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are paid, unless at the option of the publisher.
MCMURTRIE & Co., have just
received a splendid assortment of Spring and
Summer Goods, which are attracting a crowd of
customers to the old Lomat Corner." Their
stock is truly an elegant one.
[Cr Major D. McMearatx, it will be seen,
has opened an Oyster Saloon, in the basement
of Snare's Row. The Major,being an old sol
dier, and passing unharmed througb the Mexi
can war, of course can't be beat in anything
which he undertakes. He is a clever fellow
too, and cannot fall recek ring a liberal share of
public favor. Call and try
County Meeting.
The Whig County Committee, it will be seen,
have celled a County Meeting for Tuesday
evening of the first week of April Court. We
hope to see a general turn out on this occasion,
of all the frilltitiif Taylor and Johnston. To
render our recent tate and National victory of
importance, we must keep up an unbroken or
ganization. We must stand by and support
those we have placed in power, so long as they
stand by our principles, and faithfully adminis
ter the affairs of government. Turn out, then,
one and all, and let us have an old fashioned
Whig gathering at the April Court.
BRADY TOWNSHIP. -In all parts of the coun
ty our friends have done well at the Spring
Election. In Brady township we are informed
the Locos did not even make a show of resist
ance, and the whole Whig Ticket prevailed
throughout. Our friends could have elected
bath Inspectors, but out of courtesy to their
opponents, they gave them one. This was
right. We always like to see magnanimity and
fair play.
The Packets.
The Packet Boats are now making their reg
ular trips. The travelling community will be
pleased to learn that all the old obliging and
gentlemanly Captains—Messrs. KAaNs, ELLx-
OTT, CLUITION and HOOrer-are retained on
the Juniata. Although not very rapid, there is
no more pleasant mode of travelling than on
these admirably conducted Packet Boats.
Removals.
The office-holders and their organs are corn
plaining that the new Administration is making
removals. Well, this is to be expected ; but
their complaints and whining Should receive no
attention. The People of both parties expect
and desire that removals should be made, and it
matters little whether the incumbents and their
organs like it or not. What the public inter
ests and the public will demands, cannot be
stopped by the miserable whining of the inter
ested few.
The Relief Notes.
In accordance with the wishes of the People,
Goy. Johnston recommended, in his annual
message, that provision be made by the Legis
lature, for withdrawing from circulation the
mutilated and defaced Relief Notes. But up
to this time, no provision of this kind has been
made. The mutilated notes still continue in
circulation, and are every day growing worse.
The People expect and loudly demand that the
recommendation of the Governor in regard to
these notes be carried out by the Legislature.
The session is rapidly drawing to a close, and
we would advise the members who expect to
retain the confidence and support of the people,
to move in this matter at once. Too much
time has already been spent in petty private
legislation, in which the Public at large are not
interested. And we hope to see the few re
maining days of the session devoted to the pub
lic interests. If provision is not made for can
celling the mutilated trash which now forms
the almost exclusive circulation, we advise the
People to select representatives for the next
session with a view to this very question. The
condition of these notes are not only a sore an
noyance, but in many instances, a loss to the
citizens. It requires the most careful hand
ling to prevent many of them from falling to
pieces; and they are becoming so abarrlutely
filthy, that they are causing an unpleasant Brasil
throughout the State. Wo be to the present
Legislature, if the cause of this stench be not re
moved.
Appointtrients.
Wm. B. Nonais, formerly of Mifflin county,
has been appointed Surveyor of the Port of
Philadelphia.
DAVID COOPER, Esq., of Mifflin county, has
bean appointed Associate Judge of the Supreme
Court of Minesota Territory.
Political Grave.
We have frequently heard it remarked that
the office of Canal Cotmnissioner was the polit
ical grave of every man who accepted it. The
remark may be true in every case, but we think
Israel Painter intends giving his a depth Which
has not been reached by any of his predecessors.
Should he continue as be has begun, his politi
cal grave will be like the one described by Sen
ator Hannegan for President Polk, "so deep
that the band of the resorrectioniet will never
each him."
JOHN HANikg.
