edds and gab. tor Gas. Osoaat P. Monts, one of the editors of the New York Home Journ4 )4tui been appointed U. S. Consul to Havre. 11411. A girl named Ellen Vaughn, re cently died in Troy, N. Y., in consequence of inflammation caused by perforating her ears for ear-rings. 11116. The Louisville Journal says of a paper lately started in Providence to advocate the claims of Douglas to the Presidency, that it "does not believe that Providence will smile on it." Sir S. M. Pettengill, & Co., the enter prising and reliable newspaper agents at New York, have made a very handsome donation—five hundred dollars—to the Mount Vernon fund sir The General Assembly (U. S.) of the Presbyterian Church of the Unitell States convenes at Indianapolison the 19th of May next. A very large attendance is anticipated. oft. The queen of Spain ha., created Prof. Morse a Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the ('athdlic, and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences has elected him a member. am. A man arrived at Pittsford, Mich., a few days since from Kiwood, Kansas, his sole erraMd being to thrash his brother-in law, who had maltreated his wife. Having finished the business to the satisfaction of all concerned, be returned home. 16,: The sprightly and—:we must say st —pretty widow editress of the Ashland Ktiquckian, in reply toa correspondent who asks her if she wears hoop., exclaims:— •• Hoops, indeed! why, iv. ,bm't we'll any thing (IST !" The 1 VII—ICri ale ler 01% II W --uppose slit' tells the naktsl truth. kir The Rev. William Watson, p a ...to i of tla Methoaist ehureli in tHenwoks I, I 'WA. %vas arrea.ted last week for pas.-ing counkl Ile mile a clean brea,t ot II felt money matter, and said that he had Jolliet! the counterfeiters to get money to do good with. In ,default of heavy bail he wa• rout- mitte4.l sea. A gentleman in Mas..kaellusetts, offer through the Treaaurer ol the Ilia,baeliu•ANtt Sabbath School &)Cietv one each to be given to that person, old of young, who, during the year front April I. 1659, - to April 1, l$( shall commit to memory and faithfully repeat to his or her teacher, superintendent or pastor, the largest portion of the Scriptures. mg.. Gold has been discovered upon a farm in Bucks county. Pa.. which has Ig...utt sent to the mint at Philadelphia to be a.-- sayed. Considrable excitement prevaikin that vicinity, and it is said the o‘‘ net of the place has been offered a large price for lits farm, but refused to accept it, until he learns the character of the discovery. SM. An affray occurred at Duticannon. Perry ,county, l'a., on Saturday night last, which resulted in one man being killed and in another having his nose cut of The murderer is named George Murray, and is described as a, most desperate character.— Last fall he was arrested in Johnstown for attempting to kill a man, but succeeded in making his escape. Ile has not been ar rested. MI. The Bombay SYandard of I tuber 24, relates what our newspapers generally would now call a "Sickles tragedy." A Mr. Besse, a newspaper publisher, of Kur rachee, in the province of Scincl,, discover ing his faithless wife walking with her par amour in the street, repaired to his house, procured a double-barrelled gun, and de liberately shot both the delinquents. Thi. was making short work of it. 1186. At Madison, Ind., on the 17th, Stephen Lanciscas shot a young man named Hollis dead with a pistol, for dancing with a young lady to a horn he had been paying attention. The young lady had refused to dance with Lanciscas, on account of im proprieties in his conduct, whereupon he declared that no one else should dance with her NIL. The New Orleans True Delta protests against cruel, arbitrary, or unjust legislation against free negroes in Louisiana, of whom there is a "large native resident population. correct in their general 'deportment, hon orable in their intercourse with society, and free from reproach, so far as the laws are concerned; not surpassed in the inoffen siveness of their lives by an equal number of persons in any place, North or South." if ir On Monday evening last a collision occurred on the Ohio River below Cincin cinnatti, between the Steamers, Nathaniel Holmes and David Gibson. The former sunk almost immediately/ in -tti feet of water, and the latter sunitin a short time. in 25 feet of water. The cabins of both boats parted from the vessels and floated down the stream, and thus most of the passengers were saved from a watery grave. Over forty lives were lost. It was one of the most terrible disasters that Ras hap pened on the Ohio, for some time. Mir A:white man named Alphonse, Peal s-all has been arrested in Detroit for ab ducting a little negro girl named Jordan, sixteen years old. Ile vows lie is in love with her, and wishes to marry her: and 411 e reciprocates his affection and seconds his naatriraronial desires. But her father be lieves it is a scheme to take her to the South and sell her, and will not le-ten to it. Alphonse , swears that if they keep him in jail two years lie will as soon-as he re leased, fly to the arms of his 'Jordan. Ili- , course of true love refuses to run smooth. His Jordan is a hard road to travel. 