n, Align Itt Tiditiqd litiff.
EMI
Preitaratioas for the Ui4ga War
==l
The Paris correspondent of the Cincinnati
tte, in referent* to the preparations' for war
now being made by the weateru powers, says:
"The new inventions for the more rapid des
truction of human beings which the war is bring
ih4 to light, especially in England, will surpass
all expectations. The arsenals of England have
for a long time been closed to viafters, even to
members of Parliament, while these new and
terrible machines were being constructed and ex
perimented upon, and no knowledge of their ex
istence even was permitted until now called forth
by
. actual service. Many years ago the English
government had a proposition before them to
adopt Wagner's floating gun, and hesitated.
member of Parliament exclaimed: "He demands
bit 3000,000 pounds, and yet you hesitate!—
Hasten to buy this machine, declare war against
France, and you will destroy her marine in a, feir
days' time!' 'No attention was paid to this
apostrophe at the time in France, and apparent
ly none in England. But this terrible inven
tion, of which the public has ceased to talk, and
which was even* ridiculed at the time, has been
maturingin concealment in the arsenals of Wool
wich, and is now ready to go out on its work o
destructions.
"The Count Lavalette, captain of military
marine in France, who knew of the construction
of this gun, it is said made endeasiors to have it
adopted. by the Minister of Marine under Louis
Philippe. It is simply a long congreve gun,
which glides along the water in a straight line
till-it strikes the vessel at which it is directed,
whin it thrusts into its sides its iron head, con
taining two pounds of fulminating powder of \mer
cury. When the fire attains this reservoir, it
explodefip blowing a hole in the vessel ten or
twelve feet in diameter, which it is impossible
for them to close up as they do the round holes
made by l cannon balls.
"In admitting that the Russian fleets shall re
tire under the inapproachable fo of Cron
stadt and Sepastopol, they can' of be in safety
from this terrible "congreve gun, which carries to
almost any distance witkip of the aim, and
tar beyond the reach of any oth r gnn. It can
not be prevented from passing through the most
contracted straits where ships pass.
"The submarine boats are so perfected at this
moraine that, they tan reach and attat# a burner
*to an enemy's ship without
-running the least
danger Experiments are also being made with
asphyxiating ball, which does not kill,
,but
which paralyzed an crew for several hours,
or untill they are made p nera. They are em
barking, also, a large number of burning explo
sive balls, which expl.•, l invariably when, they
strike, even in the body` f a horse; for they in
flame at the moment ofJ.^ harge frouti the gun,
and fly burning like small congrevei until the
moment of the explosion, when they may apply
fire to the ammunition chests and other'infiam
mable material as easily and as surely as if they
were to fall in a stubble-field.
"The Peace Society have agitated the question
In England of how far a nation is justified in
employing other and more destructive methods
in war than those employed by the enemy. A4p
mirat Napier hail replied to these proposition.with irony: "If you fear to hurt the enemy, put
into your guns balls of cotton, and into your can
lion sakes of rice!"
"The English fleet is largely provided with
balloons, intended to carry intlamable mate
rials to scatter over . towns, villages, and Meets,
when the wind favors such operations."
CRUEL TH.F.A3IENr AND DtATH Or A CHILD.
—On the 10th instant ; a man by the name of
Amor and his wife, living near Sligo ; Henry Co.,
were brought before Esquire Gilispie,,fer the
cruel treatment of the husban 's child—a little
n il
girl, about six years old. Th proof was conclu
sive. The child had been e dip whipped and
Scalded ! It was covered Wit bruises and scars.
It was taken from the inhuman pair, and they
were, unfortunately, trimmed: The man didn't
deny the charge, but laid it oh his wife; said he
couldn't - controher, as she, threatened to titke
his life. The dhild had buen kic -ed across the
1) ,
. room, even intoithe tire, in the resent* of its
)
father and othrs. Those' who witnessed the
case thought him as guilty as thEl beastly. step
mother.
On Tuesday), following the trial, the two de
mons disappeanA, and on the Friday afterwards
the• poor child 'died. In addition to the inhu-
man violence, the little sufferer was almost starv
ed to death. It had been deprived of food ; ac
cording to"the testimony, of one witness, for twen
ty-font hours at a time and' was reduced almost
to a skeleton, and exhibited at the trial a most
pitable object.
The wife had children of her own, that fared
differently. The culprits are thought•to be in
Indiana, as the man has relatives living near In
dianapolis. ,
The verdict of the jury at the coroner's inquest
was, that the child came to its death from the
treatinen. receivc l .l from its parents, whieia, from
the description of an eve-Witness, is to obvious to
be doubted —Loithm.life Dento,ml.
„A CRILA STARVED HY, ITS PARCNTS.—Law
relic* Henry, or Haley. , and Sagan, his wife,
were charged with starving and neglecting that
infant child. Jno.. Hanlon testified that the
child was about seven weeks old, that tke mother
went oiat early in the morning and did not return
Uinta. in the evening, having the infant' the
while without sm•tenance almost bare of cot , -
• ming, It was now under the taro of his' wife,
but was so. miserably attenuated, its arms not
.being thicker than his fingers, as to convince
4 ' him it email! not live. Officer Shattuck arrested
the prison s wandering about the stlects.
Lawrence Henry stated hewas an express dri
ver and in work; that his wife misbehaved her
self,t and h in eonsequence-remiived a portion of
'the furnit from the house,.leaving the child to
her care. Susan, his , wife, said her husband
gave her n money, that she. had nothing to eat
, W , seit, an . therefore nothing to give the child.
The court remarked that both the defendants
were well• ed and well dressed, and that their
conduct Iks not capable of being extenuated by
' any such excuses. If the child died they would
• be charge 4 with murder; be should, therefore, fine
them . $2 tiach and costs in walking the streets,
and order their committal to jail to await the
child's fate.
