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' 1 1 ' 'l '' ' ' ' " ; ! : 1 1 i .v , ' 1 " 71 ' ' ' ' ' ' . " ' m - . : - 1 1 1 1 : ! X . TiIO.VIA.Si LORING, Editor and Proprietor: TWO DOLLARS Per Annum, invariably in Advance. NO. 37 VOL. 5. WILMINGTON, FRIDAY. MAY 21. 1852. I FOR THfi COMMERCIAL. 'TIVAS IN THE MONTH OF MAY. 'Twas in the merry month of May, When h'.ithsome Lasses romp all day, Anl twine fair flowers in their hair, - And luugh to see them drooning there; That Kate and I strolled forth sto view, ,L Sveet Nature, wear her loveliest hue, And pliick her grateful offerings fair, That lent their fragrance to the air. We Muinfered down the shady lane, And hied us to the sloping plain, When-gaily fI rung the timid Hare, Forth from his little grassy lair, And oh ! bow lovely was the scene Beneath that azure ky serene; How charmingly the meadow lay With lovely flowers blooming gay. There laughed the rose, on verdant bush, While lillies blushed behind the rush,-' And scented was the evening air. " . From hcey suckles growing near ; Nowar the 'Thrush on yonder tree And, now-the Robin o'er the lee, Vhile loud the Mock-bird's notes were heard, And louder still the levin herd: ;' j '" !- The little brook meandering by, Si-iit forth a feeble lullaby, C High wantoning the Minnows leaped, In. the little stream from which we sipped ; And nought was there to break the spell, While lingering in that woodland dell, And many praises from Kate aud i, ; Went up to God who rules on high. 7 w. From the Raleigh Christian Sun. ARCHBISHOP IIUfcllES, AND IIS CATIIOIilC ClIAPTfclt IN THE lilSTOUV OF HIS COUNTUY. I have'been lor a 'number of viara watch ing tli niovni&iits of the lenders of Roman Catholicism iulhis country, and recently hiv attention lias been direct d to the course of (lie distinguished advocate of the man of sin. and the ingenious manner be bus tried to lli-ow a veil ovi-r t lie eyes jl the people, lo keep lh ni fiom seeing h corruptions oi the Catholic Chun h. and to cover up The dark and bloody deedtrof Popes and pardi ii. tls in c.ars pa:. "' He now rme'hefore the- public wiih a chapter on ibis country, ami would have us believe, that Protestants arc deeudeiit upon Cut In! ire-- for ihe freedom of this land. He has studied i h.etoric. and? ; understands w to seize upon the isolated .favorable joints ol bis subject, for tin? purpose of car rini forward his principles. - In his lecture, a few fi.venings since lie la bored h.ird nT prove.' that under the constitu tion of iln- United States Roman Catholics x re entitled to civil nd religious liberty Who ever disputed it ? Tind vvna.t is the use to spend so mucii time to prove something tluit no p' rson denies, and every school boy knows is true. m Under, the same constitution the Jew can build bis synagogue, the Turk his mosque, nnd the Persian er ct his temple" to the sun. iind their ehiblreii can aspire o the biiliest "Hires. No o e disputes these lack-.. Te . An-hhishop. cilcs. and connect, in one Reci tal three . rerun rMible and di lant events. 1st. The s ippoi t given by Isabella. Queen of Spain to Columbus. 2d. The erection ol die cross, b tie. latter on the Island, of San Salvador. 3d. The resignation of his .command ol the ami) . These embrace a period of near 300 years. But let me ask what were the Catholics doing all this time ? The Archbishop does not stop to, tell u$ of the bloody wars and persecutions perpetra ted by ihe Catholic Church. : He does not tell us that this period em braced the massacre of 70 000 Protestants in Void blood on St. Bartholomew's day in France, or the revocation of the edici of Nantz which ruined thousands of families. iid drove them into desolate exile. It was during this period that the most infernal of . . i - . .... .mr::t:i institutions, "the inquisition", yras in full blast arvd on the wheels of which were broken, the jbones. spirits, and souls of its vic tims. It was during this period that the JCftthnlic Spaniards, by their cruelties des troyed whole tribes of unoffending Indians in South America. It was during this period that Las Casis. a Catln lie priest seeing