FROM WASHINGTON. Conowdence to the Pita& Led.% - .. WASIMIfiti" Jan."l9 # ifflOr i The threatened suspension of Diplomatic littei comae with Austria, has furnished'an;agreeable prey text tit, the National Intelligeueee . for' attacking), net only General Cass, but all the presses who ventured to condemn the execrable conduct of ' that Allied thirsty lend dastardly power. Sometime ago, When Chevsier Bodiaco, the Russian minister in Wash pprlltd to have been seat to Siberia... { ington was re are pot tibia ethanol all smoke,was pretended at the time—the colonist of the 0 / elligenesr" im 'mediately defended the absent tenet wary. who was the "favorite of the - Washington outs voice, and .an "irreparable Lois" to the societ y f which he was so distinguished an "ornament." . r. de Bodisco be. not returned since, but I treat, for his fasiily's salte,Wat hetasay return: though, as to,his ministerial qualities, no sensible man witicare a straw whether be is 'continued as Russian envoy, or succeeded by 'soma more modest person than himself. Mr. Bodis co wee a meddlesome man, a furious and Illiberal pol fticisn, and bas acted very foolish'', cruelly, and dic tatorially,•in UM case of the heir. of Kosciusko, lately sledded aclinat liable the Suprenaa Court of the U. :AIM" MR dit *lim" has mitigated himself to the soar.•Wu bp by dinners aunt 'parties; he .. elf Into their sympathies; As /and his official dignity, he 'ice with • thousand men in the district. anatoes'Oerold, the Pruisian minister, saillon. This little initigunnt, who loses creep tram his hiding-place, after apeelotionsty spirit has beers stilled in rivers of blood 114 Berlin, alp immediately welcomed back, in the Notional IntelligenCer, with a degree of cordiality, arbieb peeelidsd all doubt of tho alitor's sincerity, baron Garold is an insignificant man as a minister Wade hats rendered the - King of Prussia some.service In watching the German newspapers in this country and stopping them in trunsico on their way to Ger /nasty. Ile, too, is a favorite of Washington socio - I. Now, Mr. - Hubreman, the Austrian relic, is praised r in the Intelngetteer, as a modest unassuming man, whom I presume every man is to love; because he floeonot eat children and flog women hero in Wash ington. Mr. nelson:lan is nevertheless a libeller, in point, of American inatitutions— : -a hireling (for be is not a native of Austria,) in the service of Des potism..and the late Father Confessor of am ll1:7, goal. when the latter consigned daily some fifty or sixty victims to the grave at Lisbon. The British men of-war in the harbor of Lisbon. then. lowered their flags half-maat, in token of their abhorence of the butchery; but Friar Hutson:tan remained as calm and tranquil as he now is during the castignation of his youthful Imperial master, by Gen. Cass. " I have not seen so rainy praisesisestowed in the Intelligen ces oa the other gentleman of the Corps Diploma quo, sad this predilection in, favor of Russia, Prus sia, and Austria,. would retail seem to indicate that having ceased to be the sole rgan of the Whig party it felt disposed to become th , organ of the Holy .1l- Ranee: • An effort is no. making o induce the govern ment to enter into a contrac fur the transportation of the mail acmes the lath us of Panama. It• is to be hoped that Congress will not engage the faith pf the government to a large amount, or for many years to come. Other prospects and other routs will be submitted to Congress, and it will be best not to coatrect with either, till government shall have had a theism to examine them, both as to expedition and security. Meanwhile, the gentlemen from the south 'will lot listen to any plan of constructing a railroad which will connect the two oceans acmes our own Country; because, forsooth, they do not know wheth er the road would not iu ease of separation, favor the teethe/a confederacy over the southern. - Mr. Willett and ?Jr.Foute introduced respectively emit hills, one for the cession, by Texas, of certain lands, claimed by her under the constitutional boon. dary to the United Suites fur fifteen millions of dol lars, and the other for the establishment of territori al governments in California and New Mexico, Dese ret and Jacinte—a new territory—to be made out of Now Mexico, and a portion of Texas, to be ceded by her to the United States for the sum of seven millions fire hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Foote'a bill, it is clear, contained a clause embodying soh atantially the provisions of Mr. Becton's bill, oply that the offer pads by Mr. Foote'a bill' for that por tion of Texas territory which she is asked to cede to the United States is not quite so liberal and gener ous as that made by Mr. Benton. No sooner, there 'tore, had Mr. Benton taken his seat, than Mr. Foote rose and charged the plagiarism on Mr. Benton.— He said, "he never stole himsel f and *eau's( not al tote other. to steal front him." The remainder of his speech; which you will have received b,y =tele graph, was eVially emphatic and terrific. Ile 'char ged treachery to the South on the Senatdr from M is • souri, and at last when Mr. Benton rose and left the Senate, pointed at him with his linger. Nn Senator resa to call Mr. Foote to. order. The scene was painful, then there is an old score between Mr. Ben ton and Mr. Foote; which sooner or later, m ay end in blood, and I aim pained to say, the exaspiration of Senators will not end here. Similar mrarrels are hatched between other Senators, which may end in confusion and terror. I verily believe many Son atortand members go armed, in theSull expectation of witnessing. a bloody government. The excite-, meat is beyond anything that. the peaceful people of Philadelphia can imagine. The South have been so Meth in* habit of Tapering about trifles, that the North is inclined to assimilate the . present excite mint to the past. This', however, is a great mistakd and the country ought to be undeceived about it.