THE OBSERVER.'
B. F.
TERMS: •1 50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE
SATURDAY MORYG, AUGUST 27.16;0
State Democratic Ticket.
' ToR ATMTCIR CT!TIRAL.
RICHA.RDSON L. WRIGHT
FOR srmyoß CIRNIERAL
JOHN ROWE.
Grand Juries-
The Heading Jaurna/ has some well-hurw l
and appropriate criticisms upon the Grand
Jury aystem. It says that it believes the
opinion of the legal profession, —which ha•
the be-t opportunity for wptchin t! the ,re
intion of the machinery ofJustlee—t., that
the grand Jury is •tn obsolete :Lrid useless
institution, and, far from aiding. actually
impedes public ju•tte There douhtles.
:1.4 a time, in thelu.tory of England. tali n
tirand Juries were usetul, An 110 , 1 . 11, :LT
t))1 . NN Pre. of t h e le:111InS! ❑tell of thecotm.
tt N . ..en mg a• a ,•lieck to the power of
the crown. In this State, until %tithin
...ant' tear , past, the tinttlit •1111..r^
--oloCteit . ith sin - 4 ; 1111 I t•it.rolic. - to (holt
uhilut .th 1111•• I,een chanved :in.lall
jurie- tire now kirftw'n from ono 14 .t
.1 ,, a con..equetwe a inawrity ot It, 'new_
art tall unfrequently entirch iimorant
~f ail 41 1.,r1n , ill.t
:And niu , t irn-t 10 a or) toIN meualwr- 4.f
proprwo, of 1k hat I , don.'
ilcricp one or two mernber•• often rul.• the
‘A hole h0.,1,--tincling Into ‘viwri the%
pleag.o. and ignoring tlwril v% i o n tit,
or as Caprice, interest .ir prejii.lice ntat dic
tate, and Withollt I'vgal (1 to till , eVlapli(
het, mk• them. Ever one who has ant thine
to do with our criminal courts has been
it-tountled to find ignoitl, and the
prose/ utorlierhapsordered to pat the eo-ts,
uI lute of the eleatest testinnins And
this is done I...cau-e one n l more of the
cult has some 0ut,41.1.• information %%hit h
he bring.- into tile just • ‘.l lia.• been operat
ed upon 1.) an party To 1% lint
tcytellt this latter influence has been brought
into play can never be fully known. but it
luu ba11. , „ been more than suspee ted
irresisinsibillt) of tirand Juries, and the
en,urable manner in which they to bust
ne-s. is to be attributed to the seeress of
their deliberations. There arc no judges,
nn counsel, no pioUr , to , ef , what they are
doing. mid to judge of the propriety of their
tions. Then decide us they ples.% with
out accountabilit) to the publit . No one
hears the evidence, but themselves, and it
is easy to say that the proof did not make
out the case, and thus let a criminal slip.
In trials before the - petit - jury this is not
the case. There we find the I'ourt to se t t
that the law is properly administertsl:
counsel to insist upon the rights of the com
monwealth, and the rights of defendant- .
and, not least, the public, which hear , the
evidence and can judge whether juries act
righily. All this is wanting before the Grand
Jury,—a secret and irresponsible tribunal,
worthy of the middle ages, and only fitted
for letting crunnuas escape. An innotient
man has nothing to fear from a true bill be
ing found against him. In court his witness
es are heard, and he may be confident of
justice,—nor can a rogue, there, hope to es
cape when the proof is clear,—hr only hope
now is with the Grand Jun - . But we ad
here a long time to obsolete institutions.
and years may elapse before this clurn-s
contrivance is abolished. Still, time time
will certainly come, sooner or later
s ir It i; a habit, which ha- become
chrome in such papers as the Gazette, to re
iterate the slander against the present Ad
ministration that it secretly favors the illegal
importations of Africans into this'-country.
To such papers the following information
will not be at all palatable It e derived
from the Washington dispatches tor the
New York papers .
-From Washington we have a despatch
stating that the Administration had be
stowed upon the subject of the African
slave trade its earnest attention, and with a
N iew of suppressing as tar as possible the
traffic, have initiated measures more effi
cient and extensive than ei or before, for
that purpose. The squadron for diet 'oast
of Africa, as arranged by the Secretary of
the Navy, will consist of the following ves
sels : The steamers M) tie, Sumpter, tan
.1 acinto and Mohican, and the sloops-of-war
I 'onst.ellation, the Hag ship, Portsmouth,
Marion and Vicennes. The most efficient
Officers are assigned to their command
Those of the steamers Mlistic and Sumpter,
are, respectively, Lieut. W. E. Li.aot and
Lieut. 0. F. AamstatiNu. These gentlemen
were at their own request ordered to this
service. These vessels being of light draft,
An penetrate waters too shallow for those
which have heretofore been on that coast,
besides have the advantage of steam hence
slavers will be mike closely pursued. The
Joint Treaty with England requires that
the United States shall keep there a force
KU guns, but by the recent arrangement
on the part of the Administration, the num
ber of our guns will be IN. Mr. BIRNEY,
who succeeds Mr. MORSE as Navy :store
keeper, went out in the ('onstellation with
instructions to remove the naval depot ft.r
the African Squadron from Porto Prai) a to
A utaul De Londe, which is .'s3t.i mile - ouch
of the Congo River, or about 2,500 codes
distant from Porto Pra) a. This new del M t
ill consequently be much nearer than the
lqrmer ti the principal coast, and will in a
greatmeasure obviate the necessity of long
cruit4s. On our ow n coast there bto he
anfficient Davit), foAvt, voiruposed 0( 00
steamers ( 'runader, Lieut. M Arm ; the Mo
hawk, Lleut. CitAlits : the Wyandotte,
Lieut. STANLEY ; and the Fulton, ("Om.
WILLtamsON. They are to cruise in the
neighborhood of tuba for the purpose of
capturing any slavers which may their
ex pertness escape the vigilance of our naval
police on the African coast. The arrange-
ments will soon go into full operation, and
the Secretary of the Navy is now hurrying
the preparations of such of the vettvels as
are yet in portf, or this important service.
