CZ , 1 cult}', was restored; and Evelio:lt Was directed to stand up to receive her sentence. he slowly drew up to her full height, and, grasping the bar for support. upturned her face, the sight of which uthde the venerable judge's • heart beat ash had not douefer many a year . i It was mortally pale ! and her eyes wine prominent And blood shot with awful emotion and despair. That pang crea ture clung to life, 4 ,• . ; 1 An elementary storm had hisome ti m e been gather ing in the outer air; and at th is time_ more and more sombre grew the atmosplierenearer and nearer, drew the threatening tempest—deep and deeper becatne the awe which filled the hearth of an in the vast assem blage. When the formal question was put, "What had she to say why sentence of death ebruld not be passlitil" a voice wee heard In reply —ito ' solemn.- no ma.leaPe• so voluthed that, although neither 'strong, it reached the most distent ear, startled the most abstracted and thrilled the hardest heart. These were the words; 1 "1 have told you lam Innocent; but ye believe me not. The Almighty knows that I have not lied; and at the great judgement day, when we shell all stand In His presence, then will ye know that inn:want bleodle anon your heads. May iltai forgive l .you o as I do now; your taking my life withhut just cause." - • Impressive enough was this of neon, but the efleet was marvellously enhanced, for timidly had the last words been delivered, era three distinct. successive. tremendous peals of thender broke directiver the'buildin. shaking it to its very foundation. Women screamed a n d fainted; men trembled and uttered ejaculations of terror; sod, there was hardly one present who did not, in the depths Of his soul, whatever his lips might aeon, feel at the time a son of concimasuess that the dread artillery , of Heaven was playing in sublime replication to the appeal of the condemned, from the fallibilitylof her fellow-beings, to the unerringtomnisience of O. _Each peal smote the hearts' corevof the hearers, and appeared to be the dread material voice of the Most High, upraised in stern re buke of the blindjudgements of man. Yet more ' so, when the voice of the prisoner herself, with head erect, eyes flashing with unearthly lustre, and hands clasped vehemently together, and raised en high, exclaimed: "The t ery of innocence has reached Heaven; and ye „have heard it answered even now!" , , The judge wept as ho passed the awful sentence of the law on the prisoner. I Most extraordinary was the interest manifested to ob tain a pardon for Eveleen, or rentissio of the sentence. A petition, praying for, at least, a r pricy° on certain. grounds, was signed by the judge hi self, and numbers of the first people of the County, a n forwarded to the Horne Secretary of State. No anew was vouchsafed. Suffice it that Eteveen O'Neill, at he oppoluted hour. (` "Rung and swung In the sight of men, That the law of blood might be mingled." Site behaved with heroic, Christian resignation; and with her dying breath, she protected her entire innocence. Reader--sbo spoke the truth! , lconeturion nex week.) ' I AN Anscortnixo Mottsrea.!The Richmond (V'a ) Times states that On Saturday last Rev: Joel W. Jones, who officisted_4a Methodist Chapel there, in consequence of certain disclosures, piddenly took his depaature; leaving his board and other bills unpaid Rumors from Syracuse, N. Y. where he formerly resi dedled to a call for his credentials, 'but hecould shear none. He was engaged to be married to a ladyl of his congregation ' and it is said that he already has two wives in the State of NeW York. A '"woulf in Sheep's clothing," of the same name, "Joel W. Jones," figured in this city about ten yedrs since. He married a wife here, and afterwards do. Betted her and ivent to Kentucky, where he - married another. His Baltimore wife, we believe, folloived him to his western retreat—had him arrested on the charge of bigamy; and'on conviction he was santen• ; cell to ten year's imprisonment. ' He vatiafterwar a made the subject of Executive clemency, and w a seen in this city about a year since. Whether this IS the ;same Joel W. Jones we are unable to say . [Bolt 'Sun. Feb 6. • TOR FLORIDA Inntsns..We are informed th, intelligence has been,yeceived at the War Depar ment from Florida, stating. that on the 21st of Jan. ary the Commanding General, chiefs of the Semino and Micauskie Indians, and a delegate from the T. I lahassees, which terminated very satisfactorially. The President's' approval of. their 'conduct in sti Tendering the murderers, and his desire for their r , moval west of the Mississippi,. was communical z to them, and they finally expressed their willingne: - to emigrate, and. their determination to use all efi'or to persuade their people to accompany, them. T Western Delegation have also been permitted to 0 ter the nation, in the prosecution of their missto I3owlegs,',with his sub Chiefs, has promised to me the agent, Captain Causey, about the middle of t present month at Caloosahtchie, and inform him the result of their efforts. - :Vat, utriligenrer. DBATU OF AN EgfigreST MHICIC sr.—Pena y Pen who was president of the Itepubl k of Mexico at t ,close of the war with the United States, is dead. ft:was:under his auspcies that the treaty of peac: was made, and. it Wag ,it was ratifie , eller Herrera, the Presidente lect , e fearing popul• indignation and the cables of the Santa Annaist. alumned the respo'psibility of advocating or eingin: it, and 'obtained 04 election of Penn y Pena, as Pres ident, ad interim, by Congress. He was convldere , one of the ablest and best men in Mexico.....fedge . I CONNECTING. THE - TWO 0CEAN3:04.410.9 ' adv ice , from Tampion, eays that the President of the Meal lean Republic has strongly recommenled'Congrese I i, appropriate four millions of dollars, that hi, Lino mill lion annually for }four years, fur the thototigh en + i complete cottinglof a Canal at' Tehuantepec Dila will connect the two oceans together, and make it oi, the most gigantie 'scale, capable of aving a ship 0, 1000 tous float on. its waters. The Legislature a Vera Cruz hal already voted $760,000 as being it quota toivardo Ore grand design. ~ I if it could be accomplished at that cost it would ) no doubt , prove a piofitable project fur the State. i Mexico, however lacks'the enterprise' to ''pogh it , , own advantages, nd the scheme, if undertaken a Rif