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THE MINNESOTIAN.
faint fatnrtaii, £rtabrr 18, 1852
tor president of the united states,
GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT,
or NEW JERSEY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM,
or NORTH CAROLINA.
Crime.
We have, as a public journalist, a solemn, pain
ful, yet a necessary duty to perform. The evi
dence taken before a Coroner’s jury, which we
publish, shows that-ibe life of a fellow-citizen
was taken at a grocery on Third street on Tues
day evening last. Dalton died of his wound
some twenty-four hours after its infliction. There
has been a crime committed—a monstrous crime.
If the act was done in self-defence, then the poor
unfortunate man who has gone to the bar of his
God, there to answer, was the criminal. If the
contrary, those who live, and did the deed, must
not only answer at an earthly tribunal, but
meet the victim at the place where all hearts
searched. There is no use mincing matters one
way or the other. There must be a rigid yet
impartial investigation of this matter, and the
line of guilt and innocence firmly drawn. We
have had frequent occasion to speak of the ten
dency to a base administration of the law here
on our frontier. We must stop this or we are
gone. The end must be some time, and that
soon, or the end of Minnesota will be arrived at
first. We hope and believe there is enough
in this community to see justice meted out in
this case, legally and impartially. We trust in
heaven it may be so—it must be so.
If no man present at the drunken row on
Tuesday night, had carried about his person
a concealed and deadly weapon, in all human
probability no one would have been killed.
What a solemn protest is here against this hor
rible practice ! What need has any man with
a knife or a pistol in St. Paul ? And more par
ticularly, when that man has not an enemy in
the community 1 We believe this occurrence
strikes home to the feelings of every citizen, and
says to him, if you have a murderous knife,
throw it in the river—if you have a pistol, do
any thing with it except carrying it loaded about
your person. “O, reform it altogether,” and
save our prosperous land and happy homes from
becoming a field of blood and houses of mourn
ing.
The Election.
We have the following returns from the elec
tion for members of the Legislature :
St. Paul and Little Canada.
Justus C. Ramsey, Whig.
Louis M. Oliver, 1
W Voot° tf ’ [ Organization Democrats.
\V\ P. Murray, J
Dakota and Hennepin.
B.H. Randall, j Anti-Organization Dents.
St. Anthony.
R. P. Russell. ) „ ...
Dutteu, l Organization Dems.
Marine.
J. D. Luddcn, Whig.
Stillwater.
Stimpson, Auti-Organization Democrat.
N. G. Wilcox, Whig, claims the other seat,
but is not certain of getting it.
Cottage Grove and Point Douglas.
Tie between Truax, Whig, and Colby, Or
ganization Democrat.
Benton.
John McKee, Whig, elected.
Wabasha.
Wells, Anti-Organization Democrat, suppos
ed to be elected.
The editor of the Democrat makes a grand
crow over this result, and calls it a great vic
tory. When the news of the battle of Guilford
Court House reached England, it was claimed
by the Ministry as a great victory ; but said
Fox on the floor of the House of Commons.
“Another such a victory u-ill ruin the British
Army. ’ So it did. for Yorktown was next.—
Our neighbor will readily see the application
and the moral in the present case.
Election Returns. —We have only received
returns of the late election from this Council
District, which we give below. We have seen
no returns of the election for county officers,
except from one precinct, but we presume that
the whole Democratic ticket is elected, with the
exception, possibly, of one Assessor.
Louts M. Olivier,
Michael Cummings,
MUllam No.it,
William P. Murray,
BnahroU W. Lott,
Joseph R. Brown,
Justus C- Ramsey,
Benjamin L. Sellers,
Daniel F. Brawler,
Yllleroy B. Barnum,
187 168 40 395
169 142 42 354
169 183 41 363
189 147 39 35;,
174 169 29 312
190 99 12 301
919 140 14 366
ISS 108 13 306
184 121 12 317
178 106 16 301
Justices of the Peace—Trumau M. Smith
was elected Justice of the Peace in St. Paul
precinct No. 1. by 78 majority over his compet-
TVm. H. Welch was elected in precinct
School Notice.— The trustees of the two
rchool districts in St. Paul, have decided on
opening a Union Grammer School, and have
renW a room for that purpose in the brick
building of Messrs. Stees & Hunt. Mr. G. H.
Spencer has been employed to teach, and will
open the school on Wednesday of next week—
The trustees of the lower district have employ
ed Miss Bishop to teach a primary school in the
lower school house, and she will commence her
school early next week.
A Good Threshing Machine—A threshing
machine built at the Winnebago Agency by
Messjs. Fletcher, carpenter, and Ady, black
smith for the Indians, threshed in one hour 211
ushels of oats, with seven horses; this is at the
rate of 2532 bushels in 12 hours, which it is per
if there were hands
tost £ threshed' * Dd * rain ftwa J » 8
haVC had « uite ■ crowd of
steamboats here during the past week On
Monday last the Enterprise and Luella came
The Bnterprise started for Traverse dee Sioux
on Wednesday, and will continue to run in the
Minnesota river trade the rest of the season—
The LucHa is a light-draught boat, has been
ebarteoed by the Harrises, and will continue
to run for the rest of the season under the com
mand of Capt. Smith Harris, between Galena
and St. Paul. The Regulator, a new boat in
this trade, and the Dr. Franklin came up on
Tuesday. On Thursday the Greek Slave, and
on Friday the Nominee came fiom Galena.
The Late Homicide—lnvestigation of the Coroner.
Enquiry of A. H. Cavender, Coroner, Oct. 14,
1852, upon the body of Simon Dalton, deceased.
Jury, J. C. Ramsey. Stephen Wood, William
Freeborn, George Wells, P. R. Winue, Robt.
Kennedy.
