List of Premiums of the Cumb. County Agricultural Society for the Pall of 1856. WEDNESDAY, TILURSDAY, AND FRIDAY, - OCTOBER. 15,16, AND 17 • Neat battle. ill over Dim t.ottrs 614, PE ' 2nd best do.. . • ...B.st, do. between two and:three 2nd beat do.. • kest do. between.one and two . 2nd best do. . • Best Bull Calf : . • ' /lest• Cow over , three years oia . 2nd boat do. .. Rest do. between two and throi "2nd best do.. . Best MVO between one ,and two' 2nd Imist do. Best Hafer Calf ---41orges. Bost Stallion ov'er'ibanyeni•e of Itg6' - 2nd, best do. - .' , • • • Best ao. between three and:Sour years • 2nd best do.. • • Best Horse Colt bettropri two and three . - 21.0 WO d 0... Best Yearling Colt • 2nd. best 10.. : • . . Best Mare over four years , . • 2nd bost,llo. . ' • .• • • • Most do. between three and four • 2nd best do. Best do. between two and tbroO 2nd best do. . Best Yearling Filly . . ... • Best pair Draughtliorsos • 2ud best do. . . . — Bost pair Horses; light draught . . 2nd best d 0... . . Best single Saddle horse • . ' Best singlellarness Horse - Jacks and. Mal . BeSt-Tivar,L of ules . • Best 'Foam of Ilorios . ' . •.: . Best pairof Mules -. • • . . . . . . . . Sheep and Swine....._ Sect pen of Sheep, not, lees than- three, . . . 2ml beet do__. • Best - Buck do. •. • Best Swe •• • . . • . ltest Boar overonb year old • . 2ad best.do. ' . . /lest Boar Under one year old • 2nd best do.' • •• Best Sow over one year (dd. ' 2nd beat do.. • . ----- reld - Snw - undeeone , year_ohL__.. 2ud best do. • • Pout t ry°. Bost ape)) otptilekoris, nut lest; than srx, do.. , , . Bost. pair of Chieloins . 2nd best tic,. . . . . Best.pairoreurikyo, Bost pair of Guise - Boit pair of - Ducks . •• ' • . . Agricultural Implements and Al[arbiters The best dis • play of Agricultural Implements • ' • b 1:10 Ltuat ('low ' :., . , 200 'Dust Subeoll Plow •-- . • • '. • . - 1 . 00 •Dest.llarrow,' . . . . 1 00 —Bust efilth , ator .. - - .. . , . 100 • Beet Grain and Seed Drill • . •`. , . , 300 _:. - Dest Corn Planter-- • . 2 00 Duet Reaper _.. - . f. 00 .. . . _ . . Best Mower - .• : "' . . ---'. - .'. • • 00 •- Duet Combined limiper and:Mower , f_ . ,_, , . • b,..00 Dust. llorse-powne - • . . - .2 00 ---- 110 et Thresher. ; ., .• S' 00 • Beet Wheat Fan . - - . - 200 . Best Clover Huller . . . -- - . . • • 300 Best Farm Wagou. • •. .- . , 111.auttfsitzturea. Art(clea. . . - V•LASS Nil. 1. - . The best assortment of Shovels, Hues, Manure Forks, eaeh,..- . . . . Best assrtrtment of Tool's . Best Root, Chtter Churn. Cheese Press, Milk Pans, drain Aleasnres, Axes. Bet 'live; . Willow, Baskets, Farm Baskets, Cedar .. -. Ware, each. . - • • . . • Beet . eet of Wagon Harness (hind gears) '., •` • • _(frout gears))_,_ __ Bear fcet of CariLigttlirarnow . • . . .. Best set of Single ilarness .. liestSaAldlo . • , . Best. ,Ihitlfo: • . ' ..,..: - .. . •a. Bust display of llarness • . ..... .. . Lest pair of-horse Shoes (special 'premium) .. • - ' ' cuss - rio. 2. Best Two-horse Carriage Best Twohorso Buggy Best One-horse Buggy , . . Dust Spring Wagon . Vast display of Usbioct W'aro 2nd bust do. :A best do. . •. _ • Dairy and Honey Bost lot of Butter; not less Oat& a lbs., . . Bost box ot Ilouoy . • . • _ 2ud best.do. . . . . • Preserves an 4 Plekles. Best lot of Preserves more Una' one year bld 2nd best do. 3d best do. . Best lot of Picklos 2nd bestdo. Crops. Best 1.4 bushel of Wheel (white) Best q t bushel a Wheat (red) . Best 1 bushel of Cornwhite). Bost bushel of Oorn (rod) . Best . 