Prams, is an Pita! Nam
Governor Bider
The Democratic party of Pennsylvania never
had a candidate who was more deserving of their
energetic and enthusiastic support than the gen
tleman who is now their standard bearer in the
coming contest. Personally there is no man in
the Commonwealth who presents a stronger
claim for popular suffrage than William Bigler.
The same moral rectitude--the same republican
principles that characterised the poor young man
—Alia "widow's son"—struggling against the
current of the world,'unaided save by his own
indomitable will-e-eow form the leading features
of the Statesman who fills the Gubernatorial
eh,tir of the State of Penntylvania.
The Governor has not hist one of the sterling
qualities that were possessed by the humble and
adventurous youth—public life has only strength
ened him in his virtues and given those virtues
the advantages of experience. The elevation of
snob men to posts of honor, are beautiful tributes
to the working of our republican systems, which
recognizes no station so elevated that it cannot
be reached.by the humblest individual, who need
only possessintellectual and moral qualifications.
Such a man as Bigler should not be sacrificed in
the fever of a contest—should not be bargained
of by a union of discordant interests to seek
power at every sacrifice. •He should not be tried i
by other'nen's failings or short comings, but on
his own merits es a manud a public officer.—
'To establish any other c ue would be unjust,
and also unworthy of theonest and fair dealing
!people of Penney I van is. ,
The young men of Pennsylvania—the sons of
the hardy citizens who have justly been termed
the "bone and sinew" of the Commonwealth—
should constitute themselves the guardians of the
fame of the "Roftsman and Clearfield," and
should labor for his election with all the energy
that determined and vigorous youth can, com
mand. We are aware that designing politicians
encouraged by the representatives of secret or
ganizations are publicly and secretly plotting for
his defeat, but we have too much confidence in
the mass of the peoplato fear their machinations.
There can be no reason given why a Democrat
should not support Governor Bigler this year,
with the same zeal and earnestness that he did
three years since
As a Gov - Ornor he has shown himself to be an
able and impartial officer, and as a Democrat he
has carried qut the professions of his party, in
all the acts of his administrttion, during his term
of offi;ie. We can understand why a Whig
4pol
itician would seek his defeat, and why that A big
politician would attempt to array against him
religious and sectional prejudices—his motives
are easily divined—he desires his place to be fill
ed by a member of his own party! But that a
single Democrat should desert Bigler seems to
us incomprehensible---such a course would give
too much power to cunnu'j on the one side, and
exhibit too much it, ake, si on the other.
Democrats are nut disposed to pursue a coarse
without some show of rea.•on for it, and we are,
therefore, unwilling to believe any statement
that he will not receive the united support of the
entire Democratic party of the Commonwealth.
We ask thai Gov. Bigler and Mr. Pollock• be
tried before the peopk, on their own merit:, and
on the merits of the iksties they represent, and
in that event we need not say that we abide the
result with the utmost Confidence. The verdict
in favor of Bigler and Democracy would be thou
ands—aye, tens of thousands:— York Prnis.
TERRIBLE CAUSALITY 13 THE "BLANEY°
CAVERN," WIsCONSIN—NINE LIVES LOST
A letter in the Philadelphia Ledger, dated Mt.
Vernon, ITl , 2onsin June 23,' says:
A sad accident occurred near this village on
Sunday, the 11th inst. A number of years ago,
when this part of the country was a-howling wil-
derness, a very rich gentleman had wandered
here for the purpri.c c t hunting foxes, &c. One
day in one of hi 4 rambles he came to the foot of
a high perpciailicilar rock (about SO rods from
where now stands'the village of Mount Vernon)
while be wa. exploring the crevices, &c , in
search of fox h he found a large cavern
which led straight into the bluff—he procured a
torch and pro ceded to explore it—be had not
proceeded far before an explosion of the gases
took place, which end .1 his life.
