THE CAVE OF DE A'lll A TllRti.i,t %(3 r Frotrt Ike) l•• •• ❑ t r w ••,, •, ',cad the • •ke Prr•• 3f o, e :a l• the tier lal.t nl te ( - ,11 - t wt pe. , l 110,1 Eigp, nne of the Ilebrotes, were Pft ok: 1 t ,Irath by a oeigLti nog e'tto, the NleLeoti. a ii ; zl2•, au I w •••tnlng • urse;ves thr .ugh the trirrow entrance. g.tined the interior —a tru' rck _gallery, vasty more r ,, na y and lotty than rine ei' .1 have antieiNted fr .ca the mean veattbule placed in front of it ha extreme length we liquid to be two hundred and sixty feet; its extreme treadth twenty...even feet; its' height, where the r,,of rises highest, trim eigh • teen to twenty feet The cacti veins to have owed its origin to two dis•inct causes The trap rocks on each side of the vault like crevice which' separates them are greatly decomposed as if by the moisture fr-r.rn ab.)ve; and directly in the line of the crevice mu-t the turf have charged, wave after wave, ages ere the last upheaval of the land When the Dcgstone at Dunolly ex• isted as a sea stock, skirted with alga, the break• ers on this shore must have dashed every tide thr,ugb, the narrow opening of the cavern, and scooped out by handfuls the decompoiing trap within "Tbe process of decomposition, and consequent enlargement, is still going on inside, but there is no longer an agent to sweep away the disinter grated fragment. Where the roof rises highest, the floor is blacked up with accumulations of bulky decaying masses that have dropprd from above; and it is covered over its entire area by a stratum of earthy rubbish, which has fallen from tbo sides and ceiling in such abundance that it covers up the straw beds of the perished islanders, which still exist beneath, as a brown mouldering felt, to the depth of five or eight inches. Never yet was tragedy enacted on a gloomier theatre An uncertain twilight glimmers gray at the en. trance, from the narrow ce-tibule, but all within, for two hundred f et, is back as with Egyptian darkness - As we pa-see ai with our one feeble light, along the dark nti. uldering wall and roof, which - absorbed every ins ray thatireached them and over the dingy fl r, rappy and damp, the place called to r, cc:ler:tin that ball in R„- man story, hung and carpetol wtith black, into which D .tuitian once thrue, IsiN Senate, in a frolic, to read their own narnks on the c,,ffio phiced against the wall The darkness seem , to press upou u. f-.m every side, al if it were a Jeu'e I”tty ft lid, ziut f which aur :ight bad a pailful or two and 'hat was ru-htyg in to supply the vacuum; and the only object we saw distinctly vi-ible were each other's heads and facies, and the lighter port: of our dre4a "The floor, for about one hundred feet inwards tram the nairow vestitule res.mblis that of a charnel-house At almos' every step we came upon heaps f human b-n , s grouped together as the Psalmist so graphically decent,. s, 'as when one eutteth and creaveth wood to the earth '— They are of a broinisb,earthy hue here and there tinged with green; the skul,s, with the exception of a few broken fragments, bare disappeared; for travelers in the Hebrides, hare of late years been numerous and curious; and many a musaum— that at Abbetsford among the rest—exhibits in a grinning skull, its memori of tF., m a sasere o f Eigg We find, t , 6, further marks f visitors to the siaglA bones separated fr-in the heaps, and acatterrd nv, , r thr ~rea tut n , ugh rcrualua to show, in the general d:.p of the recu.ine, that the hap;,.. (IA under the wul;s in tamale: each little group separated a I,w tcct from the others Here and there the remains of detached skeletous may be . seen, as It some r. bust islander, restless in La agony, had stalked out into the middle space of the fell; but the social arrangement is the general one. "And beneath every heap we find, tattle depth, as has been said, of aft w 'Lehi thi remaiub of the straw bed upon whi...13 the family had I.tin: largely mired with the smaller hoc -s ilt - ref the hu man frame, ribs and cert. tom, and Laud and feet bones; occasionally, too, with fragments of glazed pottery, and various othi r impli went of rude housewifery The minister f• uud for me, under nno famili, heap, the 'pier( s cf half burnt un• gland earth. El pr, with a narrow mouth, that, l i k e th e 1 0 1 u oral urn of •ur tlOtit at tumult, bad been mouldtd by the Lund, without the as. EI:4111.1CC of the potter's wheel; acid to one of the fragments etucli a ruitiu'i laCet tf ,rey hair From in on& r an ether btap, he ciibinterred the handle stave • I a child's porringer, (biekrr,) perforated by a hale stilt bearing the mark of the cord tilt hung it to the wall, and beside the stave lay alew f the Lager, less destructible bones of the ehild, with what for a time, puzzled us both not a little—cue of the grinders of a home "Certain it Rap, no horse could have got there to have dropped a tooth—a foal if a week old could not base passed itself through the open ing bow that single grinder; evidently no recent introduct,r , u into the cave, could have got mixt dup in the straw with the human b.;nes, se• ms an enigma somewhat of the clan- to which the reel to the bottle belongs I found in Edin burg an unixpeeted commentator on the mystery, .n th- person of my little boy, an experimental pLilosoper in his second year I had spread out r. the floor the curiosities of Eigg, among the rest was the relics cf the cave, including the paces of earthen jar, and the fragments of the porringer; but the horse's tooth seemed to be the only real curiosity among them in the eyes of little Bill. He laid instant hold it; and approi prtating it as a toy, he continued playing with it until he fell asleep "I have now little doubt but that it was first brought into the cave by the poor child amid whose mould( ring remains Mr Swanson found it. The Ittile pellet of gra) hair spoke of feeble old age involved in this wholesale massacre, with the vigorous manhood of the island; and here was a story cf unsuspecting infancy amusing it self on the eve of destructh n with its toys Alas: for man! "Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city," said God to the angry prophet, "wherein are more than six score thousand per acts that cannot discern their right hand and their left?" God's image roust have been sadly defaced is the murdciers of the poor inoffensive