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MONONGALIA MIRROR.
PRAISE WHERE WE CAW AND CENSURE WHERE WE
must.
MORGANTOWN, Va.
SATURDAY, Al'Gl'ST 10,1834.
OUR AGENCIES.
fiTMr.C.PIEUCE, No. 46, SoulK Third ?!., ^
Philadelphia, ii one of our mo?t Sbliging and '
attentive Agents. ? J
E. W. CARR, Third..street, opposite tfif Ei
.chango, Philadelphia's alio our Ago'nt for that
Cit
Dr. E. PARSONS, Glady Creek, Barbour co.
hss kindly consonted to act as Agent for the
Mi;ror.
M. AUVIL, No8torville,Darbour co., Va.
G. CKE3AP, Esq., Kingwood, Preston co., Va '
Klngwood end West-Union Turnpike.
This is n well-graded road, and would be
:ig!i: pleasant to travel over were it nut for J
the ?' Macadamising." , The material used i
is principally sandstone, and it is broken so I
. coarse that it will not beeome compact du
ring Ihn life-time of the present generation.
When limestone is used and properly broken
it will readily become compact under car
riage wheels, and make a lino road,?but not
co with sandstone.
We respectfully suggest to the Managers
of this road ihal it may yet bo made smooth
nnd agreeable to travellers, end will wear
and keep in order much longer, if the Mac
adamized portions are covercd with some i wo;
incties of earth. This ia the opinion ofi
Judges, Lawyers, Jurors, Editors, &c., who
had the subject under discussion last week
.luring the session of the Circuit Court at
Kingwood.
The expense of such finishing will bo Iri
flmg, in proportion to the advantages; and
that expense would probably be mado up
by the iucicasu of toll from travellers.
Western Virginia Agricaltnral Society,
. AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE.
Wo have received a large and splendidly
? printed " poster," published as a call to the
twjl annual Agricultural,Msnufeoturlngaml
Mechanical Fair of the above Society, lo be
held on Wheeling Island on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, the 13th', Hthand 15th
days of September. Tho Fair will no doubi
be an interesting occasion, and will well re
pay Tisitors and participants. Thu Premi
um List is largo and full, and well calculated
to bring out a graiid display of the products
of tho ihree great branches of Industry, o
l?ve named, in Westijrn Virginia. The
Fair Grounds aiu beautifully silualed on the
Island opposite tho City of Wheeling, and
nre capacious and neatly arranged, with ev
erv accommodation for visitors or "fairat
tendants." The Managers assure the public
ihal they will spare no pains lo find suitable
places for fill articles intended for exhibition;
and lhat they will use every effort to con
duct Ike whole affair with order and deco
rum.
ALtxASDK It. BoTM.is.Esq., nf Jefferson
ooumy, Va., is expected!to deliver the ad
dress, at tho close of which iho awarding
of Premiums will be announced. Should
ike Bailroad Company adopt the half-pay,
round-iicket system of last year, as tliey no
doubt will, the expense of attending, from
this quarter, will be email, anil we see no
i reason why Monongalia county should not
be well represented.
Robbing: an Editor.
The editor of the Parkersburg News com
plains of being robbed of "nix hams and
two shoulders, all in good order and fine |
condition." It was a most imartless trans
uction, far the editor lias a wife and young:
one to feed.
Another.? Our Shanghai rooster has disap
peared quite mysteriously. It did -nut Jlij
away, that's certain. We can lianlly imag
ine that any one hereabouts would be cuiliy
of so foicl a transaction as taking the biid
h it hotit leave?but wo don't know. A suit
nble reward will be given for its tafe return.
Splendid Mcloui!
Mr. J/CvniEtis has complimented us with
the present of u Jersey Water Melon, some
two feet long, aud of exquisite flavdh He
lias a few more left of the 6aroe sort. Give
t?n a speedy trial! r_
CC?"There is a manifest improvement in
, the matter of Temperance in Preston, as well
as in the adjoining Counties. There is at
present but one liquor Tavern in Kingwood :
aud there were but few persons around it
duiing Court, who seemed to Uvu becdUi
(juoriiig,?while the house directly opposite,
that gate out no Alcoholic foines, wascrowd
ed. The march of improvement is onward.
it CCy Milton T. Cuib, son of Dr. Watson
Cerr, of WMeling, >Jl!o recently graduated
ait ilie West Point Military Academy, lias
tieen appointed a Brevet Second Lieutenant
in Company 1), first regiment of United
States Diagoonx.
ik, ? f? '
, rrl~ We aie pleased to learn that a new
Host Office lias been established it'-Jliraelo
Hun, iii'tliis oflunijv Adam B. Trnakt is
Bljtplilileti Post Mailer.
