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"coMMiled to ‘%to drew, tow dti*he<
agBiitayagati^b
ttarasrsrirfe.*:
ihfck to blackberries, only one n( whom w <t
iBsepied, and he waa sent lo General Ala
ft: was urged by some that tljc girl
not possibly reach Sumpter’s camp,
I hence it would be neoesaary in send
te One" else in the same direction, but
_%diefaf sfltlM* thafbV Saying she waa
- aa good ia'a-fty twotoen *Tn'rtjefcftny, and
” whetffkr ehe reached her dear illation or not
4 nobody should abme tier taurda.
The inf <ay;W €»ilyV jourdey pissed
' awaywultout any iixidenl ol moment, and
' (benight she passed at thy bouse of a plant*
' tr. ButTw/ltre the dTose of the second day
' while passing through a' wood she fell and*
denlv (to a party of armed lories. 'Coming
' from the direction of General Greene’*
r estop, tlwir suspicions were egeited, and
' Hwang their muskets at her. they «mt-'
mahdfed her lo halt. 1 This she did without'
htoitatioo, or any apparent embarrassment,
when tiue'of rtiefalows setting the reinaol
"ieMtofae, denwoded wtfeheif sMfcame and
" wbiiher she wad going. . f
‘1 come from my father, Hans Griger,
" and I go to my brother, who lives near
Onngeburgli,’ was her brief reply.
‘Before you proceed, you wiU-gn With t#
'Wltiy'bOaae. f am sure mv wife will be
glad tosei you/ said Hie tory.
Assured by their manner that they in
tended no personal harm to her, she con
seined, with apparent cheerfulness. The
house to which they led her lay about hah
a mile distant, and, having arrived there
. she WaS immediately locked up alone in a
' room. ' Apprehending that she might be
subjected to a search, t he * quick minded
girl ettKpiece bypieceJli dispatch tli it had
been emfiwilea her-by GeneraTGreene, and
scarcely had SW-completed*the dry and
unsavory repast, what the expected wife
"of the loty entered the apartment and Cnmt
"taeAced a close and prying scrutiny «»f her
clothes, hair and person. Thus much we
must place to the credit of Ihe lories, wlro,
with all their brutality towards the districts
h««l the delicacy to leave the examination
oQhe person of this«irl to female bands-:
' ’Ptodmg nothing of a suspicions cliarac*
let- uptn her, she was at length permitted
to depart, and on the folio vying day she
arrived safely at the camp of Gen. Sump*
ter, and delivered to the officers word for
word ihe message with which she had been
entrusted. Toe message had much to do
'to breaking the power of the British, and
closing the account of ihe Revolution in
South Carolina. The plans of ihe enemy
waa frustrated j the American forces in the
province waa concentrated sn.1 the bait!*
•of EutawSprings followed; Emily Griger1
''OratAv-a bmg time the toast oftlie pa trio*
lid grjijy; io*the Smith-; and the ‘ Heroine
of the Saluda’ Wife never lorgot ten by tbui
hrava and faithful patriot, General Nathan
iel Greene.
