of the Legislature, and confining the con nection between it and the Executive, to that alone which is warranted by a fair construction of the Constitution. I can conceive of but two motives which could induce a President of the United States to endeavor to procure a controlling influ ence over the legislative body, viz: to perpetuate his power, by passing laws to Increase his patronage—or gratify his vanity, by obtaining their sanction to his schemes and projects for the government •f the country; and thus assimilating his situation to that of the limited monarchs of Europe. The principles above sugges ted, would effectually destroy any dispo sition of the person elected by the com bined votes of the opposition to place himself in either attitude. Retiring at the end of fort years to private life, with no wish or prospect of "any son of his succeeding," legitimate or adopted, he would leave the Government as prosper ous and pure, in its administration, as when it passed from the hands of the great "Apostle of Democracy," to the Pother of our Constitution. To the duties which I have enumerated as proper in my opinion to be performed by a President, elected by the oppositiom to the present administration, (and which are, as I believe of constitutional obliga tiOn,) I will mention another which I be , lieve to be of much importance. I mean the observance of the most conciliatory course of conduct towards our opponents. After the censure which our friends have so freely and justly bestowed upon the present Chief Magistrate, for having, in no inconsiderable degree, disfranchised the whole body of his political opponents. I am certain that no oppositionist, true to the principles he professes, would ap prove a similar course of conduct in the person whom his vote has contributed to elect. In a Republic, one of the surest tests of a healthy state of its institutions, is the immunity with which every citizen may, upon all occasions, express his p 0... litical opinions and particularly his pre kulices, in the discharge of his duty as en elector. The question may perhaps be asked of me, what security I have in my power to offer, if the majority of the American peo ple should select me for their Chief Ma gistrate, that I would adopt the princi oples which I have herein laid down, as those upon which the Administration would be conducted. I could only an swer, by referring to my conduct, and the disposition manifested in the dis charge of the duties of several important offices, which have heretofore been con ferred upon me. If the power placed in my•hands, has, on even a single occssion, been used fur any purpose than that for, which it was given, or retained longer than' was necessary to accomplish the objects designated by those from whom the trusts were received, I will acknowledge that, either will constitute a sufficient reason fur discrediting any promise I may make, under the circumstances in which I now am placed. I am, dear sir, truly yours, W. 11. HARRISON. To the Ilonerable ILARmsft DENNY, DISCOVERY OF NIUMNIIES AT DUR.kNGO, MEXICO. A million of Mummies, it is stated, has lately been discovered in the environs of Durango, in Mexico. They are in a sit ting posture, but have the same wrapping, bands and ornaments of the Egyptian. Among them was found a poignard of flint, with a sculptured handle, chaplets and necklaces, of alternately colored beads; fragments of bones polished like ivory, fine worked elastic tissues, (proba bly oar modern India rubber,) cloth mock *sins worked like those our Indians of to day, and bones of vipers. It remains to continue these interesting researches, and America will become another Egypt to antiquarians, and her ruins will ge bark to the oldest periods of the world, showing doubtles that the ancestors of the Montezumas lived on the Nile, and their luxurious civilization was broken up and overpowered by the hardy hordes of Asi atic Tartars, who come down from the Berbring Starits and the Rocky Nloun tains. The scene of Attilla and Alaric in Rome and Greece were rehearsed at an earlier day on the shores of Calafornia and the plains of Mexico. It is unknown of the mummies above mentioned what kind of embedment was used, whether it was nitrous dispositions in the caves where• they were found. A fact of im portance is stated, that the shells of the necklace are of a marine shell found at, Zacatecas; on the Pacific, where the Col uinbus of their forefathers probably there tore landed from the Malry, Hindostan oil Chinese coast, lir from their islands in their Indian ocean,--N. York Star. Dangerous Innovation. —The choosing of the committee in Congress by ballot in the case of Swartwout's defalcation, may be considered as one of the most danger. one innovations that federalism has ventu red upon in that body.—Keystone. 