— Vile of tke Oldest Afore/tern Senators told me that , twrararitnessed anything of the kind in the his., nary of the country before, and that the excitement 'mediae the Missouri Compromise was a mere hub *, (mutilated to it. • Mr. Cam has prepared his great Wilmont Proviso veech,which he will deliver early next week in the Solute. • It will be a most statesmanlike production reaffirming his Nicholson letter, but furnishing a eastemouat of historical fact, and many additional moons for his determination to oppose the measure. It will filifourteen or fifteen columns of the Union. The Scald° has adjourned over from Thursday till Monday next; conseqbently, I have nothing new to commusicato in regard either to its legislaton or executive proceedings. The call for information in regard to California may not be answemed by the President at 04 but:Mr. Clemens' resolution may nevertheless be discussed for several weeks in the Senate. The real business of the ro t ion will riot commence till April or May. I have little doubt but that scone alterations in the Tariff; without altering the prieciple on which It is established, will be proposed during the session and carried by aporlioriofDemocrati votes at least. There is no doubt but that a River Id harb or *ill be perfected and passed—orovid .d, always,, the pegro question can be settled fist. Thet settled, the tiouth'will hare no objection even for the Lake Ile r -1?or improvements. Onacitvrat. o:7•The Committee for procuring the right of way, for the Buffalo E. State Linettail road, have we learn, in most cases, had reasonable propositions of releases. The prospects appear favorable. A ,teport which we saw recently, of the amount of grading, shows one of the most favorable routes in the country for the construction, and the lecatiun cannot but present the highest prospects fur a great amouflrof business. The survey has been accom plished with commutate skill and with si YeiW , to make it ea of the best roads in the country. There are 4o be angles only at stations; (with one excep tion, ambers there into be a double track,) in the en tire lerigth of the road, so that a full view between the stattoncfross one point to the other will be pre- Baffled, which will entirely preclude any danger of collision. 'The rapidity, which this arrangement will allow,lwitl Noel that of any other road. The grades will likewistobe so light that the expense of roofing will be trilling, compared with that of some . bther roads. ( We hope to see the whole route put under contract in a few weeks.—Frealenia Censor. Oaucox.—The death of ex-President Polk was announced to the legislature on the 21st of Septem- IMOsthereupon the chambers of the tw•o houses were ey :end to be placed in mourning, and both bodies adjourned. The nest day minute guns ware fired, the national flag hung half mast, and a eulogy upon the deceased was pronounced by Gov. Lane.-- The final adjournment of the Legislature took place on the 29th of Eleptember,after a session of seventy six days. From the Ist of May to the close of Sep tember there arrived at awl depArted from the Colum bia River live ships, sixteen barks, thirteen brigs, and three schooners. THINGS AT ILIORWHUOL Coiltrpondasze of due Pinunlininbat Hmtersevae, Jan. 21,185 th 'The two Houses met in Coirrontioa in the . Rope'. sentives Hall, end ctres 3 Ei!ate Treasurer, to seße fotone year (loftiest May. . Glen. Bickel!, die Rent °erotic nominee, received the atoned caw of the party and in addition, Mr. nest, who it seems always soy Ms 'in a msiority. The Whigs adhered to 'Gideon J. Ball, the present incumbent. Gen. Dickell was, etseurse,..olextetl oe, the first ballot, when the Citis fentloti adjourned. Gen. John fd. Bickel!, of Seuylkill county, the Slate Treasurer elect, thilugh well and favorable known in the counties of Scuylkill and Darks, has never.before been in public life. He is a native of the City of Reading, and therefore originally hails from oUld Berks. Ha is at present nearly forty years of age—of a prepossessing appearance—liber• ally educated—and well qualified in every respect, to make an efficient and twitter' officer. No selection could have been more entirely unexcep tionable—for although he has been from youth an ardent and working member of the Democratic party, he has neve% allied oneself with any clique, and will enter the office untratnelled. Mr. Bic ell has tendered to Asa Dimick, Esq., of Susquehasta:county, the peat he so ably ailed under Col. Snow en's and Arnold Plumer's administra tions, that of Cashier of the Treasury. Mr. Dimick was in town a few days ago, but is now absent.—. The tender by Mr. Bickel' was voluntary, and I hope Mr:Ditnick's arrangements will admit of his ac cepting, as he is fully competent, and has hosts of friends, and is an obliging Oficer. To-day, if a stranger had catered the House, ho would have imagined that there was scarcely a par ticle of-banking capital in this good oW common wealth. Nunberless were the petitions and memorials preanted asking and praying for new banks—the strangest of all, is, that alinmt all worn presented by Democrats. Now banks aro asked for in Fayette county, in Pottstown, Montgomery county, and one in Lehigh county. if this latter, county should get a bank, it is to be hoped that it will "do better" than two of its predecessors,-to, wit: the Northampton' Rank and the Lehigh County Dank, swindlers. Mr. Meek, the kndolatigahle representative from Centre, has introduced a bill aiming at the root of a great evil. Its object is to prohibit banks and bro kers frum paying out at their counters, notes of a lose denomination than five dollars, other than Relief notes—any bank, it is provided :by this bill, viola ting its provisions by paying out small notes of other States, or of any State corporation, shall forfeit t9lOOO, for the first offence, half of which is to go to tho informer, and the other half of the Stale; for a second offence, the hauk abet' forfeit its charter, and its affitirs bo wound up. A 4 for the brokers, violating the law, they aro to ho fined X3OO fur the first of fence, and for a second forfeit their charter licence, and pay it fine of etiGO. A bill similar to this was reportedftoua the Bank.Comrnitteo last winter. It was so lite iu the session that it was never reached. Mr. Meek's early movement is intended to effect the passage of the bill.' „ - On the 21st, in the :Senate, on motion of Mr. WALKER, thoitill relating to the purchase by the United States, of a certain banking houso and lot of ground in the town of Erie, to be used as a custom house, was taken up. and passed a aocond and final reading. Mr. DARSIE road in his place and presented to •the chair, a bill to provide for a goirural afetem of banking. Mr. M'CASLIN, a bill - to erect parts of Weill- . ington and Fayette counties into a separate county to bo called Redstone. Mr. LAWRENCE, a bill to erect a new county out of parts of Washington, Fayette, Westmorland and Allegheny, to be called