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EATOX.O., AL. 10, l31.
JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT,
SHEPMRB F. II
OF CLERMONT COL-NTY. .
MEMBER OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
mm p. i
OF BUTLER COUNTV.
DThe readers of Iho Democrat will have
the generosity, we trust, to escuse the matter
' ontained in to-day's paper. The out
tide of the Democrat was worked off some
two week's ago, and bears date of July 27lh.
The different articles on the first page are of
a literary character, and consequently have
not grown eld on account of sucn delay. A
-portion of the matter on the inside, and espe
cially the editorial, was in typi before Mr.
Gould's departure. Such of that mutter as
we have deemed ot interest we publish now.
Mr. G. will probably be at home in time to
attend to the next issue; but, whether he
comes or not, the pspcr will appear with its
former punctuality.
River and Harbor Bill.
The Washington correspondent of the De
troit Fross Prtss says, that the River and Har
bor Bill, which has passed the House, appro
priates about two and a half millions of dol
lars, and does contain itema for works essen
tially new, although clipped in with impropri
ations made (or works in a condition of partial
completion. Ti ere is scarce a doubt, from
present appearances, that the bill will be
loaded with amendments, making it a gen
eral bill, before the two houses get through w ith
it; and in that shape it will certainly be vetoed
- by the President, as unconstitutional.
P. S. By Washington dates of 1he6th inst.,
and since the above was in type, we learn that
the above Bill ha been vetoed.
EfThe Eaton Register, its Editor, and Pro
prietor, and the Clique have gone over "body
and breaches" to the Free Soil or Abolition
paily.. A good lime is anticipated, in mixing
- and harmonizing the antagonistic elements of
' Free Soilism and whiggery. The rank and
'file of the latter party declare that they will
. .not support a FreeSoiler for any office, pre
ferring defeat, advocating whig principles and
supporting whig men, to minglonout victory
achieved by a "fusion," repugnant and dis
graceful. There are many old men in Preble
county, whose heads ate silvered o'er with age,
and who have grown grey in advocating the
principles advocated by Clay, Webster, Harri
son, and the other bright luminaries of this
country who believed In whig prin-iples, and
they will never content to be sold to the fanat
ical ideas of the party styled Free Soil or Ab
olition. Designing demagogues and tricksters
may attempt, and enter into such arrangements
to suit their own aims and ends, but the peo
ple willindignantlyrepudiateall such attempts
and visit condign punishment upon those en
gaged in such unholy efforts. The Eaton
"Register" is prostituting its columns to the
work of reconciling the whig party of Preble
county, to the "Bargain and sale" made by
the clique, but we imagine it will be found an
up hill business, aud in the end a bud specu-
lation. It was predicted when the "Regis
' ter" changed hands that, this condition of of-
fairs would be attempted to be brought about,
and under existing circumstances, the contem
plated FreeSoil organ is a bandonr i,hn" Reg
ister" under its present management, being
considered a good enough Abolition organ for
.all present purposes. How are the mighty
rfallen. Two or three hundred fanatical, sec
tional advocates of old abolitionism in Preble
county, have subsidised the whig paper loan
. edvocasy of treasonable principles, and are
fast merging the entire party into a component
. part of their own ! If the old whigs who have
been engaged for years in fbe cause, can stand
such a state of affairs, we can. We imagine
' however, that, the clique organ, its Editor and
Proprietor, and their masters, will find that,
the scheme will not work so well, nor with
such beneficial results as thev may imagine.
63"The Fusionists exult over the few Dem
ocrats who have been sucked into their net.
What manner of men are theyand how much
the party looses by their defection may be
judged from the following in the Toledo Re
publican. The description is good for any
and every loea'ily:
"We are free to sav, we should not consid
er the Democratic parly in the least damaged
by all those leaving it jirhose political princi
ples and self-respect sit so loosely upon them
that they are willing to place them in the
keeping of such politicians as the Lucas dele
gates men who have lnomitcl every politi
cal hobby which they thought promised a
chance of office."
JTThe platform of the fusionists may be
briefly stated thus;
1. A dissolution of tl.e t'nion.
2- Armed resist. nee to the execution of the
laws.
3. Perjury in Senators and jurymen com
mended. 4 . The conquest of the South and tho Aboli
tion of slsverv by force.
ftrThe House of Representatives last week
-paired the army bill, appropriating 810,000,.
009; the General appropriation bill 912,000,
000; the River and Harbor bill $2,600,000; the
'Lighj-house bill 81,230,900 Total, gioSO,
000. , I ' . ;
(iTSenatnr Welim, of California, ban made
a speech Id the 6'nste denouncing the Know
The "Fusion" Candidates.
