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TUB BESCOB .—The scboonef Commodore., 1 Cap't. Dorretl, which sailed from Buffalo, last Friday evening loaded with pork an3 flour, went down as far as Erie, was driven back ns far as the Islands, fnrd returned Jo- make] the pier yesterday evening. She drew so much water, andtrre i sea was so violent, that T he struck the har opposite the mouth of tho* .river,'lost her headway, became-iinnirtuage- tt?* The Albany Journal has \ come down hot and heavy\ oh the JJew York Courier & Enquirer, for expressing awishfor and con fident hope of the adoption 5 of Native Amen able, and drifted upon the past side of the can principles by the Whig party. The. MADISON COffiTY WHIG, CAZEtfOVIA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26. cast pier, not far from the light-houso. She j 0 \ urH ' ft l , which has for the past'year or so, struck violently upon the rocks, and tlie winds • - .1 ...... v . 1 and waves thrashed her about most unmerci- f.illy Her fly.ng-g.b-boom warmed away, | a p pears w i, h a very bad grace in its present nndshe soon began .0 sink. J .,o men on , admonit atli|nd £ T fc c d £. ioard were overall. Imed wuh he *P ™y » n ji«cc Native Amencan.sm extinguished as n waves that poured 111 over the .starboard n inrter. anil dr< -i. 'ifrf 1/10:11 from head to fnt. Their co.tdition w.is getting to be s e • rio-is. The vessel reeled about and staggered like n drunken man ; tho distance frorrt tho-pier not .*?0 feet, yet no human being- could separate party, by the general qdoption of its better principles' by the Whigs. The Jour nal which reprobates this course so harshly, has constantly desired to extinguish the po litical abolition party in like maRner, by out- rivallinj it under Whig cofors. The cages' W su-ani thr.'.G-h such a surf: besides, I arc s , lm '. ,ar - each h , a ? *\ em P, ! 10 J »«\ff new . i -J J r*,r f-fnr^iftl<»s-mtn -Qii .r-rinljimiil rrpprl, nnd ipfl only eanors are notoriously bad swimmers. Great sympaihy>ras excited; m >re than a thousand people gathered on the pier to aid the unfor tunate wrecked, although the spray broke over the pie* every minute. A commuriica tion \vns finally made to the vessel by cn^st itig a line ; lift' peak Imlymds. wen* dutuulicd from the foresail-gaff, and the lower end sent ashore. The n^n were then hauled ashore through the air, one at a time, being fastened* to the lines, in a style not uncommon in sim ilar dangers of a shipwreck,. The contrivance was successful—three men came off first—then Captain Dorrett, add lastly the mate, though not without getting a dip into the tremendous waves, which seem ed to IeiTTj up into the air to seize the prey that was about to escape. As the Inst man, ^e^jnate, -swung out of the surf, and stood upon -tho\pliK TlTyTrmliiimlfi qf, drprena thai had stood in silent suspense, watching the transit of the poor sailors burst into, one spon taneous and tremendous cheer, which rose high above the roar of the fierce gale and the crashing of the waves. The poor fellows were wet from head-to foot, nnd almost fro zen with forty-eight hums' exposure to t-hei violence and inclemency of the weather.— I The Commodore sown\alter sunk on IheSpOT, her deck being sti '.l above the watOT. She belongs lo Wheeler Bartram, and 1* nine or ten years old.— Ctereiaud Platndcaler, 10 /A. FOR CALIFORNIA — \ gre.it number of emi grants bavo taken up th e lino of march le ccnily for I'ii'it'oitnn, and 11 is bpli-ved that a- -maii.y_.will g o there the, wxi so.nou na ti.ivt' gono t o Oregon the pie<ent. P. CJ. W Lea \itt, the ( hairmnn of IIIB Committee of Ar rangements n r the Kimgraiiug Expedition t«> California, winch has. been org iiiizmij in Ar kansas for s-ime IIIIIP p.islTpTYc.. iltim i> iluuu. the columns ul iho Little Kock Gazelle of the 27th tilt., thai in •.icrnrdiMiCB with a ie$olu'i'U> pissed at a railed-m»eliug held af .Napoleon on the 6t h till. tlio expedition will rendeavoU\. at.Fon Smith, Ark>iti%sv>. on the first Monday in Arlril next\ piep-irat iiy t o takings u p then lino of march for the Pa- ific Coast. Every difference is, thai the change contemplate- by the Journal is more distasteful to the Whig party, and more injurious lo Its welfare than th'at advocated by the Courier. The Jour nal says decidedly that it won't fight under Native American colors We in our humble capacity ol a country paper say- also, that we won't fight under Political abolition or Na- tive^American colors.\ That's flat. VVe are satisfied with the \Vhig creed as it is, and with the editor of the Rochester Democrat sav, '• Let us, fellow Whigs, keep our ranks unbroken, and deem nil who.shall, by thought, word or deed, seek to distract our perfect harmony and unity, traitors to the good cause, and auxilsrics of the common enemy.\ W* hope that the Journal, in its new-born zeal to \ retain the Whig party on its old plat form,\ wtll now feel* bound to administer propp? correction la Those country presses which pulled eveh harder than itself towards political abolition. Serve all alike, Mr. Jour nal ; and we coll up your close ally and namesake, the \ Western .State Journal,\ of Syracuse, as a proper subject for wholesome punishment. , The Rev. Joshwa Lrcnviit, editor of the Boston Emancipator, a\ Saginaw\ sheet, speaking of Casstus M. Clay's Appeal, says, \It has been printed entire in most of the Liberty party papers, and so far as we recol lect, in, no others \ Wonderful! There are some- half dozen \ Saginaw\' papers tn.ihe United States, and \ most of them\ ha ve published the \ Appeal\ enure ^ [The Albany Evening Journal and Tribune are the only Wing papers in this State in which we have^een the Appeal entire.