M8IITAII SENTINEL.
Andrew J, Rhey, Editor.
EBENSBURG, TA.
Tliui'silay, June 3,1854.'
For President,
JAMES B VCII ANA X, r Pmusylvnuia.
DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL TICKET.
SENATORIAL ELECTORS.
GEORGE W. WOODWARD, of Luzerne.
WILSON McCANDLESS, of Allegheny.
Gen. ROBT. PATTERSON, of Philadelphia.
EEl'liKSKNTATlVE ELECTORS.
1. Peter Loean. 13. H. C. Ey6r.
2. George H. Martin. 14. John Clayton.
S. John Miller. 15. Isaac Robinson.
4. F. W. Bockiua. 16. Henry Fetter.
5. R. McKay, Jr. 17. James Bnrnside.
6. A. Apple. 18. Maxwell McCaslin.
7. Nimrod Strickland. 19. Joseph McDonald.
8. Abraham Peters. 20. Win. S. Callahan.
9. David Fister. 21. Andrew Burke.
10. R. E. James. . 22. William Dunn.
11. John McReynolds. 23. John S. McCalmont
12. P. Damon. 24. George R. Earrett.
For Canal Commissioner,
"WILLIAM SE ARIGHT, of Fayette.
IggThe E.litor is now absent, having gone
with the crowd to Baltimore to witness the pro
ceedinzs of the National Convention. This will
account for any lack of Editorial.
Important.
The long unsettled claims of those who have
f ..ruished materials upon the Portage Hail Hoad
ire at length to be adjusted. The advertisement
f C'apt. West the Superintendant will be found
n another column, to which the attention of all
persons interested is directed.
Fare Reduced.
The Pennsylvania Rail Road Company have
reduced the fare on their road from Pittsburg
4o Philadelphia, to 0, by Railroad and Canal,
und $10 by Railroad and stage. All right, but
it might be further reduced to the mutual ad
vantage of the company and the travelling pub
lic. Portage Rail Road.
We publish this week the very able and satis
factory report of Messrs. Roberts and Gay rela
tive to the location of the road for the avoidance
of the planes. It will be seen that these two
eminent Engineers fully sustain Mr. Faries in
Lis location of the road, and urge its immediate
prosecution to completion. The Canal Commis
sioners have accordingly determined to place the
work under contract as soon ns possible, and in
another column will be found the advertisement
of the Superintendant for letting that portion of
the road for avoiding the planes upon the eastern
slope of the Allegheny Mountain, and straight
ening the curves upon the long level between
planes Nos. 1 and 2.
Democratic National Convent Ion.
This body assembled at Baltimore on Tues
day last, but as yet we have not had any account
of its proceedings. The result will be looked
for with no ordinary interest, which ire hope to
be enabled to lay before our readers next week.
Of course it is impossible for us to predict with
certainty who will be the Democratic nominee ;
(but we hope, nay we believe, that Pennsylvani
a's illustrious statesman, James Buchanan, will
be the choice of the august body. If our most
ardent hopes are in this particular gratified, we
can go into the campaign with a positive cer
tainty of achieving a glorious victory at the
polls. Mr. liUcnanan s name will insure suc
cess, it matters not who will be the nominee of
the pie-bald opposition. However, if the Na
tional Convention shall deem it best to select
another distinguished Democrat as our standard
bearer, still we hope and expect to elect Lira,
but yet the result we do not consider so certain
as if Mr. Buchanan led on the phalanx of De
mocracy. The following telegraphic despatches we clip
from the Phila. Keening Argus of Monday last :
Baltoiore, May 31.
The city is literally overflowing with delegates
and strangers, drawn hither by the Democratic
National Convention, which assembles to-morrow.
The wires are being pulled in every con
ceivable direction, and there is an incomprehen
sible amount of coucusing going on. Nearly all
the delegates have already arrived. Cass stock
is falling to-day, while the prospects of Bucha-;
unn, Douglas aud Marcy are each improving.
The two-third rule will doubtless be adopted by
the Convention.