(Of- A terrjblgtfjul occurred at St. Louis
mi the 7th iiift., occasioned, it is said, by an
hishmnti sjebbinpun Americana! thejit.Hs!
Several per*"UJ Here killed aud Hounded,
;.nd some fljjtf of nixlv, liousos, mostly low
aSHjlrie*. Kc" dcfiiS^'ril. The mob had
i?|l swny fur three fiffut/uand were Anally
,!?|nsed by 'he .ti Mary. j
. Hrtrcuson on Americanism.
Mr. Browni-on, editor of a Roman CbiIio
lio Roview, thus expresses himself in rela
tion to the recent movements of the Know
Nothings, Such sentiments sound strange
ly from such n quarter:
" The country, therefore, does not aim
connut feel thai il i6 bound either in justice
or in charity to yield up its nationality to
them, (foreigners,) or to sutler the stream ol
its national life to be diverted from tts orig
inal course to accommodate their inanuers,
tastes, or prejudices. It fools that il has the
ticllt to rav, in all not repugnant to the mo
ral law : " It is fo; you tu conform to us. not
for us to conform to you, We did not force
vou to come hero; we ilo not force you 10
remain. If .you do not like us as we are,
you may return whence you came. It t
from motives of hospitality open my doors
to llie stranger, and admit hint rtilo the bo
som of, my tamily, I have the right to expect
him to conform to my domestic arrange
ments, and not undertake to interfere with
them. So it is with a nation, when from
hospitality it opens its doors to fo'?Jjj?e'?
exiled from their own country, or tolnntar ?
ly leaving it to make their fortune. It w d
never be pleased to find them forgetting that
they ere its guests, assuming the airs of nat
ural-born citizens, and pioceediitc at once to
lake the management of its uflairs upon
themselves, or even volunteering then ad
nee.
REV. MR ONCKEN.
We learn from the Christian Waldiman
lhat Rev. Mr. Oncken, the German Baptist
Missionary ivlio has been ill this country
[or more than a year past, sailed for Germa
ny or, Saturday iast. Previous to his depar
ture he was paid 83,000, the amonntnwurd
*d him' for the injuries lie received by the
Norwalk disaster.
K3" The following paragraph is going the
rounds of ihc papers. Il seems thai the
German immigrants do not like the Know
Nothing movement, and propose to evade
it by turning the tide of emigration to Can
?ila and South America. What a pity !
A New Move.-The editor of a German
newspaper,published in Louisville, sajs that
some of the most wealthy German citizens
of the United Stales havataised a million
of dollars, and intend increasing the amount
10 several millions, to turn the entire tide of
future German immigration to Cauada and
South America.
Election In the 11th Congressional District.
The Clarksburg Register, of the 9th
inst., contains ihe following recapitula
tion of returns from the late Congres
sional Election:
Counties Lmii. Smth.
Barbour, 305+
Braxton,
Cabel, ????
Umldiidge, 123f
Gilmer, 300 _
Harrison, 3-14}
Jackson, 300*
ICanawha,
Lewis, 292(
Mason, ^
Putnam,
Randolph, ">*
Ritchie,
Upshur, 51
Wirt, 51lt
Wood,
GO'
400
00
347}
1002 1001
" IVCjlUI ICU, Will UI1V.UI tutu.
f Official, or nearly so.
The oilier returns given are somewhat
incomplete, but they are thought to be
not far wrong.
From ihe Washington Star.
Personal.
I.ats returns place the election of Charles
S. lie wis, Esq., in the 11th Congressional
district of Virginia, beyond all doubt.?
Startling os it may sound to our Northern
rend ere, Mr. Lewis does vot belong to the
"first families of Virginia." He is the son of
a tailor, and worked in his father's shop un
til he was eighteen years of age ; but having
" a soul above buttons," he left the paternal
roof at that early age, with the determina
tion to educate himsell for the profession of
the law. We next h*ar of him a* a student
in one of the Ohio Colleges, working at in
tervals at his trade in order to supply him
self with the necessary pecuniary means to
prosecute his studies. In due course of
time, he praduated with honor, then studied
law?with the goose in one hand and Black
stone in the other?was admitted, and final
ly returned to his native village, where he
" hung out his shingle." Strange to sav, he
beenme a prophet in his own country, and
was brought out as a candidate for the Leg
islature. Some of the old fogies shook their
heads and remonstrated, but Mr. Lewis' re
ply was characteristic of Young America:
u Gentlemen, the hand of destiny is upon
me, and there is no resisting that. I am
bound to go to the Legislature and I am
bound to go to Washington. You may as
well cave in first as last." Mr. Lewis was
elected to the Legislature; and the result of
the late special election shows that his
friends have " cavcd in/' As Mr. L. is a
gentleman of fine talents and great energy
of character, wo shall watch his political ca
reer with more than ordinary interest, for
'? destiny" may not content herself with
keeping him at the Capitol end of Pennsyl
vania avenue.
> THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
The county of Lewis has voted in fu?
vor.of Licunse, by about 100 majority.
Per Cojvtua.?The county of Har
rison has voted ^against License by a
larger njnjority.
are gratified to be able to btato
tho dumb uf ? child by a pain her,as
Hated in our lam, tunii out to be untrue.
I'be rumor cumu .to iih so slitiiglit and
i[>m> such good authority that vvu could
lot doubt ficm.
rrStolictic. publinhed in the Fair
nmit.Virginian "how thai there are only
1 jlavci ttt Marira cotiHy.
?H - ] 1 ft 1
OUR CINCINNATI CORRESPONDENCE.
Cincinnati, August 13,185*1.
Dear Sir:
The Anti-Liquor Law, passed by
the Legislature of last winter, has been en
forced hero, and Mayor Snelbaker seems de
termined that Sunday grog-shops shall be
closed. The result thus far, though the law
is not all the friends of Temperance ask for,
has been quite satisfactory. Our Sundays
have never been so quiet and orderly, and
genteel drinking places keep ''shady.*' In
the German portions of the city, where the |
good old customs of the "Fatherland" ore !
kept up. the law meets with considerable re-'
sistance. I see the papers give accounts of j
enthusiastic meetings of Germau citizens, to
iftke measures to test before the highest tri-1
buuels of the State, the constitutionality of
the law, and to that end commitiees are re
reiving subscriptions of money to employ
?minent counsel to undcrtuke the matter.?
t need only say, to show the character of
ihese meetings, that they also go in for the
abrogation of the Sabbath. German infidel
ity has a deep h/ild of our German popula
tion. One of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the State has already decided the
law unconstitutional,?I speak of the Liquor
Law,?while another has decided, in a case
' I
before him, that it is constitutional. The
former, as public scandal has it, is a little i
Loo fond of " ihc critterv himself, to be com
petent to decide such a question fairly, and
has therefoie uvuiled himself of a mere
quibble, it is this, that the law was not read
three times before its passage ! The sympa
thy and good sense of a large majority of the
people of this State are with the decision
sustaining the Constitutionality of the law. |
While the Cholera has prevailed more or
less throughout the whole West, we have
been comparatively free from this dreadful
scourge. In the month of July, there were <
wily 97 deaths from Asiatic Cholera. The j
Board of Health makes monthly reports, as
he health of the city, with respect to the
Cholera, seems not to require moro frequent j
rnes. It has not been deemed even neces
?ary by the City authorities to establish any
juarantiue regulations. The weather has
wcome delightfully cool and pleasant,though ;
he summer has been considered unusually !
lot. The Thermometer ranged here, in K.
Drleons, Chicago and New York about the
same for some days,?that is to say, from 96
lo 104 degrees. Vegetation has suffered, and
s still suffering:, particularly corn, from the
Jry weather. Mr. Lea, who is a close and
regular observer of meteorological phenom
ena in this city, Buys the mean temperature
of July, for 10 years last past is 77.46?, the
month of July, 1504,81.51)".
The Fall Elections ore hastening on, and
the Old Line Democracy arc preparing for
the contest. To-day, a Convention is being
held to nominate candidate*. &c. It is said
by those who, I presume, know, that the
said Democracy nre trembling in their shoes
about the "Know Nothings." How far the
organization of the44 Know Nothings" ram
ifies into the county, I know nothing, but I
ain credibl) informed by one who docs know
that from a little village 10 miles from this
city, some two or three weeks ago, between
12 and 15 substantial citizens left late in the
evening for the city, under the direction and
in the direction of i " Know Nothing" lodge.
From the way the said "Knew Nothings"
did things up in the neighboring counties of
Kentucky not long ago, the Democracy here
bbouts may well tremble and be afraid.?
But, as father Ritchie would say, (rcquicscat
in pace!) " nous vcrrons
At the present writing the city is dull.?
The wharf is deserted, and but little is do
ing on the river. OHIO.
For the Monongalia Mirror.
Mb. Editor :?