' l£**Fnna fifCt&wrt-.-rA' rew'day* =>
;■*««! M^the- village Al* Bed. in lW* *
chttfit/, tvKtts^'"fiTisbait<T ‘(Red ‘during fhe *
past winter, was by the departure «>f softie U
remaining members of tlie family, left alone h
wtib her daughter and a servant, for the *'
first time. On opening thedoor during the '<
evening, a large dog was dmeoveredfyiiig *
*!oor mal* Not thinking liia pre- it
v detiiftbte at tb.il trft»e"hr tvrsliirig to r
induce him to leave his' o'Vfter, repeated «’
endeavors were made to dislodge him, but r
, w,,h«ut effect, the dog seeming determined •'
Ur*ther seeking to be caressed, '
, . P*rmi,l*d to remain, and. the Imuae •
v . ’!•* bight*-'In the morning, a
t #/»,,fffuraflftitial vfa^fintn l-m'inaVlace,
- out soon alter ilie family were satir, lie din i
appeared, and. nothing more was seen of *
him until evening, when he resumed hi*
„ Cuafd on the dejor mat. This he has still
continued to do, allhough he has not until
* ?.“***«» • day or two been fed bv the fanulv. i
He muntfesta great attachments to each
member of the family and show* hia watch*
■ulyare by going to the Post Office with
the servant girl in the evening •and b&rkit-g
- aJL°.WhT ’bc anifdhl bMoftg*'br Vhtt*
■ STT. 5*.”ltfni> i* Unknown by any 'with
, «»*e yel htfetf made Acquainted with lh<*
i ftfot^etances. Certain it, ia ihtulie »ftet,
• ?Aa/.n’;b,e Par’ bt priltdcring'ihe," widow
Wffi this a„' affecting
iwtande bf CM’I Tffo^frd.irflcare
rT’~“He w,,*‘ *»y hission
* makes good rnend* na il * one hamd,
T^.s&*tr»SL
•Jfc^nianJnbiacm^
cWken hharfed, imbecile
ft » capable of making neithei
nor foes, Therefore, we say to »H
IWI jwre particularly lo young men, what
ever you do do it earnestly, zealously am
ffarkwaly. Nest to being upright and it ith
in tbe performances of your dotv, be de
«tded, »na then yew will make eithe'r friend
Wttcth brving—we a*v ivnrtlt hav
name people in aim wurit
* that'll w.worth ftiora to Ihrw-foreaemie
t*° ** W*s*mm friends. ,
Si to f: •♦*. •-tww.'nill.i 11 it I ■ . a > > !
felfe j
. .™?wl,Vn’ &**“<* tt‘»*
‘ £u r b,ll» ",ucl' »•* returned
him it was counterfeit, and re
,f» “send another.” Mi wn
be heard fr.mf’ban again
»» test,4with the req.»i
» apofony Cm the deta i
ome difficulty in proejb
KSO'-duliaMidf.
ft Afck evident that this Revolution,
China party Mrtclt sprang up immediately
, after III* rear w th England, aid which
airtight in place the Chinese Empire in clo
aer relations with ihe^rvxt vf rt*e world, ami
Him k» bring it wi'lim Hie wall and under
the influence of We^Sraicivil* Hwo. The
|«ie« Emperor, who nucceedrd lo office
io 18S0, though he eo then hot II yearn
ot age, did not ahare three aeptimeaia, bin
gave liiihseH wluilly to die party which was
tor preserving flit.Empire In at) MS aneicor
•ao'alion. The new p-irtyplaced under the
bin by the policy which thn# obtained,'
seems to have organized and inaugurated
Huf He volution which haa* iopregraM,
secret sncieites which bad eziated for many
years throughout the Empire, became the
serviceable fbstrUinent* tor carrying fort1
ward their scheme#, and Protestant mis*
Nionarie*, eager mitvail ibnribelves nf Hie
opporiftniiy Hula providentially afforded to
propag ite tlnrir'Vitfwa,'lent to the move*
ment lire sahatioa of a religion,adroitly
modified by the Hevoluiionnry leaders no
os to answer their purposes.
Thus commenced, thy insurrection lias
gone on steadily for nearly three years—
successful everywhere, guided by dole, rea
dme and politic ledtllra,' sustained almost
universally by the people, and likely to end
in the irverfbhiw of thr' Lnperlai Govern*
ment, Ind io the division of the country info
dia.ricm add MunWtely governed Proviirt
cea. I lie taiSpihuaries, having done so
much Iff cause and aid the rebellion, ire rtf
course, deeply interested in carrying it fort
ward In a successful termination"; and.there
is every reiSBn to believe that intercourse
with, the rant of the world will be much
unpe five IWtdcr the newwgftnc than an*
Her thst'wfiieh has hitherto obtained.
We were tetely rtfitirtned that a Worthy .
but poor minister, who wad finable lo keep
a horse, found it desirable to "exchange on
a certain Satibsfh with another minister,
twierfty five miles distant. He solicited of
hiS church methbers the use of a horse, but
being uniformly denied, he set’off and trav*
eled the distance on four—fifty weary miles
over hills and valleys, and under a hdruing
sun. And yet the excha nge was lo gra l ily
these e.httrch members with the service of
a lavorite ^minister “fn 'wftHiniatering*fhe
communion ! Let Mrs.' Hubbell add this
fl»ct fo the nett edition of" Shady Side.”—
Cong. Journal.
