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FOR GOVERNOR,
VILLMJC1GLER
FOR SUPREME JUDGE.
JEBE3II HU BLACK.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
t' S. .1
Delegate Election.
Pursuant to a resolution of the Democratic
County Committee adopted at their meeting, held
on the 5ih inst.,thc Democratic voters of the sev-.
era! election districts in the county of Cambria,
are requested to meet on Saturday, the 21th
Jun?. inst.. at the places designated by law for
holding the general elections, and then and there
elect two persons as delegates to represent thtin
in County Convention.
The delegates will meet in Convention at the
Court House, in the Borough of F.bcnsburg. on
Tuesday the 27th day of June, inst., at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, and place in nomination candi
dates for the several offices to be filled at the en
suing general election, and transact such other
business as the usages and interest of the party
require.
The elections, f ve delegates, are to be opened
at 2 o'clock, P. M., and to be kept open until G
o'clock.
WM. KITTELL. Chairman.
E,bcnsbnrg. June 15, 1854.
Rag-Tag.
In the present state of the "Whig party, it is
hard to tell against what we will have to con
tend. Like the puffer at a vendue. Pollock bids
for everything that is brought out. lie is Aboli
tion, to the wool, and of course Anti-Nebraska ;
he suits the Temperance men exactly ; he is Native-American,
(which is the forsaken child of
whiggery,) and glories in the election of Judge
Conrad to the mayoralty cf Philadelphia ; and
strong rumors are afloat, by no means without
good foundation, that he is striving mightily to
coalesce with the last of the ghosts the unknown
Know Nothings. In view of all this, Democrats
will do well to be alert. Lut every man be a
sentinel, let the phalanx be condensed so as to
present an irrefragable front akd success will be
ours.
Those principles of adherence to the constitution
and the laws which have ever characterized us
are strong to deliver in anjr emergency. Time
and experience have proved that these, and these
only, are the rocks on which can rest our na
tional strength, and it has only been when our
nieu f rgot these duties to their party, which
are synonomous with their duties io their count rv,
that disgrace and contusion have come to the aid
of the ennemy to annoy us.
Be not deceived friends of the Union and of the
Constitution, of the Republic and of her price
less liberties. Let no tempting offers of reward,
no new-fangled alurement of humbug, no base
less phantom of faction be entertained for a mo
ment to swerve you from the rules of action so
often tried and found to be so true. Our foes have
even an affinity fr the cheats of faction and the
tricks of party, and cohere to them as naturally
as we repulse them. Our ground is always tak
en, and here we can be found as in the days of
Jeile.-son and Jackson, now and forever. Of this
we can never be divested, and whether triumph
ant, or defeated, it is all the same as regards the
name by which we arc known, and the stan
dard under which we rally.
Legislature.
We have ljcen requested to announce Wm.
RfssEL, Esq., of Washington township, as a
candidate for Assembly.
We know of no citizen of Cambria county,
better qiyili fled for a feat in our legislative Halls
than Mr. Rirsscl, as he is certainly endowed with
all the requisites to make a sound l..Utor ,.
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ing an unflinching advocate of all the leading
measures of the day, and especially of the Main
Liquor Law.
Appointments for the New Territories.
There are fourteen offices to be filled for the
New Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, and
about twenty-five applicants for each offi-e.
Their chances wid be equal to a small prize in
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the "Mountain House" Lottery. -
The American House.
Wc neglected in our last number to call atten
tion to an advertisement of this House, kept by
Mr. Michael Stewart. Mr. S. has gone to con
siderable expense and pains to make it a desira
ble location for people visiting Johnstown, and
from our knowledge of the Proprietor. - f.-l
assured that he will give general satisfaction.
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V.chave received Godcy for July, and it is
fullveoual to all the former numbers. The en.
gravings and
d fx-hion-plate are alone worth the
Ma-nz'ne which is but a triflin
.uagatne, vnicn is imi a muing
price of the
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tcellent work.
this ex
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immct, oi iiarnsourg, u:u noi
receiye the appointment of Governor to Nebras
ka, as stated in our paper of last week. We
tak the following from the Washington Union :
"The President ha? appointed Gen. Wm. O.
Bctler, of Kentucky, as Governor of Nebraska,
,n,i ir.,-.iT. f 4 .
and Gov. Wki-.ht- of Indiana, as Goiernor of
Atutas.