It has been vis.ted since that time, but with
no fetal consequences, (being careful to carry
no fire, except in a &ass lantern,) till last Sun
day, when a number of persons being assembled
at the bows of J)el Britts, en a visit, they con
elndel to take a ride to the village, and to visit
the "Mammoth Cave," which they did. They
had taken the necessary precaution, with the ex
ception of a pipe that remained in the mouth of
the Wife of 'Joel Brats ' •
So they all went in, twelve persons, compris
ing the fo:l , w:ng named, N 1Z: Joel Britts and wife
—Caroline Brats and hereon CyruS, two years of
age—Joseph Brats, Edward Brats, David Smith
and wife—Harriet Lyean, Louisa Lee, Jas. M'•
Nab and Rhoda the two latter of this vil
lage. I was standing about forty rods from the
place when I heard an immense explosion, after
which I hastened to the spot, and what a heart-
rending scene met my eye—it may be imagined,
but not described. All of the before•named per-
sons, except the three latter, were burned and
bruised to death Jtmes M'Sab, Louisa Lee
and Miss Carlm lay ;,:with their clothes burning
and bodies mangled frightfully. They were
placed under the careof the village physician,
who thinks they will ree , ver It is to be hoped
this will be received as ample warning to all per-
SODS who wish to vi.sit the "Burning Cavern "
NEBRASKA —From a private letter just re
ceived from Weston, Missouri. We take the fol
lowins extract:
e are all crazy hem about Nebr Aka. There
are four hundred men in town to-day from Platte
county, ready to g') to the new territory. I
think I can safely say there are over ten thous
and people already i❑ this territory, exploring
and making out claims, and in leas than two
months thtre will be double that number Some
of them will be greatly disappointed, for timber
land is very scarce, and we, the frontier men, are
determined to have our quarter section. We
have had three men out exploring, and they have
onited with ab , ut twenty others in founding a
village on the Chicapa lands, lying at the month
of a large creek. They left a dozen men to
.watch the claim, and come back to Weston this
morning. To-day provisions were sent forward,
and to-morrow some thirty start from here to
form the settlement It is about fifeen miles
from Fort Leavenworth, the Government. sta-
lion, and the prospective seat of government for
the territory, for the- present at least. I shall
start to-m.wrow with the party above named.—
We must protect our cizim by force, build,
houses, Ige , for there is no las: here but the rifle
and the knife But I like the at:nature, and I
am in fcr it if I can get in " _
FUNDISH AFFAIR IN CINCINNATI —We learn
from Cincinnati, that on Monday evbiing a box
was sent to the Marine liu.pital, corner of Long
worth and Western Row, and deposited in the
room of the Steward of the Institution, J. H. Al
ham About 10 o'clock Mr. Allison and his
w if e , being alone in the room, opened the box.
When in the act of doing so, is- exploded with
tremendous force, mangling the Ixelies of both
horribly. Mrs. Allison had both arms torn off,
and her skull fractured. Mr Allison was dread
fully injured, and both died during the day.—
The furniture,window, and the ceiling of the
room sere sha ttered to seems. The indications
are that the box cootaiitod a bomb-shell about
six inches in diameter. Mt. ;ladee a
statement before his death, which will probabll
lead to the.detection of the guilty party. It is
mid that a fellow, named Conwell, committed a
murder some time since, and Allison was ac
quainted with the facts; and it is supposed that
Conwell desired to take the life of 'Allison. The
description given of Conwell by Allison, and the
description given by the boy who delivered the
-box, of the man from whom he received it, cor
ny/a
I=l
Illeerihwknu Oatrage.
P olm tio Don/a Athonitoor of rotorday.
•
11, • fail for language to express our own and
the pehlkiteeling that prevailed in this city, yeti-
Wilt fiendish outrage, committed at the
Beo byterian Church the night before.—
During the night, just after the ere broke out at
the Peninsular Hotel, the church was entered
through one of the windoirs on the north side,
by placing a scantlink against the aide of the
building and breaking out a pane of glass next.
to the fastening on the inside, by which the win
dow was raised and the raffianientered. After
they effected an entrance, nothing was to sacred
for the work of their foul and desecrating hands.
A large and eligantly furnished Bible, that cost
over $5O, presented by the ladies of the society,
and another presented by a private citizen, were
violated in the most sacrilegious manner, by be
ing torn and mulitated from cover to cover, and
besmeared with oil. Nearly every Bible and,
Hymn book belonging to the pews were treated
in the same manner and scattered over the fl nor.
The oil in the lamps and a twe gallon can was
poured over the pulpit, daubed on the walls over
it, and scattered liberally on the carpets and
cushions in the pews. Many of the cushions
were torn np and left in the aisles. A large stick
of wood, with spitoone, pails and chairs were pil
ed np on the pulpit, and the clock dashed to the
floor in front of it. Not satisfied with this, they
broke open the Sabbath School Library and mu
tilated and destroyed about four hundred vol
umes of books, by throwing them in a pile on
the floor and pouring oil upon them.
The church, as it was left by the hands of the
spoilers, was visited yesterday by a large number
of citizens, who, as they looked upon the horri
ble and disgusting scene, could not find language
to express their indignation and teurtigation at
such a transaction.
As yet, we have , beard of no clue• to any mo
tive to justify SUCI2 a piece of sacrilege.
From the appearance of the gram beneath the
window, it is evident that the hand of more than
one participated in, the act. A more wanton out
rage was never committed in this city, nor one
that calls for more vigorous exertions in ferreting
out its perpetrators:
We undeastand that some gentlemen of re•
sponsibility have authorized a reward of several
hundred dollars for the detection of the guilty.
We also Neared that the Common Council were
to hold an informal consultation yesterday after
noon, to authorise the Mayor to offer a reward
in behalf of the city ,We trust this may be
done, and that the reward will be sufficiently
liberal to induce our police, and all oaten ! , to use
every effort to ferret out and bring the guil:y to
justice.