'And is it there you are, with your di plomatic nose, yo?r piercing eye, and your penetrating chin?"—A dangerous in• novation, is it? you will find it so, it lays the axe at the root of corruption—all the branches will be cut off, and dead limbs expunged as useless. It is dangerous to none but the corrupt, and they feel it so, Mr. Keystone.—Miner's journal. The late Storm and Flood. FURTHER FARTICULARi•--The dam ige done by the flood in the village of Westfield, Mass.is estimated at $25,000. The whole village west of the canal was inundated. A letter from that place, published in the New llaven Herald says, The three expensive bridges over this' river, averaging three hundred feet in length, were entirely swept away, and the only crossing place left over this river for a distance of - twenty-five miles, is the Canal Aqueduct, at the north end of thel village. The damage to the canal and the work , connected therewith, is considerable; yeti when compared with the loss of this vil lage, it is but trilling. The canal and locks from this to the State line, have escaped uninjured, nor have we as yet heard of any damage to the canal in the direction of Northampton. From the Hartford Tinos, of Tuesday. We learn that the ice has lodged in the straits below Middletown, forminz a dam across the river 30 feet high. This ac• counts for the extraordinay rise in the river at this place. The river, now (8 o'- clock Monday afternoon) is 24 feet above low water mark, being higher than it has been before since 1801 , - and is still rising. Our city, from the river to Front street, is umpletely inundated. The north and! south meadows are covered with water. By great exertions, the families inhabi ting houses in the north meadow have been brought oft Signals of distress have been seen from the houses in the south meadow; but attempts to send re lief to them has yet proved unavailin on account of the great accumulation once. We learn that the State Prison in, Wethersfield was considerably injured• by the storm. Three chimneys were de molished, and a part of the roof of the west shop was blown oft carrying with it the walk on the west wall—damage esti mated at $5OO. A number of barns in Wethersfield were prostrated, and a ,dwelling house carried down the river. Many of the bridges over the Farming ton river were carried away. We have heard of the following: the New Hartford bridge, the bridge at Collinsville, at Ter ry's Plain in Simsbury, and the bridges at - l'ariffville and Scotland, between Sims bury and Granby. The whole country between Albany and this city gives lamentable evidence of the violence of the gale. The bridges are nearly all carried away, and at Great Bar rington heavy buildings were blown down. From Me New Haven Herald. The Barnesville Bridge, between this 'and Fair Haven, was lifted from the abut ments and carried away. The Causeway Bridge, on the Middletown Turnpike, leading to North Haven, is also carried away, its fragments now resting against the piers of Barnsville Bridge. A gentleman has just called upon us to state that the flood in Farmington river rose 22 feet. The dam which supplies the calla; ader is about halt gone; small breach in the canal at Farmington' and one in the feeder. All the bridges on the river, above Farmington, so far as heard of, are gone. GAMBLING. We take from a New Orleans paper the following graphic account of the degreda tion to which the pursuance of this alluring, ,and dreadful vice frequently reduces its votaries. Now Ladies sometimes Gamble and wear the Breeeites.— e see by an ex change paper that a story had been pub belied in New York about a certain lady, who lives in the habit of frequenting a hell in the lower part of the city. in disguise' and was said to have lost 1500 or 8:2000 there. The truth of the matter was doubt ed at the time; but an adventure recently occurred that tends to confirm the belief that the fair sex do !occasionally and on the sly, indulged in the baneful passion of gambling. For some weeks past a man of youthful appearance wearing mustach ois was observed to be an occasional vis-, iter to a well known house in the Park Row; where he played with various suc cess but for moderate stakes. At lenght on a night, a week or two ago, he tender ed a check for 2,200 to the banker, and in an under tone requested counters. It had been remarked that he scarcely ever spoke bat in the same subdued manner.— As he was recognised a frequent visitor, and appeared to be respectable, his request was at once complied with, and for a time fortune seemed to crown his speculations —At last, however, luck turned, and lie lost it all! Ills agitation had been con stantly increasing, and on loosing his last counter, he dropped scnselesss on the! floor.