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. ll -\'•T5 i-k »/ ' V- — *. »• ^ * ' s’ - * : \ m ■ ■ . V : , • s *. • * . . y > *’• - |*7 >>. :'v< \ « l.i - v p - . ^ - - ?>S j • f / % — ... . t. j « .:•...* meua Courier. Wednesday, February 25,1852. More Railroad Accidents. By the breaking of a rail at a curve, Affairs at Albany. The joint committee appointed to in- near Equinunk, on the Erie Road, on vestigate the Canal Lettings probably the 17th mst„ a car was thrown into the reported ye8terday, as it was announced Delaware River, some three or four per- ^ at jas^ Qf the testimony was to be sons killed, others badly injured, and taken on Monday. much suffering caused. Only the day Petitions, in large numbers, continue following a freight train was run at fright-110 p0ur jn? hotli for and against the Maine ful speed into a passenger train, waiting ^ aw>^ The former, as yet, are vastly at Deposite for dinner, killing three or the most numerous. four more persons, and wounding a hum The Controller has had a flare-up with Temperance. The earnestness evinced by the abid ing friends of Temperance in pressing the Maine Law before the Legislature, has thoroughly aroused the energies of the Rum interest throughout the State. They have really begun to fear that the horrid trade which causes full half the i taxes, paid for other than educational purposes, which populates the poor- houses and prisons, and excites nine- tenths of the wickedness and crime in all the country—is to be outlawed and , • 1 i » „ perhaps irrevocably suppressed. So the ^orm a sorrow u teimmalton to their pV0Vjde the stamps, the Controller re- travels. Many will deeply sympathise | refuse(] to pay itf on the ground that the with the bereaved brother and sister in ber of others. Among the number killed the Assembly> and won himself great was the eldest sister of R okwa . io L oft , L rediti as an economical State officer. of the interesting family of Mohawk In- T ,)e House ordered a hundred postage dians, whom many of out readers will stamps for eac|, member, to be paid out recollect from their Concerts in this vi- L f tbe fund for contingent expenses. On cinity last summer. It will probably L pplication by the Clerk for the money friends of Temperance who go for the largest liberty in Rum guzzling, have begun to remonstrate against the passage their cruel misfortune. Constitution provided for the payment of the members to the amount of three of any tyrannous act by which such sa- wou^ not *3e 6urPrised to^ earn dollars a day, and these stamps would cred liberty shall be abridged, and the L^at &um was the ruling demon in lhe an Edition to their pay, not warranted glorious cause of Temperance thereby | |aUer catastrophe, lh e Lrie^Jompany | ^ that jnstrument, Some saucy words History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase, and Morris1 Re serve. To which is added a Supplement or continuation of the Pioneer History of Ontario, Wayne, Livingston, Yates and Allegany counties ; together with sketches of the War of 1812, upon the Niagara fron tier, and events connected with the comple tion of the Erie Canal, by 0 . T urner , au thor of “ History of Holland Purchase/’ anil “ Phelps and Gorham's Purchase, Mon roe.” Few local histories can exceed in sterling piterest and value that before us with the above title-page. It gives a faithful and in teresting sketch of the begining and progress of civilization, in what is now one of the richest sections of the Empire State. The brief lapse of time since the Indian held in security this delightful land, and in which its settlement and present high slate of improve ment have been accomplished, is one of the striking marvels of the age. Mr. T u r n e r ’ s book has evidently cost him a large amount of labor and research, and the reader will experience the benefit of his toils in the completeness of his work, and the varied reminiscenses with which it is . enriched. He gives a brief account of the Appointments by the Governor* endangered. They not only remonstrate have suffered much from its effects, and pasged between lhe Controller and the Senecas who preceded their paler brethren in but they put other sinews of war in re-1 continue to suffer until they banish | Assembly, but we do not learn that the it from their road. quisition. The Press, so far as/ it can ba persuaded to join in behalf of pe riled Liberty and Right, is ardently en listed . in a waifare against the Maine • o Law. Wo notice especially that the Locofoco Press is far the most unani mous in hostility to a prohibitive law. Our neighbors of the Gazette, who are distinguished as zealous supporters of Temperance, say very explicitly in their .Iasi issue that they are down on any Maine Law scheme for ii cutting off the ta p ” so the whole liquor business must go up high and dry. Does the Gazette think that somo Democratic candidates would have a blue prospect, if the genial and joyful aid of the u critter ” was for ever cut off? The Phelps Atlas, we observe, shakes its fists in gallant style at the Maine Law folks. It teils them to come and gives them to understand that the “ de