New Orleans spet:ch, and tin. overwhelming reasons which support it it is an agreed point among all Democrats that Congress cannot interfere with the right. of property in the Territories. Tt is also acknowledged that the people of a new State, either in thetr constitution or in an act of their Legislature, may make the ne groes within it free, or hold them in a state of servitude. But we believe more. We believe in submit ting to the law, as decided by the Supreme Court, which declares that a Territorial Legis lature cannot, any more than Congress, inter fere with the rights of property in a Territory —that the settlers of a Territory are bound to wait until the sovereign power is conferred upon them, with proper limitations, before they attempt to exercise the most dangerous of all its functions. Mr. Douglas denies this, and there is the new issue Why should such an issue be made at Quell a time! What is there now to excuse any fritsad of peace for attempting to stir up the bitter waters of strife' There' is no actual difficulty about this subject in any Territory There is no question upon it pending before Congress or the country. We arell ea..ts. upon to make a contest, at once unnecessary and hopeless, with the judeial authority of the na tion. We object to it. We will riot obey Mr. Douglas when he command. u. to assault the Supreme Court of the United State.. We be lieve the court to he right. and NI r Douglas wrong. - -..... ACCIDENT To Tug GUEAT EASTEUN.—Wr find in the New York papers the following de tailed account nf the explosion upon the Greta Eastern. On the afternoon of the 9th, when the tireat Eastern was off Beatings, a feed-pipe casing in the forward funnel, which hail been intro duced on the ground of economy in heat, and to keep the bent of the funnels from the cabin, exploded with terrific force, blowing the funnel into the air• and tearing to piece+ the grand saloon and lower deck t‘tsbin., through which the funnel pas.c,l, mid oth erwise doing damage Iu the internal fit tings- Greet consternation prevailed in hoard, but prompt efforts were made to getat the unfortu uate men in the engineering Aleparliiieur who were either buried iu the rubbish or prostrated. by the steam. Three firemen sere found in a dying state and soon eipired. while - eight others were injured,two of w him subsequently died flue fireman was lust ot orboard, having either fallen into the water or jutuped into tt to esseape :scaldiuz. The injured men were generally progressing favorably, tilt ough two or three of them were in precariutt cunditou The tumorous guests uu board h d fly i 'fled the grand saloon, through wh funnisl passed, and in which they hail I dining, a tew minutes before the ex.plo, uu to o k place. But for this the consequences would have been must serious. The explicuon is,toted to hav% . probably been one of the tlio.t terrific which a sessel has ever survived, amt which none in the world could have withstood, sate a „ true . lure of such marvelous strength as the I:rsat Eastern. She nut only resisted it, her "frame sustaining no injury whatever. but so little ditlerenee in the movements of the tCSSC I that the engines were never once stopped till she reached l'ortlana. It is asserted that great object eon had he‘ made to Ihe ensing routpl livluttn..l , , Imt io• I rector, per.o•ted w adopting the 1.1.111, le vklthstalt.littg it luta been trie,l utot Alt:W.loth In the eollin4 are! other .teallien• The Coroners inque , t Coin Men regi 11 e ymauth in the 12th, and the evidenee dear lv showed the cause of the explosion to he- Firstly. the supply of the laiilers through tin water-jacket of the funnel wa..toppeilheean. of a failure in the auxiliary pumping power .erondly. a slant pipe which arts 11. a .afet . valve had in it a tap when the easing was hy draulically tested, and the tap was turned. ap parently intentionally, so that the pipe wil useless. The inquest was adjourned till thi 17th. Prior to the accident the performance of the vessel was most sattsfactor), and she was al most without motion, while large vessels in ber vicinity were pitchttig and t o ssing on a stormy Sell. A survey of the vessel bad been had, and es timates sent in to forthwith repair the damage, at a cost of not more than £5,000, the injur y being far less considerable than was at first supposed. Little, if any delay, would take place in the departure of the on her first voyage. hut a rumor prevailed that she would not proceed to Holyhead, but sail direct from Portland The accident caused a slight decline in the snares of the Lotupany, but did nut Influence the general conAdetice in the ship. Scott Rusgell uudertakes In hate the 1;1. Easton ready for sea in three weeks. Taa Gaa>•A'.s of Can Francisco have held a meeting to take meal,ore. to .top the importation of dancing girls from Germany. Large numbers of German girls. front 12 to Is years of age, are now employed in California at low dancing houses, which are open every even iae and free to all. These places are frequen ted by men of coarse manners. who dance with the girls, and at the end of each piece each man t, required, by custom, to take his partner to the her and treat her, the two drinks costing cents During the day tune the girls go about the streets, usually in couples, playing the tamborine ur aooordeon. and singing at the doors of grog-shopwor inns, where they demand "two hits" cash payment of every bystander. Their employers make contracts with their parents in Germany to pay a larg price, var) lug from $1 to per day. for the girls during a period of several years, and to pay their passages to California and back. These contracts are usually faithfully kept by the employers; and the girls rarly break their part of the bargain. Most of the girls come from Hanover and the vicinity of Bremen. I=l IMPORTANT I)tscovesv.