Moitongattela. l , On the 22,1 a message from the Governor was re ceived and read, calling the attention of the Legis lature to several convictions and centonces fur murder in sevcrar counties in the Commonwealth. The first is that ui Bridgett Harmon, who is under sentence in Philadelphia; the second, that of James Hamilton, alias Attlee 'Phackara, in Lancaster, Sant that of Andrew Callaghan, in Wayne cuunty. .in neither case has the Governor i=sued the death war rant, beetuise of certain doubts 'in his mind es to whether they are really guilty of murder in the first degree. On the 23J, in the Senate, the amendments to the Constitutional resolution, relative to the election of Judges, having all been rejected, the question was taken upon the original resolution as it stands upon the files of the Senate, and it passed a second .rea ding by the followine , vote: YttAe—Messrs. erawley, Brooke, Crabb; tUfl ningham,'Pernon, Forsyth, Flatly, Frick, Fulton, Guernsey,-Hatilett, Hughs, Ives, Jones, Konigma cher, Lawrence, Malone, Matthias, &tub lenberg, Packer, Sankey, Savory, Shinier, Sterrett, Streeter, %Volker, Best, 6:peaker-28. NAYS—Messrs. -Darsie, Drum, King-3. In the House, on the 113 d, the bill :to incorporate the Erie county, Cemetry woe taken up and passed. On the 24th. Mr. CORNYN (Judiciary) repor ted Senate bill to authorize the purchasoof the buil ding lately occupied by -the United -States 'Bank branch, at the borough of J? . .rie, for the use of the custom house; which,- on motion of Mr. ItEID, was taken upend passed finally. Mr. REID reported a bill to authorize the county commissioners of Crawford and Erie counties, to run and mark on the ground the bolindary lines of said counties. Awruz. Tam:rimy is'oun Vumann.—A heart-ren tiering occurrence took place herein the early part of this week, which resulted in the death of Alt 6, Brennan. wife of John Brennen, or "Big John Bren nan" as he is familfiarly called by *way of desiyna tion from others of 'the same name. A noise and outcries proceeding from Brennan's house were heard by neighbors frequently during the, afternoon of Sunday fast, and continued on throngh the evening and early part of the night. But as this had been common for years, Brennan having long been addic ted to intemperance and cruelty of his family, they attracted less attention don they would have done but for that cause, Some alarm was however exci ted from a lung contingence of the disturbance and particuliarly by the moans which in the night began to be heard. About 3 c?clock in the m ,wning Mrs. Brennan was obierved to be thrust out et doors with a young child, both in n most &pi irable and suffer ing condition. Some of the neighbors now went to the 'rouse, but were thiven nut in the darkness by Brennan, who they believed to ha ve been armed amid threats, from that desperate.character which he hay been considered to pd-sere, muck intimiated them. On Monday morning Mrs. Brennan was found to ho helpless and covered with bruises fromliend to foot,, many portions of the body and head pounded almost to pumice. She lingered in a state pf great bodily suffering, though of mental insensibility, until -1 o'clock on Tuesday morning, when she expired: Slie left six children—two 4)7 whom were Much injured. one of them has a hole on the top of the head—made as bile says by her father with the fire poker. Brennan was arrested on Monday for "As sault and Bittery" (Mrs. Brennan being then living) andaf:er an examination before Just. Itoot, was com mitted to jail. On Tuesday an inquest was holdover her body, Justice Joslin as Coroner, which rendered a verdict of murder at thel tads of John Brennan, her husband. The unhappy circumstances of Mrs. Brennan in being connected with a husband so bru tal has excited much sympathy for years, and Bren nan has been two or three tittles previously arrested and confined in jail.' Ifer connections are highly respectable, and her untimely and awful death much deplored not only by them but by an excited and in dignant community.--Carbondale Democrat. Tun ['situates AND WBBSTHR AY/AM.—We have already announced by telegraph, that Profes s w Webster had been brought. into the Municipal Court, andttotitied that the Grand Jury had found a bill or true indictment against him, for the wilful murder of Ik. Parkman. The bill contains four counts, Alleging 1116 deed to have been commited at the Medical College in North Grove street, with a hammer, a knife, hands and feet, or by some means to the jury unknown. Dr. IVebster, who was five minuted in the court room, did not appear at all ag itated. Almost every one else ir, the court mitt was affected, snare shedding tears, and It was pe culiarly trying to the clerk, wb had been Webster's i glasstrutte at College. Mrs. Portman, the widow f the victim, is to be spared the pain of testifying at Dr. Webster's trial, as her brother, IL G. Shaw, can positively identify the remains. O:r Mr. Lowder has murdered his wife in Albion N._ 1., and the nutboritiei have 6,000 g? Erit trittliti 01 ern E it I r . SATUROAY MORMNGI QT FOrs oottuin of misivllttooons rending tea k;orth , Pege• • 'Goon.—At a Railroad meeting in Buffalo. on Tuesday °veiling last, which was very numerously alb:aided. res olutions were passed pledging the city .to raise the sum of $5,500000 to effect.e juncture with the Now,York and Erie Railroad. and agio,ooo to build the Stalis Lino Road. Gas. Cass' SP6ICCII.—Tho Speech of Gen. Cass in the Soneto tu l tely on the Wilmot proviso; is pronounced by all his frientls„ , and not view oI his political foes, 'the greatest effort of the kind which over yet emenated from him. 'lt is decidedly too lengthy for our columns, but wo wi I take an oarly occasion'to make copcous trxtracts. IE, WASTSA Gt7ol) I C rcrunc.