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Ti'DUiS L9HING, Elltor aal ProprieMr: BENJAMIN I. II3WZE, Correspjndiife Editor. 0NS D3LL.U Per Annua, invariably in Adrance. VOL. 3. WILMINGTON, FRIDA5T, JULY 19, 1850. NO. 49. ADVERTISEMENTS, Oa U nited extend will be inserted in the Wttky v. 1 ,,,;.at th3 following rates : .,re I insrtioa, 30,50 I 1 square, 2 months, $2,00 . K 2 d j. 0.75 I do. J do. 2,5U ' 3 do. 1,0a j I dj. 6 do. 4.00 h,, I month, 1,23 1 do. 1 year, 6,00 'e3 lines, or less, njake o square. if ai advertisement exceed ten lines, the price Villtein proportion ' UUlv'jrtUe.nents are payable at the timeofthei .rlinn. V- All adrertlsemeots inserted in the Weekly rr.n'erci-ii ara entitle i td one insertion in the Tri-. Weekly free oi cnarse. OBSERVATIONS AND ODDITIES. No. 8. Xiirht travel Erie The first Steam Boat Mrs. Ilcid and the Boss Build 'ei The (julf.Tie Quaker's pretty daughter Fredonia. , Mh. Editor : . It was far in the -night, and we were roll in alon over the hard and even road most pleasantly, when the clear mellow notes of the Driver's Bugle (they are too enlightened here to use the old fashioned tin Horn) an nounced our approach to some large Town, and in a short time we were dashing at a rapiJ rate up the broad and well, lighted streets of Erie. I was in this, as I have been in many similar instances, amused by the strong passion for display evinced bythe coachman for mileVwe had him going along at a very modest pace, but the very moment the first lights of the Town were reflected from the windows of the coach, crack went -the whip, and away dashed the Horses, as though oIJ Nick himself was at their heels. There's nothing like making a fuss in the world, for in nine cases out of ten, men will take you rather as what you seem to be than at what yon are ; and I presume that it is in this view of the case that Stage Drivers whip up so - sharply on entering a Town, for they know enough of human nature to suppose that a bystander, seeing a tired jaded team come v.rveping in, would at once say, that the line was not well kept up else the Horses would he in belter plight. - Eric is a town of some importance, and although bv no means famous as a marke, it is yet a place of considerable trade. Many years ago, Ex-Governor Reed of Pennsylvania, built, at this place the first Steam Boat ever launched upon Lake Erie, ami I have frequently heard my grandfather mention a circumstance which transpired at that time which had nearly immortalized the - Governess, I suppose the wife of a Gov ernor should be styled. The circumstance was this. The hands employed in the con struction of the Boot numbered about thirty, and at meal times, the old Lady, who was re markably nice in her cookery, found that no small hole was made in "her store of provis ions. In vain she fretted and fumed, meal times xcoidd come, and her food as a matter of course was bound to go at length she hit upon an expedient and the next mornjng the hands sat down to sour bread. Many gram looks were cast towards her end of the table, but the good old creature, all uncon scious of any wrong, was extremely busy in pouring out the Corn Coffee, and attend ing to her rnkniibld duties as matron. , So matter's continued for a week, until a general mooting of the hands was called, and -it was agreed that the boss should make a public complaint the next meal. Dinner lime came, and all were seated around the tabic, when the boss, quietly holding up his bread, remarked, Mrs. Reed, your bread is sour. Sour ! cried the old lady, evidently surprised. Yes, madam, sour; ray wife is certainly a better cook than you are, for she never gives us sour bread. The old lady peered for a moment through her spectacles at the audacious man, and then broke fourth, sour! Yes sir, I know it's sour; I made it sour a purpose ; how long d'ye think good sweet bread would Jast pmong'sich a gang o' bands as this is? There was a universal roar of laughter at, the good woman's ex pense, and ever after that the hands had sweetbread to eat. From Erie east nothing of importance oc curred, except that I irnproved my opportu nity and formed an intimate acquaintance with my sweet little neighbor. She was re ally a lovely creature her eyes were black, oh blaclc a3 midnight, - or charcoal, her hair was ditto, and hung in long, graceful curls over a neck as white as a ray of moonlight reflected from a tinned roof; "her cheek was ol a rosy red, and when she laughed, as she ofteu did1 was indented by the softest and prettiest dimple