THE JOURNAL.
COMINCT nuNcipLEs-surropTio NY Titurn.]
HUNTINGDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 20, 1819.
TERMS
The "HUNTINCIDON JOIIRNiii." is piibliahednf
the following rates, viz : $1,75 a your, if paid
in advance ; $2,00 if paid during the year, and
$2,50 if not paid until aftei {hO eipiration of
the year. The above terms to be adhered to in
all cases.
No subscription taken for less than six litinths,
and no paper discontinued until all arrearrtOs
are paid, unless at the option of the publisher.
VA LI, 11LE REAL. ESTATE.-We invite atten
tion to the advertisement df Wm. B. Lass and
SAMTET. MCVITTv. Trdstees of A. Long, deed,
offering several valuable tracts of Real Estate
fur sale.
Wooncomt VALLEY FAILMS.-No. I of these
farms, occupied by Major James Porter, has
been sold by ex-Gov. Porter for the sum of
eleven thousand dollars, being $lO per acre.—
The two other forms mentioned in advertise
ment are still unsold, as is also the mountain
land.
CCir .. DAVID 13LAIR5 Esq.f it will be seen by
bur adVeitisidg cdlunins, has openeii an "Office
for the Purchase and Sale of Real Estate," in
this place. Mr. 13. elands Nigh as a member of
the legal profession of this county, and is every
any worthy of confidence. He represented
Huntingdon county in the State Legislature du
ring the sessions of 181 G and '47, to the advan
tage of his - constituents and credit to himself.—
Those, therefore, who desire to avail themselves
of his Agency for the purposes set forth, can do
so with the utmost confidence that their inter
ests will be efficiently, prominly and faithfully
attended to.
New Mail Arrangement.
Arrangements have been completed between
the Post Office Department and Wm. Colder,
Esq., by which the Eastern mail will hereafter
be carried on the Pennsylvania Railroad. This
arrangement brings the Eastern mail to Hun
tingdon about 5 o'clock, A. M., in place of 3
P. M., as heretofore. The new arrangement
brings us the Philadelphia papers the morning
after their publication.
The western mail now leaves Hollidaysburg
at 9 A. M. and arrives in Huntingdon at 3 P. M.
County Cohiliiissioners.
Our newly elected Commissioner, ISAAC
PEIGIITAT., entered upon the duties of his office
last week. Mr. P. is a gentleman of fair busi
ness qualifications, strong common sense, and
unyielding honesty. We predict that he will
make a useful, economical, and popular Com
missioner. The Board is now composed as fol
lows : J. GRSENLAND,W3I. HUTCHISON, and
ISAAC PFICTITAL. ROBERT CCMAIINS of Jack
son, is the retiring Commissioner.
Female Seminary.
The farm in the vicinity of this place, re
cently sold by the Executor of the late Robert
Moore; deed, was purchased by the Rev. ions
PIEIIttS, the much respected Pastor of the Hun
tingdon Preshyferian Congregation. And it af
fords us great pleasure to learn that it is the
intention of Mr. P. to erect on this farm a Fe
male Seminary, of which he Will be the Prin
cipal. The location, and the high and well
known character of Mr. Peebles, must insure
the success of this institution.
Our Borough Again.
. •
The committees appointed bya recent meeting
of the citizens of this place, to solicit subscrip
tions to be applied to the purchase of a suitable
location, within the limits of this borough, for
the erection of a Depot, &c., by the Vennsylva
nia Railroad company, reported on Saturday
evening last, to an adjourned meeting, held in
the Court House. The reports were highly
satisfactory—over eleven hundred dollars being
already subscribed by our citizens for the pur
pose mentioned. This subscription is highly
creditable to our citizens, and is the free-will
offering of those *hti desire to advance the gen
eral prosperity of Huritirlgtibm We are now
encouraged to hope that it will be in our power
to "meet the company half way," and to secure
to our borough the advantages offered to us.
