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OFFICIAL.
A .RECWIIIEN f) A TtoN 'ERE PRESI
k pLNT OF THE us,rrED 51:ATES.
At i a se,iislit the Providence, of GOD has
trtapit'este.d lt s idf in the visitation, ,of a fear
ful,lte'stifertce which is spreading :its ravages
throughout the hind, it k ilttingi that a People
whosa.tchars..a has ever - heertiin His protection
slicAuJit humble tlr ni l ve_s befiore , His throne,
and, while aclitiowledging Past transgressions,
ask a . cohtinwince of the liivine Morey.
ft is, therefore, earnestly recommended that
the firstirridor itti•Augnst lie observed through
ma:the. United Sitatels tan day o i - fasting, hu
miliation, and prayer. All, business will be
suspended in the various branches of the public
seri/ice thilltat day; and it is recommended to
per§tnit oil all rb.n.calinaiions to abstain
as 56Ikr.!as praqicable, from secular occupation,
and;.Sa assertible in their respective places of
Public OfOrshiPi, to acknowledge the infinite
hag tvat.ilieit Over Ytir existence
as itituitioni and sO lAing cillowneiNts with mani
fold!banssingsi and .to implore . ,thti.Almighty, in
Hip.awn,goad,;in - o, to stay the, c iotroying hand
which it hour lift,d op avinst n,,
Z. TAYLOR.
roN, July •J,
Fourth of July,
There was no general celebration of the An
niversary,of American Independence in this
plow..' The Sons of Ternperanee and Methodist
Episcopal Sabbath School celebrated the day in
MuCahat.'N GroYei , intwhich Many of the citi
sena:pined, of bottr.sertes.l After marching in
prcieession from the Sons of Temperance Ball
to the Grove., an otgatiikttion took place, and a
TerrOperanceDiscoarse was .deti•vered by Mr.
JCISMCJI . CA InER, at Philadelphia. We have
racell+listened to a mere elorkhent discourse on
thie subject. The r:peakei• was Anent and occa
stdially • thrillingly elogrient. The speech
abosmiled in striking and beautiful figures, and
theargumenteadveneed.were illustrated by ap
posite and exceedingly well told 'anecdotes. At
thit of 'the ipeech,' a Temperance
Song Was sung by the 'Cadets of Temperance
anti Sabbath School Scholars, and the Company
then partook of amelegant repast, got up by a
Carimiitte't of the Sons of Temperance. The
whole affair paSsed off very pleasantly, and ap
parently to the satisfaction of all present.
in th, evening*, Mr. Cart, again addressed the
Peoplcon the subject of Temperance in the
Metliodist Church. A large: audience was in
atienaance, and all appeared much pleased with
the Speaker.
Morrill)le Affray between Brothers.
On. Thursday, the idt., George Belfright,
of this bor.tigh,:accompanied hie brother, Hen
ry-Heitright, (who keeps n Lock on the Canal
sliest five; Miles above this place.) to his home.
On arriving there,liquor Was set out, and both
drank .uittli-thery .became intoxicated. In this
stttre 'altdipnte arose between them, which soon
tehnistatid in an .alTrak;_ during which, Henry
netaOdsplichforkwitlr which he inllictcd such
seve* trounds-upen Geot'ge that he died on the
i'mtlliebsrough'!" Tln the morning of
thf nf Itfgin tt was summoned,
tiftbra;isir:triti•ii p; nation of the bo
.l)(lietokeif thdt Georie Itciiright came to his
death ifieonsequeri6e Hf v o intrricla received nt the
time; place and . 'manner . .abOie . stated. Henry
hai b enanre=.ted','and'isii6Vv Jail to await
his tiiat.
,olenee and bloodshed, under any
ciream , t'ances, are revolting-to the feelings of
right-mindeci P.;ordei but how much more to
ore thy, 'where tbe , .ar rie ; of consanguinity
arre,K , rotten; and r):sioo 5 , '; entirely triumphs
oaet the lititnan feeirnies; that a brother can
11, brother's blood ! It
is ll 3'6 l Pidr:ii,lo for reflection. We know
of the .r the quarrel in
question, or of the condnet of the brothers
dufinh itsfirogre”. y.astheaggreesor, is
sor,
linsp i n ye:t,:to Ife det,rminetl. All we know
is tEat a disgraethillight ocettired between two
broliurs,tke reviltof nh4o l l t as been the death
of . one anl the tirrest snag:mearceratton of the
other, / - •
Lot:office Nomination.
