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Wednesday, November 15,1804,
WILLIAM BREWSTER, Editor.
CIRCULATION 1000.
or V. R. PALMER. the American Vewspe
per Agent. le inc ONLie ATTHORIZED AGENT thr
Chia piper In the chic. of Botdon New-York unit
Philndelphie, cells dilly. empowered to hike ad-
Tertlqemcnte and enhiertpdons nt the rites ns ro•
quired hr nq. Big receipt' will he regarded ns
pnomt•nts. ths others ore—BonToN, Senility's
Building; N. YORE. Tribune Buildings. PHILA
DELPHIA, N. W. corner of Third and Chestnut
street.,
Agents fOr the Journstl.
Tho following persons we have appointed Agent'
for the HuNTINGUON JOURNAL, wt/ arc author
ised to receive and receipt fin money paid on sub
scription. and to take the names of new subscri
bers at our published prices.
We do this for the convenience of rimr subscri
bers living at a distance from Huntingdon.
4t
~: nit W. Tuomrsom, Esq., Hollidaysbnrg,
- ' MUM COEN, East Barre,
Ogoz W. CORNELIUS, C,4 mweli township.
1116112 Y Henson, Cloy township.
DAVID Emma. Cromwell township.
Dr..l. P. Asncom, Penn township,
J. WAREHAM MATTERN. Franklin township,
Sltmc EL STErper, Jackson township,
ROBUST IVBURNEY, g' "
Col. JNO. C. WATSON. WWl , ' township,
Mounts BROWN. Springfield township,
Wm. iluccutssom, Esq., Werriorsmark tp.,
3Ames Mc Doasz.n. Brody township,
OEORGE W. Witrrrtmett. Petersburg,
HENRY Nser, West Barrer,
JOHN BALSBACH. WAtermtreet,
Maj. CHARLES MICKLEY. Tod township,
A. M. BLAIR, Dublin township,
Gannon WILSON. Esq., Tell township,
JAMES CLARK, Birmingham.
NATHANIEL LYTLE, Esq., Spruco Creek.
Maj. W. Moose, Alexandria.
B. F. WALLACE, Union Furnace.
SIMEON WRICHT, Esq., Union township. i
DAVID CLARKSON, Esq.. Cass township. 1
Prment. WIGTON, Esq., Frankliy township.
DAVID PARKER, Esq., Wnrriorsmatk.
DAVID AVRANDT, Esq., Todd township.
W 4NTED,
A few loads of WOOD at the Journal Office.
New Advertisements.
Mr. JAMES DYSART, offers 190 acres of
limestone land for sale, situate in Franklin
township, Huntingdon county,
See Admr's. Notice.
m 2• Some of our subscribers whose year
has terminated, and who do not wish to take
the Journal for a longer, time, return the paper
without mentioning the post office from which
they send it ; and a few days ago one was re
turned with the subscribers name torn off, and
no post mark to tell whence it came. The
people who give notice of discontinuance in
this manner, hate a strange idea - to think we
can decipher where they hail from without
some marks on them.
Hereafter n-e will not take any Journal from
the Post Office that has been returned. If
a subscriber should wish to discontinue his
paper, he must inform no by letter, so that we
will be able to tell whose paper to discontinue.
N unpaid letter will be lifted.
MIS,..We have received the United Sinks'
_Magazine for October, .d it is ee or
;dagAziiies bqing' pul,ii6lied at the
low rate of one dollar per annum.
The engravings are an equestrian Statute
Peter the Great, in Admiralty square, St. Pe
tersburg; Bulpin's great Paris Mantilla Em
porium Interior of Singer & Cu's. Sewing
Machine Manufactory. It also contains the
portrait of Gen. Belisarius, Christopher Co.
lambus, and Sebastian Cabot, with their biog
raphies ; as well as a large portion of literamre,
&c. Published by J. M. Emerson & Co., I, 3,
5 and 7, Spruce St., New York.
Farewell Sermon.
The Rev. Lownss P. 'Lewes, late pastor
of the Presbyterian Congregation, preached
Lis farewell sermon in the Methodist Church in
this place. on last Sunday night. It was a
truly solemn and impressive discourse, founded
on Ist Thess. 5,19—" Quench not the Spirit."
That capacious edifice was perhaps never
more crowded than on the above occasion.-
The officers and members of the Methodist
Church deserve praise for the care and atten
tion with which they provided additional seats
for the accommodation of those in attendance.
Huntingdon Guards.
By invitation the Huntingdon Guards re.
paired to Altoona on Friday of last week, for
the purpose of having a general parade. The
hospitality of the Altoonians, was very kindly
shown, by giving the companies an excellent
free dinner. It is said they had a pleasant
time of it.
The Holders of Jones' Gift Tickets
Will be glad to learn that this great enterprise
has at last been consumated. The committee'
have distributed the gifts by means of uniform
envelopes, containing orders tiw the prizes.—
These envelopes have been thoroughly mingled
together, and numbered by the Committee.—
Every person holding tickets is requested to
send them in immediately, accompanied by a
full sized prepaid envelope, containing their
address in full, in which will be forwarded their
"drawn envelope," detailing their prize and
the means of getting it. Letters should be
addressed as formerly, to "The Committee of
Jones' Gift Enterprise, New York," prepaid
invariably 1
Now is the exciting moment—who has got
the $40,000 Pantoscope? The $23,000 farm ?
The $12,000 houses? The Carriage, Pianos,
ic., Ise.? Who has made a fortune? • A lid
who has drawn a book? is the exciting question.
Beep cool, friends—all must not expect to be
the lucky ones—send in your tickets—and a
few days will determine.
There is still remaining unsold in the hands
of the ••Cummittee," a few hundred tickets.
which, with their corresponding "drawn envel
opes" will be sold to any parsons applying im
mediately, at the following rates : eleven tick.
eth for $lO, twenty-five for $2O, fifty for $4Ol
and so on in proportion. Here is a rare chance
fur investment, and immediate arm If any
money is received altar these 'drawn envelopes'
Ara all sold, it will be refunded with a present
of the hook of California Adventures. Who
ohall be the lucky one? Who gets the farm
IN&Leavenworth is already talked of as tbe
future capital of Kaneuo.
