gradimumn, kin* Intt VoldNes.,
the twine, and a horse they bad with them,
were token by the.ladissa„
A letter to the Western Tessa, dated Fort
Onlihrnia—Purther Items of News.
.1 Chadbourne, Feb. 28d, says:
An express arrived here from Phantom Hill,
We have fu rther advice! from California by ' stating that Jim Ned crossed a fresh trall,pf
the Northern Light, at New York. The dates about twenty Indians on foot. Jim Ned thiuts
from• Ban Franitiam l are to the let. The N. L. them a stealing party of Wiohitas; he followed
brought 882 passengers and about seven hundred the trail half of the day on the 28th, and left it
thousand' dollars in gold. The political news is for this post about forty miles from here.
not of Much interest. The excitement still con-1 Jim Ned was sent out by Major Sibley with
tinned relative to the election ot U. S. Senator, ' a stock of goods to trade with the Northern Com
bat there had been no action thus far,.., Sacra- anches, and try to get the woman and two boys
mato has been designated as the State' capitol; taken last fall. He is almost entirely unsucceas
and the Legislature was to meet there on the lit ful. He, reportsthat the woman is killed, that
last. This action give such offence to the au- one of the boys was purchased for two horse!,
thorities at Benicia that they refused to let the and taken to Wichita, by a half-breed named
steamboat, ordered to convey the State records, Brown; the other boy he could not find, although
lie at the wharf until a charge of five hundred dol- he travelled more than one thousand miles from
lan was paid: The Alta California of the let here.- Be says the Northern Indians are very
in furnishes the following summary of mining! unfriendly to these posts and to Texas. The ;
intelligence: 1 great chief, Willa-cha-co-pe sent word to the I
Thy weather has not, at any time since the 1 , Major that he would .come here as soon as the;
discovery of gold, been so favorable for mining , gram grows, and t4ke our scalps and burn our
es during the last month, and there probably , houses. They would not allow Jim Ned to trade
was never comparatively so' large an amount of ; with them, saying that, he and all of the Indians
gold dug. ' about here were like the whites, and were liars
Darting the fortnight there have been three or • and mean.
tour days of fierce rain, and the mines *ciintinue Major Sibley, Lint's. Givens and Tree, and As
to be plentifully supplied with water. The sistant Surgeon Vollum, and fifty men left Belk-
Cherokee Flat Diggings have proved to be quite ; nap on the morning of the 19th for the Wichita
as rich as reported, and /.9 even said to . be the ; mountains, with fifteen days provisions. Tree
tidiest ever found in the State. Three thou-1 bad just returned, having followed the trail for
sand dollars were taken out in a few howl, but sixty miles, leaving it near the mouth of the
the shaft, when about 29 feet deep, filled with', Little Wichita. From the articles - found by
water so rapidly that the company cannot work Tree and other signs, the guides think the mur
without a steam pump to carry off the water.— derers of 6;1 Stem to be a party of Seven Wi-
About fifteen acres on the fiat have been staked chitas, who had been on the 400 k out for Col
off in claims, some of which are paying exceed- Stem for some time. It seems that the attack
is well. An excitemen similar to that of ' commenced by a shot fired from behind, passing
I prevailed.- I through the back of the carriage, but not hitting
• At lowa 1011 a number of tunnels have been, 1 tither of the gentlemen. They jumped from
made ? ' and the earth has been :found tutuanslly the carriage the better to defend themselves,
when they-were beaten down and killed with the
At Nati Anita, about 18 miles from Los An- buts of rifles. The Indians did not scalp them,
Mildiggings have been opened. Gold has but seemed to leave in haste, as three gold watch
tncilia for a long time to exist throughout' es and $l5O in money were found on the bodies .
the neighborhood in small quantities, but, the
diggings found promise to pay. There are now
about seventy-five persons engaged in working
sod prospecting these mines. Water is scarce
is the diggi ngs , which are, besides, the property
of SouoiDuarte, being on his ranch.
The ,Sacramento Lnion of the same date,
rye
In all sections of the mining region the news
is good, miners are doing well, and the quantity
of gold to be taken out during the succeeding
months promises to be very heavy. It is -now
increasing with astonishing rapidity. Under
the increased productions of 'gold, business is
fast recupusting, and for the next two months
we anticipate fot our merchants a pretty fair
harvest.
ijoining buildings 'were enveloped in one wild
There had been considerable excitement at i an d rag i ng fu me of fire and smo k e. I t soon
San Francisco on the subject of an alleged ills- conimutucated to dregg's lead factory and saw
proceeding on the part of Associate Justice . mill, and next to twelve frame houses close by,
Alexander Wells, of the Supreme Court. Sev- I w hi c h were all in g erm an d consume d so rap _
awl notorious persons were enga ged in a riot ciu/ i idly that the occupants had barely time to escape
the afternoon of the 17th Fe bruary, and were) with their lives. (We may just add, titet Mr.
arrested by the police, some when in the act, and I John D. Davis had but a short time since, pnr
others under warrants. That night, about i chased the last named twelve houses.)
:twelve o'clock, application was made to lap I Between Grosvenor and M'Kee streets, forty
Wells and he or4ered them to be discharged buildings were entirely destroyed, and by 'the
from custody, until the next day at 11 o'clock. force of the wind, sparks and burning pieces of
The arrested persona were many of them intoxi- I shingles were carried to ,Bradford street, where
Gated at the time,
and no sooner got out than some frame buildings Wight, and still raging
'they threatened the police, whom they had pre-! most f ear f u lly al ong Bradford and Hewn=
, sionaly beaten and abused, and returned to the / streets, (known as Cholera Hollow,) upwards of
*me of their arrest and began again their rio- sixty dwellings and stores were left in smoking
tons conduct. This course of Judge Wells cane- f ruins. Great excitement prevailed throughout
ed great excitement among the police who talked ; the borough, and at one time it was thought the
of resigning irea body. The next day at thewhole upper part of the town would be burned
hoar appointed for the hearing of the above an- , :
down, but happily the wind took change to the
=talons writ of "habeas corpus," no one appear- . satithward, and by the efforts of firemen and cit.-
' ad on the part of the people, the marshal send- . items, the lames were checked about six o'clock.