The Amalgamation Convention which as
sembled at Columbus on the 13th inst, nomi
nated for Supreme Judge, Josiru R. Swan, of
Franklin county, and Tor member of the
Board of Public Works, Jacob BLicKE.xstra
fe, jr., of Tuscnrawas. The former a rene
gile lemocrat, and the latter a Whig of the
same sort. We entertain not a doubt i their
defeat. If the past is anv criterion by which
to judge of the future, we predict the defeat
ol these 'fusion" candidates by an overwhelm
ing majority. The same gamtjj was attempted
to be played off upon the people of the Stale,
Inst fall, in the selection of a Teacher's can
didate for Common School Commissioner, and
a Free Soil candidate for Lieutenant Gover
nor. Both candidates were signally defeated,
and the "fusion" indignantly rebuked. There
are hundreds and thousands ofNotional Whigs
in Ohio, who will repudiate the action of the
Convention, and vote for democratic men and
measures in preference to tho fanatical, ruin
ous policy advocated b the .loolilicnists,
who alone are to be benefitted ev entually by
the proceedings of the Convention of the 13th
nay of July. There are hundreds and thou
sands of Whigs in Ohio, who are not base
enough to lick the hand that smites, and who
never will support the candidates of a party
who has destroyed the Nationality of the whigs
ns a pariy, and now seek to u-ar a towering
superstructure, devoted 1o Abolitionism, Fa
naticism ond Treason, on its ruins!
Defeat, certain and overwhelming awaits
Swan and Blickensderfer! So it should be,
and so it will be, au;l in the 'ndignnnt rebuke
of thtir fellow. citizens, exprest.ed through the
ballot-boxes, these traitors to their party, and
tools of fanaticism, will aeet their just and
deserved reward. The fule of Andrews and
Bus should have proved a warning to all
other aspirants in all time to come, but the
salutary lessons of experience have been lost
upon these aspirants for office, and as they
sow to the w ind, they must expect to rtn'p the
whirlwind. When men attempt to obtain of
fice through the assistance of demagogue and
tricksters, a union of all the fug ends of all
parties all the refuse and oj fill of all isms
it aueurs unfavorably for thtir reputation and
speaks against them as public officers, fo;
they who seek to obtain office by dishonest
means, will be very apt to prove dishonest in
office. Taking the past ns an index to the fu
ture, there could no event have occurred, more
favoroble to tl.e success of the democratic
nominees, than the assembling and results of
the "Fusion" Convention of the 13th inst.
Of course the ai-'ers and abetlors of Aboli
tionism ond niggerology, those who wanted a
pretext to join fanaticism and advocate Free
Soilism and Sectionalism, will whistle tokecp
their courage up, and assert that great una
nimity and enthusiasm prtvai s in behalf of
their nominees, and that they will be trium
phantly elected! Believe it not. The peo
ple of Ohio will never evince great unanimity
and enthusiasm in' favor of political rascality,
and as the Fusion Convention was brought
about by wire-workers ond aspirants for of
fice, who were willing to sell their old princi
ples, and barter of their party for a nifts of
pottage, we cannot believe the people willbe
slow to discover the villainy, nor tardy in re
buking it. Fusion democrats, or whigs, or
free soilers may pnte about the popularity of
their nominees, and their irreproachable repu
tation, but being found in such company, and
the leaders of such a crew of dissatisfied spir
its, will be in recommendation to hones', men
of any party. When all old issues and an
tagonistic principles are made to harmonize
for the sake of office ond public plunder, then;
is something wrong, and the people will cer
tainly make the discovery, and apply the rem
edy at the baltot-bexes. . We repeat again, the
Fusion nominees will be overwhelmingly de
feated: Mark that!
Won't swallow the dose.
We are glud to see honorable whig papers
in in t'ie Stale who trill not swallow the amal
gamated ticket formed n'. C"lumbtis on the l.Hh
inst., among those which have thus far curne
under our notice, is the Daylo.i "Journal" one
of the best whig pepers in the Slate ond the
"Tic'ii Yallnj Locomotive," published otGeT.
mantown, O. They mill not ratify the sale of
the whig parly to the Free Soil faction. Old
issue? ore too dear lo be parted wilh so easily
and Abolitionism too repugnant to be gulped
do nat a dose. Hurrah for the National whig
papers of Ohio who will not fuse wit the "fu
sion !" The Twin Valley Locomotive, thus
speaks of the Convention :
The "All Sorts."
This rew party, composed of all the Free
Soilers, most of the wings, nod many of the
democrats of Ohio, met t Columbus on the
13th inst., and nominated a Slate ticket. Jo
seph It. Swan, of Franklin county was nomi
nated for Supreme Judge, and Jacob lliickeris
derfer, Jr., ol Tuscarawas Co nt v, for Mmihcr
of Board of Public Works. II. F. Leiter, of
Stark, of hat notoriety, during the memorable
"Hump Parliament," was chairman, and onu
of the leading spir Is, Judge Ittilus P. Spauld
ing was the getler-up of the resolutions, which
all relate t-p the slavery question, and have
particular reference to Nebraska mid Kansas.
