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Frox Guatamaia.—By the J. R, Gardiner, ar
vived to-day from Balize, Honduras, later news
from Guatainala has been received. The inhabi
tants of the eity were divided by faerions, and out
side surrounded by insurgents o 1 liberals, under
command of Ceropin, The imsurgents demanded
four days' pillage from their leaders, The inhab
tants granted msnr( their demands, by raising fifty
or s.xty thowsand dollars, which failed 10 satisly
them.
The news from Balize is not important. Gooda
destined for Guatamala had been stopped.
From MExico.—Vera Cruz dates have been re
ceived 1o the 13th ingt. The last adviees from the
city of Mexico represent public affairs in much'con
fusion. A revolution was impending over Ferrera.
Another express arrived at Vera Cruz, stating that
Tampico had declared her independence from the
St of Tamaulipas, and seeks annexation to the
United States,
Yuvcarax.—One thonsand Indians bad attacked
the earrison at Yeocaba, and kitled 200, Loss o 1
the Indians unkuown,
Grear AnarM AsD TrReEMENDOUR EXCITEMENT.
—On Tuesday, a errcas company pitehed its tent
at Norristown on an open space in the rear of the
town dor the purposc ot giving a periermance in
the evening. About 7 o clock justatter the com
mence ent o' the “show.” and whiic the clown
was delighting the andience with the exceution of
the polka’ a sudden gust of wind and rain came
up Uhe tormer was so violent as 10 snap off the
pole which had been run up in the eentre of the
ring and which supported the large extent of” tent
covering. o an instant, the threng ot men women
and ehildren. were buried in the folds of the can
vass. There was notime for reflection, and each
individua! made vigorovs exertions for his own
preservation. The greatest consternation prevail
ed. The men shouted. while the women and chil
dren shreked for deliverance from the cmbrace of
what many of them no doubt thought would prove
their winding sheet. Saffocation scemed inevita
ble. when a number ef persons whoweore fortunate-
Iv provided with knives fell o work amd cut the
canvass soas to admit of the egress of the terrified
assemblage. In the rush from the place some of
the parties were bruised and reccived other sheht
injuries. and a majority of them left hehiind various
articles of wearing apparel consisting of honnets
hats eaps coat tails ond other frogmentary “relies
of old decency.” One man was somcwhat badly
hurt by being struck on the Hrebead by the fatling
pole but luckily after all. as far as we could ascer
tain. escaped witk whele bones, 4l Ledzoer.
R ————
Sext Back —on the 2ith dav ¢f September last,
two notorious rogues nawed Henry Lee alins Wil
liams and Alexander MeFarland, broke out of the
hode Istand State prison and cficeted their escape
o parts unhnewn. Beth had broken out of the
game prison on a previous oecasion. when Lee
came to this eity and shipped on board one of our
vessels of war, then about going to sea. He went
the voyage. and after Lis retarn committed an off
fence tor which he was eont to the State Prison at
Charlestown. where be served out his sentence
Subsequently he found himsclf a sceond time in
hode Island prison where he also met his former
partner. MeFarland, when both escaped. as above
stated,
Twoorthree nights since the two prisoners were
arrested under the names of John Henry and Al
exander Redding, ebarged with breaking into the
store of Mr. Edwards eorner of Grove and South
ae strects. At the time of their arrest it was not
known that they were eseaped convicts. Yester
day, however. officers Harrington and Sturk
weater tound a handbill offering u reward for the
apprehension of the two rogues, and desertbinge
their persons. They aceordingly conveyed them
to Providence vesterday afternoon. and delivered
them to the Warden. The unexpired termof their
sentences s about six years. They are both de
seribed s being exceadingly ingenious rogues.—
Boston Journal
Gas reom Waren —Sir Humphrey Davy said
that ~ at some future time gas would be generated
from water for geueral purposes, surpassing that
of coul 1 brilhaney and purity.” An apparatus
has been patented in Englaud by Stephen White,
for waking gas trom waler and common rosin or
war. 'The Londoea Miner's Journal, in deseribing
it says that the gasis extremely pure, and in burn
ing ewits no smoke or smell. The apparatus s
cheap, and the gas cheaper than that trom coul
The following is u deseription ol the method :
“The apparates corsists of three retorts placed
in a stove. two of which are filled with charcoul
and thin pieces of tron, and the other with iron
chains hanging {rom a centre bar. The two first
retoris ate for the decemposition of water, which is
regulariy supplied by means of a syplion pipe,
passing through and into the centie of the retort;
the water, in pussing through the heated material,
becomes converted Into pure hydrogen and perox
ide of earbon. Tt then passes anto a third retort,
to receiveits doce of bi-carburet Shydro"('n. which
is prepared from common tar or melted rosin, or
similar substances, paseing or dropping on the red
bot chain from a syphon tube, which regulates its
csupply. This causes the tar, or melted rosin, to
throw ofl an abundance of bi-carburet of hydrogen
gas. The gases being mixed in this manuer are
ramediately conveyed into the gasometer for use,
without any purifving vessels whatever, none be
ing required.”
The St Lawrexce —The London Times gives
the following account of the misston of this
frigate t
*The American mail steamers running between
New York and Bremen, via Southampton, have
developed @ most important tratlic between Ger
many ¢nd the United States, and the Government
of the latter country hae exhibiied their apprecia
tion of the importance of this traflic by sending
over the St. Lawrence for the protection of Awmer
ican interests in the North Sea, as soon as she
could be gat reudy after the news of a blockade of
the German ports by the Daagisi fieet was received
at Washington. Now thatthe blockade has been
raised, we learn that the St. Lawrence will not
make a long stay in the Weser, owing to the un
favorable weather for wintering there. She will
return to this neighberhood in o tew wecks for
supplics, making her permanent station for the
winter at Lisbon or Cadiz ”
® Laxorewot was exceuted at Philadelphin last
Frida¥, according 1o his sentence. He porsisted
in his innocence to the last, and made the follow
ing address, while standing on the gallows:
“Here 1 stand on the point, about to leave the
resent world and go omy great judge. Tle that
fll()wl all without witnesses, knows wy cuse and
an ju«fizé without witnesses. lam coudemned by
the Court of Philadetphia. for the murder of Mrs.
Catharine Rademacher, through Giteen false wit
nesscs. The judges can huve hud no spirit with
themsclves o condemn o man with such circum
stances. Upon the statement that a person has
beea lying in hier bed there ean be no conclusion
drawn that one was guilty of the murder. My
writing published in the German Democrat proves
my innecence, 1 forgiveit all. lam going to my
Crentor, who will judge me by all my evil und good
actions. [ forgive wy witnesscs juryuicn, and all.
God will judge.”
Coven'ste Stay Lockeo Ur—A jury of the
Court of Common Pleas, retired yesterday to a pub
hLic hiouse in the vicioty of the Court for the par
ose of muking up their verdiet. They werein the
Lu« ping of an oflicer, whe placed them in a room,
locked them up and took his departore for the bar
roon. to get aninkling of the probable result of the
clection for Governor. In the meantime the jury
agreed on a verdiet, but could not get out of the
doorway without breaking o lock. This they did
not hke to do and the foremun made his «xit
through the sceond story window. over ashed, and
through anothegwvindow. The romaiving eleven
followed, and in a fow mowents they all appeared
be fore his honor =rendered their verdiet and were
discharged.=-Phil. Sun.
