THE OBSERVER.
B. P. BLOAN, Editor
TUX& $l5O • IMAM 1r ADVA3O2
SATU ' ORNIO, NOV. 5, 1859
l!gE;
thruthful artide,
4 Boston Cheerier, the
wpm of the Webster Whigs of If.imsachu
setts, lays mink day throws new light and
more full upon the motet outbreak at the
South. The actual testimony from the
some of strife ; the disingenuous and un
oandid line of argument adopted by the
Sepublioan presses ; the reminiscences
which are awakened concerning the pre
vioua history of Brown, the active ringlead
er ; ail these thinp t►aite in a chain of
most conclusive proof that though the Re
publican party, as a party, may not be im
plicated, yet that some of its most influen
tial journals, were in the tliscret of the plot,
which, through one of thoise mast common
mistakes in conspiracies, was hastened to
a premature and abortive birth. When
the news of the catastrophe was first spread
• shout the country. there wle a strange
i 'ilt4Sanstrained silence among the Repub
lic at the North f some said
not is - word ; some spoke in general terms
of the 6311 y of the atterig. The official
cArgat% of the party in Boston hinted that the
real cause of the outbreak was a question of
Wagns---then said that the action of Brown
was ri sod proof of how had the effect of a
smell of gunpowder enuld be upon a man
who had once taken up arms—hinted tiko.
very timidly, that inasmulA as the out
break was not wise, its Wades !ameba in
sane. The impressioa forced upon the
mind of every cool and intelligent reader
of these paper vonasimilar to that conveyed
by the sight of a band of conspirators, to
buss tam a vague rumor of trouble and
diameter to a distant wing of their organiza
tion has come, end who, stricken dumb
with apprehension, separate, holding them
selves aloof from each other, and distrust
ing every man. But soon the plea of in
sanity was adopted by the leaders of the
Republican party, and was promulgated
by the New York journals: Upon this
cue the mouth* of the country Press
were opened ; insanity was all the cry ;
poor Brown, crazed by the death of his sons,
received an outbust of sympathy which
gained the appearance of sincerity, be
cause, seeming to opens path for retreat, it
was aceompsonied by. an expansion as of
great relief?.
What are the facts concerning •4
brown I" Though early allied with the
Republican party, a party with which he
has always since acted, he was too bad
even for them ; though they used him as a
tool, they feared that his indiscretion and
unerupulousneas would bring troubte upon
their heads. lie was a notorious marauder
long before he is said to have become in
sane. Months before his son was killed
he had reddened iste,bands with the blood
of at least three persona, murdered by him.
There is upti as act in palliation of which
the Om dismally ia'now set up that MO'
Rea be matched in atrocity by deeds com
mitted before even his defenders, brazen
as they are, dare to offer the same excuse.
months after this be was engaged by the
Republican leaders Mamma the country,
making speeches fbr their candidate I Says
the organ dz./11*ton, referring to his re
cent pleas, they were the "mad- schemes
of an unfortunate man, whose mind was
ku eiRCO brkon and his reason almost de,
throned by misfortune." And this broken
down man, this raging maniac, or this
drivelling idiot, was the chosen and petted
and applauded champion of the Republi
can party l In what a fever of apprehen
sion, in'what an ague of dismay must these
leaden, the editors be, when they can
make such humiliating confessions !
A foe months ago "Old Brown"—in
sane "Old Brown"—broken4ninded "Old
&cellar—was in Boston. He was feasted
and flattered. He was in secret conclave
with Republican leaders, politicians an
editors. - Money was furnished him—for
his "Hansas work ?" Did he then show
evidences of insanity 1 Wits his reason al
most dethroned then I Nothing but the
necessity of self-preservation can excuse
these politicians and editors for their cow
ardly and ungratehil act in now flinging
him overboard. They know too well that
they stand on slippery places. They know
too well that secrets which are no secrets
are flying about on the tongues of men.
and that sooner or later they must be made
public, to the eternal shame, it may be
ruin, of those who have been drawn into
the meshes of treason's net.
There is no danger that the people will
be hood-winked by this flimsy and desper
ate plea of insanity. It is too clearly the
last resort of trembling criminals. Every
attempt made by the Republican papers
to strengthen their case only exposes its
utter weakness. They are almost to be
pitied, for they know not which way to
hum. See to what contemptible subterfu
ges one of them is driven. This paragraph
here following, is from the pen of one of
the most prominent men in the "doniinant
he -.aker of
e 417
could deliberately cut out the above words
from their contett, and affix to them such
a false implication I Here is the passage
from the Joetneal of ananterre :
"Where, then, rests the responsibility of
this insurrection? Who is responsible for
the thirty lives lost, and for the hangings
and imprisonments which are yet to fol
low 1 Do not the weeds air Tuou sar rue
Max "In frown down upon every one or
those persons, whether editors, clergymen
or other citizens, who have aided, directly
or indirectly, in exciting or promoting the
fatal attempt ? It matters not that they
thought they were doing God service. It
is In vain that they asseverate, in the dill
tressed language of one of our cotouwre
ries, that 'no political party is responsible ;
and plead in extenuation of the atrocities
of Brown, that be was 'crazy.' To be sure
he was crazy, and has long been so; but he
is no more crazy than those by *how he
has so long been encouraged in his bloody
carom"
Would one wish to see his worst enemy
in a more desperate strait than is this edi
tor and his party when be and his coot*.
tors cotopelled to resort to -11(1 prevaiiea
tion !