mocracy” of that town are not to lie sub dued by any such operation. In fact, we have not known that paper to be so thoroughly awake on any topic as it is to save the Rum Traffic from destruction. We do not wish to be understood as saying that all the Locofo papers are propping up the Rum trade—we know a few handsome exceptions. Nor do we say that all the Whig papers we know are distinctly favorable to Temperance, much less the Maine Law. But we do observe quite a difference in their way of -discussing the subject, as a general thing. ■On one side there is ever so much said about proscription, inoperative laws, fa naticism, liberty, and various other mat ters. On the other side there is an eye to the incalculable evils, the wickedness, distress, and corruption of morals that flow directly from rum-sellirig. Surely it is a thing not to be ashamed of that a very large majority of sterling and true-hearted Temperance-men are Whigs. the possession of the soil; and also a glance at the Iroquois. The early settleme'nt of each Geneva Medical College. The annual course of Lectures of this | some $300 worth postage stamps ? Institution will commence on Wednes day, the 3d of March, and continue six- 1 , SPECIAL NOTICES. teen weeks. No change, that we learn, has been made in the Faculty since last | Sir J o h n F r a n k lin and the A rctic R e g ions ; To which is appended an account of D e r b y & C o . former has yielded, or intends to. If he of the older towns in Ontario, Yates, Wayne, stands his ground he will probably hav^ &c ;s minutely traced, and the names of the the glory of saving the State the cost of primitive Pioneers interwoven with the nar- year. It is distinguished far ability and the Darning. W e heard an idea suggested toward the close of the Lectures last year, which we think ought to be acted upon, as it might be with decided benefit to the College and the place. It is well known that an onerous tax is imposed on the Medical Professors in the gratuitous ser vices they perform for a very large num ber of clinical patients. It was proposed that a hospital be established in connec tion with the College. By a little aid from this community, and perhaps a lit tle from the State, the project could un doubtedly be accomplished, and a great benefit thereby conferred on the College and the public. rative. Several of the men prominent in this history, are still living, and most of them are yet fresh in the recollection of the present generation. The early reminiscenses of Ge neva, Canandaigua, and other original set tlements of this county and vicinity, will be perused with interest, by hundreds who do American Expedition. Throughout the civilized world the too I nc* belong to the pioneer families, while to probable fate of Sir John Franklin and his ,he latlerthe work will be indispensable. For hardy crew h a s created a sympathy humane ' sa^e a* O r t o n ’ s . as it is profound. Europe and America have vied with each other in their efforts to trace the missing vessels—and the search on either Agricultural Premiums. About that Picture. We are sorry to inform friend F air - man , of the Elmira Republican, that some of our imps lost the number of his paper containing his proposition on the picture question before we had time to consider it. We designed to copy it and answer the whole thing with careful and candid circumspection. But we do think, F airman , that either of us might get up a more striking, if not a handsomer pic ture than H ooqland . That, of course, is on the supposition that we adhere as faithfully to nature as he has done. For our part, we are very skittish about be ing pictured, and prefer to wait till some of our plainer cotemporaries have taken the lead. We glory, however, in F air - man ’ s spunk, and hope he will delight le t we cannot say, the way L, , v . . . ,, n , . - . . J the ladies and the world generally, by things work, that it is any great source of , . . . . . . ” . J . T ii,. , putting his phisiognomy m print. W e prosperity to the XV higs as a political1 The following Premiums on field crop5, fat part will hardly be relinquished tj li p ore cer-1 snd sheepi were awarded at the recent Meeting of the Ontario County Agricultural tain evidence concerning their fate, than now exists, shall be discovered. Society: The work before us, issued with ihat For the best of winter Wbeatj ,oE- promptness for which its publishers are dis tinguished, is especially adapted for general circulation, and will no doubt meet with an extensive sale. It contains a detailed account of the various Expeditions sent out by the British Government, and also of one under M. Bradjey of East Bloomfield, on 41 bu. and 31 lbs. per acre on 54 acres, $7 00 For the best acre of Indian Corn, to E. M. Bradley of East Bloomfield, on 93 bu. per acre, on 54 acres, 7 00 For the best acre Barley, to J. J. Cobb, of -Phelps, on 58 bu. 21 lbs. per acre, 5 30 the patronage of Henry Grinnell, Esq., of 2d best, to Thayer Gauss, of Last Bloom- vr T 7 , , , . 