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Aut 13. 18J3.-!y. ai- 03 Af 'HlddV "W OHIIi syjaav DNiavnn unv KiAvis -aaa v 'aun . avoainiAV 110,1 K3AI0 saxvH viHciiaavTiH j j.s2hoih T? 'or Kent. -I- An office on Centre Street, text dor north of Esq. Kinkead's office. Po6t9ku given immeliatelv. JOSEPH M'DOKALD. April i, tWA. Miscellaneous. The Titus Oates f lot. In the days of plots, inventions, &c, it would be well for those who get them up to remember the lessons of history. The following is Macau lay a description of the famous Oates Hot, and the result of it : Yet was the ferment excited by this discovery the French plot against Dauby a blight, when compared with the com motion winch arose when it was noised abroad that that a great Popish plot had been detected. One Titus Oaten a cler gyman of the Church of England, had, by his disorderly life and heterodox doc trine, drawn on himself the ctnsure of las sniritual suneriors. bad licrn cnmiu'l1iit ti quit his beiiifiee, and had, ever since, led an infamous and va-rant life. Ile J:lj ! once prol'esscil himself a Roman Catholic, and hud passed fnune time on the conti nent in English coli.-ges of the order of Jesus. In these seminaries he had heard much wild talk ab-ut the. best means of bringing England back to the true church. From hints thus furnished, he constructed a hideous romance, resembling rather the dream of a hick man than any transaction which ever took place in the world. The pope, he said, had intrusted the govern ment of England to the Jesuits. The Jesuits had, by commissions under the teal of their society, appointed Catho'.ie clergymen, police men, and gentlemen, to all the higl.est ojlices in church and slate. The 1'apists had burned down London once. They tried to burn it down again. They were at that G!om"!it planning h scheme for setting lire to a!i the thippiog in the Thames. They were to rise at a signal and ma-s.-use all their L'rotestant neighbors. A Frens h army was at the same time to land in Ireland. All the leading statesmen and dn vines in r.iiIan I were to be murdered. Three or four fehemes had been formed for assassinating the king. He was to be stabled. He was to be poisoned in his medicine. He wa to be shot with public mind w.is s that these lies rca fiiver bullets. The -'ore and liable, lily found credit with t he vulgar; and two event.-- whicli speedily took place led even some retkeiing men :-. -uspect tha? th'j tale, though eviihntly outcried and exaggerated, might have Swiae foiuidal'h n. L jiiiunil Coleman, a very busy and not vc: v honest ioi::uu Catholic intrader, h:i i ' arm among tt.- pers ::s atcused. Scarcli I lvas made for his papers. Il was found that he had ilest.y-d th- greaU-r p.'.rt of! them. liut si few which escaped, con- j taile d borne -a-sagc-s which, to minds i fitroniilv preiHjsscsscd. milit seem to eon- ! Ill'm lIiC vvnienees c-t iates. ihc-se pas- j sages, indeed, vl"n candidly eonMrued, appear to epn.-s little more than the hopes which the postures of affairs, the predilections of Charles, the still stonger prcdilectiii'.s of James, and the relations existing between the French and English courts, might naturaiij excitt: in the mind of a Roman Catholic strongly attached to the interests of his church. Hut the country was not then inclined to construe the letters of 1'apists candidly ; and it was urged, with some show of rea son, that, if papers which had been pass ed over as unimportant, were filled with matter so suspicious, t-ome great mystery of iniquity must have been contained iu those documents which had been carefully committed to the names. The capital and the w hole nation went mad with hatred and fear. T he penal laws, which had began to lose soniethiiig of their edge, were charpened anew. Everywhere justices were busied in search ing huuscs and papers. All the jails were tilled with 1'apists. London had the as pect of a city in a state of siege. The train bands were under arms all night. 