STRICK-
LAND, of Chester; and VAN SANT, of
Bucks, Nvert, the three prominent candi
dates -for Canal Commissioner. They
were all on the ground, with hosts of
warm and zealous friends; and so far as
we could learn, arc all highly honorable
and worthy men, whom any man might
be proud to support. But there was &res
pectable number of delegates, to whom
sound policy dictated the selection of a
new man—orte upeT whom all the inter
ests of the party could unite with a hearty
good will—one who would know no divis
ions, no distinctions, in the Democratic
party of Pennsylvania ; and alter striving
for nearly three days to allay the excite
ment, and to effect a reconciliation, the
friends of the three prominent candidates,
in a spirit of concession commendable in
the highest degree, decided the cent/ in
a single ballot, (the 26th,) by giving to
Mr. MonnisoN an almost unanimous vote.
Mr. l‘lorrison is a practical farmer, and
has represented (in part) the county of
Montgomery in the State Legislature for
the last two cars, where he displayed
much business tact, and made many
friends. Mr. M. is a fine looking speci
men of the yeomanry of Pennsylvania,
and if successful will, unless we are much
mistaken, mak6 a very efficient officer.
Mr. Banks is well known to many citi
zens of this county, and herever known
is acknowledged to be a most unexcep
tionable man.
Mr. Btawley is yet rather a young man.
He has represented Crawford county in
the State legislature several sessions, and'
his term in the Senate expired with the I
late session. He is said to he a man oi
much etter(w and fine business habits.
Perhaps no former State Convention
met, acted, and parted, with better feelings
than this on.•. Although most - of the lead
ing politicians of the State, all the candi
dates, and hosts of outsiders were on the
ground, working with might and main for
the accomplishment of their favorite ob
jects, vet there was not a single unkind
expression tittered, or bad feeling manifes
ted ; and the delegates, visiters and all,
separated with a feeling that gave full ev
idence of perfect satisfaction.
We cannot close this short notice with
out a word for the people of Williamsport.
Every body knows they occupy one of the
' most beautiful spots on the face of creation ;
' and they also have one of the most beau
tifully located and tastefully ornamented
towns in the State. v But notwithstanding
all these unsurpassed displays of nature
and of art, the thoughtful kindness and
`hospitality, the enterprise and public 'spir
it of the citizens, far surpassed everything
else. The town was crowded With stran
gers, and although it can boast' of n num
ber of spacious hotels, yet, had it not been
for the attentive kindness of the citizens
generally, many a soft board: would have
felt hard'each of those ,memorable nights.
The'proceedings and . resoluiions of the
Donn:Oat Slate Convention will be given
next week.
SyIIDIER AT LAST.-SUMMOr has at last
come upon us in good earnest. The wea
ther for the last week has been ae delight
ful as the heart could wish. • Vegitation
has improved in a retritirkab,le,,degree.-7
The , crops of the : .farmer promise, a
rich reward to labor: and the various
hinds of fruit-:•-with . the exception, per
--of the 'peach—hegin to show that
-- ,r-ntlts,ofMav did no M - 4;0.4
•.
( ' ! 7ty . ,.over-abun, ant
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The whig papers_geneially, ju . st now,
embrace: every opportunity ofdeitouneing
Mr. CLAY; for his late, : effort to heal- the
wounds that !laic been inflicted upon the
perrndnancy of the Union by the agita
tion of the slavery question. urging
the plan of settling forever all:these sub
jects of excitement, which. .was • reported
through him ns chairnian bf the Compro
misc Committee„ Mr. CLAY took occa
sion to expose in a fine and `dignified,
though in a fair and just manner, the fol
ly of the plan recommended by President
TAYLOR. • • For this ite r :is ,denounced
by
some whig editors in 'very harsh terms
and is accused of deserting the whig par,-
ty. This, we say
,is not justice to "Han ,
ry of the West." He is now advocating,
apparently the last effort of a long life,
the most feasible and pet miLent plan for the
preservation of this glorious Unioni."and
in doing so, it does not become the whig
press to denounce him as opposing the'
whig party or whig principles.
' Tninvts Anotr.—One day last
week two men arrived in this - place, and •
trailed a span of.very find horses,to one of
our citizens, for which .they received
other horses and a sum of money. On
Thursday of this week, two men arrived''
from one of the Southern, counties of New
fork and identified the horses to be the H;
same that were stolen from one of them.-- .