ihe suffering and decimation of the Indians in the West India Islands, by 'he cruelties in flicted upon'them. was the first to introduce African Slaves to supply their places, as be ing ada ted to withstand the climate. Then again how was Columbus treated and rewar ded b Catholic Spain for his services. It was during this period th U Protestants were burnt at the stake for coitscience' sake in ( England, and other parts of Catholic Eu rope. It was during the reign of bloody Queen "Mary a Catholic and granddaughter o vainouc p erujuanu oi aragon in spam, thit the inost orrid persecutions prevailed in the pages of history. She ca.ne to the throne ol England in .1553,' it nd reigaed until 1558. five years, which foraes in the period named by the Bishop. I her brief reign the historjau tejl.s us that 277 persous were burnt to death by the Cath olic persecutions of this .bigoted woman, be Sldea thousands, of othersi who were punish u by imprisonments, fines, confiscations. '"Amongst those who suffered were five Pro estantsBifchops. twenty nie clergyman, eight 'aV getitleineii, eighty 'four : ..tradesmen. ; one hundred husbandmen", fill v-five women and ,Qur children "'flal, is in Prance, which En- j;larid hud held for 200 years was lost in this reign. If Q,ueen Mary left any jewels. I would recommend ihat Archbishop Hughes should distribute them between th "Pope. Emperor of Austria. Nicholas of Russia, and Lo::is Napoleon. Q,ueen Elizabeth glorious Protestant reign of 4i years froin 1553 to 6U2. did more for the civilization of man. than all tlte monarehs who had preeeeded her, from tle faU. (f Greece and Home to he?- cxroualion.-. Tru-. nutde ancient British blood ol the. TudVrt- flowed in her veins. The support ol the Re formation caused Catholic Spain to plot with the rest of Catholic Europe fr her. .destruc tion. Thi GratidArtnad(i was 'formed un-. der a Gijtholk crusadi;, against her throne. They called it ihe" Invincible Armada." The avowed object of ?hillip Ki.ig of .Spain in fitting it out was the extension of the. Calh olie rjUrhti, and the extermination of the reformation. This Gram) Armada consisted (1 of 130 large vessels of war, and was to be commanded by the Marquis of Santa Croce. (Holy Cross.) "Tie Duke of Parma was lo conduct the land forces 20 000 of whom were on bott'il the fleet, and 31.000 were as sembjed in ihe Netherlands, ready to be transported to England.1' The Godpof bat tles sided with England's Protestant Q,ueen. and the Spanish. Ai ipada. ; was ;,fougj1. and vanquished, alniosf iii' sight ql Dover Cliffs. Fori) of iheir largest vessels were either captured in the English channel, or after wards wrecked on the coast of Ireland. .Tin1 miserable, remnant returned t Spain j-i tnou ument ot its disastrous defeats.- The Catho lic Mary, (lueen of Scots, who haid disgraced her se$ by her faithless vows to her husband, and her unlawful "imotir commenced . re newed Catholic, conspiraciess against Queen Elizab. th ami her throne. . Vnen she fell ! into Elizabeth's. power.. Rodofphi, an istiu- meut ol the Fope... with the Hishop ol Koss, conspired with the Duke of Norfolk, to raise Mary to tlu Englich throne, but the scheme was .discovered itnd suppressed. In 1556. wn.fi .d John Billard a Popfsh priest con spiring to kill Queen Elizabeth, and lor this purpose he brought a young man and Outh olie. by. the name Babinglou. into his schemes. T.hey sncceetletl in opening a correspondence iw-ith Mary who appioved of thejr designs. The whole conspiracy was revealed to Elizabeth, who ordered the trial of Man. which result '.d-in the conviction and execu lion of this unhappv woman. For this act of Elizabeth, her whole reign and character has been held up by tin- Catholic authors in. the hlackest colors of abuse, defamation and mis representation, and it is cojilinu. d down lo l he present day. Which was the most inno cent person Ladv Jane Grey, the beauMlul and lovely bride of Dudley, the first victim of bloody' Mary's reign; or Mar Queen of Scots, ihe faithful b. ide of Lord Darjnley? f the jevjels;tf Oiilnidi'e. ' Qd'eVn' Isabi lla were to be brouirht to the tomb