THE JOURNAL.
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HUNTINGDON, PA.
Tuesday Morning, Nov. 12, 1850.
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County Poor House,
The Poor ]house Commissioners met in this
Borough on Thursday last. We invite attention
to the proceedings adopted, published in another
column of to•day's paper.
Town Hall.
Our Borough Authorities have fitted up the up
per room of the Court House for a Town Hall.—
We are pleased to see this, as a convenient place
for bolding public meetings, concerts, exhibitions,
&c., was very much needed.
COMM.—The November term of our Court
commenced yesterday. It will continue two weeks.
fir It appears that the editor of the Hollidays
burg Standard fared no better than ourself, at the
lime of the lute railroud excursion.
ar H. Jones Brooke, of Delaware county, has
been recommended for Speaker of our next Sen
ate. Mr. Brooke would make an excellent presi
ding officer, and is eminently deserving the honor.
We should be rejoiced to sec this honor conferred
en Mr. Brooke.
iEr We shall take some notice, in our next, of
the Globe's mean insinuation, that because we
cannot approve all the provisions of the Fugitive
Slave Law, hence we approve the doctrines of the
Abolition Convention at West Chester.
"Still harping on my Daughter)/
Notwithstanding the Globe clique came out third
Test is the late election for Sheriff, and all their
trickery, bargaining and double-dealing was blown
rky-high by the intelligent voters of the county,
yet they continue to whine away on the subject
with as much effrontery as if they had not been
condemned, even by their own party, as unworthy
of belief t Thy subject is not unpleasant to us,
but must bo getting rather stale with the people,
and we would not devote any further space to it,
only for the fact that the Globe editors refer to us
by name, in their ravings about the Democrats
noting for Speer, instead of going for the candidate
dictated by them.
The last Globe, for the purpose of injuring Speerl
with his party, asserts that we had to do with
bringing Speer into the field. The editors know
this to be a naked falsehood. But suppose it to
be true, then wo had two candidates, Zeigler and
Speer. Zeigler received 1433 votes, Speer 1099,
and Whittaker 676. The votes of our two candi
dates combined, therefore, beats the Globe's can
didate 1854 I By putting the contest in this
shipe, we think the Globe injures itself more than
it does Speer.
In justice to Mr. Speer, however, we will say
that the Globe's whole story about his being in
caucus here with Whigs, is false. Speer was made
the Loeofoco candidate by a committee, selected
by all the candidates on that side, and received a
certificate to that, effect. After this was done, Mr.
Lewis, of the Globe, solicited him to decline, in
favor of Whittaker. Speer refused to do so, and
hence the wrath of the Globe editor was poured
out upon him. The last Globe asks, "will Mr.
Clark deny being in caucus with Mr. Speer?"—
We answer yes, totally deny it, and defy you to
prove it. Mr. Speer had announced himself ver
bally, as a candidate, more than a week before we
knew he had any notion of running. On the day
he called at our office to get his card inserted, he
said, after handing it to us, "do not be too hard in
your paper on a plain man." Our reply was, "we
are never too hard on any one, and will treat you
fairly, but we will do everything we can, honora
bly, to elect Mr. Zeigler." Ile said "he expected
nothing else from us," but that he "intended to
give us a fight for the office, let the result be what
it might." And here ended all the caucus we
ever had with Mr. Speer on the subject. Since
the Globe has charged Mr. Speer, for the purpose
of covering up its own defection, with caucusing
with us and other Whigs, we invite the editors to
prove their assertions. So far as we aro concern
ed, we dare them to the proof that we ever encour
aged Mr. Speer to be a candidate. And here we
rem
311 r. Corwin.
A Waahington correspondent of the Baltimore
Clipper says, "Mr. Corwin has already entered
with vigor upon the preparation of his annual re
port, which in advance, I predict, will be one of
the ablest papers over issued from the Treasury
Department. Its statistical tables will be more
full than any of his predecessors, and some of them
will prove anything but acceptable to the Demo
crate, in the campaign of 1852."
Ite The Globe editors consider us in great
"danger of being shunned, and of receiving the
cold shoulder of all candid men." This is truly
very alarming! As we cannot boast of being
the descendant of "one of the first &milks," and
worst of all, "hired" ourself at one thee as a jour
neyman printer, it really may be possible that the
highly respectable and gendemcndy editors of the
Globe are authorised to say that we are to receive
the "cold shoulder" in . certain quarters. Well,
well, we will try and submit to our fate meekly,
and, ita,heretolore, do the best we can for a plebe.
svmepepple seem to think that the Globe received
she "cold shoulder" of its party at the last two an
abal elections, and from the last number of that
paper, we learn it is receiving the "cold shoulder"
of 101/k• of its tinnier supporter..