children of Eigg, ere they could hsve beard their feeble wafflings, raised no doubt, when the stifling atmosphere within began to thicken, and yet ruthlessly persist in their indiscriminate destruc tion. * * "Some hundreds of years ago," says Mr Wil son, "a few of the McLeods landed in Eigg from 'kye, where, having greatly mis.conducted them selves, the Eiggitee strappt d them to their own boats, which they set Arm in the ocean They were, however, rescued by some clansmen; and Soon after a strong body of the McLeods set sail from Skye, to revenge themselves on Eigg. The natives of the latter island, feeling they were not of sufficient force to offer resistance, went and hid themselves, (men, women, and children,) in this secret cave, which is narrow and of great subterranean length, with an exceedingly small nuance It opens from the broken face of a steep bank along the shore, and as the whole coast is cavernous, their particular retreat would have been sought (Or in vain by strangers So the Skyemen, finding the island -uninhabited, presumed the natives had fled, and satisfied their revengeful feeling, by ransacking and pillaging the empty houses. Probably the moveables were of no great value. They then t• ok their depar- ture, and left the island, when the sight of a soli• tary human being among the cliffs awakened their suspicion and induced them to return.— Unfortunately a slight sprinkling of snow had fallen, and the (pow( ps of an individual were traced to the mouth of the cave. Not having been there ourselves ut the period alluded to, we cannot speak with certainty as to the nature of the parley which cue* cc the terms offered by either party, we know those were not the days of the proetocols. The ultimatum was not satie factory to the Skye men, who immediately pro, °ceded to "adjust the preliminaries" in their own way, which adjustment consisted in tarry 11311 a %ast collections of heather ferns, and other corn, ustibles, and making a huge fire just in the very entrance of the Uumh Faaingh, which they kept t p for a length of time; and thus, by "one fell su.oke," they smothered the entire porde. Lion of the islagid.". Fi ET(' *2 The Madison drips elates that &counterpart of Anti Rent times in New York is d iubtless appr"si•hru{ in %yiet censin The "Home League," f .ruied by the form tor;rti gagers, already extend* over the entire tra:t i.f country where lands have hems mortgaged to as railroad coatis nies, and embraces probably 3,000 to 5,000 persons. The organisation is a secret one, boned together by oaths, and its 'literacy is protected by signs, grille and pace words Ti was at-first give. out that their objects ware simply to pro tect, by legal 1110111:11 , , the paseiterion of their property. But as doubts arise whether any valid legal defense C 4 ,1 be set up to the foreclosure of the mortgages, the spirit of t3a "Hem* League" u changed, and the defense of their prop arty by any and ail means that may beootne necessary Is Its object. We learn from the Bearer Dam Cutssa ?bat at the last meeting of this "League," bell at Roiling Prairie a few days ago, a resolution was passed, declaring virtu ally that, if au attempt was made to collect these mort gages, or the interest on them, they should resort to same violent measures, either fur resisting such collectios, or for giving expression of feeling uppermost in their minds, that they have timodeeply wronged by the Railroad Com. panics. Ander/fen, in bearing generous testimony to Mor. phy's powers. Si a chess player, say. he is too strong for any it%lng player to hope to win more than a game here and there. zit never makes a setetake, bat as soon as has I adversary commits the slightest bluodew, his gam•upgonc If a player makes a more - apprcitmativement" correct, but not "enactment" the right more, Slorphy is dead rev tam to win. Andersen would hare also given his op.u , Son that llorthy would hare beaten the three great tram ,•ar:te. PhiliNiore, La Bourdonhais and IlcD.nuel. Til ER /1 4 110 4„R VE R. • • ~ 4.:w Da , DOE .., HDAY News of the Week Three unsuccessful atMatpts were recently made by Marshal Dotson and his deputies to verve a subpoena upon Brigham Young, rill:atting his attendantse before the court as a whose*. The Srat time the Marshal went to the house, he was told that Brigham was tic: a; home, but the e•e. and and third times, the gates in the high stone well which surrounds Br,gham's house were abut in his face, and he was positively denied admittance, although he stated his business and demanded admittance in tits name of the United States. It will Dow he ueoevsary for the court to issue an attachment requiring the Marshal to tithe Brigham's body, and c tmpel his attendance before the court , and if he still refuses to allow the Marshal to •p• prosok, hikw, it will become necessary for to call upon the army for i►sistanee —The L. don Market tilone contains Ave tune of hurt= hair. 8401.40 hair is the most demanded Most of this comes from 4ertnany, where it is gatheresiaby a Dutak Company. ifteion years ego this was in the greatest de and br tight $2 an ounce. Black hail. is now pre• fried It comes from France, principally from Brittany and the Southern Departments The French hair hareezt amounts to neary a hundred tcus a year. Toe price vary. lug from twenty cents to a dollar per bead, accord.ng it weight and quality The hair merchants attend (sire with a pack of ribbons, pine, and snob ernal articles, woicb they exchange for hair. Madame Dumas de Maaelbargue died in Baltimore 09 Wednesday, aged 96 yeata Her husband was cr.e of lba richest French merchants who established itiemselves tq this country at the beg.pc,ng .f the century Ilts riches amounted tc fhb tn.,t4 ue o! dollars. During the ;Lit Wl7 between France and England, f oiler?) large ships with valuable cargoes belonging to Mr Dumas were taken by the fingltsb cruisers, and several warehouses in Martinique, Gaudal,upe and other ports were sacked and burned. Mr. D. died of grief, and left big wife without any property With her fortune parsed her Mende but a few of her country men remained faithful to the last moment of her life. The ,Ypssifisat Revtaftr for 1459, gives soma sgure• in regard to the spread of Spiritualism, from which we arrive at the following feet The total number of Spiritualists in i.el rnitcd Stoics. to giver as 1,284.060, and the num ber in the whole world Is estimated at 1,940,000. Maine .s eredl:ed with4l r , New lismithlre, flu,ooc. Vermont. 