.1)1ii Brown' Wa ci.ii,2, ! 114 was a -fa
natic," and at the head of s few "fanatk*,
crazy like himself," he essayed a hopeless
stroke. Where could he have procured
his arms and amunition etißicient' for a
halt of soldiers ! Whence came the revol
• ~ the Sharpe's rifles, the speal•sl "Old
Brown" received much money from all
parts of the North—but it;ras for his
"Kansas work I" it is a mon rous sham,
this which the Republican pewees are try
ing to force down the throats of their
c
rs
friends, to pour into the of the people
at large. It is a monste and ari abortion.
tiarThe Erie Observerjoi the 'Democratic
papers of a like strip e in ttempting to in
flame the public mind y charging the
recent insurrectionary movement at liar
per's Ferry upon the Republican party.-,-
Gazette.
True, moat true ; and forsuch a course it
has had a most efficient teacher in the Ga
me', and now because the chickens of the
Gazette's own hatching have come home to
roost, our coternpOrary is wonderfully ex
erased. There has not been I t fight over
a land title—s personal' e; da reel at an
election--.a horse thief shdit or hung—or an
outrage of any kind in 'Kansas for the last
four years, that live Janette and kindred
Republican pape'rs have not ascribed to the
"Democrat:m jrarty. liain, to adopt the
lanimage of the New York Tunas, the Gt..-
2rite ••sttier no impropriety in Republican or
gans or.hoing the attempt of Forney's Profs
to fasten the responsibility of Senator BKOD
CRICIL:s death upon the Administration.--
They charged Mr. licene NAN and his ad
herents with having perseeuted Mr. B. for
his hostility to their policy, with having
goaded him into passionate resentment of
heir injustice, and with having virtually
conspired tOget rid of him by assassination.
But they now resent very vigorously the
attempt or the L)emocratic journals to
fasten upori them the responsibilityof the
insurrection at Harper's Ferry. They
are shocked at the injustice and malevo
lence of the effort. They should have
learned from their own experience that
there is no passion so reckless and remorse
less as party zeal—that it seldom consults
truth or justice in the warfare it wages,
and that if they resort to poisoned weap
ons themselves, they must expect to have
them hurled back into their own ranks.—
We think the Harper's Ferry affair can be
traced to the politicad warfare waged in
Kansas, and to the inflamatory temper to
which the public mind has been heated by
the passionates harangues of Anti-Slavery
politicians in the Northern States." The
Gazette, led on by the Tribust, Post, and oth
er Republican journals, disclaim eagerly,
On behalf of the Republican party, any
intent or thought to foment such bloody
and disastrous outbreaks as this at Har
per's Ferry, and we believe that so far as
the rank and file of the party is concerned,
the disclaimer is„just. Hut we shall not ab
aßolve, nor will the public, the leaders of
that party—the Sewards; the Chases, the
Wilsons, the Webbs, and the Greeleys,
from their just responsibility. To show
that we do no Injustice, in what we have
said, to the Republican party, or its indi
vidual members, we quote here what their
leading organ said—the N. Y. Tribune—
printed a day or two after the capture of
tritfta al ser=
of treason and oivil war before it. Speak
ing of the ringleaders of the insurrection,
it pours forth this maudlin strain of com
passion and eulogy upon their martyred
souls
"There will be enough to heap execra
tion on the memory of these mistaken men.
We leave this work to the 6t hands and
tongttes of 'those who regard the funda
mental &axioms of the Declaration of In
dependence as 'glittering generalities.'—
Believing that the way to universal eman
cipation lies not through insurfection, civil
war and bloodshed, but through peace,
discussion, and the quiet diffusion of Ben
timer te of humanity and justioe, we deeply
regret this outbreak, but remembering
that If their fault was grievous, grievously
have'they answered it, we will not, by one re
proaebful wotcl, disturb the bloody shrouds
wherein John Brown and his eonisatrou are
sleeping. They dared and died for what
they felt to be right, though in a manner
which seems to us fatally wrong. Let their
epitaphe remain unieniten until tie not infant
day when no slave shall clunk AU chains en the
shade of Mantled& or 6.1 tA, gram , of Mount
Verncm."
New, what is this but a cowardly palter
ing, In which sympathy with the object of
a devilish conspiracy is qualified by a fee
ble condemnation of the means for its
achievement , Is it not the thin ambiguity
through which a traitor would excuse trea
son, yet seem to denou nee it The substance
of the whole paragraph is--and we hold it
as the sentiment of all the Republican
leaders—that Brown and his confederates
were right in their purpose, but imprudent
in the mode of executing it, and that
abolitionism, triumphant through safer
ways of reaching its aim, will yet shout
hallelujahs over their noble sacrifice in the
cause of "universal emancipation."
mar The Gazelle calls our attention to
the fact that "seventeen white men and
five niggers" captured two thousand peo
ple, s i t Harper's Ferry, without firing a
gun !I True, ,but the Gazette neglects to
state t n important fact. that these'"seven
teen , hite men and five negroes" book the
town;in the night when almost everybody
was in bed and asleep, and that by morn
ikkg they were safely entrenched in a gov
ernment building. Now let us suppose
another case; suppose twenty-two'desper
ate men well armed should march into
this town, with her ten thousand itshabi
tants, some\fine night, and in the mdrning
we should wake up and find them in pos
.
• --, of: the 41arke i
In other wonis, it is easy for men to talk
fight when put of danger ; hut show such
people the uzzle of a rifle, and their cour
age verysor oozes out of their finger ends.
sir The number of prisoners in the Erie
county jail has increased during the last
week. says the; Ga.aette, from 21 to 30. It
will be found absolutely necessary to en
large the jail to accommodate them. Erie
county must have a hard race of inhabi
tants Journal.
T e !—it sometimes gives two thousand
Repu bean Majority. and the Gazet• re prom
isee it shall give three next year
The Harper'. Perry trials—Clonvict- w oad and gattrov.
tion and Sentence of Brown.
CHAILUISTOWN, Nov. 2.