There is to be a grand mass meeting held in
Monument Square, to-night, which will be ad
dressed by many able speakers from all parts of
the country.
Many of the dolegate3 are going to Washing,
ton, to-day, to get their cue.
SECOND DESPATCH.
The two sets of delegates from Georgia, have
not yet arranged their difficulties, though they
have spent most of the day in caucus. The U
nion delegates demand half the voteof the State.
The Convention will have to decide the matter.
Mississippi will give five votesfor Buchanan.
The friends of Gen. Cass pretend to much con.
fulence, so also do the friends of Messrs. Bu
chanan ana Douglas, lien. Butler is gaining
strength. We have conversed with several del
egates instructed for Gen. Cass, who say they
will easily wheel round if necessary. The
friends of Mr. Buchanan are holding a caucus
this evening at Carroll Hall.
The meeting in Manamcut Square, this even
ing, was an immense one, and was attended by not
less than ten thousand persons. Numerous able
aad eloquent speeches were made principally
urchin the support of the Union. The meeting
was very enthusiastic.
The Maryland House of Delegates, to-dnr,
passed tho bill chartering the Chesapeake and
Delaware Railroad Company.
Some think that John Davis, of Indiana, will
be selected as Chairman of the Convention.
Arrival of T1ihim V. Meagher.
Philadelphia, May 28.
The Irish patriot, Thomas F. Meagher, hat
arrived at New York having escaped from Van
Hainan's LauL
Portage Road Engineer' Report
We give below the Report of Messrs. Rob
erts and Gay, says the Uarrisburg Keyslont,
appointed by a law of last session to examine,
in connection With Mr. Fabj.es, Principal Engl
neer of the . road, a portion of the proposed route
to avoid the inclined planes upon the Allegheny
Portage railroad. It will be perceived that the
report sustains the line recommended by Mr.
Faries and concurs with him entirely in the
correctness of his estimates as to the cost of
the work, ffrom the facts presented it would
seem too, that Mr. Faries, by fair inference, is
also well sustained by the line of the Central
railroad, upon which the tunnel through the
summit is about double the length of that adop
ted upon the State line, the grade nineteen feet
steeper to the mile on the eastern slope, whilst
the difference in distance is but about five miles
and the cost of construction of both entire lines
must be considerably in favor of that of the
State. The engineers upon the Central road
stand at the head of the profession, as well as
Messrs. Roberts and Gat. Such a concurrence
gives the best possible guarantee, that what has
been done by Mr. Faries, has been well done,
and that this indispensable connection in the
main line of our state works will be completed
with reference to utility, permanence and econ
omy, the three cardinal principles that should
ever govern in all such enterprises.
On the subject of the avoidance of the planes,
we have heretofore, on different occasions, gi
ven our views at length. The state has wisely,
in our humble opinion, undertaken the work
its importance and usefulness a little time will
undoubtedly show to the satisfaction of all who
may now doubt. Without adding anything fur
ther at present, we respectfully cull attention to
the report :
To the Board of Canal Commissioners of
the State of Pennsylvania.
Gentlemen : In pursuance of the 20th sec
tion of an act of the Legislature of Pennsylva
nia, approved May 4th, 1852, the undersigned
have met on the line of the Allegheny Portage
Railroad, and made an examination from the
foot of Plaac No. 4, to Hollidaysburg, "with a
view to avoid all the planes between said points
or as many as may be deemed practicable, and
for the best interest of the Commonwealth ;"
upon which we have the honor to present the
following report :
The mountain region embraced within the lim
its designated, has been subjected to repeated
examinations of experienced engineers, and its
topographical features are now accurately defi
ned and well known. Messrs. Clarke & Holgate,
Nathan S. Roberts, Col. Long, Moncure Robin
son, Sylvester Welch, Hother Hage, Charles S.
Schlatter, J. Edgar Thomson, Edward Miller,
aud others, have at different periods from 1824
to the present time, made careful iustrmental
surveys, and Mr. Faries, the Engineer of the
New Portage Railroad, has had the advantage
of their experience combined with his own per
sonal explorations and observations, so that the
field for re-examination, originally a wide one,
has, through the laborious investigations of
these gentlemen, been reduced within compara
tively narrow bounds.