1 'reparations were made for barricading the great thoroughfares. l'atrols marched up and down the street. Cannon were planted round Whitehall. No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail loaded with lead to brain the Popish assassins. The house insisted that a guard should be placed in the vaults over w hich they sate, in order to securo them against a second Gunpowder Plot. All their pro ceedings were of a piece with this demand. To such a temper had eighteen j'ears of misgovernraent brought the most loyal Parliament that had ever met in En- O land. Meanwhile, the courts of justice, which ought to be, in the midst of political com motions, sure places of refuge for the in nocent of every party, were disgraced by wilder passions and fouler corruptions than were found even on tho huitingft. The EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY tale of Oates, though it had sufficed to convulse the whole realm, would nut, until confirmed by other evidence, suffice to destroy the humblest of those whom he had accused. For, by the old law of England, two witnesses are necessary to establish a charge of treason But the success of the first imposture produced its natural consequences. In a few weeks he had been raised from penury and obscu rity to opulence, to power, which made him the dread of princes and nobles, and to notoriety such as has for low and hard minds all the attractiveness of glory. He was not long without coadjutors and ri vals. A wretch named Carstairs who hud earned a living in Scotland by going disguised to conventicles and then inform ing against the preachers, led the way. Bedloe a noted swindler, followed ; and soon from all the brothels, camblinjr houses, and spuiiginjr houses of London, WHneses Pnmm tortn to swear away e lives of Roman Catholics. One came with a story about an army of 30,000 men, who were to muster in the disguise of pilgrims at Corunna, and to sail thence to Wales. Another had been promised canonization and five hundred pounds to murder the king. A third had stepped into an rating house in Covent garden, and had there heard a great Roman Cath olic banker vow, in the hearinjr of all the guests and drawers, to kill the heretical tyrant. Oates, that he might not be eclipsed by his imitators, soon add -d a large supplement to his original narrative He had the potentious impudence to af firm amupg other things, that he had once stood behind a door which was ajar, and had there overheard the queen declare that she luul resolved to give her consent to the assassination of her husband. The vulgar believed, and the highest magis trates pretended to believe, even such lie tioin as these. The chief judges of the realm were corrupt, erne! and timid. The leader? of the connSry part;. encouraged l!'. ptnaili.ig !!; :n. 'i n.; ms re spectable among them, indeed, were them seUea so far d. hnled as to believe the greater part of li.e et Hence of the plot to Ik; true. Such men as Shafisbury and Ru'-kiirdium Joiihfiess fierceived that the whoie was a romance. i?s-i it was a ro- mance which Fined their turn, and to ! their seared consciences the death of an itmoccnt man avc no more uneasiness than the death of a partridge. Tlu ju ries partook of the fcehiigs then common throughout the nation and were encour aged by the bt-nch to indulge those feel ings vithout lesiraint. The muiriru.'e applauded Oates, and his conh -derates hooted and pelted the witnesses who ap pear on behalt ol the accused, and shouted with joy when the verdict of guiliy was pronounced. Tlie Sequel Years After. Some of these wretches were aiready berond the reach of human justice. Bc dois had died in his wickedness, without rvmorse or shame. Dugdale had follow- . T . . .1... irr-ivt ilmi'll tti-.id ti-k.i c.:i I by the furies of an evil conscience, and with loud shrieks imploring those who stood roui-d his led to take away Lord i Stafford. Carstairs, too, was gone. His end was all horror and despair ; and with his last breath he had told his attendants to throw him into a ditch like a dog, for that he was not lit to sleep in a Christian burial-ground. But Oates and Danger field were still w ithin the reach of the stern prince whom they had wronged. Two bills of indictment against him (Oates) for perjury had been found by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, a few weeks liefore the death of Charles. Soon after the close of the elections the trial came on. On the dar in which he was brought to the bar, Westminster Hall was crowd ed with spectators, among whom were many Roman Catholics eager to see the misery and humiliation of their persecu tor. A few years earlier, his short neck, his legs uneven as those of a badger, his forehead low as that of a baboon, his purple cheeks, and his monstrous length of chin, had been familiar to all who fre n uen ted the courts of law. He had then been the idol of the nation. Wherever he had apjeared men had uncovered their heads to him. The lives and estates of the magnates of the realm had been at his mercy. Times had now changed; and many who had formerly regarded him as tl.o deliverer of his country, shuddered. at