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BY jffl I Ml tlMEg, M2U8Sl7"""""7" - : ; . VOLUME 1-WMBEll'fl.
HIStllLAHOn.
speech of Col. KlacK.
Msetiso or Bio leu Club No. 1, N. L. The
Young Mens Bigler Club No. 1, of the North
era Liberties, Philadelphia, .held a large an J
enthusiastic meeting at the Commissioner Hull,
yn Tuesday evening, 17th..inst., and from the
spirit evinced, it gave an earnest of the enthu
siasm with which the campaign will be carried
oil ani the triumph which awaits the Democ
racy. Col. Samuel W. Black, in response to a gene
ral call, then appeared ou the stand and ad
tlressed the meeting. - We, of course, do not
pretend to give . even an idea of what he said,
as every one who has had the good fortune to
hear him knows how difficult it is to embody in
a general report, his brilliant and beautiful ex
pressions. Wc Will, therefore, confine ourselves
to the substance. Taking.up a glase that stood
en the desk, he filled it to the brim with bright
&nd sparkling water, and said "So every De
mocrat should take the ticket, and drink it
Jown, end I am much mistaken if he does not
nnJ it as healthful and refreshing as this clear,
jure drink. My friend that has just finished,"
said he, "and also the friend who preceded him,
soke of 'rolling vp,' in" October, an old-fa-sbijned
Jackson majority; now, if they will
alhw me to correct them, I would say, we will
op'.n out an old-fashioned Jackson majority, so
that such a one may be Been - once more by the
people of the State and the Union.
We are approaching an important election,
and we have something to say to each other.
There is something to do, and we should be ac
tive in doing it. I will therefore speak to yon
of the ticket. It may be thought that I have
some feeling on this subject, and I have; and
having this feeling, I say to yon that it is hardly
probable that the Democracy of Pennsylvania
could have made better nominations. .
Who have we for Governor? A man who had
no one but God to depend on for what he is, so
tur as human agency is concerned; he has
made his own-fortune, and his own fame. Wo
Uve Cel. V.'w. Bigler. And if they a&-'t who
Mr. Bigler is, we can tell them he is the Sus
quehanna Raftsman.
Iu reference to the Judicial ticket, he said
that he knew Judge Lowrie well, as he was a
Western man. He had practised law with liim,
ml before him, and could say that he was a
sjun 1 lawyer, an able judge and an excellent
man, and fit to be raised by any party to any
j'i licial position.
He then referred to his namesake Black, to
Lewis, and to Gibson. In reference to the lat
ter, when he said that in 1828 Judge Gibson
healed the Jackson electoral ticket, the state
ment was received with great applause.
The speaker then came to the name of Judge
Campbell, and at the first mention of it, the
meeting broke out into a spontaneous cheer. In
reference to the religious war made upon him,
Col. Black said, 'ho had a right to speak." He
was the son of an oi l. Scotch Presbyterian
preacher, wha practical trtj .the. faitt that
was in him, and . held still living in his heart,
when hi eyes had closed, upon the world, and
when. Ll julse gave no response to the touch
of affection.,
ile thought, thereforo, that upon this subject
he had a right to 6peak. .They tell us that
JuJge Campbell must not be "elected, because
he is a Catholic ; and they tell this to whom?