4, . field, on 39 bu. and 40 lbs., the Corn- New York, whose humane exertions in tins, 1 ’ * as in every other worthy cause, entitle him to the highest praise. The Engravings will be familiar to many readers, having been used to illustrate the same subject in a recent number of Harpers’ Magazine, Layard’s Ninevah—Abridged. To abridge a valuable work without de tracting materially from its merits is a difficult i acre 7 00 task. The labor in the present instance having p 0r the 2d best do., to James Wykoff, on mittee recommended a premium of a Vol. of Trans. For the best acre of Oats, to J. J. Cobb, of Phelps, on 73 bu. per acre, 5 00 For the best acre of Peas, to E; M. Bradley, of Eust Bloomfield, on 44 bu. per acre, 5 00 For the best j acre of White Beans, to Nathaniel Smith, of Gorham, 5 00 For the best acre of Clover seed, to Hen ry Metcalf, of Gorham, of 5 bu. per party. Almost invariably, when Tempe rance lias been mingled with politics, the result lias been disastrous to the Whigs. The effect of Temperance tickets has usually been to give <4 Democracy” and Rum the benefits of victory. The rea- await the experiment with much interest. Trigonometrical Survey of the State. A committee appointed by the Ameri- devolved upon the Author himself, has been well performed. The real difference now ex isting between the larger and smaller work, is size. The former has only been shorn of some superfluous details, without omitting any important incident. The illustrations, which are always considered an important feature in works of this kind, are not lessened in number although necessarily reduced some what in size. The fact that the price has been brought down from $4.59 to 75 cents, is an additional element in the popularity of the book, and very much to the credit of the Barons of Cliff Street.” For sale O rton . by Valentines. The practice of sending vulgar Valentines has almost run into the ground what was originally a beautiful custom. It is gratify ing to find that a sensible and pretty one is can Association for the advancement ofj occasionally written. The following, re- 4 bu. per acre, 5 00 For the best 4 acre of Potatoes, to Geo. Merrill, of Y\rest Bloomfield, on 113 bu., 5 00 For the 2 1 best do., to George Merrill, of West Bloomfield, on 974 bu., 3 00 For 2d best do., to J. J. Cobb, of Phelps, Vol* Trans. For best fat Ox, to Josiah Sutherland, 5 00 For 2d do., to John H. Benham, of Hope- well, 3 00 For 31 do., to Josiah Sutherland, 2 00 For 4th best do., to John B. Cooley, of Canandaigua, Vol. Trans. For best fat Cow or Heifer, to H. L. Hodge, of East Bloomfield, the 2d pre mium of 3 00 2d best do., to Thayer Gatiss, of East Bloomfield, the 3d premium of 2 00 3d best do., to Wm. Wheeler, of Canan daigua, the 4th premium of Vol. Trans. For the 21 best fat Sheep, to John B. Cooley, of Canandaigua, the 3d pre mium of 3 00 3d best do., to John B. Cooley, of\ Can- daigua, the 4th premium of Vol. Trans. ,son ■draw is evident: Temperance votes are Science> have memorialized the Stale ceived by a friend of ours, is .he best we have •n mainly from the Whig ranks; „ot legislature to provide at an early day ^ in a long t.me : all, by any means, for many of the most consistent and for a Trigonometrical Survey of the thorough State. The proposition meets with gen eral favor. Massachusetts has also ac- Temperance men wo know are Democrats. But it is notorious that that kind of politics don’t | coml)lishcd a simi,ar 8urvey- Besides develope its share of Temperance men. bein8 a noble contribution to Science, it Hence, perhaps, the reason why the Press 18 believed that il vviU be of mudl Prac* of that party moves with sueh alacrity tica1 ber,efit in ,he prosecution of inter- to rescue Hie Rum Trade from prohibi-1 nal improvement. The general govern- lion, For ourselves, vve do not assume that VALENTINE DAY I may not love thee, yet a mystic spell Attracts me ever clo s e r to th y sid e , Although I see, I know, I feel too well. That I shall never be thy ch o s e n b r i d e . K f a i r e r , l o v e l i e r , eye than m i n e must be Affection’s true life-magnet unto thee. I may not love thee, yet I cannot speak The word ot parting, sad affection’s knell, ment has provided for a coast survey of| For clinging heartand soul are all too weak the same character, which of course in- To utter that wild word of wo-Farewell! tvt .1 V a i n l y I strive the g l o w in g f l a m e to smother- eludes the great lakes on our Northern Treaty of Commerce with Persia, W ashington , Feb. 18, 1852. Shortly after Mr. Marsh, our Minister at Constantinople, arrived at hris po,st, the Per sian Ambassador al that court intimated to him that his master, the Schab, was anxious to make a treaty of amity and commerce with the United States, apd that he (the ajnbassa- dor) was ready to enter into negociations for that purpose, with any one duly empowered on our part. Mr. Marsh communicated this information to Mr. Clayton, who forthwith transmitted to Mr. M. the requisite instructions and powers; and accordingly the last arrival from Europe degrees. the people of this State arc just ready for the Maine Law. But we rather Ifrontier- These surveys, including New guess if the law were passed to-day to York and Massachusetts, when finished, take effect in three months, it would be U is said’ wiU furnif,b 80 eX8ct measure- cffectually sustained, and if sustained | ment °*\a Parabe* of latitude for eighteen would be productive of untold good. The liberty and right abridged would be I N evv II otel at C ana rtD aigua .