Late from %Alto. By an arrival at New Orleans, the Picayune has dates from Vera Cruz to. the 10th, Jalapa, to the 7th, and Mexico to . the 6th. The British steamer had not arrived it Vera Cruz on the 13th, and her unwonted delay gave the au thorities of the city time to consider what should be done with her letters and - passengers when they should reach there. Great dread of cholera prevail ed at Vera Cruz of the ravages of which they were 'apprised by arrivals from this city. The latest sug gestion we see was to establish a lazeoello on Sac riticins for passengers, where they should underg o a rigid quarrantine, but nothing definite had beende termined upon. The party known as the Puros in OM. city of To luca made an attempt at revolution on the 3l by uniting with the insurgents of Tanascaltepec. The plan/ was to declare for the Dictatorship of Santa Anna, and, in the mean time, to install one of his partisans in power. The GovernMent got wind of the emispiraey, nod prevented its 'execution.— Troops were ordered from the capital to Toluca, end Cie t s. Alt arez and Pinzon directed to en-oper ate with the authorities of the State,in preserving MEE too t of n revolution seem to exist in the exten t and the Government is called upon most vigilance in reptest.ing r every sign of Fears city of f( r the i ===llll disorder in the p peis, we ace nothing,' to indicate the pur poses of the disaffected. Accor ing to the :Ilona( r, the difficulties in Tam pico hav r e all been reconciled. The regular troops mho were driven out of the city have been invited to return, and the parties but a short while since so exasperated'against each other, were interchanging pub!ic courtesies. The papers appear to look on this apparent reconciliation as holdout-hearted. The diplomatic body waited on thd President of Mexico on the Ist hist, on the occasion of theopeu ing of Congress. The French Mini+ter was made the organ of the body, and after mownl felicitations the President and the nnitrs repaired to the halls of Congress, to witness the fOr'innl installin tion of that. body. The Piesideut ii i runounced an inaugural address which we find in tjle papers. ' It seems to be of n general character, t ith,few speci fic recommendations. The President of Congress replied in a similar strain. Aspersions aro thrown out front time to time against Gen. Arita, Secre;iity of War, and I& countrymen are evidently soinewhat suspicions of him, from his being known once to have favored the scheme of a northern Republic; but his partisans point to the reforms carried not by Him. especially to his rigid measures in improving tvhile reducing the army, as the best answers to Oil ambitions de signs attributed to him. All that par - a President Polk's message which relates to the acquisition of 'Califoinia and New Mexico, with their mineral treasure„ as translated in the Mexican papers, and remarkdd upon in nu enviable frame of - mind. • We find reports of Indian outrAgeL committed in ~ the vicinity of Parras, and at vitriol s ranebos this side of that town. From Chihnalur, , too, addresses are sent to the Central Government u protect them from the ravuge:s of the .Indians. General Caren, late of Guatemali to Yucatan. but was informed that i tent with the friendly relations sub ] Mexico and Guatemala that he shot and he accordingly reembarked fur 'Pile Government is in diffimilty again with its officers in Mazatlan. They have been le% Ying ille gal and arbitrary duties on imports 7 fenthering their nests as usual. All hare been remove.' by the Government, and some of them ordered to Giiiidala-_ Jura to be tried. 'This is the case w ith Gen. Anuya, , who is auperceded by Gen. Inclan .1 Gen. La Vega has at lust left the capital for the comniund of the State of TamailliPas, Petitions are pouring in upon °i tigress against extending further religions tolera ion in the coun try. Many of them are signed ex l clusively by wo men. ALI NI tit A NCI SC This town is not, as genoratly lily situated, either fur commerce able residence of man It. is situated upon a narrow tongn• of übmptly slo ping mountain lani, so exposed to the brhadside of the ocean that the wind sweeps in n gale 'o'er it et all times, trriking an effort occossary to keep your footing. The air it, on this acclount, filled with fine sand. The situation is an ilegoos to Fort Hamilton, at the entrance Of the narrow opening into the haurhor of New York.- Ph e best position fur the commercial emporium of California, judging front the maps, would be at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joachim, if there is water enough to float a ship. _But we tin:ler:4 and the ground to be swampy, and the wr ter insidlicient,— A gentleman has laid out a town the mirth--east ermest corner of the bay of Francisco, et the entrance of the inner bay ,d w hich lies be tween it and the-mouth of the ri er , jost mention ed, that k supposed to be the best wsition, all things considered. All accounts agree as to the Ornate. It is mild, and free frim the vicissitudes that make purs so I pregnrint with disease. The thermoneter holds a higher range in winter than tot simoncr. In the rainy season (November to Mtirch) heaay rains fall about every titth day on an Iverage; on the in termediate days the sky is bright awl the air balmy. Along the shore henry fogs render' the mornings damp and unpleasnor,,lnit these do net reach the in ner shores of tlw bay. Innomdrable valleys open into the bay, which cannot bu surpassed in fertility and l lnveliness. The road to Mrinterey lies through a nearly level valley Lef r;ch land, little culthated, and croered, shoOlder high, o th loved/rot wild oats, the distance busy over our hundred miles.— Captain Stockton's purchase Caul to he mer tO,OOO I,icres) lies in the %alley of grin Jose, Where that river empties int) the hay. If there is a spot on this emollient thi,t may he called a Paradise, this valley of San Jose is the place. The climate of Monterey is superior to San "The most tlelier,te crinstitinionc wall fiMI here a' safe and ge nial atmosphere, and an eVen temperature, that must be felt to be appreeiitted.