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July,
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EBESTSBUBG.
FRIDAY MORNING:
.JANUARY 0.
"V B. PALMER, the American Newspaper
Agent, is the only authorized Agent for this paper
;n the cities of Boston. New York and Philadel
phia and is duly empowered to take advertise
ments and subscription at the rates required by
us. His receipts will be retarded as payments.
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York, Tribune Buldings ; Philadelphia, N.
corner Third and Chesnut Sts.
FOR GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM BIGLER.
Subject to the decision of the Democratic Convention
, FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
HENRY S. MOTT.
Subject to Ike decision of ike Democratic Convention
(E7Oar thanks are due Messrs. Cress well,
Jamison, Collins, Daugherty, Maguire, and
Humphreys, for continued tavors.
Nebraska.
Senator Douglass of the Committee on Terri
tories, has reported back to the United States
Senate, the bill for the establishment of a territo
rial government in Nebraska, with various a-
mendments, in the form of a substitute lor tne
bill ; it is a long one, embracing as it does, every
detail which a territorial bill must necessarily
contain, and is accompanied by a report.
' The most important sections of the bin", and
those which will be most earnestly debated, are
those in reference to the Indian title in the pro
posed territory, and those providing for the ad
mission of the State or States to be hereafter
erected out of the domain included in the limits
assigned to Nebraska, with or without slavery,
as the people of the State or States may decide
when they apply for admission ; in this regard,
the bill contemplates the direct and special ap
plication, to the proposed territory, of the Prin
ciples of the Compromise Measures of 1850, and
also of the proposition known as the Fugitive
Slave Law, and re-affirmed by the act of 1850.
This is perhaps, thus far, the most important
bill of the session, and the discussions upon it's
various propositions will doubtless be of unusual
interest and i nportance.
It is sail?, that Senator Houston will oppose the
provisions of the bill recommending the extin
guishment of the Indian titles to land, after the
establishment of the Territorial government.
We shall endeavor to keep our readers booked
tip on the progress of the bill through Congress.
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Philadelphia Delegation.
Messrs. W. L. Hirst, P. W. Conroy, Daniel
Barr, "William Badger, Hugh Mooney and Thos.
II. Brcen, are the Delegates elect from the city
of Philadelphia, to the 8th March Convention,
instructed for Bigler, Black, and Mott, as are
also the Delegates from the County, Messrs.
Webb, King, Deal, Moore, Ashton, Harmar, No
ble, Wartman, Lippencott, Doughty, McCoy,
Nicholas, Taylor, and Brodie.
'New Treasurer.
Gen. Joseph Bailey, late Senator from the Per
ry District, has been elected State Treasurer,
easy out of 121 votes cast, he received 80 ;
be thus enters upon the duties of his office with
a very substantial backing. The General is a
gentleman possessing considerable financial abil
ity, and very popular wherever known...
Col. W. H. Davis.
We observe that this gentleman is beginning
to take rank in the House of Representatives as
an able and ready Debater ; this is Col. Davis
first session ; we doubt not but that he will fulfil
the expectations of his friends, .and become one
of the most useful and attentive members in our
Legislature.
Retired.
Andrew Hopkins Esq.. has retired from the
Pittsburg Union ; he bears with him in his re
tirement, the best wishes of his brethren of the
press, who have long admired . his talent and
courtesy.
Tom Keenan is now left to "play it alone ;'
it is generally rumored that he will make " four
times."
Erie Hatters.
Mr. Darsic. of Allegheny, has reported a bill
. lor the ropeal of the Charter of the Franklin Ca
nal Company ; jt is intended as a settler for the
Erie trouble, and will m an pronaoiuty pass.
SC7We observe that our friend Thomas B.
Searight is a candidate for Prothonotary in Fay
ette county ; he was formerly editor of that ster
' ling Dwiocratic sheet, the " Genius of Liberty,"
and in that capacity .used to give the enemy
Sts if talent, trne heartedness, and devotion
to principle are of any account, Tom ought to
win. - -. -
The Pittsburg papers are beginning to
agitate the subject of consolidation that is to
say, the union in one municipal corporation, of
the cities of Pittsburg, .Allegheny, and the bor
ough of Birmingham, South Pittsburg, fcc It is
aid that within a -circuit of five miles from the
Court House, there is a population of 100,000
souls, divided into eight municipal corporations.
