Lost
Pcrllon Balloon AlvrntnrDalloott
tin F-oainl.
TTt learn torn the Holidaysburg Register, that
Mr. John Wise, the intrepid stronaut, made an
ascectron from that plact on the 4th inst., in
th "Vesperus," and nut with a moat perilous
and thrilling adventure The attention vai
maSe in the midst of a etorrn. It was with the
greatest difficulty that the procesj of inflation
could be performed, and the net-work, during the
process, gave way about the top of thr balloon.
At the time Mr. Wise cut the rope, a bulb as
large as a hogshead protruded through the rup
ture of the netting. 1 he balloon took a North
erly direction, and ascended 4000 feet, when it
encountered a violent gale from the Vest .swing
ing it to and fro, and cracking the net-work at
every surge. MrWise, in his account, says his
h"art began to sicken at the idea of falling away
from the balloon at that height. He resorted to
the expedient of throwing the weight of bis body
cpon the valve-rope. This necessarily opened
the valve to its full extent, and must soon bring
thVmachine to the ground. But the velocity of
the wind (being at the rate of about fifty miles
p?r hour) carried him 1C miles before he reached
terra firraa. Mr. W. threw out his anchor, but
it caught againft the fer.ee tnd broke the rail.
Mr. W. then attempted to jump from the car in
to a ploughed f eld, but the balloon rose with a
violent surge, and he was caught by one of bis
bgsin a hitch of the rope. He grasped the drag
rope and heli or, in an inverted position, until
the balloon dashed him into a high tree. He took
a hitch to a limb of the tree, and then endeavored
to extricate his leg, the tree bending ready to
break by the tossing of the balloon, and he only
succeeded in getting clear by drawing otThis boot,
which he lost in the car. The squalls increased
;u violence, snapped the rope which held the bal
loon to the tree, and in a few moments it dashed
oat of sight, the car keeping it in tolerable trim.
Mr. W. says :
"I discovered, in viewing the machinery, that
I had taken unnecessary alarm in the breaking
of the net-work, as it plainly proved itself suffi
ciently strong to have borne its load to any de
sired distance. My regret was enhanced by the
foverablo opportunity that was before me of
reaching Philadelphia by early candle-lipht. Af
ter soliloquizing in the tree top upon the day's
adventure for a while, I beean to clamber down
its trunk, leaving the end ef 'ue drag-Tope dang
ling in its top, ready for a port of entry to touch
at in my contemplated trip from Pittsburg, across
the mountains to the eastern cities, as toon as I
can rig up a new machine."
The following paragraph from the Catskill (N.
York) Recorder shows where the balloon went to,
und the rapid rate it must have been driven, to
b.ivc reached that place on the fame day.
"Who has lost a Balloon ? On the even
ing of the 4th hist., a balloon alirht-d on the
premises of the Rev. John P. Van Valkenburg,
of Lexington, in this county. The car which
was attached to the bal.loon contained a lady's
basket, in which was a quantity of cake, a small
bottle, a tin cup, and several papers printed at
Holidaysburg, Pa., dated May 4, 1844. Attach
ed to the basket was a paper. upon which was
written "John Wise, Philadelphia." The bal
loon was of a size requiring about six hundred
yards of silk."
Destructive DotrrniNci. The Americin
Anti-Slavery Society, at its annual session last
week in New York, adopted '.he following reso
lution?, after an animated discussion.
"Resolved, That a political union in any
form between a slaveholding and a free commu
nity, must necessarily involve the latter in the
guilt of slavery. Therefore,
Resolved, That secession from tho present
United States Government is the duty of every
abolitionist, since no one can lake office or de
posit a vote under its constitution without vio
lating his anti-slavery principles and rendering
himself an abettor of the slaveholder in hie (in
Rcwlved, That fourteen yeara of warfare
against the 6lave power have convinced us that
every act done in support of the American Uni
on, rivets the chain of the slave that the only
exodus of the slave to freedom, unices it be one
of blood, muht be over the ruins of the present
American Church, and the grave of the present
Union.