t will have to b accomplished by some compan • from a more enterprising region, The financial em barrasinenta of thepuvernment.will probably proven the'reccommentlatton from being successful. The Postinaster at New Alexander, Commu bia county, Ohio, ,Offers one hundred dollars fewer to any person whd wilt furnish him with informs tion that will lead to thearrestlaild Conviction ut George Tucker, a Yankee 'pedlar, who, he says feloniously stole ltis Only daughter, a girl 15 near of age, named, Sarah Sane Wright. She is a smal sized girl light ha'urand blue eyes. Tucker has 'le( a wife and two children in distress. We hope th: scamp, as well as the' girl,' may be discovered. (hr'' We reget to announce the audden death of an in wresting child, about two years old, son of Maj. S A. Tonawrr, of this place, at Titusville, on the St inat , He had esseped from under the notice of it friends and got hold of some raw beans, some of whit be had eaten before lie was discovered. Soon afte' he was attacked With spasm' and in about two hour death put en end to his sufferings . Hie remain., were brought tothis place on Saturday and depoelte in the burying ground on the Sabbath.—Craufori Democrat. Swann or ex Aria . °mem—The Homo, Telegraph of 'N I 24th lout anis: ~. . The last mail trent Austin brought the me'anchol intelligence of the death of ‘ientenant H. Neal, o the U. S. Dragoons. He wd*stationed in Hamil ton's' valley. This of fi cer served throughout ,th • Mexican war under Cul. ,Parney, and Was distill guiehed for his fortitude and,courage. lie commit ted suicide by cutting his threat. Insanity ma have caused the fearful deed. Ma. Cst.nottrr.i--The health or Mr. Calhoun, it ti said, is still in a most critical and precarious condi lion, notw,itketanding the announcement in some o the papem 011hicemealeecence. flis physicians, w: hear, regard it as a nlitter eiestremedoubt whethe he will be able to do more than reach home. His re' turn to p r ublic life is regarded as en impossibilit . . notwithstanding which, he has delared to some his political friends that he is determined to addres, thetzenate again, though tut might not survive th! attempt. r —N. Y. Express, 07 1 ' It is amusing to Fee the facility with *hie thewhigjournala "face the music" of the admiui tratiOn organ—albeit the notes most be horrible di_ cordent to some of them. However, lithe ox ism • rth his owner, and the ass his master's crib." Ir r A large amount of Money is said to'hare bee mads'in Baltimore, by the recent speculation in co fee,—One merchant is said to hare cleared $6O 000, whilst others have made proportionally lar4l atuounts, Arrival of the Empire City , WITH 02,000,0e0. [From New York Paper, of Taarbday.) The steamship Empire City arrived at this port at half-past 11 o'clocklast night. • She left Chagrea at 5 o'clock, P. M.,* Saturday. lan. 26th, and-reached Kingston; Jamaica ' on Tues• day, at 2 o'clock, P. M. After taking on board her coals and stores, she sailed for New York on the 80th ult. at about 2 o'clock, P. M. The steam-propeller Chesapeake arrived at Pan ama on the 18th of January, arid was expected to ,leave in a few days for San Francisco.—There were several vessels it Panama, on the 20th ult.A awaiting passengeri fur California. Lying off the port of Chagres, on the afternoon of the 26th of January, were no les. than five mag nificent* ocean.' steamers—the Alabama, Falcon, Cherokee, Severn, R. N., and Empire City. In the vaults of the British company et Cluigres. there was about $BO,OOO, and .1,000,000 in *specie Was soon expected to arrive 'from Panama fur the Severn. taken from Me mines of Copiapo. The Oregon brought to Panama 300 passengers, 0 1,400,000 in gold on her manifest, and more than that amount in the hands of passengers. Among the passengers home in the Oregon were Senators Fremont and Gwin, .Messrs. Wright and Gilbert, Representatives to Congress, Thos. Butler King, Bayard Taylor, (who left at Mazatlan tocome across Mexico,) Francis W. Rice, one of the Edi tors of the Pacific Courier, S. S. Osgood, the artist, J. N. Bowie, U. S. N., Col. Fremont was detained at Panama on account of the sickness of hie wife, and Dr. Gwin. took pas sage in the Falcon, ' Mr. Crane had been seriously poisoned in the bushes about. San' Francisco, but was recovering when Mr. Rice left. A fire at Stockton pn Sunday night, Dec. 93d, destroyed a number of buitdings, with property' val ued at $150,000. • • A murder was committed in a gambling house called the Bella Union on the morning of the 15th of December, by Reuben Withers of New ; York city. •Artuther C. W. Reynolds was the victim.— Withers came into the Bella Union about 4 o'clock in the morning, and taking outt a revolver, ordered several persons who-were sleeping on the billiard and mute tables, to quit the house. Ile fired one or two shots, but no person was injured. Reynolds refused to leave the rooni, and, while standing at the bar, with his back to Withers was stabbed by him in the neck, and died instantly. Three thousand dollars reward bad been offered fur the apprehen sion of Withers, but it was supposed he had ,es coped 16 the andwich Islands. The body of a sailor, named Thomas Brown, was discovered near the road.leading froth San Francisco to the Mis sion, stabbed in 24 places. Mr. J. 'O. Mariner died on the 24th Dec. from the effactaluf an over dose of laudanum. • Mr. Edward Hitchins, aged 25 of Charleston, Mass., was drowned Dec. 25, in attemp ting to save some companions who were capsized in a sail boat, while Phooting, ducks in the harbor. The Oregon met the propeller Hartford, near . Santa Barbara, three days steaming from San Fran-. cisco. She was then 11 months out from Now York. The Edward Everett, of Boston, was at Panama, from San Francisco, -with 160 passengers. Money, was plenty, but everything else scarce. , The greatest distress prevailed at San. Francisi co. Men were actually , perishing for want of the necessaries of l ife, and the most strenuous exertions were making to afford relief. Public meetings were held, and large amounts of money subscribed. One Lrndretl'aitil eighty city lots were sold at auction, yesterday forenoon, by Geo. E. Tyler, for the snug Tittle sum of $68,500. Tim Pr.sesit.