the sight ot those hideous leatures on which villainy seemed to bo written by iho. hand of God. It was proved beyond all possibility of doubt that this man had, by false testi mony, deliuerately murdered several guilt less persons. He called in vain on the most eminent members of the parliament which had rwwdd and extolled bioo, t give e idence in his favor. Some of those whom he summoned absented themselves. None of them said anything tending to his vindication. One of them, the Earl of Huntingdon, bitterly reproached him with having deceived the houses, and dnwn on them the guilt of shedding in nocent blood. He was convicted on both indictments. His offence, though, in a moral light, murder ot the most agravatcd kind, the most agravatcd kmu, was, ; 'e of the law, merely a misde- ; in the eve meaner 1 lie tribunal, however, was de- j sirous to make his punishment more severe tiian that of felons or traitor?, and not merely to put him to death by frightful torments. lie was sentenced to be strip ped of his clerical habits, to be pilloried in Palace Yard, to be led round West minster Hall, wilh an inscription declaring his infamy over his head, to be pilloried again in front of the Royal Exchange, to be whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, ana utter a;i interval of two days to be whipped Iroin Newgate to Tyburn. If against all probability he should happen to survive this horrible infliction, he was to be kept close prisoner during life. Five times every year he was to be brought forth from his durgeon and exposed on the pillory in different parts of the capital. This rigorous bcutence was rigorously executed. liiazll. The New Orleans Ptcagune say the affair of the Waehusett and Florida, in the port of Brazil, has suddenly attracted public interest toward Brazil, of which little is heard in this country, except on some special occasion of a passing im portance. Yet Brazil has a larger terri torial area than any other State in Ameri ca, North or South, even exceeding that of the United States in their entirety, in cluding the territories. I he area of the United States and territories is 2,819,811 square mile ; that of Brazil is 147,62-1 geographical square miles. A geograph ical square milo contains 21 English .-quurc miles (nearly 21. 2G), and tha area j ot Brazil is, therefore, S 727, 70S square miles. lis jrreatest breadlh is 2.450 mliw, English, and its greatest length 2,030. The indentations of the sea give it a coast line on the estimate of nearly four thous and miles. It is divided into twenty provinces, containing a population, by u census j taken in 18o7, of 7,G77,8u0 nuw esti- j mated at l),0i0,00t) a Very motley race; i .v bites, mixed breeds of whites, Indians j and negroes, Arabs, and the unmixed ab- j original savag.s. The unmixed and j Arabs isre nearly all slaves. The free j population is of every shade and hue, ( p;.pogated by untrammelled " free love." Mis.ce'"-nati n has full sway there, and j the results are fctudy of political philosophers. Brazil is the American example of con stitutional monarchy, li is governed by a hereditary Emcror, and has at this lime the great advantage of having :.t the hea l of the empire a man of ability, cul tivation, and high personal qualities. Don Pedro II. is in the prime of bis life, lie will not be 30 years of age until the 2d of December. He succeeded to the throne when quite a child, iu 1831, on the abdication of his father, Don Pedro, of Portugal. The late Queen of Portu gal, Donna Maria, was a daughter of Don Pedro, and sister of the piesent Em peror ot Brazil. The government was conducted by a regency until the young Emperor assumed the reins of govern ment for himself, and was crowned in 1811. His education was very carefully conducted, and he is a remarkable man lor his love of fctudy, and the extent and variety of his accomplishments, and not less for his attention to public affairs and his sincere desire to promote the welfare of his subjects. Ihe Emperor having two children both daughters, ol iie eldest, Isabella, 18 years of ;e, i.' hc-.rv-s presumptive ; tue second, daughter, and last bom child, is 17 years of atie. The Emperor has two sisters, the elder of which is married to the Count Aquia, brother to the expected King of Naples, and the younger to the Prince de Joinville, of the French House of Orleans. Her son, by this marriage, is or was recently, a lieutenant in the navy of the United States. His French title is Duke of Penthievre. It would have been an odd accident, but very probable, for the Em peror's nephew to have been on the XV n chusset, in the affair at Bahia. The Em press Dowager, step-mother of the Em- pcror Don Pedro, wiio is sun living ai Rio Janeiro is daughter of Eugene Beau harnaia. Vice King of Italy, brother of Queen Hortense, the mother of the prcs ot Emperor of the FrencJh. 