You- will confer a favor by
publishing the following, which was passed
by the Legislature of Virginia, on the first
day of February, 1854:
Chap. 31.?An act to amend the 34th sec
tion of chapter 49 of the Code of Virginia,
concerning exemption fiom distress or levy
ol" certain personal property:
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
that the 34th section of chap. 49 of the Code
of Virginia shall be and is hereby amended
so that the said section, us re-enacted with
such amendment, shall hereafter read asfol*
lows:
"Sec. 34. In the case of a husband pa
rent, or other head of a family, there shall
be exempt from such distress or levy the fol
lowing ariieles, or so much, or so many us
the party may have: One cow, one bed-Etead
with a bed and necessary bedding for the
same, six chairs, one table, six knives, six
forks, six plates, two ditdies, two basins, one
pot or oven, six pieces of wood or earthen*
ware, one loom and its appurtenances, one
spinning wheel, one pair of cards, one axe,
and one hoe, live barrels of corn, five bush
els of wheat or one barrel of flour, two hun
dred pounds of bacon or pork, and five dol
lars in value of forage or hay; and in case
of ?; mechanic, the tools and utensils of his
tra-.e, however not to exceed twenty-five
dollars in \alue; Provided, that no family
portrait or engraving shall be subject to dis
tress or levy."
This act shall be in force from its passage.
D.
A Model Ujuvosity.?Michigan is enti
tled to the honor of being the first Slate in
the Union offering the student from all por
tions of the United States complete courses
of collegiate instruction free of charge.?
The income from her University fund is now
$25,000 per annum, and is increasing.
Rkfuesiimekts ok the Season.?First
course?-blue pills, spiced ihubarb, milk por
ridge; second do.?morphine, Dover's pow
tiers, paregoric, soda cracker; dessert?quin
ine and Graham bread.?Washington Star.
07"Hon. Gerrit Smith, in settling with
tbeSergeautat Arms. was entitled to about
$500 legal mileage, but only look 890, being
gS a day while coming and going, and actu
al travels rxpewe?.
Treaties with the Indians of Nebraska,
A letter ir? the Burlington, Iowa, Gazette,
by A. C. Dodge, dated Washington, April
20, gives the following particulars of the
Treaty with the Indians of Kansas end Ne
braska :
These Indians have ceded all their lands,
excepting a place for thoir future abode, to
be designated by the President. They are
to remove as soon as the necessary provis
ions are made for fulfilling the stipulations
of the treaty, arranging their affairs, kc.~
Thoy relinquish all claims under former
treaties, save such sums as may be due them,
and also agree to abandon any claim hereto*
fore preferred by them to land in our Slate.
The United States are to pay the Ottoes
and Missouries 820,000 annually, for three
years, from the first of January, 165-1; 813,
000 per annum for the next ten years, 89000
for the next fifteen years; and 80000 per
annum for the next twelve years.
The Omahas aro to receive 840,000 per
annum for three years from the first of Jan
uary, 1S55; 830,000 per annum for the next
ten years; ?20,000 per annum for the next'
fifteen years, and 810,000 per annum for the
next twelve years.
These sums arc to "be paid or expended
for the benefit of the Indians, under the au
thority of the President, who is authorized
to direct what proportion of the yearly pay
ments, il any, shall be made in money, and
what part shall be expended for their edu
cation, civilization and other beneficial ob
jects?such as the opening of farms, purcha
sing of stock, farming utensils, clothiug,
provisions, and for the improvement of their
noral and physical condition.
To enable the Indiuns to remove to their
lew homes?which they are to do without
urther expense to the United States?the
Dttoesand Missouries ore to receive the fur
her sum of S20,000,and the Omahas 841,000
which are also to be expended in such man
nej as the President may approve.
The President may have the country set
apart for the future residence of these Indi
ans surveyed into tracts for the exclusive
occupancy of individuals or families, as they
advance in civilization. The United States
are to eTect, for each of the tribes, a grist
and saw-mill, and provide a miller. They
are also to erect a blacksmith-shop, furnish
tools, and an experienced smith : likewise, a
farmer, for a period of ten years, to instruct
the Indians in agriculture. It is also agreed
that any Indian or Indians who may intro
duce into their country, or use, intoxicating
liquors, shall have his or their annuity with
held for such time as the President may de
termine.
Thev further acree that all necessary roads
highways end railroads which may ub con
structed as llie country becomes settled ami
improved, the lines of which run llirough
their lands, shall have a right of way, &c?
just compensation being paid therefor.