1 4 bushel of Rye . . Best /,‘, bushel of Outs Best :;t4 bushel of Barley • . Best three ears of (torn Moor: /g r ind Mord. Best barrel of Flour . Best bushel of Buckwheat Meal . —Vegetables. ,Best 4 bushel Potateesilrish) " • (Sweet). " " Turnips . • Best Ituta -Rages, Sugar Beets, diribts, Tar .snips, Red Beets, Sgusabes i Egir-Plants,------1 • Cabbage Celery, Caulidawer, - Pump. ; kir,s, •_ . . • • . 60 display of Table Vegetables. . . - Of Best. sample of Bread • . ..• • .' • ; Household ProdnettOsiti. For the 'best specimen of Woolen Blankets, : Woolen Cloth, Woolen Carpet, Coverlet, • ' Bag„Carpets, Woolen Knit Stockings, Mittens, Oltives,clelannel; Linen, Onus. , • ' tiented Needle-work, Quilts, Sheets, • ' • Counterpanes, Mats, llearth Bug, Shelf Work, was flowers, cwitdool), ' cover, each, . . • • . • 'Fruit stud Flowers. Bast specimen of Fall Apples .' . .• 'est specimen of Peaches liest specimen of fears : Best specimen of Crapes . Best sweimen of Plunur . . ...Best__dWpiiiyq Flowers :* Silverpltattal, storke,,Glaset an . test exhibtter Silver:Ware. Best %able ,Cutlery . . • ' Bost Brltanla Were, • • Best Glass Ware ', . - • • Zest Jewelry " . • • • • Beat Daguerreotypes Best Tanned Leather • • Best Stoves for 'Wood and Coil • • Best 915 Stoves Bacon +and ,Illtewle• Beet thun cured the exhibitor • SeeoF4,o!tiltv • • • Alliseelleuneous Articles, The Society. will' AiTiwgt.discrettotuiry premiums Sir li ti gesAterions articles pxhlbited, whether they be en. erated above or nottlinehei Domestic Wines, Mules • ailoots, 'Paintings, Musical . Instrumentx,Via-Ware Gas-Fl ~ Steam ,Enginatr and=Machineat binds; mad for any newlyinvented and Amend litaelthab. r Ploughing !latch, = for the Di4t,- • 7 AOO litteonirbest, • - - 4el T h e Itl o , 4 ofilai Itiatch',for all those who Will be ready, • : will start on 'Ftiday, the aTth; exactly at 9 o'clock , — :- The address (ifa pence/Am rotund , to deliver It) Will at 11 • o'clock. Premtams will be awarded at 1 clock ; and the afternoon wllltie oceupled by an enc. tics of .011 suet, • articles as contributors may please to 41speite of.. THOS. PAXTON, l'roildent GEO. W. SILEAFFEIt, Tram. • r SABD'ff.. WATTS, Oor. $ 4 00 • eO - 00 2.00 2 00 M 3 • 100 - 2 00 • 2 00 • 1 00 . 1 CO • 1 00 1 00 • 6 00 4 00 4,0 8 00 8 00 2 00 2 00 7- , 76,titlit _2' -,Expiioibr: 1 00 4 00 *8 00 800 200 2 00 1 00 1 00 00 3 00 4 00 klee`An , enthusiastic admirer of the beau. ties of . nature, , u4resented in the lofty moun tains and lovely valleys of our own . county, sends us the folhiwing. . ItArmrrowN„ Cumberland county, , • „ September 12th, 1830. f . • To; I 4 o ' L o f 1 American - • • ir! obscure village, hither ' .cittn : to fame, except • extenl deriVed its nem,/ 14,t0t.attalping Celebrity in, affording a cliM .. '4ititOable Value:in - cases ofldiseas. ed..lini';;.l4Wits., Or , any and all affections of the There is o peculiar sOfiness atmosphe're derived . trorm the poit : o Ott; ,ciraidation of fresh •and trong-brec-zes~iY!'shing_thrliugb dlie forgo of I. he Mountain, •resenibliog, s the high .winds of Sharon and Catskill, 11 , 14. dampness -Sullicienv-to_genera'tedeo* ;7 o4lly delote ! ;, riMts- to health,. as air water iii ponds. I:ri(egnates for want of circulationrinduding phj4icians to caution their patients against night air, llere it is as balmy and iii liocer!t at midnight ks nip day. The oldestinhtlhi -6,olllirmB that, the average fall of dew dohs . . not exceed 'six:nights ikt .theyear.' and dial: only - previous'tou long continued sti.rm.