Resolved, That tho abolitionists of this coun
try should make it one of the primary objects
of their agitation to dissolve the American Uni
on. Absorption of Poison. At the sitting of
the Academy of Scicnjes of Paris, last month,
a paper was received from M. Chatm tin the
absorption of poisons 11c relates the following
xper-ments: Firtf, he poisoned 8 dogs by in
troducing inlo the stomach sf each 5) centi
grammes of arseniou acid, mixed with milk,
and lie tied up the esophagus. The blood ot
all these- animal Iron) the heart and large
vessels was put together and incinerated by
nitrate of potass. The result, when operated
on by Marsh's apparatus, was arsenical stains,
but the chyle, although treated in tho same
way, gave no stain of ursenic. In the second
expmnent he repeated the former process, sub
atkutir.ff fur arsenioua acid double the quantity
of the lactate of poiuss of antimony. He kil
led the dogs an hour after having administered
the poison by opening the csrotide. The an
timony was found in the blood, and there was
none in the chyle. In a third experiment on
the blood of sick persons who had takan large
doses of e.uetic, theie waa found a quantity of
antimony. 1 ho author concludes tbat there
ia no absorption of such poiooui by the vessels
ot the chyle.
Thb Innocent Si rrEio ron the Gcitty.
Bulwereays. in no ef hie best productions.
is a strng end terrible ordination that the
vices and passioni, the follies and prejudices, the
wickedness andtii iniquity ot man which run
in threads through the whole web of society,
spoiling a fair and otherwise beautiful fabric,
should checker the fate of the moist virtuous
and good with the Jark litis of sorrow and mis
fortune, and that in this ntrangely constituted
world, the best bV.ir.gsof the 11 hearts ope
rated upon by U.u bareness nf others sho:ild be
very frequently the cause of disaster ani distress
of thorie who, of this eaitti were the soul's abi
ding place, might claim the brightest lot that
"' to the purl: ufhjfna.-.ity."
A Phojcctkd Elopement kipped trt thb
Bun. There wssquite an alarm and very plea,
sant flare up in New York on Sunday evening,
growing out of an attempted elopement of a ve
ry respectable young lady with a young gentle
man equally respectable. Some persons pas
sing a street were nlurmod by the cry of murder
the voice that of a female. Several persons
went towards the spot, and saw two young la
dies running from the house, minus their hats,
screaming at the top gf their voices for help.
When they got tothe scene ofsction two young
men were found grappling in the area by the
basement door. They were soon separated, and
on making some inquiries they learned that
there bsd been an elopement planned and
brought to maturity between one of the young
gentlemen snd one of the ladies ; tut the ar
rangement had leaked out through tho treache
ry ota jealous sister of the heroine, and the o
ther gentleman was the brother of the ladies
who, anticipating tho arrival of the hero of the
romance about that time, lay in wait to meet
him; and immediately on his approach the en
rsged brother seized him at the door and com
menced beating him, but our hero defended
himself with great courage, maintaining his i
ground in front of the house and during the bro
ther out. The lady under engagement station
ed herself by her brother's side, and in the open
air they were permitted to hold a peaceable con
versation for some time, during which, no doubt,
new arrangements were made. The father of
the lady, an eccentric old gentleman, had for
bidden the match, for no other reason than that
he was determiner! his daughter sliould never
marry while he livid; but when in his piime,
it is a notorious fact that he eloped with the
mother of his daughter, and she, doubtless
thought she had a right to follow Iter mother's
example. Spirit of the Times.
THE AMERICAN.
Saturday, .Way 18, 1844.
Democratic domination.
FOR OOVKRNoR.
HENRY A. MUHLENBERG.
FOR CAS.t. COMMISSIONER,
JOSHUA IIARTS1IOIIXE.
ELECTORS,
For Prmtitrnf and V!-r Prrt:dent nf the V Slatft
WILSON MCANDLESS, lc ,
WVI1UIVI I U ft .
Take Car of Yoi'rscif. This seems to
be the motto of the British in all kinds of trade.
Whenever they cast thrir eyes upon a fortifi
cation, they consider how they may possess it.
Whenever they look into a port, they seem to
inquire how its trade may turn to their advan
tage. With regard to the latter feeling, and prola-
Lly influenced thereby, the following paragraph
was prepared for an English paper. We copy
it, to fehow the spirit ; and we add that, in com
petition for trade and business, we hope the A
mericans will not be behind hand. And as, in
some things, we have an admitted superiority,
we trust that all advantages will he taken to
turn that superiority to the permanent advan
tage of the commerce and manufactures of the
country :
From the Berwick Eng.) Advertiser, Apr. 13.