—Pirilidelphia Ledger. A COUNTRIOI.II%—A boy apparently about 16 years of age, was oil Friday paissitig• through Mil ford, following the railroad tree;, when he attracted the notice of sherd Wooster, b • the au kwardness of his clothes and gait. tie kT,' $ aceorrlingly ques tioned as to his sex, but us stoutly aibwed the cor rectness of the one assumed, until being threatened with a criminal procesri, it cam out the delinquent Ives a fair runaway of 17 in dia rinse. Her story is, that ft years ago she was entic .d from her home in Ithode Island, by a young sail° , and in lad's clothes, shipped with bun on board a whaler—that her loser died at Oahu, &c. But her. a ones do not a gr ee, us the clothes she had on EMU, to have been hastily thrown together, and her hair Very recently c o t.— She had but ,3.5 cents in her p icket, and had been all night on ;he track between his city and Milford, and was going to New York, to ship as a sailor.— She gives her name as Lydia M. Ransom—her as assumed named as Edward Crandall—speaka famil iarly of East Lyme, Salem, and the Colchester turn pike—is about .1 feet 8 inches high, well porportioned has dark chesnut hair, small h ands and feet, and in her proper Costume, is quite prepossessing. The Indies of the village furnished tier with appropriate clothing, and she is now in tit family of S. B. Gunn Esq., where her frierdri can liar of her. It is prob able that she belongs in the eastern part of this State, and for seine reason best know to herself, has donned the male garb to follow some false friend, or been moved by girlish 'romance to take the step. TIM CALIFORNIA GOLD poir.Aum.—The amount of California gold coined at the Mint in this city up to the present time, including that received by the gov ernment, is but about 850,000 : and this has- all been coined. A few of the pieces !were coined for the government with the_ word "Cal." upon their face - sous to distinguish them, but the remainder of the gold was melted with other lots. The visiters to our mint rarely find the dies for -striking off gold coin in operation: and even if the most sangnine ea pectations as to the productiveness of the Califor• his placers are realized, the Machinery - now in the mint of this city is sufficient I to coin it ten times told. The die.for coining eagles alone' works at the rate of eighty-six per trininte, or tittB6o, which, in a single day's work of ten hoary, would amount to o) 4s l,6oo—rather mire tlin9 the daily yield will probably ever be.--/Itifatieip l ld a PuLlic Ledger. THE GOLD FEVER IN ENGLAND. The Liverpool Journal of-the 15th, has a long editorial, headed "Why don't you go to California?" It beginsby saying, that exaggeration is always necessary to tempt adventure into new and untried fields,---that had not the riches of India; and the gold of South America been exaggerated, Hintrostan would probably have been left to Moslem tyranny and Mexico to savagery for years to come. The grand speculation is referred toes an instance of similar excitement, and ilofever concerning gold in the mines in- Wicklowshire is 'also cited. The Journal then says:— • To a certain extent we shall witness the same re sult in California. _ There is-nodoubt of gold being there, and probably in great abundance. It may extend over very large districts, and the probability is that it does; but it ?lawyer its extent, the ultimate result will realize wine of the effects so fearfully anticipated: there will nut be a disturbing excess, and the labor and capital expended in procuring it, will, in the long run, tint priwe more lucrative than the labor and capital bestowed on lend or iron mines. Gold is a surface mineral; it is not fount deposi tedin beds of ore, "full five fathoms deep," in the buldels of the earth: it shuns darkness and bright ens in the sun. rAs it is now found in California, it has ever been found—in particles, and seldom in lumps. It is washed out, seldom dug out of the earth, arid it presents itself almost uniformly in the rubble of ravines and the sands of rivers. Though scarce. it is almost universally distribute, but is ; sought for only where the produce pays th cost.— In South • m America and Mexico it lia'S long ,ceased to he particularly renuerative; and even: now in Russia it is soppoged not to do more than ply the cost of washing Sz,..c. 1 . Referring to the official' statements c,incernini errin g _ the extent of the god I region, the Jourtini thinks it rea.onble to su:mnse that the gold is ni,t equally diffused r and that the supply- easy of acces is not likely to continue very long. ..„, Supposing. the greatest number of la - b - diers vet named to-betake themselves to the rivers and brooks of California, and supp.tsed each of the 50.000 to obtain oo'd equal t0.C520 a year that is, £lO a week we shall have a yearly result of only L'it3,ooo,oo. Oue-hall of this number and amount is not even probable. But would this supply continue? It would be contrary to experience to stiptio-e so. ' Beim_ a sur face product, he first eager finders would of course re!ect the most progi'able, and, content with a hurri ed and sweeping harvest. leave but a scanty gleaning for those who should come -after them. A lucky T ) vein would. no doubt, reward discovery frill l' time ttithe, but the naerage award of search would, i f ne cessity. mint. This has been the case evewhere else ; .r a , altho' the application of n greater number of miners has kept the sopply fully equal, the. quantity found by each laborer is 111101k , Se3 011111 at first. The Journal then states tha, the enntuil addition to our stock of go'd made by mines is amuc4l:3,ooo - of what Ilm'ssia and South America contribute each .0,000,000. The Russian mines have been worked about twelve ).ears, and have enlarged our stock of gold by 460,000,000, Nvithout having. pro duced the least effect in price. The effect of the 'discovery of gold in California, it thinks, will be to close many of the South American work=, and this may extend even to Russia, so that the average aggregate supply will be less than is generally sup l posed, -and as the stock in existence is estintatetlwt 4100,000,000, the addition of even 426,000,000 an totally could not greatly interfere with its [slue. "A 14TTLF1 Mi an fiRAPP, CAPTAIN BRAGG .".-1.118- TORY CONTRADICIRD.....-Colonel BreAttel Bragg was precut la t the anndal dinner given by the liar of Mobile im the 2.0111 inst. and rose to reply to the corn ;dime:nary toast which was given to him. Among other things, he sketched the incidents of the battle lof linena Vista, and 'took care to correct on error which had been generally circulated and believed: In the coarse lift lese remarks (says the Mobile Register) Col. Bragg corrected the popular story Resstax AND A 31MUCA N GELD.