—He was immediately carried into a private apartment where every humane attention was paid him, and proper restr i ., ratives applied, hut he relapsed from r, ne fit to another; and at last on unbuttc,ning his coat and throwing open his vest, the man proved to be a woman . A 'me'.lical mail was sent for, and at last o.le young woman was restored to compr.rative self possession• Consciousness however only increased her agitation; for strange to say, she recognized in the me'lical attendant a friend both of herself and her husband—' for she was a married woman! An ex planation took place; and it is due to state that the owners of the establishment at once cominisserated the situation of the unhappy woman, and without a moment's hesitation returned the check, which was subsequently admitted to have been sign ed with the name of her huiband. 'SHOCKING SUICIDE AND PRO-1 BABLE MURDER. A horrible szene occurred at 9 o'clock yesterday morning in the porter house kept by Mr, Bernard, 221 Fulton street. A young Greek named Pietro Paoloqual ineuse, who boarded at the house, had fallen in love with a German girl,- named Josephine Jarmann, living at the same place as a servant, and not meeting with a reciprocal affection, had, it is said, some time since thuaatened to take her life, but afterwards promised not to carry the threat into execution. At the time mentioned, however, he found the unfortunate girl in her chamber, fired a pistol ball into her side, and upon seine of the inmates of the house rushing into the room, discharged the contents of another pistol into his own head and died immediately. The ball entered the right side of his victim and lodged in the lower part of the body, where it is found impos sible to extract it. She is of course in most excruciating pain with very slight prospect of recovery.—N. York Gazette. From the Erie Gazette. GREAT AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Our town early on Saturday evening last, was visited by the most destructive conflagration ever witnessed here. The fire originated in the barn of Messers Bird and Hart, stage proprietors of this place, and so rapid was its progress, that eleven of their horses, seven stage coaches, all the loose property and fixtures of their extensive establishment, were consumed. These buildings being immediately in rear of the Masonic House, kept by Mrs. Win H. Champlin, that building was soon ens eloped in flames, and is now, to gether with the block of frame buildings extendin; west as far as the Eagle tavern one mass of mouldering ruins. At one stage of the fire it was thought impossible to save the extensive block of buildings, and occupied as stores, on the east side of French street; and conse quently every removable article was pla ced on the public square, until it was com pletely filled with merchandize, furniture &c. In the hurry of removal, and from dirt, water, and flying embers, material damage was sustained by the merchants and others, many of their most valuable articles l..ing unfit for sale or use. { SUICIDE The following, from the Sussex (N. J.) Register, is one of the most deplorable & 'singular cases of suicide we remember to have seen recorded. From the Sussex (N. J.) Register. 1 Suicide—A deplorable case of suicA e l took place at the house of Wm. Wr.l i t„ 3, near Marksborough on S;lntlay 'Cite 20th inst. Mr. W. had bein) to N - ewark, and was returning on SrAurday, when a stran ger accosted air, , near Stranhope; and re quested perriission to ride with him, and desired o :ielter until he could procure em ployment. He was charitably accommo dated. In the night he was heard by the family praying fervently, which he contia ued until about 4 o'clock, when he arose, 'as did also the family. Ile paced the stoop until breakfast was called, of which' he partook, and then passing out of the door, threw off his hat, and plunged head long into the well. He was a Swede by birth; abaut 38 years of age, and said lie had been one year and nine months in this country. "We are informed upon the best au theyh on Monday morning last, I water of the lake, on the American I Bottom opr,osite this city, called the Grand Ma , :ais, , zovering more than one thousand acres, suddenly disappeared, leaving . nine tenths of its bed entir el ybare. It has since filled up gradually; but, or, Thu...stlay, was about one foot be low it.s ordinary height. The fish in the THE IRON TRADE. lake. app ear to have all been destroyed, FAititiNnsviLLE—lt affords us more thriusan ifs of them being now floating on than common gratification to be enabled Ole sueface of the lake. While the wa to record the successful attempts -if indi- ter was out, a huge fissure was discovered 'vidual enterprise iii works of general am', in ',:he earth at the bottom of the lake, ex practical utility. Many of our read, i s tending from bank to bank. are aware that immense