The news from China comes down to the
12ih of January, but it presents nothing of re
markable interett. The mercantile arrange
ments were going forward to the satisfaction ol
the British and Chinese authorises. It now
becomes a matter of great interest to the Bn-tii-h
commercialism to endeavor to eupply the
Chinese market with good articles. The ac
tive and intelligent Chinese, who are now lear
ning the value of cotton, &c, whether raw or
manufactured, will not long submit lobe impo
sed on by second role articles of any kind. The
American cotton already obtains a preference
over the Indian, in consequence of the superi
ority of its qualities fur spinning.
ASA DtMOCK.
RKTRKSENTATIVr.
1. Geo. F. Lehman, 13. Gforor Sciinable,
2. Christian Km.ass 14. Nath'l. P. l'.LiAEt,
3. im.iam II. Smith, 15. M.N. Irune.
4. John Hii.l. (f'hila.) 1G. Jamks WoorniR.x,
.1. Samc il E. Leech, 17. llrcii Montgomery
Samvel C A.Mr, IS. Isaac Anknev,
10. JntlN Matthews.
2(1. Wm. PaTtftson,
21. AxiRRW Birke,
2'2. John MV.im.,
2.'l. Christian Mvnns,
24. Roumi Our.
7. Jrr; SmrrE,
P. N. W. Sample,
S. Wm. IIeiiirn'reicii,
10. Cox run Shimer,
11. StfI'Hfn P a l p y ,
12. Jonah Fre-asicr,
I It. lir,.JIEIt, Kq.t at hit Heal .'
ffe snd Coal OKce, ."V. 59 Vint Strrtt, VM
tddttilidt, f avthmtiid to art an .Igcnt, at it
rtetl$it lor all msiifrs due tltii ml7Uti for u6
tcrtjiliun or adv. rtlslnf.
D7" Frtrvirr. Tvrt. 100Tbs.,or more, of sec
ond hanJ brevier type, for sale at this office, at
IS eta. per lb., cah. The type are the same as
those used in our advertising columns.
The Sale of tlie Jlnin Llnr.
We have noticed with ploaiure that a number
of democratic papers have tak'Tt ground in oppo
sition to the sale of the M.v.n Line of our public
works from Philadelphia to P.ttslmrg. We are
decidedly oppod tothe tale ourselves end shall
give reaTor.s for our opinion at l.-ngth before the
finest ion is f.nally loft to the people at the ballot
box. The tingle fact, that the Pale of the main
line will establish a corporation with a capital
of Twenty Millions of dollars, ought to be suf
ficient to induce every Democrat to vote against
tho meaure. If a United States Tank can be
eonveited into an engine, powerful to do evil and
endanger the liberty of the country, a corporation
like the one intended to be created, located
through the heart of the State, controlling the
great avenue to market from the West, and em
ploying hundreds of officers, would wield a much
more powerful influence, for good or for evil,
upon the destinies of the Commonwealth. We
trust that the people will pause before they place
such an immense power in the bands of any set
of men, and not be guided alone by tho consider
ation of dollars and cents in the decision of a
question, upon which, in a great measure, may
depend the stability of our free institutions, and
it may be, the extistence of civil liberty itself.
'.W".LJ. -1 H I.J1I '!. B.55
The Tariff Question Settled.
We congratulate our readers that this vexed
question has been settled, at least for the present
session of Congress. This news will be received
with satifaction throughout the country, and
doubt and anxiety will give place to rejoicing and
increased activity in every branch of homo in
dustry. The bill to modify the existing Tariff
was laid on the table, yesterday a week, by a vote
of 1 OA yeas, to 99 nays. This gave the bill its
quietus. We are glad to see that the whole Penn
sylvania delegation, both Democrats and Whigs,
voted in the affirmative. In this they have obey
ed the voice of their constituents; there could
be no mistake about the opinions of the p?ople,
of Pennsylvania upon this subject; they have
spoken so plainly, that "he who runs may read."
