lenc of the N. 0. Crescent. . i i ount of rho Gold Region, mneopond,. Interesting lei, Vomiter California, August 26, 1848. I was agreeably surprised to find igen Francisco a pretty little yankee looking town', though we had to wade through tWo or three miles of sand hills, against a stiffoor'Wester, just before reaching it.— They have made the best of a bad site, on the side of a pretty steep b 11 1) and hemmed in by high sand hills. They have stuck a board house tinder the lee of eVety sand bank of clump of bushes, and yeti can not buy a sand hill there now for any money. They boast quite a geol. ooking hotel, and talk of the mint, bank, marke(house, and navy-yard, that will be, wi.h quite a serious look, rather amusing to a stranger who has not seen the Pincer; but if he hap pens in at some of Ole half-dozen stores stroug,,along the water-side, and sees some of the rough linking countrymen, who May have just arrived from the mittee—(how very polite the story-keepers are to them now!)+the fellow takes out his buckskin purse, a foot long, and shakes half a dozen pounds or so of gold into the !melee, to pay for his truck, with as much coolness as if it were sand. There were about eight or ten vessels in port when I.waa there, 1 ail empty but two whalers.— They bed made prompt and profitable sales, but they all grumble because the Governor will not take the 'geld for duties at Moro than $lO ' the ounce, .and there is no money in the market. The acting col lector, a young officer who is full of business, for lie is the quarter.master it tells you that lie has forty thousand dollars alret(dy paid in gold, and he .does nut know where the devil the money is- to come from to redeem it! On the third day the town had lost its novelty, for it was cold and , no fire to be had. We began to criticise the cociking=want of ladies—the bleak wind and the sand thewhelesoul eagerness with which every man, ( woman and child in this place ap peared to pursue gold. Wo were glad when the launch-owner could not find another bale to send up in his boat. So we were off, the tide making, and the wind blowing is gale almost, after we gut_rodnd the point; and in et! few hours our little craft, Witt the ci-derant Winton leader as owner and master, some half-dozen runaway sailors pod a grogshoo keeper or two as fellow-passengers, had entered the Farrows at the head of the bay; and evening found us in the mouth of the river—marshes and mus quitoes on either aide where we waited till day, and then found a broad,, pretty and quiet stream, up which we sailed semb sixty miles, to Sutter's land ing, passing a few bound tip. This is the on!y long; navigable and important river in this western ac quisition of Uncle,Sam's. Steamers will in s year be running many leagues above the mouth of Feath er River, which i ti some distance above Sutter's.— ' We found here half a dozen launches, a few wagons and a motley set of vagabonds (whites, Indians, ne groes, katiakas, Chinese and Chilenos.) We walk, od with the late Mormon, now thriving merchant, over a dusty three miles to Sutter's Fort, which stands out from the bank of the river. on the open plain, and on grodnd so low that it is almost an is land during the winter floods. The captain, a Swiss gentleman of the 'old school, we found surrounded by his,deeently clad Indians. 'We call them his, - because hi had fed, raised and clothed them, and treats them so well that none,can seduce them front his service. lie eceived MI with great politeness, and, as he had no rhorses himself, put us in the way of getting them from Mr. Sinclair, his nearest and • best neighbor--oil r e of the few disi nterested gentle men we met in the mining regions. By stinger, our horses were ready, and we were off, for a night's ride to the lower / or Mormon diggins—so Called from the Mormons, who discovered it. But it was cold, and we could not see the road—so we stopped and took some-sleep; and the next morning rode down the hill to; the bank of the American furk, which here make's a rapid between two rocky hills, and has deposited an island of an acre or so of sand and gravel among some rocks, which obstructed the way. It was like a camp meeting—plenty of booths and brush shanties lined the river bank; and, upon riding over the rough stones and gravel bank of the Island—which we did with difficulty, fur it was full of newly-dug pits and piles of stones—to reach the creek, now qtlitedow and retired to the main chan nel, we saw, for the first time, the gold washers at work. ' There were ranged along the edges of t h e stream *.it least a dozen washer - machines, which are just like baby,cradtes, made of wood, may open at the ' foot, amt with rounded or cylindrical bottoms; and a few brackets tacked across the bottom at intervals ' of afoot or so. They are set in or at the edge of the water on rockers, with a slope down stream; one man brings the earth or gravel, which is cleaned -of the big stonei, and throws it on the head or too of the cradle, which is formed of bars or a coarse 'wive of sheet iron •or copper, and another man stands at the head of the cradle in the water, whip!' he dips up and dashes on the gravel or dirt as it . is left on the .gratel--, the earth, by this party, was taken from within a fiiet of the surface—while a third rocks the crad:e,l and thus keeping a stream of water passingthrouglf it in continual rolling from side to side, and very muddy, with the clayey and earthy matter washed out. The heavy sand aid heavier gold, all catches or lodgers above the brackets.— After the party has washed ifrai r Crrning's work of docent. four hours several pounds of this black iron, - or magnetic sand, mingled with gold, are scraped from above the two or three upper brackets, most of the sand is then washed out by the hand in a tin pan, by holdie?, , the pan iifelined just below the sur face of the water, stirring the whole tip, — ii'nd stir ring the water es it mingles with the sand, out at the lower edge of the basin, keeping one side below the stream all the while, to let in clean water, and take out more s t and. The weight of the gold keeps it all the while at the lowest point of the basin, and it seems hard to wash or shake it out. We looked on in / wonder and astonishment for an hoer, to see hylwhat a simple process men were srMsnd us gett ing rich. Why, we 'learned' it on sight. The men told us they had ben working since early that mornings—it was about 9 o'clock— they then scraped the results of their wash, in sand and gold, from the - bottom of their cradle, in a few minutes washed the balance of the sand out, and one of them held up the .pan and "guessed" there were seven or eight ounces in it, or nearly two oun ces for each man. They told us they