of it Ver non, we. would alo briatr'ihe gh-ries"id" the Protestant Queen Elizabeth and her reign. We would bring the reformation, the foun dation of all modern progress. W" wc uld bring Raleigh. Shakspeare. aid j Bacon, whose memories will only enl wiih the x tiiiciion of liberty, and the English language. H e would call up the leaders pi the 1'rot- estaot England We would call up the sons of Virginia and Massachusetts. Protes tant Colonies of Protestant England, without whose united action of brHvey. prudence skill and perseverance our independence could never have teen achieved., Que- - con tributed, her Washiogjpjifc,' Ji-ftvrsoiis. Lees. Morgans. c".and the other her Warrens. Hamlcocks, Adamse . Franklins. &c. of Prot estant faith or origin. -Virginia gave the author of the declaration of independence. Massachusetts the first sign er, and the first battle fields of the Revolution. The portion of our sacred constitution which separates forever church and state, was prepared and inserted by the same mas ter minds, who framed and promulgated the Declaration of Independence, nearly every member of the Convention who formed and adopt -d it. being Protestants, or of Protest ant origin. In the Committee which reported the De claration of Independence, there sat together two Apos les of Liberty. Jefferson, and Adams, they both filled the office of Presi dent. They widely d iffered m political view, but beia sincere, they remained personal friends, and corresponded through lite. . They were spared to see the eff-cts of the civil and religious liberty they had sirug gled to establish, and were greaMuIly re membered fV their countrymen. . On the 4th July 1826 just half u century fro.u the day Independence was declared, when the nn had risen, nnd the cannon beilowed forth c...,m ,i ihr.ni.nol hills in commemoration of L I l ' l. Li i wv. Its iionor, whil -the stars and stripes were floating in the breeze, these two aged patri ots on the self-same-day. and at the conclu sion of the same half century of liberty, and ! before the going down of the sun there of were dead, gathered with their fathers amidst a nation's rej i icings, aim louoweu oy the sorrow of all.. The Archbishop oppos es the plans of our common schools, we tell him and all others, whether high church men or other sectaries. 1 that the plan was born with the Declaration of . Independenjpef and no American. deserves the name, who would not defend the system with his life. (What is it that, in Europe sustains absolutism and is the hope of lyianlf) every where? It is iff noranee ; not ignorant .of 4igQ;af Wghfc by priestly schoolmasters, but ignorance of ci-vl and religious liberty of the inalienable rights which Ol,d Almighty has given to the ' peo ple, and of which Priestcraft and Kingcraft have denied them; still keeping them ju hopeless bondage. " What can be more de plorable than to see. as in continental Catho lic Europe, children from infancy, bound over aul and body, and mind, for life to, the con- trol, keeping, and direction or th priest horn! ? ' '"' With no hopes, no aspirations, no know I edge, no correct ideas of just government, no appreciation of liberty, no just thoughts of mentrtl or physical progress, beyond the pale or limits prescribed hy the church, or the monarchy which jt sustains. Give u the control of education of our chjldren, aiid w can make the government what we please. With millions of children in France under priestly tutel.ie.lt becemes an easy matrer for the church to prescribe the form of Gov ernment. Do Kings or prominent men rise above the prejudices of education, and strike for liberty ? all the prieMs have to do ;lo crash il.em is to. alarm the people excom municate the. leaders, shut up lite, churches, refuse baptism burials and marriages until the people become frantic, and finally kneel i v submis ion to that power, which embued their minds in infancy, with its iron bound supremacy. Is this state of things ever to exist in these United Stars by Archbishop Hughes or his successors? Let the Catho lic have the ascendency,, and. the Archbish or the control of the Government, and we should soon see the same, bloody persecution agaiast,a!l who Would not bow dawn, and worship the beast, that has ever prevailed in Catholic, countries. God save us Irom the povverL cf, ihe Pope, and the tender mercies of Archbishop Hughes. Isaac N. Walter. New York, March 24ih 1852. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. - A TEUR1ULE' NARRATIVE. The annexed account of the conviction and execution of a man oh the basis ol circum stantial evidence, is copied Irom a late vol ume . of Chambers1 Edinburg Journali Tlte tr .gedy transpired more than a hun dred ears ago; and. is now cited to warn courts and juii s against relying too implic itly on circumstantial evjdenpe. -In the vear 1742. a case ol' a" very remark able nature occurred near Hull England. A gentleman travelling to thai place was stop ped late in the eveing about seven miles Irom the town by a single highwayman, and robbed ol a purse contaiuing vventy guineas. The highwayman rode off by a different path at full speed, and the gentleman frightened but no! injured, except in purse, pursued his journey. It was growing late, novvever, ana being naturally much agitated by what had pa,ssi d. he rode onlv two miles further and stopped at the Bell Inn. kept by Mr. Jame Bruiitil. He Went to the kitchen to give di reqtions about his supper, where he related lo several persons present the fact f his hav ing heen robbed; io which he added this pe culiar circumstance, that when he travelled he al ivaj sive his gold a jieeoliar -mark, and that evry guinea taken from his purse was thus marked. Hence he hoped that the robber would be detected. Supper being ready he retired. "The gentleman hud not long finished his supper, when ilr. Brum l! came into the par lor where.he was. and after the usual inqui ry of landlords a to the guest's satisfaction with the meal, observed. "Sir, I understand t.ial ou have been robbed rot far hence, this evening V ' have sir.' was the reply. And your money was marked ?' continued the landlord." lt was.' said the traveller.' 'A em u nstance ha arisen.' resumed Mr. Bruuell. -which leads me jta think that 1 can point out the robber. Pray at what time were you stopped V 'It was just setting to be dark,', replied the traveller. 'The lime confi ms my suspicions.5 said the laud lord; and then" he inli rined the traveller ihat he had a waiter, one John Jennings, who had of late been so very full of mo ney, and so very extravagant, that he .he landlord had been surprised at il, and. had determined to part with him', his conduct being every way suspicious; that long before dark that night he had sent Jennings out lo get a guinea changed, for him; thai-the ;rnn had only,co,me back jAuc'e tlie-arrival of the Iraveller. saying that he could not get change; and that, seeing Jeuuhiga to be in liquor, he had sent him off to bed, determined to dis charge him in the morning. " ,v .. Mr. JVunell continued .:o say, that when the'guiiiea was brought back to him it was ot the same one he had sent out for change, there being on the returned a mark, which he was very sure was not upou the other; but that he should probably have thought io m ore of the matter. Jennings having fre quently had gold in his pocket of late, had not the people in the kitchen told him what the. traveller had related respecting the rob bery, and the circumstance ol the guineas be ing marked. He (Mr. Brunell) had not been present when this relation was made, a d unluckily, before he heard of it from the people in the. kitchen, he haid paid away the guinea to a man who lived at a dist iuce, and now had gone home. Tlie circumstance however.' said the, landlord, in conclusion. ;strugk roe so very strongly, that I could not refrain as an honest man, irom coming ami giving info matiSn of it.' "Mr. Brunell was duly thanked for his can did disclosure. There'appeared from it ?hi strongest reasons, for suspecting Jennings; an I if. ou searching him, any other of lb. marked guineas should be found, and tin gentleman could identify them, there woulo then remaiu no uoudi in tne matter, n now agreed to go up to his room. Jenniugf vpas fast