I f
lag in a merge that he could not appear with I It is estimated that about three bundled fain
, the parties as they had not been in his custody Wes were compelled to move from their houses;.
fir twelve hours. Thereupon the Judge die- about a hundred, however, in the vicinity of the
/ charged the rioters from arrest . I fire, would return to their 'homes. The hill-side
The pePele very generally condemn the con- ,' was covered with furniture, and distressed fami
j duet of Judge Wells, and some hint the propri- lies running to and fro, suffering fr , nn cold.—
1 sty of reviving the action of the "vigilance coin- ' We have not heard an ebtimate of the :oss, bin.
1 nuttee." A resolution of inquiry into the mat- i t i s ver y grea t : M r . fluns e n had a large supply
.4
I ter was introduced in the Legislature, and rejet- o f glass, Ace., and his loss will be heavy. The
a for the reason that the :charges had not been packing house and black bottle factory, together
"brought in proper form before it. , , with their contents, were entirely destroyed:
A judgment for 884,000, g three pert , The Pittsburgh firemen-were promptly on the
1 1
cent. monthly interest, was ren ds against vol. ; ground and rendered efficient service; some ex-
J. C. Fremont, in 'the District ourt of San ; eeptions mast be. made, however, as we leirn
Francisco, on the 16th. The a count was for . some of them were beastly intoxicated, and dis
°Wein bills drawn by G. W. bour, Indian ; graced themselves by their conduct in the streets;
agent in 1851, upon the Secrete y of the hue- : we regret to refer to this, but the firemen should
dor, and by the latter dishonored., i be On their guard and not allow such conduct.
It was certainly the work of an incendiary, as
there had not been any fire in the room where it
originated.-- 7 Pirts. Journal. -
Late from Texas—Rare Indian Ontrarea
The steamship Perseverance arrived at New
Orleans on the 19th inst., with Galveston news
to the 17th. The papers - are filled with accounts
of outrages by the'. Indians. A' letter to the :
True Delta, dated Fort Belknap; Feb. 15th says:.:
On Sunday, the 12th Febuary last a most 1
beharona murder was tommitted - Por t
Worth road, within five miles of Fort Be nap,
bt one of, the bands . of Indians inhabiting the
Wichita mountains. The perpetrators are sup
to be the Wichita or Woe* Indians; they
lam been roaming over this part of Texas, more
or less, during most of the winter, stealing hors- ,
es and killing and driving off cattle.
In September last, Mr. Jesse Stem, the ex-In-
dian Agent for the Indians in this part of Texas,
left dais place, accompanied by his family, to vis
it his relatives and friends in Ohio. He reached
hie home in safety and health, and after a short ,
sojourn there, in company with several others re
turned to this country. At Shrevenport, in
Tens, the company separated; those having
charge of some wagons pursuing their journey
and reaching this place in safety. Mr. Stem and
Mr. Lepponnon remained behind to attend to
some bull ems, emoting to overtake the wagons
before they would ( reach Belidtp. They were
delayed beyond their expectation. On leaving
Shreveport they employed a two horse wagon
and driver to bring on some articles purchased.
They traveled in company, without aixident, un
ta Bant i t i t ai l l / 2 2th inst., and within fourteen
miles of when some part of the hired
wagon broke, which it was.necessary to repair
before the journey could be completed.
Lea vim the broken wagon in charge of the
driver, Menu. Stern and Lepponnen pursued
their purneyeexpecting to re ac the Fort by sun
down. On Monday morning, before daylight,
ilito driver started on horseback, with the broken
part of the wagon, to this place; for the purpose
having, it repaired. About daylight, the
- horse the driver was riding shyed around some
by the roadside, which, as he says, he sup
to be two perions asleep, in their shirt
deems, and not wishing to disturb them or to be
disturbed, be was glad to pass on unmolested.
II o ranched the Fort and inquired for Messrs.
ebtat and Lepponnon ' but could hear nothing of
them. He then related the occurrenc..s 'of the
pervious day, and suspicion began to be manifest
ed. Preparations were made to start out on the
Fort Worth road, with the view of obtaining if
pliable, some information in regard to the ex
pand gentlemen, when a person rude into Belk
sop, and reported that, in hunting nor Cattle, he
dhpeovered two dead bodies at, the roadside, and
without alighting from his horse, rode into the
Port and gave the sad intelligence.
Major Merhill, commanding the garrison, sent
est, a , accompanied by a number of his
eosamltd and caused the dead bodies to be
buought into the Fort. The skull of sir. Stem
yea &mie n , the jai,' bone broken, and a wound
m the side with a sharp instrument, Mr Lep
panon's skull was broken and shattered, and
MN of his arms also broken.. Near the bodies
was also found an old rifle, the stock all shutter
ed to pieces, awl the barrel very much. bent. A
*ref moccasins a bow covering were also found
am the spot—the same as used by the
• sad' Winos. The bodies were interred on
Tuesday, 14th February, in the burial ground
' lambed to the post. Nothing, it appears, was
*km from the bodies, after the perpetration of
the deed, except the two coats and haw Their
matches, breast-pins and money were left,
-rattly iiitotsched. . Th e two mules at to
Great Fire in Birminetasa, Ple
The largest and most disastrous fire we have
been visited by since the 10th of April 1845,
occurred in Birmingham; opposite the eastern
end of this city yesterday, (Ssturdity,) by which
upwards of one hundred houses and stores have
been left in ruins, and at least two hundred fain.
dies rendered houseless.
About 2 o'clock in the afternoon fire was dis
covered issuing from the packing house, belong
ing to the glass manufactory of C. Ihmsen St Co.
in the western end of Birmingham. The wind
was cold and blowing a perfect hurricane when
the fire broke out, and the flames spread with
tremendous rapidity, so that ins few minutes the
ad; •
News from Colonel Prentont's Party
It is known that this gentleman has attempted
to make the trip across -the country, through the
Coochatope pass, to California, in the winter, to
test its practability for a railroad route. It was
in the vicinity of this pass, a few years ago, that
his party met with such terrible reverses: For
his enterprise in this matter; which is underta
ken at his 'own individual expense, he &nerves
the acknowledgment of the community. ,
Until a few days ago, we had received no in
formation from him or his party. It will be re
remembered that at the outset Colonel Fremont
was taken sick, and returned from the Missouri
to this city, where he remained some time. In
the meanwhile his party preceded him to the
plains.