gave two ounces for their machine, to a man, who, like ninny others, was not aatisfied with the lower diggiss, but had gone higher up, to the dry diggings, or pros pecting. We then passed down' stream to borne other parties, and watched them rock their cradles awhile._ -Theyl worked all alike, with about the fame luck, 'occasionally tinding,a pocket or crevice in the rock, ae ithey call it, wifere the gold and sand are dug out in handsfull, in about equal proportions, ' but these they Said were scarce. We next went up over the stony surface of the island, to see how the golden deposit ley. Here and there a f w were picking in the gravel, say a few feet below the sur face, throwing out by s handthe big sto yes, and .shovelling the , leaser e ravel into bucket., which were-carried ofrto thi cradle.' The bed o gravel had been made by a ripread or widening in he river bottom, and some large rocks and boulders had caught the sand and gravel brought down to this quieter water by the winter, torrents from above.— It was from four to ten feet before the diggers et ruck' the granite sock that formed the river's bed r and on this was found tte richest eaith. In the middle or highest part of the ba would have to dig 10 or 11 feet to reach th t and two or three, or may be more feet, surface gravel With little or nothing in which the gold strata would be poor until tl got deep, and not yield more, than two ou day per mainland then, they said, a man mi on a hundred dollars a day at the bottom of or hole. '`:This is a larger deposit than common, been dug full of pits and banks, but at th our visit nit more than three hundred pars left at this island. Every one had left t per mines. liire had satisfied- our curie and wanted to reach the mill, or first disco day. The road led us through a hilly c hills getting higher, oaks scarcer, more soepetme, wi h dry raunes anyl occasinal pine _groves. We found, as heretofore, every f w miles "rtu3re there Was a spring or patch of gra s, camp fires and wagons, families of Mormons, r of the roving race that have wended westward fo the last generation, ail I ngth turned east again, and per fectly contents with their luck' at las . With / some of them I had spedt the evening chag over their gains, prospects . & e., in the newly sblish eil city on the; shores o( Lake, the, Salt whic h will . 1 afford them a i quiet roof and rest from th,eir wan• daring. I here met, on several occasiontsimen who had gold enough. We found the mil quite.a settlement-msome eight store or bush shanties, and several bundr• , ging end washing 'along the habits. acres, or so, has .been penned of fo whose enterprising efforts to chili nose led to the discovery. He .ere• open for esaw mill among the bills men found the gold, washed. and . him. It was to peculiar not to be s i They tried 'to keep the matter many knew it, and in-three months that wilderness of hills—among Slitter's men and Indians ever -We fear of the will Indians—was no tied; and the grisly heart+, %valves,' tened in astonishment to thefryin babies crying, cow-bells tinkling, up-a - shandy among the loagitits.:- ' place left then fur them to go to. up the hills, though exceedingly % 1 is tolerably healthy, and on the grassy glades now and then to be are locating. log-cabins already hn Sam's land sales anticipated before right by treaty to territory; Baku° I . . to another grivernment. - We left the saw-mill, and foun 1 by going up it, that the hill abOve it was a pretty righ one, and fol lowing the windings of the rea round the hills which were fast rising into mountains, we rode about notin into It ravine between two ' pretty high hills; which in winter holds• quite a torrent. Par ties of men were scattered Mono. e this canadalike ants. It being late and and very hot, but few were working. We passed on to nein! er canada beyond, where the Californians had princi ally congregated, l i and it being Sunday.. Were Wino ing or gambling, and the 'lndians, their laborurs, itto—dressed 'a 1w ./140m—and a miserable, brutish ace they are, hard ly kno'w the use of tire to prepare their food, inane of them living upon grass, seeds, and acorns—in the slightest little brush dens which it could be sup posed would shelter a piece of mortality, and cloth ing themselves against the winter's snows and sum mer's heat, which are hero severe, with nothing,— The water in this gully was dried up, with the ex ception of a few pools and holes.' I asked one of the Californians to let us satisfy our curiosity by washing a little of his earth, which lay at the edge of a small pond or poul,and which he had brought from the gully a little higher up, where it was found quite rich. He, of course assented, and led us the way to his cradle. He brought the earth in an In dian basket, holding a little less than a peck, and as he threw the earth on the cradle top, I dashed on water, and Capt. S. rocked the cradle. ‘Ve worked away with spirit, attracting several specta tors, who laughed' at our undignified position=but 'twits otir first essay in making money by our own abor, and I entered into it. With zeal and great inter est at the result. After about fifteen minutes dash ing water, during which I got a good soaking be low, and splashed in all my vicinity, I got tired and, cried hold off. ' Our friend, the Californian, as ea ger to see the result as ourselves, himself scraped out the black sank and gold. and several gathered around him to see how much there was. He was kind enough to show us the gold when heltad cleaned it, and the guesses is to its quantity veriej from half to two ounces. There was probably more than an (niece of pure gold taken from the earth, as it had been hauled from the hill-side, in less than half an hour; and in a second visit which I had oc casion to make, and in which I learned mitre of the difficulties and profits •of — gohl=htinting, , l - was antis lied that in many, perhaps hundreds of canadas like this, several miles long, the earth is rich to excess, and will give many years work to from twenty to fifty thousand hands, who can each reckon upon two ounces of pure gold per day while washing.