We were much pleased with the remarks
made on Saturday evening by Messrs. Scott,
Williamson and Blair. And we concur in the
opinion expressed by those gentlemen, that per
severance on the part of those who are now act
ing in concert, is all that is necessary to secure
success to our undertaking. Huntingdon, as we
Lave before remitekdd 3 is looking up, and must
not be allowed again to retrograde. We must
keep the ball moving.
Those who have not already subscribed, and
Who desire to tro id; eati haiie art opportunity by
editing on either Pettit EiwooCvi F% B. WAL
LA., or Jolts SCOTT, Esq., thaiiinen of the
silbscription committees. We sincerely hope
that all ddr citizen. will feel it to be their duty to
aid in the effort net making to advance tho
interests tit litintingdon.
Cg , At the present term of our Court not a
Ingle foot of real estate was offered for sale by
'ie Sheriff. This fact speaks loudly in favor of
e solvency of the citizens elf Huntingdon coun
ty.
37' Hon. HENRI. CLAY, accompanied by his
on, arrived in Philadelphia on Thursday last
•om Baltimore, where he had tarried a day or
co. He is stopping at the residence of Hon.
. 11. Bayard, formerly U. S. Senator from
,elaware, and will remain about ten days. He
/ill probably thea'repair to Washington pre
votary to the meeting of Con - -U. He seems
yell fitted by health and spirits for an ardu
us winter campaign.
Counterfeits.
Counterfeit $lO notes on the Lancaster Coun
ty Dank are in circulation in this neighborhood.
They are altered from some other Bank by ta
king out the original and inserting Lancaster
County Bank. The word Lancaster, near the
bottom of the note, and Pennsylvania, at the
top, hipie also been inserted. At the left end
of the note at the top a Word or words hti , id
been scratched off: 'the Ailing up is imalji e)t
ecuted. These bills can readily be detected by
close examination, and especially by holding
them up td the tight.
• p▪
erson charged with passing bills of
the above description was arrested at Jeckstown
on Sunday evening last, and lodged in our Jail
on yesterday morning.
The National Police Gazette states that Coun
terfeit $lO notes on the Lancaster Bank are in
hirculation. They are dated January Ist or 2d
(hduld not distinguish which) 1814, letter B,
Signed Christ. Tachmar, Cashier, James Evans,
President. Vignette, a naked female sitting
with a stall in her right hand, her face turned
left, no spots visible on the eye, a spread eagle
on her left side. (the right of the vignette,) rest
ing on a shield ; a ship, al! sails set, on her
right, badly engraved ; the hull or bottom of
the ship looks like a floating sow log, square at
both ends. Double medallion heads on the right
end of the bill?, also badly executed. The oth
er figures on the bill are said to be good. The
bills are not described in any of the last Detec
tors;
lrrAs We notice a considerable number of
$1 notes on the State Bank of Ohio in circula
tion here, we give the following description of
a counterfeit upon them, which we copy from
the Ohio Repoutory
CC/I,TE:: rEm—Counterfeit Ones on the State
Brink of Ohio are in circulation—the engraving
and signatures of which are so perfect as to de
ceive even good judges. The engraving is hard
ly as highly finished as the genuine, and the pa
per and printing a shade lighter. The red im
pression on the back of the counterfeit is also
lighter than the genuine, and the best, if pot
the only distinguishing iHark is, that in the
counterfeit, the star or areola at the end of the
bar enclosing the words 'State Bank of
also on the back is set in the centre of a square
block, which is not the case with the genuine ;
and the plate of the counterfeit is shorter than
the genuine.
Gen. Scott at Richmond.
The reception of the veteran commander-and
chief of the army, on his visit to Richmond, Va.
last Tuesday, was truly gratifying. From the
Times of that city we obtain some particulars of
the events of the day. The Gen. was received at
the Exchange Hotel by a large array of the
citizen soldiery of Richmond, and in company
with Gov. Floyd, was escorted in processide to
the Capitol square, where in the presence of a
great concourse of citizens, Mr. Macfarland
welcomed Gen. Scott on behalf of the city in a
very appropriate address, to which the Gerieral
responded with deep feeling, recounting the
many obligations by which he was attached to
Virginia, and declaring the high gratification
which her kind approbation of the services he
had been able to perform had ever afforded him.