exertions ar,d a great outlay, have been used at Parra u d s _ ville to procure the introduction of b eatr.d air in the manufacture of Iron wit' l COke; the issue of the second experir.ient. has been successsful, beyond the 'most san guine expectations of those engr getl, Thi s will be of immense advantage to our State for it is the intention of the com.pany, not only to smelt but to inanu t met , A r e the iron, and preparations are 'alreraly making to secure the services of first rate puddlers, to continence the me , nufa,cture of rail road iron in all its var;.eties, Immense su m s r.re annually drained from our cour.itry to purchase rail road iron, the inr..rea.,sing demand, has produ ced a pror , ortiranate increase of price, and foreign f aetories have reaped the benefits eatirel'. It will then, indeed be an era in thr, iron business of America, when she can secure to herself the advatages eina. na.ting, from her own enterprise, and no ' onger pay tax to transatlantic capitalists. ,That we may speedily anticipate so desire able state of things, the recent experiments at Fareandsville, leave but little doubt. Mr Benjamin Perry, late furnace mane ger of the Penteweyn Iron works, in L Monmouthshire, South Wales, is the gen ; tleman under whose superintentlance the ' present satisfactory results have been at tamed. Having heard of the repeated fail ores in this state, lie felt ambitious to in troduce his skill and experience, with, what success hisfirst;experimeats has ful ly proved, and the second set the matter at rest, in the most satisfactory manner. The followinghi story of the experiment at Farrandsville, will prove highly interes ting to all connected (with the iron trade, and coming [from a witness of their suc cess who was on the spot, may be relied on as correct, From the Pottsville .11.2iner's Journal "On the 1 gth of November last, the se.: cond experiment was made; —at— o'clock in the morning the fire was kindled at 17 o'clock, A. M, of the same day, at 52 o'- clock P. M. the cinder began to run, awl, continued to flow freely and without in terruption, till 3 o'clok A. M. of the 13th when the first Cast was made; yielding nearly 4 tons of Gray Iron of a good qual ity. The subsequent crsts were made regularly twice in every twenty four hours, increasing in quantity, and in qual ity, as the furnace warmed, being foun dry Iron. (No. 1 No. 2.) and equal to the best Scotch Pig. The yield of the fur nace gradually augmented to the last. During During the first week the furnace made 50 tons of Iron: in the second week, the yield was 93 tons, when she was blown out for the want of power, the water hag• ing failed in the mean time. Benjamin Perry has done as much for the Iron business as any other man in Great Britain, having been the first to blow in a furnace without scaffolding, thus saving a large amount of materials and ' labor. In the second experiment at Farrands ville, there was riot, at any one time, more than half the requisite pillar of blast during the two weeks she was working. 1 sufficient blast she would make from 100 to 120 tones of Iron per week. It is not a vain boast to assert that never was a furnace in England, Scotland or Wales, that started offinore easily, work ed with less trouble, or made as much Iron in quantity, and or as good quality, du • ring the first fortnight of blowing in. Coke iron can be produced at this place as cheap, if not cheaper, than in any other district of This region. The Coal Basin. on which Fatrandsville is situated, con- j tains at the present time only a single! Coke Furnace; but we may confttlentl:; look forward to the period, and that ',tot far distant, when the mountains nr,d the vallies of this region shall be niade to teem with industry corsequent. on the ( general introduction of Coke F'Arnaces." FROM VERA CRLTZ VIA NEW YORK, The U. S. brig of •war Consort, Lieu tenant Commandan.t Gardner, arrived at New York from '4rera Cruz Dee, 15th, land Havana 7th 'inst. At Vera Cruz all was quiet between the helligerrAt parties. The French Ad miral Inv!, anchored his fleet under the reefs of Lagorda, about 1!-2 miles fro in the c ; :cy, leaving two sloops of war only lun'ier the Castle St, Joon de Ulloa, as a l'''..larine guard to the port. Genera). Santa 'Anna and the Mexican army 1,, er e en , camped about three miles from Vera Cruz where he was fast recoverin g from hi s wounds, received on the me.rning of the fifth of Dec. The city of ',ten t Cruz was entirely evacuated, and br,sinessot every kind compete'' , paralyse?,. EXTRAORDINAR'r PHENOMENON The St. Louis Gazette, of the 11th ult, contains the foltr,wing extraordinari ac count. DEATH OF GENERAL VAN RENSSELAER.' —An express arrived at New York, from Albany on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, announcing the sudden demise of Gener al Stephen Van Rensselaer at 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at his residence in that city. The immediate cause of his death, was a violent fit of coughing, which produced strangulation. He was Pat roon of Albany, and inherited a most princely fortune. He was successively a member of the Legislature, and of Con gress; a Lieutenant Governor; a Canal 'Commissioner; and during the late war a Major General, commanding on the Niag lara frontier.