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lIHTINGDON, TUESDAY, OCT, 23, 1849.
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to our readers for any want of interest in our
issue this week.
074'resident Taylor visited Baltimore week
before last, and attended the Agricultural Fair.
He returned to Washington, and will remain
there until the adjournment of the next Con
gress. The reports that he was going North at
this time,it seems, were unfounded.
C7Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, passed through
this place on Sunday morning last, bn his way
to Hollidaysburg, to attend the flair 'count)
Court.
ajolt is now said that the lion. Joss s C. CAT.
NOUN ddes not intend tesigning his seat in thi
United States Senate, as was reported:
" Old Iluntingdfin.l9
Our contemporary of the Blair County Whig,
recording the Vote of Huntingdon county, speaks
as follows :
"We feel proud to record the vote of this no
ble and gallant old county. She has covered
herself with glory—put to rout the last remnant
of Locofocoism, and showed her sinter Blair an
example worthy to be followed in all future
time. We propose three cheers for the patrio
tic and always to be relied on Whigs of 'Old
Huntingdon.' "
OWe have received the first number of
The Jefferson Star," published at Brookville,
Jefferson county, a Whig paper just started by
Messrs. McElhoes and Duck, formerly of this
county. The paper presents a neat and work
manlike appearance, and, we doubt not, will do
good service in the Whig cause. We shall ex
pect to see Jefferson county wheeling into the
Whig ranks next fall. We wish our young
friends success in their undertaking, and cordi
ally recommend them to the patronage of the
Whigs of Jefferson.
Leading Memb e rs or the Legisla-
Lure.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says t--" The
House will contain several gentlemen of talent
and legislative experience. Amongst them are
Messrs. Burden of Philadelphia, Smyser of Ad
ams, CORNYN of Huntingdon, and Allison of
Beaver, Whigs. And Messrs. Porter of North
ampton, Conyngham and Beaumont of Luzerne,
and McClintock of Allegheny, Locofocos.
"In the Senate, amongst the new members,
are Messrs. Walker of Erie, and Packer of Ly
coming.
There are other gentlemen in both branch
es who will stand prominent, amongst whom
are several new members of both parties."
Our popular Representative, Col. Coaavu,
it will be seen, is not only appreciated at home
but is favorably known abroad. Those who
were observers of his course last winter, wil
lingly concede that he will take his stand among
the foremost men in the next Legislature. The
people of Huntingdon may rest assured that
their interests will be faithfully guarded and
advanced.
[cr. The reported failure of the "Delaware
City Bank," appears to have been incorrect.—
The Philadelphia Daily News says that the ru
mors concerning it are entirely without founda
lion ; that "the Bank is perfectly solvent, and
its capital stock unimpaired. The stockholders
arc all well known in our community, number
ing among them some of our first business men,
and knowing as they do the perfect soundness
of the institution, have at once adopted proper
and decisive means to secure the public against
any loss which might result from the prevalence
of these reports, by pledging themselves indivi
dually to the redemption of the entire circula
tion in gold and silver. No inns acquainted
with .he character of the stockholders, can for
a moment doubt the entire solvency of the Bank,
than which no institution is in better credit with
oar city banks."
ffrWe regret to learn that JOHN FENLON,
Esq., has been defeated for the Legislature in
Cambria county. Ile was an able and indefati
gable member of the last Legislature. The
Locofoco Canal Board will doubless rejoice over
this result—his efforts to expose their misman
agement of the public works was anything but
palatable to them. Ilia opponent is elected by
a majority of about forty votes.
A SPECK or Welt.-An Inspector of the
Customs being about to board a British schoon
er at Boston, the other day, he was warned off
with a threat against his life. The Inspector
having reported the case to the Collector,
the Revenue Cutter Hamilton woo ordered along
side, with her ugly holes looking directly into
John Bull, which settled the difficulty, and the
offender was arrested.
GrORGIA ELECTION.—The Senate will stand
twenty-live locofocos and twenty-four Whigs.