Celebration:
We arc informed that a union celebration of
the fourth of July, w ill be held on (hat day in
the beautiful grove of Stephen Lloyd, Esq., by
the different Sunday Schools of our borough.
It is with feelings of great pleasure that we
make this announcement. The commemoration
of the birth-day of Freedom, should be a part of
j the nature of every American citizen, and there
' is no better method of kccpir.g up the hallowed
; remembrance than by teaching the rising gen
; eration its meaning, and instructing ihein to val
; ue the liberties which took their embodiment
! from its date.
j The place selected is one of the most handsome
i in the neighborhood for a festivity of this kind.
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verdure and shade. e hope a general interest
will be felt in this pleasant little movement, and
that much real enjoyment may result from it.
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Drowned-
. Dav,Ej.. nd about
15 years, son of Mr. Win. Seymore, of Carroll
township, was drowned on the evening of the
20th, in Williams' Saw-mill Dam. He lad gone
to the dam in company with his brothers, for
' the purpose of bathing, nnd bc-irg unaccustomed
! to deep water, was unfortunately overtaken.
i Verily, " in the midst of life we are in death."
TSJ, The Democratic Delegate election will be
i held in the di2l rent boroughs and townships, on
' next Saturday at 2 o'clock, P. M., and to be
! kept open till G o'clock. It is the duty of all
j the Democrats to attend the primary election.
I
j V7eight of Opinion.
I There has been a prodigious effort among some
i men to create the impression, that the doctrine
of the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Com
promise was a creation of recent origin. To such
the following, from the Evening National Argus,
may afford some matter for reflection :
"Three Democratic Presidents Jefferson , Ma
dison, and Monroe thus speak of the Missouri
Compromise :
' 'This Missouri question, by a geographical
line of division,' " said Mr. Jefferson, " 'is the
most portentous one that I have ever contem
plated.' "
"4l must own,'" said Mr. Madison, " 'that 1
have always leaned to the belief that the restric
tion was not within the true scope of the Consti
tution.' "'
" The proposed restriction as to the territories
which are to be a Imitted into the Union,'" said
Mr. Monroe, ' '-if not in direct violation of the
constitution, is repugnant to its principles. "
"The unanimous opinion of these eminent "sta
tesmen is entitled to considerable weight."
Governor of New Hampshire The Hon.
Nathaniel B. Baker, the present Governor of
New Hampshire, was on Thursday, unanimousty
re nominated for that office by the New Hamp
shire Democratic State Convention held at Con
cord. Governors of Nebraska and Kanzas.
Washington, June 1G. It is generally believ
ed that General William O. Rutler, of Kentucky,
has received the nppointment of Governor of Ne
braska. Gov. Wiight.of Indiana, it is thought, will be
appointed Governor of Kanzas.
Glorious New Hampshire.
The recent Slate Convention of this noble old
Commonwealth has, by its proceedings, glorious
ly vindicated her Democraej' from the slanders
and misrepresentations which have been heaped
upon them. Phe utmost unanimity characteriz
ed its proceedings, and it is cheering to note how
New Hampshire speaks with "voice potential"
and unanimous in support of her cherished son.
Mr. Baker, the present Governor, was re-nominated
for that post without a dissenting voice, and
the following resolutions were adopted not only
unanimously, but amidst much applause :
Resolved, That we now re affirm our confidence
in the justice of those broad national principles,
and those great measures on which the Demo
cratic party of the Union have stood successfully
since the days of Jefferson, and which have be
come so well established as to guide and control
the policy of the country, and which our politi
cal opponents have been compelled to acknow
ledge as wise and just.
Resolved, That the Democracy of New Hamp
shire adhere as firmly as ever to the Platform
adopted at the National Democratic Convention
at Baltimore, and on which the last Presidential
election was so triumphantly fought and won;
and that wc still preserve with increased fervor
our former devotion to the Constitution and the
Union, and our unabated hostility to all parties
and all factions that would alienate the affections
of the people from those great bonds of our na
tional liberty and prosperity.
Resolved, That the right to regulate their do
mestic institutions for themselves, within their
own limits, ought to be enjoyed by the people of
all the Slates and territories "ofthc country that
the Compromise Acts of 1850 substantia'!? re-
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eogniAeu me justice oi mis principle, wrncn has
at length been made uniform in its operation, by
the recent action of Congress in passing the bill
for the orgmization of the Territories at Knntaa
and Nebraska.