Wreck of the Steamer Yankee Blade.
7 . i:t - 7/1 end .Uurder
by Na Firemen.
Purser Vought. late of the Yankee Blade,
furnishes the following report:
STEAMBUIPLisa, AT SEA.OOL 8.
The Indepedent Steamship Yankee Blade,
Henry Randall, Cummunder, sailed from San
Francisco, Sept. 30th, at 4 Y. M., with 800 pas•
setigers and $15;1,000 in epecie. . Passed the
Heads at it P. 31. At nine o'clock the eaten
evening, passed a Meunier an the starboard
Imam. Oct. let, at 3/ P. M., beitig encompass•
ed in a dense fog, steering S. 1.1 by Si, and
s.,pposing ourselves at least ten miles from
shore, we struck on dreef of rocks off Point
Arguilla, übunt Li miles above Point Concep•
titan un which the ship run up upwrrds of 60 !
feet, while her stern swung in ft fathoms of
water, which in less than 25 ininutee sunk '
below the piomeinale ilcc4.but no firmly was her
iorward part impeded iirthe rocks that up to
the time I leti the ship, abont 4 P. N1.,0n the
2d, she had not receded au inch. As sou. as
we discovered to be in danger, the officers of
the deck launched, utunued - the bouts, andpro
ceeded at once - to get the ladies and paeseit
gems ashore. And here it is jug to observe that
approbation is due lb Captain Randall, fur his
promptuese in going ashore to find a proper
place to laud his passengers; in taking ch.trge
tit one of the boots himself, and beaching it sac
cesfully,(when that ut the first officers was strati
ded)tur the serious manner in which ho urged
the melt on shore to retell, with the boats to
the wreck when they displayed every desire to
desert him; and fur sending his son, henry
Randall, Jr., to supply his place on the ~reek,
in which capacity he (Henry) acquitted him
self in a testifier tar beyond his yearn, inspiring
all hearts with hope, and preserving us much
order us could be übtained under such exciting
circumstances.
While the boats were being lowered the chief
steward, store keeper and some awn went
below and broke out a large quantity of pools.
ions, which were sent to the upper forward
deck. The Purser prepared to save the ship's
papers and valuables in his possession belong-
to to passengers, which have all been cutely
delivered to their owuers. But On going below
miates utter the ship struck, he found the
specie covered with five wet of touter, and so
rapidly was . she filling that the water ruse in the
stern six inches per minute—cunsequently no
one dared to descend to the vault, which •he
lucked mid returned to the deck to save what
he could of the Express mutter. He succeed
ed in getting forward and in company with
some stout hearts watched . by it all night.
While desperadoes were ranging and pillaging
the ship, and it was reported although nut sup
posed to he true, that a man had been murder
ed in the lower forward deck.
Before dark the promenade deck and houses
aft of the shaft had all washed away, and others
were turn duwu to form rafts in readiness for
immediate departure in case au sudden break
fur we knew nut how soon a gale might strike
the ship and butter her timbers iu Om:weals
to the waves.
Night tanning on and the tog, which had for
a shun tinia tilaappeartd, again set in, the
bunts were running, not being able to find the
shore, and the terror of our situation began to
stare us to the face. Fur amid the howling of
the wind, the roaring of the waves us they
broke upon the decks, and the hearse order of
the third officer and Mr. Handali, there muse
the loud accents ut ardent and despnring pray
ers; confusion the wildest sense preended,tur
there were those who - had prepared to swim
ashore, stiffened with cold; those who had
sought to drown their fears in the frequent lib.
erutious et the ardent; while some with calm
resignation had prepared themselves Mr the
wore, and awaited their late in peace. Thus
we passed the disimul night, made still more
solemn by the church-like lulling of the bell,
which seemed to beck us. to our funeral.
The scene on -shore was equally painful.—
The boat the first °dicer cunt antialed,with thirty
ono souls, mostly females, was stranded; and
all, with the exception ut himself and three
others, who were thrown on the beach apps.
rently lifeless, were lost. here I would record
an instance of Mutate energy seldom equalled
even in the =tali of the Revolution. A Mrs.
wan nail exerted herself by going
into the water alongside of thu boats and car
r)ing the littlies ashore, saw the ahnost lifeless
bodies of two ladies,and sand to a young man—
"you take one and take another," and
picked up one of the bodies and placed it on her
shoulder and curried it up nu ultoost perpen
dicular bluff, to a spot where they had Maud
• a camp and built fires, and afierwards togeth
er WiLli unity other ladies, stripped el l all her
under•cluths nod gave them to the exhausted
men.
During the night a number of bodies washed
ashore, among others a female with a temaie
child clasped its her arms, the wife of Mr. lire
nun, who as an extraordinary instance ado',
ted love, went on shore with spade in hued
—dug ufs his wife and child—kissed them—
prayed tor them—and thou re-buried them..
At du}
break the bouts were again set in
motion, when Mr. Hewitt came on board,
and although much bruised—his stunt heart
never forsaking him—re.commeneed the dis
charge of his duties with astonishing energy.
At 8 o'clock, A. M., our hearts were made
glad by the appearance of a steamer on our
lurbord quarter, which proved to be the Ooliah
Samuel Hely, Esq., commander, who us if by
a kind dispensation of Providence, appeared
sent to our redet Mr had we depended upun our '
boats, a large number would have got ashore
that day, and that night the wreck went to
pieces, so nothing in the morning was seen loot
a shell of the stern, which had separated and
turned bottom up.
'l's Capt. Italy we feel it a particular duty to
extend our thanks Mr his promptness in sending
boats to our rescue, and reeieving six hut.dred
of our number un ard his steamer, in which
we were taken to San Diego, whither she was
bound, where live hundred and thirty,nx acre
left until a steamer mold be sent to bear them
on their homewel coast.
