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NO. 5629. ‘The Kentucky Constitutional Conventi OUR FRANKFORT CORRESPONDENCE. Franrort, Oct. 27, 1849. ‘The Judiciary Article—The Discussion Views of the New York Judicuary—Cwewit Court—Death of Bryan G. Owsley, Esq.—Lt. Gov. Letcher and the Mixvean Mission—The Weather, $c. The judiciary article still remains under discus sion, at the end.of the second week of its conside- ration, and of the fourth week of the sitting of the convention. However, there is a prospect, at last, “opening up,” of the interminable debate being speedily brought to a close, the convention having to-day adopted a resolution limiting all discussion in committee ef the whole, on the proposition, to ten minute speeches. The debate would seem to andicate the adoption of the article as reported by the standing committee, without matenal, or, in- deed, any amendment. The prominent featuresin it that have elicited opposition, are the requisition of two-thirds of both brauches of the Legislature to effect a removal of the Judge, the proposition to branch the court, as it is termed, or to allow it to sit in the four districts alternately, and the re-eligi- bility of the Judge to an election for a second term. The opposition to these features, it is apparent, arises from an innate hostility to the main princi- ple of the article—the election of the Judges by the people ; and which, from a fear of loss of popu- any with the people, is not dared to be manifested boldly and openly. Some of the speeches have most remarkable syecimens of logic. Imagine & man arguing most strenuously against all the points which give force, usefulness and strength toa cular proposition, and without which it we be a mere abstraction, and then winding up with a flowing eulogy of the bare proposition itself. For instance: the people have the right, and are fully qualified, to elect their Judgee—but we must so embarrass, and clog, aad check their action, as to render it almost impossible that they should exercise that power which they can best exercise. This is about as perfect an idea as I can give you of the characier of maay of the arguments to which I have referred. Mr. Garrett Davis, well known as a member of Congress from this Siate, is the only man as yet who had the botoness and the manliness to eome out and avow his unyielding opposition to the elective principle. For two hours and a half he denounced the proposition with all the fervor andall the energy that language is capable of ex- hoy His sentiments were such as you rarely ear uttered in these duys of progress and ‘* mani- fest destiny.” It was just such a speech as mmght be expected from a pulitical Rip Van Winkle, who went to sleep some fifiy years ago, and had just awakened with an utter unconsciousness of what had transpired while he eojourned in his sleep: hollow. However, all concede that it w: fi and manly avowal, which should comma: pectand admiration of even those who differed most widely from him. Mr. Davis denied that the peo- ad asked for an elective judiciary. Nor did ie believe that the pects were to be trusted in such an exercise of power; he would not even trust elf, he suid. He drew a most eloquent and ic description of the evils that would re- sult from the adoption of the elective system, and the consequent disgrace and degradation that would be autaiied on the jedieny His panacea to cure the evils existing in the present syste: and to obviate the sulle more fearful ones rs be apprehended from the proposed one, was @ertainly a novel one, and will doubtless be of interest to such of your readers ae are inclined to the study of the el-mentary principles of government. He proposed that whenever a vacancy should occur in a judieial distriet, the amembers of the lower house of the Legislature, re- presenting such district, should form an electoral college and nominate two candidates to fill such peas to the Senate, which body should seleet -one of them to be commissioned by the Governor asJ ‘This was to apply to the circuit judges. rom these cirettft juvzes, and trom among those who had been such judges, the Governor was to select the judges of tne Court of Appeals, and to be restricted, in such selection, to them alone. He turged that this mode ot appomtment, by the stimu- lus of hope of promotion, would encourage the judges to every exertion for the attainment of a distinguished position, while it would also satisfy all political parties, by giving cash ite fair repre- sentation in the judiciary hat an opportunity ‘would the adoptien of sach a project afford for the erganization of a powerful judicial aristoeracy, whe, by an easy combination, could for ever retain centrol of the judiciary department of the govera- ment! v As your judicial election 1s about to eome off, it may Be matter of interest to your readers, and especially to those who are politicians, 10 read what are Mr. Davis's views ot the workings of ao elective judiciary in New York. They were ex- preseed “Your de elected selection as follows: audi sins ten sokens con etem, ina ebort time udges are the popalar = . ost ay I haped od ‘every candidate judgeebip trom politi- jeed there will De mons others from oc clared beforehand, that if he was eleoted te the supreme court bench, he was an anti-renter, and would decide ageinat the rights of thy Jondlords. it what is going on in the State of New ork at thistime? New York— the empire State as great in her popula- tion, in her resourcer. in elements of wealth, and na- tonal and great but most mischievous in the example she rete to ber wi ‘States, and im no exam. le more mischievous thao ia the coustitution that she as late! A . vice The served in Congress wi one of these bie friend, (Mr. fea man of greatiy more & than Brown. And on why = is one of the first lawyers at the Né enjoys the entire contdence of bis protessional brethren. He t#, besi ies « maa of unweeried industry; has been the arebitect of hisown fortunes, was hoavured ‘with @ reat in Congress for t#o successive ter d ‘Was Ove of the most eMfcieut members of the tional convention of (#46 [His eatagonist, Mr. Has Drouck, also of Newburgh. is better known ae @ polltl: 4 will aot probably recelve the port pariy against « candidate so