The name of Judge Banks is mentioned at
Washington in connexion with a Foreign Mis
sion. Few men are as well qualified, and none
more deserving of such a conslderaton. Judge
Banks wotild be an honor to the country and to
the Administration, in such a capacity, and his
appointment would gratify a host of friends."
—Harrisburg Telegraph.
The following commentary on the above, by
the editor of the Butler is so entirely to
our liking, that we cannot refrain from publish
ing it. It is true to the letter. The Whig says:
—Our +ft( and ablr. tb
dected and able contemporary of the
Telegraph must have been in an ironical mood
when he penned the above Para•;raph. Surely
Mr. Penn must have been joking when he spoke
of John Banks as " deserving" of relag patron
age. Perhaps no man in the Commonwealth
contributed more to the defeat of Gen. Irvin, in
1517, than John Banks ; indeed, we have been
informed that his vote and entire influence that
year was thrown in favor of Francis R. Shunt.
During the late Presidential canvass hi.; name
was published in the Locofoc , , papers as a
" bolter" whd had refused to support Gen. Tay
lor. this was never contradicted, and our im
pression Then and now is, that he was a
supporter of Gen. Cass. But even admitting
that we are mistaken in regard to this, we would
still have ample reasons for objecting to the ele
vation of such a political drone as John Banks.
What service has he ever performed for the
Whig party? What sacrifice of time or money 1
has he made in the cause which working!
witigs have for years been laboring to advance.
None whatever. He has even made it his boast 1
that " he never performed a partizan service in
his life." Benefits have been showered upon
him by the party, and the only return he has
made was a cold indifference as to its fate, if not
open apostacy. We trust no such men as John
Banks will meet with favor at the hands of the
National Executive--if they do, there will be
but little inducement to political exertion here
after.
Newspaper Postage.
By a circular from qtr. COLLAMER, the new
Postipastet General, we learn that trancient
newspapers, (that is, papers not sent from the
office of publication,) will hereafter be subject
to newspaper postage only; that is, one cent
for any distance in the same state, and one and
a half cent for any distance exceeding one hun
dred miles, where the newspaper is sent from
one state into another.—But postage on such
newspapers is in all cases to be pre-paid, as here- '
1 tofore.
Special election in Adams County.
WILLIAM McSHERRY, Esq., the Whig condi
-date, has been returned to the Legislature from
Adams county, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation of Mr. Cooper, by upwards
of 1800 majority, there being no organized op•
position to him.
Baltimore Conference. I payers of the Commonwealth that the superflu- ! The New York Sun says, President Taylor
The following are the appointments, by
the ous number should be dispensed with and the and his Cabinet have decided that every offi
number redued to one.
Baltimore Conference for Huntingdon District I
Elected by the people to an important station cer of the Army and Navy, and every man con-
John Miller, P. E. Lewistown Station—, I have endeavored to discharge its duties faith- nected with the civil service of the govern-
Samuel V. Blake. Lewistown Circuit—Tho- fully and fearlessly. I have always cheerfully meet, shall be removed from office if he engage
mas Tanyhill, J. Gruber. Huntingdon—James joined with my colleagues in furnishing such in- in a duel. The President is said to have re-
Stevens, Ephraim McCollum. Warrior's Mark formation as may have been desired by either
marked that he had served forty years in the
—Wm. R. Mills, John S. MeMurry. Bald branch of the Legislature. The resolution of
Eagle—F. Gearhart. Birmingham—G. Guyer. the House oth instant would have reeeived my Army, without engaging in a duel, and that a
Hollidaysburg—James Sanks. Williamsburg— most respectful consideration had it not been blackguard who insults a gentleman, was not
J. G. McKehan, Alex. E. Maclay. Concord—' ! taken out out of the office and concealed from worth the powder it would take to shoot him,
Jos. N. Springier, J. H. C. Dosh. Shirleys- me. But my own self respect, my conviction
even if there were no crime in doing so.
burg—Robert Beers, David Shoaff. Trough of public duty and my sense of what is due to
Creek—Zane Bland, Adam Hockenberry. Bed- , the representatilies of the people, all impelled me I Santa Anna.
