I' rum the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Daniel JO. Broadhead's Offi
cial Connexion with Govern-
or Porter placed beyond
doubt.
In order to unmask, to the fullest ex. ,
tent, the duplicity of-the Keystone, and
its tortuous effort, to exculpate the Litiv-
crnor from any participation with Broad
head, in, the htii;ber tr;insadions of 1840
we ask particular attention to the follow-!
ing article which appeared in that paper
last ‘Vednesday ; premising, that with its
accustomed impudence, it denominates
those as federal editors, who have boldly
exposed the corruptions of the Executive.
The Keystone says :
" In the present controversy, much has
been said by the enemies the. Executive,
in regard to the connexion existing be
tween him and Dares m. M. BRODIMAD,
Who has It would seem, together with
George tlandy,•figured as principal /ions
in this &air. In order to give a coloring
to their base insinuations against the Exe
cutive, the federal papers are industrious
in creating the impression, that Porter
end Mr. Broadhead have stood in the re •
lotion of " confdential or bosom friends,"
that he (Broadhead) received 11 um the ,
Governor an appointment as " Commis
sioner of Loans, and, in a word, stood in ,
his close and intimate confidence. Now
all this is sheer and malicious FABRI
CATION, invited solely and exclusively ,
with a view of lending some color to the
ingenious and unwarrantable manner in
which Handy, Broadhead, Sul ms and the
rest of the conspirators, have dragged in
the name of the Governor. It is not true,
that Governor Porter has ever, during his
qfficial career, conferred any ofre of trust
or emolument upon Mr. Broadhead. In
the fall of 1839, after the Secretary 01
the Commonwealth had advertised un
successfully for a loan of $2,054,000
authorized by the legislature of that year
--and when the creditors of the state
were in breathless anxiety to receive their
honest claims , --then it is true, Mr. Broad.
head volunteered to negotiate with the
banks for the desired loan. Ile however,
never derived his authority from the Gov
erhor—was never compensated by the
Commonwealth lur Isis services, as lie
would have been, had he derived his ap
pointment from the Executive—and if he
was compensated at all, it was done by
the United States Bank, with which he
negociated. But we do again, once for
all, distinctly and unequivocally avow,.
that he never held an office, of any des.'
cription whatever under the administra
tion of Governor Porter, and we challenge
the Federal papers to give us day and
date of his alledged appointment. Where
is the paper, in which his appointment to
any office by Governor Porter, was ever
announced? Where is the scrape of a
pen, that will serve as evidence that such
was the fact ? It is not to be found, and
we challenge the world to produce it. It
exists nowhere save in the distempered
imaginations of the reckless slanderers,
who would fain hut down and destroy as
pure and honest an incumbent as ever
lived.
David R. Porter's relation towards
Daniel M. Broadhead, has never dill'ered
in any wise from that which he holds to,
wards the hundreds of his fellow citizens
from all parts of the State, who may choose
to visit the Executive Chamber, and con
fer upon any great question of State policy
in agitation. Ile may have been there,
with the hundreds of others who in this
free country do occasionally
. present
themselves to their rulers, as is their
right, and he may not—but that he ever
HELD AN OFFICE under the present
Governor, of any kind or desCriptioi
whatever—great or small--is totally on
founded. HE NEVER DID, and hence'
all the logical and fine-spun conclusions
of the whole tribe of Federal slanderers,
deducted from such an assumption, are
scattered to the winds. IVe really wonder
what Federal falsehood it will be our duty
next to unravel and expose: " It' their
name be legion," we can and will refute
them."
By the above it will be seen that the
Kickapoo Organ says 'Broadhead never
received any office of trust from Governor
Porter; that Broadhead volunteered his
services as loan commissioner and never
derived hes authority from the Governor,
and then boldly and unblushingly asks
" where is the paper in which his appoint
ment was ever announcedl" Now we
ask our readers to re-peruse the above
extract from the Keystone to see that we
have fairly stated their assertions. Hav
ing done so, turn with us to the 2d volume,
Senate Journal of 1840, page 563; there
will be found a document headed " Cor
respondence in relation to the loan of
$2,054,000 to the Commonwealth," read
February 19, 1840. The first letter in'
this correspondence, is from Francis R.