Why to us, the children of the Pilgrims who
Bed before the religious intolerance of an es
tablished chureh to plant freedom for religion
here. Why these gentlemen who denounce the
i roscriptioh that in the days of the Pilgrims
would admit no one but those of one faith to
uold office, turn to us iu the' same breath and
4y that Judge Campbell must not go upon the
Bench, because ho is a Catho! Why should a
0tholic - be proscribed f When was the time,
in our hours of trouble, that they were not truo
to us! Hare seen . something of their trath
and good faith. I VHl tell you an Incident that,
I have no doubt,' there are twenty here even
my Quaker friend, there, among 'them to bear
witness to. While our army was in Mexico, I
noticed that one of the soldiers near me walked
away very often, in the morning, in company
ith a Mexican. At last I spoke to him about
it. and asked what it meant. He said, "I go to
church with him Ah," said I; "that is what
I feared." "Docs he ever ' speak to you about
the urmy?' .Ycs 8ai(1 hc .ue ha3
asked me
o desert ..weu rhatdid ou S3y
to Uiat j -I told him," said he, "thai! 'would
go to church with hhn'cvery morning to do my
duty to my God at the foot of the cross, and
ti l T g battlc witU 0 do
ai Jt m7 countrT ater my country's
Coin Jr?mcn'Jous cheering, y This, said
InT , " thdr faIth an(i trntk to' llM? cou
of Li U 13 aUkc faitb aa'1 truUi of U--Beirti
8eCtS' CCed,, an'4 fthnie3- " 11 is the
WMi?CnVimi feclhl3 tauSht hT Lafayette and
ngton, aad which 'we must carry op, and
which we cannot fail to prosper? ' ;
crafo" rcfcrrinS thc charge' that the Demo-1
" party i8 the natural "ally of the Foulh"
Uich"BaU he "is true, bcaursc the Den.o-
' 4UC rarty hc natural ally of the whvlc
country, and particularly of any part of it that
is unjustly assailed in its rights or its property"
he came down from the platform as he said "to
be with the people and to tell them they should
not rest in this fight till they felt sure of tri
umph". That no man should go to sleep without
ferHnr, if his sword was bjr eiJo, til rcadjr-
for action intense or surprise. As for himself,
he was deduced to the campaign and meant' to
fight till he heard the cheers of victory."
Col. Black wa3 warmly applauded through
his whole speech, and concluded amidst a storm
of cheers. rJnnylcanian.
Wagon and the Tariff.
The Boston Times, in an article on the subject
of the Tariff, replieg to a long article in the
Atlas, in which the subjects of tariff, wages and
pauperism are involved, and makes, the follow
ing sensible remarks :
"A nation, as all know except the silly pro
tectionists, must but If it desires to sell. ' This
talk about producing and not buying is utter
nonsense. Why do men produce? In order
that they may buy, to be sure. They do not
produce in order that they may hoard up their
productions, or live altogether on them. A
pretty business would the men of Lynn make
of it if they wore to e.it three meals a day off
their boots and shoes ; iand much good would it
do to them to have whole warehouses full of
these articles to prevent them from indulging
in the luxury of bujing of that "wicked crea
ture, the foreigner. How would our fishermen
like it, if they were not allowed to dispose of
their fish, because to buy is ruinous to any one
who does it, and it is impossible to avoid buy
ing if one is so singularly vicious aa to sell ?
No, the fisherman must eat his own fish, the
tailor wear his own clothes, the farmer munch
his own hay, and the apothecary swallow his
own compounds, for it is to ruin one's self to
sell what one produces, the transaction imply
ing that one buys. We advise the publishers
of the Atlas to try their much-loved theory in
their own business. Let -them print their dull
concern for a month without disposing in any
way of one copy, and see what will be Jbc jv
e aH" Tiie cdecir" wil bo exactly what woula
follow from the protection system being carried
among nations to its ultimate consequences."
The Lynn Bay1 Stats copies the foregoing
paragraph from the Times, and appends to it
the following:
"It is a fact that has never yctr been gain
said or explained away, that in those countries'
where there is the most "protection," or the
highest tariffs on the necessaries of life, there
is the most pauperism, mcry and destitution."
And it is reasonable that it should be so; for a
tariff never was made for the benefit of the
producing classes. The capitalist, the manu
facturers, the landholders, alone have reaped
the benefit indeed arc the only ones who can
Teap the benefit of a high tariff. It is a fa
vorite Whig maxim, that if we "take care of
the rich, the rich will take care of
whicli means, simply, Ihatlf the po
the poor"
poor will work
for whatever wags the rich win give," they may
perhaps keep from starving,; if not, they may
go to the work -house or the grave, ho matter
which." Euai rights, eijual legislation for all,
no favoritism, no special legislation, no "pro
tection," to make tha rich" .richer and" the poor
poorer, is the true Democratic doctrine," And
the people cf the old world as. well as the new
are' beginning to understand it, and the great
humbug of "protective tariff" - will yet be
looked upon as a relic of the dark ages."
A First Rate Speech.
At the celebration at Dunkirk, on the occasion
of the opening of the Erid Rail Road, after the
President and other big "pale faces" had made
speeches, Dr. Wilson, a Cayuga Chief of con
siderable "notoriety addressed the multitude.'