In the House of Representatives the locos will
have sixty-seven members, and the Whigs six
ty-three: thus giving them a majority on joint
ballot.
The majority for Governor Towne, the loco
candidate for Governor, is put down at upwards
cf three thousand.
The State Election.
We give in another column the official re
turns for Canal Commissioner, and also a table
showing thecomplexion of the LegislatUre. The
returns fdr Canal Commissioner ate not yet full
but sufficient to show that Mr. Gamble's Major
ity will be large. The Legislature will also be
locdfacd ih both branches-.they have a majori
ty Of 20 in thAHouse and t id the Senate-- , 21
on joist bale ir This result has been secured
not by any superior strength on the part of our
opponents, but by the apathy of the Whigs.
The Harrisburg Telegraph, commenting upon
the result, says
This most untoward and disastrous result
is mainly attributable to the apathy and indif
ference of the Whigs iii every section of the
State. The Whig vote polled will fall short of
that cast at the Gubernatorial election last year,
fitty thousand; fully enough, when coupled
with the open disaffection in Philadelphia and
Pittsburg, td account for our defeat without the
change df a single vote. • •
Wherever a change of public sentiment has
occurred, it is decidedly in favor of the State
and National administrations/ Setretal df the
counties have sent full Whig delegations for the
first time since their organization, showing
large gains in these particular localities for the
Whig party. While, on the other hand, we be
lieve, our opponents have gained but a single
member which may not be traced directly to
the influence of some local or transient cause.
In the city and county of Philadelphia, the ob
stinacy and impracticability of the Natives has
produced a diversion of 2,513 votes from the
Whig candidates, which, under no circumstan
ces,could have been given against either Gov.
Jonston or Gin. Taylor, and which i added to
the Whig Vdte, Would lisiVe made the majority
for the Whig candidate for Canal Commissioner
2331—a majority much smaller than that of
either Gov. Johnston or Gen. Taylor, but whirls
would be fully in proportion to that of either,
when the great falling off in the Whig vote is
duly' and properly considered. In Pittsburg,
our opponents revived the hand of 1814 to a
very considerable extent. and fought the battle
under the flag of Protection to American in
dustry—a high tariff and specific duties—and
thus succeeded in electing a Tariff Democrat to
the Legislature. The manifest disaffection in
the Whig ranks, in regard to local and sectional
matters in this locality, slid the rest, and will
fully account for the large diminution in the
Whig vote in the county of Allegheny.
How Locotoco Victories are Won.
The locofoco press are lustily crying victo
ry" over the recent elections—and so far as
practical results are obtained they are right
enough in doing so—but it is not true that a ma
jority of the people, or anything like a majority
have approved of locofoco principles by voting
for the locofoco candidates.—They have given
them a negative approval, by not voting at all
—but it the wucii.c VOTE of the State were poll
ed, Pennsylvania would be as decidedly Whig
to-Morrow as she was at the Presidential elec
tion last fall. The locofoco papers, however,
claim every stay-at-home voter as belonging to
their party.
The N. Y. Tribune points out one striking
difference between Whig and Locotbco victo
ries. Call out (it says) a very large vote, and
there will generally be a relatiVe Whig increase;
but let the vote be light, anlthe larger share
of the loss is almost certain 111 on en. The
simple explanation is that the great mass of
plodding, thrifty stay-at-home people, who do
not seek office and are not the blind devotees of
party, side with us when they vote, while the
great mass of politicians by trade are instinct
ively against us. When the elections are main
ly left to this latter class, we stand no . chance
when the termer take hold, we generally do
well.—The locofoco boasts of great gains in
Baltimore, Philadelphia, &c., are simple gull
traps, baited by the truck: that more Whigs than
locofocos stayed away from the polls at the re
cent elections. Por example
Baltimora. , —City and County.
1818. 1819.
Taylor. Cass. Whig Cong. Loco do.