de- sirable, in every polut of view, ase judge to the people o district * it regard to — be aT ti. Jadge Strong will appear in the extract — “The following very appropriate tribute was pald by ‘the convention to the Hon 8. B. strong, whose term of office expires “Resolved w asly. That Hom re vary wext. has diseharg of bis ftation with preemornt aority, aad to the entire satisfaction of the meubere ot toe bar, and the peep {that nothing but the peouliar situation of the district aud (he location of three judges In a ringle part of ft. bas induced us to nominate auo- + om to fil) bis eration, then’? Not talents, not legal ate integrity, not every ta! ¢ judicial bench, bur candidates for the eupreme court! ieee the legielation and the action of the tmpire State -that declares that seeures te the citinen his lire, hie liberty. bis reputation, and his preperty- this sogurt and sil powerful tribonal, that it to be « ty { divinity iteeif, ae mueb as fi soe erring men can be-bow is it to be selected? t tog of veratio aod whig oabale and juotos, and t ging torward of men, not for their rirtae, Jotelligence, oF legal atcainm it ace: of their polities! pepwierity aod hat do these cabal 1 They der idgtes for the Mice judge in the Empire State of New tork. Fpeetacle | democratic eandidates for the sapreme eoart im the eight judicial districts of the State are as follows :— lot No 1, Samuel Jones, of New York; distriet No 2, Joho W. Brown, of Orange.” Mr. Jones isen ableman ! am Ynformed that Mr. Brown bas receivei the nomimation of the two seg- mente of the demooratio party. the barmburnors and the old hunkers. They have settled their family quarrels, and the two parties, after living eeparate @ while, have done away with their partial divoroe, and have got together again, and are liviag in tole- rable harmony, | sup But before that was ef- fected, Mr. the nomination of one section, and now he reoeives it from the other. That ie not all; the soti-renters—powerful and doter- mined i purpose. casting thetr votes and exertii themeelves if at! the slections legen ey hol the balance of power in some of those jzdisial districts, and it becomes a matter of great interest, witb both parties, to enlist the anti-renters in thé Mmpy-Tt of their cause and candidates. The anti-renters made efforts. and | believe they succeeded in getting such patos and ass from Mr. Brown, as Mr. Young, he whig candidate for Governor, and as Mr. Gardiner, the democratic former election. The conseq 5 thr rties unite in the nomination. and the election of Mr ‘rown is placed almost beyond the power of fate itself. ‘The third district has nominated Henry Hi Columbia; the fourth, JohngFine, of Bt. whom I have the pleasure to know, and who iss very worthy avd intelligent gentleman—the fifth. Joshua A. Moore and Robert Lansing. of Jefferson William H. Shankland, of Cortland ; these + ron R. Strovg, ot Wayne ; and the eighth, Nathan Day- tom, of Niagara. The nomination in the fifth district ‘was made before the reunion of the barnburners and the old hunkers—and of these two sections of locofoso- know which bears the best name, The tions in the fifth district were made be- feo ad union of the democracy in the State was eom- pleted. “ We presume the necessary steps will be take: Present but one candidate th Tl strongly democrati ten thousand aga’ ri loet by divisions’ Now | ask any man here if he is so credulous as to believe that there offices of judge, under our proposed system. will not beoome politically partizan ? Mr. Inwin suggested an argument against the elective principle, which at least has the merit of originality. It was, that to allow the people to elect their Legislature, their Executive, and their Judiciary, would be vesting the entire appointing power of the former in one source, and thus be subversive of the great principle on which al publican goveimmeuis were based—the distinct and separate distribution of the powers of govern- ment. The slavery question still sleeps on the table of the convention, und there seems to be no disposi- tion, for the present, at all events, to awaken it. Indeed, such was the torrent of debate that it called forth, that one may well suppose the source will be dry for a while, at least. The article for the organization of the circuit courts will come up, by order of the convention, nextin order, for consideration. It provides for the election, by the people, of the Circuit Judge, his duties very much the same as functionaries of that grade throughout the Unien. Its details, which are somewhat volumnious for an organic law, are likely to call forth a protracted discussion. Mr. Bryan G. Owsley, the Register of the Land Office for the State, and late member of Congress, died last evening, after a protracted and painful illness, the result of injuries received from a fall from his horse. He was highly esteemed by who knew him, and his body was taken to the re- sidence of the late Governor Owsley, from whence it was escorted to the lumits of the town by the Govemor, the officers ot the State, the officers and delegates of the convention, (which body adjourned to attend the tuneral,) and a large concourse of the citizens of Frankfort. _£x-Governor Letcher, the newly appointed Mi- nister to Mexico, is a resident of this town, and ie universally esteemed for his many high social and intellectual qualities. He departs, | learn, on Mon- day, for Washingten, on his way to Mexico. the weather has been most delightful here for the past week, and of the regular Indian summer character. A heavy thunderstorm, however, 18 paseing off, which may bring about a season of eold weather. Simon. Tue Lats Hon. Exizen Gooprica, ov Connucti- eur.