THE OBSEI: F. Edit .)r. TERMS: el 60 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, is6t‘ Democratic County Convention A Democratte County Convention will he held lit the City of oa Trianday. the 7th day of r•erutri neat, at 2 o'clock, P. , for the porno's of appointing debilities to the"fate Convention, and to transact an& other Ao einem as mar com• before the Convention, appertainin g to the intones' of the party. Primary meetings will be held tootle several Townships, Boroughs, and Wards in the rounty of Brie, et the usual of bolding the Township and Bormealt elections cri al t7e Count), and at the Select and Doeonsea Coo/sell Knouts In the East and West ta's,ls for the City of Erie, on ttatardar the 4th day of Prd.rttsry, A D 11900, between tb- hours of 4 and 4 o'clock, P. Y., except the City of Erie. which will la at 1 o'clock. P. JAMIti C. MARANALL, ChNi Co. Com Irie, Jan. 7, 1807 Te Governor's Message th , T P.ti rage liessage, which we published Last vierk, the render will 1-onhtlegs igner witty tia w prob l'tt; n -tra ,lt , torwartl unpre tending t e4s oment corinently worthy of the Met tat- P.oi nay Is is 8,1 far as it relates t. State affairs, sod is devoted to the lute rests of the Commonwealth, there will be no diversity of sentiment It is all de could have wished Its statements of our financial affairs are truly gratifying. The last year's receipts into the Treasury, including the former bahtnee, hare amounted to $4,718,377; the expenditures have been $3,879,054 ; leas ing a balance of $839,3'18 on the let of Decem ber, 1145t.l The amount of public debt paid off during the thirteen months ending December 3lst, ISSJ, has been $1,009,'282 The present debt, funded and unfunded, I 3, 4 , 1 good result, the Governor claitns, is chief ly due to the sale of the State rattail! He an - titoriattel a still more rapid reduction of the ‘l, , ht trout this time fors ard The amount of soetirit tea held by the State against the several vorporationa that purchired the Canals, is Fu lls over 511,000,1/00, stiiich the Governor de- duct. from the artital aggregate of the State Debt. and thus reduces It to about $27,000,000. It we you'd be sure that the,e hoods would be olutnately he paid, we would have more eonfi .l,ll(.o in the I ioVernot . f. (4/4.loa:ions The Nlea.gge vie , an encouraging account of the progrtoo , rat the siitibury and Erie Railroad It *late+ the amount paid by the Pennsylvania Railroad l'otnputly aw Tonnage Tax. up to the ,t , eir :t rid ' , how. t tint the wruotiot withheld and awaiting (hit Supreme tai to.? 'Ls I. ale ‘Slikloy ot the tax. o+ 5246,743 rot.— what the t;.y. erttor A tm all., miltjeci, we inter that I“ inn '4• he alit!!/ refuse his -auction to the ‘elienif- f.r the repeal of this tiix, which wt:', , le.s he brought beltire h« Lev.; o t• it: it• pre4,nt fessfton Ihe (ioverzwi g,t I cmB retvornble Recount of ti r entnrnon the Stltte. an,l rook ~one Amin-ions .iiggeot ions to improve the op erations gibe sp.tein The Firmer High School and ,Sinie bibtar) are commended to the liberaliq of the Legiilantre, The elts(lng laws relating to banking are pronounced defective, 'and the g, error declares thlt lie will not, under thorn, approve t any increase in banking corpora:l.., This is right. Thes'neeessity of a reform in the mode of receiving. keeping and disbursing the public revenues, is urged Hut the Governor's recommendation that all cheeks issued by the state Treasurer, shall he countersigned by the Auditor General, does not go half far enough to meet the defects of which he justly com plains. Nothing short of the adoption of the Independent Treasury system, which has stood the test of successful experiment by the Na tional Government, will accomplish the need- fill reform. The benevolent institutions that have here tofore been fostered by the State, ,s reco m ~t *we Olats 5 tiourity. The . - practice of special legislation on subjects that might properly he brought under existing general laws, is condemned. The tariff ques tion is briefly alluded to, and the recommend ations of the president, in his Message of last year, are substantially adopted. The Governor's talk RbOUL Kansas, its ad tuission Into the Union, and all that, is perhaps well-enough in its way, hut really we cannot see what it has to do with the duty of the Gov ernor "from time to time to give to the General Assembly information of the state of the Com monwealth " Certainly the "early admission of the territory of Kansas as one of the sover eign States of the Union," is not a question on w h i ch the "General Assembly" of tilts Com monwealth will be called to act. Nor is such -Informarton - as that "Popular Sovereignty -having filially prevailed, in the full, free and -fair adoption of the fundamental law of the -Territory, according to the wishes of the peo -plc. this vexed and dangerous question, in 'that Territory, may now be considered as -satistitetorily and perpetually