N*w Yomc Rowdyism.—One of the
(hugs of rowdies which have infested the
itreeis east of Broadway, in the neighbor
iood of tbe Ciiv Hall,during the past week,
nd whose aimcitins assnlt^tmchecked by
lolice interference, were referred to a day
>r two since by a correspondent of this pa
ler who tvas irfi eye witness, succeeded i%i
et> ally titiirfrcffttg filharn'Tli'^roltl street,
n Wednesday night, and escaped, none
f the witnesses daring to attempt the res
tie of the victim { while another (or pos
ilily the same gang) stabbed another young
jaii, at a later hour of the same night,
riihin a biock of the spot of the murder,
md, for i wonder, was arrested! On the
irrceding .tight, Dr. Osbonte, late of the
J. S. Navy, was badly beaten in Cherry
ireel, and taken to the New York Hospit-;
il, in (aava the reporter)'" wn almost hope
ea*ico#dimtm,,"*JV’. Y. Jour, of Com.
* c lf,..Cti.M-im^s. -W
'An ’English paper says, while we keep
it enormous, expense, an anti-slavery
•quadron 'crtiteing on the /ifriesn enast,
»oit whihT the Stafford house ladies, With
ilie*£9rl or HtfalWbory st their head, are.
levelling n# shwfia of r/proadi fit the slsVe ,
holders of ike-United States, it seems Brit*
ish merchants'have wtobtruVivHy opened S'
White sfirVe market fit Amoy. The system
is to entice Chinese laborers from the inte*
rior under various pretefices, inio the pnfi,
where theyVrenrsi 'Sitftied sway ip barra
riNtns, and afterwards carried away in ship
loads, under the name of coolies, lo the
West Indies. The subject was notioed ip
the House of Commons by Mri Kiftnaird,
and Mr. Frederick Peel could not deny it.
The American Consul it up;tears, Imh in
terfered, alyl ind»gdapilyjtroiested against
this uew traffic in human flesh.
PtrtVXYs Character of i LocomotIYR.
— People WbA tif»y*see a locomotive teary
ing op and down the Inlid at the rile of
forty mites su hour, making the earth groan
beneath its giant trend, and,the heavens
themselves fever bemiewilh its fearful clal
ter,'sea ring nature witlrl’s unearthly din,
amt f'rightetiing alf creation almost from its
prrtprieiy—people who' only Vee it tn itster
rtltleileWtjii RavenA'ldea whht'emifft'htly
social Virtues il ia elfdi^tcB With. This'is
its pVibhc chancier. - Its {jrivateVine is an
orfteVUffam Now and then one op these
?,m e twynsigra, in whose iron bowels sluur
her more than a thousand gi inis’, power,
conies up and stands under our window,
and smokes away as genrfy a* (he most
tbceinfJlsrJi cofilting fii'ove, Its hOge^steam
pipe singing s strain as soft and as dulcet
as ilia moat amiable lea kettle, and ila lungs
of steel breal (ring as sweetly as an infant
in natlumhera. ’But the demon of\peWer
is < tie re. any one bovpiwrti bis em,
’ and no ve ncrahle-^pjlister cat Vftlspit mow
* flreeiy t let hiuTgripethose iron hands, ant
the pipes,which were tuned lo a soft strain
* semi forth a yell, as .if' hefi veri Uhfl dartj
.* were eothing together; sort ‘those‘lungs
It winch breatbfd *0 quietly, cough like i
rm volcano; and nfifil gnes.daikning the heav
' ena with its Vohnhe of sutoke.—Heat
E CohuMmon*'
The immense strides in progress tvfiicl,
civilised men have made within rHbtesttwi:
centuries,hve really tee Nibble omit the a«b
ject is thorthijrhly eonaritlt-red. '¥et wadu
•»«* **»lM*rkte wbfn tne «|y that * jartr*
tievroan mechanic, in the'preaeni“»tayth*w
substantially better than a uoWe did four
centimes ago* 'CIierp.aitH survives a bouse
hold'hOok"kept bytgMPcif fhe 'great * Dukes
of Northumberland, which leaves no doubt
of tkesulgect* From tfc*t volume weflearn
that his grace breakfasted go ate and bees
rings, dined usually oiffeoded beef, and was
as ignorant, at aupperyTJTflie ISktiry of teh
or cdder,a8lie Wks in’lfialiftuSehold fa r n i»
thre.'orc*(pets,.sulks,. or half frtatirasses.
