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Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-08-08
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ny MRS. C. VI. SAWYER.

Dash down the sparkling cup its gleam.
Like the pale corpse-light DER the tomb,
Is but a false, deceitful beam
To lure thee onward to thy doom.
The sparkling CLEAN will fade away,
And round thy lost, bewildercd feet,
Mid darkness. terror and dismay.
The ghastly shapes of death will meet.
Dash down the cup poison sleeps
In every drop thy lips would drain,
To make thy life blood seethe and leap,
A fiery food, through every vein
A fiery flood that will eliace,
By slow degrees. thy Godlike mind,
Till mid its ashes, not trace
Of reason shall be left behind.
Dash down the cup! serpent starts,
Beneath the flower which crowns its brm,
Whose deadly pangs will strike thy Leart,
And make thy flashing eye grow dim.
Before whose no, and maddcning breath
More fatal than the simeon blast
Thy manhood, in unhonorcd death,
Will sink a worthless wreck at last
Dash down the cup! ths father stands,
And pleads in accents deep and low,
Thine ansuished mother clasps her hands
With quivering lips and wordless woe.
They who have borne thee on their breast
And shielded thee through many year;
Oh, would'st thou make their bosoms blest,
Their life joy their pleading hear.
Dash down the cup! thy young wife kneels:
Her eyes, whose drops have often gushed,
Are turned with mute and soft appeal,
Upon thy babe in slumber hushed.
Didst thou not WOO her in her youth
With many fond and solemn vow.
Oh turn again, and all her truth
And love shall be rewarded now.
Dash down the cup! and on thy brow,
Though darkened Ger with many a stain,
Thy manhood's light, so feeble now,
Shall, bright and steady, burn again.
Thy strength shall, like the tabled bird,
From its own ashes upward spring;
And fountains in thy breast be stirred,
Whose waters living JOY shall bring.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-08-08
Washing Made Easy for nothing.

Wasiing F7md.-One pint pure Alcohol,
one pint Spirits Turpenline, Two ounces of
Ammonia, one Gum Camphor.
Put the above in wight bottle-keep tight
shake before using.
Manner Of Usng.-Three table spoons full
OF the mixtures 10 pint of soap, or its equi.
va lent of bar-soap dissolved in water.
For FIVE gallons OF water this is enough
Put clothes TO soak in water 10 which YOU
have added the mixture, and soap. Let them
soak 20 to 80 minutes. Bring them out and
boil in pure water, use no more soap.
Rinse them and hang them out, no rubbing
needed.
N. B.-Colored clothes put in the same
water in which the white were soaked
AS dollars are not plenty with those who do
the washing Of this world, offer this and
vouch for it, for the good Of the poor.
Lowell, Mass. w. ii. BREWSTER.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-08-08

EFFECT OF SHOT AND SHELL on IRON VEs-
sELs.-The first experiment for testing the
effect Of shot and shell on the sides of iron
vessels took place lately, al Portsmouth, un-
der the superintendent of Captain Chads,
on board the Excellent The Commander
in-Chef, Admiral the Honourable Sir B. Ca
pei, Rear-Admiral Prescott, and number Of
naval and military officers, were on board of
her. The result of the experiments was de-
cidedly unfavorabe to vessels constructed of
iron, which are neither fit to cope against
those made of wood, or 10 go against bate
ries, not only from the performations. but
from the dangerous wounds caused by the
splinters
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-08-08
NO. T..
Impromptu.

4mprOmpCu.
How true it is, that not place or circum-
stance alone can confer happiness. content
ed heart bears its own home with it, under ey-
cry change and trial. The following impromp-
tu from young friend well expresses this hap
py quality. 1t was occasioned by the surprise
Of an acquaintance, that amid the wearisome
cares and laborious duties of every day life she
ever carried a cheerful spirit and made it light
and sunshine around her:
You ask. "why light my way attends :"
How could l call il dark,
When have health, and home and friends.
All that can cheer the heart
'Iis true, the clouds do sometimes rise,
And falls the cold, dark rain;
Bat brighter after, seem the skies,
The sunshine is the same.
Or think ye labor, e'er can make
This world look dark to mes
No, while I've health to earn my bread,
Ny crust will sceetcr be.
Sometimes if those we think our friends
Our enemies should prove.
We do not lose our sunshine" then;
Theirs could not be true love.
But when true friends more dear and dear
Are taken from our sight
We seem to lose our sunshine here,
But theirs is fairer light
A glorious day. more pure and bright,
Which God to us has given
Tho here our sunshine ends in night
'Tis always light in Heaven.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-08-08