We beb'evceit wa3 pretty generally admitted fo
be the best fpe?!ch-ff the day. ' Wfc make art
extract from it, as reported' to- the Jmestown'
Joirrnal t--- " iir":
Tellow Citizens: I am a Cayugan,'a4d
regular descendant from - tho pure stock of
Native Americans. (Cheers.) Gentlemen hayc
boasted here to-night about Democracy; but
Democracy was established here long before tho
pale face came upon these shores. My ances
tors were Democrats long before tho arts of
civilization drove them from" their hunting
grounds and the quiet possession of their for
est homes. (Cheers.) The orator from Ken
tucky who addressed you to-night, said that
the pale faces - came here a mere handful, and
had grown to be a great nation; but he forgot
to tell you that when they landed "upon these
shores, helpless and in want, the red man fed
them with tho milk of human kindness ; - that
he took them' to his wigwam, spread, before
them Ms amplest hospitalitieeand entertained
them as brothers. , Cheers.)
Fellow citizens, I am 'to the manor born." i
have no foreign p'rejtidjces to overcome.'"(Chcers. )
My nation can trace its hisforyback to a period
when the territory dotted by your proud cities
and villages, was covered by the primeval for
est. It has not meddled with the politics of the
pale face, and X think that gentlemen who have
talked here to-night about Whigs and Democrats
had better have kit their politic? at. home
(tries of 'good, that's right.') The - pale face
has completed a mighty work. He has overcome
the most imposing natural ..barriers; he ha
pierced the valleys of the 'Delaware, Susque
hanna, Chemung, and Allegheny, and leveled
the hills which were roamed bv mv ancestors
centums'ago. Cheers. Now their deao
ants marYrl at thj loings of the .taigbty pal
face. .:Onrittlc6a pre frightened at the fire,
and smoke, and speed of your iron horse, and
run to us. for protection. (Cheers.) Cut I trust
the spirit of my ancestors look down with pride
upon the doings of the mighty pale face. They
cannot but be proud to see him accomplish his
great destiny; to seo him fly from hill to valley,
and ride upon the : wings of the lightning.
(Cheers.) If the New York" Tribune is to be
believed, he has carried his enterprises even
beyond this world, and receives communications
from inhabitants of the other world. ."I tried a
short time since to got communications from
my friends in the land of the Grcat Spirit, but
they had learned the language of the pale face
since .they had arrived there, and could not
understand the idiom of the Cayugan. (Uproar
rious laughter.)
But, follow citizens, in behalf of my tribe, I
come to congratulate you upon the completion
of your great work. Your passage through our
territory amazed my people; all nature seemed
to shako as you thundered along, and the gi
gantic oak and lofty pine bowed in token
your triumph. (Cheers.) But tho heart of the
Cayugan is warm and he greets and welcomes
you to his country. (Prolonged applause.)
Dr. W. then presented to President Loder a
banner from the Cayuga tribe, upon which was
inscribed the pipe of peace, their national
emblem. He accompanied- the presentation
with u few appropriate Temarks, to whicli Mr.
Loder briefly responded.
COL. 1VJI. UIGLHR.
REMINISCENCES- OF HIS EASLY HISTORY.
From an intimate acquaintance of near twenty
years, with Hon. Wm. Eiglcr, the young and
popular nominee of the Democratic party for
fTcruar. jot ..Pcnnsyl v m;CVc' ?r ig.Ji'cdta
oner a nasty sketch, of some of fhorcminis?
ccnccs of his early history."
William Bigler was born in Cumberland
county, in this State, about . the .year 1815,
whence his parents removed to Mercer county.
Subsequently, he was apprenticed to the print
ing business, vin Bellcfoiitc. . Sometime , about
the years 18C2 '33, he located in Clearfield,
Clearfield county; where he established and for
a few years published, with great ability, a
newspaper, entitled the " Ckarfttll Democrat'
Abandoning the printing business, lie embarked
in mercantile pursuits and the lumber "trade, in
which calling he has since been extensively and
successfully engaged. ,,.'"