In the Poston letter*, written about the
middle'' of the ■'fifteenth' century, we have
further evidence of the almost incredible
want of pliystoal comforts among the up
per classes. The Duke of Norfolk of that
day, one of the greatest of E iglmh noble
men,'WuSulten in need of the smsflcsi sum*
Of money, whilepcrsons ol less exalted rahk
had frequently to submit‘td rfce'greatest
privations for want of * few shillings. The
richest men in tlie landdiesaeti poorer, were
lodged mdffe rudely, and ate Coarser food in
those times than any industrious mtfchtftiic
of our day. Even as.late o'fQueen Eliza -
be’.h’s reign tlie roydl floors were coveted
with rushes instead of carpet. Whetl Phi
lip the Second, consort of Alary, Elizabeth's
sislef; visited England,his courtiers wrote
bask to Spain tlkat the people lived in huts
of nettles And n.ud, aniTekpton fogs for
pillows.
Theftnckinglmm itegftJerlsays a Itn'jsi .
ingular case'll* somnolency has eftgagetl
he alieirtlon w physicians in Harrisburg,
itr the last ten or m elVf days. Miss Ara
ninta, daughter ofMi^Fieldmg-8, ‘Kagan,,’
if that place,’aged about 14 years, without
ompriaining at all of being nick, went to
leep on Tuesday, the 'Slat ull., slid has
mntinoed in that situation, with secretly
iny intetmasim, ever since! Site has eat
in nothing of consequence since the a]tpal
ing stupor came over her senset—and'has
ipdken but 6ftce or twice Since She went
o sleep. ’Once, orf'flid’first ilav she' was
aken, animation seemed entirely suspend
’d. ’ It is with extreme diffiduhy she can
te a rotted froui Iter siwthbers, hot u hen
twakened she seems to fcnnuf bet friends
ind acqttaiiitSnces, although the fsift-etiif
ipeech secitjS lobe destroyed. Site occa
liotially tabors uiifler’tiigh /ever, and some*'
mea moans as ihotiglrshe were in grea’i
taiu-jbnt all anempis tourer lain the cause
tf her iHnessAMl stupor hSve a»'ydt |tdoved
ruitless. E.
A Loco’s Dksciuptios of aLoco—T<e
war between the “ Hards” and *•’Sofia” 'rtf
Vew York Slate is oriC ofiheWveresi kind,
rite Syracuse Chronicle (hnrd) in describ
ing one of the“ Solis," » real gaHons bird,
•aidite was “ mechanically-fingering his
bait mfck-andTetlmg tttidef’his le/i amr.—''
His image sunk mto.onr soul. All the ten
commandments had stamped the impress of
tA<U’ broken fragment* On each, particular
feature.” There is certainly some ,poeiry
in the Idea, if no charity itr the imtpiratfon.
•• -- -••• • - •
A Fated CiTY.— NeW Orleans has three
dangers ui contend with, and there is a
strong probability that the, tluoe together
will about doits business. These Are the
overflowing of the river, the ravages of the
yeUotfrfever, thd file' bars of nthd at the.
entrance oftbe MwaMAippi. *TbiA Itfst, w3!
in time; make New Orleans Ad inland city.
A writer from the South says: It mav be
newMo rmmt’ofjyour readers that There is
“tlaliger ttf ^lenTOrleans yet brconibig an
inland town. The Bayou Ptoqiemine (a
branch of the Mississippi,) which sets out
in nearly a 'straight line- fim the gnlph nf
Mrxico; hr rapidly rtiferging Itself., And’
unless sofntihing be ddne th check' iibbjrq-'
giyss, it will in » few years become tlfe i
main channel. The Pl»guomine seta ofe
about Htf milts worth of New-Orleans.-aro
’Dwiwt tothe swaHkM couftte «f be ohemtdt
ft itrtfc <hfttteHn|n .ftftftp olf °r MeXifeo.
