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' , ,<•■ * i “go we hear, that j b e Thompsonville Carpet : Factory has reduced the wages of its wea?er« on ihe first passage of the bill, 25 per cent, but now it leaks out that they were intending to do it, to enable them to compete with the improved ma chinery of Lowell* and Saxonville. So it was ‘home competition* after- a lH h a t reduced wages. * W e would humbiy ask the Editor o f the Lour* elj Courier, if that home competition is not about ns ‘heartless/ as the F ree Trade of the Chron Qfype?” ‘ *- * • ' . • • - % 'Hilts New Hampshire Patriot states, that vlhe manufacture of'carpets in New England, J - tintiI within a very short time, has been carried ob the ‘band loom,’ so called —r ? R ecent 1 y,‘jt fie^po wer foonr,’ *has. beeii invented, whi?h saves a- vast amount of labor, and is in troduced -into* tbe new .establishments. .As a matter of course, tbe, old mills, retaining, the . hand loom, are unable to compete with the new ones, unless the proprietors of the former reduce the wages of-their operatives. This, it is said, jtis j t h e case with the Thompsonville Carpet Fac- ~tory in Connecticut, which recently reduced the * ” wages of the operatives, and has subsequently been compelled to raise them to the old price, in consequence of the workmen refusing to submit to a reduction. Other cases, similar in tfSei character, will doubtless occur, and the whole will, of course, be attributed by the W h ig High * T a riff prints, as the result of the passage of the New Tariff Bill. T h e Manchester Democrat further illustrates the method by which the owners of cotton mills manage to reduce wages, on the pretence o fjije want of a .‘Protective. Tariff,’ and keep them so alter such a Tariff is laid, as follows: “At the time of the reduction prior to 1842, the speed of the mills was about 130 throws of the shuttle per minute; the most of the girls had two or three looms, and weaving 18 cuts of 30 yards per week, af 16 cents per cut— making for a week’s work $2,88. The speed was then .put down to 112 per minute,^each girl required to tend three looms instead of tw o ,a t 11 and 12 cents per c u t; the spectf reduced, a loom added, and the pay cut down one qtarter. This is a , Reduction with a vengeance ! But by this ar- latrgeroent, the company were enabled to dis* . charge, say, one third of their operatives. The thing operated ?o a c h a rm ; all the necessary panic among the operatives and their friends was produced, and the company was in a position to try a grand experiment— one like that ol the Egyptians of old, when wiih the same amount of straw, they increased the tale of brick. The girls were mostly working three looms apiece, and the speed of the mill was increased by little and little, till at such a point the girls by over. 4 exenionr can produce, 25 cuts of cloth per week fe— being eight-cuts' rnore than they produced be fore the'YeductiOn ; wbrch at . l l O . cents per cut makes the week’s labor a m o u n t!* $ 2 ,99— the whole eleven cents more per week than be- before. the reduction) And.this, too, with a mighty over draft upon the constitution pf tbe operative.” • T a k in g a H i n t . — It is very surprising to ■* see how slow men are to take a hint. The frost destrovsiabout one-half the bloom on fruit trees; every body prognosticates tbe loss of fruit; instead of that, the h a l f that remain are larger' fairer, and higher flavored than usual; and the (reds instead of being exhausted, are ready for another crop the next year. W h y don’t the owner take the bint, and thimout his fruit every ’bearing* year t But no, the next season sees his orchard overloaded, fruit small, and not well formed ; yet be always boasts of the first men tioned crop, without profiting by the lesson it teaches? ■ W e heard a man saying, “the best crop of celery I ever saw, was raised by old John , on a spot of ground where the wash from tbe barn yard ran into it after every hard shower.\ Did he take the hint, and apply liquid manure to his celery trenches % Not at a l l W e knew a case where a farmer subsoiled a field, andpfcised crops in consequence, which were the admiration of the whole neighborhood; *and for years the field showed the advantage of . deep handling. ' But we cotild not- learn that a single farmer in the neighborhood took the hint. T h e man who acted thu3 wisely, sold his farm, and his successor pursued the old way of surface searching. . A staunch farmer complained to Us of his soil a3 top loose and light; we mentioned ashes as worth trying; “W ell, now you mentioned it. I beliqye it will do good. I bought a port of my farm from a man who. was a. wonderful fel low to‘save up ashes* and around his cabin it lay in heaps. I took away the house, and to this day I notice that when the plough runs along that spot, the ground turns up mois( and close- “ grained.' ... -L. Ac.*. 'A farmer gets a spfchdid crop of corn or oth er grain from off a grass or clover ley. Does he take the hint? D o e s.he adopt the system which shall allow him every year a sward to put his grain bn ? No, he hates book farming add scientific farming, and “this notion of rota tion,” and plods on the old way. » — - — - i . — A nother W ar m I llin o is .— W e copy (he following from the Paducah Kentuckian of the 7th inst. A new war has been in progress some weeks in the vicinity of this place on the Illinois shore, bet&een a band of horse thieves and counterfeit ers, and the citizens of Massae and the adjoining .counties, who have as we stated some weeks -since, bepn driven, as they conceive, to the necessftytof taking the law into their own hands, in some measure for the purpose of ridding the community of a set of confederated villains.