Resolved. 1 hat whatever differences of opinion
may have heretofore prevailed in reference to this
measure, and while mutual forbearance and to
lerations should be cheerfully indulged among
v v. uiu.i tiiv:ivu, li 1)1 If; fit uOW, in
i ?Ur "l,inio,,tf hc acquiesced in, and maintained
by all good citizens, especially as it must lo a
! sub;, ctf common gratincation. that Uc ones-
lions involved, are transferreel from the hall r.f
j Congress to the local legislatures, no longer, we
iruse, io ousiruei me legislation and distract the
peace eif the country.
Risvlved, That the administration of Franklin
i - ...... i. .-, u,v uim.nu y ug'i. pure, anu na-
j tioiial considerations, and has exhibited proofs of
! shown itself true to the crreat princinles of Jpffi
inn,.:,, ,i,ih i.iMmuc ponry inat it has
i .-! .Hi.i ineear y uancrs ot the JJemocracy of
the couiiliy, and, therefore, we continue to re
pose in k i he most unlimited confidence, and to
tmainforit, and especially for its distinguish-
, ed head, the warmest feelings of attachment and
i recard.
; solrl, That we desire those who represent
: "V" 'f-'ure to watch cant-fully over the
; .ntcr(sts f(( tJ , , j
i ' " " " uncorn-
. premnsing v ar against the policy that wc
: transfer political jowcr to the State from it.
would
ts le
gitimate source into the hnn.l nf irr:i i.
I ftirnnrnt ioria. Tliot t...A ..i:
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vernment in its intercourse with foreign powers
is one laid down by the illustrious Jackson, to
"ask nothing but what is clearly risrht. an.t i
submit to nothing that is wrong," and that we
cordially approve of the form, determined and
truly American attitude of our patriotic President
" me iiooic seanu ne nas invanamy taken in e-
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Danger of Native Americanism.
From the N. Y. National Democrat
Robert T. Conrad, the newly elected Whig
Mayor of Philadelphia, in his late inaugural ad
dress declared that he was determined to op
point io tuUuralized or tu'ojJed citizen to any
2ot of trust. This declaration will be received
with a feeling cf sorrow and disgust by all candid
and just minds in America. Such proscription
is a violation of the spirit of the Constitution of
the United States, which knows no difference be
tween the native and the adopUd citizen, and
which extends to all the advantages of a com
mon fre-edom. The word "citizen," is lobbed
of half its meaning, if those who have complied
with all the cenyditions which entitle them to
wear it, arc to be proscribed and persecuted on
account of the kicalijy of their birth. The insti
tution which prescribes the conditions ct citizen
ship, knows no such rule, and any party which
attempts to enforce such a rule, tramples the
rights of the American citizen under his feet.
They outrage one of the most sacred principles of
American freedom.
So far as the principle is concerned, the autho
rities of Philadelphia or New York may as well
proscribe a man for being born in New Orleans,
as to proscribe hiui for being born in Germany
or Ireland. The principle which would ostracise
a man for being born in Germany or Ireland, if
carried fully out, would prove destructive of the
the general rights of every American citizen, for
it would reduce citizenship to the narrow limits
of special and accidental localities. Indeed, the
principle of what is called Native Americanism,
carried fully out, would leave no such thing as
American citizen-ship in existence ; but we
should have only Philadelphia citizenship, New
York citizenship, etc., and a war of sections, ra
ces and localities, would sjiring up, w hich would
reduce our happy and prosperous country to a
hell of strife and outrage.
But we need not go so fur as to discuss the re
sults of such a principle, for it is crushed in its
very inception by that sacred chapter e;f human
rights, the Constitution. And hc is the worst
foe to our country's freedom, whether he was
born in New York, in Dublin, or in Amsterdam,
who would seek the vie!ate that sacral principle
embraced in the meaning of "citizenship." The
war which an un-American bigotry wages upon
our adopted ciiizens, is as unnatural to our coun
try as it is unjust to human rights. Is it a crime
that the Irishman er the German was not born
in this country ? If so, many of them have done
the best they could to alone for it by getting here
as soon after birth as possible. They have borne
their part of our national work, and contiibu'ed
their share to our national wealth.
