aial Nawrel CALIFORNIA ITEMS. A writer in the New York Journal of Commerce, rtate , the weekly rations for each passenger round the Horn, for California, thus: :f lbs. pork; 4 do beef; 1 do flour, I do rice; 6 do tat-turt, &c.: do ciickles. ac.; 98'oz. biscuit: 14 do sugar; do tea. 7do coflise, 7do cocoa (either one;) I do butter: I do cheese; 13 pints beans; .6 do molasses.; do vinegar.. - A letter from George T. Lozier, published in the Brooklyn Eug/e, gives the following information: have brought to bear nll the means that I could muster, walked into the gold market, and have-- of the precious metal, for which I paid about 1— the oz.; it gum by apothecaries' weight, 12 oz. to the pound. At Mazatlan their gold weight is 11 to a pound, and it is said that we wilt get 'IP S II per oz., which makes it equivalent to tlit.l(l per via.; as we buy at twelve and sell at fourteen, and soper linos I will make a trifle, and then perhaps a littile on return trade, Etz.e.,44.c. a * An over-coat %%loch cost only 617.50 brings is:2s readily. No of ficer has been exemp from trafficking; none let the golden opportunity slip. That which is called t e "dry diggings" 'is an upland marsh. The "wet diggings" is, standing in the river up, to your waist, and every time you stoop to get a pan or spade fiat of mill front the bottom, you dip your face in the water. \ A new spot has just been disci - we:red which is said to yield seven or eight hundred dollars' worth of ore, at 1?16 the oz.—one person's labor`aday. ,» diot doubt it—we doubt nothing of thia \ great mine. Nearly every man in San Francisco, \who (Ahern ise would - be very pont., and many lorfers, now talk of their thousands, and carry a bag of gold: and eight dollars a day will not tempt them to work. Doubt not a word, for every word I tell you is true n 5 the gospel. Every day it will be getting better 'tor those who are willing to work at their trade or calling When we sailed, flour had fallen from iit3s to &It/ pet' barrel, and other articles in proportion. Not a Mexican face is to be seen in San Francis co,_and nothing but English is spoken. All Yeti keest and one-third New Yorkers. There is a , \Broadway, a Fulton and a Washington market—a 'Neil: York store and all that. Grog shops a few— drinking and gambling are the order. The great er, part (lithe gold has fallen into unworthy hands, hut it will soon be gathered into the coffers of the industrious, pros ident and Yti•ise. Nothing short of a millionaire can be a rich man in California after next. year; a man ill be poor with only titlo,ooo.—, Crime is rife, murders are frequent; the- perpetra tors of some have been taken and hung. I predict that Col. Fremont will be the first .civil Governor in California. Monterey is a beautiful. plrice, but Snn Francisco is hilly, and in some places low and muddy, but it has a beautiful and capa cious bay, whilst Monterey is quite an open road stead. FROM Tl'. zsg.—The Steamship Galveston, Capt. Crane, arrived ye,terilay from Galveston. She brings papers from that city to and of the sth The celebrated Mrs. Ann Chase came passenger to this city. Capt. Carr, who has been Acting Quartermaster nt Tampico, is here. Every trace of the cholera has entirely disappear ed from Houston. There is a prospect of a brisk SpEng, trade. The Bth Regiment of Infantry, which had•-for some time been encamped opposite Victoria, took up the line to march on the 16th ult. The - health of the troops v. as good._ The company was retained at Lavaca far the purpose of assisting in taking care of the public stores, C c., at that place. . General Worth has decided upon _sending the troops destined for the upperßio Grande by the new route lately discovered by Col. Ilay.s. These troops %ill probadly- take tip the line of March from Fredericksburg for El Passe about the Ist of March. LATER FROM MEXICO. Ily the arrival of the Spanish brit Habanero, from Vera Cruz the 2Gth ult., we have papers from the city of Mexico to the 23d. There is very little in i thein of any consequence here. Congresi is en ged in the consideration of the tariff; and in the meantime has matured mensures for the more free - admission of foreigners into Mexico, and for the I purchase of arms fur the National Guard. The re port of the Secretary of War occupies several pages of the largest daily papers. • The Monitor Republicano is incessant in its ef forts to produce the impression that Santa Anna is nt the bottom of the insurrection of the Sierra Gor da, as well.as of the late attempt at Toluca. In each number it impresses upon the Government the necessity of redoubling its vigilance, as it was sure that emissaries of•tne ex-President were continual. Iv busy in hatching treason. We hear of no overt aCts, nor see any thing to lead us to believe, Santa _Nona thus at work. The Government is concentrating all its military strength to put an end to the Sierra.Gorda,iiiithrea . k at once. It hai multi motion 1800 troops of the line and 1100 National Guards to crush the insurgents. General Arista displays more energy in the admin istration of the War Dypartment than is usual in Mexico. THE IVIon:srAIN sxo Tim .flows.—The Wash ington correspondent of the Baltimore See thus mercilessly shows up the Whigs for their - fertile" failure in regard to the Protncol; "The message from the President, in answer to the inquiri..s of the House in regard to the Mexican protocol, was remarkably forcible and tri the point. It satisfied the House so completely, covered so en tirely the national faith and the national honor, that not a singe member rose to move its reference to a special committee, or 1.1.5 a committee on the judici. nry, or in tine. to the committee or, foreign rela i tions. The message was simply laid on the table Oid or dered to be printed. So the mountain liert; again brought forth a mouse. and a ridiculous mouse, as the fable has it. There were gentleman whose im agination was so exceedingly fertile as to lead them to fear that California and New• Mexico would be lost to us, and that we had no treaty at nil with MexicO. They were ready to impeach the Presi dent, and to hollow murder in the streets, but since the message - has been rend, they talk of General `Paylor's inauguration and the great ball that is to be given on-the occasion." 'Louis, February 13. 