imaginable. Her form 1 can't venture to describe, but let it suffice to ay, that if nature, in some gentle mood, had tried to mould a form of perfect symmetry, and. lend to it her most effective charm, the grace of motion, she would have blushed,' when her work was completed, to find that1 the little Quakeress exceeded her most per fect conception. Late in the evening of the ensuing day we halted upon the brink of a gulf, which was about an eighth of a mile in width, and descended to a depth of many hundred feet, The descent was so abrupt, and the narrow road, winding downward among the jagged and irregular rocks, seemed so unsale, that my fair companions insisted upon getting out and crossing the chasm on foot; I, of course, accompanied the Iovelypedestrians, and away we started at a run, leaving the less nervous father to snooze at his ease. It is a very nlensant thinf? for a man to find two or thmr. charming creatures dependent upon him for guidance and protection ; it invests him for the time with a new and holy character ; he feels possessed, as it were, of the fire of Hec tor, coupled with the wisdom of Nestor, at once a brother and a father. Well sir. nret- y. much in that same way did I feel as I. was racing with those sweet confiding girls, down own, down into that infernal chasm which j iu upun ueeper Deiore posing inai spiru-KnocKings were now Decom t. At length we reach- ing "general and frequent. ! Chancing, our .w different Trom what selself to know of three cases the pubity .of which is carelully avoided for these rea- us the farther we went, C I lt,o !'- frtm 'l n1 V r ttt ' m, . we anucipateu : nere was a narrow val- ey, carpeted witn green and snaded by over- 1 . t a ft -a hanging trees, so still, so beautiful, so like a rare and delicate nainthnr. that but for the ' ' ' " mejouious voices oi a tnousana Diras wiucn were singing in the boughs above, mingling their notes with the soft murmurings of the u fl,rrQ.i 4v,.vk (i,,, 1 ., to . r in , , , muisi, nosounu oi me couiu nave oeen nearo; and then the soft voices of the fair beings beside me, mingled with the sweet notes of the birds, and the singing of the brook, until ' umi very music iounu an ecno witfiin nie and beauty and music so filled my heart that I absolutely fell into the stream, which I had Tviihnnt nn.ivin. it r,;;.r Tt, . , 'x-r xco t. i...,. .ui , jruuug ienow to oecorae so lnieresieu m a pretty girl as to watch her face for a smile : it leads him into all sorts of scrapes ; makes him get into frequent brown studies, "Grow Rosy with hope, Or lean with jealousy, Or pallid with despair," To lose his spirits and his appetite, His love of pleasure and his fear of pain, And, be in fact more than a man, and less. " Oh ! woman ! tou should'st have few "Sins of, thine own to answer for, " Thou art the author of such a Book " Of follies in a man that it would Take all the tears of all the Angels " To blot the record out." Lindsay. When the stage came down I was right glad to get in, for there's a wide difference between running down. and walking up hill, and in about half an hour after, we changed horses at a post house Which stood upon the state line, half in Pennsylvania and half in tt -tr , tit . INew York. We were soon traversing the fa latter State and I grew momentarily more silent I eould not talk not because I was in love, or thoughtful, or, like the Irishman, 'say sick from ridin in the cooch but J - - ' simply because I was tired, sleepy, and most awfully hungry. It was ungallant and very unsentimental I know, but I could not help it. and in the natural course of things I was shortly fast asleep. I dont know how long I had slept when I was awakened by a heavy irregular pressure upon my breast which I found to be the head, of m'' enchan ting companion, quietly pillowing itself there, as if nature-had assigned its proper resting place. I am by no means superstitious, nor am. I a believer in dreams and omens, but this circumstance coupled with a dream which was yet fresh upon my mind, induced me to think that Providence intended us for each other, and . . " On that hint I spoke ; " I told her of my loneliness, and unsatisfacto ry wanderings; I described to her my Fa ther's pleasant home on the banks of the Cape Fear; I invested all connected with myself with a poetical ideal interest, until M She loved me for the sorrows I'd endured," and then she. turned her soft lips up to mine, and gave me one long clinging confiding kiss; oh ! it was nectar, while it lasted, but gracious powers