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TSS FO£T HOOBE AT filAQABA BAILS. In the memories, journal ii,nd nor- l-espondence of Thomas Mooror edited by Lord John JRussell,\ (who hms given an eloquent and beautiful delineation of the character of the poet,) we find the folIo%ving account of Moore’s visit to the Falls of Niagara, in a letter to his mother:— “ N iagaba , July 24th, 1804. \M y D eakest M other —X have seen the falls and am all rapture and amaze ment. I cannot give you a better idea of what 1 have felt than hy transcribing what I wrote off hastily in my journal on returning. \Arrived at'0hippewa, within three miles of the falls, on Sat urday, July 21st, to dinner. That ev ening walked toward the fall, but got no further than the rapids, which gave us a prelibation of the grandeur we had to expect. Next day, Sunday July 22d we went to visit the falls. Never shall I forget the impression I felt at the first glimpse of them, which we got as the carriage passed over the hill that overlooks them. We were not near enough to be agitated by the terrific ef fects of the scene; but saw through the trees this mighty flow of waters de scending with calm magnificence, and received enough of ils grandeur to set imagination on the wing t imagination which, even at Niagara, can outrun reality. “ I felt as if approaching the very re sidence of the Deity; the tears started into my eyes; and I remained, moments after we had lost sight of the scene, in that delicious absorption which pious enthusiasm alone can produce. We ar rived at the New Ladder, and descend ed to the bottom. Here all its awful sublimities rushed full upon me. But the former exquisite sensation was gone. I now saw all. The string that had been touched by the first impulse, and which/cncy would have kept forever in vibration, now rested at reality .— Yet, though there was no more to im agine, there was much to feel. My whole heart and soul ascended toward divinity in a swell of devout admiration, which I never before experienced. Oh ! biing the atheist here, and he cannot return an atheist! I pity the man who can coldly sit down to write a descrip tion of these ineffable \vonders; much more do I pity him who can submit them to the admeasurement of gallons and yards. It is impossible by pen or pen cil to convey even a faint idea of their magnificence. Painting is' lifeless ;and the most burning words of poetry have been lavished upoh inferior and ordina ry subjects. We must have new com binations of language to describe the Falls of Niagara.’ ” L ake S uperior !— Canal Com menced !—The Saut Ship Canal, that our citizens have read about for twenty years past, has this week been actually commenced. We have seen theground broken, the spade, pick axe, and wheel barrow, in motion; and never was a work commenced with more energy.— Every man seems to feel a sort of per sonal interest in the Wiii-b iuidtabe hold with a will. The first force of men (with their general agent, Charles T, Harvey, Engineers Captain Canfield, and Messrs. Gleen and Nichols,) landed here on Monday evening last—in five days several large shanties have been erected for'the accommodation of the men, the preliminary work laid out for buildings, docks, lifting cranes, and draining pumps. Nearly a hundred men were at first put on to the various preliminary works—more are arriving by every boat, and we understand that four or five hundred will be employed as soon as they can be set to work to advantage. The steamer London, Capt. Swee ney, of Ward’s Line, also arrived to-day loaded down, with lumber, men, &c., for the Canal Company. . thirty-nine tons of copper barrels and masses from the Minnesota mine; twen ty tons from the North American in masses, and one hundred and forty-six tons from the Cliff, in barrels and mass es. We are glad to be able to report the first shipment of copper from the Pitts burgh and Isle Epyale mine this season. The schooner Algonquin, Capt. Hallo- ran, has just arrived with four tons of copper in masses and barrels from the above mine. /Tfie Baltimore arrived on the 6th ihst., with one hundred and forty-five barrels of copper, averaging six hun dred, from the Cliff mine. Thirty-six borrels averaging six hundred and fifty, - and three tons in masses, from the Northwestern. EXTKAOEBINABY BIOT- t)iscovery o f human Remains—Great Excitement and Terrible Riot.