I Q UNT A IH SHTIIEL. Andrew J. Bhey, Editor. EBENSBURG, PA. Thurtd)-, July 1, 1S53. MC3IOCRATIC TICKET. For President, ruixiiLix Picncc, of New Hampshire. For Vice-President iviL.Li-t.ii it. ivivc;, of Alabama. For Canal Commissioner, WIL.I.IAM SI1AU1GHT, of Fayette Co. County dominations. For Assembly, THOMAS COLLINS, of Washington. For Sheriff, AUGUSTIN DUBBIN, of Washington. Commissioner, JACOB R. STULL. of Richland. Auditor, JOHN A. M'CONNELL, of Clearfield. Coroner, CAMPBELL SHEEIDAN, of Johnstown. IJUIIJ lllill Itll I 1 1 i t NO NORTH, NO SOUTH NO EAST, NO H EST under tbc Constitution, but a Jinn main tenance of the common bond and true devotion to the common brotherhood. Gen. Pierce1 toast. The Democracy of Ebensburg and vicinity, nre requested to meet at the Court House on Saturday evening to form a 'TIERCE CLUE." MANY. Thursday, July 1st 1802. DEMOCRATIC RALLY!! 1 llh Deinocracv of Cambria county arc re quested to a?scmblc at the Court House, in Eb tnsburg, on Tuesday evening, July Cth, to rati fy the nominations made by the National ton vention, the State Convention, and the County Convention. The decree has pone forth that the New Hampshire VOLUNTEER, will be elec ted. Rally then for TIERCE and KING, SEA RIGHT and the COUNTY TICKET, and in de fence of the Constitution and our glorious Union. MANY. July, 1st, 1802. The County Convention. This body which met at the court House on Tuesday afternoon, adjourned yesterday after" noon, after having made all the nominations nnd transacted the necessary business. Not within our recollection, and indeed, not within the recollection even of "the oldest inhabitant," has the session of any former convention been so protracted. The delegates from the various districts in the county were about equally divi ded so far as concerns the candidates for the (Sheriflality. The contest was between Augus tin Durbin and James Myers. On several bal lots Mr. Myers had sixteen votes, Mr. Durbin fifteen and Mr. Zahm one. Subsequent ballots gave Mr. Durbin sixteen, Mr. Myers fifteen, and Mr. Zahm one. On yesterday morning, Mr. Augustin Durbin, of Washington township, was nominated on the 24th ballot receiving sixteen votes, James Myers fourteen. Mr. Durbin is well known to the people of this county and ha3 sufficient acquaintance with the office to dis charge the same in ah able and creditable man ner. Ho look upon him as a safe, reliable and worthy man and hope that the efforts of the en tire party will be directed towards his success. On the sixth ballot, Thomas (Collins, Esq., of Washington township, was nominated fur the Legislature, receiving It) votes, Dr. Wm. A. Smith 8, John Mathews 7. Dr. Smith was his most formidable opponent and duriDg the bal letings received as high as 12 votes. Mr. Col lins is a young man possessing a complete and thorough knowledge of public affairs, is unex ceptionable to the democracy of the county and has all the elements of popularity about him.- His nomination is an excellent one and will meet with a hearty response.' Born and reared in Cambria he has grown with her growth and strengthened with her strength, and we trust that the stout arms and brave hearts of the mountain Democracy will work with renewed energy for Ida election from this time until October next. Jacob It. Stull, of Richland, is the nominee for county Commissioner, lie ar not acquain" ted with him personally but learn from undoubt ed authority that he is a good, competent and hard working man. John A. McConncll, of Clearfield, is the candidate for Auditor. Abet ter, more judicious and desirable nomination could not have been made. Dr. Campbell Sher idan, of Johnstown, was nominated for theofflce of Coroner. In addition to his well known mer it, he is by profession admirably calculated for the station. Go to work then, fellow Democrats and deter mine to elect the nominees. Stand fast, firm, and unflinching in their support. Let your past difficulties be buried in forgetfulness, and join together in a common cause. Wc have no room this week to say all wc desired, and will pub lish the proceedings of the Convention in our next. In conclusion let us urge upon you the i.roiaietv. the notice of giving to the entire 1 k J r - county ticket your hearty, cordial, and enthusi astic support. Webster to nr. a Candidate. The Boston Bee contains a ull of a State Convention to nom inate Daniel Webster IV r the Presidency. Such is ti e c'mraetcr r-f t'-e ii. ar.at'on f Miss i h'l- ctts at the nomination of Gen. zroaUtatcsmsn. . h'c :t ovci (heir nirnn? n in vein 1 11 The Nominations of the Whig Party. The late Whig Convention at Baltimore, placed in nomination as a candidate for the Presidency, Gen. Winfield Scott, Commander-in-chief of the U. S. Army, and for the Vice Presidency, Hon. Wm. A. Graham the present Secretary of the Navy. Long before the meeting of the Conven tion it was predicted by the Northern Whigs that