HOVITAII SIMM.
ANDREW J. RHEY, EDITOR.
EBENSBURG, PA.
Thursday 31113' 1S51.
f, THE "SEXTIXEL," has much the largest
circulation of any paper published in this county
and as an advertising sheet offers superior indttce
vients to merchants and laziness men generally.
Those desirous of making use ot this medium for
extending their business, can do so by either sending
their notices direct, or through the following agents.
John Crouse, Esq., Johnstown.
V. Ji. Palmer, Enq., Xew York, Philadelphia,
and Baltimore.
A Contrast.
An effort has been made by the "Valley
Wreath," a Whig paper published semi-annually
ait Johnstown, assisted by its worthy compeers,
the "Blair County Whig" aud Hollidaysburg
"Register," to charge the Canal Commissioners
and the Democratic party of this State, with a
pct robbery of the public treasury, because
the increased business on the public works and
especially on the Portage Railroad demanded
that there should be some more officers and
hands engaged this year over any previous one.
These economical and saving Whig Editors, no
doubt, carry with them restoratives, to be used
in case they should ever find a three-cent piece
that is not their own property. They would
need camphor perhaps to keep them from faint
iug at such a streak of good luck. They do
know that on the Portage Road there has been
a large increase of business this year over last,
and to transact the business satisfactorily to
the transporters, an increase of hands arc ne
cessary and unavoidable. They arc also aware
that a large number of the engineers, firemen
&c, employed on the road, have worked day
and night to facilitate the increased business,
and it is quite an easy matter, comparatively, to
write a long tirade of abuse of the persons em
ployed on that road, for which these honest ed
itors should receive medals of leather, but
should they be desired to fill the situation of
some of these men who earn, their money by
the sweat of their brow, wc know of three
knights of the quill who would be found, as
many persons are after a tham fight, missing,
Before they make any charges against others,
they should look to the figures and see how
much the people pay to carry on the present
Whig government at Washington
W hile these unfair and uncalled for charges
arc made against the democracy, it might be
well enough to show these honest Whigs a speci
men of economy on their part, and as the charge
us with the wasting of a few hundreds, we will
charge them with the squandering of millions
and dare them to a contradiction of the plain
tacts that we shall set forth. We have compiled
the following from Whig documents, and it is
carrying out most beautifully the doctrine of
the Whig party, which was so well told to us
by an ofiicc-hunting Whig not long since in the
following words, "Well, it is not often we get a
chance to make anything, and wc might as wel
go it strong while we have an opportunity!"
The total expenses of the democratic admin
lsiiauon oi jaiucs i. roiK uuring tlic years
I8il, 1817 and 18 IS, exclusive of payments on
account of the public debt, Mexican hostilities,
to volunteers and militia of the States and Ter
ritories, increased expenses of the Army proper
during the War, also under the treaty with
Mexico, and expenses of collecting the revenue
from lands and customs, were s?71, 114,010 53
making yearly J:j,70J,S70 17.
The actual and estimated expenditures of the
Vthig administrations of Zachury Taylor and
Milliard Fillmore, excluding the same as speci
fied in the above, for the years 1850, 1851, and
1852 are $10'.,211,903 07, making annually
oG, 113,007 CO, and showing an increase of ex
penditure by the Whig party over the adminis
t ration of James K. Polk, of more than thirty-
eight millions of dollars in three years, or twelve
millions seven hundred ami nine thousand and
ninety-seven dollars and fifty-two cents per an
num. Recollect the Whig party require twelve
millions more money every year to carry on
t nis government than the Democrats do. Let
tliciu deny it.
During the years 18ii, '47, and MS the United
Slates were engaged in a war with Mexico, aud
under the Democratic administration the total
e xpenditures, exclusive of Treasury notes fund
el, were O'J, being an annual
average expenditure of $10,21 1,300 30.
Under the present Whig economical adminis
t ration, while wc are at peace with the whole
world, the total actual and estimated expend!
tares f..r the years 1850, '51, and '52 are $111,
-,i,ouJ ot, being an annual average expendi
turc oi !si7f72,i03 12, which exceeds the
expenses of Polk's administration $2,571,723 28
in three years, or $858,212 70 per year. How
it comes that, under Whig rule, while our gov
eminent is at peace, the expenses
arc over
tight hundred thousand dollars
a year more
Uian when wc were engaged
in war we cannot
answer. 1 crimps the mugs can tell us. The
i.nny now consists of 12,027 officers and men
l'xeiving pay. During the Mexican war there
v. ere 50MK) receiving pay.
