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Whiner.
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(I,mrge I. I /raham. Clerk tS emomlssionors, \1 ill3am
hiloy.
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AFSlStallt 11111-4ess----Cliarles
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Hey. Ilermmn M. Jehnson, Professor of Phila.PkY
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VOL. LV.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Rail Roma Accident—Anti rtZtvolv Noth
ing Meeting inWashingtr-Non-Tork
Nominations—Cholera, Fever.
THURSDAY, Sept. 21.
Consiitifrabh l ; .excitemelut. iyas \ created in
Washington city yesterday*emocratic
-meeting was-called-to - maliea demonstration
against the Know Nothings, I%hichovas at
tended by a large crowd. The officers were
nearly all office holders under the Adminis
tration. After the resolutions were reported,
°tile of Which ! called upon the members of
the C a binet to purge every department of
Know Nothing clerks, the Hon. Thomas •11.
Florence, of Philadelphia, was introduced as•
the first speaker, but beflire l,e ctinld speak
a word, such scenes of howlin g . laughing :IN
ridicule were evinced as showed a determi
nation on the part of the majority of the
meeting to defeat the proceolin.r ' s. The noise
was ,, resumed every time Mr. Florence at
tempted to speak, and finally the meeting
was obliged to adjourn in conrushm, after
which the crowd quietly dispersed.—The
Whig State. Convention of New.. York met
yesterday, at Svracttst;. to nominate a State
ticket.—Capt. Smith,_of the hrig Julia
ton, was arrested at New York yesterday
charged with bringing . : six hundred.and six
te.cu slaves from Africa t.) this CI 011111.1'1—.
There was no abatement of the cholera yes
terday at Pittsburg., the ntimbHr of deaths
being reported at fiftv-six,: and the 'panic ill
ereasing.—A heavy thunder storm occurred
Newburyport, Mass., yesterday. The house
of Moses Currirr was struck In iightnitililtiol
nearly torn to pieces.
HEM
15'00(1
The Right Revert d J. :11. Wainwright,
Provisional Bishop of the Protestant Episeo
'pal diocese of New York, died in that city
yesterday afternoon, in the Glst year of his
ago.—From Santa Pe, late advices say !hut
the death Of *uhrev took place in conse
'quence of an altercation with Major \\-right
man about a paragraph published in a San
ta Fe paper. - Aubrey drew a pistol to shoot
Weightman, whereupou the latter stabbed
friffignAlt a hoWie knife, and immediately sat ,
- rendered himself.—The Right Reverend F.
X. Gartland; Rbinan Catholic Bishop of Sa
vannah, arid flirmerly pastor of 'St. John's
church, Philadelphia, died in Sayannah,,of
cholera, on Weduesday.—The Niw Orleans
rhos have entirely ceased. Ji , !lin Kaiie, one
of the men supposed to have Gen killed, has
since been fbund. Ile was shot four times,
but may recover from 164 wounds.—The
deaths on Sunday and Monday last, in'Sa
vannah, wore I I, including 29 from yellow
fever.—The last daily report of deaths in
Pittsburg, from cholera, is sixty-seven. :Yes
terday was observed there as a day of fast
ing.—The New "fork Whig State Convention
made its nominations yesterday. Myron 11.
Clark, of Ontario county, was nominated for
Governor ; Henry J. Raymond, Editor of the
Now York Times, for Lieutenant Governor ;
Henry Pitzhowli for Canal Commissioner,
and Norwood,Bowne for State Prison Inspee-
Mlll
The cholera rages with unalsited violence
in Pittsburg. There were sixty deaths 'yes
terday, and sevcnty-tour the preceding. day,'
inakiag five hundred since the first appear
ance
, of ;he disease.—The deaths by yellow
fever at New Orleans last week :MO.—The
yellow fever still rages at 'Charleston and Sa
vannabt.tlie deaths averagiog,_about thirty a,
day.—lleturnst.of the Mai to election in all
but three towns show that Morrill, the fusion
" udidate_fer__Ctoyeranc r faile...aaicloo4o4.
by the people by about nine hundred votes.
A despatch from Quebec says that the Reci
procity treaty was confirmed by the-Canadi
an parliament on Wednesday last.—The un
fortunate, disturbances' in New Orleans were
continued on Friday of last week, when an
armed gang paraded the streets of the city,
and demolished Mike Foley's tavern. Three
men wee seriously wounded; and also a Mrs.