25,044 Massachusetts, 100,000, Rhode Island, 5000; Con- Lecticut, 10,000; and New York, 3b0,0401.- *The Revere:- g •co the names ct 545 public speakersand2dB profession , al medium/. The literature of the profession oomprises VO books and pamphlets, six weeklies, thrco semi.week• lies, and four monthlies Th. gr OP. e. uiug. Dr Liao ttzt caka are about 11 :,00.UU0, out k I wb.ch , agar the laymen' of expec,ses and interest, twelve per cent. d,eldouds have been declared. A reserve of two per et.nt. has been depus tied in the Trust Company kr a stnktag fund f the re• dempuon of the debt, and a surplus ut tare. por cent. re• mains In the treasury. The oonetrue;ion account Lartog reached 58,000,1/00, Las, according k s roeolut , on of the board •dv;pted some time since, become c Deed In New York City, the wife of a poor ea,lor who a at les, being unable to pay her rent, wa., on Saturday night, together with her little girl four years .1 age, turned into the street DsLrtuus with hunger and despair she dis posed of her child's shawl for a few cents, bought some laudanum, and, gi•ing some to too chid , swallowed the remainder. Fortunately the plain tailed to aecomplirh its expected work. Theiaapless woman and co.ld were taken to the Alaiabode. Prescott, the Historian, is dead. lie had a etreke of paralysis, about two years etace, but tt yie.ded t.. used.cat treatment. Re recovered bts health, and for a great pur• lion of the last year Las been in Lon spirits, and so robust that his friends expected for bum many years of literary activity. But on Friday last, toese hi pee were euddenly extinguished At twelve o'clock be was apparently to •z cellent health at be t past twelve be was seined with an apopleptie Et, and at two be Lad breett,ed hie taut lie leaves& widow, two eons and a daughter We pubashed on Saturday :he prop...sed boundartei of a new eoatity to be erected on the Monongahela R.ver, and to have a population ‘f about I 6,outi, not 44.100 es the types said. An effort a now meting to Bla.r county, sac Mtddte Woodberry township, in Ltedf,..rd e. ,, uoty, to have that township annexed to !Nair A movement td also making to have a new county called Ptae. erected out of parts of Indmna, Jefferson, Clearbehl, and C ties--Harris\ivy Patriot A Conlerence of the Clergy and Laymen was recent. ly held in London, to consider the propriety of initiating. at once, a great national movement in favor of revising the Liturgy. All parts of the country were represented The measure was urged by L ,rd Ebury and others, with great earnestness. el strong effort will be made, It le said, to carry this measure through Parliament at an' early de• —A tern We fight occurred in McKee, toe e ,, uoty seat of Jackson. Fy„ on Monday week, which resolted in the death of two parties concerned Samuel Isaacs was kill. ed un the ground, and John Iforr s ti,ed the day'after A son of John Morris was also nearly cut to pieces, but I. not yet dead. Several others were mote or lees injured. A feud has for a long time existed between thu Morasses and Isaacs. The Rey. lir boa.; an, a Catholic priest, of Char:os toe, S. C., paid ore, to a lady of that city on Monday, the aum of $5OO, received through the confesmional. Ile te• (wired it from a person who raid it was- to latofy ao ic• debt/dates rightfully due the heirs of the lady's father The debt San rsmatoed unpaid for at least a period of twenty-fire years, as ttio parent of the lady ham hose dead over twenty years. The people of Uratiot County, Michigan. are repre sented as betas in a very destitute condition, and an ap. peal bas been made to the Legislature for aid There are •Gout 1,000 families in the County. and of those not more then one-quarter, tt to Geneva!, pare the means of *ab ets Lance until the next harreet. A a almost total failure of the crni s is assigned as the cause of the existing Want. A )oung man named Ilarrisca `ander•, eloped on Wcdreaday night last with the wife of his brother, Daniel Sanders, from Springfield, Vt., came to Bellows F 8,111., Vt , and toot a room at the Bellois Falls Ilonse. The husband and the Sheaf Fumed, them, and the parties, finding themselves taught, took strychnine. Young Sanders died In twenty minutes. The woman is expected to recover. We have later news from Mexico—the usual budget of fighting. Ildramon had been opposed to Robles' plan until he was himself elected Preudent Sine* that time be bee held his peace. The Government Palace at tJua• delayers was destroyed on the 10th inst. by the explosion of the magazine. From one to two hundred persons acre The Rev. Mr. Coffee, the fret roan, says the Memphis Appeal, who ever preached • Sermon the Lurre of Men:ll phis, was last week arrested for being drank mind put to the mditheoss. Whea takes into custody he .wore tterly at the officers sad wanted to fight them. A cerise* at do population of Rome has ,itt Leen completed, from which it appears that the krtal ..f the io • 141" Sp 3 re moultuta are the gold duet of time. Of u portt. , us of our life spare momenta are habitants is • basdnd arid eighty thou/Lod thee.. t•oadreti sad Ally , a figure at about which ill any has ft- the gape through which temptations find the atataod for the lays two hundred and 11R7 fears. f easiest zoom to the garden of the soul. ASS, 41/All or WRBRUM V 5. 1,:.9 FEE Tn( ll...peak:lo to thirty tuilliona io the bans vf rlut prr iieul cu negotiate for the !Isar. eha , - Cohi ext-u , ! 1 al.