Lord Fitzwilliam, who returned a few days
ago from the plains, informs us that he arrived
at Bent's Houses, situated &boat two miles be
low the Rive; de Joe Anima, a tributary of the
Arkansas, at the Point of Rocks in the Big
Timber, on the same day that Colonel Fremont
left, but did not see or speak to him.
k Bent's Houses he learned that the Colonel
had lost at Salt Creek, on the Crow River, seven
animals, and afterwards had five more stolen
from him by the Cheyennes. These Indians
subsequently said they stole them, supposing
thej belonged to the Delawares in the Colonel's
party. His party, before he overtook them, had
consumed most of his provisions—at least that
portion most desirable for the Plains—and he
was compelled to recruit in horses and provisions
at the Bent's Houses. The impression was that
his men, who bad been encamped at Salt Creek
some time before his arrival, had delft° 'frd most
of his provisions for the journey.
The last snow which Lord Fitswi .iam met
with was at Petty Encampment, about 2 0 miles
from the "Fountaine qni Bruielle creek," down
the mountains. This gentleman has visited
much of the Oregon and Washington territory,
Puget's Sound, and Vancouver's Island, and as
he is familliar with Western life, has been able
to make many useful observations. He is on
his return to England.—St. Low** Repablicax.
RAPID GROWTH Or THI Wser.—The Chica
go Tribune, speaking of the rapid developments
of those elements of prosperity possessed by the
Great West, says:
The West is still in its infancy. It has not
yet passed out of its teems. Nineteen years ace,
there were leas than five thousand white tn
habitants in all the vast region of beautiful
countrybetween Lake Michigan and the
Pacific Ooea:t. Now the aninber is between one
and two millioc4
.tweive years ago Chicago contained a popnla
tiers of 6,000. Now it has over 60,000!
Twelve years ago, eight or twelve days pas
sage between Chicago and New York, was con
sidered quick time in the most favorable season.
Now two days is the average, and it is soon to be
reduced to but three hours more than one day
• Six years ago, Chicago had not a single font
of railroad completed, and only one in contem
plation. Now it has 482 miles contemplated in
the limits of the State alone, and over 2,000 in
process of construction:
Fifteen years ago, the people of Chicago
bought a large part of their•breadstrtes and pro
oilskins from the State of New York, Pessasylis-:
ids and Ohio. Now there is exported from this
eity each year, 6,000,000 bushels of grain, sad
I.WAOO barrels of beef and perk.
Inn W lIIMANDX to
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Sir Taa diallarbilla of tb wad bank,
Conn., altered from ones, are is eirealation,
gis. Capt. Jame. McManiman, arid 100 years
died at Carlisle, Pa., on Tuesday.
air The man who drives his business has just
purchased new reins and a whip.
gm, Trinity Church was burnt in Cleveland,
March 30th, together with a large boarding
house adjoining..
Mir It is said the Williamsport and Elmira
and the Catawissa railroads, will be finished b
July, thus connecting Philadelphia with Buffalo.
n 8„. The Japan squadron, it is reported, has
been recalled, but it is supposed Coin. Perry will
ry his second visit to Japan before he received
a recall. .
-_ :Martin Koeta is now in Chicago, at the res
idence of Mr. Kedgie, a lawyer. He has been
offered a situation in the State Bank of that city.
Trruti.—ln Demerara every one is "Esq"
that wears shoes and stockings. In Pennsyl
vania every one is a Colonel who asks a commis
-
goo of the Governor.
wo. The length of the Mississippi River and
its numerous branches is Gtty.one thousand miles,
of which twenty thousand miles are navigable
waters.
aft.An Exelmage paper says, that forgetting
to pay your small bills and robbing a hen-roost
are the same thing in Dutch, Only a little differ
ently expressed.
iW In Cincinnati on a trial before the Polioe
Court, it came out that many hundred, of barrels
of blood are annually used in that •city, for ma
king sweet wine.
oar Chrtatopher Fallon, Req., has been else
ted President of the West Chester and Philadel
phia Railroad Company, in place of John Rutter,
Esq., resigned.
Is. Forrest, the actor, is said to be s believer
in spiritual rappincs, because he attends the
soirees of the Fox guts, one of whom is a buxom
and pretty has.
MIL BIICRAIWes Bearenxce.—lt is stated
that for $ respectable and decently furnished
house occupied by Mr. Buchanan, in London, he
pays an 'anal rent of $3, 581 60—more than a
thud of the salary attached to his Ace.
i On the 11th, at Allegan, Mich., one
Clements, killed his father, a man of 70, by
chopping his head with an axe, and th en tried to
kill his brother. de is not insane, thongh the
lawyers will probably make him so on trial.
us. Last month by the sinking of an over
loaded boat carrying passengers to a steamer on
Lake Nicaragua, 46 persons, returning from Cal
ifornia, were drowned, many being carried down
by the gold on their persons.
WHAT NuxvT—Among the patents issued
from the Patent Oboe ducing the last week, 'is
one to C. V. Amens, of Danville, New York,
"for improvement in devices for preserving hens'
eggs in the nest."
SMITH O'BilizN.—lt is said that it was at the
solicitation of the Hon. Janie* Buchanan, the U.
S. Minister, that Smith O'Brien was pardoned,
Mr. B. baring preriously urged the measure at
an interview with Lord Clarendon.
war The last discovery of gold we hear of is
that made by a farmer of Megantic. near Black
Wu), Canada, who found four pieces of the pre
cious mental in the gizzard of one of his ducks,
whioh fteqUented a brook on his farm.