Adams, by a shot supposed to have been•fir
ed at lief husband.—A frightful rail road ac
cident occurred at Cincinnati a few days
since, on the track of the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton and Dayton road, three squares from
the depot: A switch lever breaking as one
baggage and tli'Ve - e passenger cars were go
ing to the depot, two of the passenger cars
were thrown down an eighteen feet embank
ment into the Whitewater Canal, where there
was a depth of .1 fret water. There were 120
passengers in,the train. One car was turn
ed upside dbwn'in the canal ; another fell on
its side in the canal, and a third%‘%as-thrown
partly into it. The' water filled the cars to
the depth of three feet. A number of per:
s'ons wore injured, some fatally, anti all seri
otisly One boy, named Moore, had his right .
leg torn from his body, and has since died,
His aunt 11101 her arm so badly broken Mid
cat that it will Have to be amputated.—The
second Anti-Know Nothing meeting ett Wash.
ington, yesterday, yus a worse failure than
the first: Three-fourths of the 'audience were
3 purr fur fly ,fautiltl eiyrlts.
WED:\ ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1851.
FRIDAY, Sept. 22
TIAZ 1).1Y, Slit. 23
" KIIONV Nothings;" and after bearing C.(l.
Florence, Mr. Carrigan, and Mr. Stanton pa
tiently, they organized tt counter meeting in
the sante room, at which the proceedings
~,yere much more enthusiastic than those of
the first.
A powder mill at - East — HartThrd,
belonging to Hammers & Forbes, and con
tainingabove one hundred kegs of powder,
Was blown up 011 Saturday morning, aid a
man named John McCann killed. The yel
lowfever having become extensively fatal at
Agusta, Ga. a fparful panic took place. The
population of the town sled by hundreds, and
the'wbole country around was covered with
their tents. The town was so' deserted that
the post office was closed and the mails de
layed, there being no body to deliver them.—
So great is the fear of the fiver, that the peo
ple of Jacksonville, Fla., tired on the steamer
Welika, from Savanuh,oirthe I 7th, while she
was pa.;sing tip the riter iit that plaro, in or
der-to prevent her from stopping. Last week
the deaths its Nrw York city nmuln , rPii 597;
includin, ,, St; by cholera, :no) its Philadelphia
272, inehoHng . l7 by cholera. Saturda‘s re
port of cholera in Pittsburg I.i deaths ideho'..
era being a la:del : ad decrease. The funeral
of Bishop Wainrig-ht, of the Protestnat Epis
copal church, took place in New York city
on Saturday, the sem:ices_ being conducted by
Bishops Itonne and Whitehouse. The (b
Jury nt New York has found. - over eleven
hundred hills of indictment against persons
for selling liquor without a license.
Ni It AV YOR K
Fire-and Popee 'tit a l Ist cresting
Fr. el s - 111srlonn ry Operations- Rapid
Decline in Floti% ,
NEw YoRK, Sppt. 25.
The American Tract sociell held its mouth
ly meeting in this city last. week. The do
mestic work of the seek ty whs repel-tod to he
in a proipereus condition ; though needing
the continued c.ontributions of its friends to
mantain the progress of the-cause. On ap
plication an appropriation was made for a
book of hymns for the Daketall mission in
the language of that tribe of Indians.
The annual report of the chieleiig.ineer of
the tire departmen i t of the city reports thirty-•
three engines, fortv-three ho).)c carriages and
nine hook and lad d er trucks as now in the
set-vire of the department. litiring the VPlll',
there were 385 fires. with a loss of 5,827;012
in buildings. hini's'2, 037 1.72 on go.. : and
there *cry 221 ether alarms, eitlur false er
for very - •eause.a.- Tbe chief think;
half the fires in the city are set by ineendia
rie.:l, and a quarter the Bolt of carelesness.