1 8 19-:—A most da r ing rape case occurred in our city last night, com mitted by n member of"the police. A fellow, named Pollee, one of the city guard, went to the house of n woman whose husband had been arrested nod thrown in jail, for a breach of the peace. And rep resented that a mob threatened to assail her house thnt night. The" woman, in alarm implored his protection. It was gra'nted, and he consented to occupy a fr,mnt apartment during the night. The woman retired to rest, and during the night her pretended protector entered the chamber, and by shreats effected his diabo'ical purpose. (►f course. ;the story of the mob was without foundation. Tho injured woman this morning in'ado affidavit against the a retch, and he was arrested. 11BAR BOTH Evening Mirror had the two following editorial paragraphs in the,same col- UM of its ThUrAdav issue: • "We will only ask that we have repeatedly heard General Wool in private conversation express him self in the moat enthusiastic terms toward Gen eral Taylor, and ntterly repudiate the claims set up -4 by false friends itt his own behalf." "We have no personal acquaintance with Gen. NVOOI, end bare never seen him once, when he was pointed out to us on hoard a Hudson river steam bat." CLINTON BANK OF Courmous.—The charter of this bank is soon to expire. Nevertheless we see any quantity of its bills in circulation and quite late ly has appeared NION' bills of the denomination o f 5 dollars. What dyes this mean?, Dues it portend a blow up? Why does not this bank, in view of its legal death, begin to wind up its business instead of extending it? No wonder the people are suspi cious of such a corporation. We learn to-day from Columbus that a pretty smart 'run is now being niade upon this inatituiion. I.ouk 'out, bill holders! Plain Dealer, Pill. to. DRATHS VICOM ran.v.vrtos.,--A letter from Dr. J. M. Moriarty, physician i at Deer Island, says:— . uMary Carroll, aged 47, Ireland, passenger in ship Bay State, died this morning (kith) from starvation on slop board." This is the second death from the Fame cause, within the past ten or twelve days. In both instances tho vessels in wilieli the victims were passengers had long and rough passage's, and the proviviona were nearly evliansted before their arri sal at Tiaralitirle:.—Th.:ton DEATHBED CONFESSION. ' A man named; oseph KelSey,llied in this city on Friday, nit last, at an advanced ago; lie has re sided here for more than twenty years, and for most part of the time has kept en: inferior tavern, near the foot of 'Main street. Ile has been suspected several times of committing depredations on his guests, in the way of plunder, and once was charged with murder, but escaped pithishment, from a want of testimony sufficient to produce conviction. However, when advised that his end was near at hand, he manifested a desire to have an act-paint ance sent for,•that he might confess his crimes .be fore he died.' The person sent for came, and the old man confessed. FromAhal person, who is high ly respee.table, we learn that;the,,statement involves several robberies of guests at Ifs house, and the murder for Which he was arrested many years ago, and tried but not convicted. The full particulars Of the confession have not been furnished us, but we learn that the old man stated that he had buried the body on the premises. Some search has been made, but with what success. we are not informed. •During• the search on Satin:day, several articles were found secreted about the premises which indi cated the truth of the cimfession. Among other things was an oval brass trunk plate, much corroded, which bears this 'inscription—"4 Baldwin, Roch ester, X. Y." This may afford some clue to a mys terious disappearance eitlter of property or person of the owner, or perhaps both. These confessions. we think need not bo questioned, as they hate been forced from the dying man by the power of con science under deep sense of guklt.--,Bujr. Express. Awvut. RETRIBUTION.—A Mr. Weatherford, \ S ‘ heritrof Schuyler co. in thisrState, and ex.uflicio collector of the County Revenue, conceiving a de sigri-th client the comtnonwealth out of some e 2.200, which 'he had collected—left the money in the care of his wifk, part in silver and part in paper, with The declaration chat he would be gone several days, and enjoined upon her that she should permit nn one to stay all night at\the house during his absence. At night a traveller,"rather an aged man, applied for entertuinment. Tlkk.wotnan, first refusing under instructions of her huShand, was finally persuaded to permit him to remain'. About 11 or 1:1 o'clock the same night some per Sons demanded entrance into the house, and upon being permitted to come in, they were found to be disguised as negroes, and im mediately demanded of the woman money; which they said they knew was in the house. The woman handed them the paper money. They told her there was also silver money which she must enrrender.— She replied that she would go up stairs, (where the traveller was lodging) and get it. She informed the old gentleman of the state of things below—he told'her toitake one of too pistols which he had—to put the.money into her apron, with the pistol con cealed behind it, and when either of the robbers came forward to take it; to lire and he would save another of them with the remaining pistol. She did as instructed, and one of the men fell dead at her feet. The old man fired and killed another, and the I ! third made his escape. Upon examination it was found that the guilty husband had fallen by the hand of his own Wife. Thus it is that a mysterious Prov idence even in this world metes nut punishment to those who transgress his Laws.—/lannibcd Jour nal. A VE ['FRAN OF TIM [JAILS GONE.—We rdgret to. be called upon to announce the death of Capt. ter Norton, who expired at his residence at Cold Springs, near this city yesterday morning, aged fi3 years. Copt. Norton: was p native of the state of IConnecqoit, and l bred'a seaman. He came lo Buf. ;foto in 1610, and sailed for several years,as mare of ,t• a veSsel nu lake Erie. In 1816 he sailed the brig Hunter and afterwards the sultanrier Mich's: t au. then ,th 3 largest sail craft on these waters. In 1825 he brought out the steamboat Henry Clay, and sailed her until 1834, when the steamboat Gen. Porter was brought into service, and he took command of her. His long career as a seaman, whether before the mast or in command, was marked with more than ordinary skill and success, With that unflinching spirit of enterprise that overleaps•obstacles, and se cores its etidelby the forc3 of its _ own powers, he has been the4chitect of his own fortune. Alter having devoted the best portion of his life to the ardurous duties attendant upon the lake service, he retired to his farm, and•has spent several years post; • in the more quit vocation or a /tooloantiman. whilp he lived, he commanded the confidence . and esteem o f hi s fellow men, and now that he has gone, a halt) is thrown ernund his memory by the recollection of his many virtues as they have'exhibited themselves in public as well as in private i!ife.