—Last evening not far from 6 o’clock, a terri ble excitement was created in and about the drug store and residence of Dr. Geo. W. Wheeler, comer of Seventeenth •t. and First av*, in consequence of some children discovering some por tions of a human skeleton exposed in the cellar of the premises, where they were at play at the time. The discov ery was soon widely circulated, and in an incredible short space of time a high ly excited mob, numbering some three thousand strong, collected about the premises, armed with clubs, stones, ax es, and other weapons, and commenced a terrible assault upon the house, thus compelling Mr. Wheeler and'family to fiee for their lives. The mob then forc ed open the premises, which they com pletely gutted, breaking and mutilating every article of goods and furniture that came in their way. The drugs were scattered about the premises, and scarce ly a bottle in the whole place escaped their hands. ’ Capt. Whigam, of the Eighteenth Ward police, on the first hearing of the disturbance, repaired to the place with a large force of men, but before they ar rived the store and dwelling of'Mr. Wheeler had been completely ransack ed by the mob, who had left nothing but the bare walls remaining. From what could be learned of the affair, it appeared that two medical students oc cupied apartments in an upper part of Mr. Wheeler’s house, and it is supposed they had been dissecting a body for sci entific purposes, and in disposing of the remains, were not sufiSciently careful to take proper care of them, hence the dis covery as stated above. The students in question, who were in their room at the time of the discovery, were obliged to make a hasty retreat, in order to save their own heads. They therefore went voluntarily to the Station House for protection, where they will remain till the matter shall be invhstigated by the Coroner, who was notified a t a late hour last night. During the riot, which was not quelled till near midnight, one of the 18th Ward police was severely injured by a blow on one of his legs.— He was conveyed to the Police Station, and medical aid procured,— Tribune, F rom the E ast lNDiES.~The Sing apore Free Tress of the 15th of April, learns that the ravages of the cholera had ceased in Singapore. This is as cribed by the Malays to the incessant invocations of Allah, which they had kept up every evening for about 10 days previous, and tvhich peculiar form of propitation, we are informed, is called ratib. At Linga the disease is reported to have shown itself with considerable vir ulence, three to six deaths a day having taken place since its first manifestation. N arrow E scape .— On Wednesday, 22d inst., the deck of the steamboat Jen ny Lind, on her return from Yonkers to this eity, took flref. Tkoxo- t r c i v r from 300 to 850 children and adults on board, scholars and teachers of the Sun day School of the P. E. Church of the Epiphany, returinng from their annual Pic-Nic Excursion, but very tew of them were at all acquainted with the fact until after thefire was subdued. Not enough praise can be bestowed upon Capt. Far rington, who acted very promptly, with great presence of mind, and skillfully managed to keep the bad news from any but his crew, the Superintendent and some of the male teachers, whom he regularly organized for the occasion to assist in extinguishing the fire—a pure ly accidental one, which evidently no human foresight could have prevented- At a meeting of all the teachers, held on deck, a vote of thanks to Capt. Far rington was unanimously adopted, which he richly deserved by his great exertions and skillful management in preventing an alarm and panic, Which might have resulted very fatally ; also, for his gen tlemanly, kind and generous conduct throughout the whole excursion.— JY. Y. Tribune. O ^ T h e recent surveys f o r ^ xeW Eoad from the Hudson Eiver to %e Lakes to run about equi-distant between the Erie and the Central lines, have re sulted in the organization of a compa ny, to be called the New York and Wes tern Railroad Company, whose purpose is to build a double tracks wide guage line, from Hoboken, opposite this City, to Canandaigua, there to unite with the Canandaigua and Niagara Falls Compa ny, andnitimatelyynb doubt, to consol idate with them. The' new road will embrace about 235 iniles within the State of New York, and 30 miles in New Jersey, for which a special char- fer has been secured. It is designed to run up through Rockland, Orange and Ulster, and from a point near Kingston on the Hudson, take a Westerly course through Delaware, Chenango, and low er point of Otsego,! CorHandr Cayuga, Seneca and Ontario. The organization under the General Railroad Law of this State was eampieted to-daj,Rndthear' .tides of assoclatilm will ^ filled with ^ e Secretary of State forthwith. We hear that a large poi tian of the ^ c k will he taken by the substanlial con tractors, and that the present wish is that the \yhoie work shall be put through and equipped without the creation of a Bonded debt.