—We more than ten times compensated by (he learn b the Canandaigua papers that a tucrease to virtue and thnft. We pity joint 8locU Association has been formed the poverty of heart that belongs to a h that vlllage) fol. the erection of a new man who will urge the farmers to oppose Hote]( on the site of the old Blossom the law, for thesako of perhaps sixpence r.Iousei at an eslillMted cost, including ,ni . , . ’ - lot, of twenty-seven thousand dollars. 1 here might be a slight loss of that kind, but it will be far more than made up, by the diminution of taxes, and many other . i brought home a treaty with Persia made in - J conformity with those instructions, in which \brother.\ Grold Fens. Since a Gobi Pen is an article almost of necessity, as well as luxury, and as they are the United States are placed on a footing with the most favored nations. We may now send a minister to Teheran, and consuls to the Persian ports, to open a new and valuable trade for our nation with a people who will eagerly buy our products The Board of Supervisors have also had under consideration a resolution pro- . ^ . . . , . viding for the erection of new county benefits, winch will Vo sure to spring Vnildin from the entire prevalence of sobriety. Ss- A Darkey Triumph. A Congressional Banquet in honor of Washington’s birthday was held at Wash- Several somewhat expensive, the selection of a good and manufactures; for the ratification of the one is rather important to the buyer. O rton I treaty by the Senate may be regarded as uh has a new lot that are very fine in appear- | accomP k- ance, and as far as we have tested them, ex cellent in use. They may be better than any I ^ A ccident on the E rie R ailroad . A , L r . . . . . ... J dreadful accident occurred about five o’clock, to be found elsewhere, but we will not ven- on Tuesday morning on the New York and lure to say so. We do know however that Erie Railroad, a few miles west of Equinunk. Orton will be glad to give a fair chance to | The road there'makes a curve, and is twenty or thirty feet above the Delaware. The train, test them, and we recommend their trial to any in want of such a thing. Fntnam’e Semi-Monthly Library. The first three numbers of this valuable series have already been issued. il Home and Social Philosophy,” from Dickens’ House hold Words, “Hood’s Comicalities,” and “Walks and Talks of an American Farmer The suit against McWilliams, conductor ington on Monday evening. on the Canandaigua and Elmira railroad, fori „ , ^ ,. . « , , „ .. ... , - ejecting from the cars a colored man, who | mcmt?ers of the Cabinet and other dts- ^England, are the titles of those before us. linguished persons attended. Speeches 'rL~\ .... ....... . r~“'T’ relused to take his seat where the conductoi directed, has resulted in a verdict of $75 for plaintiff. Considering the 11 higher law” ten dencies of that county, Mac has no cause to complain. The political majovites of both parties there, are remaikable for their love for their “ colored brethren .”—Dundee Re cord. were made by Hon. J. J. C rittenden , W. C. D awson , and others, the burden of all which was non-intervention. I mprisonment for D ebt -T I io Rhode The Conductor’s free tickets to editors K s1and.H?Uae F f r . . . _ . . . day rejected without a count the bill for win him a good many blandishments the abolition of imprisonment for debt, over a transaction entirely irreconcilia- ble with law or propriety. The Apolloneans sung to a large and well pleased audience at Concert Hall on Monday evening. In the Isle of Man they have Cats without tails. At a Whig Convention of the citizens of Paducah, Ky., and several adjoing counties, a few days since, re solutions were adopted in favor of John J. Crittenden for the Presidency. It is reported that Mrs. Sinclair’s share of the receipts at Brougham’s for the last fortnight amouted to $4,000, They are m very convenient shape for Trave lers, and embrace topics that will yield a world of aliment on a long journey. The whole 24 numbers for a year wilhform an ex ceedingly cheap and comprehensive library. London Quarterly. The January number of this Review is re ceived at O rton ’ s . The article on the Royal Gardens, at Kew, is worth the subscription price for a year. Ladies’ Fair. f The Female Home Missionary Society, o the Reformed Dutch Church, will hold a Fair, at Parodi Hall, Water street, on Thurs day, Feb. 26, afternoon and evening. which was coming toward New York, con sisted of an engine with one baggage-car and four passenger cars. In turning the curve a rail broke, and the hindmost car was thrown off into the river, where it fell about fifteen feet from the shore. The river was not suf- ficiently deep to submerge the passengers. The water was full of broken ice, so that several persons were badly frozen, before they could be rescued from their perilous