They have shown that they regard the protection
of the great interests of the country, as more im
portant than mere party considerations, and that
they will not permit those interests to be con
trolled by paity tactics to favor the elevation
of any man to office. We rejoice exceedingly at
this decision of the people, so unequivocally ex
pressed. It augurs much for the prosperity and
welfare of our common country. It is time that
party fpirit should be restrained within proper
limits. The following is the vote by which the
bill was laid on the tabic
Yfas. Messrs. Abbot, Adams, Ashe, Bi
ker, Harriimer, Barnard, B.dlack, Jns R ark,
llrcnglp, llrodlii'Hd, Mil'oi Brown, Jeremiah
Brown, Biiffiii'tun, J. E. Ciry, Carroll, Catlin,
Causin, Chilton, Clinch, Cliiitnnan, Cullamcr,
Cranston. Dunn, Djrragh, Girret, Dtvis, De
rx.rry, DolUl, Dickey. Dickinson, Dillingham,
Ellis Elmer, Farlee, Fish. Florence. Foot. Fos
ter, Trt nch, ti k!(I i ops, Willie Green, Bvrum
Grtcii. Ci'mim II, Gricler, Hnrditt, Harper, Hub
Itll, Hu.lfon. W. Hunt, C.J. Ingersoll.J. R.
IngerJI, Irvin, Jcnks, 1 B. Johnson, J. P.
Kennedy. Daniel P King, Kirkpntrick, Mcll
vninr, Mash, E. J. Morris, Morse. Mxalcy. Ne.,
New Ion, I'ttrmrnter, 1'ntterson, Peyton, I'liO'
nix, Politick, K. H. Potter, Pre ten. Ramsey,
Rsymer, Ritttr, Rockwell, Roger. Russell,
Simple, Scheeck. Senirr, Severance, D. L Sey
mour, Simons Albert Smith, J. T Smith, C. U
Smith, StK'lipe, Stephen, Stetson, And. S'.ew
nit. Summers Svkes Thomasson, Tilden, Ty
ler, Vitnce, Vaitiii'ter, Vinton, Withered,
Whea'on, Wlii e, Williams, Winthrop, W.
Wrilit, and Yost 10".
N'tvi Messrs. Anderson. Atkinson. Diyley,
!!! lb iiion. J. mips A. Black, Bjickwcil,
Bower, B .d. W. J. Brown, Burke, Burl, Cald
well, Caiiipb--ll, S. Cnry, Reuhen Cliipman,
Aiijustus A. 'Iiiipiunn, Chippt'll, Clinton. Cohti,
Coles Bros. Culttm, Iliniel, John V D.ivis
D.twpon, Dean, Douglass Damiiroole, Duncan,
Dunltip, I'Vkhn. Hale, llnmliii, I Irtmtnett, Har
alson, Henley. Her rick, I lolmea, lloc, Hopkins
Houston, I lubard, Hiii'ln's lltinjjerinnl, J. B.
Hunt, Cave Johnson, A. Johnson, G. W. Junes,
Andrew Kennedy, Preston, King, I.abranohp,
Leontrd, I.ncss, Lumpkin, Lyon, McConnell,
McDowell. McKay, Mathews, Joseph Morris
Murphy, N'orris Owen, Payne, Pcttif, E. D.
Potter," Prstf. Rithbtin, D. 5. Ried, Rptlin;:,
Relte, Rhetr, Roberts Robinson, St. John. S.iun
ilers Tho.nas H. Seymour, Simpson, Slidnll,
Robert Smith, Sioenrod, John Stewart, Stiles
Stone, Strong, Taylor, Jacob Thr-inpeon, Tib
bttte. Weller, Went worth, Woodward, and J.
A. Wright 99.
From the It. 8. aazettf.
moris of tub riot f x kknsinoto.
Wednesday, Mat 8.
If we were pained yesterday, to refer to the
situation of affairs in Kensington, where murder
had been committed in the midst ofothcr violence,
we naturally feel that pain enhanced to day,
when time has been allowed for cool reflection,
and has produced only additional violence, blood
shed, and murder. We use strong terms, but
they are indicative of the acts committed. More
lives have been sacrificed more of public peace
violated and a new, and, we fear, an ineffacea
ble stain fixed upon the character of our neigh
boring district.
We have rarely, if ever, seen our city more
shattered to pieces. Shortly after this, a frame
dwelling house, next ts the hose house, was fired,
and from that time up to nine o'clock in the eve
ning, the flames continued to spread without stay,
until TwtRTY-NiNt houses were consumed, the
greater part of them being upon Cadwalader st.
