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Resolutions were read by Mr. Vaux and unanimously adopted. Mr. Nicholson, of Tenn., followed, and eulogised Pieroe, his bottom friend, in a glowing aooount of his character and eloquence. He rehearsed the doings in the Democratic Con

vention, and styled the nominations as the result of a spirit of compromise and oonoession withou:

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which the Union would soon crumble. Gen. Pillow followed and indorsed the bratcry and gallantry of Gen. Pierce, who served under hit command during the Mexican war,

Mr. Burr, of N. Y., followed in an eloquent speech** ii

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Editor of t%e Journal: Long ere this reaches yo&, the news of the oom(nation of Get). Franklin Pierce for President, and William R. King for Vice President, will here been borne to you upon the wing* of lightning.— The ticket is a good one end givee nniversal satisfaction to our parly throughout the length and breadth of our Republio. I bare never seen more perfect union, harmony and good feeling prevailing than at present* No one even doubt* the sueceu of the ticket. ... •, ,•».

A ratification meeting, will be held at the City Hall in this city, thia evening, at which Gen. Caw, Judge Douglae, Gen. Houston and Gen. Lane will apeak, each heartily acquiescing in the nominations. These distinguished favorite** of the party have borne themselves nobly throughout, and have yielded to the decisions of the Convention gracefully, and with a high and noble bearing.

The Resolution to adjourn tine die, on the 16th of August, passed the House, on Monday last and 1 think will pass the Senate—almost every member is at bis post, and the House presents a real business appesrance.

The delegstes to the Democratic Convention have nearly all left for home. Those to the Whig Convention are ooming in. The chances for Mr. Fillmore's nomination have increased within a few days rapidly, hii friends are more sanguine, are hard at worki Truly yours.:

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democratic Ratification Meeting at Philadelphia. PHILADBLPHIA, Monday, June 7. The ratification meeting called for this evening in Independence square, was lorced to adjourn to the Museum, on account ef a drenching rain.-— An immense number were present, notwithstanding the weather.

George M. Dallas presided and delivered an eloquent speech on taking the ohair, exciting frequent outbursts of enthusiasm. He called the aspersion against Pierce of having favored the Caiholio test still retained in tho Constitution of New Hampshire, a weak invention of a frightened enemy. He aaid it was true such a provision, excluding Catholics from occupying a seat in the Legislature or becoming Governor, was ongrafted on ihe Constitution of that State, but it was also true^that Levi Woodbury and Franklin Pierce had obtained the passage of laws providing for tho holding of two State Conventions to amend that Constitution. In both oases an amended Constitution was submitted to the vole of the people, but a two-thirds vote being requisite, it was defeated by a combination of Whigs and Abolitionist*.

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General Pierce on the Slavery Question.

The following extract from a letter addressed by Gen. Pierce to a distinguished Demooratio Senator, dated May ninth, I860, in regard to the Compromise, then pending in Congress, will show that he is an early friend of tho adjustment measures •I have been so constantly occupied in court that no leisure moment has presented itself for the acknowledgement of your noble speech upon Mr. Bell's proposition for a compromise question whioh has ao deepty agitated Congress and the country during the last few months, appreciate your kind remembranoe of me personally. As a New Hampshire man I hear you name pronounced only with pride as an Amerioan mtttaen. I acknowledge, with gratitude, the eminent nublio servioes that have signalized your court* along the whol^liivo of your ttseful life. ism-seta, iascS!

It grieves me to observe that the spirit ot concesaion aud honorable oomoromiae is not stronger and more pervading at Washington. I have no appre hension thai the disruption of this Union is at hand but I foresee consequences appalling in the daily use of lhese terms*North aodSouth/e* terms of antagonism* What are the North and South but component pan* of our common country—parts which should be regarded as absolutey inseparable not limited merely by reciprocal and obligations anrising under the Constitution, but bound together by ties of affection, common interests, and reciprocal respects recognising all times, and sbovs all, that noble band of brotherhood whioh soneentrated the genius* and oourage, and patriotism that aohieved our independence, that has sustained the country in all its trial*—that bond to which the republic is indebted for a career more rapid and wonderful than any that has hitheto marked the march of civilisation and civil liberty!

Yon have doabdess observed that a great eSort Is being made to give currency to the Impression that the opinion* end sentiment advanced bv your* •elf, find nothing but a general response in New England. I do notbeiieve the fiwt to be ao in tb» State. Our people set a value upon the Union tthfali language oannot express: UM»y look for a oompromls*—-except nomprxMaa—oo#esi»«d in a apirit of justioe and patriotism firmly sad manfuUy.^tip'ir?