— Ed. _Llb^Press.] Br. Bailey's habit of ly we wean \ m's- representation,\ sticks to him. It is as diffi cult a matter for htm to represent fairly the position of the Whig press in relation to Cas- sius M. Clay's gradual emancipation scheme, as are the efforts of the leaders of the \ Sagi naw,\ party to make the people believe they —person ufrtrttm* ts-e^fpected*!-*) he wair -rfflpd-j-nre-ltoneM 4n- -their pwfossions-ol Jwtied.iol.{; 0 | Ml f <inpn nn<l pcoi^aionajraving [hr: ln\a_d_r • - • ' ' • .... n_ — 1 nnd the prevention nfdislilleriesconsuming grain. Large demands these—will ihev he conceded.' A da v or twn will solve the question ; nnr) in (hp i) lime sppeulation will find a w'ulp itnrcnn fur pxernsp of its! inccnnitv.— Wi'mer't Times wit h a rifio or lie.nv »'nit gun, I ft pounds of- shot or lead. 4 pnmi.la of powilpr, tups', Sir , 2 hnisps or nvile.. (or eacb poison, 01 a wa ^on and 8 caiile l -ire \ery 5 peAons, tent, &e . The N . O Delt .i nmi.nn-. some iiiltirinaiion derived from un \merican cPiitlemun who came directly fron (Talifurnia, throuuh Mexico, and nrr'ved' in th e Pruirelun, He represents Call forma as in a stile of quisi iiide|icti''ence —and that its affiluti .iti \X11I1 the Untied Stales Gov ernment is inevitable. I l e further states th it Mexico canrjot co t o w .ir with tho United States, that those there uho evince any thing like a belligerent spirit arc people ignorant al together oh th e power and rerinurc, 's of tliii country, and wh o think ihey would ha\vc. nn one t o contend agonal but-^n few itolmed American emigrant* _ <a tiU'g smiled in Texas. He says that liefurc he left Vera Cruz if -waj publuly kn>iwu IIH-IC jlie despatches, pl.iced on b'lard the V. S sieamstnp, onil »hifh have IIPOII se m 011 M/Washiiigtiui, wore of ,1-pe -i 'ir ' h.ir.ider a 'i 'l su^ncsied there ojipnmt; uf iliploiindic leluii'iiis between ihe ' ivi counn les lie iny* lh .it number* nr* nnugrntinof from OfPj;im ID (\•idde nio. Tlio \mei ir in feetuiu is in iho usrendaot, the climate is salubrious and the soil good. % '\rwmihY'NeWTSkTWuse. * \ - - --• Arrjval of tbe Britannia.' The steamship Britannia arrived a t J?oston from Liverpool\ on Thursilay lost. The dates are frojn Liverpool to tlie>4ih and from L-ondon to, the 84. K _ sfi , She mihle.her passu tje'in 16 dovs, h'ayinir en countered sitopir head wjmls. Sh) hroyjjht from \landed at . o r a copy ofWillmer-cc Smith's Times in.advance of the mail. The news is rather more important in acom- mercial-point of view than that received rjy se veral previous arrivals. The Cotton market was raibcr dull, but not any lower for American descriptions. The shortne/ii of the grain crops both in Great Britain and on the Continent has created a n ex tensive market for AmeVittiiTBread'Sdiff*. The failure of the Potato crop'must leail to (Treat sulTerinir. among the poorer classes, parti cularly in Ireland. The Iron trade wnshrlsk^ The demand for American Provisions was •wr y !lr|ivp, __ There was a better demand for American Wool. sions to foreign ctfunlries— to ra\ise ajmtllion nnd a half on the credit of the Irish Woods and Fo rests—and' to frike^immediately into Iheir consi deration the •Jevyingtof a very'large income tar for the present year/iiy.necessary. The motion win put and^carried. * ' * ^» , The Dublin papers atbte the ciistom^tq.use au^ thonties m that city have been direeted^to m^ke arranjienients for the^ddmiKsion ol' corn, dfijy free..on and after IhpfJst of Novemher.£5 The Kepealers^rffe' boast ins of a.n.ety adKfj-- ent to Repeal;- iri^he person of the eldest soniof the Rail Viscount Gorl, Hun. Henry Pehdergast Vereker. The \ Times Commissioner\ continues his re ports from the west of Ireland. He paints in forcible colors; the wretchedness of the people, their want of Jniluslrv, and their unwillingness \o expend the least tnooey on the improvement ol the land, however-much it'may repay the outlay. Mr. O'CoimeJI still makes him'l/ie.ubjeci of bitter attacks. THE HOTCHIHSOK FAMILY .—This fiimily were to give iheir hist concert at Dublin on llrtj-tnh, aller wliioh Ihey AVQUM proceed, to Liverpool. The Freeman's Journal, in the course of a very commendatory notice of iheir concerts, says: \TJo man can'listen to Ihe Iitrtc1fllfsW\Fii1Wry\ without feeling that America, Yankee America, The Railwov fever has led t o a serious revul- '\i* 0 national music, and none without delighted- sinn both in England and France. ,v acknowledging>lhat «' th e family\ are happy There is much excitement \in reffard to the *te>r illustration of the harmony of Nejv Enj :4 Girn Laws.'aml those who peek their abolition 'land. O n Saturday evening, a very respectable T derive much -advantage fiom the scarcity of , auditory assembled in the Pillar Room of the Ro \Bread SfiilTs.