Mr. Bigler "commenced his career in the world
friendless and destitute, save an unsullied rep-
uiau-m, muomuaoic energy and untiring perse
verence, wlucli" he carefully fostered and ha
become the architect of h'13 own fauic". We well
fcmemWwhen he would retire Voliis editorial
sanctum, after the labors of the day had term!,
nated, and exercise himself iu rehearsing lessons
on military tactics, political jurisprudence,
moral philosophy, el cetera. , The same ardent
spirit of unfailing perseverance and antiquarian
research which controlled the boy, has adorned
the man, and raised' him to an eminence tnd
popularity never before enjoyed by any citizen
of this good old Commonwealth." " " -In
lSllj-Col. B.. was the nominee of the
Democratic party, in. the Senatorial District
composed of the counties of Clearfield, Indian a,
Armstrong , and Cambria, opposed by Joseph
Hutchinson, Esq., tho regular Whig candidate,
and was elected by 0,400 majori ty. . Subsequently
he was re elected by an increased majority.
This, let it be rcmcmberodj is Govcnor John
ston's Whig strict,' jmd v-Laii Mr.-jBuLr
seoted to have been the'cAndidate a' thtrDme.J
r rvQiuaT(: "ceu ayC(I from th mLsrute pj;
the preipetrt administration. '
" Akother fact, and we are done. Wo venture
to say that it evinces in our glorious Democratic
standard-bearer, a popularity unexampled in
the annals of political history. - In 1811, when
up for the Senate, as stated above, every voto,
save , oKi int Clearfield . county, was cast for
Wilioah BiqlerI Columbia Democrat. -
YoungMeii.
The idea is prevalent in some communities,
that young men arc unfit for generals' or states
men,' and that they must bo kept in the back
ground until their physical strength is impaired
by age, and their intellectual faculties become
blunted by years. Lt. us look id tho history
of the past, and from the long lkt'of heroes
and statesmen who. have nobly distinguished
themselves, we will find that they were young
men who performed those acts which have won
for them an impcrishablo meed' of fame," and
placed their names high on the 'page of history..
Alexander, thcconqucror of the whole civilized
world, viz: Crecce, Egypt;;!-!, died at 33.
Bonaparte was crowned Eiiipcior " of ' France
when 33 years of age." Pitt, Ihe younger brolh-"
er, was about 20 years of age, when', In Britain':
Parliament, he boldly advocated the cause cf
mc .Muincan Lolomes; and but 22 when made
onanceuor ot the Exchequor. Edmund Burke.
at.i the age of 25 was the First Lord of the
Treasury. . Our -own Washington was but 2o
when he covered the retreat of the British at
Eraddock's defeat; and was appointed the
oTjmander-in-Chief of all the Virginian forces
wox-tamuton-- nTffS, ..-UrcrtroMT
Vne! and Aid to Washington ; at 2-3 a member
,f Congress, and-at 32 Secretary ol the Treas
ury. .Thomas Jefferson was but 23 when he
drafted the . ever memorable Declaration of
Independence. At the ago of 30 years Sir Isaac
Newton occupied the mechanical chair at Cam
bridge College, England, having, by his scien
tific discoveries, rendered hisnauie immortal.
-' TWO WEEKS
Iater From California.
Great Fire at San Francisco.
$0,00D,00D PROPERTY DESTSOYED.
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v From the Alia California, Mvj 1.
San Trancisco is again ia ashes. The smoke
and flames arc.asccnding from several squares
of our city, as if the god of destruction had
serod himself in our midst, and was gorging
hfariself and all his ministers of devastation
npim the ruins of our doomed city and its peo
ple. About 11 o'clock last night the cry of fire
stafted every ono like an earthquake. The fire
ha just commenced in a paint 6hop on the
weit Bide of Portsmouth square, adjoining the
Brjkint House, formerly ' called, but more rc-
cenily the American.
- It was. but a slight blaze when first seen, but
in five minutes the whole upper story was full
of flmes. .Before the engines could get upon
L the fround and commence playing, the Ameri
can cn one, Bide, and a store occupied by Messrs.
Rhodes as a furnishing establishment, . w ere in
flamov The buildings in the vicinity being all
of wfd, and extremely combustible, the fire
Bprcad up Clay street, back toward Sacramcn-
to, aul down Clay street to Kearny street, with
ani th-j fire department coukl only work upon
the borders, and endeavor to check its rrogress.
By Anticipating it in this way, they succeeded
on tie north side before it reached Du Tont
strit; but in every other direction in which it
couil spread, it took its own course.
There was but little chance to save much of
the moveables.