— From confessions made by members ofthe gang, there is no doubt about there having been a most extensive and well concerted system of rascality practiced in that portion of Illinois for m a n e a r s past. A few days ago, suspected persons were arrested, and confessions made by them, which have produced a great excitement and seem likely to lead to violence end bloodshed. * T h e counterfeiting parly raised a pretty strong force and seized'upon two members of tbe com pany of regulators, and Ivere proceeding to take others when they became alfrm ed by tbs overwhelming numbers ol tbe regulating party, and they released the prisoners they bad taken. They then made, a treaty with tbe regulatory in which they stipnfated that several amoog the most prominent pf the counterfeiters should ouuii «wu» iv v iw i ihi a iio mot u«iut>u «»»« be employed for twenty years in thejmines, n shall be coloriists for the-rest of their day*. The leave the country forthwith, and all tbe remain ing members of tbe brew should also take, up tfieir. line of march in a very short time— so soon as they -can adjust tbeir business and get ready to move. If this arrangement is carried out, and there is bo doubt that it will be—that section of Illinois will be relieved from a sore grievances W e are glad to learn as yet no lives have been lost, although the whole country is aroused, and some scenes of violence have occurred, calculated to excite the people, and lead to the shedding of blood. a FOREIGN ITEMS. T h e following is an extract of a letter from W arsaw, of the 27th of August: “Yesterday the W arsaw Courier published a new ukase from the Emperor, which states that all persons condemned to hard labor for life in the kingdom of Poland, and even all those condemned to hard labor and imprisonment for stated periods, iftheir punishment has yet five years to run, shall be sent to Siberia. T h e first named shall and day*!. T others shall be employed in mines or at fonifi. cations for the half of the time which their pun ishment* would have, lasted in Poland, but they are also to remain for the rest of their fives in Siberia, M. Mauguin, a w e ll-^ow n pertonage in this country, hasundertakenaaproceedtothe United States to sustain the pretensions of the family of the late Girard to some part of the vast fortune which he so generously bestowed upon his adopted' country ,»o the exclusion of bis own relatives. - • - . ' . . ; ,* Recent letters, from the coast of Africa, men tion the seizure of a,vessel wiih 260 slaves destined for Brazil, and state that there is^ every prospect that jn time, by the combined co oper ations of the English aod French squadron, the slave trade will be entirely put down. Accounts from Smyrna state, that no less than ten pirating vessels are cruising uiotig tbe coast of Asia Minor. The scarcity of apples and other fruits in England this year will, we expect, afford to the American cultivator ot apples an opportunity of exporting that article to this country to some advantage.' A large ship, named the James ScoJt, has been lying in the basin of Antwerp for eighteen years, in consequence ofa law suit between the owners and their creditors. An accident oc curred a few days since, which will, perhaps, put an end to tlm long law suit. The James •Scott, which was moored in the great basin, suddenly sunk. te T h e W o r l d ’s T e m p e r a n c e C o n v e n t i o n — T h is body has continued its s e t t i n g s dailv since our last publication (Aug. 19th.) A m o n g the speakers were the Rev. Joshua Hirncs (U S ) and the Rev. H. Osborne, Rhode i s l a n d , whose speeches have been remarkable f o r p p r - senerance, eloquence, and a bold determination to grapple with the sin of drunkenness. T o l e r a t io n in T u r k e y . — Religious tol eration seems to be the reigning impulse ab:o id. The Constilutionnel announces that tbe Tun Irish Government had granted the Trappists an ex tent of ground, near Tophna, a small village in the n e i g h b o r h o o d o f C o n s t a n t i n o p l e , to establish model farm. Tw o monks of La Trappe had already repaired to the spot to make the neces s a r y arrangements for the foundation o f that new establishment. T h e M i n e r a l R i c h e s o f t h e I s t h m u s o f panama. — At the present moment, »\ h e n either the cutting of a canal through the Am er ican Isthmus, or the making a laiTway, or both, are oigh to be accomplished, a report of the mineral riches of that locality has been widely •circulateddlfcthe French Periodicals. It is said that a distinguished French engineer, on sur veying the isthmus^ has discovered goid in the sand of the sea shore, to the amount of five millions of francs. S t a t i s t i c s o f t h e P o t a t o D i s e a s e — A writer in the Globe estffnates the value of the poiato crop of the United Kingdom at £23, 500,0.00, and sets down the loss to Ireland, in consptfuence of last year’s failure at £10,000 000. T h * Cork Reporter calculates that out of 130.