a r of Erie to the decks—this will form the desired connectn thin with the shipping. Acts of the legislation have 'betin •obtained incorpora ting companies to build plank roads from Erie by way of ? Waterford to Meadville, and also by way of -Ldiaboro. from Meadville west to Ilartstown; to bo continued to Warreu in Ohio, and east' to the lumber districts of the Brokenstraw and upper Allegheny. The surveys for this last road are being made, and the respectable sod enterprising gentlemen who have Its management are a sufficient guarantee for it, early completion. A meeting of the commiesioners named in the acts for roads in Erie county will bei held on the 19th,1 of tho present month, rind on the 21st books will bo opened for subscription to the capital stock of the several companies. Gentlemen connected with the proposed ;improvements from Mead ville to Erie have expre sed desires (avertible to a con nection of interests with our road.. The making of the Allegheny navigable fo steamboats from Pittsburg to Olean, and the extension of the West Branch improve ment-4 to the town of Franklin; is not only feasible but .praciricnblz, amid will be effected tit no distant day. Con tracts have been let with the object of having the New York and Erie Railroad opened to Ifornereville in Sep tember next, end ono route, as projected, will extend to Olean on the Allegheny, and:follows for 30 Miles the downward course of this stream,' to a point about midway between Olean and Warren. Surveys have been mado and contracts let for building two plunk roads from the Nonthern pelt of Chantanque °Minty in tire State of New ' Yolk. to lake Erie, from_Clyinee to the harbor of Bares ' lona, and from Jamcstovi nto the harbor of Dunkirk; from the energy shown in their prosecution we may ex pect an early. southern extension to connect with tho Meadville , and Brokenstraw company's road. Thus, what the State lies failed to perform after a boneyexeendi : lure will, in a few years bo effected by private enterprise. TheValleysof the upper Allegheny and its northweetern tributmies will be opened up tothe lakes on tho'north and Weet, the greet rivers on the south, and Ow sea board, nod a ready means of transit ail(' choico of markets of fered to the Agricultural, mineral, and commercial inter ests of Ode part of Penns)lvania. I have the honor to he., Geutlemm, with great respect, year obedient servant, Eric, Jan. 10 185'). WILLIAM MILLAR. THINGS AT HARRISBURG Correl , pondence of the l'enn;vlvanian. I IMUltintlw, Jau. 14, 1650. The Douse to-day passed several bills, none of them, however, are of a veryteneral character, un less we look at them in 11144 way, that any person in this State who is competent and can pull the wires aright, can attain to the, stations named in a couple of them; one' of the bills provides fur the payment of s3uo additional to the Stare Treasurer and to the Auditor General, fur services as commis sioners of the sinking and other funds, and raises the salary of the Surveyor General to $l4OO, and that of the Deputy Secretary', of State to $1200; on this bill quite a spirited conversatien occurred be tween the Whig and Democratic sides of the House. Mr. Porter moved a new taeition p ( foviding fur the appointment of the Auditor and Surveyor Generals fur three years, if they so long behave themselves well, but removable, as all other officers are, at the pleasure of the Governor: thif act not to tape ellct until May -1, 15.70, when the' present terms expire. Jo meting the scetion, - Air. P. referred to the dis pleasure evinced by tho Whir-s when it was discov ered last hinter that the, pre4on-t officers could not be removed, and be only wanted the new Governor, oheever Ire Might be, to make a fair start ohm' he came in. 13 it thu Whigs had no notion of losing the ( ) dices they will gtt,„-when Gen. Purviance and Gen. LaPeite go out. They are too nice, and Pennsylvania do not get at home or at Washington a"great deal. Their doctrine is "hold hn to Dist" there is a clianee , for. They flared up, and the Democrats very goad naturedly killed the “:ietion—hut tiot to hetudit the Whigs- a great - deal; .tor Mr. Cessna has a bill to elect those officers by the people, red front them not much can he expected fur \Vhiggeiv. The other bill pays Judge Gibson, C,:4303: ex- Judge Sergeant, i?,133 33; Mid Judge Bell ti42S9 97 salary, a Inch ass not provided for in appropriation bills of former years. This legislature has set them selves about correcting errors of former ones, it wdeld be swell f o r all to eolue on; two important IMO have already been fixeil Jo suit the parties in tore: 4(0. Mr. Itillinger stNnitted a} resolution, upon which I hope there will bc favorablO action. It is to give the Courts the power to examine and decree divor ces in all cases, and its obj tat is to rid the legisla ture of, the numerous app:ii:Stions made. Here we Lave appliation4, sod tliCir wives remonstrate against divorces f mu their husbands, and all the private relations between them are dragged before tli ore; an eager crowd is in the galleries - tn-driult in the scandal, and;thcn retail in bar-rooms, to another gaping audience, !what has been heard.— It should,be stopped, and Mr. Killinger's object is to do so. In early youth, Some members used to '.. read Sinbad the sailor', and Imindred books, but if the documents in divorce cases Were printed, and mem hers were young again, Si i nbad never would have !wen heard of—these eases Would have taken preco- Cebee of that invaluable woidr. Mr. Iti'Caslin submitted to the Senate a series of resolutions, proposing to refer the amendment to the constitution for the election of Judges -to the Judiciary committee with instructions to divest it of its statutory character, andi reduce it to a simple clause to pro% ide for the election of Judges by the people—that the said Committee be further instruct ed to prepare and submit' to the Senate a clause to be incorporated into the Coustitntinn,_providing for 1 the meetings of the Legisla;ture biennially, or once in two years, and that they Ito limited to sixty days —also, mimiting the action of the LegiSlature to the passage of general laws sink?: and that said laws he bo framed as to authorize t to c murts to supply the deficiency, and confer all ri,zhts, powers and privi • leges of a local character—fixing fifteen to be the highest • number of Representatives from any one county, or city and conn 4, with a corresponding 1 number of Senators and p l otbling for the election of a Lieutenant Governor b time people, to be cho - •1 1 eon at the.time of the Guve nor's election. Mr. McCaslin, in nitrodu ing the above, explained his object. I,e wished to I are it distinctly uriar stood that ho was in favor r I electing Judges by the pcoplo; that be had voted mr that amendment Ima.