Gen. Scott would be nominated on the first bal lot or at most on the second ; and when the fact became known that the Southern Whigs were almost to a man opposed to his nomination for the reason that they believed and still believe that Gen. Scott was and is in the keeping and under the control of the Abolition and Free Soil parties of the North, headed by Wm. II. Sew ard of New York, and Gov. Johnston of Fenna. the Northern Whigs hesitated not to say that they could nominate and elect Scott without support from the South. This is sufficient proof that the contest was ever intended to be a sec tional one. The Whig party of the Northern States was and still is opposed to the Compro mise Measures and especially that part of those Measures which makes provision for the rendi tion of Fugitives from labor, but to succeed in nominating Gen. Scott at Baltimore, the North ern Whig delegation in that Convention were ready and willing to sacrifice all principle, pro vided the South assisted them to nominate Scott. Such a bargain and sale was. made and the act was consummated. The Whig party of the North have for years been in favor of a Protec tive Tariff, but in the late Baltimore Convention the fifth resolution passed declares, that the Whig party now are in favor of a revenue tariff with just discrimination for protection. This is an undeniable abandonment of the former position assumed by the Whig party and estab lishes the truth of a Democratic motto, "that the Whig party has no Bettled principles." The Whig party of the North lias been in favor of an endless and extravagant expenditure of the pub lic money for the improvement of rivers and harbors ; or in true terms for the building of bridges over every little rivulet in the great West for the construction of dams on every little stream for the draining and and clearing of every mud-hole in the country but now this conservative Whig party has charged ground on this subject and established a new Proviso that bids fair to become as celebrated as the Wilmot one, namely, the "River and Harbor Improve ment Proviso." The sixth resolution of the Baltimore W"hig Convention declares the Whig party to be in favor of the improvement of ri vers and harbors, whenever, yes, whenever,) tuch improvements are necessary for the common de fence ! 1 The New York Tribune, the acknowl edged head and front of the Scott and Seward party, affects and protests against the resolutions or platform of the Whig Convention, and states that this platform "never was intended to be a statement of the grounds whereon the Whig party is united and the ends which it unani mously meditates ;" and further "it (the plat form) was forced upon a portion of the dele gates was driven through by the argument of menace and terror was rammed down by the potent intimation, "Swallow in silence or we bolt" was a gross wrong is not the platform of the Whig party and has no binding effect." Other influential Whig papers in the North oc cupy the same position. Here is repudiation The design is to run Scott in the North without the Platform and the Platform in the south without Scott. Can the American people be humbugged in this manner ? We think not.- Can the Southern States be blindfolded by such a base scheme ? We know they cannot. We say then that the people will see through the nefarious designs of the Whig party and will frustrate the efforts of its leaders. The New York Courier 5 Enquirer, a Whig paper advoca ting different doctrines from those of its social ist,Fourieritecontempory the Tribune says, "The mass of the Whigs in this city have received the intelligence with sullen indignation. On every side have we heard determination expressed not to support the nominee." Said paper supports the platform but not the nomination. Thus wc notice in the same city two papers of the Whig party expressing different views, the one affirm ing that the Platform of Principles adopted is not the sentiment of the Whig party the other that it is. One at each end of the rope. Afire in the front and one in the rear. Can such a state of affairs lead the Whig party to success. No. The inevitable result is defeat. There is a wide difference on men, a still wider difference on principle and a house divided against itself must fall. As a specimen of Southern Whig sentiment in regard to the nomination of Gen. Scott, Hon. M. P. Gentry, Whig member of Congress from Tennessee, said in a speech delivered a short time since : "But if I thought one man's vote or one man's influence were necessary to cast the vote of Ten nessee for Pierce and King, my vote should be given to them unhesitatingly. And any gentle man who dreams that any Southern State will cast her vote for General Scott in the next Pres idential election, dreams, in my opinion, a dream that will never be realized." And hy docs he say so ? Not because he lias auy personal antipathy to Gen. Scott not