'They tell a good story of a wortLy divine in lilassachusetts, who deemed the vir tue of frugality an appropriate part of hi. Christian life and practice. Going into the hat store of a friend in Boston, the considerate merchant selected a tendullar beaver, and offered to make hint a present of it The clergyman hesitated! It was too good an article for him to wear. Askingthe value of a diff e r e nt article, and learning that it bore the noaterate price of three dollars, he suggested that he would prefer the three dollar hat, any' the difference between that and the ten dollar article in money ! '-Snobbery" has been aptly described by an exchange when it says it -is an into kat ton that "don' t pay " in this country. Those ahu affect to turn up their noses at others, simply because they follow an honest calling, or (1,, not happen to wear "store clothes" of the XX order, are really themselves objects of contempt. Besides, change is written on all terrestrial arrangements, abd those who are uppermost to-day be loin to-morrow. Mrs. Sophtpaight (Softpate) who fifteen years ago would not al low her children to play with those of mechanics is now in the retail washerwom&n busineas, while her "dear Arabella" is now chamber maid on a tint-boat, and Clarence Augustus occupies the responsible post of- sergeant-at arms to a manure wagon." fl? Hon. Arnold Plumer, of Franklin, Venango county, arrived at the depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad on Tuesday morning on the 1:50 train from the East. He took an omnibus for the St. Charles Hotel, directing the driver to take charge of the hand trunk which he pointed to him on the platform. ou arriving at th e hotel the trunk was missing. The driver was interrogated, and stated that he had looked for the trunk. found it gone, and supposing that Mr. Plumer had takes' it aside, had driven off without it. Liew. Logan, of the night police, was immediate ly informed of the loss, and he issged di rections for the arrest of any one ‹.en in possession of such a trunk. The watchmen were thus on their guard, and half an hour after, officersiolueston and Richardson ob served a man named Michael Flannigan entering his house in the Fifth Weird, with a trunk in his hand. The alarm was sound ed, a posse of police surrounded the house. Flannigan was arrested, and a trunk found in the yard attached to the house, which on examination at the Mayor's office, was identified by Mr. Plumer. • It contained some $50,000 worth of property and papers, and clothing to the value of $4O, none of which had been disturbed. Flannigan was locked up in the watch house, and after an examination by the morning, committed t 9 jail to answer the charge.—Pitis. Post. THE OBSERVER. TERMS: el 150 PER YEAR IN A DVAMUE sATURDAY MiJIZICIi, APRIL 2, lK State Democratic Ticket RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT A DISORGABIZER EXPOSED. The Erprrqx defined its position.— Chem nt, nni , taking where it 4tatitt..— et-carter we neither hat e t.. drive it out cover, like! the huntei doe, the run- ling fox, nor I,d fit 10., a- to Ilat• of t. 4 itavo !won utteoverett tOth flt•linoL S i n far az. , the !mix.). coneern ed. rtisttoud tot being demoeratie, as prom ise,l ilt the outs -t, it is 11.,1‘ rray,,/ agamst die 1 m , 4 -, .ltir pa!! ( 1 ., Na/r, r(peatatih ; / it% c+ „ 1:, 1 , 6 apui .wrohdaft's Thl , 4 1•41- ,jl.lOO (11,X1+dina 1 t iS the po sition «c presumed It would take, sooner of when it 'Caine into this breathing world ' time neck- -ince. The putt :pact( ills 1,1 it Ekliwr all iwnlitetl to ritC Ic..1.111“ 4111111.4 l'llang.4' 11- 1.4:-. un th , iloputti hi- -kill—nore:til cx •vcte.ltititt Editiq I‘ll,, 13th u , tl nlwnt lit I , t/i , iit ittL ;It ilium-Luig ^ ili• e•k mei then de-ertetl the pail) that feAl liun in the limirol , 4‘4411(110ng tvulant faithful rn lug ;1114:glance to an party 1p• ullt ht cho,•••• to hurter %%1111 111 , bat tcri...4l 1.4)111wal- l u rtunc. . Rut t. 101' pill lI...ULU'. two tqo ltihk I out tea , lct•- \I ill }war U. out that, tit ow rt lat,t •.•k, %%cll a, in tau- au ottlicentent tht• a , ltcut of thy blit,n. of t. Il.111(.11g %Vel e ,Cllll.Ult?ti, courtuutt,—lb.u. neither by ord ni . 1 . in sinuatiun, kin I gi% 4.11 that 111(111,1tIllit the : , littlitet c:Lti-e of offence. It I. true in 4.ur article 1.1• t w c. k, we conviseh define.. our "m% ;on 111 IPLarl to the pru-entol l the :` , L.tte ( WWII tor tI 16th, and called upon iota to define lin,— (_vrtzuni) therc 15a, notinin!. .11,eourtoour. thi,. Curt.attil to,thing 1 ...1 -"nal : and being neitliel won- Ilr r 1 per.onal certainly nothing that hat e heel ~ e ito I upon ie. a pretext for the p, at tack, ot the Exprt:„s this tteck. In taking thi- course the iiknt ly mistake , the quo-ti ii at 1.4,Uu. '!'ha I, not %I tilvr Ila‘ "ionlvit tt %el' OW Delt.wracy of Erie county fur--otne une," oi nut. It i, not 1% hether run p ot hulk. and Bra%% ley in N%e4.1- earlivi or later—nor 3e the tact that 1) e hold an (awe untie' ap pointment In Mr. litichanan—nor ant other mere i.vme t. itlt I‘hich the public ha, to* , hing to do. The issue is. has riot. recia.tt nut the jttst eXrect at ioni Qt the part) Oita olevated him to piwer, or has he not. !la- he gi% on the orgammtion of that party Ale i t nefit of awl enileatoletl to , t iligthcti it aniong tht people II he then the action ut tl/t late State Conventron, in refusing to en durse him, IN as wzong. If he has not, i he 'has countenanced di4organization—i he hag pla)411 luta the hanzlg of the cue myt. theichy I.ro‘lng Liar It ungrateful tk 1- trient6, tiitti the lietionul that rt)nrel km Iva:, right. It wtt. justifiol iu rei,Ml tuns hum. Expediency may have cow t ri2 , 111 . but r. :J 4! point.t. with unerring tinge' to the course tulopt4.ll. And here let u. 1,01; the political charge 4 l‘vik• intoly. mot not Ik•itie•4l in the COnlclitloll, (n)V. PAL AAR rim, it Nva, chargeil, awl the fact cannot fie de nied. that .luilge KNiix. hs, Attorn i • (kn. eral, and chid In, inlier of lu> eaktiet, took the -tutu]. us Cheter county, at the lat.t elect ion, .igion.,t the regulai nominee of the —that In , in that trict were pruitegl I thou , anil-. awl peat tett-it hlruslctt t sll u 1 t 9 Cu, Asir , .41c1 particularly in the I lariula dlstilet—that bee ala•A! of Iss, 01.'1'1- in Elm:- latter wa- fl at( . .l and a ItepUbli• Can Vie( (Cd. lu I N.•i, ni.P.tanding till, LI e. 1 ,011 u. di,' (iOV. 11.1.( krit re- 11 . 111‘ .111 1 1ge 11N , .X eabnict, en , bir-ins trea-ori It w.p , chrageil, au l tlic charge 1- true, that in Rct L, einnity tit. friend, the rceipient tit the IK-t girt, the tititorii.w. tiE". Ikt. Lkl MAN, %% tthiitily in di , organuing and dt•luating 11, I >t•ni..c racy 01 tlint 11,11•t.fure iniprcgtiiii.l, caw 11. ./ thi • part) In.i tit tlik x• ioN 1•1114 1t.., %%Ili kill' nt vIllItt•11:11104. , 1:111 , 1:110‘ (tea. t INa- 11.trgi, til.