STSASOX STOST.—Bayard Taylor say*, in one of hie lettwa ft«w»

Aftwa*

that h* Iward of a'ooan-

try of dogs' in Ara^a where the women were is all respects human, but the iw» a*« fseee like dogs, claws to their feet and tails like monfcays.— They ooohl not «pe«k bwi carried on ewvem^K by wagging their tail*. This ludicrous aoeottot is no doubt true, for Dr. Weme, a German traveler, fteUa pcociaeiy UM asns *«wy.

Fraafcita Hewe, tkeSoMkr.

We have

else

wire re adverted briefly to die civil

political services of Franklin Pierce, and si* though we are not of those who regard the military services of any man as ot more red value than his civic virtues, yet we have an honest pride in referring to the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, in connection with his career as a citizen soldier.

It was not nntil the year 1847, when it became evident that a more vigorous prosecution of the war was necessary, to arrive at any practical re suit, that Franklin Pierce entered ihe army as a volunteer* with a commission from President Polk as Brigadier General, the New England and! New York Regiments constituting bis Brigade.

Reaching the scene of operations too late for the investment of Vera Cruz, be hastened on with bis command to join the forces of Gen Scotl and the first account we find of bis appearance, is in Gen eral Scott's official dispatch of the 19th August, 1847. In giving an account of the battle of San Antonio, he says: "The battle, ibougH mostly stationary, continued to rage with great violence until nightfall. Bra vet Brigadier Gen. P. F. Smith, and Brevet Col. Riley's Brigade, (Twigg's division,) supported by Brigadier Gen. Pierce's, and Cadwalader's brigades (Pillow's division,) were more than three hours under a heavy fire of artillery and musketry along the most impassable ravine in front and to the left of the entrenched camp.

In his dispatch of the 28th August, In giving his account of what he terms "the battle of Mexioo, Gen Scott again spealu of this important battle in this wise: -SC "Accordingly, the two advanced divisions, ana Shield's Brigade marched from. Contreras, under the immedisie orders of Major General Pillow, who was now joined by the gallant Brigadier General Pierce, of his division, personally thrown out of sctivity late the evening before, by a severe hurt received from the fall of his horse."

Again: "Next, (but all in ten minutes,) I sent Pierce, (just able to ke«p his saddle,) with his brigade."

Again, speaking of the battle of Cheruboseo, Gen. Scott says: "Brigadier General Pierce, from the hurt of the evening before—under pain and exhaustion—fainted in the action."

Major General Pillow, to whose immediate oommand (jene|stl,Pierce wM^auached, remarked in his report: -. •Brigadier General Pierce, though badly injured by the fall of his horse, while gallantly leading his brigade into the thickest of the battle on the 19th, did not quit the field, but continued iu oommand of his brigade.

And again: "Brigadier General Pierce, though still suffering severely from his injury of the proceeding day, •had nevertheless been on duty, and in oommand of his brigade during the day, and until a few mo ments before, when he had fainted from pain and exhaustion and been carried from the field

In his report of the battle of Chapultapeo, Gen. Pillow remarks: $% gil i. "I regret that 1 was deprived during the action of the servioes of my brave talented, and accomplished Brigadier General Pierce, who was con fitted to a sick bed." HC

These extracts from official documents prove, not ihe extent and importance of services render ed by Gen. Pierce, but that he was an Amerioan at heart, that he possessed the true characteristics of a soldier, coolness bravery and determination, and that he lacked only the opportunity to place his name high on the roll of American heroes. Wounded and bruised by the fall of his horse, scarce able to keep his saddle, he placed himself at the head of his regiment, and only left the field when (aint and exhausted, his physical strength gave way, and he was no longer able to resist Beloved by all with whom he came in oontact, no one appreciated him more truly than Gen. Soolt, who assooiated him with Generals Quitman andi Smith, in settling the preliminaries for the surrender of the Mexioan Capital. In every situation he discharged his duty faithfully, honestly and fearlessly, and ^'When wild war's deadly blurt wasblawn, i- ^An^ g001'® pe»c« returning," he resigned his commission, and sought again the retirement of home. Honotad for aye be the citi-zen-soldier, and brighter and more glorious be the fulurejhat awaits him.—Statesman.

Reward to Brave Soldief.