Before leaving the wreck, we sent on shore
all the provisions to be found, awning and
pules for tents, 'beds, bedding,cluthsotc.,thr the
use of those that reinuiued, whom it was !Mind
necessary to leave as Duluth was too heavily
freightea to recieve them on board. lint it
is regarited that the actual sufferers never re
misted the provisions sent to them, for a party
composed mostly of firemen—insensible to hu
manity—and holding the advantage by having
in their possession a large quantity of tire-arms
and arnunition,took for themselvs almost every
thing that went ashore, and money was seen on
their possession which they could not have ob
tained honestly. The (Wish, utter making
her trip to San Diego returned to a cute about
six miles from theseene ut the wreck when she
recieved the passengsrs and crew, and started
at bull -past 4 o'ueloek I'. 51. on the 7th; Mr
Monterey end San Francisco.
Kansas.
The City of LcaveLiw,,rd, s:iL.aLe.l
mile and a 1,..11 below 1•:11 I • L:
laid owt into streets, stparcs, ctt ,•
log with tree Western rardov Load
is not Gtr tnat the new vitt
A juror monberol Mimi, are eng.t..cd, L•L:L
ting out the streets of tins city
The popelittion or this cite is us follows : 99
teen; 1 woman. 0 babies. Total, 100. Truly
a flourishing awl proion,iiig town.
Of 119 male inhalthatas of the city, in tidier.
Use themselves n. •mt,trattys and C.mesellrs
at law V There IA .10 physician, a hotel, a
steam sawing mill, several dry goods stores, a
newspaper office, and a intnip.
On the tith and 10th ult. there was a great
sale of lots in Leavenwurth, which attracted a
large attendance. One hundred and time Into
in all were disposed of, at prices ranging from
$350 down to $75, and the aggregate oak -s
antounted to $12,609.
Common labor commands, so far as the de.
mewl for it exists, $1 per day mid hoard, and
mechanical labor $1 50 to Si 75 per day.—
Good cows worth $2O to $3O; horned $7O to
$lOO, oxen from $5O to $75. Flour $8 per
barrel, and meat 6 to 8 cents per pound.
Otte year from this date. there will probably
be at Yeast one hundred thousand people in
M 411.8, which will entitle the territory to ad.
mission as State.
The increase of emigrants from the East is
not 80 large as one would suppose frotn reading
the reports about the number who have started.
A good many go hack. The fault, if any, of
their doing so, is partly in themselves and part.
Ily in the Society that aids and encourages their
THE COX610:8810NAL VOTE. --The coming. They start without sufficient prep.
phis Bulletin publishes a table of the Congres. ration. Anti the Aid Society did not erect, and
sional vote in Pennsylvania at the late election hats not erected suitable shelter. Two or three
commodious houses should have been 'erected
comparing figures with 1852. The table makes in the outwit. But, instead of that, they hove
out a majority against Pierce and Nebraska of I furnished nothing but tents. They deferred
66,298. The Democratic majority in 1852 was building till they could saw the lumber with
23,475—a change in two years o f N iN „ ry their own sow-mill. .
Tnocs.txn against the Administration TAn editorial settler in Leavenworth writes •
he ; Our little (lame house is already half way up ,.
entire Congressional vote of 1852 was 314,486 ; and a lot of not.le typos have a printing press
in 1854, 351,158; an increase of 36,672. The under a big clam. comnositors, as the sun
into the ahade,.and
Cabermitorial vett, this year reaches 371,000, ••••g oes mu g 4l s inur e the
pitk awavitt the tvite r iltearmog ef the 'good
or 20,000 more than fur Congressmem—Berks ; coin i ng • Tj,i, e gue . - , fi s hi ng -
Co. Journal. I tisy for provender.--N. N. L44,re,very
In addition to others, we are particularly in-
debted to Capt. W. 11. Hurt and Matthews, fur
their indefatigable efforts to get the passengers
from the wreck and beach into the Golialt.
It is suppo;dii;:;;;;ulthirty lives uro lost,
whose outset, with the exception of a few could
not be ascertained. The following is a list of
persons known to be drowned:—
Drowsed.—Mrs. Brennan and child. Mrs.
Summer and child ; Mrs. Smith and child four
children of Mrs. Logsdale; Mrs Moure's child;
and Francis Mitchell.
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klat Wiaittliisiiarg
A vary
tllreushuU6 ttln LUllllllkleally 1./ Lao eJectaul nut
iu Wittiaitisliargli, amen has re,tilied in tlie
drum of an estimable nu
are diligently engaged in u close nit
•
of the whole matter, and there is no d tent
! testitnony will be elicited which will bring the
i offenders to the punishment they merit. In
the meantime it beumnes every citizen to ith.
stain from any w..rd ur ant calculated to pro.
duce ill keliiy, and to leave the law to wreak
its care vengeance upon the guilty parties.
We leant that a large reward will be immedi
ately uttered tor the discovery of the pres.
tr.iturs of the murder; and that the 1111.
ctmu measures have been adopted L. suppress
instantly any violation of order. lacked, ma
lull is tile preparation fur ally ciner,eacy. t!ao
me teal juatilled la uJvisul wl eitiAcus to ;ta•
.tuna from any assetablao calculated to pr.,-
dune excitement.
foadci•ijo —three o'clock, A. If.—The dr.
CUtuStince of the deal!' iii*a
during it riot with the IriA iu the i lin
Ward, un Tuesday, created it deep sensation •
among the meinifersulthe various •:‘
societies, nut only in Vial city, hat io fir
and Sew Ytirk. rho deccaAed was
buried yesterday. Ills funeral W. very large
ly uttentled, 51111 much feelni4 tea, inniti , esied.