--, 111ontpolter iii Franca has been hiadrlY-r. cua- mended;hiit7NiOitTi thiriddrifiet iu rurope comparable to drynosS of clinfayi The season opens early iii May; Oetober mid fcoveMber have been passed here delightfully and bone frcially=luxiirient baths and a tine swimming '4)091 equal tod3erkleys celebrated plunge - 'fire inhalation from' Groves ofyioe, fir and cedar, which give audit attraction to Akeu, South Carolina; is here 'equally balmy and • • S (10 3 00 3 00 4 00 4 00 2 00 3 00 2 00 100 I 00 A 00 100 2 00 1 00 2 00 100, = " I n 00 1 QO —l-00 1 00 1 00 1 u 0 1 00 1 Ot. 2 0 1 MI 2 uu 1 00 100 it iK to _who s e_ 1 - practicaFtuedical-tolence and-int uitive--soglick. e,.4. 4 rly.arcertained the salubrity- stud value of this clinmie, that m any of his . patients are indebted for the return of balmy health. Ar - riving - •witif • it-.:Tacking -cough-..end appalling hemorrhage, a few weeks have invigorated their debilitated, frames,' cud 'the rosy hue of health glows on their cheeks.. .... • Two excellent Hotels, kept by Mr. Pattorr an;l Squire Moore, afford all the comforts of home,: but unfortunately the rooms are so spacious that but one hundred- can be aooom. .rnoditted; when atienst three hundred desired that if- the accommodations were enlarged,, one thousand, would resort here' every searon, 2 LIU 8 00 3 00 2 00 1 00 2 00 4 00 300 2 00 1 00 BEM • Thu access. is most facile, Leaving moee at quarter - past eight, you pass through York and Carlisle, and arrive to au early din ner. ' There arc beautiful York Springs 6 miles, Carlisle Spriug&9, Ba - racks '6, Pine Grove Furnace 6—the walks nr hi t t'!" picturesque ; Woodland Shades, Classic Graves, Secluded Dells, Lovers' Rock; the ifiletiire'Race Course, and - the Holly Rivulet, With' diversified Wafer Falls widening into Lakes. Springs--,Chalybente, Sulphur and, pure Chrystal—gush (ruin the Mountain's base like-waters.trom,the desert:rock of okL , -I wandered through morrow pathways per. fumed with the, fragrance of wild flowers, the cliff and mountain peak. My guide, a Syren Sylph, just budding into life,. fascinating siiv -enteen,---she-glided alongwith - the - grace ora fawn, and the•joy of a child, her fairy foot it fell like snow on earth; s 6 soft and mute ; au enthusiastic admirer of the beautimornature, her. choice selection of varletrwilii glowing descriptions of nature's beatitieit gave, enchantment Wall around—it seemed fairy. land, aptly described in Sir %Vatter Scott's Lady of the Lake. Alas 1 too swirl disenchan ted by her disapperance Found but too late—Paradise before mb, Paradise lost to me. She was already appropriated. The silvery' tones-other voice and 'bright visions of the past "still rustle through the trees, float on the wave, and eoho in the. breeze." . - Our _ enterprising fellow townsman, Mr. _Kempton,is' erecting -most 'extensive Paper Works, at nn outlay aftifty thousand dollars'; prosperity flourishes in this healthful region. At the beautiful residence.of the proprietor of the ?Mumble mills now in suceessful opera tiori; lodated in the midst of an extensive grove, I mei In company with his son-in-law, the gal. lent Col May, the, , cetehrtited Geerge Law, a *an of Owens intellect, ioundjudgment,kid practical common Sense; •The fatuity WOW. - induced the so4tyled Ainerican 'party to pre. fir