. During hearing in the eve, the defendants
iappeared entirely indifferent as to the fate of
their unfortunate offspring.—Cincinnati Com.
lift. The Ohio State Jour Sal says: It seems
that a female convict who has been confined for
one year in the penitentiary has lately been de
livered of a child, and the interesting question,
"Who is the daddy of it?" has excited some die
mama. Dr. Ross, in the house, moved that a
• committee of three be appointed to investigate
thelicts of the ease, &c. All sorts of efforts
were made to stave off and strangle the affair, but
in rain. The committee was appointed., consist
' ing of Messrs. Doss, Mtwer and Cleaver. As
the 'roman has been "in confinement" one year,
it is clearly a case of "protracted labor." There
is ansiber mysterious case we have. heard of, In
which "wish is father to the thought." Will
that committee also ascertain who the mother in
this ease ii--=Ckrciand Herald.
/Rom ro PLATE.-011 Friday, last, at a
wolidehopping frolic in Loagswainp township,
limy Weber, a. isan of intemperate habits,
thank freely of the ihmor that was Provided, and
became very much inieukuited. 'ln this state,
when night came on, be sta."ted for bisbomoi but
bal iz ilable to proceed, ' m id ,j,, , wn beside a flume
I not from the plum of doe was
found Amid there, the next morning ..4 "" 1 " 111 Y
Gamic - •
DEATH PROM FIVORT.—EIIen Deere, a facto- &MDT /011. TER BEM 01A HAD Doo.—A
r 7 girl of Lowell,was frightened to death irr that Sewn forester maned Gesteli, now of the vetoer
city, on Wednesday evening. She left her laud- able age of eighty-two, unwilling to take to the
ing-house in perfect health, at eight o'clock, with grave with him a new of import, has made pub
another young woman, to make-same purchases, lie in the Leipsir Journal the means whieh he
and on returning home, she passed through a dark I has used for fifty years, and wherewith, he af
passage way—supposed that she was followed by 1 firms, he has _rescued many human beings and
sonar , with her companion to her board- 1 cattle from the fearful death of hydropitiebia.—
!ag
A WOJUX BMW= TO Thr al l . .—We learn . la
the door. She breathed but a few ; w as h the would clean therewitli, and then dry
' -isteafter being brought into the house aad it; then "a the " 1 " a few ' dm P s a mu '
from the London (C. W.) Promtpe, diets ben- non.. • the _m__. of i ______,.___. ''. I pour uto
tal iusband, not far front London, Nagai , do- died hum. effect of ' Asti° mid, because r0,t 4111 suida"o°7 the Poiu
-IrOw'
stroyed the life of his wife by roasting kw in or from the u" lk at aa .. Wist" of some M i le" l. I°O Or the wars, by Ala teeP ll66 0111 - 16110
Vow. of do Whew is wwwrolisoli.
rho fee in his own home . • - vats person.—BoZ • ,
HONZINLI ACCIDINT ON TAN HODBoN Bryan
Ranno,ur— FALLING or • litaaallil ROOK
thIiIILTANEOUSLY wrrn THS APPROACH OT THE
MAIN—Loss or latra.—A. melancholy ac
cident occurred on the %Wean firer Railroad 1
last evening, which was caused by the falling of
an immense piece of rock on the track, two miles
north of Tivoli, when the 4,45 train from this
city was under full headway and within four
.rods of the place. So sudden was the fall, that
the Oag man, who was at his post, had mgnatled
to the' engineer of the down train that all was
right; but as the train approached, he heard a
rumbling noise, which was followed the fall
ing of the rock! He narrowly and im
mediately reversed his signal, bat not in time to
prevent the accident. The jar caused by the
running of the train undoubtedly shook the rock
so as to came it, fall at that moment.
The train was at full speed when the locomo
tive struck the 'rock, smashing it and. the two
baggage'cars almost into atoms. So great was
.the •conceission that the passedgere were lifted
out of their seats And thrown several feet.—
There were five passenger cars in the train, two'
of which were badly broken, but no passengers ,
were injured.
But the worst features of this accident ere aS
yet untold. Four persons in the employ of the
company were so severely injured that it is
thought that three of them will not survive. •
Francis Scott, the Engineer, aged 40 years, a
resident of Poughkeepsie, skull fractured and oth
erwise injhred. He was dead, or dying, when the
up train left. He was the oldest engineer on
the road, and was considered one of the most sci
entific and prudent in the employ IS the company.
The locomotive he was running was the new and
powerful one called the "St Clair."
Francis Shultz, the • fireman, a resident of
Greenbush, was badly injured, but he is the on
ly one out of the four, who, it is thought, would
survive.
Joseph Alger, or Aljoe; and Cbs . Bertrand,
brakeman,were both severely injured, having
been sm ashed between the cars. Both were in
ransible,and the former was dead or dying at our
test accounts.
George Simpson, Mr.'ealdwell, the conductor,
:a mail agent, the messenger of Pullens & Vir
gil's Express, and John Young, the baggage
man, were all in the baggage, car at the time:
The cars .were subsequently taken and-burned
in the stoves in fte cars to keep the passengers
warm. Even the stove was broken to pieces,.
but miraculous as it may appear, all-the persons
in these cars escaped- uninjured, except Mr.
Young, who received a slight wound on his head.
The rock that fell on the road is said to have
been eight or ten feet long, five feet wide and'
two feet thick, not less than five tons in weight.
The wounded and- maimed received every at
tention, and all that men could do for them was
thine by the officers and passengers.
The wreck and obstructions were removed, and
the passengers which left New York in the five
o'clock train last evening reached this city be
tween 3 and 4 o'clock this morning.
P. S.—We learn from one of the employees
of the Hudson River Railr who was on the
down train last evening when t ident oc
curred, and who returned to the city on e ex
prtss train this morning, that the two .b men
died during the night. Mr. Scott, the en • eer,
was much easier, and his injuries were I se
vere than was first reported. Strong hopes were
entertained of his recovery. It was thought the
firemeu, although severely wounded,, would re
cover ' The young men killed resided in New
York.—Albany Jour., Sat., April ;3.