I it Jefl a taste like that of the beautiful fruit which grows on the bor ders of the Dead Sea, so bitter and nause ous, that I came near vomiting. Let me whisper it to you ; my rare exotic, my sensi tive plant, my Bird of beauty, my incompar able Innamorata, Chewed Tobacco hush ! Now I was in a pickle; I had made a declaration, she had accepted ; and worst of all, the old man was in the coach. What could I do ? there was no sort of a, chance to back out without subjecting myself to the prospect of a severe thrashing; I finally managed the matter, by getting the driver to drop me at the last po3t house, and carry my baggage on to Fredonia. Next day, I put up at the little Hotel in the dlao-e of Fredonia. And as I remain led here for , sometime, enjoying the pure j breeze wThich came in fresh from the Lake, and sporting among the village Belles, I J raost perforce make a gap in my narrative j ancl tor tne present, cease to trouble you with further details. I shall have much more to relate and some observations to make upon matters and things at home one thing at a time however first, that which few here have seen, and afterwards what all sec, but lew heed. PETER SNAPPS, From the Home Journal. GHOST KNOCKINGS. The damage to the renting ot a house by the knowledge that there have been mysteri- ous noises heard in it, and the unwillingness mos. persons w uecome sumects oi puoj.c mnuino- nnhl,V. of mnRtnf th ;natncr,. posing that spirit-knockings were now becom- J or wnicn is careiuny son rand not seeing how or whv we should I. ' , . C3 . know more ot such things than our neirh bore, i we ieeJ justihed in thinking" it probable I .1. . . U 1. U.i JL. WIrtl U1C ,UCIIU ycuuii wimiuver u s I mnro nmmnn flifr Moo honn cnnTAcfH ; nrtt ,r hnsta nnr tnmntv whn iinvp j,0 j monopoly of it not two impostors nor tw'en- ly ( imposture it be.) who have hit on the same trick, with the same manner ol per forming it. in fliflerent and very distant v,- ces. Let it turn out what it wi th to - one so much discussed, that all which throws hght upon it is interesting, and we will ' scoop UP ' fo.r rour waders the bubble or so that has tinnfpil from tnp frpnpr:il s rpam intn nnrodi it editorial. The first story we have to tell is rather to the disparagement of ghosts, and goes to show that the mind may remain pretty much tRe same, for a while, after death, weakness and all. It wars narrated in a letter to a pri- vate gentleman in this city, by an English friend with whom he is in familiar corrcs- pondance. Names cannot be given, for the reason we snecmed in the tirst sentence ot this article, and it was written with no thought of publicity but the writer is a man of re markable mind and attainmei ts, and the cor respondence is mainly upon topics of religious and moral progress. We briefly give the facts : ' The wife and children of Mr. W. had been very much disturbed for some months, by un accountable knocking. An occasional and inexplicable waving ot their bed curtains was another phenomenon which troubled them. They occupied an old house, of which Mr. W. had a long lease; but, as he wished to dispose of his lease and move to another part of London, and as he' thought these phenom ena were tricks that would be explained, he HkeK. to nreilldice the lesae: ftnd thPV WV a forbade a mention ol the family secret accordingly.' Though not a physician, he was a man of considerable medical knowledge, and, a lemale cousin be- iiiir suuieei iu mts oi epueusy, ue una xrieu . J. r r 'i' . , e.xnenments ol animal mao-netism tor her case. These had been partially successful, when, on magnetizing her. in one of her fits. ?ne changed trom a passive state to a look of rl I r .i i Whnt. n sincmlar old woman is m thfi room ! she suddenly exclaimed. No one being present but Mr. W. and his vvl he questioned the epilepttc,getting grad- uaV -a , y 2u"uLif zed hi3 grandmother, who had been dead several years. He requested her to ask the old lady what she wanted. ' She is most anxious to speak to yourself.5 was the reply. Farther parley Induced the venerable ghost to open her mind through a second person. She was distressed at the neglect with which her dresses and ornaments were treated, her favorite and valuable things left to mould in out-of-the-way corners, in a way that was insufferable, even where she was. Having entirely forgotten the existence of these articles, Mr. W. inquired where they were. The old lady at once gave explicit directions where they could be found, and found they were, in the very places