The General then reviewed the troops,visited
the Governor's mansion, and was escorted to
Lafayette Hall, where under the order of the
city council a handsome collation had been pro
vided. He gave an interesting little narative
of the incidents which attended his first enlist
ment as a soldier. It was on the occasion when,
in consequence of the attack of the Chesapeak,
President Jefferson called upon the Governor of
Virginia for volunteers, to march to Lynhaven
Bay to prevent the British from coming into
our waters. Two companies, he said, one of
horse and foot, the Blues marched from Rich
mond—the horse being under the command of
his old friend Capt. Sheppard, who now stood
by his side. He hirriself hastened over id Pe
tersburg, and enlisted in the company of horse,
which marched from that town, as "high pri
vate"—for he was the tallest man in the com
pany, and rode the tallest horse. That cam
paign, he said, was one without bloodshed, but
it was his first essay in military life. He clo
sed by giving " the health of the volunteers of
Richmond"—and here three hearty cheers were
given for " Winfield Scott."
Susquehanna County Bank.
The failure of this institution, and the outra
geous conduct of th 6 Cashier, hiid greatly exas
perated the reople of the iegiOn Of country
where it is located. The committee of Direc
tors appointed to investigate the affairs of the
institution, report that the bank has at least
$200,000 afloat, of which probably $150,000
has recently been put in circulation in the west,
through a certain agent in Cincinnati, who was
in .Montrose but a week before the institution
exploded. The Cashier, T. P. St. John, has
been arrested and committed in default of $lO,-
000 bail. He had assured the directors that
there were but $lO,OOO in circulation, and every
dollar could be redeemed. So infuriated were the
citizens that they attempted to do violence to
his person, and after his incarceration, they took
the signs from the Bank, and placed them with
an effigy over the jail door.
137 - Attempts have recently been made to in
jure the character and standing of the Haftls
burg Telegraph. We regard the Telegraph as
one of the ablest papers in the State, and as a
correct and faithful exponent of Whig prin
ciples. It has been of signal service to the
Whig party, and both deserves and receives the
sustaining patronage of its members. Forti
fied as it is in the affections and confidence of
the great body of the Whigs of the State, any
attempts to destroy its influence and respecta
bility must recoil upon its atithort. So says the
Erie Gazette, and we heartily concur.
07" We have received a copy of Palmers4l3u
sines. Men's Almanac' for 1850. It is a vain
hie publication, abounding in useful information,
of great interest and practical value to business
men. Price 12i cents for a single copy—sl,oo
per dozen—sl,oo per hundred. We would ad
vise our Merchants to supply themselves with
some of these valuable Almanacs.
Calhoun and California.
The Washington correspondent of the Jour
nal of Commerce understands that Mr. CAL HOUN
will resist the admission of California as a State
into the Union, with a restriction of slavery as
a part of its organic law, but the correspondent
does not think he will obtain the vote of all the
Southern Senators in the course which he has
marked out. fie takes the ground that Califor
nia has no right to exclude slaves, and thereby
exchide slave-holders from her soil, the sover
eignty dyer which belonged to every citizen of
the United States, and must be exercised by
their representatives in Congress. He antends
that the people in California have no more right
to exclude slavery than Congress has. After
California shall become a State, then she may
regulate her domestic policy as she pleases ;
but the South is bound, according to Mr. CAL
HOUN, to resist her admission as a State, and her
assumption of the right, in her present position
to form a Sate Government. There is no ob
jection, as he thinks, to her forming a Provi
sional Government, for the security of her in
habitants; but she has no right to form a State
Government without the assent of Congress, nor
to enforce any law which may be inconsistent
with the rights and interests of the slave hold
ing portion of the Union. These, it is believed
are the opinions not only of Mr. Calhoun, but
of many Southern Senators, both Whigs and
Democrats.
