Trom the Kcyttcmt.
RRMARKI OP Hit. CIiUN,
Of Lehigh, in the Senate f Pennsylvania, on
tnot inn to postpone for the present the elertlcm
of Assistant ClTk of (ha Scants, Jan. T, t843.
Mr. 8ni. t had no derira t ed.lreasfhe
Senate on the question now Morvtt snd jrsnrt
ted the Senators from LaneTer, Prtnilia end the
CWnty of Philadelphia to consume tt of yter
3y's session without reply, in miking beosd
charges upon the fteastora from Unim, McKeon,
B-ack inJ myself fir having refused to vote fur
Henry Buihlrf . btcause they say I wss the caucus
nominee, in J we wore bound iu honor to sustain
th.it nomination.
Now sic, 1 had no intention of lifting the curtain
at),! showing (he acts and doings of that inquhi
tin, or the spirit which animated j, an J should
have permitted the p escnt garbled aecisintto have
gnne forth to the people had it not been reiterated
tiiis morning, as heppiarcd ts me in a spirit of
triumph.
Mr. Speaker you were pTfscnt at that meeting bo
riflrn referred to, and if I cir in the statement t
shall make, you can promptly cnriect me, I desire
Mil to show the unfairness of the proceedings in
t' at mieting, its selfish sod imperious tour. When
the question of Cletk was hrfore , the candidates
w Cnl. John McCahen of Plii!fJe1(rhin, an up
right, intclNgrnt anj active mcmlwr of the demo,
rrnlic party, in whose ability b!I had entire confi
dence, at;d to whom the emoluments ot the office
were deirelie.. Mr. Glassl rentier, the editor of a
Uemocrstic paprr in Yoik, well recommended, and
f whom it was said that !i much needed the of
fice for the support of himsell and family. Charles
W. (logins of Sunbury, a gentleman who had
etly represented ttie democracy of Northumberland
county, duriug (he trying session of 1838-9, and
lleniy Buehlcr a man of reputed wealth, and to
w hom the salary was a matter of no consideration,
nd one too who had received many favors at the
hands of the party. Vet sir, poor men weic passed
over and Mr. Bueliler selected, for no other reason
that I could perceive, than that he was chairman of
the Buchanan State Central Committee. Before
the nominations were finished, I moved to reconsid
er the vote. I ssked that the poor man should
have a hearing. I uskod that all applicants for of
fice should lie tried ly the good okl rules of c!e
inocrary and not by the modern principle of crush
ing all who felt unwilling losing borsnnus at the
foolttool of "our own Buchanan." I aveircd in
that caucus ns I do here in my place, that a resolu
tion agneing to sustain the cauiius nominees not
having hern offered and adopted, none were
t-oiind. That assertion was not denied by any
Stiiator ot tl at time, not even by the Senator from
Franklin, whose voice, was longest and loudest a
morig the followers of the faithful, and particularly
Mr. Speaker, did I prote.1 against excluding candi
dates fiom office unexceptionable in character and
republican principles, but whose visions were not
arcute enough to see all the greatness and virtues
in James Buchanan, which his especial friends and
favorites have fortunately discovered. The caucus
stoutly declined to reconsider four Senators
promptly left the meeting and have refund to sus
tain the nominations forced and unkind as they
were. Aa soon as I became tattled that some
Si nators were but oteying the mandates of their
matter si Washington, and that the car of Uuchan
an idolatry was ordered to pass over the nicks of all
independent representatives of the people, I with
drew from such fellowship, and neither by word or
deed will aid in ostracising the friends of Van Bu
ren, Ca-s, Culhuun or the gallant Johnson. And
because I refused to aid in Una system of oppies
sion for mere pieference sake, f, and all who act
with cae we styled "accusant 'Senators," rock less of
plighted faith, regardless i the rights of the peo-
4e. In my course ar, tliere k neither recusancy
or breach of faith, and if the election of a poor yet
talented and worthy young mar. to the Clerkship
uf this Senate be a di-secratiim of the rights of the
eo4c, to the citizens f the valley of tlie Lehigh
I am ready to uceoiint and nut to ttie representa
tives of the qutui deohicfcy of the oouuty of Phil
aieJphia. But Mr. Speaker that Seoatora nay
kaow tthits Buihanjii, who by himself and is aerfs
are trajMjiUiH; u the rights and teNmgs of oUn,
nd making dt voliou to himself a let of democra
cy, I refer you to the Ilarrifburg Republ can under
as'e of the 6ih October, 1820, a democratic news.