Shunk, Esq., Secretary of the Common
wealth, in reply to a resolution of the
Senate. The concluding sentence of
which, on pa 664, is in these words :
"1 AM iris'ir TED BY TUE GOVERNOR to
say, that no of er conditions or terms are
known to him on which the loan was taken,
than those set forth in the correspondence'
hereto annexed, and that there was no
compensation ALLOWED TO THE AGENT
EMPLOYED TO PROCURE TliE LOAN. HE
ACCEPTER THE AGENCY, vellYing entirely
on such compensation as the Legislature
under all the circumstance might see fit
to allow him fur his services. I have no
other information to communicate.
I ain yours, respectfully.
Fr. It. BRUNK,
Secretary Commonwealth! ,
Now how does this correspond with the
assertion of the Keystone, that Mr, Broad
head never received any qffice of TRUST
from the Governor'? Gov. Porter's Secre •
------
tary says ,' he istnetrucled by the Gov
ernor to say, that there was no compeo•l
sation allowed to the agent EMPLOYED
to pI ocure the loan I but it then recurs,
who employed Mr. Broadhead 1 Look at
the loot of the next page, 565, and contin•
fitted on page 566, and readthe following:
Pllitarisamita, Sep. 6, 1839.
SIR t-1n consequence of there having
been nu offer for the loan of 3,054,000
'dollars, authorized by act of the Legisla
ture of Pennsylvania, of the 19th ofhly,
1839, for which proposals were invited
by the Secretary of the Commonwealth on
the 24th ult. I HAVE BEEN DIRECtED IYY I
•me UovEuNoti to call upon the banks of
this city, whether said loan, or any part
thereof, will be taken by them.
About 400,000 dollars will be wanted
immediately, and 150,000 dollars month•
ly, for the four ensuing months ; of the
balance, 500,000 dollars will be wanted
during the months of January February,
and March next, and the residue in instal-
ments of 5200,000 dollars per month]
thereafter. Certificates of stock to be
issued in such sums and at such times as
may be mutually agreed upon.
You will therefore oblige me by sub•
omitting this matter to your board, and
furnish me a reply at your earliest possible
convenience, saying whether your bank
will take said loan or any part thereof.
I an. most repectfully,
Your obedient servant,
D. M. I3RODHEAD.
0:7 Agent to negotiate Loan.4:o"
Het eit appears, in an official commu
nication, by authority of the Governor, this
letter is sent to the Senate in which Mr.
Brodhead says, lie has been directed by
the Governor to call upon the banks. [low
does this agree with the assertion of the,
Keystone, that Mr. Brodhead " never de
rived his authority from the Governor"?
Remember, gentle reader, this is not one
of Mr. Brodhead's letters to Mr. dandy,
in which the Keystone would have us be
lieve the Governor's name was used to in
crease his (Brodhead's) influence with the
. .
Banks; Ltit is one of a series, in an otli•
cial communication from the Executive
chamber to the Senate of Pennsylvania!
On page 567, will be found letters from
J. B. Mitchell, Cashier of the Mechanic's
Bank ; H. Nixon, President of the Bank
of Noah America ; and L. Wharton,
President of the Berks county Bank, al'
addressed to "DANIEL M. fiRODUEAD,
Eiry., agent for Negoeiatin,, ,, Loans," and
so on pages 569, 570, 671 and 572, in
every letter Mr. Brodhead is either ad
dressed or signs himself i• ag ent 10 Nego
ciate Loans." pn page 567, a letter from
Mr. Nixon commences thus :
" BANK OF NORTH AMERICA.