--Or
THE DIFFERENT ROUTES —One can hardly
imagine anything more futile or more absurd,
than the controversies in progress as to the most
feasible route for a railway to the Pacific. Of
what consequence can it be, which is the best
way to goorlaen there is no intention of going at
all, during the life-time of the present generation
A late number of the Chickasaw Intelliyearer in
forms us on the the 15th inst., there urrived at
Preston, Texas, from El Paso, the C. S survey
ing party sent to explore the railway route
through Texas along the thirty-second parallel of
latitude. This party was commanded by Capt
John Pope, of the Topographical Engineers, at:id
left El Paso on the 20th of February, with an
escort of twenty-five soldiers and a umber of
assisting men, striking for Preston in a direct
line, with the exception of a deviation made in
order to pass through the Guadalupe mountains
These were found to be on the west of the Pecos
river, instead of the east, as they aro generally
laid down on the maps. The party found a good
shoal ford on the Pecos, near the mouth of Dela
ware creek, 400 miles above the deep and diffi•
cult place where the emigrants usually cross by
means of rafts. They crossed the Llano Estaca
do, a distance of 125 miles, and found no vege
tation except a kind of red grass, and at into.-
vais of from ten to twenty-five ru 1. :in AL , r -pe
;ties of grass. After leaving this rt they
struck the head waters of the Colorado, er - *sing
Marcy's trail near the Double in cotain F-rk of
the Brazos The cullce ions of Sp_`?lCll o 2Ul in h-,t
-any, geology, and natural history gathered by
the survey are said to be quite tx:cia•l‘e and in
tereszing Timber abounds I), tween Pre,t,,n and
the Colorado, and the surface of the country' piss
ed over was undulating and adapted for raliroarl
purposes. All this may be interesting informa
tion, in the abstract, but considered in reference
to the purpose for which it is communicated, it
is of no importance whatever. There is n more
probability that a railfiiad to the Pacific will be
built on a southern route, than that the filltbas
ters will throw a suspension bridge from the Dry
Tortugas across to Havana.
MARSHAL ST ARNAUD —The Quebec Obser
ver professess to have become acquainted with
some details not generally known, in regard to
Marshal St. Arnaud, the generals-halo of the
Anglo French army in Turkey. It says:
His name was originally Lerr , y, but as a na
tive of the town of St Arnaud, he appenclod the
aristocratic "de St. Arnaud" to his name—of
course only in order to be distinguished from
other Ltroys in the army At a later period be
droped the original name altogether, and be
came St. Arnaud At the time, when still only
Capt. Leroy, he was aid de-camp to Gen. Rul
hieres in Algeria, and embezzled the funds of the
regiment. He would have been cashiered and
sentenced to long imprisonment but for the gen
erosity of Rulhieres, who, appreciating the mili
tary talent and bravery of the young officer,
hushed up the matter, and slowed him to restore
the embezzled sum by instlaments When, in
consequence of the coup d'etat on the 2d Decem
ber, St. Arnaud became Minister of War, his
first act war to put General Rulhieres on the
half-pay list, since by his own experience he
knew that the old General was no strict disipli
narian, and connived at the irregular conduct of
his sabalterns. We call such facts by the name
of huge ingratitude; but some future Rev. Mr.
Abbott, illustrating the history of Napoleon 111.
may find that St. Arnaud's abnegation, by pun
ishing Gen. Rulhieres for having saved the Min
ister's honor in firmer days, surpassing even the
feats of Brutus and Manlius Torquato!, who sen
tenced their own sons to death for having brok
en the law.
A MOCK DOLL AND REAL TRAGEDY —A
New Orleans correspondent of the Loukville
Democrat, writing under date of June 10th, gives
an account of a mock duel among some .."sport
ing gentlemen," which ended in a real tragedy
The principals in this affair exchanged shots,
when one of them, who understood the fact that
the pistols were not charged with balls, fell and
proceeded to die in an awful manner His an
tagonist who was not in the secret, was much
frightened, and being advised by ikicae of the
jokers to see, took refuge in a swamp, where he
lay until hunted out by a friend and informed of
the joke in the case. He was enraged, and a
short time after, meeting the gang, that had been
engaged in the fun at his expenv ' in a gambling
house, he made attack on two of them with a
teary cane, aid was shot and killed by one of
the persons assailed. The correspondent of the
Democrat says:
The name of the victim of this comedy and tra
gedy. was Schlessinger. He was a native of Eng
land, only 26 years of age, of liaclsome, athletic
person, and his generel •appearanee such as to
create a regret that he should follow such an un
worthy profession as that of gambling, or come
so such an unworthy end.
is. The story going the rounds of the prey
itr regard to the youngest son of the celebrated
Patrick Henry having recently died in a poor
house, is pronounced by the Washington Star
to be inawroct. The person alluded to died t
some three years ago The Star says "he died
poor, but his poverty was an honorable poverty,
and his loot days were cheered by the kind atten
tions of attached friends sad relatives. Inherit
ing an ample estate, it woo ! passed from him, for i
his - heart was too big, and hal bald too open, for '
the *Ash ways of &is asLiah earld."