The Spanish American paper in
New York, DWI/icy-writ Nueva- Yerk gives
the following account of Mr. ALEXANDER
Dial:ray, the President's recently appoint
ed Minister to central America :—"Mr.
Diarrav is by birth a citizen of Louisiana,
and combines in himself two rare qualities:
he LM by decent a representative of the
blood of ancient Greece mingled with that
01 the native Indian of America. His fath
er, a Greek by birth, emigrated years ago
to Louisiana, and there married the daugh
ter of a chief of one of the civilized Indian
tribes."
SANDUO W. JOHNSON has been nom
inated for Congress by the Democrats of
Kansas. Mr. Jonssos was formerly a citi
zen of Ohio. .He represented Brown coun
ty in the Ohio Legislature of 18,51, and was
senkto Kansas by President Pima as a
rafted States Judge.
str Tile recent advice' , from Ecro
extremely unfortunate for our Republican
friend who were sit sanguine they wore
about to make a point against the Admin
istration on the Naturalization question.—
Accorsling to the ntlon TOPICS the gov
ernment of Hanover will comply with the
demand t f the g.,viernment of the United
States. and release from its army a natu
ralized citizen of this country who has
la-en impressed into its aria) . The prompt
and energetic manner in which the admin
istration of President Buchanan has acted
in this instan c e is most creditable to it, and
is a full refutation of the falsehood, that it
was direlict in its duty upon this question.
It ha- hod down the principle that no na
turalized citizen of the United States can
is forced to do service in the at my of his
native land. unless he ha- been an actual
iles,er front its rank , . It will insist up
on t till equality of the rights of natu
ralized with native citizens, even to the
cannon's mouth if need be. The runes
thus bears testimony to the vigor and effi
ciency of the United States government.
'•lt beent:4 that a name of Hamner, who
,land: in till!, po,ition (naturalized in the
Unit e d Stau.o ha,. recently returned to
the eountrx of 1114 birth, was drafted into
th e militia and eoinp4 - 41ed to do military
"Ile rehe.e.l. pleade.l the law% 01 II I:•
adopted t oiltitry, anti applied tor protection
to the American I:.)iisul. The American
tit werninelit ha- ilikell 11p1110111Ath.r warm
-1:k , an.l has peremptorily at - 11611444J hi, re
',qt.,. It ha: (lone more t hail this. It has
eate,ed similar romi-ition, 11.1 t Ile 11111.1 e 111).-
On the Other 1 ;Vllllllll 1 iov.-rnown t. wit, are
ma.le to' inider.tand thiit A tuirlean citizens
,'.1)1 11..11 he ...111e4 11)...11 11 , 411.11111 to the
dictate,
it :irhitrar rule Th, 4.frrinan
i s 111 Cl'- Ilt IM, et .•r .111,141,1CrUil I May lie to
011
101. %% 111 ¢ l%o %;. :I . ' , and di will reveet
the right- of the,. tiermait le-Americans,
aho return I rom the Far W 4 with 11 hand
,onle .iin. aim 01 • ITrllar, wall whieli to pass
the evening "r their I:lv-. iii, their native
countr. .... ‘
"It :1 rentl:l:al.!, fat t. ({tut tlit.re is no
gloat 1.4. a t4t lit the norld N4lll so -.mall an
artnN ouni Hatt a, the States. anti
1.1 %%inch makes it-cll nutty' 101 l and re
•itoct•••lahroad.-
Dor It seems to he a setiled fact that the
kinericans trill not unite with the Repul
lioans in the State of New York. Both
partie- tir. holding convention. and Call
,ll-o,e, of thcll on ii , alla the leaders of both
ili•terlillillA to g.i into the contest
this fall with separate tickets. This is
mainly caused by the arrogance of the Re
publicans, who lone yielded nothing to
their American allies in the past, and treat
them with contempt now The Americans
laim to have one hundred thousand voters
in then ranks, and they are no long.ef wil
ling to transfer all this strength to an ally
who does not even thank them for the fa
voi It is probable. therefore, that each
party will make its own
_nominations and
test its strength this fall, prepailttory to the
great Presidential contest of 1t41.10. If this
should i.e the Case, and the Democracy of
Sew York remain united, the latter party
can accomplish an easy victory.
110/0" Last week a Christian anti-slavery
convention—whatever that may be—was
held at Columbus, Ohio, in which GIDDINGS
and various of the Oberlin saints were the
mo.:t eliviell6ll4 pailiCipaMA AIM .4•1-
enhy-tive delegates were present, represent
ing churches as follows • Congregational,
3$ : Wesleyan, 12; Baptist, 2 : United
Brethren, 2 : United Presbyterian, 1 , Free
Prebyteriatl, 7 ; Free Baptist, 1 ; Reformed
Preshyteriart. 1, Free-will Baptist. 2 ; Pres
byterian. 1 ; 1 . Methodist Epis
copal. 7. The usual abolition resolutions
were adopted, and the usual abolition
speeches rehearsed The whole conven
tion uas a unit the llterlinorder. The
onl) point of litTerenee that arose was up
on the wording of the resolution denounc
ing slaters It was sviken of as the great
est crime, the deadliest sin. Stinie one
thought it should he ranked as me of the
greate-t crime., and not th, greatest, for
slavery wie- hardly more heinous than the
against the floly Wiost. But the con
vention thought it was. and o resole ed. It
001) remains now for some pro-slavery
christian eonvention to be gotten up to re
rolt thht belief in slaver) is absolutely
neei-mary fa the attainment of eternal life
-and teen the thing will be even.
hying the late gubernatorial can
va.4, in l'exas, the lion. Sam Houston (1.-
livered a speech at Naeogdoches, which is
reported and published in full in the pa
pers. In it he distinctly defined himself
to be a Democrat, abjured his Know Noth
ing's'''. denounced Seward and the Repub
licans, supported Buchanan, and opposed
"popular S.( IV ere i t y • as understood by
Forney, the African dime trade, and the
fire eating vonventionli of the south [font
republican friends, who have been shout
ing over his election, can fibil any votuiola
thin in such a victory they are welcome to
it We're satisfied, at all gvents.
gyp` The Baden I;overnitient has recent
ly made some declarations regarding the
Expatriation question It is declared that
the got ernmcnt pf }laden does not require
American naturalize.l ititens, who have
been sulgects nt Baden, to perform duty
there in ca..• thelr return, even if they have
emigrated viithout eonsent --that is, if they
return nterelt 114 a t ! so. I t L., p resume d
that the Expatrbition vontroversey here,
and the last lotter of (pen. 4 has had a
wholesome intitimee abroad.
