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Se'etf prertfgqed! bv fhe Qaseu, 'JSsifejiilily Bai- acljourfteci, and tag -Fiffincfi uatifan is now 'princi- crt^' the progtogs of tiie President Jh^taces.- With some few excep* ‘ftppesJs to havb been very favorably nd wa^giving concerts fo crowded au- &eivdd by the pecfple. . f ^ B n d waffgtringi dfeftiftsat Tdverpdul, arnf was to have sailed for the Atlantic, on the 21 st ult. oSoitiff'flirthei* 6 kirmisftes hafe- taken place be- 'Danes\ aad the Holsteiners, ia which t a&iatm tippSaf tb' have eofne • off victorious. — T$ie’re'4aire rattfors of an approaching settlement of fte^qU&rrek under the auspices of Russia, BSglaSd' fttid Frai/ce. .* ■ p m W & K K AKD TUB DUCHIES. account from head-quarters represents tifiS'a fehght engagement had taken place on tbe s f t f f K was a mere affair of outposts, though assist It was supposed the whole Danish line wit s i n motion. The attach on the part of the Danes Was precipitated on account of an explo sion ef the laboratory ef.the artilleyy of General Vfiflisea,,Jbt Which there was great loss of life abd ^rbtffeHy—91 persons killed by the explo sion, fiaTO beeti buried, and 33 wounded, some severely, and 11 put down ns missing. Many bfetfies were so mangled that they could not be identified. Twenty-two cadets of the artillery spdol ace among the killed. Scarcely a bouse lit*the town has entirely escaped from tbe con cussion’. The effect of the catastrophe on the pWofie mind had been very depressing. * ^About noon on Thursday, the day on which tiirS explosion took place, the Danish General ad vanced large bodies of men to the very verge of the right wing of the Schleswig Holstein posi tion. The latter retreated to tbe main body, be hind'the bridge, and a sharp struggle ensued, WfeitfH gradually extended itself ahmg the right wing, to the eastward, as far as Davenstedt.— If Tasted for some hours. The Danes outnum bered the Schleswiggk Holsteiners, but the latter advanced upon thtpDaaes with fixed bayonets, and* wich loud hucrahs, drove them :rom their shelter. The Danes fled in such a hurry that they left behind their killed and wounded, which is, 'With ihtm, a most unusual circumstance. AFFAIRS OP ENGLAND. The chief feature of English news is the (Queen’s speech upon the prorogation of Parlia- BfBJlt. I Commenting upon the business df the session just closed, the Times says: ' “ The ministerial management of tbe Legisla ture has riot been very sagacious,very systematic, oy - very business Hbe. The reasons for tbis may bp traced, io a considerable degree, to the second rat© qualifications of the cabinet. But these res- spnp^oimt supply the whole truth. The whig (pihisfers arp not ministers selected by the Com- tnqo^lpt forced into office by circumstances.— Hall a desire, but a disaster, gave them place. Iq any case they would not have been good go vernors- * They bave not the intellect t# com- rptjif Ecspect, nor a policy to insist on attention. B’frt because the Souse of Commons were Dot tJeirjcQUstiiaents, tbey had to follow the House, for tHe House would not fellow them.” Ankmg the more important bills introduced hyjthg ministry which have fallen through, is the Jewish Emancipation Bill, the Savings’ Bank bifj^tirp JLord Lieutenancy of Ireland Abolition bill, and the Marria ge bill. . /•., TRENCH REPUBLIC. The Assembly was prorogued on the 10 th inst, and ministers have now all things tbeir own way. Most of the members have left Paris, and alto gether, though more peaceful, Paris is less gay tban it was some months ago. In some respects th© President has not been so fortunate in his present as in his late tour. At Lyons the people were worse than apathetic; there was no address -?n© public tEjateingi—the town conned refused foe sraghes for bis. suite. Under date of Paris, irsday,, it .is stated that sinea the President Cyons his progress has been satisfactory, ^ccoupts from tha provinces state that the • Is exceedingly wet, and unfavorable for - in consequence of which there had i of 2 s. 6 d. the sack. GERMANY, f Tntelligenes from the seat of war is to the ef fect; t h a ta cessation o f hostilities has taken place tetwtea the teiigerent parties, and that negotia to r s were .on foot* at Schleswig, between the English, French and) Russian Envoys, in order feipdt annond fo the effusion of blood. s~* ‘ ■ .RUSSIA. •‘O'Fftfiiv SL Petersburg and Cracow, we learn & S R 0 t o \ ‘ition -of those places were actively t o Resist .