SEDUCTION AND ABDUCTION—AMER? OF
THE OFFENDER.—On Faiday evening, officer Ca
leb Pierce, of Scottsville, returned to this city,
after a three week's absence in Ohio, having in
custody, under a Governor's - requisition, Peter
Jay, a railroad engineer, against whom two in
dictments were found last fall by the Grand Ju
ry of this county, for the seduction and abduc
tion of an interesting little girl of thirteen years.
at Honeoye Falls. Jay belongs, we understand,
at Binghamton, and was employed ou the Can
andaigua and Niagara Falls Itadroad. • The girl,
whose name it is not necessary to give, lived
with her father. Her mother was, dead. Jay
is a single man, about 30 years of age. After
he hail ace , onplished the ruin of his 'youthful vic
tim, he abluctell her from-'her honte, to Canan
daigua, and thence- to Batavia, in each of which
places he kept her several weeks. Her friends at
length succeeded in learning the plate of her con
cealment. and in rescuing her from his hands.
Finding himself di.icovergd, Jay fled to Ohio,
and Indic' mem; weril founil against him as above
stated. . -
He managed so adroitly to conceal his hiding
place, which "was a. little west of Cincinnati, that,
not till recently*, was any, and that a very iudis
tip.ct-tirid-doubtfhl clue, obtained to is wherea
bouts 3luchinterest was naturally felt in Men
don for the arrest of the villiau, and Mr. Pierce
was judiciously selected 14 that purpose. 'He
proceeded do Sandusky. Afterwards be was led
to parse, hi- investigations on the 31aufnee river,
and there he obtained the first reliable informa
tion. Ile then repaired to the south-west corner
of the Atate, where. after several days careful
wate s hing,. Jay tumid up and was arrested. He
is now,h)tiged in the jail in this county, awaiting
his trial; The capture of Jay was an operation
requiring mutual patience, labor and skill, and
its accomplishment will afford satisfaction to all
who rejoice to see a scoundrel brought to justice.
Rods Amer .Sal. April 3.
AN IiNTENSIVE SWINDLE.-A successful
swindle upon a produce firm in New York, by
means of forgery.'is thus reported in the Cleve
land Ilii;*ndiuter:
During the past season a speculator in Lick
ing county, borrowed there upon his own paper,
endorsed by several of the most responsible men
of the c , ointy, $30,000. This amount he invest
ed in hogs, and soon applied to the lender for
more . funds The application was
from
and
soon after the lender received from a NeyrYork,
firm letters inquiring in regard to the respond ;
bility of the men who had endorsed the paper
he held: His reply wis satisfactory, and the
speculator obtained advances from the Nework
firm to the amount, of po,ooo. One da ' he
"came up missing," and the fact was ascertained
that the endorsements upon. which he obtained
credit for $BO,OOO, were all forgerieal We un
derstand that he paid up the 130,000, but that
the New Yosk item he left nnproteited.
ANorttxa Exernort.--Carrera; the Indian
Chief, who, about twenty years ,ago, =riled
from the mountain, and, with his ialred follow
ers, armed with bows and'arrows, defeated the
degenerate Spaniards of Gua.m.'s, drove out
his enemies, and made himself President of that
member of the confederacy of Central America,
has, we learn from the news brought by the
Daniel- Webster, constituted himself Emperor of
that formidable State: His consecration and
cornation are already fixed for a certain day, and
great eclat and parade are to attend the grand
elision. His exurople is to be followed by Chom
orro, thci_President, or Governor Nicaragua.—
The degenerate Spaniards and the ignorant
Aborigines cannot, certainly, be blamed for
making an Emperor out of a brave but unletter
ed saver like Carrera, after the example which
the intelligent French afforded in their selection
of nn Emperor,, or their older neighbors gave
in .their elevation of Santa Anna.
ry.a I 11 tLV~i._._
Itir The Pansum railroad will We cost, when
oompleied, about $1,600,000. ,
is. It is mid inw►ity is more prey'lltt in
California than is other parts of the Union.
mi., Mosquitoes have already made their ap
pearance in New Orleans.
iwa; There is a race of women in Ethiopia, ao•
cording to Lepload, who are heavily bearded.
air Green Peas are arriving at New York
quite abundantly from filavinakr
IS Wm. T. allinituak his hese muleted is
91500 damages in Ingo county, Indians, far m
clueing a Miss Myers.
Mr A man named Basilian was wed and hanged
on the 12thiNev., in Bent* Fe, for killing H. N.
Smith, who is alive and "slowly reoovenng."
1W We understand that there is now twenty
eight millions eight hundred thousand dollars in
the Treasury of the United States.
Stir . Unusual excitement Fenuled . during the
mid election which tool place at New Or
Monday. Three men were kille d at
the polls.
Viir Cal. Samuel Medary, who was appointed
to the Chinese Embassy, has refunded the 99,-
000 outfit which 'he had drawn from the treas
ury. • '
is. One of the Albany editors says that the
only reason why his dwelling was not blown away
during the late severe gale, was because there Was
a heavy mortgage on it.
sir The Clinton Courant says that the.ging
ham..mills in_ that place, "cover four acres. The
weaving rain alone covers two acres i of ground,
and more than one acre of sprightly
Stir A man named James B. Ward, Was °aught
.in the act of enticing- a slave to Fun away from
his master near Louisville, Ind committed to
jail in default of $l,OOO bail.
is. The Black Warrionappear . s to have been
detained by the Cuban authorities, in consequence
of some error in her wiaaifen. We wonder if
this is another link in the chain of mom:fest des
tiny. •
14„ The neatest style of fashionabie pantaloons
in New York is described as tia light grey ground,
with the castle of Heidelberg in dark blue,
on
one leg, and Mount Yersnylus vomiting forth Ore
on the other."
_Suicipt. IN JAIL—The Chicago papers of
Thursday report the suicide in jail, of a young
man recently arrested upon a charge of forgery.
His name was Nicholas Lawrence, a resident of
OW and he was respectably connected.
sor An advertisement appears in the papers
headed, "Do'you . suffer with toothache?' We
should say that one laboring Under the Affliction,
instead of answering the question, would be more
inclined to hold his jaw.