— To fasten this convictiop upon a t'y one in this court ' try is not. difficult now—it was a me Imonths since —but gold has fallen from 'sixtee dollars the Ounce to eight; and several at the- mi et were selling, from:necessity, for six dollars tit:- ounce. I rode front one end to the other of the main val ley, in the dry diggings, and questioned almost ev ery man there; and they at', without a dillkie ex relation, were then making from two ounces to two hundred dollars per day, when they chdse to work. •Mpuy bad shanties with trinkets' blankets, and cal /i icoes for the Indians, and comfor s and necessaries for the whites. I thinki;at le at two thousand whites, including Californians, wre on the dry dig gings of the American Fork, a done thousand, on the river, in different parts, was ring. There can• not b• less than two thoUsand on the Yuba, the north fork-of the American, on he Feather risers on all of which the washings bri TAM). fi nest gold, ... i e and great abundance; at almost very deposit in the ' bed of the river; 'and it is a fait, which only the daily ocular proof I had convin ed me of, that fur many miles of wild and dreary apace, watered by nearly all tha eastern tributaries of the Sacramento, a traveler can get off his horse in the bed of any mountain streams, whore tire hfits - Zio either side arc of gavelly red clay, and the slate creeps out in the bed of the gully, and there, in an 'honed washing; he is surd to get some gold, sometimes a vial, some times two, three, or ten dollars worth. .But the gold is scattered in all the bilk of clay and slatey format ioo, and the geological features of the couu try, I am told by thoSe most ,intimate with 'them, are nearly the same from Dyes' place,lat. 40ideg. to the Mtecumenes, about lat. 37 deg.. and from the commencement of the hills 39'miles'frons the river, to the big ormain range of the Snowy Mourvain, about eight miles further east. Gold has been found abundant enough to attract the laziest sceptiC in a large part of this district; and without any enthosi asm—nhich, by the way, has not formed pert of any system since I came•round Ca; e Horn to gain glos . ry fi ghting Mexicans, I think the Californians—fo r gold is found in both—under the enterprising, gold loving Yankees, will export from'six to ten millions of gold annually, in less than ten years. I expect to have a queer time of it here. Ferti a ithout soldiers—ordinance.without men enough to guard them—towns without men—country without government, laws or legislators—and what's more, no one disposed to make them; and a'sort of coloni al territory of the United States", witlmut even a commamicetion with the home government fur near ly two years, or with the navy for many months.— The officers of the army here could have seized the large amount of funds in their hands, levied heavily on the-country„ and been living comfortably in New York for the last year, and trot a soul at Washing ton be the wiser of tvorso for it. Indeed, such is ease with which power can go unchecked and un punished in this region, that it will be hard for the officers of government to resist temptation; for a salary here is certain poverty and debt, unless one makes up by the big hauls-=-•the merest negro can make more than our present Governor, Colonel Ma son, receives in tolo. , PROM LIMA.—The New York Sun has received files up to Nov. 6th. A new laW has gone into ef fect concerning the press, and con!ainiog more de finite regulations than hive hitherto existed. The law has occa,:ioited some severe remarks. The owner of a "pulpena" in the Plaza §an Ague tia, has been fined for allowing illegal meetings in his establishments. The papers of Limn give long and circumstan tial accounts of the discovery of.gold in California, corroborating those before received here.' EcuAnna..."—The Congress 'of. this State. is, still occupied in bringing for Ward accusations against the government, and the disappointed opposition appear to make it their sole object to embarrass the government without-regard to the. general welfare of the country. • they bottom, •ould be it, after hey hail ces per ht count his pit MOCHA Hons.—Mr. Silas Stephens, of Half •Day, Lake country, informs us that ,he has some hogs Kasing under this name, which, he describes as very extraordinary animals. - They, attain their growth in about six monthi, and may be fatted to weigh from 200 250 pounds without any dif f iculty. They posses extraordinary length of body; a sow in his possession measuring five feet in length, with remarkably ,short legs bearing scarcely six inches above the ground. They are perfectly symmetrical, very quiet and docile in disposition, and furnish pork of excellent flavor,, Mr. Stephens states that the breed may be found in Broome and - adjoining coun ties, New York, and that a gentleman in-Boone country, Illinois, 'has some.—Proirie Farmer: I I C h as a.. . time of lrntsbewenrpe „ ity acre, ery, that mntry— late and Q 7! At one of our hotels,s faw ; days since, Mrs ingureil of a gentleman sitting flext. to her the difference between a Jae simile and — ii sick family! After destroying •-huge"piece of mince pie, he replied as follows: A rAc Simms, tnadatn,.• may be , a well diAttien ticated•fact;,while • emit, FAMILY cannqt be t'egariled as a well one!—[SC:Lawtifigeßepubliban. Arrival of thocalcoolir Chagros. 44 • ,The Orlesits eveolog papers, of tho9th chronicle the erritkil there , ,that morning of this film steamship froirr_Chagres. ,She left Uhagres. on the evening of.the Ist instant, ,and reached tho'Llizi at 4 A. M., on the:fith: :She left New coteries the - "evening of the 18th of Dece►pber,andnrrivedet Chs grey on the morning of the- 27th. 'rhe passage was a pleasant one, though the vessel encountered head winds most of the way. gent el the steamer, inimediatley prneeiiiied up the river, on their arrival at Chagres, i ana eligaged all the nae transportation that he could, securing some 300 animals, „ _ „: . 'I, as 'tie called, 4,in log, beard, d persons dig- A piece of ten' r Capt. Sutter, ae this wilder= having a race find his Stork ent It dos to eon recognized. secret, but too from -that Aline high none but turgid alone fur feet being set -1 Land jackals, ,r pans hissing, MI boys kicking nd there was no the climate high 'arm in enmities, ver,banks and met with, towns ding, and Uncle we hive even a • ledged to belong When 'Major llitrrisieft, moat of the passengers had arrived at Gorgon and Cruces. lie 'met. Gen- eral Smith,, family and suit, with ,about half the paliseng - ers, at.qorgona. All were in fine spirits., thinking of-anvtliingibut the Chulery as two grand • fandangoes were then in pi ogress. The Pacific steamer California hail not reached her dettination.