-st session, and would do so at t his one: but that other reforms were demanded, at d were enumerated in the resolutions. A delay f ono year, in than elec• tion of Judges would do im harm, as amendinents could only he proposed every live years, the oppor--• tunity shold not ha wasted , mmt one, especiilly when so many other reforms were asked for. Mr. Mc- Caslin contended that there . was too much prkate legislation, and some provision should be made to preterit it. - Mr. Streeter feared that Mr. Mc. had been made the instrument, and had fal,en into a trap to defeat the election of Judges by the people. Judges and . &Imo others were those who opposed the measure; and if these resolutions pa 31ed, their tendency was to lost pone sad defeat the other. But Mr. McCus lio diquined having any such object, and stated that he had had no correspondence upon the subject with either judges or their friends. llis only object, was to improve the opportunity Iles amendment. The matter was further debated by nearly all the Senators, when the resolut:ons ware ordered to be I tinted. ATAII.A. llAnatscluto, Jan.ls, Tl.e House to-day passe, some sixty bills, all of a private character. This is working to some pur pose, and if kept up, would 'obviate the necessity for the amendment of Mr. McCaslin to the Constitution, making judges also legislators. , But there is not touch likelihood either of the house working so hard daily, or of the amendment proposed, to give each county a sort of county local legislature, ever be coming part and parcel of the Constitution of Penn sylvania. The Seosto to-day had up these rein:lotions rola ' tiug to amendments to the Constitution, proposed by Mr. Mcesslin, a copy of which I sent you yes terday. Mr. Walker, the new Senator from Erie, diseased the various propositions in detail. Parts of his argument were very no is a fluent and graceful s,yeaker. 1 was.struck with a few of his sentences. Speaking of the third resolution or propo sition to amend by giving courts the jurisdiction to grant local rights, privileges, &cc., end to prohibit the legislature fruit, passing any but general laws, lie thought that the powers of courts, so far as lo cal legislation, should not be Added tn, as at present they were sufficiently Onerous and burdensome; and that we were inane to keep the. courts pure, even though the halls of legislation should become pollu ted. This sounded well, especially from one who j Fermi as a' legislator about the year the Unitoda States' Bank bill psased, and I who really sorry a'. member of the other Hunsei was. not in the Senate thetitle. fatnili3i the hall Of legislation, and some in the' Senate are not entirely unacquainted with it, Mr'. Packer ended the debate for this day, in a "very eloquent address, opposing the whole batch of propositions as calculated to defeat the Amendment providing for the election of judges by' the people, and which ho considered as paramount to all, a measure that has been adopted by some twenty out of thirty States of the Union. SwArmt A. ‘VEDNRSDAY Jan. 16, 1850. The Speaker kid before the tienate n communion ion from the Secretary of the Commonwealth, rola ive to the publication of the resolutions providing or an amendment of the Constitution. Mr. Walker, presented a petition from citizens of Erie county , praying for the passage of a general banking law similar to that of the State of New York; and one from citizens of tho same county, praying for the incorporation of the Canal Bank of Erie. Mr. 13rawley submitted a resolution, that the Sen ate will on Monday next, at the hour of 12, proceed] to the Ilan of the llonse of Representatives, for the purpose of uniting in the election of a State Treas urer; and that a teller be appointed upon the •part of the Senate. The resolution was twice read and agreed to; and Idle Speaker appointed Mr. Brawley teller upon the part of the Senate., . In the House, Mr. Porter, (Judiciary,) a bill to provide for the election of Auditor and Stirveyor General by the people. also, the following,..bili with an amendment; a bill relative to the election of State Librarian; also, the following with a recom mendation that they be negatived:a bill to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, and in cer tain cases providing for trial by jury at the requeA of the partiee, a bill to enable creditors to attach property in the hands of administrators, &c., paSsed 1312, and, a bill in telation to pardons. On the 17th, in the Senate, on motion of Mr. Walker, the bill to incorporate the Erie cemetery in the county of Erie; was taken up, amended, and passetha second and final reading. In the House, on the 18th, Mr. Killinger submit ted the following: Resolved, That the Committee on Banks be re qoes:ted to inquire into the expediency of establish ing a free banking law, on such basis and terms as may conduce to the general advantage, and more equally distribute the privileges of banking among the citizens of the Commonwealth; which after some conversation between Messrs. Killinger and Porter, theleas and nays were demanded, and re sulted, yeas 18; nays 65. PLANK ROAD ItIEKTING. At a meeting of the Commissioners of the Erie and Waterford - , Erie_ and Edinboro, and Erie and Wattsburg Plank Road Companies, held at the Reed House in Erie, January 19th, 1850, agr,!rreeable to public notice given, Joseph M. Sterrett, Esq. was elected to the chair, and James 1) DaAlap was ap pointed Secretary. The following named gentle men uho were appointed Commissioners by the se veral acts of ASsembly, appeared and answered to their names as they were- called, viz: IVm Kelley, M Cnurtright, S Evans, Wilson King, C M Ttbbals and John Galbraith for the Erie end Waterford Road. Joseph II Williams, G Sanford, Jas M Sterrett, W Chester, N W Russel, N M ManlV, Timothy Reed, Joseph 1V Deskins, Wareham Warner, and A NV' Brewster for the Erie and Wat'almrg,Road. Jos. M Sterrett, Al W Caughey, Smith Jackson, John M Warner, .I,l:nes 11 Campbell, Jonathan Bur ling-i m and Wm Campbell for the Erie and Edin boro Road. A mution was made by Mr Kelley, and read as follows, to wit:—ResolVed Ity the:Commis lcsoiers present that the amount to he paid nt the time of subscribing to the Erie end Waterford, Erie and Edinboro, and Erie and Wattsburg Plank Road Companies shall be fixed at one dollar for each share, which