^FiWcs.' A M other ’ s A ffection . —The day before yesterday a pretty little boy, scarcely five years old, while playing on some logs in the Hamburgh canal, sud denly slipped and fell into the water.— His little sister, a brave child ten years old, being near, and seeing him sinking, flew to his assistance and throwing her self fearlessly into the canal struggled to rescue her perishing brother. Alas, a two-fold fate was there for them.— The poor boy sunk for the last time, and his noble sister was herself drowned in her fruitless efforts to snatch him from a watery grave. Who dare re pine at the minor miseries of daily life, when they think upon the mother of those drowned children so dear to her? No tears came as a relief to her hot brain—her constant cry was—\Give me my children 1” ^ Yesterday a deeply interested solemn line of friends followed the little vic tims to their early grave, from their once happy home, at the Hydraulics.— The heart-worn mother still suffers the deep agony of her bereavement, a fit subject for the commisseration of all who have hearts to feel—Ruf. Rep. DI?*‘ The Legislature of Connecticut seem determined to stretch the subject of Divorce till it cracks. They , have been trying to push through a bill al lowing divorce for a year’s absence, so that, ifa married man goes on an Arctic expedition, or to California, and comes back in three hundred and sixty-six days, he may find he has lost bis wife \just as easy.” We advise them to come to flat heathenism at once. Let a man marry whom he likes, and as ma- - ny as he likes, and put them away when he is tired—and let the woman do like wise.— Rochester American, €l)e Bmocrat. ROBERT EARL, E ditor . Weauesday, June 29* 1803.. THE IMFEACHHENT CASE. As requested by Hon. John C. Math er, the resolution of impeachment pass ed the Ass embly—but not without some opposition on the part of some who sup posed the case too frivolous to be sus tained. The House will now have to agree upon articles of impeachment, be fore the ease can go to the Senate for trial. Resolutions impeaching Comptroller Wright, Attorney General Chatfield, Lieut. Gov. dhurch, Commissioner Fol- lett. State Engineer and Surveyor Mc- Alpzne, and all the Whig members of the late Canal Board, have also been in troduced into the Assembly, and refer red to a select Committee. There is evidently a determination, in the Assembly, that Mr. Mather alone shall not be selected for immolation, while others, at least equally guilty, are permitted to go free. It is not possible to tell when the Legislature will adjourn. If the Senate should be assembled to try any impeach ments, it may be in session all summer. The Assembly is doing little else, ex cept inquiring into the conduct of our public oflicers, and when it will get through, it is not easy to predict. It is anything but consoling, or flatter ing for the people of this State to look towards Albany and see the scenes that are enacted there, by their representa- THE WHIG PASTY. We find the following item going the rounds: \ A Secret circular, purporting to he issued by the Whig members of the Legislature of California, had appeared in the San Francisco Times, and caused some excitement. Its propositions were, briefly, to dissolve the Whig party as a t present organized, and to re-organize it under the name of “ California republi cans,” and to adopt a platform “ em bracing all the popular questions of the day.” Few will question the truth of the above statement. Since the defeats the Whigs have everywhere, during the past two years, received, they have felt dis posed, as a party, to give up the ghost, or in other words to sell out and close up their business. Greely and his co- lahorers would undoubtedly like the formation of a new party, under a new name,qni \a platform embracing all the popular questions of the day,” such as Fourierism, Main Lawism, Aboli tionism, Spiritualism, &c. The Demo cratic party will never be obliged to re^ sort to such shifts) to preserve its as cendancy, It is founded upon immuta ble and eternal principles, that will stand the test of time, and receive the most ample confirmation from experi- 17^ A letter from Carraccas says the Paez party have nothing to do with the present outbreak in Venezuela, and that Monagas the President has been aban doned by his party the liberals, and was shut up in his house, where he received his cabinet but three times a week.