TEnitiTORT of Minnesota, )
County of Ramsey. J
Deposition of Simon Dalton taken upon his
bed, lying in the House of Thomas Calder, in
Third street, Saint Paul, by Jacob J. A'oah. Jus
tice of the Peace. Simon Dalton being duly
sworn according to law deposeth and says:
All the man that done anything to me was
James Breck. Ilestruck me with a knife. James
Winters and Colonel Breck hod hold of one an
other, and I went up and caught hold of Colonel
Breck in my arms, when James Breck run for
ward and stuck me with a knife behind Mr. Cal
der's bar. I saw the knife in his hauds. I\\ a«
looking at him. It was a big knife. I had hold
of Colonel Breck when I was struck. Don’t
think the Colonel Struck me, for I was looking
at James Breck with my two eyes. I had hold
of Colonel Breck by the coat collar, but never
struck him. I was intoxicated at the time, but
I know what I was about. I don’t know the
cause of the difficulty amongst the crowd. There
was quite a crowd in the room. Ido not know
the cause of the difficulty with James Breck. I
and the Brocks were always good friends. This
occurred last night. October Pith. 1852. I had
no difficulty with any body else that I know of.
Both the Brocks ran out tiie back kitchen. Did
not threaten to strike Col. Breck or James
Breck. Do not remember that Col. Breck ask
ed me to let go of him. Neither of the Brocks
threatened me. Luke Dalton saw Jim Breck
pull out the knife and told him to put it up, for
there mas no occasion for it there. Did not see
a knife taken away from Col. Breck. Did not
see Col. Breck with any Unite. Do not remem
ber any talk with any body at the time. I took
a knife away from James Breck one evening
when I was with him and he was going to stick
Mike Cummings. I had hold of Col. Breck by
the breast when I was stuck. Col. Breck was
standing up behind the bar. He was standing
up; him and me contending, but no blows were
passed between us. Did not hear the Col. tell
James Breck not to stick me. James Breck run
round the corner of the bar, and came up behind
me and stuck me.
SIMON X DALTON, his mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me. October
13, 1852.
Thomas 11. Calder being sworn, says Simon
Dalton and Daniel Breck were sitting upon a
table in my saloon, with their arms around
each other's neck, apparently friendly. James
Breck and said Dalton got into some difficulty,
to which Daniel Breck interfered and quieted
the difficulty for a few minutes: but soon after
Simon Daltou threw his coat and handkerchief
oft' and threw them on the floor : just at the
same time I was endeavoring to get Daniel
Breck out of the back door. Said Dalton ap
peared to be perfectly crazy at the time. At
the distance I was, I could not get to him: it
took all the strength Dalton's friends had to
hold him. as he was kicking and yelling. I did
not succeed in getting 1). Breck out of the
house. S. Dalton says, let me at him, I will
take his heart out: Breck was at the door and
turned and said he would lie damned if he
would run like a dog. I said to gentlemen
hold him, (D. Breck) and I will put Dalton out;
but he pushed me bnck, and Breck hollows out
to keep him away from me: saw him (D. Breck)
flourishing a knife over his head: his eyes were
furious: caught his hands and pressed them
down to his side, with a kuife in his hands, and
carried towards the back door. Before I reach
ed the partition, Simon Dolton rushed from his
friends crying he has a knife, and the crowd
with him: they rushed on to D. Breck and my- :
self, and pushed us back on the table, with
Breck in my arms; struck my head on the ta
ble, and Breck got away from me, and I was
stunned bv the blow. I was so stupified. and
the crowd tremendous, that I saw nothing
more. The first thing I discovered, after recov
ering. I saw D. Breck inside the bar; he was
standing in a leaning position against the bav.
with a man, I think S. Dalton, choaking him by
the neck, and Breck had the knife over Dalton's
head: then I grasped at Brock’s wrist, for the
knife, from the corner of counter: at that mo
ment I brought Breck's arm down to the count
er. and called to wrest the knife, and James
Winters did so. At the same moment the per
son who had him by the throat pushed him fur
ther back and Brook hallowed "O, God,” as
quick as the knife was out of his hand. I got
the Daltons away and took Breck to the back
door, pushed him out, locked the door aud
throwed the key away. James Breck was got
out at the same moment by some one else. S.
Dalton was inside of the counter with some of
his friends, and I could see blood on the lower
shelf inside the counter just as I got up to the
three: Dalton says I am cut: this was after I
had got both Brocks out doors. At the same
time with his friend", one of them says Simon
you are stabbed, and Simon saw the blood and
"hollowed out and says by God I am stabbed,
where is he, meaning the man that stabbed him:
in an instant there were several running to the
door to find them. Just at the time that he
discovered he was stabbed, he mourned till the
Doctor was called to dress the wound: they
then took him into the kitchen. Dalton's
friends are two Winters and others. I called
on Doctor Vitchers and Charles Bazill to take
him into the kitchen till I could get the crowd
out of the saloon. The said Simon Dalton is
the same man now lying deceased iu the other
room.
Total. |
Little Canada, j
St. Paul, p. No. 2. |
St. Paol> p. No. 1. 1
J. J. Xoah sworn, says he is Justice of the
Peace in and for this county. I was in Mr.
Caldera saloon the night of the affray. There
was a great crowd in there, and all pretty well
intoxicated. A good deal of quarreling goiug
on between every body almost. The crowd
was so thick I could hardly discover any one.
Mr. Calder called on me to command the peace.
I turned around and saw a man, I think Jim
W inters, trying to strike a Mr. Ward; some
wanted to part them, others were anxious that
they should light, as they did not appear anx
ious to quiet them, I caught this man Jim, by
the waist and threw him about ten feet. I
then quited Mr. W ard. James Bell and myself
then quieted this man Jim, and he promised
to keep the peace; this was about 8 o clock in
the evening ; as quick as my hack was turned
he made three or four efforts to strike Mr.
"a™ i Mr. 11 ard went around behind me and
went out of the door. Afterwards some of the
crowd went up to the bar to get liquor. Col
Breck was sitting oil the counter; he (Brock)
said Mr. Calder told him not to give anybody
any liquor, and no one should have any: and 1
came up to the Col., asked him if he would not
let the ’Squire have some, and he says no, not
even you. Afterwards, news coming of the
election returns. Col. Breck got upon the count
er and commenced making a speech. I think
Dalton, the deceased, was there making quite a
loud noise hurrahing. I think the voice of
Dalton I heard among the crowd; and there
was much excitement about the deieat of M.