About seven o'clock the market bouse itself
caught fire, and at nine o'clock lay in a heap of
ruins.
The melancholy result of the few hours during
which the contest between the Irishmen and Na
tive Americans raged, is 14 killed and 39 wound
ed. A man by the name of Maitland, was danger
ously wounded by a shot fired by John Taggert.
A negro sitting in the market house, immediate-
excited than it was yesterday, in consequence of! v tlTA at TaR-art, and several shot struck him
the outrages committed in Kensington on the day
previous ; and at an early hour, Brigadier Gene
ral Cadwalader issued orders to his Brigade (that
of the city propc-r,) to parade in the afternoon.
Meantime, a meeting, (held by resolve of one
that was held in the Assembly Building on tho
ni;ht previous,) was called in the State Mouse
Yard, for 3 o'clock, P. M. Previous to which, a
great number of persons bore through the street s
the American Flag, much injured, accompanied
by a placard, bearing in large lotti-r the follow
ing : "This is the Flag that was trampled under
foot by the Irish rapists."
At 3 o'clock, the meeting in the State House
Yard was very large, and as the call contained
the addition, that those who came idiould be pre
pared for defence,' some appeared with deadly
weapons. The Mayor, who was walking round
the yard quietly " withdrew " th" persons whom
he saw armed. One of the persons thus arrested
had a gun, and another a double barrelled pistol.
Among the speakers, were Col. C. J. Jack, and
in the forehead. Tassrart then ran into the house
but a number of the Native Americans rushed in
and made him a prisoner. Ho was conducted
down to Aldrman Boileau's office who upon the
onth of one of the spectators committed him to
Moyatneusiiig Prison. He left the office in charge
of two officers, and a number of citizens, but
when near Beaver street, the crowd took him vi
olently out ofthe hands of his conductors, tied a
rope around his neck, and dragged him some dis
tance along the street.
His captors then passed the rope over the end
of an awning pot, and pulled him up for the pur
pose of hanging him, but the beam broke and he
f"ll to the earth, he was then dragged for some
distance and finally left lying in the street to all
appearance dead. He was, however, alive when
taken up and remained so Up to ten o'clock last
j night. He cannot, however, survive.
I The scene during the continuance of the con
flagration was awfully grand. A great sea of
fire raged, the roaring noise of which was heard
at a considerable distance, mingled with the
General Smith. The Rev. Mr. Perry offered the j crash of fa'ling timbers or tumbling walls. Pco
following resolutions, which were read and pie were hurrying hither and thither, anxioiuly
On io in or the Flower "Foroet Me Not."
Mills in his work on chivalry, mentions that
the beautiful little flower, Forget-me not,"
was known in Engtund as early as Edward the
Fourth, and in a note gives the following- pretty
incident; "Two lovers were loitering alnng the
margin of a lake on a fine summer's evening,
when the maiden discovered some flowers
plowing in the water close to the bank of an
island at some distance from tho shore. She
expressed a desire to possess them, when her
knight in the true spirit of chivalry, plunged
into the water, and swimming la the spot, crop
ped the wi.-hed for plant; but his strength was
unable to fulfil the object of his achievement,
and feeling that he could not regain the shore,
although very near it, he threw the flowers on
the bank, and casting a lust affectionate look on
his lady-love, said, 'Forget-me-not,' and was bu
ried iu the water." Boston Timet.
K7 Order Restored. Every thing about
the seen" of the late liot appears to be perfectly
quiet, and the minds of the citizens seem to be
satisfied that no further outbreaks need bo appre
hended. As a precautionaiy measure, however,
public worship was suspended on Sunday, in all
the Catholic Churches, by order of the Bishop;
but this step seems to have been needless, as
d-nerul Patterson hud determined to preserve
order at all hazards having still continued the
military guards, who were posted at the differ
ent Churches, on Saturday and Sunday nights, as
usual. The Military were still underarms on
Monday. The strictness, however, had some
wluit relaxed, and it was believed that the neces
sity for a continuance of the same had ceased.
j Kt.f iGsr.n We perceive by a card puMi.-h-ed
iu the l ist Pittsvill Emporium, that Francis
W. Hughes, the Democratic member from the
KightU Senatorial Dibtiict, has resigned hi seat
in the Senate. Mr. 11. was active and persever
ing, and made an excellent member.