The expenses of the navy department under
administration of James K. Polk were as
tollov.3 :
1 ear ending June :;0, 1817.
.t .1 iHl,Mf
I S JO, "
Tin- n.ivv wa.j in fV.I and active
$7,931,033 C8
9, 110,737 2
0,809,818 20
:-crvifc during
ii.H time , ;uid by the Mowing it will be seen
iv.'Kh rr r.y for this VlaUrho ,hc --trice
in time of peace, under our economical (!)
Whig administration.
Under Gen. Tatlor for the year ending June
30, 1850, the navy cost $7,923,313 18
This is entirely satisfactory to the Democrats,
but sec the cost under the present plundering
administration.
Actual and estimated for the year ending June
30, 1851, 10,917,591 61
Actual and estimated for the year ending June
30, 1852, 10,159,375 09
Therefore the navy now costs us one million
of dollars more per annum than during the
Mexican war.
The amount expended for army transportation
for the year ending June 30, 1814, was $115,
299 25, under a Democratic administration.
Under the present Whig administration the
amount expended for the same purpose for the
ear ending June 30, 1850, was 1,913,722 00,
showing an increase of 1,798,422 75 in army
transportation for one year.
We could multiply these facts indefinitely,
but for want of room we must close. The
question is, who pays these extra expenditures?
Obviously the people. The principal part of
our revenue is derived from the duties im-
osed upon foreign goods through the tariff.
For every 7 25 worth of foreign goods con
sumed in the United States in 1850, there was
paid by the consumer a tax of 3 12, which af
ter deducting the merchant's profit, cost of col
lecting the revenue, Sac, went into the U. S.
Treasury.
We commend the above statement to these
Whig editors ; and ask the people to read and
judge by the facts, and decide in their own
minds whether the Democrats or Whigs are the
greater squanderers of the public funds.
Whig Honesty.
If the editor of the Hollidaysburg Whig had
a shadow of honor in his composition he would
have added to his editorial remarks concerning
the defalcation of Gen. Aul, late Treasurer of
York county, that his bail immediately made
good the amount six thousand dollars and
that no one lost by the defalcation of the Dem
ocratic Treasurer. State the truth, the whole
truth, and you have nothing to fear.
The same editor is desirous of having Cover
nor Dore, of Rhode Island, hanged, for alleged
treasonable offences, for which he was impiis
oned by the Whigs and released by the Demo
crats with a full restoration of his civil and
political rights.
Had he lived in this State Governor Johnston
would scarce have pardoned him, for it is pro
verbial of him to show clemency to villains, but
to leave honest men to their fate.
The Whig party of Rhode Island was most
effectually hanged at the last election in that
State, by the Democrats. They have been
completely noosed, and the Democracy of this
State will tighten the knot somewhat in October
next. - '
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Col. Forney.
The Harrisburg Union says that Col. Joux W.
Forney, of the Pcnnsylcanian, will be a candi
date at the next session of Consress for Clerk
of the House of Representatives. There could
not be a better Democrat named for the office,
and although he was unsuccessful last winter.
owing to the stand taken against him by certain
fishy Democrats, it is to be hoped that at the
next meeting ot Congress he will receive that
cordial support from every true member of the
party, that is justly due him.
A Change.
Dr. W. II. Botle has taken charge of the
columns of the Chambersburjr Vallai Sentinel.
His articles are conceived in good taste and he
writes with a ready pen. The Sentinel will be
much improved under his management, and
will watch with untiring vigilance the manoeu
vres of the Whig party-in that section.
Judge Campbell's Opinion.
In October last, Horn R. Kneass, Esq., Dem
ocrat, was elected District Attorney of the city
and county of Philadelphia, over Wni. B. Reed,
Esq., Whig. The latter contested the election,
and J udges King and Kelly gave their opinion
in favor of Mr. Reed, from which opinion Hon.