FOURTH OF July AT PANAMA.-The 'Cou-
rier of the Two Oceans, published at Panama,
issued an extra edition on the 9TH inst, devoted
entirely to an account of the celebration of the
Fourth in Panama. The day was 'ushered in
by national salute from the battery, fired by
order of the New Grenada authorities. A lib
erty pole was erected In the Cathedral square,
and large concourse of people gathered a
round 1t; procession was formed, an oration
delivered, and collation., toasts and speeches
followed. The New Grenada authorities. in
cluding the Governor of Panama, took part in
all the ceremonies, and the utmost harmony
and good feeling seems to have prevailed.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-08-08

New MEXICO AND SLAvERY.-The consti-
tuition just published forever prohlol.s sia-
very in the following manner, according to
the first sectiun:-
SEC. !. All men being born equally free
and Independent, and having certain natural
inherent and inalienable rights. amongst
which are The enjoyment and defending OF
life and liberty, the requirement, possession
and protection of property, and the pursuit
OF and attainment of happiness: therefore,
no male person shall be held by law to serve
any person as a servant, slave or apprentice,
after he arrives at the age oftwenty-one years,
nor female in like manner, after she arrives
at The age OF eighteen years, unless they be
bound By their o,cn consent after they arripe at
such age, or are bound BY ia~ for punishment Of
crime"
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-08-08

ARREsTED.-We learn that Herr Alexan-
der, The magician, was arrested last night by
Mr. Crandal, OF the Lockport Courier, and
this morning taken 10 Lockport in irons. 1t
appears that some two years since, while in
that place, he was performing the celebrated
pistol feat, when the gentleman who was
shooting put his hand before the muzzle, and
when the weapon was discharged, his fingers
were severely lacerated. He brought suit
against Alexander, and had him arrested,
when Mr.. Crandall became bis bail for S4OO,
but failing to appear before the court at the
appointed time, Mr.. c. was of course held
responsible. Alexander will now, we sup
pose, be imprisoned until that sum is paid
Rochester Advertiser.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-08-08

MONSTER DIvIDEND.-The Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, of which Messrs How
land g. Aspinwall are the representatives, have
declared dividend of .fffy per cenf-thelr
first dividend. This company started, we be
lieve, with capital not exceeding 100000,
Il has since purchased the steamships Unicorn,
Tennessee. Cherokee, and Philadelphia, for
which there must have been paid all Of $780,
600 This fact, considered in connection with
the dividend above mentioned, will afford some
idea Of the profits Of the business.-Jour. Com.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-08-08

Madame Bishop has arrived in N. Y. from
Mexico, with S25, 900 profit in her pocket.
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09
RY TELEGRAPH.
afeat Freahet in the Hast.

HN ist 4hALADEArhAh, oF pb. q y
. Accounts from the Schuykill represent
a aSfreshet caused by the rains on Sunday
and yesterday, as very destructive to life
and property, large number Of the railroad,
county and canal bridges were swept away.
The HaHisburgh and Lancaster bridges
crossing the Schuylkill from 2eading are
gone.
( The Reading Railroad and Schuylkill
Navigation Companies are heavy losers.
Ten iron bridges at Milcreek, belonging
to the railroad, are said to be carried away,
besides sixty feet Of the, embankment- =
The canal is injured beyond all possibility
|ofrepair this season. Z 5,.sl-,,
A number of houses were swept away.
Houses were floating down the Schuylkill,
with people clinging to the tops, Several
lives were lost.
Accounts from Lehigh bear similarity to
the above. The river has risen to grea,
height g. was covered with about 100000.
900 feet Of lumber and logs. The yuriou,
towns on the Lehigh were flooded, and the
injury done to the canal it will take three
weeks to repair. The embankment of the
tide water canal at Havre de Grace gave
way Yesterday and navigation will be sus.
pended for probably week.
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southern naanafaoturaFa.

