The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-28

which will not admit Of the possibility OF ~wa-
They consider the election OF Johnston IS CO., q
lsnt 10 gam of ten thousand votes, and that tina
accession will save the State.
AS an evidence Notwithstanding, that desPe-
rate rally lie expected to be made tor Case we nVS
m the list OF appointments of wing mass meetings.
IN various paris of the State, between tns day ana
he election, large number OF home speakers de-
rienated and the following auxlllarles from other
States, to aid IN the canvass ;0eSoeI' =. WI
CLAYTON Del; Mlllard Fillmore, N. X; z. Col,
I'm. Lee, and w. Cost Johnston, OF Md, and
others.
York and other States for the work upon the
stump; but whether Dudley Selden is to make the
tour OF the State In behalf OF Cass, or where he is
10 go, we have not been apprsed.
10 enliehten the people of Pennsylvania; but, al
though the abest and profoundest pleader IN the
Union, Mr.. Webster is so unpopular among tne
masses of the people, that were he to enter rem
sylvania as a stump advocate OF Gen. Taylor, tne
State would be almost certain to go Tor CasS: III
1870 Mr.. Webster went into Virginia, for "llppe-
canoe and Ty Ter too" and 1t is still believed that
that visit inevitably sealed the State for van
Buren, MIR. Webster is alpowerful In Massachu-
sets, unanswerable in the Supreme Court, and ~
the Senate, and equally distinguished for hls skill
IN ing chowder; but out OF Massachusetts ne
spoweress among the people. II is buta preIu-
strength of mind he Is impotent to plead that pre-
JUDGE away. The wings, therefore, had better
not bring Mr.. Webster into Pennsylvania BRING
Glddings, or Tuck, or Palfrey, or any body else,
but keep Mr.. Webster within the range OF Bunker
Hill monument, and he may do good service. No
thing could have more disastrous effect upon
the yeoman people of Pennsylvania than an oppo-
sition from the Hartford Convention, though only
an apparuon.
In conclusion, wing al our side desires us to
put down this Etate as good for ten thousand ma
lority Tor Taylor, We do so at hlsrequest, though
we believe he Is overestimatlng the case. We
move westward this afternoon through the interior.
THE DocToR.
DEATH OF THOMAS TRENoR.-Thls venerable
Irish martyr has been gathered, as we are informed
by friend, almost unnoticed TO his fathers. His
death which occurred the 9th of September in the
s7th year of his age escaped attention And yet
his life eventfu and his character so estmabe,
that We must review it briefly Mr.. Trenor was born
at Monbagsn, in Ireland on the 18th March 1761. He
bound. after receiving good education appren
tce to a shipping house in Dublin. This was before
grass grew along the wharves of the LiTy and when
Dublin enjoyed portion of that golden commerce
which Liverpool and London monopolized after the
disastrous union. In l19S Mir. Trenor merchant
Of extensive business and large fortune. He was
owner in whole or in part of thirty merchant ships
But he ardent lover of liberty, and entered-as
Hancock, Carroll, Morris, and other America mer-
chants entered, into our revolution with Lord Ed
ward Fitzgerald, the Emmets, McNivens, and other
Irish patriots into the movement which contemplated
the enfrsuchisement of their country. Mr.. Trenor
the treasurer of the United Irish Society. H'
confined in the Birmingham Tower of Dublin Castle,
from which he made his escape and after hiding and
waiting some time for Lord Elwood privately mbarkei
in of his own ships, for Norway from whence he
went to England, where he was arrested, and lay
with impaired health Mr. Trenor in 1906 got released
from prison, and departed to Portugal, from whence
in 1907 he came with his family to America, and
sided for several years at Lansingburgh Subsequently
MIR T. established himself as a manufacturer of iron,
in Vermont, where he resided for seventeen years
For the last fifteen years he has held situation In the
House. Though bapieled
Mr. Trenor obtained permission OF the English govern
ment, in 1892 to spend ninety days in Dublin for the
purpose of arranging urgent business affairs. Mr.
Trenor, during his forty years residence in America
has enjoyed the respect of all who knew him. and the
friendship Of many of our most distinguished citizens
prominent among whom was the late Governor Clin-
ton. The aged widow of MIR 1reror, and two sons,
reside in New York. Another son major Eustace
Trenor, of the Dragoons), died within the past year
The brother of Mr. Trenor, mentioned in the follow
ing paragraph from McKenzie's " Lives of Remarkable
Irishmen was the late Mr. James Trenor, ost amia
BILE man. fer many years clerk in the Office of
rotary of State:-" MIR. Trenor's brother brought a
sken Lad der into the prison round his body which he
had purchased in Dublin for five guineas. Trenor
made Corbitt sham more sickness than he felt, and
then limited gravely to the humane doctor that Cor
bitt thought he poisoning him, by which his day
visits got rid Of for he justly enraged The
ladder thrown he wall forty. feet high at
a convenient moment-it stormed and blew fearfully
that night-Corbtt secreted himself in the yard
when the prisoners were about to be loc ked unfwo
friends outside the wall made the ladder fast-re
Corbitt mount and evade the sentinel at top
from Dublin he got safe to France-Trenor lending
d
suspicion and search, sham figure laid on the
bed and it fortnight before Corbtt was missed
by the jsiler Majors SIR and Swan then came down
to Kilnaiphom with a guard, and an enquiry took
place MIR Trenor protested that he knew nothing
Of Corbtts escape but had it not been for the nu.
exerted by relation of his wife, he would have
been cent in chains to the lower dungeons Mrs s
maiden name Catharine Eustace; she is a cousin
OF Sir Francis Burton, formerly Lieutenant Governor
of Lower Canada and had many relatives among the
dominant party, among whom Major General Eustace
was not the least iniuen tal-.8bdny Journal Oct 81
HoRRIBLE.-A man, named Michael Sharkey
residing In Spring street, was arrested Yesterday
by Officer Phillips, and brought before the police ma
gistrate. the charge of committing a rape on the
person of interesting little girl named ia Murphy
eleven years of age, who resided in his family on
Sunday night he took few drains of that patent
poison" the play writers speak Of eloquently the
bane of mans existence, and getting extremely
"hishn he kicked his better half out Of doors, and
licking up the house went TO the bed on which the
little girl slept dragging her to his bed and compelled
her remain all night with him, and despite her cries
and he debsuched her person the most dis.
gustin9 manner. The next night the fe nd, for man
we cannot call him, attempted the same outrage and
had the neighbors not heard her heart cries
and piteous means, and came to her rescue the
Tongue cannot conceive Of outrage more palpable
and deserving SO fully the punishment of the laws
strong arm.-.4ibGny Kntcker6ocker, Oct 81.
TIE EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR J. FRANKLIN
We have received from M. Mcpherson, ESD of
the Hon. Hudsons Bay Company's vice, a letter
dated Portage LaRoche, July g. 1913. The letter
the following information relative to Sir John
Richardson, who, it will be remembered, is seeking Sir