—The New Haven (Ct.) Cowrier, of the 2d instant, announcing the death of the Hon. Elwar Goodrich, gives the following brief histery of his life :—He was born in Durham, Conn., Mareh 24, 1761, and entered Yale College at the age of 14. pone oy — year, en Bag Haven was at- tac! u ritish, Ju ag one ef a company of volunteers, Neoaee aes in ber, who went out, in the early (= of the day, to annoy and retard the march of the enemy. In the afternoon, when the town was taken, he was stabbed in the soe on his bed in a state escaped with his lif javing tumn of the same year, he continued at college asa resident graduate, on the Berkeley foundation, and, at the end of two years, was chosen to the office of tutor, in which he remained until the autumn of 1783. He now entered on the practice of the law ; and in 1795 was elected a representative of the town in the State legislature, an efiice which he continued to hold for many years, during which he was re- atedly chosen clerk and speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1779, he was chosena mem ber of Congress ; and was present at the last ses- gion of that body in Philadelphia, and the first ses ‘sion in Washington, when the seat of government was removed to the District of Columbia. Tuary, 1801, he was appointed collector of the port ot New Haver, but, on a change ot the admiaistra- tion, was turned out of office, by Mr. Jefferson, during the same year. He was immediately elected to the State Legislature, first as a mem- ber of the House of Representatives, and soon after as a member of the cil, after- werds Senate of the State, an office which he centinued to hold by successive annual elections votil 1818, when he and his associates were suc- ceeded by thore who opposed them in politics, was thus, without intermission, a member of the State Legislature, or of Congress, for the period of twenty-three years. He was also Chief Judge of the Coanty Court, for the covaty of New Haven, thirteen years, and Judge of Probate for the same county seventeen years, down to the change of poe in 1818. In the latter office, he endeared inmeelt county, by his judgment and kiodnes | moting the settlement of estates cases without litigation, and by h providieg for the interests of widows phans. He was Mayor of the city of New Ha- yen ftom September, 1803, to June, 1822, whe he resigned the office. During nine years he was Professor ot Law, in Yale College, and repeatedly delivered courses of lectures on the laws of natare and nations, but resigned the office in 1810, as inter- | fering too much with his other publie duties. Hie Interestin the college, however remained unabated. For many years he was a leading member of the . tion, and was Secretary 6: thai ts, until he tendered his resiguation triking circumstance, that from the tume of hus entering college, in 1775, he was unin- terruptedly connected oh the institution, either as 4 student, resident graduate, tutor, assistant to the treasurer, professor, member of the corporation, or eecretary of the board, forthe space of seventy-one ] _ He received trom the college the honorary legree of L. L. Dz geay to many families throughout the ia pro- diffieult Axnest or THR ARKans, have advices from the N learn that Gen. Wood had most of the persons impli nee in that port called into requi Morvrrens —We west, by which we eceeded in arresting ted in the recent out- of our State. Gen. Wood ition a considerable military force, end quiet is ng: in &@ great measure, restored. J.N. Everett, —— Stathon, Kebert Ada 8, Ro- bert Cowin, Harry Love, Jesse Mooney, and Han» ford Tutt, have been taken. They were placed in the Marion county jail to await their trial. A gentleman who arrived in our city on Wednesday evening, from Carroll county, informe us that thir- teen persons had been arrested, and that the mi tary Were returning to their hom This gentle men alro heard it reported that Jesse Mooney had been examined at Yellville, and admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000; and that Judge Seott had ay pointed Mooney to the office of Sheriff, which sta- tien he reeunes ont commencement of the dife ficulties in Marion.— Little Rock ( Ark.) Democrat, Ot. WW. From New Daunswy We are indebted, eays the Boston Traveler, of the 2d inat., to N.C. Long, pilot of the steemer Admiral, for files of St Jona, 3. papers to Slet ult. There is no news of any particular importance from the Provinces. The dwelling houre of Rev. J. B. Disbrow was de- etroyed by fire, 25th uit. Loss estimated at e120. pericenersl precuctions are plenty and cheap. The St. Johu News, of the Qh ult, ys that ** turnips for the last few days have been fing at the market wharves, in any quantities, at Isa bushel; potatoes 2s.; wood from 15s. to 16s.” The New Brunswicker of Slat ~The than- der storm which was experienced in this city last Wednesday, was very severely felt at Ialifax. The Recorder = that “the Bouses shook and the windows shivered at every peal of the thun- der, which was louder than we remember for ee- veral years.” : vuly SER | From the Piains and Sait Lake. DIFFICULTIES OF THE EMIGRANTS—MURDER OF THE MATL CARRIERS BY THR PAWNEES—THE DEAD— PROBABLE GENERAL INDIAN W. (Correspondence of the 8t, Louis Republican, Oct. 26.) Grrgn River, Cauivornia Taxeirory, August 19, 1319 I have another opportunity of writing to you, rather unexpectedly presented, by meeting the ex- ess rider (Mr. S. Thomas), from Fort Hall to ‘ort Leavenworth. Since | addressed you from Laramie, litle has presented itself of general in- terest to your readers; but to us pilgrims bringing up the rear, scenes and occurrences have been cun- stantly cane to view, as far as this point, that had no parallel on the eastern part of our journey. From Laranie, the Rocky Mountains really start tir foundation ; and although it is three hundred ros! there te the summit, it is nothing but a mi i succession of Knolls and knobs uatil you turn over the culminating point {2 Pacific Spring, where the water runs wesiwafd. In ;cference to the adja- cent country, there 18 nothing rising ' the dignity of a mountain on this whole route. Fro. /4ra- mie, grass began to fail for our stock, and the u. most diligeace had to be used to sustain them. From thence, after the first fifty miles, dead cattle and fragments of wagons come in sight, and as far here | have counted about one thousand wagons that have been burnt or otherwise disposed of om the road. Destruction seems to have been the pre- vailing emotion with everybody who had te leave anything onthe trip. Wagons have been wantonly sacrificed, without occasion, by huadreds—being fired for the apparent purpose of preventing them from being servicable to anybody else, while hua- dreds have been used by piecemeal, for fuel, at nearly every camping ground, by each successive train. From Deer Creek to the summit, the greatest amount of property has been thrown away. Along the banks of the North Platte to where the Sweet water road turns off, the amount of valuable pro- perty thrown away is astonishing—iron, trunks, clothing, &c., lying strewed about, to the value of at least fitty thousand dollars in about twenty miles. 