- 888 acres planted with prtatoes in that country, 100 666 are already blighted ar.d destroyed — N o meanj exist of testing the accuracy' of tihese calculations, which are much higher than our THE BINGHAMTON C0UBIEB. _________ J - R . ORTON, Editor. T WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1846; D e m o c r a t i c C o u n t y N o m i n a t i n g C o n v e n t i o n . The Delegates from the several towns in the Coun'y of Broome are requested to rteet in? Con vention at the Phenix Hotel in Binghan,tonxm Thursday the 8th day of October neit, at 1 PrM lor the purpose of making County Nominations to be supported at the approaching Election. The several towns are requested to hold primary meet ings and choose their Delegates. Sept. 23, 1846' J. R. D I C K I N S O N ,# B. N. LOOMIS, . Central R. S. BARTLETT, j-Corresponding N. S. DAVIS, ’ [ Comrnlftee. A. BIRDSALL. Senatorial Convention, A Convention of Democratic Delegates from tbe Senatorial Counties comprising the Sixth District, corresponding with the number o f members, o f As sembly to which each county is entitled, wili be held at the- ClintoD House in Bath, on Thun»day, the 8,h day of October next, at 12 o’clock, Ml, for the purpose of nominating a suitable candidate for the-office of Senator, and to transact such other bur siness as may be presented. Dated Sept. 2, -1846:. BEN. P. ANGELL, \ , -I f RANSOM LLOYD, \ Sec ** ow n ; but the mere fact of such ■o' enormous esti of mates being made is sufficiently expressive the gravity ofthe question.-—[Daily News. T e s t im o n ia ls. — Testimonials are the order of the day. That lo Cobden proceeds apace, bnt there will be great difficulty in getting it up to the maximum of £100,000. At present i' scarcely exceeds £70,000, an enormous sum, undoubtedly, but, when considered rts the con tribufion o f a nation, not more than the services of the man and his vast popularity might be supposed to command. M ore R juin I— T h e editor of that sprightly little sheet, the Providence Sentinel, gives us an other evidence of the deplorable “effects” of the new T a riff act. H e ar him— “The new Tariff law is death on the huckleberry trade. An. old lady with a whole load of the article, got as far as-Olnevsville towards our city on Thursday morning, when she happened, to see three or four meu with their heads together talkingabout something. She rode up to themrand enquired what was. the news. ‘T h e T a riff bill has pass ed,’ said one of them. “T h e Tariff passed! Lord o’ massyP said the old lady, ‘then I might as'Well go home with my huckleberries!’ And turning her„horse homeward, she rode sorrowfully off: muttering- occasional curses against the Tariff and ibe lo- cofocos,and wondering what in tfia world would become o f ber huckleberries ” —[Keystone. Eaton, who so^lately -finished the feat of walk ing 1000 miles in 1000 successive hours, is a practised pedestrian. In December 1815, he walked oo Blackheatb Com m on,! LOO mib*— a mile in every hour. In July, 1816, 1400 miles, commencing each mile within twenty minutes after each hour. In December, 1816. on Brixlon Causeway, 1933 half miles in 1935 successive half hdurs. In June, 1817, on Wormwood Scrubs, -2000 miles in forty-two day s. In September, 1817, from Colchester, to London in one day* and returning to Colches ter the next, being- 51 miles daily, for twenty successive days. Eaton intends visiting N e w Y o rk, and has engaged to walk 1000 quarters of a mile irt 1000 successive quarters of'an hour. He is now in the 75th year of his age. E r i e R a i l r o a d . — T h e Middietown News of the 11th says that the contractors to the New Y o rk and E r ie Railroad between that place and Otisville, are making the most vigorous e x er tions to have lhabjmrtion of tbe road complete by the 1st o f November, it being a farther ex tension of abbot nine miles from- its present ter minus. - Tb|j[h*Vd about 500 men actively-em ployed, and Qtrloflitttf tbe sections, wheie tbeir operations are e«#fihed by excavations o r em bankments to a ijtoked number of - workmen, they have twosetsof hands, one of which works through the,day. and the other ail night A large nuraberof workmen; a re also employed in faying down the supentrueiure and tbe iron as fast as ths grading is eompieted,- Deuiocratic Congressional Convention : A Congressional Convention will J)e held on- Thursday the 1st day o f October next at 12 o’clock; M. at the “Broome County House,n kep* by J. Oivutt, in the village of Binghamton; for tbv purpose o f nominating a suitable persoM to be supported at the ensuSiia election,by. the Democracy of thei-SBd-voti- gressiohal district of this' State; composed'bf the counties of Chenango; Broome, and Tioga, ^ r e p resent the said district- in the ,30th Congress of the United States: and for the transaction of such oth er busin-sss as shall be necessary. Each, county will be represented in said conven tion according to the following resolution, adopted by the last convention, held at Binghamton Octo ber 3, 1844. “ Fesolvcd, That in the next convention, each county shall be entitled to one delegate lor every six thousand inhabitants, according to the next State census; and that a fraction of one half ofsaid num ber shall be entitled to one additional delegate.”— Dated August 26,1846. O. T. BUNDY, Ch’n of last Conv. Jn.’p.