--The amount of: which associated his name se much with the politi gold which Itriasia derives annually from her Siber- i cal campaign of last summer, during which ho fig ian mines is estimated at four millions sterliog, or, ured in so many pictures with a scroll, upon . which nearly twenty millions of dollars. It has been only I was painted the celebrated order said to have been within a few years that so large an amount has been ! given him by. Gen.! Taylor at Buena. Vista—" A produced... Ton years ago the annual prialuct of the I tittle more grape, Captain Bragg:. The Colonel. Russian mines was not one-fourth of their present 1 statedthis as a fancy sketch altogether. No such yield. occurence took place on the field of battle; and the Gold coast ituting the standard cuirency of Eng- first he heard of this famous order wr.s by newspapers land, the British Parliament, having its attention ! from the United States. He added that many evels called to the very considerable accessions made ,! and much reputation, as they exist in the popular every year from Thrash, to the gold in circulation, min I here, had no other origin than this same In ii,oooo.firimg,irguri;leans s..j . theoffect w h ich such , ventive faculty of the press and its correspondents. gold as compared wita silver, and also- upon. prices lA"TrinnI A"Trinn MURDER ." soar*...',''t • e" •' .."--- es measured in gold. 'I he discovery of the gold Vail was murdered at the residence of his late lath minesl of California which promises an unprezedent- l 4.' Jacob Vail, in ;the town of . . Somers, on Sunday ed ad lition to the world's stock of golden coin, ,„„, t Jacob, 14th inst. JIM, the father, was killed' less impart an iiicreaseil interest to these impliries Eddie l than a year ago b, his wife, who beat. his brains with n billet, "(weed, while he was in the act of British Parliament and g,reatly enlarge the field of ' ,"." i bewail:: his dangliier. i nvest igat ion . The present period, in respect to the currency 1 The facts attending the murder arc briefly these, and the precious metals, bears a marked analogy to I, as %e learn thernisaac Vail, the eldest s e e , w a s the era of the discovery of America which disclosed desecrating the Sabbath day by butchering an ox, to the world and while engaged in the barn in seising the beef the rich urines of aleaieu and Peru.--• down he was shot down, the bullet passing A new continent, iii teed, has not been dkeoveredi through his ,hody, and loclging in the beef. The but a new current of gold haS been let in, to rush gon,was found in the harm but there was elicted lie through all the cleirmels of conmerce a - ml to chiang„ra the relations of prices and commodities. Ti„, „ o . posit i% e Cs ideneo on the inquest us to who perpe litical ~,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,„ E„ g i on d who have pee 611,,,a voted the It inialelaed. Strong susdicions, how ever, rest upon le brother of the deceased: and how on the subject, seem to be of the opinion that the either he or a tic I re man, who assisted in butchering most decided change likely to be effected by tile new the ox, and who first gave the alarm, must be guilty accessions of gold will be that Of the relative '•ulties" - 4 4 gels! and :11%er. There are no rich silver mines of the murder. new ly di cowered to enpeusate for the rece it in i; m To show the el aracter of the suspected brother, crease of gold, it may be well to say that on. Tuesday or Wednes day be was in Sir g Sing, attempting to peddle off the beef lover which Isaac was shut down, and which had received the iullet that had passed through his body. • , , bus been over was inconsis-) - fisting between Id remain there almsco • unposed, vot a r fur the comfort- Tint OVERLANi) Rtityrz_TO Col. Morrison, ()Kul. Stevenson's New y‘ii k Regi ment of Volunteers. gives the following piece at ad vice to whom it may concern. We commend it to the particular attention of those who in this and in som e of the cities we:t nre proposing to7keke the u‘erland route to California. Canlion to Emigrauls.:=-1 trope that those who, 'intend to ernigtate by land here, will be careful that they arc not overtaken by Fluting, of:snows, or want of provisions, on their toilsome j .urney across the Rocky Mountains. I have seen those who started front the borders of the Missouri hale and fblaNnirt men, hobble down into the plains of California, crippled fur life. have seen brothers who, in the madness of hunger, have fought for the last hit of their father's dead body, hav;ng share! the rest at their previous meals!—haying been encompassed snow on the tops a those dreadful mountain.s. Maidens who left their homes rejoicing in' the pride of youth and beauty. in joyous anticipations from this far °Maud, by the horrors and sufferings of that fearful journey. despoiled of their loveliness sad bloom, withered into premature old age. DISCOVEMY tiF NEW MousTatri PABfl.—A Tex an hunter—one of those wild roving characters pe culiar to the inisettled ; wilderness of the Weat and South—gives the following account of a new pass through the great chains of mountains which tra verse the continent:— ' He has suggested a new route for a military road or a railroad across the c ntinent, that is perhaps entitled to as much consideration as the celebrated project of Mr. Whitney. lie states that there is a broad Pass between the vast ;ones of the Anahuac mountains oi l the South, and the Rocky mountains or Cordilleras of the North, that extends quite across the continent, from the valley of the Rio Grande to the valley of the Rio Hiaqni. This Pass, be says, resembles the South West Pass discovered by Fre mont, and the ascent to the . summit of the Table Lands of Mexicols there sn gradual that it appears like an extended plaia, and carriages and loaded wagons can pass from the valley of the Rio Grande to the valley of the Hiaqui, as easily as they can pass, over the undulating prairies of Western Tex as. The distance from one valley to the other, ho estimates at only five hundred miles. This pass, he says, about in the latitritle of 29 degrees, extends be tween the vallies of Mouclova and the Cochos. TIM NEW YORK GOLD MINE9.I:-ACCOTding to the Annual Report of the Superintendent, it Lppears that the Onondaga Salt Spring, on the State reservation, in New York, yielded, during the last year, 4,737,, 126 bushels or salt, being un increase, of 785,774' bushels, or 1 per cent. upon the quantity. pro duced the previous year. T he i State tax. which was, two years ago, reduced front 6 cents to 1 cent per bushel, yielded a revenue'of upwards of forty seveh thuusafid dollars. The manufacture appears to be in a highly prosperous condition'. Salt is not altogether su va'uable a substance as gold, it must be admitted; but it would be. quite a respectable gold mine which should yield us much money and be wrought at so certain a profit as the Salt Springs of New York. No Insunsxce.