13,001 13,004 8,784 11,9.13
Falling off from the votes for President—
Whig, 4,217 ; Loco, 1, 721,
Philadelphia—City and Coney
President, 18.18. Treasurer, 1849.
Taylor. Cass. V Buren. Wagner, W. Thomas L
30,721 21,918 829 20,736 19,500.
Falling off from the vote for President—Whig
9,985 ; Loco, 2,018.
—This is what is called a locofoco gain of
several thousands , and it is so with the pretended
gains' of that party all through the State.--
Lancaster Examiner.
Ilmigsul,
A melanchoily interest still invests what
scraps of news we get from Hungary.—With a
heroic resolution, that will render the names of
its defenders for all time immortal, the fortress
of Comorn refuses to capitulate, even on the
most favorable terms it could be expected of
Austria and Russia to offer. There is some
thing wild and desperate in a determination like
this, that irresistibly reminds one of 'rlierinop
ylce. Would thatthe forlorn hope of the Hun
garians in this case, were rewarded with the
same glorious restoration Ciat followed the high
resolve of the Sons of Sparta! It is an idle
dream, however,—hoping against hope itself.
—Haynau, with his eighty thousand Russians,
will soon be there, and either compel a capitu
lation, on terms Icss enticing perhaps, or else
shower down upon the defenders of Comore, a
bombardment that will burry them in a common
grave.—Turkey, in refusing to give up Kossuth
and Dembinski, does herself an honor that will
make christian Austria and Russia blush.
The course of the Porte, however, may pave
the way for trouble with the Czar, who, for
various reasons, it is not unreasonable to sus
pect of no very ardent anxiety to escapl a quar
rel with the Infidel power, that stands between
and shuts him out of the Mediterranean. We
fervently trust that the Russians have not got
hold of the gallant Bern, though there is nothing
improbable in the rumor that he has been made
a prisoner.
NEW COAL REGION.-The Albany Argus
says that a party, some of them practical mi
ners, have been engaged since July, in exami
nations in search of coal in Albany and Greene
counties, and they have succeeded in finding a
bed of superior quality, at a depth of fifty.five
feet. The location is in the town of New Bal
timore, about five miles westerly from Grey
mans. The bed is believed to extend one mile
in Albany county and three in Green. The Ar
gus says tkat the proprietor of the land is very
abotit the matter,
Canal Commissioner.
Official returns fir Canal Commissioner as
far as received :
Gamble. Fuller.
6103 6963
1236 1643
Allegheny
Adams
Armstrong
Perks
Beaver
sucia
pe.if bid
Blair
Butler
Bradford
Cambria
Carbon
Centre
Chester
Cumberland
Columbia
Crawford
Clarion
Clinton
Clearfield
Dauphin
Delaware
Erie
•Elk
Fayette
Franklin
Greene
Huntingdon
Indiana
Juniata
Jefferson
Lebanon
Lancaster
Lehigh
Lycoming
Luzerne
Monroe
Mercer
Mifflin
Montgomery
McKean
Northampton
Northumberland
l'erry
Philadelphia city
Philadelphia county
Pike
Potter
Schuylkill
Somerset
Sullivan
Susquehanna
Tioga
Union
Venango
Westmoreland
Washington
Warren
Wayne
Wyoming
York
6827
.9022
1330
i 230
1099
870
1788
9224
03P - Kimber Cleaver, the Native American
Candidate, received the following vote :—Phila.
city and county, 2, 513 ; Mongomery, 62 ;
Berks,2 ; Dauphin,ls; Allegheny,s23; North
umberland, 62.
The Legislature.
The following tables, which we believe are
correct exhibit the complexion of the next Le
gislature, which will be loco in both branch-
NENATEI
Dem. Whig.
Holding over 9 13
Allegheny and Butler, 1
Northampton and Lehigh, 1 gain _
Phila. county 1
Montgomery 1 gain
Lycoming, Centre and
Clinton 1 gain
Berks 1
Schuylkill Carbon, Mon
roe and Pike, 1
Erie 1
Bucks 1
Bradford and Tioga 1
York 1 gain
HOUSE Or REPRESENTATIVES.