They have constructed our railroad n-.id u.iule
fruitful our Western lands. They have toniii
buteel their full hare to e.ur treasures of ai r and
learning, and whatever elevates inJ a. lvan.es
our civilization. Banish every adopted citizen
from our country, and what profession i-i there
what elepartment of art, science, learning, or
labor, which would not feel the shock? Our
colleges, our studies, our counting rex.n.s. our
work shops, and our public works, :i!l would
realize an instant shoek which would cover with
amazement and shame (the bygots who are try
ing to make capital and a living out of a cru
sade against adopted citizens. It is astonish
ing to what a pitch of excitement this shallow
fury has risen. We almost wonder that the Na
tive Americans do not blast Plymouth Rock to
pieces with gunpoweler, and banish the bones
of the Pilgrims and the Knickerbockers from the
soil of our country.
Wc marvel that Robert T. Conrad should not
tear the picture of William Penn from the wall
of the old State House in Philadelphia, and pull
every monument which reminds "Native Ame
ricans" of the beneficence of Girard. Pull down
and tear up everything not produced by hands
indigenous to the soil. Such an undertaking
would impart an enterprising and business air
to the streets of Philadelphia. And Ro'oert T.
Conrad is just rash enough for that sort of un
dertaking. "Native Americans" could not pos
sibly have a better representative of their prin
ciples. - Rash, fiery, ambitious, without judg
ment, and without any particular restraints of
conscience, he is the very embodiment of that
principle which would violate the rights of Ame
rican citizenship, for a momentary triumph of
his party. It is at least comforting to believe
that not possibly can the "old country" send us
more mischievous and dangerous citizens than
these. If our institutions suffer no evil from
such restless and unprincipled spirits, we need
apprehend no elanger from any other source.
Acquisition of the Sandwich Islands.
In commenting upoit the probability that nego
tiations have been resumed by our government
for the acquisition of thvSanelwich Inlands, anrl
the prosjicct of their successful termination, the
Detroit Free Press says :
" Should the administration neglect a favora
ble opportunity to obtain these islands, it would
be justly liable to the charge of a want of wise
forecast. We have hitherto shown that the is
landers cannot long maintain an independent gov
ernment that they are dwinelling away that
they will, within comparatively a few j-cars, be
come extinct as a race. The islands must pass
into the hands of some one of the powerful nations
of the earth. Such being the case, what is the
interest and duty of the United Slates ? Is it to
let England, or France, or Russia posse-ss them,
and hold them as a commanding naval station ?
We apprehend not.
The day ill come when the commercial inter
ests of this country will be as great on the Paci
fic as they are on the Atlantic when our trade
will be more valuable with the nations of the far
east than with the nations of Europe. When
that day does come, the possession of the Sand
wich Islands w ill be of the utmost moment, as
affording not only a position which will give us
the naval supremacy of the Pacific, but as fur
nishing a depot for coal for our steamers, and of
supplies for every description that w ill plough
the great ocean, as a half-way house between A
merica and Asia.
" We have no fear that the administration will
neglect its duty in this relation. President Pierce
came into office with no misgivings as to the con
sequences of acquisition of territory such ac
quisitions as must, in the nature of things,
strengthen--not weaken us as one of the great
powers of Christendom. A"e believe his admin
istration w ill be signalized as consummating two
e f the most important events of the age the
purchase of Cuba and the acceptance of the pro
ferred cession of the Sandwich islando.
Nebraska and Kncw-Kotlungs.
It cannot have escaped the attention of the pub
lic that, from the moment the House of Represen
tatives struck out the Native American amend
ment of Mr. Clayton from the Nebraska bill, the
'opposition to that bill by a certain portion of the
Northern press became more fierce, and the villi
fication of those who advocated or supported it
became more intense. This fact, in connection
with the recent amendment of the 'know nothings'
standard, indicates an important movement now
going on among the fire-caters and the fanatics
of some sections of the country. This movement
is nothing less than an amalgamation of two of
tin most prescriptive and inteilerant elements
which have ever entered into the politics ot our
country wc mean the spirit of abolition and of
Native Americanism. Of this fact there is now
not one particle of doubt. The right of the
people, and of the whole people, to control their
own matters by their own suffrages, is de nied by
these miserable fanatics not only upon the soil
of Nebraska, but on the soil of the Southern Sta
tes,' so far as the slave jiopulation is concerned,
and upon the soil of the free North in attempting
to exparriatc all citizens of foreign birth, or to
prescribe to them such terms of probation as
would be eepiivalent to a elenial to them of the be
nefits of our free institutions. This is the issue
now being prepared by these nulliliers and
secessionists. Let the trial coint-.