Mir A Miss Freeman was accidentally shot
on the 10th inst., at Greenbuty, Union county,
Ind. She took hold of a loaded gun and placed
it to the side of her head, saying jocosely "look
here" to her friend, when it went off, killing her
*tautly.
fir Some One 'is anxious to know why the
French and English fleets have gone together to
the lack Sea. Onr plain answer is; that the
com ined movement is made with the view of
sett g amounts with Nicholas by double en
tl7
TIMOP7-1 . 11 the sixth story of the
Sun office, in New York, there have been fitted
up 's •g, reading, aid lecture rooms for the
benefit of the news-boys of New York.
Mr. Tracy, the superintendent, reports that on
Sa y night there were twenty-five beds oo•
by lodgers .
A loootnotive,bn the Baltimore and Ohio
, when near Wheeling, recently ran
a valuable cow that was daily expected to
a calf, and knocked her all to peices. The
so suddenly brought into this breathing
id, escape% unhurt, and at last accounts was
e and well. That calf should be called !de
r, or Julius Caesar.
i
,~
We learn from the Raleigh Star that an
naive bed of porcelain clay has been diem,-
Con the North Carolina Central Railroad,
a feiw miles below Neese river. While it is a
serious obstacle to laying the rails, being so
soil( that timbers laid upon it soon sink out of
sigltt, it may prove to be a valuable discovery.—
In It out on the same road, near Mount Moriah,
a bad of magnesia has been discovered.
tat Nsw Czwr.—The Bunker Hill Aurora
sa*—"We understand that the proposed new
(*Ma to be of white metal, resembling silver in
appearanoe, with a round and slightly raised
i
edge. It s about 8-10ths of an inch in diame
ter larger than a quarter eagle and less than a
twis"-five cent, piece. There is not to be any
hoe 111 the coin, as has been suggested in some
of Ithe papers. It may be readily distinguished,
we think, from other coins of about the same
Bile, mad will be a very great convenience.
'A manta* LAWSUIT.--Thw Troy Whig
sags that a lawsuit of a decidedbf novel chario
t" is now a leading topic of conversation in the
etaipping circles of that city. Several weeks
since, at the Odd Fellows' ball in Troy, a careless
wter upset service of coffee upoq a lady's dress,
raging the garment, which was valued at seven
tfAve dollars. The gentleman who attended
the lady has prosecuted the person who furnish
ed the supper to recover the value of the dress
am. Three times in the preacut century has
*heat reached the high figure of two dollars a
• hel in the valley of Genessee. In 1818, by
reason of a remarkably cold summer and a very
short crop—in 1839, by a somewhat unpro
pitious Hessen and neglect of agriculture for pur
, of trade and speculation, compelling the
importation of breadstuff. from Europe—
inla.s4 by reason of short crops in West
ern and Central Europe, and the war between
Russia and Turkey.
Stir If ever there was a real hero—a hero in
the highest and truest sense of the word,. the pi
lot of the ill-fated steamer Caroline, lately burnt
,on the Mississippi, may well lay claim to the ti
tle. His name was John R. Trice. When the
fire broke out, he felt that all depended on him,
and he was staunch to his trust. In the midst
of the whirlwind of flame he stood by the wheel
house and guided the vessel to the only acre of
land within Fight for three miles round, and as hhe
struck, jumped overboard and was drowned.- He
died in the performanoe of his duty, from which
he did not shrink in the most appalling moment.
as. A correspondent of the Detroit Taquirer,
in speaking of the Saginaw Indians, says:
Some of these Indians are intense wags in their
own way. One of them,. having given a trader
some annoyance, was told that' id case he was
seen again with a bottle, it would be taken from
him and thrown into the fire. A few days after
the indian appeared with his pint amk in his
blanket, as usual, but the trader was as good as
his word, and demanded the bottle, 'which the
Indian gave up and started for the door. The
trader threw the flask into the dove, aim which
whaag went the stove, and out same the windows,
Fite trader following close behind. The next
time that man barns an Indian's whisky bottle . /
be null imamine it, to amtkat it is not tivßits.
peas" auks.
1., lit Ow*.
S2IL PA.
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, IM4
DZKOONATIC STATE 1011311ATIONS.
!OR GOVERNOR:
WILLIAM BIGLER,
or Clearfield County.
.111D4I OP REIMERS COVIT:
N JEREMIAH S. BLACK,
Of Somerset County.
POI CANAL CONMISSIONER:
- HENRY S. MOTT,
Of Pike County;
We will endeavor to answer the Ga z ett e
fully, fairly and satisfactorily, in our next. In
the mean time allow to to mitre our cotempora
ry that there is nothing in our past course, or
present position, upon which one ought to lase
even a surmise that we are in favor of the ameod
moat to the Nebraska . bill proposed by the whig
Senator from Delaware, Mr. Clayton. We never
have admired either that Senator as a man,or his
political course, and least of all his last "lard"
upon the Nebraska bill!
sgb,, Newly all our Merchants have bought
their Spring Stock in Philadelphia, instead , of
New York. A good indication that Me and
Philadelphia Will soon booms "one and indivi
sible" by mewin-if the Sunbury rand.
os. No Dews of importanee from Europe this
week. The last amounts do not show any bet
ter prospects of pesoe tkso that of s previous doe.
ass. Our friend of the Warren Ledger should
not be so touchey. We intended no slur at the
isolated condition of Warren, in our bandiage
with the Rough Notes. The remark .was situ
ply made to show how riffieulons it was in a man,
who had jot emerged fromL,the "back-woids,"
to make months at those still there, as the Nona
"man had at us. Is the Ledger satisfied; it not
we'll have to tell Maj. Lynch's storyaboat them
Post office stamps! ,
•
Is§6, The latest returns from New Haimihire
foot up 157 Coalitionists to 151 Democrat* is
the House. The Observer will hare to "kneel.
im."—Gazeite.
This is the way we " k nock in." The vote in
213 town for Governor is u follows:
Baker, (democrat)
Bell, (whip) •
Perkins, (free-soil) .