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Max Drowsen. —We learn that & man came on
board the steamer Bay State at Newport. who suid
he had walked from New Bediord, had no money
and asked a (rec pussage to New York which the
captuin with his accuston hindness granted
m. When off Throgy's l“ he called out that
police officers were in pursuit O him. and ruuhinfi
into ene of the coul chambers juinped overboar
through the open door. A boat” was immediately
lowercd. and every effort made to save him, but in
vain. He s supposed 10 have been insane. His
name was not known. His apparent age was
thirty years.=<N. V. Com. Ade.
Western Lok Fisheries.—<"The fisheries of the
great Western Lakes, we find, on looking over
the report of the House of Representatives on
Harbor and River linprosements, sre wiueh more
exiensive than we were aware of—and more so,
we thiok, than is generally undersiood. The
quantity n‘,ghl. ruvked. und seut to market in
1547, was 37500 barrels. valued o ®lB7 505,
averaging §5 per barrel. The kind i« chiely the
white ;51. the staple fish of the Lukes Mys.
Jaweson, n her "&'inu'r Studies and Suvinner
Rambles,” devoles a purge or two them, and
states that *. wiite fish of the Upper Laokes is
equal in Na%er and ricimese 1o 8t John salmon.
Politeal.
From the Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer.,
A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF A PATRIOT,
Lewis Cass, born October 9, 1782, at Uxeter,
New Hampshire. Son of May. Jonathan Cass, a
brave soldier of the American ‘}h-\'olulmn.
Pmigrated to the West at the age of 17, with
harely one dollar in his pocket and settled at Mau
rietta, connty of Washington, i the Northwoestern
Territory.
Elected to the Legislature of Ohio in 1806 draf
ted the law which erushed the memorable Burr
conspiracy, and also an address to Thomas Joffer
som, expressing the attachment of the peaple of
Ohio to the Constitution of the United States, and
their confidence in that illastyions man.
In March, 1507 appointed by Mr. Jeflerson,
Marshal of Ohio.
At the breaking ont of the war in 1812, elected
a colonel of the Ohio Regiment, in which he great-
Iy distingnishod himsell, being the first man to land
in arms on the Canada shore !
July 15, 1512, has a severe conflici with the
British ot Aux Canards, 15 miles from Detroit, the
Pnemy’s head quarters,cansing them to seek safe
ty in tlight. Drafls an eloquent and high-spirited
prolamation to the inhbitants of Canada, and on
hearimg of Hull's disgraceful surrender at Detroit,
indigrnamtly breaks his sword upou his knee, and
dashes it to the enrtls,
In I=l2, appointed a 2 Brigadier General, and
joins the army under Gen. Harrison, to whom he
rendered gallant and efiicient serviee at the Battle
of the Thames. Puarsning the British General
Proctor for wany miles, in his retreat from the
field of battle.
October 9, 1513, appointed, by President Madi
son, Governor of .‘lurhiuun. at that time one of
the wost important civil oflices in the gift of the
Pxecutive. As Superintendent, ex officio, of In
dian Afiairs, he formed 21 treaties with the In
dinns, extingmshing title to nearly one hundred
millions of acres of land ! on terms perfectly just
and satisfactory to themselves,
In I=2l, appointed by Andrew Juclson, Secre
tary o’ War.
The attairs ef the War Department were never
more ably conducted. Held this appointment un
ul =36, when he was commissioned by “Old
tickory™ as Minister to France, where he immor
talized Lis name by s eelebrated pamphlet on the
“right ol seareh.” .
September 17, 1442, resigns his French mis<ion
on account of the Ashburton Treaty, and returns
to the United States, greeted by the plandits of
millions of his gratefil conntrymen.
A promiment candidate for the nomination of
the democratic party for the Presidency in I=ll,
In the winter of 1544, elected by the Legislature
of Michigan, United States Nenator, i wlieh
hody he defends onr title 1o Oregon, assists in the
Independent Treasury and Tarith of 1846, sup
ports with zeal and eloguence the Mexican War,
and s a very “pillar of strength’ to the adminis
tration of James K. Polk.
May 24, 1542 is nominated by the National
Convention held in the eity of Baltimore, as the
democratic eandidate for President of the United
Ntuies, to which, the highest and most honorable
cwvil othiee in the world, he is sure to be elvated
by the free suffrages of the American people, the
Inauguration taking place March 4, I=4o.
Inevery staton, and nnder every responsibility,
Lowis Cuss has manifested honesty, capacity, and
tedelity to the Constitution, a firm attachment to
Republican: principles, a patriotic devotion to
country, and has shown himself throughout his
whole ife, to be a patriot, statesinan, and true
Democerat.
GEN. CASS AND SLAVERY.
Lewis Cass, say his opposers, is in lavor of ex
tending slavery over lands now free. Listen to
the lunguage of Gen. Cass himsell. “1 am no
slaveholder, Tnever have been, | never shall be.
Ldeprecate its existence in principle, and pray for
its abolition every where, when this can be effect.
ed justly and peacefully and easily for both par
ties.” b understand Gen. Cass 1o helieve, with
most of the distinguished jurists of our country,
that as slavery does not now legally exist in Cali
fornia and New Mexico, itcanonly be introduced
into the free territories by positive law ; and that
no legisiation hy CONJlress Is necessury to prevent
s mtroduction there.