—The stormy weather of the last week has!deprived us of much ,information from the, mines. From the little intelligence we have derived from the few miners who have found their way into this city, we are led to conclude that the same in fluences have prevented operations to any extent in the diggings. We are told that those who areliv ing in tents in exposed places have suffered much from the recent southeast storms. The, streams hive risen to a great extent within three or four days, and "a few more of the same sort" we would think would -cut off all commnnication with the minets.:—.[Macer Times, December 2%. Durruansuca tzt 7111 t Mtnus.—By a gentleman who came passenger in the Mint, which left Simon on Saturday last, we learn that a disturbance . has taken place in the mines on the Calaveras, between the Cbllenos hod Americans. - On the night of the 26th, a party of armed lenes numbering some 200, attacked an' American camp at Calaveras diggings, consistina'ofibout 20 persons. Three Americans were killed, three others severely wounded, and some 16-taken;prisorthrs." The Chilenos mad they were • acting under circlets from the authorities, and they ;took the wounded men and prisoners in direction •of Stocton, not 'al lowing their wound's to be dressed. News of the affair had reached Stocton, causing much excitement, and an armed party' of some 12 Americans had - started in pursuit of the offenders.... It was suppsed.rnany more would follow. Our informant, 1n whom . we. have ,the greatest confidence,,is apprehensive that this outrage will be the signal for a general , outbreak between Alfieri cans and - foreigner at the mines.-4.1/11a Cal. ANOTHER ttaW LINE or STEADIRRS BETWEEN PAN AMA AND Smintsrocisco.—A company has already been formed iu San Francisco, and $500,000 sub. 'scribed among the wealthiest merelleeth fur the purpose of 'establishing a new line fl,l pcea n steam ers, to rim between San Francisco and Penman.... It is generally understod. that Howard & Son, of this city, are interested in' this movement. The profits of the new line must be imnienee. STEAK LINES TO TRH SANDWICk ISLANDS' AND Coma.—The project of establishin& steam corn. munication with the Sandwich Islands and China, which. bee been long.mooted, is now seriously dis cussed by the merchant princes of Et Elorsolo. it government aid can be obtained, the line will un doubtedly be in operation before two years. The amount of our tonnage on the Pacific Ocean, and in China trade is now much greater than that of Great Britain, and requirea•the protection which steamers. convertible at all , times into vessels of war, could give. THE CIVIL FUND ver,' Catireama„--.The Fund," as it is called, collected by order of C done! Mason end Brevet Brigadier General Riley:under a claim that they were, ex qfficio, "Governors of Cali- , fornia" (although their Osiris have never yet been sanctioned by, Congress,/ amounts, at this. time, to about $500,000, and has been used, heretofore, in liquidation of the expenses of ther goveanments. It was understaad, during the session of the State Con vended that this "Civil Fund,' held, as it was, by a militarrafficer, would be turned over immediately to the State authorities. lint Gen. Riley declines to do so until he receives orders from the. Secretary of War. In the meanwhile, the members. of ihe Leg islature cannot get their mileage, and the treasury is without a dollar to pay ihe necessary expenses of the government established by the people. 11, Tunic WINDING Wet:—The Southern papers continue to chrunicle.the journeyings of Mrs. Nia gara Miller, the lady supposed to have fallen over the falls, but whose fall WWI in fact only from virtue. The Lynchburg Republican, reports her visit to that place, on !which occasion ohe behaved with .per fect san g f roid, find told Olt hotel keeper lie need'not trouble /dwell' about her affairs • and those of *the teciabeo,-Mr. Baker, or they were only accountable to Major Miller. She carried with a high hand; but the paratnour war dreadfully down in the mouth, having probably heard that the lady's husband was on their track. Major Miller is said to be a "crack" ahot,'and a friend of hisovlio is' staying at one of our hotels, stated the other day, that it was rally certain the Major would put a bullet through Mr. Baker, sooner or later. Rather a melancholy pros pect for a ;ming man of weak nerves. TEE COLORED RACE WOIN'T no TIBER appears that negroea are not generally well disposed to are: sideace in California, even with liberty ass cOmpan ion. The Galvestion Cioitlate says: Ifthe question whether there shall be slavery. in California, were left to the derbies themselves, there would be "none . of it," or free negroes either. Major Dalton, of this city, tookout a servant with him, with the understanding that he was to be free after serving his master there a short time; but the boy finding that region to 'be the antipodes of "the' place where the good deities go," ass glad to get back to Texas and Slavery. He looks upon "involuntary Bervi tode" in Texas at preferable by far to the life led in the mines, either by:whites or blacks. . trite 1)11.1114, E It I E: SATURDAY MORNING, FEU Q? ; We re-insert thieweek our proclamation of war 1,1 upon those in arrears, for fear some d ;loot see it before . We are pleased to say that a good map took the hint rind came in. paid up meantime. and oncluded a treaty ofamity and Intercourse for the ye to come. May therrshadowi never grow We. - - - , PLANK ROAD PROSITS,4Iere is Another feet demon strating the profitis of planlrrottds. •.'Fhe Clevelanders are building one of theseroads,to Wil; i nghby. a distance Of thirteen miles. Five miles are co pleted. and •the tolls from these five miles are sufficient to pay the • inter est on the whole emu required to build the entire toad. So say* the- Trus Democrat; 117 Oni,Legislatnre has!been buiail; engaged for the last eight or ten days in legislating for tbe Reading Rail road and ,other Companies. But very littlle public busi ness has beeri transacted so far. The elective Judiciary hill was called np in the House on Sat 'rday and warmly discussed. A number of amendments ere offered} but all voted down. t. Sra►we Snow.—The Gazettetaql apeeett,hicause it la too long. We ha when that paper never found nny thin the great "Compromiser" for be cola •great change going on in the public Mr We learn from the Gazetts that rectors of the Pittsburgh and Erie Rnd the Reed House on Monday last. and —Chas. M. Reed, (President.) M. Co Kelley, Samos Williams, A. W. Brew lister. (Secretary.) C. M'Spatren. John A. Tracy. P. Metcalf, John M' Vincent, Smith Jackson. I SIVE Lk BACIATELLE.