described, and in the very condition which had vexed the unchanged memory of the departed. The-were attended to, and there were no more supernatural noises for some months. A recurrence of an attack, while the cou sin was on a visit to the house some time af terwards, brought animal magnetism again into play, and, at the moment of the patient's subjection to the influence a violent knock ing was onpe more heard. The patient did not, this lime, become clairvoyant, and no communication was received in any intelligi ble shape from the unlaid grandmother. The knocking at night were resumed, how ever, and Mr. WV determined j to try if he could himself get a demonstration, and. in that case, to speak his mind, with the hope that deafness was not among the ills that ex-flesh is heir to. He took, a book and kept himself awake till after midnight, and then tried to will up the knockings. At two, they suddenly resounded, and he then pro ceeded to give his grandmother a lecture. He laid before her, in plain terms, ihe way she was disturbing the family, the risk of dam aging his interest, and the better things she ought, for decency's sake, to appear to be thinking about, bet iveen this and judgement day. .As he went on, the knockings, by their incased rapidity as they broke iii, from time, expressed displeasure; and, at tlie last allu sion and its reproof there was a pel feet storm of tappings. Mr. W. then bade his grandrao thel' good night, and went toi bed since which, the knockings hate heeii heard. j no more IfroH as this is, it is narrated with perfect sincerity by a strong-minded amljhighly ed ucaiea man. and we call on the reader to cresit thus much though he may put what cofy:uction he pleases on the circumstances 1 1 ueiaus lor iacts. supposing fit irue. u would suggest a query reasonalile enough, viz: wether those who were wedded most exclusively to this life and its trivialities are not those who cling most to it after death, and are not most eager and most likely to stumble on some way to speak toius. Ghosts have continually appeared, to see about property, buried money, and such mere mat- . r li i. ?.ti tersoi.tnis worm, wnereas no;-intelligent ghost Cthat we ever heard of, at least) has once put his nose back, through the dropped curtains of time and desire, to tell! us a single thing that is either useful or agreeable. And yet, that all ghosts, gentle and sjmple, see things with their new eyes, which it would be most interesting for us to jkuovv. can scarcely be doubted. It is possible that none but a 'low' ghost would have any commu nication with us? The reader will-follow out he idea. To sive a second instance: A gentleman of our acquaintance, who lad been a politician for many yiears, (and. j ot c6urse, had no nerves that anything un 1 PI I i I 1 j l. ,- i it I sunsiantiai couiu niucn worry,; .nearu oi a farm which could be bought cheap, because the house was haunted.' I eeing simply obliged to the ghosts for the accommodation, he became the proprietor, and moved there with his family for summer quarters. His wife had no objection to the disqualification of the place, for she was a Swecfenborgian, and was willing to see any spirjt who had an errand to her. They had been there but a short time when the f knocking' commen ced. The new tenant Was a famous cross examining lawyer, and would believe noth ing on plausibilities. " He set all ihis wits to work to discover how the ghosfs did their pounding for, they were the blows of a sledge hammer apparently and the house being a wooden one. the disturbance to sleep and comfort amounted to a serioujs; nuisance. He was wholy unsuccessful. Three days ago he told the vvriter of this tl at it was still a complete mystery. Hi wife, (to her own belief") has seen ar spirit walfk through the locked door of her bed-room, but as it made no communication,-, they remain in the dark as to its object. The place ras no his tory beyond crops. It has been qccupied al ways by such people as none butj very illit- erate gliosis could nave had any acquain- tance with. i One instance more: A family of young people, who very well, moved into a new m we knew three-story brick house, in the upper part f this city. last year. Spirits are supposed to haunt on ly antiquated dwellings, but, here, they even got the start of rats, cockroachesj and other nuisances, for, unaccountable knockings were heard before the coming in of Ihe bill for the first quarter's rent. They sent down to or der the servants to stop pound&ig, on the evening when they