Sin,—ln reply to your letter of the Bth
inst., as directed by the Governor, to call
upon the banks of 'this city and ascertain
whether any part of the Loan, authorized
by the act of the Legislature of Pennsyl•
vania, of the 19th of July, 1639, will be
taken by them &c."
On page 569 a letter from Mr. Brod
head, to T. Dunlap, President of the batik
of the United States, commences thus;
'Plin..inExrdiA, Sept. 10th, 1839.
SIII,-111 consequence of there having
been no otter for the Loan of 112,054,000,
authorized by act of the Legislature of
Pennsylvania of the 19th July 1839, for
which proposals were invited by the Sec--
retary of the Commonwealth on the 24th
ultimo, I was directed by the Governor to
call upon the banks of this city, and as
certain whether the said loan, or any part
thereof, would be taken by them."
Mr. Dunlap's reply on page 870, ad
dressed to Mr. 13rodhead, commences
'thus :
..BANE OF .1118 UNITP:D STATES,
September 11th, 1839.
SIR,-I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your favor of yesterday, in
which you inform me of the unsuccessful
application you have made, under' the di
remon of the Governor, to all other banks
of this city and county, to take the loan of
July 19,1839, and in which you now ex
tend that inquiry to this bank, specifying
the probable periods when the funds may
be required, and requesting to know at'
the earliest moment, whether the bank of
the United States will agree to take the
loan. It is scarcely necessary for me to
say one word to you, or to his Excellency
the Governor, upon the extreme embar
rassment and pressure now existing in
the money market here and throughout
the commercial world, dm."
Is there further evidence required to
fasten upon the Keystone, a deliberate
falsification of the Journal Records of the
Commonwealth? Is further evidence ne
cessary to expose it as the base organ of a
designing, lying and polluted knot of con
spirators, against the honor and integrity
of the State, of which Gov. Porter is the!
head? Have we not triumphantly fasten
ed this lie upon them, and shall we not
then be believed, when we assert again, as
we have done for more than six months
past, that David R. Porter and Daniel Al.
Brodhead were bosom and confidential
friends, and that no man living knows
better what disposition Brodhead made of
the corruption fund than Porter?
Will any one, after this exposure, be
lieve the assertion of the Keystone, that
Porter is innocent ? IVhere are now all
their boasts of his immaculate purity? If
they dare deny, so roundly, the records of
the Legislature, they of course will un
!blushingly deny the well ascertained char
ges against him. But we arc prepared to
expoic, them all-i f -we can and will unmask
every device of the great Kickapoo and
his organ, and hold them up to scorn.—
The people are on tiptoe of expectation to
know the truth, and it shall be told them
fearlessly. The voice of truth will out
weigh all the Previous Pardons, with
!which our slanderers come armed into the
field ! Truth is Mighty and must prevail,
Iso let the guilty tremble !
Front Rhode Island.
We have the Providence papers of
Tuesday. The annexed paragraphs are
,from the Express, which is the organ of
Reformers:
Members of the Assembly.—A meeting
of the members of the Legislature elect
was holden last evening—more than a
quorum of both branches were in at ten
dance, and the best spirit prevailed.
The Journal of yesterday in a great ar
ray of capitals, announces the arrival
of United Slates Troops." at Fo•t Adams,,
Newport. WilLaT or• irrl They arc pro
bably a small remnant from Florida who
are now down with hard service, and are
sent to Fort Adams Inc repose, and to re
cover health. They are not intended lo•
the Royal Charter service; and if they
were, they would soon find the people of
Rhode Island are not fugitive Indians,
nor children to be frightened.
LATER FROM RHODE ISLAND.
No Blood Shed! Meeting of the insurgent'
Legislature.
A gentleman direct from Providence
has kindly furnished us with the Provi
dence Chronicle of last evening. It con
tains the proceedings of the Suffrage
party" and the meeting of the new Legis
lature of the State. The city was crow
ded with people, and the whole neighbo
ring country seemed present.