-) 'Th. •r.),;pp p. tth •hrine ..1 a.4finy an• in while ,f‘•• bpi cs , e.ieeueereistti ere le t reat leer .1, t 'reel bling The fore l/ i r too to • expand," th, .attar t euvy the' eNn , enitrnen. f beuedery lines pereuei neatly eioebat It is urged b !the friends •.f early acquisition, that the ultini e posseeesen ef Cuba is a fixed fee!, resultiugVreua p diticei and geographical neceesities, eulkhat the propriety of such et e.i• ual uwaership tins been reouguizol by all pain ~ That the law o( our national existence is growth, and that the prudent statesman, and patriotic thinker will he jealdue of any plan of action that proposes to resist that principle That all the great Continental Powers are expanding by: the eame law of progregeion. On the other haul, those who oppose [dement acquisition or prestkut efforts for that purpn , e, urge that though qie time may come when self. preservation shall rrquire us to purehale it, there ie no necessity no to do so - The present bill, they contend, is an derogation of Senatorial powers; and that the present state of the nation al finances will not safe!) ethnic of even a pre— pectively increased indebtedness for so large an amount as the acoempliatitnent of the proposed iourchase would demand Individually, we ted,eve , n manifest destiny and the 'lsed fact" that t'ubs must sooner or l a ter belong to the Mitred States But we are just lie anxious and earnest that that deettuy shall not be confounded with manifest wrong, in the eyes of the world and on the page of history, by illjudged action It is true, that the policy of Nations, in the magnitude of their necessities, is net always to be measured by the earn° deli, earl/ ethical standards that test the moralvy ,if individual einduct But the admiselou Lerries tee on to dangerous ground The nations that parceled Poland have long been and must ever tee If bye word and reproach These suggestions will account for the diversity of opinions to be found within the ranks of parties in regard to the various phases of the question There is one mistaken notion that should be corrected It is argued that the large body of Maces are not to be favorably affected by the pos4easion of ;he island; only those on the sea board This is not so Every wheat growing Stele in the Union will feel the result favorable. Cuba consumes annually over a half million ban mete of flour, very little of which goes frpni this country, by reason of a duty of ten dollars per 1 barrel discriminating against the American am des With an onreetricted intercourse, the item of flour alone would be sensibly felt But the question, in its more general and po litical aspect, has always likened itself in our mind to the ease of adjoining owners of land, one having a fruit tree, the hearing limbs of which overhung the neighbor's land It is pretty gen erally understood between neighbors cf good standing and common courtesy, that while it would be dishonest for the one over whose land the fruit hung, to shake it down and appropriate it, it would neverthelee, be right to peese.4 it -when in the due course of nature it had fallen Manifest Destiny will bring Cuba to our ground in her own good time Tu anticipate her action, might make us trespassers This we understand to be abetst the New cf the mass of all pirtiLQ It i tue o.te idea, tea , . ••UuDa gravitates tuwaro our shoree." It's substantially Mr. Siideil'e idea and proposition, except hie additional sug• geeti in of a prior offer to purchase It is not to be disguised, however, that many would like to facilitate the falling of the golden fruit, by "raising a breeze" with Spain, to in' sure the branch an early and vigorous shaking JUDGE IRWIN Our Harbor ('reek friends will rejoice to learn that Judge Irwin, of the United States District Court at Pittsburg, has resigned The resign:L• t,on was the result of a pressure demanding itn peaehment It will be recollected that sore, m since Le had difficu,ty in Court wi,h a promineut member of the Pittsburg Bar, a Mr ,T.ieo Selden, who was stricken from the list of att,,rue3s, and who rinee that difficulty has fended himself in a manner to bring about the above lucky result The writer of this Lad a good opportunity of seeing and appreciating the ex-Judge while a the bench, some time iu the year 1854 or 5 Th" occasion was the somewhat celebrated hearing for "eontempt" of "King and Lowry." Judge Hepburn, II in. Wilson McCandless and Samuel V Black, Chief Justice of Nebraska, were ciuusel for the parties in contempt. Mr. Mc- Csirliess and Mr Black both .poke eloquently, and were followed by Judge Hepburn, who eon. eidered exclusively the "law of the easy," refer. ring Judge Irwin to the Acts of Congress of St.pt 24, 11'139 and of March 2, 1531, as eon taiaing the law of contempta. The whole case was embraced within two abort sections. After the reading of the sections, Irwin remarked that that disposel.of the case, the parties under ar • rest going free; and added, that he did not know of the Ada of congress before! This, it will be remembered, occurred after he had issued the pa pers upon which the gentlemen then in custody were detained. They bad, been arrested, forced to Pittsburg I'll , l into upen court, like culprits, and jam to the unavoidable expense of a trial and defence, probably not less than three or four hundred dollars .4 piece; all by the fiat of aJ edge who subsequently acknowledged, that be had ac• ted throughout in eotireinorance of isle author' ity and their rights We ;thought then that his CC/M[ll44in was sadly i 4 want of the - "seal of Harbor Creek." The evidence b. fore toe Congrepsional Coln 4ittee disclosed • lifetitnei all:molt, of corr..spon dpig official conduct Several proniinent gentjemen of the Pittsburg, }gar have been spoken of connection with the snecessorship, and likesiiNe the Hun. G. 9 ;ord ()buret', of Meadville." IN JURED —A colored boy, riding a powerful horse yesterday, was suddenly pitched from his seat of honor to tho curbstone, a distance of twelve. fee: F..rtunately his head struck the ground first, and no damage was sustained. We hope. that 3;.#411': of our Republican friends will give tue 11arrieburg Patriot and Union a drubbing f.)r the above We ask it in the nave of " John CLIATICA " There's a covert thrust in the item at the '•blessed Unity of the Race" that should "dry up every bowel" of Republican "COD t.CLU purity" conipassion. :tar If "Scotia's Bard" could but liaise a tit • f t lo• puffing 1.'41 feasting that his bite een te 1,1 torthliy ha% oceasioned, he would have i ho• to“ruing After the oeessiou, H WY), I i,at ..perit..l,srp and wake. periodical !), - .