• ft will be recollected that she was to leave Rio for Valparaiso on the 21• st of November. The Falcon's passengers would therefore have to wait a few days at Panama, even should the Califor nia make a successful trip round the c l ap, no we confidently hope. The British steamer Tay arrived tit Chores on the 28th, and left on the ,POth with $1,000,000 in specie. There was at Panama on the 314 alt, the brit Philadelehia, front New York. liaded with coal for the Pacific Steam, Company: also a - schr. which would prJbably be chartered for San Francisco by SOIIIC Of the Falcon'S passengers, as there were 'more than the California could take. Mr.llarris has furnished the New Orleans Mer cury, with information resPeciing the transportation across the Isthmus,, etc. As Over one thousand' trunks were to be:transported, two trips would he necessary.' The sleamer California was not ex pected at Panama before the fifth ult. From Panama to California, freight is $5O per ton. • Mr. Harris represents the Cliagres river as one of the most .bsalltiful he has ever seen, with u quick current, and not. less thanleight feet of water betweell the mouth and Cruces. A week would be sufficienfto cut away the branches that overlap the river stream. There was but one case of sickness on the Falcon, and that was of a sailor, who had an attack of Cholera morbus before leaving this city. There was no sickness at Chaves except on board of one vessel: Thin Hullo J 13 eneott arrived there, two days before the Falcon with SO passengers Mr. 11. represents the country as very beantr ful, anil says that $lOO,OOO would make an excel lent ctrriage road across. ON THAT HANGS A TALE. -We yesterday received a proclamatien by .tele graph from the Mayor of that noted borough call ed Painsville, which ran thus— Painsville, Jan. 19th. 11, A. M. Ong hundred dollars reward is otE.-red fur the ar rest of W. 11. Sykes, who escaped from custody on the 19 instant, will be paid by the town of Pains villa% Said Sykes is, about 'forty-five years of age; fit° feet eight iiMiles high; thick set; and is a time maker by trade. 110 had been vaccinated on the left nrni a few days since, and u mark of India Mk on one arm. 11. KINGSBURY. Mayor. Now it must be known that this said Sykes. with grey eyes, had Been accused of 'taking t hingsc' w ith ont asking the 4 . Avner's current, fur which he was put in , durancefile.' Luckily he was a married man, and had ode of those women who understand matrimonyi'and who,practiced the marriage ciniven aßts to the letter. When Sykes was handed ovlr Ito the turnkey, Mrs. Sykes did not swoon, as most foolish women wonld; but the promptioas 0( her heart set her wits to work to release him. "By some underground tel egraph preliminaries wore arranged, and One eve ning, by request of Sykes, the jailor led his prisoner out to a small house, a necessary adjunct to all big houses—turned the key upon him, and waited his desire to return. Sykes, averse to the cold . damp ness of prison walls, had provided himself with a blg, shhg overcoat, huge cap, 8.1,c ttc, which, on this occasion he happened to have on. Pretty; soon rap weal heard, t h e door opetsod, - the priconear rushed shivering by, preceding the jailor, as usual, back to quarters. It took some 'time to luck, bat ' And bolt Alm doors along the outward pasadgre, mak ing all sure for the night, and When Mr. Jailor came to the last bolt, which was to secure the prisoner. he foolitl. (what all are liable to lirid), that he had heen 'entertaining an !angel unawares!' Oh! Mr. Jailor. said Mrs. Sykes, throwing off her dis guise, you see Who I am. I ?fanned this whole scheme myself—Sykes is free, road beyond L your reach ere this. I Now detain me, at your peril! 1 am a woman, charged with no crime—l am a wife and bound to stand by my husband, which I have &tier, - flow she came in the jail yaid or whither Sykes tied, this deponent saith not.—Clreeland Deated. 3 . We received v rterday the pApors regularly duo, nicht dim: Maio of Rev Orleans of tho 10th inst. . The Bulletin o tho 10th instant has the following— num VALPARAI9O.—We are indebted to the stunts of the sterimship Falcon. for files of tho Valparaiso Neigh bor of- the 3Oth,itorn which' we learn that the California gold.fover was raginz along , the coast,- probably more fiercely than in tho (United States. ' Four hundred pass portb•had hcon taken out at Valparaiso for California. and many hundred more were getting ready for a more. Wft exiraet , ho 1 folkowi its,. from the Valparaiso Xcighbor of NPV. 99th: I '' Frain Copinpo reports have arrived of great discover ies of mineral wrilth lately made there of both silver and gold. The wand attraction, however. of late weeks. has been California. The news comes tb* $lO,OOO are takinic out daily (rein tlr'washings there. C4ICAGO RAM -The - rats of the City are, becom ing noted for-their fierceness and daring. With the first commerce of the city come the' rats, which have now ,increased to an unprecedented degree, both os regards the size and number of the species which infest every • building s A - few days since a cat belonging to a friend %%Is made the parent of a very interesting litter of Kittens which she was carefully rearing as all well behaved "tabbies" will. A few nights since, however, %chide exercising the maternal Mike, "Puss" was attacked by 4' regular organized band of rats, which, sad to relate, contriv ed to kill 'the parent and make a Prey of the off spring. In the morning - the cat was found bitten to death, by the side of tonb of herL. assailants, whom she slew before overpowered by superior num dbeernst.. The encounter is, we believe, - without prece- LATE FROM MF , xte,o---MortotF.:lTs.—We ore in debted to ($+l.,S. W. Black, for a copy of the fol lowing letter to his address, from the Pritesinn Con sul at Puebla. The letter is dated December 10, 1848: '•.Since last night there is a rumor in town, that General" Rangel had got up a revolution at Guadal azara, in favor of Santa Anna. The authorities of the port of Mazatlan are also revoNing against the Federal Government, and a few nights ago our city has likewise been the theatre of disturbances, which, however, were fortunately suppressed. The leader of the movement, Dosamenter. according to the of= ficial newspaper, a highwaymen, who tried to get up row, by sacking the Convent of Man Francisco, and several' of the ringleaders are in prison, and will be tried according to the'established laws and customs:" CHOCTAW ESTIGRATIfirf ...-A party of Choctaws, 112 in timber, under Hugh McDonald, Esq„ paps ed through Jackson, on their way to the Choctaw Agency, west, of the State of Arkansas, on the Arti inst. They were from Neshoba county.. Another party' f 180, tinder the charge of the Ilev. T. C. Stewart, (having the same destination,) took the 1 Canton road to Vicksburgh a few day previously. i There are still- about 3000 Indians n the State, principally in East Mississippi. ' any- of those who passed through this place were unusually fine looking men.