The route traced, and recommended by Mr
Faries, to avoid the planes from No. 4 to No. 10,
inclusive, commences a short distance below the
foot of plane No. 4, (being the continuation of
the new line already located, under contract,
and in process of construction ; thoncc to Johns
town, avoiding planes Nos. 1, 2, and 3,) and
continues along the western slope of the main
range of the Allegheny mountain, parallel with,
and almost touching the Pennsylvania Pvailroad,
for five miles, to the crossing of a small branch
of the Clearfield, where the two lines diverge.
The Pennsylvania line inclines to the left, and
passes through the main ridge of the mountain
at Sugar Run Gap, by a tunnel 3570 feet in
length, and thence descends by the left bank of
Sugar Run, and along the slopes of the eastern
face of the mountain to Altoona, a new town
about six miles from the Portage Railroad, with
which it is connected by a branch.
The line surveyed for the new Portage road,
continues on a very directcoursc from this point
of divergance to Sugar Run Gap, more to the
south, and passes the mountain ridge by a tun
nel 1S0O feet in length ; the grade at the eas.
tern approach of the tunnel being about twen
five feet above that of the Pennsylvania road.
Thence it is traced along the right bank of Su
gar Run for about three miles, where it curves
around the spur of the mountain, and passes
over the favorable dividing ground between the
waters of Sugar Run and Fetter's Run ; it then
crosses the two main branches of Fetters's Run
and cuts through the dividing ridge between the
waters of Fetter's and Blair's Run. It passes
thence along very favorable sideling ground
along the left side of the valley of Blair's Run
to a point just above the foot of plane No. 8.
Here it curves and crosses Blair's Run, and one
of its tributaries, by an embankment, and a cut
through the spur near the foot of the plane on
the right side of the valley. Thence it is traced
along the side-hill above the present Portage
road, crossing it above Plane No. 0, and contin
uing below it until it reaches the plane about
half-way down, where it crosses it again. It
continues along the sloping side-hill above the
present road, gradually approaching it, crossing
it between planes No. 9 and 10, and immediate
ly above the latter plane it cuts through the
ridge, crosses a small branch of Blair's Run,
which puts in at the foot of the plane, and passing
through a dividing ridge to the waters of Dry
Run ; thence down the valley of Dry Run to the
point of intersection with the present road, be
tween Duncausville and the junction of Penn
sylvauia railroad brauch from Altoona. This is
the line we have examined, and which was tra
ced with a view to avoid all the planes between
the foot of plane No. 4, and Hollidaysburg.
From the foot of plane No. 4, along the wes
tern slope of the mountain, to the Summit, west
of the tunnel, a distance of six miles, the aver.
age grade is 5o feet per mile. From the Sum
mit to the junction with the present Portage
road, about two miles above Hollidaysburg, the
highest gradient employed U 75 feet per mile,
on straight lines, reduced proportionally 1 on
curves. The minimum radius of curvatures in
a few instances, is 700 feet.; ! ,!
There are some heavy cuts and fills, natunlly
incident to a mountainous country, but no ex
traordinary difficulty is encountered, and B a
wholei we regard the line as remarkably favtra
ble. The tunnel is advantageously located at
the narrowest and lowest depression of Stgar
Run Gap, where the highest point is but 135
feet above grade ; whilst at the Pennsylvania
Railroad tunnel, a few hundred yards furtier
north, the working shafts are 200 feet deep
The excavation In the latter, at the entrances,
and from one of the shafts, are now over 11 00
feet in length, and experience has shown fiat
the tunneling will not be of a difficult charac
ter. !
From our examination of the route, we an of
opinion that Faries' estimate of the cost of com
pleting the work, on the plan he has propoied,
is sufficient ; and we think he has selected the
best ground for a road, avoiding all the plmes
which can be found between the foot of pane
No. 4, and Hollidaysburg. In legard to grades
and cost, wo blievo it is Buperior to th.e.lfew
York & Erie, the Pennsylvania, or the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, and in curvature equally good.