ford—Wesley Howe, P. E. Waters. East Bed- to refuse my sanction to a report got up by a
ford—Cambridge Graham. Cumberland—Tho- I clique in secret conclave, and fur a purpose for- ! This cruel tyrant and real foe to the welfare
mas Myers. Cumberland Mission—J. W. sign to the interests of the Commonwealth. lof his country is again meddling in the affairs
Ewing. Frostburg—Thomas Switzer, Henry I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Hoffman. Alleghany—S. L. M. Conser. Yours, &c. of Mexico. He has entered into communica
i
Rev. Jowl A. Gear, has been appointed P. J. M . POWER. lion with his friends, and succeeded in institu-
E. for Northumberland District. I All this trouble arises from the fact that Mr. ling an insurrectionary movement in his behalf,
Longstreth is unable to attend to the notice of which threatens to be fortnidable. The gov
ernment is on the alert, and is making prepare
his office and will not resign. Should he con
tinue to hold on, and remain absent from the tions to crush the rebellion whenever it shows
Board, it is evident from the conduct of Painter its head. The people are awakening to the be
that the operations of the Canal Board will be lief that many or their misfortunes and rever
entirely suspended ! A beautiful state of af-
ses were owing to this hypocritical despot.—
fairs, truly! , He, on the contrary, writes from Kingston, un-
Ider date Dec. 21, a cringing letter, apvaling
Removals froln to the sympathies of the people and portraying
Col. Samuel D. Patterson, who has been su- himself a martyr, suffering and bleeding for
perceded as Naval Agent at Philadelphia, is the his poor country. The letter was written for
editor of the Norristown Register ; and in the , the public, for, in conclusion, he authorizes his
last number of that paper, he uses the follow- friend, Col. Navaro, to publish it as a defence
ing language. We commend it to the attention of justice and his honor. We trust no one will
of those who have been condemning the Ad- „ be deceived by it so as to yield themselves up
ministration for making removals: I to the control of his selfish and insatiable am
•• No Democrat can consistently ask to be bition. Justice to him would be hanging, and
continued in office under an administration of as to his h ono r , it is a
u•lece° f au d ac it y f or hi m
whose policy he does not and cannot approve. - •
Indeed, by doing so he would forfeit his claim to mention the word in connection with him
upon the confidence of his own party friends, self.
for he would be manifesting a disposition to ;
yield the higher question of principles to the I SUSPENDING OPERATIONS Is TOE Coss Mix..
meaner consideration of dollars and cents.—lt —At a meeting of the Coal operators, held at
would be absurd, too, to assert that there are Pottsville on Wednesday afternoon, it was re
not in the ranks of General Taylor's immediate
adherents and supporters, an abundance of men solved to suspend mining coal for three weeks,
just as well qualified to administer the duties of or until all the purchasers in the city agree to
the several offices in the gift of the President, pay 52,25 for red ash and $2 for white ash,lt
a f s ., rf il t e h n e , r e c i a t t: ;LIT , h w o h l t i l a i e s T r. ;
d a; : cd n.
dt Mou n t Carbon. All the operators were pres
ensly and zealously for his election, to super- ent, embracing the heaviest portiondf the trade.
cede every Democrat 1,1 office with the least They ail signed the agreement
sidle delay, and confer his favors upon his
own partizan adherents."
C7' We learn by the Montrose Register,
that Mr. James Adams, of Hartford, Susque
hanna county, died on the 27th ult., aged one
hundred and four years. He was a native of
Massachusetts, and a volunteer in the Revolu
tionary war.
Stage Accident,
On Friday night 16th inst., one of the eta
get running on the northern route between
Blairsville and Pittsburg was precipitated
down a precipice nearly perpendicular, forty or
fifty feet into a small creek. There were four
passengers in the coach at the time, one of
whom, Capt. Geo. W. PENNINGTON, of Pitts
burg, was killed on the spot.
Irr The Philadelphia Inquirer says, the
Ward elections throughout the city, on Friday
last, resulted quite favorable to the Whig cause.
The friends of Taylor and Fillmore were suc
cessful in nearly every Ward in the city, while
the result in the county are also highly grati
fying.