James Campbell, dissented. We have examin
ed the opinion of Judge Campbell, and find it
to be a legal document of great research and
ability, and must give the author much distinc
tion. It embraces the whole case, and gives a
plain ana concise statement of the facts, inter
preting them in the manner authorized by the
law. The numerous contradictions and errors
of the main witnesses on the part of the contes
cam, are evidently plain, and unless there
"""' ueicer grounus to rest upon
than the evidence shows, Mr. Kneass should
$U occupy his office. Of the legal abilities of
Judges King and Kelly we entertain a high
opinion, but in this case their decision, to our
mind, docs not exhibit that complete knowledge
of the law and familiar acquaintance with the
rules of evidence, that characterizes the opin
ion ot Judge Campbell.
JCSy-Martin Farquhar Tnppcr, the Toet, was
at the Summit on Saturday last. He is a na
tive of England and certainly one of the greatest
writers of the present day. His Proverbial
ti ,: l ...... l. ,.i i t - 1 1 i -
i uiiuoui'ujf BLuum ue in wc nanus ot every
person, simply, for the reason, that there is no
poetry, more chaste, or more beautiful.
Egy-The new three cent pieces have made
tueir appearance. Un one side is a lone star.
with a shield in the centre, the words "United
States of America" encircling it. On the re
verse side arc three numerals (thus III.,) cnclo
sed in a C, surrounded with thirteen stars,
emblematic of the original thirteen states. The
size of the coin is less than a five cent piece,
and much thinner.
t5T Hereafter our No. 1, subscriber will re
ceive their papers at that place, at the store of
Wm. M Gouuh & Co. Any of our subscribers
(hero who would rather receive them at the
will plcaic advise us.
Kcw Advertisements.
The books for subscription to the Jefferson
and Ebensbnrg Plank Road Co., will be opened
at the store of G. L. Lloyd & Co., in Jefferson,
on Monday the ICth day of June next; and at
the store of Murray, Zahm & Co., on the 7th
day of July next. The good work goes bravely
on. ' -
We some weeks ago noticed the change in the
proprietorship of the Exchange Hotel, Pittsburg,
Pa. The house has been entirely refitted, and
is now under the charge of C. W. Bennet, Esq.,
ately of Johnstown, who has changed its name
to the "St. Clair Hotel." Mr. Bennett deserves
to be liberally patronised, and under the charge
of himself and his estimable lady, the "St.
Clair" will do a handsome business. Read ad
vertisement.
By reference to advertisement, it will be no
ticed that the School Directors of this District
desire to employ three competent male teachers
to take charge of the Schools. Persons making
Dedication will please attend on the 20th of
June for an examination.
Sealed proposals will be received at Loretto
until Monday the 2nd June, for the BTiilding'oti
a Female Seminary at that place. . "We believe
the building is to be of brick. See advertise
ment.
Read advertisement of Orphan's Court Sale,
to take place, Friday June 20.
The "Token." We have received a number
of this paper published in Pittsburg, by A. B.
Russell, Esq. It is the organ of the Odd Fel
lows in the western part of the State, and to the
members of the same, it is a valuable companion.
JGg-Col. Israel Tainter, Canal Commissioner,
passed over the Railroad on Saturday last, on
his way to Harrisburg.
JCSfW'c have received no eastern papers since
Sunday morning, which will account for the
scarcity of late news this week.
JESSincc the adoption of our new dress we
have received many flattering encomiums from
our brethren of the press, which we will endea
vor to publish next week.
CSTTlic new Rail Road Hotel at the junction
of the Central and Portage, is fast approaching
completion.
Our Jackson township subscribers will
find their papers at Charles Dillons Hotel every
week.
Plttsburgcrs Sailed Tor Europe.
The City of Glasgow which sailed from Phila
delphia, on Thursday at noon, had on board the
following Pittsburgers, who arc bound for the
World's Fair at London:
John Arthurs,
Hon. Sani'l Jones,
A. B. Curling,
John Floyd,
James M'Grew,
Mr. Raffcrty,
Stephen Hague,
A. B. Berger, , ,
A. Rhineman,
Rev. W. Stcphcnsvn,
Marcus Kiddoo,
Rev. Geo. Marshal.
Cholera.
Wc see by one of the Cincinnati papers tiat
four cases of this disease were reported , on
Thursday. It is slowly, yet most certainly
wending its way up the river, and we cannot
long hope to escape it. In view of these facts
the Sanitary authorities should be active ia ta
king all proper measures to assuage its violence.
Our streets should be most thoroughly cleaiscd
and kept so by frequent, almost daily washiags ;
all the filth to be found in the yards of dwellings
should be removed at once ; our citizens should
by frequent bathing and proper diet, keep their
bodies in such a state that they will not b lia
ble to contagion. This is a duty that each one
owes to the other and wc hope to see it fulfilled.