In 1848 the Legislature of his native State voted Gen. Pieroe a splendid sword as a token of their appreciation of his gallant services in the field and esteem for him as a man. The sword was presented in behalf of the State by the Governor. In reply to the address of that functionary, General Pieroe, after referring to the fact that of ths fix hundred and forty men that went with him to Mexico, less than one hundred and fifty lived to return, said: »J accept this splendid weapon from the people of New Hampshire with en abiding sense of the personal regard which has never seemed to grow oold. May not be permitted, to aay with out reference to my political associations, that

receive it as one among the multiplied evidenoes, ao far as the men of my oars time of life is ooncemed. of something like a fraternal esteem and confidence, which it has been my highest purpoee to merit, and is my firmest never to loes. In the meantime I net unmindful of another, and higher consideration which actuated ths legislature—the sword, though given to me, was designed ssd received as a token of the estimation in which you hold ths aetviets and sacrifices of the officers tad soldier* of the brigade which it was mr good fortune to conunand and to them I would have the grateful thodfhu of my friends to-day—to ths noble dead—to the men who with their We-blood sealed their devotion to the rigbta and honor of the republic—to the gallant living, who have fulfilled thair mission amid the untried scenes

repose

of an event

ful campaign on a foreign soil, sad are now unobtrusively and usefully poising tW .Moostioaa of civit life at home. *.

Your thoughts and purpose* in this matter is not circumscribed by ths limits of New Hampshire or New England* Too embrace ths 12th and tab regiments no less warmly than ths 9th- It will ever be a matter of gratification to me that the three regiments of my brigade wets compoeed of men from

the extreme

sooth, north, and west of ths Un-

isfti because illustrated is an hoar of trial and danger, that snity whioh la oar strength* UM question never arose during the varied soesss of of that summer, on what aids of geographical line a man waa born or reared he stood apes ths: field by Tosraide»ss Amerioan offioeror an Aaaerieaasotdisr, with an Amerioan head—«ad that wasewxtg* for aay

to know* It wass Vari

ous brotherhood. The highsst hope of pstriotaem looks to ths permanenos and aB-pemdmi of that fasting, it is the panoply toadar whatever is dear and precious our insti sritt

insecurity. Ovsr it any ihe stars and

atnpa* dost fotiavsr%

TO TUB XKMOKT OP A SUTTER. AV JAMS SAC*. Bat jsstarday a child ef psia.

Taitf saddened pity's Te-dsy a serapfc, eaHed Akm ths atus hlfk. WsB aright ths saflsriag sev

ear

Which she aadarsd MOW Bat new, that heaven her soel Inspires, These tsars (dioald eease to flew.

Why ahenid her release deplore Fran fate's relentless anal Why grieve that she shd! grieve no more,

As If we wished her harm Awtv with tho replalaf tear, Ths innate sigh forbear, Which, If she up In heaven eoald hear,.

Would grieve her even there!

Yet Natare'a voice, more nighty far Than all tho root eaa aay, Still calls as from the radiant star

Down to tho mooMoriof cliijrj And not ia words the augie Ilea To calm tho oncalah wild Of one whoso loaoly ho "It was ay child! lay

heart njrflH,

And God, who knows a moiher'a heart, Permits a mother's tears, Whoa from the cherub doomed to part,

Tho holiest tie eadearet And JKSCS sa example gave Alt feeling hearts accept— Weep on—for at affection's grave

The Paiacx or GLOSY wept!

That we have loet her we may weep Yet knowing she Is blost, i.^'i Tbat all her eares are bashed to deep'

Upon her Saviour's breast. That thought, with Its conaollng power, Amid oar tears shall gleam, Like rainbow in a summer summer shower,.

Or moonlight oa a stream.

Hsr calm submission to tho rod Whieh made ail also repine, Revealed her ass child of God,

While yet on earth, dlvlae! With aweeteat thoughts of heavenly birth Her aaintod mind was fad,

mit

gentleman wished to see her, no

earthly inducement oould prevail upon her to appear until after she had elaborately arrayed herself with every single device and adornment of her fanoiful costume. She evidently imagined that the object of her long expectation had arrived and when at last she met me, ahe manifested her disappointment in a

way that was anything but flat

tering to her visitor. Another object of singular interest is Mrs. M—, who was formerly known as the 'belie of Madison.' She doea not seem now to be over twenty-four years of age. Not long after her marriage her father died, and very soon thereafter, her husband also. The double blow was too henvily charged for the tenderness of her afTections, and dethroned her reason forever. With the countenance of the most beautiful I have ever seen, she sits almost motionless from day to day—an inexpressible sadness beaming from her soft lustrous- eyes—while the whole expression of her face conveys, if may so speak, a sort of intensified sareetness and resignation. She never speaks—but yields instinctively to every suggestion or intimation of any kind frorri the keepers, and signifies only affirmative or negative replies by the motion of the bead So perfect a

picture of deep unutterable sorrow, 1 have never before seen, or been able to imagine. 1 feel as if it will be likely to haunt me for a