The War—Ptivata Liam lima as 'American
&Adler.
Paris, Thome lay, June 15, 1854.
I have just beam shown a private letter from ,
Col. Bowles of the United States Army, dated
a t, Constantinople, and directed to a ge ntleman
in this city, which contains a very clear and im-1
partial resume of the situation of the belligerent I
tones at this moment. Col. B. has received a
command in the Turkish service, and was on his
way to take his place in the army. The French
and Englisir journals exaggerate so notoriously
in regard to the situation of affairs, in order to
keep up home enthusiasm in favor of the war,
that a little evidence coming from an intelligent
and an impartial source is of great value.
Col. Bowles was present at Athens when the
French and English landed and took possession
of the Grecian capital. He represents the gen
eral appearance and bearing of the soldiers on
that occasion, as the finest ho - ever saw. Ho I
thinks that the submission of the Greeks is one
of compulsion entirely, and says that they curse
the French and English to a man. The journals
of Paris and London, on the contrary, represent
King Otho and a great portion of h subjects, as
overjoyed at the allied intervei. :•e Col. Bow
les represents the conduct of the French and En
glish commanders on the occasion, as high-hand
ed and arbitrary in the extreme. Orders were
given to the war vessels in port, that if the queen
attempted to escape by sea, as was anticipated,
she should be seised and held as a prisoner, nn
til king signed the terms imposed upon him
' Ile says that up to the present time tbe
tna
jority of successes have been in favor of the Rua
' sians; that the reports published by the Turks of
the tsmstant immense losses on the part of the
I Russians, and the insignificant losses on their
; own part, are gross exaggerations, scarcely sur
passcd by the Russian bulletins themselves. He
'represents the English and French armies :Is be
ing the most perfect in their equipments, exer
t cises and military bearing of any armies perlops
of modern times; while the Turks, on the contra
ry. are sadly 'ranting in all these attributes
There are 250,000 Russians on Turkish soil,
while opposed to them there are at present but
60,000 English and French, and 120,000 Turks.
This force united and strongly intronehed, can
act on the defensive; but as for acting on the ot
fensive, he considers it impossible They may
defend the pas sag e of the Balkans, but they can
not drive the Russians out of the Principalities
I The army of Asia he represents in a more de
' plorable condition still, and states that it occu
; pies a position so critical that if not relieved soon
by a reinforcement of good soldiers, it wilt inev
itably be cut to pieces Of Sevastapol he says
that, aided by the Russian fleet, it will be a port
so difficult to take, that the combined fleets are
afraid to attack it.
The prospect seems gloomy enough, but when
it is recollected that Turkey has really accom•
plished nothing substantial thus far as the result
of a battle, while on the contrary Russia has
constantly advanced, there seems z.ome ground
for tlte conelu.ions at which Co! urrireb
—N Y. Tr;bune
The Danger of Marrying an Actreu
Most newspaper readers will r•T-Ileet the mar
riage of Fletcher Woodward, of Syra,-use, v.ith
, Susan Denin, an actress of sotu ,, celebril
Sometime ago Susan and her Lu-harid and her
sister Kate, (who marrisd an actor named
went to California on a professional engagement
It seem, she there became intimate with a man
named Bingham The following fr , m the Syra
(la, Standard, tells the rest of the story:
NVf , learn that there was no actual saparati
between Mr Woodward and Susan prcriou ,, to
leaving San Francisco, but that Woodward aas
disploazed at the intimacy existing between his
' wife and Bingham, and de-ired t,, bring hir
home to her friends Kate did .ve San
Francisco, but remained in On tip'
passage, considerable fee'.ln,.' -a as , ..raced by the
passengers who had beeotr.: fnu tli c;r
eumstanees. They en , lev-reo t
ward L. ~ .hoot Bingham, fun. d, and the
puazseugers would have k t:.• -.Awes, but
the Captain interposed, an V rt.lo.l to deliver Lim
up t our Consul on tl.. at Panama Tile
C•msul had no juri.l , ,:taon in the cas ,,, , and was
I t bun free Revolvers were exhibit
ed by Bingham during the whole time, and Mr.
Van Alstyne states that Susan was also armed
with a revolver. At Aspinwall, while the pas
, sengers were on their way from the ears to the
hotel, about 10 o'clock in the evening, Bingham
was sh - it. :u the back, the ball entering just above
the nip He immediately fell, and was taken to
ttr hotel, where a phys:clan tramin^d the
wounds, and declared there wag no h ope of his re
covery It is not known who shot him, and va•
rious surmises are afloat.