—: — —tLnmrfa, nt >i»e nf ih>f, rn\r\ral eniprlainnients of Rumor has tnlkpd'a*uthoritalively of an inlen- ' ' '' J lion on ihe part of Ministers to open the ports nf the kingdom fur the admission o f fore ign Grain; nnd,' it has even gone <io. fur an t o state the du- lies resolvedppon, vi^: 4«»perquarterfi>r Wheat: 2s. for Oats, &c. The'rumor lacks confirmation. ENGLAND. Hitherto, the ryele of the seasons has be friended Sir Robert' Peel. Four good harvests in succession have filled his .exchequer—filled the stomachs of the Iie«es—made Ihe nation fprosi pprons—the people contented. Alas! the scene is changed—the evil day ha s come upon\ him, and has found hurt impicpared t o fijge it.Fa- niine—jrnunt. horrible, destroyint; f innne—seems impeiidintr. Fears have seized'ihe public mind. In Ireland mnttrrs look nppflllinjr—in Enslantl fflonmy. The pr.innries o f the continent are ex hausted. The cornfields of the Vis'ul.i, the Da- niihe, and the Elbe, \are barely puflicJent for Ihe lopal wants of the inhnhitsnts. The nation 1* in iitiiiiuilhin ; wiitl the ny of by^their oalh ^f^oflice to flll<liie^v.pcan$y.oror casioned by his resignation, they proceeded to an election, and Mr. BEBRIBN , after being-no minated by acclamation by the Whig Mem- 'bers o f tho Legislature as their candidate, re.cpiv.ed.the unanimous Whig vote to fill the yac,ahc.y;oc6asiooed by his own • resignation, and was elected accordingly. JVlr. Berrien, therefore, we are hnppy to say, 'continues i n the Senutd until the 4th day of IVJarch, 1847. Th e Late Outrage in Greene. From the .Oxford.Time*, Nov.-19. Ft /nTHKit A STou.vmxo DEVELOPMENTS John let in corn, duty free '\ in heard on all side\ rp- verhpratnWmm ererv r-nrt <»f -the -empitfl. The \ pressure from without\ has made itself beard in, D'i'vninjr-sireet; and f,i«lh in Ihe sliiling-scale —Peel's Kliilmc-scale—ig jrone for ever. A tlord o r t /ie potato crop in Ire/nnd t* destroyed. The Government hns sent scientific profiissors to the scene of ihe mischief, jind the awful truth is out that this larirp pnninn of the people'* fiiod— the purulent 'tint Cohbelt abhorred—is-unfit for . II*I>. What is in be dnnp in this terrible. thi» l ^mtnntoUfaCTm ^prtitcfc^s^fl.pe.n^l iiB-rmri<.X\ is the p^rlnmaiion : nnd there stands the\ shivpritiff Premier lite n reed in the wind, paralyzed be tween nfleriinn for his slidm;; srale and the hor rors of puM.r fiimine. There he is, halnnrinff \hopm* nnd rows.' Rut npre*sity^jg silpprior lo ronsinipnrv. superior pvpn to law. THE PORTS MOST ae OPESKO! tTConnell who assurhpg to hp ihp Irihune oflhp Irish people, noes bevond lliis. He rlrmamls tt jrrant of puWtp money to .Ihe ex tent of n million nnd a half, to tie. expended in Ihe purehasp of fond—hp calls for a tax of fifty per rpnt. on the nligentees, and a tnx nflen per ppnt. nn the 1 resitlents—he a«ks for the protiibi- thosc singers, nnd we have never witnessed any auditory more delighted or more loud in the ex- pression.of their applause:\ FRANCE. ' T/ie enttouncemeat of the resignation o f the brave old veteran Soult appears to be based on truth: A t his advanced-age, repose and retire ment would well befit him, s o that ihe old soldier', like Ihe Roman in the cap'ilo), should be enabled tp adjust his mantle before the c.ltvVing. scene of his eventful career. ' It is now said that although lie will resign ihe post of .Minister of War he will still nominally retain the Presidency of the Council. The French telegraph Iras-been-husily 1 ntrnjjed ID transmitting tol J Wrl» Ihe Btate-npThF ivar in Algeria. Tbe French forces had left Ornn witb 5,000 men l .n quest of Abd-el-Knder; whether they will lake, or overtake him, is ano ther question. He is said in treat his French prisoDfra well-and handsomely—and, in doing so, -. .... he sets an. example, which it would have been lo flpen lUe porl«-nttAi -»Ji»-erPftil nfll. P tl 'rHflcli nmy« l tifi,| ihpy iniltntrd TEXAS AND DUTMION —The Washinijlon Unioiispends n cu 'intin of editorial upon ihr people of ihe -KaM, wli» ar c protesting ugaius' the annexation of Tex 1* n> a slave State ;<md nfinr pnninn^ nut riiM \ Stales lli.il ifivp slavery, while they nre continually giving their influence in favor of those who are pledged to increase its domains Brother Bailey Tcceiv »s our paper weekly, and if he will look at the number daiod Oct. 22, he will there find \ the Appeal entire.\ We believe a majority of the Whig papers of the State have published it. Brother Bailey could not find room for it until the week before election, ycbcn-it was loo late, for his readers to reflect upon the ^ratfyaZ scheme presented by Cassius M. day; and nowne affects great sympathy for Casstus, when a year ago, for the.advocacy of the same doctrines, be was denounced by this pink of purihj, as d hypocrite. Then, Cassius M. Clay was endeavoring to convince the people that the election of^thfr Whig eandtdates-would-pre-- vent the Annexation of Texas. Then, Br. Bailey, Birncy and Smith declared that An nexation was not an issue. Now, Cnsstug MClav advocates GRADUAL, CONSTI- TUTJO.VAL Emancipation, and declares that he is still a Whiff. JSow, r Br. Bailey & Co. nre \loud-mouthed\ in favor of immediate emancipation, and declare that Texas is not yet annexed, and may be prevented by peti tioning the very men, whom they helped elect, who were pledged 10 the doclrinc of immediate annexation. Hypocrisy is too mild a term tq applv to such inconsistent \brawlers.