settled," the 110,1 of -information' the Constitution en- joinm t.pon him to communicate to the rep re•ientati‘es of the people of Pennsylva nia Upon an other pats. as we said above, we think the Message an admirable one, and go far to redeem the Governor's failure as an administrative officer' ire. The first effort atter the union of the True A paeocan and the Express, was to issue an extra on Tuesday, containing all the won derful correspondence of the Republican Sten ed,,rial delegate, Mr. M. B. Lowey, with —all the amid and the rest of mankind," in relation to his —old neighbor and friend," John Brown, The only omission we could discover in this compilation, was that the compiler neglected to give the article from the (Marren. headed • A Short Horse is soon Curried " "Ye reri table Ilktore of Ye Great Personage, :7alled Jack the-Giant-Killer, pi certainly not corn /4,qe without that. gtar A Boston paper has a paragraph headed , in k ee eo , binees," in which it 14 related that a pair 01 homes ran away in one of the princi pal ..ireets of that city on Thursday !twining, at ..i.iinsiderable peed, - and without & driver: Mei c a toi a young lady in the carriage attach ed l'ettple ttlionted and stood still, which ito the eidiiiiiet made and provided for much cages. A to In who wag -reapectahle looking' . ran from the sidewalk, seized the horaeo and stopped thorn The life in the carriage was eared. The ot,at liwan finally appeared and resumed his Om, upon the hos. Nobody thanked the "re -pretable Initkine titan It is cool, certainly, not co thank a roan if he gave. your life st a r Who will hereafter say that the Jews are nut a liberal rare' We see that in New York, a few days since, they wet in one of their synagogues and subscribed over t bree thousand kii4ler. to aid their aufkring brethren at Gib raltar They probably would not he inclined to di, notch for christians. Nit; they certainly take oo , t care 4 their own peoples there ere no Jews in any public charitable institutional and last winter. at the annual-dinner of the New York Hebrew Benevolent Sioeiety, sonie ten thousand dollars were contributed for the relief of the sick and needy These are noble chanties and the example of our Jewish citi zens, in these instances, may be imitated in every community with advantage to the poor sad destitute. VER. Non Organisation of Congress 11,tzgres. met .in din fit -.L ‘ , l Deeen.b.: -. !mr 'be nii41,11.• of Janiviry. And there t. n.. or A anitatiou liaily the came routine Is g..ue through with—first speeches about every body and every thin k then a rotw t or.two; and then . an tvkieurnment It tit 'melee to fill °lir paper with the ballot I On 11, 1p arlmample. 1s entliei. eat, a, it is a transcrlpt.of sin thy rest with lit tle variation Thus: Whole number of o , '' , 'N east, 211 ; necessary to a ehnire, Wet. Si; a maw, Rep.. it.tB; HARILVOI, Dem., WI; (ilt /Aoki, Arner:il3 i , Sinattering, a Now, with this record, Ap_is responsible for this eon orgeMtliation ! Not - the Demcierats certainly, fur they are a minority, whereas their oppe nents have a majority Wby do they not elect then! The question is answered very sat's faxtorily by the Buffalo Commercial, an opposi tion paper. It says since Mr Bsersan A arri val in Washington be !•has advised his over -loving friends that they were killing both him -and his party by an excess of kindne‘s lie -has urged upon the Republicans the necessi -ty of withdrawing Mr, SHARMA?. and uniting -upon either Mr. Giasteu ur Mr. rouwis.— "His advice has been rejected, and with a pig -heeded obstinacy which does far more errdit -to their fidelity to aketi thin to their wisdom "as Itateemen, they insist upon clinging to -Mr. Sasartelc as a representative man. It "dues not require a sagacity so profound as "that claimed for Mr. SAMARA., to gee that the "course he recommends is dictated by sound "policy. - This then is the reason—the Itt , publicans are determined to force their allies to swallow 80sastsa. or have no organization And it serves them right. The American part) has been playing int 6 • e hands of the Itertil, 1 beans. and it is fitting it d proper that it should now he forced to eat th meat it has prepared for the banquet. Al alt events, for the non organization of Congress the penit-rats can not be held responsible by the country They are not the majority, therefore they eahinut or ganize, nor prevent au irgauization ', Sur By their fruits ye shall know them'— At the Forney's Convention hell at Harrisburg, 13th April laid, John Rickman is reported to have said. “Let thi' truth be made prominent —that there is an eternal antagonism between fretdom and slavery. The constitution of the human win I and,t he human heart makes It in evitable : and the one or the other must even tually gain the ascendancy The struggle be tween them has Just begun, 14 now going on to our midst, and he is but a superficial obserNer who does not discover it.