Another Accident.
A laboring man by the name of - Kelly,
employed on Paxton's section above this place,
was severely injured by a premature explosion
a few days since, while engaged in blowing
rocks.
Tea Winchester Virginian says An old
farmer observed the other day, that he had nev
er seen the wheat come better out of Winter.—
The open fall seems to have enabled the wheat
to recover, in a great measure, from the effects
of fly."
Pennsylvania Legislature.
A resolution has passed both branches of the
Legislature to adjourn on the 10th of April.
The Usury bill has been defeated in the Sen
ate 23 to 7—the object of the bill was to repeal
the standard rate of 6 per cent. and allow peo
ple to make their own contracts.
The bill for the completion of the North
Branch canal, was lost in the House, 41 to 45.
A motion to reconsider this vote has since
been made and carried, but no further action
had on the bill.
The bill declaratory of the fourth section to
act supplementary to the charter of the Penn
sylvania Railroad has passed. This bill relates
to consequent damages, in which some of
the citizens of this town feel a deep interest.
Nothing else of interest to our readers trans
pired during the pact week.
A Flare up in the Canal Hoard.
The Pa. Telegraph says t
Mr. Painter the new Canal Commissioner
seems to take pride in making himself the tool
of a set of political desperadoes who areanxions
to create trouble and make difficulty whenever
they can. Last week, (by previous concert,a3 it
appears,) a resolution was passed by the House
of Representatives, asking of the Board of Canal
Commissioners certain information respecting
the debts due and money needed for the repairs
of the public works, and in the evening placed
in the hands of Mr. Painter, who without the
knowledge of Mr. Power, took the resolution
to his hotel and with the aid of the clerk and
others engaged in the secret °v.:ration, manu
factured a report which was sent into the House
on Saturday last.
This was the first Intimation that Mr. Power
had of the matter; and he immediately address
ed to the 'House the following letter, which ex
plains the transaction.
On Monday last Mr. Painter addressed anoth
er commmunication to the House in which he
intimates a charge of falsehood against Mr.
Power, and which is so personally abusive that
all intercourse between them is suspended, and
with it the transaction of business in the Board.
Mr. Power left here this morning on a visit to
Mr. Longstreth:
A CHEROKEE'S OPINION or GEN. TAYLOR.—
CANAL COAINIISSIONER'S OFFICE, W. P. Ross, a delegate from the Cherokee In.
Harrisburg, March 19, 1849. f diens, paid a visit to Gen. Taylor a few days
Hon. Wm. F. PACKER, Speaker of the Hotted of
Representatives t ago in company with a Choctaw, and in a letter
SiR ,-I understand that Israel Painter, a mom- thus speaks of it
ber of the Board of Canal Commissioners, has When introduced, he received us very cor
addressed to the House of Representatives a re- dially, and said we were the people among
ply to a resolution of inquiry in relation to the whom he had been. I expressed to him the
debts due on the public works and the cost of gratification the Cherokees felt that he was now
keeping up the same for the present year. I President of the United States. Ile thanked
deem it due to myself to say to the House that me repeatedly, and seemed to feel deeply. I
the discourtesy of this act is equalled only by like the old man much, and heard him make a
the manner in which this report was concocted. speech to the Red Skins long before he ever
The resolution was passed on the 9thof March, dreamed of the Presidency. Ile was sometime
immediately sent into the Board, taken from the in command of our frontier, and was the best
fiiles of the office by Mr. Painter and its con- officer we ever had thefe. He is well acquain.
tents studiously concealed by him from me un- ted with the border, and with many of our peo
til Saturday last, when he presented a draft of pie,
and I have great hope that he will make a
a report which, under such insultiug conduct I good and just President.
refused either to read or sign. My refusal to
sign that report, in addition to the reasons eta- I Father Matthew Coming.
ted, was based upon strong presumtive evidehce Ina letter from FATTIER MAT rue.. to M. Al
that it was clandestinely prepared out of the i
• place of discharging official business by persons len, Esq., of Pittsburgh, dated at Cork, Feb.