—California is an infected place as far as the insuarance companies are concerned. Nut only hnw•e the Life 'lnsuarance offices refused to take a risk on persons going thither, but the Ma rine Companies in Boston decline risks on ships for China touching at San Francisco: They will not run the risk of the c:ew deserting. ek ELOPLIAIRNT EXTRActrommm-..0n Friday eve ning last. a most verdant youth by' the name of George - .G. Dean, wail arrested on a charge of petit larceny, in stealing the clothing of a man's wife-- with the wife in them! ,The circumstances were's follows:—A Mr. Ransom Calkins, residing in the town of Richland, Oswego county, being a farmer, hired a young man to work for him. The young min has been in his employ fur abodt a year, and it seems Mrs. Calkins took a strong fancy to him—so much se that they eloped together. The husband followed them, and traced them into Madison coun ty; thence into Oneida county, to Utica and finally to this place, where he found them; they were pestl ing as man and wife. The husband of the woman caused the strippling to be arrested; he, was locked up moWthe nest day, when he was brought out for exainination. 'Upon an investigation of the case, the bov was told lie would be discharged upon con dition . tie enlisted himself in the United States ser vice for'five years. lie seemed plo ssed with the con ditions °finis sentence, and agreed to enlist; and in charge of the officer went to the barracks and enlis ted. The woman is a smart, buxom-looking lass; about 34 years of age, and when she. learned what the buy had'done, she Wept most bitterly; and said she would have hint at the end of his enlistment, If she had to travel to the end of the earth. The lad is between 17 and 18 Years of age, and his attach ment seems equally strong. lie says he will have her when his time is Out. However, Mr. Calkins took his wife home, where they will undoubtedly re main in peace—'—at least, till the expiration of five years. The boy will be kept in confinement at the barracks until this morning, when be will be ullew ed to parade our streetq, dressed in his tidy blue.— Syracuse Star, Jan. 07. MR. STRI'IIENS.Ii ! on . - A. H. Stephens, of Ga., in a recent add:ass at it meeting in Alexandria, for the henet t of the Orphan Asylum and Free School of that c; y, related the i following anecdote: •41 pu r little boy. in a cold night in June, with no room ir roof to shelter his head, no paternal or materdal guardian or guide to protect and direct him, in It s wanderings reached at nightfall the house of a wen thy planter, who took him in, fed, lodged, and sent him on his way with his blessing. Those little kin I attentions cheered his heart, and inspired him will fresh courage to battle with the ills and !of life. Years rolled round; Providence !long; he had reached the legal profession; table host had died; the cormorants that he substance of man had formed n consul et away from the widow her estates. She obstacle led him his hop prey on rocy to 1 Fent for he nearest counsel to commit her cons° to him. ato that counsel - proved to be the orphan boy, years before welcomed and entertained .by tier de ceased Ii sbun.l. The stimulus of a warm and te nacious rratittule, was now added to thnt of the ordi nary motives connected with the profession. Ile undertrair her cause witha Will not easily to be re sisted; he gained it; the widow's estates were se cured to her in perpetuity: and Mr. Stephens added, • with an emphasis of emotion that sent its electric thrill throughout the' house, that orphan boy stands_ before Dif r GEN. &MMUS' EtdmniuTv,—The Louis ;Yew E ra , i n noticing the statements which havo gone abroad that Gen. James Shields is ineligible tothe office of IL S. Senator, to which lie has just been elected by the Legislature of Illinois, says lie is just'n`seligible under constitution as Gen. Cass, or tiny other citizen, and this, if 'it becomes necessary he i attic and, prepared to show.. . PrATEM TyR WEST Irtnims.—The captain and cre%• of the British Fchooner Bittern, arrived at Yar mouth, N. S., a short time ago, from the W.lndies. .Abo l ut the 33,1 of December, when of Sabea, near ,St. Thinnns, they discovered near them a raking, piratical-look ing schooner, filled witlitsegroes. The 'captain and crew of the Bittern had mu doubt that the supposed pirates intended to board their vessel: and therefore, as soon as night set in, they abandon ed her, raking with them what mo tl ey and v a lu a ble s they could cast', and landed.. The Governor the next day despatched a schooner in pursuit of the pirate. Buthllle Bittern andthe pirate [vessel had, however, disappeared, It is.slipposed that the pi . ratew boarded the Bittern, robbed her of 111 that was valuable, and then scuttled her. One of the best jokes of the season, if not the - very -best, occurred wi9tin fifty mileS of our of fice, in the early part of the present week. A gen t !cam), •collecting fur ev Philadelphia firm! applied at a hank, the notes of which are always nt a discount in the city, for a draft. 11. was refused. He walk ed to a store kept by an acquaintance in the ,neigh borhood; and borremed a three bushel bag,. which he hung across his arm, and returning to the shaving ship, threw down upon the counter a huge pile of the institution's promises to pay, and , demanded the specie therefor remarking, carelessly, that if that bog would hoid it all, he could get a couple more while they were shovelling it. out. A draft waithen offered to him,lwhich he accepted. Any one desi ring to'lsnowswhettier this occurred at the Cham bersburg Bank, can doubtless obtain the Information by applVing,is the man with the three bushel bag did, at the 'counteria—Charnbeirsburg Valley Spirit. Tim G rtees Prtonmast —The King of Bavaria has offered a prize of a hundred ducat's for the best essay on the subject, "By what means can the poverty of the loWer orders of the inhabitants of Germany, and more especially of Bavaria, be most advantageously and - permanently relieved?" Tins is now query, nor is it peculiar to Bavaria. It concerns all Europe, and any American would readily answer it, by re commending a free republican government—no priv ileged classes, and no taxation. ' Moan SWORDS.