Cummings. Seeing that it was impossible to
quiet the excitement that the whole crowd was
i P tbc , P***’ bearing Col. Breck’s
speakmg, 1 went into my office. I probably
staid in my office an hour or an hour and a
talking wMi M hl | h Vn* 1 heard thu deceased
talking with Micheal Cummings in a very ex
cited manner. It appeared to me that Cum
mings was trying to quiet him but could not—
Afterwards u Mr. Shleik, a shoemaker, came to
ray room and wanted to know if I had anv
. e ? d j to sow up a man s wound that had been
stabbed; gave him some: went into Mr. Calder'e
kitchen, lound the deceased there, and found
the Doc-tog there sowing up the wound. The
deceased was saying he did not know why Jim
Breck stabbed him; at the time young Winters
pulled out Col. Breck’s knife (I know it) out of
his pocket, said he had taken it from the Col.,
and that he would not give it up to anybody.—
i asked him to keep it, he said he would. I
r**. cal,ed on takg depositions, which I* now
tekhJT ‘V he Coroner; at which time of
excited lhe was very much
times durin» U t h 80 that he vonlited several
Vicb.ioijSnSS'fojli.'fS lo * Of.
JACOB J. NOAH.
Justice of the P»acc.
Henry Jackson being sworn, says: He was in
the saloon of Mr. Calder at the time Simon Dal
ton received the wound : Save there seemed to
be some difficulty between Siman Dalton and
James and Col. Breck. They were quarreling.
Language of Dalton very abusive. Tried to
put him out of doors but could not keep him out.
He had Col. Breck by the throat or collar of his
coat across the counter. Thinks that James
Breck tried to stab the deceased. I saw no
knife in the hands of J. Breck. Col. Breck said
to his brother, for God’s sake don’t; this was at
the time that Dalton had hold of Col. Breck —
says he saw Col. Breck and Simon Dalton at the
end of the counter: they were clinched; Breck
said they must take Dalton away or he would
hurt him or cut him. Thought at the time he
(Col. Breck) was drawing a weapon, and made
a motion, but did not see any weapon ; Dalton
said immediately: I am cut and murdered.
Thinks that James Breck did not injure Dalton
at the time he attempted to stab him, and is
sure that he did not.
Thomas Wall being sworn says, he was at
Mr. Calder's on the night that Simon Dalton w as
stablied ; he saw James Breck with a knife in
his hand, open, at about eight or nine o'clock in
the evening ; he saw Col. Breck run to Dalton
and another man and then heard Dalton say that
lie was stabbed ; he did not see Col. Breck have
a knife ; the two Brecks left the house withiu
aliout three minutes of the time that Dalton
said he w as stabbed ; he did not see Dalton aud
Col. Breck have any difficulty.
THOMAS WALL.
James Brown, being sworn, says: he was at
the saloon at Mr. Calder on the night of the 12th
October, 1852; saw Dalton take hold of Col.
Breck and put him on the counter; after that
they fell on the floor; the next I saw was Mr.
Calder in the act of drawing a knife from the
body of Simon Daitou. and then Col. Breck and
James Breck left the house immediately; when
they were out of the house, they said they
would kill any man that would attack them ; I
saw the knife in the body of Dalton ; Did not
see the Brccks have any knife in the house.
JAMES BROWN.
S. Martindale being sworn, says he was pres
ent at the time of this affray. I saw a motion
made to strike the deceased ; I saw knives, but
don’t know who had them, could not tell w hose
iiands they were in : I saw more than one knife;
I don't know the person who gave the blow
with the knife ; I saw a motion ; it was about
two minutes after the fuss had stopped, that I
knew the man was stabbed. I know the man
that made the motion, it was Col. Breck; I saw
knives in the hands of others, shaking them
round ; I saw Breck make the motion, and then
the kuife taken from him; can't tell whether
the motion made by Breck inflicted the wound
on the deceased or not.
SAYLES MARTINDALE.
JACOB J. NOAH.
Justice of the Peace.
Patrick Mullain being sworn, says he was
here on the night of the 12th inst; at about 9
o'clock, saw Col. Breck's brother w ith a knife
in his hand ; did not see him use it. but saw him
have the knife in his hand ; saw Col. L’rcck and
Simon Dalton together, they were collared ; did
not sec James Breck try to assist the Col. in
getting relief; don't know who stabbed Dalton,
the deceased; thinks it was from five to ten
minutes from the time he saw the knife in the
hands of J. Breck, that Dalton found he was
stabbed, but did not see Col. Breck have a knife
at the same time; was in the saloon from the
time of the beginning of the quarrel to the end.
and at no time saw a knife taken from Colonel
Breck.
We the undersigned Physicians having this
day examined the body of Simon Dalton, by or
der of the Coroner, do report: That we found
immediately below the last rib on the left side,
an incised wound some inch and a half in length.
Upon further examination of the body, we found
that the instrument making said external wound
had passed through the integuments. Ac., into
the peritoneal cavity, (or cavity of the bowels)
through the upper portion of the descending
colon and left kidney, on the vertebra, (or back
bone.)
In the peritoneal cavitv and penal sack were
larke quantities of coagulated blood, —the peri
toneum highly inflamed, and we are ofthc opin
ion that the said Simon Dalton came to his
death bv the wound thus described.
JAMES D. GOODRICH, M. D.
CHARLES YICCHERS. M. 11.
Territory of Minnesota, >
County of Ramsey )
An inquisition taken this 14th day of October.
1852, at the House of Thomas 11. Calder, before
Abram H. Cavcnder, Coroner of said county of
Ramsey, upon the view of the body of Simon
Dalton, or person lying then dead, by the oaths
of the jurors whose names are hereunto sub
scribed, who being sworn to inquire how the said
Simon Dalton came to his death upon their
oaths, do say :
That the deceased came to his death by a
wound inflicted by the hands of some person or
persons unknown, on the 12th of Octolier, 1852,
supposed to have been done with a dirk knife
at the saloon of Thomas 11. Calder.
In testimony whereof the said Coroner and
jurors of this inquest have hereunto set their
hands the day and year aforesaid.