Dem. Whigs,
Adams 1
Allegheny 1 3
Armstrong 1
Bradford 2
Bedford 2
Beaver 2
Berko 4
Blair 1
Butler 1
Bucks 1 2
Crawford 2
Centre and Clearfield
Chester 3
Columbia 1
Cumberland 2
Cambria 1 •
Delaware 1
Dauphin 2
Erie 2
Franklin 2
Fayette
Greene 1
Huntingdon 1
Indiana 1
JefferLon, Clarion & Venango 2
Lebanon 1
Lehi.gh and Carbon 2
Lucerne
Lancaster 5
Lycorning, Clinton and Potter 2
Mifflin 1
Montgomery 3
Mercer 2
Northampton and Monroe 3
Northumberland 1
Perry 1
Phila, city
county
Scuylkill 1 1
Somerset 1 .
Susquehana and Wyoming
Tinge 1
Washington
Westmorland
Warren, McKean and Elk 1
Wayne and Pike 1
Union and Juniata 2
York 3
The Minnesota Chronicle and Register, of
September 23d, in speaking of the climate, soil
and business of the new Territory, says, the
winters are long, the ground being covered with.
snow six or eight inches deep from December
until March. It is cold, but dry—very little
mud at any time, the soil being composed of
loam and black sand. There is less wind than
in Illinois, and the winters preferable to those
of the more Southern latitude, where the weath
er is more variable.
We have seen corn, oats, potatoes, turnips,
cabbages, beets, radishes, cucumbers, melons
and other vegetables produced here that are
hard to beat. The oat crop is much heavier,
than in Ohio or Indiana, and the corn will not
fall far behind. We say then to farmers, conic
Speakers of the Two ilothet4 I on, with a confidence of puccess. The money
The Locofocos having a majority in both bran- paid for your lands Will yield a good interest.—
Mechanics of almost all kinds are wanted, es
ches of the Legislature, there will probably be
pecially house builders, Enterprising artisans,
somewhat of a contest between the two factions
of small means, could here acquire property and
of the party, about the Speakers ; but we pre- grow up with the country. The Lumber busi
nine that it will result in the election of Mr. ness here is becoming one of great importance,
PACKER Speaker of the Senate, and Jonas M. and might now be profitably extended, and still
PORTER Speaker of the House of Representa-
more as the population increases. With regard
fives.
to mercantile pursuits, we think the prospect
These gentlemen are the best qualified not equal to many other avocations, the capital
of any of their party to preside over the two now employed being equal to the demand ; but
branches of the Legislature, but it may be doubt- as numbers increase so will the demand for
ful whether Judge Portter will be willing to take merchandise. In regard to professional men we
the position of Speaker—a seat on the floor be- cannot speak advisedly. There are n goodly
ing generally preferred by prominent members number here, that would‘compare favorably
who are debaters.—Hor. Tod. with any other town of the fame size.
1:17" Five Irishmen were arrested in Lewis
town NZ: days since charged with having
coma a rape in Juniata county.
CONNECTICUT.-The Governor of this State
has sot apart the 29th of November next to be
obterSed ay a iiity of thanksgiving and Prayer.
A MORMON STATE . —The Mormons who have
settled near the great Salt Lake, in Upper Cal
ifornia, have adopted a Territorial Government;
formed a Constitution; held a session of the
Legislature ; elected State officers and delegate
to todgress to be admitted into the Union as the
State of Deseret. it is said they have a sutli-
2349 cient number of inhabitants to entitle them to
2523
admission as a State. Their State constitution
' and declaration of rights nre iidliler to those of
Qind mdny of the States, and there is no attempt to
2134 enforce their peculiar religious tenets.