Messrs. Rowel I Serrett, frees itqpiton; mgr. The oats r 4 1 0,41,(0. 1 ,"" 41 1
reached kere
brimik new no ic
le the '02111114 0 11 mit-
Cook was t before tint *Vie'
Court and . wavedi an monetization. Vie'
air chimnatilis LPilims"
-trial was resumed. No ;etancitees were ger rail wa y
called for the defense. ' 1
Mr. Harding openened for the common
wealth. Messrs. Hoyt I. Griswold follow
ed for the defendant, and Mr. Hunter clos
ed for the prosecution. The speeches were
of marked ability. Mr. Griswold asked
for several instructions to the jury, which
were all granted by the Court; and the jury
retired. Brown was then brought in, and
the Court House immediately thronged.
The Court'gsve its decision—the motion
for an arrest of judgement overruling the
ohjeetions made. In the objection that
treason cannot,. be committed against a
State, he ruled that where allegiance is
due, treason may be committed. Most of
the States have passed laws against trea
son.
The objetition as to the form of the ver
dict rendered, the Court also ;regarded as
insufficieut.
The Clerk then asked Mr. Brown
whether he had anything to say, why sen
tence should not be pronounced upon him.
Mr. Brown immediately rose, and in a
clear and distinct voice said :
I have, may it please the Court, a few
*ords to say. In the first place, I deny
everything but what all along I have ad
mitted—of a design on my part to free
slaves. I intended, certainly, to have
made a clean thing of that matter, as I did
last winter when I went to Missouri and
tbere took slaves without the snapping of
a gun on either side ; moving them thro'
the country and Bnalll leaving them in
Canada. I designed to have done the same
thing again on a larger scale. That was
all I intended, I never intended treason or
the destruction of property, or to excicte
or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make in
surrection. I have another objection, that
is, it is unjust that I should suffer such a
penalty. Had I interfered in the manner,
which I admit has been fairly proved—for
I admire the truthfulness and candor of a
greater portion of the witnesses who have
testified in this case—had I so interfered, in
behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intel
ligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of
any of their friends, either father, mother,
brother, sister, wife or chidren, or any of
that class, and suffered and sacrificed what
I have in this interference, it would have
been deemed an act worthy of reward, rather
of punishment.
The court acknowledges too, as I suppose,
the validit,r of the law of God. I sees book
kissed, which I suppose to be the Bible, or
at least the New Testament, which teaches
me that all things whatsoever that -men
should do to me, I should do even so to
them.
It teaches me further to remember them
that are in bondage, as bound with them.
I endeavored to act up to that instruc
tion. I say I tun yet too young to under
stand that God is any respector of persons.
I believe that to have interfered as I have
done, as Ii have always freely admitted that
I have done in behalf of his despised poor,
Ido no wrong but right. Now, if it is
deemed necessary that I should forfeit my
life for the furtherance of the ends of justice,
and mingle my blood with the blood of
my children and the blood of millions in
this slave country whose rights are disre
garded by cruel and unjust enactments, I
say let it he done.
Let me say one word further: 1f,,•1
entirely satisfied with the treatment I have
received on my trial. Considering all the
circumstances, it has been more generous
than I expected, but I feel no consciousness
of guilt. I have stated from the first what
was my intention and what was not. I
never had any designs against the liberty
aim , person, or any disposition to com
mit treason, or excite skives to rebel, or
make any general imautrection. r never
encouraged any man to do So, but always
discouraged any idea of that kind.
manta - , y .me o I , coo connected
with me. I hear it has been stated by
some of them that I induced them to join
me, but the eontraty is true. Ido not say
this toinjure them, but, as regretting
their weakness. Not one joined me but
of his own accord, and the greater part at
their own expense. A number of them I
never saw, and never had a word of am
venation with:till they came to me, and
that was for the purpose I have stated.
Now I have done.
While Mr. Brown was speaking perfect
quite prevailed, and when he had finished,
the judge proceeded to pronounce sentence
upon him. After a few preliminary re
marks he said that no reasonable doubt
could exist of the guilt of the prisoner,
and sentenced him to be hung in public
on Friday, the 2d of December next.
Mr. Brown received his sentence with
composure. The only demonstration
made waa the clapping of the hands of one•
person in the crowd, who was not a resi
dent of Jefferson county, which was
promptly suppressed, and much regret is
expreessed by the citizens at it occurrence.
The Jury came in with a verdict of guil
ty against Coppie, on all the counts of the
indictment.
Tax Derrsse or Sawsan.—We quote from
the Detroit Free Press: "The Black Repub.
beans say that Mr. Seward is not responsi
ble for the application of his 'irrepressible
conflict' doctrine which has been made at
Harper's Ferry, because in the speech in
which he announced it he stated that he
did not expect freedom would overeome
slavery 'otherwise than through the action
of the several States co-operating with the
Federal Government, anfl all acting in
strict conformity with their respective Con
stitutions.' Here we have Mr. Seward's
own declaration, to which they so affection
ately point. But how is it, pray, that the
Federal Government cant co-operate with
the several States to abolish slavery ? How
can it be done, especially when the Gov
ernment conforms to its Constitution ? The
Black Republicans have always declared
that with slavery as it exists in the several
States the Federal Government has no con
cern, and that their parry, if in power would
not meddle with it at all. This, they pre
tend has been one of their cardinal prin
ciples, and yet Mr. Seward tells us that the
Federal Government will co-operate with
the several States--Northern or Southern?
—to establish universal freedom through
out the land. It is certain that Mr. Sew
ard's declaration as to the manner in which
the 'irrepressible conflict' is to be • waged,
by the Federal Government co-operating
with the States, is not much' relief in the
present embarrassments, and it most as
suredly is counter to the professions of the
party that the Federal Government cannot
interfere with slavery where it already ex
ists."