—The Governor of Illinois, has been authorized by in . act of the Legislature to pro! cure suitable swords, with proper devices and in scriptions, -to be presented by hitrito Gen. Shields indeed] of the colonels of the 2d; 3d and 4tb Illi nois regiments in the late war, and a similar one to be presented to the eldest son of Col. Ilardin. Powelkor Comm:gm—We are informed that a dead letter; recently received at the Department, encloses twoihundred dollars and a note apprizing the person addressed that a numberof years ago the writer defratOed his father's estate of that sum; that he has now embraced religion, and thus forks over. No signature gives a clue to this correspondent. THE. WEEKLY OBSERVER, Eitl E. PA SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1849. NEWSPAPER POSTAGE. We have not the pleasure of an exchange with the "National Era," and consequently seldom see It has, however, a character for candor and fairness in treating all questions . of public importance which. we are sorry to say, froin a number that accidently fell into our hands, we are afraid is not exactly deserved., for a more illiberal and unfair attack upon the proposition of Gen. Cameron to allow the free passage of newspapers through the mails for the distance of thirty miles from the office of publication, and the remarks of Mr. Allen, of Ohio, thereon, we have seldom seen: The "Era" is the first paper that has como under our notice that has demurred to such a provision in the post office laws—by hi l ls columns we are for the fi rst time informed that it - wou dbe a "system of favoritism." It certainly does not confer upon ono class of newspapers a privilege which is nut enjoyed by all. The subscribers to the Era and other metropolitan papers, who reside within thirty miles of their place of publication, would receive their papers free just the same as the subscribers to the local or country journals. Is there any favoritism in this? If there is, it is certainly beyond our comprehension.— This provision has been demanded by, nine-tenths of the people. and congress, wo trust, is about to.acceed to that demand. Suppose, however, that some member, im bued with the `doctrines of the Era, should get up and ray stop=before you pass th's law, reflect that the subscribers to the country press all, or very nearly all, reside within thirty miles of their offices of publica tion, while those to the mammoth weeklies of Philadel phia and New York, on, the contrary, reside in distant parts of the Union, hence you will ho creating a "system of favoritism," repugnant to our political system. Sup 'pose. We say. some member should put forth this absurd proposition, which is 'nothing more nor less than the Era's amplified a little, the reply would spring to the 'lips of every ono at all acquainted'with the subject, that he, and not the advocates of this proposition, would be seeking to uphold a "system of favoritism." Ile would . be attempting to favor the few—the minority—at the ex pense of the many—the majority. Ile would be ran sacking the subscription books of a few city publishers to ascertain in what way ho could best promote their inter. eats, for certainly when the post office laws demand as much poltage for carrying a newspaper four miles, as they do for four hundred, they favor the few, or, in the language of the Era, create a "system of favoritism." We ask the Era candidly, what justice there is in charging our paper as much for being carried a few miles, as the "Model Courier" from Philadelphia here, a distance of nearly five hundred. And yet a uniform system of news paper postage would do . this—irt , fact the present system does it. If congress will diseriminato and charge news papers according to distance and weight, we will be per fectly willing that all newspapers should be subject to post age, but if the mammoth weeklies of Philadelphia, New York and Boston are lobe carried in tho mails thousands of miles for one cent. as proposed by the Era, then wo say congress can do no less, to balance such , favoritism, than allow all newspapers to circulate free in the coun ticsin which-they are printed. or within thirty miles of du, office of publication. We trust Gen. Cameron's amendment will be adopted, notwith,tanding the oppo sition of the crrny Senator from Connecticut, and his free soil organ in Washington. If defeated iu the Sen ate the House 'will certainly adopt it, for there is not a • member of Congress, representing a country dietrict. that dare vote against it. "GEN.. TAYLOR'S Rocrx."—Every Whig paper we open has one or more articles on Gen. Taylor's "panto" to Washington .thethno ho is expected at each purlieu ,point, sod the yeti... preparations making to receive him, all of which is very proper and right. This inter liginfatirdnttia should all be duly chronicled that the sharp scented from starvation, may 'know where and when to strike his trail or. lay in ambush, to "welcome him," as ono of their great lights, Tom Corwin, wish ed the Maxic"ans would, "w:th bloody hands to a hospi - table grave." It was in that manlier they welcomed good old patioiu Con. Ilarriqe», and if "old Zack! , has'nt got the constitution of a steam engine, ho with cer tainly meet with the sante fate. Ills future persecutors are even more sharp-set for the spoils than then. It is true the stormhos not set in so rally, and every thing now appears calm and placid, but it is a calm before a tempest—a kind of pause to gather strength for the on slough that will 50011 ho made. For the benefit of the "expectants" here wo shall give ample notico .of the time the old General may be expected in Pittsburgh, the , nearest point on his proposed "route" to this place: THE ItAnr, ton N'Enr CousTics.