iaper, (xinti'd nilpubliliilbv James Peacock, the
l)ie Buie fiititer, vhos miM snd h.irrtet suf
ficiently vouill for the fart; th.w stated. In that
imperil apl'eais that James Wallace an J Jacob
llibslitnan, weie tlae esndwlntes of the dimvcr.itrc
yiarty for t'oi g ess, in tire di-trk l composed of the
couuties of Dauphin, liancsster arid Iebanon, wUil I
Julius ButftuiuiH and AJiu I'liilijr wews the can
Jwl.tes of the Federal party. Tlc article is clear
and significant, and worthy the pi rus.d of all who the was a cooper, snd had made many a barrel j n. i)m V w orthy tlie investigation of in
are desirous f making a svWetiott of principle me- ; for tlrem. Tom. in reply, indulged in the f lbm- )rn!, mw With respect to tlie valley of
spcclive of men. It is in these words : j 'we flrams : 'Fellow ciftn-ns, I h .ve no douU that m t ,)nR io, pTiiawy evor uM,n the seat
-Who wili not pr.fer Wallace the war-worn
Tetrran of the revolution, llrenswitorious servant of
the lerq.re, the undeviatiog Umvritt : and Hlhsh-
man tlie stn y republican, the fnaia er.te yo-
man. the respectable C.erruan ; befxre n.reAumm,
tW ik)ocalic tasvyer, ti fevik-r of lire eavde, lite
AntlKiVulilieaii tn taamirrs, anJooetiiire,
Ihr llurtfi.rd Cunvrntimiid, rliilips, the potaS-
cl pararite, tin ti an.ing adteistusef, wiiltuut'oluiuis
j riUiitfioiif.lakirtsorserkrees.'
llii Txnrir l bears Strang iderrr-.e -rtn ttsf JCC of
ilgeittire trtrth ; 11iib is fharged with hcktf a
coaming a.lvinturei, wiihotrt flain r tsVsnts.
yorhingt Vnid is said of Buelism.sn, h lid-
entaoss oAuiined, ib-t tirs (-rsoiial tivhnt; are i
d spl yed tKi1nic.il tenets enftirsred in tin-
word-", Hartford VmrvtitumM We U kn w.
air, lliat Juring our Ule a ruggle wilhtjrt-alljTirain,
thecuuntry had J uin ttie fura in her bosom, men j
wholeifedhirt!Brrtifch asn sbiaikl triumph, ra
ther thtrn ftiat the ejiublii-.an pa-ty olkS'ilJ longer
hold the r. ins i ieveriMnt U'uese luon wore
Culled Hartford Convon1iutut,ti"i osuuuglbem is
' thus t aralliid vba naino of Jjoiu liuclisima.
V)ira wad n aoa-ch irt't lh M- ral jauiiiaW
riflhnt day for the eulogies f tWek farrte, tely.
ingeettirplyfirmy fsctBpon a paa-mr nndAVte4
attlhiirity. I have laid them Wore the Senrttn, snd
it will tie hereafter for tike democracy to say wheih
cr, n my cherring the honest hearted Ttirtiard M.
Jcliijsrm of Kenloctiy lothe contest, I have brm
derelii hi any duly to f'vjn-y lvaiu, ki t hooer
and her glory.
If then, sir, in I8?t, the an styled 'fairwtTt mn"
was, aa is averred in a leading dimocratic organ,
oppwed to the honor of his country, opposed to
thn republican paity, opnied to the people and
denying their imHIigenci' and virtn, I have yet to
learn in what po.it lie has been cleansed, or why
citizens of I'onn-ylvania are to be msrki d and de
nounced bce.iuse thry will not kneel before this
"aristocratic lawyer."
In addition t, ad this, "sir, T desire 1o know, ero
my vote csn le rec.nileil for Mr. Buchanan fornny
nfBce, whether llie Iste discriminating tarilTbitl is
tube rrait'el to remain, or whether th.it, aa well
as all the oth.r cherished principles of Pennsylvatiia
policy, are to I sold to eouttiern nbstrsctionists !