Air.Locpfofp§tpte Convention, which met at
Pipsii,4ll4,oa the Alit ilpt:,4lominated JOIIN A.
Lyetittiag, as the Locofoco
cag - tOistja for .Canal .Commissioner.
-Tairliststnination is a triumph of the Cameron
aithituuildnin factiOn,over.the more radical, or
Skuak and Dulles panty, who on the first ballot
(164 aieted for• . Messrs; • Mason of Bradford,
:Mgt, liorrtnan, ne,Luzerne, and afterwards for
Messrs.. flrOdhead, of Pike, and Pettit, of Phil
adelphia.- Mr..gamble,,i st - a Lawyer of mode
rate'ibilities I. be repiesenittrd Lycoming county
ilLoloi Reform Conviention, but we do not regard
hirai as isatrianlotihut 'practical turn of mind,
.Q 4 that 'ex pretends iet State affairs, which quali
fphtm foil tile! irn ix:hi:int/m.O responsible duties
°fit/0%1 , Ccintrnisainntir..:flis nomination by no
,tint , tfves 'eatisfartitin't6 the Skunk and Dallas
:kid doeht much if he can
reeeitte the , united-auppOrflor his party.
Our i tarrperpre.,l;ifisily engaged cutting
tfiOr ; ,7'14 c6orbasrarely been better in
tWi,"augty ci
. Tl7„igrrvind ants crops also
Pc PF7I •:., •
Desponding Whigs:
There are a class of men belonging to the
Whig party, who are always desponding. They
can never be made believe that the Whigs have
anY chance of success. They ever keep their
eyes fixed on the dark side of the picture. If a
more ardent and sanguine member of the party
ventures, in the presence of one of these men,
to remark that the prospects of Whig success
are good, the desponding Whig is sure to whine
out his doubts, and give a thousand and one
reasons going to favor a contrary belief. Ile is
ever extolling the superior tact of Locofoco
politicians, and disparaging the efforts and once, -
ing at the means used by the active Whigs to
advance their canoe. In short, these despond
ing Whigs do all in their power to encourage the
Locorocos, and discourage the Whigs. They
hang like dead weights around the neck of the
party, which they profess to support. And the
little effort they make just on the eve of an
election, fails to compensate the party for the
harm they have done it at the commencement
and during the progress of the campaign, by
their discouraging remarks. And it is ever so
with them. No matter how radiant the politi
cal horizon may be with indications of Whig suc
cess, still they doubt and despond. Why, we
know many professed Whigs who could never
be induced to believe that Gen. Taylor could
carry the vote of this State. And in every
conversation on the subject, they would go into
an argument to impress others with the same
belief. Yet the old Hero (as every Whig pos
sessing one grain of hope believed he would)
swept the State by a majority of over THIR
TEEN THOUSAND ! And this, too, in the
' face of the most desperate struggle ever made
by Locofocoism in Pennsylvania; and in the
face, too, we may add, of all the harm the des
ponding Whigs could do by their everlasting
croaking about defeat. We have no patience
with this class of politicians. If they are na
turally disqualified from seeing victory in the
future—if hope never deigns to infuse its cheer
ing beams into their rigid systems, let them,
for the sake of the cause which they profess to
, keep their gloomy, hope forsaken con
, victions to themselves. If they have no word
of encouragement to Oriel', let them not be eter
nally endeavoring to freeze up the animation of
the ardent and zealous members of the party.
We would as soon receive a cold shower bath
in January, as encounter one of these ever des
ponding Whigs in a political campaign. Sup
pcise they could succeed in forcing the belief
that success was beyond the reach of Whigs,
upon wrery member of the party ? Would not
the election be practically over and a Locofoco
victory practically secured 1 Do not these des
ponding Whigs; then, who' are always predict
ing defeat, render more aid to Locofocoism than
they do to the cause which they profess to sup
port ? If they possess the sagacity which they
are ever aiming at discovering to those around
them, they cannot help but see the deleterious
tendency of their course. Those who desire
success, in any cause, must hope for and expect
it, and try infuse confidence into all around
them. And Whigs who pursue a contrary
course—who are ever desponding—do more to
retard than to advance the Whig cause.