J We see that our friend of the Erie
%server goes in for hanginfevery man who
does not favor the execution of the Fugi
tive Slave Act.—Cuivforti Journal.
Not quite; still we have no doubt there
many who oppose it:who deserve hang
id some of 'mit Harper's Ferry will
k. et it.
the republican papers are
Ivennnent of the slave
sir Some
talking about WI
democracy at.liiraehi
Something of the kind
tinguish it'ffom the "gm
Brown lieputilicans di ilarperqi
M.. 4 pew roiling mill is about .7
erected at Allentown, in this State, and tf,
acres of land have been pitrehsawci for the
11 1 11‘ no Winter Toros of the Edinboro Nor
mal School commences on Monday next, under
the direction of J. R. Mssatmax, as Principal.
111%. Preparations are heft made *or the
ereetton of a Station House it the Catmint
vile Depot, on thaPittaberg end Erie Railroad.
1111 L. Among the notables in town this week,
was the Ron. Sti K. &trim, State Treaanrer.
He was doub
re-election
MILL', Boa,
musicians inter
Vocal and Int.
on Tuesday evening next.
jpar Mr Altos Pattratnon, of North East,
received a severe kick from s horn last week,
and was injured to such as extent thst4tars
are entertained that he say not recover.
isirThe U. 8. Steamer 'Michigan has been
ordered to lay up al this port for repairs, and
is now being stripped preparatoryto inspection
by s board Engineers appointed by the Seen
of the Nary for that purpose.
akir It has finally turned out that Capt.
Sinclair. of the canal boat GO). C. l'each, who
digappearell from this city, took the "Weatern
slope" to get rid of hi. creditors. who were be
coming too importunate to snit the captain's
ronveiuence.
gek„, Mr. C. Van Liew, of Conweataville,
died in that village on Friday of bun week,
from the effect% of a kick which he received on
hig leg from a horse several months since. He
wan sixty-five years of age.
e a r The Conneautville Courier fears that
the corn, a considerable quantity of which is
rut up green, in Crawford county, has been
seriously injured by the weather of the past
week Some fields are reported considerably
damaged.
_. The U. S. Steamer Michigan received
a thorough overhauling in the stores depart
ment this week. She looked like a mammoth
laundry, with her rigging and spars covered
with bedding, carpets, etc.. and as little like
one of Uncle Sam's /ors Wier, as the imagina
tion could contrive.
listirn, of the Perry Block shoe store,
has sold his stock to Mr. lismax BULLY. who
will continue the business, and inform our
readers of the inducements he offers in the way
of cheap Boots and Shoes, next week.
D iiir Any of our readers who desire to invest
in the Gift-Book enterprise, will find an agent
of an extensive Buffalo Bouse, with samples of
Books, at Kenthar4 Bat Store Beatty's Block.
J far We are indebted to our friend, Wal
lace Sherman, EN., of Lundy's Lane, for a
brace of fine rheasants. If there are any more
of the same - port left, among our numerous
friends in the country, send 'em in—we've
room on our table.
bar The Concord (N. H.) Patriot slates that
under no possible circuMstances will General
Pierce allow his name to gobefore the Charles
ton Convention as a candidate for President.—
r,i,4it
This disposes of this' "mares nest" of our
Brown Republican Me
_
aft I; T. B. 1 1 .11V' "IVA; iron:,
"Row; copy make and oblige," printed
over the top in large letters, and marked with
a pen to call our attention to it. Now, Messrs.
P. & B. we can't do it. We are disposed to ac
commodate our publishing friends, but we
think Messrs. P. & B. hav'nt used us well.—
Last spring they sent us a proposition to the ef
fect that if we would publish acertain notice of
their cheap edition of liteott's Novels the en
tire work would be sent us. We performed
our part of the contract ; but Messrs. P. & IL
appear to be totally oblivious to theirs. We
wrote then on the subject, and return mail
brought us an acknowledgement of our claim,
with the promise that it should be duly atten
ded to. And it was "duly attended to" by
sending us two or three volumes, and then
Messrs. I'. & B. "dried up." Oitr patience
was'nt exhausted, and so in two or three months
we wrote again, reminding them of our rights.
In due course of mail we got another answer, "ac
knowledging the corn,” and promising amend
ment. And the "amendment" consisted in
sending us two or three more volumes, wlen
Messrs. P. & B. "dried up," and have remaNted
"dry" ever since. In the meantime, however,
Messrs. P. & B. sent u# another proposition,
by complying with which, the cheap edition of
Dicken's entire works was to be sent us. We
responded, and two volumes, valued at any
cents, was the result : and now they coolly ask
us to give them a two or three dollar special
notice of their "Counterfeit Detector" for
nothing. Verily, a well executed counterfeit 1
on a solvent Bank is better than thei "prom-
MIN
j We heard a good joke the ot,hee day,
and having enjoyed it, we cannot resist giving
it to our readers. A "'esteem editor" having
Bonn a long and flaming advertisement of
"Gayiity's Meditated Paper" In an eastern jour
nal, and being in want r of a medical exchange,
wrote the proprietor asking the favor of an ex
change. In due coarse of mail our "western"
friend got a reply in which he was informed
that his request couldlit possibly be complied
with, hut, said the letter, just exchange with
the Erie i:zprees—it will answer every purpose !
sir One of our cotemporaries preaches a
sermon for the benefit of the girls, in which he
says, with much truth, that no young woman
ever looked so well to n sensible man, as when
dressed in modest attire. It a young woman
should spend u much time in cultivating her
mind, training her temper, and cherishing kind
ness, meekness, mercy, and other good quali
ties, as most of them do In extra dresses and
ornaments, to increase their personal charms,
she would at a glance be known among a thou
sand. Her character would be read In her
countenance.
see We are glad Id record the election, to
the State Senate of lowa, of our old friend, Capt.
ions F. Descants, formerly of this city.