Ills friends here may not answer, or at their earliest
convenience, what path their political asjiirant will
pursue. It is true he voted for the bi(i, yet his apo
logetic speech to the south destroyed its entire mo
rat etieet, and left tire people uncertain as to tiis
future course. The frieanfci nf tlie trgiiculuind,
Manufacturing and mining inKvcsts, may bo per
mi ted to a4 if the dek-g ition of Pennsvlt ania
will adhere to the piinciptes of a discriiuinating ta
ritr through good and through evil icjiort, or whe
ther we are to bo rumed with unceium and unsta
ble legislation, which has ever p if;ilr.rj the. hand
of tKinet l ilnir, and brought suiTi ring arid want to
the domestic hearth. We arc tauntingly toM, not
only on the floor of this Senate, but by vur State
Convention which is now assembled in this place,
and I rough 1 1 en , 1 l ave no doubt, to overawe the
free action of the metnlra of this Legislature in
the approaching election of the United States Sen
ator, that all who do not adhere to Mr. Buchanan,
are opposed to Pennsylvania, her rights, her in
terests, snd her clearly exj ress-rd feelings. I deny
the charge as broadly as it is n ade, and say that,
when Pennsylvania offers to a National Conven
tion a native of her soil for the fust office in the
gift of freemen, he will be one who has been a uni
form and consistent republican, with his country
in peace and in vr ; and not nn apo-tale f d r dist,
who has enlisted for the sake of lucre, and yet re
tains all the fo linga and prejudices which he avow,
edin the prime of manhood. And let me It II Sen
store now, that the democracy of Pennsylvania
have ever pteferred prinripk t men, and that
man-worship has no place m the hearts of her stur
dy yeomanry.
In this unproductive and prolonged debate, into
which I have been thrust by the unralhd f r, and
vii.dictive charges, which have been made against
the p rsotinl honor of myself, and those with whom
I act, I have endeavored to avoid recrimination or
personalities against any of the faithful 'Jullouier"
here arrayed, but have only endeavored to slay the
hunds o( domestic persecu ion, and show the fount
from which the bitter waters have gushed ; that all
diiTicuIliis which have aiisen in organizing the Sen
ate, are to be attiibuted solely to a C led determi
nation, on the part of James Buchanan's friends,
to permit no one to hold a'ny office of honor, trust
or profit, within this cspitol, who would not awear
fealty to him, and to his ambitious aerations for
olTii'e.
Tlrey, Mr. Speaker, and not us, have tendered
the issue and it is, shall the repiesen'atives of
freemen lie censured and traduced, because they
refuse to bow the knee to Baal, and become the
supple tools in the hands of bokl aspirant, and
thus deprive themselves tf those dearly cherished
rights, fretdom of thought and freedom of opinion.
On that issue I am w illing to place myself before
the democracy of the Keystone State,
I have iff, red the name of Hugh M. Moorlread
of Lihiffe, to the Senate, for the effice of Assi-tant
Clerk, artd in to doing I but obey the wi lies of my
own oonsiKiienry. I do not know, not shall I en
uir, what tik personal firfereioea are for men.
I believe him koire and ootsjtcut( and most earn
rally ak for his election.
I.i hii Oil. This detesiabre "MilitA'rUrte" is no
new discovery. Tb French have made it many
years. A great wiarry dor.en -glass bottles are im
ported every year all tirr.ly labelled "ifaik oV
ft'irdraur," whkh is a,M as olive oil yet the
olive is peifeclly innocent of any part or lot in the
rnattiT it is nothing more nor less than the verita
ble "I.ard Oil." Au Beilfurd Mercury.
Miasattx tu ran fUaui.L. The Western
papiTs tell the following anecdote :
4 Au oiiponeiitof this gentlemen, some frw years
since, exhibited bis political gass'nf 'y informing
ihe crowd, which lie was aOdrea ing, tliat In- la-
' Mr. I (m. oi-onei ) lam.T u a co .er a
' first rate en a sVorious cooj-er perfitt
smasbei nf a eo.iT, anvl nia.l you a good b .rrel ;
! but fellow citizen, he m;ide one barrel (pointing
to P.) in bieh be forgot to ut a good head: "
, ui U Vliucs.
fw Boslxn Courier ofrve up tlie character of
j the following m Miner:
j mTi tirm areliaril.arxl every thing mns wrong;
1 Vrnmreroe anrl i-a.li are in a unoc-
ftoiVs aw aR siown, tl money rirasket 'slight.
'ITre sVa. gonj is, are m an 'awful fn
Tux wonN go iT: and sne how tallow sticks.
tVi' seeo. too, a very drag tins grown,
To it's Island sail cn bandy hold as owa,
I Juts in indigo look deadly blse.
I'.A.r.Jli sod soiiji are in a jipcious mew.
rio- ease is ib'le, f, t imn and rags.
Ami -pig in pok' are pTli tn purmy bag.
I,i t,i,kn sni 4lRl y.w 'l save yuur skin.
You'll gel a nipper if you trust to gm.
l..n'i think of dabbling now iu Ku.sis duck,
And in oiolaa a you'll bet surely stuck.
VbaiAts wii"l (Viscount n a tingy ihH,
Adtf.ir four soul ynu can't collect a dfliU
I'ln-re's uuthing aefve now but dismal flui s,
And no irnn-sitioiMi'srr, in buttered 'buns.