• I- .11-0 true, that hi' rUCI'I CAI I In. i/1111•4. IIIIt•II Cli I ,ii Puhil, 1.1,1011 4 % I). ItARRLTT, I I I I UP Oera t u1•'Ici I':tll,•n•.I, loe.t. It% I the lohlcv 111.1)11 n 111.111 Wii" has I not 1....•11411T,,i46•111 of the State .11x 11141111.11 q, and I% ho to the camas. , last Fall, exerted all hi, talent , and all his influence against the eandid.ites of the Demoeratie laity in :New .1 ono.) , w here lie t lien resided. These are a part of the political •ins for which the Convention refused to endorse `.l'N. rA, KER. That tile) are enough to justify it s it oi o n no eauali.l man can deny—that the contention itself was regular and le gitimate—that the party is bound by its action, is equally clear ; and hence, when the E , pr•av attempts to tepinhate that con ven-tion, its cantliilates and re , ohitiotel, its acts or results, it becoincs what we were vermin it would become when established a do . f - ahialZet . mu! a to! Sr. There we are con tent. to leave it. Its cloven Mot has been exhibited a little sooner than he expected —hut for the welfare of the Democratic party of the county it has not been exhib ited too soon. The membeN of that party know now just where itis—they know that its Edi tor was a candidate before the Re publican convention of Warren county last qummer for a nomination for the assembly --that he has beetf but nim weeks a pro fessed Democrat. uind now at the end of that ',air weeks, he repudiates as State thnrenttint, /4/is its candidates, as plat 077 ,,,,; :at0 „ And knowing this no amount of pertional abuse of us wil drive the fact from 'their minds. 89— We would like to know by whatau thority Murray Whallon sioTepresented Erie County in the late Harrisburg Conven tion ?—E4pro-.v.t. Gen. Wu . LLOS represented this District as a substitute for Mr. ROBIRT PsrvitasoN, of Meadville, the Senatorial Delegate.— Any more questions to cusk Is. F. Edit. FOR AUTITOIL GRIIRR A L FOR O:RrIYoR GRXIMAL JORN ROWE lIEZI A Slander on the Democracy. We dislike e x eeed in gly to devote AO much room to the Erpress, but the Democratic party has a claim upon us to defend it whether assailed by profesied friends or open foes. The Eepreas, as some of our readers are doubtless aware, is a new paper here. Its reputed Editor is a Democrat, if a Democrat at all, of nine week's standing —his citizenship in Erie county dates from the same auspicious moment as his Democ racy. Less months ago than we have been years in the service of the Democracy of Erie, this Editor was a candidate before the Republican Convention of Warren county for its nomination for the As.sembly. Had he received that nomination lie would be now, at this moment, preaching Republican doctrine and casting &put/jean votes among the Republicans of the present legislature. Such ere the political antecedents of the Editor of the Erpress--and yet this FAitor, with antecedents like this, fresh from the ranks of the Repshhean party, with his skirts yet draggled, and his hair yet crisp and kinky with its pollution, has the unblush ing effrontery to accuse the I)emocrats of Erie county •tivith having been for over for some time by the Observer :" Here is the exact language : - Th( (tenser hadbrrl ed it oval' the benineracy nl Nix cinin•gi4r 3,1.1 time, and nib( them what they must did ulna they n , 104 not Say am/ 710 'Odd 7/ i 7,41 tero777e 80 inflated 7C(!/4 (Ix nrer, twoq,l y . hold wt., 14$1 t mrpfd, th.t! ! Own , ' L, bilet o••1$.lo, litokonrti,• oil, 18 1 1, 1. 1 1 l 1-al, elf., In L.. te-,/1 17..1 a',., N., this , eliarge o t It 1) 11.% I 4ilib Lit .iuil •fluttern , Its we (111, 111)1111111ZMna I t—l iii' rehtl. ,, (u tile Dewitt:lml I.f Erie county. we pronounce in inl'erenee, /; , /,r in fact, ;11 0 1 rid.,, in detail. Thtge not a word of truth to it--it is a slander not so inueli upon as upon the I weal°. mita: leurty. The memlser , of that part) have tie% et% and we presume never a ill, allow any new.paper, or new-palter- Editor, to Hord it over" them. They arc nee, independent, honorable men ; conteutling year after year without h 014.• of official e•- ward for the principle:, they cherish.- - They are neither the sillVe•e of this 1111111 nor that man , , are their own master., their own - hunk - and do their own thinking, reteling and • ••tmy And alien the Erpo.s.s 11., in the extract we have quoted, that such has not been the case heretofore, and that, by a little well directe.l personal abuse of the Editor of !ilia paper, it. a ill be able to usurp the pfs , ,ition it fancie% use hold, and become itself the "lord" of the krie county Democracy, it put. forth an ii—uniption it Vllll find 1, much more read ily put in type than in practice. No, Mr the I kquoerney of this county have not been "lorded over" Ly thi- paper, or Editor, either "tor borne time," or for any time—and the charge that they hate, comes with an ill grace from one who ha. boxed all points of the political conii,a , m. the last one of which was in the convention of Warren county. BIRD , A FEATIIER."—In speaking of of the call for Forioy's Conven tion, {N hit h i- to •aseemble in llarrishurg on the 1:;t1i, the Neading " Among the uanu are those of ahout twenty re , idents of Iterks county. Ilow many of them really signed the call, we du not know ; but we do know that they are all men who either went away from the Democratic party years tre, as Know- Nothing', or were engaged in the disorgan ization of the last campaign. If the action of this Forncy Cohveat ion should result in the permanent separation of these factious from the Democratic party, it will he doing a good thing: for they have not been i the },arty for a loag time, and have made a pretence of remaining in tt only to disturb , and divide it. 4.)pen ho-itility is al ways to he feared less than r.ecret treachery." ifer• The Editor of the Expresa says tarn. \Vu U.LoN misrepresented the Democracy of Erie county in the lute Democratic State Convention. As this knowing gentleman, who thus tissum& to speak so autherative 1, 11. E becti in Eric county about two mouths—has hey!' e.ta of the li', / ..,/,hca party just that length of tune, and no long er : and as he was a candidate for the leg islature More the Republican convention of Warren county last fall. and /bleak/-- of course, with such antecedents, hr, of all men in the county, is qualitieil to state whether (ien. Whallon did, or did not, misrepresent his constituents in that oat vention. The one has been a working, ra never faltering Democrat 01 er twenty ears—the other, has been the Republican party ju-t ne, wc:ek ',.mment on such unpuilence, and such a-sumption. from suelia , s4turee, isyuit, 1111- =9 Wk.. BON., ~ .1141 Mr. WILLnon hack to . .thr,,ltila vt.ntrolitig the con \ PtitiOn Pur tier 1,1.111 I. i. the Ed1(01" hael: I. Warr( c.amty .t Ittanittatitat again :it tilt: panel• of a count convention. 