We have carefully investigated the main ques
tion, presented for our consideration, by the
terms of the 20th section of the act to -which we
have referred, and have no hesitation ia expres
sing a decisive opinion in favor of the adoption
of. the route as traced for avoiding all the
planes.
It has, as wc know, been suggested, that
planes No. C, 7, and 8, the three highest and
steepest planes on the Eastern slope, beginning
at the summit, should be retained and modified
and improved, so as to render them mere effec
tual and econimical in their operation. To ac
complish this, a new line must necessarily be
constructed on a different route, from the foot
of plane No. 4, to the head f plane No. 6. The
distance is five miles, and the total rise 434 feet
requiring an average grade of 8G.67 feet per
mile. There is no material physical obstacle in
the way ; but we cannot but regard such a line
as merely a temporary expedient. It would in
volve the necessity of using assisting engines,
and, at a future day, when the increased trade,
which is anticipated, 6hould demand the avoid
ance of those planes, these five miles must be
abandoned, and the money expended would be
a dead loss to the commonwealth, It would al
so force the heavy trade of the Portage road,
already exceeding 200,000 tons per annum, to
be dragged up 150 feet higher than by the pro
posed new line.
it is so well known to the Board, that it is
perhaps scarcely necessary for us to repeat that
the present Portage R. R. is a worn-out public
work, and that for the proper economical accom
modation of the increasing business seeking the
State improvements, some efficient change is in
dispensable, at the earliest possible period.
The day for temporary expedients of any
kiud, In a great work of this character, is pas
sed the old Portage, once the wonder of the
age in which it was constructed, has done its
work, and sound policy, as well as true economy,
dictates that the commonwealth should, without
the necessary delay of a single day, apply the
most radical and perfect remedy. Our exami
nations and calculations in connection with the
questions submitted to us that the direct sav
ing to the State, (over the present mode of oper
ating,) by the construction of the line or the
route proposed, will more than pay the interest
on the entire cost of the work, independently of
the sums that may be realized, from the sale of
engines, old rails, &c. &c.
It appears to be conceded that even in the
event of postponing the construction of the new
line, a large expenditure is absolutely necessary
to place and maintain the present road Jui a fit
condition to do justice to the transportation in
terests ; to some extent this cost must be en
countered, but by a judicious application of the
funds to be expended, with a view to a new line,
a considerable portion of the work may be made
permanently available.
The whole length of the new Portage road
will be 45 miles 18 miles from Hollidaysburg
so the Summit, and 27 miles thence to Johns
town. The summit is 150 feet lower than the
tummit on the present road, which reduces the
total ascent and descent 300 feet, and adds J' to
the working capacity of the road.
In Mr. Faries' estimate of the cost of com
pleting the line with a single track, we find that
he has provided for a double track through the
tunnel, and at the important cuts and generally
along the route, where the additional outlay
would not be material.
Our opinion is, that the road should be gra
ded for a double track throughout, at once be
lieving that on the opening of continuous rail
roads through Tittsburg, into and across Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, &c., the
Penn. and the Allegheny Tortage roads, will
both be crowded with business.
We do not feel ealled upon to offer elaborate
views, with respect to the future prospect f
business on the State improvements, but we
cannot refrain from remarking, that in our opin
ion, the immense growing business between Phi
ladelphia and Baltimore and the great West,
passing tnrougu Pennsylvania, will ailord an
abundant and profitable source of revenue to all
the main lines now in progress-; and that a fair
spirit of generous rivalry will lead eventually to
the good of all. The opening of the Buffalo
and Albany and New York and Erie railroads,
although they are parallel with, and apparently
rival to the N. York canal, seems to have had a
decisively beneficial, instead of an injurious ef
fect, on the business and income of the New
York State works. We- look for a similar re
suit in Pennsylvania. If this view be correct,
it is important not only that the State should
keep her canals themselves in good order, but
that she should at the earliest moment practi
cable, complete the most perfect system of con
necting them, which the character of the inter
vening country permits.