Nxw PjctokijLL. We find upon our table, the
first number of the " Pictorial Times," publish
ed by Mr. Alexander Montgomery, 17 Spruce
street. New York ; this new Monthly is exceed
ingly well got up ; in the hterary department, the
Editor has the assistance of much of the first
'rat talent of New York; the illustrations are
far superior in design and execution, to those
which ornament most of the- American Draarra
ted Magazines.
such
NEWS AND EXISCELLANT.
T7Small pox is prevailing in New; York City.
CT-Ex-Govemor A. G. Brown, democrat, has
been elected to the TJ. S. Senate from Mississippi,
and Hon. J. J. Crittenden from Kentnckey. x
' E7-In the year 1S54; there will fee five Sundays
in each of the jnontns oi January, -APru
October, and December making titty
the year. . ..
(TT-The Brookyille Jeffersoni'an oflast week is
dedldedlv interestine. containing the Go.rnor's
Message and aoyuantUy of old advertisements.
tC7In town.-rrlhe Stockholders of the Ahe-
ghenian, on Wednesday Ust. .Wonder if a. divi
dend was declared. , t -
E7It is stated from authority, that the total
amount of California gold deposited in Philadel
phia Mint and its branches, since the first discov
ery up to November 1st, is two hundred and four
millions. -' . .. . --; . .. ... .
!E7Thc 'Bluc Hen's Chicken, of Wilmington,
Delaware, lays the following before his readers:
"There is living, in Tatnal street, a colored man
aged sixty-eight, who is .the father of fifty one
children, tliirtv of them now li vine. He had
three wives, thelirst of whom is themother of fif
teen children, two of them were twins. I The sec
ond was the mother of fifteen having twins
three times; the latter who is still alive, has
tirmtv one children bavins ' had twins five
times. We venture that there is scarcely
another case on record." '
The above mentioned individual, is entitled to
the lasting gratitude of the rising generation, for
his vigorous efforts on their behalf; they should
ever cherish and revere his memory, because so
many of them owe him a debt which they can
never repay.
ICMajor Hobbic, the first Assistant Post
Master General, is lying dangerously ill at Wash
ington city.
(jyA California paper gives the following as a
bill of fare at a Chinese restaraunt in that city:
"Cat Cutlet, 25 cents ; Griddled Rats, 6 cents
Dog Soup, 12 cents Roast Dog, IS cent ; Dog
Pie, 6 cents." .
jyWithout an Organ The whigparty of Cam'
bria is said to be without an organ.
C7"The people of Bedford are moving for a rail
road connection with the Broadtop. A public
meeting was held last week, and some $20,000
subscribed. - -
u'T'The butchers of Pittsbure, have struck a
gainst an increase in the rent of market stalls.
SWe are informed that Mr. William" Foster
of the Alleghenian intends to start for California
shortly
XyThe Boston Post calls November and Dc
cember the embers of the dying year.
Cyfhe Alleghenian. thinks the "Union"
only another issue of Middlctown Bank paper ; it
may be so the "Alleghenian" men ought to be
good judges of that kind of paper.
CO-Charles David Steele is preparing his schol
Iars for an exhibition at the close of his session.
K!7"MTAlay, the taan charged with the murder
of Richard Conklin in Clearfield county some
weeks ago, has been arrested at Lancaster.
CyOur Senior not being satisfied with the
arm chairs in the office, has ordered one to made
t th popular establishment of Todd k MDer
mitt. We shall give the readers of the Democrat
a wood engraving of the chair when finished, in a
future number. We are informed it will be
grand affair.
By Martha Kelly one of the patients from this
county, died in the State Lunatic Hospital at
at Harrisburg on the 11th inst..
2I7"Negro hire, says aLouisville paper, is ruling
the present season at most exorbitant rates
throughout the State. In Henderson, men hired
at $1,75 to 2,25, and women at $1,00. Boys
14 years of age, at 1,50.