The same correspondent thinks ere long there
will-he an assault from a combined Southern
force, upon the present Administration, on ac
count of ass alleged improper interference, by
its order, through its agents, with the affairs of
California. He saYs= ,, To Gen. Ilittt the Ad
ministration gage such instructions as were cal
culated tb Seetire the early formation of a State
COVertinient, and with a Constitution prohibit
ing Slavery.—This was in my opinion, a wise
and patriotic measure on the part of the Admin
istration, and it was completely successful. But
I am informed, and have good reasons to believe,
that a portion of the Southern members of Con
gress, and other Southern politicians, intend to
bring some railing accusations against the Ad
ministration, on account of what they allege to
be the extraordinary and unwarantalile instruc
tions to Gen. RILEY. It is intended to allege
that these instructions exceed any power that
belongs to the Federal Executive, in the premi
ses. I have much more apprehension from an
agitation of this and kindred questions in Con
gress at this session, than from any question re
lating to foreign nations that may arise in a cen
tury. I fear that Mr. CALHOUN is about to
make a final and potent effort, tinder sonic 'Mal
impulse, to throw a portion of the Southern
States out of the Union. Whether he may suc
ceed or not, this will probably be his last ses
sion here. I still trust, that Mr. CALHOUN may
be deterred from pursuing the course ho has
marked out for himself, for it is quite certain
that the people of the South will not sustain
him id it. lam aware that Mr. Cato°ur thinks
that a bold and united stand by the Smith in re
senting the admission of California; or any in
terference with slavery in the District of Col
umbia, will save the Union ; and that nothing
short of such a course will do it. But I think
that Mr. C. is under a fatal error. If the Mis
sissippi resolutions, which Mr. C,!.r.'ituox Orinc-
Honed, or perhaps diem , up him Self, shciald be
acted on by any one State, or by all the South
ern Stares, it would destroy the harmony and in
tegrity of the Unmet."
The import of this loiter ttirriishes much
mater for reflection. The advocates for Slave
ry would peril the Union to perpetuate its
curse !
HORRIBLE STEAMBOAT DISASTER.
Explosion on Board the Louisiana.
Upwards of MO Lives Lost !
NEW ORLEANS, NOV. 16, A. M.
One of the most disastrous steamboat acci
dents that ever took place at this port, occurred
about five o'clock last evening. The magnifi
cent, first class boat Louisiana, was putting out
from the levee, bound to St. Loins, just as the
steamers Storm and Boston were coming in from
above. The boats were side and side, the &e].
of all three crowded with passengers, at the
moment when a tremendous explosion took place
on board the Louisiana—both boilers having
bursted, severing the boat literally to atoms— , .
ripping and tearing the other two boats, and
carrying upwards of one hundred and fifty hu
man beings to their last accounts, without a mo
ments warning. Simultaneous with the tern
ble exPlgsion came a wild shriek, which sent a
thrill Of horror to the stoutest hearts. As the
smoke and steam cleared away, a scene was pre
-1 sented t o the eye, of which I can scarcely form a
conception. The shattered boats, the shrieks
of the
,wounded, the struggles of the drowning,
the eroans, of ihe (lyin g , appalled, and for a mo
paralyzed ail who witnessed it. Human
,snits, legs and heads were scantier, iii evry
direction, and the levee was strewn with the
dead and dying!
In a short time thousands of persons were
cdllected the vicinity of the melancholy
scene, and ndthing was left undone to afford re
lief to the unfortunate sufferers.
This morning the levee is crowded with our
citizens, and every effort is being made to re
, cover the bodies of those blown into the river.
Already fifty dead bodies have been recov
cred. It is supposed that at least oneltien
deed and fifty lives wore lost by this dreadful
disaster ! A large number are mangled and
scalded in a most horrible manner. I have not
beers able, amidst the confusion which prevails,
to obtain anything like a reliable list of the
names of the killed and wounded, but will en
deavor to send yeit n despatch containing more
full particulars, this afternoon or in the morn
ing.