`.1'185 chief (if police has also just male his
report, containing many highly biteresting
flogs worthy of reflection. The whole num
ber of arrests in six . mouths for criminal of-I
fences was 25,110 ; so that if each arrest was
of a different ',ensue, about one twentr•bairth
o f the population would have been taken in
to custody during. the half year; but it is
well known that a great number probably
a majority, arc old °lli:riders who are repeat
lv am.sted, 80(1 the number of ofil nders
is therefore much less than the number of
arrests. The number Of perSalia arrested fur
the most serious class .of crimes was as 11,1-
lows : murder ; • arsini 12; robbery in-the
first degree 23; burglary 115; perjury 5 ;
grand larceny 582. There was an increase
of 6,307 arrests as cempared with correspon
ding six months, but this increase is atrilt
ted-not•to-the g reater - frequency ,Feritate i -but
to the inerease'd vigilance anti activity of the
polio. There have been no greater moldier
of-ofiletolut. fewv , ---oliettees—have-been..
comniitted;lwith imp?fliril".'4 . ?),Froin, the, tables;
that aceotitilany the report we find that out
of tire wholO number arrested in three months
a third mere were males than finales ; near
ly three times as many were singh,as Mar
ried ; about one fourth had no-trade, and a
boUt an equal number could neitherletid nor
write, Forty-seven were children tinder ten
years of ageotiOl 1,120 more were under 20.
About one half of the whole were between
20 and .10. gore than a thousand we're over
50. There were but one thousand natives!
of Germany, and less than two thousand werti
natives of this country, whilst 5,117 were put
down as Irishmen. •The "liquor statistics"
fbrtn the. most surprising uortitin of the re
port. and extinguish all 8111)1 - Wise at the pre
vailing oriole fit' New York. The report says
'that there are 6,895 public taverns anti grog
gqivs kept in New rerll;(and to this num
ber the Tribune says there should be added
'4OOO t 0.3,000 kept in houses hept in houses
of Prostitution and not recorded ;)that 2,07/4,
in nearly halt' hre unlicensed; and more than
2;000 ore lutbitually and constat3tly open--on
the Sabbath. ;
The-receipts or flour from the South and
West aro rapidly increasing : producers, hati•-
ing become pretty well satisfied that present
high prices cannot be sustained for any length
of time, are pushing forward their stocks with
considerable vigiw: There is no deinand for
export, and each succeeding steamer front
- Mom)Av, Sept. 25
('road; of people art' already corning into
the city hr railroad and steamboat to attend
the State Agricultural Fair, and during the
NVelthe city will wear - an aspect of increas
ed bustle, gayety and excitement. It will un.
doubtedlv be a magnificent demonstration.
A sharp personal correspardence, accord
ing to one of the Sunday papers,whicicde
tails the facts, has occurred between Senator
Conoper, President of the Sunbury and Erie
Pailroad, and Morton MeMichael, Esq., edit
or of the Philadelphia North American. in
consequence of articles pub died in that pa
per'retlecting- on the city sr lc. Tiption to the
Frio and Sunbury Railroad as, idunined bv
false pretences and inalversiition, rlr. Cot;-
per addressed a note asking- Mr. McMichael
ih e ! i m age appli e d to ldm. In reply, Mr.
MeM. denied his right to question him, he I
said he was Icallv, morally, and personally
responsible for -trat, as for'everything tha
appears in the columns of the North Amcril
can. Mr. Cooper then seat for the Hon. Wm,
Cost Johnson, of Maryland, to act as hi
friend, who was the hearer of the challenge,
to Mr. McMichael, who asked two days 11,
consideration. At the termination of thn
time Mr. McMichael declined the meeting'
on'the ground thlit, it was his imperative - dr
tv as a public journalist to animadvert upon
such transactitois, :yid that he therefore cord
apt be held personally responsible. It is int
tiMated that the corp:spondenee, will be pui
lished in case of ,any repetition of the charp,
es in the North American.
Hy a prmision oft the Constitution of th .
State, the sending of a challenge is made
tui.eletni an or, punishable, Fa y fine and in
prisonment, and !flakes •the challenger ib
emnpotent to boll any nllice-of trust, horn,
or profit.
At a inee,ing of the -young men of thi i
I),,rough, held 1/11 the eVlntin g nt .Nlonday tli
sth inst., after the us ial sel,etion of oilicer::,
the following residutio , i,; Ivere pas.sea
NV ItEn•EA:;, We feel ,;be necessity of estal.
fishing some asmiciii.tion for the nut •a 1
provenient and intellectunl cultt're of th ,
young men of our borough, and itite•nl 'cut
i al ili-71ting a library society, to be called t" '111•1
'l"(ning" 'Men's Library A ssociai,ion or Clot
lisle and, being fully aware of the fet.ifit:
of our own unaided exertions, and relvk:
on the generosity and good will of ;he - cii.•
zoloi of he -borou: 4 11, adopt the-fullowin:'
result'. ions ; showing the basis of our sucie..s ,
and as'.ing their assistance: i
posed:ad the. young Inv': of the- borough wht
arc desirous of acquiring knowledge them
selves, and willing; to assist— othexs in its act
quisit ion. _
I.' , ailed, That a committed, selectedfron,
the members Of the association, be tippointei,
to :1st:0111in What amount 'of money can ln;
collected for the purpOse of procuring a suit
able library.