3CA gentleman by the name of Wm. Gray, just
returned from California, was robbed on the 19tli
while on the cars at Buffalo, of ten thousand dol
Iars in gold. He suspected his partner, whom he
suddenly missed, after the discovery of his loss
SUThe widow of Stearling Ensign, who was
killed by the cars of the Erie Railroad, eighteen
months since, has just recovered $10,000 on the
circuit held at Angelica. N, Y,
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Ton the " Dxxoc&at and Skhtwei- j way of English progress, to .give hha one pound
Messrs Editors : I intended to have sent In j back id transport himself to a convict colony,
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Pennsylvania Legislature.
Hakbisbckg, Jan. 19.
Senate. The speaker appointed as the com
mittee to consider the report on the sale of the
Public Works Messrs; Evans, Jamison, Slifer,
Quiggle and Foulkrod.
Mr. Foulkrod presented three remonstrances
against Consolidation.
Messrs. Price and Goodwin presented petitions
in favor of Consolidation.
A few bills of a local character were submitted.
Mr. McClintock, from the select committee to
which was referred the resolutions opposed to the
removal of the Mint from Philadelphia, reported
the same back again without amendment. After
a brief debate they were passed, by a vote of 30
yeas to I nay, Mr, Darlington voting against
On motion of Mr. Price, the Senate resumed
the consideration of the Consolidation bill.
Mr . Price made an able and convincing speech
m favor of the bill, after which the Senate ad
journed to the Hall of the House of Representa
tives, to join in the election of a State Treasurer.
House. Various petitions were presented.
Mr. Calvin presented one .from certain citizens
of Philadelphia, protesting against the passage of
a Prohibitory Liquor Law. -
Mr. Putney made a motion for the appoint
ment of a committee to travel through the State
of Maine, to see the working of the " Maine Law."
Negatived.
Mr. Bigham offered a resolution increasing the
salary of: the Executive $1000, and that of the
Chief Justice $500, Tabled. -' . .
Ua motion of Mr. Hart, the Hause proceeded
w consider tne Mint resolutions. After a slight
amendment, they were adopted.
At 12 o'clock, a Convention of the two Houses
was held for the election of a State Treasurer.
The rote stood : Joseph Bailey, of Perry county,
80 votes; N.B. Hobart, 8 ; Grittinger, 12 ;
Strohm, 5 ; and Burke, 4 ; scattering, 12 ; whole
number of votes cast 12k . Mr. Bailey was ap
cordingly declared elected,-. "
The House then . adjourned. - -' :
the following manuscript in time for last week's
paper, out 'was prevented by business ef an im
peralive nature ; the subject of which it treats,
is not forgotten, however, by your readers.
' There-is nothing, in my opinion, so disgusting
to all intelligent men, as to see an exquisite, after
laving- spent two or three weeks in a strange
country, coming out and lecturing a whole com
munity, upon the religious, moral, social and
political condition of a people, who are in posses
sion of a history three thousand years old- An
act like this, not only proves the person so act
ing, to be a foolish egotist, but it also proves him
to be incapable, either from personal observation,
or any other source of information, of forming
anything like a correct opiuion, concerning me
qualifications of a people for self improvement
. nf thr nr.hlpr traits ot humanity wnicn
W.
mav characterize a nation. .
In looking over a late number oi your interes
ting journal, I saw a letter dated Beirast, Ireland,
and siened W. B, S., and I here take the liberty.
of entering my solemn protest, against the con
tents of that letter being received as a correct
statement of the case between Ireland and tne
British Government.
Mr. W. B. S., the travelling secretary, begins
by telling us that, after a few weeks residence
his eyes have been opened to the condition of Ire
land, and that, after a ramble through an Irish
citV. ne Uo ocvo niwjlurf li-ieh Ufi tOJUSUly
him in saying, that "the realization has been Jar
dtfferent from the expectation ;" what the " ex
pectations" were he has not told us, nor can we
ler.rn from anything that he says ; but I suppose
that he had the same opinions that he tells us all
the Americans entertain, and that is, that the
Irish are an oppressed race ; yet he tells us that
the Americans are mistaken ; and he has not giv
us one single reason to show why they are mis
taken, but has labored hard to prove that the
Irish are a degraded people and that the Ameri
cans are right ; I wish you would tell us what
you mean by this powerful nonsense which I
suppose you call logic ! .