first heard t, but the cook was alone and had done nothing of the kind. They lit candles at nightjand again and again, ransacked the house from garret to cellar, to find out what that confounded knocking could be, and discovered nothing that would any way explain it.. Being -young people, full of health, and with no unsettled accounts worth a dead man's while to come back about, they are getting gradually in different to it, already alluding to the matter with more fun than terror. j It is a point gained, (as riddance of fright on such subjects,) even if we may reasona bly question whether all ghosts, are respect able enough to be worthy ol no deed, anew and intelligent medi tricity is to ba subjected to our ice. ji. m im of elec service if d move ta- spirits who will, now. at commaq bles and chairs, are to be put un(er the con trol of the living they are, of ccfurse infer ior to the spirits still in the botfy. Is it a class of the damned yho are about being turned to account? Wa3 there hot wanted in the progress of the world, anj intelligent slave, to play the messenger between our in tellects and the clearer perceptions of the spirit world, and has not Pi oviderice given us a clue to communication with thri new agent in these electric knockings which jmay be the first lessons in an alphabet of spirit language ? Of course there will be much less sin-ning, when a ghost can be put on the sjtand for a witness; and, indeed, it is in this view, main ly, that we fear it to be a thing for which the world is not quite ready. That j spirits are coolly looking on and listening, whatever we do and say7is a fact that ha3 not hitherto been much of an embarrassment to us but, when they can go and tell ! virtue becomes inevitable! The pulpit's duty 'encourage ment to these knockings is very j clear; but will it be popular, on the whole, to know things easier than at present, andjvviil people be willing to see established, (wpich seems very likely,) a system of communication be tween the other world and this, for a trifling ghostage, as now between cities for a trifling postage ; news by ghost easy ab news by post ? It is a subject which, as Bulwer says, 'opens up.' ; A Dark Deed. The Nilea (Mich.) Re publican learns that the negro to whom was entrusted all the property of the colored set tlement of Casa county:, has fled the county with three or four thousand dollars, leaving the settlement quite destitute. Krom Lht Alia California. Horrible Slaughter of Indians. We have just received particulars of the recent slaughter of a large body of Cigar Lake Indians, by an expedition sent against hem from the U. S. Garrisons at Souama and Benecia. The tribe that incurred this terrible punishment comprises the natives of Sonoma and Napa rallies, and has main- tamed, in general, undisturbed peaceful re I anions with the white settlers of that, section of : California. Last . summer loye verT ,"a stubborn family Indian offered an indignity" to the wife of one Kels'ey. who had resided in the country some nine yearsvfor which he was taken before a magistrate and sentenced to receive one hundred lashes. After "this punishment, on the same day. we are inform e.d. Kelsey sought the wretched offender and laid him dead at his feel, shooting him in the presence of several gentlemen, who remon strated with him on the barbarity of the deed. This man Kelsey.was afterwards murdered, as ivas also a brother-in-law, by the Indians of the neighborhood. Since then repeated acts ol violence hava been visited unou the natives, and our readers will remember the accounts which we published a few months sinca, of outrages committed in Sonoma and. Napa, by a party ol desperate white men. The Indians were driven to the mountains and subsequently made depredatory inclu sions upon their old masters, driving away cattle, and indulging their natural propensity to steal. LompIaints were made, doubtless the accounts ol their conduct highly colored. to the garrisons at lienccia and Sonoma, and on the 1st of the month an expedition was lilted out against them, composed ol a detachment of Infantry, and a company ol Dragoons, under command of Lieut. David son, ( D m all) with orders to proceed against the Clear Lake Indians, and exter minate if possible the tribe. T he troops arrived , in the vicii.iiy ol the Lake, and came unexpectedly upon a body of Indians numbering between two and three hundred. They immediately surrounded them and as the Indians raised a shout of defiance and attempted escape, poured in it destructive