—Phil. Ledger. DREADFUL CASE or CRUELTY AN!) SUFFERING.—Last evening Mr. James Thompson, of 64 Catherine street, came before Justice Merritt and stated that a man named John Grant, occupied the up per part of his house--that the family consisted of Grant, his wile, and an idiot son, named Lewis, and from what had come to his knowledge, he believed that the lad Lewis was suffering and perishing from neglect, cold, and exposure. Mr. 'l'. stated that Grant was a man of ample means, and was formerly a heavy lace merchant in William street. On learning these facts, officer Bowyer and Welch •vere dispatched to bring up the boy.-- They found him at the house of Mrs. Grant, step-mother to the boy, who show ed them up into the garret, when the most spectre-like object met their view, that they had ever seen. The unfortunate victim was nearly bent double front weakness and debility. Ile appeared •bout 16 years of age—had nothi.ig on bins but rags. covered with filth l and dirt, r.nd ulcers and sores in various parts of his body. lie was e ithout any bed, and the only sleeping place he had was denoted by a wet place in a corner of the floor and a bundle of rags he used for a pillow; and to add to all the miseries e the place, a most foetid stench pervaded the entire room and the person of the un fortunate sufferer. lie was taken to the police, where the Magistrate ordered com fortable quarters to he provided for him, and also that the father be arrested and' brought up.— New York Express. THE JOURN AL. 'One country, one constitution, one destiny Huntingdon, Feb. 13, 1839. Democratic antimasonic CANDIDATES. FOR PR ESIDE',.:T, GEN.WM.R, iIARRISON /oic VICE PRESIDENT DAFIIEL WEBSTERi CGAG OF THE PEOPLE! A single term for the Presidene . ,v and the o ffi ce edministered for the whole PEO -4)1,E. and not for a PARTY. A sound, uniform and convenient Na tional CURRENCY, adapted to the wants of 'the whole COUNTRY, instead of the SHIN brought about by our present 'RULERS. a - PECONOMY, RFTRF.NCHMENT, and RE FORM in the administration of public affairs, a7 - Tired of Experiments and Experi menters, Republican gratitude will reward unobstrusive merit, by elevating the sub-', altern of WASHINGTON and the dosciple of , JEFFERSeN. and thus resuming the safe and, eaten ttack of onr Fathers,—L. Gazette.' 1 Supreme Court Decision. As we supposed, the Supreme Court have deckled, that the appointments made by Mr. Porter, shall continue. We ne ver but for a moment doubted but that would be the case. As soon as we took any time to examine the constitution, we , at once gave it a 3 our opinion, that Gov.' Porter had the power to appoint. Those, whose peclliar wisdom saw it in another light, and felt inclined to charge all who differed with them with dishonesty, will probably learn that the jaundiced eyes of Prejudice will as often mislead, as dis honesty. Self Esteem. J. W. Shugert the Editor of the Venan _ go Democrat after informing his patron s that he shall ask for a small divide of the spoils, says, "we wil! show them what kind of fish a toad is." Shakspear's dingy hero Othello says, “I'd rather be a toad." But we had no idea that in this our day, there were men, who owned that they were already loads If the organ of self esteem is not strong ly developed on our contemporary's head, Iwt shall be hound to disbelieve all about Phrenology. The Harrisburg Telegraph say that the' Mr. Wilson appointed clerk to the Canal Board, is not . a citizen of Pennsylvania. Formerly from Virginia, he has not yet obtained a residence in the State. Will some of our stranger hating people about this town, pour down their anathemas on Porter's Administration for appointing strangers. Do you not all recollect witl. what pious horror they abused Governor . , Ritner's Administration because we were appointed under it, who had ever been a citizen of Pennsylvania since we were entitled to a vote? Don't you remember ,it? We are not a little sorry too, that our , neighbor George Taylor Esq. was diddled out of the appointment. Ile is in every respect capable--he has earned it—and then too he is a Pennsylvanian. But it would not all do, Mr. Taylor will bear it like a man, ant! remember that it would not do to take all the clerkships from one school— Porter's Prothonotary's office— Billy Stewart and Jimmy Snyder, are already there, and however