was adoptekl. The following named Com missioners were named to open books on Monday the 2lst list., and to keep open the same for live days -in the several places mentioned, and to be assisted by the commissioners named in the several acts of incorporation, viz: leor the EriCand Edinbcro Plank Road Companies, James 11 Campbell and Urialt Haw kins, at the Store of Jackson and Campbell, in the borugh Edenboro; Jonathan Burlingham 8: Robert Dunn, at the store of Lampson & GoTat M'Kean Corners, and. Smith Jackson and M W Caughey at the Reed llonse in Erie. For the Erie and Waterford Plank Road Company Wm Kelley and CM Tibbala at• the Reed House in Erie; Stephen C Lee and John L Way at the house of Stephen C Leo in Greene; and \Vm Judson and Simeon taunt, at the Eagle II otel in the borough of Waterford. For the Erie and Wattsburgh Plank Road Com pany, Walter Chester and A. W. Brewster, at the, Reed House in Erie. N M Manley and N W Rus sell, at the house of N M Manley; and , J %V llaskins and Lyman Robinson, at the house of Lyman Rob limp in Wattsburgh. The meeting was then ad; dressed by Alessrs Reeder, Lampson, Courtright' Chester, King, Brewster, Williams, Warner, Ster rest, Reed. Kelley, Dunlap, Jackson and Campbell' The right interest seemed to he taken by all pre sent, and a confidence expressed that with suitable effort all three of the plank raids might bo comple ted. 4 It was then resolved that the Commissioners of the several companies he requested to meet at the Reed House in Erie on Tuesday the 29th instant at 1 o'clock P. M., to report their progress in subscrip tions of stork tied to transact such other business as they may deem proper. Resolved, That theliroceedings of this meeting ki signed by its Akers, and published in the sever al papers friendly to the proposed improvements. The mooting then adj muted to meet on the 29th lost as above stated. JOSEPH M. STERRETT, Prat. JAmis D. Duster, See:y. !Tun Mvrotox DrimstrATE.—The editor of tho• Cl o Herald gives from personal acquaintance the following account of Mr. Babbitt, the Mormon dele gate to Congres from Deseret; "We are boys together. Naturally bright, intel ligent, and active,' when approaching manhood he e n tered into the Mormon excitement, at the time Kirtland was the P‘ontli , d Land, and Rigdon tta popular advocate of the ditine mission of the Prophet Smith. His early advantages had only been those of this then new country;bot in order to defend Mor monism, so unpopular with all other creedo, study, investigation, reflection, and argument very nem sary. The young.convert soon became a zealous talker, next'an cAhotter. mid then a popular preacher of the doctrines of the Golden Bible. 14e united his fortunes with the persecuted Mormons, and became ' eminent with thew for •his zeal, his talents, and sound judgment. When driven from Nauroo, Mr. Babbitt 'struck his etaltel with his penplo in the Great Basin, and now claims a seat in Congress as a delegate from DeFeret?' • ,LociK our s•on u xi.—Miss Dean has had the,ped or to make p conquest. Her prisoner is the celebrated John Minor Botts, the Virginia politician and gateman, who immortalized himself by sleeping in the seine bed with Captain Tyler, the night after the death of General Harrison, Cap Botts is de termined to follow Julia, and to live in the sunshine of her countenance. Wherever she goes there goes Captain John Minor Butts.; and, the shadows of the twain are inseperable, We arc told • that Jul's, though of opinion that ,Captain Butts is a man of decided gallantry, and a roost excellent fellow, can net mike up her mind to marry him. As long as she can play for two hundre,d and fifty dollars a night it is scearcely worth while to bother her brain about wedlock.—[Sunday Atlas. CALLED TO A MOH= DUTY.—Mr. Isaac B. Dunn a member of the Virginia Houses of Delegates, sent in his resignation on the Bth instant—assigning as his reason Oa obligation resting, upon hint to enter upon the performance of a more imperative duty, to wit, that of !lasting td the rescue of a widow sister, Mrs. White, who has recently been made captive, with her cii!l.l. by cl baud of Apaches or other Indians in new Mexico, wile also killed her husband.—[N. .adverther. tlll3 fir PALVAIILI3...-.A few days since a traveler stepped into a bank, and immediately after his en trance pulled off his hat, coat, and cravat. This doie, he unit a look at the cashier, who was seated in a corner. "calm as a summer morning," and with a commanding shake at the head, said J‘hadrn't you better be gitati Meters teatir heated?" The Tel ler informed him that he was in tho wrong "shop. " "Yolk are in a bank, sir, not barber shop." • "Bank, oh!" ejaculated the stranger, me, the Yielding it was a en.tuvii sneer, FROM WASHINGTON. In the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Cass opened his speech on the subject of the Wilmot Proviso, in which ho reviewed the Constitutional power of Con gress over Territories. His remarks were very an imated. It is said that he delivered this speech pre paratory to the resignaticin hf his seat in the. Sen ate, He drew distinctions between the rights of unlim ited legislation over distant regions which hove no representation. and. the right to organize a Govern ment leaving the details to the people. In the Dis trict of Columbia, Congress has oiclusive jurisdic tion,but there were reasons for that arising out of the situation of the District,. and the nature of the Federal compact. There is I no clause of our Constitution which gives Congress the express power to pass any law respecting slavery in territories. Their authority is derived from various sources—every construction of the Constitution which would give a foreign Legislature jurisdiction, but there were peculiar reasons for that arising out of the situation of the district and the nature of the original federal coin pact. If it were intended to give Congress unlimited power of legislation over territories, it would have been so expressed. , Mr. Cass then entered upon an analysis of the va rious clauses of the Constitution; from which it has been attem pled to derive power over territories. At three o'clock Mr. Cass gave way for the Executive Session. The Senate adjourned before he had con , tuleti.' In the House several message's were received from the pre.sident, one of which related to California. A lengthy discussion ensued relative to the ap pointment of a temporary Door-keeper now, or a continuation of the old one. The President sent a message in answer to the resolution enquiring respecting, the government of California. 