fire indiscriminately upon men, women and children. "They fell.', says our informant, ';as grass before the sweep of the scythe." Little or no resistance was encoun tered, and the work of butchery was of short duration. The shrieks of the slaughtered victims died away, the roar of muskets 'that ceased, and stretched lifeless upon the sod of their native valley were the bleeding bodies of these Indians nor sex, nor age was spared ; it was the order of extermination fearfully obeyed. The troops returned to the stations, and quiet is for the present re stored. TOUCHING INCIDENT. A lady, who arrived here from the South, Saturday evening, found when she left New Haven, that her nurse, a colored woman and ivas missing. She could not account. lor it. and her friends suggested that ihe wo man had availed herselfof the opportunily to secure her freedom ; but she did not be- leve it, and thought the tram on Monday would bring her. And sure enough, on Monday she appeared. It seems that in changing cars at New Haven, she went hack after something that one of the chil dren had fbrgotton, and so was left behind And the faithful creature, finding hersell j left, and only intent on reaching her mistress, immediately started off, following the Rail rood track as her guide, and sleeping out that night, pushed on a 11 day Sunday, and slept out the next night, and reached here Monday morning about 11 o'clock, hating traveled the whole sixty miles on foot. i Springfield Revitb. A freak of Electricity from the clouds yes terday, came well nigh demolishing our tele graphic office. The batteries were much injured and one of the. machines entirely un fitted for use. Bv the ingenuity ?.nd perse verance of the Superintendant Mr. Taylor, f another batterv and instrument was replaced and communication was had with Macon but the electricity beyond, was so great, that the wires would not operate. We are there fore without our regular telegraphic de spatches. Savannah Georgian. Monday. Sad Accident at Hollidaysburg, ia. The Philadelphia papers contain the particulars of a sad accident which occurred at Hollidaysburg (Pa ) on the 4th instant. The correspondent of the Penn sylvanian says, : "A most distressing casualty, attended with loss of life, occurred yesterday. It has shrouded our gen erally quiet town completely in gloom. Iiannyan & Kelly's Menagerie exhibited here yesterday. During the performances in the ring of the elephant Ann, and while the audience were collected on the seats, a sudden gust of wind and rain, accompanied by hail, sprung up. It struck the pavilion razing the entire structure to the ground. The pole unfortu nately fell upon that part occupied by the audience, killing one person, a stranger of the name of Moore, and severely injuring many others by the falling of the seats one or two small children so much that very little hopes are entertained of their recovery. At tho sametime a terrible howling was set up by the different animals, which, together with the screams of the women and children, produced a scene of indescribable confusion. It was a heart rending and appalling scene." FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF TOE FIRE. Additional accounts to those published In another column of the fire in Philadelphia, inform us that the whole number of houses was three hundred and fifty four. Seventeen dead bodies have Lten found. It was, indeed, a terrible calamity. VrocIaaiaUon or the Surremc Judge d" New '; Mexico. ; . ; . Translated from the Spanish. ! Santa Fe, March 13, 1550. ? My Esteemed Friend The arrival of a commis sioner from Texas has been advertised, and we have received the address from the Governor of raid Stato ordering to the inhabitants on the east side of tbo I ltio del Norte the organization, under the Govern- mcnt ot Texas, of the counties. All the right of this aflair devolves on the people, who have the right by the constitution to jnove prcoabh. and to deny ab solutely all their ubedien eand regard to the doing, orders or proclamations of the commissioners of Texas. The Government under whoso control we are "li v inr, and the civil officers who ore administering our laws, have been constituted a superior power, ond these laws and these oCicers we are all bound to sup port, until the Government .at Washington mako other and more permanent arrangements for the bet ter management of our Government. . We should be, neither loyal nor disobedient to Texas. Any attempt from that Government lo the unjust i hlll,n, tnro-,Bt w if ,r ,hw h