TJ the South it spread to Bush street, and to
the fcaFt passed Jackson street, sweeping every
thing from east of Du Tont street to the wharves.
The blocks between Du Pont and Kearney street
and Vest of Portsmouth Square as far as Bush
Btreqt three in number, arc in ashes.
BiWeen : Bush and -Jackson, Kearny and
Monromcry, five in number, all arc burned
dowiii Between Montgomery and Sansom,
BusV iSn-d Jackson streets," five in number, all
dow' " Besides these thirteen blocks,' almost
evc5;Jbeilding of which is destroyed, there arc
manvothers. It is impossible even to gaess at
ihc number of buildings or the amount of prop
erty; 'octroyed. A. thousand buildings is with
in tfe Tangc of truth. r- Wc judge that ten mil
lion! cf dollars could not replace the terrible
dcBruction. Some .place it at three times as
hig, ; It. is sufficient to say .that more than
three fourths of the business part of the city is
nothing ;but smouldering cinders.
- Tin principal buildings arc the following:
Custom House, Union Hotel, Parker House,
Jonti Hotel, Adclphi Theatre, Dramatic Museum,-
Kational Hotel, New World's. City Hotel,
Dclmonico's Mcrchant's Exchange, Ross' build
ing, s!Tps Niantic and Gen. Harrison, and every
ncwspapW office in the town except the Alta
California.' Nearly or quite all the Bankers
are in the list, viz: Burgoyno & Co.,. Wells &
fC&iiuid James" King, of. Wm.;. DvlmoMCcTs.
Atnecan -ITotcI, Reyere Houge, Paciiic Mail
Sfejvrpp Company, all are burned. IJot
hW!i4'
was left o Leidersdorff
streo and every
thing on both
sides of Long wharf, to beyon i
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White 'Hall.
," Scarcely a fireproof buihling iu the whole
burnt district has stood thi,tcst. Such as have
are the California Exchange, El Dorado, Veran
dah, and the buildings of Capt. Howard, in
which yas the U. S. Assaying Office of Moffat
& Co., on Montgomery street. '.Tho officers of
the Custom House saved the specie of the office
by casting it into' a well.." About 1,000,000
was saved iu this'way. A. I. Cost, Naval Offi
cer; Mr, Brown, Appraiser; Mr. Green,' Collec
torj and a number of others in the Naval De
partment, had all their private effects destroy
ed. The books and papers of tho department
were nearly all saved! ' Tho largo U. S: Bonded
Warehouse, containing about 2000 torn of rucr
chandizj in bond, was saved. '
Tho banking houses will all resume business
in. the course' of the week. When Burgoync's
safo was Spcncd, 1,50.0000 was taken out, not
singed or damaged in Ihe least. . . , .
The fire swept everang do u on the eas
terly side of Kearny street, Jackson street, and
allthc intervening blocks to Battery street.
The shipping iii the harbor providentially esca
ped. The only vcsaclo burned were the Ni antic,
the Aj"dlo, and the Ocn. llarvijcn, stwc -hip
California, Montgomery, Tine, Sansome, Com
mercial, and Clay streets, were nearly destroy
ed. The Sacramento Hotel was . WowiL up.
Howard & Greenlow'e fcuildingV containing
many valuable law libraries, Jones' Hotel, the
Saving Bank, - Dodge & Cc's., Express OfEcc,
"3rrntie? huiIdgs,CarjroxiilarJxTraTf
oek 4 Brothers' store, -were saTedr- The Dra
matic Museum, Custom House", Jenny Lind
Theatre, Parker. House, Adams & Co's., Ex
press Office," the Empire House, and the Union
noiei, were among the buildings ourned. The
destruction of the Union Hotel involved a loss
of 250,000. Messrs. Adams & Co., saved their
books, &c. '
The deposits of Wells & Co. arc safe.
The Alta California of a later date says, mea
sures have been taken to supply the city with
water from a lake, near three miles distant. A
proposition has been laid before the Council by
a Mr. Mcrrifield, .and was to be acted on May
loth, and if favorably, Mr. M., would leave im
mediately fox the Atlantic States, to contract
for the pipes and other materials.