In the campaign that is bofore us, it is to be
hoped that the number of these prophesiers of
evil will be small. After the victories of last
fall, with the proper exertions, we cannot see
how the most hope forsaken Whig in the coun
t try can fairly despair of success. The Locos
have already nominated a candidate for Canal
Commissioner. In a few weeks the Whigs will
select theirs, and then the campaign will com
mence. Should the Whigs make a fortunate se
lection, all that will be wanting to ensure
another glorious Whig victory in Pennsylvania
will be confidence, organization and exertion on
the part of the Whig party. Will not every
lover of Whig principles do his part to secure
this desirable result 1
The Cholera.
The deaths by Cholera during the past week,
have ranged from 10 to 20 per day in Philadel
phia.
In New York, the deaths from Cholera on th e
4th, sth and 6th inst., were 27 each day.
In Pittsburg no official reports have been
made, but the deaths from Cholera are said to
be from 10 to 12 per day.
In Cincinnati and St. Louis, there is no abate
ment in the violence of the disease. An ave
rage of 100 deaths per day in each place, con
tinue to the reported. In the former place, for
the week ending July 3rd, 765 deaths from
Cholera were reported.
This disease has spread into the interior of
Ohio. In the interior of Pennsylvania no cases
have yet been reported, and we believe, if
proper caution is observed, no danger need be
apprehended in the rural districts. Let there
be no alarm on the subject. Many persona take
this disease by thinking and talking too much
about it, and being unduly alarmed. By all
means keep up the spirits.
More Manslaughter.
David Akison, of Birmingham, this county,
was lodged in our Jail on Thursday last, for
stabbing Joseph Wood, of the same place, in
the abdomen with a knife, on the dth inst. It
app., that Akison and Wood hail been at
Iron.ville, in Blair county, together, and while
there Akison became intoxicated, and com
menced quarrelling with some railroad hands.
Wood fearing that he would be hurt, tried to
get him away. He did not wish to go, and
when Wood attempted to farce him along with
him, Akison drew his knife and stabbed him in
the manner above stated. We understand that
Wood is not expected to live. Scenes of vio
lence are becoming shockingly numerous.
lion. Henry Clay.
A telegraphic despatch states that the Hon.
Henry Clay was attacked by Cholera on Tues.
day lust.
Q7' The Hunkers and Barnburncrs of New
York are making strong efforts, with some pros.
pert of success, to compromise their differences,
a nd form a re-union.
State Treasurer and the Laborers
on the Public Works.
The Locofoco press over the State, taking its
cue from the Keystone of Harrisburg, is filled
with abuse of Mr. Ball, the State Treasurer,
charging him with withholding (he appropria
tions made for the payment of the laborers on
the public works. Having seen these repeated
attacks made upon that officer, as we believed
without ground or reason of any kind, we ad
dressed him the following note :
Ilattatsnuno, June 30, 1810.
_
G. J. BATA, : Having heon it stated
in the public press reneatedly that you have re
fused to pay appropriations made from the State
Treusury for the payment of the laborers on the
public works ; if the charge be not true, I will
thank you to furnish me with a statement of the
amount of money drawn from the Treasury since
you have had charge of it. by the Supervisors
on the public works, for the purpose above men
tioned.
Very respectfully, yours, &e.,
TH.. FENN
To which we received the following reply :
TREASURY °MCP July 3, 1819.