—Oar alaw-11124-1/070ES3* cyltem porary of the Gazette, in speaking of the e . ompletion of the Now York and Erio Railroad. ventured to intimate. last week, that, owing "to the inadequacy of Dunkirk harbor." the road would ultimately have to terminate here. Upon this intimation. the Fredonia Censor tautly replies—. "We aro willing that the people of Erie should Com fort themselves with such pleasing anticpatiOns. but we have reasons for believing that their expectations will not be realized." Hurrah! her's a chance fora row! Give him a l lick back, Ira! We'll etand to your back, in this quarrel. You won't, hey! 'Dumb as as oyster, are you! Well, we are bound to have a Mile fun at any rate. •If the Censor hod leveled its "grey goose quill" at the Editor of the Gazette. instead of "the people of Erie," we conld'nt have "mixed in," bat .as it is we are bound to "raise a mass or spile." ThaVerator evidently thinks that this r est thoroughfare, the New York and Erie toad. will t rml nate at that stupendous city—making a depot, we pre sume, of Risteyta front yard, and an engine-house of one of that gentleman's empty garden-seed boxes. We have. also, heard it hinted that the-opinion is very prevalent in the same locality that the Directors of the BOilidik 'and State Line road will find it useless to extend their' road farther west than the same point. is it is presumed that, theism'', rays do not extend beyond the west line of the ,town 'of Pomfret, consequently the vast amount of west ern produce seeking an eastern market. of which the said Directors have heard so much about. Is all neon shins! By the by, is'nt it truly torten+ for New York that Fredonia is'nt located on the Hudson. Had it been. that magnificent river woOldint have been alleged to rim down NW Great piece. that Fredonia—sttipendons pima! Homebody will have to make it a donatien of hoop.poles or diaper. we don's knew which. • • WHERE &S THEIR THUNDER!, ' Northern whigery!—Wilinot provis. ' ishigerythat 1.1 1 kind of whigery which. with one brio chmcnuCe4.o l 6, Cass Democracy as "dough-faces." an , withihe next. hurrahed for Taylor; a Lpuisana planter with three lion; dred negrOeii, has had to show its hand In teazles on this SO* slavery question, and the reSult is just as predicted it would be—hey. hive SuCeninbedio thelie heats of their'masters. and are novas completely the ear sante of the President as any of his Isroolly-heads In Louisiana. Last week a vote was taken On the !Piton - ing resolution introduced by Mr. Root, f Ohim— ' Resolved, That the committee on terra ed to report to the House, with littin Cable, a bill or bil:s providing for a territi or governments fer'all that part of the tt the:United fdtates by Mexico by the treat Hidalgo', lying eastward of California, slaver" thereat. . On this : resolution Mr. Root dematid tpiestion, and Mr. Havalson movedlii la ou the table. In anstrer . ..._. _.,.,,,, to withdraw the motion to lay the reiol. ion on th • table. Mr. Haralson laid "hie ob)ettiu the motion he had sitb , mined was to ascertain what the disposi t i on or the House was as to acting'On this sub's:M. Hii o n desire was to dispose or Oa the mosisunniniry way possibie." - ' The vote was then talon and the resolution laid on the : table bra vote of 105 to 79. Fourteen higs 'from the Northern hates voted in favor of laying the resolution. Wilmot proviso and all, on the table, iv ere it will pro bably remain threllgh the rest of the seashin. as there are Northern Taylor Whigs and Soothers. Anti-Proviso men enough to keep it there. " I , Whore is the thunders of the Gazette, the organ par nee/lance; of Wilmot provisoiatn in this section of the political vinyard! We have some faint recollection that spots, a previous occasion—when the three million bill came back from the Senate. ow the fast day of the session. shorn of the "proviso. and JUdge Thompson voted for it in that shape,-,that this same paper which is now as dumb man oyster. denounced him, and those of his colleagues who voted with him. In the most unmeasured terms as traitors to freedom. and enemies to the! north. If "we mistake pot. it had their names put in staring capitals, and surrounded with black lines—we are confident one of our catemporaries did, and we think is was the Gaulle. At any rate. that paper has never ceased to harp span the Judge's vote upon that occasion. Why then is it silent now? Why not direct its thunders at these /MUM whigis,-theta fourteen "traitors to the north 'and free. dam." Why so' silent when this "great principle of knetan freedom" has been consigned to the tomb of the Caviled! by the hands of Northern whigs--of Northern "dough-faces." Aye. the times have changed—the horn. brig has had its day—it has accomplished the object of its creation. and placed a southern whit. an extensive sieve-holder. in the Presidential chair, and these once loquacious gentlemen have become suddenly struck with politicatdambaess. Their conscience hes been greased with pelitiesl spoils. and it no longer viands rigid end immoveable.' but is as pliable as wax. and slipery as nit But, *aye an apologist—. • - ' • - "That "vote. so far as Northern Whig Ire concerned, meant nothing more dire the expreitsion of 'ad,eilre to forego agitation and to conform to the policy of sion-aa- Con reccommended by the President.. Japeshwithpos. itiveneas, because I hive the personal asseraaie of some of the members. who sustained the motion to ley on the table. that lithe South will insist on the establishment of territorial governments. it most expect te take them with the proviso, if their votes can effect such a resnit,"l Humbug upon humbug! Instead of coming out like &meat men, remarks the Basle Courier. and staling as the democrat representatives did, ,that they contd not vote for the Wilmot Preirise because they,kelleved it 'is. espediest. If not unconstitationil. Matte . Taylor Whig. vete it down. and IR the nest moment proclaim their be. lief in. andattahcment to. Mat measure! This Is what we call the very essence of "deugh-fisceimil." with a right strong infusion of hypocrisy. TiSeee,men will do the very same thing over. a hundradlinies ifnecessarY. white Gen. TeICLOR sits An the Executive chair" and die: penises the patronage of the governmentt I:previa' the Wilmot Proviso from