—A San Francisco rorrespondent of the New York ?Imes %rites I learn that Capt. Simpson, of the Topo graphical Engineers, has discovered a route between Carson Valley and the Valley of t treat Salt Lake even shortslr than the route which he had been sent up to ex plore. lie states that the new route is q uite straight, and as equally goOd, if not a superior road, in almond every respect, to both the old immigration line and the new line just discovered by himself. The facts of the Surveying Expedition have been re prted to Gen. Johnson, and it is probable that hereafter the bulk of the travel be tween California and Salt Lake will go by the last discovered route. There is good grass and water all the way. There will he no trouble in taking stock over it. lie says that it is equally as good as the North ern route. Every one says that cattle can be driven over it as far as Carson Valle so late ns November—that is. n.s.ar t t b ur, In S,reinbrr. The longest drive without water '.. one day with cattle. Mr. Holladay issatisfied that by this new \ r ute the stage travel between Placer% We and Salt Lake City can easily be made in four and a half or five days. AV Ex-Ftwut mita lAN( DEP AT VENTER. A man named VAllover, a native of Ken t uck y,,and a follower of Walker in Nicar agua, was lynched at I tenver City the other day. lie had indulged in the dangerous pastime of making targets out of a unrulier of both males and females, for sonic time, when his conduct finally aroused the inure courageous of the citizens, and caused them to arm themselves with rifles and tOrce the bully to seek refuge from their shots in an open log cabin, which was part ly used as a sort of storehouse. The build ing was speedily inclosed by arnted men, to pretent the escape of the aspirant to the gallows. A court, consisting of the people of the town generally,' was then convened, as the most proper way of ridding the com munity of hint, anti atter a protracted it was finally resolved, without dissenting vote, to bang the wretch. He hail tlitteoveretl, during the proceedings of the people's court, some kind 'of a vessel emitaiijong a quantity of peach brandy, and lufd gulped down twine three quarts of it when the -committee of execution" appeared to take charge of his body. The enormous quantity of liquor he had imbib ed produced a state of stupefaction frmn which the doomed man died notwake Be fore ii.ii.wearthly career was forcibly endt by dint of a rope and a branch of a tree. We" The N. Y. Pad asks this too person al question: "l'an a Miss be said to play the piano in a matter-ly manner?" We think the inquiry is thoroughly iHnise. THE OBSERVER. 1 t. F'. Etlity.r. TERMS : $1 50 PER VIDAR IN A DVAN CE sAIT 'MAY p(71% 1, 1559. State Democratic Ticket. POR Ar1)1Tolt. 4.IFAERAL. RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT FOR tri*Kros ORNRRAL. JOHN ROWE. PLEARIC sannunce the BMW. of IPI•Ae R. T•T ILO/4 of Washington township, as it candidate or to °lice of Assembly. subject to the ,inclependent voters of litie county Sept. 16 1869.—1 A. 'EDINBORO. aSrpLIKASK announer W wine Lamp, Esq., as an independent Caw Dilate tor Miserably. Mr. Lain' 1 :faithfully represented this County at the last Stessina of Ate Legulaturs, and weir merits the confidence, and support of the voters of Erie enuntv. :Erie, Sept tS , ISLIL—IS. MANY CITIZENS. Our State Ticket We ate not, about to inflict a political -ermon 'upon our reader., with the I)emo ocyartie state Ticket for a text, nor )et to surfeit them with a highly colored eulogi um of the many virtuerl and qualifications posse-sed by Heir, WRIOUT and RON K to serve them in the othces to which they are named. The day for that sort of political nPtrimeut ha , pas-ed. It used to be the pros ineo of a political ijournal to "harp upon thi ono string " front the day a can didate receive, I a nomination until the ••leetion : but a better era has dawuelli, and neither the reader nor the publie e\- pect ft) •Pe the vellum., of a new-pryer es clu,itej) devoted to poltttiotd disquisitions. Neverthele. , it i, right *fa proper that. as the election draws nigh, the names of those tt ho seek the stifling.) of the people for int iron/tut OtheV, should be brought to the at tention of voter. In this view of the ease we present thesubjeet of " Stu:, to the lieta,wratw party, of Erie t 'minty, arm we beg they will not permit themselves to 10411•••4. "ight of the importance of the State eleetem bee :new there IS liothing lo cal to aroiew their attention. }ben tins.. I. WilliatT and JoIIN fION E. the nominee. of the I), umeratie)•artt are gentlumen in et et.) way worth) of our-upport tune confi dence, and t hey should lie heartily mei en thu.tasticallt ,ustsiinetl by the entire Dent ,•eraey of Penns) lvania. Mr. Wright, our eamlidate for Auditor I :-eneral, ha...erved for a long locoed ib the Logi , lature of this wheru hy I. untiring indu+try and unbending in tegri,tt • lie even the respect of his enneairtie,, 4nll the warm approval ••I his ron,titueni-. The unanimous re notnsnatsnn o f Mr. Rowe, a, Surveyor Heu ertl. e• a high tunl,well merited tribute to the talent, of an rinent and useful pub lic ,•Ilios•r. ilities have given him a wt. le—proal I mei d erred reputat ion—and hi, -crew,— ct?•ntril•uted much to the prosi•eritt and pr gross of the common wealth of Penn , yl •anni. Here, then, i, rt ticket fati.ly 11l our In-ogle - and it inwe,sary in order to preserve the organization of our !may, to elect it by a hanils•ime majority. A defeat might open the way to future ilisa..ter., and plaeo, the good old State of Pennsylvania under the malign influence of the enemies of f)emoe rac.r.. The t ket e. worthy, eminently of the eonfi•ienee of evert true Democrat ; and certainly it should be triumphantly -tt.tained by the indomitable Demoeracy of the K&' stone State. In phi, section of the Mate, we are confident, it will roceiNe the eiwiltal support of our party. and that, .ati•tied is all lliat is naeessary to seenre both gentlemen a triumphant elec tion. BaA.. ,4•tirtant eharge of the " oppo sition " all summer has been that the Dem oer %tic Marty South, through its leading men and I open, w the LlAlvoente of a congressional Slave Code for the territo rie,; :ti yet \%.