11 t- t.tiluro in that en terpt ise e•sile•el him to Erie, to hew! otu• IsAters and disorganiier -and a most appropriate leader he will make, too. First a Demoviai —then a fol lower of Wilmot until l t. hotiliy became unpopular—then an office hob ler at II ar ri,•burg when BP.I.ER was Governor—no sooner out of office than out of the party— voted again-t IturnAN As—voted against PACKER—wanted to go to Harrisburg as a /4.psUican member of the I,egislature ; did'ut go because he could'nt get the nom ination—emigrated to Eric ?title weeks - ago• and in that nine weeks has run the polit ical gamut down from the highest notes of National Democracy to the kiwest key of Funiey's tin-whistle. Capital leader, is'nt he for bolters ; beautiful teacher to teach )emocruts their duty, and order such party men as Witt ttos to emigrate! kir it is quite unnecessary for us to re ply to the tirade of personal abuse which the Erpressdeems it necessary to heap upon us because we exposed the sham by which three of its peculiar friends got their names announced as delegates to the Democratic State Convention from this County. The Democracy of twenty : four townships and boroughs in this County, who know there were no delegates from those townships M that pretended Convention, will bear us out in calling it a "a/lan:lir That the Con vention was legally called we do ; not deny, but that the call was not 'responded to by t6VOtty/OV7 out of the twenty-nine districts entitled to delegates; is as fact that cannot be controverted. If it can, the way to do it is to publish the names of the delegates in attendance. Let us have them. —The water will be let In the Casa on the 16 last. gocal and gtttraty. pi'. Goy. Pucker las eorporide the Union burg in the Countz, of J. Well, the old attune has proved true— March came in bright and Joyous, and has gone out cold and disagreeable. Thursday was decidedly raw and disagreeable. 'lir There was slumping match at Fort Erie, C. W., on Saturday between a Buffaloni an and a man from this city, in which oar man canto out ahead just two inches. Hurrah for Erie ! • Ilak. Among the business changes in the city this week, is that of Wit. F. RiNuausacur, who has removed to Wright's Block, and formed a partnership under the name of BECKMAN, KENDIU & Co. der JouNsvos Bac. are moving into Bin derucelte,, Block. They will be heard from next week. They have an immense stock of groceries, to which they invite public siten tion. be' Our lady readers—and all ladies read the Obserr , r—will he pleased to learn that Mrs et RTIS is filling up her store with the finest assortment of Millinery floods eier brought to Erie Advertisement and particu lars nest week aft, our thanks are specially due to I) W HoWARD, Esq., of Wayne low`hsliip for t of new etthecribere One -,uch nctive tool ill cult toirto4l . llp in the c iiiii ity would run wit - 11,1 up In 2,000 in It . limn t month% Dar We learn from the (Ural , ' R.l.ohitrdit of last week thm Mr..% Burr, of Springfield, was killed it few day. since Ity a colt. Ile had haltered the colt in •itch a manner thnt when leading it the animal started and his hand he came so entangled that be could not extricate it. and Mr it wa, dragged over a mile. awl died shortly afterwards St, ictDs.—On Sunday lnttan old man namea JOSEPH ALDRICH, aged it; years, living near Wayne b, in this county, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. Ile expired immediately. Trouble is assigned as the reason fur the act INS_ Our friend J. G. I.;Ana is gone East for new Stock. In the article of flows and Shoes he calculates to he ahead of all competition in the quality of work and scale 01 prices. Ills foreman, Mr. rieTTY.R, is a superior workman and can't be beat by any cordwainer in 'with er% Pa., in getting up a fine boot. se a , The April No. of that unrivalled far mer a monthly. the "bat-rm./a ...Iyro-u/frrvi, on our table It i. well filled with the choicest articles of valuable information for the farmer and gardener e do not -ee how any farmer can be without it. 'The price k only one dol lar a year. orange Judd, publisher. 189 Water , New York. We will furnish the I Ms, Ever and .I.yrindittru7, to new RubNeribers hush one year fur $2.25 cash in advance. Send along your munee and money. lap, The Conneautville C'uuritr of last week says : On Wednesday last Mr. Stephen Becket of Beaver t p , met with an accident and narrow escape from instant death. II bile adjusting a heavy pole on which his Fugar kettles were hung, it fell knocking him over a log. and crushing his right leg, from the knee to the tout On Friday his leg was amputated, and uuw we understand Le is in a fair way of re covering. IMS.. Our friend T It lILAKc. Ent . having Rohl out his extensive lillinery Establishment, 19 about to remove from our city to the neigh borhood of \ll ,, iny, where he has a heavy con tract on the All.any and Su na Railroad. We, in comnion with till who know anti esteem him, repel to lose so enterprising :ma worthy citizen from ourcutuwunii s In all our inter course with him he has been courteous, upright , and gentlemanly titian hereverhis lot ma) be cast he a ill bear with him our heartiest wishes for his prosperity :aid happiness. as, Rev. Join R. llAnwroN preached La Park Church last Sabbath evening Ile is a young man of fine talents and vie- promise of ne , efulne-. in his sacred calling We under stand that he is about to take charge of the Pretbyterian Congregation at Fairview Re congratulate the people of thatvicinity in their good fortune in securing a gentleman of ru much ability and worth We are under renewtsl obligations io many of our frieuds for their actiNe el:forte. to extending the circulation of the (I6a rr.r Our list is increasing steadily and rapidly.