" We picture the Irish as an oppressed and
down trodden race, but such is not a true state
of their condition," and again, " that they were
and are the victims of despotism none can deny."
Now Mr. S. must have been lost in the early twi
light which he complains of, when he wrote such
silly stuff as the above ; please sir tell us how a
nation can be the victims of despotism, without
being oppressed ; but perhaps Mr. S. thinks with
a good many others, in this country, that what
the Irish consider as British oppression, is only
a fatherly guardianship, which the enlightened
English exercise over the rude and uncultivated
Celt ; and, if his words mean anything, this is
certainly the idea that they are intended to con
vey, for he assures us that " the people are un
fit for self -improvement that there is " too
much religious intolerance, and local prejudice
existing among them." , He has not told us the
nature of this intolerance, by whose act it exists,
and who are its worty advocates : neither has he
told us why the people are unfit for improvement,
but, I suppose, it is because " they are reduced
to a condition below conception ;" that is, that
they are, by long suffering and oppression,
ground down so low, that the human mind is
incapable of conceiving their actual condition.
What do yon mean when yon say that your
" eyes have been opened to the condition of Ire
land :" do you mean that you understood, by a
few weeks' dim observation, and nocturnal ram
bles among drunken women, the condition of a
people, which you assert is below human concep
tion f or do you mean to say, that you saw with
your eyes what you could not understand with
your mind ? I think that the latter is the most
charitable interpretation of your words, for T be
lieve you saw a good many things, and under
stood very little, with all the luminous impres
sions that a ramble through the " out-skirts one
evening" made upon your sapient brain.
I believe that it was Johnson who said that
" all terrestrial happiness consisted in being well
deceived;" it is evident that this aping aspirant
is a firm believer in the maxim of the old Saxon
stoic ; for he is not only deceiving himself by a
false intelligence, but, so far as that intelligence
has any influence, deceiving others. He tells us
that the most intelligent portion of thp Irish are
" ardently and zealously attached to the British
government;" which is untrue, from beginning
to ending. Intelligent men never act without
a motive; what motive then could the manufac
turing classes have for supporting a government,
the whole power of which, has been used to ruin
them. I know of no interest that has suffered
more Irom the evil effects of the ruinous act of
Union, than has that of the merchants and man
ufacturers of Ireland. Such has been the effect
of British legislation on this sulject, that, be
tween the years 1820 and 1830, tveo-tLirds of all
the manufactories in Ireland were closed, and
abandoned, as ruinous investments. And as to
the intelligent men being all firmly attached to
the British Government, it is all moonshine ; it is
true that there are some educated men base
enough to bow in servile sycophancy, and wor
ship the grim idol of Saxon arrogance ; but how
-vjw. .y honorable and intelligent man
m th.t -m.nt. to the
respect of a people, amongst whom, it punished
public and private instruction with penal enact
ments, and refused to encourage any system of
education, unless the teacher was permitted to
abrogate parental authority, and tear asunder
the sacred ties of the family compact, by instil
ling into the mind of his pupil, a belief in the
fahcy of Irish history and traditions, and an abi
ding: confidence in the superiority of Anglo-Saxon
faith and government over the whole world.
" The British government, with a charity that
is commendable, is now transporting hundreds
to Australia, at a charge of one pound each."
Just hear the Flunkey how he talks. It is a pity
mat he aid not remain in Ireland, a little longer;
perhaps some of her Majesty's servants would
have rewarded him for his approval of their mode
of getting rid of the Irish, by making him under
strapper to some petty tyrant, to drill detectives,
and to pay the price of blood to perjured spies
Such an office would be more suited to his capa
cities, than the one he holds, at least he would
discharge the duties with more credit to himself,
and advantage to the power that he would serve.
And it is a commendable act of charity is it ? for
the British government to rob a man of all that
he has. .and then "turn him ont on the rnn)
perish," and thenlest his body should be in the
there to witness the effects of British civilization,
where is measured by the yards of calico, with
which tjbe clothes the savage of the antipodes.
and tQ linger out a miserable existence, far from
his natfc e land, wandering over some fetid bland
where the union-jack floats on an atmosphere of
guilt aid gall.