•' This is the sew ard irrepressible conflict doctrine pure, and was proclaimed in liarrieburg, in .he •Tnion State-Rights Democracy Corn edition, called so Is not this the same Rickman who is now 10 the House of Representatives voting fur Ills kin for Speaker, (and Baskin voting for him' and who claims to stand by the camittial doc trines of the Democratic party, while, at the same time, he asserts that he would vote for a Black Republican Speaker if ultimately called to choose between a Republican and an Admin istration man! Will some of the peculiar ad niirers of John W Forney, please answer' per` The New Hampshire member of the Republican National Committee, rceentlylin session at New Nork, it Mr. George f; Fogg, editor of the roneohl Independent Dr mnrral, which expre•eed the opinion that the only way to get rill of slavery is to foment rebellion among the Slaves. And, yet the Republicans tell us they do not intend to interfere with that institution where it exists len., Forty free negroes, who have been ez pelted from Arkansas under the terms of the recent legislative enactment, which prescribed that in the event of their non-departure they should be sold into slavery, arrived at Cincin nati on Tuesday, in a destitute condition.— They were met by a Committee appointed for AWAPtt.'"IT tirrtr i ftireir 111;(11;e upward-hound boats on the Mississippi River are crowded with these fugitives, flying from their homes. —Elehange. And this expulsion of free neltroes from the southern States i. the legit imatp fruits of the raid which llepublicanista heal inaugurated against the south Under the specious pretext of philanthropy, and love for the colored race, northern fanatictsna has done more to rivet the chains of the slave, and injure the cause of the free colored man; than all the Beechor's and Gree ley's, and the anti-slavery apostles of that iltc, will ever attone for if they live a thousand years, and repent in sack cloth and ashes every day. What sins are committed in thy name. 0, philanthropy' "lir The Erie E tprm, 3 J Goodrich, pub lisher, with Editors without number, has "gone and died"—died so quick that its nu merous staff of Editors. Reporters, contribu tors, and fu.gle-men, did not have time to hid their hundred and fifty readers farewell The Expratei life was brief but not very brilliant. Its political course was a tortuous and uncer tain as the men who used its columns are trot lieiotte and dishonest. Professing to be Diti ocratic, Its fired effort was to distract and tffe Democratic party of the county Signally foiled in that. Its next card was a personal warfare upon 116. That proving a losing gime. it subsided into a mere compilation, somewhat after the fashion of the old Chrome', 11,..ugh without half its tact and taste And nos dead, and its defunct carcass has been given over to the True Americus, and its few Fillocril , ere transferred body and breeches to Aboli tionism lie end is a most titling finals its life 11 e call attention of our Democratic friends in (itch township to the call for a Dem ocratic County Convention We hope the rail will be cordially responded to . and 11 through and perfect orgnnization conmienred. The ConventiOn which assembles at Rending in February is an important one. A candidate for Govetitor is to he chosen ; delegates to Charleston' are to be appointed; and Presiden tial electors selected. The Democrney of Eric county have a voice in all this, and the only way to melte that voice heard is through our County Convention. Besides. it is our duty to commence organizing for the Presiden tial election next Pall, and an important point in such organization is to secure an effieient County Committee It will devolve upon the Convention on the Tth of February to select each a Committee. Let us have a general at tendance then at our primary meetings, let union and harmony prevail, and an effort nitwit , to rekindle the watch-fires of our time honored organization. gegL, One of our exchange*, the Editor of whi c h has doubtless been afflicted, gives this cure for corns : take a lemon, cut a piece of it off, thou wink it $o as to let in the toe with the corn, as pisfp ntixt to the corn, tie this on at night so that it clinnot move: yeg : will 8n a the nest morning that, with &blunt knife, the corn will come away: to a great extent. Two or three applications of this will make "a poor pple" happy for Lift ; and we shall be glad to bear the result. APPOIXIIIRD.—The President hay sent to the Senate the mune tit Hon. Charles J. Faulkner of Virginia. as Milliliter to France. Derwin E. mer, a believer in Second Advent doctrines, hung himself at Cleveland. Ohio, teat week. I=ll2il Great Calamity at X4iiwrtam.l 1'a1.6.-ras lb 70 41 operaiice4 to 4. Ition3 ' 16r, .1.14. the nth', I f .rrora: 1/ , ,man ( unturned.' .' Lawaiscs;' Masa.. Jam li2a-0 P. M. .