'Tk pkt all guessing what may next lfd .
The d"gs and tbamery uiuat take us nil J"
I
ChicagoIts Prosperity, Tinslness, aV,
CvrrtmttdmK9fifit K Y. Tribune.
Ciitcno.!e& 2, 1812.
Our town enntlnnes te A urish, notwKhslanding
the grTirral deTamrement arid digression in tire bu
siness of the onnrr. During rtaa past summer
and fall about eight houses and stoic have been
erected some of the store Wing 1aru and sub-'
stantial brick building". Within the last week a
rale was made of a lot of groiwdM fet front by 180
f.et deep, In the business portion of tire town, for ,
t It.COO in good currency ; on half heing paid
down imnii-dlately, (prmclpnlry in specie,) and the
balance payable in ouma of $iUQ, semi-annually,
until the whole is paid, Previoas to the s;i!e this
ground was 'ringing a rent of $lfl(l(l per annum,
which, by the terms of the lease, was to lie incrca
sed two years hence to $(20O, and to continue at
that rate for five years.
This is the only transaction which haa been
made in real estate for six months nd is consider
ed by good judges to be just about a fair price ami
nothing more, so that you miy regard it as a cor
rect inde of tlie present value of real estate iu the
Isjsinese portion of this town.
A very 1srge quantity of wlieathas lieen brought
in from the back conntry since the I ist harvest.
From the 20th of July to the middle of October, t' e
average amount received daily about 10,000 bush
els ; the highe-t amount tereived on any one day
having lieen 18,500 bushels A large proportion
of it has been of a superior quality, weighing from
two or three pounds a bushel more than the stand
ard w, ight.
The fall trade has been brisk in consequence of
the larce receipts of all kinds of produce friim the
cotintrv. On some, days, there were about five
hundred teams in town, all nt one time, drawn by
every species of domestic animal that can be u-ed
for the purpose of draught hordes, oxn and mules,
w ith all their intermediate breeds and every varie
ty ofcirriage that has been invented since the Re
vival ofLet ers. To give you some idea of the
briskness of trade during the period in question, I
would infoim you that 2,000 barrels of sa t weie
aold by retail in the space of six weeks, succeeding
the 20th of July. The isrincipal articles of lloosier
trade are Salt and Cuil'ec, to which I may add Tar.
Let them but gel enough of these, and they ure hajv.
Within the last few months our people have been
seized with a mania for the lard oil business, which
promises to become a capital thmn for this country.
Some ha f dozen manufactories for tha conversion
of lard into oil, have lieen put into oeration, arid
this new avenue ufeuteipiise and industry bids fair
to be the means of lighting up our homes aloio.t as
brilliantly as the gas, and spirits, and spirm of tlie
Atlantic cites. I'rarie whales, alias porkers, arc
now in active demand, and large numbers of them
are brought in daily say fiom four to five hun
dred. P. S. S.
The Iterent Karllitiunkei
The Cincinnati Chronicle says that sulTioieut
information has been received respecting the
late Earthquake to permit some general in
ferences to be drawn, viz:
1. It appears tliat it was felt from the west
ern elope of the Alleghnnics to the lower Mis
sissippi, and will probably be heard from far
ther. 2. It was felt more slightly towards the
East, and more violently towards tlie Southwest.
At Zancsville, for example, it was felt, as re
presented, less than at Cincinnati. At Nash
ville, il was quite a severe shriek, and in that
repkm was strung cmmj.'h to throw plates front
the shelves. At Mills. Point, il is represented
as throwing down chimneys. AtNew-Madtid,
it is said the ground sunk.
Jl. In this respect it was similar to the earth
quake of 1-11-12, which nn the 7th nf Febru
ary, 1M3, threw dow n chimneys at Cincinnati,
and opened the cattli, and overflowed the wa
ters of the Mississippi at New-Mudrid.
4. As observed, hereby Dr. Ray, the current
of the movement of the earthquake w as from
Southwest to the Northwest.
5. This fact, and that ol its greater force in
the Southwest, indicates that its moving pow
er was in the Southwest, near the lower part
of the MkwUr-ppi River, unless, indeed, it sIhhiIiI
ejijK'ar from further intelligence that there had
Iash vorcanic action of sufficient strength to
ptishre it in still more distant reg'roti.
6. The fact that this trembling of the earth
is felt over such an extensive region, and that
its severest efficts are felt so far distant is pret-
I ty gixai cviuence Mini me nnrvmg- pinner re
1 gt.tf d uVf in tin? earth, and is not any volca
ntc influence!.
j Whether the almve inferences are just or
of volcanic act ion, m 5;i these tremblings of
lite earth jjive any reasim to supposo it will lie.