After expressing his surprise at finding the
Irish a. nation of drunkards, and reciting a dia
logue that he had with a drunken woman, which
I suppose he learned from some of Barney Wil
liams' disgusting exhibitions of Irish character,
he closes with .a precious bit of information,
which will be", new to some ofhis readers, and
that i), where he "tells us that it never freezes.
and slldom snows in Ireland.
I live now done with Mr. S. for the present,
all tli&t I have to say in conclusion is, that I
cannot understand, how any sane man could,
with f o little information on the subject, side in
with ,-he enemies of his own country, join the
anti-republican howl that panders to the policy
of I government, that is rottenness and corrup
tion jfrdm the topmost crown jewel,' to the mean
est ptectives note book. '
j ' . ' , , , V ''.' M. McL.
j Highly Important from dexico.
' Cbw Orleans, Jan. 12. The steamship Tex
as has arrived at this port, from Vera Cruz,
bitaging dates from the City of Mexico, to the
oU inst. Mr. Gadsden, 'th American Minister
to Xexico, is among the passengers on the Texas,
haiig concluded an important treaty with the
Mtxican Government.' The treaty agrees to
gjfe39,000,000 acres, including the Mesilla Yal
1V, for $20,000,000 of which, 85,000,000 is to
b; riserved for paying claims, including the Gr
rey gantj &.c. ;
lis Trait d'Union notices the Gadsden treaty
favosbly, and says it will be received with joy
by th; public '
It B understood that Mr. SIoo pays the Te-
huani'pec Company 52,000,000, for relinquish
ing a) their rights. " '
' Coin el Ramsey, the two Messrs. Hargous and
SenorAlouba, are also among the passengers On
theTfcas.
Detils had been received, which confirm the
repbrrd destruction of Walker's filibustering ex
peditin, but there are no later particulars, ex
cepjt a report that the Caroline had been captn
redij ,
Geipral Lombardini is dead, and General Al
montehas succeeded him in the command of the
armyj . .
uen Aicosta, .Minister oi v ar, has resigned
his pqt in consequence of ill health, and a suc-
cessohas not yet been appointed.
TM Texas brings no later dates from Califor
nia.
Geicral Gadsden left here yesterday for Wash'
ingtot The $5,000,000 reversion from the sum
to bebaid Mexico goes to pay all the cleims, in-
cludis the Indian spoliations and private land
claimi. '
The New Mexican Treaty.
WjsniNGTOX, Jan. 14. The government have
receiid despatches confirmatory of the telegraph'
ic reprt from New Orleans, that Mr. Gadsden
has nigotiated a treaty with Mexico on the terms
name. " ...
Arrival of the Europa.
TIREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
' New York, Jan. 16
Th steamer Europa arrived to-day, with Liv
erpoJ dates to the 31st. The Europa passed the
steancr Niagara 34 miles off Cape Clear.
M.Yiscount died suddenly at Paris.
AtConstantinople, the Porte is acting in most
friendy accord with the Representatives of the
Powrs.
Itis reported that Dr. Bowring will succeed
Sir George Bonheim, as Superintendent of British
trad in China.
The decree of Napoleon removes restrictions
from the import of cotton into France.
It is reported at Paris, that Minister Soule has
fought a third duel with the Duke of Alba, but
the rumor needs confirmation.
Sweden and Denmark are forming an armed
league against Russia.
- The Shah of Persia has dismissed all the French.
English, Germcn and Italian officers from his
army.
The British Parliament is appointed to meet
for business on the 31st of January.
At Preston, the strikes are still unsettled.
The Birmingham iron masters report trade as
healthy, without further advance.
Constantinople, Dec. 19. Hahl Pasha, the
Sultan's brother-in-law, is named Minister of the
Interior.
Riza Pasha is the new Capadan Pasha. ,
Abii Pasha has been repulsed in Asia.
Twenty-five thousand Turks have been order
ed to retire from Russian Armenia.
The united fleet was still in the Bosphorus on
the 19th.
The Daily news says that Sir Fitzroy Kelly is
now named as the member of Parliament entrus
ted with the arrangement of details.
pointed Russian officers and beat them ; they
then deserted to Kalafat.