= 4 ., Otte of chi+ most terfeblecautatropites otit i record occurredbin Elba citWthltaftetnomi: Jhe)'etitl•ertoMille felEtvith a sadden crash at about ro'clock, while - Some six or -even hundred operatives were at work.— 't'he mills are a complete wreck. Some two or three hundred persons are supposed to be still in the ruins. At present it is impossible to give anything like a correct statement of the loss of live, but from the best authority it is believed that at least L . lO are dead in the ruins. Eighteen dead bodies have already been taken out, to gether with some twenty-five persons mor tally wounded, besides some fifty in differ ent stages of mutilation. Mr. Chase, the Agent of the mills, and Mr. Bowe, the Treasurer, escaped by running from the falling building. It is impassible as yet to tell the cause of the disaster, Our reporter has just come from the ruins. and the scene beggars all description. Some two or more acres of ground are piled up with every description of machinery of the fallen buildings. Huge bondfires aro burning to light some two or three thousand persons who are working as it' for their own lives to rescue the unfiirtunate persons, many of whom are still crying and begging to be released from their tortuies. Every few minutes some poor wretch is dragged from his prison, and it is heart-rending to hear their cries as they are drawn out with legs or arms crushed or torn. (Inc man shock ingly mangled, and partly under the bricks deliberately cut his throat to end his ago ny The whole city seems to bh in mourn ing. Many are running through the streets, and, with frantic cries, searching the ruins. Temporary hospitals have been arranged tor those rescued. Many stand by the wreck frigid with despair. Later, a terrible crash, caused by the clearing away, threat ens death to all who may be still in the ruins. Surgeons are coming in from all directions, and everything that can be done at such a painful moment is being dune t lie nllffering victims of the fearful calamity, the mystery of which will have to be cleared up by an in q uest. SE( It DESPATCH, P. M. The building was never considered to bo as staunch as it ought to be. It was built about seven years -ince, and was then tho't a sham Indeed, before the machinery l‘as put in the walls spread to 'uch an ox tout that some twenty-two tons of iron slats were put on to ...five it from falling by its Own weight From the best information that can be now gathered, the building Ripe:trod to et-111111,1Ni and fall from the eastern corner or end. It tell inwards.-- The fire ilepartment at one.- repaired to the sot, I-ut there being no fire, they at once set to woi k with a ri ill 14 , 11.1110V.e the rUIOI6II. The Illy' Ilall has teen umtverte.l into a temporary hospital for tin-dead and wound ed till recognized I t h e wqmati, iii the oatt of the null still -dandling, became frightened, and throw her-elf out of the filth story, breaking an arm and injur ing, 11,r-elf So that , he cannot recover. The laboring f.toe , if t Ito null is about 91;0, and it is sopposisi that about 71Si 1113111411 beings were actually burie.l iii the ruins. Aliout half-past 'J lire in the ruin- was discovered flips additional horror struck terror to the hearts that had before been hopi•ful of sav ing more live- ; still the work of removal went on. The for, o pumps and engines on the ground were at once got to work al/41 have been pouring torrent-, on, so that at I 1-311 the fire does not seem to gain and hopes are entertained that it will ha' stay ed. Those near the breaking out of the fire were almost on the point or extracting a woman, not much hurt, but the flumes drove them back, and the woman is sup posed to have perished. 12 M.—Calamity succeeds calamity. In lit minutes the whole raw! , of ruins bas become one sheet of flame. The screams and meanings of the poor buried creatures can be distinctly heard, but no power can save them. 1:30 A. M.—The Pemberton Mills are now a black, smoking mass of brick, mortar, and human bones. prOrniSCUOUS/Y n /e irele4row venrr in the flames. The Washington mill was in peat jeopardy, the wind blowing tow ards Duck mill, whose counting room touches the Pemberton. I.AwiaNct, Mass., Jan. 11 FrRTEIER PARTICI'LARS.-A portion of the operatives had left for supper previous to the falling of the building, about 600 re maining. The building was five stories high. teet long by 7i) wile, with a wing on the west side 4 feet, square, shaped like the letter L. It ran 2,7(0 spindles-960 oper at i% es were employed. Three persons are known to have been literally roasted alive. The firo is subdued. t only two bodies have been taken out Fine. , the conflagration.— The building was uninsured. serosn DesP.crc•n.—l I'. 31.—We have very hit le additional in regard to the dread ful catastrophe A lqrga proportion of the /called are young girls, many of them main supports of their parents. The fire was confined to the ruins of the Pemberton Mills. The 10-s of raopertv iu estimated at sl:l4lo,Nat The Mayor has t , •ued the following notice • I.,Au arvre. Mass., .fan. I 1 th.