B ogham is represented to bo a married man,
with a wife and two children srm , vrlicr2 in the
Atlantic States, and another wife in C..lif
whose father heard of his former marriage and
obliged him to leave His name was probably
' assumed
Susan refused to come on to New York, and
Woodward was also desirous of remaining, I , ut
the passengers took him by force and put Lim
aboard the steamer
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DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LTFE.-
At the recent celebration at the opeulng of the
Ohio and Mississippi Railr , ad Seymcur, an
appalling accident occurred. The train from
Aurora, when nearing the Seymour depot, was
firing salutes from a cannon, which was attached
to the last platform on the tr in. A. small fur
nace, used fi.r heating the r. 41 with which the
cannon was set off, lay close by the breech of the
gun, and the wind, it -app blew a spark of
this fire into the chest where about a keg or twoof
powder had bet n emptied An instantani , ms ex
plosion was the consequence, and rix men, who
were on the car at the time, were blown into
the air and horribly mangled Recent intelli
gence from Aurora announce the deaths of three
of the sufferers. Their nines are R. P. Squib,
John Bodley, and Henry Doolan. Donlan was
deranged for several hours previous to his death
A MOST HORRIBLE .MURDER.—A brutal
murder was committed near Quebec, Canada, last
week, of which the Chronicle sap:—
"Thu unfortunate victim was a young girl ag
ed 11, named C.►mre Lennay. It appeared upon
examination of her body that she had been first
violated, then killed by a blow upanthe head,
and afterw.trds barbarously ripped open. Th ,, ugh
suspicion rests upon an individual resident in the
neighborhood of the outrage, we are ~e rrs to here
that as yet no reliable clue has been obtained to
the person who committed it. The verdict of the
jury was wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown."
WONDERFUL-A singular circumstance, says
the Springfield Republic, of Wednesday, 21,t
ult. took place on the Mad River road yesterday.
A couple of Irishmen had walked out abut two
miles in the direction of Urbana, when the sud
den whistle of the locomotive announced the com
ing of the four o'clock train for Dayton' All
the efforts of one of the two were unavaiiing to
induce his friend to leave the scene , if danger
Another moment and the entire train, con,i+uug
of four or five heavily laden curs, beside the en
gine, had passed over him. His body came down
last evening, and what is extremely strange, so
little was he injured that he is able to walk thi,
morning without any other assistance than a cane.
A truly marvelous incident
MI:RDLit. -A . woman named Maagaret Ellis,
a prostitute, was murdered yesterday about noon
by a fellow named Fred. Mitchell, under the fol
lowing circumstances It appears that )larga
r •t, with a woman named Anna Jamison, were
hying on Clinton street, some distance out, and
were visited yesterday by Mitchell and a com
panion named James Herd. Mitchell got into a
dispute about a ring, and after words had passed,
he fell upon her and beat her in so merciless a
manner as to cease her almost instant death.
The sillian was arrested last evening by Police
men Germain and Winchell,of Capt. Davenport's
swim. He is now in jail.—Buislo
OBrit adttklß Obstrber.
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SATURDAY mORNINGPULY 8, 1864
DEMOCRATIC /TATS SONIZA7IOIII.
7011 00911101 k
WILLIAM BIGLER,
Of Clearfield Comfy.
JUDGZ 07 SUM= 001112
JEREMIAH S. BLACK,
of Sodierset Ciresty.
MR CAUL colommoin:
HENRY S. MOTT,
Of Pike County.
ear We have but a few words of reply to the
Editor of the Girard Express. When as Editor
leaves the political arena to become a sectarian
bigot, and assails those who differ with him in
regard to religious belief with the language of
the fish market, OT, more properly, the_ slang of
the "Know Nothings" of the Five Points in N‘w
York, he should not complain if he noires a se
vere rebuff from those who believe that this Gov
ernment was formed sad instituted to protect and
succor the oppressed of all denominations—Ca
tholie, Pagan, Protestant and Jew: But this
aside! We said in our article that there is no
connection between the Democnitie party and
the Catholic Church. This our "Know Nothing"
friend denies, and says he "can show" there is
such a connection "by the elections of Uri last
ten years " This is mere assertion—an assertion
the Editor don't attempt to prove—don't believe
himself, and don't expect say body else to be
lieve This is evident, for in the very next sen
tence he tells us "the two great political parties
in Ilea country both sprung from Protestantiam;"
also, that "our government is purely Protes
tant," &c , Now, both of these positions
cannot be correct, for the Democratic party has
administered this government, in the Legisla
tive. Executive. and Judicial departments, with
but an interruption of twelve years, ever since
the adoption of the , Constitution Bat we deny
that "our Government is purely Protestant"—
We deny that it is purely or remotely Catholic!
We deny '"that its religion is the Protestant re
liginn," or the Catholic religion, or the Jewish
religion, or any other sectarian religion. This
Government knows no religion as such; those
who constitute the Government, the people, are
composed of allisects, and are free to worship
how and where they please. This is not mere
assertion—it is the language of the Constitution
it-elf--that very "magus charts" our "Know
Nothing" eotemporary asserts "has made this
country what it is." The language of that in
,trunaent is plain "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or pro
hib: ting the free exercise thereof." It asserts in
another place that "no religions rex shall ever be
required as a qualification to any office or public
trust under the United States." The position
of the Express would, if carried into practice, to
tally abrogate these wise provisions of the "mag
na charts" of our liberties.