11, 18G5. J he Emperors name, :it its tuil length is as follows : Pedro de Alcantara Jean- Charles-Leopo! d-Sa! vudor-1 Jibano-Fran- cois Xavier Paula-Leocadio Michael- ! : Gabriel-Raphael Gonzaguc ; all of which ' ; names, and one or two more with femi- 'n.- v .:. ... iiv. .iiFitc n v ousuiui lull lll.lllivu by the Emnevor's father in 1821. There is a General Assemblv. composed of two legislative houses, a Chamber of Denu- ' ties, consisting tJf one hundred and twen- ! two members and a SLnate of fif:y-e'rdit members for the empire; and for each of ! the provinces there is a legislative As sembly. The provinces have each a President, appointed by the Emperor. The President who conducted the Bra zilian side of the correspondence in the Florida affair, is the Emperor's Repre sentative in the province of Labia, resi ding at San Salvador. The voters in Brazil do not vote directly for Senators or Representatives it the General Assembly or the Provincial Assembly. They choose elect ts as iu the presidential election in the United States These elcctcr t-Ioct the members of the House of Deputies for a term of four years. A triple list of Senator is also made up by electors, for each province' from which the Emperor selects one third. Senators are for life. Suffrage in Brazil is very general, but it is limited very much in the functions it exercisi s. Brazil has a considerable navy, but not very effective agaiuet the improved arma ments of the day. She has no iron-clads. The whole imnilicr of ships n; 1SG3 was forty-five, of which twenty-two were steamers, and sixtetn armed sailing ves sels with 200 gutis, with several vebs-.ls without armament. The revenue of Brazil in 18G2 the last report we have seen was, in sterling money, 5,858,722 ; say in round num bers, a little less the $30,000,000. Its expenditures were a irirle greater than its receipts. Its public debt altogether was 19,37.2 G25 nearly $97,000,000 in which is included about $18,000,000 in government paper money. About 7.- 000,000 (sterliiu). s.cy 835.000,000, is due in Lowland, beanatr and interest of partly o per cent cent. nd partly A per Diplomatic relations have been dis turbed since June, 18o.'5, between Brazil i mid Great Britain, by the act of the Em- pcror resenting on indignity put upon her flag by the seizure of Brazilian vessels in her ports, in l j.ii.:;.!s for an alleged fail ure of the Brazilian authorities to make satisfaction lor injuries to British subjects, namely, in the case of a wrecked Euglisii vessel, .f which the crew were plundered, and one or more of thctn killed by in habitants of the coast, and tor insults to British officers of one of the cities ot' the empire Rio, if we remember rightly. Alter some negotiations, perhaps media tion, the subjects in difference were re ferred to K'ui'Z Leopold of Belgium, and it has been stated in the British journals that the award of Leopold is in favor of j l.'Mjil w lustv ;iU Lihiw whv i? is that ! the diplomatic relations have not been Hospitable inresiioid. .My mission is ac fullv restored. j fomplished. You have been pleased to Bahia, or more properly San Salvador, j admire this cottage. It is yours Take the chief city of the province of Bahia, j S w'h all that it contain-', an I may is the second citv of the Brazilian empire, j "oaven enable yon, my benefactor, to inside of the Bahia de Todos Ios-S mtos j prosper as I have prosp red." (All Saints' bay.) south of San Antonio, and about 80O miles from Rio Jan -iro. It has a harbor which is accounted one of the finest in the world, capable of admit tinI any vessel of the largest sizj. It is strongly fortified with numerous stone forts, but scarcely strontr enouiih to resist ! the improved artillery lately brought i .to use. The population is now about 125,- 000 to 130,000. The place carries on a considerable commerce, is the seat ot gov ernment of the province, and of a Catho lic Archbishopric, both of which have palaces there, and contains also public and military hospitals, theatre, anil other extensive buildings The Catholic arch bishop and primate of all Brazil resides at San Salvador. The minister of the United States in j Brazil is Jamrp Watson Webb, formerly ofthe New York Courier and Knquin-r. The Consul at Bahia