The convention was larg-, ami its action
unanimous; but for the life of us, we can't
see what a judge and a member of the Hoard
of PuMic Works of 'bin, can do in this mat
ter, mors than common people. If the people
of Ohio wish to make their voice heard, they
must take some olhrr plan. A Per giving
an overwhelming majority for a President who
put his whole) soul to the task of currying
through the Nebraska bill ; and after electing
four congressmen who voted for the hill, it is
a pun-way to make aniemls, by electing an
Anti Nebraska Judge anu oanai uomiuissinii-
er.
An "All sorts" Convention of Indiana was
held at ludiauapolis, on t.'C same day. The
ruling feature will he the liquor question, ac
companied, probably, by some Anti-Nebraska
shot, and other smaller matters.
When will the whig Convention be held in
this Slate ? We hava not yet seen the matter
agitated. We would very much like to vote
the Full clecti'ii, if we could get hold of
an unadulterated ticket. When we vote, we
always like to know for idiom ani for Kho't we
are voting.
OXJudge Von 'ersmith, implicated in the
Lancaster pension frauds, and who fled to
England for safely, recently colled on out
Minister at London, it is said, wtth the view,
of obtaining passport'. The request was
promptly refuted by Mr, Buchanan,
INDIANAPOLIS FUSION MEETING.
The Cambridge city find., AVws, thus
speaks of ihe Indiana State "Fusion" Con.
volition We had Ihe pleasure of attending
the Whig, Free Soil, Abolition, and A nti-Nebraska
Convention.which met at Indianapolis,
on Thursday, July 13th.- Our readers have
probably heard something about this great
convention, and would like to hettr, no doubt,
w ho the getters up of this affair were who
the prime movers are, in the great "People's
Convention." The crowd was quite respect
able as many present as we ha I expected,
but not more than one-third as many as the
friends of the meeting and anticipated. This
lusiun convention was composed of
"Black spirits and white,
Iiluc spirits and grev,
Jtfingle. mingde, mingle.
You that mingle m::y,"
and Ihe leading "spirit" from this porlion of
the Slate, were David Kilgore, O. W. Julian,
Solomon Meredith, Matthew R. Hull, and other
lesser lights of the same political complexion.
We were delighted to think that but a very
few Democrats in lhte district were induced to
attend this gathering. The Democracy knew
loo well that the real character of this afl'.iir
was cloaked und r the guise of the People's
Convention, consequently they remained at
home to attend lo their own business, enter
taining a stronger devotion for their old and
cherished principles for which they hove con
tended this half a century. -
Afterthe Convention was organized, speech
es were made by H. S. Lane, whig, Geo. I!.
.Irteelyn, whig, H. L. I llsworth, dim. Tl.e
afternoon exercises begun l y a speech from
M. R. Hull, w'o con.menctd ly saying he
want d to see whether the convention would
listen to one of his wool, and ofter speakinga
lew i.iinu'es some of -tl.e audience began to
call for Hendricks, Hendricks, while others
commenced, "go on Hull, goon Hull," "hear
him, hear him," -c. after the third effort of
this kind, Hull said to that porlion of Ihe ou
dience, "shako your heads and hollow, what
do 1 cure for your hallooing. 1 am used to
such conduct, and ifl dont get eggted more
than twice a week, I am doing remarkably
well. Hull hero finished his speech, when
.1. A. Hendricks appeared and made a very
lame effort, such as did not attract the atten
tion of the audience. . Ex-ttov. Heb, fonnorlv
of Ohio, followed with a whig speech, filled
wilh empty declarations-, without force or ar
gument, i he Committee o Resolutions then
reported, and Geo. W. Julian, Esq . matin a
minority report, whirh he defended with
a speech; they were voted down. Weno-i
tice that this district as represen cd on Cue
committee to repurt permanent officers, by M.
I!. Hull, the committee on resolutions, by G.
W. Julian, and that Walter C. March, deni
was appointed one of the Vice Presidents, who
declined serving, The following-is the ticket
nominated, Secretary ofState, E. B. Collins,
Auditor o! Slate, II. E. Talbot!, Treasurer, Y.
R. Nofsinger, Judge of Supreme Court, S. B.
Gookins, Superintendent of common schools,
C Mills, two whigs, two democrats, and one
Temperance.
Mr. Collins certainly belongs tn the know
nothings, for in his speech he said ht hod once
voted for Lewis 13. Cass for the Presidency which
was about the extent of his democracy. It
was announced that Mr. Nofsinger w.n a son
in low to some great man, consequently the
necessity of his election. We think this con
vention was considerable of a fizzle, and ihe
Democrocy can have iu fears of the success of
this fusion ticket.
MEXICO.
We find no intelligence whatever in the
Mexicon papers from Acnpulco. nor is tbe re
porte I death of Alvarez referred to in any way.