—Wo invito attention to guerroan advertisement. of Messrs. Sherman Jr" in auothor column. Who wants a good picture? • body who has a good face to make ono from, and the D' Le wisl Eever, taumbor of handsome pictures made -by them 15r! :es daily. wo are nofeure that the number of good ! people in town is more' numerous tkan at any inerca leokin s limo in tho history of Daguorrotyping. This pravio , o tho case, or else these goutlemeu make better El= . thou Ony of their "illustrious predeeesiiorii " em a call, then, no matter whether you aro tanned picture' Give ti or freckled, situb-nosod, &main° or roman, we venture to prontiso you a picture which, if not as "largo as life," will be "twice as natural." OUR PLANK ROADS. T —Wo heartily concur with the Commercial in the views it expresses, this week, in regard to the importance of the speedy completkin of tho proposed Plank Roads to Edenboro, Waterford, and Wattaburgh; and if real estate holders, men who ore anxious to re it their tenements for de/riling and business purposes;_nn I nerer, no neeer, forget wben .4 - porter day" comes, willot come forward voluntarily and contributo their moans o build them, we go, too; for reaching their pockets threehtho proposed subscription by this city au thorities. Tla only objection we havo to it, is that the sums named in the petitions to tho Legislature are alto,- gother too small. We would have our town authorities authorized to takostock enough in each one to build the first ten miles. They could do this, and the mass of our citizens never feel the bonbon. ,It is true that large real estate owners might grumble some; but the people, the "hewers et wood and drawers of water," the mon who delve.. and make the town, would never miss the small addition tr their texts Besides, theca thirty miles of road loading immediatoly into town, would, in acomparative ly short time, bring in a handsomo dividend, and thus, in tho end, reduce their taxes moro than their construc tion raised them for the time being. Let us have the roads built, we say—if nurity individual subscription, by corporal° authority, and corporate money. Ilion misers won't give down voluntarily, nsatto thous i n oluutarily. , Them 's our sentiments. •Tirc Tina Asu QUESTION Sm-rt.co.—The following authoritivo paragraph; as to tho intention of tho NoW York and Erio Railroad conibany to comploto their road to Luke Erio, no moaner how many branch or fattoral roads may be built to connect with tho road from Buffalo east, wo clip from the Now York Courier and Enquirer. It Betties tho question, we think, effoctually as to tilo •tiCOO tlio road will bo completed, and will give now en ergy to thoso engaged on our road East. Nine Yong ltif) Eats RA 141cOAD.—Wo are informed front n scource of unquestionable reliability, that• it is the intention of the Directors of the New York and Erie Railroad to put tho whole of the lino from Hurnelsvillo to Dunkirk under commt, in time for-tho work of grading to commence by the opening of the coming season, with a stipulation that it shall be completed audio runniug or 'der before the 'first of January 11352, the timo limited by the Charter lot its Collloololt To talk of their stopping their work at Ilornolsvillo, and to rely upon other companies to continuo its connex ion with the Lako at or elsowhoro, short of Dunkirk, is to talk nonsense, for tho Company has no power to make any other than that tOrnini, on tho Lako, and however much they desire to soo other routs connecting with theirs, and what over inducement they may hold out for their constrticnOn, 'they ate now resolv ed. as they have been from tho-first, to carry their road to Lake Erie, and preserve to it, the grand Bud leading feature of its stworicrity, .that is—its unity under one management. TIIGIQUID Pao Que.=--The Pormyttanion eays the current rumor at Harrisburgh is that Best was elected Speaker, upon consideration that, at the close of the ses sion, when a now Speaker is to ho chosen, lie will veto for MATIIIAS. of the city. This arranged, JOHNSON sill 'huckster the consequence his position gives him, joi: a full mission abroad, which will be offered to him in Au gust next; which he will accept, and then resign his present position. , whose term expires in Oc tober next, will jdst bo Governor until next January a year, preserving, by this menus, a Whig Governor, by Bxsr's aid, for throe years. giving lain). too, all the ad vantage of position and patronage toward obtaining -a omination and election. Texas as Sue Is—Mr. Benton, in introducing a bill recently, into the Sonata, for the purpose of acqUiring from Texas her claim to a portion of the Territory of New Mexico, stated that she covered sixteen degrees of latitude, and fourteen of longitude. Sho extonds from 26 to 42 degrees of north latitude, end from 69 to 110 of west longitude; that is to say, from four degrees north of St—Louis, and:from the longitudo of western Missouri 'to the summit of the Rock Alountains. Her southetst corner is in the. mouth of the Rio Grande. region of perpetual flowers; herutorthwest corner is near the South Pass in the Rocky Mountains, a region of eternal snow.— She has a gulf frontier of near a thousand miles—a river frontier ou tho Rio Grande (part disputed) of two thou sand miles—an undisputed river frontier of a thousand mites on the Arkansas, about five hundred more on tho Red river, nearly another fivo hundred on tho Sabine frontier, arid au inland frontier of three hundred miles more betwoon tho Red river and tho Arkansas. She has a circuniferonce of elfeve five thousand miles, and a - pet ficial extent of three hundred andfifty thousand squaro miles. Such a state is too largi', eithor for her own wel• Care or that of tho other states. She is IT:go enough to make seven states of the first class, and ought, for her own welfare as well aslhat of the other states, to be re ducod to a reasonable size. Mr, Becton's bill proposes to reduce her, at once, with her consent, into a state of about 150,000 square miles; and, eventually, into two states of about 75,000 square miles each. Tito reduction is prOposed on the principle of leaving all the present population of all the organized *Mies untouched, and ceding tho unseated and wild land to tho United States. FACT AGAINST,ESTIMATIK—Mr. tar's Secretary• of the Treasury, m Philadelphia lawyer, but that he i shoes of Mr. Walker in the Trea coming every• day more apparc looted that, in his recant report, b lad expenditure of old appropriati customs' revenue at the same apparent deficit of $5.828,012 in .1 customs revenue has exceeded hit 000; sinking, therefore, half his dt oats A wonderful statesman is N Tut STATE rEINTINO.--The co tract to 4e the Mil ling of the State. has been given' to rho°. Faun & Co. at sevon coats and six mill. per 1000 ems, for composition, and Boren cents and Nis mills per token for Preet-wprk. We are glad we are net tho fortunate con tractor. for the printer that ogrooa to do_ work that cheap, must either calculate to cheat his journeymen, or rob somebody ohm; and than, oven if euccossful, we are not sure that be would not boss money. GeilD TO flitaa !r.