—Terrible us our calamity has 14..‘en" - ; a think it i• touch overestimated in the number killed. As near as 1 have been ;ado to ascertain this morning. 1 find t h e dead and missing, which i• equivalent to dead, I l.*), and IkM wounded. Some of the woundol I%in die, but very much the l'irger number sur- VIVe The Lawrence catastrophe cast a gloom over the city. Hon. David S•ear.. presided at a meeting of twenty gcntlernen to-day, who -10”4crihed : , 1 2,1041 tor the relief of the nuth - Terq, and appointc4l a r,binmitt ee t o nnhctt further contrilaitions. Trains to ieneo are crow, led. A strong force of repot tell t. on the ground, and accounts recei‘cd are vi lininon , . kit real]) afford little new. John Ward, oi erallio in the yarding room of the Qecond story, who was mirac ulously , rIVPII WAII his wife 'Rho worked near nir n , 'l 'rites i . Nenjui , as IQIIOIV4 Watt in the cat ding room with the sec ond ,verqeer, lighting tip. It was the or ten minutes before five We had but a few burner; lighted suddenly heard a loud thundering era.h overhead, and looking up, ‘4lw shafting coming down upon us all over the rtom. Terrified I stood fastened to the spot, although I knew the building was coming on me, Then I heard the overseer shout. I tried to jump out of the rubl.ish, but something struck mesensele.sa. When I came to I found mytielf in the rubbish. covered with blood from wounds on my fare. Finally I crawled up and got. to the top, and found a lot of ruins hang ing over me, which liked to have taken my life, but I succeeded in getting out, I 'passed a dead girl anti two mangled bodies. When first knocked down, I fell under a heavy grinding - stone, which was too heavy to give way to the weight about above,— Ward found his wife at the City Hall. Tho following is one of the heart-rending incidents: Margaret Hamilton, aged 14 years. This was her first day'. work. Her devoted mother attended her, and when asked what injuries her daughter-received replied : lier arm is broken, and her-head is broken, and 4)}t 1 my r ind—and tole the poor woman burst into toani—my poor dar ling is all broken. The unfortunate girl died to-alas. The daughter was the main support of her mother and four children. Miss olive !fridges, of Calla, Me., who worked in the fifth story, seised tlre hoist ing chain of the elevator and went softly down and escaped uninjured. Before the building caught fire, a num ber of those imprisoned beneath the ruins could be seen and conversed with. Drinks and refreshments in some instances were passed to them. When the fire spread ever the ruins they found escape hopeless, and'bid *diets to Mende, and in several cases gave directions as to the disposal of their eft'ects. In one port of the building • sfeft - Asit through It could be seen • rte young wo. men who said they were not at all injured. One thrust her arm • b thumall ap erture alit • ID ••„ ibrough ttv but before :Y• be made large enough drove the men away, end Die . • x fished._ Foot,taj .TdGti LOO .-, appeared at the Police Coast of Rochester lain Friday and swore that one Jobn Skilliman did in a calm, cool and deliberate manner threaten to take her life, andinunedlately thereafter de stroy himself, If she (Minot content to mar: him forthwith ; that thethreat was made be- , c4use she bad bid i bbn begone after having received attention from hint for two years, on account of his having afterwards paid his adreases to other ladies. SkMiman gave ball to keep the peace. Fool! • ME, The Gazette, in making a note of th opinion of the Harrisburg Tetegraph, that -flu C. 11fircusta., of Bellefonte, a nephew of -the Governor, will be selected for Reporter "for the Supreme Court, says it bed hoped that "our fellow citizen, DinJAMIN GRANT, Esq., "would receive this appointment. We still "hope he will, se ho is confessedly capable, "while, according to the 7WeigrapA's showing, "Nizrenet.t. is totally incapable. We repeat "the hope, therefore, that. unless the Governor "should conclude to take a Republican—a very "unlikely circumstance—he will appoint Mr. "G RANT, who is both a good lawyer and a good .•Democrat." We cordially endorse the opin ion of the Gazette in regard to Mr. GRANT.