in no wise connected with the improvements of 21, 1819, published in the Pett.tburg Gazette of
the Commonwealth, who have recently, through Monday last, this great Apostle of Temper
the columns of the newspaper press evinced a ante says:
greater disposition to malign public officers than '
to promote the public good. Besides this, one ; " Now that the position of Ireland
of the officers recently appointed was secretly bears a brighter prospect, and that my
requested to make report to a single member of health is sufficiently re-established, to
the Board, of the business of his line, in order permit me, without risk, to cross the
to manufacture statements derogatory to the
official character of his predecessor. With the Atlantic, I propose myself that long de
knowledge of these facts the House will not be sired privilege in April. During the
astonished that I refused to be a party to a ensuing month of May, l hope for the
scheme to take more money from an almost ex. happiness of seeing you and my other
haunted treasury than can be used before the
meeting of the next Legislature. 'lf the House friends in Pittsburg."
are satisfied4vith a report made out under such lie will probably pass through Huntingdon
circumstances, it is their business, not mine l on his route west.
but if they are satisfied that a single member of
the Board shall assume to discharge the duty of
three it is due to the the overrthened tax
02 A part of Louis Philippe's race horses
were sold at auction on the 15th ult. A great
number of foreigners attended the sale and
high prices were obtained. Louis Napoleon
bought an untried colt for 4400 francs.
pass through Dublin on their way to America,
FREE MASONRY AMONG THE Isntaxs.—Let- are nearly all people who belonged to the mid
tern from California to January 20th have been dle classes of society. The upper classes can
received in Boston. A volunteer is Col. Fre. no more exist than the lower, and those who
mont's expedition writes that he has been nine have money enough to leave are doing so.
months a prisoner—his life having been spared
and his liberty finally granted him he says, JAM. 1317CHANAN.--This gentleman has ac
,
' cepted a complimentary invitation, from the
on account of his having been discovered by democratic members of the Legislature, to visit
the Indians to be a free-mason, of which fra- the seat of government. This, lie says, had
ternity, it seems, many of the red men were been his previous determination, 44 not only for
members. the purpose of meeting old friends, but for the
privilege of mating nes, ones." From this we
Judge that Mr. Buchanan has not given up the
idea of 46 serving his country." Especially as
he takes care to throw in an extravagant amount
of flatteting enconiums upon the " great prin
ciples of Democratic policy," and the 44 firm
ness and ability" with which his friends in the
Legislature have sustained them. Mr. Buchan
an, doubtless, has an eye to the political race
course of '52. These old racers are always
anxious for another teqt.—Mcadrine J•firptcl.
Qom' The bill erecting a new county out of
parte of Beaver and Mercer, to be called Law
rence, has finally pained both brhnches of our
State Legislature.
t GEOOOz Gwrz„ Whig, has been elected
Mayor of the City of Reading by a majority of
200 rotes.
Gen. Scott at Washington.
The gallant and veteran ll,ro Of the nation
who commenced his brilliant career at Lundy's
Lane, is again at Washington, l: Bing been in
vited back to his Old post by President Taylor.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more American, under date of the 19th instant
says The skillful and gallant Gen. Scott is
here, and looking himself again—exceedingly
well—many are calling on him to pay their re
spects, in a sense of gratitude for the honor re
flected on his country, even more, if possible,
by hie humanity than his valor.
It in a fact equally honorable and true as to
our two most renowned Commanders, Scott
and Taylor, that no two men in this country
would be less apt than they to involve us in
war, by any predilection for that barbarous ex
pedient for settling national disputes. For this,
far more that for their achievements, do they
deserve the esteem and admiration of all good
The meeting of these two veterans is said to
have been as cordial as might be expected from
old brother soldiers, whose brilliant deeds have
gone far to efface the stain that was cast upon
our national escutcheon by the manner in which
the war was brought on.
Duelling Prohibited.
IRISH DISTRESS. -In the county of Mayo,
three magistrates are receiving out-door relief
for themselves and families, from the different
parish unions. This fact is sufficient to show
that the destitution is not confined to the peas
antry. In fact, the 1500 emigrants who daily
Mr. Mannegan's Appointment.