was Thomas F. Wilson, who has returned to the United States, and is now in Washington. The Brazilian authorities siisjx'nded his func tions in consequence of his share in the affair of the Florida. The Brazilian Minister to the United States is Scnor Miguel Maria Lisboa. The Consul General for the United Slates is Senor de Aguair, at New York. 53T A Western editor was lately shot in affray. Luckily, the ball came against a bundle of unpaid accounts in his pocket. Gunpowder could net go through that! VOL. 11 NO. 52. A Itcmaulic Siory, The following story raids very much llke tin, but we find it in an exchange of high character, w hich avows belief in iA essential truth, we give it as an illus- actions: Some years ago n poor, penniless ad venturer ani cutnes Ucre venturer an lves at San Bernardino. His in rags, and tcant at that. "IS eeks were hollow, and his eyes hud ",:lt ''c-'Iess, fierce expression that is man 'n one vvno iaa not for a long time tasted food. The stranger stopped at a farm bouse, and, after nome hesitation, asked for a meal. The rancliero, who was well-to-do in the world, at once granted tha request. Entering in conversation with the t-tranger, be found that he was trying to make his way to the mines, but mis calculating the expense of the route, had found his m?.ns inadequate to bear him to his journey's end. The rancheru was so impressed with his story that he vol untarily loaned the needy adventurer a sum of money to help him to his desti nation. Time sped with its chances and changes, and found the once prosperous ranebero despoiled of his little property, seeking a precarious subsistence in San Francisco, and getting a livelihood with difficulty at that. buch was the condi tion of affairs, when several weeks since, a chowy carriage drove up to the poor man's door. A richly attired gentleman allighted therefrom. It proved to be the jwnniless adventurer whom the now reduced ran chero had once so generously assisted. Luck had changed with the former. Ha had made some money in the placers; had traveled thence to Wa.-hoe. and en gaged in the silver mines, amassed, like many others once poor, a rapid fortune. He had come to invite his benefactor, with his family, to ride, for the purposa of taking a look at a neat cottage which lie had just purchased in the suburbs. The party rode forth in high spirits. Tho morning was fine and the air exhilorating. In due time they arrived at the cottage, w hich proved to be one of the neatest in ttit; neighborhood ; a bijou of a place. j w"Ith ook. and gables, and the cosiest j of furniture. When the visitor had satisfied them selves with admiring everything that j 'here was to be admired :md had narta- Miiui a iepasi sprean lor tue occasion, their entertainer turned to them and said: It is not so long that the destitute stranger who caim; to your gate for where withal to satisfy th cravings of hunger, and whom vou svnt on his way rj i inr, with more money than be had seen for a twelve-month. I am the stranger. With the proceeds of your generosity I reach! the mines. Success crowned my efForrs. I was wealthy, I visited San Bernardino for the purpose of discharging my d-bt of gratitude, hut you were not there. I sought you everywhere, and finally found I. c . , ! 3'nu 111 your place of refuge, nearly as kstitutc as mvself on the day when. overcome with hunger, I paused at your la '.at. aia . To finish the storv, the title deeds were placed in the bands of the astonished j ranchero, and he is at thi moment corn- fort ably installed with with his family in his new domcii'e, the happiest of men. M.RItt.GF. A I.A MODK NOVVILI.K. An old Dutch farmer, just arrived at the j ft,nts 0f jtlstice of the peace, had his ( t ,aarri:ie c:l,e. II- dished it up ia this wav. He first said to the man Vel, you wants to be marrit, do yout Veil, you loves dis voman so goot as any voman you have never see V Yes," answered the man. Then to the woman : "Veil, do you love dis man to better " as no man y m ever see V I-ady hesitated, and be repeated : 44 Veil, veil, do you hkes him so veil as to lie bis vife!" 44 Oh, certain'y," she answered, with a kind of a titter. Veil, dat is all any reasonable man I can exect. St) you bee married ; I ! uronounee you man and vife." The man then asked the justice what was to pay. "Oh, nottinz at all you arc welcome to it if it vill do you an' goot." "'"' C?" A young gentleman, who had just married a little, undersized b-aut-, tays she would have been taller, but she is made of such precious materials tht Nature oould not afford it.