'The President says, alter explaining the matter: did not hesitate to express to the people of these territories, that each should, if prepared:to comply with the requisitions of the U. S. Constitution, apply for admission into We. Union; but I did not authorize the establishment of any such Government without the ,consent of Congress; nor did I authorize any Government Agent to• influence the election of ail egates, or control any, Convention in making or mod ifying their - domestic institutions." The Message will be debated to-day. It is stated on good authority that Mr. Wetmore has made a provision to pay the Government $lOO,- 000 of his account, and that he has increased his claims to about $85,000, upon which he will stand a suit. LIGHT: MOM WA'rkut.—llenry M. Payne, of Wor cester, has written n letter to the editor of the Bos ton Chronotype, in defence of his recent extraordiu cry discovery in regard to the decomposition of wa ter, so as to probuco light therefrom'. We copy, on© or two paragra"phs (ruin Mr. Paine's communica tion, "As regards the descomposition of water, the consumption of metal and acith, or high tempera tures of heat, are not absolutely necessary to de liberate the gasses, on the contrary, Professor Page descomposed water some ten years since, by simply turning a crank which communicated motion to he lices revolving between poles of magnets. In 1815 I succeeded in des.composing water rapidly by the agency of magnetic electricity, but was obliged to abandon my experiments because I failed to separate the gasses. In October, HO, I again commenced experimenting, and succeeded, My dwelling was lighted for nino weeks from light produced by the combustion of the gasses made; by galvanic • elec tricity, and the motive.power of a common brass Tight day clock. Free invitations were given to the citizens of this place to witness the app trates'rtind the light, and hundreds availed themselves of the opportunity. In the month of April, 1819, I built a light tower on "Goats Hill," in this city, and removed my appa ratus to it, only - enlarging the driving machinery and its weight, which was 9G lbs. The citizens were freely invited to this tower, and witnessed the decomposition of 'the water, the accumulating of the gasses, and their combustion; the only parts not shown to the visitors being he construction of the electrode's, and the helices. The light continued to bur i in the tower till the pr ,e of September, when pr partitions were mada to, light the Montgomery Ito se, in yotir city, as I ~ had done a store in this city when an explosion oc curred by the carelessness f an assistant, , since which time I have been empl ved in so arranging tht apparatus than an explosion cannot take place. My instrument is now finished, and working, and will soon satisfy your citizens as it has ours, that no d'art& of interested parties can brow-beat or ridi cule the people into a brliof that the present mode of lightning by Carburetted Hydrogen is the only sate and otionontical method. (ymnal , . Pnon`Auxu Iluannit.—We learn from a reliable source that an examination has been going on at Albion during the past week, of Mr. Lowder, residing in the town of Yates, About \l5 miles north of that village, for the supposed murder of his wife. The facts brought to light on the tes timony of do neighbors and daughter of the prison er, show a degree of depravity—of • relentless fiendlike cruelty which it is seldom our lot to re cord. It appeared in evidence that ho had been in the habit for several weeks previous to her death, of treating his wife with the most wanton cruelty as a pastime—had knocked tier down on several oc casions with an axe helve,—would place her repeat edly on the bed, jerk bt from the bed-stead on the floor, and afterbeating her without mercy would replace the bed and 'repeat the tragedy. On one oc casion it was said, that after repeating the transac tion described above several times, ho raised the eel lar,Pechlr threw her into the cellar and kept her•there till running. • The circumstances alter death were, that she went to bed in'ttglial health, and was found dead in the morning. When the coroner's inquest was held 'when the, Dr. MIT, of Albion, took the stomach to his residence, in which was detected on examination a considerable quantity of oxalic acid. It appeared too, that Mr. Lowder had purchased poison n.short time previous to this event, and that a paper of white powder, admitted to be poison by him, had been found in the bed by the daughter.—Lockport Courier. ANNEXATION CON rAmous, SIGNIFICANT MOVE MENTS IN THR 13RITISII WEST INDIES.--OST files Of the-Jamaica Daspatch, received by the Cherokee, as late as 11th ult, breathe nothing but a determin ed spirit of hostility towards the Home Government. Their arguments umind one of the signs and pertents in-this country, just aut-irior to the War of the Re volution. The Despatch of the 10th publishes the American Declaration of. Independence, and pro nounces upon it a warmer eulogy thnn ever the pen of an Englishman wrote before. There is a good deal said, too, about the illustrious Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and other worthies whose heads England - would have given to the block, could she have the power, as well as she had the will, some seventy years ago. The memories of Wallace and Bruce, and Lindsay and Russell are 'also invoked to stir up a feeling among the British people in Jamai ca, that must eventually result in rebellion, Revolu tion, er something, equally uncomfortable for Broth er Bull, on the otncr side of the Atlantic. Verily it is hard work, now a days to keep out his progeny that are knocking at the North and the South, for admission into Uncle Sam's family circle l .-7V. Express. A CuatosiTy.-,The Norristown Register says: Not long since, a cow belonging to Mr, George Myers, near the north-eastern corner of Gwynedd township, had a calf taken from her which had two heads, four forelegs, two bind legs, two tails, and two bodies . , as far back as the hip bones of tlid calf, and even the flesh on the . bind parts was double.— The heads era full size, and precisely marked alike, with white on the front of the head, and a broad strip of white from - Abe under part of the neck to the breast, and, with the exception of two white strips on thetend of each tail, the rest of the calf is red. NEW COUNTERTRIT.-.