Col: Premont, only 'proves 4• Quem Deus vide perdempriue demented." " Au ituprpolive Beene- presented Itself on. Sabbath morning. ,A. rustic arbor on an, !wed knoll aim filled . with village girls, assem bled btes pious lidylroin Hilda - lore to recalls instruotions-041,fiunday Sohool Scholars. ariaa feast titAhe lanocento—whose happy countenances Indicated-cheerfulness and de vOtion to thee'Great' Supreme, and grititttde and , affeetiort; to' their aralable' preceptiese, wile,. Although a. comparative% stranger, had devoted the,Sabbatli to this:holy purpose; - - ..,I fully realised the truth and beauty of sacred Writ.—" Suffer littletibildron to come unto we, for of such:is-the Bing, A 4 %of Heaven." 3 00 00 • - I 10 I 00 LOU ib ,k. :^_~' ;, 3 00 1 00 60 ao I o 0 , IA 1 00 t 60 60 • • J. 00 - lateens. 100 1 lib' ,1 oo oo . 140 1 00 . 2 02 . 300 I •00. 60 • -4 4. • *. -. : • .• . a t. ... _ _ if 1; :11 - ' 4iiit_ : :ll r: . 'Ht.', - I):t , .. l:ktrii til ::_ei:i4it.-1.:E: VOL. LVII. WYDNESITALACTONER 1., 1856. TI11110E; OP,RESPg,CT.: nion Philo. • 'fall. Dickinson College, Sept: 24th 1856. *Whereas, •It bath pleased the.kliiiise . Crett tor to 'remove from'our number Bra: Geo. It. Veazey therefore---- Resobyed, flint, whilst we bow in submission to the Divine Will, we deeply , deplore his loss. Resolved,. That we extend our eondoltnce to the family and friends of the dec'd. in this our mutual affliction. ../.?eso/v4 That we drape our hall .rtnd - tvear the usual bacfge•of mourning. • Resolved, - Tl?itt copy -of these resolutions be sent to the latnily,and- that they also .be published in the Carlisle and lltltimore pa • - SASI'L. J. JONES. WM. II; EFFlNGER r ,Conitniitce. JNO. C. 11ROQKING TRIBUTE OF RESPECT Union Philo. Mit, jneLinson Collie, SepL. 18 J ' Wherens:••lly dispensation of Providence our brother .3: Eat,' noche6tir ,EMI. bus been tol led hence. tterefure' Resubietl, That we deeply sympathize with his bereaved relettous'ittid friends in this our mutual stliietioe. g . .Resolved, Tint ce •Irope our hall and weer the tuitiol toichte of tuouruintr. ." That n copy of theme resolutions Ire ben.t, to the futnily'usid thtt'they he publish ed in th e Carlisle nail Denton papers: --- .„ _ , 1 - * - s'or L. J. joN Es, .W M * 11. I.: I.' 14' I N GE - It; committee, • - - _J NO. ;U.' RH OOK.HCG. , -•:.---- - UNIONTMEETING AT .P.IAINFIFIL - I). Agre_tally. to a mill - a meeting of •Ilie I - • friends, of the Union Stnte atid County Tickets tviN held in Plainfield on Saturday: evening int:l - the . 27th, tilt,' Tbe - nieetilig etas - orgitnized by selecting-the . folljtving named -act- as Vice Vresidetita.—Jacob !Ltionds,' . .iscst.) Sites, Alextintler•Davitlson and James H. Da viatwn Se,cretairy 'et,. —UO nrr , Bear awl J amen Committec.---Jamea D._Grensoa, James B. Lacky au-d-,TatnealiL3Dowell,'Esq. The following resolutions were 1.112111110:10116. . . ly adopted: Resolved, That we approve of the Union Efate Ticket, formed by the Union State Con. vent ion at Harrisburg . —for Canal Commission. er Auditor General and. Surveyor General. __Resolved. Titat we approve of the County Ticket, Armed tot the'opponenti of the - Natien. al Administration, for Cumberland County; and we hereby pledge . ourselves that we will use all honorable means to elect every • man named on that ticket. ' - . ' Resolved, That the Hon. Lemuel Todd de. I:erv_es.lhe support of _ every good citizen of l i •his Coogressionaldiliffiecfer - hitrable, patri- I .