• 11 pa.,••, and f ui,d himself terrestrially t Ezuhaoge4 come bur..kned With lauda•-ry speeches, imitative Scotch aentimento, uu t '-ribute.4 respect" and rhyme without number; the' much of the rhyme might have be. r, juilelfru-ly dispensed with ,lut of c”usidera ti o f .r the "reopect " Oue feature of Burns' uelthrat..ins and svech os add retnio;.c•nees, has always struck lAA as r,•tu irk, .1. ; that is, the universal absence of any uio least notice ~ f those talents which first, cyan. 1) among the peasants of Ayrshire and the literaii of Edinburgh, afforded him distinction. For a long time, says Lockhart, his converse. tional talent, were "considered the most scum ishiog of all he possessed," Yet so completely has th,t supremacy of his muse been cultivated by his admirers, that, notwithstanding the an nual rivalry among them for new themes of enco mium, the first fruit and for some time the chief charm of his genius, his bun seemingly forgotten 1 At the February Sessions, commencing 3looday next, two meo, Foust and Riddle 'are to be tried on indictments for murder With out any selfishness to the motive, fur our press ent engagement made it nenessary to have our peace supplied in th- Foust case, we urge upon jurors anti witnesses the extreme propriety, nay. the ,demo duty of banishing every prejudice that they may bar.: felt in the eases Rumor lb too often basele , ,s and false, to be trusted as a whole ,Jale ingredient in the administration of justice W e know that there is great diffizulty in resisting a permanent bias after reading the "bloody sc aounts- ss pictured by the pen of some ready writt r, or itst,•nine; to the ehilliag recital of some pectit talk( r; but still the mind of every juror shou.d be purged of all such wane impressions They are not unfrequently far wide of the truth. Instead of a jurvr going to the jury box with a lurking t r confirmed impression of guilt, the law requtres him, under his oath, to go there with the Irtpr,ssion of innocence, and to be cons inced of the contrary by the "evidence," and by that alone air The "City Fathers" of every municipal corporation s"etn to have been set apart as game ' for writers It's about enough, we hat(• always apposed, to work gratuitously fifty-two or more nights of a year ,•very body, without bring set up lik6 a turkey at a shooting match, to see who eau "draw the first blood " But it would b • as difficult a task to rob mankind of their sports, though cruel, apparently, as it would be t) cure them of their vices; and the one wo zes r to Seeming to rank so high on the list of recrratruns. it might be m-re than ordinarily din ;irons and useless to attempt it reformation Oar th:ng is true, nevertheless, that whenever one of thrse "dead shots" have bad a chance to know txptrimentally, the trouble and perplexity of managing municipal affair in a way to suit the wi-1,•••i and protect the interests of a majority of c ,, ustitucial R, he usually has "acknowledged the maize " fo lull view of the Mormon maxim touching the "blowing of one's horn and being h lowed," we defend the integrity and intelligence of the members of the City Councils. We have be••n led to this by some remarks of our friend ".••,.;^ f-•• Speaking of the older members of the Councils, we think he does them an injustice. As to the younger members, a shot or two may be of set , - vo c to them, if for no other reason than to teach them tLe :sit .f War the Editor cf the Gazette, after quoting fr au some Washington document, to show the preponderance Lf Clerkships in favor of the South, u.ks his friend f the Observer what he thinks of t his picture of Democratic policy ?—that party II Lying been in power most of the time fur the i . t t weary , tire years " Tois is one of the reg uar inquirit s of the opposition, and to our notion an- , wored : In the Southern States, rank among the professions, and show a I age list of per.levcring practitioners. This, of course, gives skill in the pursuit of offioe and a host of applicants for vacancies. On the. other ha hd, most of the young and middle aged of the North are engaged ip mercantile, mechanical, agricultural or the other ordinary professional o-cupstions. With us, the ncional office seek• er4 are small in number, and of course proper ately sari II in FUCCS Again : Washington, the C.te. , of ( , ccupation and appointment of the Clerks, a largely Southern in its popular in fiu :nee, the District of Columbia hai.ing beta csrced frocu Maryland and Virginia; and every body knows how much depends upon immediate, p ressiug, personal effort in obtaining office T Lii gives gentlemen from the South another natural advantage. But how will the Gazette account for Virgin ia having so large o share of the Southern clerk ships? except upon cur reason—her proximity to the scat of Government, and the consequent et-. and concentration of action South Caro_ I t ua is much more intensely slaveholdiug in 14CD timoo, yet Virginia has always excelled in,the cuj ay went of patronage As to the appointments made sum 1857, the editor of the Casette and his party friends must take the blame themselves for the South having the larger share. If they will turn in and help to make more Northern Democratic States, instead of keeping them Re. pubilea n by their votes, we will promise theft a fair share of the spoils. Vir The Lecture on Tuesday ereniog by the Ret Mr. WRIGIIT, was well done and well re 'nit ed. The lecture room was so crowded with the audience that it would seem almost indispensable hereafter, for the ccrofort of all concerned, to Procure n Imrger t(• w. •,' a ac t ;,..t of the fem. , - OBS "The Point of " • Lame, eloquently die ea•r-td, with a constant eye to th• Mr Wright is one of those hearty. lerr,dtic men that do not know vrhut tho a .rt 4 Can ' t means, and tho IrNole of his lecture was colored or ober act,rized by the same dampness style of seetis went. It was an earnest warning to doubters , and sluggards, that he who would wiu must la. bor for the pr:za It was just the thing to stir the listrier to honorable ac tion an d Ills delivery is earnest and pleasing, leaving the impression that the speaker has a soul to s:, , m• white, to do, and to dare. We like that "sort The next lecture will be given by the Rev. J Foaaxsrxa, of this city, on Tuesday evening next. Subject—" The True and False Power." tar Kit North bays it is no wonder 4iint women love este, for both are graeeful and door e. He alight have added that Um do aerate& =I 'RECEIVER'S, SALE. t Will be sold at Receiver's Sale, in the !City of Erie, Pa, on Finiyar, the 11th ' day of February, 1859, , at 2 o'c:ock, P M., the ERIE OBSERVER Newspaper and Job Printing Establishment; togeth er with the Building and Le Wit • Or ground, Subscription List, Good Will, , &C. The Office is in complete order, and contains all the Type, Presses. and oth er Fixtures necessary- for a first class newspaper and job office, consisting in part of one Steam Engine, one - news ,' paper Power PreB4, one Power ...lob Press, one Card Press, Hand Pr0i9.5., &,c. The subscription list is a tine one. and can, no doubt, with a very little exertion, be largely increased. The Advertising and Jobbing Patronage is as good as that of any other office in the City. TERMS OF Seca.