At 10 o'clock, a procession, civil and
military, was formed, of treat length, to
escort tht Governor and members of the,
Legislature elect, to a building prepared
for the meeting. These dignitaries were
guided on both sides dy soldiers with
,bristling bayonets.
After the procession reached the buil
ding, both branches were peaceably or
gaiiised, by the choice of the necessary
officers, Dutee J. Pearce being tempo
rarily in the Chair. Alter the prelimi
nary arrangements were made without
interuptiun, Mr. Dorr, the Governor
elect, was inducted into office, and im
mediately delivered his inaugural, a tlexu
ment occupying one page of a large news
paper. Up to the hour when the Chron
icle went to press everything was quiet,
and no disturbance had occurred, although
the city was crowded with excited people.
—Evening Journal.
31 Pickpocket, and line an
Cry.
Yesterday about noon, a gentleman in
the Bank of North America, on; putting
his hand in his pocket for his notes and
'cash, exclaimed 'l. have lust my pocket
book. Some one has taken it out of my
pocket!" A young man who stood .by,
dashingly dressed and with a cloak thrown
over his arm—appeared to be very offi
cious in recommending the loser to look
about the floor: but as he displayed, at the
same time, much agitation, he became
suspected, and was seen to drop a pocket•
book, which proved to be the one which
was missing. The dashing stranger im
mediately left the Bank and took to his
heels, followed by several bystanders,
crying "Stop thief—stop thief." His
pursuers soon amounted to considerable
number, some of whom soon interrupted
his retreat in Exchange Alley, when he
was at length taken and handed over to
the care of the Police.—Pa. Inquirer.
D R E. 1.1111.
THE MEDOEA.—The man who professes,
to be a believer in dreams and other ex-,
traordinary auguries of coining events, is,
sure to be regarded by nine tenth of man
kind as a simpleton, if not a stark
idiot—
and that the most calamitous events have
'often been indicated by such premonitions,
lis an indisputable fact—and it is equally
certain that such events have an some cases
been controlled by a strict attention to the
warnings thus mysteriously , given. It is
unnecessary for us to specify , instances of
such warnings, as they must be familiar to
most readers of historical records. But
there is one connected with the recent
event of the blowing up of the Medora,
which remains to be recorded, which we
class among the most remarkable which
have fallen within our notice. Three weeks
before it occurred, the sad catastrophe
was distinctly represented in a dream of
the mate of the Jewess (one of the line of
steamers for which the Medora was in
tended.) He saw her making trial of her
machinery—saw her blow up—saw the
helpless victims of the explosion in the
water around her, struggling for life—saw
the boat sink, and identified Capt. Sutton
(her commander) clad in a white dress.—
fie told his dream afterwards--and was
laughed at. The Jewess it will be re
membered, left here for Baltimore on
Thursday night, after the explosion and
passed in the bay, the next morning, the
Steamer Georgia, on her way down t
Norfolk, and when receiving the G's flag
half mast, he exclaimed in a tone of grief,
" there, any dream is out—the Medura is
blown up!" The boats passed each other
too far asunder to hail, and it was not
known to those on board the Jewess, until
her arrival ut Baltimore, that such was
indeed the melancholy fact.—Norfolk
Herald.
Offghmaistan.
The recent victory of the Afighanistans
over the British, hy which the army of the
latter, 6,000 strong, were entirely annihi
lated, naturally leads to some enquiry into
the cause of so sanguinary a war.