The only item that we findjn any of our ex
changes in relation to the revolution in the
Soulh is o paragraph in II, e Eeo Del Conimer
cio of the 21SI., stating thnt an exptes from
Omotepecto the Governor of Osjac.i brought
advices that Capt. Salerdo hod had another
eni'ogement with the insurgents at Ayulla
With 250 sold ers and 50 country people he
attacked the insurgents, who were400 strong,
and after killing several and capturing some
arms, he put 'hem to flight,
The information in regard to the Jalisco and
and Michoacan states that the Supreme Gov
ernment had offered a iree pardon in nil who
would lay down their arms and cone in, a d
that Don Rafael Guerrtra hud received a full
pardon.
The same paper states that the rebels were
approaching Patzcuaro. but that iu that town,
as well as in those of Piedad, Zamoru ond
Marnvatio, the inhabitants would refist them.
J. Laurie Bil liards, Esq., agent for the
hnhh.ts of Mexican Bonds iu Eng and, had ar
rived tM 'xico. lie had asked an extension
of time for the obligatory commencement of
the railroad from Vera Cruz lo the Pacific, for
he I asn contract, and the extension was grant
ed until the 1st of August. 1835.
On the morning of the lGth inst., a slirhH
earthquake was felt in Ihecity of Mexico. N )
damage was done.
The existence of nn organized band of rob
hers has been discovered in Puebla, simil r to
that which from 1831 to 1810 carried terror
througi the Slate. Active measures were
token to ferret out all its ramifications.
The scarcity of food at Tobacco is so grpat
that the Governor has asked contributions from
Yucatan, and permission from the Supreme
Government, to import corn from abroad.
The locust plague that had disappeared in
some parts of the South has re-appeared in
several places in great numbers. A famine
throughout the southern part or Mexico was
feared. In several places lh Governors had
ordered every adult male to plant in corn a
certain quantity ot land.
Important from Oregon.
We received yesterday full files of the Ore
gon Statesman. The news is important, po
litically. The Whigs have been routed,
"horse, loot and dragoons," in the cleclion
for Representatives to the Territorial Legisla
ture, &c. They have not carried a single
county!
The vote for and against a Convention to
frame a Constitution preparatory lo admission
into the Union, is very close. It stands, for
a Convention. 1280; against, 1141, with the
counties of Jackson and Coos to heor from,
which it was expected would be otuiust the
measure.
In thu crowded state of our columns to-day
we must content ourselves with co ying the
following items from the Statesman:
Victory ov Victory! Further returns
bring in the gallant liitle Clatsop, the new
county of Wasco, and the f' rireily Whi
eoiimy of iiipqua, Democratic to the core.
They wheel into rnk in the right 'vle, ha
ving no siiow for Whiggery at all not even a
peg lo hang his hat on.
"Republican Party."
The teetotallers, theso-ralled Free Demo
crat, abolitinuists, whigs, and the malcontents
of every stripe, in Vermont, have fused, and
set tip an independent organization, giving it
the name of "Republican Party." The Rnme
kind of material has been boxed up in Ohio
and Indiana, and labelled after the srme style.
This is right it were a pity to leave the mon
grel crowd "spol more than one house."
There are a few whigs, and a small number of
whig papers in Ohio, but a "corn-crib," will
hold them. "Republicanism," has pretty
nearly swallowed Ihe parly. The Journal, of
this city, we notice, refuses ta "acquiesce,"
and will not insert the mongrel ticket at Ihe
head of its columns. There willbe $ nice
time in "the party" here, about the time the
fall nomination come on, and the election
Dayton Empire.
Political Reminiscense.
The whigs ju t now are strong know-noUi-
ings in their proclivities, and disposed to wag.
war of extermination upon Catholics, uie
Democrat Central committee oi renusymmiQ
issued an excellent address to the people
" . t . . ,,. ,i.. -n.,.l tn this
of that State m which hey thus allude to this
change of whig tactics :
Previous to the last Presidential election,
the organs, orators and leaders of the party
then calling itself whig, had exhausted their
list of party doctrines. Every issue had been
settled against thtm. But they are seldom at
a loss for some temporary suhtrefuge, and on
that nrra or. thev betook themselves toa mosi
disputable expedient. They exerted all
their power and influence to excite tho anger,
hatred and jmIousv of the Catholics and nat
uralized voters against the Democratic party,
and its candidates. Immediately upon Gen.
Pierce's nomination they denounced him as a
higoled Protesluiit, w ho, if elected, would use
his power to prevent Catholics from having
their just rights- A restriction in the Consti
tution of New Hampshire ognit this sect of
people, was charged on him as a high political
offense. Certificates from Catholics in his
011 neighborhood, declaring that he was hos
tile to them, flooded the country mid the
.sanctitv of the Post Office was violnted for
the purpose of circulating these documents
along with religious papers reod by persons of
that Isilh. On thu other linnn, uen. r-ro;i
was held up as a man for whom Colholics,
above all others, should vote. If he was not
a member of that church himself, it w as ur
ged that his family were, and his daughter
had, wiih his consent, gone into a convent.
Never before was so bold ond shameless nn
effort made to rouse religious prejudices for
political purposes. Sensible men of all parties
sects, mid classes, were deeply offended nt
this unblushing system of endeavoring to carry
an election by sectarian appeals.