—Bujr. Elpress. EZMili James Jort Cratilutrry in this county, has been arrestYrd and intim:oiled in the County jiil, upon the charge-of having murder • ed his Wife on the night of tfie 20th itpo ant. ‘V,e refrain from giling any particulars or makiqg any e u mments at present, as the; whole matter will undergo a judicial investigatiiiii. Mr. Jordon is beven!y-nine years of age.—Bill lei- Ileeald. SIMULAR, DEATII.—We regret to kir!) that Mr. A. CAni., of Summerhill tp., died very suddenly on the '21.1,1 inst. Ile had been hauling n hunt of staves to the Canal in hit usually good health, in compa ny with his Eon; on his return home, he was ruling in a sleigh, whilst his son was driving the cattle. When near their residence the son discovered that his father was dead. The deceased was sorne‘%liat advanced in years and was a good citizen.—Craw ford Don or ra St :cant OF A CoMMUNIST..--A hap member of the New Orleans Picayune contains an account of the death, by suicide, of Doctor Junn Itovira, a mem ber of the binimunists Society attempted to be es tablished nt Icaria, in _Texas, by Mr. Cabe!, but which was' recently disEolved. The deceased wits &native of Catalonia, in Old Spain, whence he went at an early age to Paris, and became an en thusiastic in the cause of communism. lie wrote his will about five o'clock, on the evening on which he committed the dreadful act, which left a yoUng and beautiful wife, and a fine little boy without a protector. MATERNAL Love.—The Dayton, Ohio Journal re lates a thrilling incident shot% i rig the strength of ma ternal alreciion. The hotise of Mr. Woodle in t h at city, tooksfi-e in the absence of Mr. W. and Ii wife. A little daughter of-four or five years hail been left rocking the cradle, in which was a tribe. The little girl easily escaped! but the infant was left in the burning house. Several persons tried to pen etrate in and rescue it, but were driven back by the extensive heat. But a woman came rushing to the spot front a neighbours—she threw water riser her clothes and drew her wet apron hastily over her head, rushed in and returned in a moment—the child in her arms, and safe, 'lt was the mother-7,4 course it was—every mothers heart will tell her that. ' SINCitYLAII MALIeOI6IATION.--The Baltimore Col lege of Dental Surgery has received through Dr. J. I lards, a curious addition to its Anatomical collec-, tion. It is the body of an (infant, born, with two heads, and which in desciibing it, the Jitter /can states was born in North Cdrolina, having survived its birth hot a short time. It presents two perfect heads,, with two faces; each of the natural stze, and each exhibiting the features of the countenance as full and distinct as is ordinary in a child, of that age. There are seen four eyes, two months and noses, though but three ears. Two of the ears tire placed laterally and iii their natural position, while the third (which is imperfect in not having any meatus autlilorya rxlernas) occupies the forehead in the centre line of junction of the two heads. The two heads are not entirely distinct, they being join ed a t the lower part of the forehead, cheeks, chin, and base of the loWer jaw. - The two heads, though thus perfect, have but one neck and one heart; the latter, however, having its right auricle and ventricle much larger than those of the left. The left half of the ditipbragim presents a large opening, through-which the left lobe of the liver, the stomach and fife opleen had passed, and were found situated in the left cavity of the chess, an altogether unnatural position. Each face has hair lips, which extend back through the palate process of the superior mariniary sortie, forming a communication-between the nose and mouth, and, consequently, throwing these two cavities into one. The child seems to have attained its growth, the body and limbs being of full size and well propor- Ahmed. Each of the heads has a full suit of hair. The mother of the child is reported to be in good heal ES OF PUBLIC BEN. ngton correstiondent'ef the New Yor gossips in this pleasant tnanneht • aph brings us the news of Mr. cliry's nator - for a full term of six years, be t 4th; and at the same time informs itit had not been sufficiently restored 'to leave his room, to Which he had fur tett days from the effect of a fall end received a serious injury. The %Ir. Clay's health has been forl.sotne ered to be in a very precarious con tenure of his hold upon life is feeble. kt seventy-one. These circumstati urn one's thoughts upon the ildvan. ~st of our distintriiiblied statestiten.— Vun Buren and %Vebster were \lnc. year, 178:2, and arc now isixiy- The %Yoshi' Bvening Posi t "The telegr , election as Se . ginning Mar cus that, his he to permit hitn bekti conpned in which his 1 truth is, that months consi dition, and th Mr. Clay l is ces nathrolly ced oge (if ion Messrs. Cali born "in Oe ea seven. is most,broken, and exhibits Imarks physical declension. Time has laid heavily upon him within the past fit , Ir. Webster wears his years ,better, Mr. Calhon l of the grAite,, her hard linnd, teen mouths. and may, for aught visibly appearing to'the contra ry, cunt in let t pound the constitution in the Senate 1 or the for run dread') or two longer, before lie be comes, what he is after prematurely styled, is ex pounder, Mr. Ile.nton, who bas ic ' survived the ,wrath of Ajax and Achilles, (Jackson and Clay,) who has been blots 4 t ri up in fain (on tteiPrincelon,)-and - whe has vanquished as many foes, still contends "'vigor. ously with time, that arch enemy, to whom lit the end even he Must yield, at the age of sixty-three.— Gen. Cass returns to the field of political conten tion; nt sixtv-six. Since he re-appears after such a fatal and disastrous day as the 7th of last Novem ber, it must be admitted that he cannot be killed or. After such a resuscitation, his vitality must .be ad mitted to fie proof against mortality. General Taylor i 3 sixty-four. Like The aims of Ishmael, or some other noneads named in Sacred writ, the General has "dwelt in tents'r most of his life, and nobody can tell what effect house-life and feather beds will have upon him.l f fowever, ,dwel lers in the White house have ge l erally found a spe cific against efibmilare indagente: and if the gen eral does not sigh before his - sev my-first year for the flapping of his tent walk, th creaking of his camp tools, and the music of the I eeeilli, theO Gen. Cass may con g ratulate him. Ile may haven very strong ennstHition, but it is noth tug to the Consti union of the United States, whit t he will have to master." 