Gambi.ino. A "reformed gambler, so cal
led, named Green, is lecturing in St. Louis
on the rubject of gaming. He has published a
volume wherein he exposes all the tricks of
the trade the msnner in which convex carj
are made, and how a certain kind of card col
led reflector is Managed and manufactured.
Ilia disclosures are astounding. The South
ern gamesters have lately addressed a lorn;
epwt'e to him, in which they avow their de
termination to kill him when good opportuni
ty offers. To this he replies in the papers ss
becomes a reformer of courage and atamina.
"Anti-gaming pledges" have been gotten up
under his otrection, and formidable- societies
gathered together under his care.
Pkmocratic Natioxai. Convsntion.
This body will assemble at Baltimore, on Mon
day, the 27th ol May.
The tiKNkRAL I'.lkction iu Pennsylvania, for
the election of Governor, Members of Congress,
&c , lakes place on Tuesday, the Slh of October.
The PRKiHENTiALr.LKCTio.v, in Pennsylvania,
will be held on Friday, the let of November.
C7" '-Coon-heaped Canes," it is said, arc "all
the go" in Philadelphia, among the worshippers
ofClay & Co. If "coming events cast their
shadows before," we think this eaneing, ofthe
coons, is but a foreshadowing of what a beating
they will yet next fall.
IT?" "Freunghuysi s Ciuaes" have made
their appearance in New Voik. We suppose the
next thing we bear off will be CLiy-gruund nuts.
Gambi.ino in New Orleans In the city
of Now Orleans there aie in operation every
ni'ht, as nearly as can be ascertained, one hun
dred roulette tables, each one of which clears
its owner at least fjftO per night. Thus sre five
thousand dollars nocturnally thrown sway, or
yearly squaudrrt'd one million eight hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars
Takino a Dtiop too Mich The lstrst il
Instrstion of the evil of taking "a drop too
much," the Aurora says, happened to a ninn in
Neville, in the western p;nt of this State.
While having one wife in the East, he married
a Miss Amanda Drop, and was tho next week
put n the county jail for bigamy. I bis my
well be oiled a bitter drop for him.
E7" E. L. BuLwtR. We see, by some of the
papers, tbat this celebrated novelist is about
to pay a visit to this country, and that a
committee, in Boston, has already made arrange,
ments for his reception Take care and don't
make fools of yourselves, or you might catch the
Dicken sgain.
iir.xrtY a. Mfin.KxnEno.
In the present crisis of the affairs of the Com
monwealth, we require a man of iron nerve, un
doubted capacity, and unsullied integrity to take
hold of the helm ; and because we sincerely be
lieve that Henry A. Muhlenberg, the candidate
of the Democratic, party combines these quali
ties in an eminent degree, he is entitled to, and
shall receive our cordial and zealous support.
Th-j State is deeply involved her fair name
has been tarnished by her failure to meet her ob
ligations her citizens are taxed and a yet more
trying time awaits ns.
In such an emergency it is the duty of every
good citizen to select a faithful Captain who has
the will and capacity to steer the vessel through
the shoals and breakers tiat surround her, and
bring her safely and honorably into port. It is
our duty to select a man who stands "without
fear and without reproach," or.e who will re
gard the public plunderer as a moral leper, w hose
separation from the body pulitic is as necessary
as the excision of a rotten member from the Am
man ; who has discernment to detect, and ener
gy to punish fraud and peculation ; and whose
noble example will imbue our public men with
the principles of high smiled honor and uuswerv
ing moral and political integrity.
Unless the testimony of Mr. Muhlenberg's
neihbors's. of both political parties, is wholly
false, ho is the man we have described, and the
man for the time. Sprung from a revolutionary
tock, which done good service in the times that
tried men's souls, he has not degenerated with
the dcgeneraryof the day ; but the same spirit
of patriotism, the devotion to the honor and best
interests of the people which actuated his revo
lutionary fathers, brightly glows in the bosom of
the son, and points him out as the man in whom
we may proudly and fearlessly confide the desti
nies of the Commonwealth. If undoubted talents,
untiring industry, unsullied integrity of charac
ter, stern resolve, great public experience, and
honest devotion to the interests ofthe Common
wealth fit a man for the Executive chair, then is
Henry A- Muhlenberg eminently qualified and
in his elevation we would do more honor to our
selves, and the purity of our civil institutions
than to Lim. Huntingdon Globe.