11101101:1
pre Mere i , - lit eeley's personal descrip
tion of firighain Voting "He spike readi
ly, nut always %yip' tlratumatical accuracy,
hut with no hesitation or reserve. lie was
N er) plainly (trellised in thin Summer cloth
ing, and with no of sanctimon) or fanat
icism. In appe4anec he is a portly, frank,
good natured, rather thick set man of fifty
five. seeming tot . , enjoy life and be in no
particular hurry; to get to heaven." - The
same may be 54id of almost ever) body,
saint its well as shiner.
gete- The lies land council have offered
a reward of $2,140 for the arrest and con
viction of the nitirderer of the late E T.
Sterling. The dounty has also offered a re
ward of one thciusand dollars. The sum
offered by Mr. '4l', J. Warneewill make the
total reward amount to three thousand five
hundred dollarsi
_ _
Illar Hon .loin Hick nan, in a recent
speech at West (*ester, sad that be "would
sooner vote foe two good negroes , than
Wright and Ro*e." ...He belongs to the
E.rprrn' household of political sr.ints.
"Om A bull—probably of the Slaymaker
breed—attempted to butt a train of cars off
the Allegheny \'ally Road, one day last
week, and was cut up into sausage meat for
his temerity.
. The Belfast Age, one of the leading
Republican papers of Maine, draws the fol
lowing "first rate" portrait of its party :
"Now it is high time to come to an un
der-landing. It is no longer of any use to
pass the 'Republican' party off for what it
isn't, and thus leatl great minds to suppose
it a very different party from what it is.—
We might as well confess it—the party u made
up (g small men—the common class—very
seldom a man can be found in it wiser than
our Revised Statutes—very few live on the
mountain tops. It is manifestly not the
party where great minds will enjoy them
selves the best, and we think for their own
comfort, they had better not come into it.
There is such a total want of appreciation
of great men and great ideas that it is al
most like casting pearls before swine for
such to undertake to preach or talk to such
a party."
MEM
Pretty plain talk, and we agree with The
Age• that it is useless longer to attempt to
pass off the "Repubhean" party "for what
it isn't." What it uis quite had enough.
MM. MR. O. .IF.N NINUS Wise, of the Rich
mond Enquirer, has had another duel. This
time he fought Mr. 1 vuld, of the Richmond
Erarnoter, hut, after twice firing, neither
was hurt. ft Mr. 1). Jennings Wise doe,
not challenge some one once too often, he
will go down to posterity as the great un
shot.
Lam' We learn from the If inuraidean that.
the military forces. , called out to aid the
civil authorities in the arrest of the parties
who lately lynched a murderer in Wright
county, report that they have scoured the
county over, and had arrested several par
ties said to have been participants in the
murder a .I.ck,on.
lair The Milwaukee 111,e(iiisia has no
loulit that the crop of spring wheat now
utrwested in that State is larger than in any
Hiner year. It estimates the amount at
Inishels, and allowing 4.000,000
'or consumption. there will he lii,i)00,000 for
•xisirt.
It is thought that the Sunday-tray
el question will enter largely into the poli
ties of Philadelphia and some other large
cities next fall.
tt Ex-Governor ter ens, democrat, has
/wen re-elected by a considerable majority
as a deligate to Congress for Washington
Territory.
A lenT oP ('girt.—The town of Pres
ton, Connecticut, last Monday night, was
the scene of a wholesale incendiarism,
which is unparalled in this country. It
seems that a man named Chapman had
quarreled with and abused his wife in such
a mapper that she could not live with him,
and returned to the house of her father, a
farmer named Wheeler. A short time
since he drove to the house of his father
in-law and stole away his son, a lad seven
years of age, whom he ill-treated for sever
al days, during which he was pursued. An
officer finally overtook him at a place called
Noank, took the boy away from him, and
served on him a petition for divorce, his
wife having resolved upon such a step. On
Monday night he returned from Noank in
a perfect rage, not only against his wife and
her family, but against the whole town for
taking her part. At a late hour he com
menced his fiendish career, and, as he
passed along the road, he fired nine build
ings, most of them barns, full of grain,
wagons, farming tools, which created
a loss of many thousands of dollars to the
different owners. At length the stealthy
"amirtn the% hormaa of Mr Wheeler.
his father-in-law, where the closing scene
of this drama of devastation was enacted,
and where he no doubt intended to murder
the whole family. The Wheeler family
were aroused by the son of one of their
netgborswhose buildings had fired, and
who came there for assistance Before they
could get ready to dttpart to the assistance
of others they discovered their own out
buildings on fire, and while they were car
rying water to extinguish the fire in the
barn, one of the boys discovered Chapman
at the corner of the house, attempting to
set fire to some dry brush lying against the
house. He immediately gave the alarm.
A regular tight now ensued, and Chapman
snapped a pistol twice at the head of Mr.
Wheeler, but the weapon missed fire. The
contest was finally ended by a son of Mr.
Wheeler. discharging a musket loaded with
shot at Chapman : the latter fled. It was
afterwards discovered that this shot proved
fatal to the wretch, fur when parties went
out to scour the woods the next morning,
his body was found near a spring, Where
he had gone to bathe his wounds. In his
atsiomen were found about one hundred
shot wounds. A general- feeling of relief
followed, when it was known that the in
cendiary no longer lived to prosecute his
fiendish revenge.