Another assertion made by the Express, that
• , ,t is well know to every one that had Catholic
influence been brought to bear, in the formation
of our Government, the Bible would have been
excluded every where, and that seared magus
charta, whose influence has made this country,
what it already is would have been set aside."
' 2 l
New, this wholesale charge is "not well known,"
except to the imagination of its author; on the
contrary facts and history, which ought to be
"well known" to an Editor, contradict it. Ma
ryland, settled as it is "well known" by Catho
lics, was the first Colony that proclaimed "reli
gious toleration;" and this, too, at the very time
the New England colonies, settled by Puritans,
were scourging Q...akers and banishing Baptists.
But, we steed not waste words upon this matter—
„it is well known,” for it is a matter of history,
that the Catholic and the Protestant stood side
by side in signing our Declaration of Indepen
dence—they fought side by side from Bunker
Hill to Yorktown—their blood has flowed and
ca.ngled upon every battle-field, from Quebec,
where that /nAman, Motrroomstrr, fell, to the
heights of Cero Gordo, where that Irish Catho
lic, SHIELDS, was carried from the field only
where the flag of his adopted country floated from
the enemies works!
The Express is also very much exercised at
the number of immigrants that seek our shores.
Did "the well known fact" ever enter this Edi
tor's cranium that every full grown man who
comes from Europe to this country eubtracts just
so much physical wealth from the country of his
birth and adds it to the country of - his adoption?
If we import a Horse, no man will dispute that
the country is one horse better off, because its
labor is available; its labor has been taken from
Europe and transferred to America. Now who
will say that the same principle c does not hold
good iu regard to‘man. It has oust us nothing
to raise those who seek our shores—it has cost us
nothing to import them—they come among us
full grown human machines, ready to build rail.
roads, dig canals, clear up our forests, and add
wealth and power to the country. That our an
cestors looked upon it in this light we have no
doubt, for in setting forth their grieveanoes in the
Declaration of Indepedenoe they say the King:
"Has endeavored to jarvserat the porde/aims 'of
these 'States; for that purpose °fairway the laws
fur the naturalisation of foreigners, refusing to
pass others to encourage their sairystioa hither,
and raising the new appropriation of lands."
Wherein does the doctrine of the Express dif
fey from the acts of King George complained of
by the signers of the Declaration of Indepen
dence? "We pause fur a reply."
THE. NEW TIJILITOZILL—The Pennsylvania
Inquirer, a leading whig organ, in speaking of
the Emigrant Societies, for populating Kansas,
pretlieCtt that their movements will "soon guaran
tee ate freedom of the tug sew Territories."
Wbe re then will be the platform of the now howl
ing Abolition-whig party? Echo answers where?
se- The Gazette publishes an anti-Nebraska
address, and adds that "it is signed without dis
tinction of State or Party." The Gristle is get
ting funny! as it is a fact that but two or three
Democrats, Messrs MAXI, of Is.
.and Forrox,
of N. Y., h.u.i any thing to do with it !
lir A dispatch to the New Turk .Express
btates that the Senate on Saturday rejected the
Canadian Reciprocity Rill The chief reasons
against its ratification, the dispatch mays, were
the alleged inequalities of benefits confer r ed apd
received, and an intriagensent of the revenge
laws, which shot& originate in the Bosse of
Repreiestatirs.
Gensit bah sad die Angulolila of Csba.
The mess, in announcing the resignation of
Hon. Gsnitarr Sierra, the: well-known abolition
member from New York, are prolific in their re
marks of astonishment at the event, and also that
he should have declared himself favorable to the
acquisition of Cuba and Mexico by this Gov
masa If we are correctly informed, Mr I
8. long since r deolared himself favorable to the
acquisition of Cuba. And he based his advoca
cy of the messure . upon the philanthropic grounds i
that by bringing that Island into the Union, as a i
State, emery would sooner be abolished than it
would under theSpenish rule. People generally
may not regard this position . as sound, yet wet
vesture to assert that fiw have 'examined the!
question as minutely, as throughly, as philan
thropioally, and, may we add, as honestly, as
GIMLET? Sxrrs; for however much we may
differ with that gentleman, we have never doubt
ed his airway/ Of aourse we do not know the
suet reasons which have operated upon Mr. S's
mind to lead him to the oonclusions we refer to,
but it appeariso us there are many, very netu3y,
good and sufficient reasons why every true friend
of the dove should seek to wrest, by purchase if
possible, by force if necessary, that island from
the Spanish yoke. The first and principal ret
ools we take to be, that if Cuba belonged to the
United States, the slave trade would be entirely
stopped, a result not possible so long as the island
is owned by Spain. The Cohen slave trade(we quite
froms writer in the Boston Olive Branch, who
has visited Cuba,) has very extensive ramifica
tions, and receives direct support from the only
nation which has pretended to be anxious for its
suppression--Great Britain. the modes operan
di of getting up a slave expedition is something
like the system of putting forth a lottery. The
capital stock is fixed at say 1200,000, to purchase
and fit out a good vessel, and to buy the cargo.