—Every year increases the number of applications to the legislature for the eroc tion of new counties. At the presem session their num ber is legion. The following list of them is not uninter esting: "LackaWarma," front the upper part of iizerno, Carbondale to ho the county beat; "Penn," Out of part of Berks, Kutztown to be tho county seat; "Alahoning," out , of parts of etTer'son and Clearfield; "Pine," from parts of Clearliek Cambria and Indiana; "Madison,'' from parts of Birks, Chester and Montgomery, Pottstown to be the con ty neat; "Conestoga," from parts of Lancas ter nod Ycltk, with Columbia for the county seat. "Tio nests." fr m parts of Vcnango, Crawford and Itrarron;l "Carroll,' from parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland, Fay ette and Vashington, with - Monongahela city, as the county seat; "Lawrence," 'front parts of Mercer .and Bearor, Newcastle the proposed county soat. : -T' l- LAST his - a:rms.—A Yankee doWn En.st basin vented this specific for tho use of gold soekors. Thu op erator is 0 ,0 grease himself well, lay'tiown on the top of n 11 . 11, and then roll to the bottom. Tho gild, and "noth ing else," will stick to him. Prieo $94 per 407,-. This bents the "Gold Otneter" advertised in nnother column. A Locke I:Durum—The eater of the FrontieriJourn al in .slnine, having treated himself to a bran new pair of bfreeches, auspended the publication of his paper two trucks to enjoy them. They were the first ho had had for a year. This is a lucky chap for an Editor—first to get a bran new pair of unmentionables, and then lode pendeut enough to suspend his paper tti'•o weeks to enjoy them. We'll go to Maine—it is a better place fur Edi tors (Inn California, by a "long odds." Irr blis Ei.►tan►:r►t BLacxH}a.►. has rceeivod the di ploma of M. D. at tho GoneVa, N. Y. Medical College. On'toceiving , it oho is reported to have said: thank you,_sir. With the help of the Most Iligli, it shall bo the end of my life to shed honor on this di Boma." A REMNISCENCE.—The I ennsytranian :aye, during the Presidential election, four years ago las November, the Whig papers, anxious to destroy Mr. Po k, the Dem ocratic candidate before tho people, had thousands of handbills circulated going to show that ono of his ances tors, Ezekiel Polk, of North Caroline, was a violent tory during the revolution,' It was denied at the time. Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, in London, has recent ly discovered the original copy of tho Meoslonhurg (N.. C.) Declaration of * lndepentlenco from ho Power of Great Britain, made May 19;1775. 'Po thi Declaration the name of Ezekiel Polk, who was Biennia. as a tory by the Federalists in 1844, is preminentl. alts bed! NOT As "UurrA Wuta."—Mr. Clingn an, of North Carolina, is one.of General Taylor's war test admirers in the old North State. Hear him, then, J o "ultras."— In a late litter to his constituents. he says them is no no. comity for a National Bank - is opposed t 1 4he re-enact ment of the Ta r iff of 184'2; "or any othe 'dead law"— and urges a tew -amendments to the Unto ndent Trem ury system. to make it more practical in i opemtions.— . On the subject of the Wilmot Proviso. he aye: ''l consider the adoption of what is co manly called the Wilmot Proviso, or the exclusion of.shrery from the territories of the United States. as being. In my judg- 'neat. as gross a violation of the Conititun moment could possibly commit. A viola character as would justify lb* Southern S ing its execution by all means in their p •, unjust and degrading to them." EXTENSION OF BANK CHARTERS Mr. Laird, of Westmoreland, Chairman of the Com mittee en Banks, in the House of Representatives, in this state, says the Pittsburgh Poet hug addressed a se ries of interrogatories to the Cashierof each Bank in the Commonwealth. applying for a renewal of its charter. which are required to be answered under the solemnities of an oath. The irerrogatories are very searching, and 1 if they are answered without equivocation, we think that there will be Lut little difficulty to know the condi tion of the Banks applying for a renewal of their char ters. There are powerful efforts now being made in this state, not only to renew charters which are about to ex pire—but to incorporate new Banks, in places where such institutions do not exist at present. We trust that 1 the Representatives of the Pdople, will have the-moral 1 firmness to reject these applications, however strong may 1 he the appeals. By gradually' permitting the charters ofs. the existing Banks to expire,'no wrong can be done to either the stockholders or tho' community at large. At the principal commercial points, a limited number of Banks, sufficient to transact the business of the mercan tile community, might be kept in existence, subject to most rigid legislative scrutiny. There in no necessity for a bank in every petty village in the state. 'They . may occasionally afford relief to individuals, and aid them in. their business operations; but' the wide.si4,ead ruin to . the community at large, resulting 'from a Bank explo skin, more than neutralizes ell the good performed by. 1 1 every Bank in thol Commonivealth. There is no doubt but that the discovery of the ! .Gold Mines of California will bring into circulation aft immense amount of the precious metals, which must, take the place of the small noto currency, issued by Banks and Corporations. Our farmers, mechanics and lal4ring men, can lay aside the "yellow boys" for a rainy day, without the least fears of their depreciating. Let Congress authorize the coinage of small gold pieces, and let our state' Legislatures pre vent, by severe legal oaaetn entsj, the Wane of any more shinplasters, to rob the ind 3 trious classes of their hard earnings.' SPOILING 'A coinahn with many others, we pmilished a few weeks since u letter addressed by a Mr. Itetninpon. then in London, to tholato lion axon IL Lewis. The letter gave an account of the writer's toils and sufrerings during ill() time ho was erecting his newly-invented bridge, in the Surrey Gardens. Mr. Tyler, the proprietor of the Gardens, has come out in the Loudon papers, and denied that romantic portion of Mr. llernington's statement in which he says that during the time ho was erecting the bridge, ho slept in a lien's de serted cage, and depended tho charity of the car penters for his dinner. The letter found its way to Eng land, and drew forth Mr. Tylers' rejo:nder. • Mr. T. re marks: "The bridge having been repeatedly erected in Amer ica, attached no importance to Mr. Remington; nil he wanted was an opportunity of !Hinging his name before the pulic, for he had other inventions ho relied on to riniumerate himself. During the whole ,time ho was superintending the construction of the bridgo, ho hoar ded and lodged at Mr. Laild'sl mathematical Mete:mint maker, Amelia - Wert, Penton Place, to whom I paid V - 23, for such board and lodging, and other expenses, • which sum 1 never asked Mr. Remington for. In addi tion to which, I hold a note of hand. for £l9, for money advanced. lie never slept 111 the gardens!