Allghanistan, a country the face of
which probably resembles Switzerland as
much as any other, is situated between
Persia and the British possessions in In
dia. It is remarkable for its high, barren,
snow-capped mountains, and its beautiful
fertile valleys. The people are divided
into two classes; the one living in towns,
and the other dwelling in tents like the
Arabs. They are Mahommedans and
have a language of their own, in which
they are educated to some extent. The
country was formerly a part of the Persian
empire, but was rendered an independent
kingdom by Ahmed Shah, who died about
70 years ago and left the throne to his son
'l'imour Shah. At Thnour's death a con
test for the throne between four of his
sons, two of whom were killed in the
civil wars which followed, and Mahmoud,
in 1810, succeeded in gaining the throne,
his remaining brother, Shah Soojah, having
fled for his life into the British domilli
Mahmoud was indebted for his s
to his vizier or Prime Minister, of 711 Ore
popularity he became jealous. After put
ting out his eyes, he put him to death.--
The vizier's three brothers, one of whom
is Dust Mahommed Kahn, seized and di
vided the kingdom among them.
The British, in their passion for uni
versal dominion, and jealous lest Russia
might gain some influence with the Alr
ghans, seized the country about two years
ago, under pretence of restoring Shah Soo
jah to the throne of his lather, but have
takeh good care to keep an army there
ever since. Host Mahommed was taken
prisoner and is now confined in a dungecn
by the British' in India. With the Host
'at the fall of the city of Cabool, was Dr.
Harlan a Philadelphian, who was after
ward released by the British, and is now
in this country.
The present hero of Affghanistan is the
favorite son of Host Mahommed, who is
determined to avenge the captivity of his
father. lie and his followers have sworn
on the Koran that they will never yield,
but that they will retire it they cannot de
fend the mountain passes, (which are
among the strongest in the world) and
drive their flocks with them, to the moun
tains.
In the hands of a civilized people, the
country would he completely invulnerable,
as the invaders must make their way thro'
narrow passes of great length, where one
man might oppose ten with success, but as
the Afighans are without artillery it can
not be expected that they will be able to
make serious resistance for any length of
time against the disciplined troops of
Great Britian.—Bellelonle Whig. '
The Press.
"'Tis said that if a brilliant star
Were stricken from the dome of night,
A printing press if planted there,
Would shed anew a radient light,"
This is one of the toasts given at the
Boz dinner in Washington a week or two
since, and the sentiment is as true as
the poetry is pretty.
It was the press which terminated the
long night of ignorance, known as the
dark ages. It is the press which has
been the great enlightener of mind for
four ceiituries past. It is the press which
has kept up the beacon fires of liberty in
politics and religion, wherever it has
been established. It is the pi ess which
has unloosed society in all its elements
from the chains of a civil and mental E
rebus, and like a bright goon day lumi
nary, has dazzled back to the gloomy
caves of ignorance, the Cimmerian shades
which so long before its rising, rested on
mankind.
It is difficult to conceive or compre- ,
hend the value and influence of the press. ,
To obtain any thing of an idea of its worth
we must throw ourselves back to the ages
immediately preceding the invention of
Uuttemberg, Faust and Shoiffer, when
the slow pen of the coNtst, and the cell
of the monastery furnished the scanty
food of intellectual Europe; when manu
scripts were rare and expensive, and
when the great mass of the people, the
entire substratum of society, was unblest
and unenlightened by the rays of knowl
edge; or else, plant ourselves in some far
off, heathen land, where religion, science,
and civilization never dawned; where
printing is unknown; books unheard of; in
struction, save in savage arts, never giv
en; and where" the dome of night" is star
less, because no printing press is "plan
ted there" to "shed anew a radiant leght."
If we can sufficiently imagine either of
. titer& conditions, we can fall upon some
est4nate of the worth of the press. The
press is far more to us than the oracles
of ancient days. Dodona, Delphi, Tro
phonius, never exerted such an influence
on mankind as now issues from the printing
office, engrossing our thoughts, forming
' our minds and moulding our future des
' tinies.—Say. Georgian.
FIRE.- A large farm house, in the v►.
cinity of Greensburg, belonging to Mr.
Mathew Jack, was destroyed by fire on
the night of the 16th ult. The house
not being occupied at the time, it was
nearly consumed before it was discovered.