—Jackson (Miss.) qouthron. , • 1 CC7'An organ grinder, with his monkey, being taken before the Mayor of NeW °Henn/ foreithibit ing themselves without a license, the monkey Was so polite to . the Mayo„r , took off his capj'and' maths so many bows to hie Honer, that" they wereTermit-' ted In depart in peace. It is said that no lawyer -would have rianeked the cause betterthan.the thon.i key did. . I : . • FROM THE SOUTH THE WVEKIN .OBS MR., E E.rE. - P A. SATURDAY NORNING, JANUARY 27, 1849 RAIL ROAD TO BUFFALO. We have agitated this project so Often, and too little purposeythat we almost despair of ever awukening the public enough to the irimortance• of the prokast, to secure its commencement. "Never 'despair." however. Is a maxim we have profited by more than once. end we do noiltnow but in this patticular case we ought to ding to it with - a closer embrice thati-ever. The project, to this section of the country, is one of vast importance—more gib perhaps thou all others over yet devise for its benefit. The advantages - to be derived front tho construction of the road, wo have over and over, in our humble way, laid before the public, and they aro such as will strike the mind of every reflectin4 man in the country.— The remit action of the Senate of this :pate, repeal ing a bill passed at the last sossiop authorising the in corporation of a compiuy to continuo the road to the Ohio lino, should at once arouse the whole community, and secure the immediate commencement of the road east. lest at some future time Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, might take it into the r heads that it too would be detri mental to the interest of OD State; for it is plain from this demonstration that we have nothing to hope from them. They aro wedded to their idols, ttpd like the dog in , the manger, will 'neither eat themselves, nor allow others.— They have conceive ll tho maguificent project of building - a rail road across thri mountains to Pittsburg, and from thence to Cleveland, in the vain hop; of diverting the travel and trade of the Lakes from its natural channel to New York, to Philadelphia, and for fear this road, if built, might in some manner interfere with this brilliant idea of the combined wistltim of Quakerdom and Smoke dent; they aro now exerting all their efforts to secure tho repeal of the law. Vain effort! If there is never a rod of road made in this strip of territory between New York and Ohio, Philadelphia can never secure the trade of tho mighty West. If she cannot kup now tho trade of tho Ohio N'Ulley,,Whiell is fast leaving her, how can she ex pect to get the trade of the Lakes by building a rail read to Pittsburgh and from thence to Ylevelaud. The fact is, as long as lake Erie iv navigable, and New York contin ues to keep pace with the increase of trade, by adding no* channels of improvement, over which the produce of tlmmighty West can 'Melt tts i naturtn market: lit the East, just.so long Philadelphia will put, forth her efforts in vain. We do not say that he might not have secured this golden prize once, but that clay„if it ever existed,' has long passed. So far as the friends of the Riad road are concerned , therefore, we do not care a fi g f ir this acyon of our legislature It certainly can have no effect upon the ultimate construction of the road along the Southern shore ;if, lake Erie. Instead of retarding or preveinting it, we tiro inclined to think it will have a di direct contrary effect. It certainly ought, and we trust it will. Our Now York frieMls roust see by 'this outrage bit our rights, that the cepa-dints engaged in the con structionof Om central rail road_ fear for their anti cipated dividends, should the proposed road be built, uniting the Now York roads with those of Ohio, at Cleveland. That it will be built farther West than this, there can be no question. The' legislature may pass and repeal as many laws as they please in order to prevent it, but it gill be useless. _They only awaken a spirit of opposition to their injustice in the le casts of the people along the proposed line, and is \, th result will be that the land can be procured on much better - terms than it otherwise could \Then the road is constructed Item here to Ruffin°, let the legislature refuse te grant a charter to continue it on, and there will not be a laud owner be. tween this and the Ohio Imo who will not freely and cheerfully grant the company tho right of way; and not . . onh•do so, bud coutribute liberditY towards is cone tuc tion. Of this our Chautauqua county friends can • rest assured. To show with what energy and detelmination our Chantauque county ft lends are moving in this matter, it oot coopotr to state that in tt,o village of Fredonia alone, with less than a third of our population; and, so far ak local benefits to ho derived from its construction are Concerned, very fa below that proportiou,lstock has been recently subscribe( to the amount of nearly hrenly-fire thousand dollars: and a rotrespondeitt, in writing to us On the subject, evpresses the greatest confidence that it , will be increased to at least $10,609. This sum lacks only five thousand dollars of bring half the necessary stork to secure the charter of the New York portion of the road. The other half will ungnestionubly be raised without calling upon Buffalo. In view of this stato of atiliirs, what ought to be the ceurre of our citizens, who. of'all Others, ore most deeply interested In the enter prise! Ought we to farther fritter•away the time in such useless talk as a plank road to Pittsburgh? On the contra ry, ought not all our energies be put forth to secure ihe; commencement of this work? Indeed, aro we not pledged to the people of Western No 4 York to such a course? We leave it to those who Imo a deeper inter est, pcorniarly speaking. to answer. Sunni' roll IT.—That truly excellent daily, "Tito Phil adelphia Republic" has beon suspended. Aside from ill notions on free soil, &c., it tins decidedly one of our best exehzinges, and no sltall 'lnas it not a little from our tit bit,. IWO with its late Editor better luck next time., RIC/IT.—An act has been passed by the legislature, without a dissenting voice, allowing the widow of the lute Gov. Shuult $1,557. being the amount of salary from the (late of his resignation to the 16th of the present month. It affords us true pleasure to commend this act. and we are sure the people will be as unanimous in Braise of it us' the legislature was prompt in passing it. Nt.ws.—The Goshen (la.) Dentimrat; under date of January 3d, gives the conclusion of the President's Mes- sago wo have bare ground, with the the . nionieter down to zero, the lucky - residents of tho Badger State aro having a good tittle of it a bleigh g. The daily Wisconsin, under date of January 15th, hays: "The sleighing was probably nover good since Wis consin has boon settled as it is now, throughout every county in the State. Tho aittv is well packod, and thcro is plenty of it." IT Col. James Duncan, the pliant soldier, has been nominated to the Senate as Inspector General of the Ar my. There is no braver officer in the whole army than he; none who couples moro modesty with his merits..