The appointment of Mr. Hannegan as Minis
ter to 13,1 in, has excited a strong feeling of
disapprobation, not only in Washington but I WASHINGTON, March 13, 1849.
elsewhere, and the development of every addi- The new Senators are not all generally known
tional fact connected with it, seems to place it to your readers. Mr. Norris of New
whoHump
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In a still more discreditable light. It is not
only regarded as a gross outrage, from the man- I resentatives, r at the tither end of the Capitol, -
ner in which it was secured, but discreditable and distinguished himself there, not so much
to the country, from the unfitness , of the man to by his speech making propensi'y as by his atten
represent us properly at so important a court.
Lio a n b t o o u the t s s d u t e i a e r a s o o f f; t a h g e o C n
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It has been said in letters from Washington, that opposed to the extension ' of Slavery, and was
the appointment was solicited at the last me- in favor of the election of Cass and Butler.
ment, by some leading Whigs of the Senate, Mr. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, who sue
andcccoend; bin. res a N s ge e s , c was
m d a i n s nigiul!seligo
Committee
a o s i t ,
it has been intimated iu private circles that
Mr. Webster was one of those Whigs. Such, Foreign Relations, and by his active efforts to
however, was not the case, as the following secure the election of General Taylor.—Though
letter from Mr. W. abundantly proves, while it unwilling to spare Mr. S. hem the Senate of
the United States, it is understood that the po
throws some additional light upon the affair.— sition of Secretary of the Home Department
We may add here, that the appointment was, was tendered to him by the new Prestdent, end
as has been stated, unanimously confirmed, respectfully declined. Few more useliil mem
ixteen Senators only being present. Others
bars than Mr. Smith are to be found in either
like Mr. Webster, were ignorant of the nomi.ouse of Congress.
s
I
Mr. Seward, who succeeds Mr. Dix, has
nation having been made ; and had it been been so long and so favorably known to the
known to them, it would most certainly have Americah people, that nothing could be added
been rejected by me to the stock of information which fdkr
readers already possess in regard to his political
WASHINGTON, March 12, 1810. history. He succeeds one of the ablest men of
My Dear Sir have received your letter the Senate, but possesses the ability to sustain.
of the 10th, respecting Mr. Hannegan'sappoint. the position hitherto filled by a Dix and a Silas'
ment as Minister to Prussia. That appoint- Wright.
merit can have surprised nobody more than it Nor will it be necessary for me to speak of a
surprised me. The Senate having completed gentleman so distinguished in Pennsylvania for
all its business, as I supposed, I left the Senate many years, as has been James Cooper. To
chamber between six and seven o'clock on Sun- say that he will fully sustain in the National
day morning, the 4th of March. I had never Senate the reputation of the Keystone State
heard a syllable of any intention of nominating would be the utterance merely of a truism.
Hannegan as Minister to Prussia, or for 1 'Mr. Wales, the successor of Mr. Clayton, is
any other office ; and supposed it certain that no a lawyer of considerable eminence, a gentleman
nomination, of any kind, would be sent to the of great personal amenity, who has made a v e .
Senate after that hour. ' ry favorable impression on his brother Sena-
When I heard the next day, that Mr. Hanne. tors, and upon all others who had the pleasure
gnu had been nominated to a foreign mission, of his acquaintance.
and that the nomination had been confirmed I Benjamin C. Howard, who succeeds tempo
at once contradicted it, saying that I had been racily Mr. Reverdy Johnson, is a Democrat of
in my seat every moment through the whole of the old school, and one of Maryland's noblest
the session of Saturday and Saturday night, and sons. He is personally very popular, with men
until broad daylight on Sunday morning, when of both political parties. He will, of course,
the Senate was about breaking up, and I had only hold his seat in the Senate until the next
• heard nothing of any such nomination. meeting of the Maryland Legislature, unless
I look upon the nomination. miler the circum- the Democrats should, in the meantime, sue
stances, as one of the most disreputable pro- reed in changing the political complexion of
ceedings recorded in the history of the Govern- that body, which is not very probable.