—No are glad to loam that Jokes B. Itougb. the famous Tomperaucto Lectutor. is about to vital Fredonia. 'No proposed.ovont could girt us snot* 'gratification than saimehoplifor oar comm !rotary qfd. Vituttf. Wr publish la another colnoU / i ta Wet both' Wass. var.' the well known Washings oniepontleut oft*" Phildelphia Ledger. This letterhs oteSoeting-*Del be= caw it is late, for have dates ,reaSs Washinglaw much ti t, Aster ut because it reveals the' ' itement : wad laps bare e folly; usy.• the criminalit. of continuing this aim -ending; and world than smile 1 harping. upon tita slave question. This loiter says th excitenhint was ne-, verintense an niw=that the ion eel whleh - rebaltbil ,in th adoption of the Missouri co , jup mime was a mere ill bubbl in compaAaon. We can el believe this, for we have l oot becalm inattentive read f r f tho debates in the Sena o andthellonio, as publish d n the Globe, and we ca tsee.in them that our sons oriel •blood is becom lug nrm. , - But through this cloud thcro is ti broad streakier light which the more wd gazo upou the more wo al convinced is the rain-boo of safety to—not the Unicii . for that wo hold cannot be dissolved—but the ho nor at d integrity of the country. la all the inciting de bates which !taro taken place in tho: anato, we observe that 0 o C1en1014.11 1 .110 FOOLS, thq Sot f rds, tho Hales, and the Phelps, and of er fanatics °idiot, lk. north and south, have Moen tho principle. and in fac . the only actors. Noithcr Clay nor Cass, King nor We star, nor Houston, have taken part hi thorn. This Is odr rain-bow of hope As lon as such mots remain calm s l id immovod, those , t other ontlomen may scold and swa I gar —"torir passion to tatters." In bad, English, and w rap Latin—and we shall ntt despair of the ultimate sett} moat of the ques tion to ho satisfaction of all fair att l reasonable mem As to titration in any event, to whch 60M, "F,OOOl to think tto continent! agitation of this uostion must aqti- I motel,' toad, it is a thing easier talks about then accom plished In the language of an intelligent:cotomporary, GEM FEBRUA RY .2.71E1M Meted ith, ten. Tay. y be a veri paqsable unqualified to fifl the ury dep artment, is be. t. It ivill be reeel. • ineroaring the estima ns, and estimating tho last year. be made nn my next. Already the v estimates by V.,500,. kit before January is Illerredith: XXCITEMENT.4)I4VNIOS. n is a bugaboo, liko the come ross our planot's orbit at som to atoms. Disunion ,is a tug to c crush u 'll by A fow boil handed 'poop! lievod i rolino, but not hold in mu bons that , . L u ons %oat no otweOn 111001.1 out disunion than to put; it is not:a powder magazinoith i v snatch and a spar . of fit trots of powder and r our a tawkos to touch tl o train. end C. groat n la talk country by a sto ty-six b no Guy . I take the lead? What State will set ' lie example? Will IVlassacl watts withdraw. in ohedie l n i ce to Philips and Garrisot ? Not so long as there is ' Sr market for shoes, or hats. .t. woollens. or cottons, in the Southern states. Th no! roes must have clothes, a l Massachusetts wens to make them. Will one of tin, Slave States with dratfro n the Union? What for . a9d whore to? Will i SlaverT to better oil' with a tariff ridainst its products, than un or our present system of Menial free trade? Will the .ottititodities of the North anSouth interchange , more frly and profitably, for a line of custom houee between them? Mon understand .lieso thing... Tho task sheet disunion has no shallow of reality. Simply because.either party has any thing (13 gain by it. ' 1 The d scussion of Wilmot ProviSos ant i disunion is exciting, but harmless . If the Prol)sithnt. and Satiate, / and ropr sontatives were all doing their utmost to divide the Unio 1, it could not bo effected. Ilero stands the Koraton and there ',tan& Allibrun i a; and there is no stretch , of imaginable fully that can divido interests so firmly united. whore at the Annie time +e rights of each em so perfectly guaranteed. While Congress is debating the s avory question, the New States wit settle it, each for its If. Slavevy finds its natural bon dories in climate and circumstancea,,and disunion cant o f make either free Sts ett of those who c i de sire slavery, n r slave States of those which aro destined to be free. T 'ere is no necessity fur excitement or op prehension. ( ongress could nut pmvent l'etinsslva nisi becoming a sla .o State to.merrow, if the people will it; and Congrays could no more prevent N'irginia becoming a free State,if ouch were the will of her sovereign port. ple. In this state of things, where is the use of debate or action in Congress? IVltt can bo the practical benefit of Wilmot Provisos? - Tho, result iu California ought to satisfy the North, and the South .can assuredly find no fault with it. 1 If there were but two States in t h e Union, vo might divide. It can't ho dono with thirty. It is much easier to stay whero we aro thou to form now combinations.— Everybody is too t oad of the power and glory of the Un ion. its conveniences and its advantages. to harbor sober ly the idea of disunion. It is, on impossible abstraction, not to bo rooked by such things as Congressional speech-, es and loading orticqs. lrr We think all of our country friends who have been compelled by hasiness, or otherwise, to visit our town during the past week, have very sensibly/Lil l the impor tance of, and the convenience plank roads . ' Would afford them under similar circumstances; for from till accounts, the roads throughout tho county were never in a worse state than now. We recollect when bad roads, in this country. Wore confined to a few weeks in the spring and fall—when the Merry music of bells was hoard from the middle of Novendher to the middle of 111arcli- I rbut either from a change of climate, caused by the rapid clearing away of our furests, or some other natural phenomena, we have of late years, instead of plenty of snow and good sleighing, alternately a freeze iind a thaw, a snow squall and a rain storm, rendering the roads almost impassible for, at least, ono-third of the year. 'lank roads will ob viste.fins, soil give tho country a communication with the' town at all seasons, and in all weathers.. Build tho main tracks proposed, and the latteral roads will follow. By this moans lands that are now uncultivated will be brought into marker, cleared up and I improved. and thus the wealth and resources of the ceuntpincreased, the Itake:its of taxation more diffused and less onerous, unapt) people in general more prosperous. The following in regard to the VOA(' and utility of Plank Roads, in the State of New York, we copy from the Tribune: FL win ROAPS.