--ile never partook of the carpenter's mcals!---lie dined fremiently at my table.!—lle had free access to the gardens when he choose, and I should like, to poNsess the instiument by which a Yankee bound himself to pav,*lo for the ad vane, of Is Previous to lodging at 'Mr Ladd's I un derstand he boarded and lodging at a hotel inLeices ter-square, for font months. Do told mo tint ho had been living at Morley's lintel Strand!" Smtt.t. Seim—Four of the "cottim lords" of Pitts burgh, recently discontinued tho Nlorining Pos.!, because it sympathised with the poor factory girls. convicted a week or two since, of a riot in that city.' Their names • J. K. Moorhead, Mufealty & Letitia. Pollard McCormick. J. D. ‘Viltiont. , . Pars them round, brehron of the preen—;ive them a notoriety ue wine since. . Tstmonts.u.—Mr. Fuller, of the New York Evening Mirror, am claims to have been the : first to nominate Gen. Taylor for the Presidenc), says that he lost four hundred anbsuribers during the summer of 1816, merely for raising the Taylor flag, and in view of this circum stance:lie asserts that the old Clay cliques who fought against him like bull-dogs all the way through the con -test aro entitled to nothing, and will get nothing from the new administration; and those eleventh hininsintters who jumped over to the winning side just in time to hur rah for "the spoils" of victory, will fare no better. Gen. Taylor, he avers, knows his friends, and can scent a mere office-beggar as far as Caryle says µ t cockney can smell a countryman. 1 117 John Hoyt, Esq.. has died up in New Hampshire, worth $lOO,l/00. His administrator 'advortisos for .his two sons, heirs to the estate, to come forward and take possession of the property. If they should happen not to turn up:i we wouldn't mind going in for' n heir of the old fellow, ourselves, Boris is LOVE.- It is stated that lion. John M. Botts is going, to marry itiiss Dean. the actress. What will John Tyler say. to qnis loose his sleeping, partner? TILL 11(7sis„—Godoy . 's Magazine for Febrtia ry came to hand pun'ctital, this month, and is n truly ex cellent number—not better, it is true, than any ,of - its predecessors, 'but as good; and that is praise enough.— Unlike the prOprietots of some !other magazines—. Gr aham's ninon: the number—Mr.! Godey - does not cut his exchanges as Soon as they haicpuffed his magazine in to a respectable list of subscribers in their respective lo cations. • Sonny.—T4o_. Editor of the l'enns)lvaidan. John W. Forney. Esq.. contradicts the reports in circulation that ho is to take charge of the Washington Union. ED" Gen. Taylor will tickle Woo() Democrat!' nicely who voted for hip. A confidential. friend of his writing from New °floor's,- says: "One thing- I become every day more and more ebniiiiCed Of—the General:a admin istratioW will ho as ultra whig with regard to - men, and in all probability with xogard to measures, as any the country has yet soon." Of course. • PovrtcAr..—Henry" A. Wise, is his speech boforo the .Electoral Collego of Virginia, spoke of-•'tho broad OCeall, the earth's groat eye, tit° many colored couch of the set ling sun, tho groat receptacle of all rivers." Very poet ical in thought and language, but not exactly= true in fact. AN EXCELLENT APPOINTIEF.NT.—CoI. G. W. Geary, late of the second Pennsylvania volunteers; has boon ap pointed United States Mail Agent at San Francisco, in California. He has left with his family for that port. ERIE AND 01110 RAILROAD COMPARY.—We noticed yesterday the repeal of the charter of this company by the Penn. legislature. The reason assigned for this, act, a desire to prevent a connection between the railways of Ohio and this state, which might draw otFtrado and trav el from Philadelphia, will scarcely justify the Pennsylva nians in throwing obstacles• in the way of a work so strongly demanded by the interests of the west. If the good people of Pennsylvania would furnish the western people with• a bettor route to the seaboard than , the one contemplated through Sandusky. Cleveland, Erio and this state. possibly the repeal of a charter like that of the Erie and Ohio railway might be looked upon as a justi fiable. measure. I • We learn, betrayer., that the conduct of the Pennsyl vania legislature will fail to produce the results desired. Thiright of way through that state, frotn,the Now York to the Ohio line, can be obtained, we understand, with out the aid of legislative enactments; so that, after all. , the legislators of the Keystone have been showing their teeth without being able to bite.---. 84. Republic. Il7' John Davis was best - almost to death on Sunday evening last, in Pottsville. in this State, by David Sands and Benjamin Carp. The object was to rob and mur4 der him. and when they loft him, they supposed he was dead. He succeeded in crawling-to a house and told his story. Sande was subseqnently arrested. ,u as t.tiaboi% ion of such a ates in resist• Inter. bocansa News of the By Telegraph to the o!ftstrrer burgh papqrs. Nmw YORK. Tho pocket aliip Cambridge arri yesterday. after along and boisterous erpool and Cork, with 3.33 psssengers Bangor/ died on the voo•age, of ship 1, A great many of t'lo sick have ken tal. Advice: from Curaccia to Solembs , steamer Venezuela left th it ila) for Cabello, touching at all the points o Oroneco. Monagas and Psez are et engagement took place between the on the 1:1th, in wh.ch l'Acz was wou Vespasi.m Ellis, of this counte, Paez. • The barque Kyoka loft this ruerni co with-V2.ll4ssengi,ro. • NEW YCTI: The steamer United States arri about 4-o'clock. Sho put into 11a+ ult., after an exceedingly tempo/di from Cowes. She encountered a sti '''c storms from the time she left the nearly reached Cape Race, so viols possible to make over lOU miles a dei, of 'the passage. On the 2ftli of Jan., in tho vir i iiiity of latitude 34, list:ludo 57, sho mot a tremendous ihurrieane, which for some tiino placed her in a critical iJo,iuon, but she psts• ed through the trial without the elii,hte,t damage to het