ever coming before hint, when hi ivill‘be compelled to take the rosponaibili y\ \, ol approving or vetoing it. TILIDGOLD DOLLAR. vs. THE PAPFR DOLLAR. o,olVit In lookingover the prociedings of Mir Legislature, the other day. we were forcibly struck with the multitude. of petitions pouring in upon the Speaker's table. for the creation of new faulting facilities.' It appeared though the advocates of this kind of Legislation. had, Sc. cording to previous concerted action..determined to carry their point. if untiring exertion and incessant clamor could effect it. Amid ell the mum of petition, of this, charac ter, however. which the representatives were charged with preienting. but few. comparatively, sake for a Gonad! system of Banking, the least objectionable sys um yet de►ired for, the manufacture of the paper dollar. Isolated institutions 'appear to be the rage. The petition er', don't appear to have found out that the people much prefer paper rfollare that are secured. to such trash as the Susquehanne. and the likey s and would not even object, to the gold dollar., were. they a little more plenti ful. as they ought to be. Up to this date there have been coined and issued a million or more of this beautiful coin, and in One opinion there ought to be issued. without any postponement 'ovens.. not less than five millions. find as many millions more as would be necessary to effect the purpose of the law of Congress providing for them— the subatitulion of gold dollars for paper—for that paper With which this country. not mach to 'the c r edit of its policy as respects the currency. has been so long vexed and Mraded and &bided. Any 16, 1650. We have not the least doubt, says the Washington Globe, in speaking of the compaietive advantages of the Gold and the Paper Dollar, that since the lane of paper dollars was first permitted, every dollar of them—losies, casualties of all kinds, depreciation, bank explosions and Mores Included—has cost the people at least two dollars. And we have not a doubt either, that leaving out of view all failures, doe., it costs not less than tea per cent. per annum to keep one-dollar notes In circulation—costs the people, not the banks, for these take care to have their paper circulated at the expense of others. All one-dollar notes when they get away from the neighborhood of the bank that issued them, are at a discount—from one to ten per cent. if the bank is regarded as undoubtedly sol vent. and much more if there is any doubt about the matter. Who pays this? The people, of course; and they have been paying for the last (tiny years a heavy an nual tax for the privilege of using the moat precarious. most valueless, and most unsubstantial currency that ever the ingenuity of one portion of , the community has im posed upon the credulity of another petition of it. And not the least remarkable feature in this most remarkable state of things is, that the ingenious men who have so successfully persuaded us that there is nothing like paper, (as the tountr said about loather, which he thought the peat mated/dyer fortifying a town,) do not, at the most, emitted ono in five hundred. so that all the tiMe. we have been using paper dollars and paying a moat enormous tai for the use of them, it has been done thht no more than one five-hundredth part of the community should bo benefited thereby. But why has the country submitted so long_ to this state of things? There are several reasons for it. Pa per is light. easy to carry, and convenient, and the paper dollar, when well engraved, (as all bank notes are now.) has a very ad captandum appearance. and the promise to pay is so legible and so well executed, that nobody is disposed to suspect a fraud, and so everybody takes it, and everybody loses by it. There is in this hountry, too, or rather has been, a powerful bank lanened, which has been opposed, for-very obvious reatioui. to gild and silver as a circulating medium; and those intereste d in main taining the paper Currency have managed soladroitly as to make the country belieie that between credit and bank paper there is nn indissoluble union—that the firs t cannot exist without the last, and that withoutlboth, there cannot bo much progress or much prosperity the whole of which proposition is a fallacy, so far 63 the, indispon siblenees of bank paper is assumed. Credit is necessa ry in a comnierclal country—a healthy hmoudt of it; but if there is too much and too free a use made of It, then it produces a state of thing infinitely worse than any that could exist without it—witness our periodical bank and commercial crises which have from time to time embar raised and afflicted the . country, and would have ruined it, could such a country bo ruined. And this has been the work of the paper currency, not of gold and silver. .nblish Mr Clay's ye seen the time .100 long" from 1 1 no. There is a r. ind." evidently. election for Di oad wan held at •suited as follows: rtright, William_ er. David tie. C. Marshall, lure, Jr., D. 11, Everybody is pleased with the gold dollar. We believe. It Is a ,beautiftilsoin—emall of mune, smaller, than the half dime. and need not be 'rnietaken for it even in the dark Or by a blind man. This was one of the Orgurnents againat it, and like alt the rest, it is of no weight. Let the dollar have but a fait' chance:and we aball soon have an excellent currency. which will be approved of b) the country; and when the people get accustomed to it. there is no danger that it win ever be supplanted by paper again. mriee be initruct delay as practi- Mrial government erritorr ceded to ty of Vrondaloope land prohibiting IX Tilt F/ICl•D.—The.Democracy of Bedford 'held a county convention on the 4th, and among , other 'resolu tions. adopted one declaring Rom Janes Bocuaaaa. and Judge J. 8. lit.acz, their choice for President and Gov ernor, In 1851 and '52, In obedinee to these resolutions. we see our friend Buternart i , of the Gazette, has un- Nrled the 'lames of these gentlemen from the mast head of hispaper. and outereJ intortho contest with his usual spirit.. We think, so far as the Presidency is concerned, it is entirely too early to Agitate the claims-of candidates for the honor of the nomination. Lot the people have a little reet r -repose for a year . or eighteen months will hurt the prospects of no one —and thou therWill pull off their coats and go to work in earnest. .Bes ides, the present agitation must be settled beforewo can tell who to nom inate! The North must not stand arrayed against the South, nor , the South against the Ncirthi-but union, ha - mony and good Fooling must pervade Our entire , party. Then we can nominate a man who Wall poll our .entire and unilivided strength, and victory will crown our efforts. As to the nomination for Governor, nothing of this kind calls upon As to delay agitation. and we shall; conse quenly, at all proper tunes be found advcicating the claims of Junes &Len, to the Gubernatorial chair of Peonsvi. ed the pretlehe the 'resolution __LeLime =I Tee Ppm° Lanes.