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Mtmhmb

Whieh flung a glory, not of earth, Around her dying bod! y,.

Mar we from her example learn Submission to our lot, And to the Rock of Ag« turn»

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Whoss promise faiteth not! So shall oar sorrows pave the way To the eternal homo Where our beloved has gone to-day^^v i$4s

And seoms to whisper, "Come!" j^ 1

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Toaching Cases of Lanacr*

One of the editors of the St. Louis Intelligencer, in a letter from Cincinnati, gives an interesting description of the Lunatic Asylum in the latter city, from whioh we make the following extract. 'There are some interesting inmates of this institution. Here is now confined the young lady who has so often been seen within the ptast few years, promenading Fourth street in this city, dressed up in insane

finery, intended for bridal

habiliments fantastically decorated and inquiring occasionally of the passers by, for the faithless cause of her too fatal sorrow. She had completed a lonely pilgrimage from Europe, to unite her fortunes with those of her betrothed, who had proceeded bei a twelvemonth or so. After a weary search she found him settled in the city doing business and—married. The shook deprived her of her reason. Every pasting day ia, since indicated by her disordered fanoy as the one upon which her 'Henry* is ooming to fulfill his vows, and she arrays herself td meet him accordingly. Her nightly disappointment yields easily to a brighter hope for the morrow, and thus beclouded existence is wearing away. When I oalled at her room she was not dressed in her usual psraphernalia. Upon being informed that a

month to come.

This unfortunate lady is pronounced incurable. There is another beautiful young woman here, who under a promise of marriage, aocotnpanled a yoang man from bar father's residence in Illinois to this city, and was here deserted by him in the •treats. She ia one of ths moat furious and uncontrollable tamstee of the asylum. When her cell door was opened, she was raving terribly, and shaking at the iron fastenings of hsr window. She turned upon mcwith a aavage vindiotiveness which rather inclined me to a sudden iesvtnc, when my oompoears was comparatively restored by a view of ths strong chains with arhieh As was confined to wall. In a fow minutes hsr fury eras eofisned down to psthetic entreaty, sad shs mads the moet toaching sod tsarful appeals against hsr unnecessary and orast confinement. 1 turned away thinking that the night aright, periapt, be a profitaUs one to her destroyer, if he had not sufficiently repented of hta eritna.

Amsng die males there are also soma intereetiag characters. Ons is aa an aactioaeer, who Bella daily wttitanimmenee deal of bustling consequence unheard of mUtiooa in real and personal property, to imaginary oastomara. Another walks all day loag, striking his foat oat with ©onvuWve motion aa if kkkiag a dog out of ths way at eaefc parttea» op. I vantared to aril him why ha did thief Hs looksd a pea ma for a aoasot with a eo*t of laearpviee aad giving two or three extra kicks by way of Blaetrsuoa, replied very palraohnagiy, *Thaia there don't you ess now— doa*i you see now?'—end walked sdT with an air cf a man who had greatly oondeecsnded lor the an*

Ptfetai van ta from ths tota* atrtboritiea, ntohssns of dtaoolviag iwflaanfto, ths

Afi tfca ladisa wM am ohildran will bo ohriataaed oft ba aamlopsd hat Indian tbtowo&MMSt wfflbe wffl hs ia frsat dsmai 9Mjpl0JP9tf fef tofa^jfeayte net fc*6t* will hs

Nsv Ysifc: AIL No servants

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TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANAf FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1852.

Route to Oregon.