Still more humiliating than thirf, if possible
was tli flatterry bestowed upon the ii fellow
citizens, freni the aged and distinguished
soldier who was their candidate for President
down to the most obsetlre and inefficient of
their speakers, and writers, all professed a be
coming zeal for the rights of foreigners. Ac-
curding totheir statements, made then, all per
sons of foreign birth hnd been or were about
to be greatly misus;'! hy the Democracy; and
they were urged, exhorted and warned lo trust
noli. dy but tie-jr trio; fiii;u 's, the whigs.
Even the 'liule'-i ipok.'ivhv foreigners was re
ferred to as I'.i'ii- : t j.eriot to the venacnlnr
l.'iiign're wh'.eh the tialive born citizen used.
The "rich 'risl. ' ro.'ue" was music to their
ears, aud the "sweet German accenl"was the
subjerl of extravagant eulogy.
hese facts, .fellow citizens, nrp fresh in
your rec liecti'iii But would you believe it,
that the sanv; p .diticians wh are preaching
this sectarian .rn-:ide against the Democracy,
less than two V'-nrs ago, "ltd who did all that
in them lay, to exc te tl.e 'ea'Mi.'iv of .-eh pted
citizens ajoinst native-born Awetie.ii:- !v
recently espoused the doctrine of pro . vr p inn
against all citizens not native-born of what
ever relieious faiih, and are said to.be in a
close alliance with a secret and oath-bound
association which proproses lo punish men for
conscience sake.
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The State of Russia.
A letter from Leipsic, iu the Paris Jloni
leur, gives the following gloomy picture of
the condition i ( the poorer classes in St. Pe
lersburgli: Letters from St. Petersburg!) give a very
gloomy picture of the situation of the work
ing Classes in Russia. The privations which
Ihe war imposes on Ihe population are sensi
bly felt, especiillv in the capita', nn account
of the dearness of conveyance by laud during
the summer. Provisions or all kinds, even
brcntj, re enormonnly door. The wives and
children of the soldiers of the reserve and of
the veterans have followed them into the
towns. 'I hey encamp in the streets and live
on public charily. Discouragement is every
where. There is but little coal left in the
store houses of the government, arid private
manufactories will soon be obliged to suspend
their operations on account of the want of
fuel. It is more thun doubtful that, as
has been slated, a coal mine has been
discovered ill Russia. The celebrated En
g ish geologist, oir Robert Muicbifon, does
not hesitalq to declare that such a discovery
is imposstble..
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As
irrAmong the Democratic papers thnt ne
heartily supporting the tick?', we notice the
Canton Transcript and the Cincinnati Daily
Volksblntt.
So writes an Abolitionist of this city to the
Washington National Era, the central organ
of that beautiful faction. The ticket alluded
to is the fusion Abolition ticket nominated at
Cohimbus on the 30th ult. Our object iu no
ticing the communi ation is lo say that botl
of the papers named in Ihe above are Tank
Free Soil o position sheets, ond that it is
great abuse of language to term them Demo
cratic. There is not a single Dem crutic pa
per in Ohio that countenances in the least, or
does any thing but vigorously oppose the hy
brid Fusion nominations. The snme Aboli
tionist correspondent of the Era speaks in the
highest terms of the services which the Com
mercial is rendering Ihe onti-slivery disunion
cause by supporting the Columbus ticket.
This claim is Irue; tha Commercial has o en
ly run up the Abolition Whig flag but thi- is
no gain to the Fusionists, ns the editor of that
print has always been a bitter Whig. Cin.
Enquirer.
O The Iloston Post, glancing at the Ohio
Democracy, says:
We rejoice to learn that the Democracy of
Ohio ore firmly united for the ensuing election
on the 10th of October. The nominations, as
fur as rnude and the regular organization ore
supported by every democratic papT in the
Stale, and all unite in condemnation of the
"fusion" through which the Whigs hope to
obtain power. The Nebraska issue is looked
upon by the practical I'emoorney of Ohio as a j
thing that is settled, and they do not mean to
hnwird tueir success by suffering it to remain
a distracting element of the contest. In this
they exhioit even more than their accustomed
wisdom; for at the same time that I bey are en
abled to unite heartily together by casting out
what might be an irritating cause of division,
they deprive the opposition of one of its chief
weapons.
"The Same Shall Be The Head of the Corner."
Jn-U-e Ppab'injf is now the ftcktiovledgrd
! d orji.e ittivi r. a) Whig party. He was
the ntltii 'ji'r:',
at th' C M'i-w.i
and made ir
fus P. Spalding
to "victory or
chief rook ond bottle-washer
ti. drafted their resolutions
; t i hes. t'nly think of Ru
ieai'mg thi Whia forces on
death." We'll bet on the
latter.