Hon. Joseph H Chandler.
"For some ela3's it apjears to have een under
stood in the House Hall, that the head of this
learncel, patriotic, and very able American s'a
tpsman is to be offered as a sacrifice to nrnnritiate
the spirit of Native Americanism, in the next j
nominations for Congress, in Philadelphia. It
-11 Via rotrn.niltol'i'd tliif lti. i a tiw.inlw,- . ct.-irO i
conscientious, and devout one, too -of the Roman
Catholic Church, though born in the United Sla-
fps.of an old Puritan slock, we believe. To cur
Washington readers we need hardly remark that
Mr. Chandler has worked his way fairly to the
top round of the ladder of Congressional distinc
tion, having quite as much w eight in the h ill as
any other member who can lc name-d. His e lo
quence, strong mind, and varied attainments,
have earned for him a national reputation, of
Union, were heretofore supposeel to be proud, in
deed. So. the news that he really the h ading
Whig of Representatives is to be brought to
the block, under the axe of the la'est "angle" of
popular opinion for worshipping God according
to the dic:ates of his own conscience is freely
discussed among the metn1ei--i, wi.h the manifes
tation of very general digust. JfWi. Star.
We have no means of knowing what is the in-
tention of the allies with respect to the rei cmina- j mi wh'ich is to be made a party measure, ot
tionofMr. Chandler, but so far as the Know- j k.t ;a tjje 5,,..
thins arc concerned, it is certain that hecan- !
not le supported by their members. Still, despite ) nuut.
all their hostility to the institutions of the coun- j The Washington Union, in the course of an ed
.... ir f n i..o. r..ti.i. i itorial on the Africanization of Cuba, says :
paled in a e-ampaign which had for its object the j
e !. cti n of a member of that society orihe .Mayor
alty e-f the city, and who is pledged to cany out
their most ultra and offensive doctrines. If the
poisoned chalice be returned to his own lips, it
will be but even handed justice. We have had
more than one occas on to command Mr. Chand
ler f r his zeal and ability in defending the inte
rests of the city, and therefore the more deeply
regret to be compelled to criticise this dereliction
from the path of duty. Mr. Chandler consorted j
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with, and aide-d and abetted that party, which
accoreling to its precepts would disfranchise all
those who differ from its mcmliers in religious
faith and practice, and the consequences cf their
triumph must be upon those who won the victory
for them. Evening Xatioatd Argus.
Some Moke Kxow-Notiuxgism. The Know- ,
Nothings arc multiplying in all quarters, and j
among all sorts of people. It seems that the co- j
lori.il racp havfl cftiifrht the fever at Harrisbursr. i
and instead of being considered "thick-headed"
as formerly, the faculty now pronounce them to
be -empty-headed', perfect "Know-Nothings."
A family from the far South, passing through
there lately with a fine portly woman servant,
had an excellent opportunity of ascertaining the
extent of their diseased minds. On Sabbath
morning, about breakfast-time, the wore an dis
appeared in the twinkling of an eye, and although
there were a number of colored servants near, not
one of them Jviiew anything of de parture or of
her whereabouts. All every one had taken the
'fever in its most alarming form,' and strange to
tell, Dr. Rutherford, usually a prompty physi
cian, refused attendance on the plea "that it was
a very safe disease of the brain that the less
these poor unfortunates knew, the less they would
have to answer for."
Boy Thrift. In looking into the position and
treatment of boys upon farms, as we have, done
lately, our nation has more and more strengbten
ed that is as easy and certainly most expedient,
to give boys a chance of earning a little money
for himself. This can be done by allowing him
to set apart a corner of a gaiu'n, er pay rent fr
a single field ; bat we find in the American Agri
culturist, the following suggestion of another way
to make the laboring lad proud of his home and
interested in his occupation. It is from the re
port of a "Farmer's Club."
"J. Reynolds said he knew a lad who live years
ago began to keep poultry. He, bought five or
six bens, raised chickens and eggs. He feel lar
gely upon fish. lie now has a flock of some fifty
hens, has purchased a cow, repaired his little
barn, clothed himself, assistcel his mother more
or less, and is now, from the sale of his milk and
the produce of his poultry, quite a thriving young
man, accumulating a very pretty capital."