For tlse power which prwiliKes them is evi
dently unvote, so far as regard lx-rrejtial cau
ses. Rsm-CTiov ir Posraoa. 'I'lre lite report of
the PosUtittfter (Jenrral is -ioneuirs,y called a re
oommnrAation to rWix il po-4age; it slsauld Ih
to itteiease the pot. ge; for mipf ne yi receive at
onetime letters from each distance ruler tl pre
sent latcsof postage, which w.ald 1 5, 10, ttj,
1(tJ and 25 cents 7 II cents and umler rt new
r, comis-nfl .ai'ss wuulJ t 5, 10, 15, SO, SB
cent-.. 75 reii's. a difference m f ivot of the 1J
bjW.'m of 3J cents. Danville Democrat.
A'htai TotST. At a outcbration of the
glorious eighth," in Norwich, Cuun the fntlsw
ing toast was jerpetraled :
liy P. M. iuiionTlie LnrfV Who reversinn
tt order of OIJ TJickery's Jeionce, jilace the out
tun bsgs n (tie Tejr.
The Editor of'he Norwich Ariira says, lie will
he much snislaken if iheladiea Jju't make a buttle
wlirn they read the above,
ttt AwrtinrriATtTi
SntMrrfoy, Jan. 28, 183.
(Xj" We have just recrtved sivty teams nf print
ing paper, aimilar in sire arid quality to the sheet
upon which this is printed. Also 3f! reams nf su
per Boyal 2t fy M inches, which will be solJ at
cost wtd carriage, fur cash.
(Xj" On our first pafe will be found a poetical
rrrrpc Tor making aour-crout in conjunction with
pretly little sonnet, entitled, Blirck Eyes and Blue."
What roes for a sentimentalist ! Poetry, Sour
Crout and Ladies' Eyes.
fjj- We refer our readers to the aieeeh of Mr.
Gibbons, in the Senate, upon the subject nf spj
pointing a clerk. He shows conclusively that a
certain clique were determined to ssrrifice every
nne who would not Ixnd the kme to Baal. The
Senators who refused to sanction the measures of
the cabal, deserve the lasting gratitude of every true
democrat.
We have placed on our first page, an article
on the subject of "popping the question," a subject
of no little interest to many of our young readers.
Col. CaMer, in giving his opinion, profesaea to
speak from experience, having, as he asys, popped
the question at least one d'xen nf times, exclusive,
we presume, of the last time, on which occasion he
appears to have been eminently successful, having
led to the altar on Wednesday morning last, nne of
the fairest and most accomplished damsels in the
beautiful town of Williamport. The Colonel,
however, labors under a strange and finciful dilu
tion, in supposing that the proper time to pop the
question is when the flowers are just budding, or
gentle lephyrs are murmuring. The th'ng can lie
dune just as well in January aa in May, if properly
managed.
fjj The Keystone contains a severe but just cri
ticism upon the subject of the Pennsylvania Re
ports. The legislature should take the matter into
hand. In regard to the mechanical execution of
these Rep 'rts, no fault can be found. Like all the
boi,ks published umler the ausprcea of the Messrs.
Kay Jc Brothers, they are got up in the very best
style.
Cy Thomas Pninter, Esq. has taken leave nf the
patrons of the Columbia County Register, after ha
ving coniluiled the estnhlishm int for nearly fifteen
yeais. George L. I. Painter, son of the late Edi
tor, now taVes charge of the per, which will here
after be uc under the title of "The l)loom4urg
RegUer."
'Rev. Cau:h Rihii, a Baptist Clergyman, is
charged on oath with the crime of seduction at
Weedsport, Cayuga county, N. V."
(J3 The above ia extract.! from the N. V. Ti i
buno of Monday last. Mr. Bush was recently en
gaged in preaching at Danville, Williamspnrt, To.
wands and other places, until information of the a
bove nature, from Weedsport, arrested his progress.
It is to lie regretted that those who were acquaint
ed with the character of this man, and the charge
above mentioned, did not make it known imiindi
ately, through the Press instead of aulTeriug him
to roam over the country and impose upon the inno
cent and unsuspecting. Wo understand that the
Governor of New Voik lias nirde a lequisiiion upon
the authorities of this state, and that Bush has Ixvu
arreslud and lodged in Jsil, to await his trial in
Csyugi county, N. Y.
Mt'laurliully Acritltnt.