1 have counted about five hundred dead oxen along the road, and only three imules. The reason of 30 many wagons having been dis- posed of, was the apparent necessity of packing, in order to insure @ quick and certain transit to the mines; and people did not care for the lvss of any personal goods, so they reached there. Let people who come out this way next seasen, beware of crossing the Platte at Deer Creek. Keep up the south side as lah, as possible—at least up to the “* Mormon Ford,” and higher if possible—before they strike over to the Sweet- water. During this summer there was a ferry kept at Deer Creek, and the bulk of the emigration croased at it, but the road ia much worse, and every one regrets having crossed so low. The last train of the Pioneer line, day before yesterday, took Sublette’s Cut Off, and Jeft us at the junction of the Oregon and California roads. They were all well, and are bound to get through. Many of the St. Louis boys have left theirnames and respects to any of their friends behind, on the smooth trees and rocks along the road, and it is sometimes cheering to see a well known name pencilled at a crossing or watering place. Death seems to have followed the emigration out thus far, although in a mitigated degree as to Enght or ten of those below, are buried 1e8, and there are seme others » who have no identity on their graves. List of Graves on the Road west of Fort Laramie. Fairfield, lowa, M. Hay; Dr. McDermett, of died July 2i—aged 28. Mre. Mildred Moss, late of Galena, wife of D. H.“T. Moss, died 7th July—aged 25 years. John Woodside, died June 10, 1 uried at ‘Warm Spring. i ico . Mastin, July 5, of Pontatoe, Miss., aged enrs. . George died June 18. Jesse Clark, i died June 28, of Breeden, N. Y. ‘Thomas M. Rankin, June 25, aged 28 years, of Ken) county, Mo. (It might be St. Louis, de- ced. “David Hines, of Madison county, Ill., June 26, ed 25. “ey. Drennen, drowned May 20, at Platte crossing, aged 85, late of Ohio. N. Glenat, July 7, aged 45, from ny ap Towa. , Neer Tremble, Tune 25, 1849, aged 24, at Wil- ow ing. Herr Saltzer, June 10, aged 22, from Indiana. William Moore, July 20, aged 56, Oswago, Ind. John McDowell, of St. Joseph, Me. Joreph Barnett, A it 26, 1844. Mre. Bryan, July 25, 1845. James Estell, June 20, of Lawrenee county, Mo. W. Rector, July 28; Geo. C. Pitcher, July 20, late of Henry county, Illinois, and formerly of New York—both at Pacific Spring. JR. Ison, June 26, aged 29 years, of Adams | eounty, Iinoie—at Big Saady. ‘The express rider states that he will pase four and five graves a day, all the way dowp Bear river, and so on further westward. i 1 will send you the next from some where in the Great Basin. t From Fort Laraarie we have a private letter, from which we take the following extracts :— Fort Lazamim, (Ind. Ter.) Sept. 18, 1849. I reached here, from Fort Kearney, towards the latter end of July, and had hardly got my tent pitched, when | was ordered over to Fort Pierre on the Missouri, with ten rifles, to escort Col. Mackay to that point, and to keep the Sioux and other red entiemen of the prairies from molesting his scalp. he trip wi rifle, and many a “ side ib” discussed around our evening camp fires. in the * bad grounds,” J picked up some bushel or so of petrefactions, which | willshow you some ot these days—that is, provided I ever agaia take the trail towards the frontiers. are driving away at our new buld- g hopes are entertained that before all be arouad our new few days mnce, by about two | hundred Cheyennes and Sioux, who daneed a |it- | tle, stole a little, eat a great deal, and finally went on their way rejoicing. These Platte Siwux, b the way, are the best fodvans on the prairies. Loo at their conduct during the past summer. Of the vast emigration which rolled through their coun- try this year, not a person was molested, not an article stolen. Such good conduct deserves re- ward. News from the Salt Lakeh and the accounts from the emigrants are anything but flatiering. You may recollect that early in the senson | predicted great Cm iy oy them. Its now about to be fulilied. Betweea titveen aed twenty thousand emigraats, according to these just reached here, accounts, will be obliged to pues the ¢nawlus Win- | ter amongst our Mormon nélguvors ber of additional mouths, you will readily “e Suca a num | must play the deuce with the limited supplies of | the Mormons. This detention was caused by the Careless or Wanton conduct of the leading pertion ot the emigration, in burning the country beyend the Salt Lake. All the grass is consume ter | neatly (wo hundred miles, which, of course, ren | dere the passage of animals impossible. A chenge has been made in the troopa intended for Fort Hall, Major Simonson has gore on to Oregon, and Colonel Porter been left in his place. This change was made by Colonel Loring. Th Rifle Kegr teached Fort Hall in od condiven, but they had the worst of the road ahead of them. Col. Porter's command will throw up Winter quarters somewhere in the vicinity of Tort Hall, aod in the spring move dowa near the Mormon settiement Those grand raccals of the Plains, the Pawnees, have egain been imbruing their hands in the blow of the whites. Two men—Thomas and Picard— carrying the U.S. mail from Fort Hall to Fort Leavenworth, were attacked by them a few days since, about helf way between this post aud Fort Kearney, and it i feared that both were killed. Lt. Donaldson, on his way to this post, touad the dead body Thomas, and the hat of Picard i with blood. Before he reached the spot met a war party of Pawnees, who evinced by their actions that they were the perpetrators of the deed. ‘Thomas’ body had several arrows stick ing in it. Lt. D. had but twe or tiee teamsters wiih him, and he could only give the body « hasty bunel, without searching very thoroughly for the other man. These Pawnees have recently plundered some government wagons below Fort Kearney, and it is high time they