Pittsburg Chronicle.
COL. WILLIAM BIGLER.
Sentiments, such as arc expressed by the
Sunbury Gazette in the following article, per
vade every part of the State. The unanimity
of the Democratic party in its choice of Col.
Bigler for Governor, presents him to the peo
ple without a division. With the Democracy of
Pennsylvania united as they now are, what
chance has the opposition ?
Col. Big lee. We never knew a candidate
for a public office so popular with the mass of
the Democratic party as this gentleman. There
is hardly a dissenting voice against him he
appears to have absorbed the affections of the
entire party, and left but a secondary position
in the popular favor of his competitors, for the
station in which his friends appear determined
to place him. We do not open a Democratic
exchange without seeing evident signs of a de
cided preference for Bigler. His name stands
at the head of their editorial columns, and in
those columns, arc sentiments expressive of
warm attachment to him, who is decidedly the
people's candidate. Wre also hear of clubs be
: a . i i it . .
ing esiauusneu inrougnout tne length and
breadth of the State, for the purpose of sccu
ring his election of meetings assembled, en
thusiastic in his favor, and among the rank and
file of the party, we can perceive a settled de
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termination w piace at Uie nead of our good
old Commonwealth, this sound Democrat, who
is equally distinguished for his talents as for
his integrity. We have conversed with many
sterling Democrats of our neighborhood, and
without a single exception, we find that Col
Bigler is the man of their choice, and with him
as their leader and candidate, they feel confi
dent of a glorious triumph in October next No
other man inspires universal confidence in the
Democratic ranks. True it is, there aro many
other men in our party who could be successful
at the next election for the gubernatorial chair,
Democratic principles mu3t triumph under the
leadership of any good man but Bigler rre
eminently can satisly the entire Democratic
party, and secure the overwhelming m:ptHy
tf farmer d;ivi,
Gen. Foote nominated for Govern
or oi' Mississippi.
Washington, May 1G.
A despatch has been received announcing
that the Mississippi Union Committee had met,
and nominated Gen. Foote for Governor. It
does not say whether the committee was com
posed of Whigs or Democrats.
Mr. Hodge, the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, left for New 1 ork and Boston this
morning, on government business.
A refutation of the charge of Lieut. Forbes,
of the English navy, of the existence of slavery
in Liberia, is published by the Executive Com
mittee of the Colonization Society.
La the event of Gen. Foote's election as Gov
ernor, it will devolve upon the legislature,
which is to be elected at the same time, to fill
the vacancy in the U. S. Senate. Pcnnsylvanian.
Opposition to tlie Fugitive Slave
Law.
Boston, May 16.
The Senate this morning passed the following
resolution in opposition to the slave law, by a
vote of 33 yeas to 5 nays the latter being two
Wrhigs and three Democrats:
Resolved, That Massachusetts protests against
the Fugitive Slave Law, as h4il tKa simii.
ments of Christianity, and abhorrent to the
feelings of the people of the Commonwealth
that such a law will naturally fail to secure that
support in the heart and conscience of the com
munity, without which any law must sooner or
later become a dead letter.
Opposition to tltc JVcvv Constitu
tion.
Baltimore, May 1G,
We learn that several papers in Western
Maryland, opposed to the New Constitution,
have entered into a written combination not to
lay it before their readers, hoping thereby more
effectually to secure its rejection. The ques
tion upon its adoption or rejection is to be de
cided by the people in three weeks, viz: on the
4th of June, and many at best would have no
opportunity of perusing it.
Important from Ilayti.
Boston, May 16.
Wc understand that letters have been recei
ved in this city by a mercantile firm, which
states positively, on the authority of Mr. Walsh,
the American Commissioner, that the govern
ment of Ilayti declines the intervention of the
United States, Great Britain and France, for
the purpose of obtaining a ten years truce with
the Dominicans.
APl'OLVTOl EATS.
Gen. Wm. Brindle, to be Superintendent of
new work on the North Branch Canal.
Hon. Timothy Ives, to be Superintendent of
new work on the Portage Railroad and Western
Reservoir.
Gov. Johnston nnd tlic Abolltlon-
. Ists.