NIL, The Illinois Central Railroad Company
have contracted for hedging with Osage Orange,
one hundred miles of the Illinois Central Rail
way. These two hedges, each one hundred miles
long, will require about two million Osage plants.
air It is now one hundred and fourteen years
since the Methodists have existed as a people—
They now number nearly two millions of commu
nicants, and preach the Gospel to ten or twelve
millions.
as. T. 13. Lawrence, who woo divorced fiom
Sallie Ward, of Louisville, and .whose domestic
affairs formed a prominent topic for newspapers,
some time since, has married a daughter of Hen
ry Chapman, a wealthy citizen of Doylestown,
Penna.
iiir The Danville, Illinois, Citizen,, says the
ladies of that place last week purchased a barrel
of whiskey, being the stock in trade of the only
liquor dealer in town and attemptdd to burn it,
but it was "no go"—the stuff had been.too often
to the spring!
LARGE CONTRACT. F —Tht Elmira Daily &pub-,
/ican states that A. S. Diven & Co., of that vil
lage, have contracted to build two, hundred and
seventy miles of the Missouri and.,Pacire Rail
road. Their contract commences forty miles
west of St. Louis. They of course get a snug
amount of pocket money by the operation.
GRAPES.—The use of grapes as an article cf
food, is much recommended in case of consump
tion. They contain a large quantity of grape
sugar, the kind 'which mostly nearly resembles
milk sugar' in its character and composition,
which is also useful for consumptives, it having
a great attraction for oxygen, and rea dily afford
ing materials for respiration.
ALL is Oxs Nicarr.—A German in Albany
probably experienced a greater variety of impor
tant events in one night, last week, than any oth
er man that ever lived. He was coerced into
matrimony, presented with a son four months old,
had the delirium tremens, and paid the great debt
of nature between 8 o'clock at night and 5 in the
morning. He did not survive the great events.
ser There is a good deal of lock-jaw between
Hobbs and Chubb. Chubb says that his fore
man picked Hobbs' famous lock. Hobbs sayer
he did'ut; that it was only a small till lock that
was Ricked, and that Chubb's man could'nt do
that till. he was showed how—and he has put in a
new guard that can't be got over.
Annum Funs.—The "Grand Mass C 92-
vention of the people of Ohio," opposed to Sena
tor Douglas' Nebraska bill, which was held at Co
liunbus on the 22dinat., was a complete failure,
not over two or three hundred persdns being pres
ent from abroad. The convention was as desti
tute of spirit as it was deficient in attendance.
In the Turkish army is a boy, less than
.16
years old, who raj/led several hundred warriors
and volunteers from the interior of Asia Minor.
ills gountrymen look upon him as born to per
form a great mission. There is also a woman,
called Koran Has, (the black girl,) who is the
leader of some horsemen, whom she inspires with
her courage,
mo:. A singular trial for muder ocimrred in
New Orleans on the 19th inst. Mr. James Pat
ten met Col. Walter Turnbull, masts 7/warden of
the port of New Orleans, as be was entering an
omnibus in .Tchoupetoulas street, and shot him.
Patten was tried for murder. His counsel inter
posed the plea of insanity. He rose in court, de
nounced his eounsel for the subterfuge, declared
he was not insane, and that he must be acquitted
convicted upon e ground ofjustlfortion which
he had given to his counsel. The court permit
ted him to dismiss his counsel. No ground of
justification was maintained, andthe prisoner was
convicted.
ay. A young man named Cooke was arrested
in Richmond a few days ago. 111.1851 Code
was engaged to be married to a
_young lady . at
Holly Springs, Mississippi. Hiving an inti
mate friend, named Wiliam B. Sanderson, he
requested him to address this young lady him
self merely to test her faith to him. Sanderson
accordingly addressed her, was accepted, and they
were married. In about twenty minutes after
the consummation of the ceremony, Cooke asked
Sanderson to step into the street with him a min
ute. Having gone a little distance from the
house, Cocks drew a pistol and shot Sandeison
deed, the ball striking just above the mouth.—
Cocke nude his escape, and had not been found
till the present time. •
Brit kip Ofthitrittr.
VIM PA.
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1854
DZIOCRATIC iITAIS NOMATIOIS
MI GOVIIINOIL •
WILLIAM BIGLER,
• Ot . caw County.
MGR 01 WWII cOU/LT :
*HUMUS S. BLA ,
Of Somerset . County.
YOR CANAL COMM° a:
HENRY S. MO ,
Of Pike County - 1
sir The List of Letters remaining in the Post
pine on the let, will be found on the fourth
rge•
so. Navigation on our Canal is again resum
ed; with a prospect of s heavy Summer's busi
ness, especially in coal!
Stir Connecticut has, after reposing in the
Democratic ranks for thrtpe or four years, spin
gone whig. Main law, horn-gun Slate, wooden
nutmegs, and Nebraska gltoets,lave done the job
for her, and there she stands! Well, 'there is
one consolation--she will get over them all by
the time she's wanted! ,
A fact for Philadelphia: While Buffalo
and Dunkirk are now tinder ioe embezgoorith
a prospect of being so until abort the lat Of May,
Erie hainn uninterruptedoommnniestion with the
entire • Lake Country. She has had no ice in her
harbor for several weeks.
In=l
.. "What's the news from Philidelphia?"
Nothing! "Have the Councils done any thing?"
Yes! "What?" Met and adjourned every night
this week!—no quorum present--some of the
members of one body have gone to Baltimore—
some are sick—some gone to Europe—snd some
skulked because they were not elected President
of the Road!, This is about the amount of thet,
news from Philadelphia this week! !
is,. The Pennsylvania Patriot is ,right in•re
baking the slanders aimed at Gov: Blutna by
the Cincinnati Enquirer, but in doing so, it
should ' not commit the same 'fault towards the
numerous friends of the Governor in Erie, and
the Governor himself. What we allude to is
contained in the following sentence; "It can be
shown (says the Piltriot) that the course pursu
ed by Gov. Bunts, to quell the riot and settle the
Erie difficulty, was dictated by prudence, wis
dom, and an earnest desire to protect the rights
of citizens of this sad` adjoining States." Now,
there was, or there was not a "riot" in Erie. If
there wax, then the course of Governorto
cannot be defended; but if there was no , as we
contend, and as the Supreme Court of this Stile
will decide, then the "course pursued by the Go
vernor was dictated by prudence, wisdom, and an
earntst desire to protect the rights of citizens of
this and adjoining States.". ,The Patriot, - as well
as other friends of Gov. Itigler, must take either
one or the other horn of this dilemma! We'are
perfectly aware that while the Editor of the Pa
tl4,,, was connected with the PittsbUrgh rnion
that paper was, as it has been since, one of the
most, •consistent slanderers of Erie in the three
States; but we were in hopes that when he be.
came the special organ of the Governor, ho would
cease to be the pecial orgain of Erie's slanderers.