It is said, with
knoiv thai the .!;t
entire political
anil ending a Wh
whnt truth we shall soon
!ge has now performed one
yrle, commencing a Whig
f; tl.nl his rhunges have been
calculated by political ustrominier with uner
ring accuracy. He is no erratic orb, r. oving
in defiance of fixed laws, but performt hi as
censions (not of Millerism) and decimations
(not of office,) with Ihe regularity of ti e sun,
and fills his first horn and passes his several
quarters with all the calculating coolness of
the moon.
But this is s free country, and the Judge has
right to revolve in jusl such a circle as pleases
him. When lie comes "round again," he will
find the good obi Democratic party where it
has been for the last fifty years, bottling for
the the Union, and the Constitution !
Plaindealer.
The Particulars of the Destruction of Greytown.
town,
the Unileil Sia'es, anl taKeu mere on snip
have board. One of Ihcse-Lyoii'i Hotel-cost
18.XH. Not more than tl one-fourth of
' jn lie new part of the ,0WBf
,as been built since 1850, were occupied, but
were deserted from business consi erations
sometime previous to this affair. The popu-
.att
n,e proportion ef them constructed in
lation of Greytown consis'ed or about ouu
Ipersons altogether; of which number ten or
twelve were from the Lnut'l Mnics.onu aoom
twenty-five were Englishmen, and twelve
frenchmen nnu uennmi
The remainder of
the population were Jamaica negroes nd
natives. The Americans, English, French
and Dutch were engaged in hotel-keeping
and trade.
Tho houses occupied by the natives and ne
groes were principally frame, with roofs of
Notched palm leaf,
When the Cyane appeared before Grey-
town and demanded sntisfacl onto the amount
of ?2l,0 0, threatening bombardment and not
complied with at a given hour, it was not be
lieved by the inhabitants that the town was
to be eniolished, pillaged and burned. They
expected that a few shuis would be fired into
the town, that n '.v houses wo dd be perlo
rated, and that hostilities would cease. Most
of the I nglish, however, went for protection
on Doaru tr.e Mn'ili wur schooner miuiumi.-,,
Captain Jol y, lying in the harbor. Mr. fa
heas, C. S. Aent, together with six or seven
of the Americans, sought protect on under
the flag of the Trited States on board th-Cyane,
and the remainder of the inhabitants of
Greytown, including all of the En rich anil
natives, together with a few t itg.ii.-h and A
mcricans, left the place during l ho ii'giit ai.d
morning preceding its destruction. They all
encamped together on Hi- shore in the woods
uhoiit a mile ih.lant. not niiiicipaling (lie
entire demolialion of the town by bomb shells
and torches, they took but little of their ef
fects with them. All the properly left was
destroyed. Consequently the h useless in
habitants were in great suff-ring fur ihe want
of food, and from protection from Iho weather
when our informants left. They had stretch
ed up sheets for tents, and many were oblig
ed to sleep in Ihe open nir. without the
least shelter, ond were half-famished for
the want of food. A brig laden with pro
visions, which had just arrived as the bom
bardment commenced, has probably supplied
them.
The lerms of Caplain Hollins not being
complied with, hn opened his tire promptly at
the appointed tune -nearly every sliot doing
execution. He lied about two hundred
hots, hut noi burning up the town ns he
desired, he sent ashore a launch with a i
eu eriiint and about twenty-five men, who
proceeded to' set on fire all that remained ol
Grevtovvu.
The day before the bombardment Captain
H dlins took possession of tho guns which
were for the protection of thu town, and took
them to Punto Arena's, ond placed them in
the keeping of the Transit Company. Du
ring lb- bombardment two fho's were simed
at the flag-staff, from which floated the Mus
quitoflng. The first ball severed the halyards,
anil down came the flag to half-mast, and the
second ball cut ihe stuff half off, from which
it was suspended.
hue the yane was cannonading, note
was received by Captain Hollitm from the
Caplain of the Ilritish schooner Hermnda sta
ting thot he regretted that he had not a ves
sel of war there of the size of the Cyane
he would compel him to desist. Hollins, in
reply to the note, regretted that Capt. Jolly
had not two just such, as he believed Ihe V.
States could get possession cf them on the
same terms as they got theCyane. There was
good deal of anxious looking for the British
mail-steamer Dee, then hoiulv expected, and
remarks were made that when she arrived
hostilities would immediately be suspended.
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N. Y. Tribune.
Railroad Accident.
We learn from the Indianapolis
the 20th inst. that' quite a serious accident
occurred lo the Chicago Express train or L. $
Railroad, on Tuesday last, at a place twenty-two
milLS from Indianapolis, although for
tunately, it was not attended with lois of life.
the train was making a curve ot the rate of
forty milts an hour, ergiueerdiscovon.d n saw
log on the track, about two car lengths ahead.
He whistled down the brakes, reversed the en
gine and jumped off. The end of the saw-log
was lying on the edge of one of the rails.
The locomotive struck it. throwing the wholei
log diagonally across the track. I he locomo-j
live intpassing over.thc log turned a complete
somerset landing in a corn-field near by.-
The baggage and express car was thrown fro
the track, ond one end torn to fragments. TUt
passenger cars remained on the track.