NEW YORK ELECTION.
Brilliant Whig Triumph!
The Whigs have again gloriously triumphed in
the great State of New York. The election was
held on Tuesday last. In the City, the Whigs
elected their Mayor by 5,000 majority, and carried
three out of the four members of Congress.
In the State, WASHINGTON HUNT, (Whig,) is
elected Governor, and it is thought the entire Whig
State Ticket is carried. The vote for Governor is
very close, on account of a number of Whigs in
the city voting against the Whig candidate. The
Whigs have elected 19 members of Congress, Lo
, cofocos 14, Free Soil 1.
The Whigs have carried a majority of THIRTY
SIX on joint ballot, in the Legislature-34 in the
House, and two in the Senate. This secures ti
Whig gain of a U. S. Senator from that State.—
All in all, the Whigs of New York have done up
their work gloriously. From the difficultieswhich
occurred in the Whig ranks at the time of the State
Convention to nominate candidates, the Locus
were sure of success, but the result has sadly dis
appointed them.
Wisconsin.
This State has elected one Loco Coco and two
Free Soilers to the next Congress.
Michigan.
The Whigs of Michigan have accomplished won
ders. They have, according to the latest accounts,
elected two Congressmen certainly, with a fair
prospect of the success of the third. Penniman
has defeated Bud in the first Astrid by 1000 ma
jority. Jos. R. Williams is elected in the second
district by a majority equally large, and Conger
has carried Genesee county, in the third district,
the county in which his opponent lives, by 600
majority, and is probably also elected. No ac
counts have yet reached us as to the political com
plexion of the Legislature. Upon it will devolve
the election of a U. S. Senator, in place of Gen.
Cass, whose term expires the 4th of March next.
Illinois Election.
The returns from this Slaw, thus lhr, show a
great Whig gain. Molone, the regular Locofoeo
nominee, pledged to the Repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Law, succeeds John Wentworth, Locofoco,
in the fourth Congressional district. In the fifth
district, Mr. Browning, the regular Whig candi
date, succeeds W. A. Richardson, Loco. E. D.
Baker, Whig, in the sixth district, is succeeded
by Mr. Campbell, pledged to Repeal. Mr. Yates,
Whig, succeeds T. L. Harris, Loco, in the seventh
district. The returns from Coles county show a
majority of 275 for Reaves, for Congress. 'Fhe
twenty-five Legislative districts heard from show
a great gain for the Whigs.
New Jersey Election.
New Jersey has gone bad enough. The same
apathy that prevailed among the Whigs in this
State, seems to have done the work there. The
Locos have elected their Governor, four out of the
five Congressmen, and both branches of the Le
gislature. That snakes New Jersey look Use e
nough. This result will secure a Locofoco U. S.
Senator in the place of Mr. Dayton. Jersey will
never do so again.
Whining.
The editor of the Globe whines out in his last
paper, that the editor of the Journal, and others,
are making every effort to drive the Democrats
from the support of the Globe. You must be in
bad odor with your party, neighbor, if it is in our
power to drive the Democrats from your support.
But you know your charge against us ain't true.
We never attempted to take a subscriber from you
since your connection with the paper. If you are
losing your support we are sorry for it. It utlbrds
us no pleasure to hear that any one, engaged in a
legitimate business, is declining in patronage.—
But you should not belabor us for it, when it is
possibly your own conduct that is affecting you
thus. Yost talk about our "political character 'be
ing known to the citizens of this county." Did it
ever occur to you that the fact of your political
character being known and appreciated throughout
the county, has something to do with the curtail
ment of your list of subscribers 7 Think of this.
Webster's Speeeßat Boston.
At the recent dinner given by sonic of the Bos
ton merchants, in honor of the Turkish Envoy,
Amin Boy, the following toast was preposcd by
Mr. Sturgess:—"The health of the powerful and
fearless defender of the Constitution. The whole
people enjoy the results of his public services."