-Our State is now addini immensely to her facilities of internal intercourse by in ans of Plank Roads. Utica, Oswego and perhaps Rome:bare hither to taken the lead ia their construction, but they aro fast becoming" all bitt univelrsal. ThMe aro probably not less than One Thousand miles in aggregate extent at present, and aro being rapidly extended. When wiselyilocateo, they pay liberal dividends to their sleek holders, I while their advantages to tho public may thus be elucidated; over the old roads, a teamster, span of horses, and wagon would in "good geing" transport one ton thirty'-five miles per day, at the net average cost of 0,50. In bad, wea ther the lead must be much smaller, or the distance tra versed would be less; on a Plank Ito d, the same team will transport t? tons at least forty mi es per day in all seasons, at a cost, including - tolls. of $35 or less than half -the former expense. New villages aro springing up and old ones renovated by virtue of Plank toads, They form important toe f iers to Railroads, and obviate the stag. nation of business hitherto attendant ,a foul weather. In short, they aro Roads that the poop!, of any section even half settled can make with oat calk if.; on distant cap italists- for aid; they aro constructed of timber not other- Wise valuable, mainly by - labor when it is least needed in other pursuits, and have already aide vastly though rioisrlr sily to the comfort and substanti , I wealth of our people. Success attend thou. 5711 a the lieule Of Representatives, !outlay last, Mr. l'ir.nses, from the co 'as referred the memorial of the Into E itors' Convention' .elating to the publication of tho public taws in - English nd German newspapers, reported adsc self, owing to the mbarrassment of o r , Commonwealth.. nancially; which_ eport wayedoptctt- and yet this same egislaturo has al r\ntdy passed a bill to increase t h ey salit ea of several of frrs.of the Common4alth. The 'e tbarrassment of ), 11 0 Commonwealth " did not stand in' o road then i N . Sir-col Wo are almost tempted to agree with our n ighbor of the Commercial about tAe ”ears." Goon Anvice.—Every Democrat who can afFord it. should at least take one paper. The interest of the press ho should take warmly to heart, and 'should promote its welfare by his own subscription, promptly paid—by its in fluence and his crortions among his friends and neigh bors. It is this sort of support that makes a party press in return. efficient and energetic s anti stitnulates it to' renotrad esertion. Them's our sentito uts.—Easms Ar t"' And oars too, Mr. Argus. And what } is more. evory one wbo talon a paper should pay for It Without grumbling. A. en opponent to the credit system, ionsistoncY. if no thing e lse, ought to stand between him and a balloce the dada sitta atm Editor% Hoot,. 10 111 E, SOBER. SECOND_ P10110U1'."-4111 ea* fo, It is • outdid at adestated lb OP &gotten Itt a day 9v a year; how the whirr. artnagliatair °More and presses. here at the North, denounced wed rid/m*4lb* doetelae Of unontinterrattioiss" as advocated by aim Cassese hiwormiwilid Nichols,* letter. They were all itiMaitS Mout proviso mew s.d althOllgh attl 'meta lurralitgat every breath for aillisothirrsderre-halder fen President. and denouncing the ' , rest of mantled" for doubting. their consistency and 6dslitit,,to free:tarritory. they declared lime and again that nothing short of legis lation could or would prevent oar torriories from bacons ingsslaio states. But a change bas come over the spir it of their dream!—A sober second thought has struck them, or rather Gen. Taylor hai ;done it in a message to Congress, in reply to en inquiry,* to the mintiest of, Ts' Butlor King to California. It (urns out that he was the paid agent of the Government to make Califewtinn Fed eral State; but in this he signally failed. The people re jected ;11r. King, and have prObably returned a Dimocrat to tho Senate. Whothor this - restilt, together „ with the free action of she people in termini a 'State Constitution in which slavery is prohibited, has influenced the tone of this nicssage,,we will not 'undertake to - ray. Those who Ealected Gen. Taylor may decide that point. Hart however, is one plonk in the'platform on' which Presl; dent Taylor stands: 7 "Under tho Constitution every State has the right of eatablishing, sod, from time to time, altering its muni cipal laws and domestic institutions. independently of every other State, and of 1110 General Government, Bull jam only to the propoSitions and go arantees expressly net forth in the Coustitution of the United States. The sub. jeep' thus.loft exclusivelv to the reOpectitig States, were' not designed or expected to beeonto topics of national oration." • . Now, what is this but the much abused and slandered doctrine Of "non-intervention?" But id tliot is not enough hero is "more of the same sort," as the razor strop man says: / t A claim' as been ndvauce by the State of Texas to a very large portion of them 3t populous district of the Territory, commonly design toil by the name New • Mexico. If thecpeoplo of .;' , l et Mexico had formed a plan of a State government for that Territory, as ceded by the, tieaty of Guadalupd Hidalgo, and had been ad mitted by Congress as a Stale, our , constitution would have afforded the means of obtainil an adjustment of the lineation of boundary with Terra by a judicial deci sion. At present, however, no judicial tribulitl has the power of deciding that question; and it remains for Con gress to devise some mode for its , adjustment. Mean while (submit to Congress the question, whether it would be erpedient, before such adjustment, to establish a terri torial gorernment, which, by including the district .so claimed, would practically decide the question adrerselq .. to the Stale of Tetras, or, by excluding it, would decids a iii hcr furor. We agree with tho Pennsylvanian that th's is well. called "politictl quackpry," by the' Union; and ,if it is' not also on iudiroct threat that TAX4OIIc wilt vote the ter; ritorial bill, with the proO l iaa inclusive, if presented for New Mexico', nod if it is not plainly for leaving the whole question to the people—which is the ground of 21011-IX. I • rtZuVENTION—then words are without meaning, and tho truth is lies:liood. Goo. Taylor having thus planted h:lnsolf upon tho true democratic platform of "non-inter vention," we find the whole tribe of whig Editors, who so unscrupulously denounced Gen. Cass for advocating the same, ready and willing to wheel round and swear to its "great wisdom," said that it is the very position they had always occupied. 