This, wc are &onii lent, will be "found iu the
line we have described, avoiding all the planes' J
which can be constructed and opened throughout
by the Fall of 1853. From the action of the
Legislature, we infer that it is their intention to
make a complete work across the mountain, and
when it is considered that the actual cost per
mile Will be less than the average cost of most
of our Eastern roads, we think there can be ho
good ground for hesitation or delay. We there
fore respectfully, but earnestly recommend the
adoption of and speedy commencement of oper
ations on the line traced from the foot of plane
No. 4, to Hollidaysburg, avoiding oil the planes.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
W. MILNOR ROBERTS,
EDWARD F. GAY.
May 15, 1852 :
The views entertained by Mr.
Roberts and Mr. Gay, in the foregoing Report,
I am happy to find, fully approve of the policy
and practicability of avoiding all the planes on
the Allegheny Portage railroad. Indeed, it
would eeem that a doubt could not exist in the
mind of any one who would thoroughly investi
gate the project, but that it is the only mode by
which the main line of the State works can be
sustained, and enabled to compete, successfully
fer the western and lake trade.
Respectfully,
ROBERT FAMES.
From the Public Ledger.
Public Officer of the Commonwealth
Judge of tlig Supreme Court.
Jeremiah S. Black, Somerset, somerset Coun
ty. Ellis Lewis, Lancaster City, Lancaster County-
Walter II. Lowrie, Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County. .
John B. Gibson, Carlisle, Cumberland county.
George W. Woodward, Wilkesbarre, Luzerne
County.
PRESIDENTS OF THE COl'RTS OF COMMON PLEAS.
First J udicial District, composed of the City
and County of Philadelphia Oswald Thompson.
Second District, composed of the County of
Lancaster Henry G. Long.
Third District, composed of Northampton and
Lehigh Washiiigtom McCartney.
Faurth District, composed of Tioga, Potter,
McKean, Elk and Clearfield R. G. White.
Fifth District, composed of the County of Al
legheny Wm. B. McClure.
Sixth District, composed of the Counties of
Erie Crawford and Warren John Galbraith.
Seventh District, composed of the Counties of
Bucks and Montgomery Daniel M. Smyser.
Eighth District, composed of the Counties of
Northumberland, Lycoming, Centre and Clinton
Alexander Jordon.
Ninth District, composed of the Counties of
Cumberland, Perry and Juniata James Gra
ham Tenth Dislrict, composed of the Counties of
Westmoreland, Indiana and Armstrong J.", M.
Burrell.
Eleventh District, composed of the Counties of
Luzerne, Wyoming, Montour and Columbia
John N. Conyngham.
Twelfth District, composed of the Counties of
Dauphin and Lebanon John J. Pearson.
Thirteenth District, composed of the Counties
of Bradford, Susquehannah and Sullivan Da
vid Wilmot.
Fourteenth District, composed of the Counties
of Fayette, Washington and Greene Samuel .
Gilmore.
Fifteenth District, composed of the Counties of
Chester and Deleware Townsend Haines.
Sixteenth District, composed of the counties of
Franklin, Bedford, Somerset and Fulton F. M.
Kimmel.
Seventeenth District, composed of the counties
of Beaver, Butler, Mercer and Lawrence Dan
iel Agnew.
Eightetntk District, composed of the Counties
of Venango, Clarion, Jefferson and Forest John
C. Knox. '
Nineteenth District, composed of the Counties
of York and Adams Robert J. Fisher.
Twentieth District, composed of the Counties
of Mifiiin and Union A. S. Wilson.
Twenty-first District, composed of the County
of Schuylkill Charles W. llegins.
Twenty -second District, composed of the Coun
ties of Monroe, Pike, Wayne and Carbon Nath
aniel B. Eldred.
Ttcenty-third District, composed of the County
of Berks J. Pringle Jones.
Tirenty-fourth District, composed of the Coun
ties of Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria George
Taylor.
Jt'DGES OF Tire DISTRICT COCBTS.
District Court, composed of the City and
County of Philadelphia George fonarswoou,
President : Georffc M. Stroud and J. J. Clarke
7
Hare, Associates.