Mr. Webster replied with great eloquence and
earnestness. He began by saying, "I am a Union
roan; and out and out Union than; but it would
be bud taste in me on an occasion like this, when
there arc so many topics of interest, to speak of
political matters only." Mn theu alluded to the
mission of the distinguished Turk, and said,—
"He comes among us as the guest of the United
States ; nut as the guest of a fraction but the Uid
ted,—not us the guest of a dissected and broken
country, but as the guest of the United States of
America--States spreading over a vast territory,
of various products and climates, and of interests
and institutions; yet, thank Ocid they are all Uni
ted States. It is in the capacity of united citizens
of united states that we are now assembled to wel
come to our festivity a distinguished rnan from a
distinguished country; and it is in the capacity of
united Americans that we can appear respectable.
Others may speculate, theorise, and go crazy, if
they please, in arguing to the contrary, said Mr.
Webster, "but I say it is only us a united people
we ever can be prosperous at home or respecta
ble abroad." An institution, not of our creating,
must nut disturb tile harmony of these happy states.
Crazy and mischevious men may attempt it, but
they soon will find their efforts restrained. The
people of this country are the people of our coun
try, said Mr. Webster, and they are anxious to
preserve the Union, "however bounded, and wash
ed by whatever waters." Local strifes are tempo
rary—the Union is perpetual. "I speak with em
phasis," said he, "because I wish to give utterance
to a heart that knows nu secret on the question of
the harmony of the great family of states. I was
born to the Union, and I shall stand by it."
eir The assistaut Marshal of tit. Lawrence co.
N. Y., while taking the census, found a venerable
negress, one hundred and fourteen years of age.—
She is one of the slaves emancipated by the law
of Connecticut abolishing slavery.
11. 8. Senator.
Two weeks ago, a writer in the Hollidagsburg
Register, argued at some length in favor of the po
licy of the Whigs in the next Legislature joining
the friends of SIMON CAMERON, and electing him
to the U. S. Senate. We designed, on readingthe
article, to reply to it, but find ourself saved the
trouble by the Pittsburg American. The Ameri
can, speaking of Cameron, says :—.{.We do not
think that a more corrupt and venal man is to be
found in political life. There is nothing he will
not sell and bargain for, and his whole life is an
open volume to this effect. What bare the Whigs
to gain by a connection with such a man? It is
somewhat impudently averred by the writer, that
such support front the Whigs for this man Cam
eron, would he analogous to the Whig support
given to Judge Myers! Than this, nothing can
be more untrue. Besides the gulf-wide difference
in the characters of the two men, Judge Myers
has been a Whig, and acted with the Whigs ever
since the posiage of the Tariff of 1846. In his
district he was the candidate of the Whig party,
and in Armstrong and Indiana polled only the
usual Whig strength of each. If he polled more
in Clarion, it is attributable to two causes—that
they wore opposed to the ruinous measures of that
tariff and the policy of its supporters—and their
confidence in the honesty and integrity of one whom
they had known long, and knew they could trust.
Is there any body of people can be named who
have the same confidence in Simon Cameron, who
has ever acted, and is still acting with the Locofo
co party? There cannot be found one single man
with any reputation to lose, who will avow such
confidence. The writer says that Cameron is firm
for the tariff. We say that his firmness goes no
further than his interests—that he is for or against
the tariff as his interest inclines. Outwardly, in
the Senate, he was for the tariff, because he knew
that his next election depended on the votes of the
Whigs. He knew that even his own party regard
ed him as too open in his ways of corruption, to
justify their adoption of hint, except such a portion
as he could buy, and outwardly he was a tariff
man. But at the same time that he so furiously
fought the tariff bottle in the Senate, he was part
owner of the Union, which was devoted, with a
greater Locofoco influence, against it, and went,
for the highest latitude of Free Trade. These two
tariff games, Simon Cameron was playing at one
and the same time,tmd he had sufficient address to
make his profit out of both. Knowing him, as his
volume of life displays him, any Whig who would
vote or propose to vote for him, must have made
up his mind as to the amount of reward which is
to follow such servility of mind and treachery to
his trust.
There is but one fair and honorable course for
the Whig members to pursue. To choose a man
of their own party—one whom they can cheerfully,
if not proudly rally upon—dud the party is not
without such men—and to him give their undivid
ed votes, and leave Simon Cameron to the Loco
Focus, if they choose to elect him, but let no Whig
have part in the infamy of such a choice."
The President & the Fugitive Hill.