We hope he will, but he will have to mend his
language before we believe it.
"Aid and Comfort."
Some of the Whig papers are giving the nom
ination of Judge PoLLoOK for Governor, by the
Whig convention, "aid and comfort" with a ven
geance. For instance, the Lancaster Indepen
dent Whig, conducted by Mr. FENN; Tor years
the Editor of the Pennsylvanian Telegraph, the
Whig organ at Harrisbyg, calls upon the Whig
nominee to resign in faior of David Wilmot, or
some other political nondescript, whom he thinks
would catch the votes of fence-riders of all com
plexions. Here is the advice Mr. Fenn gives to
the HarrisbUrg galvanizers of the corpse. of
Whiggery ' r
"If Judge Pollock and the Wigs desire the
success of the measures they have set forth—if
they want the present State and National Ad
ministrations defeated—if they want the sale of
the Public Works and a repeal of State Taxation
—if they hope for a defeat or a repeal of the Ne
braska Mill, and a general reform in State and
National affairs, Judge Pollock should decline
the nomination for Governor, and some other
good man, Judge Wilmot, for instance, should
be taken up an drun as an independent candidate,
and his• election would undoubtedly secure the
triumph of the other Whig nominees on their
State ticket. Without such an arrangement we
co:hider the prospects of the election of the Whig
State ticket as far from flattering, notwithstand
ing the merits of the candidates and the seal of
SOW Whig politicians."
This is equal to Gen. Larimees dispatch to
the Convention that nominated Pots,ocx., which,
read something in this wise: "Hurrah for Pol
lock! I will do all I can for bloc. I'll start to
morrow for Baltimore and New pork." Mean
ing, of course, that he would do; all he could in
those cities for Pollock. The General is an ac
knowledged wit bet we think the Editor of the
Laneasler Whigis'nt!
"Kiwi NoTanios."—A. new secret society
has sprung into existent* lately, celled tha t
"Know Nothings."' The object" of this society
are .said to be two-fold--part religious, part po
litical: and the ends aimed at, the didreechise
merit of adopted citizens, "11 their exclusion
from saw, and perpetual war upon, the Catholic
religion. If thisis correct, they are donbtlea
correctly named!
my. We acknowledge the receipt. from Mr.
1 Horace Maim Music Publisher, and dealer in
Musical Instruments, 833 Broadway, N. Y., of
four of his late publications, via:. "Give me a
kiss," "Katy's Defence," the "Prodigal 8014"
and "the Old Homestead." Mr. H . bas been
engaged in the Music business for a number of
years, and has snoceetled in building up a rePu"
nation and a business truly slavish* hence we
have no honititioa is ressommenading our readers,
should they wish any thing in his hue, to send
him our order. They'would be served, weilave no
doubt, as well as though they visited his room.
For particulars see ssbertisameat in another coW
WHAT Sax? society hash* formed ip
Ekothind for the dissessinstio' of,oorrect vie*
respecting the nature and object of heard and
esoisitacae appendages, and to eradicate the fool.
prejediee respecting *helm which prevails
among the shonlittlees classes. Tracts and pub.
tic leetities fee v6e was to be used for this
Ills hots at the Oka
In discussing the bill before Cagan to sash•
hash territorial governments over Nebraska and
Kansas, or any other polio maim, newsier
par as well as individuals should at all times en
deavor to let facia, not speculation, determine
the character of each measures. Apply this rule,
and how stands the ease between the Gazette sod
the Nebraska bill? Two weeks since that piper
asserted that Senator Douglas' bill was a "pro
position teemend Human Slavery within the bor
ders of the free territories of Nebraska* Kan
sa" Having ermined that bileomewiat, and
particularly that portion relative to slavery, and
not being able to lad say such mention, we
deemed it proper and tight, to call upon the Ga
zette to point out the section; and, we added, by
way of caution, that "to make soon a sweeping
assertion, one ought to be able to point to a posi
tive enactment extending" slavery!,As nothing
of this kind can be found in the ebrenka bill;
the Gazette does note of course, produce it. • - In
stead, however, our cotemporary enters into a
quibbling argument' to show that slavery might,
by some ,haus-poops legerdemain operation, be
carried there. If not, it asks, "why were the
series of amendments offered by Mr. Chase, of
Ohio, when the bill war on its passage in the
Senate, all going to confer the right of popular
control over the domestic institutions thereof,
voted down seriatim; every friend of the bill ro c. ,
cording his name in the negative!" Why, sim
ply because the bill itself—without ansendment
—contained a provision "conferring the right of
popular control over the domestic institutions
thereof." That is the very principle for which
its friends are arguing. In the language'of Doug
las himself, the principle proposed to be carried
into effect by the Nebraska bill is, "That Con
gress' shall neither legislate slavery into any Ter
ritories or State, nor out of the same; 61t the pea
pie shall be left free to regabste their domestic con
rPrfta in their own way, subject to the' Constitu
tion of . the United States." And the provisions
of the bill fully sustain this interpretation of the
powers conferred. The language of the bill is—
"That the COnstitution and all laws of the Uni
ted States, which are not locally inapplicable,
shall have the same force and effect within the
said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within
the United'States, except the 6th section of the
act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into
the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which, be
ing inconsistent with the principles of non-inter
vention by Congress with slavery in the States
and Territorial, as recognised by the legislation
of 1850, commonly called the 'compromise meas
ures,' is hereby declared inoperative and void; it
being the true ieent and meaning of this act not
to legialdte slavery into any Territory or State,
nor to exclude it there, rinn, but to leave the peo
ple thereof perfectly free to for,* and regulate
their domestic institutions in their own way, &e
-ject only to the Constitution of the limited States : "
If this does not confer upon the people of Ne;•
braska the right of "popular control over their
domestic institutions," then language could not
be framed that would; and hOnce Mr. Chase's
amendments, as they amounted to nothing, and
made the language of the bill no stronger, were
"voted down seriatim." And bow were they
"voted .down serialise" By whig as well. as
•
Democratic votes—none of the amendments,
which are so essential in the eyes of the Gazette,
having more than ten yeas, and some of them
b+ eight.