We advise no one to go to Oregon, and leave behind the fair fields, and fruitful toil of Indiana; but, as some will go in the face of our advice, we furnish the following items from the letter of an Oregonian:

You will be entitled to 160 acres of land, and your wife the same, if you arrive before the 1st of December 1853;and each of your sons who are or shall be twenty-one at that time. I believe I am safe in saying this land will produce more profit than any farm of its size in Western New York, with the same labor. As to the best way of coming, I can hardly advise. The quickest and easiest is by the isthmus; but it is the most expensive, but the expenses on this route are much reduced from what they have been. You can probably come on the regular line, cabin passage, for $300 to 350 apiece, for grown persons, from New York to Portland, Oregon, and add to that, say $50 each for crossing the Isthmus. But on this subject you can ascertain better than I know. If you come this way, be sure to secure in New York, your passage here, on both oceans. It will be as safe and much cheaper way to come round Cape Horn. Take a clipper ship, and you will arrive in San Francisco in about a hundred days. In that case you will only take passage to San Francisco. From there yon will come in a steamer in three or four days, at an expense of about $70 each grown person. If you come across the Isthmus it may be well to send some of your goods around Cape Horn. The freight will be about $1 25 per square foot to Portland.

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You may prefer the overland route. If so you should be at St. Joseph's or Independence, by the first of May at latest. Buy your wagons and teams in Missouri—your wagon well ironed, and stout but not heavy, covered with canvas or painted cloth, so as to shed rain. To this wagon put four and better six yoke of cattle, at least half cows —the oxen in the prime of their strength, not too old, nor too young but good travellers In this wagon put your provisions and baggage. Put in provisions for five months—say 180 lbs. of flour to a person, and 50 to 80 lbs. ham of bacon, plenty of coffee and sugar, whether fond of it at home or no, you will love it on the plains; some tea, plenty of dried fruit, some rice, salaeratus, &c.— But bring nothing extra—nothing but what you want hy the way. No bedding nor even clothing, more than to be comfortable on the route. It will cost more to bring them over the plains than they are worth here. This waggon is for your baggage. If your family is large and your baggage much over half a ton, then have two baggage wagons.— There is no loss in it, as your teams and wagons will be worth more than in the States.

For your children and women folks, get a plain, firm, but not very heavy spring wagon. Emigrants do not generally do that. Some do—most have not the means. You may as well do it as not.— The spring wagon here will be worth double its cost there, or have been the past summer, and doubtless will be. The covering of this must be water proof. To this harness four horses or mules as you prefer. This carriage will greatly add to the comfort of the family, and no man who has means should neglect it. And then were I so com ing, I would bring a few extra horses—say one, two or more. It will be great relief to your women occasionally to ride on horseback and children, too. A child five or six years old will soon learn to ride on horseback. Women will ride man fashion on men's saddles. It is quite the best way for them on that route. Put in some extra horse shoes and nails. You will not shoe your oxen.— The extra horses may also be necessary.—you may lose some. In most cases, watchfulness, if you are with a party of twenty or thirty wagons will keep them; yet the Indians may get a chance of stealing. 1 would not drive any extra cattle. It makes vast deal of trouble, and I do not think that cattle will remain very high here. I should prefer to buy in Oregon at the present prices rather than to drive except what comes in the teams. Good cows are worth about $50; oxen, 80 to $100 a pair; good American working-horses, $100 and upwards.

In addition to your outfit, it will be well to put in a light sheet iron cook stove to be used on the way. Your flour and provisions put in good tight bags. In that way you can best keep it from the dust, which you wil1 find very annoying. If you can prepare and load your wagon so as to lodge in them, very well; if not, you must have a tent. If you come this route, I know of no better point for you to come to than to Portland, until you look out a location on a claim to suit yourself. -----

CoUversatiea between I»ocal Editors. The following conversation is said to have taken place last week between two Locals of the oity press. Bob and Bill meeting, exchange the com plimenta of the season, and shake hands, Damon and Pythias style

Bob. Devilish dull this morning!—Anything new with you! Havn't heard anything but thai drowning case in your paper this morning

Bill. Oh yes poor fellow, I killed him. Bob. The thunder you did. I thought it an ao Uial case. Bill you're getting into my lind, 1 poia oned a whole family last week.

BUI. All right! One should have more ersdit for imagination than plain mttier-of-facts. Bob, Of oouree theae are my sentiments.

intend to make a hog eat up two children to-mor-row. "Horrible and most aingslar accident" as a heading—read well won't it?

Bill. Capitally! As an offset 111 murder Louis Napoleon and the Pope.