A stranger, whose mind was evidently in a de
ranged state. on Fiiduy week last went into the barn
of t'apt. Hummel, of Penns township, Union co.,
where some persons were engaged in thrashing. He
threatened to run himself through tho machine,
and before be could be prevented, grasjied a hand
fid of straw, and thrust lund and aW in. He was
immediately dragged back, but not until hia arm
was torn into shteds up to the rlbow. He mani
fested no feeling of pain whatever, when hia arm
was amputated. He was well lakr-u rare of, but
owing to hia restlessness, the wound was re-opened
and bred freely. He died on Tuesday last, from
exhaustion. He called himself a Journeyman
Printer.
ej" We staled in our last, that lire appointment
of Judge Donnel would give univerel sati-faclion
in the district to which he had lie.-n apoinled. In
cormlioralion of this, we subjoin the fMlowing com
mendatory noticea of his appointment, extracted
fiom the different papers published in the diatrict
over which be presides. It will -be seen that his
appointment meets with the entire approbation of
every Pitas id it district, whethif whig of demo
crat :
Ts New Jrwntv Charles tJ. Uonnc4, Esq.,
has been nemiuared and wnminmisy confirmed,
as the President Judge of this Judicial District, to
tire place of tl Hon. Ellis I wis, transferred.
Judge Dormel is now holding Court at Danville,
and will arrive here in a'sae to field Court on Mon
day, the 30th insU
This appointment appears to g'rwe great satisfac
tion ilwottghnul the District, Ws are personally
acquainted whh our new Jadge, and can cheerfully
tiear testimony Is hi ni, sal worth and great legal
altainmenta. As a lawyer, he has few equals in
this section of the state, and his great expsrrenoe,
ana FXteoisve prseticn, altnougn I s jar rrom oe
ing "in the sear and yellow leaf," will ooahlehiin
to diaeksrge il dinies of his high snd responsible
oKce, wiQi honor 1o lunifctf, sansfartinn to (lie bar
ancl adv. intake to ihe people. IksiaVs, Judge Don
ne1! has th t weight of mr.1 -character which Dual
obtain the coi.CoVirce, and command nf respect of
all 1iU aie personally cqUUittfl WJtb ttittt!
In being eTirmferred from the bar to the bench,
we widh that (he change will he sis natmfactory to
his honor aa it will he popular with the public;
and, while ur hand is in, ww wish that our law
makers at Ilarrisburg will not reduce the salaries
of our judges. Ltrnming Gazelle.
Ca Antra G. DnNr.r., our new Judge, "rs on the
bench, attending to the duties imposed upon him
1y f Jovemrrr Porter, We are sorry to see him part
with a lucrative practice, worth at least f 1,000 a
yrar, for one worth tmly f 2 000. ne is a young
man for a station of the kind, and had he continu
ed at the bar, would have arrived to a greater emi
nence than ho can ever again rxtirct. tie was a
niong oar brightest siar. Mirhninit.
h um Dnvjrr.L Entered upon the duties of his
office at this jiWeiwi Monday last, and so far, he
has been signally successful in making the impres
sion that he is fully coinjietenl to the high trust re
posed in him, and will make a prompt, impartial
and popular Judge. ITis appointment gives gener
al satisfaction. Judge Donnel was nominated, con
firmed, and commissioned on Saturday last Pan
vilie hitriigenffr.
His Honor, Judge Dojutkl, whose appointment
is mentioned in another place, took his seat on i
Monday afternoon, when his commission was read
in open Court by John (J. Montgomery, Hsij.
The apioiiitiiient of Mr. Donnet is well receivetl by
the people at large, and gives genera! satisfaction
to the tar; (or they untoimously agree that 1
will make a good Judge.
Our Court was never fuller attended during our
residence in this town, than at the present term.
Danville Democrat.
CntRLss G. Do suit, Esouir,', of Sunburv,
Northumberland county, to lie President Judge of j
the Eighth Judicial District.
From the beginning of Governor Porter's sd
ministration until the present, it is our firm con
viction, that a more popular appointment has not
been made. We also seriously ques ion whether
any gentleman in the State could fill the vacancy
oc.-asioned by Judie Iwis resignation with more
universal satisfaction. Mr. Donnel possessea the
most acute peiception, the most refined sensibility,
the most accomplished manners ; snd withal he is
a gentleman of most profound legal learning.
There is not a dissenting voire to his appointment.
Indeed, sufar fiom it, that every person highly ap
proves of the same. Milton Ledger.
Oen Nkw Jrnor. We learn that Chiriks G.
IHinsr.i Eeq., of Sunbury, has la-en appointed
PreskWnt Judge nf this District, in the room of
Judge Lewis. Mr. Donnel is considered a sound
and able lawyer, although comparatively a young
man, and w,H uoubtlrsr make a good Jii.L-e.
Ili appointment has been confirmed by the Sen-
ate. MuiH-y luminary.