should be brought to their sensee. The chiefe ond head pare Well » but the young men of the tr tiane in the west. yy 1 preaume, will vreit at their vill gentiemen a mouth of the Sehne, and itis to be boped that the commend. ng Cihieer of that post, Mayor Chuton, will over- how! diem witha rough hand. Avort of Indian war, it would eppear, could now be got up. That te, three or foar sia all advan wars in cilierent quarters, but etirely discon vected. The Seminoles, Camanches and Paw. neee, oll want a threshing, and I hope will get it; and while eur head uw in, the Yanotoa Sioux, ever . on the Missouri, might be included. They killed a white man last season, and performed other an- ties which ought te be noticed. have run this out to a much greater length than I at first anticipated, and will, therefore, throw downmy pen, take a drink of brandy, smoke & gevar, and dehberate en the safest way of at- tudking a grizly bear, which I intend to do ina few cays. Interesting from Yucatan, DEATH OF JaCINTO PAT—TRIUMPHS OVER THE [From the New Orleane Pi Oot. 26 ow Orleans Picayune, Oot We received, yesterday, files of the Boleton Oficial, to the Sih inst, inclusive. The most important item of intelligence contain- ed m these papers, is that which announces the death of Jacinto Pat, the leader of the Indian in- —— im the peninsula. A letter in the Boletin, of the 3d, states that after his quarrel with the other chiefs, and retiring in disgust, he was pursued by Bonifacio Novelo, and overtuken at the rancho of Holchen, on the Bacular road. Here he was as- sassinated by the Indians. It is further stated that Pat, with two hundred whites, and having a large quantity. of appease, oe marching to place himself at the dispdsa. Of the Yucatece goverament aud to implore its pardog: The death of this celebrat ed chieftain was the caliaé or 21UCh rejoicing among the Indians, who have appointed tt following to | constitute their executive government: insane Novello, Venancio Pec, and Floratino Cham, Bom facio has ordered all the chiefs in the neighbor- | hood of Bagalar to unite for the attack of the town | of Santa Elena. Another letter in the Boletin, of | the Bth inst., states that Jacinto Pat was assasei- nated by the Indiane of the neighborhood of Valla- dodid, at the Holehen Ranche, near Bacalar, toge- ther with his farmly and relations, except oue of | the latter, named Barrera. { . These papers contain the usual accounts of 1n- significant skirmishes between the Yucatecoes and the Indians, in which the latter are said always to | have been wersted. The death of Pat and the dis cord among the Indian chiets, however, givesa bet- ter color to the Yucateco cause than it has borne for some time. The Boletin contidently predicts a speedy pacification of the penmsula, provided due tact and energy be displayed by the govern- ment, A general amnesty has been offered to the insurgents, if they will abandon hostilities. _ By the kindness of a commercial house here, we give the toliowing extract of a letter received here, and dated Campeachy, October 9th :— Our triumphs over the Indians are so frequent, their attacks against our entrenchments are so we that it {* very apparent their munitions of war are | giving out, “We have just been avvisedof the capture of aamall English versel, with an agent of Pat on board, also 6.0%9 pounds of powde: oa tel was carried into 8 but it te English government will The Arctic Expeditions, {From the London Athvnwum ‘The extreme interest which has been felt by the puble in the fate of the long-missing Arctic ex- | pedition has been strongly illustrated by the avidity with which the report of its ascertained existeace im March last was received. Seizing eagerly on | the esserted fulfilment of a long-deterred hop, the | rees at once announeed the actual safety of Sir oho Franklin and his party; and as news geac- | rally travels with the properties ot an avalanche | swelling in importance with every step, many | hours had not elapsed before the retura of the Erebus and Terror in the course of the present | mouth, was spoken of as an almost certain event. For ourselves, we had misgivings, which we | thought it right to hint at even in that first moment of excitement; and we have since, with the cool- nees which a week of reflection gives, set ourselves | carefully to weigh the argumeots for and against | the trustworthiness of the evidence offered. Wi are bound to say, even for the sake of those whose | divappointment will be vorest, if disappoimtment | there shall fioally be, that this inquiry has yielded | @ result wholly unsatisfactory to ourselve: | It will be remembered that the Advice whaler | accompanied the Truelove im her recent passage | to Lancaster Sound in search of the expedition, oa the faith of the narration of the Exquimaux. On board the former ship Mr. Kobert Goodoir, the brother of Professor Goodsir, of Edinburgh, was embarked, with the touching purpose of assisting popemalty to seek after information cling Sir | with the gre: ‘vbn Franklin's shipe—in ove of whi is brother | early in July.” _ Henry had gone out surgeon and naturalist. | We may mention that His letters to his relatives in Scotland, deseripti' of his hopes and fears, have been obligingly placed in our hands, to assist us in estimating, by private evidence from the spot, the reports which were likely to reach us through public channels. We | will give Mr. Goodsir's version of the same report which has reached the Admiralty through the ‘Iruelove, for the sake of some variations whieh it eontains:— Ore Carn Maccw.reon, Aug. 1, 1849. We this morning had what might’ have been oon- | sidered as cheering intelligence of the expedition Mr. Varker, the master of the Truclove, of Hull, came on board to breakfast, and informed us that some Esqui- who bad been om beard the Ubiefiaia, of Kick- _ @ sketched @ chart, and ted to Mr. where both Sir John od Sir James ships were lying ; the the latter at Port Jackson, at tn A Inlet. Sir Jobu Fra porition for three ing (1; the ice by C: and even as far as Cape Sound t something tangible to tions which we have rida that a the spring of this year, practicable, journey; winter apart from the Hes, according 1848 at Port Ja aware ckson, dered to do. one occasion, expresses | word has come erfeens Pond’s Bay, during the our opinion, self. Final silence delivered over despair, at home. This 1s so melanchol, we are glad to find. one is entertained | quinies to be made, George Ba opinion thet four ships, favor of the truth of the We are serry to hear, as had ot the ships, they would pursuit of whales. brought ship sent out this y peditions, has eflected a ships. was in latitude 65 tions. Terrie Ratroap down the grade overtaken b: the bridge with this , about the end of wipril or beginning her ‘seemed confident as to the oor. information ; aud as his ship is nearly tly, Me, Teotners of thie i full, and he will proceed be Kerr bad given hia the obi ed to forward to the admiralty, and to imform whet he bad ivwrnt All this was very pleasing Intelli- it when | began to consider, | so00 #e9 wuoh 0 throw doubt upon its correctuess and authenticity First, there was the extreme diffieulty of extracting correct informetion of suy Rind from the Exquimsux. © th their babite and y are eure to a the great unlikeli- iin's being beset at am apot so the constant resort of the coods in them, & Linn instantly, severing expected to recover. that the evening mail tr layed until the track wi wi y ht boats fitted on ' f It will ke observed that this letver enters inte ter detail than thet of Mr. Ward, commu- d by the Admiralty to the public. actual position of the two expeditions is here given; end it is etated that communication between them hed been eflected by meuns of cledges. Mr. Good- tir’s letter aleo places the date ut which the ships of the two expeditions bad been seen by the nae tives five or six weeks later than the Admiralty account—a Seceeeee thowing looseaes* and uu. certainty, Doubte—v-y teasonaliy toanded, we think— of the Tustworthiness of the Esgaimaug’s jj, report beg aiready arisen in the minds of Mr. Good- Su and his companions. Nevertheless, with a spirit of voble enterpitse, the Advice joined the True- love in es attempt to reach Regent's Lalet, for the solution of the question. Under tne date of the 2d of August, when off Cape Walter Bathurst, Mr. Goodeir writes :— condsivehow delighted I “ nous.—Penn ) consequence: ¢ nule's below White vered about 70 acres of sequence of the jbix dam filled to overfle ing bean neglected to fore it. How were dashed to out & moment's warn lie were ‘destroyed. to find the A Ss mained together, house at the time, was ahevp of aking this step firhed. many of th rep wp the Sound: as it will now do it, Mr. Goodeir’s hopes of getting through the Sound —which, a8 we have seen, bad a private motive to enhance the public one- dure. 10th of August he writes ls been poorly the atiempt to heap, in a state of found. Not ip a narrow gorge. that | bave be utd o'clock on whole tine of Botore it erme on thiek, we took to be Prive Leopol {Prines Rigeots inlet, and the fe Arepily stretohing right merues the Sound; but the thickness came en #0 rapidly ond the gale increasing to a perteot bucricaue, prevented Us joaking out anything accurately crm ons a summer should have opened the land and the main body launches are ordered to be sent into Lancaster to meet the whalers. own from Sir James Ros: declares that the officers of the expedition were aware that the whalers would be in the great Arctic authorities. and such is the resuls. who has had gr the native Esquimaux, decla an Indian or an /eqaimaux traci a a deliberately weighing all the information, he is of bears the date of August 22d, at wh , far too much to glean any intelligence respecting the expedi- 25 teet to the mi Coatesville, near five miles distant. No tors were with the cars, (they being all in the ho- Another burden train had lefthere for Phila- delphia, about ten minutes previeus, which was these twenty runaway west end of Coatesvile viaduct, where tracks come into one, for the purpose of crossing These twenty cars came iato collision , and broke and scattered at least twelve of the cars, and precipitated three of them ever the bridge, all smashed up, At the point wh three of the men employed by the State, mn repairs ef the road. were at work; they did the train on the north side going down, until too late, when the care struck Linn and Patton, killing aecomplished by a stron a The lors to some of the transporters is very se~ some places 40 fest deep. i heavy rain’ on that day, | eg wey sbout midoi D wit mighty flood. Mr. Tay saw-mill were carried away, His daughter, who was inthe | fluoodwood, dead and four children found dead ; he was under ueensibility. ‘lL homas Crawfor and wife were both found dead. were ~ of whom seven bedi ing bas been he mouth of the creek, aod serio entertained for several tamilies living just below, ‘They must have perished. As the Lehigh was high at the t fear there has been disastrous work the Lehigh navigation.—Lezerne (Pa) Democrat, Ort. 31. near Cape Rennell os possible. From that position a considerable extent of coast, say the instructions, may be explored on foot; and in the following )) detached parties are te be sent across t pt. Bird, “in order to look thorou into the creeks along the western coast of Boothia, y Nicola.” So ce as the @ passage between ice, the steam We have here deal with. The instruc- quoted were prepared by aboard of eminent Arctic officers; and we fiad foney from Cape Rennell to Cape Nico- laiysfollowing the indentations of the coast, in 1s considered as perfectly We say nothmg about the return but we presume that the boats would not ships. Now, if Sir James to the report, passed the winter of egent’s Inlet, and was i as the Esquimaux say he was) of Frank- lin’s safety, it does appear extraordinary that par- ties were not despatched by him across the ice, in the present spring or summer, to communi with the whalers—which, be it observed, he red t The distance between the two points is very much legs than that trom Cape Ren- | nell to Cape Nicolai. Mr. Goodsir, on more than his astonishment ashe entire month of July. In fact, to repeat ourselves, supposing Sir J. Ross to be where the report places him, the road to the whalers was as open to him as to the Esquimaux who brought that report. made no communication by his own messengers, | nor given any document to authenticate the com- | munication made by the