— Bear in mind that club, of tits or more sub scribers to one address can procure the riper for $l.OO a )emir in advance pQ,The Crawford .1. ',um/ ,a%- cht Tnes.lay night last the ilot-cum or A F. Kull moan. Esq., un the Fait t.rottiol, was , laoken. open awl the bogus coin which was kept as a curiosity un etchtt 7 ition, together with tuuuld Stolen It aunnuttr l t.. abut . .71‘.." It was the money taken Iron! Powell nn , lantalter tuan, who were convietetland •tetit to the Penitent iary a year ur two ,tnce Mr.rot.timtthi, Ni ce . it - At tar etch infortuati..ti anti eiklence at will lead to the detect ton surd conviettuu of the thieves, In the mean time IN all keep their eyes °pet The pewter' . was well finished and calculi ed to deceive. sia, The 1,...pt-,ss has announce.) the or gaaization of a new party, and proclainisii.el the organ thereof. It calls it the "anti-Sloan' party. The Exprrss Da: a circulation correr , pomling to (be strength of it. party we assumed the cat ireaiwuership of the Obact office we have added to our list near 200 new subscribers, R larger number than the entire list of the Arprrss,—anti our advertising has increased near threehundreil dollars; which is more than the entire advertising patronage of the Erprtss; and our Job work is steadily in creasing. With this to encourage us, we say go ahead with your "Anti-Sloan party." 1110).„ The fishing business promises to be quite active find lucrative dining the season. Those engaged in catching and packing white fish and lake trout have already commenced operations. and their labors thus far have been rewarded by profitable loads of the.finny beau ties. The business has steadily increased front year to year and if it continues to advance proportionately in the future will Dome one of the most iniportant branches of our local trade. From all that we can learn ten times as many boats and men might engage in the business with prod*. The hOme demand is sti most as great al the supply, and immense quantities can be shipped to Advantage to dis tant points. The fish are taken with gill-nets in very deep water, from three to six miles off this port, and the quantity appears to be in exhaustible. As a delicacy they are not ex celled by any other tieb In the world, and as an article of food are very cheap and whole- = At present the market is well supplied with fish taken from the harbor and neighboring ponds. Fine pike, bass, muscular, Ike., are Ten? abundant. por The coming session promises to be one of unusual activity in real estate and in 'writ improvensentri.- Already we belfirre it larger amount real estate has changed hands sinee the firat of January than during any previous year siritce 1857 : The brightening prospectanf our city, ;the certain and speedy completion of the Sunbiry & Erie & Erie & Pittsburg Railrowls our unrivalled commercial advantages by lake and 4(11(4 all indicate clearly to the shrewd cap italist that this is a' desirable point to make in vestment a. On the eve, therefore, of a new era in the history of our beautifni city, it' is important that we tin not,,by our own want of foresight, and a too great desire to realize fabulous prices, divert est+ital from our vicinityand send it to seek-more profitable investments elsewhere. We must' ot be too penny-wise nor pound-ava ricious, 'We must consider ultimate as well as present advantages, and have a vigilant eye to she growth, advancement and permanent pros perity or Ile place. If strangers eomingamong us see arounkthem all the evidences of an en terprising and thriving . cranninnity, if they see that we manifest a disposition to lie up With the times it' city improvement, and a determin - - at ion not to be behind either the large or small Gilles in the introduction of every facility for tile benefit of commerce and society, they will have au alumni it-resistible incentive to purchase and locate among us.. If, on the ot.ier they find us plodding and careless, miserly in securing ample facilities for the safe and profit able eouduct of business, arid indifferent about lendink a helping hand to every enterprow al ciliated to wake a wealthy and p441411144ii- . they will pats by and take their mom.) iti 14 ti terprite to loctilitieg where it well I. heilerap preeiah.44l, m14131(141 a wort Lei t iii io fit .awl, hill her, it they fuel property holder* gra•ping and tilariciuus, eager to secure the List dollar of the purchaser ot real estate, leaving him nothing ito make improvement.: go‘yrii,,l ut prices b 3 ezaggernied isions of future , lemaiid• or the seeruirig necessity or anxiety of the - er, they will_ very soot' hid u• lean unimproved property On our hand- 1 lie lino for hoodwinking or 4.kitining men in real Li is gone by. The experiences 01 the pm-t hat e taught men revere lesson-, and there are very lew wilt) ran lie iiiduetd to ply II‘„ or three times what propvit) is ttutlh. to(iLly because the seller hold , up a glut 41i; iii l of er wrought_ picture of thefuture ylcu s e had the shrewd:it-4-4 to accumulate cs.pit al and hold it securely Ihriaigh the eiminiercial of the last tire years-hat ti al-oth, -14 re volur- IDE "As act to in directors in Watts- to estimate pretty Correct the every investment they Um) Those, therefore. who hold unit,' ove.l real ertattf Phich they desire to sell. :11..111,11u th, .1 priced accurding to the att w'orth of pi op ert, th.w, and not aee..e.ling It) ell 111.1g:tut Cs tiu m ies of the pi olaible %alio. 44 f -awe pi or erty three, hve, ..r ten yeah s bent , Once ElSeil a pr,•per ,slue 111..41 the lend OH should sell to tht tir.t g 0...! plat ha it a1...44111 accept their terms, and let lain, .utu the work of improlemeut :It mice In this connection very properly we hot) Le permitted to syeak of a muchdestrisl titipr , ‘A t— alent whicth we trust will riot lotiget h e •lela hat LA the lrghting ti ' the I•nuctpii hitsitte— This is impermit detteitolt.l must admit who have the Interests of lIIP cud at hear. 4 )ur Cquheil , act promptly st reel t 1 thin lustier. It i a atgai t ul , a i ' ~ • l-1 and liberality of the city it people •ht•ui.l itto e (0 grope their VI 1 . .1 km..., ill the inenti part of a city with a poi.ohtt: , m ‘.1 ,, p1. 