Shares are issued at one hundred or more do/tars
each, and are purchased by the highest as 4 well
as the middling classes of the whole island A
small trader, a clerk in a dry goods shop, or a
mechanic, who has been able to accumulate a lit
surplus, is willing to risk it in a venture that
may bring him a return of five or six times his
outlay—while many capitalists seek these shares
as an irregular but. sure and profitable invest
ment. It is also a favorite species of gambling
with government officers of all grades: from the
Captain-General down to the village alcalde; and
even the Queen of Spaitt, and the Queen mother,
are known to have acquired vast fortunes by it.
Then if the cargo is safely landed, the cotepany
must pay some two or three doubloon 4 for each
negro to the Captain-General of Cuba, who it is
well understood, divides with the Queen and her
favorite officers. Now for the British phase in
the trade. Some years ago, by treaty with Eng
land, Spain agreed to atlefish the slave trade and
to treat it as piracy. A commission of British
and Spanish officers was instituted, called the
Mixed Commission, to sit at Havana. This com
mission, ifs slaver is caught and brought into a
Cuban port, after the investigative, decrees the
cargo forfeited, and the slaves free—and the way
they are made free is this:—the Degrees are cull•
ed ensancipados, and are apprenticed to whoever
chooses to apply for them, for a term of yeais, on
,the estates or in the cities, to pay expenses of cap•
tore, kc. The name of the entanciixido is duly
registered, the date at which he was apprenticed,
dilly noted, as well as the day on which his ne•
prentioeship is to cease. We forget The number
of years the entancipado must serve, but we 1.),2-
lieve it is a little less than the average I,fe of en
African slave on the island. If he should live
until the expiration of his term, it is very easy t
evade the law which releases him. The excuse
sometimes is that he has absconded, or it is net
at all difficult to get up a certificate of his death
The slave, of course, speaking but little er ni
Spanish, is easily kept in ignorance if hi, r
and as no one is particularly interested in "keep
ing the run of him," ten to one that his appren
ticeship only ends when God steps in an I d, , ,-
eolves the compact. As proof of this stat,tuen•
of die British c hase of Cuban slavery, we have
only to adduce the fact known to ail our readers,
that England a few years since demanded the lib
eration of all the entancipados, erli.)e terms had
expired, supposed to be at least twenty tAonscin ! l
Of course they were all liberated—when found
Our readers will perceive that the foreeeing,
are mighty reasons why the really philau.eir , r::
among all parties and sects should lack upon tre ,
acquisition of Cuba with favor But there arc
others. The theory of slavery in Cuba, (says the
same writer above) is mucfa more liberal au-I
generous than that of the tuited States—and
philanthropists would hope under rear govern
ment not only to see it carried out in practic , ,
but introduced into our Southern system In
Cuba the law gives the slave the right at any time
to change his master, or to purchase his freederii
If the parent of a slave child pays twenty-foe
dollars to the master on the day of its christen
ing, the child is free. If the master neglects the
christening until the slave becomes of age, the
rule holds good, and he must part with him for
twenty-five dollars.
The average price of an able-bodied slave
about five hundred dollars. As with us, a slay.?
is sometimes charged by his maser so much per
month for his time, and all he accumulates ov,r
that sum is his own. If he get %nly one hun
dred dollars, he can demand of his master the
prise at which he shall have his freed , rn If the
muter refuses to seta sum, or is exhorbitant in
his demand, the slave cites him before the S .n.
dice which officer files the price. As the Soy
dike profits some lty the sale of a, slave, he gem , -
rally, unless operated upon by the master finan
cially, names a very moderate price, less than the
real value, so that an appeal to this officer is not
of so frequent occnrrenoe as one would supposo,
and consequently the master and slave fir the
price between them. If the slave is valued at
$5OO, and pays his master $lOO, he is then said
to be "enarfacio" for $4OO, and has the rpiiit to
select his master any where within the district,
paying eighty per cent of his earnings to his ,Id
mister, keeping ane-fifth for such necessaries as
he may need, and puts a little in the sinking
fund for the balance due for his freedom If he
pays $2OO on his price, his old master collects
sixty per cent of his earnings, or if ho pays $3OO
forty per cent, leaving the rest for the emancipa
tion fund.