— lie fought in every battle but one of tho war with Mexi co, beginning with Palo Alto end Resaco'de la Palma, and finishing with the last struggle at the gates of the city of Mexico. Err A bill ryas introduced in the Kentucky Legislature, changing the name of Lstanzas Manaisus Jefferson Branck Young, to Henry Young. A sensible change ES (LT The appointment of Col. John B.,Weller. of Ohio. its Commissioner to run -the boundary . line. under our late Treaty with Mexico, will give great satis faction. li r is a noble. hard-working Democrat, and will make an able and intelligent Conimissoner. ' Cutsa .Anzso.—We loam from the Cleveland Plain Dealer of Saturday. that a thousand workmen arc iu readiness to begin to work on the Cleveland. Columbus and Cincinnati Rail Road. as seen as the Surveyors have completed,the, laying. of the: track. which be in a very few.daya. The line tram Columbus to Dayton will b e permanently locate l d this' week. and the lino from Dayton to Springfield is already laid, and about 150 work men employed. This force is to increased to dye hundred by the first of March. One year from next No 'ventberthOrhole line wilt be in readiness for the caper . a:r hlri, - 0; J.' Ni Who for, a year or inure baelaid itacl local llogiacitncrit'ar the •Buffalolkirtidiciaa4,wbo t:onduc4e4 tlyse,4opiaiglipats 'void abithi• l 'iell!ed kora that stabliehmtont ow seturrY ~ lacy: •'• ;•Y•l' , , . THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE IN ENGLAND. . . is The list arrival fro Europe brings us the response!) the, ! °neigh' pre's( to t e message of President Polk,—, While the writers of hese reviews do not fail to shOw Iheir teeth, 'even whet forced by stubborn facts to ac t \ _knowledge:the succe sful manner the President has con ducie4 {be nation`thr ugh tho most eventhil end imptir tent fotir,years in'tho tistory of the republic, the reader' will at once observe hat they exhibit a good deal morn , \ , • . respect a nd nominal , than they havo heretofore been wont to do on Shriller occasions. Wu give below all we havo room for—in, article from the London Times, a journal than which notte has been more bitterly hostile, or (Agee to Heists tipocti:unv end every occasion to abuse our institutions, and ridicike our pretenans. -It is cer tainly refrostrig, aft l er being deluged for a month and a half with the bettor l tnd unjusfcriticisins of the opponents of Democratic polici• at home, trilitul those abroad. from whom we expectedinotlling, forceino be more just. It is a strong and impressivo commontt4 upon the injus tice of the party abort to come into power through the in "atruniontnlity of Gcn. Taylor, and a war they opposed es bitterly as they hay. President Polk. , a AlEssmis,—lVlien scarce a day , ing this inauguration of a coubtitnent sa of a newly-elected President, or.the itv constitution, the message of an reads like athing of thu past. 4y Ptc Est eENT, 1 . 0 z. passes without brill assembly, the addr programme of a t American Preside icon, the United ,_states will soon The successor of Washiugtou is ai els therefore somewhat more. patience annual tax on our time which 'a long have uniformly exacted. The court is so well known to the taste of this ed only say it characterizes the mes mwever, add that Mni Polk has given erican progress which will excite the i ihniration of the thil World. In the em Moro never was au} thing so rapid, , eternatural growth appear to lest on so the rule of coinpu an ancient polity. old friend. One f. Than usual for tho series of Pre.sitiedit' style of the Union natien„that we ne sage. ,Wa can, an itevount of An intoteA and the history of the Sti and never did a p All that one has over road of fatni. solid a foundation lies mu tip is as . no sae a on t eaeas lore, of swarming tribes, of rising cities, and prosperous commonwealths, °ems concentred and magnified in this modern prodigy, whose Anglo-Saxon origin suggests in us so many re grets and out a little pride. President Polk surveys with natural complacency the troubled scene of Eitropeat: politics, limn which a vast ocean, and a not lias inlet val of institutions mid customs, separates the mod i 1 republic. lie hails tho new burst of democracy in France and the attempt at a federal onion in Germany; ivith what grounds for his confidence time alone can show. The vast resources of the Union. and the sound footing of Its commerce and finances, have saved it from any considerable participation in the Com mercial calamities of this and the continental States. To the continued removal of restrictions on the trade of the Union the President ascribes much - ails safety and piO3- petity. . - .Mr. Polk then hastens to the strong point of his presi dency—the enormous acquisition M r territory e ff ected within these four years by annexation, by treaty, or by war. Texas, Oregon, California, and New Mexico are exultingly measured, a nd almost weighed in the balance. They contain so many s ;tiara 'lll l / 6 1s and so many acres, and aro equal to such ;sod such countries; but as the English imagination will not reveal with no much gusto on theso, Various measurements, it may be SilliliCtellt to state that-the Unitedtates now comprehend a territory almost as largo as all Europe. The President expatiates with delight on the climate, the sod and other natural ad vantages of the newly-acquired regions. Their rivers, their harbors,, their vicinities and bearings, are reviewed. lint to ono topic he ri throes again and again. The mines, or rather the folds of gold and quicksilser in Cal ifornia, ere an inexhaustible fond of agreeable discus = Hier and allusion._ Paragiaph after paragraph glitters with gold and groans with bullion. Thu tour thousand gold litenter4 wildly scraping. the Fonds, and filli g ths;ir laps with solid wealth, the greed)' haste with which whede crews desert their ships for this Lotus shore, and oil the other i iieunistances of a real El Dorado, are described with gloating ecstasy. .A. mint is forthwith to be estab lished on the western co Ist, which is to deluge A s i a a nd PolyneSia with the glitterm,g tokens of the foitunato re public. T hero was need of many mines to gild the Mexican war, and to pay its expenses. Those acquisitions hate cost the Union twenty-fire ;Billion's of our money. If, in the course of twenty ) oars, the principal and the in terest be repaid by the dust collected from the risers of California, the Union mi.n deem itselt most foutittate4-7 Mr. Polk, however, disdains to measure the war ualy z bv l its results. lie points to the energy, the itiilitar p , kili, the administrative capacity, the martialsMtit, the Vdoth- Rade preserverance, and the dexterous tact by , winch It has. been so, speedily IBouglit to its desired ceu:utorilion under circumstances df un,ow.illeled ditlicitlcc! It is de = nionstrated that the Uition, at a moment's warning, inlay undertake it war several thousand miles 'rein home, with force's competent to ally occasion, conduct that war with promptness and unity of purpose amfendure, withoist burden, a I the necessary expenses./A standing aci n g, in the Ett: can sense of that word, is found unneces sessary. 