—Several Propositions have-been submitted to Congress the present 'mina. by different gentlemen. to give a cattalo amount of the public domain to actual settlers. One honorable senator In urging, the measure. estimated that there were iu the cities of the North and,in the cities of the Union "millions of people *pendant orlon the charities of the country—living miserably and dependant en their daily begging for their subsistence." This is certainty rather too liberal an es- Innate for this country. nevertheless therenro thousands who are now steeped in poverty. and drink the bitter dregs of misery in closely populated cities and' districts. w h o would, did the government hold oat tho indlicoment of a free hoMestead in the boundless west, emigrate and become valuable and useful citizens. Free-homesteads is the right kind of free-soil, and our statesmen Will serve their country, humanity, and their God, much Mere ef fectually in giving them to 'a free people, than in dis cussing useless attractions which, if they do not endan ger the Union. create diesention, heart-burning a ml sectional jealousy. Giro us free farms for the people. free-schools for their children; and we shall always have $ free-government. Freedom of the nubile had. to ae-• peat seders, io limited' quantities,' is one of the greet, Thoughts of this progressive age. It is a c eorioaa Thosght. too, and destined to bring joy and gladness to the bearth-stones of thousands now treading ttte busy peony of life. besides millions yet unborn. Give to the landless a homestead in fee simple, as long'as he Unlit. but surround it with such reservations that he can nei ther divest himself nor family of the tide to the 1 8hylocks that are always to be found' in the Community. Give them the land.not their creditors—and olandAolthe landless,* will be a iadity and not a fiction, 11 1 , tangible fact, sad not a dream of the entbaiiaat t Lase/Arm Cumuli ELscrws.—The election for Mayor. Cannelle and other municipal officers. , was held in •Lancaster on Tuesday. and resulted in the triumph of the regular. Democratic ticket. by a majority 4)1414. over an indepeadant—or "Now Market"—ticket. Mica est Cearsemri. Esq.. was re-elected Mayor, without opposition._Tbe contest was for Conneihk and the vote poUedlor th respective tickets. was as followst.4l,egn• ler Pemeeratie. 602; Independent. 410. azron'T ..,OF THE FRANKLIN CANAL COMPANY. To do llookorablo tho,Senatoaadjliouso of Ropreleato- tiros of the Coninto,wealth Peteruykania in General 4issernblp eta The President and Directors of the Franklin Canal Company, report:— That in pursuance of the Bth section of the act of As sembly passed on the 9th day of rlprll, A. D. 1849—in relation to said'company after dueo'; and legal notice as therein and by the original act required, the company was re-organized ou the sth day ;of July last; by the election of officers as authorised and required by taw. and haying accepted the privilodgp sod adopted the im provement grouted by the 9th section of /aid act. and proceeded to carry the same int o effect. they adopted measures to meet the requisitions and conditions con tained in the 10th section of saiti a ct, and having suc ceeded in meeting and complying with all the condi tions and Vequireinents therein employ ed contained, they a corps of Engineers to run cud locate that portion of the work on the route eontemplat ' ed in the original act, and to extend their line north tc.l..ake Erie. as author ited by the 10th section of said acti and which was com pleted in the early part of the moith Of December'. as set forth at length and iu detail in the i4port of William Mil ler. Esq. the principal engineer. iFin the line thus stir %rayed there has been located and put under contract the original section from Fraukliu nOrtward. twenty-one miles and two-tenths. and the section next to Lake. Erie, from a point on or near the !Waterford and Erie Turnpike road, and thence to Lakiii Erie'at the western line of Erie county, twentyfi-ve miles and three-tenths. The two sections thuscontracted forty-six and a•half, mites, are let to active and onergetipeontractom who aro making vigorous preparations to *coed with the work. which will be prosecuted to complltion at an early day. 11 is contemplated, and effective arrangemeuts made to complete the entire work on th e northern extension authorised by the act es early as the,close of the year 1851, The expenses and disbursomenttrof the Company thus far are as follows: Paid for original charter in 1846. state tax irn; posed by act of 1815. Expenses under original charter. Paid Commonwealth for certificate of act of 9th April 1849, tax under act of 1845(claiin ed by Secretary. as is believed ilfegally.) Fees to Clerk. postage. &c. Amount paid Engineers for surveys, loca tions, bands employed on tho same, Printing and contingencies, Paid for releases, and procuring ensile. All which is respectfully submided. JOHN GALBS.AITII, President W. S. LASZ, Treasurer. Feb. 13. 18.50 Tns LATE DICCISIONI us LZOISLAI4I,I6 Dtvortcxs.