We are confident we hut express the sentiments
of nine-teniln of the people of this sec ion of the
county, when we say tfnt the appointment of Mr.
Dons tb is an excellent one. No man in the
District, wc believe, coukl be found who would give
more general satisfaction, or be more warmly wi I
coined to the Judge's bench. Berwick Sentinel.
Th s appointment is sn excellent one, and will
give general satisfaction. Sunbury Cazr-tte,
insTELTixr.
Editorial, Condemn! ami Selected.
The citizens of Wilkesharre recently tendered the
Hon. Luther Kidder a public dinner, for his servi-
ccs in endeavoring to abolish the Nicholson Court. !
Seventy-two buil, lings hac been erectid iu
Pottsville, during the l.ist year. f
Forty-six tons of Oysters have been received by
rail road and canal, at Pottsville, during the last
year.
There were ISS.fiSV bu-hes of Salt manufactu
red in Kstiahwa County, Virginia, during the quar
ter ending December, 1M2.
'Ilie immense steamboat, 330 fi-et in length, in
tended to ply lietwccn New Yo-k and Troy, wa-i
launched at the former place, on Weduesd iy morn
ing, in fine style.
Hie new Reformed Dutch Church on Washing
ton square, N. Y., is advertised for sale at auction.
It is one of the mo-t elegant churches in the city.
Ji niis MeLr.ix is spoken of as s candidate for
the Presidency in 181).
J'ti Off. The destruction of tl worlJ. The
Journal of Commerce says that Mr. Miller has dis
covered he has made a mistake of just 1,000 years
iu his calculations. So he defers the destruction ,
of the world that length of time. i
Deaths in New York last week, 142. Consump
tion, SI.
Mucker rl. Tho number of barrels of macketel
mpectod ia Massachusetts in the year IA42, is ?5.
543, a great falling off 1 We believe that the
greatest number ever taken in one year, waa in
(Ml, wheat 253,000 barrels were taken. In 1S37,
23, 000 barrels were taken,
Frunsylninia Cullrgct. Marshall College, at
MerceTshurg, contains 175 students; Washington
College, 173 ; and Dickon sua Cuik-ge, Carlisle,
155.
Tl are in tl United Kates joat or hundred
S"h!iersof the Revolution on ft pension ta over
or hsmtr.d years i age. The oldest man on the
list is Michael Hate, of Union county, Pennsylva
nia, who is in his 115th year.
Suicide A. B. McGrew, Register and Recorder
of Wcs'niorelsnd county, Pa hung himself in his
own bain, on the 1t h inet.
3f(irie LfifrsIiifMTT? In flie Hiwse.the Rtsohres
relating to Gen. Jsckson's lii were jasewssed fs
same time, and fnutly passed to he enpvoesed, by a
bare msjoifty.
A Jit End fir i JII.as(fr,-J0hn Irvin .ecently
shuthimaetf inCharlestan, 8. ('., 'in a Ct of tiNesii
peranc. t waa the pner of a pack of traiued
1otinds, for the purpose ot booting and catching
runaway m groiax. W Aid suit suppose that audi
barbarity ctAd esust'ili any part of tluscountry.
The Stay Law has been defeated in tl House
of Representatives Pf Kcututi, by a sule of Stf
to 42.
Tire 3rt of Inquiry In the case of the
Somers, ha eloaod. At the conclusion, Cap!,
McKenzie pented the fallowing paper I
"May it please the Court t I am prepared t)
prove that more than a year ago, it was one of the
amazements of Mr. Spencer, to relate to the young;
children of one of the Professors of Genet a Col
lege, in whose family he wat domesticated, 'mur
derous storiea and tales of blood,' that the chief and
favorite theme of his conversation was piratical ex
ploits, and the pleasures of a pirate's life; that the
great otject nf his ambition was renown as pis
rate ; that t'.ie ho k which he oftcno4 read ami
which on leaving Geneva College to embark in a
whaler, he presented to the Student's Library was
the 'Pirates Own Book,' and that it still remaina
there with his name in it ; that on stepping into
the stage coach to leave Geneva, the l ist words he
said to a. friend who took leave of him, were, that
he would next bu beard of as pirate.
Witrreases are now in attendance upon the court,
to prove that, llnoughout the period of his service
in the Potomac, from Bio to Boston, live possibili
ty of eiuring her, and the use to be sulsjeqiieotly
made of her as a pirate, were the subject of his
thought, an l the theme of his conversation to three
at least of her forward officers; to how many of
the crew he may have unfolded his plans, is not
known ; that he detailed them in the presence of
three, csn be proved.