, ment. I am, with much respect, Mr. William C• Dawson, of 13 , orgia, who
Yonr ob't serv't,
; succeeds Mr. Johnson (appointed by the Gov-
DAM.. Woman, ernor of that State for the unexpired term of
Mr. Colquitt, resigned,) is a sound Whig end
• California Intelligence. ! an able man ; though perhaps not quite so
rdis
tinguished as a public debater as was Mr. Col-
Advices from California to the 24th Decem-
quilt. Mr. Dawson was in the IlouAe everal
ber were received at Boston on Monday. The years since, and was then considered e. very
San Francisco Star of that date reports further valuable member. He is a gentleman or fine
in the new position to which w he I lL ue b b ce n n f el e e n v c a e
proceedings of the people in favor of a Conven-
a P n e d " i 7 n al : d P o PZ t r y ., ( T i • n : d f t 7"c.ilpitory manners,
lion for the establishment of a Provisional Gov
ernment. It would appear also by the report ted.
of a trial for murder before Judge Dimrnick, Mr. Morton, of Florida, who succeeds Mr.
I , in Ve t s h t a c t o s tt t , a , v e a o s f o G ne en o e f ra tir moat active t. promoters
in of San Jose, that crime can be punished
is, perhaps, the Largest man now Taylor in ' the Senate,there. Three men, Davis, Campbell, and Freer,
were found guilty, by a Jury, and executed ac- being of giant frame, very dark complexion,
h e i a s irl fo t i o lo be an
e a b
soti
cording to sentence on the 186, in presence of jet black hair, and perhaps fifty years of age.
a large body of citizens. They confessed their
Hei,s
io a to have made
n ppears
g a . very favoral7lern mi l , e man, and his intercourse
wilt, and embraced the Roman Catholic faith. impreesr:
Three other men, Cotton, Woolard and Lee, Mr. Pierre Soule, of Louisiana, who sue
were convicted of being accessories, and sen- reeds Mr. Johnston, is a native of France, a
tented to be whipped and confined one month in democrat, and one of the ablest men in the Uni
ted States, as was fully establi,heil by his for
the stocks. C. E. Picket, tried at Fort Sacra-
mer short Senatorial career, after the death of
l mento, on a charge of the murder of Mr. Alder- Mr. Barrow, whose unexpired term he was se
man, was acquitted.
. i n i tl m rp a a s i k t e r i a l o t i o ve render his style of oratory
lected to fill. His French accent is just auffi-
Immigrants are still flocking into the country cti;
I from all quarters, and a population of 100,000 Mr. Whitcomb, formerly Commissioner of
was anticipated before the close of the present the General land office, and more recently Gov
summer. The cold weather--which exceeds tenor of Indiana; who succeeds Mr. Donegan,
is not, perhaps, as eloquent a delnitor as the
anything known there within fifty years — had latter, though as a statesman he is• '
checked the movement to the diggings, but the superior. lie woo elected by the P e i rn ' o r' c s ra l t7:
crews on the coast were preparing to go. As Legislature of Indiana in preference to Mr. 11.,
lan evidence of the almost total absence of in- b"."`f of his more d'cidcd oPP.•; , tion to tl.o
I dustry, it is mentioned that 100,000 bushels of
'N G ' 7 :71 - ne . lcis o f Slavery. l , ino is, who s u i• r
Breese, wheat had rotted in the country for the want of
is a gentleman of ple ae i r iT ma i,;:;: ,
1 people to gather it. though he has never been distinguished either
The following items are derived by the Even
ing Traveller from letters received in Boston
While in San Francisco, real estate had ad
vanced five hundred per cent., within twelve
months, in the Sandwich Islands it had fallen
forty per cent. The latter Islands are fast be
coming deserted, and it was expected that after
the whaling season is over, every white man
that can, will leave for California.
As to the chances of obtaining the precious
metal, the writer says:—<<Parties can easily
obtain from 30 to 100 dollars per day, and some
that I have seen obtained as high as 300 dollars
per day."
The barque t'ndine and schooner Starling
had sailed for Columbia River, for provisions
and lumber. Provisions were very plentiful,
and were receding in prices.
The agent of Messrs. Howland & Aspinwall,
Captain Stout, had been succsssful in negotia
ting with the Iludson Hay Company, for coal.