1 thousand inhabitant. As the sea-on for reprtiiiP,z the -t reel- most afiland, we trto.t tile rollllc II- Will take such action Isr may Lr liettN-ary thorough and peruntnent tint roNet.it. ot it and the adjacent -trees , to vtlii , •ll our he% businsit-s is dune Ihi- a ill hale to 1 e o. he sooner or later. turd thesoont r ti hetter, every dollar spent Dow Wevor , ling. •t reel .f th e pat is "Illy:ouch!mop y hruwn away This CHI to Nt uan Of e.nou..n e"ny er- 1N II III( fair .i. Let us comaietKe t.ht.,i•- Ling of ;State -treo 1101 ttot the work us vi zorotoly ime forwarl By pursuing II i•a, L . lll' Ili 11 cutcl, ac think it rt , iitir, - i• • 0.:1 , 0 I 1••plik •••• Vi51 ,, 11 lu di-cer, that w, eneunragenient in every L Int I I:I 1-e May i . l unlvrtake 1,*21 4 NIT NI( I PAL I tti.vi: ;he gttbjecl of jtoliciii tw i titiy done %wit that deadly trap '4,11 o‘cr the rata ..n 513,11 . 1 t- pal thoroughfare- la Up. al It- buiine.s. , ecuire 111 -10.0 '4 ititi,ll .4 the 11111 , 114: 111141 I , riNlilv 111 - 1 I, lln l 1111:11 1:111: in e 01 the city Ilie thing i. t I 14 , 1 iiel ',A ii.o3 a a 11 u:-i fur Ittiiiiitu Ht. 1, 1- ind Lai public rarricn- the pit u••• if the plighte-1 It .n want tif I . I 1.,,cn Ihem the) pur.c Ibati ilwl ~ l ie 1111110111 ..1114 In 1111111iblietl. .1.11 , 1101 • cc T till, ream caution 1 ht.- -It it, t,t. an conclu~ru eltlidt•Ili11111g 10-L111,11.1r whoever is te-pen-tole for tt 1111,.11 a I,v• fre-li owl new ttith , trott . .! pithlh• e ,itttre.l tlrit tr. -vie., I.v ote. ;,.t rutlittp. tine 11g ter bunging tn. tro 'et ill.: ..‘et beads of tlio, , e pat—itig hrto.“111 u, Matto_ oast an ungtotrtle.l open tall to the Llut,to helot' k part of ha- now Hittibloi ui r tentieSs. chile the reinaitokr Italie- .1 .1 itteer ous deception 10 any baud ii hit it Lit.) 1,. I tip on it lti seentS 111 be 3111111: I ed 'hit it I i-c leQs to guard again.' the danger- of lift while thoke of the mid paq,..apfe nte glut mg Crumbling Abutments. open trap- , in the sidewalk, worn and broken planks in the mid dle, warped_ -ind rotten I.ennol heneallt make up the persistent and against the lives of w4yr.,,V1 . 4 for which the cityrja responsible. It is one of the greAtet•A and !tool dryer to gambling places , in the onouttnity, for cveti one who drives it lean, acro.i , i t . Iw o," a her of his life again , t the city trea , ury, and lew of them can afford to lose ilui SOUR` 1111 k, the venture who cannot calculate the wager A short time since two ehilareth strangers to the vicinity, were rescued by some c hali c e ob servers front the dangerous brink upon which they were heedlessly pia) ing and over which they seemed momentarily about to tumble Erie seems in some respects like that cla-s of worthies so rich in good (outline-. they take every p pains to hide them; "aid by those whit know them, to be the best fellows iii the a nil but tibeir own worst enemies, sutl therefore judged harshly by superficial observers. A friendly-acquaintance sometime since cut husi - cally commenting -upon the attractions -of the place to a group of New To'rk gentlemen nosu tioned the "blessing of gas. A malignant It mong: his auditors under the influence of prev alent slanders, exclaimed 4.llaye you gal; there? I'm-glad to hear it No place neetl• light of some kind more." Our city scam ear nestly vindicated against quel l revamp, b u t the confession had to be made, that though we were a coal mart, had good gas, cheap gni piper; poets, an accommodating gas Company', BEM cows atitylig aloi gi%c -11 1 -1 4111 datu.igu- n1..4 u,: a‘ll% iu nitil ill that, yet, when the of night fell upon ifs, our streets were left in the muil Aril darkness of a logeahiu settlement on a (slay prairie. 'Why? . le asked. -I.'m not note, .bat I believe it in botanise those who live on by and remote 'treats will not consent to light thole where 'men ttwet do congregate " “Then you all stay at home oiler dark? Y(11.1 bare no linsiness'on your principal streete r af ter night. No public meetings. assemblies, liw which gather your po p ulation t opt h er. no travelers and strangers finding theiObe nighted way to your homes and.hotels. Leo plc never come from your bye and border streets from ordinary human necessities -7-no midnight calls for physicians, friends and med icines It the hurried messenger whose lan tern, 'doers out of a dark, windy night breaks ht l e g or head in your city darkness while wife of child are waiting for relief it may lie another case of loss of horse and rideru vrant.of a horse shoe nail ” tur friend fell back upon the usual defence of —the hest fellows in the world," clainiing that Erie. was so excellent, exceptional and original .1 place, she could afford to dispense with the mere routine wisdom which is neces ,str) for commonplace and ordinary localiTier lloweier con. nom thinking people must he e a _ they cannot see iu hunting out per 'LTA in hidden places which the hand of audio! ity 17:111 :Odom* reach, however worthy and eittnniendalile ihe impulse, any compensa tion for tangible and practical improl, einent, lily iii-titication for corporate climes against lie rithili aelftite. sny mason for giving the fret d .011 t 11/C City over to dal kner , B 7111 , 1 bur g! it stet ....tin • the mending of streets lel tot 014 "tic of the nio•I cffit .111111. le I.f official irti•l hilt an olliga 'ton ~1 lionitinitT and iiioralit‘ liu‘Nl. I , II O IZ.ovi‘IFNT —I him hern our pie ~..ore to Impolite,. ninny I , canitful inti.t our goodly city. and II i•• with uslore than ordinapy •att-taitiou that we I ,y 1.. tore our re.eler• a de-erti.tlon of the hand-• dry goo.l• e....t.,1.11-11went in North ern l'enn.)l , ..lllia It, ow gist ti the ulattliti cent new more Room. tit unr enlerpri-ing top a-t.lau 11 tt 1. it 1•11111.1., E• 11 4,1.11, .1 ~ t 1 fur the Tecela Promptly to the hour the opening took •,.l the toted, ot t.,ir en.tonter4 WaS truly a gr. eight The Innltling three -torte. to !tight. with tun unit, nun tutul to fruit It Is 1I feet deep Lt •.;.