— He is not only "a good Democrat," but a sound and reliable Democrat; sad what is more, is al sound a Lawyer as he is a politician, and lia4 given abundant et idence of his qualifica tions for the post to which be is named-. We understand also that his appointment has been recommended by almost the entire bar of North Wecteru Pennsylvania—that the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State hare Joined in this recommendation, and that the appointment would give general satisfaction to the bar In other portions of the Commonweaith. It seems to us, under these circumstances, that how ever well qualified the Governor's nephew may he—end we do not endorse the Telegrapla's fling by any means—as the Executive of the state he cannot overlook the application of Mr. GitA •T fltA„. The Editor of the G r ilse& says he wish es to -inform the Editor of the Observer that he happens to he so constituted as to be aide to rise above those petty feelings of melevolence and revenge which obviously influence Au gen eral course—and As thanks God for it." A great many years ago—not lately we acknowledge-- we read in our Sunday school lesson about a certain Pharisee who 'thanked God" he was not like a certain poor publican and sinner. tod the I torette's thank offering we have quot ed, sounds very much as though it were uttered in the same spirit. And we guess it was We are more convinced of this because in the very article, to which we took exceptions last week, the comments upon which reems to have riled our neighbor, be did not "rise far enough above those petty feelings of malevolence" as to prevent his indulging in is• mean and petty fling at us, based upon the "say so" of his "now personal friend, but once hitter enemy." If our neighbor desires to have people consider him a saint, he must act the saint at all times and to every body. Otherwise the public will think with us that the "thank God" part of his adjuration is rank blasphemy! far Every body knows that the members of the Republican party never want office—at least, every body knows all their papers say so, and that is the same thing. Well, this being so, we were rather surprised to Beg the follotigt destetrinti••••—• l ••• -- • at Harnsburg but week, in the columns of one of the class of papery mentioned. What can it mean ? Are Republicans actually hungry for the "flesh pots'" "Every hotel is overrun with candidates and their friends; and members are now button holed into a corner by one, tapped gently be hind the door by another ; softly whispered in the ear by another ; invited to take a "smile" by another; appealed to in behalf of some cork-legged or one-eyed hero of the last war by another—all breathing the same story—all t caching -What various wants on power attend i" For tcn years past this evil—for positive evil a in--has been increasing The applica tion for subordinate offices has been at once humiliating and alarming." Patriots! patriots! every one of them "fought, bled and died" in defense of "sambo." /kir The Jerusalem correspondent of the Boston 7'ruveller says that Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's second son, who is midshipmen in the British Navy, while in the port of Jaffa, received a severe thrashing from a brother middy, whom he had insulted ; and it is rela ted of him, greatly to his credit, by his brother officers, that after his defeat he begged the victor's parliSa. for having commenced the (loam! 'Mr. Barnett, a very eminent riding master in St. John's Wood, London, has enter ed the lists with Mr. Itarey, and undertakes to prove that the American system of horse taming is neither new nor true, but had been tried and had failed long before Mr Ilarey thought of adopting it. liovrov, 'Tan. 11 Nor The New York herald is urging the Black Republicans in Congress to rotator John W. Fterney, for Clerk. and by way of recom mendation. republishes his celebrated Forrest letter. The Washington correspondent of the Pittsburgh Journal gives the following: "I was greatly edified on hearing •Thad. Stevenes' justification of his vote ter Gil mer, on Friday last, tot Speaker. A friend rushed up to him, in breathless haste, just as the vote was about being announced by the Clerk, and while Mr. H. had vet time to change his vote, and exclaimed, 'Why, Mr. Stevens ! Voting for Gilmer—the larg est sraveholder in the House! He owns over a hundred negroes l"Certainly. cer tainly.' dryly replied Mr. S., 'he's just the man for me. You don't suppose 1 would vote for a man having just one old spav ined nigger, do you 'pay- An exchange giver the following hint, which may nave a /owl interest here: •Let every one who finds fault with the dress worn by a minister make him a present ofjuat such a coat, vest, pants, hat, hoots, &c., as the sender thinks the most becoming." apt. IL is a common obsercation that there are more sufferers from debility, among Amer than can be found among soy other ~ iced nation. The reason ill obvious. We too little exeroise. and forget the wants of the tipdy in the absorbing pursuits of business. In all such eases, ordinary medicines can do litre good. What isreti : itured is just. such a tonic and in- "gointor u : Hostetter loss Siva' to the in his C TIEBRATED "811 1 / 4 THI18." andnervous denizen of the counang-house, the c.zhatetted toiler upon the shop-board, and thq prostrated student of the midnight lamp, bete found a wonderiftd man crater in the "Brrrzas," Ind prefer it to more pretentious, hut less efficacious medicines.