• scarce)) take up a pa per that we do not tint' evidence disprov ing :MN such st'llt inlet) t For example, the lionioeratie to‘,•lli“r of Kentucky. elected iii .kugust, in his inaugural address speak., .oineivhat at length on this very anti ileclares that in the recent election for goiernor the people of Ken-, tuck have spiken out decisively in favor of Ile , ll or, 1 , (1 tedh I/1( Idt MI! , • (Ind T, - lie was somewhat emphatic in his opposi tion to the ultra opinion of the Kentucky -44 N seition," and said : "4 it her States :away otf in the South may take ultra grounds and talk lightly of the breaking up of this glorious R 41414114% Pol iticians and presses there may ativotx‘te the opening of the African slave trade, and upon pretexts, gremt or small. may appeal to prejudices or to reason, in ordei to pre late the mind fin. a Southern Republic, hut we are thilerently situated. We have a different position- in the sisterhood of States. Kentucky, - ealling not in question the motives or the morality of other sec tions. is firmly united in resistance to the re-opening of the slave trade. She is stub bornly opistsed to the introduction of any such tests of political orthodoxy : anti she a ill go 44 no countentimee whatever at this tinn•, come front what quarter it may. to any movement that looks to a dessolution of the Union. With seven hundrts4l miles of her territory bordering on free States, we must think more calmly and act with more discretion lot% in the event of a sep aration of theseAtutes, then indeed would her towering mountains and peaceful vat lry now glowing in all their verdure and beauty, be the scene of conflicts horrible to contemplate. Then indeed would she Is re-baptise4l in blood nll4l fire, with the signitiennt title first won by our heroic. fathers of - the dark and bloody ground." iod grant it. may never be realized ! tfod grant the day may never come when this glorious sisterhood of States, now so free, r prosperous, and so happy : now resting upon each other's contnience, and still strengthened by the dearest ties of friend ship, cemented by the blood of the Revo lution, consecrated by all the associations of the past, and hollowed by all the sacred memories that could bind a people togeth er, will be broken in fragments." M.. We gather from an exchange that. Ibirrison I'. Ilobart, the Democrat i candi date for Governor of Wisconsin. vommenced life, an unfrendeci orphan as an apprentice in a printing office, and worked his way up through a university education to a pc,- sition and a nanle at the Roston Isar. An exchange 4leclares " that Rarey, the horse-tamer, has a rival in a young lady of Westchester County, who has recently been exercising her wonderful powers on vicious horses with great success." What can he insinuated by Hint ? Is she n donk ey 'Amer too ? *sr The New inleguts De4d, referring to the illustrious " Dr. Madtkay, says he has no more wit that a beefdeak, no more humor than stale porter, and no more en thusiasm than cold plum-pudding." If this be not personal, will sotne one tell ui what it is? I Ilk I 01 %TY 11111 Y IsmoNcit, Joseph Henderson, of NlHerm*. A. sa il in Indeed:, I notice a goad deial sail papers i referep in theW- to Ole : ti. of Commission the frall. Illlis •,,, 'igh i it is an nffiqe in fehibh weak aStin : '. , it shotild comniand the tillist'ialent and business qiutlifications in the county ; and hence it is, I presume, that there was a gen eral feeling of disappointment manifested at the result of the nomination in the Re. publican conventkm. 'I, fbr one, at - • . hoped for a different result. 1 expected that some regard would be paid to qual ifications in the selection of a candidate for this office ; but I was disappointed. The gentleman selected is, doubtless, a clever and an honest man ; but the interests of Erie county and het tax-payers have be come too momentous to be entrusted to "clever" "honest" men, no matter how well m caning they may be, or how anxious they are to do right. It requires a man for commissioner at this particular time who is not only honest, but has the nerve to do right, as well as the knowledge to do it, without being prompted in the discharge of his duty in that particular front any out side source. In a word, the interests of Erie eouty require a thorough, practical business man to be elected Commissioner this Fall—one who, having managed his own business, the people will have confi dence i u his ability to manage theirs. In looking about for a candidate to answer this description I think I have found one in .)0:41•11 HENDERSON, Esq. of Mlllcreek township. Mr. H., as you are aware, has served - the people once in this office, and to their entire satisfaction. It 'is very true Mr. Ilende.rson is not a:successful politician in the modern acceptation of the term, though his political principles are as well defiued us those of any man in the county, and we, his neighbors, always know where to find him on election day ; still he doubt less does net know how to manage a cau cus ; he has never packed a Convention, and hence has no acquaintance with the sublime theory of looking one way and rowing,another ; still I have every confi dence that, having managed his own affairs with distinguished success, he is just the man to manage those of the people with N i tial success. Now, Editors are supposed to know every thing, and my object in wilting this communication to you is to ask your opinion of the feasibility of elect ing niq candidate. What do you think I Is'nt there enough Republicans who have the welfare of the county more at heart than that of the party who will gladly join On equal number Democrats in taking this ~ffice ~,,t of politic:, by placing such a gentle man in the Commissioners office? The office is not necessarily a political one—in deed. I am well convinced that the less it has to do with politics the better it will be for the tax-payers of the county. And in in choosing a Commissioner common sense would seem to teach every one that the people should only look to business quali fications and not poli tical opinions. Do the directors of a Railroad, or Canal Company, or any other public or private enterprise ask the political sentiments of a person be fore they employ hint to manage their fi nancial affairs? Hardly. A merchant would be considered as good as insane if he enquired into the politics of a Clerk be fore he entrusted him with his goods and his rash ! Still there is not a merchant, a Railroad. ('anal or Bank Director, but will say that political considerations are all right, in (Asir platy; but they have little to do with managing successfully the business of a