Dear Sir : In reply to your note of the 30th
ultimo. T herewith send you a list of the Super
visors and Superintendents on the public im
provements who have drawn money from the
Treasury, and the amount drawn by each since
the adjournment of the Lecislature. The total
amount so drawn is 0305031.92, from which it
is easy to judge whether a sufficient amount has
been drown to pay the laborers on the public
improvements or not. Yours, &e.,
G. T. BALL
The following is the•statcment that accompa
nied the above answer
Amounts drawn by Supervisors from April
11th, to July 3d, 1819
J. P. Anderson
XMAS Turner
John Maelauchlin
Wm. Entrlish
Genrtre Blat , mberger
Thomas J. Power
Canal Commissioners
Thomas Bennet
Jenkins
Jacob Plam
W. K. no nazis
Wm. McPherson
Toe
Here is a lamentable picture of Locofoco pro
divlity and abuse. in the short space of fig! ,
ty-thses dogs the Locofoco officers on the pub
lic works have drawn from the State Treasury.
the astoundlnq slim of more than THREE HUN
DRED THOUSAND DOLLARS—or THREE
THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND
TY DOLLARS PER DAY—while nt the same
time the Locoforo press is filled with abuse of
the State Treasurerbecause he will not furnish
the officers with money to pay the laborers on
the public works !
The fact discloses a scheme of villiany unpar-
allellell, we believe, in the history of Locofoeo
ism in this State. The sum of $300,000, former
ly woo all that was annually appropriated forthe
ordinary repairs of the State canal and railroads.
This sum was for a whole year.
This amount has already been drawn from the'
Treasury for that purpose in a little over lees
months What has been done with it I Thar
is the question. Have the laborers been paid ?
The Lorene() press says they have not t Hove
the public officers been using this money, and tel
ling the honest laborers that they could get no
money, while they have drawn the enormous
sum of nearly one-third of a million ? If the
Locofoco preas tells the truth, it is so. If it is
not so, then they have been concocting and cir
culating the most enormous lies; and with the
concurrence, too, of the officers on the public
works, otherwise they would voluntarily disa
buse the public mind. One of two things are,
therefore, self-evident, and cannot be contro
verted either the Locofoco officers have paid
the laborers on the public works, while they have
given currency to a vile and infamous libel upon
the State Treasurer; or they have used the mon
ey drawn from the State Treasury for purposes
of speculation; and to screen themselves from
the just censure of those from whom they are
fraudulently withholding their just dues, have
put into into circulation a falsehood against the
State Traasurer.—Either horn of the dilemma
will hold them up to public anathema and Wig
nation.—Pa. Megraph.
Free Trade and the Iron Business.
All over the country we have a suspension or
depression of Manufacturing, but especially of
the iron business. Consequently manual labor
is begging employment, and industrious citizens
are reduced to want. Thousands of our citizens
have migrated to the West, or removed to Cali
fornia; and yet there is not employment for those
who remain. These are some of the benefits of
the Free Trade Tariff of Isl 6. American Iron,
cloth and other material, instead of being made
at home, are made by the paupers of Europe.
Take an instance.—A correspondent of a Phila
delphia paper states that a contract has been
made in New York for 3000 tons of English Rail
', road Iron, for the Erie Railroad Company, deliv
ered in that city free of all charges and duty paid
at about $42 40 per ton. This is lower than any
contract has yet been made for cash. The pay
ment for this large amount of Iron being made
Think of it, Reader.
in the second Mortgage Bonds at par, has depre-
In a few short years—perhaps a year
eiated these Bonds in thin market. Notice of
or a month —perhaps to-morrow—you
the completion of another contract for 3000 tons
may be called hence, and forced to part
on the same terms, will probably be received by
with all your tine possessions. You
the next steamer. This is a good example of
Jowl FENLON, Esq., has been re-nomi- must lay down your pride—for Death
the manner in which the Tariff of 1816 encour
ages our domestic manufactures. Eight thous- nate by the wealth, and take tip your little abode a
d Whigs of Cambria, for the Legie. humbles all—you must resign your
lature.
and tons at $42 40 per ton, amounts to the little niong the worms!— What a humiliating
Wefind in the Easton Sentinel (Demo
surn of three hundred and thirty-nine thousand 13:7.
two hundred dollars, sent out of this country for cratie) a notice, numerously signed, of appli
beauty—all the envied of earth—may
Railroad Iron. The value of the Rails import- cation to be made to the next Legislature fora
to-morrow be food for worms! Isn't
ed this year will amount to nearly Faun Mic- new Bank at Easton, to be called the
Farmers'
eadert
LIONS of dollars. 'Ms Iron could have been arid Mechanics' Bank of Easton," with a capital that no extremity, r
would think more, there wo If people uld be less
manfactured in Pennsylvania, fur it .s a well of $200,000, and the privilege of increasing it
vanity and more real happiness on earth.
known fact that sonic of the Rolling Mills in to $300,000. The Locofocos seem determined
The richest man is poor as the beggar
this State con mannfaeture Rails superior to any to put down the Banks!