-- Bet it should 'not be forgotten that the agent which is so magical In its itifineitek upon a frame which is merely debilitated, is equally powerful in assisting nature to expel the most terrible forms of diseases. Who will not give it Bold by druggists and dealers everywhere- Bee advertisement is soother °wows. 'peal andlittrarg. sir E. D. Putarr, of Girard, has been eleetne# inAisitttntit Door Keeper of the Howse at Reiteteblir. tictiiirs will, become easy, in Erie spun% at MU rate very neon. I Thanotitie of an increase of fare on the flunbtlty road, on certain conditions, is design ed to induce passengers to purchase tickets before taking seats in the car, and is a good regulation. AaEians,—•TMGiww, wethink, is in error in announcing that there is to be a new Ger man Catholic paper started here. We hare conversed with a number of gentlemen of that persuasion, and it is news to them. Arrourriro.—We notice Jona W. Rinostt, Esq., formerly of this:city, has been appointed Solicitor of the City dr Pittsburgh, by the new Republican Councils. 'As that ■tripe of poli tics is in the ascendant :in the "smoky city" we are glad to record the success of such aper madly unexceptionable yonng man. a.. - The Connesitville Coiner regales its readers with "Jack.the-Glant-Killer's" letter to Gov. Vitas, from the columns of the True Americas. Next week it will doubtless give us the "History of the Funk Family" by the same author! SS. The Erie and Pittsburg road having been finished to Jamestown, Mereer -county, many of our readers want to know when a reg ular train from Erie to that point is going to be put on! z Give us light'. lar,The Pennsylvania Almanac for Ir has been laid upon our table It contains many valuable - itatistics, and ougbt to have a wido sale It can be had at the P. 0 New, Depot ge m , We 'wonder if Grace Greenwood's "Little Pilgrim" haent gone on a Pilgrimage to some undiscorered country !---cause we no ticed the volume to commenced on the first inst., for which we were to receive it regularly for a year; but itspilgriznage hati'ut extended this way, that's certain. Whai;„a the ren4on, Grace! What's the reason, PhiAder e:meam sir One of our exchanges has x paragraph headed, "Editors Looking Up," ba_sed upon the fact that the chief clerki of both branches of the Pennsylvania Legislature are editor. Rus sell Eerrett, chief clerk _of the Senate, is the editor of the l'ataburyh Ouvtir. E Rauch, chief clerk of the House, is the editor of the Mouth Chunk Gosett‘ 110. We see by the Gazette that the "dead head" system is going to he curtailed on the Aunbury And Erie road. This is right. It takes money to build railroads—it requires a large quantity of the same kind of commodity to keep them running, consequently those who ride ought to pay We are glad then to learn that Mr. Ett.Ara has received his orders from head quarters to "lop off" the `•dead head- " $ A writer in the Pre.thyteruin rebukes the custom prevailing in some Churches of —re turning the hymn-books, after singing, to the 'rack' (on the hack of the rein with a n()i.e almost equal to the grounding of arms by a military company The rebuke is extensively applicable, but not to as. ifir We scarcely ever go upon our streets that we do not see objects of charity ; and the almost daily applications at our door, show conclusively that the severe winter hAm caught many without means to provide food and fuel. Money is scarce, and employment difficult to obtain. Taking these facts into consideration. you who-have been filrn...l 'k r have means to spare. think how many sorrow ing hearts may be made glad by the dropping of some little token of kindness . There is many a lone, lone orphan. Beating out this march of life 'Mid the clamor and confusion, All alone amidst the strife; There are brows as pale as italics, There are hearts as told as snow Coursing on life's dusky highway— , Look and you will find it so' MI. Of all the genial, readable agricultural publications which grace our time, commend us to the "Country . Grntlensan, - Albany. N Y Persons fond of Agricultural reading, including also, those in want of information relating to the farm and garden, should take this period ical, and we remind them that now iv the time to subscribe. It never flags in interest, on the contrary is always fresh, presenting ever) , week something new, instructing and useful. We hear much of the good done by him who makes three blades of grass grow where one only grew before. In our judgement he great , er benefactor is he who makes men think . thought precetsier effort. and without it no improvement can be made. The admission is general that our agriculture needs improving. The manner of effecting it to advantage is the great want. Here is a paper that solves much of the difficulty by imparting valuable practi cal instruction—such as every tiller of the soil needs The teachings of the -roustry man" are so clear and satisfactory that none need hesitate to carry then) into practice--the bolder the more satisfactory the result. The terms of the paper are cheap. considering the amount of reaming,—a single copy once a week S 2, with a liberal discount torlubs L. Tt tK ra St Sose, Albany, N. Y SO_ We are indebted to E. li. & W. B. COLN MAN, Nos, fi and 6, Burnett House, CiDthitlitli, fur a case of wines and liquors, containing sato plea of sparkling and still Catawba, till Eye. Scotch, and Bourbon Whiskies. As this liollfke was unknown to us until this pnektige readied us by Express, we were a little surprised that the firm had such a correct appreciat ion of our tads. If it was a mere guess it was the hest guess we ever beard of, and they can guess again in the same way as POOO as they like.