— The writer supposed the revolutionists in the country would march on the cap ital, and meet with little opposition.— The only thing,he believes, which would make the country prosperous and hap py, would be for the United States to take it under its protection—to annex it, in fact, and “ add another star to the glorious constellation.” The letter is published in the United^ States Gazette which patronises ext^sion of certain kinds. O utside CDRiostTiii!s''NBAR the C rys tal P alace . —^Among the exhibitions in the vicinity of the crystal palace are enumerated Mill’s bronze statue of Gen. Jackson; the Washington circus; a Cal ifornia menagerie; a man without arms, wha writes to please the curious; a Rocky Mountain ox with six legs, and a pig with two bodies; flying horses for the amusement of children; a live alli gator ; the largest oxen and sheep ever seen by’man. See. &o. ' * 07“ At Woodstock, Vt., a jury have found a verdict for $1,065 z^ainst -Mr. Robinson, for slander of Miss Shad- bourne, a young lady whom he had courted, and who had given him a writ ten discharge. The costs swell Mr. Robinson’s little bill to about $2,000. The Maine law, after three days discussion, was defeated in the Connect icut House of’Representatives on Thurs day. An amendment, striking out ail after the enacting clause, and inserting a bill giving town and city authorites power to licence, was adopted hy the casting vote of the speaker. The hill thus amended, was adopted by a vote of 108 to 98. ■ 07“ Miss Catherine Ann King, while ^ n V m * • ' t. • bathing, at New Castle, Del., on Mon- ^ Col. Colt is rapidly becoming a day night, was cafried beybiid her depth millionaire^ from the immense sale of his and drowned, ’ [revolvers,' ' ' P arty at I lion ;— Mr. A. M ay , o ^ the Remington House, Ilion, will give a Social Party, on Friday evening of thig week, (July 1st.) We are informed that ample arrangements have been made for the accommodation and comfort of those who.may attend. For the better convenience of those in this vicinity, carriages will be run by Mr. May, from Spooner’s Hotel. Smith’s celebrated hand wdll be in attendance. We as sure all who may attend that they will be well entertained and highly pleased, as Mr. May is a gentlemanly landlord, who at once anticipates and supplies the wants of his guests. I ce C ream P arty .— The ladies of the M, E. Church, of this village, will give another Ice Cream party at Spoon er’s Hotel, on Monday evening, July 4th, the proceeds to be applied to furnishing the Church. A general in vitation is extended to our citizens, and to the citizens of Mohawk and vicinity.. F ourth of J uly . - Our friends at Mohawk are in earnest with their 4th of July celebration, and are determined to leave nothing undone to make it the best that has ever been had in the coun ty. We are informed that the follow ing military companies will positively be in attendance from ab ro a d C a p t. L add ’ s City Guards and Capt. B idell ’ s German Lafayette Rifle Company, from Utica; and Capt. Houes’s Gray’s Guards from Danube. As we expect to be in attendance ourselves, we hope to meet a great gathering of the patriotic yeo- menrj of Herkimer county. O ne OF ’EM. —Judge G raves , of this village, on Monday, laid on our ta ble an egg, measuring six inches and one eighth in circumference and seven in ches and three-eights around length wise. It was brought forth by a dorking hen belonging to Judge G., and is just what she is accustomed to do. This egg is certainly a “ whopper” and it will take a very ambitious Shang- haie to beat it. We wonder if such large eggs are among the perquisites of the Judge’s office. 07“ The Legislature of Ohio has pas sed a law granting divorces on such a number of variant and frivolouspretexts as can scarce fail to afford escape for any badly matched pair, who may desire to avail themselves of it. Parties belong ing to other Statf s can, by a residence of one yfiar. have all the benefits of the Ohio law, though the cause of divorce may have occurred elsewhere, and a de gree of divorce in any Court of another State is ground for a like decree in fa vor of the same party in Ohio. S erious Loss .