Votes tor raesiDRNT. The following is a
statment of the votes given at different times for
candidates for the Presidency :
Jfe'JS Adams - 207,413 Jackson, 643 006
1831 11. Clay, - 322,501
Harrison,')
1830 White, 736,736
Webster, 5
1840 Harris'n, 1, 262,783
Jackson. 707,107
VanBuren, . 772,149
Van Buien, 1,126,137
Tha Crops of 1843.
Mr. Ellsworth, the Commissioner of Patents,
in his annual report estimates the Agricultural
products of our country, for 1843, as follows ;
Wheat, bushels, 100,310,898
Corn, " 404,618,306
Oats, " 143.829,666
Rye, " 34,280,271
Barley, ' 3,330,721
Buckwheat, 11 7,9d9.410
Potatoes, 103.7S6.132
Hay, tons, 15,419,709
Tobacco, lbs., 183.781,534
Cotton, 747,670,000
Rice, 89.879.145
Bilk, 813.063
Sugar, 66,400,310
Vins, pUona, 139,240
adopted by acclamation :
Whereas, a gross and atrocious outrage has
been perpetrated in the District of Kensington, by
which a meeting of American citizens, assembled
for the purpose of deliberating on the atT.iirs of
our country, was broken up, and the lives of cit
izens wantonly and murderously sacrificed by a
band of ruffians firing into the crowd from places
of concealment,
Wf, the Native American citizens of the City
and county of Philadelphia, in Town Meeting as
sembled, do hereby present to our fellow citi
zens of all shad -s and distinctions of party the
following resolutions :
Resolved, That it is alike the right and the du
ty of all cituens peacefully to assemble for the
purpose of expressing their sentiments on the
principles and actions by which our nation should
be governed.
Resolved, That the interference with such as
semblages by others not participating in them, is
an infraction on the rights guaranteed to us by
the Constitution and Laws of our country.
Resolved, that the recent outrage in Kensing
ton, by which a meeting was disturbed and brok
en up, and the lives of citizens sacrificed, is an in
fraction of those rights which meets with the ab
horence of this meeting.
Resolved, That whilst as men and Americans
we are determined at all and every hazard to re
sist unto the death every infraction of our rights,
we arc determined that we will not be led by
provocation to retaliate on the rights of others.
Resolved, That the proceedings ofn portion
of the Irish inhabitants of the District of Ken.
sington. on Monday afternoon, is the surest evi
dence that can be given, that our views of the
Naturalization Laws arecorrect and tliat foreign
ers in the short space of five years are incapable
of entering into the spirit of our Institutions.
Resolved, That we consider the flible in the
Public Schools as necessary for a faithful course
of instruction therein, anil we are determined to
maintain it there in despite of the ellorts of natu
ralized and unnaturalized foreigners to eject it
therefrom.
Resolved, That this meeting believe that the
recently successful efforts ofthe Friends of the
Bible in the District of Kensington, was the in
citing cause which resulted in the murderous
scenes of tho 6th inst.
Resolved, That we approve of the proceedings
ofthe meeting held ut the Assembly Puildings
last evening, by which a committee was appoint
ed t make suitable preparations for the inter
ment of the first martyr in the cause of Civil and
Religious freedom among us, and that we recom
mend that the friends of our cause shall attend
the funeral in a body.
Resolved, That we also approve ofthe reso
lution passed at the same meeting by which a re
ward of One Thousand Dollars is offered for the
apprehension and conviction ofthe murderers.
Resolved, That a collection be taken up for
the benefit of widows, mothers or children of the
murdered.
Most of those present moved in a body to Ken
sington, (at the corner ol elond anl blaster
street,) and proceeded to organize a meeting, but
they had scarcely nailed up their flag, (the same
that is spoken of above,) when a number of boys
made an attack upon the Hibernia Hose House.