Rhode Island. The people of Rhode Island
arc circulating a petition to the State Legislature,
asking a prohibition from the use of any prison,
court house, or other public building belonging
to the slate, for the detention of any person claim
ed as a fugitive from labor; also, to have it made
a penal offence for any State, town or military
officer to aid in the arrest for any person claimed
as a fugitive from labor, also, that any citizen of
Rhode Island who shall, for more than ten days
from and after the passage of such act, continue
to hold, or hereafter accept the office of Commis
sioner under the Fugitive Slave Act, shall be for
ever thereafter ineligib'e to any office of honor,
trust or profit under the Government of that
State.
C& Among curiosities, lately added to the
Schenecteda Museum, is a mosquito's bladder
containing the souls of twenty-four misers, and
fortunes of twelve printers nearly half full.
Proposed modification of the Tariff.
The Committee of Ways and Means of the
House, it is said, have agreed to report a bill
for a modification of the tariff, upon the basis
suggested by Secretary Guthrie. The bill con
tains five schedules of rates. In the first sched
ule the old one hundred per cent, duty on bran
dies, liquors, &c, remains unchanged. Wc now
receive three millions dutie s annually lroni this
source. The second schedule rates the duty at
twenty pr cent. This includes all the articles
which, in the previous tariff, vary from twenty
five to one hundred per cent. It also includes
iron. S'.!gar, manufactureel silk and hemp. The
third schedule is fifte-e-n per cent., the fourth ten
per cent., and the fifth five per cent., and em-
t braces nearly all the ai tides in the existing tar
iff, but re-ducing to fifteen per cent, articles
which now pay twenty ; to ten per cent
rticles
which now pay fifteen, &c, &c.
The twenty jier cent, schedule includes raw
silk and some descriptions of medicines and dye
stuffs. We now receive over seven million dol
lars duties upon manufactured and unmanufac
tured silk. The lists are very full, and fifteen
per cent, is placed upon all ui encuuilje re tl arti
cles. Salt, which under the present tariff as an enu
merated ai tide, pays twenty per cent., is to be
admitted free of duty. The free-list takes in all
the articles now admitted free, as well as many
articles now in the lower list of duties. It also
includes certain dye-stuffs and medicines.
It is estimated that this tariff will yield a reve
nue f about forty-five millions.
Washinton Affairs.
Washington, June 18. The Senate has deter
mined to pass the Homestead bill previous to the
I til10 f'!r ,5'e 'ess. It is quite certain that
j the bill will be disposed of during the ensuing
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j eiay, arid me iioiiie-sieun .weiisine n in in: iuc mm
j business subsequent to the dipo.-u! ef that dis-
i cussion.
j The territorial appointments ill U- kept back
j as long as possible, so that the announcement
may not have an influence upon certain measures
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which theExecutivc is desirous of passing through
smoothly. The nninber of applicants for places
is enormous, and continues to embarrass present
action.
It is confidently believed that tl-e House will
concur in the Senat'.s resolution for a recess, im
mediately ii noil the iassa-ze of the Homestead
" The statistics ef the slave trade show how
quietly the coasters of Great Britain Lave looked
upon that horrid traffic, so laras Cuba is eone-cin-e-d.
The Uniteel States have vigorously arreste-d
and annihilated the African slave trade with her
people since 1 SOS; and England, who professes
to be so anxious to put an end to it lxtwee-n Cu
ba and Brazil, refuses to consent to the acquisi
tion of the former by this country, although fully
awaro that such an acquisition is the only way
effectually and forever to annihilate that traffic !
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In proof of this, witness the fact obtaine-d from
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unniipeacuaoi;? recorus now oeiore me i.riiisn
' Parliament, that, with all the boasted vigilance
j of the English cruisers sent to annihilate the slave
' trade, the re have be-en carried fro in Africa into
the Island of Cuba forty-three tho'-sand four hun
! tired una ntmty-niue nig rots. This number com
I prises those only known to have been introduce!
! into Cuba! Estimate's based npon the highest
j authority, show that the negroes clandestinely
carried into Cuba fi-om Africa, from 1 41 to the
j P"-'nt day, amount to the number c aboitfUtn
j -Wnd every year ! The number imported in'o
! 15iazil fc,r t,M! samc I1' was three hundred and
J twenty five thousand s.xhund.cd and twenty-five."