Anyer It all received, during tau ttliernuuu,
assialwee thus au urgafirtaliu, 1,31 been con,
with u nob 1111,1,1ke ;-ti illitlisli
for the injuries done , iln, 1,111..
on the II; the .I:liirt,:c 1,. ,
uceurred. i:ti
notitied,io ii , ,1.1 11 uwiwrj fii c.o
fur ally Vitkl,,,t,t4Cy. ii. !')I1 ;I'. • •
wan 111010 11 ,
In the eveeing it crowd COM rll,ll . I
~r r I .1' .~ .i .. ..
juittly
tuct liar the same object
Ninth mot
joined their friends at the Udetm. It appear,
that a ...o,...titre wits n.ppoirited tom., iglusoi
el tile nun crowd, and demand the anemia's,
urthuse whom they sought, when if they were
nut given up, the whole force was to he called
Tutu action by a giien signal. At 0)001 II
o'cluek, the united force, numbering nearly
800,1 brined Mar abreast., along Flan mreet,
its front of the Odeon, and marened up towaids
Grand st. At the corner of Grand stud Filth
sts., they were met by the Mayor, and a num.
her of other gentlemen. Taking advantage of
a brief halt. the Mayor, Mr. Dean and Mr.
Andrews (at the request of the illit)ur) sonde
short speeches, cuiliug mum Ihem to disperse
and await the action of the Ida , in redressing
their grievances. This had the effect. tit thin.
ning the ranks of the malcontents, but a large
number were still bent stn mischief. They pro.
ceedin •on up Filth street. As they were pass
ing a riouse a little above Grand street, an
Irishman stepped out upon the side walk with
musket in his hand. A rush xits made fur
him, and had barely time to get into his honse
arid the dour shut, betinre two pistols were
•
tired, their contents lodging in the Jour. Cum
timmig up Fifth street to North :Rh mid down
North .ith to the scene of the riot or Tuesday,
a Ittiltlber of shots were hired among the taelt•
ing party with tin, evident design of intiiinda
tin,4 the Irish and keeping op their own cour
age. They encountered no oppositiuti nntil
they arrived nt the corner of North sith turd lot
streets where a number ofshots were fired. one
of the attacking party being shut through the
cont. Two muskets !wee captured from a
small party or Irish, who lied. One or the
attacking party tired twice nt an Irishman—
we could not learn with what effect. They
were here again met by Mr. Andrews, who
readmits!' them of their duties as citizens, and
assured them that the law would vindicate
their rights. Ile rots greeted with lend cheers.
By this time there were not more than two
hundred present, and teeny expressed them
selves it raver or dispersing. A large portion.
however. proceeded down Seeond street, and
the tither marched towards the- Odeon. By
this time a smelt military force hind strived at
the Slll3.ol'd (dike. After a little delay, a
I crowd gathered around the Church in Second
street, and stove in one door, but upon being
assured that. the church was under the printer-
Doti of the Niaym., they dispersed. A party
bud its tine meantime started fur the church
frum the Odeon; mid on their arrival were as
sailed by the tongue of an Irishwoman lodg
ing opposite the church. Nothing serious
transpired.
Subsequently one or two Irishmen were
found !sear the church. They were Mimed',
:duly disartned and committed. Several 1,,
dies were arrested and committed by :flnyire
Wall. Sheriff, Lott, accompanied by several
citizens, searched everyportion of the elirir•en,
including the cellars and sehool-roinn, but not
an atom of anything winlike WIN 161111 d.
A large proportion of the Holum party were
cruel New Yerk and Brooklyn.
Motor Wall has acted thi•uu ; ;hout with the
greatest vigor and determination and when oar
reporter left there was every prospect tiro his
efforts to prevent a general riot were success.
ful. We do not think there were any serious
occurences last night. It is stated that one
of the newly elected Police Captain is a ring
`lender in these riotous demonstrations. Also
that evidence is in possession or the proper nu.
apprishil them who part•cipat,:d iu
the murder of Tuesday.
We are also antlinrized and requested toss.) ,
that such arrangements trill be made to day
as willprevent any repetition of the scones of
last nigl:t.
.IU,J tclus.
12'9— Ittr,c militttr; tun.
plan e tt llorrisburg, ou t6t ucrwi•ni it.
ott.,uratimt ul (.;,.v. •1/4.
Var The Govern, of Alabama ens lined
ten duller* a few days u,o. by a circuit judge,
for wearing♦ his hitt and pulling a near in the
Court room,
tioston weekly Bank
statements shows nn increase of $44,200 in
cupind ; $.149.5.52 In lunns and discounts ;
sti 473.1 in specie. 5i91:,364 111 1101111)litS, 1111 d
dc. ream, $1.41,,;47 io circulation.
I L1.T.,,.•• I, iN it: Chi. I*,l
Bank palii lo
1 , 11, broktql are .1 lar,e
01 t , hl fir 1.1
per scut. di6rontit.
Fav S.TATE—PI,IIArd.—TiIe 1.11:
perior Jinnoiai Id urging. the ereetion
tipper Peninsula Michigan ititoa new State,
to he called SUPERII/It,
44.17" A recent an.gie ailverthienient in the
N.•ei lou: eekly %Whittle etml !•;. 4 861. Th..
g !,l •-- the parer are fifty e, t; :1 hoe
'or :
• :.•-• .•• lolly iiowlegs,sassit is
•;; dir 11,., Florida,
. I I! . I i• will injure
~.••. Ind if Ili
il, lois ilow
,1 11,1
t.l.c
riwy (.090 j ust about as much ns a
;•.,wptioy of iuliwn•y Would at the war. Never.
iu.iess they (lma ha gut rid off."
M EETI NG (F COM:M.S.—The second session
of the t hirtyl hint Congress co:timeline* on the
first Monday of Decetnber, 1854, and closes on
the night of the third or March following.
A MINISToRIAt. STRIKE. Ott Ole 9th ult., at
Urbana. Ohio, the bell of the Presbyterian
(+melt rang the secant' time—the congrega
tion sat waiting and watching, but no minis
ter came. After the lapse of an hour, a note
was handed to one of the elders, who arose and
read it to the congregation. It was front the
minister, who said he would not preach for
them any more till his salary was paid up,
THIRTY WOMEN NEARLY WIDOWED AT ONCE.