The Trieste Gazette states that the British
diplomatic agent : at Teheran has renewed rela
tions with Persia. . '. :
The Chronicle states that the Turks have rais
ed the seiges of Akiska and Adrianople. Twenty
thousand Turks, irregulars, were repulsed.
Abdi Pasha has resigned, and Ahbued Pasha
replaces him.
The four Powers have presented a note, deman
ding an armistice.
Halil Pasha,s entrance into the Ministry is re
garded as favorable to peace.
Vienna, Friday. The Turkish Bulletins ac
knowledge the evacuation of the Russian terri
tory in.Asia. . The English .Consul, Teheran,
meditates peace between Persia and the Porte. .
St..Peteksbtbg. With regard to politics, the
only thing - remarkable is, that preparations are
going on in all quarters, and they are such as to
denote that they are made with a view to more
serious contingencies than that of a war merely
with Turkey. -
ICTThe Harrisburg Union is out in favor of the
publication of the laws by authority, in one or
two papers of each county of the Commonwealth,,
07' The following account of the loss' of the
steamer San Francisco, witk 170 lives, 'will be
read with interest. It is from the New York
Herald. A more dutreasing shipwreck baa sel
dom occurred, and we hope Congress will thank
the master ot the British ship " Three Bells as
he deserves it, and also the masters and crewa
of the American ships Antarctic and Kiiby-
t appears from the telegraphic news that the
atter vessel, after having delivered the passen
gers rescued by her from the San Francisco to
another vessel, has herself been driven out to
sea in a crippled condition, and is probably
lost. There has seldom been a winter of snch
disasters and fatal shipwrecks on the Atlantic
coast. We hope Congress will follow up the
suggestion already made; and have national ves
sels always in readiness at Boston, New York
and Norfolk, to go to the rescue of vessels wreck
ed in the frequent storms on the Atlantic. No
better employment can be found for some of the
steam ves.els of our Navy. Pittsburgh Post.
Fate of the San Francisco News from
the Wreck.
The copious details which will be found on the
first page of our paper this morning, concerning
the wreck of the steamer San Francisco, will be
read with painful interest, far and wide. The
loss of nearly two hundred souls, washed over
board or killed, or dying from the exposure, sick
ness, and hardships of the wreck, is the melan
choly feature of the story; but the saving of four
or five hundred lives by the Kilby , the Three Bells,
and the Antarctic, is a matter r sincere con
gratulation. There was a chance that all might
have been lost the ship, and every soul on board
leaving, as in the case of the ill-starred Presi
dent, no vestige afloat to tell the tale. Whil-
we lament; therefore, the fearful loss of life from
this fatal disaster we rejoice that so large a pro
portion of her passengers, soldiers, and crew, were
snatched from the hungry waves.
It will be seen that the fatal storm struck the
ship on the 24th of December, two days out from
this port; that on the 25th, (Christmas day,) she
was rendered wholly unmanageable from the dis
location of her machinery and her rigging: that on
the same day her decks were swept clean by a
heavy sea, carrying away all the upper saloon;
and mass of the people who were lost. On that
day, the ship, but for the extraordinary strength
of her hull, must have gone down, yet she con
tinued drifting in the Gulf Stream, and under a
succession of heavy gales, almost unparallekxl on
our Atlantic coast, still inhabitable though un
manageable, till finally relieved and abandoned
on the 6th of January. Perhaps there is cot an
other steamer afloat that could have withstood,
in her dismantled condition, the buffeting of a
fortnight's such wintry storms in the trough of
the sea.
When first struck by the gale, on the night of
the 24th, the San Francisco was but one hundred
and fifty miles out from Sandy Hook; when
abandoned on the 6th inst., she was some seven
hundred miles off, having floundered away to that
distance, at the mercy of the winds, the waves
and the Gulf Stream.
On the 28th of December, (after having previ
ously spoken two vessels, were lost sight of upon
the heavy sea in the night,) the bark Kilby, of
and for Boston, hove to, and took off a hundred
persons, including all the women and children on
board. On the 31st, the Brittish ship Three Bells,
of Glasgow, came up; and on the 3rd of January
she was joined, while lying by the wreck, by he
ship Antarctic, of this port, bound for Liverpool;
and on the 6th, between the two relieving vessels
the wreck was relieved of every remaining soul
on board, and left in a sinking condition to her
fate.