-..:.urse in Congress, in regard to the mutti erous outrage 4 in Congress; produced by the uncalled for repeal of the Missouri Com proralse. IVe will use all hontAble_menns to re-elect hint. Resolved, That we condemn the. Territorial ,laws of Kansas, which - punish by imprisonment, the most odious and tyrunical, the freedom of speech, and or the press, •in the discussion of the,evils of Slavery, a right secured to all citizens by the ' Constitution of the. United States. - - Resolved, That the odious tyranical territo rial laws of Kansas, Cannot be approved by the descendants of the sages and HEROES, that framed the Declaration of Indspendence,enac% tetthe Ordinance (y.Atitioh Shivery is prohibited POREVER; eicept or oriuieWf ter conviction, in all territory, then belonging to the Union;) and who adopted the Constitu tion of the United. States, the .purest charter for liberty of conscience, liberty of speech and liberty of the press, Oat was ever devised by the wisdom of man. Resolved, That we do not desire to• interfere with slavery iti the States where it existe un- der the laws thereof, but we do desire to pre vent Ehe extension of Slavery into territory 'that is free fiorn its pollution. ----- RarshWß>a tGe - typreee - edingw - turpublialy ed Cariisle American, herald and Ship pensburg News. TmtUttutar Ftn i ß _ 111. AON AT /i * 'brr PnuanxLPIIIA.--Th t e PhAialelph T ana ate ;wide awake In regard to the exabitton of the U. S. Agricultural society, < wl ioli takes place in Alit City - next week, opening on the yth. Th hilidelphia inquirer eats, the ground will be double in extent that of the State_ Pair two yeartseince. • Many of the sheds are near ly they,prestat__iigite 11 pictnF !nue appearance with their geble ends jut ting toward the fair grounds. Alien will .be stalle . Prerided for hundred. cattle: LA . treatment :feature of the 'grounds ie the course for the oihibitiou of horses,• near the southern end.. ITh6 track will be nearly and; great care ie : taken to "Adapt it for, the purpose for which it is detiigned. The wing is half a. mile in Vircuinferince, And near It there will be a stand erected that will &coma- tlke while document, but, - a11,, - .the important parte will be foundln our column,. ~ • The deposition • of Jatnee 'Bucbagtin ,eatab lishee the following facto, • which . the people fi etunild all ,re ember; " • ' - •:Firet. lit t'Col.s Fremont iti better entitled than any of er man'te be called the conquer or:of California. , • , , , ~ . Seem:444* the forage; and . supplies, al leged to have b • een'furniihed him in •Oilifor-: via, were necessary; and that 'no'' appropria- - lions had been made by Congress for thle pur chase, because they , could not • anticipate Ault, Vol.. Fremont would accomplish enelt great relmlts , i._By Ms own personal exertions, and without previous instructions.'' 2llird, That, in the opinion of /amen 'Bach.. map, to *obese of bls-kacwiede and bullet -Cot Fremont ,never received for • hininelf :fedi- Vides*, erfor hieirlitate use and anneldinc ilon whatever fer , thelratts drawn' upon • the &watery of Stele . for;the afortisild forego and supplies. ' *that Buchanan drafts justly and properly; rawn and payable by The' 421overnment, and that ha' would' have paid moaate eight thousand spectators. • Insid this ring the_tent -of President Wilder will b' located. The tents for - the different .depart -- ments of th'e exhibition ' for