Alfred J. Stephens, Messenger for the Amei-icon
Express Company, was seated on a tal1
near the side doorway of the Express car, aid
when he heard the whistle he rose and look.'d
out of the door. Seeing the log upon ,e
track, he prepared himself for n ltap, but the
reversol of the engine caused him to lose, his
balance. He fell out of the car.his heud'iud
shoulders striking the ground, ond was UJ ten
up fur dead. He remained in a lifeless .'con-i
dition for nearly fifteen minutes, when hq wur
bled bi a physician. After wljjth he conimtnc
rd breathing freely, but gained insensi' le.
He was taken lo Indianapolis, where linow
lies in a dangerous condition, allhotiijl the
Sentinel hopes for his recovery. His thmgh'
that the log was designed!)' placid upon the
truck by some miscreant.
Ji'A fellow nut in Iowa jumped so ugh Ihe
other day, that he sayi h taw the d g liar
wag bis ta i . . ;
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The Railroad Accident.
Mr. Win. Iienter, tl, Superintend It of the
fialiunore oti'i htisqoeliaiiuali l-.ni'l'.Tl, Itas
lieen arrested and held to hsi'l, chnl e wph
being implicated in causing the eiij le acci
dent on that rood, on the-Uh. Mr. y in. Seott,
publishes n long card in the Sun, ij vindica
tion ol himsell, in wtneii lie snows niot twool
the trains were started from Rider' Woods ot
lifferent hours from I hoseindicHted'n the sche
dule furnished bv the Superintendent, ond
that when he left the Relay llnttsf he had no
leason to believe that there was 'another ex
cursion train on the road, lie Uso says he
can produce testimony that his li'olher, John
Scott, opposed leaving Rider's Wrods with the
second excursion train, and lefii'ed lo order
the engineer to start, asserting tint be had not
time to reach the lieloy without danger of a
collision. The same witnesses will c iso tes
tify that the engineei was ordered to stort by
his brother's superior omcer, and wjen in mo
tion, his brother jumped on and look charge
of the train.
At last accounts 3-1 deaths had result ej from
the collision. Mr. John Scott was still alive.
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Declined.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.havingbeeh
named for Congress by some of his admirer!,
he declines the nomination in advance, in the
following chnraracteristic style : i
If the people wish us to be President of tils
United State, wo Rhould be disposed to aj
r.epithot. And we fancy there will be nfw
limes in Washington City after our inouj i
ral shall have been pronounced. Had. ie
proposal to go to Congress proceeed from he
American Board of Missions, there wo Id
hive been grave reasons for considering i
We doubt whether they have a harder 1 -Id
in all Heathendom: nor yet a field where he
Gospel Is more ntdded. But, for mere w
lilical reason to backslide from the pt pit
into Congress, is a little loo long i slide) for
the first venture. We beg to decline inftd
ranee.
The Horrid Murder in Baltimore.
!
-AVe published, several days: since, in ac
count, by lelegrapb, tl a horrid 'murder com
mitted in Baltimore, by a ir.in named Htsar
WufiiioKSK, w ho burned bis wife to death by
hurling at ber a enmphene lamp, filled with
burning fluid. The Rtfpuhlican.'ol a late dale
has the following particulars:
From the information gleaned by us, it p
pearsjlhat b fore the perpetration of the dead
ly assault Mr. Weighorse, who is captain of a
German company known as the Mount Vernon
Guards, had been, Ihe afternoon making some
arrangements with Mr. John Wells in reffer
euce to a picnic and target-firing of the com
pany, They went Into the house about nine
o'clock together, when Weighorse or ered his
wile lo bring them s- ine reirtsLineius. Not
complying with his directions as speedily, as
he required, he began to reprove her in harsh
terms, and, among other allegations, accused
her of hit outinency. Stung by such'a charge
against her, in the presence of a comparative
stranger.she retorted, whtn her husband seized
hold ol the burning lamp, containing nearly
half J pini of elhtrial oil and thitw it at her
hea I. The lamp broke, and the clothing of
the unfortunate woman being saturated with
the liquid, she was in an instant wrapped in
flames. After lingering for several hour in
dreadful aony, she expired.
Hanging, is too good lor the monster.
Eloquent Eulogy.
th-J most eloquent speakers in
gtess is the Hon. J. D. Dxwsox.of Pa. From
his late speech at the democratic celebration
in Philadelphia, we make the following beau
tiful extrac :
We should not suffer it to be forgotten that
here in this very city, Franklin found a thea
tre for the exercise of his extraordinn ygenius.
Here, as a printer, he became the fabricator
of his own fortune; as a patriot lie wrote,
counselled ond struggled for the independence
of his country; and here, as a philosopher, ho
disarmed the lightning. Cheers. HercGod-
Irev invented the quadrant, bv which the
mariner upon the ocean is enabled w ith accu
racy to determine his position.