much Porter dislikes to loose the companionship of such valuable "serving men"--it will not do for him to bting them all to Harrisburg. Bear up judge, before another year is pas sed you may possibly be appointed Prose cuting Attorney—and if the Advocate does not pay you a neat and well deserved compliment as they did that sage jurist John Anderson Esq. vulgarly called "car roty John"--why we will, thats, all. Gen. Harrison, Henry Cif and She U. S. Gazette. Our worthy cotemporary of th e U. Gazette, has latterly evinced no li anxiety upon the Subject of canditla for the heat Presidency, On a former occasion, that print I its most t ealo,ts support, to Gen. Ha son, but at the event of his defeat, it g evident signs of seeking, ere the n campaign, stone other man, to be ur for that station: Our impression, wits then, that the rest mode of procedure, to secure fi success, would be to declare Gen. Ha son at once the candidate of the al Van Buren party, and by unremitting,: united endeavors, displace from the II : seats, which they abuse and disgrace, 'present corrupt administration. Otht perhaps wiser, at any rate older than o selves, differed with us, and the result, 7 . tal to our wishes, seems to be slimly pic t*eil in the future. With the present venal and corrupt Iganization, to contend against, there c be no hope, except hosed upon the mu perfect unanimity. Sever an,, link whi connects the different, though kindr elements; and bold by long success, al more corrupt from continued practic the same party reign again victorious. The U. S. Gazette, it seems to us, now devoting all its powers, not to destri Van Burenism, but if possible, to scatt the seeds of dissention. and distinic among its opponents. This may not the cause, but it is the effect. Devotedly attached to the interest Henry Clay, that print takes every mt t110(1, to not only advance his claims, In to throw disparagement upon Old 'III and having done so, it cast insults at thoe who seek his preferment, by telling their that even should the Whig National Con venlion nominate him, they "could not e.t• pea entire unanimity." Thoughout long article in that paper of Feb. 7th' there is a studeid, and we think intention al effort made, to convince its readers tha should any union exist between the whig 'and. Anti-Masons, that union would provt rata. to success. Thus making it almos impossible for those parties, who in nit tional politics, have one common catist to act in concert, should the universal!) admitted patriotism of either of the can didates make them decline the prolferei Honor, knowing that the only hope of rid ding our country front the incubus which is pressing her to death, is the harmony of their friends. It is said that Convention which nomi nated Gen. Harrison, "did not represent more than one hundred individuals, and they the scattered fragments of a dismem bered party." The people of this county know better, no matter w hat is the result of our friends inquiries, and his charge t hat the nomination was an attempt to ',forestall the decision of the whig con vention," falls to the ground, when it is known that the Anti•Masunic convention had regularly appointed a time of meeting for the express purpose of nominating candidates, months before this whig con vention was contemplated. Let us then look at the course of this argument, was not this whig convention called intention. ally to frighten our convention out of a nomination, and thus destroy our organi zation, and render some little help to the "widow's son?" If the former argument is justifiable, how much more true is the latter. , Our ancient and valuable cotemporary belongs to that much (award tribe, who , still wear their "bibs and tuckers," and • go through the "child's play" of masonic mummery; and we can excuse him, but the experience of many winters should have taught him, that a more favorable time might have been found, when any allusion, however remote to that institu tion which "committed a gross outrage upon the liberty and perhaps the life of an individual in the westrern part of New York." This is the candid admission of our friend; and betrays the honesty of heart, while we think his saying that the Anti-Van Buren party, are "fettered with the chains of Anti• Masonry," slaws that even hearts as pure as his, may be warped by prejudice. As for Henry Clay, none more than our selves admires his tallents, Ins integrity , and untiring zeal, in the cause ,of Ins country and her oppiedsed people; and we do believe, that that love of his country would cause hint to forego any honor, if thereby he could secure the greatest good, to the greatest number. Of Gen. Hard sin, we think the same, We therefore trust, most earnestly, that our friend Chandler. will cultivate
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