Al territory that he comes annexed to the United
Ntates, either by cesqion or conguest, if free, must
rewain deee. "Uhis principle has been estublished
by our national anthorities since the purchuase of
Louisiana Congress, irow the birth oi the feder
al constutution, never extended slavery over an
inch of free tervitory, and neverwidl, And by that
sacred bond, that holds together in one harmoni
ous whole these thirty soverign States—a Union
born in a spirit of pational compromise, rocked in
its infuncy i the cradle of liberty, nurtured in
childhiood by the disciples of Washington, Jeffor
son and others, and sustained in its present glory
and streng h by every true democral from the At
lantic to the Pacilic, und from Maine to Texas.—
1t leaves the question of the existence or non ex
istence of slavery open to the several states and
territories, where 1t rightfully belongs, to settle in
their own way. T'he constitution of the United
States suys, “The powers not delegated to the
United States by the constitution, nor prohibited
hy it to the states, are reserved to the states respec
tively, or to the people” So mach for state in
terference on sluvery atters. Agzain it savs, “the
congress shull have powerto dispose of, and make
all needful rules and regulations respecting the
ternitory or other property belonging to the Uni
ted States.” Thislegislation over territory is gen
eral, but not exclusive as in the district of Colume
bia. Itisa well settled principle, recognised in
our highest judicial tribunals, and admitted by all
fearned commentators on the federal constitution,
that in the addition of any new territory to our
Unionby cession or congnest, the inhabitants there
of retain their ancient laws and usages: and where
HeW ;|(-||||i|('(| h-r;i'.ury 1s divested of h‘lil\’('l)‘ it
mast ever rewain (to rightfully use the newly
charmed term) free soil, so furas the action ol con
gress 1= concerued, These are the constitutional
views of Lewis Cass 3 theyare just, legitimate and
truly democratie. All gnaranties growing oat of’
the union of’ the states with each other must be
sacredly observed—The constitution must he pre
served.” This momentous question should not be
Cagitated for wmere political purposes, the effeet of
\ which will paralyze the efforts of the philanthro
pists of the south and clsewhere to emancipate
slavery in those states where it now exists, and
\ thus chiecek the progress of freedom there. "T'he
: opposition (o Gen. Cass at the north hope to make
| much capital at their elections out of the slave
Lquestion. Let every democrat, by investigating
| these wmatters, disappoint them.—Cor. Los. Post,
Farvy misinG.—Gen, Cass =—On turning over
a file of the National Intelligencer, we discovered
in one ponted some weeks simee an article laud
‘g Gen. Taylor forhis early rising, and assuming
the ground thut the habit was at least one qualifi
cation for #'resident of the United Stutes. We
will not underrate the value of the habit, nor de
ny that our Presidents, and all other public func
tionaries, will find it of great benefit. Yet we will
waintain, that for early risieg and industry Gen.
Taylor cannot surpass, if he can equal. the demo
cratic candidate, Lewis Cass. We will present a
single in-tance.
Last May, a gentleman from the western part
of the State of New York asked an old neighibor
of Gen. Cass to introduece himto the General, with
whom hie desired o speak touching some matter
before the Senate. /k:-‘ the General had much
business on hand, the personof whoum the request
wus wade proposed o mtroduce the New Yorker
at halt-past four or at five o’clock the next morn
g, 'This proposition created some surprise, as
it was some two lours belore the gentleman's
wsual hour of rising. He, however, consented to
be up and ready at the time. The next morning,
a few minutes before five o'clock, on knocking at
the General's door, they were invited to “come
in." He was found at his table, rather coolly
dressed, huving on neither ecoat nor vest, with a
cap, @ la Franklin, on his capacious and well
formed head, and occupied vigorously in “driving
the quill.” "I'hie neighbor of the General stated,
in answer to the inguiry of the New Yorker, that
he had been acguainted with kim for upwards of
thirty years, and had never known him to deviate
from his habits of industry and eurly nsing.—{ n
wn.
Trowax Smirn.="Thic political trickster has at
last been canght in s own trap ! A friend in
Alabama bus sent us a specimen of the falsehoods
with which he is deluging the South, attempting to
prove that “Gen. Cass is an Abolitionist,” and
Mittano Froosore a friend to Slavery! We
linve the documents in our possession, llm{«r Tru-
Max's ouwn frank and seal. What a hypoerite '—
One day writing to the editor ol the Courier that
Tavron will not veto the Wilimot Provico, and
franking electioneering docnments into New Eng.
land representing Gen. Cass as pledged 1o the
slave interests, and then sending to the South an
entircly d. i romt document = New Haeen Register,
A New York Taylor paper fears that Conneeti.
eut will go over o demo traey at the coming clee-
Lon.
Gex. Tavior ar Scuoor. —The following a
minsing announcement appears in the New York
Mirror, a paper devoted to Gen, Taylor:
« T'he undersigned has it from the very best an
thority, from u medical gentleman very closely
connected with one of Gen. Taylor's aids-de-camp,
that the old General is constantly engaged in the
stndy of political economy, as snited to the peen-
Liar position of the United States,”
There is enongh of the luditions in this idea of
Gen. Tavlor's “going to school,” at his advanced
age, 1o provoke a smile from the most obstinate
partizan. It reminds ns strongly of those “schools
for adults,” which were once established in Eng
land for the education of persons who hadunforin.
nately grown grey in ignorance, and which are so
well taken of'in the inimitable sketches of “Thom
as Hood. *lt seems too whimsical,” says Hood,
“10 contemplate fathers and venerble grandlathers,
emulating the infant generation, and secking for
instruction in the radiments. My imagination re
fuses to pictnre the abecedarian,
CWith satehel on his back, and shining morning face.
Creeping like a snail unwillingly to school.” ™
T'his pieture, notwithstanding, is realized in the
present edueational position of Gen. Zachary Tay
lor. We Lave it from his best friends, that he has
been sent to school in politics—that he is now pros.
eeuting studies, with which any eandidate for the
presudency shonld be conversant from his youth,
The dullest mind can funcy Gen, Taylor tremb
ling before his politienl pedagogue, lisping his first
Jesson with the timidity of childhood, and growing
more and wore confident as truth beams wto his
beclouded Intellect There sits Bliss, with uplift
ed fernle, eatechising the * Old General” into the
Whig ereed.
Gen. Taylor, what is a tarifl’?
Gen.—Don’t know, Bliss. .
Well, my dear General, the tarifl is hard to de
fine, and we must postpone it until you are farth
er advaneed.
What is a bank ?
A place where they keep money.
Pliss==right. You may go out and play for fif
teen minates, and I will forward a certificate of
scholarship to Gov. Morehead.
The Odd General ” accordingly goes out, and
Major Bliss prepares the following :
Dear sir,—"The old General is almost preco
cions. He told me to-day, without stammering or
hesitating, what a Bank was. Ihe progresscs at
this rate, he will be fit for the presidency in less
than o month. Toanorrow I will endeavor o im
press his mind with the idea of a Taritl'; he has
a shrinking dread of the word © Sub-Treasury,”
which is rather suspicions for our purposes.
Yours, &ec.
But 1o contemplate the matter in a serions light,
what would have been the indignation of that par
ty. if' a locofoco had insinuated a want of qualifi
cation in Henry Clay. And yet the same parly
londly exalts over the humiliating faet that their
candidate is now engaged in attaining the rudi
ments of knowledge, which he should have pos
socsed, in the highest degree, belore presuming to
offer himself for the presidency. —Baltimore Nat.
Do,
Jusr Ro.==The Boston Republican, formerly a
whig paper, but which now very ably opposes
Taylor's clection, makes the following observa
tions on the character of the Taylor party of New
Fueland, The editor, from his long connection
with the whig party, has hiad abundant opportuni
ties to know the trath of” what he says, and every
observing and reflecting man must agree with
him.
“The Teyler party will saerifice the Wilimot provi
soin Cougress, just cxactly as they did in the Con
vention at Philaddphia, if o ts neecssary to their suc
cess. They do noteare one sixpence for the prin
ciples of Liberty, or any other principles, except
the principle of making money. The Taylor par
ty of New England is the party of money dealers,
and of men who expeet to make or lose money by
the result of the eleetion It any person donbted
this before. he could hardly doubt it now that Mr.