A. 11. CAVENDER, Coroner.
P. R. WINNE,
ROBERT KENNEDY,
STEPHEN WOOD,
WM. FREFBORN,
GEORGE WELLS,
J. C. RAMSEY.
THOS. 11. CALDER
Messrs. Editors :—Many persons, I presume,
besides myself, who contemplate making their
future home in your young and interesting
Territory, will have to leai e behind them,
among others of the comforts and advantages
of the older settlements, •• Their trees of pleas
ant fruit;” and would feel no common interest
in any information which could be obtained,
with regard to the prospects and actual reali
zation of fruit-growing in Minnesota.
As I do not know of any agricultural journal
published in your part of the country, through
which to make inquiry. I would ask, if
you think the subject of sufficient impor
tance to merit a place in your columns, that
yourselves or some of your readers, who have
positive and specific information, would com
municate eo much, at least, of what they poss
ess, that we at a distance may form some opin
ion with regard to how much we must expect
to deny ourselves, and how much we may reas
onably hope concerning those luxuries of the
temperate latitudes, —the apple, pear, plum and
cherry, particularly.
The peach, I suppose, no one need think of
growing in the open air in a latitude of 45“
north. But of the others I would like to
know.
Whether nurseries of any or all of them have
been planted in Minnesota, and where ?
Have seedlings or grafts been raised from
the ground and carried through one or more
winters in the open air, and with what success?
Is it possible, or certain, that young fruit
trees from Michigan, New York, or New Eng
land will endure your winters?
Are the wild crab apple, wild plums, and
wild cherries common, and generally diffused ?
I have noticed that where these are found na
tive, their congeners of the domesticated and
improved varieties also flourish, although the
rule may not be invariable.
It would lie an easy matter for immigrants to
take along with them a few, at least, of the
choice varieties of fruit cultivated in the States
they come from, and have them on hand, they
would be likely to plant and take care of them,
and thus, if the trees would live and flourish,
they would toon have a supply of a healthy ar
» dlct ’. "hich no one thinks “bad to
take. Now if you or some of your readers
can truly assure us that it would be a safe in
vestment, I would suggest to every settler to
take along the trees, unless they can be had on
the ground in abundance and variety. I shall
do so for one.
The above, although a subject of great im
portance. comes to us at a moment when we
have not time to investigate all his queries;
but will take occasion to say, that all kinds of
fruit trees, peaches not excepted, lived through
last winter, one of the coldest on record.
HENRY JACKSON.
PATRICK MULLAM
For the Mimiceotl.m
Northern Spt.
—The Pioneer of this week appears to be
very indignant at the publication in our last
number of the statement of 148 of the Cath
olic citizens of Concord, Noshau and Nashville
in New Hampshire, as to which political party
is responsible for maintaining the odious reli
gious test in that State of religious and political
bigotry. It attempts to induce its readers to
believe that they are fictitious names, gotten
up for the put pose of humbugging people at the
M est. Now it was with no view of injuring
Gen. Pierce, or directly or indirectly affecting
the Presidential election, that v.e published
these docments in the Minnesotian ; it was for
purpose of showing to adopted citizens in Min
nesota, that it was the Democratic party in New
Hampshire who have ever been opposed to the
nliolition of a religious test that would deprive
a great majority of them, if they lived in that
State, from holding offices of trust; that the
Democratic party of the United States had se
leeted a man for their candidate for President
from this State, and that thus they in a measure
endorsed the actions of their political brethren
there. We wished to show to our adopted citi
zens which of the tw o great political parties
held principles akiu to those of the Native
Americans. But, as the pioneer pretends to
treat the w hole as a fabrication, we will merely
remark that it was first published in the New
Hampshire Gazette, and that we have since
secu it in New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Gale
na and other papers; moreover, that it is a com
plete refutation of the statement of the 36 Cath
olics of Concord, which the Pioneer of this week
publishes—the statement of the 36 which the
Pioneer publishes, being dated on the 13th of
August last, while the statement of the 148
which we published was dated Sept. 23d. Also,
that three of the names which appear in the list
which the Pioneer publishes, viz : Messrs. Hal
pin, Gallagher and Lynch, have made affidavit
that they never signed, nor authorized any per
son to sign their names to the statement. For
the benefit of the Pioneer we republish the affi
i davit above referred to :
\Ye the undersigned, Catholic citizens of Con
cord. N. H.. having seen our names affixed to a
letter dated Concord. N. 11., Aug. 13, 1852, to
J. 1\ bite, Esq., Milwaukie, Wis., representing
that we and other Catholics of New Hampshire
feel under great obligation to Gin. Pierc» for
his efforts in the Convention and in other places
to remove the intolerant test that exists iu the
Constitution of this State, positively and sol
emnly declare that we never signed said letter,
nor gave any person liberty to" sign it for us ;
that our names are there without our know ledge
or consent, and that so far as we arc concerned
the w hole is a base forgery, and its statements
false.
miLir HALPiN,
JOHN GALLAIIER,
JOHN LYNCH.
Merrimack, ss., Sept. 23. 1852.
Then personally appearing the above named
Philip lialpin and made solemn oath that the
foregoing statement by him subscribed is true.
Before me,
ASA FOWLER,
Justice of the Peace,
Merrimack, ss., Sept. 23, 1852.
Then personally appearing the above named
John Gallaher and John Lynch, and made oath
that the foregoing statement by them subscrib
ed is true.
Before me,
X. 11. SAXHORN,
Justice of the Peace.
Arch-Bishop Hughes and the Presidential
Election
Tlioi.ini' J: Scmnies Esq., of Louisiana, says
the Cleveland Herald, recently addressed a long
letter to Bishop Hughes in relation to the reli
gious Test of New Hampshire. The letter is an
especial plea for the election of Gen. Pierce, by
Catholic votes, and the influence of the Catholic
Clergy, of which the Archbishop is the head in
this country. In framing his letter, Mr. Femmes
intended to be very adroit. lie manufactured a
rumor that the Archbishop had declared against
Pierce. This he thought would bring out a most
emphatic denial, and might betray the Arch
bishop into some expression in favor of Pierce,
or at least the utterance of an opinion that
Pierce really was opposed to the religious Test-
But Archbishop Hughes is not so dull and inex
perienced as Mr. Scuimes supposed. Ilis reply
is about as cutting a rebuke of the attempt to
make a tool of him, as could have been written.