\-^ SO\ The merchants of our village hnve con c'uded hereafter lo close Iheir stores at 8 o'clock, P. M.—Thi-i arnnigtment will 1 . the Clerks n men Ihe exerrise of its' in(j' THI CHURCH or SCOTLAWO DEPOT*TIO» TO AMERICA —The mpmVro of this deputation, e »n- sisiinfj of Rev. Dr. M'Lend of Morven. Rev Dr. Simpson of Kirknewtnn, and Re v Norman M*- L»nd of Dn'kri'h, nrriverf nl Liverpool on th e S7th ult. In- the Cimhria, fipm Ha'ifax. On Iheir arrival t» nig aseer'nincd, several members- •of Session, from the Senieh Chiirehes of Ohlham sirrel and Rodney. Rtreet wniied on the Rev . cenTlemen, at the Ansel Hotel Inn, In testify their respect fur them personally, and to con- ur.itiilate them on iheir safe return.\ IMPORTANT COMMERCAL ruTBrjacENCE.—We have jini received a communiention from nn es - teemed, correspondent nl Caelsruhe. on whose means or inilirmatinn we can plnce\ every rev linnce. Tie announces the most trratifvinp iiitelli^ •renee tha- the Zollvprein Tariff\Is nt length fin ished, amljull sperddv he tnadejiuhlie„ THE CORH LAWS The mero .lw»rs o f Ihe Anti- Cirn Law L»ai »ue, resident in Manchester and its neighborhood, held a specinlaeneral meetinc in the Free Trade Hall of that lown on the 23th tilt. 'JTie whole arm of the buildine was densely crowded, nnd so preat was Ihe anxiety felt b y all classes of the peopte to he present a t the pr o ccedintrs, that many ladles and/rentlemen wh o attended were utterly unable to find silting ac -J coinmndation. < IRELAND- • The accounts from ihe Sister Island for some days past, as regards the potntoe crop, are o f a very serious and alarmine character. Thelfliliire is'dreadful in the extreme, and th e prospects be fore the ffrent majority of the lower rlaeses truly horrifyinjr. The authorities a t Dublin Cas'tle^seem inhale. nlfW'.lwWlPii utluiliiiill ru llir mn ueh —Commisaiuncrs. have been emplined 10 I yj H1 t the, different provinces, and to report lp his towards his countrymen DENMARK.. CoPERjuGEif— THE POTATOC CROP in DEK >UTIK.—We have accounts from Copenhagen of the 3d of Oct. which state that Ihe disease in ihe pntatoes is spreading more and more in Den mark, as jn Funcn, Lolland, Fnlster, and like wise Senlnnd, espicially in Amak, near Copen- liBjren. It ha s likewise* appeared in tbe Duehy. It is slated lhat the disease is heginmnt; to show nself HI Sweden, and it it is fta'cd that the dis e4Se may upreacj wider. 1 - _ : LosDOM COR* MunjiET.— Nov. 3.—The supply, of Wheat this morning from Essex, Kent and Suffolk wa s preliy irooil ; little business, was. however, transacted, in consequence of ihe uncertainty a s to what steps government will I a he respecting th e 1 /<>rn laws. Ttle\\ sales etreeled were a t a decline^ of 1*. per quarter; tion'iled w*s held ul previous rates, but did noi meet a husk inquiry. Miliiog liar ley is Is. lower, while grinding insintains its value. Deans and Peas find a ready sale, at firmly quoted rates. Flour meets a dull, heavy sale. Cana- jtia«_h.irre)a Jir f .Dappc^ ,,f a [ gfi^. til 38^-, ailjj American, in bond, Sis. to S3. LivtnrooL Conw MARKET—Oct. 31.—The duly on Foreiirn Wheal is reduced tins week to 1C»., lhat on OfftS to 5s. , on Pens in Is. b'd. per quarter, and on Foreign Flour to 9s. 7id. per hurrel. Since uur report of Tn'-sduy list we have received h fair supply of Wheat from Ire land, but of other produce thence the arrivals Bre very unimportant, those eoislwise being ex tremely light; and the imports from abroad, fresh in for in-day, ar e chiefly confined lo nlioul 2,000 quarters Wheat from the Balfic and Medit erranean, with 12 253 barrels of Flour from ihe United States and Canada. Under the txprcta- tion of Ministerial interference, by means of a n early abolition or. abatement of-duties, Ihe Girn trade generally within this day.w two has -been in a state nf uncertainty,\ the'holders i of! Irqe- Wheat desiring, though not manifesting,undue: nnxiely, to sell-? yihdeihn.se. nf bonded have been fully alive to the probability of n further improve ment in ihe Value of their stocksi Beyond a floating cargo o r two, littlp has, however, bepn done since Tuesday, whether in free or bonded' produce generally no alteration in prices was nb- servable. Being still irrsuspense-as to the exact measures which Government ma y decide upon relative to the future rate of duties, our market was extremely inanimate, entirely precluding any extensive operations, -and depressing in some de gree tbe value of nearly all free articles of ihe trade. In the few limited sales of Wheal which .took place a decline of 2d. per 701b, was con ceded; ond'sack Flour receded Is. per 280lbs.. whilst Canadian, though equally dull, ronliuiied li>7ie held at late prices. Barley,- Malt, nnd Beans moved off slowly, on barely the terms last noted. Peas and Indian Corn being nearly with out inquiry, were -nominally cheaper. Oais and Oatmeal, participating in the general languor of •llwi .trnitn, ih n Inrn.pr „fT,TP,l On ppy ^fi^ MR\. \BKBRIEN STI&I. SENATOII .—rropor- tionate wi,th the regret wlych we experienced, says the National ^ntelligen'cer, on heoring.