'l'w million eitirens,/accustems‘d to arms, many of them pr ctised in the,ritle and hardened Co the severities of the forss- asolsolatis for distinction, supply einem-failing Min ;ere. , The army of.a re public consists not , but of knights. Its very staple is heroic. % ~ however, both the glory, the grace, and the t .is conquest is, that all the States, all partiesyM professions, equally contributed their quota to the pe Id, thus proving that Texas and Newl Mexico belong net more to this or that. State this to all, and exhibitintalso a pledge to the world of that terrible unanimity loft h which the Union will on future occasi ' OS prosecutehis quarrels or its ends.. , It is otse of the virtues or the v;cos of al republic n presiderier, as of the ancient consulship, that the exeitt live cfilef saddles on lux successor the baneful responai bilitles of his Career. With him the i beginuiug is the v+lfole. Ho celebrates a triumph, arid - IN a down his of fice. It remains for another to carry out the design]— The Union doubled, so to speak, in four years; and ta king old poiMations and semi-barbarous tribes into its bosom, hasl not a few difficulties to solve. The question of shivery i ot oned again, at lbast in an abstract forms— , .; , ,slr. Polk is disposed to go softly on this lground. ll' is willing to believe these difficulties are not practical; t tat: - there will. in fact, be no s'avery in the greater part of he, new tcriitory; and that the sinestions of government nil laws can easily be si•ttled as they at ise. We will not el low hint into his domestic ground, nor will wo allude to ' any mino of future quarrels in this milted family of States. It certainly is fur the advantage of all nations that they sit'ould remain the “happy family" they are— , Theygive us food and the materials for clothing, and and take of our hands the produce of our industry. T tat civil war which wise men have predicted would impede the operation of these services. lint while we pass ever domestic and conjectural difficulties, ii is impossible to ?er got that the same roan who Is closing so brilliant a presi dency, Who has stretched-the cords of his tabernacle to the Pacific, and almost to - the isthmus of Panama, who boasts that by his Inca:arcs. ho has saved tlio commo and credit of his country hem excessive inflation deadly collapse, is novcrilicles - s rejected by the people has served, finds himself not 'reappointed, and a succ sor, holding other views, hest:ailed in his room. Sue fact condemds either the Mall or the nation. On( them must ho wrong. Mr. Polk, by his silence on subject of his successor, tacitly necknowlodges a se , of injustice. NAVAL-Tilt) New Orleans Picayune bays "our friend Swett° Ramsay, of the Navy, NO lung statio at'PensaCola, has received radars to repair .board United States Steamer Michigan, Capt. Mclntosh, lying at Erie, Pa. Mr. Ran say has been on duty 1 I . ?, several weeks. 'OUR MINISTER ATlT.J.tari:s.--The Now York says: "Mr. Dancroi United States Minister at Court of St. James, has signalized his mission to, 2 land by three great achiovements—the negotiation of postal treaty, the release of Americans imprisoned in land, and the abolition of the , custom of seizing Amor ships on frivolous charges of smuggling." AUTFUI. Donotn.—The Hon. Daniel Webster been aluient from hie place in Washington duffing whole session. Ho thus avoids committals on Ilia vo: question of slavery or freedom. cri. &Loon:: FORD. the Whig candidate is Govern , Ohio. We are content to take the word of the Cleve! Mau Dealer for it, glad that the matter is at last set Col. Wut.t.Ert ran him hard for office and has not stej yet. While his hand is'in, ho has taken the job of niug the bonneary line between the United , States Mexico. : . A Noi Et. APPLICATIOi4.—A portion of the; Old- State is bout to apply to be annexed to the Sp Now York.: The personei applyink maid° in Boston new. a portion "of the town of Mount Washington, ate on tho southwestern corner of tho State of M. thusetts. The Springfield Republican says “their is peculiar; a high and impassable , ridge of moon separates them • front all intercourse with their f i townsmen in Mount Washington and the State. never come 'over - to Vote, 'and' are only teritioded of Citizenship by* annual visit of the tax gatherer. question isa novel one, and it ii; uncertainlow it W mettled,,t! , , --, vRAIL ROAD MEETING. At a meeting of citizens of Erie and Erie eau held, in purauance of previoni notice, at the Court lio. to take into consideration and act upon matter s N I the extension of the Rail Road along the South sit. Lake Erie, and the demonstration of oppositio n l e Legislature thereto, by the citizetui of Philadelphia, other places, GEO. A. ELLIOTT. Esq., wto ap ad President, 11. B. VINCKN r, and bits GALIIII Emus. Vice ?Aesidents, and Thos. G. Coll, W m , R at. Secretary. The Committee appointed of a previous l aw, report at this, reported a act of resolutions. It Waa' in by John Galbraith, Eq.. thatthajesolution s , t atty , be adopted, (accompanied by some rumrks.) The resolutions were then debated, and after ext remarks by Chas. W. Kelso, John H. Walk er, Kelley. Jas: D. Dunlapp, Wm. O. Lane, Jobe G a l and John P. Vincent, Emirs., tbe consideration resolutions mere postponed for the present. A memorial to the Legislature, prepared in acco with a re-olution of a previous meetin,g, was the by Wm. Kelley. Eeq., [see memorial,] and afie remarks by W. Chester, was unanimously adopt s Itwas then moved by C. N. Kelso, Esq re , olution aforesaid be referred back to the corn lilt instructions to report them in a moditie which wallyarried On motion, Chas. IV. Kelso. and Jolla Galbrai, were add,:nl to - the comtnittoe on said resolua'a theii On motion, the meeting adjourned to meet to i;venin;:. ht the banie Air. Elliott Leiug absent, tho meeting was or . C tPr. U. Donntas to tho chair, and 7' secretory. John P. Vincent, of the -committee appointe h 0.4 wectrng, reported tho fuliowing preamble a 11160,1 K Viiercas. utetligence has just reached us fort is now being made, in our Legislature. to charter of the Erie and Ohio Rail Road comp we regard this as of a piece with a long contim of State