—The Ogdensburgh Sentinel learns that a passenger train of the Rutland and Burlington Rail Road on Friday night, just below Burlington, ran over a flock of imported sheep be longing to Jewett and Morse, of Shel- burn, Vt., killing 50, valued at $10,- 000 . ■ T he M aine L aw . —^This law passed the Senate of this State some time since, and is now under discussion in the Assembly where it will probably fail of a passage. T he C rystal P alace P olice . —The number of special Policemen assigned for the protection of the Crystal Palace in Reservoir Square has been increased from fifty to seventy-five. They will be armed with heavy truncheons, and having been selected with a view to in telligence and activity will probably con stitute an effective force. It is said that the Excise Boards in the first four teen Wards have granted no liquor li cense this season except upon condi tion that liqour is not sold on Sundays. If the same course is adopted by the Excise Boards in other Wards, it may be expected that the rowdyism which has disgraced the vicinity of Reservoir Square on Sunday will be suppressed. B urglary .' —We regret to learn that the store of our fellow citizen B, F. B rooks , Esq., in Utica, was burglari ously entered hy means of a ladder:e.Y- tending to the window\ of the second story, in the rear, on Saturday nighty the 2oth inst., and a quantity of Gold and Silver Watches, together'with oth er articles, abstracted therefrom. Mr. B. offers a liberal reward for the deteced tion of the thiev=es, or the recovery of the property o? any p art thereof. C hina . —^Accounts from China have been received at San Francisco, which represent thji,t the rebels in several late engagements, have been repulsed with severe losses of men and munitions. C onsolation under A ffliction .— Isaac Butler, of Ternon, in Oneida co., a Norwegian, has beensaddenedhy hews of the death of a relative in Norway, and gladdened hy the. intelligence that he becomes the heir to $94,1.10. ’ NEAL DOW AT HERKIMER. Hon. N eal D ow , of Maine, will speak on the subject of Temperance and the Maine La w, in the village of Herkimer, on Tuesday, July 5th, at 1 o’clock P. M. E zra G raves , ) W m . H owell , C Herkimer. C. C. B ellinger , ) E, W. P artridge , ) ,V. O wen , C Mohawk. S, H artson , ) S. L. M organ , ) B. H arrington , C Ilion. P. R emington , ) E ly T. M arsh , ) J ohn T homas , V Frankfort. J, W- D. H eald , } Committtee of Arrangements. H erkimer , June 27th, 1853. RAILROAD ACCIDENT BILL, Wra. W. Taylor, Chairman of the Legislative Committee to examine and report upon the expediency of enacting a law for the prevention of railroad ac cidents, reported a bill, some days since* in the Assembly, of which the follow ing is a synopsis, containing the most important features; The State Engineer to have increased supervisory powers with regard to Rail- All infraction of the rules by Compa nies, which hazard human life, when the Employees are proved guilty, to suf fer punishment for misdemeanor or fel ony, according to the character of the wilfulness or negligence. Gate or flag men to be stationed at the crossings of all streets in cities, vil lages or towns through which railroads Trains must not run through such streets at a greater rate than ten miles per hour. Draw-bridges not to be opened with in fifteen minutes before, nor fifteen after the expected approach of a train. Positive and negative signals of safe ty and danger to be used at all draw bridges and at all crossings. No new railroads allowed to cross another’s track on the same level. The radius of curves at the near approach of drawbridges, tunnels, etc., provided for.' Sections similar to those of the United States, in regard to the accidents to steamboats, to wit ;~Railroad com panies pre-supposed to be in fault in all eases of accident, unless the reverse is accidents, in all Courts. S eduction and M urder . —The Mont gomery (Ala.) paper, gives an account of a distressing case of seduction and murder, which occurred near that place last week.. The parties in the affair were Alpheus Jones and Dr. Miller, the latter of whom seduced the wife of Joncff, oa-uglvfc- Lina. lii. iLa act. aiid rushed upon him. Miller, however, with quick forethought, drew a bowie knife, and stabbed Jones to the heart, causing instant death. Miller then made his escape, and at last accounts, had not been arrested. N ew J udge op the C ourt op A p peals . —Hon. Simeon Jewett, one of the Judges of the Court of Appeals, has resigned his office on account of ill health, and Hon. Hiram Denio, of Uti ca, has been appointed in his place, by Gov. Seymour. This is an excellent appointment, one that will do honor to the Bench and' promote the best inter ests of the State. 