—One-fourth in hand, and the balance in Six, Twelve, and Eighteen month, with interest and ap probed security. J. W. DOUGLAS S., Erie, Jan. 25, 1859. Receiver NOTICE The undersigned having been ap pointed Receiver, by tie Court of Com mon Pleas of Erie County, in Equity, of the "Printing Office of the Erie Ob t server Establishment, with all its effects as they belonged to-the late firm of Sloan & Moore," all persons indebted to the said Sloan & Moore are request ed to make immediate payment, and those having claims or demands against the said firm will make known the same without delay. Subscribers pac ing before the Ist day of March next will be settled with as if paying in ad vance, all after that will be charged according to the published terms subscription. J. W. DOUGLASS, Ere, Jan, 26, 1859. Receiver par Our "cotentiporariea" in the City consider our hat touched for complimentary n ISM An angel epee, from Ileaven antra• Descended hen evrbtle, And before be went ew••. Be left billow • mile '" Thtel unique little veraelet is fr)oa Bennett atical [?] contribution to Bonner's N Y L,ayer We suspect that the aforesaid “aogel bare postponed its mundane v,sit indtewitely hNd it anticipated being Heralded in such At any rate, that "smile" would have been CC )0.). raised go. The Rev J E . Forre.ter, of Erie, r.t, Friday night last, delivered his lecture. ' Toe Fast Young Man," before the Stockton Ly ,, um We are informed by a friend that Mr l• a very fine audience, and that his ketur.. w - with much favor by all wl,“ livani r W fe, I like congratulating the St.ektot, . Its vod taste in selecting the L otur,r, its credit with the people f,r IL it td-r•• Mr Forrester is a splendid L . /aturer aoa . in his manners —Dunkirk A-eta and Arjus • - THE LAW OF Divoact.—TOr i l upru, C • f t ha., ri”..l/10.4 that , coa, .ed by an insane person,.is not a .111:a (it e,u for a divorce Here's another hook for oil inn. is to hang a hat upon, and, hereaf;er, when at., one wish to escape the constqueti,.es et crime, we have no doubt but that insanity w;:. be offered as a "plea in abatement " The Courts of this country, a-. f Eng' and ether civilized nation., have a 1.11::Ft tencl.!r respect f the insane; and they arc further , m polled to comparative mercy, to many - a. by the well settled principle that alI off e „• have their origin in the paoi,Ms shad le mu le more leniently treated than those that are nominated "cold blooded and preated,tai I " But the above instance is a new example f h• application of tither of the above principus, though the, decision seems to be' according t the settled rules of criminal law The !ivr, Blackstone, wisely pays respect to tile of our natures Tht: above called to wind I.aq-se , ' !I: it wt one. , beard during a discussion fin fixtun• went between a Methodist au..; r,t,l•• The latter had taken the position mat pa:), moot for orime was in this world, : certainly suffrred either in the act its , r —ow - time thereafter, but before death ThA M.•!!) )• dist Brother a.k«l his adversary then to oriel. the dlowing out • " Suppo•e a cuatt t ! fv. crime of adultery, and to die ituct,ed,:itel) , tohen is that man punished, under your prop .a,- Lion?" Tho Lica was'nt cracked. Wir Two grave stones, belonging to , a Watt to N Y , sad already up In the , hula' grouud over members of his family, were attach ed for debt, a few days since, sad sold at auc tion. We should have objeetcd to this, n 'ground" that the ghosts of the departed w- re not "summoned" as garnahees The wealth of Gen. Cats, is the result i the roe *f real estate in Detiotc. A portion of his ongionl fArut .1 DOW la the very heart of the city. Twenty year. sr, be offered to sell it for $7,000. Now it is value.l et V! Ono.. 000! Poor Mexico now bas aro Presidents, or o , kart fire men backed by military power, e►cb cf whom think he alone can reams her from the gulf cf rutn to which /he is hastening A western edttor says that a ' thild was run n‘er by a wagon three years old &oderoBll eyed, with platelets on, which never spoke afterward." The gold fever le decidedly raging throughout to• West, nod hundreds of young men are prepartug a start early in the spring for the newly dt.covsted mine, of Weot ern Kansas. In many of the large town. occopenle. of 56 to a 100 are organising. The Cameron Furnace at Micidietolin it to he put in hi sat oktortly,aad the teorki pt M . Wood and Sterlit.,:. at the ISOMe plate, wilt 00[11121•00111 operation!! earlf in Ma re Pre neyiran la Tyler npii. sis k . The London S'ar Bays a bill tN being pre pared there by which no couple will be permit ted to marry without finding two securities t keep the peace towards each other. The mini re quired will be from $6O to $l,OOO ttecorthug the wealth of the ,arties. J See, nurse, see!" exclaimed a delightec papa, as something like s smile Irradiatto few of his infant, "an angel is whispering to it"' ''No, sir," replied the more matter of fret nurse, "it is only the wind in its stomach." sir The cloak of religion is to do known sometimes by the fine nap it has cforing sermon time. agi. If you observe a gentleman with his arm around the waist of a young lady, it' is morally certain they up not married.—E. At Wilt DOS to Ilia other.