Last evening the Three Bells arrived off the
Battery, and the following modest report is from
the log of her captain:
Brittish ship Three Bells, (of Glasgow,) Crcigh
ton, Glasgow, 45 days, with merchandize and
16 passengers, to McDonald tCo. Dec. 31, lat .40
12. Ion. 50 30, spoke the steamship San Francis
co, having on board United States troops. The
S. F. being in a disabled condition, having had
decks swept, Lc. and waiting assistance, conclu
ded to lay by her, which we did for six days, and
succeeded in getting on board two hundred aud
thirty of her passengers, and brought them, to
this port.
This is, we repeat, a modest report; but'Capt.
Chreighton has not told all. Those from the lost
ship say that the Three Bells was leaking all the
time, had to keep her pumps going constantly;
that the ship had lost her sails, and was short of
water and provisions. But in this last item, the
Kilby, the Three Bells, and the Antarctic were
plentifully supplied from the abundant stores of
the wreck, or they could not have carried off so
many passengers with any other prospect than
immediate starvation.
The captains and crews of the three relieving
ships, though they simply discharged their duty
in the premises, something more than ordinary
credit is due, for the case was an extraordinary
one in the labors and hazards of the rescue. Our
Government, as an act of reciprocity and of sound
policy, should approve the gallant conduct of the
relieving parties, and especially of that genuine
Jack tar and his crew of the Brittish ship Three
Bells.
It is estimated that the" Antarctic arried off
for Liverpool some two hundred passengers , sol
diers and crew that one hundred were taken to
Boston or Bermuda as she had a leading wind
for Uiat island by the Kilby, and two hundred
and thirty were brought to this port by the Three
Bells making a total of five hundred and thirtv
saved. The San Francisco sailed hence with an
estimated total of seven hundred persons on board,
so that perhaps one hundred and seventy have
been lost frem the ship. This is melancholy;
but still the five hundred saved call for our con
gratulations. It may be asked hy Capt. Watkins took the
Antarctic to Liverpool, when there was the Three
Bells bound for New York. The answer is that
the latter ship was first entitled to and first re
ceived her complement of passengers from the
wreck; amd that, as in duty bound, Captain Wat
kins and his officers were the last to leave it, and
so were left no other choice than the trip to Liy
erpool. The force of the late gale which broke down the
San Francisco may be conjectured from .our de
tails of the disaster and from the report of Cap
tain Creighton that -he passed, on his way in fiom
the wreck, some half dozen vessels abandoned or
in distress. In view of such disasters along our
stormy Atlantio seaboard, we are glad to see that
it has been proposed in Congress to bold in read
inesa at Boetoa, New York, and Norfolk, each a
public vessel to meet aiach exigencies in the tn
torn J
A Valuable Oflcial Table Tho Stocks
Owned hy the Commonwealth cfPesn
tylvania.
C7"The following, among the many useful ta
bles included in the Auditor General's Annual
Report, exhibits the amount of Stocks held by tho
Commonwealth in sundry incorporated Ccmpa.
nies. and also shows the cost of the PemuylTi&u
Railroads and Canal. . . i .
Delaware and Schuylkill canal.
Bald Eagle and Spring Creek nayV--igation,
Tioga navigation, now railroad
company,
Bristol steam tow boat and trans
portation, TraxniE boacs.
Harrisburg, Carlisle and Chambers
burg,
Stoystown and Greensburg,
Huntingdon, Cambria and Indiana..
Perkiomen and Reading,
Gap and Newport,
Morgantown, Churchtown and Blue
. . Ball, "
Little Connestoga,
Downingtown, Ehrata and Harris
burg, Cayuga' and Susquehanna,
Susquehanna acd Waterford; '
Susquehanna and Tioga, .
Bridgewater and Wilksbarrei
Pittsburg and New Alexandria, - -New
Alexandria and Conemaugh,
Butler and Mercer, ,
Mercer and Meadville,
Anderson's Ferry", Waterford and
New Haven
Bethany and Dingman's Choice, .