'From tho-N.N. Courier and En ytirer, and the North American, doivit to the Erie Gazelle, these consistent Editors have all at once discovered great beauty in pros,rostinntion, in order to give the people of the territories a chance to settle "the yexed• question" for themselves. For instance, the Courier cad Enquire I s that aro threaten , unlucky moment, k inmbo Jambe, be- in lins4achtigoite h reverence by the It iel L nitich easier in practice. This t can,bo blown up IThoro aro no thir liainent house, end Who is going to • Cr, ' If the difficulties which now threaten the Union can be avoided by postponement, in order to enable die pun. pie of the territories to adjust this question of slavery so snit themselves, is it not better and wiser to accept that nltertrattve, than to suhret the country to w sclatwat of the agitation which was witnessed on the AdiniSdiOn of Missouri, and perhaps with more fatal consequences? Wo shall begin Jo hallow' with M.irtin Van Buren that tho "sobes-second thought" is of even with whip. "Go ar Mime You Ann Youso."—The juvenile por riou of the "upper tendon" of the city of th l c Spiptiles. LoWell, Mass. appear to have adopted this njunctims as their melte, and aro obeying it iu right dow eattiest.— For instance, the Boston Herald tolls of two'elOpeinents, terminating in, marriage, which came, or rather went on: in that city in ono week lately. The first gay Lothario was John 11. Atkin, aged 19, son of the editor of the Lowell Courier; and his enarnorato, Miss Jane Hoffman, daughter of Oliver I'. Whipple, Egg. the well known powder manufacturer, who is estimated tope worth $150.- 000. The girl is his-only daughter, j very pretty, and ie only 15 years of ago. They,procceded to Nashua, and were married at that place. Editor's "boys" are some among the fair sox—"they aro:''—and generally take afte i r their daddies.—"they do:" "The next customer" was a Mr. Charles Dunbar, of the age of : 19, and his lady.. Miss.Eliae Waugh, dauglitor of John Waugh, a con tracting inachiniat, said to bo worth some $60.000. The girl is only 16, and went with her lover to the villago of Tewksbury in this State where they were married.' and al eat one night, and then retarded to Lowell. WP013 9 5 MPARTURL.—Tho N. Y. Herald pretends to be in posossion of all those delicate reasons that induced Col. Webb to fly into the arms of Hayman just as the Senate was about to convene. The story tells of tho "sale of houses in town and country—the giving of curious diods—appointments for meeting creditent—raising of money—marrying and giving in marriage—and a ♦arie ty of other mattere." The Herald has too muck regard for the proprieties of the press to tell what it know. of the matter. Bennett and Seward are men of se6nod fooling• MAKE A MOTE Of fr.—The Washington correspenden t of tho Buftlto Courier says: "A now item has just come to light hero so that Mr. Fitz Mary Warren of tho Post office Department will hereafte'r have company in his journey of notority. .I,Ls. E. Wu.►nros, late editorof the ‘Vheeling "Va. Gazette, and now Postmaster or that eily,ly appointment by the President—snlary now shown to ho JONATIZAK iViturrcumn, who some yetirs sinco left Fitchburg, Mus..bcovecti tivo days and in griit hurry for parts unknown." NVill the Ciazeitt. make a note' of this, and add it to its article of this week, on •Public Defaulters—Re morals:" • JUST 50. , ---The Detroit Frea Press'says that from 5,- 000 to 20,000 11. H. of pork, in tho hog, daily arrive in that city, by the Central Railroad, from the western part of the State, and adds: "Thus by our great railroad, the farmers of the western part or the, State can sell their produce in the Detroit market, and the cost of transporta tion is not much heavier than to farmers hying a few miles from the city, who aro compelled to bring in their produce by teams over poor roads.", Tni: Hit PA LrAtkEL—Tho discussion in the Senate of tho United' States. on the 10th instant, upon tho pres entation by Mr. Upham, of certain resolutions -of the Legislature of Vermont, was au extretly_ interesting one. The Federalists. now 4a-days. Prat 'a great deal about their love of the Union. Their crluct. during the war of 181;1, did not shim. that they cared to risk much in showing it then. When disscußaing these res olutions. the gallant .larrsnsorr Des'is;lof Mississippi. administered the following keen rebuke to the Northern fanatics: t Harrisburg, ou imittoo, to whom `lf the State of Vermont chooses to send to the Senate of the United States insulting resolutions relative to the sister States, lot the Senators and Itepresebtatives of that State do their duty to them; and, as I Say riething against a sovereign State, l will only say to those "Senator*. that I regret that Vermont hes not e now such constitutional scruples as actuated her in the war of 1812, and that 6AG does not keep her aggressions within her own lioirits, as she did her troops during the war." rfOTECTION WANTED. - 8 0 11P8d111111 ' Mtlei be doh fat the poor Capitalists! and ireongreits does not act soon, the country Wi be ruined. The following . is a proof of it. A recent sale of shawls was adveriised II1Now• York. The accounts of sales as published in the newspaper,. show prices. at $3OO, $3OO, $875. The whole number sold was less than 600, and the whole proceeds $35,000; and as about 200 were little scarfs, sailing. for $5, $6. $lO. the shawls ain't have commanded the prices con. ederably in- the aggregate nearly this whole amount Etemethlrig r amst be done by Congas}, in the *ay of taxes not on cashmere, but upon the iron. ; ctud. Cenci% cloth. Rc., to enable the tuonopoli4le to pay these prices. ALL gelint OF PARAGRAPHS. Er The Citeceirsati big tobacco bill million rr A deep sod keep - disk spossi Er Alt Acre rutin, io%. - the f Ol of seine !'w Wow or bachelor ratloorao." Ahem: sr Lam Tai v.—A palm loot the other day.l asked a young do m got them. 114 replied trinmehautl: a:7 Afiripreqf calico is Dow awl* asaione In phosphate of 'nallsesili. tset with • mmedia QJ'Tho no iutcrvi Taylor re) mankind. 