—The famous Brigham Young, the Governor
of Utah, and Grand High Priest of the Dior•
mons. came near having an inglorious end put
to his career, in August lust. He went down
into his well to recover a lust bucket, when the
curbing tumbled in, the earth followed, and
Brigham Young became for once, tt snbterra•
man saint.
Rune BIRM—Two specimens of the Ameri
ean Ostrich—male and I'l:male—were recently
killed near Fort lies Moines, lows, and prepar
ed by W. E. Moore, for the Fort Des Moines
Museum. They are described by Mr. Moore
as four and a half fept long, and five feet in
height, with bills six inches long, straight, and
very sharp. They resemble in 111080 points the
Ostrich ul Africa. Mr. Moore has been offer
ed $lOOO for them, IMt refuses to sell. lie is
about to make a tour on the far western pro
ries, hoping to meet with other varieties.
STOP •ruma Gunn.—ln 1852 there were
seven hundred 1111(1 fift•-•nine persons commit.
ted to Albany Penitentiary; of this number
seven hundred thirty-four admitted themselves
to have been intemperate; and only •twenty
five claimed to have been temperate men and
women. Not more that, one-third oldie whole
number could rood and write, and but one or
two hod received it thorough education. How
intimate in the relationship between iateloper
:wee, i•moranee and crime I What a warniu:,•
t., y, , tang Inc. to beware of. the intoxicating
cup!
ler An artist in Philadelphia Ino invented
it clock that it a whole year without wind.
leg but once.. The, !dace of the pendulum
wire is occupied by u straiAt watch sprio, to
which is attached a horizoatul brass
the size of a twentydive cent piece. .111 the
circumference of this plate, are inserted six
small meal bars, from the outer end of winch
depend six heavy leaden balls. - This whole:tr.
rangement tarn un•its own axis, the minute
hived moving with it fin• one init.!, when it
stops and turns in the opposite direction the
sueceding three minutes. Each minute re.
quires three revolutions.
1411.1 . 1.1 V ON AN INni.txA 13.tNE NOTE.—
r!:'• il,Cripth , 11. a friend illllll . lllti.
• 11,1111 , 1 Ily him tip
.. • • 11141 it!. batik Twit, tier
• .;:.!
;p-:city the batik by which
• It limy have I -L u ll anti
vt•ty was the titterittoClll. Stunk l3unitof
11141.71. ,Vt, tiny rate, the inscription is pm ,
feel ly applicable to that institution. Here a :
"This time, like ten thousand others of difer
ent hook; in Indiana, is redeemed by a box.
out floosier, t irl, in some farmer's kitchen,
three miles from any place—secured by stocks
deposited in the buy lull of her father's barn.
'Jill hullers responsible."
Isat.tx FRIIIT IN TEAS.- Ten Killed.—Wo
this morning received the annexed interesting
letter from an officer of the army in Texas:
Fort Clark, Texas, 0(1.18, 1861.—Eds. l'ic.
—We have just in un express front Gem
Smith, who was, on the 10th inst., at the Lim
pia, the place selected by hint as a post to be
occupied by the 10th Infantry.
Capt. Walker, with a party of the regiment
of Skewed Rifles, who went as an escort to
the General, had a tight with the Indians, kill
ed ten of them, and lost one man, besides
Lieut." Carr receiving an arrow wound in the
stomach.
On the 11th the Indians drove Mr all the
animals from tho camp on Live Oak Creek,
temporary occupied by one company of the let
Infantry, under command of Capt. Arthur.—
The soldiers killed two Indians.—N. O. .Pic
uvulae., Nov. Ist.
A PLEASING Paoseurr.—Frotn the way the
Congressional elections are going, the pros
pects are that the Whigs will have a majority
in the next House of Representatives. This
is of unusual importance from the probability,
that the eleil ion of the next r Ptesidebt
merle by that bod,.
I Pa-Another Astorkol hoe 1 cum dimuovereil.
nod o:is Cnic .the botior of the discovery be.
L'. S,Notiontil ob:ervatnry nt
11'u.+lliu tun. lititionatit Ninety, - in n ;idle
which le ',Wished in the Natitimil
stip; that the discovery was made at the
01,,ervntory, by Mr. James 'Ferguson, Assist.
alit Astronoin,r, tin the 2tl of September, at
I I o'clock, P. M., the position being near E.
eria,-the thirteenth of the asteroids, which ho
was observing at the time. The fact was not
made public, in order to afford an opportunity
to ascertain whether the planet might not have
been discovered by Observers in other parts of
world. it seems not, however, and it has ac
cordingly been 'tamed Enphrodyne. It is the
thirty-first of the asteroids, singularly enough
torreApniuling with the number of the States,
11l it is the first tisteroid discovered by an
.1 nwriettli.
MAIOISON CuUNTY.-The erection of the new
co of Madison, with Pottstown as the mum
.y sat, will be pushed vigorously this winter
10, ilie irle:ols . of that measure. La common
with the great mass of the people or Berks, we
are opposed to it in lotto, because it will take
from old Burks some of her fairest and most
enterprising townships. But we believe it will
carry I , cvoqiieless. Two of the Montgomery
contit tnembcrs ut the Legislature are in fa
vor oi the pr.ji-ct, and we believe one or two
from Chester. The Becks county members
pledged against division, but they slim
gale a pledge that they were nut "Know-I%lUth•
legs," toil everybody, since the election, knows
how much that pledge was worth.—Berks and
Seleu9lkill Journal.
THE REPUBLICAN PYRAMID !-Tho march of
Republicanism is onward I The following
States have voted during the summer and full,
nod thus the column "piles up" against. NI,
bruskaism and Political Roman 'Catholicism.—
The States now about to vote will largely in•
crease the "Republican Pyramid." Jt is a
beautiful structure—one that Freemen have a
right to be proud ofl Look at it :
OHIO,
lOW A,
MAINE.