The Louisiana sunk a few minutes after the
disaster. It is unknown what led to the ex
plosion. It is supposed that the engineers and
firemen were killed, as they hive not been seen
since the accident.
SECQND DESPATCH,
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 17-A. M
Captain Kennon, of the steamer Lou
isiana, has been arreEted, and held to
bail in the sum of $B,OOO. The explo
sion having been attributed to careless
ness, a searching investigation will
shortly take place. Many more dead
bodies have been found. The number
of killed it is believed will reach 200,
besides many dreadfully wounded. The
flags of the shipping are all at half mast.
THE ELECTIONS.
Virginia.
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WHIG CONGRESS:HAN GAINED.-At the spe
cial election in the Wheeling (Va.) district, last
week, Col. Raymond, Whig, was elected to
Congress, being a gain. This district gave
Gen. Cass a majority of 556.
Massachusgtts.
Returns from the entire State, with the ex•
ception of a few towns, show the following re•
suit for bovernor :
Bfiggs, (Whig,) 49,092
Boutweß, (Loco,) 28,069
Philips, (Free Soiler,) , 23,250
_ . _
Palfrey, Free Soiler, for Congress, lacks 3000
of being elected. There is no choice in his dis
trict. The Whigs gain in the House, having a
majority of about 100 members, and a large ma
jority in the Senate.
New York;
The coalition of Barnburners, Hunkers, &c.,
failed to secure the spoils. As far as known, a
majority of the State officers are Whig. In the
Senate, the Whigs have a majority of 2, and the
House is reported to be a tie.
Michigan.
The election in this State has resulted in fa
vor of the Locofocos as usual.
Louisiana and itississippi.
The vote for Governor of Louisiana is very
close. Walker, the Democratic candidate, is
supposed to have been elected by a small ma
jority. The Congressional delegation remains
unchanged. In the Legislature the Whigs will
have a small majority on joint ballot.
Gen. Witt-nailis elected Governor of Missis
sippi by a large majority. The Democrats
claim the election of four Congressmen.
Editorial Convention.
Agreeably to Peevious notice a number of the
country editors of Pennsylvania met at Bueh
ler's Eagle Hotel, on Friday Bth inst., and or
ganized by appointing the Ilon. NIMROD
STRICKLAND, editor of the West Chester
Republican, President, M. D. Homutoos, Esq.
editor of the Lancasterian & Col. A. McCr.utiE,
editor of the Juniata Sentinel, Vice Presidents;
GEORGE FRYSINER, Esq., Editor of the Lew
istown Gazette, and J. M. liciointit, editor of the
Valley Spirit, Secretaries.
On moticiri, Messrs. TIIEO. FENN, of the Pa.
telegraph ; P. S. DECHERT, of the Valley Spir
it, Wm. P. COOPER, of the Juniata Register,
HENRY S. EVANS, of the Village Record, Join
B. Baarroy, of the Carlisle Volunteer, Was. M.
Bricsr.ix, of the Lebanon Advertiser, were ap
pointed to report a course of action to the Con
vention.
After consultation by the Committee; they
made the following report to the Cdnvention
which was adopted
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Re.colverl, that an adjourned convention of the
editors and publishers of newspapers within the
State of Pennsylvania be held in the borough of
Harrisburg on TUESDAY the first day of Jan
uary next, (1850,) to memorialize Congress on
the subject of such analteration of the postage
laws an will allow newspapers to be sent in the
mails, within the counties 414 Zongressional
districts in which they are published, FREE OF
POSTAGE; also to memorallze the Legislti
ture of Pennsylvania on the subject of having
the laws of a public natura published in the
n4WseaPers of the Commonwealth ; and to
adopt such other measures as will be calculated
to protect and advance the interests of the pub
lic and of the publishers of newspapers of the
interior, as they may deem proper and import
ant.