—aye, a thousand times poorer, when
imported, Loth in quality and finish. How ma- 137' The Pottstown Ledger says:—Sonic of death knocks at his door—for all his
ny Mills would win now have in operation, and the newspapers are discussing the propriety of wealth cannot prolong life an hour.
how much many have been received upon our the viva rove principle in Delegate Conventions. Who is rich thenl The man of millions"!
Railroad. and Canals in tolls, freights, and oth- None but those who are irredeemably atteched —No. The beggarl — No._ ho, then"!
er charges, were this Iron manufactur e d in this to old customs, we promote, doubt the utility of —He who fears God, and loves his neigh-
State, we leave theadvocates of a ~F ree Trade" i voting viva vars. For our part, we like to see bor as himself. Neither money nor po
to answer. I exery man show his colors on such occasions. sition cau make men happy.
Collections for the Pope.
As we stated in our last, Sunday, the 27th of
June was designated, as a time for collecting
funds in all the Catholic Churches in the Union,
in aid of the Pope of Rome. Bishop Hughes is
sued a circular to the churches of New York,
in which he uses the following language in ref- ,
erence to the struggle between the Pope and the I
Republicans of Rome :
The sacreligious invaders of his
. rights may
profane the apostolic shrines of Rome—may
melt the sacred vessels for their nefarious pur
poses—may strip the temples of the living God
of the ornaments with which the piety of our
ancestors in the Faith had adorned them, but
they will never be able to sever the divine bond
of Catholic Faith and subjection which binds us
indissolubly to the Chair of Peter. God, in his
inscrutable Providence, may permit these sacri
legious men to invade with apparent success for
a time the rights of his appointed representative
on earth. But it will he for a time only, and
after that he will rise in the might of his wisdom
and employ the folly of their own devices to
scatter then' to the ends of the earth, and to vin
dicate his consoling promise that the gates of
hell shall never prevail against that Church
which he built upon the rock of Peter. In the
mean time the children of the church are numer
ous enough to see that his enemies shall not have
the power to humble the Sovereign Pontiff to the
extent of actual destitution, or want of means
necessary to carry on the numerous offices of his
most holy and most exalted station.
The New York Tribune, in referring to the
Bishop's circular, by using the phrase in refer
ence to the Pope—"in his present struggle with
the Roman Republic"—gave offence to Bishop
Hughes, and brought from him a severe reply,
to which Greely rejoins at some length. It ap
pears to us that the Bishop has the worst of the
contest, and utterly fails to establish the point
he seems most anxious to settle that the collec
tions are merely to feed and clothe the sover
eign Pontiff, and not to aid him in regaining his
temporal power. Every good Catholic would
no doubt think it right to contribute to the per
sonal support of their Holy Fathers but when a
call is made upon the republican Catholics of the
United States to contribute fundsfor the purpose
of crushing the republican government of Rome,
and re-establishing a papal hierarchy in its stead
it is asking what their love of liberty will for
bid them to respond to. That such is the de
sign of the collection of funds at present there
can be no doubt. It is scarcely probable that
the Catholics of Europe would allow the Pope
to suffer for the necessaries of life. An Italian
in New York who signs himself G. F. Seccut
it CAsALI, has felt called upon to make a state
meat of facts in reply to Bishop Metes' strie
tures upon the language of the Tribune, in which
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6.100 00
76,300 00
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he says—
The Pope is in Gaeta, surrrounded by the roy
al family of the bloody tyrant of Naples, and,
from what I have lately heard, is living in sump
tuous style. The King or Naples has offered to
the Pope $60,000; the emperor of Russia has
sent to frirrt 50,0110 crowns; Qacen Isabella of
Spain has presented Pius IX. her sweetest bon
bons, and plenty of Spanish gold; the Austrian
Gmerals in every city they captured, imposed
on the poor population heavy taxes in favor of
Pius IX. saying nothing of the thousands of be
ings they have butchered—m one word, the
Pope has received, from the first dayhe deserted
Rome to the presenttime, large supplies ormon
iey from various quarters. This money is not
needed for the use of the Church nor His Holi
ness. The Roman People, when they proclaim. ,
ed him fallen from his temporal throne, offered
to maintain his spiritual power with his prince
; 'y incomes as in formertimes. This the Pope has
declined, and his conduct in making arrappeal to
foreign nations to reinstate him in his temporal
sway, even through seas of human blood, even
though Rome should fall into ruins, is enough to
warrant a belief that the funds collected in the
Catholic Churches in the United States, will in
effect be used to overthrow the Roman Republic.