117“ On the evening of May 27, a me teor fell near the Grand River, in Mis souri, which made a report like a can non. A P rodigy .^— ^We learn from the Fort Smith (Ark.) Herald, that there is a young man in that place, about 21 or 22 years of age, who is an idiot except in the computation of numbers, and in this respect he is a prodigy. The Her ald says: His mind appears' to he occupied al together in counting day and night.— He can give correct answers to the most difficult questions propounded in stantaneously, by his head; for he has no education whatever. He will not leave his mother at any time; and he is a perfect child in this respect. How he can render so easily as he does, ac curate answers to all questions put to. him is a mystery to us. There’appears to he no limit to his powers of calcula- \ F ast T rotting . —A trotting match in harness came off last week, on the Iqpg Island course, between the two mares Highland Maid and Flora Tem ple, Highland Maid is a native of this county having been reared by W. S. Conkling, Esq. of this town, until she was two years of age, when he present her to his nephew, young Wilson, of Warwick, hy whom she was sold to James W. Hoyt, of Middletown, for $500, by whom it was sold recently to j. Nodine for 1,200. The first two rounds were closely contested, but the Highland Maid was victor, making the time of the first heat 2 29, and of the second 2 27. The latter is the quickest tiipe on record, and the Maid has thus shown herself the fastest known travel ler in harness in the world. But on the third heat she broke up so badly that she was distanced, and by the rules of the turf, a distance, (80 rods) is a defeat. She^tJuis lost the wager, though she evidently won the face. Her own er has been offered $8000 for her since the race .—Goshen Whig. FOURTH OF JULY CELEBBATION- The Anniversary of our National In dependence, (July 4th, 1858.) will be celebrated jn the village of Mohawk with appropriate ceremony. The following persons have been selected as the offic ers of the day : President of the day —S amuel C ary . Vice Presidents —C. J ohnson , V. O wen , R, E thridge , B. C arver , P, H. W arren , W. C. C bai ^ R. E arl , H, E ysaman . j . G olden dv F olts , B. E v erett , G eo . B. J udd . E lias R oot , W. C. B arnes , S. B arry , G eo . W ood . Marshal —Col. A mos H. P rescott . ' Assistants —Maj. W m , S p o n e n b u r g h , and H. J. S chuyler . Committee of Arrangements —C. A. G riffith , E. S pencer , J. G rist , F. E. S pinner , J. P rice , L. L, L owell . A procession will be formed at 10 o’clock, A. M., under the direction of the Marshal, in front of the American Hotel, and march to the beautiful grove ofB. C arver , Esq., where the follow ing exercises will take place: MUSIC BY THE BAND. OPENING PRAYER BY REV. J. L. STARK. Reading of the Eeclaration of Inde pendence by Hon. EZRA GRAVES, of Herkimer. Oration by Hon. CLINTON CASSIDY, of Albany. b e n e d i c t i o n b y r e v . b . b . h a l l o c k . The procession will then return to the American Hotel, and be dismissed to partake of a dinner, prepared for the occasion, at the American Hotel, by J. C. Tower, and at the Mohawk House, by Josiah Shull. The procession will be escorted by the Prescot Guards, under the command of Captain W. W. Woodworth. Mo hawk Fire Company No. 1 will join the procession. The day will be ushered in by the ringing of bells, and a National Salute will be fired at sunrise. In the evening there will be a grand display of Fire Works. The citizens of- the neighboring vil lages and towns are respectfully invited to attend, and participate in the festiv ities of the day. 0. B ronson , Treasurer. D. S, C lark , Secretary. THE GARDINEE CASES. We learn from the National Intelli gencer, that the United States District Attorney moved in Criminal Court at Washington, on Tuesday last, for a postponement of the trial of John Charles Gardiner. The reasons as signed by Mr. Fendall for the motion were that new intelligence has