Harvison Gray Otis has felt it his daty to publish
his opinions to theworld. Mr. Otis has been. and
i<, the type of a moneyed party. His views are
the views of Mr. Abbott Lawrence, varnished and
new gilt. Mo these genilemen, un abstract trath
which makes no money, is of no great conse
quence. To them thegreat object of government
is the protection of property. The baromier of
puablic prineiple is to be fonnd on the Exchange in
Siate street, and no where else.”
We have seen it stated in some Massachusetts
papers, uncontradicted since, that Abbott Law
rence offered to expend 100,000 in the clection,
il the whigs would nominate him for Viee Presi
dent on the same ticket with Taylor. Why is it
thot all these “lords of the loom™ are in favor of
Taylor '—DBelfust Jouwrnal,
A Trivvre rrom AN Avversany.—The “A.
merican” of this morning, in a long article to show
that i Gen. Cass does rise early, g 0 does Gen.
Tavron, says, very truly, that it is “mnch beiter
to emulate an adversary’s good qualities than to
disparage them with words of malice and envy,”
and then goes on to remark that if' this course
were pursued, the canvas would go on very plea
santly, “and the rest of the civilized world would
adunre the happy conntry blessed with two such
excellent eitizens, either of whom would maxe a
carirar Presipest.” o that Gen. Cass, ae
cording to this testimony of a leading Whig jour
nal, wonld make a caputal President; an opinion
which we commend to the careful consideration of
every voter in the land, and especially to those les
ser organs of the Whig party, which spend a voca
bulary of abuse in the vain endeavors to write
down the illustrions Cas<.—Balt. Argus.
Too Good to be Lost.—A small party of gentle
wen, a few days since, #peaking of Chancellor
Walworth, our pstly popalar candidate for Gov
ernor, and Leslie Coombs, the great “whig demi
john ol Ky.. one of them remarked that “they
were the greatest drinkers of brandy and water of
any two men in the country.” “What,” says a
zewlous friend of temperance, “Walworth a bran
dv und water drinker 5 it is not so, sir, itis not sO.”
“Oh no,” rephied the wag, “1 did not say that
Coombs drinks the brandy, and Walworth tal.cs th:
water” 'This was so literally trie in both cases,
that a general shout of' course was raised.—N. ).
T'rue Sun.
True ws Gospel —The New Orleans Bee, a Tay
lor paper, declares that “no one but a FOOL would
cipect Gen, Taylor to be in favor of the Winot Pro
viso.” 'This 15 true; it is as unreasonable to ex
pect that, as it would be to expect an honest aboli
tionist to be in favor of the extension of slavery.
Yet the federal papers are still representing Gen.
Taylor to be a Wiliwot Provisoman! They know
better, of course; but they think they ecan make
their followers believe it, and thus indnee them to
support him. It i« not the truth of their represen
tations that they look to, but their efleet. 11 a lie
will effect their object better than the truth, they
are always ready to publish it.
Moark it.—" The few democrats in the South who
refuse to support Cass, do g 0 solely on the ground
that ke ts opposed to the extension of slavery; and
thercfore they go for'Taylor. Yuancey of Alubawa,
who bolted from Cass, among other proofs of Gen.
Cuss’ opposition to slave-extension, says i—
“On the slave issue, Gen. Cass has advoeated
doctrines which caus s Dr. Dunean, the celebra
ted wember of Congress from Ohio, to support
hin as cthe true free soil candidate ! one whose
doctrines, if adopted by the country, “wonld con
tribnte even more effectually than Martin Van
Buren to keep New Mexico and California free
territories.
D Kuing his Position. —“Get up=get up " said
a watcliman to a chap who had fullen a grade be
low the doorstep sleepers and who had taken a
lodgment in a gutter. “You mustnot lic here.”
“Lie! you're another!=you lie yourself!—N-n
-not lie here ! 1 tell yon wh-what o!d fellow, that
may do to tttell in them slave States, but Pl let
you kuow.” said the agrarian, spuitering out a
wouthful of mud, “that t-th-this is free sod !
Horace Greeley has been nominated for Con
gress in the 6th Congressional dictriet, New York
city, i place of Mr. Munroe, who has declined to
run.Lhis nomination is only for the balunee of
the present Congress, the seat baving beendeclar
ed vocant at the last session. James Brooks, of
the Vipress, has been nominated for the suceeed
ing term.
Wiscousin.="The Rock Connty Democrat which
had the Van Buren and Adams flag at its mast
head, has hauled it down and put inits place the
names of Coss and Butler, 'l'lu- sAINe paper con-
Dt o rennmeiation of Van Buren whiggery from
a gentleman of ability and standing.
Virgnin.~An electoral ticket has been printed
for cireulation at the office of the Wytheville Re-
Cpublican, headed “the people’s electoral ticket—
For President, Gen. Taylor: for Viee President,
CGen, Buter”” Then follow the 17 wiis electors.
- Gen. Taylor has written a letter to Dr. Pannell,
a whig candidate for elector in Virgina, saying that
h il eeto the Wdmot Proviso should he be chosen
Procident, and congress should adopt it.
| The union between the natives and whigs in
this State isperlect.— Boston Post.
Republican Hevald,
PROVIDENCE.
Weduesdny, October 23, 184 S,
Democratic Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
LEWIS CANN,
OF MICIHIGAN.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
WIiLLIAM O. BUTLER,
OF KENTUCKY,
FOR ELLCTORS,
PAVID BURT. of Providence.
CHRISTOPHER SPENCLR, of Warwick.
AMANA EDDY, of Glocester,
WILMARTH HEATH, of Barrington,
TAYLOR'S INCAPACITY.
The Whigs very generally admit that General
Taylor is not capable of administering the afi'vrs
of onr government in a proper manner. Lven
the great Daniel Webster admits it when he sayvs
that he is “A miLiTary may verkiy”, and that the
nomination of him to the Presidency was “sor nir
Bpe Mane.” But, we are told, he will surronnd
himself with an intelligent and able Cabinet, and
thos wiil seeure to ns an efficient and respectable
administration. A very good reason for his eloe
tion, truly ! ‘T'he same sort of reazoning supporis
Victoria on her throne. and gives others of the
crowns of Furope to mere boys, or girls, or idiots.
They surronnd themselves with intelligent minis
ters and advisers, and therefore the people are
safe enough! Queer reasoning this, ron Reren-
LICANS!
The struggle on the 7th of November next, is
merely, whiggery wonld have us believe, to elect
a machine, which shall in turn appomt a Cabinet,
and this Cabinet shall rnle the nation=—a NarTiloNB
o Freemex ! The President is to be a mere ei
pher, after he has surrounded himsell with minis
ters. Ifa Bank bill is passed, he is to signit. 1
it is repealed, he is to sign the repeal also. Or if
he does not do this, he is at most to be only what
his Cabinet savs he must be. His own imbeeility
is to be admitted, and his Cabinet is to be Presi
dent—is to manage the afisirs of government, ap
prove of bills enacted, and manage appointments
1o oflice,
I'hat this is to be the way of managing aTuirs,
is admitted by Taylor himself. Read the follow
ing letter, which was addressed to a gentleman
who had inquired his views of a National Bunk,
a Protective Tariff, and other points of Whig pol
iey. HMe acknowledges that, even if elected, eis
not 10 be President, and anblushingly proclaims
that his opinions are of no sort of conscquence,
and will be of no consequence after he gets into
office ! Heisto be a mere automaton; soimebody
will pull the wires, and he will move !