By this treaty with the Omahas, Ottocs,
and Missouries, we have acquired the coun
try border,iug on.the Missouri river, and ex
tending to the Little Neinahan, 18 miles
south of the southern boundary line of Iowa,
to the " Eau qui court," or Ni-obrarah, on
the north. Its southern and western boun
dary is the Little Neinahan to its source;
thence due west to a point about 80 miles
from the. Missouri river; thence due north
to the Platte river; thence by a line (not
well defined) to the " mauvaise Terre" river;
thence by that river, and the '? Kau qui
court," to the Missouri river. A reservation
having been made by the Omahas of the
country north of a line drawn from u point
where the Ayowoy river disembogues out of
the blurts, east to the Missouri river, and
west to the western limit of the Omaha
country?ami also, a reseivation by the Ol
toes of about 10 by 25 miles, at a place call
ed by the Indians '"The Islands,"on the
waters of the Big Blue river. The cession
embraces, exclusive of reservations, nearly
9,000,000 acres, and a front on the Missouri
rivor of more than 300 miles.
Its territorial extent is nearly equal to
New Hampshire and Vermont; more than
that of Maryland and Delaware. It exceeds
the area of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut together, and is nearly twelve
limes as largo as the. State of Deluware.
Over this vast region Providence has scat
tered his blessings with a bouutiful hand, of
which you know more than 1 can tell you.
Curious Eject of Hair on Orasi.?A
few years ago the purchasers of hog hair
at Terre Haute, ind. carried it out upon
the prairie and spread it on the grass to
dry. This was in the fall and winter.?
After being washed with the rains, it was
raked up, leaving a portion sticking in the
grass, in the spting this wus the earliest
green spot and continued to be the sweet
est, as was proved by the cattle resorting
there to feed. By and by one of them
died and another aud another, though ap
parently fat and healthy. Then one was
opened to ascertain the cause of deal h, and
and afterward others for cutiosity. In
the stomachs of such as had fed most upon
his hair manure spot, were found two or
three dozen hair balls, such as we used to
be told when a boy were "witch balls"?
We have seen tliem three inches in diam
eter and solid as it is possible to compact
hair together. The calamity grew so se
rious that the owners of cattle had to plow
up the grund and tnrn tinder the sod and
its rich manuring which continued toshow
its effects foe years after.
Vit Greatest Snake Story on Record.
?On the 7th of July, in Louisa co., this
State, a Mr. Chick and Mr. Hall killed a
female moccasin snake, in length three
feet, together with the brood of seventy
voungones! Whenthe mother snake
was struck the seven! yt/ircc young 'uns
crawled out ol her mouth. The Clmrlots
ville ?'Jeflersonian" tells the inle, the truth
of which is vouched for by Mr. Jos Phill
ips. The above we don't ask our readers
to believe?for we can't by any possibility
strt'i.!: rur <ctot!uIitj.' to laic tt i::!
I General Nctus.
Reported Failure of two Western Banks.
! Cincinnati, Aug. u,?Reports have
boon current in this city to-day, to the
'prejudice of the " Renswlcar Bank " nl
Indiana, and tlio M Indiana Stato Stock
Bank" of Peru. During the afiernoon
i the notes of bath of these batiks were
refused by most of our city banks and
(principal brokers.
Arrival of the Gyane.
' Boston, Aug. 13.?Tho U. S. Sloop
j of War Cyaue, Capt. Hoilins, arrived
[to-day from Aspinwall. She lias on
| board tho remains of Purser Ashman,
, who had been buried at San Junn, but
' was exhumed after tho destruction of
the town.
Iowa Election.
Dubuque, Aug. 10.? Returns from
nine countiesshow amajorityfqr Grimes
the Whig candidate of 300. Hemp
stead, the Whig candidate for Congress
has the same majority.
forth Carolina Election.
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 11.?Thomas
Bragg, the Democratic candidate, is
elected Governor of North Carolina by
not less than two thousand majority.?
The Legislature is Democratic in both
branches. There will probably be ten
Democratic majority in the Senate, and
not less than two, und probably six in
the House.
Ralkioii, Aug. 14.?The returns
from the entire State of the vote for
Governor have been received, and foot
up as follows: Bragg, dem. 48,500;
Dockery, whig, 46,000. It is the lar
gest vote ever polled in the State.
Missouri Election.
The St. Louis papers of tho 10th inst.,
furnish full details oi the election for
Congress, from which wo learn that the
majority for Lewis M. Kennet, whig,
over Thomas Hart Benton, whig, in St.