| of'the resignation of his s?at i n the Senate\ of the United Slotcs byfMr. BBBJRIEN , the. distinEuished SehatbVfrbfh th .e Stoje bf^Geor- • •. .i i.j i ..'i l ^.i.':'ii M...j;r l n. Lnsi Sunday evening, John JoUnsoiTr 1 ol fireenei wa< arrested by the Sheriff of Broome couniy, upon a warrant charging him with the murder of the wile of Jaui.es. Boulh for- me ,rly of TrianRic, in Broome county, in May, 1844, or of being accessary to hor mujder.— flo was taken to 'Biiighnrtiton, nnd his exnini- nation *Hi cominenced. before Judge Seymour and J^isticeTCattel of that place, on Tuesday, Johnson is one of the rjiobt wealthy, men in Greene Ue is over 60 years of ago, and is estimated to be worth 870,000. Ue has em ployed as his counsel lion John A. Collier ariS Hon. D. S Dickinson, who- are defend ing him on the examination. We nre indebt ed to a gentleman who arrived yesterday from Binghampton,lbr the facts which follow,-and who heard the testimony here given. The first witness sworn wns James Roult of Greene Ue testified th.it h'e movqd upon Tfihn«oTT*rfnfin in TrimjgleT~nT April,' -1844^' that Johnson\ carried his wife from Greene to Triangle when he moved, nod had' left the hou«.e into which he moved before he got there; that he saoo aftprwnrd d^coye'red n change in the appearance ntid conduct of, life wife—lhat she appeared dejpptod and unwell, nnd for thai reason he called Dr. I'ltrpleto «ec\ her;. ihiu nhoiit three weeks after he moved u nmn told him Johnson desired to see him at Gieene; thnt he went find saw him at thnt place one Snturday in the fore pint of May ; thai he told Johnson his wifo said he hud hml rtiiiniiial tntereourio with her. on (he day he carried her to Triangle, and that she sud he put part'of a Buffilo skin in her mouth to pre vent her cries, nnd that she sold he (Johi)-on) told her th:it if sin? ever told of it he would that he held on axe over her head, madt hir •get on. her kneesjaji'thjsjjd 1« was ul'rnid the |.£puldTtell of^tpand ihat'lie was a mind to kill tier o_rtjfthe$jot; that she begged for her life, s thatrlje sn|'d he would destroy her as he had JMrs^DuljjIand burn her up a» she had seen 'ijer Bfthes ^nrn,.jf she told ofJt; thstjf be wus hong he\lind^lepds that would kill her, ;nttd {fhat she k^w^it, ns she ha'd juit seen Villi Iter own o^es; that he then untied her and wertt away. „ Mrs.Burdtck further says she told hei mother ^n^|io^atnrdayvtind-nl»o-on JheiSunday ht- fore her abduction, that she would expose her and Mr. Johnson, and t^at she did not ttll what she knew before she .was carried away. There are a great many rumorf^afloat V'licb we shall not publish ; and whether Mrs. Bur* dick will'swear on the examination substan tially ns in her ntBdavity and.whether she can be cusinined, we do riot know except from hearsay. - •We shall not endorse the foregoing state ment decidedly, but shall leave our readers lo form their own judgement lunon jts truth or falsity. If the investigation developes n dif- ferent state of facts, we shall embrtce the Rnt opportunity, to correct errors nod wrong im- rircssions. The mailer in itsbestaspact now, looks horrid enough in all conscience, Apnr.Vmv nr Mil ITM TsAlXlNriB.—No lle the death of Her, or woiild Tfe<iioy Irer in sonip way, ami that sh e promised Ithn sh e would never tell of it if he would let her go. The witness si itPd that Johnson fir »t re plied he bad done wrong, but lis for itiiflinjr thing marks more certainly, though quietly, the decline of (he war-spirit among the great mass- of our people, than their unwillingness to continue the system of militia drills. It wns retained in Massachusetts by n few war- spirits, until nearly all men of sense became weary and shamed of it; and then the Legis lature, itt 1S39, released from niilitiary drill., all thnt tind been liable to thnt service, and provided u sum of- #10/100 a year to. be dis tributed, at the rata of $5 each, among any number of the old militia, not execedtug 10,- 000, who voluntarily (rained a certain number of times every yenf. SHII ^everrthTs offer lro» not rallied in any year, mnro than 7,000 vol unteers ; nnd the whole number, we believe, isc nstamly diminishing, Maine, iii IS43—4, enlfrely abolished the system? of militia d/ills. repealing ullher laws lhat rpquired that tiselessNprvice, but retain ing the' militia sytPtn. simply by ctiiitinuvd •eiimllmcnt-of-nll-ihat would he-hnundmjuj call to come forth for the support of her lavas, or for the defence of hensotl.^ Vermont, at Iho rprent nesMori of her legis lature, has followed the example of Maine<— * She passed an net repealing all laws'that here tofore required militia drills, and substituted mprelv nn enrollment, as fir jury purposes, pf nil that would, under the old vysleni, have been •itch thing; that he siid spveral limes ' I hnve done \fiinu.' t^ftt he was viffing lo seitle it wit.lt him, and snid that he h id Inudiatid dol lar* n\d cents, and wanted him to name what he would takp to settle it; thai he ( Boulr) re fused to settle with him, nnd that Johnson then TTiWn+r^rtr^hao^Enr^rtfpwyr -o rrd-i fi-lte_w*Mn . to,,wnh..„«,r „e would c.ry h> h^'^n^ution^ty or^rGe^ai ilOOO till T rt.