hull or m ac hin er y, this engines %piked irninterrnNed through the wimps period, and we • in a,'good consitori as when she lefi. Cowes. She ha 1 Zit board about 75 passenger..; her lower cabin was tiff with merchandise; her cargo the richest that ever tiff the Atlantic. consisting of about 3 packagesllif Punch ell goods, worth front two to throo millions or dollar . The steamship Crescent Cit, sired for Chores stli o'clock to-day, with about 3011 pa.i-onger. bound for Cat. iforniti. Every nook and coin, r oflthe Wharf was crowd ed a ill/ spectators 'too see her T, v. ham she was loudly cheered us she started chi l ls a the bay in gallant style. I 'Southern mid duo to-d.. 1. f 3 fio~ sovere snow kortn. Ire do%patc'a from ilatMoOr papers 11111101111C° the death o Leigh. vote on tbo election icky legislature was, Cloy nine i'ort) In the Senate; yesterday, Mr. ro=o!tition calling on thel'resident Senate certain tructlineitts suppoi relative to the secret lAst./ry of 1116' Ilvd tirro whether there 11 not a ' Anilines the amendment of the Se ring the discuss:oo, - Mr. Houston protocol jmit brought to _light was thentic and of11,:ial document. DI•. Hunter presented t'io rosoli of Virgin:a. roaqi:ining t'iolo ad' Wilmot proviso &e. Ordered p; Mr. Clayton•from the joint con dential votes, reported in favor of houses, on thu lialt in :t., to coon and Vicu President. aad that oa two for 'Jou .e b 3 op?ointod.--21.f ton-toiler for Senate. M:.11:0L`SO ntn•ol in favor o hositalnt Bucks Island, Mr. Ru;k, of Texas, then o' quirt' as to Cie expa,liency br m certain secret service during Via • The uniform Post no 1411 was by Mr. Allen, who spo!to long a Ocean Mail, and by Mr. Nelea i par. - rit..‘, ty, , ,rava b tisA papers. The interest of tho pod, cad by it. Ho a•aa in favor of :or,nowv i almrs initond of ontir Messrs. I) chins w and We Sedate upon this bill. Mr. Sibtuy of Wisconsin of a now in.ol routu on the I. wasagreed to liou r ic.—Mr. Tuck of New amble and resbitions in favor among nations by arbitration. The resolution; hanag bee pond rules in order that it an.gh upon, which failed. Mr. Sto - (ons, of Ga., by una resolution ruspecting thu huppo Nle NICO Mr. Wout;vsrth cillcd for the intlto.l 101, nays 3. . An exciting discussion followed. Mr. Stevens refer• red to former resulut:on's passe 1 by the hone calking 01 the President.for a true) copy o th. 3 treaty, his instnr• tions to tho commissioners Se. and the' Prevdent rev ed to givo them. Ito ithrontet ed to move for a aura committee, to send for pertions nd papers. lie renal• ed several usage of the treat , which had been•stnrl' en out or altered by the United States Senate and shoa• ed they wero not whit tho prot cal represented than= be. • liosyevor, he asked, if tho daro to iinpso this friu 1 upo ment. purkel i fnoyoti the previous Stovens, hawing slightly am wore paled, 1 17 to 3-1. Tho llon. Win. 11. Seward from N e; York, from the 4th jority was 91 on joint ballot: John W. Williams was arr; charred with tho murder of J fighi, yesterday. 1171ast night, a fire broke 1100 Co.'s manaractory an ling materials, :—)9 Gold street streets, which destroyed the 000. tr.r A despatch from Wasi **The Cointraittee of Ways out a dissenting voice, agree straight mileage bill. with meats. • II turinoar, Feh:i. lid) A fight took place yeste r glav at 4' o'clock I'. -IL . Brock's Point, in Kent coun i ty, ten miles Wax rc , ' Island. There were b r il 16 rounds fought in 1 nu :a.4 l Sullivan knocked flyer 'a own by a severe b!ow ;al neckArhich was the' oi knock down. 11ri• tires .'""` from Sullivan's right eye, and in the 13th ro;lldwri''" ed his right arm. Both of Ilyer's oyes are I? Sullivan's right:eyolis terribly hurt. 11)er round caught . Sulliven's head tinder his arm, ed him until he a4.'•done for," and held was forcibly take (runt the Ling by his Me• bearing the appearance of a hutcher's black ing the victory as Sullivan did not come up a It was so terrible cold that:both suffered from from the: race they had (f i lm the timber' ;Vas but few spectators. Thi ground. flyer proceeded to snot much punched. Th the judges and referees, but about the fact of flyer's belts piteamer with the military en A dispatch just received f 5 flyer had arrived and Was ft the Exchange which ho esq from the street. .; ' • The train from Baskin raial yesterday. Tho Engineer w i + but elishtly. The trains wr4 accident. eek, and Pigs, Feb. .5-3 p, 5 1 :" i d at quarantme, assize, fron2 2:1 steerage pal. ver and maian. piL eke o t 9 the r:25, mate thzi the Tun:lcon. Peo rt , w 00 coas.t, for the 'II quarreling. An (tot+ of the pirai la ded. 1111;= g for San.Fr►eca Feb.-5-7 P.)! r o t: rtuhniso :lerodooalas ifax for eord os f ceelsion of wasters eedles untd ebs n as to render it im • for the firer 17 dtvi' in— Idlined by the K. I'd,. G-3 I'. M. HAl , !mold B nj t•4l.n Nf.v. 10 Senator in Ken. v-two, 11 M. Johnson anne:att ,übmitted to coniniuntcate to t I d to bo in existenet, ro tic of thiailoloope ,rotoeol extant, wbo ato to the treaty. gliiittoti that the seer, no forger), but ao it C tioniy the 'l i ege:lce ple in 1.517, a•na Med. :nittt-o on tlo Pre. a tneeting of the two the votes fur Pra,alent teller for Se l n at. 34J ~..)1/tUd.--and Mr. Cla3-• eitablii:ung a lama rod a resolution of is king a qtro,mationi le Al .ixican w ir--alLead. eAllod up and discaei jiid earnestly a:gain,c.l4 reply. i ron cirrillatio:f of pert t plo Would no , ow and uni be adr MEM lc (rod circa ott briefly ad dressed L pi ivh:i l ed a resemtio pper ~ , led efl. ,reeelee,l lampshirc, f- settling; di, Pd to 55 Cli and read, he me be inunidl t, oT.re , 1 tr,st% x% itn6lls conien cd protocolatt.l IMEB!=I 'ro.litiant or hia aVO i tho Mexican Goven testion. Lost. !tided his resolutions Nr.w Ft.u. I ras to -day electvdTer.: lof March next. 111 Mtrheum: Fe F t - led to-flay and conna cicsouSmith in n Incl.' YORK', Feb. 7-3 P. M lii the third Igor) . of depot of pri..4e, attar between John anJ fi! tablishment Loss 02 11Oi011 to the Tribunc. 4 , and Mean•, to•dns, to rtsporti Gen. Mel° orne unntivonain RES lon e i l i2' rt , "' Unit • his r cis: it as " e ' , T3l - parties soon !tor ie.- Franktoom, in I is b.)1..1" -t ro is stunt, dispute Fero' here seems to be no ",.,a too much for Subrie. board it; std l st Fouriblt !Ea Philsddphi an Ildwed by a la r,,0 C'''' ih, eit,..b MEM Sprig; art, ,2 ouri off tlto track a 'as On only ono o detlined 7 .