$• » . Si The St. Louis 'E p s J . f tifSStfa gives later intelligence M m Iftfexic.p\ It, seems that the N e # ® e lreans wili not allow Texas to dismember the territory without a decided resist ance. The Union says: An express, nine days out from Santa Fe, reached F o rt Leavenworth on Wednesday last, bringing, it is said, a requisition for a large quan tity of arms, to bs used against the Texan au thorities in ease hostile measures are resorted to. The people of N ew Mexico are becoming strong er, if possible, in their opposition to the claims of Texas, and under no circumstances will they agree to acknowledge its authority. The St. Paul met the Ansas and St. Agnes with the 7th regiment of infantry on board, and all tbe officers belonging to that regiment, they will be compelled immediately to return. Cap tain Hancock, from Jefferson Barracks, bearer of despatches to F o r t Leavenworth, also returned to St. Paul. AI o r d e r w i l l o o t . —In the month of October 1849, two men, one named Peter Wells, and the other Elijah Russell, were employed by Gen. Robhins fo run boats with lumber down the Sus quehanna river. The next day after their de parture with the boats, Wells was missed and has never heen seen since. Russell proceeded onward with the lumber, occasionally selling shingles and boards to different persons, until he arrived at Towanda. Neat that place he was overtaken and arresied by the owner of the pro perty, Gem Robbins, who had him conveyed to jail in Owego, where he has been ever since, awaiting his trial on an indictment for embezzle ment or theft. A few days since a human foot, having on it a shoe, was found in the Susquehannah, a short distance below Hyatt’s ferry, some three or four miles below the village of Owego. An inquisi tion was held by Dr. Seymour Churehill, one of ihe coroners of the county of Tioga, upon the same, which resulted in the identification of the foot^ beyond the shadow of a doubt, as having belonged to tbe per.-on of Peter Wells. The probability is that tbe foot had been sepa rated from the ankle by tfae wearing of a rope tied around it, with a weight heavy enough at tached to it, to have kept the body under water, after having been thrown overboard. The verdict of the jury was, that Peter Wells came to his death by violence at tbe hands of Elijah Russell. Although in the first instance, Russell was in dicted f r lbe offence of larceny, he will now, after the expiration of ten months in prison, be compelled to meet a mticb more serious accusa tion—that of murder .— Albany Alim. P l U f A R E GAZETTE, Dellij. Wefliieste Homing, Septfamfei 4, J' 1 .w ’ if \ Democ^atae State OonveatiOJj. A Demooratlo State Convention will be held at tbe oity of Syracuse oa Wednesday, the llthday of Sep tember next, at noon of that day, to be composed of one delegaie from eaqb Assembly District, for the pur pose of nominating a ticket for State Officers to be supported by the whole Democracy of the State at tbo next election, and to determine how toture Conven tions shall ba called, and to transact such other busi ness in regard to the organisation oflhe party, and tbe promotion of its interests, as may bs deemed necessary. CHARLES A. MANN, Chairman Demooratiu Legislative Caucus. JOHN V. L. PRUYN, Ch’n Dem. State Committee. June 7, 1850 .. A n o t h e r Im p o stor. —A person representing himself as a Baptist minister, presented his cre dentials lately, which were probably forged, to the citizens of Hardwick, Vt., and after spend ing a few weeks at the house of several of the inhabitants, proposed to unite himself to a re spectable young lady of that village. He was so desirous that all the formalities of courtship should be laid aside, that the parents and friends of the young lady became suspicious, aud object ed to the marriage, but without avail, and they weie united at the house of a minister. The new ly married couple returned to the house of the bride, and were about taking their departure for a distant location, where the bridegroom pretend ed he was about to locate himself, when the pa rents of the bride interposed, and prayed their child not to leave thetn. When the bridegroom saw tbat he could not prevail on his bride to go against the wishes of ber parents, by his abusive language he exposed hts troe character, and the poor bride began to discover her mistake. The bridegroom departed, heaping all and various kinds of abuse apon the family, and has not since been seen. Twenty-four hoare, however, had not passed, ere news was received that he bad already at least one wife living.—Boston Tra veler. N o b le C o n d u c t op a W o m a n .