Exquimaux, throws, in very serious discredit oa the report it ly, it is yet more difficult to conceive that, if SirJohn Franklia had been frozen up for | three winters, in the spet indicated, he should have spared no volunteers from his expedition, to carr, the news ot his whereabouts to any station titvagh which it might have reached those whom his That he should have to doubt, deepening into a view of the case, that and to report, that an opposite by those who may be considered We have caused in- Sur t intercourse with hat he never knew to fail; and after answering to those com- poring the two expeditions, were seen some time In the spring of this year whether in Prince Regent’s Inlet or to the west- ward of Boothia, is uncertain.” Captain Parry, Colonel Sabine, and Admiral Beaufort are ali in y the Esquimaux; but Esquimaux report. from unquestionable au- thorithy, that the munificent reward offered by overnment for the reliet of the missing expedition no ¢flect in instigating any of the whalers to search for the ships, with the exception of the ‘Truelove and the Advice. Sent out forthe one important object of whaling, the captains, doubt- less, feel that unless armed with the fullest dis cretionary powers from their employers, the owners not be warranted in rua- ning any rixk by deviating from their course in ‘The dangers of the Arctic seas have been again infully before us by the loss of two whalers this year in Melville Bay, and all accounts agree in stating that Lancaster Sound rre in the month of August by a solid body of ice stretching across tke straite to Admiralty Inlet. ‘Thue, in consequence of her lateness of sailing, | itis very doubtful becspeme the North Star, the rowi ‘as barred provisions for the ex- communication with the r. Goodsir says:—‘ There are a hundred chances against the North Star being able to com- municate with the expeditions this year. she only been sent out in time, she would have got through Melville Bay along the fleet of whalers t ease and safety up the Sound Had Mr. Goodsir’s last letter h time he he south Accipenr at Pannrs- pune, Pa —A correspondent of the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian, writing trom Parkersburg, Pa., under date of the Ist inst., ea A has just happened on the railroad. Clartom, coming from the east, with a train of twenty-five cars and @ section boat, was at the water station at this place when a coupling broke, and twenty cars, from the rear ef the train, started n aceident The engine ) toward conduc- , at the the two together with the ere the trains met, not perceive his head from his body, and dangerously injuring Patton, who is scareel: The third man eseaped. Linn leaves a wife and three children.” [Later information from the scene, iatorms us from the west was de- leared, which was soon ce from Parkersburg. Destrvetivs FLoop in Cannon County, Pa — We learn by the cars from White Haven, the par- ticulars of a tremendous food, aud its melancholy it eppears that, on Hickory Kan, empties into the Lehigh, about ‘a large | dam, belonging to Mahlon K. Taylor, which co- | 2 Haven, there wa: ground, when full, and, in During Moaday night, fam Vie waste gites nay- @ hoisted), and the da ght, sweepin le s@ and two saw. Isane Gould's house and and nota timber re« found en Tuesday, under Jacob West's by « Twenty persons have been rd from below the apprehensions are we very much png the ow forming & new colony in lows, 44 miles north of their presemt settioment in Pot Thus batiled, ihe party were obliged to give up | tewatcmie coraty, further seurch.’ The ehips were driven down the | — tiem remarkable fact, that the lowest stagas of the and wll that could be & was to land pow Tog iy the laet thirty years bave been 1820, 1539 y ers and provisions ia Cape | ed Hay. T beoghe coer Saves o The Governor bat issued an order to admit hay and telligence, of ocuinie that In no part of hia ttt@ws free of duty, iuto Nove Scott in order to met te semarkal y the deficiency from the faivure of tl letters doce Mr Goodsir alinde to that aiven by the | “yy tares have made no ine Exquimeux, exce as being waworthy of conti- | at the South . desce. The argumenis on this side of the ques- | Carsiima 46, Virgin Hon are 100 many to permit us to differ from Mr. | vam 20 Geodsit’s view. It must surely strike most per- ‘The bridge scrora the Suqnehar at Tones rons, On reflecuion, as remarkable, that the Esqui- ght Bro on Weeweeday. Ged Wancenteey< mau should have no “papers” or voucher to show ere th lei Sh in Copfimeation of the aileged Inet of them having “9 been on beard the expedition ships. The chances of such @ document cong somewhere to hand could never hyve been overlooked by mea in the peeition of SirJohn Franklu's crews; and, indeed, it ix mecnceivabie that the otheers of the several | hips would have allowed such an opportagity recape on the visite ot the bi aud atforde jort recovered @ verdiet of witheot ere ploy ing them as inetrunment POMmUINU- | ‘S50 oH Vem perenervil wichvion wih the Whalers. Io t wraity in. the etre teens to Sir James Koss, Urat officer isdestred ter eh +r HOt rote. © cecuve dhe Investigater in the Wuuer of 1848 a9 not yet beew paid for oh skilled in Philadelphia, oa There inhaling Ras trom Rathracite ewal 0 inrane gitl, of Pliladetipht hae peiperty to the aanvunt of Pa. cf Fiiade) pare, sinoe 1826, bas paid $298,000 dhe lete electt @ riot bas ‘Theatrical and Musical, Bowery Tuxari “King Lear” was again pre sented at the Bowery Theatre, last evening, te @ crowded house. It is truly an excellent cast to whose hands this famed tragedy is entrusted, at this theatre. The costumes are in strict keeping with the supposed date of the transactions to which allusion is made im the play. The readings are very good, some of them very fine; and all things considered, it 1s seldom that this extraordinary tragedy is #0 well performed as it was last night by Messrs. Wallaok, Mrs. Wallack, Miss Wemyss, company. The bill for the evening concluded “ Jack Sheppard,” which has had a favorable run for a long time. It was anounced that these pieces would both be withdrawn after last evening's pertormance of them, and hence there was an extraord turn-out to see thy ders in the way of Buoapwar Tueates.