-T-„A U„aa,^f„«-I f„r thest extent, nnd thai he (lloiili) s cliancp if h e went to lu« ; that h e ha d th-s co<ivprsation with Johnson on Sutiirdwv, and the next Munduy moriiing beforo d.iyliglit his vviTe went out nf his ho'.isp>, nod had never been \-pen o r heaid of h-ince ; thnt the most thorough search had been mado for her , nn d o trace o f her c<luld be found ; thnt it wa* bout th e middle o f M,-iy, IS44, »hs disap peared. ' ' A great mony facts nnd circumstances wore worn to by this witness, which w e have no j-ooitl l o mention. Wo have endeavored to give; the substance of his .testimony.. -'Hix cross, examination-hud not heen finished 'when ouri nformntit left -W-e nre infoemfid lhat Rnnlt?H AnijidjTer._| wlm is ab\ut 15 years nf oge, ovprhOard a con- ersanoir between Johnson and her mother a lew days after thoir nwival -nt Ti-ianple,- in which Johnson snid to her iTsbe ever told hor husband of wliat he had donp, be (Johuson) would kill Tier or be the detirli of her. TfTrs. Bnrdick, who wa s taken from tlfp house where she lived in Oroeni*. in Sept. hist, blindfolded, gnpged,and carne.d to a swamp and there lbrn»n into a ditch, [tlip pa< licnla^ of which have heretoforo been published.) wa« so much injured Utat ihe became deranged— but j-he hns now regained her reason, nnd up on her testimony th£ prosecution is mainly (bunded. She has not yel (we suppose} heou sworn o n the exutuinntinn, bu t .<-he made an nfilihivit before the warrant was issued, in which, we are informed, jhc stntea that in GKNERAL BANSING LAW .—The argument of a case which involved the Constitutional ity of the General Bonking Law of this State, was concluded yesterday in (he Court Judge- HOOEBOOM of Columbia, was heard in favor of affirming the decision of the , Supreme Court (declaring the law unconstitutional) and SAMUEL STEVENS and GEOHGB WOOD , for reversing the decision. It is sogctierally understood that we suppose tve roay_be permitted to say, that the decis- 6f the Siipreme' (Jourt willTie reversed, Banking Lnw maintained by the Court for the ('orrectton of Errors.— Albany Journal, Nov. 21. SENATOII TUHHEY AUD Mn. POLK .—The correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot at Washington writes as follows :— ' I am informed by a gentleman from Nashville, opposed to me in politics, that Mr. Turney, the Senator elect of Tennessee-, did denounce President Polk oil over Nashville, previous to and while the election for SeAn- tor was pending—and that thS; deriusVciations were predicated lipdrfthe grottn.d': -that Mr. Turney hud,softie \tithe dgo.'found'm'a-WIng newspaper, in En9t Tennessee, a lcttcr/fam Washington, staling thortlrrPollr had dfe- clared his decided preference for Mr. Nich olson, and that he would Use oil the influence he possessed to secure his election—that Mr. Turney enclosed the statement aforesaid in a letter to Mr. \Polk with a request lo know if there was any authority for it—(tort-Mr. Polk refused to answer Mr. Turney's letter— and that, ergo, Mr. Turney took silence for an affirmative answer and denounced the President accordingly.' \ OHIO AND VIRGINIA .—Tho Cincinnati Her- aid soys: We learn that the Governor of Vir ginia has notified Governor Bar:ley of his refusal to issue a warrant for the/arrest o f the Virginiuns indicted dor abducting the three- citizens of Ohianpw in jail at Pafkers- burgh Executive and litis ulsu made u dt'iimud mi the of this State fot the citizens of beer, admitied into th e Union, with the per mission to hold stavec, the editor snaps his TTriecrs 51 the TOinh\ ii'ii'T SBVST ~~ \ \ ~~ \But neither th e Miiiliii.iiiHts of Vermont nor of M.i<s.icl\isett-. e.io airctu the filed annexation. The deed is done '\' 3o it is, we suppose, and «l ive 'V. that ha\ cursed every Stute wlmrp it h -s exi«led, is to be perpetuated in tli.it State th it IH cursed enough without it. The temper, howexor, wuh which tho • Union,' and tho .Southern people, receivp the c»mpl.nnts of the Northern and Eastern States, ig. worthy of nonce, tor 'marly, when ihe South wished lo blu-ter u hltlo about its cotton bags, it would threaten disunion—a measure it seemed to desire, Cor the sake of slavery, but which it dflred not_flc- eepl for fear of slavea; and winch it coufJ not obtain, lieeause th e East nnd North, and the Middle States go fir th e Union. Now„tf th« North threaten di-unmn, th e South »»ill »Ao u at u s word ; a n amplitude of tenitoiy now injures lo the South the means of extend ing and oxiMing, and all extension is in that direction,and ibus th e North is without reme dy. The Union closes us little paragraph with a qiiotiititin—\ I b e deed i« done \'— ThiU paper will, we iluuk.be able to finish the quotation, ui lively ,.nd interrogatively, before the winter is mn, and add, \ did'st (hou not hear a noise '*— V S. Gazette. little more time for mental and \ physical\im A BANVFTI TowisntP—We hear that the township of Ha T nson. in lUe gnWant tittle rounty of Hudson, on ihn opposilo side of the Passaic, -djd_n^ i i u poll^.,i yotitsry Into (oco vote at Our Into Stata election ' TlTeTtrwn*not n «,ng!e loco foeo ticket in iho ballot box ! Ca n Btiy other !?l.iia in Ihe Union any ns murh 1 When tho. quei-tion of nommg tho township a was before the Leaisl I'ure a few y«rtrn ago.- a loco Cico member of the hniiKfe(G«o- W. Smith, of Wnnen,) propoRerVstriking om tho nsmo of Hari.ison. and inseri Kcd Petticoat. Annthor •pjayenii-tiaU (J@» Flour wns selling in New York, ojj.Satur day last, at §7,25 per barrel. \11 E. W.