A story having appeared in the papers to the ef
fect that the President had ordered certain troops
to Boston in consequence of information received
from the U. S. Marshal, the Washington Republic
of a late date says :—"lt is not true that any com
munication has been made to the President by the
U. S. Marshal in Boston, or by any other Marshal,
in relation to any actual or apprehended obstruc
tion to the laws; the cause assigned for the alleged
orders of the President. It is not true that the
President has issued any orders with regard to the
'concentration of any force in Boston harbor, or
anywhere else, with reference to any such infor
mation or apprehension as is above suggested ;
the President has received no connnunication from
any Marshal, and has no information that leads
him to believe that any peculiar disposition of the
military force will be rendered necessary for the
execution of the laws.
"If the exigency should arise making it the duty
of the President to resort to the means vested in
him by the Constitution and the laws, to enforce
their due execution, there is no doubt that his duty
will be promptly and prudently discharged. We
have entire fidth, however, in the law-abiding and
conservative dispostion of the American people,
and have no reason to believe that any forcible re
sistance will be offered to the execution of the laws."
Frazer and Cameron.
It is generally' rumored in political circles that
Col. Frazer and Gen. Canna:von have formed a
treaty for the purpose of advancing their respective
interests:—the one seeking the U. S. Senate, nod
the ,ther the Gubernatorial chair.
Some confirmation of this alleged 'holy alliance'
is found in the Lancaster futelligencer, in a letter
front John W. Forney, replying to an article in the
Lancasterian, fit which Mr. F. says:—
"The direction of Simon Cameron's movement
in Dauphin, in having a resolution in thvor ofßig
ler laid upon the table, ut a County Convention,
and the recent intrigue against him in Lancaster
county, show that Col. Bigler's enemies understand
each other. if any harther proof of this were need
ed, the studied silence of the Loacosterion for
months, on the Cameron movement, would he suf
ficient. One of the consequences of the opposition
to Mr. Buchanan, in Lattbaster, seems to be a fra
ternization between Cameron himself, and the men
who have heretotbre followed hint with unreason
ing bitterness."
More Musical Enthusiasm.
PAnont, the celebrated singer, arrived at New
York, from Europe, oa Sunday evening, and a
scene something like Jenny Lind's reception in
that excitable city, ensued. The Herald says the
Union Place Hotel was surrounded by thousands
of persons. Shouts rent the air, and finally, with
much surprise at the enthusiasm, Parodi, accom
panied by her brother, and a lady companion, ap
peared at the window. After many welcomes from
the crowd, she retired, but was called out sevenor
eight times before the enthusiasm could be redu
ced to anything like proper bounds. The Ileruld
says she is a tall, elegantly formed, majestic young
lady, with beautiful blue eyes, and black hair.—
The musical fever is now at its height. It will be
Lind and Parodi fur the rest of the season.
s r Bishop Hughes has been elevated to the
dignity of an Archbishop by the Pope, who, at tho
request of the late Provincial Council of Baltimore,
has crested the Sec of New York into an Arch
episcopal See, with the Sees of Boston, Hanford,
Albany and Buffalo, as Suffragan Sees.
AWFUL STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT.
[From the Philadelphia News of Saturday.]
_ _
It is seldom that we are called on to record
steamboat disasters, as happening in this section
of country particularly on the Delaware river.—
The calamity which we are now about to give the
particulars of, is a most fearful oneindeed, view it
in whatever aspect we may. The time at which it
occurred, when darkness was upon the waters,She
fact that a number of the unfortunates on hoard
were females, and several of them small children,
who had retired for the night, and were aroused
from their slumbers, only to meet a terrible death
makes the disaster sickening to contemplate. The
particulars as we are able to gather from a passen
ger, Mr. T. S. Robinson, of this city, are as fol
lows. The propeller steamer Telegraph, Captain
Claypoole, of the Errickson Lino, left the wharf,
above Chestnut street, at three o'clock, on Thurs
day afternoon for Baltimore, having on board
about fifty persons inclusive ofi the officers, crew
and servants. On the way down the river after
she had gone some distance, it seas observed that
there was considerable steam on but not enough
to create alarm among the passengers. Every
thing worked well until the boat got opposite New
Castle, when the explosion took place. The report
was very loud, making a noise like the discharge
of a piece of ordinance, and causing the hull of the
boat to tremble in a frightful manner. In a mo
ment the steam tilled the cabin, covering the sleep
ers like a dense cloud.
It is presumed that some of them died with
scarcely a struggle, others were aroused, and the
screams of the women and children, and the
groans of the men, made it most terrifying to
those who had escaped, with little or no injury.