4gr The . the editors intim was 7 feet 2 II rr The erected N‘. _ priest irho was called to adminialei consolation to I; deceased. the said inconsolable John was again murk MP Were we to tusk a hundred men .j who from small ginnings have attained a condition respeetabitty ailluenee. to-what 'they imputed their success in life, general answer would be, 'lt was from being early co y pelted to think for and depend on ourselves.' . 117 The Meunier Ben West. (says the :5'14,0t/is Rept can Jan. 12.) arrived lest night from NewOrlean.‘, two hundred and fifty English emigrants, priucipa Mormons. who it is said are on their wa i l , ' r to the C, ll l Deseret, or. in a more homely phrase. Salt Lake. uSiTstran" Tilt PROMS - L.—A IVOlilkl-b0 proph dowia South, said lately, in one of h a sermoni, that "was aeut to redeem the world and all things, therein Whereupon a native pulled out two Ave dolla l r bills o broken bask, and naked him to fork 'ever the npecie ,i I tr.? A Gopi; SCGGESTON.—A membif of the Misro.ri Legislature. while a "bill for the ben/fit of married So men" was before the House. remarked that he thought ii would be 33 well for the members to be doing aorne• thing for the single ladies, and not trouble thernselreli much about other tnen'e wives. . Ecil eommunkationir corm,: good manners. Punch says that's the reason why editors are No apt to hare -their manners spoiled, they receive from one correspou dent and another such a vast onhatter'of *.evil communi cations!" Punch sets a saw rernarknley well for an Eng lishmen. , Tr We believe it was Goldetnith,lb poet.w he never wrote "fine line which. flying, he couidlatiA to blot"' We fear that Goldsmith never endorsed a note to' teieetd.—Xue Vont Glebe. 02' A Lira Irrissca.-21fr. Thurston, the Oregon d gate in Congress, was in nu. a citizen of Maine I moved from thence to Iowa; the neit year he star with his wife, two children. and an ox.tearn for Ore, driving the team Wine% 20® miles, to tho Coto Weer. IT:7 A dispnte having arisen at an It Tian Court bet a lawyer ftado doctor, as to which should walk first public proceision, it was referred tel the Court too judgment, who gave It in favor of the lawyer, of ground that the rque should always precede the ex Clatter. 07 Joseph Knight. of Marshall. llHills. bought!' w from his brother John Knight. for which he was to $5O. rlo refused to pay. and John o,n ed him. Jo then sent word to his trotter that if he did not send a receipt for the wagon he would 'hold biro. whit. did 'next morning, blowing its broils out with a ball. ifsr A BEDSTEAD FA:IO.--Mr.. A. W. C two T. of 13 1 more, hes invented a f• a to be kept in naoti. n by c work, running eight or ten hours, and lbeing• tatione , top ef a bedstead, will kop the sleepers oaal. 1 1 cumber" during the sit try nights of July and Augu At the South. where ill hest is him:seat(' by must acts, it will be a decide. luxury. 1117 'bops-you will be able to imp , yourig lady while watki g out one ev tended, during a somewhat slippery st ••Whiy pm.," saiddie somewhat beaks IS MOO a aiatance from four' father." confusion. and a protonic' silence. iD''•3euk and $.O shall 6 , per. Be industrious an , 1 ruretlly:thrive. You yo. ' hind the bar-roorn stove, Don't lot your poor Feth , while you hors health ail Tux reading of aay • old well co °clad newspa per, even for the short space at OXD tinentos of a year. brings more sound instruction, and keens ♦ deeps im pression. than would be acquired. probi4ly, at the best school in twelve months. Talk to the l members of a family who reed the papers, and comparie their info lion and intelligence with those who d¢ not. Tb feronce is beyond comparison. • aj*C01:;!-IrItT ALLOW geOtleilatalltella us a story of one of his domestics. Having employed a female servant, ho eat down in the Parlor, the ovo after, to "a civil gamo of whiat" with his wife td couple of neighbors. The ,next morning "my ta t " the help," observed that the "card idaying mai put a stop to, or she should bo obliged to I leave.—she d? approve of the practice, and never allowed it in fa where she lived"'--[Peat, it:::}" That whipping which the Actuni l ieun Consul at praise gave U. B. M. Charge at Limn, for insultin wife, seems to please everybody. Tlto ie gratify - in soma These British •'nobs," or of t tom. refigy i t that they are born to insult the whole world as eouripi of Plubcian nobodies. A genuine En g lish lord is al; a gentleman; but these would-be atl l icles ato no! but elegant blackguards. —_ a' Alai -11 the li _Alton , live emit : nab, do not talk. yet tit them all, they contrive to pronounce goodly um of words. The sheep speaks the Fre4l word for si legs. A bird says whip-poor will; au insect eltYv lti did; arid other animals pronounce words, to soy not of the parrot and magpie, which may be taught oi l eoutances as people are taught to repeet the itioas opinions of their-progenitors. 1 rrLt is more diale4h to snake the eye, be them any er organ we ore pasOessed of: To tell \what a we pay attontion her longue. If you would ( lain whet Rho means, pay attention to *her eye. To in opposition to the heart is ono of (ho, easiest 'thin. the world—to took this opposition, however, is mod{ fire& !hen algebra. Against) say, never believe j ; hates you till you ask l her l ,eyes. tr ;piess year sour, reader, do you know io what loge / afithe world you are living? You are living in an age that set vessels to going by hot water, and carries Hues along wires from ono ond'of the country to the other is leas than no time at all. You live in in age wbcro'aui• mat magnetism has ceased to be a humbug, and the eons of men travel to tho farthest star, and Ming bick report of its inhabitants. You live in an, age whet% all the world is becoming a convert to Democratic princr plea: and it would bo etrange indeed if Americans proved recreant to thoso glorious truths embraced in the —pc o] , equdic creed and expounded by Jeflinsan, .f‘ttlia.lo4l. any a true Americans. Buoh beings the case. eves bad'', must see the advantage Oeutectibing for the Qt'ectr(t' CIE 17 ODD 4,,d bed., liver York 11, 1, "ag al some akelei ) resent whe t .; I . •• Zr. raised , ) , for children by . 1 it will ignite br ite hi id Gei 'rest e on Anir dal bci flume MI roe ; " )ea nine with hc t le of the eidc. kg twain, •I There was nd re shall I I nd you will . • tog youril»e ' 3 Ind go to "Sister keep, d." Work econotaiea► ng man. Mas remember th -r. Mother et d strength. II •tid acd. Lit zott P S Y eph him vhi• sock a on goild new ning hd a I ds . 1: zt ba ,ufn't 41(.3 hi ono' I ,'.sea ong iber ock- s LB