i While the Northern and Eastern manu-
Acturersar comphiningof the high prices.
Of raw cotton, and the low prices of the
manufactured article, they buy and work up.
more Of the raw material than ever before.
This appears queer enough, when we reflect
shat it is in the face Of enhnced importa-
tions Of rival productions. The following
from the Dry Goods Reporter, may render
a solution Of the anomaly: sr.s
q We may reflect that political causes in
Europe have operated to keep goods cheap
in Lancashire, and bys SO doing 10 promote
large exports, to this side Of the Atlantic, at
moment when three incentives to manu-
featuring livalry'have acted upon the South
and West. These are, first, abundance Of
Icapital; second, the influence of the i'm.
provementsin steam power and machinery
emancipating factory labor from water pow
er localities; and lastly, political motives.
"The South has abundance Of capital,
evinced in the fact thatthe crop thus far de-
llivered, say 100000 bales, has realized
$l04 ,000, 900, against $50, 0,000,00 for
{, 100000 bales last year; that is to say. a
quantity diminished by one fourth lessening
to the same extent the expenses of freight,
packing, weighing, ETC., while rates of ex-
change are high, drawn against high values,
have enabled the South, as a whole, probably
to realize $50, 900, 900 more money from this
crop than from the last. With these means,
factories have SO multiplied that not short Of
l75, 900 spindles are nowin operation in the
cotton States; requiring 100000 bales OF
cotton per annuni, and every mail brings
ludvices of some new one going up. This
rivalry affects the old established factories
the more that the new factories are all armed
i with the newest improved machinery, and
will produce at probably 20 per cent. better
advantage. The competitionfrom this quar-
ter is every way calculated to diminish the
old margin between the cost Of raw mate
rial and that of Fabrics. Therefore those
old concerns which had reached the mini
mum margin at which they could work,
must shut up shop and give place to more
competent operators" "Hss aat i'4F
| "Political causes in Europe have operated
to keep goods cheap" "the influence Of the
Improvements in steam power, .emancipat-
ing factory labor from water power local.
i tiles" and the erection Of extensive manu-.
factories in the south. These are the causes
assigned for the state of things now existing
land not that the tariff Of 46, has anything
to do with it.
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09
Conviction Of Pyle,,.

The trial of Pyle for the murder Of
Campbell, took place on Friday and Satur-
day last, in the Court Of Common Pleas
On Saturday night, the jury, after being out
a short time, brought in verdict of murder
in the second degree, the crime charged in
the indictment, The evidence was what is
technically called circumstantial but the
circumstances were Of sucha nature as to
render it morally certain that the fatal blow
was struck by the prisoner, The case was
well managed both by the prosecutors, Mr..
Jordan. and by the counsel for the defence,
Mr.. Moore, The punishment is imprison-
mentfo life. We understand new trial
has been asked for.
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Arrival Of the Hibernia.
HALIFAX, Sept. 4,


The steamer Hibernia, Capt. Long, ar
rived at 10 o'clock to-day. She brought
Liverpool dates Of the oath, London Of the
23rd, and Paris Of the 23rd.
The steamer which sailed from New York
on the l4th Of August, had not arrived at
Liverpool when the Hibernia sailed.
Since the sailing of the Atlantic, cotton
advanced D. After her departure spirited
reaction took place. The sales being from
10 to $4,000 bales at the advance noticed.
The total sales were 81 900 bales, Of which
spectators took 28,000.
From Gardner & Co.'S Circular.
LIVERPOOL, Aug %.
More animation in the corn trade, the
weather having become unsettled. In wheat
small advance has been realized. Flour
sold more freely at last weeks prices.
AMERICAN PROVISIONS.
Beef is dull--pork less demand-bacon
steady but sales limited for want of assort.
shoulders, fair sales at full prices
hams continue neglected-lard, active de.
mand at previous prices--tallow in full de-
mand at steady prices. In sugar, the Lon
don and Liverpool markets are moderately
supplied, and importers expect an increased
firmness. Molasses, prices unchanged
coffee without advance,
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conEfeas..-.re1as an Paaaed.l