asleep , his pockets were searched ami from one ol them was drawn forth a purse containing exactly nineteen go neas. Suspi cion npy became certainty ; for the geuth mau' declared the purse and guineas to bi identically' thoae of which he had been rob bed. Assistance was called, Jennings w.i siwaknd dragged out of bed. and charged with the robbery. He denied it firmly yjyii circumstances were too strong to gain him belief. Ht?vaa secured that night, and tin next day taken before a juti-c of the peac. The gentlenau and Mr. Lrunell deposed lb facts upon oath ; and Jem nigs, having im proofs nothing but the mere assenious of in nocence, winch could not be created, was committed t take his trial at the next assi zes. . 'So strong seemed the case against him. that most of the man's friends advised him to plead gailty. and throw hiinself on tne mer cy of the coin, his advice he rejected and when arraigned, pleaded not ffuilty. The prosejeuter swore to the f ct of the rob bery ; though as it was in mask, he could not swear to ihe person of the prisoner, bill thoMght him of the same stature nearly, a the man who robbed him. To the purse ad guineas, when they were produced in court, he swore as to the purse, positively, and as lo the marked guineas, to the best t f his be lief; and he. testified to their having been ta ken from the pocket of the prisoner. The prisoner's master, Mr. Bruuell, de posed as to the sending of Jennings for he change of a guinea, and to the waiter's hay ing brought back to him a marked one; in ihe roorrTof the one he had given him un marked.'' He also gavei'evideircev'as'to ihe disrnverv ol the nurse and guineas on the prisoner. To consummate the proof, the man to whom Mr. Bdrnwell had paid the guinea as mentioned, came forward and produced the coin, testifying at the same time that he had received it ou the very evening of the robbery, from the prisoner's master, in pay ment of a debt ; and the owner or proseculer. on comparing it with the other nineteen, swore-to its being to ihe besl'of his biiief. one of the twenty marked guineas taken from him by the highwayman, and of which the other nineteen were found on Jennings. -The judge summoned up the evidence, pointing out all ihe concurring circumstances against! he prisoner ; aiid the jury, convinc ed by the strong accumulation of circum stantial evidence, without going out of court, brought in a veidicl guilty. Jennings was executed sometime afterwards al Hull, re peatedly dcclarii g his innocence up to the ver, moment of his execution. Within a a twelvemonth afterwards. Brunell, the ipasr terof Jennings, was himself taken up for a robbery committed on a guest in his house, and the fact being proved on trial, he was convicted and ordered for execuiion.. The approach of dcalh brought on repentance, and repentance conlession. Brunell not only acknowledged that be had .been .guilty d many highway robberies, but 'owned him self to have committed the ver one for which poor Jennings suffered. The .account which Brunt 11 gave. was. that after having robbed the' traveler, he had got home belore him by swifter riding and a nearer way. That he found a man waiting for him. and to whom, not having enough of other money in his pocket, he gave awayone ol the twenty guineas which lie had just obtained by the robbery. Presently cuine in ihe robbed gentleman, who, whilst Brunnell. not knowing of his arrival, was in. the stable, told his tale as before related in the kitchen. 1 iie gentleman had scarcely left the kitchen belore Brunell entered it and there, to his c jnsternation, heard of the tacts, of the guineas being marked. He became dreadfully alarmed. The guinea which he had paid away, he dared not ask back again, and asthe aflair of the robbery as well as the circumstance of the marked guineas. would soon become, publicly known, he saw nrif l-.intr hut detee.tion; dis'tfracre 'and death. In this'dilemma the thought of accusing and sacrificing poor Jennings, occu red to him. The state of intoxication in which Jennings was, gave him an opportunity cf concealing the m'enev in the waiter's pocket. The re-! of. t'he aory the reader knows;" , NEVER SAY DIE. Tf vnn can't succeed at one business, trv another. 