•• in wt.lth flit .fret et was M. I,s nt : .1 I' t'uo, , k 11 . 4, r Painter, t' I.\ u. t twner Jon.. Mnunt he edttice tetleet , great ..re.l,t upon the Vflit•llrl - 1 4 1 , .it I iikv 311.1 the ~ 1 011 mei w..i1,111311.11i1, of ~.neet Itt It- el Ihe fit -I tlo-t the Het , I 11 whnli 1,11 a.I al I.- Le! to the repilat Lht 4..0.1- .lepat 1.. 1.. The large glans and v..1..1. - 1.. tt • tie :toe, tor with tine t•IIA thi, 1- I.y the r, end I: w:th 1 '1,,, costly tlhandt It l.tl light% ~.,elt, light tki, the loon, :0 Ihe 410 :104 the en tire t-ta1.1,-ivthent. I oh. r I.y .d night, that en-tonter- c,tt ex.ttutfie the tine- , w 1 , I. : te idltto-t it 11..11 1 01 I WI- Hit 1.11111. 1. I :111 4 1 I- Nl' II .; ktis • it , I CC.t - r•-•a.t- I y .a II g fli rn t :11•• 11! lin.lw ty a lir , t et , lllllllig I- , 111.11:1 new - t ~ t tven.t.tit e..t1i.1 %It'l% ttt lat, of the rtt.titi that n 1.11.11,1 t.tr thrt.ugh the Irma, ttit• i.hit r tit the awl the -tett! jut t,..:uttr the I , u Atty.., -• ielt•t:t that it mit t . , t,•l tw•t tits. it. "etur wttlittut bet !I' le 111 :11 111.1 ret.ttft, them the Slither ell I the is th e ,tati A.ty 1, , the t. ntl, '4l -ee,,it4l , .1, - . Li -t au I .• In , l c r .% t I-. t,t1,1 ‘;ri.ti- Lill No\ k ‘,l 1 ht. !.- ,1 • plvil•li , l .xpet:s a I:u¢- :It 11.1- ah.ne w.rtli a Vimlt to The e-:.(1 , 11-inuvw 111• 111111 'l ,, •••••; l vt fi , rthe .I.l,hing 1 , 1,111‘ 1,4.11 ali ad heo , u,ing ,it{ite in :wl , at;uu h trole in our cit .) he estahlishment throughout is perfectly arrangol for carryiug ti the large hu•lne , s 11,the toni,•-t ;!-patch mot salet) ltrtrtir 111 11111:11 .111 , 1 RM/11gCLIIVIII Oil equbli..slititelili .111 , 1 tint quality llld 1n ivy t~ .11/ 111.11 •I• 1,•• prlnei ealsitig ~ 1 I hi- L.,ninicti.lalle 1 Neiti,lit %. hagel t , , N..td prapw the w. .tally lita‘.l of thk. nit to. Mr II,: I. a model I w.itiv•-•-• I . i t I ilt . .1t..1,:t •uHI nutu / tit l trl tille'tnu , l 63 tuittlni v /,101 grltt.tlul ii/ le - y. 11.1 v.Oll the c..tl‘..oii. *llO.lO .k mole nt : dealt r mitt t6..r•ntgl. vuticw to Lannot he i , u-tne..,.r in ... t 1:11 Itle he IN alike 111 Mut :I to ll -il Leer% arel.l =EEO ‘,l c.tl lILL 7.-lletT , l Which ha- c rt.o atia l'llergy i . 411, Int u% i• C:11,14:11) In %, I Iniu- *lnd IL,. cre-L cowmen. 'al \ll, 11,11.-ell IT. 1111.1111111 I 1 1-ui -11,J) it jii-11,e t• ....licit Well 111 lurid- al.prk9NLll Lakl , l,Ll , lc ell - I n -t• :tint ac -el :Ode wt I, i, , n in tte-e (la) e iciwn Chute -“11111C11 IK , 1.1t1,11. ‘1.11,1i And inny al— , it Ua- of 11111 r tI , .1 11.1( . 1111\ t. S.IIC-1. --I ° loll Ulllllllll.O - are 1,1 It ii tver rvady plump r.lteiory Iruiiutt t.. %%Ant., t 'RI( 1 ye- A ,„ Ai th e inane eof our ptthlw -ptriteul town-man. I T t he .gas-1:111ips :11'1.1111{.1 1111` k were ill 111.1.1 , 1 \tomb%) utght in honor iho election i,t the HOP l'ituntilnien alto:lre tar.truhle to lighting the .111 - Cet. In :1 ..hot s 11111 e we hove to chronicle the favorable it et ion &it the I outicils in liti titte-lion th e tinder- ,tBll.l that to the proN i,loto , of a .liplentelitney net or Ii has rot,tetl the Legis- Litilre that Ow Cottneils are Mit lioriZetl to levy 3 t3S fur lighting in t.t reel where the ntnjority of the taxable petition in favor of light We I, "Pe relltion. , will he cirenlategl at once in the portion.' of our City where light a re most nre.l,l. y' 11l the cane of .101 mom sa Cochran, Kennedy, Braley, aml "ther... for ,lamages for Ie met ion 'of the ',,,a3ooeten in April 11336. the jot y rendered a verdict agniitt.t C 1.,i• and found fur the defendant,, at t.. t'QC)lnin, Kennedy and others: ( • 11 1'44 or TIM r..--On and after Mon4ny next !rains going East will leave Erient 1.30 A. M.: P M.: 7.4 K) P. M. Trains going West de part nt 1 411 I'. M.: 7.'21 P M.: 1:!.30 A. M. Pam: Ilasttisit.—Our friends who hare Paper Hanging to do cannot entrust the busi ness to a more competent hand than Mr. CALE.° C. Jt NE. Ile is a master workman in his line mutt will give the fulleQt satolaction to those who favor him with their orders. A 11... Pki II: C I I. phi. ~, ~ i:~,_ Ft 1:7 AT X 043. IVO. 111 By Wynkyn de Wordo Ora Arric! We plumed from our crib to th. attic couch. and began to be a youth. Wevew t up the stairway where the steps and the dark ness were boxed up together, and dreamed of heroes. Up there we shaved for tip first to k and begat► to be a man. It was our bed-row wardrobe, museum, armory, study, laborston observatory, and machine-shop. The antler. of the first deer we shot supported our plow ing suit. Over the little book-case brooded' stuffed owl. Opposite, over the gable window, were the wings of an eagle, shot on the It; that Polk was elected President] A fourth -of July newspaper served as a body in which the bones were fastened. In one corner stood the banners used on independence-day along with the fishing-tackle. The double-reined belle, and the martingale with ivory rbigs, were ewe pended from the locks of the double-barreled gun, along with the shot-pouch and game-ba g Some congress man sent us a patent-office re port,—his eye had been on our growth—sad it was, the biggest book on our shelves. Beside it stood the -Tat tiers and Guardians." These were kept quiet by the "Vicar of Wakefield. "The Pilgrim's Progress" stood next, and after reading Nat. Hawthorne's "Railroad to the Celestial City" in his "Mosses front an old Manse," we wrote on the blank leaf of the Progress I be following initedash : The modern pilgrim, says the rumoredstory Prefers to travel in a different mode; He goes by Railroad—it sometimes is gory ! A t lightning speed, where Pilgrim slowly trod. The very journey has a touch of glory, There are no "Sloughs," no "Giant." and nu load : And of A pollyon not a moment's fear, He'll keep the track for he is engineer. le.knowe the gnttte, awl marks the rate we re MGM Itl we may chatter, chide, or silence keep John Bunyan's footpath is not worth the know ing. .1 way of groans this darkness and this deep Jeath's vale and river scarce are worth the Nhowing They re bridged, and let us pass tbeu inour OE htraveler see! alas this patent route! The bridge is crashing' 'twas hung on a doubt!