the offoers, fn the banquet, and for the use of the Iteportei for the Prestiwill occupy:appropriate pine( •• ,fin the grouiids Some idea Of. the extent • the.buildinis to be erected may ,be formai . from the fact that in addition to' the tents marquees,' over half a million feet. of lumbe will be required,in putting up the necessary temporary structures. The entranoe to the grounds willbe at the northern and southe-rn_ extremities of the area. rind the exitgotes will'. be iaeated on the western side. . The 'exhibition will coinmetme on the 7th o, October. The yutobetae Association . intend -to-celebrate-the-event by a grnnd parade r which active and eiteuhitie preparations are making, _ ' ~ • .. COL. FRENCONV VINDICATED Biglers Falsehoods Refuted by Bu _ehanan. At the cloSe of the_lnet session of Congres . it resolution was linseed by the united Stater • Senate, on the metier! of William. Bigler,,: this State, Calling on the Treasn'iy Depart went to report to the Senate the papers 'con taining.the finnlicialaceoents of John clintries Fremont with the .Government,---The'objer of this inquiry vi:ltig to conveY to the' publi the impression thitt, in the draftedrawn col. .Fremont on government,. for sup.' -plies fey his command ' in Qiilifornin;lie Arer: . for. More tliriii the aovernment received, an allowed much more than a fair compensatim. for what he did receive. .P.enator Bigler an his party have been-giving-exteniive:-cirenln tion •to iniarepresentations - nnd falsehO _ . about the pecuniarY . transaotions of Fremon whon,in California, and there is no doubt that. in this.dirty work, Bigler has bean promptei . , , and encouraged by, James Buchanan himself istbLecoming the active agent of calunthy r sm r° I? a vrati. Bigler is endeavoring to atonp fo' s okcal sin of having opposed the nomi 1. Buchanan . and- - ntrvecAted 7 that - o - t ' 4 - ,o- Pie . rae, •.. . • - ' 5 . 0 U 01. Fremont was in California, .der .. - • t o w" with lilexice; he, as Governor :' o t vdrew font. drafts, amonnting ,All "1 .-- Au — A - upon James Buchanan; fle Ilectit- - th,:4,igtitte, in layer .or F. lluttman, for forage and supplies furnished to the C4lifor i l ia Battalion, raised - and omm:omitted by Col: Fremont. When those drafts were, presented, ftle. Buchanan did not pay them, because Con greas had -nut appropriated and platted at his disposal any money fur that purpose. nee drafts fell into the hands of some per-__ soul; in London.: In . 1852 - Cet. ' Ftentontiiiits in London, And was there arrested for debts he had contracted in California. As ourtliov-. ernment could not be sued,:and`no appropri•, titian had been made by Congress for their payment, the holders of the drafts thought the surest and shortest way to- obtain- their money was to hold Col, Fremont personally littple. l) , The case mime before 1114' efllli't I.t . Exchequer. The testimony of Jame> Itae.li.i : nen, upon whom the-draft, were or .tco. be ing considered essential to the I...mothe Court, appointed Henry L., Oili.io, thigh Campbell and Peter real' oe"I'llila teipuia. to take the de.positions` of.wittir,s. 1%, o P. il Fremont. Under the i ..gtiilA . .tY if ii..