It can 1 ptovrd, that he explained how the offi
cers might 1 murd'trd in the night, and the ship
captured. That, although he objected to tho siie
of the Potomac, if he could obtain a smaller ves
sel, he was still desirous of undertaking his pro.
ject in her that, he offered the First Lieutenancy
of the Potomac, ifhe could obtain possession of her,
to one of her forward officers ; that with her, he
proposed to capture some of the packets off New
York ; that, from the captured vessels, he hoped
to ncure a few choice spirits, and gradually
change and thin off his crew, until he got a perfict
one ; that he proposed also, to get in the track of
outward hound Indiamen, and made particilur
inquiry as to the part of those vessels in which they
usually stowed the specie for the purchase of their
return cargo ; that he also inquired if the masters
of the Indiamen did not usually carry their fami
lies with tliein ; that he went minutely into all the
details of the discipline necessary to restrain the
crew nf a pirate, the means of refitting and water
ing in remote and unfrequented seas. I am pre.
pared to prove that, during a passage of nearly fifty
days from Bin to Boston, in the Potomac, this con
stituted Mr. Spencer's chief topic of conversation,
among the forward officers and among the crew,
and that as an ulterior project, when he found his
plans for carrying the l'otom cou'd not he m.i
tured, he proposed to equip, by some mean a clip
ierbrigat Baltimore, and arranged all tlie details
for iminniiicr and arming her after he should be
d fmis-ej fiom the naval service.
I sm prepared to prove by John Ford, former
ward-room steward of the S mers, that the night
liefore the Somers sailed, Daniel McKinley told
him that there would probably be a mutiny on
bosrd the Snini-rs.
With regard to S.imuet A. Cromwell, I sm pre
pared to prove that for mutinous conduct he was
turned out of his ship, and towed ashore on a grat
ing ; that very shortly liefore the departure of the
Somers from New York, he asserted in a bar-room
in the Bowery of New York, that there would pro
bably be a mutiny on board of her before her re.
turn, Charla A. Wilson being at the time in his
company. I sin prered to prove by Lieutenant
Mon'g'imery Lewis, that wln employed in the
Florida flotilla, umler Lieutenant McLaughlin, on
one occasion, when in a boat expedition under
Lieut. Koders, Cromwell, having been put in i
rons for drunkenness and mutinous conduct, me
naced Lieu', Lewis I y telling him that the next
time they fell in with the Indians, other shots
would be rerrtved than lhne that were fired by
Indians; and that there would I some killed. By
Edwin Atfied, a seaman, now on bosrd of this
ship, that during the greater part of one night he
piraded Is-fore tt teut of Lt. Lewis, with a loaded
carbine, and with the avowed purpose of shisytlng
him, should he come out ; that he had two separate
projects for creating a mutiny among the seamen of
the expedition -, at one time to turn all the officers
adrift in a boat with a single oar ; to proceed with
the l.its to Cuka, and the Isle of Pines, with all
the re cesses of which, and of the neighboring coast.
he (irofessed to he familiar, and then to engage in
piracy.
Whatever the Court may decide, as to the evU
dence thus offered to prove the early prratital pro
pensties, and the piiatical pr.oect in another ship,
of Mr. Spen'-er, I trust it will, at any rate, depart
sufficiently from its rules to revive the entire tes
timony offered to prove the piratical tendencies of
Cromwell. He alone, of the three mutineers who
were executed, persisted to the la in protesting
his innocence, even whilst asking forgiveness of
Lieut. Cinsevoort. Such is the secret charactei of
mWTtiy, snd the precautions with which a prac-li-ed
(irate especially would hide his guilty plott
ings sgainst the lives of his comrades and the honor
of his country, that ft is impossible to aiUuoe even
before tisis Court, all the evidence which rendered
the guilt of Cromwell rp.ible to hia officers ami
messmates, and divested it of all doubt ; many tri
fling iiicidi-nta that had weight at the tiaae are f -r.
gotten, many, consisting of looks and potions, gig,
nirVaiit enough U those who see them, cannot t
desert Sel Though it ia believed that abundant
cvhVuce b.s, er( adduced before the Coutt, to
piove the guilt, of Cromwell, yet, with the meana
of sh-wjng his previous oiutinous snd piratical
proems! at hand, is il not desirable to go a step
failber, snd satisfy tbem who sre s'rangers si ks to
tl peculiar position of a ship's company shsva
upon he ogcjm, and tl dire necessity that may
groweAM of aeoudiiMn of that company, rare ia
any Navy, and hazily unparalleled in our own t
I have tl hoi raits tie, very respecturn your
o'oeJiervt eoriaut.
Aisx. Slisiil Mxsrit..
U.S. S. N. Caroling ICth Jan., 1M3L