Resolved, That editors and publishers of news
papers in Pennsylvania without digtitietidn of
party, are requested and expected to attend said
Convention.
Resolved, That the above proceedings be
signed by the officers, and published by all the
papers of the Commonwealth; and that this
Convention adjourn to meet on said day.
NIMROD STRICKLAND, Pres't.
M. D. HOLBROOK,
A. K. MCCLURE. /*Vice rreetS.
George Frysinger,
J.
ecrearies.
111. Cooper.
Court of Quarter Sessions--Nov. Term.
The following indictments were disposed of
in our Court of Quarter Sessions last week. It
is a melancholy fact that the criminal business
of our county is on the increase. We suppose
however, that this may be attributed to the
construction of the Railroad through our county.
Commonwealth vs. Charles Cortin.—lndict
meat, assault and battery. Defendant pleads
guilty and submits. Sentence—fine of $5lOO,
costs of prosecution, and 10 days' imprison
ment in the county jail.
Commonwealth vs. Jacob Anspach. Indict
ment, assault and battery. Verdict—not guilty.
County to pay costa:
Commonwealth vs. Wm.Sturtzmatt. Indict
ment, riot add assault and buttery. Defendant
submits to Court. Sentenced to pay a fine of
$5,00; costs of prosecution, and undergo im
prisonment in the county jail for six weeks.
Commonwealth vs. Dorsey Silknitter. In
dictment, fornication and bastardy. Verdict
guilty. Counsel for defence moved for a new
trial, which motion is still pending before Court.
Commonwealth ye. G. W. Ocat hart. Indict
ment, assatiit and battery. "Not a true bill,"
and Jacob Anapach, prosecutor, sentenced to
pay colts.
Commonwealth vs. Abraham Marrels. Two
indictments for larceny. Verdict, guilty on
each. Sentence, in the two cases, three years
and three months imprisonment in the Western
Penitentiaty at hard labor, line of $2,0, and
costs of prosecution.
ca, C mnionwealth vs. Wm. Illelllonigal.
dlctment, assault and battery. Verdict guilty.
Senfence, a line of $lO and costs of prosecution,
Commonwealth vs. Henry Stine: Two in
dictments for horse stealing. Guilty on each,
and sentenced to pay a tine of $l, costs, and un
dergo an irriprisonment offive years, at hard la
bor, in the Western Penitentiary.
Several cases were made up, and two or three
continued to January term.
U 7 - Hon. WALTISR FORWARD, of Pittsburgh,
has been appointed Charge to Denmark. This
is a good appointment.
Speech of Mr. Webster,
At a recent festival of the Sons of New Hamp
shire, held in Boston, Hon. DANIEL. WEBSTER,
the greatest statesman in America, was pres
ent, and favored the company with a Speech.—
We copy that portion which relates to the events
transpiring in Europe. The sentiments ex
pressed ‘fill find a hearty response in every Re
publican heart. After spedking of the rise and
progress and government of our own happy
country, Mr. WEBSTER said :
Gentlemen, the events of the past
year are many ; they seem to result frbrh
an indefinite purpose of those who wish
to ameliorate the condition of things in
Europe.—They had no distant ideas.
There may be incidental benefiti aftstng
from it. These *are nfay gomeivhtit as
suage the imperial away 6f degpdts.--'--
They may serve to convince those who
hold despotic power that they may shake
their own thrones if they do not yield
something to popular demands. In that
sense some good may come of it.
Then, gentlemen, there is another as
pect. We have all had our sympathies
much enlisted in the Hungarian effort
'for liberty. We have all 'Wept at its
failure. We thought we saw a more
rational hope of establishing indepen
dence in Hungary than in any other part
of Europe where the question has been
in agitation within the last twelve
months. But despotic power from a
broad intervented to suppress it.
And, gentlemen what will come of it
Ido not know. For my part, at this
moment I feel more indignant at recent
events connected with Huagary than at
all those Which passed in her struggle
for liberty. [Tremendous cheeringd-
I see that the Emperor of RusSid de
mands of Turkey that the noble Kossuth
and his companions shall be gii'en up.