11 you fail as a cobbler, enter your- sell as a memoer oi congress, uo anyuung hot tnlf to dfsnair. When Monsieur Jullio presented his picture of "Moses crossing til'. Red Sea," the curate ot tne iouvre inrtm- ened to kick it out of doors. Did that- dis hearten hzm ? Not at all. He went - home, added a JUMe chrome yellow to it, grive it a new name. ; Ca;sar crossing the Rubicon " , and sold it in less than a moiitlyto the same curate for ten thousand frauds. Here we see the advantage ol "neve' giving up." Had Monsieur Jollio been JfKe most men. the insult he met with on firsgoitig to "the great National Gallery, would have resulted in a shilling s worth oi rrKsic acid, nut ne was ni like most men; the consequence is, ne nas become a lion of the first magnitude. When similarly situated, then, go and do likewise. " From the Bible $ciety Record. THE YOUNG INFIDEL. The following sad j.ccount of a young man, wno'for a time attended the ministry of the Rev. Baptist Nyel of London, illus i rates the fearful consequences of breaking away from the influence of the gospel : The young man was the son of pious par ents, and for several i .yars. was, regular in his attendance at the house of God. At length he ' became acquainted with some vouug men of infidej principles. The more ie associated with tlierA the less pleasant he found it to listen to the Gospel. Ere long ie absented himself wholly from the sanc tuary. He then began to indulge in the tleasures of sin ; and went to such Jenths i criminal indulgence that he soon laid the undatiou of a fatal illness. Three months .iter he had abandoned the house of God e was on the verge of the grave. Mr. Nor I was then called to visit him. The dying onth refused to converse with the man of iildd. but covered his head with the bed clothe?. Alter several vain attempts io enter into conversation with him about that Being before whom h was soo.p to stand- it judgment, Mr. Noel offered a prayer lor him. nnd was about to quit the apartment. Just as his hand was upon the latch of the door, he young man made an effort to sit up in bed. and ask-d Mr. Noel to stay a minute. Mr- Noel returned to the bed-side. The snf-i- rer's strength was well high exhausted. He whispered in the ear of Mr. Noel the appalling words I'm lost.'. He sunk down in the bed. drew the clothes over his head, and never spoke again." INDIAN CUNNING. A Spanish traveller met an Indian in the desert ; both were on horseback. The Span iard fearing that his horse, which was not one of the best, would not hold out to the end of his journy, asked the Indian, whose horse was strong and spirited, to exchange' with' him ; this the Indian refused to' do. The Spaniard therefore began to quarrel with him ; ; from words they proceeded to blows ; and the aggressor being well armed, proved too powerful foV thy native. So he seized the poor native's horse, ahd having mounted him. quickly pursued his journey. The Indian closely lollowed him to the nearest town, and immediately complained to a. justice. The Spaniard was summoned, lo appear, and bring the horse wi'h mm. he. however, treated; the rightful owner of the animal as an importer, affirming that he had always had him in his possossion, having brought him up from a colt. There l)eing no proof to the contrary, the justice was about to dismiss the parties, when iheindian cried out. 4 the hbrse. is mine, and III pro.ye it." He took off his blanket, and witlVifinstantly covered the anim l's head; then addressing the justice. '.'Since this man affirms that he has raised thi horse from a colt, command him to tell in which of hi eyes heis blind." The Spaniard, who would not seem to" hesitate, instantly answered, "in the righf eye." ''He is neither blind in the ritrht or the left." renlied the Indian. The justice was so fully convinced by this ingeni ous and decisive proof, that he decreed the Indian his horse, and the Spaniard lo be pun ished as a robber. LOST GOLD RECOVERED. On Monday the trunk belonging to Mr. Merritt, of Nashville containing 312,000 n gold dust, lost on the Robert' liners, Was fished up from the bot tom of the river. The gold was the total result of two or three year's hard labor in California, and the recovery cf the trunk was certainly an extra piece Of good luck. ouisv'dle Journal. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Halifax, May 11. The steamer Canada has arrived, bringing, Liv erpool dates of the 1st inst., and 50 passengers. On the 28th ultimo, at 2 o'clock P. M., the stea mer Atlantic ran aground, in a dense fog, inside the Salte, about a mile from Piero Aillmorc. She was gotten off in six hours, apparently uninjured aud proceeded to Liverpool, where she arrived at noon on Thursday. The Canada sailed at 6 P. M. on the 1st, and the Great Britain at 10 A. M. on the same day, with 160 passengers. The Can ada passed the Africa, at midnight, going into Liverpool. She experienced Lead winds during most of her passage. ENGLAND. The Crvstal Palace ia to be, pulled down imrne diately. - ? , - ; . ; .. The Budget of the new Ministry proposes no new taxes. The estimated surplus for the year is JC400 000. -A. favorable change of wind has brought up wards of fifty vessels into Liverpool from the Uni ted Staes. Great reduction had been marie on the flight of iron to New York it nad oeen re ducfd to 9s. Cd. a 10s. Pass.-ngers rates were fiown to X3 5s. a X3 10s. Advices from Indja states that another great bartle'had been fousrht between the English and natives. ' Commercial advices were dull, but cotton was active and advancing. From the Cape of Good Hope there is the usual account of skirmishes and hush flshts. For Reports of Markets see Commercia Head. Destruction of the Eaie street Theatre, by Fire. - Bcffalo, 11th My. The Eagle street Theatre was burned down this morning. The fire broke out shortly after one o'clock,, end the entire building, wjth it contents was consumed with great rapidity, nothing but the bare walls being left. The building was worth about 520,000, and the loss of Messrs. Carr& Warren, the managers, could not be 1jss thau that sum. We have no account yet of the insurances. Lola Montes danced last night to a ciowded house, but was indifferently received. She ob jected to dance a second night according to en gagement. She took her wardrobe borne and lost nothing by the fire, at which she was present the whole time. Fire lu York County, Distressing Re- We learn that, about 12o clock on Friday night last, the dwelling of Air. Daniel Hoke, in York county, Pa., about two miles from Hanover, on the road from Hanover to York, was entirely de stroyed by fire- with its entire content ; and, me lancholy to relate, two of bis; children, a little girl aged 7 years and a boy aged 4, were con sumed in the flames. The house was a frame building, and was half burnt down before the in mates discovered then? danger, and the survivors barely escaped with their lives. ft IHE TEHUANTEPEC TREATY. Tho well-informed Washington correspondent of the Philadeldhia American, in bis letter of tho 8th instant, communicates the annexed jnnwcl come information : ! "The last despatches receive here from Gov ernor Letcher, our Ministerat Mexico, ditcourage any reasonable hope whatever that the Tcbuantc pec treaty, or any other arrangement, contempla tieg a connexion between the two oceans, In which American capital and enterprise may be emb. rk ed, can be consutueiatod in th present state J i f prejudiced opinion in that country. . i DECLINING, i WisniN-UTos-, May 10. ' A rich scene was witnessed at our Navy Yard this evening. Com. Ballard issued an order tha t all the little dinner baskcts'and buckets carried by the workmen should be hereafter searched by the watchmen before leaving the yard. Respect ful remonstrances were made by tho workmen to this, and the commodore responded In insulting language, and in a very unbecoming manner. o recent losses have been charged, nor compl.iints, , uj)on any ground, made against tho workmen; hence their opposition to the measure. i At bell-ring, this evening, upwards of 500 of the mechanics approached the gates as usual, in i: cellent order; those having buckets