District Court, composed of the County of Al
legheny Walter Forward, President; Henry
W. Williams Associate.
The Wheeling Bridge Case.
Washington City, May 28.
The Supreme Court, through Judge M'Lean,
(Judges Taney and Daniels dissenting,) has de
cided :
1st. No change will be made in the original
decree, unless by providing safe and convenient
passage for all boats having chimneys eighty
feet from the water.
2d. The Court will sanction neither of the
plans proposed by defendants ; but if they can
make a draw not less than two hundred feet
wide, in the Western Bridge, and make that
channel equally safe and convenient as the Eas
tern channel was ocfore the erection of the sus
pension bridge, they may try the experiment at
their own risk and responsibility.
3d. The decree heretofore filed shall be be re
corded, and (unless the obstruction to naviga
tiou be removed or remedied before the 1st of
February,) the suspension bridge shall be aba
ted.
4th. Defendants are ordered to pay the costs.
amounting to over fifteen thousand dollars.
Assistant Postmaster General.
Washington, May 27.
The Republic announces the appointment of
Wm. H. Dundas, as temporary Assistant Post
master General, in place of Col. Fiti Henry
Warren.
FR03I OUR. EXCHANGES. "
; BGL-According to Livingsten's Law Ledger
for 1852, our country has 25, 000 lawyers, whose
annual income is not far from 36,000,000.
Female Mammoth. Catharine Scholey, 34
years of.age, and weighing six hundred and elev
en pounds, Is to be exhibited at Columbus, Ohio.
She is a native of Tickaway county in that
State. - -
JGSy-The Michigan Central Railroad, has been
completed to Chicago, and on the 21st inst., a
train of cars arrived there, carrying 500 first
class and over 300 emigrant passengers.
Two Words to a Bargain. Japanese. "We
won't have free trade. Our ports are closed and
shall remain bo." American. Tben we will
open our ports, and convince you that you're
wrong."
JBSy-'Wife,' said a man, looking for a boot
jack, 'I have places where I keep my things and
you ought to know it.' 'Yes,' said she, I ought
to know where you keep your late hours but
I don't.'
Death of a Child bt Rats. A little child
died in Boston, a few days ago, in consequence
of rats entering its cradle during the night, eat
ing off one of its fingers, and gnawing the flesh
off its arm to the bone, in a most frightful man
ner.
J6g"f Arrangements are already being made in
many of the cities and towns of the United Stat's
for celebrating the approaching anniversary of
American Independence.
Good Story Spoiled. The New York Excess
copies the article from the Pennsylvanian, which
stated that Mrs. Clay had never visited Wash
ington, and says : This is a very good story,
and we are sorry to spoil it, but truth requires
the correction. Mrs. Clay, then, in her day,
has been one of the gayest and most graceful
women of the Federal Metropolis, and is so rem
embered by many in the District of Columbia.
She has, however, been an excellent wife and
mother, and always distinguished for her dom
estic qualities.
BgSeveral lumps of gold wore discovered
in a mine in the village of Mineral Point, (Wis
consin,) on Saturday, the 1st inst., worth from
two to four dollars. On the Monday following
half the town turned out to search for the ''hid
den treasure," and in a short time found a 'lead'
containing gold, silver and diamonds, and be
fore noon two hundred dollars worth of these
precious metals were taken from the earth.
Another American Prisoner Released.
Mr. John Cuuningham, engineer on the Havana
Railroad, who had been imprisoned at that place
since the 8th day of September last, charged
with carelessness and neglect of duty in running
the engine and train off the tri ck, whereby
some 20 or 30 passengers were wounded, one of
whom died, was acquitted conditionally and
placed at liberty on the 12th inst.
JSPSyDr. Mayo, in his "Philosophy of Living,"
says tnat a "spare habit, maintained by intel
lectual and bodily activity, short of overfatigue
and exhaustion, constitutes the wholesomest
condition of economy. It is met with in persons
of the mixed temperament, in its most faultless
character. It is seen in the sanguine and the
bilious, but then it is less exempt from the dis
eases to which each of the latter is prone."