We find the following passage in the proceed
ings of the anti-slavery- Convention winch re
cently assembled at Syracuse, New York,
Mr. McKim referred to the case of Euphemia
Williams, the fugitive of whom he spoke yester
day. He now wished to make a remark, in
relation to her, which he did not mention yes
terday for prudential reasons. It was that
Micidia Williams, the husband of Euphemia,
was in prison in Philadelphia under a convic
tion of grand larceny. Mr. McKim then went
on to impugn the legality of the conviction, and
said that Micidia and his wife were claimed by
one party, and that persons went to the prison
and affected to identify the prisoner, thinking
that the Governor was a friend to pro-slavery;
but they were much mistaken. The Governor
of Pennsylvania was a true man. Steps were im
mediately taken by the abolitionists to obtain his
pardon, and he now had the pleasure of announ
cing to this meeting that the pardon of Micidia
Williams was in his pocket. He had taken mea
sures to remove Micidia from Philadelphia, and
if he was not at present in this meeting, he
would be with them this evening.
Upon this Micidia Williams, the negro alluded
to, stood up in the meeting, and was loudly
cheered for several minutes.
What must the people of Pennsylvania think
of their Governor, who is caught in such com
pany? We always knew him to be p. great dem
agogue, but never could have deemed him so
corrupt as this act proves him. Just look at it
The Governor of Pennsylvania abusing the par
doning power for the purpose of making friends
with the abolitionists and gaining the good will
of such men as Garrison, Abby Foster, Fred
Douglass, George Thompson, Mr. Quincy, and
their fanatical associates. What can we think
of a Chief Magistrate who so abuses a wise
power to make it subservient to his selfish and
ambitious desires to court the favor of a set
of crazy fools, who not only condemn and vio
late the constitution and laws of their country
and trample them both under foot who not
only denounce Washington and Jefferson and
Madison and Monroe as worse than pirate
who not only regret that they were ever born
in this Republic, but who scoff at religion and
the church and ridicule the Holy Bible itself as
a humbug! By such men as these is Governor
Johnston endorsed as "A Trtje Man!" Well,
we hope he will enjoy himself among his new
companions. In October next, the people of
Pennsylvania will express their judgment upon
his conduct, and consign him to the shades of
private life. Easton Argus.
Who is the Greatest Slaveholder!
We say Great Britain, with all her stiltc
sympathy for Freedom ; with all her noisy pro
fessions against Servitude. She holds millions
unon millions in Slavery. Her slaves are of
many kinds; the slaves of her Debt; the
slaves of her Factories ; the slaves of her
Mines ; the perishing slaves of her Cities ; the
crubhed slaves of her Colonies ; the crouching
slaves of her Military Establishment! And all
these her slaves are white men, women, and
children. Think of it, ye who have been misled
Jy l;ritku pvolc-ns. Pan:yb:tman.
"Principles, Xot 55en."
From a lengthy article in a late number of
the Washington Union we take the following
extract, and commend it to the attention of
those of our friends who are so over-zealous on
the subject of the Presidency at this time :
" There never was a period when there were
such strong motives as exist at the present mo
ment, urging upon all true republicans and
democrats to discard local partialities for men,
except as far as they may be wisely employed
to indicate more clearly the qualities needed to
give effect to the real wish and patriotic power
of the party. The country is agitated from
Maine to the Rio Grande. Geographical divi
sions are forming, which, if not frowned down,
will impair, if not destroy the constitutional
and just influence of the federal government.
Fanaticism in one section provokes the threat
of secession and disunion in another ; and va
rious other influences of sad portent to the
harmony and prosperity of the country are at
work, which nothing can so certainly restrain
as a return to the principles on which Wash
ington, Jefferson, and Jackson administered the
government. Those great statesmen rallied the
people by their love of the constitution and by
a policy which treated alike all the equal mem
bers of the confederacy. They abstained from
the exercise of all doubtful federal powers, and
used those only which were clearly granted in
the manner calculated to avoid sectional injust
ice and to remove local complaint. On this
platform we have taken our stand, and we hope
to co-operate with every true democrat in doing
all that is laudable and just to fortify and en
dear it to the people.
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ZVew Constitution of Maryland.
The Maryland Reform Convention has at length
adjourned after a long and laborious session.