Demooretio majority
Thirteen small towns to be heard from, which
last year gave 361 democratic majority. Baiter's
majority wills therefore, be about 1700. •
' To the Senate eight democrats and two coali
tionists are einem; no choice in two &striate.—
When the ramifies are filled, there will be—
Democrats, 10
•
Opposition,
The House of Representatives stands thus:
Demoorate, . 161'
Whigs and Free Sailers 145
Three to be heard from in . Coos, which were
all democrats last year, aad will be so this.—
Then the list will stand—
Democrats
Opposition
Democratic majority 19
The editor of the Concord Patriot, upon whose
authority we give there results, and upon whose
tables we rely, says, 'IWe have no doubt that
the majority in the Howie will be about nine
teen on all test questions between the Democra
cy and the opposing factions. - It is a larger and
more reliable majority time we bad in 1847,wben
the Democracy carried every party measure pro
posed and every candidate nominated; and we
hive no doubt tbat the result will be the same
now. True, they are small when oompared with
last year; but there was no contest then, and
we carried everything. But, when compared
with 1847, 1848, 1861, and 1852, our peasant
majorities,. in all branches, will be found above
the average."
It will be seen by-this that the Gasette i s New
Hampshire's victory is like most whig victories
—achieved before the votes are counted.
jar The Westfield Nutscript tells its readers
that a gentleman of that village is about to erect
a "bride harness store." It will be a curiosity
when dose, no doubt. Where is Barnum?
OW S. -L. Potter, Esq., has bees appointed
Poet Muter at -Wesleyville in thicconnty, vice
C. HALL, Esq., resigned. Mr. H. has been Post
Muter at We/brine for over sixteen years, dn.
ring all of which time he has discharged his duty
faithfully and Adeptly. Thenevr appointment
is a good mud
1 Honwrto Kum, of Maine has been ap
pointed First Antisteat Part Master cleneral,
vise B. K Hobble, decease& Mr. K., we be
lieye, was a Clerk in the Department.
TILEASON .—The New York Tribune contained
the other day, a letter (rota a Mr. Foote, of New
Haven, Connecticut, recommending that 7*
North take measures to dissolve their political
connection with what he calls the "slave-breed
ing and slate-whipping States." The Triune
has an editorial comment on this letter, speaking
very highly of its author, and squinting strongly
towards an approval of his project of dissolving
the Union. The editor intimates that disunion
would be preferable to the policy which he thinks
the passage of the Nebraska bill would inaugu
rate. This is perfectly characteristic of Greeley.
He is one of those "reformers" that know bow
to pull down, but can't build up.
Sir The prohibitory liquor law, now before
the Legislature of this State, if it passes, will
have to be submitted to the people at the neat
general election, when if a majority vote in fa
vor, it is to remelt in force; but should a major
ity vnte against it, the law to be without effect.
The section in regard to the right of search, does
not apply to private dwellings. If p asse d by the
Legislature and sanctioned by the people, the
law will go into operation on the 22d February.,
185'5.
le. If we may believe the census every per
son in the United States owns a horse; and every
tenth a deg.—Exults/tr.
If this is so, we'd thank the person who ha
our •horse" to bring II bows immediately. We
want it:
tioon.—The Baltinacre suresposidest.of the
Joitriaal of Cbist,eree mats; oa the authority of
Mr. Latrobe, President of the Americas Colosi
tuition Society,. that the late deeisios is retard to
the llietoomeagrwill, among tars, wane, for
forty pars, sows $llO,OOO per noun tetheado.
okay.
fireity Yaw d 'Mali and ittuiphs.
Nearly every great advantage secured to the
(*wary,- in the assertion and application of prin
ciple to government, has been achieved by the
Demoaratic party against powerful combinations
of personal prejudices and personal intere.ses. It
is singular how unvarying this rule has been
maintained from the first. We can hardly point
out an exception to it. From the present point
'of viewit is profitable to look back upon the past,'
and, as the long procession of events glidesl
through the memory, to refresh ounnlves for j
other emergencies. We find that every few years',
furnish repeated evidences of the truth of our j
deeimations. Take the last twenty years as an
instance. The retrospect shows to us nearly thei
same men engaged in every crusade against thel
Democratic party, and always the same weapons.
Between 1830 and 1840 there was a series ofl
struggles between these men armed with the same I
weapons, and that great party. Take the cue
of the Bank of the United States. During the'
contest upon that question ;the war upon the
Democracy was conducted with almost inhuman
violence. It invaded the family circle, made bro
thers personal enemies, and ceded in throwing
both houses of Congress into the hands of the op
position. The Democracy were literary a minor
ity; and the remark was almost proverbial, that
a new-party was about to rise upon the ruins of
that grails& organization which had se long defied
the battle and the breeze. The great cornmer- 1
vial cities were made to bowl with the bitter de-.
nuisciatiene of disappointed and reckless men.—
The money power reigned supreme; and the tim
id and the dependent, to save themselves from the
tortures of the bank, surrendered at discretion;l
and aided to-swell the ranks of an infuriated par
ty. *ll this is now that history which has been
wisely leaned "philosophy teaching by exaraple."T
What4llowed? A speedy overthrow of st pas
sionatelfaction; a full and cloqUent vindication
of the great Chief in whose name the moneyed
power had been stricken down; and a. rapid real
isation, far beyond the most favorable azitieipa=
tions, of solid and sterling blessings to a people
rescued from the fangs of a monster which first
controlled the gigantic system of American cam:
merce,end then aspired to trample the govern
ment itself under foot. The Democrats, a few
years before, beaten and abused, mailed by eve
ry epithet that could be invented, preached against
from pulpits, railed at by public meetings, and
voted down at the polls, quietly resumed their
places in the front rank of parties, and vigorous.
ly pursued the same reforms in which they had
been temporarily stayed.
After this, not to mention other trials, we had
the independent treasury established, and that
great panic in the money market, which once
more enabled the whig opposition to unseat the
Democracy, and to go into the government with
all its wild and reckless schemes. Defeat over
took us in 1840, and the enemies of !sound legis
lation started with every prospect .of continued
emcees. A great question, however, rising like
an unexpected lion in the flowery paths of rural
peace, soon frightened the whirge from their pro
priety, and hurried them into all those enemas*
which prove how singularly they misunderstand
the American people. We Oldie the annexa
tion of Texas. At once the ofd actors and the
old tricksters made their appearance. Political
preachers railed against it through repeated Sun•.
days and multitudinous sermons. Abolition an
ticipations; freighted with pictures of new Terri-,
29,122
- 18,821
- 10,988
• 1,848
164
145
tories overrun with slaves, and new States added
to swell the "slave power in Congress," were pub
lished to the four winds of Heaven.. Even Mr.