A number of shots were then fired from housisin
the vicinity toward the meeting, and the Native
Americans, after dispersing for a moment, rallied
and attacked the Hose House, took out the Car
riage, ran the hose otT the reel, and then brokt
the apparatus up. An old tender, the property
of the Washington Hose Company, which waa
also in the bouse, was broken up likewise. The
Native Americans then, (between four and five
o'clock,) took possession ofthe Market House,
ad for the next three hours, the shots were fre
quent from the bouses in its western vicinity.
Men were seen lying upon the roofs of a row of
bouses fronting the Market ; and in every place
of concealment near the sams place, others were
occasionally discovered.
About five o'clock another attack was made
upon tb boss house, and larfs new bell found
in it ws brought out into the open squ.re and
endeavoring to save their property ; and on the
open lots adjacent, piles of furniture were heap
ed up promiscuously. Women and children, made
houseless by the destruction of their homes, were
eathered in the vicinity, and the whole scene had
its appropriate climax in th-J glitter of the arms
anJ accoutrements of the soldiers, the cannon
and their guards, and the d.-use and thtrk mass of
people by which the whole square was hemmed
in. Th-? Military remained on the ground during
tli? greater pint ofthe night.
Tbirsoav, May 9.
The riots in Kensington yesterday, although
not signalii-'d with the losoflife, up to seven
o'clock in the evening, was nevertheless marked
with violence ofthe most outrageous character.
During the uiht large numbers of people re
mained about tht! scene of violence, and the mili
tary kept vigilant guard until daylight, when a
portion of them were relieved by reinforcements
lroin the second and third Brigades, and shortly
after, the district appearing to be quiet, the rest
of the military were drawn off, with the excep
tion of a detachment of twenty-four men, under
the command of Captain Fairlamb, which was
left to guard St. Michael's Church.
About two o'clock, a crowd of people went to
Ninth and Poplar street, where a number of Irish
families hail taken refuge, in a number of dwell
ings. 1 licse were hreii anil burned to tlie ground,
the inmates scattered, and the contents destroyed.
Meantime, an immense crowd had gathered in
the vicinity of St. Michael's Church, and about
two o'clock, Captain Fairlamb demanded the
keys of the edifice from the Rev. Mr. Lochrin,
the pastor, who immediately gave them up, and
with them, the keys of his own residence, ad
joining the church. Captain Fairlamb instituted
a rigid search through the premises, and found
neither arms nor men concealed, either in the
church or in the house.
Shortly after this three young men walked
lhrnii!:h the detachment of military into the
church, the front door of which had been left un
locked. One of thein in a few minutes after
wards threw out of a window a portion ofthe
drapery of the altar. They soon came out into
the street and walked otf without obstruction.
The flames soon burst out and spread unchecked
until ofthe noble edifice nothing remained but
the bare walls. During the conflagration, three
distinct explosions were heard, and this served
greatly to exasperate the crowd. When the
cross which surmounted the church, fell, cheers
rent the air, and a drum and fife struck up the
"Poyne Water "
The dwelling house of the Pastor adjoining,
was broken into by the mob, the furniture thrown
into the street, and the building itself fired. In
a short time it was reduced to ruins.
Dkstri-ction of Saint Ai'1'stink's Chi rcii.
During the latter part of yesterday afternoon,
crowds began to assemble in the vicinity of the
Catholic Church of Saint Augustine, on Fourth
street between Race and Vine streets.
Mayor Scott took early precautionary measures
and long before daik had a large posse of citizens
draughted, with which he took position at the
rear of the Church, while the City Watch, har
ing their badges on, formed in a line upon the
curbstone before the front on Fourth street.
Matters remained quiet until about half past
nine o'clock, when every avenue thereabouts was
filled by dense masses of people.
About that time, a solitary brick was lung in
the direction of the City Watchmen, and struck
with a loud and distinct noise (for all then was
quiet,) against the iron railing at their rear. This
was followed by a loud cheer from the crowd op
posite the Church in New street ; and in an in
stant after, a tremendous shower of bricks, stones
and missiles, of every available description, was
directed against the Church, scattering the Watch
and other bystanders io every direction.
About the same time, a similar attack was
made upon the rear. One of the stones in the
first volley struck and stunned Mayor Scott, and
this spread contention among those having the
protection of the rear. Besides, tie missiles ap
peared to be thrown cot only from every con
civnbl but from inconceivable quarters'