BREAK IN THE CANAL—OUTRAGES BY
BOATMEN !—We learn that the aeque
duet in the vicinity of Falmouth, on the
Pennsylvania Canal, gave way a few
days since, which has caused a suspen
sion of business for the time being. It
will be repaired however, and the boats
will be able to proceed as usual in a few
days._ . I
Quite a number of boats are laying
above and below the break, and the
boatmen are committing the most flag
rant outrages upon passengers, as well
as robbing each other. We learn that a
gentleman and lady were passing in a
vehicle, and were stopped by a gang of
these cut-throats, and dragged from
their seats. The gentleman was se
verely beaten, and the most inhuman out
rages committed upon the person of the
lady--all too in broad day light. The
perpetrators were arrested and sent to
prison.
Another young man was dragged
from his boat and nearly strangled with
a ronp, which they had fastened around
his neck, whilethe balance of the ruffians
rifled his trunk of s6s—all the money
he had. We learn that a large reward
has been offered for the robbers.
The perpetrators of such villiany
should he made to culler the utmost
extent of the law.—Columbia Spy.
pg — 'rhe Exemption Law, whereby property
to the value of $3OO is made exempt from exe
cution for debt, went into operation on the 4th
inst. That is, it will apply to all debts con
tracted on or after that date, but not to those
contracted previously.
The Clay and Turner Affray:
The Maysvillle t este, of Juno 23rd.
gives the following, which is the fullest account ;
we have yet seen of this terrible affray between'
Cassius M. Clay and Cyrus Turner, in Madison
edunty, Ky. :
We learn the following from a gentleman who '
was do the ground: There are three Pro-slavery
candidates lor the Convention from Madison,
Messrs. Willis and Chenault and Maj. Squire
Turner, (father of Cyrus Turner,) and but one '
Emancipation candidate, Maj. Burnam. At a
regimental muster at Walden's, on Thursday of
last week, the candidates spoke, Willis and Che
naultleading. Maj. Turner followed—zalthough
he had promises Cassius M. Clay the stand be
fore him, alleging twat Clay was not a candidate
and fhe crowd was fast dispersing—and made a
long speech. Clay then took the atom:, and bore
more heavily in his remarks upon Turner than
upon either of the other candidates, and it was
now evident for the first tithe that there was•some
unpleasant feeling between them:
On the next day, Friday, another discussion
took place at a regimenfaf muster at Foxtown,—
Willis spoke first, 'ruiner next. When Turner
had spoken about an hour, Clay appealed to him
to give Maj. Burnam an opportunity of defend
ing the Emancipationists and their views ; but
Turner refused and spoke half an hour longer,
in a severe strain, during which he read from
the True American newspaper a portion of the
article that caused the Lexington moo and the
removal of the True American office to Cincin
nati. Clay now appealed to the people to say
whether it was fair that this article should he
read, unless accompaniA by the statement so of
ten made to Maj. Turner, that the article in
question was written by a South Carolina plant
er, Os tnany of his friends believed, for the ex
press purpose of breaking dawn his presso and
sent to his office and printed while he was lying
sick' or the typhoid fever. The article, he said,
was as r •pali've to his feelings and views as it
was to M.ij. Turner's or any other man's—and
if he had not been confined to a lied of sickness
it should not have appeared in his paper. Mr.
Win. L. Neal, the printer or the True American
was on the ground, and would confirm the state
ment.
Maj. Turner continued his speech, after this
interruption, and when he concluded, C. M. Clay
took the stand for the purpose of making a kind
of apology to the people for the interruption lie
had caused. He again stated that he thought
each party were entitled to lie heard, and that
each should be alloweda fair division of the time.