The officers 'pursuit of the scamps,
and it is to be hoped they may ? succeed in •
bringing them to that punishment they so
richly deservo. •
•
ANOTUER SOCTIT CAROLINA SLNATOR,,
DRAIL—Some two• months ago Mr. Cal- ,/
hour -died in Washington:eity in the
charge of his duties its Otte of the SenatOri l .
Of South Carolina. The Governor of the
State appointed thu lion. F. 11. Elmore to
fill the p vacancy ; on Thursday of
week Mr. Elinuie also expired. He was
horn in 1799. • ~•
A correspondent of the Lve
nal gives a sad account of a feud between
two families of Garrard county, Ky., pa., 4
used Evans and Hill: Dr. Evans, some
two er three months since; Shot one'ofhis , 4
neighbors named Dill, end then fled, it is_ I
supposed, to Indiana. Ofillonday
one o f the--Evans'- and -one of the-Dills- - -
came into colli ion, and exchanged shots
without ell . cct. The 1 1111 gang then fell
On Evans with knives and cut his throat
on each side, and his upper lip nearly off.
While this butchering business was going
on, a brother of Evans appeared and shot
down with a revolver, suecessi\ ely, Ras-
sell IEII, Frederick hill, William Hill, jr.,
and Henry Sagacy, a brother-its-law. Nu
muerous shots were made at hint 'without
killing him. The battle' was ever the
wounded Evans, and'who was supposed
to be dead. None of the five wounded are
dead, and it is thought thue may all rc-
cover.
R Onlf 7We (y . Rublier y. —The folluii lag
incidents occurred lust week on the Nely: . .t
York and New I la% en railroad : A lady"
from Litchfield, who came do‘N non the
Naugtuck train, after procuring a ticket for:
New York at the Bridgeport station, had
her purse, containing $265, taken from .
her by some adroit pickpocket, A centri•
but ion was.tuken up for the lady among
the pas:.engers, immediately after her loss
became known, m Bich amounted to 8-10.
Subsequently, and before the trttin arrived
in New York, a gentleman, \slit) had de•
(lined to contribute to her relief, made seine
inquiry of her relative to her finances, aid ;
concluded by giving lici• a check on a New
Y6rk Bank for the balance of the money
stolen—s - 225. Ile refuse - int; dlgelo'id his
name to any one but the lady herself.
Three Persons Burned to Dcalh.--04, 1 ,
of the most affecting and awful ocenrren;
ces we have ever been called upon to chron• ,
isle—says the Towanda (Pa.) Reporter—
happened on Sunday last week, at Smith's,,
steam mill in Slieshequin townphip, in this
state. A young Man by the name ofgor-,
ley, employed in the null, returned borne, ,
at 12 o'clock on Saturday night, his duty.:
closing then, and with his wife and child,
four weeks old, retired to rest, in an upper
room, leaving a fire in the stove below.--
lb a short time, another family residing :
the house, were awakened by sinolo.i; and
found the house in flames. An attempt ,
was made to awaken the Hurleys„ but the`
rapid progress of the flames preVented it",
—aryl 'Mc-Aired perished in the flames !;:
WlSl'Alt'S BALSAM is chiefly composed ef.
extracts from the MOSS,of ICELAND, and from . ,
the PINE and.WILD•CHERRY of our own
lali
lode. The great secrot of its efficacy consists is
the method V, witty!' those extracts era preptic" ; '.
ed. Such Br fart is the nature) and siaiplielty:,
of this medicine, so powerful in action, yet 11°!;
mild, solo and pleasant in its operation, that il l '
might be justly termed, Nature's own prescrir:,
thin ;.- and although a few .years have elapsed: ,
since'it was first made public,Wo can proudly..lll4- :
it has acquired a celebrity 4inprOccdented.by.,ati9;l
medicine in use, and is evidently destined:tube*
come the most popular 'and veluablo medicht :
ever diecovercd.
06" See Advertisement
• J. Lige:BALLY,
- Attorney at Loa',
ti • t
living °rated himself io,ifle .oroug o
. 41 s Clentfield;'wil f attend to on ;lewd tamirieki
entrusted to hir k witli,prompfnece , en d
, S Office two doors Coot orate PrOttionoilry'l
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