The following are the most important features
of the new Constitution: It provides for the
abolition of the imprisonment for debt a hu
mane and admirable feature. It fixes a period
within which the whole lottery system of the
State will be brought to a close, and the revenue
be supplied from a source of a less questionable
character. It takes from the legislature the
power to grant divorces, and leaves the parties
to their remedies in the courts of justice. And
it provides against the renewal of those finan
cial embarrassments from loans and specula
tions, into which the State was plunged in '36,
under legislative sanction.
The judges of all the courts are made elect
ive, as in Pennsylvania, and receive fair sala
ries, ami are prohibited from all compensation
through the doubtful process of fees or perqui
sites. The State is divided into eight circuits,
of which Baltimore is one. There is one judge
in each of seven courts, who is to hold a court
not less than twice a year in each county within
his circuit, and who will have equity, civil and
criminal jurisdiction. For Baltimore city there
are two courts provided, with a jurisdiction so
arranged as to equalize the business as nearly
as may be.
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Pretty Good Latin?.
By the following bill of fare at the Dunkirk
Celebration on Wednesday last, it is very mani
fest that the President and his Cabinet are in
no danger of starving. The fare is tolerably
substantial as well as being rather plentiful.
The first article named m the bill, we suppose
is a compliment to Mr. Webster:
Bill of Fare. Chowder; a yoke of oxen
barbacued whole ; 10 sheep roasted whole; beef
alamode ; boiled hams ; corned beef ; buffalo
tongues ; bologna sausages : beef tongues smoked
and pickled ; head cheese ; pork and beans ; t0
roast turkies ; 100 roust fowls ; hot coffee, Sac.
Charge or Judge Woodbury.
Boston, May 15, 1851.
The U. S. Circuit Court of Massachusetts
commenced its May term to-day. After prayer
by the Rev. Mr. Kirk, Judge Woodbury charged
the Grand Jury at considerable length. The
following is a portion of his remarks :
'In truth, gentlemen, we all must feel, in
our cool moments, without the aid of precedents
or labored reasoning, that all constitutional
laws, passed by the general Government, must
be enforced, or it ceases to govern. It is virtu
ally overturned, and the Union connected with
it becomes, in principle, dissolved. In such a
case, likewise, there is substituted for the sanc
tity of law and order, when a mob tramples
and goes unpunished, the government of a mob;
the sword of justice is wrested from her grasp,
and wielded by a mob the spirit of misrule
and rebellion is substituted the tumultuous
violence and anarchy of human passions, freed
from legal restraint, and stimulated by plunder
or revenge, arc substituted; and though we
may all deprecate the necessity of calling on the
military or army to protect the laws and vindi
cate their reign, yet they are far safer than an
infuriated mob, and must be invoked to assist
in executing the laws, if needed, rather than let
the sun of turbulence go down in the clouds
and blood of rebel insubordination. Da conclu
sion, gentlemen, feeling, as I am aware you do,
that this Government was made or adopted by
yourselves, and not forced on you by tyranny,
it must be sustained by yourselves, through a
faithful administration of the laws, till a major
ity choose to alter them, or else the bayonet will
be the only other resort against inevitable an
archy.
" I improve this opportunity to exhort you to
continue firm and united, sustaining by peace
and order the constitution, the laws, and our
holy Union ; and disagreeable as it may be to
you, if any of our fellow citizens have, under
sudden and misguided passions, offended against
the public safety of every thing dear to us, by
ruinous attempts I might, almost, say treason
able attempts to overturn parts of the Consti
tution itself, as well as some of the laws, and
violently obstruct their administration, painful
if we must visit on them exemplary punishment;
yet it is, in my view, not only indispensable to
rescue the sovereign reign of the laws, but pre
vent all the beauties and glories of our beloved
Union from being scattered in fragments over a
ruincd country by the parricidal hands of eome
of Hi ?wu children."
Summer's Letter cf Acceptance.
' ' Boston, May 15, 1851.