I tjig Nebraska Bill,
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BV AX eLD FOGY.
This wonderful Nebraska bill has wrought,
A miracle that ne'er was seen or thought ;
Three thousands priests of pure New England
breeel,
Who never in one ioiut of faith agree el,
And never will again that I'll be sworn
Till the last leaf from Time's old book is torn.
Have turned their throats to one harmonious
strain,"
And draw together both b- bit and rain.
Religion ne'er could bind them in one tether,
But politics have brought these saints together.
And knit them, not by Christian love of others,
But Christian hatred of their Southern brothers-
A paper printed at Elizabethtown, New
Jersey, gave an account last fall, of a grievous
misfortune to a 3-oung girl, thirteen years old,
nameil Mata Taylor. She was running to cross
tho railroad track, when she stumbled and fell.
Just at that moment the cars of the New Bruns
wick road came up, and the locomotive cut off
her left hand, which lay over the rail. In the
confusion of the moment, the hand was not pick
ed up, and finally, w hen it was looked for, it
could not be found. It was feared some animal
had carried it off, and this thought was very
distressing to flic mother of the girl, as well as
to Mata herself. Last week, the lost hand was
discovered as follows : A young man from Eliza
bethtown, happened to call on a friend of his, at
his boarding house, in Eighth street, New York.
Ou the shelf, in the room, he saw a glass jar
with a pretty little hand suspended in it, pre
serveel in spirits. It had a ring on the third
finger and was in every respect a lady-like look
ing hand. He thought at once of the lost hand
in Elizabethtown, but Ijc did not suspect that
this was the one. On asking his friend whose
hand it was, he was told that it came from the
Medical College, and his room-mate was a medi
cal student. The young man thought no more
of the matter until he got home, when he men
tioned what he h d seen. His sister tolel him
that Meta Taylor's lost hand had a ring on the
third finger, which she described. This ring was
exactly like that on the hand in the jar.
The sequel may be told in a few words : Mata
Taylor came over to New York, with her mother
and the young man above alluded to. Proceed
ing at once to the house to Eighth street, she re
cognized the preserved hand in the jar as her
long lost member. The student gve it up yery
hrfnllir aesi.rirnr the TOUDC cill that he had
j Dougui 11 01 a person wuo bujjj-.. 1..- . ,
t Jieencai Allege. )
A most Foul and Horrible Murder.
Mrs. McBrayer, wife of James McBrayer, Esq.,
of Anderson Co., Ky., was murdered a few nights
ago, according to the Frankfort Yeoman, neder
the following circumstances ;
"After Mr. and Mrs. McBrayer had retired to
rest, a man cntereel their room with an axe, and,
approaching the bed, passed lii3 hand over her
face, in order to be sure of the right one, which
awoke her. Being satisfied that it was her, he
commenced cutting with his axe, first striking
her breast and arms in many places, he then
with several strokes, severed one of her legs en
tirely off. Mr. McBrayer, being awakened by the
neise, itachtd out his hand to protect his wife,
and reccied a blow, cutting his hand in two.
The incarnate fiend, thinking he had killed her,
commenced Striking about at random over the
I bed, with the hellish intention to kill their
youngest child, who was in bed with them, but
not finding it, he went to the lounge in the
roem where slept their other child, and aimed a.
blow at its head, but only cut the back of hi
neck. He then v ent e.ut, leaving the bloody axe
at the door. Mrs. McBrayer had life enough to
tell who, as well as she could see in the darkness,
had committed the horrible de-e-d. From her
state ment her step son has )eeu arrested and put
in jail to await his trial."
IIukkibi.k Death A Victim of HvuRAriio
wa. This most dreadful of all maladies was ex
hibited yesterday in all its horrors, in the penson
of John Cookson, late foreman of Sem pic's foun
dry. The particulars are these:
About nine weeks since, Mr. Cookson, one
evening, in returning from the foundry to his
house near the terminus of the plank road, was
attacked by a large and ferocious dog, who bit
him in the leg. thiuh and arm, besides inflicting
a slight wound in his face, and literally tearing
his clothes into ribltons. The vve.unds, however.