INDIANA,
VEIIMDNT,
CON N uniTT,
minuE
PENNSYLVANIA,
NEW lIAMPSHIRE.
New York Election,
Fernando Wood is elected Mayor of New
York city, most of the other city °dicers elect
being Whigs, and also u. Whig and reform tna•
jority in the City Councils. For Governor the
returns are yet very conflicting, though most
of the lades add up favorably to Clark, the
Whig candidate. The Ilerald of yesterday,
makes his majority over Seymour, Lein., the
highest opponent. 628, while a telegraphic
despatch froM Albany. :nukes it 108. The
Whig papers of New York 3110 Albany make
it much mote. It thus seems that he stands
the best chance at present. Most of the Whig
State candidates are believed to be elected.
New Jersey.
The Newark Advertiser of Saturday says,
the Assembly will stand as follows:
Whigs. 27; Democrats, 20; Natives, 4; Tem.
pomace, 2; Independent Anti. Monopoly Dem
ocrats, 7.
The Newark .Iforeury of the same day says:
"The returns in relation to the Legislature
are not complete, but it is certain that there is
Whig and A int:Henn majority in the Leg's.
luture. The Senate is tied, but the House of
Assembly will stand 33 Whigs and Americans
to 27 Democrats. There is no doubt but that
there will be a decided majority in the Lower
House in furor of the Air Line Read.
A Singular Case.
A number of pins were recently exhibited in
the Pathological Society of London,
from various parts of the body of a young wo
man, who was taking down clothes from the
drying lines, mid putting tin' pins in her mouth,
when some one came behind her and seized
her by the arms, startling her as lunch that
she swallowed the whole mouthful ; sickness
and emaciation followed; a small swelling
showed itself under her left breast, which
(waled and burst, giving passage to a pin, the
head of which was gone. Sixteen others were
iron. about the same spot, and others
•from the left knee, front over the sternum, and
ir,mt the wrist,—twelity.two in all. They had
10.0 their heads except two.—.E.c.
Changing Front.
The people, at !Mr lot box, have a way of
tt•llia,z things and of producing arguments
Li b have a wonderfully convincing effect up
-011 pulitiritu s. It is Said that since the °lac
lions in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, nail
some other Staten, Arnold Douglass has he•
come a great hater of slavery, and bus under
bid the abolitionists by "proposing to repudi
ate the recognition of slavery wherever it mny
exist ;" while the %Vashington Uition, which
could not before find words bitter enough to
denounce Americanism, is "hoisting native
American colors." A few more such argu
ments and lessons will bring these corrupt fel
lows to the standpoint of pretty good Awed
can citizens.—Lebtinon Courier.
Convention of Old Soldiers.
The President of the Military Convention,
which was held at. Philadelphia on the 9th of
January last, has published the following notice
in the Philadelphia papers
7'he Wur of 1812.—The defenders of the
country in the War of Independence who still
survive, and the children of such as are dead,
are requested to send delegates to the city of
‘Vashington to attend a convention to be held
there on the Bth of January next, 1855, to
adopt such meusures as will induce Congress
not only to do justice to them, but also to the
widows of those who have gone to their last
account.
OYSTERS tan DEATII.—A large number of
deaths have occurred in New York and Bald.
more, front the eating oysters. • is evident
that oysters this season are exceedingly un
healthy, and citizens should be cautious how
they use them. There are various causes as
signed for the poisonous quality of oysters—
some attributing it to the drought—others think
that probably oysters were taken up and plant
ed during spawning time, and thereby because
diseased.
SHORT WAY OF GETTING ♦ DITORCE.—The
Albany (N. Y.) Argus says that the following
• notice appears in a newspaper of that city:
"As my husband, Joseph Rentz, has left mo
without nay provocation, and I have seen or
heard nothing of him this year past, I hereby
declare that unless he returns in three days
from this date, I shall take it as a divorce and
ihall'marry again immediately.
JOVATMA REICT7.."
ins It/T.—The I,am.a:ter 11V., that
Mr. linker, the Superitnemlmit tl.r l'iii:.olel•
phin and Columbia railroad, hen raised the
tomnhawlinver the • lieruls. of the Know •Noth••
dinmis.4eLl' eight ur ten of the work
men nt the Parksburg shops, mho voted for
Pollock.—Stim tie! • CtitiPer,' D4uwerntle - Kmow
Nothing. Postmaster at Attleborotmh has also
been removed, since the election, by Post inns.
ter Campbell, and Alfred Marple appointed in
his stead. Probably, a number more will be
served in the same way.
THE NARCOTICS AND POISONS WE INIIELGE
ix.—The "Chemistry of Common Litii," which
it now going through the press, cotes that to•
bares is produced to the extent of 4,480,000,000
pounds annually, and is used by eight hundred
millions of men ; opium, among 400,000,000 of
men ; Indian hemp 200,000 of men ; betel.
nut, (or Pinang,) among 100,000,000 men ;
cocoa, among 10,000,000 of men. Little is
known in Europe of the use of hemp as a ear•
colic; yet iu the East it is as familiar to the
voluptuary as the opium and tobacco is to oth•
er regions. The value of these articles is fixed
at £00,000,000 annually.
CLOSING or THE CRYSTAL PALACE. -Last
evening, according to public announcement,
the Crystal Palace was closed forever as a place
of exhibition. There were about two thousand
persons present, many of whom had nut visit
ed the place betbre. Shelton's full band was
in attendance during the evening, and per
formed a variety of polkas, marches, waltzes,
&c. The Palace was most brilliantly illumine.
ted, and presented from without, as well as
within, a magnificent appearance,
As most of the articles that have been on
exhibition since the opening will not be remuv
td for a month yet, the Directors have deter.
mined upon admitting persons to the Palace
for the nominal sum of 12i cents. All tickets
are dispensed with, and none wilt be received
at the dour.—X Y. Tribune.