His district embracing some thirty counties, has
heretofore been Republican, but is now redeem
ed, giving him aer two hundred majority. He
is as true a Democrat as ever trod in shoe
leather, and will make his mark in his new field
of labor. lie told us when here last summer,
he was going to be elected, or "epile ;" and
he has redeetned Liza promise. • With such en
ergy and talent as be possesses,. we predict
that we shall hear of him "higher up" than the
Senate of lowa, ere many years.
n. This is proper.
twoessary to (Us
rent" of the
!TY,
$ Under the head of "I!rovress of the
Sunbury and Erie Bomb" a late number of the
. 8. Railroad and Mining Register, Ball that
on the Bastian division of this enterprise
'trains ran over 81 miles of'road, and on the
Western division over 42 miles of road. /11-
• . of four weeks the track 1411 be laid down
to 66 miles from Brie t when the lattn"
noes of a
Impeay of
Concert, of
forth Eset
bury sad Erie Railroad Company will have in
use 146 miles of road-being more than one
half their entire line. Oa the Eastern division,
west of Whetham,,theiroduaticals corn pistol
for a diligent", of 1s Whop to 3111 ya two miles
easetitpriltjtood. ISM the Wean division,
on awl° mass slit elf Warren, the graduation
it' proteins**. Ante the Indigo divisieu
thirty miles are graded. From the data here
given It will be sees that the laid down track
of the Sunbury sad Erie Railroad will, in a
short.time, memmre 86 miles east from Erie
My and 119 miles weed from Sunbury; in
other words that the Company will soon have
in operation, at the ends' - of their Use, 204
miles of road, leaving but 64 miles to be lin
! ished. of which thirty miles are now graded.
The limit named in the contracts for the com
pletion of the graduation, is July 1860, which
limit, however, as is almost always the ease,
will perhaps be extended somewhat beyond
that time. Meanwhile, the track laying wiU
be pushed on, so that when the last sections
are graded, the track layers will soon there
after fill the gap and complete the iron way to
Erie City."
road
/lir In noticing the arrest of the nest of
thieves on Canal street, last week, we neglected
to record a previous arrest in the same vicinity
by that indefatigable Aker, Pritaveos. There
were three persons taken at this haul, named
Martin, Snow, and Jfinphey,-=opon the charge
of "cracking' Jewett's Woollen thetory, and
taking therefrom a quantity of wool. From
certain facts brought to light, by their arrest,
it appears that these are the same gentlemen
who relieved Mr. ;owe Brrr, of North East, of
a quantity-of wool in September last ; and it is
expected that the various other depreciation's
which have been going on in this and adjoin
ing counties the past season, will be treced to
these parties. The examination was conduct
ed before Justice Cristo, and resulted in the
,commitment of Martin and Snow, in default of
$5OO bail, to answer at the November Term of
Court. Murphey was relesited upon $3OO bail
to answer as aforesaid. This Martin, men
tioned above, is a notorious old "bird" from
Canada, and his face is well known in the
Criminal courts of that province. We trust
that Pennsylvania will see that he is kept out
of further mischief, for a while, a‘ least. The
)
,i,
indications are tha the Court will have its
1 hands full of mind business et the Novem
ber Term, whith co eves next Monday.
tor We notice by the Veiling° papers that
there is quite an excitement' in the usual quiet
village of Frei*lin on the "oil question."—
Numerous parties are at work in the couhty
searching for an opening to the "grand reser
voir of greet*" which is supposed to he located
"way down below," and which Col. Demur. at
Titusville, first ran his "salt auger" into dur
ing the past season. One of the papers, the
Specialor, has a long article on the subject, while
the other, the Citizen, records the progress of
the search thus : "Mr. Hilands has granted
the right to search for it to a large and wealthy
Pittsburgh company. Mr. Stewart had leased
the well-known Brandon Spring, below this
place, on the river. Two engines, intended to
he used for boring, were landed at our wharf
last night ; the work of searching will now be
commenced in earnest."
ter A friend has called our attention to
the recently laid pavement on Third street be
tween State and Peach, as a sample of the way
our City Fathers do business For five years
there has existed an ordinance to conipell
property owners on that street to pave ; but
no attempt has been made to enforce it until
tbeAgo ow. a... li t......_
ceear g uivr, " ir "L rather laughable. Here is a
diagram of it, which explains it better than
we can in words:
Pavement.
Now is'nt that convenient' If a man wants
cross from State to Peach, all he has to do
is to wade Across the street from. one pavement
to the other, and he has pavement all the way
—except across the street. Verily, our "city
fathers" should take out a patent for this dis
covery—it haVeost them five years of intense
study.
SW* Messrs. Citarta & Bar/Tina have ad
ded the wholeatdec feature to their popular
Drug Rouge. gee advertisement.
pir We call attention to tho card of oar
old Mend, WALTER CHEATER, Esq., who has
returned to Erie, and opened an Auction and
Commission House.
OW" A 111011 of Mr. .lAMBS Ileac, of West,
Mil/creek, died on Monday last from the of-:
feels of an injury to one of his hands received
at a Cider Mill shout two weeks ago—produ
cing lock-jaw.
PUN FOR Wig LITTLIII FOLEN.—For "children
of a larger growth," enjoymentr. (4.311 kinds
are abundant. We rejoice, therefore, when
some gentle soul devotes itself to the produc
tion of innate& enjoyment for the "little folks,"
all circumscribed, as they ralurally are, in the
choice of frolicsome novelties. Especially are
we gratified at - the appearance of a volume like
that put forth lately by Dick & Fitzgerald., of
New York, and called "PARLOR THRARICALs;"
for'while it furnishes an enchanting and ex
haustless fund of merriment for the juvenile,•
it also elevates the taste somewhat to the re
gion of life-interest, in which, by and by, they
must constitute a more or less important 'figure.