private individual, a public corporation, or a County ! In view of these considera tions, Mr Editor, it seems to me that when a political party hes disregarded all the essential qualifications in selecting a can didate for so responsible a public office as that of Commissioner—and in addition to that, has disregarded the ex pressed wishes of the people of one half of the county— an independent candidate, with qualifies, tents such 344 all acknowledge Mr. H. to less ens, cannot fail to receive the suffra ges of the people. Ido not know whether Mr. 11. will readily acquiesce in the use of his name in the =niter indicated, for he is not an office seeker, hut I do know that it is the duty of every man to serve the peo pie when called—send Mr. 11. is hereby , s /Ssi by his neighbors and friends of— =az b a r A s %%e have not inflicted many long political articles upon our readers in the past, and we do not intend to in the future, we trust there is not one but that will ex cuse the space devoted this week in mak ing room for the article on our outside, entitled "Oikeervai;eiss nn , Venainr Douglas's leto.r (g . Popular Swerrignly." There is so much political information in these "06- serratonm," the arguments are so well' put and pointed, their conclusiveness so irre sistable, and the subject in all its parts treated so ably, that we are very certain it will be extensively read and admired. Even those who do not concur in the conclusions of the writer, cannot but acknowledge, we think, that he has treated the honorable Senator's production, of which it 6 a re vide , in a most courteous and gentlemanly manlier. It is said to be from the pen of .ludge BLS& but of this we cannot say, except that it might have been written by that distinguished gentleman, as it possess es all the clearness, force, vigor and power of which his writings so abundantly abound. We can only add—read it, and judge 16r The Erie Erpress has done one sen sible thing--the first one since its birth— it has run up the Democratic State ticket, and urges the "States' Rights Democracy," (what's that?) and "the rest of mankind" to support it : This will add, possibly, One more vote (that of the Editor) to the Dem ocratic vote of the county. Let us give thanks! 11IgL. A bully, named McCabe, went into the office of the New York Daily Newt, an l'uesday morning, and beat, in a brutal manner, an editor of that paper, a Mr. Thompson, on account of an article pub lished in the NrICA. respecting the Syracuse convention. MuCalie was subsequently ar rested, and bound over to answer the charge of assault and battery. be" Mr. William H. Hooper, the new delegated to Congress from Utah. e 1 , for merly a tnerehant in Galena, lit. Ifs is a, native of Maryland, and went to Galena in 1834, but was unsuccessful in busineaa,and for some years ran a steamboat on the Up per Mississippi and the Missouri. Eight or ten years since he joined the Mormons, and has been latterly a leading man among the Sainte in Utah. CAM MID Erriter.—A "Republican" pa per in *. en tami an some recent . • - ' develop ments in " • :1 ' wants to know •• what tea . sof *violable a city • - should be more asiders. 14heriell, incen diary Area. brutal aosults and crime in all its Phases, than can be found on the same nuniber o( wee, qt poky of rel seoden of jhecouripuounthopelritaitx• To this &it qttestion, Th e op Post, makes fair antum...4lma: "It Isamu many yaps ammo the okra - men of thateominasouttellh Ala sudortook to control its paid^ and during these years they have persevered with a seal worth of a better onus& They here gone warmly into every smeidng political con test. Them. fads hat been in abuse of the South, abuse of the liquor dealers, abuse of everybody who did not believe just am they did—in Yen Liquor laws and Personal Liberty enactments--iii Wilmot Provisos and Preiddential aretions.ft e harc preached an entirely, new e gos and according to Joshua 11. and Amos Burlingame, and Henry Ward Beech er, and Theodore Parker, all of whom have more filth in Sharpe's rifles than in the Christian's GlizxL '• Of mum the have had to neglect the care of their moral or spiritual care, we mean. They hwy. given all their time to instructions bow to vote, and hare had *one to devote to the moral conduct of their people. Instead of inquiring if men oommenoed the day with a prayer in their families, they have only had ti,me inquire if they were devoted to the " Re publican " party. "Do you reed your Bi ble?" has seldom been asked of the aura member. But, " Have you read yester day'h New York Train's" or " Burllppme's lait speech 1" has !answered instead. " Who wonders that vice flourishes— that crime abounds—in Massachusetts What can you expect of the people when the clergy desert the cause of the Master to dabble in politics?" sigi. The Chautauqua Democrat relates that Judge Chamberlain of Randolph, re cently received a package from some place in Pennsylvania, by mail. The package looked as though it might have contained miniature likenesses, but upon removing the outside wrapper, the Judge became suspicious of a certain string that seemed to be connected with the contents of the package. He called in a neighbor, and the package was carefully opened, and found to contain two pistols loaded with powder and ball, capped and cocked, the string communicating with the triggers.