Clay faltered, with his high hopes of the futtire
and - his warm hold upon the people;
.while the
little politicians, lift so busy against Franklin
Pierce, and the noisy factioniste r now so eager to
renew their claims upon a doubtful notoriety, de
lighted in the occasion to misrepresent and to
calumniate, and counted upon the defeat of the
Democracy as inevitably size. But the Demo
cracy stood firm. Fearlessly they upheld the
right,ably they defended their positions, and
gloriously they succeeded in 1844. From that
period to 1848 "one great reform trod upon ano
ther's heels-=so fast they followed." The tariff
of 1848—the war with Mexico—the acquisition
of California—were the chief achievements of that
eventful era, consummated in defiance of all sorts
of machinations, and in the face of frequent de
fection and defeat. The next great event was
.the compromise measures of 1850—that com
manding act of peace which fitly closed theislf
century of constitutio# freedom, and fitly seal ,
ed the last grand 'triumph of Democratic consis
tency, courage, and patriotism. In this, as in
all that preceded it, the Democracy bore the brunt
of the fight. The whigs and the abolitionists then,
as now, constituted the bulk of the oppositiori;
and the triumph, whenlast - obtained, after three
long years of eonflict i was achieved in spite of
their assaults and tar misrepresentatiess.
Such is a rapid glance at - the 'history of twen
ty years. It is useful to review such a past; and
mote especially so, in front of the fact that the
party which jias stood firm and faithful through
all these trials is now stronger than ever, and
stands, in unimpaired majesty and power, upon
.r. enduring foundations of its own victorious
and well-tried creed.
On the ether hand, the Denmeracy has been
amply revenged upon the fog, of Democratic prin
ciples and Democratic legislation. Amid the gen
eral welfare and prosperity, while progress and
haqapinesi go hand in kind, and extending bor
ders and extending civilisation and freedom are
convertible terms, the people realize the practi
cal benefits of a consistent, party boldly adhering
to great truths, until, through disaster and de
feat, 64 are triumphantly applied in the adntin
istration of the gaiernment. Foremost among
those who are aidetl by this harvest of sound
principles are the very men whohavevilifusl and
opposed them for twenty years.
And what °li t he future? What of the years I
beyond us? What of the Democratic party of
the present day! Questions easily and success
fully
answerei. In the providence of God' the-
Democrats are idways calhxl upon to meet and
to dispose of great questions. What they have
done.in other clays they must do now, let the
temporary consequence be what they may. The
ultimate result will be as, it has been---the tri
umph of truth and the downfall olfaction. Nor
will those who prognosticate evil have long to
wait before they shall see their dismal forebod
ings scattered to the four winds of Heaven, and
in their own increased happiness applau d the
se e m s * of the measures which they now oppose.
It is strange that, in view of the invariable de
feat of the efforts of factious and narrow minded
agitators, and with the wholesome fruits of bold
and patriotic measures scattered beforeand around
us,-there Amid be found a single public man
willing to lend himself to the pawn% excite
ments of the day; lied afraid to trust himself to
the judgmentriet s patriot!.
11111*The 14 rite Americo" Nord neigh
bor, radrevare to slake • plat On - 40 Winos
us, because el amt sdroesey of the Nebraska bill,
which it may net be Lido tetaiiffy noalee. The
first is that there - are "nine weekly papers publish
ed in this county, eight of which are opposed to
Douglas' bill, sad one (the Ofeserver) in favor of
it." We can't era that this fact, if fact it is,
proves the incorrectness of the Observer's posi
tion. If it dots, then we might argue with
equal force that because there are, for every hun-
dred Free Boilers in the county, a thousand Whip
and Democrats, therefore the Free Boilers are
such only because of the fact that they "think
it not worth while to post themselves with regard
to the facts in the question at issue."- Now, if
the argument of numbers is good in one case, it
is In another. Bat it is not, as our experience most
incontestably proves. We recollect when we
stood in a minority in advocating the Annexation
of Texas—the Tariff of '46—the War with Me:-
ico, and the acquisition of California and New
Mexico. All these manures were'opposed, and
to the "bitter elk too, by the conductors of
seven of these sight newspapers referred to by the
Americas; and has not experience—has not his
tory—proved that we were right and they were
wrong? Who would give up Texas now? Who
would blot out the history of the Mexican war?
Who would surrender California and New Mexi
co? Where is dial "ruin" the establishment of
the Tariff of '46 was to bring upon the country?
Echo answers, where? And as it has been, and
with -these measures of Democratic policy, so
will itbe with the question of non-intervention in
our new territories!
But the True American insinuates that there
are other masons for our advocating the policy of
the Nebraska bill—enesaing, we 'appose, cur con
nexion with the Adm i nistration as a public offi
cer. Now, if the Editor of the Trig American
had made this *barge direct, . we should have
thought more of him. Insinuation and Innen o
is alone the weapon of cowards; at least that is
our experience. And we can • tell him what is
our experience, in another particular. It is that
the man who is always suspecting his neighbor
of dishonesty is himself dishonest. Show us a
Man that is ready to charge his neighbor with
being swayed,by ignoble motives, and you will
show a man that can be easily operated upon by
making it his interest to yield. This is not po
!ideal. experience, alone; it is every-day experi
ence, in all the affairs of life. But what grounds
had the Tree Americ' to throw out such an un
just insinuation? Not in the past course of the
Observer certainly, for there has been no more
consistent advocate of the policy of non-interven
tion with slivery in the territories in - the
State. What it was in '44, it was in '4B; and
what it was in '4B, it was in '52, and is now. It
has neither turned to the right, nor to the left
upon this question, and so long as we conduct it,
it never ea!
