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
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has just returned from a short distai
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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.