• e.,.. mission issued in Louden, the. thr.,- geut t - men named proceeded' to take the ttepvtiiiioti of James Buchanan. The Commissionsers were awortt to take the deposition and make the examination, truly, faithfully. and impar tially to the - best of their skill andknowledge. Buchanan Will sworn' to, make true answers to all questions - touching the matter at issue, without fettr_or affection to *either ,party, and the clerk was sworn .truly,', faithfully :and without partiality to write down the deposi. tion. The deposition of Buchanan thus taken was sent under seal to.Bir Jae. Parke, a. Chief' Baron of the. Court of EOlequer. The last steamer from England brought to New York a itertified copy of thie deposition ; of James Be. chanan. All the Material parte of the depo sition will fie found in our. paper of !sat week under the caption of," Who Conquered Cali fornia," taken from the New York- Evening- Post. The New ork Tribune . has . Wished them,till while Secretary of State, if Congress -had- mnde-nuy-approprintion-tomeet-them, Sixth, Thnt notwithstanding . ehe verdict • of a court martial against Col. Fremont in '49, _jr. Buchanan'is , unable to decide upon the merits of the dispute between Cots. Fremont and Kearney.. Col. Polk,„iesi:ored "Fremont his-swor4.l l -ftod-P-olitis„Beeretary-of,State-E-Aid. not know whether -Cot Fremont or. General Kearney was in the wrong. Last, Thttt William Bigler is a low•minded; lying caitiff, who in his plaee in the Serinte insinuated falsehoods against Col • Fremont,. and who is now roaming over parts of Penn falsehooda that are refuted by the testimony of Jame Buchanatt ---.l7arriaburg Telegraph. • , ' 1111 THE CHARGE OF CATHOLICISM _ _AGAINST _COL,, FREMONT. LETTER PRontßiey R. ALUATFIELD • `The Providence Journal publishes : the fol lowing correspondence : (Mr: TIATFIELD IS a Methodist minister of high standing; and Pas tor bf.the: Forsyth et. 'Methodist 'EpiicoPa• Church; New• York.) • • ' IVAitum:, It: 1., Sept. 12, 185 G, DEAR Bno : I have aome Interest and more ,curiosity to know the truth in reference to the .repitt, so current; — that, ..Col.- kretimpt . is dacha() ;. and it has occurred to me that you ,may have means of .knowing, and perhaps would, take the trouble to inform au old friend _and_corref!pondenton :the. subject-- It is-cxtretuelY difficult to arrive nt the truth in dines of such intense excitement ; ns t he_political papers arc filled with contrnilic tory"Staternents, each • otwhich Claims to --- b'e true.. . • Are ,y.on_Acquainted with Alderman Fullmer, wile has testified on " the subject Y .Are you able to give me definite and reliable informa- , ,,, tlr - regard=tcrt ii - e-report-t h t -FT ein on PAS a Catholic ? , ' , - An answer to the above at such time as 'pay auit.your.conVenierice will oblige, Yours truly, it..3LityrytEr.n,_ • 8. C. MOWN. I . ° Nnw 'roux, Sept 13, 1856. DEaulluorttbii: Your note of the 12th'-insf. came tq. hand this Morning, until avail my i se_ll of My first, leisure monietits to reply to ..its 'contents. Of Alderman Fullmer I have noih ing to. say. .1 do not know the man, and have" no wish to repeat 'rumors . that are current with regard•to , his !clot:Amer. _ In_ times of high political -. excitement like the present, such rumors_re utterly unreliable. ' - :Touching the report_that Col.' Froinont-is a Catitori - e; 1 am prepared to give you ..definite and relin.: ble information." - Such -reports. are- - utterly, false, a lie from end to end." Macatilay,. in one of his reviews, says that one 'who—has nerar read the life of Barere, may be said not triknoiv_what_ll: li0)13. The eloquent essayist wonld.certainly modify his opinion were he to acquaint himself with the presep_t_maition of Atnefican - politics, or look occasionally in the columns of some of our Fillmore 'papers. 