: The rebuilding had already commenced. The
list of sufferers includes the names of seven
hundred firms and individuals; among the hea
viest of which are J. B. Biddleman, $200,000;
Simonsfield, Bach T. Co., 150,000; Starkcy
Brothers, 150,000; Kelly,. Smith & Riley,
125,000; Ottenheimer, Hirsch & Co., 130,
050; Moore, Ticknbr & Co., 130,000; Dcboom,
Vigneaux & Grisar, 117,000; E. Mickle & Co.,
200,0O3; Dale, Austin & Co., 150,000; Mid
dleton & Selove, 250,000.
Six men were burned to death at one build
ing, llicir names arc Capt. Welsh of ship
Louis Richland, Edward M'Cahill, Leon Green- j
hough, Reuben Baker, Newsbourn, and Rosen
thal. Many individuals were seriously burned
and otherwise injured among them Gen. Jas.
Wilson.
.Vigorous measures have been taken for re
building the burnt district, and buildings were
going UP &11 directions.:
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The fire at Stockton was the work of an in
cendiary, originating in the Merchants Hotel.
The following are amongst the principal losers:
W. H. Robinson, 30,000;- Webb & Hancock,
30,000; Baker & Hickman, 50,000; C. I.
Brown, 30,000; Calvin, Paige & Co., 30,000;
Heath A? Emory 30,000; Paige and Webster;
30,000; Gillingham, C0,0O0; Davis & Smith,
30,000; Exchange 25,009; Dickenson House
20000;' J. S. Owen 50,000, with numerous
ofher mercantile houses, varying from 2,000
to 30,000. The total, according to the esti
mates, cannot be less than a million.
Louis Napoleon.
The European Times relates the following an
ecdote of Louis Napoleon, connected with his
celebrated descent upon Bolognc:
"A French gentleman of very high rank told
us this week a curious fact connected with this
feeling, and which he assured us was the main
cause of Louis Napoleon's vast success at the
last election.. When the descent upon Bolognc
was made, Marshal Oudinot had placed troops j
along the line of road from the coast to Taris, J
ready to play the same game which ey. had
managed upon Bonaparte's return to Elba.
When Louis Napoleon reached Bolognehc found
it was xtn coup vwngve, and keeping his own
council, suffered the world to regard him as a
dupe and a fool for having made such an at
tempt without previous concert, and without
adequate forces to support his enterprise. Ou
dinot, and all those who would have been com
promised had he betrayed them, felt gratitude
to the 'young man for his staunch fidelity, and
repaid his loyalty to them by raising him to the
presidency, and the army still regardshira with
tJTesUoa. anijconfideucc." -
Murders by tlie Mormons.
Mackinac,' (via. Detroit,) June 8, 1851. The
Captain T h sloop Planet,' who arrived here
lids afternoon from Beaver Island," reports that
the Mormons ""yesterday morning murdered
Thomas Bennett in his own house, and danger
ously wounded his brother Samuel. He says
the excitement among the Gentiles (all who are
not saints) at this cold-blooded murder of pea
ceable and industrious citizens is fearfully,
alarming, and that nothing short of a general
fight and massacre can allay their rage.
At the time he left there, ten o'clock, the fish
ermen and Indians were collecting at Mackin
lcy's Toint, preparatory to an attack on the
Mormons, who were also mustering their forces
in anticipation of - this fight; and while I am
writing this communication the work of death
may be going on." The plea set up by the Mor
mons in justification of this sanguiaary murder
of an unoffending man within the sanctity of
his domestic rules is, that the Bennetts offered
resistance to fifty or sixty Mosuions who came
to arrest them, with warrants, on a charge of
having said tho previous day that they would
not recbgnio Mormon law. .
After they had riddled the body with rifle
balls, they broke in the door of his cabin and
brutally bragged the corp&c by the hair of the
head to the L.kc chore, a I p'tt both brother
in their own fihin boat, one dead, and the
other nearly so, and carried them twelve miles,
before the Mormon justice who issued the war
rants. " -
These arc the men whose houses they burned
last winter, and whose lives the king doomed to
destruction if they did not give up their farm-
"to the saints and leave the islinj. '" "
Those here who have always? ht or wrenp-,
got the Mormons from the bands of justice llv
the obuse f judicial authwity and the halii"
corpus, ire morally responsible for all this blooJ:
for, if justice was allowed to have its course on
them for some of their offences against the
peace and property of the community, they
would respect the power of the law, and would
not repeat these things, at least with impunity:
but, as every attempt to bring them to legit I
punishment here ba3 r-royed ineffectual, the
people unwilling any longer to suffer their an
noyances, arc determined to fall back rn first
principles, and right their own wrong.