The "PARLOR TIMAILICAILPI, or Winter Erentng'
Enlertaisonent:' is a collection of ingenious,
lively, yet quite unobjectionable amusements,
in the shape of Acting Charades, Proverbs,
Drawing-Room Pantomimes, etc:, and are de
serving of the highest encomiums.
"Lo! run POOR Inutan."—Our Chautauque
neighbors here made the important discovery
that the name of their county should be spelled
with a final a, instead of e, as heretofore. Rea
son, the "poor Indian" pronounced it thus, "an
hundred years ago." We believe attention was
first called to the subject by ex-Judge K. T.
Foote, of New Haven, Conn., in a letter to the
Fredonia Censor last summer ; whereupon the
"board of supervisors" met in solemn conclave
at Mayville, sad resolved that henceforth the
name of their county should Iv pi •1' i Chau
tauqua instead of Chautanqur.
Coos, one of the Harper's Ferry
conspirators, is a brother-in-Taw of Gov.
WILLARD, of Indiana. As Gov. W. is a
Democrat, we may infer that Cone is too,
or formerly was.—G=ette.
There is logic for year, with a vengeance.
Let us apply it, and see where It will land
the anther. The editor of the acme, (one
af 'em,) has a "brother-in-law" who it a
civil engineer,. and is not a Republican ;
ergo, according to his logic, the editor of
the Gazette is a civil. engineer and is not a
Republican. Let us take another case—
the senior of the Gigots has s "son-ln law"
who isa Demosivi ; therefore the senior,
according to this logic, is . a Democrat. The
Republicans "should by all means look in
to this matter."
UM
A
Pavement.
Ma. Samoa:—ln last weeks "Observer" I
noticed a paragraph in r ;ference to the Road
Ccounianioner lirrite rti Township, and
*air actios4n tidal* toy laying a public road
M the Natio( the tiinbitry and Erie Railroad
thifhtlf t e halite osiiiire briefly theme, and in
dew ot.tholirand h neat of the county being
about to telione, I hum ht it would not he in
appropriate ip give a history of the conduct or
rather wtsecwtiltd of thoselworales. In August
last they were. petitioned by' the either's of
Waterford tp., to lay oil a public road from
the borangh to the Deist. Bee as bad hook
would have it, one of t$ Coaludiwititeni rest.
ded in lie Ragan part af the township, and
from his locality has denenalned not to lay the
road melees the Railroad Conipany wont lo
cate the Depot to wit h convenience; and as
It happened that another of the Commissioners
had relatives residing its the eame.locality of
the Arm named Commiiiiioner, of course he bad
to yield his better judge to please his Mends.
Bence be refused to laythe road to the present
Depot. The other being a "Begladian" was
"tarred with the same stick" with the other
two for the simple reseal that his daddy-inasw
would'nt let him think fur himself, but did the
thinking for his son-in-law ; and of course as
a dutiful son he would'nt run counter to his
daddy-in-law's wish. And thus by force of
circumstances the public are deprived of the
benefit of a road to the Depot, and by forte of
circumstance the road laws of Brie county are
rendered a deed letter On the statute book.
The Depot building itt progressing towards
completion, and in consequence of the st tibbor
ness of these three worthies the public can not
get to it without treasputaing on private prop
erty. And you never told a more truthfel
thing in your life than when you asked the
question, "lf we didn't know that Road Com
missioners were elected to subserve their own
interests." A CITIZEN.
Waterford Tp., Nov. 2d, 1 t 459
TH I SOLITARY Rat'UBLICAI. — In Fresno
County there lives one Republican, and be
sticks to his party organization all the time.
In '54 there was one vote cast in the coun
ty for Fremont, in '57 one for Stanley, and
in '59 one for Stanford. We suppose the
same man east all of those votes. He is
certainly a straight out Republican, and
entitled to be embittered the head and
front of his party in Fresno County.—Pfd
co- (ail.) Herald.
Them's the kind of counties IA( like—
Democratic all over. There's Johnston Co..
in Illinois, that had only one Black tie
publican voter, in W 56, and he had,ri't the
pluck to stick ; so there's none lea for seed.
Commend us to such counties as Fresno
and Johnson. They'll do.
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IT WON ' T HOLD WATII.--s?nee Brown's
invasion of Ilarps - es Ferry has turned out
AO disastrously, the Republican papers
have set up two pretences concerning him,
neither of which hold water very well • 1.
That he was crazy ; 2. That he was not
sent out to Kansas by the republicans,
and that they find nothing to do with
riS.
his operations there. The fi • egation
Brown has himself disposed of. lie says
it is a miserable artifice of those w o ought
to take a different eourse in regard to him.
The second allegation is disposed of by the
exposures which Cot. Forbes has rtrol,s. _-
By his testimony, Brown w:Ls in the imme
diate and especial employ, in Kansas, of
the republican committees of the east
ern States, and the circumstances of his
employment are stated so particularly that
none can doubt the fact. Besides, it is Well
remembered that funds were rdsed by M.
black republicans in several of the eastern
cities expressly and avowedly for Brown,
one of which cities was Hartford, Connect
icut. He visited Hartford in March, Iks7,
on which occasion the asurteit of that City
addressed its readers as follows in its 6eue
of the 21st of the month.
"Captain John Brown, of t ssawatothie,
Kansas, just the man to inspirit the free
State men and play the game of Id uif against
the surfs of the slave owners in Kansas,
desires some mattrial aid to keep his arms
stayed up while he fights the battleS of
- freedom against the border ruffian,. lie
says Le 'will endeavor to make a judielous
and faithful application of such meant; as
he may be supplied with.' W. 11. 1). Cal
lender,eashier of State Bank, Hartford,
Conn., will take care that all moneys lodged
for Capt. Brown's benefit are received by
the captain. IttiowN IS JCST THE MAN WE
NZED ix KANSAS; and if every man who
loves freedom and can spare a (10114 or
two would put it in Brown's purse we will
warrant they get their money's worthout
of Brown hereafter. Let us back up the
men who are fisting our battles."