because he would not honor and respect him for his great military achievements but simply for the reason that Gen. Scott is connected with and is known to he leagued with Wm. II. Seward and Gov? Johnston, two men whose views on the 6la very question nre contemned in the South. The reports from Southern papers is equally as disheartening to the Whigs as the above. The Wilmington, North Carolina, Journal, dispatch cd the following by telegraph as soon as the nominations were ascertained : Wilmington, Juno 21. ilie nomination of Gen. Scott makes North Carolina sure for Pierce, and will secure the election ot Keid, the Democratic candidate for Governor, and a Democratic Legislature. Mark the prediction. From Norfolk, Virginia, the following des patch was forwarded : "The news of the nomination of Gen. Scott was received Lcre at 1 o clock yesterday. There was considerable dissatisfaction expressed by the Whigs. . We cannot forbear publishing the following as a specimen of Northern feeling, taken fro an influential Whig paper in the city of New York : Scott is Nominated. The story is told Winfield Scott is the Whig nominee for Tresi dent, and the election of Franklin Pierce is ec cured ! "I will not vote for Scott." is the de claration of at least half the Whigs we meet. Kew York Day Book. Just previous to the nomination the above press published an article headed the ' 'Union of. the Whig Tarty," from which we cut the follow ing : "As for ourselves the Day Book and its read crs we never will go for Scott and Seward. We tell you plainly, and we speak for ten thou sand subscribers in the Northern States sub scribers who take the Day Book because they like it and the principles it advocates we will not support General Scott if he is nominated. 1 We could not do so witliout stultifying ourselves and unsaying all that we have ever said against the abolition wing of the Whig party. As farcatioil meeting, held in Lancaster city, on the als are concerned, it would make but little ference whether they voted for or against eral Scott, (although Governor Hunt was ted by votes ;) but when we know that whatDemocracv of Lancaster county : uun nine, nuu nuui iiinc ucreiuiure written, is read by six or seven thousand peo ple in this city, and as many more in the coun ty, who think just as we do, we see plainly thatB : nananj att- ,c v ICommi this State against Frank Pierce, than we do. Horace Greely or Lewis Tappan would poll just as many votes as Winfield Scott, and if oui southern brethren don't believe it, let them go over to the abolitionists and him." Personal. Tic paid a "flying visit" to Pittsburgh last week. The city looks as dingy as ever, and needs "painting up" a little. "Put up" at the "St. Charles," now kept in such admirable style by Win. S. Campbell, Esq., and were highly pleased with the present arrangements of the house. He is doing an excellent business and will become a popular landlord. The Pennsyl vania Railroad has been completed for some time to Turtle creek, twelve miles east of Pittsburgh ; but about the loth of July the cars will run from Pittsburgh until within two miles of Greensburg- Tl hen this occurs there will be but ten miles ofi staging between Pittsburg and Philadelphia making it by far the most pleasant route for travelers. The crops of grain look well in Westmoreland county, and the farmers antici pate an increase over that of last year. Latrobe, a town that had no existence two years ago, is building up rapidly. Col. Sam. Elder, formerly of Uniontown, Pa., is "mine host" of the Rail road Hotel, and we can bear full testimony to the fact that his house is a good one. We were hungry as a fisherman when we arrived at that place, and did full justice to the bountiful sup ply of good things upon tie table. Hope he may live a thousand years. It would have been a gratifying pleasure to have remained in "Old Pitt" a few days to have seen our friends, and especially to have had "a crip" from our edito rial brethren, but time was not allowed and we were forced ex necessitate to come away over to the mountains. Never mind gentlemen we in tend to drop into your sanctums before the great fight takes place in November. So look out. Court commences next Monday. Here after, there will be two weeks court, and the time has been changed. The chairman the state central commit tee has called the late state convention to re-as semble at Harrisburg, on the 2Gth day of Au gust, to place in nomination a candidate for the Supreme Bench. This is the right manner in which to make 6uch nomination. ESL.The whigs of this county hold their del egate elections on Saturday, and their county convention on court week. Go to the polls gen tlemen, and "go your death" for your favor ites, you should know that it makes no differ ence whom you nominate, the democracy have decided upon their defeat. The Whig state convention which assem bled at Philadelphia, on