. , Clicks.' 7 .
A Cincinnati paper states'tha't Mr. Lowemh).
a noted Hungarian chess-player of that city, i
On his way to London-, to take a hand in the
great game of chess which is soon to come of!
there for 500. ' . ' -
In allusion to this player the New Orleans
Bee says:
Mr. Lowcnthal is a very great chess -player.
He was in New Orleans about a year ago, and
wrested the laurels frcyn some of the t ucst
masters of the game. But strange to say, he
was beaten by a youth of twelve years, who but
J a few months previous had never played a game.
The youth in question Master M is a
son of a highly respectable citizen of New Oi lcans,
himself an enthusiastic amateur of th
noble game of Chess. The boy was accustomed
to look over the board while his father wa.
playing. As soon as he comprehended the
moves, he began to play.
' Be first beat his father, then", hia uncle;.
u n.uiuih.awc iorcc then, in a conte:.t
I Y.ita.E9ussca &c chess ehampiju of the South
ue uwi a sjgr.ai aa vintage; ar.-t fijialiy L c
amiizcd Lowcnthal himself by winning fronv
him a majority in a given scries of games. He
has perhaps the most wonderful genius forches.
ever witnessed. At his tender ac, he may be
considered a first-rate player. Ilis movements
are prompt, astonishingly accurate, and. the rc -suit
of close and vigilant combination. He
solves problems with . amazing facility. None
of the mysteriou intricacies of these enigmas,
however involved " arid numerous the iuovcj,
baffle his concentrated ami patient attcutiou.
If he continues advancing in force as he grow3
older, he will become the wonder of the ag-,
ere he attains manhood.
A .Ycw Instrument or Destruction.
A rifle capal Ie of firing 25 balls every minute,
including the time of loading; wa"s shown to us
a day or two since, as an important improve
ment in fire arniS. Under the barrel, in the
place of the ordinary ramrod, is an iron tube
containing the 2balls, and by cocking the gun
a ball is brouglft up in the barrel and the same
operation also brings up from the breech a 'pill
of priming. The charge of powder is contained
in the ball, which is not round, but oblong, and
having an opening which is corked, shut after
the powder has been introduced. The quantity
of powder is only 28 grains, and drives the ball
with greater force than the large charge in an
ordinary gun. This is anew invention, and
the manufacturing of the gun is now beginning
at Williamsburg, and we learn that a large or
dcr has 'been received at the foundry of Gard
ner, Harrison & Co., of this city, for casting
breeches, &c, for it. The day of its exhibition
to ourselves, the owner and part inventor bad
been down on the meadows with ten, men having
-I ordinary muskets. He fired 50 balls while they
fired 40, all of his, and only 3 1 of theirs, struck
the target. Upon a slight examination vq
could sec no objection to the instrument.
Xetcark Advertiser." -- ,
Discovery or Ancient Mauusciipii.
Much excitement has recently been occas'on -
ed in Constantinople, by the discovery of an
immense treasure of Greek manuscript, of thr
higqest antiquity. They were foiuii by a
learned Greek namelSimonides, in a cave t,itu
ated at the foot of Mount Athos. Araong then-'
it is sai l there arc many celebrated works ou-i
ted by ancient writers, and, until now, suppo
sed to be lost. , Those will be of the higher
importance in throwing light on many parts
history hitherto obscure or of questionable au
thority. There are also several manuscript,
filled vmh characters, calculated it is er.pfV.-cJ-
to elueiJa the meaning of hievogljphijal in
scriptions. All these singular volu?ucs are
composed of very thin membranes, the nature
of which is not statrl. The discoverer has al
ready applied the knowledge obtained from
some of them to the interpretation of the in
scriptions engraved on the obelisk, of the Hip
ppdrorous at Constantinople. JAz-cAd. .v
Trader J'urncl.
CQ5rIIon J. N. Turviancc, late Auditer Co
eial, hai been 'nominated in Butler emm'r, a .
Trcc'idc'it Td-'? of that Judicial "15 Jii'.t.
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