kluit atethig Ob.strber, ERIK, PA SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 8, 1855 "Fui4uL" The prospects of a "fusion" of those who have life long been political antagonists, in order to save our,county and city from misrepresentation ettet*burg, and more efficiently protect our before the Legislature, seems to become mote L4bering every day. Last year it was wonted; but it was adopted practically never theless, and the result proved eminently antis fibctory. Hence it is, we suppose, that such com munisations as the following are admitted into columns of the Gazette: Misuse EIRTVILL-A fusion of parties on Assemblymen seems to be generally desired, on account of nes nature and importune of our local interests. I can coacetve of no method of carrying it oat so completely and triumphantly as by sending beck the old ones, Messrs. Tuours on mid BALL. It is not too much to say they are the best men, the most skilful and practical, fir the position to be found in the Co. I therefore trust that action will be speedily taken looking to a general rally upon them by men of all parties. This done, I think they can't any longer withhold their ament. But if they should even then peremptorily decline, let a Whig of Wit4 , ol K iso' , 4 order of character and qualidostioes be associated with some Democrat occu pying the same position on our local question, and the sup port of all true friends of Erie invoked in their behalf. In the same vein is the following upon the same subject from the editorial columns of that paper. There is a gratifying change in the tone of the Gazette sinoe last Pall: wa. The suggestion of a correspondent that if there is to be • "fusion" on Assemblymen, it can best be effected in the name of the gentlemen above mentioned, is, doubt less, well predi ed We have nothing to say in the spirit of fliststion—we have no desire to assume any sort of leadership in the matter—but we are satisfied that if our local interest demand such "a coming together" as is pro posed, (and we incline to the opinion that they do„) the end eoatemplated can most certainly be accomplished through the Instrumentality of the geudemen who represent ed use ably and efficiently in the House Last Winter. If our shimmer all parties are convinced of this, they ought to send them back—we were going to say, "willing or not willing." We premiss, however, that if put in the field, neither tumid peremptorily decline Elo it appears "Ephaim is not joined to his idols," therefore let no democrat be captious or unreasonable. On the contrary, let all respond to the oonoesion ;lave in the same generous spirit it is extended. Democrats, after a pro scription of twenty-five years, you are beginning to be appreciated, therefore bear your "blushing honors" meekly and courteous 4 The dawn is breaking! ABOUT RIGHT.—The Buffalo C'ommerciai, in noticing the fact that Judge ELMORE, of Kan sas, recently removed by the President for his land speculations, has written to the Attorney General, in substance, that he holds his office, independently of the Executive branch of the'. Government, and that he will invoke the action of the judiciary to maintain him in it, says it had previously regarded the removal Roma E as an ill-advised and arbitrary act, suggested by con - siderstionsuuworthy of the President of the Uni ted Stites, and it is still inclined to suppose that he was displaced in order to make a show of oonsistency, after Gov. Reeder had been sacrific ed to propiciate the slave power, but the Judge is manifestly unfit for his place, and ongh t to have been turned out, any way. A man holding an important judicial position, who talks of resisting his own removal, through the Courts, after the decision of the Supreme Court in the [case of Goodrich, the territorial Judge turned out by Mr. Fillmore, ought to be removed, and no ques tions asked. MO JUST As WY EXPICTED.—We suppose our readers have not forgot how, when the juror cradled by "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was at its height, the Duchess of Sutherland got up and circulated a petition, called the "Petition of the Women of England," for the abolition of Slavery in Amer ica. Like all humbugs, the great "Duchess" was the reigning deity among- the Sambo sympathi ses, and political mountebanks of that school, in this country. Her philanthropy was ever in their mouths, while the sin and shame of the cru el slaveholders of the South in not listening to her "regal" appeal, was the theme of many a Sony barfangue,and eloquent effort from the pulpit the press, and the stump. Well, time passed thephilanthopic Duchess and her famous petition became, like "Uncle Tom," dead stock in the American market. Not so in England, for we notice among the items of news by the last arri val, that the Duchess of Sutherland, the great London friend of "Uncle Tom," and the leadipg subscriber to the petition of the "Women of England" for the abolition of slavery in Ameri ca, ham just permitted a poor bed-ridden woman, with her new-born babe, to be turned out into the open fields, for the non-payment to her hus band's estate of a trifling amount of rent' Hu manity, like charity, should always begin at Lorne. TB/ Nxw STAFF. OF RIO GRANDE.—A New York Sunday paper, in referring to the proposed new State of Rio Grande, humorously remarks that new states come regularly knocking at the door of our republic, and ask for admittance. The United States, u a people, appear to be looked upon as a sort of bettering house for the sick, abandoned, and pauper off-shoots of other nations. The moment they find themselves un able to support themselves, they rush inconti nently hitherward for aid and protection. Nor do they modestly solicit charity, but ask at once to be made members of our '"happy family," without waiting to be mesmerised into a condi tion of affectionate unity. Rio Grande, they tell vs, is to be our next visitant in this way. Texas is to inttednoe her and endorse her propri ety. In Brazil, it is customary tosay, "Mr. So and-So, this is my friend. Recieve him into your eonidenee. If he steals anything lam responsi ble!" Whether or not Texas will be as frank with au in requesting our consideration for her Dew protege, Malin tO be MM. , Perhaps it may be meneosemay. We shall look, however, with eassiekushio interest on the scene that must en sue when Rio Grande makes her curtsey to Con gress, wad the north and the south look the lit th beauty is the face, and begin to mint noses to see bow she would look if seated at the family table. ib i lhe,Doosoonts of Woresoter, Mao. held a =lnay ass ting 0111 Elatordoz anoint last. One old ake lout in Ave under Trinidad Pines, snored • m o i s ti m si d.watos the Adaduistrotion. It was totolod lath hit one dienossing vont, No arra.) sad sishosquently, by resolution. beaded over to tlo Ow Mood "mad tie eoroor Amid lave boos there. Rio vs* trombl 1111•11 esostodeoro.