One of the passengers, named Keyser, who was at
the bow of the boat, seized a rope, and lowered
himself into the water, but hoisted himself back a
gain is a few minutes. The extent of the calam
ity could not be ascertained until the smoke had
cleared way. Then Mr. Robinson making hii
way into the cabin, a most horrible sight presen
ted itself. Some were lying in the agonies of
death, others had already expired, and not a few
were raving mad with pain, moving to and fro,
and shouting for relief. Its one birth lay four inter
esting children, two boys and two girls, all dead,
presenting the most horrible sight imaginable,
being literally boiled to death. The mother of
these innocents, named Alice Green, who was ly
ing beside theta was also shockingly scalded, so
much so that her life is despaired of. The Cap
tain o 6 the boat, whose hands and feet are badly
burned went ashore at New Castle, but left every
thing on board that was calculated to relieve the
sufferers, in the hands of those aisle to preform
that office. The news of the calamity was soots
couveyed to Wilmington, and several of the phy
sicians of that place hastened to the assistance of
the wounded. The citizens and the physicians of
New Castle were in sending all the aid in their
power. Several of the unfortunates laid in great
agony until yesterday morning, after the boat had
been towed to this city, and then breathed their
lust.
The number of Killed and wounded has not been
correctly ascertained.
The explosion is attributed to various causes. In
consequence of the Oregon propeller having pas
sed the Telegraph but a short time before the ex
plosion, it is believed that Capt. Claypole with the
view to prevent this had kept up tow great it head
of steam. The officers who survive, though, de
clare that the boat was going at the ordinary rate.
The portion of the boiler that exploded was the in
ner part of the steam-drum. This collapsed, and
the vent upwards being thereby partly closed, the
main escape of the stems was downwards. It
would be manlibstly improper at this time to ex
press an opinion as to the cause of the disaster.—
The authorities will no doubt make a full investi
gation, as they should, into the origin of it, not only
to ascertain who was in fault, if any, but to pre
vent such calamities in the future.
The Pittsburg Mayor.
This officer, who, it will be reccolleeted, was
elected to the Mayorality of Pittsburg while in
prison, seems to be cutting up some strange didoes
in his official position. We take the following no
tice of some of his proceedings from an exchange
paper:
On Wednesday oflast week, this crazy function
ary sent his officers to arrest John Barton, Esq.,
a member of the Pittsburg bar, for advertising his
client, who had gone the Mayor's bail in several
cases where lie had been bound over fbr breaking
the peace, to forfeit his recognizance, and deliver
up the Mayor. The lawyer defied the officers,
and they feared to arrest him lest they should ren
der themselves liable to legal consequences.
Burton afterwards west to the Mayor's office,
when his honor, who was not in a very fit condi
tion to try any one, ordered film to be taken to the
cells below. His officers being afraid to comply
with his demand, the Mayor drew a pistol and pre
tented it to Mr. B. The pistol was taken from
Lim, and he drew another one, cocking it, which
was also taken from him. lie then became per
fectly infuriated, foaming at the mouth; and Mr.
Barton, who had drawn a knife to defend himself,
was hustled into the bark yard, his friends resis
ting, us much us possible, the individuals who act
us Barker's officers. It was then found that the
person who had the keys of the cells, having be
come alarmed, had ran away, together with some
others, and Mr. B. was called into the back room
of the office, where the Mayor was leaning on the
table, froth issuing from his mouth.
Mr. Barker's son then discharged him from cus
tody till four o'clock that afternoon, (it was then
long past four) and he has not since been moles
ted.
Great Artesian Wen,
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A Paris letter in the National Intelligeneer, at
Washington, says:
"The famous Artesian well at Kissengen, in Ba
varia, commenced eighteen years ago, and which
it is feared would have to be abandoned as a fail
ure, has just given Me most satisfactory results.—
This town is located in a saline valley, nine hun
dred and eighty-four feet above the level of the
Baltic sea. Last Juue the boring had reached a
depth of eighteen hundred and thirty-seveu feet,
and several layers of salt, separated by strata of
acid gas, followed again by granito, was found.—
Finally, on the lath ult., at a depth of two thou
sand and sixty-seven Ibet, perseverence was re
warded by complete success. A violent explosion
burst away the scaffolding, built to thcilitate ope
rations, and a column of water four and a half in
ches iu diameter, spouted forth to the height of 98
feet above the surface. The water—clear as crys
tal—is of a temperature of sixty-six, Fahrenheit,
and is abundantly charged with salt. It is calcu
lated
that the annual product will be upwards of,
6,600,000 lbs., per annum, increasing the royare
venues by 300.000 florins, after deducting expenses.