1 , 1 1 N. A. H. STERETNS Everybody has written or talked about the ' ;camp who set fire tO a shanty in Ephesus, in order hi make for him Self a great name; and Mr. STstotris, \of Georgia, seems to think the speculu'tioti 'worthy rof imitation. tht Saturday last, before nu astonish ed house, he exploded into a speech that breathed sulphur in eiery liue. The display is said to, have been qui a tenipestoons and dramatic. He intro duced Mr. Poi-K.into the debate in various disguis es:\ Pirsti'in the peaked cap of a Spanish byigand % terrible with , mustachios, and fiery with pistols.— Then he changed him into a likeness of Charles the Second, who liked to have his own way with' the laws and the ladies. Then he transformed the Ex-I ecutive into a gambler, cheating Mr. BRNTO,4 out of his mint-drops, Mexico out of California', and poor Mr. WthmoT out of his proviso. He Would agree to within at all, Mr. STRenitss wouldn't.— He was against California, 'against the isthmus railroad, againSt a standing army, against Judge ToomrsoN's expunging resolutions, aw,inst appro.* priations; agaihat the Senate, against the Protocol, against the treaty: and against the "awful degen eracy of the times." . Thellouse listened in grave terror, and hid its diminished hilad. The ladies in the galleries grew witife - iviih" fear, and the aisles of the capitol were troubled;With strange echOes.— Eyerybody felt relieved rnhen,i having distressed himself sufficiently—having screamed himself out— having vomitted up all the perilous stuff that has ma le him peevish so long-:—the meteoric Georgian sought his seat, palo % with rage, nervous with excite ment, ant weak with intense exertion. It is to be hoped now that he will resume his wonted good. nature; and that his proverbially halcyon temper will no longer be called twilit to emulate rude Berens, !'blustering ran PellnKyblinab, THE GREAT SALT LAKE. Extract from a letter received here from the Grea Salt Lake: "On' the 19th of May we started from winter qnar ters. The road is quite good, notch better than half the roads in Michigan, scarcely any Mild Oil the whole route, and as level as a house flour, with the exception ilia few sandy blufs. We Fa W' and kill ed numbers of liiiffriloes and antelopes which 4vere imod eating. IcUony curiosities are to.he seen, ma king the journey interesting, thongh quite fatigue especially the last ItUtt miles. The weather aas very with some 51WW, sonic of our cattle died - on account of the saleratus dust, formed front lak , s, dried away,. leaving n sc um from, one to fuur inches thick, as good as-any matmfactiired. The road frinn the Pacific Springs is rough, hilly and rocky, `t'he're in some places quite dangerous to waggons. The're are three mountains to ascend and descend! one nvo miles another five, another 14even, tt ith steep desreent fur a great disthnce. We arrived in the valley On the 30th Sept. 1818,, awl a glorions,day it was to the saints. The plain is over 10 miles long by 40 ide, surrounded by, mountains capped with snow. Salt Lake' is 30 miles limn thelcity, and a mountain of Salt lino been, discovered '7O miles froth here. Eutaw Laltp 30 mi es distant, abounds with fish, and is a benutilub. fresh water Ur. The Almtnons will number 4,500 includtng the emigrants now on their way. Whti river Jordan MD; from south to north thro' the Iske' s and the centre of the valley. Cold, warm and hot Fprings abound, also a tar spring, good for titireS and waggon wheels. It is very healthy hero; only 10 or 1t died during the year. ' We can gather three harvests ' l of wheat in a year, and, the cattle can graze luxuriantly the year round. The soldier. 4 have come in from galiforniMbring, ing a great deal of gold dust. It ) xesetnbles `gold leaf in`small siiitles. It is supposed that there is a plenty of gold jn the mriontaina around here. I The timber is chiefly Balsam lir, Maple and cotton wood; the soil his good and adapted to the growing of almost everything.—Kalamazoo Telegraph. , • , 1 • - - 1 AERIAL ,NA"IGATION.•—•AII ' aerial traveling l ma chine is now in course of construction in this 164 - , and the princitile upon whichit is to be constructed was practically illustrated, yesterday afternooM at IVashitorton Hall, corner of Bowery and Hester st r eet. 'So ias the experiments in the Hall go, it appears to be illustrated that a passenger car and propelling power may be sustained ,at a sufficient altiltide, and that by simple machinery, the whole may be propefled and guided through the air. The model with which the experiment was tried yester day, 'consisted of a bal:oon about twelve feet in length, and twoFfeet in diameter in the centret ta pering at the eitils like a segur. The model) pas senger car was bout thirty inches long, and, the propelling power was obtained, from an ordinary watch spring. 1 The steering apparatus is simple, and answered it - inteneded purpose well on this oc casion. If the large machine, which is to be I pro pelled by two et gines, and to sustain a car capable of holding 200 'l,assengers, will work in the same open ..air, as Well as the model did in the room at Washington Hall, it is a great invention.—.V. - Y. Herd 1. 1 Gov. JouNsf N DisTascEn.—The Supreme Court has decided age nat the claim of Mr. Broom to hold the office of c lerk " of the Orphan's Court of Philadelphia cot nth to which he was a,mointed by Gov. Jobnston,/im place of Oliver Brooks, deceased, elected last fall. Mr. Hanley, the old incumbent, resisted the claim. The Court decided that inas much as Mr. Brooks, the Clerk elect, died before he was commissioned, and duly qualified, there was no vacancy created by-his death; and therefore that the old Clerk most hold ever until a new one is elected and duly qualified. Very comfortable, this, for Mr. Hanley; but mortifiying; to Governor Johnson, and his appoinett,—Carlisle Volunteer. FAIR' HINT VRO.II A FAIR thse.