\ of Harlsville, may send the article along. We shall endeavor to find use for it. tXJ- Flour is now selling nt gG SO, in this vil lage. K7* GrqeJey's Whig Almanac can be ob tained nt the store of J. Williams & Son. Every voter should have one. Price 12 1-2 cents. .03* ^ '3 staled that Senator Huger, of South Carolina, will resign bis seat, and that John Calhoun will be elected to fill the va cancy. C7* Coneress convenes next Wednesday. Look out for a s(ormy session. Should a Speaker be elected on Tuesday, the Presi dents Message may reach us on the day af ter Thanksgiving. tfj~ It is staled that Gov. Wright has com muted the sentence of death against Van Steenbourgh and O'Connor, the anii-rcntcrs, to imprisonment for life. rX7\\A semi-annual meeting of the Madi son CounTy Bible Society, will be held in the village of Cazenovia, on the-last Tuesday in January next, at ten o'clock, A: M. (C?* Who was it that said we sjionld have a fvrjS fat Turkey for Thanksgiving ? below the current rates nf Tuesday. 'Noiwilh- .»,„«-«., - i j/. , alnndingilbe depression in the free market, bond clccilcticy the 'reViilt of ih-eir eTtrirhTmino^ August last she overlienrd a conversation bo- tween Johnson and her mother, (the widow 05*\ At the recent term of the Supreme Court held at Rochester,' KirnAttp THOMAS, Esq , of this village, late of Ohi i, on the pre sentation Of certificates of six years' practice in the State of Ohio, together with aJetterQf Ji%esudges - recommendation from th o J of th e member (JudgoSnndeiBon. uf EUzahethtown \ ; Supreme Court of thnt State, and also cer promptly called for tlio ye»t» and nnvn, when\ tificates of three-and-a-half years' study of the sneaking motion waV a s promptly \wuVi \ the law in this State, previous to goto\ West, to the present lime these reports are of ihe most discouraging character. With a ppople BO steep ed in poverty as the_lrish are, nnd.disrnntented with 1 ihe powers lhat be,'. it is frightful lo con template Ihe consequences of scarcity. The nu [.memus railways Kkely to be in progress of for mation next Summer, and during the course qf the prestnt winter, will, no doubt, materially as- »ist to alleviate much of the suffering that would otherwise ensue. The agitation for Rejical is still carried on. Since the sailing of the last, American steamer a number of monster meetings am! repeal bnnqoets have taken place, at all of which' the Liberator figured as cornmander-in-chief. A grand ban quet bbs bren irir.cn 10 Mr. Smith O'Brien, at Rathkale. Mr . O'Connell wn« present' n s fl guest, and warmly eulogised the member for' Limerick. WejjbServe that (be mount tribute lit Mr . O'Concicll will be collected, according to custom, early m the present month. The Orange party have issued sn sdiliess to the Protestants of ihe British Empire, jn which they complain of Government for perrnanenily endowing Maynooth, maintaining th e prcA'cnl national jiystem of education, and not ndvivncrrfg money to enafile the clergy of the EitabKiificd Cliurch to suppa.irt their ow n reboots These' form the chief grievances. There are other minor jjnes-'some of them nnlinpalrd :or ex pected; Tlie'.address wnc4udes-jbyHcaJlmgtUfl ()n the Protestant party t o ex'ert every enprgy in sej- cure to. jheir utmost a ftitfiful represcn'wtjon of their principles,in Parliament. - The meetings nt Conrihntinn Hall nre still carried on, and Rpceches delivered in iidvocacy of Repeal; wh >l «t the viirions steps laken by lire\ ministry in Gonduetlng the nHairs of lh<5.jrovern- meut arc severely crilioised, and- generally con temned. The amount of i ent has not liven KO large for the last two weeks. At 'the meeting held un tbe 27ll. nil. ihe Liberator having re turned from his Provincial cxrnrjirijii, was pre sent, and made theimecch nf the day. ffhe Dublin Corpnrairon held a* meeting on somewhat higher prices, at which, however, no sales o f moment transpired. from the Liverpool Timet, Nor. 4. PROVISIONS,—The American Provision trade presents no very striking^feature. OfBeef there is nnly a limited quantity in the market, anil hnlders appear anxious lo dispose of the stock on hand before the arrival of the new. Pork is dull, not- withstanding the srhnlt snpj^y in the hands of the trade; the result is mainly attributable to the unhappy stale of matters in Ireland, where the farmers have been compelled to force their storks to a sale. There has been some Cheese brought In li&btimmer ata public sule.-Jim-only one half of the .quaulily offered found purchasers, nnd (hat at 9 red tret ion o f 3*. percivl. The marfiSl is hare o f Lard, and the price is high, owing to the stale of the Bu(termarket.,-^The Wool of the United States continues fo find purchasers, nnd this branch of irade is-improving; indeed, there appean to he no-bounds lo the consumption of an article which never, vintil recently, formed ao article of exportation from America. Baxter of-^reene r )'4w=»w4ii «?li-Jiihiison -s8id \io-U>hio-indicte =lhe grand jury.'o; drawn I The recent vote above referred to is ao instructive commentary upon the indecency locofecoifm— Nttoarlc Daily Adetrtiaer ' wns, etamined and regularly ^admitted to practice aean Attorney atLaw v i n this State APFSCTI.NO INCIDENT.