490 In a letter from a lady member of the M0r
:132882 m
on society, published some time ago, the land
5085 upon which they have settled is represented as
9558 being very productive; the climate salubrious;
1690 and medicinal springs abUndant. It it bled Os:
2204
9 , 0 ted that gold mines have been discbvered, BUt
g7O the people have so far declined to work thetn,
526 fearful that they might excite the cupidity of
2 1 , 7 74 8 : their neighbours.
2503 1 DREADFUL. SUFFTRING AT SEA,---.MiL
- to feed his Companions.—The new Orleans pa
-2113 pers give in their late news from the Pacific,
3097 an account of the dreadful sufferings experien
ced by the captain (1-losmer) and three of the
1787 crew of the American bark Jeannette, of Fair
-1729 haven, Mass., engaged in the whale fishery on
929 the Pacific. Being out after a whale they were
463 apparently by design, left by the ship, the mate
2398 being in command. They were exposed in an
3133 open boat. for twenty'days to the rigor of the el- 1
ements, without food or drink, except what an
1524 occasional shower of rain afforded, and a booby
2578 and a dolphin which theycaught. It relates the
291 frightful necessity wherein one of the men was
2421 killed to feed his companions, another having
_ previously died from exhaustion. They reach
-5698 ed Cichs Island, arid were taken to Payla by a
transient ship ; front whence they embarked for
2215 New Bedford, tin ship seo. Ho Arland.
The Next State Treasurer.
After having been so loud in condemnation of
Gen. Taylor for removing Locofoco office hol
ders, it would be but fait to suppose that our
opponents, now that they have an opportunity
to exhibit their magnanimity, will not turn any
Whig out of office for opinion's sake. It re
quires, however, not the spirit of prophecy to
foretell that such will not be their course of po
licy. Already have they several candidates in
the field for the office of State Treasurer. A
correspondent of the Pennsylvanian urges the
election of John Snodgrass, Esq. of Westmore
land, and the Harrisburg Telegraph, mentions
the name of Wm. D. Boas, Esq., of that place,
as a candidate. Of course, Mr. Ball, tile pres
ent incumbent, will have to leave the Treasury
•Department,'although it is admitted by all that
the State has not had an abler financial officer
for years. Still he will have to make place for
a loco, while at the same time the Locofoco pa
pers whine about the proscriptive pohicyof Gen.
Taylor. Out upon such hypocrites !—Daily
News.
BUSINESS or THE Wasv.---The Cincinnati
Price Current of that city publishes a tabular
statement of the number and value of hogs and
beef cattle in fifty-nine counties in Ohio, as re
turned for taxation by the towtiship Assessors,
and equalized by the county boards for the years
1818 and 1849. In these fifty-nine counties the
total number of hogs were 1,336,367 in 1818,
and is 1,410,377 in 1819. In the Caine the num
ber of beef cattle was 637,281 in 1848, and is
688,248 in 1849. These facts indicate very
strongly, at least so far as Ohio is concerned,
that there is no scarcity of either hogs or cat.
tle in the West; and from other States there is
information of a similar kind.
Curious Incident
At Hickory Grove, near Burlington, N. J., is
a hen, having five mottled chickens, black and
white, a little larger than quails. To this group
there has attached itself a kitten a few months
old, of like color with the chickens. They ram
ble together ; sometimes he amuses himself by
playing with the hen's tail, when she does not
scold or peck him. When the red squii rel comes
capering along, he runs after him, even up the
tree ; but they are so much afraid of each other
they dare not come in very close contact. Some
times they go near the kitchen door to gather
the crumbs that are scattered, when the kind
heated domestics give the kitten something suit
ed to his taste and habits. Thus they spend
day after day in their rambles, and when even
ing approaches, and they seek a place for re
pose, they nestle together, the kitten creeping
under the old hen's wing like the chickens, and
they repose harmoniously together for the night,
Dreadful Shipwreck-150 Lives
Lost.
On Sunday morning theinst., the British
brig St. John, from Galway, Ireland, for Boston,
struck against the Grarnpus Rocks off the coast,
and sunk almost instantly, having broken in
pieces. By this painful calamity it is estima
ted that about ONE HUNDRED AND FIF.