--:-"Does your arm pain you much, Sir?" asked a young lady of a gentleman who had seated himself near her in a mixed assembly, and thrown his arm across the bick of her chair and slightly :ouched her neck, "No , Miss, it does not; why do you askl" "1 no ticed it was considerabl out of place," replied 'she, "thn'ta all." The arm was removed. • • • , Ell. • ERIE. PA. -` SATURDAY MORNING. MARCIII 4, 1:•19. THE WEEKLY OBSER t t-STILL HARPING ON MY DAUGIITE I" Tine proteetionista, whatever may bo though by the people to the contrary, are still harping on their favorite hobby—Still intent on saddling the country and the,pee ife with increased taxation . For the last three months they have said little, hut have boon working !card. f ,o New York Evening Post hits been shown a circular, MHO publishes, signed by ell the principle manufacturers in the country, which goes on to elate that a meeting of merchants and mane lecturers had been held in Now York, which "was attended by gentlemen front New England. New York, Pyunsylvania and Maryland." By this'socret cabal. composed of "manufacturers and mor ehants"—the circular. dos'nt say a word about any agri culturalists being present—"it was thought of especial importance to open nn early commu.dcation with the cabinet of General Taylor, to makelho proper impres sion, and to furnish his Secretary of the Treasury with the details necessary for a just revision of-tho taritt The time had arrived.,it was believed, when the business men of the country shoUld unite in a continuous effort to accomplish the great uhject of protection for our home market, upon such ainoderate and well-adjusted basis as cannot be easily shaken." It was further. concluded by this meeting that as the "proper impression" could not be made upon Gon. Taylor and his cabinet without funds, the amount deemed necessary should be assessed on the several manufacturing cities and villages according to their several interests in the proposed ineriose of taxation' on the rigricnlturalistS, laborers and mschttnics of the country. Thu proportion assessed upon Philadelphia we, so large that a "sum of twenty - 41v° dollars" a head teas deemed necessary to make it Up—and this, it was un blushingly avowed in the circul sr, would he "sufficient for the Mole rffort, extending beyond the present year and through the next congress." • Our agricultural friends will at once see by this that the "cotton lords" and "iron kings" have determined to accomplish their end, if money can do it! Believing its no God but the Almighty-dollar themselves—judging all mankind as selfish' and !tierce- nary, and sconting the idea that mon are governed sometimes by higher and holier motives than mammon, they think, no doubt, the favorable moment is close at hand for a last and successful effort. A new Adminis tration is coining into power—its head, according to its own confession, knows no more about the principles and workings of our revenuo laws than be does of the topog- raphy of the North Pule—the moment is propitious for success. if t h e "proper impression" can bo made.. Tho "proper impression" indeed! There is something 50 ut terly repugnant in this flippant manner of avowing their confidence in the pliability Of.Genoral Taylor. dial while it disgusts one with the brazen assurance of its authors, it cannot but cause every true friend and admirer of the county to tremble for the fiiture. Just think! To adopt the language of the Pennsylvanian, a fund is raised, which "is sufficient ,for the whole effort, extending be yond the present year. and through tho next Congress." And for what purpose is it that the manufacturers, and all interested in manufacturing, aro each expected to eub- scribe twenty-five dollars to this fund!. Tho purpose is avowed—"to mako the proper impression," "and to fur ni.h the Secretary of the Treasury [General Taylor's Secretary) with the , details necessary for a just revision of the TaritE" This plan includes opertitions in Con. gress—dinners and drinkings at Washington—and other elegant ) accommodations fur the representatives of the people. Could there be anything more reptatiye to our national pride? Could there be anything in worse taste? Could anything hotter displ ty the real designs and feel hugs of the wealthy capitalists an 4 protectionists of this', country? But we havo two safe-guards against the accomplish ment of this dosigu upon the people by menus of recor ... r I d.inoetaito. mid will con tinue to be so for the next four years—tho new states, un corrupted by filo lollmolico of fißoaufaucurlogAteutsa, lagalro all sent monto represeut them, opposed to this effort to tax labor for tho benetit of capital. The Senate, then, js ours. The dinners and drinking parties oft this orga`j ized band of protectionists, we do not believe can hive any effect upon tho members of that body. Corruption has never yet futind a seat in tho Senate hall. But if it should—if the "proper impression," should be made up on this batty, and this org tnization of capital succeed in fa , teuing upon the people a blitional taxation for their heueln, then the steadfast domocracy—that democracy which repudiates the worn out theories of the past, and does not scruple to incorporate into its confession of faith every now reform—have but to appeal to the poo l* themselves, to redress their wrongs—to purge - tho white house, the senate chamber and the (louse of Rep resentatives of their 'univot thy occupants! The agriculturists Tay sutler for years from low pri ce's, 114 they did unde the act of '42, and we hear no complaints against the government—we see no organiza tion. iVith contributiMis of twenty-five dollars per head. t 6 ri , slit their wrongs. tie! they wait patiently until the prop er limo arrives for action, and then they quietly go to tho polls and elect those who know their wants, and will re spect their wishes. They do not ask protection—they only Claim j !stied When . jo urneymun Mechanics com bine to protect themselves against tho improper require ments of their employers—whon they form associations to regolate the price of Choir labor—the law indicts them for conspiracy, and the j it or ponitentiary is their down! Hut hero we have a con illation of *.manufacturors and merchants" for the avo od purpose 9f "making a proper impression" upon Gen. aylor and his cabinet—corny: i , Ling tho very fountain hoed of Govornment—and tho .same law that dooms th journeyman mechanic to the four walls of a prison, so s it nut—is blinded by the glit ter ,of tho culprets gold! , Iles justico fled!—is law hut the oppressor of the poor!--are our courts but .mockerios!— thiit wealth may do with impunity what the poor are con signed to an ignominious punishmont for imitating. Far be it' from us to array the poor against the rich more-than their interests are antagonistic—but when wo see wealth, with purso proud insolenco, boldly promulgating a plan to corrupt the halls of legislation in order to lay additional taxation upon all other interests that their dlroady over stocked conrs may be lucre:pied, we cannot refraiu from eiposing Mom, and warning the peoplo of tho clangor! Sk:CRI:TAILY WALIIii.R.