—Googue. Whilik in addition to that of the mover, would bine made dowel Quite a respectable array of /KOMI NM is s State that elects His 466. L tlllllSp WINO* on the memory at Webster, sad Baalme Irdl, mad repudiates the Ceestitatias of the earatry. Odle a respectable vote, indeed, is s lbw that bum Owes* sad thea refus als to pay kr timm—that sends “amalliaig ea Witted' ire paivaishosamsta pry into the alair ai• sad vie 'pis' bedroom. Aye; yea, say hos . roil wit to coat *to is auk a ikails. Three out of the four political parties in the E m pi re &idolises held their annual conventions, laid down their platforms, and two of them nom rated full tickets: viz.: the Know Nothings and the "Hard" and the "Soft" Democracy! One other party is yet to show its hand, and bring forth its champions—the Seward whigs! If pol itics in new York has heretofore been a mystery to us outriders, that mystery is now doubly mys tified. We see the names emblazoned upon their banners, we see them marshaling their hosts; we hear the battle cry, we read their resolutions, and we see far in the distance, the spoils—still the mystery of the political field is as dark as ever. Why Seward Whigs, Fillmore Whigs, and Know Nothing Whigs, should not train un der the same captains—why they should not oc cupy lovingly the same bed, and eat from the same table, is a problem deeper than our philo sophy! Why also the "Hard" and "Soft" Dem ocracy, should jostle one another on the day of reward, or rejoice over one another on the night of defeat—why the broad platform of the party upon which they both agree, is not broad enough for all to stand upon without additions that they do not nor cannot agree upon—is also beyond our fathoming. We have a shrewd idea that John Van Buren was more than half right last week, when he said, in -discussing this Kansas- Nebraska humbug in the Soft convention, that 1 1 be thought it was more important that the Con vention should take measures that New York was well governed, than that Kansas was well governed! There is much sound common sense in this, and it would we well if we in Pennsyl vania would heed and practice it Charity in polities, as in every thing else, should begin at home. The Missourians have outraged the whole country by attempting to manage the affiairs of the people of Kansas for them; but why have they? Simply because they have carried out practically what almost every convention that assembles now-a-days does theoretically. It was a sensible remark, then, of Mr Van Buren that the duty of a Convention of New York Demo. crate was to see that New York was well govern ed, and not that Kansas was well governed We I never could understand what could be accom plished towards making any of the territories free States by the election of a Sta to Prison In spector in New York, or a Canal Commissioner in Pennsylvania, favorable to such a result I t always seemed to us very much like a false issue —a blind to some ulterior design, that was at least of doubtful propriety. We are pleased then with the position assumed by the Democracy of New York, to practically ignore a question like that of Kansas, and leave it for settlement with those to whom it belongs—the Settlers of Kan sas themselves! The following resolutions, we think, does this. While they endorse the Adminis tration, they also condemn the interference of the Missourians in Kansas, and reiterate in em phatic language the principle upon which the doctrine of Non-Intervention is founded; that "th. people Qf a territory should L. left e rf,rtly . frr, to frame and regulate their own (bon $1 ie. in.titu t ions in their own way." • A FRIEND ..v ERIC Resolved, That the National Administration has our hearty concurrence and commendation in its management of the public finances, in the exercises of the veto power to protect the Treasury from being made the ?oil of specu lators, and to arrest improvident and corrupt expenditure. that the system of rigid accountability to which disbursing officers have been held, the scrutiny and N titilance with which defalcations have been detected and exposed, and the attitude assumed in support ot the American name abroad, as well as the important treaties with foreign gov ernments, extending the system al rotninercial reciprocity and freedom of trade, are marks ot an honest an•t faithful administration. Hee-deed. That we regard the organization of a hand of armed borderers, and their intrusion into the territory of Kansas, not as bona fide settlers, but fur the forcible sub version of the rights of its legal elector., not only as a vio lation of the peace of the Union and the rights of the com munity assailed, and as an example full it danger to the States, the safety of whose institutions and domestic tran quility require to be protected against external influences and the instigation of secret emissaries, but as distinctly subversive of the intent of Congress, as declared in the bill organising the said territories to leave the people perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and that all the power of the federal and temtortal governments should be exerted to redress these outrages, and to vindicate the rights of the people thereof. Revolted, While the Democracy of this State will faith fully adhere to all the compromises of the Constitution, and maintain all the reserved rights of the States, they deem this an Inciptopriate occasion to declare and repeat their fixed hostility to the extension of slavery Into the ter ritories now free. In regard to Know Nothingism, the "Softs" take their position along side of the Democracy of the other States of the ITnion—in opposition! They do so boldly—there is no dodging or min cing wohls about it, and in this particular con trast favorably with the action of the Convention of the "Herds," which was held a few days pre vious. Here are the resolutions: Ile..loed, That while we concede to our fellow citisens the largest liberty of opinion and action in civil affairs, we deprecate and protest against the Know Nothing organisa tion and its principles, and all parties which aim by seutet oaths and pledges, or by intimidation. to deprive any por tion of our people of the free exercise and profession of re ligion and worship, without discrimination or preference, guaranteed to them by the Constitution of the State and of the U toted States. That we regard the exclusion of the masses fleeing from tyrannical oppression in the Old World to the enjoyment of well-regulated liberty here, as not on ly ungenerous, but as the rfversal of the policy which has largely contributed to the prosperity of the Union. Retxdred, That we eangratalate the Democracy cf the Union upon the signal victories which they hive recently won by their political brethren in Virginia, Tennessee, North Corollas, Alabama, and Texas. and that we are en mongod by this gamen against the old federal party, in its last disguise, and under its new name, to hope for the racoon of the united Democracy of this State against its traditional enemy, under whatever organization or form of coalition it may present itself. FWD AND FAITH.