-- But joking aside ; we infer from the card ac companying the package that tile Messrs. Cots- MAN are extensive dealersin Wines and Liquors, and having been furnished with such convin cing evidence of the quality of the articles sold by them, we have no hesitation in recommen ding dealers and others in this section who wish to replenish their stock to send them an order. Their still and sparkling Catawba is from Longworth's celebrated rituals.", while their Whiskies ar4 selected .ith t care, and warrantid pure,—whit; , t.t f, is a great recommendation whether de—gned for medical or any other purpose. ,e• The Buffalo Commercial publishes from the Boston Journal su account of Col. Drakes famous oil well at Titusville, and seems io doubt the statements as to the amount of oil pumped up in a day. The Commercial cud lay aside its doubts—both the oil and the quantity are re alities, as the number of barrels which daily ease is over the Sunbury and Erie road can testify. aft. In noooing the union of the Erma* and ,dinerseves, the- Gazette sari of the new pa. per, 44 0 f cours‘it will be anti-slavery in ita &bag and tridencies." Why not have said Reyntbliren'.' . . s ir Some of our Pennsylvania exchanges, that got out no paper the week previous to :;ew Tear's day, are just now regaining their readers with tie ifiesident's message. When they pt tiroughth that of the Governor, t will( be almost e for the Legislature to tidjotuti. Boon.after • r....rpress came into this breathing world. the Editor proclaimed pub licly that he was going to spend what little property he had in fighting the Observer. Well, from present appestranoca we should say be has kepi his word; but mark the result—the Ob server Still lives, but the &pram has gone to rest in CATillell bosom. In the language of Shelley— as from ma enemies] oak Two empty mums mood their Marion, Yell Orrin. mitt orook-hy ernely When they wet the noonday mots 01 fresh Immo. carton. ♦e two fribbarltaft eight-birds Sit From their boom of deadly hos. Through the night to heights. It, When the sworn is la a It, ♦bd two 'tan an now, or tow As a shark and dog-ash snit rodsor sa Atlantic kg*, For the negro-ship, whose freight Is the thorns of their dabs Wrinkling tbsir red gills the while - Are ye, two cultures sick for battle, Two seorplooe under oaf wet stoat, Two bluntness wolves whoa. dry throats rattle, Two rives prrebod nu the txturrulued tattle, Two wirers taatfssl Rao .as. MIL, Rey. Mr BLACKBVILX, of this city, lec tured at Westfield on Friday evening last week. The Reputaccia, in speaking of the Lecture, says it •was a fine literary production. Mr. B. is a graceful writer, and an easy speaker and hia narrative of the licotish Pioneer wee listened to by a large and intelligent audience." sal. The dwelling house of one of our sub scribers, BLICKIINSDIATtit, Esq , near the Ohio line in Sloringfield township, was destroy ed by fire et ruid-day on Tuesday ()float week. Wo did not learn the amount of the loss—but it must he considerable illfnir The NI uCk hOiderS of the Erie and North East Railrmitd - company held their annual elec tion on 'Ne lay The uld board was unani mously elected, as follows. Jun!: A. TR•4:11, President ; and John ff. Walker, bean Rich mond, llilrun rourtright, Prescott Metcalf, Andrew Scott, and Wtn L. Scott, Directors Spencer, wits re-elected Treai,urer Dar The annual report of the Managers of the Erie Canal rompany, together with the Report of the Superintendent, hare been band el us for publieltp,n, but want of space pre cheley their in.ectl.olltlti4 week We will find =EI NATI ItX . 3 Fat. - There are now on ex hibition, at the Perry Block in this city, Coate of the /Llo3t wonderful freaks of nature ever .eer, The ,ay 3, which we base seen repo eti about the streets, that there are three Pigs, each having eight leg., two hndiev, four ears, two tail., and only . o t•• head , a rat with two head., four eyes, and two mouths; nlao. one l'at wit I, three 1eg..., and al.. a Soldier hick en or I:usaion Upright, vine Chicken with four legs VI I four wind. , i'llieken with heavy coat of hair or down , two Thicken, atilt wen t). toes , one Chicken with three legs ; Dog with three legs; a ralf with two heads ; all Alligator ti4r:Fialt ; Tarantula 6pi.ler, variety of Snak.ea: a large tics-hiril, ealle