po sition. A log was thrown from the shore to form a bridge, and the roof of the car was cut open, so that those within could pass out. All were taken out alive, except a man by the name of Hyatt, who was unable to keep his head above water, and a German peddler from Buffalo. A number were slightly in jured. The conductor of the train and a pas senger got upon a cake of ice in the river, and were drifting downward, when they were drawn ashore by ropes. The display of the Northen Lights, on Thursday night, was foretold to our tele graphic operators here, by the New York op erators who noticed before sunset singular movements in the electrical current cm the wires. This effect upon the wires was very remarkable all the evening, often entirely sus pending the electric current, and often greatly strengthing it. Towards morning, there was a shower of stars, we are informed, which shot like rockets towards the zenith, and then fell and faded.—[Spring Rep. By and with the advice and consent of the Senate. F ebruary 10,1853. COMMISSIONERS OF LOANS. Livingston—Chauncey Parsons, Geneseo. Chemung—G. N. Hitchcock, Havana; E- lijah Jones, Elmira. Tompkins—C. C. App[egale, Enfield ; D. D. Spencer, Ithaca. Seneca—Wm. Knox, Waterloo ; Gordis Dunlap, Ovid. It is stated that rats are killed in N. York by a “ new exterminator,” at the rate of about 10,000 a day. On Saturday morning three wagon loads of dead rats were seen to leave Center Market. It is also said the rats are skinned and fur sold to Genin the hatter, by whom they are cured, converted into muffs and boas, and under a foreign name, sold to Broadway belles, at a high price. Bishop Potter, in a recent lecture, stated that it had been computed by the best stall mans in England, (hat the laboringjclasses a- lone in Great Britain expended annually for alcoholic drinks and tobacco the sum of two hundred and fifty millions o f dollars! If this enormous amount was expended for le gitimate purposes of life, how much of the misery which exists among the laboring class in Great Britain would be diminished, The Hungarians and Poles at Aleppo, who, to save their lives, had become Mussulman, have nearly all left Turkey. Mr. Marsh, our Minister at the Porte for the last two years, we are told, has been continually most ac tive in their behalf, in his endeavors.to ob tain either the liberation of the refugees in general or ameliorations in their position. Letters from Austria state that Kossuth’s sisters will soon be set at liberty, as it has been discovered that the letters, which furn ished the ground of their arrest did not con tain political matter. The New York Democrat says that a Pro tective Society, with a capital of $100,000, is about to he established in that city, which will have for its object the mutual protection of the interests of the importer, the distiller, the brewer, and those engaged in the business of vending spirituous liquors. A colony of planters is organizing in S. Carolina, with from five to eight hundred Slaves. They have sent a memorial to the California Legislature, asking leave to settle there with their Slaves. S hip C anal in F lorida .— Resolutions have passed the Legislature of Alabama urg ing the attention of Congress to the proposi tion for constructing a ship canal across the peninsula of Florida. Eighteen thousand five hundred dollars'of the bail forfeited by Wm. L. Chaplin, indict ed for aiding slaves to escape from Maryland, has been paid into the treasury of that State. A n I nternational J oke . —England is said sometimes to have the constitution of a horse, but it would seem that France is just now threatened with the constitution of an ass.— Punch . Later from Europe. A r r ival o f the Steamer Cambria. j H a l i f a x , Feb. 21, 1852. The steamer Cambria, from Liverpool 7th inst., arrived here at half-past 2 o’ clock this p. m . She has 32 passengers. She brings intelligence of her own arriv al home, having reached Liverpool at 10 p. m . on Sunday, Feb. 1st. E ngland ;. , The British Parliament had been for mally opened by the Queen in person on the 3d inst., when she delivered the royal speech. The Earl of Derby, in liis speech on the address, implied approbation of L. Napoleon’s condemned Minister for not putting the Ecclesiastical bill in force, and onc<a more demanded protection for the agricultural portion of the country and the abolition of the income tax. A most awful disaster has taken place at Holmsforih, in Yorkshire, by the bursting of a reservoir. Some 60 to 100 persons lost their lives, and damage to a great extent had been done to the fac tories in the neighborhood. The late heavy floods is the cause assigned for the disaster. The special commission at Monaghan proved an abortion. No capital convic tions took place, the juries being unable to agree. Father Mathew has been seriously in disposed but the last advices left him convalescent. A movement in favor of the liberation of the Irish exiles, is being made in the chief cities and towns in the south and west of France. .Trade in the manufacturing districts has fallen off, and where old contracts have expired, producers