Robbstown and Mount Pleasant,
Mount Pleasant and Sommerset, :
Millers town and Lewistown,
Philadelphia, Brandyw5ne and New
London, -Philadelphia
and Great Bend
Lewistown and Huntingdon,
Armstrong and Indiana,
Clifford and Wilkesbarre,
Indiana and Ebensburg
Washington and Willi amsport,
Lycoming and Potter,
Butler and Kittanning,
Milesburg and Smithport,
Mount Pleasant and Pittsburg,
Abingdon and Waterford,
Warren and Ridgcway,
Sommerset and Conemaugb,
Carbondale and Lackawana,
Sommerset and Cumberland,
Ligonier and Johnstown,
Warren and New York State line,
Titusville and Union Mills,
Browningtown, Uarrisville and
Franklin,
Armstrong and Clearfield,
Warren and Franklin,
Sugar Grove and Union,
Snowshoe and Packersville,
Luthersburg and Punxutawney,
Butler and F re port ,
Sugar Valley and White Deer.
Williamsport Bridge,
875,000 00
182,532 47
61,647 12
106,200 00
128,217 00
173,850 y
c,coq cs
25,600 00
0,000 00
' 10,000 CQ
64,000 00
6.000 00
126,250 00
20,000 00
25,800 00
48,350 CO
16,000 0&
22,050 CO
' 25,250,00
10.000 00
14,000 00
15,000 00
S0.000 00
35.850 00
2.500 00
. 7,800 00
46,500 00
9,000 00
7,700 03
14.000 CO
16,450 CO
20.000 00
5,000 CO
32,000 00
6, CCO CO
"5,000 00
5.C00 CO
9, 0C0 CO
- 250 CO
SCC0 CO
8000 CO
2,000 CO
2.4C0 CO
4.000 00
5,600 00
4,000 00
2.000 00
5,000 00
4.000 00
4.000 00
6,000 CO
4,000 00
81,673,997 62
Pennsylvania canals and railroads, 32,492,754 24
$34,166,750 76
Arrival of Tne Baltic.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
New Yoek, Jast. 12.
The United States Mail Steamship Baltic, from
Liverpool, with dates to the 28th of Deccaibtr.
arrived at her warf this evening, at 74 o'clock,
after a passage of 15 days.
Her news is four days later than our last pre
vious advices, and in seme respects is highly
important.
TLe Liverpool Cotton raarkct closed rery firm
on the 27 th, the sales of the previous three days
having been 18,000 bales.
There had been a further fdvaficc ia Bread
stuffs and Flour was active at 39a a 38s Cd fcr
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Western Canal.
The demand for wheat was active, and prices
had further advanced 2d lor 70 lbs, Corn ttd
advanced from Cd to Is.
The London Money Market was steady. Con
sols had further advanced, aed closed at 84 .
ENGLAND.
The leading items of ntws, from England, is
the resump ion by Lord Palmerston cf bis Stiat ia
the Cabinet. The step is regarded as likely to
have an important bearing on the affairs ia the
East. .
THE EASTE&S QCXSTIOS.
The latest advices from Constantinople and Vi
enna, represent the aspect of Affairs bc.wecn
Russia and Turluy to continue very sericus,
though the occurrences of the last few days indi
cate httle progress on the part of the hostile ar
mies. All efforts at negotiation have thus far proved
unavailing. The Sultan, however, it ia Mated,
in a Vienna dispatch to Paris, has indicated a
willingness to send a plenipotent ary to the con
ference of the four Powers, provided that Russia
first evacuates the Principalities.
The Czar, on the other hand, has stated his
fixed determination not to agree to any proposals
for peaceful negotiations, unless material conces
sions from the Turkish Government be firs ob
tained. Several further skirmishes are reported on the
line cf the Danube, but little advantage had been
gained on cither side.
It is reported that the demand for the combi
ned fleets of England and France to enter the
Black Sea, has been refused.
PERSIA.
A report is tclegiphed from Paris, that - Per
sia has officially declared war against Turkey,
and that a powerful fcostib) force is shortly to bo
in motion. . ,
The Shah of Persia is said to be marching on
Northern India at the head of forty thousand
men and one hundred guns.
The English were concentrated on the frontier
of Peshawru and inarching to Afghanistan to
command the Khyler Pass. v ' ..
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