—The bill, last evening, at this elegant and popular establihment, under the ausploes of Collins, the excellent and popular Irish comedian and vocalist, was the “Irish Attorney,” and “Teddy the Tiler;” and the farce was tho invincible “Box versus Cox,” A good and fashionable house was pre- sent; the acting of Mr. Coll cession of outbursts of laughter d spirited the house hapman, in the first pivce, was a mighty funny nd the Oriel of Miss Kate Horn “ was an Oriel n Oriel,” tastefully and modestly persouited. to the popularity of Mr, Collins, ions of publio satisfaction i he will pear again, in two of his fa evening. anpen.—This magnificent os it ia truly called, is second to none in the variety of ite attractions, aud the admitted morits of ite corps dra matique. The Plactdes—each ® host in himsolf—de Nighted us last evening in the “ Village Dootor,” and “Unele Sam.” The former is @ most interesting do- mestio drama, replete with many touching tucidunts, filling the heart with soft emotions, and mvistening the eye with tears, Its moral is good, and the dislogae, ough it flags » little now and agala, ls oxoellens ia many instances. Mr H. Vinoide,ss the Village Loe- tor, was the very personitioation of the true: hearted veteran soldier, susceptible, to the last, of the tonderesé> sifection for the orphan daughter of his early love. Mrs. C. H iid of his adoption, gsined y Mr Chippendale was, as usual, mation of the ancient. but re- d was not objectionable asthe ¢ character is somewhat over- tor. house oe unanimous im derness of her acting. faultloes in bis impe a, a Benton's Timate: ond performauee of the play attributed to the Engli author, Poole, and called the “Old Duteh Governor,” took place, last ovenings betore a large audience, and was recvived with much applause, The play by iteclf is capital, and for this to “ render to Cwser the things which sre Cmsar's”’ aud, therefore, we shail say that the “Old Dutch Governor,”? was originally a French vaude- ville of Soribe, ealled “ Le Bourguementre de Sardam,” which had @ great r in Paris, the part of by Burton) being played ‘This ne’ medy bas been a7 up io a very good atyle, Mabuger of the Chambers street theatre, it oust for the persor and is assisted b; ke, Rea, Leach, Ly: music, by Loder, is ‘y well arrange songs and choruses were rendered with great abliity by the company The entertainment began, last evoning, ‘with the burletta entitied © A fcep from a l’arlor Win- dow,” and coveluded with the favorite drama of the “ Demon Jester,” in which Brougham {s, as ever, origi- nal, witty. and amusing, to the very climax ef comic; aud Miss Chapman eecentric iz the most deserving manner. Nationat Tusatas —The entortainments at this house, last evening, consisted of * The Phantom Break- fast,” the drama of “ Jemmy Twiteher in Ame- rica,” and“ The Female Forty Thieves,” with several dances by way of interlude, The houre was filled from gellery to pit, and the very best spirit seemed to pre- vail “The Nati ite present management, is domg as good @ bus ‘as could be dasired. Feasonebly expected. There are new entertainments on the fapis, for this week, The celebrated equilibrist, Amotio 5 vowpert, has been engaged, and will appear to- morrow bight. Mitcment’s Ocrmrie Tuer elded success during the whole of the past week. Eve- ry night it was filled with numerous and briiliant audiences; and some nights so muob, that there was soarcely standing place left—a fact which must ha: ) Wire Diavolo,”” aod the Chik ail of which passed of ia their ‘The general favorite, Miss Mary charnoters of the three pivows, acquitt all her accustomed ability and diustivetio: forth the adiuiration aud applause of all present. Bishop, who sings with muoh tenderoess and expres- sion; Merers. Niokinson, Walcot, r, who are in some points inimicadie; Grosveuor, Stalford, Rosea- fles, Roberts aad Siueimir, Mrs, Conover, erwood, sustained their respective parte re prevented for 7 evening, ovnsia the grand tic pers of Amiiie, of tue ,? which will certalaly draw @ Sue, fashion- ebraved dare aod doing am me of eutertaim Crnces.—This besutifal am- phitbeatre bas been refitted for the winter seasom, With hot air furpaces, substantial wood work la plase ke. cAful feasure of the re- everything their sleeping inmates, ms, and their inhabitants, with- carried away by the eeeeccmoees umn. 1m fully nly, | continue to hires to the tuswete in | Beroum's Museum ford without doabt, | girot pleasure 0 em not hed tae opporta- hity of seeing them, to witness thelr extrasrdiamty feats im their various characte —Having had the pleasare tainmeats which this distluguisied © every Might performed fur Lae t of the public, we must say & wore ning cannot be spent thau one at the so ciety Library Kooms. To hear the sweet cadences of the celebrated counter-tenor, Mr Collins, is quite « treat, at lewst for those who delight im the superior charms of music. Tbe room is every might well Siled with # bighly respectable audience. Tne Cuinsen Musnum, ano rme Hosoanrane proprietor ef the Chinese Mureum wii give the proceeds of to-morrow's entertaiomens whieh is bo be Ube inst day, towards the projeoted fund for the Huw gerinn exiles, [bis is highly ereditabie to the p Vor, and We baye Bo doudt his geusrosity will be appre: The Asseotn:y Rooms,—Maoallister ts drawing uses, at his temple of eucnaatmeat, Hrowd- very good Way, Oud Will, therefore, continue his sorter magiques for another week, As it will positively be by week of exhibiting bis great skill as ® neocom, sbould be seem by those who take pleasure in Amy acts of legerdemmin Tue Haxow Fanny. —This highly gifted family, after vermin wry succuseful engagement as che St. Louis thes ¢ now performing as Hl. I, Grae tan’s theatre, lomphis ‘ African Theatre” is about being established Jn Cincinnati, ove Riot at Reaprna, Pa ‘th & Rogers’ Cireus , be- And the more rowiy portion of our own citiaens Chote are various ascouats with regard to the origia of the fracss—one that the Attack was premeditated om the part of (ne Kending 4 wavtber the men belonging to tne Cireus manifested @ bullying spirit Bol provoked the wttaok by several lagrant of viol However the atiale or d, it seems to have been quite ® sett: Cus Oe Im the weirs Rtones were tn y ot expected by reco musket, thas he te