- tog incident occurred last week on Cg&'SaneHias fees? found to be greater tha© was tfifffitircffffted. zaw U S AUSTRIA. S'Tih&SewSi Austria presents t e l e of gene- The 1 Court iff Vietma a s p i r e to fealtuggliag t e » to galff a preponderance in £tecfiii®aflkft^blsrias!ye$ without tfltlch Success. *® ® ^|u£c'te^ifeyaati has trstimf front the Aus- fi&il €i> join 1 t te tKaitat Geofgcy hs - THEB'-RUM&N STATES. ff^lstid^fBht^fEe' ^hoIe d f Hta great power* the Bijjje’ta-grkat» 'eoBSfdtotintt fo ;t«^8Tdie-c'Kdfo!i, da the tasdel' df that t tffel^mhxtd'Fe* or other The follow- the Broken- straw river, a branch of the Alleghany. The stream bad been swollen by the recent rains, and a flitting family were crossing at the ferry in a flat, when by some accident, a boy about six years old was thrown or fell from the lower side of the flat into the stream. Among a number of persons on tbe bank was a woman engaged in washing, attracted to the child’s danger by the cries of the mother and the exclamations of oth ers on each side of tbe river. She knew that a short distance befow was a rapid, which, if the child entered it most be lost. Excited by the im minent danger of the child, and more perhaps by the agonizing cries of the mother, and seeing no b 3 jm or prospect of relief bnt what she herself could offer, ber resolution was taken, and in a moment she stood disrobed ou the bank and plunged into the stream. It was not tbe first time she had breasted it, and in apparent confi dence ef bpr power aed skill as a swimmer, made directly for the child, which she seized with one arm, and with tbe other bore both safely to the shaxe^-Piltsbarg American. A C urious C ircumstance .—While Mr. Si meon W. Cummings, of Mansfield, was laboring in the field a few days ago, he felt something bard pass from the inside of his nose into bis mouth, which he immediately spit out, and up on examination it proved to be a brass button about half an inch in diameter. His parents aod otters w#I> recollect the time when he got it up his aose ? it Wfts rn the month of August, 1833, he then being oaly four years old. From that dm© forward it caused him no trouble until last winter, w tee t e had a fall which jarred his head considerably, and, as lie thinks, partly dislodged the tetron, and was the ultimate cause of its finding its way out, after being a tenant of the nose for about seventeen years. Tbe button is covered with a kind df bdny substance which gireHst g tough ragged appearance. It h is teeh carefully preserved and can be ex attliticd by any that feel disposed to doubt the correctness of the above stateineat.— Willhmn- He {&&} paper. 15®! Das’®:.—Tfae inquiry, says llie Bosl Mali, itoffetf raid© fey jiersass who ought to be informed on the dabjeef, why it is that the days intervmimg between fhe 30t-h M y and tfae 10 th Many per- M i M f t o f . 4 tm % ,fe t|n » 4pgs m esnb- u a Ignorance ought V f t o r W r n r n one. T h e mpfa m th, w i t tg . called hut mare properly the .©stews teMt* is divitlet Plank Hoad Celebration. The opening of the Delaware Plank Road, which was celebrated on the 28th u lt., was an occasion which will long be remembered by the hundreds who attended, not for any thing that occurred on that particular day, but as tjhe com mencement of a new era in the facilities of com munication between this heretofore, know as the sequestered region,” and the great thorough fare to the cities. We were obliged to forego the pleasure of accompanying the procession which passed over the road from Hancock to Walton, but we learn from those who have tra velled over other Plank Roads aud this also,that it is one of the best constructed roads in the country, and does great credit to the officers of the Com pany for their care and attention to the interests of the stockholders and tbe thorough manner that the work has been done. Tbe procession, (which was nearly a mile in length,) according to previous arrangements, left Hancock about 9 A. M-, under the direction of the Marshals, preceded by the Walton Band,and arrived at Walton between 2 and 3 P. M., pro ceeding thiougb several streets to the green in front of the Episcopal Church, where a platform and seats had been erected in the open air, aud hundreds immediately congregated and listened with attention and interest to tbe Address deliv ered by Judge H athaw a y . After the conclusion of tho Address, Mr. H. Greely, of New York, Hon. S. Page, Maj. Og den, and Col. Z. Pratt, severally responded to calls from the audience and made some appropri ate and pertinent remarks on the subject of roads iu general, aDd the particular object which had brought them together at this time. The meeting then adjourned to the hotel of Mr. Smith, where an ample an excellent dinner was provided, Nipon true temperance principles, to which full justice was done by the large num ber of persons present. After