legislation, not only unmindful of our but in absolute hostility to them, indicating c id noranco of our value to the Stato,or a most•Jri and unWarrantediecling of enmity towards, or! of 04, " the part of those who constitute due Le .1 nit! whereas, ,Ve can, with gre4 pride, poi _records of the costuilonwcalth to attest, not only riotie fidelity of our representatiVes in the Legi, the State at all times, ill aiding, from its comine, i , , icement, to accomplish that vast system of inlernal-improvement, which has ran its great :tilt:try of wealth th=ough / the whole extent of the State, and sent its enriching branches into its different regions: but also, the fact, thstoor peo ple have ever been among tlio first and' most ' , Tortola trivet and pay over, at the call of the Treasurer of rho commonwealth their proportion of Statef taxation: to ab trot also, that, to the energy, enterprise, and capital of our i eitiFens almost exclusive 'ing the completion, and active operation of the work the Erie canal, which ilmost - abandoned fill e'after an expend'. turn of over four millions of s now in .successful operatimi, passing through', and developing the resource, of a large extent of a 11/retofore comparatively undovel. Oped regime of her )4ritory, affording facilities to :he people, and increasing the subjects of State taxation., And takeren. Wl,ti can with equal pride, pri-sout P notion ooftherplo of or-cpunnion State, the this county onstitntes the only portion, own commonly Ith of Pinnsylyania, of our norther al frontipr of two thousands miles bordering on and rise-s, and in that small portion of little u fifti*lcs. our State is possessed of a harbor, a ayetho commeicial interests of those groat thor /is felt, and aeltnowledged to be the best on I which is, and has eyer been, appreciated by the Government, as of inestimablo importance to he of 'war, which she made tier naval station in the and now makes the rendzvous of her shps. of Rovenao Marine, and for years, has shown her in its behalf by literal nppropri. lions from the 'Treasury fur ire preservation and improvement. fore, Respired, That on every principle of Stile p policy, and of common justice,' we have a rU :nand for oursekies, that we shall not bo unhee • fostering and charis ling legislation of onr Stei l more, that such legi lotion towards us shall no unfriendly and destructive 'character, and th , ourselves warnmtet in declaring, That public legisl tion should be for the fret and all interests in , state should be subserve • I that to this , end, loot interests and advantage fastened and encou aged by all lee ful means, • so doing, some oth .r local interest, already the of liberal public fay .r, should not be still furthe ed. • Thnt Ingbdation, parting, unjust, and in it, is either igno try, or, by soli infer tales of duty and 61 That in the opini n of this meeting the act adelphia, Pittsburg! and those in the central interest, in urging t to repeal of the charter o and Ohio Ralf Riad, is of tho above cha shows a disposition that would, did it possess shut up all our min ral avenues of conitnuni Nation with the Atlantic, and th is compel us to pay tribe e to them, however adverse to our interests it might be, - to do so. That the action o the Philadelphia delegation in the lienate of this State, is but a continuation oft at narrow ilinded-clog-in -the-manger policy, that h so long .s, tursed our State, viz, a determination to repress every' public improveent. Which does not directly benefit their city, and that it •ill continuo to curse us whi e her polite ;cal preponderetice exists, until a more gene I diffusion of informatioik on the various arts and late eats of the' Stalo,'among her citizens. shall teach them that Phila delphia is not all of the State of Peunsylvani , and also endow them with liberality and patriotism. r That the action of the Philadelphia. Pit burgh and central Rail Road intermit in the Senate, in: rocuringthe repeal, in that body, of the charter of the Erie and Ohio Rail Road, was in: the highest degree, tyretical and an just towards the cit rena of this county, and an interfor- • once with our inter sts uUerly unwarranted by any thin: in our location or luimeter, and is at entire variance from that spirit of li eral and generous leiielaiion, a Inch accords with the spirit of the age, land the d i ty of every honorable, enlightened, and right-minded I gielatir. That had Philadelphia in her policy towards as aver displayed one part of generosity or liberality, we would feel disposed again to approach her with words of con ciliation, but believing as wo condidry dp that her cone towards us has uniformly been of the mosti selfish. illib• oral and unjust character we ore constrained to theibe. hof also either that just and liberal sentinents hakeno place among her citizens, and that just and liberal-mind ed men,have, there: no chance to oxpress-their soli monis. cc • 'id ho C - In of the nso !old ica Ithe hoe . the xed That did the citizens of Philadelphia and Ping:lllth possess that knowledge of geography and projected public improvement that from their position and pretensions they should possess, they would know that the destruction of the Erie and Ohio R ail Road will not prevent the co nection of the Efts. and West by Rail Road alone the shore of Loke Erie, and will not as they acorn to suppose shut the "door to the Western trade" on Now York and tho East and thus compei it through their pet project the central Raillioad.but will drive Eastern capitalist to mike connection with the West through Canada on a reale _nearly if not quite 100 mites shorter than one by the Southern shore of the Lake and thus they will not oil , not benefit themselves by their *host sighted !vial:dim but will deprive- their own State and their own ciao° of all the' benefits to be derived froin the immense trade of the West and confer them upon el dependency of Greif Britain. - On motion the - Resolutions as reported, tens adopted. unanimously.- - On motion it Was - • Resotred, That -the report of committee,' and the proceedings of' thl meeting be published in the public papers. • 1 Boy ,o of or- = sine -Hew hey heir The ill be jualou ) ~k lature. it to the lot having this purpose inwise. and the Legislate 'ant of the true intemets 0 et, re { dared deaf to the p ht. Mira jud b IZEI MI d Rin EIETII peal the ): end IMEEM nter !,11, 1128 ME , the pat• Alature of tent to the Inv, that 1 d by the ware.a. the lakes wards of hieb by tighfares le lake , : Notional MEM late war, war and ..I.c Audi National There I. d h e t , t S o t:te l ed m the e: much be of as I we feel : eft of oil, L thereby ohould be Ton. if by recipes subsea n view, is who mu he coon MEI n of PIIII• ' oil Road TEM !actor, and MIMI