-We were yesterday shown n new two dollar counterfeit note on, the Farmers• Bank of Harrisburg, dated May 25, 1841, and sign ed R. F. Rambler:, Cashier. Vignette, a woman with tr milking pail and two pows, Bngraving very poor, paper thick, and altogethei not calculated to heel Pint, Ihtette, Wiisturroron, Jan. 22. Erie lUteltill eptriter. ERIE, FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 25 IBA 13.17 We aro reluctantly compollcd to dispense with our usual miscellaneous adoptions this week, in order to give place to the Report of Wu. Altt.t.en, Esq.. Engineer of tho •'Franklin Canal Company, authorized to construct a Railroad to Lnko 1:17 le order to give soma of the petitions for License a legal puVication, wo havo been compelled to issue this number of our paper in advance of our usual publi cation day. ' STATE TIREAMIRY.K.IVO learn from Ilarrisburgh, that )011:1 A. thcatz, Esq.. of ScuOkill, was elected on Monday last. State Treasurer, vice G. J. BALL. Mr. B. was the caucus nominee of tho Democrats. Loss wr Tim Sro= 011E00.1 or FIRE.—Tho steam er Oregon, lying in• the port of Chicago was burnt about four o'clock on the morning of the 16th instant. TIM hull and furniture were saved. lusurance about e 30,000. FIME BAICKING.—Ergo Banking dace not seem to take well in Pennsylvania, oven among tho whige. By re ferencia to our Legislativa proceedings it will be 66011 that a resolution to instruct tho Dank committee to in quire into the expediency of establishing such a system, was voted dorsi, by an overwhelming majority—not half the Whigs in the 'louse voting fur it. This is significant. RILANCC or Tuaux.—Among tho argument, or rath the assertions, says the Prnizmylranian, of those who in dorse the theory of the Secretary of the Treasury, in fa 'MT an: high restrictive tariff on imports, is that which constantly proclaims that wo import enormously more than wo export; that the balance of trada is against us" to an alarming extent; and that there is, therefore, a constant drain upon its, Carr)ing the precious metals out of the country.' Our general readers will bo surprised to learn, that this theory is disproved by the figures of tho Treasury Department itself. Front tha Official Report of the Register of the - Tro asury, recently laid before the Senate, it appears that during the year, ending Juno 30, 1219, the value of imports woe $117,000,000, (omitting fractions,) and the value of exports was $145,000,000, snaking but the difference of two millio i rt between tho exports and imports. When it is considered that these ratites are, to a certain extent, approximate and ar ,bitrary, and are not based on the actual selling price at' !hotne or abroad, it may Ito fairly assumed that oui ex poi ts and imports are about equal. So much for theory against facts and figures: Thom is another feature in the Official Report, which deserves notice. Of the 145,000,000 of our exports, no lees than 111,000,000 con sisted of our agricultural productions! This exemplifies tho preponderance of the industrial interest of the farmer and planter, unassisted by the adventitious aid' f a tariff in their favor. Then, why is this overwhelmingly great interest to be taxed, not to compensate, but to enrich a minor one, by, aid of a tariff!' This is a general view, front the truth of which it is impossible to escape. B. F. BrtowN.—Eor some day; past the whig, Journals have been . g,iving publicity to rumors from IVasliington City calculated to injuriously affect Mr. B. F. Bitew:r. who was the norninto of the Democratic caucus for the office'of Door Keopor of the 'louse of Ropresentativos. We honeyed thorn was some mistake in this matter, and therefore have not heretofore made any allusion to it.— We nro, now strongthoned in this belief by a Ictfer to the Philadelphia Eveniag triton from Washington under date of January 16th. Tho letter says:— The charges against B. P. Brown, Esq., the caucus nominee of the democrats in the f!ouse, for doorkeeper, were circulated rather perinaturely, though not too soon (if Such was the design.) to destroy his prospects fur that office. It is a pity that the mahec of political oppo nents is not oftener turned to nobler purposes, than in de faming end libelling personal honor and integrity. Mr. 8., 1 iindorstand, has returned to Whin, with the proofs a his innoconeo in his possession. Or Counsc.—Tha Erio Msereer of Thos. J. Campbell as Clerk, "is di an awful avant that a Winu alibuld donin Censor. Tho nbovo is another evidence of feels of dissipation. The same nu from which we clip the above, also' umns of tho"eayings and doings" tival," in which the Editor figures This accounts for our cotemporary rather geoinx "what was not to be s , said no such thing. It said the "co thorn froo-soilisin and southern rt the defeat of such a man as Forney' 0, Willard! Willard! we fear the ! take yonr case in hand. POLITICAL AGITATORS. --•There is much truth in an article wo find in the St. Louis fatelligencer, that Blom is a largo class of polticiens, both in and out of Congress, and as well at the North as the South, who sewn iesal ved. at all hazards, to disturb the public harmony; and if their puny efforts can bring about so deplorable a calamity, as the dissolution of the Union, they seem quite determined to effect that result. The intelligences says it has very little patience with mon of this stamp, whether they hail from the North or tho South; whethor they beAbolition ists.Froo-Soilers. Nullifiers or Dis unionists. , They aro, , 1 for the most part, men of second-abilities, who seek, by a greelparado of their patriotisn, and by violence aml denunciatory conduct, to occupy a prominent position in public affairs, to which their talents do not cutitlo them By constantly obtruding their opinions beforo the public, and by an intemperate advocacy of the peculiar veiws which they maintain, they wish to bo regarded as the especislthampions of tho particular creed, dogma, or whim, (perhaps the last is the more appropriate word) which they have adopted. They seek. by a blustering deportment, and by sundry very harmless flourishes of their sabres, to prove themselves worthy to 'hos Field I Marshals, or' Generals of Divisions, when, in fact, they can scarcely go through with the manuol exorcise, and would hardly pass muster as rospectable privates. We could point out a score of those valiant gentlensen, both at tho North and the South, who aro always brim-full of "sound and fury, eignifyitig nothing." They make iittlamatory speeches without number; upon the molten provocation, they threaten that they and their "patriotic (and wo would add gullible,) constituents" will recede from the Union, and-set up business on their "own hook." 