Remyrej, That the money thus raised shall,
be put into the hatdy of six responsible am
-respectable citizens of this borough, not tin•
der twenty-live years of ago, who will.expein't ,
it for the above named purposes, as they, in
conjunction with the majerity of the sociciy,
shall deemplvisabk:
Peso/red, That these resolutions be signel
by the on:ers and published in the papers
or the borough.
.101 IN 13. MIEEM, Pres. -
JOHN D. Mott-rex, Sec'y.
HEALTH OF COLUMBIA.—The cholera lumen ,
tirely subsided in Columbia.. Only three ne'
eases were reported since last- Friday a
week. The - Spy says.th£4" , on Saturday thu
absentees commenced rettirning, and now
the town lia3 resumed its wonted apirearance.
The total number of deaths, from the break
ing out of the - epideria, tolast Tuesday, was
130.
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Europe confirms the impression, which has
now become pretty general, that not a Single
barrel of flour will lie wanted from this country,
either in England or on the continent. The
hest grades have declined in New York,
sl.so"per barrel. withim'a_weeki - and - holiVE , i
can ts-filyinalcc - iffiles by continually s uhrniting
to lower prices.
PHILADELPHIA.
More Nomlnallong—locioanlng of People
n Duel:
Pill I,A DELPII lA, Set. 25.
The Independent Whig . convention of the
old /it met WI Monday Itad nominated-for
Senator. W. F. Hughes; for 'Assembly, Jo
seph :‘lorrison, W. L. Lay, Charles Allegood
~ 1 1exander Irwin, .Montgomery JohnStt•n.
Robert Merchant, 3. 13. Adams; Robert Dell,
Thomas C. Steel. The nominations of this
party me 11(0.i? COllll'loo. Their ticket i 5
headed by Jos. R.Chandler fir Congress, and
they will support the Whig nominations for
ernor &e. What vote thev n i ne be able to
p o ll it i; difficult to say. None of the Whig
papm.7. - Tmppnrt the itAPpoideht tiMCO - 1% NVhii.ll
511015 thlll the 111:I55 of the party adhere to
the rcgulta
YOUNG MEN'S tlionAtty.
EDUC II ATION CONVENTION.
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Agreetthly to notice of the Superintendent
of Common Schools of Citinhuland Countv,c
for the purpose of holding; a Schhol Teachers
Convention for devising more favorable means
}lir the promotion of education generally in
the Common Si holds of Cuinhorland eimutv,
the Directors of Common Schools and
ers gem•rally assembled in Education Ilttll,
on-iiturilitt . , the 2d Sept., ISS 1.
- On motion, Ex-Gov. Jost:N T !, FOTNEa was
appointed President, and A. LAmat:ltToN and
J. P. Ithonts
On motion, Mr. DIFFIN13 7 1(11, Del - nay Su
perintendent of Common Schools of Pensrl
vailia, was solicited to take a sent, with the
President of the meeting, who complied with
the same.
NO. 4
On in thin, a committee or, live were ap.
pointed to prepare items of business' for the
consideration of the meeting. —During the
al(senee of the committee Mr. St!Et)rir, Su
perintendent of Common Schools of Com
bed:alai (-minty, was called -upon to address
the meeting, who responded to the - call, and
in an aide and eloquent manner-addressed
the assemblag,e.., After the-committee
0 - 1 resolutions reported the following.resolu•
Lions, whit h were adopt(-(1 :
Resoired, That the Hoards of • Schmil „Di
rectors he upst,d to revive that the schools.
lip opened each morning by the reading-of a
portion ()I' the tic riptures, without coninient.
by the teacher :done, ur lithe teacher and
scholars in coneert. Singing and prayer at
the option of the teacher.