—Tho intelligent and diserini correspontleat of the Philadelphia Ledger, a neu ter paper of high repute, thus speaks of the Secretary of thu Treasury, his suggestions, and his management of tho arduous and complicated duties committed to his charge: • Take it all, in all Mr. WALnin's — suggestions, being those of n statesman, will yet force themselves on the conviction of many a dissenting.. opposition men; and be adopted by the very men who have opposed tlpm to the last hoar. There never was a Secretary o(tho Treasury, since tin+ days of Hamilton, who has managed the finan ces of the countrY with grouter skill than ➢lr. Walker, and none, certainly. whose views and artuments carried so inch weight with his political opponents." . De - A pedlar in Chicago a few days sinco fell in a fit, in the street. Attached to his clothes was a card, upon which was written. "If I fall in a fit, light my pipe—it is the only thing that will relieve me." This Was done and the man was relieved iu the manner prescribed. So says the Chicago Tribune. Hours To AcText SETTLEIN.-A bill is before Con gross to 'secure houses to actual settlers and cultivators. The difficulty to be overcome in such a law iOlie rapid passago of thejand out of the hands of settlers into those of speculators. This difficulty would in a nioasuro be overcome, the Washington Union suggests, by making it necessary that the tattler should occupy the land for a terra of years, say ton—the title not to bo perfected, and no right to the land :nr iinprovements•to bo assignable, until the expiration of the term; nor unless the settler, or his widow, or hi* heirs; hod continued to occupy the land the whole period. Nor should any person ever be entitled to a second grant ,wheretbe title to thefirst had boon perfected. With such restrictions wo go for the homes to actual settlers." NEWSPAPER PATRONAGE . Tut LAW ReAsttir.-In our eaperience as a publish er,'we havo hoard a great twiny reasons advanced for stooping a paper, but the last nd'decidedly the queer est was gravelyi offered in oul u ltedring the other day by a subscriber to a certain religio a paper of a neighbouring city, which has lately been ch nt*d from a monthly to a weekly. It was nothing less lum that the paper con tained too inueli reading inatter—” besides," added the grumbler, " I want a paper toy read on z the Sabbath, and this now contains a great deal of Agricultural matter!" Just as though informing one'S self on the groat and ha l portant science of Agriculture-tit:arning from a chemical analysis of God's earth Ills Wm goat and wondrous good ness to man, incomp`atild with adue observance of that day! Nonsense! But with the question whether the reading of articles on Agr culture on the Sabbath is iucousistant with a christian c teraCter, we have nothing to do—we leave it to be disc issed and decided by the able divine who edits theipap t wa have is our mind's eye—what wotvii;h to rear t „is the" singular notions people have, of what a paper hould bo. Some, if the paper advances an Opinion tha deeirnot exactly square with their own, call the Edito a fool and declare they will not patronize ; him any t ore! We, actually had a subscriber once who stopped Ws paper because we did not give the debates iu Cong M. Nothing short of all the speeches of Benton, Duch nan, Woodbury, IVhight, and the other great and lesser lights of the Democratic party, would transfer his della and a- half or twO dollars into our pockets. To show w int we woulil have to ac-• complish to raisin this man's p tronage, it is only neces sary to state that oven the pap re at Washington Will not publish the debates in Con:great short of sevoudellars and a-halt a column. We often 'aye , complai n ts that our paper contains too many advertisements, yet tha very men that tnake theins complit ntS, would be the loudest in denOuncing 119, if we should refuse to publish an ad vertisetnentifor them. ' The secret of all such complaints 'arises from the fact that subsc r ibers are too apt to ima gine that When they place their names, upon the sub scription books of a country timer, it is thenceforwardd and forever printed for itheir 4:Xi:lesiva benetit. - and that 1 when they stop their yearly contribution to the pockets of the Editor, he's a "gone sncker." anti will starve as sure as fate! fu our short career as an Editor we have offended a great many, and exp l ,iet to offend a great Many more Uwe Edit the " Observer" six years longer, by lel . ling all grumblers that the pap i er. was conducted to suit our own taste, awl not (heirs/ and if- they were so very 1 hard to please, the quicker they settled up the better. We have invariably found that, alth l ough they might show a little spunk at first, they liked us ta ll the better in the end for our independence. - Since the ti' hove was written lowing in oM, of our exchange: point, that' we cannot' refrain article N k:WSPAP mis.—Every subsc , ; printed for his special benefit, it that suits him, it must be sto lug. Souse people look over t and actually complain of the his vicinity havu been so foams previous - week, or so unfortun should have such things in his or not Juit as many subscrib so many difFerent tastes has Is Stories and poetry; another aid clan wants nothing but politick thing smart: another, somethii ecdotas, fun, and frolic; and Ili dery that a man of sense wilt 1 We only wish that every mail, reads a paper, were compelled edit one. They wonld find tha matter as they at first supposed copy. CoNcttcg—THE GOI.O iF the bill which passed the (tot the' 20th to coin tho Gold Doll. Sec. 1. That it shall he lawfi nt the mint nod its branches t the weight of five handrod and dollar coins of the weight o eight•tenths, which coins shall moot accordibg to their nomina Sec. 2. That the above meat in all respect', in conformity wi ulatiug the coinage at the mint, Verse ofl the gold dollar the rag Soc. 3. That in adjusting tl henceforward, the following de weigheshall he not greed in at namely, in the (kohl° eagle; il l one-half of a grain, and in the dollar, one quarter of a grain; large number of pieres lugoth the chief coiner to eV.) treasure to the depositors, tile deviations shall not esceed three penny% double eagles, and ono and a thousand half eagle". ono pone quarter eagles, :old one-half thousand gold dollar+. Sec. 4. That so much of this of twenty dollar and one dollar tie in force until t h e fourth dal• tired and fifty-one. and no long UNION AND HtII.IIONYT IN NE j