The following is am extract from the letter of
Mr. Charles Sumner, accepting the office of J
S. Senator from Massachusetts ;
"I accept it as the servant of the Uniou
bound to study and maintain, with equal patri'
otic care, the interests of all parts of 0ur coun
try; to discountenance every effort to loosen
any of those ties by which our fellowship of
States is held in fraternal company, and to op
pose all sectionalism, whether it appears in un
constitutional efforts by the North to carry so
great a boon as freedom into the slave State?
or by the unconstitutional efforts of the South
aided by Northern allies, to carry the sectional
evil oi slavery into the free States, or in what
soever efforts it may make to extend the sectional
abomination of slavery over the National Gov
ernment, With me the Union is twice blessed
first, as the powerful guardian of the repose
and happiness of thirty-one sovereign State-)
clasped by the endearing name of country, auil
next as the model and beginning of that all
embracing federation of States, by which unitT
peace and concord will finally be organized
among the nations. Nor do I believe it possible
whatever may be the delusion of the hour, thu
any part tnereor can be permanently lost from
its compacted bulk. "E Pluribus Unum," Lj
stamped upon the national coin, the national
territory, and the national heart Though
composed of many parts united in one, tlit
Union is separable only by a crash which shall
destroy the whole."
Cholera in Louisiana.
The New Orleans papers of the 8th inataut
report the cholera as prevailing to a considera
ble extent in the interior of Louisiana. In
Lafouche several deaths had occurred. TLo
cases, in almost every instance, proved fataL
One death had occurred at Donaldsonville, an.l
ten on Pitt & Ross' plantation. It had alsj
broken out in the parish of Ascension.
Washington Items.
Washington, May 15.
The Mount Vernon cotton factory at Alexan
dria, was seriously damaged by fire last eve
ning. The Board of Manaeers of the National
Monument suggest to their fellow citizens thro
out the Union, that collections be made on the
approaching anniversary of the National Inde
pendence, in aid of this patriotic work, where-
ever the day is celebrated.
Let rs alone. The Richmond Republican,
in an article on the North and South, and the
slavery question, holds the following liberal and
sensible language :
" The South does not now expect, nor do we
believe she ever has expected the North to ad
mire the institution of slavery. She does not
now desire, nor do we believe she ever has de
sired to make Northern men think and feel upon
the subject like Southern men. All she ask?,
all she demands, is contained in three of the
shortest aud plainest words of the English lan
guage' us alone.' Enjoy your opinions, if
you will, but do not permit demagogues or fan
atics to avail themselves of those opinions for
the purpose of violating the obligations of the
Constitution and of justice to the South."
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Workmen should sti-dt. The following ex
cellent advice we cordially recommend to notice
particularly at this time :
"We respectfully counsel those whom we ad
dress, (the workingmen of America,) we counsel
you to labor for a clear understanding of the
subjects which agitate the community ; to make
them your study, instead of wasting your leis
ure in vague, passionate talk about them. The
time thrown away by the mass of the people on
the rumors of the day, might, if better spent,
give them a good acquaintance with the consti
tution, laws, history and interests of their
country, and thus establish them on those great
principles by which particular measures are to
be determined. In croDortion as the neonle
thus improve themselves, they will cease to be
the tools of designing politicians. Their intel
ligence, not their passions and jealousies, will
be addressed by those who seek their votes.
They will exercise not a nominal, but a real in
fluence in the government and destinies of the
country, and at the same time will forward their
own growth and virtue.
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HorsTON and Scott. The New York Herall
makes the following comparison between these
two military heroes as candidates for the Presi
dency. We believe some of our officers in
Mexico did claim to have caught Santa Anna's
cork leg.
' In intellect and inches they are nearly of a
size, Oen. Houston, however, has the advantage
over Gen. Scott in one military point. He com
menced the Mexican war and caught Santa Anna,
who at that time had two legs. Gen. Scott,
finished the Mexican war, but could not catch
Santa Anna, though at the time he had but one
eg. Gen. Houston then in pure military glory,
is one leg in advance of Scott, as he caught
Gen. Santa Anna when he had two good running
cgs, while with one leg only, he got away from
Gen. Scott and his army of 20,000 men. .
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Kew Patent for Rising and Descending Inclina
tion tn Eauway. m. F. Carr, of Waylano,
Steuben county, New York, the Post says, ha
filed his caveat for the patent of an invention
for ascending and descending any grade upon
railroads. He claims that it is a great improve
ment on the methods now in use. It has, he
affirms, enabled him, in the experiments he has
made, to surmount an ascent of eight hundred
and forty-five feet to the mile. Its principle is
said to be simple and easily applied in practice-
A third rail, furnished with cogs, is laid by the
sido of the outside rails, and cogs are pat on
the flanges of the driving wheels.
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JG&Hon. Howeli Cobb is the Union cana
date for Governor of Georgia. He will undoubt
edly be elected by a very large majority. He
was Speaker of the House cf Representative!
at Washington, last winter.