Be.)-o/re,/, That- each teacher he reline3ted
ti) have stated times for studies and recita
tions, so that, each pupil may receive his of
her 1111 n Share of 1110 il•atillTS 101(9161011.
nrsoired, That till'goseminent in schools
should he mil., lint firm and that the rod
should never by ns -d, except, when all oiler
reasomdde mode of punishment shall fail.,
lierotrr,/, Tin ():1 oh teacher he requested
to he( p monit hook, in whitli he shall
record tho lat , ; attoialaave. [mil conduct, and
sUch 'other itiatt(Ts
t„ inav (Iccui ()Tsui . -
imp.rt:v‘.
lint tin. IAI - tellers in cacti 130-
rnurit lw reiw-;ll,ll()(irganize
Teachors In,tituh.s )011 pract:calde.
Jle.,,A/5.,41, That 1):Iniel • Slwllv. l',•ttr S.
Arty., Watts, .J. Ithoads, V.
liellv;T. \V. Maurice, I)tuidson "E t li t d s , \y in ,
Mt. ("iorgit , i, T. It. I/1? SIM, •11111 :%1(,,,r(•, John
11iulac, 1:. Cornman, .3.10.4 es Nlorri t!, bra
ham Itoshir, and R. Ecl;cls, he appoint e d a
committee to make art angettients for Ike per
•mala•tit .orgailization of a Comity liistitnte,
and that the committee shall have lull power
to adopt a etMstitution and by-laws for the
I-wild:won of said Institute.
- I:ego/red, That we recommend to each
teacher the importance of subscrihing t . ir the
l'enns \ Iva n ia School itiu'rnal, edited ht- Thos.
11. Iturrnwcs, lisq.
.Ressoired, '.l'hat in order to be a su c ce ss f u l
teacher. each member of the profession should
procure suitable wbrks on temliing.
Restdved, That we rec./1111111.'11d to the
zeris of each school district, the 'p' op of
raNing by subscription a sum sufficient to
purchase a set of out-line maps.
Itc.lolved, That the School Directors of the
different Distriets he requested to consider
The . propriety of paying the teachers a liber
al salary.
lle.s.otred, Thnt the thanks of this conven
tion be tendered to Mr. DiOinbach, deputy
superintendent of common sehools, fdr his
attend:uu•C ut our convention.
Resotred, 'Fluid the thanks of this conven
tion be tendered to the Board of School Di
rectors of Carlisle, for the use of Education
•
lie. oired, That illy proceedings of this eon
venth ui he published tit all the papcN of the
county, and in the Pennsylvania School Jour
nal.
Rego/red, That the thanki , .of this conveo7
:ion he tendered-0 the others, tin• the faith
ful discharge of their dudes.
The examination ofteachers for the com
mon schools of the county being closed, the
Sirperint.undent desires to return his sincere
thanks to the several Boards of Directors for
their kindness and attention Shown toward
him, and for their hearty co-operation in as
sisting and giving infornudibfilifThe several
examinations.
The spirit and interest manifested at the
examinations was of the most cheering char
actcr and gave strung evidence of a deter-
Mination On the 1411 of the Directors to car
ry oat the law. l& many places the exam
jn afiens were rate nde . d 'by
friids of education-vhb evinced. ..n. great •
interest iu the cause, and who &pressed a
williug,ness—as well as•a determination; to
make-frequent visits at their several schools,
lin. which they will deseii;'e niuch praise.—
These, as well as many other friends, will
please accept my warmest thanks, for the
Imlay invitations given, and requests made,
to spend a night with them when the visita
tion Of schools shall: ake place.
As ii''general thing the Teachers gave evi
dence of considerable scholarship,,and* man
Vested gentlemanly dispositions, which was
very commendable.
The visitingof - sehools will commence in
October, of which duo notice will be given
to each Hoard of Directors. It is :disired on
the part of the Superintendent, that #e citi
zens generally, together with the -Directors,
will make It a point, as well as a duty, to at
tend in their several districts.' The tqachers
are expected to carry out in their schools the
resolutions adopted by the County Conven
tion of Teachers.-
We dialect the attention of our friends'
visiting the city of Philadelphia, to the card
of Wm. B. Miro:int:An . , in • another column.
His assortMent of Watches, Jewelry, &c. &c.,
is very complete, and his prices are moder
ate. We advise them to give MM. a call:
Fortho llorald
DANIEL SHELLY,
Co. Sup: of Common Schools
MEM