— We understand the Judge has strong sus picions as to who was the friendly &nor of this valuable present. sir The state of morals in Dettol t Must be at a rather low ebb. For exaMple, the Free Press says :—'• The extent to which amalgamation is carried in this city is really beyond the knowledge of nine-tenths of the inhabitants. There are hundreds of families the parents of which are of oppo site colors, and, althought the marrage of whites and blacks is illegal and void, yet they live together and bear children. It is a remarkable fact that, out of all this number, no instance exists where a white man lives with a black woman, They are all white women and generally the black est kind of men." The Leigh Chronicle states that there ware recently interred in that place the re mains of a very ingenious, useful, but some• what eccentric person, named Hallwell, who, for half a century, practiced dentist ry, along with many other descriptions of business. He willed, in due testamentary form, that the whole of the teeth extract ed by him should be buried withhim. In deference to hi wishes, his executors saw that done, and in the grave in which he lies were deposited 30,000 human teeth of his own extraction, in the period mention ed. A breach of promise case has re cently been tried at Catlin, Chemung county, and the defendant, D. C. Kimball, has been adjudged to have disappointed the alighted lady, Miss Amanda M. Mast ers, to the extent of $l,OOO. The ease has made much scandal, for the defendant testified that the fair Amanda had volun tarily become his wife, defiedo if not de jure. As the parties are what is call " respects able," the affair furnishes ample food for the village gossips. tor It appears by statements received from Washington, that the &IMMO of the post-office department are in better condi tion than might resonably have been ex pected, from the omission of Congress to make the necessary appropriations at the last session. The vigorous system of re trenchment adopted by the Postmaster General will enable him to carry on the operations of his department without se rious embarrassment, till Congress can sup ply the means of relief. MI LLCREEK air Speaking of the Warren Ledge, the McKean County Democrat, says it " has raised the State ticket end is laboring, in its way, for the candidates nominated by the Democratic Convention of that county. It is an open question whether the efforts of that paper will add to the success df the ticket, or have the contrary effect. 11111-A man named Michael July, now in jail in Cincinnati awaiting execution for the murder of of his wife. is making a desper ate attempt to starve himself to death, and thereby chest the gallows. He refuses to eat, and has become so attenuated that it is thought he cannot survive much longer. MIL. It is hardly possible that in these days superstition holds so strong a grasp of people as this would lead us to expect : " A Mrs. Prescott Lawrence, of 'Wham'', Vt., died a few days since ;of consumption, and as a member of the falnily had previ ously died of the same diMase, the family went through the stipenititions farce of burning the lungs, heart 4nd liver of the deceased to present any More from dying of the same disease." goy- The Caliibmia papers have been treating Horace Greeley in theirownunimat yet wholeeouled style. Desiring to pm sent his phis to tbeiXesselaw, but not hav ing the facilities of getting an accurate likeness, they hare employed for the pur pose such wood eats as they happened to have on hand, sad testend of adapting the portrait to the ovigiksl, have oontented themselves with adapting the description to the portrait. It was hound one case to snake him a "stout=rt complexioned man, with black heir and a good deal of black whiskers." w 4... Sorb of our readers as want to vote this year—and we he they all do—and are not awned, - *WWII to attend to that duty to day, Ootober lit, or they win be too tea. C=lllll peal and gittrarg. r----4 r pa l . • . nearly '.. dada olrjfain and storm, the -. . , or , . tiro], and the i .. i 1 are e . ingly good. .4..... - %. C. i. Sit ' MIL reefgit ed the Neel dewy of tile Bank of Crawford County. Sorry to hear it 1. ',The "Atlantic Monthly," for October, Is' otthad on our table. * The contents are an sir The recell)6 l--- i7 111 4 7 ,)in lair last week was only $686, Simi this, considering the weather. WAS Men! thIP2I tome ably'. have been ex pected. air We learn by the Wsterfod Enyuirrr that the Depot of the S. & E. Railroad near that village has been located on the farm of Mr. Samuel Brotherten, at the intersection of the strict that crosses the centre of the cil iate- afar Alettes from the Secretary of the Nary to•the Editor of this paper and others, in re lation to the'pentemplateti repairs on the Stems & Elichiven, says therepairi will be done here if the male done al cheap as elsewhere. This knives tie held open to the competition of our tasehanitn, and in Inch a race they are always ahead. , aor The pundiao, by a gentleman from Cincinnati, of a location in our city for the orection of a Jiburafkotury of machinery and 4 14 ealtuild linplesoenta, spoken of by the Ex press this week, wakrarn is a fixed fact. lie had visited Cleveland and iluifitio, and after Carded exalnirration, came to the conclusion tlyit Erie ofereid more inducements than either. Ur We invite tie attention of the public to the advertisement of Britsea & Co. whole sale &deers in °boleti Wines and Liquors, Ci gars, Brandied and Preserved Fruits, Ilekles &a. With the increasing trade of our city, and the large extent of country which our Railroad improvements are rendering trihutary to that trade, such an establishment its this will end an ample Bad for operations. They have fa cilities for furnishing country dealers with goods in their line as cheap and upon AA iroo.l terms as ry Buffalo or New York House (live them a sar The Waterford Esqwwer been re vived under the editorial management of R. LI-Lruit, a practical printer. who annottn can that he intende to do hitt own editing aw kin own printing. That is the way to tell it and we predict he will Pucceed At all event. here is our hand! Air A woman was found guilty, the day. in the Quarter &elisions of Philadelphia. of passing a counterfeit $5 hill on the Lank .it Commerce, of Ibis city in expert testitiod the trial that the note in .itiet , tion bad been "Altered from one on the Oliictue Bank. Ne braska Territory. which was a broken hank ' Broken batiks or any kind or hank. in Netira- ka, ezcepi river banks, arc certainly something new and we. kr The Crawford Jmernal relates that a "new lake is said to have been recently discov ered in Pymatuning swamp. shout three wiles from ilartatown. it is about the size of the Diamond, in Meadville, sad a canoe was foutol there which is said to have been put in thtrt, - five years ago. Through all that time it ha: , lain undiscovned and unknown to the people of that quarter." Well, if a "canoe" was found in it, "Out in thrity-five years ago." and it (the lake) has been "laying out in the wet - all that time, how can it hes "new lake gir Poterh perforates CIIARLEs