Bill. Yes, yes and I'll bring her to life next day: aad then well have a chance to fill up our colomas about good authority, oontemptlblo ambi lion—no credit to he placed in rumors—and all that sort 9f thing. "'J

Boh.

am with you but keep mumt Take

oars though, and dontkiil more peopls than I do, or we will dissolve partnership. B31, Never fear

under

am tbeaoul of honor when

Come* to items.—Ciu. Hacesf

Ait Apvaanauw Lawraa^—C. O. Chareli Ssq^, of Chester, Ills, advertise* in the pspsm of lhafc *ioinity that his "fees will bs moderate, edvics gnats, and aU caees entrusted" to Ma will hs warrant ed." The following codicils to his advertiseweata inn

comarind him ttt H. B. Witnsssee mil bs famished in eevars cases, if reqnired.

P. S. I will ha proud inswap work with the aider members of the bar Mid bench, either ia assiatlaf or beiac assisted, ia il ehraais oasee ef oar

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an obituary notice

**aa Editor to Heaven.** It is anatosolauen to the profesaien to know that even one of its members

BAvard A. Baaaegaa.

John Wentwortb, of the Chioago Democrat, makes tho following remarks upon the history of this unhappy ataa:

Every man who has seen

ths ininenoo

Mr. Hannegan. when

of liquor,

we have, can be

lieve the above. And every one that has seen him and lived at the same bouse with him and his family, as we have, when he has been a total abstinence man for months together, will indeed pity him. When sober he is pure and as

upright, as

kind and as generous a man, as there is in this country. With him there can be no middle state. He is a brute when drunk when sober, he will compare, in all the elements of goodneaa, with any man living. But he cannot drink without getting drunk.

Mr. Hannegan entered the lower House of Congress, many years ago, a perfectly temperate man and in point of talents, integrity and popularity, his prospects were as flattering as those of any young man in ths United States. But W ashington fashions and habits were too much for him.— Dissipation drove him to private life. He reformed became a temperance lecturer, and an exemplary member of the Church. His exhortations, io times of great revivals, are aaid to have equalled those of the most eloquent divines living. At length his old habits were forgotten, and he was sent to the Senate. He took his seat, an exemplary Son of Temperance and a Christian, but again the temptations were too great for him. His struggles with himself were gigantic, and the assistance of one of nature's noblest women, his wife, secured for him the sympathies of every body.

But he would have hie sproes, and he lost his recollection. Like most politioisns, he left office miserably poor. At the close of his term, and'of Mr. Polk's administration, to keep so popular and so good a man from dispair and ruin, although it came out of Gen. Taylor's term, the Senators unanimously, Whigs and Democrats, signed a call for Mr. Polk to send him to Rusaia, and he was appointed to that utiasion. His unfortunate career there is well known. Sinoe his return, we have heard nothing of him until this melancholy sfTuir.

We have seen many a young man enter Congress perfectly temperste, and leave it totally ruined but we never knew one who had so many efforts made to save him, so ineffectually, as Mr Hannegan. We now have In our mind three in one term who killed themselves. Mr. Hannegan has tried to do so several times but he lived to kill his wife's brother, the best friend save his wife he had in the world." That he wishes he was in poor Dunoan's place, #e have no doubt. What nn awful comment this is upon the evil effects of intemperance! It was the first drop that ruined Hannegan. He ia now about the middle age of man, and may yet live to be a very useful man but there is a greater probability that he will oommit suicide.

THE DECREES or

THE

CATHOLIC COUNCIL.—The

St. Louis Union says, 'The decrees of the lole Nationsl Caiholio Council of the United States, it was resolved by that body, before adjourning, should be carried lo ihe feet of Pius the IX, at Rome, by bishop Vandevfelde, of Chicago. They are of no force until they shall receive the sanction of the Sovereign Pontiff. With regard to the question which has been raised as to ihir being the Firet National Council of the United States, (the previous one being only a Provincial Council,) though it was at ihe time called national) the matter is explained, says the Baltimore Sun, by the following facts: ••It ia true that there were two Archbishops si the Council of Baltimore, in 1849, but although by Apostolio Brief in July, 1847, the Most Rev. R. Kenrick was raised to the rank of Archbishop, and St. Louis ereoted into an Archiepiscopal See, yet the Provinoe of St. Louis was not formally erected until 1850, when its limits, together with those of the other Provlnoes then created, were marked out and its suffragrans named. The Briefs and Apostolic letters by which all this may be ascertained, were published in the Catholio organs of the time.

It is understood that in the Council it was determined to add eleven new Bishops lo ihe Church. One of them, it is believed, is intended for the District of Columbia.