—We entirely agree withthe Philadelphit Ledger. that the late decision of the Supreme Court, in eforence to the legis lativd annulment of the marriage" contract. one of the most sacred obligations, because Blest affecting human happiness, has caused no little sensation. But if it should rove fraught with consequences or mischief., as intima ted by ono of the dissenting judgeql why should that cir cumstance prevent a vindication of constitutional integ rity?, Once admit a plea of this kind and the organic laws crumble into dust. The constitution must ride down everything else, or it is nocrstitution. Are the consequences mischievous ? - Let 1 those consequences prove a lesson to the legislature how Ibex coma into collision with tie organic law;and4each them to exer cise none but ndispute4 powers; itini even those with that caution that always insures the public safety, by slow and deliberate proceedings. l i ii committee in both houses to compare bills with the constitution, before they are engrossed, at the head of whit l should bo placed the most able jurists of both branch 'll, would effectually iv guard against all evils that now flo g ' so abundantly from the exercise of disputed and uncon iitutioaal powers; or. if this duty can be superadded to t at of the Committee on the Judiciary. let both houses pairs a resolution to that ,effect. so that no bill should undergo a third reading, without the opinion of the committee that it does not con flict with the constituttom - and that it shall be the law of the land. , A Deems' "Gs-BAL."—The Cleveland Alain Dealer tells of a row that came off at a al i en' house near that city lalt week. The teacher. it scents, had corrected one of his pupils, which pupil was no leafs than a buxom lass of eighteen. Tho indignation of l a the maiden was so great that she invited two young men to assist her in hay ing revenge. Thoy proceeded to !the school-house to flog the teacher, end es they made 'their onslaught the pedagogue caught one by the throat', holding him with one hand, while he inflicted a save/ castigation with the other. A severe battle was fought which resulted in the entire defeat of tho assailants. .fluke were used and blood spilt. The young men have fled the country. but, what has become of the gal? Itxxcertorr.—A Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune. says that he has it from good authority that tho rejection of JANICII W 5.75001 WILIII3 has been deter mined upon by the Senate. and that each au announce lr ment will be made in a few days. I seems also that a similar fate awaits 111r . ..1131r4 Jona , as. of Pennsylva nia. who has been nominated as C natal to Glasgow. The charge preferred against him in Vie Executive Ses sion of. the Senate is._hahitual;,inobri l ation. Postscript.--The Senate. in exec Olva session, on the 11th. rejectei • to Austria by a vote of 7 his favor. Tint Twt vs. HMO.— ,The Spring' .s off the pros , ant and former positions of the whilpany on' the slave ry question. Gentlemen whigs, 100 upon this face— : "•1849.—We go for the Wilmot proviso and nothing short. The'proviso and freedom (drover! Suppose it is n't necessary, there's a greatprinciFfe involved! The proviso, the proviso, let the consequence be what it may: Never shall slavery be further ex ended . Leave the matter to the people!—to the Indian and ignorant half breeds, and Mexicans? Never. No, never! Here we firmly plant our feet. Congress must decide the question and decide it on the side of freedomil . The proviso won't do any good? Well then, it won't d any harm, and we are bound to put it through. No matter what the south thinks. We've been dictated to byi elave.holders long enough. Nothing short of the Wilmot proviso will satis fy us and secure liberty to the territories. 'Twat; in a cause like this of the proviso that our fathers bled and fell on Bunker Hill. What unworthy scin of noble Sint, will prove recreant in the cause of freedom? The proviso and freedom forever !" Now look upon this— Northern - Whigery en the Receipt of Taylor's Special Message.—"On the whole, we rot-t4h.e-r -e-s-s we might as well let the p-p.pen-peoptelof the territories do as they like about holding nigger'. At any rate let's keep clear of that d—d proviso." "Time •s PasAcutea."--The Watertown Democratic Union says:—••STOP MY PAPER" never yet quite ruined any one. In the great march of Progreso, it Is something which all are allowed to hoose—whether to ride along with popular opinion or be crashed beneath their tread. The Press rolls on! Cuancitso...-Tbe New York G/o4 111111. ' Our climate . has entirely changed. Indeed of the cp ld and bitter Win ters we used to experience. we have! now a Europe. an Winter of rain and frost. In f;el. our country is graddally altering Its climate to suit it latitude. while En rope seems to be undergoing a similar change. Great Britain is about as far north as Canada. and its Winters are growing colder. We are about as far south as Italy. and our Winters are growing rut mildas ,persible: It is a very droll world we live in. Pity our residence here Is so remarkable for its brevity. - Arvonrray.—We neglected to not4e in our last. the appointment of one,respected friend. 11,1 r. Vatican's' Prtst.ea of Crawford county, as "State Agept on the Portage learned." The appointed is every ntay . ttualillo4 for the station. and is besides every inch a; gentleman and a Democrat. II? What has become of the "Pittshurgh Saturday Vie fter"? We have missed 16 Smiling face from our 'table for a week or two past. We bope yeti don't Intend to give as the mitten entirely. Sister Janet Ifyou do, we will bare to 14 .4 to your "big brother, ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAP: TT A Dative of deer, during* Isle trip of thi Cal Sandusky, rao along side of the train for several It vas a novel sight for the passengers. • IrrA moo once spit in his neighbor's face; Win on Wreaks an apology for his conduct. he said, at the time the dirtiest place within his retch. a:r A man In Cincinnati lately, amused some fri using indecent language u a WI passing. Tb looked round and the fatetiotta gentleman dis that it was his own wife! ET California would makefortrfre States of d t , of New Hampshire! The seacoast estende net thousand miles, end the territory extends into d' dor twigs.* hundred miles irr A Somers' boa been formed at Chicago com Pennsylvanians resident in that city. denominat "Bona of Penn." It war resolved to bold the firs vet on the. 2241 of Feboary. 1D Cot.. Saliva. W. Biavv.—Tbiti - gentleman is urged by a correspondep4of this. Pittsburgh Po s candidate for the nomination for Governor, by thel ocretie State Convention of 1851. ELT An Inquiry hu been Instituted in Massachutts, er there should:not be an asylum for confirmed dru Habitual drUnkenness is s species of insanity, proper treatment can cure. (ET The editor of the New York Tribune, a few da commenced a reply to the Evening Post thus •• villain?" and the Utica Gazette remarks that it is Mr. 9reoley has aeon to Congreu. [Er Disunion is Temirsszt.