were' requir ed to yield obedience to the order; but, with onf ly two or three exceptions, hi a calm, determined and dignified manner, they refused, declaring thct they were American freeman, and nothing but due process of law could inliico a compliance on their part. Tho utmost decorum was preserved throughout the whole aflair. Many of the work- men have expressed a determination to appeal to the Secretary and tho President. Our citizens generally justify and applaud the independence " manifested by. the mechanics, and tho transaction has occasioned considerable excitement. " ; e, , Election of a Connecticut U. S. Senator, 1 Nkw Haven, May 11., The election in the House of" Delegates fjr a United States Senator for Connecticut took place-to-day, and VeVulted as follows :': Issc Toucey, Democrat. 124; Roger S. Baldwin, y7hij, 84 scattering, 10. Mr. Toucey was formerly Gov ernor of the Stated and wab also, M one time at torney general of the United States. . t. . . KOSSUTH. Boston, May 10., M. Kossuth, it is said, realized about 82 000 by his excursion on Thursday. The Lynn pcoplo bought about $000 worth of his bonds, aud at Salem it is estimated that he sold $1,400 worth of them- He niade speeches in both cities, and also visited the town of Danvers. 1 The Boston Traveller of Friday states that ,;M. Kossuth is so much exhausted by his efforts for the past two or three days that it will be physi cally impossible for him to fulfil ids engagements in Lexington and Concord until next week." A fewTecks ago a singular phenomenon occur- red on the mountain of Tobet, in Silesia. At its apex there is a chapel. Towards mid-day, on tho I day of the phenomenon, a report as' of thunder was heard, and the summit of tfts mountain be-' came suddenly enveloped in' smoke. On tho smoke clearing dway it appeared rent, and the ', chapel, vitu large number of ersons, had been engulp'hed. How many perished has not yet been ascertained. Rio Janeiro, April 12. The weather continues.rery hot., and dry and consequently the yellow fever is making fearful havoc, particularly on board of the shipping. No vessel can remain in this bay while the present state-of things .exists, more than Ave days without getting the fever on board consequently tbero' are not, and in fact there have not been for weeks, any of our naval ships in this port. They, arc mostly at Montevideo. 1 , - . ' Some of the American fchips hare suffered roost severely and I hnve known of several that could, not muster hands sufceient to get ont of tho har bor. The American ship Victor 'sailed for Nee New Orleans about a fortnight since, with only two men able to do duty. Many others have been here, as it were, entirely deserted. The Swedish brig Pciphjn has lost three. consecutive ca , within the-past two montbsj and the birth Is now vacant. . I . i , WHIONATIONALNVNON A Springfield, III., correspondent of the Trlbuno says: In IllinoU the Whig delegates are unani mous for Scott. In Iowa, the Whig delegation . stands two for Scott and two for Fillmore. In Wisconin, the Whig delegation stands four for Scott and one for Fillmore. s Horrible Shipwreck and Noble Conduct. On the 29th March last, the Portugues steamer "Porto" was wrecked ou Oporto Bar, and every soul except seven sailors lost. She bad a full ship's company and was crowded wltlpassengers. There were many wealthy and distinguished men on board, and some having their families. A Mr. Allen, a wealthy merchant of Oporto, having on board two beautiful daughters, ogirred 15 000 to be saved, but there was no help. "The shore was lined with the frnd of tb& csfT.t t only fifty feel distance, witUn sprshinj C .c, who itKKi in agony and saw all.s'.vq v awajr and not able to aflbrd relief. - . v : , -No boat was able to reach tho wreck, nor could they get a line ashore, for that , coast is not pro. vided with means of rescue as is the American coast. A rich merchant on tba shore offvred $1,000 for each life that could be saved vithaut distinction of persons. . This was noble and praise worthy. This melancholy disaster has caused great distress tad exvittmeuc. HI I, ! j r 4 i' si it j -