by a firm and decided will of the people, nlthou&h of a pacific character, it will be rather better than to come to the facts through the; medium of hostili ties. . i ' - .. . After having taken the advice of the beat friends of the country, I consider it to be my duty to charge in the name of those friends, and of mine also, that every country immediately put in use of their rights which arc tlreaJy warranted to them by the laws, to come forward and tocxpresl with unity and firm ness, and in the form of resolutions,, their opinions on so very interesting: an affair for us alL And that when such thing the resolutions shall be done, they may be forwarded to Santa Fe for their publication, with the request that such mee tings as ours shall take place on the first day of the. week next. . " The following rule? are to be embosomed in tho people's mind : Not to the tlection polls which shall be opened by the commissioner, not to approve, nei ther to strengthen any one of his acts or doings, and not to contribute to him any kind of obedience or respect. If the people keep strictly this plan in their conduct the present mission of the commissioner of Texas will be ns useless as that of Judge Caird last year. Ihis very interesting affair is already in the hands of,he PeoP,e' lhe mi,i,ary power neither helps, hinders, nor intrudes itself in favor nor against tho claims of Texas. The General Government is very culpablo for its neglect in the arrangement of the boundaries of New Mexico; but we ure waiting everyday for news from our delegate, and feel well founded hopes of tho complete success of his mission, whilofo also ore true and faithful to ours. Your fellow-cjen and servant, J. HOUGHTON. Intel cstiiis from Oregon Hescue of Fifty Women and Chlldrcu. ; Governor Lane, of Oregon, has, by energetic means, succeeded in getting from the Indians nine of the murderers engaged in the massacre of Rev. Sir. Whitman's family in 1S47. Among them are said to be two Catholic priests. They were to be tried before the legislature, which met May 13th, and they have probably been put to death. Major. Ogden had previously pursued tho Indians, killed a number of them, and rescued about fifiy women and children, taken captives at tho time of the murder of Dr. Whitman's family. Tho women ha 1 been compelled to become the wives if 4 some of the chiefs. ' . Lately, some friendly Indians have given Infor mation in Oregon, that the wives and children of some families, who journedover this route last sea son, are now prisoners among the Digger Indians the men having been murdered. The Oregoni ons are highly incensed at these outrages, and it is thought they will not be satisfied' until the offen sive Indians are exterminated. The ICIackatats and Calipoe In.Iians have 'offer ed their services to -Gov. Lane against tho hostile Indian tribes. It is thought that with these and the forces of the territory, Gov. Lane will be able to - open a safe orcrlanl communication with Califor nia, f - t ' ' - ' THE CALIFORNIA BLOCK. A block of California gold-bearing quartz, has reached New York, being the contribution of that State for the Washington National Monument.t It was brought on In charge of Hon. John Uldwtli ; and Judge Schoolcraft. , This block of gold-bearing quartz is from the Mariposa diggings, near Fremont's mines, and weighs about 125 lbs. In shape it is-Irregular, ap proaching a square, its sideis varying from eighteen to twenty inches in length. ' It averages in thick ness nine inches across its surface diagolly it is twenty-one nches by measurement. Very little gold Is preceptible to the naked eye, but it is eslima mated to contain about eighty dollars worth. Seriocs Explosion Los of Life. A quanti ty of percussion caps, stored in the umbrella factory, of Charles King, on Cedar street, N. V., exploded on Tuesday, blowing off a portion of the roof, shat tering the wall, and injuring several workmen. One of them, John Perry, was fatally wounded, his face, chest ond body being perfectly riddled with the caps, which fill the skin like small shot. The damage to the building is $5,000. It U not known what caus ed them to explode, ' Disgraceful. A disgraceful riot occurred at Piktland township, Chester county, Pa., in a church on Sunday last. The minister. Rev, A. C. Shlnkle, it seems, is unpopular with the sovereigns oi that region, and while he was preaching they ottacke-J him with damaged eggs and other missile. Sever al persons were arrested.
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