—Dahl. - isir Upon the presentation of the joint tatiff res du: ions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, by S •nat9r Bigler, to the United Stotts Senate, Senicor Cameron met, to use the 'savage of as t xci i ange, "the overture for a protective law, wi.ti au off , ns.ve onslaught upon the Democrats is Party." The same paper then quotes Mr. retort, 'Ls 101'0 , 4 , Mr Big.er said— .' lie did not doubt the sincerity of his eels league upon this qucation of the tariff; but be had a clear and decide I opinion that the worst friends of a provr and prompt readjustment of the tariff are those who are ootistautly attempt. ing to give the question the aspect of a partisan issue, anti to niis it up with the politios of the day lie bad livened to the remarks of his eels league with sonic surprise. Re could see none ees,ity for dragging into this discussion an allu sion to the it - hi:U.SBRM of K&OISS ttpder, the Le , compton constitution No man obuld misunder .tand the imputitions which were conveyed in those reolurk•; it was as much as if his colleague had said in plam language that the message of the Pr, 1!Z. ti, it relates to this question of retdj.l•tin , 4 ntlr revenue system, was not sin cere N.ir t: be understand the necessity of talking ah.tu , gulden and peouliar obanges in the sewn:neut. , of public men. lie should fully sot complisb his present object by saying to his col league ;Lc was ready to unite with him in good faith to carrying out what he believed to he the wi.l of a majority of the people whom he repress ut , q - 1, and, to order tat do that, he was aiding t treat the question as a business affair, c ,-, nacriliug the Trel{aury and the great industrial interests 'Jf the country without atteftipting to invest with the character of a struggle between Ow ;w r •ft p Ittical parties of the country." Der We clip the following manly, misspoken platbr ,1 per..)n.i notion from the Preis of Friday There are twu classes of politicians, of mere vittipme.,, to our happy country, who are 000 - ,tindy distressing themselves about "the next Pre4i.lency This same thing of "the next Pres, , d-ocy" int .xicates more weak ambitions and ud Iles wore diluted brains than the thirst for d I 0-elf The present phase of the disease [for it deserves to be called] is fhe anxiety •1 c •rtatu pewspapor prophets oti this subject. IL , •y a.; Iler VOUS as if each one had, in his dtspaition and the solution of the Kr , ,.: 4 •ret, who will be the next President? 'they i•reru 15 , curious, for instance, to know what r , ur-" the Democrats will agree with Tus l'itt.s• If we know these Democrats, we think ire can ythey are the followers of no especial earith•Lato Speaking for this journal alone, we rep-a!, f tli.• hundredth time, that no man will ro ,•, who does not stand up square ly • • priii,•,;de. , t., which we consider our• seine, pledged, not only by our whole political lir, !Lit especially by the great issues immediate iy Inv Lved in the cmitests of 1858. These are primary e-4entiala TFt E LAKE St:Mina TBA.PZ.—The trade w,t4 'Ake Suportor ports has, from a small be• giunng. riv-n to one of great and vital impor tar:c.‘ In 1846, the forwarding of supplies for eng‘ged in explore Lions for mineral coal inenc-ed. and until the opening of the St. Marie's Fails Ship Canal in 1855, all these suppli e s b a d t ti. lauded at Sault St. Marie, taken aer,4.. the p ,rtage of about a mile, and tiler' reshipped on !he Lake Superior side, Copper, as is well known. was discovered in 1846, and develop. men.s of that mineral have steadily increased We n iv.. only the sh ipments for four years, 1846, lt7i.) 1 and 1858. 1,• , }1;. tb. -btptncnt of copper was twenty -1b4.; in 1856, eleven millions four t.uu ir,l and fife-four thou.-and lbs.; in 1857, L 2• len unil!on: , five hundred and twenty thou* "" , - - A lam. thirteen millions eight hu:lir.•.l an 1 eighty-eight tnonsana iur. Vu. .1, )1 a i ,•ip4 per for 1858, with an average I I pure ruetel, after smelting, of seventy ucr e, , w ,1 he worth, at the market price, p• r Ib ] two millions three hundred and • one hundred and eighty .l ~ I ,r- Tticre were shipped in 1858, from M ••• , ;. Superior, thirty-one thou !, i Ciir , s•-6 tou• iron ore; and two thousand hundr , l 3n3 ninety•seven tons of bloom and bar iron Tile ore at a valuatwo of seventy dollars per •; , 3, be worth two hundre3 , and seventeen twa hundred and forty-five dollars, and it,t• and p• 4 at a valuation of thirty five I p•r t n, w va,•l b • ninety thousand eight notplr l an I nwety five dollars; giving as the v ipper and iron shipped from Lake darin4 al,. year 1858, two millions six hut, trod in I f •rty •one thou-iand three hundred ani two• f,ur dollars —Detroit Advertiser A privato ;Lt'er of January 10th from Port au k'ru iecetced via St. Thomas and Havana Lays t hat the Emperor Souloque had hien defeat t tiCt...t. ti, ffrard, and the Imperial tfoops were 3ca up in the city Souloque himself w plot ;:e 1 every moment, and it is said that ti tr,ar t w,. , Pli • y a few leagues in his rear The er contest was near!' ended and to a day rr two the Republio would be in fu, fire, tho rim° of writing guns were being, tire.l within nearing of the Capital, sup p t.. ba a salute in honor of Gen Oeffrard. A ver.ilct Wai rendered in the Supreme Judi- C iurt to-day against the Boston & Woroe.. t.ir fir 822,250 damages. The award .t,• Mrs S with E Shaw, whose husband was ittiled, and tacrelf badly injured some years ago by a train on the R.►tlroad coming in collision with the plaintiff's carriage. 1.-te, night about 11 o'clock, a frame house on ovidtirts 4 - Aliegheny City, occupied by a csrponier named Ro4erd, and family, took fire and was totally oondutued. Rogers, his wife and three of his children, were burned to death.— Only nno of his family, a boy 11 years old, was SaCFI BURNING A Nzoao AT TUE STAKE.—A cor• re-p..ode.ot of the ,Varysville Eagle describes the recent burning of a cegro et Troy, Ky., for the murder (.•f his master. They marched him to the centre of the jail yard, drove down a large stake, and chained him, to an erect position, hand and foot, fast to the stak. There was an abundance of shavings and fine split wed piled around him. This consum ed some half an hour. During this time the negrri talked to the negroes that gathered round !Ojai He told them that he had a good master, in.l that be was always treated too well andgiv. , en too many liberties, and for them to take warn tog to time, and never do as he had done. Then the torch was applied, and he seemed to be sa w, 'y indifferent about it until the flames began t,) turn as high as his knees. Then be began t twi.t, and snort, and groan, and in about a minute more he began to scream. fie gave ;Au,' , f the most hideous screams that I ever and coin° from any human being. I could not ~sand to -ee any more, and loft. ' W ben I left the fl une.. were burning as high as his head. I W a 4 at&ly a speetator—took no hand either for or Agtiust I :hulk there were 1600 to 2000 people In witoe-m this