^y.NEs, { Sec’ys of last Conv. T o w n o f C h e n a n g o . The Democrats o f the Town of Chenango are re quested to meet at the Phenix Hotel in the village of Binghamton on Saturday the 3d day of October next, at 1 o’clock P. M., for the purpose of choosing Delegates to represent said Town in County Con vention the ensuing vear. Sept. 30, 1846. J.R. DICKINSON, ) E. D. ROBINSON, > Town Committee. JOS. CONGDON, \ £ e 3 * T I ic Democratic State Convention for the nomination of Governor, &c , is to be held at Syra- cose on Thursday of this week. The Democratic Congressional Convention of this District, for the nomination of Member of Congress, is to be held at Orcult’s Tavern, in this village, on thesame day. SCj'The Democrats of this Town, il will be aeon, arc to meet at the Phenix Hotel next Saturday, to c h o o s e D e l e g a t e s . IHfr* The D e m o c r a t i c C o u n t y C o n v e n t i o n , fo r th o nomination of Sheriff, County Clerk, Member o f As sembly and CSroner!», is to be held in this village on T h u r s d a y o f n e x t w e e k . Mexican Affairs., Our governmeni, it is understood, have reccivcd\ despatches front Mexico, and some sort of a reply to our peace proposition. What thal reply is, is as yet unknown; though it is believed to be. unXAyorable, Mexico, it is laid, requiring the wilhdrawa^of our armies and navies before the negotiation is entered upon. The proposal of Great Britain to mediate, it is also said, has been submitted to our government, and been most respectfully declined. A Cabinet council was h£ld on tho 23d at which, it is said, it was determined that the war should be prosecuted with increased vigor. Tlie reasons for refusing British mediation arc said to be, that lo accept, would acknowledge the princi ple of European interference in the affairs of this country, wilh which wc have been at various periods threatened, and more especially of late by M. Guizot: tliat the President in a message to Congress, declared his policy on this subject, and rebuked any European interference in our. concerns whatever ; that, as re gards England, it would lav the foundation according to her own practice,of an armed intervention in case of any dispute or misunderstanding upon the subjects of mediation or the construction of a treaty founded upon it, and that in the present ease, mediation is unnecessary, inasmuch as the Mexican government ia in possession of the terms upon which the United Stales are disposed to niake peace. The reply of tho Mexican government was instant ly given, and despatched to Vera Cruz ; where il was delivered to Coin. Connor under a flag of truce. The Coin at once despatched tl]e Princeton to Mobile, with Lieut. Parviance as bearer of despatches, who came on at o D c e to Washington. The Union denies that the reply of Mexico is a refusal to treat. The Princeton brought the following additional items of news. A new Ministry has been formed in Mexico. Al* monte is Secretary of War, and Rejon of Foreign Affairs. Santa Anna’s^, administration has begun auspiciously. f‘ Santa Anna himself ia at his country teal, near Jalapa. It was expected that he would go the Cap ital in a day or two. Mexico was making no preparation to carry on the war. ’ Some time since a brigade was formed and equipped complete, to march against .Gen. Taylor, but the Commander has not fanliiged, and will not move from the city of Meaico.—-He prefers spending his evenings in the Cafe*, to advancing against Old Rough and Ready. The papers are pressing him, but he will not move. In fact, the soldiers have not desired to march. The squadron is blockading Vera Crus anff Alva, rado; they would gladly take a hand at an]^thing, but positively there is no one to fight with. The N. O. Picayune of the 15th says, that Santa Anna lias gone on to the city of Mexico, but had not entered, ostensibly upon the discharge of the func* tions of President. The Mexican Congress had been summoned for the firat of December, From t h e C a m fs and from M exico.-— Since our last paper, despatches have been te- ceived from the eatnps of Generals Taylor and Wool. They confirm, substantially, the ac counts which we have puplished from the New Orleans papers. Gen Taylor was on the eve of marching for Monterey. Gen. Wool was receiving arms, ammunition and recruits, and was preparing for an immediate march to Chi huahua. Thus three camps are in motion, and we -expect to hear of decisive und successful re sults from all at no distant day. Il is supposed that in thirty days or sooner,'Gen. Taylor will Ke in possession o f Monterey, and perhaps of Sal tillo. Geo Wool, of the army of the centre, will be at Chihuahua; and Co). KZeamey will be at Santa Ee. T h e meshes are apparently drawing closer around the Mexicans ; and three important posts and sections o f country will be in our bands, besides, the ports which we mav have taken in California — [Wash. Union, T h e Union also gives a synopsis of the .con tenlsi of Mexican journals received at the N a v y Department. Its intelligence has mainly been anticipated by accounts from N ew Orleans. Gen. Sal is, who was in the exercise of the chief executive authority, issued*an address to Santa Anna, in which be slated that all' the trqpps of the republic had been placed tn route to Monte rey,- New Mexico and the California?. < The Mormons — Nauvoo. ^ Several •kirmishes have occurred between-the belligerents at Nauvoo ; .with a reported lose of 20 or 30 ineti. Aa the smoke clears away, however, and corrected accounts arrive, the killed and wound ed dwindle' down |o f much- smaller number. , The firat' battle is thus reported by the St. Louia Rep. * The Snti mormona on the lltb took ap their line of march for the Holy City. Upon this tbe Mor* mona beat to quartera and to the number of about 50QeWcnl forth to meet their.antagonists. Tbe par ties m'ei about .a mile from the Temple when an engagement ensued which lasted about two hoors,—- Each party then withdrew to their original poeitiona. In this engagement of two hours, no on? waa killed, and but one wounded. He was a Mormon,- On Saturday another battle look plaee. In .the morning lM’o cannons were fired at the anti-Mormons camp from the city, butjhe shot waa not returned. Afterward the ant.Mormons sent in a flag to make certain propositions for the adjosfment.of tbeir diffi culties, which, were rejected by the opposite party.