MAJOR ARTHUR T. LCE.-WO regret to an•
nounce the death of Major Arthur T. Lee, of
the Bth lilt:nary, U. S. A., who was killed in
'Foxes recently, in a skirtni,h with the Indians.
Major Lee wage native of the borough of North
umberland, nod was, at the time of his death,
abunr 4.1 years of age. He was appointed
Leutenaut in the army some twelve or fourteen
years since, and was highly esteemed for his
intelligence and military bearing. Ile had
also acquired considerable reputation as a lit
erary wan and landscape painter.
itr4 - Daniel Webster usually spoke from 80
to 110 words a minute; Henry Clay from 130
to 100; John C. Calhoun from 160 to 200;
Gerrit Smith from 70 to 80; Dr. Tyng froth
120 to 110 and Rufus Choate from 160 to 200.
The average rate of speaking is about 120 words
a minute, and the hest phonographers can
a-rite doable that number.
Dr. Dwight was in the habit of employing
two anmauses at the same time. Julius Caesar
and Napolean Bonaparte would write them
selves and employ four others, and if not wri
ting would dictate to seven persons, while Lord
Peterborough could keep nine atnanueses em
ployed simultaneously.
THE DEATH or Gov. BUOT.—A telegraphic
despatch, published yesterday, announced the
death of the Hon. Mr. hurt, the new Governor
of Nebraska territory. lle reached Belleville
city, in that territory, on the 6th inst., but was
too ill to attend n festive gathering Cie day
following, in honor of his arrival, and died on
the 1 th. The deceased was for several years
a member of Congress from South Carolina,
and at. the time he was appointed Governor,
held the (Alice of Auditor in the Treasury De.
pertinent at Wwhington.--/far. Tel.
A PAPA!. Enter.—The Cardinal Vicar of
Rome lias issued an edict in which, after at
tributing the cholera to the sins of the Ruinous,
he directs that the finger of St. Peter, the ur
of St. Rue, the heart of St. Charles, and oil
relics, shall be exposed to the tohniration of
the faithful, in order to avert the wrath of the
Almighty.
Exciting Scene at the Baltimore Court
House—A Mau Shot by a Woman.
For several days path; there has been quite
an excitement about the Criminal Court room,
in consequence ut the progress el the trial of a
man unlined Adolph Fischer, for un alleged
outrage upon a female resaliag oil Fell's Puna.
The testnnuily Wad generally ut a character
unlit fir publication, but it was deemed nietd•
meld by the jury to warrant a Nil verdict of
condemnation. The minute attended the trial
and carefully watched its progress.
Yesterday afternoon the trial was concluded,
and the court sentenced the party charged to
pay a live of ::;20 and to be imprisoned in the
jail fur sixty days. Thus tar every thing went
um quietly and the condemned man was put
into the cell to await the adjournmeat of the
court. It was observed that the woman still
remained about the court house, but no one en.
tertamed no idea that she contemplated the
crime of murder.
After the adjournment of the Court, as is
usually done, the prisoner was manacled and
conducted by the deputy warden ut the
* WI to
the wagon used to convey prisoners to and trum
the jail. Apprised of the way they were taking,
Mrs. Rh. or such is her name, stationed her
self at the dour of the Courthouse opening on
Lexington street, and watched the approach of
the prisoner. When ho reached the door, she
suddenly drew from under her shawl a single.
barrelled pistol, which she shoed at Fischer
and fired. Instead of striking the objects of its
aim, the charge took etltct upon the sleeve of
the coat of Mr: Burke, entirely tearing away
the cuff and slightly burning his hand.
In an instant thegreatust excitement ensued.
&vend persons took hold tit the woman, when
her husband stepped forward mid undertook to
rescue her. In the melee several persons were
thrown or knocked down, but ste was ulti
mately arrested by one of the deputy sheriffs
and taken into the odice of the Clerk or the
Criminal Court, where she was kept until the
excitement subsided and the crowd dispersed.
She was then put in charge of deputy warden
Bouldim and taken .to jail by order of sheriff
Binds, who procured a hack for her convey
ance, to prevent the crowd front following, and
possibly trout uttempting a rescue.
The 'woman iu qu'estia is of lierman birth,
of medium size and rather prepossessing in ap
pearance. She is apparently about twenty
five years of age, with regular features black
eyes and dark hair. Immediately after the
attempt upon the life of Fischer she scented
greatly agitated, and expressed regret that she
had nut succeeded in killing hint, whom she
alleged had dune her a foul wrong. While sit
ting in the office of the clerk she came to a
sense of the position she occupied uud wept
bitterly.
Considerable sympathy was elicited for the
female, and many remarked their approbation
of her conduct. This, however, was dune iu
the moment of excitement, and it is probable
that there are few who would sanction such a
violation of the lawns would place in the hands
of the aggrieved party the power of inflicting
summary puuishineut upon theoffenders. She
was committed to prison on a charge of assault
with intent
,to kill, the penalty for which is a
long imprisonment in the peuitentiary.—Ball.
4m,i , rit t NO!, 2.
ortip
oiiFiiiksLATEii, PROM LUAOPk,
Arrival of the Ameriatt
HALIFAX, Nov. 0,
Tim steamship America, from Liverpool,
with ,stet to the 28th Oct., reached her wharf
at 4 P. M. this afternoon.
The America sailed froth Liverpool nt Yl o'.
clock A. M., us the 28th alt.
The movements of tle nlliod armies math'.
ued to engross public attention.
Sebastopol Wan being bombarded at lest no.
counts but had not yet been taken.
Austria and Russia are on the point of no
tual war.
Mr. Soule, the American Minister at Ma.
drid, has been prohibited from entering
France.
TIIE WAIL
noMnAnpmEsT OF SEBASTOPOL
The latest adviees chow that twenty days
elapsed between the departure of the beseiging
armies from Balaklava and the opening of the
fire upon Sebastopol.