were willing to renew engagements at moderate rates. The returns from the Bank of England continue of the most favorable character, and show an increase of J£2) 1,648. The total amount of bullion in its vaults was £18,216,172. The speech of Louis Napoleon at the dinner given by him to a number o f E n g lishmen, wherein he declared the reported war like intentions false, had consider ably calmed the public mind, and caus ed more confidence in the future. F rance . Affairs in France continue quiet. .The Abbey Lecordiare and M. Lears- dirre, two of the most popular French preachers, have received orders to leave France. Seneca County Agricultural Society. The annual meeting of this Society was held at Bearytown on Thursday, the 5th February, 1852, when the foil lowing officers were elected for the en suing year. President .—J ohn D elafield . Vice Presidents. — Wm. F. Coan of Lodi, Orlo Horton of Covert, John E, Seely of Ovid, Thomas I. Fol well of Romulus, John A. Christopher o f Var* ick, Peter Punches of Fayette, Joseph P. Hbgeboom of Waterloo, C. ,D. Myn- derse of Seneca falls, James C. Watson of Judins, Daniel Young of Tyre. Secretary. —J. W. Bacon. Treasurer. —J, D. Coe. Compiittee qf Araingententi. —P. P . Howe, Chairman, E . H, Mackey, A. L* Sweet, S. Pew, and J. W. Bacon. After receiving the Usual applications from theTowns for holding the fall Exhi bition, it was fixed at Waterloo, for thd 14th and 15th of October next. Homestead Exemption' « The Journal mentions that since the passage of the Homestead Exemption act, there has been in this connty but one record made under its provisions, and that covering a house and lot on Green street, entered by a resident of this vil lage. The law was intended for the benefit ot families , for the protection of women and children, and its benevolent inten tions should not be liable to frustration by any neglect to make a record. The provisions requiring a record should be repealed, and thus the law rendered general, instead of partial in its operation. The existence of the law should be a sufficient notice to those interested, in all cases, without a special search at the Clerk’s office. VVe suggest to our Members of the Legislature that they will perform an ac ceptable service to the people, by ob taining a law to repeal so much of the Homestead Exemption act as requires a record to secure its beneficial operation.. Ithaca Chronicle. Paris letters state that spies are pre sent at all social festivals. _ . . - , . r ♦ The Second Court Martial sitting at language .s m some degree a test of sm- 85P* The restraints of a foreign lan-r guagehang far more heavily upon a wri ter,than upon a speaker. A hundred inac curacies will be passed over in the for mer case, and a hundred omissions sup plied by looks, tones, gestures, and even. while in the latter, every idea pauses; must be carefully*laborated to-express its exacte meaning* Moreover, a foreign One of the best jokes of the season, is the statement that one of the candidates for Gov ernor of New Hampshire, who is 1 stumping the State,’ got some thirty miles into Canada, making speeches to the k’nncks, before he 1 sident. knew he was out of his own ‘ bailiwick.’ Mr. H. Masterson, Conductor, who jump ed upon the locomotive, at Deposit, at lhe time the freight train was dashing into the passenger train at prodigious speed, deserves immense credit for the intrepidity and cour age he displayed in risking his own life to save, as he did, the lives of from 30 to 50 passengers. The Directors of the New York and Erie Railroad should show their appre ciation of such service by presenting him with some splendid testimonial of their grati tude and regard. He is one of the most ac complished and gentlemanly Conductors on the Road. —Elmira Republican A young man was covvhided in Baltimore, on Monday. Cause—Sending a vulgar Valen tine' Verdict o f Community —Served right. Mrs. Swisshelm declares that ‘ the coil of an anaconda wonld make a better girdle for a young woman’s waist than the arm of a drunken husband.* A special board has been convened at Washington, to settle the uniform of officers in the Navy. One of our leading tailors wishes to know if the Board will settle the officers’ bills. Fresh tomatoes are selling in the N\ York market; they are brought from Bermuda. ■ Yesterday was the finest sugar dav of thb season. Many of our lads and lassies went out to camps for the purpose of merry-making and enjoying this sweetest enjoyment of a country life.— Indianapolis, Feb. 10 th. The French press, during the last ten years, has given to the world 82,000 works of literature, and art. It appears from the organs of the Belgian Government that the French refngees now in Brussels will not he allowed to engage in the publication of political journals or other writings which they would not be allowed to publish in their own country. Madame Pfieffer states that the number of persons beheaded at Canton in 1846 was 4000. These were, to be sure, the criminals of two provinces, containing a population of 9,000.000, still the number is frightful. During the last forty-eight years there have been five constitutions in France, rckoning that last promulgated; and it is precisely forty-eight years since the Civil Code was promulgated by Napoleon, then Consul for life. “ N o t to b e G ro a n e d D o w n .” —At the late Loco Foco Convention in Maine, after the nominations had been made, Mr. Dunn of Portland, who assumed to be a leader up on the occasion, called for 1 three cheers for Gov. Hubbard;’ they were accordingly given. ‘ Now gentlemen,’ said he, ‘three groans for Gen. Scott.’ This was attempted also; one dismally faint groan was heard, when*a mem ber of the Convention exclaimed, ‘ Ah, gen tlemen, you are much mistaken if you imag ine that Scott is a man that can be groaned down. It can’t be done.’ It is needless to say that the other two groans were omitted. — Boston Atlas. After years of mathematical labor and me chanical results, Prof. Willis, of Rochester, has completed and has now in constant oper ation, a self-winding clock, which determines the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years of time with unfailing ac curacy, continuing in constant motion by itself, never requiring to be wound up, never runnig down, but moving perpetually so long as its components exist. So says the Roch ester Democrat . A mechanic of Worcester, Mass., visited Alexandria, Va., to spend the winter, his wife being in poor health. The mechanic had a chance to do work enough to support him. The wife being unable to do ber work, pro cured the help of two free colored girls, agreeing, in return, to teach them to read and write. The slaveholders interfered, set fire to and burned his shop, and threatened to burn his house if he and his invalid wife did not leave town in 48 hours. The poor man, in the rigor of winter, was obliged to return North, This is a sorry, yet characteristic, exhibi tion ojf the inhuman spirit created in human bosoms by our country’s damning curse. Lyons, have condemned a commercial! c^ \ y - U *» very Iwd. to be diplomatic traveller, Gullet, to two years imprison- !n a tonS“6 -vou lw>t U\derSt v V nient and ten thousand francs hne, tor . ; f r . . . i * i » j I tmctions and frame ingenious argument., using abusive language towards the Pie- ' : . , h 2 \ . ,, Sophistry would be exposed, but truth rr>- l4i» i i _ i i* tt i passes the orcfeal safelv. The reflection The electoral law has been published, i v jr he suffrage is indirect and universal.— n f . . r Congress. If any proof were needed or his sincerity, it might be found there, it* lh,e- earnest truthfulness that pervades every sentence of it. English idioms* usually, so. hamper foreign writers, that* their argument loses half their weight*, and their ideas get involved in misty ob scurity. But Kossuth breaks through* such meshes as if they were cobwebs,, and when* he adopts some unusual mode expression, its novelty often seems to of\ lend strength to what he says .— A lbany JiturnaL % 1 All Frenchmen aged 21, possessed of civil and political rights, are electors.— All electois 25 years old, eligible. Num ber of deputies to be 261. Algiers and Colonies not to have de- o puties. Each department to have a de puty for every 35,000 electors. Fre^h arrests have been made in the depart ment of Magence, of persons connected with secret societies, among them at* ex.- Commissary under the provisio&alt gov ern ment. Protests againt the recent acfc o£ N a poleon, relative to the Orleans, family, continue to pour in, and it is. believed something will be done to. revx>kv6* the arbitrary decree. I taly The Pope has named a: commission* to enquire into the financial’ state of the country, and propose practical reforms, introducing the greatest possible- econo my in the public expenditures*. S pain . • Accounts from Madrid' state- that an attempt has been made upon the life of the Queen, On the 2d she took her first airing, &cM on. ber]way to. the Chruch De AUoch, to be churched* when an assassin fired a pistol, the- baU from which struck the Queen’s shoulder. He was arrested. The last accounts state that her Majesty was progressing favor ably, B elgium *. From Brussels we learn that the Bul letin Frnacis has been seized, and that legal proceedings have been instituted against that journal. D ouble T rack on th - e E rie R oad . — W e learn that the Erie Railroad Com pany have contracted for rail&to lay one hundred miles of double track, extending from the Great Bend to Elmira, and in cluding also some twenty miles in this county. This iron is to be paid for in the stock of the road* which is to be taken at par. The additional track from the Great Bend west is rendierad particular ly necessary by the largo amount of coal business arising from the opening of the Lackavvana road .— Goshen D o n . mg o A lbany to N ew Y ork . —The travetf— public are likely to be well accom modated between Albany and NewYork- B sides two or three railroads now in< 'operation, the owners of the “ People’s- Lineof steamboats are making exten sive preparations for the opening of nav- io-ation. ©tie ot those boats will leave n Albany at 7, o’’clock A- M l * another at 7 P„ M., and the third on the. arrival of the western Express train in the ev.QiJr ing. The fair is- to, be fifty cents. Cincinnatiy !Fc&. 