MACICAI, the peat Returned (from America.) in the following style, for attacking "Idyls of the King :" •'The Idyls rhymester aspersee -0 Public), rejoice and he glad If he were not abusing good verses, He d be busily writing some list'. gar We notice by the 1.e./inn/p..4,444n that the Milting &med. of Pottsville, Into gassed into the hands ofour old friend, WIN E. g . late of the Arsru , Philadelphia Our impres sion is,though we don't exchange with it, that the Record has heretofore been a sort of gurril la sheet : hut with Steam at the head of it, it will be all right in the future. that's certain ' Give us your hand, Williatu, for ninety days gar Local items are rather Pearce this week The only one of special interest we have to re cord is a fact, related to us by one of our -dock men," that the nurses in t his ei ty have adopted a reerw way of quieting unruly children. You know, said he, it has been the habit of that useful and necessary part of the household, t o tell unruly children that if they did'nt behave the bears would come sad git 'em ; but now. continued he, they have invented a shorter and more effectual antidote'forcrossness ; all they have to do to obtain perfect quiet and obedi ence on the part of their infantile charges to ten 'em if they don't behave they'll give 'rot to "them dock fellers;" And if that is'fit inr uusdiately effectual, just say, ••11ush: hush: there comes the rugs from the dock," and t bey subside at once. w ar A man by the name of Ware, living in Conneaut township in this county, attempted to kill his wife on Friday last. Armed with a loaded gun or pistol, he went into the room where his wife was, and, remarking to her that as they could not live together in peace perhaps they had better die together, he shot at her two or three times. Thinking, doubt less, that he-had killed her. be fled into tle woods and remained concealed until Monday— in the meantime attempting to let out his own life through his throat by means of a small knife. But overhearing sonic persons, who passed near him, talking about his act and saying that kis - with was but slightly hurt, and pressed no doubt by the demands of hunger, be came forth from his hiding place, and was soon afterarreisted and duly committed to jail. What a glorious chance for some of our Attorneys to make out a case of insanity, and relieve the poor fellow from all -responsibilities for the at. tempted murder! ger A new daily joint-stetek nowspaper. to be ealled the Dial, which i- ' to smash up the Mier, is still talked on. The share-holders, says an Eugh.., . `re grad ually though slowly increasing, and there is a prospect of its appearance with the new year. The Aloes rules the Government and the peo ple of England with a rod of iron, and it is high time that Its influence should he divided Ind its power held in check by some worthy air The Gawk says it expects the Obser ver will supportJudgs Dor °Las if Dominated at Charleston. The Gazette's expectation will he realited : lie Observer grill support kw! The Ofmerver has not, sloes trot, awl probably never Will agree with some of Judge Dovoumen posi tions in relation to territorial ntrairvi, bat that is no reason why we do not admire many trait, Jib tiro saws sharneter, nor is it nay reason why we should regime so support his in the *seat of his aominatioa. stir we have no disposition to annoy and tease the managers of the Erie County Agri cultural Socieff * account of the untoward tr esti* t titte their Annual Fair butt 'reekye e thi it but right to say to them imp the fact, by repetition, pon eitininds memories, that a storm .f wthd 65d rain orally occurs about the, time of the Autumnal Equinox. We do not pretend to state the cape of this regularly recurring phenomenon: certainly we do not allege that the "sun's crossing the liner brings tirrein—nor drwe •allege that ft dewiest ; we only say, with the ahlawne-stakere,' ••lityin may be confidently expected from the mai to the 22d of September. the day before or the day after." Common tradition and general belief are usually correct as to facts, however erroneous they may be as to principles egad ceases ; and ?key pronounce for en .equiset list storm." Perhaps it is because traditions are wearing out among us, and peintlar no tions are, 41111)1 shoed aside pr, Fowled out by science and book-farming" theories, that ? 4he equinox and its plurial concomitants haver teen ignored :by our ;smart young farmers, on ae looting a time for the County Pair. If such is the case: let us see if we cannot revive their faith a little in the popular notion by mention ing a few theta. A friend, who lass takisnibe trouble of making a note of the weigher or a few years pest. has allowed us to look into his ntemorsathuu hook. We find from this inspec tion that, in the year .1&54, there was rain on the llith; and again on the 2lith of `September; and in ISM, there was rain on the 18th of' the sahsei nion - fli. In lgrir, he hies noted a big rem on the 11th of Septetaber, *kW is 1858 it wouldaWat !here wan no 'rain at' the7time of the Equinox. For the present year. our fijend hats agaids noted a "big rain," on the 2lst tap tetnbet, and we think the members of the Ag ricultural Society will not claim that he bee ex aggosplad ; for if we have any idea - whisk it is constitutes a big rein, the one that descended upon this coturnunity, the ?Mid Society mai, their Fair included, on Wednesdgy afternoon and evening last, was of that descriplionr- Within the past five years. then, only one Au tumnal equinox has passed over without rain, the storm also, in two or three instances, being severe and long-continned. Even if the Society therefore, in their wisdom, disregard popttlar tradition and belief on this subject, certainly they may be expected hereafter to pay some attention to well ascertained and authentica ted facts founded on positive experience. AtiSice.ooAts nothing, and like matt Gamow and cheap things. is slightly regarded. Vet at the risk of making them an unwelcome ting ing, we will say a few admonitory things to the Erie l'ounty kgrieulturnl Soeieft. In the Grit mrleet :11w ty% your most prudent and ni4 intelligent men :44 officers and managers, tot regiirding itltother they merry long purees .r Short