— The anti-Mormons then began to manoeuvre and ,8o as to flank the Mormon forces. When'they .were within cannon shot, the' Nauvoo party fired on the anti-Mormons, and the battle began.,, It con tinued from one o’clock to forty minutes past 4.— There were many discharges of artillery and small arms. A man named Anderson, ap'd a nian named Norris, all of them Mormons, were killed, and sever- al others wounded. On Ih^partof the Anti-mormons, Capt. Smith, of Carthage, was killed; and several others wounded. Later— Prospect o f Peace. —On the 15th instant a committee of fifty, appointed by the citizens of Carthage, went into Nauvoo, and held a conference with the leaders of the Nauyoo forces, the result of which was that a cessation of hostilities for two-days was agreed upon ; and it-, was hoped, with some, confidence, that the antagonistic parlies would, in the course of that time, be able to reconcile the/r differences sufficiently to dispense with any further fighting. r_ . ■ Before the arrangement for an armistice was a- grecd upon, several skirmishes took place between the opposing parlies; but it does not appear that they were attended with any serious results. By Telegraph. N ew Y ork , Ssept. 25, 3 p. u. The Southern mail has no news from the army. The California expedition has not yet sailed. An arrival from Rio Janeiro states that a proposi tion for the settlement of the difficulties between Montivideu and Buenos Ayres had been made by Mr. Hood on the part of the English and French governments. The United States brig Washington arrived at Philadelphia yesterday. Lieut. Baclie and 12 men were lost. Another expedition has sailed frotn Baltimore to reco r e r sp e c ie from lh e w r e c k t>f th e S a n Pedro. The accounts from Washington continue to be contradictory as to the Mexican despatches. An- other correspondent of the Journal of Commerce says that Mexico has not refused to treat, but thal the reply is indefinite: asks delay but manifests a dispo sition to peace. The correspondent of the Commer cial Advertiser, says plumply that the rumor that Mexico refuses to treat is not true. The troops at San Luis Putosi have been ordered not to m a r c h a g a in s t M o n terey. R ural R epository .—This periodical, the. oldest literary paper in the U. Stales, entered upon its 23d volume on the I9th inst. It is devoted lo polite lit. eralure and conducted with talent. It is a handsome quarto, published once in two woeks at Hudson, N. Y., by W, B. S toddard , at $1 per annum. F lour .—Good Genesee and Michigan is quoted in N. York at $ 5 —Corn, 75c per bushel. E xtortion .—The multitudes who attended the recent State Fair at Auburn, complain most bitterly of the extortion practised upon them by the hotels of the place. Last year there was great dissatisfaction with Utica on thesame score; when, it was prom ised, in case Auburn should be sejccted for the -next meeting of the kind, that the evil should be remedied. But instead of being remedied at Auburn, it has proved worse even than al Utica ; the hotels, for very ordinary accommodations, having charged, wc un. derstand, from $ 3 to $ 5 per day for board. This is monstrous; and if persisted in, will break up these important exhibitions : or the committee of arrange ments will be be forced to take the whole matter into their own hands, and provide accommodations for visitors and their'teams at reasonable prices. Erie Railroad and other Routes. V . Tho N. Y. and Erie Railroad, when completed, will furnish the quickest and cheapest means of tran sit from Lake Erie and tlie Great West, to N,. York city. Its indefinite extension west, from Dunkirk, is refeired to in lhe following lottcr which, we copy from the N. Y. Herald oPFriday : N ew Y ork ,. Sept. 22d, 1846. Dear Sir,—I have been lo Buffalo and back du ring the last week. The distance between Albany and Buffalo is 325 miles by railroad, and done in a little over 25 hours. The .travelling time is from 12 to 20 miles per hour, with frequent slops. Be tween Utica and Buffalo the time is slow, and the cars very poor and uncomfortable, and-at Roches ter a delay of half an hour happens in all cases.and the luggage transferred to another car on the same spot. There is no just reason for this detention.of the passenger, who is compelled to'remain land identity his trunk, Ac. The refreshment houses beyond Utica are poorly supplied with ile poorest viands. Coffee, bread and butter,, which should he, of the very best, is only second rate, while tbe other articles displayed in the scantiest quantities, are auything but inviting to.tbe hungry traveller. All the foregoing was freely discussed by the passen gers in the cars, and we congratulated ourselves on the improvement that would occur on the comple tion of the Erie railroad, which will be wider and the seats more comfortable, and the time between New York city and. Dunkirk or Buffalo, 24 hours in place o f 36, as now. ' The E ie Road will be completed.in 3 or 4 years, and the distance about 400 miles.done in 24.hours To Erie, Pa To Cleveland, Ohio To Sandusky, O. To Detroit, Mich. To St Josephs To Chicago To the Miss. River 90 — - - . - ’ —7 — ti it 5 tt 105 tt . tt 5 | tt 90 tt * u 5 ti 110 n ’ tt 5* tt 