Monday, Junc21,nom- !nated Hon. Joseph Buffington, of Armstrong county, as a candidate for the office of Judge of the Supreme Court. The Harrisburg Telegraph a whig paper, says, "We should have preferred that no nomination be made, for we dislike nia-i king the election of Judge a party matter." Wc beg leave to differ from its position. Judge i B. is believed to be a very good man, but the. democratic party will place in nomination one equally as worthy, as talented, and as learned in the law, and then the only question will be who can receive the most votes. Nominations in Allegheny Co. We notice with great pleasure that our friend P. C. Shannon Esq.. has been nominated by the Democratic party of the 21st, district, for Con gress. We know him well and esteem him one of the very best men who could have been pla ced in nomination, and we mistake the character of the people of Allegheny county very much if he doe3 not run far ahead of the usual Demo cratic vote. He hag undoubted capacity for the station, is a Democrat true and constant to tne principles ot Ins party, and by unceasing perseverance has risen from an humble position to his present station. If the citizens of Alle gheny county desire a good and efficient reprcs entativo in Congress, he is the man, and we look forward to the day when with glad heart we can record his success at the polls. Charley Kent is the nominee of the party for Sheriff of that county. The fact of the matter is, its no use to say anything for Charley, for everybody says that he is a popular, unobjec tionable man, and we believe it. We know it. Wo should not be surprised were ho to quarter the whig party this fall just as easily as he would a fine corned beef. Scott In the South. Messrs. Toombs and Stephens members Congress from Georgia, have telearranhed to the press of Georgia, that they are ornmsed to thc nomination of General Scott, and are in favor5Karktr' intenJs running on his own hook, fo of there-assembling of the Union cmrventiou.Ehcriff of Allegheny Co. Wc hope ho may not by whose decision they will abide. Mr. Jen kins is said to hold the same position. HENRY CLAY. The "sage of Ashland" sleeps with his fath ers, it e learn mat nenry ,iay died on Tues day night, at Washington city. A sorrow-strlck- fen nation weeps for the decease of a great man I 'mourns for the loss of a distinguished American' citizen. He has departed from earth yet his memory will ever live enshrined in the hearts the Amercan people. Thus falls the noblest I Roman of them all. Thus has he died a "Statesman, yet friend of truth ! of soul sincere I In action faithful, and in honor clear ? Who bioke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend : Ennobled by himself, by all approved, Praised and revered by the country he loved.'- Col. William Searlght The following complimentary resolution to our excellent candidate for Canal Commission er, was one of the scries offered by James L IRetxolds, Esq , at the great Democratic Ratifi dif-EevemnS of tue 12th ins- anJ unanimously ad Gen-!Pted. e publish it as an earnest ot the ingti elec-iestimation in which Col. Seabught is held by the! Resolved, That the democracy,rindustry, ex- fperience, integrity, and business qualifications f. 1IT-1 ! (-1 1 i T 1 i , oi William oeangni, our canuiuaie ior vanai ssioner, entitle him to the warm and ac tive support of the party ; and that we pledge ourselves to use all fair and honorable means to swell his majority and that of our nominee fo the office of Supreme Judge, at the election in October next. Shocking Murder. It is our painful duty this week to chronicle Cone of the most fiendish and cruel murders ever perpetrated in this section of the country. On Saturday night last, June 19th, a painter named Nathan Keast, in consequence of some previous misunderstanding, waylaid Mr. Johnf Martin, in Union street, and beat him severely .One of Mr. Martin's journeyman, named Joseph Meloy, coming up at the time seperated them. In an hour or two afterwards the parties met at the White Swan Hotel, when Meloy, knowing the character of Keast, and fearing further vio lence, resolved to accompany Mr. Martin home !At the alley directly in the rear of Graff's store jthey were met by Keast, who immediately made a murderous assault on Mr. Martin with a longj dirk knife. Meloy interfered, when Keast plunged his knife into Meloy's left breast pene trating the right ventricle of the heart, and kill ing him almost instantly. During the fracas a jnumber of persons congregated who identified Keast, notwithstanding which he made his es cape and went home. The alarm soon spread, and the most intense excitement prevailed. The body of Melov was removed to a house at the Ibasin, after which Officer Lindsey, accompanied by a number of men, went to Keast' s house and 'arrested him. He was found in bed, the clothes besmeared with blood, and the bloody knife ly ing beside it. it