—The grasshopper& have eaten up the third crop of grain in Utah, and the Mormons have no alternative left but either to 'at the grashoppers or flee the country. Grass - hoppers are considered a great delicacy in Egypt and Arabia, sad with us they would hardly prove more difficult to digest than a few of the doc trines of Mormonism. The "saints" may be more fastidious; but we fear that they will soon find themselves rightly named as the "latter day" imposters, if they remain much longer in a posi tion where hunger must soon put an end to their homes and their hypocrisy. A GOOD NOMINATION.—Among the nomi nees of the recent Democratic Cocvention of New York, held at Syracuse, we notice the name of Pkruck 11. Aaks, Esq., for Inspector of State Prisons. Mr. A. is one of the Eiitors of the °windage Standard, and his nomination is a compliment richly deserved for the fearless abil ity be displays in the iidvocecy of the principles of his party. We do not know what the emol uments or the honors of the office are, but we do know that, great or small, there is no one echo will beer his "blushing honors" more worthily, or expend the dimes more judiciously or liberal ly. We hope he may be elected. TIMM VP Aoant.—Rx-Parson C. C. Burr, formerly an abidition loiterer, then a temper me lecturer, subsequently the editor of the New York city National (Hard) Denioaret--eurns up in the New York Know Nothing State Omen tioa at Biaghanton He had not been previ ously hard of in politics for a whole year, a rommkabis eireumetme when one tame into toomidamatiat the hat that he is the .greatsg etesn it pipe IA peewit hew* to the patio; g( dm Kew York Pontiac " A as of. Rare Onsistosey!" The Crawford Demeerat, simper, which drape as it may appear, sees sto arregateteiteelfallthe Democracy in this Sestistorki district, and at the same time is the chief &gleam of that prince of Know Nothings, D. A. Finney, tells its read ers this week "that it has but little time or space to notice the Erie Observer;" and to prove it devotes three separate articles to that same 01,- serrr. In these articles we are curtly admonish ed not to assume the province of a "Dictator" in the Democratic ranks. Some how our ootensp orary is now, and always has been, very much afraid of our "dictation;" indeed, it is a kind of a hallucination with that paper— a mental mala dy that shows itself periodically, and like a fever, or the small-poit, must take its regular coarse. The only objection we have to it, is the fact that some people who don't know its insanity upon this point may think it sane, and imagine we are a kind of political Napoleon—s character we by no means desire to acquire! But we let the Dem orrat speak for itself: The Obreiver complains of oar giving over the District tarthe opposition, and la the same paper acquiesces in Judge Thompson's deelanetion to support a" Wkiy, Demo crat, or ice. , Soiter, if he is oaf, rtyAl els the railroad roe tom "' Hen is cousisiteacy with a vengeance. The re marks of the eleserrer about "treachery" are mere bosh. It wail never do for it to assume the Dictatorship as to what is consistent, or Demoorstio The least about that the bet ter for the Otwereer. We advise Mr. !hoea to' keep cool and good natured. The Democracy of this county are not to he dragooned into the support of its railroad policy with.mt a struggle. They will try to take care of their own interests. They are opposed to the policy of tearing up rails, burning up ears, and destroying bridges. They know their own policy best, and neither the Oeserocr, nor it. , emissaries, can induce them to "play "second fiddle" to demagogues who are determined to "rule or ruin" the dertiny of "the best harbor on the Lake." Now, with all due deference to the superior acuteness of our cotemporary, we can see nothing inconstant in the position of Judge Thompson, or our acquiescing in it. It seems to us that af tet the fellowship of the Democracy of Erie had been repudiated by a regular convention of the Democracy of Crawford, there was nothing very inconsistent in Judge Thompson and ourself list ening to propositions of fusion from whigs or free soilers; especially as such a fusion was never proposed in any official form until after the "Erie question" had been made an issue before the peo ple of the district by the Democrat and its coad jutors. As we said last week, the Democrat's political friends in Erie are where they have been forced by the treachery of itself and friends— while our local quarrel with the railroad is made an issue in the district, not by the action of the people of Erie, but by the interference of the people of Crawford who, in reality, ought to have no part or lot in it. Suppose we should inter fere in the location of a railroad through Mead ville, and say it should run south of the town, when the entire community desired it to be built north of the town, what would the Denwerat call such interference? Impertinence, no doubt, if not something worse. Well, that is just what the Demtx-rat and its coadjutors are doing in re gard to our matters. They are interfering in a question in which they have no part or lot. This iLuarrel is none of their concern. It is between the people of Erie and the railroad men; and the Democrat and its man Finney would both appear more consistent to mind their own business. We speak thus strongly, because Mr.