201 u it 11 tt 100 tt tt 5 tt 135 tt tt t 7 tt - 1231 miles, in 68 hours. The people o f Cleveland, Erie and Northern Ohio generallj' are’ moving in the matter, and by the time tbe Erie Railroad is done, tbe\ other branches ■will be connected. The Canadians will have their road, 222 miles, between Buffalo and Detroit, com- phted in about 2 years, and will runitin 11 hours, milrinff'tha lima ItAtaWA^M VamL J amv Chicago ivau iv iuu gi ves 58 hours. We may safely predict in 3 years, to go- to Cincinnati in two days from New York,' and in 5 or fiyiears to the Mississippi, 900 or 300 miles above St: Louis, ip less than three days; and when improved locomotives and improved rails ere in general use,’it wilLbe accomplished in a still shorter ti me. The Toute via Buffalo and Sandusky to Cincinnati, with all the present disadvantages, is done in Ies? than 4 days, and hundreds o f Ken- tnckians are travelling that jir«y for the first time. * A M erchant . ■— 1 ; • • ;,\r ■ MAliuc.-—T h e re a re elected to the bouse 46 democrafe, 34 whigs. O u t friends keep ahead. — flbiir D f t e CUit 24. ’ ; -J W h ig Nominations, i The Whig; ^State Convention qiet at Utica on Wednesday lsrt, and on thp third balloting for a candidate for Governor. J ohn Y oung of Livingston co. received 76 to 45 for Mr. F illmore ; ahd Mr. Young was declared to be duly nominated. H amil ton F ish of New York, was nominated for Lt. Gov., and Thomaa Clowes of Rensselaer, and J. Cook of Chemung, for Canal Commiaeioners. The Courier and Enquirer says that Young haa not the slightest chance of success. Rail Road Meeting. At a meeting held, pursuant to public notice, at Watkin’s Hotel in Oneonta, on the 12th September, 1846, E lia XM i R. F ord , <>1’ Oneonta,- Was appointed Presiden t; Lewis Northrop o f Broome, Fitch Ford of Delaware, and Henry Johnson of Chenango,. Vibe Presidents; Leonard Caryl and Richard Fran- chbt, oi Otsego, Secretaries. * The following persons were appointed a Commit- tee.to draft resolutions: George H. Noble,Richard Franchot, Jesse •'Rose, Leonard Caryl, Harvey Hunt, of Otsegoj-Tinnthy Ruggles, Lewis Nor- thrpp^ b f Broonie; A. K. Maynard, of Chenango ; Joseph Merrickr of Delaware; who reported the following, by their; -chairman, Col. G. H. Noble, whieh, on motion o f T-.>McCall, Esq., were unani mously adopted; ? , i . Resolved; That we feok upon the decision made by a majority o f the Commissioners in the location of the New York and ]Erie Rail Road, betUraen De posit and'Binghamton, as a palpable violation or the Acts of 1 8 0 and;’46 —as evincing a total disre gard o f the rights of a large portion of the people— as sacrificing the hbhor ol\ the State and prejudic ing the interest b f the public, merely to benefit a few speculators and inceease the prosperity of an other State at the expense'of our own. - Resolved^ That/the attempt of the company to steal a march upon the. people aud forestall the ac-. tion of the legislature^ by an immedjabrlfetijqg ofi the Toad on the. disputed route, isiiiJ«fepijDs^wifh' their past management-, and shows npt.(qnly great disrespect for the people, but an utter-disregatd of the laws o f the Sta'e; for the law underAtiUch the commissioners acted, prohibits the eommjjiy from going into Pennsylvania, even snould a^jr decide against the northern route, until the fac^eveloped by the recent surveys, with such other reasohs as they, might offer for such decision, were laid before the next legislature for their alteration, modifica tion or approval. Resolved , Thar, however desirable it may be to the owners of coal lands in Pennsylvania to have a rail-road communication opened to them, we do earnestly protest, against so great a sacrifice of the interests ot thepeople of this State to effect it; be- ingTulJy o f the opinion that if it isan object of suf ficient importance to justify the construction, the expense should be paid by those who are to reap the immediate benefit. It should not be forgotten that this rail road company was chartered to accommo- daie he southern arid isolated portion of our own State, by affording them those facilities ol transpor tation they so much stand in need of, and the honest accomplishment of this purpose will make it, to the stockholders, one of the most profi able investments ofthe kind in the country. Also, that the furnish ing o f the New York market with Lackawalia coal, which is already amply done by the Delaware and Hudson Canal company, was no part of the origi nal intention of the charter, eilher as avowed by the company or contemplated by the legislature. • Resolved , That the intimation thrown out by tbe company's agent, near the close ofthe last meeting of the commissioners, vvith a view of influencing their decision, that the road would not be bm It with out they were allowed to run it inlo Pennsylvania, was unjustifiable and unwor hy of a company that has received over three millions of the people’s money. Resolved, That the facts developed by the recent surveys, v iz; that the road can be constru vied on tbe northern route with a less grade, a larger- radius of curve, and a cost o f construe ion Si 18,000 less than on the Pa. route, is a sufficient ans'wer to any imaginary engineering or speculative arguments going to prove that its adop.ion would greatly pre judice the public interest. Resolved, That we will use all honorable and lawful means to procure justice at the hands ofthe next legislature, having full confidence that they will promptly reverse tbe strange decision made by a-majority of the