been de rived from the trial of George A. Gar diner, (to the surprise of the prosecu tion) as to the location of his alleged mining property, which was now to be inS^ueretaro instead of San Luis Poto- si; that the time would not be long, a few weeks at most, before the subject of the existence or non-existence of these mines tvould be probably cleared up, as the Government had dispatched a nftw eom m ieeion to Me-eioo, under oiv. curastances well calculated to bring out the truth. The commission left New York, May 27th, in the steamer Vixen, under Lieut. Swartwout, who had been heard from at Havana, which port he left the 9th of June, with the probabili ty of arriving at Tampico by the 12th, or thereabouts. The expectation is that this Commission will return to Wash ington by the middle of July, unless some unexpected delay intervenes. In opposition to the motion, Messrs. Carlisle & Bradley for the accused con tended that after the cause had been on the docket two years, it was a great hardship for the prosecution to demaud a further postponement. Mr. Bradley said he understood the Government to have already expended $70,000 or $80,- 000 in this prosecution, and they ap peared to have unlimited means with out appropriation by Congress. He al so made a statement of the manner in which the funds arisng from tfie award had been disposed of One-fourth of the original award of $428,000 was paid by Gardner to his counsel before the commission; one-fourth he sold for $22,- 000; thus $214,000 of the award re mained, with the $22,000, the price of one-fourth. This amounted to $236,- 000, which was in fact what Gardner personally and actually received. Of this, the United . States attached $220,- 000 or $230,000, leaving the balance, as the case may be, of $16,000 or. $6,000, as all of which he could avail himself to cover his expenses for four-years. The Court granted the motion, post- pftning the trial to the 15th July, with the understanding that a further post ponement may then be granted upon good cause being shown. A D angerous F raud . —We were this morning shown by Cashier Lan sing a dangerous fraud upon the Onei da Bank, of this city, but one that can he easily detected, when the public are put on their guard against it. He ex hibited to us four of the. $5 bills of that institution, which had been made to represent Jire, by cutting from each a slip breadthwise, and pasting these slips together, making a fifth hiXl—Utica Observer. D7“ The New York Express says that some of Mr. Webster’s friends in that city, wishing to testify their re- .spect for Mr. Webster’s memory, and of $25,000 as a present. They have tendered their liberal offering in the form of an elegant residence, hand somely furnished, or an investment, subject to her sole control, and her sole benefit. H artford , June 25. The law abolishing the death penal ty, passed the Senate* of the Connecti cut Legislature to-day, It substitutes the imprisonraett for life, with a,^rb- vision thatyio pardon Shall ever foIlo^F except in cases where new evidence is discovered in favor of the convict. Prosi theKochester Daily Advertiser. affairs at ALBANY-HAVE w e a s HOif- EST MAH AMONG US ? The condition of affairs at Albany has, for a long time, been a puzzle to the outside barbarians, nor does the extra session promise much in the way of elucidation of the mysteries which invest the political Capitol of the State. It was generally supposed that when the Legislature was re-assembled, that the pressing business which led to an extra convocation, would be rapidly despatched, and the members relieved from all necessity of a long sojourn on the field of their previous labors. In adjusting the canal question, perhaps they were as expeditious as could have been reasonably expected; but since that time, the course of legislation has been remarkably erratic, and should the session be prolonged a week or two more, the chances are that the whole government will stand impeached-__ There seems little doing except im- peachments, or efforts to that effect, accompanied with such exhibitions of malignant animosity as to prompt the query whether we haue an honest man in office or not. So far as we can judge from the ev idence supplied, the instigators of the proceedings against Mr. Mather, hare been more anxious to exhibit political and personal spleen—especially the former—than to detect corruption, or to relieve the State from the influence of those guilty of