Here it is entire :
New- York, September 17, 1552.
Dear Sir : — I have read through, and care
fully. the letter which you addressed to me, un
der date 11th inst., in regard to the impending
election of President of the United States, and
the part which you think the Catholic citizens
of the Republic ought to take in it. The two
candidates presented are Gen. Scott and Gen.
Pierce. The entire American people appear to
be nearly equally divided in opinion as to which
of these two will make the better Cbicl Magis
trate. This fact seems to intimate a general
opinion that the country will be safe under the
four years’ presidency of either. As to the
Catholics, they have never been consulted as to
the limited choice between these two. The
probability is, like their fellow-citizens of other
denominations, they will be divided—some vot
ing for one candidate, and some for another.—
Like others they are liable to err in theirchoicc.
But, under all circumstances, I should prefer
that, voting honestly, each according to his own
judgment, they should irrwith the minority, or
(what is equally possible,) with the majority of
their fellow-citizens, of all denominations, rather
than see them guarded against such danger of
erring in their choice of President by ecclesias
tical influence.
I am sure with your enlightened mind and
large Catholic education, you will appreciate
the reasons on which this my humble opinion is
founded, whether or not you will agree w ith me
in regard to its justice aud expediency. In any
event, however, I beg leave to subscribe myself
Your sincere and devoted servant in Xt,
tJOIIX,
Archbishop of New Y ork.
Thomas J. Semmes, Esq.
It is probable, remarks the Pittsburg Journal,
that if the Archbishop had been convinced that
Pierce had ever seriously opposed the religious
Test, he would have allowed that conviction to
appear in some expression, in this brief letter.
But there is no hint of the kind : and from this
we infer that Mr. Semmes' elaborate arguments,
and the strenuous efforts of the Democratic party
throughout the Union to clear Pierce of all par
ticipation in the illiberal prejudices of his fei
low-citizens of New Hampshire, have failed to
convince the acute and far-seeing Archbishop.
Which Party do the Native Americans Sip
fort ?—Peter Skcn Smith, the great Philadel
phia Nativist, has announced his adhesion to
Pierce and King; and the Hon. L. C. Levin,
another celebrated Nativeist, supports the same
candidates. Birds of a feather flock together.
These men know Scott, and they have heard o f
Pierce, and they go for a man whose principles
are most in accordance with their own. They
are genuine Native Americans, and their actions
show that Pierce is more in favor of their
views than Scott is ; so they vote for Pierce.
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The Irish and their Friends.
The Irish are celebrated the world over, for
their keen wit, impulsive natures, warm hospi
tality and love of liberty. These characteris
tics are seized upon in this country by unmiti
gated demagogues, and the warm-hearted Irish
man is decoyed into the meshes of Locofocoism,
thinking all the while that he has enlisted under
the flag of pure Democracy. He is caught by
the sweet sound of Democrat , and unknown to
himself, he is made to vote against his truest
friends, and his own best interests. How was it
in 1847, when Ireland was suffering all the hor
rors of famine, and her perishing population
were calling upon us for bread ? Who were
then the truest friends of Irishmen, and of fam
ishing Ireland ? Let the public record speak,
and we challenge the severest scrutiny into the
facts of the case. Look at the action of Con
gress on this subject, and see where the parties
stood.
THE IRISH RELIEF DILL.
Senate, February 25, 1817., —Mr. Crittenden
(Whig) introduced a bill appropriating $500,-
000, to be expended in provisions under the di
rection of the President, and transporting the
same to the famishing poor of Ireland and Scot
land in a national vessel.
Mr. Crittenden supported the bill with great
eloquence and force.
Messrs. J. M. Clayton (Whig) and Cass (Dom.)
followed on the same side.
Mr. Miles (Dein.) opposed the bill, as setting
a dangerous precedent, when, on motion of Mr.
Bagby (I)ern.) it was postponed until to morrow.
Senate, February 20- —Mr. Crittenden moved
to take up the bill reported by him yesterday,
for the relief of the suffering poor of Ireland and
Scotland.
Mr. Sevier (Dem.) opposed the motion, and it
was disagreed
23, (all Democrats, except Mr. Davis.)
Subsequently, during the same day, the bill
for the relief of Ireland passed the Senate by a
vote of Yeas 27, Nays 13—nil voting in the neg
ative being Democrats.
Now, bear in mind that the bill passed the
Senate on Saturday, the 27th of February, but
three business days before the close of the ses
sion. Immediately it became known that Pres
ident Polk was opposed to it, and that lie would
veto it, if it passed the House. On Monday, the
bill was reported to the House, and the follow
ing proceedings had :
House of Retoesentativer, March 1.
The bill from the Senate for the relief of Ire
land and Scotland was read, and a motion made
to lay it on the table was negatived—Yeas 75,
Nays 82.
Mr. Carroll (Whig) moved to go into Commit
tee of the Whole lor its consideration, which
was negatived—Yeas fiO, Nays 110.
The bill was then referred to the Committee
of Ways and Means.
The object of the Democratic majority, in
sending the bill to the Committee of Ways and
Means, at this stage of the session, must be ole
vious to every man of ordinary observation.—
That it was sent there for the purpose of smoth
ering it in Committee, is clearly evident from
the proceedings which follow :
House, March 2.. —Mr. Carrol moved a resolu
tion to instruct the Committee of Ways and
Means to report to the House the Senate bill for
the relief of Ireland.
The motion was declared out of order.
Mr. Carrol appealed.
The Yeas and Nays were taken and the Chair
sustained.
The Speaker's Chair was filled by John W.
Davis, of Indiana, President of the late Demo
cratic National Convention, a very pliant instru
ment of an unscrupulous majority, who had de
termined at all hazards to stave off a vote on
the bill upon its merits. No marvel, then, that
he should rule it out of order to require the
Committee to report it back to the House. But
they could not be permitted to skulk the issue
in this w ay. Mr. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, a
sterling Whig, and an excellent Parliamentari
an, forced them to show their hands upon the
question in the following form :
Mr. Winthrop (Whig) moved to suspend the
rules, to enable him to offer a resolution to in
struct the Committee of Ways and Means to re
port back to the House the Senate bill appropri
ating $500,000 for the relief of the sufferers by
famine in Ireland, which was rejected by the
follow ing vote :
Yeas (we omit the names) 45 Whigs. 11 Dem
ocrats ; Nays 14 Whigs, 88 Democrats.