MM. Daniel Steel, who is represented as a
hard-working and frugal farmer, near Pat
erson, New .Jersey, on the 29th ult., killed
his wife in a strange but accidental man
ner. The hogs were in the corn, and Mr.
Steel and his daughter were racing them
out—the daughter handing stones to her
father to throw at the intruders. Mrs. Steel
saw there was difficulty in expelling the
hogs, and running to the fence, near which
some of the swine were approaching, she
proceeded to let down the bars. Mr. Steel
hearing the bars, with excitement seized a
large stone which his daughter had picked
up, and l uickly threw it in the direction of
the noiseat the fence, under the impression
that it proceeded from the hogs, which he
could not see through the weeds or high
corn. The missile struck the unfortunate
wife on the temple, from the effects of
which blow she fell to the ground in an in
sensible state. The force of the blow on the
temple had been so great that it had liter
ally driven out the eye. She lived only a
few hours.
FI lIT ON A 1101, SE TOP.—Two masons who
were employed in boiling a chimney on
top of a new house on Congress street, got
into a quarrel yesterday in consequence of
ton free indulgence in intoxicating liquors.
They maintained their precarious footing
and carried on the dispute by holding to
the half-finished chimney, and striking at
each other with trowels over the top of it.
This method of fighting being rather slow,
one of them snatched up a brick and, heed
less of consequences, hurled it at the oth
er's head. The unfortunate individual who
received this salute toppled over and roll
ed off the roof, while the victor cooly re
sumed his trowel and added a few bficks
to the chimney. Hearing no noise below
his curiosity induced him to slide down to
the eaves and look over, when his gaze was
greeted by the sight of his late antagonist
scrambling up a scaffold pole with yen
seance in his eye, arid no signs of a broken
neck, whereupon he took to flight and slid
down on the opposite side, believing his
enemy invincible after undergoing such a
tumble.—bet. Free Press.
Later advices from Pike's Peak
announce new and very rich discoveries
of gold. The richest discoveries have been
made since the last snivel, between Cape
Dajondre and theclteyerme, although the
opening of new leads was of daily occur
rence. A great rush had been made by
the miners towards the Cheyenne Pass,
where it was reporred that $lOO to $l,OOO
a day was being made by single hazel...—
The emigration continued light but. steady.
Business at Denver City was brisk, and
merchandise and provisions were selling
cheap. A portion of the recently framed
tttate Constitution has been published. No
allusion is made to the slavery question.—
In the bill of rights the right of sutfluge
is restricted to the whites. The local pa
pers are silent in respect to the provisions
of the Constitation.
I=l
Tragedy in Cinoini*tl• -
I t
Last evening occurred one ' those ter
rible tragedies in real li fe, for fear
fulness of intensity surpass tb oePtkoni
of the dramatist, and reseal the terrible
earnestness which often exisfebnneath an
exterior the most frivolous aid abandon
ed.
A young man, whose nams it appears
from papers found on him is Thomas Eu
gene de Marbais, has had a wife, named
Blanche, living in a house of assignation
on Plum street, above fifth. From his
papers and from his declarations to the
coroner, we learn that five times has he
attempted to kill both hiinself and his
wife. it would also appear that he married
her, aware of her abandoned life.
About 11 o'clock last night he called at
the house on Plum street and desired to
see her. She was up stairs in bed. She
came down to see him, and he told her he
wanted to walk out with he,. and said he,
"I am going to kill you." She said she
wasn't afraid, and they went out.
The next known of then, the remerre
corps of policemen in the Ninth street
station house were startled by two pistol
reports at the corner Plum and Eighth
streets.
They immediatly ran to tae corner, and
there saw DeMarbais and Blanche at the
door of Brookfield'ismarbleArd. Blanche
was sitting up quietly, while he was
stretched at full length on the pavement,
apparently dead.
Mr. William Lleßeck of the Auditor's
office, who accompanied the police, caught
the young man by the shoulder saying :
"I've got you sir." DeMarbeis spoke up:
"There is no one to blame but me. I did
it." Policeman McG'rew went to Blanche,
and assisted her to rise. She said, "I
came nut of the house to die." Then she
exclaimed in agony, "Oh my daughter!
oh my daughter !" Mr. McGrew asked
her where her daughter was. She said
she was with the Marsh troupe, and upon
being removed, as she was forthwith, to
the Ninth street Station House, she took
off a splendid jet cross, tipped with gold,
kissed it, and desired it to be sent to her
daughter Adele.
Upon examining them at the station
house, it was found that she was shot in
the left breast just above the nipple, and
that he was shot in the right ear. The
policeman took from him two three-inch
iswketpintolsof Allen's patent which he
said he had purchased yesterday morning
and loaded for this express pugf•ose.
As he was lying in the station house
Ihx•tor Carey informed him of the probe
biiity of his recovery. Hu said. "if 1 live I
want you to hang me for this damnable
deed—for shooting the wife I loved so
well."
They were removed to the Hospital
where he said that before they came out o
the house they had taken thirty grains o
morphine, divided it into two portions
dissolved it in water, and drank it.
Blanche is a young woman of beauty,
and has a sweet countenance. It is thought
t z he is French. DeMarbais is a young
man, of short stature, and we learn is or
has been in the negro minstrelsy business.
At half-past two o'cloc tins morning
the physicians thought itrfmxisible Blanche
might recover, but hadeno hopes that I)e-
Marbais would.—Cin. Gazette.
WONIN Tasßtro aND FLILTHIRING ♦ WO
-11•!4.—On last Friday afternoon, says the
Chicago Democrat, three women, living in
the town of South Bend, Indians took a
fourth woman, a sort of grass widow, and
said to be of loose morals, stripped her
clothes entirely from her, leaving upon her
nothing but her shoes and stockings, cut
off her hair, and tarred and feathered her
from head to foot ! This was all done in
the public streets of that town, in broad
daylight,and in the presence of a large croud
who, incredible as it may appear, stood by
and saw this infamous act pernetratPd And
raised no hand to stop It. The women
who were the perpetrators of this outrage
were residents of South Bend, members of
church, and two of them were married.