dinner, a number of letters from invited guests who were unable to attend, were read, and sentiments proposed, in terspersed with introductory remarks, which were particularly appropriate and interesting. Want of room and the late hour at which the Address and letters were received, obliges us to postpone their publication until next week. Tbe following are the sentiments offered : By S a m u e l B. R u g g le s — The Plank Roads of the State of New York —Tbe legitimate off spring of its noble system of Publio Works— truly the tree may be proud of its fruits. By Samuel Sherwood — live audacity o f W a l ton and Hancock , in constructing the first Plank Road in tho couniy—may they be punished by wearing oul tbe plank immediately. By Benj. B a s s e tt— The Directors o f the Del aware Plank Road Company —Their fidelity and untiring perseverance toward tbe completion of tbe road, merit not only tbe continued confidence of the stockholders, but the enduring gratitude of tbe community. Dr. B a r t l e t t responded on the part of the Directors, and gave The pioneer settlers of the town of Walton — An off-shoot of the old Revolutionary stock, transplanted into tbe wilderness of the Delaware —like the lofty pines of our mountains, they were the products of nature’s youthful energies, and their descendants bave proved themselves worthy of their origin. By H G r e e l e y — The City and tke Country —Since they have learned to shake hands across two iron bars, and to “ pass tbe time of day” through a wire, may they become better aod bet ter acquainted. By T. R. Austin — The spirit of enterprise evinced and so successfully carried out by the projectors of tbe Delaware Plank Road deserves the patronage of tbe public, and is a noble exam ple for others to do likewise. By E. W h ite — The Delaware Plank Road — Eighteeo months ago, “ a visionary project,” now “ a tangible project,” four months hence, “ an important enterprise completed, reflecting much honor upon its projectors and builders, showing them worthy of their New-Eogland origin.” By T h e b o n F o r d — The inhabitants o f Wal ton—Hemmed in between the mountains—but by their energy and perseverance they bave worked I p f p S p l Execution of X3y. Webst|f, Q« • Thursday afternoon of last Week, Dr. Webster was visited % his family for the lsf* time, Although', as we understand, they were opt apprised o f the time at which the execution was to take place, and be maintained his composure and parted with them without disclosing to them the mournful secret. Soon after their departure, preparations were made for the erection of the scaffold- Two .persons staid with him during tfae night, with whom he conversed until about midnight, when he retired and slept until about half-past four. After rising he eat some break fast and smoked a segar, after passing them round to those present. The crowd began to assemble about 7, and at 9 the avenues to tbe jail were crowded and the windows and roofs of the bouses looking down into the yard were co vered with people of all ages, color and sex— occupants of houses charging one dollar for a chance on the roof. A few minutes after nine, prayers were offered up in the prisoner’s cell by Re/. Dr. Putnam, after which the Sheriff and his assistants proceeded with the prisoner to the yard where the gallows was erected., which he ascended witb a firm step. Dr. Webster, after some few minutes of conversation with Dr. Put- during the preliminary arrangements of ad justing the rope &c., bid the Sheriff and those uear him farewell, and at 25 minutes before ten the Sheriff touched the spring and the drop fell. After hanging 30 minutes the attending Physi cians pronounced him dead, aud he was taken down, placed in a coffin and taken to the cell he had previously occupied, where it remained un til evening, when it was conveyed to his fridnds. The Consistency o f W h ig g e r y . A correspondent of ihe Rochester Advertiser has a very char perception of the strong point of Whiggery. “ Sixty years ago,” he says, “ the great founder and leader of Federalism declared that a National debt was a National blessing, and from that day to this, have his followers steadily adhered to this fundamental idea of their Political creed. They return to it amid al! trials 8 nd tribulations as the polar star in their journevings, and with the confident idolatry of the Musselman for his Prophet. It matters little what are the objects, whether building “ light-houses in the skies,” “ feeding the Irish,” transporting Negroes to Africa, building a Green House al Washing ton, employing an extra Porter at the While House, or a Page at^the Capitol, it is all the