We think there need be nothing niore
said of the auspices under which Briswn
opperated in Kansas, or at Harper's Ferry.
sir The negroes of Dayton Ohio, publicly
celebrated the success of the Re/nth/was tii•ket
in the market house no Wednesday aftenioon
of last week. So says an exchange, anti Why
shoultl'ut they ? The negro rote of Ohio sns
large as the Republican majority.
SHARP PRACTICR IN MASSACllusErrs.—The
total of Mr. Isaac F. Shepard debtleatiOns
will exceed forty thousand dollars. It is
said that -Jonathan F. Morrill of Fall Rh er
has been, for sometime past, doing a bank
ing business of a new kind. He has been
uttering notes bearing the names of imag
inary promisors. Having Feeured the en
dorsement of A. B. Wheeler, of North
Bridgewater, and other, to the.e bits of
paper, itlias been Mr. Morrill's etpitoiu to
sell them for money in this city. Mr.
Wheeler has failed and Mr. Morrill has
"cleared out." • bike Mr. Shepard, Mr.
Morrill has been a leading man in the Leg
islature in his day. Mr. Wheeler, too. was
once a law-giver and a Fremont Fleet or.
air We learn from the Boston Past
that the Americans of Massachusetts who
are opposed to the re-election of flov.
Banks, have held a convention at Faneuil
Flail, in which 107 towns were represented
by 470 delegates. Ex-llovernor Briggs
was nominated for Governor. The address
and resolutions arraign the dominant
party severely for its wanton waste of the
public money, and because, "it is a part
and paroel of a party which is so opposed
to the principles of our constitution that
it cannot exist at all in nearly one half of
the republic," and they call upon all
good citizens to unite and put a stop to
existing abuses. This arraignment of the
Republicans is severe in its truth.
sir The New York Herald compresses a
good deal of truth into a very brief pare.
graph, as . follows "The first overt act in
the drams of national disruption which has
been plotted by that d e, Wm. H.
Seward, has just closed at arper's Peery.
It opened treason, robbery, and mur
der, and has appropriately closed in - the
blood of the misguided fanatics who lent
themselves to the doctrine of the 'irre
pressible eonfliet.' No reasoning mind can
Tail to trace cane and Cilbet between the
bloody and brutal manifesto of Win. H.
Seward en the banks of Genesee. and the
terrible. scenes of violence, rapine, and
death, that have been enacted at the lam
&mace of the Potomac and the Shenan
doah."
sir A correspondent of the Charlestol
()wrier praises (inv. WISP as r,f
liardoat working men ..f the. sp.,
.„..1
- chip ~r twine, ih ;1 ill /11 I II).• M r . I: . ,
negrOei . are convicted oferdn , .4. ~,
sandins them away, and making, AK
Marked to me, a Botany Hay of S out h car "
olims and Louisiana, he buys them for th..
St a te and puts them to work on rallr,r4,l
and other public works. He says tit.•
tam worked well, att34l the negroes work.ol
well in the railroad tunnels. Thp r;0v,.,„
or is not insensible, too, of the orn a t,•
well as the useful, and devotes himself t,,
improving the capitol grounib,,alrft„h,
very beautiful, employing the wiihe is%
itentisty convicts, with a soldier Nn tuL
uniform, with a musket, standing guar.l
over them, and ready to pop away lit tiso t ,
if they attempt to escapo.'
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lIILAILBLiGEB.
On the 27th ult., at the residence of J s,i ;
man, by Rev. Z. W. Shadduck, Mr. W E K s
BORN of Erie, and Mise Rost s ‘ l , Tsm
of lisrborareek.
DEATHS.
In Waterford township, on the morning „•
the 26th nit., Mrs. ELIZABETH, wife of Jam,
King, in the 75th year of her age
On the 18th ult., in Harborcreek, Mr BET
BEY WILLARD, wife of Capt. Porter Wil
in the 58th year of her age.
Brie Wholesale Price Current
Flour, Illinois and lowa /et BM SI;AIN -, ,
Erie. Co., ti. F. .
... ,
$ 01.4 4 t, .A.
Wiseonsin, $1 7t.6:5 ~.
Buckwheat Flour 'iii cwt $1 7 , 0(i,, , 1. ,
Wheat, White ' t bush il 2, - .C. I p•
Red ..1 1.:(,, i .:,
Corn,
Rye,
Oats,
Barley,
Flax Seed.
Potatoes,
Beans,
Dried Apples,
Dried Peaches - e t it
Butter,
Lard,
Cheese,
Harm,
Shoulders,
Egg. 30 dozen
White Fish lot Bbl
Trout 10 Bbl "
COlifiSh Cwt $.; u4i(„ ,
Mackerel Sos 1 to t to wit it. wia
Pork, Men
Lamp Oil 7fl gal
Tanners Oil
Lard Oil
Wood, hard cord
,on
SUGAR-N. 0. t l R 1
P. R.
("brushed,
Powdered
Coffee A
Coffee B
Cures —Bin - e
IL
Java,
Sync r—lt! gal
MfiLA.o4r.—N.
Poilu It Wil
( . 0121,
TRA.-1 - wing Hr.in
Black,
Seirrq—Pepper.