Louis county, which comprises tho
whole first Congregational district, is
1753. The Republican adds
<4 The returns by telegraph leave no
reasonable doubt of the election of Johh
G. Miller and Gilchrist Porter, the whig
candidates in their respective districts,
for Congress. The Returns from the
| other districts, though not very numer
! oiis, though not very numerous, indicate
I the re-election of Mr. Oliver, Sam Ca?
ruthers, and Lindley?all whigs. We
! do not claim their election as certain,
>ut u looks that way.
" Our despatches show that wo liavo
i coti.-ideialile sprinkle of whigs in the
Legislature, anil have gained in some
jiiarteis in which gains wore not ex
lected."
Know nothings Among the Ohio Democracy.
Cincinnati, Aug. 13.?The Democrat
ic Convenljoii of Hamilton couniy met
at Carthage yesterday for the purpose
of nominating candidates for county of
ficers and Congress. Tiie committu on
Resolutions reported the Baltimore
platform.
As soon as the afternoon proceedings
commenced great excitement prevailed.
The "Know Nothing" question was in
troduced, and the organization denounc
ed. Charley Kcmelin, one of the dele
gates, said that it was inconsistent to de
nounce this organization while the Dem
ocrats had a secret organization, refer
ring ti the 'Miami Tribe,' of which U.
S. Senators were members, and George
E, Pugli, chief. The lie was given to
this assertion, and Kimelin was attack
ed, and finally llod, after which the Con
vention broke op in a row, without nom
inating or passing resolutions.
Dreadful Explosion of a Powder Hill.
Cincinnati, Aug. 14.?-The powder
magazine at Marysville, Ky., was fired
yesterday morning, when eight hundred
kegs of powder exploded, and burned
thirteen houses. The explosion took
place at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning,
carrying destruction in every direction.
The light produced was most brilliant,
and, singular to say, not a lifo was lost,
and but few persons injured. The citi
zens were so much alarmed that some
minutes elapsud before any one would
go into tho streets. Tho general im
pression was that the day of judgment
had come. When tho citizens sallied
out thi/y found the sidewalks covered
with fragments of demolished houses.
Tho property damaged is estimated at
fifty to one hundred thousand dollars.?
Oldy two persons wero seriously inju
red. On.- lady died from ihe effects of
fright. The Mayor offered SI,000 for
information that would load to the con
viction of the rascal that set fire to tho
magazine.
Great Hail Storm.
Ripley and that vicinity of Jackson
county, wero visited by a most violent
huil storm, on Monday morning last.?
Mr. Ashbil Shepard, of that placo in
forms us that this was the most severe
and destruclivo storm lie ever witness
ed. In some instances, the hail-stones
wero as largo as a dollar in circumfer
ence, and an inch and a half through!
Theso, falling thick and fast, cut branch
es from trees, completely stripped the
corn and played havoc wilh vegetation
in general. In Ripley, tho windows
having a northerly oxposure wore all
riddled?thero not being left lights
enough on that quarter of iho town to
make one whole window.?Parkeriburg
Gazette.
The Hagerstown (Md ) News speaking
of the draught says the corn and potato
crops of the country for miles around suf
fer much; the corn is so near fodder that
much of it might as well be cut down, and
many potatovs will scarcelv vitrld the
I'Vd,
j ELECTION RIOT IN ST. LOWS.
Several Persons Killed?A targe KoaUr
Wonnded--Tlio Military Called Out.
It was briefly slated by telegraph, 6
?j few days ago, that a disgraceful elec
tion riot occurred in St. Louis on Mon
day last. Wo yesterday received the
St. Louis Democrat, contain# tiio an
nexed particulars of the bloody affair:
It originated about 2 o'clock in the
afternoon at the polls of the fifth ward,
between a party who called themselves
Americans and n number of Irish who
had gathered around the engino house,
J The fight was a general one, which was
followed by slight skirmishing nil along
j Third street between Vino street and
; Franklin avenutf, serving very much to
increase the exclu;rocnt and draw to
gether u large crowd,
Wherever an Irishman wao seen on
the street he was pursued and most cru
elly boaleu. Finally pursuit of one was
made down Morgan street, where the
mob were met by a number of Hiber
nians, who gave battle by throwing
stones and tiring pistols, but the crowd
of rioters increasing they gave way end
retreated to their houses between Main
and the Levee on Morgan. Here, for
a while, the mob was a scene of the
wildest excitement. The Irish fired as
many perhaps as a hundred pistol shots
into the crowd, who were breaking in
tiie doors and windows of the houses by
showers of stones from the street. At
last the shouting was silenced, arid the
mob proceeded down to the levee, and
along it to Locust streot, assailing every
coffee house or tenement suppscd to
contain foreigners with acontinued storm
of missiles.