'lf they bo Northern men, they drissm of nothing bu; slaves and manacles; if Southern, tIWy cogitate profound ly. upon the iniquities of abolition sm, and stuhlonly break forth into an oloquont tirado, against iho entire North; and forthwith address a chattier to their constit neaSs. telling them that the crisis fiat arrived—that the tint° fur action is at hand, and prob bly advise tho cul ling of a convention forthwith. In eUr judgement. these very inflatnablo gentlemen. aro public nuisances, mend business of the country would gsit on -quite as well, if they wore out of the National Councils. No meas. however simplo or necessary, . can come beforo Cons gross, Outlaws° "fussy" gentlemen do dot cont'ive, in some manner, io drag- into debate their Favorite hobby.— A Clerk or Daorkeepor connot ba t elected, until his voiws upon Slavery are first knowl. Father Mathew is not to receive tho compliment of a soat within tho bar of the Senate, because his opinions of Slavery, in the abstract, do not accord with those of the Hon. Mr. Cle mens and souse other Southern gentlemen. ,Mr. Win throp cannot receive the votes of Mr. Giddings'and other Free Soil whigs because he is unwilling to disfranchise the South. , Wilmot. King & Co. cannot vote for Mr. Cobb, because. forsooth; he lives south of Mason and Dison'a line—while. to cap tho climax, Mr. Venable, and the members from South Carolina, who are said to sneeze every time Calhoun takes snuff'. abandon Mr. Forney. the Democratic nominee fo Clerk, and elect a tohig, bocause to livesin the "sunny south." , Tae CsLtvonms EaIIORITIOL—The whole number of passengore whohavo loft trio various ports of tho Atlantic coast for IFolifornie during the eighteen months. post, is estimated ittNty-three t4oustend, and the number of ves , eels at eight hundred, RAILROADS AND THEIR BENEFITS. The Now York and Erie railroad. it is now pretty well settled, will bo finished through to the Lakes sometime the coming year, 1851. Tho toad (rim this place to Buf falo. connecting with that great thoroughfare at Fredouia, , be finished by that limo, also—giving us a continuous Railroad communication with Buff'alo. Albany, and Bon ton on the one band, and Now York, tho great cummer ciol mart of the Union. ou the other. This mutt can not but be, eiowed by all duxes of our people with un fnixed feelings of gratification. nettle merchant, man ufacturer, and mechanic, it will be of immense, benefit; but to the agriculturalist, wbother engaged in raising grain, or producing stock, butter, cheeseeand the like, its beuefits cannot Ito enumerated—nothing short of ac tual exporionco can demoustrato the utility of such a moans of transportation to this class. What railroads' I are doing for one section of country thoy will du for this. This is et plain proposition that : cannot be doniud. Let us see, then, what tho Now York and Erio road is .. doing for tho farmers of the region of country through which it is already constructed.—The New York Jour nail of Commerce states, "that before thie opening of rail roads to tho Interior from that city. and after the Ilud son river had closod, poultry, venison, butter, eggs, !Mik e and such like commodities were seldom brought to that city from any remote place. Now Ist the reader walk theough Fulton or Washington • Markets, and his eyes will convince hint that, besides travel, railroads contrib. uto essentially to the comforts of city life. In Fulton market, the other day, venison front the interior of Penn eylvanie, mid poultry from the remote counties in New York could be seen, and perhaps can almost any day now, in profuse quantities. Tho poultry is brought, pack ed in large boxes, from tho interior towns: in remote places, where venison 'was once used as COI/101011 food, it is now seldom eaten because of its expensiveness. It is taken to the New York market. Poultry is scarce at Binghamton, and at 0 segot• where this article was a drug, it has"now become too valuable for domestic co/l aurel:lion. Tlfie Erio railroad sweeps all die products of tho farm-houso nod poultry-yard front a large region of country into New - Yolk, and of 'course the producer has tho fillet benefit of the enhanced market price." Tho Farmers of Erie and Chautatique, by the opening of the roads spoken of to . their very doors, as it were, will reap equal advantages with those refered to in thi extract. Buffalo and Erie will at all times otrord them a "home market," for all their produce, regulated of courir by the prico current in New York, They will not VC" compelled, as now, to dispose of, their surplus produce before tho close of navigation, but will have the benofit of Eastern micas at all times and at all seaione. But ;t is not alone in Coe manlier spoken of that railroads benefit the farmer. The following plain statement explains it self: Any UNTAGES 01' ii.A11.110.11/ TRAI•SPOIITATION or Live Srocg.—An intelligent practical farmer frtern Clarke county, Kentucky, recently gave us the following facts, as illustrative of the vast unportanco of Railroads to the Agricultural interests of Kentucky, lie was in Cincinnati at a packing house, during the slnughtering sca , nn, and his attention being attracted by' the excellent condition of a lot of yore lthen being cut up in his presence, he rein:need to the owner that he must have fattened them very near the city, an they had nothing of the feverish and mottled apieetraa :e of hose driven from a distance. -The answer elicited the fart that they had been shipped, the morning before ut 8 o'clock iii a railroad car, alive, .01 miles front the city, and delivered in Cincinnati, eluuglitered, cut and bar relled teriero 10 the neat morning, and the farmer rea , lt to go hothe by the evening- Waite Tho whole cost of transportation was I 1 cents a head for his hoes. num bering 191. Upon inquiry he found that hogs of the sant() weight driven from Kt:Murky a similar distance, lost 14lbs hi gut fat when compared to the lot referred to, and-ad milting that all came safely to market, (a rare occur rence) the cost of driving and toes of weight made a ahf ferrotmce in favor of the Ohio farmer of $1 2i) a head, or ee2ll 41, upon 194 hogs of the veil& of those referred to. _ Our informant then went into a calculation showing conclosively, that to the farmers living in a cactut of tee miles around a central depot, for tho interior and stook growing counties of One State, would save by railroad transportation alone (over driving) u million and a gnar ter of dollars in ten veors—equal to the cost of construct ing the road from ttie point designated to the Ohio river. Let those interested, ponder on these th;zt . f.f , . Such facts arc worth all the peculation and theory- Ulm. wolild bo contained in a (motto, volume.