The victim of their rage or jealousy, as soon
as she escaped from the clutches of her
inhuman persecutors, ran to the shop of a
blacksmith near by, who received her, shut
the door upon her pursuers, and furnished
her with oil, &c., to remove the tar, and
with clothing to hide her nakedness.
In Cleveland, last Monday afternoon,
while a nunaber of deck hands were engaged
in placing a large quantity of linseed oil in
the hold of the steamer Iron City, something
gave way, and hogshead fell fair and square
on the head of a stalwart darky who was
at work in the hold. The height from
whichead fell was some six feet,
and it end t so that one of the heads
struck him. A wild though smothered
yell came up from that hold, and the other
darkies, turning pail as fidelity to their
parents would permit, rushed down to
gather up the mangled remains of their
comrade. Imagine their consternation
upon seeing the hogshead standing upright
and the frightened and somewhat larcerated
countenance of the negro protruding thro
ugh the upper head ! His adamantine
cranium had driven through both heads
of the hogshead without doing material
injury, more than a few cuts and a very bad
" scare." The hogshead had to be knocked
to pieces in order to release him, and he
emerged the greasiest nigger probably ever
seen in America. While they were binding
up his head he was heard to remark," Gor
a mighty,guess dis ere darkey don't want
any more ile on har!" lie wasat his work
in the afternoon, as well as ever appa
rently.
OS A STRIKE. -4 )n last Monday. the hands
on the railroad jobs near St. Mary's, Elk
county, struck for higher wages. They
were receiving $1 12 per day, and wished
to get $1 25. Monday was a holiday among
them, and liquor was the cause of the dis
turbance. We understand that a few were
sent to jail for outrageous conduct. About
December it is usual for the wages to be
reduced to about 80 cents per day. The
generosity of the contractors offered to con
tinue the present rates through the winter,
or until the work shall be done. It is sup
posed the most will go to work, and that
some will be turned oft —Jeferson Star, Aug.
19.
air An editor has been shot by a con
gress candidate. The Vickburg Whig
of the 12th inst. learns that on the Wed
nesday previous the Hon. Franklin Smith,
the Independent Democratic candidate for
congress in this district, shot Owen Van
Vacter, Esq., editor of The Commonwealth,
on the streets of that town. A controver
sy arose between them about an article in
the Commonwealth relative to the discus
sion between Smith and Singleton, at-Ray
mond, on the Ist inst. The wound of Mr.
Van Vacter was severe though not neces
sarily fatal.
MICZ AND Refs.—Mr. Gienny says : Mice
and rats are very easily destroyed if we set
about it in earnest. Get live plaster-a
wls and fiour, mix them -dry in equal
quantities, lay it in dry places, and - sprinkle
a little sugar amongst it. Both rats and
mice eat ravenously, the plaster sets firm
directly after it is moistened, becomes
lump inside them, and kills to a certainty.
gran Evlntsec—P. Yousy has been
on trial for horse•stesding in Kentucky.—
One part of thewvidenoe was a "piece his
finger. Just before he stole the horse his
finger was taken off by the knife of a ;cut
ting box, and a Air. Young got posessim
and has kept it for more than a year. At
the trial Young produced the piece of
finger, and it fitted inexactly.
ibui„ Mrs. Antoinette L. Brown Black
well preached in Theodore Parker's church
it, is,)--14,11. recently. There was pretty
a litter" manufactured by the
young people, when ahe read her testae fol
lows : "When I was a child I spake as a
child ; but when I became a man I put away
childish things."
gnat and gittrarg.
J. B. Van Dusan has bean appointed
Poet Muter at Sugar Grove, Warren county,
vice James l'atuirsan resigned.
- Ex-President Pierce is now in Eng
land, having left the Continent. He means to
return home In the Fall.
on. Judge Tuostrsox, of the Supreme Court,
rrived in town on Thursdaj, and will spend a
few days with his oldfrienda and neighbors.
or Arbuckle, at the P. 0. News Depot,
now receives the New York daily papers the
morning after theii publication.
SM. The contract to pave a portion of State
street has been let, anti we understand opera
tions will common at once.
alir There is to bean Agricultural Fair at
Riceville, Crawford county, on the Gth, 7th
and Sib of September.
pir Duncan Brown, a Cleveland printer,
disappeared from that city a week or two ago,
and his wife is now in search of him, thinking
that he had wandered away while deranged.
-_~_
ge§,, Bennett's Hotel, in Union, is n capital
place to stop at when a MIA is tired, hungry and
—dry. We tried it the other day, and there
fore speak whereof we know.
MS. The Painesville Adverteser of Saturday
says arrangements are being made for a grand
Horse Exhibition 071 the Fair Grounds, in
Painesville, on Monday, the 29th of this mouth.
• We return our thanks to the managers
of the Girard Fair, which is to be held in that
beautiful village on the 13th, 1 ith and 15th of
September, for a ticket of admission.
afail— The —American Agriculturist," for
September, is out, and is one of the heat num
bers ever issued. Evotbry farmer should take it
It is only $1 per year.
e ar The Erpreaa carries its recently ex
pressed determinat ion, not to not ice the naughty
Observer any more, MO far that it neglects to
give us credit fur the Jury Lists which it copied
from our last paper.
s ir We call attention to the advertisement
of Vanamburg k ('O great show It em
braces a fine collection of animal, and k
worthy the attentiori of the curiotk and the
student.
grsirban Rice, the Erie county showman,
is creating quite a furore in Connecticut, and
has turned rolporteur, distributing religious
tracts as liberally its he does his .•wttuci'.m'
He lectures upon Man and Mannerq
t ar We call the attention of our agricul
tural friends to the Advertisement in another
column, of the Allegheny County Fair It will
be seen that the premiums offered by this—so
ciety are worth contending for Erie county
can take some of_ these, and we c.tll upon her
to do so
aft. The Editor of the Jamestown 11,nwtr.it
has c taid down the pen and the scissors, and
gone to "snuff the glorious New England bree
zes." If he gets fat on that kind of fodder we
hope he'll let us know.
me. We are indebted to N. P. BrACHER. for
a basket of the finest and best flavored Peach
es we have seen this year—indeed we do not
recollect any former year when this fruit, and
partzeunuty that tabsed by Mr 8.. was better..