It is supposed to have been the work of
an incendiary.
ANOTIIER,7...A. stable belonging to Mr.
C. Anderson, of Mountpleasant, Pa., to.
getlier with u valuable horse and a quanti
ty of grain, &c., were consumed by fire
on the 14th ult.—lndiana Register.
Huntingdon, May 11, 1842.
V. B. PALMER, Esq. (No. 104 S. 3rd St.
Philadelphia,)is authorized to act as Agent
for this paper, to procure subscriptions and
ad vertisments.
Our Sherlir and his Persecu-
tors.
Some of the " indignant" Loco Focos
are endeavoring to stir up and excite a
spirit of resistance against John Shaver, or
his Deputy, while. in the exercise of the
office of Sheriff. This is just what might
have been expected. We should not be
at all surprised to see some dozen of
bullies, rowdies, and "pardoned felons"
club together, call themselves 'glee people,"
and take up arms against an officer of the
law,—and even Lynch him!
If, however, in the plentitude of their
disinterested patriotism, they attempt such
a course, they will no doubt meet with a
warm reception at the hands of the " posse
comitatus," and perchance lose a few
drops of their hot blood.
The Deputy Shemiff, who is now dis•'
charging his official duties, is termed a 1
"trespasser" by these "patriots," and
heavy threats are breathed out against
him. But he is a man of too much tsERVI
to be in the least greeted by their course,
--THREATS DO NOT AT ALL INTIMIDATE
We would respectfully ask the fellows
who are so indignant" because John
Shaver presumes to act as Sheriff, after
their master, the Governor, has said that
he should not—why they do not issue a
writ of Quo r; arranto to the said Sheriff,
and have the matter brought before the
proper tribunal legally, and legally dispo
sed of? They certainly know what is the
only lawful mode of testing the matter,
for some of them are learned in the law.
We presume it is want of confidence—
they probably know that they have a had
case.
A kit of Quo Warranto may be issued
upon the suggestion of the Attorney Gen
eral, or his Deputy, or of any person or
persons desiring to prosecute the same.—
Now here the law gives a fair chance to
all; and we do hope that some one will be
good enough to procure the opinion of the
Court as to whether the pretended superse
deas is of any effect, or whether it was in
tended merely as a SCARECROW.
We have also seen "the promptitude
with which the Governor acted in this mat
ter" made a theme of praise. Well, if the
Governor is of opinion that the " superse
deas" is valid, then, according to his opin
ion, the office of Sheriff is recant. The
6th article of the Constitution makes it
the duty of the Governor to fill vacancies
in the Sheriff's office by appointments.—
Why, then, has the Governor not appoint
ed a new Sheri' in the place of John Sha
ver? What has become of the " prompti
- -
tude" of the same Executive who was so
prompt with the eupersedeas? We think
the whole mystery is easily unravelled.—
If John Shaver were of the " right stripe"
he never would have been troubled with a
superyedeas." But as he is an HONEST
MAN, and can't "talk Indian" to the Chief
of the Kickapoos, Executive vengeance is
sworn against him. This is no doubt the
opinion of four-fiftl►s of the people of Hun
tingdon county.
Case of handy and others
The trial of Handy, Brodhead and Solms
has been" knocked in the head." The At
torney General had subpoenaed no persons
as witnesses who could, from the nature
of the case, have had any personal know
ledge of the transaction; and as George
Sharswood, Esq., Chairman of the Inves
tigating Committee, thought he could take
better care of the letters relative to the
bribery and corruption than the Attorney
General could, the Commonwealth had not
evidence upon which to convict ; and the
defendants were discharged. It afforded
the Attorney General an opportunity to
make a speech for " bunkum," and to heap
abuse upon all who ever suspected that
there ever was such a thing as bribery in
the Executive Chamber, or in either branch
of the Legislature. The Attorney Gen
eral wanted to get the LETTERS into his
own hands, but could 'at come it. And
so ends the Governor's determination to
" probe the matter to the bottom,"
We do not know what will be the next
step, but we shall see.