That the friends of right and justice by such a
course had nothing to lose ; for if the Emancipa
tionists held incendiary notions, and advanced
principles opposed to the best interests of the
country, the people would judge of them correct
ly and put them down, while if their principles
were founded in right and justice, it was cer
tainly not wrong that they should be known in
order that they may be upheld and supported.
After making his explanation which did not
occupy more than two minutes, he was leaving
the stand, when Major Runyon, a lawyer of Rich
mond, at a considerable distance off plied him
with questions ; and Clay, with the consent of
Chenault who claimed the stump, endeavored to
answer him. Some misunderstanding occurred
in reference to the disposition made of the School
Fund, in which Runyon pronounced a statement
made by Clay false and untrue. Clay referred
loan act of the Legislature in proof of his asset,•
tion, and finally told Runyon, who had interupt
ed him before, that he was a mere tool of Tur
;
nee and was obeying his master. Clay deseen
, fled from the stand in perfect good humor, and
withoutexpecting a difficulty with any one when
Maj. Turner remarked that "Runyon was not
his tool."
Clay replied that whether Turner knew it or
' not, he was evidently his willing tool. Upon
this Cyrus Turner, the son of the candidate
stepped•up to Clay, and pronounced his statement
a d—d lie, and struck him in the face. Clay
was soon stabbed by some one behind, beat over
the head with a stick by Alfred Turner and
perhaps others, and a revo.ving pistol snapped
four tunes at his head, bursting a cap each time,
by Thomas Turner. He did not draw his knife
nor shake off the hold of those who were cling
ing to him, until he perceived the blood spout
: ing forth from his side, and believed from the
' wound that he must die. With superhuman ef
fort he shook 01l those who held him, encoun
tered Cyrus Turner, and stabbed him. The
wound took effect in the lower part of his abdo
men, resulting in his death in 34 hours.
Great Fire in Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG, July 6.
A large fire broke out early this
morning, in Willis Booth's board-yard
in Dusqueeue street and 700,000 feet of
lumber were destroyed. The fire then
communicated to the Western Univer
sity, which was consumed. Dlr. Booth
is insured to the amount of $4,300; the
loss of the University will be partially
covered by an insurance of $lO,OOO. The
total amount of the loss is nut ascer
tained.
- New Religious Organization
A correspondent of the New York Tribunei
writing from Waterloo, Seneca county, N.
under date of 7th inst.,give. an account of a
meeting which was he ld near that village, called
for the purpose of forming a new religious or
ganization of a more liberal and reformatory
character than that of the old sects. It was'
composed mainly of members of, or seceders
from the Society of (lhcksite) Friends, dissat
isfied with their society for refusing to adopt the'
ultra opinions held and expressed by the Refor
mers of the Age, upon the subjects of Slavery,
Intemperance, Woman's Rights, &c., &c.
The call of the Convention was issued by a,
Conference of members of the Genessee Yearly
Meeting of Friends. It proposed, as a substi
tute for the old Quaker Organization, whereby
the Yearly Meeting is endowed with ecclesiasti
cal power over the Monthly and Quarterly Meet ,
ings, that each local , congregation should man
age its own internal and disciplinary affairs on
such plans as may be best adapted to its own
peculiar circumstances. Retaining the essential
prinriple s of Quakerism, it proposed to abolish
what is known as the "Select Meeting," or the
meeting of Ministers and Elders, and to render
the organization more democratic by placing all
its members upon .e level of rights and pre
rogatives, leaving each individual to exert the
influence which character alone canconfer. The
practice of recommending [ordaining] ministers
and seating them above their brethren, it also
proposed to abolish, leaving each individual fred
td sp. , alr or be silent, according to his highest
perceptions of duty. Proposing no theolozienl
test, it was designed to form a union of all those,
Of whatever sect, who desired to co-operate in
works of charity and benevolence, on a basis
which would allow the Widest freedom of speech'
in respect to all subjects on which• there might
be an honest difference of opinion.
• .