same,—it is a principle they contend for—to tax the people and increase the National debt and therefore the National blessings.” He adds, truly enough, after giving the party too much credit for the security of its arch-strong professions, “ if a bill were reported to-morrow to extend slavery to the Pacific, and at the same time appropriating twenty or thirty millions to carry the measure into effect, two-thirds of the Whig delegation would incontinently vote for it.” —Albany Atlas. Dreadful Epidemic in Milwaukee. We learn from the Chicago Tribune, of Mon day, lhat an epidemic, very much resembling cholera, has made its appearance in Milwaukee On Friday there were 47 deaths, and on Satur day 62, making 109 in two days. The disease is Dot called cholera, but dysentary and bloody- flux. It is confined mostly to the German popu lation. The Milwaukee papers publish no re ports. Should the epidemic continue so fatal for a few days, it is thought that the city will be as much deserted as Sandusky was last year. M elancholy C asualty .—On Tuesday of last week, Mr. Daniel Campbell, a wealthy brewer, from Glasgow, Scotland, on his way to Milwau kee, was drowned in Erie harbor, Lake Erie. He was on boatd the steamer Louisiana, and with his wife and eleven children was going to settle in Milwaukee. While sitting on the bulwark, conversing with one of his children, just after the vessel left the pier, a sudden lurch of the vessel threw him over backwards into the water. He soon rose to the surface, and commenced swimming towards the shore, but before assist ance could reach him, the weight of the money he carried about him dragged him down, and he was drowned. His bereaved family went on to Milwaukee, and are now there. Mr. Campbell was about 45 years of age, and bad converted his property in Scotland, worth some @50,000'to $60,000 into cash, with the view of removing to Milwaukee and establishing a brewery. His life was insured for $5000 in the Standard Life Insurance Company, of Lon don. His body was recovered shortly after the accident, and buried in Erie .— Detroit Daily Ad vertiser. C ase op K idnappings — A glfist outrageous at tempt was mqcje yesterday fay several men to car ry off a free colored woman .residing in this city, and put her on board a schooner which was to be ready at an app&lnlg! tihje, gt Red Hook Point, just below taS AHantic Dock. The car riage in which tfae poor woman was conveyed being delayed some time, waiting for the arrival of the vessel at this place, excited the suspicion of some workmen employed, jn tbe vicinity, who proceeded to the spot, and, on inquiring into tb© matter, were told by the men that the woman was a runaway slave, afad that tbey were taking ber on board of a schooner for tfae purpose of conveying ber back to the owner. Tfae woman denied that she was a slave, and earnestly entreated the workmen to liberate ber, or take her life sooner than permit her to be car ried into slavery. On hearing ibis, two of the workmen went in search of a policeman, but when they returned, the carriage and its frighten ed occupants had departed, leaving tbe woman behind, who made the best of her way back to tbis city.— N . Y. Eve. Post. T h e L a t e T r a g e d y a t T r o y —The Coroner of Troy, who went to Williamston, (Mass.) in pursuance of the directions ja the note which was found in Caldwell’s room, has returned home to Troy. The p>-oprietor oj the Mansion House there, it is said, refused to give up Caldwell’s trunk, which contained tbe letters he said would “ explain all.” The Coroner, however,saw and perused one or more of the letters, but their con tents further than that both Caldwell and Mrs. Knapp had mutually agreed upon suicide by drowning themselves on Sunday, the 18th, and designated fhe stream where their bodies might be found. [It was doubtless at this time Cald well’s note wres written, intimating that they had drowned themselves, already published.] It seems for some reason tbey did not effect suicide in that way,and immediately after left Williams- fon for Troy. T h e End.—We learn from the Sing Sing Her ald, that Sarah Ann Bacon, wife of Philip Ba con, died on the 12 th ult., under the following circumstances : Two families, Bacon's and another, both ad dicted to the use of intoxicating liquors, resided in one house in Sleepy Hollow. Bacor. and his wife were frequently intoxicated. Oo Saturday they had quarreled ; he had beaten her,and been arrested, but had managed to stay proceedings until Monday, when he procured a new suppiy ot liquor, and they all had a drunken revel, in the course of which Bacon declared his intention of separating fro o i his wife and finally departed for parts unknown. The wife then begged of the other woman a quantity of laudanum, which having been mixed with liquor, she drank, and from the effects of which she soon after fell in j the yard. She was removed thence to her bed. I where she was found dead about an hour after, i A n U n f o r t u n a t e F a m i l y . —Withbj^ihe last twelve months the family of ex-Senatoiraorvell of Michigan, has been nearly blotted out. The first calamity was the sudden disappear ance of Mrs. Miller, an only daughter we be lieve, under circumstances the most painful.