- Finney him self, in his late letter, in substance acknowledges that in the settlement of this question, upon the plan proposed by the railroad men and advocated by him, Erie will make a "sacrifice." He says: "That the sacrifice to Erie in the settlement of her railroad difficulties would be more than com pensated in the increase of trade and business the road would bring to the city." Now, who invited Mr. F. to become a judge of what Erie ought or ought not to do. Not the people of Erie, nor the people of Erie county; then why should he and the Crawford Democrat take upon themselves the province of Judges, and tell us what will "be more than a compensation" for the "sacrifice" we will make in having our local questions settled by the plan they have dealt out to us. Erie is of age and can make her owls bargains in her own way. In doing so, we do not want to "dragoon" any body into tlfirsupport of our "railroad policy." We only "want to take care of our own interests." And in taking care of them, it is very little matter to us whether the people of Crawford "are opposed to the poli cy of tearing np rails, burning cars, and destroy ing bridges" or not. The Supreme Court having decided itirregcdity of our "tearing up rails and destroying bridges," it is not at all important whether Judge Finney or Judge Democrat ap proves of that decision or not. And as to our "determination to rule or min the best harbor on the lake," it does seem to us that those who live on that harbor, and own property there, are bet ter judges of what will "ruin" it, than either Mr. Finney or the Crawford Democrat. Al least they are better entitled to "rule" it. FACT.—When the Know Nothings were beat en in Virginia it was the open ballot that did the work, according to their newspapers. They have tried the secret ballot in four other States, and the result is new disaster to their hopes.— Desperate at the prospect, they now seem to have resolved—vide the Louisville tragedy—that no body shall hereafter vote but themselves. Barra Amtux.—The immortal Botts is out in a letter for a reform of the Know Nothing party in Virginia.. He is for abolishing ill seeeresy and oaths, and all religious distinctions in the order. Or in other words he seems to ns to be for abolishing the order itself. We thought when "Sam" got the boas, his days were num bered, unless he proved stronger than horse flesh! elk. Frost has been experienced in Musachu setts, and sections to the Northward. In Ded ham clothes were frozen stiff on the line, and in that and other towns cranberries, beans, and other crops were injured. The sojourners at the White Mountains will find cold oomfort for their summer ruralising. Banbury sad Iris Itailroa We are glad to learn that the work on the line of the Banbury and Zrie Railroad, from Milton to Northumberland, is warm* rapidly towards completion, and that the intention of the Company is to open it on the 20th of the present m .This link is one of the moat important in the whole line of the Company's work, and will command, immediately oa its completion, an immense trade in anthracite coal for °consump tion on the line, and is the interior of New York and the lakes via Buffalo. We understand from the antraokai as the work that this link would hive been ready for opening in the early pert of the last month, bat for the frequency of the aims whisk awed the streams to rise to aesh as amulet es to often interfere materially with the work. Its ample- Um, hewer*, in Is prisms woes* will be pea Awake of pnst reselle to the Osespasy, us by it, is. eoaaetios with that peas el Um week sow is see, tbe-Oespesy will at sue be is peessidos of a ism teemeteibej sag pr'* Whim Naos, NNW ?Olt. Owrogpitediree• if the lir* Olisawir. aim You. Ilapinsber 301154. A body of leaned men and women are meet ing up town this week; en exesllent Om for scientific deliberations, far all up town is as qui et as the regions of the grave, bat a very bad time to get those provisions for the renewal part of man's nature, from the want of which even philosophers are not exempt. Out of one hun dred and ninety-five Emilia on the four sides of Washington Park only six at prawn: are in their domicils. This has been found to be the ease by the Committee of the "American Association for the advancement of education," which is the name assumed by this learned body. It is their fifth annual meeting, commenced on Tuesday. Instructive papers have bees read by various lit erary and scientific celebrities. One rarely sees a larger collection of intellectual heads and fine imposing eountenanoes, than are gathered this week in the Chapel of the University. There was Prof. Bache, with the serious look and ear post tone of a man who is doing a great good work for the world. There was Rev. Mr. Hun tingdon, the new Professor at Harvard, who held a large audience in rapt attention tills very late hour of evening. His eloquent voice and beau tiful thoughts will not soon be forgotten by those who heard him. There was Lieut Maury, Bish op Potter, of Pennsylvania, no indolent holder of a sinecure, various superintendents of public instruction, and calm, dark browed professors from the colleges of the land. It was truly a noble spectacle. Into this grave, learned, dignified and some what aged assembly, there walks on Thursday evening a stalwart Englishman with bat, ball, gloves and all the necessary implements for get ting up a cricket match! He wanted to explain the game to the Association and seemed not at all adverse to getting up a match on the stage ex tempore. Bishop Potter, the great—physically as well as mentally—took an interest in the sub ject. Shouldn't wonder if be joined the "New York Club." Thji question whether the reading of the Bible should be introduced into the Public Schools ex cited a warm discussion in this body The absorbing topic of general conversation is, of course, the frightful accident on the Cam den and Amboy road. There is a great indig nation against some of the employees—the con ductor especially, which really ought to be di rected against the company. This wealthy com pany, enjoying the exclusive control of one of the great thoroughfares of travel, has with the worst economy provided but a single track. If they had a double track this accident would ne ver have happened. But they will bleed for it soon. There seems to have been very few New Yorkers on the train The calamity will be felt most deeply in Philadelphia. A "gentleman" was hauled up at the Tombs the other day for attempting to make a heal in a way at once original and unlawful. Sedulous ly deliberating on the possibility of getting a din ner without money, he was struck with the idea that wide sleeves were invented for the purpose of concealment. He arranged a fish hook and line, so that he could draw it up and down one sleeve with the other hand, and then , went fin gering the wares of an eelman at Washington Market—concluded not to buy, but the suspi cions of Bely were arrotised—the Dodger was searehed, and the dodge exposed. AU the fools in the world are not dead yet, notwithstanding it is the nineteenth century. If any one doubts the proposition let him consider that eight female Astrologers and Clairvoyants can afford to advertise daily in the New York Herald, and that people will persist in paying $1 to I'. T. L., who swears he will make you rich in five minutes, with a mere receipt. That trade is not so good as it was though, but Astrologers flourish. A man of tact and experience can eas ily astound the ignorant and