The call was responded to by a large number
of persons, mostly members of the Genessee
Yearly Meeting, but including a few from other'
parts of the country, and some who were not
Quakers. Among those in attendance from
broad were LUCRETIA MDT of Philadelphia,
Nicuor.ss HAI.LoCK of 'Milton, and JOSEPH A.
DUI:DALE and ReTit Dccnear•. of Ohio. Con
trary to the usual practice of Friends, the ses
sions of the Yearly Meeting were not private,
but open to anybody who chose to attend ; and
men and women instead of meeting separately,
came together in the same room on terms of pnr
fort equality. The clerks were THOMAS M‘,-
CLINT°. of Wnterloo, a well know minister,
and Rnovu DE GAP.MO of Rochester. Epistles
of sympathy were received from various meet
ings, and individuals in different parts of the
country, which affords proof that the movemen'
is confined to no locality. The name assumed
by the meeting, after considerable discussion is
that of Congregational Friends.
The discussions of the meeting Were conduct
ed with great kindness of spirit, earnestness Of
manner. and. on the part of some, with much ,
ability and eloquenee.
The subjects brought before the meeting a ere
mostly of a practical nature, Intemperance, Sla
very, War, Licentiousness, Land Monopoly. the
Rights and Wrongs of Woman, Priesteraft Sec
tarianism,.Capital Punishment, &c. all received
some share of attention. A general addrlss
(written by Tuon ss MrChts•rors,) setting forttt
the views of the meeting in relation to these'
subjects. and d.fining the nos:tint of Congrega
tional friends in respect to wreathm s of Thera
ogy, Was unanimously adopted. Congress was
memorrtilized for the abolition of Slavery in the
District of Columbia and the Territories, and
the inter-State Slave Trade, and against the Ex
tension of Slavery to California and New Mex
ico. The Legislature of New York was me
morialized in opposition to Capital Punishment.
KOSSUTH
Kossum, the President of Hungary is
a most remarkable man. As a writer,
orator, statesman and general, he is a
like without his rival in his nation, and
perhaps in the world. if his writings•
and his speeches arouse the people to a
fury of enthusiasm, his clear judgment
guides them through every difficulty
and danger to triumph. To the Mag
yars he appeals in their own rich, strong
language; to the Wallacks, lie speaks
the language of the Wallacks ; to the
Sclaves he speak the language of the
Sclaves, while to the Diet of Magnates
and Bishops, he preaches revolution
for freedom, and resistance to tyrants,
in the purest Latin Of exhaustless ge
nius, energy and invention,. he is never
at a loss. Time seems to have marked
him for the events lie is shaping,- and ?t
is hard to determine tvliether lie stands
highest as a soldier, statesman, orator
or prophet--he certainly combines the
four characi ers wonderfully. Here is a
specimen of his oratory, addressed to the
Hungarian nation.
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Two things we must do. We must
rise and crash the enemy that dese
crates the earth on which we live and
we must not forget ! These two are
needful : should the Hungarians fail in
them, then they are a craven people
—a people of wretches, of which the
very name ine history shall be kin to
shame ! Should the Hungarians fail in
these two, then they are a people of das
lards and cowards, defiling even the
sacred memory of their forefathers
God the Eternal will say of them, 1 rue
the day on which 1 created this people
And should the Hangar's" fail in,
people—so accursed, that
these two, then they Are an accurse d
the air of
heaven shall disown them so cursed,
, turn that the sweet fountain shall
brack
ish as they approach it. The Hungarian
shall be a vagabond on the face of the
earth. Even the bread of charity shall
be denied to his prayer. And the gen
eration of the stranger, that halls taken
his substance, shall give him s tripe s
alms. He shall be like a vagrant dog,
which even the meanest may st ri k e. fr
Vain are his prayers; religion has no
comfort for him. He has d es ecrated
God's work, and God will not pardon his
sins; no, neither here nor in heaven! The
maiden he lifts his eyes to, shall spurn
him from the threshold, like a "i"ng,lT
beast. His wife shall spit into his eyes trt
the fulness of her scorn, and the child's
earliest words shall curse its (either
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Let each man take up arms! But ns
for the women, let them go midway be
tween Vesprim and Weissenbergh, and
dig a wide grave. There wo wilt hurry
the name, the honor, the nation of HO—
gary ; or else our enemies shall lie 11
that wide grave."
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