recent political disaster to the (L I , been pleased to notice on the p reliable portion of the.supporter a disposition to fraternise with in the good cause. This is asp and will be looked upon by the as a precursor of harmony in th that State. - We have • noticed among the Democratic papers secure this desirable end, and work will not stop until every v. is removed. The Albany Argil changes rcinark4: "This and other indication th• Aired, of u disposition among tl racy, to bury their dissentious, ground of principle on Itch thtllll shoulder to shoulder among dm democratic brethren of-the Unio an auspicious' onion in and out ing'harmony in the democratic Tho New York Gl , ihc says OIL We heartily congratutoto the 01)011 the union, harmony anf r exist in our ranks. The threats emu o'er our house," ore dissip in former times, we moot in fra position to harmonize pervade. where discordant plipors existed, landt, ltenssaher, &e., they are dotted, and their subscribers ami' democratic journals. That the acrimony and ill feeling among I ring the recent existing canvass, referred to; but the greater is th Lion, when we know that the on moot is forever removed. Er It strikes is that Florida is wing government and a wliik I not mistaken, also, the wings. of bitterly. because ho was not enoul man to come up to their standar of Florida, with a wing Croveruo had•passed strong resolutions in posed to the proviso. Now Row proviso wings, who were so erg) Gon;Cass's Nicholson letter, to 1 of 'Florida and themselves hold We think it wolud bo an intorost; tency • I U.? In the debate in tho U. 'I railroad. Mr. Clayton, of Delawal antepec Jouto. as one peculiarly hurricanes, and said that the w•o i means "a hell of a blow." Empi Err What has become of the C ' Wu hav'nt leen it for a "month . Gray has'ai cut our acquaintunc. Zoos at Harrieburgh have detsrmi forming a rail road connection ‘l,l TUE.Grazr.Trit's API/lA/LlN—Th e U,,:,, lei apology .4 , its shout of political exultation ever the result of tC pre. fight between f l yer add Sulky iii. i« a very laine'.l•J say, foolish affair. ' Dctiming inch its chinien t , tit , should not consider it worthy of reply, did it not coo l i e i with its stupidity tho usual quantity of falsehood ,4 1 hail always, more or less, characterized the pro4Lii,eti4 the present writing' Editor of that sheet in lefernnelet: paper. The 6,l,,utte commences with th e taeeruel i: "Unlike_ some of our (tho Gazette's ) c etei . eprar '.: and espeeially thi,Erie ( . racerrer, we N o 'G eLe fused to lumber our (its) colums with our of the del.v, of this beastly affair, barely refeiring to it, s t d ititul /.) ti .41 terms of disapproval." Now, this moral Editor dutch weok prcaclies . ,homlies on the morality of prizs E z h e and the next.- who i lin has ascertained that the L , 4: ous bully is a good Whig and his defeated op+ mt4 "Irish locofoco," shouts hosannas e t i•or the mull ka t , very well whim lie erroto the above that it eenteinfl falsehood! If ho did not know it.' 1 1 , 3 should toth o ,l written and published it. So far from tho ..0 4eneei ,, columns being lumbered up "with any of the decut3e, 1 this beastly affair, all — Wo ever published in'refertin t al ' it, was contained in our Joh:graphic dispatches. llutti.r', Gazette whines piteously 'because we took ittiesrat,tl what, it now says, it meant only es fun. If poi m ot Porary was only in fun, he can be a very fuarilf i N t ;i with a very sober face, and on a verr disvistin g `ay I)stt We are willing however, to gire him the beoefil of tha apology—but it certainly' would hav looked me re rately if he had como up to the "scratch" as readily as t h,4 . ferited Sullivan. ' We ore also wiling to.giye hue 6 4 benefit of his astiertion that the Obse veriii '.always ready to snap at small bah." The efilisi ne of our ceteropeet. rtes pen, at the best, arc but "sit all bait,'? and hea l somewhat of a philoalphical, turn, wa are rt - hailL!al fat small favors even. But our cater-- il we have found the fol. ,ivhicti is so much to the rum upending it to this iber thinks the piper is nd of t here , is nothing in sped—it is good for noth ie deaths and marriages, :dicer if but few people in , to ns to get married the 48rts Mate! An editor riper, whether they occur .rs as an editor may have. • to conspit. Ono wants ors all this. The politi- One must have some g sound. Ono likes :til -1 next floor neighbor won lit such stuff in a paper. wonuxu. and child who but one single month to it is not tinito ro> easy, n it 'to be.-I,ircrpool Mer- ut, &c.—The foWwing se of Representatives on - • 1 henceforward to make ;enty dollar gold coins of sixteen grains, and gold twenty-five grains and be legal tenders of pay , values. - 'tined coins shall he tna4e th the existing laws reg , except that on the ro e shall he omitted. Ie tv.iglits of gold co ns lotions how the stun lard v of the single picres,— I • in eagle, and half eagle. tin irter oagle and gold and then in weighing a ,r, whoirdeliverod ftotn nd from the treasurer from the standard wi l iight eights in ono thoutiand h alf pennyweights in'one - weight in one thousand t pennyweight in ono et as regards the coinage .old pieces, shall eontin- I AlureJt eighteen hun- Yon u.—Ever since tho mocratic party, tee have rt of the moro sober and of the Buffalo platform, heir old and tried friends rit that is commendable emocracy of the Union, rooks of their friends in several changes of late f the state calculated to presaue that ,the good imago of former difficulty in noticing ono of these at have recently trans. CI masses of tho &woe ! 0(1 reunite upon the old .v have heretofore stood, qtselves and with 'their hi, will ho regarded as of the elate, of return. ariks. this FUlij - Cet: emoeracy of this Stato, conciliation which now tint; clouds which "low ted, and bnee again, as .rnal concord. A dis the claim state, and such us those in Court voluntarily aban ably transforrod to the o gyps exhibited much tho ." Old Guard" do-. isltbo lamentable to ho tiltca‘nro of reconcilia lise br the undue excite- a whig state, and has a otislaturo. If we are posed Gem Can very h of a " free territory" ; Well, thin whig state and a wig legislature, , vor of slavery, and op. ut oome of our Wilmot lutiltdppy last fall over •Nplain how the whiga ucit opposite opinions. Inr treaties on eonsis- `. Senate on the Pacific o, described the Tehn xposed to storms and d, trarislated literally.. atic et least! • i°velem! Plain Dealer? ; I 'Sundays." We hope hecause. our wiso So. lied to prevent us from It our western frientlS? -ernpi blame us so