it. We so judge, from the fact that others whom it was quite a.g easy to arraign, were left un- mblested—in fact, so long as it could be done, shielded from the chance of having their official conduct inquired into by any competent authority. But finding this position untenable, the en emies of Mr, Mather have given away so far as to raise a committee of inqui ry as respects other officials, but how large the list is to be, we believe has not yet been fully determined upon. We do not suppose, nor so far as we know, is it pretended that these last propositions of impeachment tvould' have been submitted, but for the per sistent attacks on one of the national party, in contradistinction to those who are now, or formerly were, on the Buf falo platform. To a revival of the feeling which led to the. Buffalo organ- ganization, is to be referred the at tempt to hunt down Mr. Mather, and so believing, it is not surprising that his friends should retaliate by any ef fort to carry the war into Africa—to suspend Hamau from the cord be had so readily prepared for another. By these movements the democratic party is placed in a very delicate position—- the members being detailed or rather self-elected executioners of each other. All well intended efforts to detect corruption, and punish the authors of it regardless of party affinities or associa tions, deserve and would receive the ap probation of tbe.public, but in the cas es under consideration, no such purity or integrity of purpose will be conceded, hence the only result reasonably to be looked fin-i is a deepening of the bitter ness now e-xisting between the sections of the Democratic party which were parties to the \ Union,” of which so much was said previous to the late Presidential Election. That this is so is manifest from the tone of the promi nent organs of what is termed the free- soil section of the party, which do not hesitate to insinuate that an acquittal of Mr. Mather by the court of impeach ment would in no wise clear him, in their estimation, from the guilt implied in the charges which they have been so officious in bringing against his official reputation. DI^ A correspondent of the Cincin- natti Gazette thus describes a visit to the estate of Mr. Peabody, an eminent horticulturist near Columbus, Georgia: Mr. Peabody has a very healthy lo cation on a hill in tne pine woods— over looking 600 acres ; and when they went on it, 'thirteen years ago, not a tree had been cut. He cleared a space for his house and they moved in the next spring. He has proved the most successful cul tivator of many kinds of fruits, berries and melons, in this country. I saw 1000 hills of watermelons, on which will be ripe fruit by the 10th, or 15th of June; he says he has frequently picked them weighing -50 pounds. His great peculiarity with strawberries, is the quantity of fruit,, its size and flavor, and the constant bearing of the vines; al ways has plenty of fine berries for six months—frequently eight—and last sea son he had them every month in the year. Recollect this is in the open air —in his open fields. I saw eight acres of strawberries; the vines are. very small, and covered (the ground literal ly looks'red) with most delicious, large Hoveyberries. These vines have been in just as full bearing since the 10th of March, and he says will continue until the middle of September, and as much longer as frost keeps away, if hechoses to attend to them. Mr. P. sends to this market from 150 to 200 quarts per day, and says he could pick double the quan tity if the market was larger. D eath from E xtracting T eeth ,-— Mr, Nathan Holmes, jr., of this town, came to his death on Saturday last, in a manner as sudden as it was singular and unexpected. About two years since, on the occasion of having a tooth extracted, he was taken with bleeffing, not only in the cavity where the tooth was drawn, but from all his gums; and so freely did the blood flow that it was several days before it could be staunch ed, andthen only hy the difficult and painful operation of cauterizing. Al though completely prostrated by the loss of a large quantity qf blood, yet he rapidly recovered, though he has'had one or two attacks since. On Friday night last, he was again suddenly tahen bleeding a t the gums, without any ap parent cause, and so profusely did the blood flow, that afl efforts to stop it proved unavailing, and on Saturday ho died from the effects. He was 22 year§ ofage.—PlymuihRoQh