Afier this the Irish mado another
stand on second street, hut were driven
down past Cherry, the mob still contin
uing their assault upon the houses and
windows. They then proceeded up
Morgan and Green streets, above Fourth,
and assailed a number of houses, com
pletely riddling the doors and windows
with stones and brickbats. During the
evening a slight assault had been made
on the office of the Anzeiger Des Wes
terns, but the party wore dispersed with
out much injury. In the meantime the
military and police were out in full
force, scattering the excited combattants
here and thore, and doing much to re
store quiet to tli& city. About 10o'clock
at night, however, a company of the
rioters, numbering perhaps twenty,
came marching down Third street from
the seenu of assuulturr on Morgan, with
stones in Hand, nn<] snouting in uie wnu-1
est manner, and upon arriving in fiont1
of the Anzeiger office ugoin commenced
on assault upon liio windows and doors
of the house. At this juncture the mil
itary camo charging upon the crowd a
gain, and dispersed the mob. When
we left the scone, quiet seemed to be in
a very fair way of being restored, the
military having complete possession of
the street, and seeming determined to
enforce order.
It is utterly impossible to estimate
the number of persons wounded in the
whole affair, or even to say how many
have been killed. We saw at least 20
men lying bleeding and wounded so se-1
verely that they were perfectly insensi-1
ble?their luces cut most horribly and :
skulls mushed, and some appearing per-:
fectly dead j and then we have learned j
of three men certainly killed, and of
five or six more who are thought to be
dead at this time from wounds received.
It is a wonder to us, when we remem
ber the number of shots tiled and (he
oxposed position of the mob, that there
were not double the persuns killed and
wounded. A man by the name of Shan
non was 6tabbed in tho buck of the
neck, from which he very probably died
last night. A baud from the steamer
Henry Chouteau was killed instantly,
and a man by tho nme of Joe or Frank
Freeman was shot through the heart,
and fell dead without uttering a word.
Ho was standing near a lumber pile at
the foot of Morgan street, ou the levee,
with his arms folded, watching the affray
without at all participating, when ho re
ceived the fatal shot from the window
of u house on iiatlle Row.
We hear of one man being shut in
tho leg, another in the baud, one in the
abdomen and another in the shoulder.
We cannot pretend to give a correct
statement either of tho number killed
and'wounded, or tho true origin and
continuance of the mob. The immense i
excitement throughout the whole city
prevented the procurement of any re
liable uccouut of tho disturbance.- j
Tho St. Louis Intelligencer 6a_vs the
riot originated from an Irishman stab-j
bing an American at the fifth ward polls. I
He was pursued for several squares j
and arrested, and to prevent a rescue
by tho mob, was immediately conveyed
to jail. During the riot Jackson Fow
ler and Jumcs Kussell, one a twite and
the other a pilot, were shot, the formor
in the side and tho laltor iu the arm
Ten arrests wore made, Every Irish
grocery ou Morgan and Green streots,
extending west from Broadway, was
torn to pieces. Some fifty or sixty hous
es in all, mostly low groggeries, were
badly damaged and their contents en.
tirely destroyed. The entire loss is es
timated lit SAO,000. For three hours
tho mob had full sway, having set the
police at defiance. Finally ut a lato
hour in tho morning, eight military com
panies being under artns, the work of
I destruction was stayed.
Coal Mine in Kansas Territory ? A
travoller. on the Nemeliaw river, in the
north of Kunsas territory, states that
thero is a fine vein of coal three feet
thick on that stream, and that it ia over
laid with limestone, which affords a
hundxneo of fine building materials.?
The Nemehaw rives is the boundary be
tween Kansas and Nebraska, and coal
in that region, whoro wood is compara
ijvi^v inures, ts ? very importantubioct
i cnriTA. |
[ The accounts of tho Chinese Hrviv
lulioti brought by tho Arabia show it i0
be progressing with ila peculiar chronic,
slowness. 1'iio accounts ore mi cuiifq.
Bed anil varied thnt it is difficult to snv
which party is getting the best of tho,
struggle. All however agree in repre.
senting a sad state of affoitu as the ro
sult of the prolonged civil war. Tbo
old government having its hands fully
occupied in repelling the MtacltB of this
insurgents in the vicinity of Pekin,
bands armed robbers were devasta
ting tbo country, particularly the Cen
traJ Provinces. A commercial letter
says that forty-eight Ua companies htul
returnnd to Shanghai from the Central
Provinces, having been robbed of all
their means of purchase. The groat
commercial mart of Honon had been
burnt by an armed mob, fJingehnw,
the district from whence the morning
teas are brought, was stated to lie in
possession of an armed rabbin, who
have beheaded the Mandaiins and ta
ken po?nessian of iho government. In
some Provinces the Mandai ins have for
bidden tea to be grown for fear that it
will attract the attention of the insur
gents. As to the insurgents at Pekin,
it is difficult to ascertain correctly their
condition. It is (hntight that they aro
still victorious; indepd a rumor prevail
ed at Shanghai that Pekin was taken,
but this was believed to bo premature.