~
After solong time The Texas bill has
finally passed. " Better late than rneysrsp--
Some amendments have been made to it,
we believe, by the House, but nothing it is
presumed which will endangerit. 1t passed
on Friday last, and when the vote was taken
there was much confusion in the House,
and the galleries and lobbies were filed
with spectators, who, when the vote was
announced-yeas l0s, nays 98-clapped
their hands and gave several rounds Of ap-
plause. The people of the whole Union
viii be heartily glad to see this yexed ques-
tion settled, and we hope this is done, now
and forever.
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tributaries oflhsse nagnifice1t rivers.
There il danger. indeed, that New Y ofk,1
New Englund, and the midd q States alte-
gether nlay do no more than hold their
own. and perhaps lose something Of the
extensive business which theynow enjoy.
To q fair understanding Of the claims
and capacities Of the manufacturing sec
tions Of The country, two questions ure to
be solved. The first relates to capital,
and the second to the power Of manufac-
turing; and the question will soon come
home 10 the country, which Is cheapest,
coal or water, or water OF steam? as the
two great moving powers which are to
come into competition. Here and in New
England, Of course, water power is much
the cheapest, where il can be secured /;
but the question we shall soon have TO an.
swer is this, whether the, East can com
pete with the coal fields Of the West, To-
Gated, as those cold field are, upon the
banks Of the great rivers and their tributa-
rics Of the West, and convenient for all
purposes Of Navigation as they are. Not
only are there these possessions Of fuel, but
a cheapness Of subsistence with which we
connot hopeto come into competition. -
With cheap fuel, cheap bread, and u con-
yenienl access to the markets of the coun-
TRY, can we do more than hold our own,
Tor even as muchl These are the impor-
tant questions to be considered.
1 One advantage we have, however, and
THAT is the possession Of capital, without
which the great resources ofthe west can
not be developed. Money alone can open
mines, put up factories, purchase machine
| ry, erect dwellings and secure labor. K
| Some Of the owners Of the coal lands oi
1.-The West are now in New York, endeuvor.
ling to press the Importance Of this subject
home upon the attention Of our capitalists.
They show that there nre immense beds ol
local on the Ohio, and that too surrounded
| by iron ore. The Ohio, Illinois, Tennes
see, Missouri, Allegheny, Monongahcla
| oil have coal and iron.
4 We have spoken Of coal and iron because
of their great importance as articles OF pure
necessity, but the valleys of the Ohio anC
Z Mississippi have advantages in their vicini
ty to the Cotton growing States. Why
| should cotton be exported to Old England
we often ask but the people are asking a
! the South and West, why it should be ex
ported to New England, when it can bt
| worked up SO much nearer home y ~
There is no reason to expecta continued
dependence Of our western people upon the
North east for products of the loom, when
nature has bestowed upon us all things nee
essary for manufacturing. The time is MOI
far distant, when the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys will furnish to the world cottor
, as cheap as either New or Old England
when imports from China and the Pacific
Islands will be transported through her east
ward, instead of around the Cape of Goo(
5 Hope or Cape Horn, or across the lsthmus
as now. The West viii be thoroughfar'
} for the foreign products of India. She will
be the great "Ploagh, Loom and Anvil o
the world, feeding and clothing herself, ant
able to do the same for millions Of the hu
man race besides.
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GREAT rreahet n pennsYlvania.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3.
/ At early hour this morning, The scene
from Fairmount togtho Naval Asylum, was
terrific and sad. The rush and roar Of angry
waters were appalling. The wharves are
all hid from view-warehouses, mills, coal
and wood-yards, counting houses, stables
and sheds innumerabIe were inundated. The
smaller buildings which stood near piers,
look as :f they had suddenly changed their
original position for new ores in the mid
die Of the stream. The water rose to such
altitude in the manufacturing department. Of
the Philadelphia Gas Works at the foot Of
Marketstreet, that they had to stop all ope-
rations. The Fairmount Water Works are
stopped, apd will not run again perhaps for
seyera. days. At 2o'clock this morning the
water on Fairmount dam was 10 feet l0l
inches high.
No estimate can be made Of the destruc.
tion of property. .'e. IN
Blackjack bridge and Manayunk bridge
are gone. The mills at Manayunk are un.
der water. The Reading railroad has sus.
tanned much damage.
The Schuylkill canal is SO much injured
that it is found it cannot be repaired this
season. s
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09

oT The wings Of Ross and Pickaway
at their convention at Yellow Bud, OF
Wednesday last, nominated James I. Wor
Ellington for the Constitutional Convention
in place Of Mr.. Claypool, resigned. Fo
State Senator, Joseph Geiger; Representa-
tives, Matthew s. Cook, Of Ross, and Col
John Cochran, of Pickaway.
We understand that there was quite
musical time among the candidates for nom
nation.
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Hamilton County Democratic ticket