Here we have it in black and white, and no
dodging. Only eleven Democrats out of 100
voted to save the Irish from starvation, while
eighty-eight recorded their totes against the
Irish. Had that appropriation, so nobly fought
for by Gov. Crittenden, passed, it would have
saved thousands of famine-stricken men. women
and children from the grave. Here was a great
opportunity for the brawling leaders of the
Democratic party to show their love and regard
for the dear Irishmen whom they so fondly treat
and hug just before each election.
See Bote. —The rumor noticed a few days
ago, that this influential German paper at Mil
waukee had come out for Scott, is fully confirm
ed. The following is an extract from a late ar
ticle, translated for the Milwaukee Sentinel.—
It will be seen that it is tolerable plain talk :
“ Politicians of all parties are to be suspected
when they make loud boasts of being our
friends, but when they combine with their flat
tery glowing “ words of warning,” if w e dare
lie guided by our religious convictions to use
our right of suffrage against themselves, and
would disfranchise our clergy and prevent
their using the rights which belong to them in
common with all other citizens, we can trace
their smiles and lies to a common, interested
motive, and turn with disgust from the noon
day exposure of such a machinery of depravi-
Democrats tell us that the transfer of our
votes to the support of Gen. Scott will engend
er bitterness of feeling and procure us Catholics
the enmity of the Democratic party. God be
praised that this fact is out at last! You ac
| knowcledge, then, that our Votes were the only
basis of friendship, tolerance and “protection .
Endless is the mischief which Catholics have
done themselves by this claim of demagogues
to be our •• protectors.” We tell politicians,
once for all, that we neither ask nor desire
their “ protection. ’ Oil the contrary, we es
chew and execrate it. Thank God. we can pro
tect ourselves. We ask favors from no man
and no party. When Whigs put up rascals for
public office, we shall set our face against
them, just as we protest now against the rotten
ness of Wisconsin Democracy. If our consci
entiousness procure the enmity, instead of the
respect of any portion of the’community, not
we, but that portion of the community is* to be
despised and repudiated.
We know that by far the majority of Ger
man Catholics share our views. We’solemnly
declare that as Christians, Catholics ami Patri
ots, we feel bound to support WINFIELD
SCOTT, and to do our utmost to aid his cause.
Franklin Bierce is doubtltss a good hearted,
honest man, but the Democratic party, of which
he is put forward as the chief, is undciiiablv
responsibie for the Blue Laws of New Hamp
shire, and we do not care to sustain a leader of
bigots, even though he may not subscribe to
all their opinions. I’rankliu Fierce, whatever
merits his friends may claim for him, is. com
pared with Winfield Scott, whose fame and in
tegrity are blazoned over the whole world, an
obscure individual, and wo can be under no
conceivable obligation to assist in his eleva
tion to a dignity, for which chi n -e made him a
candidate, at the expense of a Hero who owes
his nomination solely to his deserts. Rail
away then, ye Democratic demogogues, because
wc cast oft your shackles! Your taunts and
praise affect us equally little, and when you
tell us we mutt not forsake your party, because
it is sinking into decay, through roguery and
infidelity, we answer, we will forsake it!
Whig Gain. —Mr. Shewaringer, a Whig, has
been elected to. the Mississippi Legislature from
Anote county, in place of a Democrat, deceas
ed.
Neighbor Buel has received an extensive
assortment of Boots and Shoes, which, as will
appear by his advertisement in another column
he is anxious that all citizens, and particularly
the ladiea. should call and examine.
The Regular Baptists and Temperance In
Minnesota.
At the recent Session of the Preachers and
Lay Delegates of the churches of this denomi
nation in our Territory, held in St. Paul, to
form an Association, and to transact such other
business as the occasion might call for, the fol
lowing Preamble and Resolutions were unani
mously passed by a rising vote :
H hereas, intemperance is the great source
of crime, poverty and wretchedness, in ever)’
form, intellectual, moral, social and civil:.
therefore :
Resolved, That it is the imperious duty of
every lover of good order and sound moral
principles to oppose, in every honorable way.
the manufacture, sale and use, as a t leverage,
except for medical purposes, of all intoxicating
drinks.
Resolved, That we highly approve of the
Maine Liquor Law, as passed by our Territorial
Legislature last winter, and pledge ourselves
to its support.
Resolved. That the principles assumed and
carried out by the Maine Law, that spirituous
and intoxicating liquors, kept for sale as a bev
erage, should be destroyed by the State, as a
public evil, meets the approbation of this Asso
ciation, as consonant with the destruction of the
implements of gambling and counterfeiting, of
poisonous food, infectious hides, and weapons
of war in the hands of an enemy.
Resolved, That if the liquor destroyed is pri
vate property, it is only so, as are the imple
ments of the counterfeiter, dangerous and dead
ly to the best interests of community ; that its
destruction is no waste of the bounties of l’rovi
dence more than the destruction of noxious
weeds, while its very destruction enriches the
State, exceeding the amount for which it could
have been sold. It tends to put an end to all
subterfuges, fraud and secret sales, and the de
mand for it in the community. It makes our
beloved Territory a perfect asylum for the ine
briate. It is a solemn manifestation to the
world of the vile and worthless nature of the
article destroyed, and an unmistakeablc token
to the vender, of the end to which a righteous
public sentiment will ultimately bring his busi
ness. For these and other reasons, this Associ
ation give this excellent law tlieir hearty ap
probation. and strongly recommend to all Un
friends of humanity to cherish it as the sure and
only sure triumph of the Temperance Cause,
and to withhold no honorable means to sustain
it. T. R. CRESSY, Ch’n.
In behalf of the Committee.
The Greatest Living Captain. —The death
of the Duke of Wellington, we have remarked,
leaves Gen. Winfield Scott, beyond all question,
the greatest living Captain of the age. The
comparison of the two veterans, even w hile both
were on the scene of life, was not one from
which the countrymen of Scott was disposod to
shrink. The parallel was not wholly unequal.