unpracticed, and secure their fullest confidenoe. Then there is always a elan of fast younggents, who must have some place of that kind to visit for variety of amusement, when fiat horses lose their charm and the paint shows too clearly on the tarnished cheeks of Beauty, and red wine is no longer nectar to the lips. Broadway looks busier than it did two weeks ago hot cool weather this. Rusticating people be gin to think of hot air pipes in the parlors, and hot rolls in the morning. Rachel is further advertised, and is talked about in the intervals between Know Nothing convention matters, and the great catastrophe, and the taking of Bwesborg. Local news is com paratively uninteresting just now. Rev. Dr. Cone's funeral on Thursday was at tended by a large proportion of the clergy and prominent religious men of the city. He was born April 30th, 1785. There is almost a total lull of local news, with the exception of various suicides and murders, which are no longer "news," as it is a very old story, daily expected. There is a plan now be ing developed to encourage and pecuniarily aid emigration from the country to the city. ERIE. To Annoys. VIM MIN FROM CATTLIL-Dis solve canpbor gum is new rum, making the li quid pretty strong of camphor, and apply it on various pins of the body of the animal. It is a harmless application, so fae• as the animal is oon (armed, leaving the coat free and clear, but des troys the lice. In about two or three weeks af the application, rub on the liquor again, in order to kill the young vermin that may have hatched out after the first rubbing. I know of no safer application which will prevent the eggs cr nits from hatching.—(br. N. E. Farmer. LOVE AND ATTIMPTIDS ILICEDIL —An attempt at suicide came off in Wed Troy on Saturday afternoon. The daughter of a Mr. Blencowe some few months since, got desperately in love with a good looking young man, and wished to marry him. Her parents would not give their oonsent, but forbid the "good looking young man" the house. This drove the young girl to distraction and "piton." On . Saturday after noon she pure/tamed two ounces of the article, and took the whole of the quantity was so large that it produced vomiting and saved her life. Medical aid was immediately roeured s and'such antitodes resorted to as will prevent and serious regalia from following the young lady's rashness. lirliether the attempted sui cide will cause the parents to take a more ra tional view of 'matrimonial arrangements, re mains to be seen. We hope, however, that it sir Solo* Booload, ez-Llaited &atm Esaator, sz-Aakbaimador of Cleated Amnia% ez-vender of ' rah. sad A rem% gad prima sailor d the Little Rook ( Gosette and Dositxrai, has takes a forma breve!! of the Dementia party, la ea edi torial Wert is his mar, sad &okras his fatale Wholes to the prWpilis of the America* or iLatrw-Nc . ithiag pasty. A Tsaaateee paper, in fotolli% lama tide pelitisal aseabatie paths:. ease, reakulai that then has mover ban a time la do hillier, if the hi peaty WWI it mad alit bin iphommipady Domeorat 4111.4m4 with" sow mike 11111414.41C1.31r51iL The Sterling larders. The Oswego Palladium gives further particu lars of the horrid affair a Sterlg, Cayuga Co., noticed by the telegraph on Thursday. The fam ily of Mr. Fitzgerald, consisting of himself, wife and three sops, retired to rest about 10 o'clock. The second son, whose name is John, aged about twenty years, was but a short time since bailed from jail in Auburn, by-his father, where he was confined for stealing a horse. By his waywardness and criminal conduct, he had brought upon himself the censure of parents and brothers, whieb instead of reclaiming him, vii, bff4ered his feelings to such a degree, that he revenge could only be gratified by their lives.— The father, mother, and yowler son aged years °copied the same apartment, and John and his brother Patrick another. John refused to sleep with his brother, and accordingly lay down on the floor, after removiu g his boots and stockings. Soon after midnight, Patrick dis tinguished groans, as he thought, proceeding from the room of his parents. lie sprangupon the floor, and approaching the door leading to their room, met hie brother John, who informed him that a negro had murdered their parents and brother. Patrick immediately alarmed the neighb9re, who, very soon in great numbers, flocked to their as sistance. When they entered the room, one of the most appalling spectacles was presen ted that eyes ever beheld. In the centre of the floor lay the youngest son, weltering in his own blood, pathetically calling upon his mother, and ipi ploring the beholders to remove him from The scene. The instrument used tocommit the deed was an axe. He had received two gashes, about four inches in length, upon the side of his face and head, severing the temporal artery. lle died in about three hours, from the loss of blood In the farther corner of the room, upon a bed, lay the aged parents, with their faxes and necks hor ribly mutilated. The old gentleman appears first to have been dispatched by several deep gashes in the neck, completely severing the spinal cord, and the great vessels of the neck. After which the old lady appears to have been struck with the same in strument, upon the tack part of the neck, with the same effect. A justice was soon summoned, who, after ques tioning the two survivin : , sons, ordered John to be taken into custody lle exhibited guilt in his looks, which was further evinced by the prevarication he man 1 fested when answering inter. rogatories. lie stoutly denied all knolledge of, or partici pation in the affair, till about three o'clock in the afternoon, at which time 1)r Plumb arrived, in whose family the said John had resided for a few months, about four years since The 1)r after summoning all persons to leave the room, in which the prisoner was confined, kindly converse.' with him in relation to the enormity of the deed which he had committed, reminding him of th. love which his parent bore for him, until tht fountain of the soul wa%, stirred up and amid sob:. of anguish and cries of latneutatiou, he confessed that he, and he alone had murdered his father, his mother and his brother -- ...