RY PASSENGERS found a watery grave !
The captain, crew, and ten passengers were
saved by floating on some pieces of wreck.—
Twenty•five of the dead bodies were washed
ashore, and picked up on Monday morning.
One man, Patrick Swany, whose body Was
recovered, lost eleven children, washed from
the wreck by the same wave which carried him
into the surge. Being a good swimmer, he at
tempted to save his youngest child, whom he
held in his arms as the timbers parted, and struck
out for the boat in which Capt. Oliver and the
crew were making for the shore. But the strong
man and his helpless child went to join those
who had gone down but a few minutes befOre.
Minnesota,
For thr Journal.
TO Mr. ALBERT OWEN
Sir:—Though the controversy you propose
might be arousing to the intelligent readers of
the Journal, and bring you into merited notice,
I must decline it. Such a discussion would be
cruel sport, Mr. Owen, “fun for the boys, per
haps, but distress if not death to the poor frogs."
Selfish. as you are pleased so politely to pro
nounce me before the public,l still possess some
benevolence, arid consider tis a proper oppor
tunity for its exercise. Besides, sir, my ideas
of propriety will not permit me to gratify your
anxiety for distinctior et the expense of your
superiors ; who, however willing they' may be
to smile at your impertinent meddling in my af
fairs, would, no doubt, prefer seeing you render
ybtirself ridiculous, without being themselves
iiiniiiicated in your folly. And permit me to add,
that if you were but half as well read in 'Maser'
and kindred authors, asyou pretend to be in His
tory and Mathematics, you eriuldharilly seek so
doubtful a distinction at so precious a price.—
Those ancient hooks are stored with true wis
dom. Friim their sacred pages the proud may
learn humility, and foci's beebmn acquainted
with their dwn 034. .
To allay your apprehensions on another point
apparently quite oti near your heart as the au
thorship of my "Regidatiens," feel it incum
bent on me to assure yoU, with all the delibera=
tion and solemnity which the subject seems to
require, that I have not the niost remote desire
"to rival" either "the public schools" or their
distinguished champion. I riVat .the public
schools ! The thought overwhelms me, and I
hasten its disavowal. I rival Mr. Albert Osnen!
Supreme absurdity ! Sooner let me retail can
dies to toddling infants at a penny a stick, and
then be doomed to defend the dignity of the em
ployment.
Whether the "essence" of your idea of rivalry
"is coeval" with the first contest between the
sons of Adam, or merely "handed from" Owen,
I will not undertake to say ; but, without in
tending disrespect to the many merry children
and very excellent Text Books in the public
schools, I must and do affirm that the Idea itself
"could find e place only in the most vacant apart
ment of an empty understanding." •
Hoping that your extensive historical research
es have made you acquainted with my "quota-1
tions," and that your profound knowledge of the
exact sciences will enable you properly to apply
them, I will close by reminding you that, tho'
our profession embraces many impertinent,
meddling, Mercenary Char/awes, is infested by
a horde of creeping creatures, who delight to
cringe "if thrift but follow fawning," and who
tire always ready to lick the hand of the peddling
power that lords it over their littleness ;—there
are sonic teachers who are also MEN. You would
do well, Mr. Owen, to arold their notice until
you shall have acquired the art of cultivating
their acquaintance in a becoming manner.
• J. A, HALL,
October 18, 18-11 l
07 - A tornado of the moat frightful chiirite ,
ter was experienced on the sea coast near Cape
May, on the 4th inst., by which three dwelling
houses, with nearly every thing in them, were
litterally torn to atoms. One woman iost her
life instantly, another was shockingly mutilated,
and two other persons much injured. Besides
the buildings destroyed, a number of others
were more or less damaged, some moved from
their foundations, others left in different states
of dilapidation. Trees were torn up by the
roots or twisted off near the ground.
It was of the whirlwind character, and did not
extend more than half a mile in length on the
land, and four o- five rods in width. It took
place a short time before day-light. The scene
is represented as having been most terrific.