The quick military sagacity and thorough train
ing to the art of war. in command ; the sound
head, practical diplomacy and ardent devotion
to the peace and prosperity of the country,
which distinguished them in Council, are not
unlike. And so of their battles. If the theatre
of the one was wider, the triumphs of the other,
in proportion to his theatre, were not less bril
liant.
And what has been their comparative rewards
from their respective Governments. To Wel
lington all that unnumbered titles, annuities,
perquisites and pay, could bestow, and these
failing to swell his fortune to princely munifi
cence. as a grateful county desin d to swell it.
direct gifts to over three and a half millions of
dollars were superadded. To Scott, the scant
pay prescribed to his rank, and the occasional
perquisites attached to his ex-officio and extra
ordinary services. Of titles, beyond General
in-Chief. won, rank by rank, and in many a well
fought and victorious field, he has, as yet, had
none. But the time rapidly approaches when
this, we trust, can no longer be said.
We will not doubt it, indeed. The National
Election rapidly approaches, and each day and
hour cofirm the ardent hope that President oj
the United States will be the proud title added
to the lionorsand just rewards of Winfield Scott.
—-V. I'. Times.
The New Fork and Erie Railroad Company
have purchased the Ramapoand Patterson road,
aud will alter it to the wide guage immediately,
so that there will be no change of cars from
Dunkirk to Jersey City. The same company
are also laying a double track from Jersey to
Delaware, and from Xarrowsburg to Iloriicls
ville.
Emigration. —There arrived at the port of
New York, between Jan. Ist to Sept. 22d. 226,-
976 emigrants from foreign countries. Of these,
Holland sent 88,665; Germany, 92,686 : all oth
er countries, 45,626.
A letter from California says: “A man from
Illinois has just arrived from Independence, hav
ing driven the entire distance uvo thousand
turkeys, all hale and hearty. They cost him
about fifty cents apiece in the States, and the
cost of feeding them on the way has been noth
ing, they fed themselves ; he 'lias been offered
eight dollars apiece.”
An net was passed at the last session of Con
gress providing for the making and distribution
of letter envelopes, bearing postage stamps,
which are to be supplied to the public at tin
cost of procuring them, as near asuiay tie. The
advantage of this is obvious, and the public
have long demanded it. All postmasters arc to
l*o furnished with them tor sale, and as “other
persons ” may buy them by the quantity of the
government agents, doubtless the bookstores
w ill be supplied with them.
Rale of Mr. Flat’s Property at Ashland.
A sale of a portion of ilie personal property of
the late lion. Henry Clay took place at Ash
land. on the 15th inst.. and embraced about
twenty head of thorough bred cattle, several
tine horses, and a quantity of wine, put up sev
eral years ago by Mr. Clay himself. The sale
took place under the direction of his execu
tors.
The Steamer Atlantic.—Mr. Wells, of the
American Express Company, returned to Buffa
lo on Monday, from the wreck of the Atlantx
accompanied by Mr. Maillefert and his nssist
ants. Mr. John Green, the famous diver, had
descended to the wreck eight different times,
but was unable to find the state room in which
the Express Company’s Safe is lodged, nor could
he determine his exact position on the boat.—
Several lines and chains have lieen made fast
to the boat, with buoys nttachcd, preparatorv
to raising the wreck.
Gov. Ramsey. —Mr. Gatlin, of the Willow Riv
er Land Office, was in town yesterday, on his
return from Washington. He brings word that
Gov. Ramsey had succeeded in getting the mon
ey promised the Sioux Indians, and is now on
his w ay back to Minnesota.—Go/. .It/p
Georgia Coming Right.—The Washington
Republic of October 2d, announces that Hon.
James 11. Johnson, a prominent Union I)emo
erat ot Georgia, has declared for Scott and
Scott m Gcorg,a ma y J' et "heel into line for
M m. L. Rorixson is out with a scathing rebuke
to his traclucers. It is an open and candid refu
tation of the calumny heaped upon him by the
l.ocofoco prsss, because he dared to show Mr.
I lerce in his true character; and will bring
lint little comfort to his party, who cannot
prove his assertion false. His slanderers have
aroused him to retalialion. and it is probable
w ill get enough of him before next November.
The Difference.— The resolution of inquiry
into the amount of money paid by Government
to Gen. Scott Ims not turned out particularly
?b»??«r f' T thc Picrce P ar ‘J- has shown
that U>\ forty-four years of hard service, during
which he has won many brilliant victories for
his country, and served it nobly in a civil capa
sVtln om"' h ,“ B I T ceive< t something over
--00,000. But it also shows that for one year’s
services, suc h as they wt re, Gen. Fierce reciev^d
Gen* s Scott s2 °u°i? ! Such a ratc of P a ? for
Gen. Scott w ould have given him near $900,000.
,4‘ th ° recent general convcntton of Univcr
. B ts, held in New York, a proposition was
aaopted to erect a monument to the memory of
ne late Rev. Hosea Ballou. A committee of
one from each State was appointed to receive
contribution for this purpose.
California Item*.
The Steamers United States and Prometheus,
which arrived at New York on the 3d inst.,
bring two weeks later news from California.
The Steamer Pioneer, of Vanderbilt’s line,
was lost at St. Simons on the 17th August.—
She experienced a severe gale on the 15th, and
being in a crippled condition, put into St. Si
mons’ Bay on the following day, and was run
ashore on the 17th to prevent ncr sinking, when
she bilged in 17 feet water.
The California steamer from San Francisco,
toconnect with the Ohio at Panama, had aboard
$2,130,849 in gold as freight, making total ship
ment since January of $20,195,965.
A San Francisco Whig had bet SIO,OOO that
the State would go for Scott.
The reported discovery of new and valuable
gold mines on the east range of the Sierra Ne
vada, is confirmed.
The mining news is generally very encour
aging.
The Cholera, or a disease resembling it, had
appeared among the emigrants.
A fire at Necka, consumed about $50,000
worth of property.