#But the. Gazette says these. "territories were
consecrated by solemn coinpact to freedom,"
meaning of,course that the Missouri compromise
was a "solemn compact." The history of Legis
lation since the adoption of the Missouri compro-
mice in 1820 does not exhibit that as a very
solemn compact, for when Missouri herself claim
ed admission under it; a Tear after, it w as
redly broken., But when did the Gazette fall
in love with ; the Missouri compromise?—whert
did that mar discover it to be's "solemn com-
pact," that ought not to be broken? These are
questions we should like to see answered! Was it
before or after it denounced Mr. Polk for desir
ing to extend that"solemn compact" to the Pa
cific upon the admission of Texas? Was it when
Mr. Douglas—this same Mr. Douglas—when the
bill for the admission of Oregon was. - before the
Senate, moved that this same "solemn compact"
should be adhered to? If it was, we should like
to Inow it, for really we have no recollection of
seeing any thing approving of that gentleman's
course in the columns of the Gazette then? Or
was it when it denounced Mr. Buchanan, and hia
Barks county "Harvest Home" letter, in which
that distinguished Pennsylvanian declared-him
self fa4orable to the extension of this "solemn
compact" to thePacific?' Was it by steadily and
consistently, for once, on all the questions of the
admission of Stattai and territories, persisted in
repudiating the principles and . binding force of
that 'solemn compact?" Was it when it sup
ported the territorial policy of Gen. Taylor and
Mr. Clayton—a policy that as completely and
Wup repulliatef the binding force of the Missou
ri compromise as Douglas' bill possibly can?—
There was a time when, in the eyes of the Ga
:ear, the Missouri compromise was Ousted, in
stead de "solemn compact." That was when
it, and its kindred agitators, were endeavoring
to dictate terms of admission to Texas, Califor
nia and New Mexico! That was when it h a d a
purpose to accomplish similar to its purpose now!
That purpose was foiled then, and so wink now
be!
We pees over the Gazette's programme of the
course the President would adopt in appointing
offloers for the Territory, with the simple remark
that the writer does not believe it himself; but
if party prejudices have so blinded him that he
really does, then we refer him to the amendment
of Senator Badger which is a complete bar to any
such supposed judicial proceedings. In regard
to the amendment of hir..Clayton--tho late Gen.
Taylor's 'Secretary of State, a gentleman whose
political sentiments the Gazette swore by during
that administration—we have simply to remark,
as we have alreidy done, that there is nothing in
the past come of the Democratic party, or the
Observer, that one ought to rest a supposition
that either would be in favor of it. It was offer
ed by a , whig, and it was passed by more whig
votes, in proportion to the number in the Senate,
thin Democratic votes,and more than this, it
will be struck out in the, House by Democratic
rotes!
Jur The Editor of the Clarion Democrat mays
he expecte to die very poor baked, but-he hopes
that in the end the Win go where all good *ti
ters go,' while hie delinquent subscribers will, he
tnade—be happy too. There is ehrimmiammeek
mess 'and resiciatioa, for you.
the fmandkir, and for many
Tears *4 4 6 ProVidor of the Pittsburgh Daily
Pbst,
has diva* bis inured in that paper to
his assoeisfe Goo. F. Gillmois, Who in WM sole
proprietor. The Pom was always a good piper,
and we have no doubt will continue to be adder
its pissed asssipssest.
A Viett.--411sw. ikratier, sit New Toeit, is a
au of more nerve that. we aversive him credit
fa'. la the haw of an the clamor which the
friends of a prohibitory liquor law lore reload,
he his vetoed the bill recently passed by the Le
gislature. The Buffalo Express, whig, says the
message "is a strong doeumeat," and after enu
merating the Governor's objections, says: "These
points he argues with mush plausibility, an d, a s
we think, with entire eormetneas. We never
believed that the law was ooustitutionsi, and that
its provisions would be honored even if they be
came active. We are by no mans mkiced_at
the issue of the struggle, for we believe such a
law will eventually pass, and we might as well
have it first as last. When it does come, it will
live just long enough to settle its futility, and
then sink into nothingness. The experiment
might just as well be tried now as hereafter."
The grounds uism'which the veto is based, says
the Albany ‘Jostrial, are substantially these:
1. That the Bill violates the right of cititens,
guaranteed by the Constitution of the United
States to be secure from unreasonable searches.
Domicils heretofore guarded from all , searches
exeept for stolen property, are by its provisions,
to be searched merely for evidence of guilt.
2. That for its provisions for the 'seizure, for
feiture and dist:nudes. of liquors are inconsistent
with the guarantee in the Constitution of this
State, that "private property shall not be taken
without compensation, nor without due proof of
Law." '
3. That it will weaken the cause of Temper
ance—by mmociating it with injustice and op
pression.
4. That it is so stringent and oppressive that
it cannot be - equally executed everywhere, nor
fully lambda anywhere, and by remaining un
wanted, will diminish 'the popular respect for
Law and its olfmems.
O' Joax biryam., Editor of the "citizen,"
has written an address to his countrymen in Ire
land, upon the proper policy to be pursued by
them in regard to the approaching European war.
The address is expressedin language of the most
fiery eloquence. England, Mr. Mitchel, says,
is one great enemy of Ireland, and a disaster to
the former is a blessing .to the latter. • "We
know," says the address, "that within the last
forty years, whilrli was in
high triumph, and firmly seated in its place of
pride—while prosperity and success shone bright
est upon our 'sister country,' while peace, pro
gress, commerce, reform, philanthropy, and other
/inch fine things, reached their highest develop
ment, and the pirate union jack flaunted resistlesi
over all seas—during those same halcyon years,
Ireland was sinking lower and lower, in means
and in heart, until the crowning of Biitish civil
isation came upon her in 1848 and 18.19."