B ar The receipts for tolls on the Erie Ex
tension Canal, thus far, show a large increase
over last or any previous year The Superin
tendent thinks they will foot up over twenty
thousand dollars shore those of last year - -
This shows a gratifying increase of busine4s,
not only here, hut along the entire line
Sir The "Atlantic," for September: con
tains several good papers, among them one en
titled "October to May ;" also, "Once and
Now," "A Trip to Cuba,' -My Double, and
how he undid Me," tokether with the usual
number of pages of the Professor, sprinkled
with his quaint sayings and genuine humor
Phillips, Simpson et. Co., Boston
s ir We learn front the Warren Matt that
the Saw Mill of Mr. W I+ Mitchell, in South
West, in that county, was burned last Tuesday
morning about 3 o'clock The fire was not
discovered until it was too late to Bare any
thing except perhaps some of the board piles
around the mill. It was run the day before,
hut no fire had been in it or around it for a
long time, and the origin of the fire is a mys
tery.
s ir Was it spirits, or what was it' We
are not a believer in spiritual manifestations
by any means, and therefore the following
"well attested occurrence," related to us by
one who saw it, must pass for what it is worth.
The relator, who lives in liarborcreek, in that
classic portion of the township called Gospel
Rill, says that on the evening of the 23d, about
nine o'clock, while his wife was engaged about
some culinary matters--no candle being in the
room, of course,—she partially filled a tin ves
sel with hot water, Immediately the water in
the vessel became beautifully illuminated with
small globes of light, each moving in every
possible direction—something like a fashion
able waltz, we presume ----and having amused
themselves in this manner for some time the
"little jokers" began to roll up out of •the ves
sel onto the table, and on up along the sides
of a cupboard standing near. And then—
(here is the most wonderful part of the even
ing's entertainment) a little hand, disconnect
ed with any human- form, was seen moving
quickly about the table among the balls of light.
The phenomena, our informant adds, continued
about fifteen minutes, and produced enough light
to see every object in the room. Our informant
"sticks to it" that he had'nt been dozing in his
chair while the "guide wife" was "doing up
the chores," consequently we are forced to
conclude that, as far as heard from, Gospel
Hill is ahead on ghost stories.
ifir The Buffalo Express chronicles the fact
that a oouple were married on the ears of the
Buffalo and' Erie road, soon after the train left
Dunkirk- on Saturday evening coming west.—
It says the party got on at Dunkirk, including
some who had been invited 1., .1.0 I 'oncluotor,
Mr. Haight, to witness ate e of the
ourentoni. The bride, if rib . •ertain
ly fat, and considerably past turfy ‘.hilst the
groom was older—if not wiser—than the bride.
The train was put in motion, the manly groom
and his blushing bride took their places, and
the Rev. Mr. Edson, of Dunkirk, soon made
them
, man and wite—literally at the rate of
twenty miles an hour. The bell was rung,
the train stopped to allow the reverend gen
tleman, sled the invited guests from Dunkirk,
to got off and walk back to the Depot ; and
then sped on its way again. The newly mar
ried couple got off at Salem—the first Station
above Dunkirk—Apparently well satisfied with
their hasty wedding and short bridal tour, as
well as with themselves and all on board—in
eluding their accommodating friend, Mr. Haight.
Amongst the spectators—and not the least in-
Wrested amongst them—might hare been seen
the venerable form of the President of the
Road, who, we aro informed, gave away the
.
bride, neglecting. however, toimprint &father
ly kiss upon her brow. We did not learn
whether the whim of being married "on a
train" was to he attributed to the bridegroom.
or to the buxom bride.
air Listen to this, girls A writer, who
evidently has studied the question, says men
who are worth having want women for wives.
A bundle of gew-gawa bound with a string of
flata and quavers, sprinkled with cologne and
set in a carmine saucisse-.—this is no help for
a man who expects to raise a family on reri
table bread and meat. The piano and lace
frame are good in their places, and so are rib
bons, trills and tinsels but you cannot make
• dinner of the former, norm bed-blanket of
the latter And, awful as the idea may seem
to you, both dinners and bed-blankets are es
sential to domestic happiness. Life has its
realities as well as fancies ; hut you may make
it a matter of decoration, remembering the
tassel curtains, but forgetting the bedstead.—
Supposing a mein of good sense, and of course
good prospects, to be looking for a wife—what
chance have you to lie chosen • lou may cap
him, or you may trap him, but how much bet
ter to make it an object for him to catch you.
Render yourself worth catching, and you will
need no shrewd mother ur brother to help you
to find a market
in,, We are glad to announce that arrange
ments have been perfected whereby the Pitts
burg and Erieroad will heput in running order,
front Erie to Jamestown, Mercercounty, by the
first of No‘etuber. To the people all along the
line of this road as far as built.. as well as
those living along the route from Jamestown
south, this will be welcome news, —because,
with the road once running to Jamestown it
is plain to every one that it must he pushed
through to the *Min river The time when
this will be consummated, of course, depends
upon the people themselves If they take hold
at once and give the enterprise». helping hand,
the capitalists interested in the finished portion
of the road will not let it rest with a termini
at so unimportant a place as Jamestown
The Republicans -held their county
convention in Warren last week, and among
the yueAts prmtent-- , -wh ether incited or nut, we
don't know—was the , Editor of the Erprels
We have heard it Slaid that he went thereto get
a certificate that he didn't vote for Fremont in
IKit; because—G war o f )", , r/. But we
don't believe it --we don t think he would crawl
out of so .small a b,,lr an that thi the contra
ry we think he went over to -ee the hole he
fell in to last 3 ear when he ..übntitted ibtwu
for a nomination to a party he had nel er t”tt4l
with t 1
ear Next Tue.day the :10th . ihete
will be an excursion trip on the road isz & E )
as far as finishetl. and a celebration of the
event of its opening thus far ttf cour.e, the
citizen. of - Erie, l Ilion and Waterford with
many other• )0111 join largely in the festivities
—Exprrft,
lVe - are rekluested t.. !lay by the Superinten
dent that this arrangement is premature.—
Some talk has been had out at Union about
getting up an excursion from there and a cel
ebration, but when tt does take place it will he
purely a private affair, with which the com
pany, or those ,outiected with the roid. a ill
take no part other than a- lima'e co lien- --
Doubtless if the citizen , of Union wilt to cel
ebrate their connection by Railroad with the
-rest of mankind' . in an appropriate manner.