commissioners. Resolved, That Messrs. Childs, Whittlesey, and Pierson, the three commissioners, who, it is under stood, where in favor of keeping the road within the State, be re pectlully requested to lay before tbe next legislature early in the session, their reasons at lengthfor coming to said conclusion, /m- / Resolved^ That thqse\proceedings be^mblishedin the papers of Broome, Delaware, Chenango, Otse go, Schoharie and Albany, and that copies be sen! to the above named commissioners and to the Pres ident of the Rail Road Company. The committee appointed to notify the company of the intention of appealing from the decision of the commissioners to the legislature, reported ibe following, which was approved and direeled to be forwarded: y To the President and Directors o f the N. Y. and E . R a il Road Company. The undersigned, members of a committee, &c., wpnld respectluily state that they consider the de cision, made by a majoriiy of the commissionersi in the location of tne load beiween Deposit and Bing hamton, as contrary to tbe spirit and meaning of the laws under which they acted—eminently unjust to ihe whole region drained by the Susquehanna, and greatly prejudicial to the public interest. That many of the statements laid 'b.-foi e said commis sioners to influence their decision by the company’s agent and engineers, wefe fallacious and erroneous. We have also learned, with surprise, that you have already advertised said route for letting, without wailing the ultimate .decision'ol the legislature, as provided lor in the Jaw ol last winter. You are, therefore, he: eby notified that we in tend fully to avail ourselves of tbe benefit ofsaid .law, by asking of the next legislature^ reversal of the decision of said commissioners. Oneonta, Sept. 12,1846 J. M. Lull, A. B. Wdtson, . R/G. Mead, Leonard Caryl, Jesse Rose, of Otsego. Timothy Ruggles, Lewis Nort h rop, J.ise; h H. Merrick, John M. Be;ts, Theophilus Westover, Fitch Ford, of Delaware. A. K. Maynard, Elijah Stowel). of Chenango. ot Broome, The meeting was addressed by Hon.C. C- Noble, Messrs. Maynard, Watson and Caryl, and evinced a united and determined spirit to- carry out the views of tbe people on this important question. E. R. FORD, President. L e o n a r d C a r v l , R ichaho F ranchot . .} Secretaries. C a y u g a Common P l e a s . — T h is court iii now in session. T h e case ofthe People against Hiram Ratbbun, late keeper of the S ate Prison, indicted for manslaughter on account df the convict Pinmb, was brought iri for trial yester day and resulted in a verdict of acquittal. ' W e did not hear the trial, but are informal that the case showed an entire justification of Mr. Rathbnn.^—[Cayuga Tocsin, C o u n t e r f e i t e r s A r r e s t e d — A den of counterfeiters was discovered near Green river, in -Columbia county, by Deputy Marshal Hurst, of Syracuse, on Sunday evening, who, a ltera desperate struggle, Succeeded in arresting two of them, named J o h n Mallory antl Ambrose W ilson. , Officer Horst obtained the press with wbich they executed iheir spurious money. A few five dollar notes on the Slate Bank of Bos- ton was .found upon them. Wilson has been arrested bn'Vbe same charge three-times before,, but succeeded in netting out of the tneshes of the* law. He m a d e a desperate attempt to escape from the officers on the present occasion, but Was overpowered and placed in irons.. ■ x * ■ “ 1 ■ ■ . T - ~ J ■ T e r r i b l e D i s a s t e r s by t h e G a l e . — Tbe arrivals from the South report further dis asters by the recent gales. - Tbe. brig Helen McLeod ieent S o w n with all on board) among them several female passengers. T h e brig Ocean, with troops-for Point Isabel, was capsized and several soldiers washed over* board. • . • : - T h e steamer Palmetto reports having board ed .he U. S surveving brig W ashington, ike Captain and 11 seamen were.washed operboatd. This was in lat 35 40. l°ng 75 10. M a s s a c h u s e t t s .— T h e Democratic\ State Convention have nominated; Isaac Davis of Worcester, for Governor, and G e p rge'H o o d jif Lynn, for Lt. Governor. ' ; C o u n t e r f e its .— One dollaVsnotes on the Bank o fW h itestow n a re id circulm v v Leuar B . No. 4534; S. Newton Dexter, P r& w W j. S. Thomas, Cashier. Aug. 1, ’ 1B45. -^rbey are made payable to A. Lane and couptersigm Gi Harford Register. .T h e engraving is coarse.\ W o l v e s i n SiiEEp’s CLqjFHiNq.— A gang of pickpockets, were io attendance at the mis sionary and -religious eonventioo, lately held at New Haven. They appeared among the throng of-strangers in attendance, it is said, dres sed like clergymen, in black coats and white cravats.— [Springfield Republican. F r e e m a n ’s C a se —-Mr. Justice B e a r d s le y , after consultation witb tbe Chief Justice, has allowed a writ of error, and directed a stay of execution in the case of Freeman, con victed at Auburn of the murder of the Van Ness fam- Hy. . A lady asked Mr. Jekvll the difference be- ‘ tweed a solicitor .and an attorney', “Precisely the ifeme,” he answered “as between i crocodile ahd an alligator.” L a c o n ic C o r r e s p o n d e n c e .— T alleyrand, once addressed a letter.of condolence to a lady who bad lost her husband, in two'words, “ O h, Madam,!” In , less than-a’ year?the lady had .married again, and th.en his Letter of congratu lation was, “ Ah, Madam 1” ,A .Quakerat Liv erpool'-once sent a letter to a correspondent, a sk ing the news, by a simple note of interrogation, thtts,: ‘ . His friend replied in the saihe irem. LAP ./ ■ : * - *cy* v •/ a e,j u n i * a i ' M f e K f ! in Pittsburgh ,'tbis wee,k. T h e vicirlfe- w£r* Mr. John Pritchard, a young man about 18 years of age, who -was.