much after qll for th down. t-ober earnest—Ls er.rlleSt e if use the expretaion, as one of the D, spected Church.. When Toni 11: victorious brawt,'‘va's be not receir< city that is whig all ovor, and gavot jority for Gen. Taylor—mort,like si country, than a victorious bully of a! Did not Gov. Johnston, - rigid on graceful proceeding. appoint a note - Philadelphia,mamed Andrew 11'6 with the rank of Lieut. Colonel' deny this appointment of its whig it condemned or lisped a word of , qfficial approval of prize-figting. A ocrat appainiedsuch a man, how i and howled/over the degeneracy 1 pecially of die 4 .villainotis lecofobo. this appointriient by a &gig goveri article. Wash not very il-tural, u . - cee, that we should think our cotemporary in earnest In reply to the . Grkeitc's parallel between this iitiu. fight and the-MeNiqui weir which wo have - approved, and cont . to approrPe, and will qefond so long as keep outside the walk of die 'Luntic Asylum, we him.' only to say that it is about time, sulfa the whig part!, in elected ono of the' heroes of that war to the presiden t _ that th's President, so elected, is alsi c rut to call to the eb i Place in his cabinet, a senator who voted for the wane to stop Choir whining and complaining. It is it trtiali: - Min that .. the partskor iii, as bad as the thief." ill, -veltig party are alri;ily quarrelling) about. and nill st r u t partake of, the spoils achieved thrhugh the:oer) seiid , red in that war. . Til AtcrEtn. Dom:mt.—Gem Taylor has provedhita• self an artful dodger of perplexing positions. At Pats. burgh two committees o( receptio were appointed to receive him, two sets of toadys and otlico seekers iris ready-to wait upon him—the origi the Taylornes from necussity—huf , ral got to Wheeling he learnt how instead of facing such an array, rin al road, and turned iho enemies a mam Ho showed by this mar face three Mexican hatior:e+, than t burgh onieo sec-Item. We adniiro his COntpqny. I.lloo+ 11011 K. fur :sla frym Herbert,' Holmes,' Simms Grace, Greenwood, Mrs. Halo: Ali , Cho mezzotint mid lino- engritvi pove." "Dustin Cupid." "A but, Fashions:" and the other (wood) roes. Mosif, • Oatilend Galloped. end the " Duller Newspap $3 per aunuin in tbranoc. L. A. i publisher. THE, Cu E WRAii potnlent of the Albany . Express makes the marks about the Vice President elect, v. hit, in that this paper is de l eitledly whiy. in an is somew hat peculiar. 1 '•Tho ollice-seckerc are coming t i n by btu drain driy, Mr. 1). 0. K t.i.t.imu, of tiov, ha a candidate or the f.'eri• , ulate nt Liverpool. A vet y nicsieq_man is this Mr. K. I understand he has beenmennber of Assembly, and that he is a very respeclable country un.rchant, 'IA nothin l g more. It is said he relies upon Mr. Fillincr's aid; that i gentleman being, an old friend of h's— !f this be his chi i ef reliance, I am afraid la. will fail .o obtain he object at his wishes; fur Mr. Fillmore is notoriously without influ ence " hore or elsewhere"—and so he it ill 4 main. ~`l a position will suit the Vic - e President elect all) "cell asp have tho Seiinto go into committoo of the whole and al low hint to retire to the lobby, where be can shirk l all responsibility and smite on every one to iiii i heart'.3 CO. tO ut. , . I. 11 - 01.1TIC&I. Stags.—The fourth of March is al Bands and the political slims can be seen M almost every qtir• ter of the Ifori7.on. One of tlik mod prominent, is the fact' that Johti M. Clayton, 'pl . DelAwaro, has signed his seat in the 'United States Senate, and the lip islaturo of that state have elected I l ona 11r4ir.s. a name with which we are not familiar, to ripply his place, Mr. Clayton is to occupy the first place, the State Depait• ment, in Gen. Taylor's cabinet. This is Siiniticant..— Mr. Chi) ton is the author of the propositiot . .to drop the namo of "whig" and,substitute — that Of "T. can"—a proposition which has been well small portion of the Whig press, and violent, by the mom discreet journals of that party, Taylor should announce, that ho had select ton for Secretary of State, shows that he i tached to the ox•Sexator, and approves of the move ment for another baptism of the party that surrendered to him at Philadelphia. THE LAST CHANCE.-Ily refvenco to iiar adrertixing columns it will be seen that Mr. FLETCHER ba, been compelled, to fulfil engagements, to remain in tirmn s short tint° longer. Those havo who not availed them selves df the opportunity to securollorguareot) re pictures of•theinsolve.e and friei4s, Will do well to call at WC This is tho last chance. 0T The Poet says- - - . - A little nonsenee now and then ls telioltett by tho best of men.'l We have no doubt of it--not the leas, we're one of that kind of men laureolf, and tain'wo relish a little nonsenso occasional ing there aro a " few mono left of the r.ani • world. wohave culled a column of nonie exchugoa, and placod it on our fourth pa are any that don't like it, they may help they'Can. I. 0110 St.SATOII.-8. P. Chase, Esq., fre crat, :has been elected United States Sen , Ite is said to bo an eloquent man and tints lidszr.D.—Somobody hoaxed the Buffo'! telegraphing to it that Major Brown, of died on the morning of the :23d of Apoplexy. : my swore terribly in Flanders" it was'ritn r tho way this subject of telegraphic obiluari, a all hoit ers. when lie read the account of hi. In thti''Express,. So for from being dead, alive and kicking, as we are afraid our Erie prose would have found out had he been in t hood on Sunday morning last. kl N nrary cortann inking Lim az! m r ,I. I w may basal En eilons of his owo er returned from he . °ll e n ei In s bst. e h i : i t r: r 4 i l bd z : e 1111. fight'.. u)dr c.'nfrif'i 1: !he heels of this d,s. nions prize fighter of inew, ono of his AA The Gazette cannot ;overnbr, neither hat lisappeuhatiou of such id yet, had some deco. would havo;muurned f the limes, sod cc. " Upon rho heels of tor, conic the Galette's 'dor ouch circurnstati• final Ta)lontes, epd when the old Gene , matters 4tood, eni nay took the Nation ank * withe . Mtloosini had rath.i i!nts of Pis jif ye Quit that he o rep tno his fn-t,' ,EUME utributiou MEI utkertnac, lERM and other. • The Log g... are Breeze, iffIDE = Igraving,i a \l ' •gann~ 001 pant fa. cr" nro. wk . . 1 id atitl i IA I .'ton CM! ,U110W111,T; ISE .entuneV ylor repubi eceired by ) denounced That Gen. i2d Mr. Clay s wr;rily It• —wo foul we an cc V. rreausn sort" in tr° ; ise from our , e . Jr th (0. 2=ll -soil Demo !tor for ohlo Ott orator Express bc ho ..Engle, If •'onr at omparisoa tq iatheplitited OWII drmue tho ,Major d of the 1:%. TEE