AlJDontUtfi'Extctiior. )’
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Whh one rtf fhe bot pruis, and proceed in
like mannerwiih ih* whole nr Hie milk,
end you will find that you have ilwufflrrS
[
I !k* ^1or,.of ,h* “Qc^n* presented,with
the intention nr retiring for the Light,
.turned to her frifnd^ndfeuiarlted,—“VVell,
t SXifiS M !h4ve M,» •«
! »nd tveiybndy Unseen mine,
J ipupeutre. Good night.”
\vhatc«ti'd he mortf graidiie. the very
‘ r«X‘d’ ke .tr "" *”**&'"
; eH!t ™^ve lr*ri's> ^BTSSJ^hHJ
and the tmUher_co.iptrj,
Brttannt. wteoftce rwpect.ble oH
• sssls-iss
and the Whigs wf this cosnty should sea
r that jndidows Imnnioations*affc made, and
i exert themselves to secure their election.
Though defeated, the Whig parly is not
[ dead, and the offices tobe filled at these
meetings are of sufficient importance to
| demand unsparing -exertions that they
C may be property occupied. It h time
> for the Whigs toawakc from their leth
argy, and while our opponents in adjoin
- mg States are 'engaged in Angry Strife
and contention among themselves, let us
rally aroued the old ,WIMg standard, and
uphold measures add principles which
have and will yet again plade us in Hie
; ascendancy, Be|ia then, now, ant) elect
die proper men for town officers, for our
totefe success-depends m a measure on
how these offices are'filled.
Kffi* The next semi-annual meeting of
the! Conn. State Teachera Association
w& be held at Middletown ©n Monday
and Tuesday .Out 24th and25th. The
friends ofVdueation are invited to attend,
Tlie¥cotmty Convention of teachers for
this ernmty takes place lit Wrnsted on
Monday, Oct. 31st.
The'Twenty sixth Fair of the Ameri
can Institute will open at Castle Garden
on Thursday, Oct. '6th, and' continue
through the two ensuing wefcks. The
trialof plows ahd spadingmatch will take
place afc Flatbush tm the’TOth; the flow*
er show at the Carden on the 17th; the
cattle show at Hamilton square on the
18 th to the 21st inclusive. The Anni
versary Address will be delivered "by
Gov. Se ward a t‘-Me tropcl itffn Hall; fln the
evening of Hi6 20th,
A communication from the-derfc
of the State Piison at Wet'nerifreld states
that’ there ana now in confinement at that
institution five sets of brothers, a brother
and sister, and a father and sen,4hine of
Which; persons''tver®'convicted in Litch
field cohritry, This Extraordinary number
of near relatives in a prison, numbering
bat 183 convicts, is a very singular cir
cumstance, and is piobably without a
parallel in this country. This county has |
furnished twenty inmates' of the prison
wiUlitf the last year.
' ETHRev. Ira-Petlibonois about leaving
Winsted and rEmofrfng to 'SorttH' Corn
wall, to lobe charge of the academy at
that place.
The unpleasant state of the weather
will probably prevent as large an attend
ance as usual, but the county people
are Resembling ‘in good" numbers, and
sliofild the weather’ prove favorable we
shall hnve a fine exhibition. We notice
some very-fine cattle to be entered for
prem?iftns:vKBTOHt)M’sMWwilfG Machine
is to be seen in operation to-day.
The address'before the Agiicultural
'Society wffl be delivered at the Court!
House, to-morrow^ (Thursday,) by l>r.