- - Items from Texas ....... The Galveston ( than has the election re turns from most of the counties iu the State, and says: Pease's majority for t;overtior, we think, will be about 6,000 votes It is now L7OO Run nels, for Lieutenant• Governor, will have, it reasonable to believe, :2,000 Hell, for Congres., over 4,000 In the Eastern Conressional District, Ward's majority so tar is ti:O. bu, the Civilian regards the result as extruup ly d,,ohtful, there being fif teen counties to lwar from. Three cases, of yellow lc er from the steamship Mexico are in the Galveston hospital. This fever has not attacked any of the citizens. Re• ports from Houston are to the effect that there had been no new cases of fever for two days. The health of the country generally is reported to be very good. The few returns whi( h gi Jen on the vote on the Debt bill, say.' the Galveston 2V , wg, exhibit what might appear to be inconsistencies on the part of the sovereign people. There are other instances beside the one cited by our correspon• dent in which the candidate opposed to the Debt bill was a minor e insideratiou with voters, in comparison with the acendaucy of one or the other of the two great parties. There was a report in Austin of a fight on the San Saba, between a man named Taggart and another named Trailor They are said to have fought with shot guns and knives Taggart kil• led Trailor's horse, and the latter cut Taggart badly with a knife. The Victoria _Advocate says that the naviga tion of the Guadalupe is permanently established. A steamer, it mentions, is plying regularly be tween Saluria and Kemper's Bluff, with heavy loads of lumber. This landing is about fifteen miles from Victoria, and the river is cleared of obstructions and in good navigable order up to Colonel Hunt's plantation, nine miles below Victoria. The Democratic Majorities at the South. The Washington correspondent of a Know Nothing paper thus talks of the Democratic majorities at,the South: "It would be hazardous to predict when we shall hear the last of Democratic majorities at the South. The worst of this sort of news is, that as it begins to come late, so it stays with us longer than the more agreeable variety which that pleasant engine of deception, the telegraph brings us. Winston of Alabama, has already reached twelve thousand majority over Shortridge, and is still Eizrp. Even Jerry Clemens, the popular ex-. r, and a hero of the late war, is beaten out of sight., for the one-horse honor of Representative in the State Legislature, and his competitor for senatorial honors, Mr. Fitzpatrick, rides on the topmost wave of triumph. In Texas, where Sam. Houston exhorted to willing audiences on the eve of the election, the Democracy have annihilated opposition, and will be compelled to fall by the ears by wa) of vindicating the com bative propensities of the race In Kentucky, too, it appears peculiarly fortunate that the first returns placed the Whigs and their temporary allies out of danger use each new return re duces Mr. Moorhwurs majority nearer the cypher point." LATFAT PROM TII CRISIRA.—The latest intelli genoe from the Crimea, contained in the Liver pool papers, states the victory of the Allies over Liprandi, commanding the late Russian attack upon their lines, to be quite as important as es 4 represented at first. The General is represent. ed, after his defeat of the 16th, to be in full re treat toward the interior. The Allies also took four thousand prisoners in the battle. News of much moment is anticipated by the steamer which may be expected to arrive to-morrow or next day, as the Allies wore to recommence the bombardment of the fortress on the 17th current, being the next day after the before mentioned engagement Tim Ea.scrion IN KapirucKr.—The Louis ville Times, says it is a note-worthy fact, that in that portion of the State canvassed by Clarke and Mo together, where the issues were ais. ore the people by the two candidaa•w for Governor, the Aaiun of the Democratic part• were i m m e nse. meson'. Chute and Mor,•bca.l were about two weeks in the mountain district, and spoke every day. The gain in that District over the vote of 1852, is over four thousand votes,. If Mr. Clarke could have been accompanied by Mr. Morehead all over the State, he would have been sleeted by an overwhelming majority. Oaliforaia will soon have a railway built and, in operation. Tie Sacrament. Valley Rail road is in proses of oonstenetion, and the Com pany an already eownneneed laying down the soils M Raixsinento City. A portion of the road wee to bort lismi Mind ws4 °peat os the 156 dq A 74814 Pram the Pkw Yost Ti..... Dreadful Catbastropie—Ta.L=anlons Idned--lienreaty Obits Another terrible accident marred on the Cam den and Amboy Railroad, between this city and Philadelphia. at mos. yesterday—resulting, as nearly as we are yet able to ascertain, in the death of 23 persons, and serious injury to some 70 others. The particulars are as follows : The morning mail train left Philadelphia at 10 A. hi., and reached Burlington—twenty few minutes ahead of time—say a quarter of an hour after 11 o'clock. There were six passenger can in the train. Jy the rules of the Railroad ('ouipsmy. the train first arriving at Burlington, which is the place for the meeting of the trains, is required to wait ten minutes, and if the other train does not arrive then, the first is entitled to the road ; both trains to run, looking out for each other. There is but a single track. The up-train waited, according to orders. for the train from New York, and then came on.-- When about three miles this side of Burlington, the trains met. saw each other in season to reverse, reversed rapidly, and the train which had left Burlington a few minutes before, ran back for two miles. until it had reached a cross-road half a mile this side of Burlington. At this point, n wagon with two horses. driven by 1)r. Hannegini. an old physician. residing just out of Burliugton, was crossing the track as the train backed. The hind car struck the horses killing them instantly, and this caused that car to be thrown from the track, while those in front piled up on top of it. Four out of the six cars were thrown off the track in this manner, and three of them were utterly destroyed. They were all well filled with passengers, nearly all of whom were injured more or less seriously, and it is fear ed that the number who are killed outright was even greater than we have announced above. The accounts gathered. however, indicate that twenty three pen/ HIM are killed, while not less than seventy were injured. o n e gentleman with whom we conversedsaw thirteen dead lashes taken into Burlington. An other. who was present a few minutes later, count ed nineteen ; and another twenty. The women and children on board of the train appear nearly all to have escaped. We have but four or la front es reported among the dead. The groans of the wounded in the rooms of the hotel at Burlington. are described as awful. (Inc injured and his agony was so intense that lie Luuld riot remain quiet, but persiated in throwing hungelf up and down on the settee, groan ing horribly. Fru'ii the Tritiune The train being on the move backward, the en gineer did nut see the horses and carriage, and war, not aware of