—A little girl, th e only and well beloved child o f her parents who ar e residents of Brooklyn, Long 1-land died a. few weeks More, and, was interred in the private fumily biuying ground. A largo Nevsfoundluiid dog,~ the private comp-.inimi nnd playmate o f the child, iia« frequently miss, ingjroiu Ihe bouse after th e funeral. When seen, he wan observed' to b e crest fallen and dioopiog. he refu-ied his food, moped and Just flpMi day by day. Thesei itruiiislsinces ex< i ted I'ujiosityj.the animal wn< wnti hed and fol lowed in hisMpnli /iy exclusions, and it allpugtl appeared that hfi went daily ^o the grave o Ins former frien'd an d playmate, deposited at eiiclrvitit, some of ihe child's p'layihiiigsih- mined secretly from the house, on tlie grassy t ..._ _ t . . mound thai covered her remains, in ihe vain be 29th ult. for considering ihe. best means of | hope ofalluring he r to his side again, and then avoiding the danger impending ih e extensive failure of the potato crop. Mr. O'Connrll at - lenucd, who, after a Ituig speech, moved ihnt a, deputation should wmt upon his Exrellei'ev th e Lord Lieutenant, njid ca I mi bis Lox'> i and the Government to stop the disti lenea ai.-l the I a,,re °' \h 'C»> w '>'>'«l \ brewencs—to prevent the exportation of provi- monrner his cxiiiencc. lay down, and passed hour after hour moaning and whining piteously Hi s master <>a obliged finally t o chain up the nn mal, in pn nn end TnTi 'Otierlntii ho'v vigil*, the conimn ve cost tho faithful Mrs. Baxter, if Im could get rid of Mrs. John ••on, he would marry'lrer—that if he could dis pose of her as easy as he did of Mrs. Doiilt, be would do it—that he knew a couple of fel lows below Bingliamlon, lie thought he could get to do it—that they disposed of Mrs. Bou|t, That she [Mrs. Burdick] heard this con versatiqn while stnndin] the house iu Greene, where her mother lived that the cut tains weio drawn over the window lo the house at this time; that both -outside doors were fastened ; that she readied her hjind insWrrand unbu»oned r jaup door and went into the house; that Jonusqn then asked her if sho'heiird what lie had said; thai she iin <werp.d.y<;s; that Johnson told her if she over told of it he would Ml Iter, <>r he the means of her death j nnd that she then prom ised him she would tint tell of-it. [It is sup po«.ed (hat Mrs. B.ixter will positively contra, iliit (his story on oath ] Wje are tuld-thut Mr». Butdick says-obotit three week? after this conversation, Johnson, Came to her motliei's house uhen she was alone, nnd inquired for her mother, that she told him her mot her hud not got home from Norwich; 'thaihesuid whnt fhall I do? that siie~a>ked Wm tf'liqTiad ony work for her to do—any sewing'? that lid >uid|in, hut busmes- of more impoi'iance, niid said she [Mrs. Bur tlickj must do tt tor him, that she then at tempted to t'sci-)ie f thai Johnson theu seiz'd an axe and said he would hill her if sho left (he room % that before he [Johnson] left he led her into the ki'cben, tied her bauds behind her with a clothes hue, nnd tied her to a bed post, tied a bonnet over her lace, nod then went out doors and came hack with n flour bai/, partly filled—that he then took the bonnet from her fare, uniied her hands, tied the cord round her waist long enough so she Could go to the fire; while tied to the bed-r*o<(; that he 'bpn look a quantity of 'hum-in bones out ol ihe bag, among which was the be^d bonps and • •tliers; lhat he toW hot ihey wero Mrs ({null's 'hones, mfd said she must burn thorn ; that she fainted 5 that Johnson then burnt the bone*— coun 'ty, for co-operating with Garner and his companions in aiding Horwood's slaves fb es cape. PaoTlfCTION AGAINBT PlOKPOCKKTS. —Mr.' Joseph Colion, n tailor of this lown, lias in vented an.ingenious, and in the opinion of gentlemen r.,rnpr}lflnt 10 ji 'dgn, «n efecttial protection against (tint species of thieving so common nt the present day,-b'y which one'.* money or oilier -valuables is abstracted from the pocket. It consists of two curved plates united by hinges nl the extremities, and which by means of holes in the plates, are 1 sewed to rite lid of (be pocket, constituting iti-o|iening. While the plates are,being shut, n slide to which a spring is attached, is forced Op; wliifth immediately resumes iu plar.e-as-thoy close-- and fasten\ ihenC-fbTjeiher.' Not only i» the pocket fastened by the slide, whenever it i» inoveuf t o unlock the pocke|,»ndihe use of'j>6th hands is nercswiry to dnjt. The pocket is. also surrounded with net work of wire, 10 l(iat wltaiover is contained in it can neither be taken Out or cut without the knowle'dge'pnd couspnt of th e owner. The inventto'n JS HP- plicnblo .bbth-t'o- watch\ pockets and olheri.— Amherst Journal. SAVINGS BANKS .—There is.at (his (iroeon deposit in the different SaSings-Bunlcs in tho city of New York, the enormous sum of S7,- 670,000, to wit: in the Chambers street Bank, 34,300,000; Bowery, S 1,800,000; Greenwich, S 470,000; Seamen's, $1,100,- 000. HEISS WANTED.—A Mr. Bradley Pease died some months since in Louisiana, leav ing about 34,000, Tor which (here is no claimant. He is said to have been from Ver mont, nnd hns a sister ltvi'ng near Lake Ch_amplnin. Jf the heirs don't jfet the mon ey the State will. .••~~^ u ,