S. W. GGtn, of Cornwall, i
- ;-n.aor.—i
J tty We have ft celvedthe forty -second
Annual*Report.of the Foreign.Mission
;Soeiety; and Fourteenth Anhusl Report
of the Heme Misstonary Sockny of the
County of Litchfield. The Forty-second
A nniversifty of ihe^Foreign -Miasico So*
Ciety VHl lie' held lit "TJtcKfield, on
Wednesday. October Id, at 1 o’clock,
P. M. Addresses appropriate'to the oc
casion may be Hxpecftd. Thd friends of
Mtairtw aad'tbe public getterEMy ar« in
vited tq attend. . ; ’ 1
. . ■ 'ii ■''
‘ pnperS'lhrougb VheState have
lately .been tVyiog to outdo each other in
relating the height of their Idlest earn
stsHw, until the list one makes • it (the
corn, not tbe stbry1,) sEvtenteEri feet high.
We don’T boast of the' stalks, but Jason
Whiting, ttsq., has left with'us two ears
eqrn, epch thirteen inches jn lengUw
wmch'Ve imagine is baton of the grain
tbiqn the till stalks yield.
i • . -- -
Watter Tnytor, of NorWdlk. whir was
sentenced. af»t mewths since; to the
State prison for ten years, for obtainmg
fraudutent pension papers, was again
brEught before the U. S. Court, in Hart*
ford, last week, on ooothar «M*-obtain
ing fraudulent papers for a gentlemsa
residing in Wal!iqgford-convicled. and
five yoara more 3ded tu his Mnte.ce,
’*Wr*«rVHiom
| Chord, at Mew Hartford; tu-foy;
|f* A fellow named Lncas,a resident
of Bei|ia»and live terror .of .the neigh
borhood where lib lived, hM been arrest
ed on the charge of being the person
Who placed the obstructions on tbo Mid
dletown Branch railroad, a short lime
since. It is said that a.confederate has
testified to facts sufficient to convict him.
He has been lodgjsd'iQ jail..
• T"* t - , * {
; Sixgular Obdisatisj!.—i?er Antoi
nette L. Brown, who figured so conspic
uously at the World’s Convention* was
lately ordained to the ministry at a low*
in central New York, where she has beep
sometime preaching. The TiibaiU con
tains over a column of the proceedings,
Let her do * what she bin.’ ^ .
Itiilldha - - • : !
ACvnonn
Asthrof Dr. Vaill of iftistowiv while
riding with aoolher lad near Bradleyrille
on Wednesday,|had the misfortune to
accidentally discharge a gen which they
had with them, and the centcnto passed
entirety through hie arm, :lflje ■gun was
loaded With shot, and it -was thought at
first the arm would have to be amputa
ted,Jbut he W4H probably regain' its use.
The Roman Catholics have stolen *
march -upon the friends of religious
tfquality in "California, by procuring a
recommendation of the State SuperinT;
tendent of Common Schools, that* pro
portion <of the Public School ihoney
should fee appropriated to the supportuf
their -sectarian schools. This rtfcom-.
mendation was hastily acted upon at the
heel of the late session of fl»e 'Legisla
ture, an’d became a iaw almost without
examination.
We notice by the Litchfield Enquirer that the
WM» Wnrforn of that town have come out pub
'••■v an ««uvuo wurei woiro, snu VUIWIUUC UIBl
this is to be the "card4’ bf tharaspirtng class of
gentlemen, SVthe ensuing fall ana spring elec
tions. When they get to. tbe end oi the journey,
there thiy, perhaps, be sotne'-who will .be desi
rous to know how much they and the cttuse of
’ temperance hive Made by the operation.
1 Bridgeport Farmer. >
' ft/^-A mistake, ft tend ; you don’t no
lice any thing of the kind. Themeeting
you allude’ to was (failed by a democrat,
presided over by ademocrat, and a ma
jority Of iheHstmdklHtes on that ticket are
j democrats, and those, loo, for the-Most
important offices, * '
^ Victory Birdseye,'‘'whose fleeth ^
announced last week, whs a native of
Cornwall, in this county. ■
|E^” .The* Court-lhyuao 'was crowded
on Monday and Tuesday evenings to -wit*
ness lire performances of the scholars
attending tire academy of 'fir. Lewis.—
Thcs exhibition was highly entertaining,
and -did '-cmltt to *tK>lh tcadier mid
scholars.
"** *■ . 11.,. r.