the railroad company will afford them all the
facilities in its power—hut no time has yet
been flied for even that
1 The Commissioners appointed by the
Governor to inspect the we.tern division of
the Sunbury and Erie road, trout Ern• to IVae.
rem and report in accordance to law whether
it 14 graded. arrived bete lao Saturday, and
stopped at Brown's hotel They were Nle-oors
HAW r, of Centre. U+t auLnTi, of Harrisburg.
and MIT( HE'LL, of clanton On Monday, in
company with a party of gentlemen connected
with the road, they left Eric in the cars for
Union, and fr,im there they pa.sed over the
road to 'l% arre'n in }irk ate conveyance On
Wednesday they returned much pleated, a. we
understand with the Rol I, and sent on their
report to the Governor This report will en
title the company to receive from the state one
million of dollars in certain securities iii the
hands or the state, to he spproprukted to'slird4
the construction of the road
stir Every body who ha. had the pleasure
of riding oNer the tint•hed portion of the S:
E road, expres. theniselves highly pleased
with the perfect manner the track being
finished up There are few old roads, after
years of ballasting, that ride a..mootl. as this.
This is partly owing to the very superior ma
terial-found along the route out of which to
construct a road bed—hut even this, without
the science and skill of the mastertrack layer.
Mr CLAN TItS. Prollid not suffice t o ma k e so
smooth a track. We think the Contractor, Mr.
CAMEDIgNT, is truly fortunate tit having so C -
ptible and efficient a master mechanic in charge
of his work.
s t ir The acquittal of Prussia, in Crawford
county. noticed by us last week, does not lip.
pear to meet the approval of the people. The
general sentiment is that a guilty man has es
caped a penalty which he richly deserves
The Aye says the whole trial was a judicial
farce, and that consequently another murderer
as guilty as any that was ever placed within
the dock has been let loose uponsociety. The
Mmurrot is very severe upon the Attorney for
the Commonwealth, and says that much im
portant testimony, filling up the broken chain
bf circumstantial evidence, was passed over
without any effort to bring it forward We
are not surprised at this state of feeling It
is the second case of murder by poison in that
county, within a year or two. where the crim
inal has been acquitted when the evidence was
almost positive as to his guilt
skir We are satisfied that the story set
afloat, by some wag doubtless, that the Sunbury
and Erie road did not succeed in crossing the
Waterford "sink hole - until the ho!. was pulbd
owl by the Editor of the Rxpriss ts untrue. We
passed over it the other day, and the Chief
Engineer convinced us by oeN,!lar demonstra
tion that it had not been pullet, out, but filled
up. We "acknowledged the corn, - and asked
him how he would take it —and he said, in a
tumbler !
ler The Conneautville Courier accuses the
Harrisburg Telegraph of stealing one of its ed
itorials favoring the nomination of Gen CA )11.-
ZION for President It seems to us that "hon
ors are easy - between these two exponents of
Republicanism—the theft was not creditable
to the Teltgraph, nor the article to the Courier
s ir Today the Republicans elect delegates
to their county convention which assembles in
this city oust week. Here in the city but lit
tle if any Interest is taken in the matter and
we understand the, "seine state of feeling is
manifest all over the . county. The result will
be that, with the present unjust apportionment,
the Gazette and Kelley clique will doubtless
Aare it all their own way. So mote it be
1i• Mr. Jacob Kidnicut of Chicago has set
out on a pedestrian excursion to the polar sea.
—Exrhanye.
In our opinion Jacob will get his eye-teeth
ma before he sees the Polar sea.
soar In noticing the card announeing th,
name of W. KILLILY, Ewl. , as 'a candidate
nomination to the Legislature, by the ltepobli
can convention which assembles next week
we said it was doubtless from the pen of th e
"Colonel of the firm." ('ol. emir, the genii. -
man alluded 10, bats called upon us and .1e
sires us to !my that our guess was wide of the
mark—that he was not the writer of that ear‘i
We make this correction cheerfully and sot,
pleasure: because, in our opinion, the Colton. ,
has rope the rail road "filly" on the
course pretty sharply for a year or two ps,l
and this denial is evidence that he think, o
ought to be turned out to pasture for a wild.
lion. Thomas B. Florence, a iietnocrst
is Member of Congress from Philadelphia, La,
jirst issued the prospectus of a new publicatittn
to be called the "National beroocratic t.paiititt
ly Resiew. - It is dedigned as an exponent ~1
the school of statesmen founded by Jeffer.ttn
The political and literary articles will be l'.)1/
tributeti by the most eminent writers
in 1.,
country. The first number will be :issued MI
W ' sahington, on the 17th of September.
Xi' The annual advertisement of the Erie
Academy appears in another column
the universal testimony of those who have pat
runized this institution that Mr. iltissrau,
and his assistants, are making a marked im
provement in its character and usefulne
A new Catholic Church irti , ‘ r e cen t l y
dedicated at 1 4 ieillaburg, Venango county, the
first and only church of that denomination in
the county. Bishop Young, of this city, offict
at ed.