—efooseille Hera/ I. 'Again, railroads enlaitc' 4 O the value of the lands in I r b i eir vicinity, on I thus the agriculturalist is loolefited. 'he Washington Globe, in speaking of a propesed railroad in one of the western States, uses the. following langot:go upon this point: "One consequonco of the ree'd, l if eompleted, will he, to enhance the valuo of land ou each side of it, within four or five 01110 b or more, much beyond the the bum re quired for its completion—scarcely Ices, we would sup, pose, than ten per cc nt. on the /present value: so that furml now worth fifty dollars pee neroovill then be cer tainly worth fifty-five, and so on. Now, we undertake to say that the lands upon each ays tho re-eleetioa racenl!" What 1 bo elected:—/iv- 'the polancholy cf. utter of tho Censor, Contains saran col t 6 "Printet's Fes- oat prominently:— booing double," or i on." Tito Observer Id ming" of "nor- ivalry" "to procure was “divareeful." *Sons" wilt have to sido of our road to Buffido, fOrithe distance spoken of by the Globe, will be enhanced at least from 10 to .20 per cent. it must be so, for it annihilates distance and tirno. It places the farmer in .Etid county in this state on an equality with the farmer in Erio county, N. Y. in the Buffklo market, and transactions that require days now to accomplish,-will then consume but as ninny hours.— Taking this view of the matter,' have our farmers, and our renders goncrally, half realized the importance of this railroad enterprisel—have they ever entered into a cal culation of the benefits the whole community are to de rive from this source, in consequence of the greet impet us it will give to all branches of productive industry? Tho Now York,and Erie road will become th'e - great or tory through which the bulk of the travel from tho groat west to New York will find its way, and Erie will be come the centre, 'the heart, where this trade and travel Lutist accumulate. Iler spacious harbor, land locked and perfectly secure and easy of access in any weather, points unerEngly to this fact, so fur as the Lake trade is concerned. From the south.west .and rho Ohio river above Cincinnati, we shall draw every thing sco%iag an eastern market by means of the contemplated road to Pittsburgh, uniting with the road from that city west, through the interior of Ohio, at or near New Castle,— Ono western connection with Cleveland will give us the benefit of all the western roads, such as the Clove• land and Columbus, the Sandusky and Cincinnati, and severalothers, now in course of co4tructien or survey, intersecting them. Looking, their, at our railroad pros pects thus, it must strike every impartial observer that they ore most flattering, and that Erio is on the eve of taking a start in the race for conititeroial and manufac tury importance which will effeetually.remove from her the stigma of the "sleepy borough." Wo say manu facturing. for with such means of communication with the west and south. there can-be no doubt that capitalists will seek our town as a desirable location for investment in this branch of productive industry. Wherever tiro snort of tho iron horso has awoke the echoes among the hills —wherever its fiery nostrils have emitted its hot breath and startled the lazy dreamer from his Rip Vanwinclo slumber—there has prosperity, enterprise, and industry found a habitation and la home? Gun Er's LADVIt Boos is proMptly before us. It embillished with 1 fine engravings by the best drtists of tho country, among which stands conspicuously, "The nest at home," a domestic scone; 'Our post mistress,' a beautiful-:talco off on female inquisitiveness; 'Cupid among the roses,' a capital picture; a portrait of the pub lisher; 'the Siren.' Among the cLontributurs to thisuum her aro Mrs. Neal, Tuckerman, Otis, Welters, T. S. Ar thur, Edward Everett, Mrs. S. J. Halo, end others of our best writers. Notwithstanding the burst of indig nation sent up by seine of our nokeinporaries, wo !cern that the Lady's Book still continues to prosper and in creases in popularity. Q 3 The Boston Chronotypc is, no more. The editor on Saturday had tho mournful dUty of writing its epitaph. lie says--"lf it had told, leas truth in its life, it would not be lying now in death." That's a fact. ET The Washington Globe says that there have been more than a million of the Gold dollars coined rind issued up to this date. it urges that this coinage should ho in creased to at least five. millions, It also suggests with Imuob truth that two -and-n- half l or a three-cent piece of or , of a mixture of silver end copper, would be au improvement on' our enrreney. (For tho Erie Obwfver 1 CANAL COMMISSIO Itln. En!Ton:—l observo in the col - . 1 delphia Pennsyleaniart, a communi the claims of Mr. Sara C. oven, of I the offico of Canal Commissioner, at . (lon. in October next. I have the - ple acquaintance with Mr. C.. and feel re blo and humble voice in his favor; alt tented to mingle in tit& exciting and politics. However, I have always be trust I ever shall, for the elevation of Iluence, capacity and voracity, to offic Nation—Men whn arolornals and the station to which they ar e e lied, to fill. Such a man I conco r iv; Mr. t plain unassuming Republica i his n affable to all around him; in MO, p in the strictest meaning of th able in his attachment to the great Democratic party of out us an unprecedented reputat , and avowed friend of the lab nits—the inveterato enemy of nopolies—a real working I2omoi person of Mr. Ccorza. Gallant to a representation on our pu4 now presents a good men—"hon should not he disregarded by otht Aud she will not. The Dzrtnocri nia is 10'3 well aware that someth ►able and veteran Democracy of\ nominated, aril Clarion will spt. therhattot-hos, in favor of her 119 jority. Remaining, Mr. Editor, :subscribe mybelf a friend of As we Exerierm—We we 1 when the Telegraph announced TAYLOR i IIaj refused to answer: calling on lam to give the reason ocrats from race and the appoit places We expected it! %Ye Washingtou" would "face itho edification by the Senate. Ile.fr pastime to remove people for "Cr upon to tell the nature of the "c, won't show his hand. Noll, wl To use'the language of the Buff must at once forbid Senators car democratic party had marked ou 'nation of the nominations goner. sent no "factious opposition!' to Tho facts are simply these: A Presidency under a pledge, his o honor; to proscribe no‘man for op ty and capacity" alone, should b lie officers were to be subjected. Burning tho duties of his high MTh indiscriminate, sweeping remove democratic incubont, upon dui] them. The country is, so given' Administration. s:,, Lte, or the democratic re , peelfully calls upon Gen. TAT these removals—in other words fo armitict their democratic friends. ,L ! of the alroointing,,pow , r. knowlvd2 , , of them. And this CI 'Owe: the.hke'eVer before I of the government? And ted too, under the most isolemr; of "no-partyistn" that ever a c, made. "Fellow citizens," sal Kentucky, his confidential frieut. TAYLOR would as soon think of ru cous . as of proscribing men for th An I tho country believed him. , T 111.0 R to the Presidency. Di floc ses of Congress too, and can ident's norninations,,to office. A T Itort. will probably With Mexicana before ho gets Om with th 4ir heads, we say with el Gen. 