Mike Wa|glv watf Severely, if -not flan
gerously injured, -by tbe fr.Hiog of the
staging, at a meeting of fhe Hard Shelf
Democrats in the*Patk, N. Monday
evening.
■rvL-■
Attention is invited to the adver
tisements of FalfGoodsiabor paper of:
4o»dhy, Thufce "who advertise sell the
most gottds,and consequently rfibrd.tbeKi;
at small promts.
Nicholas PnritVji,^ Portugese ssdor,*
has begp convicted it New fxtmtah ©f
killing anctther sailor named Wffliams by
stabbing Hm in aquari'cl. i^jt^iury rif
turned a Verdict of raurdtur'inibe second
degree Vliich will send the prisoner to
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iiie miners geocraily are
Immigrenta from Chins-e_i
plains were arriving in great numbers.
Large shipments oMpriekaihrr Mire
icing made toGhpa. - -
Excess of shipments of gold dost-Afr
UnmHh
ions and a quarter.
Strikes among tfie laborers cbnlino*
and ire gepetaUj nuemtui: BricMky
ers had demanded $j 2 perday and bed
carriers $6 —both were successful. ■
The 8teamerK)regon for Panama sailed
on the first wfttfi neaVly one million in
specie.* : K «*rr*w; ruts
Large .meeting* had been heltl in San
rcjrtics .are waxing warm—te Feral
prominent Democrats atw tftitmpi&g- lift
Slate in-opposition to-Bigler. „
Vast numbers of buildings w.em omg
up in San Fraoeise© at a cost ef
to $200,000 each.
Nearly one half of the town of Sonera
has been destroyed by fire. Thebusji
incns poction-of the.chy rniimiired; . lifea
$50,000. - .*
i Tim town of Kelsey’s’ TKgtfngC’lfi
■ Dorado'COnnfy; wa£ burhtdowri on the
night df tire 25 ih August. Loss flO.
000.
D ties‘from Oregon are to tbe 26 th
Aug* ^ke Indian insurrection m Rogue
RiverraHey Had created great coaster*
tratfcfii among the iiihabiVants. These*,
eral tribes had united and commenced*
war of extermination upon tha whites.
Many massaferii haft been already com*
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of General Lane had gone up the scene
of action and bloodywoVk was expected!,
At the last accounts twenty whites had
'been1 butchered by the Indians.
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Dinner to John 91. Betts.
The dinner to Hon^ Mr. Bolts took
place at Kewaik'V few evenings stRce,
and in response to a toast, Mr. B. ajyjje a
smooch in which he alluded to’his early
and steadfast Whig principles, &C. lib
t>a!d; 4
Yoqilrful asf am;;l eliMm to h# one
of the fathers of the Whig parly. ,1
helped to hold it,To nurse it,Jto rock its
cradle in infancy*; I claim to be one
of the fa the is of ft. H have never been
dismayed try defeat. The great eiror
which the Whig party lias Committed,
and its willingueeknib lay down, ity ayps
at ev^p^qfeat. MofsB^h.'W^Wt,
nents. 1 Ire worse you whip them to-day.
lire haider they will fight lo-morrow.
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He ridiculed the fde« that the 'Whig
party was dead. Nothing has happened, ';
he said La make any Wlfig sunendor the
principles woi have been contending fer.A
He then went On tb review, fire ojjj. doc-*
times, the tariff, internal improvements,
Are, And noticed some frau i
Treasury’under President Pojf
elusion lie e*hefted them, wbHe the De
mocratic party •was tumbling tp pieces,
lo hold ouffi^f party to
rally around, andtOt us go on Working
quietly but earnestly. Let our opps*
nents go on scrabling-for the spoils, biit
let Whigs hold on to every principle, and
every -Stale, county, township and ward
we can contiol, and just so sure as they
beit Us in '42, SO sure we will beat them
in ’fits. Tim Whigs have only to hold on
to their principle* and organaation, and
iillN .they may hold out their huts ind
catch the Irttit wit fall*. v* * Z
Beecher, of Brooklyn, N, YVhayejgto
oroii^jf him wjljr f I
tire purchase ef'U ceuntry seat, < at^pjha* '■
has accordingly bought
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