Hamilton County Democratic Ticket.
The convention to nominate the Hamilton
county ticket, met at Carthage on Saturday
week, but owing to .he severe rains and
some difficulty with the 9TH Ward delega-
ton, it did not nominate any candidates. and
adjourned to meet at College Hall, in Gin
cinnati, on last Monday. The convention
met at the time and place appointed, went
to work harmoniously and nominated the
following gentlemen:
CoNeREss.--DaviG T. Disney.
SENAToR-W. s. Hutch. "a
REpREsENTATvE.-Messrs. linn, Ben
nett, Tiff, Schiff and Dawson.
If the Democracy OF old Hamilton do no
make clean sweep, it win not be because
they have not the right sort of men on thei
ticket.
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09

Steamboat Explosion and Loss Of Iifs
We copy from the Charleston (va.) Re.
publican of Friday last. the 30th uh., the
following account Of a steamboat accident !;
On Wednesday afternoon, the 2lst inst.s
rs the Greenwood was putting out from,
the wharf at Kanawha Salines, one ofthe
boilers exploded with such force as to rem.
der the boat quite wreck, and cause her
TO sink in few minutes. The persons In
jured by this calamity are-Capt. Elisha
Williams, thigh broken, slightly scalded,
small cut on the head-doing well. John
Estlewood, Engineer, badly scalded, can
hardly survive. John Montgomery, Mate,
badly scaIded, butt is thought will Tecoy.
or. Jacob Smith, passenger, bound home,
5 miles above, sculded and otherwise in
Iiured. is supposed to be doing well. George
Montgomery and young man living with
James Downward, slightly scalded. Mr..
Henry Burch, from Buffalo, Putnam coun.
lty, 10 charge Of a bnrrel boat which the
Greenwood had in tow, wos badly sealded,
conveyed to the house Of Mr.. A. e, sars
gent. where he fingered ill Sunday, when
death put an end TO his sufferings. ~;
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09

GoDEY's LADY's Book FOR OcToBER.
L. A. Cooley, Philadelphia. s3per On,
mum. f VIZ s
This excellent monthly has come to
hand. Every number appears to excel
the one before il, and it would seem that
there was no stopping place 10 Mr., Godey's
enterprise, This number contains splen.
did mezzotinto plate, en,itlcd"Which is The
mother" besides number Of others quite
pretty Its reading matter is good, ai
usual. Katharine Walton, by Gilmore
simms, is continued, with increasing in'
tercst g oTssa 9g issa " 8fIR
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09

BLAcKwooD's MAGAZINE, for August, is
before us, and as usual, full Of first rate ar.
ticles. Among others, are "Free Trade and
Cotton manufactures" "Courtship in the
time Of James the First" "Baronial ant
Ecclesiastical antiquities Of Scotland" Le'
dru Rollin on England" "African Sport
ing" No we'll informed man should thinl
Of being without this and the four reviewl
published by Leonard, Scott & Co.'s Full
ton street, New York, which are afforded a
the low price Of $1,000 a year, for th'
whole. sas ~
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09

o. We are indebted to the Hon. j. L..
TAYLOR, our very attentive Representative
in Congress, for the valuable report of the
Secre tary of the Interior, and the report OF
the Naval committee on Steamships. He
will please accept our thanks.
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09

GTAta meeting Of Democrats from sew
eral townships in the county, holden in
Portsmouth, on Saturday last, the following
county officers were nominated:
For Auditor-JAs. THoRoMAE.
For Sheriff --JoHN M. FULLERTON.
For Commissioner-H. H. FULLERTON.
L For Surveyor BRowN.
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Havre De Grace Bank.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 3.
Colder, 0ushier of the Havre De Grace
Bank, has been committed to jail. The
President and all the Maryland Directors
are under arrest, The assets Of the Bank
it is said, are not worth five dollars, yet the
liabilities exceed ninety thousand.
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09

FIRE.-on Monday morning the 10th ult.
the town of Elkton, Todd county, KY, was
the scene Oh terrible conhagration, which
destroyed buildings, goods, and other prop
erty, to the amount of over $4,000.
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09

ADENiAL.-The statement that windows
overlooking the Jail yard had been let at the
rate of $40 apiece, 10 persons desirous Of
witnessing the execution Of Webster, is
contradicted by the Boston Bee. Z
The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09

~A negro womaa, ir the 9th Ward of
Cincinnati, claims to be in her l5Oth year;
appearances, says the census-taker, indi-
cate very great age. She was born in Vir-
ginia, n
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DEAD.-Thomas Logan, Esq, High Sheriff
of Campbell county, KY, is no more. Sc
says the Newport Neaps. oa