The butteries were ready, 15 in number, on
the 17th, when a fire was opened upon the city
both tram land and sea, and the bombardment
continued until night. The Russians, on the
first day, lout 300 killed and wounded. Ad•
mind liornikoff was among the killed. The
fortifications autlered but little.
On the 10th the bombardment was resumed
by the allied butteries. The Russian despatch.
es say the garrison make frequent sorties.
When the until left Constantinople on the
16th five steamers had arrived from
with these wounded iu repelling the great sot ,
tie made by the Russians, 20,000 strung.
Lord Raglan and lien. Caurobert had for.
malty summoned the garrison of Sebastopol to
surrender, and required the women, children
and sick to be seat away, and Hags hoisted
upon the hospitals.
Su fur as known, the Russian army, now be.
ing concentrated on the Upper Bulbek, alma•
dy numbers 43,000 men.
The allied army is now divided into a siege
artny anthill army of observation. The lat.
ter is posted out the extensive table lands
which separates Balakluva from Sebastopol,
and accessible only from two points.
The -Russians are hovering on the outside of
the positions of the allies. On the 7th they
made u strong demonstration on the northwest
extremity of the camp, but were kept in check,
and retired without coming to a battle.
Ou the 3d 3th, and 11th of October, the gar.
risen made sorties front Sebastopol, and sue.
ceeded in destroyingsm
ee small wet
_ .
On the evenhit a the sth, a convoy of 4000
effectedau entrance into Set asto•
pul.
The allied forces in the Crimea now number
110,000, and SOOO additional French troops
were reedy to embark fort Marseilles nit the
21,t, and WM) rurks were awaiting transports
at Varna.
Letters say that the allies hare 300 guns in
battery, and after a few days fire will attempt
to storm the garrison, which is e - stimuted at
40,000 men.
Admiral MensehikofT, who commanded at
Sinope, and is the commandant dt Sebastopol,
has publiMed au address, saying that. he will
&final it to the last, and that any one is wel
come to shoot him Vire don't.
An allied force has been sent, under Genet ,
at Bostoct and Aehtnet Paella, to Perekop, to
prevent the advance of the Russians.
A USTI{ IA
A great council of war has been held nt
ennn, at which the Emperor presided, Baron
Hots was present, and reported that Austria
Stllllllloll4 Russia to withdraw from the frontier
uf
The who!e Austrian army was put on a war
footing on the 28th of October.
. • _ .
Atu r ilria haS concluded an immense financial
operation, by which she has •transferred- to a
company of capitalists all the railroads con
stencied and worked by the government in
Hungary and Bohemia. The company pays
200,000,000 franc. and the government guar
maces the roads to yield five per cent.
.....
III.'SSLI
Russia in the meantime continues to Inn aco
.lustre,. The Char has gone to IVarSavr.
The lames are coneentrating on the Austri•
an frontier, and hut little doubt was entertain
ed at Vienna that ere long there will be actual
hostilities.
ENGLAND,
The British fleet was to leave tht Baltic
about the end of November, returning in squad.
runs to Sheerness, Plymouth and Cork.
Five floating batten., and twenty gun boots
drawing timr feet n•ater each, are building in
England tbr the spring operations. .
Another Polar expedition is to be sent out
next spring to bring home the remains of
Franklin's party. Dr. Rae is to have the corn.
mand.
A galvanic apparatus is being eanhtrueted
at Newcastle on tin Tyne, to blow up the ships
sunk otr Sebastopol.
FRANCE,
The Emperor has written a letter of condul•
once to Madame St. Arnaud, and bestowning
a pension of 20,000 francs as a national recant•
ponsc.
The whole camp of the South is to embark
for the East as required.
The Loudon Tiuma says:—'We are inform
ed that Mr. Soule, the Americas Minister to
Madrid, was on Tuesday, the 24th ult., refused
rieriekiion to pass through France, on his re
turn trust England to Spain."
The Post, in announcing semi-officially the
acquisition of Samna says:—"lt amounts
virtually, it' nut absolutely, to the annexation
of St. Domingo. The acquisition by the Uni
ted States of so important a position threaten
ing on either hand the Spanish Islands of Cuba
and Porto Rico, and so directly affecting the,
British West India positions, mullet be receiv
ed with indifference."
A letter from the llagne, under date of the
2 lot ult.onentielung the departure of Captain
Gibson fin• the United State's, says he took
with him the result of the conference of tho
American Ministers at Ostend.
SPAIN
Mr. Soule's return to Madrid has caused
quite en excitement. A clamor is made in or
der to induce the Spanish government to so
licit his recall.
Queen Isabella has abandoned the idea of
abdicating. The Legitimists are preparing to
make o movement.
CHINA,
The arrival of the Overland Mail at Man
seines has been telegraphed. The dates from
Canton are to the 'Mt of September, when that
city was gill besieged. The distress of the be.
sieged was very great.
No tea was ready fur shipment.
The insurgents still have possession of
Shanghai.
THE LATEST FROM THE WAR.
The Mordteur of this morning contains an
account of a victory over the Russians near
°amyl when the latter lost their baggage and
thirty guns and a Russian General killed.—
The Turks had begun to besiege the citadel of
Outtiri, whew the Russians corpse which for
merly deleaten the Turks near Bajazid, advert.
ced to the rescue from Erivan. limy were re.
pulsed, and being shut up in a defile suffered
a considerable loss.
STILL LATER FROM EUROPE.
By the arrival at New York of the steam.
ship Atlantic, we have news from Europe four
days later than that received by the America.
The seige of Sebastopol progresses slowly. A
small breach has been made by the fire of the
allies, and two of the Russian outworks silenced
But theatussima have made a sortie, in which
they have suoceeded in spiking sixteen guns
in a French battery. The two forts alluded to
were outer ones of the harbor, and wet° des.
troyed by the fire of the fleets.
This occurred on the 17111, when the allies
lost 1004dlled, and the RUA.4111139 about :WO ku.