— Next the sudden death of Mr. Norvell,on his re turn from a protracted search for his daughter. A few days since, a son, and the only one, died at Saratoga. A short but sad history of a fami ly which a few months ago saw nought in the future but the brightest promise of hope. It has been pretty satisfactorily ascertained that Mrs. Miller went to Europe .— Cleveland Plaindealer. themselves out. T e a c h e r s ’ I n s t i t u t e . —It will be seen by re ference to another column, that the Teachers of tqis county bave fixed upon the 7tb of October next, at the Court House, in Delhi, as the time ami place for opening the Teachers’ Institute — Ttiese Institutes are well adapted to fit Teachers for tbeir arduous duties, aud we doubt not that tbe Teachers generally, throughout the county, will give a heaity response to tbe call of tbe eonnnittee. D e legates to t h e Democratic S t a t e Con- S'Ermou.—It will be seen fay the proceedings of tfae meetings in tfae two Assembly Districts of this county, held last week, that Hod. N. K. W h e e ler, of Deposit, was appointed to repre sent District No. 1, ©net. O. M. A llaben, of Muldletowo, Cor District No. Q. ' S e c r e tary w th e In te r io r .—Mr. MvFett- doo, appoihfod 1 by Mr. Fillmore Secretary of the Interior, has, *£ appears, already become sick of th® place sad resigned. Hi® successor f a ^ n o t yefc,tee® selectsdi, fenlflZited ■£© 'S ' m m if I te T b e F i s h k i l l M u r d e r e s s . —Mrs. Secord,the woman who murdered the innocent girl near Fishkill village on Sunday the 18tb ult., was still ali ve at last accounts and likely to recover. From all we can learn, she was a woman of ex ceedingly bad temper. Those who have known her long, all concur in saying that she was one who had an ungovernable will, and who made all with whonishe associated unhappy. Secord, her present husband,is a man of property. The girl murdered, was regarded bv hun as an adopt ed daughter, and was accordingly treated with no-liltleaffection and kindness. Mrs. Secord, a second wife,who had relatives to whom she wish ed to secure her husband’s property, could not love the girl; and it seems that she long premedi tated her muder. Since that dreadful event, she bas said lhat if she could have killed Secord, her husband, she would be willing to die. The plea of insanity has been already set up for this un fortunate woman ; and if she lives for trial—as sbo probably will—that plea will be vigorously and eloquently presented as a ground for her de fence. She may be acquitted on that plea.— Nevertheless the circumstances, the temper, as well as tbe past history of tbe woman, will fas ten on the minds of large numbers tbe conviction th^t she was guilty of deliberate murder.— Poughkeepsie American. ° E x t r a o r d i n a r y C lerical C o n d u c t. B o s to n , Aug. 27. On Saturday, the Rev. Mr. Pullen, of Frank fort, Me., left home for Oidtown, on an exchange of pulpit. He was unwell, and after arriving at Olatown, cut both his legs and wrists and each side of hi® throat. He wag not ex pected fo re cover, although alive at the last accounts. A s B o s e s t D e b tor.—Mr. W. T. Bush,eomb- «mker, of Nortbboro’, seven years ago failed, and was obliged to settle with his creditors for 25 cents on a dollar, promising, if ever able, to pay the balance. Tuesday he sent to each credi ted the baistfic© of bis dufis, with tfae interest due for the whole seven- years. Mr. Bosh has been daring that time doing a fair business, though he nte 6 :wifh sbffitFSt-halt'Oft § fogg fay fife abotiF iwo ,yesifs m m . —Eostm W?amk?. G ian t’s Bones. — A week or two since Mr. John Hamed, living on Rolling Fork, about 12 miles Irom this place, discovered a human hone protruding out of the sand on the river bank.— It proved to be a thigh bone, perhaps the largest ever seen. It measures about six times the num ber of cubic inches as that of a common^ sized man. Judging from the size of the bone found, it once belonged to a human being some 12 or 13 feet high. Mr. H. has also found a collar bone which is in about the same proportion. That it j is a human bone there can be no doubt.