was now alter iz o ciock. du' Esq. Cox was aroused, heard the charge, and made out a commitment, and Keast was lodged in jail. llollidaytbury Standard. Another Brutal Murder. We are almost sick at heart to be compelled to give the details of another still more brutal and outrageous murder than the above a mur der cold-blooded and cruel as any criminal re cord in the world can exhibit. Some three or four months ago a shoemakei from New York, named John Robeson, located on McAvoy's section of the Pennsylvania Rail road, at Kittanning Point, about five miles west of this place. Two weeks ago his wife died, and he immediately set about making preparations to go back to New York, but on Sunday nightH last, (the very night before he intended leaving,) himself and his little son were murdered while in bed asleep. Mr. Robeson had sold his shantee to a man named William Tracy, who had taken possession, and who, on the night the murder was committed, was sleeping up stairs. Tracy testified before the Coroner's Inquisi-j tion, that on the night in question, hearing a noise down stairs, he descended the ladder found the door open, and six men in the room three of them armed with axes, and two with runs : that they threatened him : that his wifeH got up and lit a candle, and came down stairs iust as one of the robbers felled him. The wife's testimony differed in some very essential points. On examination, the jury found blood and brain in the indentations made on the door and wind ow by the alleged robbers, proving pretty con clusively that the axe that committed the fatal lecd broke open the house after the murder was committed ! A train of circumstantial evidence, at once plain and palpable, was elicited, ana Tracy was arrested, and lodged in jail. Jlolli laysburg Standard. Later from Mexico. Baltimore, June 27. The New Orleans Picayune of the 20th, re ceived to night, contains advices from the city of Mexico to the 2Gth ult. The papers announce the death of Generals Mejia and Michelena. The Senate had voted an appropriation of ?30,000 for the construction of a road from Te rote to Vera Cruz. The Congress had adjourned without provi- ling for the financial embarrassments of " the country. Don rrioto, the liberal candidate had been lccted Governor of Tamaulipas, but Don Carde nas, the present incumbent, had refused to give up the office to him, and had caused forty citi- jzens of Matamoros, including the editor of theHniaking sixteen years of Federal and Whig rule Genio, to be imprisoned for commenting on hi proceeding. Cardenas, however, soon became frightened, and released the prisoners. Mr. Remington and several Mexicans had been massacred, on the Rio Grande, by the In- lians. The citizens of Brownsville had held a meet ing, and petitioned the United States Govern Ofment for protection. E-Ex-Major Barker, vulgarly called Joe poll enough votes to render either of the otherjjavannah, Ga. ; the peaches arc sold for $' per candidates uneasy. FOCH. DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the Atlantic. The U. S. Mail steamship Atlantic, Capt West, arrived at New York, on Saturday after- ifloon, with four days later intelligence from Eu rope. The Atlantic left Liverpool on the ICth ofjult., at 12 M., and has consequently made the run in a little over ten days. Fraxce. The French papers arc extremely dull. Government has submitted to the Legis lature bills imposing a sumptuary tax on car riages, horses and dogs, and on the manufacture of paper and cardboards of all kinds. The arguments in the Orleans confiscation case, set down for Friday before the Council of State, was adjourned till Tuesday, yesterday. Government has decided to withdraw the al lowance granted during the past 22 years to a bolish Refuges in France. Letters from Paris state, that a report was prevalent that all the amendments referred to the Council of State by the Committee on the Budget, had been rejected by that body. England. In the House of Lords on the eve ning of June 14, the Government gave notice that it would suspend the progress of the bill providing for the surrender of French crimi nals. On the same evening in the House of Com mons, the sister of Mr. Feargus O'Conner peti tioned for the release of her brother from the custody of the sergeant-at-arms, as she had made arrangements to have him placed in an asylum. Referred to a committee. The case of Mr. Mather, struck down by an Austrian officer in Florence, was again brought by Lord John Russell, and severely commented upon by many memberj. Lord Malmsbury said mat tne aimculty was that by pressing it too the Critish Government might be led to re cognize the military occupation of Tuscany by Austria, which it had always declined to do. A Proclamation hy the Queen. Victoria R. Whereas, by the act of Parliament passed in the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty, King George IV, for the relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, it is enacted that no Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, nor any member of any of the religious orders, communities, or so cieties of the Church of Rome, bound by mon astic or religious vows, should exercise any of the rites or ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion, or wear the habits of his order, save within the usual places of worship of the Ro man Catholic religion, or in private houses : And, whereas, it has been represented to us that Roman Catholic ecclesiastics, wearing the habits of their orders, have exercised the rites and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion in the highways and places of public resort, with many persons in ceremonial dresses, bear ing banners and objects, or symbols of worship in procession, to the great scandal and annoy ance of large numbers of our people, and to the manifest danger of the public peace ; And whereas, it has been represented to us that such violation of the laws has been com mitted near places of public worship during the time of divine service, and in such a manner as to disturb the congregations assembled therein, we have therefore thought it our bounden duty, by and with the advice of our privy council, to issue this our royal proclamation, solemnly warning all those whom it may concern, that whilst we are resolved to protect our Roman HCatholic subjects in the undisturbed enjoyment of their legal rights and religious freedom, we gare determined to repress the commission of all such offences as aforesaid, whereby the offenders may draw upon themselves the punishments at tending the violation of the laws, and the peace Band security of our dominions may be endan- ered. Given at our court, at Buckingham Pal ace, this loth day ot June, in the year of our Lord, 1852, in the 15th year of our reign. God save the Queen. Portugal. From Lisbon, accounts are to the Ilth. The American ship Cohanny, was receiv ing her cargo of salt at St. Ubes, the military having suppressed all resistance on the part of the monopolists. Public business was proceeding more rapid ly in the Cortes, the Government having a strong majority. Denmark. From Denmark we learn that the Government had refused to acknowledge the loans raised and debts contracted by the insur rectionary Government of 1848, amounting to 17,824,506 mks. The Pafal States. on the 2d ult., the French troops in Rome were assembled on the grand square of the Vatican, to receive the new colors sent from Paris by the President of the Repub lic. Hungary. Official returns of the quantity of corn now garnered in Hungary, having been sent in, a Government organ is enabled to state that all fears of dearth or famine are perfectly un founded ; but from private sources I learn, that f the weather does not speeddy change we have had no rain here worth mentioning for the last six weeks verv thin crops arc inevitable. History. George Washington served eight years in the Presidency elected by no party. John Adams was the first Federal President served four iyears. J. y. Adams was me secona eerveu four years. Wm. II. Harrison was tne urst Whig President, and trie tmrd eiecieu in oppos ition to the Democratic party. He died at the beginning of the administration, and the Tyler administration served four years. Zachary Tay- ior was the next whig President, and Uio ad ministration which followed served four years, out of fifty-six years, leaving tne wemocrais m power for forty years, we consider nasuiug mn as the representative of the people of his day without distinction of party, as claimed by all history. Ledger. Dir. "Webeter wishes to Ileslgn A despatch from Washington city, dated June 22d, says : "Secretary V ebster has expressed his intention of resigning as soon as he can ar range the business of the State Department. As Mr. Lawrence is coming home, it is suppos ed tho mission to England may bo tendered to him. fiWatcrmclons and Peaches arc plenty in Ebushei iiie i-min ew from the r.n. K migration Immense sttB1C valence ot Cholera. Pre. IxDEnsDEJCE, Saturday, Jane 12 uy me pouicncss oi iir. Josiah Col 'ns. k. has just returned from a short distai 17 i. T- T - - " 4 J ce bevr.r,.? rort aearurj, a am iavored with the intelligence, which may prove of some ; to your readers : 5- Mr. C. has taken much pains to gatfcer ti most valuable information, and that which h has given me (although to some extent pairn is calculated to give much satijfaciion to thr- who have friends or relatives on the pla;n3 From an account kept at Fort Kearney , frf the time the first emigi ants passed, Unt;j T 29th May, and from that time, according to M Collins' own notes, until his return here, the 11th June there had gone over the roads'fr,, 0 this place and St. Joseph, 1C.3C2 men- Sp men; 42GG children ; 5325 wagons ; 'c5S8Lor" ses, 4C0G males ; 1 hog ; 59,392 cattle ; 10 C3 sheep ; from 100 to 150 turkeys ; 4 ducks a -J 2 Guinea fowls. Besides this number of l'itinz beings on the road, it is known that very many more were on the routes North. thr,eo out from Council Bluffs ' anJ U Fort ream No estimate of them will reach you unless it be No estimate of thei from Fort Laramie, The bulk of the emigrants was near and on either side of Fort Kearney that which passed through from the Southern route, and which more immediately came under the cognizance of our informant, was well fitted out cattle and wagon3 generally good. In addition to other matters, I am sorry to add that quite an amount of sickness was found in many of the emigra ting parties, which was supposed to be, and no doubt was, cholera. Some companies Lad buri ed many of their friends, and as long as Mr. C. was in the neighborhood, there had beta no abatement of the disease. Besides those specified, taere were as nr rv a3 from 17 to 20 graves with no inscriptions, re specting which nothing could be known. The most of these graves were found on the roal leading from St. Joseph, as only four were to be seen on the part going out from here. Among those who were sick, Mr. Childers and wife, from Jackson county, Mo., were very ill, Mo. Chil ders not expected to live. Whether, when the large body of emigrants get fairly together ou the road, they will be able to progress any more safely and expeditiously than heretofore, re mains to be seen. I am apprehensive tha re ports that will reach us respecting their passage over, will be filled with sad details, but hope f.r the best. An exposure to the bracing atmosphere of the mountain and the salubrity of the high table lands beyond Forts Kearney and Laramie, may, and no doubt will remove all causes of sickness and apprehension of suffering. On the road out West towards Santa Fe, there was still some sickness with the soldiers Aubry's train, some of the Mexican trains, as also that of McManu3. Mr. McM. had buried two of his hands, other wise every thing going on right in that direc tion. Local news, I have not much to give our own unusually healthy business dull. Youra, &c, in haste. Mode of Life In Cuba. A correspondent of the Rochester Advertiser, writing from Havana, says : The habit of the people here ia rgard to their meals, are as follows. As soon as they rise in the morning, they take a cup of coffee, with fruit, oranges, bananas, or other fruit- each person taking it as he rises no table be ing spread. At nine o'clock breakfast is served up as with us at the north, except that neither tea nor coffee is on the table, their place being supplied by claret wine, which is drank as free ly as water. The dinner is the chief meal of the day, and is served up at 3 or half past 3 P. M. The dinner is composed of soups and meats, birds, fowls, and fish, as with us at the north, except that their meats are very poor. Butter is rarely seen on the table, and is poor when seen. Cheese is obtained from the north. Ve getables of all kinds are on the table in great perfection lettuce, cabbages radishes, onions, beets, tomatoes, &c. The desert consists of tha fruit of the island, which are very choice and fine. The drink is almost exclusively claret wine. No other' meal is prepared for the Jay, but a cup of coffee extra is ready for any one who pleases to help himself to it, with cracker?, cakes, &c, from 7 to 8 P. M. Westmoreland dominations. The Democracy of good Oid Westmoreland, who have adopted the Popular Vote system of making nominations, held an election on the 19th inst., which resulted in the nomination of the following ticket : Congress. Augustus Drum, of Indiana. Assembly. Dr. L. L. Bigelow, of Adamsburg ; William A. Cook, of Greensburg. Sheriff. John Welch of Sewickly, Prothonotary. Joseph Gross, of New Stanton. Register. James Kcenan, of Unity. Baltimore, June 20. Late from Texas. The Southern mail this morning brought New Orleans papers as late as due. The Picayune has news from Texas that Lieut. Hawes of the Second Dragoons and fif teen men had a skirmish with the Camanches, in which two of the latter were killed and thirty eight horses and four captive children recover ed. The children say that the Indians had murdered their father, mother, elder brother and sister three days before. Washington-, June 20. The National Agricultural Costestios. The President yesterday made a TC,7-etL0" quent address in reply to the President oftno National Agricultural Convention. He 8SUjf know by experience the toil and labor of met'a life. I was brought up on a farm. B a boy, I followed the plough until I was w . I have swung the scythe, and handled tue sk all day. Cholera is Texas. The cholera is saul I to 1 making sad havoc in the vicinity of t"rsuW. Texas. Four wagoners wcro rccentj ' i dead on the road, having died of choicra no one near them to witness their eufftnng death.
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