7 — Neither Barere, nor the father of lies himself,. _ever_concoetsd_a_haser falsehtiod than the one by which.a set of demagogues nre attempting to deceive the public regard to the re• ligious sentiments of Col: Fremont Ile is not a Romanist, never lies been, and has done nothitig.to_gire actor to the fabrications, of his slatidiars. John Wesley was not more free fromt all reasonable suspicion of leaning toward the church of Rome than 'John C. - Fremont. , He wns educated in the Protestnnt faith, con firmed in a Protestant Church, has been. du ring all his lifetime,. and is now, an undis guised and decided Protestant. This state ment I make not on the strength of newspa• .er - repertsTirer-fromitearsay-.-or--second--hand--. testimony.-- I am - personally acquainted With Col. Fremont, and know that he is nut a :pa pist, just as 1° know. you are not one. With the hope that my reply will be satisfactory, I remain, Fraternally yours; ~ Rev. ~S. C BROWN, LOSS OP THE STEAMER NIAGARA/ The Alilwaukie American of the 26th inst. has an-account of the burping of the steamer Niagara and the loss of over sixty lives. Mr florrc,y ..linswortli, from Royalton, Windsor comity, Vermont, was - aboardivitb his wife, three. children, father; and sister,in law, with it 6114. lie alone of all the party was saved: Mr. was standing alone on the stern of the boat, on the hurricane deck,. when he first saw the smoke - and streaks of flame breaking through the deck, above the engine between the beims. Re immediately rin forward to where hiefamily waa standing. The cry of "firer.' f i re!" was immediately , raised from , a score of voices. Alen, wonten and,children rushed - on deck, with horror de picted upon every countenance, and numbers rushed, to . the guards anti sprang shrieking into the water, to be buried in, their liquid graves. Mr. Aineworth gathered his family around him, antl,',uoaided, uncoiled the large hawser at the bdw, and threw it aver 'the guards, lie then let his wife and children down, and finally . descended In the noose of the hawser himself, and bong fast • Until the flames bad burned off the' rope, and lot him tl. -- titer - drop into thi - water. ~' r. iutii•Utte ._ gok hold of* boat upside down, to which a num-, her of poor drowning wretches werehanging in tho last agonies of death. Re thinite that' at least , a dozen persons were hanging, to the bast whoa he Betted hold: Oae after another of these dropped IA until:- only himself re mained. Be then auototaled in getting three men, (Mr. • Chambers. of N.B. ; I. P. Kenedy, and . Hugh Renedy.) in the boat with him. The fear pereolii *ere sit finally picked uphy a Small boat nom theechooner. Dir. Ainsworth thinks that there were about eat :hundred ~ cabin passedgettitut board *hese the ; boat left • Sheybootn, besides a large number in the.' ' steerega i kti-A.-lest -all hia-baggege_ and--_ , libttil t °amid donate in money: , MI: A state the aondnet of Captain Alliller* 4 14 is welt ooloted to ( I,oist the terrOrOd am the two of the paissetweric and *tithe was de bust teen to teats the blunting *leek of kis vessel. .0f the pecuniary law by tide terriVe dinette Ire_ ItemeottilvaL .dieSk le elseet be ' URI out !mu _44tOci,uettJe taleeoMOl.itlio - 7 7 : ttothiagla Comparem to, the feari)ll leas of human. life. - " •' ' I R. M. HATFIELD
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