A slave has also the right, if he considers him
self cruelly treated or overworked, to apply to
the Sindico, who on proof, may give him a certi
ficate of his value, with three days' time to find
a DOW master who will treat bun better, and who
is willing to ply the certified value. Thy, then_
ry is that as the Siadieo will fin a low price, the
Plaster, for fear of losing his slave, will be led to
in" 1 4 well) 1 1441 ap tio ether side, that the
slays will be more iadostrkes ma tractable,
fres the. somddseetiaa that if be is sot no, be
will be considered near worthless, and conse
quently unable to change masters, as a cheap tin
gro is accounted rather poor property on a sugar
plantation or anywhere else. We would not have
our readers suppose that these humane provis•
ions in the Cuban slave code, are always carried
out—we have stated them to be th-ory in some
measure, rather than practice. Nevertheless,
they are much practised in the towns and more
populous districts, and are of incalcu:ahlr betio
fit to the slave, and of no great goonl t) the MISS -
ter. It will be seen that if Cuoa was annexed to
the United States, the State naving the power to
make her local laws, would probably continue
those already in existence in regard to staves,
and Ilia , these laws would have a powerfu' luau
ence avimilating the laws of our Sluthr•rn
States to them It is known ale) that many , t
the alav ,, itoldera in Cuba h favor of gralu
emaaeip•L:t In, by freeing every chill torn ~fs ',are
parents after a certain age, emanc.p )0 to
all who survive twenty•fiv2 years, an t lbw, much
powerfa: aid would :le gic a f , -:m a right source
to the ant,-%lavvry movement
A SATE PREDICTION.—The N Y Darc/insaa
predicts that the principle of ab.,clute free trade
tbostined before many year t b,... , r , n3e a
lug and fLlCCesqul political questi - o iu the Uni
ted States Direct taxation, it •ay.., would n , t
only censure a cheap governm n t but
male every man pay tosards the exp,ivicnture
of the ostion, , ,according to hi , ‘ pr,p-rty lad in.
come. This s r
now far from be:L , C:i , .. S,
long as the vernment is 2 , upp , rt. dby m , 11:.J,
obtained by duties on import,ci n.. s., ;Jug Tic.
poor man coutribulcs as much towara It,. , xpen
4es of the cohntry as the mllli , na::, 'LI,. Ty
chatitc that works for two dullar• ::. :,:is a. s n 5
much salt, crlfee and sugar, a!: , •I, -,.. d t..,:,.....c1i,n
people , if Wail Street, whos: it -in: am alit t....
$5,000 a month Direct tix r , w r u i; , rx i.
fy a:I tni. )njustloe It w_q...l ::,..„ ITl.litm B
A.,t,r c ,, ntributc $5,0 ,- ..0 t ,w. , r :-
of th. nci,)nal g. , Nornua,n., :
that now contributes -'m•^ E5O F ,, r ,14„purn.
escape with fire tf.n Dir. , ' , ax u n u.d
n t only Freak up inju!,•l...•, t•it st . )ulti
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arc ••_tne
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the syst( n) acqu..inted wth
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wind. CLUJ LIP rS, and did a g idtait n t •
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rowed ourself into a boggy, bet,rie
"chum," nnd, behind one of "Perry?.
most del;ghtfut ride through the western pe, ni ;
Crawl ri Inuntlea We way delightful, fer
Been the tells so laden with the prodnite
man, or the people generally, whether Le r 4,
try, a; p •ar prlsperous. Beery w but tee
dust? Wee els:bill, both is the lucre Lied eue,
put .3 n.I:t.VIIT.IOD on the One haled, a re d
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played in erected dwellings, stores, 1, 0 1,, ;71,,
ocie el: ages we pleased through, on the ',ter
oetr owi county, idyll)* famed a 4 tee tp .
CO , ir.try e.ilage, looked more anon eating 0,, 2
than el'er (Nite a somber of roe ble at . ;
barn been erected mince we were, oat seers
13 w/ were informed, and au red Itly betty
Were we a city millionare, we kt ow of n, ,
,a preference to Garrard, 0 tett,le u s
and urtry the sultry 1{111311:12er m. in}./
er.terpeatng town on tt ,• Caaa ., 'll-•
rOld meetings and the mane seturs
eu;:, r. was able, though not a gaged
111 own canoe," and I.IIRII ears„ ,.
ty we regret to learn that tb a 3 lesara
cu.!: arrangements to remove t Air o, a .
:n loono• of the timber Iv ed.n tzelr
exhausted Thu wtll b e a cad .
i tutu prospenty of Lockport. A:01)o, t z ,
our note, we found equally d , urialaing
.01 - nene; quantit.es of Hoe, 9 bore: azO
naanura— /rel. Also, the te , ,od 'tee f.a
Horse ra,trs, sto, lc, gtvin ; steely at ;
p 4yment for a large nom oar of laborers.
Molo-t North and Dento, • ngaged •bs E.
Aso i.e footory, have a ma nufaetory Is
Y , re where toe Hoes and Shoveler are ma;..
lel t..,r a western marker . are erect
I. a-.d et , leo finished art shipped by se.•:..
Casa' e tl the Ohio at titiver, or
E - e. and from thence to t/ este place of des' .
.nretdel 1.. r an eastern m trite: ate hat”.
N , Ak Seri, the bandits be.ng sh.ppt!
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