[Shame! shame !!] And I see that this
demand is made in derision of the estab
lished law of nations. Gentlemen, there
is something oh earth greater than arbi
trary or despotic power. The lightning
has its power, and the whirlwind has
its poWer, and the earthquake has its
power. But there is something among
men more capable of shaking, despotic
power than lightning whirl Wind, or
earthquake [Overpowering outburst of
applause]—that is the threatened indig
nation of the whole civilized world.—
[Renewed cheers.] Gentlemen the Em
peror of Russia holds himself to be
bound by the laws of natidns from the
fact that he forms alliances, he professes
in fact to live in a civilized age and to
govern an enlightened nation. I say
that if under these circumstances he
shall perpetrate so great a *iolation of
natural law, as to Seize these Hungdri
ans and to execute them, he will stand
as a criminal and malefactor in the view
of the law. [Loud huzzas continued
for several minutes.] The whole world
will be the tribunal to try him, and he
must apperlr before it and hold up his
hands and pletid and abide its judgement.
[Rditerdted Cheers.]
The Emperor of Russia is the su
preme lawgiver in his own country and
for aught I know, the executor of the
national law, and every offence against
that is an offence against the rights of
the civilized world, [hear ! hear ! l] and
if he breaks that law in the Case of Tur
key, or itt arty other case, the whole
world has a right to call him out and to
demand punishment: [Right !]
Our rights as a nation are held under
the sanction of national law—a law
which becomes more iMportant front day
to day—a law which none who profess
to agree to it, are at liberty to violate.
Nor let him imagine, nor let any one im
agine, that mere force can subdue the
general sentiment of mankind. It is
much more likely to extend that senti
ment and to destroy that power *filch
he most desires to establish and secure.
Gentlemen, the bones of .ro; -Wick
liffe were dug out of his grave seventy
years after his death, and burnt, for his
heresy, and his ashes, were thrown upon
a river in Warwiekshire. Soine prophet
of that day said :
"The Avon to the Severn runs,
The Severn to the sea,
And Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad,
Wide as the waters be."
Gentlemen, if the blood'of Kossuth is
taken by an absolute, unqualified unjus
tified violation of natural law, what
will it appease—what will it pacify?—
It will mingle with the earth—it will
mix with the waters of the ocean—the
whole civilized world will snuff it in the
air s and it Will return with the awful
retribution on the heads of those viola
tors of national law and universal jus
tice,— [Great enthusiasm.] I cannot
say when, or in what form; but depend
upon it, that if such an act take place,
the thrones and principalities and poWer
must look out for the consequence.—
(Overpowering applause.)
And now gentlemen, let us do our part
—let us understand the position in which
we stand as the great republic of the
world at the most interesting era of the
world. Let us Consider the mission and
the destiny which Providence seems to
have designed us for, and let us so take
care of Our own conduct, that with ir
reproachable hands and with hearts void
of offence ive May stand up whenever
and whereever called upon, and with a
voice not to be disregarded, say this shall
not be done—at least not without our
protest.
CONTINUED. -The trial of the tw•o persons
lodged in the Jail of this couniy on the charge
of attempting to kidnap a free negro, has been
continued to January term.
FOREIGN NEWS,
The Steamship Cambria arrived at Boston on
the 16th inst. The news which she brings froo`
Europe is not of general importance. We con•
dense the more interesting items as follows :
The fears of a general European war
growing out of the demands of Russia
upon the Sultan of Turkey, appeared to
hate greatly subsided. It is stated in
letters from Paris of the 25th ult., that
the French Ambassador, at St. Peters:
burgh had forwarded despatches to his
Government, intimating a change in the
hostile determinations of Russia in its
disagreement with Turkey, upon the•
subject of the extradition. So far froni
forcing matters to extremities, Russia
expressed its& anxious to settle the
differences quietly, provided no warlike
interference was threatened on the part
of England. The same tuintir was pre
valent at Vienna on the 2ist inst. It is.
more than probable that the appearance
of the French and English fleets in the
vicin;ty of the Dardanelles has causes
the Autocrat of Russia to alter hill deter
minattoni •
Hon. Abaft bawrence• ' Envey Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
from the United States, obtained an au=
dience with the Queen of England nt
Windsor tastie tin the 20th ult., and des
livered bas Credentials. He was intro.:
duced to the Queen by Ltfid Palmers , :
ton.