thy. collision until he saw one of the carriage-wheels lying on the track as the engine p a ssed over it. The conductor saw the horses and carliage and apprehended that the train would trilsr them, but the bell rope was out of order. su that lie could nut warn the engineer. lie started through the cars for the purpose of doing this in p,•rs, but was too late, and the car and horses struck before he could get there. The concussion thies the first passenger car off the track and eitibankinentleight or ten feet high, and sith the lIP iitutn that the train had at the time. the next two passenger cars were drawn down. one after the other, on top of the first, while the fourth was thrown clear over all them with tremendous force. The fourth passenger car became detached from the baggage car, and this. together with the eierine and tender, was left en the embankment above and but %cry little injury was done to these cars or those who occupied them. The four passenger ears which went down the etibankinent were literally broken into fragments, and the wood-work of one of them was reduced to pieces.none of which were over four inches wide, e‘ery panel having been crushed apart. followed scene which those who beheld it represent as truly appaling--one that would shale the strongest nerves and sicken the stoutest heart. The cries of the mangled human beings who were buried beneath that chaotic wreck of materials al iii;mit palsied the senses and disabled the arms of the few who were so fortunate as to be able to render ;issist slice. Those, howei, er. who could ex ina ate themselves and were not disabled by in juries. assisted by the residents in the vicinity. set thernseli es to wotk to remove their unfortune companions from the ruins. It was some time. Omagh. before their task was completed. timbers. iron wheels and axles being piled upon them in a confused mass; and. alas, there were too many who could not appreciate their labors, who felt not the heavy weight upon them—they were dead.— Those who were got out alive were almost without exception, injured in a greater or less degree—and many were so seriously hurt that their lives were despaired of, and the injuries were of every de scription and character imaginable. There were broken legs and arms, half scalped heads and frac.ured sculls, and every conceivable kind of flesh wounds. Among the killed was a middle aged lady who wah traN piing in company with a daughter of about fourteen or fifteen 'ears. The body of the mother was removed from the spot on a bier, followed by the stricken child, bedewing the path she trod with tears of the most intense grief. Another lady. who was supposed to be from Patterson. had her head severed from the body. and they were found a few feet apart. with the hat still upon the head and the ribbon still unfastened from about the chin. A man who attempted to escape by jumping was caught between the cars as they went over the em bankment, and his body completely cut in two just above the hips. A train was sent down to the scene of the dis uster from Burlington, and the dead bodies, to gether with the wounded that bad not been con %eyed to residences in the vicinity, were taken to the Burlington depot. Here the dead were covet ed with blankets to await the Coroner's investi gation, and every aid that humanity could furnish was rendered to the injured sufferers. The ladies of the place came with linen to ban dage broken and bruised heads and limbs, and to speak those gentle consolations which woman alone can utter. The clergymen of the place, and among them Bishop Doane, were also present, and while one smoothed the pillow of a groaning sufferer. another. with hands clasped, would supplicate !leaven in behalf of some dying one. DEATH SPRINO —A late California paper mentions the discovery of a spring in El Dorado County in that State whose waters flow from a bed of arsenic. The mineral deposit is thirty fee tth ie k , and crops out of the surface of the earth. Veins in it abound with gold and specimens of this auriferous ore have been shown to the editor of the Placerville .4 =erica's. The name of "Death Spring" has been given to the stream. The exis tenceof it is supposed to account for the mortality swung the gold miners at the early period of the California epidemic. S, 'lie—Bark room of a Know Nothing's dicel- Gay— Eater tads boy very muck excited. Little Boy—Oh, pap, get your gun quick, and come out here. There's a great big Irish man down in the alley, eating a water melon. The prettiest shot you ever mw; come quick! Know-Nothing--Hush, sonny, don't make a noise; there's two Dutchmen coming down the street, and I think I can get them in range and tumble them both with one shot.—Lowistilie De mu," ral BALTIIIIOIII, Sept. 5. intelligence from Norfolk, via Richmond, is u u4usl more highly colored than the accounts to oeived direct by boat. Mayor Fish of Portsmouth reported dead. Hay. P. Willis, methodist min iptter of Norfolk also reported dead. Commodore Page has the fever. The scarcity of wane ie qp great that bodies are buried without them. A duel took plow near this eity on Tuesday between two gentlemen, one of whom is a New Yorker. Two *hots way and one of the duellists was slightly sitoirios. GALIX I. IBM, Formerly of tide oily, any be bead at Janes B. Begeres New York, Ready Made %Wing sad Ilenhaat T a li m i ng Nstabliskaeat, 164 Man Street, Beta* when le weld be happy i see ell Isis old Nisei* awl as away as, awn as viii laver bin with • eall, teeing sealideat that it will iss to tie advaatege of diode wising CAnklag smoke A splendid amioetseat of int gsialUp ready ado Ma im; oeasteatly ea Wei. AIN • large stook et thatieseea's laraieling GaAs, Rubber Onding, to to order as regards styles, Qweitty aad Peke. large Prep6MONI of this listabliskiseat Weeds le !tea sleek et goods easpesaly ia store, coasprielin all thio latset styles et Zesty nada Clefts( and hierehaal lag Gook Meals' lastle to seder la the sham* spew °Mac Pato as 4 Vest sole la eight been after ember is Wt. Our sotto Isrisk Wes Ind stasbarthe seislose, *hi bowies sad Sense NNW & BOUM tart 1111. Ise _ . 114Llarril PAIR 1111111141 OTOa . .neglected often prove feral, lead, P.00..,,t, 1-- me o w the puts U iisio• m, a day wtth PAIN ravritAcTOK. erKeretinn f r 9rat in to , them ism* the •'Pile Syringe" filled V2th F. gradual discharge is as the myringe 'never taus to Cure case, of any age or 'SUZY ease laeteatly all, frequently ear, ex ~ue eatioa. Plies are knows by Ilia heat, itchttt, alot 4 sane. Bleeding piles are caused, lenn•nto,l• lb. 'a of the whole bowels, which then prima the ‘otpatu,a, tight against the back bones and keep. f, tbs .04 aerofelous awl ~.. turning up the Vessels,sically, the top o f your finger when a atrtnK 1/1 (I. 