From the best judgment that can be obtained,
not more than $200,000 in gold dust, independ-
, • .
eat of the Lexington's (gone to Valparaiso) has
been shipped for this country. Most of the
gold dant is shipped to Mazatlan and Valparaiso,
exchanged for silver, tXtc., and carried back to
trade upon. It is thought also that but little of
the gold will reach this country for some time,
as much of it will be shipped to London, to be
there drawn upon from this country.
A story is told of several young men of cap
ital, who freighted a brig from the Sandwich
Island, with $lO,OOO in specie, with which they
purchased gold (lost for about $lO the ounce—
thus netting $20,000 to $22,000 by the opera
tion.
GOLD Is PENNSICLcAsIa.-The Clinton Conn- I
ty Democrat, published at Lock Haven, learns
from a reliable source, that a gentleman in Su
gar-valley, Clinton county, while digging a
Wel!, came upon a vein of yellow mineral,
which is heavier than lead, and has every ap
pearance of being pure gold. A sample has
been sent to Philadelphia for the purpose of
testing it. Should this substance prove to be
gold, fears are entertained that Clinton county
would soon outstrip California in the variety of
her population. The editor says, however,
that he is by no nu i eans certain that the sub
etance found is gold.
Oar The Pittsburg Board of Trade, at a re
cent !fleeting, passed resolutions petitioning the
Pennsylvania Legislature to grant $405,000 fur
putting the Portage Rail Road in complete or
der, in view of the completion of the great Cen
tral railroad to Hollidaysburg, by the Spring of
1850.
LAS. SNIP.—The largest packet ship in the
world was launched on Saturday at New York.
She is called the 44 Constellation," and is ra
ted at 4000 tons ',milieu.
The New United States Senittorsf
[Correspondence of the Philadelphia Inquirer.]
as a lawyer or a statesman
Mr. Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, who succeeds
Mr. Allen, was a tree Soil Van Buren man at
the late election, is a brother-in-law of Judge
McLean, and is said to he one of the ablest men
in Ohio. From all I hear, I should suppose
that he is destined to occupy almost as promi
nent a position in the Senate as does his dis
tinguished colleague.
Frightful Loss of Life.
On the night of Saturday, the 17th ultimo,
the Theatre Royal, in Glasgow., (Scotland,)
took fire in the upper gallery, from a leakage in
the gas pipes. The fire was soon extinguished
but such was the alarm of the people that in
the rush to get out sixty-five persons perished.
The panic was principally in the upper gallery,
where there were about five hundred people,
the price of admission being three pence. The
crowd rushed down the stairs in the terror of
some undefined calamity, and fell over one an
other at the foot, thereby making a barricade
of a compact mass of prostrate human beings
against the only means of egress. Independent
1 of the pressure of human beings upon each
other, this flight of stairs soon became a second
black hole of Calcutta, from the intensity of
the heat. The weak were trampled down by
the strong, the latter only to be trampled down
in turn by the furious crowd in the rear. The
noise of the stifled cries and groans, and the
struggles for life which came from this horrid
staircase, were most agonizing. Relief to the
living was finally obtained by cutting through
the partition. By 9 o'clock, all the rooms in
the Garrick Hotel, near the theatre, were filled
with the dead. They generally exhibited a pla
cid aspect, and seemed as if death had been cau
sed by pressure on the heart.
I There were many painful cases; one was
I that of a poor woman who found her husband
and two children among the dead—one of the
latter a girl only three years of age. Sixty
five were takemout dead t. several died on the
way to the hospital, and many of the wounded
will probably die.
QT The National Intelligencer says It
Is intimated to us that a rumor has been put in
circulation that the Hon. Andrew Stewart, one
of the Representatives in the last Congress,
had been a candidate for a seat in the Cabinet,
and that his claim had been set aside or reject
ed. We are authorized to state that the rumor
is unfounded; and that, on the contrary, Mr.
Stewart did, in terms, before the members of
the Cabinet were designated, peremptorily de
cline being considered as a candidate (Sr arty
office in the gift of the Adniktistration.'