The address concludes as follows:
"Russia, indeed, is no friend to the people;—
yet the tmecess of the Russian arms would be
salvation for the people now. A war, a good,
long; thundering war, betweeh the sovereigns of
Europe, is the agency by which the people,,of Eu
rope are to be setupon their feet; and it is' against
OE war, not against Russia, that our enemy takes
up arms to keep the war beyond the Pruth, be
yond the Carpathians, inside the gates of the
Bosphbrus--anywhere far away from where it is
wanted—is our enemy's sole policy.
"But if, by the - kind favor of Heaven, we see
Britain's flag and the desecrated tricolor-of Na
poleon trampled and disgraced in the East, thee
the war will infallibly roll westward, and the uew
world will be born of its lightnings and thunders.
"Every 'lrishman who enlists in the British
forces will earn indeed his thirteen pence a day;
but he will earn the heavy curse of his oppressed
country along with it."
EtraoPzax Ilan,lQN.—There can scarce
ly
be a doubt, says the Detroit Free Press, that
within a lapse of a,ve few years, if not, indeed,
of a very few months, a collision wall occur be
tween the United States and one or more of the
European nations. The governments of France
and England have asserted the right to intervene
in the affairs of the western continent, and our
government has asserted that no such Tight ex
ists, and that any.attempt to enforce interven
tion will be met, and resisted with the whole pow
er of the country. This - declaration of our gov
ernment is obviously designed to be disregarded
on the other side of the ocean. In effect, it is
already disregarded . , as recent events in Cuba
show. When the Rear Admiral commanding
the French West India fleet assured the Captain
General of tuba that he would interpose with all
his forces to intercept any eipt.. elition from the
United States against the Islind, as he did after
the seizure of the Black Warrior, he did not act
upon his own responsibility, but in pursuance o f
instructions .from his government, which are
doubtless joihrwith thas , of the British Admi
ral on the mule station. And silken the Fnneh
and English Ministers at Washington' busied
themselves in trying-to alleviate an evhient blan
der of the Cuban authorities, and especially when.
the former had the presumption to call upon the
Secretary of State to converse upon the difficulty,
it was because of a knowledge that: their govern
jamas had guaranteed the possession of Cuba to
Spain, and chit unless the Black 'Warrior affair
could be mended, war would inevitably ethane.
These circumstances--together with the fact that
when this government declined to enter into th e
fiunous tripartite treaty - for the protection of Cu
ba, we were advised by Lord John Russell that
the other parties would act independently in the
protectorate—prove conclusively that European
intervention is a fixed fact.
A Goon BHoT.—One day last week Ylr.V.
Myers, of Fewsburg, killed 17 pigeons at one
shot.—Fredonia Censor.
Pshaw! The other day Mr. Luther Dean, of
Monroe, killed 33 pigeons at one shot.=-om.
&porter.
These are pretty good shots for New York and
Ohio marksmen; but here in. Pennsylvania they
are considered "no great shakes." Proof—Mt.
Isaac .fortis, of Efsrborcreek township, killed a
few days since 53 it one shot, 34 at the second,
and at the next he would have brought down an
acre or so, bat unfortunately his foot slipped just
as he touched theArigger, consequently his aim
was a little too low. As it was, about three
peeks of_ legs was aWthe return he goL
Win Tan Win NOYLNATI:D.--Sonie peg
pia, especially the friends of Gen. Lorimer; are
ezoeedingly puzzled to know why the Whig Con
caution nominated Pollock and Darsief The
simpletonal--it's as plain as John Tyler's nose!
If there is one thing the whig party is great at,
it is imitation. Whatever the Democrats do,
they are sere, sooner or later, to imilak. Thus
the Democracy swept everything once with Polk
and Dallas! Now, time wiseacre at the State
. Convention discovered that Pollock and Dana(
was very near Polk sad Dallas, and so they
"went it,"—but we guess the people wont!
MI6 The;s are but two lire ,Nebrasks men in
Ottumwa county, N. Y., one of whom is the
l'ostinester.—Gaseess.'
irrhe Peemeneer" at Caimmagm am*, we
suppoee. Orr mightier must try spin'
Frew Waikato**,
teerrrapoimimite of die Erie it.,
Wasmwrn crr,
Viet Drat-7U ilibrareff be re Frrr..l4,i
—Mr. Moot, of is.—Camoda wed Cat 4 -
t.k. Armytifr
and Nory— N.. Porn ,
erg, ie.
"Didtnt I tell you we Of storm I ,
.a
sheet it. I told yes then woad be 114 Ilsot
tine and Brlwkwiltdrr; and there Insect,
to ate 000trery notwithsteadlog.
snit, of flu der. and sll tbst, betas I, 4,
sense; they would'ot f,ght. 7 ,..dsd I don't
yes? It Wet me hes to need up fee*.
end that It allow tube socked, printed. v , .01
mantle with "cold lead" and "villainou
it fairly tookee , weehisider to 'Teo think of ,%
would be one' s sensation to be wt up , 1.
shooting stabab, and thee have your "frk.no"
the rectoleenuunter posdkie, Dose, ten, thr,..
' word "three," nay-be day light nal
you, like a streak of moonshine tbr,
fence. No, sir, it's riet , and I , I•A't •
Bard" or "Soft" n
to run the, oe of leer* "butter
and one': children ”horphans." But
Cutting and Breckenridge duel bar
,like a country fourth-of-July oration--tu r .,
good deal of talk, bat to blood spilt.
pers squid have it that the latter R ua
but as he is not the drat member of
shot in the same gpot, and did'ut die, e
my humble opinion, lent seriously [MA,
such a wound. Thedriewspapers say
adjusted "honorably." Very
both "Iloworebles," mod their personal doer ,
very well be otherwise than "settled
ever, john Snooks, wood akwyer, and F .
heaver, had called, one *mother Lan. an'e.