We extract the subjoined as the most
important of Cambria 's news in regar4
to
turkey;
The change of creed of Beni, Kinely
and other Officers ? is conArined. The
following details concerning Bern, Kos
suth and Dembinski; are very interes
ting: Bem, as soon as he was inform
ed of the determination of the Sultan to
resist the demands of Russia and Aus-i
tria, declared that his country was his
first religion, the Sultan having the same
enemies and the same friends as it, he
was determined to become a subject of
the Sultan, and, to serve under his col
ors and that he would embrace Islamism ;
that on quitting Hungary his resolution
was already taken,,but that he had not
made his profession of faith sooner it
was because he did not wish to have
the appearance of yielding to fear. He
added that he did not ask anyone to fol
low his example, Nevertheless, Gen
erals Kmelz and Slaen and about thirty
officers would not separate from him,
and have made their declaration in fa
vor of Islamism.
Kossuth, who was greatly irritated
against Bern, went iiiimediately to the
Hungarian camp, and informed the men
the Porte resisted the demands of Rus
sia and Austria, and that England and
France appeared decided to assist the
Porte, and he supplicated them not to
imprint a stain on the flag of Christian
Hungary, which they hnd always served
with honor. Some Words from Kossuth
having given rise to the opinion that
Bent and his companions had yielded to
the promises 'of the Forte, a great agi
tation showed itself in the Hungarian
camp, and it was at one time feared that
a disturbance Would take place. Dem
binski has not become a AI ussleman; but
he has openly acknowledged that the
Porte had nothing whatever to do with
the abjuration of Bem.
Later Foreign News.
By the arrival of the Steamship America at
Halifax, on Thursday last, the eastern papers
furnish us with one weeks later intelligence
from Europe. We give the most important.
Flour and corn are exceedingly dull, and pri
ces a shade lower:
No new feature in the money market. Con
sols receded on Friday froM 93i to 921; United
States 6s 106 a 1085.
The French Ministry has resigned .or been dis
missed. Cause-.-disinclinatiiin to sustain the
views embodied in the President's letter rela
ting to Rome.
Great citement existed in Paris, but the
Presidents firm, apd has written a letter to the
Assembly, which the London Times character
izes as impudent, but spirited.
A tie* Cabinet had been formed, which
wholly represents the views of the President
and a majority of the Assembly.
Nothing from Russia.
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
The fiends, who are nicknamed Ru
lers in Austria, not satisfied with the
human gore they have already shed, stilt
continue their sanguinary career. S3v
eral additional murders have been add ,
ed to their already fearful acts.
Their victims who have been sttan+
gled in Pesth, or shot are all Men of
rank, and *hen it is stated the wretch
Haynan has been appointed CiVil Cad
Military Governor of Hungary, ctimes
at which humanity shudders, at once
arise before the mind at the mention of
his name.
TURKEY.
The only• allusion in the papers at
hand, of the difficulty bettbeen Turkey
and Russia, is given in a single para
graph.
- Measures have been taken by the Pot.
to for the location of the Polish and
Hungarian refugees ; the former had
been conveyed to Shmulk, while the lat
ter were lodged in good quarters at Nil
astega and Rubehick.
Kossuth and the other leaders are to
remain for a while at Widdin, until
measures were taken for their removal
and ultimate liberation.
No loss than 300 ` of the Hungarian
refugees had become converts to Islam
ism, and many of their friends are about:
to follow their example.
Sir Stratford Canning has sent Pass