A dog with a greasy bone in his mouth, and a boy with a cigar in his mouth, running through the streets are nuisances that ought to be abated,

Ths Neir York Mirror thus parodies: Mrs* Swisshelm, who conducted the Pittsburgh' Saturday Visitor with ao much ability and success has taken an editorial partner, and changd the big arm-chair behind the desk, for the rocking-chair beside the cradls. She naively says* "The late "afHictive dispensation," whfeh has placed a crowing baby in cur hitherto quiet home, appeared like ••a call" to deliver the pen editorial iato other hands.'*' ,v

DON'T

UKB PIS

Bob. Good ideal And IU creatc a retolutiofl in England. Then I will administer amnio to Mrs. Tningumbob. 1-

LOOKS.—A sheriff's officer was

sent to execute a writ against a Quaker. On sr riving at the house, he saw the Quaker's wife, who in reply to the enquiry whether her husband was at borne, anawenNi in the affirmative: at the same time requested him to be seated, and her husband would speedily see

him. The officer waited pa

tiently some time, but the fair Quakeress coming into the room, he reminded her of her promise thst be should see her hasband. •Nay friend 1 promised that he would see thee He has seen thea. He did not like thy looks therfore, be avoided thee, and has left tho bouse by another path.'

A fcltow whoee countenance

was

brook when be wee young. •What do yoa moan you impertinent •Why, I didn't moan nothing, only

homely enough

to soars the old oos, was giving Home extra flour ishea fat a public bouse, whan hs waa observed by a Yankee, who aeked him if didn't fail

A yoang ooaple went to the Sev. Pad! Dsfrls to getmarried. Mr. D, is aomethiag of wag, and *y aa JnatMsnt aristaks, of ooarae, began to read from the prayer hot* as foUswt •Man that is born of id bath a abort time to live.* d*o.

Who la (bat lovaiy girtf* endsimeftbs witty Lard Nuibaiy, in cwnpaay with hie trisnd Coan-

'Mies Glees,'replied ibe Counsellor, •Glass!' leitoreted the facetious jadge. •I ahwM dm h, iMHiMM* ooild I pUtM* a glass to asy Hps.*

Wen yon go oat to drown yourself always pnfi off year ctetbea they may fit your wife's second

into

you've

audi an all-fired crooked mouth 1 thought as how yon might a failed into the brook when yon was a baby ami your mother hang yon ap by the mouth to dty.' ...

got

to faQ of trouble,

Ths astonished bridegroom exclaimed—

yoa aHstsks, we cams to hs married.' •weO/ replied Davis, *if yoa wiU insist I will atarry, you, bat befieve me my friends, yon had oh better be buried!'

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•:'.- NO. 138.

The Speech of Thomas Francis Meajfher, oa Receiving Sentence of Death. Mr. Meagher on being asked, after hii conviction of high treason at Clommel in 1848, whether he had anything to say why sentence of death and execution should not be passed upon him. said

My Lords, it ia my intention to soy a few wordi only. I desire that last act of the proceeding which has occupied much of tho puhiib time should be of short duration. Nor have I the indelicate wish to close the dreary ceremony of a State

rosecution

!ear

with a vain display of words. Did 1 that hereafter when I snail he no more, the country I have tried to serve would think ill of me, I might indeed avail myself of this solemn moment to vindicate my sentiments and con duel. But I have no such fear. The oountrv will judge of those sentiments and that conduct ina light far different than that which the jury by, v»hich I have been convicted have viewed them and by the country, tho sentence which you. my Lords, are about lo pronounce #111 he rememherhd at the severe and solemn attestation of my rectitude and truih. Whatever be that language in whioh that setitenca be spoken, I know that my fate will men with sympathy, and that my memory will be honored, hi speaking thus, excuse me not, my Lords, of an indecorous presumption.