ones. are Democrats or Republicans. uc Forher., or Nona of Msha. Then, fix on ...we I 1111 e. 4:ty the ti'ret week in innolier or the si,otel in Septetolier for your hiunial Fair, whenever it 'nay .rent best for ihtt es and LillerrianCpClCiltlloLl t hold it ;,sad l Ized it time, .rich to it, and sat' -110161 eitunee to lie nkfiki(ase e that there will of itturse be fou . l4Bllfier the nest year date, wad soappoint an earlier Iw a later ‘lay Let all pAri+ lit the t'outity that lake uu Interest in your :I , :iieiety be fairly representeil in your Committees for :Awarding preinium , , ho t4t there inuy be no jipit ,• cruse of complaint that Erie anti the Iv]. lucent to% 10.1111 , 1 monor,lize Loth ibe judges and the awurda--•r Cutup/ 1111 C wfidebt we hotve heard from more than one mouth Select +onn• arger, more level, and much wore convenient ,lace on which to hold your faire • than the ire:tent ground.. Ito everything in the best Mintier possible anti at the proper that': Rau ploy an agent, if necessary, for a few weelFsiin he latter part of August, in bringing the In• ereete of the Society before the attention of lie people of the county, and urging them to . j .,tiirihute of their prieducts to the makelliAion Agricultural Fairs, wt.& believe, it,peoj ids managed and fairly' gorilueted, are ot gnat utility, exciting to how** oottapititke pro lucer. and 'manufacturers, sad bringing peo ple together to ace and consult with each other, and compare the results of each others indus try. But if allowed to degenerate into mere catch-penny ouncerna, controlled by a score or s o of people who 'mike all the contributions and get all the premiums, they become grist public impositions, and should be rated in the same category with mimntebank shows end one-horse circuses of the lowest character skir Thaekeray'a •• rays:wow - is about drawing to a close, and will he completed, we believe, in the neat number of lbsrper's Maga ztnv. It seems rather ludicrotw, and even shocking to one's sense of propriety, to see such historical characters as (leo. Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Sc., introdneed intiia ro mance and made to figure among factitious personages : yet we Cannot but, agree with the Phila. Bulletin in the remark, that "no writings of an Englishman, with which we are acquaint ed, give such an American view of the causes of the struggle (our Revolution) and the mode in which it was conducted. i► is, indeed, Mr. Bancroft's account condensed and incorporated into a romance, and it is easily to be seen that the English novel it has studied the American history faithfully and trustingly. Full justice is done to the characters of Washington and those under him : and the blundering English politicians a nd soldiers, the weak English gov ernor 4 and the timid unworthy loyalists, whom we - prefer tiu call -tones." are also treated as they deuerfe. _ _ Ike- Stupendous results sometimes spring rant ire+igaiticani. causes. The greatest events ,tied take their beginning from •trifles light. air." The grvat Indian mutiny, which has outing England nu muck Lloewl and tresure,-leas occasioned, it is said. by the on the cartridges of the Sepoys, at which their Mohommedan superstition took offence. The great i French and English war, of 17:Xi. was.. as Goldsmith says. "all upon account of one pidef,s desiring to wear greater quantities ofiurs than the other''—the furs being obtain ed front Canada. But should a war between Great Britain an4l the United States grow Out of the pres'ent difficulty on our North Western boundary, 'which. Lieut. General ticorr and a high English olbeer have been sent by their respect ivegovernments to settle, it will be found to have had quite as insignificant an origin as any other. An Atuerican, it is said. shot ahog belonging lo a British resident. Gov. Douglas sent hie son to arrest the offender. lie refused to he arrested, but offered to oompromiite Qy paying twice the value of the hog. The offi cer, stiU persisted. nnJ was informed by the American that if he attempted to make the !w -rest he wouldahoot him. The dinpute widened, till it has now become one of territory and Ju risdiction, and the governments of the great nations have taken it up. And, if hog's groan has occasioned one bloody war e why may iot the hog himself prove the cause of another!— Truly. "Telt mike from little Aeons grow.' - Nor The lifeless body of.larnes Stewart, of the firm or W. & J-Stewart, of Wheel ing, Va., was fnund lying on the pavement on the evening of the 18th inst. fie had been killed by a stab with a knife. His brother William was arrested on suspicion of having oommitted the murder. AL Cik4o Sambie I==2ll gorT ua; The pursuit of a favorite mud, as well as a desire for it day ' s reerem, among fading Woods and moss-grown meat. duced us to take a trip over the Suobury Erie Road the other day Swiftly tt o bear as away from the emerald waters u( sparkling lake, and we are among the pop. and scarlet hails of woodland hill u l d mold. There is a serene beauty in ',A y tumn that Wong* to no other season i t. weird elemints of decay seem to vlamt, e , every teat The Pone of Summer are hu s h, • and the cold clouds gloat sullenly corer bet, While the engine is toiling up thu in, grade we have a fine opportunity to notic e surrounding formation. A glance It the ed hankmente tells us that it is drift theory we accept in regard to their origin ih.„. vast bed' of gravel, water worn . pebbles. 4ir and boulders of every variety of e0ta1„,,, t „,,, these broken fragments of limestone, the. striated rooks will ever remain en inesph t ", wonder. How vast, sad beyond comprehension, m u , have been the forces that heaped together . 4 . hawrogeammas MUM of easterials ! If a um ' , coespasited through glacial agency, thou lt is hates adequate to conceive of those it mense fields of ice which must Wave thousands of years before the advent of me If it was deposited by means of icebergs• Cca tunes must have elapsed ere the work eutillt have been socemplished. As we look upon the records of get,log" mutation and distribution, imagination Lair. us back among the moraines •anti &Nieto the diluvial period. Instead of verdant Lem looks and grassy plains, the level sun tha ne , on the glittering pianadeaof ice. lost e .