Very Convenient,
We observe in late English papers, theta medi
cal gentleman has adopted a very excellent plan
for answering night culls, without getting out of
bed. Beneath his hull door is the mouth-piece of
a gotta perch tube, which reaches to his bed-side.
When a cull is made, he is enabled by the tube to
hold a conversation with the party, whoever he
may be, and get up and dress himself, or remain
snug in the blankets, as the case may warrant.—
Our M. D's should give the above a thought.
eir There has been another arrival from Cali
fornia, bringing a considerable amount of dust.—
The logs occasioned by the late fire at Sun Fran
cisco, is estimated at a million of dollars.
Cr The Gettysburgpapers announce the death
ofJobn Faheustock, Treasurer of Adams county,
I to which aloe he had recently been elected.
The Pope in England.
The recent bull of Pope Plus Ninth, establidiftig
the archiepiscopal see of Westminster, and twelve
other dioceses in England, has created considera
ble excitement among the Protestants of that coun
try. The press generally have taken up the sub
ject, and some of the more bigoted papers stigma
tize the• Pope in the most unmeasured: terms. The
movement of His Holiness is looked upon, not
merely as one designed for religious proselytism,
but it is even called "an assault on the constitu
tion of England, an insult to the crown and a trea
sonable attack on the temporal liberties" of the
community. The days of Charles I. and James
H. are recalled and hints given that the terrible
religious excitements of the 17th and 18th centu
ries may be revived, and England once more ho
disturbed by the most violent of all popular corn
motions—that arising out of religious differences.
We have no Nth in these' sinister auguries, and
it is not likely that any intelligent Englishmen look
forward to any popular disturbances of the kind
referred ta. Whatever may be the designs of the
Pope, and however much his new bishops may las
bor in the cause to whiali . they aro devoted we.
trust the enlightenment and liberality of this age
are so fiir in advance of those of the last century,
that the English populace may never be aroused
to such a pitch es to rally under the old cry of "No
Popery" and commit murder, arson and other out
rages, in a religious cause. An english mob is
the most brutal, intemperate and reckless of all
mobs, and, in past days, it has shown its bloodiest
temper when it thought the religious liberties of
England were assailed. The late act of the Pope
might, perhaps, have aroused this temper, fifty
years ago, but at the present day it is not to be
expected. However, the once much lauded Pius
Ninth is coming it, for a share of the heartiest
abuse ever bestowed on any one by the English
public.—Lecning Bulletin.
Balloon Excitement in Paris.
A late Paris letter says :—" Ascensions are still
much in vogue. Monsieur Poitevin has not yet
ascended to the sky astride of an ostrich; but that
event will yet happen. Meanwhile, to avoid
mo
notony, he gets his wife to take his place, or rath
er, lie puts Madame Poitevin on horseback, and
takes his seat in the parachute. It was on the 26th
of September, that this lady made her first eques
trian. ascension. She wore a riding dress, and sea
ted herself on her charming little white mare, sur
' named L'Arienne. The wind blew from the south
west; and the serial equipage was therefore carried
in a northeasterly direction—that is to say, from
St.. Denis. The balloon was kept for some time
at a height of 2,500 to 3,000 metres, in order that
it might remain longer in view of the spoctators.
After an ascension which lasted one hour the icro
cants descended at the Crew of St. Lou, between
Bouquevul and Villiers-le-Bel, canton of Ecouen,
in the Department of Seineet-Oise, without the
slightest accident, when Mons. Lenard, the pro
prietor of Villiers-le-Bel, tendered them the•most
cordial hospitality. Next morning, Monsieur and
Madame Poitevin returned to l'aris."
ANOTHER INVENTIOL—An Invention, called
the Revolving Railroad Car, by Mr. Lawrence
Myers, just exhibited upon the Reading Railway,
is said to possess for coal or freight ears many
advantages over those now in use, to wit :--h
dispenses with springs and axles, requires but
little oil or grease to run it; is less liable to break
down, and is capable of bringing to market twice
as much coal at half the expense. If it realise ali
these it is truly an improvement.—[ Germantown
Telegraph.
Magnificent Bequest.
We learn thro' a telegraphic communication to
the Bev. Wm. McLain, Secretary of the American
Colonization Society, that Mr. Jour; Mello:s
-oon of New Orleans, (whose death we men
tioned in yesterday's paper) has bequeathed to
the Colonization society "one eighth of the net rev
enues of his estate during forte years, but not to
exceed twenty-five thousand tiollars a year." It
is added that "the will is complicated and its va
lidity doubtful."