We ask intelligent Whigs if this is the sort of
man they are going to vote for? Do they want
a President, or only a government figure-head?
Zachary Taylor has admitted on one or two occa
sions that he has never examined the great ques
tions at issue between the parties. What need
will e have W give thess or other matters a mo
ment’s attention, i his jndgment, finally, is to have
no infinence over their management ! None at
all, eertainly i and we may expeect, reasonably
enough, that his own sound sense, of which his
friends boast that he has so much, will not enter
into the Presidential office.
But enonge. We ask men professing to he
Rervnricans, to read the letter which we give
be.ow :
Barox Rovar, La., March 29, 1248,
Nir—=l have to acknowledge the receipt of your
polite communication of the 7th inst., asking my
views on certain questions of domestic policy.
I beg to inform you that I have uniformly de
clined yielding to similar requests, in the belief
that my opinions, even if I were President of the Uni
ted States, are neither important or necessary ; and
I regret to add, that I'see no reason for departing,
in the {mmvm instance, from that course.
With sentiments of much respeet, I am, sir, your
obedient servant, Z. TAYLOR.
Wiuy was it I="Thirteen T'aylor men were re
cently elected to the Legislature of Sonth Curoli
na from the aty of’ Charleston. Why was it /
Why did a demoecratic city leave the friends of
Lewis Cass and support those of Zachary Taylor?
We will answer the question. In Sonth Curo-
lina the Presidential vote is ecast by athe Legisla
ture, and not by the People. 1 a Taylor Legis
lature is elected, Taylor receives the electoral vote.
The citizens of Charleston are wedded to slavery.
1t is their life-blood, almost 5 and they want a Pres
ident who will sustain the institation. They know
that Zachary Taylor is their men, in this respect—
that he has always lived in a slave State—that he
owns 2=o slaves, and has added to his stoek since
his nomination by the Whigs—that he is opposed
to the Wilmot Proviso, and has declared that the
South ought not 8o submit to it; and they know
that if'he is elected, slavery can be extended into the
territory lately acquired from Mexico, and which
i= now free. This is why they would give him
their electoral votes. This is why they have eleet
ed Taylor representatives to their Assembly.
~ln the face of this, Northern Whig editors and
office hunters ask the friends ot Liberty here to
! leave Gen. Cass, (who is denounced in Charles
ton as an Abolitionist, and whose policy would
certainly prevent any further extension of slavery,)
~and vote for this same Zachary Taylor, on the
' ground that he is the true friend of Free Soil!
j As consistently might our temperance men vote
for the greatest distiller and rumseller in the coun
try, on the ground that he was the particalar friend
of total abstinence !
Horack Greerey o 8 Taveorism.—~The follow
ing remarks of Mr. Greeley in giving his support
to Gen. Taylor must be exceedingly flattering to
the General's friends :
“But 1 have not changed my opinion of the nomi
nation of Gen, Taylor 1 bilieve it was wmeice and
UNJUST. For Gen. Taylor personally, 1 have
ever spoken with respect; but I believe a candi
date could and should have been chosen more de
serving, MORE CAPABLE, wmore popidar. 1
cannot pretend to uupt)on him with enthusiasm,
FOR 1 DO NOT FEEL ANY.
Mr. Horace Greeley probably said all this, just
to suit the taste of his auditors, who were mostly
Clay Whigs. IHis opinion of Taylor might he
worth something, if one eould getatit. Dut we
don't believe he has spoken a sincere thought
these six years. We have no love for Gems Tay
lor, as a politician ; but we would say much more
against him than we do, if we believed he was
half as bad a hypoerite as Horace Greeley.
-17" The Clay Whigs of New York is<ued an
address to the people notlong ago. We will give
a short extract from it, just to keep up with the
times and Lelp to spread the tremendons enthasi
asm which is wanifested for Taylor. Here it is:s
“Pheir nomination [that of the Philadelphia
Convention] has fallen dead upon the country
without response ; no effort can galvanize it into
practical vitality. His defeat, we consider, under
the circamstances, a thousand times sure. We
can conceive no possible contingency that can al
ter this tived fact.,”” |
LOUISIANA 18 COMING!
Louisiana is the home of General Taylor. He
is known there as a plain, blunt, rongh, penurous
old man ; a brave soldier, a skillful General, and a
very good neighbor. So long as he remained an
independent candidate for the Presidencey, all Lis
neighbors felt pleased with his position, and
thought that, if he did not make o remarkably in
telligent and capable President, he would at least
prove a great curiosity in the Presidential oflice,
and would exercise the qualities which had distin®
guished Lim in the field, to keep at bay the otlice
hunting hounds who have murdered one Whig
President, and who stand ready to pounce upon
another, i ever another shonld chunee to be lected
to that oflice. Democrats there were even willing
to vote for an independent candidate, if thereby
they could have an old neighbor for President.—
But the General chose not to let them do this,—
He threw himself’ into the arms of the Whig par
ty 3 and Democrats, 1o save themselves from a
complete abandonment of theie principles, were
obliged to abandon him to his fate. Amongst all
Lis supporters in Louisiana at this monent, we
ave not aware that a single Demoerat ol influence
can be named. The independent eleciors who
had intended to take the field in his support, have
withdrawn their names, and are rallying around
the standard of Cass and Butier. 'The indepen
dent campaign paper which was started to advo
cate his canse has been discontinued, and its editor
is now the warm supporter ol the Democratic
nominees. All over the Stute the Democrats are
rallying with more than their usual earnestness—
are better organized than they were before—and
are contident thatthey can give theirusual majority
for Democratic measures and Democeratic men.
Prom every part of the Htate, the word of encour
agement comes. A correspondent of the Union,
writing from Munroe, suys: I find since iny arriv
al at home that our pro-pects are beiter in the
canvas in this State than 1 expected. We shall
get the full Demoeratic vote, and something
more. We never were =0 well orgamiz d, so uni
ted. and so active: while the Whigs on the con-
trary, are disheartened and disconraged. And so
olten has the aspeci of their alluirs changed since
the canvas commenced, that many of their leaders
huve given up the contest in disgust. In such
confision have they been thrown by Gen. Tayloi's
Jute letters, and the movement in New York, that
many of them hardly kuow which is their candi.
date—=Clay or Taylor. We shall be active,
though, to the last.”