\bitten by a dog nine months ago, and Mr. Guslavus Sandol! Chand ler, who was bitten four months ago. A man named Sprttt was also suffering from the dread ful malady, ahd was'not expeqted lo survive. * L iq u o r Indictm e n t's-—rT b e Grqnd Jury of Jlflonroe county returned^/ily fiv e rhdictinents for violations of the excise law. S tate F air .—T he attendance at the State Fair at Awburn. was very large It is estima ted that at least 40,000 persons were present.— The proceedings were interesting throughout. At a baeheloi’s door n bundle was Unelv left. On its being carried to the old lady honsekeep- er and inspected by her. she declared its contents to be a “crying shame.” I d 3* At,a large Convention of the W h igs of Massachuseits, held at Boston oh Wednesday last, consisting of 720 members!, G e o r g e N . B ri ggs was nomina’itf by acclimation, with but two dissen'ing votes, for Governor the en suing year, and JoHft R e a d , for Lt. Governor wiih like unanifiimity. A M o n s t r o u s W om an.— The Ohfo Stato Journal says that there is a woman in Picka way C o . in that State, who weigh? 464 pounds I S^e cannot dispose of herself in less than two chairs, and Would fill three pretty we|L She usually sleeps in a large chqj^jhai she had made for that purpose, not being abfo to sleep in a bed. . ' ’ T h e D r y D ock a t B r o o k l y n .— -A lottr-r’ from N ew ’ Y ork states tbit the dry dock at Brooklyn has again filled with water. 3'he quicksands and pressure of water caused the piles to give wav,-,and fears were entertained that the wotk would have to be abandoned.—. [Wash. Union. * I* The climax of human indifference has arriv ed when a woman don’t carp how ^he iqoks. . O* Lines on the marriage of Mr. Janies Bee to Miss Martha Ann Flower. Well has this little biiBy “Bee” • Improved life’s shining hour; He gathers honey now all day, From one sweet chosen “ Flower,” And from'his hive—if Heaven pleases. He’ll raise a swarm -of'little“Beenes.” _ Tp S eajibn .— Why do Seafaring Men and Water, men use Dr. Brandreth’s Vejjeiabjp'and Universal Pills in preference to any, and all1 other medicines ? For the following good and substantial reasons. Reason 1st. They are'entirely .vegetable. 3d. As a purifier of the blood, and cleanser of the stomach and bowels they stand pre-eminent. 3d. 'I bey arc the most innocent and invigorating purgative in use. ' ^ 4ili. No care required in using them. 5th. No change of diet; eat and* drink what you please. 6th. The body leas liable to cold after than before a dose. 7th. May be taken morning, noon, or night, with a certainty of good results, 8tb. Time nor climale effects them not. 9ili. They give universal satisfaction. Af! who us* tftem speak in the highest terms of them. -Call, try them and be convinced. Remember, none are genuine seid by Druggists, Doctors, or Apothecaries. The following are duly appointed agents for th* sale of the Brandreth Pills in Broome-county, each one having a new certificate of agency front Dr Brandreth :— J. R. Orton, Binghamton; Whitmore Sc Duienbury, Windsor; Canfield Sc Steele, Union ; William Lincoln, dfame ; Holmes A Welch, Upper Lisle; Mcloy A Keel cr, Chenango Fork*. ‘ II j l r To whom it may concern .—All persons, being af flicted with Consumption, or Coughs, or any impure die- ea»etqf'the blood, would find it to their interest to read 'he-advertisement iu another column of this paper, beaded, CONSUMPTION. \ ^ 7 . ’ I ~ v . , Near fennimore Grove, Grant'eo., Wisconsin, oa tbe 4th inst., after a abort but sever* iitticw, GlLESt W. RUSSELL, formerly of Erie, Pa., in' the 29th year of bis age. The deceased was a yataeg mmn of estimable character—industrious and JtihdU-k* bad - endeared himself to a large circle of 6h>t^ds, who deeply mourn 6is loss. During; his siekness k* re ceived every attention that could be beetowed hy medieal aid and: kind friends.—[Lancaster Herald. The Rochester papers aauoaiice the death, fit that city, oii the 23rd inst., of Gen. VINCENT M A T H E W S, LL. D., aged 80 years. Gen. M a ^ bews , says the Democrat, was a distin guished member ol the legal pro less ion, and at the time of bis death, was, as is believed,‘the oldest ^practicing lawyer in the state ■' Gen. M athews a t h k w s was bora in Orange co., in this sta e in June, 1766. He commenced fhe study oif law in New-York with the late Col. Robert Tronp, in 1786, and was admitted to the bar in 1790. subsequently moved to Elmira and was elected fo the Assembly in 1793,'and to the Senate in 17961^- In 1{809 he was elected to Congress. In 1816, he moved lo Bath and 182L to Rochester, where he re sided until his death. The Democrat concludes its article with the fol lowing paragraph: “As a man, b*:was.estimaM* all the'relations of life—winning affpctipn aad esteem'by acting from the impulses p f a^geneiDax heart. .IHe was in truth'profoundly respected and warmjv'heloved. An exempiaryltfe wascrowned by.a Christian--faith, a s he-was ut tl)k|odg)D(Sl st- all, an bumble and smcere Christian^ftvin? assur ance that a life wejl spent here will be witkhttp 1 hut the commencement o f a glorious immortality IfereaflefA’ ' . € *%■ ___ 3ft \.\Tv,’ ffk P H V S I C I M T A R D SU R G E O N . , D r . D: D TH OM P S O N—Office, opposite th* Leroy Store, and over Offipgdtm A Cones.—• Binghamton, S e p t y ^ J W p ^ v „ : 7 \ j fttt ** * -V * - - V \ • * a ^ A* ''