dreadful aoene, and 200 or 300 uegroes." mg."Nly dear, what alai! we name bub!" "W fly, husband, I have settled on the name of Peter." "Oh, don't,'' ho replied; "I never liked Peter, for be denied bis master." "Well, then" replied - the wife, "what ruse do you like?" I ••I should like the name of Joseph." "Ob, oot that," replied she; "I can't bear Joseph, for he , desied his mistress." COME Nrw YORK, Jan. 29 ,BosroN, Jan. 29 PISTSBLILO, F•b 1 NEW yo it k. rOenewspoodes.. of the iris 0b.,. r, It is the season of dross Kati • all that boos under the - c)inpi frivolity, which intierd ho unju.. Far one who 'stales things ...ft. life here is in a great part with ref.r.nc • 110551. Not to Zipeult of the gay ;ad' w into society" for the sae of resat lishmeat with houses, ouschnieo, sr, ti,. "modern improvemenue rn-o 9r a , fools enough to come out night after and crowded rooms, all glue, glirte:, , pliosble show," without some larg , rrr - that of merely conforming to the u•I;.. . world; certainly very few beyond • juvenility are drawn into such a., the simple desire of happiness the young lawyer has to mak , act / with clients; the merchant with en- young business man whu is duet .•„. ingratiate himself with Bank Dm • ~ „L persons of influence On the (4.r.- r fat, pussy nabobs who have achieved a go to parties to feel it; conscious, little in themselves has deserve , : are constantly dependent on the ner of their fellow-men, for the kef•piL F tb , ,- sumed dignity in countenance A, f teal pleasures of society in thesr cr ,1. ; fast ionable assembleys there is able) y none at s In order to pleasurable intercourse, esrelt..7 tween opposite sexes, there is necessar , , degree of confidence and familiarity of confidence; and in the manner of assenuAto e such parties there is no guarantee for th , clam ter of any stranger one may. meet further that be is a well dressed man, knows the ti ,r 4 • must have either money or credit with a Br ,s. way tailor, and that he is probably in s , 1 wholesale ,, business ca. a profession Fur BeWl7. tne customs of up-town society dun't adro traders and mechanics But these vapidities of society we have to amuse ourselves with Juv. L w cept it be Mr. James Gordon BtIIG. • ; • , L t. • "Mary Ann," which are already bt I. music, hitched to% popular dirge t the musical boys in the Bowery, have a pulpit snarling between 11, Eir s Beecher and some of his critio, . leaving a fly in his ear Business is looking up more tr.," Southern trade is coming in wed;, .„. mind for all kinds of manufactur soon be excellent. Money 1." promises to be for another six u. consequently we look for the starling manufactures in all direeti,.n. menta are not popular wtth capita of acres of Western land- art- ff t.t mere song; one man ,ffers t acres for bad debts and protested ti ,•es We are having several U0L1513:.) • 1 courses of lectures this winkr Pr t - lectures on Auatomy, to the of have been throng-d, rnl I, character has eter beet, so soccestift.ll,. York City as these lte , uri s Prof Rli N c,ek, of the Uniou Seut.o pow COOre Bought all, r, Ir• , lecturer, by the educattd elkesee, •. h:. , man in the city lie is nut au .rat writer is unsurf &aped in brir,laue3 and vtgur and satimim, emprerei Mir Among those wl the John L Stevens st,am•r nor Anderson and Gei,,ra, u, sioners appointed by the tr virt.m L: • . into and report on the eou.i.i. offices on the Pacific Cast ir • anything but pleasurable; bo , these gentlemen have so ailcuiraL delicacy and firmness, as to eu,i3t miration of the officials passing ft, • and secure the esteem and COE ti IC. • : ple for their faithfulness and r interests Governor Anders . 13 , of :,- t . ; highest office in the gift of the pe• i• and after representing them in marked ability, has now had amp. i; • to make himself acquainted wcii West; and we trust that his stay proved as agreeable to him, a, it La. • • table and pleasurable to thr , ,. am L: have enjoyed his acquaintance lon, of Pennsylvania, is a gentiem.it. 7 known to the Democracy of the sesses the confidence of the high degree. Their labors have f•• andtheir assiduity untiring. deinon-•-a devotion to the purposes of their Respected, esteemed, and hoe. red : nians, these gentlemen will warmest wishes of our pep ^ 1 r tt..r welfare, and oar regrets that they are n .c selves Californians —San Fran.-t.i., NEW PLAN Or RAILaOADS —S A B: ••!! this city, has introduced a new feaiur , construction of city railroads, namely: A:. • cast—iron struCture, without tie Or : • absolutely indestructible, is put down . removing, butda few inches of the pare mei.. rail so constructed at the joints as the possibility! of any jolt at !such pis: , of this track has been laid by,the Br .1.. of Brooklyn, and highly sporen of ty • I saw it when patting down Ac, ry - feature of thislcase is, that it can l!!! r• • • at far less cost than the plan now city, and must wear as long a. ;A! • structures as heretofore built i.f w . iron combined, especially wbeu chilled in casting, by which thee as hard as steel. A specimen of .1,- •:, road can be seen in the office of ! - road Company, at the Fulton F, rr Star. HORRIBLE MURDER :TEAR R•• Friday evening last, about eight r L .L a man by the name of Adam S'o="4: - the house of James McCann, this county, and demanded ailnittt , :.• - partially intoxicated, and McChnn r him in. After trying persuaatt• appears that Stewart got violent.. , l.> door down. McCann then seizei a ..-- "poking•stick," and struck Stew.. • knocking him down. He then •'' - end times with the stick, and ki • his body out of the house S:, W.l7' home senseless, and lingered a.i when he died. It was evident ui k•• that the first blow struck wa..1 , :! , caused his death, as skuil 111 by h.—Meadville Fr,: LOUIS PAULSON —,Frotu of the 26th ins', we learn that tits u, Louis Paulson and the Quincy Chess Club, enminen.. , i • '' the 25th, in that city, at , 13:1 Mr. Paulson playing vibite at, ! - move, chow the favorite open:t Evan's Gambit. Ten 11110 1 1; . • C "' • kited to each move. The gvtro hours—Quincy resigning .11 tilt players on the part of the. `• Morphy, Alex Pors..n, 01 • Morton, and J. G. Row lah , l • IS. A Southero pap r "3: trality of the Atlautlc Cyril' , v. I. b , 4 • • astlY begged for I.s been fully establitibeti. It hasn't' a on either side. N R W I' - ,ru.J an ME UZI EEL E