Mike W ai.sh is one of the Congressional nom
inees of the Democrats in New York city. The
Express says, •- he is likely to make a good run
among the B hoys, and if. by any extraordinary
possibility, the great Subterranean should be
elected, the National Councils will have an ori
ginal contribution from New York, for the next
session. ‘-Mike’’ is, or was once, a Hunker, and
if there was one thing he coveted more than an
other, it was a reputation for hating Barnburn
erism in all its forms and phases. No man more
bitterly denounced the defection of that faction
from the regular ranks, in the last Presidential
campaign, than Mike, and there were none in
the camp who more grievously lamented the
defeat of Gen. Cass. Now, as Mike has not gone
much out of his way to recant or mollify his
former objurgations, it is by no means certain
that the Barnburners will come up to his sup
port. Mike is not their man. as they certainly
are not, and never were, his men."— Albany
Register.
The people of Dubuque, by a vote of 429 to 9*
have determined to lend the credit of that city
to the amount of SIUO,OOO, to aid in the con
struction of the Dubuque and Janesville rail
road. Citizens of Dubuque, in their individual
capacity, have pledged themselves for $50,000
more.
In the city of Boston, (Mass.) there are at
least 400 dwelling houses appraised at above
$1.0.000. There are several at $50,000 and up
ward, and one house, with the land connected
with it, is taxed for upwards of SIOO,OOO.
The valuation of property in the city of Chi
cago, as assessed, shows an increase over last
year, of $2,800,000. We think the assessors
must have been men of enlarged views.
Hogs. —The rapid decline in prices of pork in
New York, and bacon in the South and West,
with the last week, it seems, has affected the
views of operators in hogs. One of our city
packers assures us that the orders they have re
ceived for the past few days are limited to $3-
50 gross, and $4 75 nett. This is a decline of
full 50c. per 100 pounds, upon the price of hogs
two and three weeks ago.
A dispatch from Cincinnati of yesterday, the
28th, to an operator in this city, says, •* Ilogs
dull and declining: do not buy."— Louisville
Courier, 30 th u/t.
Improving ax Accident.—A story is told of
Mr. Van Buren. that while on a tour through
the West, in 1840, he was overset in a stage
coach, and as he stood up to his knees in mud,
he asked the driver how the accident happened,
and was told by that personage that lie had al
ready upset eleven Members of Congress, and
by so doing had secured the vote of every one of
them for appropriations to the National Road ;
and as he never befure had a President for a
passenger, he thought he would improve the
opportunity by doing his duty to the West, in
end« avoring to prevent a veto, in case another
appropriation should pass.
California. —A correspondent writes:—“l
pledge my word for it. that the city and county
of San Francisco alone will give a majority for
•Scott of from two to three thousand .*’
Indiana Election.— liy the death of Senator
Whitcomb, of Indiana; the Legislature to be
chosen next Tuesday will elect a U. S. Senator
to fill the vacancv.
There are in the United States, eishtv-onc
women holding the office of postmaster, (?)
thirty-one ol whom are in Pennsylvania.
We wish, says the Savannah News, the Post
master General would appoint a few females in
Georgia. They never tolerate ijregularities iu
the males.
Mrs. Partington, upon reading in the Post,
that the Boston Light Guards appeared in un
dressed uniform, said : “ Well, if soldiers will
go naked, I m glad that they don't train in the
day time—l am!”
The blowing down of a pine tree in the town
ship of Nelson, (C. W.) has revealed the skele
ton ot a man of great stature, a stone image,
two copper vessels, and some large sea shells.
Mhy was it? —W hen Gen. Scott was only
28 years of age, Fresidont Madison offered him
the post of Secretary of War, w hich he declined
to accept ou account of his youth. He was the
youngest man to whom a cabinet office has ever
been proffered. Mr. Madison was a shrewd and
sagacious statesman, and a good Democrat, and
the fact speaks volumes. I’ublish it, Mr. Eagle.
—Lancaster Gazette.
M c learn from the Houston Telegraph that a
very large quantity of wine has been made in
Texas, this season, from native grapes. Most
of this wine has been made from the mustang
grape, which yields a wine of a lieautiful claret
color, and seems to combine some of thc quali
ties of claret and port.
The Expedition to Japan. —Wc learn from
Washington that the Japanese expedition will
consist of three superior war steamers, viz : the
U. S. steamer Mississippi, Captain Long, which
will leave New York from Ist to 10th November;
the l. R. steamship Princeton, Commodore Per
ry. which will accompany the Mississippi as flag
ship, and is now at Baltimore receiving her
boilers. The third steamer is the Allegheny,
w-hlch is now undergoing repairs at the Gosport
Navy \ ard. Thc arrangement for thc equip
ment and departure of the above steamers is
progressing favorably.
According to the returns made to the Secre
tary of the Treasury, it appears that the stcarn
lwat tonnage connected with thc American
lakes, exceeds that of Great Britain and all her
dependencies. The steamers on Lake Erie
alone, measure more tons than nil the steam
boats in Europe. Asia and Africa, inclusive, pro
vided von leave out those which belong to
Great Britain. What a comment are such facts
on the boundless resources of our soil, and thc
go-ahead tendency of free institutions.
I xci.E Tom in England.— An advertisement
appears in the English papers, announcing the
republicatiou ot Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in London,
in six numbers, nt a penny a number!
Hon. Thos. 11. Benton left Washington a day
or two ago for Missouri. The Intelligencer
says it is Col. Benton's intention to return early
in December, and remain during the session of
Congress.
The engineers of the several railways termi
nating at Albany, met Sept. 21st, to’consider
the feasibility of the various projects for a tun
nel under the Hudson River. Nothing was
done, and they adjourned.
There have been more thunder storms in
Great Britain during the past summer than at
any summer before within remembrance. Many
of them have been terriffic and destructive.
The widow of King Louis Philippe is residing
permanently near the lake of Como, where she
nas purchased a chateau.
Miss Catharine Hayes, accompanied by her
mother, will sail from New Y'ork, in the steam
ship Illinois, for California, on the 20th of Octo
ber. to fulfil her engagement with Mr. Barnum,
who has already despatched an agent thither
with a letter of credit for $20,000, to make the
necessary arrangements for her concerts.