'l' at.ott's — noititnees come Sharpen up the Senatorial eutilotit to th'sand we will see who rules— Democracy. Trig NY.W lit)l , lA RIOTtItS.-1 he 'trial , of the Pince Rioters, in Now York. is le: ringi the veil fron nu! instigators of that disgraceful • trait, most effect The correspondent of the Penn3ylcaniais. of the lim.li "The testimony of Robert Long, in the Oyer and minor, last evening, was the most important yit ted in tho.case of the Opera House Rioters—for d i off the mask, under which many o ohr Wall street lionaries, Bought to cc:melee! the - isg;aceful part acted in the horrid massacre of the 10th of Mar. M Moses IL Grinnell, Jacob Little, a d Daneau C. P is clearly and indisputably proven, acked the house bullies hired, and paid to .sustain McCready at all ards.' COnviction of course, cannot follow the p , indicted in the face of evidence of ; that character; so thinking, this morning, Williain Gilmer, one • persons on trial for inciting tho riot, was acquitted. others. I presume, will be similorhi disposed of. The roaßtithors of that bloody bisiness, the rich the influential Whig .politicians, were the person , shotild have been indicted and pudished, and that have not been sent up to kcep'company with Nod . line, ou Illackwell's Island, they justly bo attribu the'notorious fact that gold, in G2thon, is always enough to defcht the ends of juatic4; and particule cases of this kind, where political inflnences, in ad arc brought to bear .upon the Mo l d 4'oddess. Sh ct,rual shame, upon the wretched mockery of law justice." Tun WA? OF TUN Wonxn.—An ex Change very and pertinently rays, where a rakish youth goes a friends gather around him in order to restore him padlo'of virtue. Gentleuess and kindness aro Ito, nnocenco and II upon him to win him back agate to it NO one would suspect that 'ho had when a poor, weak, confiding , girl coives the brand of society, and is he the ways of virtue.. The betrayer is and estCeined; but this ruined, heart there is no peace for her on this side ety has no helping hand for her, n voice of forgiveness. These aro cart are unknown of heaven.—There is ay and fearful are the consequences. j A Nunix SIINII.IIENT.—That bold Wm. ALLEN', of Ohio, et the Demoe the last anniversary of the 6th of Ja, unibus, made on eloquent and maste eluded with the following sentiment: The liberty'of the people, the sorer the perpetuity if the Union. Theso c. of the - American Democracy; and th. to fulfil this mission so long as it sta principle's, and upon them alone—und Cations of expediency, and unmoved ins or threats of sectional factions. it.r.rour 01' TILE CENSORS 05 T11k: lIALL —From a strict and Careful i case we find that the fracture was,an .femur, which is known to boa fraelt so that no deformity may result. So on surgery estimates the proportion results under the very best treatmen high as 12-20, and in cases where tl dent or nurses incompetent, it is Mir feet a good cure. In this case it wal bandages were removed by tho nurse the patient in the absence of to his directions, within five flays fro first application. That the persons a the-patient in the capacity of nurses, trying to walk within two weeks, of l tractor°. That the patient also was ed more than once in boxing with.ot fined to his bed. That the principal Iv as welt as physically incompeten Dr. Dull was dismissed within twe, time first called. There cannot be a doubt that any were sufficient to produce the deter dismissal and that by dismissing hi was removed. It is our tirm and de the deformity was caused by circum Pr. Hall had no control), and for wit 3113 mos of the Ph ation adroca larion county, == I suro of it per t i dy to out my ough not at, a of t l it'. E=1"1 n desiroug. :nen of merit v of the Stet. loot drawba y a peat peo Lorin to Le. amen; kind .rfeci genilati I , teaulast, uo nd wei are Gl which has atiou—the • :ma = 03 a i g ch. ping es of the valet and powerful k , 1 present in' lariou is eot SEE little e im rovenrent,. Sort's of the Si;, rty;of due the iodstoi• Eli! er sec ate p ding i-, Clarion. Let hiva: l.) A in thunder-Ito:IC* 1A I . .. r, by ' a increase; ka. your sinccra fr;end, ( 1 r JUSTICE. N) no much surp rf i t,d cr tlay that ?en. reitt. W.. re) , ..1111-, remora; of d..ia• of ‘Viiigs ;n • ,:•a r ie ot r. eit %, 4 fur th EMI oug)t. "Za phyed for TEE ,ndsli a very mud but %rhea c o gets mad the Senato uric:, self re .ut the plaa em—tl.o co lit') s yiow to' dulinistralt I MEI ;dual 110 sake. "II fists to which ediately o. El= officio of preferred a, nd l entand ajerity in tie Se. I for the reas..in a copy of tho ch s a civordinate hr i.oto is euua•.,: Presicknt Jiro, card of, since the his President was d.carnest prof P m - Vidal° for the Mr. CRIITEstri: and adviser, "i g from Vim wlitical oimm i kcrats elected ;rats coutrol iJ I or roicct th: EMEI / !nue „II n,jl ate eircuraat. he is not the btisneaal detrtocrat, N I I ro the Scual nce it has o r i urtui j rfinti , cugh 'vary b.ft nce, tuns= cd to 'otent hm II MI I a me, and a the eace. But I e 11- freru cir•d ever sinned ig betro)ed, s i ncefortli drivel Honored, test =mm , f the grave.. smile of pea. hly moralities deep wrong ii cf I Col cow and gifted r atic celebrat 'nary,• 1815, it ly spbech, as zgni!, ofthe .ustituto the' Oat party will . u S upon i •II ed by the a ke, by the fah!; issicn own temp cares• IMI or Dn.. •tigation o iquo ono difficult to l standard a which dcf 7-20, oth atient is n. 1 1 os impossible . i proof th,' 9 pretend I r. 11. and co' the timo of Wlio were attt l had him occurrenCil known to be s l or boys whil nurse was And last? 15 days Ira •1126(3 Df:g Ibl 111 , j n that h . eh no of the" lily after thel , all respon ' Hied convicti lance, over ,c,h he 0)e1)14