Pimento,
CIUTPS
l'aggia,
Nut uier,
Cl Unit Cask YUKIO:II V KI).4WLE,
Formai/ I ngth of time by 411.1.1, the !at,.
reeontabengled by ewer Haraj'erd., an.l hi the Verot
throe:Us liwtscialtrr Soetrty Liao inaterial not
entirely hartnleast, t Its Ilion to e,dee
proven it,. quality ad at the Pt. ry .4 t 'A la t.I 4
BRO. Noe
drtsrtbcmcnts.
y a. it.% i.nwtN,
1
4. Swereemewr. rant 4 1.1.1 r.
and R.tall fir tigoist, r•
DeaLer iti arhiAhr., ..la.
l'auaphen., Burning Fluid, Brushes.. kr ,
Auction and Commission
.1\ 1 take], the Stiire
Frozeit strvet, %lately oretipied
Koch,) 1 Mier my lien maim' an At - 1714 NF F R. .
give prompt attention to Wei of
Gandst and Mrrchandise, I,ity .Char(.
Ad./ool+ made 011 Gootio loft for .ale Or 011 lootol k
moot. Real Eatato or st.rk noirotiatioro, Itt..ndr4 t , •
remaooable terms/. WA LTER tli ESTf K
Ent., Now. 5, 11:4
SUNBURY & ERIE RAILROAD
gimmigisiffm.low
NOTICE.
THE hours for Passenger Train• 0 1 , ti,
Hood will be as follows, until further null
Leave Gotati Ease. Arrive, Gono Wt , r
8-00 A. A.
h-'3 do 1: Kell; Valley; .7. :4-00
b....r do . 4-5;1
8-45 do ....Jaeksons, 4:A .1
9-OS do . Waterford,. _ . . 4.14 .1.
0.18 do .. acdult.. ..... 4-05 •`
9-35 do rnion DMA, 3.50 .1.
9-1 O do . Concord, 3 :IL Jo
10.03 .1.
10-24 110 3-00 .1
10-50 do ...Apring Creek, 3-4.. .1,
A rrivr., 11-30 do Learr,3-31.
Applleutsonn for 1. rt.iglatit= m,.1.• to 4 Allf K
iIETICALY, or the node
A BLACK,
Supra Otke, W. D., Kris, Nov. 5, '5O. Supt. W. le
WHOLESALE DRUG STORE
In the City of
,Erie !
TN anticipation of a considerable inert - a
- 4 e
1 . in the Trade to this City, on the operdog of the , 1111
bury and Rrie Railroad, the iiitheeritiors have made Lary
addition. to their STOCK, to all its departaionts, anal S r,
prepared to fill the orders of those who may favor Awn ,
In that way, at prices that cannot fail to prove matisineto
ry and mno.. a contintoules "(custom. Parties rendser
along or near the line of railroad, will find this City .
most convonivnt point at which to supply thesuseives
replenish their various shocks, and the Store of the soh
scribers, The White Veer Story Bultelhat.
adjoiaieg the Bank of Coaniaerre, la the plus at which t,
obtain any and every thing in the line of
ME MCI N 1•>.
L'U'RE WINES ANI
PAl\'lS,llll. , VA RN LAREN
WININ iNV 1 ) 1' E 4'fI.TFFS
. 1 / 4 at e.
Let tiwww• w lao bavo ber•tofore sent their orders Eames
turn tlo t, attent&on to Erie., and to the More of
Nov C FMK& k BROTH VV.
. _
817F>4 (11.' WIN Ix 1W I; LASS !
YRKNCII AND AWCHICAN, by the boy, Ow ...I.
low by onv3 CARTER & UltO
MADDER AND I N 111(“ ). of the very
hest quality, by lb.. Nook or in leastioantittitft by
Nor. 5 CAirritit k BRO.
Cilio it ti AND il4 * ll EAL,
Not 3 CARTER & BIM
MI • HIATE )}.. AND - -ALLEN
ompoi NO, by lIUVJ CARTER A RRO
STILL IN THE FIELD !
L. I. BALDWIN.
wnousAix Am] sicTAti
DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY,
.v„ 5, R. ell Iluitse, Ene, Prio, d
UAVI NG repleni_vited my Stock, I 3UI
row prepared, to furnish the following artbeir,
N eely
as low as
mthlycan tilde:rood at any similar ..tat.
al
in thisr
11 : A)11 . 1N ES, (11 EM
PAINTS, LS, VARNISH Es
iy E STUFFS, PERFUMERY.
PAINTER'S A RTICL ES.
WINDOW HLASS
AND PIT 1‘ .
ne rirtigaa•"l '4 .11 icicles are warranted lot,, fresh, par , .
and gebolne. I Dare mow on. Land and Mewl, WI( ,er
superior stork or
Fine Havana and Principe Cigars,
Also, Pure Wines and Brandies
POE IXEEDXC.A.X. 17HE. &C.
Orders pmeaptly tille4 nod .thdaetkln guarantie•
?rpm' taprioe wad yosatity. 10.11ZOISICR THE
PLACIR t II !kir S Reed Heame, Kris, Pa.
Nov. 5, ISM tf
SPRING
BE' just received from the (ompan)
another 'apply. Ilene Bede obtained ant preiniut
Li the Stara Fair, galling (row $5OO and uptrarda, th
Agent not 6 KLLSgY.
FURNITURE
0F my o f II
of any deAeription
amino at low prices t for Produce, Stove Pie or b.
weekly payments to inert the those. G. W. ELCiii: V.
Nov. 6, 1839 State .1., next Bth, It..
kAS, LOUNGES, CANE SEAT nod
r Beet Chairs, Mahogany Tabke aunt lites, Seine
&Mk Feather Reds 1104 WaCtrILAMPS. at Maw York prllit,
ter Clash, just spot from East, fur rte ou conualseion,
the Arent.. noirS G. W. et.t.sirr. Er.
C ' 'A
of superior quality can b.
had of CARTER k BRO. Noe. 3, 1830
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