No later news from Japan had boon re
ceived in China. The. disturbances in
the tea districts would, it was believed,
soriously interfere' with the future for
warding of tea.?Bait. American.
The Mexican Revolution.
Advices from Acapnlco up to the 13th
ult., show that the Revolution under
Alvarez is still in progress, and is gain
ing in force and extent. The Bolctin
Official Df the Restoring Army of Lib
erty states that pronunciamentoes are
multiplying in that vicinity and in tho
neighboring departments. New victo
ries havo also been obtained over tho
forces of Santa Anna. Tho depart
ment of Miehoacan, which joins that of
Mexico on the north, has gone enti'ely
over to the revolution since the defeat
by Gen. Salgado of tho Dictators troops
there underGen. Babamende. Of thirf
battle, which was fought at Huetamo,
no particulars aro furnished. The Bo
lelin also states that during the fits! fort
night of July delegatos from roeny im
onriuni poims "i mo "-iiunuc nau vm
ed the Cienoial-in-Cbiof, (Alvarez.) to
?dviso with him as to contemplate.),
movements, and to concert plans of ho
ion The blockade of the port of Acs
pulco is said by tho Boletin to be kept
very irregular by the two vessels
which Santa Anna has appointed to that
July?the Carolina and the Guerrero.
The California steamers paid no atten
tion to the pretended blockade.
land Gradcatloa.
Tho land graduation hill introduced
by Mr. Cobb, of Alabama, and now a
law, will not affect tho public lands in
Nebraska or Kansa", an those land*
have trot been in the market tha.ntno
required by the provisions of the bill to
bring them under the graduation prin
ciple. Its efleet, it is supposed, will *
be beneficial in directing emigr?Mon
toward tho older Slates in which land
of an interior quality has been past i.vi-r
order to reach more fertile sections
where it could, heretofore, be purchased
at tho same price. The prices fixed y
Mr. Cobb's bill are similar to those in
Mr. Hunter's Homestead bill, for which
in runny respects it is a substitute, un
3er its provisions, railroad grants and
mineral lands are not to be entered, and
not more than three hundred and twen
ty acres can bo acquired by any uno
person.?Baft. AtncricM*
Crime In California.
California maintains an awful pre
eminence in crime. According to ?..?
San Francisco Chronicle tho vn m,i
Jeaths in that city average "tie pur <.???.
Within four years there have been U J"
How many of them hare been irioun-i"
is not known, probably one-foniih, p. f;
iiaps only one eighth?on* hundred ?,.?
Fifty persons murdered. Only one nar
hasheen convicted and executed fir ?? '
this ocean of crime, ami ho more becaus.
Iiu was a friendless creature, who ho.,
not the powor to excite sympathy, n"r
money to buy counsel or jury. The eauso
of this frightful laxity, says the Chroni
cle. is to bo sought in the imperfection
of tho laws, owing to the incapacity nnd
unworthinoss of thoso whom Coiilbrm
ans make legislators. They don tknow
enough to frame laws, at d their atten
tion is engrossed by mercenary and sel
fish projects to the nogiect of their du
ties. Hence tho Chronicle argues tho
necessity of reform in the selection anil
support of candidates for important pub
lic stations. Tho premises, if correct,
certainly seem broad enough to justify
the deduction.
The Japanese "Upper Ten."
Tho Japannso are fond of eggs; they
boil them hard nnd eat them al the des
sert like fruit, frequently with oranges.
Sometimes they boil them in soup with
vegetables. For poopla of distinction,
fowls are kept in rooms, where they lay
their eggs, and are fed with rice. 1
Bleat people would not eat tin* e#?'1
fowls i hat rot) about at their will ai:d
pick up what they can find. Many keep
also swans, goose and turkeys, but only
for plea5uro, as we do peacocks, whim
they also have. The gall ;'f the uw?t tr
mtide by them into a solid mans. an.,
used as a strengthening medicine, I "
weakness in the stomach and other dis
orders. It ia highly valued by the Ja
panese for its medicinal virtues,and paid
for ut a high price
Do:-'! t-OOK use A FiiLME.?On Wed
nesday, 3700 baskets cf ^schcs were
roivrdtil IntV.