— Eliza- ! betktown ( E y . ) Register. Q u ick In t e l l i g e n c e —On Saturdav the tele graph communicated a message fromfjSVashington to New Orleans ahead of lime. The message left Washington at thirty minutes past eleven o’clock, Washington time , and reached here five minutes past eleven, New Orleans time, thus travelling about twice asfast as lhe apparent mo tion of the Sun round the earth, or correctly speaking, double the velocity of the earth’s mo tion on its own axis, as the difference of time be tween the two places is about one hour.— N. O. Com. Ball. S i n g u l a r E i.o p e x e n t. —The Steubenville, (Ohio) News mentions that an old man, accom panied by his step-daughter of 18, and his step son, aged 9 years, came to that city on Thurs day, having walked 40 miles that day, in pur suit of the step-daughter’s husband atid the step father’s wife, who had eloped together. The eloping parties were rot found. A m u sing. —We find the following ridiculous, but atnusing item in an Enghsh paper: “ Mr. Chapman, an executioner, from the United States, has arrived in Paris fot the pur pose of studying the French guillotine system, and examining the machinery employed in the work of decapitation used jo other parts of Eu- At a meeting\of ithe- detoffffrRtij of. Assembly District N e. I , ,o£ the.Goujifcyref ©ejRTOmiieSi at tba itoQse S.- W..Sniitli^ w^YRltWi oa‘ih‘« 89th ulL* U M W ; $ Delbijwas railed to tba OBrijj,Emd Q j of Defjbsit, appointed Secretary. The object o f the meeting«~beingio appofnl a Delegate to the State Conveatjti at Syracuse,, and fot the tvansttetion of sucjv other business as might be deonaed necessary— having been stated by Walter HamfWd, Esq., it was on motion of S. C. Johnson, Esq., , , n . Resolved, That a Committee of five be ap«' pointed by the CbaSr to draft resolutionsexpres -'1 sive of tfae sense of thd meeting, * • The Chair appointed the following persona-as such.committee:—S. C. Johnson, T. J. Ogden ' John Edgertoo, C. E. Wrigfat, and Georg© Jf’' WinSor. . On motion, Resolved, That weproceed to'btiU lot for a Delegate to the State Convention ahfl: that a majority of the whole nupiber jof votes; cast shall be pecessary to a choice. The balloting resulted in the choice S f ' N. K. Wheeler, of Deposit, as,such Delegate, Resolved, That our Delegate,- in case of in a-, bility to attend, have power to choose a subsfi-, tute. The committee appointed for the purpose,thea reported the following resolutions for tlie con sideration of the Convention : Resolved, That in tbe agreement entered into last year by the representatives of the respective divisions of the democracy of this State, we- have the highest evidence of the wishes of tfi® masses for a permanent re-union of the patty ; and while the democracy of Delaware county will faithful Iy adhere to all of its fttadameotaf principles, they believe thal the pfeaefcy harmony and integrity uf tbe party, detfra’ad ttia'f it'should! not again be rent asunder without some'pars- Hiount and inevitable necessity. Resolved, That this Convention rCe'ojVnisfe as true democratic docifines, the right of the con- stiiuency to instruct its representatives, and their duty to obey or resign ; in the duly of Congress to u>e its constiiuiiunal power to prohibit the extension uf slavery, and lo preserve the free dom of the territories ; in a rigid accountabilitv of all State ond National officers ; in a strict construciion of the State and National Constitu tions ; in the disposition of the public lands to actual settlers in limited quantities; and in as little interference by Government in the business, sentiments and private affairs of tbe People as po.-sible. Resolved, That we are opposed to the waste ful and extravagant policy of the whig party,and to iheir open und repeated violations of the con stitution. C. E. Wright offered the following amend ment to the second resoIulion, to come in after the word “ territories:” Yet we do not recognise any man’s individual opinion on ihe question of slavery, as a test of democratic faiib,.or as a rule of party action T. H. Wheeler mowd to amend ihe amend ment by striking out the word •* not” between the words “ do” and “ recognise,” so that the' amendment would read : — Yet v e do recognise any man’s individual opinion on the question of slavery, ns a lest of democratic faith, or as a rule of party action. The question was put on the amendment to' the amendment, and voted down. Alter t he dbcui.sion of tire amendment by va rious gentlemen, it was rejected, and lhe origi nal resolutions as reported were adopted. Resolved, That the proceedings of tbis Con vention be published in the democratic papers in ibis C o u n ty . JAM E S G. REDFIELD, Cb’n. C. E. W r i c i i r, Sec’y rope.