"settle" it, the Police would doubttcr.
aad his honor up at the Court 11.y4f,
their difficulty in • dishonorable es') - , . .
ontnent. So you lee, there
„Ix s
between tweedle-dam and tweedlc Alet,
le-aturi is dressed in broadcloth, &nu t+••is,
tonade!
member of the House hue sprung It:.
denly is Mr. Hunt, of Louisiana. I !!..1"
newspaper .that does not 'contain one or L. -
him; and what is atilt*, remarkable, none
of his intellectual ability, • nut-withstand. •
111011315 deficient in that partkalar. Mr h
ur he wee a whig whim that now defun
latent/. What heis now, I cant say --tn
net is easily determined. He is not 91)-z.
glad am L that be is not. fot wen. ,
newspapers would groan aloud neor .
mg a were duelist to Congress:
true, a professional dnellu, harm: e,: - .
times in vindicating his "boa, — Li,
shout SO years of age, perhaps •
with iron-gay hair, ica a ,mitan.o
alai says very plainly.
When lope my month. let nv ,I
The fact is he is just such a tnar. n
scrupulously easel in all his imerat.i
but always on the watch to smeii out s•
wrong in order to redress the •
of this kind must always be
be mulcted juit as you would aeo-i •
as I acid before: this mates rye.-1
bill is lauded to the skies in
sonarcharacterirties familiarly
word 014epreach. It is very
Nebraska question was credo itt's.
pedantry he displayed in tntertat...•
tram the dead lingoagea, and h.- ,rti t.•
an impression open his hearer L -
S'mehow I novel , did•admlre
(reek and Latin. They We
—unless lumber in the gr,.
EMI
Yo 4 observe. I presume. thatth ,
of 1 , 11 additional steam fr te> i
This. topqber
Fa -2e.1 .-xt,atllnt: far viborttpal
at WllAtt Point, , Ly akkl:ng etxty
dots• one for each Senator, w sdri, . •
there is a latent war-feeling pervd.l.r:
take it nothing of the kind would
Congress unless the menabers were 1-
sustained at home. The fact is 1.7n..1
uncontfortable with Canada crowding
Mt and Mexico on the tither. %Folio t- :
bell, of Ohio, attempted to introduc ,
requesting the "}'resident to Famo. r
opened with the Goo enament of Cr-i;
of ascertaining upon what.condit,,,u.
consent to the anntrsation of the
States." This created a good de. l r--
moved t 9 amend so as to include
the original resolution would u
and the House refused to susper: -
sideeed. I mention this, ar , t r
but a, a signitdeant index of th ‘r •
run ere many years. But to
in vies in calling your attent. , d; '
of our naval and land deferu.o..
oral in fostering both those '
while it year after ye.* wei
benefit of manufsettur:s—olia- i• •-•
the: mechanic arts thou;', tle• Pa' •LI
riffiee-what, L &A, ha , 1. • ,e- '
That 1:0t1t , paramount -;
the teoros returns show. . -
pinyt4 commerce, trade, man„ t. •.*
all combine
)li4ailist :4.400,583 in agrieutturo V. •'
*!itles over two Million, of olav i •:::%1
entizloymmt.. The ag,:r , i1. 0 . , .•
in !Jinn*. farming implement,. a , '
113,;11),o6-L What, i rep, at. , .2. `
department of unduttrial inter,2 *•
shave thiz to he?• Just nothin,;. 1
a few thousand copies of the agT2. a. •
r• pert •4the'Com:nissioner of rat ,,, -
of letter. front various person*. rel:itt
crop,
all their r-speetire loealuiee.N
for •oliFers and sailors: etirournipi7i
scionee.. the . Mtvbanic art/and mann:,
ted- 7 -htit apiculture is left to *Ake ea:
fortune it is &mug it. and of .
A hill 112.9 piiiTl the Mouse esr. •
that useful, but much abused an :,
ernment offices, the Post 3taster--
1.3. Mr. Ott, and in ekplaininc. •'- '4" . • -
compensation of dress offictvs
eon., while their labors bad Llcri
1.11,4t.' law reducing the rates of i5..4.44.-
to give them GO per cent. on re 4 , 0 • . r
SO per cent on s3ooi 40 per yit
all sums over $2400: and 12. 1 .; p•••.• :I , * •
button. Re aorta if the bill shook;
rodue, tho compensation, on .1. -r
lower than it tits under the set
It is said that Col. Fitritsy, theK, , i
at last attained the =remit of bts 7.331. , ,z,
Joint partner in the Viniei eetablitantnt
no denying that it is a snot; little i 'a
so connected, has a prospect of tit.ti, , :t.
economical. But this is not Forno ,.- '
liberal to a fault--or at least is la -i ' .
personally acquainted Ili him. Wn- -..
with that paper will be beneficial U tt.• :.
time alone must dote 'ne. There 1 .1:
out: but that he is h, and will 1..: :, •
sway his public acts, there is no , :u , o'i' -
tire propriety of the arrangement. V..‘ '
will not alter the beta. . and with tip. •
sic t ,, say, yawl aight i l •
Barra, .ki
'kir The *Guxeue "dies h xr,i• •
victory in New Hampshire; hn•
the ghost at last. It sap ui "pi
the result," last week,
That "presentation" was compil. , l -
Hampshire Piltrid; and the
Journal, a whig paper of s:ixi!
speitks of chat •presentation" els.,
"The Patriot may claim tw. , g
representatives than rightly 1, 1 0 .(.c? •
ocratio party—the two zuettaretr tr'"
for instance, where two frL'' + N''
regtdarly.electod—but we , Mir.. -
i .
list is general/3f more accurat :I , ":
have Lees published B. math i, •: )
and A. le. Animas, of Doertielt . b•iv
ed in soave paper as fintoilerri I'
long on the democratic side.
!‘libe Patriot's table gitoi "
majority sf sisoss is the ko
The GazeWi can h& Cennee" . '
4g oolio don" in olgard 'to the Grit"'
I 'llu r; l' •g.
MEM
"wa. thy,