—A writer In the B True Whig, on the lit inst., asserts that there is Tennessee one man is • thousand who fivers d in any shape, or ander any circumstance. - UJ They cultivate whole fields of peppermint Joseph County, Michigan. In the town of Floreil acres were grown, which brought $16,775. i Pigeon sent to market one thousand pounds of p mint oil. $lOO 00 .5500 00 0T A broker in New Oileans, recently bought man, just arrived from California, what he sup. be two hundred and fifty ounces of gold dust, but o ing it to the mink - discovered that he bad seventy Of brass filings. 100 00 11 50 1717 99 250 00 .5992 22 Itl The traitor BEST is being denounced in eve tier) of the Eitale by the Democracy in their count) nations. Thi , i is right. Such corrupt and du politicians shon d be kicked out of the party with , least ceremony. 1113661 71 crr The most important charaMers that you will Be l a-days. are little short fellows about as broad as t long, just beginning , to pay attention to the girls. absolutely forget that there is anybody is the wor themselves. iI7T At a Printer'a supper "down east," one of the hit the old bachelors as "nothing but quods with to fill out the blank lines in' society:" Though intended. this is a great compliment to the craft, satire opals ociety. which does, Indeed. abound in lines. It?' Some people imagine that the way for a man t his respectability is to spend his money freely, a this respect keep up with his extravigant neigh , little observation will convince any one that a grea folks anciently expect to boy their way to high at and great influence. - 1:17 A Luise-ART WODIAN.--Thl Pottsville Journa 2.501 t.. saps that the women residing in West B Valley. whO'have birth to four children, about s l months ago. presented her husband with three nto week, making siren children in the space of s months! Them: Trot out the gal what can beat (G' NEW WA OE TAILING CARS OF Saincs.--Tht troit Free Preis stoles that a few Sabbaths since a ill that city went to chinch. leaving a child in chat a small boy. The boy wanting to go oat to play. In child on the table and nailed its cloths to the dinner In Italy they hang them up against the wall. azr CLEAN Horne.—A gentleman playing whet intimate friend. who seemed. as far as hands wem earned, to hold the Mahomedan doctrine of ablut t supreme contempt. said to him with a eounte i "more it sorrow than in anger;" 4•ltty good fell dirt werio trumps what a hand you would hare?" IL7 A GOOO IDE4.—The editor of the Reading Gf suggests—and we heartily second the suggestion• propriety of the bridegroom's accompanying every ring° notice, sent for publication. with the price of scription of the paper to which it is forwarded. 4 happy newly 'untried man shall we make happier b, weekly receipt of the Observer? EN)) OT • Monsvxn.—Ben. a negre man, found of the murder el two lathe children of Mr. Michael was hanged on the 18th ult.. near Palmyria. county. Mo. From five to ten thou/hind persons wen sent at the execution. Ou his way to the gallow s confessed his guilt—saying that he gist murdered, boy. and then violated and murdered the girl. • (ET The mysterious "knocking" at Rochester has at been stopped, and the mystery fully discovered. It ascertained to be a !beer deception racticed by the girls; and after the discovery. it is said the meeting up in a perfect row, the ghostly "kfiockers" barely ping with their lives. It has turned out just as we piis — edit would. and it is really astonishing that the ] VMS pt s„ Rochester have been thui humbugged as they have. acr GROWTH or Wurzel" Cgriss.—lt is estimated Cincinnati will 'how a population of 126.000 an. Louis one of 70.000 by the census of 18.50. But fu ravages of the Cholera tastßuinmer, each would been considerably higher. The enburbs of either which practically form apart of it, are not included i foregoing estimates. RINADYEABLE St.car.—The Massachusetts pa report that Zadock Hersey. a soldier of the Re' Lion, aged 99, fell asleep alitia residence in Pemb Mass., on Monday evening. the 9tb of January at 6 o'clock, and slept to the succeeding Sunday mor. at 3 o'clock. taking no sustenance but water. He appearantly in a natural sleep, and no particular ch • took place till 24;houre befure'death. when his breath tinned to grow shorter till he ceased to breath. it A young lady, fourteen years of age. very pretty, dressed, and very respectably connected. has ' "doing" some of the St. Louis storekeepers lately. M the tune of a pair of shoes, a few yards of lace. or any Other article that she may fancy. Her mode of procedure is to step into a store with all the intritance of honest dealir. get what she wants, and With the utmost corhpo sure and self complacent air. desire the clerk to charge her purchase loam° lady who to known to him es a l ms tomer. • MT Tea CONY/115102.1A16.-.-TI Is I wonderful reflection that the Catholic Church has existed mum centuries; and !Milli:ogle of people have confessed, tbAtir 44 aidlosk secret thoughts to the clergy. and klattl clergy have em Pomona from every rank and station in life; but where do we hear of their divulging the secrets of the ronfest Canal? Let those who plats so much about "old h'a ol tutions" learn of them end be better then they are, Wto ileowT—Hest a complaining lorer of tho tonslo of merry eleigh.belle. and Liman bow het la ments the absetic4 of snow. the token for py gather ings and the fashionable excuse for whiskey punch drmt% My stars: here I. February its% And yet no sleighing. me I *Wei I am tired. altogether. Of this unreasonable; weather: Easy 'tie to Mould and blow—t Why 1. it so hard to swore See the farmer. yawning dreary Stalking War the delft so dreary. Oft he upward turns his peepers. Blinking like a ettimnersweeliees. • Oft he cries. enraged with wo. Nlypyahe Mattis don't it ettowl', in MI II . from miles. E 2 ME MEM ode by [ . lady Tered r ilia l ady g i MO.' .sed of ecl the felti. amity as a Dere. heth. hard.. which F° a g o ou-liet ZIEEI hville of in unioa in St. .ca White = am a led to mend- =1 EMI MEE 2MII IEIII By are They d but toast ishich k of 10 and a blank show nd hi . I r. A many tidipg of the ranch Lateen last izteen this: o De• i rg e of t'ut the board. EMI EMI I=l mince I nce ow, if fs:stie [ \—the Mar. sub- Vha t the guilty Bright win pre 11. he the TIN 11=1 o two iirake CECIL? • :sup citi• M r the have Fitt'. n the pars olu roke . about ing, was • nge icon" een
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