The Maine Liquor Law in Havana. The
American captains at Havana, having been much
troubled on account of the drunkenness of their
crews, who purchased liquor of the fruit boats
which came out to get them, got up a petition
to the authorities to have the nuisance abated.
It was signed by forty-five captains then in port,
and received the endorsement of Judge Sharkey
the Consul. After considering the matter, a
regulation was issued by the Captain of the Port,
forbidding the sale and affixing the following
penalties ; first offence, the destruction of the li
quor ; second offence, the confiscation of the boat
and destruction of the liquor ; third offence, the
former penalties, with the addition of two
months imprisonment, and then a term of years
on board a man-of-war. The convictions for the
first offence had been rigidly put in force, and
all the liquor in possession of the offenders had
been poured into the sea.
SS,At the Convention of Congregational
Ministers, held at Boston on the 2Gth inst., the
committee on Tobacco, appointed last 3ear, made
a report. They stated that the annua export
of tobacco, amounts to $9,219,251, and the im
ports in the article of cigars, to 2,520,812, and
the annual cost of cigars in the United States,
is 20,000,000.
Letter from John Mitchel, the Irish Pa.-
triot. Ihe Limerick (Ireland) lieporter says:
'Father Kenyon, of Templederry, has just
received a long letter from his friend John Mit
cLol. The letter was written in December; it
affords a glowing picture of the present position
and prospects of the exile and his family, who
are enjoying the sweets of domestic happiness
in Van Dieman's Land. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchel
and their children arc all in the best health ;
John Martin is living with them, and his health
also is greatly improved. John Mitchel has ta
ken a large tract of land, which he is farming
himself, and which affords him constant occupa
tion. He writes in high spirits, by no means in
love with the nigs, however ; ana his aspira
tions for the liberation of Ireland are said to be
as vigorous and as constant as cvor."
i"A recent letter from San Francises, says:
"The extensive, and well known firm of Hussey,
Bond & Hale, of this city, are constructing a
large fire proof store, and what is a remarkable
fact, they are importing stone from China for
the erection of this building. Who could have
dreame.d of this a few years ago ? Now we
have not only stone from China, but the work
men to put up our buildings.
JGSsJ'It ia now stated that Louis Napoleon is
about to marry a daughter of Don Pedro by his
second marriage. If this alliance should take
place, Louis Napoleon would be brother-in-law
to the Prince dc Joinville, his most inveterate
enemy, the mother of the intended bride being a
I daughter of Beauharnais.
Mr Meagher the Irish T
just arrived in New York, is about twenty-
years of age, is very corpulent, and his 9
sure to a Southern sun gives him a dark, s'
thy appearance. ; '; Mrs.. Meagher was nnallT
accompany him in his flight. Mr. Meagher i&
we are informed, abundant means to enable l'
to live comfortably. ' His father is 'estimated?
be worth 700,000, and there are out three cVl
dren one thestingtfsfcd exile who , has jti
reached our shores, another who is a captain
the Pope's Guard at Rome, and a third is at 0
rister in the city of Dublin. The father i
member of the British Parliament, and is ,v
vuuiiiuuu oi me naienoru ana Limerick Rjj.
way Company.
JBgyThe emigration Westward, especially 0f
German immigrants, the Albany Argug Etat(
is very large. The cars and boats from
York are crowded with them, and in one wei
three thousand had been conveyed over the cen
tral railroad line. The great majority of thta
appeared to be in comfortable circumstances.
JfcSrTbe Bath )Me.) Mirror states that a Mrs
Darah, residing at Winnegance, apparently dif ,j
Saturday before last. Preparations were made
for her funeral the Sunday following. On han
dling the body it was discovered to be slightly
warm ; and there were other indications that
although her blood was not perceptibly in mo
tion, she was yet'alive. The lancet was applid
and blood flowed quite freely, and the applica
tion of glass to the mouth and nostrils indica
ted a slight respiration. Up to Thursday her
condition appeared to be improving, but there
were no signs of consciousness. Uer body will
be kept until there are indications of decay.