— . In that attic, on Sundays, we studied the catech ism, read that "best of Books," and sung through the "Carinina Sacra." ,thawinter eve tulip we developed Bdurdon and Legendre, and puzzled our brains over the Latin notes in Gib- Lou and D'Aubigne. On rainy days we left th e plow to rust in the track, and either went a ti.ling, or looked from the attic window on the blue-jays catering about the corn-crib, or the kiug-Inr.l dashing from the poplar and rntilinv the fe:it hers of the hawk and the crow, ot the -beep in the meadow, and frequent- ly the tow , in the corn tin Summer evenings we looked out on the lawn. •tarry with lire-ties, and to the Katydid in the trellis along, sly. green fellow, hid intim honeysuckle leave.. at our enr yelled out "Katy dideast!" We shut closely the windows anti door, barring out all the brown pinchers. and the winged troops ~ 1 cry tribe and -he, long and short, brown Kt iy :mil green, littitle and big, lank and full ot'••••1, "harp-toed and needle-toothed—which buzzed and It...tined around the solar-lamp Ism lityht When all their mustered force., from a gnat up to a hat, with all their wing. , and -t mg , . are fairly thumping, and bumping, anl whizzing, and taming, and roaring, and bung ing. and battling against the glass, and a• t tut et.r fingers through our locks and puff. ail i-h it wit cooler. our roguish ItrotlorcOW., ill 'Ol t• It a , traw hat• filled with all the kinth.l, cot h in kitchen anti t•erenofruthlmd ali.l set,- the hat on our lamp-stand He tail about game tool glory. The game begin 1..115t They buzz with glory lie deer n.. 1 smile .1.. we lie the little pin t. , toet , wI,.rIILF about dor lamp, lie thuiln we 11 i% e a flue orrery - lie takes up our Pop.. %dn.!, Ne were ren.ling, ant begins, A mighty maze. hut not without a plan \I -.sic .i c upeu the window and study the star* our attic would have done for the Ante era! to he awake in daring the evenings after April -hoover , Three hundred yards dttlatit lie, a little lake, and about every twenty rvtl ~ n the circuit of three miles around it, i estat.- lt-he•! an ~ r ehe,stra. each claiming an antiquity. bad. t , which the • • I/WU/0U of man runneth h4•l to the contrary Drury-Lute and Covent. tia rdcu. in the days of Garrick, Irvin and F04 , 1e, %ere nut scenes of more viraciout jil 1%) t..t.liner ought to have written his "Music of in that attic, when the night-birds shuffled under the gables, and the frogs blend ed their rivalries into harduonies which organ :libler- liaNe never imitated. A new organ. -t ,•p ceured be invented there in a night. Lis. len : tine. shrill voice on our left eeps and petp-, until he is lost in a "transcendental cpopee . IL'iother puts in his ex, ibex, brek km and ka-ploong. is heard the sub-base of a huge well-throat as if the rock where a perch —liitabering. had exploded. In the winking ..t the choristers eye, five hundred more voices are started up, than sung at the first celebra tion of Handel a master-orators in Westmins ter .11.1,). Genii) soothe these voices into ch it nce x in C anti die away, as the night-owl skids in :it .Ar window and snugs himself on the an il, t gazing at Dead Owl the Great. Then, at our tight. the cep-keep-cheap, is heard, rising tient the nook where the water-creases of yes terday s dinner were gathered anda ka-ploong-s loon g- mat ooh-oon, as if the base string of a hall huger than ever hung in Tara's Halls, had bet ti le aped from, by a Chinese frog, w ith a kick that lett all resounding. Every vowel, from A to C. iy -ounileti, with more variations than will allow, even if analizeti by a phonographist at a Teachers' Institute. All that softens down, until it is us gentle as the tones produced ly the play of flies ua the strings of a tuned guitar. From a choir across the lake, where the bloom of June-berries have whitened the waters, comes the mingling of melodies, which almost put the nerves to sleep. The sound ot etiorlit,e, is complete. These, however, are but rehearsals for one grand concert. And when all hate practiced the tune, the hour comes. and then such a tremendous vocality and untheiniug. Such solos, such anglaise,— %meta quartettes, such choruses, sonoMpenied by all that sweet or rapturous, soothing or thrd ling, iu harp, and lyre, violin and piano, flute and trumpet, and varied by dulcimer and dia pason. bell and bassoon, Clarabella and VI. 1 D'Artiour. and uttered forth frol every string that trembles, every seed that quivers, eAer. pipe that peals and roars, and every chest !Inc swells, were never heard away from rush,. lakes. It will be recalled only when vocal obedience is rendered to the sublime entreaty— " Praise the Loan from the earth, ye dragon , and all deeps: Fire. and hail: snow, and vapour: steel. .' wind fulfilling his word: Moutitsin4, and all hills; fruitful trees, sill all cedars : • . Beasts, and all cattle: creeping things. Ns dying fowl; Kings of the earth. and all people ; prince and all judges of the earth: Both young men. and maidens: old men. in t children: Let them praise the name of the 1,4)10 • for his name nlone is excellent ; hie glory is abtoe the earth and heaven.