IMPORTANT CANADIAN MANlFxsro.—The New
York Evening papers contain an important ad
dress in favor of the annexation of Canada to
the United States, which has been signed by
three hundred persons of high standing,
some
of them being members of the Colonial Parlia
ment. It commences with the statement of
the grievances of the colonies. Chief among
these is the withdrawal of protection to domes
tic industry, which withdrawal has blighted the
manufactures and trade of the colonies. The
address says that Canada suffers seriously from
the idea entertained by statesman in England
and the United States that the colonies are des
tined soon tobe independent.
DEATH or E. A. POE.--We regret to learn
that Edgar A. Poe, a distinguished scholar and
critic died in Baltimoae on Sunday, after a brief
illness, in his 38th year. He was a man of de
cided genius, and a terse and forcible writer,
whose merits were everywhere acknowledged,
notwithstanding many excentricities, which in
a measure detracted his usefuluess.—Literature
has lost in him an ornament, and a large circle
of warm friends will hear of his death with
poignant regret.
ANOTIIER.-A young matt, Anthony Felix,
from Adams county, employed in topping off
the wall on the third story of the same factory,
on Saturday week, tell to the ground in conse
quence of the cornice giving way, and broke one
of his legs in several places. Skillful surgical
aid was immediately procured, and the leg am
putated. Another workman employed with Fe
lix, fell at the same time, but succeeded in catch
ing hold of the wall and sustained himself until
relieved.
EKNATOR.-The text Legislature
of Mississippi will elect a U. S. Senator, as
the term which Mr. Jefferson Davis was ap
pointed to fill expires on the 4th of March,
18.51. The people of Northern Mississippi are
begining to call for the election of men from
their part of the State. Among others mention
ed for the office are the names of Col. Roger
Barton, Col. R euben Davis, of Monroe, and
Col. Thomas Williams of Pontotoc.
ARRIVAL OP FREDE II ICA BREMER.-The em
inent and universally admired authoress, Miss
Frederica Bremer, has at length arrived in this
country. She is now in New York, stopping at
the Astor House. Her coming creates some
thing of a sensation in literary circles. Already,
says a New York letter of Thursday afternoon,
ere she has been in the New World halfan hour,
she is overrun with visitors, welcoming her to
our shores.
The Cholera Over.
Accounts from every section of the Union
show that the cholera has almost disappeared
from our borders. This is a subject of congrat
ulation and gratitude to heaven, which ought
not to be forgotten at the nppraching annaal
Thanksgiving.—Neat.i Gazette.
A CIIANCE FOR rue DOCTORS—sio,OOO . re.
ward !—A banker at Hamburg, named de Rein
mer who died a short time ago, left by his will
100,000 francs to the man who shall discover a
cure for the Asiatic Cholera. The award is to
be made by the Academy of Medicine of Paris.
AccnyENT. , —A. carpenter, named Charles
Bowman, employed on the new factory at Lan
caster, while assisting to raise some heavy tim
ber on the Sth inst., fell from the third story,
and survived but a few hours.
TIIE MEXICAN CoN n Republic
slates that Col. Fremont has accepted the op
pointment of chief of the Mexican Boundry Ser
ve), in the place of Col, Weller, removed.
The New State of Deseret.
The boundaries of this new State;
recently formed by the Mormons, around
I the region of the Great Salt Lake, un.
known ten yettra ago, are. thus delis
ed
COnimencing at the 33 deg. north let.
itude, Where it crosses the 108 deg.
gitude; west of Greenwich ; thence run
ning south and West to the northern bout:
dary bf - 14exicb ; thence west to and
down the main channel of the Gila Ri.
ver, on the northern line of Mexico and
on the northern boundary of Lower Cal.