Tux Mranza or Famto.—At the request „f
the relatives, on Monday the 2.2 d last ,
oner Dita.ox held an inquest upon the hod) ..1
Joux Fitioto, when a post-mortem exatuitooloti
was made by Drs. PUILHa and HUMPIIIaI, vi
Union Mills, eliciting facts which induced thr
jury to believe that Ftsx's confession Irft4lll
correct in several important particular.. 1111 , 1
that he did not kill him in self-defence Tit,
jury rendered a vertlict.4ccordingly, -tio
JOHN IiNNU was wilfully nrardered by CHAI/Ll•
Flex." The post-mortem examination showe.l
that, from the direction of the shot, either
FISK or FINN() must have bei;n down when the
gun was discharged. A good deal of feelinr
has arisen in the neighborhood in relation 1.,
this transaction, parties taking sides for and
against Fts K As the matter will be judiciall)
iniestigated, we refren from giving furth.•t
the version of either party.—Gazelle
..,- -
litospis AGAIN --Monster BLOSDIN did it
again yesterday. with variations. That faecal/
do it is now a tired fact, a foregon
and should he announce in his next pri i iramme
that he would walk the rope on its under side
as dies walk Reeding, everybody would believe
him. The -Liberian Slave - operation of yes
terday was not, in itself, as exciting or aston -
tailing as some previous peregrinations.
.H t.
shackles were not more burdensome than souie
we have seen upon free white women at 4
fashionable party They consisted of a 1,1,
collar, tin wristlets, and anklets, we supp....r
we must call them, all connected by tin chain•
more formidable in appearance than in realit y
His shackles may have weighed a pound or is
But they were appropriate to his character -
He appeared as a • 7 Liberisn Slave "
Thri
are nu slates in Liberia, Had he come un as
a South Carolina nigger, he would hate twrii
In duty hound to appear in solid and weighty
shackles, like LuNGrEl t LuW • s chap
"Chained to the market place he
A man of giant frame
Thus accoutred, the Monsieur went out agam
upon the rope, and in tbe course ~1 hte ••asceu
Sion, - as they call it at the Falls, stmal up. t,
his head, suspended himself beneath the elike
hrinigiiige by on. arm, .."44. by the neck. mai
swinging on his chest, till .a aim tt wa• irt)
comfonahle to look
Having crossed to the emiaati star, he t.•
turned in his grand comic character ut the silo,
man who knows how to keep a hotel
stove was a good-stze.l Russia trun arinfig,
meal, !owe two tees and a half lung. and
w.•t~L
tns w till all the traps, some pounds. a ga....1
load to carry. Midway the rope. he attached
the stove to the cable, climbed over it, .tan..l
his tire. mixed his omelette, cooked it sn•und-•,
art,m, and then lowered it away to the realm
on the Maid of the !dist, who scrambled and
fought for fragments of it as a good ('sit.
would fur a piece of the True Cross The 1., I
formative over, he packed up his kit. shoul.l..r.st
it with a good deal of difficulty, and retorerJ
to the American side, having occupied 4•i non
ute' in the passage. To stay three-quarters ~ f
an hour on that dizzy rope is in itself a man.:
lons feat
Next Wednesday, at 8 o'clock in the ei estate
BLos DIN will cross the rope surrounded
Bengal lights, in a blaze of glory. The gr,.an.i•
are to be illuminated by locomotive lamp
furnished by the Central and Great Nester',
Railroad Companies, which are praettkqll
partners with Ittoisnis in his exhibition• ‘t
ter all BLipti,is is a genius, and teach,- 1..•
lessons like any other. He shows us what en
feebled, degenerate fellows we are, all fur Ir•tht
of proper physical education. It is not .0,;1r
necessary that we should be skilled on the ligid
rope, but we have no business to be the frel , lr,
helpless children we are in all difficult phystes:
sit uat ions. —Buffalo Commercial, Aug
TRENTON, \..1., Aug 2.4
The Democratic State Convention in, I
here to-day, and was the largest and
stormy ever held. 2,000 delegates w,•re
esent.
( on the 6th ballot; I;en. E. R. V. Wright
of lludson, was nominated for Governiq
The next highest competitor wa.s Chan,-
Skel ton, of Mercer.
The Anti-Lecompton delegates of Su-Nett
had a long and tedious fight in regard to
their admitance, and finally both a ith
drew.
The resolutions favor popular Sovereign
ty. and oppose the opening of the Ware
tra4ie.
The nomination of Mr. Wright wa, made
unanimous. There is a great rejoicing
a mong his friends.
Spa- .1 few days ago, a bright little girl
of probably three or four summers, who
riceently lost her father, came up to Pro
fessor Wise, at the Jones House, and sail
"Mr. Wise. wont you take ;me up with
you in your balloon?"
"Why do you want to go my dear?' r.•
plied the Professor.
'•I want to see my;papa," was the bind'
iii retTonse.
A tear was visible in the teronaut's et e•
as he assured her that it was intpossible lid
him to take her high enough to ,ee her
papa.-1441yette Journal.
WS" A most extraordinary affair occur
red in Jasper county, Indiana, last week
An Aad man named Win. Maskius, aged 0,
m4ned an old lady of almost the same age.
named Anna Mead. Twenty-wee*
,sCars a•P•
Mei; were nu /4 anal wift., with five children. -
Itecomilig
_tlissatislied at the time, the
separated, and, hearing nothing of et
other tor years, both married again. B u t
both being left alone, after the deaf L .,
their partners, and coming together t h i p,
late in life, they concluded to try the
little journey that was left tqlretb er
extraordinary a case we do not r eni emlet
ever to have heard before.
Sllo4,l"Lit or S:' , ZAL.V:,—IMMe attei
the great shower of last week, a gentlenisn
residing on brand River st., on walking
about his premises, discovt•red a large
number of striped or garter 'makes. to et
aging about six inches in length, some tut
them were on the front porch. fon; feet
from the ground, and some on the kitchen
doorsteps. Our friend commenced kill
ing the reptiles until he had dispatched
forty-seven by actual count. Ills neigh [Ka
also killed quite a large number, and the
finding of the "enaix" continued for four
or five days. From their being found °cell
wing elevations to which they could not
hive crawled, the inference is trresitgil.le
that they rained down.— Derrod Tribtuu