Another correspondent. writing from New Or
leans, says i=Our eity is alive with enthusiasu in
fuvor of those noble clampions of Dewmocratic
principles, Lewis Cass and Williun O. Batler
Every night that passes witnesses the assemblage
of hundreds and often thonsands of the true de
moeracy, to listen to eloguent expositions ol the
principles for which we are contending, and
to express their united and glorious enthusiasmn
in favor of the cause of the people. From the
first day in which it was considered a fixed
fact that Gen. Taylor was to be the Whig
candidate for presidency, his partisans have claim
ed that Louisiana, his adopted State, would desert
the war-worn flag of dewoeracy and march under
the banner of a mere military clieflain, At first,
we were disposed to fear that the resnlt here
might be for us an inglorious defeat; but as the
canvas has progressed—as truth has been dissemi
nated among the people—as the tricks of party
which the no-party-party are attempting to play
upon the honesty and patriotism ol the people
have been exposed, the ery has been swelling
londer and louder in favor of our old chiefl, and
will not cease until it dies away in the shout of
victory. The people of' Lonisiana resent the in
sult to their virtue, intelligence, and patriotism.
They behold a party which has ever advocatad
measures at war with the best interests of the coun
try, attempting to speculate upon the best and no
blest feelings of their hearts—using every means to
turn their patriotisin, and the gratitude which they
naturally feel for the achievements of Gen., Tay
lor, to their own grasping and selfish purposes.—
They honor Zachary Taylor as a soldier, but they
spurn to be bouglit by a fow sprigs of laurel—they
scorn to supporta party which cunningly uses the
fame of a distingnished man for its own elevation
to place and power. Zachary Taylor lives among
ne, We know him to be a plain, blunt, honest
wan—a very good soldier, and a very good plan
ter; but in Lewis Cass we behold the man whose
locks have silvered in the field, in the cabinet, in
the Senate, and inthe chambers of diplomacy—a
mon who never shrunk from any responsibility,
and has ever been found on the side of democracy
and of his country. T'hey will not barier the birth
right of freemen ; they caunot be persnaded 10 aid
i the elevation of the federal party, under the
guise ol evincing their gratitude to Gen. Taylor.
Therefore yon may look for Louisiana in the
i ranks of the democracy in November, suli battling
“under the flag torn and tattered by a thousand tri
“umphs. The country is alive with Cass and Bat
er, and the eity is on fire with enthusiasm,”
- We iy add that this representation of our
Cprospeets i Lodisiana is given also by all the
- Democratie journals, anl by all the oldest Demo
ccrats in the State. Bvery man who loves the
Ccanse is at work for its advancement, and all are
Cconfident of trimmph. Weare now fully satisfied
that we shall trinmph, as well in Lowisiana, as in
; Mississippi, and the other States which the Whigs
Cexpected to purchase with Taylor’s popularity ;
and that the 7ith of November will witness one of
- the most complete defeats of Whiggery, North and
" South which it has ever been our good fortune to
make record of. Every thing looks well. Every
Cday adds strentgth to oar canse and strength to our
'numbers. Let the column be pushed on, vigor
ously, strongly.
0, Cosxsistevcy !=The following resolution
was written by Silas Wright, in 1840 ; was sub
mitted by him to Martin Van Buren, and was by
himapproved. Tt was subsequently adopted by the
Democratic National Convention, and is zow the
block on which the Vanites base their opposition
to the Democeratic party ! O, this is a great, a
very great country, and Matty Vanis a very great
man.
“Resolved, That Congress has no power, under
the constitution, to interfere with or control, the
domestic institutions of the several States, and
that snch States ace the sole and proper jndges of
every thing appertaining to their own ailuirs, not
prohibited by the constitugion : that all eforts of
the abolitionists or ether mode to induce Congress
to interfere with questions of slavery, or to tuke
mecipient steps in relation thereto, are ealeulated
to lead to the most alarming consequnees, and that
all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to di
minish the happiness of the people, and endanger
the stability and permanency of the Union, and
ought not to be mmmcuunm-«fvhy any friend to our
political institutions.”
IT IS A FACT,
That every paper supporting General Taylor
South of Muson and Dixon's line, does so on the
ground that be is the particular friend of slarvery,
and iNTERESTED 1x 118 kxression, They aver
that Cass, on the other hand, is an abolitionist, and
that his policy would eiicctually and forever
PREVENT the introduction of slavery to the
territory acquired from Mexico,
Dewocnars, Bewane '—ln 1840 the Whigs, as
they do now, pretended to abandon the old issnes
on which they had been contending, and the old
measures for which they had fought. No sooner,
however, were they in power, than they hoisted
their old colors, and w 0 the very extent of their
ability pushed into being their old federal policy,
PENNSYLVANIA WILL DO HER DUTY!
We grow every day stronger in the beliefl that
*Pennsylvania will nobly and gloriously redeem
her<clf on the 7th of November. Indeed, we deem
the question as fully settled, and should be as much
surprised to lose her then. as we shounld to see
Massachuretts or Vermout wheel into the Demio
eratie colummn,
We base onr hopes on no sandy fonndation.
We Laoe that thousands of Free Soil men voted
for Jolmson who will not vote for Taylor. We
know that Longstreth’s well known opposition to
banks and other corporations, lost hith more thun
votes enough to have secured his election, We
know that a full Democratic vote in any one of
several connties that wight be named, would tarn
the tables in onr favor, and leave us voles to spare.
We note the election of Painter, the Demoeratie
Canal Commissioner, by a majority of tiweo or three
thousand, as an evidence, as full and clear procf,
that a majority of those who voted at the late elec
tion were Democrats; and we have stll stronger |
rea<ons for our belief that Pennsylvania is in truth f
a Demoeratie State 3 the assurance of friends who |
kuow the true condition of things, and who would |
not deceive even their enemies. Finally we know |
that the Democracy of the Old Keystone is now |
fully aronsed, and that every man, in the coming |
stroggle, will do his daty.
No one thing, since the eampaign opened, has
so much astonishied our Whig opponents, as the
unusual zeal and enthusinsm of our friends in
1 Pennsylvania since their partianl defeat. Mo soon-
Ler were they floored, than they sprang to their
| feet again, and while the Whigs were firing guns
’on-r their victory, they were clearing away the
‘ruhbiah and getting ready for another struggle,
‘ Not o man stopped to whine, or to monrn, or to
E console his friend ;: bhut every one sprang to the
| torn banner, and swore new allegiance to its glo
' riots wotto, - We cluim to say that snch men cin
never be defeated in two snceessive struggles,—
CThey never were, They never can be,
i We close this artiele with a heart cheering ex
tract from the Address of the Democratic State
Central Committee, which we find in the Penn-
sylvanian of last Saturday 5 and we say to our
fricnds here that the men who have signed that
addre<s would not thas stron:ly pledge their State
to Democracy, il they did not know that a trimnph
was within their grasp. They will see that the
pledge is Lonorably redeemed.