North E. Boundary Question.
It is stated that Governor Fairfield has
issued a proclamation, ordering the Leg
islature of Maine to convene on the 18th
inst. to consider the subject of the North•
!eastern Boundary Question.
The Virginia Election,
The Richmond Whig of Monday the
2nd inst. states that the returns received
are not conclusive, but they are certainly
ominous of Whig de feat. As far as heard
from the Whigs have lost seven members
and gained four.
Illore of the Royal Family.
WILLIAM A. PORTER, Esq. (son of Da
vid It.) has been appointed Prosecuting
.Attorney for the city and county of Philo
llelphia,inlite place of William Badger,
E.,(i. resigned.
Rise in the Nionongaheln.
The Weekly News, at Brownsville, Pa.,
" Unexpectedly the Monongahela has
taken a sudden and unusual rise. During
the whole of yesterday it swelled rapidly.
and this morning it is within S feet ot be
ing as high as it was at the remarkable
freshet of 1852, and is still rising, and
much drift wood floating. If the other
tributaries of the Ohio are as the Monon
gahela, much damage may be expected to
the plantations on the Ohio and Mississip
pi..
Hail Storm.
A destructive hail storm passed over
the vicinity of Doylestown, Bucks county.
Pa., on Sunday the Ist inst. The Int'lli.
gencer published in that place says :
ii We learn that many flourishing fields
of wheat and rye have been most seriously
injured. Upwards of 100 lights were
broken by the hail in the New Britain
Meeting House; and in various dwelling
houses near by, the destruction was pro
portionate."
Melancholy Disaster.
A party of 27 boys of the Farm School.
of Boston, accompanied by a teacher and
boat•keeper, went out one day last wed,:
on a fishing excursior. ; and while return
ing, the boat was capsized by the %, ind
when between Fort Independence and
Thompson's Wand, and out of all on
board only three of the boys are knol::: to
be saved. Those saved laid hold of 11 box
which had been on board, and were takon
up by a boat from a schooner.
Eagle Hotel, Williamsport.
We are pleased to learn that our Nem,.
Maj. CHARLES BORROWS, has opened a
Hotel in the borough of Williamsport,
Lycoming county. Pa. We recommend
all persons whose lot it may be to visit that
pleasant and flourishing Borough, to the
" Eagle Hotel," where they will find ac
commodations of the first order. The
Major is a gentleman in every sense of the
word, as all who know him can abundantly
testify.
The Great Race.
A race was to take place yesterday. on
the Union Course, between the celebrated
horses, Fashion and Boston,—a Northern
and a Southern horse.
The New York Courier in speaking on
'is subject, says:
It is said that on this great contest be
tween the North and the South, there is
'more than one hundred thousand dollars
at stake in this city. The amount for
which the race is made is 1140,000, and
takes place on the 10th of May.
Fashion, the Northern hone. is in
charge of the veteran Samuel Laird, in
New Jersey. His trials of speed are made
with the celebrated horse Clarion; the
result is of course unknown, except to
those immediately concerned.
Boston has arrived from the South, and
is said to be doing as well as could be de
sired ; and bets are freely offered of 100 to
75 that it three heats are run, they will be
done in better time than in the race be
' tween Eclipse and Henry, in their contest
' in 1823.
Erie Relief Notes.
The Pennsylvania Telegraph says :—
"Notwithstanding the efforts of the Leg
islature at their recent session. to prevent
any further issue of the Relief Notes un
der the law of May 4, 1841, Gov. Porter
seems determined to flood the state with
another emission. The Erie Bank is now
issuing $350,000 by order of the Governor.
which ,will depreciate them, even more
than they now are. How does this con
duct tally with the professions of the Gov
ernor and his party—their horror for small
notes and their detestation of that .inra.
mous Relief Bill "