21. 1 &52>. K ossuth at C incinnati .— Thegi-anct banquet came off this evening,, at the- Burnet! House. All the tickets were sold. H e daily recreves from, $1,060, to- $1,500, by way of “ material-aid ” • from private individuals and seciettes. H e will make a s e t speech in theHam~ ilton Railroad DepoS on Monday, and leave for fndianopolis on Wednesday. C losia ’G' C anals on ; S unday . —The Canal Board of Pennsylvania have pass ed a resolution, dosing the several divis* ions of the Pennsylvania Canal every Saturday night at 12 o’bloclt, and remain, dosed until 12, o’clock on Sunday nighty except or the passage of packet boats. IdF3 Mr. W ebster’s Oration before the New York Historical Society, will be delivered on the 23d inst., at Nibio’s. Saloon. Subject—“ Administration of General Washington.’1 D espotism and - W ages .—Pn Russia, for fifty years ‘past, the wages of miners and smelters have been from three to seven cents a day. The average for all kinds of Labor is less than a dime a day. The laborers are serfs. The laborers on sugar estates in Egypt receive abou three half-pence a day for nearly eigh teen hours of work. This paid in the refuse of the molasses, which they can only sell at a loss of 40 or 50 per cent. Galena G a z . The entire' number of Indians in habiting all parts o f our country, amounts to about 418,000. Of this number, 30,- 000 is the estimated number of those inhabiting the unexplored territories; 24,100 are Indians of Texas ; 92,130 belong to the tribes living inNewMexico; 32,231 ans in California, 22,733 are in Oregon ; 11,500 are in Utah. Many of the New Mexican Indians are civillized, and have fixed habitations and towns. I nteresting , F act . —From the report of the gardener to whose care the trees o f the Crystal Place were-entrusted, it se:ms that the old elms under the glass shade, so. far from being injured by their confinement* have increased in their branches from six to seven feet, while the elms in the park have made, on the aver-^ age, only one foot gf shoots. W ell - grounded religious notions re* quire much experience of life. God lies beyond the objects and interests Vbich surround us, not before them. We must understand theta before we can understand their author. B ates and W inthrop . —The Mil waukee Sentinel advocates the nomina tion of Hon. Edward Bates,of Milwaukee for President, and Robert C. Winthrop for Vice President. Mr Bates was the President of the Chicago Convention, some years since, and is one of the ablest and truest Whigs in the West, ExERTioN.-rt-Don't live, in kopjes with your arms folded. Fortune smiles on those who roll up their sleeves and put shoulders to the wheels that propel them on to wealth and happiness, Cut this out, and carry it about in your vest pocket, ye who idle at the corners of streets. 1st Cab..— Say, Bill, did you that Jenny Lind gave a thousand dollars to Miss Greenfield, last week t 2d Cab. —No, you don’t say so !— What for ? 1st Cab. —Well, I can’t tell—e'pose though she want’s Her to keep dark. know » t ds at igely uglit Box Oct. 15, Irtjl. ti.'P. MOWRY. Flour and A p p le B a r r e l s . \ITtOR SALE.hv tlm nubscriber, at the White X Spring Mills, 2000 Flour and App.le Barrels, well seasoned, and of ilia best quality. Apply at I... x e • 11 > Mill*. R. f t . MORRIii*. Consisting of S*.enaers, Cravats, Scans, r «,ire oi iitt*...<» manufacture,, Y T™ r^ f ^ \ T n J g g * , and Floor Oil tifnths of all width.. ' Collars,Shirts, Bosoms, I & Co., of Rochester, who hnvd taken the first j H. H. & G. C . SEE LYE. Geneva, Sept. 24. 1351, K n iv e s , S c isso r s & R a z o r s . Gloves, Hose, Wjappers, Drawers, &c. CUSTOM WORK promptly attended to by E. KENT, J. il. NICHOLS, and the proprie tor. As this is the general Depot of Fashions for this and the surrounding places, the Trade are, informed that tha proprietor keeps con stantly on hand G emo C. S cott ’ s far-famed a . t ^ 1 — £ a . . I ^ a w a . v . a V o Premium tit several of the State I airs, both of thi* and other states, for their Scales, which are warranted equal to any manufactured, and much cheaper. Sugar Mills. Letter Presses, Store nnd Warehouse Trucks of aJl -»izds, on hand or fur-: nished to order. JOHN H. TILLMAN, — . m a r t « ^ ^ ^ ^ Ponffreas Wfltfir. D o c t . M a r c h i s i ’s C ELEBRATED and highly approved Catho- licon. for the relief and cure of suffering Females, for sale at the City Drug Store, bv fjp.n P MOWRY IB IN g T* Pure Belleville White Lead, and all kTnds of paints for sale. All orders promptly attended to. He trusts to the generosity of the public/or aUberal patronage. SAMUEL WILSON-. Geneva July 9. 1851. 53 R [COP HE ROUS — Barry’s—also Phalons’ Invisrorator, two very popular articles for nrnmnflnir the growth and luxuriance ofihoHair, 2\ veils., and more lhau 1000 Tracts , which (or stX ling worth are undoubtedly the richest c<d* l / don of reading in the English Language- * Books and Tracts sold at the same low price* as at the City Depository, in New York. VV. H-StUTH, Jan 1 1850. Y a n k e e SoAp . T m/i