1o onr Democeruiie eodaborers in other States,
we impait tae condident assurance, founded on the
most reliable tellizence, received sinee the late
election, that no single state in the Union is more
certain for the Democratic nominees than Penn
sylvanin. It has passed into a proverh, that the
Democratie party of this State has neeer becn beaten
twice in suceession, Whenever defeated, from any
canse whatever, it has invaribiy, at the very firs'
opportunity, risen in its ollended mjesty, anl
prostrated its political foes by overwholmng ma
jorities, We teel safe in predicting, that the pres
ent year will not constitinie an exception to this
rale, but will add another brilliant example to es
stublishitas a traism. The unconguerable legions
of Ot Berks will alone save the Siate in No
vember, Already is the note of preparation
sounded. Already is the conseerated Cross of
Fire sped from hand to hand, sommoning the
Democratie elansmen to the teld of action. Al
ready have the lli,‘,’fi purposes ol onr Pemoeracy
passed with eleetrie sympathy from heart to heart,
unul from the borders of the Delaware to the
shores of Lake Erie are heard only the tones of
indomitable perseverance, confidence, and cour
agze. Whatever the issue of the examination of
the vote for Governor—and into whatever degrad
ing dept!i the temporary ascenlencey of Federalism
may stk our State, it does not intend to be instru
mental in entaliing a similar eatastrophe on the
Union. Pennsylvania will rise, like Phanix, from
the ashes of her late digaster. Like the giant east
to the earth, she will gain fresh vigor f(rom the
fall, and return w} redoubled energy to the strng
gle, frot which Jhe cannot fail to emerge the vie
tor. Frow being beaten, she will leasn to beat,—
We repeat to our sympathising friends elsewhere
—Lear wot for Peansy'vanic. Avn 15 wity, =
Profiting by our recent reverses, every Democrat
will engaze in the coming contest as his own per
sonal concern, and rush with alacrity to the preser
vation of the republican citadel. Let other States
do as they may, as for Pennsylrania, she awill give
twenty-sic Blectoral votes to Lewis Cass and Wie-
Liav O, Burnen,
TIHE ELECTIONS.
Owio is yet dodging from Weller to Ford and
from Ford to Weller. The probabilities are in
fivor of Mord, by last accounts. T'he legislature
is Dewoeratie. I'he Democerats have gained two
mewmbers of Congress.
Prvvsvevasia has probably elected Johnson by
a mujority of one or two hundred. The Honse
dodges between a Democeratic majority and a tie,
Here, also, we gain two members of Congress.
Frorima may have gone Taylorish, and it may
not—ecan't tell. It is an ultra slavoeratic State,
and on that account likes Taylor better than it
does Casa. Ition’t mnch, any way ; and we don’t
care two figs how it voies.
(ikorG A is Democratie, wq will be so in No
vember by thonsands.
7% General Tavlor asks Northern votes, be
cause, as one ol his friends has told us, he is in
favor of a Ligh taril or tax on svGan. Do North
ern laboring wen want to go buck to the old pri
ces of sngar, and give twelve cents per pound for
that which they are now baying for eight,—just
for the sake of voting for a “iere military man”,
to use the words of Daniel Webster, whose nom
ination “was not fit 1o be made” ?
"7 Some of the nanghty boys about the streets
are singing the following :
I had a drean the other night, when all around was still,
I dreamt I saw old Kinderhook, agoing down the Hill;
A cabbage stump wasin his mouth, the tear was in his eye,
Suys he “we’re beaten North and South, but Johuny
don’t vou ery.”
Oh dear Johinny, don’t you ery for me,
We lost the seven Free Soil * tates,
With the other twenty-three,
Fires.—On Sunday evening last, an old house
on Charles street, ocenpied by a number of Iri<h
families, was partly destroyed by fire. An infant
son of Patrick Feeley, eleven weeks old, was
bmned to death.
On Sunday morning last, about hall past 4 o'.
clock, a fire broke out in Woonsoket Falls; in a
lnrge dwelling house on Fountain street, occapied
by Ivish families. The fire was confined to the
upper story, where iteanght. Two young men,
nied Michael Marvin and Jolin MelLoughiin,
perished in the tlames.
Our correspondent at Pawtucket, mforns us
that a fire ook place at Central Falls, on Monday
evening last, and which “proved 1o be the burn
ing of a barn and part of a house, known as the
“Slack” estate, lately ocenpicd by a person of the
name of Leavery, but now owned hy the Provi
dence and Worcester Railroad Company. The
fire was unquestionably the work of an incendi
ary.” o
L% “Tue Baker Vocarists” will visit this
city soon, and give some of their pleasing con
certs. They have visited most of the cities and
principal towns in the country, and have been
very much adinired. .
% John Nathan, at the Exchange Clothing
Store, 179 Westminster street, offers great in
ducements “to those who want to save mbney in
buying clothing”, as will be seen by reference to
his advertisement.
{7 Rhode Island Eungine Company No. lof
Pawtneketovisited this city on Monday last. They
made a very tine appearance, numbering over filly
men.
Iy We would remind our readers that 0. A
Hrownson Fsq., lectures before the Young Cath
olies’” I'riend Society, this evening.
An adjourned meeting of citizens friendly to the
consiruction of a Railvoad from Bristol to Provi
dence, was held on Saturday evening last. The
committee appointed ot a previous mecting 10
make all necessary inquiries relative to the road,
were not prepared to report in full, and were in
structed to continue their inguiries and report at
an adjourned meeting to be held on sllll”('flf' eves
ning “25th inst. Several of the Committee address
ed the meeting and gave some valuable and en
couraging information on the subject. John Howe,
Erq. wmade o very interesting qnd excellent ad
dross. and presented statements relative to several
railoads with which hie wasacquainted in different
parts of the country, The mecting was fully at
tended, and all present were convineed that a rail
road waos mueh necded and if constructed, would
yield a handsome profit to the #ctockholders, On
the whole we aliink the prospeet highly encoura
ging and have no doubt that ere long the ears of
ourecitizens will be saluted with the shrill whistle
of the Eristol and Providence Locomotive. Bristol
Phenir,
b
Difficuliy w't' the American Minister at Spain.—
By the Spainish mails we have received letters
from Mudrid to the 30th ult, Considerable sensa
tion was ereated among the diplomatie circles at
Madiid by aninsult which had been offered to the
family of” the American minister in that capital.—
It appears that the Awerican minister had sent a
note to the government, demanding an immediate
apology and reparation. declaring that otherwise
he wonld strike his flag and return.—London
News of Oct. 6.