To the efforts I have made in a ju9t and nobl« cause, I ascribe no vain importance^-nor do 1 claim for those eflorta any high reward. BatUfO happens—and will ever happen so—:tliat Ihey^wiio have tried to serve their country, no niBller^ow weak the effort may have been, arc sure to receive (he thanks and blessings of the people. With my country, ihen, 1 leave my memory, my sentiments, my aots, proudly feeling that they require no vindication from me this day A jury of my countrymen it is true, have found me guilty of ihe crime of which I stood indicated. Fortius I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them. Influenced as they must have been by thechargn of the Lord Chief Justice they could have found no other verdict. What of that charge? Any stronp observation on it, would ill befit Ihe solemnity of this scene, but would earnestly beseech of you my lord—you preside on that bench—when the passions and prejudices of this hour have passed away, to appeal lo your conscience, and ask of it. was your charge, as it ought lo have been, iu p»rtial rind indifferent between the subject and the crown. My lords you nmy deein

Pronounce, then, my lorda, the sentence which ihe law directs, and I wil! be prepired lo hoar it. I trust 1 shsll be prepared to meet lis execution. I hope to be able* with a pure heart and perfect, composure, lo appear before a bigncr tribunal— a tribunal where a Judge of infinite goodness, as well as of justice, will preside, and where, my lords, many, many of the judgements of ibis worid will be re veined.

The seniencs of the court was then pronounced, af it had been previously on Mr. OJBrian. It was as follows '•The sentence in, tbat you, Terreoce BelTew yoi McManus, you, Patrick O'Donohoe, and you, Thomas Francis Meagher, be taken hence to ihe place of execution—thai each of you shall there be banged by the neck, lili you are dead, and that afterwards, the hesd of each of you shall be severed from the body of each divided into four equal quarters, lo be utsposed of as her Magesiy miy think fit. And may the Almighty God have mer* cjf on your souls!"

...

This barbarous sentence, alter some painful suspense, wes commuted, by her gracious M.ijisly, into one of iransjwrtstion to the penal colonies.

Up %. 11 Tits Japan KxfEMno?r^—The New York Herald ssys it learn* from practical and reliable sourcos—through the medium of some of the officer* of ths Dutch frigate, Prinoe of Orange, now lying Castle Garden—that we shall have a tough job in getting the Japanese to consent lo a commercial intercourse with us and so far from obtaining a peaceable negoctarion end traaiy, ths Emperor of Japan is making preparations to give us a warm greeting-—tbat be has strongly fortified every part of bis coast, and that ho has a nation of well equipped soldiers ready to pontics down upon us.—They agpfee in tbinkiag tftat our forco is utterly in* adeqeats to the task of making an eulry into the City of Jeddo.

Among the articles sent over the Erie Railroad, a few days ago, was a piano for Salt Lake, Utah Territory. The distance is about 4,000 miles, the place where it is destined to go a few years ago, was inhabited only by the Indians and a wilderness peopled with the red race and a few trappers only, has to be crossed before it is reached. -----

Of As sixty captains now in the navy. W/lr fiino

arsiMv at aatM

Una

Uriguago

unbecoming iu me, and perhaps it may scul my fate. But 1 am here lo speak ihe truth, whatever it may cost. I am here lo retract nothing I havo ever done—to reiraci nothing I have ever said I am hero to crave with no lying lip, the life I consocrate lothe liberty of my country, l"\»r from iteven here—where the thief, tho libertine, ihe murderer, have left their foot prints in the dust—here, on this spot, where the shadows of death surround me, and from which I see my early grave, in an unanointed soil, open to receive me—even here, enciroled by ihoso terrors, the hope which havo been wrecked, still consoles, animates, enrapture* me. No, I did not despair of my old country— her peace—her liberty—her glory. Kor tliut country I can do no more than bid her hope.

To lift this Island up—to mako her a benefactor to humanity, instead of being the meanest beggtr itf the world—to restore her to her native powers and constitution, this has been my ambition, and this ambition my crime Judged by tho UI*M of England, 1 knew this crlrHe entails the penalty of death, but the history of Ireland explains thiscrim" and justifies it. judged by lhat hittory, am no criminal,( You (addressing Mr. McMar.uu) are no criminal. You (addressing Mr. O'Dononoe,) are no criminal, and deierve no punishment. Judged by that history, the treason of whtch I stand convinced loses all its guilt—ia sanctified as a duty, will be ennobled as a sncrofico. With these sentiment*, my Lord I awoil the sentenco of the court. Having done what I feel to be my duty—having spoken what I felt to he the truth, as 1 have don* on every occasion of'my short career, I now bid farewell to the Isnd o( my birth, my passions and my death—the country whose misfortunes havo invoked my sjmathiee—whose factions I liav« sought to still'—-whose intellect I prompted to a lofty aim—whose freedom has been my fatal dream. I offer to that country, as a proof of the love I bear her, and the sincerity with which I thought, and spoke and struggled for her freedom—the life ot a young heart, and with that I.ft all the hop**, ihe honors and endearments of a happ and honorable home.

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