B,The New Bedford Mercury, whig is vcrv
severe on President Filmore for his Mormon ap
pointments. It snys
"The appointment of Brigham Young ns gov
ernor, was perhaps, a proper policy under &3
circumstances but the retention of that shock,
ing brute in office, after he had expelled the
judges appointed by the United States, appear
to us a cowardly policy. Yet in comparison
with the appointment of euch an ignorant scam
as Orson Hyde as a judge of the supreme court
of Utah, the retention of Young ia a small mat
ter. We think the President erred grievous1.?
in appointing this Hyde to a judicial station
and we think this way of allowing the Mormon,
to control both the executive and the judiciary
of Utah is against the interest of the people
the United States who are not Mormons, if not
against good morals."
Captcre or an Angel. The Berlin corres.
pondent of the London Times gives the follow
ing as an incident which occured lately in Up
er Silesia. One night there appeared to a weal,
thy widow a messenger from St. Peter, surroun
ded by a supernatual glory, and holding in lis
hand a draft for 100 thalers, payable to bearer,,
drawn on her by her lately deceased husband
to meet the fees and other expenses attendant
on his entry into heaven. The affectionate wid
ow, anxious to do all honor to her husband's
signature, and to facilitate hia entrance into
paradise hastened to look up the money, but as
she unfortunately had only 70 thalers by Ler,
was compelled to request his angelship would
call again to-morrow for the balance. The e'er,
gyman of the place, on being consulted the next
day prevailed on the widow to allow him and
the chief magistrate to witness the payment so
that when the heavenly messenger appeared
again according to appointment he was roughly
seized by profane hands and incarcerated ; but
the strangest part of all is, that the next morn
ing his prison was found empty, and his mode
of escape remains a secret.
Thomas Francis Meagher.
We have already announced the arrival of this
gentleman in New York a few days since, hat
ing succeeded in making his escape from Van
Dieman's Land. He is described as being 23
years old, very corpulent and much browned by
exposure to a Southern Sun. His name is pro
nounced JIaher, the a as in the word mana. The
Courier and Enquirer gives the following acco'n;
of his escape :
Mr. Meagher arrived on Wednesday night, ia
the brig Acorn, from Perambuco, having escap
ed to that place in an American whaler. De
says he had partial liberty on the ticket of leave
at the time he escaped, and did not violate its
condition. Having made arrangements for his
flight, (a fleet horse was in his stable, and arm.
ed with pistols,) he addressed a letter to tho
magistrate of Ross, twenty miles distant, in
township of the district out of which he was not
permitted to go ; in the letter he returned bu
ticket of leave, and said he would remain at b-
house that day until 12 o'clock, when the leate
expired, in order to give an opportunity of ar
resting him if they could. When the magistral
read the letter, he ordered the chief of the po
lice to arrest Meagher, but he refused. Meag
her waited six hours after the time, in order not
to give the British authorities any cause for say
ing he had violated his pledge. He was accom
panied by three young English settlers, whJ
supplied him with horses, and had horses them
selves. The moment tho police entered the
house he passed out another door, mounted hi
horse, came around to the front, and told thca
to arrest him if they could. Tha next moaent
he put spurs to his horse and with his friends
was soon out of sight. He travelled ISO miles
to the coast, embarked on a whaler boat, w
thence on a ship, the name of which ho keeps
secret
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On arrivine in New York, he proceedou h"'
etly to the house of hia friend, Richard O Gor
man, in Dean street, Brooklyn, where heisuw
staying.
Last night he was wehcomed by a large
ber of Irish societies, and a great cxcitemc
prevailed amongst the Lrish population.
Mr. Meagher addressed a large crowd in in
of the house, and said that his only Kgrt ' '
in leaving Smith O'Brien and John Mjtcneu
hind him. He is a fine military looking yu
man, and an excellent orator.
It has been deemed prudent to defer aD.yMe.
lie demonstrations in New York in honor oi
gher's arrival, until he can recover Irom in
tigue of his voyage. Tuesday next w tiukeu
as tho day forgiving huu a fitting welcome-