Moses, a ranaway slave from Miss Mary Brown,
hes arrived at Neweanstle, Del, in steamship Co
tnmbus, from Charleston, 8. €. He was pnt a
board packed in a box, with a loal” of bread snd a
ing ol water, and divected 1o ©E. Mishaw, Phil:-
delphia.” The vessel being delayed in her time
of sailing, and alvo at sea, the man broke out of
his box, and into a box of wine and pound cuke,
seut by o bride to her friends, and then into a box
of powegrantes, but was nearly dead when the
hatches were lif ed,
lee Machine.~\Ve learn that an inzenions me
chanie of Cineinnati has constructed and put in‘o
sticcessful operation, a machine for the manufae
ture of fee. By means of this machine such a de
gree of cold ean be obtained as to form ice instant
ly, and which can be afforded at a cheaper rate
than it isnow soldat. The machine can be used in
any climate=—is cheap and can be Lkeptin order,
The patentee values it at hali"a million of dollars,
Cincinnati Gazette,
Horrible.~A child of Mr. Upham, who keeps a
confectionary shop near the foot of Winthrop
street in this town. was smothered to death on
Friday morning. The child was left in the morn
ing on a bed upon a tarnnp bedstead, and forge -
ful of the fact, the father turned the bed up. In
about half an hour the bed was taken down arnd
the ehild found dead. It was about a year old.—
Hallowell Gazette,
Serious, if not Fatal Casualty.—On Saturday
afternoon last, Mr. Jesse Carter and his son Da
vid went on a gunning expedition at Northport,
L. L., and while out, being separuted, the son fired
at some game, not knowing that his father was
near, hut unfortnnately he was within range of the
shot, tnd the lead entered his leg. It is supposed
that he cannot survive the injury.—New-York
Post,
The population of London within the tables of
mortality, on the 6th of June, In4l, was 912,001
males, 1,086,303 females—together, 1,94%,36),
The annnal inerease from 1331 to 1341 was 1,571
per cent. ‘The Registrar General estima‘es that
the population of London first rose above two mil
lions (2011 495) in 1343 ; he estimates the present
number at 21723586 ; and the prospective nnmmber
for 1550 at 2,210,259,
Population of lowa.-—~"T'he total vote of Towa at
recent State election, was 24,255, The lowa
Capital Reporter infers from this vqte that the
population of the State is about LOOOO, The
population of Wisconsin in December last, was
213,675, and is now but little, if any short of 250,-
000, 3
Fatal Aceident.—On Wednesday, Amos Skeels,
Esq.. of Hizhgate, was so mach injured by an ac
cident, eaused by a threshing machine, that he lived
but a few honrs. His hand was drawn into tl e
machine by the revolver, and his wrist horribly
mutilated by the teeth and knives with which said
revolver is armed.—St. Albuns Messenger.,
Death from Enating Cuastor Oid Beans.—A man
named John Hainsworth, a native of Leeds, York
shire, (England,) died at South T'renton on Priday
afternoon, from having eaten of eastor oil beans
on Tuesday last. All eilorts to arrest the poison
proved inetlectual.
A New Trade.~A f{irm in Milwaunkie shipped
for the New-York market, one hundred barrels
pulverised bones. This is a new trade, and the
preparation ot bones for manure in this country
wi | donbtless becowme a matter of attention b&fore
many years.
Mr. Dridges’s horse Trustee trotted twenty
miles in a sulky, on the Union course, Long Isl
and, on Friday, in 5) minntes, 304 seconds, and
won a purse of 1500, This is said to be the best
trotting on record.
The steamer M¥pitfire eame into collision with a
ferry boat between Norfolk and Portomonth, and
m jumning feom the ferry boat to the steamer,
Thom s Butder ruptured a blood vessel, and died
m ('(”l:‘fl‘(‘ll\'""fl.
Montreal papers chronicle the death of Susan
nali Lanrent, at the advanced age of one hundred
and five years and five days. She was an old
maid, and retained her faculties to the last.
Itis calenlated that the London pleasure-goers
spend on Sandays through the year in the adja
cent villizes the enormons sum of one million three
hwnd red thousand pounds.
One encouraging fact may be mentioned in con
nexion with the continental news—the cholera
seems to be dying out in its progress westward
from Germany.
Escape of Slares.—The Easton Md., Star states
that on Saturday night twelve slaves absconded
from that place. and it is supposed have made their
way through Delaware into Pennsylvania.
Swinish.—Jeriel Hays, of Bethlem, has a “fem
inine swine,” 14 years old, which has had 27 lit
ters, averaging twelve to a litter, and numbering
about 200 in all.—N. Haven Reyg.
Now Fishing Ground.~lt is stated that in the
great flood upon the coast of Florida, 25th, fish
were canght in the stieets of St Augustine.
The President has recognized Juan w de
Osma as consnl o 0 Peru tor the city of ' Washing
ton, in the District of Columbia.
Huys, the man who killed his wife near Cor
lear's Hook, N. Y., is to be hang on the 17th No
vember.
A ease of hydrophobia has been effectnally cured
at York, Penn., by the employment of acetate of
lead, acetate acid, and Dover's powders.
Patrick Doyle, who was on trial in Ken‘ueky
for assisting in the escape of slaves, has been sen
tenced to the penitentiary for 20 years.
Aequitted.~<Jolin L. Ashby, who, with another
youth Lilled a schoolmaster at Shurpn‘hul;f. Ky.,
some e last year, has just heen acquitted.
Adrinn, Michizan, has produced a squash
weighiing 104 pounds, and Fulmym a quince of
21 onnceas.
Balghton Market, —~Tuvnspay, Oct. 19, 1848,
(Reported for the Boston Duily Adver i-rr.}
At murket during the week 1000 Beef Cuttie, 2000 Stores,
6500 Bheep, 3775 Swine.
Prices —Beel Cattle—Extra 85 75486 ; first qunlitg. $525
a®h 59 second quality 84 75 third quality 5484 50,
Stores—~Yearlings §7a810; 2 year old, §loa§l6 ; 3 year
old 8 1825,
Working Oxen—Sales at 00, $72, $B5, and §92.
Cow= and Calves—Sales at 817, $23, ’;m‘ #3l, and 835.
flfl%«ep—lnm. Hales at #1 33, §1 12, §1 B¢, §2, §2 W.and
Bwine—Dull. T'wo entire lots Ohio Hogs :k-‘; one entire
ot York, 4¢; old Hogs 3iej fnt Hogs 4 and dic. Reven
large lots store Hogs unsold, At retail from 4to Sle.
flarried.
In Fall River, 10th inst., Mr. Joun V. Hire, of this city,
to Mrs. ®usas Brens, of Foll River.
AL the Trving House, New York, 18th inst., Mr. Avees
Prrteies, of New lled}nrd, to Miss Saran HeLe~, young
est danghter of Tillinghnst Priges, Esq., of Pall River,
In Tho pson, Cr, Bth in<t, Lieut. Hexny D'Worr, of
Ushridge, to Mrs. Amey WiLLiAMS, of this eity.
In New York, 10th inst, Mr. Osvas Havmaway, of
Millford, .l\lnu., to Miss Rosarisva Wuite, of East Greens
wibh, R L
Dicd.
In Middletown, 14th inst., Mr. Jacon Sneaman, aged 56
ears.
’ In Rurrillville, 15th inst., Avnent R, 24 son of Joseph
D. nd Harriet flklmh, in the ®th year of his nge.
In Sonth Kingstown, on the lith inst., Mrs, ’:lll Anxn
B Ksxowrs, wife of Jo wph K. Knuwln,'“ughmof
the late Stephien TefM, Esq., in the Juth yeaf of her age.
Norwich papers please copy.
I Sovthfield, 29th inst., Miss Sanan Jaxg, daughter of
Mr. William lin‘km. aged 23 years,
Faneral will take place on Thursday, at 1 o'clock, from
her father’s resdence. Relatives ul friends wre imvited
L) atiend.
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