Here was taught the canva lo reveal the
eye of fire, the form of beauty, and the living
landscape. Here, npon the waters of the
Delaware, Fulton began those experiments iu
steam, whir-h resulted in the perfecting of Ihe
greatest of human inventions; great cheer
ing. w hose mighty frails are now seen in the
steamers which'are crossing the ocean, defy
ing wind and wave which ere vexing eery
sea and threading Ihe rivers of every conti
nent. Cheers. And here Rittenhnuse found
the earth too limited a sphere- Icr hisgemuf,
'and the glass conducted him to the l eavens,
where his philosophy had had fnllscnpe amid
the rplendor of a thousand worlds. Cheers.
Within Ihe cilv of Philadelphia in that an
cient ami honored building, under the shadow
of whose walls this mighty concourse of free
men are now .-.ssembled, American freedom
had her birth; cheers and she is the last (pot
in the Confederacy where ihat freedom will
will find i grave. Great cheering. Trueto
th? Constitution and the union of theStntes
".sink or s im. live or die, survive or perish,"
she will be the last to yield either.
Intemperance, Desertion and Death.
One of those melancholy episodes in life,
which so often come within the observation of
the denizens of a large city, where wealth
and poverty crime and g odness, and all that
is amiable, bad or indifferent in the different
phases of human life, follow each other a! iu
panorama, occured yesterday morniug.
For some tiinv past a woman name Hridget
Powell has been residing in a houseon R'cest.,
above CUy alley. She was married, but her
husband some time since deserted hei, since
which site has been known to indulge continu
ally in the baneful practice intoxicating drink,
tin Friday night, when lost seen, she wa ob
served, by a light which shone from br room,
slaiigeriug about evidently under the ittflueuce
of (I moral and physical poison which she has
hen imbib ng. Yesterday morning the atten
tion of officer Snowfield wa attracted to the
hohse, which he entered, and there, upon the
bife floor, lay tho livid corpse of the wretchetl
wiirion, while a beautiful child, a little gill
sJne two yeirs of age, was unconsciously sit
ing, playing, w ith the yet luxuriant treses that
ly jn wavy folds upon the co'd bosom of her
t hose spirit had flown to another, and.it is
loped (f'ther)a happier world. The remains
mf considerable personal nf ruction still lin-
tgered iike a sunny gleam upon ihe depths of
the blue sea, ere enwrnpt in the sable armo,-
of nig t in the fio n and lineaments of the de-
pirted. Hut a few years since shewasknowri
us a bright and beautiful girl. The example,
is said, dissipated husband corrupted and
brutalized her, and hi desertion for" shes
lovtd him, degraded as they both were, with
a womon's devoted ami single-minded
loved drove her to o still more reckless
course. She must have died in the lctlnrec of
Louisville
Times.
Gerritt Smith on Cuba.
The follow ing is a very sensible extract from
late speech of this ullo Abolitionist, in which
he declares himself for the annexation of
Cuba;
Let Cuba come to us, if shs wishes to come.
She belongs to us, by force of her geographical
position. Let her come, even ir she shall not
previously abolish hei-.lavery. Iam willing to
risk the subjection of her slavery to common
fule with our own. Slavery must be a short
lived thing in thislond. Under our law, righly
interpreted, and unlet the various mighty influ
ences at work for liberty in this lund; slavery
to come to a speedy terminaton. uou grant.
thnt it mny be a peaceful one!
1 would not lorce UuDa into our nation, nor
payS'50,000,000 for her nor 8200,000,000
no, nor even 100,000,UUO. But when sue
wishes to come, 1 would have her come; and
that I may be mo e clearly understood on this
point, I odd, that 1 would'not have her wait,
alwuys, for (he consent of the Spanish Govern
ment. Now if this is flllibusterism, thou all
have to say is. "make the most of ill"
Great laughter.
From Mexico.
NEW ORLEANS, July 26.
dates to the 22nd and city of Mexico to the.
7th.
The revolution in Michoocan continual. '
There is no mention of the death of Alva
rez. A skirmish is reported, in which the insur
gents were defeated. -A
conspiracy has been discovered at Vera
Ciuz, and ssverat arrests were mane.
Another Great Swindle.
Tt has been ascertained thia that
John Tucker, President of the Reading R. R.,
company, is between 8100,000 and 200,0Ct)
behind in his accounts, me aeveiopement
has caused much excitement and thestock has
considerably declined. Tucker was also"
heavily eng iged in the Morton; Iron Works;
also heavily engaged in the AbsecumRrilroad.
His notes were laid over yesterday for the first
time. .
The Ward Jurymen.
The Danville Tribune has been permitted
to make an extract from a letter dated Eliia
btthtown, July lis
This week has been the chancery term of
our court. The Grand Jury have found a "
true bill for perjury against fotlr of the Ward
jurymen, and thev are held in 81,000 each to
appear at the next Circuit Court. They would
have got several others, it ia said, but they
could not get the Sheriff to bring np the wit
nesses. Thii may lead to a djseovsry of th
whole affair, '.' .'" , ' ,