\ A F l o a t i n g H o t e l . —The Ackers have char tered tbe steamer Oregon with the intention of converting her into a floating hotel during the State Fair. The Oregon, it says, will be moored at the foot of Slate street, and will be immedi ately fitted out with all needful fistures for feed ing five thousand per day. Her sleeping arrange ments will be so increased as to lodge upwards of a thousand nightly .— Albany Argm. A romantic young lady fell tbe other day into the river, and was near drowning, but succor being fortunately at hand, she was drawn out senseless and carried home. On coming to, she declared to her family that she must marry him who saved her. “ Impossible,” said ber papa. “ What, is he already married “ No.”— “ Wasn’t it lhat interesting young man who lives here in our neighborhood ?” “ Dear me, ao-rit was a Newfoundland dog.” * A meeting of the Democrats of Assembly Dis trict No. 2 , was held at E. S. Wetmore’s, in Hobart, on Saturday, August 31»t, l>»dO, for the purpose of appointing one delegate to repre sent said District in the Democratic State Con vention, to he held Jt Syracuse, on the 11th of September, Hon. MARTIN K E E L E R , of K«rt- right, was called lo lhe (Jhait, and Z. E. G o o d r i c h , of Davenport, appointed secretary. The object uf ihe meeting having been stated,- it was Re-olved, That Dr. Obson M. A llaben, of Middletown, he the delegate to represent tbis Distiict in Ihe Democratic State Cunt en 1 ion, to be held at Syracuse, on the 11 th day nf Septem ber, 1850, and lhat Col. Frederick G riffin be a subsiiiute in case of the inability of Dr. A lla ben to attend said convention. On moiion, llie meeting adjourned. M. KEELER, Chairman. Z. E. G o o d r i c h , Sec’y. The R e c a ll of Lord E lgin.—Oo this sub ject the Montreal Courier remarks :—“ Tho John Bull, a London paper, received by the last mail, distinctly stutes that Lord Elgin is recalled, and is to be succeeded by Lord Harris. Tbe Herald states that a private letter from ao official person age in London, connected with the House of Lords, has reached Montreal, in which the re port is repeated.” S i n g u l a r S u icid e .— The Nashua Gazette says a man from Litchfield came to that town, pur chased a coffin, took it.back to L .,dug a grave, put his coffin into it, got into it himself] took laudanum, waked up the next morning and found himself alive, gut up and hung himself. He left a fetter, with five dollars enclosed, te pay for filling op his grave. The Mount Holly Mirror, says that a colpor teur has during three months visited over 150 families in Burlington County, N. J., and reports an utter destitution among them, of the scriptures aad all knowledge of their subjects 150 fami lies were without the Bible, 77 being in the single ■t'owashtp e f Pemtertot:, near “ the pines'.” - “ T he D octor .”— A doctor in Ohio writes to his father as follows :—“ Dear daddy,I ccnclew- ded Ide cum down and git grinded into a doctor. 1 hardly dont think I was in more than 3 oure, afore out I cum a s slick a wun as ever was seen.- Hale Colamby liappy land, If I ainla Dobtur, I'll bo bang'd, I pukes, I purges, «ad I swms om, Then if ilia die, Wi—the’n fleUeui. I gits plenty of custom, because' they say dizeeezy. When you rite, dont forgit’ to doctur afore my name.” they put A G ood SENrnuent.—The following unique’ toast was drank a t a Fourth of July celebration1 iu South Carolina, by G. Hinartl: v ® “ Peace abd Fibntt s Corn in the big crib and money in the pocket! Baby in tha crudlo and a pretty wife to rook it I Coffee w the oIoboi and sugar in the ham), tg Silence round the fireside,tod folks that never quarrel- H alf and half .—In tbd North ing, the men and women are just eq;ua% divide ed—134-1 o f each sox. The Gazette says t— . “ The- single ladies may therefor® hold tap £fa®|t heads when the men come a wooing. There is not one to sparo; so they can make tbeir b f u terms with the-beaux,under the penalty of ing them out o f the ward to find their matesri Among the novelties of the census of the SB\ cord ward'of Oswego, were a woman' vdfao was man ied at th© age of thirteen, and on© bouse* two stories high, wish four rooms Gti'ettcffi flsaP* containing nine fitmilies, consisting-’of forty-tfi**® persons, the tenth family having, rbffisatly ' * Fopolationt oif B u ffalo:—-The ®F. S. shal has nearly completed thtfcetisus df BtSfiat®- The population numbers 6 O 3 QOQ. Tbisis®$^*'8*'' £9,000 in 1840. u He that pryetll into every cloud’may besfnsto? en with a thunder bolt. V’ il I, .