„l „ r the soft sighfug of autumnal winds, we . rem hear the hoarse crackling of the freeling No animal, not even man, may be seen ea th e , broad glassy fields that are moving on, tetp.r ceptibly bearing with them the huge beui,lort scattering the grooved rocks, ploughin g Lt rows, piling up ridges, disturbing, tolling in, dislocating strata of sand and clay Of all the departments of geology thu the surface is most difficult to underuaul explain. It is easy to classify the rock!, ho t stratified and unstratified, and conipanuus q easy to identify species of petrified plant. at, animals, but satisfactorily to explain the pep molten!' of the drift, and to account fm. a. transportation of huge rocks for hundred. • miles, is a more diffieult task. But while we are musing on these ingetn,u, if not philosophical theories shout , the dn'• formation, we are trough to the summit, slot t;:.)0 feet above the lake. Near this place, the side of the road,may be seen trunks of tree which have sunk a number of feet into the rd muck Great difficulty was experienced building the road over this place owing to tL very unstable condition of the ground; either side. under a few inches of vegetat, mould, lies a stratum of bluish clay which full of minute shells such as are found at bottom of ponds. It to very likely that tin. r• gion was once the bottom of afresh water p., t ,, or lake which spread over a considerat.l”,, Sukmoluently. the waters were drained ~s bursting their barriers, and the land ru•ty been thrown up by volcanic agency A fewmiles this side of the town ot we same upon bed ,of quick s:►ad Spent of water bubble up thrHugh Ihe 'lnd ■twh sin impalpable p..wder, and the .1 •,: clay fruw above ark. w3sltell d..vrn The mixture w came.' mwny I y thy -tr. mr:tter to fibrin twit dep...lit. ll.•you I 1 . 111 , .11 we will look at thr itit: . little more closely. Here, among 'he multau Among specimens ut sanilstoor rubble sc../ grant Is, is a piece of statly ruck stitch Ls. marks of shells upon it Ity the' eprcte. ot molluscs which it contains we know it to he long to a group of stratified rocks which wire deposited during the Prtmary or Silurian per. od —the oldest of the three great tli-tilogicsi periods. The animal that is now a dint,' stoui must have lived millions of years ago when continent was submerged. It was prrseriet by being surrounded by deposit.. of sitod soft mud which gradually hardened. and af:.•• many years it was lifted up by earth. t uate• and broken off by the glaciers. It w firmly slowly transported hither to be exhume,i n. the pick age of the laborer of the nineteetrt. century, and carried away as a fine iipe, rocs of ancient being Surely this thrift t a iat•t rinth of wonders. Every step we take. wi tread on the flinty remains of shell 6,h tha !Peed and died long before the historical period Here they have remained, locked up in thr.t stony cells ever since the ukiest Geological riod. When the noiseless fish that now mirep in the Old Red Sandstone were gliding over head, when the earth was covered with the g. gantic ferns and club mosses that are now dug out of the great coal fields of our state, when the huge herbivorous sauriaus of the Seconds ry, and the mastodons of the Tertiary, wet , browsing in the dark meadows above, here slumbered these lifeless petrifaction•+ in Inc solid rock, far from the light of the sun. But our excursion has made us weary Int we fear it has made your readers mach more so. A short ride brings us home akain to dream over the exploits and sconces of the I 3) Yours truly, B. s 11 MABRIA DES. In We Millcreek, on the 27th ult ,by Ito Wm. M. Blackburn, Mr. JOSEPH R. STER RETT, of thin city, and Mice LAURA C. VALMONT, the former place. On the 13th ult., by Rev. T. LOVE, Mr II H. WHITNEY, to ELIZABETH HIMBOI'. to Waterford. DEATHS. In Slillereek, on the 16th ult., at the reel deuce of her grandfather J. F. Wilson, JULIA II ATTIE, daughter of G. W. k Mary ISM., Moore, of Springfield, aged 5 months and 9 dais In this oity, on the 14th ult., FANNY ZA, only daughter of Orville and Aleista John son. aged 1 year, 5 months and Al days. MKS. WINSLOW, an orpstiebonl mow aad hanala physician, baa • Sootlidng Syrup (..1. whk.kb greatly facilllattsa tbe prows. 0 Wattling by malteds( the gar rsdnelsg all initanmw,... —will allay all gala and I. Dare to regulate the bowels. - tend • It, mothers, it will giro rest to y0ur...h.... sad health to your What& Pendobtly ode e all alma Is. advbrumemist la amain' column. ly WPALLING 1 / 1 144...1" bey Us years old wio fora loot time torribiy aleleted with Fair/ hysielaos sad Medicine have all tailed to mike,. kilo—about two await= hs omaierswasst sass for Rorer /Via sad Ms lamas as that he has net had aMt sloes, ',bleb s math longer time tiro he has ever wooed.sine he was first attached with them. a • have so doubt they will do son good la those awe thus all other mesas eves lard. Is. 111111. IMP IN TIM YIN UTNB ha it AWO rut.iiommo icartatA r . A wag certain and "peal ream* ever dbarosera rr sll Owns of the Met and Ls*ga Cbsers CVOs /Oh am, aminsuyinso, Drenehare, beltways, liseressess, esti Brisstiese. Sere That, 4c ?USSR WAPHRS give the 'noel lastantaneev • sad perfect relief and oboe pseorerrod with aotonlies directions, sever fail So oast a rapid sad lastlag taro Taoamoda haws Iron neatond to parapet loath olio have triad other mow la imia. Ts all duns aad all roost' lotions they are aqua* a Werwimg sad awn—Dom bred deepair, Do matter how lose the Mama manhar• rr st sy however weer* it suty be, provided the *rpm , strostwo of the vital *name is sot hvipolossly decayed Vol" one afilostod should eve the sa inquirtial trial TO VooLuova aim Pomo SPIAXIIII, Ibolllll Wldars ate peeaLiarly ralsable ; they will is oas Doll more Ito molt severe aoramiaaal boarotaess ; sad their regular vv for a few days slit, at all those, laerpoilo the pogrom mot lloillbellty of the woke, portly looproviog Ito too*, coo, pow awl clearness, for which they an nun. kri said by =soy proksslonal vocalists. JOB 11011t3, Sole Proprietor, Beebeeter, N Price It mutt per bor. for me by Caster is Brit nun L. I. Baldwin. ttly May 7, 1160.-48.1)
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