Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-08-30

Inc lacts OF not having actually commenced.
or was about to commence. Upon this ;nror.
nation, they ordered all the men engaged in
The Testi6ule of the Jail TO be detained ON 4
charge OF assault and battery, with intent TO
create a not, and all parties, slaves and owners,
"efe committed to prison.
Immediately after this affair was somewbat
selled 10y the confinement of all parties, the
court commenced issuing bench warrants for
.he arrest of the ringleaders, aiders, and abet-
ters IN the riot, and ten arrests were actually
maze in the course of an hour These men
were placed under heavy bail, and some ofthem
committed
On the assembling of the Court in the after
noon, application was made for writ of habeas
corpus, TO BRING these owners and assistants in
tue recaptufe before Court and ask their dis
charge IRON confinement This was granted,
ana the case was immediately brought up before
the Court, who, after lengthy examination on
The part of the Commonwealth, only bound the
parties over in the sum of $500 each, to appear
and answer at the next Court of Quarter Ses-
sions.
In the evening, Mr.. Taylor came before the
Court, and made information against the slaves
as participants and actuaters in the riot, on
which the slaves were committed, and they are
now an jail but there will, no doubt, be a writ
of habeas corpus issued on next Tuesday, Ito
which day the Court adjourned,) on which the
slaves will be heard, and if liberated on bail,
we may expect another tumut.
The uproar and excitement during this day
was very great, and the judge of the Court
thought 1t advisable to call on General Seller
for volunteers, who promptly obeyed the order
and had in a very short time sufficient number
OF able bodied men under his command armed
with muskets, and bayonets fixed, to disperse
the mob, principally composed Of colored men
and women, from the front of the Jail.
MONTREAL Aug "a
A dreadful fire occurred here last night in the
st. Lawrence suburbs. Several acres Of ground
are covered with the burning timbers. From
one hundred to hundred and twenty houses are
burnt down. The loss is estimated at least
$500, 900
HARMsBuRG, Aug. q.
AS the train from Philadelphia for this place
was coming up last night, it ran over COW.
which upset the engine O. Huntingdon and the
tender, and smashed some of the cars In front
of those conveying the passengers, on which
were number of emigrants The engineer,
James Nicholson, is among the injured Five
Irish and English emgrants were badly hurt,
and one killed. The passenger cars were not
injured
New YORK, Aug. 26th, 1856.
The failure Of another large produce house is
announced-that Of w. c. & A A. Huntcr-a
necessary consequence, it is sad of the q ex-
plosion," the other day, of Suydam, Sage & Co.,
of whose notes, it is said they were extensive
endorsers. Liabilities s500,00O.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 28, P. M.-The Havre de
Grace Bank stopped payment to-day, and il is
thought has entirely failed. Moses Y. Beach
was one of its original founders. The news of
the failure created great excitement in this city.
Several of our citizens are heavy losers. One
firm of brokers lost five thousand dollars
Nam Of opfe {
poor people are sufferers.
RICHMOND, VA, Aug. 2S.-The radical re-
formers to the Convention TO alter the Constitu-
ton have swept the State.
HALIFAX, August 9th, P. NJ.
The royal mail steamer America, arrived here
at O'Clock this afternoon, bringing dates from
Liverpool, to the 18th, and London to the 10th
inst.
EsGLASD.-Parlament has been proroguedby
the Queen.
Jenny Lind was giving concerts to crowded,
even overfiowing houses, at Liverpool, and was
to have sailed for New York in the Atlantic on
the 2lst instant Miss Charlotte Cushman is
also a passenger in the same steamer. Mr.
Wilben is likewise passenger, and bearer of
dispatches from England and the Continent to
the American Government.
FRAEcE.-The French General Assembly has
ad Journed, and the attention of the French
tion is now principally occupied by the progress
Of President Bonaparte and his tour through
the Provinces. With some few exceptions he
appears 70 have been very faYoraby received
by the people. Wherever he went, excitement
and commotion was produced in giving him wel-
come.
DESMARK.-Some further skirmishes have
taken place between the Danes and Holsteiners,
in which the latter appear to have come off VIC
torous.
There are rumors of an approaching settle
ment Of the quarrel between the two contend
and and France
Letters from Copenhagen report TINT the King
Of Denmark has contracted sham marriage
with dress maker.
The potato disease is spreading to a consider
able extent in England and Ireland, and il is
generally admitted that 1t will take large per
centage off the crop. The other crops general
~ promise well.
Harvesting is now general and the weather is
very fine for harvest operations
BREADsTUFFs.-CIardiner e. CO. Circular of
the 18th August says, that the weather has been
very favorable for harvest operations since their
last, which has impaired a dull feeling to the
been prevented by unauthenticated reports Of
short yields Of wheat. Ourquotatlons for every
article shows a slight reduction, and the busi-
ness done to-day was very triGing, with prices
tending in favor of buyers.
CorToS MARKET.-The cotton market in Liv-
erpool has been rather dull during the week and
lower and middling qualities have declined an
average of I'd per ID. since the 10th inst.