The next point of the Americas is that the
Missouri Coinprontiae, prohibiting iilavery north
of 86 deg. 80 min. sad allowing it south of that
line, did not extend through to the Pacific, there
fore there was no inoorudatency in insisting upon
the incorporation of the Wilmot Provi.o in the
bill establishing the territory of Oregtin. Per
haps the Missouri Compromise did not extend to
the Pacific; nevertheless, the fact is dear to our
mind that those who enacted it istescled that it
should, and thought they were establishing the
line:to that point. If this is not so, then the de
bates of 1820 are pure nonsense. On the 4th,ef
February 1820, Mr. Hardin, a member doin
Kentucky, Stet broached' he subject' of ',Com
promise upon the basis of the line of36deg 30m.
In his remarks upon the occasion, he used the
following language:
"It strikes me, Mr. Chairman, that this mat
ter can be settled with great facility, if each par
ty be so disposed, and neither give np any point
in this controversy. Can it not be done by per
mitting Missouri to go into the Union without
the restriction, and then draw a line from the
western boundary of the proposed State of Mis
souri, due west to the Piretjfe, North of the line
prohibit slavery, and south of it per . mit it."
So well was it understood 'that the line was• to
be extended to the . Pacific, that Mr. Stephe% a
member from Oonneietient, but five days before
the coneurreuce of the two - H(4les in the bill, in
a speech against it, indulged in a witticism by
saying that extending the line to the Pacific would
not prove a very pacific measure. The follow
ing is his language.
"The south line wf Pennsylvania State and the
Ohio 'waters now form the boundary line between
the two parties. If you continue that line by
S6deg 30m rlitiirth loti'lutle to the Pacific ocean,,
I fear it will not prove a Ixtrific measure."
So it appears that if we were miitaken in sup
posing-that the Missouri Compromise extendeg
through to the Pacific, there were those who
were equally mistaken before us, and they the
very men who participated in the deb;ates upon
its adoption.
lir The Philadelphia Aulletix, in speakingof
, he prospect Of an inereasein the price of news
iet
1 • , . , says that for more than a year .the rice
paper has been steadily advancing, and • cad
•f exhibiting any symptoms of a decline, t at
.. a still further rise. In part this is
v igtri .
• ted to the enormous consumption, which has in.
. .. the demand beyond the capacity of the
• pply, but in part alto to the difficulty of ob.
' . ing rags. In fact tatters are at a premium.
Old clothes grow scarcer every day, a strange
ohetipmenon, especially in these times of pron.
• 'ty, when everybody buys twice as many pr.
, •.. se they were accustomed to formerly.—
' ithont old clothes, there a”e no rags, and with
out rags, alas: no paper. What will be the re
t, it would take a second Solomon to tell.—
' 'nly, if the price of paper continues to ad.
.ce, newmpaperdom will find itself in. a tight
:inter. People, by some strange perversity, ex.
to get their journals at the old price, no mat.
° l t o bow much wages may advance, or the price
• , paper rise. Yet, if the increase continues much
• ger, a point will be reached, with many news
• pore, where the c.ntof paper alone will consume
• ly the entire nett receipts; and in such a cri
. they must either advance their price or atop
A i together. •
, Nays or Muon Hosats.—Major Hobbie
Assistant Postailister•General, died in Washing
ton, on Thursday Morning, March 28. Major
Robbie, after serving as member of Congress,
became counoetod with the Poet Office Depart.
meat under Jackson's administration. His
highly responsible position in the department wan
kept till she administration of Taylor, when he
resigned. Upon his recent visit to Panama, in
the interest of the Pacige Mail Steamship Com.
pony, in order to regulate sad improve our post
al systems in that quarter, be oontrneted a dim.
dies by. which Ms constitution appears to hues
been fatailreattored.
A GOOD Butionarbox.—Th e 1 , 6
Ledger proposes that newspapers gh 2 ,11 I. ,
&cod into our common D 3110016. 11•,, :,:'
idea.
capital t BAY' the net "PaPcr .s t'zi
of all school las, al has been pruti a .l ,
zusostrated. he great purpose Of ,
school ed ' is to qualify th e ~.
tire business e l whatkhe shall ant e ,
rity. And f this purpose what ..c1191.1
be found whieh can interest a schol ar l i i,
paper which is ever freskyrith isci.l l 2
what standard book can be found, th e . r:
cite the ti6es4eo to make the inqui i i,.
seek explimPlon of hill teacher? Ti
portant considerations. Mark a r m l,, :
exercise, in any of our public s.:lrt,',
will see sue reading in it monotonot k ~..
1 thing that interests no one in the..4, e ,
himself. Try the same clams on a -
per, oleeislly if the teacher has sat
himself, you will quickly note the
There Is too much theory among t.
much suloserviewe to the old etylt
among the Directors of our public
shortest way is the best, if it et*,
fairly and fully; and the more
our children, the quicker, and the mr:
bly will they seise and compass the
presented. Certainly newspaper s
fourths of all the reeding of Lusia, A .
mechanics, after leaving school.
a perfect history of the times, and
new in invention, whether in tht ,
or general speculation of philosophy
and frequently they discus, the lalt,
'novelties, faithfully representing both
and opponents. Introduce well eenJlt
papers, free from sectarian tiet , ,
school will cease to be an unwilling
in the general intelligence of the
will soon be an improvement toe
mit of doubt, as 'to the direct 'lint,'
change.
ass,„ They used to send notions
to get enormous prime. From
anees they would do well to re4 m -,
country. Lately, hams are quoted:,
deco at tea eents.a pound—pr:m
could be sold as high as ten Nan
sorts of butter sold daily at auction
to fourteen cents—very. choice Ir.
cents. Cottbrut some of our grt , v.
ply of these articles by the ner
PLAIN TauTtr.—We don't know
following, or whether it was write:
ridian or not, but as it elide:v..l 7 -
the railroad portion of it. we
ow; columns:
"Have you ever obserred a,W Mn o
eumee the starchiness of Lis dickey
people' elevate him a little' The I,wer
as a general thing, the more insa`eot r
the occupant. Some of otu,loeal
fees put on more airs than the
State; while we have seen the ho., : c:
railroad line more difficult to ccm-
Judge of a Supreme Court.
far more accessible than the
the Secretaries are much mc,r,
the Clerks. The most insolent
ai the 'White House' was a f
isohe more buckwheat a man',
where brains ought to be, the cl •
with the idea th&t being 'sus 4 6c
hair slicked up is being dignineo
notice the matter?"