Mr. MeDonogh was a native of Baltimore. He
was a merchant and planter, and settled in New
Orleans while Louisiana was a colony of Spain.
During some forty years of successful business ho
amassed en immense fortune, estimated at seve
ral millions of dollars. Like all men who have
become rich by industry, from small beginnings,
he was frugal, exact, and what the world calls
parsimonious; but with these qualities he blended
the apparently contradictory one of liberality ; for
he subscribed munificently* to the benevolent insti
tutions of the country. He employed a clergyman
for regular religious services for his numerous
slaves, to nU of whom he gave souse education,
and at one time liberated and sent to Liberia eighty
five of them, making ample provisiou for their
transportation and settlement. Yet this mon was
announced in the telegraphic note which we pub
lished
yesterday "as a miser."—Nat. fat.
Canada and the Colored Fugitives.
Notwithstanding the sympathy manifested by
the Canadian editors at the passage of the fugitive
slave law, they appear to be unwilling that the run
away slaves should become their neighbors. Es
pecially is this the case on the border line of Mich
igan and the western district of Canada. The last
number of the Amlierstburg Courier says
" We have heels litvored for the last four or five
days by an inthcx of the colored population from
the States, whose advent, thought honorable to
the province as a laud of liberty, could Ice very
beneficially dispensed by the peaceable inhabitants
of this frontier. On this side sable clouds of im
migrants are disembarked thorn every bout that
stops, and between one and two hundred have al
ready arrived at this port. A like rapid influx
continues, at all point.Salong the frontier as list as
heard from; and if some action be not taken by
the Legislature in the matter, this part of the prov
ince must soon be overwhelmed by our colored
brethren. When some years ago. the poor inhab
itants of Great Britain and Ireland flocked over to
this province too rapidly, our liberal Government
imposed a poll tax upon nil persons landing on our
shores from the other side of the Atlantic. Much
more neecessary is such a provision to prevent our
being flooded by a black population. Let us see
if our rulers will impose it."
riar Amin Bey, the Turkish Minister, is enga
ged in seeing the sights in Massachusetts. lie
expresses great admiration of the ingenuity of the
Yankees, and is surprised at their wonderful pro
gress in the art of manufacturing. Be will no
doubt have many strange things to tell his coun
trymen when he returns to the land of his moslem.
ifier It you have a poor neighbor, send him a
barrel of flour or a load of wood. There is a glo
rious satistkerion in giving of one's abundance to
the poor, that rich men have but to taste of to make
a constant practice of it.
For Me iii - ollinbdon Journal.
"Let the Galled Jade Wince 1*
Mn. EDITOR am not ambitious to measure
weapons, in a personal controversy, with a man
who has no character to lose—an empty-headed
blackguard, who has not the ability to write three
consecutive lines correctly—and who accidentally
occupies a position for which he is unfitted both by
nature and education. Unable to meet the argu
ments, or refute the incontrovertible facts which
laid hare his duplicity, trickery and double-deal
ing, coward-like, he skulks from an open and man
! ly contest, and resorts to the blackguard's weapon,
abuse and slander ! To gratify the revengeful feel
, ings of his own black heart, assassin -like, he at
tacks private character, and with his slanderous
pen seeks to poison the public mind. Such a
pusillanimous, empty-headed, foul-tongued slen
derer, is a stench in the nostrils of a moral and re •
apectable community. Ile is beneath the contempt
of every honorable man-1 say beneath. contempt—
for contempt, although it has the power of descend
ing, can never reacts hint—he dwells far, far below
its dill; down, down in the lowermost depths of
the blackened coal-pit of moral and political degra
dation. lais character is known, however, hero
and elsewhere, and his slander can do no harm.—
Indeed Isis abuse is preferable to Isis praise—for
Lacon tells us that "abuse is• the greatest benefit
a rogue eau confer." Like a• stingiest, serpent he
crawls along anrt hisses ; deprived• of 'The-power to
inflict a single wound
If the Globe editor (!)' would behold a daguerreo
type likeness of "a man destitute of a disposition
to tell the truth when a lie would suit his purpose
better""a public defamer of every man differing,
with him in pulities"—"a M., who, for a mice,
will defame his neighbors"—l say, if he desires to
see the correct likeness of such a character, he has ,
only to consult his mirrror
"0, wad some power the giftie gie him,
To see himser as others see him."
I repeat, Mr. Editor, that I have no desire to
engage in a personal controversy with the jibbering
idiot who pompously styles himself "Editor of tl.e.