did not incapacitate' Mr. Cookson from atteuu-
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i:ig id jiis uusiiiess, aim nu..'-ooii lorgoi me eeeui-
I renco. On Thursday evening, ution entering his
! home, he complained of feeing very unwell, and
j retired early to be-d. The night, however, was
j almost a sleepless one, interrupted by horrid
i dreams and nervous starts, and early in the
! morning the first syiiitoius o: hydruphohia made
I their apjiearance. Medical aid was procured in
fact some half dozen physicians were on the ?i.t
as soon as the case lK-came known, but he grew
rapidly worse. He was bled, and for a few min
utes appeared somewhat calmer, but the horrid
fit soon returned, and it was a fearful sight to
behold the wretched man foaming at the mouth.
casting himself upon the ground and endeavoring
to tear the Mesh from his bones, all the time
moiiuing piteously. If it were possible to en
hance the horrors of the scene, it wss that the
unhapp3r being was entirely sane, being consci
ous of his dreadful situation, and earnestly en
treating the horrible spectators to keep away,
lest be might involuntarily do them an injury.
He was tied down to the bed, but he succeed
ed in breaking the coids, until, finally, six strong
men holding hira down, chloroform was admin
Ulcicd to him, under the influeuce of which hc
slept for half an hour. When be awokc.it wa-.
but 'o breathe his last. A few convulsive gasps
and nervous twitchings, and the rigid feature
and motionless limbs proclaimed that his suffer
ings were at an end. This occurred a little tf
ter one o'clock, P. M.
The deceased whom, Mr. Semjle states, was
the most valuable man he e ver had in his em
ploy, was but 20 years of age. A wife and tv. o
children, entirely dependent upon him for sii
port, live to mourn his untimely fate. The low
melancholy sebsof the lnTvave'el one, as she s:ii
with her face burie-d in her hands, told how hope
less loeked the future, and how deep her agony.
The rabid animal has, we understand, bitten
seveial ether persons, one a man named John
son, and it is saidjihat at this present lime th
dog is alive and at iaige - Such- an incident as
this proclaims in thundsr tones, the imperative
necessity of vigilantly enforcing the ord. nance
against dogs running at large. Cin. Inq-iircr.
c7The latest advices state that Spain is
strenghtening her naval and military forces m
the West Indies iu a manner that would induce
the be-lief that she is herself expecting something
serious. Cannon and men for strengthening the
defences cf Havana are being forwardisd. ' The
"Commercio" of Cadiz gives the following list
vessels which are getting read' to sail with troops
for the Antilles in the course of June: The Cor
tes of 32 guns, the Isabella II of 24, the Villa do
Bilboa of 30, the Pcrrolona of 30, the Colon of
16, the Volador of 15, the Steamer Francisco de
Asia of 16 guns and 500 horse power, the steamer
Sainte Isabella of 4 guns and 192horse power,
the steamers Isabella Cateilica and Comte do
Regla, the ship Sobranof and the corvette Luisa
j Fernanda, with other transport ships conveying
troops and munitions of war.
CCCaptain Alvin Fox, of Perkins, has lerg
been acknowledged the best shot with a rifle in
this section of the State. His prowess was put
to a fearful test on Thursday afternoon. . A piece
of card, two inches by one and a half inch wide,
was stuck in the slit of a piece f shingle three
inches in length. Placing this in hands of his
son, S. M. Fox, the Captain placed off ten reads
distance, and the boy holding out the card at
arm's length, five balls were put through it by
the rifle in the hands of the father! This deed
was witnessed by four persons, and the card is
now in our posession. Sandusky Register.-
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CTMr. Seymour, the American Minister in
Russia, it is said, was received with high honors
on reaching St. Petersburg, but having, at his
presentation to the Court, paid no attention to a
previous intimation that it would be more agree
able to the Czar for him to appear in court dress,
than in plain American clothes, he has since, it
is alleged, received very little notice from any of
the royal officials, and manifests a disposition to
leave St. Petersburg. '
CyMr. Ed. Knight, an Englishman, passenger
on the Herculaneum, w hich was run into by the
steamer Sicily, off at Gen ova, died of gangrene
resulting from a bite of his wife. During their
last struggles together iu the sea, Mr. K. propo
sed to abandon the children, as he could not save
both them and her, but she declined, aud so went
down with them, in the desperation of the mo
ment biting off one cf his fingers." . ,
(7"The population of LouisyilUv Ky., "is nor
estimated it 70,000- .
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