ifornia to the Pacific Ocean ; thence
i along the coast northwesterly to the 118
deg. 30 min, of west longitude; thence
north to where said line intersects the
dividing ridge of the Sierra Nevada
mountains ; thence north along the sum
mit of the Sierra Nevada mountains to
the diViding range of mountains that
separate the waters flowing into the
Columbia River from the waters running
into the Great Basin ; thence easterly
along the dividing range of mountains
that separate said waters flowing into
the Columbia River on the north, front
the waters flowing into the Great Basin
op the south, to the summit of the Wind
River chain of these mountains; thence
southeast and south by the dividing
range bf mountains that separate the
waters flowing into the Gulf of Mexico,
from the waters flowing into the Gulf of
California, to the place of beginning,
as set forth in a map drawn by Charles
Preuss, and published by order of the
Senate of the United States, in 1848.
EARTHQUAKE IN MASSACHUSETTS.--A
severe shock of an earthquake was felt
in several of the towns in the middle of
Sussex county, on Monday afternoon,
between 3 and 4 o'clock. Two very
loud and heavy explosions were heard i
and the earth, and buildings continued
to tremble during the moments which
elapsed. At Acton, Concord, and other
towns, the people ran out of the houses
and stores, supposing some terrible ex.;
plosions of the powder mill in Sunbury
had occurred. At Concord, Acton, Car
lisle, Bedford, Lexington, Lincoln, Stow i
and probably many other towns, the
shocks were distinctly realized, and it
was generally supposed to have been the
blowing up of some powder mill. By
sonic persons the shaking waa said tJ
resemble that produced by the rolling of
something heavy in a room overhead.--
A similar slialcing of the earth was felt
in the same locality about a year ago,
early in the morning.—Bunker Hill
Aurora.
A Positive Rebuke.
Tractable as the Locofoco press gen
erally is, under the dictation of the
Central organ, now and then a newspa
per turns up of sufficient dignity and
self-respect to rebuke its blackguardism
and to deny any sympathy with the sys
tem of detraction, for which it has be
come so infamously notorious. The
.Monroe Democrat, a prominent party
print in Mississippi, took occasion re•
cently to speak of the sole organ in this
truthful, but uncermonious style.
"It seems to us that the Washington
Union is daily lessening its hold npoti
the country by its low, and, as we sin
cerely believe, undignified attacks upon
the opposition."
" Low and undignified attacks" may
be regarded as rather a mincing phrase
for the thous..nd slanders and falsehoods
which are constantly levelled against
the President and every member of his
cabinet, through the columns of that
scurrilous sheet, but still it is a conees ,
sion which we scarcely expected from
the quarter in which it has appeared.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMER CALEDONIA.
One Week Later from Europe.
The steamer Caledonia, Capt. Doug
lass arrived nt Boston on Friday morn
ing last bringing intelligence from all
parts of turope, one week Later than
published in our last paper having left
Liverpool on the 29th tilt.
The Limerick Examnier says that
John Mitehe has been released by gov
eminent on account of his health. Ha
is not however to settle in any portion
or colony of the United Kingdom.
Mr. Carr, our Minister to Constantino•
ple l had taken passage for Jiome in the
U. S. convette Jamestown.
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
Nothing has transpired in relation
to the resolutions of the porte not to
yield the Hungarian refugees to the de
mands of Austria and Russia, except
that a Russian officer of high rank has ar
rived at Constantinople to demand their
extradition,
The Emperor of Russia employs no
argument in Court for his demand for
the delivery of the Polish and Hungari
an Refugees at Widden, but says in his
letters that he will consider the escape
of one of them as a casus belli. if the
Sultan did not give a simple yea or no,
to the Aid-de-Camp, be threatened to
return to Warshw.
There is no doubt that the chief lead
ers are still at t' idden, in Wallachia,
and the probability is that as soon as
the requisite facilties cnn be furnished
to get them out of the Turkish domht
ions they will be allowed to go whore,-
er they please.
COMORN NOT SURRENDERED.—The lat
est intelligence from Vienna extends to
the 22d instant, inclusive at, which time
Comorn had not surrendered and nod).
ing of any importaricce appears to have
occurred around that fortrees. It war,