Globe." But if forced to do so, I am fully pre-.
pared—armed at all points wills facts—for "thrice
is he armed who has his quarrel just." It I tun
to be dragged into a personal controversy with such
a miserable apology for a man, I have only to say,
"Let the galled jade wince!"
Respectfully yours, &c.
Wa,. COULTER.
Preservation of Apples.
- -
A correspondent gives the following account of
the most extraordinary preservation of apples we
reccollect iti.have seem Ile says :
" I send you. an apple which I bought in the fall
of 1848, of my neighbor. Among others, it was
put into my cellar, in open casks; and about the
first ofJanuary, 1849, I overhauled them and put
three barrels away, packed in plaster of Paris—
first a layer of plaster and a layer of apples, and•
so alternately till the barrels were filled. They
were then headed up, and stood till the early part
of the summer when I overhauled and assorted
them and put them in a box in layers of dry oak
saw dust. The box had a lock and key, and has
been locked up, only when we got apples out to
nse.
We continued using out of the box, till some
time after early apples were ripe, and I supposed
they were all used out, but at a town meeting, the
Ilth of March, 1850 [it being stormy] I told my
men to assort toy apples, and fill that box again
with saw dust and apples. Upon unlocking the
box and taking the saw dust out; to our surprise
there were three apples intim box, and all of them,
perfectly sound. The apple I send you having been,
kept in a warns room, has commenced, as you per
ceive to rot. The above is submitted respectfully
fur the benefit of all lovers of good apples.
Remarkable Preservation.
An officer of our Navy on his voyage to China,
writing lately to his friend in Baltimore, relates
the following singular occun•ence:
"A singular and (to the party concerned, at
least) highly interesting circumstance occurred.
about the time we were oil the Cape of Good:
Hope. From the time that we reached the cooler
latitudes of that region we were constantly sur
rounded by birds, and sometimes in great num
bers, whose exquisitely graceful movements on
the wing was a constant some° of admiration to
us all. one morning, when even a greater num
ber than usual, including several very large alba
trosses, were liillowing the ship, the startling cry
was heard "man overboard," and it proved to ho
an unlucky Irishman, who had gone to the fore
part of the vessel to tow a dirty swab overboard,
and, Paddy like, had dropped hithself into the
water insead of the swab. IVe were soon hove
to, and a boat lowered to go in search of the man,
for whom they looked in vain, until they rowed,
as a lust hope, to the spot rottnd which all the
birds were suddenly observed to cluster, where
they Mtuid the poor fellow in a state of insensibil
ity and exhaustion. Around hint the birds were
hovering with discordant screams, and strange to
relate, two great albatrosses had seized him by
his clothes, thus keeping him from sinking, whilst
several were picking. at his head and Mee l When
the boat reached him be was unconscious, and
hail ceased all exertions, so that he doubtless
owed his life to these birds. The patent life
buoys, us is usually the ease, did not reach the
water, although the port-fires burned and smoked
away furiously.
Wheat Drills.
We observe in passing through Chester and
Lancaster counties, that the thrillers have very ex
tensively used the drill in putting in their wheat.
The fields which have been drilled are very pretty.
We are hardly sufficiently practiced hi the science
of flaming to give on opinion of the system. The
New York State Agricultual Society claims deci
ded advantages for the drill culture, as follows :
In the first place, 5 peeks Milled is considered by
it equal to two bushels WWII broadcast. 2d.
That it saves labor, as ono man can put in from
10 to 15 acres in a day. ad. That wheat thus
put in is not so liable to be winter killed, nor sub
ject to rust, because light and heat are admitted
between the rows, which operates as a preven
tion—that a more vigerous growth is attained,
and consequently a greater yield in the crop.
From these recommendations, we would con
older the matter eminently worthy the considera
tion of our &niters.
The Michigan Farmer testifies "that two por
tions of a wheat field were sown at the same time,
one with a drill, the other broad -cast; the drilled
portion presented u tar more vigorous and luxu
riant appearance, and although the wheat lout not
been cut, the difference was estimated at one
third increase. The broadcast portion consumed
a bushel and half per acre; the drilled, but half to
bushel."—Mtge. Record.
THE CAPITOL TO BE LIGHTED wrrn GAIL—
Since the introduction of Gus into Harrisburg, it
has been determined to light the Capitol with that
article. With this view the Auditor General has
advertised for Proposals for fitting up the Halls of
the Senate and House of Representatives, together
with all the Executive buildings with Gas Fix
htres.