No PRINTEAS THEILL.—Tb, r p
spec tors of State Prisons in N. I.
gratifying fact that of the large numi.
lIQW in the Prisons of the Ste••.
single Printer, while nearly all ;L:
tiOus are represented. This )s ais :
to the craft and affording evit'xr.s
good character of those engag.,l
i The New York T
price of advertising in it: •
per line, every itisertioc N, w
weeklies for the cost of th , rw.•••117,-
Bit Paticarez,
Now Good:list docks Cheap
mm reeetring Ws of dif w add f.shotrAt I
will be mold Ibt Case At Tate , thst OY
Goods °revery style reeciyiug 414. '6,1
tram. If you want goat bargarn,,
elle. April I.ll6l—ad Cot,K*4 r.
- - -
Delay Not; -
rpo purchase your Ch t , I .I*s:
lo iva ati baryam. Yo•.:
Chloe Hall. • Apra 1.1351-4
• Dim - ant:ion of hrtnersi*
E partnership heretofore
1 is this day dissolvedhy utuwal
Se continued by Ow. Miller. one Orr":
coined
by us. The beck• end areount• tr
bendier C. Miller. who IS dUly .
al/ deem; °feud Aran. All ruo are i,,a
note Or Walt leeoratit. ere rel Ilene 1
The old customers at Ito! ,
c au l" st i ller, who will spare no DaDi•vz P
to him null
E r i e , stareti3o,
rrozi - Philallielpiiia and Ni
HAVING jest returned (ran the •
14ntegt, clacheeirt. ebeapext Mae , . 1 ;" ,
plctwreofoflcnug 4, OuT frlc
note toolldentty than e.er to ehallet
compet,tion with any and every Beale: ern
the
Ladles. h.c.,ngglven more than •‘; •
Yd tastes, by selecting the latest and •"
be (01.10(1 u, l'huauelptita, us ggetieuiat
how hefbre purchasing. In Silks. we • •
**ant Brocade. PI aid. !Striped. Btu.. -
dip. In Spring and dainuser Dree
+tyke of Refers. Berne de Lai '
be Sego Lawns. embroidered. or "' '
Muslins; alw, new ,plea of Fre,
ehristesetts, in sew and singly,
eey thing else that you can t
For Gent's and cinutreu'r wan!. is 4,
14e would invite the part I,lllr • -
tboae about to became such. t„, urr
;fishing Goode. euessistlit4 of Lliwo
auJ table %taco, napkins acid I";,;.'s, 1 - '1
mall paper, lace and Muslin drq,,r
all lu our extensive stock o'
Uults. of all pima; and quallue.,
Wool Carpets bought ve;Ui Ca•n, a- ;•
u.tmedGoode,thereby+glvinq us the 44 , a
bOwSe Itt We city. an advantage that
ou. our cugoteets. and wn,el.l • '
Ladies, (loos and Children, (*,, , ur
statements
Erie. April I. PS34-48.
Special Notce.
teaviti% C ••
CUMled 10 ge Weft. Qtrer far •a't• ,t
and Medtclnes non term, that caattioi
strOUs of purchasing Will f 310 IV . 2••••!;',
Can. April L _ _ tnk
- -
TO T.
•{ ll UBMoresow occupied by the utmn
sa Wriett's 81,10. zv:l4.
Ps", Atoll 1. 1 1141. _ -
,Tow ilos•rails Clan of Qativtgr :,c,, ,,,,,
THE. petnioo of E. II Garda ta We•l n .o,; ,
to mid tawny, reapeetfraly peprerre . .. I - n• :,,,
A nth house roo.n and conveniences lot vie , :
modatrati oi stranzery and traveler.. ••• • . "`'
h•., rt.,' Davis to said eh; known ,i., 111-
therefore pray" rho HOclorahte Coder 1., z a • ',
keeping a pulite: inn Or tavern, and ri , . 0
tira)`. dr.e -
\
Erie , . Winch 31-3146*.
' 3
W • the labacrineva. eftlappis of r.r.e ,a tt ,
the a ve Inn or tavern. prayed wto I•renr , '
kept. o eertity that i.. V. Davis the a's•hee a - ,'
repute fur own-ay and temperance. nrii i. •e ,
house rows and convenknees for , o.',lpii; a^ • a
strangers. and traveferv.and that rue lad .1 ,
air) to accommodate Ihe public a 1.1 eitferta"
derv: ,
H ~, __
..3r. ..• "531011.• Simeon Put,
%v artier. I. A. Hans. A. tVootruf, l': 1 , 1•:
M. Laird.Thoinas Refines, 11. tart eh, Jaa...-„
D. 7.1 nirnenna n. T. W. Moore. A L ..1.,•t.....• • '
F. klinderneeht. R. fnulnner.Wil , n 1.-
" — T; Ns NNa biro 74" Qaarttr sov..
The peilual of tTarehatu Ts gg
in laid County, respeetfittly re pf ener.t..
uu
.th bowie roam and rocivenitt. , t
insusS
Is laudli strsugers and ITAVEI•ef..e, :.••• ••••:
W Paid Township. Me wly
110 grant tutu Alit:tale foe keeping 3 p 1 1 U'
tile. um duty tn)uud wilt pro. Asa
flarts)reterk. March t.. 11---31.16" . •
We, ihr suhverthers. uUiena et t.c w"
in which Or above Inn or Tavreel.,irl,• -
posed to tie kept. du certify, th it Wc , ' 4
aPPiseast. is of pod wpm,'
well provided with house room. Ana
log and accommodation of flf.tllgN, 'O. •
such an Inn or Tawern to neer qt in
and to entertain strangers ani trot
Sigwit John Bunnell, Maui! 0 „
Net.anu, Win. llinum. Wen. W Parr , ,
iltenuet d. P.Sletreins. T. 4.41,1we1LF.
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