'i o o aad Deaf a efitopr. •• TY.III lit , ,gi salve MI above, al,. 'Ol. N w. f t o s na cii th ti e fr r eq ein ue i n ti t,.. ? perte......0. t. fur roue time, end the un•ur ~ I ' l 4 t.1 Oil will b. eutarretr•l at..l .or ‘ I " 1 .• be oared. I( pri.prrly t • never Lair. W. dentine, Esq., of Colucal•o•. in„ Ohio Insarasea Company, wh, *4. 1,. extreme debility, with Piles, to,, , ed by the celebrated Dr. Mott his life, accidentally heard of , statill, "For years, him discus,. grew worse until life became lat. h , eared by Dalley's Pam Extractor No Pain Extractor t. Konume sink.— if .Steel Plato Knrravioi Label with . V. CLiel[ElllEt prupriet.r• Ail nufacturer. Prito. k Herron, Erie, Pa All order. ,11..u1.1 , I Co., !• , l Barclay •treet, N. w 1 •rk A C•RD TO TIM LA1.11111.--lir 1 llit i , t.• t,, riodical Pula fyr Females .102.111,14.. 1.,; laxities, aid ram tog obxtrueti.u , tr.tnt All medical men know. as ft• man,.'h•:. whenever an obstruction takes r,u,„ exposure, Or &LI , Aber , nose, th e L ". finmodiatly to decline, and the want .1 - i t , t, been the cause of se many enneumpt, ,u. males. Headache, pain to Opt heart, loathing of food, 30 , 1 , 11.turi.e.1 •,. from the toterrupti , ,n ..1 u wire ease, the Pill, will , Fall sad 0.11)111 . 1t a c . ~u , l 4 mart Le stnetly 101 l ,wed rad all tits., • males may be •pve W y cured. Price $1 00 per Sold by all 0 , and wholesale awl r, !ail, at the prop. TER It BROTH KR, No ti Reel 1140 mint he addressed, $lOO.-Pitu, LAY ing highly honorable a dei phi* whether my ',et, Neuralgia, Ileadaehe and Pam.. whether it does not produce an turn , . the remotest injury —E. iiilling•ar Tontine, Dr. WOO 4, Wood'. years a large livery owner. J Robert Betham, Esq., Leagoe I an, Esq., corner of Seventi, five hundred ottier•, • children cured a. if by , , haver, known as lir.ith • toured in Philadelphia 'lt -t , cured. No long doctors' la ' • had, nor stain your skin nor r”ii have tried every thing el-- , Rub it well, and keep the l—tt. ' I'd F, .Llt~ The large bunk. I Are let. t t'lle4 tb. ~ 4, Ilkerstraltt T.• tar rp/tTs nJ Eire ty olit At the solicitation of numer.m. two of party, I have- b een indured I • dadate for the °thee of Sherlff at tt, should I be elected I hereby ple duties of the offico faithfully, aul best of my ability. Erie, Jane 29, 1•5:, Ereet, 01 Tor undersigned Arr.. at.a-clf , office a Sheriff Of Erlc o.,utit, as binding upoo himself the acti • , he respectfully solicits the support , d t.- tam and if successful in his el .rt. t - endeavor to discharge the duti... such a manner as to afford hi• - their having made the underczn..l Erie. Aug. Is Legislative. We are requested t. artttune• •:, DI NN. Eeq., of Summit town-ti.p Leval/aura. 0011IIty COMMISSIO 11 or We are requepte,l t., fl• • STEIL, Elk{ , of Suutto,t t•.wn.s:p I- • ty Counuounoner. au.,;e..t t the • Laz-psyers of the county r. We are authortze.l to 114 L. , 11• Jr., of titrard, for the other -u CIIOO of the Whig County Ct.hrent, - 11itttrlistmenis BRUWN'S TEI Panwrimia the Para. Krir. Pa . E II • • • will ruu rrgula r I v to the acciwatuodaiiou-til [meat. u• th • • i other . BAXIMIST. FARMER: of Krie e.):Anly ail. subscriber as al way. neer If• • airbag marks: pries For pod br . it tiv as usual to pay CAA H for same, • in Erie. or to his agents at oprintflittil lt • ti -a view Erie. Sept...lBU. iftssoLtrriore. NOTICE N hereby given that ttir e ezi4ting between *eller ea War I• Ba 11%1 •• change Broker., o thte day . books, !wont and other papers belong.ni IJ the • with Wm C. Warren, with will . stand. Mp 1. Anacreon Block '" t Nits, Erie. Sept. I, I-a ANI Alk Copyg_lt Rio. Jav2,Grouipl June 30.-7 MINII,KKNo I l i ar.) TEAS Can be had ul as e rod dtt.ir as of any of door especial •", that Branch of to. Trade----or when• ,t - 4 Isbell to select them. come and t' June U.-7 At • C1100013L , ZZIO: THE underyillllll`li ate ro , riv 11,2 i nwv 4.111% kind. direct in.., 11, 4 I l i rn. n w hi:hthr , a the ebeapien fin I ur I..irls,,na• tar prp;Lie known SinfP,COrner Stile and n , lll •• June 3U. t 45 —7 RINDI R‘tt.i - 1. t DELCO ACIADWAIit. THE next term of •,..,,t •4 2 t •n. •• day the , Srb of •frpirmr,• of WM C 1461, 1 1..1.1.. 'll I' MILS W 1411414ffi.1., 1.- The rate* of Tu mon per quarter ar• tt • For the Greek and French Language. in • i the 11.11,10 Reader. Geometry above the t/In Algebra, Mt:greying. EOlanr.GeOlogri. (teal Economy. Se fence of Governinea, R. Intellectual and Moral Ph tioroptiter. For the other Enit t •tt branchey a , d N, 1..• • through the Latta Re ider. All charges will tte III:1.14W half or ntt,•• • ru• J. W WETllolll.SecretAry 01., A I •‘• Erie, Sept. 1, I$ 5. LIST OF LETTERS remaining .n I Erie, Pa., September 1, I , , thew/letters will please ray ••A,ii err ;.. Ayer, Chas H Austin Edmond A Abrams George Il Allen Samuel H Beuesnon James Boyce Henry Booman Thomas Butler John Booth Nichols B Burton Jangles Beck Wm Baker Jeremiah Bartlett A Smith Mosier Barns Albert A Miller r. Barris Dr W B Miner in, h. Baker B tior w , 11 .-; Brown Alden 111,..•ier Brown Frank 41 • \vs Brown Monroe Miles lihr • Briggs John H Morton I. Brownell Dr S C Mahone, I • Brown A A Maguire I', • Brown Wm W Maier mi•• Blossom mrs Ira H McKim Cowen William McClure I. Colen mis Henrietta Cummins Sielia Cooper David Conally Hugh Colgrove G W Curtis min Sarah C Pettrue i. • • i''; f!ousgrove Sarah Janis Paul Wiih.oo • Carter Samuel Rust Wui \ Carpenter Thomas Rods Mat,: is Carey Miles G Root Lyili• Cam Samuel Real r•eils Carran Joseph Sullivan Ano Carpenter W B Stedman Joseph fi Carter W M Stewart Susan Clow William Starch ieort: , Cherub miss Martha. Stunts E Aims Clark Motley 2 Stanton Ara- Chandler Chas Strop Andres, Christy R StertinK 4tertruJe Crouch George 2 Made Will 1: Davis Williams Sherman lid , I Donn Callon II Sweney Jane Emma mrs Mary A Sharp Andrew Rates Alamo Shea Jame , Finley Hosiksab Skelky Fenn alio Neil 111 Stuith Sal.rs Fidler Samuel Smith Math, w Fitimatrick John Smith Fay J M Smith .• • Fos Smith J Smith Les ,• Forsyth A Co Smith Robert /04141 f Manson Terry Onto Perim Albert Tanner Henry Fryer John Tilleeton inn N Fester Freeman Titus J C Gewgaw Martel X Travers William EklfillriD Charles 'Ttrlaing prat Gliand James 11 Tompkins E Goes Haldith Wilson George Glean Jemmy Wilmure Thomas Herrick Asariah Wilmot Wilbert F Hamm Austin ' Williams Aaron Ramilltedi George H Williams mos J Haw=l Wilson A Hall Willard miss reit , •It Hall Joseph Wells miss kniall•M James Wm Onealine Name Was Jokiises mils Harsh Webster now Alg 6l ts Misses in New !Flits Sara hem abut &MS noise are CYCi ll"b & aco, 11110, 1:1 41 .1 h •.. 1, w r, INS In. 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